Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 18

18 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHING"I‘ON', D. C. SEPTEMBER 13,. 1925—PART 1. SAUNDERS RELATES BEH’ HNE PRUJEB]’ Furbershaw Coming Here Under Guard |LADY NORTHESK SOON To Attend Funeral of His Mother T0 REAPPEAR ON STAGE | Former Follies Beauty, Now Br Speclal Dispatch to The Star. ish Countess, to Take Part in HOW HECAME BACK Former Piggly-Wiggly Head Expects to Amass Huge Fortune Again. Special Dispatch to The Star. FORT WORTH, Tex., September 13.—Clarence Saunders, who lost his fortune and control of the Piggly- Wiggly stores two “ears ago in a spectacular Wall Street battle, while here this week explained how he ex- pected to be worth $500,000,000 when he is 60 His method is simple. He compels himself to be his own worst | competitor Saunders is 47 and, except for gray- ing hair. still has the appearance and vigor of youth. He visited Fort Worth to attend the opening of his sixtleth store, all of his stores dis. signs “Sole Owner of loss in Wall Street was the best thing that ever happened to me,” he sald. “For I have learned now to think, how to look ahead and how to analyze the other fellow. Formerly 1 took it for granted the other would adopt attitude similar mine. Now I know all men are dif- ferent and I learned this difference with all men I dealt with. “But now I have become my worst competitor. I break down every fdea I set up, or try to. AS soon as 1 outline some apparently practicable plan, I think up a thousand other ideas in opposition to it, and if it won't stand the test I discard that fdea. Most men when they get hold of some good scheme stop right there and won't think of anything else. I try to and do think of schemes that would defeat nre, so I always know what opposition can do and prepare for it Although Saunders admitted having A/ fondness for swimming. tennis, box ing. golfing. dancing and politics, he has turned philosopher—of the rapld fire type. “1 remake ald fact minute. 1 have myself every day,” he I believe I do it every solutely quit Nving in the past. What already has hap- pened means nothing, so why think and worry about it? The fine costly home I owned at Memphis, that T lost when Wall Street beat me, | never think of. It is now a country club. I hardly ever pass by it, for I have too much else occupying my time “Yes, I expect be worth $500 000.000 by thHe time I am 60, but don’t mistake me is not the money I am after. Why, I never think of money If I had the reward mind | I would never get anywhere man will make a success If he simply thinks of what reward he will get out of it It's th fun, the battle, the game I am interested in. I want to be an active part of anything. then the money will come anyway Tells of Comeback. Saunders lost every cent he had two vears ago. and while here he told how he managed to come back “I went into bankruptey, but only on stock, not for personal debis.” he sald, “so mv credit was always good I never borrowed a cent In my come back. Soon after my fortune swept away the father of on former employes handed me for $2900 he obtained from Plgglv-Wiggly stock do with {t as I pleased. ot $2,000 on some property she owned in Illinols, and later more friends suld Piggly-Wiggly stock and turned the momney over to me, until I ad $18,000 with which to start over again. T used $4.500 of this for newspaper ad ertising and $2.500 for 75,000 carna ons. Merchants gave me eredit and by the time bills wera due I had profits from store sales.” Saunders has contracts for stores in nd says he expects to heat Wiggly record of 400 stores want to be happy. if by ne means we should be content with everything.” he sald. philosophiz- {ng again. “Why, T am happiest when I am uncrating vegetables and potte: Ing around in a store.” Saunders’ fir: job, when he was 14, paid him $4 a month and board. of m check selling He told me to Hofer’s Descendant in Need. Correspondence of the Associated Press. VIENNA, August 21.—The great granddaughter of Andreas the Tyrlese leader, who was executed by Napoleon's order in 1810 is living in Vienna in very reduced circumstances. As her pension from the Austrian government is a very small one, lends have published on her behalf an appeal for ald. It re- sulted in an offer from the Andre Jiofer concern at Parsch of an addi- My | feliow | to | own | Then my wife | Hofer, | minute Intervals to get this beautiful scene. The photograph shows plenty of | ‘The midnight sun over Ellesmere Island. Six photographic exposures were taken by Comdr. MacMillan at 20- 'BRITISH ARMY PLANS | GREATEST WAR GAME Autumn Maneuvers Will Be Most Extensive Staged Since Before 1914. By the Associated Prees. LONDON, September where in the County of Hampshire from September 22 to September 29 will rage one of the greatest battles | of modern times. It will be fought on the most scientific lines the world | ever has seen, but there will be few casuaities among the 40,000 troops participating because the demonstra tion will be the Autumn maneuvers of the British army. They are to be the most extensive staged since 1913, Roads will be closed over a consid erable area, and while the batile is in progress, airplanes, almost unknown in military maneuvers prior to 1913 will carry out operatfons on a plan never before attempted. The latest wireless inventions will be utilized to effect rapld transportation of men and ammunition by motors, while speed ing up generally of the mimic war fare. with tanks moving at 15 miles an hour instead of 5 as in Flanders, will bring the opposing forces to- gether more quickly than ever before. Special devices for hiding guns and troops from aerial observers as well as special smokescreen apparatus will be tested during the maneuvers which will be attended by Marshal Petaln and other foreign officers British public has been kept in the dark regarding the exact location of | the troops 8o that the owners of ex cursion automobiles are adverusing trips to hunt the battlefield ‘‘some. | where in Hampshire." | 'RELICS OF NAPOLEON | 12.—Some. Gift Is From Lord Curzon, But Pos- sibility of Refusal Is Seen. Gorrespandence of the Associated Press OXFORD, August 20.—Under the will of the late Lord Curzon a large and valuable collection of Napoleonic | relics, largely relating to the life and | death of the emperor at St. Helena, | and a collection of empire furniture have been left to the University of Oxford on condition that these articles [snau be housed in the Bodlelan Li- brary or & museum. Whether or not the university will | mccept the gift remains to be seen. | For some years it has regularly de clined the offer of an enormous collec on of postage stamps, the library re fusing o take the stamps because they ure not books and the art mu | seum refusing them hecause they are not works of art. These same objac. tions will probably be ralsed agalnst | day AUSTRALIAN IMPORTS AND EXPORTS INCREASE Overseas Trade Shows Marked | Gain—Motor Vehicles Third in | List of Incoming Products. ciated Press. Correspondence of the As MELBOUR August 14.—Aus. tralla’s overseas trade for the year ended June 30 constitutes a new rec- ord, officlal figures made public here | reveal. Exports for the year totaled | $805,000,000, compared with) $595,000, 000 last year. Imports were $785,000,- 000, compared with $700,000,000 the previous year Motor chassls imports, valued at $60.000.000, stood third in the list of incoming products, being led only by linen plece goods, valued at $55,000, 000, and gold to the value of §52.006 00y PAINLEVE'S F-:IRST SPEECH IN LEAGUE NEVER SPOKEN Changed Several Times and at Last Discarded for Entirely Spon- taneous Talk. By the Associated Press PARIS, Sepgember 12.— Premler | Paul Painleve's carefully prepared spesch to open the assembly of the League of Nations, now in session at Geneva, died in the making on Mon and was replaced by the spon taneous utterance in which the premier cried deflance at the league's nies i luborate preparations were made | 1o distribute the uddress as M. Pain- | {leve first drufted it, but as the mimeo graphers began their work on Mon- | day morning corr lons began tu ar ; rive by telephone from Genev. When these were made and the work | started again there came more tele- phone calls with further corrections. | Meanwhile M. Paigleve misiaid his | copy of the &peech In Geneva and w0 hours were spent searching for it. | Then as the new copies were abhout | to ba distributed another messege | came from the League of Nations | headquarters saying that the speech | had been changed bevond recognition | and that the copies intendsd for the | press were to bs put into the waste- | basket. { Woman Juggles Freight. | Mrs. Florence Merriman of Port- land, Me., s probably the only “lady stevedore” in the country. She says she can handle as much frelght as &ny man. She also 18 mate and cook on & vessel and in addition helps at any other task while at sea. Bacillus Acidophilus Milk For intestinal disord k your physiciaa al Prepared by the NATIONAL VACCINE AND ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE | Burrender of Gen | clared CIVIL WAR’S CLOSE LIKE ARMISTICE DAY Veteran Recalls rounding Lee's Surrender Created “Prolonged Bedlam.” Incidents Sur- By the Associated Pre | building such & freight’ line; it tensive SPOKANE, Wash., September 12.— | beginning of the armistice that ended the World War were enacted at the Robert E. Lee at the close of the Civil War, George N. Stormes of this city, who witnessed Lee's surrender, declared recently My, what & rejoicing there was when news came that the ‘Johnnies' had enough and that the war was over,” he said. “There was just one big, prolonged bedlam. Kvery one was shouting and yelling at the top of his volce, hugging each other, clapping each other on the back, shaking hands, throwing caps, coffee cups, canteens, old muskets, anything at all that was movable, up in the air or at each other, just 8o they could give vent to | Scenes akin to those that marked the | | | | | reads as follow: ington UNDER NEW ATTACK Two More Protests, From|ine acton by the erand jurs on | alleged 1 Montgomery and Arlington Counties, Received. The Public Service Commission in Baltimore has recelved two additional protests against the propesed Wash- ington and Loughborough belt line rallway around the District of Co. lumbia. One of these was from H. G. Rob. ertson and 11 other property owners of Montgomery County along River road near Loughborough. | Cairo-to-Karachi Section of British | the | BELAIR, Md., September 12.- Joseph' A. Furbershaw, Washington prohibition agent, held in jafl pend charges of causing the death of John A. Buongore, will be released in the custody of a. deputy sheriff to attend the funeral of his mother, who died in_Washington today. When notified of his mother's de PLOWED PATHS GUIDE AIRMEN IN DESERT LAND th Route to India Will Have Luxurious Planes. The second one was from the presl- | gy caple to The Star and New York World dent of the Highland Park Citizens' Association of Arlington County, Wi llam W. Diehl. The communication “A company known as the Wash- and Loughborough Railway, capltalization unknown and unstated proposes to build a belt line railrond for transfer of freight through the residential sectfon of Arlington Count Capital; and the parts of Arlington County through which these pro moters threaten to run this freight belt line dre buflding up into exclusively residential section such as the character of .the reglon jus (the residents of this county were at tracted to this region by its many de sirable features as a place for homes) this attractiveness would be destroyed the. front yard of the Natlon's | o4 thoroughly ifles | qesert LONDON, September 12.-—Plowed paths along the anclent caruvan routes of the desert are to gulde the airmen operating the Cairo.to-Karachi section of the British air route from London to India The regular passenger-carrving and mail-carrying airplane service organ ized by the British air ministry, which is to be opened shortly, is being test by experts along the stages, and Air Vice Mar Seften Brancker, who already traversed the entire route by alr, Is personally superintending the arrangements for the 400.mil route between Calro different shal Sir Karach! For the Inauguration of the service arge royal air force bombing planes will be used, and, although mail: by the bullding of or probability of be carried over the whole rout is to be expected and feared that such a project would change the whole tenor of the present growth in Arlington County, resulting in a settlement by an allen and undesirable population, whose totally divergent customs wouid affect our schools and drive away the type of people now resident here. “And in view of the fallure of ex- industrial development Alexandria and other points Washington, where both railway and |be lighted in | There wili indus- | apparatus. a feature that will inevita. water transport are available, it extremely doubtful whether ideals and | will at | accommodated near |stered deep chalrs, and the cabin wiil of it will be r transport. T a time only part able for passeng designed to enable civilian aviators to obtain complete experfence of the “dangerous” desert route. Later luxurlous passenger planes be utllized—three-engined craft some of them carrying 1,000 horse power Napler-Cub in the nose and a 500-horsepower motor on each side of the cabin. The passengers will be in comfortably uphol throughout by electrieity. also be an electric cook! trial establishments of the type re-|bly be included in all future long-dis- quiring a railroad can be a success in | tance machines this part of Arlington County. | Sir Seften Brancker contends.that if ‘Resolved, that the Highland Park |alr travel is to compete with other Citizens' Association opposes and asks the ald of all clvic organizations throughout Arlington County in opposing the bullding or promotion of any such project which, like an iron | band, would surround the National Capital and present a barrier to any further extension of the beautiful metropolitan district of Washing ton." SOVIET HONORS ARTIST, ITS IRRECONCILABLE FOE the world of emotion that had been | Riepin, Who Left Russia in Pro- pent up within them during four long | vears of hardship and eorrow.” The actual surrender, Mr said, did not take place at Stormes Appoma test, Mads Object of Acclaim in Leningrad. tox Court House. but at Clover HIIL | Correspondence of the Associated Press. about 3 miles away. However, he de- it did not actually end the hostilities in that locality. A short time after lee had sur- rendered, 1 was one of a detall soldiers which was sent to dig some 137 graves that the Confederates had made near the courthouse,” he sald. “In those graves we found 137 Confederate cannon, and not one of those guns was spiked.” Mr._Stormes served New York Regiment. et American electric frons and water heaters are used on the Riviera. in the 124th | LENINGRAD, August 16.—In com memoration of the eightieth birthday of the famous Russian painter, Riepin, who is now living in Finland, an ex °f | hibition of his work has been opened up | 4¢ Leningrad. Chief attention was given to his portrafture work. The exhibltion cohtains also some of the less known work of Riepin as a culptor, {ncluding busts of Leo Tol stol and other Russian writers. Riepin is known as an ‘“irreconcil- able” to the bolsheviks. He left Rus- sia immediately after the revolution, and despite numerous invitations to return, has declined to do so. means of transport, it must be equal ly. if not more, comfortable. To meet this idea spe: s are being Washed RUGS: Sanitary Carpet Cle. Co. Phone Lincoln 1481 & Lincoln 7638 Cleaned Shampooed Scoured you'l quickiyfradefor Studehaker: . Power Durability-Finish?] NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS To avoid omission in receio- advance notice. Always give old address as well as the new addre: | | Furbershaw pleaded with State's At. | | torney W | allow him to go | attend her funeral Since he shot and killed Buongore, wootlegger, In Havre de Grace August 1, he has been held without bafl in the county jall here Hopkina conferred with the sheriff and agreed to allow Furbershaw to go to Washington to the funeral in the custody of a deputy sheriff Worthington Hopkins to .Washington to | designed. and Brancker, although not | personally interested in the commer ‘aln.l projects of the imperial airways is utilizing his experience in supervis | ing all experiments Uses Saddle Worth $5,000. { TONOPAH, Nev 12 (P —A saddle worth the envy of September $5.000 in country, 1= the possession Garcla of Elko, Nev. ( time saddle maker. made the unus saddle for his use. Intri warked fnto it is approxir worth of gold and silver the Western of G every bronco buster own an old to | Charity Performance. 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