Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1923, Page 5

CO0E BOOKTHERT REVEALEDINTRIAL Former Minister to Rumania Quizzed in Stokes Di- vorce Case. Dy the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 30.—Testi- mony as to the theft of the secret code of the United States from the le- ition at Bucharest, Rumania, in 1908 is a part of the record of the sensa- tional divorce action of W. E. D. Stokes against Helen Elwood Stokes. The testimony was given vesterday | during cross-examination of Horace | XK. Knowles, minister to Rumania at the time of the theft. Xe had pre- i Viously testified that he had seen Mrs. okes in the apartment of Edgar T. Wallace, the principal co-respondent. Counsel for Mrs. Stokes sought to make Mr. Knowles admit that Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, had, transferred him to Nicaragua as a re- sult of his connection with the theft. | This Mr. Knowles denied and also \said he had no personal knowledge of the lawyer's assertion that Mr. Rtoot later had recovered the code by 8 it from a Russian for | after the Japanese ambassa- St Petersburg had refused to ™av $40,000 for it. >~ Knowles testified that he had | unable to find a safe hiding! ws# for the code book in the Bucha- | nd that it had disap- his arrival. ant in the legation had stolen it. Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes was a udent in the National Park Semi- { nary for young women in Washing- ton, D. C e, s. Stokes, her mother never had been in Bunceton, , during her life and at the time ed visit to that city never ahoney, who is presiding announced today's ses- be adjourned at 1 o'clock request of Thomas J. ant, a juror, whose father died yesterday. Good Manners Held as Base Of Human Health and Morals Creed of Miss Elizabeth Mahon, Director of Bloomingdale Children’s Play- ground, Exemplified in Program. If any one bewails the manners of the rising generation, believing that children were more polite when he was a boy, he owes it to himself and others to visit the Bloomingdale playground, at 2d and Bryant streets northwest. There he will see children in the formative period between two and five years being taught manners with a_capital “M" by Miss Elizabeth Ma- SUES FOR DIVORCE FROM NAVY DOCTOR Mrs. Lillie M. Groff Says Husband Deserted Her in 1919. Mrs. Lillie M. Groft has filed suit in the District Supreme Court for an ab- solute divorce from Chester C. Groff, a lieutenant in the Navy Medical Corps. Lieut. Groff, who is said fo be sta- tioned at the naval hospital, is al- leged to have deserted his wife in October, 1919, and to have transferred his affections to another woman, who is declared to have represented her- self to the wife as an “investigator for the Navy Department,” and to have told the wife of her husband's alleged “affairs” with other women. The Groffs were married September 32, 1909, and Mrs. Groff complains that her husband, while stationed at In- dian Head, Md., paid attention to other women before the alleged deser- tion. ober 17 last, it is stated, Lieut. Groff and the alleged co-re- spondent were taken to police head- quarters following a raid on the woman’s apartment. Collateral was posted, but forfeited the next day, the wife asserts. Through Attorney Raymond Neu- decker the wife tells the court that she had about $12,000 when she mar- ried Groff, who was then a physician with little practice, and that she in aiding eived his commission in 1817, it is said, and shortly afterward left his wife, according to her petition. SKULL SHOWS ANCIENT INDIAN SURGERY Trephined Specimen Dug Up on Site in Mexico by Anthropologist. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 30.—Evidence of what is believed to be the practice of surgery on this continent several thousand years before the era of the Pueblo cliff dwellers has been re- vealed by the discovery of an addi- tional trephined skull near San Cris- tobal, Mexico. Announcement was made by the American Museum of Natural History that a new skull, extremely long and narrow and undeformed, quite the opposite of the short-head type pre- viously found in the Mexican district, had been unearthed by Dr. L. R. Sul- livan, physical anthropologist, on September 2. The skull has an_oval hole, three centimeters long and two centimeters showing that a wound had made an operation necessary, and the bone had besn cut or scraped with a sharp instrument, according to the description forwarded to the museum. Dr. Sullivan said the patient un- doubtedly died from the operation. The discovery of trephined skulls was first made by Earl H. Morris, the museum's explorer in New Mexico, last August. Since then two other skulls of similar type have been found. TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. New Yorker, in Nashville, Left Note Showing Suicide. NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 30.— J. Mason, seventy, of New York died here early today from a bullet wound in his head, which, apparently, was self-inflicted. He was found in a hotel with a revolver In his hand and nearby was the following not I have no prop- erty, no family; neither have 1 any money, save this which you may find in my pockets. Therefore please bury me as I am, without inguiry. POLICE CHIEF'S HOME BOMBED HAVANA, October 30.—An exglo- sion, believed by police to have been caused by a dynamite bomb, seriously damaged the home of Juan Francisco Delane, second chief of the national secret police, here early today. FPo- lice are working on the theory that it was placed by sympathizers with the strfking workers of the Papelerea Cubana or Cuban Paper Company. The interior of the room in which the explosion occurred was severely dam- aged, but no one was injured. VETERANS HONOR THOMPSON CINCINNATI, Uctober 30.—Carmi A. Thompson of Cleveland has been ap- pointed chairman of the national leg- islative committee of the United Spanish War Veterans by Albert D. Alcorn, newly elected commander-in- chief of the organization. e e “Th first measurement of the earth’s surface was made by Eratos- thenes, 245 B.C. 5 ;‘ARMED TO TEETH” BOY, 13, ARRESTED “Bill” Smith of Clarendon Carried Two Guns, Hunting Knife and Four Penknives. Armed like the famed two-gun bandits, thirteen-year-old Bill Smith of Clarendon, Va., was arrested by Arlington county police authorities yesterday while sitting on a roadside calmly munching cakes and drinking milk, alleged to have been stolen from a Park lane grocery. With the Virginia youth was a Washington poy, who fled when the officers appeared. At the Claréndon jail Deputy Sherift Kines emptied the pockets of Bill's clothes and found two revolvers, a hunting knife, four penknives and a box of cartridges, all of which are said to have been taken early yeste: day from the store of Cavinaugh & Kendrick, 3271 M street northwest, Smith said he had obtained the loot from his Washington companion, whom the police have not been able to lo- cate. Smith was arrested -some time ago for petty thefts in Clarendon and was sen- tenced to the state reform school, from which he was paroled recently. Be- fore his arrest, his mother, Mrs. C. M. Matthews of Clar been away from home for two nights. SELLING METHOD BARRED. Trade Commission Issues Order to Firm of Tailors. An order requiring J. D. Smiley, do- ing business in this city as the Dixie Tailors, to discontinue falsely repre- senting his methods of marketing merchandise has been issued by the Federal Trade Commission. The commission found that the firm used a system of group selling which was represented to afford each cus- tomer in each group an equal chance to obtain a suit of clothes for varying sums less than the full set price of $48. This representation, according to the commission, was not the fact. MORE MAYORS ARRESTED. Spanish Municipal Officers Charged ‘With Malfeasance. MADRID, October 30.—The arrest of mayors and municipal officials continues in various parts of Spain. All those who have been taken into custody have been placed in prisor charged with malfeasance in office. The latest arrests have taken place in Valencia, Cadiz, Vigo. Cartagena, Lerida and Avila. —_— FIND MRS. RENNARD SLAIN. ST. LOUIS, October 30.—A verdict of “homicide’ at the hands of a per- son unknown to the jury” was re- turned last night by a’coroner's jury at an inquest into the death of Mrs. Katherine Rennard, sixty-six, of Cin- cinnati, whose body was found .in a creek in St. Louis county Saturday. ek O e N ey Typewriters Lowest Rental Rates General Typewriter Co. 2 Stores 1423 F St. N.W.—616 14th St. N.W. STOMACH"UEER" GAS, INDIGESTION Chew a few Pleasant Tablets, Instant Stomach Relief! If you feel full, sick or uncomfortab! after eating, here is harmiess stomach rellef. “Pape’s Diapepsin” setties the stomach and corrects digestion the m ment it reaches the stomach. This guaranteed stomach corrective costs but a few cents at gny drug store. Keep it handyl g gy endon, said, he had ] hon, director of the playground, who believes that good manners are the foundation of morals and health. If the little ones are well man- nered they are permitted, as a re- ward, to hold a recital of thelr “or- chestra,” perhaps the most youthful band of “musicians” in the world. But the music follows good manners. If the Ilfttle ones are not on their good : behavior there is no “recital.” __Any fair afternoon, if the weather is not too cold, the musicians, rang- ing in age from two to seven years, ;may be seen assembled on the play- ground, with their various musical instruments. Anything Goes From Rattle to Drum. Anything goes from a rattle to a drum, because the function of each instrument is to follow the rhythmic lead of Miss Mahon, who plays the piano. Boys and girls grouped around their leader play upon their various instruments as the playground direc- tor leads, Sounds ‘of mouth organ, whistles, drums, rattles and other “Instrument blend in a weird rythmic whole that would delight the soul ot the “modernists” in music. Perhaps some great composer, strolling along Bryant street some day, may gather from the fun of the children material for a “Playground Symphony’—who knows The young musicians are brought to the playground by their mothers, the care of Miss Mahon, who has been at the playground for six year: She hit upon’ the “orchestra’™ only Tolb lice Con- tello. Back row, lef¢ to right: Bobble Moore and Oliver Atkinson, jr. recently, so that the organization is yet In its formative period. Already the children love it, and look for- ward to each “recital” as the reward of good behavior. Miss Mahon has some very decided ideas about it. To her the playgrounds are performing a great miesionary work in taking little ones and help- ing the mothers teach them how to be well mannered and well behaved chil- dren, at the same time giving them kindergarten instruction. Miss Mahon never “preaches” to the children. She has a better way. Gatherin, them about her she tells of the benus ties of nature, the love of their fathers and mothers and how each child should be thankful for so many things. The little ones are encouraged to tell each afternoon of something for which they are thankful. It can be imagined that Miss Mahon was pleased when one little girl re- sponded: “I thank God for this kin- dergarten.” Perhaps only mothers and teachers can fully appreciate how Miss Mahon felt when a little boy arose the next afternoon and said: thank God for you.” In inclement weather the “good manners orchestra” {a forced to hold its meetings in a tin garage on the playground, the only place the kindergarten can call Its own. It is not large enough to hold all the twenty or so children who comprise the orchestra. There s need for money to enlarge the room, and also to purchase a small cook stove with an oven, upon which, and in which, the children may be taught the rudiments of cooking. Chairs are needed, too, little ones suitable for children between the ages of two to six years. But Whether they sit or stand at the Bloomingdale playground, each child does it with a smile. Miss Mahon won't let 'em be any other way. —_— McCrory Store Seils Wildroot. The McCrory 5 and 10 Store has just or by older companions, and left in|received new stock of Wildroot hair tonic and Wildroot liquld shampoos as advertised in national magazines. dvertisemen URING epidemics of colds, grippe, influenza, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping D APPEAL IN SUIT GRANTED. Action for $1,000,000 Against Mex- = {co to Continue. NEW YORK, October 30.—The mo: tion of the Oliver American Trading Company for an appeal to the United C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1923. States Supreme Court In its §1,000,000 damage sult against the Mexican government for the seisure of rail- road locomotives, was granted yes- terday by Federal Judge John C. Knox. 1 . 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