Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1925, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1925 WHAT THE QUAKE DID TO ONE HOTEL. Scene at Figueroa and State streets, Santa Barbara, where the en- tire front wall of a hotel was snapped off, just as in an architect’s drawing. Note the motor car caught under the debris. The crash did not damage the tires, which may be seen still inflated, although the rest of the car is badl damaged Underwood & Underwood. STARTS DAY BY FIRING BIG GUN. Miss Leneta Lane ‘of the Na- tional Theater Players begins celebration of the Glorious Fourth with one of the big noise makers in the gray battery at Fort Myer, under the charge of Capt. Tate. BRITISH PRINCE MAKES GIFT. Official photograph made at Maseru shows the Prince of Wales as he is pre- senting to the Basuto Paramount chief, Griffiith Lorothodi, a silver mounted Malacca walking stick. On the left appears the 90-year-old Chief Jonathan. % E w g Underwood & Underwood. PERSHING AIDE GETS POLO PONY. Maj. John G. Quakemeyer, for HONEYMOONERS AT RESORT. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sumner Welles JARDINE IN INDIAN GARB. MRS. ROGERS CONGRATULATED. New England’s first woman mem- cretary of Agriculture wears the Indian t several years aide de camp to the Army chief, receives animal from Gen. Justo, minister of war for Argentina, to Prince of Wales. CODLIDGFISGIVEN KLAN PARADE DATA Protests to President Prompt | Sherrill to Submit Full Facts to Swampscott. Feeling that President Coolidge, in | the face of numerous protests being | recelved at Swampscott regarding the Ku Kilux Kilan demonstration here August 8, might like to be in posses sion of all the facts pertaining to th affair, Col. C. O. Sherrill, super tendent of public buildings and put parks, vesterday sent to the Pre dent ali the information he has hand officially in this connection The data included copies of cor respondence between L. A. Mueller, | imperial representative of the Invisi-| ble Empire, in charge of arran ments for the ceremonial on the Mon- ument- Grounds, and Col. Sherrill, to- gether with a brief explanation of the action taken. There was no request received from the President for this information, | Col. Sherrill said today, but it wax thought advisable to keep the Execu- tive in touch with the situation, his attention had been called demonstration by opponents parade and Sylvan Theater servica Col. Sherrill issued to the Klan a permit for the use of the outdoor thea- | ter back of the Monument as a mat- | ter of routine and in accordance with | the policy of showing no discrimina- | tion between organizations asking per- | mission to make use of the ground: for unselfish, patriotic, non-political purposes. The imperial represen tive gave assurance of the Klan's good faith In this respect, it is pointed out, and Col. Sherrill had no alternative but to issue a permit Approval Not In his letter Mr. Coolidge, Col Sherrill did not for an opinion | from the President as to whéther or | not he approved of the issuance of the permit, or whether it should be re- voked. The letter constituted merely a review of the facts as contained in | the official records, “for the informa- tion of the President,” Col. Sherrill stated today The Klan has made it known that the meeting on the Monument Grounds. will be of a religious and pa- triotic nature, based on its creed of “100 per cent Americanism.” No masks will be worn by the particl pants The District Commissioners already have issued a permit for a monster parade on Pennsylvania avenue im- mediately preceding the Sylvan Thea ter service, and in response to pro- tests filed by various anti-Klan bodies hive announced they will not revoke the order of approval. 1 i at Asked. to Shirt Identifies Dead Man. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE , July 4.5°A body found yesterday near Reidsville, N. C., has been identified as that of Charles Fuqua, aged 40. Pink Pergason dis- covered the hody while gathering blackberries. Fuqua dropped from | view at Reidsville more than a month P His shirt was the means of his identification. who also presented six polo mounts Underwood & Underwood. Sermons by Radio Hit by Minister As‘Fool’s Paradise’ Correspondence of the Assoclated Press. ADDLESTONE, Surrey, habit of wireless” has denounced by the Rev. Addlestone. in his ‘“There is no longer lazy strongly Cuming, Vicar of parish magazine. | the packed church to which we have been accustomed during Lent,” as serts the v “and the reason for thi the wireless . < y who thinks he can wor- v lolling back in an easy armchair and listening by radio to the beautiful singing of the choir at St. So-and-So's, or the oratorical effects of the ‘Bishop of Kamchatka,' is sim- ply living in a fool's paradise. True worship demands sacrifice. People who are too lazy to go upstairs and put their things on and come to the | house of God on God's day are gross: neglecting their duty. “We must face the fact that in wireless has been found another pow- erful recruit added to the phalanx of counter attractions which, in their v rious ways, continue to keep the peo- ple out of the churches.” The British Broadcasting Company, which controls most of the wireles entertainment in the London are: has recently declined to broadcast Sunday ‘sermons, excepting on rare occasions, because of the objections of ministers that their congregations would be materfally reduced if the practice was followed generally. AMERICAN'HONORED. Rumanian King Confers Crown Order on Iowa Professor. June 17 (®).—The King of Rumania has conferred the Order of- the “Crown of Rumania,” in degree of commander, upon Prof. Enoch E. Peterson of Luther College, lowa, who is on leave of absence from’ his college as research fellow of the University of Michigan in s, For two years Prof.’ Peter- been on the staff of the Uni- »f Michigan expedition to the Near East. The decoration was conferred by reason of service rendered in con- nection with the Congress of Byzan- tine Studles, heldin Bucharest in April, 1924, at which Prof. Peterson represented several American univer= sities PRINTERS RAISE TAX. Vote Increase in Levy to Maintain Home in Denver. INDIANAPOLIS, July 4 (®).—The yearly income of the Union Printers’ Home in Colorado Springs will be in- creased about $85,000 @5 the result of a favorable vote by members of the International Typographical Union on the question of a 10-cent increase in the monthly per capita tax for main- tenance of the home. The union mem- bers gave the proposal a majority of almost 15,000. The additional money will be used to complete and equip an addition to the home and for maintenance. Help- less patients, who have not previously been eligible for admission, will be cared for under the enlargement plan. the | at Atlantic City Mrs. Welles was formerly Mrs. Mathilde Townsend Gerry divorced wife of Senator Peter Goelet Gerry of Rhode Island. ‘NAGGING' CHARGED | | Association Formed to Com- | bat “Petty Oppression” by D. C. Authorities. In defense of what they declare are “A-1" markets from the point of sani tary condition, ‘50 meat merchants Eave organized the Louisiana Avenue Merchants’ Association for the pur- pose of protecting themselves from “petty oppression and nagging” by District authorities. The association plans to_enroll 50 more members by next week and will meet Tuesday afternoon at one of the Louisiana avenue shops to formulate plans for combatting ufifair, destruc- tive criticisms by municipal authori | ties which they contend is hurting | their busines | Harry Sherby Heads Body. Harry Sherby, proprietor of Sherby’ Supply Market, 946 Louisiana avenue, was elected president of the associa tion, Harry Claxton vice president, Louis Kraftover secretary and Mor- ris Wittlan treasurer. Committees will be appointed at the Tuesday meeting. “We are tired of being made the foot ball of city officials, who are unreasonable in doing things their way,” Harry Sherby declared today. “We are be- | ing ruled, regulated and bossed to death. We are perfectly willing to zive full co-operation in providing sanitary measures, but our shops now are in excellent condition. Yet | we are nagged. Scare Designated as “Poppycock.” “This bad-meat scare is nothing ! but poppycock. Any one who cares | may verify the purity of our meats by examining our shops,” President Sherby declared. The latest cause of irritation of the dealers was the proposed regulation agail weighing meats on wagons |in the street. This question is now | mooted, the officials tolerating the continuation of the practice. Screen- ) ing of meat counters also has caused controversies. u. s. FILM_S. EFFECTIVE. Bring Changes in Equipment of Homes in Brazil. Correspondence of the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, June 5.—A moving picture representative says |that Brazilian homes are reflecting the influence of American Alms. Many letters are received by the man- ager requesting photographs of the interior scenes of productions having settings in American homes. ; He believes that the Brazilian is making his home more cormfortable, as rocking chairs and leather lounge chairs were unknown a few years ago- He also believes that the astonishing increase in the construction of bunga- lows in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo is traceable to the pictures which how exterior views of American ouses. - their demands for |* {was committed to jail for a hearing P. and A. Photo THREE KILLED IN DEADLY VAT blanket that was presented to him by the City of Portland, Ore.. on his recent visit to the Northwest in the interest of the farmers of that section. | | 1 | AFTER SUCCUMBING TO FUMES| I S S B Gy : BY MEAT DEAI_ERS‘_TWO Negroes Fall to Their Death Going to Rescue i | of Fireman Who, Unconscious, Plunged into Tank of Poisonous Leather Tanning Mixture. By the NEW sociated Press ALBANY, Ind.. July 4 Three men, one white and two ne- groes, were overcome by poisonous fumes of a leather tanning vat at the plant of the George Moser Leather Co. here late today, fell into the mixture and died before aid could reach them. The dead: Frank Ang, 46, foreman; Horace Russ, 60, negro, fireman and vat guard; James Russell, 38, negro, | Taborer. Die Seeking Ci mrade. Ang entered the vat by way of a ladder shortly before the plant was | to have closed down over the Fourth | of July holiday period. Fellow em- | ployes after a short interval noticed GUEST AT HOTEL ROCKS SELF T0 JAIL Chicago Lawyer Held for Trial on *Bad-Check Charge—Spent Most of Time in Lobby. Unable to furnish bond for his ap- pearance in Police Court to answer a charge of false pretenses growing out | of an alleged worthless check trans- action with §. L. Christie, manager of a Pennsylvania avenie drug store, Myles Seldon Macon, Chicago law- ver, also known as Judge Macon, in Police Court, July 9. Rev. Garrett Leroy Allen, retired Army chaplain, similarly charged, was released on bond. Charles Selden, jr, lawyer and financier, yvesterday told the police that a check for $300 cashed for Macon at a local bank had been re- turned because of insufficient funds to meet it. Macon gained the con- fidence of Selden, it is stated, by representing he was a_ member of the Selden family in Virginia, al- though his name was spelled with an “o” while the Virginia end of the family used an “e” in the spelling. Two checks Selden cashed proved all right, but the third one was re- turned. During Macon's residence at Raleigh Hotel, it is stated, he spent most of his time in a rocking chair In the lobby and his constant rock- ing proved‘so annoying that a detec- tive was asked to learn something of the guest’s identity. Detectives Fowler and Flaherty, who arrested the defendants, were told that a number of checks had been cashed at the hotel for Macon. Several of them, it is stated, were returned because of insufficient funds to meet them. —_— Crocodiles, like ostriches, swallow pebbles and small stones for the pur- vose of nding the food in their stomache. he did not reappear and Russ entered the vat to learn the caus appearance. He, too, was overcome by the poisonous fumes and failed to emerge from the ladder that lead dowa into the vat. Sensing mething wrong, Russell went In search of his companions, but no sooner had he started down the ladder than he realized his danger. He began to retrace his steps, but be. came so ill from the fumes he could not reach the top of the tank. the vat and one the negro by hi ing tore and he deadly mixture. were recovered THREE WOMEN HURT IN STABBING AFFRAYS Colored Victims in Hospital After Attacks—Husband of One Is Arrested. . ucceeded in grabbing shirt, but the cloth. plunged into the The bodies later Suffering from a severe stab wound in the abdomen, Matilda Moton, 44, 321 Virginia avenue southwest, was | taken to Emergency Hospital from her home late last night and given sur- gical aid by Dr. Pinkerton. Police were told that another colored woman stabbed her with an ice pick while en- gaged in an altercation. During an altercation” at Twelfth and U streets last night between a young colored couple, Edward J. Smith, 19, and Maria Smith, his wife, 18, at 1905 Nine and One-Half street, the latter was stabbed in the back wjth a knife, police reported. She whs treated at Freedmen's Hospital by Dr. Chinn and the husband was arrested. Bessie Locks, colored, 28, 1235 Union street southwest, participated in a row with a colored man at her home last night and was cut in her right side, Surgeons at Emergency Hos- pital dressed the wound. They said she was not dangerously wounded. Sl Giant Tree Named for Jardine. LOGAN, Utah, July 4 (®).—In honor of Secretary of Agriculture William M.. Jardine, a giant juniper tree, recently discovered in Logan Canyon near here, and declared to be the oldest and largest one of its kind in the world, has been named ‘“‘Juni- per Jardine.” The tree has a cir- cumference of about 28 feet and 1s claimed by local residents to be the oldest living thing, with the possible exception of the redwood trees in Cali- fornia. Secretary Jardine was present at the christening, which took place-at a reunion of the class of 1904, Utah Agricultural College; of which he fs a member. £ his non- | Sev- | eral other men climbed to the top of | | | | | | | Underwood & Underwood. DE BONO MURDER GASE GOLLAPSED All Attempts Failed to .Tie Matteotti Slaying to Italian Leader. BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily (News of the acquittal of Gen de Bono, former head of the Italian police. on charges of complicity in the Matteotti murder, was allow 1o pass the censors. but details of the findings of the Senate commis- sion are told for the first time in this dispatch from Mr. Moderwell, which he was compelled to mail to Paris to evade the strict censor- ship. Gen. de Bono has just been appointed governor of Tripoli, Ital- ian territory in Africa.) ROME, July 1 (Via Paris, July 4)— The trial of Gen. de Bono, who: quittal by a senatorial comm innumerable crimes and misdemeanors alleged by his political opponents has just been announced, bids fair to be- come one of the most famous in modern_political histor: The extent of the triumph of this general in the Italian army, former national police commissioner, chief of the national Blacks| militia and military director of the Fascisti in the march on Rome, is only fully evident after careful reading of the mass of alleged or admitted crimes or ularities, including active compl in the Matteotti murder, which a mentioned in the senatorial report. Charges Divided. The senatorial commission divided the charges into three classes—alleged acts of De Bono which, even if com- mitted, do not constitute crimes; al leged criminal acts of De Bono the existence of which were not proved, and admitted crimes for which De Bono was not proved responsible. The commission found that many documents, official or private, which, it was alleged, De Bono's guilt would be proved it could not trace. Some alleged material witnesses fled from the country and could not be lo- cated. Some material witnesses now are imprisoned, charged with the Mat- teotti murder and therefore their tes- timony is suspicious. Otherwise cred- ible testimony was controverted by functionaries of the government who were in a position to know the facts. Hence the whole case, laboriously built up by the opposition seeking to involve the Mussolini government in the Matteotti murder, collapses. The Senate found that De Bono had re- cefved a commission of 400,000 lire on the sale of government war material to a private firm. but it was not prov- ed that this sum was exacted from the firm as a contribution toward the expenses of the Fascist march on Rome or was paid him as a general of the “Blackshirts” and not as an individual. Could Not Fix Responsibility. The Senate also found that Rossi Marinelli, who now is accused of the Matteotti murder, conversed with De Bono two days after the murder and urged him to be cautious about arresting persons for 1t, put it was by | ber of Congress, Mrs. Edith Nourse Representative John Jacob Roger lisle of Lowell, while little Pr rooters, look on. rec lla Spalding and her mother, devoted Rogers of Lowell, Mass., widow of ives bouquet from Postmaster De P. and A. Phot \Wales, Shy His Tip, | Wants One Badly | On Big Horse Race the Assoc INDON of ted Press July 4.—Evidently the Wales, who sometimes a winner at the race courses, has received no inside information as to which horse was likely to win the Durban July Handicap, which was run today in South Africa An Exchange Tel from Cape Tow sportsma named woudt, thinking that Wales probably had obtained a m the fol lowing tele and wire me the Handicap Yesterday Nneuwoudt received this message from Vice Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, a member of the entourage of the prince, who is now visiting Rhode: “The prince wishes he knew." NAVY OFFICER KILLS SELF VALLEJO, Calif., July 4 (®). Commander R. E. Bell, U. S8 , com- | manding Destroyer Hazelwood, | was found shot to death vesterday in his quarters Mare Island Navy Yard. A shotgun was found alongside the body. Investigating officers indicated it was a suicide. Explanatory were found | iuv. | rince ~Lieut the that notes {not proved that De Bono had prelim- |inary knowledge of the crime The Senate found that s the opposition leader, proceeded tq the unmolested by the lit could not prove that director, De Bono, v responsible for this lap | adding “It should be remembered that part of the blame attributed to him be explained by the lack of neces preparation for so important an fice with which he suddenly was in- vested.” The Senate expressed criticism_ for De Bono for taking the whole Mat- teotti case away from the police and {under his personal exclusive super- vision, but it found that this might have been due to his zeal the criminals. alters Amendola, militia bar. police, but the militia personally e of justice, Dumini Furnished Passport. It was found that Dumini, | murderer of Matteotti, was furnished I with a p |[der a false name and date—the date being falsified so as to appear it was issued before De Bono became police director—but it did not find that De Bono was personally responsible. Much evidence tending to directly im- plicate De Bono in the Matteotti crime was found to be hearsay, either uncon- firmed or denied by first-hand wit- nesses. Donati, who originally made the ac cusations, has fled to France after formal threats by the Fascist leader: De Bono is now free to bring charge against him for defamation of char- acter, but he has not done so vet. The opposition demands privately— publicly it cannot do anything because assembly gag—that since not guilty of crimes which the Senate found were committed by somebody, judicial measures be taken to find out who committed them (Copyiight, 1034, Ly Cliwkgo Daily News Co.) aboard the vessel at the | to track | alleged | port by national police, un- | WEATHER HALTS SHENANDOA TR Flight to Minnes;Jta Planned for This Month Held Inadvisable. the dirigible Shenan Minnesota, which had been fol early this month postponed for ite Augus ptember. e in plans, as announced Depart nt, was due to Summer weather conditions in the in |terior and to the schedule of opera | tions mapped out for irship after her return from Ma | “Flying conditior |the matter of temperature and free. |dom from thundershowers at this |time of the year are satisfactory,” it was stated, “whereas the conditions |in the interior of the countrv, with |frequent thunderstorms and varying | temperatures, make airship navig |tion_inadvisable.” While could go to the interior sa and onditions prevalent there |might cause a considerable loss of thelium, which would not be regarded |as_justified The program of the Shenandoah {during July calls for tactical maneu {vers with the battleship Texas off the Atlantic Coast THREE ESCAPED CONVICTS WOUNDED IN PISTOL FIGHT Fourth Flees to Woods After Bat- tle With Michigan Deputy Sheriffs. | By the Associated Press MARQUETTE, Mich.. July Three of the four convicts who es {caped from Marquette prison Monday |night were in a hospital at Iron | Mountain today with wounds suffered {in a' pistol fight with officers nea | Sagola earlier today, while a fourth, also believed wounded, is sought the woods. Early reports that Eddie Weismar reputed leader of the quartet, had been killed in the fight, proved to be erroneous. It is understood his condi tion is not serious. Isadore Londe and Joe Deflorio, taken with Welsman suffered a wound in the thest and through the hand, respectively. Vance Hardy, fourth of the tet who escaped, is expected brought in soon. over the sea in probably ly, storms 4 quar to be VICTIM OF 33,000 VOLTS. Special Dispatch to The CUMBERLAND, Md., July 4.—Ed. ward Curtis Dick, 19 years old, son of John R. Dick, who sustained burns and shock at the plant of the Ameri- can Cellulose and Chemical Manufac- turing Co. here, died at Allegany Hos- pital. A shovel he was using came in contact with copper wires carrying 33, 000 volts. His clothes were burned from his body and keys in his pucket melted. ar.