Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1924, Page 13

“PETER PAN” RRIVES IN NEW YORK FROM SUNNY C. LIFORNTA. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Betty Bronson, who takes the leading role in the new photoplay, “Peter Pan,” arriving at the station in New York, where she was met by other characters of the play. Jesse Lasky, producer of the picture, stands beside Miss Bronson on the plat - UNDERWEITER “SHE 15 OLD, BUT V years ago, is breaking all records in form of the Twentieth Century Limited. ERY ACTIVE. the rum-running game. The vessel, alleged to be carrying liquor, has been caught four times in the last four months, and now she is held by the customs officers at New London, th a $50.000 c: AUTO SPILL KILLS ANEARRICHMIOND Only Driver Survives When Machine Goes Into Ditch. Arrested for Inquiry. ssoclated Press. IMOND, December 26.—Four Richmond men were killed last night when an automobile in which they| were riding left the Petersburg-Rich- mond turnpike and went over an em- bankment. Earl Gathright, Bernie Childress and Herman Cumber were killed outright. Charles Jordan died | in_a hospital here | Ryland K. Leonard, driver and only other occupant of the car, was ar- rested on a charge of careless and reckless driving, which was later changed to charges of involuntary nanslaughter and being a fugitive m justice from Chesterfield Count }e was released on $1,000 bond Leonard, who lives in this city, suf- cred slight abrasions on the head, but was not seriously injured. Think Spindle Arm Broken. A broken spindle arm is thought to lhave caused the automobile to leave the concrete highway and plunge into a ditch by the roadside. In the ditch ihe car went forward for about 50 feet before it struck a telephone pole, which caused it to turn over. Jordan, badly bruised and suffering rom many broken and fractured ones, was rushed to the operating 100m of a local hospital, where efforts of surgeons to save his life proved Tutile. Leonard was somehow thrown from the car and escaped the fate of his friends, who were caught beneath fts heavy weight. He assisted passing autoists to remove the bodies, and re- turned with them to Richmond, where he was taken into custody. DR. 0. R. EICHEL IS DEAD: NOTED AS STATISTICIAN New York Official Is Victim of Pneumonia—Serving With League of Nations. i the Associated Press. GENEVA, December 26.—Dr, Otto R. Bichel of Albany, N. Y., director of yital statisties of the New York State Department of Health, died from pneu- uonia. He was on leave for temporary service with the League of Nations, of which he was chlef of the epidemi- ological intelligence and statistics section. Dr. Otto R. Eichel had been direc. tor of vital statistics for the New York State Health Department seven “cars. He was one of the 23 Amer- { icans holding fellowship in the Royal Statistical Society of England. He rained prominence a few years ago sor his conclusions based on a his- torical study of influenza cycles. One of his chief functions at Geneva was to build up a system of inter- national exchange of reports on epi- demic diseases, particularly with re- xard to their prevalence and mor- tality. Monitor Survivor Dies. ELIZABETH, N. J, December 26— Joaniel K. Lester, 56 years old, enigi- neer on the Monitor in its famous Dattle with the Merrimac, died last } night from pneumonia. Before be- coming engineer of the Monitor dur- jng the Civil War he was an engi- leer on a Mississippi River train transport. For 45 years he was chief gineer of ferries operating from «w Jersey points to Staten lsland, wood. \Editor to Follow Ibanez Until He | Provokes a Duel | * Cable to The Sta NICE, December —Vicente Blasco Ibanez, the novelist, ar rived yesterday from Paris at his Mentone: villa, Fontana Rosa, and all the Riviera is waiting fulfill- ment of Benigo Varella's threat to slap the writer's face because of his attacks on King Alfonso of Spain. Varella is a monarchist editor, and has expressed the intention of fol- lowing Ibanez everywhere until he provokes a duel. ing author, however, thinks other- wise. To the World news service correspondent he said: o> much have -I been affected all this chatter that T am about to publish two fresh brochures at- tacking Alfonso and the military directorate. Although T have already fought nine duels with sword or pistol and been almost killed on one oc- casion, 1 will not fight this crazy propogandist. But here and now I issue a challenge to two others whom I will figsht any time and place—King Alfonze and Primo de Rivera.” and New York World (Copsright, 1924.) | | | NOTED SURRATT HOME| SUCCUMBS TO TRADE Residence Which Housed Con- spirators Against Lincoln’s Life ! to Become Business House. Another of Washington's old resi- dences that have been connected in- timately with the destinies of the nation has given way before the march of modern commerce. The latest building to go is 604 H street, the former residence of Mrs. Surratt, | where the conspirators who planned | the murder of Abraham Lincoln were housed. This historical residence is more fortunate than some of the other well known houses in that it is not to be completely demolished by its new owner, Irvin Swartzman of Alex- | andria, who plans for stores on the first floor and apartments on the| second and third floors of the house. The entire appearance of the old house will be changed, but the frame- | work and brickwork will be retained. | At this place Mrs. Surratt conducted | a boarding house, mainly patronized by theatrical people, among whom | was John Wilkes Booth, the assassin | of President Lincoln. Contrary to the opinion of many, the plot to Kkill the President was not |made in the Surratt home, but at the old Herndon Hotel, which then stood on the site of the present Washing- ton Loan and Trust Company, at Ninth and F streets. Here, according to Allan C. Clark, Columbia Historical Society, Booth, Payne and other conspirators were known to have met prior to the killing of the President. Mrs. Surratt was hanged with three other conspirators after a dramatic trial. Booth was shot in resisting capture, and much discussion has been held since as to whether he was ac- tually killed and as to what became of his body. Several people have taken the old house and conducted a boarding house therd since, and there have been wild rumors about visits to the house of the ghosts of the conmspirators. The store and apartments will be com- pleted by the end of January. Twenty different makes of American adding machines were shown at an exhibition in Europe recently. Automobile tires head the list values of rubher imports sinto ceuntry, of " president of the| MYSTER photo of William Nelson McC) Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. At left, last ntock, 21-year-old millionaire orphan of Chicago, whose body will be exhumed to determine the cause of his death. At right: McClintock bedside with a marriag, his foster parer 52,900,000 EARLE e license. Vaudeville and Motion Pic- tures on Program of New Capital Theater. Washington'’s newest theater, the Earle, erected at the northeast cor- ner of 13th and I streets at a cost of $2,500,000, will open its doors to the public for the first time tomor- row evening at 6 o'clock. with a vaudeville and motion picture pro- gram, it was announced today by the Cosmos Theater Company, sponsors of the project Due to the elahorate attention paid to the interior arrangement and to the decorations, the Earle is declared poss d of many unusual attr tions. It is pointed out, for example, that every seat iIn the theater, whether in the orchestra or balcony, commands an unobstructed view of the entire stage. The acoustics of the auditorium are declared perfect. Has Oriental Atmosphere. The interior is decorated with mar- ble quarried in the Ozarks and hung with tapestries woven especially for the Earle and fitted to each panel in the foyer as well as the auditorium. A rich color scheme of Chinese lac- quer against a background of green gold lends an Oriental atmosphere to the theater. Floor coverings match the wall decorations, The theater attracted widespread interest during construction through the introduction of an innovation in structural steel work, involving the use of six 85-foot marine masts, each two feet thick, to hold the steel girders in place while being riveted This method eliminated the necessity of erecting great temporary struc- tures to support the girders According to A. Julian Brylawski, general manager of the Cosros The- ater Company, the theater will pre- sent popular-priced vaudeville and photoplays. Programs will operate on a continuous-performance baMs, starting at 1 p.m. on week days and 3 p.m. Sundays. For the opening show the headliners will be the Le Paradis Band and Harry Green, in “The Cherry Tree.” GIVES $40,000 FOR WARD IN ANIMAL HOSPITAL Late Miss Anita C. Ashley Makes Bequest to Aid Dogs Having Distemper. Special Dispatch to Thé Star. NEW YORK, December 26.—A Christmas gift of $40,000 has just been received bywthe New York Wom- en’s League for Animals as a legacy from the late Miss Anita C. Ashley, in whose name a new ward for dogs suffering from distemper will be add- ed to Ellen Prince Speyer Hospital for Animals. It also was announced that owing to the growing demands upon the league, the board of directors, which has always been composed entirely of women, will have added an advisory committee of men. Woman Hurt in Leap. In an effort to escape from two roomers, 734 Sixth street, where she was employed as a domestic, Ella Garner, colored, 36, 1130 New Jersey avenue, this morning about 10 o'clock jumped from a second-story window and sprained her left ankle. James A. Haney, 32, and Colon D. Price, 28, the rodmers, ‘were arrested by Police- men Blackman and Haislip and charg- lcd with assault. The woman was ticated ab the Emergency Hospital, OPENS TOMORROW | sweetheart, Miss Isabelle Pope. who waited at his McClintock’s will left a large fortune to Fhotos Copsrizht by P. & A WAKE OF SIR "RIDAY, DECEMBER 26, . 1924, FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF STORM DAMAGE IN THE MIDDLE WEST. Middle Western States caused a STARTING RACES “ON THE FL’ Mexico, has adopted a revolutionary starting system. stretched across the track between damage of $4,000,000. . Y. The Tia Juana race track, in A tape barrier is two motor cars. Then the moving barrier permits the horses to get away at top speed and in perfect align. ent \[ENGLISH MARINERS TO FOLLOW FRANCIS DRAKE In Scailing Vessel Slightly Larger Than Ancient Craft, Fourteen Men Will Seek Missing Fea- tures of Log of By the Assaclated Press LONDON, December 26.—Sailing over the scas in the wake of Drake and in a schooner hardly larger than the one commanded by that sea rover is the feat to be attempted by a &roup of adventurous twentieth cen- tury Englishmen. An expedition of 14 men, under the command of Capt. Norman Wilkin of the Royal Naval Reserve, will sail in the three-masted frigate Marian on New Year day from Appledore, the Devonshire port where Drake weighed anchor many vears ago. Capt. Wilkin will follow minutely the route of his {llustrious country- man around the dangerous Straits of Magellan and up the Pacific Coast. He and his comrades seek to bprove that adventure is not entirely con- fined to the screen and the stage. Many Sought Adventure. Hundreds of applications were re- celved by Capt. Wilkin for places on the Marian, and he spent several weeks in choosing the best 14 mariners from the many desiring to go. With a few exceptions the crew HEAD OF KENTUCKY STANDARD OIL DEAD C. T. Collings, 76, Had Been in Petroleum Business Since 1886. By the Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 26— C. T. Collings, 76, chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky, died at his home here yesterday. He had been ill since November 15, Mr. Collings entered the oil busi- ness in 1886, when he became identi- fied with the Chess-Carley Oil Co. He went with the Standard when the Chess-Carley concern was absorbed by the latter organization. When the Southern general office of the Standard was moved from Louisville to Cincinnati, in 1596, Mr. Collings went to the Ohlo city and became general manager for the Standard's Southern territory. There he became, successively, director and second vice president, first vice pres- ident and president for the Southern territory. He returned to Louisville in 1912 as president of the Kentucky com- pany when a decision of the Supreme Court caused the Standard Oil Co. to be dissolved Into State groups. The territory he supervised embraced Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Flor- ida and Kentucky. In 1920 Mr. Collings decided to give up actual direction of the company, but remained as chairman of the board. He was a native of Kentucky and was born in Big Springs. His parents came to Louisville when he was a year old. A son and two daughters, one of whom is Mrs. E. H. Siter of Phila- delphia, survive. Views Civil War Battleground. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., December 26.—Representative Claude Manly Sted- man of North Carolina, only ex-Con-/ federate soldier in Congress, was a visitor to Fredericksburg yesterday. He came to this city with a party of friends and made a tour of the battle- fields, paying a special visit to the spot in the Wilderness where he re- veived the severest of five wounds. Early Explorer. are making the trip entirely for ad- venture The mate, a native of Appledore, | has spent his 60 years on the seas |and has never shipped on anything | but a sailing vessel The moving spirit of the vovage, John Henderson, is an Englishman known in this country as an explorer. He has mapped much of Borneo and and has. made many trips to known parts of the world. be on board the Marian as chronicler. Fill in Drake’s Log. Jienderson wants to make a few stops at the cities which have sprung up on the coasts along which Drake sailed, and he hopes to gather together some data of Drake's trip missing from the captain’s log book. “Sails will serve us better than steam,” he said. “Time is no imme- diate object. Our equipment will be modern enough to include a kinema- tograph apparatus and cameras. We shall drop down the Bideford River on New Year eve, as British sallors sailed before, and we may see you all again In five years' time.” SAVANTS WILL CHART PATH TAKEN BY MOON Washington Observatory to Join in Studies in Connection With Eclipse. little By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 26. —A world campaign to observe the path of the moon in the sky is be- ing carrled on by astronomers all over the globe in connection with the total eclipse of the sun on Janu- ary 24 next. Prof. Ernest W. Brown of Yale University, speaking for the American Astronomical Society, savs this campalgn has been joined b England, France, Germany, Russia Australia, South Africa countries. The Society is charged with duty of finding out how moon deviates from the narrow path laid down by the law of grgavitation during the month before and the month after the eclipse. If the moon moves away ever so little from its predicted path, the astronomer be- lieves that there is some cause for the deviations. He hopes to be able to find out the cause by measuring the deviations from day to day. The measures are going to be made in different ways. The Washington, Greenwich and Cape Colony observa- tories will observe the moments when the moon Is exactly South. Harvard will photograph the stars and moon on the same plate and Princeton will measure the distance on these plates. Other observers will record the exact moments when the moon blots out the light of various stars as it moves over the sky. Thousands of persons in the Eastern States are going to help to lay out the shadow track. “This time if anything goes wrong [ Mars won't be at fault,” Prof. Brown said. “It is only the rain god who is to be feared.” the Would Restrict Permits to Arm. RICHMOND, Va., December 26— Chief of Police Jordon will ask Criminal Court judges in Richmond to cancel all permits for carrying weapons that have been issued to persons convicted of bootlegging. | the islands south of India and China | He will | and other | much the | Copsright b; $41.300,000 GOING Underwood & Underwood |North American Company | Announces Program of Ex- pansion for 1925. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 26.-— itures of approximately $41,500,000 will be the North American Compa on of its public utility properties throughout the | United States during 1925, F. L Dame, president, announced yester- day Plans for the northern Ohlo dis- trict, surrounding Cleveland, call for the expenditure of $20,000,000 next year. In the Tllinoi Missouri territory, centering in St Louis, the expenditures for additions and extenslons will aggregate ap- proximately $11,000,000 and for con- struction plans in Wisconsin and Michigan expenditures of about $10,- 900,000 will be made. Electric and coal properties in Kentucky will be xpend- $500,000. Provision already has been made by the company for. these expenditures. Approximately $3,000,000 will be ob- tained through the stock dividend policy of the company, and the bal- ance will be, or already has been, ob- tained through.the sale of bonds and preferred stocks of the subsidiaries. In the last two months subsidiaries of the corporation have sold to in- vestors $16,500,000 in 5 per cent bonds, which represents nearly one-half of the 1925 construction cost. Plan New Station. In outlining the 1925 projects, Mr. mo said that the largest single ex- pansion would be the new 400,000 horsepower station at Avon, Ohio, isupploment facilities of the Cleve- land plant. A new station for sup- plying steam heat also will be con- structed in Cleveland and further ex- tensions will be made to the com- pany’s distribution lines. Officials of the North American Co. expressed the opinion that, using the electric output of their company as |a barometer, the business depression of 1924 endgd early in September. !From that point on the volume of output has climbed steadily week iy | weelk. WRC TO BROADCAST | BARRIE’S “PETER PAN” Peggy Alblon to Give Immortal Story in Serial Form—=Second Installment on Tonight. The story of “Peter Pan,” J. M. Bar- rie’s immortal tale of child-life, will be broadcast in serial form from WRC, by Peggy Albion, the bedtime story-teller. The first installment wentt on the air last night. The picture, “Peter Pan,” featuring diminutive Betty Bronson, will be shown simultaneously at 250 cities throughout the United States, start- ing Sunday. Critics, who have pre- viewed the picture, say it is the most glorious cinema production of the age. a picture for grown-ups ang | children, sutpassing everything tha has hitherto been considéred the sublime in cinema art. The picture follows the book with unusual attention to detail, and tha knowleage of the story gained from the air will greatly assist in a com- plete understanding of the picture. The tie-up with the radio was ar- ranged through Edward J. Wall, in charge of exploitation for Famous Players-Lasky Corporation in Wash- ington. near Cleveland, which is designed to| le W This photograph was taken in Spri tric lighting system were put out of commission. Below-zero weather has added to the suffering of the poor and h FORNEW UTILITES approximately | improved at a cost of approximately | It is estimated that the recent snow of the Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, who b iated a movement to have Congress create Pres the American Indians. The late Boy, 10, Awarded Medals for 5-Foot Painting of Tiger I the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, December 26.—Tv gold medals have warded Duncan Campbell, r-old schoolboy of Brooklyn, for his painting of a life-like tiger on a five-foot canvas, submitted in contest among §,000 school dren. The judges said of the most r.,nu, ‘SCARAMOUCHE’ HELD BEST FILM OF YEAR Sabatini Awarded $10,000 Prize for Story—*“Thief of Bagdad” Placed Second. been By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, December 26 Sabatini, for his novel “Scaramouche has been awarded the $10,000 prize offered by Adolph Zukor to the writer whose story or play made the best mot picture in ‘the vear which ended last September 1, the Autho; League of America, through which the award was made, announced yes- terday. The judges were George Barr Baker, chairman of the First Inter- national Congress of Motion Picture Arts, at which the prize was offered last year: Ellis Parker Butler, pres- ident of the Authors’ League; vard Childs Carpenter, president of the American Dramatists; Allan Dwan Charles Dana Gibson, Frederick Roy Martin, Mary Rober Rinehart, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood Final selection was made, the re- Rafael port of the judges said, after consid- | eration of a “surprisingly large num- ber of worthy pictures,” which were narrowed down to 17, from which caramouche,” “The Thief of Bag- Gad” and “A Woman of Paris” were chesen for the final decision Exceptional Picture. “Scaramouche” was selected, the re- port continued, “because it W all viewpoints an exceptional motion picture. It possessed that fluidity of action essential to effectiveness; reflected realistically a particulably dramatic perfod of history: it pos sessed great pictogial beauty, .was directed with skill and plaved by a brilliant cast. “Above all, s from it was a good story—- written with broad strokes and in heroic mood—and the prize was offered primarily to a story-teller. T! committee members were unanimous in praising the spectacular beauty and fantistic charm of the “Thief of Bagdad,” but the authorship of the “Arabian Nights,” which it recreated, | is obscure. Chaplin's directing ge; fus rather than the story, made ° Woman of Paris” notable.” “Scaramouche” was adapted to the screen by Willis Goldbeck, directed by Rex Ingram and distributed by the Metro Pictures Corporation. Adolph Zukor, who has made the prize a permanent annual establishment of the Authors' League, is president of the Famous Players-Lasky Corpora- tion. et DAWES’ CHRISTMAS QUIET. Vice President-Elect Few Relatives and Friends. Entertains CHICAGO, December 26.—Charles G. Dawes, Vice President a quiet Christmas at his Evanston home vesterday. There was a tree for the entire family which he in- spected, and for Christmas dinner, the Vice President-elect had as his 2 [éw relatives and frierds. elect, spent | and sleet storm which struck the gfield. 111, where thousands of telephones and the elec- omeless. Chief Buffalo Bear (left) in- national memorial day to lent Bh T Harding indorsed the move. & Underwood PERFECTLENS AIN OF BUREAU EXPERTS derwos Stimulated by Failures, Standards Scientists Con- tinue Their Efforts. ths have | scient and work e Bureau |of Standards » produce ¥ and t |1 brought i Burg univer th a five-fc to build | Materia! Needed in Experiment. { To cast such calls | pound aw material, compounded ‘\m-, unearthly exactit Each ent t he absolutely pure; sand and chem- ica sperty of op | tical glass it light rays {absolutely distortion. When evolved be clear louding, coloration »struction. rthermore, it unificc densit aise for 5,000 | must be throug | machiner ixed 1 primars inary fu weeks arc to furnace, un- and ne even tched. When the ached a maximur n. the first cooling unborn lens, tublike in nd tested ard rther reheating tly to be | coalescing in the |nace, and then for passed from furna |der graduatea ngredier of heat ins. shape {then ‘ther | softening into a me preli | i Cauldron Proves Failure. | I | workers nave | stage. " The t Ihas had to go the two The previous attempts otten it just to this h v cauldron, which through the heats with content, has failed. The was too weak and the ut. The next container fused to crack period at the glass inside it next ome is t up to have structure d the 1 and th ked instead. The scientifically 1 rength midway between that de- ped by its predecessors previous attempts, although lures from the standpoint of the |ultimate foal, have produced large {quantities of very usable optical | glass. Out of the spoiled but erystal- line heap there can be taken and pre- pared hundreds of tiny lenses to be used for gun sights, range finders, binoculars, small telescopes, camers and microscopes. DETECTIVE WINS SUIT. Jury Refuses Damages Asked From L. A. O'Dea. A jury in Circuit Division 1 before Justice Bailey has refused to award damages against Detective Serst. Lawrence A. O'Dea of headquarte who was sued for $25,000 damages by Clarence Rosenberger of Ballston, Va. Rosenberger was one of seven { men taken into custody and held for investigation during a raid on al- |lezed ““reds” at Typographical Tem- ple last April. All the men wer released without any charge bein Dplaced against them | Attorney S. C. Brez, representing | Rosenberger, will ask for a new trial Attorney George F. Curtis appeared for the