Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1925, Page 40

O e R —— W 40 WILL SEARCH FARM FORMURDER CLUES New York Police Say Chiro- practor Failed to Account for Infant Waif. iated Press, YORK, April 10.—Green arm, the Long Island home v Lee Mottard, chiropractic an, at Smith will be searched for possible tard, who yesterday was held without bail for examination Menday on su: vicion of homicide The search was ordered by the dis- trict attorney’s office after Mottard had failed to satisfactorily explain the disappearance of a baby which ad been returned to him by a nurse in whose care he previously had placed it. Mottard, who had offices fn New York under the name of “Harry 1. Green,” was arrested after he had told police th McKenzie, missing en she was taken from bulator on a lower’ Man- hattan street. Returned Sickly Baby. The child, ified by Mrs. Kenzie yeste E er lost was born to livan of cut, Mottard said, adding r_had given the infant 1 Me- District that Mottard, or new him, had given two children. One, she said, had n adopted by the Grofes, but she returned the other to the chiro- practor-physician _because it was sickly. Marro said Mottard had not satisfactorily ~accounted for that child. Will Exhume Woman's Body. Marro also said the body of Mary Allison, 44, who died at Mottard's New York address in September, 1923, <upposedly from injuries received in a fall down a dumb-waiter shaft, would be exhumed from a Brookly cemetery o it might be de- termined wt e had undergone an _illegal operdtio The Grofes visited police head- rters today and were said to have satisfied the authoritics as to the truth of their story that they adopted the child in had their A possible commercial source of starch has been found in the tree ferns of the Pacific, '$ 4@ Easter wmExcursion Atlantic City SPECTAL THROUGH TRAIN Via Delaware River Bridge Leaves Washington, 12:01 A.M. Returning, leaves 8. Caro. ‘Ave. 6 P.M. Tickets on sale two days preceding Excursion at City Tickes Office, Penn- yivania Bldg.. 613 14th St. N.W., and Union Station. [PennsylvaniaRailroad ims of Mot- | KID McCOY DINNER GUEST AS “FAREWELL” TO JAIL Convicted Slayer, One-Time Idol of Prize Ring, to Be Trans- ferred to Penitentiary. Py the Associated Press, » LOS ANGELES, April 10.—Kid Me- Coy, former pugilist and conviéted slayer, was guest at a dinner in tank No. hs of the county jail here last t. To the prisoners and others who gathered to bid him good-bye befors his jeurney to San Quentin peniten- tiary, scheduled to begin tomorrow night, the one-time idol of the prize ring sald he was going to accept “as | a part of my life” his term of from |3 to 38 years for the slaying of Mrs. { Theresa Mors and the shooting affray quent to her death. No kid ever went to college with more ambition than I am going to prison,” McCoy said. “I am going to devote my time fo studying and do- ing what I can to help others.” THE CHICAGO-DETROIT AIR LINE OPENS MONDAY Tri-Weekly Schedule to Be Car- ried Out by Ford Freight Planes. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 10.—Chicago will be the operating base for American rways, Ltd. the new commercial rplane venture which ¥ backing, according to Philip Kemp, chairman of Mayor Dever's tion committee, who announced on his return from Detroit that serv- ice between Chic: and Detroit would start next Monday The first flight will mark the begin- ning of a tri-weekly air express line between the two cities. Within a few weeks the line will be operated on a daily schedule, Maj. Kemp said. The ferred in Detrolt with Wil- liam tout, head of the compan: manufacturing planes for the project EVENING Odoriess Skunks Raised. Near Dartmoor in England a s cessful experiment in breeding raising odorless skunks has been car- ried on. Capt. . ‘Pigot and C. John stone are in charge of the far with the object of producing fine furs from odor. The ret is a su operation on the baby skun removal of the scent gland Only freight will be carried at first, stated, but within a few passenger service will be es- 5 Representatives of Mr. and Mr. Ford were expected today to make arrangements for the landing of the ship. « Officials of the Ford concern have guaranteed a_daily traffic of 2,000 pounds from Detroit to Chicago. STAR, WASHIN ASKS MERCY FOR WOMAN, MOTHER-IN-LAW SLAYER Prison Commission Recommends Commutation of Death Sentence to Life in Prison. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., April 10.—The State Prison Commission yesterday recom- mended to Gov. Walker that the death sentence of Mrs. Ida Hughes be commuted to life imprisonment. She is under sentence to be hanged April 24 for killing her mother-in- law. The commission found that the shooting was done in & fit of passion. They also recommended ctemency be- cause she is a woman FIRE RAZES LUMBER MILL. Ten Dwellings Also Destroyed in $500,000 Quebec Blaze. JOLIETTE, Quebec, April 10.—Fire destroyed the large saw mill plant of William opping & Co. and 10 workmen's houses here yesterday, causin loss estimated at $500,000. The fire was brought under control after it had threatened all the quar- ters known as Le Village Flamarad. This s the third time in 20 vears that the Copping mill has been de- | stroyed by fire. iTON, D. C,, NEW YORK FIRM SUES FOR BUS LINE HERE Bankers Seek to Enforce Option on Rapid Transit Company Stock. Potter & Co., investment bankers of New York, want to purchase control of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. which operates a bus line in this ity and vesterday afternoon asked the District Supreme Court to compel Leon Arnold, present president of the mpany ani other stockholders to y tae terms of an option agreement inade April 2. The New York concern tells the court that it rontracted with Arnold to purchase 0,000 shares of the total issue of 612 shares at a valuation of $400,- for the entire issue. The option expired last might and the New York company declares that it made a tender of $370,160, being the pro rata for the $20,000 shares, but the offer was not accepted. No reason Is assigned for the break fin KFRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1925. Mystic Drug Being Sought. Herbs used by the ancient Maya physicians in South America, and supposed to possess almost miraculous powers of curing and healing, will be sought by a scientific sponsored by Tulane University, ac- cording to an announcement from New Orleans. Dr. Willlam A. Gates is in charge of the expedition, or- ganized as a result of statements made In the Maya manuscripts which have in recent years come to llght and which have been taken somewhat seriously by modern scientists. 350,000 Factories in U. S. In the United States there are 330,- 000 manufacturing plants, having 2 capital investment of $48,000,000,000 and employing roughly about 11,000,- 000,000 persons. Their annual pay rolls amount to about $16,000,000,000. However, only about half of them have paid any dividends. It is also figured that about 50 per cent of the manufacturing industries eventually fail. - World Farm Census Tried. An effort will be made by the In- ternational Institute of Agriculture expedition | b; Waste Seeds Now Used. | Not many decades ago cotton seeds | 50 clogged the waterways near the cotton gin centers in the South tha something had to be done about it | y Southern captains of industry. | That “something” was the conver- sion of cottonseed into usable products, and today the production of cottonseed oil in the South alone is valued at more than $275,090,000 an- nuall, | Gold wa T Mail Fraud Is Charged. April 10.—Harry I. federal offiger indictment » New York him with us to defraud L.OS ANGELES, here turned July, 1 the mails the sale of glass corporation fore the United State was set for April 16 500. veste ag: a = stoe at Rome to md«e a complete world farm census and to that end Leon H. Estabrook. of Frederick, Me., and a member of the U. S. Department of Agriculture staff, has been -named director of the undertaking. 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