Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1925, Page 22

AIDFORDISABLED VETERANS IS URGED §;Red Cross in Campaign in Be- half of Men in United States Hospitals. ¥By the Associated Press. }. The American Red Cross today plaunched a nation-wide campaign in {'behalf of disabled veterans in Govern jment hospitals. From headquarters in Washington telegrams went out to the 3,000 Red Cross chapters calling for 30,000 taweaters which will be needed h\'h*‘e: former service men with the first hfht JoF chilly weather. Appeal Made to Women. The chapters were asked to muster ithe thousands of women who did val iuable service during the war with “their knitting needles. and were in istructed to accept cash donations for iwool—about $2.75 for each sweater !Wwith sleeves and $1.50 for those with- iout—from persons who are unable to imake the garments. .- The campaign, the first of such Acope conducted by the society solely in behalf of former service men, was of the Vet- | initiated with the approv: lerans' Bureau and the surgeons ®eral of the Army and Navy. Cha man John Barton Payne, in his ap: peal, said: Thousands Need Winter Supplies. ! “Winter approaches and in the Go grnment hospitals are thousands of sick and disabled ex-service men who | 1600k to us to provide them with sweat- ers, one of the few articles grateful Government has not a fed for their comfort. need is as | wurgent as the time s ;hort. We must | respond to this appeal instantly. Our Quty to the disabled veteran is our first obligation. This is 1 for unteers, in behalf of men whose h sacrifices for us are responsivie for | their present condition. Let every member of the Red Cross enlist in this work of gratitude.” PIGGLY WIGGLY SUIT ' DISMISSED BY COURT| :’51,500,000 Damage Claim of | /Stockholder Against Present Di- | rectors Held Baseless. By the Associated Press. i MEMPHIS, Tenn., September 15.— Chancellor W. W. Hughes announced Yast night that he had dismissed a 1,500,000 damage suit filed against the board of directors of the Piggly Wiggly Corporation several months ago by E. A. Guilfoyle, a Memphis stockholder. The chancellor held the irregulari- | ties cited in the plaintiff's suit oc-| curred during and prior to November, | 1922, and that the present directorate | could not be held responsible, as the members of the board were elected in | August, 1923. His ruling ined a | demurrer filed in cha court fecentl the directors Guilfoyle charged that the directors had conspired to defraud the stock- holders of the corporation and were guilty of ‘“gross negligence and in attention to thelr dutles.” All of the alleged illegal acts. of the direc felated to gtock transactions of involving chiefly class A stock of Piggly Wiggly Corporation. He ac- cused the directors of having entered into a conspiracy to_effect a corner of that stock on the Chicago and New York markets for the benefit and gain of themselves individually and col- lectively to the detriment of the cor- - | members of the commission of in. Why - poration. The Guilfoyle bill charged the di- | rectors with ‘“‘misappropriation of funds and assets belonging to said | = eorporation to advance their own private and personal interests, to the injury and damage of sald corpora- tion.” Such alleged misappropriations \vere claimed as a waste of the cor- poration’s assets. His bill also asked the cancellation of a loun foi 000,- 000 negotiated with the > ville Trust Co. of ville, Tenn., by the directors. NOTED PROFESSOR DIES. Bev. A. T. Clay, Babylonian Stu- | dent, Succumbs After Operation. | NEW HAVEN, Conn., September 15 | (#).—Rev. Albert Tobias Clay, Wil-| liam M. Lafan professor of Assyriology | and Babylonian literature at Yale Uni- | versity, who deciphered the Baby-| Jonian tablets in the J. P. Morgan col- | Jection, died yesterday. Prof. Clay went to the hospital several days ago for| an operation. ‘] Prof. Clay was one of the distin- | guished students of Babylonian his- | tory and also was president of the | American Soclety for Orlental Re. gearch. Some months ago he returned from service as the head of the col- lege of the soclety in the Near Prior to coming to Yale, Pr WITH OIL For Your Home Forever Coal Strike Worry Installed Promptly If Ordered At Once Americans Conquer $1,000,000 Oil Blaze In Rumanian Well By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, September 15.—A fire which has destroyed a million dollars’ worth of crude oil at Wildcat Well No. 1, in the newest extension of the Moren Oil Field, belonging to the Romano-Americana Co., a subsidlary of the Standard Oil, was extinguished yesterday after burning 50 days. The well, which was sunk in virgin strata, had reached a_depth of 1,143 meters, the deepest in Rumania, when it began a violent eruption on July 24 Immediately it caught fire because the tools blown from the hole struck a spark from the iron derrick. The violence of the flow and the terrific heat defeated all efforts to extinguish the fire until engineers had completed tunnels to the well's casing. Fire-fighting fluids were then pumped in and the flames extinguish- ed. CHINA ASKED TO ACT. Is Notified of Other Powers' Readi- ness for Parley. PEKING, September 15 (#).—The Dutch Minister, W.J. 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