Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1925, Page 17

IN A HANDCLASP OF VICTORY. Hylan by 100,000 majo York Tuesday much pleased and Gov. Al Smith (ri th the results, AMUNDSEN THAWS OUT IN BALMY CLIMATE. riences in the frozen North, has been resting in Italy. y in the Democra ker. who beat s for Mayor of New s champion in the fight. both P. & A Erotos, Senator James J. Wa ght), hi Here he is being ma BEAUTIFUL OWNER OF RUM SHIP HELD Mme. Casares, Accused by London Store, Reveals Meteoric Business Career. } { By the Amociated Press | LONDON, September 17.—The con- | troversy which has raged around the now famous rum schooner Gen. Ser- rett and the beautiful woman who is its owner, Mme. Gloria De Vere Ca sares, reached an unexpected clin vesterday. Mme. (‘asares was arrested on a charge unconnected with the hat- | tle over the Gen. Se tt or with the enterprise for running liquor through the dry fleet of the United States. She was ¢ rged with obtaining goods under false pretenses, the de partment store of Selfridge’s alleging | that she obtained a gown valued at 14 ruineas (about $71.40) from the store| on May 23, for which she has not paid. | The arrest broke into the heautifui | ship owner’'s battle to resume control | of her schooner, for it came when she was In conference with her solicitors | over the proposed legal action to get | the ship out of control of its-captain, who has refused Mme. Casares ace to it. She was released on ball, a surets hond of £40 being required in addition 10 her own recognizance for £80. | When the warrant was read to her; the police sav she exclaimed: “What- | er is this for? T have an account at elfridge’s. I owe them a lot of money. | | It seems to me to be a conspiracy.” | Heads Steamship Company. | Mme, Casares' arrest has disclosed | one of the most remarkable personali- | tles in the feminine world of Great Britain. She is young and very beauti- | ful, comes of a good family and is well educated, is exceptionally talented and to all appearances has had consider- | able wealth. She is the divorced wife | of Emilio Casares, jr.. scion of a dis-| tinguished Argentine family. He is now | in Buenos Aires and has had nothing | to do with his former wife's rum ning ventures. He and Mme. Casares | lived together only short time and ! separated four years ago. She is safd to e founded the Glorfa Steamship Co., which owns | the General Serrett, and is its man- ng director. Little had heen ! known publicly about the operations ! of this company until the sensational | disclosures about the schooner ap- peared in the -press. The London | newspapers were quick to designate ! Mme. Casares as “the beautiful rum runner,” although she herself as- serts that she had nothing to do with shipping whisky to the United States, Dbut that she only chartered the ship to others without having any inter- est in the cargo of liquor. Lost Fortune in Russia. ! Mme. Casares was born in Eng- | land, her father being French and| her mother Russian. Her maliden | name was oria de Vere. Her father at one time was wealthy, it| i< learned. but he lost most of his money when the Bolshevik revolution swept Russia. He was killed in an accident ip Japan. Gloria was reared in England and educated in a con- vent. She has a pretty cottage overlook- [Ray | Nausea Is Feeling { Of Noted Composer| At Modern Music)| By the Associated Press. VENTI September 17.—Arturo Toscanini, former musical director of the New York Metropolitan Opera, sat | at a table in an open-air cafe in St.| Marks Square vesterday chatting with | ais friends concerning the interna-| tional festival of cotemporary music | which has just closed here and which | was marked by the presentation of ul- | tra-modern compositions. The famous conductor remarked “Thank God, it's over! Now we can disinfect the theater.” A journalist asked Toscanini to ex- plain’ more fully his impressions of | emplified by the programs of the fes- | tival, | M impression? It's utmost nau- | se: the musician replied. MAN ADMITS MURDER OF HIS WIFE AND SON. | Daughter's Accusation May Send Mechanic to Gallows for | Double: Slaying. Bs the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., September 17.— F. Shank. a 50-year-old gray- haired mechanic, last night faced a daughter's accusation which may send | him to the gallows for tne murder | early vesterday of his wife, Mrs. . Ma- | rian Shank, 49, and their son, Paul, 19. | They were shot to death—the boy | as he lay asleep in bed—by the father, | infuriated because his wife asked the | courts for a divorce. The daughter, Ruth, young Denver high school teacher, escaped | the same fate by hiding under the bed | where the lifeless body of her mother g and then fleeing into a neighbor's | yard, with her father, rifle in hand, in | pursuit. The neighbor, C. A. Seguin, leaped from his bedroom window, pouncing | on Shank. Shank then ran back into the house, where he sought to drown | himself in'a bathtub. Officers arrested while he was ducking his head | a water-flled tub and took him to | police headquarters. | Police “announced late last night | that Shank had sigred a confession | that he killed his wife and son and at- tacked his daughter with a rifle, 21, a in e SRS . ‘Woman Is Found Dead. Mrs. Rosalie Dawson, 73 years old, was: found dead at her home, 31 K street northeast, vesterday afternoon. She had not been in good health for some time, Coroner Nevitt was told, and a certificate of death from nat- ural causes was given. She was the widow of George Fran- cis Dawson. She Is survived by two daughters, Mrs. R. de Aquilera and Miss F ._Dawson. Ing_the golf links at New Asden and | a flat in the West End of London.| She equipped her cottage partly with | fine furniture once owned by the| Marquess of Anglessy. She is an| expert horsewoman, an experienced | motorist and an excellent navigator. Recently she has been buying pedi- greed cattle, and is reputed to have an extensive . knowledge of cattle breeding. | ures against Col. Mitchell for h NEW PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE. Senator Raonl Dandurand of Canada, who was unanimously elected to head the League of Nations at on of the assembly at Geneva, The famous Arctic explorer, after his harrowing expe- de much of on the beach at Ostia. Wide World Photos. MITCHELL PLAN VIGOROUS DEFENSE Case Going Through Usual | Routine Channels in War Department. ; | | Officials of the War Department and | officers of the Army whose presence | may be desired by the President’s Air | cotemporary symphonic effects as ex- | Service Commission in the course of | its investigation are expected to keep | themselves in immediate readiness to respond to a summons. Included in the list of those who undoubtedly will be examined as to the issues affecting | the administration of the Army | Service are A ing Secre s, | en. Hines, chief of . Drum, assistant chief of staff Gen. Patrick, chief of the Air| Brig. Gen. Fechet, assistant | chief of Air Service, and Col. Mitchell, | former assistant chief of Air Service. | All of those named are in this city, | except Col. Mitchell, who is stationed | at San Antonio, and he will be ordered | here at once if the commission desires | to examine him, generally accepted as a foregone conclusion. Case in'Routine Channels. ; Meanwhile plans of the War Depart- ment to_institute disciplinary paper criticisms of his offic periors are following the usual off clal routine. Gen. Bethel. judge ad- vocate general of the Army, is study ing the statement issued recently b: Col. Mitchell, alleging culpable in-| efficiency in the administration of the | Air Service. If he concludes that the officer violated the articles of war and the Acting Secretary of War agrees, with him, the case will be referred to the President for authority to insti- tute court-martial proceedings. If| that course is determined upon the | judge advocate general will then pre- | pare the charges on which Col. Mitch- ell will be tried and the President! will convene the court-martial and | fix the place of meeting. | As usual in such cases, the court| will be composed of 13 officers senior | in grade to the accused. The chief of staff will be asked to submit a lst ! of officers not personally interested | in the issues involved who are avail- able for court-martial duty. In that case the court will be formed of gen- eral officers and senior colonels. It is questionable if any officer of the Air Service will be considered eligi- ble for service on the court. Surface indications are that Col. Mitchell will wage a_vigorous fight in his own defense and that he will be assisted by a strong array of legal talent in contesting every point that{ may be raised by the military afithor- itles. Tt was rumored today that the firm of Ansell -& Bailey of this city may | be retained by Col. Mitchell for his| defense, in case court-martial proceed- | ings are initiated. Gen. Ansell was formerly attached to the judge ad- vocate general's department and is, regarded as an authority on military | law and proceedings. In the ordi- | nary course an officer of the judge advocate general's department would be appointed judge advocate of the court and conduct the proceedings on behalf of the War Departmegt, | Will be all right when “Jimmy" - | ways, Wide World Photos. INDIAN PRI ton left their desks yesterday to he: Tribe discuss social questions of the Indian women. Wheeler (right) sang Indian songs before the Soroptimist Club at the H Business women of Washing- ar Princess Zitkala-Sa of the Sioux Mrs. Wayne B. after the speech, which was otel La Fayette. P. & A. Photos MRS. WILSON AT LEAGUE SESSIONS. Widow of the de: the League of Nations. OPEN TOWN UNDER TAMMANY HOPE OF SOME NEW YORKERS)| Su leaving the assembly at Geneva after the recent openin, meeting of . Wide World Photos. nday Theaters Believed Limit Possible if Walker Is Made Mayor—Hylan Campaigners Warn Voters Red Lights May Come Back. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 17.—With the Tammany Tiger completely tri- umphant in the primaries and ex- pected to “pfit over” its candidate for mayor at the November elections, | there certa are the 1 « is no denying in elements of New York life looking for “better things” In uture, and better things to these zens mean an “open town.” It the fact that | has been whispered along the Bowery | | recently that if the “lid" s kept on | H%Y Just a little while longer eve hin; Wal- Ker gets to the City Hall. Poor old New York has been look- ing for an “open town"” for so long it is not surprising to find it grab bing at straws. With the sale of liquor restricted, if not stopped, it is difficult to know nowadays just what an “open town” means. Cer- tain! there is no chance for a return to 1e days so freely predicted by Mayor Hylan in his fight against Walker, Gov. Smith and Tammany. One Interpretation of the “open town freely heard along Broadway toda would be the right to give Sunday serformances in the theaters. New York has been “liberal” in many bhut the Middle West, Sunday theaters. in the matter of Even Washington, | the National Capital, is more of an “open town” in that respect than the metropolls of the Nation. Costume Plays Barred. New York's Sunday show going is confined to the “movies” and to occa- sional ‘“concerts” in the vaudeville theaters, the law stating that no per- formance shall be given in costume. As a State Senator, the Democratic nominee for mayor has been known as the advocate of liberal legislation at Albany. He is called the “father” of Sunday base ball, while the law under which championship prize fights to a ision are permitted in the State s his name. This liberality in the views of the man Broadway expects to be the mext mayor has led man: of the easy-living residents of the city to believe New York is boun: back to the ‘“good old day ‘old sperts” die hard. The truth of the matter is that there is not a chance in the world for New York to be any more open than it has been the last 15 years or so, or since ‘the famous old Tenderioin dis- trict was wiped away, never to return. New York Is no better and no worse than the average big American munic- ipality. Perhaps it isa little better than a good many of them. But New York is a playground. There are hundreds of thousands of “‘strangers” in the city proceedings will be deferred until after the President’s commission has | concluded its expected examination of Col. Mitchell on the general aviation situation. and in case it is deemed necessary he would have an assistant from the legal department of the Army. All indications point to a long-drawn-out controversy _over important legal principles involved-in the case, and it is probable that actual court-martial it has been behind many | { sections of the country, particularly | every day. and 99 per cent of them are looking for pleasure and amusement by night §f not by day. city. clean In nearly all of its aspects and safe, despite the capital which was made of the-crime records in the | recent political unpleasantness. |the old timers, reformers and sports |alike, there is an association of ideas between the Tammany tiger and the | days, | | red light. 1In the good old ‘'when men were men, the tiger never was pictured in cartoon with- a red lantern tled to his ta L But condi 1ve changed. Publ opinion h: It has been found there can be plenty of liberal | pleasures left to the world without |a return to the period of open vic living by police regulation and erafr. | New Yorkers laughed openly at the Hylan charges that the red lights | were coming back to this fair cit | that gambliig hells would spring up at every corner and that the under- | world would flourish fram one end |of the city to the other. Some of | the ever-hopeful sports -prayed that the mayor might be right; all sane | cltizens knew he was wrong. Gov. Al Smith was not only the central [fizure, but the bondsman in this { primary election. The people know what he stands for, and they rather |like the Al Smith brand of “wicked- ness.” May Figure imm Campaign. Nevertheless the cry of the “open {town” still may be heard in the com- {ing campaign. The Republican com- mittee in charge of the campaign to |be waged against Walker is headed { by Charles D. Hilles, vice chairman of ‘the Republican national committee and at one time secretary to President Taft. The presence of Mr. Hilles at the helm insures a clean campaign so {far as the Republicans are concerned, with an appeal to the people to put a business man at the head of their affairs at a time when business acu- men, rather than political popularity, may be needed. But the remnants of the Hearst- Hylan personal machine will centinue 1o fight Tammany and Al Smith in the old orthodox way, and from such sources the red light, open town charges will be broadcast in ever-in- creasing fury. CHILD GETS $1,000,000. Girl, 6, Named Heir to Father's Large Estate. DETROIT, September 17 (A).— Marje Therese Corby, 6 years old, was' named heir to the estate of Thomas W. Corby in an order issued in Probate Court here yesterday. The estate is estimated at “upward of $1,000,000." The - order terminated litigation brought the day following the death of Corby, June 8, 1924. Seventeen .nieces ‘and- mephews of Corby started the litigation attack- ing the legitimacy of the child. Mrs. Madeline Beals Corby Morgan of .Co- lumbus, Ohio, mother of the child, divorced Carby in 1921, Corby left no will. The order divided $150,000 among the nieces and nephews, They find the |, However, to the minds of many of | MARCONI'S ORIGINAL SET EXHIBITED. mented with at Bologna in 1895, w first assistant, demonstrating it. DISTRICT OBSERVES CONSTITUTION DAY | | IWayne B. Wheeler Warns | Nation of Threat to Orderly Government. itution day, the 138th ‘anni 'y of the signing of the Consti. |tutidn of the United States, is being | celebrated here and throughout the Nation today in the ceremonies con- ducted by patriotic and civi, | tions and Federal and eit ments, Secretary Hubert Work of the De. partment of the Interior led the ob- servance here by placing a wreath at the foot of the statue of Benjamin anklin at Pennsyl avenue and | Tenth street at 11 o'clock. The ex ercise was held under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvan | Franklin founded, and was for by George F. Snyder, vice presi- dent of the general alumni society of the university. Honor also is being paid to Wash- ington, Hamilton, John Marshall and James Madisen. While ceremonies here were simple and brief, elaborat exercises were held in New York Cit where the observances. have been car ried on all week. There the Federal Government joined with city officials {and patriotic, educational, . religio jand civic groups in a week of homage to the founders of the Constitution. {Franklin came in 'for addijionai | tributes, as the first Postmaster Gen- |eral of ‘the United States. ! Sees Government Assailed. { Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel | of the Anti-Saloon League, in an ad- | Gress before the Kiwanis Club here. | declared constitutional government is [being challenged today as never be- | fore. Mr. Wheeler arraigned the Ameri- can people for their “indifference” to the situation, and declared they “were unwilling to pay the price for clean government." He denounced “intolerance” to found in foreign nations, but dec: our “failure to erect barriers agains the tide of crime,” citing abuse of con- stitutional guarantees in favor of the bandit against his victims and society, | easily obtained pardons and parole: of prisoners and delays in court pro- ceedings, He said in part: government is;being challenged today as in no age since the adoption of this fundamental law. All governments and forms'of government are being tested today as never before. New despotisms have arisen. The tyranny of a special class or group, as in Rus- sfa or Italy; religious intglerance, as in some of the new small nations, and the newly aroused nationalist ambi- tions in lands as separated as Ireland, India and Egypt, are applying the acid test to long-established governments. Almost alone among the countries of the world America has nothing to fear from any revolutionary. movement. We do_have much to fear, however, from the negligent citizen and from that underworld of crime which lives unseen just below the surface of every civilization. Once the criminal ele- ment in this land has been taught that not even the Constitution must 1 1 Gther land. ““Constitutional | NEW POST OFFICE nelly (left) of th Office Department, 1 by The first radio set as recently shown at a radio iCrier’s Tinkling | Tones Win Title | | From “Bellowers” the Associat LONDOX, September 17.—The mu sical tones of the voice of J | derson, town crier of Abertrider, | Glamorganshire, Wales, has won him the British town criers’ championship jeven though his veice could not be heard 7 miles away, as was the 3 of some of the bellowing of contestants. Al day vest Pewsey Village, in Wiitshire, ations of “O'vez yyez!" carried into the hills with resounding echoes. But th judges disregarded this long distance | qualification when they heard Ander | son do his bit. His voice is described | as like the tinkle of amplified 10.000 times. n Press. e other 1y gland, o'vez, bout earns a half crown for he exercises his cham plonship throat in “O’vezing I n respected, thi law is thre i. Fhe ratio of crime In America has been higher than that in any The accessibility of un | Buarded wealth, the high standards of living and the luxury displayed h@fu(e those who do not care to work hard) the breakdown of home life, the influx of aliens with social standards, the aftermath of the war vears when the Nation organized itself - destructively, the lack of es tablished traditions in a society new ly wich—all these have been amon the primar: uses of our lawl ne: “Scarcely less important. however are the secondar ycauses—the failures to_erect barriers against the tide of crime. The inadequate penalties im | posed on convicted criminals, the easy | parcles and pardons granted. the de {lays in court procedure, the abuse of { constitutional guarantees in favor of the bandit and against society and ‘his victim. inadequate bonds which are not collected even when for- feited, the involved and technical court procedure which turns.a court of justice into a game of skill be- tween lawyers—all these are making lawlessness causes make it profitable. “Behind these causes there stands the indifference of the people who are unwilling to pay the price for | clean government. When the Ameri- | can citizen carefully watches the | election or appointment of judges and prosecuting attorneys and demands that only honest and eflicient men be named; when he ceases to evade jury duty himself; when he purges our courts of the professional juryman and bondman and the shyster lawyer, then the atmosphere of our *courts will favor justice and not crime, as today.” t | tong Women Give Dinner. exiating social evils is the need of the hour. To simply point out wrongs and sit silent as to remedies is as | futile as to philosophize on the causes | of combustion while your house burns. | We must turn on the hose as well as | the alarm.” The Women's City Club of Wi { held a subscription dinner at the club- house, 22 Jackson place. cluded Mrs. Edith B. Newman, Miss Ella Underwood, Miss F. F. Stiles, Miss Laura Berrien, Miss May T. Bige- low, Miss Grace McVey and Miss Sara P. Grogan. Dr. Frances Foye, presi- dent of the club, presided. OLICITOR ASSUMES DUTIES. y taking the oath of office as solicitor of the Post An-| different | safe just as the primary | “A constructive program to remedy | ington ‘inaugurated its observance of | { Constitution week last night, when it ! Speakers in- | Horace J. Don- Postmaster General New, vesterd: National Photo Co. in the world, which the wireless wizard experi- show in London, with C. S, Kemp, Marconi’s Wide World Photos. CITIZENS CONDEMN TRAFFIC HANDLING Southwest Group Adopts Re- | port From Expert—Yeat- man Re-Elected. at | A report on traffic Washington denouncin of the present administ last night by President George Yeatman bef the Southwest zens’ Association conditions in Citt eral weeks ago Mr. Y ceived a_ request for g to discu the demotion ley, who is a tion. Upon advice President Yeatman | cided first to investi osnized traflic expert a survey atman re 1l meet conditions and Albert J. Head of this organiz of other officers d, it de. ate, and @ r was employed Various Features Hit. The name of the expert was with- the report brought iniiby ent scored varfous featifres regulations, including and bus permits and declared a lack of confidence: in the traflic directo The assoc H the refiort and, after s hat was terined inefficiency in the Traffic Bureau and incompetence at the head. it was'de- cided to table the matter until ‘the | next meeting, when formal action vill be taken. Martin Wiegand spoke: in i praise of the officials. and urged that condemnation of Trafic Bureau heads and regulations be withheld until :&ft er fair trial, and then not until sgme { concrete suggestions could be put ifor { ward to remedy the situation. adopted i Headley Ouster Up. [ objection to the section of th | port having reference to the ddio | tion of Capt. Headle: i Mr. Hartwell, who tion mow opposin the face of his ende: vious meeting to offer a’ resohufion condemning the n nner in whi | fairs were conducted in Headley fice, when he was ruled out of orger would place the association in tion of “blowing hot and cold ne same question. Objection Was raised by I. A. Renz on the usuipa tion' of a large amount of parking space in the downtown section by | busses, but action on this subject was deferred. The annual election of officers re- sulted_in the unanimous selection of | Mr. Yeatman to represent the as. sociation as president for the fifth consecutive term. Other officers chosen were: Vice president, Mr. Wie- gand: secretary, Richard I. Harris: | treasurer, George L. Dant, and del | gates to’ the Federation of Citize | Associations, Mr. Yeatman and H. A. i Renz, sr. P demotton, R Former Bank Teller Held. S, Calif., September .—Italo Luis Rubino, former teller for the United States Trust Co. of Paterson, N. J., was arrested here last night on a New Jersey indict- ment charging embeZziement of $17,- 000 of the company’s funds.