Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1924, Page 17

Lhe GUUSE 13 1de CHRISTMAS BIRD OF GERM a~Y. THE EVENING This_photograph shows one of the big poultry farms near Berlin, where thousands of geese are raised for the Yuletide trade. ARRIVE FOR HRISTMAS VISIT. Lord and Lady Paget of Copyright by P. & A. Photos England, who arrived in New York Saturday aboard the stcamwhip France. They will remain in the United States until after the holidays. WHISTLING ACTRE: Follies, gets her inspiration from S REHEARSES IN A BIRD i o STORE. Margaret the birds themselves, according to her the notes of 34 different American birds. TOKIO PRESS HITS U. 5. ENVOY'S TALK Bancroft’s Plea for Confi- dence in Coolidge Brings Sharp Comment. By the Associated Press TOKJO, December 15, public speeches of Ldgar A. new United States ambas van, one before the Pan-Pacific Club on Saturday and the other before the lapan-American Association on Fri- have drawn sharp comment from ion of the Tokio pre: Inglish edition of } quoting the ambassador's plea that “Japan have faith in America and President Coolidge,” asks: “What does he mean asking of us an obvious uipossibility? Has President Cool- idge or the United States given Japan anything concrete to go on? None of them have given us encouragement o hope for return of the traditional friendship Letween the two nations. Can we, under the circumstances, comply with Ambassador Ban request with pride or self-resp: Xhugal Shogyo Shimpo in the same vein says: “If the future can be judged by the past, Japan will have to hesi- tate in taking the ambassador at his words. Continuing, it says: “There seems to be a wide difference hetween the attitude of the United States and the policy pronounced by the ambassador. Nothing could be more inconsistent with the spirit of peace and friendship tham the mili- tary policy America now is following, such as expansion of her auxiliary fleet Pacific manoeuvres.” The chi Nichi, DR. VAN DYKE AGREES * TO RETURN TO CHURCH Famous Writer Back in Fold With Change of Princeton Pastors. By tbe Associated Press. PRINCETON, N. J., December 15 The return of Dr. Henry Van Dyke to the First Presbyterian Church at Princeton, which he left last Winter hecause of the “schismatic and irri- rating” preaching of Prof. J. Gres- ham Machen of the Theological Semi- nary, who then occupled the pulpit, hecame known, simultaneously with the announcement that Dr. Charles Rodman Erdman of the seminary had been called to the pastorate. Dr. Van Dyke, a former moderator of the Presbyterian Church, said that he was delighted to return to the historic church which has stood on the Princeton campus since before the Revolutionary War, and in which ne held & pew for many years, now that the utterances from the pulpit will not offend his views. = Dr. Erdman is a distinguished church man, president of the Presby- terian Board of Missions and author of several books. L ‘he International ~ Workingman's Association has just ocelebrated its sixtleth anmiversary with a demon- ‘stratien in London. } | The body of Stefan Matz was found |hanging from a tres here vesterday. | jshe fell he shot her again three times Man Hangs Self Believing He Had Hurdered Wife Four Shots Fired at Mate, “However, Inflict Only Flesh Wounds. By the Associated Press. BAYSID: December 15.— He ended his life believing he had murdered his wife, whom he shot four times. The bullets inflicted only | flesh wounds, however. Mrs. Matz said yesterday Stefan was dismissed from his position as| a butler. They had separated and che had begun divorce proceedings on_the grounds of cruelty. Saturday night, Mrs. Matz said, Stefan lay in wait for her near the residence of John Halliday, actor, where she is employed as cook and where he held the position of butler. He shot her as she passed and when at close range and left her for dead, she asserted. He then stumbled off through the woods and was not seen again until his lifel body was found. There was polson stains on Matz's lips and clothing, police said, and a bullet wound in his left temple. LAFAYETTE ALCOVE WILL BE DEDICATED Ceremony to Be Held Tonight at G. W. U. Library—Jusserand to Speak. The Lafayette Memorial Alcove in the George Washington University Library will be dedicated tonight at school “at Twentleth and H streets of the 100th anniversary celelyation of the first commencement &f the university and the centenary of the first visit of the Marquis de Lafayette. Jules J. Jusserand, French Ambas- sador to the United States, will de- liver the principal address. . Harry C. Davis, mémber of the board of trustees, also will speak. His topic will be “Lafayette and the First Commencement.” Miss Estelle Went- worth will sing “The Marscillaise” and the Men's Glee Club will render several selections. The corner stone of the new law school at Twentieth and H streets will be laid this afternoon as another feature of the celebration. The cere- monies will be in charge of Charles F. Roberts, grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the District. Uni- versity officials, members of the faculty and students will attend. Dr. William Bruce King will speak. Grain Magnate Dies. NEW ORLEANS, December George S. Gibbons, 56, head of one of the largest grain concerns in the South and a leading New Orleans clubman, died suddenly yesterday while attending church. Acute indi- gestion was given as the cause of death. He was a son of the late John T. Gibbons and a nephew of the late 15.— Cardinal Gibbons. | which will furnish the machinery By Uuited News Pictures, McKee, whistling marvel of the press agent. Margaret can imitate Copyright b; HEARINGS CALLED ON WELFARE CODE House Subcommittee Plans to Draft Legislation Covering Field. Underwood & Underwood. To draft a comprehensive code of welfare legislation, which not only vill establ a welfare board in charge of all such activities, but fo! that board to establish rules covering the various phases of the work, hear- ings are to be started tomorrow be- fore the subcommittee of the House District committee, of which Repre- sentative Oscar E. Keller of Minnesota is_chairman. _ Various civic, religious, human- itarian and professional groups and organizations, containing such asso- clations as the Monday Evening Club, the Twentieth .Century Club and Federation of Churches, are support- ing the bill, which was drafted by a commission on public welfare legisla- tion, of which Justice Frederick L. Siddons is chairman. Public Hearings Held. Public hearings were held by this commission, cxisting institutions were visited and investigated, and conferences were held with District officials and with leaders in welfare work before this legislation was recommended to Congress. The bill now- before the committee proposes to centralize public welfare work in one department and to abol- ish the Board of Children’s Guardians and the Board of Charities, both of which have approved the measure. In spite of this vigorous clashes are expected at the hearing tomorrow. Favored by President. The District Commissioners heart- ily indorsed the measure and Presi- dent Coolidge particularly recom- mended it in his message at the open- ing of the present session of Congress when he advocated such centraliza- tion of public welfare work as a much needed improvement over present conditions. The subcommittee which will’con- duct the hearings and later draft a comprehensive program is composed of Chairman Keller, Representatives Beers, Pennsylvani; Stalker, New York; Blanton, Texas, and Gilbert, Kentucky. B — DETECTIVE IS CLEARED. Rone Restored to Duty After Ac- quittal of Housebreaking Charge. The Police Trial Board, today ren- dered a verdict exonerating Precinct Detective Guy Rone of the sixth pre- cinct, of charges of leaving his pre- cinct without permission and of con- duct prejudicial to the good order and discipline of the force. He was ordered restored to duty today. The charges before the trial board grew out of a case in Criminal Court in which Rone was tried and acquit- ted of a charge of house-breaking. Rone was arrested in the basement of a residence outside of his precinct and his defense was that he was there making an investigation inline of duty, STAR, - WASHINGTON. GEORGIA CLAIMS ANOTHER RECORD. credit for producing the largest head of cabbage. the photo, uses the cabbage head for a sunshade. GLORIA PERFORMS FOR Bishop, formerly Miss statement that “society York’s Child Welfare aught dan ociety. | There were mysterious doings out | Georgia avenue way early yesterday | morning. A vacant old Georgia avenue near Kenyon, sur- |rounded by a high board fence Bleak winds that howled dismall around corners. Rattling windows. Deserted streets. Two men arrive out of the dark- ess, halt to surv cautiously slink through a side gate Suddenly a woman appears and enters the same gate. A sound of heavy footsteps, of men scuffling, and the body of a man dives headfirst over the fence. The other man races out of the gate simultaneously. They disappear. All is again qulet, except for the moaning of the chill winds. A half hour passes, and an automobile skids to a stop across the street. Five men get out and circle about the house. One by one they enter the side gate. Whispers. Shortly they emerge in a bunch, just as a colored resident on his way home reaches the gateway. He jumps in fright. There follows a muttered conference with him, during which the ,words “spooks,” “ghosts” and “ha'nted” are frequently used. frame house on Party Enters House. The negro hurries on, and three of the five men get back in the car and disappear. A few moments later a policeman comes up and joins the other two. The trio reappear and the whole party enters the gate, the officer flashing a light. He produces a skeleton key and unlocks the back door. All go in, hesitantly. The sound of creaking floors, upstairs and down. They come out, bid the cop good- night, get into the car and speed away. ¥ There is a concerted rattling of windows as the patrolman moves out of sight. Here are the details: Driven Out by Spooks. The body which hurtled over the fence was that of Charles L. Ramse cabinet maker, of Silver Spring, M according to his -own admission. The other man, he said, was his friend, Howard Stokes. They had heard a motorman on the Georgia avenue line say that he had to move from the house because . it . was haunted. Strange, clammy hands had clutched at his wife ‘one night whtle he ‘was on his run. At times both had heard footsteps upstairs, and upon going up to Investigate, had heard them downstairs in the room they had just vacated. They had been awaken- ed frequently by blood-curdling moans from the basement, a dismal place, in the center of which is an old cistern. The tales interested Mr. Ramsey. He did not believe in ghosts and neither did his friend, Mr. Stokes. Just for fun they agreed to do a lit- tle investigating at the vacant house Saturday night on thelr own hook. They would spike the rumors. We will let Mr. Ramsey tell of his probe in his own words: i Big Man Loems Up. “We went through the gate and had no more than got inside than “SWEET oria Gould, who goes on record with the is_the bunl i Sine the vicinity, and | This time the State wants Miss Mary King, in CHARITY.” Gloria Gould in a classical dance for New her marriage, Mrs. Bishop has Wide World Phot SPOOK DRIVES GHOST-HUNTER TO DIVE OVER GA. AVE. FENCE Reporters Investigate Story of Haunted House Told by Precipitate Investigator, but Specters | Have Retired for the Night. this woman comes through. We did not get a chance to take a good look at her, as just at that very mo ment there loomed up in front of us the largest man I have ever seen. He was about to close down on us, and 1 didn't wait to look him over as carefully as I would have liked to. T don’t remember how I got into the street, but I must have dived over the fence or something. Here' where he hit me over the eyve, of it's where I landed on the ment.” ing the possibilities of a Mr. Ramsey headed for The Star building, crystallizing into ac- tion the four available reporters and the news car chauffeur. The report- ers armed themselves hastily with paperweights. They raced to the scene. The details of their investi- gation have been outlined heretofore. The trio who left momentarily went around to No. 10 police precinct to get official aid. Desk Sergt. Jones convinced them none was necessary. Having llved in the neighborhood most of his life, he could state au- thoritatively that no spooks had come to_his attention in all that time. Meanwhile the patrolman on the beat had happened upon the two “guards” at the house. When the trio came back he volunteered to investigate. Not a ghost in sight. - That would seem to settle it, that startled darky along. “Ghosts? Always h 1f hadn't come I should say dey is. been. . Ask anybuddy aroun’ yere: Dat's why I jumped when I see vo-alls. Durn right dat place am ha'nted!” STORM VICTIM LOSES BOTH LEGS FROM-ICE Canadian Mail Carrier Wanders in Frozen Fields Four Days. By the Associated Press. FORT WILLIAM, Ontario, December 15.—As a result of wandering four days and nights through the foy wilderness, after having missed a trail, Steve Demoski, mail carrier of the New Ontario Construction Com- pany, is in the Siopx Lookout, Hospital with both legs amputated, it was learned here. Demoski, who left Robinson station 40 miles east of Sioux Lookout, on December 2, lost his way while on his mail route and attempted to.reach the construction camp by a short cut. He became confused and traveled in a circle, walking continuously with the exception of one day, when he slept on a hillside in the sun. Demoski would not give up and struggled through frozen wastes until he reached the Twin Falls saw mill camp, his shoes, socks and feet, a solid mass of fce. | Demoski was then ‘taken t3 a ho pital, where, in order to save his life, it ‘was found necessary to am- putate his left leg below the hip and his right leg at the knee. CALIFORNIA'S ITALIAN-SWISS Cloverdale, KID McCOY Los Angeles, Kid McC. man Selby, with his 1S DEFENDANT IN MURDER TRIAL. v's trial opened December 8. The photograph shows McCoy, whose real name is Not er, Mrs. Jennie Thomas, in the courtroom. VINEYARD CHURCH. The quaint b Charged with th huilding is located five miles from n an ltalian-Swiss colony, where the workers spend most of their days in the vinayerds. Wide World Phot e murder of Mrs. Theresa Mors i Copyright by P. & A. Photo: NEW YORK HAS AN EAHIBICION OF WHITE SOAP SCULPIURE unique display at the Art Center. e awarded the successful sculptors who use soap asa m [ GOVERNOR DROPS DOG SHRINE PLAN | | Baxter of Maine Ends Long Political Feud Created by Irish Setter. ; | By Consolidated Press. | PORTLAND, Me., December 15.—| Garry, the Irsh setter dog who up to the time of his death was assistant governor of Maine, has been thwarted | the politicians of the last honor | is master, Gov. Percival P. Baxter, | planned to give him—a monument on | the statehouse grounds. | A Dbill authorizing the memorial, providing funds for its erection, | | passed the governor’s council several | weeks ago, and plans for the monu- ment were being rapidly pushed. But the governor announced this week | that because of the objections of “cer- tain well meaning people” he had de- cided to give up the idea. Long Political Insue. Gov. Baxter and his dog long have been an issue in Maine politics. Bax- ter, a millionaire, college-bred man, whose education was polished off by frequent sojourns in Europe, is a bachelor. He was president of the State Senate when Gov. Parkhurst died, a few months after his inaugu- ration, and_ Baxter succeeded to the vacancy. Garry, his inseparable com- panion, moved into the statehouse with him, When Garry died about a year| ago, Gov. Baxter ordered the state-| house flag half-staffed. The Grand Army officials protested this tribute to a dead dog, saying that the gover- nor's act was an insult to every sol- dier. From the headquarters of the American Legion Auxiliary at Wash- ington another protest came. G. A. R. and American Legion posts from the Canadian border to the sea wired or wrote in their protests, but the gover- nor refused to raise the flag until Garry had been buried. Interment was made in the gover- nor's private dog cemetery at his Summer home, on an island in Port- land Harbor, where nine generations of “Garry” sleep their last sleep, be- neath carved marble headstones. A bronze tablet affixed to a huge bolder in the center of the lot bears the fol- lowing inscription: “To my Irish setters. Affectionate, faithful, loyal. PERCIVAL P. BAXTER, Governor of the State of Maine.” Storm Breaks Amew. The storm of protest over the flag incident was soon forgotten, and probably nothing more would have been sajd about it but for the latest act of the governor in “log rolling” an order through his. council for the dog memorial. < Again the 'storm broke. The governor was told that if he wanted a memorial to his dog he ought to pay for it out of his am- ple private purse. The councilors who voted for the memorial were se- verely criticized, and things got so hot that the governor concluded to call off his memorial. Garry was a noble animal. He could always be seen lying full length on an orfental rug before the fire- place in the governor's private office. Every legislator knew him and many shared the goyernor's admiration for Distinguished artists form the jury of award dium. Last Day of 1924 Of 12 Hours Onl Scientists Agree Sailors and Astronomers to Start Reckonings on New Basi. By the Associnted Press. BOSTON, Mass.,, December 15.—The last day of 1924 will be a short for navigators and astronomers — day only 12 hours. For midnig! of 1 ember 31 will mark the passing of th v rable custom of séamen and students of the stars of reckon- ing their d: from noon until n , and their capitulation to the custom of the rest of the worlid, which be- gins its day and ends it at midnight On January 1, 1925, the astronom- ical day will merge its identity with the civil day, according to an an- a nouncement in the Harvard College | Observatory Bulletin, distributed ye: v. H. T. Stetson, assistant pro- or of astronomy at Harvard, said that the same change had been de- cided upon in connection with the ! nautical da: Prof. Stetson said that the change was adopted primarily to avoid con- fusion. The astronomical day v originally arranged so that the as- tronomer, making observations dur- ing the night, would not have his work complicated by a change of date at midnight. This difficulty will be ccepted now, however, in preference to the possible confusion resulting in the 12 hours' time difference in days and dates The change was made by general agreement, he said, the civil day di placing the astronomical for all pu: poses. Announcements will be reck- oned from the Greenwich mean mid- night and designated Greenwich civil time. The Julian day will be con- sidered as coincident with the civil day and “it is proposed to designate it as the Julian civil day,” the bulle- tin states. For astronomers the first Julian civil day will bear the num- ber 2,424,152, Nautical calendars and almanacs for 1925 are, according to Prof. Stet- son, prepared in conformity with the changed reckoning in dates. The po- sitions of stars will be designated in navigators' almanacs according to the new arrangement, he said. German-Portuguese Pact. LISBON, Portugal, December 15.— The German finance minister, Dr. Luther, has successfully negotiated with the Portuguese government the basis of a commercial agreement between the two countries. He left Lisbon for Ber- lin yesterday. him. But when the governor tried to put him on a level with human beings most of the legislators joined in the protest. Gov. Baxter defended his course on | the ground that Garry was “a mem- ber of my official family.” It was an open secret that he had higher re- spect for Garry than for some of his political opponents. He wrote a eu logy of the dog, In which he said: “My faithful dog, unlike man my human friends, never betrayed or belleved i1l of me.” But with that tribute and the fu- neral _obsequies the governor gave him, Garry will have to be content as he frolics in the happy hunting ground. of | ivo of tae comp the and prizes of $100 to $250 Copyris rvood MASONRY LOUSED *ABOUT HOLY DOOR | Vatican Officials Hold Cere- mony Preparatory to Jubilee Year. | By the Associatea | ROME, Decem | mony of loosening walls up the “holy ¢ Pius will open Christmis basilica of St Peter's, nour the n | holy year of er 135 he masonr h jubilee it was was 7§ an impressie rformed Procession to Door. Mgr mper, the papal maj domo, accompanied by Mgr. Ca Dominior aster of the papal house | hotd, and ed by guards nd four sediari, or carriers of the papal chair, bearing lighted torche nd the holy sacrament, approachec | the noly door. | After a half the hour's work masons ble tablet, having en they removed the Dr. Lapponi, Pope | Leo's sonal physician; by Piu | Centra, Pope Leo’s valet, and by | Cavalier de Angelis, knight of the cope and sword. who organized the pilgrimage to the holy door during the last holy vea The also removed containin gold, 30 sil bronze medals, half of wh memorated the opening and closing of the holy door in 1900, The papal bull announcing the proach of “holy year” was read the sccond time yesterday. Mgr. Mannuccl, auditor of the “holy rota tribunal,” was admitted into the presence of the Pope. With him were Mgr. Prince Boncampagni Ludovici vice chamberlain of the church, and prelates composing the college of clerics of the apostolic chamber. Mgr Mannucei knelt before the pontiff and asked his authorization to read again in Italian and Latin the bull pro- claiming holy year. Pope Pilus replied in a | dress, in which he said he gav { authorization. This he did all the { more willingly, as vesterday was the Sunday known as “Gaudete” (the-third | Sunday in Advent), when the church |invited the faithful to rejoice be- were near thelr Lord Pope Pius sald, the falth ful were doubly near, because the Christmas festivity would coincide with the announcement of a year of redemption and forgiveness, which | might be gained entirely if accom- | panied by penitence and the expiation | of sins. | removed | bronze ur | ments written by tub 60 a glass and for short ad- the Read in Two Tongues. Then Mgr. Mannucci, in Ttalian, and Mgr. Quatrocolo, in Latin, .read the bull, amid profound silence, to = crowd outside thej basilica, which witnessed the ceremony through the |iron gates and knelt in reverence | Later Mgr. Capodosti, pontifical mas- | ter of ceremonies, read the bull out- | side the basilicas of St. Paul, St, John Lateran and Santa Maria Mag- glore. . Best bay ofl and bay rum from the Virgin Islands. come