Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1925, Page 17

THE EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, A PRIL 17, 1925. formed the choir which sang at the Washington White House, Mrs. Coolidge ocrupied a box at the concert. AMERICAN F known Rhonda shaking hands with M BASS OF FINE 16 NDW N TIDAL BASI First Allotment of Fish for Stocking Pool Received and Dumped Yesterday. The fi the Tidal B: eries arrived Union n The « the bi twenty of the fish to be placed in n by the Bureau of scheduled t afte led on one on me at vesterd: pment Tos trucks of the b y noon. or more containers quickly nsferred to the old bathing beach ted by Commis- of the United as the most tr site, which was sele sioner Hen; States Fish Commissior desirable to liberate the fish count of its sandy beach. Attempts to Photograph Sample. as on hand 1l inspection > that the Commissioner O'Malley arly to make a pe of each cont were all right be: the water how those by train had 1 to hol inch hands to be photographed. ograph was obtained it wa of the on es: and fell £ the ph only by quick work on photog rs, as Mr. caped from O'Malley’s hand into the water. In the shipment yesterd adult nging fr inches in h; 50 crappie sunfi these fish will spawn th Spring, and it was for this purpose that Mr. O'Malley was willing to place them in the basin before the wire screens are erected, taking a chance on some of them making their escape into the Potomac River. F h Wild Seramble. As the contents of were dumped into the shallow water at the beach there was a wild scr: ble of fish in all directions, some mak- ing a ser water and others t to climb back to the h. All, how- push in the yon hunting bass, T lens the b ven a helping sands of for shipment n be collected to have them The to the n c Mr. O'Malley intenc placed immediately. expected in the very The movin as or man 11l important ctures of the first fish the basin under The S campa to provide the angle Washington with a municipal fishing pond will by shown on the screen not only in Wachington, but throughout the countr) Contributions to Fish Fund. Contributions which have been re- ceived for the fund follow: Acknowledged . $ H. H. Jarvis. Abe Lincoln. E. B. Cook June Robinson rtwell . iegenbaum. . placed in 278.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 87.00 re being placed in | each éontainer | | | | on ac- | | | the | dirig 0 | the first flight to Bermuda. MINIST LEADER GREETED IN LONDON. Miss Alice Paul of Washington, firage leaders, welcomed to England by Mrs. s Paul (left) Lawrence, Lady Damage Delays Navy Dirigible’s Trip to Bermuda Los Angeles to Leave This Evening After Repairs Are Made. By the Associated Pr . to last_evening, when it was discover- ed that in yesterday’s test flizht the air: had dam: d two condensers of the water recovery system. Comdr. J. H. Kline, jr the trip would probably te sundown Bermuda, scheduled f was post- poned 24 hou said that be under- from until 4 eles cruised morning the _afternoon between ater, N. J., and Cape Cod. keeping over the water during the en- On the return to the »n grounds it was dis- two of the condensers i been so heated that they melted nd will have to be replaced the trip to Bermuda will be ken. The airship was return- hangar at 6:30 ¢’clock. flight will be the Angeles’ second trip to Bermuda. On her first flight some time ago, the airship was ble to make a landing there on account of weathe condi- tions. The airship will carry several bags of mail from New York, Phila- delphia and Washington for Bermuda. Yesterday's flight w to test out new parts recently fitted to the ble to replace those damaged in h beof: unde ed to it Tods Los FINAL RITES TOMORROW FOR JOHN SINGER SARGENT | Famous Artist to Rest at Woking. Memorial Services at West- minster Next Friday. LONDON, April 17.—The funeral oi John Singer Sargent will be held to- morrow. Burial will b& in Brookwood Cemetery, at Woking. 20 miles from 1 1 services will be held in er Abbey next Friday, Canon rnegie officiating and the members of the Royal Academy at tending in a body. It is expected that the King will be represented. FIRE SUSPECT ARRESTED. Farmer Charged With Starting Blazes Costing $100,000. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 17.— Charged with being responsible for forest fires that burned over 10,000 acres of timberland at a loss of $100,- 000, Charles Shade, a farmer, was ar- ed today by Fire Warden J. P. Webster and taken to Martinsburg, w. The fires burned five days before | they were quenched by the rains after more " than 100 volunteers battled to | 200 | check their spr Much wild game perished. Officials say farmers have started fires to cle s of under- brush so that they could gather larger berry crops. B » Auditorium yesterday afternoon and evening. 9/ After rec one of the well Rhonda and M By U DINNER TO FOREMAN GIVEN BY GRAND JURY January Panel Hears Mock Charges Against Marshall at Merry Feast. Members of th the nd jury evening at the City Copent its for evening a ‘“cha was brought against John Hawkins, the mar- 1, of conduct unbecoming an offi- of the office nd It spirited ATgume: “ignored. January panel of e a dinner I Club to John man. During the - were Pey- brdon, and his assistants, Leo nk Kelly, William Collins, nally, Josiah V. Connolly, George Weber and Harvey Given, the latter a former assistant. panel included: J. C. Edmund J. Lynch, Thon , Thornton P. Boland, C. McKee, F. H. Purcell, Isaac Narcisen- 3 Barry, Garry D. M. Sher- Sverett S. Edson, Leo A. Roach, Al n, Ernest H. Ady, G. Isaacs, uson, J. Andrew arman, Harry Darrell. rge of D. and Harry Coleman. NATE SUIT. the United James H. E Walter Jett, D. Johnson, J Coleman and Arrangements were in ck Barry ‘er STEEL MAG Real Estate Broker Schwab Owes Him $30,000. Claims C. M. NEW YORK, in a suit against C steel magnate, w: the county eclerk’s | Rauschkold, a real ture of the suit was not disclosed the papers, but at Mr. Rausch- kold's office it was said that the suit was for $30,000 alleged to be due the broker for his efforts to find a pur- chaser for . Schwab’s mansion on Riverside Drive. , Mr. Rauschkold, it was said at his office, agreed to find a_buyer for the house at $3,000,000. When he pro- duced a bona fide purchaser at that figure, it was said, Mr. Schwab de- clined to sell. MAN THIEF USES ROUGE. Gets $50 by Swindle at Union Sta- tion in Activities. Employing various _disguises, a short-change worker who rouges his cheeks has had varying success dur- ing the last few days in a swindling game which involves attempts to con- fuse employes of business firms who handle money. He obtained $50 at the Union Station a few days ago, but was thwarted in a similar at- tempt at the same place yesterday. Proceeding to Seventh street, he se- lected Miss Ethel Hoffman, the cash- ier in a store, as an intended victim, but Miss Hoffman refused to be swindled, and he left hurriedly. The man is between 30 and 35 years of age and of dark complexion. At one place he wore a blue cap and at another place a brown cap. April 17. arles M Summons Schwab, lled yvesterday in office by Joseph A. e broker. The | The plains of Mongolia ve 500 | times as many camels as the Sahara, | although in the pdpular mind the | camel is always as lated with the 1 great African desert. ‘ | Thurston, d fifty singers of Bethlehem, _ g members of the choir at the ™ SAILS FOR HIS NEW POST. Alanson B. iss Fugenie Le Merle and Orme Libbey, who will give an exhibition of the Argentine tango at the meet- ing of the International Society of Arts and Letters, Mayflower Hotel, Al 18, Photo by Towles. Houghton, newly appointed United States Ambassador to the court of St. James, sailing for England yesterd George Washingto 1,000 U. S. Seainen Have Been Lost In 20 Unsolved Tragedies of Sea Cyclops Stands Out First in Mysteries Defying Inves- tigators—DBrig Reprisal, Which Disappeared in 1777, Leads L have gone | core of ves s that have di: red from the face of the earth without a trace. From the brig Reprisal, lost in | September, 1 , to the tug Conestc that disappeared in the Pacific in 1 chapter of naval history on | Navy Department is able to i | accounted. | for craft in modern the naval | collier Cyclops, concerning which there | but no w Lost in Recent Years. During a wide stretch of years, from the Civil War period to nearly the World War era, naval annals are de- void of entries concerning lost ships. Three haye vanished from the seas since thé beginning of the present cen ury, however, in spite of the much vaunted safety to be found in modern f communication. Many of t ships were last heard of in the vicinity of the West Indies. The department has listed these ves sels as missing, without a trace, and abandoned hope for their recovery: Reprisal, lost September, 1 eral Gates, 1777; Saratoga, 1781 surgent, 1800; Pickering, 1800; Hamil NEW QUEEN OF LILYDOM IS FOUND IN NEW YORK Deep Purple Flowers Are Eight Inches Across—Blooms All Year Round. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 17—A new “queen of lily domain” has been crowned at the New York Botanic Garden. Announcement was made today of the discovery and development of | water lily which exceeds all known species in blooming power. Discov- ered in 1920, when it first appeared as a natural hybrid, #he lily has been developed under the care of Henry W. Becker, foreman of the garden, and has been named “Castalia-Bronx,” or “the Bronx,” for short. The new lily blooms all the year round. Its blossoms are § inches in diameter and of the deepest purple known in the plant kingdom. It is Mr. Becker's second ' discovery in the water lily | family, the first, with progeny scat- | tered ‘throughout the world, being | named “the Becker” for its discoverer. Experts from Kew Gardens, in Eng- land, and from St. Louis and Washing- ton gardens have seen the lily and pronounce it the finest variety of the water lily family. SEES 6,600,000 IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, April 17.—Metropolitan Chicago will have a population of 6,600,000, and its suburbs will reach the figure of 1,500,000 by 1950, Earl population expert of the Tllinois Bell Telephone Co., predicted in an eMdress yesterday. Factors influencing the city’s y with his daughter Matilda, ent rate of growth give basls for the figures, he'said. Photo taken aboard the steamship Wide World Photo. ton, 1815 n, 1839; Grampus, Albany 1. with vant II, with sailed from f D 10 men, mien, 1860; tus Nins. and never heard Cyclops, with 2 ficers, sailed March Barbadoes, West In- Conestoga, with 4 offi- men. from Mare Island, N 4 a cer Calif from tug Fate Remains Mystery. Naval vessels have st ched the seas for tidings of these missing craft, but their te remains a m ery. Naval officers consider the case of the Cy- clops unusually puzzling, for she was equipped with radio and apparently encountered no storms, her captain last reporting all well and fair weather. She was 542 feet long, feet beam and of 19,000 tons. Theories exist that the Cyclops was improperly loaded and split in two; that her ma- chinery s disabled and her radio put out of commission and that she was scuttled, and that an enemy sub- marine destroyed her, but official in- formation regarding her is wholly lacking. CHAPMAN COUNSEL GIVEN TIME TO PERFECT APPEAL Step Taken in Condemned Man’s Effort to Escape Penalty of Death for Murder. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., April 17.— Gerald Chapman's counsel have been granted an extension of 10 days by Judge Newell Jennings for the filing of the request for a finding by the judge and the submission of a draft for the proposed finding, which are the next steps in Chapman's appeal to the Supreme Court from the con- viction in the Superior Court. Chap- man was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to hang on June 25. Under the law the last day for the Aling of the papers was today, but ow. ing to the fact that counsel for Chap- man had not received a transscript of the evidence until April 13, the re- quest for the extension was made by Nathan O. Freedman, junior counsel for the defense. ARGENTINE GRAIN LESS. Output 1924-25 Decreased, Due to Drought and Locusts. BUENOS AIRES, April 17.—The first official estimate of the Argentine grain _production for the season of 1924-25 is placed at 4,754,000 metric tons. This is 32 per cent less than the previous year and 16 per cent un- der the average for 15 years. Drought and locusts are chiefly responsible. The estimate of wheat production is 5,201.979 metric tons, and linsged, ‘credit 1.145.190. The export of the surplu: of wheat is 1,845,029 metric tons, andl Umgeed, 801,760, FIRST SHIPMENT OF FISH PLAC O'Malley placing bass, crappie and Other shipments for the basin are Rafael Sanch: the next Aballi, who will be Cuban Ambassador _in Washington. He is accompanying the party of Presidentelect Mach- ado, now in the Capital National Phot: CORNER STONE LAID AT HECHT BUILDING Officials of Firm Attend Ceremo- nies—Representative Zihlman Praises Store Founder. Officials of the Hecht Corporation attended impressive ceremonies in- cident to the laying of the corner stone for the new 175,000-square-foot addition to the Hecht store at Seventh and F streets today. Representative ederick N. ihl. man of Maryland praised the vision and foresizht/of the original founder of thé Hecht firm, Samuel Hecht, and the policies on which the business has been conducted. H. H. Levi, vice president of the Hecht Corporation, which conduct: seven stores in Washington, Baltimore and New York, respectively, and who also is general manager of the local store, in a brief address gave all the| for the success of the local store to the Washington public. Officers Lay Corner Stone. The corner stone was formally placed by the officers of the corpora- tion, consisting of Mr. Levi, Malcolm Hecht, treasurer; M. Goodman, secre- tary, and Morton Hecht, director. Placed in the stone were the names of the officials of the corperation and a list of 600 employes, which was presented on parchment by Edward T. Henderson, oldest Hecht employe, and who has been with the firm for 29 vears. FEach of the executives of the firm had written a wish for the firm's success, and these also were placed in the stone. The executives are C. B. Dulcan, merchandise director; G. I Snowden, advertising manager; G. M. Quirk, controller; C. L. Marlow, superintendent; Miss H. John, edu- cational director, and/ B. Whitson, divisional merchandise/manager. Wharton E. Lester, attorney for the corporation, was master of cere- monies, while W. R. Schmucker di- rected the singing of “America” and “The Star Spangled Banner,’ 'and W. T. Pierson of radio station WCAP furnished accompaniment at _ the piano. The new addition is seven stories high, and, besides having various departments, will have recreation and other facilities for the comfort of employes. ARGENTINA BARS FRUIT. Cuba Among Seven Nations Hit; Insect Is Feared. BUENOS AIRES, April 17.—Presi- dent d’Alvear vesterday issued a de- cree prohibiting importation into Ar- gentina of fruits and vegetables from countries where the Mediterranean fruit fly exists. Exception is made in the decree to lemons, bananas, cocoa- nuts and pineapples. The countries specified in the decree are Cuba, Italy, Spain, Brazil, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The decree was issued after a visit here of the United States Federal Horticultural Board, who advised the minister of agricuiture that should the fruit fly pest become established in Argentina it would catse the United States to bar out Argentine fruits. LE ey ‘The electric power industry of North Carolina in 1924 made provision for more than $10,000,000 of new in- | River, | mysterious CED IN THE TIDAL BASIN. sunfish in the Tidal B United expected soon. THE BEST WASHINGTON DO winner of the first prize for Washi in yesterday afternoon. this year, according to the commissioner, and Washington fishermen are expecting big Commissioner Henry dult fish will spawn atches next season h Th. Kiki, owned by Mrs. Eula J. Alsop, ngton dogs in the local show. Kiki was exhibited by Charles W. Lippold of 417 Newton street northwest. ‘Explorers to Visit “Tropical Valley” Second Party Starts Soon for Rich Canadian Land By the Associated VA April 17.—A the unknow lumbia lyi incl: into ik within_which opical Valley leave here morith prospe is of the lat headed by Ge tor. He is & Americans, one of whom to reach Vancouver in mpany the expedition by far North, part of the Platzzer, a by wealthy is expected time to a airplane, it is said. The first expedition Frank Perry, Vancouver mining gineer, and backed by Col. P. P. Lor erman, Seattle, and Hon. Charl MacIntosh, former governor « adian northwest _territories, v on the outskirts of the plored territory. The object of both expeditions is the virgin area reported to be rich in placer gold, platinum, copper, iro and lead. An oil lake and visible coal headed unes FRANCES COLBY TO WED R. C. ROGERS, WRITER Daughter of Former State Secre- tary in Wilson Cabinet to Become Bride. By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 17.—Announcement w received here last night of the engagement of Miss Frances Colby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bainbridge Colby of New York, to Robert Cameron Rogers of Santa Barbara. The father of the bridg-elect was Secretary of State in the Wood- row Wilson cabinet. The bridegroom is a son of the late Robert Cameron Rogers, for many yvears publisher of the Santa Barbara Morning Press The young man is now connected with the editorial department of World's Work. He was graduated in 1923 from Harvard. BROWN HONORS D. C. BOY Elects Mark F. Coles Captain of Varstiy Swimming Team. Mark F. Coles, Washington student at Brown University, has been elected captain of the institution's swimming team for the next scholastic year, according to word received today from Providence, R. 1. Coles is a graduate of Central High School, where he was captain of swimming, and interscholastic At- lantic champion at 100 yards. In his first year at Brown he was elected captain of the freshman team and won the New England 100-yard inter- collegiate swim, free style, and was a member of the winning relay team. In his sophomore year he won the New England intercollegiate 50-yard swim. Last Winter he won the vestments. in the 50 and 100 yarg swims. seams also are reported to have been | W | England intercolegiate championshp | COLORED CITZENS - ASKRIGHT TOVOTE }omest Inhabitants’ Associa- | tion, Celebrating Emancipa- | tion, Urges Suffrage Here. ty colored citi tion of ation of the for | _Anapy H. Payr tion, was the ' celebr franchise | trict assocta- ure of ion of the of the Dis: ation of the President to the ensla try prior to Mr, Paynter read a letter written Col. Ge at the beg | point ousands in this coun it was declared by n by Presidents, especially ard to the perplexi tionship aces, were election. T | ried out his plec prom re. of re- white after one car- eclared s ily for n esident Lincoln al was d Pictures Lincoln’s Life. A pi re of the life and character of Lincoln was drawn by Mr. Payn ter. John B McCarthy, Association of Oldest the District of Columbia, at the celebration. He quent tribute to Jerome founder of the Oldest 1 Association Mr. McCarthy extended tion to the-colored associat the house, the he of his association, and there, mentioning especially the sur- veyor's chain which was used by Bénjamin Bannecker, colored engi- neer, who brought here from Boston to aid Maj. L’Enfant in laying out the Capital. Bannecker, it is said, was the first e neer to find the "correct locatjon for the Wash ington Monument. secretary of the nts of s a guest Tribute to Senators. George H. Richardson, recently made a member of the colored ciation, who is president of the Fed | eration of Civie Associations and also of the Public Interest Association of East Washington, spoke of the efforts in Congre: to emancipate the slaves. He paid tribute to Lincoln and Sen ators Grimes, Doolittle, Harlan nd others who- risked their reputations and political careers to fight for free- dom of the slav Rev. F. I. A. Bennett, pastor of the Calvary Episcopal “hurch, pr nounced an_invocation and made short speech of welcome. John R. Robinson talked on the benefits to the race of the association. Musical num bers were given by the Columbia Quartet. Samuel W. Watson presided and a report was made by George L. Walton, secretary. st line—1,700 miles in a s ~becomes over 12,000 miles if followed round the fjords. In | these fjords are over 150,000 islands.