Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1924, Page 12

HER HUSBAND'S HEROISM REMEMBERED. I War hero, as a spectator at_the unveil statue of her husband in Lincoln Park, Chicago. widow of Gen. Sheridan, ( of the bronze equestra Mrs. Sheridan lives in Washington. Borglum. NAVY'S LARGEST SUBMARINE LAUNCHED AT PORTSMOUTH, N. H. Mrs. Philip: Sheridan, The statue is the work of ( Copyright by P. & A. Photos. £t < RESCUING PASSENGERS FROM STRANDED STEAMER. When the . S. Columbia of the Pacific Li Costa Rica, recently, the U. S. Army e went on the rocks at Cano Island, off transport Chaumont came to the res- cue, and the photo shows passengers being removed from the Columbia’s small boat. The underseas vessel is just twice as large as ary built previously for the United States Navy, and it is the first of a fleet of nine which will be able to accompany a battle fleet in any weather and at any speed. The name of the new craft is V-1. FORMER NEWSBOY AINIS AT MILLION Greenhaus Tells Judge Small | Investment Is Growing Be- cause He Was Not a Fool. LEGALITY IS QUESTIONED Court Will Rule Monday on Ex- change of Gold Bonds for Cheap Stock. By the Assovinted Press NEW YORK, July 19.—An ment of $2,500 by Charles H. Green- invest- | living and the wifé will not divorce | claim i | related « { away from him. haus, a newsboy, may grow to a fortune of $1,250,000 through the fluctuations of Middle States Oil stock in the past few months and because he was not a “fool.” he told Supreme Court Justice Burr yesterday Middle States Oil stock quoted at 71 it is at 1.6 on the exchange, and The com- pany also has outstanding gold bonds, paying 7 per cent interest, secured. Greenhaus aroused the legal curi- osity of the attorney general of the State when he circularized 200,000 holders of the ok, offering to ex- change the bonds for their stock at a premium. The Attorney General, through Wilbur W. Chambers, then applied for an injunction to stop the exchanges, which was contested by Greenhaus. ’ Saw Chanee for Profits. “I just saw the situation,” he stat- once was Now unsecured. 1 ed; “saw the huge profits that lay in| it, and decided I would be a fool if I didn't take advantage of it.” His_explanation in court gested as follow “‘Some months ago former Gov. Has- kell of Oklahoma, chairman of the board of directors of Middle States 0il, came close to cornering the mar- ket in_Southern States Oil, a subsid- iary of Middle States. The court was told that he issued orders to 35 brok- ers to purchase stock for him in the open market Last December the brokers were ready to deliver $5,500.000 worth of the stock, but Mr. Haskell was not then in a position to pay cash for it. Cpmmittees of the stock and curb exghanges arranged a compromise whereby the Metropolitan Trust Com- piihy was made custodian of $5,384,- 000 in gold notes, paying 7 per cent on the Middle States concern, which were given the brokers in lieu of cash, Brokers Willing to Sell. Greenhaus said that as this was a hardship on the brokers he found them willing to sell the notes at a considerable discount. He said that this enabled him to exchange the notes for stock, dollar for dollar, and make a profit of 25 per cent, by dumping the stock back on ' the market. T'm doing good instead of harm, except to the Middle States Oil peo- ple,” he testified, “who have to keep buying the stock or let the bottom drop out of it. I'm virtually glving people cash for their stock, and at enough of a premium to make the exchange worth the trouble for them. was di- | you named. 1 have already exchanged 14,000 shares for bond: The Supreme Court will rule Mon- day eom the legality of exchanging &ood bonds for cheap stock. YOUR BONUS Questions That Bother You Will Be Answered in This Column. Address: Room 722, News De- partment, The Evening Star, Waxhington, D. C. Q If a man has a wife and a child him, because she wants part of ‘his disability compensation and also his | bonus, can she, in case of his death, | bonus if he has named as beneficiary a friend w his common-law wife?—Cl A. The veteran who rendered the service, under the law, can name any person as his beneficiary. He does not have to name wife nor his child nor any relative. If he wants a common-law wife to receive the benefits of his adjusted compensation in the event of his death all he has to do is name her in his application »r the bonus. No person, whether or not, can take that right 0 person can claim adjusted compensa- | tion in case of his death except the person he named as his beneficiary. He can change his beneficiary, how- ver, at will with the consent of the director of the Veteraps' Bureau. the Genefits of h Q. My husband died in the service. During thé period he was in the serv e I received an allotment and &t the tinte of his death was dependent upon him. His mother receives the bene- fits of the war risk insurance he arried. I have remarried. Will that fact prevent me from collecting the bonus?—J. L. B. A. The fact that you have remar- ried will prevent you from collecting the benefits of the bonus which your husband's military service earned. If you have any children by vour first marriage, they would be entitled to t. If nof, your husband’s mother will be entitled to it. provided she was dependent upon him at the time of his death. Q. How long atter my death (if 1 should die before the twenty-year period for which my certificate will run) will it be before my beneficiary will receive any help from the insur- ance certificate? Will it be paid in cash or monthly installments?—J. F. M. A._Upén your death, if it should oc- cur before the twenty-year period the face value of your certificate will be paid in cash to the beneficiary whom Your beneficlary will have to submit proof of your death in the form of a death. certificate and then the Veterans' Bureau ought to be able to approve of and authorize the payment in cash in a week or ten days. It will be a comparatively easy proposition to pay your beneflciary promptly, provided, of course, that there are no complications of a per- sonal nature and you®have at no time authorized a change of bene- ficiary. The answer to your third question is fully covered in the reply to the first question appearing in to- day’s column. Q. In our post of the American Le- gion the following question has arisen and we will apreciate very much your- answer to it. If a soldier files an_application for the bonus today and dies prior to March 1, 1825, how much would his wife receive, she be- ing both the beneficiary named in the application and a dependent at the time of the veteran's death? —W. M. D. A. Section 501, of title 5, of the ad- justed compensation act reads as fol- lows, “If the veteran dies after mak- ing application—, but before January 1, 1925, then the amount of the face vValue of the certificate shall be paid in the same manner as if his death had occurred after January 1, 1925.” Wide FOOD PRICES HERE GO UP 1 PER CENT Increase Shown for Month, But Some Other Cities Show Steeper Upgrade. Worid Photo. Food prices in Washington stll on the upgrade. The Washington Nouseholder during the month from say 15 to June 15 paid 1 per cent more for food than during the previous month, the Labor Department an- nounced today, although the increase in this city was not as large as in sev- eral others creased 3 per others 2 per cent. At the same tin prices in the Capital year were 4 per cent lower than on a vear ago, with 39 of d showing @ de- average family expendi- are cent in price and in ase in the ture for food As compared with the average cos in the vear 1913. food in_June, 1924, was 49 per cent higher in Washington, Baltimore and Richmond, only two cities showing a greater increase over the 11-vear period than Washington. Tahlating the various food artic by changes in price, the department nounced that the decrease in all articles of food combined for the year period from June 15, 1923, to June 15 of this vear was about 11-3 per cent. For the 11-year period from June 15. 1913, to June 15, 1924, the increase in articles of food combined was a less than 46 per cent. VIENNA STOCKS BOOM. League Financial Reform Scheme Aids Markets. VIENNA, July 19.—This city expe- rienced a remarkable boom in stock exchange securities as a result of the financial reform scheme of the League | of Nations and the stabilization of the Austrian currency. which raised prices of securities far above their actual value. In addition, new capital issues were floated—considerablv in excess of the normal demands of the country. Now the inevitable reaction has occurred. and the country is 'struggling with » crisis as serious as that of 1873. This catastrophe has been eccentuated by the miscalcula- tion of speculators who gambled upon the continued fall of the franc, partly in order to save themselves from the consequences of the undue expansion of Bourse operations dur- inf the preceding boom. Most of them were caught short when the franc reversed its movement and be- gan rapidly mounitng. —_— comes entitled upon the service man's death to the face value of the policy. It the soldier dies without making application a dependent as described in the act would become entitled to the benefits. But such dependent would not be entitled to the face value of the certificate, but would receive only the amount of adjusted service credit. As the face value of a certificate is almost three times as Sreat as the adjusted service credit it is worth while for all veterans to make an effort to file applications for the bonus promptly so as to be sure that beneficiaries, who in most cases As soon as a veteran has signed an application blank and therein-named a beneficiary, the person so named be- are also dependents, will receive the maximum -benefits provided by the act, 2 in one of which food in-| ali | little | Copyright by P. & A. Photos William H. Johnson, chairman of the conference in Washington for the purpose of considering plans for the ‘La Follette campaign and the selection of a running mate for the progressive candidate. National Photo. NEW YORK, July 15.—Today’s best story is told by Jacob Richman. Among the Jews animals and poul killed for the table must be examined by a rabbi. If they prove to have | been unhealthy, malformed, or in any a departure from the normal, they are rejected not kosher. A | client, according to Mr. Richman, ap- proached the rabbi “I want you should look chicken. All the time it pi | bread crumbs under the table “But vhy not?” “For three we I have had bread. 1 think maybe the chicken crazy. way at my for no is Every one knows something that isn't so—that there are no more cowboys in the west. If one gets away from the farm-lands in a dozen states there are just as many and just as good cow boys as there used to be. Only |are and always have been punchers jut_the stock is continually shift- ing. Youngsters grow up and become cowpunchers and their elders go. It used to puzzle me what became of them. Now I know. They come to New York and become policemen. Some go on the mounted squad, and some are assigned to the scooter cars and prowl for bandits. Sometimes for other things “Three goats,” reported an agitated citizen of the Bromx, “are loose and raising thunder.” A pair of cowpuncher policemen in a scooter car roped ‘em, wrastled ‘em, hog-tied 'em, and would have branded ‘em if they had had a running iron | =2 Wonder if any reader knows what it is to be truly lonesome? Give a thought to the three little “white In- dians” who have been brought on | from the Isthmus of Panama. Think COMMUNITY CENTERS MEET AT STADIUM Educational Film Talks Mark First of Series of Con- ferences. More than a thousand persons at- tended the first open-air program under the auspices of the Community Centers department in the Central High School Stadium last night. Music and the showing of several educational films were features of the program Warburton, director of ex- tension work ‘of the Department of Agriculture, told of some of the de- partment's services to the city. H address was illustrated with motion pictures, which showed the thorough method in which “Uncle Sam" inspects meat, teas and other commodities which. are shipped in interstate com- merce or are for forelgn export. It was emphasized, however, that food commodities used within a State are sometimes Inspected by State.authori-, ties and sometimes are not. This, it was _explained, means that meats which are not shipped out of the State often g0 to the consumer with- out any inspection, which, in turn, mean that peoble eat tubercular meat and food otherwise damaged, and which has not undergone an inspec- tion. Besidés pictures showing the prep- aration of meats, inspection of them and other foodstuffs there were sev- eral pictures shown illustrating the broad expanse of the industry in stock raising and farming in this country. Pictures were also shown of the Na- tional parks and of the main Govern- ment_buildings in this city. P. W. Perkins, head of the office of 1= motion pictures, Department of Agri ture, was.in charge of the show- C., SATURDAY, Rear Admiral John H. Dayton, U N., commanding the special service squadron of the Caribbean, who has been ordered to protect United States citizens and their property in revolutionary Brazil. Coypright by Underwood & Underwood FATHER AND SON h\l.‘LllI AVIATOR REPORT flyer, whose plane landed in the ocean near Uruppu, off the Japanese coast, during a storm. SAFE N AN ISLAND. . Stewart MacLaren (right,) round-the-world It was thought that the daring aviator had been lost and vessels searched for him. The report of his landing was made by the Japanese destroyer Isokaze. President Calvin Coolidge and his father, John Coolidge, photographed vesterday afternoon on the lawn of the White House. The elder Coolidge first time since hi MANHATTAN DAYS AND NIGHTS BY HERBERT COREY White Indians have always been pa- riahs. Shunned by the classy brown Indians who ran true to epidermical for. They homed in wet jungles, they did not wear pants, they lived on raw fruit and fish, no one bothered them. Sometimes from a mountain peak t saw a distant steamer or the plume of smoke from an engine on the transisthmian line. Then they were caught, clothed and brought to New York They lived in a at were rushed in elevators, they hustled into elevated and sub surface cars, they rode in taxis listened to the roar of the city were fed on filet mignon and cream, and scientists pried open their mouths and rolled back their eyelids. Wonder what those little Indians told -ach other when they were alone at night? No wonder they have been taken out into the country. They were fading away—of sheer lonesomeness. hotel, they were Inez Haynes Irwin, the short-story writer, is spending the summer at her home at Scituate. Will Irwin ited New York to report progress. “And what is Mrs. Irwin doing?" d her friends. . Having a wonderful time said her husband, enthusiastically. “Get- ting as brown as a berry. Never saw her look so well. Spends almost her entire time ouf of doors with a trowel. And what, asked her friends Mrs. Irwin doing with a_trowel? “Digging out poison ivy,” said her husband E The point is not that she is digging poison ivy. or that she is positively immune to the poison of poison ivy, whereas other ivy petters swell into disgusting lumps, but that Will Ir- win, who was once the star reporter of the old Sun, did not see any news in it. (Copyright. 1934.) ing of the films. The crowd in the stadium was led in singing “America” and several old- fashioned and modern songs by W. R. Schmucker, and was accompanied by the Times-Herald Boys' Band. It was announced that open-air programs would be given each Wed- nesday and Friday nights in the stadium through the remainder of July and all of August. Mrs. A. J. Driscoll is chairman of the committee in charge of thé pro- grams. Assisting her are: Mrs. Edith H. Hunter, Miss Bess D. Schreiner and Mra. Ida’ E. Kebler. Mrs. W. W. Davis and Mrs. L. W. Hardy are ex- officio members of the committee. - DUNN SISTERS FALL VICTIMS OF BURGLARS Members of Famous Secretarial Families Robbed of Apparel and Jewelry. Three of the five Dunn sisters— who came into prominence recently when it was found that the quintet were employed as secretaries of mem- bers of Congress—wére victims of a lock-forcing burglar, who stole about $400 worth of wearing apparel and jewelry from their apartment, at 2110 13th street, vesterday. Mrs. Marjorle’ Dunn Weir reported $263 worth" of jewelry and clothes —including her wedding ring, a georgette gown, valued at $55; a $45 satin dress and a 368 silk dress— as_her loss. Miss Vera Dunn reported valuables including a $40 dress and $22 in miscellaneous apparel stolen, and Miss Goldie Dunn estimated her loss to the burglar at $70, consisting of a satin gown, valued at §40, and & satin dress, valued.at $30, son was inaugurated. SHENANDOAH TRIP L visiting at the Executive Mansion for the National Photo. TOPACIFIGLISTED Giant Dirigible Will Fly Across Country Next Winter to Join Maneuvers. A of the Shenandoah from Lakehurst, N. J., to the T coast for maneuvers with the battleship fleet and subse- quent return to its hangar in New Jers h: been announced by the Nav Department in a tentative schedule for the airship's operations from August 1 to next February The schedule calls for the return of the airship from operations with the Atlantic scouting fleet to Lake- hurst November 7. The remainder of that month will be spent in over- hauling the Shenandoah prepara to the transcontinental trip and opera- tions with the battle fleet of the Pa- cific during January and February next vear. cruise Navy dirigible To Test Mooring Ship. Beginning Aug: 1 the Shenan- doah will start its first actual ex- periments with the fuel ship Patoka, which has been equipped with a mooring mast. These tests will be held with the Patoka acting as a mobile base in Narragansett Bay Wwaters of Long Island Sound, York From August § to 21 radio comp: tests will be made and from August 22 to 31 the ship will operate with the scouting fleet in the Atlantic, Other radio tests will be continued from September 1 to 7 and will be followed Dy additional maneuver operations with the Atlantic scout flect during the week of September o RUSSIA PLANNING ISSUE OF NEW GOLD CURRENCY One, Three and Five Ruble Notes Proposed—TFeasibility Is a Doubted. MOSCOW, July 19.—The Soviet gov- ernment recently promulgated a se- ries of decrees adding one more Pe- form to the Russian currency. It will be recalled that in October, 1922, a new state banknote was issued called thechervonets, in denominations of ten rubles gold or more. These bills were protected from depreciation by a gold reserve and have circulated at about par up to the present time. The old Soviet paper money, which has depreciated almost to the point of in- visibility,‘still remains in circulation as fractional currency. It 4s now pro- posed to issue a new series of legal- tender notes in denominations of one, three and five gold rubles, receivable for public taxes and limited in amount to one-half the chervonets notes in circulation. The old Soviet paper money may be exchanged for these bills at the rate of one kopeck for 500 rubles. Small change is to be provided by coining copper pieces of the minimum denominations, and a series of silver pieces ranging from ten kopecks to one ruble in value. Some skepticism {s expressed as to the ability of the government to maintain at par the chervonets and the new bills of smaller denomina- tions in view of the chronic deficit in the budget. tory | A WARNING TO RUM RUNNERS. Copyrizht by & A Phote The U. S. S. Henley, one of the government’s fast torpedo boats which is being overhauled at the New York navy yard preparatory to work with the “rum coast patrol.” Rum runners will have no chance to get away from this craft. ‘DAM IN SANTEE RIVER | TO SHORTEN ROUTE United States Authorizes Construc- tion With 14-Mile Canal in South Carolina to Save 75 Miles. The Federal Power Commission yes- terday issued a conditional license to the Columbia Railway and Navigation Company of South Carolina to struct a diversion dam in the S; River Ferguson and a canal, which, upon the completion of | locks, will shorten the water | trom’ cColumbia to Charleston nearly 75 miles | | Although the project was d. {as “barely feasible,” the | | con- at by ibed Foundation under- truct it approxi- built in Company of New York a n to finance and The canal would follow mate route of an pre-revolutionary southeasterly into head of the Cooper River. In addi- tion to the diversion dam, three or more earthen dams would be con- structed to create an equalizing res- ervoir, with a power house and tail race, discharging into_the Cooper at a point 25 miles above Charleston. The development would be in two stages. In the first the water would be impounded to a surface fifty-five feet above the sea level 2,000 horsepower. The of development, pro raising of dams ten 122,000 horsepower. As there is an ¢ project on the provides for ma gable depth of six feet from mouth to a point above Fergu the chief engineer of the mmissi. in recommending a license, declared the licensee be required to construct a lock in the diversion dam to per- mit a discharge past it in order to maintain the uniform depth. | Provision also was made for the | construction of locks by the govern ment, whenever Congress deem: advisable, and for rights of way through the reservoir for a future | navigable channel con the ole canal da and run the basin at th econd stage ing for feet to develop ting navigation lower Santee which :nance of a nav EFFORTS TO .SET ASIDE PACKER LAW ALLEGED Brookhart Asked to Investigate Moves to Nullify Consent Decree. Inquiry into efforts being made to set aside the consent decree Separat- ing the big packing companies and their food distributing agencies has been requested of Chairman Brook- hart of the special Senate committee investigating the Department of Jus- tice by Benjamin C. Marsh, managing director of the Farmers' National Union. The council's request calls for in- vestigation as soon as the committee can be convened of “the conditions and reasons affecting the entering of the so-called packer consent decree, while A. Mitchell Palmer was Attor- ney General, and the effort made in 1921 by H. M. Daugherty, while At- torney General, suddenly to secure the modification or setting aside of the consent decree without providing for a public hearing thereo: Mining Brisk in Alaska. SEWARD, Alaska, July 19.—A re- vival of mining, principally for gold. has been reported this Summer on the Kenai Peninsula, across whose neck the government's Alaska rail- road runs north from this city. Many Dprospectors have been attracted the Nuka Bay section, 50 miles south of Seward, where a discovery was said to have been made at the close of last season. Several quartz prop- erties on the peninsula have been sold. . 4 ' ’ fatacraesl the | | " | cases | | to Photo by United Pictures LUVBER DEALER FOUNDNOTGULY { Men Jointly Indicted in Can- | tomment Cases Likely to Be Dismissed. route | L. former Republican committeeman of Georgia: his brother. Ch Philips. jr. of At- lanta, ¢ rank T. Sullivan of Buf- falo, and C Shotwell d. were acquitted ernoon by a jury before Justice John State rles ¥ of Indianapolis, arles S. late in 2 | Bailey arge on conspiring to | mulet the United States out of $1,500 | 000 n with the sale of sury from Army canton- ments. The case has been on trial for mor than 10 weeks U. S. Attorney Gordon was not pre- to say what disposition Would be made of the cases against s Eitzen and M. A. Touart, Jr ensacola, Fla., and Roland Perrs | Washington, who were jointly dicted with the men acquitted by the Sury. ‘These three were awarded separate trials. It is expected the o will be nolle prossed as the of the acquittal of those Te < principal defendants. icquittal of the four men forth a demonstration in As soon as the jury had of the audience began approval and J vesterday a rimi n in conne umber pared today result garded The brought | their favor. reported some of o indicate their 3 ‘;!’ullt-r Walsh. a young attorney in | the office of Charleés A. Douglas, chie | counsel for John L. Philips, clapped his hands, The court ordered the | young attorney before the bar and directed him to appear before the | court this morning. | Justice Bailey hear {in" his chambers this after reading him a lecture m:’ :‘hf proprieties of the courtroom anc en Peiving the apology of the young mat, dismissed the charge of contempt. | MORATORIUM DENIED. Brazil Refuses to Sanction Move Urged by Business Men, BUENOS AIRES, July 19.—It is re- ported that the Rio Janeiro govern- Thent has refused to establish a par- tial moratorium throughout Brazil at the suggestion of some commercial interests of that city. The admin- istration stated that the measurs was not justified under the present ircumstances. Clrl‘hemgn\'(-nlm(‘nl considered that the aid of the Bank of Brazil, which is ready to lend in the different markets of e country, is sufficient. DEACONESS HART LEAVES. a young Walsh morning _and Head of Mission School at Hankow | to Resume Work. Deaconess dith Hart, head of the Phoebe Training School for Native Missionaries in Hankow, China, who has been in the United States for vear on a leave of absence, will ve Washington tomorrow for San co, where she will sail August hina, to resume her work. Hart is the sister of Charles Hart, principal of lastern High chool, and during her visit in the United States spent a portion of her time lecturing.