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THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON ONE DEATH MARS ™ HALLOWEEN FETE experr. s Society, Says | Aireraft Autoist Victim of Crash; Thousands of Merrymakers Throng Streets. Further exploration of the polar sex thy alreraft in its present stage of de ‘elopmeri was declarad lust night by (Donald R, MacMillan, head of the Arctic expedition last Simme he not veasinle Speaking tingui~hed and friends Zvaphic e 1an Are One nearls fire and intoxies nizht nisns emall fon tra Mo death toll thousands advantaze that Saturday 1 W B as o large and dis of memhers National Geo Whose augpice- Comdr, MseAil ed the naval own wishes in cease ilieir exploration by air from Frtah, Greenls Avring Augnsi. as the men “each duy were ri<king their lives azainst ihe prozpect of exentns sneces Intimations he arresis sudisnce of the eix. unc axpedition sail he had against their vhile ook Eickraie was the exactad last of Washinzt of idesl ther rarity #Halloween eveninz an <aid or 1. of Killed ane of the en Hos Lol Relley when mes Ross 3 instantiy cwerved ates With marhine e Elizaheth’s were Miss Geargia avenue 18 were given. however that furiher develop mighe sometime in the fuiure vecpen the question of [ litv. Should he hive the de elsion 25ain 1o make 1o the kind of alreratt 1o choose, Comdr. Mac Millan siid. he would make no change from the “amphibian=" «hich the Nivy vent north on the siip Peary with the expedition 6000 Miles Flown. The airplanes flew o 000 miles from theis explorer expiained dificulty o places which turther Aving The air reported point milss norih of 4914 [ vho sustained minor hy “xplover ments in awcra a of Cap Miss ht Annie The tol Heizhts, Md ries They ing toa Halloween accident happened disclozed that to pass an au <outh on Nichols houna | St the were hurry when the hvestizatior attempting imobile while zoing enue. whe pproa avoid and crashed in A passing Casnaliy Hospita here he ed dead. Miss O'Fr vere faken and treated He made ollision witl + the gate rished hed at over 1ah o able de was de explorers ancceeded nve the polar of Eiah, the the the finvidr coul Ross was p and Miss Providence motorist n= wien 1Rain< a candle in a amall Mitchell Dam 1 the evenin ime of Frank riheasr welfth 2 Hhstrating his ored slides and with tion picture i, Comd held his hig andence tion more than ith & zraphie, preseniation of plished al ives vith of mo MacMillan clse atren and s half comprehensive the work tour of i age Ry art Intoxication wers reported at and tenth precinct laring their vietims vented them from then estimated m for i sht (= the Arst poliee de tion pre- 1 prompt numerans for e atione, : ) honrs accom e trom s Invaking known every pAink Halloweeners while zar sring all national <un and depicting life all it in this and antic Gilber ional Geozraphic worla fon [ OEICEL TBE expltney next. thousande of Washing: | |1 I Teeehithe inknolnianea some tonians held <way over ithe down Shere in ihe nola tain town disn five hours last night. D418 e A tnere heing & | nerch, Kind aver corner from | 7R e "o pay o the hirds M | Ashes. animalstand fora, and port daily vadio 10 the Geozraphic Nociety in Washin prosess of the sxpedition ANl Retu aceompiishment upon which Mr sratulated Comdr Dringing hack svery taken on the One of the the unknown Mr. Grosvenor explained. was the inprecedentad weather conditions These conditions were later described by Comdr. MacMillan heing treacherous in the pol with shifting ice, and water unreliable and 100 dangerous io explore by air in the present stage of aircrafi develop ment. The Summer weather xlso proved unpropitious throughout, it was said. Comar, MacMillan was warmiy con gratulated by Mr. Grosvenor for the achievements of the expedition which were declared 1emarkable Among the valuable material hrought back in addition to the pictures. Mi Grosvenor explained. were 1500 birds many of which were entirely new, | and afforded a rich addition 10 knowl- dge of the bird lite of ihe region. B; Iso Present. Comdr. R. E. Bvrd of the Navy, head of the group of eight Navy men whe weni with the expedition, flew from Detroit to Washington vester day 1o he preseni last night. and was alco congratulated hy President Grosvenor for his participation in the axpadition. The evening assumed siznificance not only as the fArst formal appear ance of Comdr. MacMillan since his return last manth. hut because the axplorer virtually presented his offi cial report 1o the National Geographic Sociery. under whose auspices he went out after the unknewn While the presentation by (omdr MacMillan proved of historic and sdu cational value throughout. it was <prinkled with lighter entertainment and featuras of human interest that |1ime and agsin brought response from his nce, varving from chuckles of appreciation, sighs of svmpathy murmurs of admiration and peals of 1aughter Mosquitos wers blamed by the ex plorer as the “curse” of the north They provide one of the real reasons he said. why Labrador has not been more thickly seftled. and in proof thareof he showed motion pictures of soms of hix men Aghting valiantly jagainst swarms of hige insects Eskimos' H ribed. The Eskimo of the Far th. does not live in a snow house. sald the ex plorar, but he camps’ in one when! hunting. Many antertaining pictures ware shown of these natives who live in skin tents in the Summer, and in vock caves underground in Winter They are very comforiahis in Winter in thair own homes nnderground, the commander sald. as the tamperature Uaries from 50 up 1o 80 degress inside while the thermometer is siiding far helow 7era Autside Gorgeous plctures were iceherss of zigantic form and fan tastic <hape. pillaresque. arching “pires towering aloft. The crew some- limee went ashore on ihese bergs. Comdr. MacMillan said. climhed aver ihem. and one occasion the ships water tanks weis filled from the great cold frash water pools of thon sands of gallons which ferm. Al icenergs are of fresh water from snow. he axplainad ! Airplanes in the North caused zreat axcitement among the Kskimes, Comdr. MacMillan sald. so much in Lfaci. he mald. thai ai one village visited, evary ane was found 1o have the nosebleed. “When tha FEskime zets oo excited.” axplained the ex plaver, “he alwave geix the nose.| ‘ hlaed . Eskimos Skillful in K, “No imo is sver drowned, not ane of them can swim." This paradoxica! d ration by lecturer brought surprise, nuntil it expiained further hy picinres of Fakimo hunter in his liitie kavak in hoat. 1R feet lonz. 18 inches wide {and 10 inches deep. This Fskimo, fastaned in his little hoat and cov ead with a water-tight garment. up. | el his hoat and succeeded in going | under it. hack and forth, and every ! rime righting it. eoming up on top with a amile. The Kakimo hunter! was alse thewn gaing afier “the most dangerous animal of the north” the | walrus, in this same fragile boat “‘the mest wonderful litile hoat in the world.” according to Comdr. MacMil- | lan Strange mixture of the primitive and modern was shown inside one of the explorer's two ships, where a group of kimos were shown won. dering at music brought by radio from | New York and Chicago : . e Hi | Queer looking hirds of the Arctic Memorial to Musie's History. | i including the sider duck, were | The history of music since 300 B. €./ shown. and methods by which the heen engraved in golden leiters Eskime catches them in hizg nets, in (he walls of the Benediri Musie' store away fer eating raw in the| \fonument in Rager Williame Park | Winter. were pictured n Providence. R. 1. The strneture| Difficulties encounterad hy the fwa < Wullt on the lines of the Parthenon. | ships of the expedition. the Pears 5¢ white markle and is a natural | and the Bowdoin. wese alzo pictured amphigheater, belding 00,000 persons. each o having besn caught on es. as explained president of the under the n Phases had heen the coloy the norih spe. v first otographs of ol their the Arctic a1 atiention Police trin Ninth Avenne Pntiful almost every Foanteenth as the thron then found were | ' streeis on of m in laleic litle censure and much 1o he amused at stamped b o scopic review they 1o Streets Covered. Safely. An tion of the expedi osvenor con MacMillan. was man of the crew hazardous vovage princinal 1easons ea not In fact. the forld he yezister onfetti-throwing raders came »ariy the city's white work eliminating hrilliant enlored papers and arveamers where nnly vesterday they iched away a thin lining of snew. Earlv in the evening the “hig ing * war on Pennsylvania avenue hut later the costumed erowd which had heen entertaininz there. as well 45 an Ninth and Fourtesnth stresis ite followsrs, converged on F anly complaint 1hat A4 Rzainst the noisy of masque vhena hand was put arpets todas at winzs heavy why reached at was treet on ¥ Inween the calehrants of Hal their way easi or wes' h painful dificulty and cligues of viends were lnst in hapeless tangles 4 2toup of eollege hove obtained keen aninvment in picking out a couple of pretiy girle and forcing themi in a| gama of ringaronndthe-rosy rize-Win eased ing Tricks. Twn voung men ene posing as a pompous darkev with high hat and walkinz stick and the other as the Old Nick. won the verdiet of the crowd for sustained entertainment Fvery 30 vards the black-faced merrymaker would halt 1o axposs sau rersize diamonds. 10 Anger huge dice smoke a cigar as large as a hox's hase hall hat and exhibit an sight-day alarm clock from his vest pocker TWhan ihe crowd had gathered he would paint his companion and Flaim the devil was “after’” him. To nromoie realism “the devil” wonld ex hale large rlonde af smoke from he hind his mask. which was fopped by twn wicked horns Liquor Searee. While there were a numher of nc rasions where pagsages a1 arms were Imminent either hetwesn the marry makers themselvas or the crowd. gand humer p the end A marine caused a greai deal af ex citement at Ninth and F siresis when . ha taund 2 prerty girl was carrying a toy pistal and made it an excuse tn hug her. He proclaimed he wonld have her arrasted for carrving con realad weapons There anppeared e a total ah ance of illegal it Just 1o ses haw far he could %o one voung man stepped 1p in a2 policeman and rried tn press on him an eminons looking auart bottle hut the aMcer laughed him o witheut sxamining it Defy Despite the vaung girls who had lags and hare shonlde prava their makeup n the erond Thera were hundreds of service men in the erawd. many of whom de ~risd military rezulations hy wearing falge faces and making themselves “mnoamiterm in ather wave Impatient matarisis. enzulfed by the Halloweeners. gave the general Ain af horns and crackers competi tion by sustained siren shiisks. 'l Plight of the matarisis was rhe least nf the crowd's worry and scores nf them baldlv hlockad their path as vnlunteer trafc policeman There wers the usnal contirzent “women” smokine rigars and making unstinted display of Thair hasiery Anather favorite disguise was the lang whiskersd couniryman. feigning astonishment at the hright lights and tall_buildings Rhortly after midnight the crowd fatigued by its unrestrained pleasures. | hegan to thin aut and in roday's sarly hours, with the spell af the ancient peried of levity hroken. the mas nuaradnes sought side stresis. feeling of place where earlier ihey had isd with their eampaniane for puhli prates. in es 1 Cold Weather. chill of the avening Aecided hare wonld im sre prevalent <hown of of it aks. vet Sues Son's Slayer. RALBIGH. N. ¢ Alleging that he fumtification nf excuse.” Ormond, father af W. W. Ormand whose murder W. R. ("ale aof Rockingham was recently acquittec, tnday fled suit here for $£130.000 against Cole the was The Octoher 31 (). — ar Killed withant the Rev. A\ Dr. Parker Heads Women's Couneil DETROIT. Octaber 31 (#). Dy Va laria H. Parker af New York City was rhosen president of the National “ouneil of Women late today. Dr. | Parker succeeds Mrs. Philip Borth Moare of St. Louis as head of the ranneil, reprezenting 40 national wom en's cluhe and societies. | OLAR EXPLORATION BY PLANE NOT FEASIBLE., MAC Mll aking Before National Geographic Make Lse in Arctic Practicable. ! head was caught betw ! from Paris, sonthward. The evidences | D, NOVEMBER 1 < GIRL SCOUTS PLAN MEAL FOR COOLIDGE Will Prepare and Serve Luncheon to President and Wife Saturday. LAN SAY Must Be Improved to rocks at varlons dangerous points vovage. Much frouhle was h, - in hreaking through the ice. acMillan explained. as some clear water appears where the ships were forced i« Aifficulty azainst seas of | seasons this vear battle with ice. President and will it down to a Mrs. Coolidze Iincheon next Saturday which will he cooked and served by 4 group of selected Washington Girl Scouts. The luncheon. probably the “mallest and most unpretentions meal ever served the Chief Executive and his wife in the Capital. will he held a1 the Giri Sconts’ Little House (1750 New York avenne, and formally Kellogz, 1he. Secretary af Lahor and | Will usher in the National Girl Scout M atin the: Searetars of " the | Week. November 3-14, which signulizes Treasury and Mies Mellon, the Secre Commerce and Mre loover, Jusiice James Clark McRey AMr. Justice Mr< Harlan Stone, M. dusiice and Mrs, Wil |2 Van Devanter. Mr. Justice and | #nd A=, Pieree Butler, Mi. Justice and | Pfanned Ns. Sanford jiihose The Norwezian Minis wan Bryn, Rrig. Gen. George A. L. Du mont. miltary attache the French embassy: Mr. 1. H. Sims, artache M1 Constantin Brun. the Danish Min- | ister: Group Capt. Y. G. Christie, alr attache, Rritich embassy i The Avzenti Ambassador and Mime. Pueyrredon. Mr. and Mra. Raoul Tilmont. Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Rall. Mr. John Joy Edson. Dr. and Mys. dohn €. Merviam, Mr. and Mrs George R. Putnam. Rear Admiral | Cothy Chaster, i Howard Gore and Mrs. Frederick \' Coville. Mr. and Mrs. Rudoloh Kauff o and My John Foote, Gen Greelv. Mr. and Mis. Georze Mi. and Mrs. Stephen T Attended Lacture. £ is & partial list of the vepressntatives af offcial i sclentific circles wha the MacMillan lecture last Follow 2uests and Aiplomaric attended avening The of Siate Secretary i Mis the change from the ontd vitfes Winter m. portance. home-making building. A tvpical of i citizen ac o tters and Fiske Vermont menu, served in true \ermont by the local Girl progress in Seouterafi them the e | hosi esses Mrs covked style, is Seonts has honor héing v and Mme. Coolidge to Act. Refore the luncheon Mrs. Coolidze Who s honorary president of the Girl | Scouts of America and honorary com missioner the District of Colum- hia Chapter. attived In regulation Girl Seout costume. will help ihe il program at the Tivoli | The Mrs the ihe put on a r ehatrman of | committee it is antie stinzuished the Hoover utive atates Herhart nal Seonts. nat Girl ed that suests will attempt, chs Seont undertakings. and joy by toue simplicite, and out any effort atretch the taining capacities of the Little b the standards of a tres planting ceremons in by Littie s M exer iy these most evpecially acteristic ppreciate of al to achieve hoauty mann R Otis Smith Maiher i, Gilhert Grosvenor the National Georgraphic S Nivs Tohn Oliver the National Mroand Mrs. Capt. and Mre. Edward <enziior and Mrs. Hiram Rir presentative snd Mrs. Frec Mi.oand Mrs. William Nirs. flobert K. Peary. Mr ward Stafford. Dr.and Mrs vt hompson. Mr. and Mrs terbert Eberiv. Rev. Charles \ n P Gen a s tichards Mrs. Harry Raldvidge ien. and Mrs Mason T, and Mrs. Jdohn B. Larner and Mrs. Walier R Cherardi. Admiral and Mrs. Fdward| W. Eberle. Comdr. and Mrs. J0 T, . Stapler. 1. N. Linnell. the Commis | of Education and Mrs. Tigert Mrs. Joseph Fegan. Mr. and | Franklin Adams. Mr. and Mrs Percival <. Ridsdale. Dr. and Mrs | Heniy O'Malley. Mr. and Mrs. Burdett | Stryker. Grover Loening. Mr. and Mrs | Frank Hogan. S. Rowe. | Mr. and Mrs. Cari A. Droop. Mr. and Mre Frederick Hohbein, Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, Dr. and Mrs. Henry R Kl ffott, Mr. and Mrs. H Rust. i M. G. Long. Commissic anklin Rell. Col. and Mrs. C. E. . G. Charl fon. Commissioner Frederick A. Fen ning. Dr. William F. Notz Mr. and Mrs. J. W abiree. Thomas H Healv, Capt. Ridley MclLean, Comdr William A Glassford. jr RESCUE WAS PLANN Gir | with sident of | ey, and | Le G o enter \ vited by Grosvenor mansion ni Gpo- | particd i afie the House 1 he first vaph i nders ek m. 1 itten < held o1 the vesterdas Flather, A <ivie i and | ' veiful Nrs the last spade sk Washingion, threw <h Hoover threw mor ik The h “ Capi U.8 N Patfich Cant and Nia Mr nor patrol eant at the end of I from ench the foot of Afier dance hoy patrol house where ih the Little House princips s in this cere Tudith presented renon ng a b planted tree the tree of place pag 1 the newly ironnd the ol way inta The 'nd <ioner rony Mal. and Mrs, hanghnessy teele ille Webher Girl Wins High Hon, Miss Lucille Weher Western High medal of merit of honors hestowed an Girl n have merit hadges 1o this medal and next Saturda with the zelden honor. by Dean of the Girl special ceremony W ohe A senior possesses the highest | 1 she w Arnol presented highest vational president America. at Epiphany Church Members of the Anderson. Hester Martha Cline Crocker, Mar Caroline Holl erine Ma Helen Schecke Shaughnessy. Judith Steele. Dorothy tubhe. Leila Van Leer, Lucille Weher {Mzrion Wheeler and Effie Wa honor [ M den Dura Kath Ruth K1 Carpenter Cynthi lTones k 4 Fleanos Wilbur Shenandoah or an Says Los Aungeles Was Re of the a luncheon Navy Wilbur vesterday at the Cosmos Club, told for the firsi tme how Lieul. Comdr. Zachai Lansdowne of the ill-fated Shenendoah had prepaced complete plans for the vescus of the MacMillan Arctic o pedition by either the Shenandoah or {he l.os Angeles should the United States Navy flvers encounter trouble in their Aretic explovation work Secretary Wilhur spoke briefl e luncheon ziven by Dr. Gilhert wsvenor. president of the National hic =ocieiy. and the frusiess of 1he society in honor of Comdr Donald R. MacMillan and the per <onnel of the expedition which went aut under the sacleiv's auspices this Summer. with the United States Na cooperating Seeretary tribute to Comar leadership and said that the navsl unit and the expedition leader had worked In perfect accord MacMillan Praises Nav. Comdr. MacMillan by Dr. Grosvenor, success of the scie and radio news tr of the expedition. and said that the work *of the naval uait. thouzh i- mplete objective had noi been complished. had paved ine way further Arctic exploration. Comdr. MacMillan Ikewise high tribuie the i si that the mechaniciars wall ns the pilots, had pecformed a fashion which was liiie short ‘superhuman. WIFE SUES FOR DIVORCE. Recretary speaking ut 13 STATES WILL BALLOT FOR OFFICIALS TUESDAY (Continued from Fivst I mayoralty contest in Detroit Missouri -~ Municipal _ slection Kansas City alone. which zoes it new form of city zovernment ew dersev Selection of zo ind other Siate officers. seven ators and the entire membershin of the He f Assembiy and one mem her nise of Representatives New lection of the ent the State Assembly four constitut swrganization of machinery eliminate zrade hond for t State improvements: sub. for the present judiciary the State constitution Ohin - Three constitutional amend ments. the principal one of which uld extend the terms of State off cials from two to four vears. The two others are on deht limitation and limited classification tax Pennsylvania - Selection State-wide officer ipreme Court judge. with elections in every county for judicial and other local offices, Utah - Municipal elections Virzinia — Selection of all St ficers and General Assembly, <ome loeal elections Washington — Kl to fill a vacaney at in Gacg: the B York lower house and halloting | amendments I'State zovernmental 000,000 hond fsxsie 1o $100.000,000 high on Wilhur paid 2 MacMillan and crossings isste | permane stitute introducen | articie of wha tola The tific. photographic smission aspeci fn of one paid it o N om in of in Grant in the State tion County dersey’s Rattle. fight plenty New of ex gubernatorial in has furnished for the voters. hui that in has aroused little interest, ection of the Democratic can Henry Flood Byrd. is regard Ny as a foregone conclusion Jersey State Senator Arthur Whitney of Mendham is the Rep hlican candidate for governor, whil' A. Harry Moore, Jersev City com issinner of revenie and finance. is th- Democratic candidate Whitney was nominated with the auppert of the Anti-Saloon League Aafaating the candidate of the recu Jar Republiean organization. who had the support of United States Senator Fdge. He has attacked Frank Hague Twombley, Ex-Head of Aeronau-| tical Society, Was Married Here. CHICAGO, Octoher 31 ().~ Willard | Irving Twombley. inventor and autn mobile and airplane manufacturer. was | sned for separate maintenance foday by Mrs. Ethel lLong Reese Twombley In February, 1916, Mrs. Twomble then Miss Long, married Francis W. Reese. wealthy resident of Los Angeles An hour after the ceremony she went to New York. Twombley married her Washington. D. €. in July, 1316 Reese ohrained a divorce. Mrs Twombley charzes crnelty | Mr. Twombley i a former president | of the Aeranautical Soeiety of | America. | - A Democratic mayor of Jersey City, | charging that he nominated Moore GIRL KILLED IN ELEVATOR ind throush him planned the Niate. Door and Starts The Jersey citement Virgin since didate. ed zone In New i i | | ‘ Moore has declarad for modification | of the Volstead act and has charged exceassive primary campaign expendi { Tures by his opponent O ver | The seat in the House of Repre. earl nd of Hope ' sentatives to he filled in New Jersey student nurse In the is that made vacant hy the death of Highsmith Hospital hare. was Instant. | T. Frank Applehy, whose son, Frank Iv killed in an eslevator accident to.|T. spplebyv. 12 the Republican can Aate for the place. He is opposed hy 1. Twvle Kinmouth, Democrat In Kentucky the congressional elec tion ie to fill the vacaney caused hy ihe death of Robert Y. Thomas of Central City, a veteran Democratic | i memher of the House. The candi dates for the place are Thurman R Pixon of Rowling Green. Democrat, and Jahn W, Moore of Morgantown, Repuhlican. The municipal election in Roston | prasents an unusual sitvation in the number of candidates in the feld. The New York contest presents a seasoned campaigner. on the one hand. in Senator Walker. with a novice in politics. on the other hand, in Waterman. Opens to Step| From Moving Car. ITEVTLLE s A to evewitnessbs, Miss | Townsend seemed to hecome excited, apened the elevator door while in transit. started as if to step out, her | n the slevator | virtually erushed in training only and the Hoor and off. She nad heen i 10 daye, Catalans in Two Countries. The Catalans are racially intact though part of them live in France | and part of them in Spain in a section | of the Pyrenees ahout 14 hours' ride | of French. ish, and they r from the ancient their euliure| are undeniably | but their hackground ix Span are supposed to be left | Opium Found on Liner. Therians. | A | 3W YORK, October 31 Drowned in Undertow. LOpium valued at $69.000, under: DAYTONA BEACH. Fla. October prices. was discoverad by cusioma 31 (®). —Alfred ¥. Bush. 23, of Spring- [agents between lavers of sawdust in Reld. Ohin, was drownad here this|ihe refrigerating plant of the Furnass. afternoon while swimming in the At-| Withy liner. Celtic Prince. which ar lantic Ocean when he was caught by [rived taday from Hongkong. Officers an nndertow =outh of the pier. Efforts |of the Celtic Prince denied all knowl on the part of his companion, Martin |adse of the allaged smuggling attampt. Beach, 1o save him were futile. ‘ys Coolies comprise most of the crew. ) Ry Conaolidated Press to control | i vorld | FLORIDA WALL TEST IS IMNUNITY LAW Inheritance Tax on Beggsi Estate Claimed by Two Other States. | MILWAUKER | ida's claim to recognition as some thing of a taxless Utopia for the ,wealthy wishinz to escape inheritance levies is due tn receive an sarly conrt | test The allurement of the Florida offer | vecelve the rich without artempt ing 1o tax their estates in the event of death, admitiedly has heen attract ne a large numher of persons with | holdinzs. among them John 1. of “Milwankee. Mr. Begge,! was known as Wisconsin's | Ithiest citizen, died few daye October 31, Flor —\Iv o he Beggs Ieft an estute estimated worth 75,660,000, In order avold the Wisconsin inheritance rax it is claimed that he established a echnical residence in Florida The latter State claims him ax a honafide | citizen and is prepared o fght in the courts to establish her right to| receive wealthy persons who wish fa ake ihe localities in which their \th was made for “taxless Flor ida Wisconsin courts 1o fiz 3,000,000 13 e is entering fhe Federal ht for the $3.000.000 to which she helisves her Missouri also claims My, Reggs resident and is preparing to fol Wisconsin in the fight against the Rezge estate and against Florida Bonafide ) We helieve that John 1. Reggs did change his actual domicile tn ida. hut that he made onlv a pre tended change.” explalns the Wiscon <in tax commission. “Tf a man takes i his actual residence in Florida he will our inheritance 1as, ex cont as hi= Wisconsin propert The question will turn on whether | there was an actnal honafide change | of residence. or mere iechnical change the tax | point that Mr. Begg of his fortune in Wiseo { <in and that his home. for all practical was in Milwaukee another interesting ans which the skirmish estate has developed Federal income tax | « an allowance cent for e inheritance hen applied. Florlda has no such « so the IFederal Government clamps the (ull 1 of its estate levy A experts are divided the vhere the of Tose he ot | escape o escape Offciais | purposes There the situation the B which zra I . T sior ;1’ ' ere on heirs when by Siate win inheritance 1ax residence in a question as vich Jodzes tablishinz which State has no such Federal Tax $6.500,000, One expert astimated today an estate valued ar $20.000.000 the Federal wonld he approximately €4.500.900. which would have to he paid ir full if the deceased had re sided in Florida. If he had lived in Wisconsin the 25 per cent allowance id reduce the tax $2.500.000. The expert estimated that the Wiscon would It to less than that on \nother tha sin expert figured. however the Federal tax and the \Wiscon on an estate of $20.000.000 A amount to $8.033.000. In that event. the Florida resident would have an advantagze over the non Florida | resident the extent of nearly | s400.000 FRUNSE FUNERAL TO RIVAL LENIN'S Red War Chief. Dead After Opera- tions, One of Most Spectacular of Russians. MOSCOW army. Gen m for nundergane 1inal ulcers Already the preparinz fo zive him in <ize and that of Nike accompanied hy all the honors dead military haro n. Frunse's death endad he most speciacilar caresrs devel oped by the Russian revolution. for, Ithough only 40 vears old and one of the voungesi of the Red leaders, he had parii ed in all the revolutions Russia since 1905 and commanded ed troops on almost all the revoly nary fronts The Rolsheviks will remamber him hest for his leadership of the success. ful exploit against Admiral Kolehak in Siberia. which bronght ahout the execution of the “White" leader at Irkutsk early in 1920 He followad is up by defeating the army of Raron Wrangel in the Crimes and for these servicss he was awarded the highest decorations within the zift of the nation. Between the Kolchak and Wrangel campaigns he the Red army in Turkestan Afier he had defeatad Baron Wran zel he was made commissar of war for the Ukrainian Republic and was sent to Turkey to conclude the a ance with Mustapha Kemal. When Trotsky fell from power sarlv this vear Frunse was slevaied 1o his post and made chalrman of the revelution ary war councll He will be huried in tionary martyrs’ cametery, Kremlin. and within Lenin's tombh. WARSAW, The rumor that Yhe deathof ‘hieftain, Gen. F poison. confirmation of from offcial October 31, Lean 1 chief of the Red W. Frunse. com todav. He had for intes snccessor as Mirchael Aied aperatinne Soviet zavernment # state funeral, impressiveness 4 Lenin and i second only 1o one of 1 the revolu facing the the shadow Poland, October 31 Is current in Wags he Soviet milita unse, was due w to [ receivea sonre | FIRE SWEEPS GARAGES. |“Auto Row” In Seattle Going Be- i fore Disastrous Blaze. i LE. Wash.. October 31 (#®).- Al avallable fire-ighting apparatus Tonight fought a blaze in “Auto Row which did_damage estimated ai up. wards of $300.000. _The fire was not under control at & p.m. The fire was discoversd in the ga- | rage of the Willys-Overland Co. | Twelfth and Pine. and pread rapidl (o neighboring garages. The cause is undetermined With an hour's covery, a whole bloek blazed. of bildings Idaho Claims Many Jockeys. 1daho has hean cited ax the State |trom which more famous jockey falent | has come in recent vears than an: | ather State. Among the riders now in the public ave are Sande. LaVarne Fator. M. Fator, Dickie Johnson and Arthur Mortensen. who at_ane time or another were claimed by Idaho. Ivan Parke is also frde that State. | | | I ! [} | | “We only do from 10 10 15 per cent | | pictures ! place | the public the paid | commanded | of | (‘).l | thix has been ' i for distribution headway before dis. | 1925--PART +ZUKOR FLATLY DENIES CONTROL OF FILMS IN FIRST INTERVIEW Firm Dqges 10 to 15 Per Cent of Bu Forces Poor Pictures on Exhibitors, He Says { ness, Never in Reply to Trade Commission. BY JAMFES ROBBINS. NEW YORK, October 31.—Domina tion of the motion picture business” thors who were zelting percentage e | ceipts 1hat there was no exploitation | or advertising “There wers no | of the business—I havent the sxact | 'ributo take care fgures: that is oniy a rough guass.” | their 35 pe nt Oppressive methods” “There have| “\We had about reached the waze heen none 1o my knowledge: never in | Where the stara’ contracta had ex v ernetlance (s Waranilex il pired and they were asking higher sal might call them enemies, are but aries. We had ta try to change the competitors.” perceniage arrangement. Th. xas Forced prementation of poor pie | *ndless discussion and thers were [ tures”—“One can’t tell what a pletura | cOmplications. We realized that if we ix until it Is sold and the public passes did N0t make the next mave and unite on it That ix very ohvious. | produetion and distribution we canld An open market?-“Absolutely.” not go ahead Adolph Zukar, president of the 'a | At that time Paramount mons Players-Lasks Corporation. whe | PicLures a week for a flai sum. The anization is under Feders! | exhibitors were paving from $30 a Comminalon investigation 1o | Week up 10 $1.000 a week, which the ascertain whether all ix heaithy com. Strand Theater, which had heen petition in the $1.500,000.000 motion | hulll. paid for the first showings picture industry, was talking. It was | Stars demandsd pariicipation in the an interview for the New York World profits. That the hezinning of News Service and, as he pointed out. | the separate corporati for the first he had ever given in his life. | tures. Zukor all in Stature. He sat in his corner office on the eighth floor of the building at 486 Fifth avenue, overlooking the public library. He is a small man in stature smooth xhaven. with grav hair brush ed back flat from hix forehead. He Nore A gray husiness suit, Agured | light blue four-in-hand tie with a sin. | zle pearl stickpin in i1, small diamond ing on the third finger of hix vight hand. fizured silk socks and low hlack shoes He <moked a long. thin cigar, sal hack with his hands on the arms of a mahogany swivel- ohalr. turned at rizht anzle 1o his faitop desk. There were a few papers on the hlatter. evi dently placed thers hy hi- secrstary for his immediate attention On his dexk were framed sraphs of two little children heavy silver desk set Mr. Zukor talks with his lips drawn in and squared. bui he neither frowns | nor shouts. He could not he quieter in manner if he were trving to catch a mouse. He thinks as he talks Words to him are for a purpose and all effect. e anticipates ques tions on what he says and he Is ready With an answer The long cigar of hix right hand, which he occasion «lly lifts for & light puff on. seems hi only relief as he warms to the subject hefore him there is regularity o his pi Words mean more than smoke 1o him. He sav< them to im pres=. and not_vanish in air s First york like funds for the dis of that with in 1 my wold 1wa ns 5 New Branch Created. “We felt Paramount could not pos sibly sell the special pictures an their individual merit. The Artcrart Pic tures was created as a disiributing organizatlon and 1ook up these spe “leclal pictures. Artcraft worked inte the same lines as Paramount the features grew The next mount with change of the Paramonnt <tock in Famous Pla na oppasition Then in the | | | unite Para Mast of 100k There stock and eash Khe There anz them the salas campaisn there ing known kne it srew practice of - 0 what hookinz ingredisnt shat it would | presentad. Rut the | comed the cartaint pared pictures a weel | surance 10 them and Then. more thar auestion of merit the same number there s fodas drama and short Gthers in featues We made N Fulrhunke and Wil Othars staried Ve were doing \ho makes hlack actual af each pic or he warth uniil hihite n a ph and vas as There of Ax those dropped ng Piekford ot N 1 Do Hart p that fingers hetween the . 2 and pat ething and profits ents i it Theaters With that thought the field. <elected i made a dexl ment of our Theat The management here. Mi. Kutz will handle the way they can most out of our hands NINE ARE RESCUED FROM SINKING SHIP * Schooner - by tehed Katz mana them ransferred They in the i and dabar erview the World o zet Mr. Zukor New here afficiently He interrupted that It is the first time ziven new spaper Said is now ance 1 have ever . intervie he I have heen asked for my opin fons on the motion picture husiness by newspapers and magazines manv times. 1 alwavs felt the public was interested in my plctures me What can | suy”" he asked You can tell the story of vour career in the busthess " it will be sug zesied He the 6 started the motion h their hezan at time ame out —in 1 Marcus Loew had arcade and he opened a smal in Fourtesnth streei. fitting it up to represent a railioad car to give impression of traveling witnessing the scenerv. William \. Brady was his first partner in pic tures, but after a short time he re newed his partnership with Loew “Those first pictures were views of | veling.” he recalled Karly Business Parmenter afte Sought Gale Off Hatteras—Captain's Wife and Child Saved. in and penny and Rr the Assoclatad Press NORFOLK. Va.. October 31. Six men comprising the erew of the four mast schooner Isabella Parmenier. the captain, his wife and their child were rescued from the deck of their sink ina 40 miles north of Hatteras this morning the American steamer Achilles. Theyv will be landed here iomairow. The schooner. a prae tically new vessel, may he a total tr ew. novelty and the husiness b We removed the car interfor in chairs to seat more peo That was the heginning of what the ‘store show enough films and Rusiness hagan rut 1t grew and ple hecame known as There were not the novelty ware off [t wane. We were in a “Thers ware sight nine makers Lot pietyres s General Film Co. | was organized and disiributed 1wo pictures 2 Then “The Passion Play’ was hrenght out in three reels hy Pathe. \We enzaged a quarter with presentation of it. That drew a element ot the public was a The Isabells Parmen Turks Island to P cago of <ali. was that swept the Caralina-\ 14%t night. She hegan and was half full of Achilles sizhied her and came tn hey assistance. The crew. as well as the captain and his familv. were prepar ing 1n take tn the rigzing tn escape heing swepi overhoard hv huze waves delphis ught vith in the storm ginia coast o leak rapidly vater whan the of well t Fapenses Barely | the foct that ceed. 1 cocured Mre. Fiske and Jack Rarrymore for picture: 1 wanted to et the hest people wha conld he oh tained—those at the top of their pro. fession and 1he hest plavs. Mary Plekford in 1913 was in the Relasco play, “The Good Little Devil.’ 1 saw {2 performance of it agd saw her pos sibilities. She consented to go intn pictures. "It was & question of a suffcient | numher of pictures—good pictur, | We could not create a following by the exhibition of one now and th-n Thirty plctures at leasi were neces sary. A continuity of supply i every thing in an institution. Also in order to raise the prices for good pictiies to make them pay we would have 1o keep up the standard “We had no idea pictures would go. them outright did not seem wise. It was decided the producer should get per cent and the distributor 35 per ( then how The plan to sell these every “The Paramount Pictures Corpera tion was created in 1914 as & medium for simplification. By it _produ. and exhihitors could deal with one distributing organization. The Paramount group took many pic tures from Jesse I.. Lasky and Hobart Bosworth. who were producing. as | as myself. They released two a or 104 a year. Then exhihitors could present two pictures a week and have a continuous flow of supply Variety Lacking. there was not the variety needed. ‘The demand was developing 11 mave me the ldew of reproduc.|that continuously hroke aver the e e e Ascke of the hattered craft. 1t was o actors. 1 talked with several |impossible tn live helow decks, because Droducers about this, hut they gave |the schooner had taken in about 10 ot 1 tried to imprass on their | most of the night. Iminds that the business we were do inz was only transitory and would die ont if the quality were not improved. | TQUR INCLUDES THIS CITY id-a That was in 1911 I sugge<ted Wectminster Choi i Ye put “The Prisoner of Zenda' in Ol ofDewton Tobioy pictures. James K. Hackett was play to Make First Eactern Trip. ing in it in St. Louis. Mr. Frohman | T e pradnesd “The | Finlex Williamson. will make its first | Prisoner of Ze and sold it P AIHKOI"{ I::lll during November in a hibitars in the different States That | ;:”‘; of 50 concerts, and will include hIbicoee Injone different tixcee, SeAtlwianingtoniin theTink |vf;rn choir, the tour will mark the 2 gl e ret presentation of the setting of pic ',‘;":'\-w::""“ “,’h.:-i'mr.‘”,"'\h,,,,.',',,"h- Fiftisth Psalm from the pen of i iheipiblleal became conyin e ]vlw conductor of the Si. Olaf hoir | | in Rrooklyn, where two concerts will b given for the hanefit of the Luth eran Hespital. it will record for the Vietor company. and prababls hread. The choir is composed of 80 work & people of Dayton. Ohio. whe spend four or five nights avery week of the vear in practice. and is unusual in off. Schumann. Nicolai, Noble, Besleyv Lutkin and Dickinson from memeory (and without accompaniment Tt is the third choir of its type, having heen Ha and the St Olaf Choir of Northfield. Minn. It prides itself on haing above sect or creed. with its the awaken of music as I where. | The tour. which is not to make ! money, ing lentally, marks a move. ment toward hetter music in the tendance shattersd by automohil base ball, movies and radio The choir has made (wo fours pre ‘\Il\"ll\ in the Middle West which have | such enthusiasm that he has requisi ’H()fl! from 60 churches for chair leaders. and he is training several 3 lm!mhori of hix choir for this work. “But up our products all would suffer. We 3. felt one management was necessary, | Desert Flowers Beautiful. S0 the forces within the production | The sterile. sandy. stony waste | end of the business could be concen: | the deserts are net entirely davaid of tion was formed in 1916 and continued | ony. The semiarid deserts with Paramount distributing. | American \West hava man “Ax we went on It was obvious to | which once a vear for a short period !all ‘producers and distributors that | af time bioom with 2 heauty that | One of thexs flowars is tha Rack Rose picture a gond atory and easi. After | or fragrani primrose. which blooma he was through he held na infience (After the rainy saasan and st hafo- in axploiting hix produet. Distribu. [the long Arought sets in. it is som tion was purely mechanical. We had me no encouragemeni. They 1were | feel of waier despite the fact the crew At the end of twe vears | want 1o went to St. Louis and talked with My The Westminater Choir of Dayten In addition 1o ziving the large cities Met. Dr. F. Melus Christiansen cast over the radin. as it did last many wave. It singe a program of preceded hy the Vatican Choir which r form of worship. As churches which is attracting national | been ‘very suceesstul. The work of The tentative itineary seis the date fast. We all were confronted by the ttrated into a good, all-around program. | beauty. Nature sees 1o it that !thex sheuld put together their hest | rivals any dveam of a Persian gardan times called the Cinderella of the complaints from stars as well as au <atisfied with the business they were |had worked desperately at the pumps Daniel Frohman and sold him my Al by Miay the Ohio. under the direction of John of the East 6pportunity o hear this We harely covered the axpense of ekl thy hote o 1o New York and vear from Cleveland and Chicago Mendelssohn, Cruger. Ippolitow-Tvan = brought to this country by A spel is to all churches ‘attention as a means of regaining ai- | M. ‘for Washington as November 1. proposition that unless we could bulld | | The Famous PlaveraLasky Corpora | beauty at times relieves th ri efforts. The producer injected into a desert. | i hey hound from | such | Willlamson has heen zrested with | 0., BILLSASSIGNED FOR INVESTIGATION Members of Citizens’ Council to Make Detailed Study of Proposed Legislation. In earrving out the P the « req Commissioners that visary Council recammend a pre lagislation Distriet in the scare f pending hills ha trihnted amanz the indiy of the for tn he vest Tesen council, laxt nigh <ignmente of lozisiar he handled hy each council. Mr. Suter after eweh canneil careril stady. of \ him. the conne {of the pending | Will Reco The connci arder in whi <hould importance prompt The quext axplained i1 will me iend Order I has hean assizred vhich n Orhe ' ening jurisdict vation Ne¢ EMBARGO ON LOANS IS FEARED IN ITALY Early Agreement for Settlement of War Debt to United States Rome Newspaper Urges Pre Ry the Assnciatsr ROME. O ject of the lralian United States has the backgronnd di | niversary celebrati: zovernment memhers the nawspapers have ta veflections on the rival of Finance Minister Connt \ and his in New York their wayv to meel the American Deh Funding Commission he zeneral artit irtually unchanged parture of the Italian delega continuing af in the ahility of « v la settlement and the ness of the American commissione However. 11 Mondo, papers commentins savs that embargo lowing M. Caillay hooves the Tialiar selves ta any at all possible |GREEN AND GARNER SEEK NON-PARTISAN TAX CUT PROGRAM First Wh Aot heen 2 the Fas the a siven impending associates o n Washi de here has ) nee » ir-minded axpressions P sunt i ane of the I judging from the monera on F wdant vhich imposed 1 nee he them setilement (Continned from Page Plieation of law and administration. Exemption of American citizens resi dent abroad from Federal 1axes upon income derived ahroad and ted to the United Stares Proihition of arbitrary asssssments | designed to extend the periad of lin {itation hevond that fixad hy Freeing of the commissioner of in ternal revenue from policing duties in connection with laws other than | those enacted primarily for raising { revenue. | Establishment in the Bureau of Tr | ternal Revenue of conditions of marit and permanency in tenure fo | competent men. in arder 1o secure o | clent organization and reduce turn over of responsihie smployes. Decentralization of tax administt tion with annual prograss reparts fo Congress Opposition o making fax returns open tn public inspection as public | records or available 1o committess of Congress to publish as they with improvemant in nat remit | salary Blind Yale Student to Teach. Henry T. Istas, a senior at Yale {and that university’s only hlind st | dent, has won the Edward J. Phelps | memorial schelarship hecause of his excellent work. and will prapare him | self 1o teach. Istas is 22 years old and has been blind always. Ha sarl: attended the schaol for the blind at Hartford and finished at Waieriown He made excelient marks. hacame a member of the Delta Sigma Rho fra ternity and was on the advisory hoard of the dehating society at Yale. Turks Limit Girls’ Smoking. Turkish gids ave not permitied smoke hafore they are married aven when they are married it customary for them tn smoke in the presonce of (heir sldars. The razime in Turkey ix sxpected, how ovar apidly” hreak Aawn’ these 1o