Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1925, Page 17

3 RELEASING PIGEONS AT OPENING OF CONGRESS. W. Wadsworth, jr. arounds yesterday. tion of Ame master Henry Senator James of New York. opening the bird basket in the Capitol Messages were addressed to the International Federa- Homing Pigeon Fanciers, Brooklyn. Chief Quarter- uber of the Naval Air Service at left. . Copyright by Underwood & Underwood GREATEST PIECE OF MOBILE ORDNANCE ARRIVES ago. U..S.BLUESKY LAW ~ TELLER CONFESSES | MEETS OPPOSITION: TO THEFT OF $50,000¢ Investment Bankers’ Com- Embezzlements From Balti- mittee Thinks Proposal In- < more Bank Expected to To- adequate for Needs. tal $100,000 to $200,000. By the Associated T the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Via., Dccemher‘ BALTIMOR | Confes 3.-—Opposition to a Federal blue.sky . 55,000 statute is volced In the report of the | (°ler, to embeazlement of $55,000 from i the Mercantile Bank of this city has committee on securities presented here { ,i© OIS 8 e today to the Investment Bankers' As. disclosed defalcations which are ex- soclation of America at the second |Pected to total between $100,000 and $200,000, the bank’s directors an- | nounced today. Tarrell is under ar- day's session of its fourteenth an nual convention. The committee, expressing its be- | rest and bank officials, expressing be- lief that the Federal Government does | jier that his operations could not have not deslre to create another burean.|p.on carried out without accomplices, which the enforcement of such il s s would necessit points ot Codn s s TS o S UG ference between 1wo d the financial structure of the bank ably will be introduced vas not endangered. 'C:;;“"n 0; ";)’m:\’i‘-“‘ 5 . A presentment charging Farrell with { e of these by Representative - . Catan : Christopherson of South Dakot, the oy s turnedi(by) thio erang utes later the teller was arrested committee said, seeks to regulate the | detectives as he was entering a intrastate as well ax the Interstato sale | of securities, while that of Represen- | gy dgiective ST tative Dennison of Tilinois only deals | ‘“],,'.‘gs;d;‘m eJ::.n:;l‘i‘l‘»"'}"fia'}vb"(:}d“‘}:; Mereantile Bank said Farrell had hwng | at the pre with the interstate transactions. The situation, however, the commit- | ortie e § o8 B e Veare starting as a mess finds, presents w much more com- | cated situation than a merely Dro-| \u, one of the institution’s most ibitive statute could remedy. More ! £ h ta . s trusted emploves. In his_confession time for study is asked. “The commit- | ua to “Prasident Healy, Farrell saic toe told of its efforts to reach o com. | je-Ge, 30 b resl 2 : mon ground of understanding with se. | 1% ad 108t all of the money he had curities commissioners of the States, | CPneq at vace tracks. and reported that much progress has | ;1% Grectors sald they were con-| P i ohed: - | gone on, they sald, for two years. It! the com. | Bad been known in'part since October. e investment banke r 4 ! | District Attorney Herbert A. O'Con said, thought the real remedy | nor was notified last might. . The | v tn the fraud law, but declared that z ¢ ! various commissioners have pointed | Miethods employed werc unusually | o 2 oo | adroit, officials said, and declined to| out reasons why even this falls topoveny them | zovern sale of securities. ; 3 : The committee recommended lh(-lt[ efforts be directed in the future ard obtaining uniformity in legis- tion; co-operation with commission rs fn controlling spurious securities; standardizing requirements with re- pect to furnishing commissioners with rmuation, to bring about ter uniformity in the rulings of ommissioners in the varlous States. = nger, and that he ASKS MERCHANTS T0 QUIT | DISPLAYING HIP FLASKS | W.C. T. U. Regards Advertising of | Liquor Receptacles as “Thought- and i less Defiance of Law i I By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY. December S.—Be- o - ; cause of the suggestive influence and | Supply of Trees for Celebratxouslwrause e e Held Ample. “thoughtless deflance of the law,” Christmas trees should Le plentiful { members of the Kansas City W. C. T. | ar, members of the IFederal!ys haye asked local merchants to | said today, de-| % P i 1 . s ase the display and advertising of | The only area in the United S hip-pocket flasks, =cocktail shakers | and stmilar articles. om. which shipment of Christias r reply has been received from ! CHRISTMASv .DEMAND MET. 5 s prohibited lies in castern New and, certain sections of which i ‘ uarantined because of the gypsy merchants’ assoclation to which woth, A part of Quebec adjeining | resolution was directed, Miss Fanne | Vesmont felse s sty U| L. Taylor. president of the local W. orthern Matwe. Vermont, e alon M 2 nd Michigan should be ©.°T. U., said today. She said the sembers detlared, to mec assoctation probably has held no mands. | meeting since the resolution wus 3 adopted. e i No plans have been made to con- Ample forelgn short-term credits | tinue the campaign if the merchants ontinue to stimulate Austria’s in- do‘y,m! answer favorably. Miss Taylor Lustytes, AF DESTINATION. shipped across the country from Aberdeen, Md., arriving at Fort MacArthur, I Thousands of Californians journeyed to the fort to inspect the big gun. | voked the | el THE MARINE CORPS IN CONGRESS. Four members of the Sixty-ninth Congress who served in the Marines during the World War. Left to right: Maj. W. Radford Coyle of Bethlehem. Pa.; Capt. Stewart Appleby of New Jersey, Sergt. Ralph nd Sergt. S. J. Montgomery of Oklahoma. National Photo. After 22 years of service in the House, Representative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio is Speaker. Photo_snapped at_the opening se <ion of the th Congress ye terday. P. & A. Photos. Huge coust defense gun. .0s Angeles Harbor. a few day Wide Worid Photo UESDAY, DECEMBER 8, SUCCEED THEIR HUSBANDS IN CONGRESS. Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, who fills the place of her late husband as Representative from Massachu- setts (left), and Mrs. Florence P. Kahn, who succeeds her husband, Julius Photograph taken at the House Office Building vesterday. THE REALTORS the Americ: he is spending 1 looks them over ARE TER HIM. W r Johnson, pitching of gue pennant winners, is heing “rushed” in Florida, where Winter. The realtors bring around their m. nd then talks base ball. Wide W RS ON BUS OR CAR WHEN THEY CRASHED ON THE KEY BRIDGE. This Halls Hill bus. Virginia-bound, was struck by a Inight on Key Bridge. The bus was prac The photograph shows the bus on the bridge sidewalk this morning. were con.| AEPARATIONS EDICT |Mrs. Coolidge’s Warmth of Greeting And Smiles Win By the Associ CHICAGO, December 8.—An atcount | of Mrs. Coolidge’s visit to Chicago yes- | terday, written by a woman, follow ‘The President was the officlal fig- ure, and he wore a high hat, striped trousers and a morning coat, but it was Grace Coolidge’s warm handclasps and friendly smile and quiet greeting 3 i that impressed the wives of the farm vesterday 1o | men in the reception line. ified in invad-) ‘“Bareheaded stenographer: who ng unexpected had ruulouk l'ruxfl the mnthn-1 alali\fl\ spocial commission's | Ofices for a glimpse of the pair, : pecial commission’s | g1 noeq” at the President, and then recommendations against Greece in|waved to the slender figure at his side. connection with the recent Balkan The First Lady acknowledged their conflict, the Greek former foreign |STeetings with nods and smiles g " % ‘Members of the American m minister, M. Rentis, not only objected | pyreay Federation committee and to the payment of reparations to Bul-| their wives were presented to Pres gariu fixed by the commission, but| gent and Mrs. Coolidge in the Georgla IS FOUGHT BY GREECE Protests Commission's Findings in Balkan Affair and Demands $750,000 of Bulgaria. ted Press By the Associated Press. GENEVA, December §.-—G Corfu affail prove that she was jus ng Bulgaria. Displa sistance to the eece in- | ally demolished, the driver slightly injured, and the street car suffered pretty badl Washington Star Phor TOLL OF PENSIONS CUT $12,844,165 j of their roof-top house, Mrs. Coolidge | Deoreace This Year Due to 13,002 | expressed curiosity over an old-fash- | loned wine cooler. and_over a_wix Faor on Busariiisit Rolls. Friends in Chicago stand, two curios from Europe. She also exclaimed over the pine paneling | of the living room | “‘We ought to have the green room | done 1like this, colonel’ she said to | Col. §. A. Cheney. at her side: | “Mrs. Willlam Dever, wife of the | mayor, said: “She’s the most sincere | { and thoroughly genuine woman 1 ever | 1925 met." “At | women from all over the United St: Pensloners on the Government pen- sion rolls declined from 525,539 on a reduction of 13,002, according were 68 farm |t the ainual report of the commis- the i tes | Sloner of permsions made public today. luncheon | seated at small tables, all of which|The Government disbursed $217,150,- | | were adorned with Coolidge roses and|g12 for pensions during the fiscal blue sweet pe ‘| year 1925, as compared with $229,- { *“Mrs Coolidge wore a smart highlsm,'?fl during the previous fiscal necked frock of the shade known as| vear, a drop b $12,844,165. Cost for | ashes of roses. Her hat and slippers maintenance and operation of the !were of a matching color. An Ambt‘l‘inen.q]on system in 1925 was $1,489,087. | necklace and long amber earrings com-| " Although there are no survivors of pleted her costume.” {the War of 1812 on the rolls, 21 demanded that the Council of the | Fouse, atop (he Hotel Sherman. League of Nations ask Bulgaria 10|~ “Shown through the charming rooms pay to Greece $750,000. i M. Rentls accused the commission of falling to hear the Greek side o(}LONDON DOCTORS BUSY. the controversy while conducting its % inquiry and asserted that if the cckn- prased the “commisuons rar. DUE TO RUSSIAN BOOTS ings, Greece would probably appeal | e to the World Court of Justice to de-| Women Change From High Foot- termine whether reparations could be imposed without being bused on an! 8ear of Day Wear to Low Slippers impartial inquir. at Night and Catch Cold. oY AP By the Aseociated Press. Transferred to Texas. LONDON, December _S.—Russian First Lieut. Maurice E. Knowles, | boots -are keeping London doctors 7th Infantry, at Chilkoot Barrhacks, | busy. Women wear the knee-high Alaska, has been ordered to Fort Sam | boo iston, Tex., for duty. ~ | widows of soldiers of that war were | to slippers for afternoon teas ‘or eve- | recelving pensions, while 17 soldiers { ning parties. The result is that fre-{‘of the Mexican War and 126,666 Civil auently they take severe rolds and| War veterans were beneficiaries of {subject themselves to the danger of | the Government pension. | pneumoni | There is an epidemic of colds and|si ablishment of the office in | chills and in a very considerable per-| 1790 were shown to have been $7,058,- | centage of the cases the sufferers are | 502,010, with the bulk of this amount ! women who have been, wearing Rus-!to Civil War pensioners. {sian boots. Boots are like woolen un-{ The Civil Service retirement fund {derwear, so the doctors say. Once amounted to $79,257,101.26 on June | they are put on they must be kept on. |30, 1925, with 11,689 annuities on | Women who want to wear boots in |the roll June 30, last, against 10,548 the daytime must also have some sort | on the same date a vear previous. Of of boots to draw over their evening |this amount $23,671,103.08 was dis- oeids. in refunds to persons whose services June 30, 1924, to 512,537 on June 30, | Total disbursements to pensioners ! THE MAJORITY AND THE MINORITY. Just to show that the majority and minority sometimes get together, Representative John Q. Tilzon of Connecticut, majority leader of the House, and Representative Fini= J Garrett of Tennessee, minority leader, shook hands at the C.ewes yoster day when Congress opened. Copsmight by P. & A. Ploto- ANADIAN CHAMPION WINS IN BOSTON. The Prince of Wale-. an English bulldog owned by Mrs. Thomas Grisdale, which was judged the best dog at the fourth annual show recently held in Boston. The Prince is claimed to be a perfect doz of his spe Copyright by P. & A. Phot. PROBE WOUNDING DEPLORES DEFECTS OF MAN NEAR FORT N STREET PAVING (Army Officials Investigate Shooting of Colored Man. Patrol Seeking Fugitives. Senator King Urges Five- Year Guarantee Be Required of D. C. Contractors. the rough W rant Distriet the strir fc Dep cet pavins King of 1 member of t has written advociting ments in The law at one time required cor tractors 1o give a five-yvear guarant on street work, which was changed by Congress to ong vear. Disc this, Senator King said Regards Repeai as Unwise “In my opinion it w repeal the five-vear pe: i to me that the Commissioners > di etion in th matte ! prov uch condi they dee proper. It 1 ending statute, 1 would provide that Commissioners require a bond of contractors, iding for the faithfu | performance of all terms under the | contract and provide a guaranty, no lonly for re but for such herent defects us might exist, th (that a patrol of soldiers | not perceived, for an indefinite peric tioned at the juncture of the Fort| I shall be glad if the Commissioners Washington road with the main high 1 consider this matter, and it the: way in an effort to apprehend two | think that the existing statute doe aped prisoners Sunday night. An not afford sufficient protection to utomobile came charging down the | District ient guarantees 1 road. The soldiers ordered it to stop. | the contr: that they recommend It increased speed. Shots were fired |a suitable wmendment to the existing |at, It The machine kept going. |law." Whether Lewis was in that machine, Cites Bond Requirement. | the investigators have not determined. | Tn another part of his letter Senat: | o The condition of Lewls at Walter | King said: g y ;1:::«1 Hospital is pronounced not seri- | -1t iy quite clear to my ) z : | the statute requirlng contractors b:“c\g'so::mn';fllf‘xgfi;gse&e&g;‘rj(coc!kenilg(ve bond to keep public works Washington, learned that I i Of [repair does not absolve them fron ) ok ewis, Who the duty to construct the works unde 18 the son of a former emplo; o t the 1, 2 % = adaids | military post, was at Casuulty Hos. |sorien® noc " ohnE 10 randards pital, supposedly suffering from a gun | sors o ¥ o K | shot” wound inflicted by soldlers, he | Eht be necessary even where ther Sent an Inspoctor to the Momial 1| Were 1o inherent defects, and the con inquire into the case and to ascertain | Cton s obligation. entered into whe |if the wounded man claimed to have | e o pciiling Pt 20 e e e ferect a bullding, is not lmited 10 b “The official investigation has not | cousi'ior 1o [KEb he DUIdInE o been completed,” Gen. Rockenbach |je®vers ! {said today. “It has not been deter-| ' ‘Soperer |mined whether Lewis had any con-| .creet 13:‘:“:; :;;'ethnr‘};?m:;s };‘E“)lw;"‘é”""m" also voiced the opinion that the captured_about 4 o'clock yesterday | heen chammen ton ofim e " morning.” s i G b ! BELL FOUND GUILTY. ARMY SCHOOLS ACTIVE. e Train 15.000 During Year Despit: Banker and Coal Operator Convict- ed of ‘Embezzlement. | Lack of Money. Despite PITTSBURGH, December 8 (#).— OmpIe John A. Bell, banker and coal oper-|Mmaintain e ; lator, was found gullty today of em-|InE (he Jast fiscal vear, | bezziement and misapplication of more 13,000 military and civilian per: | than $600,000 of-the funds of the closed | &t the posts were glven ins Carnegie Trust Co., of which he was | With equipment and supplies on hun president. | A report submitted by Maj. Ge adjutunt general of the that the schools, established many years ago, were kept going sl vear except for five months in Sur on, Sena Tremoc ommities Commissio Nt requirc treet sur S An attempt to connect a ooting } by military patrols searching for es Jeaped prisoners with the wounding of | Alfred Lewis. colored, who was { brought to Casualty Hospital carl 3'»-estrrdu suffering from gunsh 1<hi o wounds: sustained near ¥ort Wash contracts ington Sunday night, is being made { by u boeard of investigators at the mili tary reservation todas Lewis was taken to Casnalty Hos pital by uan unidentified colored man in an automobile. who left immedi: Iy afterward. At Casuaity Hospits it was learned the man had been shot through the right side and in the right leg by soldiers near Fort Wash { ington. He was later removed to Wal ter Reed Hospital, on the theory held by military authorities that it was the right thing to do if soldiers had actually shot him, or that it was the | humanitarfan thing to do if no lia. | bility attached, since he was desti tute. As far as the facts are concerned at present, it has been the 51 ind th King, in discussin situation yesterd lack of funds 1 post schools du ar, more thar complete with the Government have been ter- minated, leaving the fund, at the close s of patent or Russian leather on ! shoes if. they wish to avoid chills and | bursed for annuitles and $10,920,219.62 ' of the fiscal vear, & net total of $44.- [ mer, when troops were on duty in the streets in the morning, but change | 78.56. training camps.