Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1925, Page 11

FIND BABES BONE INVOODOORETREAT Search for Missing Woman Reveals Underground Site of Wierd Rites. April 10.~Prose. said today that charges | be lodged against gro voodoo doctor, the police ar had 4« woman of thé bouse passages under the =ind@ Weird Chamber. Bonws 0f two infants, believed to have Been negroes; were discovered | one of the underground passages. Three tunnels, with a score of rooms and compartments, were found under the cellar. In the chambers were bodies of chickens, pieces of dry meat, weirdly dressed and painted dolls, and many bells operated by electricity from the kitchen on the floor above. These things, the police suid, were intended to impres vatients with the voodoo doctor’ Had Many Interests. d on charges hout & false pret to be released on bail made her also posed as ities said, additien to a real e He and his wife were held without ball The girt was detained as a witness. was about hen his dat statement . author- icabs in DUKE DIVORCE SUIT REVIVED IN COURT Attorné¥ for Tobacco Magnate Ask That Wife's Plea Be “Sum- marily Dismissed.” » Associated Press NEW YORK, April Mra Lillian N. Duke #ud mainte e’ Luke, tobacco mag her in New Jersey into the State es B. , who divorced nd gave counsel ntended Mrs. Duke contends e was grant- ed in New Jer: v band's legdl hor that perjuted at she had never against Mr. surrendered for Plymouth Mohan who, without that ship from Ell for the “Emir's’ giver Hanove under | THE EVENING Police Overlook Soft Drink Sign At Hains Point Billboards of any kind, adver- tising any article, are absolutely banned in the public parks of the National Capital. However, some- one has put up a sign advertising a soft drink which is sold in the tea house at Hains Point, The sign is resting over the board announcing that the spot in East Potomac¢ Park is Hains Point. It had escaped the eyes of the park patrolmen, who make frequent visits around there, when the, attention of Lieut. Col Clarence 0. Sherrill, director of ! public buldings and parks in the | District_of Columbia, was called to the sign, he sald he would issue instructions for its re- SALVATIN ARNY APPEALSFOR FUND Relief Donations $35,000 Short of Sum Needed in Relief Work. The charita Salvation bly incl Army appealed to ed residents of Wash- for more liber; 0,000 relief fund. cn is scheduled to close tomorrow night, and will fall far short of its goal, army officers pointed out, unless $35,000 more is raised to- day and tomorrow. Curtailment of its 1925 relief pro- gram will result from the fallure of the army to raise the needed $50,000, drive leaders indicated. Fifty thou- sand dollars, it was explained, does not represent all the army spends during the year. The expenditures last year totaled nearly $300,000, a larger portion of this being rafsed by the self-supporting Institutions operated by the organization. Committee Streases Need. visory ‘committee in charge a meeting yesterday Evangeline residenc and immediate moval ATTACHES ARE SHIFTED. War Department Anounces Order for Officers Abroad. in stations of several Unit- States military attaches are an- nounced at the Col. Arthur L. Conger, military attache to German Sweden, Denmark and the > |lands, with station at Berli { appointed military attacha Switzerland. He will be relieved Maj. Frederick A. Holmer, Coast | Artillery Corps, now at the University of Pittsburgh, Pa., from further duty as military attache to Norway, Swe- den and Denmark . Holmer will | | e 1330 L street, stressed the importance of liberal donations today and tomor- row. Contributions should be sent to Thomas P. Hickman, treasurer of the fund, at the army's headquarters, 607 B street. Several thousand dollars were con- tributed to the fund yesterday and brought the total to $15,000, exclu- sive of the pledges. Among those who contributed yesterduy was Sec- retary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur. Many members of the diplomatic! vorps also contributed. They Wrote that they are acquainted with the army’s works in their native coun- tries and are anxious to ald the Washington organization in its hu- manitarian activities, Former serv- ice men also have contributed liber- ally. Adjt. Holz Confident. Adjt. Ernest R. Holz, campaign di- rector, although disappointed over .the slowness in which the contributions have been coming In, said today that o feels confident the people of Wash- ington will not let the drive fail. He expects large contributions today and | tomorrow. The girls at the Evangeline resi- dence, a self-supporting home for working girls operated by the army, have raised $500 of the $1.000 they BAYS OCULISTS’ Rx. FILLED RAPIDLY_ PERFEOTLY AND AT SROXEN LENSES MATCHED—ABSOLUTELY CLAFLIN OPTICAL CO. 1314 G 922 14th Established 1889 T | 8o to Stockhoim, Maj. Don- Staff, mili che at Br Belgium, detailed as military attache The Hague, Netherlands, also. | T. Bentley Mott, retired, will be |lieved as military attache at Berr Switzerland, May 1 i Lieut. Col Richard I McKenney,| | Coast Artillery Corps, on duty with the Organized Reserves at New York City, has been detallsd as mllitary attache at Warsaw, Poland, as the | relief of Maj. Henry W. T. Eglin, General Staff, ordered to the United | states. | tary att | be, th UPSTAIRS o WITHOUT FRILLS— AND FANCY FIX TURES—WE AR ABLE TO CUT DOW OTR OVERHEA BEING LOCATED ON THE SECOND FLOOR — UPSTAIR® — AL- LOWS US TO “CUT™ AGAIN — THAT 18 WHY WE SAY YOU SAVE BY WALKING UP ONE FLIG th in Gardening Time and there are many things you'll need to plant, and to work with. The “For Farm and Garden” column in The Star Classified Section will put you in touch with those who can supply what you require. Refer to it confidently —for the advertisers under this column will give Star readers satis- faction. 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