Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1925, Page 17

THE STONE MOUNTAIN CARVING AS IT APPEARS TODAY. stopped on account of trouble between the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, and the memorial association. resulted in holding up the work. matters that have of the memorial AMBASSADOR ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON. Union S MCORMICK RITES LARGELY ATTENDED Civil and Political Life of Nation Represented at Senator’s Funeral. By the Assoc CHICAG( tions of civil and the Nation, State resented at today Februar pol n and city were the simple funeral for S Medill accordance with h the n Chur serv- ices nator Me In wish Cormick expressed Fourth only singing oration_or Rev. H. A. Dalz the church, of which Cormick was a member, conducts service. The Graceland Cemetery burial at Byron Mrs. Robert McCormick, his mother, ill in Florida, was unable to attend.’ Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, the widow, panied the body from Washing 1 joined the three children at the McCorm Winter residence here. Orders were issued yesterday to ,se the departments in the Federal :i1ding, except the Post Office, dur- ng the hour of the funeral, and flags vere draped half staff over all public bufldings. Senatorelect ned yesterday by Len omplete the unexpired five ¢ Senator McCormick’s term ve for Washington the funeral services Presbyter: by riptural the choir sermon with no funeral Me- d the here until final Lgton Gov. Small ation, where they were met by Secretary of State Hughes. representative at the court of St. James, Mr. Kellogg becomes Secretary of Si Work Amba |Deneen Is Named To Fill McCormick Place in Senate | Senator-elect W ould Have rep- | oft- | 1, acting pastor of | body will be entombed sa Assumed Seat Next Tuesday Anyway. “CHICAGO, February Len Small last night pointment of Senator-elect Charles S Deneen to fill ‘nited States h of Senator —Gov. announced the ap- the vacancy in the Senate caused by the Medill McCormick fill the death of Tuesday taken Senator Senator-elect Deneen will the vacancy sen- ator MeCormick when the made by McCormick’s Mr., is 111 with a cold here, and, when in- formed of the appointment last night said that he had made no ar- | rangements for going to Washing- ton, but that he would not go until after the funeral services here today caused by until next he himself would have place vacant retirement Deneen | tor Senator McCormick. | message avs | planned | immediately | Gov. Small sald that he had had a | from Senator Curtils, m, jority leader, asking that an ap- pointment be made at once, so that Tilinois might be represented by two | votes in the Senate. He said that| he had conferred with Senator-elect | Deneen and that Mr. Deneen probably will leave for Washington this after- noon following funeral services for Senator McCormick. cvanee < veer | “RAIN” ADVERTISING CAI.LED MISLEADING§ Attorneys for Jeanne Eagles Say| ClTIZENSHlP STATUTE Star and Original Company Will TEST CASE STARTED Revocation of Filipino’s Naturali- zation Asked in Order to Get Ruling. Gordon and Attorney ay applied to the District t, at the request of the turalization, for the re- the certificate of natural- 4 December 4 to Ambro- « native Filipino, who h vice in the Army or Nav. State. dmitted to citizenship Hoehling of the District Supreme Court over the objection of the bureau. The Court held that civil- jan Filipinos are entitled to become American citizens, as their allegiance 1o the United States for more than 25 is sufficiently “permanent” to meet the demands of the law. Coun- sel for the government contends that the certificate was procured illegally, holding that Javier was not a free white person hor a person of African nativity or descent, as required by sec- tion 2169 of the Revised Statutes The bureau finds that one or more of the Circuit Courts of Appeals that a civilian Filipino is not entitled to citizenship in hopes of getting the present case to the United States Su- preme Court for final decision, Bur- nett sio Javier not seen of the Unite Javier by Ju years Not Be Here Next Week. A communication has been received The Star from Ernst, Fox & Cane, attorneys representing Miss | Jeanne Eagels, calling attentionto an | a | has held | National advertisement of- the forthcoming | presentation of the paly “Rain” in chich Miss Eagles recently appeared | in this citv, as a “return engagement, with New York cast and production.” “Such _advertisement and such words,” Messrs. Ernst, Fox & Cane assert, may convey the impression that “the performances to be given | next week were to be given by Miss | Jeanne Kagels * * * and by the company which produced the play in New York and with the original New | York production.” “The facts are quite the opposite,” they continue. “Miss Eagles is not to play a return engagement in Wash- ington and the cast which will appear is not the cast which appeared in its | New York production, nor is the pro- | duction the same as was used in New York, such original cast and such original production being, in point of | fact, now in Pittsburgh and booked for Cleveland next week.” Arthur Leslie Smith, under whose di- rection “Rain” is to be presented at the President Theater, #aid: “I do not be- sion that the company that played the Theater was returning. We advertised a return of the play “Rain, and have stressed the fact that Kath- erine Hayden was playing the lead. The company is a New York company, and said, the bureau is bringing the | the cast and the production are first- class in every way. | Nurse Testifies About Young | to wait until ‘he recovered. on the great memorial on Stone dor and Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg photographed at the Giving up his post as the United States National Photo. e on March 4. A SERIOUS Charles Amador, another screen bamboo cane and the trick shoes. QUESTION SCHOOL MEN ONCLINTOCK Man’s Final lliness at In- quest Into Death. | | By the Associated Press 1 CHIC February 27.—Dr. C. C.| Faiman, president of the National School of Applied Science, and two | ‘m.um of the school were new wit- | s summoned today to the inquest | \m.. the death of William N. McClin- | tock. | 2 Earl Cl GO, iman, J. P. Marchand and were taken to the office | of Chief Justice Harry Olson of the | Municipal’ Court and questioned, and | were expected to testify regarding a | correspondence course in bacteriol- | ogY. Judge Olson, a friend of young Me- | | Clintock, rich orphan, and his de- | ceased mother, Mrs. Emma McClin- | tock, instigated the investigation of | the 'voung man’s death and caused | William D. Shepherd, foster father of | McClintock and named chief heir. in | his will, to be summoned to the in- quest although Shepherd has re- | fused to testify. Shepherd has main- ‘l.nn:-d that he is a victim of perse- cution, the chief aim of which is to | keep from him the McClintock wealth, Suspected He Had Typhoid. Amelia J. Hall, a nurse who attend- ed “Billy” MeClintock, testified today that Shepherd told her after the case had n diagnosed as typhoid that | “Billy” had suspected when he first was taken i1l that he had typhoid fe- ver. She said Shepherd thought it strange that the'young man had any such idea when, 50 far as was known, |he had not been exposed to the dis- ease. The witness said that Shepherd had told her that “Billy” had told him he did not want to marry Miss Isabel Pope while he was ill, but preferred The nurse testified that the food she served “Billy” was obtained from the ice box. which was- under the supervision of Eva Nelson, the Shep- herd’s cook. Mounta MOMENT IN THE LIFE OF A ¢ | to the n, near Atlanta, Ga., has been Borglum accuses the association of various The association hits back with a charge that the sculptor has destroyed the models and plan Wide World Photo. Miss Abby Rockefeller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr. whose engagement to Merri- wether Hilton, jr., a young lawyer, has been announced. The marriage will be the culmination of a boy- and-girl romance, Wide World Photo. - RIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, ATTENDED FU home of Countess Gizycka, cousin of the late Senator. :S OF SENATOR MEDILL McCOBMICK YESTERDAY. The final obsequies were held in Chicago, at 11 a.m. today. Ay shows Secretary of State Hughes and Chief Justice Taft leaving the Gizycka home after the services. JIMMY IS AN EXPERT TROUSER CREASER. Jimmy O'Connell, for- mer member of the New York Giants, who was barred from base ball on account of an alleged bribery case wt the close of last season, has affiliated himself with a San Francisco club—pressing club—and he will not go South for Spring training this vear. Wide World Photo CREEN COMEDIAN. comedian, with imitating his “stuff.” Chaplin seeks to restrain Amador. GOMPERS BIOGRAPHY REVEALS WARTIME PLOT ON WILSON’S LIFE Tells of Midnight Conference to Warn President of Attempt to Assassinate Him Said to Have Been Planned by Extreme.Pacifists. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, February 27.—Samuel Gompers' part in the thwarting of an alleged plot to assassinate Woodrow Wilson during the war is revealed for what is supposed to be the first time in the two-volume autoblography of the late labor leader, just published by E. P. Dutton & Co. Mr. Gompers said that the plot was disclosed to him by a Secret Service man named Garland, and that he then went war President with the story. As a result, he said, extra precautions were taken to safeguard Mr. Wilson. Garland later disappeared, while trying to un- cover the German spy system in this country, according to Mr. Gompers, and has never been heard of since. Heard of Secret Propaganda. The labor leader wrote that after the outbreak of the European war he re- ceived information of activities of secret propaganda agencies in the United States from Garland. One night he was FOUR INJURED IN WRECK. | Canadian Pacific Passenger Train Crashes Into Freight. PERTH, Ontario, February 27.—Four trainmen were injured, two seriously. when a Chicago-Montreal passenger train on the Canadian Pacific Rail- way crashed into a freight at Glen Tay, three miles from here yesterday. Both the seriously injured men are expected to recover. According to raliroad officials, the accident was caused by the failure of the passenger train engineer to obey signals set against him. Several passengers were shaken up, but are not believed to have been otherwise injured. e Monument Measure Passes. The Senate today passed the House bill creating a national monument at Fort McHenry in commemoration of its connection with “The Star Spangled Banner." Charley Chaplin on the witness stand im Los The Angeles, where he charged listened to long arguments regarding the bagey trousers, the STOKES DETECTIVE ADMITS SHADOWING Declares His Men Watched Activities of Mrs. Stokes’ Investigators. sent a typewritten memorandum by Gar- land. “When I read the contents I was rified,” Mr. Gompers' narrative con- tinues. “It set-forth that a plot had been concocted by extreme pacifists, the enemies of our Republic, to a President Wilson. I was beside myself with anxiety to determine what course 1 should pursue. Saw Wilson at Midnight. hor- ¥ the AssociatedPress CHICAGO, Pebruary tectives shadowed detectives in nection with the contested divorce of W. E. I\ Stokes, New York millionaire. was %elated today in the Stc@>s conspiracy’ trial. Stokes and three others are charged with conspir- ing to defame hisi estranged wife, Mrs. Helen Elwood &tokes. Edward W. Altz, hsad of a Chicago detective agency formferly retained by Stokes to obtain evilence against Mrs. Stokes, was beln® cross-exam- ined. Alts, the State contends, also was commissioned to . watch the movements in Chicago f detectives and counsel employed by \Mrs. Stokes and by Hal Billig, named by Stokes as co-respondent. Altz admitted his oper:tives had shadowed 1. Shapiro of New' York, as- sociated with Samuel Untermyer and Louis Dannenberg, detective, while in S the act of cashing a check | belleved The House faced a vote before ad- [to be for an amount larger than $100. journment - tonight on_the question of | Shapiro and Dannenberg were under- repealing the present 50 per cent Pull- [stood to be representing Mrs. {Stokes. man surcharge. | After cashing the check, according A showdown on the proposition was |to what Altz identified as the ‘report assured by presentation of the confer- [of his agency, Shapiro and Dawmnen- ence report on the independent offices berg visited two negroes who{ had appropriation bill, carrying a Senate [been approached as possible witnesses rider providing for eliminating of the |for Stokes. One of them, he said,| was surcharge. Mrs. Annie Johnson, former howse- Debate will be limited by agreement so | keeper at the Everleigh Club, a\re- as to make certain a vote today. sort of years ago. Mrs. Johnson ties- tified for the State that Stokes Mnd tasked her if she could identify a pie- ture, agreed by counsel to be a pha- tograph of Mrs. Stokes, as that of former inmate of the club. Altz was asked by J.'J. Healy o defense counsel if he had suspecte that Shapiro and Dannenberg intend- ed to “bribe the witnesses, to stop| T.—How de- con- | suit “Finally T sought and obtained a con- ference with President Wilson at the ‘White House, near midnight. 1 was too agltated to take any one into my con- | fidence other than the President. With | a few words, as best I could express them, I presented the typewritten state- | ment to the President- and in a few minutes took my leave. Mr. Gompers was called into a con- ference the next Monday with police and Government officials, he said, and as a result extra precautions were taken to guard the President. PULLMAN SURCHARGE UP. House Facing Vote on Motion for U. S. to Accept Antiques. The joint resolution fathered by Chairman Elliott of the public build- ings and grounds committee author- izing acceptance of donations of his- toric furniture and furnishings of the correct period for use in the White House was passed in the House today. to Mrs, Stokes.” " he said. ) | hiwsute adornment. FORMER HELEN TAFT GOES BaC appointed dean of Bryn Mawr. Her At left, the President and Mre. Coolidge leaving the The photograph at the right National Phot. K TO COLLEGE. But she has been husband, Frederick J. Manning. is an instructor of history at Yale, but will leave there this year to take up Mrs. similar duties at Swarthmore. Manning, who is a daughter of Chief Justice Taft, goes to Bryn Mawr mext September. Why Strawberries Grow Whiskers No Longer Is Mvetery Moreover, U. S. Sm'anls Learn Way to Balk Pesky Fungus. Some time ago a gromp of scien- tists at the Department of Agricul- ture bent their heads together stroked their beards and looked worried. They worried themselves along for weeks, examining a plant here, spying on a box of fruit there and now and them munching a sample absent-mindedly. All of a sudden, however, the wrinkles on their distinguished | brows gave way to arches that told| of knowledge gained. Their coun- tenances lost their worried look and became wrapped in smiles. They had finally solved the momentous \question of why strawberries whiskers. Not_every one, perhaps, knows that strawberries have a hankering for Strawbérry mer- chauts were fully aware of the fact, howower, and they felt provoked about™ it, as strawberries that pay too muwch attention to their looks are not in good taste among customers. The whiskers, it is explained, are really a fungus or mold The experts of the Bureau of Plant Industry went further. They found out how tch put one oyer on the egotistic ber¥y and prevent the an- noying foliajpe from cropping out. Three rules were evolved. First, gather the unsuspecting berry early in the morning, before it fs fully awake; second, keep it cool; third, | treat it kindly. So elated were the department offi- cials with their di'scovery that they had an_interesting® film made about it. The title of the film s “Why Strawberries Grow Whiskers.” It shows graphically that strawberries, like Rudofph Valentino, look better without Yhe beaver. Close-ups are shown of fungi doing | their stuff in accelerated\ motion, in addition' to many other \absorbing things. According to all partment’s latest film whiskers, afl right. SIXTH SMALLPOX CASE IS REPORTED IN DISTRICT Patient Taken to_Quarantine, andl Woman Is Admitted for Observation. reports the de- is tha berry's One naw case of smallpox was re- corded by the Health Department to- day, and another person is at the quarantine station for observation to determine definitely whether she has the disesae. According to the Health Department record, the patient sent to the small- pox hospital today is I.eo H. Breen, 21 years old, of 1000 Sigsbee street northeast. This makes a total of 6 patients at the smallpox hospital. Only one of these is in serious condition. ‘Woman, 26, Owns Bus Fleet. Miss Helen Jane O'Farrell Kelly, just 26 years old, is the owner of a fleet of independent passenger busses in London. Her first “pirate” bus was a small one bought on terms, but her their mouths or tell a story favorable { business flourished and she now has three operating and three more or- dered. grow | motion picture | Copyright by P. & A. Photos CGASHIER IS JAILED IN §200,000 LOSS | | Bank Offlclal in West Virginia r Is Accused of Misappro- priating Funds. By the Assoc BLUEFIELD, W. Va —H. E. Clark, cashier National Bank at which was c d Press. February of the First Matoka, near here osed yesterday at the in- stance of D. R. Wood, national bank examiner, is in the McDowell County jail in default of $25,000 bail, follow- ing a hearing today on the charge of misappropriating approximately $200,- 000 of the bank’s funds. | Clark, in a signed confession, |leged to have shouldered sponsibility for the bank’s condition, declaring, however, that he had n benefited or received one penny from | the transactions. Examiners are continuing their in- vestigation, and a statement issued tonight by Mr. Woods ‘sald that a major portion of the shortage was brought about by the cashier's failure to charge the checks of the bank's patrons against thelr deposits, and, to prevent this becoming known, he canceled the checks, many of them being carried to his residence, where they were found today. This proce- dure extended over a period of three vears, according to Clark's own statc ment. LABORER’S DEATH SHOWS ROCKEFELLER SYMPATHY Orders | entire re- Flowers and Condolence | | Sent to Man on Pension Roll for 16 Years. | By the Associated Press ORMOND BEACH, Fla., 27.—John D. Rockefeller's for sympathy was revealed yesterday through the details surrounding the death of John Hottois, a laborer em- ployed for many years at the Forest Hills estate of Mr. Rockefeller in Cleveland. John Hottois did odd jobs about the Rockefeller estate. In- the,ordi- nary course of events it would not | have been surprising if the aged millionaire had not known :of the presence on the payroll of this cog in a blg machine. A week ago John Hottois died. The superintendent at Forest Hills wired |'Mr. Rockefeller of Hottols' death Mr.. Rockefeller telegraphed the superintendent ‘“Felegram received. Plea extend our. sympathy to the family of John Hottols and send appropriate flowers and they cannot be too good for cur dear o©]d friend. His life and juni- formly " beautiful example is a rich inheritamce to us all.” Lizzie Mottols, - daughter . of Hottols, wrote Mr. Rockefeller: “I wish to express my sincere thanks for your kind telegram and beautiful floxal piece. I also wish to thank you for the kindly Interest you had shown him in pensioning him for the last 16 years, when he was unable to work.” February capacity John Sign That’ Never Fails. From London Punch. Cheery Soul Lawks, my dear, wot a turn you gave me! I tought you was dead—strite, T did. I've 'eard several people speakin’ well of yer lately. ’