Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1925, Page 17

* Diary Indicates Teacher Was THE END OF WASHINGTON there will be no sign of the Capital’ ing, orders were given that the buildings be torn down. beach will séon be only a thing of memory LEADER OF ARMY AGAINST RIFFIANS. Marshal Petain, commander- in-chief of the armies of France (rear seat), arriving in Barcelona, Spain, after a conference with Spanish military authorities on the prosecution of the war against the Riffians. The airplane is now a_common carrier between the battle front and France. Wide World Photo. STALLMAN DEATH _ Sieees Nokes, S CALLED SUGDE,_ Chermict. Blene | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, August 5 men adopted war tactics yesterday in | extinguishing a $30,000 blaze, which followed an explosion of ‘“‘phosgene as” and other chemicals at the Col lege of the City of New York. Four firemen and two chemistry students were badly burned. The gas routed a laboratory class, members of which turned in a fire arm. Firemen who entered the building were driven out by the fumes One fireman, who had been in gas r attacks during the great war, recalled r- old former Cincinnati teacher, | the thing to do was to shed one's found Saturday in a | Clothing. The others followed his ex was found Saturday in & |ample. Soon the firemen, entirely sister’s farm he | Mude. were passing in and out of the S5 e Saund i lh“’ building in relays, carrying on the \h“‘ e ‘:, ' | work of getting the fire under control ok from eold | As each shift came out hosemen nsed death, | Would wash off the burning acid from % tempted | the bodies of the firemen. The blaze Ihetamtly | was soon extinguished. Unbalanced, in Opinion of Investigators. By the Associated P TTOON, T found Suicide investigators to reasonable explanation | h of Miss Cora Stallman 3 August 5 has by be been the ph violent 1ave to Tn will t organs unless re tion, be died water | lings, no inquest | will the vital r poison traces for the examina- unty has no funds Think Woman Wrote Notes. APPEAL FOR ACTION " BYU..00UBTED nan herself cryptic and sed her body was ex Attorn letcher .| Labor Department Looks for! the tha | Coal Parley. i been acting and had but S y Fri n the house ved and later ind with been fired » was found | i 1 | Breaking off of negotations between | { anth: e operators and miners representatives in Atlantic City yes- [terday does not necessarily mean a |strike in the anthracite coal fields or uspension of work, according to the | view held by the Department of Labor. kept in the Seaman | Although the conference adjourned | subject to further call, officials of the ry. for the most | department viewed an early confer- fons of her do- |ence again to take up wages and the iitten “in | check-oft 'as highly probable, even in | ked efforts | the face of the tone of the letter | President Lewis of the United Mine | ‘orkers read to the joint conference | erred to, faniea” |action, it was pointed out at the de. | “failea | Partment, but the conferees have us- | y gotten together in time to avert spension of work. The next step the situation, however, could not t, officlals viewing as im- | probable the suggestion that Federal intervention would be asked for-sev- eral days, if at all. Neither, Secretary a on December a lieved the diary | mental Given Duties Here. Clay Anderson, Corps ,» ha been relieved from an instructor at the Engineer | Robe Carl White had received a re- Fort Humphreys, Va., and|quest from President Coolidge for assigned to duty instructor of the|material bearing on the coal situa- Distriet National Guard. According|tion today, although both depart- he order 1in at Camp | ments have been following the prog- aphre ummer train-|ress of. the Atlantic City negotia- 15, when he will pro-| tions closely : Beach, Va.. for duty! The mines wage agreement ex- ! Resumption of Joint I { known to scientists here. npment of | pires on August 31, and unless the Militia it | conference es at a satisfa will take | settlement of its present difficulties, there will probably he a suspension ¢ which he regular station in this city, THE EVENING BATHING BEACH. Down comes the bathhouses, and within a few days once popular beach resort. With no cash on hand to keep the place go- Workmen were put on the job yeste v, and the ¥ational Photo. NEW UNITED STATES MINISTER ARRIVES IN CHI STAR, \VASHII\GTOI\V. D. C., WEDNESDAY, IMMIGRANT GIRL ADOPTED BY MILLIONAIRE. The quest of Ed- ward W. Browning, wealthy New Yorker, for a pretty girl to be adopted and reared as a companion to his own daughter, has been ended. Mary Louise Spas, 16 years old, whose parents are natives of Prague, Bohemia, is the lucky girl. Photo shows Browning and Miss Spas. By United News Pictures. John V. A, MacMurray, the newly appointed representative of the United States in China (with straw hat in hand), arriving with his family at Shanghai. He was met at the station by all the members of the legation staff. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. AUGUST 5, 1995, ROCKAWAY, N. Y., STAGES A less, and the resort town looks like a “gusher strike” location in the oil section. a proposed nine-mile boardwalk along the seashore. The naval crisis in Great Britain. Lord Balfour, former premier, arriv- ing at 10 Downing Street for a con- ference with Premier Baldwin. By United Pictures. CELEBRATED 135TH ANNIVERSARY OF ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD. Photograph taken at the headquar- ters in Washington yesterday. DR. S. E. BENNETT KILLED. Dr. Samuel E. Bennett, an authorit. on contagious and mfectious di of animals and well known in here, was killed in Chi in an automobile accident utomobile collided with a motor coach Dr. Bennett was born in Ohio years ago, and entered the Depart ment of Agriculture field service in 1896. He never served in Washi ton, but he and his work were well He resigned rom the department in 1915, but since hat time was recalled to service on several occasions to assist in the erad- ication of hog cholera and hoof-ande mouth disease. The last instance of this kind occurred last year, when he was pressed into the fight agaipst the hoof-and-mouth disease in California. Since his resignation he has been rv tained as a collaborator and advise to the department at the salary of $1 a yea of work in the anthracite flelds-last- ing for a short time. his possibility, however, is viewed y Government observers as not of great moment to the consuming pub- lic, as coal production has been rela- tively high this year, and a short sus- pension would not mean a changé either in supply or in price. Anthracite production in the United of | Hoover of the Department of Com- | States up to the end of the week of fmerce nor Acting Secretary of Labor | July 5 aggregated 51,837,000 . tons, only a few thousand tons less than production for the same -period last vear, and in the face of a declining market. Production for the week of July 25, totaling 2,049,000 tons, was looked upon as a forecast of higher production for the remainder of the agreement period, and even if the s do suspend work on August 31 few weeks, they will bezin wor at the end of the suspension period with greater vigor than before, x 56 | Admiral Frederick C. Billard, commandant of the Coast Guard, fifth from left in front row. MODERN CINDERELLA LAUNCHED | INTO REAL WONDERLAND TODA Totor Car and Dainty Frocks to Be First Gifts to Poor Girl Adopted by New York Millionaire. love to dance. I love books. I love music.” Mr. Browning said his plans for his NEW YORK, August 5.—Picked | from 12,000 applicants, a dancing, | blue-eved Cinderella, with flaxen Mary | ;oo gaughter were not definite. Pickford curls, looked forward today [ “For the present I am going to to a paridise far beyond the realm of | make her happy,” he declared. “She i tmen can have anything my money can bu: I'm going to introduce her to friends Lot boor Behemlan parents, Mary|that she may become acclimated to o .d&p':e[i' ears old, has become | gocjety. Later she will join my other daughter of Edward A.|gay s iy | B , ghter in camp at Crysta] Lake, | Browning, millionaire realtor. SRe | \irmont - | 1s the girl with the kind disposition | WL R e alks Five Miles to Apply. |and the sunny smile for whom M. rowning advertised three weeks ago. iy SAlEbe: Thaltesrate 0’3:'“_ 5 Mary’s parents are Marie and John | other foster child, Dorothy Sunshine | SPas of Astoria, Long Island. They |Browning, 9 years old, who was lifted |came from Prague in search of wealth ;T,(l;e:{:fnh;": 0)2\': XLy, *fl‘,i Jears ago.| when she was a year old. As an only rn for love and affection of her ! . new father, she is to receive her pick | Child the savings were enough to of motor cars, an initial wardrobe of | end her through two vears of high 140 or 50 frocks, the run of town and |schodl, give her a few piano lessons country estates, with swimming pools | and. spend some time at a ballet and roof gardens; entree into homes of | school. Spas is superintendent of a the elite, and an education in the most | downtown office building. _Adoption fashionable of girls’ finishing schools. | papers were. signed yesterday. 3 = B Mary read Mr. Browning's adver- WIl Visk Payesits Often. tisement and walked five miles from “Why, I love my daddy now,” she | her home to his office two days after said, caressing Mr. Browning. “It|applications were opened. Mr. Brown- { was hard parting from my real par-|ing interviewed thousands of appli- ents, but I was promised I could see | cants since she visited him, but none them often. My mother felt badly,|caught his fancy as did she. but she realized I would have more| She is the third child adopted by vantages and I was happy. the millionaire. The second, Marjorie “T want many things, T should!Gloria, s with Mre Browning, from like to go to college. Hiking and toe- whom he obtained a divorce last year dancing are my fayorite pastimes. I in Parls, - i = National Photo. EGOURT FREES THREE | IN CONTEMPT CASE i Justice Siddons Rejects Explana- tions, But Holds Ttio Amply Punished. Roger B. Smith, sr.; his son, Roger B. Smith, jr., and Nathaniel Wiggin- ton were discharged today by Justice Siddons of the District Supreme Court from a charge of contempt of court growing out of the disappearance of an automobile, which had been or- dered turned over to J. Raymond Hoover, committee of the insane owner of the vehicle. The three men were held in contempt last week and sent to jail June 29. They were re- |leased in_the custody of Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer the next day un- | der a showing that the machine had been returned, with - directions to make’ sworn answers to the court in explanation of their conduct. The younger Smith was seized with an epiieptic fit while in the cellroom at the courthouse last week and again after his release, and has since been under the care of a physician. The three men appeared in court and preSented, through Attorney New- myer, statements seeking to exonerate themselves of the charge of defiance of the court orfler. All expressed re- gret for their action, and denied any contempt of court. Justice Siddons took little stock in the statements of the men, and de- clared he was convinced that the charge had been sustained, but con- sidering the disgrace already attached by reason of the confinement in jail and the expense to which the men had been subjected, decided that they had been sufficiently punished. The court warned the men and others inclined to defy court orders that It is a dan- gerous proceeding. “FLORIDA REAL ESTATE BOOM.” HE KNOWS ALL ABOUT TOBAC partment of ing back to Washington sample and chewers of the other countries. ers and exporters about the foreign situation. Chance to Fondle Lions or Scorpions Six million dollars’ worth of real estate along the shore has been turned over in the past week, fortunes have been made, thousands are home- COMMUTERS OPEN Is Offered at Zoo| Here' somebody h a chance of a lifetime for with a hankering for pets, a the 4 F hyenas, lions, buzzar orpions and boa constrictors stant keeper. Any man who has an inclination for this sort of thing Civil Service Commission for the job. Among the privileges that go with of raw meat to hungry tigers, ad when they get distemper and quieting the nerves of unruly elephants. have had along this line, the better their chance of landing this “plum Zoing to get $1,140 per annum foi pleasure. commission’s headquarters at 1 streei: " The Zoo hAs an opening for as- § should lose no time apy ng to the the position is that of feeding hunks ministering madicine to rattle: The more experience What. is more, the lucky man the opportunity of indulging in all this Those inferestefl mhy Apbly t. | Treasury Officials Taking No i Action in Employment With- | out Taking Oath. | |~ Treasury officials apparently intend to let the delicate legal and constitu tional issues involved in the Loren H | Wittner oath case pass without ac | tion. The Jegality of entering the Gov- | ernment service: without taking an | oath exactly prescribed by Federal | statutes for every employe of the United States, which contains the words, “so help me God,” with no al ternative phrasing, has not been re- ferred to the controller general, the solicitor of the Treasury nor the solic- itor of internal revenue for an opinion. The first two officers are prepared | to handle the matter if it is referred | to them, but there is no course by which they could open the issue them- selves. First action, it was said dt both offices, would be for the Secre- tary of the Treasury in asking for a ilegal rulfng. There appears to be only one prec- edent in American law—a decision handed down by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in a case where a Quaker refused to repeat the words “so help me God,” on the grounds that they would constitute an oath, and hence would violate his religious convictions. The court held that the choice of the word “affirms” instead of “swear” in the body of the oath would automatically act to cancel the binding words at the end. “Swear” is defined in legal dictionaries as the act of invoking supernatural guidance in acrrying out a pledge, while “af- firm,” especially provided to meet re- ligious objections,” does not carry this implication. The Pennsylvania ruling, It was said applicants | | mutatios through the | The reason for the boom is The photo shows a busy zroup of buyers and sellers. Wide World Photo Ben D. Hill, expert of the De- “ommerce, has returned from a trip around the sorld, bring- of the tobaccos pre Now, he will advise Americ ed by the smokers n grow- National Photc RAIL RATE FIGHT 1,000,000 Launch Nation- Wide Battle in New York. “Plot” Is Seen. By the Associated. Prese NEW YORK, Augu: commuters’ ~A national what is des cribed as a “conspiracy” among rail roads to raise comm is being organ move is Da in_ the me! Neiv® Jersey, County ation ticket d here. ed Dy 1,000 politan Long N living in 1 Westchester Connecticut Though - principally concerned with the flight on the 40 per cent com rate increase obtained Public_Service Commis sion by the New York, ew Haven and Hartfard Railyoad, the organiza tion will resist similar demand other roads. Legal representatives of these communities have been called to meet ‘today in the offices of the New York Bar Association. Charles A. Van Auken, corporation counsel of New Rochelle, N. Y., and hief counsel for the protesting com muters, sald that similar fights will have to be wa d in Chicago and al large commuting centers can not prove it,” he said, “but T am sure there is a conspiracy amonz the railroads of the country to bring about increased commutation rates The New Haven was selected to make the start because it was in the besi position to demand an increase. It had the right to claim it was u: the right-of-way of another road. th= New York’ Central, and was paying excessive rental fees.” The commuters yesterday won a partial victory when counsel for the New Haven agreed tbat rebate s should be furhished and the incres tares refunded in.case the commuters won their fight. Ruling on an appli { cation to enjoin the rate increase wa expected today from Supreme Cour Justice Tompkins at Nyack, N. Y. at the office of the solicitor, might pos sibly be followed by a Federal court but only in case it was fmpossible to find any other precedent. A State ¢ cision does not necessarily affect judg ment in a Federal case. It is clearly within the right of the Secretary, it was said at both office to pass up the case altogether an continue to pay Wittner, rather t plunge into the issues of religious lil erty under the Constitution. with al the ill feeling such a case might caus The rights of an outsider to raise the question, it was stated, probably would be abridged by the Frothingham deci slon, denying a Federal taxpayer the right to enjoin payment of publi moneys without showing some special and extraordinary interest, which it would be impossible to show in this case, since Wittner alone is directly affected by the payment of his salary He himself is powerless to raise the issue unless his right to draw pay is challenged. and the Government is in no position to challenge the constitu tional basis of Its own statutes.