Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1924, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY; SEPTEMBER 30, 1924. Arthur Gottsman seems to have broken all records. Ten years old, he has been admitted to_the fresh- man class of Oglethorpe University, in Atlanta, passing the entrance tests with a high mark. Wide MRS. LA FOLLETTE AT MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK. MD., LAST SUNDAY. her first speech in behalf of the La Follette-Wheeler ticket. She plans on making a long campai the November election. National The wife of the Senator made tour before World Photo. Photo e — WASHINGTON CATCHER ON JUDGE'S BENCH. “Muddy” Ruel, the etar recciver of the pennant-winning Washington team, is a full-fledged lawrer. having taken his degree in St Louis several years ago. The photo- graph shows him on the bench with Associate Justice Edward Counihan, n Boston a few days ago. Copyright by Keystone. CONGRATULATING THE NEW CHAMPIO! Bobby Jones of Atlanta, Ga., the national amateur golf. champion, being congratulated by George von Elm. his opponent in the finals. The championship matches were played at the Merion, Pa., Cricket Club. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. FRENCH HORSE BF\TF\ BY A NOSE. The finish of the International THE ROOSEVELT TROPHY. Paddy Ryan of Miles City, Mont,, BODY OF MAJ. IMBRIE ARRIVE Photograph taken when the re- oV THE PORCH AND INTO THE HOUSE. Driving this ear at a Special race at French thoroughbred. was beaten by NSULT’ T0 ENVOY WILL BE PROBED Britain Takes Up Alleged De-| portation of Counselor From Brazil. By the Associated Pross LONDON, September 30.—The Press ciation “understands’ that a | court inquiry under the chairmanship of Lord Blanesburgh, formerly Lord Justice Younger, will sit in the for- cign office early in October to inquire into certain allegations by an ‘official of the British diplomatic service of his treatment abroad.” The evidence, according to the Press Association, “is likely to be of a most remarkable nature and many sensational statements have been taken by foreign office officials. The hearing before the court will prob- ably be protracted, as high officials of the diplomatic service are in- volved.” The foregoing statement. which may be regarded as almost official. men- tions no names, but apparently re- fers to the same case as the Evening | News, which states that a forcign of- fice departmental committee has been ordered to investigate the alleged ar- rest and deportation from Brazil of Walter Annesley Stewart, counselor of the British embassy at Rio Janeiro, who declared that he was seized without ‘warning by six policemen, detained two days and then released | on the certific of two doctors and | ordered to ieave the country Called Scandalous Dram: The News says that Sir John A. C. Tilley, the Bri Ambassador, is on his way home to give evidence at the inquiry, and the paper quotes a for- eign office official s declaring that the probe will be in the nature of a diseiplinary board, “as serious allega- tions have been made and must be in- vestigated ‘Phe News prints an article credited to the Brazilian newspaper, Gazeta de Notlcias, in which the affair is char- acterized as scandalous drama which cannot fail to re-echo in view of the insult to national sovereignty which the occurrence rey nts PETITION TO INTERVENE IS DENIED RENT BOARD Appellate Court Refuses to Hear | Oral Argument in Case Involving Housing Emergency. The District Court of Appeals yes- terday denied the application of the | Rent Commission to be permitted to +ntervene and present oral argument 1n the case of Peck vs. Finch, in which is involved the question of the | passia; of the housing emergency. Through Maj. A. Coulter new counsel, the commission told the | court it feared-the case would notf Le properly presentcd. as the tenant's | lawyer had intimated Le would not' filg @ brief in opposition to the claim| of “Attorney Louis Ottenburg for the | plaMitiff that the housing emergency | is passed and there no longer exists a basis for continuing the Ball rent act. 2 Ottenberg had prepared & motion to dismiss the application, but learned of the action of the court before fil- ing the request. Hearing on the ease is scheduled for next Monday. The appellate court gave no reason for fts action merely indorsing the petition “denied,” Aqueduct last Saturday. | Western State penitentiary | Mulien. when nard, the champion Ladkin, owned by August Belmont. Copyright by Undermood & ('nderwood. Quu‘k End Comes To Small Boat’s Cruise of World By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 30.—The Carcharias (Shark) was towed back to port yesterday. At the wheel, thirsty and despondent, was Demetrios Sigelakis, who quit his job in a restaurant to embark, last September 14, upon a circumnavi- gation of the globe. In his tiny sloop with a one-man top Sigelakis had made 104 miles of the 30,000 he had set out to cover. The gulf stream had been formidable, the wind had been ca- pricious, the water tank had sprung aleak, the sextant had fall- en overboard Capt. Jack Johnson of the fishing boat Montauk towed him in—back to the berth at the battery whence the Shark sailed 15 days ago. “A glass of water” were the skip- per's first words as he stepped ashore. CORONER’S JURY HOLDS WARDEN FOR SLAYING Deputy Found in Stupor Will Face Trial for Murder of Companion. By the Associated Press, . Pa., deputy 30.— the at Rock- the September warden of view, held responsible by coroner's jury last nlght for the death of John Mullin, who was shot and killed in a woods near this place last Friday. Davis was held without bail on the charge of murder. When Mullen's body was found nearby were Davis and Harry M. Mec- Coy of Altoona. both in a stupor. Scattered about a camp fire the men had lighted were 24 empty bay rum bottles. Davis was in charge of a detach- ment of penitentiary guards who were here searching for Harry Brubaker, an escaped convict from Rockview. McCoy testified that when he met the deputy warden in Lewistown last Friday and learned of his mission he became . suspicious of Mullen, with whom he had been tramping through the country. He told Davis of his suspicion and said the deputy warden went with him to his camp, thinking perhaps Mullen was the fugitive cone vict. When he learned he was not McCoy said, the three men started drinking and soon he became uncon- sclous. He said that he did not see Davis shoot Mullen, but that ‘Davis was the only one of the three who had a pistol. A woman living ‘near the place of the killing sald she saw Davis shoot FIVE DIE IN CRASH. Freight Train in Blinding Storm Hits Motor Car. COLUMBIA, S. C., September 30.— Rounding a curve in a blinding rain, a railroad motor car crashed into an oncoming freight train of the South- ern Railway yesterday, resulting in the death of five men, one mile north | ! of Peak. 26 miles from Columbla. The dead, all of whom occupied the motor car, are: J. E. Killian- Chap- man, 30, white, of Peak; Heyward Mestze, 22, nhne. of Littieton; James W. Daley, 21, %hite, of Peak; Charlie Brown and James Headerson, negroes, of Peak. Ceonfusion in orders, coupled with the blinding rain, are given as con- tributing causes of the collision. Chapman was killed outright, while Meetze and Brown died on a passen- ger train while being_brought to Co- lumbia. Daley and Henderson died in Columbia hospitals.last night, Pendleton, Oreg., round-up recently. velt cup \LA FOLLETTE NAMES MAY GO ON BALLOT Louisiana Court Orders Sec- retary of State to Show Why They Should Not. | By the Assorsated Pross. | BATON ROUGE. La., September 30. —District Judge Jones last night i {sued an alternative writ of manda | mus against Secretary of State Jam. | 3. Bailey on application of J. J. Fin- neran, head of the La Follette organ- ization in Louisiana, directing the Secretary of State to show cause Oc- tober 6 why the Liberty Bell emblem and the names of the 10 La Follette- Wheeler electors should not be placed on the ballot for the general election in November. : Mr. Bailey had refused to accept the petitions to place the names of electors on the ballot on the ground that hundreds of the signatures thereon were those of voters who had_registered either as Democrats or Republicans. A State statute re- quires that petitions seeking to have the names of independent candidates placed upon the ballot must bear the | | signatures only of voters who had registered as independent of party affiliation. COOLIDGE FOR FULL VOTE. President Wants Supporters of La Follette Given Fair Deal. NEW ORLEANS, La., September 30. —ILa Follette headquarters for Louisi- ana here gave out yesterday the text of a telegram from President Coolidge with reference to the situation in this State, where Lo _Follette-Wheeler electors have been barred from the ballot in the election in November be- cause of a State law relating to party affiliation. The message, which La Follette leaders said was received yesterday, follow Sees Laws in Way. “Replying to your telegram, it is my desire that full and free opportun. ity be afforded under the State laws of our country for an expression of the popular will in the election of all public officials. To my regret [ there are States in the Union where the law is such that this is not pos- sible and it is too late now to change such laws. While I am heartily in {favor of party government, I believe that when a contest is made in a primary which is open to participa- tion of all the people it should go far to determining what candidates are to be presented at a coming election. “Nevertheless I recognize that it is the privilege of our voters to sup- port any one they wish at the polls and feel that the laws should not be drawn for the purpose of preventing such action. I would apply this rule not only to your complaint about Louisiana, but to all the other States of the Union. (Signed) “CALVIN COOLIDGE.” e Navy Officers Transferred. Lieuts. Willlam F. Dietrich and Cal- vin T. Durgin have been relieved from duty at the Navy Department. The first- named has been ordered to the U. S. S. Toucey and the latter to the naval aircraft factory, Philadelphia. Ordered to Naval Air Station. Lieut. Carlton D. Palmer, attached to the Shenandoah, has been transfer- red to the naval afr station, Anacos- tia, D. C, for duty. is the world’s champion cowboy, according to a decision rendered at the He was awarded the famous Roose- Copsrizht by Underwood & Underwood Convict Identified as mains of Maj. Robert W. Imbrie, killed by a fanatical mob at Tcheran, Per: brought the body to the Washington Veteran Reported To Parents as Killed in Action in 1918 Robert St. Clair, at Atlanta Federal Prison, Declared to Be John Bergeron of Menasha, Wis.—Body Was Buried There as His. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, Robert St. Clair, a Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga been identified as John Bergeron of Menasha, Wis. who was listed by the War Department as killed in ac- ion in France. it was learncd here | last night, upon the return of F. W. Bergeron, his father. September 30, convict in The body of a soldier identified as | that of Bergeron was returned to this country and now rests in a cemetery in Wisconsin. St. Clair, or Bergeron, was dicted in the name of Robert St. Clair, alias Dr. Robert E. Frank, allas Robert E. Taylor, for transport- ing. a stolen automobile from one State to another. He figured promi- nently in the news at the time of his arrest, because it was said he was wanted in Wisconsin and in Los An- geles under the name of Dr. Robert Frank. Bergeron, about 30 years of age, was indicted by the Federal grand jury after his arrest in New Iberia, | La., for having taken a stolen car to LABOR BOARD SUMMONS BROTHERHOOD LEADER Court Subpoenas Locomotive Presi- dent to Show Cause Why He Should Not Testify. CHICAGO, September 30.—Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, on mo- tion of the Railroad Labor Board, yesterday subpoenaed David B. Rob- ertson of Cleveland, Ohio, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- men and Enginemen, to answer with- in 20 days and show cause why he should not be ordered to testify be- fore the board. Petition for such an order was flled before Judge Wilker- osn in the United States Court for the Northern District of Illinois by the board through United States Attorney Edwin A. Olson and Weymouth Kir land, special assistant to the Attorney General. Counsel for the board announced that an identical petition to compel the testimony of .John McGuire of Chicago, general chairman on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, would be filed before Judge ‘Wilkerson probably tomorrow. CUMMING GOES ABROAD. Surgeon Gengral to Take Part in ‘World Conferences. Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of the Public Health Service has sailed for Europe to represent the United States at the annual session of the perma- nent committee of the International Health Office and the annual meeting of the health committee of the League of Nations, both at Geneva, Switzer- land. Health matters which affect the in- terests of the United States will be considered at these meetings. Among the subjects to be taken up are the report of the opium and malarial commissions, the report on the in- ternational sanitary control of ports suggested by certaln governments and the revision of the International Sanitary Convention of 1918 the | has | | that place from Jackson. M pleaded guilty and was given a sen- | tence of 13 months. | | "His pardon or release from prison on parole sought on the | ground that as a war casualty his ex- | [ periences in alleged criminality were | [ those of a mental incompetent. As a result of investigation by |agents of the Departmens of Justice it has developed that oflicers in vari- ous places west and in California desired to | question him in connection with al- leged offenses committed in those sec- tions. Among the things under in- vestigation are charges of multiple marriages in California. Bergeron enlisted in_the Army at Menasha in April, 1917, and_served nearly a vear overseas. He was gassed or wounded in the fighting of July, 1915, and wrote a letter to his parents from an American hospital in France. It was dated July 25, 1918. A short time later his parents re- ceived formal notification from the War Department that their son had been killed in action July 18, 1918 WHITNEY LOVE BALM SUIT| ORDERED TO BE TRIED Ruling on Movie Dancer’s Second Million-Dollar Claim Breach of Promise. for By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, September 30.— a Burrows Fontaine's second mil- lion-dollar breach-of-promise action against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit- ney, young capitalist of New York and San Francisco, must go to trial, according to a ruling here by Federal Judge John S. Partridge. The judge’s ruling was in denying a motion by the dancer’s attorney for a dismissal of her suit without preju- dice, which would have permitted her to file a similar action later here or any place else where she might al- lege Whitney had established a resi- dence Her complaint alleged she had lived | with young Whitney in New Haven, Conn., where he had been a student at Yale, and that he was the father | of her son. A similar action brought by her in | New York was dismissed on motion of her attorneys. The trial of the second action is expected within two or three weeks. MRS. BLANDFORD’S RITES Wife of University Official to Be Buried Tomorrow. Special Dispateh to The Star. | COLLEGE PARK, Md., September 30.—Funeral services for Mrs. Jose- phine J. Blandford, 47 years old, wite of James B. Blandford, horticultural superintendent of the University of Maryland, who died yesterday at her home here, will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock at ‘the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church at Berwyn, Rev. William A. Cahill, pastor, offi- ciating. Burial will be in the Catho- lic cemetery at Surrattsville. Mrs. Blandford, who before her marriage was Miss Josephine Mudd of Clinton, Prince Georges County, was a cousin of Representative Sid- ney E. Mudd of the fifth Maryland congressional district. Besides her husband, Mrs. Bland- ford leaves six children, . arrived in Washington vesterday for burjal. | Rola lto go in the Middle West, South- | The U. S. S. Trenton navy vard. National Photo, CRONKHITE DEATH TRIAL BEGINS TODAY Federal Court in West to Start Pothier Hearing After Six Years. By the Associated Press TACOMA, Wash,, Pothi in the September former serg Army, was prepared on trial in Federal charged with the Alexander Cronkhite Lewis in October, 1918 Pothier's trial will be followed on October 22 by that of Robert Rosen- bluth, former Army captain, indicted with him for the Cronkhite murder. The trials come as the climax to a six_vears of investigation. Maj. Cronkhite was shot under pe- culiar circumstances while on a prac- tice march with his command. An Army investigating board returned a verdict of accidental death, but the dead man’s father, Maj. Gen. Adel- bert Cronkhite¢, was not satisfied with the findings and started a chain of investigations. These inquiries, followed by alleged statements on Pothier's part involving Rosenbluth, which later were repudiated. and the indictment of the two men by a Fed- eral grand jury here in 19 tracted nation-wide attention. The question of jurisdiction has delayed the trials for two years. The United States upreme Court ruled recently that the Federal court here must decide whether the cantonment was Government property at the time Maj. Cronkhite met his death. Adju- dication of this phase of the case will follow the selection of a jury. Eighty witnesses from all parts of the United States and its insular pos- sessions are here for the two trials. PLAN LA FOLLETTE RACE. Progressives in Georgia Convene to Choose Electors. MACON, Ga., September 30.—C. W. McClure of Atlanta, was elected per- manent chairman of the Progressive party of Georgia at the State con- vention held here yesterday, which was called for the purpose of choos- 1 nt- bugler murder of at Camp ing electors to run on the La Follette- Wheeler ticket in the State. Five resolutions were ofered to the convention and adopted. They were ratification of t national . Progressive party and in- dorsement of La Follette and Wheeler for President and Vice President; op- position to any attempt to change the laws providing for elections of judges by popular vote; appointment of C. W. McClure as agent of the party to certity the Progressive ticket to the secretary of State; a demand that women be given equal rights with men in all phases of political activi- ties and that provision be made ‘to permit them to serve as presidential electors in Georgia, and an expres- sion of regret for the death of Semator Thomas E. Watson and an expression that the present Progressive party is in accord with the Populist party formed in 1894 by Senator Watson. voters will rebuke in November.” Sthere s = Relieved From Brazil Mission. Capt. Joseph J. Cheatham, Naval Supply Corps, has been relieved from further duty with the naval mission to Brazil and assigned to duty in the office of Naval Operations, Navy De- partment. Commander Henry F, De Mel, Naval Supply Corps, of the Bu- reu of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, will take his place on the Brazllian mission. court here | have at-| the platform of the | F"PUSSYFOOT” JOHNSON | Noted Dry Leader Effects Co-Op- eration of Moslem Prohibition- ists With World League. By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, September 30.—William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson each in Constantinopie and Bulgaria. He concluded arrangements with the Moslem prohibition organization enter the world league, and states that the prohibition movement !strong among the Turks and Ej tians, The Turkish gevernment, according {to Mr. Johnson, will again introduce prohibition when the state can raise the necessary revenue without liquor taxes, He is of the opinion that pro- hibition sentiment also is strong and the movement well organized in Bul- garia and that Bulgaria will be the first country in Central or Southeast- ern Europe to enact dry legislation. ARMY BAND WILL PLAY FOR SCHOOL BENEFIT Scheduled for Opening Concerts in | Series of Educational Meetings | Under Community Auspices. The United States Army Band. W. J. Stannard, directing, will pla the opening concerts in the series of educational evenings being ar- ranged by the Community Center Department, public schools, com- mencing tomorrow evening, at § o'clock, in the auditorium at New Eastern High School, and giving the first program at Central High i The program for Eastern High tomorrow night follows: March, “General Bandholtz." Stannard .....Leutner he Wanderer,” Harlow L. Johnson.) Romberg Overture, “Fe: Baritone solo, (Performed by Sergt. Selection, “Maytime Cornet solos: (a) Vireinia (b) “The Sweetest Story sold 2 (Performed by Intermezzo, row™) Me Back to Old ver < tults Dufresne.) (““Tomor- Missud Duet, flute and horn, “Serenade.” (Performed by Sergts. A. Latkie- | witz and R. Bandel) Excerpts from “Florodora,”’ Stuart arch, finale, “Deflle”..Haney “The Star Spangled Banner” The doors will be opened at 7 o'clock, admission to all Commun- ity Center Department educational evenings will be 10 cents, to cover the cost of transportation of bands and instruments and operation of motion pictures. ——— Plans Fishing Excursion to Beach A public fishing excursion will be held next Sunday at Chesapeake Beach under auspices of the National Military and Sport Shop. H. L. Niedel is in charge of arrangements. Capt. Noah Hazard, veteran Beach boatman, will command a fleet of 25 boats to take the excursionists to choice fish- ing grounds. A special train will leave the District line at 8:30 a.m.. returning at 6:60 p.m. Earth Shock in Consantinople. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 30.— A slight earthquake shock was felt here and on the islands In the Sea of Marmora yesterday. REACHES BUCHAREST| has arrived here after a fortnight| to| high rate of speed. a Portland, Oreg.woman tried to guide it from the car tracks. The steering gear broke, the car climbed over the sidewalk. up a flight of seven steps and through the front door of a house. Copyriznt by Underwood & Underw PARK OFFICIALS TOHOLD MEETING Joint Convention Here Next Week With the American Civic Association. The program prepared for the sec- | ond session of the joint meeting the Americ Association the Ameri itute of Park Ex- | ecutives, which will be held in t small ballroom of the Willard Hotel | Wednesday morning, October 8, prom- ises to be of particular interest. Mrs |s Root Rhodes, superintendent of playgrounds in the District of Co- lumbia, is responsible for the pro- gram, which will include a talk Ly Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public bulldings and grounds, on “Recreation Activities in the Public Parks”; a talk by F. J Brunner, superintendent of municipal pools, District of Columbia, and « rector of swimming in the Central High School, on “The Place of Swim ming in Recreation,” and a talk on “Location of Playgrounds Relative to Landscaping,” by Capt. Horace Peas- | 1ee, architect, of Washington | A committee, composed of | Brewer, commissioner of recr | Detroit;” J. R. Batchelor of th | ground and Recreation Association of America and V. K. Brown, superin tendent of recreation, Board of South { Park Commissioners of Chicago, has made a most interesting survey o playgrounds in 10 cities and will pre- | sent its report at this session. An outdoor lunch has been planned to be held under the trees on the lawn of the Arlington Experiment St The informal luncheon and inspec tion of the station will give the out- of-town delegates the opportunity of becoming acquainted with one anoth, and the work which is being carried on at Arlington. The luncheon will be followed by a trip through the parks and public grounds which is being planned by Col. Sherrill In the evening at the Willard Hotel | there will be a national park and | playground session in which Theo- dore Wirth, president of the Ame can Institute of Park Executives, and J. Horace McFarland, president of tii American Civic Association, will the honor of presiding. Arno B. Carm merer of the National Park Serv ice will give a talk on the national parks and L. F. Kneipp, executit secretary of the President's confer- ence on outdoor recreation, will speak on “Recreation in the National For est. Warren H. Manning of Cam- bridge, Mass., will give a talk on “The Relation Between National, State and Local Parks and Forests.” The dis cussion will be carried on by W. W Ashe, secretary of the National For- est Commission; Ovid M. Butler, sec retary of the American Forestry As sociation. and Harlan P. Kelsey of Salem, Mass., and member of the com- mission appointed by Secretary Worl: to select a suitable area for a nat al park in the southern Appalachia: Mountains | Noted Shriner Critically Il PITTSBURGH, September 30.—Wil- liam Irwin of Wheeling, W. Va.. ps imperial potentate of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, is critically ill in a hospit here. A report from the hospital last | night stated that he was resting easy. | Mr. Irwin was brought here from his home 10 days ago and relatives were advised that his condition was critical. e ‘The 33.000 forest fires in this country each year claim many lives and a dam- age of §16,000,000,