Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1925, Page 17

ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY-POU! (left) and Ted Clark, “PAPA” JOFFRE ATTENDS LORD the President’s personal secretary, with the st Lady of the Land by the confectioners of Boston. D BOX OF CANDY FOR MRS. COOLIDGE. Harry E. Horn of Boston FRENCH’S FUNERAL. The French marshal was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of Lord French in West- minster Abbey. The new photograph shows how the French warrior has lost weight during the past few years, for he now weighs only 180 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BOYS IN THE GRADUATING CLASS OF THE Chamberlain, jr. M ARY, MO, HT BY S0 FiRE Disastrous Blaze Is Third. Shots Fly as Ammunition ounds. Wide World Photo. Cigarette or Sun, | Take Your Choice, | Fires Car Platform | As the mercury was bubbling over at the peak temperature early this jafternoon the wooden _car-loading | platform in front of The Star Building on Pennsylvania avenue at Twelfth street began to smoulder and finally |burst into flames, sending street car big box of chocolates presented to the National Photo. TRAVELS WITH H, MA AND P. D. ¢C, 'A. Young Stribling of Georgia has created quite a lot of talk in the pugilistic world, and he now is in Wash. ington for a tenround bout. The ring star is traveling by automol across country, and his father and mother always accompany him. Natio MRS. COOLIDGE ATTENDS UNVEILING OF SON'S PORTRAIT. Photograph taken at Mercersburg Acad- emy after the ceremony. boy, and one of the college’s most representative youths.” of Son’s Wife Just Missed Pauper’s Grave. By the Associated Press. J. K. De Armond, A. T. Bowers, W. L. i | | | o tion Does Not Apply The portrait of the late Calvin Coolidge, jr., was unveiled as “an ideal American Wide World Photo. to Shipments Bound to Outside Points. NEW YORK, June 5.—An inquiry | SPecial Dispatch to The Star. patrons scurrying to safety. Two fire engines raced to the scene |over the soft asphalt .and firemen, | sprinkling the blazing platform with a | shower of perspiration and chemicals, |soon succeeded in extinguishing the Is Exploded. By the Associated Press 1s being made in behalf of Thomas A.| ROCKVILLE, Md. June 5.—Under Edison of a report that Mrs. Elizabeth @ decision of Judge Robert B. Peter, Heyzer, mother of Mrs. Thomas A.|in the Circuit Court here, bootleggers | Baison, jr., died In obscurity and nar- | F their agents need no longer fear MOUNT AIRY, Md., June 5.—For the third time in 20 years this village of 1,000 inhabitants was swept by a disastrous fire last night. Eleven bulldings were destroved with an es timated loss of $200,000. The flames consumed a fourth of the town, in- cluding one of its two banks and both of its flour and grain mills, its prin- cipal business enterprises. Firemen sent from Frederick, Elli- cott City, Kensington and Rockville were forced by lack of water pressure to carry water from tanks of the Bailtimore and Ohio Rallroad. With the temperature for the vicinity re-| ported at 102 during the afternoon, the heat developed during the fire was terrific. Explosion of several thousand cartridges in a hardware store and ignition of two gasoline stations added spectacular and hazardous effects. Several heat prostrations were re. ported, but no serious injuries were known to have resulted directly from the fire. Ten years ago a $250,000 fire wiped out a third of the town and 20 years ago the principal section of the vil lage at that time was lost in a $50,000 fire. Cause Is Undetermined. The firse started from an undeter- mined cause on the roof of the Frank B. Zepp drygoods store. Among the buildings destroyed were the 'Mount Alry Milling and_Grain Co., the flour mill of Marion V. Runkels.' the First National Bank, the electric shop of C. *. Riddelmoser, the Mount Airy Meat and. Grocery Co., the furniture store conflagration. An extra supply of | perspiration was invoked by attacking |the platform with axes, apparently | with a view to cutting off its oxygen supply. The official report stated that the fire resulted from a carelessly thrown | cigarette, but there are those who |claim it was a plain case of spon- | taneous combustion, induced by Fore- { caster Mitchell. {GEN. CROWDER RECOVERS Mal. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, Am- bassador to Cuba, who has been in {the United States for medical atten- i tion, expects to return to his post in | Havana in the early part of July. | Gen. Crowder was discharged yester- |day from Walter Reed General Ho: | pital, where he has been undergoing a | medical survey. e left immediately |for New York City to visit friends jand will go for a brief vacation trip to Colorado before he sails for Cuba of Ludy & Burdette, the fertilizer office of Norman Hood and the |8rocery store of Guerney Brasheais. The village street in front of R. L. Runkels’ hardware store was bom- barded with a fuslllade of sportsmen’s ammunition and sprayed with burning gasoline. Several thousand cartridges |stored in the hardware store exploded during the height of the blaze and two gasoline station tanks nearby ig- nited. |He!d. William Meadoweroft, the in- ventor's secretary, in saying yester- day that an inguiry would be made, added that the inventor was not aware of Mrs. Heyzer's death and did not know where she lived. Mrs. Heyzer died Tuesday in a mod- est rooming house owned and partly occupied by Charles A. Benedict, an undertaker. Estranged from her daughter’s family five years ago, she kept secret her connection with the Edison family, Benedict sald. She did not.want to trouble her daughter with her infirmities or financial condition. - For two days the body lay in the morgue unclaimed. Authorities. had glven permission to carry the body to a pauper’'s grave, the undertaker said, when Willlam Heyzer, a son, and friends paid’ the funeral expenses. Mrs. Edigon, jr., formerly Beatrice M. Heyzer, was among those who at- tended the services. She married the younger Edison in 1910. FERIOT A Held for Illegal Sales. Thomas Henry Green, 23, and his wife of a year, Emma Stanley Green, 28, of Landover, Md., were being held by police today on a charge they sold cheap lace under false pretenses. They told patrons the'lace was costly Irish lace and sold it at $5 for six yards, police say. They were arrested by Detectives Darnall and Vermillion shortly after they had made two sales, it is said. They are to be arraigned in Police Court LOmOITOW, b rowly missed burial, in the poter’s|molestation by Montgomery. County officers while transporting ~ liquor through this county for delivery out- side of the county limits. The decision was rendered in the cases of Paul B, Carl F. and Austin F. Gunnell, brothers, and Harry Tanner, all of Washington, who were arrested near Chevy Chase several weeks ago while en route from Balti- more to Washington with an automo- bile load of corn whisky. They were charged with having liquor with the intention of selling it, in violation of the local option law of the county. All, however, swore that they were WANT WOMAN WITH WIG. Those dark-eyed, ' slouch-hatted men you may have noticed today on F street are, sh-h-h, detectives on the lookout for women who appear to be ‘artifically thatched. They are keeping keen watch for unusual shades of lengthy hirsute embellishments in the hope of spote ting the person who tired of her bobbed locks and decided to hide them beneath some ill-gotten “trans- formations” belonging to the hair- dressing establishment of Mrs. Eliz- abeth Davis, 1203 F street. Mrs. Davis reports that a valuable collection of snappy transformations, switches and other .such appurte- nances were stolen yesterday from her beauty parlors. hauling the liquor for another man and were headed for Washington to deliver it. As there was no evidence to indicate that the men intended selling the liquor in this county or to deliver it for sale in this county, Judge Peter acquitted all. The decision means that liquor in any quantity may be hauled through the county for delivery outside, so far as the local option law is con- cerned. Thousands of dollars in fines have been paid in the Police Court here in similar cases and all would have been refunded had appeals to the Circuit Court been taken. The Gunnells and Tanner waived trials in the Police Court and in that way made it possible for Judge Peter to pass upon the question. Former Judge James L. Pugh of Washington represented the defendants. ROBBINS WINS TITLE. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 5§ (®. —Howard (Dutch) Robbins, 13, of Springfleld, Mass., won the national marbles championship here today, de- feating Thomas Raley, 13, of Owens- boro, Ky.. in the finals of the third annual national marbles champion- ship tournament. Raley took the first game, 13—0, making a run of 11 mar- | bles, but Robbins won the last four games of the seven-game series, 3—5, 10—38, 9—4, 11—2. Wuhingeonin; Honored. MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa, June 5. —Gov. John Hamill and G. Logan Payne of Washington, D. C., have been designated to receive the degree of doctor of laws from Iowa Wesleyan College, il was o ! FRIDAY, JUNE Mae Murray, screen star, divorced in Paris, returns to New York. Her matrimonial bonds with Robert Leonard, movie director, were brok- en by a Paris court. Copyright by P. & A. Photo. . s st e Outtelling William Tell. A high jumper at the Missouri Valley Con- ference goes over the top and does not use the conventional bar. Wide World Photo. Saltzman and S. ELKINS ESTATE FIGHT ENDS IN COMPROMISE Widow Gets Half Property, While Rest Is Held for First Wife's Son. A compromise of the contest over the estate of Blaine Elkins, brother of former Senator Davis Elkins of West Virginia, has been effected, and Mrs. Mary Kenna Elkins, the divorced wife of the deceased, has withdrawn a caveat which she filed in behalf of their son, Stephen B. Elkins, 3d. The estate Is valued at $300,000, and the will has been admitted to probate sub- ject to the terms of an agreement be- tween the parties. Under the terms of.the agreement Mrs. Mary Kenna Elkins is to have $500 per month for the maintenance of the son, for whose benefit one- half of the estate is to be held by the National Savings and Trust C during the minority of the child. Mrs. Lucy Douglas Elkins, the second wife, is to have the remaining one-half of the estate. By the terms of the will $100,000 in bonds were given to Mrs. Lucy Doug- las Elkins and she was to receive the income of the estate for life. On her death the income was to be used for the education of the son and the estate turned over to him when he attains the age of 30 years. Attorneys Douglas, Obear- & Doug- las and J. V. Morgan represented Mrs. Mary Kenna Blkins, while the widow was represented by Attorneys Roger J. Whiteford and Walter B.. Bastian. Trust Officer Frank Stetson appeared for the trust company. P Many Woman Workers. Nearly 9,000,000 American women work for pay. There are over 1,000, 000 in the professional class, 21,800 in the public service, 1,500,000 in cleri- cal positions, 00,000 in manufactur- ing pursuits, 2,200,000 in domestic service, 1,000,000 in farming occupa- tions, 5,300 bankers and brokers and 14,000 insurance agents and real es- tate spllers, i l o PORTO RICAN RTIST TO PAINT THE PRESIDENT. Lopez de Victoria (right), Porto Ric of President Coolidge for the Government House in Porto Rico. left, Francisco J. Hernandez, preside Senor Jo: an artist, who will paint a_portrait At nt of the El Club Cervantes. National Phote PLAYING GREAT CO[J: IN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. farlane, a Scotchman, who yesterday in the open championship, and his daughter, Elna. always has a place in the gallery when her father plays. Wide W ITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, AT WEST POINT. THIS YEAR. They will graduate with the class on June 12. Left to right: E. V. Holmes, G. M. Myers, J. W, Bowman, G. K. Withers, Kost, A. A. Ruppert, C. H. Mason, T. H. Baldwin, 3d; W. A. Fuller, L. C. Scherer, C. E. \EDISON INVESTIGATES | TRANSCOUNTY LIQUOR-RUNNING CONNECTION'S DEATH HELD NO CRIME IN MONTGOMERY Inquires Into Report That Mother| Rockville Court Frees Four Men, Ruling Local Op- ‘Weston. |Seeks In Jjunction To Protect Wife From Love-Making ] . By the Associated Press. | ATLANTA, June 5.—A petition to restratn Harry Duncan, employe of a local paper concern, from mak- ing love to Mrs. Ella Tompkins was filed in Superior Court here vester- day by Jesse E. Tompkins, her hus- band. A temporary restraining order - was issued by Judge E. D. Thomas and June 13, was set for the hear- ing on the petition. The petition charged that Dun- can sent Mrs. Tompkins “flowers, candy, endearing letters and other messages,” and sought a perma- nent injunction -to prevent such gifts. R BUSINESS HIGH ALUMNI T0 HOLD BEAUTY CONTEST | A bathing .beauty contesj and a prize waltz will be among the features of the twentieth annual excursion of the -Business High School Alumni As- soclation - tomorrow at Chesapeake Beach. There wiil be continuous dancing all day long and at 3 o'clock in the after- noon there will be a water base ball game: between two mixed teams, each comyoud of five boys and five girls. A silver cup will be awarded the win- ner of a rifie match between two picked teams, one composed of boys and the other ‘of girls. An elaborate program of athletic events will be staged under direction of the two school coaches. They will include races, kicking contests, jump- ing events and novel games. Students, faculty members, alumni and friends of the school will join in the day's outing. The first train will leave the District line at 9 a.m. and the fun will start the minute it reaches the Beach. Richard A. Hart is general chair- @an of Lhe excursion committee, Willie Mac- tied with Bobby Jones for first place The 10-year-old girl rld Phot T. Q. Ashburn, jr.; J. L. Copyright by Kadel & Herbert WOMAN GONFESSES: - THEFT OF 13 AUTOS Youthful Couple Is Captured in Rochester After Bullets Halt Stolen Car. By the Associated Pres ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 5.—Mrs. i Mary Smith, 22 years old, has con- fessed, police say, to the theft of about 15 automobliles in Detroit and Buffalo by herself and her husband, Walter Smith, 20. The couple are held on technical charges of vagrancy. They were arrested Wednesday night in an automobile after being subjected to a fusillade of shots from pursuing po lice. Mrs. Smith, according to the police, sald she and her husband had been roaming over the Eastern part of the country for nearly year, stealing cars along the route. Most of them were abandoned, she said. A letter found in her possession im- plicated her husband in a Buffalo hold-up and in the theft of valuable jewelry in Detroit, the police said. Smith Denies Guilt. Although Smith denied participating in any hold-ups and asserted that the machine they were driving when cap- tured was given to him in Buffalo by a friend, his wife, according to the police, admitted that the car was stolen in Detroit and bore Missour! lcense plates, which later were changed for those of this State. Festival at Epiphany. The sixth annual Spring festival of the pupils of the Woodridge School will be held in the parish hall of the Church of the Epiphany this evening at 7:30 o'clock. A play, “The Play Lovers,” will be a feature of the en- terjainment.