Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1925, Page 17

RICT FIRE LADDIES TRAIN FOR WORK IN THE RE Saving Service is the instructor of the Washington firemen. THE CROSS-WORD PUZZLE JE S CERTAINLY MAKES ONE CONCENTRATE. QUADS. Here we have Anne Fire of Augusta, Fla, a crossword addict, who has developed such powers of concentration that not even a penful of large, matured, sharptoothed and ferocious alligators can take her mind off a fivedetter word meaning frightened. SEESHOMEBUYIG CUTBY BENTBIL Mrs. Flora McD. Thompson Declares Measure Will Have Bad Effect. categor that ing individual home in- vestment th ownership a n of mode ably could ra McDona no pers Thomp- son tes on wor in a r “El homa o i proc the Washi fshed un 1ip of tena sh corpor hingto their pro intentlo making come tax returns “The st thei 1s sald, rn bought s sefore in- th ofit Ic Thomy 1 Was 1 the ngton r which under no un- in the und means to s from “the gage sharks regard to the ex- would stir gress Honest intention ir & housing situation Tess to deal with the real estate loan shark the relief jcular h difficulties Congress vote for in- of living leader House, Longworth, aded fter conferring with repor to have the law in to The majori Representative Mrs, Thompson * the President, yledged a vote of on rent | | Army or Marine Officer Asked as Boston Police Head By the Associated Press, BOSTON, Janu: rary appointme Ma Host vocated by oyl on Chamber of ¢ the mayor that —Tempo- Mayor representatives of the o had the chamber by increasing law- that there appeared of more poilcemen, ¢ called attention to the f authority over the po- nent between State and ENGINEER APPEARS ATPARKS HEARING Bost 1old as disty hed and need | Maj. Gen. Taylor to Explain | mittee Annual Financing Program for District. Maj enginee: Gen. Harry Taylor, of the Army, National n, accompanied rs of the « ot chief of who is chair- apital by »u_before the sub- drafting the Dis- bill for the next in support of the item for t of the parks system in 1 Capital legislation which commission last year nnual expenditure of $1,100,000 building up the park system i District. The Budget Bureau, in the annual budget to Con- with the approval of the Pre included item of $600,000 work of the mission appropriati the bill by the after Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, eng! neer officer in charge of public build- ings and grounds in Washington, who is secretary of the commission, had appeared as witness. The subcom- mittee claimed that just shown for the $600,000 item, At the solicitation of Ge ting Chairman Zihlman House District committee Coldren, chairman of the of the Washington Board of Trade, the hearings in this item were reopened. They are in progress this afternoon. nan Parks other is testi- ymmissic emb s aftern which is appropriation al yea established autkorized or the send Ere . Taylor, of the and Fred parks com- “Lefty” F! Tynn to Wed. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, January 21— Maurice “Lefty” Flynn, former Yale foot ball star and now a motion pic- ture actor, will marry Miss Grace Darmond, also of the screen, early in April, it announced by Miss Darmond. studied with regard to the economic interests of homemakers, and Rep- resentatives, looking ahead two years their own interests, may wisely reflect that, after all, the vote to now Congress. That vote will be carefully | of 35,000,000 women qgunts’ ication was ! Copy) BLANTON ASSALS RENTLEGSLATION |Calls Plan to Continue Com- mission Invasion of Prop- erty Rights. t by Underwood & Underwood Vigorous denunciation of the Pres Ident’s proposed permanent R mission for the District of resentative Thomas L. Bianton of Texas In repying to Representative F. H. La Guardla of New York Representati La Guardi pealed for united Republic of the President’s bill, declaring it to be intended model for similar legislation through- out the States. He sald that Presi- dent Coolidge was very deliberate in making up his mind on any legisla- on and that in the present instance he was absolutely right. He recalled that in the last session the vote on the tax bill was taken as the measure of a man's party loyalty and was wondering how those who had banished him from the party because of his attitude on the tax bill and who were now plan- ning to vote against the President on the rent legisiation could square themselves as regular party men Representative Blanton heatedl tacked the proposal 'to definitely the life of th mission with broader pow He told the House that It was ing away all property rights, He s that within six months such tion would cause a decr st 331 per cent In real ues. He assured his colleagues in- stead of helping the people that they aim to benefit they would be doing the Government employes and resi- dents of the District a very seriou damage. He declared the proposed rent legislation iniquitous, OFFICERS ARE ELECTED BY SANTIAGO VETERANS At the annual meeting and election | of officers of the District of Columbia | Branch of the Soclety of the Army of | Santiago de Cuba last evening in the National Guard Armory, 472 L street, | Lieut. Col. C. Fred Cook was re- | elected president and Maj. Fred Hodgson vice president. The offic of secretary and treasurer were con- solidated, and Secretary Samuel H. acobson was chosen secretary rer. The new office of chaplain {was created, and Rev. Dr. George F. Dudley, rector of St. Stephen’s Church, who was captain and chaplain of the ist D. C. Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, War with Spain, was unanimously elected to fill it. It was voted to endeavor to secure 100 per cent attendance of the en- | rolled membership of the branch at the quarterly meeting, April 21, which will be a “smoker.” Capt. Dudley of- fered a prize to the member present last evening who secures the presence April 21 of the largest number of members on a pro ratg allotment. Membership in the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba is limited to those who served with the United States forces in Cuba during the Santlago campaign. at- in- Com- | Commodore W. E. Longfellow of the National Red Cross Life The men are trained in rescue, the carrying of injured persons, f id to the injured. etc. o Harris & Ewiog. A This is one of the smart Spring coats of a beige, piped with dark brown silk. The three broad belts are held by buck- les, like the loops that confine the cuffs. It sport motoring. Copsright by note for woman readers. novelty woolen material in is a coat for or Usderwood & Underwood. | FRENCH ENVOY’S W Tules Jusserand tha dean ¢ the retiring ars of associations almost forgotten he must hand over the burdens of office M. Jusserand, before leaving for New York and the Boston, where he will safl for France on Ja 28, presented to President Coc person yvesterday his recall papers, thus officially ending his long serv here, in which he will be succeeded by Emile Daeschner, who is now en route to this country The retiring Ambassador later paid |a farewell call on Secretary Hughes and other officials at the State De- ki where he remembered also in his leave-taking the ¥ long- service employes of the department to whom he has become a f and friendly figure Seventh Dean of Corps. Ambassador Ri of Spain, who becomes dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington with M. Jusserand's retirement, is the seventh to occupy that position In presenting his letters in Ambassador . nd re-e a custom which had fallen into ai use, this formality having been per- formed for many years by the retir- ing Ambassador's successor. M. Jus- serand, however, desired to present them himself and pay-+his respects to the last of the long line of Presidents he has known J. Butler Wright, an Assistant Sec- retary of State, accompanied the vet- CONFESSED BOOTLEGGER HOLDS UP BUSINESS MAN Needed Money to Repair Auto Tire Damaged in Flight From Police. on felt in the departure of today more than fte diplomatic | French Am-| residenca here that ha one day person, tablished A colored bootlegger who admitted his occupation walked into a south- east cleaning and dyeing shop last night, told the proprietor he had to have some money to repair a tire which had blown out during & flight from the police, and, forcing him to | surrender $4, walked out after bid- ding his victim “Good-bye. The victim was Louis Kousen, | whose place of business is at 229 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. Ac- cording to his story to the police, the unidentified negro volunteered further that another car that belonged to him had been captured last week by the police. Fearing the caller Kousen handed him $4. was armed, Asks Limited Divorce. Limited divorce and alimony are asked in a suit filed in the District Supreme Court by Mrs. Edna H. Don- | nelly against John William Donnelly on charges of cruelty and desertion. They were married October 31, 1919, and have no children. AMorney, Mar- vin F. Blachof, Sp LIKE REMOVAL OF LANDMARK Long Service of Jusserand Ended by Presentation of Recall Papers to President Coolidge and Personal Visits to Hughes and Others. BREAKING GROUND FOR HUGE FIGHT STADIUM. appropriate ceremony to take part in, for it has been unnounced that they will be married soon. The participants in the ground-breaking were Jack Dempsey, world champion heavyweight pugilist, and Miss Estelle Taylor, star of the movies. The stadium, by the way, will be erected in Eos Anigeles; Copyrigt by Underwood & Underwood A more or less THEY WANT THE SHENANDOAH COUNTRY MADE A GREAT NATIONAL PAR by Gov. Trinkle of Virgin Sam's great playgrounds. Left to right: G. F. Pollock, H. J. Benchoff, Gov et T REEL SUPPORTERS HEARD Coolidge Measure Indorsed by Witnesses Before House Committee. the White House ent, where he eran diplomat and the State Depar: spent more than two hours taking leave of officials, high and low, and the many emploves with whom ha had con in contact through the years With his usual courteous familiar- ity, Ambassador Jusserand went from office to office, remembering all by | name, mnot missing even the negro messengers in the corridors, a num- bér of whom had received presen from him for many Christmases. ipporters of the Gooding bill to aflroads from charging high- ght rates for short hauls than auls over the same route were giten further opportunity to present argument on the measure today at hearings before the Ho commerce committee. Frank Lyon of Washington, attor- ney for the Luckenbach Steamship Co., headed the list of witnesses sum- moned fore Lyon Ford, secret Rate Assoclati retary of the ber of ( Messenger Feels Loss. “I am sure Sorry to see Mr. Jusser- and go,” said one of the messengers voicing the feelings not only of his colleagues, but of the whole depart- ment. His leave-taking Hughes was described as of the “usual courteous kind.” The department’s view of his retirement was sensed in the words of one high official who, after pointing out that M. Jusserand was Ambassador to Washington be- fore most of the staff entered the service, described his departure as “the passing of a diplomatic land- mark.” M. Jusserand, after reaching New York tomorrow, will leave almost im- mediately for Boston to visit friends before his depprture from the United Sta Heyplhns to make Paris his residence, wiiere he will devote a large part of his time to literary activities interrupted, perhaps, by visits in the United States, since his sympathies, his American wife and his under- standing of affairs in this country are expected to draw him back at fre- quent interval “PINAFORE” SCORES HIT AT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Performance Will Be Repeated To- night in Eastern Auditorium, With Same Cast. Gilbert and Sullivan's opera, “H. M. S. Pinafore,” was presented last night in the auditorium of Central High School, under the auspices of the Community Center Dgpartment, with Estelle Wentworth and Albert Parr directing. A cast of 40 young men and women selected from the various church choirs in this city and Alex- andrfa, and members of the George Washington University Gles Club took part in the production, which will be repeated tonight in the Eastern High School auditorium. Nina Norman, as Josephine, sang well, as did also Erma Miller, as Buttercup, while Ellsworth Condon, as Ralph Rackstraw; Woodruff Youngs, as Sir Joseph Porter; Albert Parr, as Capt. Corcoran, and Russell Coudrey, as the Boatswain, were ex- cellent in their parts. The chorus was well directed and had good voices Mrs. Lucretia Walker Hardy, super- visor of the East Washington Center, extends an invitation to the com- munity to attend tonight's per- formance, of the and Spokane, mmerce, indor: It sometimes looks, sserted if the railro e trying to wear “‘us out" and it would be much easier | for the “compact” transcontinental lines to organize to make application for rates than for the 7,000,000 people scattered over the Intermountain region to organize to oppose such ap- | plication. led James A Intermediate managing Wash., CI the b from Secretary o Effect of Canal Shipping. One argument the bill, Mr.- Ford raflroads must have the freight now | ng through the Panama Cana This freight amounts annually to five and one half million tons, he as- serted, whereas the freight carried annually by the transcontinental rall- roads amounts to 643,000,000 tons an- nually. Should they obtain the five and a half million tons now carried by that route, he added, they would hardly realize any difference, as it is insignificant when compared to the tonnage they now carry. The railroads are trying to put water competition out of business| as soon as possible, Mr. Ford declared, | and they claim this bill deprives the Interstate Commerce Commission of | the right to grant fourth-section re- | lief to meet water competition. The | problem confronting the Intermoun- tain region, he added, is “a consum- ers proposition” and not relating to | Jjobbers. The committes received a state- ment from Joseph Decker, represent- | ing the Salt Lake City Chamber of | Commerce, and then called Mr. Lyon. advanced aid that the | against RARE EDITIONS SOLD. Dickens’ National Edition Brings $1,000—Others Sell High. NEW YORK, January 21—J. A. Galagher paid $1,000 today for the national edition of Dickens, limited to 750 coples and said to be the most sumptuous ever printed, at the open- ing sale of the library of Miss Flor- ence Sturdivant of Boston, in the gallerfes of the American Art Asso- clation. The same buyer gave $870] for No. 1 of the FPeers edition, limited to 50 copies, of the works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beacons- field, and $800 for a set of the auto- graph edition of the writings of Mark Twain, A LAST CALL AT THE WHITE HOUSE. During the past 22 years Ambassador Jules Jusserand of France has called at the Executive Mansion many times, but yesterday he made his last visit as a_repre- sentative of his country. He said good-bye to the President and will leave soon for France. Assistant Secretary of State Wright accompanied the Ambassador. ational Phetc Members of the Shenandoah Valley Association, headed who are in Washington to urge the passage of legislation which will turn the Blue Ridge section into one of Uncle Bird and Grow Large Feet oo e e e TESTIMONY FAVORS By the | House Committee Told of | Handling of Government Wards’ Money. . Trinkle, Representative T. W. Harrison, State Senator H. F. Na here mist Club, One of the ing a suc Mayo, cause a dentist he The never hea ist who had f. g wit ged maladmirn fon of the MEANS BETRAYER |- e NOWIS “INFORMER” Jarnecke Says Government| 1 « Pays Him $77 Weekly for | by Burk Activities. o A o ¥ half « ed today fair sube United the was Californ egarding an for J n Bar- “Wealthiest 1 dis A Question is Barred. imittee discussio question asked th regardir Okloh ach b d Tols t to Nor question awn by en told of as 0,000 Ja the Bu an alleged 2 e M. Swift, Okm: ure a portion of the Jackson, an In- ains e Black s Co. Nichols suc sel By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 21 ¥ W. Jarnecke, who pleaded g ty turned state’s ovidence agalnst co-defendants, Gaston B. Means, mer Department of Justice ag Thomas B. Felder, attorney with conspiracy to obstruct admitted under cross- Federal Court today t! in the employ of an informer. He $77 a week. Counsel for M ns drew fr necke the admission that he h a $40-a-week clerk before he became associated with Means, for whom he ed as secretary, and that he had earned as much $1,000 a week while associated with Means. Jarn on direct examination esterday, testified that Means had discarded him after their convic n veral months ago on charge of conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. Today Jarnecke admitted that Means, after his ri from the Tombs on $25,000 bail, had sent a lawyer to his cell to attend to his legal needs, and that his one-tiune em- ployer had exerted himself in his he- half on several occasio in addi- | tion to providing $3,000 to purchase the court record necessary for the filing of an appeal. m and e for- nt, and churged justice xamination in at he now was the Government said he wed Sabe and G Swift Jackson's guard i Louig here sal n and would put yop Tellx of Cash Offer. Nie hotel room Nichols decla to him, “You're good plece of money on your feet If you will he Is testif ted that he went to th Swift d that Swift was getting at m Jar- d been e me to get $25,01 under my con I will cut th and give you §10,000," Nichols sdl Swift told him g “I said I would not entertain tHa§ kind of proposition from anybody Nichols stated J. F. McMurray, lawser of McA Okla., then took the stand. He repre sented Swift, he said, before the Interldy Department when stipulations we pending for approval of the propok that the Black ither Co. give Marth) Jackson, an Indian, §370,000, and Saldr Jackson $300,000 i Advised Burke’s Refusal. i McMurray testified that he told Copf- missioner Burke mot to approve ¢ Jackson stipulations, and that he e ented Swift, and through him Marthh nd Saber Jackson, and that was wHat fluenced Burke and the Interior I partment not to approve them, it The charge that Swift had agr to pay through McMurray to Howa, Mannington, said to be connec Carrying out a policy to end the |with the Daugherty case, 10 per cd flagrant bad check passing by the [of the fee he received in the Jackson imposition of jail sentences, Judge |cases was denied by the witness Schuldt, after conferring with As- wift made this charge while testi- sistant United States Attorney Ralph |fying before the committee. Given, imposed a sentence of nine | McMurray branded the statement months on Chancellor Byrd and four untrue” and declared that “noth- months on Leroy L. Derrick, both of |ing was said about any one but whom had pleaded guilty to such |myself.” violations. | The committeo then recessed until Mr. Given told the court that the |tomorrow to enable its members to policy of leniency in such cases had |attend to Indian bills on the floor. That in no way tended to break up the |committee has the call today for cal- practice, endar Wednesday, Court Sends Two to Prison on Check-Passing Charges. er