Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1925, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. ., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, HEROIC COMMANDER OF LOST SEAPLAN Comdr. John Rodgers, ing pictures are the first photographs, ) y who stayed awake day and night for nine days while his plane was lost, HAGGARD AND WEARY, BUT CHEERFU Members of the ill-fated PN-9 No. 1 just after they | stepped other than telegraphic reproductions. to arrive here of the PN.9 No. 1 and her crew on their safe arrivals in Hawaii. The natives gave them a great ovation, decorating them with festive leis around their necks. TS FOR NINE DAYS. The PN9 No. 1. Pacific & Atlantic Photos. as she looked riding quietly off the Island of Nawiliwili after it had been foreed down for lack of fuel, and drifted nine days on the Pacific until rescued by the submarine S4. Part of the wings had been torn away to use as a sail to make hetter spe GRAIN FUTURES . OIL SALE STOPPED. Action of Aguila Company Taken to End Mexican Strike. MEXICO CITY - September 2 Dispatches from Vera Cruz that the local agent there Agulla Oil Co. ). report of the Atlantie U. 3. CRUISER SINKS Pacific Photos. photographed immediaely after his to shave off his heavy beard. His fa and anxiety. PROMINENT VISITOR TO WASHI President of Cuba, photographed here yesterday whe brisk walk along Counecticut avenue. WO STITCHES 1 MAY SAVE SMALL BOY’S LIFE rescue hefore he had had time even ce is heavily drawn with lines of care Pacific & Atlantic Photos. NGTON. Dr. Alfredo Zayas, former he was out for a wood & Underwood D HEART WOU H. H. Schoenfeld’s Delicate Operation Necessary shore on the Island of Nawiliwil Left to right: R. W. H. Bowlin, machinist’s mate navigator; Comdr. John Rodgers, S. R. Pope, aviation pilot, and 0. F. Stantz, radio aperator. Lieut. R. J. Connell Pacific & At TO FIGHT FOR PHILIPPINE FREEDOM. Led by Sergio Osmena, president pro tempore of the Philippine Senate, this mission arrived in Washington yesterday to lead the fight for independence. Left to right:* Jose Reyes ‘of the Philippine University; Leodoro M. Kalan, secretary: Mrs, Osmen Francisco Jamora. HEARING DELAYED EX-POSTMASTER HELD. Kentucky Man Admits Misappro- priation of $4.000. ALBANY. N. Y. September Marion Weatherholt, aged postmaster at Claverport, Ky.. was Dr or Osm. WISCONSIN RACE ENTERS LAST LAP unfons that the Aguila would sell | oll only on orders aiready filed, and | Milwaukee Rescues Crew of hereafter would refuse to deliver com- ONROGERS' CHARGE After Child Stuck Scissors Through Organ. Spent Fairly Comfortable | being held under heavy bail here to | day pending order for his removal to | | Kentucky to force chamges of with | holding $4,000 in Government funds PRAGIICE SCORED Federal Trade Commission| | General's lliness Halts Probe La Follette, Dithmar and Cites Depressing Effect on Market. bustibles even to governmental de- partments until the general strike called by the Confederation of Labor was settled. It is reported here that Schooner Cut.in Two Off A delicate operation for a puncture of the heart, performed at Children’s Hospital yesterday by Dr. Herbert Night. seriousness of it until the little fellow said he was unable to get his breath Then an ambulance was summoned. | of His Accusation Against Weatherholt yesterday watved exami- | nation to awalt action of the grand| Jury. Post office inspectors said Weather- Bruce Only Candidates to the federal district government has | Cape Henry. declared the strike illegal, as a ma- | Jority of the workers opps the | | 5 The practice of huyving and selling | movement. Confirmation of this re- | holt told them that early this vear two men came to his office with $4,000 to invest 4n postal savings certifi cates. Although these have not been H. Schoenfeld, Wardman Park Hotel, | Dr. Schoenfeld, member of the staff | promises to save the life of Melvin |of Children's Hospital. took charge | Jones. 412 vears old, child of Mr.|of the patient. He quickly realized Gen. Hart. Show Real Activity. By the Associated Press, | Final consideration of the charges Br the Asociated Press < . grain for future delivery was ecritl- cized today by the Federal Trade Com mission in its sixth report on the grain trade situation. While the procedure has been de. | fended by many elements of the trade a= a price stabilizer, the commission's report declared the data studied “do not indicate that future prices are es- pecially stable, and the technical con- ditfons of future trading appear to cause some fluctuations in would not otherwise occur. A similar contention has been voiced by représentatives of the farmer and grain producer. The Downward Bias. The report declared that “one of the most important and significant facts statistically demonstrated is the down. ward bias of the future market.” “An extensive comparison of price data,” if continued, “for varlous grains and options over many years, shows that, on the average, there 1s & Meflnite tendency for the future price in the earlier months of trading (per- haps nine months ahead of delivery) to fall short of the price subsequentiy attained just before or during the month of deliver: “In other words. the tendency of the future price is to understate the ultimate price. This is true merely in a large majority, but by no means in all of the instances dealt with. This bias of the futures market in the direction of low prices is in part explained by the welght of selling hedges during the heavy marketing season. Other Seasons’ Causes. “But the prevalence of undue dis- counts, or the downward bias of fore casts, at other season (as, for ex- ample. for wheat in the Spring be. fore the opening of the new crop vear, when trades of hedges are more ilkely to be on the buying side), must he attributed to causes other than hedging pressure. The character of recent professional speculation is sug- gested as one of these factors. “This bias of the futures operates especially to depress unduly the next-crop options. The downward bias of the futures market in iarge part explains the tendency of the future price to be at a discount be. iow the cash pricy COMMITTEE SELECTED FOR BOYS’ CLUB DRIVE Honorary Body of 100 Chosen for $250,000 Campaign for Clubhouse. "Fhe executive committee in charge of the drive to raise $250,000 for the construction house the Washington Boys' Club met at the campaign headquarters in the Munsey Building today at noon and selected an honorary committee of 100 Yusiness men. The names of the com- mittee are to be announced after all acceptances have been received. Frank R. Jelleff was named chair- man of the publicity committee, and chairmen of the other subcommittees will be announced later. A board se- lected to- choose chairmen of these committees i composed of William L. Radcliffe, Edward C. Graham, Simon Lyon, Howard Moran and Gen. Anton Stephan. market | | DESPONDENT, KILLS SELF! of a new building to! port would mean company, and full would be given to wor a victory for the police protection men willing to \CAMP SHERMAN SHIFT 'EXPECTED THIS WEEK rices that | | ‘Tnnlfer of Veterans’ Bureau Res- “ ervation to Justice Department | About Ready. | By the Associated Pre | man, Ohio, property from jurisdiction | of the Veterans’ Bureau to that of the | Department of Justice is expected this week, it was said today at the Depart ment Justice. 1t also- was made known that the department is ready immediately upon conclusion formal transfer proceedings to begin conversion of the property for use as a Federal reformatory for first offend- ers. Attorney General Sargent has steadfastly .declined to disclose the nature of the difficulties which held up the transfer, although it was reported that some officials of .the Veterans' Bureau had opposed the transfer on the grounds that their own organiza- { tion had use for it. | Department of Justice officials say their investigation has disclosed that {little construction work will be need | ed in making the camp property ready | {for use as a prison institution. There { will be little delay, therefore, in trans. | forming the site to its proposed use ¢ when the legal technicalities are met |but Mr. Sargent will not permit an: iaction to be taken in that direction {until every phase of the transfer of | duriediction has been completed. | Dismissed Bank Employe “Could | | Not Face the World.” BIRMINGHAM. Ala., September 21 | (#).—Declaring in a note to his wife | that he “could not face the world™ after having lost his position at a bank, Anthony J. Ceravalo, 33, shot and killed himself in the bathroom of his home here yesterday. Coroner J. D. Russem rendered a verdict of suicide after investigating the case. Authorities said Mr. Cera. valo had been checked short $25,000 at the American Trust Co. where he was employed in the collection de- partment. The alleged shortage, officers said, | had been paid by a bonding company. "In the note to Mrs. Ceravalo made public by the coromer, Mr. Ceravalo expressed regret for events leading to his intended act and told his wife that “father will take care of you and the boys.” Two small sons survive. Two Years for Killing Mule. Special Dispatch to The Star. STUART, Va.. September 21.—Clit- ford and Foster Going. two young men of this county, have been sentenced to serve two vears in the State peni: tentlary for killing a mule. N Formal transfer of the Camp Sher- | of the | NORFOLK. Va., September The American schooner Benjamin A Van Brunt was sunk in collision with the U . light cruiser Milwaukee | vesterday morning about 100 mile south of Cape Henry. Although the schooner sank Immediately, all mem bers of the crew were rescued un. hurt by the Milwaukee and will be landed in New York today The Milwaukee, which left Hampton | Roads Saturday afternoon at 4:30 | |o'clock en route to Guantanamo, | | Cuba, had one of her propellers bent | and was otherwise damaged and she reported she had turned about and heading for the navy vard at | New York. The Benjamin Van Brunt | was bound from New York to Gal- | vestor Radio messages recelved here gave details of how the collision oc- The vessels crashed at 2:05 The fact that the schooner | immediately was taken here as an Indication that the war- | ship crashed into the sailing ship | bow on, probably practically cutting her in two. Messages recelved here gave no indication of weather condi- tions, but heavy foxs have prevailed during the last several nights. The Van Brunt was built in 1891 |at Bath, Me. She was 196 feet long, 41 feet wide with a depth of 18 feet and was of 1,132 net tonnage. Her ! home. port was in New York. She, {carried a crew-of 'RITES FOR MRS. BERGER | Christian Science Service Con-| ducted by Miss Jane Grey Syme. | | no | curred. o'clock. went down H Funeral services were held at noon | | today for Mrs. Esther Morgan Berger | of Warrenton, Va., at the chapel of W. V. Speare Co.. 1009 H street north- | west. The services were conducted by Miss Jane Grey Syme of the Christian cience Church. The interment, which s private, was in Rock Creek Ceme- immedTately following the ter serives, The pallbearers were W. H. Rapley, | .. Stoddard Taylor, Oliver Metzerott and E. B. Talbert of this city. Mrs. Berger died Friday afternoon lat her residence in Warrenton. She was the wite of Fred G. Berger, well known in theatrical circles, and for- merly manager of the Columbia and Poll’s theaters in this city. Before it became a motion picture theater, Mr. Berger managed the Columbia Stock Co. at_the .Columbia. Later he took over the management of Poli’s, leav- ing this city in 1917 to become man- ager of the Warren Green Hotel at Warrenton, Va., where he has resided since. For many years he was man- ager fof Sol Smith Russell, his broth- erinlaw, and in later years managed a stock company at the Belasco Thea- ter. Mrs. Berger had just returned to her' home from a Visit to New York and this city when she became suddenly ill The services were attended by a large number of theatrical people. Mand handsome floral tributes were | sent by friends, who completely filled | the chapel. . Mme. Sarah Grand, author of “The Heavenly Twins,” and now mayoress of Bath, suffered a blistered hand 1n shaking hands with -2,500 medical men at a conference recently. | hand, and Mrs. Aaron Jones, 210 Ninth street northeast. The wound was accldentally inflicted when the child, on his way home with a pair of scissors in his tripped and fell on_ the first s'ep. the scissors plercing his heart. Richard Jones, the boy's father, member of the night electrical force in the Capital Traction car barn at Thirty-sixth and M streets, sharpened the scissors vesterday and left them on_the kitchen stove Shortly after the father retired the child took the scissors from the stove and started to go to the upper floor to clip some pictures. His out- cries when he reached the bottom of the stairway attracted the atten tion of the mother, and.the latter. withdrew the scissors from the severe | fortable night, it was reported at the | wound that had been Infiicted. Father and mother proceeded wash the wound, not realizing to the 1o the upper floor of the | | the seriousness of his condition and | proceeded to perform an_ operation. | Dr. Jesse T.- Mann administered general anesthetic, while Dr. Harry Cronin, intern, assisted Dr. Schoen | teld. | "It was necessary for Dr. Schoenfeld to cut two ribs of the patlent, giving a trapdoor effect, and when the mem- brane:covering of the heart had been removed he was able to lift the heart from its position and take two stitches to close the ugly wound the sharpened scissors had made. The heart was quickly placed in position, the operation consuming not more than 20 minutes, and a blood tran: fusion, the patient’s father supplying | the blood, contributed to Dr. Schoen- | fela's success | The little fellow spent a fairly com- | hospital this morning, and seemed | much better today. ROSH HASHANA RITES AMONG JEWS ENDED Special Music and Prayer .Close New Year Season in City's Synagogues. Observance of Rosh Hashana, the Feast of the New Year, in local Jew ish churches, came to a close yester- day with appropriate services of an- cient origin in the principal syna- gogues of the city. In addition to the picturesque cere- mony of sounding the Shofar, or ram’s horn. a reminder of the Divine revela- tion on Mount Sinai, there was a spe- | clal program of music and prayer in many of the churches. The sermon's were based on the significance of | Rosh Hashana. The Washington Hebrew Congrega- tion also carried out its annual custom of holding memorial services for their dead at the congregation cemetery. Rabbi Abram Simon officiated. At the services yesterday in the Sixth Street Synagogue Rabbi Louis J. Schwefel spoké on ‘A Strange Tone,” drawing a picture of the ef- fect of the Shofar on modern life. Rev. Louis Novick conducted a song serv- ice. The Shofar ceremony was performed at this synagogue, as well as at the Ohev Sholon Synagogue. Rabbi J..T. Loeb preached on the significance of this ceremony at the latter meeting place, At the Tefereth Israel Synagogue the services were marked by the .presentation of a silver loving cup to Rabbi George Silverstone by Morris Garfinkle on behalf of the Hebrew Home for the Aged. The Jewish Day of Atonement cele- bration will begin September 27. S URAT =i Cuban Laborite Slain. - HAVANA, September 21 (#).—En- rique Varona, former president of the Railroad Brotherhood of Cuba, was killed yesterday by unknown persons at Moron, Province of Comaguey. Four bullets struck Varona, who dled almost instantly. Ne. motive for the- shooting has been advanced, W.C.T.U. LEADERS HIT “RISQUE” PICTURES Condemn Legion Posters Exhibit- ing “Frenchy Girls” With Bot- tles Advertising Liquors. By the Ascociated Press. { OMAHA, Nebr., September Leaders of the W, C. T. U. are aroused | over plans of the 40 and 8, play- ground of the American Legion, to plaster Omaha twith “risque” French | posters advertising_liquors and dis- | playing semi-nude figures during the legion convention here next month. A. C. McCampbell, prohibition director for three states here, has been asked to interfere. Samples of the posters have ar- rived. They show Frenchy girls and labeled bottles with teasing invita- tions to drink. Mrs. Earl F. Bragg. reform leader, saidtshe expects Mr. McCampbell to rule the posters a violation of the Volstead act in advertising intoxicat- ing liquor even though the place of sale is across the ocean. Officers of the 40 and 8 claim the posters are intended to create a “Pa- risian atmosphere” for Omaha. IVINS QUITS TAX BOARD. J. J. Marquette, Acting Chief of Division No. 1 Named. Resignation of J. S. Y. Ivins of the board of tax appeals was announced today by the board. He has been suc: coeded by.J. J. Marquette, who has been’ acting as chief ‘of Division No.1 for several weeks. Chairman J. G. Korner, jr., of the board, announced also today readjust- ments made in all four divisions, as follows: Division No. 1, Mr. Marquette, chiet Mr. Morris, Mr. Green and Mr. Love; Division No. 2, Mr. James, chief; Mr. Littleton, Mr.'Smith and Mr. Trussell; Division No. 3, Mr. Graupner, chie; Mr. Trammell and Mr. Phillips; Division. No..4, Mr: Sternhagen..chief; Mr. Lansdon and Mr. Arundell, L recently filed b Gen. Rarry L, Rogers. retired. former quartermaster general of the Army, that Maj. Gen. Willlam H. Hart, who succeeded him in that office, had emploved improper methods to prevent his reappointment, will be delayed by the serious fliness of Gen. Roge nd his inability to see any of the officers engaged in the | pretiminary investigation of the case | now in progress. Gen. Rogers is re ported to be suffering from cardiac trouble and is being kept In strict | seclusion at his residence in Phila- | delphi | Whether the termaster General Hart will cause the | institution of court-martial proceed | ings against that officer will depend tlon of the case now being made by | officers of the inspector general's de partment. | ter rests with Col. Dwight C. the Acting Secretary of War, w confer with Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, chief of staff, and Maj. Gen. Bethel, judge advocate general, hefore taking action. Gen. Hart Back From Tour. Gen. Hart has returned. to this city |from an inspection tour and has been furnished with a‘copy of the charges, and any statement he makes in reply will accompany the inspector general’s official report on the subject. The charges against him are based on |what is said to have taken place about three years ago, and their filing at this time is accepted by Gen. Hart's friends as an attempt to prevent his reappointment as head of the big Army Supply Department. His four- year term of office will expire in Au- I gust, 1926. Rogers Files Woman's Statement. Since the filing of the original |charges Gen. Rogers has submitted to {the “War Department from Mrs. Theresa Howard Dean, writer, of alleged defamatory articles against him, in which she says tha Gen. Hart had signed the name of a publisher of a New York soclety paper to a telegram sent Secretary of Wai Weeks asking for an investigation of the quartermaster’'s department, them under Gen. Rogers’ direction. The_affidavit further states that Gen. Hart furnished her with infor- mation derogatory to Gen. Rogers which was used by her in articles written for New York soclety papers. Dav Swindled Out of $1,000. Catherine Washington, colored, 1205 Twenty-first street, was swindled out of $1,000 by two colored men who | persuaded her to believe their smooth talk, according to a complaint she made to police today. Friday after- noon, as she was walking along G street near Eighth street, she said, she saw the two colored men pick up a pocketbook which contained a large number of greenbacks. The men told her they wanted to give $1,000 of the find to some “thrifty in- dividual” who could preduce an equal sum of money. She accepted the story as true and went to her bank and withdrew $1,000, virtually her entire deposit. This she turned over to the men, expecting to get double the amount in return. arges against Quar- | largely on the report of the investiga- | Final decision in the mat- | ho will | an afdavit | | | | same doctors for the same piece of in circulation fn some time, the in pectors sald. Weatherhold admitted taking the money and using it to re coup financlal losses, thinking to re turn it later with the explanation he had been unable to obtain the cer- tificates. Weatherholt son. ST. LOUIS PHYSICIANS TO RECEIVE 2 AWARD Leonard Prize and Gold Medal to Be Drs. Graham, Gopher and Cole. came here to visit a Given ssociated Press . September 21 the medical world's highest awards— | the $1,000 Leonard prize of the Roent gen Ray Society, and the gold medal of the American Radiological Society —will be bestowed on three St. Louis physicians for their discovery of a process for earlier and more acourate diagnosis of gall bladder disease. | Announcement of the award to Dr., Everts Ambrose Graham, professor | of surgery, Dr. Glover H. Gopher, instructor of surgery, at Washing- ton University here, and Dr. Warren H. Cole, became public yesterday. The | prize will be- awarded to the three ‘)physichns at the meeting of the | ¢ ¢ Roentgen Ray Society at_Washington Tuesda It will be the first time that these | two awards have been given the | which opens | work in any one year. The discovery of the three doctor: was_presented to the International | of Radiologists in London in | y Dr. Sherwood Moore, asso- | clate in surgery at Washington Uni- | ity. It is a substance which when | njected into the reglons near the blad.- | der produces a_shadow heavy enough | to make good X-ray plates indicating | any organic abnormalities. FREED IN MURDER CASE. Ex-fi-yor's Warrant, Accusing Of- ficial of Editor’s Death, Invalid. By_the Associated Press. KELSO, Wash., September 21.— George H. Norrls, superintendent of the Kelso Water Works, was arrested yesterday on a warrant sworn out by A. Ruric. Todd, former mayor - of Kelso, charging first-degree murder, and was released a few hours later when the warrant wes declared in. valid The murder charged was that of Thomas Dovery, Kelso editor, who was shot down in the street June 19. Todd and Norris were known to be political enemies. Jews Choose Philadelphia. NEW YORK, September 21 (#).— The American Jewish Congress an- nounced yesterday selection of Phil- adelphia as the location of its 1925 con- ;':r;l‘lon..whlch will be held October | ea lactivities MILWAUKEE. W —Candidates fc Senate at 29 the spe will go of their campaign t ise to be a_three-sided Robert M. La lican nominee. has the field, whic ward F. Dithma La Follette Republican ning as an independe Work, _ Socialist Bruce, Democr: pendent, and ( ist-Labor. La Follette began his can eek, as did Work. Y upstate. while to talks men in the industrial varied this progran g at the Milwauk presenting his ments. Dithmar to Begin Fight. Dithmar, who bec resentative of the anti Republicans when Roy withdrew, will begin his campaign t morrow Bruce's campaign promis but little other than an apr to the voters. He sald Saturday statement that he could “see but lit chance for a Democrat running as an independent in Wisconsin. The light vote in the primary caused all candidates to o voters to go to the polls at t election. La Follette, who far the largest vote, said at the start he final drive that his chief aim would be to get out the vote Debs Backs Work. Eugene V. Debs, speaking here last night for the candidacy of Work clared Work to be the only candi date representing the working people. He declared the present campaign was a fight of the working people against “‘the capitalists, Work attackd La Follette, declar ing he was not following in the foot steps of his father, who in the past presidential campaign left the Repubh. lican party. He declared that youns Bob was not a real progressive and that the only progressive party in Wisconsin was the Socialist orzani- zation. ITALY CELEBRATES. me the I has ur the de Masons Absent From Anniversary of Papal State Annexation. ROME, September 21 (#).—Rome yesterday celebrated with traditional popular rejoicing Italy’s equivalent of America’s Fourth of July—the fifty- fifth anniversary of the annexation of the Roman Papal State to United Italy. The celebration, however, dif. fered significantly from all past cele brations in the exclusion of Free fasons, who heretofore have occu ! pied a prominent role in the anniver sary of the downfall of the temporal power. In fact, the solebration took on an anti-Masonic, anti-opposition aspect the Fascists marching through the streets_singing: “We want Farinaccl mini of the interior; thus we will ®ena sppesition to hall.