Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1925, Page 17

THE EVENING § TAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, JANUARY 19. 1925. GRAND DUKE BORIS AND WIFE, FROM RUSSIA. Boris, who arrived in New York Saturday. is a_brother of Grand Duke Cyril, whe recently T med himself ar of all the Rus: He came to the United States “to see the Follics, play golf and have a real good tim BOY SCOUTS AT THE ( <on Square Garden, in March. APITOL k| YESTERDAY. Scouts from 25 photograph of the Brooklyn t 181 boys and 20 Scout m: Dorothy Ellingson, 16-year-old San Francisco girl, who shot and killed her mother because the Later ob- d to h- daughter following ASTRONOMERS PREPARING FOR ECLIPSI of the Uni of Pennsylvania arrangi observatory telescope for the total of the aturda Astronom 1 over the country to make extensive studies of the solar event Dr. Samuel G. Barton th n <un next are prepa “SNOWED UNDER in on the radio concert of world. PRESIDENT COOLID to right: Charles H. De AT B nis of 1t ps invited President ( n on the steps of the Capitol after th lidge to the big Boy Scout rally in Madi- White How: £ P I Has Shortest NIRED QN STREET = o Believed Victim of Auto That| - Ran Away—Car and Bus ; in Collision. " TRAIN HITS SLIDE: ENGINEER IS KILLED and was taken Fireman Injured—Heavy Wash Away Embankment Bordering Tracks. sid question ed Pre SVII 2 result of k He M taxicab 1210 1 Hospital me and riven Iroad stru E of here ye Collide. | W ers we passe Auto rushed not injured ser Wre. usly ooga and Nashvi TWO KILLED IN WRECK. Train Plunges Through Trestle in Alabama. SELMA, Ala, Janugry I. Dunham and Conductor T. F Foster were killed. and several per- sons injured when a Southern Rail way passenger train plunged throug axicab in | 1 trestle Burnsville about 6:30 ith | this morning. Dunham was carried nes, (down into the creek with his engine. The over Mulberry Creek, about from this city, had become weakened from heavy rains and high water, and gave way when the train started across, precipitating the engine, babggage cars and three pty coaches into the creek below. avenue, | Te Hospital nt of | severehy ainst the automobile vl 19— Engineer en first ald at Garfield rah Hammet 0, resid theast Washing last night when sh ridi Ma and New was treated at the e scene en near Ha near > trestle 14 mil North Caple York avenue fice of a phys of the accident park near the nth street Hotel early yesterday rted from an unknown cause, | ed Fourteenth street and crashed | display of the Shop the Arthur S, J southwest his left Lis automobile left t tree in fro street Southwest Emergenty Hospl irte a ing, st 4 = Ship Dashed on Rocky Shore. VICTORIA, B upon rocky Vanc the French sailir night believed .to be a total loss. 'he ship carried a crew of 12, all of whom e Cast west a gale <u coast of ouver by to ! Lighthouse, * LEE AND JACKSON eorecnsaic | Celebra Rains | many | abbey as | Randolph; Gen | skull ast | mals were reported to be safe at Carmanap | and lightness. :HIGH TRIBUTE IS PAID TO LEE 'IN HOUSE ON BIRTH ANNIVERSARY RENANS HONGR 21 Stedman, Sole Survivor of General Army Now in Lower Body, Eulogizes Confederate Organizations His High Character. Join in Birthday Ceremo- nies at Battle Abbey. a 1 £ the who fat achievemen t at and in any land, and such reg greatest lived. not nessed his g any tim By the Ase RICHMOND, ated 1 pinion toda and fame va my « ion of the ETeatest bert The nam long to Virg birthright of America whether he lives in New | the plains of the Northwest c southern section of our republic world's estimate of Gen. L | ed not upon any battle of battles. It is neither est fields of battle or daclokabure ana | 1he calamitous bloodshed e in Virginia, he | taken place that the recollection hator Pat effect this visit “made | future ages is chiefly riveted lasippl at © | upon me as affecting my estimate of the | ler was to feature | character of Gen as a military genfus?" Which were to| “Tpis trip, he added, was made to close later by afjnepect the battlefelds to ascertain ball. Senator Har-| the feasibility of preserving and introduced by Gov. E.|marking them for historical purpose Brilliance wiil be add-| put it brought no new impression as ball by the costumes of| (o the character of General Lee willsdress in the modes | .y of Gen. Lee,” he said, ¥8 of the war between the | “hoth as to his moral attfibutes and military ability, was formed in my carly days, more than half a century | the | . WOMEN’S BAR BODY fORGANIST WHO WED TO HONOR JUDICIARY MRS. GREY, 82, HURT Guests of Honor | Jack Griffith, 27, May Die of Skull Tomorrow Night at Reception | Fracture and Other Injuries at Women's City Club. in Automobile Crash. of Gen. Lee be- Sou ers— wal two sn via a « the exereises Abbey until is J that tinued birthday erate city sections inuar one or series at places where organizations ¢ on the gre and many dignita of the « the exercises An address tonight Harrison of Mi gathering in a th the day’s activit brought to a nd Confederate will be Trinkle. to the who d. from other inspection cipated x of the uni st has | Mr. Stedman then reviewed many of | the wars which produced leaders whos names are found in history. Many of the places of conflict, he been forgotten, for it Is “moral gran deur which produces a durable impres- @ion,” and a day may come, he asserted, when the memory of the fields of Gettys- burg and Chancellorsville, of the Wilder- ness and Spottsylvania Courthouse | “may be dimméd by the obscu: of revolving years.” estimate of the ates Portraits to Be Presented. The exercises be un at the amp 1 the Battle Abbey | auspices Confederate R. E srans, Portralts will follc Gen.” William T. Wickham: H. ¥ e, by Wickham; that of i G Lee, by H. St. George Robert E. Lee, by miral be to the| portrait of by Henry Henry T.| A v,;.‘,‘;JHS“C“ to Be Roswell Page; Ad- phael Semmes, by Mrs X. \ 3h Franklin Pax- ton, by Gen. W. B. Freeman; Col Robert Stribling. by Dr. Kate Waller rrett: Col. E. V. White, by Col. M sented ws: The H. F. Lee, The chief justice and assoclate jus- hompson. and Chaplain John | thres of the United States Court of , by .John. Landntreet | Claims, ‘Court of Custom Appeals, Foy e Court of Appeals of the District of Co- CHILD HURT IN FALL. Special Dispateh to The Star. NORFOLK, Va.. January 19.—Jack Griffith, 27 years old, organist at a local theater, whose marriage several months ago to Mrs. Elizabeth Grey, §2, of Wash- ington caused a sensation here, was probably fatally Injured in an automoe bile accident last night. Griffith is at a hospital here with a fractured skull and other injuries. His automobile collided with that of Joseph Eley at Griver, 16 miles from here on the Suffolk road. His wife was not with him. DELAYS EGYPTIAN VOTING lumbia and the District 1preme € rt wiil be the guests of the Women's Bar Association at a reception tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock in the Women's City Club. The event will mark the first reception given to the judiciary by the woman lawyers Justice Stafford principal address of. the evening. The fficers of the Women's Bar Assoc tion are Mrs. Ellen Spencer Musse: founder and honorary president; M Marie M. Easb, mith, president; Miss Cora Keely, vice president; Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews, secretar Miss Grace M. Edd treasurer; Miss ‘I‘I\arlnltp Barbour, Miss Gertrude ;l,sunard and Mrs. Helena D. Reed, William Remsberg, 6, Drops Three Stories in Apartment. will make the Leaning over the balustrade on the | third floor of the Earlington, Colum- bla road and Sixteenth street, last night, William Remsberg, 6 vears old, son of William Remsberg, oc cupant of an apartment in the bufld- ing, toppled to the ground floor, land- ing on a couch and receiving severe | injuries. One arm was broken and he sus- tained a - possible fracture of the He was taken to Sibley Hos- pital, where his condition re- ported as being serious. ‘Held on March 12. executive committee. Insane Men Fight, One Dead. | MILWAUKEE, Wis, January | Two inmates of the Hespital for the Insane at Wauwatosa, a fought with heavy | until ohe was killed John Kuehn, mystery. CAIRO, Egypt, January 19.—Post- ponement of the Egyptian elections | until March 12 has been announced {in a decree signed by The date originally set ary 24, The impossibility of completing the electoral list in time for holding the elections on the earlier date is the reason assigned for the postpon ment, =Y 19.— was Febru- The hair of rabbits and other ani- in Russia is verted into | dishes and plates. which are for their strength, durability The articlcs have the varnished leather, co suburb, vesterday The victim was . Who died a man of bowls, valued appearance of BY THE RADIO FANS. pera stars last Thursday night. declared, have | King Fuad Orders Elections to Be | King Fuad. | AMERICAN PRIZE Johnny Dundee. fe blessing. T FIGHTER nly a few of t The These are ANQUET OF NEWSPAPER MEN he Chicago Daily News, AND therweight fighter, and his family letters carry The President Coolidge, and Caspa FAMILY VISIT THE VATICAN. be letters <ent in by radio listener post marks from all over i Chief Executive delivere S. Yost of the St. Louis Photo taken a few minutes after < members of a crowd of pilgrims. received the papal & Holy Year. ’ i ) { { known as< he k of the ivories” to thousands of rad fans. photographed left Missouri Snodgr broade the pri Harry Snodgr: he Penitentiary <t his piano programs an address at the dinner Saturday night Globe Photos STANDARDS BUREAU LANDBILLISO.KD |House Committee Approves | Measure for Buying of | Adjacent Property. ‘ R TR This Is a ve yrious meas and early an r the H says the | by esentative | chairman of the | buildings bill to tion by chard N. Elliott House comm on public and grounds, regarding the | purch land for the Bu- | In his report Mr William P the District the Department is urged al ot Standards Secretary Hoover o of C§mmerce and Brig n. H. M | Lord. airector of the u of the | Budget, in support of t gislation. | The strip of land to be acquired by condemnation or otherwise is| | slightly than 8 acres in area, bounded on the east by Connecticut venue, wast by the bureau land, on the north by Van Ness street and on the south by Tilden street extended. | | The bill limits the cost to § i | which is at the rate of 50 cents | i Isquare foot | ding the price, Assessor ds says that “during the last| great advance in all land in cality has been brought about | by the erection of apartment houses | between Van Ness street and the Con- | necticut Avenue Bridge and it is hard | to tell just how far bids for good | apartment house sites will advance land pr during the next . six months. The purpose in acquiring this land is to complete the natural | { hill site originally selected for the Bureau of & rds; to enable the bureau to develop a sultable roadway | | entrance through the bureau grounds | over Government-owned land instead of over private property as at pre ent: to permit the normal extension | of present work and growth of new work already overcrowding the hill- top of lahoratories; and to save the expense Involved in delay since land in that vieinity is rapidly rising in value cretary Hoover in his letter says “The Director of the Budget and the President upon my recommendation have approved the purchase,” and he submits a copy of the letter of in- dorsement by the Director of the Bud- get. Secretary Hoover also empha- | sizes that the chairman of three suc- |cessive appropriation committees of the House, after personal inspection, | {have stated that the Government ought to acquire this remaining strip for the bureau. Seek Incendiary for Mine Fire. | | MORGANTOWN, W. Va, January! 119.—The tipple of the Francois Coal | Co., near Lowesville, in Monongalia County. was burned to the ground early this morning. State police were called to investigate and blood- hounds were being used in an effort |to determine whether the blaze was ‘nf incendiary origin. The company operates on & non-union basis. » | ana five soldiers Frank L. Stanton Made Laureate by rgia Governor . f Tust f. pore then daily and humor in a local and w 40 conducted a col- umn newspaper will be 68 vears Walker upon a > the poet’s bir of his old on ed Fe Lynche 1 Jon poems Hung Okla the = cond to 12 SLAIN IN BATTLE Agrarians and Small Force Clash in Hidalgo. Federal By the Associated Pross. MEXICO CITY, pitched battle in were killed and were wounded Januar which numerous fook place Saturday between more than 200 armed agra rians and a small federal under Col. Artemio Basurto, near the town of Huichapan, State of Hidalgo. The dead included seven agrarians The hostilities be- gan when the ag ns clashed the federal detachments. Special dis- patches do not give the cause of the clash. 100 SHOTS FIRED IN FIGHT BETWEEN RACES IN CUBA Whites Objected to Negroes Enter- ing Néw Park in City of Santa Clara. By the Associdted Press HAVANA, January 19.—Clashes be- tween negroes and whites, in which up- ward of 100 ghots were fired and a po- liceman was wounded. were reported last night from Santa Clara, capital of the province of that name The whites, it is reported, objected to the negroes entering the new Vidal Park, which was inaugurated by the city last Sunday, with some minor dis- orders from the same cause. Police cleared the park midnight and closed cafes Dispatches say the fighting threates to become serious for a time, alarming the entire city. ons others Japanese florists have eeded in cultivating a rose which appears red in the sunlight and white in the shade. 3 L3 force | with | EFFORTSINEREASE TOPREVENT STRKE Scranton Business Men and Labor Leaders Trying to Restrain Workers. | Br the Associated Press | SCRANTON. Pa | ness men, labor agencies contin avert a general e m district No. 1 Wednesday have beer gen settle 1 the mes to Pennss ) men of the min n order for Interna 1 Lewis notified ance committees that a | general strike would be « eement and the | and urged the unio nmen at work pending adjust grievances. inaldo ( president of district No. that if call was charters of any locals walkout would be Among other st vent the general peal to Gov. Pinchot A meeting of the general N intin such a iss: district es-Barre g of a st aining Union officia from obtaining their Failure the district of to settle the strike at ylvania Coal Co 11 a district |up grievances an matters were give | for the suit. | held at Wi | sider the fi | junction rest the distric laries. | ficials Penn of |ISLE OF PINES DISORDER | IN PACT FIGHT DENIED { Consul Says ‘“Excited Talk,” Noth- ing More, Has Followed Treaty Debate in Senate. | By the Associated Press HAVANA, Cuba, January | American_consul at Nueva |1ste of Pines, Charles Form; !sent the Associated Press a m thut nothing unusual has happ [(h»rfl lately, and geclaring that he knew nothing of the reports of seri- | ous disorders there, due to feeling |Over “the Hay-Quesada treaty now pending in the United States Senate, There has been considerable tens sion between Cuban and Ame an | elements in the Isle of Pines over the auestion of. whether. the fsland legally Anterican or Cuban territors, and government officials Havana admitted that there had been “some excited talk,” but thing more is More than 0 women are em- Ipln_\'od in the United States postal service, A