Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1925, Page 18

18 HECKLING CHARGE N NURDER TRAL Stephenson’s Attorneys Ac- | cuse Prosecution of Unfair Treatment of Witness. Br tha Associated Press NOBLF Ind.. November 6 by which it Stephenson, arl Klenck and Gentry of a arge of murder in connection with e death of Madge Oberholtzer esented by the defense in Hamil- Cireuit Court today It was th chief of cou 1 Klan I body - e jury girl died from the poison. Medi- on the bear out Answering a hypothetical question Willlams said in his opinion the died solely f the effects of :If-administered poison Have yvou been active in politics?” harles 1. Cox asked in cross-ex- 1ination T have not Dr. Williams replied “Did you ever treat Stephenson for | m’ tremens?” Cox inquired. the witness answered be. e objectlon could be | Mr. Cox | A clash of de. Cox interrogation by 1 Dr. Williams d the trial, charging Mr. the witness pathologist at the ersity School of Medi- State witness, prompted Cox in questioning Dr. Williams. NAVAL LODGé. F.A.A. M., HOST TO GRAND MASTER Head of Fraternal Order in Dis- trict, on Official Visitation, Re- 1 Moon Ay ceives Cordial Welcome. rand master of Masons of the | Columbia concluded his 1 visitations of to ' lodges—those that do Masonic ‘Temple, Thir. teenth street and New York avenue— | Il on Naval Lodge, No. 4, at h street and Pennsylvania ave- 1ue southeast, last evening. Starting Monday evening with a visit to Trin- 1 Lodge, No. 41, all the remaining visitations of the current series, which will not end until the 27th inst,, will ba to constituent lodges that hold their communications in the main temple. The master of Naval Lodge, Rolen ¥. Painter, welcomed Grand Master Roland Fulkerson, not only as the head of the Blue Lodge Masonry in the District of Columbia, but as an individual who had visited the lodge frequently in past vears and enter tained the members “with wit and oratory unsurpassed.” Naval Lodge was given a rating by the grand master of 100 per cent on its record for the Masonic year just ended Carl H. Claudy delivered an illus: trated lecture on the aims and pur- poses of the Masonic Service Asso- clation. An orchestra was in attend ence and other entertainment features were provided. BOY IS CATAPULTED. NASHVILLE, Tenn., November ¢ With the effect of a Roman war catapult, an overbalanced cable trailer | weighing several tons tipped up here esterday sfternoon and flung §-year- Uld John Williams a distance of 46 feet, crushing his skull against a rock pile. The child, who today was not expected to live, was playing on the trailer tongue. Workmen saw the ac- cident. 73 Concentrate on vour likes—forget dislikes. They amount to little. ) Tnman, | effects | | about $15,000,000. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FORMER WORKER [ :$4,000,000 ST. LOUIS BANKRUPT | BEGAN CAREER AS $25 CLERK Murray Carleton, Now Ill in Hospital, Won His Many Former Successes by Aid of Prayer, He Once Told Church Congregation. | his religion. Addressing a church 6.—“Fall? | congregation, Carleton is quoted: have never “l have never entered on any im. portant undertaking without asking | the blessing of God.” It is geperally believed he has sunk all his money in the corporations which he directed. So far as is known, his only assets are stock holdings in the Boatmen's Bank, which aggregate 250 shares, assessed as of June 1, 1924, at §34,140. PRIEST WELCOMED. By the Amociated Press ST. LOUIS | Yes, many | Thus, in July, , spoke Murray Carleton, treasurer of the Ferguson- McKinney Manufacturing Co.. which is bankrupt to the extent of $4,000,000, and president of the Carleton-Ferguson Co., the holding concern. It was the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival at St” Louls and his were celebrating. friends He is 73 years old. | Now Tl in Hospital. Today Carleton lies in a hospital | while a receiver puzzies over the firm's tangled affairs and creditors charge him with falsification of statements ain bank credit. He recently | went a serfous operation. Carleton struggled from compara- tive obscurity to a place among St louis’ most prominent financiers. was a fervent church worker. He also participated in socinl activities. lie arrived here on a steamboat from New Orleans one Sunday morning in July, 1878, at the age of 20. He found his first employment in a dry goods store at a salary of $25 a month. In 1896 this firm bore his name. Last AMarch he sold it to the Ely-Walker Dry Goods Co. in a deal involving | Rev. Michael Jessup Honored by Holy Name Society Here. Michael Jessup, X welcomed as the new spiritual direc tor of the Holy Tinity branch of the | Washington section ~of the loly [Nama Society at the regular monthly meeting held in the parish audito rium last night. Several hundred per sons attended the meeting. Father |L. S. Weber, S. J., retiring_director, has been tranaferred to Baltimore A resolution indorsing the action of the Washington section of the so cisty and Archbishop Curley in con demning the attitude toward private and parochial schools on the part of the Scottish Rite Masons of the Southern Jurisdiction was unant mously adopted by the meeting. Addresses were made by Lee Rover. John_ Guilfoyle, Arthur Farquhar |and Rev. Hugh Dalton, §. J., pastor |of Holy Trinity Church. Stae Ttev Carleton was Missouri State chair- man of the European Council in 192 a member of the State highway com. mission, president of the St. Louis Transit Co. and_United Railways president of the Reliance Realty Co., director of the Boatmen's Bank director of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at the World's Fair here | in 1904, and held other important offices. Prominent in Church. Of all his activities, his friends say, | his church came firast. He was con-|tesian well sidered a successful man by virtue of | yards. Pagosa Springs, Colo., has the only public school building in the world | heated by natural hot water. Water of an average temperature of 118 de. grees is obtained from a 380-foot ar in one of the school Announcement Open Saturday Evening Until 10 PM. Complying with the many requests made from our many customers—that the entire family together may hear the wonderful NEW ORTHOPHONIC VICTROLA LOUIS & CO. Mausic Corner 7th and G Sts. N.W. EDMONSTON & CO,, Inc. 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The Star prints MORE Classified ads every day than all the other papers here combined—as vou'd expect with its circu- lation and prestige. “Around the Corner” is a Star Branch Office Foot Form Shoes in regu- lar styles, as fit- ted by our Ex- perts, are suffi- cient in most cases. > " But there are many cases where some slight correction is of great value. The Arch-Lift built in our Foot Form Shoes fills the need. It supports the arch as Nature in- tends — tends to strengthen as well as support the arch and Corrects weakness. IN'BANK IS JALED Ernest P. Sparks Alleged io Have Secured About $5,000 by Fraudulent Practice. Ernest P. Sparks, former keeper at the Lincoln National Bank, was sent to Occoquan for one year today by Justice Balley in Criminal Division 1 for violating the national banking laws. Sparks is said to have secured about $5,000 by opening an account at the bank in a fictitious name and transferring to that ac- count the proceeds of checks drawn on dormant accounts on his ledger. The prisoner, who Is vears old and has a wife anll thre told Probation Officer Steele that he found 1t impossible to meet his obli gations on the small salary of $1,500 a year and could not resist the temp- | tation to get more money. The bank book- | children, | D. C. FRIDAY, was reimbursed by a bonding com- pany, it s said. Since his arrest and release on bail early in the year Sparks has worked with a laundry concern and was recently promoted. Laura Love, colored, 20 years old, was given a term of one year at Oc- coquan. During a quarrel with an- | other colored girl she went into the house and, securing a pistol, shot at her adversary, grazing one of her | fingers. | Justice Bailey extended the clem- | ency of probation to Frederick H. G. | Wassman, jr., and Willlam McDaniel. ! The latter received a sentence of | three years and the former two yvears. Both sentences were suspend- ed during good behavior. Wassman was charged with two other men | with forging a check for $211.57 in March, 1919. The other men had been placed on probation so the court | gave Wassman a like chance to | make good. McDanlel, a former fire- | man on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- | two | road, was accused of stealing | watches from fellow employes at the | bunk room of the round house of | Union Station in June, 1924. One of the most neglected units of 1 radio receiving installation is the antenna system, desxpite the fact that it is the most essential. Poorly con structed aerlals will not give satls factory results in the receiving set. Geing I Bt s«its o~ Topcoats . 12% '15% '18% /23% Don’t get the idea that this sale is going on forever— OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 7 P. M. Consult us about the needs of Children’s Feet. EDMONSTON & CO., Inc. 612 13th Street Weg fi et &2 0 Seects ANDREW BETZ, Manager it has only lasted this long because just prior to receiv- ing the executor’s order—we racked our entire Fall and Winter shipment of clothes. At the rate we’re sell- ing ’em now—it’s only a question of another week or two and our doors will be closed for the last time. Then again, the longer you wait—the much smaller will be NOVEMBER 6, 1925. SOMERS MEMORIAL CHAPEL DEDICATED Mount Vernon Seminary Stages| Striking Ceremony on 51st Anni- versary of Founder's Day. Mount Vernon Seminary was the | scene of a multiple dedication and celebration yesterday afternoon when the school celebrated its Afty-first “Founder's day” with a huge birth. |day cake and candles, the dedication 1of ‘a beautiful new organ In its com. paratively recently completed chapel, | and the ded!cation of a bronze chapel bell The chapel is the Elizabeth Som jers memorial chapel, named after the | zer and founder of the semi- The organ was dedicated to| of Adelia Gates Hensley, | assocfated with Miss Somers i work of developing the | bell was dedicated to r Ames, who was present {in person at the dedication | Miss Ames was for many of the school until she t | long | the plon school | & pension” from the her gratitude, Miss all the alumni and personally super- I e we hutus it hepansa M Bid uiar ntende the task of raising a sum v sufficient to bulld the beautiful chapel | 0. %Y Program at Mounf Hplyoke. that completes the group of archi-| He tells of learning the. wotk from tecturally delightful bufldings of ‘the | his father. Its exact origin is obseure. school. Dr. Hammond showed mastery of the Miss Jean Dean Cole, head mistr d produced many passages of th hool, presided at the monies_ yesterday. Miss Anne Saun- | ders Koltz presented the memorial | bell and Dr. Ulysses G. B. Pierce gave | the dedication address for the 01"!".‘ Following the singing of the dedica- | tion hymn by the girls of the school | and the many visitors, who f‘,Ol’n" pletely filed the chapel, William Churchill Hammond, director of music ' at Mount Holyoke College, gave a re- | markably fine musical program on the organ. Among the \ Chase Crost Designed Artistically snd compositions played | By Themas Meltord Arght. uat W Bur-, were Karg-Elert's “The Reed-Grown | %8 Ast Inteviors, 1se vy o Waters,” {n which the effects of | e gueivatvences that 1 almest fm- gurgling waters and wind in the reeds | o to dupiieats in this seetive. were portraved: Bird's barbaric “Ori-| ¢, 7 and 8 rooms, two bathe and ental Sketch,” two Cyril Scott num- | garage, completely detached. bers, “A Song of the East” and | Iyt Rast of Chevy Chase {Rvole le ravinsky's “Ronde des | " Gongistent Prices and Terms Princesses,” from t irebird Suite,"” | HOW TO REACH PROPERTY 1 four llandel works, with a beau tiful interp: ion ol pus | meter OCons. ave. o Olrale. sast on 1l interpretation of the famous | By s e Olhe, o Thix last-mentioned work has tional meaning at the always performed at Another traditional “White's Melody, the 1 number. o | TERRELL & LITTLE, Inc 1306 18th St. NW Main 2335 Bventuge phose ASame 20087 or Col 883-J. interpo lated be Dr. Hammond is orders the executor o ~E/ eHEAR/ Q- vie! & 3 “Tve/ _/_' : Oug e ——— Fixtures In Both Stores the selection. 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