Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1924, Page 5

HRISTIAS TREE " IPHELD BY PAK Expert Declares €areful Cut- ting Aids Forests—Praises Efforts for Greens. Praise for the campalgn being waged by the Wildflower Preserva- and The Evening Star on of the dogwood and volced by Charles lathrop Pack, president of the Amer- Tree Assoclation. ade his statement in re- W. W. Milar of Akron, chalrman of the depart- ment of appiled cducation of the Gen- cral Fedecaticn of Women's Clubs, who had telegraphed Mr. Pack that articles in the Nature Magazine on Chiistmas trees had stirred up a great . among the club women of the country ! s Milar, Mr. Pack | servation | campaign | sald Mr. Pack: ructive cam- | patgns we have seen anywhere in the | country. We have reviewed it in the Nature M reprints of it to ¥ 3 of the Wildflow o n Socety for We are re parts of stund on Chris Would Save Holly. ‘ashington is di- | use of holly no efforts are tmas greens 18 by P.! ¥ of the Distriet | 20,000 More Await Final Papers in New York. NEW YORK, December 15.—Forty thousand allens have been made citi- 7ans of the United States during_the last nine months in the New York naturalization division, Merton A. Sturges, divisional director, announced yesterday. Twenty thousand more are awaiting examination for their final papers and 50,000 others are Mr. Sturges persons awaiting final paper: most Instances are qualified for citi- zenship. He declared present court facilities are inadequate. ————— RITES FOR TWO NAVY MEN Retired Officers to Be Buried To- morrow in Arlington. Two naval funerals will be held at Arlington National Cemetery tomor- row afternoon. They are for Lieut. Carl E. Beatty, Supply Corps, U. §. N., retired, who died recently at Liberty, N. Y., and Chief Yeoman Howard Jrum Emmone, U. 8. N., retired. The funeral for Lieut. Beatty will e held at 2:50 p.m. and the funeral | procession will start from the Fort| Myer gate. (haplain Scott will of- | fciate. The funeewl procession for Chief Yeoman Emmons will start from the south gate at 15 p.m. l}m-; mons’ funeral will be from 48 Co- uthbia avenue, Hyattsville, Md. ELECTRIC of Columbia Wiidflower Preserva- tion ty and very active in the the national association. Christmas tree | ct of the forest. | . Hosmer writes, | leaving trees to | that moun- | n mo-n ot | t to South | His artlc \ has the v eration of Wom Christmas Troe 0. K. Mrs. Milar telegraphed she celving protests trom some club- women aga'nst the culting of Christ- n recs greens, but | < proper use. 1 where they know | , because they | st policy fo mas tree is of the forest. | sclentifically ‘! f cours d buy a or stolen | What better | n to glve joy | best a i the annual cut #tead of peor the cuttin should srowing town f tion fo! under proper tice a t « needs, tb tree que Since first state- | ment in tmas tree cutting, the stopping of the | of littic or no help | 16 conser g | i the Americ e magazine and ociation have od Tution utilization Federal of Chris trees. The the country are cutting editors of ! united in stand | against stoppi as tree | custom. Fres P'ack of the Amer- | fean Tree tion calls attention | to the fact that President Coolidge made no reference to Christmas trees | in his speech at that confercnce. WILL, ONCE BROKEN, | IS NOW SUSTAINED | Widow of Timothy Brosnan Loses Suit in Decision by U. §. Supreme Court. The wiii of Timothy Brosnan, broken by a jury in June, 1921, was today upheld by another jury before Justice Bailey in Circult Division 1, following a ruling by the United States Supreme Court that the burden of proof ©f mental incapacity of a testator fs upon the person attack- ing the will. Mrs. Margaret L. Brosnan, the widow, ‘attackéd the validity of the document, and .under - the practice then *in végue in the District Su- preme Court, won a verdict break- ing the wlil. Attorneys Wiiton J. iambert and Rudolph H. Yeatman, for the other beneficiaries, appealed to the United States Supreme Court after the Court of Appeals had declined to sct aside the verdict, and the highest court in the land announced its view of the law and directed a retrial. When the case came up this morn- ing Attorney W. Gwynn Cardiner for tho widow announced they had no evidence to offer in support of the caveat, and the jury returned a ver- dict upholding the will. The estate is valued at $200,000. Under the will a bequest of 3250 is made to the Little Sisters of the Poor and seven nleces are each given $1,000, and John Brosnan, a nephew, $500. The remaining estate is left one-slxth to John Brosnan and one- sixth each to five of the seven nleces.. Albert F. Fox, the executor. was rep- resented by Attorney Willlam G. Johnson. . Owner of Paper Dies. GLEN COVE, N. Y., December 15.— William Van Anden Hester, president of the Datly Eagle Corporation, died of heart failure at his Summer home here yesterday, after an lllness of sev- eral months. He was 66 years old. Mr, Hester was the-son .of Col. William Hester, former president of the cor- poration, and wephew of Isaac Van Anden, who fegndad the paperin 1841, ... THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1924. ashington’s Clhristmas Store for Den ¢ | IN SLAYING OF TWO Man Shot in Row in Garage—Sec- ond Xilled, Girl Companion ‘Wounded. . Ruppert Brown, colored, 32, 632 Acker street northeast, was shot In the head last night while in Manhat- tan Garage, 1906 Seventh street, and dled before reaching Freednen's Hos- pital. Benjamin Harrison Best, colored, 34, 1926 Twelfth street, employed in the garage, was arrested by Detec- tives Waldron and Sweeney as his alleged slayer. He is sald to have admitted the shroting. He sald a sompanion of Brown's made a move as if to draw a weapon. Brown and a companion drove into the garage to get gas. There was another car there at the time, and police were told that Best became involved in an argument with Brown and shot him. When placed under ar- rest, it is stated, Best denied the shooting, but when the detectives found his weapon had been recentl. fired he changed his story, detectives stated. Man and Woman Shot. 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