Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1925, Page 17

ACTION IN POTOMAC PARK Y courts,” fans, defeating his partner, A, three sets out of five singles. A BIT OF “KAISERISM” DURING THE RECENT GERMAN E Berlin while the Germans were vol ESTERDAY. ‘That “cyclone of the Big Bill Tilden, exhibited some real tennis for the Washington H. Chapin of Springfield, Mass., with a best den is playing invitation doubles tournament at the Chevy Chase Club. the annual Sp ECTION. ng in the presidential election. B;TTALION DRILL WON BY CADETS OF WESTERN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. cadets of the local high schools competed for the cup awarded by Col. Wallace M. Craigie. professor of military science and tactic General view of the field from Central Stadium while The annual battalion competition was won by the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, of Western High School, and, having won the drill for two successive years, the Western lads are entitled to permanent possession of the cup. A riot in one of the streets of Fifty persons were injured when the riot started, after an announcement that Gen. von Hindenburg had been elected. This photograph was sent by airplane from Berlin to London, then placed aboard the fastest <hip to the United GOSPEL DLEGATES CHDOSE OFFEERS Bryan Leading Speaker at Final Session of Conven- tion This Evening. Having elected officers for the com inz vear, the twelfth annual conven tion of the International Union of Gospel Missions moved to a close to- day, with the last session planned for tonight at the Washington Auditorium and William Jennings Bryan as the principal speaker. The next conven tion will meet in Buffalo next May. Officers were elected as follos President, Rev. W. Paul, Minne- apolis, Minn.; vice presidents, George Roughan, Buffalo; A. L. Jones, New York; Murray McGregor, Detroit; D. 1. Fraser, Montreal; E. T. Brigham, Kansas City; Thomas Hinken, Mus. kegon, Mich; E. C. Mower, Camden, N. J.; Dr. E. J. Helms, Boston; sec- retary, Rev. Clemme Ellis White, New York City; treasurer, John S. Bennett, Washington; and this executi com- mittee: John R. MacDonald, New Ha- ven: Edward C. Clark, Buffalo; Peter MacFarlane, St. Paul; C. H. Leggett, Springfield, Mass.. Fred G. Becker, Milwaukee; H. Kratzig, folk, Va. H Women Serve Lunch. Mr sign Bennett attempted twice to re. but the union would not accept his offer and re-elected him, as it also re-elected the president and secratary by acclamation. The vice presidents, under custom of the union, are all new (officers. Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor York Avenue Presbyterian Chu livered the address at last night «sion, at the First Church, where most of the have been held. Picnic lunch yester- day on the trip to Mount Vernon was Turnished b women of the Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Epis- copal South and Methodist Protestant churches, and was prepared and served by the Women's Guild of Cen- tral Union Mission. The dinner tonight at the church will be by courtesy of women of the Presbyterian churches of the city. Franklin - Carr of Philadelph a gelf-confessed *‘converted burglar.” “Who said he had served seven years in the penitentiary, was the principal speaker at Keith's Theater at the noon services today. He told the story of his life, under the program title of “Miracles of Salvation. The service tonight at torium, when Bryan will speak, is scheduled to open at 7:30. H. H. Kratzig of Norfolk will preside, and Peter Quartel, convention song leader, will lead the group singing. Mr. Bryan's subject is announced to be “He Calleth Thee.” There will also be further life'stories in *Miracles of Salvation.” ses- Congregational the Audi LB Indians to Visit Caravan Club. A large number of visiting Indians, in picturesque attire, have accepted an invitation to attend the luncheon of the Almas Temple Caravan Club, in 4he ballroom of the City Club, tomor- yow afternoon @t 12:30 o'clock. They will be-in charge of Victor J. Evans, who will introduce them to the club members. Nor- | FRAUD 15 CHARGED INGERMAN VOTING Socialists Say Hindenburg Election Should Be Voided. | Nationalists Unworried. | By the Associated P BERLIN, May 7.—Official protest |has been entered by the Socialists against the validity of the election of | Field Marshal von Hindenburg as President of Germany. The Socialists charge many i gularities and de mand that the election be declared | void "This action, however, does not seem to worry the Nationalists, who sayv it will be difficult to prove that the cir cumstances were such as to affed the result of the vote, in which Von Hin- denburg received a plurality of 804,151. The Socialist paper, Vorwaerts, cites as -evidence, either of intimidation or fraud, the fact that the Nationalists after the election published a list of localities in which every vote was re- | corded for Von Hindenburg. It is in- conceivable, the paper says, that in a country politically disunited all the votes in several localities should have gone for one man. Coercion Is Charged. assert that the elec tors in numercus rural districts were | coerced into voting for the field mar- shal, because transparent instead of | opagque envelopes were used, thus per- | mitting the election officials to .see | | which way the bailots were cast. The protest. in thesform of a plea | for an injunction, alleges that undue | pressure is being exerted upon the | election commission by the fixing of | such an early date as May 12 for Von Hindenburg’s inauguration, as the| commission is thus not afforded suffi- clent time to canvass the returns. Agitation also continues over the is- sue whether the republican flag shall be retained or the old black, white and -ed readopted. The Republican Reichs- jbanner organization has refused to| participate in the Nationalist reception | for Von Hindenburg, asserting that | | the affair will be made the occasion of | 2 monarchist demonstration. | The head of the Reichsbanner, Herr | Hoersing, in a. manifesto, says Von | Hindenburg “must and will ~deliver |the oath” on the Republican flag, | which was, he alleges, insulted by the ationalists during the recent cam- | paign. The Socialists Unity Move Seen. The center of ‘political gravity for | the moment has shifted to Munich. | where most of the cabinet members {are attending the opening of the| | Deutsche Museum. Although out- | wardly this celebration seems merely |a cultural affair, there is a political significance behind it as marking the patching up of relations between the federal authorities and Bavaria, which relations, because of the Bavarian separatist machinations, coupled with | the ill-fated Hitler-Ludendorff putsch, have been rather strained. Taken in connection with the re- {ported intention of Von Hindenburg to visit Bavaria soon, there seems no doubt that strenuous efforts are be- ing made to forget past differences and pull together at the work of strengthening German unity. | With the preliminary details for tates. Consrizht by P. & A. Photos THE PRESIDENT POSES WITH DELEGATES TO MISSIONS CONVENTION. The twelfth annual session of the International 1 Missions is being held in Washington, W. E. Paul of Minneapolis, president of the organization, stands at President Coolidge's right. TWO BROKERAGE FIRMS ARE ACCUSED OF FRAUD Prosecutor Asks Receivership for New York Concerns of Elec- | tion-Bet Fame. .y By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, May 7.—Two Wall| Street brokerage houses which figured prominently in the handling of last vear’s election wagers, J. S. Fried & Co. and W. L. Darnell & Co., are tem- porarily enjoined from continuing in business. The injunction was obtained yesterday from Supreme Court Justice McCrate of Brooklyn by Attorney Gen- eral Ottinger. The firms are charged with fraudulent stock sales, and re- | ceivership for both is asked. The at- torney general said -the action was | the beginning of a campaign ‘“‘to! clean up the financial district.” t The firms specifically are charged | with rigging up a fictitious market for Black Oak Gold Mine stock, bought on the curb market for 15 cents and sold out for $1 and $1.25 a share, and with issuing capital stock of $176,000 for a manufacturing company, which had assets of only $15,000. Von Hindenburg's inauguration out of the way, interest now centers in the attitude to be adopted .by the foreign governments, and especially their répresentatives in Berlin. As the fleld marshal was on the list of alleged war culprits to -be extradited, the allied governments must either decline to congratulate him, which would be felt as an insult to the nation whose elected head he is, or else tacitly forget that such a iist_existed, thereby taking a further step in wiping out the past. Tt is believed the diplomatic corps will appearin full force at the inaugu- ration, T SIOUX INDIANS VISIT IN WASHINGTON. White Calf and Iron Crow photographed at the White House yesterday, when they made a call upon “the Great White Father.” national Council of Wonfen with Indian music. De Forest Device Shows President Speaking and Re-| Several of the Sioux entertained the Inter- National Photo |Talking Movie of Coolidge Used In Sale of Stock Brings Inquiry| peats Words—Inventor Denies Probe Will Put His Company in Bad Light. The Department of Justice has been asked by the White House to investi- ate the alleged use in a stock-selling. campaign of a talking motion picture of President Coolidge. The attention of the President was called to the matter through pub- lished ‘reports, according to the Asso- ciated Press, and an immediate inves- tigation was ordered. The film is understood which shows the President delivering an address and has an attachment re- peating his words. The investigation was ordered on the basis of a story appearing yester- day in the New York Herald-Tribune to the effect that salesmen were using the film of the President in selling stock in the De Forest Phone Film Corporation. The story said that in the last week salesmen had reported sales of $145,000 in the' stock. James W. Elliott was mentioned in the story as the head of the sales force, which was sald to number 300. 3 President Coolidge has posed twice for Lee De Forest, inventor of the machine, which records the voice with thie picture. Such a picture was taken of him first last Fall as a test for con- sideration of the Republican national committee for campaign purposes. It was not used, however, and recently . De Forest, at the request of Wil-, phono- to be one| | liam Randolph Hearst, the l'n‘lblisl'wr.l again filmed the President, and this picture was reproduced at a dinner of editors in'New York. Officials here assumed-that the pic- | ture mentioned in the Herald-Tribune story was the one made last Fall. FILM IS DEFENDED. De Forest Says Activities Were Con- ducted Openly. NEW YORK, May 7.—Dr. Lee De Forest, president of the De .Forest Phono-Film Corporation, today said that investigations by the Depart- ment of Justice into the use of a| phono-film of President Coolidge for exploitation of phono-film - stock would produce nothing to put the company in a bad light. The film in question, he avowed, Nationa! Phota FRANCE REMEMBERS COMP. the Croix de Guerre upon the tow Belgians. on of Gospel National Photo | 15-YEAR WHALING GRANT IS OBTAINED FROM RUSSIA | Vega Company to Operate in Ber- ing Sea Off Coast of EKamchatka. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, May Russia has granted the Vega Whaling Co. a 15- yvear concession to operate in Bering Sea, off the coast of Kamchatka, B. R. Anderson & Co., north Pacific agents for the company, announce. The concession includes territory from the 50th to the 67th degree of latitude, wherein are Komandorski Islands. The 4,028-ton Norwegian steamship Komandoren I, operated by the Vega Co., whaling off the Lower California | coast since last September. is being | outfitted for a long stay in the North, { where she will act as mother ship for | tour whalers. | SEEKS NEW RECORDS. | PN-9 Will Go After Speed and Weight-Carrying Marks. PHILADELPHIA, May 7. — The seaplane PN-9, which last week shattered the world record for non- stop flight by remafning in the air 28 hours and 36 minutes, will attempt ‘was one shown throughout the coun-{next week to better other. records. try last year for campaign purposes and not the one made for a dinner of newspaper editors at the Friars Club on April 21: “Everything in the matter of ob- taining the President as a subject for the phono-film was conducted open- 1y,” he asserted. “President Coolidge 1s only one of a number of prominent persons who have appeared on the lm screen, : This time the plane will go after the records for speed and carrying |capacity. Twenty of these records are said to be held by Italian flyers, but Lieuts. H. Schildauer and J. R. Kyle, the PN-9's pilots, are confident their craft can surpass them. ‘The PN-9 will take off with a load of 4,400 pounds, in addition to her crew, and attempt to fly 10 hours at ,lpeqd;‘yfl 90 to 110 miles an hour.. ANIONS IN ARMS. Mercier at the dedication of the new war memorial at Louvain. THE HINDENBURG ATTITUDE W have the posed picture of Gen. von HEN NEWS ARRIVED. Here Hindenburg. taken at his home in Hanover when he was notified that he had been elected President of the German republic. result of the election. n of Louvain. Addresses were BSHOP N MEAED Pledge Support to Pastoral Letter That Brought Charges of Sedition. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY hishops and bishops of Mex declared their support of ments contained in the pastoral letters of the Bishop of Huejutla. Jose de Jesus Manrique Zarate, who has been cited the attorney general by the | department of interior for his alleged seditious utterances ! Archbishop Mora del Rio of Mexico | City said the pastoral letter: contain- ed cnly an explanation of the church’s doctrines. Bishop Zarate’s pastoral letter was quoted in a Mexico City dispatch vesterday as asserting that the Mexi- can government was guilty of theft in taking over the church buildings seized by the dissident Mexican Apos- tolic Church. The bishop also was quoted as saying: “We solemnly de- clare that we will never submit to the zovernment's authority in church mat ters in which the Pope is the only au- | thority | C. M. SHINN ELECTED. | Chosen President of West Virginia [ Society—Others Named. { Charles M. Shinn was elected presi- |dent of the West Virginla Society of the District at a meeting held last night at the Mount Pleasant Hall, Fourteenth, and Kenyon street Other officers elected were Todd Sharp, first vice president; P. M. Ap- pell, second vice president; Wilson C. Hefner, third vice president; Mrs. J. S. Thompson, fourth vice president; Shirley D. Mayers, fifth-vice presi- dent; A. F. Goshorn, sixth vice presi. dent; John L. Bateman, recording sec- retary; Mrs. H. L. Harris, assistant recording secretary; Miss Nellie Hol- lis, financial secretary; J. William de Grange, treasurer, and D. W. Gall, ! historian. FILM STAR ADOPTS WAIF. Glorfa Swanson Now Has Foster Son as Well as Daughter. 1.0S ANGELES, May 7.—Little Joe Smith, who shortly after his birth in Oakland two and a half years ago was made a ward of the Children's Home Soclety in that city, was given a French marchioness for a mother in Superior Court here yesterday. His_new mother is the Marquise de la Falaise et de La Coudray, better known as Gloria Swanson of the fillms, who has provided for the child since early in 1923. Under yesterday’s pro- ceedings “Sonny” was named Joseph Swanson and received the same legal status as his foster-sister; Gloria II, including the right of Inheritance. The marquise and her husband were in court. ~ The pose indicates that the gene The marshal. in the name of France. delivared by | P.).—The total losses of the It pays to read the want columns of The Star. Hundreds of situations are obtained through thgg. v e individuality < ] never doubted the by P. & A. Photns Marshal Foch. the Queen of the Belgians and Cardinal bestowed Frenchmen prominent and w Phote IN'MOROCCAN WAR Realize Trirbesmen Are No Mean Adversaries—Lull Is Reported. e A ARIS. May in the fightin where Riffian El-Krim. after strip alon attempting French zone Advices receiv ther fighting s other engagement is expes French command under Marshal autey, the governor general, will prob ably feel out the strer i dispe sitions of the enemy’s by a series of reconnaissanc ur dertaking a movement its con bined columns to drive ders back over the border French military men say realized that Abd-El-Krim is not to be despised. due to h rience against the Spaniards chances will be taken by th commanders ted Prese T—A lull front tribesmen crossing with fully »eman expe 1 no ench French The 1 e unexpected trouble yesterday asoned fighters apparently led by veterans well versed in modern methods of warfare. being thrown to -the fore Advancing against the enemy's flank in the region of Djebal Bibane, 17rer ch column, under Gen. 'Colombat. met with sturdy resistance from a strong contingent. Though Are Resisted. this front sudden is stifen.n the rebel recognized o moment, no apprehension over th ultimate outcome is felt here. French reinforcements numbering 6,000 men will soon be on the ground. Milita~ experts consider this strengthening of the French columns sufficient to deal with the situation, but the dispatch of further contingents mayv become necessary if the rebels persist in their entrenching tactics. FRENCH LO! of SES ARE 13 RABAT. French Morocco, May 7 (A French troops under Col. Freydenburg during recent engagements were 13 killed mostly. natives, and about 100 wound ed. it was announced at headquarters The Riffan losses were de d as very heavy The Rifflans still are strongly en trenched in the Djebel Bibane region but the few French outposts that stili are surrounded there are being kept in supplies by airplanes. Ice is dropped instead of water. Emissaries of Abd-el-Krim have penerated remote regions of Morocco, according to the French, and are tell- ing all the tribes that Abd.el-Krim is marching on Fez and soon will have the entire country in subjection, New Guinea Backward. ‘While the Island of New Guinea is the world’s second largest island, it is the least known of all, and its people are said to be the most primitive and backward _of any of the world's peoples. Their expressions of art are likewise of very little distinction .o » €