Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1925, Page 17

] COMPLETING . PLANS Capitol architect, and inaugural committee, fixing the loc: Capitol yesterday. i FOR INAUGURAL STANDS. David Lynn, , chairman of the joint congressional -ation of the President’s stand at the National Photo. STAR, WASHINGTON, LAST CALL AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Accompanied by J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, Don Gelasio Caetani, retiring Italian Ambassador, called at the White House yesterday afternoon to say good- bye to President Coolidge. SHARK BELIEVED TO HAVE KILLED CUBAN ACTRESS. Hair thought to be that of Amalia Rivas, Cuban actress, who was aboard the steamship Esperanza when it sank near the harbor of Tampico, i was discovered in the body of CONVENTS RAIDED INHONTFOR ARWS Chilean .Police Fail to Dis- close Reported Plot Against Allessandri. o ated Press BUENOS AIRE v 4. incident with the of advices m Santiago, Chile, that the police ed three clubs, four wents and a number of residences in search of arms to have been gathered to- the elements opposed to the to Chile of President Alles- information has reached Bue- Aires that a peaceful solution of s political crisis is not yet as- red, despite the agreement recent- ached by the army with the na to Allessandri’s home- S Co- privat supposed gether by coming. he situation Is described as one of ¢reat unrest among the people, and as threatening outbreak against continued itation by group of Chile’s wealthiest men, who do not President Allessandri to resume s of party, power- possess secret These men are said to be lead Jthe Unionists party. Their though small, is financial ful and leged to deposits of arms No Arms Found. No arms are reported to have been found during Monday's raids, which the new governing junta disapproved The junta statement was made after it had received protests against the ralds, including one from the arch- bishop of Santiago. Ostensibly the army and navy lead- ers are working in harmony pending | to | but, according of the situa- are felt that elements ma Allessandri’s teturn, the views of observers tion in Santiago, fears a clash with the civilian occur at any moment. it is sald, would culminate elements taking sides in ac with their respective politic pathies—the Unionists with the and the supporters of Alles with the controlling element in army. Reports effect t raiso ar tiago is dominated by Valparaiso by the navy supporters include the laboring class. Their opposition to the Unionists is so strong that the Santiago new paper Mercurio editorially remarked that Chile was on the brink of a sov- jet regime when the recent govern- ing junta was overthrown by the Young army officers and Allessandri's return home was promised. na the received here are to the both Santiago and Valpa- virtually armed camps. San- the army and Allessandri's Pittsburgh Veteran Wins Ameri- can Legion Contest. INDIANAPOLIS, February 4.—Louis J. Bookwood of Pittsburgh was awarded first prize of $100 in the American Legion poster contest, con~ ducted among the United States Vet- erans’ Bureau students, it was an- Jounced at the legion national head- quarters here last night. Second prize of $50 went to David L. Hoole of Chicago and honorable mention to Willlam G. Warren of Rochester, N. Y. ch a clash, | March, 1924, s monster shark, killed in southern waters a few days age U. S. Clerks Hark Bac_k to Sun Dial For Keeping Time Resourceful Employes, Lacking Clock, Adopt Ancient Substitute. Lacking a clock to tell when re- porting and quitting time ap- | proaches, and knowing that to secure |a timepiece just now would be diffi- | about too many clocks in the Interior Department, the employes of one office in Uncle Sam's big workshop have gone back to the days of the sun dial for their information on the passage of the fleeting minutes. The well known and time-honored passage of time has literally been seized by the forelock by these re- sourceful employes of the Interior Department, who thwart the lack of a clock by using a sun dial. On the north wall of the office in which this unique device has been installed is a icce of paper with the figures 25" on it. A few feet i wnother, bearing the figure |and a little- farther on *4:15:" the sun reache ny one of these figures it gives the employes a pretty |aceurate idea of the correct time | without a clock. Secretary Work recently caused a survey to be taken of the clocks in |the Interior Department, the result of which disclosed there was one | clock to every six employes. Yester- day the gong system was put in use in the department, and now clocks are strictly passe. 'EMBASSY CAR HITS " MACHINE AT CURB Three Autos Damaged in Crash. Woman Is Injured in Sec- ond Collision. An automobile owned by the Italian embassy, driven by Amalia di Gara- lono, collided with the automobile of Donald D. Thompson, 2204 Wyoming avenue, parked in front of 1146 Six- teenth street, last night about 11 o'clock, foreing it against the car of Thomas Robertson, 1363 Monroe street, also parked there. The three machines were damaged. Cars of H. J. Steiner, 19 Potomac avenue, and Arthur Berthiaume, Mc- Lean, a., collided near New Cut and Foxhall roads about %:30 o’clock last night. Both cars were slightly dam- aged and Mrs. Berthiaume received a slight injury to her side. Mrs. Alice McDonald, 60 years old, 2 Q street, was treated at Emer- gency Hospital yesterday for injuries to her head sustained when an auto- mobile in which she was riding col- lided with another at Fourteenth and B streets. She w3gs able to go home. Maywood O. Bedk, 25 years old, 730 Fifth street, was knocked down at Eleventh and E streets vesterday aft- ernoon by an_automobile owned by R. L. Pierce,«209 Morgan street, and his right kne® injured. He was treat- ed at Emergency Hospital. Four:year-old Ira Rose, 1410 Mili- tary road, coasting in front of his home yesterday afternoon, sustained injuiies to his head and face when his sled struck a tree. "He was given first aid at Emergency Hospital, cult in view of the present agitation | (GEORGIA “MURDER FARM” TRIAL SET Accused Slayer Freed on $3,000 Bail Pending Hear- ing in August. By the Associated Press MONTICELLO, February 4.— | Leroy Williams, one of the three sons of John S. Williams, who was owner of the famous “murder farm,” near Monticello, was freed yesterday on $3,000 bail, following his surrender Monday to Sheriff W. F. Pearsons of Jasper County. The defendant, who has evaded arrest more than three years, demanded trial at the February term of Jasper County Court Tuesday, but, due to the ab- sence of several witnesses, Solicitor J. J. Duke asked a continuance until the August term. Williams then was granted ball, and the continuance al- lowed. No word has been heard of the two brothers, Marvin and Hulan Willia; Ga., and peonage by the Atlanta distr grand jury. Following Williams went into seclusion and de- clined to say where he had been stop- ping for the past three years. The bond was given for the charge of murdet, and Federal officials in Atlanta stated that if the State pressed the killing charge the peonage charges of the Government would be dropped. Father Gets Life. John Willlams, father of the youth, was given a life sentence by State courts, and also has a charge of peonage against him in Federal courts. He was convicted of killing a number of negroes and hurling their bodies into the Yellow River on his farm, A negro workman turned State's evidence, testifying that he had been forced to ald Wllliams in getting rid of the bodies® At the beginning of the investiga- tion Leroy, Marvin and Hulan Wil- liams disappeared. PROBLEMS CONSIDERED BY A. F. OF L. COMMITTEE President Green Present at Confer- ence Held in Miami Behind Closed Doors. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, February 4—Eight members of the executive committee of the American Federation of Labot, including William Green, president of the organization, today started dis- cussions of problems before the com- mittee, without awaiting the arrival of two other members who were ex- pected during the day. ¥ Problems before the executive com- mittee, which planned to hold its ses- sions behind closed doors, were chiefly routine matters referred to it by the El Paso convention, labor leaders said, but it was added that action might be taken on the resignation of James Duncan, first vice president, and that if it were accepted another vice presi- dent would be elected, taking his place as eighth; with the others.moving up a-poteh, i also indicted for murder by the State | his release, National Photo, Charlie Coffland, a Texan who makes his living catching rattlesnakes. He uses a long stick and a noose of buckskin in his work. Charlie has only been bitten twice. de Worla Photo. She has the documentary evidence. Miss Thelma Wiles of St. Louis, with books compiled by the National Women's Party, as evidence in the fight for the equal rights amend- ment. The matter is scheduled for a hearing this week. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. S SENATOR-ELECT FROM ILLINOIS. Charles S. Dineen, once Governor of his State, in his office at the Senate Office Building. Senator from Illinoi: Senator Medill McCormick. \BOY BOOTLEGGER, SCARED, SLEW | By the Associated Press. LEXINGTON, Mass,, February 4—A correspondence school detective and a brilliant high school student who spent his evenings in the role of boot- legger, figured in a mysterfous pistal |duel in North Lexington Monday night, in which George Travalene of Arlington was killed and Joseph H. Statsky was dangerously wounded, the police believed today. Statsky, star on the Lexington High School foot ball team, has been charged with murder and is under police guard at an Arlington hospital, where he is being treated for a wound in the right shoulder. The high school senior, who de- clared at first that he shot in self- defense when Travalene robbed him, admitted last night, the police said, that his father, Frank Statsky, was| ALEXANDRIA WOMAN HELD FOR BIGAMY Lapse of Memory Blamed by Mrs. Vermillion When Elmer Flowers Causes Arrest. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 4.— Mrs. Gertrude Idella Vermillion,' 35 vears old, was arrested here yester- day on a charge of bigamy, the com- plaint having been made by Elmer Flowers, connected with the Quarter- master's Department, U. S. A., Wash- ington. Flowers claims to” have been mar- rizd to Mrs. Vermijlion on August 17, 1924. Mrs. Vermillion, who holds a marriage certificate showing her to have been married to Vermillion February 28, 1907, declares that she has no knowledge of marrying Flowers bes it to lapse of memory ich she claims to have been suffering for several years. She was held for the authorities at River- Wwo0od. Md., where the second marriage is said to have taken p! NEW U. S. PARK READY. Utah Beauty Spot to Open for Tour- ists on May 15. NEW YORK, February 4—Zion Na- tional Park in Southern Utah, with Cedar Breaks and/ Bryce Canyon, where President Harding visited dur- ing the tramscontinental tour upon which death overtook him, has since been equipped with rail, motor bus, hotel and guide services, and will be thrown open to tourlsts next May 15, the Union Pacific system of railways announced yesterday. Large sums were spent by the Na- tional Park and Forestry Services and the State of Utah in blasing First Anniversary trails, developing automobile high- ways and erecting lodges. The rail- road says it has spent $2,000,000° on rail, bus and hotel-facilities, i4 present when the pistol battle was | fought. He sald Travalene had posed as a quor detective” and demanded | to see a bundle which Statsky was carrying. Knowing Travalene to |I0; a crack shot, atsky said, he drew his pistol and fired three times. Then he | and his father ran to their home nearby. | A pistol was found on Travalene's body an# another was taken at Stat- | December, according to a report made | standin sky's home when the youth was ar- rested. Last night the police found a third hidden in the woods near the Statsky home. The arrest of the elder Statsky was expected today. In Travalene's effects were found a book of instructions for the amateur detectlve, a disguise, badge, caseknife and hatchet. Friends said he had tak- en a correspondence school course in detective work and spent much time perfecting himself in the use of a pistol. Of Wilson Death Noted by But Few Fresh flowers were laid on the tomb of the late President Wood- row Wilson at the National Cathe- dral yesterday, on the first anni- versary of his death, by several admirers. No formal ceremony was conducted. Among the floral tributes were four sprays of roses from Mrs. Wilson. Numerous visitors passed by the spot during the day, many failing to realize it marked the first year since the passing of America’'s War President. SAYS STANDARD SEEKS CAUCASIAN OIL FIELD Soviet Russia Premier Announces Receipt of Offer to Buy the Entire Output. By the Associated Press, PARIS, February 4—Premier Ry- koff of Soviet Russia is quoted by the Moscow correspondent of the Petit Parisien as declaring that the Stand- ard Oil has offered to buy Russia’s Caucasian oil output. He also is quoted as saying that the soviets will not recognize the French, American or other debts contracted under the czarist regime, but may make some economic arrangement. “Japan has just concluded with us a convention whereby the Sakhallen petroleum wells will be developed, half by us and half by the Japanese,” M. Rykoff said. “Also an American oil company, the Standard Oil, offers to buy, fof three or five years, our entire Caucasus petroleum production. “You see that as far as oll is con- cerned we do not lack bidders. How- ever, for the moment we have not ac- cepted this arrangement, for it is not to our interest further to increase the American economic influence which is already so strong in Europe. | Co. has been annulled. It is queer how careful a man ean be after he has lost his money, D 0 WEDNI;]SDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1925. HISTORIC PATENT OFFICE MODELS TO BE SOLD. As the result of a recent bill passed by the House, a commission is created to select certain Patent Office models of historic interest and sell them. The other models will be disposed of in various ways. Since 1894 the storage of the models has cost the Government $200,000. At left, J. A. Hoffman, chief clerk of the Patent Office. At right, Commissioner Thomas E. Robertson. irst photograph taken of the new Senator-elect Dineen succee Copyright by Harris & E SHIPWENT DOWN AMATEUR DETECTIVE, IS CHARGE | Duel Said to Have Resulted When High School Stu- dent, Carrying Package, Was Halted by Em- bryo Sleuth—Father Is Implicated. WITH ALL ABOARD Loss of Saigon in China Sea in December Is Reported in Marseilles. Br the Associated Press. MARSEILLE, France, February 4. The steamer Saigon was lost with all on board in the China Sea last in of the liner Jerusalem, which arrived here yesterday from Saigon, Indo-China. The Saigon's captain, officers and engineers, all of whom were from Marseille, together with a crew of 38 natives and 92 passengers, all perished, it was said. Eighty-four of the passengers were natives and eight were members of the Christian mission of Indo-China. The Saigon formerly belonged to the Messageries Maritimes and was sold last year to a Chinese compan ITALY CANCELS 0IL PACT WITH SINCLAIR Plan to Allow_A:n;n .to Develop Land Met Strong Op- position. by the capt By the Associated Press. . ROME, February 4—The Officlal Gazette in its issue of yesterday an- nounces definitely that the oil ton- vention between the Italian govern- ment and the Sinclair Exploration It adds that the annullment was made through the Italian Ambassador at Washington. The ofl convention between the Itallan government and the Sinclair interests, under which the Sinclair concern was to have the right to develop certain oil lands in Ital was entered into in April of la Yyear. There was considerable op- position ' to the concession, and last December it was stated in a despatch from Rome that the .Sinclair inter- ests had renounced the rights grant- ed them under the convention, REGAINS CITIZENSHIP. Former Mrs. Valentino Lost Na- tionality When She Wed. NEW YORK, February 4—Jean Acker Valentino, first wife of Ru- dolph Valentino, ‘motion ~picture ac- tor, regained, In Federal Court ye: terday, the citizenship she lost upon her marriage five years ago. Valen- tino Is an Italian, and was divorced by Miss Acker three years ago. AR “A Doll's House” Matinee. An extra matinee of Tbsen's drama, “A Doll's House,” will be given tomor- row afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Wardman Park Theater by the Ram's Head Players, Director Robert Bell has'added this additional performance because with this sixth and final production the pres- nt Ram's Head season will.close Satur- day night of this week. v CUBA'S FORMER PRESIDENT VISITS MIAMI. former President of the southern isl Mrs. J. G. Menocal. the newly opened Miami race track. New War Scourge ; Traced to Germans| | By French Press| Allege Airplanes Fitted for Swift Razing of Cities. By the Associated Pret | | | PARIS, February 4.—An account of | ar scourge said to have been | | developed by the Germans is causing | |a stir in the French press, notwith- | & denials from official quar- | | ters. | In the course of a lecture delivered |at St. Chamona recently, Deputy Pierre Taittinger declared that the Germans had secretly perfected a chemical product by the use of which airplanes could annihilate several cities within a few hours. The de- tails of the invention, he added, re- cently came to_the knowledge of the French war ministry, and experiments by experts under the direction of Gen. Serrigny had confirmed the reports of the chemists on the new product. The ministry of war, however, de- | clares it knows nothing of the inven- tion and Gen. Serrigny denies having ever conducted the experiments dc—i scribed. It is supposed the story arose from the notice of a pamphlet on future chemical war methods recently pub- lished in Berlin, which figured in the war ministry's periodical review of foreign technical publications. The pamphlet, it is stated, was purely a work of imagination, and revealed no new facts. FLIGHT MEMORIAL BACKED BY AD CLUB Members Enthusiastic in Approval of -Proposed Commemoration of Round-World Achievement. The Washington Advertising Club expressed its enthusiasm for the ‘World Flight Memorial in commemora- tion> of the recent round-the-world flight of the American aviators, at their weekly luncheon at the City Club: yesterday. Following an address on the sub- ject by Miss Grace Holder, who is known as “Australia’s Woman Lec- turer” and who is giving three months of service to the cause of the memorial, in which she urged that this be in the main a children’s memorial made possible by dime sub- scriptions throughout the Nation. A glift of 1,000 dimes was offered by Dr.. Malcombe J. Gibbs, president of the Peoples Drug Stores. B Joseph Anthony Atchison, local sculptor, concefved the fdea and is now at work on the memorial in a studio loaned him by the National Museum. In explaining the memorial yes- terday, Mr. Atchison said it will be 25 feet high and § feet long and would embody the busts of the six world fiyers. ,Behind the fivers would | be the globe they encircled which | in_turn would be surrounded by a pednant bearing the name America. The whole affair will .be surmounted by the fiyving figure of a womand representing the “Spirit of Aviation.” |ttt National Photo Gen. Mario Menocal, e, with his wife (center) and niece. This photograph was snapped at the clubhouse of ht by P. & SENATE CALENDARS GERMAN TREATY State Department Reserva- tions Fail to Win Over Pact’s Opponents. Cop A. Photos. The now on the dar with the State German comme caty is Senate executive calen- reservatic Department, however, to remove the objection which has prevented ratification of the convention for more than a vear. The foreign relations committee r ported the treaty favorably yester- day. Under the reservations the State Department's policy against discrim- ination in favor of American ship- ping would remain in full force for at least year, but thereafter could be changed upon %0 days' notice to Germany After the Chairman T by fatl, approved which it committee had acted, rah said the reservations the matter of policy with Con- gress, but opponents of the treaty took an opposite view and made it plain_they would launch a fight in the Senate for a specific statement that the determination of future policy should rest with Congress and not with the executive depar Action Is Explained. Some proponents of the treaty sald favorable action had been taken in the committee merely to get the treaty to the floor of the Senate for the thrashing out there of differences a3 to whether the door is to be closed to the stimulatien of the American mer= chant marine through the imposition of preferential tariff duties on im- ports in American bottoms. Members of the committee disclosed that when Secretaries Hughes and Hoover appeared Monday to urge rati- fication, three sets of resolutions wera proposed: The one reported vester- day, another leaving the declaration of policy to Congress, and the third embodying the favored nation clause of some existing treatles. Besides the reservations with spect to the merchant marine, committee approved another which the treaty could not be con= strued to affect existing statutes of either country migration of re- the allens or the right of either to enact such statutes. reservation was jmade necessary, was explained, by the enactment of the permanent tion law sinc treaty in 19 HAWKINS FREE ON BOND. Mortgage Company Head's Bail Fixed at $30,000. CINCINNATI, February 4.—Morton S. Hawkins, official of the Hawkins Mortgage Company, Portland, Ind who has been confined in the Hami ton County jail pending his appe: to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals from the decree of Judge Hickenlooper, refusing him a writ of habeas corpus to prevent his removal to Indianapolis, was rel ed last night on $30,000 bonds. . Hawkins was arrested at Daytor Ohio, as a fugitive from justice, fol- Jowing his indictment at Indianapolis on a charge of using the mails to defraud. the negotiation of the under ¢ in relation to the im<-! This g2 immigration restric-—,