Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1925, Page 17

¢ Nrittsburgh artis GEN. AND MRS, DOUGLAS MACARTHUK KELURN. Photograph taken aboard the steamship Cambrai yesterday in New York Harbor, when the former commandant of West Poin and Mrs. MacArthur returned from the Philippines. Mrs. MacArthur. Washington, is a daughter of Mrs. E. EASTER SAW CHAPMANKILL, WITNESS DECLARES Defendant Does Not Flinch Before Dramatic Accusa- tion in Trial. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, C fred E. Atwater, offcer, testified March 30.—Al- | a New Britain police | today that he had xeen. Gerald Chapman, sensational mail looter, shoot Patrolman James | Skelly in a New Britain department | store last October 12 Dramatically pointing to man, who was seated at his attor- ev's table, he said in tense tones: That man there did the shooting. Chapman did not flinch under accusation, nor did he abandon his ndolent pose. His cold e eves, however, never left the policeman’s Testimony of the Skelly in a New Britain store October 12 by Prosecutor Alcorn of the trial Patrolman John Britain, the first nesses, testified that at dawn he| answered a call for police at the| Davidson & Leventhal Store, with Officers Maloney. Skelly, Atwater and | 1.amphi, Arriving there, he salid, Shean, Chapman’s accomplice. wast seen a block away, running. He and| Maloney followed, he said, andl caught Shean he was about tol enter the automobile which other| witnesses have testified was stolen| by Chapman from Steubenville, Ohio, last April I Shean had no keys to the car on his person bler said. As Shean was caught, he said, a roll of bills was seen by the officers blown before the wind. It later was learned the money had been taken from the de- partment store safe. Liebler identified a .45 calier auto- matic pistol he said was found in the automobible Liebler identified a .45-caliber auto- erick J. Groehl, chief defense counsel frequently used the phrase. “I don't remember.” He finally admitted that he had heard that Skelly had accused Shean of the shooting Chapman again was slouched in his He seemed rather indifferent, y glancing at the witness. Patrolman Walter Maloney corrob- orated Liebler’s story PITTSBURGH ARTIST DIES. Succumbs With Painting on Easel, | { Brush in Hand. \! PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 30.—Mrs. | Lillian G. Henius, a leader among| , died here yester- | day. She had been ill two davs with pneumonia. Mrs. Henius exhibited | her paintings many seasons in New York. Philadelphia and elsewhere An unfinished painting was on her casel, and she died as she said she would, “brush in hand." Chap- | the actual slaying o | department | was introduced today, the fifth Liebler of New | the day's wit-| M of the former Mrs FOR THE PRESIDENT AND VIC idge and Dawes in Washington this mer. a New York confectioner, on Easter morning. | Hizshway Cromwell Brooks of T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia. Wide Worid Photo. with hed PRESIDENT. ear. F ormer Pugilist Made Bishop of United Christians By the Associated Press NEW YORK, March 30.—Suffer- ing from injuries which may crip- ple him for life, the Rev. Charles Nelson, a former prizefighter, was carried on a stretcher last night into Grace Chapel, Long Island City, and there made Bishop of Long Jsland by dignitaries of the United Christian Church of America z The clergyman, who is a ‘carpen- ter, suffered a broken leg and foot in ‘a fall from a building two weeks ago. Mr. Nelson abandoned the ring for the pulpit in 1919, ROAD ISSUE EXPLAINED |Arlington _Commission Dentes State Fund Available. The Arlington District Good Roads Commission yvesterday issued a state- ment denying that a large number of roads included in the road bond proposal can be built by the State under a provision of the Robinson act, as claimed in an interview ap- pearing last week in a morning paper. The commission, up the subject of investigated the possibilitiés of road improvement under this act, the statement points out, and found that only such roads as have been made a part of the State highway system are subject to the provisions of thc act. None of the roads included in the bond proposal are a part of the State highway system, nor Is there any early hope that any of them will be. Under the act only $1,000,000 per annum may be spent by the State “ommission over the entire State of Virginia, a total of approxi- mately miles of roads. The State Highway Commission has only re- cently taken over thc remainder of Glebe road, and as the State funds for this purpose are limited and much be distributed equitably among all the counties of the State, it is fool- ish to presume that any portion of the roads included In the present hond proposal could be improved under the Robinson act for a great many years to come when it first took a bond proposal, CRAZED FISHER SOUGHT. Demented Man Believed Drifting on Gulf of Mexico. MORBILE, Ala, March 30.—An ap- parently demented fisherman, who leaped into a dory, cut the tow rope and drifted away from the fishing schooner Mary Jane of Pensacola vesterday, is the object of a search along the Gulf coast. The vessel was about from East Pass, Fla. 43 miles when the man fleft it The naval air station at Pensacola has communicated with land stations along the Florida coast and with vessels in the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico asking them to watch for the man, | | | | | THE EVENING DOG GETS “KEYS TO THE C which carried antitoxin serum a petted hero in Seattle, Balto, pho to become a moving picture star. et Colna eetion ( wohves It will be a gala Easter for Messrs. Cool- They are to_receive big chocolate eggs, made by Ferdinand Kra- The photo shows Kramer at work on the gifts. By United News Pictures. ASK HIGH COURT'S VIEW IN AUTO SALE Judges Seek Solution of Points Raised hy Former Minor Suing Dealer. A question of importance bills of sale has arisen in a case be- fore the District Court of Appeals and that tribunal has asked the United States Supreme Court for in- structions on the law involved. The case arose in the Municipal Court and cotld not reach in regular course the highest court in the land for decision, so the justices of the Court of Ap- peals before deciding the matter have referred it to the United States Su- pfeme Court. * " ° The question deals with the right of a minor, who misrepresents his age when making a purchase, to re- voke his contract on attaining his ma- jority and sue to recover the money pald. Chief Justice Martin and Justices Robb and Van Orsdel have asked the United States Supreme Court to rule on the following two queries: 1. Is the plaintiff, by reason of misrepresentation as to his correct age, estopped from maintaining an action to recover the amount paid under a conditional sales contract? 2. If plaintiff is not so estopped, may defendant, by way of affirmative defense against plaintiff, claim a set-off for the amount paid for re- pairs to the damaged article or so much thereof as will equal plaintiff’s claim? Conditional Sale Contract. Clarence H. Myers, April 28, 1923, then 20 vears old, according to the record, represented to the Hurley Motor Co. that he was 24 and engaged as a hacker in this Distriet. He contracted for an automobile for $650 on a conditional sale. He turned in a car valued at $250 and made pay- ments under the contract to the ex- tent of $156.12, making a total of $406.12. He defaulted in further pay ments and October 3, 1923, the com- | pany retook the car. Myers attained his majority October 21, 1923, and disaffirmed his contract and demand- ed the return of $406.12 November 1, 1923 When the company refused to pay, he brought suit in the Municipal Court for the amount. The company set up @ claim of set-off of $526.96 for repairs to the car to place it in con- dition. The Municipal Court ruled with the company and awarded it a judgment for the full amount. Myers then sued out a writ of error to the Court of Appeals. o Jumps to Death From Cathedral. PARIS, March 30.—A well dressed man, whose identity has not been established, mounted the tower of the Cathedral of Notre Dame this after- noon and jumped off. His body cleared the projecting gargoyles and was crushed on the pavement 22 faet below, Y. 2 Nome duri to every| merchant selling goods on conditional | STAR, This is Balto, leader of the team & the lat lap of the journey, tographed with two admirers, expects Copsright bs I'. & A. Photos AN ATHLETI G. Candler. th athletic beiress in the country. 1 a public school meet in Atlanta. HEIRESS. Miss M Miniature To Be A miniature model of a five-acre playzround for city constructed for the Childrén's Bureau of the United States Department of bor znd will be displayed as part the bureau’s exhibit at the Interna- tional Council of Women, meeting in | Washington this Sprinz The model, planned | by the recrea- | is an exact reproduction to scale of adequately equipped for approximately 300 boys It contains a miniature swimming pool, a shelter house, two tennis courts, a basket ball court, a large base ball diamond, a smaller diamond, wading pool for small chil- ladders, fiying rings, sand boxes and PERSHING SPENDING VACATION IN LINCOLN | Will Return Here to Study Tacna Question After Visiting Sisters. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., March 30.—Gen. John J. Pershing was in Lincoln yes- terday for a short vacation prior to taking up the duties assigned him by President Coolidge as head of the commission to supervise the plebiscite growing out of the awara in the con- troversy between Chile and Peru over Tacna and Arica. The general renewed acquaintances and discussed his récent tour of South and Central America and Cuba. Gen. Pershing did not discuss seri- ously that his former home State of Missouri was considering sending him to the United States Senate, where he would have as a presiding officer his long-time personal friend and Armv subordinate, Charles G. Dawes. said perhaps a wrong Inference e a query as to how he would relish taking orders from Vice President Dawes, general purchasing agent in his command in France. “It was suggested.” said Gen. Pershing, “that I might have to take orders from Gen. Dawes if I should be elected to the Senate, and what I said was: ‘Not necessarily: he's only the presiding officer, so I would not have to take orders from him.' Of course if Gen. Dawes ‘were my com- manding officer I would be as loyal to him as he was to me.” Gen. Pershing sald that after rest- ing here at the homes of his two sisters, Mrs. D. M. Butler and Miss May Pershing, he would return to Washington to study the intricacies connected with the Tacna-Arica award and endeavor to equip himself for the task that is before him. ARG Sl Y 1o Only. one graduate—Mrs. Martha Farrar—survives of those who Te- ceived diplomas from the Elizabeth Female Academy, established near Natchez, Miss., in 1818, and which was the first chartered woman's college in the world. WASHINGTON, soft-drink millionaire of Atlanta, is said to be the most The photograph shows her taking part hildren has been | tion expert of the Children's Bureau, | dren, seats for the story hour, swings, | been gained concerning his reply to | D. C., MONDAY, Chief Justice Harry Olson of Chi- cago, the driving power behind the prosecution of William Shepherd. The latter is charged with the death of the “millionaire orphan,” MeClin- tock, through the use of germs. Copsright by P. & A. Photos artha Candler, granddaughter of Asa Wide World Photo of Five-Acre Playground ‘Exhibited at Meeting Here| all other needed equipment. Tiny figures of children engaged in various sports are nart of the model The model playground was con | structed by a well known sculptor and model maker and is similar to one made for the bureau by the reproduc- | tion plant of the War Department and | exhibited at the Fourth Pan-American Child Welfare Conzress held last in Santiago, Chile. The model sent to Santiago aroused so much interest among the South American audience | that funds were raised to keep it on | permanent exhibition there. The model is on permanent display | at the Children's Bureau in Washing- | ton, and will be available for loan to important child-welfare conferences or exhibitions. NEW DETAILS BARED IN GIRL'S KIDNAPING | Indore Police Inspector Named in Indian Case by Uncle of Prince’s Favorite. By the Associated Press. BOMBAY, March 30.—Further de- tails of the attempted kidnaping of | the Indian nautch girl, Mumtaz Be- gum. former favorite of the powerful Indian prince, the Maharaja of Indore, were revealed during the fourth day of the trial of the nine men accused of having made the attack on Malabar Hill on January 12. Mumtaz was rescued by four Brit- ish army officers, who, armed with golf clubs only, beat off the assail- ants. but the girl's companion, a wealthy Indian merchant, was killed, and Mumtaz herself was disfigured | by knife slashes across her face. It 1 is alleged that the attack was insti- | gated by the Maharaja to bring Mum- ¥ | taz back to his household, from which | she had fled. } Today an uncle of one of the nine | accused men, a shopkeeper in Ahmeda- 1 bad, testified that one of the defend- ants came to him last year to obtain his assistance in the kidnaping. The witness stated that the man repre- sented himself as having been sent by the Indore inspector general of police. « The witness said that the man, now one of the defendants, described the automobile which the inspector gen- eral had purchased for the abduction. The witness declared that he was promised a large sum of money to assist in the kidnaping, but he re- jected the proposal. NOT GUILTY OF SLAYING. BESSEMER, Ala, March 30.—Dr. George T. Edwards, charged with slay- ing his wife, was acquitted by a jury in Circuit Court here yesterday after de- liberating two hours and a half. verdict of not guilty ended a spectacular legal battle that had raged for nearly four months, through two trials, the first of which ended in a mistrial with the Jury standing 11 to 1 for acquittal. 1 i Fall | i | | MARCH 30, “THE BARON OF BATS” IS POPULAR IN THE SOUTHLAND. Babe Ruth, on account of his in the American League, comes in for a lot of attention in his trips through the “grapefruit circuit” the training season. JAPANESE AMBASSADOR AND FAMILY VIEW THE Ambassador to Washington: Mme. Matsudaira, newly appointed Japanese CHERRY BLO: Setsuko, beneath the blooms in Potomac Park. PHYSICIANS BACK CONTROL OF BIRTHS 1,000 in Session Recommend Topic Be Considered by Association. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, March 30.—A resolu- tion recommending that birth control be given a place in the programs of the American Medical and the county and State societies was passed yesterday at a meeting of 1,000 physicians from which all lay- men were barred and which was held in connection with the Sixth In- ternational Neo-Malthusian and lnr(h Control Conference. After the meeting a sent to President Coolidge by Mrs. Margaret Sanger, president the American Birth Control League. urg- ing him to take steps toward the for- mation of a Federal birth rate com- mission Mrs. Sanger's telegram the conference has “pointed out the organic co-relation between an un- controlled birth rate and the great national probfems of maternal mor- tality, infantile mortality, child labor, poverty, mental defect and crime and the vast national expenditures nec- cessary to meet these problems.” Commission Is Asked. The President is urged to form a Federal birth rate commission com- posed of scientists who will investi- gate “all customs and conditions now menacing the racial health ang eco- nomic well-being of our country.” The resolution passed by the phy- siclans urged medical societies to make a study of birth control as a “very important and complicated problem requiring scientific guid- ance,” and coming properly within the province of preventive medicine. The speakers at the meeting in- cluded Dr. James F. Cooper, medical director of the clinical research de- partment of the American Birth Con- trol TLeague; Dr. Aletta Jacobs of The Hague, who established the first birth control clinic in Holland; Dr. Norman Haire of England and Dr. Hannan Stone, clinical director of the research department of the American Birth Control League. STONECUTTER A SUICIDE. William R. Poison, Then Shoots Himself. A dose of poison and a bullet wound in the head proved fatal to ‘William R. Rogers, 59, a stonecutter, yesterday. Rogers was in the base- ment of his home, 1421 F street northeast, when he ended his life. Mrs. Rogers, three daughters and two sons were at home when he killed himself. Police learned that Rogers had been injured several years ago while working at his trade and suffered a great deal recently. Coroner Nevitt gave a certificate of suicide. telegram was £ said that Rogers Swallows | | Asgociation | | | | in |Sneezes Out Drill, In Nose 12 Years- Headaches Stopped By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, March 30— Suffering from a perpetual head- ache and approaching blindness the cause of which physician: were unable to determine, Harry Hutchinson, an electrician, yes- terday sneezed from his nasal tubes an inch-and-ahalf piece of a quarz el drill with which he had been stabbed 12 years ago. Hutchinson said that he had been stabbed through the bridge of the nose with a steel arill during a fight with a fellow workman, but did not know the point of the drill had broken. The wound healed and for two vears gave him no further trouble. Then, he said, the headaches started Yesterday while re barber’s chair he was seized w a paroxysm of sneezing and d lodged the obstacle. My relief was almost instant,” said Hutchin- son. “Already the sight in my left eye has improved noticeably and 1 have no headache for the first time in 10 year WOMAN IS REARRESTED UPON ENDING JAIL TERM Mary Wracks, to Rockville to Answer Charge of Murder. Mary Wracks, colored. 23 vears old 214 Clark court southwest, finished a short sentence in the District jail this morning and was door by Detectives Cullinane and O'Dea, being wanted in Rockville, Md., to answer a charge of murder. John Green, colored, Mary's uncle, was shot to death in his home, Cum- mings lane, Chevy Chase, Md., the latter part of November, and his body secreted in the basement. Two woman relatives were arested and held for the murder. Mary Wracks told the detectives she took no part in the murder. She said she was in the house when her uncle was shot, but denied she aided the affair. She said she was asked to assist in disposing of the body, but refused, having to go up- stairs and look after her crying child. ining in a Colored, Conveyed WAGE RULING DUE_ SOON. Capital Traction Case Arbitrators Prepare Decision. A decision may be handed down within a week or 10 days by the arbitrators in the Capital Traction wage case. Hearings were concluded Saturday and the arbitrators will meet as soon as the stenographic record of the proceedings is - m- pleted. The trainmen applied for an in- crease in pay and the company pro- posed that the present scale be re- duced. Under the terms of the agree- ment existing between the company and its employes the question wa: submitted to arbitration. |ana | points rearrested at the | Here we bave him putting his name on base balls for the girls of St. Petersburg. Coprright by Underwood & OMS. and Tsuneo Mat=udai their daughters, Masako the and NEW ENGLAND HIT BY RIVER FLOODS Thousands of Doiiars' Dam- age Done in Vermont and New Hampshire. By the Associated Press BOSTON, March 30 ning into scores of thot lars Hamp when than 24 ho their b mont and rivers swoll of rainfall buildings tracks, highways raffic de nchester, N. H brick building collapsed weight of tons of lected on the roof, The heaviest dams Randolph. Vi 50,00 more flood waters tributaries and six bu A teneme which threatened to fa clog one of the streams. by citizens working serious loss White Hiver Ju the White River 15 feet and rising. Wate cut and Merrimac Rivers were fton. Cc New left away, Railroad aved At M at ngs was to avoid furt vt 1 ported also report ountinz cord, Canaan and oth in New Hampshire re washed-out highways and waters covering roads and th ing railroads The heavy rainfall, floods to Vermont and shire, also brought rises rivers. At Waterville, the River rose 6 feet in 24 ho damage was reported coggin River at 1 iston freshet stage last night of property by wind hail was reported from the adjacent region. One house was struck by lightning, a roof w torn off by the wind and hail damaged house and store windows at West Peru Paris reported hail damage Rivers and streams along the Bris- tol branch of the Boston and Maine railroad, in western New Hampshire, were reported steadily rising. The White River and the Connecti- cut River were risin the White River having risen 15 fect above nor- mal. Low lands were flooded. G which brought New Hamp- in Main Kennebeck but no Andros- was near Destruction ightning and he OUTPUT IS DOUBLED. An increase of 116.3 pér cent in the value of the output of the artificial leather industry was announced by the Census Bureau today in making public figures for 1923, as compared with those of 1921, the preceding biennial census year The survey of the bureau that the 1923 production had of $33,5 634, againss $15.51 1921. Of the 1 establ porting for the year. G were in New Jersey, 4 in Massachusetts and the remaining 7.in 6 other States, shows value 39 for hments re