Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1925, Page 4

4 ¥ TALKS WO WAYS W A SGLE ST British Radio Fan Claims to Hear Without Receiver. Seeks Confirmation Here. CARL H. n, livi BUTMAN, in 1 0 phone re t the neces hle with a sing n be done, hi e 1 communi- | t, he nsists, rated, but | A trom po rrespondent that it L transy to pick m his recelv he . he e 1 d he | ible for a and a ther re per remains continues. | ts of the test, the Londoner « of the “two-way the owne: , as he calls got his wife to pick up his wice on the receiver 1 speak to him: th he was broadeast- | e With Hin m. led on the t e with him home, the he plainly eiving for this constant was 1 e visitor's wife i speaking. it is not be- story accept the ments Urged. thro: ate first a ker's voice writer's seem notic ve the sensitiveness of a voice THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1925. to the semi-weekly conference with the newspaper men yesterday, faces. They were those of representatives of the French press here with the debt-fundin ference. Left to right: Gerville Reache, George Shilling, Ernest Borrdin, Ray he was ond de Nys and Robert Remy. set. | of a transmitte what the fan which, after all, rims for it con © he the writer, Views on this new reception methc wh pick-up microphone and the qualities is ard stories of men: | tal radio, blac kinds of radio, | ception without a receiving set. - DINNER GATHERING EASES TENSION OF o «ontinued from First mission may go in d France bhe unknown quantity. | Will Sail on Schedule. any ow: h per. the | Friday el the of ve ited this that Caillaux jupon learning there b s | some unfounded reports in the | that the sailing date poned. “Nothing on earth can from sailing on the France,” Caillaux, with some mer enth: sm, to the Chamber lof the budget. When asked I cannot stay.” if the negot . lenien ond these terms and several other DEBT NEGOTIATIONS Page.) The French mission will sail next rench liner what reached. vith finality, apital had been post- keep me sald M. turn of his for- “I must get back and to the business |would have been successfully con- |cluded by that date, the minister re- plied with gusto, “Surely, surely.” Press Contact Arranged. M. Cafllaux also made the agree- able announcement that a new con- tact between the French delegation and the American press had been set up In the person of Henri Dumay, director general of two French papers, Quotidien and Progres Clvique. M. Dumay received part of his education in America d has had wide experi- ence in American journalism prior to returni nee. The mc nt development in Washington vesterday on the French debt, outside of the actual negotia themselves, was a letter which ator Borah, chalrman of the committee on foreign relations dressed to Sec aries Mellon Hoover, inquiring for facts relati reported enormous loans made in prospect to Europe. and Asks for List of Loans. ‘s letter said: the press of this| have been nego- | tries and indus- * to_the amount $1,000,000,000 negotiations. that pro- spective settlements will pave the way for a ‘flood of loans to Europe.” ask whether your depart- , private gn..mu to foreign co: tries during the y lof $1,000, 1 which governments can have been made and those which are now in process? If so, I would greatly appreciate a list of the loans, by whom negotiated, the coun- tries making the loans, and particu- larly the rate of interest they bear, and such other information, or facts, as may be available disclosing the terms in detail of the different trans- actipns.” The chairman of the Senate forelgn relations committee has taken the po- sition that if European governments can pay rates of interest up to 8 per cent to private Americans, those at least afford to the rates of interest to the Ameri- government which were set as a 1 settlen 10 yes i . Taxes Paid in Butterflies. When he faced difficulty in coliect- ing the income tax from natives, the governor the Belgian Congo in Africa invited the native citizens to bring in specimens of a particulariy beautiful butterfly. For four butter- files he gave an income tax receipt. He then sent the butterflies to Europe where they brought as much as thirty francs each. This ingenious method of getting the tax from the natives enabled him to swell the state's cof ate information rela- ns, both as to those | JA New Name for a Well-Known Train The name of the Washington Broadway Limited has been changed to 19 Hours Lv. WASHINGTON Ar. TOLEDO..... e Ar. DETROIT (Fort Street Uniony Station) Ar. CHICAGO (Union Statien)... Pennsylvania Rai The Standard Railroad (s Nt if ‘\‘\‘ g 1':” fers without discontent on the part of his people Detroit 16% Hours NO EXTRA FARE 010N SAHON) s s et s oo e e e maes 3.30 P M, —eriemeeeen. 6.35 AL M. 20 A. M. 930 A. M. Lv. CHICAGO (Union Station).. Lv. DETROIT (Fort Street Union Station) Lv. TOLEDO Ar. WASHINGTON (Union Station) To and From New Union Station, Chicago Club, observation, dining, rapher, valet, barber, bafin. e 100 P ML . M. ceenes 530 P M. reemiatese s e e 9.00 AL M. drawing room and compartment sleeping cars, stenog- ladies’ maid, manicurist, current magazines, periodicals, daily papers, stock quotations, baseball scores, telephone connections at terminal Unequaled $1.25 Table d’hote Dinners \T. L. LIPSETT. Division Passenger Agent 613 Fomrtsenth, Strsct, N, W. Wohocron ¥t . stations Telephone, Main 9140 of the World % Iroad Hing ve the praise of John 8. White. Cill out the guard. Present arms nfnon the courtlers, the trumpet rt', the drummers and the paean sing- ers. For John 8. White, colored, and a dealer jn used things at 919 Four- and-a-half street southwest, did not an? for the pocketbook swindle yester- 5y . o far as police records go, John is the first man on record who has not be~n taken in completely, bitten, chew- ed und swallowed, hook, line and sink- er when the pocketbook swindle was proposed. Experts in crime probably wili flock to Washington, psycholo- gi#'s will go into hysterics and a gen- erol hubbub will ensue when it be- cotver generally known that John did not tall for the trick. It is unexplain- abi, unfathomable. John can hardly explain it himself, except that he had em. . at going back to the pocketbook swindle, the method fs well known. Tw: men usually find a pocketbook an:i tell the person chosen as the sucker that it contains large and nu- meious bills, coins or negotiable se- cusrities. ‘The sucker is then told that Ard will be divided with him pro- 1 he advances money to make gb. The sucker usually makes fe ‘to the nearest bank, mattre or .tecking where his life savings are accumulated and withdraws all his. funds, handing it over to pocietbook finders joyously. The swhudlers then leave the scene of ac- tion. and the sucker reports the mat- ter ‘o the police with loud cries of angidsh and despair, and in return rect. v hard, cold and suspicious stai»s from the guardians of the law the | It never fails. I cturning to John Joky vesterday a rockethook stor, Thay Two men told that they had found in front of his nd they showed him the bills, ald it contained $2,000 and it Johti would donate $1.000 to help mal e change, he could have his $1,000 baci: and $700 in addition. Jahn didn’t have he money, but he had: inspiration. He said he could borrcw it, giving his wife's will as The three started out to get w1il. On their way John remem- bere something. He told police it was 1 dream he had had some time previbus—a bad dream which made him call out in the night, a dream in whicl\ he was swindled by just such recdllection struck John lik: k1 ton «T brick. He began to yell moajing wail, at first, that re e FEUREKA! EUREKA! JOHN S. WHITE DIDN'T FALL FOR OLD SWINDLE the call of the filliloo bird when de prived of fts mate. It then grew stronger, louder, increasing in volume | like the bass notes of Challapin, the Russian, when angered. John's com- panions todf a look at John's faclal| expression, §clapped their hands over their ears,and ran. They may be running yet. But the police have not found them. John still has his $700 which, he thinks, he may later borrow on his wife's will. 3ut not to spend on pocketbooks. PERRELL OUT ON BAIL. Bethesda Had Refused Freedom on Embezzling Charge. | ROCKVILLE, Md., September 26.— Following his arrest here on Thurs- day on a charge of embezzlement, Upton Perrell, a justice of the peace at Bethesda, this county, refused to make bail, although a number of his friends were ready to qualify as bonds men, and he was accordingly commit- ted to jail by Sheriff Clay Plummer. ted his re lease on mount of $1,000, Millard_F. Peake and George Shafer of Bethesda qualifylng as sureties. 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