Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1925, Page 14

CAPITOL HILL MAKES A FINE COASTING GROUND. good time on the long slope from the “building on the hill.” making it especially suitable for coastin COMMANDER CLAIMS A BRWE. Capt. Herbert Hartley, commander of the steamship Leviathan, flagship of the United States Lines, took his bride to New York a few days ago. She was Miss Mary Weir Wilson, daughter of the late W. H. Wilson, an editor of Opelika, Ala. GOVERNMENT ENDS $25:000 Is Offered CROWELL CHARGES | For Non-Stop Flight From Paris to U.S. Abandons Appeal From Jus- tice Hoehling in Case Alleg- | | NEW YORK, January 21.—Ray- native of France \ of two French ho- | tels here. yesterday offered a $25,000 prize to the winner of a non-stop airplane fight from Paris to New York, a distance of about | 2,600 miles. | mond Orteig, and proprietor Children of Senators and Representatives having The ground was covered with a sheet of ice, Copyright by Underwood & Underwnod down again each day. FAREAST REPUBLI TAKES OVERISLAND Commission to Start Shortly for Sakhalin, Returned | | | | | ing War-Time Frauds. The offer was based upon a ca- | by Japanese. ble dispatch which said that the | AL == R French undersecretary of state The Government has abandoned| fOT aeronautics w organizing | Br the Associated Press. prosecution of its appeal in the action| the MIght to be made with a 500- KHABAROVSK, Siberia, January | st Benedict Crowell of Cleve.| Dorsepower single-motor mono- |31.—In accordance with the treaty forn Assistant Seeretary of| Plane. The weight of such a ma- |concluded recently between Russia s defendants on| chine was estimated at five and |and Japan, an administrative commis- to defraud the| ome-half tons, with three and one- [sion from the Far Eastern Republic ction with war.| half tons of the total consisting |will leave here in a few davs to take | it | of gasoline and oil over Russian affairs in northern Sak- | | Mr. Orteig, an aviation enthusi- [halin, which the Japanese returned to | Attorney General's Decision. | ast and friend of many French |the Russians. This territory includes | The s ot aviators, made a similar offer in |the oll area acquired for developmen? | % Attorney | 1919 fo the Aero Club of Ameri by the Sinclair Co., and it is expected i s e 5 i that organization will soon endeavor | draw the Governmenh's apr from to send another prospecting expedi- | & A ; k- PROF'T FROM MURDE | tion to the island to inquire into the s = urrer in the | chinery L the indict- CHARGED TO SLAYER | . The present tiatun ot thes Binclaii ) g a crime” and concessior. however, is uncertain, and | i TR e 01 S e it is thought lkely the whole matter | Détoumination ok the Govemmental SR | eventuanly \\(H!I[ hle heard in the .\m[;l inal course in ghe case. officials ex-| E ]cow courts if diplomatic measures fa ;yx.mw bl el ,"'(‘”‘”,WPIA Warren J. Lincoln, Who Confesses |to bring about a settlement The | A liution of fthe mnticss Tovoiwas sy 3 Soviet government holds that the R ot/ the mattes u:_wl‘ J”‘r\ l Killing Wife and Brother, Ac- { conosixon Uk iuintat A ean e e S tar D 2 S tnaicr R 222 | the Sinclalr Co. failed to fulfill the ? : = J‘\ < 2 ,,“’ ‘““’l"l‘ ‘L" cused of Building Up Alibi. terms of the agreement, which re- suiting fron» the war fraud investi- | = quired that work should begin within Eations directed by Attorney General | By the Associaied Press Siiees affor) Menlnk olyercontoct Diegherty mmediately after he o0k} GENEVA, TIL, January 31.—The | failure to carry out the contract was \{.1V~. rested today in the prosecution |due to the Japanese, who, it alleges, Othter Defendants in List, “nx Warren J lAnr‘nIrvx‘ eccentric Au- | prevented the company from working The efher defendants besides Cro- | T0T# Tl lawyer-florist, on trial for | the oil fields and expelled its pros- S = " | the murder of his wife and her [pecting expedition from the island in well. ald of whom were members of, | prother, Byron Shoup, whom he con- | February, 1924. or asspciated with, the uncil of | fesced he killed, sealing their heads | Netlonal Defense, wera: (SMorkon '€} in % conaretaiioer i S e e | Tuttle of Boston, William A. Starrett| e final eftort of the State was to of New York, Clemens ¢ Tundoft of | gfrer. evidence intended to show that| HUNTERS FIND STILL. Cleveland, Olair Foster, formerly con | Lincoln fousht ‘te” profit from the e Starrett” was associated: John H. | you L, T dant cashier of the | Leave Note of Warning for Moun- Matibbons of Baltimore and Ch Aurora National Bank. The State | tain Moonshiners. ; and James A. Mears of B | claimed that securities and papers . B 2 Springfield, Mass, which Shoup had on file in the bank ASHEVILLE, N. ( January 31— — . - were sent to Lincoln in Chicago after | Hunters near Black Mounta yester-| EVACUATION IS DENIED |he had posed there “as Shoup. his day discovered a whisky still. They brother-in-law, and receipted for the ages. Other witnesses gave evidence cor- roborating the claim of the State _ | Only Regrouping of Units Made in Westphalia. that Lincoln bullt up an alibi after = the slayings. e nl i r A Mayence | Qne of the witnesses, Vincent Jones, dispatch to the 'Havas Agency cor- produced court records of Logan rects the erroneous. interpretation of to the effect that Lincoln a message last night that the Belgian sued Byron Shoup there for $10,000 | | i(‘oumv iroops had evacuated Dorsten, in|tnree months after Shoup was dead. Westphalia, and Wesel, and that the | cparles Farmiloe, circult clerk of ¥rench authorities at Bothum had | icane County, produced records of his ordered the relinquishment of a|gmce to show that Lincoln sued for number of public buildings in that| givorce three months after he had eity is wife. The ¥ dispatch says that \‘““kd L g Wesel never was occupled b —e thing more than a customs depot on 8 3 : the Rhine, which was suppressed last Hit Woman With Chicken. September. In the other localities the movements are confined merely to | regrouping of units and billeting | Specisl Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, January 31.—Charged with hitting a woman customer in SHENEER, |the face with a newly slaughtered e . lrhwken, Jacob Grabow, butcher, of Tourists in Switzerland last sum-| Brookiyn, was held by Magistrate mer were the greatest in number| Brown in Coney Island court in 3500 since 1213, bail for examination, February 4, & left a note to the owners to this effect: “Hunters passed by here. We wllli not bother you or say a word about you” Returning blockaders read the tip and left this message, which the hunters found when coming back to| the city: “Much obliged to you for the tip. Come to see us again. Your friend, Blockader.” The still had been moved meantime. in the Nicosia Freed on Girl’s Charge. HAMMONTON, N. J., January 31.— Prof. Carlo Nicosia, 61 years old, was acquitted yesterday of a _serious charge preferred by Myriam Klingen- berger, 14, a former pupil at his musical studio. The jury was out four hours. Prof. osia, a former well known figure at the Manbattan Opera House of New York and the Metropolitan Opera House of Philadelphia, was once musical director for Mary Gar- den, Tetrazzini and John McCormack. TO MONUMENT TOP EACH DAY. guard at the Washington Monument, climbs to the top of the shaft a This is a part of his d tion, with many, many steps to climb. Rosalie Cohen, 18 years old, has been blind since a couple of years old, yet she graduated with honors the Bay Ridge High School, Brooklyn, this week. She plans to take a post-graduate course i at music and languages. and then enter Cor- Coprright bs P. & A. Phe nell. William S. Lohman, a v duty—a tr Na of inspec- onal Photo. Man, 84; Woman, 66, Prove Runaway: Not Confined to Stage-Struck Young AL _A == T00 MUCH BOOZF TO CARKY 1 bition agents raided a home in Atl liquor stored in an upstairs room NEW FRENCH AMBA presented his credenti NEW YORK girls, pretty young boys for playing January 31.—Young and stage-struck, and afraid of punishment hookey from school, have no monopoly on running from home. Old men and bent on leaving their pasts behind them, have been almost as numerous at New York's gates of entry during the past week In a little haliroom the top floor of one of the city’s cheap- est hotels, James Cranton, §4 old, and part owner of a ranch out in, New Mexico, is wait- ing for his son to come and take him home. They found him Friday with $3 in his pocket, tired of the open stretches of the West, keen for the white lights of Broadway of which he'd read so much, wan- dering aimlessly and inquiring of passersby where a stranger could away women, on years go0. He wanted to be a, New York- er, he said—but he did not quite know how. And in another small boarding house Is tle Miss Cynthia Adaire, 66, of a small town near Portland, Oreg. She wanted to go on the stage, she sald, and only Friday, after weeks of fruitless hunt, was finally convinced that the New York theater had no openings for beauties She had ne s-year-old erstwhile er had a big chance, she admitted to the writer, who tried to cheer her gloom she walted for the last installment of her savings to be sent from her bank to carry her back home. She had spent the rest For years has read York and its Broadway butterflies and wanted to be one of them But there was an invalid sister to as of New nurse and support, and only a few weeks back she was freed to come and find her chance. But now—she’ll g0 back home as soon as the money arrives. They are only two. There have been tens, twenties and thirties of others, according to authorities More men and women hear and unsteady “left home" than can be slow to of step, have in the past few months counted in an hour's time. They are independent moneyed and mature milies often irk them—if they have any They don't want to be told how to live, and they rebel and go away by themselves. COLONY OF AMERICANS IN BOLIVIA FAILURE Oklahoma Farmers, Destitute, Seek Only Means of Return- ing Home. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, January 31.—The scheme promoted by former Congress- man (“Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Okla- homa to establish an American agri- cultural colony in Bolivia, has fail- ed, according to two of these colon- ists, Warren and Erwin Gates, who sailed for home on board the steamer Southern Cross. tefore sailing they told the corre- spondent of the Buenos Aires Herald that of the 75 Oklahoma families who had emigrated to Bolivia early last year only two families remained with Murray. The rest had returned to the United States because the land given to Murray by the Bolivian gov- ernment had proved arid and un- profitable and was too far from a railroad to market crops even if they could have raised them. Murray, they explained, had told them it was to be a man’s job, but the colonists found the prospects did not justify the hardships. The Gates brothers said they were virtually without funds, and that the two remaining families wanted to re- turn, but had no funds. _ Actor Jailed for Contempt. LOS ANGELES, January 31 Alexander Carr, actor of the stage and screen, was sentenced in Superior Court yesterday to three days in jail for contempt of court as a result of his failure to make a deposition in con- nection with the suit of his former wife, Mary Carr, for $3,000 back ali- mony. Carr was arrested on a bench warrant. i | the anti-trust law CASTINGS COMPANY MEN ORDERED TO FACE TRIAL Officials of Pennsylvania Firm to Be Tried on Anti-Trust Law Violation. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 31-—A decigjon ordering the removal of three | Pennsylvania members of the Ameri-| By the Associated Press. i can Malleable Castings Company to| PARIS, January 31.—The Chamber Cleveland, Ohio. to stand trial on|of Deputies voted confidence in the| charges of violating the Sherman |government, 320 against 237, on the anti-trust law was filed by Federal| District Judge Charles L. McKeehan The defendants are Edwin C. Dona- ghy, a_representative of the Temple Malleable lron and Steel Company, Temple, Pa.; A. E. Shaw of the Stan- ley G. Flagg Company and H. LI Hesa of the Lancaster Foundry Com pany. Pending an investigation into the condition of the heaith of Louis J McGrath, an agent of the Thomas Devlin Manufacturing Company of this city, the court said he would wtihhold the order for his removal. _’l'hv four men were among 47 indi- viduals and 40 corporations indicted by a Federal grand jury in Cleveland last March on charges of violating in the formation of an alleged combination to elimi- nate competition in the manufacture and sale of malleable iron castings. Indian Wheat Area Increases. ROME, January 31.—A bulletin is- sued by the International Institute of Agriculture states that a noteworthy increase in the wheat area has been announced in India. It was estimated that the area there totals 31.6 mil- lion acres, or 5 per cent more than last year, and a 20 per cent increase over the average of the previous five years. % structed to carry the liquor into the barrels of the raider ki 0 YOWNSTAIRS. When Federal prohi- nta, Ga., they found $25.000 worth of The photograph shows the device con- Wide World T'hoto SEARCH HOSPITALS Friends Believe Leginska Is Suffering Nervous Break- | down or Amnesia. NEW YORK, January 31 pitals in this and other cities being searched for Ethel | pianist, who disappeared last |night, on the theory that |have been taken to some | suffering from amnesia aberration Her friends opinion that she | breakdown, as she has in the past Although city police and detectives have searched for five davs, they have | found no trace of Miss Leginska. She disappeared Just before she was to |give a concert in Carnegie Hall. She was dressed for the concert and. cording to her friends, she had no money and wore no hat. She disap- peared from in front of her home, in West Twenty-seventh street, after her secretary had gone to the street corner to get a taxicab Her engagements for the next three months have been cancelled and de- | seriptions of her have been radiocast Hos- are Leginska Monday she hospital mental or are generally of the suffered a nervous HERRIOT IS UPHELD. Gets Confidence Vote on Rehiring Railroad Employes. question of the re-employment by the railroad companles of workers who were dismissed during the 1920 strike. policy to be discussed since the cham- ber reconvened on January 8 and restored Parliament to strict party lines, which were only momentarily broken yesterday by the vote on Premier Herriot's security speech In the course of the debate, M Herriot declared: “There are countries which have assumed the direction of their railroads, the latter faring well under the govenment. We must seek a solution along these lines. The ques- tion, however, requires long and close study.” LEGACIES TO NAMESAKES. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, January 31 —Every boy who has been named for David H. Lane, Republican leader who | died last week, will receive a legacy of $500 under his will, which was ad- mitted to probate yesterday. Mr. Lane also left a coal and fund of $15,000 for the poor of ward In which he was the Republican leader for many years. Estimates of the value of the estate ranged from $300,000 to more than $1,800,000. Rela- tives reeeived most of it tood the This was the first matter of internai| SADOR CALLS UPON PRESIDENT COOLIDGE AT THE WHITE HO the French Ambassador, who arrived in Washington recently, talked of the relations between the two nations yesterday ““MISS TAMERICA™ CALLS. Malcomson of Philadelphia, While visiting in Washington, Miss Ruth who won the title of “Miss America” in the Atlantic City beauty pageant. called at the White House with her mother and Senator Edge of New Jersey Belgians Sentence German Soldier BRUSSF tions of January 31 German military men for committed du ing the war in Belgium continue A default erin court-martial at Hainut ves- terday returned the death sentence against two Germ, sentenced two others to imprisonment at hard labor and a fifth to five years. All were shown to have committed acts of aggression against Belgian civilians during the occupation. 'WORK FOR FEDERAL | PRISONERS STUDIED Conference Considers Industries That May Be Established in Penitentiaries. Plans for a system to give employ- ment to all Federal prisoners, there- by providing them with something to occupy their attention and providing thy Government with the product of their handiwork, were considered at a conference at the Department of Justice yesterday Luther C. White, new purchasing agent of the Atlanta prison, leaves Washington ‘oday on a tour of all Federal prisons to survey all the in- stitutions and determine what indus- tries may best be established in them The program worked out in a gen- eral way between Attorney General Stone, Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, assistant Asstorney General, and Mr. White in conferences today is designed primarily to benefit the prisoners by giving them vocational training, while providing the Govern- ment departments, as consideration, with an e of supplies now the open market. “There no reason,” said White, “to allow 4,000 or 5000 eral prisoners to lie around rot in their cells when they could be making something with profit to themselves and to the taxpayers, who must pay the bill for keeping them It is as much a humanitarian work as any before the Government today, for it should be used to fit the prisoners for some useful occupation once they return to society.” a secondary economical sour purchased in Mr. Fed- idle and Honduras to Bar Negroes. BGUCIGALPA, Honduras, January 31.—The government has agreed to amend the immigration law so as to prevent negroes from entering the country. A resolution requesting such amendment was introduced in the national congr recently, it being alleged that the importation of negroes by banana shipping com- panies to compete with native labor constituted a menace. It was further declared that this immigration had caused a number of clashes in which many persons were killed or wounded. 'I‘ Vd This photograph was snapped when the embassy party was leaving the White House after the vi | | | | [ | | | ! | the President Coolidge and Emile Daeschner, Ambassador Daeschner National Phot FRANCE 10 PRESS CURRENCY REFOR) Gov. Robineau of State Ban Tells of Progress of Deflation. B the Associated Press PARIS, January 81.—The deter ation of the Bank of France to cof tinue its fight against inflation wi the ma address yesterd: ing of its shareholders present interest finances there was the largest the meeting the bank Robineau paper currency in end 24 was n of « v at th ov. Rybineay annual mee Owing to tl attached to Fren( dance tory Gov n the h admitted that circulation at arly forty-one bi lion francs, compared with thirt) eight billion at the end of 1923. F s@ld this was causing the bank cot siderable anxiety, but that all poss ble technical measures were beir taken to combat inflation. The go! ernor sald, however, that the effi of the bank's action in this ma depended mately on public col fidence, whi in turn, was cond tional upon ong governme policy of financial reform. the technical the bank to fight mentioned Among taken by the governc of the discount rate from 6 to nt and the wide encoura(® ven to the use of the check s measur inflatio the ra” Gov. Robineau reviewed the b operations in 1924 and recalled ti effective actioh in_checking the dr of the franc last March “At that time,” the governor sa “the dollar was worth 28 francs the world exchanges and sterling 12 By the end of March we succeeded educing the quotation to 15 fram for the dollar and 65 for sterlin This was done, thanks to the clous use of the credit of $100,000,00 from the Morgan group and 4 sterling from Lazard Brothers The remarkable fact throughoi oscillations exchange, tb speaker remarked, that not single failure importance L French money market was recorde He added that Lazard's 4,000,000 ste| £ ling was completely repaid in Seg tember, while the Morgan credif were converted in December into government 25-year loan The crisis in exchange did not mak an appreciable difference in Frgnd economic expansion, M. Robgiea rtinued. N | S RS Sun Yat-sen Revives Slightly. By the Associated Press. PEKING, January 31.—Dr. Sun ‘a =sen, south China leade was we kK last evening after his operatior f acer of the liver, his temperatu registering 101. He responded treatment, however, and this mor ing his temperature Wwas mear normal, he was stronger and his mi§ was clearer.