Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1925, Page 12

SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1925. SECRE feet long. STANT SECRETARY ing to the new Army officers at Battle Monument, West Point. ————— NOTED ART PIECES | | _ Lieut. Davis, Serg | Detective Holmes, members | vice squad, staged a raid on the prem Rockefeller Gives Coveted Barnard Collection to Metropolitan. By the Associated Press YORK, June 13.—George Grey Barnard’s $2,000,000 collection of Gothic art, the cloisters, which several cities and individuals in the country have been bidding, will re main in New York as the gift of John D. Rockefeller, jr., to the Metropolits Museum of Art. Mr. Rockefeller paid $600,000 for the collection, building and land, in the northern part of Man- Island d_in many instances from nd dry stone’ walls of France rd, a seulptor, the lection consists of between 600 700 pieces of sculpture, painti other works, mostly of the F Romanesque and Gothic perioc Twenty years Barnard started the collection hobhy, ants regarded the ruins of rubbish. After he had es out of France the exportation of French pea cloisters as shipped the pie government forbade such relics Student of Collection. Mr. Rockefeller has many times browsed among the sculptured capital the statues and paintings. He knows practically every item’ in the collec tion, which includes a monumental torso of the crucified Christ and statue of the Virgin and Child The city of Los Angeles had raised $500,000, it was reported, toward buy the cloisters. Individuals in Chi -5 also were negotiating with Burnard, who decided to sell be oo much time and thought was being taken from hi: work He refused many private offers be 1se he wanted the public to benefit from his efforts. “The building will be opened in the Fall fter the objects have been logued. ELKS TO GIVE PROGRAM OF FLAG-DAY EXERCISES Ceremonies by District Scheduled for Tomorrow Evening at Sylvan Theater. s will be held by Lodges at 5:15 evening at the Syl- Flag.day exerci the District Elk o'clock tomorrow van Theater Roger J. Flag du istic W. deliver a the EIlk rit- ceremony will be performed Kinkle, exalted ruler; Harry ding knight; J. E. Coiliflower, esteemed loyal knight; John Lynch, esteemed lecturing kx:zht, and C. Montgomery, chaplain. A tribute to the flag will be given the Elks drill team. The EIks’ nd, under the leadership of Arthur Whitcomb, will p and the St. Pat rick’s Choir, led by Miss Jennie Glen- nan, will give a number of selections. teford and will by ¥ing, esteemed lea by The royal palaces of Bangkok form a city in themselves. They consist of several hundred individual palaces, surrounded by magnificent gardens and pagodas. Mr cata- | SUBMARINE. OF WAR ADDRES WEST POI HELD UNDER DRY LAW. sflome of Colored Man Raided, Fol- | lowed by His Arrest. McQuade and of the ises of Jasper James Powell, colored, 1716 U street, last night, and arrested Powell numerous charges of al- leged violations of the Volstead act Seizure of two still, 20 gallons of *h brandy and a quantity of ma | was reported. Police also held Powell |on an attachment issued in connec- | tion with charg: inst him grow- ing out of his ar vears ago. on ag, est tw | | | 'U. S. NOT INVOLVED "IN FORBIDDEN ZONES | Not Expected to Assume Respon- sibility in Carrying Out Arms | Traffic Regulations. | By the Associated P: 3 June 13.—The United ill be asked to assume no re- sponsibility in_the carrving out of the arms traffic regulations in the world forbidden zones. | Representative Theodore E. Burton, | United States, vester introduced ¢ olution in the arms conference specifying that signatories having mo | territories under their sovereignty or | protection, within or adjacent to the | special zones. accept no responsibility i the concerning | control mea carrying out of the s in those zones. This was accepted by the conference with an amendment that signatories a sume no responsibility, but may as- [Sume it if they so desire. | £E EEE |HONOR BUILDER OF FIRST HORSELESS CARRIAGE French Ere:;)nument at Bar le | Duc to Nicholas Cugnot, i Born in 1725. | By the Associated Press BAR LE DUC, ance, June 13.—A monument to the memory of the in- ventor of the first horsele: arriage is to be unveiled tomorrow at Void, in i]r\rrmne, by former President Poin- car | ] icholas Cugnot, born at Void in |1 , invented a rifle which Prince {Charles of Lorraine adopted for his army, and then studied the construc tion of a truck to move cannon. In 1769 the Duke of Choiseul sum?, | moned him to Parts, where he succeed- | ed in making a steam car, which tray- eled at a peed of two and a half miles an hour. Exiled during the rev- olution, Cugnot returned to Paris after the reign of terror and died in poverty in 1804. As he is regarded as the inventor of the forerunner of the present-day auto- mobile, the local motor clubs are or- ganizing a run to Void In honor of his bicentenary. Would Ban Tobacco. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 13 (#).— | Prohibition of ‘the manufacture and Isale of tobacco for personal use was advocated in resolutions adopted at a meeting of the State committee of the Prohibition party here vesterday. Another resolution urged the use of the Bible as a text book in the pub- lic schools. The S45, now at the Washington navy vard, and Secretary Wilsur went aboard yesterday afternoon. | % a uew type of underseas craft, is The boat is 2. National Photo 5 GRADUATES. Dwight F. Davis talk- The 1925 class contained 245 men. Photo. installaf Ward and W. I. Swanton. WESTERN MARYLAND STOCK BOUGHT UP Railroad’s Future May Be Bound Up in Present Mys- terious Move. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, June 13.—Continued acquisition of the common and pre- ferred shares of the Western Mary- land Railway has the financial district guessing. [he source of the buying has been carefully concealed, but it is surmised that the stocks are being accumulated in the interest of one, or perha all, of the rallroads which seek to obtain control of the Western Maryland. In this connection the names of the Baltimore and Ohio and the New York Central have been persistently mentioned, and recently L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hud- who is out to create a super- system of his own, has been added to he list of prospective buyers. Depression in the coal trade - con tinues to keep down the earnings of the Western Maryland. JOHN COOLIDGE ENDS VISIT Returns to Amherst for Commence- ment Exercises. ! PLAINVILLE, Conn., June 13 (®). —John Coolidge, son of President Cal- vin Coolidge, returned to Amherst Col- lege today for the commencement sea- son after being a guest of Gov. John H. Trumbull and Mrs. Trumbull for several days. Mr. Coolidge and Miss Florence Trumbull, with the governor, who is seasoned to the experience, faced several cameras yesterday with the executive's residence-as a back- ground. Sailors to Visit Kilauea. HONOLULU, June 13 (®).—A_de- tachment of 18 destroyers, headed by the flagship Omaha and the tender Melville, left yvesterday for Hilto, to permit approximately 2,500 men to visit Kilauea Volcano. The ships will return here Monday. ) { 5 F. P. H. Siddons, chairman of the entertainment committee eenter of the National Association of Credit Men. The copvention Washington tonight. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. closes in Queen Mary’s clothes. The picture, taken only a few days ago, shows her particular preference in hats and gowns. She does not like “fap- per styles.” By United News Pictures NEW COMMISSIONER TAKES PART IN COLUMBIA HEIGHTS CELEBRATION. n of the new engine at Engine House No. 11, and the new truck at (in center) and members of the Columbia Heights Ci ens’ Association committee. Fire Chief George Watson was the guest of honor. FATHER A Army ch: Augustus Lukeman, now working on the Stone Mountain Confederate memorial, honored with a degree at Carlisle. Photo taken during the ceremon: Copyright by Underwood & Underwood Vo. 6 Truck House. SCOPES SHUNS MOVIE AND NEWS ?WIFE OF PATROLMAN D SON ARE CHAPLAIY y chaplains, and his son, Chaplain John T. Axton, jr., an in the Chaplains’ School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., photographed when they called upon President Coolidge yesterday. A special program was given yesterda: The photograph shows Commi Addresses were delivered by Commissioner Fenning, George A. Col. John T. Axton, chief of the structor National Photo. ) an ear of Indiana corn. in celebration of the oner Fenning Washington Star Photo OFFERS AGGREGATING $150,000 ENDS LIFE WITH GAS Turns Down Picture and % Publicity Money Because He Feels Test of Evolution Teaching Is Serious Matter—Bryan Flays Science in School Talk. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 13.—An earnest young man, to which the original copy of the Constitution of the United States seemed to appeal more than movie and publicity offers of a small fortune, was on his way to Tennessee today, prepared to be the self termed “g next month in the widely noticed- Tennessee evolu- tion case. John T. Scopes, the youthful science teacher, adcused of expounding the theory of evolution to his class at the Dayton, Tenn., high school, left New York, the New York Times said, after refusing Then, stopping off in Washington, on his way home after conferences with defense counsel in New York, the defendant evinced greatest inter- est in the glass-inclosed document of the American rights, and in the cham- ber of the Supreme Court, where eventually a final decision in His case may be handed down. Refusing all money offers, which included $50,000 for a motion picture in which he would appear, because, it was said, he felt the trial was a serious matter, beside which nothing else mattered, Scopes viewed the Su- preme Court chamber with a dis- tinctly thoughtful expression, it was noted. Meanwhile, arrangements for the trial continued at Dayton. The influx of newspaper writes was expected to be so great that a tele- graph company announced it had as- signed 10 operators to move the story of the trial out .of the little Tennes- see town for worid consumption. Wil- lam Jennings Bryan, who will assist in the prosecution in the Scopes trial, gave further expression to his views on sclence and religion in_addressing high_school graduates at Miami, Fla. offers aggregating $150.«mo.’ Mr. Bryan declared that ‘“‘science is a great thing, but that religion is the est thing.” Education without religion may de stroy you or make you a menace to those about you,” he said. “The heart is more important than the head.” ot a Joke Now. Mr. ‘Bryan referred to the “little case In Tennessee,” asserting that it was joked about at first but that there was no joking now. Declaring that the greatest criminal lawyer in the country and three other outside lawyers will defend Scopes, Mr. Bryan said that the book used by the de- fendant ‘“contradicts the Bible and sends children home believing that the Bible is a lie.” Another outside view on the evolu- tion question was given by former Gov. R. A. Nest of North Dakota, who is visiting at Nashville. Declaring himself a ‘“fundamental- ist,” the former governor said that he' could mot “wholly .agree with a lot of things being said and done by that group of which I claim to_be a part.” “My impression is that most of our controversies come from lack of defi- nitions, that in using the term evolu- tion, for instance, we mean so many different things that our opinion fails to meet in a great many of these arguments.” Marine Corps Orders. Maj. H. H. Kipp has been_trans- ferred from headquarters, Marine Corps, this city, to the navy yard, Boston; Maj. C. G. Sinclair, from Ma- rine Corps headquarters to Atlanta; Capt. R. B. Price from Atlanta to the haval station at Guam; Capt. J. H. Platt from Port au Prince, Haiti, to Philadelphia; Capt. E. M. Spencer from Quantico, Va., to Chicago; First Lieut. R. O. Sanderson from Quantico to Indian Head, Md.; First Lieut. M. V. Yandle of the battleship Texas, Sec- ond Lieuts. ¥. E. Sessions and F. M. Fletcher at the navy yard, Philadel- phia, to Quantico. \ ) Children Lead Father to Fume- Filled Room and Mother's Dead Body. “l am going out for a little while and will be back soon,” was the message found yesterday afternoon near the body of Mrs. Van Tipple Stokes; wife of Policeman Harry Stokes of the third precinct, who committed suicide at the family home at_745 Seventh street southeast. Mrs. Stokes, said to have been despondent because of domestic diffi- culties, sent her three children out to play, locked herself in the bed- room, turned on the gas and died. When the children returned home for something to eat they detected the odor of gas and were afraid to enter. They greeted their father on his return from duty, told of the odor of gas and entered the house with him. Stokes found his wife's dead body on the bed in the gas-illed room. The policeman on the beat responded to his call for aid and summoned a physician from Casualty Hospital. Coroner Nevitt conducted an' investi- gation and gave a certificate of sui- cide. Mrs. Stokes had threatened suicide before and was treated at Casualty Hospital some time ago for poison she was believed to have taken. TAFT CUTS YALE SPEECH. ‘Will Miss First Commencement in 25 Years. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 13 (). —The departure of Chief Justice Wil- liam Howard Taft for Murray Bay, Canada, late vesterday, brought out an expression of regret from Robert M. Hutchins, secretary of Yale Uni- versity, because Mr. Taft was ex- pected to speak at the alumni dinner next Wednesday. Mr. Taft is belleved not-to have missed a commencement for 25 years, and he has now declined elec- tion to the corporation after 18 years of service. D SHE DID NOT BRING THE GRANDCHILDREN, years old, of Brookneal, Va. (center) vears old (left), calling at th, is the mother of 16 children, has 72 grandchildren and a number of great A. Booker. hildren. PHELPS GRADUATES FOUR Students at Vocational School Con “gratulated for Work. Commenc for four gr tiolal Schoo} ye: Wilkinson, first dent of schools, graduates on the wor E. C. Hewitt also spok The diplomas were sented Mrs. Coralie F. Cook, member of Board of Education, and Dr. den Johnson, also a member board, presided. The invocati pronounced by Rev. Campb Lewistall and Rev. George gave the benediction The graduates follow: Herm cis Butler, Mitchell Poe, Thon: on Walker and Albert Ward. ment exercises were erd istant superint atulated th ccomplis Hay the M. I isher BARRISTERS’ CLUB ON ANNUAL OUTING | \City’s Younger Attorneys Devot- ing Today and Tomorrow to Sports at Kopels Point. The Barristers, a club composed of a number of the city’s younger at- torneys, have laid aside their legal du- ties and will devote today and tomor- Tow to their annual outing at Kopels Point, Md., about 60 miles below Washington. Instructions having been issued to members and their guests to equip themselves with bathing suits, base | ball gloves and old clothes, they as- | sembled in front of the Court House at 10:30 o'clock th§s morning and made the trip by automobile, stopping en route at Waldorf for luncheon. A base ball game, quoits tournament, fishing trip and swimming parties have been planned by the committee in charge for the entertainment of the | party, while the hotel at Kopels Point has reported that it is well able to withstand the expected offensive on the commissariat. Officers of the Barristers are Paul B. Cromelin, president; Bert Emerson, vice president; William C. Ashford, secretary, and Fred Stohlman, treas- urer, who, with Lucian H. Vandoren, also constitute the committee in charge of the outing. About 35 mem- bers made the trip. SAYS AMERICA SUFFERS FROM FALSE STATEMENTS Bishop Barry-Doyle of Catholic Near East Mission Defends People Against Misrepresentation. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 13.—Americans have suffered more than any other people from misrepresentation abroad, said Mgr. R. Barry-Doyle of the Catholic” Near East Association, be- fore sailing on the Leviathan for Southampton en route to Athens. Bishop Barry-Doyle has been lectur- ing in America for the past two yvears. During the war he served with Welsh, Scotch, Irish and English troops. The bishop decried “false impres- sions” created abroad by lecturers who have but a superficial knowledge of America. “Americans are the kindest people in the world,” he said, “and the most generBus. No one can see much of America without being filled with admiration.” from Indiana, and the photograph shows Frank Lux.State champion corn-grow Mrs. Queen E. Puck. \d her daughter, Mre. Nora White Ho Mrs. Puckett National Photo z men and women hail - handing Presid Coolidge Nati.aal Photo TAX REBATES SEEN | Speakers the | | | | | | SAVING - MILLIONS at Association Meeting Cite "Possibilities was | Under Federal Board Ruling. :scence in at the closing session of uilding Owners and ion convention declared yesterday Shifts in business styles nt tend obsolete Col. G to take its place alon n in income tax redu tions The allowance obsolescence under the ruling may total as much as 3 per cent a year, although there may be no immediate intention to r the structure, it was pointed out The reduction, under the ru retroactive to 1919, provided property owners file notice of intention to re vise their income tax returns for tha vear before midnight Monday President Lee Thompson Smith, New York, and othe: and Del chosen for officers were re-elected Ca Monte, next ¥ f.. tentatively convention PUBLISHER DEFENDS EXPOSE IN LIBEL SUIT Says He Felt It Was Duty to Re- veal Alleged Conditions in Dairy to Public. By the Associated Press. YUMA, Ariz, June 13.—Witnes: called to controvert defense te mony awaited examination today in the trial of George W. Lynn, Yuma publisher, on a charge of criminal libel, preferred by E. F. Sanguinetti wealthy business man and land owner The day. Much of the testimony concerned the alleged presence of tuberculosis in a dairy herd owned by Sanguinetti and the alleged use of preservatives in milk produced by the herd The article on which the action against Lynn is based referred to the use of formaldehvde in milk from the Sanguinetti dairy. Lynn, one of the last witnesses call. defense rested its case yester- ed by the defense, testified he believed the Statements it contained were true when the editorial was written and still believes they were true, and that he felt it was his duty as an editor to bring the matters it discussed to the attention of the public. Papal Financier Dies. June 13 (#).—Ernesto Pa financier, died today after of four months. He had adviser to the held him in the He had been de- scribed as “the most clerical of Ital- ians and the most Ttalian of clericals.”