Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1924, Page 16

SILVER BASE BALL AND BAT to Chief Watson vesterday for th: Red Cross. son and Senator Walsh. CANTON, OHIO, SCULPTOR PRESENTS BUST TO THE PRESIDENT. FOR THE FIRE CHIEF. e latter’s 100 per cent driv NG STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. C. Senator David I. Walsh presenting the trophies the Washington Fire Department for the Left to right: Mrs. Robert MacKenzie, “Bucky” Harris, Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, Chief Wat- Washington Star Photo. Lewis Abbanate (right) and his brother Theodore called at the White House yesterday and presented this bust of the late C. idge, jr. ARREST FOLLOWS FOREST FIRE PROBE. Maryland Police and Ward- ens Charge Incendiarism and Seek Others. Srecial Dispate : HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 20.— man is under arrest, and others charged with incendiar- result of an invest Into the origin of several forest fires which swept the mountains near | Blairs Valley, west of Hagerstown, Edwin Corwell, said to have fessed that he aided Moody braker in setting the fires released to appear against Hornbraker A fire broke out on what is known as Rickards Mountain and spread to Swords Mount burning over 150 acres of timber belonging to Isaac Ankey, the Hull brothers and Harry Higgins. When it was extinguished Corwell sald to have told persons | living in the nelghborhood that the | bhlaze was started by Hornbraker and himself because off enm between them and owners of the land | Cyril Klein, forest warden of Wash- | ington and Frederick Counties; W. L. | Byers, Pennsylvania district fire warden: Corpl. W. L. Reid of the| Maryland State police, Alfred | Hughes of the Pennsylvania State | police investigated. Residents were reluctant to discuss the matter, but chool children supplied important crmation and the officers returned | _to the scene and expect today to have warrants {ssued for a number of mountaineers con- Horn- has been witness is < LANGLEY VERY SICK. Will Not Resign Seat, However, Wife Declares. PIKESVILLE, Ky., December The condition of Representative Jo % W. Langley of the tenth Kentucky < district, is very serious, Mrs. Langley goaid last . night. Langley arrived & Thursday from Washington and join- ed Mrs. Langley and thelr three chil- @ dren at the Langley home here. Mrs. % langley said her husband does not contemplate resigning. She reiterated & ller confidence that the congressman finally would be vindicated of charges & against him. 4, Langley was convicted of prohibi- tion law. violatlon in Federal' Court in Covington and sentenced to two 4years in Federal prison. Decision on &an appeal is pending. < e HOUSE IS DYNAMITED. L3 y @ & € Explosion Takes Place at Mine Su- € perintendent’s Home. OWNESBORO, Ky., December 20.—A ¢stick_of dynamite was exploded 10 - feet from the home of Robert Bolin, superintendent of the Rockport Coal “Co., In Centertown, Ohio County, last ~night. Little damage resulted, and . no one was injured, reports received here sald. « The Rockport Co. has been opera ing on an open-shop basis for sev- eral weeks at Centertown. Two large strip mines, heavily guarded and in- 4 closed In stockades, also have been | Joint Committee of Congress Is 20.—1 jMan Under Arrest | Is Legally Dead, By Court Records By the Associated Press MOUNT HOL » ber 20.—Clifford ¥ former assistant cashier of the Mount Holly National Bank, ar- rested in Detroit on Wednesday charged with embezzling $18,510, is legally dead, according to a rec- ord at the Burlington County sur- rogate's office here under date of August 30, 1922 It further substantiated in the office of the Metropolitan Life In- surance Co., which at that time paid $400 in insurance money on Heller's life to the daughter, Mrs. Grace Bowne, then living at As- bury Park. Heller's long absence without an adjustment of the insurance claim made it necessary to go into court for a legal declaration before the insurance company would make any payment, and for more than two years he has been “dead” by formal decree of the Burlington County court. DEFINITE INAUGURAL PROGRAM -DUE SOON Decem- 2 helly Heller, Invited to Confer at White House. That definite plan ceremonies that will attend augural some for the | the in- of President Coolidge and Vice President Dawes next March soon will be framed with the ap- proval of President Coolidge seemed probable today when it was announc- ed that the joint committee appointed by Congress to arrange the details had been invited by the President to confer with him at the White House on Morday morning. The President had withheld his ap- proval of all of the suggested plans | for his official induction ‘into office pending ‘appointment of the commit- tee by the Senate and the House of Representatives. It was announced that he nothing officlal until he had the matter h that board. Heretofore the President -has only indicated that he would not object to a military and nationally civic pa- rade on Inauguration day. He had not reached any public decision on the question of whether he would | prefer an official reception, an inaug- ural bill or a charity ball, similar to the one held at the time President Harding took:office, or-whether he would prefer to dispense with all entertainment | on the evening of his Inauguration. This will be one of the oustanding | questions that. probably will be de- cided following the meeting of the | President and the joint committee from Congress. The White House in- dicated its desire to shape the plan as’ quickly as.possiblo by the speed with which it sought a conference with the committee, this body having been appointed only yesterday. | NEW CABLE PLANNED. NEW YORK, December 20.—Another cable between New York and Cuba, to cost more than $1,000,000, will be in operation by the first of the year, it was announced by the All-America Cables Company. The cable ship Colonia, carrying 1,600 miles of high speed submarine cable, is expected to arrive here Sat- urday from England, and will lay the. wouid do discussed | By the Assoc {of bribes to A. E | bootlegge: { prisoners | terda ATLANTA INMATES ISOLATED IN JAIL Six Prisoners, Who Testified| in Sartain Case, Taken to County Prison. ted Press. Ga., December 20.— Remus, known as of bootleggers,” six Atlanta | Federal penitentiary prisoners today | were held in the little Clarke County jail, Athens, Ga.. for “isolation pur- poses,” pending further developments in the Government's investigation of | the United States prison The six convicts were described as being among the witnesses that testl- |fled before the Federal grand jury, | Which yesterday returned indictments charging solicitation and acceptance Sartain and L. J. Fletcher, formerly warden and deputy warden, respectively, of the prison. Arriving In Athens last night, the prisoners were rushed to the Clarke County courthouse, where Sherifft Jackson “checked them in for the jall.” The men dined at a restaurant before going behind the bars. W. H. Haar, Savannah; C. Graham 4 v York; C. C. Tooten, Sa- vannah; Emmanuel Kessler, sometimes referred to as “Gotham's millionaire and Morris Sweetwood, York, were the other Remus sent to New besides also of Athens. Alleging prisoners have been threat- ened and other * " procedure employed by Government officials to obtain Information in connection with the investigation, counsel for Sar- tain and Fletcher issued a statement, in which they sugg:sted higher offi- clals should inquire into “these meth- ods and administer proper discipline.” Fletcher, who with Sartain 1s at liberty in bond awaiting trial on January b5, expressed the opinion Remus and the other prisoners were sent to Athens because it was feared they would suffer violence at the hands of other inmates if returned to the penitentiary. C. J. KEBLINGER EXPIRES. Attorney and Lifelong Resident Victim of Heart Disease. Caddis J. Keblinger, 34 years old, a local attorney and lifelong resident of the District of Columbia, died at his residence, 2006 Klingle road, yes- Death was due to heart disease. Mr. Keblinger was appar- ently in good health until just be- fore his death. Mr. Keblinger was a graduate of the National Law School and was admitted to the District bar about five vears ago. He also was a mem- ber of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Keblinger is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mary K. Nalle and Mrs. Eula K. Woodward; a nlece, Miss Kathleen P. Nalle, and a brother, Wilbur Keblinger, who is American consul at Bombay, India. Funeral arrangements been completed. have not Picked to Write Play. W. S. Martin, 2222 Q street, a junior at Harvard College, has been elected by the Hasty Pudding Club to write the 1925 pudding show, according to “operating on a non-union basis near 1 “Centertown; shore end at Manhaftan Beach, about December word received here today from Cam- buidge, Mass, BRINGS URNS FROM ANCIENT SATURDAY, CARTHAGE. Count Byron de Prorok, French archeologist, holding one of the ancient urns of a red- dish clay which he excavated at Carthage. This particular urn, which will be presented to the National Museum, is supposed to be 2,500 years old. NO MORE GUESSWORK ABOUT YOUR SINGING Copsright by Underwood & Underwood. VOIC! Miss Ruth Thomas, young vocalist, demonstrating the gas-mask tester by which Prof. H. H. Sheldon, New York voice expert, is enabled to determine by a line registered on a cylinder whether a singer really has a “voice.” BY ROBERT T. SMALL. The problem of what to do with the woman - smoker on board the trains of the country has been solved on some of the transcontinental Iimiteds by the addition to the serv- | fce of an observation car which in cludes a ‘ladles’ lounge.” Within | the sacred precincts of this lounge | are all of the appllances and ap- | purtenances of the smoker, with a maid to furnish matches or do mani- curing, to chase the rouge spot or the powder puff and to do the hun- | dred and one other things the ladies may desire. Since they have come Into their | own as smokers, the women of the country have been severely handicap- ped aboard trains. About the only places open to them for indulgence in the seductive weed have been the washrooms, and these generally are | found both crowded and unattractive. Man has had it pretty much his own way in the traveling line, what with his smoking compartments, club cars and other arrangements. Yet the number of woman travelers as well as the number of woman smokers has been constantly on the | | increase and the women have ex-| | pressed their displeasure with the |lack of accommodations designed for their comfort or {ndulgence. The | ladies’ lounge has solved the prob- | POOR TO BE GUESTS | | OF MRS. COOLIDGE | Wife of President to Give Out First Food Bag for Salva- tion Army. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of Presi- dent Coolidge, will be hostess next Wednesday afternoon to 650 of Wash- ington’s poor. She has consented to glve out the first food bag to be dis- tributed this year by the Salvation Army. The distribution will take place at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in the army’s auditorium, 607 E street northwest. There will be music by the Navy Band. Each bag will contain four pounds of chicken, potatoes, onions, turnips, butter, bread, box of cakes, box of eandy, coffee, sugar, can of corn, can of peaches, box of macaronj, box of oatmeal, can of milk, apples, oranges and a copy of the War Cry, publica- tion ‘of the Salyation Army. Each bag will have food for five dinners, 3,250 in all. The distribution of these bags is only a part of the army's Christmas relief program, for which an appeal is being made for $15,000. About $7,000 has been ralsed. Donations should be sent to 607 E street north- west. LTS T4 Beard Once Man’s Glory. There was a deep-rooted belief among the ancient peopies of the East that a man’s glory was his beard. Compuilsory shaving and the cloge cropping of hair were signs of degradation. This s borne out by Assyrian sculpture, which always show kings with beards and long halr_and slaves with- close-cropped bair and clcan-shaven faces. By United News Pictures. |SMOKING LOUNGES FOR WOMEN STARTED ON SOME CRACK TRAINS Institution Solves Hard Question for Railroads Since‘ Nicotine Use Has Become Habit With Many of Fair Sex. Who Dislike to Use Smokers. lem on the best of the trains, but there still is much to be desired on | the common or garden of limiteds and expresses. say smoking is no longer a fad with them but a habit, and the railroads may just as well treat it as such The barber shops aboard the limited trains also have been opened in most instances to the women travelers. In the list of prices handed out on one train traveling from San Francisco to New Orleans, the “plain-hair bob” is quoted at the modest sum of 50 cents The “special-hair bob,” whatever that may be, is quoted at 75 cents, while a “neck clip” may be had for the in- finitestimal charge of 25 Ladies'’ shampoos range from upward. Women have been somewhat re- luctant to move forward into the club cars on trains. Man still has felt that was his own particular portion, but the opening of the barber shops variety $1 to the fair sex is an entering wedge | which, it is belleved, they soon will take the fullest advantage of. The general rule agalnst smoking in the dining oars seems to be in force almost everywhere. Ignger on account of the ladies, how- oler, but to protect the children. The ladies’ lounge, by the way, also includes a shower bath—which may account, in part, at least, for its se- vere seclusion. HOUSE RUSHES FUND FOR POULTRY PLAGUE Sends $100,000 Bill to Fight Chicken Epidemic to President. An emergency Senate resolution to appropriate $100,000 for a fight against the poultry plague epidemic| was rushed through the House today and sent to President Coolidge for his signature. Chairman Madden of the appropria- tions committee called up the-resolu- tion, approved yesterday by the Sen- ate. Representative Blanton, Demo- crat, of Texas at first blocked its consideration, but later withdrew his objection and the resolution was passed without further debate, Action on the appropriation before the Christmas recess, which begins to- night, had been urged by poultry men, representatives of farm organizations and others, who declared the epidemic had seriously affected the poultry in- dustry and disturbed consumers. A variety of State quarantines now are effective, and it Is the Intention of the Agriculture Department to use the funds carried in the resolution to pro- mulgate Federal regulations designed to stamp out the plague much after the manner of the campaign against the foot-and-mouth disease. ——— Capt. J. L. Fritsche Retired. Capt. Jerome I. Fritsche, Army Dental Corps, has been placed on the retired list on account of disability incident to the service. —_— It 1s always difficult to convince the man who talks to himself that he has a fool for dn audience. DECEMBER 20, cents. | This is no | 1924. THIRTY-FIVE TON BEAM WHICH JAMMED DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC. While preparing to install this huge beam of the new Federal-American National Bank building, Fourteenth and G streets, yesterday, a truck broke down and street cars and automobiles were blocked for several squares, three-quarters of an hour. The traffic was unable to move for Washington Star Photo SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES IN THE OLD WOMAN'S HOME. Hereafter all arguments in the Atlanta, Ga., institution will get a referee s decision. This photograph was taken a “haymaker” on Mrs. Ada Gutherie, 75. DEATHSBY CANCER INCREASE N YEA ‘Fight Against Tuberculosis ’; Makes Good Proaress Mean- time, Statistics Show. The women | Deuths from cancer increased in the United States in 1923, while th against tuberculosis made progress A total of 4 deaths were re- ported to the Census Bureau as ha: ing resulted from cancer last year in a registration area composed of ter- ;| ritory containing $7.6 per cent of the | total population. This represented an increase of 5816 deaths over 1 | The rate per 100,000 population was | 89.4 against 6.8 in 1922, Tuberculosis Deaths. On the | caused 90,7 | tn 1922, but t creased from 9 me area tuberculosis 32 deaths, against 90,452 ».rate per 100,000 de- to 93. if the unregistered areas maintained ‘(he same ratio of deaths, cancer ‘rluSPd 99,000 deaths in 1923 against 195,000 in 1922. Adjusted rates were made in com- | paring the figures on both cancer and tubercul s by States. In the case of cancer the adjusted figures were | made to allow for difference in age |and sex distribution of the population, | because, generally speaking only per- | sons in ‘middle life and old age have | eancer, and consequently a State-with |a considerable number of the aged may be expected to have more deaths from the disease than a State with comparatively small proportion of aged people. ! Incrense in Cancer. In the adjusted figures for 34 States, cancer deaths increased in 23 | The highest rate was 102.6 per 100,000 in New York, and the lowest 52.2 in | South Carolina. The greatest num- ber of deaths was in New York, where 12,247 died from the disease against 11,697 in 1922. Pennsylvania had 8,253 deaths, against 7,782. The total for Illinois was 6,636, azainst | 6,440; for Ohlo, 5,784, against 5,549; Massachusetts, 4,760, against 4,637; California, 4,693, against 4,477; Mich- igan, 3,516, against 3,411; Missour, 3,176, against 2,947, and New Jer- sey, 3,162, against 3,021. The lowest number of fatalities from cancer occurred in Wyoming with 116, against 97 in 1922. In figuring tuberculosis the white and ngro populations were sepa- rated in some States. In this group Tennessee had the highest adjusted rate in 1923 for white population, 129.3 per 100,000, and Maryland the highest for negroes, 290.7 per 100,000. Mississippl had the lowest rate for both races, 51 for the white and 59.7 for the negro population. For the 25 States which shéw adjusted rates but not by color, Colorado had- the highest, 158.6 per 100,000, and Ne- braska the lowest, 34.2. The largest number of deaths from tuberculosis occurred In New York, where 10,611 persons succumbed to the disease, against 10,695 in 1922 Pennsylvania had 7,817 death against 8,018; California, 5.802, against 5,881; Illinols, 5672, against 5,620; Ohio, 5,251, against 5,159; Kentucky, 3,286, against 3,263; Tennessee, 3,624, against 3,520; Massachusetts, 3,665, against 3,732; Missouri, 3,186, again 3,258, and New Jersey, 3,031, against 3,148. TH® lowest number of tuberculosis deaths occurred in Wyoming, where 17 died, against 86 in 1922, fight | The Census Bureau estimated that! oy onec 0013 Yole and new, were | | Daughter of Steel | Magnate to Wed | Bruce Descendant By the Associated Press. BETHLEHEM, Pa., December 20. -—Announcement of the engage- ment of Miss Emmeline Marion | Grace, daughter of Eugene G Grace, president of the Bethlehem l Steel Corporation, to Capt. Sir | Michael Willlam Selby Bruce, w | made at the home of Mr. and Mrs | Grace here last night | Sir Michael is a direct descend- 1 ant of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland. He served in the World | War, and was severely wounded | S push. {YALE CLUBS DELIGHT | INLOCAL CONCERTS | Glee and Banjo Organizations Play | | at Willard and Walter 1 Reed. The Glee and Banjo Clubs of Yale, | enthusiastically received by the au {dience which gathered at the New | Willard Hotel for the concert. From | the opening number, a medley of Yale | songs, by the Banjo Club, to * College Years.,” with {tertainment closed, the playing and singing showed rare training and real | ability. | Eerlier in the day the clubs gave a | special concert at Walter Reed Hos- | pital for the benefit of the men there. | A novelty of particular interest was |the “Marching Song of Yali, Hunan Province, China."” junct of the university in the Far East, started by Yale men and aided materially from this country. Glee Club sang the song In Chinese, as do the students in Yali. The program included, besides the songs of Yale, anclent Christmas carols, some English, some French |and_some German, which have come | down through the centuries, and sev- {eral negro spirituals which lend | themselves particularly to glee club | singing. | The clubs also presented a Ha- | wailan trio, which found instant |favor and was encored many times. or was the modern jazz overlooked. The Yale Orchestra turned loose a |sertes of foot-shaking syncopations {equal to the best of that kind of music. The university quartet, composed of T. C. Hume, L. S. Hammond, C. Robbins and E. M. Lufkin, and the yodeling songs by R. E. Coorod and M. C. Henderson were enthuslastic- ally received. Many of the Yale alumni of Wash- ington attended the concert iast night, which was under the local management of Richard H. Wilmer. The Yale musical clubs were enter- tained vesterday afternoon at a tea by Senator and Mrs. James W. Wads- worth. The clubs left here last night soon after the concert to go to Charles Town, W. Va., continuing their Christmas trip. FIRE SWEEPS TUPELO. $300,000 Loss Suffered sissippi Town. TUPELO, Miss, December 20.—A half block of buildings in the busi- ness section of Tupelo was destroyed by fire yesterday, causing an esti mated loss of $300,000. The fire was discovered in the Masonlc clubroome and It spread rapidly to adjacent bulldings, burning four hours before being. checked. The origin has not been determined. in Mis- Yali is a kind of ad- | The | 74, landed World Photo. after Mrs. Kate Bagley wide 5,214 AUTOS TAKEN - BY LIQUOR RAIDERS {236 Boats and Launches Seized, Report Shows. Most Captures in South. numbering 14 a e seized in the has been d In the re v-Post Office ay stant Prob | Automobiles | prohibiti { fiscal y | formed i | port on t | propriatio bition Commiss and launch las seized an bitlon laws that seized but not destroy 1952, Proceeds of |erty ‘amor j penses incurred | and sale totalea $12,32 Two agents were kiiled in the pe | formance of duty and 28 were ured. Persons ested numbered | 68,161, | The table showed the South led a other sections in selzures, Tennessce topping all States T ized, with 1.141 gallons of m erty zed pro and seizy to a; nd orgla being f 389 fernienters lons of malt 1 30 still worms, a Loulsiana 29,089 wine gallo of pomace. Missour! led all States in seized, amounting to 939,582 gallons; New Jersey was first in cld selzures, with 15311 wine gallo: and California first in the amount c ine confiscated, with 61,084 gallor spirit |DETECTIVE IS SUSPENDED. | W. 3. Burke to Answer Charge of Unbecoming Conduct. Detective Willlam J. Burke of t seventh precinct was suspended frc duty about 12:30 o'clock this morn and will be cited to appear before t trial board on charges. of condu unbecomifig an officer, it being a leged that he was found in the hon of Mrs. Mabel Mullen, 3223 M strec under the influence of liquor. Mrs. Mullen, objecting to Burke alleged annoyance on the occasion « the early morning visit, went to : neighboring lunchroom and informed police officials of his whereabouts Lieut. Joseph W. Pierson and Sergt M. F. Furr responded to the messa and found Burke, who was taken to the police station and examined by police surgeon. The surgeon ported him as being unfit. for duty by reason of being under the influ- ence of intoxicantss Lieut. Person promptly suspended Burke. The latter was relleved of his equipments. Charges :will be served upon him and he probably will be cited to appear before the police triad board next week. W. A. Diuguid Dead. William A. Diuguid, 77 years old, col- ored, who served as a butler for Mrs Charles C. Glover of this city more than 46 years, died at his home, 720 Twenty-third street, yvesterday after a long illness. Surviving are two elsters. Funeral services will be conducted at Holy Trinity Apostolic Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burlal will be in Harmony Cemetery,