Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1925, Page 17

A CONFERENCE REGARDING AFFAIRS Of UNITED STATES Julisn L. Latimer, Secretary Wilbur and Rear pointed judge advocate general of the United States Navy THE Admiral Edward Hale Campbell. NAVY. oft to right: Admiral The | ter is the newly ap- Admiral Latimer is retiring from the position. National Photo. FRENCH AMBASSADOR AND HIS FAMIL the Ambassador’s daughter; Ambassador Daeschner, Mme. Daeschner. in Chicago, and Mile. Daeschner. the eldest daughter. Photograph taken at ward Blair, where the Ambassador and his family are being entertained. I00GAY CHILDREN ™ aemts e GREET MAY TODAY Plavmatm Gaze Neighborhood House Scene| of Elaborate Annual Dancing Festival. VISIT CHICAGO. Left By the Assoc WHARTON, | While doing stunts on a trapeze | for the benefit of a juvenile au dlence yesterday in the barn of his | Presa N. J. May home. Theodore J. Bray, 15, acci- dentally tied a knot arcund his neck with the rope supporting one end of the bar and hung until he died, in full view of the spectators. The children left him there, not knowirg he was dead, and it was three hours before the tragedy was discovered Theodore’s four sisters and brother were in the audience JOHNSON LIBEL CASE SOON BEFORE JURY than a hundred gayly clad| children will celebrate the return | of Spring in the twenty-third annual dancing festival given by the clubs of the Neighborhood House, 470 N southwest, this afternoon. Scheduled open More one street to vesterday and eontinue ungil tomorrow evening. the festival was mot d in its en-| the inclement neighborhood House his morning, however, was astir from cellar to roof in anticipation of the 3 3 5 opening event at 4 o'clock. | Former Minnesota Senator's Suit The scene of the festival this aft | noon and tonight will be in the nat- Against Minneapolis Man. vral theater in the rear of the House. | l The children will dance on a natural | —_— [ of by tirety weather because of he Concluding Arguments Today in sur- | from fresh green gras: flowers blooming ca - th pet rded earth. The program will epen with the “Dance of the Toys,” consisting of 17 small children of the Day Nurs- a whose mothers leave them in e of the House while at work |Each child has a favorite toy, and| in possession of this he parades and 1o Disboict Gt heva today 5 dances while exhibiting his prize [ "5, 04 B “Glson, county attorney, be- | {possession. In the majority of cases | cun’hiy sadress to the fury late ves.| he toys were given them by Santa |gergay. He will complete his argu-| pus. who appeared at Christmas|ment this morning, and will be fol 1e with the Lions Club [lowed by the lefense's address and the | Tin, judge’s instructions. Mr. Olson stressed that the trial had [ mgeagarien pun not to do with poiltics. He said | R S B that" the ‘State had shown that Jacobs [be followed by the “Dance of he |y g un article. entltied gnus Elves,” composed of ‘yr;xbllu\'uv‘m\ Mt el e |Youns men of the Bovs’ Club In €% from the ‘article were meant to hold tume, including gravbeards. = WeX{ | (ho former Senator in ridicul [comes & musical interpretation of | thg former Senator fn vileme. The Coming of Spring” by the girls' | ;o0 0F ey 2 Uit had testified that | clubs, in which will be seen bluebirds of Fa T e owers and wind. The | he was the Magnus Johnson arrested e ot on May 7, 1923, and not the former | girls’ clubs also will present o SINEE | senator, as asserted in the article. A s C.a il | Former Senator Johnson, recailed to Shoemaker,” and then the boys' wiil | Former Seator Johnson, recalled to) produce an act of ball bouneing to the |} %, P Np“‘ YOHLER ( i frrs ror hac r taken a drink of liquor time of the music. A “Cross Word | e had « [ Puzzle” dance by girls in checkered | In Jacobs presence. costumes will conclude the afte noon’s entertainment. onight a new program will ven, opening with May Itevels,” by the Boys' C Under | this heading come tramps in costumes made by themselves, Indians, cow- | boys, blacksmiths and a hornpipe | dance. A song was written for the | tramps by Miss Lillian Stein, director | of the boys' work of the House. The Fi hoemaker” and the “Dance of the Elves” will be repeat ed, and the coming of May will be depicted by a group of high schoo! | |girls in a dance entitled “The Masque | lof 2 May Morning.” The evening's |program “will conclude with what is declared to- be an impressive scene. entitied “Dance of the Angels.” The climax of the festival will be reached tomorrow afternoon, at 5 o'clock, in N street between Unfon and Fouranda-half streets, which will be closed to traffic. While the [United States Army Band is playing the queen of the May will be crowned, land, in celebration of this event, mumerous dances will be given. Six maypoles will he in the aera to be|Supper will be served dally from b to anced around by the boys, the older (7 a'clock. The general admission will irls, the roses, the cross-word puzzie be 25 cents, - By the Aswociated Press MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 1.—The criminal libel action against A. N. Jacobs of Minneapolis, growing out of the publication in a magazine of an article accusing Magnus Johnson, for- mer United States Senator from Min- nesota, of having been arrested for drunkenn expected to go to the Dances to Follow. pupils next will pre Tiny Folk,” to 'ARM NEARLY TORN OFF. be Day Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 Marshall Morris of Washington, ac cording to a police report, was taken | from a Columbla Granite and Sand Co. dredge about 5 o'clock this morning with one arm almost torn away and a leg badly lacerated. He is_believed to have been caught in; the dredge machinery during the ight operations. * The man’ was brought ashore in a | rowboat and taken to Alexandria Hospital, where he was placed under operation in an effort to save his life. girls, the fairies. The Neighborhoed House is in gala attire, and opportunity is offered the visitors to purchase articles of use and value, the proceeds from which will be devoted to the House's work the Spring maldens and M. Antonin | Jail at 1 Early Klinck and Earl Gentry, to right: Mlle. Irene Daeschner, Bartelemy, French consul the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ed- By United News Piotures. NEW BRITISH DUTY - HITS U. 5. LIGRLY Silk Stocking Makers to Be| Chiefly Affected by Tariff Proposal. A study of the British tariff changes proposed by Chancellor Churchill. has | disclosed to the Commerce Department 1@t only two out-and-out new duties are contemplated. These affect hops and silk. but probably will be of serious import only to American manufacturers of silk hosiery England has been one of the best foreign markets for the American manufacturers of stockings during re- cent vears. but practically no hops have been sent to Great Britzin since the war. o Tariff duties which the British gov- | | ernment |33 13 proposes to reimpose are a per cent charge on automotive vehicles, musical instruments, watch- es and moving picture films and other articles. They were in’effect from 1915 to 1924, and were suspended last August. The department predicted that the chief result from the reimposition of these duties would be “an impetus to Canadian _automobile production,” since the duty is one-third lower on imports on the dutiable goods from British dominions. | FORMER KU KLUX LEADER DROPS PLEA FOR BAIL D. C’ Stephenson. Ex-Grand Drag- on. to Remain in Jail Until Ar- raigned on Murder Charge. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, 'Inll, *May 1.—D. . Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, will remain in least until Monday, when he will be arraigned in Criminal Court on a charge of murder as the result of the death of Miss Madge Ober-| holtzer, 28 vears old. Eph Inman, counsel for Stephenson, also indicted for murder in connection with the girl’s death, today announced that | he wished to withdraw his plea ask- ! ing that the trio be admitted to bail. Judge James A. Collins, before whom the three will be arraigned, accepted the plea after State counsel offered no objection. Neither counsel for the defense nor Prosecutor Willlam H. Remy would discuss the mov PHYSICIAN FOUND SLAIN. Body Is Discovered on Varsity Ath- letic Field in St. Louts. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 1.—The body of Dr. William A. Dillon, about 556 years old, was found today on the cinder track at Francis Field, Wash- ington University. There was a bul- let hole through the head and an- other through the right knee. Of- ficers believed he had been slain. Whether Dr. Dillon had been killed at the field or his body brought there after the slaying, could not be deter- mined. He was not connected with the university, | Park Citizens' Association. { chairman of the committee on police and fire protection 6f the federation. JOHN COOLIDGE AND HIS COLLEG of the son of the Pre herst a few days ago. family doctor at Northampton. CHUM. This new photograph dent and Mrs. Coolidge (right) was taken at Am- John's chum is Steve Brown, son of the Coolidge By United News Pictures Miss Holmfridur Arndottir, delegate from Iceland to the quinquennial Council of Women, to be held in Washington _ beginning Monday. Miss Arndottir will address one of the sessions. CELEBRATES HIS EIGHTIETH B! Among his pupils who visited him witsch and Zimbalist. WHO’S WHO Among Commissioners’ Council Candidates—No. 6. o TAzow Upper left: W. 8. Torbert. Lower left: J. N. Stull. Upper right: Walter I. Swanton. Lower right: G. E. Sullivan. Harry N Adviso Council Stull, nominated to the by the Stanton charge of the drafting of important amendments to the code of laws for the District. He is chairman of the committee of the Takoma.Park, D. C., association, which successfully fought for legislation in Congress for the abolition of the Lamond grade crossing, long feared as a source of accidents. Mr. Sullivan Is also a member of the Washington Board of Trade, the Bar Assoclation of the District of Columbia, the City Club and the Capital Yacht Club. He has taken as a plank in his platform: “Taxation without repre- sentation is tyranny, but the District has no inherent right, beyond repre- sentation in Congress, to supplant the Federal Government's exclusive control, executive, judicial and legis- lative, over the general management of the Nation's Capital.” Mr. Stull is a reporter at the United States Court of Claims, wWhere he formerly was auditor. The candidate is a charter member of the Stanton Park association, is a member of its executive committee and has been secretary of the or- ganization six vears. He has been a delegate to the Federation of Citizens’ Assoclations for two vears and is Mr. Stull was a member of the District of Columbia National Guard 13 years, resigning in 1913 with the rank of first lieutenant. He was a niémber of the first Reserve Officers Training Corps, Fort Myer, Va., in 1917. He was born at Frederick, Md., and has lived in Washington 34 years. ‘W. I. Swanton, nominated to the Advisory Council by the Columbia Heights Citizens' Assoclation and by the Washington Chapter of the Amer- ican Association of Engineers. Mr. Swanton, lawyer and civil en- gineer, is engaged In engindering work in_the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior. Previously he was employed as e® George E. Sullivan, nominated to the Adyisory City Council by the Citizens' Association of Takoma, D. C. Mr. Sullivan, a lawyer, has lived in the District since 1881." He was a member of the committee of five ap- pojnted by the District Supreme Court mumber of yegrs ago, which had the world’s great teacher of the violin, who was 80 years old Wednesday. ROUGH RIDERS OF THE 0 N street southwest Jatson, NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE PLAY. turday, and ¢ Julins Kirson and George Schriver as the SAILOR CAPTURES IRTHDAY. Leopold Auer, known as were Rachmaninoff, Heifetz, Gabrilo- Copyright by P. & A. Photos MAJI]R OF MARINES |Former Senator, | Aged 70. to Wed; Br the Associated Press MORIL May 1.—A marriage icense was issued here yesterday to Jonathan L. Bourne, former United States Senator from Oregon, and Miss Francis Baker Turner. He gave his age as 70 and bride- to-be as 29 Mr. Bourne owns a large plan- tation near here. Driving While Intoxicated Isl Charged—Knutson Is in Accident. Thirty minutes before the 11 o' osing hour of last night's session of | street by raffic Court Maj. Henry M. Butler, | by the traffic policeman United States Marine Corps, stationed | Mrs. Butler, indignant because at Quantico, Va., figured in a three- | the outcome of the accident, cornered traffic accident at Fifteenth | have threatened to ry and U streets and a few minutes later | President Coolidge. Her husband sot Policeman Clarence Brandt of the |in communication with friends in this |'rraffic Bureau had him in court. |city, who furnished the bond harzes filed against him were driving| Three automobiles and a street car while intoxicated, colliding and leaving | were involved In an accident the scene of an accident without mak- | night on Eleventh hetween L and M ing his identity known | streets. Mrs. Mary Snyder, ocen- | He was released on $1,100 bond,|Pant of one of the automobiles, being |and when the case came up in Police | Severely shocked and injured. = Mrs, Court today, pleaded mot gullty and|Snyder, residing at 1305 Thirty-fifth demanded a trial by jurr. Maj. But.|Street, was treated by Dr. Charles |ler then was freed again on the same|Allen at the home of Mrs. Mary | bona. Hagan, near the scene of the accident Mai. Butler and wife, on their way | The accident occurre* when Patrick | out of the city, were at Fifteenth and | Snyder started his muchine fror: the U streets when their car collided with |east curb and a quick move the machines of W, M. Fithian, 3220|to avold being struck by a street car Seventeenth street, and Albert Thomas the one-man type, in charge of 535 Florida avenue. It Is alleged that |John Marshall. Snyder drove his Maj. Butler failed to stop and make | car against the parked car of Harry his identity known. He was followed | Tarter, 810 North Carolina avenue Vew av P 7 | southeast to New Hampshire avenue and U| %0 M e street car atruck Snyder's automobile and knocked it against sthe automobile of Norman E. Var- | gineer by the Boston and Albany Rail- [ num, 1107 Eleventh street, forcing road, by a number of bridge COnstruc- | {he jatter car upon the sidewalk, a tion concerns and by the Navy and \dm"" oF tally 1% fest. The thyee the Treasury Departmente. | automobiles were badly damaged. He is a member of the Federal Bar | Taxi Passengers Hurt. Association and of the District bar. | or a number of vears he has been | .. oo.go oo 2 serte 3 = Mrs. r Meeks, 44, and Gertrude a member of the District Library o = 2 nd Ge e Association; is treasurer of the Wash. [ Meeks. 20, 805 1 street, were passen g gers in a taxicab that collided with | the automobile of Charles A. Schmidt ington Chapter of the American Asso- ciation of Engineers and is a member | He automobile of Charles & BEhm i and Twelfth streets last night. They of the local Institute of Technology. sole is a graduate of Ne O\, |were badly shocked and bruised and tional University Law School and is | ere Eiven first ald at Emergency president of the Columbia Heights [HOSPVaL, ) 00 g was arrested on charges of driving Association and chairman of its pub- while under the influence of liquor lic_utilities committee. Mr. Swanton has lived here since. | ;5% ljjging. He was immedsatel taken to Traffie Court, where a post 1903. L : ponement of the trial was ordered William S. Torbert, nominated to |POREment of the Advisory Council by the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association. - Mr. Torbert, a lawyer and notary Boy JRetHM: public, 18 engaged in title examining | Ten-vear-old Wesley Bean, 313 A work. He has had published digests street northeast, was knocked down by the automobile of Clarence W. Norwood, 1428 B street southeast, Fithian and arrested there of of patent, trade-mark and copyright law cases and an index to code laws. For 17 years he has heen engaged in editorial work on official reports of cases before the United States Su- preme Court, and in 1920 was a re- viser for the House commlittee on revision of laws. Mr. Torbert is a member of the Na- tional Press Club, the Washington Board of Trade, the Soclety of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Columbian Historical Soclety, the Committee for Marking Historical Pleces and the Association of Oldest Inhabitants. Mr. Torbert has been a member of the Rhode Island Avenue assoclation for 15 years and has held many of its offices.” He has been delegate to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations eight years and was chairman of the committee which drafted the Advisory Council plan. He has resided in the District since 1873 and received his education in the public schools and Celumbian Uni- versity. vesterday afternoon. The injured boy was treated at Casualty Hospital by Dr. Potter. Elliot Powell, 10, 3563 Eleventh street, escaped serious injury vester- day afternoon when struck by the automobile of Solomon B. Berkeu- rich, Reistertown road, Baltimore, Md., while playing ball on Otis place between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. He was able to go home un- assisted. Martha Brown, colored, 18, 1514 Twelfth street, was knocked down by the automobile of Cliften Harden, 626 Twelfth street northeast, near Twenty-first and P streets yester- day afternoon. She refused treat- ment for an injury to her ankle. Representative Harold Knutson of Minnesota escaped injury when his automobile collided with a motor truck owned and driven by Samuel Murphy, 909 T street, at First and S ptreets yesterday., Both vehicles while on the street near his home) ens of Washington children will have roles. Three Horsemen of the play ¥ ART PRIZE IN NEW YORK. who has followed the sea for 15 years, won a traveling scholarship wortl $1.400 in the recent Academy of Design competition. the life of a sailor and devote himself to painting. studving “The Coming of Spring” will he presented Here have Sta ston Andrew Winter. He plans to leave abroad. Wide World Ph ADENTIFY DEAD GIRU IGHELDINCRASH s e 20 Ry MYSTERY | Police Now Center Efforts on is said to | near port the affair to | Desiderio last | | said he i thing of her Finding Men She Is Said to Have Accompanied. By the Associated Press GARY, Ind., May of the voung woman and burned body was found Chesterton as Mrs. Jc 21, Gary, was believ plete today by the author Mrs. Bernard Gen mothe Sam Ri a fri post identifying her Ross. who =ald Mrs. Desiderio Fri mobile with another men, was held for and Mrs 1.—ldent ies he had last n a woman an questioning Desiderio h: in the same Gary hotel for two Mrs. Desiderio had been separa from her husband Luis. w sought by the police. Man Describes Clothing Ross, a foreigner, minutely des the appearance and clothing of Mrs Desiderio, the police said, his story tallying with the bits of clothing and appearance of the body ken to t Chesterton morgue, through which hundreds of persons have filed In efforts to identify the body, Ross re peated his statements and said the body was that of Mrs. Desiderfo. He denied any knowledge of her where abouts since Friday. With the mystery of the n lieved solved, authorities sos connection between the death ¢ woman and the hody of a man, iden tifled as James Shela. Stockton. Ine a raflroad emplove, which was fou yesterday on the outskirts. of Gary The man's throat had been seared and his trousers hurned. He apparently had been dead since Sunday. [ recalled that a railroad employe's cz was found Sunday beside the woma body. While the authori today ques tioned Ross and searched for the men he described as having be r Desiderio when he last saw police held Tex McLain, Chis painter, who was arrested I after he had shown agitation viewing the girl's body, His rambling answers to questioners led investi gators to believe he either knew some. death or was mentall He lived ihed ne he an the her, Gary go sign night upon deranged. Efforts also were made to develop information given by Mr. and Mrs Joseph Glavin and Mr. and Mrs. James Townsend of Crown Point, Ind., wh sald they saw tWO men Carry a strug gling girl into an automobile while they were motoring last Saturday night seven miles south of here. They attempted pursuit, they said, but losi sight of.the automobil were damaged, the truck being put out of commission. Mrs. M. R. Smith, 50, 402 Aspen street, alighted from a street car at Georgia avenue and Butternut street yesterday afternoon, fell and was slightly shocked. Hospital treatment was refused. ‘Walter Webb, colored, Twelfth street northeast, from a moving automobile at Eleventh and H streets northeast yesterday afternoon and received a painful injury to his scalp. He went home - after receiving first aid at Casualty Hospital v 14, 812 Jumped