Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1924, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THE WEATHER WAS BAD FOR FIRST SKI PRACTICE. But the President and Mrs. Coolidge tried on their skiis in the White House grounds yesterday afternoon. The two pairs of President and Mrs. Coolidge by a committee of the Nation: an invitation to attend the national Ski Asso 1 tournament in Minnesota in Februa were_presented to the ation calling at the White House with National Photo. NEW JAPANESE AMBASSADOR AND HIS FAMILY. Viscount Tsuneo Matsudaira, recently appointed to represent Japan Secreta HOUSE APPROVES (60 NENINNAVY, RUNOREXPLANED | Grows Out of Curb on Un- | Bill Also Provides Funds for 6,895 Officers—Other Items | Given Support. Maintenance present of the Navy h of 86,000 enlisted for in the annual bill now under con- in the House, was apprev- 3 House late yesterday. A slight increase in the number of Jine and staff officers over the present number was also approved, so that the bill now carries appropriations| For 6,895 of the officers Anxious to send the bill to the Sen- #®ie before the Christmas recess, which begins tomorrow, the House - a fast pace as it completed gen- #ral debate on the measure. Before djournment, reading of more than If the bill had been completed and presentative French, Republican, ho, in charge of the proposal, was nfident it would be put to a vote “0day. at fts| Larger Items in Bill. Among the items in the bill given House approval were those appro- prieting $160.000 for _the val Training Station at San Diego, Calif.; £250,000 for the Newport, R. I., train- ing statio 50,000 for the training statlon at Great Lakes. 111, and $260,- 100 for the Hampton Roads, Va., sta- vion; $3.900,000 for the naval rese force, $100,000 for the Naval War Ci Jege, Rhode Island: $175,000 for the engineering _experiment station at Annapolis, Md.; $17,000,000 for con- Ktruction and repair of naval ves- ®cls, $11,732,000 for the Bureau of ©rdnance, and $315,350 for temporary government for the West Indian Islands, acquired by the United States from Denmarik To provide pay for 86,000 men dur- @ng the coming fiscal year, the bill carries $117,000,000. HAMPTON AND TUSKEGEE TO GET $1,000,000 GIFT WNegro Institutions Qualify for Gen- eral Education Board Fund by Matching Amount. he Associnted Press. NEW YORK, December 19.—The $1,000,000 gift of the General Educa- tion Board toward a $5,000,000 en- dowment for Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes, made contingent upon the jnstitutions raising a second million Ly June 30, 1927, has been made, it was announced yesterday at the headquarters of the Hampton-Tus- kegee endowment fund here. The first public appeal for funds was made by the trustees for this pur- yose two months ago, and the re- eponse has been so generous that the necessary fund has been subscribed for ahead of time. With the gift of the education board thus obtained, officials of the endowment fund announced that fheir next effort would be extended toward obtaining the recently of- fered gifht of George Eastman, Roch- ester camera manufacturer, éondi- tional upon the negro institutes rais- ing thelr $5,000,000 endowment fund i1y the end of 1925, TAX REFUND FRAUD necessary Service, Of- ficial Says. “Occasionally we do find an auditor or an employe who has gone wron and he is properly taken care of.” Mr. Nash said. “It probably Is true tha some ex-employes have made some money in apparently securing adjust- ments for taxpayers. He thought the taxpayers were largely to blame for giving their cases to these peo- ple, because they would get' their money back from the audit of their returns, whether th were repre sented here by an ex-employe or ar attorney “The public is a little bit gullible in this respect,” he said. Asks Change in Text. Mr. Nash pointed out, however, that a change is desired in the language of the act so that attorneys and agents who apply to practice before the Treasury Department may be in- vestigated. *We want to learn what th previous business has been, what the people who know them think about them, etc, before they are given permission to practice be- fore the Treasury Department.” Mr. Nash told the committee that his office had under investigation here in Washington for more than a year a firm of accountants who have worked on cases under the re- | lief section and other sections of] the act. These accounts have spe-| clalized on cases where many tax- payers are entitled to relief, and| his office was informed that this firm of accountants made nearly half a‘ million dollars last year. | The intelligence agents of the In- | ternal Revenue Bureau have been | working for over a year, but find nothing criminal regarding this firm of accountants, Mr. Nash said. . “We are still watching them, and the pub- lic continues to give them cases, al- though we have tried to warn the| taxpayers where and whenever we could do so. Charles R. Nash, assistant commis- | sioner of internal revenue, during his testimony before the House appro- priations committee hearing on the Treasury appropriation bill, was asked to explain reports that persons had profited from helping secure. re- funds to taxpayers. When Mr. Nash laid before the com- mittee a long list of fraud cases among bureau employes Representa- tive Byrns of Tennessee, ranking Democrat on the committee, said he had heard many rumors that a few men here in Washington were getting rich over these refunds. The intima- tion was that they had somebody in the bureau helping them out. Mr. Nash said there were any num- ber of such rumors, and that a force of 74 intelligence agents spent a great portion of their time running them down. Ninety-nine per cent of the rumors are groundless, he testi- fed. MAJ. GEN. SMITH MOVED. Maj. Gen. William R. Smith, now commanding the Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., will surrender that command tomorrow, under orders made public today, and proceed to New York to sail January 28 for the Hawaiian Is- lands to take command of the Army division there. Washington, photograhped recently with his family in Tokio. Praising the new envoy, v of State Hughes, predicts closer relations between the United States and Japan. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. FORMER CROWN PRINCESS AND HER SONS. C., FRIDAY, AT FUNERAL OF LABOR LEADER. Mrs. Gompers, widow of the late president of the American Federation of Labor, leaving Elks” Hall, New York, yesterday, after the funeral services. Mr. Gompers was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, near Tarrytown, N. Y. SISTERS WED BROTHERS IN WASHINGTC Wide World Photo. The end of a double romance came yesterday, when the brothers, William and James Nader, married sisters, Julia and Wadia Aed. The Aeds and Naders once lived in adjoining towns in Syria, then they came to America and Washing- ton 17 years ago. 53 L& The latest photograph of former Crown Princess Cecilie and her two sons, William and Fred- erick William, showing the latter grown to manhood. The boys have gone into commerce. MOTHER’S PLEA WINS RELEASE OF 2 SONS| ‘\Sr‘nall Family Circle Will Gather for Holiday Season | Chicago to Surrender Murderer | in Simple Observance With President and Mrs. Coolidge. Norfolk Judge Grants Habeas Writ to Make Home Happy at Christmas Time. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. NORFOLK, Va., December 19.— Mrs. Etta Ayres, whose husband was killed on a rum vessel at Hampton Roads two years ago, won her fight | for release of her two sons, Don and Hartley Ayres, from the State In- dustrial School, at Covington, Va., when Judge W. Sergeant here yester- day granted a writ of habeas corpus. The woman, left destitute and forced to send the boys to the institution, re- cently inherited $50.000. She said her 5-year-old daughter cried for her little brothers, and she wanted them returned as a Christmas surprise. She sald their release was objected to by the superintendent of the institution upon the ground that the boys were under penalties for infractions of the institution’s rules. The mother's suit named the superintendent defendant. Judge Sergeant ordered the boys released, saying, “Boys will be boys,"” and a home could be made happy with their- return to their mother and sister. SHOOTS WIFE AND SELF. NEW YORK, December 19.—Mrs. Bertha Gold, 33, was shot down in her home here last night by her estranged husband,” Sol Gold, who then turned the revolver on himself. Mrs. Gold may recover, but the man is not expected to live. The Golds had been married five ¥ears and separated a month ago. Copyright by Kadel & Herbert. By Consolidated Press. Christmas hurly-burly has broken loose at the White House, where a thousand bundles, boxes, barrels, crates, packages and “pokes’ are bearing down gayly upon the staff in a | relentlessly steady stream.- Everybody in the White House house- hold has something coming. The Pres dent and Mrs, Coolidge, and their son John, soon to arrive for his first visit since entering Amherst, are on the list. So also is Col. John Coolidge, the Presi- dent’s father, although he now is not expected to be a White House Christ- mastide guest. Tagging along In the gift-getting group are Mrs. Cool- idge’s pets, the white collies, Rob Roy and Peter Pan, and the President’s prime favorite, Blackle, the cat that “stayed put.” So far, oddly enough, no Christmas turkey has been promised. There still {s time aplenty for a turkey or two to come winging its way, al- though nobody wonders much at no turkey when casting an appraising eye over the vast assortment of prov- ender gifts, which range from bits of hand-made homey stuff to splendidly boxed fruits and nuts showing the choicest things from the Winter har- vests. Holly Brings Queries. Flowers from everywhere show up agalhst a gorgeous consignment of holly which Arizona admirers of the Coolidge family have forwarded. The White House registers a lot of ‘ex- citement because of the holly, which Coprright by Underwood & Underwood. NARROW ESCAPES WHEN MAIN BURSTS. A 36-i DECEMBER 19, 1924. WASHINGTON HU! with them to prove their stor; Fred Spicer, H. W. Harr on and TERS BRING DOWN A BIG BEAR. And they brought the hide back to the Capital J. M. Beall, Jarty went down to Lake Drummond, Va., on their annual hunting trip, and the bear they killed weighed 432 pounds. NEWLYWED OF CONGRESS RECEIVES A LOVING CUP. Rep vania, recently married Mrs. Gittings Forsythe of Baltimore, so his fellow members o resenfhtive James M. Washington Star Photo Magee of Pennsyl- f the naval affairs committee of the House arranged a little celebration for him. Representative Magee stands second from right, holding his cup. nch water main burst in Cincinnati’s business district and the pavement was torn up for 200 feet. The damage amounted to $25,000, and six men narrowly escaped death. Christmas Rush at White House Begins With Gifts for Every One is a novelty on the White House gift list. The sight of the holly set every- body inquiring “Where's the mistle- toe?” "Not a sprig of mistletoe in sight to date. Within the family group Christmas, 1924, with its sadly-wistful remem- brance, will be observed with even more than the customary simplicity by the President and Mrs. Coolidge and thelr son. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stearns will be of the household dur- ing the holidays, as they always are on all purely intimate and family oc- casions. There will be no Christmas tree, no young people’s dance, as there was last vear, when John and his brother Calvin gave an afternoon “party” and the first lady made a great hit by dancing with every boy in the company. Outwardly Christmas will pass in the usual fashlon. The Christmas wreaths are going up at all the big windows, and the great bunches of holly render colorful the great state salons. There will be a simple dinner, with the board spread for the family group. During the Christmastide, if the weather is favorable, the May- flower may be boarded for a cruise on the river. Carols Chrisimas Eve. At 9 p.m. on Christmas eve the en- tire White House household will as- semble to.take part in the program of Christmas carols which the massed choir of the First Congregational Church, to which the President and Mrs. Coolidge belong, Wwill'give. This By United News Plctures. 'THREE OFFICERS SENT AFTER JACK HART | Who Escaped Maryland Peni- | tentiary Year Ago. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, December 19.—Assist- ant State's Attorney Eugene A. Edgett and two detectives left here last night for Chicago with extradition papers for James J. Connelly, allas Jack Hart. Hart, who escaped from the Maryland penitentiary here last January while serving a life sentence for murder, was arrested by the Chicago authorities yesterday on a burglary charge. The local police department an- nounced receipt of a telegram stat- ing that the Chicago authorities would not hold Hart on the burglary charge, but would deliver him to the authorities now en route to Chicago for return to this city. |picturesque ceremony will be stagea {in the great front portico of the White House, and for an hour anclent carols will peal. The program over, the singers will have an impromptu greeting within the White House por- tals. On Christmas day there will be an exchange of gifts across the break- fast table, and possibly attendance at the Christmas service. A day of quiet reunion and of reminiscence, Christ- mas will be the opposite of January 1, when representatives from the world at large will throng the White House to offer the New Year salu- tations to the Nation’s Chief Execu- tive. (Copyright, 1924.) Underwood & Underwood TELLS OF 100000 GHILDREN TO HEAR BLACKMAIL CASE THEATER SERMON iGirl, Lure of Boston Gang, Will Attend Services Tomor- Says a “John McCormick” Paid Huge Sum. By the Associated Press paid Willlam J. Ci id that he had raid on the Abraham Levy, for Barnes, testified vesterday in the tr of Corcoran, former dis of Middlesex County, and five fendants on charges of conspiri extort $50,000 from Searles. versation overheard by Mrs. 2 Boston law office, stating John McCormick was made $100,000 to avold publicity, was co-de- g to A con Levy to l.into the record in the form of ar | davit introduced by the defense | to indicate the residence of the 1 | | There was nothing in the affidavit Mr. McCormick” mentioned or to show his line of business or profession. Mrs.. Blanche Paul and Mrs. Levy, alleged lures of a Boston blackmali ring, pleaded gullty when indicted in the Searles case. According to the charge, the alleged conspira . tort was based upon a raid by suy posed police officers on a Back Bay apartment In August, 1920. Searles, a nephew of the late Edward Searles, multimillionaire, inherited a portion of his estate. William J. Kelly, William J. Hartnett, J. Warren Kane, Michael Lyons and Thomas Devine were indicted with Corcoran. Overheard Conversation. Mrs. Levy was being questioned by Prosecutor Schatz of Hartford when | she made the affidavit introduced in vesterday's session of court. She told of being in the law office of Attorney William J. Kelly at a time when he was absent. Asked by Schatz what he knew about the “Gwendolyn Sears affair,” she sald: “I overheard a conversation between Thomas Zinitti, Devine and Mr. Hart- nett about how she (Gwendol Sears) tricked them Into the lobby of the Copley-Plaza and hurt her foot and John McCormick escorted her to a| room, and she had but a few clothes on. All she had to do was to throw off her coat before the detectives came in, and they were talking about how soft Coakley and Pelletier got $100,000 off John McCormick. Mr. Hartnett, I| know, does know this Gwendolyn Sears and she writes to him and is| in touch with him.” I The conversation, the afidavit con- tinues, was in “Mr. Kelly's office, Mr. Kelly was not present.” Asked About Money. In questioning Mrs. Levy In relation to the amount of money she said had | been promised her, counsel for the de- fense asked whether she had been promised $500 and a fur coat as she had testified, $1,000 as she swore in an affidavit, or $1,500 as the district attorney claimed in his opening. She replied that she had been promised $500 and a fur coat. The testimony turned to Searles. “He told us,” Mrs. Levy sald, “that he had paid $50,000 to Corcoran aad showed us his check book. He showed us a paper and said he had fixed it up but | and for us not to worry. et Twenty fat road hedgehogs were served at a supper at Harrington, Eng- land, recently, ¥ | Keith's for the | ot | row at Keith’'s—Bishop Today’s Speaker. Christ” the sub D Willlam dist Epls- stmas serv- Theater, which the auspices of Women's Clubs 1 Snodgrass sang H. F. Erwin preside re being made un of Mrs. H. Moffet director of the sociation of Bibl ildren attend matinee = Theater taken services there tomor ude singing of Christ s carols under the supervision o dwin W. C. Barnes, director of music the public schools, and Madge Beck will tell them “fhe Christmas story.” It is hoped that all parents having automobiles will use them in carrying the children to Kelth's Theater. wa Bist Metk n der Fed of Mrs.'R a solo tion and Mrs. Tivoli ow, which in: Christ as Reformer. “In one sense Christ was not a s cial reformer,” said Rev. Thomas Burke of the Catholic University yes- terday in his sermon at the noonday meeting “In another sense he was the great- est of social reformers. continued Rev. Mr. Burke. “The soclal reformer in our accepted sense of the term teaches and preaches in view of the special soclal conditions of his own time, and, in general, much of what he teaches passes with the passing of these conditions. He influences us for the moment.” The music at the meeting vesterda: was by the quartet of the Sacred Heart Church. Dr. Frances A. Fove president of the Women's City Club, presided. se HINES GOES TO INQUIRY AT VETERANS’ HOSPITAL Congressional Committee Inspects Sanatorium in North Carolina. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C., December 19.— Gen. Frank T. Hines, accompanled by Representative Gibson of Vermont, will arrive here today to join three members of a congressional subcom- mittee for an inspection of the Vet- erans’ Bureau hospital at Oteen. A partial inspection of the insti- tution, which cares for more than 1,100 former soldiers, was made yes- terday by Representatives Bulwinkle, North Carolina; Browning, Tennesse: {and Simmons, Nebraska. Gen. Hin comes for the purpose of .co-operat- ing with the committee in its in- vestigation of conditions at the in- stitution. Complalns made a few weeks ago resulted in the removal g€ Col. James E. Miller as commanZing officer of the hospital and Col. H. E. Whit- ledge was subsequently placed in gommand. 1|