Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1925, Page 17

ASKING PARDON FOR THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF General Sargent vesterday wiih a peti of 10 years at Atlanta, The petition b been signed by 14 Governors. W. R. Wood, J. W. Noel, William P. , M. Ginzer, C. Gatewood, PLANES OF THE MACMILLAN EXPEDITION. Members of the Mac Millan-National Geographic Society expedition lashing down the three amphibian planes to the deck of the Peary preparatory to their rough ride to Etah. Greenland. Gasoline drums on the lower deck. Copyright by P CHNSTERHELD s, NOILFRAUD GGE et Mo & A. Photos. | Special Dispateh to The Star | _MARTINSBURG., W. Va 13.—Regular attendance upon school for five months was part of a sentence imposed upon five bhoys in | Juvenile Court here today Criminality among minors {shown an increase in the past weeks, the court having 14 cases in one day. One lad was charged with stealing an automobile and a number were charged with brea into a mill and one other was accused of larceny in a store D. J. PRICE LEAVES CHEMISTRY BUREAU Avgust unday Churches and Pastors Al- leged Victims of Get- Rich-Quick Scheme. two »r the Associat " LOU visions of plans begun authoriti for investi unsuccessful _oil well William E. Rutledge and publisher United States Curry said about 2 six States invested $400,000. Rutledge w at liberty on | $3.000 bond following h arrest last THCht on o rant charging the use | EXpert on Causes of Dust Explo- of the mails to defraud. Preliminary | hearing we set for ptember 4 Specifically he warrant charged him * with makin Ise and fraudn lent representati to rge New kirk of Warrenshoro, Mo, United States Attorney v said that Rut Jedge failed to fu resentations that d nging up to 1,000 per eent v 1 forthcoming ! Press. Mo. sudden here to Augzust 13.—Fading alth enveloped by Federal ating alleged promotion by former minister District Attorney 000 residents of | approximately | sions to Enter Commercial Employment. engineer in charge of work in the Bureau of hemistry, Department of Agriculture, has resigned to take up commercial work in Pittsburgh, it was announced by the department today. During the past 11 years Mr. Price | has carried on important investiga- tions on the causes of dust explosions and means of prevention and control. | In this period a number of industries, notably flour milling. have greatly re- | duced the risks of losses from this :ause. | In accepting Mr. Price’s resignation, | Dr. C. A. Browne, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, wrote: “The investiga- | tional work ' upon dust explosions, | which You have initiated and directed since becoming associated with the ! Bureau of Chemistry in 1914, has re- sulted in the | economic D. J. Price development soon nisters Stockholders. that Rut Federal officers represented assert the Economy Oil Mo., a suburb, and advertise 1 his periodical, the Preacher ne. Ministers formed 90 per cent of the stockholders, they said. It is charged the pastors were induced to invest to obtain money to send their childrer through college and that some stock was sold to church consregations ugh the local ministers’ influenc To set out all the misrepresenta tions would require volume of more than one hundred pa said Post office Inspector . B. The former cle which extended to Arkansas, Kentucky nessee, hegan January he and two other St. ized the Ecc my conc ture of a declaration of trust seriptio solicited in his periodical were pavable $1 in advance and the rest monthly. The company hegan with $200,000 stock, b the ecapitalizati 100,000 It is estimated §$258,000 worth of stock was sold. es,” Uttley man’s venture, losses in various agricul- tural industries, and your publicationa {upon this subject ~ have attracted {world-wide attention. The safeguards “{which vou have devised very generally recommended by fire protective and other agencies, and | their adoption has led to a great re- duction not_ only in the losses | explosions, but also in the rates of in- surance. The practical results of your { work in this field are accomplishments {of which you well may be’proud.” WOULD VvOID POLICY. rn in the na Sub- | $180,000 in Debts. | to Uttley roximately s of a ts Liabin- Statements submitted showed the firm to be ap $180.000 in debt on the b Which were listed at $40 ties were placed at $42 Uttley said that under articles of claration of trust, 23 per cent of B et o o | Suit to cancel a $25,000 insurance pol- ledge as’ commissions. icy held by Charles Henry Schwartz, Rutledge, however, in a circular let- | perpetrator of the “too perfect crime,” ter. said he spent all the proceeds he [on the ground of fraud, was filed in received from stock sales for new |Federal Court yesterday by the North- equipment and new leases and as.|ern Life Insurance Co. This is be- serted he was not receiving even §1 |lieved to be the only policy on which from the company. Neither Rutledge |there was any possibility of collec- nor his attornevs would discuss the | tion. able to his widow. charges last night. vartz carried insurance in ex- . {cess of $100,000. His act in commit- ting suicide after murdering a wan. dering missionary in an asserted death hoax is claimed to have voided the other policies, Schwartz Murder Suicide Claimed Insurance Fraud. SAN FRANCISCO, August 13 (#).— and Flectric platform trucks for use in rallway stations have just been intro- duced Into Lima, Peru. INDIANA. Hoosiers on for the pardon of former Gov. MeCray, who is serving a prison term ; prevention of enormous | ve been | trom | who called upon Attorney The zroup includes Representative George Bernhard and A. Gutherie. Copyright by P. & A. Photos One case where clothes do not make the man. Sam, the orang-utan of the St. Louis Zoo, cannot be dressed up in any mode or manner to make him resemble the us homo. Copyrizht by P. & A. Photos AMERICAN AVIATORS WHO w ) Field, F ! < Lieut. | GOES TO THE JURY TODAY Illness of Juror Halts Night Ses- sion of Court—Arguments End at Noon. By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Calif., August Whether Mary Pickford as a potential kidnaping victim by two truck drivers and a salesman, or picked by a palir of detectives for the publicity value of her name in con- nection with a scheme to shed glory on themselves as sleuths, was a que: tion expected to be answered by a su | perior Court jury today | Final arguments by counsel for C. Z Stephens, Claude Holcomb and Adrian Wood, charged with plotting |to kidnap Miss Pickford, were to be completed today, and the case ex { pected to go to fhe jury about noon An attempt to wind up the arguments |last night was frustrated when the illness of a juror forced adjournment. ROADV WORK TO BE LET. Montgomery County Improvements to Be Started. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, August 13.--Con- tracts for constructing roadsin Mont- gomery County probably will be awarded next week, following the opening of bids by the State- Roads Commission. Tuesday. Gospell, Russell & Co. bid $78,472.30 for the contract to resurface with ma- cadam five miles of the Colesviile- { Ashton road; the Loomis-Wetzel.Co., 1,827,806.20 to construct a mile of con- #-ete road on the River highway from the Potomac toward Seneca, and Cot- son & Gruman Ct $30,129 for a mile af concrete road between Laytonsville and Claysville. . . h France in the World War before the United Sta Comdr. Granville Pollock, Capt. Weller, Lieut. Col. Aus I. Kerwood and Capt. Bullen. HURSDAY, AUGUST LISTENERSIN ON THE FAR ent of the United States N taking a reading from the in communicating with the Mz PRIZE FIGHTER OPENS A GOWN SALON. NORTH. al Research Laboratory at Bellevue, D, C., 00.000- Millan expedition. tion on a low-wave frequency has heen established. Dr. A. H. Taylor, superintend- cycle transmitting set used at night Two-way communica- Miller Service Nearly all of the hoxing fans know Lew Tendler, and they may be surprised to learn that he has opened a “gown shop™ in New up the rinz. but the shop is suppe WILL AID THE They wear the uniform of the York RENCH IN MOROCCO CAMPAT tes entered. who are volunteers with the French in Moros Lew (at the right) has net given s<ed to keep him busy between ap- ht by Underwood & Underwood Former members of in Parker, Capt. Holden, French Air Service. {PICKFORD KIDNAPING CASE Bathing Bandits Hold Up Swimmers And Rob Cashier at New York Pool { | | By the Associated Press NEW YORK. August 13.—Eight hold-up men, four of whom emerged in bathing suits from the swimming pool at Starlight Park, in the Bronx, to participate in the robbery, held up terday and escaped with several thou- |sands of dollars in valuables after | slightly wounding Special Officer Si | ney Rohn | Four of the robbers covered Miss | May White, who holds patrons’ valua- l\rle\‘. with pistols while the four oth- |ers entered her booth from the rear | and collected the loot in a valise, then | lined patrons, mostly women and chil- as picked |bathers and officials of the pool yes-|dren, against the wall and searched | the pockets of those in street clothes. | As eight men ran to the street with | their loot Rohn opened fire, which the | hold-up men returned. Rohn was |slightly wounded in the left shoulder. | FOUR HELD IN MAIL THEFT. | Contess Robberies Extending Over | Several Months, Police Say. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., August 13 | (). —Four men were arrested here United States malils of and merchandise, the total value of which is estimated at several thousand dol- money lars. office, another former employe, while the others swere employed by the American Railway Express Co. Police said goods to the value of nearly $5,000 had been recovered from the men’s homes. The police say they have signed statements from the men admitting the thefts, which have extended over several months. Those arrested were: Loren Nuttall, night mailing clerk in the Schenectady Post Office; Merritt Freemeyer, formerly employed by the post officé as motor sruck driver: Richard Gamble, night transfer man employed by the American Railway Express Co.. Dudiey Clune, a friend of Gamble, employed by the General Electric, Co. and substitute helper for the express company. a {last night charged with robbing the One was an employve of the post | DIES IN AUTO CRASH. Judge J. G. Harman, Struck by Tree Branch, Killed Instantly. SBURG, Pa., August 13 (). John G. Harman, presiding judge of the Columbia and Montour judicial district since 1918, and prom | inent in the Democratic councils of |the State for many years, was killed | yesterday in an automobile accident near Mount Carmel. Dr. R. E. Miller, Bloomsburg, who was driving the car, | escaped with slight injuries. | The machine was mounting a grade | when the accelerator stuck. Dr. Mil- |ler released the clutch and the car | swerved to the side of the road: Judge | Harman lurched forward and was | struck by a tree branch and thrown from the car. The automobflé con- tinued into the tree, overturning. | Judge Harman suffered a fractured | skull, dying almost instantly. . Abolish 32 Rural Schools. CHATHAM, Va., August 13.—Thirty- | two small rural schools are being dis- continued, and consolidated with the larger schools of their districts, ac- cording to an announcement by Fletcher B. Watson, county superin- tendent of schools. | ] i | mission county | 13, 1925 Irene Bordoni. well known to the theatergoers, returns from a Summer in Europe —and look at the novelty stockings! The latter carry her own and her hushand’s pictures. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William K. Vander- hilt, and T. Smith of New York, who will be married in Januar; Consuelao’s sister Muriel recently became the bride of Frederie Cam- eron Church, Smith was a member of the 1923 class at Yale. Photos by Acme Photos and P. & A. the Lafayette Escadrille, serving co. Photo taken at Le Bourget Col. Sweeney, squadron leader; Copyright by P. & A. Photos. | PORTUGUESE PROTESTS AFRICAN SLAVERY REPORT Paper Takes Offense at Paper Read by American to League of Nations. By the Astociated Press LISBON, August 13.—The news- paper Diario de Noticias today prints a protest against the report of the American Prof. Edward A. Ross of Wisconsin to the slavery com- mittee of the League of Nations on the subject of compulsory employ- ment of native labor in Portuguese East Africa. The paper contends that the legislative provisions govern- ing the employment of native labor in the Portuguese colonies are of ex emplary nature. Prof. Ross was the author of a report submitted to the slavery com- in July on the subject of mpulscry labor among the natives of Portuguese Africa. Inasmuch as Prof. Ross’ report constitutes an ac- cusation against a_member ~f the league and that the State Depart- ment of the United States Government has stated that Prof. Ross is not a Government official. it has indicated that the League of Nations will not discuss his report at the coming session. TAKES OVER MAGAZINE. Robert La Follette, Jr., to Edit Father’s Publication. MADISON, Wis., August 13 (#).— La Follette's Magazine, formerly pub- lished by the late Senator La Follette, will be continued under a_ new staff, headed by Robert M. La Follette, jr., as editor. The Senator's widow, Mrs. Belle Case La Follette is associate editor and her son Philip and flaL:zhlel’ Fola have positions on the staff. ' > WASHINGTONIANS TO Weston and Lieut. Char England, where th scholars. s E, BE RHODE:! Saltzman, hoth of Washington. ¢ will enter Magdalen College They are the first West Poin SCHOLARS. andish iling for as Rhodes honor, Lieut Oxford, selected for the they will remain in the service of Uncle Sam. RED HEAD BRINGS HOME THE graceful sister of the Lania, which Great Britain, being unloaded from York. The boat defeated all entries W.C.T.U. Opposes Return of Models Of Stills by U. S. At a recent meeting of W. (. J a committee appointed 10 draft and file a protest against the sale or return of any models of inventions which may be in possession or under control of the ‘ommissioner of Pat ents for stills or other appliances ap. pertaining to the manufacture of al cohol or intoxicating liquc and to urge that all such models be destroyed Committees were appointed call upon the Secretary of the T ury and the Secretary of Commerce and urges that such obvious violation of the internal revenue laws and the prohibition act be prevented SAVES $10,000 FINE BY SERVING 30 DAYS Convicted Bootlegger Signs Pau- per's Oath and Is Freed—Passed Two Years in Prison. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga.. August 13.—Morris Sweetwood, convicted New York boot- legger. was permitted to sign a pau- per's oath before 2 United States com- missioner yesterday and thus gained his freedom from the United States prison here. Sweetwood completed a two-year term a month ago and served an additional 30 days that he might sign the pauper's oath and escape payment of a fine of $10,000. District Attorney C. W. Hager con tended that Sweetwood was not pauper, but had deposited $615,295.14 in New York banks in October, 1921. Sweetwood said that large deposits were frequently made to be withdrawn in a few days. The prisoner said that he was forced to borrow $200 with which to insure his return to New York. FLOGGED AND CHAINED. Victim Alleged Bootleggers | Tells of Struggle Over Still. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va. August 13.— Flogged. carrjed three miles and chain ed In the upper floor of a deserted house was the fate of Willie T. Arthur, ot still and to have hidden it. According to Commonwealth's Attorney Posie J. Hundley of Pittsylvania, Arthur re- visited "the hidden still and D. W. (Gregory, Anse Dalton and Oscar Adams attacked him. Arthur told the county authorities he was stunned by a blow on the head, and when he re- vived he was flogged, after which he sank into unconsciousness, coming to himself chained in the abandoned house. He escaped and reached the home of a physician. Gregory, Dalton and Adams were charged with feloni- ous assault. Resign From Army. The President has accepted the resignation of Second Lieut. Leslie W, Stanley, U. 8. Infantry, and that of Second Lieut. Edgar L. Love, Coast Artillery Corps. " who is alleged to have stolen an illicit | PRIZE. The speedster Red Head. recaptured the Susquebanna cup in the Cameronia at the dock in New in the annual event NEGROIS LYNGHED BY MISSISSIPPINOB Alleged Slayer Is Taken From Sheriff and Riddled With Builets. & AT e O SCOBE Townes, n in connecti McMullen | Long, 70, was taken fr | Frose here vesterday approximately 75 men death The negro was Associate 65, farme: nd Mrs. Mary om Sheriff Wiil by a mob of and shot to uffering from seri ous wounds inflicted with a shotgun by I. M. McMullen, 72, brother of the man killed. when he was taken from the sheriff by the mob. whose mem {bers shot him n The mob is reported shortly after the death of Mrs. I which occurred yesterday during the funeral of . len. Townes. a t in relled with his wife and pursued her into the McMullen farmhouse. Dur- ing the melee he eged to have | attacked McMullen and Mrs. Long instantly killing the aged man, who was a brother of Mrs. Long times. ed to have for afternoon ob MeMul quar is | GIVES PRIEST NEW DIME. | Rockefeller Coin and Wishes Pre- sented at Testimonial. | BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N. Y., Au | gust 13 (P).—A new 10-cent plece with an accompaniment of “best wishes™ was_ presented on behalf of John D Rockefeller to the Rev. James P yHughes, former assistant rector of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Teresa of Tarrytown, at a testimonial dinner |glven him last night at Briarcliff {Lodge VoM s Rolf Rockefeller was playing |with R t A. Patterson when | Res d of the dinner. | “Give Father Hu {said to Mr. Patterson sorry he is going away. Tell him 1 |am sorry I did not see more of him. |1 send him my best wishes in his new | field At the dinner, friends of Father |terson presented hes this dime,” he and say 1 am attended by Hughes, Mr. the dime and 200 Pat the Retires From Cavalry. Col. James N. Munro, United States Cavairy, who has been under treat- ment at Walter Reed General Hospi- tal, this city, has been placed on the retired list of the Army, on account of disability incident to the service. He is from Minnesota and was graduated from the Military Academy in June, 1897. Most of his service was in the Cavalry arm and in the Quartermas- { ter Corps. He took part in the Philip- | pine insurrection and the World War, and at one time was stationed at the Army War College in this city. He reached the grade éf colonel in July, 1920, >