Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1925, Page 2

2 * NEW PROSECUTOR REPLACES GARRETT Albert M. Bouic Named to Supplant Rockville Official Now Out on Bond. Special Dispateh to The Star ROCKVILLE. Md pointment of Albert cial County Inhn A six Anril Bouic as spe- Montzomery State's Attorney under bond on emhexz’ement funda, and would be M to supplant Garrett, now warrants . oharg $14.500 of reports that the 5 clients ne jury ealled te Garrett spee Judge County that narked the predictions today would be dur obert reuit vesterday Hammorn e Glen age existed r of the Fred- | ith | B. Court Pet visited Urn Wor eved erick Chief Iy The ¢ been Little return of J jury wil promptly special session for ac h hanpenings pointed that there is more than a possibility that | = be had within the next | two or weeks if the 3 Jur tailed Announcer ige d J H 3 is be the dou wing the | o Peter t the grand | . be convened in jon on the case with H uch court- in out use e 1 trial ec to ignore ent e the for the of th att ¥ Judge which ot position of spec 1 assum the the morning pending de In disposal was b he will he alrea ndant a represent importance State. sented Welsh in this had repre- { Barnard | since the m A sharp n will formed Wil Is-Denied. retort motivating case. made by Garr arrest Saturday from Chief of Pol the officers warrants today. Chief warmly that n the case, so-far as he maintaining he “plain and sworn Democratic le repulse any sug has had anything predicament of that prosecuti encouraged nor disc political aspect in admitted that a confere pated in by Maj. F Sec ry State; Robert G banker and local political leader, and other influential party leaders. wasi held turday, at which the Garrett | ask was diseussed. It is known also | Lee and Hilton weré appealed to by Garrett for .assistance and it is d that We was gfven assurance of sympathy but »unced . that they could not ethod open to aid requested rrett to wing forthcoming Will L. Aud swore out the Aund denied | £ entered } was concerned e T | merely was doing the her reen any t partici- | Brooke Lee Hilton. s | aged f ! b the It is state manner Saturday ate’s Attorney counsél in the announced today that he had since he is personal counse of Police Aud. the sought | tain form Dawson Dawsor decl for Chief FIND 0DD SUBSTANCE | IN BODY OF OLSON| Chemists to Make Poison Test Fol- | lowing Exhumation in | Murder Probe. By the Associaied Press CHICAGO, “April substance Which will tested for Poisonous properties has been found n the organs Dr. Oscar Olson was learned today. The discovery de- laved the report, which had ex- today an_analysis made of ans « Chemist, An undefined or of pected Willlam D. McNally Nr. McNally will- conduct ments to ascertain what ihe reaetion a vital organism ‘woyld ‘be to the wly discovered . eubstance, - and her the: substance 1s noxfous. . It ed'“that thexe experiments Di. Olson's-bedy was exhumed after | the question erning the stances of his death three y had been raised a MeClintock tnquest. Dr. Ol¢6n had been the phy- sidian of the late William Nelson M- Clintogk and a childhood frie I eased mother, M ma =on McClintock. His deatl number which th the tragic ck for h mer n found ago, it T was of medic -administere experi- m- N rected e Mc- ur some clear rmal time that a be pa ne said t not age ) have LEADER SEES EXPANSION OF COLORED ELKS’ ORDER| The time i2 Tipe for the axpanstén A EIKE ) Wilso I oughout - the lared 1 Church on orial Inmbia Lodge The order, I and exalted ler. de night the at the Zjon becaston of th B.PT. O ) among and Japanece bishops of col- here and abroad. He recent crowth of the| Lodg i services Di [ E. W Chinese fiftee e has members hants oréd chure told of t ordsr in forei Morning Star anxil F e held jo a No and its! At the in th High nt the t v same audi- School rnet C. intendent participated James T. Car- Mary O. Jack- Dr. Robert i 'NOTED BANKER DIES. address Wilkinson, assistant schools. Others who in the ceremonies were ter of Richmond, Va son. Louis H. Mehlin L. Peyton and Marion Pe i NEW Robert Lin- | Tithgow hanker YORK. April 1 Livingston, stock broker and and member o ow York family which has been socially prom- | fnent since Revolutionary daye, died yesterday at his home of pneumonia Mr. Livingston was horn February | 26 1876 Hyde-Park-on-Hudson, | ew York. In the Spanish-American | ‘War he served as a second lieutenant | for. seven months, the last two of which were spent as aide de camp to | Gen. Joseph P. Sanger. major gen- [ eral of volunteers, at Lexington, Kv.| In 1902 married Miss Helen L.| he Kountze, daughter of Luther Kountze, | a banker. She died a little more than | a year later. In 1911 he married Miss | Marie Sheedy of Denver, Colo., known | as the “richest zirl in Denver.” Miss | Sheedy was the daughter of Dennis Shaedy, a wealthy mine owner Mr. Livingston was a membar of | the Union and Knickerbocker clubs. | New York: the Piping Reck Club, lemg Island: the Pot and Kettls Club, Ras Harbor, Me., and the Kebo Valley Cltb. - gt | | probabiy tavenue 'Women Go Hatless | | To Disprove Vanity | Charges at Easter | By the Assoctated Press. COTTA GROVE. Oreg., April 13.—Women of the Christian Church here attended Easter serv- ices yesterday hatless They left their new Zaster bon- nets home disprove asser- tions of male members of the church that the principal reason they went to church was to dis- pl their new millinery crea- tions at to | | { | 1 v HEARING IS SET ON SCHOOL SITE Dupont Circle Residents Ob- ject to Location on New Hampshire Avenue. A public hearing will be conducted the committee on buildings and &rounds of the Board of Education on vrotest by residents of the Dupont Circle section over the proposed erec- tion of a new public schoo! on a site| just north of R street on New Hamp- shire avenue. A petition received by the board points out that New Hamp- shire avenue is a “fire run” and would endanger the lives the pupils, and that it would be a waste of money to purchase such high-priced property for | chool | An appropriation was provided in| st District deficiency bill for a! for a new buiiding to replace | Force and Adams When Bureau of the Budget approved | item, according school offt it had the New Hampshire ave- te in mind Ernest chairman of the on buildings 1 to by Schools, Gresn wood mittee howey board's com- grounds no further be taken towsrd the pur- until a hearing has the complainants | Nineteenth and | | fon wili hase of the n A zrante en Florida avenue 1 and one in the oseveit Hotel have bea: the complainants as po! stitutes of the New Hamp property street Columbia | of the| suggested | ble R rear nue ATOST IS ELD I WOMANS DEATH Negro Awaits Action of Grand Jury After Car Runs 1 Over Boston Visitor. | One and several trafic acci- person met death others weare injured in dents yesterday Miss Irma Sicotte. years old. of | 28 Westland avenue, Boston. an Easter visitor. was victim of the fatal traffic accident that occurred late last night in front of the Continental | Hotel. North Capitol near ¥ street Her mother, Mrs. Anna Sfeotte. 60 vears old. was seriously hurt, but will recover. Earl Rudolph Pannell. colored. 014, 343 F street southwast. driver of the automobile, and three colored companions with him. wera arrested and held by the police to await the result of a coroner’s investigation !The latter registered as Ogcar Barnes and Charies Henry Ashe. 1630 Fifth street, andl JAmea“A. Pannefl. brother of the driver, residing at the southwest address Earl Pannell. the driver, was ordered held for the action of the grand jury Mrs. Sicotte and her daughter had come here for a few days on an Easter vacation and were occupying a room at 204 F street. They were croseing North Capitol street when the automobile appeared and struck them The daughter jyas thrown the machine and-her body so crushed that she died soon after reaching Emergency Hospital. Mrs Sicotte today is recovering from the effects of her bruises and lacerations 20 t yvears beneath badly Three Hurt in Crash. < - Three persofic wers injured las night as a result of a collision on Park place near Irving street betwaen he automobiles of George G. Hender- son, 612 Fifteenth &t northeast and Dominick Lenteni, 631 K streat northeast. Mrs. L. M. Henderson, 33 vears old, and Florence F. Hender- son years old. occupants of the forme . and Frances Lenteni, 21z years oid, oceupant of tha latter were Tnjuréd. The Hendersons treated at Garfield Hosphal, while Lenteni chlid was taken to Hospital Thomas northeast, truck that car on H street mouth of Wylie sustained car were | the Sibley Green was was 324 Eighih ariver of a motor struck by a street northeast, near the court, 1ast night painful injuries and wax treated B{ Casualty Hospits While_crossing at Seventaenth I streais last night, Carlton vears old, of 232 vania avenue, wag knocked taxicab driven by H. C. Atkinson 1020 Eighth street, and his left leg hurt. Arkinson 100k him home. Eleven-vear-old Carie Suddeuth Rockville, Md., was knocked down by the automobile of. Lolix G. Davidson, ! 2608 L street, while crossing Canal road pear Thirty-sixth street last| night. She was treated at Georgetown University Hospital for slight In- juries Byrd, and Raw- | Pennsyl- down, by lings by William struck and automobile driven Naval Air_Station, injured Clara Prather, colored. 34 vears old, of 524 South Pitt street, Alexandria, Va, at Massachusetts and Seventh street yesterday afternoo Byrd took the slightly in= jured woman home. | Loses Pocketbook. Mrs. Alice M Hall, Basic City, Raymond, Fairfax Va. was slightly in- | jured 1ast night when knocked down | At Massachusetts avenue and North | Capitol street by the automobile of Paul V. Thompson, 741 Seventh street southeast. S£he refused hospital treat- ment. Mrs. Raymond lost her pockeét- book. containing more than $15, and a bankbook Edith Biount, colored, Smithfield, Va. visiting at 42 noks street northeast, was injured yesterday morning by an automobile in charge of Ackley Harris, 405 P street, in front of 1102 Water street southwest. She was taken to Freedmen's Hospital. Charles Colbert, colored, 28, 321 D sfreet, sustained the loss of two fingers of his left hand and numerous bruises in an automobile Accident near Mead- ows, Prince Georges County, Md., yes- terday afternoon. He was given surgi- cal aid at Casualty Hospital, Automobiles of M. F. Mangan, 408 Fifth street, and Ciyde C. Hartman, Cathedral Mansions, stopped in traf- fic at the sonth end of Klingle Bridge vesterday afternoon, were struck by a street car in charge of Motorman Al- fred W. Supernow. Both machines were damaged, but their cocupants were not injured, police reported. | cia rations. tendance augmented ™ soon THE EVENING e First the center Lady of the of a great throng = she made her appenrance in the White Houxe grounds today. NATURE AND AN JOININ GAY EASTER {50,000 Visitors Unite With| Residents in Greeting to Spring. Nature exemplified the Eascer spirit of ne ehil with weled the of th weath thron colo and b Under the bluast of skiss shine chille resplendent gaudy makin dorning with trees, tribu coleby prove Nation's w life bur gloom of sunshine to som Cs United drew s to relig ful parade bonnets 1 pouring d earth. wit in v tulips, pa pansies the famo. ng the the awakening sting forth from the penitentiary season flowers and a glad he 50,000 visitors to pital from all parts States. The ideal orth the FEaster-day ious service and to a of vivid-hued gowns with sun- upon the erstwhile h parks and hillsides ivid green h the rt jonquils and face- of myriad colors earth, us Japanese fire bushee and judas trees con- ting the rated d. style. Churehes Easter bloow Washington in most ap- Are Crowded. The true spirit of the day. religious servi conse was Chris ment ce heraldin ience and dominant tian al in aftairs leadership & a reawakening of pledge to better life, the morning hours. in our govern- attested by the W President and First Lady of the Land and other devot high ions as unobtrusively officials making their and un- pretentiously as possible in this Cap- ital C Promptly persons wher were Wash Rey livered an servic Harris of Foundry pal ( Homer The Call of Servic ed to of & h at gathered open-ai held ington Dr. ity e e Ja addre R es were “hurch, Rev J. Coune the four ¢ ero-worshiping people. sunrise some 12,000 at Temple Helghts, combined services under the auspices of the on Koble Assisting in the Froderick Brown fethodist Episco- 1. Wilfley and of Church ev. illor. orners by musicians trom the Marine Band and carried far and radio. services wide throu aghout the land by through WCAP station. In all the churches there were spe- | and and - an d floral deco- large at- the throng =pecial unusually by of Easter visitors. President greet and ed bv a 1 Mrs arge Coolidge were crowd . as they [ 1eft the White House and by another as they drove up to ths church. which Id two morning services instead of one in an effor t (o accommodate as many as possible of the large number of. | country the crowds and his wife passed were in Presi many first Cooli fashi The curio church must have felt j disappointment in the simple of th custo another Spirn applicants from all for card dent new frock time, but dge on Coolldg hundreds us guests President long appeara finery e m of & followed both “appearing aken from their regular which parts of s of admissicn. through which the the s being worn for the Mr. nor Mrs custom of in garments wardrobes. imply Dreased. of sightseers and gathered about the st a touch of raiment wife. True to her vears, she left for in public any real she may have neither this . nce purchased or owned, and instead wore ioned and the brimmed of b on finished material hat with wi lue, ahaded flowers. was long coat of satin-back crepe fash- straight but graceful lines, th little guillings of Her rather wida- in the same shade rélief of scarlet- The gown worn un- | der the coat was of sand color, one- piece, plainly ‘fashioned and showing a few coat n story gowns M from gesti gowns, inchas bel marked contrast is that of York. hum New on of designed and . Coolidge and 1o arrive this week but they ow the bottom of the to this simple seven new and lovely faszhionea for Nor is there a sug- ility in any of these carry out tha same idea of simple elegance shown in the selection of all her garments. The worn headgear gowns T are acco and ot equiring hats mpanied by suitable her accestories. The and | cherry | Pierce de- | was trumpet- | & i | several to be! President wore a frock coat and high xilk hat i Police details were kept trolling the crowds at the Pollee White Hou Busy. busy the church and where many re Kent se, mained to get another glimpse of Mr. and The regular was to and from the serviel Mrs. the acknowledged its b ing House. the of Mrs. Coolid, Wh vsed by th Coolidge" church fo ulletin, Easter il ev, Jason the church, ge ap they returned ite House automobile e President in going in decorating services was s part r thé in a two-line note in thanking her for send- es from the White The sermon was preached by Noble Pierce, pastor who emphasized the power of Christ in world aftairs, and His promise of a future life. A pro- gram of Easter music was sung by the church’s regular choir. Cathedral Chapel Crowded. Other high officials attended their own churches, many of which also presented more or less extensive spe- cfal programs and attracted numer- ous visitors. A t Washington Cathe- dral more than 7,000 Easter pilgrims were eounted entering Bethlehem [Chapel, where they fied stowly | the mass was furnished by STAR, WASHINGTON Mra. Coolldge walking about tho tombs of Woodrow Wilson and Ad- miral Dewey At the Franciscan Brookland. where is the Commis- sariat of the Holy Land, to which all Christian worship of Easter day looks back for ite finspiration, there were specially elaborata services with all the liturgy of the Catholic Church Here worshiped many busloads of the visiting high school parties from New York, New England and Penn- sylvania One of the most impressive Catho- lic services was in the just completed crypt of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the Catholic University campus, where there were mora than 10,000 visitors Baron de Cartier de Marchienne Ambassador from Belgium, headed of the diplomatic corps who the mass Raoul Tilmont, a secretary of the Belgian embassy. accompanied the Ambassador. Others of the diplo- matic corps to attend were Samuel de Sousa Leao Gracle, charge d'af- faires of the Brazilian emb Lieut. Eugenio da Rosa Riberio, naval attache to the Brazilian em. v and Mrs. Riberio and represent- atives of the Guatemalan embassy, Rev. Bernard A. McKenna. director of the shrine, was celebrant of the solemn high mass. The music for a choir of Sulpician Semi- Monastery in attended 125 students of the nary on the campus. Dr. McKenna | also preached. He spoke on the | resurrection and expressed thanks- giving for the progress made in the construction of the shrine Yesterday afternoon vespers and benediction were held in the orypt Dr. McKenna again was celebrant. The strolling Easter parade that formed in the streets and avenues, lined with freshly budding trees, was | made uncommonly colorful by the | bright trees and balmy atmosphere. The day also was made the oc- | casion for the opening of & new | fountain in the rear of the White | House and those just installed about | the Lincoln Memorial. Giy in the | bright anlight, they - attracted | thousands of visitors during the day. | el | | ASKS MINE CONFERENCE. | HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 13.— Premier E. H. Armstrong announced yesterday that he had Invited Interna- tional President John L. Lewis and Dis- trict President J. W. McLeod of the United Mine Workers of America and Vice President J. E. McLurg of the British Empire Steel Corporation to at- tend a conférence here Tuesda: The purpose is to discuss possible arangements for the reopeming of | the Nova Scotia coal mines, avhich have been idla-for the past fiva weeks | as a result of differences between the | operators and the men over the 1925 wage scale . s D. C., MONDAY, the grounds, followed by the xands of admirers. NEW PARKING RULE FOR AUTES N VIEW Traffic Director Considering Proposal Submitted for Morning Rush Hour. A compromise automobile parking would be hibited during the morning rush hour only on certain busy streets in- stead of in the entire congested section is now being considered, Traffic Direc- tor Eldridge sald today The original suggestion of the traffic office was that in the new code no. parking he allowed from 8 to 9:30 in the morning and one-hour parking, as at present, for the re- mainder of the day. plan under which pro- The Merchants and Manufacturers | Association objected to this and recommended that the limit be retained from $ a.m but strictly enforced Mr. Eldredge said today he suggest as an alternative that the no-parking ban in the morning rush be applied only to certain streets. The director said he also is sidering allowing two-ho and three-hour parking strests where there is tion. The director and his assistants will not reach a definite decision on the parknig question for several days. A conference will be held tomorrow night between Mr. Eldredge and the advisory committes on traffic, at which parking and all of the other important phases of the new code will be gone over. Following this conference, dridge expects to begin pry of his formal recommenda Commissioners. proposal one-hour to 6 p.m., con- on certain less conges- Mr. El- paration ns to the BAD FOG IN ENGLAND. LONDON, April 13.—The sudden hot weather this Eastertide has caused unusually dense fogs in the English Channel and all navigation fs carried on with the greatest dificulty. Several minor accidents are reported, as well as serious delay in the liner services. A Dover dispatch to Lloyds reports the arrival there of the Danish stexmer Martin Carl badly damaged She was in collision with the steamer Dentsehland, bound for Hamburg. It |it not known if the Deutschland was tamaged Ford Inaugurates Air Express Service, Chicago to Detroit, By the Aswocisted Press. DETROIT, April 13.—The flight from Detroit to Hegewisch, IIl.. to- day of the Malden Dearborn, marks the opening of a company-operated airplane service which is to be ex- tended gradually until several planes will be leaving hete dajly on regular flying schedules, the Ford Motor Co. announced today. For the present, flights will be made chiefly over the Detrpit-Chi- cago line, with landings at the Ford airport here and the United States mail airdrome at Maywood, 1L, a Chicago suburb. A motor truck was to meet the plane at Maywood to carry the cargo of company maifl and express from the flying field to the Hegewisch lant of thé Ford company. The Ford air line, today's state- For Own Company ment *ajd, will_not be available for public use, nor connected in any way with outside interests, The Maiden Dearborn was pur- chased from the Stout Metal Air- plane Co. in which Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Cé., has shown an interest. The plane is powered with a 400-horsepower Ford-built Liberty engine. Wildam B. Stout, designer of the plane, said that following comple- tion of the second plane, now under construction, five others will be built for other air transport lines. The Ford statement said: “Plans for extending the company’s air- plane fleet will proceed at once. These include three air lines, One will have a terminus at St. Louis, Mo., another at St: Paul, Minn., an; the third will terminate at Irom . Mountain, Mich, APRIL may | parking being | 13 | | | eircuitous | } | | | A Disappointed Spectator. \,,,A, 'PRESBYTERY HEADS IN CAPITAL CONVENE | Officers for Year to Be Elected ' Today—Sessions to Close Tomorrow. The ing of the fifty-fifth stated Spring Presbytery of Washington this meet- afternoon Chureh, of electing City opened at West- with the officers shortly after convening. Rev. Dr. John Brit-| tan Clark the present moderator, | Rev. Dr. Isaac Ward, vice moderator Rev. Dr. T. C. Clark. stated clerk and Rev. G. M. Cummings, permenent clerk. The program this afternacn cnliz for reports of various officecs |ana of committees. Tonight wili be | given over 1o devotional servi. Iwith a sermon by the retiring mod- erator. The meeting will close with tomor- row afternoon’s session. A. feature {tomorrow will be the report of ihe ‘apital City church-extension com- | mittee. ern Presbyterian prospect is Sneak Thief Robs Home. A sneak thief broke into the room J. Hollis, 216 Linworth place, | late Saturday night or early Sunday | morning and took $500 and a gold | watch and chain. e It it's love at first sight the Alta- mont Times wanders how love can be blind. |day reve | the | was jof | American warship | Navy | than | slaughterers narrowly | Euxter Monday egg battle. TAX DECISION REVERSED. Supreme Court Rules Against Rail- roads on Lease Work. A rallroad company in computing iis net income for Federal taxation purposes cannot déduct expenditures on properties held under lease, cluding the cost of constructing and extending piers and dredging on ac- count of such property, the Supreme Court held today in & case brought against the Centra) Railroad of New Jersey Lowér Federal court ordered the Government 1o refund that part of the income Which it required the railroad to pay when it refused to permit any deiuction for construction and repair on property which the railroad operated under lease. This was to- ned GATE DEDICATED INPERRY'S HONOR 107000 Attend Trinidad Cere- mony, and U. S. Consul Extols Lake Erie Hero. By the Associatad Press PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad —In the presence of 10,000 the memorial gate in honor of Com- modore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of battle of. Lake Erie, in 1813, was dedicated here today with appropri- ate naval. military and civic cere- monies. The goiden key to the gate handed by Capt. H. H. Lack the United States cruiser Mem- phis. sent here by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur for the occasion. to the mayor of the city. A landing party from the Memphis. with the ship's band and a detachment of the local forces of this British colonial pos- n took part in the exercises. Commodore Perry, who died on an hers in 1819, was buried ashore, and the gateway dedi- cated today stands a‘ (he entrance to Laperyrouse Cemeiery, in which Ris body lay until it was removed to the United States in 1826 and buried at Newport, R. 1 Extolled by Conswl. H. D. Baker, American consul Trinidad, in an address referred Perry as “a heroic descendant of that stock of the mother country, pro- lific in traditions of patriotic service. manly chivalry and devotion to duty He paid tribute to the Americans in Trinidad who presented the gate to the cemetery He referred also to the fact the Navy Department in Washington had shown it did not forget with the April 13 persons, decades that had passed one of its, officers who had rendered such illus- trious service, and had sent the cruiser Memphis and the submarine V-1 for participation in the ceremonies of the day A dispatch from Wilbur appropriate the casfon was read. and the mavor the city spoke in reply fo this and the address of Conwul Baker The gateway is iron, with sup- porting pillars. on each of which is a bronze tablet, ons bearing Perry’s last words inducements to make them wish live than 1; but T am perfectly ready to go if it pleases the Almighty take me; the debt to Nature must paid.” EGG CASUALTY LIST HEAVY IN ANNUAL EASTER MONDAY WAR (Continued from First Page.) Secretary of to of be it was a good-natured one, and no member of it was more good-natured the laughing lady holding the bewildered dogs. She was forced by the jam about her to halt and get her | bearings, as it were, and while White House policemen hurried to the res- cue, she chatted famlliarly with the blushing girls and boys in front. Rob Roy and Paul Pry, convinced that everything was ll right by then, re- lished a round of pats hestowed on them by the young one’s at Mrs. Cool- idge’s invitation. Finally she managed to make her way slowly forward and. following a route around the grounds. returned to the south portico 1o be photographed by tha aroused army of camera men. Marine Band to Play. Coolidge then ascended to the porch above, whers she remained throughout the morning and enter. tained a group of children and the parenta from the official circte. dren on the portico included those of Secretary of Labor Davis, Assfstant Secretary of the Navy Robinson, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Wadsworth, Col. C. O. Sherrill, Admiral Gregory, Kdward B. McLean, Rev. Jason Noble Pierce and a grandchild of Col. George Harvey. The Marine Band will play afternoon on a special stand in thé gruonds, beginning at 3 o'clock. The general public then will be admitted for the first time today. The earlier arrivals who qualified for admission were children accompanled by parsnts or others looking after them The Zoo Park called . thousands to its shady slopes and other attractions, and attendants soon found their heads aching from worry over egg and candy diet which, despite official warning&, Wwas served the roar- ing lions, the monkevs, the elephants and the other animals. Look im Vain for Cubs. Particularly large crowds assembled at the cages of the European brown bear and the Siberian tiger in the hope of seeing the cubs and kittens recently deposited there by the stork, but the worried attendants, in order to safe- zuard the health of the new arrivals, xept them in seclusion for the day. to Mrs. this Many an innocent egg met a dismal | fate down the stee) incline back of the lion house, and frequently the young escaped a =imi. lar fate themselves in their hurry to follow the bouncing, crashing oval in its hectic course. in- | that | the | Few people have greater | Chil- | the | PACIFIC SHIPS' SALE REFERRED T0 COURT Hearing Monday on Applica- tion for Injunction Against Dollar Co. Deal. United States Ship well as the debat and discussions among its members In relation to the sale of the f | Prestdent ships in the Pacific to 1h ih'.Hur interests will be laid bare be fore Justice Hitz in Equity Division 12 of the District Supreme Court nex Monda Hearing scheduled for that date the applic Pacific Mail Steamship C junction to prevent the the sule | Minntes of the {ping Board. ax ing o carr Subpoenas ixsued. Attorneys <=4 Bolitha J. Laws the piaintiff. have secured tice Hits subpoenas duces dressed to Roy Merriil lthe board, and 1o Adolph connected with the board, directing jthem to appear as witnesses for the plaintiff and to bring with them the minutes, records of the board, ster ographic notes of the proceeding and of the debates among the bers concerning | bids for the sale of th The subpoena to Mr quires him to bring a the stenographic not original notes of the shortha | porter of the Shipping Board ing in detail the discussion | bates of the members of the | Certified Copies Required. { | Mr. Morrill is ordered to {tified copies of all min | United States Shipping Board a | Fleet Corporation from Decembe 11924, to the present time {in any manner to the posal of the President ipt of the stenograph discussion as are asked | Amende: copies of all letters writ | by the Shipping Board | eral members to Stanley the Dollar Steamship Pacific Mail Steamship original letters from and companies | Lasuy, he originais any, now |to ‘show the | otherwise, of | ties primarily interested in | ship lines on which the Presi | sels have been and are r erated United States Gordon has | entered his appearance as co . { the Shipping Board. and w {file the answer of the board | suft for injunction ! E. Chamberlair George trom J | | i secretary 1 | 3 I the acceptance of ships Amende 1e trar es and | 4 board sale and ships and the Do and " tr and i perso these dire opies show and the domes E Attorney KILLED GIRL IN RAGE, YOUTH CONFESSES | Slashed Throat of Dancer in Blind Anger When She Mentioned Other Suitors. | BY the Associated Press LONDON, April 13.—A fof fatal jealousy was told Pol | Court today. when Ernest Rhodes {18-vear-old valet. appeared to answe |a charge of murdering Grace Blakal |1er, pretty 16-year-old actress and | dancing instructress, who died F {@ay from the effects of a slash {the throat the night previous | West Kensington district. A ment was read into the records leged to have been made by Rhe to the police, admitting had the girl's throat with a razor The ‘fatal act, as recorded statement. was commiited impu Iy In a fit of jealousy as he bidding the young dancer good outside her home ou their from a motion picture theate she chafed him about other boy might see during the Easter holida Rhodes said he was not aware had slashed the girl fatally, as ran to her mother's home nearby af the cutting, and he did not she was dead until two davs when he read the news in the He then surrendered to the Rhodes was remanded for a week (WILL EESTRE)Y TUNNELS AND ‘VOODOO’ CHAMBERS Police and Firemen to Clear Out Mysteries of Alleged Mur- later pap derer’'s Home. By the Ascociated Press CAMDEN, N. J, April | with axes and shovels, a squad of po | ticemen and firemen today a- stroy the tunnels and mystery chan bers in the “Voodoo House' of the “Rev.” E. H. H. Hyehcock, an under taker and self-styled healer with his wife locked up piclon of murder and also on charges of practicing license and obtaining false pretenses Hyghcock occupied adjo houses. After his arrest an tion of the buildings brought to light several crude tunnels, weird cham bers, idols, dead chickens and cats a tabernacle and three organs. A ear-old daughter said that her father had killed a woman and burled the body in the cellar of one house. Bedies of two negro infan were found in one of the tunnels. A will an who. is on sus- without medicine money TROOPS FIGHT FIRE NEAR FORT WASHINGTON Forest Flames Within Half-Mile of Post After Sweeping 200 Toward avening it is expected thers | will be the usual aftermath of the ermath i€ & follow-up battle betwean overloaded tummies and their cruel variegated contents. Hard-boiled ezgs. when aggravated jelly eggs, chocolate eggs. candy its and other famcy tidbits, act to their name Wwhen Monday comes around. But no ona thought of that today, LETS ROAD CON Mexico Gives' Americans 000,000 Building Job. MEXICO CITY, April 13.—A $15.- 000,000 contract to build three main highways in Mexico has beén signed between the Mexican governmeént and an AmericAn company, whose name is withheld. The highways will join Matamoros, Laredo and Nogales, ‘on the Amsri- can border, with Mexico City. The contract price will ba paid with the money raised by the recent decreed tax of 6 cents per gallon on gasoline consumed by moterista TRACTS. $15,- The aft-| Easter | Acres of Land. Washington, 12 was turned | The garrison at Fort | miles down the Pot | out yesterday at the request of the State fize warden for Prince Georges County |to put out a forest fire. which had reached within half a mile of the post | The 2d Battalion of the 12th Infantry |and staff detachments of that regiment ac | nor wouid it have mattered if 50me |aro srationed at Fort Washington | had, for Easter Monday, like Christ-| | mas, comes but once a year. When the troops were callled out dur- {ing the afternoon, the fire already had | swept over 200 to 300 acres of land, de- stroying much standing timber and | piled cordwood. After a four-hour fight the troops and the county officials and civilians sueceeded in putting out th blaze. Dr. Smith Backed for Council. Dr. Philip Sidney Smith of the Geological Survey was elected nom! nee by the Cleveland Park School and Community Asso tion to the Com- missioners” Advitory City Council at a meeting of its executive committee Saturday. late are becoming so gmall that there's no room even for complaint.