Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1925, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D 0, TUESDAY, JANUARY o =y 1925. s e TAUGHTERS OF NEW ers of the new Ambas Amba French ador in Washington yesterday retired. Jusserand, recently THIS MAN FLIES, BUT HE NEEDS NO WINGS. Metropolitan speed s rels. PAPAL KNIGHTHOOD GIVEN THREE HER P. 1. Haltigan, J. Leo Kolb and Harry Walsh Receive Order of St. Sylvester. ind t of men whi e not afr profes: their faith “If this cou eligion th None Wealthy Men. his delight that ealt the the f the m t- Arch- nonors eal of were not of , but were re- wards for those qualities “that go to make a man and character Mr. Haltigan replied for himself and ociates that they considered Vishop Curley fro the came ring soclal o prest a AMBASSADOR. ador Daesch ating championship meet, in Irene and Mme. D ind Antoinette, daugh- schner, photographed takes the place of J. J. National Photo. o |10 Million Register \To Vote; Population | Only Three Million By the Associated Press. BAGDAD, Telegrapht the first Mesopotami; were postponed owin circumsts registration 000 votes, tion of 000,000. January Agency). (Jewish lections to Parliament & to the pe- that the elec- »vided for 10,- = the entire intry is only ® i where the cc | oo | popul to the election ordi- male citizen over 20 of age votes: every 250 men secondary elector and 80 ose a deputy, who 0,000 voters. Par- at least four Jewish mem- According nance, every Christian and four bers MAN DIES IN i-IOTEL_FIRE, THIRTEEN ARE INJURED | Twelve Firemen and One Woman Suffer From $40,000 Blaze in Framingham, Mass. By the Associated Press FRAMINGHAM, Mass., n was killed firemen were® i the four-story b the Kendall Hote Janua d one woman ired bu here One x ht Nine and Willlam n for the I partment, were plunged of the in an office way. The Welch firemen Welch, e forem: ham water the basement n the flooring floor gave rescued but until escur on the firemen was not He dead we found him. firemen were overcome nd suffered cuts and Everett C. imingham fell to the street climbing down two Stories by ladder from a fourth-floor window Twenty-five thirty guests in the s made their street It wa the would isged was when ree other smoke ses. Mrs. after Tope who way that Te- ately ured the all of cover The fire st The property at $10,000 the was estimated rted in damage Fiber Fire Costly. COLOMEO, Fire vesterday destroyed 1,200,000 pounds of fiber in the warehouse of Bayley & Kenny. The damage is es mated at several hundred thousand rupees. Ceylon, January the honor placed upon them a reward | to all the Holy Name men of the arch- diocese | Each of the knights was presented { with their official Latin citation sent | from Rome and signed by Cardinal Gasparri,~ the -papal ~-secretary of state, ng- | building | Johnson of | basement. | INVITE PRESIDENT TO CONVENTION. man of the convention committee of lution, and Mrs. zation, at the White House y convention. sterda Bobby Hearn, a champion skater, thrilling a crowd at the Central Park, New York, with his “flight” over seven bar- Copyright by Underwood & Underwood $450,000 N DOPE SEIZED INNEW YORK :Customs Officials Also Cap- ture Tapestry Rug, Dupli- cate of U. S. Currency. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January than $450,000 worth of tightly packed in large beled “ripe olive nd a rug, 3 by 6 which is an exact ‘du nited States Treasury not. 1 by United States cus- toms officials yesterday The drug, it transpired, had been in this cou al mont stored in | a bona rehouse in Brooklyn, but had not been called forn by the con- | signee. Feder ers, knowing its contents, left t barrel at the ware- | house “bait,” hoping to arrest the owner when he called for it. With it were six similar barrels 27.—More narcotics barrel a- tapestry Shipped to T. S. From Italy. Officials said the barrels came this countrs from Italy several months ago on the steamship Gon- stantinople consigned “on order.” Ac- cording to their custom, they stuck a prong in the bunghole of each to test its contents. Six of the barrels they discovered to contain olives, but the seventh had only handful of the fruit around the bunghole, being packed with drug: Officials said the contents | manufactured in Germany, shipped to Italy and then reconsigned to United States. Tapestry Rag as Test. The tapestry rug was secized in | raid on the Greek line Edison yesterday. ¥. H. Kracke, chief the port, said he believed it was man- ufactured in Turkey and sent to this country as a test case, in order to de- termine whether sim will be {admitted to this count It is an exact duplicate of the United States Treasury note for one silver dollar, and as such is believed to be a viola- tion of the counterfeit laws. It is be- ing held pending an opinion by the Treasury Department i CHILI;LABOR LAW HIT. North Dakota Health Committee Opposes Amendment. BISMARCK, N. Dak., January 27. The North Dakota Senate.committee on public health last night voted to recommend to the Sehate that the Federal child ldbotr amendiment be Killed. Anthony Wayne Co to | the rest | were | the ; appraiser of | Mrs, Frank Mondell, chair- the Daughters of the American Revo- dent general of the orga to invite the President to the a National Photo Sir David Hall, technical adviser of of the British miniter of agricul- ture and fisheries, who delivered a lecture yesterday at th National Museum. Na Phot YOUTH HEADS $£35.000.000 CORPORATION. father of Chic vet 30 years old. who succeeds his Wrigley Chewing Gum Company \WILL BOY SIT I |TEST MAY - a One Who Claims Motherhood Cites Propensit) NEW AMBA Ambass: Representative Ernest R. Ackerman of New Jersey. an enthusiastic stamp collector, who is aiding the Phila- telic Society’s big exhibition of rare stamps. Copstizht A Philip K. Wrigley, not s president of the $35.000.000 o Wide World I’ WATER BUCKET? 1 CIDE HIS PARENTAGE| 0!1 Three-Year-Old and Court Agrees to Have | Experiment Performed. By the Associated P PHILADELPHI forts to determine’ the identity of a three-year-old boy, claimed by two “mothers,” Mrs. Russell Earl Steim- ling, formerly of Girard Manor, Pa., and Mrs. Martha Silknitter, former laundress at the Western Temporary in this city, w further com- plicated vesterday, in Juvenile Court the disp fant himself. Mur * was his ng ilknitter, while he iled nling with a jovial nod and Mamma.” Iknitter maintains ame ackie Duff, which r family name before her mar. With her present husband, charged recently by the Steim- lings in the Pottsville courts with having kidnaped their son, Russell Earl Steimling, jr. Mrs. Silknitter January that the FEAR OF WORLD’S END/NEW MEXICO LOSES LEADS MAN TO DEATH; BOUNDARY DISPUTE | —E Laborer Commits Suicide After|Supreme Court Upholds Colorado’s Brooding Over Prophecy of Judgment February 6. | Specia Dispatceh to The star. NEW YORK, January {ing over a prophecy that the world would end February 6, Edward Mar- quaret, a laborer, committed by hanging in the attic of his home at Islip Manor, Long Island, yester- aay. Marquaret, his widow said elght weeks had closely follow preachings of Robert Reidt Patchogue, who daily passes up and down the south shore of Long Island exhorting all to prepare for “the end of the world.” Reidt announced that in be saved ‘“one must sell hi ings, and, clothed in white, a hilltop at Port pointed day and there coming of the Lord.” Mrs. Marquaret today Moore that her hust d had incessantly talked with her of the house in which they lived with four small children. Later he lost his job. ix weeks ago, she said, Marquaret attempted suiclde by gas. Reidt was preaching from his auto- mobile in Isli plast night when in- formed of Marquaret's death. He is reported to have said, “Too bad. He should have waited until the 6th. Then we could have gone together.” for a the order to belong- await almost Brood- | of East | climb to | Tefferson on the ap- | the | told Coroner | selling | Ft- | abandoned her baby in ¢ | court today he | | t she had amden, N. J., subsequently | d in to- ad been told the authorities where the Steimlings claimed the youngster involv day's proceedings after he h found abandoned there AMrs. Silknitter described court the number of scars child's body, which court physicians testified on the boy present in The doctor who attend Iknitter when the baby was he believed the child was to the on her ed Mrs born hers Mary Ste sirard | suggested that a of be brought, and that if the child were Russell Steimling he would immediately attempt to sit in it, as Russell had a penchant for such in- formal immersions in available mud- puddles The court agreed to the imling test today. Claim to Area Under 01d Survey. New Mexico lost its boundary dis- pute with Golorado yesterday in the Su- preme Court New Mexico contended the boundary should follow the line fixed in the resurvey of Howard B. Carpenter, in 1902, and Colorada insisted upon the line survey of E. N. Darling, in 1868, Cqlorada has been exercising jurisdic- tion over the territory, a strip about 500 feet wide and 200 miles long. A bill passed by Congress some vears ago to place the land within New Mexico was vetoed by President Roosevelt, and Congress refused to pass it over his veto. SHII;I;éRS IN PARLEY. | e s REMO, Ttaly, January 27.—An conference of shipping companies opened here yesterday to negotiate an agreemet on South American passenger traflic. Numerous delegates representing the principal foreign steamship lines attended, to- gether with the managers of all the | cit | into the air from another part of the Genoa shipping firms and the leading officials of the shipowners' federa- tion. Secrecy is being maintained re- garding the deliberations, ADOR AT HIS DESK. The first photograph taken of dor Daeschner of France, at his desk in Washington. The Da ner family arrived in the United States Saturday and came h- the Capit National Photo Wheat Girl,” receiving the small That wheat will be presented GOV. she signs a state document. “Jim, quainted with State affairs. ) FOURGO TODEATH IN SPITE OF HERD Worker Braves Gas-Filled' Shaft to Bring Only Bodies to Surface. By the Associated Pross. COLUMB; Ohio, Ja small, gas-filled shaft within a of the B 27—A deep ary 4T feet New Iding son Union Ameri- can here cla men yester- th heroically. da. vietims dying A fifth man, who went to | the rescue of his friends in the shaft, came through unscathed and a few hours later a movement was started to fittingly reward him for his heroism The dead: C. R. Bowen, wood, Ind.; Jack Smith, New York ohn C. McCarthy, 48, New York City; John Peterson, Columbus. | All the men were steam fitters, em- ployed by the John Gill Construction Co. of Cleveland Green- Three Go to Death. The ca of the accident clear. It is believed Bowen was the shaft fitting pipes when he w overcome and fell to the bottom low workmen noticed that had ceased within the shaft. Then) one of the victims climbed down to see what had happened. When nei- ther appeared within a short time an- | other went down the tube to inves- tigate. Then McCarthy, the last of the victims, volunteered and he dis- appeared through the shaft some 18 or 20 feet above street level. All was quiet within the tube and workmen gathered about fearful that something was wrong. Ambulances nd physicians were summoned. Suddenly a huge crane swung high se not in s Fel- activity excavatlon. Dangling from its steel cable was a man. It swung around and. deposited William V (Big Bill) Martin, a structural steel worker, on top of the caisson. Fellow workers | remonstrated. Three had gone down and had not come back, and he must not go, they declared. Defies Warning of Fellows. “Big Bill” snapped his fingers, put his foot into the rope stirrup-and signaled the crane engineer. Some one handed him a gas mask. The | crane wench screamed and he was dropped into the shaft. Minutes scemed like hours to the watchers. The cable jerked. The crane moved upward and out of the mouth of the shaft came the limp form of a man, a rope around his walst. Three more times the cable was “MA™ FERGUSON CONSULTS HER HUSBAND. | The | will take BRINGS THE INDIANA VOTE. Willis B. Dye (left), electoral messen- ger from Indiana, turning over the S te vote to Senator Cumm Pr. dent pro tempore of the Senate. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana in the center. to President Coolidge January the husband, was once Governor of Woman Dry Agent Opposed to Law, But Enjoys Chase Special Dispafch to The Star BALTIMORE, January she does not believe in prohibi and that the excitement out of chasing bootleggers Iy reason she continues force the dry laws as the mony of Miss Virginia Wilson be- fore United States Commissioner Supplee yesterday Henry Rouse was held for court after Miss Wilson said she bought liquor at the Rendezvous Inm, on Annapolis boulevard Miss Wilson is attached sheriff’s office at Annar active in enforcement of option law ther: LOS ANGELES TO FLY TO BERMYDA AS TEST That she gets is the to en- the a is local to lis a the | Dirigible Expects to Make Journey in Ten Hours Next Month in First® Foreign Trip. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N dirigible Los Angeles will make a test flight to Bermuda, February 14, officials of the Naval Air Station announced yesterday. The s Patoka, airship tender, will precede the airship to the island and the Los Angeles will remain at that port tied to the mooring mast of the Patoka for three days The Bermuda first made to a 3J., January flight will he the foreign port by the Los Angeles since she was taken over by the Tiovernment. The trip 10 hours, officials say. The dirigible will return direct to hurst. Wife Asks Absolute Divorce. Mrs. Margaret V, Bevans yvesterday filed suit for an absolu from Raymond L. Bevar X e married M 1 19 ve one child. Attorney Hen Fowler ap- M. | pears for the wife. lowered and each time it brought to the surface a limp form A fifth time it was the shaft. The cable and out of the sha dropped into jerked again, ft came “Big Bill." his foot in the stirrup. I ung to the cable desperately. His face was white. The gas mask was gone. He had done what he set out to do. Specta- tors cheered. Lowered to the street, an effort as made to put him in an ambu- lance. Weakly he brushed men aside and edged away from the crowd which surrounded him. Foremen said that “Big Bill” found the four dead men at the bottom of the shaft, and that he had reported that he worked as fast as he could in getting them out. He took off his mask when it hampered him, he said. ake- | Copyright by Harris & Ewing, Vada Watson, ding while b the “Kansa was in Kan- s Pictures, She is having a little chat with her hushand before thoro News I' Texas, and so he By United ac- ures, Q01N JEOPARDY IN GEORGIA FLOOD | Three Counties Emerge From Waters as Others Pre- pare for Crest. h1 | | By the Associated Press. | 'SAVANNAH, Ga, While three counties of Geor: w merging from the flocds and railroad c crews d relief aid, other rections e path receding 1tor the crest ia flood Melnt X ker other property to restore t conditions livable, the American Red Fort S n had entered the f ed with food and suppl land w rens d to remain through out the er | However McIntosh and Long Coun- toll of live stock has taken abate pre- and Workers Cross and been and service make rgency in lower Long and uppe Counties the situation w more grave, with approximately persons shut off by overflow waters from the Altamaha River, which, cumulated from the Ocmulgee, Oconee and Ohoopee Rivers, have inundated more than 15 square miles. { Losses of live stock and property fwill mount high. Many thousands of | sheep and cattle are reported to have {been swept away. huge fields of vege- tables have disappeared, hundreds of {fences have vanished, many stocks of |merchandise have been damaged and |all agricultural and business opera- 1tions suspended. i | s | SLAYER | | ik K dehEy | Woman Who Killed Man and Self | Traced by Diploma. |, SHREVEPORT, La, January | The name of the woman who and killed Arthur B. Brewster, | business man and member { wealthy Pine Bluff, Ark., {then committed suicide, was definitely | established vesterday as Ellen Moren of {Little Rock | Advices from Little Rock stated that relatives of the woman reside | there and that a brother was prepar- | g to leave for Shreveport to claim the body. Miss Moren’s identifica tablished through a certificate of graduation as a n”rse from a hospital at Helena, Ark., January 15, 1918. The body of Brewster was sent to Pine Bluff Sunday. 1s S IDENT IFIED. shot local tion was es-