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BLIND GIRL WINS A SCHOLARSHIP. Miss Beatrice Fenner, a 20-year-old been awarded a scholarship by the Ju the girl's compositions have heen su —_— GIRL WINS THE WORLD'S OLDEST RACE IN ENGLAND. King Charles 11, in 1666, a woman rode the winner of the historic Town Plate Race at Newmarket. photo shows the winner, Miss Eileen Joel, and her horse, Rogier, after the race. MRS. STOKES DROPS 'MANTLE OF SHAME' “Cessation of Mutual Love,” She Says, Caused Her to Be Divorced. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, 19.—Throw ng off “the mantle of shame” which she considers imposed upon her by law, Mrs. Rose Pastor that only the cessation of mutual love has caused her to be divorced. “The Rose of the Ghetto.” cigar worker and reporter, who 20 vears ago became the wife of J. G. Phelps Stokes, wealthy Soclalist. and helped him spend his millions in ways that mometimes got her into trouble with the law, in a statement published to day, tells why a romance that at tracted wide attention ended in divorce court at Nvack, N. Y., last Saturday. with e decree for her hi band on the one ground possible under the New York law Held Relation of Friends Only. 2q. Thoush Iiving under the same roof. r. friends for the larger part of our mar- ried life (since the war, just friendly enemies), says the statement written on a battered portable typewriter in an unheated Bronx flat ‘Our pro- found political differences tended to develop situations domestic and per- sonal that caused both of us intense muffering and made a continued truce impossible. “A vear October ago last Summer I asked Mr. Stokes fto free me, and I had made several similar requests during the several vears preceding th. “The mantle of shame seems to fall on the defendant in our case. . It should he placed on the shoulders of the State of New York, where it prop erly belongs Court Refuses to Reopen Case. A few minutes after the decree was granted Mrs, Stokes’ lawver appeared in court saving he wanted to present evidence of extenuating circumstances, but the judge refused to reopen the case. hotel keeper named Gross: man, but not fdentified further, named co-respondent On the wall of the rdom where Mrs. tokes worte her statement was a large drawing of Mr. Stokes. “You see, I haven't taken it down or turned it to the wall,” she remarked GEN. FRUNSE IS ILL. was Russian Commissar of War to Be Operated Upon. MOSCOW, October 19 (P).—Gen, Michael F. Frunse, Russian commissar of war, is seriously ill in the Kremlin Hospital. He is suffering from ulcer of the duodenum, the upper part of the small intesiine. Some of Russia's most famous doctors have been called in from Leningrad and other points, and they have decided, in consultation with the Kremlin surgeons, to per- form an operation immediately ke his predecessor, M. Trotsky who is also {1l with intestinal and ki ney ditease, Gen. Frunse worked from 13 to 18 hours a day at the commis- B ! war. sariat of Stokes explains | Stokes and I have been purely | t time. | Galli Curci, opera star. and blind giri of Los Angeles. who has nilliard Musi, Production. Some of ng on the stage by Galli Cure Copyright by Underwood & Underwood {Shooting by Boys 1 | At Targets Brings Out Murder Squad The murder squad of No. 4 pre cinct was called out on the i yesterday in response to the breathless call of a resident of 2obinson street southwest. who reported that promiscuous and desultory shooting of a wild and harrowing nature was going on to the rear. The squad arrived in time witness some falr-to-middling zet practice on the part of a of small boys of the neight | Who had hought a cheap rifle | e policemen sheathed their sabers, pocketed their guns and de parted with quizzical smiles after lecturing the voung rascals on the | inadvisability of shooting in their ° | back yvards. “TAXI DRIVER ACCUSED BY WOUNDED WOMAN, | | run to tar- trio hood | Mrs. Virgy Nelson, Found Wander- | 1 ing on Suitland Road, | | Charges Attack. | After wandering along Suitland | Road for an hour and a half last Sat. | aurday night in a dazed condition, | Mrs. Virgy Nelson, 617 E street. w brought to Emergency hospital by passing motorist, where she told the police she had heen assaulted hy | taxicah driver. | According to Mrs | ment she went to visit a | Suitland Road about & lay evening. Shortly | she decided to g0 home and entered a taxi. After going a short distance, | she savs the driver struck her . aver | the head with « crank and threw her | from the moving vehicle. | Thomas J. Vranu who runs a shoe shop at 623 F street. returning from [« drive about 1:30 Sunday morning. noticed the woman walking along the road. He took her to Emergency Hos. pital. where five stitches were taken in | @ wound on her forehead. | Mrs. Nelson says she made a report »f-the affair to the police at the hospi tal. although there is no record of it at_police headauarters. She savs she make no further report, but that | she will try to get the taxi company | to pay for her dress, which was ruined in the struggle. [REFUSED BY HIGH COURT. | pany Case Review De- Nelson's state. friend on lock Satur- | ter midnight | | Market Com; | nied by Supreme Tribunal. i The Supreme Court announced to- day that it would not review the claim of the Washington Market Co i for compensation for going concern value, placed at $200,000. In the purchase by the Govern- ment of the building and improve- ments belonging to the market com- | pany. which occupy Government land, | the market company appealed to the | courts from the decision of the com- mission appointed to appraise the | | property, and obtained a material in- rease in the purchase price. but con- | tended without success in the law courts that # also was entitled to some allowance in addition to the property as a “going concera.” | ed her |lifted { structural diseases which have been THE EVENING India’s only woman ruler, is seeing graph was taken when she left the special service in her honor. For the first time since it was instituted by The Copyright by Kadel & Herbert CHRISTIAN SCIENGE: POWERS RELATED Prof. H. S. Hering Sees | World Redemption in Faith of Mary Baker Eddy. A lecture on “Christian Science and the World's Redemption deliv ered in the Arcade Auditorium yester day afternoon by Prof. Hermann 8. Hering, . S. B., of Boston, Mass Prof., Hering is member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the F Church of Christ, Sclentist, in Boston, Mass., and spoke to a large audience | He was introduced by C(harles Baum, first reader of Fourth Church | of this city, under whose auspices the lecture was given. The lecturer said, in part: “Probably no_religious subject in modern times has ever hecome so widely known and attracted so much attention in so many quarters of the &lobe as has Christian fence. It is a_subject of interest not only among English-speaking people the world over. but also among the people of virtually all civilized nationalities. There Is acarcely a country on_earth where its literature is not read. Trans. ‘ was rst lations of various articles have been printed in 10 or more languages. The Discovery. “Mary Baker Kddy in the year 1866 learned to believe inplicitly in the | Bible teachings and in the supremacy | of spiritual power, and she never lost | this conviction. After an accident which her physi- | an declared would be fatal she open- | Bible and read the second verse »f the ninth chapter of Matthew_ While doing so_she realized clearly that the | ealing which was done in Jesus time | id_be repeated now. Her thought rested absolutely on God and was abhove the physical conditions to a high spiritual plane. In this men- tal condition she was instantly healed and was able to leave her bed and | walk. he was greatly impressed by her ing and by the spiritual exalta- tion which she experienced at that | dme. She therefore withdrew from | soclety after this experience and for three years studied the Bible, seeking | an understanding of Jesus’ work. As| a result of this search she gradual recelved the revelation of the prin- cipal of scientifi¢ Christian healing, which she calls 'The Great Curative Principle—Diety’ and which she describes as infinite, divine Mind. “In 1875 she published her text book, | ‘Sclence and Health With Key to the Scriptures.’ “In Christian Science the healing is done mentally, which has led some who are unfamiliar with Christian Science to believe that its healing is heall |accomplished through a form of men. |€ase res Cases involving hys- | teria, fear, and- imagination have been | healed, but these by no means con.| stitute the larger portion of the work done. Christlan Science has healed innumerable cases of organic tal suggestion. and | diagnosed as such by reputable phy- sicians, It is the healing of serious ail critica] cases which proves most | sea when {ing when the following points are un- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C NDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1925. WHERE THE PEACE OF EUROPE WAS PLEDGED. The Palace of the sights of England. The photo- mosque at Woking, Surrey, after a By Acme Ph European powers who have initialed to make war a thing of the past. WOMAN ARRESTED, WITH NEW YORK GANG. Rose Hamline, also known as Helen Hamilton, the only woman arrested with what New York e claim is the largest organized hold-up gang. The police found that the gang had a well equipped office, shooting gallery and guns with silencers. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. NE MAN LOST IN STEAMER FIRE SOUGHT AS PROBE IS ORDERED Ten Injured During Rescue After Blaze on Comanche off Coast of Florida—Cause Still Remains a Myster By the Associated Pres JACKSONVILLE —Clyde Line offic ing every effort trace of William . Mass.. contractor |on, other officials of the company are preparing for an investigation with the hope of determining the origin of the fire which endangered the pas sengers and crew The utterly use. less steel hull of the ship has been beached on a bank of St. John's River. where it will be visited by United States steamboat inspectors and offf cials of the company The Federal agents will question H. G. White, dis. trict agent of the Clvde Line Steam- ship Co.., and Capt. E. Curry of the Comanche. | So far the orlgin of the fire is a | mystery. Mr. White declared no com Fla.. October 19 s todav were bend toward finding som¢ Lawler. Winthrop, who is the only per son missing in the near-di ter which resulted in the destruction by fire of the steamship Comanche off Mayport Saturday night Early reports. which said 10 persons were missing. were ascribed to the confusion in taking the passengers and members of the crew off the burn ing ship. In this confusion several persons were throw into the water and on being rescued some were placed aboard the Texas Co. oil tanker Reaper and others on the pilot boat Meta, both of which had gone to the rescue. w o ek o . passengers | and ignited the naval stores there, Bl B e e e | Which i belleved to be responsible private homes at the little seaport |for & quick spreading of the flames and others going to hospitals and |to proportions which could not be hotels in Jacksonville. All day vester- | controlled. day officials were busy checking their | SOS calls from the lists. with the result that now only |brousht quickly response from the the fate of Lawler remains to be set- | Reaper and the Meta. both of which tled. Advices from Mayport say that |did veoman work in rescuing the pas- a close watch is being kept on the |Sengers and crew and bringing them beach for his body. | to land. i Ten persons were injured. some of | Near the place where the Comanche them seriously. their injuries having | was abandoned nine empty lifeboats, been_received mostly when a lifeboat | two from the Reaper and seven from was crushed between the burning ves. [the Comanche, were found today, as sel and the Reaper while a heavy sea | were a man's shoes and some wom was rolling. Others were hurt when |en’s clothing. another lifehoat spilled them into the | True to the end was lowered too|the last man to leave the burning | ship was her skipper, Capt. E. E. Lawler goes ' Curry, who suffered slight injuries. which consisted of lumber, naval stores and general merchandise. The blaze started in forward hold No. 2 traditions of the sea, one rapidly. While the searc! h for strikingly the efficacy of Christian |were Christian Scientists and Sclence as a healing agency. | successfully 1iving up to its teachings, “Christian Science healing may be |this wonderful spiritual life, redolent Aemonstrated and will be differentiated :\1:‘!"?' :"'r::l:‘;\ilal:"x:‘!! !J:{;::lx:d y{‘:.'::{fi:; from all other forms of mental heal-|lion. AboundBE In Mearoaly BAteEony day. Is this not an achievement worth striving for? “Mrs. Eddy writes: “Christ’s Chris- derstood: First, it has a divine founda tion and results from the operation | of divine mind and not human Will: [ (jnity is the chain of scientific being second, it is based upon the Infinity | euhnearing in all ages, maintaining of mind, spirit, truth, and the perfect ji5 obvious correspondence with the nature of the Ideas which constitute |Scriptures and uniting all periods in real being: third, it is predicatted upon the design of God."" the unreality of all that is unlike per- . = YACHT IS RAMMED. fect spiritual being, namely, the un- reality of matter, evil mind, mortal | 0ld Dot Hit by Freighter While at Anchor. law and power, which constitute so- | called material existence, or the ‘Adam-dream’: fourth, it is founda- mentally a corrective process, as Jesus intimated when he said ‘Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’ “Its most conspicuous result has been healing mortals from sin, disease and untold misery. Many have been 0Old Dot, pleasure yacht of G. W* Forsberg, Capital Yacht Club, anchor- ed at the foot of Ninth street south- healed of dlgescs of a charatter ||t T > rammed and damaged by which puzzled the diagnosticlans, and | the Adonis, a craft of the Philadelphia many from allments associated with | Shipping Co., laden with sugar, Sat- unethical or immoral conditions. Dis- | yrday night. ting from so-called heredl-| Three members of the crew were laws and from wrong environ: : ment. from family and business com. aboard the pleasure yacht when the prow of their fre'::hter crashed into plications, laws of occult influences, and evil purposes, which it is obvious !h;“r -‘:"*m"" side and tore a hole in e stern. that drugs and surgery cannot pos- sibly heal, have in numerous instances| Damage to the Old Dot was esti- yielded to the Christ power of true|mated at $500.° The hole was far Christian Science work. enough above the water line to avold “If Christian Science were every-|the possibllity of the craft sinking. where accepted and practiced, if even' Police were unable to determine. defi- a majority of the people in the world nitely the cause of the accident. tary | bustibles were carried in her cargo, | Comanche | were Justice at Locarno, Switzerland, where assembled the delegates of the the Locarno pact, which is expected Copyright by P. & A. Photos. NEW HEAD OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. WILL PAINT THE PRE President Coolidge. IDENT'S PORTRAIT. portrait painter. arriving in New York aboard the steamship He will come 1o Washington and will P. A. De Laszlo. noted Aquitania work of start soon on a pertrait Underwood & 1 wood Bishop Gardner Murray, 68 years old. selected as the supreme head of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the next six years. photozraphed with Mrs. Mur P ray. EXPERTS T0 STUDY ~ SWINIMING POOLS ‘Inspection to Be Made in Baltimore Preparatory to Equipping Washington. Study of the artifical swimming pools of Raltimore will be made by the designing force of the office of public | buildings and public rks before starting on construction of artificial | pools for the Capital City, should Con | gress provide the money at the com | ing session, it was indicated today by | Lieut. Col. Sherrill, director of the office. He has just written to J. V. Kelly. secretary of the department of public parks and squares of Baltimore, tell- ing him that he would be glad to ac- cept an invitation to make a detailed inspection of the Baltimore pools and that also his designing force take advantage of the opportunity to see | Baltimore's splendid installations Mass of Data Supplied. Mr. Kelly sent to Col. Sherrill mass of data on the design Baltimore pools, cost of installation, details of the construction, as well as cost of operation, number of people accommodated and the fees recelved from the bathers. Four of the five Baltimore pools are concrete basins. The Clifton Park pool is elliptical in shape, 590 by 340 feet, having a water area of 3 7-10 acres Patterson pool is irregular in shape, with a water ar | Gwynn's Falls pools gular concrete ha feet. containing 5500 Druid Hill colored pool consists of two concrete basins, 50 feet by 105 feet each and the total water area 10,500 feet. Druid Hill white pool has a water area of 27, acres. The Druld ing, and photographs of it sent to Col. Sherrill show it to be most attractive, cost in the neighborhood of $400,000, and it will accommodate 3,500 bathers an hour. Figures Show Operating Cost. Figures submitted with the report show that the cost of operation for the most part exceeds the daily re- | ceipts, but the daily attendance is { well in the thousands. At several of the pools Indoor baths are provided when the open-air pools are not work- Ing. The Clifton Park pool, according to the report, cost $31,946. Another large pool embodying the very latest features is belng constructed in Riverside Park and this particular pool is expected to furnish a rgodel for other similar constructions throughout the country. . Quantico Wreck Victim Dies. Special Dispatch o The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., October 19.— E. L. Musselman, 45 vears old, Freder- icksburg, who was injured in the Richmond, Fredericksburg _and Po- tomac wreck near Quantico Thursday a of 415 acres. are two rectan- each 38 by 75 square feet. \ terday. He had received internal in- juries and a fractured skull. L. Grantz, a merchant of Quantico, was injured in the accident. of the | 700 by 400 feet, | Hill pool with its build- | died at Alexandria Hospital late yes- ' {Dempsey Pictured Felled by Firpo, In Art Exhibition NEW YORK ated Press October 19.— Hang the Metropolitan today 1l in Art the ing on a Museum of depicting Dempsey’s which he p is a ode picture epis Jack pugilistic of sbhably is least proud- the dramatic moment on the night of September 11, 1923, when Luis Angel Firpo knocked him from the ring The painting George Rellows foremost painters being shown at Museum in a Bellows was ¢ artistic experts a in the ability to lifelike pictures of the prize fight ring. His picture, which bears the title. ““Dempsey-Firpo.” will be on exhibition until next irsday. \PRESIDENT, AT CHURCH, | HEARS FORMER PASTOR | in by the late one America’s whose works are the Metropolitan special exhi nsider ingz is d by supreme on canvas | Rev. Dr. Willis H. Butler of North- ampton. Mass., Occupies First Congregational Pulpit. Rev. Dr. Willis H pastor of the church |and Mrs. Coolidge attended at | Northampton, Mass., occupied the | pulpit at First Congregational Church | here yesterday and had the former | members of his congregation in his |audience. Dr. Butler was a guest at | the White House over the week end. Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of the First Congregational Church, had gone to New York to deliver a sermon from the pulpit of the Avenue Presbyterian Church sermon Dr. Pierce pointed religious constancy of the | Butler, the President former In his to the President and Mrs. Coolidge as an”example all | the world might well follow. Dr. Pierce is visiting a number of churches throughout the country, personally presenting the plan for the erection here of a new First Congre- {gational Church, to cost $1,250,000. Of | that amount, $100,000 has already ibeen raised, Dr. Carleton | Ball, i chairman of the building fund, told | the congregation during the services yesterday morning. SCHOOL IS .REOPENED. Dennison Closed Week for Instal- lation of Heat. The Dennison School, closed for a week during the installation of a new heating plant, was reopened today. While the building was closed pupils attended class at the Berrett School, except in the kindergarten, which oc. cupied a room in the Washington City Asylum. Use of the Berrett forced sev- eral school officers to give up their offices there temporarily. The old portion of Western High | School. which has been closed for | more than a week due to the lack of { heat, did not reopen today as school officials had expected. It may take an other week, it was said, to connect the heating system in the old build ing with the heating plant in the new addition. The entire student body in the meantime is attending school in the new annex on an alternating schedule, Fifth | r to taking the deacon’s orders, in Alabama, the present church leader was a successful business man pyright by P. Photos. ADMITS THROWING LYE INMAN'S FACE Woman Declares She Was Mad When He Came Home Late at Night. & A Mrs 40 ment Adele Edgerton essmaker Whitemore, iving in an apar 2469 Columbia roa 52 was held Police mayhem alleged admission t he threw lve yesterdax ank E. Jones. resident of 1ent, parti blinding him. given ng shortl th one eve an the sight « concentrated - was hurled at him Mrs. White- according to under a $2,000 bond in Court fol e in today on lowing her lice that face of F her apart She will Tones suffered the tion of a charge of be hes lost sight o tmpairment « when a caust turned apartment, 4 th more’s police Mrs. Whitemore told the police she was married, but separated from her husband, who is in the Government service at Point Pleasant, N. J. Po. lice say she readily admitted throwing the Iye on Jones, explaining that she loved him.” and was incensed when he came home at an ly morni hour. She is said to have expressed regret that she harmed him. saving she only wished to get the lve on his body. A l4-year-old fendant on the street near Eighteenth street address about 3 o'clock yesterday morning on her was to a physician's office with the suffer ing man. attracted the attention another person. who telephoned police of the tenth precinet Police took the sufferer to the office Dr. L. B. Norris, 3451 Fourteenth street, where he was given first aid before being taken to [ al Eve wr and Throat Hospital. Policemen > A. Davis and O. F. Beal started an investigation of the affair. and when they were informed that the woman had thrown the lye Real remained in the vicinity of her home to awalt het return. {1t was not until after 9 o'clock that | the woman returned home and was arrested daughter o de- the the hiscos MRS. BRENIZER DIES. 0Old Resident of City Expires Age of 84. Mrs. Lucretia Brenizer, 84 years old and a resident of Washington for the | last 35 years, died at her home, 627 | A street southeast, Saturday after a lingering illness. Mrs. Brenizer was a member of the Church of the Reformation, Lutheran. A native of Pennsylvania, Mrs Brenizer came to this city from Wil liamsport, Pa. She leaves her hus band, Warren F. Brenizer; a daughter, | Miss Lottie L. Brenizer, and a son, |John L. Brenizer. Funeral services will be conducted |at the residence tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. Interment will in Cedar, Hill Cemetery Nearly 5,000,000 automobile casings were shipped by the United States, Canada. France, Ifaly, United King- dom and Germany Iast year. | | 1 | i be

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