Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1925, Page 20

FORMER 8! ARY OF Bermuda. WITH WIFE AND DAUGHTER, SAILS FOR BERMUDA. Hughes, former member of the Coolidge cabinet; Mrs. Hughes and their daughter Elizabeth boarded the steamship Fort St. After a short vacation, Mr. Hughes will take up the practice of law in New York. GOV. ROSS MAKES A RUG OR TWO. There are no idle moments for Nellie Tayloe Ross, Wyoming's governor, who is now in Washington. The photograph shows her at work o in this particular field of weaving. ARKANGSAS CITY SWEPT BY FLAMES Damage of $250,000 Caused and 26 Families Made Homeless at Fort Smith. B the Associated Press FORT SMITH, Ark.. March 8.—Fort] Smith for a time yesterday afternoon was menaced by a series of fires that | threatened for more than two hours to get beyond control and wipe out the best residential section of the ity When the brought under three apartment able boarding dences were in ashes and a dozen or| more other residences damaged | s in today's fire was esti-| approximately § which to the quarter million dollars done to the Fort Smith Cotton-oil Co. plant last night, hrought loss here to $500,000 within less than 24 hours. The flml“ of vesterday's fires broke out shortly after noon in the Zenor Bottling Co.’s| plant, bringing out every fire-fight- ing company in the city. The plant| was totally destroyed with a loss to the building and contents officially estimated at $125,000 Hardly had the walls tling company’s plant fire broke out in two other places. due. firemen believe, to sparks from| the first fire. Three apartment houses| and a fashionable boardins house were the first discovered to be on fire A few minutes later three of the| oldest and fluest homes in the city, more than a block distant, were ablaze. All these buildings were destroyed. At one time 15 residences in the area between B and L streets on Seventh and Eighth were ablaze _from flying embers. @ A total of 26 familles were render- ‘ed homeless by the fire. ames control, houses, house and finally were one factory, a fashion- three resi- mated 250,000, ed a i the bot-| fallen before | BARRYMORE ON RADIO. Proadcasts Excerpts From “Ham- let” From London Station. LONDON, March 8.—John Barry- more’s broadeasting of excerpts from “Hamlet” last night was a great suc- It was announced at the outset that the actor was suffering from “the usual cold every American gets upon his arrival in London,” but the warning was unnecessary so far as the clarity of his voice over the radio was concerned Listeners remarked upon the total absence of an American accent, but they found his enunciation sugges- tive of the Scotch speech, owing to the way he stressed the letter “r” which many of the English tend to slight. Wine Cellar Is Looted. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. EASTON, Md., March 9.—The wine cellar of the late Henry S. Du I'uy, near this city, was looted by burglars last night, between $1,000 and $1,500 of fine beverages disappearing through a broken window. Du Puy, a retired broker, died last Fall, and his estate was being mettied. n a rug. She is considered an expert Copyright by P. & A. Photos. |13 Cats and Dog | Found Guarding | Body of Master By the Associated Press UTICA, N. Y., March 9.—With 13 cats grouped about him, and So- cial Kid, his pet dog companion, s cold hands, Joe Kee- 48 years old, was found dead s home last night. He was a victim of a heart attack. Whining of the dog and odd noises of the cats attracted the attention of relatives, who discovered Keesey's lifeless body. NEAR EAST RELIEF WORK TO BE CONSOLIDATED Organization Operating in District to Unite With That in Mary- land Under One Director. Under the name of the Potomac Division, the Near East Relief work in the District of Columbia will be united with that of Maryland and the joint direction will be under Harold F. Pellegrin, now Maryland director, it has been announced by Dr. Andrew M. Brodie, national representative in Washington of the Near East Rellef. Mr. Pellegrin, the new director, has been in harge of Maryland head- quarters since 1919. Prior to that he was Delaware State director; he has been overseas for the rclief organi- zation and is familiar with the work. The new director of the District is a graduate of Princeton and before the war was assistant pastor at Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, one of the leading churches in Balti- more. PLANS ARE COMPLETED FOR AUTHORS’ BREAKFAST Pen Women Sponsoring Event at Mayflower Hotel—Guests Are Limited to 800. The committees' on arrangements of the authors' breakfast, authors’ congress and book fair to be held under the auspices of the League of American Pen Women April 25 at the Mayflower Hotel have completed all details, The committee follows: Mrs. Atherton Du Puy, ways and means; Mrs. McPherson Chrichton, national social committee; Mrs. Eli Helmick, tickets; Mrs. Luther E. Gregory and Mrs. Milton S. Reld, arrangements; Mrs. J. Irvin Steel, publicity. The tickets for the break- fast will be limited to 800. Young birl pages, costumed in the mode of Spring, will be in attendance. The book fair will be held in the book department of a large down- town department store. S Comes to Medical Center. Capt. Hartwell N. Williams, Quarter- master Corps, returning from the Philippines, has been assigned to duty as assistant to the quartermaster, Army Medical Center, this city. B dey ELE Assigned to Training Duty. Capt. Samuel D. Gibson, Quarter- master Corps Reserve, In this city, has been assigned to duty in tralning at the general intermediate depot, this city, chairmen are as THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, JUST A HINT FOR THE WELL D! according to word from London, mu The waist is tucked, and each lower ter. “Semsi-balloons” are already wo SIPLIFIED BUDGET FOR D. C. PLANNED Auditor Hopes to Reduce 400 Items to Total Not Ex- | ceeding 100. ~ Before the next District estimates are prepared Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, city auditor, will consider the possi- bility of simplifying the annual bud- get by elimination of unnecessary detall, the auditor announced today Maj. Donovan pointea out that there are approximately 400 separate and distinct appropriations in the District bill, and he ventured the prediction that it might be possible to reduce them to 100 by Kl'ouDan’ certain allotments. As an example of how this might be done, the auditor recalled that prior to this year the maintenance | money of each park reservation ip| the city was specified in the appro-| priation act. The new law carries one lump sum for the upkeep of parks. In various other municipal offices, | he said, the funds for detailed class- es of work are listed separately and might be grouped under general| functional headings. It is probable that the Commis- sioners will prepare the regular es- timates in the usual form and that Auditor Donovan will draft an al- ternate budget in more simplified form, so that both can be considered by the Bureau of the Budget. Maj. Donovan's plan is still in a very tentative state, however, since it will be three or four months be- fore the preparation of new estimates begins. PLEDGE MADE VETERANS BROKEN, IRWIN CHARGES Relief for Disabled Service Men Hampered by Congress, He Declares. Failure of Congress to enact legisla- tion establishing a medical corps in the Veterans' Bureau and its action in fixing next June 30 as the limit of time within which disabled veterans may enter vocational training “is a repudiation of the nation’s pledge” to its defenders, declared a statement issued today by Frank J. Irwin, na- tional commander of the Disabled American Veterans, The statement said “further weak- ening of the unsatisfactory medical division is inevitable” as a result of the failure of the bill passed by the House. WOMAN MUST BE HANGED. ATLANTA, Ga., March 9.—Mrs. Ida Hughes was today resentenced to die on the gallows, and Friday, April 24, set as the date, for the murder of her mother-in-law, Mrs. M. C. Hughes, December 31, 1922. The death sentence was recently affirmed by the State Supreme Court, making resentencing necessary. ° As the woman was convicted be- fore the method of execution in Georgla was changed from hanging to electrocution, she was again sentenced to be hanged. Photograph taken Saturday, when Charles Evans George for a trip to Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. RESSED MAN. Trousers like these, st be worh by the well dressed man. hem of the leg is 22 inches in diame- rn in Washington. Copyright by Underwood & Two Underwood. | | | The National Capital probably will, |have a second native son looking | after its interests on the House Dis-| | trict committes which has legislative jurisdiction over the affairs of the City of Washington during the next Congress. Representative Henry R. Rathbone, Republican, of Illinois, who was born in Washington, was an.active friend of the District of Columbia on this committee during the Sixty-eighth Congress and expects to remain on the District committee in the Sixty- ninth Congress. Now comes Representative William Radford Coyle, Republican, of Bethle- hem, Pa., who was born in “Grant Row,” East Capitol street. in 1878, and who is being considered seriously for one of the Republican vacancies on the District committee. His own life and education in local institu- tions as well as family traditions make him thoroughly a native son of the Capital City. His great-grand- father's family came to the District at the time the Federal Government was moved from Philadelphia to ‘Washington, his great-grandfather be- ing an assistant to one of the cabinet officers at that time. High School Graduate Here. Representative Coyle moved with his parents to the Georgetown section in early youth, and he attended the Georgetown grade schools and W graduated from the Western High School in 1895 and the Central High School in 1896. He was a member of the Western High Cadet Regiment that marched in the inaugural parade of 1893. In 1896, Mr. Coyle went to the In- dian Territory with Mr. Fitch of the United States Geological Survey, and served on survey work in West Vir- ginla, Tennessee and New York. He later studied at the George Washing: ton University here (then known as Columbian University) in 1837 and 1898. He was commissioned in the United States Marines fa 1900, serving at the old headquarters at the War College, at Norfolk, at Philadelphia and on the Prairie, Charleston and Tennes- see. In 1904 he was married at Bethle- hem to Miss Jane Weston Dodson, Gen. Smedley Butler being one of the ushers at the wedding and Mr. Coyle’s brother, Maj. Randolph Coyle, now in command of marine barracks at Cavite, P. I, being groomsman. He has two children; Bill, 18, and Jane Weston, 10. Representative Coyle was a student under Senator George Wharton Pep- per at the University of Pennsyl- vania Law School in 1906 and 1907. He saw further service as major In the “Devil Dogs” during the World War, at. Parris. Island. b Representative Coyle Is a real “dirt farmer.” It,is of interest that his Pennsylvania farm is one of the Dur- ham Furnace farms. The house on it was built in 1728 and was more than 50 years old at the time George Washington occupled it, during the Revolutionary War. Benjamin Frank- lin was one of the original stock- holders in the old Durham Furnace Co., which poured the first iron ore in Pennsylvania and also made mu- nitions for the Continental Army. In 1906 Representative Coyle or- An ideal tennis costume, for 1t is comfortable and modest. The neck- less sweater is worn over a thin silk blouse, and the trousers are of the loose flannel variety. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. OFFICIALS SEE FLYERS “BOMB” FORT MONROE. “drill demonstration” of anti-aircraft artillery against airplanes at Fort Monroe, Va. Left 1 as scoring only one “h Air Service expires April 27), Representative O'Sullivan of Connecticut, representing the aircraft ative Sons May Serve Capital As House District Committeemen | | ( H Representative William R. Coyle, Being Considered H|S UUUNSELS lRE for Appointment, Has City’s Welfare at Heart. Representative Rathbone Already Member. ganized a National Guare company at Bethlehem and was its first captain in the old 4th Pennsylvania Regi- ment. This company afterward served in the famous Rainbow Division in France. He is one of the organizers of the Rotary Club in Bethlehem and was the first Boy Scout commissioner in Bethlehem. He also served as a member of the Bethlehem school board for two terms. One of the most important and big- gest jobs Mr. Coyle has ever handled was acting as trustee in bankruptey winding up the affairs of the Tide- water Coal Exchange, which began in 1921 and was completed only a short time ago. Mr. Coyle was the only trustee on whom all creditors | would agree, and the whole coal trade of the East was represented. Prominent Coal Dealer. Mr. Coyle has terested in the coal business for some years, and in 1922 was elected president of the American Wholesale Coal Association. Mr. Coyle has a historical ances- try. He is the son of Randolph Coyle, who was the assistant United States attorney in charge of the prosecu- tlon of Charles Guiteau, who assas- sinated President Garfield. His grandfather for whom named, Admiral Willlam Radford, went into Richmond after the fall of that city in the party of President Lincoln. In 1825 Mr. Coyle's grand- father, on his sixteenth birthday, iled as a midshipman on the ‘Brandywine” on the voyage which took Lafayette back to France after his second visit to the United States. MRS. EMMA F. TRUE DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Wife of Washington Physician ‘Was Resident Here for Nearly 87 Years. Mrs. Emma F. True, wife of Dr. Al- fred Charles True and a resident of this city nearly 37 Years, died at her residence, 1604 Seventeenth street, yes- terday, after a long iliness. Mrs. True was born at Essex, N. Y., where she was married in 1875, and went with her husband to Westfield, Mass., where he taught in the State Normal School. He also taught at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. She is survived by her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth T. Twamley of New York City; a granddaughter, Miss_Mary Rebecca Twamley, and son, Henry Hyde True of Lakeland, Fla. Funeral services will be conducted at Foundry M. BE. Church tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. Interment will be at Flush- ing, Long Island, where Dr. True's parents are buried. been actively in- he is Representative's Overcoat Stolen. Theft of an overcoat belonging to Representative J. J. Manlove of Mis- souri, was reported to the police yes- terday. The garment was taken from room 186, House Office Building, and Representative Manlove said there was a muffier and pair of gloves fn the pockets. D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 192 i Vi, THE PRESIDENT, HIS COOLIDGE ATTEND gathered at the First Congregational Church vesterday to see the Presid President and Mrs. C father. olidge were o right: Admiral Strauss, Gen. Frie STOKES ROUSES Arguments With Prosecutor in Conspiracy Trial Anger Millionaire’s Lawyer. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 9.—Cross-exami- | nation of W D. Stokes, millionaire hotel continued today, his | fourth on the wintess stand, in his trial with Robert F. Lee, Chicago negro, for conspiracy to defame wife, Mrs. Helen Ellwood Stokes. Milton D. Smith, assistant State's attorney, continued his driving ques- tioning, undeterred by the warning Friday by Judge W. N. Gemmill that he thouzht the State possibly had de- stroyed its case by asking unsupport- ed accusatory question: Mr. Stokes testified today that after their marriaze he allowed Mrs. Stokes $500 a month for pin money, and de- nied that he knew Mrs. Stokes had an income of $200 a month and expenses from her mother, Mrs. Arthur Scott Miller of Denver, who had an income | of $1,500 a month. He denied that his son of his first marriage, W. D. Stokes, jr., ever had been forced to lend money to Mrs. Stokes, except in possibly one instance for theater tickets. Mr. Stokes testified that Etta Wright, caretaker at the Everleigh Club, a former Chicago resort, identi- fled a picture of Mrs. Stokes as that of “Helen Underwood, former in- mate Under Mr. Smith's questioning, Mr. | owner Sokes argued so heatedly that C. F. Rathbun of Chicago, his counsel, arose and demanded of the aged defendant: Bere or don’t you?” Each question brought on a long ar- gument, the cross-examiner shouting and gesticulating, the witness match- ing his efforts, and Rathbun and W. W. Smith, assistant State's attorney, wrying to interpose objections. Much of the cross-examination dealt with pictures from Mrs. Stokes' album. Rebuked Third Time. In trying to force a *yes” or answer to his question, “Did you want the children in 19237 Mr. Smith encountered his third rebuke from Judge Gemmill. “Cross-examination is like any other examination,” said the judge; “we are seeking the truth and noth- ing but the truth. You have a certain right, but the defendant has an am- ple and very broad right.” Mr. Stokes answered, after the question had been rephrased: I wanted: to see that the children were provided for; I do not know whether Iam a proper person to have custody; whether any man is a proper person to have direct custody of young chil- dren. Mr. Stokes identified a letter, he had written to a Chicago agent in which he said he wanted to paint his wife in such colors that it would be shown in court she was not a proper’ per- son to have charge of their two chil- dren, whose custody had been given her by a Colorado court. “I wanted to do it for the children, Mr. Stokes declared. The defendant testified that since he started his investigation he had learned that none of the informa- tion obtained in his tkree-year search would have been admissible Im his New York divorce suft. “no’ Members of Congress and officials of the “Do you want me to represent you | accompanied by Col. John Coolidze CHURCH. it leave the morning services. of Army and Navy The anti-aircraft weapons and Coast Artillery are recorded Gen. Patrick, Brig. Gen. Mitchell (whose term as assistant chief of the Army vestigating committee of Congress. Two thousand persons The the President’s by Miller Service Ve, ht Plymouth, were on hand Friday to see a Copsright by P. & A. Photos Ghost Ship Proves Heap of Seaweed, Under Queer Light Weird tales of phantoms at sea continue to drift in. Among the { latest is one concerning a strange | derelict which appeared to mariners | only at night A Coast G search of the menac rd cutter set out in posedly drifting cruised extensively through waters from which had come several reports of the odd sight. Reconnoitering all “about and keeping a keen lookout for the strange night-appearing wreck, officers of the cutter discovered that under a certain weird light at night “there appeared an object strangely similar to a derelict. On closer observation and examina tion, it was found to be seaweed, which, when lifted on the crest of a swell, looked like vessel bottom up. DECLARES FEMINISM AND PEACE GO TOGETHER One Impossible Without Other, Says Mrs. Alice Beal Parsons, Addressing Union Meeting. Declaring that feminism and peace will stand or fall together because | woman can enjoy freedom only dur- ing peace, Mrs. Alice Beal Parsons of {New York addressed the Women's { Peace Union at a meeting held at the ational Women's Party headquarters yesterday afternoon. that the world powers put aside as the Americans did duelling. on the grounds that both are wrong. She asserted that the method of present days in attempting to name |a tribunal to settle disputes is un- | satisfactory. ““Duellists did not for |a minute assume that they could set- Public in- tribunal. sentiment simply went.” MAN OF MYSTERY DIES, LIFE’S SECRET UNTOLD Man Known as “Dr. Protar,” Un- identified for 50 Years. Possibly Exiled Russian Nobleman. By the Associated Press. ST. JAMES, BEAVER ISLAND. Mich., March 9.—Beaver Island's man of mystery Is dead. When he is buried tomorrow he will take with | him the secret of his identity, which he has preserved for the 50 vears he has lived here. The man, known only as “Drf. Pro- tar,” was believed to have been a Russian nobleman in exile. Up to the time of the World War he re- ceived remittances from Russia, which ceased amout 1918, “Dr. Prgtar” all possifle papers of identification. He possessed an extensive library, including many books of travel. “Protar” was called “Doctor” be- cause he frequently went about the island ministering to the sick, al- though he never accepted payments for his services and always made it clear he was not a graduate physi- clar® For the past few years he has been in almost destitute circumstances, making a frugal living by selling the produce of a small farm. His age was unknown. { ethically | sisted that duelling must go, and it | apparently destroyed | | early [product’ when he saw the officers. | | | | { | POLICE ARREST 3 INNARCOTIC RAID Chinese Held and Seizure of Large Quantity of Opium Is Reported. 1 floor a 318 vesterday E. Bur herty and a a raid on a room on an upper t avenue of Pennsylvania morning Lieut and Detectives Guy Fla- three Chin ed h ed dollars pi The officers had received informa- tion that a cons ment of narcc had been received here from Philadel- phia and were m ng an inve ga- tion when Lee Linfi, 17 years old, who is at liberty on $2,000 bond on an im- migration charge, opened a barred door and started out He is sald to have discarded i of the oplum He was placed under arrest. Lee Look 48, occupant of the r m, is alleged to have been caught “rolling a pill,” while Sing Lee, 11, is leged to have been “hitting the pipe The three Chinamen were and the smoking material tzed. When arraigned before United Statrs Commissioner Macdonald this afterndon the three Chinamen waived examina- tion and were held for action of the lingame Dowd arrested they worth of say se several arrested Mrs. Parsons, who is a writer, urged “hm‘.: Jury in $300 bonds each. war, COMMITTEE APPthES MITCHELL’S SUCCESSOR tle their disputes by appealing to a | Favorable Report to Senate on Col. Fechet, Nominated Assistant Chief Army Air Service. The nomination of Lieut. Col. Janies E. Fechet to cceed Brig. Gen. William E. Mitchell as assistant chief of the Army Air Service was approved '‘to- day by the Senate military committee. The action was taken after Seore- 'y of War Weeks had explained to the committee the controversy that recently developed over Gen. Mitchell Chairman Wadsworth said he knew of no opposition to the mominatior NOTED COMPOSER DEAD. | - ta: Moszkowski, Ruined by War, Long in Poor Health. PARIS, March 9.—Moritz Moskow- ski, pianist and composer, is dead at his home here. Born at Breslau, Germany, on August 23, 1854, he studied at Dresden and Berlin and for many year8® was a teacher at the Kullak Academy. He established his home here in 1897. He was financially ruined by the World War and ill health obliged him to give up his teaching. His declin- ing years were made easier by the cfferts of Paderewski, Harold Bauer and many of his American pupi Among his better known works are a symphony, “Jeanne d’Arc,” in four movements; a group of Spanish dances, an opera, “Boabdil,” and & ct ballet, “Laurin.”