Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1925, Page 17

CELEBRATING versary of his birth. a wreath on the statue. SELECTS THE IDEAL AMERIC stands beside her portrait. ARGUMENTS HEARD IN'PACKERS' CASE ;ltalian Cloakmaker 36 Counsel Discuss Government | Motion Relating to “Big Five” and Meat Industry. Justice ailey of the Dis- trict Supreme Court today heard argu- ments of counsel on motion of Department of Justice to eliminate from the pleadings in the “Big Five” packers certain paragraphs in the petition of the California Co-opera- tive Cann for the revocation of the consent decree signed February 27, 1920, by which the packing conc agreed to ce the meat indu; from unallied activities Attorney Galloway's Contention. Assistant Attorr General Gallo- way contended that the objectionable impertinent and scan- be stric from aragraphs asserted that the decree ed by the court without the pleadings and “re lezal effect e de- Bailey pted that rees equ which both parties are satisfied are signed per forma by the court without investigation into the merits the controversy. Govern- ment counsel continued to point out the other nortions of the petition which he wishes expunged nnings es Co, rns paragraphs are and complained had. be lous™ should One s en gardless of the cree. Justice err counsel to suggest many dec of Canneries. Hogan, represent- company, opposed is expected isement counsel Presents View Frank J Attorney i motion and the the matter Conrad Armour s re unde H. Syme and Swift interests, resenting the Whole ere inter to t Attorney for the and 1 sale ¢ Associations ested in the arguments. United States Attorney in charge of Government case and is being assisted by Mr Packers Nelsor M Ak Morris C Macfarl: L. H. A Morri r the Distr tension of o Postponement. s Edward S. H representing packers Supreme Cou Morris, oday asked for an ex- of the time permitted for the disposition of their Loldings in business corporations not allied to the meat industry petition if granted would allow until February to_get rid of their remaining holdings. The Mor- ris people explain they have made stren- uous effort to dispose of their holdings, but have not been able to sell all, WALLACE LEFT $216,000. Secretary’s Debts Totaled $126,000, Report Shows. MOINES, Towa, January 13.— Henry C. Wallace, Secretary left an wstate valued $49,610 in life in- ations and debts $126,000, according report of the ad- in District Court them DES The late of Agriculture at $166,499, plus surance, with obli of approximately to the preliminary ministrator, filed yesterday. THE ANNIVERSARY OF TH of the District of Columbia at the N BEAUTY. Smith, known to the stage and screen a John S. Bland, English artist, as the ideal American beauty. the | which | cher the Heymann and | the | | County, The | | annually | in full force BIRTH OF EDMUND atue of the Eng Miss Katherine Spencer Katherine Spencer, selected by Miss Smith Wide World Photo Gives $7,000,000 Business Away To Tour World Years Ago Came to U. S. Poor Boy. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January Portfolio was traveling South Florida Limited last night, rid business cares for the first time since he began his career as an im- migrant errand boy at the age of 10, was years ago. Now, having made his fortune, he gave away today his $7,000,000 cloak business, built up painstakingly through 20 vears, to six of his em- ployes in the offices of A. Portfolio & Co., Inc, on Broadway. Portfolio thereupon started to realize his long ished dream—a trip around the world. The son Portfolio He went work ning erra He emerged vears the manager of ars later, with two m Fourteenth street attic, he own shop. The six employes who, because Port- folio had a desire to start around the world, became executives overnight, have worked for the establishment at least 10 years NORTH DAkOTA DRY ACT REPEAL ASKED IN BILL on the of came to 1s. poor to Italian parents, America in 1888, immediately run- after 12 shop. Fo chines in a started his Author Says State Could Save $1,750,000 Year by Leaving Enforcement to U. S. By the Associated Press BISMARCK, N. D. yrth Dakota Legislature has d a Dill proposing to abolish enforcement of the cighteenth mendment placing the burden of enforcemnet on the Federal Govern- January ment Senator W. E. Martin of Morton who introduced the bill said 2 savings of $1,750,000 a year would be effected, The bill sets forth that “Whereas the Government of the United States, by virture of the eighteenth amend- ment, or so called Volstead act, has covered the field of prohibitory laws involving drugs and liquors and pre- seribed penalties,” and “the counties of North Dakota are 3 ing more than $1,750,000 in court expenses and general adminis- tration in connection with the en- forcement, and this sum expende can be reserved for the expenses of government,” and “whereas, the general financial condition of the farmers and the tax- payers of North Dakota requires an economical administration of public affairs, an emergency s hereby di clared to exist and t act shall b and effect after its pas- 1ge and approval.” payment of Great Britain buys more breakfast food from the Unlted States than any other country. . 13 —Almer- | BURKE. Sons of the Revolution h statesman upon the one hundred and sixty-eighth anni- The photograph shows Henry Getty Chilton, counselor of the British embs /, placing Conyright by P May President. Vermont's vote o the Mrs. Mary A. Adams of Bennington, Vt.. the first woman from her State named a presidential elector by a Republican State vention By United ELEGTROCUTION AGT T00LATEFORTWO Thomas and Copeland to Die Before Execution Method | Is Changed. carry n- ws Pletures. Passage of the bill changing execu- tion in the District from hanging to electrocution will come too late to save Ralph Thomas and bert Copeland from the first-n ethod |of capital punishmént, unless r |prieves are granted them, it was learned today The bill, which originated in the Senate, has been passed by the House and returned to the Senate for minor changes. stipulates that electrocution shall be the only method of capital punishment in the District Thomas, is sentenced to be hanged January and Copeland on uary 22. One effect of the new law will be to remove the draped form of the gal lows from the view of prisoners ir the eating hall. The gallows now stands at one end of the corridor, full view of those entering for ni 15 Death Chamber Provided. The electric chair will be placed in a_ small death chamber, terned after the New York and Vermont exe- cution rooms. Installation will be marked by a curtailing of those wit- nessing executions in the future, for the bill provides that none shall be present except the executioner and his assistants, the prison physician and one other physician, the con- demned person’s counsel and relatives not exceeding three, the prison chap- lain and not more than two other ministers of the gospel, the uperin- tendent of the prison or an author- ized deputy and not fewer than three nor more than five “respectable citi- zens,” to be designated by the super- intendent of the prison. SEEK TO MDTORIéE—FARMS iGermany Arranges Credits to Aid | Small Agriculturists. BERLIN, January 13 nder the slogan “Motorization of agricultural undertakings is the crying need of the hour,” the ministry of. agricul- ture today annuonced that special credits had been made available to small farmers for the purchase of tractors. This action, it was stated, was prompted by Germany's necessity to stimulate intensified production without increasing the supply of horses and oxen which need pasture and food. The credits are in the form of an arrangement with German tractor manufacturers by which only 10 per cent price of the machines needs to be paid down at the time they are ordered. On delivery, 15 per cent Is to be paid, while the balance may re- main unpaid until after harvest. If the harvest is unsatisfactory the farmers’ notes will be accepted for payment in 1926, The prices fixed for German trac tors under this arrangement vary be. tween $1,100 and $2,400, Jan- | | | Vaast, ne: |fiying a British De Haviland 9B type UNUSUAL GIFT FOR MEMBER OF CABINET. New yesterday received a rifle used last Junme. It is a gift from Brent Fort L D. C, Postmaster General in the Roundout, Ill., mail robbery Glasscock, now serving sentence at avenworth. who is alleged to have been the “brains” of the robbery. Rush D. Simmonds, chief of post office inspectors, at left. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. HEAD DUG FROM HUDSON RIVER. New York over the finding of this marble head of the Hudson River. and it is now on exhibition at the Mrs Found in of Augustus Caesar deep The head was dug up by a Governm Kleinberger Galleries. Porter Believes Son 5 Wrecked Battleplane Discovery in France of Destroyed Machine, With Skeletons Beside It, Possibly Reveals Fate of U. S. Aviator Missing Since War. in ¥France more than ttleplane, | has | Discovery a week ago of a wrecked b remains of two airmen, a ray of hope to Mrs. Theo- doric_Porter, : of Commodore Por- ter, U. S. N., retired, of the Wyoming apartments, that her son may be one of the two. While returning from a bombing expedition near Amiens, July 29, 1918, the plane piloted by Lieut. Galloway G. Cheston, U. S. A, and British observer, Corp. J. W. Pacey, crashed. Nothing ever was heard of the fate of the two aviators. Under date of January § the As- sociated Press carried a dispatch from Amiens stating that a French battle- plane had been found by some artil- Itrymen in the forest of St. Pierre- r Amiens, and that in the debris were two skeletons. with the brought Was Flying a De Haviland. Mrs. Porter today said her son was and was with the 206th Bom- Squadron of the royal alr force, then under command of a Maj. McLaren. The number of the plane as given to her by the War Depart- ment, who reported her son first missing and then killed in action, was De H. 9B 7668. The engine number was given as De HP 6079, and beneath this number appeared AP-23753. A check of these numbers with those on the plane recently found will an- swer the problem. On the other hand, Edgar T. Fell of Baltimore and Annapo a close ADVENTISTS AT TAKOMA SHOW FINANCIAL GAINS Reports Declare Contributions to Relief Work Above Goal Set Out to Be Reached. At meetings being held the Takoma Park Seventh-Day Adventist Church every evening the annual re- port is being prepared. The annual financial report shows a total of $62,962.07 received during the fiscal year of 1924, according to the pastor, B. F. Bryan. “Our offerings to foreign missions amounted to $14,222.21, exceeding our goal by $2,210.21," he said. “Add to this $1,548.35 contributed to Near East Relief, Leper Colony, Sunshine Home, Anti-Saloon League and other enterprises, and you have a total of $15,770.56 for missionary purposes. “Harvest Ingathering receipts were $4,186.20, surpassing all previous ef- forts by $336.20. Our Sabbath school offerings were $5,532.62. “More than $30,060 was contributed to the support of the ministry at home. “There were 74 additions to the church during the ‘yeaf, 61 by letter, 10 by baptism and 3 by profession of faith, of plane bardment at friend of Lieut. Cheston, is quoted in Baltlmore yvesterday as saying Lieut. Cheston was flying a French plane at the time he was seen to crash. “The last seen of him was when his plane was at about the height of the tree- tops,” Mr. Fell said. Last Seen by Observers July American observers ton last at 7:30 p.m. July 29, between Roulers and Menin, while t=e British reported the last they saw of the plane was near Courtrai, according to Army Air Service records here. Tt was stated much correspondence was had between the Army, the British and the Germans in endeavoring to locate Lieut. Cheston nad Corp. Pacey. Four days before he disappeared, the records show, Lieut. Cheston par- ticipated in a thrilling battle at § o'clock in the evening at an altitude Gf 14,000 feet. The bombing forma- tion of which he was a part was re- turning from a raid when attacked by 15 German Pflaz scouts. Divided in three flights of five planes each, one flight attacked from bepeath; the second dived from above and the third closed in on the bombers. In the fight that ensued Lieut. Cheston shot down one German plane and torced down another. Mrs. Porter said her son_learned to fly in England, paying for his tuition, and later was trained at Issoudon, France, He was 22 years old at the time the accident befell him. He was born i West “River, Anne Arundel County, Md., and was a graduate of St. Johh's Cojlege, Annapolis. CITIZENS TO LOOK INTO PROPOSED POWER PLAN Piney Branch Association Seeks In- formation as to Rates for Current. The Piney Branch Citizens’ ciation 'adopted resolution last night at its regular meeting to in- vestigate the proposed erection of a large hydro-electric plant at Great Falls, Md., and find whether it would mean any material difference in cost of electric power to residents of the District. The meeting was held in the Hamline M. E. Church. E. B. Henderson " presided. Mr. Henderson dealt with several matters of importance to the District of Columbia and the section in which he lives. He said no action should be taken at this time on the question of what type of community houses should be bullt in Piney Branch. The question was shelved until a meeting of the Zoning Commission this week. Another question Involving the Sunday observance law was also shelved until “a more drastic bill is drafted.” Commendation-for postal employes In the District was given for the good service rendered despite the Inclement weather. Asso- a TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, w Lieut. Ches- | 1925. CROSS-WORD PUZZLES INVADE THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL. ton’s only subway whiles away the hours by searching for words with double meanings. nects the Senate Office Building with the Capitol by an underground route. Mrs. John Adams Drake of New York, who was received by Premier Mussolini_in Rome Sunday and ap- pointed the first American woman member of the Fascisti. She is president of the American Milk and Relief Society for Italy. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. FUNDS FORSCHOIL REPARS LACKING Col. Bell Reports Needs Ag- gregating $877,746, With Only $98,760 in Hand. With a balance of only $98.760 the fund for repairs to school ings for the current fiscal ye: are on file requests for work schools aggregating in cost $ Engincer Commissioner Bell nounced today. Col. Bell cited this situation further evidence of the need for g ing the Commissioners each vear a contingent fund, not restricted to any particular use, but available for any essential improvement that might arise. May Axk Speeial Fund. Since the balance of $98,760 would cover only about 12 per cent of the repair work needed, Col. Bell will discuss with Commissioners Rudolph and Oyster the advisability of asking for a deficiency appropriation to take care of at least a part of the long list of needed repairs. Following the snowstorm of last week, in which it was found that the street cleaning department would create a deflciency if it spent much of its current appropriation. Col. Bell conceived the idea of asking Congress to provide a large contingent fund cach year to cover emergencies. Since that time two - things have happened to strengthen the Commis- sloner’s belief that such a fund should exist. The water and sewer depart- ments both have Teached a point where the current appropriations given them for extending service to new houses will fall far short of sup- plying sewer and water mains to the new houses that will be completed in Washington between now and July. The water department has asked for a deficlency of $50,000, and the sewer department has applied for a de- ficiency of $150,000. Proposes Conference. Col. Bell has invited representatives of the Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce and Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association to meet in his office at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon to discuss ways and means of improving snow removal work, and at that time he will ask their advice also on the advisability of seeking an annual contingent fund to cover snow re- moval or any similar important work that may be unprovided for in the middle of a fiscal year. Discussing the necessary repair work in the public schools, Col. Bell pointed out that there is more than @ score of heating plants that have been in use from 20 to 50 years. The list of repair work also includes the Installation of electric lights in some of the older buildings, painting of interior walls ®nd general car- pentry work. in build- there the 5, an- as Author-Mason Dies at Hollywood. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., January 13— M. Reepmaker, author and prominent Mason of Belgium and Holland, is dead here. After Masonic services to- day the body will be sent to Rotter- dam for interment. I U this country's representative i given by President Doumergue. France attended the reception. | Tough Gotham Cats Prove Deathproof To Plunge and Gas Pyscho Falls Four Stories, Tall-Talk Takes Poison. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 13 |and Tall-Talk proved that th [the cat's whiskers mg cats may be down but are never out Pyscho is the mascot of the psycho- pathic ward at Bellevue Hospital, an maybe his hard-boiled attitude to ward life is the result of long clation with soft-boiled human frequently are brought there. It has been Pyscho’s custom to take a dally constitutional along the edge of the roof of ward 38, four sto above the ground. It was snowing and blowing hard. He stepped out. He ran back and forth just to show them the kind of stuff he was made of. Then suddenly an unusually hard puff caught him | unawares, and, before Pyscho could say “Vladivostok,” he was sailing out into space anded with all paws firmly braced. The jar shook his back teeth and Psycho rolled over unconscious. Surgeons and internes could find no broken bones, and they wrapped him in a blanket and left him in the en- gine room with a package of catnip in front of his nose. Two hours later Pyscho |1y, nibbled at the catnip gered to his feet. Tall-Talk _is a combination Juan and Rudolph Valentino among the feminine cats in Greenwich Vil- lage. While his owner was out in the afternoon Tall-Talk caught the string of his catnip mouse on a valve of a gas burner in the basement When his owner returned he found Tall-Talk apparently dead of gas poisoning. Sorrowfully he laid Tall-Talk on the kitchen floor. Then in the evening Tall-Talk, with a mocking laugh, crept into the parlor from the kitche He was a little uncertain in his gait, but there was a cynical leer in the wink he gave Chuff. WILL HONOR FRANKLIN. U. of P. Alumni to Observe Birth ; Anniversary. The Washington Chapter of the Alumni of the University of Pennsyl- vania_will observe Franklin's birth- day Saturday. according to an an- nouncement from the local body. Ben- jamin Franklin was the founder of the university. i (" The ceremonies will bé held at the Franklin statue, Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, at 12:30 o’clock, where Senator L. Helsler Ball, ac- companied by the Secretary of In- terior, Hubert D. Work, and Rear Admiral Edward R. Stitt, Surgeon General of the Navy, will place a wreath on the statue. At 7:30 o'clock in the evening the annual dinner of the unfversity will be held at the University Club. Touis A. Young. foot ball doach, will be the principal speaker. that who ghed deep- and stag- In Argentina every man of ageé is compelled to vote, ITED STATES AMBASSADOR ! France, attending the New Year reception All members of the diplomatic corps in four | of Don | Oue of the motormen of Washing- The subway con- sright by P. & A. Photos AT RECEPTION. Myron T. Herrick, Copyright r. & Photos. PARIS PARLEY DUE - | | TOEND TOMORROW ‘Hope for Final Plenary Ses- sion Today Abandoned by Ministers. by PARIS, January 13.— The plenary session of the allie ministers’ conference will 1 9 o'clock ‘tomorrow purpose Gf ratifyi reached Dby the va delegatio regarding the appointment of repa- | rations under the Dawes plan, it was announced late’ this afterhoon A preliminary meeting of finance m isters tonight will be devoted to glving the small pawers an opportunity of pre | senting their claims to the conference. Representatives the United Sta for the first time since | America’s failure to ratify the Ver- sailles treaty, are about to sign |interallied agreement the bbject which is to fix and divide German reparation payments, Instead of observers, the Americans now become active participants in the settlement of the situation arising out of the peace of Versailles: that is con- sidered here to be the most important result attained at the interallied finan- cial conference, which is due to close today final finance held at ng for the agreements the rious s tes, an New Line-Up Is Seen. The co-operation of the United States is regarded particularly by French ¢ | cles as constituting a new and impor- | tant fact which may have weighty con | sequences in the future, both morail | and materially the more so as one o the negotiators, Ambassador Kellogg will be called on March 4 to assume direction of America's foreign policy ‘The conference experts, having failed to line up everything last night, were again at work this morning. There are still a few figures that refuse to work out right, and as the percentages are involved, modification of any one of them entails modification of others The {rench minister of finance, M Clementel, was 5o optimistic that the conference would end tonight that he had already ordered a grand banquet In honor of the delegates and perts. Winston Churchill, the Bi chancellor of the exchequer, wa similar mind and had told his v to pack his trunks., The tired experts were given a helping hand this morning by James A. Logan, jr, the American repara- tion delegate. in giving the finishing touches to their report. The princi- pal rmaining difficulty appeared to be the demands of the secondary powers, particularly Rumania, whose request for a revision of percentages in her favor probably will be refused. The principal allies are evidently determined that minor interests in reparation receipts shall not upset the accord reached on the bigger phases of the problem. sh of let Fully Defined. From the Glasgow People’s Journal Teacher—Tommy, what amist? Tommy—Please, sir, a man makes the same mistake twies. is a big- whe