Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1925, Page 21

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SHEPHERD'S WIFE FREE WITHOUT BAL Surrenders in Poison Case. Will Post $500 When Mit- timus Is Served. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 7.—Mrs. Julia Shep- herd, named as an accessory of her husband, Willlam D. Shepherd, alleged slayer of Willlam N. McClintock, or- phan millionaire, was at liberty today ' on her own recognizance after sur- rendering last night. Her release on $500 bonds was prom ised for tomorrow morning by Judge Jacob Hopkins, before whom she ap- peared. Until then he stayed service of the coroner’s mittimus, from which she fled Tuesday night after the coro- ner's jury had recommended that she be held as an accessory in the deaths of young McClintock last Fall and of his mother, 16 years ago. 261-Year-Old Book In Indian Language Bought for $32,640 By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 7.— Philli H. Rosenbach of Philadelphi has secured at auction for £6,800 (about $32,640) the only “nown copy of Ri:hard Baxte:’s “A Call to the Unconverted,” in the original boards, dated 1664. It is a translation by the mis. sionary, John Elliot, into the Massachusetts Indian language, and was given in 1669 by Gov. Winthrop of Connecticut to the Royal Society, by which it was sold to Mr. Rosenbach. Richard Baxter was a noted English non-conformist _divine, who served as a chaplain in Cromwell’s army. “A Call to the Unconverted” first brought out in 1657. was By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 7.—An unnamed American collector has boycht from Oscar Huldschinsky, - lin art collector, Raphael's “Por- trait of Giuliano di Medici” for £50,000 sterling (about $240,000). Huldschinsky declined to name THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, RAIL INCOME SHOWS $18,886,586 DROP Net Cut of Class 1 Lines for March, 1925, Under 1824 Is $7,203,375. A drop in the gross operating reve- nues of class 1 railroads amounting to $18,886,586, or 3.7 per cent, in March, as compared with the same month’ last year, was shown today in a compllation by the Bureau of Rall- way Economics in reports filed by the ‘arriers with the Interstate Com- merce Commission. The roads com- prise about 90 per cent of the rall mileage of the nation. ‘With a reduction, however, of $13,- 336,445, or 3.4 per cent, in operating expenses, which totaled $337,265,486, ‘he net operating income of $73,116,672 was only $7,203,375 less than in March last year. Net operating income for the first three months of the year was placed | at $203,881,770, which was figured to given an annual rate of return of 4.48 per cent on property investment, as compared with $203,348,527 and 4.61 in the corresponding period last year. month of $36,119,689, compared with $40,965,436 last year. In the South- ern’ district net income increased from $14,079,669 last year to $16,075,419, while in the Western district it de- creased from $24,874,952 to $20,921,664. YORKTOWN AWAITS PLANE Friday to Mark Start of Week End Trips From New York. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., May 7.— Plans have been completed for a big celebration at Yorktown on Friday when the passenger-carrying airplane is scheduled to arrive from New York on its initial flight. This trip was to have been made three weeks ago, But because of en- gine trouble the machine was forced to turn back to the starting point on Long Island. The arrival of the ma- chine on Friday will mark the be- ginning of regular week end flights from New York to Yorktown. e A leopard may not be able to change his spots, but it seems that a woman can change the apparent color of her eyes. Whereds last season green eyes were the predominating fashion among the women of Parls, this season, “‘she who would be smart" must have eyes that create an impres- sion of blueness. Camouflage effects THURSDAY, SPEAKER SAYS EUROPE | HASN’T PEACE IN SOUL Mrs. Clara Guthrie d’Arcie, Inter-| national Council Delegate, Ad- dresses Soroptomist Club. “In Europe they belleve in peace, but they don’t feel it in their souls,” declared Mrs. Clara Guthrie d'Arcie, delegate from Switzerland to the In- ternational Council of Women and founder of the World Unlon of Women for International Peace and Concord, in an address at a “special meeting” of the Soroptomist Club in the La Fayette Hotel yesterday. She declared that the people in the United States not only belleve in peace, but that the# have the ideals with which to put their beliefs to a practical use. Present at the luncheon were sev- eral other distinguished delegates to the International Council of Women. Guests of the club included Mme. Helene Romniciano of Rumania, Mlle. Sanua, Paris representative to the In- ternational Council of Women and a member of the Soroptomist Club of that city; Dr. Valera Parker, presi dent of the New York City Sorop- tomist Club and chairman of the com: mittee on equal moral standards of |the United States Councll, which is i R I WORLD JURISTS DELAY MAY 7, 1925. Mrs. Caroline King, author, and Mrs. David Allen Campbell, chairman of music for the International Council of Women. Mrs. Ethel Knight Pol- lard, president of the local Soroptomist Club, presided. RIO DE JANEIRO SESSION Time Given Institute of Interna- tional Law to Draft Certain Codification Conventions. The meeting of the International Commission of Jurists to consider codification of international law, to be held at Rio de Janeiro, was postponed until August 2, 1926, by action of the overning board of the Pan-American Union yesterday. The session of the commission was nostponed to give the Institute of In- ternational Law time to draw up draft nventions for the cqdification of pri- vate international law similar to those it has already worked out for codifi- cation of public international law. Dr. James Brown Scott, vice pres dent of the American Soclety of Inter- national Law, and Jesse S. Reeves, | the delegation from the United States. professor of international law at the | The other pan-American republics University of Michigan, will compose | be represented by two delegates Enjoy the real lurury of selected hill-grown teas. BANQUET. Orange Pekoe corta’ o more. Serveiticed for dinger. A finer favor, a rich amber color. At your grocer's in orange casisters. Write for booklet and free samples McComuck & Co., Balt more, Mds I i 6} ?j i) Importers, Blenders and Packers BANQUET 3 Ora¥Bekoe TE A F O 00 1 D the purchaser, saying he had re- e i Carriers in the Eastern district, where freight traffic fell off 16.5 per cent in March as compared with last vear, reported a net Income for the | Are created with blue powders that are [a part of the International Council Fubbed around the eyes, and which of Women; Mrs. Willlam Atherton Du give at least a fleeting impression that | Puy, past president of the Nationa! even hazel eyes may be blue.” !Soclety of American Pen Women; S No opposition to her release was made by Robert E. Crowe, State's at- torney, who strenuously resisted ef- forts to release Shepherd, now in jail pending trial May 18. ‘‘There is no evidence that I have as State's attor- ney that can cause me to oppose bail in this case,” the prosecutor said. Shepherd Talks to Wife. Our Clearance Sale of Shoes in Full Swing for Friday Only $2.98 Sailor Bow Army Officers Transferred. Will H. Point, Quartermaster Corps, commandant of the Quarter- | master Corps School, Philadlephia has been ordered to duty at Washing: : s arrest|ton Barracks, D. C.; Col. Joseph E. e ‘:’:g ":,:fip;’l:d”‘ «| Cusack, Cavalry, has been transferred aken from his cell to converse with | from s, Tex., to Columbus, ke O ter arrangements for her |Ohio. for duty’ with organized re’ i They talked | serves: Col. Robert H. Wescott, Cav- Col. 3 PINDLER 801 11th St. NW. Main 2704 Low-Heel se had been made Shepherd, de- scribed as a Macbeth” by Judge Harry Olson, instigator of the investigation, sobbed as she left. She termed the § action and that of Judge Olson *‘persecution. 1l of the prosecutor rrangement for Mrs. Shep- release came after he expressed resentment at the naming of Mrs. hepherd by the coror jury. He intained that the jury's action 1 interfere with the trial of Shep- | The jury, after five months' investi- ation, concurred in the action of the grand jury in indicting Shepherd for the killing of McClintock, his ward, and recommended that he be held for the death of Mrs. McClintock, with h s an accessory in both cases, . Store your us for Safety. Hand-drawn and Hand-made Crepe de Chine Dresses in reserv |t | eit; . from Fort Benning, Ga., to Wor- ., for duty with organized Capt. Carl Spatz, Air ervice, from Langley Fiel to he office of chlef of “Air Service, this y. PLEASE LEAVE THE Furs with For dessert lonight /7 The Velvet Kind KL CREAM Philipsborn S LEAN and PRESS ALL and DELIVER MEN'S SUITS...............9%c LADIES’ SUITS............$1.50 GLOVES ............5¢c and 10c 214 = —with medium heels; sizes $1.29 Cut-Out Pumps Children’s _and Misxes’, fea- tared in fawn and black. ~Sizes 835 to 2, ELEVENTH ST. 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