Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1925, Page 17

WASHINGTON GIRLS REHEARSING FOR BENEFIT MUSICAL COMEDY. Talk of the Town.” of the production, “The Sendder, El Lean and Hilda Ann Hill. WINS £1.000 and his painting, which heads the list exhibition of the National painting is titled “Across the Valle ASK AID IN FIGHT FOR ZONING PLAN Citizens” Associations Need Fund of $5,000 to Protect City’s Home Owners. at the Zoning Commission of Columbia in the pending to test the consti- of the zoning law will the law invalid for the entire Di The bars which have been erected for the protection of residen- tial sections will let down, and sny home owner is liable to have a husiness establishment installed in immed or even of of District nit now Pationalits der tri e he hborhood home next These facts are set forth in a letter out by the Federation of Citi- zens' Association today in a letter signed by uter, president of the federation addressed to the constituent bodies forming the fed- tion. The letter added that in re- sponse to a request of Commissioner Bell citizens’ committee for oper in defense of the zoning 1w been formed, with the fol- lgwing members: George A. Finch, chairman: Bd B. Henderson, chairman of the zoning committee of the federation and president of the Pin Branch Association; Gen. Eli A. Helmick, inspector general of the Army and delegate from the Cathe- dral Heights Association; John Thl- der of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and the George- town Citizens' Association, and Fred G. Coldren, chairman of the zoning *eommittee of the Mount Pleasant Citizens’ Association s own Jesse C. and has of “In view of the importance of the jssue involved. and after consulta- tion with the chairman of the Zoning Commission and the corporation counsel's office. and with their full approval, it was decided to employ the best legal assistance obtainable 1o represent home owners in their efforts to co-operate in the d fense of the law.” the letter said @award M. Bassett, counsel for the Foning committee of New York, who has had nation-wide experience in aiding other cities in the defense of . their zoning I has been engaged and is now actively co-operating with the corporation counsel's office. The case will tried in the early part of April The that while the the depend letter added amount needed to defray penses of the litigation will upon its length, it is estimated that a guaranty fund of = $5,000 will - be sufficient to pay for the expert Services petained The federation last Satusday night 2dopted resolutions urging the con- stituent bodies to lend their aid and | encouragement to the fight, and di- rected its president to bring to the attention of thé other organizations the importance of upholding the zon- ing law. “With the support of the FPirited citizens of Washington, fight will be won” the letter con- cluded. “Here is an opportunity for the citizens' associations and their members to demonstrate their prac- tieal interest in the proper civie de- velopment of their beautiful Capital City,” Contributions should he sent to «¥3. A Bowles of fhe Potoma Bank, the letter saidy public- this ALTMAN PRIZE WITH LANDS Academ ex- | THE EVENING Left to right: Misses IAPE. Hobart Nichols t of prize winners in the 100th annual of Design, New York City. The Wide World Photo. TECH TO PROTEST FRAT RULE EVASION Katherine Wrenn, Jessie Adkin abeth Greenlease, Norville Munford, Mary Happer, Eleanor Snyder, Claudia Read, Beatrice Me- (Will Not Play Teams Whose | ‘ Members Are Concealing Society Affiliations. o Frank Kinley Manual principal of Me- Training School, tc day declared the school would not put a team on the field against any other high school which would be represented in athletic contests by fraternap members whom Tech be- lieves have not made known their afillations. | Declaring that every boy and girl | in Tech High School who had a con- | nection with a secret society had ad- mitted their membership and ac- cepted the ruling of the Board of Education that the student auto- matically is barred from any school | activity, Mr. Daniel d that the would not put a crippled team against Central or any other high school which | had fraternity men playing who had not confessed their violation of the board's ruling Daniel, Knows of Members. While authorities of other schools may not know that athletes now in training nd ready to take the field in track and base ball are fraternity members, Coach Everett P. Hardell aid his boys know of several such instances at other schools The representatives of the ( {letter chapters have no connec | with the chapters at Tech, because. | it is believed, all fraternity “broth- ‘|nr~' of Tech in other schools had | followed the same course as the Tech members in making known their | memberships. | “If we know that have no member dell, “we’ll send in a team to meet | them if the members walk on I erutches and wear black goggles, but we 't think it is fair for Tech to suffer by its honesty the other teams said Coach Har- Spring Play Progresses. Tech's Spring play, “Secret Sery- is being whipped into shape de- spite the loss of two or three major and several minor players through confessions to membership in Greek letter fraternities and sororities. A complete complement of understudies was trained with the original cast land no delay will be suffered by | ruling of the ard of Education. The cast will compete for the Brown University alumni cup on the evening of April 3 at Central High School. | Those in the leading roles are Virginia Crocker, Fannybelle Tenny, Charles Waters, Ralph Elliott and Curtis Draper. Others in the cast are Grace Emmett, Hazel Scaife, Janet Frost, Eloyse Sargent, Wilhelmina Gude. Max Klatskin, Joseph Sorrell, F. C. Chunn, H. Wertz F. Liphard, Leonard Hilder, ! John Lockerson, Lewis Atkins, Jasper | Moore, John Tompkins, Nelson Head, |R. Larleberg, Edward Polley, John Knollton, Martin Brown, chaar, Samuel Shaffer, R. Wick, Richard Johnson, A. Macpherson. | Trade of the United States with | its non-contiguous territories exceed- ed a half billion dollars inghe calen | dar year 1924, against ap| imatel year 1914, the | | | the testimony | sylvania, | ercises Donald McDonald has charge Helen National Photo. INDOOR ROWING PREPARES STUDENTS FOR SPRING EVENTS ON THE POTOMAC. gymnasium, where the crew is getting in condition for late Spring and early Summer races Dorton, Donald Colladay, Donald KI ‘SHEPHERD T0 FIGHT REFUSAL OF BAL Denied Freedom by Ruling of Criminal Court—To Take Further Steps. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 26—William D.| Shepherd, accused of killing William N. McClintock by giving him typhoid germs to gain his million-dollar estate, must remain in jail without bail pending trial, Chief Justice Jacob Hopkins of the Criminal Court ruled late vesterday The fight for Shepherd's release will be carried to the Supreme Court with a petition for.a writ of habeas corpus, William Scott Stewart, his attorne said Assurance of a speedy trial if Shepherd wishes it was held out for him in Judge Hopkins' decision, made after three days of testimony and argument. The whole question in the bail hearing, the decision said, rested on of Charles C. Faiman, head of a seience school and jointly indicted with Shepherd, to whom he said he gave typhoid fever germs knowing they were to be used on McClintock, Shepherd's foster son. Cites Evidence in Case. “If Faiman % telling the truth there was a conspiracy to murder this boy,” said the ruling. “If Faiman is not, this defendant has been the subject of a monstrous injustice. He has been enmeshed in a net of circumstances unprecedented and painful to con- template. But it is not for the court to decide in a hearing of this na- ture.” Shepherd may not be transferred to “Murderers’ Row” in the county Jall, Jail officials said, but may con- tinue to occupy cell 13, where he has been kept, due to the possibility of an early release. Most of the pris- oners on the “row” are young men, and authorities said they feared Shepherd might be subjected to in- sults and even physical abuse. DR. C. C. HARRISON GETS $10,000 BOK CIVIC PRIZE Also Gold Medal and Scroll for Aiding Philadelphia. By the Assaciated Press. PHILADELPHIA Dr. Charles € of the provost Educator Receives Pa., March uartis Harrison, president university museum, former of the University of Penn-, educator and philanthro- pist, was the recipient last night of the Philadelphia award, created by Edward Bok-0o he presented annually for distingulshed citizenship. The prize includes a check for $10,000, a gold medal and an flluminated scroll to testify to the achievement by the winner of some service to advance the interest of the city. The presentation was made by Sen- ator George Wharton Pepper at ex- under the auspices of the Philadelphia Forum in the Academy of Music. Detailing some of Dr. Harrison's achievements, the trustees of the award sald he had completed a new wing of the university museum at a cost of $500,000; brought a collec- tion of oriental art valued at more than $2,000,000 to the museum; financed @ joint expedition of the Pennsylvania and British museums at Ur of the Chaldes, which resulted in many of the greatest archeological discoveries; began work on a new University of Pennsylvania Museum 26.— c Savings a quarter of & billion infthe fiscal | Building and contriboted liberaily many charities { final STAR, WASHINGTO THURSDAY. “LIGHTHOUSE LADY” TELLS OF WORK. Photograph taken at the home of John Hays Hammond yesterday, where Mr:. ‘Winifred Holt Mather told of the work being carri ied on for war-blinded soldiers in the French Lighthouse, which she founded in 1915. Left to right: The French Ambassador, M. Emile Daeschner; Mrs. Mather and John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cros liam Stewart and Elkin Hale. GLORIA COMES BACK HOME. 5. National Photo. Pic Reading from front Of course, she was accompanied by her new husband, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la_Coudray. The photoplay star has entirely recovered from her serious illngss in Paris. Photo taken aboard the steamship Paris, TEAPOT DOME TRIAL NEARING CONCLUSION Government Counsel Makes Final Rebuttal—Filing of Briefs May Delay Verdict. By the Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 26.—The trial of Teapot Dome was due to end here today with the final argument in the case to be made by Owen J. Rob- | erts, Government counsel. Mr. Roberts was scheduled to speak for one and one-half hours in his rebuttal. It was left to him to answer the heavy 'defense presented late yesterday alone argument \ before Federal Judge T. Blake Ken- nedy by Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Harry F. Sinclair's Mammoth Oil Co. Mr. Littleton attacKed the conten- tion of the Government that the lease on the dome given Harry F. Sinclair Is illegal because it subverts the power of Congress by allowing the Government to sell oil and use the proceeds to purchase ol storage and fuel for the Navy instead of providing that the proceeds go to the Treas- ury of the Government. Mr. Littleton took the position that since Congress under the act of June 4, 1920, gave to the Navy Department power to develop the naval oil re- serves, it must necessarily have given the Navy Department power to create storage with which to save its roy- alties. Filing of briefs by both defense and Government probably will delay a de- cision in the case for several weeks. LTRSS Among the women holding office in Great Britain are one 'lord ;mayor, e mavors nnd@arry 900 maziss {oa, Copyright bs Underwood & TUnderwood ELLINGSON GIRL’S COLLAPSE FEARED Court Takes Precautions Against Break in Health While Jury Is Being Selected. By the Assciated Press. SAN FRANCISCO. March 26.—The trial of 16-year-old Dorothy Ellin charged with having shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Anna Ellingson, was resumed here today with attorneys for the defense and prosecution mak- ing the same painstaking selection of the jury which will try the young defendant. and with precautionary measures in force to guard against a physical and mental breakdown of the girl. The fourth collapse of the girl in court yesterday, during the third day of the trial, led her attorneys to an- nounce last night that they might petition the court today to have the girl examined by a physician every day before she is brought into court. The girl's father wasf.nmpd as ex- pressing the belief his.daughter. will not be able to stand an urinterrupted progress of the court proceedings and that a postponement might be neces- sary. The girl, from all apparent evidence, is breaking under the searching ex- amination to which all prospective jurors are being subject and obvious- 1y is losing her early indifference and characteristic control. Canoeist in Marseille. MARSEIL March 26. — George H. C. Smythe, ‘the Canadian fiight commander, who is on a canoe voy- age from London to Rome, arrived here today. Smythe left Paris Feb- ruary 28 and canoed here by way of the Seine, the River Yonne, the Bur- zundy Canal and the rivers Saone wnd 1% MARCH 9 26, 1925. ANYTHING FROM A PAPER OF office, the contents of which will be sold at auction. of them could not be found. e taken yesterday at the Central High School to back: Stanley Durkee, Arthur National Photo. DECLARES JUDGE ACGEPTED MONEY Woman Tells Congress Prob- ers She Saw Employer Hand Bills to English. Ry ST. 1 March %5 —Recallea the stand yesterday Mrs, Gr: Thayer, a former employe in the office of Referee, in Bankruptey C. B. Thomas, told the congressional com- mittee inyestigating practices of Fed- | eral Judge George W. inglish that she remembered an instance when two | men handed Thomas a roll of bills and the latter was divided by Judge Eng- | lish Ske did not give the names of the men uor the date. She proved such a reluctant witness | that Representative Earl Michener of | Michigan termed her “one of the most hostile and unwilling witnesses I'have ever seen, His remark brought a reprimand from Representative Willlam D. Boies of lowa; chairman of the committee. “Speaking as chairman of this com- mittee, I want to say 1 wish you weuld reserve your argument until we get on the floor of the House,” Mr. Bofes shot at Michener. H Says She Saw Momey Pass. Other ‘members of the committee notably Representatives John R. Till man of Arkansas, Royal Weller of New York and Hatton Summers of Texas, continued with the examination of Mrs. Thayer, however, although with- out marked results. It was only after Mrs. Thayer had left thé witness stand that she remembered an alleged money division between Judge English and Thomas, and was given permis- sion to return and tell about it. Once while she was employed in Thomas' office, she said, two men she previously had seen confer privately several times with Thomas entered the office and handed Thomas a large roll of bills. The money, she said, Thomas immediately divided with Judge English. Further examination revolved about whether the men were not bootleg- gers who were facing criminal action in Judge English's court and Mrs. Thayer said that was her understand- ing. “Was the money green?' asked Frank T. O'Hare of Paris, IIl, chief of Judge English's counsel. “The color did not impress me,” re- plied Mrs. Thaver, “it was the size of the rol Mrs, Thayer could not be found for | several days after she learned that she was to be a witness, and at the opening of the hearing it -was sald threats had caused her to leave St. Louis, where she now is employed. Feared to Testiry. She was nervous yesterday and told the committee that she had informed her employer that she was afraid to testify. Asked If some one had not told her she would be “bumped -off’ if she testified, she replied that such “in- formation” had reached her. Upon her first appearance in the witness chair Mrs. Thayer testified that frequently Thomas would tele- phone Judge English and that when the jurist arrived Thomas would give him unknown amounts of money. She said Judge English was in Thomas' office nearly every day. She said also that Thomas gave Judge English's son Virgil money on different occa- sions, and that it was generally un- derstood that Thomas bought Judge English an automobile. How Judge English commanded East St. Louls police to release and restore the pistols of a ‘number of ‘Williamson County citizens who had come armed at East St. Louls, was ohn J. Barry. pollce chief Some of the men had PINS TO A TRACTION ENGINE. A HIS DOGS WON MANY CUPS. view of Washington's dead letter The office has 8,000 articles, “dead” because the own Postal employes will have charge of the sale this year. National Phot Frank Kidwell of Washington and the cups won by his kennel prizes at the annual races held at the Montzom ery Country Club yesterday ROSENBERG MAKES SELF-DEFENSE PLEA Defendant in Murder Trial on Stand—Life Threatened, He Declares. Harry Rosenberg, 30 years' old. tes- tified today in his own behalf before Chief Justice McCoy and a jury in Crimina! Division 1, where he i= on trial under an indictment chargi murder in the first degree in connec- tion with the killing of Ernest Clancy November 1, near Third and K streets northwest. The accused declared he was in fear of Clancy and the latter's companion, Vernon §S. Storey, and thought his life in danger when he shot, killing Clancy and wounding Storey. Rosenberg told of trouble which he had with Clancy a few weeks before the homicide when they met on Ninth street near New York avenue north- west. As a result of that encounter, the accused stuted, one of his ears h to be sewed up by a doctor, his eye was blackened and his body bruised in several places. Some time later he also had a difficulty with Storey, he sald. On the afternoon of tae tragedy, ac- cording to the accused,.he was in bed when Clancy and Storey came*to the store of his father-in-law on the floor below, looking for Rosenbers and threatening him. Securing his revolver, Rosenberg stated, he rushed downstairs and out on the sidewalk saw him, he declared, the former advanced in a fhreatening attitude and fearing that unless he shot he would be killed, Rosenberg asserted, he fired his gun in rapid succession. He could not say whether he hit Clancy first or Storey. Mrs. Susie Rosenberg, the young wife of the prisoner, preceded him on the witness stand. and Clancy coming to the store when her husband was upstairs in bed and raising a disturbance. Her husband, overhearing the noise, came rushing past her, she saild, and went out onto the sidewalk. She did not se a pis- itol in his hand, Assistant - United Rover and Fihelly closed the Govern- ment's case late yesterday afternoon and Attorneys Bertrand Emerson and E. Russel Kelly for the prisoner out- lined the claim of the defendant that he shot and killed Clancy in self-de- fense. The case may go to the jury late this afternoon. States Attorne: Crowds Flock to 0il Field. ALEXANDRIA, La, March 26— Discovery of ofl in a wildcat field near Urania, La., has brought an influx of oll men, business men and adventurers. A well blew in Monday in a field that was 65 to 75 miles from the nearest proven _territory. been summoned before Federal Court in connection with liquor cases, said Barry, but three automobile loads of Herrin men came of their own accord. The arrests were made, Barry said, when it appeared the Williamson County fighting might be continued in East Et. Louls. Last night there was some expecta- tion that at least some of the hearing would proceed behind locked doors. The races were for pointer a and were run over a 1%-mile course. As soon as Clancy | She told of Storey | nd setter pups AT ARYLAND SOCIETY IS HOST TO RITCHIE Governor Tells of Ties With District at Annual “Mary- land Day” Fete. Gov. Albert C was £ honor and 7 Maryland the Socletys guest aker tion Maryland Club last night The ceremony marked anniversary of the landingz of the settlers on Maryland's shores March 25, 1634, the ships the Ark and the Dove landed in St. Marys County Gov. Ritchie, after reviewing brie ly the early history of Maryland stating that the people of that liked to think of it sovere State where the inhah can ways enjoy their = rights told of the many ties which bind t gether the District of Columbia and Maryland. The automobile good roads have ing the State h . said, and added that the of Maryland and Washington much in common. Seated on the platform with governor was Representative Millard E. Tydings, president of the society who, Gov. Ritchie explained, was th first to support him for governor and whom, in turn, the gevernor was instrumeatal in seating as Speak er of the Maryland of Repre sentatives sp at a der tate Columbi the u auspices W the 201 as reciprocity bill served well in d and District and peopl haye House . Eacort for Governor. | The governor's escort was composed | of Miss Catherine Morgan, Miss h |May Clemson, Miss O. Webster, Mies | Virginia E. Hebb. Miss Mary E. Ford Miss Virginia Robinson, Mrs. Douglas Tschiffely and Miss Lillian Gray | In the receiving line during the re ception were Representative Tyvdings, | Gov. Ritchie, Former Senator Blair | Lee, two past presidents of the clety, Willlam Tyler Page, ' | the Fouse of Representative | D. Blackistone, and Maj. 1 | Lee, who made the introductions | The remainder of the progr: | cluded introductory remarks b resentative Tydings; Scotch son “Hook™ Kennedy smpanied | plano by George Ross: vocal solos hy | 1. Roy Lewls and Miss Almee | Steingmetz, ana Hawallan string mu | sio By the following: Mrs. Douglas Tschiffely, Miss Annabel Bird, Miss | Alice Hill, Miss Cora Johnson and Miss Violet McIntyre. “Maryland. My Maryland,” was sung by the audience as a closing number. Dancing fol lowed. Miss Anne Ritchle was chair- man in charge of the program ac 1t the Le | Destroying $3,000,000 Rum. | cHIcAGO, March 26.—Destructic | of some 0,000 worth of contiscated | liquors, ranging in quality from rar lold whiskies and wines to home {brew and moonshine, was begun at Government warehouse yesterday The beverages have been accumulat |ing since 1320. United States Marsh Anderson and his aides estimate t the task of pouring the iiquor intn thegesewers will take about (hree