Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1925, Page 2

2 . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SATURDLAY, JANUARY 17, 1925. ! | rom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) | PRICES ANNOUNCED FOR MARCH 4 BALL | Charity Event, Social Feature of Inaugural, to Cost $10 and $15. kets of adn to the « be th ontstanding Presi will ce auguratio Dougherty, chairmar charged fon Undecided. will tak. L steps it s of the ball avoidable embarrassment Mra. Dougherty anu mittee chatr ¢ as follows the gen \ced additional and memt to be cha commit and Mrs. Frank B A. Mitchell and Chairman of the Horace mem- Mrs. commit Peaslee Members tee ty commit Miss 1d Sweene net Walker, on pro- Cha printing, 1 Thom and Mrs tickets, David Reed on Gen. John rlair . William T. Galliher, inaugural announced that he complet th after subcon chair- rews Heads Committee. And president the R. P. mpany, was T Frederick D. of Lieut chairman of street decorations, ves- had charge of during shrine plans this the size of him. and An med Owen, the by n allowed er's commi memb ng him daily, accept- 1 the board to which are rallying to regard to polici- at when Presi- is inaugurated he will mal oath of office ac- cording to a program that is abso- Tut thout political taint, parti- influence h it Co ake the f ithout visited the to see Secretary S ittee chairman has been rack State military or- r permission to march and he is seeking a re of the pageant Coolidge before he Pts their offers White Slemp, orable Artil- is parti 1 comp! view of ents the most hment u ment o the fact that historic mili- the State over Coolidge once pre- governor, Mr. Galliher does to m a definite ruling on ter without the advice of the men milar organizations have be- iher with permission regiment, or at least a tal The President has told Galliher that he wants the most st in, ration ceremonies that stances would permit. As a re- Mr. Galliher feels that he cannot the offers of th regimen to participate before having permis- sion from the President to do so. CAKE-EATERS BANDITS. Hold Up Bakery Wagon and Take | Jelly Rolls—Editor Loses $175. T et-toothed bandits raided cery wagon driven irlein ba Cohen Princeton ning at Twenty- ets. One of the s head, while the contents of the racting six jelly rolls, nine d = dozen small cakes bandits let the and N str d hor. operated on t ex ak he cake-eating proceed about his business. Police eived two reports of rob- beries in local hotels last night, when Hai At Vanderberg of tha Grand Raplds Herald told of the thett f $175 and a fountain pen from his th Willard, and Billie an, reported the a typewriter and c F 23, from his roou men h othe room in Watsol PACT ACTION SEEN SOON. the turned from consideration s trea . Repu ked for Although rdiy ate aside of the v to take up other an leaders sald final action on this long-pending convention with Cuba bef: e end of next week So far as is known, only about h. ad hes are to be made e The speakers will Borah the for- mittee, who Is opponents. zen more spe numbered among the German Time to Return. MAYENCE, Germa January 17.— ied Rhineland commiseion decided 10 re-establish central time—better known as Ger- man on all the railroads in the gccupied German territories of the Rhineland and the Ruhr. Greenwich tme, hour later than the Ger- Jpan ntroduced at the time of tho allicd occupation in 1919, ¥ Ordered to Fort Benning. Edgar S. Miller, United States at Camp Meade, Md, has ed to the 15th Tank Bat- Renning, Ga talion, Fort Capt. Snow Ordered Here. Capt. Elliott Snow, Naval Construe- ton Corps, attached to the first naval district, has been ordered to this city New Arm: Parley Is Impossible Nouw, Coolidge Believes Conditions in Eurepe still the United arms conference, President Coolidge that the the out preclude State in any move by toward another the opinion of Mr lidge still Un States should await ome of the move made b League of Nutions to bring about lmitation of and should do nothing the matter until the or e of that move Washing o v naking no further calling of such a confe farls crmaments, oped i move o W e vestorday published 11d be called House author zed denial of hat another conference w cly in the UNDER-COVER NEWS INTERVIEW SCORED a al stories | Editors Told Story on “High | { | tion | 1 | of press general subject | i | | | | | { 1 | | | | | | | | 5 | the foreign ularly anxious | | consider at | The Authority” Should Not Be Tolerated. Ay uld kes- informed the inistration acting presumably on “high ithor who sends out “trial bal- loons™ in the oF 1does] anathen diates the reporter who wrote the service which sent hem out for publication when they fail to with the desired public re- Karl A. Bickel, general man- ager of the United Press Service told the American Society of Newspaper Editors, meeting today in the clos- ing sessions (wo-day conven- at the New Willard Hotel Numerous instances of repudiation apparently horitative news »me from official sources re- on of matters which as statements .of said, adding that has taken blishing articles nformed source istrative officer,” be followed by newspapers mar sponse of gardin iblica Eiven out Mr. Bickel Brooklvn agalnst i to th stand I a well “high admi could well tations and which Experiences Bickel di in Europe. russed at length the of propaganda in its to publication of news, giv- of many corre- United Press in oreign govern- color the so as to give it while Mr ion he experiences or the capitals neral they spondents me news ive out favorable slant, is quite rigid in Italy and France France, according to the informa- tion he received from his correspond- ent in Paris, regards propagandized «nd subsidized newspapers as the proper agencles for dissemination of news. Russia’s government,, Mr. Blckel said. takes the attitude that any declaration unfavorable to the Soviet government should not be sent out, while Italy has a rigid system of censorship. Only in England is there s cen p abroad declared, while with its “clumsy” efforts at government pro- paganda along the lines in use dur- ing the war. he Some Propaganda Useful. Bickel said propaganda by com- ial institutions in this country is M me often very helpful to newspapers, giv- | them many times the truth about matters of business policy, which th newspaper must adapt to its own u without seeing the matter through the corporation's eve. “Wherever commercial propaganda is frank and truthful it is more effective than where efforts are made to conceal the facts,” he said Bickel added that newspaper man regards American system of dissemina- official news as in- the tion sidious Mr. Bickel's address was discussed by E. S. Beck of the Chicago Trib- Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World and Morris Lee of the Phila- delphia Public Ledger. Mr. Pulitzer told the meeting that was some- difficult to keep the reporter's free from bias on matters in ich his newspaper had taken a de- cided nd Editors, as well as publishers should length the proposed in- creased postal rates for newspapers, James D. Barnum of the Syracuse Post Standard told the convention afternoon session was to be de- voted to a symposium on the subject “In What Degree are Syndicates and Press ervices, rather than editors, Editing Newspape! swers by many pron men, including E. V. Washingtc Post ‘mos it Harris of the Many Phases Discussed. Many phases of the relation of newspapers to the public were dis- cussed at yesterday's meetings, which ended last night with a reception and entertainment to the visiting editors at the National Press Club. Herbert Bayard Swope of the New York World defined the scope of journalism as ife reflected in ink,” which must partake of the ugliness as well as the beauty. Deletion and suppression of crime news was touched upon and de- clared to be unsound, for the reason that “expression can never be so bad, for the individual or group, us sup- pression C. H. Dennis of the Chicago Dalily News told the conventlon that “when you begin to inquire as to who are the gentlemen who attack news- papers you are surprised to find how little they know about newspapers, They n a corner perhaps a dream about what newspapers are, but they have very little real infor- mation, and I think it is a very whole- scome thing to call these gentlemen to account.” President Coolidge will address the annual banquet of the society tonight at 7 o'clock. Other speakers will be James Melvin Lee, Walter Lippman and Glenn Frank. PRESS CLUB IS HOST. Special EntertainnSnt Given Edi- tors by Local Newspaper Men. Entertaining the American Soclety of Newspaper Editors, the National Press Club presented a group of en- tertainers last night, composed of players from the local theaters. C: per S. Yost, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, made an_address. Other guests and speakers at the press club entertainment were: Rob- ert Benchley, dramatic editor of Life; Senator Ashurst of Arizona, Repre- sentative Connery of Massachusetts, Robert Nelson and Mr. Wright of the Strand Theater, who sang and gave a piano recital; Theodore Tiller, Wash- ington correspondent. Three Get Commissions. Hdgar O. Crossman, 2230 California street, has been commissioned a lieu- tenant colonel in the Medical Corps; Heber H. Rice, 2456 Twentieth street a major in the Judge Advocate Gen- eral's Department, and Robert S. W. Walker, 2007 O street, a second lieu- tor duty as a member of the Army|tenant in the Coast Artillery, all in and Navy Munition Board, the OfMcers’ Reserva Corps, al censorship | per | LEISINGER SLAYER -~ GET LIFE TERM Holmes and Freeman Given | Maximum in Policeman’s Murder. fe imprisonment was by nal 1 nd Harry W. who were the sentence Justice Me- on Jumes | imposed todny Chier in Crin viston Holmes Freeman d in fn he I the killing % Leisinge noted tried 1o stop the oh n second degree connection | man |28 L Vil Raymond ( Holm August nowl th. riding the d to tire-carrier began fir " pistol to Freeman shooting through the rear of vehicle struck and killed the po The death car then sped ving the body of the police man on Eye northeast, North Capitol stree In passing the maximum under verdiet of the jury Justice MctCoy ared the prisoners n all the clemency that ted, as under the found the first men. suid at war with society, they automatic pistol and had equipped with a smoke screen | w as much equipped death dealing as were our boys the bLattlefields of France Assistant United States Attorneys Burnett and Neudecker conducted the prosecution of the prisoners, who were defended by Attorneys James A. O'Shea, | John L Sacks and John H. Wilson. RECORDS DISPUTE - SUSPECT'S CLAIM Mo | Whe | singer |ene handed the latter he Diiceman the driver r top Lei umped on the in stres near sentence ave b th court carried | They were on Fingerprints Identify Man Ar- rested as Pickpocket on Car. Fingerprint records established the | true identity of Louis Loraine, allas | “Doc” Bishop, who was arrested street car at Pennsylvania avenue Twelfth street today as al pickpocket. He had told tr he was L de Levesque véars old, of avenue, Hagerstown, Frederick Sandberg, expert, proved to Inspector Clifford L. Grant that he was better known under the Loraine and Bishop names. “Ever been arrested in Baltimore” Inspector Grant asked the prisoner after Sandberg had identified him “I'm no murderer or yegg.' prisoner responded, “but if you take me to the electric chair I'll not talk.” It was through the fingerprints on the Baltimore identification card that Sandberg was able to establish his identity. The prisoner, who told the police he was a newspapér man and that he was born in the town Three Rivers, Quebec, was mentioned on the Baltimore record as a native of Nova Scotia, and as a newspaper man | and t alrgrounds t Detectiv identification bi Policeman Called. Policeman R. E. Davls, directing traffic at Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth street about 8:30 o'clock, was summoned to a street car and told that Francis L. White, Navy Depart- ment employe, had been robbed of h pocketbook, the name of the prisoner appearing on the conductor’s slip as a witness. Thers was somiething about the name that attracted the police- man's attention and he entered the car to look him over. A newspaper partly concealed the tace of the man who was placed under arrest. Leaving the car, the prisoner resisted arrest, directing blows at the policemen, but before he could make a success of hiy efforts to escape, Detectvie King appeared on the scene and took a hand in the affair. The pocketbook was found on the floor of the car, where the prisoner is alleged to have dropped it. White fdentified the prisoner as hav- ing been near him when his pocket- | book was taken, and police obtained | names of other witnesses who will be | summoned to appear in court when the case is tried. A charge of rob- bery was preferred against the pris- oner. " e 0.K.SCHOOL PROGRAM. | Carbery Parent-Teacher Body Votes | Approval. The Carbery Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation has joined with numerous other | organizations in Washington to support | the five-year school building program. A resolution indorsing the profect was adopted by the organization at a meet- ing last night in the Carbery School. | The assoclation also raised an issue with the District Congress of Parent- Teacher Assoclations by adopting an- other resolution protesting against de- { cisions being made on important school | policies without reference to the in- dividual associations. The action of the congress in indorsing the plitoon school without consulting constituent bodies 18 said to have provoked the resolution. | | | | | SALESMAN FINED $250. | Was Going 45 Miles an Hour Be- fore Collision, Says Officer. Bailey P. Nickolson, salesman for James F. Oyster, $00 Pennsylvania avenue, pleaded gullty in Police Court today to charges of transporting, pos- sessizn, reckless ariving and collid- ing. He was fined $250 by Judge Schuldt, which, if defaulted, will in- cur a Jail sentence of 80 dave Policeman C. Crossant testified that the defendant was driving at the rate of 45 miles an hour just pre- vious to his collision with another machine on Twelfth strest southwest. S-19 STILL AGROUND. Monthly High Tide May Be Await- ed Before Submarine Is Floated. CHATHAM, Mass., January 17.— Continued efforts of tugs to haul the submarine S-19 from Nauset Bar in Orleans harbor, where she grounded last Tuesday morning, failed to stir the craft yesterday. Last night the | submarine was lodged on the bar, ap- parently as firmly as at any time since striking. A heavy sea was run- ning and it was indicated that opera- tions 'would not be resumed by the three tugs stationed here until after daybreak today. Observers here said that the sub- marine might not be floated until the menthly high course tide, due in about 10 days E ook of Police- | for | the | of | DIES AT AGE OF 102. | | | Inmate of State Hospital Asserted He Was 120. Mich., January | Cofield, ‘who claimed he was born | Mareh 17, 1805, but whose age has | been fixed by officials of the Michigan | State Hospital here us 10 and search is being made his relatives Cofield, according to meager records | of nis 1ite ble at the hospital | where he yesterday, served in { the Confedernte Auring the Civil War. T that his father, a native lved to | I 1oxT1A 17.—Philip s dend. today died records show a of Belgium VESSELS COLLIDE, CUTTERS RUSH A Steamers Badly Damaged i | Head-On Crash—Crews Are Safe. By the Associated Pross | CHATHAM, Mass. 1 | steamers Munalbro and Robin Adair | today off Handkerchief ith of here and near Cod. The Coa Aduatnet U. sped their receiving radio appeared imm | January The | Light Shoal | the “ent ! Guarad la | W of Cape cutter and N troyer assin to as | Neither | danger The Chatham Corporation of America 4ge saying that the was anchored in 35 fest of water that her forepeak was flooded. Apparently the ships met nearly head-on, since both rep@ted damage to forward holds in tiy starboard side. A message from eported a “40-foot hatch, small lead in No. 1 hold, five | reat of ‘water this hold, anchored | five miles southwest of Handkerchief { Shoals Lightship in a h fox. | The Adair added that he ction Pipes on the starboard were pu out of message | gave the tim as 1 m. |~ The Munalbro, of tons, was built News, and is owned bound, nee aftar calls ship in ediate of the Radio received a Munalbro nd station tha Tobin Adair hole ubreast No. This commission a collier 1916 1 by the Munald She was Bostor The Robin Adai vesterday for and m B Pa ™ Honolu tle, Wash he o Sh Decen New videnee, next day wa and sailed 9 for Janu- sailed Boston from New San Fr ) York, er York and tor ory Pr from and NICARAGLA WANTS MARINES RETAINED Government Orders Guard to i Remain From Three to Six Months. Baltimore. The United retention Ntcaragua for States has authorized the Marine guard In a peried of from three i to six months, and not later than Sep- tember, 1 , it was revealed today in correspondence between the two governments. The Marines had been ordered to withdraw on the next boat, but the Nicaraguan government | urged that they be permitted to re- main in the interest of ce, ¢ wellbeing and benefit of Nicaragua.' Correspondence on the subject made public today d the marine de- { tachment had been ordered to with- draw “on the next boat, but repr sentations by the minister of foreign affairs for Nicaragua said an imm diate withdrawal the marin { would cause, “among er lar ble consequences,” continuing ness in matters of public busin activities on the part of those * might avall themselves of the drawal * * * to disturb the peace. Fear Trouble Would Follow. Other reasons for the retention the Marines were outlined. They as- serted that customs bonds and de- preciation of currency would prob ably follow the departure of the Marines, and that the “unfounded idea” would prevail “that thers has been loosening of the firm ties of friendship, which so fortunately exist between both governments and coun- tries and which is so evident in the terms of recent note of the (Ameri- can) legation.” | In conclusion, Foreign Minister Cas- | trillo urged that the marines should | rematn at their present post in the in- | terest of “peace, order, well being and benefit of Nicaragua.” “Such a reconsideration,” the min- ister said, “would earn the high ap- predfation of Nicaragua and would re- pay the United States with a full meas- ure of good will.” United States Events Request, Acting on State Department nstruc- tions, Walter C. Thurston, American charge at Managua, informed the Nicaraguan government in a note dated January 5 that the United States Government “aiways desired to co-operate in any proper way in pro- moting the peaceful development and prosperity of Nicaragua” and there- fore acceded to the request that the Marines remain for a limited period of time. The correspondemce malkes it clear that the Nicaraguan government will at once organize a constabulary force, under instruction of American officers if such service is desired, and that the marines will be with- drawn as soon as the constabulary is effectively organized. | Tampa Police Believe Ring Broken by Arrests. TAMPA, Fla, January 17.—Valen- tine Gonzalez, alias “Dutch” jon- zales, suspected leader of the largest automobile theft ring now operating in Tampa and this section, and Nath- an Peck, negro, alleged accomplice of Gonzalez in the theft of numer- ous cars, are held in the county jail and five automobiles have been seized by the sherlff here as a result of a campalgn waged by the officers over a period of two days. Other arrests will follow within the next few days, county officers sald, and additional cars thought to have been stolen will be seized Jeweler Again Robbed. ¥or the fourth time years burglar robbed the jewelry store of Charles E. Richards, 1225 Pennsylvania avenue, Thursday night, taking jewelry and penknives valued at $100. Richards said that the total value of property taken from the store in the four robberies would reach $3,000, in several for | of | HAYES CASE DELAYED. Police Court Awaits Grand Jury Action Before Arraignment. The arraignment of Stuart § l | | charged with driving while intoxicated colliding, leaving after colliding transporting. set for today Conrt, was continued Fdward E. Thomas, assistant corpora tion counsel, stated that he believed to be advisable to continue the P Court charges until after the fAndir grand jury. for which Hayes is in 11s0 Hay GERMANY BLAMED IN TARIFF DISPUTE is cut on a bond of $7,100 French Say They Have (ioneI to Limit in Concessions. Long “War” Expected. By the Associnted Press. PARIS, between anuary 17 and The tariff rance is expected for « effort Ruyna on n busines es to con feral aas period rupture o were present at have | gone as far as they their efforts to satisfy Germany's demands The technical men the ¥French delegation some time ago informed the government that they were being asked to make extravagant slons. M. Raynaldy has repeatedly informed them that they must go to the limit of conciliation In order to make an agreement poss They now sav they have g beyond that {limit and that nothing ba done on French bring about an accord tlons after tween the ture fully ave German jected by yesterday's long discussior Intend to i to nference nego yesterday's FREREh Gt really h that wo ded f the Ire ared they the French suggestions for a tempo rary agreement Full reports altho on the si Berlin what purp proposition is 1 the Frenct up to the deci EXPERT TO TESTIFY IN MUZZLING PROBE Miss Alice Barrows to Appear Be- fore School Investigat- ing Committee. but it at to be ere Beriin n Mizs Al Barrows, platoon expert of the United States Bureau of Edu cation’s speeial platoon ommittee at a publi anliin Setiool th pck Whether or investigating hearing in (fternoon at ot has been muzzied” by Federal Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert Dean Willlam €. Ruediger ¢ r's College of George Washing- University, who declared at a t meeting of three committess of Public School Association Mon ¢ night that Dr. Tigert had forbid Miss Barrows to speak the atoon school question in trict, as well as the commissioner of education, have invited to tend t aring Ernes wood, chairman school ommittee. Dean Ruediger I lined ground that he wrote Mf Greenwood ¢ a full expla f while Commixsioner Tigert is not in the <he on the Dis- been at- board's as de- rank W of schools. Ballou erintend- ent and a number of ad ministrative officers 1 appear the committes fo explain the position on the platoon ol plan The superintendent has prepared a camprehensive statement, which he will submit to the committee WHALEY RENT BILL BACKED BY TENANTS Columbia Heights Body Urges Pas- sage in Preference to Three Other Measures. 1so wi With the Whaley rent bill menaced by the contemplated introduction of three other bills—the Blanton meas- ure, the license law and the so-called pyramiding-of-trust law—the Colum- bla Helghts' branch of the Tenants League has sent a resolution to Con- gress urging the passage of the per- manent control measure. The Columbia Heights' organization, in the preamble of the resolution, scores the real estate men for thelr national campaign against the Wha- ley Rill, and states that the other mesures are merely thrown in as “a smolke screer Text of Resolution. The resolution asks that “the at- tention of all real estate men, not now under the governing power, con- trol and heavy hand of the real estate ring of Washington, be called to the menace to themselves and their small business and the conditions which they will be compelled to meet in order to remain in real estate business, provided the Real Estate Board can pass legislation to suit themselves at this session. “We call attention to the bill pro- posed by Mr. Blanton creating a real estate commission in the Dis- trict of Columbia providing for seven members, only one of which the Pres- ident is permitted to select and the other six he must choose from among a list submitted to him by the real estate ring. “We believe that this ring is in- terested In the increase instead of the decrease in rentals for the obvious reason that they control the rentals of large apartment houses, the per- centage on the collection of which is the source of considerable income, and that any bill which would force out the small operator and center ab- solute control in a few real estate firms in this city will meet with their hearty approvai. “It behooves all small and honest operators and salesmen now engaged in the real cstate business in Wash- fngton to use their influence to pass the Coolidge-Whaley bill, which they know will &ct in any manner aftect building operations or properts rights, but will control unwarrant- ably high rentals throughout the Dis- trict of Columbia.” Men from the lowlands are taller than those from the mountains, measurement of 30,301 Swiss army recruits has shown, E ARGRAFT INDUST it { | vested Has Shrunk to $10,- ion, wiil tell the board of edu- | 3:30 | Bs the Asse |procecding | volume | reduced RY HELD NEARLY GONE Hays Says $100.000,000 In- | | | 000.000 Since Armistice. ted Press. YORK Arie wreraft disappeared; the tn the industry was wigned has $10.000,000, and brought many NEW January 17.—The industry almost $100,000,000 invested when the armistice ehrunk to 1 than the industry which world records to Amer- Will T Hays General in the d last night in dinner [ N cabinet York than of not 1 ot plants than i« more 20 aire tot Mr. Hayes suid production have been | reduced that it emergency of | defeonse it would undoubtedly a year and a half before uld raise ourselves to the position of duction which we oceupt signing of the is all of the ative e we « ctically | ed at a the | 17.000 p Hots y usands a trered fajied to make the ples other countri ndgment.” he added debating details with | Fren nd ltalian mis by their governments those ments were upon b programs hing have their wle sent this countrs 14 failed utter to develop it And rious, too, theres is a discour- aged =pirit and a feeling of chaos within the fndustry which comes from continual disappointment and defeat “The condition today Is a challenge to the business progress of which we boast, and a menace to our na- tional defense.” U. S. MAY RESTORE ALIEN PROPERTY SEIZED DURING WAR Page.) we have ates absolute and authori power: zed unde enemsy N \ be ght direct sted isposed of as Cor Congress sterr of gestiol for lig While it re property to be that purpose, i toward prem. it. Congress rty an war to allow ymandeered claime. the for ation of 1 the prope res ed u sa " s mora our un rarantee satisfaction of Coolidge en the All to Get Their Dues. for divergence of at an end. The ed § Americar nder It nion is now e Un ver ate most v ted th the fact the venerated holding the of an for the obli- creant govern- words, it has never up to n of al n sponsi the the nnocent my state r ivid tionals n Americ Tirp heen destroved ships, e to Ameri Karl Schultz of “pay the freight 1f Schmidt and Seh fean property estered alien pr time. But it's submarines Schmic urg ned Amer- been se- | r mean- after now This writer understan tentative negotiations are under wiy for quicker Amer r then liquidat Few the m3 W. Miller, alien property cust has filled for the past four vears. office has administered and approximately more than trusts. representing personal property, or corpora- scattered from the Philippine nds and Hawaii throughc States to the Atlanti When Col. Miller became cus in March, 1821. there was roughly $630,000,000 alien property in the United States possession. The Winslow act, passed in Mar retu of pr conditi ation tion aiien His ope active real es- rd todian 2 \rough processes of restor and sale, the holdings of the property custodian have been [ by about 45 per cent. He now holds a residue of approximate $300,000,000. Women Given First Rellef. A special act of Congress authorized restoration of alien property to American women who were tech- nically alien enemies because their busbands were Germans, Austrians or Hungarians. One of the ber ficiaries of this special legislation was Baroness Speck von Sternburs, the American widow of a one-time German sador at Washington. | Even though Congress were at once to legislate the restoration of allen property, its actual return will en- tail an administration of hardly less than three years. The custodian's officexover that period will have to be converted virtually into a court of claims. During the elght vears that have intervened since seques- tration of German, ,Austrian and Hungarian assets within American Jurisdiction countless changes of all sorts have taken place. Original owners have passed from the scene. Estates have been ereated and distributed. Litigation among one-time _title-holders has arisen. Entirely new proprietors have come into existence. All these things will require to be established with metic- ulous care. Property is involved that is situated in 44 different States of | the Union and in all of our insular possessions. Owners of, or claimants to, it are distributed literally through- out the world. There's a job awalting Col. Miller's succersor that is likely to make his own task, onerous as it has been, al- most a sinecure by comparison. (Copsright, 1925.) Mrs. Milanda Atherton Dies. Mrs. Milanda Atherton, wife of Capt. D. B. Atherton, dled at her home, in Fast Orange, N. J., Thurs- day, according to word received here. Capt. Atherton was for many years prominent in this city Besides her husband, Mrs. is survived by a son, R. N. of Chevy Chase, Md. Ensign Tracy Resigns. The resignation of Ensign Osgood Atherton Atherton Noted Financier Dead DANIEL G. REID, ABRAMS' MAGIGBOX THEORY REVIVED ! | | REID, TINPLATE KING. DIES OF PNEUMONIA OQutstanding Figure in Indus- try Rose From Bank Mes- senger to Financial Power. NEW YORK, Januar Gray Reid, known King,” died of pneumonia Mr. Reid, who today at 1 was one or Mr w. Reid the tin rector of th poration at 1 ling work tria solidati som < Fe came wh British Scientists Find Some- thing Wonderful in Elec- tron Theory. Ey the Associated Proas. LONDON, January 17 “magic box,” had forgotten, has suddenly into the limelight again through a report by a committee of scientific investigators which, if correctly re- ported hy today's Daily Express, shows they are convinced that there is “something new and wonderful” in onnection with the box, which, al- though not yet understood, makes further investigation desirable. They represented as saying that this 3 “great talities ¥ of active financial sup- Dr. Abrams come members of the committee in- Thomas Horde an. who is known as ialist, and Dr. C. F a to the - Waies an ¥ vil aviation A h and Thomas Horder read the commit- report last night at Royal Society of Medicine. I that friends of the committee- men had warned them it would inexpedient to publish the results their investigation, but that afi- crnoon they had decided to disregard is advice “because nothing but good n com publication and work onducted in a spirit o ific sin- erity_and of which full details are of t ays that 5 scient Make Views Clear. nowise 1 he box has cura- press says those t 1 They thetr owever, make discovery othing form &Y of en The late Dr whe t elect were the the foundation of health phone, by the of wh ed, he could de osi and other d a drop of bioo invent- reflexo- he main- presence of di he age of the subje s race and the probable lensth his life. It was his theory that after disease been detected by his d a cure could be of another instrument loclast, which used oftset other waves osc electri waves to within e body Abrams had many followers, and ory won the f some nt men, although it was de- erican Medical mittee act- American, after inquiry, made public a re- Augzust in which the Abrams reactions theory pro- ounded WILL NOW IN COURT. support Heirs Fight Abrams’ Bequest to Build School. SAN FRANCISCO, Faith of the late Dr. Albert Abrams in electronic’ system of disense detection was evidenced under terms of his will, which provided > erection of a coliege of electronic healing Construction the steel fra building. started soon after his deatl was stopped last year by the heirs as the building was nearing com pletion and the entire estate is now in litigation in the courts here. The heirs objected to the large amount set aside by the doctor for the per- petuation and study of the system of nedicine of which he was generally recognized as the founder. Since Dr. Abran death his method of healing has been the sub- ject of lengthy newspaper articles here in which his claims to cures were belittled on the basis of report made by committees of organized medical assoclations of the conven- tional school. Dr. Abrams built up a wide prac- tice in San Francisco during the lat- ter years of his life and it in the use of his electronic system that Be created part of the fortune which he left for the erection of the college. January 17.— of e SHOALS BILL PARLEY PLANNED AT CAPITOL House and Senate Leaders Hope for Agreement Before Formal Conference. Republican House leaders will seek an understanding with Scnate leaders as to the final form of Muscle Shoals legislation before any move is made in the House to send the Underwood Shoals bill to conference. President Coolidge was sald to have Indicated his agreement, after a con- ference yesterday with Representative Longworth of Ohio, the Republican House leader, and Chairmun Snell of the House rules committee, that this course should be followed in order to prevent a tie-up of the legislation in conference and to pave the way for its passage. if possible, at this ses- sfon The House leaders are hopeful that If a full understanding can be reach- ed in advance of the conference stage, where thay believe otherwise it would be largely. rewritten, the Muscle Shoals problem can be disposcd of at this session. Otherwlse, all pending legislation will die automatically V. Tracy, on the receiving ship at New York, has been accepted to take effect January 17. March 4 to leave the entire problem to be approached from the beginning by the new Congress, which most people here | a meeting | effected by | the | or | | | Moore b5 1A T | production untii | properties than 200 tin mi talized for $40.000,00¢ tion later was absorhed ed States Corpor gotlations by the organ, at | by the Obtains Control of Railroad. Reid next tu ago, Roc o by bu Mr. Interstate Comm of the road R d prom fig Wall Street w tional rush Monday aft was run up from droppin ade and o iny “iplined and F was having manipulated the Tpor z fron 3 s arket s health asigned as chai Pbotorh ot it I bega Reldls & A Milk Wr later rred in vaude | 1904. Two years Margaret Agnew Hoy righ understc Business assc ted his estate BORN IN INDIANA Started Work at Age of 15 as “Mar of All Work.” Byithe Associated RICHMOND, County 1858. Hi | Dani {near this ¢ {when he w I boy. janitor and {National he |7 n e s president of the the same year b the tin plate industry at Mr. Reid had i during the last ea { maintained an intere | this city and had n to institutions he YEAR GIVEN DRIVER IN FATAL ACCIDENT Negro Convicted of Manslaughter vear Sent to Occoquan by Jus- | tice McCoy. Hawkins, by D Occoquan, u ighter fol Donaldson, when an automo- bile driven by Hawkins collided with a wagon from which Donaldson w delivering ice, last near Ninth street and Massachuse enue, One year at Occoqua 1 a fine $1,000 was imposed on Gilbert H. Lofli a young marine. who recently was cor | victed of pandering. Loflin dec had a good record y il he met the woma and blamed he Edward L. Slocurn en one year at Occoquar a charg of grand larceny. He le a wat razor, chaln and wearing apparel, it was declared. Edward H. Phillips, colored, victed of a second offense of p sion under the national prohibition act, was sent to Occoquan for ninety days. George guilty to Charles E. Richard colored sentenced Coy Crin one year a of mans James A of colored, was giv- Tolliver. who ting_his brothe Allen, November 10, duri; a quarrel, was sentenced to the pen tentiary for three and pli on probati pleaded BACKS SCHdOL BILL. Consumers’ League Favors Compul- sory Attendance Plan. The Consumers’ League of the Dis trict of Columbla held a meeting of representative organizations yester day afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the So- cial Service House, 1022 Eleventh street, to report the progress of the compulsory school attendance bil now pending before the short session of Congress. Dr. John Congumers giving the object of the legislation and setting forth t necessity of sustaining interest in the bill. Other speakers were Dr. Frank Ballou and Mrs. Edward Costigan, chairman of the legislative committee of the Consumers’ Leaguc; Walter S. Uftord, secretary of the Associated Charities, and ~Mrs. Oscar Beyer, chairman of the publicity committes. A. Ryan League, president of the made an address, proposed