Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 6

6 COUNTESS' GUARDS ROTED BY SHERIFF | . | Divorce Papers Served on Former Miss Rogers at Palm Beach Home. The Sta BEACH. F < Ludw the forme to Stand infor husban . Decem- | alm von | Millicent | ¥d Oil mil-| red today has filed s offici Austrian Iy County with { v a New Yo Waikik home, this s ped on the front porch | de v waid | documents énted appe The countess can’'t be tives informed Nt business cour can't he the de persisted te Detective Gets Warning he detective sta the issumed lefiant Wit} tioned folded the sheriff tnde | | | h what | | | atti 1s being officer ed. and There | ted the lay interfer: the sher tood or " s ive iside A\ maid opened the door 1d the mes *he irst maid that t the sheriff was adamant. | the sheriff of | the cou & room the de calted & ved to the o age was re she wa not be | each County seated In the livi f the weather New York Weather returned fron It was very cold Pown here it is quite differer he sheriff chatted for 10 min and then luced the papers ced that he | Eoing, | 1 have heard something about this | suit.” the countess laughed i The eriff laughed with her ‘|'v:‘} departed. | - . | WAR SIPPLY BROKER IS POST-HOLE VICTIM Texan Sold Warship to San Sal- “yador, Arms to Madero and First Electric Lights to Honduras. o hare | | | \ i \ | \ SAN ANTONIO, Tex., December 26 = Saiis Treto of Antanio. who 1e Republic of San Salvador its Br the Associated Pre | Republ in | o ] received | tepped in a post Th n was received by membe ily here today | one of the hest known salesmen who made Mex Central America and South America. | He dealt onl h governments and | municipalit'e vears oid | he_ died ) San Salva- | th | ed Fruit | vas sold to! San for A converted intn a warship. Mr. Trejo and Mar R 21T e rrested ces of heins agents o Mursuia. then were sentenee the B Reaor Salvado! in edo or both d intercessio and dentified with the Madero. which and sold Ma- and ammunition with which the revolt was won pirchas. AMadero he 1'nited Killed. and RBii ammun nd them arm HEAVY PAYMENTS DUE ON STOCKS AND BONDS Post pan Says Moutain Com- Will Yield Big Dividen d Prese DENVE December 26.—The Denver lay edition | panies « Rock Sounts feart 27.000.0( payments dividends Horrin ary, 1926 Jursements in Denver B the A and will reach rease of £800,000 the by ipanies making ve listed per as follows: eat Western Sugar Co.. Mountain Producers 1.009.300 The Mountain Telephone Co The Cities Ser of Colorado 949,710 | 1.462.500. | orpora: ates Telezraph and | "GOVERNOR MAY RESIGN. | New South Wales Executive Op-| posed to Government Plan. . Australia, December 26 Dudley DeChair, governor ow South Wales, it is officially agated. will resign his post because of labor government's insistence on appointment of 25 new members to the lezislative council. The re uest for the appointments was made L Premier J. T. Lang. and the gov-! nar not being favorably disposed P e e the dominion secretary’s office in Lon- slon The assembly today passed a providing for the appointment Women to the legislative council " NEWS PIONEER DEAD. Frank H. Cooney Was Founder of Detroit Mail, First Penny Paper. 72 CHICAGO, December 26 (). —Frank | H. Cooney, §2. friend and fishing com- | panion of President Martin Van Buren and founder of the old Detroit Mail, died today at the home of his £in heve, He was born in New York in 1842, and at school was a student of the famous suffragist, Susan B. Anthony. He fou aded the Detroit Malil, said to have been the first paper to sell for s panny. in 1372, but disposed of it in the ‘80z to come to Chicago. 1 bill of sheriff of Palm Beach | nut Iudge { Wilson to reply | Indze Hillyer Nuevo |, {lege, thim such was my intention. THE SUNDAY SIDELIGHTS OF WILSON’S LIFE . REVEALED BY EDITOR FRIEND S. W. Small, Whe Ai fed War President’s Admission to Bar, Recalls His Brilliance in Difficult Test 'in BY SAM W. SMALL. In Washinzton. as nther citics of the 1 be celebrations fomor ninth anniversary of Weodrow Wilson, At this time of honor to the war time Prezident memeries rush to me of a period of his life which has largely been lost in obscurity even by some of his most faithful biographers, Tt was when Mr. Wilson came to At anta, Ga.. in 1882 (o enter the prec e of law in the State of his 'd. fle had been funte: of the eceding A day after his arriva ¢ cime to the editorial Con-titution letter of inty law school W that T was cily per and of court The dean facilitate Mr. Wilson's wiission to the The next morni paper a personal n to the city. of his the heloved Rev. In ords of pi written of him by the | lean above mentioned. The notice re cived attention frem the city bar. and pecially of those of it whoe them elves had heen educated at the U crity of Virzinia. Mr. Wilson we vith we to the eourthouse the same and was introduced by me (o George Hillyer, the presiding 1o Solicitor General Len il tawyers fn attend well as in many jon. there wiil of the sixty the birth rom Vi L the | ooms of the precented to 1 tion from the des sville, wha of the of the me to) m for nev rter applicati I carried in t tice of his coming | being the son of | Wilkon. and the Subjected to Examination. Aceor 10 custom: after the pres ntation of his application, Mr. Wil n was subjected (o an open com sammation by leaders of the har, ated by ‘the judge to qniz the an idate upon certain branches of e law, =e Hillver had known Mr. Wil father quite intimately and m: « stronz interest in the son then refore him. He selected the hest law as examiners and they Wilson 1o the fullest test Hillyer afterward remark was one of the most sesrchir irations he had ever heard in his ourt and was “more brilliantly p d hy Mr. Wilson than by any indidate who had heen hefo uring his three terms upc ers present A the h About the end of the ordeal Gadsden very astute ioner. propounded to Mr. Wil wolved question of equity pr was one of Mr. Gadsden's pet Mr. Wilson that. He started in make answer, but Judge smilingly interrupted. saving entlemen. T will not require Mr to that question. ax it ~ one that even the court could not inswer offhand That ended the qu apnlauded. the judze ind erdered enrollment [ an attorney-at-law ered bv Clerk Walter Attor practi m an rtch of cour . but i know was adminis Venable. Both and Clerk Venable arve in Atlanta in honorahle re. from public service Started Modestly. after modest sizn on the uilding at the corner of Marietta and Sroad streets announced that the law irm ot “Rennick & Wilson™ could be ound on the second floor in an office, andwiched hetween other legal hang s Jusi then there were more law- vers than profitable clients in Atlanta 1 the number of litigious folk who rcked at the door of Mr, Wilson and his partner was not so many block the hallway Mr. Wilson was quite e the practice in the courtr at he might the better do that he 1 accepted quite regu 1in my inclosure in the ch led to a very free nacy between us. This gave me asion to have hitn. by appointment the court. make his first essay he 1 jury and by Mr. Wilson frequent, after-supper visits to the editorial room. where he would select discarded metropolitun vapers. fie had asked for that privi Which vas gladly accorded. | presumed that he only wanted inter sting reading matter to occupy tachelor's lonesome evenings One however. while exch < 1 found in ork Eveninz Post a lensthy ence” letter from 1 the Tetters W, ieneral Assembly in Atlanta rement Soon r 1o learn om. and began to several day scannins the New special Atlanta W." The waz then and the letter review and scathing criticism of ction in favoring the Blair educa e Federal money 1o States in aid of public ided Legislators. WL was hitterly opposed proposition. and upbraided the jeorzia legislators for being willing to ibjure State rights in the matter of he education of their children and being willing submit 1o, Federal supervision of sovereign an in ternal institution. He argued elo. quently against the constitutional wer of Congress to make the con templated appropriations. | It struck me at once that Woodrow | Wilson was the author of the lstter I scissored it out and sent it to the composing room. When Wilson came to | 1p that evening the proofsheets of the iletter were on my desk. I handed them to him and charged him with “the ! crime.” He was fairly knocked o for the moment. and looked with sur prise upon the evidence He said: “You are going tn reprint this in the morning?” and I assured Then he | W.W signature | shonld be amitted. since 1 had gone on remark that the letter was “too} zood a sensation to lose” and would | cause considerable eriticism “and a | 1ot o' cussin’” in the halls of the | Capitol on the morrow | Without heing asked he volunteered | 10 me confidentially that the law Busi ness of his firm was altozether in- | Who Shall Survive? Business today is based on quantity production and - creased sales bring you lower prices. Only the ~merchant who buys in quantity can CHAMBERS BUYS IN LARGE QUANTITIES That is why he can furnish CLARK GRAVE VAULTS at $35. COMPLETE FUNERALS for $100” and other funeral and mortuary needs at half the old- time undertakers' charges. CHAMBERS GUARANTEES Reliable and Complete Service at LOW PRICES W. W. Chambers Co. The Brown Stone Funeral Home Cor. 14th and Chapin St. N.W. Call Columbia 432 asked that the Court. adequate to meel the current expenses o Rennick 2nd himself and he had vesorted to contributions to several Eastern papers and periodicals to “make ends meet.”” Of course, that confidence was respected After he abandoned the law and comoved from Atlanta 1o Johns Hon kins University in Baltimore we did meat_again until his marriage in 1885, to Miss Illen Louise one of the most popular belles duy. He wrote me 10 come to Savannah A xson for the event Met Again in 18 later when 1 ng class ir from Bryn over the next went to W an in Connecticnt and when 1 ont there to address the students hs fded over the meeting and gave very gracious introdu andtence. Neveral times afterward, ton and at Trenton, he cordially ceived me when I made courtesy upon him. While he President of the United Stat he resoried frequently a vound of the links at the W on Golf and Couniry Club. which almost adjacent to my country i Vicginta. el membe club 1 had opportunities and converse with him there Knowing that 1 am @ “nosey paper man he was neither nor offended when I presume rly intima to ask him ques not on the routine nda During the time when he was try i 10 keep us out of war’ he was hotly criticized for recommending to the embattled powers of urope to come 1o “‘peace without victory One day. while waiting on the portico of the club for his limousine to drive up. 1 asked him Asiced Meaning of Phrase. Mr. President, really what mean by ‘peace without victory'? lie looked at me rather humorously ind said 18] fanta you Ars in Mo with me on re calls vas liex nome 1he meet Ao you veemher rightiy were one the seconds in what threatened he a bloody and famous duel hetween the iwo leading editors of the city, and that it was you who arranged an amicable peace between them. right on the field of cambat. without the firing of a shot. Isn't that true 1 confessed that he remembered cor rectly “Then.” said he. “why be possible 1o Fring into an amicable ing to cither # claim to victory?” He left me with the notion that believed such a peace hetween na tions might arranged Another time I said to him “Mr. President. T think your phrase ahout ‘watchful waiting « neat and suzgestive one. “Oh.” he replied vention of my own. it is in some poem by one of the zreat English poets but I cannot tell vou just where 10 find It just me while writing . 1t has been my belicf since my early acquainiance with him that My. Wil son, had he remained at the har in Atlanta, would have reached high dis. tinction and been given exalied public offices, but. resident in the South, he would never have reached the presi dency of the Nation. down in At should it not warring peoples peace without giv that i » in An Underselling Special that demonstrates our policy | to give—EXTRA VALUE! these 3-Pc. Overstuffed Suites _or figured MOHAIR! in plain to] S | Prince STAR, WASHINGTON, BLAST RAZES HOME AS WEDDING NEARS } Prospective Bridegroom, Vis- ; iting House, Blown 100 | Feet, Aged Cauple Kilied. | B the Associated Press. | TOPEKA, Kane., December |Only & heap of splinters an :uuvn‘»”n" pile f bricks rk |spot where Charles Flora had pian ned to bring his bride some iime after the New Year. A Clyistmas | lay blast vesterday snuffed out the iives of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Shaffer. the aged couple with whom oung Flora had lived for reveral vears, and Flora him f is in a hos pital badly injured expected t Whut cavsed the wili never be knowr zone from their e the little a4 month sdor of gasoline’ ge. 1 threugh the r had been a tremendous ¢ ihe terrific trio had | ner to had They noticed they entered ted to almost 100 fect from | will probabty explorion | ; | South Carolina 4t had been the house here was little left of the struc ture. A few timbers had fallen back | unon the foundation. and under ihe | rattered n wreckaze Mr. Shaf K7, and his Bhvearold wife were nd dyin Witneases 155 of cuid th pultad 30 the | lke was ore it The in ecemed to huar house next Window \ und were smashed and chimneys hiken down The shock was fell harply more than 4 mile Wiy, Five hhors were injured, four <ufferine e-bruises and a fifth. a hoy taining a broken arm At the hospital Flors told attend ints he helieved ore of the party had atch, igniting it and the gas-charzed house. Fe said he had noti ches on the floor in previeus tri inspection MITCHELL T(S CONTINUE FIGHT FOR AIR FORCE Tells Florida Paper Cannot Spend 5-Year “Sen- tence’ homt. hed door sus Colonel He in State. December am Mitchell. who was wirt-martialied recently criticism of the alr defense of the cc v, in a letter to the Florida Morning State, de ed that he plans to continue his M for a defense system “that will consiitute a real to the country l protection he letier was in reply 1o a tel from the newspaper inviting Mitchell spend his five year “sen tence” in Florida in developing the proposed commercial airplane industry of the State Any definite plans on must he p med until cision has been reached hy martial reviewing hoard. However, tentative plans | have considered would prohibit my enzagement in any Kind of husiness that would in any way interfere with the fight we have | mtaried for a_better national defense. | 11 is my infention 1o stav with this until there is establiched a defense system that will constitute a real pro- | tection to the country.” ram ol o m: part tinal the court Special at Three generous size pieces—A REAL REDUCTIO! SPECIAL PRICE. ARE OF PERFECTLY VELOUR. A “WRIGHT” SPECIAL BED OUTFIT A well made wood-finish STEEL BED; an all-cotton art tick covered MATTRESS; a Simmons twin-link GUARA FROM AN ALREADY SIDES AND BACK " MATCHED TEED SPRING. TERM Conveniently Arranged the Bed, $5. the Mattress, $6.95 the Spring, $4.95 Other Bed Outfit Specials WRIGHT 2 FURNITURE eALlvays Right n Juality and Price 905 7th STREET | volume. 27 D. . DECEMBER 200 Per Cent Gain in Novem- | ber Shown as Boom Con- tinues in State. The national monthly building sur- vey of 8. W. Straus & Co., made pub- lic today, shows that the.12 strictly Southern States nued in Novem- ber to break their 1925 building per- mit records, exceeding November last vear hy and reporting a total of $3: 2in 76 citiex and towns. With onths. showingz for Southern gain well over the this the 11 | thesc States | cent says 0 per i » 00| i 16 cities of very ity reported from | phenomenal ovember Other tes in the group| November gains were. | lorida crense which showe Arkansa s ads Cities. led 1t hern cities $5,195,399, compared $1.395. in November, 1 Cor Gables was second, with a total $3.155.000. and making this new ern cit teenth among the lex 5 cities the entire country Petershurg third =mong Eouthern citi ith & Navember tota of $2.470.300. Jacksonville was fourth Dallas was fifth and Tamps sixth Among the ¢ which showe zains were ( zain of nea < Minmi with in to the substantial reensbora. N. C.. with a rIv $1.000,000. New Orleans Memphic, Knosville, Winston Salem |, Asheville, N. (".; Mohile and Houston he whole country, 402 cities re ng to the survey. made 4 Noven) Rain of 26 per cent. Lach region showed crease November 1924 except the [ West, which had a slight decrease. The November total for the 402 cities and towns was £340, November Leading Southern Cities. | The 25 leading hern cities show ing largest v e of permits for No- | vemier. 192 . | Miami a8 Coral (a St. P'etershurg | Tacksonville i Houston i TLakeland 2. i RBirmin isville New Orleans | Memphis Orlando West Paim Heach San An Miami Hollywor Knoxville Winston Salem Asheville, ! Clearwate AMobile, Ala Richmend Atlant Va Tord Plants Closed. . Mich.. December roduction DE All_main Ford Motor 26 () of the bere are closed down for the annual inventory period. They | will resume operations on January 4 About 100,000 men are affected. 75 The Outfit Three Pieces $ or: Monthly Payments 1925— PART D OTESUFFLORDA PEBvTates ISt ox wicwrs LEAD IN BUILDING sppesr i sovea 5y nen campaign—tearnca | {PHOID CARRIER to Smoke From Mothers, They Say, and Will Stick to Dress Fashions. skirts for right Mrs. war habi | the its | tantes, at least of faxhion swinge low again cigarettes, at judgment. lieve an woman an John n present extremes among somewhat . There will he no lengthening "f'. debu pendulum And as is admitted that tobacco ix probably detrimental to perfect health, the society matrons | of a few geasons hence reserve the their own Certainly they do not occasional Washington's until the while it to use “puff” Henderson's in fashions American women m statement hurts a y more than it does a man. Thix s the debutantes’ answer to avowed and immedest and vet affer ne oh on to the present mode in hath ing suits, Only the nost extreme skirt fafls to cover the knee, it was de- clared, but the approved bathing snit {leaves the leg hare almost from the waist down “When the girl of today wears a short. skirt, she does not do it just to show herself off.” asserted another pretty leader of the younger set. “That i Just too ridiculous for words' She does it hecause it is the style. Of course, there ave some girls who have pretty legs and strive to show therm off to the best advantage at e opportunity. But the average girl of today is entirely innocent of immaodest otive. be- i WOMAN, 80, HELD |33 Cases, 3 Fatal, Traced to ! Food She Prepared for Church Party. | = h., —To an %0-year-old woman, residen of Eaton Rapids, the State Health De | partment announced today, have hee; traced the 33 cases of tvphoid fever city November 15. To date 3 of | city November 18. To date three o he cases have proved fatal The investigation conducted by the department revealed that every one of those stricken with the disease had Decembher 26 (/) caten of squ; occasionally, none offered the slightest Pnointed ities outside of Florids | 2.424. B hould say ts Ih | the opinion of the vounger members h which the woman pre pared and contributed to the dinne: Tn preparing the squash, taken fron her garden, she had worked it throug| a collen with her hands ¥ph more than best known accepted of Washinzton's women may be s eipressing the sentiment of the entire nger set. In fact they feel that Mrs. Henderson has wplied her reformation in, the wrong direction. VUi pity unhol tract thay the Ny itte f these crusades, v ority who d. sueh extremes are ob brunt of them? It skirts will be fashions chanze, S0 mue in fo d to bear the < my opinion that ed when before. suy we are immodest becauss we lika to be stylish is inexpressibly unfair Labhoratory Carrier. tests showed, Dr. Rich- ard M. Olin, State health commis- sioner, said, that the woman was a typhold carsier Investigating the d woman's his. X tory. the Ith department learned Judging All by Few. o A LA fover Nearly all the debh 0= and that she con ingly admitted that this me years later. Dr. Olin having come from the woman had agreed to avoid Mrs, Henderson any foods to be eaten by ure in the elit n her own immunized fam- Washin Baa pto e e hers than i Man, 32 red one voung woman when she i fonehs vas cornered in the parlor of her 3 Massuchusetis avenne home jnsi as| BAS shown no James Soper, (2-year: she wak racinz for the door 1o keep a | ¥ discarding the « i nneieon engazement vesterday. “And JeN1Y changing the length o I detesr seeing a girl who has just | feshionable skirt. 1t is quite possible made her debut puffing away me Fashion may taje advan cigarette while standing in a drawinz the emporsgy tempest et room talking with an older woman < smpaigs Only Copied Mothers., ©f 1his after all, it was welahiciio) girls who started copied it from their like most boys imitate athers Now they have come, like an occasional cigarette. It tast just as od A girl as it does to a boy know. And if the vounger zir! chooses to have her cigarette in private. with her own <et. | am unable to see scrious harm in v That of however Admit They Smoke. Out of more than a dozen of this season’s debutantes interviewed, only two or three said they did not smoke | objection to their girl friends enjoying 1+ cigarette at the proper t and nlace. and every one declared that the efforts’ of a very small mi nority to “overdo evervthing' has wnved many persons to take it for ved that all of them are of same fanx pas Personally, I do not like to see of ntes smil- latest crusade exclusive tracted it said the handlir others 1} nake | ily home plemat onid probahly ircle - and sed Ity hres moth ind i started by heen . 1o Be Isolated. has hia- preseni a cither v nld desire niention retie case or sud <ee County 3 i farm hand whom 27 cases in recent vears in Oakland and Shia- 1ssee (Counties have heen traced. Of those afficted following the Eaton Rapids dinner former Lieut. Gov Luren D. Dickinson and Dr. James R Bradley, former State auditor general still n a serious condition. MILLIONS Td AID MINING. the herself r womer are most assur: 1ssume that vesponsibilic BRYAN FAMI.LY GATHERS. Relative not Bt ounger They just not the the habit. mothers g their Alaska Gold Development to Be to vou Pushed by Fairbanks Company. FAIRBANKS. Alaska P).- uthorization development program _involving expenditure of more than $10,000.000 here within the next three years was nounced today by Norman €. ines, man er of the Fairbanks Explojtation Company, a subsidiary of . the United States Smelting and Re thered tining Company for Stines made Governor « raska and Democratic | o.pe = vice presidential nominee in the 1ast frem |{avam national election, his wife and Mrs 1 A% Baird. a sister of the | Commoner, all hom came from Nebraski th pion From!h Others uded Mrs. Wil liam Jenninzs ind her daugh ter and son-in Maj. and Mrs, ¥ A Owen. of Commoner Meet for Christmas Dinner in Florida e eeemon MIAMI. Fla ). — Relatives of William Jennings Bryan gathers vesterday in the reunion of the Bryan family since the 2% ing December is abont typical of the way here in first the debutantes felt. Some is a more serious matter, in Irs. Henderson's statements. and arlv all laughed heartily. “After 'l this 1= prettv much of an old varn. isn't it ked one. demurely We've heard so much fu ut it. 1 don't believe any . alking is zoinz to change society bit. 1 i's simply an evidence of evolution.” Morality in Skirts. That short dresses should he termed immodest and inducive to immorality. waver. ix a merc serious matter, in most his Fairbunks Cuba announcement } New Mi m Quite a Task otal Anseirs Times Marjorie had heen washec curled and combed and now her moth was getting ready 1o go out. Mar e looked serious as she ehec the process and finally remarked Tt takes a lot of fuse to make ind me lnok respectahle, doesn't mamma Rachelors understand | Fiji Islands il kneelenzth married. Fvery talerated man The of society. They how any person fail 1o onld o Kahn F Street A Safe I and Secure Investment for Your Christmas Gift Money Is Of Honest Worth From A. Kahn Inc. 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