Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1925, Page 13

ASHING PATRIOTIC Green delivering prayer. TON R ERVICE AT STATUE OF FIRSY PRESIDENT, IN WASHINGTON CIRCLE. Dr. Thomas E In the background: Commissioner Rudolph, Isaac Gans, Gen. George M. Richards, Senator Spencer, Charles P. Light, Capt. Cook, Eugene E. Thompson, Maj. Keogh, Jesse Suter, Mrs. George Barnett, Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs. John C. Frazer and Edgar B. Meritt. The service took place yesterday. H Washington Star Photo. R e DIRIGIBLE COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL TRIP TO BERMUDA AND RETURN. Photograph snapped at the home port of the airship, Lakehu rst, N. J. The ship, manned by a crew of 40 Americans, and carrying 4 passengers, went through a rainstorm on the way to Bermuda, and on account of the weight of the bag was unable to land. right | STATUS REVEALED ONU.5. WARLOANS [ Debt Commission Has Ar-{ ranged for Funding of Half of Vast Sums Due. The recurring discussion of refund- ing the obligations of France to the United has directed attention | to the at the American Debt Commission has accomplished funding arrangements for approximately half of the loans made by this Govern- ment during and after the World War. At the time the cpmmission was created there was due the United States $10,102,000,000 in principal. pius interest in exc of $1,150,000,000. The commission now has negotiated settlements with Great Britain, Po- and, Lithuania, Hungary and Fin- land, and the Cuban government has| pajd its $10,000,000 obligation in full The funding agreements rrovifle pay- ments over a period of about 62 years, | as follows: Great Britain. $4,577.000.- | 600; Poland, $178.560.000: Finland.| $5,955,000; Lithuania, $6,030,000, and| Hungary, $1,953,542. | How Otber Countries Stand. | to States The status of other debts is sum-| marized at the Treasury as follows Armenia—There is no government recognized by the United States Austria—The time of payment of principal and interest was extended by Congress until June 1, 1943 Czechoslovakia— Representatives of | nation left the United States in 1923, saving they would continue their efforts to adjust differences be- | tween the accounts of the two coun- tries, but have made no proposals or | representations for refunding. Differ- ences existed as to the validity of a| elatm by this Government that Czecho- | slovakia owed certain sums for trans- | portation furnished that nation's troops ; Esthonia—The Esthonian minister | has placed in the hands of the com- | dmission information regarding finan- | cfal and economic conditions in his na tive 1and and informed Secretary Mel- | lon that his government desired fo | negotiate a settlement, but no agree- | ment has been reached Latvia—The commission was ad- vised in May last that the question of | funding -that government's debt was under consideration by the Latvian | cabinet, but no proposals have been | received. Russia—There is no government recognized by the United States. Jugosiavia Plans Delayed. | Jugoslavia—The government of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sent a commission to the United States to inform this Govern- ment that it was the intention of their government (o present a refunding plan at a later date, but advised the commission April 7 that the settle- ment plan could not be offered at that time because of conditions in' their homeland. The mission of these rep- resentatives was one of supplying this | Government with all facts concerning | the situation in the kingdom, their | communication to Secretary Mellon wtated. No proposals have been received from France, Belgium. Italy, Greece, Liberta Rumania or Nicaragua, | Rear Admiral Moffett, at left window, and Assistant Secretary window, two of the passengers HEARING APRIL 13 ASKED BY U.S. IN TAX PUBLICITY Trying of Appeal of Baltimore Post Case Simultaneously With Kan- City Action Sought. B the Associated Pre The Government today -asked upreme Court to advance to April the hearing of its appeal in the case against the Baltimore Post, involv- ing the right of newspapers to pub- sh income tax made public by co of internal revenue. A against the Kansas City Journal-Post recently was set for hearing April 13, and court was advised by the Government that the two proceedings should be heard together. While both have been decided ggainst the Govern- ment, the reasoning by which that result was reached in the two cases was different th Su returns similar case HOUGHTON PRAISED BY BERLIN PAPER Ambassador, on Leaving for Lon- don, Called “Outstanding States- man of Our Time.” By the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 23.—Die Zeit, organ of Foreign Minister Stresemann, pays an unusual tribute to Alahson B. Houghton, the American Ambassador, on his departure from Berlin to take up his new post at London, praising him | both as “one of the outstanding states- men of our time” and “a man whose charming manner and kindly spirit all who came in close contact with -him prized highly.” The words of farewell exchanged at the recent dinner of President Ebert.and Minister Stresemann, the paper obseryes, “were far more important than the usual official addresses, and brought proof of the, strong personal bond of frigndship between the Ambassador from the United States and the leaders of the German government.” Die Zeft recalis Mr. Hougiton's de- cisive influence at the London confer- ence over the Dawes plan, and also the | fact that Dr. Walter Rathenau, foreign minister, spent the last evening hefore his assassination at Mr. Houghton's kame with Hugo Stinnes.. The ‘Ambas- sador's relations to Germany's problems the paper characterizes as' follows: “The Ambassador viewed conditions in Germany with friendly objectivity and one can assume that the improve- ment in the relations between the United States and Germany was Jargely due to his influence. He had a special grasp of the Industrial and eocial situation in Germany.” £ Mr. Houghtou's departure®is ‘“‘viewed with general regret by the entire diplo- matic corps,” concludés’ the ‘paper, ~as well as by all circles of the German gov- ernment.” Matthew E. Hanna, first secretary of the embassy, will be in charge. until the teturn of thie counselor, Warren_D. Rob- bins, from Washingten. Jumps and Dill.ocne: Ankle. A sprdined . ankle resulted when John Fitzhugh, colored, 35 years old, jumped o the street from the Second- Story window of a house In Fitsmorrig court early vesterday during an al- tercation: there. . He was treated at Emergency Hospital, the | of the Copyright avy Robinson, P. and A. Photos GLBERTREPORTS ON REPARATIONS Disburses 103,575,348.33 German Gold Marks to Allies in January. By ciated P BERLIN, Februar Gilbert, agent-general for payments, has issued a | covering receipts and di for the month of Janua | period he reccived 108,31 | marks and paid out 103 marks. In round numbers the payments | distributed among the ailied nations | were as follows: Great Britain, 19.- | 359.465; France, 4 636; Ttaly | 8.958.938; Belgiiim. 9,334.886: Japan, 399.237: 'Scrb, Croat, Slovene state. 2,076,762 Portugal. 724,894; Rumania 714: Greece, 684.1 The expenses of the military com- \mission of control totaled 'The remainder of the expenditures | were chiefly devoted to administrative | costs of ‘the various commissions, | such as the reparation, the Rhineland | High Commission and the naval and | the agent-general's staff, The cumulative total receipts to January 31 for the first annuity year amounted to 394,581,255.03, against which are total payments of 381,396,- 148.29, leaving as cash balance in the Relchsbank of 13,185,106.74. DENIES.PROBE STOPPED. Banton to Study Inquiry Into Vet- 23.—8. Parker reparation statement ursements In that 807.74 gold 5,345.33 gold |34 erans’ Pencil Selling. NEW YORK, February 23.—District Attormey - Banton said last night that he will examine the records of Assistant District Attorney's Lehman’s investiga- tion of the pencil-selling campaign of the National Disabled Soldiers’ League, which is now the subject of a House inguiry. The statement by C. C. Briggs, a wit- | ness before the House committee, that {John T. Nolan, national commander of investigation by the district attorney's ‘office here was characterized by Mr. Banton as ‘‘ridiculous.” Neither Nolan nor.James F. McCann, national treasurer of the organization, for whom subpoenas have been issued by the District of Columbia grand jury, could be found here. It was learned, however, that they had lived in New York hotels recently. . KIDNAPING CHARGED. - CHICAGO, February 23.—A charge of ‘kidnaping was placed against John Hutchinson, detective, who ad- mitted to' police that ‘he attemped to persuade Dr. George Fosberg, star witness in the inquest into the degth qf “Billy? MoClintock, millionaire or- phari, to leave his office. Hutehinsen has refused to state for whom he was acting and William D. Sheplrerd, chief, beneficiary. In- the McClintock , million-dollar = will, de- clined to tell questioners whether or not he had employed the detective. The police intend to have Hutchinson present at the next inquest hearing. 1.333,333. | the league, had said he had stopped the | Mrs. Mary E. Fish of 311 Twelith street southwest, 82 years old, who has been a subscriber to The Star for 51 years and has never missed a regular edition of the paper. “I would rather read the Star than eat a meal,” she told the photographer. Washington Star Fhoto, Leon Trotsky on a river steamer bound for the Caucasus, where he now is reported in virtual exile. Trotsky's _book, stormy “Lenin,” reveals conflicts between the of Russia’s bolshevik many | | two heads state. Coprright by Underwood and Underwood MONDAY, THE WIFE OF THE “PERFECT L! FEBRUARY 2 Sl OVER.” Lou Tellegen, actor, was married to Isabel Craven Dilworth a year and a half ago, but the marriage was kept secret until a few days ago. and her son in the garden of the Holl Mrs. Helen Vernet, England’s only woman bookmaker, who has kept her promise and returned home “broke.” She stated, aboard ship Saturday, that what money she did not lose on the “ponies” at Miami was spent at Palm Beach. Wide World Pheto. |ASSERTS HE WAS ROBBED | POINCARE SOON TO FACE | | AFTER BEING DRUGGED; CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGE Chicago Chemical Research Expert| With Maginot, Former French War Charges He Was Abducted While By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS. February Dr. Paul George Hildebrar research expert of Mayor Andrew been drugged dt. chemical hicago, who told McShane that he had and abducted from a Chicago hotel following a business conference four weeks ago, left here for his home last night The chemist informed the mayor that he remembered nothing after at- tending the conference. He found himself in a farmhouse in Southern California. He said his captors had taken from him valuables and blue prints and other papers while he was held prisoner in the farmhouse. He escaped in an auto which had been used Ly his abductors, he said, and driving until his supply of gasoline gave out, walked several miles to El Centro, Calif., where he boarded a train for New Orleans. Dr. Hildebrandt reiterated his be- lief that processes.he had worked out or an effort to obtain possession of some of his plans for further de- velopment was the reason for his kid- naping. | | ’ in Unconscious Condition. | | PIGGLY-WIGGLY DIVIDEND - CHALLENGED IN COURT | Stockholder Brings Suit to Test Legality of $14 Per Share Allotment. By the Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 23.—The Piggly Wiggly Corporation has fallen | heir to another law suit. W. A. Titus of New York, a preferred stockholder, has asked the Shelby County Chancery Court to declare illegal the dividend of 1314 per share on the preterred stock de- clared several days ago. Titus contends the corporation has no funds with which to pay the dividend, | which covers deferred payments of 2 | per cent quarterly for the past two years, and that authorization of the payment is a method being employed | by officers and directors to return the | corporation to control of the common stockholders in the hope of continuing !their own domination of the business. At the recent meeting the board of di- rectors voted to pay the proposed 2 per cent quarterly dividend on April 15 to stockholders of record on April 1. Ac- tual payment of this dividend, company officials said, will restore control of the corporation to common stockholders. BARON BARRYMORE DIES.. Was Noted Yachtsman—=Second Wife an American. LONDON, February _ 23.—Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, first Baron Barry- more, died yesterday. He was 82 years old. Lord Barrymore's second wife, who survives him, was Eliza- beth Post, widow of Arthur Post of New York and a daughter of the late Gen. Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y. He leaves no heir. Lord Barrymore's first wife was Lady Mary Frances Wyndham-Quinn, daughter of the third Barl of Dun- raven. He was well known in the yachting world, having’been admiral of the Royal Cork Yacht Club. He was created a baron in 1903, |both executed at Vincennes for trea- Minister Is Accused by For- mer Senator Humbert. By the Associated Press | PARIS, February M. Poincare, former president of the republic, and | Andre Maginot, former minister of | war, before. the Court of Assizes | on a charge of criminal libel prom- ises o another French “cause celebre” if proceedings which former Senator Charles Humbert announces he is instituting against them ever come to trial | M. Humbert v published a book refuting the accusation of trea- son for which he was tried and ac-| quitted before a court-martial. In his | ook he charges that Poincare and | Maginot conspired to send him before | a firing squad. | Poincare and Maginot, replying to| invitations of the newspaper I'Oeuvre, | offering them an opportunity to de- | fend themselves, wrote that they “did | not desire to give the former associ- | ate of Bolo and Lenoir a chance to| have the honor of meeting them.” Bolo Pasha and Pierre Lenoir were son. M. Humbert argues that inas- ,much as he was acquitted the refer- ence is libelous EXILED BULGARIANS MAKE RAID ON VILLAGES Two Armed Bands Cross- Jugo- slavia Border Into Native Coun- try; One Party Exterminated. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, Bulgaria, February :23.— Two armed raiding parties, .com- posed of exiled Bulgarians, crossed the Jugoslavian border into Bulgaria yesterday and attacked villages near Slivnitza and the dragoman passport bureau. % Five members of the band which attacked Slivnitza were ' captured, and the remainder Killed. Among the dead was the chief of the party, who' was identified as a police cap- taln in Sofia during the regime of Premier Stambolousky. Minister of the. Interior Rousseff announces that a bolshevik “cheka” or terrorist group has beén found to be in full operation in Soflai The minister says that investigation shows that the chief of the Bulgarian “cheka” ordered recent assassina- tions. It is asserted that the numerous arrests show that the high officials in the government are implicated in the present troubles. —_— -OFFICER SHOT BY GANG. Policeman Dangerously Wounded for Cause Not Explained. CLARKSDALE, Miss., February 23. —Policeman W. T. Dugger, 42, was shot and seriously wounded last night when one of four men who had called him over to:an automobile in which they were riding opened fire as the officer stood on ‘the running board. The auto then sped out of fown to- ward - Memophis. Dugger was taken to a hospital and was ungble to talk. No cause is known for attack on him, The photo shows Mrs. Tellegen ywood, Calif., home. Copyright by Underweod & T'nderwood PRIZE BEAUTY TO WED ARTIST'S NEPHEW. Dorothy Knapp of the Follies them. in the latter’s studio that she met as won so many beauty prizes that she can't keep count of She was once a model for Howard Chandler Christ: and it was the artist’s nephew, Fehner Christy Now, according to the announcement, Dorothy and Fehner are to be mar- ried. Wide World Phot OIL BARGE EXPLOSION SHAKE ENTIRE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. in the explosion of 20,000 gallons of fuel oil aboard a barge in the Schuylkill River. Several lives are reported lost Blazing oil spouted from the barge and spread in a fiery blanket on the river, and the flames ruined a Baltimore and Ohio bridge. The photo shows firemen fighting the blaze. 1.5 FOREIG LOAN CONTROL IS URGED Senator Shipstead Says Greatest Power for Good or Evil Is Involved. Control by the Federal Gover: ent of all American banking and invest ment credit in the international| fleld as a means of promoting v\orld‘ peace was advocated today in_ the| Senate by Senator Shipstead of Min- | nesota, the Farmer-Labor member of | the foreign relat@ns committee Through a control of the banking credit of the world, Senator hip- | stead said, the United States is given | the ‘“greatest power for good or ('\1!‘ that was ever given any nation in the world to control.” He added that | the manner in which control is exer- cised “will determine, for good or evil, the destiny of nations and ‘h‘i destiny of humanity Senator Shipstead is chairman of | the foreign relations subcommittee, | which is to begin hearings this week | lon the Ladd resolution to declare it| I'the sense of the Senate that Ameri- can armed forces should not be used for the collection of American private loans, Private Loans Mounting. The Minnesota Senator and others on the forelgn relations committee who have been urging that the Eu- ropean nations refund their war debts to the United States have been concerned by the mounting of private American loans to Europe, and more especially by the recent statement of French Finance Minister Clementel that nego- tiations were under way for a new | loan to France by American banking interests. Senator Shipstead fold his col- leagues in his address today that he hoped President Coolidge would take a position of frowning on the huge foreign loans, and added that if the executive would “follow that road to the end, generations of Americans and generations of peoples in every na- tion who come after him will bless his name." America, the Senator continued. should say to the world. “We will loan you mony in unlimited quantities with which to finance your produc- tive industries, with which to build homes for your people and buy food for you people, provided you will disarm, disband your large standing armies, quit building battleships and get down to a peace basis. “We are in a position to dictate that policy of peace,” he added. “If the governments want our money let them pay for it by guaranteeing world- peace. This is the genuine power for peace, greater than all the armies and navies of the world, all the arbitration courts, all the Leagues of Nations, all the holy and unholy alliances that have disappointed naive humanity.” Duplicate Key Thief Makes Haul. A duplicate key thief entered the room of William T. Piper and Thomas C. Franeis at a downtown hotel yes- terday, robbing the' two men, who are OF WIFE OF AMERICAN Woman Says War Veteran Is Held Illegally Without Formal Charge Being Made. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY —The United States consulate general is in- vestigating the story of Mrs Atkinson that her husband ican, has been held at the headquarters police for more than the prescribed legal prisonment without charges It was stated at the department of the interior yesterday that no order for the expulsion of Atkinson had been issued. He was formerly a business man of Juarez and El and came to Mexico City after hi discharge from the Army, seriously crippled from a wound received at Chateau Thierry DISTRICT METHODISTS TO LEAD IN. UNITY Februar: Clarence an Amer- incommunicado of the hours, limit filing re which of im- formal Baltimore Conference to Be First to Vote on Unification—Epworth League 0. K.'s Plan. The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, which: includes all Southern Metho- dist churches in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, and which is to meet in the Mount Ver- non Place Church in this city March 23, will be the first annual conference of the church to take a vote on the question of church unification. The proposed union of the Northern and Southern churches has already been ratified ‘by the general and action must now be taken by the individyal conferences. All other conferences of the church are looking _to Washington to see which way the vote is to be cast In anticipation of the meeting of the conference. the Epworth League Unfon of the M. E. Church South of the District, which met last week in Mount Vernon Place ‘Church, voted almost unanfmously in favor of uni- fication. There were nearly 500 del- egates present at the meeting of the union and only twe cast votes against the plan. Leaders in: the church in this city are tonfident that the vote of the conference will find a division in favor of unification almost as great. Oh the last day of ‘the conference, Wednesday, March 25, the assign- ments of all pastors in Maryland, Virginia and the District will be read by the presiding bishop, Bishop War- ren A, Candler of Atlanta, Ga. Screams Frighten Burglars. Tiwo' burglars attempted. to break into the store of Mrs. Isaac Sandler, 100 Sixth street southeast, early yester- day morning. She heard them and screamed. They were frightened away, but she was able to get suffi- cient” glimpse of them ' to- furnish police with descriptions. . The enly from Eradford, Pa. of $91 and $80, respectively, according to thelr report to the paligs ~ damage Was the broken side window, Tiolse of the smash of which awaken- od Mrs. Sandler, “ Paso, | conventions, | Coprright by P, and A. Photos. e oecs e B HEDGES S0P LEADER, SUECUMBS | Nationally Known Lawyer Victim of Heart Attack in Atlantic City. | NEW YORK, February 2 | Hedges, nationally known | wit and political sage, terday at Atlantic City, Thursday at Dansville, funeral services here Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Hedges. who until re- cently was receiver of the New York Railways Company, went to Atlantic City with his wife Friday. He had ince been under the care of a phy- sician for recurrent heart att but his condition was reported m improved recently lawyer, who died yes will be buried N. Y., with | Native of New Jerser. | _Mr. Hedges was | N.J., on Mdy 10, 1862, but soon after | ward he moved with his family to | Dansville, where he spent most of his | borhood. He was admitted to the bar | in 1896, after graduation from Prince- {tor University and Columbia Law School Running on the he was defeated by William Sulzer, Democrat, for governor in 1912. Po- litical experts called Mr. Hedges' gift of humor one of the chief causes of his defeat, pointing out that voters would not take. serious the candi- Gacy of a -famous fun-maker. M. married Mrs. Ida Jane Dutton in 1922 Typical Sayings Quoted. | Some typical savs of Mr. Hedges fol- | 1ow “It isn’t difficult to fool other ple, but it's quite an art to fool your | self and still be on good terms with urself.” “If a man stood before a mirror one hour a day he'd laugh hin i death, go insane or become a decent citizen.” “Between ‘Thou shalt not steal ‘Honesty is ‘the best- policy’ lies history of unindicted men.” “An Trishman never gives a power of atforney.. He's born with a degree of confidence in himeelf that's clear, comprehensive and all embracing.” “Most everybody is on te everybody else, only we don’t tell each other about it.” “It.is.better to be smiled with than laughed at.” “I'd rather have one person shed a tear over my grave than to have the National Guard called out and some tellow" ask: ‘What was the name of the guy we just burfed?'” POLICEMAN IS KILLED. | NEW YORK, February 23.—Patrol- man Mayrice Harlow, 27, wag shot and fatally wounded while on. duty | early yesterday. John Crowley 4 who was found near Harlow with a bullet ‘wound in his abdomen, was atrested by the police on a charge of murder, following the death of the. patroiman. Both men. were recently married Pollce believed ‘the shooting occurred when . ‘Harlow - remonstrated with Crowley for bolsterous behavior when coming .from.a:party, born in Elizabeth Republican ticket and the