Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1925, Page 17

PRETTY GIRLS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY SERVE AS D. A. R. PAGES. Miss Eugenia Lejeune, daughter of the commandant of the Marines; pages; American Revolution, and Miss Marion Grimes, daughter of Col. Grimes. in a Baltimore school, and they are all descendants of signers of the Declaration of Independence. Edward Charles Larned, Edward Morton, Billy Rawls, Douglas Carroll, Canby Marye, Eugene Bernard Fenwick, Holt Maulsby, Dunlop Dawbarn right, standing: de Bullet, David Lee Maulshy. and Dorsey Alexander. GIRL IS CONVICTED N DEATH OF BABY et C"""db’_e UPON MRS. STONER osicia coun Elizabeth King Faces Years in Prison—Appeal Today Contemplated. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star ROCKVILLE, Md., April 21.—After deliberating 2 wd. 20 minutes the jury in the c: abeth M King, 19-year-old Woodmont girl who was tried n Circuit Court here v terday on a charge of infanticid midnight last night returned a ve of guilty of mansia The ma mum penalty is 10 vears in the peni tentiary. _Sentence will not be passed until a motion for a new. trial, which Attorney Thomas L. Dawson of coun- §el for the defense indicated \wrning he would file during the day, P o {1t is understood the mew trial will ¢ asked on the ground that the ve ict was contrary to evidence and that e court erred in some of its ruling Accused in Baby’s Death. fThe specific charge ag gs that on March 4 she murdered ér new-born girl child by snfothering to death. The principal fight of he trial was over the admission as vidence of statements made by the | gt the day following her arrest, in| hich, it was declared, shé admitted illing the baby.’ Judges. Robert B. Péter and Glenn H. Worthington, who presided, held that the confession was admissible The trial began at 10 o’ iay morning, and the ca to the jury at 9 Throughout the ¢ourtroom was crowded tors from all parts of the county. King received the verdict calmly Another indictment, urder, is pending against the wirl: n this i contended that on Febru- ry 1, 1 she killed another born infant by it. not believed, however, the will be tried again. PARIS ALHAMBRA BURNS. Iron Curtain Saves Part of Thea- ter Built in 1866. ril 21.—The Athambra morning was damaged Ly fire believed to have been caused by a short circuit.’. The flames were discovered coming from a place behind the stage used for storing scenery The ceiling above the stage fell half an hour later, but the iron curtain protected the auditorium, where the damage rows of stalls. Built as the Prince Imperial Thea- ter in 1866, the structure passed under various names until 1903, when it was christened the Alhambra. It is conducted along the lines of an E: lish music hall, presenting English | and American ock yester. and night the with specta- Miss It is| girl smothering that PARIS, Ap music hall’ th Discovery of an vetarnis) loy ia claimed by a Sheffield, land, firm of silyersmiths, Eng- 10 this | inst-the girl | new- | was limited to the first 10| Howland Da \Women Ask Right | To:Carry Passport | |Will Submit to Use of Husband’s Name With Reservation. The National Woman's Party has conditionally accepted the edict of the State Department that the name of woman’s husband must appear on a passport ued to her, though she uses her maiden name ordinarily. The fight against the rule. how ever, may yét be carried to President | | Coolidge for final decision of the ques. | tion, Ruby A. Black, wife of Herbert B. Little, who claimed right to use her maiden | name independent of the name of her | husband. | Party, which interested itself in the case in pursuance of its fight for equal | | rights for women, -announced today that Miss Black would accept a pass. | port for * | bert B. Little,” with the condition that | acceptance would not preclude placing ‘(he ‘whole question involved before President -Coolidge. Secretary Kellogg has not indicated his attitude. |NEW TYPE 0F PLANE | READY FOR TESTING l | Curtiss “Carrier l’lgeon Arrives at Government Field—May Be Used for Mail. e was- given | 5 o'clock-last-night. | €harging | By the Associated Press MONMOUTH, I, | Curtiss “carrier pigeon,™” April 21.—The the first of | some half dozen. designs of airplanes \for the Government Air Mail Service, here yesterday piloted by Smith, who flew the machine | trom Maywooa Field, Chicago, making The landing marked the opening of fleld and laboratories here. Other new types of planes will be’sent to this field as soon as they are prepared for the stringent Government tests, which ‘dre expected to settle upon a new, | larger and more efficient type of plane for air mail use. The tests will be | supervised by Prof. E. P. Warner of | the Massachtisetts Institute of Tech- nolo The air mail is now carried | principally by war-time De Haviland planes. The Curtiss “carrier pigeon” which came yesterday is a biplane largely of steel construction. It has a capacity of 1,000 pounds of mail and has been designed to meet the following per- formance: High speed, | ful load carried, 1,885 pounds; gros: | weight, 4.900° pounds; maximum range, 25 miles:.endurance, 8 hours. It has sepower Liberty 12 motor. . war private banks Germany 195000, which arose over the passport of | ‘Washington newspaper - man, | Counsel -for the National Woman's | ‘Ruby A. Black, wife of Her-| the 170 miles in 1 hour and 20 minutes. | the Government’s new airplane testing | 120 miles per hour; use-| have increased- from ‘2,000 All of these lads are pupils Left to Copyright by P. & A. Photos. WILL RENEW FIGHT | Alleged Executwe Board of Welfare Body to Ask Re- hearing by Court. Following a meeting in ‘the Shore- ham Hotel yesterday of a group of women, who said they were members | of the board of directors of the Wom- an’s Welfare Association and author- ized to ‘“take official action,” it was announced .by Mrs. Nanette B. Paul, that the District Supreme Court would be asked for a rehearing on the ques- tion of restraining Mrs. Wesley Mar- tin Stoner from functioning - as a | member of the association. Justice Hoehling - last Friday va- cated an injunction erder which had been laid against Mrs. Stoner last | December restraining her from inter- vith the conduct of the asso- medical clinic. _The action was instituted by Mrs. MacPherson | Crichton, who claimed to be president of the association. The court’also gave the opinion that Mrs. Stoner had been duly elected president of the association. Conducts Clinic Here. The Woman's Welfare Association conducts a medical and dentzl clinic at Eleventh. and L streets. Those at the meeting yesterday de- clared that Mrs. Stener had formally been dropped as a member of the board of directors, which they claimed had been duly. elected at a member- ship meeting of the association, and at the same time declared that Mrs. | Crichton had_been elected president by the board. This is contrary to the opinion rendered by the court, which de- clared Mrs. Stoner ‘to have been elect- ed president. Mrs. Stoner has stated | that she was elected by a board of directors which was duly elected by the membership of the association. The board referred to by Mrs. Stoner, however, is composed of a different body of women from those that met | in the Shoreham Hotel vesterday. Women at Meeting. ‘The meeting yesterday was opened by Mrs. Crichton and among those present were Mrs. Julius Lansburgh, Mrs. Frank Odenheimer, Miss Edna Patton, Mrs. Samuel Blythe, -Mrs. Al- fred Anthony, Mrs. Charles A. Hawley and Mrs. Paul The women named adopted a reso- | lution at the meeting yesterday re- fusing the resignation of Mrs. Crich- toh, whom they claimed to “be presi- dent of the assoclation, and at the same time declared the office of presi- dent of the association “‘unfilled pend- which-they. look forward to settling at | another court hearing. Board to Meet. The executive board of the C. .will meet tomorrow. i General Federation headguarters, 1734 N street. Mrs. Virginia Whit Speel, president, Wil presids In center, left to right: Mrs. J. B. Nevin, in charge of the Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, president-general of the Daughters of the ing the seftlement of the'controversy,” | July D THE HEIR TO AN UNEASY CROWN. center), oldest son of King Alfonso National Photo. ~ The youngest D. A. R. page, and her name is Young, too. She is Miss Katherine Young, daughter of for- mer Representative and Mrs. George M. Young of North Dakota. \PRESIDENT HAS SHAKEN 90,000 HANDS DURING PAST 20 MONTHS Reveals Wearisome Extent of C reel- ings—High Record Reached April 15, | 1,869 Persons Filing Past. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Calvin Coolidge has personally re ceived nearly 100,000 persons since he became President of the ' United |States in August, 1923. Witk more |than 90,000 | them' he has shak- en_hands. | The Easter va- cation rush, just ended, broke ~all of Mr. Coolidgels records for hand- shaking. On Wed- nesday, April 15, |he “achieved the | high-water mark |by greeting 1.863 | persons. ~ Aprii 14 {scored another high-water mark, when 1.420 per- sons clasped the presidential hand. It-is certain that this April's total of handshakes will far outstrip the April 1924 total, which was 7,973. Up to April 17, 8,733 patriots sampled the Coolidge grip. Have Official Figures. This writer has just been put in possession of official White House figures of “payers of respects” during the Coolidge administration up to the end of last week. They aggregate 62,783. These are the grand army of hand-shakers. There is another cla: of White House visitors classified as “parlor.” These only inspect White House apartments open to the general public, like the famous east room, the china room, where the porcelain din- ner services used by all the Presidents are on view, and the oval room: used by foreign diplomats at presidential receptions. Another class of ‘‘parlor” visitors is admitted to the State dining room and the red and blue rooms on special cards issued at the request of members of Congress. “Parlor” visit- ors have totaled more than 200,000 during the Coolidge administration. On Easter Monday this year 38,377 persons gamboléd over the White House lawns. Totals by Months. As nearly as the White House police have been able to check up, the monthly totals of Coolidge hand- shakers are as follows: 1923, Mg oy uieie November . December 1924, January impressive as it i exhaust the number of persons with whom he actually exchanged greet- ings. These total another 30,000, rep- | resented by wholesale handshaking | | tunctions like the public rwepnnm | in recurring nd Februa | garden parties in Ms | the immense delex: ties, tions from socie- E nd - conveations | holding forth ‘Washington from week to week. This week, for ex- ample, the Daughters of. the Amer- fcan Revolution and the members of the American Society of Internafional Law will troop to the White House in their hundreds, or thousands, ‘for presidential “glad hands.’ At Public Receptions. At the public receptions in January, 24, the President shook hands with | people. The members of . or- ganizations greeted in -April, 1924, ag- sregated 4,170. At the lawn parties in May and June, 1924, 8,390 persons ‘filed by the President and shook hands. At the New Year day recep- tion this year 3,992 persons were per- sonally received by Mr. Coolidge. By the end of January he had greeted 3,732 people at -the diplomatic and judicial receptions and nearly 1,000 others at conventions of one sort or another. In February, 1925, 3,691 men and women shook hands at the con-| gressional and the Army and Navy receptions. During the last days of the private secretaryship of C. Bascom ' Slemp, White House ‘respect-payers” were permitted merely to file past, Mr. Coolidge, while he bowed to them. Mr. Slemp persuaded the President to cut in But since March 4 hand-clasping has been renewed. It is speeded up sys- tematically Nobody is permitted to engage the President in idle: chatter. A person greeted, handshaken, and on'his way almost -before. he knows what’s happened to him.' The Presi- dent’s secret service men.look after that. The average Cooildge pace for the operation | second, On April 16 the President disposed of 1,040 respect-payers in 16 minutes. Neither Mr. Coolidge's temper nor hands reveal any visible traces of ex- cessive wear and tear in consequence of the handshaking ordeal to which he incessantly subjects himself. ~While Governor of Massachusetts he used to fortify himself against the sturdy grips of the sons and daughters of the Bay State by binding some of the fingers of his righthand with surgi- cal tape, But he clears for. action at the White House without protec- tive measures of any sort. An exact tabulation is kept of the people who “pay respects” at the executive offices. This is” done. by means-of a tiny counting machine held in the hand of a White House police: man, who has,become as expert -a the Job as If he were tending gat Narsh (to 17th) at a world, series. base ball_game. . e i) (Copyright, 1025, This roster of “pavers of respects ho shook hug.f\ with :Mr, Coolidge, jest’ lumber exportes, BN Jn@h SUES® 2eio 2SS prince. recently welcomed a regiment upon its return from Moroceo, and the photograph was snapped in Madrid. does not begin to | out handshaking to save his strength, | is about a shake a | Einland has. become Europe’s great- i BOTH ARE BIG. sistant chief of the Army The Prince of the Asturias (in and Queen Victoria of Spain. The Copyright by Underwood & Underwood \New N avy Seaplane COUNCIL SELECTION | Fremete %0 s ISLEFTTOCITIZENS) ™ 10-four Flight Craft of Strictly Servlce Type—-Could Stay Up 3 Hours More. [D|str|ct Heads Not .Disposed to Suggest Change ‘in ‘ Proposed Method. A -seaplane flight of 10 hours | 10 minutes, including two trips the Naval Air Station at to Hampton Roads, Va., and return and a trip from the station here to uantico, Va.,;and return—a total of was made vesterd by E. Wilson, in charge of | the_engine section.of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and his assistant, Lieut. L.'D. Webb. The flight was made in the “SC-1, /the Navy's new bombing torpedo "and seouting plane. Th ship~is-the first of an order of | whiehr recently” was placed by the avy . Department” with Glenn L. Martin. at: Cleveland. The plane was | strictly sérvice ;type and carried no extra tanks or equipment to make it stay in the air longer than others of its t¥pe. Comdr. Wilson' said: today he and Lieut. Webb took off at 6:40 o'clock yesterday morning and landed at 4:50 o’clock ‘in the afternoon. When the plane landed there still was sufficient fuel in the tanks to have flown three hours, he said. The plane is powered | with ~a 600-horsepower motor and carries 389 gallons of g: oline. Comdr. Wilson said the per- and rom ostia | The District Commissioners proba- | Dbly_will not take any steps looking to {a change in the mefhod of “ereating the Citizens' Advisory Council. it .was lindicated at the District Building to- day. Engineer Commissioner Bell _ de- | clared todayv that he felt the citizens | themselves should determine how the | |.council should be chosen,.now” that the {Comimissioners have made pifsible the ‘creation of such a, body. X Doubts Local Biss. When his attention wa to the protest of the South Washington Citizens’ Assocfation that as mow con- stituted’ the council - might “be: domi- nated by the northwest section, Com- missioner Rudelph sald he believed the list of candidates included citizens of broad- vision who. would. work in the interest of the entire city, regard- less of where they reside. George Yeatman, president’ of the South Washington association, sought an . appointment with . the Commis- sioners today to lay before: them the views of his_ organization, ‘but Com- missioner Rudolph was ‘unable to make an appointment for today be- cause of scheduled meetings of the Board of Commissionersand of the Zoning Commission. Tho teagnclli dn ths bes-comapossd; of eight members, six elected by the Federation .of_ Citizens’ Associations THIEF LOOTS BEDROOMS A cition R e ropeeating | - WHILE: INMATES-SLEEP the . colored - population. -Jesse C.| Suter, president of the Federation of | Citizens’ Associations, . will be ex officio chairman of the counecil. ‘While the councilmen are to be chosen from the city 'at large and without regard to sectional represen- tation, each neighborhood assoclation had the. right to nominate one can- didate. The South Washington association is contendiig the council should be made up of a definite number of members from each” ‘of ~the four sections of the city. The election is to be held two.weeks hence, 75 was very satisfactory, despite the | bumpy air. Lieut. Webb piloted the plane virtually the entire time. Works So Carefully Slumberers Are Not Awakened by Operations, They Say. “jimmy” thief, who oper that in at least one case sleeping occupants of a room were not awakened by his op- erations, is being widely sought by the police toda last night. The elusive thief selected the apart- ment of John C. Taylor, at 2008 teenth street, for a visit last night, and --his efforts were rewarded by clothing and jewelry valued at $100. Last week he obtained the wedding | ‘MISTAKE IN DIAGNOSIS. outfit of Arthur N. Presmont, assisi !Aloyuhu Horan Released From |ant district atton;xey,b:;:d previously | | the same thief, police believe, was the Smallpox Quarantine. perpetrator of numerous other bur- Afier:having spent:the week end at slaxan,in. the Horthwest ssction. the District; quararitine station:1i One apartment was ransacked sev- as a 'smallpox- patient, loyaias | eral days ago, svhile & mother and her Horan of 717 Second streét northeast | child were napping. Articles of jew- Wwas ' sent _home yesterday, ~when |elry ‘were taken from the room in Heéalth‘Officer Fowler announced the [ which the child was asleep and nei- case had been mistakenly diagnosed. |ther the mother nor the baby was Dr. Fowler- said. that subsequent |awakened. obaservation, of Mr. Horan, after he had been plated, in’ quarantine ‘con- |'vinced physieians of the’health office | that he was not suffering, from the |isease. The health officer*sald he r. Concert for Home. | A concert for the Aged Women's Home, 1268 Wi lvsnue. wiit be glven tomorrow night. henefit ‘tornado” { submitted ME HUNTERS. Air Service, and his succs examining some of Gen. Mitchell's trophies. Mitchell’s office in the War Department yesterday afternoon. \§|IIEm| ssor, Mitchell J. E. Fec Photograph uLA en in Ge Gen, Brig. National Photc VICE PRESIDENT PLACES WREATH ON TOMB OF ANCESTOR WHO RODE WITH PAUL REVERE. Scene at King's Chapel burying ground, Boston, where the tomb of William Dawes, jr., who, in 1775, shared honors with Paul Revere, is placed among the many old gravestones. The photo- graph shows Gen. Pershing, Mayor Curley of Boston and others who were present when Vice President Dawes placed a wreath on the tomb. Copyright by P. & A. Pl {RGE BOARD T0 BUY SCHOOL SITES NOW | Civic Bodies Make Plea for | connection | formance of the motor and the plane [ p, o | following his latest foray | {at the latter’s home,-1 Action Under Five-Year Building Plan. Acquisition immediately all school sites provided in the five-vear school building prc urged by represen ous civic, trade and pare organizations of the District nnual conference with the Board of Sducation last night in the Franklin ichool. The ard was told that the rapid development of —outl com munities will inevitably result in the loss to the school system of many the available sites proposed new school buildir ntic am was he vari teacher heir ives for the List of Improvements Needed Twenty-seven briefs outlining need ed school improvements in the com munities they represent were filed with the board by the delegates. They | will be considered by the board in with the pre tion of the school budget for the next fiscal \e,n— le showing the estimated cost of xh~> five-vear buildizg project was to the representatives by . Ballou, superintendent showed that experts it will cost $20,135,000 carry out the program in its en tirety, and that Congress has pro vided $4,029.000 for the initial in stallment. Approximately $4,045,000 should be asked for .in the 1927 bud- get, the superintendent said, exclu sively for the second installment of the building program. The lar item. he pointed out, would he $1,715 020 for new elementary buildings. Dr. of schools sured est Co-operation Is Urged. The co-operation and unity sehool officials, District Commission he bureau of the bud t and during the past year was - James T. Lloyd, president rd This has resulted. he l‘h“ framing of a workable building program for Wash between of the ho d, in school ington. Among those who part in the dis ns were Jame; Y den of the Petworth Citizens’ As- sociation and chairman of the com- mittee on education of the Federation of Citizens' Associations: . Lucy Swanton, of the Columt Heights Citizens’ Association, Mrs. Carl Smith of the Columbia Junior High School Parent-Teacher Association, Guy Clinton of the Takoma Park Citizens Association, Miss Cora Va S the Conduit Road Citize 4 tion, Ira B. Nutter of the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association, Mrs. E. R. Kalmbach of the Congre: of Parent-Teacher Associations, and Maj. West A. Hamilton. took a leading G Card Party. A card party Woodburn tion will be Lucy for the bhenefit of the Parent-Teacher Associa- ziven tomorrow by Miss Hopkihs and Miss Edith Taff, 15 Maple ave- nue, Takoma Park.