Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1923, Page 16

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 10, ‘1923—PART 1.~ m i NEW MURDER CHARGE %Think Up Better ‘ROBE UNDERWAY BEFORECURBCRASH f-Second Concern Fails as Books Are Examined. YORK a broke Wall he first of failures pre- crday follow- hou ot stock kerag important firms of insolvency. Wolte firm. which n Chicago, wer sti- x early $500,000. Like the A inke it had been a_membet t Co Tt ock Exchan L year ago, when it wi ced exchan, binted been the tponed un- lication of books ors man was investiga the weted in firm. He t unexpected. ould ¢ was ordered lad not been tic houses vet "CONGRESS MEMBERS ‘ASKED TO AID “ARMY” Fetters to Absent Solons Expected | S to Yield Liberal Gifts o to Budget 's yearly bud- has appe mail can bahie b Ed b M 1 em- great loss to worlks as any other X’VP.OTE_THREATS TO TEST -2 HIS POWER AS PROPHET 1d at Tucson. Charged Sending Black- Letters. With maili Tune 9 ando J £ ke City, who is in i the signing of a order by which he will that ‘city, no longer he iv imbued with prophetic natural powers, he said to- belief, he sald, that alleged bla snry Ford and a minent persons. ve written sume of Lang- clared and said 5 ¢ cuggest- letters demand- 15 of testing his POLISHERS ELECT HEAD. v nion Chooses W. W. Britton of Chicago President. CINCINNATIL, June 9. Bf tha o of the international vote for offic in the Metal Polishers’ International Tunlon, late tod Fliowed that W. Britton of Ci Wi an . it was anneunc hi arters he “incinnati, nd editor of magazine, , also Completion w. ng major tional 2 vote of two to ted a proposal to recommend n of a universal union com- all unions HOWAT OUT OF JAIL. Deposed Miner Leader Bailed on| Serious Charge. PITTSBURGH. Va.. June 9.—Alexan- @cr Howat. deposed leader of the United | b ¢ sas distriet, w. “Fea Alleghany county Fon it 100 bond had been Proved for his nee at the Tember term of « Howat w eral days ago 1ip : red by Mre in, hicago upon behalf AGREE ON SETTLERS. France and Britain Settle Status of - Malta People. France and Great me to an agreement the nationality of from Malta, who set- French protectorat Fccording to the understanding Zecached, the third generation of such Scttlers’ shall be considered French, ‘the second generation may choose be- tween British and French nationalit; Awhile the first generation of Malt: (gett]ers must bo considered. British, . PARIS, June Fritain have o ‘a¥ith regard to ritish subject éle Tuni; of L. L. Winkelman & | 1 tive member of the wrket, came today & >, one of irh firms, was closed tary bankruptey petition. Wolfe firm came as a of the intimation al, state and city legal un- | was | nduet | tis | campaign for ! which | in- | CLAIMS SHIP BOARD FAILED TO COLLECT Not Hold Bonding Firm Liable in Failure, United States Attorney Says. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 9.—The United States Shipping Board's legal de- partment here failed, it was alleg.s by the United States attorney's office today, to enforce Mability and col- lect from a surety company a large {bond furnished by the France and China Steamship” Company, which went into bankruptey in 1921, as a of the performance of Did guarantee contract in connection with the pur- chase o several government vessels. The disclosure was made, it was | | Babe Ruth HelpsD.C.Boys “Dopey Dan’ Asks Fans Do Same) BITTER TONARD U. . ? Club;|SAYS BRITISH FEEL Wickersham Declares Sentiment Is Distinctly Antagonistic; Many Issues Keenly Felt. NEW YORK, June 9.—Since he last| visited England in 1919, popular feel- ing there toward the United States resentment, George W. Wickersham said today. He returned vesterday from a ten weeks trip abroad. Mr. Wickersham long has becn prominent in American politics, and was attor- ney general in Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet. said, when United States Attorney He said the great mass of Britons William Hayward recently reorgan- ized the legal division. It was indl- cated that the government during the coming week would Institute a civil suit to collect the amount disapprove American insistence upon collection of its war debts without giving Europe more help, resent at- tempts to impose prohibition on for- elgn ships, and criticise the methods id to be due. of handling immigrants at Ellis Is- land. i THREE BANKS CLOSE IN NORTH CAROLINA !Forced to Shut Down When Sali bury Inmstitution Stops 1 Business. SALISBURY, N. C., June 9.—Three ismaller bank- in Rowan county closed their doors yesterday ternoon and today following the closing yes- |terday of the Peoples National Bank f Salisbury | The three banks are the First N | tional Bunk of Spencer, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank of Granite Quarry and the Bank of Rockwell The Spencer institution will be able to pay its obligations in full, it was | said today by W. G. Folger, national Jank examiner, but no statements as the situation of ghe other three uld be obtained in authoritative | | e today, nor would bank ally discuss the closing present Peoples National Bank, it was ounced by its officers vesterda: closed because of withdrawal of deposits following the throwing of the Mecklenburg mills into receiver- ship. it was explained t the | banks had been interested in financing | the mills. The Peoples National Bank was {capitalized at $100,000. the Spencer {bank at 000, the Rockwell insti- tution $7,000 and the Granite Quarry bank at $5,000 PERSHING PRAISES RECORD OF SECOND First Two Divisions Were i Best of All Who Fought i in France. Says | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 9.—Veterans of the 2d Division who achleved fame Chateau Thierry and_ Belleau ood. meeting tonight at their fifth ual reunjon, were told by Gen. n J. Pershing that theirs and the st Division were the bes groups that fought in the world war on either the allied or enemy side. Gen. Pershing dropped in at the dinner unannounced and was_given an ovation of five minutes. He was in Jersey City today to dedicate an athietic feld named in his honor apd witnessed athletic contests of the 2d Army Corps Area “This is an anniversary of some- thing by this 2d Division that ¢ e advance on Paris, Pershing said. “In this fnitial baptism fire you displayed the ou_ displayed [t ourage o ns and you have that will be car- ried down in tradition to posterit that will ever be a goal for oth American soldiers to emulate. There were two great divisions in ance. They were great in exper ence. Those iwo great divisions re the first and second. Although we had other divisions that were per- inaps as excellent in personnel, thess ltirst two divisions stood up as the {best.” FORMER GEORGETOWN HEAD DIES AT HOLY CROSS Rev. Joseph Haven Cowles Rich- ards One of Most Prominent American Jesuits. ted Press. TER, Mass, June Rev. Joseph Haven Cowles Richards, former president of Georgetown University and known as one of the most notable Jesuits in North Amer- joa, died late today at Holy Cross College, following a_ shock. Father Richards during the wat wag a member of the advisory com- mittee to the Council of National Defense. He was a_native of Co- lumbus, Ohlo, where ke was born in 1851. He was president of George- town, was in religious work in Cali- and in_the Jesuit novitlates Frederick, Md.. and St. Andrew the-Hudson until 1906; was at hed to Boston College and the Church of the Immaculate Concep- tion_in Boston for three St. Ignatius Church in city for three and one-half years. He was vice president of Canisiu College in Buffalo from 1913 to 1915 and served as reotor of Loyola School and the Church ‘of St. Ig- natius, Loyola. N. Y., since 1915. His latest appointment was to the newly established home of Jesuits in Weston, where he was teaching when seized with the illness which caused his death. He came to Holy Cross about a month ago for a rest. taken the position { Br the Assoc: g Father Richards was president of Georgetown University from 1888 to 1898 Previously he taught five ars at Georgetown College. He was the author of several books. He had been secretary-treas- urer of the Manresu Institute at South Norwalk, Conn. since 1919. VIENNA CALLS LEAGUE SOCIETIES TO SESSION London Branch to Open Discussion of Reparations and Occu- pation of Ruhr. ! VIENNA, June 9.—A plenary session {of all the league of nations societies thas been called to meet here from Liune 23 to 28, it was officlally an- nounced today. A comprehensive agenda has been arranged, the Lon- don branch having recommended an exhaustive discussion of the repara- tons question and the Ruhr occupa- tion. A number of socleties have already given notification of their intention to participate. | English to Meet. NEW YORK, June 9.—Une hundred and_sixty colleges and universities of Great Britain, Capada and the United States will be represented at & conference of British and Amer. ican professors of English at Colum bia Uuniversity, June 12 to 15, it was announced today Isracl Gollancz, Shakespearean scholar and secrstary of the British Academy, and Dr. Charles H. Her- ford, honorary professor of English literature at Manchester University, are among the British delegates. Government officials and the up- per classes still are friendly to the United States because they feel that the welfare of the world upon amicability between speaking peoples, he declared. ‘But among the people generally, he added, “The United States is re- depends Englisk garded as a greedy, grasping, sel- fish sort of Shylock, determined to have its pound of flesh without as- suming obligations In return. Th: think the attitude of the United States in insisting upon the repa ment of their war debt, is a conspic- uous example of out greed niglishmen generally look amazement also on American with immi- gration regulations. They regard it as barbarous that forelgners should BY W. H. CLAGETT. Dear Folks:—Like all noted cele- | brities who frisk in the glamour of the great national spotlight, Babe| Ruth, the powerful “lambaster” of | the Noo York Yankees, has to swal- low much that is sour along with| the sweet, but his detractor don't live who can truthfully say the big| Bambino ever laid down when it came ! to a question of assistin’ a kid! It's a well known fact among the husky fence-buster's Intimates that next to liftin’ the old “pill” out into the next county nothing’ dee-lights the temperemental “Baby” more than to do his full bit for some under- priveledged youngster! Only a few seasons back when fire lald waste to St. Mary's Industrial School, near Baltimore. where Babe to p "em.” he chaperooned the entire boys’ band of that insti- tootlon over the circuit to help swell subscriptions for the restoration of the buildin's and stood all expense for the travellln’ musicians! Again last week, en_Frank R. Jelleff, president of the Boys" of Washington, sent a special deputy over 1o get the sluggin’ Yankee's monica on a ball that's to be fea- tured at the regular big-league ball game to be piayed between Tris Speaker's Clevelands and our fast- climbin’ Nats out at the Florida ave- {noo grounds on June 21, for the ben- efit of the boys of our sterlin’ local organization, the Babe caused & rum- pus through his willin'ness to accede! A Glum Day. "Twas a glum afternoon for old man Hugging' bunch when the Washing- ton emissary appeared at the stadi- um! The Boston Red Sox had the chesty Yankees eatin’ out of their hands, when all of a sudden Whitey ‘Witt and Joe Dugan got on the bags' Cries for the Bambino re-echoed clean over {n Brooklyn as the vast multi- tood roared itself hoarse for the next scheduled hitter, but no Ruth could be found! Frantic with fear that the might. ‘disrupter” had been kid- napped—for queer things happen over in the big burg these days—every player on the Noo York bench was BABE RUTH, HOLDING BALL AUTOGRAPHED FOR BOYS' CLUB. | District that commandeered by the wily little man- ager to institoot search for the turri- ble mauler. and it was only by the sheerest chance that Wally Pipp snagged him In front of a camera, standin’ there grinnin’ with the au- tographed ball in his paw! Breathless with excitement, the classy firstsacker detailed the situa- tion and begged Ruth to hurry! “Ah, let ‘em wait!” chortled the slugger. “We can beat that bunch any old day. but the opportunity to heip a flock of poor kids down in the { great Capital City ain’t offered a guy ! more'n once in a season—tell 'em I'm {sick!” Then turnin’ to the surprised | Washingtonian the Bambino con- | tinued. “Give my best to the boys down in Washington and tell ‘em I hope the receipts will be great! They can do what they want with the bail —auction it off. present to the lad | who has done the most to better the welfare of his fellow members or stick up in the clubhouse—Iit matters not to me—just let ‘'em know I'm for ‘em!” Men Ho Whiffed. The big feller then ambled back to the game, picked up a willow, stepped up to the plate and proceeded to_strike out! | Rumor has it that he also mailed ! tion. AT THE FAMOUS OCCIDENTAL RESTAURANT It Pays Not to Increase Prices Nobles complimented us from every State of the Union concerning the way the affair was handled by our Police Department and our local Shrine Com- mittee. It was a pleasure to serve them. GUS. BUCHHOLZ & SON his own personal check to Mr. Jelleft that night! 1 can’'t vouch for that, but if you'll just cast your peepers bo taken from ships and held vir- tually as prisoners on Ellis Island, because of violations of immigration restrictions over which they have no control. Our practices at Eliis Is- land are, they say, entirely foreign to British conceptions of yhat is due innocent foreigners.” With six other American Mrs. Wickersham tourcd and Algeria, as guests of the I'rench colonial administration to the top of this colyum you can see for yourselves the globule he signed! Now, folks, it's absolutely superfiu- ous to go_into lengthy detail about what the Boys Club of Washington has done, is doin’ and I» gonna do for the harum-skarum kidlets of our falr city! You know by this tim and if you don’t you ought to that there's no organization within ti i8 accomplishin’ more for them poor lads who have no plac to go than the ever-growin' institoo- tion at 230 C street, and ull T can say is, that if & star ball player way up in another city {s game enough to take a chance of a fine just to help in the movement then all hands down here sure oughta get a hump on! Accordin’ to present arrangements the game will be a regular humdinger! Old Foxy Grandpa Griff has not on donated “the grounds, but has man added features he gonna sprin later! One of the classies all Washington will supply the e sary juzz, and with speclal delegatior from " Rotary and every civic betterment organi: city on hand to try out other if some-thing don" look me’up later! Jot the date down in book today, folks! Thursda this year of our Lord there” with your kiddies be got at Spaldin fon in th houtin® eac happen then your date and be ets may s or from memb. t the regular pri "Twill be a great and all of u: for havin' been game, for a great will feel much greate present—be there! 1 thank you, DOPEY DAN. —_— YOUTHS ARE ARRESTED IN BIG BOND ROBBERY Two Held in Disappearance of $141,000 From American Can Company Messenger. NEW YORK. June 9.—Two more arrests were made tonight in connec- tion with the disappearance of $141 000 worth of securities and bonds of the American Can Company after they had been turned over to James Foley, a messenger, for delivery to a brokerage firm. Foley was arrested Friday, charged with stealing the bonds. The pirsoners arrested tonight were Christian E. Wolf, twenty years old, ang Carl Bothner, twenty-one, both of Brooklyn. KLAN WOMEN TO UNITE. Petition for Incorporation Granted by Little Rock Judge. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 9.—A pe- tition for the Incorporation of the La- dies of the Ku Klux Klan, a natfonal woman's auxillary to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was granted by Judge R. K. Mann in second division clrcuit court here today. National headquarters of the organization will be in Little Rock, according to the peti- JOHN DREW TO GET DEGREE PHILADELPHIA. June Amokg the honorary degrees 1o be conferred by the University of Pennsylvania at its commencement exercises on June £ is that of master of arts upon John D the actor. .50 We firmly from. Every one a beauty. Gold combinations. As littl has changed to one of antagonistic, been offered to the people of this city. Beautifies Hands To Wash Dishes, Woman Asserts By the Assoclated Pres: CHICAGO, June 9. —Dishwash- ing when done properly beauti- fles instead of damaging the hands, according to Mrs, Wilbur E. Frib- ley, state chairman of home eco- nomics of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs. Notwithstanding the edict of at least two school girls who par- ticipated in a dishwashing contest which was won yesterday by Gladys Rahn, who “never did the dishés at home.” that such work roughened and reddened the hands, Mrs. Fribley took the opposite view Never use too strong a Soap or chemicals in the water,” Mrs. Fribley advised. “Use mild soap, and apply a lotion afterward. Dishes can be done so daintily that it is a pleasure. Soft white hands will result. I venture to say that the poet who sang ‘I was a lover of ladies’ hands that were pale with the pallor of ivorles'’ was talking of a lady who washed dishes. In fact, tradi- tion attributes his finest verses to his_love for a girl who worked in her mother's cafe.” TAMMANY MAY MOVE. Old Headquarters in 14th Street Sought by Realtors. NEW YORK, June 9—Tammany hall st 14th street, generally know may soon give 'way to a modern business build- ing, it was learned. The younger members of the or-| ganization desir® a larger and more | modern home uptown and several leading realty operators have made | bids for the old brick building, which has played such a prominent part in the political life of the metropolis. The site of the building was pur- chased in 1867 for $80,000. The amounts of the bids have not been announced. —_— el, the discoverer of | the accomplished her's astronomical | labor: never could remember the multipl tion table and always had to carry a copy of it about with her. | Caroline Her eight comets and partner of her br Folks! Jewelry in our 50 712 622 i hat these are the Greatest Diamond Values that have ever e Hundreds and hundreds of styles to choose Scores of beautiful mountings in e as $1 a week will buy any one 7 7th St. NW.—KAY’S—407 7th St. N.W. That Live This year give wonderful gifts of Jewelry! world of sentiment. forever and ever. guaranteed. Every article of Jewelry is a gift that you will be proud to give to the June Bride or June Graduate. Hundreds and hundreds of wonderful selections to choose from, and, remem- ber—as little as $1 a week will do. Wonderful Diamond Specials AGAINST UTAH PAIR| State Causes Legal Sensation by Refiling Charges Against | Browning Youths. By the Assoclated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 8. — Marriner A. and John M. Browning, 4r. were again charged with murder in’the first degree in an information filed in dlstrict court here today by district attorney E. A. Rogers. They are held for the slaying of Benjamin | F. Ballantyne, husband of John| Browning's sister here April 9. They were heldby city Judge Noel . Pratt at the preliminary hes May 12 to answer to a second gree murder charge, although original complaint, filed by county ettorney Arthur E. Morton, charged first degree murder. Defense counsel today was granted a week's continuance of the time for arraignment. The defendants will temporarily continue at liberty under bonds of $25,000 each. In refiling the murder charges district attorney Rogers set a prece- dent in criminal procedure in the statc, it wassaid in legal circles. Heretofore the district court information has been based on the filnding of the justice before whem the hearing was held. CHICAGO JUDGE HOLDS | | » < LONG DANCE IMMORAL %Lr::t S s e o Denies Injunction to Halt Police Interference With Marathon Fox-Trotters; Hits Practice. CHICAGO, June 9.—Marathon danc- | ing was held unlawful and degrading to health and morals by Circuit Judge Friend today. He refused to grant an injunction restraining the police from inte fering with & seven-day marathon dance which Harry Kauffman, a pro- moter, proposed to hold in the Coli- seum next week. “In such protracted dances men and women engage, t moral danger which must b ered.” the judge sald. They are held to attract the mor- bid, curlosity sceker and are fdenti- al’ with bullfights or cockfights. 'he contest has nothing of art or auty in it. It is a sheer test of nimal endurance.” n which John B. Larkin Endows Chemist ™ luncheon tod $200,000 Larkin ent sine in 18 to be used for fessorship in ¢ Tale, Pier Guard Advises Lagkgr By the Assoctated Press. BOSTON, June 9.—The title of chairman of the United States Ship ping Board avalled Albert . Lasker litle when he attempted without credentials to pass the corporal of the guard at the South Boston pler where the big steamship Leviathan 1s tied up. E. P. Farley, who is soon to ba Chalrman Lasker's successor, had appeared five minutes carlier, ex- plained hig qualifications and been passed in. The corporal, when Mr Lasker arrived, thought two chalr men superfluous There w much explaining and the corporal consulted . m the gate befc deliveri diet Then he adm advising him, howe a better excuse nex ACQUITTED IN KILLING. Former Deputy Sheriff Found Not Guilty. WATSEKA, June . 9.—Edward Heikes, former deputy sheriff, charged with killing rl Jennings Wendell of There was no demonstration when the verdict was announced. According to evidence, Heikes and Wendell quarreled over who was occupying t of ti while both we & on e highw El $200,000 COLLEGE GIFT. Chair at Lafayette. STON, racken Pa at June @ —President ette alumnt t to indt the 0 b income Tk Forever! They convey a Gifts that last Every article of store is absolutely For Famous Sy LUT and up Six spoons, =poonx. ter Green Gold and White | 26-Pc. Silver Sets | Were i a gift that any June Bride would be pleaned ANTEED. pleces in a ne_Gift Knives. Knife ©One Sugar Shell, GO PIQITS Q)g" o “ June Brides! | 1o receive. The wers Solid Nickel Wm. Six Forks. Six Table- Six Teu- One, But- and you select. For the Girl Graduate Wrist Watches only solid White Gold Wrist Watch, ab- For this week ! A 14-karat solutely g u aranteed in every re- spect. As little as 50c a week will All standard Amer- ican Watches, such as Illinois-Sterling, Hamil- ton, Elgin, Waltham, etc., at nationally adver- tised cash prices. You need not pay one penny extra for our most lib- eral terms. For the Boy Graduat We have just 100 genuine Ingersoll Watches to sell for 98c each. The - lar price now is $2. Watch Crystal Fitted