Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1925, Page 17

i S 3R BENEATH THE JAPANESE CHERRY BLOSSOMS. Sumi and Sada, daughters of the second secretary Teijiro Tamura, were among the fi Park yesterday. PRESIDENT'S CLOSE FRIENDS SAIL. of the Japanese embassy and Mme. rst to view the blossoms in Potomac National Photo. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stearns of Boston, close friends of the President and Mrs. Coolidge for many years, sailing for Italy from New York yesterday. Photo taken aboard the -steam- ship Dulio. TEAPOT DOME FATE IN HANDS OF JUDGE Government 0Oil Land Suit Hinges on Technical . Points Before Court. By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE; Wyo., March 27.—Pos- session of Teapot Dome hinged on legal points today and rested in the discretion of Federal Judge T. Blake XKennedy, before whom the lease an- nullment suit of the Government against Harry F. Sinclalrs Mammoth ©Oil Co. was completed yesterday. The decision of Judge Kennedy will determine whether Sinclair obtained the lease on the Wyoming naval oil reserveas a result of conspiracy and fraud, as the Government alleged, or whether the Mammoth Oil Co. obtain- ed the grant because it submitted the best bld and because the Government was forced by an act of Congress to develop the oil field, as the defense contended. At least 30 days will elapse before Judge Kennedy will have all the documents of the case in his hands, and until then he probably will not make a decision. The case ended yesterday after Owen J. Roberts of “jovernment coun- el presented his final argument to the court. Mr. Roberts contended that the act of June 4, 1920, under which the leasing of the oil reserves was permitted, did not give absolute authority to the Secretary of the Navy to leaso and develop the field, as the leass to Sinclair permitted. Mr. Sinclair and his party left here last night for New York. Mr. Roberts &nd Atlee Pomerene, the Government's spectal attorneys, also left late last aight for their homes. ROCKEFELLER IN DENIAL. Bays He Urged Oil Official to Tes- tify' in Suit at Cheyenne. NEW YORK, March 27.—John D. Rockefsller, jr. last night issued a statement explaining his attitude on the absence of three witnesses, all oil company executives, whose testi- mony the Government is said to have wanted in the Teapot Dome trial. The statement is understood to be an answer to_an editorial published in ‘the New York World on March 23, which sald, in part: “Mr. Rockefeller breakfasts at the White House and discusses law_en- forcement with the President. What does he intend to do in the case of his own company, where officers and directors have failed in their duty toward the Government?” The missing witnesses are H.' M. Blackmer, chairman of the board of the Midwest Refining Co.; Robert W. Stewart, chalrman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, and James E. O'Neil, an official of the Pralirie Oil and Gas Co., of which Mr. Rockefeller is a stockholder. The statement said: “One of the men referred to is an officer of a company in which I am a stockholder. 1 have no definite knowledge of tho facts in regard to h#% absence. 1 have done what I properly could to bring the situation to his attention and have urged as strongly as my status as a minority stocknolder warranted that he take immediate steps to ses that any just grounde for criticism were removed. By United News Pictures. Perry Hale, Blind, Famed on Gridiron, Invents New Kite Man Who Has Devoted Life to Helping Chil- dren Shows Toy By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 27.—Although he was blinded 12 years ago, Perry Hale, former Yale all-American foot ball star, has invented a kite which he is demonstrating here today. Since the tragedy which darkened the world for him he has brought happiness to hundreds of children thrpugh the toys he has learned to fashion. It was fn 1899 and 1900 that Mr. Hale reached the goal of all foot ball players when he was picked for the all-Amerfcan foot ball team. When he left Yale he started in his chosen profession of civil engineering. On his 35th birthday ag explosion of chemicals with which he was ex- perimenting_blinded him. He was sent to the Hospital for the Blind at Evergreen, Md., whers he learned the foymaker's art. There, also, he met Mrs. Anne Geary, hostess of the blind Institute, and just before he left they were married. Subsequently he set up a toy shop, at which most of the work- men were, like himself, blind. Recently he applied his technical training to the creatlon of new toys and invented - his Kkite, which he claims will fiy higher and with less wind than the ordinary kite. Mr. Hale is tax collector of his home town, Portland, Conn. BIG REINDEER SOUGHT BY BREEDING EXPERIMENT Alaskan Animal to Be Cross-Bred With Caribou by Government Scientists. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash, Breeding ' experiments March 27— intended to {deer by crossing them with woodland caribou will be conducted by the Gov- ernment on Nunivax Island, north. of Kuskokwim Bay, Behring -Sea,” and Fairbanks, Alaska, it .was announced today by L. P. Palmer, head of a United States blological survey sta- tion at Nome, Alaska. . “Reindesr ‘are in reality domiesti- cated caribou,” said -Palmer.. “From studles of wild herds it has been as- certained that reindeer can be in cfeased in welght from 150 pounds, the average of Alaskan-herds, to- 300 pounds. “Another problem-to be studled, is that of lichens or feindeer moss, the main food of the deer in.Winter. It now takes from 15 to 30 years for a new growth of lichens and we hope to discover a method of hastening the growth or finding a substitute food.” “It is as much the duty of the of- ficers of a corporation as it s of private citizens to observe both the letter and spirit of the law, and in any company in which I am inter- ested all the influence I have has been and will be exerted to that end. “As regards the situation in’ qu tion, 1 give place to none in my de- sire that the public interests be fully conserved and that all -possibl be taken to right may have been dom double the weight of Alaskan rein-! teps y - Wrong - that |- Eddie Savoy, 75 years old, who has served various Secretaries of State for the past 58 years as a messen- ger.. Eddie may retire one of these days, but he is not yet ready to step from the harness. ational Photo. WHITE HOUSE BUDS OUT IN FULL GLORY Magnolia Trees and Other Floral Features Add to Beauty of Grounds. All the Spring floral beauty of ‘Washington is by no means confined to Potomac Park, where the Japanese cherry blossoms are in bloom and are attracting many thousands every day. It also is blossom and budding time in" the grounds about the White House, and those persons who fre- quent this section of the Capital, while not exactly jealous of the at- tention being pald for the moment to the touch of Spring in Potomac Park, contend that the White House grounds really have more to offer in the matter of variety of color and gonuine intercst and beauty. At the moment the center of‘at- traction in the President's yard fis the two huge Japanese magnolias. These are located in the fronmt grounds, very close to the fence along Penmsylvania avenue. The flower on these trees is of a delicate light pink hue. These two picturesque trees are slightly in front of and on either side of the fountain directly in the center of the front grounds, and form'an at- tractive vista from the windows of the White House to Lafayette Park. This front vard picture is made all the more attractive by the several forsythia bushes in_their bright yel- low dress and the two Japanese quince trees, with their deep pink Dblossoms, ‘which are clumped about the fountain section. Batween the two Jauanese magnolias and in front of the fountain is a panel of light-blue !fyacinths. These hyacinths will be llowed later by Deonfes and white phlox. Also around this fountain are -several score of narcissus plants. There is an attractive bed of the latter on the slope immediately in front of the executive office. These beds will give way later to irls of varlous shades and of different varieties. The blue German and the white Japanese iris will predominate. Then there are the beauties of the rear grounds. Those three famous old flora magnolias near the steps of the rear portico are in-fuil bloom, as are the several weeping cherry trees. The latter, by the ‘way, are considered- by- many-students-of flori- culture_as_ far_ more beautiful “than the Japanese’cherry: trees. ‘These trees,- small - in stature, are great favorites of the Rresident and Mrs. Coolidge. There.are nearly two dozen Japanese cherry trees in the rear grounds, but for some unaccountable reason they are not in full bloom yet. These trees are of the same variety of those in Potomac Park, and were planted- at the same time.” At various spots in the rear grounds there are wild violets peeping modestly. above .the grass. Theére are several pansy beds and probably half & hundred jonquil plants. Another feature in the rear grounds are the crocus plants. Just how many of these plants there are is not known definitely, but it is estimated that there are not less than 10,000. These flowers are of several colors, and were the first to bloom, and .are just commencing to show: signs of fading. ‘The - wistarla ‘vines~ and --the lilac the rear - are: showing ‘buds, beautiful ‘as they t LIKE A BIT OF OLD JAPAN. Mme. Teijiro Tamura, wife of the sec- ond secretary of the Japanese embassy, and her little daughter Sumi. It is expected that the blooms around the Tidal Basin will be at their best by Sunday. National Photo. [T President Coolidgé and former Sen- ator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey } House yesterday to attend a meeting of the Harding Memorial Association. National Photo, RAID BY “LONE WOLF" NETS 13 STILLS. Part of the 700 gallons of mash, 70 gallons of peach brandy, 150 pounds of sugar and 13 stills removed from 2022 R street yesterday after “Lone Wolf” Asher had made a raid. Four arrests were made at the house, which was once occupied as the Spanish embassy. The liquor- making plant was located in an attic above the third floor. Real Prisoner Almost Escapes While Officer Argues With Dummy Menace of Two-Pants Suits to Social Order Manifest In Near-Jail-Break at No. 9, Thwarted by Agility of Policeman Nicola in Tripping Fleeing Man. Detective Kuehling of No. 9 pre- cinct last night walked into the cell of Dave Mangum, colored resident of Lexington, Ky., to question him after his arrest on a charge of “acting suspiciously” in a vacant house at 1400 Trinidad avenue northeast. The prisoner was lying on his cot, hat over his face, apparently asleep. He did not stir when the detective called to him. “Hey, theres! Shake out of it!" Kuehling called again. But the form did not move. Muttering something or other, hardbofled detectives do, Kuehling bent over, grabbed hold of a shoe, and gave an emphatic yank. The shoe and its contents came loose with such ease that the detec- tive lost his balance. ~ At the same time came the dawn of realizati ‘The prisoner in cell 2 was a dummiy. Just about this time Kuehling heard a crash of glass out front and the excited, stentorfan voices. of policemen. Finds Dave in Person. He rushed out and found Dave Mangum, in the flesh, picking him- self up from the midst of a pile of glass on the sidewalk, the hand of Policeman Nicola of No. 12 precinct clutched at his collar. “I saw him running out of the sta- tion house, with a bottle in his hand, so I tripped him up, like,” Nicola ex- plained. 12TH JUROR SOUGHT IN ELLINGSON CASE Nine Men and Two Women AL ready in Box—G@irl Shows. Sign of Better Condition. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, March 27.—The trial of 16-year-old Dorothy Elling- son, charged with the murder of her mother, entered a second definite stage here today when the defense and prosecution set themselves to the selection of the. twelfth juror. The uncompleted jury now. consists of nine men"and- two -“women. The defense yesterday indicated it tisfied with the jury-as it stood, and. it .was .expected that. to- day the big battle, which will center around the pallid girl, who is ac- cused of shooting her mother to death,” will center on the degree of her mental responsibility. The defendant, despite the collapses which have marked ‘her appearance in court, apparently was determined to survive the ordeal today.” Ordnance Officer Shifted. Lieut. Col. Harry B. Jordan, Ordnance Department, the Army —War - College, Washington Barracks, has been as- signed to duty in the office of the chief of ordnance, 'War Department. - - e Great Britain has 26 telephones per 1,000 population, .as_compared - with 142 {n the United States. . * Infantry, Dave, considerably humbled, ex- plained further. He.told how he had noticed it was easy to get out of his cell, which is partitioned on one side during the construction of new cells; how_he removed one of his two pairs of trousers and his coat and stuffed them. with underwear, took off his shoes and arranged them. carefully, and, finally, placed his hat over a tin- cup at the other end of the cot; how he slipped out. of his cell into the locked - celiroom and then escaped from the latter while Detective Kueh- ling was arguing with his “body.” Furthermore, the police say, Dave admitted having left Lexington, Ky., in rather a hurry, a few minutes after the town's leading jewelry store had been robbed. Arrested as Vagrant. Dave, by the way, had been arrested several days ago at Unlon Station on a vagrancy charge, and, although found in possession of a gold watch and numerous articles of jewelry, was released on probation because of lack of evidence against him. He later sold some of the jewelry to an employe of the police department. Motorcycle Policeman Leo Murray, noted whisky whiffer of the ninth precinct, arrested Dave the second time, when he saw him loitering around a vacant house, with a-num- ber of slashed suitcases about him. All in all, the police’ are convinced that Dave isn’t.the dummy he would have them beliave he is. M. E. SESSION-VOTES 135:T0 17 FOR UNITY Frederick Conference, vaevex:, Opposes Admission of Laymen by 28-to-118 Decision. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Mr., March 27.—Unifi- cation of -the Northern and Southern Methodists was favored by a vote of 135 to 17 at the Washington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in ses- sion here since Tuesday. The subject is being voted upon at all conferences this year, and this action adds a link to the slowly developing movement that is believed now about to mend the schism of long standing. The vote was_ taken late today, after & morning - devoted - to- -discussion and preparation. Blshop McDowell of Wash- | ington is presiding over the sessions here, which will close tomorrow. On the question of admission of lay- men to conferences the conference voted 28 to 116 against. Play to Be Repeated. Central High School's Spring play, “Stop Thief,” will be repeated tonight and tomorrow night in the school au- ditorium. i S o Two. Resignations Acoepted. ' The President has acceptsd.the res- ignation of Capt. Arthur P. von Dees- ten, Corps ‘of Engineers, and-that of Second Lieut. George E. Penton, U. S. ‘Washington Star Photo. AUTO OENTIFED N CHAPHAN ASE Three Witnesses Heard in Effort to Prove Car Was Stolen. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., March 2 Three witnesses testifying today at the trial of Gerald Chapman for the murder of a New Britain policeman sought to identify a motor car found at the scene of the murder as one stolen by Chapman at Steubenville, Ohio, last April. James H. Sneider, owner of the Stanton Motor Co. of Steubenville, the first of the day's witness testified that a stranger looked over a certain automobile on his sales floor early in April of last year and spoke to him concerning it. He did not identify the stranger. Miss Catherine Boorn, bookkeeper at the Stanton Motor Co., ldentified Chapman as the man who had been looking over the car and speaking to her employer, Sneider. ‘WiMlam B. Ellison, a coal mine car operator of Bergholz, Ohlo, testified that a few days later he had seen Chapman at the side of a stalled car of the same make on the road lead- ing to Canton, Ohio. Ellison, at that time a bus driver, sald he offered to give the car driver a “lift,” but that the driver, whom he identified as Chapman, had refused it. A car of the kind mentioned, found in New Britain after Policeman Skelly had been shot by one of two safe crack- ers, who were surprised while rob- bing a department store, is claimed by the prosecution to have been stolen from the salesroom floor of the Stanton company. _-James W. Brown, an engineer of the Ford Motor Co., Detrolt, testified that the Lincoln car shown him by Alcorn In the yard outside the court- room was one sold to the Stanton Company last year. His testimony was designed to link up with that of the three preceding witnesses Chap- man’s possession of the car at a later date Brown number of the car-had been altered and that changes had been made in the top in an effort to change its ap- pearance since it had left the manu- facturer's shop. The car identified by Brown was found by the New Bfitain police n the looted department store. Walter Shean, son of a Springfield, Mass. hotel owner, who admitted to the pc- lice that he was one of the depart- ment store cracksmen and declared Chapman was his accomplice, wds ar- rested shortly after Skelly’s murder while putting a package In the car identified in today's proceedings. Shean; who is to be'a witness for the State, has told the police that Chap- man was Skelly’s murderer. Howze Goes to 5th Corps. Maj. Gen. Robert L. Howze, now at Fort Bliss, Tex., has been ordered to Fort Hayes, Ohio, June 18, to assume ‘command of the 5th Corps Area. Brig. Gen. Preston Brown, command- ing the 3d Infantry. Brigade at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., has been transferred to testified that the engine| command of the 1st Infantry Brigade at Fort Wadsworth, -N. Y., and Brig. Gen. ‘William. 8. Graves, commanding .the 1st Infantry Brigade, has been assigned to the command of the st Division at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. v AT PAN-AMERICAN LUNCHEON. Left to ht: Hannibal Price, Sec- retary of State Kellogg, and Luis Brogan, Minister to Washington from Honduras, who were guests at the luncheon given by Dr. Leo Rowe, direc- tor of the Pan-American Union, yesterday Navy and Marine Memorial Planned | HereInspires Poem| Dedicated to Sculpture Study, Ode Is Called “The Host at Sea.” Inspired by the sculpture study of | the Navy and Marine memorial to be erected at Washington in memory of all Americans lost at sea, Amelie Rivers Troubetzkoy, the noted Amer- ican authoress, has just recently writ- ten the following poem and dedicated it to the memorial: THE LOST AT SEA. There's sorrow on the sea; it cannot be qulet. —Jer., 49:23. The winds and the waves are our voices, © Birthland our Mother, We for whose bodies the terrible deep is the sepulchre, We the all-trlumphing spirits released by the splendid Adventure: Once was the wandering foam of the ocean our. piteous emblem, For scattered like foam was our longing __to have you remember, Now on the wings of seabirds our spirits. revisit you, We Who in'death are remembered at last of you, country beloved. Where upon piniona of bronze in a symbol of freedom enduring, We, the forgotten so long, have forever our place with Foi HEBREW HOME FOR AGED WILL GIVE ANNUAL BALL Prizes to Be Awarded for Mas- querade Costumes at Fete in Arcade May 31. The ' Hebrew Home for the Aged will-hold its annual ball May -31, at the Arcade Auditortum, Fourteenth and Park road, and extensive pre- parations are under- way for en- tertdlnment’ of the guests. Keen in- terest is being manifested in the com- petition. for. prizes to be offered for the oddest, most comical and most picturesque masquerade costumes. Six prizes will be presented. Elther for- mal or informal dress is correct. Among those arranging for the af- falr are the following: Dance com-!| mittee—Morris Garfinkle, chairman: D. Herzmark, ~assistant chairman; Charles _Schwartz, treasurer; Miss Minnie B. Hutt, secretary and Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, - chairman ticket committee; Bernard Danzansky, chairman program committes; Mrs. Morris.Steln, Mrs. Harry Sherby and Mrs. J." Kaminsky, flower committes; Sol - Lansburgh, ‘chairman publicity committee, assisted by M. M. King and _Sidney Selinger; Morrls Stein, chairman- - floor - committee; Henry Jaffes, assistant chairman;. S. Atlas, hat check. ~ * Refreshment - tickets- will be in charge of M. Reichgut. Rabbl A. Sheffersman will have charge of the Booth selling tickets. The general committee is composed of Harry Sherby, Maurice Mazo, B. Rachlin, R. Rosenberg, M. S. Cohen, B. Hayman; Mrs. J. King, Mrs. J. Freedmhn, Mrs. Willlam Levy, Mrs. R. Rosenberg and Miss Rickie Gans. Trains’ Crash; Seven Hurt. DANVILLE, Va.;, March 27.—Seven persons were slightly injured at Clarksville, 50 -miles-east of her, to- day, when Southern. Rallway passen- ger train No. 108 from Durham, N, C., ito Keysville collided with-mixed train No. § from Lawrcnceville to Danville, Copsright by Harris & Ewing GEN. FARNSWORTH LEAVES THE ARMY Goes on Retired List at Own Request After 40 Years’ Active Service. Maj. Gen. C. S. Farnsworth, chief of Infantry at the War Department today was placed on the retired list of the Army at his own request after more than 40 years' service. He will be succeeded as chief of Infantry to- morrow morning by Col. Robert H Allen, United States Infantry, with resuitant promotion to the grade of major general. Both officers were awarded the dis- tinguished service medal for meritori- ous services in the World War. Gen Farnsworth is from Pennsylvania and began his military services in July, 1883. All his service was in the infantry arm up to the time of his appointment as chief of Infantry iIn July, 1920, except during the World var, when Re was attached to the National Army, first as a brigadier general and then as major general in command of a division of troops. He was graduated from the Military Academy in June, 1587, and since ther from the Army War College and the General Staff School Suceessor Is a Virginian. Col. Allen, the new head of the Tn- fantry arm, is a native of Virginia and served in the ranks first as a pri- vate and then as a corporal In the Sth United States Cavalry from June, 1893, until October, 1895, when he was commissioned second lieutenant of Infantry. He reached the grade of colonel in July, 1920. During the World War he was acting chief of Staff of the 85th Division and after- ward commanded the 337th and the 346th Regiments of Infantry before and durlng the Meuse-Argonne of- fensive. ~During that period he held the rank of colonel, National Army. Since the war he was graduated from the Army School of the line and the General Staff School at Fort worth, Kans., and afterward sistant commandant of the Service Schools. He is in year. PRESS CLUB LEGION POST BACK IN GOOD STANDING Organization Which Was Uader Suspension Reinstated by Council. Press Club Post of the American Leglon, which numbers among its members Vice President Dawes and Gen. Pershing and which was suspended from the District De- partment of the Legion March 15 for failing to report a minimum of 15 pald members, was reinstated last night by the executive council. Threo other posts which for lack of the minimum membership had been sus- pended _were reinstated. They were: James Reece Burope, Carry On and Kenneth Lewis. The council adopted a resolution pledging support and co-operation with other veterans' organizatio ‘who are seeking to prevent discharge from government employ of former serv- ice men. National