Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1925, Page 17

GOING IN FOR HORTICULTURE. The Prince of Wales would not call his visit to any locality completc unless he planted some sort of a tree. The photograph shows him placing the sod about a sapling on the Ita- Caabo estancia during the visit in Argentina. THE WEDDING BELLS RING AND THE HOUSE IS ALMOST A WRECK. Mrs. Estelle Windsor, 75 old, and N. O. Day, 66 yea Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, STARTS NEW DUTIES IN WASHIN TON. Comdr. John Rodgers (right), who had charge of the PN-9 No. 1, the plane which was lost for many days in the Pacific, at the Navy Department to take up his new duties as assistant chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics. Admiral William A. Moffett (left), chief of the bureau. years old, of Reds Corner, near Upper Marlboro, were married Tuesday.. The romance brought about a desire on the part of the folks of the neighborhood to give the newly wedded couple a wedding celebration. Firecrackers were fired, pistols and shotguns were used, and all sorts of debris was piled into the yard of the Day home. Arrests will follow. ORDERSMUGELING PACT ORDER ISSUES * »-Operation With Canada Expected to Curtail Hlicit Traffic Over Boundary. More effective suppression of smug- ng operations along the American- anadian border are expected to re- 1lt from an executive order of Presi- ant Coolidge, issued . last night wough the State Department, pro- ulgating uniform rules to enforce e understanding reached by repre- ‘ntatives of the two nations at the ~onference in Washington last month. The rules apply to liquor, narcotics 2d stolen goods and providé for se co-operation between the agents the two countries in tracing offend- '8, effecting their capture and the sposition of the confiscated goods. “It is ‘expected,” the announcement id, “the regulations will bring about reater co-operation between-the law- 1forcing officers of both governments nd will result in the suppression of <tensive smuggling operations which ave developed along the boundary uring recent years.” The regulations designate the Cana- an deputy minister of customs, chief the preventive service and customs llectors and American consuls, cus- ms, collectors and district attorneys s those officlals authorized to “‘fur- ish, request and receive” the inter- 1ange of information provided for in e convention. Such other agents ay be designated for the purpose the Minister of Customs in Canada - the Secretary of the Treasury or ttorney General in the United States ay desire. Will Exchange *Tips.” {mmediate transmission by officials one country to the proper author- es of the other of information as clearance of vessels where there is isonable ground to suspect smug- ng operations is arranged for and clal provision is made for refusal clearance where size of the ves- »l or other conditions warrant the lief that a false statement of sstination has been given. “The purpose of this provision is to ‘event clearances of small motor ats and similar craft for points in 1ba and Mexico,” the announcement ‘plained. ?rocedure 1s outlined for the return stolen property, such as automo- Mles and furs, when seized by cus- oms officers, and a- special section eals with arrangements for ex- hange of advance information across he line as to narcotics and persons 2 both countries known or suspected s traffickers in drugs. Another section provides for recipro- U exchange of evidence, including scords, and for judicial processes in 'nnection with prosecutions in ther country. Transfer of prisoners so0 is covered, and one section deals ith the movement of lquore ship- sents through Alaska to Canadian |a'stinations under guard and pro- tected by the customs seals of both countrieds _ CARLOADINGS STAY HIGH. Have Exceeded Million Mark Nine Weeks This Year. For the ninth week this year the American rallroads kept their weekly freight car loadings above the mil- lion mark, according to figures an- nounced today by the American Rail- way Assoclation, which set the num- ber of cars loaded the week ending September 18 at 1,098,428, an increase of 122,994 over the preceding week. Miscellaneous freight totaled 428, 467 cars, an increase of 52,316; mer- chandise and less than carload lots, 268,858, a jump of 30,823; coal, 171,601, an increase of 14,244; grain and grain products, 54,041, an increase of 9,351, and llve stock, 33,486, an increase of 4,799, Sl IE dod EUROPEAN ARTISTS WILL VISIT CAPITAL Spanish, French and British Mem- bers of Carnegie Jury of Award Arrive Here Tonight. Three well known European artists who have acted as members of the jury of award for the twenty-fourth Carnegle Institute international exhi- bition will arrive here tonight. They are Hermengildo Anglada y Camarasa, who takes rank with Zuloaga among Spanish artists; Ernest Laurent of France, and Algernon Talmage of Eng- land. Anglada i3 making his first trip to the United States. These jurors will be accompanied by Homer Saint-Gaudens, director of fine arts at Carnegle Institute, and by Guillaume Lerolle, the European rep- resentative of the department of fine arts. They will be in Washington until Sunday morning, at the May- flower. The European jurors, together with the American artists, Daniel Garber, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Leopold Beyffert, met in Pittsburgh vesterday and decided on the winners of the fol- lowing prizes: $1,500, $1,000, $500 and $300. There is also an additional prize of $500, offered by the Garden Club of Allegheny County, for the best paint- ing of flowers or a garden. BOY ESCAPES AGAIN FROM HOME SCHOOL Thomas English, Fugitive Second Time, Is Recaptured Few Hours Later. For the second time, Thomas Eng- lish, 12 years old, of Quantico, Va., escaped from the Indpstrial Home School only to be recaptured after a few hours’' freedom, shortly after din- ner yesterday. He was arrested about 7 o'clock last night by Policeman W. C. Handley of the eighth precinct, who found him near the Eckington Rail- road yard. The boy first was arrested two weeks ago in Kenilworth, where with three companions he was alleged to have participated in the robbery of several stores. All were sent to the Industrial Home School, from which later were recap- Washington Star Photo. CROKER WIL GASE ANSWER 15 FLED Florida Dealings Defended as Children of First Wife Sue for Estate. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., October 1.— Contending that the late Richard Croker at no time used or expressed an intention to use his Palm Beach properties as homestead, J. B. McDon- ald and the Palm Beach Estates, de- fendants in present litigation, today filed+an answer to a bill'of complaint by the Croker children. The reply also asserts that Croker purchased the property on an invest- ment basis only. The transactions be- tween Croker, his second wife and the defendants are defended as lawful, as is the Croker will filed for probate in Ireland. The original suit was instituted by Howard Croker, Ethel Croker White, Richard Croker, jr., all citizens of New York State, and Florence Croker Morris, a British subject, to have de: clared null and void the deeds of con- veyance of the properties to Bula Croker, second wife of the former Tammany chieftain. They contended they should be de- creed as owners of the property with Mrs. Croker, who would then share a dower right as a widow. The children asked that Richard Croker be decreed to have been the head of a family residing in Florida at the time of his death and that the land in question— appraised at approximately $15,600,000 —be decreed the Croker homestead. In their bill of complaint, the chil- dren also attacked the contract be- tween Bula and Richard Croker and McDonald for the sale of the properties. ' The children were left out by Croker in making his will. The defendants, which include Mrs. Croker, sought to have the bill of complaint quashed, but this was denied by Federal Judge Rhydon M. Call, Federal Judge Lake Jones gave them until today to reply. Mrs. Croker’s reply had not been filed this morning. CHARGED WITH CUTTING. Bottling Plant Employe Arrested When Driver Is Hurt. Willlam George Knight, 62 years old, engineer and fireman at the Herr- mann Bottling Plant, 750 Tenth street southeast, was arrested by Policeman O. R. Sanders of the fifth precinct to- day on a charge of assault, following the cutting of Robert Palmer, colored, 44, of 1019 New Jerséy avenue south- east, driver of a coal wagon. Knight, who lives at 906 Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast, is alleged to have engaged in an altercation with the driver, during which he cut the latter on the throat with a pocket knife. The wound was dressed at Casualty Hospital and Palmer return- pd-$0 Work this afternoons e Copyright by Harrls & Ewffig. CoBsr [ WEDDED BLISS of Reds Corner, after their wedding Tuesday night. D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1925. TO WELCOME THE DELEGATES. Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, promi- nent in Washington society, and a leader in charity work, who has been designated as chairman of the woman’s committee to welcome the dele- gates and their wives to the Interpa STARTS WITH BIG NOISE. Mr. and Mrs. N. O. Day near Upper Marlboro, the victims of a “merry throng” Mrs. Day, who is 75 years old, re- ceived a badly cut hand when trouble with the revelers reached its height. Washington Star Photo. BURIED SKELETON NOT A FAKE, VICTIM WAS A SIRLOIN STEAK Bones Found Sawed—Policemen Fear Murder of a Daughter.Dear, But Shape of Them Is Mighty Queer, and So They Cease to Quake. “Skeleton_under the floor! Get out quick! 21 Ninth street northeast!" Inspector Grant, repeating what he had gotten over a telephone, thus sent aut Detectives Kuehling, Weber and Tally shortly before noon today, in the high-powered headquarters car on the scent of wha/ seemed to be an ancient and myster!/(us murder. The car' clew up sharply in front of a little frame house, a neat and cheery, newly painted place, the last scene in the ‘world for a gruesome tragedy. to be unearthed. In the parlor of the little house Mrs. Christina Stephano stood watching the two steamfitters—E. J. Loéhmann ‘and L. L. Pruitt—whose excavattons had uncovered the bones. Horrors! Lieut. Stott, free-lance investigator of the Police Department, and Lieut. 0..T. Davis of erstwhile vice squad fame, were stooping over a group of bones. Stoft handed one to Ruehling to look: at. vidently a child of 12 years of age,” he sald, coplly. “Here's the shoe.” There was a small bone and a num- ber of slightly larger ones. “And look here, look here,” chimed in Lieut Davls; “They've been sawed. See!” Sure enough, the awed assemblage looked at the edges of bones, where they had been sawed—no doubt of it. Then came another sensation: “Here's a brick with chlorate of lime onit,” ejaculated Lieut. Stott, holding up an old brick covered with whitish substance resembling mortar. The discovery had enlarged and ex- panded to the point where there was a moral certainty that some flend in human form had sawed up the body of a 12-year-old girl and thrown it un- der the floor, with a covering of lime, when Kuehling dashed a few gallon: of cold water on everybody by the statement: “Huh! T think they’re meat bones. That looks like the plece of a T-bone steak and this looks like the remaing of a prime rib roast.” Such a detec- tive. Murderous Rats. ‘Kuehling did not hesitate to admit that the -bones had been sawed. In fact, he also acclaimed that fact—but he supplemented his statement with the mundane and sophisticated ad- denda that it was some butcher who had done the sawing with a regular meat saw. Coroner Nevitt came rolling up to the scene in his limousine finally to pass judgment on the discovery. Kuehling had packed the bones in a bag obtained from Mrs. Stephano. He went into a side yard and dumped them on the brick walk. Coroner Nevitt looked them over carefully. Then he finally exploded the mys- tery, upholding Kuehling’s prior judg- ment. “Meat bones—and not human meat bones,” he said. “Somebody long ago enjoyed a lot of steak around here.” And the mystery of the skeleton dwindled down to the paltry beliet that rats were responsible for secret- ing the bones in that “grave under the house.” Army Will Display Latest Developments of Ordnance The development of Army ordnance material, chemical warfare and aero- nautics will be demonstrated at the Army proving ground at Aberdeen, Md, tomorrow, beginning at 10 o’'clock and lasting until 7:30 in the evening. The demonstration is in connection with meetings of the Army Ordnance Association, the National Machine Tool Bulilders’ Assoclation, the Franklin Institute and the Na- tional Aeronautic: Assoctation. There will be a mobilization of naval and Army aircraft there. Rear Admiral Moffett, chief the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy, and Maj. Gen. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service, it was announced, will leave Bolling Field here by planes tomor- row morning. Others who go from here will leave by train at 7:25 a.m. The 6th Field Artillery, commanded by Maj. J. W. Anderson, will give a demonstration of the tactical use of modern fleld artillery. _First Ord- nance Company from the 2d Corps Area and the 3d Ordnance Company from Fort Meade, Md., are marching ability of mobile repair shops to keep the various outfits in service white on the march. The exercises will open at the prov- ing grounds proper, at Mulberry Point, Coast Artillery, will fire three-inch |. at 10:20 o'clock, when' Battery C, 62d shells, with an anti-aircraft gun, at a sleeve target towed by a plane. There will be firing by a 14-inch gun on a disappearing carriage. The largest gun used in coast defense, the 16-inch, then will be fired. It has a range of 30 miles and can be fired at the rate of one round a minute. Airplanes then will lay down a smoke curtain, after which there will be parachute jumps. -Following din- to be served in the Service Club, obile ordnance repair shops will give a demonstration and ordnance maintenance companies will demon- strate.. There also will be ‘demonstra- tions of tanks and tractors, motor gun carriages, cargo vehicles, etc. ‘That man’s span of life would be 150 years if determined war against germs were made is the recently- ex- pressed opinion of Sir Ronald Ross, British S iamentary Conference. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. RECOVERING BODIES FROM SUBMARINE. Divers Hardy Reinhart and William Rid being hauled aboard the deck of a rescue ship after the recovery of the bodies of John Law Gibson and William G. Teschemacher, two of the crew of the illfated submarine S-51. Photo by Acme. DESTROYING $250,000 WORTH OF CONFISCATED LIQUORS. A valuable stock of rare imported bever- ages was poured out at the United States Army base at Brooklyn, N. Y., yesterday. lécting for some time, as it represented confiscations of the Government prohil period. VOIGT IS LEADING WITH TUCKERMAN Pair Complete First Half of Golf Tourney With 78 Each. George J. Voigt of Bannockburn Club and Walter R. Tuckerman of Burning Tree Club were tied at the end of the first round of the District ama- teur golf championship at the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club today with a score of 78. ° George .Wads- worth of Chevy Chase was close up with a card of 79. There were 26 play- ers in the tournament. Volgt and Tuckerman each had 41 out and 37 back. Miller B. Stevinson of Columbia finished with 83, notwith- standing a disastrous 11 on the par 4 third hole. Other scores follow: R. A. Loftus, Chevy Chase, 83; W. R. McCallum, Washington, 84; S. F. Colliday, Columbia, 84; Page Hufty, Congressional, 8: F. Brawner, Co- lumbia, 85; J. C. Davis, jr., Columbia, 86; P. W. Calfee, ‘Washington, 87; Tom Moore, Indian Spring, §8; George D. Brantley, Chevy Chase, 88; M. A. Shipley, Bannockburn, 87; R. T. Har- rell, Washington, 89; Roger Coombs, Washington, 89: Albert R. MacKenzie, Columbia, 89; Guy M. Standifer, Co- lumbia, 90; C. B. Hatch, Columbfa, 90; E. B. English, Columbia, 90; H. D, Davidsan, Washington, 91; O. C. Mur- ray, Washington, 92. Playing over a course stretched out to its maximum length for the blue ribbon event of amateur golf about ‘Washington, 24 leading amateurs of the Capital started the 72-hole medal play grind today. The program was for 36 holes today and a like number tomorrow. Lacking the entries of C. J. Dunphy and W. R. Tuckerman, champions in 1922 and 1923, and the present titleholder, Roland R. Mac- Kenzie, the tournament resolved f{t- self into a scramble without any de- cided favorite as MacKenzie was last year. Any one may win, although Guy M. Standifer of Columbla, who has recently returned to Washington after a protracted absence, is con- sidered by some a good choice to an- nex the title. Standifer won in 1921 at Chevy Chase. The course is slow and heavy, with well watered greens, and the scoring 18 expected to be low. A score of 309 won the championship last year at Indian Spring. This mark is expected to be bettered this year, as the course of the Washington Golf and Country Club is not as long as that of the Indian Spring Club. Ed EFE A SAILING PLANS STAND. NEW_YORK, October 1 (#).—Plans of the French debt commission to sail tomorrow on the liner La France have not been altered so far as the manage- ment of the line had been advised to- y. At the offices here, however, it was explained the reservations would be held until this evening, when it was expected advices would be receiveed as to any change resulting from the rejection of the latest French settle- ment offer. e e v FAMOUS ACES TO MEET. Three War Heroes of Air to Attend Races at Mitchel Field. NEW YORK, October 1 (#).—Three aces of the World War who have not met since 1918 will be present at the national air races to be held mext week. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, American aviator, credited with bring- ing down 26 enemy planes in combat, arrived yesterday. Capt. Rene Fonck of France, who destroyed 75 energ planes, and Lieut. Col. Willlam =¥ Bishop, English ace, credited with 72 German planes, will arrive next week. FARES ROB CABMEN AT POINTS or'suns Purse-Snatchers Get $5 From Two Girls—Trunk and Canaries Stolen From Flats. ‘William H. Swann, 1209 Thirteenth street, driver for the Black and White Taxicab Co. was held up by two armed passengers near Thirty-seventh and Reservoir streets last night and robbed of $18. Swann told the police that he was engaged at Pennsylvania avenue and Nineteenth street shortly before midnight by two colored men to drive them to the place where they held him up. The bandits escaped. Thomas Lewis, colored, 942 P street, driver for the Red and White Taxicab Co., had a similar experience with two white men who engaged him at Sher- man avenue and Euclid street about 1:30 o'clock this morning to drive them to Arlington, Va. They stopped him in Potomac Park near the ap- proach to the Highway Bridge, he stated, held him up at the point of a pistol and robbed him of $8.15. Misses Julia Brosnan and Grace Fleming, 800.L street northeast, were victims of purse snatchers at New Jersey avenue and H street last night about 11:30 o'clock. The former was robbed of 75, cents and the latter of $4.25. They were robbed by a young white man, who was accompanied by four other men. Theft of a trunk containing prop- erty valued at §300 was reported by Barney Love, apartment 104, 1800 K street. A shotgun and wearing ap- parel were included in the list of other property. 3 Edward F. Stérry, 409 Tenth street, told police of the loss of two pet canaries, valued at $17, which were taken from Sterry’s apartment. yes- terday. 5 STATE OFFICIAL RESIGNS. Pennsylvania Highways Secre- tary in Clash With Pinchot. HARRISBURG, Pa., October 1 (#). —Paul D. Wright, secretary of high- ways, today sent his resignation to Gov. Pinchot, effective upon receipt. Differences of opinion involving ad- ministration of the highway depart- ment, Secretary Wright said in his letter of resignation, were given as the reason for his action. The differences reached a breaking point over the question of completing. a_ highway running from Elmira, N. Y., to Wil Uamsport, Pa. The stock had been col- ition agents over a considerable Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. DIVORCEE IS FOUND DEAD BY HUSBAND Autopsy to Be Made to Find Cause of Mrs. Olive Smith’s Death. Mrs. Olive Smith, 24 years old, Park View Apartments, 820 North Caro- lina avenue southeast, was found dead in bed this morning by Charles A. Smith, her divorced husband, re- siding at 1229 B street southeast. Coroner Nevitt directed an autopsy be performed to.determine definitely the cause of Jeath. Mrs. Smith, a_native of England, had been a resident of Canada pre- vious to her marriage to Smith. The couple have one child, Ruth, 5 years old, who was in her mother's custody, but she was not at home when the mother died. Park View apartment house is own- ed by Mr. Smith, and his divorced wife occupled an apartment on the lower floor. She looked after a portion of the building, it is stated, and the hus- band made a .voluntary allowance for her support. This morning when Smith went to the building to collect rents he knock- ed on the door of his former wife's apartment. Recelving no response, he opened the door and found her body on the bed. Mr. Smith explained to Coroner Nev- itt that his former wife had been se- verely injured in an automobile accl- dent in New York about two years ago, and her attending physician said an- other injury ta her head, no matter how slight, might result in death. ARMISTICE BALL PLANS - COMPLETED BY VETERANS Dance at Willard Hotel November 11'to'Draw Many High Dip- lomats and Officials. Plans for the annual armistice ball, November 11, at the Willard Hotel, have been completed by the committee of the Veterans of Forelgn Wars, which has the movement in charge, it was announced today. As in the past, many high in diplo- matic and other official circles are ex- pected to attend. Invitations are being sent to the various veterans' organiza- tions, and indications are that military and naval attaches of the embassies will attend in uniform, it was said. Committee heads in charge are: Ernest B. Wickstrand, general chair- man; finance and tickets, Charles H. Rellley, Columbia Post; music, Capt. Edwin ' S. Bettelheim, jr., Equality- Walter Reed Post; reception, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan; hall, E. H. Hale, Columbia, Post; invitations and guest: Charles H. Reilley and E. S. Bettel heim, jr., and decorations, Frank R. Helse, Potomac Post. Don't forget that it is wicked to bet and lose; no man has the moral right to be wrong, BB | A