Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1925, Page 22

- QEEN OF R SCHOOLAARN, T00 Directing Study of Children of the Big Top Hobby - of Acrobat. Behind the scenes of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus is a fascinating realm crowded with be- ingled folk of a)l nationalities. Un- s you happen to-know, and know real ‘well, one of the officials connected with the show the chances are very slim of being admitted to the inner shrine when (he big chow is in Wash- ington the latter half of this week. But, once inside, you thread your ‘ay. between performing bears, ele- glants, midgets, clowns, acro- nd riders until you come to drawing room” tent of Lillian Leitzel, one of the privileged stars of the arena who enjoys a dressing room all to herself. Miss_Lel who performs prodi- zies of strength on a single rope, & her body over her shoulder more times, is the gymnastic of the t show. Just to of her athletic Leitzel indulges in a hobby. taken all the children of the under her wing and organized a school. Two of the many proteges are Glenn Graves and Bobbie Pallenberg. Little Glenn's father is the boss property man with the gian while Bob- bie’s parents “wi ined Rus- sian and brown bears that dance and skate and ride bicycle: “Whatever int children and them absorbed in thefr task, Miss Leitzel, “is good for them. is just why T use a_wholesome like, ‘Diggeldy Dan’ to teach them to read. There are a dozen or more children with the circus who go to regular school in the Winter months and study under me in the Summer. Circus children are the same as all other children, with per haps a more intense love for the open, of sunshine, g flowers and trees. My greatest pleasure is cultivating their love for nature and the beauti- ful. Mis activitie: Leitzel. “her” children and all .600 people of‘the wonderful city of white tents are scheduled to arrive in Washington at daylisht next Thursday. The circus coiaes from Baltimore and no time will be lost| the many tents, for the performance is scheduled ay afternoon. Six per- will be given, the local SCORE WILL ATTEND SOUTHERN REUNION Delegates to Confederate Conven- tion at Dallas May 19 Are Named. More than attend the thi tion of the U erate Vet- | m May 19 Women who will represent thesDis- | trict of Columbia_at the reunion, ap- | Gen. D. Hawkins, are | . spe- | n| Mrs matron of honor: ) chaperen: Mrs. Harvey Ball and Mrs. Benjamin S. Gantz _maids of honor; Mrs. Maude Howell Smith, assistart to the district commander, and Mrs. John E. Fowl nt. Col. Lee Crandall, commander of Camp 171, United Confederate Vet- erans, appointed the folowing delegates and alternates: Gen, Charles B. How: Gen. N. D. Hawkins. Col. John M. Hol- ln, Col. W. L. Wilkinson, Col.’J. A. Brown, Maj. James M. Rixey, H. Walter and Georze A. Alexander ates, and Capt. James < pt. D. C. G Rogse, Ma | apt. David er, J. 1 Richard H. Sorreil and Col. s Powell as alterrat Mrs. Esther sponsor. Capt. Fielding M. Lewis, commander. of Camp 305 of the Confederate Vet- erans, appointed Mrs. Frank Morri- n. chaperon: Mrs. N. O. Pillow, matron of honor; Miss Estelle Bailey, sponsor, and Miss Lucinda Jennings Fry, maid of honor. . GEORGIA MAY WAIVE FEE ON U. S. DRY LAW AUTOS as ¥ Emmart will be Mellon Advised of Likelihood of When Seeking Exemption on Licenses. Legislation . Ga., May 9.—Beliet eneral Assembly this year Will amend the motor vehicle law to Cxempt from payment of license fees all Government automobiles engaged in enforcing the prohibition law was ¥4 Yed by Secretary of State S. G. Me- Le\ don in a communication to Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon today. Mr. McLendon's ietter was in an- swer to a communication which the Treasury head recently sent to Gov. Clifford Walker, tn z if the State could not assign license tags for use ot automobiles owned by the Govern- ment in enforcing prohibition. Mr. McLendon pointed out such a course was impossible at the present. “It is clear that the secretary of state,” concludes the letter of Mr. Mc- Lendon, “as motor vehicle commis- sioner, has not authority to issue li- cense plates to @y one, except upon payment of the required fee.” RAIL “MERGER” PROBED. U. S. Investigates Charges of Swin- dle Involving $300,000. LOS ANGELES, May 9.—Federal officers Investigated today the activi- ties of Harry D. Hibbs and Thomas Henessey to ascertain if they used the mails in’their alleged $300,000 ratlroad merger swindle. Hibbs and Henessey are charged with promising 2-to-1 profits on loans pending the comple- tion of a $6,000,000,000 railroad merger they represented themselves as put- ting over. The district attorney's ofice said it #yuld extend its investigation to New York because of Henessey's assertion he is a relative and heir of George B. McClellan, former mayor, of New ork. PRI v A SEEKS MIDGET BANDIT. CHICAGO, May 9.—Morton Lexnw,l an assistant district attorney from New York, came here today to seek custody of Henry J. Fernekes, midget bandit, wanted in connection with a bank robbery and double murder at Pearl River, N. Y. ' Fernekes is being held on a charge of murder and bank robbery Ropert. B. Crowe has refused to sanc- tion “his«removal. { the country, | Py Lily Leitzel, aerial st: instructing two of the children CREDT DISELSSION OF IANY ASPECTS Association in Convention Here Will Hear National Authorities. The National Association of Credit Men, at the thirtieth annual conven- tion at the Mayvflower Hotel, June 8 to 13, will be addressed by Govern- ment officials and business men on a wide variety of subjects relating to credit, banking and business, accord- ing to the tentative program made public last night. One of the most vital projects now before the association, the campaign against “commercial crimin: be backed by a million-dollar will come up for consideration when a report is made on the movement and an address will be delivered by Col. William J. Donovan, assistant to General. nited States dis- {trict attorney at Buffalo and later as Assistant Attonery General in charge of criminal prosecution for the De- partment of Justice, has been in the forefront of the movement to curb commercial frauds, which are known by the association to be taking an immense toll from the public. Discussion of the ‘“eommercial criminal” will be opened by W. H. | Pouch of New York City, chairman of the national fund for credit pro- tection, who will report on the prot ress being made dn the program to establish ~additional _expert investi- gators in key positions throughout and to build up a ma- chine to prosecute the guilty. program has been approved by At- torney General Sargent, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Bankers of the association, who are organized as the Robert Morris Asso- ciates, J. N. Eaton of Boston, presi- dent, will compile a report on the credit situation as they have found it throughout the country, will hold their annual meeting Monday mern- ing, and will present what they call a “Credit Demonstration” Tuesday afternoon. - Vice Governor Edmund Platt of the Federal Reserve Board, an oppo- nent of the recent McFadden bill, will speak Tuesday afternoon on the sub- fect: “Branch Banking as a Means of venting Bank Failure ‘Taxation” will be discussed by Undersecretary of the Treasury Win- ston Thursday. No intimation has been given association officials as to how far Mr. Winston may go in re- vealing future policies of the Treas- ury Department. His address, how ever, is looked forward to with spe- cial interest, in view of tige study of revenue problems now under way at the Treasury looking to recommenda- tions for tax reduction at the com- ing session of Congress. Tax discussion will occupy consid- erable time on the program following Mr. Winston’s address, and will be under direction of Curtis R. Burnett of Newark, N. J. past president of the association and long identified with the association’s taxation work. Senator Fess of Ohio will address the convention Tuesday on “Business and Legislation.” Bishop James E. Freeman of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington will address the convention at its open- ing session Monday afternoon on the subject of religion and business. There will also be discussion of “Foreign Credits,” on which a special report will be presented by C. C. Martin of New York City, chairman of the association’s foreign credits committee; “The Future of Agricul- ture,” “Friendly Adjustments,” “Banking and Currengy,” “Install- ment Buying, Is it Being Overdone?” “The Future of Business,” “The In terchange ~of Credit = Information” and “Stability in Busingss Achieved by the Better Use of Credit.” e ASKS HER OWN ARREST. Is Forced Tool of Blackmailers, Pola Negri’s Double Says. LOS ANGELES, May 9.—A new use for “motign picture doubles” was revealed to the police today in the story of Justine Neff, known in pic- tures as Justine Valse, who, was ar- rested at her own request to protect her against men who, she said, had used her In a blackmail plot against Pola Negri. The girl explained that because she closely resembled Miss Negri and once had “doubled” for her in a picture, she was chosen by the blackmalilers to pose as Miss Negri in a scandalous photograph they intended to use as a means of intimidating the screen star into pay- ing them money. She was taken to the psychopathic ‘ward of the General Hospital for ob- servation while, detectives checked her story. 5 GIVES $750,000 TO “Y.” Ford Contributes Heavily to $5,- + 000,000 Fund in Detroit. DETROIT, May 9.—A subscrip- tion of $750,000 by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford to the $5,000,000 fund being sought by the Y. M. C. A. for building and here and State's’ Attorney | nounced The | , with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey, companying the circus with their paren MUSSOLIN ONTING * 3WAR HINSTRES ‘Expects to Take National _Defense Portfolio Later On. By_Cable to The Star and New York World. ROME, May 9.—Through taking over the ministry of Marine, vacated by Admiral Thaon di Revel, Premier Mussolini has completed the first step toward the realization of a unique command of army and navy air forces. Since he took the oath yesterday as marine minister ad interim, he has now the direction of foreign affairs, the army, the navy and the air. Later, when the work of unification of the administration is finished, he will be- . |come minister of national defense, thus crystallizing the three war ministries be now holds temporatily. Whether he will be able to continue the foreign ministry as well remains to be seen. Di Revel and Premier Disagree. Di Revel's resignation was motivated from no political reason, but purely from technical disagreements. He firmly disapproves the plan to make the navy a portion of another depart- ment, even when that is the depart- ment .of national defense. It is his jopinion that wunless the navy is |autonomous it cannot function effi- |ciently. But Mussolini differs. | The new chief of the headquarters staff, Gen. Badoglio, will, under the rew co-ordinated defense ministry, have fuller powers than those usually accompanying this post. Likewise the marine and air staff chiefs will |have enlarged authority. Under the new plan, however, they | will have considerably more responsi- {bility than when under the direction |of departmental ministers. This is the first case in modern Europe that presents three war min- |istries under one command, and the experiment is being watched with the greatest interest by the other powers. | The Undersecretary of the Wavy will {probably be Clano, who advocates |light craft, capable of swift action. There is talk of giving the Depart- {ment of Agriculture its own ministry, but no- definite- conclusion fas yet | been reached. De Stefania, the finance minister, has again been attacked by Foscisti chiefs for his treasury policy, which they condemn as too bold in the effort |to balanec the budget at all costs. { Changes Are Technical. Yet all these changes, with the con- |sequent shuffling of undersecretaries, are of a purely technical nature and must not be interpreted as a sign of real political change. In fact, Mus- solini’s opposition never has been |more depressed or “less hopeful of overthrowing the government than now, five days before the opening of the ‘Chamber. Before the Chamber the ness will be the question suffrage in municipalities ures to postpone eviction in overcrowded cities. Casertino, president of the Cham- ber, has conferred with Mussolini to arrange the form for parliamentary recognition~of the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the sovereign's accession to the throne; which falls next month. The Chamber will recess the 2d or 3d of June and so doubtless, will not have time to debate the press laws, as there are several commercial treaties whose ratifications are pend- ing and must be debated. The session altogether is not likely to be vastly interesting or exciting. i (Copyright, 1925.) chief busi- of woman and meas- of tenants KEATS’ HOME IS OPENED. AS MEMORIAL TO POET Americans Aid in Move to Save Historic House and Garden - for Posterity. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 9—The historic house in which the poet John Keats lived at Hampstead, and which was saved from destruction partly by sub- scriptions of American admirers, was formally opened tonight as a perma- nent memorial. Both the house ahd the garden, where Keats composed his immortal “Ode to a Nightingal remain unaltered. Sir Arthur Quiller Couch delivered the inaugural address, and Boyleston Beal, counselor of the American Em- bassy, spoke in-behalf of the Amer- ican subscribers. The _granddaughter “of the poet's beloved Fanny Brawne, with whom he was infatuated when she.was a girl of 17, and the son of Joseph Severn, the ‘artist painter who was with Keats when he died at Rome in 1821, attended the ceremony. PERSIANS ATTEND PARLEY Police Officials Arrive for Inter- national Police Meeting. NEW YORK, May 9.—Two Per- bian 'police officials, Abdolloh Bah- rami, first deputy-chief at Teheran, and ' Lieut. Col. Aseif,\ chief at Cazoine, arrived today to attend the international police conference, which opens next week. The spread of education and the liberation of women are . of progress in Persia under the regime of the nationalist chief, Reza Khan Sardar Sepah, the Persian officials PLANS OF FIGHTING POLAR DEATH ARE LAID BY AMUNDSEN FLYERS Abandon Radio Equipment, But Will Carry One Month’s Rations—Grimly Redlize They-May Be Trapped at Top of Earth for Entire Winter. BY JAMES B. WHARTON. Special Dispatch to The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, May 9.— Should the two fiying boats carrying the six members of the Roald Amund- sen-Lincoln - Elleworth expedition on what is Intended’ to be a_600-mile non-stop dash to the North Pole meet with dieaster, the polar adventurers, though the o0dds are heavily against them, are at least going to fight for their lives. Each plane has a month’s ration for each occupant. This will ger- haps be enough If a minor aceident merely delays the aircraft. But if the fiyers are forced to abandon’ the planes they will be compelled to strike out afoot and must depend for food chiefly on being able to bring down game with thelr guns. The plan of carrying wireless ap- paratus on the planes was abandoned because of its heaviness and the like- lihood of its failing to function after an accident. If trouble occurs any great distance beyond Spitzbergen it is unlikely that the base party will be b able to send aid. Once grounded, the fiyers must work out their own salva- tion. Should a mishap occur after a few hours' flying it will probably be use- less for them to attempt to return to Spitzbergen. The nearest known land then will be the northern tip of Greenland, 400 miles distant. The ex- plorers might find land containing game in the unexplored territory on the way. 1t disaster overtakes them at the North Pole they must trek to Green- land along the identical route Peary traveled in 1909. They must work their way along the coast for about 300 miles and then across the Robeson Channel to Fort Conger, where Amundsen had food cached a couple of years ago by Capt. Sverdup, for- mer skipper of Nansen's ship, the Fram. It Fort Conger is reached late in the Summer the party must winter there and start south next Spring along the AW A\ west coast of Greenland for Etah, the northernmost Greenland _settlement - and Peary’s base. Danish trading ves- sels visit Etah in the Summer. If the planes are carried beyond the North Pole the voyagers still coutd not get further from land than three months’ trek, allowing a progress of nine ‘miles a day. Beyond the Pole they might accidentally fall into the mysterfous drift thought by polar ex- plorers to exist between Siberia and Greenland across the Pole. Three years after the Jeannette sank off the Siberian coast, in’ 1881, parts of the ship were found on the southwest coast of Greenland. This indicated the direction of the drift which both Nan- sen and Amundsen tried to find, the latter in the Maud. The -chances are a thousand to one against the flyers saving thelr lives should the planes come to a complete crash. The odde—the distance from a base, the cold and the weight of their equipment—are cruelly against them. Sotf R neht e i N A S Nowsna Brgland by Ceniral Ulistein Verlag: in ieane: in Italy é-u. Sera: in all Scandinavian y the Norwegian Aero Club. Al rights reserved.). STRIKERSARE STARVING. T Mexican Miners Reported Without Food or Money. Tiiance & "Parisi GUAYMAS, Sonora, Mex., May 9 (A.P.).—Suffering and hardship among approximately 1,000 striking Mexican miners of the Kl Boleo prop- erties, in Lower California, have pre- sented a serfous situation, it was de- clared in advices today. Food in the mining community is reported to be scarce and funds of the labor union have been exhausted. The Governor of the State appoint- ed a committee to investigate the dif- ferences between the employes and employers. 0 AN Z NN 17N 17N 17, WA Vo N\ I8N 17, 7ANNY 17 AN 2NN O 17N % { BN S NN ZNZIZIZ e Xy + RECIV = AHSOS LSS L St "Two Beautiful NewHomes OPEN SUNDAY AFTERNOON 3011 and 3015 Albemarle Street | s DESCRIPTION: Dining room” Living room Pantry and kitchen Four bedrooms Two baths with shower Maids’ room and bath Superior workmanship Brick construction . Two stories and attic Lot 50x150 Two-car garage /| Private driveway Shrubbery Unsurpassed view Small Cash Payment and Reasonable Terms Moore ® Hill, Inc. 730 17th St. N.W. 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