Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1925, Page 17

[y R WHITE COURT TO BECOME the President plans to spend has been leased by Frank W. § the photograph), a THE GERMAN A vesterday, when Baron his credentials to Pre retary of State, and the President’s A0 OYSTER-TYPHOID VIGTIMS REPORTED Medical Journal Figure Not Fully Accepted, However, by Health Officer. . By the Ass CHICAGO, and Hartford cities in the country without a single death from typhoid fever 1924, says the current issue of the Journal of the American Medicai As which emphasizes the genera record of the Atlantic “It is well known that deaths from | typhoid fever constitute an index to the sanitary conditions of the iys the journal in con nection with the publication of its ‘thirteenth annual statistical typhoid record for cities over 100,000 popula- tion. “Th alvsix for 1624 that geographical location has con- | stderavle Le on the typhold feve ted Prers. March were 13.—Fall th River only large in ociation, | 1y good seaboard shows Refers To Capital's Caxex. w England States main- tained excellent records while the oyster-typhoid epldemic gave w York a higher typhoid mortality than for several years, with as many as | 650 excess in that elty, and Washington C.. had about 350 cases from same cause, the journal said. Richmond, Washington and Balti- more, among the South Atlantic cit- tes, reported the lowest typhoid rates in their history In the Central States, Indianapolis and Toledo “continue to show high rates although beginning to approximate more nearly what | might be considered a normal inci- | dence of the disease.”” Louisville and Birmingham have rates exceedingly Jow, “whe Nashville and Memphis Produce figures so amazingly high as to require sp investigation,” ac- cording to the juornal ! The ) the Fowler Analyzes Cases Here. ! Health Officer Willlam C. Fowler said today he was not prepared either | to deny or to affirm the statement that Washington has had 50 cases of typhoid fever resulting from the eat- | ing of raw oyste He did, however, reveal a number ©f. facts taken from the records of the department, Including the follow- ing: Out of 131 separate s ters analyzed by the Health ‘ment within the past few months, only two samples were found to be bad, or containing more than the nor- mal amount of bacteria Causes Not Definitely Traced. Out of 68 cases of typhoid fever re- ported from November 15 to January 15, 22 patients stated they had eaten raw oysters, But 18 of those 22 pa- tients also reported having eaten raw vegetable Dr. Fowler said he would admit that the eating of raw oysters by a person may be a suspicious circumstance, but he did not belleve it could be taken' as conclusive evidence that the oys- ters caused the illness unless they could be analyzed, especially where they had also eaten other uncooked food, such as raw vegetables, In'the cases in which the patients had eaten both oysters and raw vege- tables, the health officer sald he could not attempt to say which of the two classes of food caused the illness, or whether either of them was respon- sible, mples of oys- Depart- | part of his time this Summer. carns, ADOR PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS. go von Maltzan, the newly appointed German Ambassador to Washington, presented ident_Coolidge. fto | of Thirty | surance Co e THE “SUMMER WHITE HOUSE.” The estate, The Ambassador was accompanied aides. TERRITORY DIVIDED BY CITIZEN GROUP | Georgetown and Burleith As- sociations to Pass on Agree- ment Reached. At a meeting of committees repre- senting the Georgetown Citizens' As- sociation and the new Burleith Citi- zens' Association last night at the Potomac Savings Bank, the George- town representatives agreed to cede the new assoclation t of its territory to the northwest, excepting Western High School No final agreement was reached last night, as the committees are to report to thelr respective association: The offer of the Georgetown associa- tion was to give up their claim to I territory in a northwest direction Reservoir road and the middle Thirty-fifth street. The Burleith ociation had claimed both sides street and Western High The committee meeting was de- scribed as amicable, representatives of the older association welcoming the new, but desiring, for ‘“senti- mental reasons,” to keep Western High School. The Burleith committee was headed Henry B. Robinson, the Georgetown committee by John H. Ihlde NOTED BUSINESS MAN MEETS DEATH SUDDENLY | Walter C. Humstone, Trust Com- pany Official, New York, Expires in Augusta, Ga. By the Associated Press. JUSTA, Ga., March 13.—Walter Humstone, _vice president of the Hamilton Trust Co. of New York, dled a hotel last night after®a brief The body will be sent to his in Brooklyn, tomorrow, Mr. Humstone had been a guest at a tourlst hotel here for the last month and during most of that time had been ill. His sudden death was a shock to those who were at his bed- side. He was 76 vears old. At the time of his death, besides be- ing vice president of ~the Ham- ilton Trust Co. of New York, he was a director In the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. West Pennsylvania Steel Co., United States Title Guaran- ty, the Gamewell Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph Co., and a member of the executive committee of the Telephone and Telegraph Life In- He was a thirty-second Mason and a member of sev- lusive clubs. {COLLISION BRINGS ARREST Autoist, Hitting Car in Front of Police Station, Faces 3 Charges. Ernest J. Fletcher, 614 Third street northeast, was driver of an automobile that collided early today with the car of Edgar W. Price, 3710 Henry street, Baltimore, In front of No. 9 police station, Ninth between E and F streets northeast. Fletcher left his car immediatefl after the accident happened, and was arrested at Tenth and H streets northeast shortly afterward. Charges of colllding, leaving without making his {dentity known and driving while degree Entrance to the ground | construction of the under the influence of liquor were lodged against him. ' THE EVENING o A S e i R AN Mg SR containing about 7 acre ive offices. sl Group photographed at the White House by J. Butler Wright, Assistant Sec- National Photo. STATUE OF GEN. J CONTRACT IS LET FOR MEMORIAL STONE Women's Titanic Association Orders 1,850 Tons for Mon- ument to Heroes. movement toward the Titanic Memorial, at the foot of New Hampshire ave- nue In Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, was made Wednesday when the Women's Titanic Memorial Asso- ciation let a contract to the Columbia Granite and Dredging Co. for 1,850 tons of rip-rap stone, to be used in buiiding the memorial. The memorial, which was author- ized under the appropriation act for An initial the District of Columbla for the fiscal | year ending June 30, 1918, is “to serve as a lasting tribute to those who sacrificed thefr lives during the sinking of the steamship Titanic, in order that the lives of women and children might be saved.” The officers of the executive com- mittee of the Women's Titanic Me- morial Association are: Mrs. John Hammond, chairman; Mrs. Rob- Chew, secretary; S. G. Stell- wagen, treasurer, and E. Ralph Bur- ton, attorne Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney is the sculptress of the me- morial. " The local representative in charge of the work on the memorial is Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, director of public bulldings and public parks of the National Capital. Pecan Tree Brings $2,500. From the Nature Magazine. Kosclusko, Miss., boasts what is be- lieved to be the world's most valuable tree, a pecan tree that at the age of 16_vears recently brought $2,500. It was bought by a nursery man for grafting purposes, because, although the tree had only been bearing for nine years, It produced enmormous pecans weighing 25 to a pound. The nursery man plans to use the tree for the improvement of his stock, thus making 1f worth far more than §$2,500 to its new owner. okraph by Stuart OSEPH WHEELER UNVEILEDA\ AT THE The statue was unveiled yesterday by Miss Julia Wheeler Harr s of White Court, near Swampscott, Mass., where of land, with a frontage of 400 feet on the ocean, It is probable that the President and Mrs. Coolidge will live at the Stearns home, Red Gables (at left in arge part of the time, using White Court for execut F. Ellis, Swampscott, Muss STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1925. i o VIEW OF WHITE COURT AND GROUNDS FROM THE HARBOR. The “Summer White House™ is situated on the ledge-bound edge of the ocean, overlooking Marbleh trees. The house wa 3 -1 JAPANESE ABIBASSADOR AND HIS FAMILY. Tsuneo Matsudaira, the newly arrived Ja in one of the Gapital parks’ PITOL. anese pepresentative in Washington, with his family, afternoon. National Fhoto. Photograph by WHITE HOUSE ROMANCE CULMINATES WITH WEDDING stenographer to the President, and Mrs. Geis of the secretary to the President, BEL ser, formerly Miss Dori leaving St. Patrick’s Church yesterd Rena Clifford, bridesmaid, and James R. Kenny, the best man. The third statue of a Confederate leader to be placed in Statuary Hall. » a daughter of Senator Harris and a granddaughter of Gen. Wheeler CHILD MARRIAGES NOT IDYLLIC, SAGE FOUNDATION PROBE FINDS} SCORES A SUCCESS Investigators O'p[ie}se Early Wedlock and Also|choral section’s Second Program Unions Where There Is a Great Disparity of Ages%Mycfg’ Intermarriage Disclosed. NEW YORK, arch 13=—After in- tigating the . probiem f child marriages, the Russell Sage Founda- tion, in a report. made pubfic today, says its study dispels the idea that there Is something idyllic about such youthful unions. ¥ The investigators conclusions are opposed to marriage at too Young an age, because of, thé physfal and mental immaturity of the contracting children, or because, in_theifase of a girl child married to dn olfer man, “neither may ever know.the meaning of genuine comradeship in fhe mar- riage relation.’ ‘5 e The foundation), recently;}declared that there are 7040}000.&persds in the United States fvifns§¥ete Imarried when under 16. ¥ Thelpercefitage of marriages of girff 4 *t9 Jears old is lowest in N Yark Cit¥ and in ew England. i)nn tile Pacgic coast and in mountajnojisi stal it is twice the New England pegcentage, and in the cenfrdl wmoutherh states three times as hifhy & Youthful marrfages are most prev- alent in remote Jural’regio As rallroads, § atitom . tele- phones, the telegbgph And Rejvspapers come to these logely the in- vestigators beli le that the child marri rease. It was found, the re- port, that in ce: commu- nities, there were not ohlysvgry early marriages, but so many' Ihtermar- riages among the cousin: of one family straln that sometimes three- fourths of the inhabitants of a vil- lage have the same surname. “The foreign habit of early mar- rlage does not persist after the first generation,” the report ys. “In fact, the foreign girld of the second gen- eration are actdally marryng at o later age than nftive BIMIS. §The air- | native American girls are married between 15 and 20, but only 6.3 per cent of the forelgn girls of the sec- ond generation are married between these ages.” Among the motives that seem to cause child marriages the investiga- tors found: The desire to escape from unhappiness in the home; to evade re- quirements of the compulsory edu- cation law; to avoid punishment for infractions of other laws. POLICEMEN FREED OF ASSAULT CHARGE Lieut. Pierson and Pvt. Proctor Proved Not Guilty of Beating Prisoner in Station. Lieut. Joseph W. Pierson and Pvt. Ralph G. Proctor of the Police De- partment, assigned to the seventh precinct, were acquitted late yester- day afternoon 'by a jury in Criminal Division 1 of a charge of assaulting Arthur A. Davis, a blacksmith, while he was a prisoner in the precinct sta- tion last September. Without deny- ing that Davis might have been beat- en, the accused officers declared they took no part in it and were not in the station at the time Davis clalms to have been assaulted. The jury deliberated about 30 min- utes before reporting its verdict of not gullty. The accused policemen were congratulated by their friends on the result of thetrial. Attorneys W. E. Leahy and Luclen H. Vandoren conducted the defense of the policemen, while the Govern- ment was represented by Assistant terence Is strikipg—13.3 per cent of | United States Attorney Fihelly, tional Photo. 'IN-COM-CO CONCERT Pleases Large Audience in Masonic Hall. The Interstate Male Chorus, which |is the choral section of the In-Com- {Co Club of the Interstate Commerce | Commission, was enthuslastically re- | celved last night at Masonic Hall by |a large audience at the club's sec | ond concert of the season. | Under direction of Clyde B. Aitchi- son. conductor, and with Robert L. Feuerstein, accompanist, the chorus presented a program varying from ‘lhe classic “Cherubim Song” from | the Russian Church Liturgy—a soi- ! emn, noble number—to some bright, prancing bits from the Russlan, which skipped and raced through increas ingly fast tempo to a thrilling finish. These were “Fireflies” and “At Father’s Door." “The Sword of Farrara” (Bullard), difficult and spirited favorite with glee clubs, was glven excellent in- terpretaticn, opening the concert, and was followed by two sweet soft num- bers—"Stars of the Summer Night" (Woodbury) and “The Lamp in the WesL” (Parker). Some of the best ensemble work of the evening, with careful shading of tone, was in “Sunrise” (Podbertsky). which opened softly and swelled to a gorgeous brilllance with the dawn. “Mammy’s Lullaby” (Spross) was de- lightfully sung to an arrangement from Dvorak's “Humoresque.” Other numbers included “The Autumn Sea” (W. Gericke) and “Found” (Van der Stucken), by the chorus and Ross Farrar, tenor soloist of the evening. Mr. Farrar was encored after a group of four numbers, responding with “Smiling Through.” His group included “Pleading” (Elgar), “But Lately in Dance” (Arensky), “The Swan” (Grieg) and “Thanks Be to God” (Dickinson). America's first ofl well is sald to have been discovered on a small jmountain farm In Wayne County, Ky., fa 1829, LEITER INDICTED IN'LIQUOR CASES Chicago Millionaire and Three Employes at Summer ‘ Home to Face U. S. Court. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 13.—Joseph Leiter of Chicago and thr mpl. b Summer in charged several home on possession of liquor in ments reported by th ju vesterday. The give the date of the as December 1 and 2 last and specify that the 85 bottles of liquors are of m s prohibition raided the were counts with il- legal indict- men = Federal cember agents on De- erly Farms estate of Lelter and seized MHquor valued at more than $4,000, which they charged had been placed there within two months. ) Watchman Arrested. A fortnight previously it had been | reported that hi-jackers had stolen $50.000 worth of liquor from the es- tate. Allen J. Harris, a watchman placed there by a private detective agency, was arrested on a charge of larceny, it being alleged that his ab- Sence at the time of the theft was prearranged Two nights later were sald to have another visit. Percy Huxley, a care- | taker, notified the Beverly police { They ‘met a gang of elght men driv- ;ing off in an automobile truck loaded | with liquor valued at $10,000. The hi-jackers overpowered the the hi-jackers pald the estate when this affair occurred. Three Employes Indicted. | ments today with Leiter were Huxle; | Bugene O'Neil and Willlam F. Col- lins, all of Beverly. Collins is chauffeur for Leiter and is charged with transportation as well as the counts of smuggling and concealment, which were lodged against the other three indicted. Several men have been arrested, including Harris, alleged com- plicity in the hi-jac.ing ralds. At the time that these were reported Mr. Leiter said at his Chicago home he was unaware that liquor had been stored on his estate. RULES IN CARMACK CASE. First Finder of Gold in Klondyke Did Not Die Penniless, Court Says. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 13.—The State Supreme Court has afirmed a judgment of the King County Su- perior Court involving the estate .of George Washington Carmack, who discovered gold in the Klondyke dls- trict of Alaska. With the exception of certain property, valued at about $10,000, which the court awarded to his widow, Marguerite Carmack, the balance of the estate in this State, said to amount to about $10,000, was either community property or Mr. Carmack’s own property, and must be administered by the administrator, the court held. Mrs. Carmack claimed Mr. Carmack died practically penniless and that all the property was hers. Graphie Grace Saftig, who claimed to be Carmack's daughter by a former marriage to an Indian woman in Alaska, also de- manded a share. police, | seized their automobile and escaped, | the final balloting Apml 25 Harris told the poli he was asleep | ety P | Right it is ad Bay, with a splendid entrance for the presidential yacht. The house contains 26 rooms. built about 20 years ago by the late Frederick E. Smith of Dayton, Obio, and is now owned by his sons. I Federal grand | ffenses | | | | The employes named in the Indict- | Otto Gessler, th | tinental The estate has many fine Stuart P. Ellls, Swamps Mass n front: Irwin Geisser, personal Ruth Salter, a stenographer in the office after their wedding. Miss Photo FIVE ARE SEEKING 10 SUCCEED EBERT German National Socialists May Nominate Sixth Man for Presidency. At right: National By the Associated Press BERLIN, M dates for the 13.—Wit German preside ready tain that t 20 to Presi- op a ma for 1fa the Jority of an votes one candidate cast any as the requirement i de an ng over to the conservativi official candidates now are Ernst T Commun Otto Braun mier, Soctalist Dr. Wilhelm Marx, ex-chancellor and present Prussian premier, Center party. Dr. the Starting from the extremi al s the aelmann, transport worker. former Prussian pre- Wilhelm Hell Baden Free Sta Dr. Karl Jarres, former m the interlor and at present aster of Duisburg, joint candidate of the parties of the rig ach, president of Democra May Be Test of Strength. 1t is generally that election of March 29 will be of strength between the R Left groups, after which prob candidates will be considered agreed In the camp of the partles of the d should Dr. Jar res not develop ent stren make likely hi ster of de thollc and a Democra very conservative, may be put f ward by the Right section for the second election in the hope of draw- Ing votes from the Centrists and Democrats. who is a ¢ TO RENEW PF:IONE SERVICE London-Berlin Connection, Severed in 1914, Soon to Be Restored. LONDON, March 13.—Direct tele- phone connection between London and Berlin, severed in August, 1914, is to be re-established during the Summer, it has been announced by the British au thorities. Telephone communication from Lon- don to the continent at present is con- fined to Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, Am- sterdam and Rotterdam. Most of the London newspapers recelve their con- news from Paris and other points by telephone, there being fixed periods during the day and night when the calls are put through. The British correspondents fn Berlin, Munich and Cologne also send most of their items by telephone through a sys- tem of relays in Brussels or Amster- dam. Prisoner Ask: Cell Term. Lloyd B. Arnold of Ottumwa, Iow pleaded his own case before Federal Judge Martin J. Wade at Council Bluffs recently, when he was brought up on a charge of using drugs. He asked the court to sentence him to a year in the penitentiary so he could get the drug out of his system. Judge Wade granted his reques ’