Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1925, Page 17

THE EVENING SHE CALLED WITH OLD SANTA. Irene Rich, motion picture star, called at the White House yesterday and had a word or two with Presiden Coolidge. the job. Santa Claus came around, too, and the cameraman was on National Photu. WE HAVE WILD ANIMAI animals that bite 'n’ everythi is: How did Brler "Possum get thi IN WAS ! Mrs. May B. Fendley of 2234 Q stree northwest_caught this 'possum in her back yard yesterday. Th STAR. WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, DE( 'EMBER 15, 1925. Yes, sir, real h que: National Photo gh our traffic j THEY JUST C day afternoon. John W. Martin, Governor of Flor- ida, photographed at the White LLED TO SHAKE HANDS WITH PRESIDENT COOLIDGE. Girls from Martha Washington Seminary at the White House yester- All the photographers in the Capital were on hand. and the clicking of the cameras resembled machine-gun fire, Wide World Photo House yesterday when he called to pay his respects to President Cool- ire Wide World Photo, THE ANTI-CHOKES WIN AFTER A 10-YEAR FIGHT. At left we have the roll collar which has been adopted for both officers and enlisted men of the United States Army. The man on the left wears the new-type unl- form already in use by the Air Service. At right, the old-style uniform. Wide World Photc WORK RESUMED ON CONF men hanging over the side of Stone great memorial is now succeeded Gutzon Borglum. ADMIT AGTIVITIES ERATE MEMORIAL., One of the work- Mountain. The work of carving the der the supervision of® Augustus Lukeman, who Wide World Photo. Dog Stays Home As Hunter Takes WHERE IS THIS C Postmaster “B taken at the City F HAP SANTA ( Mooney no st Office yester { 9 ‘SANTA GENEROUS TOGETDIPLOMAS, ~ Gun for Suicidel () WAL| STREET Prosecution Witnesses Tell of Work for Qriental Uni- versity on Stand. sam Kaplan of St. Louis, Mo., who represented the Oriental University from February to September, 1921, @nd_who was jointly indicted with “Bishop” Helmuth P. Holler, president of the university, and Dr. Ralph A. Voight of Kansas City, Mo, on a charge of using the mails to defraud in connection with an alleged “diploma mill,” took the stand for the prosecu tion today. He has pleaded guilty to the fndictment. Kaplan told the jury that he got a degree of doctor of medicine from the university for himself and received 17 applications for degrees, of which 16 were for pharmacy and one for doctor of philosophy. One of the applicants a Russian, he stated, who had been in the country oniy three months. The witness sent all the applications | to Holler in a bunch, it was sald. Doctor on Stand. Dr. Robert Adeox. also of St. Louls, who also admitted his connection with the allegzed unlawful use of the mails by pleading guilty, testified for the Government. He told of his corre- <pondence with “Bishop” Holler and declared he had secured only five ap plications for degrees. FEach of these applicants was qualified. the d, having regular medical degrees hut wanted degrees in pharmacy William P. Saks, former minister in tha newspaper business in TLonis, also te: ed. He told of conversations with Voigt in St. Lowms in 1821 and said the defendant told him he could get any degree from “tor of divinity to bachelor of arts VoiRE, the diplomas were pretentious, bear- inz the signature of the Secretary of State. Tt now Tells of Bribe. Ifeyman W. Reuter, former head of (he examining board of pharmacy of Missouri, testified to attempts to get him {0 pass 17 applicants to conduct | (drug Stores for the pensing whisky. The was offered $5,000 as the men over Assistant _United te Rover and MeCall are con prosecution and expect to the Government’s case today. Attor neys: Harry A. Hegarty and Joseph D. IKelly appear for the defendants. EXPLAINS DISMISSAL. Prussian Minister Says He Sum- purpose of dis- witness safd he a bribe to put Attorneys ucting” the complete marily Discharged Von Schillings. BERLIN. December 15 Recker, Prussian minister of edu tion. emphatically declared in the Diet that he had summarily discharged Max vort Schillings as director general of the Prussian State Opera and that he would not be reinstated to his X post. Von Schillings was dis charged late in November, after drawn-out controversy with P'russian state authorities, who were acensed by Von Schillings of attempt ing to interfere with his administra tion, mer 6.mile antomohile passenger and £ht auto service in P witness ) according to the witness, said | (#).—Dr. | the | | Spectal Dispatch to The star. CUMBERLAND. Md., her 15. orge E. Conn, 83, mitted near his hom Snydertown, near Connellsville, firing a bullat in his brain He told the family he was out Kill a4 mink. His dogz re fused to follow him. His body was found sitting almost upright on a pile of stones. He served In the Philippines and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. | His wife and two ons survive. OFFICIALS UP IN AIR ON EXHIBITION STUNT Gen. Patrick and War and P. 0. Assistant Chiefs Ride in Huge Fokker Plane. Decem sui r At by ing Government officials, including Gen Mason M. Patrick, chlef of the Army Alr Service; Assistant Secretary of War MacNider and W. Irving Glover, | Second Assistant Postmaster General, In charge of the Government's Afr | Mail Service, vesterday wers taken on | exhibition flights in the huge 10.nas- | senger Fokker monoplane, F-7. which was flown here from New York Sun day by A. H. G. Fokker, designer of during the World War. left for Florida early today. Cien. Patrick evinced great interest in the monoplane. which he himself has piloted. { Intimation that the Government was !interested in purchasing Fokkers for any of its services, but readily praised the flving qualities of the ship. Other officials who were taken {trips_over the Capital Included Maj. | W. G. Kilner, of the Army Air Service; E. Fechet, Capt. Stan The plane Brig. Gen. J. ford E. Moses, mander of the | battle fleet; Mrs quadron of the Patrick, Maj. Henry | Holcombe, assistant engineer commis- sioner of the District, and a number of s officials of the Commerce Department. he plane was piloted by Lieut. George R. Pond, U. 8. N., who now is on leave The F-7 has & wing spread of 621 { feet. has four commodious wicke | seits in” the fusilage for passenger: and a dual control for the pilot in the cockpit. It has a crulsing speed of 100 miles an hour and a top speed of 130 miles an hour. It carries a load of 200 gallons of gasoline. The ship is_propelled by three 200- horsepower - Wright J-4 Whirlwind motors, one in the cockpit and the others slung on the underside of the wing, with one at each side of the | fusilage. Any one of the motors will fly the ship. The plane has been flown 12,000 feet about the country on ex- hibition _trips. | Mechanics accompanying Mr. Fok { ker are John McPhale and P. | Smith. Business Men to Elect. prcial Dispatch to The Star, CLARENDON, Va., December 15 The annual meeting of the Arlington | County Business Men's Assoclation will be held tomorrow night at 8§ o'clock in Clarendon Citizens' Hall. Besides the election of officers for the vear the meeting will have sev- eral important matters up, the Fokker planes used by Germany | He declined to give any | in | former com. | 2102.000.000 in Cash Dis- bursements to Be Dis- tributed This Year. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 15.--Santa | Claus already has started the round of Wall Street, which Is heginning the celebration of the most prosperous Christ in its history. Divide to stockholders of large compantes, which represent extra, In eased or resumed cash dishurse- ments, pavable around the holiday sexu <on, already exceed $75,000,000. Indi- cations are that the total of such dis bursements will be well mabove $100 000,000 To Reach High Figure, It is generally conceded that Christ mas bonuses to employes will exceed | those of last year, which were esti- mated at $40.000,000 to $50,000,000. Employes of stock exchange and curh mark | houses will ‘reap awards because of | the record-breaking volume of stock | transactions and new financing, which have involved many hours of extra tofl. The General Motors Corporation |far has distributed the largest Christ- | mas dividend. $5 a_ share extra on 6.600 shares, king a. total extra dishursement of* §25,808.000. At least seven other corporations have cut |Christmas melons of a million or more. | Wall Street's prosperity has heen reflected in the steadily rising costs of memberships on the two principal securities markets. A seat on the New York Stock Exchange recentlv | commanded the record-breaking price | | of $150.000. Curb memberships have advanced from $8,500 to $37,500. | Salary Bonuses Heavy. | Christmas bonuses range all the way from 2 to 30 per cent of the year's salarfes. Every ope is in- {cluded. from scrub women and me: | senger boys to managers and general partners. In addition to cash bonuses, several corporatlons distribute stock e ghts to purchase stock on a par- Itial “payment plan below market value. A few firms present turkeys | to marrled employes and %5 or $10 gold pieces to unmarried persons, as | well as cigars, cigarettes and cand Among the honuses announced s far are two of 28 per cent of a year's salary. INDORSES AMENDMENT. Women’s Bar Association Backs Changes in D. C. Code. of Indorsement three | signed to remove disabilities women under present law, was given hy the Women's Bar Association of | the District at a meeting last night at | the headquarters of the League of American Pen Women. " The amendments would alter the {law affecting the contractual capacity | of married women, end discrimination against the female line in laws of | descent and distribution and make women available for jury duty. The assoclation heard an address from Corcoran Thom on the effect of the present code provisions on women in business purguits. firms and investment banking | proposed {amengments to the District. Code, de- for | LAUS? It is a question which 2 d of worry. The photograph was nd it shows' the postmaster with hundreds of letters addressed to the hig toyman from the North Pole. National Photo. NEW BULGARIAN MINISTER representing Bulgaria in the Capital tired recently. Mi Turkey. The new Rockefeller Glad Nephew Works Way | Through Yale, But Regrets Publicity | Mrs. Rockefeller was the first in his By the Amsociated Pre NEW YORK, December 15.—John | D. Rockefeller, ir., returning vester- day on the Mauretania from a vaca- tion of 10 weeks in Europe. praised hiz nephew. John Rockeleller Pren for working his way through telephone operator in AL, hut expressed ale i New Haven, hos sret at the fact hecame known He is voung he sald nd it s not i good thing for a voung man to I'be «o much in the limelight We have all known 1 he was | working. He is a bright boy and he has It in him. He's the kind of chap | who does not like to see himself fail.” | Mr. Rockefeller's vacatfon with | business career during which he did | not keep in touch with his office. went abroad for a rest, he sa left orders that under no circum stances was he to be consulted on Dusiness matters Father was here. nd he is worth a dozen Mr. Rockefeller did not this remark, which seemed cate that the elder Rockefel keeps in close touch with the ness, although he retired many vears ago.. Business assoclates later knowledged that in the son's & they often consult with Mr. feller, sr., on important business mat ters. he explained of me.” amplify to indi still busi PINCHOT TONET COALCTIES HeADS morrow Third Move to | Settle Strike. | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 15.— His two previous efforts having failed, Pinchot has made another move )r settlement of the hard-coal strike. !In addition to listing the anthracite controversy for consideration by the Legislature, which he has called in extra session on January 13. the gov- ernor is to disecu: the situation in Harrisburg tomorrow with executives of more than 70 cities and villages in | the anthracite region. The governor did |he had in mind. It was understood, | however, that one purpose of the meet- !ing was the governor's desire to as- {certain sentiment of the mining com- munities toward his action in submit- ting the controversy to the Legisla- ture. Maj. W. W, Inglis, anthracite oper wage negotl ing committee, the governol latest move had heen expected by the operators, and that they were “not all mpeded.” John l. Lewis, dent of the United Mine Workers withheld comment. The miners’ leader aid that so far as he knew the strike situation remained unchanged. not reveal what chairman of the its fifteenth week to there were reports of scattered cases of destitu- tion among the idle miners and of shrinkage. of deposits of banks in the anthracite region. At Edwardsville, near Wilkes-Barre, soup kitchens have been’ opened by prominent ~women, and in some other communities.a few cases of destitution have been re- ported. 2 VALUE COON AND ’POSSUM. The elusive “coon” and the sly and toothsome ‘possum should both re- ceive greater protection, according to | the Department of Agriculture, which | declares them to be important. sources of fur, food and sport. | . The opossum and the, reccoon rank third and fourth, respectively, as-the most important fur-bearing animals of /the country, being only exceeded by the muskrat and skunk, the re- port states. Protection during _the breeding season is urged for both ani- mals, - o bl BER a presi | With the suspension entering upon | T0PERSONSHURT - INB. & 0. WRECK | first-aid Harrisburg Conference To-|Broken Rail Sends Pullman and Coach Plunging Down Embankment. Er the Associated Press FAIRMONT. W. Va., December 15. —Ten persons were injured in the de- raflment of Baltimore and Ohlo train | No. 67, Clar Viropa, near shurg to Pittsburgh, at here, late last. night Several were reported in a serious condition at the West Virginia State Hospital here today. Those Injured were accupants of a Pullman and a day coach, which left the rails and, after plunging down a | steep embankment. landed on the banks of the West Fork River, Advices recefved at division head- quarters of the railroad at Grafton sald the wreck was due to a broken rail. A rellef train carrying physicians from nearby points was rushed to the scene and the injured, after receiving treatment, Fairmont. The balance of the train | later continued to Pittsburgh with the iinjured passengers. The serlously injured are: Clyde Huffman, . Mahoningtown, Pa., cuts about head. Adward hwartz, Weston, W, Va., internal injuries. Mrs. (. B. Perkins, West Newton, Pa., badly bruised and Injured hip. C. B. Perkins, West Newton, Pa., injured back. Mrs. Lilly - May Schwartz, Weston, ‘W. Va., ribs fractured. Among the less seriously injured were Frank Fagen, Pittsburgh, con- ductor of the train, and G. M. Bing, Plainview, Nebr., a passenger. Sues for $25,000 Damages. The Washington and Rockville Rail- way Co. has been sued in the District Supreme Court for $25,000 damages by John Shelry, who says he was struck by a car af the company on the Rockville pike September 28, 1924, and sustained serlous injury. He is represented by Sadler & Schweinhaut. . Crowded Yeast Cake. In a 3-cent cake of veast, it has been estimated, there are 32 times as many veast cells ax there ate people in.the entire world, AND HIS WIF He | id, and Were brought to | Attorneys Halper, | Simeon Radefl. now uceeeds Stephen Panaretoff, who re- wtec was formerly the Bulgarian envoy to Copsright by P. & A. Photos SLAYING SUSPEC BELFVED TRAPPED Youth Sought in Deaths of Woman and Girl in Arkansas Hills. Br the Awociated Prv YELLVILLE, Ark., ‘|V|'|'||Gl. last nigl belleved they | Arnold Comer, 16, slayer of Charles oore, a fur buyer; Mrs. Sarah Boyvd, and her granddaughter, hodies were found vesterday in the vicinity of the famous Bonanza wine. The officers were closing in. The youthful hackwoodsman disap peared from his home near Buffalo, Wednes rmed with a .38-caliber pistol and is helleved to have supplied himself with other arms since. Suspect M. AMrs. Boyd _38-caliber December 15.- had Moore and shot with a have stated that they helieve the vouthful mountaineer gullty of the | stavings and other depredations in the | vicinity of Buffalo since he disap. peared. were both nd officers Robbery. was believed the motive in the slavings, as the home in which Mrs. Boyd and her granddaughter | were slain has been ransacked znd the | ~ontents of bureau drawersand trunks strewn about the house. | A series of robberies had thrown the community of Buffalo, an inland ham llet, situated among the mountains on (White River. into a_state of excite {ment and the slavings yesterday caused citizens to rise up in arms. Ywo posses headed by sheriffs of Baster and Marion counties began a search for the siaver Excape Net. Early in the day young Comer was belleved surrounded on Smiths Island, located in the mouth of picturesque Buffalo Creek, but later it was be- lieved he had escaped to the dense bush country far back in the moun- tains. Four older brothers of young | Comer were placed under guard yes. {terday at their home, not far from | where Mrs. Bovd and her granddaugh. | ter were found shot, with. their heads or shed. DENY COLONY RELEASE. Portuguese Legation Officials Re- fute Rumors Here. Reports that Portugal is preparing to give up some of her colonial pos- sessions led the Portugese legation resterday to issue this stataement: In view of rumors that from inter- ested motives have been given cur- rency the legation of Portugal has been directed by the Portuguese go: ernmeént to state most emphatically that Portugal will neither sell, lease nor- in whatever manner alienate any part of the colonial possessions. “Those at all conversant with the state of feeling in the country cannot | fail to be aware of the fact that public opinion wauld immediately force from power any government that favored |such a step.” “Golf is all very well, but any young man who devotes himeelf to such in- dividual games is not playing his full part,” declared Sir John Gilmour, sec- retary of Secotland, at Glasgow. re- cently. whose | trapped | A SERIOUS PRACTICAL JORE. director of Hollywood, and Mis ) ago cheir friends, as a joke, had them locked in a cell for the night. ! ure <hows the newlyweds hehind the bars, Cops Plays in London i Follow Dictates Of the Audiences ociated Press LONDOY Decomber have become London theaters, where ccided b 15.—Plots popular in he trend members is the villain who demands a from those sitting in the the footlights play, just ut decision plush The villain, his fingers around the neck of the turns to the audience and shouts: “Shall 17" As the majority in the audience replies, so the plot pro- ceeds to the next critical perfod. In another sketch there are sev eral halts in scenes between tl villain and other principals, d again the audience 1is asked whether this or that is desired us the method of procedure. HOOVER DESCRIBES TRADE RETALIATION Informs Capper of Steps That Might Be Adopted Against Foreign Combines. seats across n one Methods that the United might_adopt in economic toward foreign monopolies of raw ma terials were described today in a let- ter to Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas, by Secretary Hoover. submit ting with the description an estimate | that rubber producers alone were tak ing from American consumers this vear $360.000.000 more than a Jair price. Mr. Hoover said the Nation !faced similar exactions in the case of {coffee and several other commodities, and had now to consider how “to de. fend ourselves against trade war be ing made upan us He suggested that American bank ers should be “discouraged from g ing American credits to the support of these combinations™; that consumers should be organized by a strong sys tematic campalgn to restrict their use of the products monopolized; that use |of substitutes should be stimulated that production in new q of the globe should he encour t legislation to allow Amer to combine for the emer; against the foreign monopolies should | be provided. | WILL DISCiJSS GAMBLING. Dr. Louis J. Schwefel Announces Synagogue Subject. A lecture on “Gambling and_Reli- gion” will be delivered by Dr. Louis J. Schwefel at she final celebration of the feast of lights, Friday night, at the Sixth Street Synagogue. The spe- cial service will include music ren- dered by Cantor Louls Novick and his choir of 14 adults. In announcing this subject Rabbi | Schwefel said a “misinterpreted tra | dition ates { of Chanukah, now being celebrated. | and the subject therefore will be ap | propriate for consideration at this | time."” Congress’ Pay Day Advanced. Employes of Congress are to be paid their December salaries Saturday un- der a resolution approved by the House and Senate yesterday. When Scout P sertrude Scott were retaliation | has_associated some innocent states that his debts, exclus | forms of gambling with the festival'last illness, will not exceed & ubroke, motion picture tew daye The Photos married tby P& A DAVIS WOULD END CHILD BEGGARY Says Enforced Slavery of Many Roving Minors Re- quires Federal Action. of against ing bands of children under the wing of persons who keep them in slavery and live from the proceeds of their begging is & subject of national con cern “which may require Federal ac Secretary Davis sald today “From time to time,” he said, Children’s Bureau is asked to @ who travel ands of childrer their case of psy Protection citizens rov “the collecting money for e cites one notable who had been sold for 81 Main to protect E inst the ‘importation’ of cert classes of children likely to be burdens or undesirable citize 2 States have enacted laws regulating the importation of children for place. | ment in family homes,” Mr. Davis sald. “These laws usually require that a {bond of a specified amount or other guaranty satisfactory to the enforeing jagency bhe given. In addition, the written consent or formal license from the enforcing agency is required in 13 States. The 1aws of a few of thece States have. however, more altruistic provisions designed to safeguard the In»‘)fnra of these children, some of then requiring that the. homes into- which they are 10 he placed be investigate: and certified as suitable by the enforc ing agency: that the children remai {under supervision for a specified p. riod of time, and that the persons with whom they are placed he made respon sible for their proper care, education land training. “Four States have made legal pro vision regulating the sending of chil dren out of the State for placement | Twenty States are still without legisla ton of this character, which affords 1best only partial protection and does | not touch the roving bands of children i who are taken from State to.State for { purposes other than placement in fam ily homes. 1t is belleved that the sui Ject is one of national conc {may require Federal action ’ WIEGAND LEFT NO WILL. t$835,798 Estate Will Be Divided Among Widow and Children. Martin Wiegand, lumber dealer and director of the Chamber of Commeroe. who dled December 2, left no wil This fact was made known today to the Probate Court, when his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Wiegand, through At |torney A. Leftwich Sinclair, filed n | petition for letters of administration | on_his estate. ) i | The widow zives the value of her | husband's estate as $836.796.78 and ve of his 7,000 He owned real estate in Washington of | the assessed value of $134,434 and real suppor chile band themselves |ty in North Chevy Chase, Md., assess at $28.800. His personal estate, in ‘luding stocks, bonds and other se es, is estimated at $473,552.78. | Since there is no will, the estate { will be distributed among the widow and the three children, Henry M, Wie ®and. Anna B. Wiegand and Martin T.