Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1925, Page 3

b . born in Washington, (7o DF ALTRESS ENDS LFE WTHPOSON DRAF Miss Charlotte Flather, For- mer Protege of Noted Au- thoress, Was Born Here. ated Press. RK, March 14.—Miss Char- lotte Carter Flather, actress and writer, ended her life in her fashionable apart- uent today by drinking poison. She had been despondent because of ill health and inability to find employment. Miss Flather went under the name of Carter when she left her home in Wash- ington, D. C., the age of 18, to em- bark on She tng o Darnke e career. ad penned seven notes, includ- » to her father, H. H. Fiather, a , of Meriden, Conn ather had written many short d contributed feature articles 'to magazines and syndicates. Among her friends was Mary Roberts Rinchart, who dedicated one of her books to her. Friends recalled that several years ago, after a trip to Europe, Miss lather had attempted to take her own life because she was without funds to meet a hotel bill Miss Charlotte Carter Flather was nd lived here with her parents while- her father, H. H. Flather, was attached to the Treasury Department. She left this city, however, when she was quite young. Flather included among her 1ds Mary Roberts Rinehart, who couraged her in her literary and theatrical ambitions. GIZA TOMB IS SEALED AT REISNER'S REQUEST SFurther Investigation Awaits Ar- rival of Harvard Expert, Prob- ably After June Examinations. s the Assoclated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ptian authorities T {George A. Relsner, director of the Jarvard-Boston Egyptian expedition, fthat the tomb recently found at Giza By the expedition, has been sealed at Reisner's request, and, wi n closed until his arrival in E The tomb, which is belleved to d ®ack 1,700 s before that of Tut- s discovered while Dr. sner, who is professor of ©gy at Harvard, and director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, was in “merica. Dr. Relsner s not March 14.—The ve notified Dr. e id today that he had decided when he would be able ume his explorations at Giza. believed, however, that he leave in June, after the final examinations at Harvard TWO DIE IN FIRE. Son Loses Life Seeking to Save Mother—Father and Brother Hurt. MILFORD, Conn., March 14.—Mrs. Jones and her son, George s, jr., 21, of Bridgeport, were °d to death ecarly today, and the father and another son, Stanley, 14, | are in a hospital as a result of in- juries received in a fire which earl today destroyed their cottage at Wal- nut Beach, which tiey were preparing for Summer use. | The son apparently was suffocated and burned to death while trying to reach his mother, who was abed in an upper room of the cottage. The fire apparently started from a kerosene lamp used by Mrs. Jones in her bedroom. SPECIAL NOTICES. ORDER WITH I kinds of hedges. greens and hbery — furnighed and d. F. A HERRELL. gardeoer. 7128 l0th Lincoln 3640, 3 RE RED 3 RED AND UPHOLSTER- g at your h 1l go anywhere, Address (o all e "FLOOD & "¢ hone North 6863, ARCHIT] Tork North SaNi 70 D. 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Rear 1414 V St. V. - — 0T THEPRE CAN BE —po better reason for giving us your printing than the fact that IT PAYS | to do so. {The National Capital Press 12101212 D ST. N.W. 121 5th b.w, WASHING & STORING “Our New Modern Plant Whe Jargest of its kind in the city, is ready Call Main_ 3321, Bedell’s Factory : 8 B st N.W. S | by coercion. CHAPMAN’S ATTORNEYS | SEEK CHANGE OF VENUE | Declare Publicity Has Made Fair Trial Impossible in Con- necticut City. By the Asociated Press. HARTFORD, Conn, March 14.—A determined move to take out of Hart- ford County the trial of Gerald Chap- man, notorious bandit, who is charged with the murder of a policeman in New Britain, was started yesterday by Fred- erick J. Groehi of New York and C. W. Murphy of Danbury, defense lawyers. Chapman fs confined in jail at Wethers- fleld. A motion for a change of venue will be heard before Judge Newell Jennings in Superfor Court here Tuesday. Chap- man’s attorneys maintain that publicity concerning him has caused opinions prejudical to him to be formed in this county. State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn will oppose the motion. The Chapman trial is scheduled for Tuesday, March 24. LIGHTLESS TRUCK BETRAYS DRIVER Negro Held on Charge of Stealing $1,000 in Clothing When Police Stop Him. Failure of Joseph Allen, colored, 27 years old, to have lights on a motor truck he was driving near Thirteenth and E streets about 3 o'clock this morning was a means of his capture on charges of alleged burglary and joyriding. Nearly $1,000 worth of men’s wearing apparel found in his truck had been stolen from the store of Hoover Zook, 1342 G street. Policemen M. B. Payne and E. W. Gore of the first precinct sighted the lightless truck moving south on Thir- teenth street and thought they would teach the driver a lesson by arrest- ing him and requiring him to answer in Traffic. Before they had time to question him about his fallure to have the truck lighted, however, they noticed the truck contalned an assortment of overcoats, hats and numerous other varieties of men's wear. “Where did you get all this stuff?” one of the policemen asked Allen “Bought it,” was the latter's re- sponse. Confession Is Reported. When asked where he had made the purchase, however, he hesitated to re- 1y, but finally admitted it was stolen, e reported, and took them to the G street store and showed how he had perpetrated the robbery. Allen, residing at 616 Third street southwest, was employed by Z. Hin- ken, decorator, 3552 Georgia avenue, nd some time ago, while at the Zook establishment, he stated, he noticed how easy it would be to affect an en- trance through a rear door, and this morning he went there in his em- ployer's truck, taking the vehicle without permission None of the numerous keys found in his possession fitted the lock, and he broke a glass panel, reached | through the opening and unfastened it. Loading tha stock on the truck, Allen started to drive home, but was prevented from reaching there be- cause of his arrest for failure to have the truck lighted. Zook, summoned to examine the loot, told the police of its value, and Allen’s employer sald the truck had been taken without his permission. The prisoner will be ar- raigned in Police Court Monday. NAVAL CUTS FIRST, IS COOLIDGE PLAN FOR ARMS PARLEY (Continued from First Page.) for American exclusion of Ori- immigrants. (Copyright, 1925.) COOLIDGE EXPECTS RESULTS. Believes Time Ripe for Definite Action on Armament Cut. and ental While awaiting more complete and authentic advices concerning the dis- rmament situation abroad, President Coolidge believes recent developments there, as aiready indicated, have opened the way to a more definite approach to the project of another arms limitation conference to be called by the United States. As goon as more definite advices are in hand as to the effect of recent de- velopments at Geneva concerning the League of Nations' disarmament and security protocol, the President purposes to give close attention to the matter in conference with Secretary Kellogg. Any step approaching a formal presentation of the conference idea to the nations in- terested, however, will await a_ survey Boy Arrested in Hold-Up Case. Otto Wilkinson Utley, 17 years old, 118 South Belmont avenue, Richmond, Va., was arrested this morning by Detectives Springmann and Darnall for the Richmond authorities. He is wanted in Richmond in connection | h the investigation of a hold-up f @ storekeeper, according to the Richmond authorities. He denies knowing anything of the affair. A revolver was found fn his suit case. of the situation on the basis of more authentic advices to be received through official channel As vet, there has been no actual approach’ to any of the powers on the subject, and the conferences plan- ned by the President with his Secre- tary of State will, in fact, be the initial move in getting the many preliminaries attending the project under way. Will Push Plan. While it will be for these discus- slons to determine the plan of pro- cedure, Mr. Coolidge at this time fa- vors a simultaneous approach to the various powers. Under such a plan it would then remain for Setretary Kellogg to lay the project before the governments at London, Paris, Rome and Tokio through the American Am- bassadors there, with the reactlon of each to be reported to Washington. While hopeful that it would be fa- vorably received by each of the gov- ernments, it is the present intention of President Coolidge that, in the cvent of a contrary development, the Washington Government shall go forward with the project with such governments as are agreeable. The President’ would like to see both land and naval armaments brought within the scope of the con- ference, but as to neither phase’will the American policy be other than one of moral appeal, in no way marked D e AR R Veth’s Bride Freed; to Visit Him. Mrs. Adelaide Lucille Veth, Chicago, wife of Edison Frederick Veth, who was shot in the leg last Sunday when | he was alleged to have been caught robbing the dental office of Elzey & Elzey, 524 Tenth street, this morning was released from the House of De tention in custody of Detective Liv. ingston and her mother, Mrs. Ada Goss, to visit her wounded husband | in Gallinger Hospital. It is probable that she will be- discharz.d from custody this afternoon in time to re- turn home with her mother tonight. \ THE EVENING OIL TRIAL HINGING ON FALL FINANCES Court to Decide on Admission of Bank Accounts Data in Trial. By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 14.—The Teapot Dome trial came to the close of its first week yesterday with its followers anxiously awaiting the ruling of Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy on the question of admit- ting the secrets of Albert B. Fall's bank accounts into the records of the case, which will have an important bearing on the Government's chaln of evidence. If Judge Kennedy sustains the ob- jections of defense counsel, that the records are incompetent because they prove no financial connection between Fall and Harry F. Sinclair, whose Mammoth Oil Company was granted the Teapot Dome lease, the Govern- ment will be practically without a means of proving that Liberty bonds, once belonging to Sinclair, eventually found their way into Fall's hands. Will Nullity Fight. If Judge Kennedy rules that the records are relevant because, as Owen J. Roberts, Government counsel, con- tends, they will establish a basls upon which the plaintiff expects later to base evidence of conspiracy, much of the stiff fight which has been put up by Sinclair's so-called “million-dollar counsel” will have been in vain. The week saw the taking of testimony of several witnesses and the reading of depositions. These included the ex- amination of Theodore Roosevelt, jr., former Assistaht Secr tary of the Navy, and John G. Shafroth, former lleutenant commander of the Navy, who were opposed to the policy of the former Secretary of the Interior in his opening of Teapot Dome to private interests; Kenneth C. Heald, geologlst, who was examined as to the location of the “saddle” between Teapot Dome and the Salt Creek fleld, and others regarding events in Wash- ington before and after the granting of the lease April 7, 1922, An attempt was made yesterday by the Government to connect Sinclair with the defunct Continental Trading Co. of Toronto, which is alleged to have been formed by H. M. Blackmer and James E. O'Neil, American oil men, with H. S. Osler of Toronto and Sinclair, to purchase oil for the Sin- clair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. and the Prairie Oll and Gas Co. and take a profit of 25 cents a barrel on the supply, which was to have come from A. E. Humphreys, Colorado and Texas producer. Humphreys testified on cross-exam- ination that Sinclair attended the or- ganization meeting of the Canadian orporation in New York in Novem- ber, 1921, only as a representative of the purchasing company bearing his name. 20 YEARS IN PRISON IS GIVEN IN KILLING Negro Pleaded Guilty to Shooting Woman—TJealousy Is De- clared Cause. John Howard, colored, was sen- tenced today by Chlef Justice McCoy, In Criminal Division 2, to serve 20 vears in the penitentiary. Howard re- cently pleaded gullty to murder in the second degree, when the grand jury had returned an indictment for mur- der in the first degree in connection with the shooting to death of Grace Coates, also colored. Jealousy Is sald to have led to the shooting. Attorney Abner Siegal told the court that the minimum sentence would serve the ends of justice, and the chief justice adopt- ed this view. The chief justice colned the word “low-jackers” today as distinguished trom “hi-jackers” as persons stealing large quantities of liquor stocks from bootleggers are known. Three col- ored men were up for sentence for steallng 60 quarts. The chief justice sent them to Occoquan for one year each. The prisoners are John Fitz- hugh, Raymond Addair and Willlam Goraam. Peter Young, colored, who pleaded gullty to two sales of narcotics to Government agents, was sent to the penitentiary for three vears. Fred W. Carson, also colored, got three years, and James G. Wiilis, colored, two years and six months on dope selling charges. Douglas Beal, col- ored, drew elght months at Occoquan for possession of narcotics. Probation under suspended sen- tences of one year each was extended by Chief Justice McCoy to Willlam E. Shipman, white, non-support; Howard Simms, colored, housebreaking; Mary F. Lee, colored, assault; Agnes L. Page, white, violating postal laws, and Lillian MacDonald, colored, dope selling. Sam - Love flames up, flickers, dies out— but hate may smolder on forever! Painting--Paperhanging Homes, Clubs, Sckools, Office Buildings, Apartment Houses Harry W. Taylor 2333 18th St. N.W. Col. 1077 ASelect School 'WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR Washingion DG APARTMENTS At Reasonable Rentals 23rd & N Streets NORTHWEST 3 to 4 Rooms & Bath $50 to $65 Now Ready for OCCUPANCY Open for Inspection WwarpMAN 1430 K Street Main 3830 STAR, WASHINGTON, CATHOLIC CHILDREN URGED TO STRIKE Bishop Calls on Pupils to Stay From Schools in Pro- test Against Herriot Edict. By the Associated Press. STRASBOURG, France, March 14— Bishop Ruch of Strasbourg, has called a_school strike throughout Alsace, effective Monday, as a protest against the institution by the French govern- ment of interconfessional or religi- | ously neutral schools. | The strike will continue three days | in Colmar and one day in all the other communities of the two depart- ments of Lower and Upper Rhine comprising Alsace, the announcement says, “and if required it will be re-| newed to last as long as necessary The bishop, In u proclamation ad- dressed to the Catholic fathers and mothers, says the “committee of ac- | tion for religious defense® decided | upon the strike. After glving the in- structions regarding it, he adds: “Your bishop fully approved this determination. He makes it his ow: and asks you, dear parents, to execute it en masse without hesitation.” | Calls Strike as Warning. | The proclamation calls the strike one of “general warning and menace.” The parents are asked “not to send any of thelr children on Monday, March 16, to the officlal primary schools of the departments of the Up- per and Lower Rhine. The interconfessional schools to D. €., BATURDAY, MARECH 14, 1925. ESTATE NETS $5,000,000. Inventory Filed of Property of Packer’s Widow. CHICAGO, March 14—A supple- mental inventory of the estate of Mrs. Ann M. Swift, widow of Gustavus F. Swift, a founder of the packing firm of Swift & Co., filed in the probate court today, showed it to be valued at $7,095 taxes, debts and administration ex- penses bring the net value of the estate to approximately $5,000,000. Ordered to Camp Meade. Warrant Officer Alfred Filler has been relieved from duty at the gen- eral intermediate depot, Brooklyn, M ¥ and has been ordered to C: Meade, Md., for duty. APPLY TO MANA which the bishop objects will opened Monday in Colmar, it is n by order of M. Herrfot.” This of school, in which Catholic o is abolished, would separate all faiths for religious instruction schools were authorized by the mier “under local laws,” refer- ence being to an old statute. but the | bishop says that the conditions un- | der which such schools might le, be established have not heen fulfilled and he declares that “the introduc- tion of the Interconfessional school is an attack on Catholic conscience.” be ed. | form | ntrol | the | The | Glives His Bleasing. The proclamation refers to the re- cent action of the French bishop in declaring the new institution to be a peril to the faith and morality and declares that unless the Catholics react now “the Catholic school will disappear from Alsace. Since petitions and protests have been unavailing, the proclamation continues, the Catholics must resort to a strike “to obtain fulfillment of the promise of Joffre and Polncare, Clemenceau and Millerand, so that Germany close by shall not be a wi ness to France perjuring herself. The bishop concludes: “Your action will signify that if| | the liberty of conscience and relig- ious rights of a single Alsatian are touched all his brothers will be with him to compel the persecutor to back. That is why this action quired. It is legitimate, and bishop blesses it.” Suit Over Dog’s Sudden Deatk. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., March 14— Claiming that Marshall Wilson “shot off and discharged a gun loaded with | powder and shot at and against my | dog, and that by reason thereof the dog died,” Homer Willison, who lives near Rush, Allegany County, has filed suit against Wilson for $500 damages. | portation. thoroughly dist tion of Army b Ty | Payment of inheritance | OFFICE SUITE FOR RENT OTIS BUILDING (18th St., North of H) Favorable Parking Location Low Rentals PERSHING AMONG GUESTS. West Point Class, 1861, Annual Dinner. Col. Dwight Davis, Acting Secre- tary of War; Gen. Johr J. Pershing, | and former Senator H. A. du Pont of | | Delaware, a graduate of the class of | | 1861, will attend the annual dinner of graduates of the United States Military Academy, to be held at the City Club Saturday evening, March 31." Col. J. R. 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