Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1925, Page 3

MOSES PREDICTS WORLD COURT 0. K. . Declares Reservations, How- ever, Are Vital to Winning of His Support. By a Staff Correspondent. SUMMI WHITE HOUS EWAMPSCOTT, Mass.,, August 11.— idence that sentiment is in the Senate in’ favor adhering to the JUrt of international ¥1 in the declaration of loses of New Mr. Moses vis. said that he adopt the rvations. He P he would enator Pepper's compromise til he had read them on the World Court v aren’t go Moses said ve m the start trw 1 would not v for American adherence unless we were first se. d of ants to the iscussed in wtor ut At that the ourt on an ions ations of Na tlons covenar On this W issue I insist on takir esidents of the Vited t their word. President Hardi Pre nt Coolidge have both asserted ering this court we were from the Rep ion to the Le aty. of Versailles. >nate un derstands that , and I have seen no indication inybody is that ing his views.” Rules Fight Declared Lost. Senator Mose: ired that rankly decla he expects th ate to vote for rican adhe! whether he final- lines up wit wajority or not Asked if he had made up his mind, he said “1 want to see all these suzgested | amendme h s H n and I want a ¥ tudy them I do not inte for a bunch of words v them.” nd Senator Ke Tennessee, anothe imittee, agreed that Dawes is hopelessly beaten in his fi ate rules t to amend the Sen- for his amend “and in et more than not perfect, but better than the ADOPTION OF SPAS GIRL BY BROWNING ANNULLED IN COURT from ¥ hued rst_Page.) York 19, New the orph: adjoining the ng attempt the convent ld the driver 10 to a cheap hotel and call for ¥ s morning. They spent the nes: the tube st: and breakfast- ed in their room on a can of and sandwi after w the su Pt was resumed. take her t at a hostelry un- Return to clock t 1 annot in ¢ t 10 Jamaica. e trio left New- cing that she rt in Jamaica, a.m Newark Mary ob- e taxi driver a state- smust Long Islan Before that she had spent and that she had tried sion to the convents, a duplicate. She s ed nd experts sronounced her signature that ter Illum told he 15 t0o o to enter _proprietor of the Ter at wh and 11 thre the night in a room with one bed This morning the floor as littered with bags and wrappings that had contained their breakf Mrs. S the trip 4 comfort ter now and then with a * darling, everything will be all o - of Califor. the Racquet The plair s he advanced on occasions to the ount asked repre- Attorneys B: for the plaintiff. Club money AD OF FURNL elphia_or Balti- RAND STOR- Brighten the Corner Where You Are BY_JOINING THE Let Live League To focus community good will ive and let five. Grip: ‘A hearty R Burving the ot fellow what L L Vuttons s peace il . o t “Roll aad" Toss —these w Have the mattress. box spring ows renovated and gef rea, % For our service; Main 3 Bedell’s Factory, 610 E St. N.W. HOW IS YOUR ROOF? Weill tell you. us up. IRONCLAD.‘?,"-,'.'"Z‘L Phone Main 14 Protec-Tin Roof Paint osts no more an common paint, doee'd i, Keeps ont risi it. Ask ¢ estimate, > “P ROOFING _ 110 3rd St. S.W. KOON "COMPANY. Phone Main 983, Now Is the Time the Fall to plan nsult us. HIGH GRADE. BUT NOT HIGH PRICED BYRON S. ADAMS, PRINTER, NONE TOO EARLY —to plan and execute the Fall Printing ' peeds. AT YOUR SERVICE. The National Cap: 1tal Press 4810-1212 D ST. s Printing needs. consulted | coffee | e Partly Blinded, Yoyager Gives Up Lone Ocean Trip: By the Associated Press CLALLAM BAY, Wash., August ~ 11.—Comdr. Eustace B. Maude, R. N., retired, who departed from Mayne Island. 30 miles north of Victoria, British Columbia, April 30, on a long voyage to England in a 25-foot ketch, the Halfmoon, landed today at La Push, an Indian village 35 miles south of Cape Flatter: partly blind. He was reported as far south as Sa a. bara, Calif., July 7, and was sighted from Destruction Island off the Washington coast, north and flying distres Comdr. Maude said that the con- stant glare of the sun's rays on the water blinded him so t was unable to take observations or read his compass, which forced him to return home BLOODSTAINS IN AUTO LEAD TO BOY’S ARREST Missing Man's Effects Car Youth, 18, Says He Bought in Indiana. Fou'nd in { By the Associated Press GARDEN CITY, Kan., August 11. {—An 18-year-old youth giving his | name as Frank Jordan is being held there by county officers, who are in vestigating the fading of a blood stained automobile, in which the youth was driving through this city days ago. a few The offi are attempting to link the findinggof the car with the s den_disapp¥arance of A. R. Cla of Tonawanda, N. Y., who ha been heard of for some time. He last heard from at Gerald, Mo., from which place he mailed a post card. The ontained the personal ef- fects of Clawson, leading officers to suspect that Clawson had been the victim of foul play. Jordan declares he bought the blood-stained car at Terre Haute. Arrivals at and_Sailings From New York | Daylight Saving Time. | ARRIVED YESTERDAY. | Cleveland. . . Hamburg, July oy Puerto” Colomibia - {Hamuiton Iparaiso, 5uuu, npto Liverpool, " London, DUE TODAY. _Havre, ~0slo] Hambu Trinidad, Havana, A NESDAY Montevideo, July 21 athampton; Aug. & Hamburg. August B July . Aug. Aug. Siboney Vestris Honye: Arabic Kousaillon Munamar Fort Victoria. . Aug. Guiana A - Aug 1 e L...5t. Jonns. Aug Sixaola . Santa Marta: Aug President " Adams.’."’.(World cruise.} DUE FRIDAY Aauitania n Aus. 8 Feendam 5 Cristobal. ma Canal, Eriiooa “Par Aug. 6 OUTGOING STEAMERS. SAILED YESTERDAY. Saucon—Valetta City of Sparta—~Po; Columbus—Bremen Reliance—Hamburg . American—Cristobal . SAILING TODAY. | Ectonia—Copenhagen Justin—Barbad 5 Cholucteca—Puerto "G SAILING WEDNE Republic—Bremen ....... auretania—Southampton. ort St Georre—Bermuda bo—San Juai Vives— Kingston Christi . —Criktobal. SAILING THURSDAY. Mount _Clay—Hamburg. Pittsburgh—Antwerp . West Gotomeka—Copenha City_of Edinburgh—Cape Town. . Piracus = . E an__Banker—London 00 PN D30 PM 3:00 PM. Porto Rie Eesequibo—Vaiparaieo Ancon—Port an Finland—Cristo! : SAILING FRIDAY. Half Moon—Teneriffe. Providence—Naples Dante Alighieri—Naples. . | Munam W | Juno—La Guaira = SAILING SATURDAY. .10 Rotterdam—Rotierdam 111:00 AM 12:00 M 00 PM 00 Leviathan. Souther: Waterproofed Work Guaranteed FICKLEN & CO. Bond Building Phone Main 3934 Factory at th & Brrant Streets 30% Savmg' The abo new factory right here at Washington makes it possible to manufacture sC@T #FOR THRIFT™ GasRanges —at 30% less than previous costs, and yet maintain a higher standard of quality. See this new type gas range, with smooth cooking top, which roasts and bakes with waste heat. Scott Gas Appliance Co., Inc. 1204 H St. N.W. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FOUR DIE, 00 HURT INDUTCH TYPHOON Borculo in Ruins After Storm. Every Building Is Re- ported Damaged. By the Associated Press. AMSTERDAM, Holland, August 11. Four persons are reported to have been killed and about 100 injured in the smell villageiof Borculo, in eastern Holland, near the German border, when it was struck by a typhoon, which lasted several minutes, last night. The village is a mass of ruins. Both churches were demolished and not a single house escaped dan: Other villages in the ge. stern part of Gelderland province seriously dam aged by last night’s storm are D . Doetinchem, Oldenzaal and Bengelo. Only few details are available as com munications have been interrupted. Plane Kills Three. During the hurricane an airplane crashed on the Catholic Asylum at Ruurlo, killing three people. The center of the storm was at Bor culo, which has 5,000 whabitant; thousand of them a rest are living in the ruins of their homes. The burgomaster of Borculo, describing the damage, said he saw the Belgian village of Lierre during the war after seven (German bomba ments, and the situation at Borculo was much worse, ked the gov- ernment to send troops and fqodstuffs- The governor of the province of Gelderland has arrived at Borculo able for vehicles because of failen trees. 300 Reported Injured. LONDON, August 11 (P).—An Am dispatch to the Exchange raph Co., reporting the typhoon -culo, that 300 persons were injured. Such a violent and disastrous storm, it is added, has never visited Holland before. POLICEMAN IS FREED. West Virginia Trooper Accused of Killing Man Resisting Arrest. Md., August 11.— a member of the West Virginla State police, was exon- ted by a coroner's jury this morn- ing at Petersburg on a charge of Kill- ing Wilbur Sites there Sunday. in a posse that went to leged to have | fired into the home of 4 neighbor. The suspect is said to have turned a gun 1 the direction of the posses, after he had made a break from his home, en ordered to surrender, and the party opened fire. CARFARE IS RAISED. Richmond Must Pay Seven Cents Instead of Five. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, V August 11.- Passengers on the cars of the Virginia Railway and Power Co., operating in this city, will pay 7 cents straight fare on and after September 1. This s the decree of the State Corporation Commission. Higher fares have been sought by the company for a long time. Under the chartes obtained from the city the fares were placed at cents. six tickets Gasoline Service Station Site Located on prominent corner in rapidly developing N.W. business section. B. F. SAUL CO. M. 2100 925 15th St. N.W. | Large Trees Winding Roadways Nature Is Undisturbed Select Your Home Site NOwW! Hedges & Middleton, Inc. REALTORS 1412 Eye 5t N.W. Franklin 9503 Prevention— less”costly than cure It is much better to fore- stall any mishap to the roof— by letting us give it a thorough mspechon—makmg such repairs as we find nec- essary—or reporting it 0. K. as the conditions warrant. A tiny leak can cause a disastrous amount of damage —which can be averted by placing your roof under our care. You can feel perfectly sure when we accept the respon- sibility that you will get Rose service—and that means im- munity from roof troubles and assurance of minimum expense—ALWAYS, Now's the time to “tighten up” for the bad weather. ROSE w North 847-848 2120-22 Georgia Avenue Adobe Stores Fall In Heavy Storm In Town in Texas| By the Associated Press. . EL PASO, Tex., August 11.—S8ix adobe mercantile establishments crumbled in and four other business houses were damaged when a heavy rain which fell Sunday swept down from the foothills five miles northeast of Fabens and rushed into that town. Fabens is a thriving cotton center 30 miles below El Paso on the banks of the Rio de. The main busi- ness houses were not damaged. Crews today were cutting holes through the pavement'and draining the water into the river and drainage ditches biggest damage was to the telephone company building and the residence of it6 owners. All the build- ings ruined were made of adobe. Last week residences and cotton lands at Fabens were damaged by high water from the Rio Grande. DRIVER 1S JAILED AFTER HITTING CHILD' Truck Operator Accused of Reck- lessness—Girl, 5, in Seri- ous Condition. Charges of reckless driving, no per- mit and bad brakes were entered to- day against Theodore Robinson, col- ored, 19, of 20 Pierce street northwest, after a truck he was driving knocked down and ran over Jean P. Miller, 5 of 55 Q street northeast, in front of the Miller home vesterday. The child was taken to Sibley Hos- pital in a passing automobile, where she was pronounced in a critical con dition with a fractture of the pelvis and internal injuries Robinson, who 1s employed by Brown & Wood, machinists, 101 New York avenue northeast, was arrested shortly after the accldent by police from the second precinct. Recovery of the child, according to the physicians, Is surrounded by grave doubt. s old i s e S RES SHOES IDENTIFY BODY. Virginia Woman Hellsved: to Have Frozen to Death. HARRISONBURG, Va., August 11 (#).—The disappearance of Mrs. Martha Moates Baker of Stokesville, Augusta County, January 8, ‘was Solved when forest rangers found the body in a ravine in the mountains. Shoes the woman wore when she left her home to walk across the mountains to her parents in Pendle- ton County, W. Va., served to identify the body. It is believed Mrs. Baker was frozen to death after losing her way. WOMAN IS DRY HEAD. Honolulu Bureau Worker Is Made Director. HONOLULU, August 11 (#).—Mrs. Marion Parrott, a civil service em- ployee in the office of the Federal prohibition director here, yesterday re- ceived a radiogram from Washington appointing her acting director to suc- ceed John Wise, who resigned effec tive August 1. Mrs. Parrott is be- lieved to be the only woman holding ition directorship Thet “abens | €. DEBT PARLEY DOOR AGAIN ARE CLOSED Belgian and American Groups Continue Discussion, De- tails Kept Secret. The American-Belglan debt negotia tions today entered their most active phase with the delegations meeting in both morning and afternoon sessions. No details of what took place at the session this morning at the "reasu Department were revealed, Secretary Mellon holding to the posi- tion dopted several days ago that there would be no revelations of the progress until some basis probably {leading to an agreement had been | rcuv)led. There were | Treasury, bowever, that the Amerl- cans so far are well pleased by the preliminary phases of the debt parley. Opening vesterday morning with the first formal session there was an ex- change of formal greetings and a gen- eral outline of the position taken, the | Belgian Ambassador, Baron de Cartier, declaring the Belgian people had delegated this commission to seek an agreement on the payment of the | dent. The American commission planned {to hold a prellminary meeting by it self this afternoon to go over some bject matter prior to the meeting | with the Belgians. | ARMY OF GUARDS RETAINED TO FIGHT GOTHAM BANDITS indications at the a harvest by furnishing special guards for jewelry firms in the theater and shopping districts. Many Major Grimes. In the score of major robberies dur- ing July, five successful attacks were made on cashiers or clerks returning from banks with the week's pay roll, and there were seven holdups of jew. elry stores or salesmen. Steel armored cars, long in use for the transfer of cash, securities and other valuables, e more commonly seen on the streets than before. The bolder of the highwaymen seemn to have turned their attention from cigar and candy stores to the ticket booths in subway and elevated stations. What is being done is based largely on the police records. For July these show, among other things: Six murders. a loss of $600,000. Forty-odd thefts each under $1,000. In the meantime the police are ex- tending their lines as far as possible The famous Maiden lane jewelry dis- trict has been made a prohibitive area after night by the establishment and reinforcement of the “dead line” at Fulton street, and the organization of a special police force for the financial district. In Fulton streat the line has been held with great success. Its regu- lation is simple. The police are under instructions to arrest every one with a criminal taint going below that line after dark. The Latecoere Casablanca Air Mail Line has just extended its service to Dakar, French West Africa, the pres. ent journey being red {n 56 hours. THE BEST HERE COSTS LESS— The Small Home Unprecedented UR in IEITH At 36th and R Sts. N.W. Everything practically to be found in the home of the rich man at but $8.500 Our Safe an To Inspect—Tak: and Up d Sane Terms e the Burleith Bus Merbers of Operative Builders' Association of D. C. 713-15 14th St. N.W. Main 2345 Here is an exceptional opportunity for the owners of small homes to have Ruud Perfect Hot Water Service—immediately without a heavy cash investment. During August a small down payment of $5 installs a Ruud No. 95 Automatic Gas Water Heater. Pay the balance in easy meonthly payments. Buy the better water heater, “Buy a Ruud” RUUD MANUFACTURING CO. 713 G St. N'W. . Phone Main 6985 Also Sold By All Plumbers and Gas Co. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, Twenty major robberles aggregating |4 1925. VIRGINIA PILOTS LOSE $80,000 IN RATE CUT State Orders New Schedule Sep- tember 1, Hampton Roads Put on Parity With New York. By the Associated Prese. RICHMOND, Va., August 11—A new schedule of rates for the Vir- ginia Pliots’ Assoclation carrying a decrease in gross annual receipts of approximately $80,000 was fixed in an order entered yesterday by the Vir- ginia State Corporation Commission. The rates will become effective Sep- tember 1. Pilotage charges will be based. on the draft and tonnage of the ship, rather than on draft alone. The | pilot association which operates in the Hampton Roads area had requested irc ~eases amounting to approximately £70,000 above the revenue fixed by the new order. | The new rates, it is sald, are at| least 10 per cent under the schedules submitted by the shipping and port interests that appeared at the hearing here In March to oppose the petition for_increases. The new schedule places Hampton Roads on a parity with the port of New York and about 20 per cent lower than the prevailing pilotage rates of Boston Harbor, State Corporation Commissioner Berkeley D. Adams de- clared. DRUG AGENT CHIEF JAILED AS HEAD OF NATION-WIDE RING (Continued from First today admitted that the first intim. tions he had had that anything was wrong in Chicago came from news- paper dispatches this morning telling of Beach’s arrest. “I know nothing about it,” said Col. | Nutt, “except what I have seen in the newspapers. Mr. Beach was an old- | time Government employe. Further | than that there is nothing I can sy, because 1 know nothing.” i Beach, who was in charge of one of the principal narcotic headquarters in | Chicago, had been in the Government | service since 1900 when he entered the Treasury as a “special employe.” Rose From Ranks Here. Rising up through the service, Beach finally had been intrusted with the y responsibility of the Chicago! ce. His first promotion had been to t of deputy collector of internal enue, October 1, 1913. He was made | an internal revenue agent June 16 1918, and was transferred to the pro hibition unit as a narcotic agent July | 1, 1920. Col. Beach, according to Government records, was born in Knox County, Tenn., and is now 53 years old. He gives his present legal residence as In- |, ianapolis. Elmer L. Irey, gence unit, whose agents the case in Chicago, chief of the intelli developed | was in that city | today. It was understood that he had | been out there a short time in order | to assist his men in winding up their | case. He expected to return | :.humy! to Washington. All Mode Stiff Straws —and every Hat is fashionable in shape; and in individ- SCOTT DIVORCE CASE TO BE AFFIDAVIT WAR Michigan Representative to Offer 14 to Refute Wife's Gambling Charges. By the Associated Press ALPENA, Mich.,, August 11.—The contested divorce action of Congress- man Frank D. Scott of Michigan against Edna Scott, whom he charges with extravagance and misconduct, was scheduled to start in the Circuit Court today. The_hearing was interrupted Jan- uary 7 to permit hoth sides to ohtain depositions from persons in Washir ton. Resupption of the case was set for March 10, but illness of Judge Frank D. Emerick necessitated a new postponement. | Ward Peck, Detroit attorney repre- senting Mrs. Scott, sald he had seven depositions In substantiation of her | charges that her Congressman hus. | band gambled for high stakes as part | of his Washington private life. Mr. | Scott said he had 14 depositions sup- | porting his version of the Scott mar- | ital troubles and in repudiation of his | wife’s charges of gambling and drink- | ing parties, in which prominent | Dawes to Tour West. CHICAGO, August 11 (#).—The fight of Vice President Dawes for revision of the Senate rules probably will be carried next to the Pacific coast. 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