Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1925, Page 13

THEIR HOME DESTROYED IN VIRGINIA FIRE Y ESTERDAY MORNI standing heside the ruins of their home in Livingstone Heights, a Virgini destroyed four houses, two garages ler d several sr buildings, the entir -— SPECIAT ular mechanism | Maer ————— } FOUR HOMES BURN; .2~ Livingstone Heights, in Arlington County, Va. AIRPLANE WHICH WILL BE USED BY LIEUT. MACREAL 25 (@) ling of Ky.. December md‘ higl threatened the large com wport city, O |PRESENT DRY LAW'S | ENFORCEMENT ASKED he mill he wrces of Ne neighboring unde ntrol {Spectal Dispateh t CLARENDON #Borrow and { Christmas me ton County families erd {vchen thelr homes dze {foad, at Livingstone Heights, were ped cut by fire | The homes were those James | ‘ampbell, Mrs. Amand Whit harles Wade Pelkerton and Wi H. Campbell. Damage is estimatec $35.000. Herolc Wuin _f the volunteer companies of the county was pered by lack of w 1" so the des: men on CF ¥ Anti-Saloon League to Send Cool- idge Pamphlet Designed to Prove Prohibition Success. | Bs the Associated Press ham-| NEW YORK. December 25.—An ap rnment officials {0 enforce the Valstead et Jow stands vithout n sale of light wines Anti-Saloon L The New piblic nest Che of the World holism. which will Bertie | the Anti-Saloon League | Cooliaze,” Secretary of Mellon. other « hers of Congress and governe States, asserting that the Volstead act )een vindicated by the reduction | heavy drinking Cast in the form of 25 que :ndon | Le answered by citizens and politielans, | his | the pamphlet indicated that the Anti:| m pos- | Saloon ie believes the “absence ove drunkards from the streets and ced car at | public | places” demonstrated that rvland ave- | heavy drinking is not being dome since | cliims | the enactment of prohibition. Sev 1% of | eral of the questions asked if it s not that since prohibition the home nd living conditions of workers hive been improved. and general health has reached a high stand despite state- ments of anti-prohibitionists that liquon | now on the market is deadly, and that | arinking of it has inereased Mr. Cherrington based the tionnaire on the theory that the pur pose of government is to r it easy | for men to do right them to do wrong. e declared |" *“he question is not whether hibition has been a complete succes whether there are weaknesses in ministration and difficulties in enforce- : | ment, but whether, taking everything needs of | into consideration, social, economic | political, moral and spiritual, gene: | conditions are better or worse because of it.” { the | Peal to the intily ering {flames. W occupants Iattired, (from expo {" Neighhors {00k the stricker homes. ere € e S will he made by the organization has « pamphlet by neral chatrman Against Alco be sent by to President York \ copy ¢ gton. League slumbers their ronsed e fam Three SI Studs, 15 fCampbell and G 65, were cut by flvir (John A. Spates of the {department sufferec 1sed by mpbell w hily Hurt. old “ampbe Chief ale five on the i1, and soon| Bessie wned ‘Joire Department fnides had a narrow escape frible death their tvilson boulevard and M n The driver of the e led by the hing car and machine ieorze Campbel mpbell. whose home those leveled by the through a window, reac of his son, who ¥ gecond fl and carried hi Im steps for icker lies were father flames, hed the side in bed on the to safety ston Chapter, Americ M visited the mornin s in comn iembers of the tor collect fulfillment of distress. n_ of 1 the sther RESCINDS VDEPORT ORDER. Expulsion Su Chemists From Cuba Revoked December 28 (#) ion depar | i Takes Charge of U. S. Embassy. (#).——John 'y of the Amer- g MADRID, December | 1. Martin, first secret 5 icin embassy in Rome, has come to Madrid to take charge of the Ameri embs here temporarily. He will serve until the arrival of the new- Iy appointed Amb dor, Ogden H. | Hammond. of American ddi NA, the immisy entry to Cuba chemists on t t.ey came here under work for sugar mills in has been revoked by 10, 1 can o o i During the last 23 vears the output of electrical energy in Japan has in- eased 406 per cent for hydreelectric 250 per cent for steam- 1 vie of the iav st Mec Protest against the idoza, Sugar man. Pres expulsion of the hy Dy s power electric ons to | { Count ques- | and difficult for | = | pro: 1 THE EVENING STAR, NG. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Pilkerton @ suburh of Washington. The e loss being estimated at $35.000. Washington Star Photo fire )Y IN AT Iy plans tosrise eight miles above the earth, making his flight soon at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. DENES BRIGIG MUMMIES TOU.S. Count de Prorok Says He Brought Articles Approved by French Official. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. December 28.—Reply- Ing to the charge of the governor gen Alzeri: that he ecarried off immies urearthed at Hoggar. the rigid regulations of the Algerian government, Count Byron Khun de Prorok declared last night that these ohjects were in Paris at the four despite disposal of the minister of public in- | and had not been brought | struction to the United States. Tn a_ letter to Maxime Mongendre, New York consul general of France, Count de Prorok said an officlal of the French department of public in struction had approved his bringing 1o America cermin articles unearthed in Algeria upon his promise that he would He den mummie State! He also set forth the which he had acquired his title, which had been questioned by the governor general of Algeria in his announce- ment that he was searching for “Charles Byron Cunes, known as Count de Prorok.” ‘I am an American count’s atement reads, ico City in 1896. My father was Leon <. Khun, a naturalized American citi- zen, who Mexico City. My mother was Therese de P’rorol whose brother, heophile Konerski de Prorok, legally adopted me. Since my adoption I have used the n: and since the death of my adopted father his title has devolved upon me." The letter stated that in collabora- {tion! with Meurioe' Revesuse Hiece senting the minister of public Instrue- tion at Paris, he made excavations and explorations at Hoggar. £ acelets, necklaces, statuary, incomplete fragments of a skull, vases and fint arrow heads as the objects brought to the United States. When he arrived on the Leviathan Decemby 21 Count de Prorok was quoted as saying he had brought the skeletons of two nobles of the anclent Taurezs and jewelry taken from the tomb of Queen Tin-Hanan. CRIME COURSE GROWS. Women Organize Club “Patterned After Men’s Group. LONDON, December 28 (#).—"The Junior Crimes Club,” made up exclu | sively of women who had been barred | from member in the “‘Crimes {Club” of which Sir Arthur Conan ! Doyle and dward Marshal Hall are leader < been organized here All classes of crime are discussed at regular meetings, the members con- sisting chlefly of woman authors eager to enlarge their viewpoint on life and its problems. .The .juniors -in people of note to meet with them & take part in the discussions. or skeletons to the Untted citizen,” the Pt turn them within two months. | 1 that he had brought either | manner in | ‘horn in Mex- | 1 large distilling interests | ne Khun de Prorok | IPT TO BREAK ALTITUDE RECORD. chind the propeller on the <ide of the plane is expected to insure the proper mixture of gasoline and oxygen in high altitudes. | Happiness | | time. WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, LI WILL RING ONCE AGAIN drick, wife of the Mayor of Philadelphia (above), will tap the fa bell with an especially made rubber-tipped mallet on New Year ey the tintinnabulations will be broadcast over the entire country densks Studio. LIBERTY B Phila. Just about as sweettempered as a tig, But W. H. Y. Thornton of Union City, has succeeded in taming this hawk. which he captured about a week ago. Photo shows the bird’s favorite resting place. s supercharger Copyrizht by P. & A. Photos Lees, Owners of Famous River Boats, To Quit Mississippi After 3 Generations are Pa Line wh Memphis landing line rersville will go in made by the anction By the Associated M Pross | Owners of the Valley N 3 the Lee e Wharfl pt. Rees and in., December 28 or the of the sterday, dawn of 1926 was s and properties along the Mo., to the sale, United the all Car hearts of old when it was river | n-f riv vom family, for| Rosedale, Mis ators of afwhich will be on the middle | States marshal to quit the| With the passing of the Lees from river the last actual link with Inc., a| “the old days” will be severed, river Line | men say. The family reached its pin wass out of | nacle of fame with the race betwee 2 steamers | the Rohert E. Lee and_the Natc ffairs liquidated. from New Orleans to St. Louis in 1% 1ken men here 1 th generations fleet of river packets Mississippi, was river. The V nsoli and the Delt the picture will be sold TRAINMEN TO NEGOTIATE |[BROTHERS AND ANOTHER FOR PAY RAISE SHORTLY | BOY KILLED BY TRAIN “Big Four' Brotherhood and Roads Three Returning From Sunday to Take Up Matter of 12 Per School Struck by Fast Pas- Cent Boost After Jan. 1. senger—Fourth Escapes. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Decembe tions between the “'F service hrotherhoods the country will shortly after the first of the year union officials said vesterday. The unions are asking incr to rest the peak scale which was cut by 12 per cent decrease in 1921 by order of the United States Railroad Labor Board. All 16 standard railroad union or- ganizations probably will negotiate for increases, it was said. In most cases the old contracts expire Decem ber 31. More than 2,000,000 railroad workers will be affected by the nego. tiations. The railroads granted an increasa of ahout 5 per cent last vear and the train service unions are re ported to be considering asking for an additional 7 per cent raise at this nounced three |'the lley ation Line St of Line, anuary and its ame will ciated Preas December 28, them brothers, instantly terday at Brid ville, n here, when they were | struck by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania Raflroad while retucn- |ing from Sunday school. The dead | are Isaac llanna, 14; George Deep, 12 and Joseph Deep, 9. A five-year-old brother of the Deep bovs, who wais o in the group, had a narrow cscape. ROBS MEXICAN CHURCH. Man Hidden in Institution Found- ed by Cortez Loots It. MEXTCO CITY, December 28 (#).— The Church of Jesus of Nazareih, founded by Fernando Cortes, the Span {ish conqueror of Mexico City {robbed on Christmas. The police have ptured the thief, Jose Lopez, who has a long criminal record. The altar was desecrated-and sacred vessels and other valuables, including a golden image of Christ, were stolen. Lopez had concealed himself Christ- I mas eve beneath the flower-covered catafalque of the Italian Princess Marfa Victoria Plgnatelli, recently killed in an automobile accident, whose body reposed in the church awaiting transfer to Italy. Early Christmas morning, when the edifice was empty, he looted the church. He eventually was trailed and arrested. U. S. CARDINAL DIRECTS. Pontifical Mass Held in American Church in Rome. ROME, December 28 (P).—Cardi- nal Hayes officiated at pontifical mass in the American Church of aint Susanna today. Many Ameri- ns attended the services and the large representation of the clergy in- cluded Bishop Thomas F. Lillis of Kansas City, Bishop Mi of Scranton, Bishop Thomas By the A PITTS boys, killed 28.—Negoti- Four” train ind railroads of be started here of —e INDIAN ORDAINED. Montana Plains Native Deacon in Anglican Church. December 28 (#).— Red Fox St. James, whose Indian name is Skiuhushus, was ordained Saturday a deacon of the Angelican Universal Church by Bishop George Winslow Plummer. In six months he will be eligible to be advanced to the priesthood. 1le will go almost imme- diately &8 a missionary to his own people and working in connection with the American Indian Association, he plans to establish a mission church near St. Louls. Red Fox was born on the plains of Montana near Great Falls. He is known as a lecturer on Indian life and customs and was educated in Methodist and Roman Catholic schools. Becomes NEW YORK, $400,000 Fire in Wheeling. WHEELING, W. Va., December 2§ (®).—Fire of undetermined origin late yesterday destroyed four stores, and Drumm of Des Moines and Bishop John J. Lawler of Lead, S. Dak. Mgr. Mooney, spiritual director of the American College, accompanied by all the American students, was present also, for a time threatened to wipe out an entire block, in Wheeling's business district. Firemen were handicapped in fighting the blaze because of the ex- tremely cold weather. The loss was estimated at $400,000, DECEMBER 28, 1925. Lieut. John A for his attempt to bre records. In hix Field. Dayton. Macready expects 1o better the record of 39396 feet, es- tablished in 1924 by Callizo, French Al Photos. Macready prepared k all altitude MecCook DOWN WHERE hed Florida vet, according tc rries are in bloom. SAYS CONSTITUTION LOOKSLIKE MUMMY lllinois Bar Head Flays Mul- tiplicity of Laws Made in United States. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, 28.—The United States Cons has been amended and construed until it “looks like an Egvptian mummy in a china doll factory,” Robert W. Besse of Sterling, Til, today told the Illinois State’: ttorney Association, of which he is president “A close analysis of the situation discloses that the American people are getting away from the idea which stimulated the statesmen of those early days, to solve the problems that the people might be free in speech and conduct, and that all government came from the people. )n the contrary, now the States have a notion that the Government is all powerful and that the people are mere subjects, to do the will of any notion they choose to write upon the statute hooks, and they write plenty of notions into laws, and everybody is presumed to know the law. “That stands very well as a legal December itution have to read vear: continuously for if he is able to find the law, and more { capable if he is able to interpret it in | accordance with the last Supreme | Court decision, but the dear people re presumed to keep apace with all rule of conduct of trouble, “Our legislators and Congress seem to have no mercy, but each time they meet they deem it thelr official obli- gation to the people or public that so charitably elected them to | to return the compliment by passing |all the way and keep out the conduct of the 'public and then provide that if the people fail to live up to the letter of the law in every particular they be punished all way from a one-dollar fine to life im- prisonment. U. S. EMBARGO FOUGHT. Spain Prepares Campaign to Get Pruit Ban Lifted. ALMERIA, Spain, December 28 (#). —The Spanish government, seeking to have the American embargo against Spanish_fruit will utilize the | report of Dr. a, director of the Municipal Laboratory, which has just | been approved by the provincial coun- i cll. | “Dr. TaGasca has been engaged in experiments and the scientific study of grapes produced In Spain, and it is hoped that his findings will serve as a basis for the Spanish govern- ment's effort to demonstrate to the United States that the fear of Span- ish fruit carrying germs of the Medi- terraneiqy, iy 'Is unfounded. S HE SUN SHINES BRIGHTLY Here we have Misses Elizabeth ¢ out for a bicycle ride at Palm Beach. NEW UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR ARRIV MacVeagh. the new United States Amb. At right. Edwin Neville, who ha< he Ambassador MacVe S IN TOKIO <ador to Japan. arriving in n in recent charge of the emhbas-y late Edgar Bancroft AND SOFT BREEZES H oW The (HJI} wave h: nt The bathing is fine. golfers a rowding the cour: and straw- n and Katherine Walmsley of New York starting O CEATHS HELD DUE TO FOOD POISON Two Others in Family Likely to Die From Same Cause. I reports. LIGHTNING FIRES OIL. 600,000 Gallons Burns in Argentina. of Petroleum December iolent s P tora fre Aires, T liters of lons), re dispatched vessels moored nearhy hours and the mated at more than $1,000,000 HUGE SILK MERGER INVOLVES $20,000,000 Two of Oldest and Largest Firms in United States Combine in Transaction. Tes Ruenos 400,000 tanks petroleum to remove The fire is esti By the Associated Pr BURG, Pa., December 28 1d and two others are ed to live, the result author are ties helieve, of eating poisoned food dead are Charles Thompson. 60 local business n, and Miss Mabel Ward. 27, his housekeeper. while those in the hospital are Charles Pickens 17, and Elmer Ward, 17, half-brother of Miss Ward Saturday night D A. Knox was summoned hy Miss Ward, who com Plained of feeling drowsy. When the physician ar she sald she felt bet ter, but promised to call him vester day morning and inform him of her condition. When she did not call, the doctor investigation and found the hodies and the plight of the boys. The Ward boy regained conscious ness long enough to say he and the Pickens Iad had only partaken of cof Co.. which|fee at the house 5,000,000, ] Autopsies | bodies today By the Ascociated Press. NEW YORK. December .000,000 silk merger. uni ing Bros. & Co. and th silk Co., two of the olde nd largest silk thread manufacturers in the United States, was announced last night. he consolidation involved it purchase by the of the Heminw total assets exceeding he enlarged concern, which will be s Heminway out- Belding inter- an vill be performed on the presumption, but, practically, if every | g one were to know the law he would | 600 | . and then remember all he read. | A lawyer is considered very capable the law and then ahide by it as their | office | from 300 to 3,000 new | laws, rules and regulations to guide | the | known as the Belding Hemin ave total assets of mc £20,000,000, estimated annual sales of approximately $16,000,000 and esti mated net earnings of $2,000.000, based on the past vear's showing | The Belding Co. operates thread I mills and fabric plants at Rockville and Winsted, Conn.. Northampton, { Mass.: Relding, Mich., and Petaluma, Calif. The Heminway Co. has five | mills in New York and Connecticut, |GERMANY MAY PUT PLANE | IN SCHNEIDER CUP RACE | Signing of Locarno Pact Creates Strong Possibility That Na- tion May Compete. | By the Associated Press LONDON, December 28.—The sign {ing of the Locarno tr ed possibility of Germany being RESIGNATION DENIED. a competitor in the next Schneider air Sir Dudley de Chair Holds New |Plane cup race. The eventual removal 3 | of restric m the building of afr South Wales Office. jcraft in ny will enable experts that country to construct ma e e Pecember 2g | iR that country fo construct machin | (#).—Official announcement was m: 5| of almost unlimited horsepower. vesterday that Sir Dudley de Ch Alr experts here say Germany will | apply for readmission to the Feders governor of New South Wales, would | 1P} for readmission to the Federa not resign from office. It had been tion Aeronautique Nationale, when the h building restrictions are removed. 1t '":”m“s'-\v reported that h .“””ld re-admitted, she would be entitled to withdraw from the governorship be- | oo tRit{l S0E use of the Labor government's in- PPl 0 LEATRIACEE € stence on the appointment of 25 new | ersl on'; matr | members to the legislative 5 The governor was not fave posed to such appointments and re—l’ ferred the question to the dominion secretary’s office in London. He was| 333 ( instructed to act on the proposal of hl‘:] OACHES‘ERDERED' advisers b A | Gas-Electric Cars to Be Used by New Sluice Gate Installed. I Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., ‘Decembe: Newark Railway. | CHICAGO, December 28 (#).—The 8. | Public Service Rail Co. of New —Installation of a_ new sluice gate ! ;. J., has placed an order for has been completed at Evitts Creek | gas-electric motor coaches with Dam. the source of Cumberland’s|the Yellow Truck and Coach Manu water supply. e valve will be|ructuring Co. here, the company an- closed as soon as the concrete is set, (nounced last night. This IS the lar. and then the leak which caused 80| gest individual order ever given for much loss several weeks ago Wil motor coach equipment, John A. have been stopped | Ritchie, president of the manufactur- ‘ng company, said. Deliveries . will &tart in February and eontinue at the rate of about 100 coaches a month. Ruilding continues on a large scale in South Africa., T N BRI SR 3 R Ty