Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1925, Page 13

\ MRS. COOLIDGE READS THE OLD, OLD STORY TO HOSPITAL CHIL visited the Children's Hospital vesterday and talked and read to the tiny pat ball for the hospital at the Mayflower January 4. SANTA AT THE HEALTH SCHOOL. Dr. C. E. Wilson, medica! inspec- tor at the new Washington Health School, Thirteenth and Allison streets, playing Santa Claus for the little pupils. The teachers gave a special Christmas dinner for the pupils. Washington Star Photo. ISRASEDTORDUR % 2 P, volved i was : irges involv 5,000 Children Dash for fs 5,0 Exits When Bench Collapses ! yesterday worthless check n the sale of a silver ! Prince Murat on November 9 was) to entenced il de eight months in s appearance to serve 1t of . ck P! having obtained at Christmas Fete. from Countess Salverte belonging to S the funds. S vfi:(.’- NORFOLK FUR DEALER | . MYSTERIOUSLY SLAIN! < Simon Merr’'s Body Found in Store wi Southampton rdered early Closet of his ) irtland. The ) { ong With Head Crushed and 3 d, t1 heen to his Hatchet Near. { R § B the ider NORFOLJ Decen 24— Simon Merr, 55 years old, wealthy furg FIVE YEARS FOR SELLING T —— PINT OF LIQUOR TO CHILD ! . “\Vhio nad become | Supreme Cou Upholds re Sunday | t Moses Simpkins, St rest in History of La of the trap- | alarm was felt | Special Dispateh 1o The Sta rd from Monday, | BEaa e mber S fely did not be ICHMOND, i om ute until vesterday. Sherif | Bell was asked to search for him, and | d the body in a closet ad- | blood-stained room which | nce of a hard fight | Merr wass known to have had ap-| $100 on his person. j The wounds showed he was struck t least three times by so ~tanding behind him. A bloo al Court is ended, unless Gov. intervene. ¥ said to hs re is done ve Kins re ent of the of Hart bill The p- | — with 4 re- "%id 1o have been 1. The peti-| |S VALUED AT $119,750 ed at the L day or ins wit was said to have been ill. The peti-| tion says that Simpkins refused the| request, the boy appearing the fol- : S lowing day and Insisting that he be|Application Made for Probate of {ven the liquor. Simpkins acceded, S R f‘ was said, the boy paving cash. Deceased Merchant's Will—Mrs. Simp as arrested, and the| Plummer Leaves $100,000. i grand m He as indicted ¥ rdware | Georgetown, who died | te valued at irned penite Baker We t of 10, left an nd t - | o1 | Supremnze | ed, « d no error in case and | § cording to the petition of | refused to interfere ! Mrs. Lida L. Weaver, for | the most severe verdict that | © of his will. His securit personal property are mated at £100,000, while his real es- tate holdings ssessed at $19,750. | With the exception of a charitable be- | quest the will gives the entire estate to the widow. Attorney George W. bus been mection wit ven In the State in con-, a violation of the law. et Rl Divorce May Be Settled. NICE, France, December 24 (£).—A | Offutt appears for Mrs. Weaver. tlement out of court of the Duke of | Mrs. Mary B. Plummer, who dled lzncheste lit for divorce against | September left an estate in excess | Am vife, wh of $100,000, according to a petition for {iclena Zimmermann of Cineinnati, | letters of administration filed by At- expected the first week in January, | torney Paul E. Johnson. Her nearest | duke is due to_arrive he relatives are Mattie Morrill and Helen ; ¥, Leroy B. Delaney, |T. Comins, cousins. - | Who announced a pos-| Letters of administration are also nt, said that the out-!asked on the estate of Charlotte E. | ixation of the |Bates In a petition by Elizabeth M. swhen the His attorne -rican ! before, THE EVE DREN. The First Lady of the Land She will' attend the annual Wide World Photo WAITING FOR A GUEST WHO jumps down the chimney. VICE PRESIDENT DAWES PRESIDES AT CHRISTMAS DIM G STAR, WASHINGTO D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1925. AT MONTROSE to right: Mary Stewart as J. Davidson as Mary, WILL APPEAR SOME TIME graph shows the Vice President cutting off a few slices of white meat. STRIKE COST $600,000 TO CLOTHING WORKERS Leader Says Union Better Off Fi- nancially Than Before, Despite Heavy Expense. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., December The recent strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amer the Tnternational Tailoring Co. York Chicago cost the worker: union $600,000, but demonstrated the tighti ability of the organization, ydney Hillman, president of the \malgamated, said here vesterday. Mr. Hillman is attending a meeting of the union’s executive board. He said the successful outcome of the 19 weeks' strike was expected by the union to be its greatest individual victory. Despite the cost it will leave the organization financially better than he said, the Chicago workers aving contributed each, or a total § )0. Pointing out tha® the veace machinery™ . of the Amal- mated has tended to do aw with e . Hillman characterized as cular achievement” the or- vorkers in the N z Co. of C rike or threat of striks NAMEMKEFT IN F]\M|LY. D, Ohio, December 24 When George Willlamson of Pittsburgh and Mary Williamson, Cleveland, applied for a marrage license here yesterday, it was dis- closed that both their parents had married persons of that name. The groom revealed that his father, Thomas Willlamson, had married a Margaret Williamson. Mary declared that her father's name also was hile the | Dawes, a cousin. The ostate is esti- limony. suspense. Fmated $75,159. what in Thoma nd that he married e Williamson Char- | feature of the Christmas community celebration at Montrose Park. Left seph, Alice Reynolds as an angel, and Cassie Mrs. Horace Talbot directed the production. LATE TONIGHT. hung in a row, the house will be very quiet—then will come the jingle of bells, and the merry old fellow NER FOR S Washlugto The stockings will be Copyright by Harris & Ewi TE PA CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY REMEMBERS POOR CHILDREN OF THE CITY. This photograph shows only dan, Miss Florence Roach and Mr=. Carlisle Crosland. National community Christmas tree, in Sherman Square, which “will be lighted President Coolidge at 6 o'clock this evening. Thousands of tend the ceremony. Washington Star Photo. Washingtonians are expected to at- z { Senators give the dinner each year, and the photo- Copyright by P. & A. Photos. 'Uncle Sam Pays $5.139.000 to Employes [SOVIET HEAD EXPLAINS Uncle Sam distributed 139,000 in salaries and payments to all { employes of the Government, Federal and local, in the District of Columbia Government pay day on December 31. was learned yesterday from an official source. This amount includes the 15-day salary of the President of the United tes, salaries of members of Con- |'&ress, ‘of District employes, classified |and unclassified, and all persons em- Ipln_vm] by the Federal Government and the District government in the Dis- trict of Columbia. It exceeds the fig- ure for last year by a few thousand dollars. It does not include the sal- about $5-jaries of Army. In District, Swelling Christmas Fund avy and Marine Corps officers detailed in Washington and does not include the 212 per cent deducted from the salary of classified Government employes for the retire- ment fund. hty- paid in employes in finds it chants cated in Washington, according imates made by the Chamber Commerce. thing more than $4,000,000 from Uncle Sam’s vaults will have been spent in Washington before the next on the last Government pay day, it ve per cent of the amount ularies to Federal and District ‘Washington ultimately to of CONSTABLE IS SLAIN. Fellow Officer Then Kills Texas Murderer. FORT WORTH, Tex., December 24 | #).—Constable Robert F. Poe, 41 | years old, wa last night b; | with stable G. E. Finch. The shooting oc- curred in front of Carson’s house, | where the officers had gone to make {inquiries about stolen automobile | tires. | Odum Out of Jail on Parole. | Burilie M. Odum, former vice pres. dent of a bank, who was sentenced to serve three years for using a check given to him to curtail a note, was re- leased from jail yesterday by Justice Balley and placed on probation for the term of ‘three years. Odum served with the A. E. . in France, and w once on the police force (4 shot and killed here |officer of the U. S. : | Manuel Carson, 29, ga- | Which on the night of September 20| neinnati, without | yvarge owner, who in turn was killed | rammed and his own gun by Deputy Con-|Schooner Benjamin A. Vanbrunt, off the Virgina capes, has been acquitted | | ! sales manager. NAVY SKIPPER ACQUITTED. Capt. Tinney of U. S. S. Milwaukee Freed of Blame for Mishap. NEW YORK, December 24 (#). apt. Frank L. Tinne ommanding Milwaukee, sank the by general court-martial of charges of negligence, it was announced yes- terday. No lives were lost in the collision. Cafritz Gives Party. Morris Cafritz, president of the Ca- fritz Co. and the Cafritz Construction Co., was host to the department heads and employes of these organizations at a Christmas dinner at the City Club last evening. This was the fourth an- nual dinner given by Mr. Cafritz, and was arranged by James H. Holmes, Fred Warren acted as T way into the pockets of mer. | in the city or into banks lo- | This means that some | coul-laden | i | | P)—The interallied high commission. HIGH WAGES OF EXPERTS | Frankly Says Government Cannot Do Technical Specialty Work, But Must Learn. By the Associated Prese. MOSCOW, December 24.—Alexei Ivanovitch Rykoff, president of the Council of People’s Commissaries, dur- ing the course of a long speech at a Communist party conference, was asked how the Soviet government | could afford to pay as engineers, architects, chemists, textile experts and the like, such high wages when the pay of ordinary work- men is so low. The premier’s reply was frank. “We @on't know how to do such work ourselves,” he said, “and there- fore must avail ourselves of the best technical brains from America and Europe, paying them the highest wage possible. From these technical experts we shall learn how to work ourselves and how to put our indus- tries and our factories on a sound basis.” ! fi { ( 3 { § Weather § perfect for th { CHRISTMAS GREENS specialists, such | IT IS A HOUSE OF DOUGH. west constructed this house, in log-cabin style, of dough. 16 hours in making the model, and it required 15 pounds of flour. Washiugton Star { SUN’S “DOUBLE HALOS.” Phenomenon Described by Meteor- ologists Obsedved in Boston. I Rare me- * around bece vote msisted of inous cros v two sha ight and twe circles, on verted circular le and three on each side the other, nt on the outer ci helia, or dogs” and above t These hal the sun caus rticles. B tan cles ar fraction fce pa s said cond disp 3 CAMPAIGN SUCCEEDS Conservation Drive Results in Sub- stitution of Artificial Decora- * tions in Many Sections. w for Christmas will be just a utiful, but spirit of Christma in the opinion of )f this city, president of Wildflower morr bex more in keeping with ervation of than vanish- be ens ever d, he siieves, by the nation-wide campaign hich has been carried on by the so- ety, urging the use of subst arious sorts. wherever possible, for he particuta een plants which wave been decreasing. s different in different | ‘he campaign, which in some places vas directed toward the saving of one kind of plant, took no notice of this sume plant in sections whe abundant. Among the articles to be used for substitutes for holly and ground pine, Mr, Ricker mentioned small trees, spr leaves in gold and silver colors with red berries, small poinsettias in natural and metallic colors, artificial small and large holly berries, cherries and acorns. Red fiber wreaths, he | said, seem to be largely imported from | Germany and Japan, and are finding | a ready market. FORMER WESTERN UNION HEAD’S ESTATE $1,071,720 Col. Clowry, Who Rose From Job as Messenger Boy, Divides i Money Among 20. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAIN . ¥., December 24— The late Col. Robert C. Clowry, - GIVEN GERMAN POST. Count von Simmern Named Envoy to Rhineland Commission. COBLENZ, Germany, December 24 er yesterday installed Count Lany werth von Simmern as German commissar for the occupied territori and ambassador plenipotentiary ac- credited to the Rhineland Commis- sion. He was welcomed in a speech by Paul Tirard, the French commis- sioner, who was seconded by Lord Kilmarnock and M. Fort Homme, the British and Belgian members, respec- tively. | who rose from messenger boy to presi- | dent of the Western Union Telegraph | Co., left an estate valued at $1,071,720, according to an appraisal filed yests day. Col. Clowry died last February. The appraisal revealed that at the { time of his death he owned more stock | in the United States Steel Corporation |han tn"the company which he had headed. The es 17 W e is divided among nieces and nephews, a_sister-in and two friends. Mre. Clara C. Est brook of Tarrytown, the sister-in-law, receives Col. Clowry’s home and more than $300,000 in securities. A bequest of $100,000 is made to Franklin J. Sherrer of Tarrytown, for many years Col. Clowry’s confidential sec- retary. holly { vs with berries, sprays of | UGE STANDS PAT a few of the toys and some of the clothing to be distributed by the society. Left to right: Miss Loui-e Sheri Wwa on Star ¥ David Kaufman of 910 Ninth street north- He worked for ONNOBLE'S PARDON {Refuses to Modify Order Freeing Prisoner From Exe- cution and Life Sentence. KANSAS Federal Jud, vesterday deni Guest t I recent order Montenezrin entence > Federal penitentiar tn Leavenworth, Kan: B de sentence in A z The Department of Justice sough through the United States district & torney to have Perovich sent back 1 prison or returned to Alaska, whe lie was convicted of murder in 19¢ o face his original sentence of execu tion. The case, which involves the right 5 .y | of the President to commute x ser Decorations in American homes to-| tonce without the consent of the cor { { i viet, will be cwrrled to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Jud Pollock upheld the contention thi President Taft had no authority t commute the death sentence withou the consent of Perovich, but refuse: to let the death sentence stand. Judge Pollock’s ruling tly at variance with that of the Federal Dis trict Court at Hartford, Conn., in the case of Gerald Chapman, notorious criminal, whose contention that the { | | i | divorce easy, President could not commute h! tence to Atlanta penitentiary w his consent, was cverruled, the way for his executicn by authorities on a murder thout paving State DIVORCES MADE EASY FOR HILL COUNTRY FOLK Tibetan Tribe XEnown as “the Turki,” Considers Woman Hon- ored by Frequent Separations. By tho Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24.—Stories of how divorce {s practiced by native in two remote sections of the world were brought to New York yesterday by travelers arriving on the steamship Paris. Suydam Cutting, first member of the Roosevelt-Tibetan expedition to re turn to America, told of finding in the his country of Tibit a people, known as the Turki, who not only made without any court de cree, but considered it an honor for woman to be divorced several tim The incentive for the woman, he sa was that every time she married she was showered with gifts. The tech nique of being divorced was a simple declaration that the marriage was at an end. Mrs. Rosita Forbes, English woman explorer, whose last expedition was into Abyssinia, said she found that the Queen of Abyssinia, although still voung, already had divorced several husban Commissioned in 0. R. C. Jean H. A. Day, 2028 Hillyer plac: has been commissioned by the W Department a colonel of Cavalry and James F. Greene, 3027 N street, « first leutenant of Infantry, both § the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the 7