Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1925, Page 16

THE COL. COOLIDGE LALGIHS left) showing the newspape article was published on Armi AT T HE NEWSPAPER STORY OF HIS DEATH. story of his death to Deputy Sheriff Angus MacAuley ice day. and the colonel stated that he never felt better in all his The father of the President it #lymouth, Vi, The fe. Wide World Photo. CAST OF PLAY BY TH E FORCE-ADAMS SCHOOLS. The production, “Ichabod Crane,” was an unqualified success, for it shows a profit of $16.50, which will be turned over to the Junior Red Cross. The play was adapted from Washington Irving's “Legend of Sleepy Hollow™ by two pupils, Miriam Auerbach and Sylvia Strauss. MARKHAN DOUBTS ORL WRDTE VRSE Thinks Poetry of Nathalia Crane Is Hoax Perpetrated by Distinguished Writers. } e | Br the Associated Press NEW YORK Tioubts about the nationally fa 2-year-old Nathalia O m are now raised 1 ham, honora pr Poetry Society of Amer of last year's $200 prize. | Over his signature in the Brooklyn Lagle Mr. Markham wrote s nably the whole winner | Review | \en and two young wom- | the wine and distinguished | , and all de- onotony of | ar vou while ! uts—ail of them s, with dexterous pe termined to break the the hour with this del ton. This is a momen America. | ““The sophisticated viewpoint on sex | and on life, the special knowledge of history and archeology, ices them yond the reach of Juvenile nind.” Later Mr. Markham, in a statement | the New York World, qualified his views by saying: ‘And yet it {s entirely possible that | Nathalia Crane has writte these poems with her own mind and pen. [n that case she is the most ex- racrdinary girl in_ America, and I| wish her high good fortune on the | sath of the poetic life.” | Somse doubters have been trying to) locate William Rose Benet, who wrote | the introduction to the first book, but | i@ could not be found to throw any light on the subject. Clarence P.| Crane, Nathalin's father, said: “Mr. | Markham, an old man and dean of | poets in the United States, has made | &an unprovoked attack upon my daugh- | or, treating her work as a jest and | subjecting her to the whim opinion. “If this {s the way great poets are supposed to act, and If this is the ourtesy of the craft, then I must con- lude that the whole brood are al pretty poor lot “Mr. Markham owes my wn apology wal a any of his } ! daughter PIGEONS AID CEREMONY. | Bring Message to Coolidge From ‘York Reservoir Celebration. “hectal Dispetch to The Star. YORK, Pa., November 14.—Bearing messages to President Coolidge and telling him of the dedication of a new weservoir here today, pigeons helong-1 ing to fanciers of Washington and also the United States Navy were | Hberated today. The birds, two from each of the lofts of John H. Holmead, D. R. Aathews, H. C. Burke, . H. Crown, Louls Hofer, Willam F. Dismer and the Navy, were liberated just as the sinal ceremony of the dedication came 10 a close. The officials in charge of the dedi- catlon are awaiting a reply from the President, as the winged messengers nre expected to arrive in their lofts méveral hours after they were Iil erntels | graph Challenges Rumor That High Officials Favor Wet Move Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun sel of the Anti-Saloon League, to- day lald down a challenge to spon sors of ‘“whispered rumors” that officials high in the councils of the administration are recommending modification of the Vclstead act. “We challenge the sponsors of this story to name any individual authorized to speak for the ad- ministration on this question who makes such a suggestion,” said Mr. Wheeler. “If there be such, the public is entitled to know who he is and his reasons for it. “To modifytthe Federal enforce- ment laws so that violators of the Constitution in nine wet States may be immune from prosecution because no penalties are provided wou'd make this Nation the butt of the world's_jests. “The Sixty-ninth Congress, stronger against modification than any of its predecessors, will doubt- less give short shrift to this appeal of the brewers.” HAWAIIAN OBSERVATORY RECORDS QUAKE SHOCKS | Severe Tremor, Probably Near Philippines, Also Registered in New South Wales. By the Associated Pre: HONOLULU, November 14—Di: tant earthquakes, starting at 1:56 am. vesterday, Honolulu time, were registered by the United States M netic Observatory at Ewa, on island. this The shocks continued about two | hours. They were about the same distance away and of about the same intensity as those the Ewa selsmo- recorded November 10. DNEY, New South Wales, No- s vember 14 (P).—The Riverview Ob- | servatory recorded a severe earth- quake shock at 10:24 o'clock last night. The center of the disturbance is believed to have been in the Philippine Islands. WOMAN’S WILL LONGEST OF RECORD IN ENGLAND | Contains 96,940 Words, Written by Herself, Covering an Estate of More Than $4,500,000. By the Associsted Press. LONDON, November 14.—Wills of the length of short novels have often been written by wealthy men, but it has remained for a woman to compose the longest testamentary document re- corded in England. It contains 96,940 words, and is the work of Mrs. Fred- erick Evelyn Stillwell Cook, of Brock- enhurst, who left an estate of more than £1,000,000 or about $4,850,000. All the dispositions of property which Mrs. Cook desired are in her | own handwriting as well as the long | list of special bequests, though some of the indexes attached were written by her secretary. | The bulky docurnent, filed recently at Somerset House, consists of four books heavily bound in blue leather with additional outer covers. The gilt edged pages number 1,108, each 9 inches square. ! The shortest will recorded at Somer- fouse consisted of three words (v mether.” Washington Star Photo. COURT AFFIRV LANCLEY SENTENCE Rules Representative and Lipschutz Must Serve Two Years in Atlanta. By the Associated Press CINCINNNATI, Ohio, November 14. —Representative John W. Langley of | Pikeville, Ky., and Milton Lipschutz, | | Philadelphia, will have to serve terms | in the Atlanta Penitentiary on charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act, the United States Cir- cuit Court of Appeals ruled here yes- terday. The Appellate Court affirmed the two-year sentences and fines of $10,- 000 ‘each imposed on Langley and Lipschutz by Federal Judge A. M. J. | Cochran following their conviction last May in the Federal court at Cov- ington, Ky. The case had been ap- pealed on error. Charges against the two men were that they conspired with several others to withdraw for illegal sale 1,400 cases of bonded whisky from the Belle of Anderson Distillery, at Law- renceburg, Ky. Lipschutz was alleged to have ob- tained a permit for sale of the whisky from the prohibition director of Penn- sylvania through Albert B. Slater and Hiram W. Benner, former prohibition officlals at Philadelphia. Langley, it was charged, attempted to obtain a permit for transportation of the liquor from Samuel Collins, prohibition direc- { tor of Kentucky. It could not be learned here wheth- er counsel for Langley and Lipschutz would carry the case to the Supreme Court. While his appeal from the convic- tion was pending, Langley ran again for Congress and was re-elected. HITS SUN-QUAKE THEORY. CHICAGO, November 14 (#).— There s no reason to believe there is any connection between huge sun| spots and recent violent earth shocks| in North and South America, in the( | opinion of Prof. Edwin B. Frost, di-{ rector of Yerkes Observatory at Wil | ltams Bay, Wis. Commenting on a statement of Prot. Martin Gil, Argentine astronomer of | the National Observatory at. Cordoba, that a huge sun spot might be re. | sponstble for the quakes, Prof. Frost sald he regarded this as unlikely. {DROP REFERENDUM PLAN. | COLUMBIA, Mo., Novembar 14 (#. | —The student council of the Univer- sity of Missour! yesterday voted unanimously to call off the student referendum on compulsory military training, set for November 17. The board of curators, at a previous meet- ing, had ruled that compulsory mili- tary training at the university would continue to be enforced, regardless of the referendum result. Henry Depping, student council president, issued a statement declar- ing that “the discussion on this ques- tion has resulted in the wrong impres- lon golng out over the country,” and fthat the controversy. which star EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, NAVY AND MARINE MEMORIAL morial. which is one of the m supported by invi memorial is the work of Begni del tributed toward the work. PRAYER AND HIS WIFE'S HANDS. Olcott, Irish tenor, brought him back from the edge of the grave. rious illness by the prayers of his friends and the marble likeness of his wife’s hands. says he recovered from his sculptor, Mario B. Kerbel. interesting kind, will be erected in Washington. ible steel rods, so that they appear suspended. . ATURDAY, N NEARLY COMPLETED. This me- d unusual pieces of its The gulls above the waves are The Piatta, and 150,000 Americans con- Copyrixht by Kadel & Herbert. These, according to Chauncey He The latter were made by the Wide World Phato. 1AW OF PLANET JUPITER DECLARED YAW Our Entire Solar System Will Be Swallowed 1 ING FOR EARTH Gitnt tar Within the Next Eon, Astronomer Tells Gathering of Scientists at Madison, Wis. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. MADISON, Wis, November 14. The ultimate fate of the solar sys tem of which the earth is a part is that it will hecome two stars, one of them the sun and the other a new star made up of all the planets with Jupiter as a gathering point. This is the prediction of Prof. W. D Mac Millan of the University of Chicago upon the basis of new mathematical studies reported in his paper to the Natlonal Academy of Sciences meeting here. Yet there is no need for immediate preparations for Judgment day, for Prof. MacMillan estimates that it will probably be some five hundred biilion years before Jupiter becomes a star and swallows the earth in the proc- ess of doing so ] The reason for this end of the solar system and its conversion into a bi- nary or twin star is that the planets are actually growing, extremely slowly of course. They are sweeping up the cosmic dust or nebulosity throughout space, somewhat as a snowball in- creases in size, and when the planets gather up enough matter they will be gobbled up by the largest of them, due tothe action of the laws of gravi- tation. The result will be a star. Solar System Long Lived. Some 40 per cent of the stars in the heavens are binary, and Prof. Mac- Millan considers it probable that many of them at one time were solar sys- tems. Looking so far into the future and | into the past has greatly changed as-| tronomers’ ideas of the lifetime of a| solar system. Whereas they used to think a solar system had a life expect- ancy of a mere hundred million years, Prof. MacMillan now estimates it at a million billion years, called for con- | venlence an eon. Once an eon, on an average a star will make a close ap- proach to the sun, an event which would be explosively disastrous to our part of the universe, whether it hap- pened while the earth still existed or when the earth had long since dis- appeared in the clutches of Jupiter. Dr. R. A. Millikan's startling an-| nouncement of the discovery of ultra- | Xorays of great penetration and cosmic origin i still the chief topic of conversation among the leading | sclentists gathered here. | New World in Making. It is now realized that these extraor- dinary rays detected by Dr. Millikan are evidence of the actual construc- tion of matter throughout all space. He suggests that they may be evi- dence for the condensation into mat- ter, somewhere out in space, of the light and heat continually being radi- ated into space by the sun and stars. Our own sun dissipates into space each second some ten millions of tons of mass in the form of light. It is a | hopeful conception that in some other part of the universe this fundamental stuff and that emitted by all other stars is being synthesized into matter from which other worlds can be made. How much more cheerful this is than the disintegration that accompanies radioactivity! The Milllkan rays also probably affect vitually radio communication, for near the top of the earth’s atmo: | phere where they first impinge they | helpcreate the ionized conducting syennelley Heaviside ' lager of the at- mosphere slide. In fact. the Milllkan rays, and the forces behind themn, m: of the few universal fu along which radio signals damental laws or facts, and may be in the same class | with gravitation Man On Up-Grade. Such construction evolution as re- vealed by Dr. Millikan's discovery and hypothesis is not confined to the phys. ical side of the universe alone. Dr. J. C. Merriam, president of the Car- negie Institution of Washington, after a study of the past of the earth de- clared "to the academy that “The future {s not one of melancholy de- cline.” His investigations lead him to belleve that the Neanderthal men of Europe, considered by some to be abortive offshoots from the main stem of evolution, are actually man's an- cestors, Viewing the long road that man has trod to his present estate, Dr. Merriam predicted that the hu- man race would some day reach a level at least twice as high as that now attained. Such gigantic conceptions of the universe and the future are the prod- uct of the cerebral cortex, a relative- Iy recent invention in the history of life. Prof. C. Judson Herrick of the University of Chicago told the acad- emy that it is the special business of the cortex portion of the brain to fit previous experience into the pres- ent situation so that we can react to our past as well as to our present. (Covyright. 1025.) POWER INTERESTS HIT IN CHICAGO WATER ROW Industry Leader Declares Propa- ganda Is Conducted Against City by Moneyed Group. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 14—Charges that hydro-electric power & on both _sides of the border at Niagara Falls are responsible for an organized propaganda attack upon Chicago's diversion of water from Lake Michigan for sanitation pur- poses, and that those interests and others are diverting more Great Lakes water than is Chicago, were volced yesterday by Col. H. F. Miller of the Chicago Association of Commerce. “Not only are the power Interests di- verting far more water than Chicago needs, but several cities are polluting the lake with sewage and contribut- ing to the conspiracy against Chicago in order that more water may furnish | more power to selfish interests,” Col. Miller said. e viis “Detroit has recently increased di- yersion through the Livingston chan- M b Newspaper Editor Dies. SAN JOSE, Callf., November 14 (#).—A. C. Sands, veteran Cincinnati newspaper man, died here yesterday. He was 68 years old and came to San Jose two years ago to regain his health. He was managing editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer for m: years' : =~ - easliy be one | interests | OVEMBER 14," 1925. TESTING PARTS OF THE ILL-FATED DIRIGIBLE SHENANDOAH. of Standards, making an examination of the steel structure of the dirigible w will be presented to the Shenandoah court of inquiry. LEONARD KIP RHINELANDER ON THE WITNESS STAND. is seated in the witness box at the right. colored wife. Buys 10,000,000-year-old _ dinosaur eggs for a cake of soap. Roy Chap- man Andrews. explorer, making an examination of the eggs which he hought from a Mongolian woman in the Gobi Desert. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. POLICE IN GERMANY SEEK HAU N VAIN Former D. C. Lawyer, Slayer, ‘ Sought to Serve Out His Sentence. | By the Associated Press. ARLSRUHE, Germany ovem- ber 14.—The police have been unsuc | cesstul in their search for Karl Hau. former Washington, D. C., lawyer, whose arrest was ordered for the completion of a sentence for the mur- | der of his mother-in-law 20 years ago, and it is inttmated that he has left Germany. Hau recently published a book de- | picting his trial and life in prison, | scathingly criticizing the judicial and | | pris He has notified his | publishers that he has no intentior | of surrendering to the authorities, as | | the warrant is unjustified and consti tutes a personal act of revenge by the state’s attorney, who, he belleves was offended by the revelations in his book. Hau was convicted of the murder in 1906, on circumstantial evidence. The death sentence returned against him was later commuted to life im- prisonment and subsequently to 20 years. He was released in Septem- ber, 1924, the remainder of the sen- tence being waived. HAU G. W. U. STUDENT. Also Taught Here. Never wrote to Friends in United States. George Washington University from | 1901 to 1805, has failed to maintain any contact with his \“_:\shington friends since he was imprisoned for the murder of his mother-inlaw or after his pardon and the publication of the oftending book, which has caused his latest difficulty, it was learned today. Prof, Howard Hodgkins of George Washington said neither he nor any other former associates of Hau at the university had heard from him since he left the city in 1805 to go to Ger- get needed funds. Prof. | { many to | Hau had murdered his mother-in-law { because she was an obstacle in the ! way of his getting hold of his wife money. Wife and Daughter Suicides. After Hau's disgrace his wife and daughter committed suicide by'drnwn- ing themselves in a lake near Zurich, Switzerland. Immediately after he was pardoned on September 2, 1924, by the Grand Duke of Baden he announced he in- tended to settle down in Germany and write his memoirs. ‘While he lived in Washington he lived at the Highland Apartments. He was admitted to the local bar and many of his assoclates refused to be- lieve that he could be guilty of the act of which he stood accused. Graduated in 1904. Mr. Hau was graduated from the George Washington University Law School in 1904. He afterward lec- tured on Roman law and for a time taught German. Prof. Hodgkins said today he had | never heard of the book which ! Hau is credited with Maving wrirt 1 a8d voiced doubt tnai il was Hub Karl Hau, a student and teacher at | Hodgkins said that he understands | the murder trial brought out that’f | { i | | | .\lr.ir.lma from Germany of chs | distributed here. )r. L. B. Tuckerman of the Bureau ich crashed in Obio. The data Coprrizht by M Service. The plaintiff in the sensational divoree action His attorney. at left, is reading letters from Rhinelander alleged CopEriEhit by PL&G A, ¥ & D ON MURDER CHARGE. Joseph A. Picard (left), who is charged with killing his friend. Joseph F. St ing took place at Columbia Hospital Egg and Water War Among Students Quelled by Police By the Aseociated Press MANCHESTER, Eng! vember 14.—A wild stude tle was quelled yesterday after all the city’s availa licemen were rushed to the and a_dozen leaders were arrest ed. Two hundred university stu dents invaded the College of Tech nology, armed with crowbars, clubs tear bombs, dec: eggs, toma- toes und stones. smashed the windows of the building. from which the defenders played fire hose at close range. The stu dents were put to rouf, a number of them with injuries. bat only PO scene T FRAUD IN GERMAN STOCK IS CHARGED IN NEW YORK | Shares Worth Two Cents Alleged to Have Been Sold by Mail for $2.50 by Firm There. By the Associated NEW YOR! ovember 14.—An In unction was granted yvesterday by Su preme Court Justice Lazansky of Brooklyn against the firm of H. and B. Wolf & Co. on complaint of Attor-, ney General Ottinger that the com pany was violating the State law by | offering for sale virtually worthless German securftes. The company has been barred from operating in Pennsylvania. German | securities offered were asserted to be shares of the Deutsche Handelsbank | or German Bank of Commerce, Ltd of Frankfort-on-the-Main. These share: were sold for $2.50, the deputy attor cin, at the latter’s request. The kill- , where both were employed. By Acme Photos U. 5. OIL INTERESTS STATUS DISCUSSED British Papers Speculate on Present Standing in Mes- opotamian Fields. DON, ¢ Ameri Petro vear con Mesopotar | in_the ~Discus i in th m Co., which has ession to exploit ofl ir . flils considerable space ewspapers tod Daily Mail quotes the Anglo | an Oil Co. people as sayving tha® belief that an American grouy which included the Standard Ofl Cc s holdings of 25 pe: | as the Americans { never held any of the shares because { the negotiations for the inclusion of Americans in the company never w completed. It adds, however, that the negotiations will be continued The Herald sa “The refusal o the American oil men, under pressure from Washingto: to accept any in | terest in the Mosul ofl fields left a big block of shares in the hands of the British government. At Locarno. Austen Chamberlain, the British for elgn secretary. offered these to Ge: | many on the understanding that ac | ceptance would imply diplomatic sup port of Great Britain’s claim in th Mosul negotia The transfer of these shares t an ofl groun is in pr lete.” 1O son ney general sald, whereas they had a | value of about 2 cents in Frankfort. | The firm specialized n mail orders FORMER HOUSE MEMBER, GEORGE A. LOUD, KILLED | Lumberman Meets Death in Auto Accident in Oregon—Fought at Manila With Dewey. By the Associated Press. MARSHFIELD, Oreg., November 14. at Myrtle Point, was killed last night in an automobile accident. DETROIT, November 14 (#).— George Alvin Loud was a member of | Congress from 1903 to 1913 and from 1915 to 1917 from the tenth Michigan district. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, and partici pated in the battle of Manila Ba Loud was born in Brace Bridge, Ohio, June 18, 1852, and moved to Michigan with his family when a child Before going to Oregon, Loud made his home in Au Sable, Mich., where he was In the lumber business. He was at one time vice president and gen- eral manager of Au Sable and North- western Rallroad. lished in America or any coples of it Officials at the L brary of Congress established the fact it was never copyrighted in the United | States. 1t was recalled today by Prof. Hodg- kins that Mr. Hau was a very like- able teacher at the university, where he had many friends, and when news his belng ed with and convieted of murder ¢ was 4 gredl shock-lo Lhema much ement made at o meeting | Anglo-Persiun Ofl Co. that 471 per cent of the shares of the Turkish Pe troleum Co. were held by the Anglo | Persian Co. Tt was added that this showed that the American group had | siven up the 25 per cent of the shares it previously h A dispatch from Constantinople as serted that American oil interests had been granted a monopoly for the sale of petroleum in Turkish territory and- \the belief was expressed In London that there might be some connect between this and the new group ! the Turkish Petroleum Co {GERMANY HAS FOURTH | PLACE IN TRADE LIST inter League Report for 1924 Attaches { Special Importance to Evi- | dence of Recovery. I By the Associated Press. EVA. November 14.—The trade experts connected with the League of { Nations attach special interest to the {fact that in the announcement of the | league regarding world trade cond: | tions in 1924 statistics show, desplte |her difficulties, Germany in that yea | hela fourth piace, as compared witl second place prior to the World W: | figures for 1913 and 1 ain heads the list, and after the Unifed States {Yrance, Germany, India, Cavada an 3 the latter having jumped to |seventh place from thirtieth place | hela in 1913. | Russta. according to the -figures.’ Ihv fallen from sixth place fo thir tieth place.