Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1925, Page 13

THE EVENING OFFICER MAKES 1T will not go, according to the traffi the real meaning of the word “Stop.” v 1o a full stop, shift his gears “STOP M AND TH over the telling a ANS STOI big white f motorist matorist must bring his PLAIN. Thi wor squad. Hesi FIFTY-GALLON STILL. AND CORN WHISKY TAKEN IN RAID. Two men is business of slowing down, then easing Here we have Offic ting at the signs will not answer. and see that his passage ahead is clear. Milton Smith The r m Star Photo were arrested when ( pt. Headley, former head of the Traffic Bureau, now in command of Nog4 precinet, led a raiding party to 1252 Carrollburg place southwest ahout noon yesterday. ried away by the raiders, RAPS SCIENTISTS 'Tooth of Mastodon In Maryland Brook FOR DOGMATIG e Tistory Trace * ASKS ZONE HEARING -.: | speciar Dispaten 1o The Star CUMBERLAND, Md., James Amick, living near has found the of a mastodon [tn a stream on his farm. It weighs -] 4 potibds, is 8 inches long, 4 inches| | wide &%id about 6 inches thick. The | | formation very plainly | shaped. the points are worn, but the | enamel is in good condition | John S. Smith line, made a sketch of the stone and forwarded it, together with a com- plete description, to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington reply has just been received from Mr. Gilmore, curator of vertebrae palenotology, Iwho confirms the belief it is the tooth of a mastodon. The depart- ment is Interested to know if other parts of the skeleton were found and stated further that while it had numerous mustodon teeth in the col lection, it would be glad to ha this one as representing a new lo- cality if Mr. Amick would care to donate it to the national collection A further search will be made. AIR OFFICER .CLEARED IN DEATH OF PRIVATE Wilbur Wr{vh! Fleld Commnnder Denies Any Action Is in Prospect Dr. A. R. Mnhkan Bespeaks More Caution in Making Claims on Knowledge. Bedford tooth is By the Associate LOS ANGF tific ism Jigious brand R. A. Miliikan and internationally in an Chemical Societ Dr. Millikan, who opened a new era In scientific investigation with his ex ploration of the atom, declared that the developments of the last quarter century of all the physical sciences &honld teach men of learning to be! “more modest and thoughtful.’ We mus rn to get away from assertiveness and dogmatism or theologic: i see overassertiveness from scientists in connection with such things as the Jate evolution trial, and 1 see on the other eness on subjects about which 1 nobody knows anything Scien. well was denounced by Nobel dogma as as the re. Dr. prize winner famous physiecist, the American address before whether scientific de a know Progress Is Cited. “Tn the last have accumu quarter of a century we ated a rkable col- Jection of and data, a group of rew phenomena which are henceforth the permanent heritage of the race It looks. at first. as though we now could see it all tough we could begin to interpret the universe in terms of these simple relations, hut there are many things we do not know. ‘How. for instance. does the beta ray shoot itself out of an atom with Against Lieutenant. rem facts By the Assoeiated Press DAYTON, Ohio, August 7.—Maj. A. W. Robins, commanding officer of the Wilbur Wright Flying Field, emphati- cally denied yesterday that any action has been taken or is contemplated against Lieut. J Teserve officer, of Wheeling, W. in con- | nection with the death of Pvt. Osceo- terrific velocity? Whence comes this |la Rexroat of Davton at the field. amazing energy? We don't know: we | The private's death was purely acci- are completely up in the air in oyr | dental, he said. understandings of what it’s all about A report was circulated to the ef- “The pathetic thing Is that "ve have fect that action had been taken lead- sclentists who are trying to prove |ing to prosecution of Lieut. Adams evolution, which no scientist can ever | on the charge of having contributed prove. Now, I don't want you to think | to the death of Pvt. Rexroat. I am on the other side. Iam not. 1| Pvt. Rexroat was Kkilled am only asking for more caution.” cranking an airplane by . = the propeller. The ship DISEASED HERD SLAIN. | when by Lieut. Adams. who on active ‘a.,n- at the field with a training camp. | WILL DRILL IN STREET Texas Foot-and-Mouth Quarantine | | Guardsmen to Use Road While Armory Is Being Remodeled. The Disrtict Zone to Be Enlarged. HOUSTON, Tex., A Rixteen dairy cows were destroved | near here vesterday by the authori- ties in a campaign to eradicate foot- and-mouth diseasé among cattle in this section. Only one of the ani- mals was infected, but it was the jy second case of infection found in ap-| proximately the same ares. Alto- Rether about 100 head of cattie have |10, been slain and their bodies burned |10 ©'¢lock on drill nights. in the second campaign for (flrfldk‘a-1 = E6h BROOKHART IN FRONT. tion of the disease in this vicjnity within less than a vear | Several hundred head of contact cattle also will be destroyed, accord- | ing to Dr. Marion Imes’ of the| With 40 counties completed, Senate recount senatorial contest todav ‘gave Steck being made to ex- 151,149 and Brookhart 153,066 ancon- tested votes. and showed that Steck Tnited States Bureau of Animal In- dusiry, who i in charge of the situa- had challenged 2,737 and Brookhart 725 votes, igust T (). — National Guard was | given permission by Commissioner | 1 Fenning yesterday to drill on New, o York avenue between Fifth and Sixth | the armory is being remodeled. Police will be instructed to keep the block clear of traffic from 8 to the tion. Plans are tend the quarantine area of ahout 11 =quare miles to include a protec- Live strip of land around it. tooth- | well versed in this | Col. streets northwest while the drill hall | of votes in the lowa ! Twenty-five gallons of corn whisky and a <till were car- Washington Sta CAPITAL TRAGTION Photo. Will Accept Commission’s 0f-, fer for Discussion of White Line Dispute. The Capital Traction Co. the Utilities Commission for a hear- the desirability passengers by ing on of establish- ing safety zones for painting white lines on the street. This was made known today by John H. Hanna, vice president of the company, after he had received the lette: tten by the commission vesterday afternoon. In that letter the commission stated it it had the right to direct pany to establish the white line zones, but offered to hear the com- ! pany further if the company so de- sired. s w Favors Baltimore Plan. The traction company had o ed to such safety zones, contending that white lines only do not afford pas- sengers sufficient protection Asked today if he would suggest any additional protection to go with the White lines, Mr. Hanna said he favored the plan in use in outlying sections of Baltimore. In that cit he said, they .have the painted zones, with a rigid post set in a concrete base at the end of the zome from which traffic. approaches. ing light on top of the post, Mr. said. There will be a hearing before the Utilities Commission at the District Building Tuesday morning on the ob- jection raised by the Washington Rail- way & Electric Co. against requiring street cars to stop the same as ve- | hicular traffic before crossing a boule- vard highway. Stop Problem Considered. Willlam F. Ham, president of the W. R. & , conferred informally to- day h Traffic Director 1. C. Moller preparatory hearing scheduled for Tuesday. Mr. Eldridge said he is trying in | conference with Mr. Ham to devise a way of solving the boulevard stop | problem with the least possible incon- venience to street car senvice. Before leaving today for a short vacation Director Eldridge urged motorists to keep constant watch on the condition of their brakes and the focusing of their headlights. The | director said re regarded good brakes |and proper lights as two of the most important factors factors ln safe driving. CYRUS H. K K. CURTIS ILL. | Recovering From Cold, However, Returning From Europe. NEW YORK, August 7. (#).—Ar- rangements were made yesterday by the Holland-American line to transfer | Cyrus H. K. Curtis, the publisher, to his private vacht when the Rotter- Hanna to the |.Buropean trip, reaches Hoboken. Mr. Curtis was said to have suffered a heavy cold for the past several days, but it responded to treatment during the homeward voyage. Y will ask | believed | the com- There is a flicker- | Eldridge and | dam, on which he returned from a | STAR, WASHINGTON, > A MECHANIC. taken a job with a Paris In the PERSHING'S SON WORKING, old son of the general. h. a sort of Summer vacat Warren, the 16-year- stomobile factory as Winter he attends school at Lausanne. Wide World Photo YOU GET THIN WHILE YOU SLEEP. scientists of the Carnezie Institation. weight. The photo shows a delicate seales which is e ed in experiments to determine how much weight is lost by sleep and by perspiratio At least, according to the you lose g v vrizht ay P. & A. Photos. Tother, Deserted by Spouse, Admits She Painted and l*("llhme(l Woman | the Associated Press La. At 37 years old the rec Mrs Othe paint Her has deser held Mrs. stove-pipe she said. she applied athers to her. Mrs.” Ward declared and her three chil- ng from 6 to 12 years. Ward stated. went to k., about the time Ward | from Eros. Mrs. Ward she sald. Later Mrs. to < with Ward's » charged | of my comnfunity who me and my children | and I hatched up the| the community of her, | in the attack at the Ward declared. DISABLED SOLDIERS WIN IN PLEA TO QUASH SUIT| ]Lo'\zue and Other Def!m‘hnm Ask- ed Dismissal of Action for Ac- st ha sponn]\vllu\ f I feathers }\a\! In a statement to ‘0! the Shreveport J {accused Mrs. Nave of |her home. Mrs nine def = men in affida [vits filea Jonesboro in connect with the episode Mrs. Ward denied men mentioned in the charging assault and ba {had anything to do with TRUNK LINES OPEN WAR ON LOREE RAIL PROJECT | Ten Pro- posed Road Across Pennsylvania Is Not Needed. and attack upon Sims Azes represe nal, Mrs, breakin; Ward is one of th nd fone Then ladie had. supported in the scheme which mill plant that crisis to rid esulted the Mrs, Commerce Commission counting in Campaign. The Baltimore and Ohio, Central and Pennsyl | filed to with merce Commission the proposal of t burgh and Chics oad to con strict a new line across Pennsylvania Present facilities were held by the New York Railroads Justice Siddons has signed an order sustaining the motion to dismiss a suit filed by the Pencil Supply Co.. Inc against the National Disabled Soldier: League and others. The North Cap- itol vings Bank and George W. Scott, a former em plove of the league, through Attorney b ; £ Henry L. Quinn, filed & motion to dis | opposing _roads be ~ sufficlent to | oy e Quinn, fled g meet traffic needs. They also declared | "y 1€ 0L O Complaae. no public convenience or nec ¢ | Michael cannbt be held individually exists for the new line, that the Iliable for any breach of the trust rela- npies ance fHak 1o cany I philt tion which might have existed between any reasonable mum. and that there is | {jvo’ Novth Copitol Savings Bank. of no evidence that it can be operated |which he was president. aod the plain at a profit. . |tiff corporation. The court further L. F. Loree, rallroad operator identi- | held ‘that . the assignment from the fied with several systems, has pre-|p. C. Smith Co. and the Pencil Print- viously testified in behalf of the new |ing Corporation to the plaintift atd corporation that its construction was | not give the plaintiff a right to enforce intended to be the backbone of a New | the trust agreement between the York and Chicago trunk line system. |league and the bank and plaintiff's as- e o g companies were repre- | signors or t sue or protect the sented at the hearings during which |ty AR o trust fund. Mr. Loree testified. The commission | This case arose out of a Nation-wide will hear argument this Fall before ore | campaign under the auspices of the deciding whether the construction | National Disabled Soldiers League, in shonld be permitted. which it was contended that more l = AL than $200,000 was collected for the benefit of disabled soldiers and sailors. WILL AUCTION STAMPS. The purpose of the suit was to enjoin various ‘local banks from paying out Philatelic Americans to Sell Some Rare Issues. ania Inter of York the atate Com opposing Pitts for ! funds.supposed. to be deposited to the credit of the league or the individual |officers and for adiscovery and ac- | counting as to the funds realized by | the campaign. ~ SECOND BODY FOUND. | William Heydon Victim of Bay Drowning Last Monday. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 8.—The body of Willlam Heydon, second vic- |tim of a double drowning of last Mon- day night in Chesapeake Bay, was re- covered early this morning by Henry | Willams and Willlam Lucas, fisher- men. A large number of Washington stamp collectors will attend the three day convention of the Society of | Philatelic Americans, which will open Monday in the Southern Hotel, Balti- more. The convention program will in- clude business and social activities Monday night there will be a at which the delegates will | and sell stamps among | themselves. The following day the delegates will make a tour of the city | and that night an auction will be | held. Some rare stamps will be of- fered, including a copy of the Bal- timore Buchanan stamp and some | Cabell Peyton's body was found yes- costly British colonial issues. The |terday, floating in the bay about two auction will be held at the Maryland miles from a spot where a boat the Academy of Sciences. The conven-|voung men had occupied was found tion will close Wednesday night with | Tuesday, bottom up. Heydgp's body a banquet at the hotel . had not drifted so far. The Police be- The Philatelic section of the Mary- lieve one of the youths was seized |land Academy of Sciences is sponsor-|with cramps and khe gther tried to ing the convention program in Balti- Ires('ua him, both going under, They more. A full chair of philately re-!lived near Baltimore, and the bodies cently has been established at the |were prepared for shlpmenl to that academy. city, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST Theodore Michael | 1925 BELGIAN DEBT COMMISSION arrived in New York yesterday and came directly to the Capital. ernor of the Societe Generale de Belgique; Former Premier Cartier de Marchienne, Belgia bassador to Belgium, and one of CRETARY DAVIS AND EDN aboard the steamship Homeric, bound for England. and the Secretary of Labor and Miss Hopper. led the grand march. year-old flapper,” STORY OF PERFID - BARED IN HOLD Pair Alleged to Have Tried to Get Man Who Be- friended Them. With the arrest of two suspects in the attempted daylight hold-up of Fred | Hocheiser, carpenter, of 208 I street, who frustrated the attempt of a gun- man to rob him of $2,000 on the fifth floor of a b ding on the southwest corner of John | street vesterday by putting up an un expected fight, detectives today un earthed a story of sordid perfidy, tinged with the desperation of men who were “flat broke.” The two suspects are Wilroa humeur. 26, of Marlboro, Mas: | Dennis Smith of 206 Eleventh reet | southeast. Belhumeur, who first gave | his name as Cote of Baltimore, wasar- | rested by Policeman Foster of | sixth precinct outside the engine room of the Hayvenner Baking Co.. in alley at the rean of 620 (* street, which Hochelser is alleged to have chased him after the attempted hold {up. Detectives later arrested Smith. Bel- . and | Befriended by Victim. Two Washingtonians, one of whom was recently released from Occoquan, and who is now being sought, were broke. Rosinsky, the shoemaker who was arrested for operating a crap game at his establishment, 623 E street, a few days ago, after he report- ed an attempted holdup, is said to have loaned one of the pair $1 to get gasoline for his machine only the day before yesterday. An attempted high- Jacking expedition on the road was a [ tallure because the liquor car that was to be a victim of the holdup did not show up as per schedule. The two men then fvent to Balti- more, where they met a third. Here the perfidy comes in. The one who was released from Occoquan recently had been befriended.by Hochelser. Tt s Hocheiser who had allowed him to live in an apartment at his home, 208 E street, and it was the same Hocheiser who dug down in his pocket for $105 to obtain this man’s automo- bile after he came out of the work- house and needed it. Hocheiser had ‘nm‘umt‘d the role of his benefactor. {He knew that Hocheiser was in the hlhll of carrying a large sum of ml)ne\' on his person. He knew Hocheiser's friends. - With the third man, therefore, the ‘friend” of Hocheiser and the other framed up a hold-up for this city. Gunman Fails to Show Up. The Baltimorean accomplice, ac- cording to the plan, was to lie in wait on_the fifth floor of the building at John Marshall place and C street while Hocheiser. went to visit a friend who would be absent from his room on the fifth floor there. The local pair got a message to Hocheiser ask- ing him to visit that house. Hochei- ser went there. He was met there by the hold-up man. Meanwhile the other two were wait- ing in Judiciary Square. Wkhen the gunman accomplice failed to show up, they disappeared. That's the story the police have woven after their investigation of yes- terday and today. They are awaiting the Feet of the third man to make - Marshall place and C | an | into | NOW IN WASHINGTON FOR The Willi orges Ambassador to the United States; the secretaries of the staff. A WALLACE HOPPER AT COSTUME The photograph shows the two Army Horse Wins Honors as Best | Polo Mount Here , Liggett. a United States Army horse assigned to the War Department here, a trained polo mount, has been de | clared the best polo pony in the Dis trict by the Horse Association of | Asmérica, accordiie an ! ment by Wayne Dinsmore. | BEach vear the best pony from among entries in each club | filiated with the association Other aws s went to Mary Army horse assigned to Battery Field Artllery, Fort Hoyle, and | Squeak, owned b Maj \\Inf!’ld M Blunt, 3rd Corps Area. Baltimore, Md No attention was paid by the judges | to breeding or type of horses, placing the entire decision on performance of the mounts. Seventy-five clubs, | States, are members States Polo Associatio: | operating with the Horse | of America to encourage of good polo mounts. retary selected af sex en 6th Pip organized in 24 of the United which is co. Association the breeding ‘FRAMED,” IS CHARGE | Alleged Plotters Plied With Liquor by Police Decoy, Spencer Testifies. By tRe Associated Press LOS ANGELES, August 7.—Liquor supplied by a police informer was a prelude to alleged remarks concern- ing the kidnaping of Mary screen star, at a party in a downtown Los Angeles hotel May 28 last, testi mony éf C. Z. Stephens, one of the three men on trial here, declared late yesterday. Stephens testified that Louie the informer, brought liquor to the hotel, invited the three men to his room and Indulged in “kidnaping talk" with them while detectives listened in an_adjoining room. Further, Stephens said. when he was arrested near Mary Pickford" Hollywood studio the following day, he did not go there with any intent to kidnap the actress. but to drive Geck there to see a friend. Stephens' denial of the alleged con- fessions he made to the police brought the prosecution and defense to bitter tilts when Stephens declared that he | made the statements “in fear of vio. lence and threats” at Harry Ravmond, a private detective. The defense reiterated their inten tions of yesterday to prove that whole affair was an “entrapemnt’ the trio and a publicity plot by George K. Home, former chief of detectives, and -‘Harry Raymond, while Mary Pickford’s name was dragged In for its news value. Geck, Dry Navy Is Decreased. Because of the approach of the storm season in Southern waters the Coast Guard service announced today the withdrawal of two cutters from the rum Navy for service in assist- ing shipping. The Yamacraw was or- {dered to the base at Savannah, Ga. and, the Tallapoosa to Mobile, Ala. a full report on the case, gIVINg the identities of the various parncumm- and their connections with the at.! tempted robbery. CONFERENCE Left to right: am Phillips announce- | 'PICKFORD ‘KIDNAPING’, the | Pickford, | the hands of | the | of | The financial Emile Francqui Cattier. T the United experts vice gov de Am n Felie ron BALL. It was a faney dres< affair the surrounded by other merrymakers & Tnderwood POSTAL HEARING SHIFTS 0 BOSTON Rate Inquiry to Open in Bay State Monday—Lower Charges Urged. Copyright by Underw Pre YORK that continue | in Boston on Mon B. E. MacKinnon, circu tor of the Pic Re | his testimony today. expl: entry system under whict law was evaded. He | company had stopped criptions in Indiana ment to convert subscribe stand buver He recommended 1t} | service be placed “on | petitiv s to press rates. | fce was more co torial Review, he t office $165,000 i 0, with asi mee the venien e said | cutation Cit experiments Ohi «nd Harrisbu how 20 the | tormea a private which lasted three : According to the pos in those cities, there was no reduc | of employes offices, he Senator L. Phipps read a statement which |that a change trom zome to 1 | would save 12 clerk hours Isaving of $2.700 on 350 publ |entered at Philadelphia R. H. Freck, representative of the |Guild company. which furnishes mail ing lists to mail order hou testi fied that his company’s husin has | decreased by 19,000.00¢ ames in 1925 {due to the incre | Harry H. Bamforth | Bamforth company. | lish sserted that { mailing rate on post |he would be for | 1325 SHIPS TO BE BURNED. | Huge Bonfire Will End Career of War-Time Fleet Fire will blaze the final chapter in the history of 235 wooden ships built as a war measure and which have been stripped of thei: engines and jother metal. The vessels. except {35 of them, are at Tidewater, Va., in a special anchorage assigned by the Bureau of Navigation of the Department of Commerce. It was said at the offices of the Western Marine and Salvage Co., at Alexandria, today that it is not vet known when these vessels will be fired, but it probably will be in about 60 days. Before the firing is started ‘t will be necessary con- | struct a large inclosure of wire net I(ln). large enough to take 3 |ships at a time. This precautio |is required to prevent the burning | debris from getting into the channel and .endangering vessels proceeding hs isties tion post Colorado contended rates vith a ations of sed rates ner of the card pub the present rds contint »d out of busine: | ‘up.and down the river.