Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1925, Page 17

THE ICE MAN'S JOB IS NOT SO BAD! selected as all-American halfback. These show girl< are inv 10 make several backdoor calls and couldn’t go. Harold “Red” Grange, twice . spends the Summer months as a g him to the matinee, but “Red” had man. SHOWING THE SPIRIT OF 1925. dren saluting the Stars and Stripes, carried by the “Devil Dogs™ of Uncle TWO ARE NDITED N DEATH OF NON - 2 'Nun’s Death Brings Police Warning to An echo from the fatal automo. bile cr which cost the life of Sister Cephas of Provigence Hos pital last Tuesday, when a liquor car attempting o escape a police chase hit the machine in which she was riding. re unded through the police for ay in the following official order by Acting Supt. ‘harles A. Evans To all precinct manders “You will instruct the members of vour command that when in pursuit of vielators of the law in an antomobile they must use every possible precaution 1o make for o safeiy he blowing of the horn contin- uonsly will @t 1 the attention of the public and wonld warn them to seek a place of safety KANSAS VETS NEGLECT T0 COLLECT STATE BONUS Br tha Associatad Preas TOPEKA. Kan.. June 25 all over the globe are some 5,000 World War veterans entitled to share in the $2.500.000 remaining in the Kansas soldier bonus fund, but igno- rant of the fact that the money be- longs to them Sadder still,” remarked Leslie E Edmonds, State bonus director, ‘those velerans, who probably need the money, w not be able to get a cent of it arter June 30. The State legis. ature has extended the time once but will nei do so again.” About 1.000 claims have been paid Clifton Young and Estelle Robinson Held for Killing Sister Cephas. R i and bureau com- The grand ndictment degree against Rohinson with the of Pro owned by directed hy nnlawf jury teday returned an both second- manslaughter | and Estelle lored. in connection of Sister Cephas ‘Angzel of Providence. Hospital last Tuesday charging and Young murder Clifton hoth killin as the vidence the her driving an Rohinson autemohile woman and it is alleged, at an of speed when being chased by police officers on suspicion of heinz rum runners. The automo blle crashed into a sedan in which Sister (‘ephas and Sister Agnes of the hospital proceeding to market purchase supplies for the hospital. Sister (‘ephas was thrown from her machine and died before she could be removed to the hospital, only two blocks away. Followinz an inquest Wednesday United States Attorney Gordon order ed that witnesses report at once to his and Assistant United States O Ly presented the evidence to the rd jury and drew up the 22.page indictment which was pre anted toc to Jus Siddons in Criminal Division 1. Mia rdon sald he would ask the court to grant an early tria by the State since the legivlature ex- tended the time for considering ap plications. Most of these were paid 1o vetersns in other States, or in for sign countries, who had just learned that Kansas was payving a bonus to men who were bona fide residents of the State the time of enlistment or conseription corps were to Indictment Contains 11 Counts. The indictment contains 11 of which the first 5 charg fn the second degree and the ing £ allece mansla or 1 charges a common-iaw or a killing with malice afore thonght wantoniy hut not willfully and alleges that hoih the man and the woman were driving the car which they are said to have forced against the vehicle in which the simer was riding. The second count alleges a killing. hoth willful and wanton. ihrough the use of a deadly weapon. namelv n automobile, which caused the death of ihe nun Count three charges u wanion mur der commitied as the result of driv ing an automobile &0 miles an hour fafling to control the motive powes, brakes and steering mechanism, fail to keep a lookout and to give of approach of a racing auto counts, murder hain ount murder at chine in which the Sister was ridin The last three counts charge speci negiigence in operatin, achine on the public streeis at 60 miles an hour failure to control motive power, hrakes and steering mechanism. and failure to keep a lookout for other automobiles and failure o give notice of approach A conviction under the second de- ee murder chargze of the indictment would subject the accused to a po sible life imprisonment with a mini mum sentence of 20 vears' imprison- {ment. Under the manslaughter counts the maximum penalty is fixed by law i5 years in the penitentiary. e In the fourth count the allegations are similar to the third charge, except that it avers Young was driving the | Estelle Robinson was arraigned be- death car and that Mrs, Robinson was [fore Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police in control of the automobile. The firm}-'ourx today on the charge of trans- count puts the Robinson woman at the porting liquor. Wheel and charges Young with being| Following a demand for a jury trial in control of the machine. and a plea of not guilty the defendant 2 was released on a bond of $5 As Involuntary Manslaughter. she was out on a hond of $7.500 on Counts 6 nd S deal with charges the charge of manslaughier. today's of invaluntary manslaughter through jhond hrings the total ta $2.000, cross- negligence. These allege the Yenng also will he arraigned for negligence to have existed in wantonly | transporting In a few days, It was forcing an automobile against the ma-|sald. He is still in jall, t Police Court Hearin, Photograph taken at the Marine Rarracks yesterday THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, A FEW NEICHBORS DROP IN matters pert from Washington. Washington chil- Sam’s fighting forces. ALUMNAE TO HOL | Archbishop Curley Will Wel- come Delegates of Notre Dame de Namur. | The Dame de its row, lasting fou will by National X triennial Federation of Notre mur Alumnae will open convention here tomor days. The delegates be welcomed at Trinity Archbixhop Michael J. Curiey The convention wili take up plans to form a union with the Notre Dame de Namur Al s of Relzium and England, making the socieiy inter national in cha The visiting tertatned by the Washin, extensive preparatio heen made for teas, hanquets and trips to | places of historical interest ollege Local Chapter Members. ollowing members of the local | chapter are patronesses of the con- vention: Mrs. P. Ahern, Miss Nellie T. Becker, Alice Brick. Miss Daisy Brick, Mrs. Francis Becker Miss Helen Burns. Miss Margaret | Beilman, Mrs. Charles Bogan, Mrs. D. J. Callaban, Mrs. Adelaide Rover Cavanagh, Miss Josephine Crowley. Miss Margaret Creager, Miss Mar zaret Dore, Miss Helen Doherty. Miss Bernadette Dore, Miss Anne Easby Smith, Miss Kathryn Creveling, Mrs. J. Frank Ferry, Miss guerite Farringtor Flanagan, Miss ) Miss Mary F Fuller, Mis Scattered | The Mi Vs Mrs rtnett ames . Kline. Mrs. Mary 1o Lane. Miss Mary Catherine E. McMahon, McAllister, Miss K Hortense McGowan, McCeney, Miss Mrs. Andrew J Nealc Miss Joseph T.ee. Mrs. Tane, Miss Mis Margaret Monohan, Miss Mrs. B. Houston Elizabeth Milovich, Morris, Mrs. Jami Claire Oberg. Mrs. William F. O'Don- nell, Miss Alice O'Donoghue, Miss Agnes Quinn, Miss Veronica Quinn, Miss Helen T. Rhodes, Miss Katha- ine Rover. Miss Mary A. Rover, Miss | Katherine Rupert, Miss Ethel Roddy Miss Annie Raedy. Miss Lena Raedy Mrs. D. C. Shea, Mrs. E. P. Schwartz, {Mrs. A. 1. Schwartz, Mrs. Aloysius | Shields, Miss Kathleen Sullivan, Miss | Mary 1. Sullivan, Miss Mary Smith, | Mrs” J. J. Sheehy, Mrs. Margaret A. | Talty, Miss Helen Talty, Miss Regina Watkins, Miss Eva Waters and Miss | Ella Wolfe. Official Personnel. Officers of the Washington chapter | Sister Mary Bor- |romeo. S. N. D.; president, Mrs. delaide Rover Cavanagh: vice pres- lident, Miss Alice O'Danoghue: treas- urer. Mise Helen Doherty: secreta Miss Catherine E. McMahon: direc- Itors, Mrs, James F. Hartnett, Miss Margaret McAllister. Miss ~ Mary Smith, Miss Bernadette Dore, Miss |are: Directress, ining to the Government. TO VISIT THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE. The Precident and his retinne are settled for the next eight weeks. and 1 es Eleanor Holden, Frances Proctor, Barbara Proctor and Rosemond Holden, neighbors of the Cool INTERNATIONAL TENNIS AT FASTBOURNE. An picture from the English courts, where Americans are tak international matches, The photo shows Pat Wheatley of he had missed a low one. Coprright hy TUnde action in the fler unusual 2 part ngland DAWES PLAN “CROWN OF THORNS, CROWN PRINCE DECLARES IN BOOK Rum Car Chasers ; T s e | Attacks Treaty of Versailles in Work Called ““I Seek | the Truth”—Reichsbank Head and U. | | Agent Praise Reparations Arrangement. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. June 26 plan governing payment of war rep arations by Germany was the sub Ject of comment from three sour abroad yesterday. with the former German crown the only one voicing opposition the scheme. Frederick William's criticism was contained in a book issued in Berlin entitled “1 Seek the Trnth,” an un interrupted assault on the treaty of Versailles. The Dawes plan, he de. ciared, was “a crown of thorns. At Cologne. the president of Reiehsbank. Dr. Hjalr Schacht, address before a convent Germap industrialists decried < of the impossibility of tra payments under the y made by speakers at the Internation- al Chamber of Commerce meeting in Brusseis. “The Dawes plan,” he said. | stituted an earnest. well meant tempt to remind political rulers the plan political will not chaos.” theronzhls rulers of the be spared permen world from s the The Dawes Bolshevist Must Know Danger. Tt was highly desirable, Dr. Schacht declared,” that the world shonld be apprised of the political sources of danger threatening to wreck the plan. This was nece ary so that the uhli mate responsibility for its possible iilure could be put where it belonged At Brussels, Sevmour Parker Gil- bert, ir.. agent general for reparation pavments, told the delecates to the International Chamber meeting that the Dawes plan was still “zood and going strong.” with prospects as ght as any one conld expect Germany was carrying out the con | ditions faithfull. and in consequence the Ruhr was about to be evacuated. | "“The transter question. he explained. of | Was as vet but a matter of deliveries their economic responsibility. Any |in materials, and only in the third |attempt to represent the plan as not |vear of the application of the plan |capable of being carried out might|would it become a question of tra: lessen this feeling of responsibilitv. fers in cash. Until that time, he said, * * * Unless the sense of moral|nobody had the right to predict that responsibility conferred upon them by the transfers could not be made. LOCATES AN ORCHESTRA |WIFE HIT BY BULLET | THAT HAS NO CONDUCTOR to the | in ““con. at | Director General of Cologne Opera Reports “Strange Discovery” He Made in Russia. Cnrr-irmndflhv of the Associated P e | COLOGNE, June 1.—-An ny'rhpmrai witheut a conductor was one of the| strange discoveries which Hermann | Abendroth, director general of the| | Cologne Opera. made during a recent |y .., jniended for another, pierced the trip to Russia. This unusual orchestra | | was organized in Moseow by members | hody of Mrs, Mary Smith. colored, 29 lof the State Opera Orchestra and|Years old, in her home in the janitor's other musicians. quarters of the Pershing Apartments, Tt requires 50 rehearsals for this!Sixteenth street and Spring road, ! novel orchestra to perfect itself in a shortly before midnight last night. | number, but Herr Abendroth savs| Assistant United States Attorney there are many musicians in Rus.| Ralph Given is conducting an inves- sia who accept this burden without | tigation in conjunction with police of | grumbling. In his opinion this orches- | the tenth precinct today. tra without a conductor affords an ex-| The story of the shooting, as un- covered by police, is that Ernest cellent schooling for musicians in technics and accuracy, and that the | Smith, husband’ of the wounded wom- brilliance of the Moscow State Opera an, and others, including his wife, had been motoring during the evening and is probably due in large measure to | training of many of the orchestra an altercation ensued upon the return | members without a leader. to the home of Smith. Smith is al- = leged to have produced a revolver and Duffy and Miss fired at some male member of the Er e party. the bullet going wild and strik- Committee chairmen are: Mrs. |ing his wife, passing entirely through e Miss Mar. | her body, entering her chest and Adelaide Rover Cavanagh, Miss Wal- | coming out from her back. Smith is garet McAllister, Miss Bernadette n > Dore, Miss Margaret . Talty, Miss | being held by the police, who took the . < revolver as evidence. R e e e E e "R | The wounded wife is at Freedmen's | Houston McCeney. Miss Anne Easby- Hospital in a serious condition. Smith, Miss Catherine McMahon, . = Miss Mary Louise Sullivan, Miss| It's all right to take time by the Elizabeth Milovich, . Miss Katherine | forelock provided you don't take other T.. Rover-and.-Mi, en, people’s. time, band After Ride and Altercation. Margaret JU Europe | | i INTENDED FOR MAN| Mar- | Colored Woman Wounded by Hus- | A bullet, believed by police to have | NE 26, 1925 White Court, at Swampscott. Mass., is now the hub of be White House has been moved i3 aid their first By man of the French sereen.” He is Jaque Catelain, now working in Vienna on production, “La _Chevalier Rose.” Wide World P FIGHT EXPECTED FOR LEGION POS Opponents of Peyser Plan- | ning to Back Fisk or Riemer “Handsomest a i for Presidency. | Lines were beinz drawn foday long fight duri of the Department Columbia. American Legion, which opens tonight, for the nomination of candidates for officers at the Interior Department Ruilding The election will be held tomorrow night. With three candidates already in the field and. strong support in evidence for Capt. Julius 1. Peyvser for depart ment commander, the groups opposing ‘F‘v\'w\r were marshaling their fo prepared to throw their entire weigh hehind either Lieut. Howard S. Fisk o Lient. Charles L. Riemer. Peyser group The ant “railroading " for a he two-day meeting of the District of has made Peyser into “steamroller” tac- | charges of office, and alleged |tics because of two caucuses which | have been held, at one of which Capt. Peyser's candidacy was indorsed by a number of posts. At the other candi- dates for delegates to the national convention of the legion were named. In addition to the three named as candidates for department com mander, the following are in the field for the other posts: For first vice | commander, Thomas J. Frailey, com mander of Stuart Jasper Post, and Charles L. Riemer, commander of Stuart Walcott Post; second vice commander, John O. Johnson, com mander of Kenneth H. Nash Post and_William Coggswell. adjutant of A. P. Gardner Post: for third vice | commander, Miss Emily Cary, com | mander of Belleau Wood Post (mar |inettes). and Miss Helen ' McCarty, commander of U S Jacoh | Post (reomen ). with possibly dark horse in the other offices. Committees Meet. Last night meetings were held at department headquarters, 218 Third street. of the rules and credenmtials and the committee on resolutions. The rules and credentials committee was | presided over by Austin S. Imirie of the Quentin Roosevelt Post, who was elected chairman. and W. N. Mor- rell, commander of Lincoln Post, was elected secrefary. The voting strength was reported as 51, representing the 25 posts comprising the department and 9 votes of the department officers, making a total voting strength in the convention of 60. Thirty-one votes will be necessary to_elect. A proposition to elect the incoming department commander and other officers by a plurality vote of the con- vention was quickly voted down and a majority vote adopted by the rules committee. It was also voted to per- { mit resolutions to he received and pre- sented to the convention at any time during the two nights of the conven. | tion and not limit the time to 9 o'clock | Saturday night. ag proposed The com- | mittee also favored the election of dele- jgates and alternates to the national sonvention by separate ballots, rather Jones | a| | IN THE ROSE GARDEN AT day p npscott. Mass. The poms at this season. garden AMERICAN CAPTURES FRENCH of Providence, R. L. wha won the <hip for women a few days Mennonites Ready | To Settle Mexico, | But Country Shies ]I()().O()fl Russians Are | Prepared to Join | Co-religionists. Correspondence of the Assoctated Tress, | MEXICO CITY, June dred thousand Mennonites are await ing the in to Mexico, it is declared here, but the government has not vet decided whether will be to the interest of the country to allow o large a num ber of aliens to form agricultural colonies. Information available at the depart ment of agriculture is to the effect that Mennonite agents from the United S es and Cana have found, by personal inspection. that eir co-religionists from the United States and Canada doing well in Mexico, and are directing the exodus from Russia. The newcomers, if given permission to purchase lands in | Mexico, are expected to settle in the | States ' of San Luis Potsi and | Guana juato. - One hun- word Russia to emigrate it | Sponge Saves Auto Finish. | of squirting a water from the nozzle of a hose di rectly against the varnished surface |of a car that is being washed, it is { much better to hold a sponge against the nozzle and ailow the to dribble through it to the urface. This method will prevent { the rushing water, combined with the dust, from ting as an brasive and destroying the finish, says the Popu ence Monthly Instead China Buys Gallstones. Kvery vear the hig (thicago packing houses gell thousands of dollars” worth of gallxtones to China. where the) used for medicine, in making dyes and perfumes, and in some fashion by the | Oriental worshipe | than electing all at one time, | elght recefving the largest number of votes being delegates and the next eight alternates. The numerical strength of the legion as of June 19 was announced as 2,106 members. At the meeting 14 posts were presented, with 11 posts absent. The committee on resolutions elected Norman B. Landreau of Cooley- McCullough Post, chairman and John 0. Johnson, commander of Kenneth H. Nash Post, secretary. A large num- ber of resolutions were presented and discussed during the evening. Six- | teen -posts were represented on th | committee, with nine absentees. The | reports of all of the committees will | be presented at the opening session of the convention tonight at 8 o'clock Space for delegates and alternates |to the convention has been reserved in the aunditorium and visitors will be seated in the rear of the various dele- sgations. WHI'T d her first visit 1o the garden of the Summer White Houce at contains Miss Ceeil and MMNe. Simone de la Chaume, 17+ stream of | are | the TE COURT. Mrs. Coolidge vester- thousands of old-fashioned TITLE. Miss Glenna Collett iright' French international golf champion- Leitch of England at lefi. year-old French champion. in center Wide World Photo SLAYER F WIE 5 GIEN 2 YEARS Former Janitor Pleads Guilty | to Second-Degree Murder. Others Sentenced. tice Siddons, in Criminal Division sent Charles E to the 1. today Monroe, col penitentiary for 20 vears Monroe, a former janitor in the publie schools, had pleaded in the Zuilty to murder second degree for his killing wife in a jealous frenzy. Norman Rose. colored. was given a term of 14 vears in the penitentiary ¥ death 114 He pleaded causing the quarrel at January Justice Siddons imposed a of 3 vears in the penitentiary on John Green. colored, who attacked James M. Quick with a knife May 14 last. A like term was given James Thompson, colored. who. razor, slashed Grace Hawkins, May 3 last, the wound { requiring 100 stitches. Terms of two years each in the penitentiary were given Harry E. MoCabe, white, for forgery, and Robert Dunmore, colored, |for an assault with a dangerous weapon Alice Dukes, to manslaughter in of his wife in a Florida avenue last sentence colored. was sent to the penitentiary for one year and one day on a charge of stealing four $5.000 notes from John W. Dey of wark, N. J., at Union Station . colored, was sent the penitentiary for one vear and one day for grand larceny. He had al ready heen 11 months in jail. On the assurance of her counsel thai he would put her on the train for Philadelphia. Susa Davis was placed on probation today by Justice iddons. She had pleaded guilty to receivin olen property and the court suspended a sentence of two vears. Vacuum Cleans Out Pests. To drive out “death-watch beetles,” the tiny insects that attack the tim bers of old buildings, the architect in charge of repairing the $50,000 dam- age done to historic Peterborough Ca- thedral in England, recently made |use of electric vacuum machines equipped with special nozzles. He found that these removed the insects and their deposits from places impos- sible for men to reach with brushes, says the Popular Science Monthly. Torch Fights Forest Fires. A new apparatus for fighting forest fires consists of a kerosene blow torch, useful for setting back fires, says the Popular Science Monthiy. Ry its use all the firing, it is claimad, can be done hy one experienced man, thus reducing the attendant danger te a minimum.