Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1925, Page 3

LAST OF STUDENTS - CALLED N PROBE 24 to Be Quizzed Today in Poisonings—Two May Be Invalved. MBUS, Ohio, February 7.— s who were on duty in the Pharmacy College dispensary Janu- and 30, when poison capsules, resulted in the death of two gtudents and serious illness of many others, w at the Ohio ate U called before the today. 1f Police Pros Chester, jr, in £e of the investigation, is able to the questioning today of ning 24 students who served dispensary last week, will have heard_the stories of all 64. With few exceptions the 40 stu- dents questioned had been on duty in the dispensary during the early part of the week, when, So far as ‘is known, no capsules containing poi- vere given out. With two stu- ants d as being on duty in dispensary at tne time when poi- capsules are known to have been ned, officials hoped today to find others who were there at the her three victims procured dispensed versity, investigators utor John J were nplete the r in the ne Nome Implicated. cutor Chester made it plain that there was no implication so far that the students or any one else was under suspicion. It was revealed by the almost unanimous testimony of students questioned so far. that no medicine of whatever nature was permitted to go out of the dispensary without the personal approval of an instructor, Chester said. When the questfoning of students who served their turn in the dispen- sary last week is completed, Prose- cutor Chester expects to call in the four instructors in the pharmacy col- e While these men have been consulted from time to time during the investigation so far, they have not been formally questioned. WATCHMAN IS HELD IN DEATH OF GIRLS Father of Film Actor in Jail for Further Questioning Con- cerning Children. #Br the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, February 7.—S. C. Stone father of Jack Hoxie, film actor, emploved as a night watchman in the residential district from which May and Nina Martin disappeared last Avgust. was held in the county Jail today for further questioning concerning the kidnaping and deaths of the little girls, whose bodies were found in a shallow grave near their home here last Wednsday Stone was arrested last night and declared repeatedly that he knew nothing of how the Martin sisters met their death, and also maintained he was innocent of a statutory charge brought against him last October in- volving another young girl. He was he'd to answer on the latter charge, but the case did not come to trial Investigators announced, however, ¢ had found witnesses ready that t had seen Stone with the Martin girls shortly their disappearance. 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Jacobs, who ar- rested him, and in this case the judge imposed a fine of $25, or 30 days ad- ditional. “Yes, judge. your honor,” the de- fendant pled, ”y was afraid the world was really going to come to an end. “So I got a pint of whisky and got drunk. I guess that I was disor- derly, too. But you see— “You didn't want to be conscious when it struck?” Judge Mattingly in- terrupted. “Well, now, your honor——" ““You wanted to go to Heaven happy,” the judge again interposed. “Well, vou can take a ride in the patrol in- stead of the chariot.” LODGE SECRETARY ROBBED OF RECORDS HeLd.l.Jg on-Way to Meeting. by Stranger, Who Asked for Street Directions. Richard - A.~ Phillips, colored, 903 Third street southwest, secretary’ of a masonic lodge, was held up at Vir- ginfa avenue and Second street south- east by three colored men about 8:30 o'clock last night and robbed of lodge records, watch and chain and three street car tokens. Phillips was on his way to a lodge meeting when he as stopped by a colored man and asked to be directed to Union Station, and while respond- ing to the stranger's Tequest two other colored men alighted from an automobile and helped the first man rob him. The trio disappeared in the automobile. James Strauss, 2 Fourteenth street, appealed to the police to ar- rest two young white men he alleges indled him in a business affair vesterday. He purchased nine suit patterns from the men, he stated, because they represented the goods to have been made In England, pay- ing them $280. He later determined the goods were cheap and had mnot been imported, he stated. A young white man the store of G. Stewart, §02 F street, about 11 o'clock -last night and asked for a five-dollar bill for five ones. While the merchant was accommodating the man the latter snatched a ten-dollar bill from the top of the showcase and ran from the store. Police are investigating a robbery committed in the apartment of Lillian Spencer, 1 Har d street, yester- day. Entrance was gained by jim- mying the door, police were told, and wearing apparel valued at $90 stolen. FISK U. STUDENTS DENY STRIKE IS RACE FIGHT Draw Tp Resolutions for “Needed Changes” in Rules of School. ‘Walkout Continues. appeared in By the Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn., February Resolutions. stating the question: was “not a race issue” and that it 1§ "not a rebellion against a white faculty, for we believe the present arrange- ments are for the best interests of the institution,” and asking for a revision'! of the students’ rules and regulatjods,’ with dent body to * cil to create an athletic association and to form fraternal organizations on the campus,” were drawn up by the students of Fisk University, negro institution here, who had vesterday staged a general walkout from the in- stitution. These resolutions, it {s an- nounced, will be presented to the faculty of the school. The “strike” went into effect fol- lowing a student meeting yesterday morning, and it is but a continuation of the trouble of Wednesday night when five of the students were ar- rested following a demonstration at the school. The * permission granted to the 'stu- king” students have de- clared, it is said, that they will not go back to their work until. their “grievances have been settled.” Former Cabinet Officer Il Edwin T. Meredith, former Secre- tary of Agriculture, who underwent a slight operation Tuesday at the Emergency Hospital, will return to his apartment at the New Willard Hotel today. Increased Ship Cost Bill Passes. The Senate yesterday passed and sent to the President the House bill authorizing an increase in the cost of the airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington from $23,000,000 to $34,- 000,000 each. Painting--Paperhanging™=% Homes, Clubs, Schools, Office || Buildings, Apartmegt Houses Harry W. Taylor 2333 18th St. N.W. Col. 1077 e Al __Su L ARGONNE 16th and Col. Rd. Several very at- tractive apartments ranging from two rooms, kitchen, re- ception hall, bath and balcony to four rooms, kitchen, re- ception hall and bath. THE RGONNE rganize a stadent codn-' R M Ay P | | THE EVENING STAR, CATEISM BRINGS REPLYBY NELLON Secretary Declares Treasury Has Extended Aid to Farm- ers When Asked. Socretary Mellon today told Presi- dent Coolidge that he questioned the implied criticism of the Treasury De- partment by the agricultural confer- ence, Promising to give “immediate” at- tention to any matters which “are within my power to correct,” the Sec- retary, in a letter to the President, re- ports that already the intermediate credit banks have loaned generously to co-operative marketing assocla- tions, that the War Finance Corpora- ton was also avallable, but had not ! called upon to any extent. The also declared he was not aware that criticism concerning “In- terdepartment or interbureau Jjeal- ousies” applies to the Treasury. Gov. Cooper of the Federal Farm Loan Board, Secretary Mellon said, is going West next week to see about further loans to livestock producers. Text of Letter. Mr. Mellon's letter reads as follows: “The agricultural conference report, a copy of which I received this week, suggests for immediate consideration twWo matters in which the Treasury has an interest: First, that the inter- mediate credit banks give more active ald In livestock and Co-operative Marketing Association loans, and Second, that the Bureau of Internal Revenue should make a new regula-| tion defining tax exemption of co- operative associations. "At the suggestion of the agricul- tural conference, Gov. Cooper, chair- man of the Federal Farm Loan Board, Is golng West next week to consult with the live stock interests and see what further the intermediate credit batks can do for the live stock pro- ducers. The suggestion of having the board take some aggressive steps which would open to co-operative marketing assoclations proper lines of credit Is not clear to me. The in- termediate credit banks have loaned Sy s!ga.\mo.uoo to the co-operative Keting associations, $18,000,000 rediscounts, amui': h:\z-?m:tl ali times been ready to meet any le- gitimate demand of the co-operative marketing associations. During the past year the War Fi- nance Corporation upon to ny extent. It seems to me there must be some misunderstanding in this particular of the agricultural conference’s complaint. Ready to Act. “With reference to the.proposed In- ternal Revenue regulation affécting tax exemption of cc-operative mark- eting Associations I have asked the solicitor of Internal Revenue to ad- vise me whether a regulation in the form proposed by .the conference \vould be consistent with the révenue ac “It bas been the plofey of this de- partment to extend to al} associations which are truly cg-operative the benefit of the tax exemptions proyid- ed in the revenue agt. “In the report of the agricultural conference there are suggestions of interdepartments._or -interbureau jeals ousies which handicap the effec- tive operation of the departments. I am not aware that this criticism ap- plies to the Treasury. If, However, the conference had any matters in mind which are within my power to correct, you may rest assured that immediate attention will be given to them whenever I am advised as to their nature.” U. S. SEEKS CHEMISTS. Civil Service Commilssion Calls for Experts at Edgéwood. The Civil Service Commission today announced open competitive examina- tions to fill vacancies in the positions of chemist, associated chemist and assistant chemist in the Chemical Warfare Service, Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md The entrance salaries for these positions range from $2,100 to $3,500 a year. Applicants for these examinations must qualify in at least one of the following subjects: Physical chem- istry, toxic gas chemistry or any combination, including either physical or toxic gas chemistry. Competitors will not be required to report for examination at.any place, but will be rated on their edu- cation, training, experience and writ- ings, to be filed with the application. “Full information and application blanks may be obtained at the office of the secretary, fourth civil service district, 3 F street i was avallable for | this same purpose, but was not called | WASHINGTO WORLD GOES ON; 'ROWENITES SPLIT, ' BUT SOME ARE FIRM (Continued from First Page.) ruary 6, and the mere fact that it has not yet come does not mean it will not come. MRS. ROWEN SILENT. Sees Midnight Come in Private and Issues No Statement. By the Associated Pres HOLLYWOOD, Calif, February 7. —If last midnight marked the be- ginning of the end of the world, predicted by Mrs. Margaret W. Rowen, Hollywood prophetess of doom, the event was as strictly cen- sored in the home town of the fore- caster as was any World War battle or sitting of the peace conference. What Mrs. Rowen and her disciples saw and heard at the stroke of 12 they saw and heard in private, and if they drew any conclusions, they kept them strictly to themselves. Even the whereabouts of the seer- ess and most of her followers Was veiled In mystery, though it was an- nounced earlier they probably would wait in their homes individually rather than in groups. At the crucial hour a reporter rang the doorbell of the home of the prophetess, where lights were burning. Instantly the lights went out. That was the only slgn that uninitiated observers were able to re- port In connection with the pro- claimed hour of fulfillment. However, there were other phases of the “end-of-the-world” situation that became matters of public record. One woman visited the district at- torney's office to ask ald in prevent- ing her mother from disposing of her property as the result of Mrs. Row- en’s prediction. She said her mother already had given a portion of her funds to the Rowenite cause. In the Los Angeles Superior Court Mrs. Arvilla Mae Balzar filed suit against her divorced husband, Dr. F. J. Balzar, leader of the Rowenite colony in Pasadena, alleging that in his haste to settle other accounts before the end he was neglecting alimony payments due her and was $1,000 in arrears. At the city prosecutor’s office it was announced that several complaints connected with the doomsday proph- ecy were being investigated, but no details were divulged. REIDT STILL HOPEFUL. Believes Sign Will Come Some Time During Next Six Days. By the Associated Press. PATCHOGUE, N. Y., February The sun rose in the East today just as it_has for untold ages, and shone on the rude home of Robert Reidt, the “apostle of doom,” \despite his fervid predictions that at midnight last night would come the beginning of the millennium and the salvation of the “chosen few." Reldt and his flock of 13 followers, who had lived through as hectic & night as may ever be their lot, were still confident today that the “prom- ised sign” of the second coming of Christ is still not far off. Just when he would not say, although yesterday he had declared that the end of the world would take fully seven days. Hopeful all through the night that the sign would come “as a cloud no bigger than your hand,” Reidt watched the heavens until well into the morn- ing. When nothing startling had happened at midnight in the East, he still felt that the end might come within the next three hours when it would be midnight in Hollywood, where is the home of Mrs. Margaret Rowen, the leader of the cult. Spends Discordant Night. His night had been full of discord, in sharp contrast with his wishes to pray and prepare himself and his followers for the end. Hundreds of curious persons gathered in the neighborhood of his shack, reporters interviewed him, cameramen took his picture. Once his chief disciple, Wil- lard Downs, drove away the crowd under a shower of hot water. At an- other time Downs' son Daniel at- Concrete Streets Cement Sidewalks ~&RB WARREN %5 15th Street. Main Qfly A Home of Distinction ter home of the of house, and in a location house is ranged to have it BY car: Kennedy St. By auto:! 14th and Kennedy. You Can Afford Here is a real opportunity to obtain a charac- Semi-Detached Three Bedrooms Inviting Veranda Spacious Yard Ultra Modern Type —at price amd terms which are unusual for this class In-Town Suburb 14th Street Terrace Nothing like it in Washington, for here merge suburban surroundings and city conveniences. 1335 Kennedy St. N.W. To meet the man of prompt action we have ar- OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY TO INSPECT . Take any 14th St. car (best service in town) to Drive out 16th St. to Colorado Ave., thence to Don’t Delay—It Will Not Pay unsurpassed, the The C., SATURDXY, FEBRUARY tempted to take his father home for- cibly. A scuffle followed, and the son was persuaded to leave with difficulty. Police guarded the place all night. This morning Reidt was practically alone. The crowd had dispersed. All that was left was his shack and his faithtul little band. He has sold his home, his automobile and all his belongings. Nelghbors, however, have bought his goods, and say they will restore them when the present furore dies down. - ROWENITES MAY REBEL. Nebraska Group Will Desert if Something Does Not Happen Soon. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Neb., February 7.—It the prediction ' of Mrs. Margaret W. Rowen of Hollywood does not develop to the point of realization within the seven days allotted 12 of her follow- ers at Collegeview, near here, are prepared to renounce her as thelr leader, Joe Gammel announced after the midnight hour. Members of the ocult gatherad In their homes last night, and early today scanned the sky, but what they saw no one was prepared to say. It is apparent that none of the ex- pected signs was visible to the Row- enites here, for shortly after mid- night they retired to their almost barren sleeping quarters. They had, nearly two months ago, sold most of thelr furmiture, keeping only the bare necessities. “No one i3 able to see the exact time when this coming of Christ will take place, Gammel said, “but we have followed Mrs. Rowen's teaching for reveral years and have seen other predictions of hers come true. If this latest prediction does not materialize we will renounce her as our leader.” BANK CASHIER CLEARED. Cooper Acquitted by U. 8. Jury in Wilmington, N. C., Case. WILMINGTON, N. C., February 7.— Horace C. Cooper, former cashier of the ~defunct _Commercial National Bank of Wilffington, was acquitted in United States District Court here today of charges of violating the na- tional banking laws In connection with the fallure of the Institution. The jury received the case late yesterday. - Three Omcmgn. The President has accepted the res- ignations of Capt. Charles R. Welsh, United States Signal Corps; First Lieut, Frank W. Seifert, Army Air Service. and Second Lieut. Roswell H. | Harriman, ited States Infantry. | at present. TWO EARTH TREMORS SHAKE CENTRAL ITALY Another Prediction of Bandandi Is Fulfilled—No Damage Reported. By the Associated Press. ANCONA, Italy, February 7.—Two earth tremors of considerable inten- sity were registered here yesterday afternoon. The first one, at 1:35 o'clock, lasted four seconds, and the second, at 2:50, was of shorter dura- tion. The shocks were felt in a num- ber of towns in this vicinity, but no damage has been reported. The special apparatus for predicting earthquakes, set up at Faenza by Raphael Bandandi, the seismologist, indicated that earth tremors would occur in central Italy last night. — Woman Reports Attack. Police are looking for an un- identified young white man who stele up last night behind Miss Anna Eilke- berry, 1225 C street southwest, while she was walking near Twelfth street and Ohio avenue, grabbed her In his arms and threw her to the pavement. Screams of Miss Eikelberry fright- ened off the assailant and he ran southward through the Department of Agriculture grounds, she reported ————— Alfred H. Retler Formerly State Manager ‘Tobacco Products Corp. Wishes to announce to his many friends his connection with the SALES DEPARTMENT of the MORRIS CAFRITZ CO = Realtor 14th and K Main 617 REMOVAL NOTICE On and After Monday, February 9th, the Principal Office of the J. 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