Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1926, Page 3

) THE EVENING STAR. WASHI * BALLET A FEATURE Washington Dancers to Take [ Part in “Samson and De- lilah"—Heom=: to Sing. Tit the sun oud will MISS BESSIE McKELDIN MAY WED TOMORROW License Is Ohtained for Marriage to Howarl Tucker. Jr.—Time for Ceremeny Not Set ding. Rev w Chy med as th he exact time for had not heen decided up to no day, according Mrs. Palin indlcated. ho . that it stopping with friends afternoon intimated the v be held tomorrow at 12:30. FLORIDA TRIP CUT SHORT. the o Friends i Four Virginia Boys Returned on Charge of Auto Theft. Special Dispatch to The Star DANVILLE. Va Jesse W. Melton. a man, arrived here ¢ nuary 3 olfield police. morning with four youths caught in Savannah. Ga late Thursday in possession of a closed car belonging to L. H. Benton. he Schoolfleld Y. M. C nd the irked qu Iding and discovering it rding to the palice, took 1 started fc orida. 1ge in age from 13 to 16 years, are song of workers in the lacal textile plant. Weman Sues for $10,000. The Capltal Traction Co.. was sued for 000 damage: today in the District Supreme Court by Eudora B Stout. for alleged personal injuries She savs as she was alighting from a car and Thomas Circle she was thrown ta the ground and sustained perma- nent injurv. Attorneys Wilton J Lambert, Rudol atman and Austin_ F. Canfi for the ntifr. SPECIAL NOTICE OF STOCK The adiourned n v 0F A_S. Pratt & Sons. Ine, tythe offes of the compan ine. Washington. D. C 1 on Thursday, January 98 G« THE will wil- TION ice 18 : BOTH COOK AND PEARY Impn Calif.. January Commmnt tion of a death ha indiderent cul u lite o life smprisonement jus wied (0 i stohdly ‘t ern, [ mian-kilies anted s 0 whom clemency &< out through dis: isonment of 230 Yea , Elephant Once Condemned to Diel OF OPERA TONIGHT v Quration | inclosme Facing of death was passed Tor s and preparations for the |execution were under way when ko recovered his rea deliyed. in be trusted | m entirely [ with freedom. The cell in which he will spend the [ rest of his life is made of extra heavy nd he cannot t[ndians “Tamed” In Film Posters AL SMITH TO HE BANK PAPERGHYS For S Youme By the A GE 3 i 3 re imesisoimenr. |May Be Chairman of Newly: to dixplay posters e inen ite the imagination By Formed Financial House After Jan. 1, 1927. ink blots before it an be shown. The corvered cow puncher, about to put up a desperate fight for his life A | Seeks $6, BALTIMORE, PROPERTY CUSTODIAN 'ASKS B. & 0. STOCK| 000,000 in 74,269 Shares | Owned by Former Enemy Aliens. Bank Chief Holder. the Awsociatad Press. Md.. submitted January petition, in the name of the late alien property custodian, | Frederick C. Hicks, seeking $6,000,000 ' , Yol v A 0 DUTCH |2 S = Tuesday—W ednesday—T hursday is pictured whipping rome- & io | dayiog no ante anything but | steel bars b pund aconcrete | thing out of what might be im- 1| uvnf-hw of.’t‘i:;‘ ”m'nof;nl-:;ndm(!)ll:‘; | floor, in which steel rings have | By the Asociatd P Agined as his holster, but the |HRailroad, owned by former enemy one: is Tusko. ene of the {been imbe to which he I8 at-! NEWAYORK, January -The New | offending weapon i5 obliterateq |8liens, was heard today in the © o0 clephants in captivity, and [tached by steei chains. i Yerk World savs thut Gov. Alfred E.| with heavy Ink stains, while the |€ral Court The_;l?u R Feavs one of the most fu-| Tusko, of course, dobs mot Wnow|Smith will become a banker when he€| cunning redskin creeping towara [0 order the —railcad =compeny| tors [ that he was condemaed to death or!comple his term January 1 him holds 1n his hand another |to cancel 74,269 shares of capital stock. | © quarters | thy sentence s heen changed (o [Tt quotes close friends of the governor | huge blot of Ink with which to |IS€uing new certificates to the cus | - are at Culver Cily he mal | lite imprisomment. e stands Lehind | as saying tk st of chidrman of | impale bim. todian. The Baltimore md_olno. e “ill spend the rest of his If |ih rs. slightly swayinz his huge [ the bourd of dir of the newly Then the heroine steps into the |rOt contesting the transfer to the | K and a balf ago. Tuskd | bulk, betraying little inte in w 4 Counts Trust Co. will be left | picture with a blot of ik in each | odlan, objected to cancella- | < of becoming a ! is going on around him Lopen for Gov. Simith | hand and a look of triumph on |tion of the shares, pointing out that thou 10 concern in anything . Jumes J. Riordan | her face. Such are the pletures the stock ls outstanding. -li\l" ement was oaly tenpe Te cannot be persuudied 1o do of United 5 by which The Mmoot thEIng e es would be lssued, the rail iy Tusko went raving mad | the stunts for which once | w vithin the theat e mAvatised. | us stated, should the old stock {and Gefore he could be subdued he | f. but his keepe nks that the 5 i gt oy | be returned. Killed one man and injured sev- ' elephant son ) bunk. which The Deutsche Bank of Berlin owns | by 1 Others on the HEAR'NGS scHEDULED the majority of the stock. accordin | FAILED TO FIND POLE. GEN. GREELY BELIEVES Al Dot his wo. Again 1 to north wowhich s word L w only did."” Ewphasi | Cook’s ! founa: Admiral Pea oy i who could have he explorations of irv declared he svered i rom land nor as disproved by 10 le who found it nd cleimes - 1 cony tha outline ¢ the coast of Greenland, t ha wed miles ince th of it he Greely placed Admiral { jection of th: claim to finding the Pole credibilit | has been attached to Admiral Peary’s {claim by the medal which was con fe d upo; him by the toyal Geographic Soci This medal was inot for his ¥ of the North i Pole, as many believe. but for his worthy achievements in extensive ex- ploration of the polar region Questions Accura: “I believe both Adm ry and Dr. Cook were honestly convinced they reached but 1 question their accur: Gen. Greely declared. Gen. ( learned much of the nolar region and the tremerdous odds that face one intrepid enough to ven i ture to seek the pole from a dis trous experience of his owp. 45 years ago, when he commanded an Arctic * expedition which was orzanized ~to Ty out the plan of estahlieRt cir. cumpolar stations, in-xccordance with the recommendations of the Interna tional Geographic Congress, at Ham burg in {87 The party of 25 reached latitude 83 degrees and 21 seconds, and were exhausted. All but seven of the party had succumbed to cold and hunge: when they finaily were rescued by an | expedition sent by Comdr. Winfield S Schley. which found them at Cape Sa 1e. One of the seven later died from the experience Findings Substantiated. here is one thing about our ex pedition which maki edingly +ppy_and proud,” Greel 1d that is every one of our findings Cneting 'of the' thi e two are living of those who Nauonal Bank of made the attempt to reach the poke AR D i e ! time—Gen. Greely and Drig. 1108 G 1 L. who resides The o 15tii and tinique here. will be 8 as active as his junior and ha public di jon of vears men [lowed the merits of the cl with alert intere: DR. COOK HOP] the UL, | Believes Study of His Reports Will Vindicate Him. WANTED TO HAUL FULL OR PART LOAD TR e R 20 P TTSBURGITT OR-WAY | POINTS. (PECIAL RATES : ATTON. ¥ ASSOL TN LOCAL MO AND HAND ¥ Bidk. nas0 BEY NEW 0 f oues to look like Teft i MAIN 109" 14th ANTS hous sonatle HEDRUGS PEETS Ar WATERB! fant Co. Main' 6478 Dist RETURN, w York. Pl TRA WANTED- ) OF FURN hia_or Bait AND STOR- tare from miore ANTI PAPT INTING AANGTNG fATDE s WE STOP ROOF LEAK JRONC: ROOFING mpans Phone Main 14 Koons s thoroush wor by Pl Your 1926 Printing Needs will meet your every requirement 1t executed by this establishment HIGH GRADE. BUT ,\'OT‘HIUH PgllCED BYRON S. ADAMS, FR{Es, Profitable Printing Results 1 1926—cousult this million doliar plant. The National Capital Press S 212 D ST. N.W. il \' WAIT UNTIL T MOTHS AV m:hld eating furniture but call on us you_wsuspect it. We Ca hem without taking the furniture npart and Theeeet 1s small.. 1t's part of our serv Phone Main_ 3 Bedell Mfg, Co, dated Pre SWORTH, the turn of Dr. Freder: A discredited explorer and ! oil promoter, to smile. And his smile { broadened today as he went about his | duties in the Federal prison hospital | By Consol LEAVE t is now Cook Kans more squarely t ! Apparently I v Roald Amundsen’s recent prison visit iand subsequent statement of falth in | Dr. Cook yet will lead to vindication after being branded for vears as a taker. “I have given of my life to jfag " said Dr. « { newspaper obje | proved faker { dotiar_of pay jis a fair heari { standing.’ Does “Fancy Work." Sunday in his cell Dr. Cook, facing | tour more years of a 14 years and sentence for oil fraud, work ed several hours on a table cloth ne lie “fancy working.” He aiso spends ours on bedspreads and other articles | of that kind. 20 of the best vears country and my ing to being calied a it did Al T s and without one ever asked fair under- { told a guard. : Barred Ly prison rules from adding by interview to his letter, Dr. Cook plainly enjoys the situation brought about by Amundsen’s statement. In regard to his polar trip, Dr. Cook | wrote: “More than half my route, from the last land base to the Pole, has been re-examined, and all my reports have been investigated almost microscopl- cally, The great aerial effort of Amundsen together with the long re- ports go a long way toward proving my claims. On the other hand. the same later reports positively disprove 1 most of Peary’s claims.” Being Corroborated. Denying that he would underrate Peary, Dr. (look wrote that he was confident that the passing yvears have | been favorable to his claims. He sald ! a tabulation of late writings by ex- judgment is upon his side. When not doing fancy work. the former explorer studles scientific works and reports of other explorers. He takes notes frequently. apparently compiling data to add to his alleged proofs he discovered the North Pole. Amongz these works are understood + to be buoks and records sent by Capl. \ 171 By the fol- | ims of the esplorers | January “It's my music and palnting,” he | ! | plorers developes that the prevailing | i 1 frev his visit to D o Pindi 1 bampion as nost prison.” s, Am o n d COOK REITERATES CLAIM Amundsen Denies He Disputes Ad- mival Report KA 73] [ and to whethe not covered the Nurth Pole. i, Fre at the 1w 17ed liscover The renewal cot 11 Rt mundsen denied ha isung purported stutement and support from Donald a vindi nd < would lisput ont tion of his jud ask {ing that Must Study “What T said was,” Capt. Amundser id tn denyinz the nrst t ttributed to him. that 1 form an opinion—that one situated cannot form: an opinion without first having the opinion of {hoth Cock and Peary hefore me fo like | clouded | : are Vincent Astor. to the petitfon, with 74,126 chares. | Williim H. Woodin. president oi t Others named are William R. Graet an Car and Foundry Co. and Alforso de TRothschild, Alice Felix, | P h s- l . R d {furmer fuel aamipistrator, and: Wil ON D c MEASURES Louis Nessler, Gene Tuch, Andrew orterhouse—D1irloin—Roun lish = =l | Steftens, Hardee FHemlock. Eugene the directorate of the bank . R von Wolf. Pan! Druchon Donis, Alex-; ude the name of Afr. House Subcommittees to Consider | andra_John Blatkley, ‘\ .\rr, r:n{m, uith, one of the directors is quoted | . v child & Sons, Greener. Dreyfus Co. IS suving N good Lnne thut | Four Tomorrow, Including Bill Au-|and Alonzo Wolt Mr. Smith w be the chalirman 5 thorizing School Board Election. OLD “JAG BOARD™ TESTS - Copeland Will Speak. Senator Royal S Copeland of New | c Lb. Four measures of importance to| York will be among the spegkers at | AREVHELD INADEQUATE |, o5, Soiren ofimporcnes: (0| oric il b8 sione ths speqiers at Michigan State Assoclation to be held | = the subject of hearings tomorrow | British Drunkenness Examinations. String Walking and Like. Not The | ular election of the set for hearing lefo: on the elective franch 1 subcomrnittee Puncture Proof By the Assoc Press . District committee, with Representi-| & LOXDON. January 25 —The -~jug|tive Reid of Illinois, presiding. Sev. |2 of the British Medical Asso- €ntyseven witnesses have been in-|g which started out to find a | vited to testify and, as a large at- ireproof test for drunkenness, | tendance is expected, the hearing will | dv struck a snag { probably be held in the caucus room of the The Jing in - members tne, pr District of Columbia and to | & { it words reate & Loxing commixsion comes up | ¥ ! that these for hearing tomorrow morning before | % ! me persc a subcommittee of the House District [ drunk in the lees hefore the liquor committee with Representative Me- | ts their heads and. although un- W, of Michigan, presiding. | % o walk without a wahble, thex The juvenile court bill, which has|& | rhaps capabl 1 been introduced by both Chairman % antomoblle. The cc Zihlman of the House District commit. | 8 @ tee, and Representative Underhill, | % = :blican. of Massachusetts, also a member of the committee is scheduled for consideration before the McLeod subcommittees d of th hoard™ su proved w has 18 members— ns, professors and Its aim is ns police court to standare i Before the civil service committes iee. w0 @ hearing is to Le held on the Begg stand | il rdments, ATTEMPTS TO SET FIRE TO TEXTILE MILLS SEEN Bricks Wrapped in Oil-Soaked Cot- HUGHES TO A'.I'TEND LUNCH Author to Be Guest of Press Club Wednesday. Rupert Hughes. author. is one |study. 1 was misquoted.” Amundses e e e e sald he meant to cast no reflection on | ton Thrown Through Windows | ¢f four Army Reserve Corps officer {the work of Admiral Peary . now attending the Army War College | In his letter to the Jouraalivost of Plant in Maine. who will attend a luncheon at the | Dr. Coolk dectared that the recent | Bs tue Assootated Prass Press Club Wednesday, at i aerial dash to the North Pol» by Capt. | BIDDEFORD, Me.. J ¥ 25.—An with Maj. Gen. Hanson It Amundsen and - other explorations | apparent attempt to burn the Pep commandant of the War College \yere bearing out his contentions and | perell mills Ly throwing bricks Wednesday night the Bress Club | further work in the sped in oil soaked cotton through will open its Winter program of o Sttt { windows in the plant was made last evening entertainments with a return S Es production that a pio- | night, the police made known t \ppearance of Malini, the card trick |neer must stand or fall.” the letter | The company has wizard, who has performed before said. “and I am willing to rest my ! since December 1 American_ Presidents and _crowned e With” future generations Ly my | walked out in protest again, heads of Furope. - | published records.” Dr. Cook wrote troduction of & that many other polar dashes. will be {undertaken soon, and “when this lat- jter work of exploration is completed |the world will be in & position to pass Ifinal judgment upon my work and {that of Peary Comdr. MacMilian declared that he siood on the spot his flag = where d called it 1} and it was 500 miles from the Nortl Pole.” Comdr. MacMillan was one of the threa white survivors of Peary's ook e North P May 7 last at Fourteenth stree¢ | forced to dig in, when supplies were |'expedition | Quotes Adm { “There doubi Sehley. . at all” saic Comdr Millan, “in the mind o ny man who went with Peary that |Peary reached the North Pole. is no doubt in the mind of virtus everybody thut Dr. Cook came within 5 niles of it al There tes that ng reached the as pood as Amunds 1 the South Pole Dr. Cook. in his letter, says he was the first to report the physteal con | ditions at the Pole and that all work since has ten§ed to confirm | ports. Rear Admiral {first to point out rival claims, and letter is as true today |day it was written “In subs e, ““The reports |are the same. & {been to the same p the same conditions—or he who came second copied the first No one ever accused me of coming second.” L o {RELIGIOUS INTEREST IS WIDELY AROUSED IN MERCIER’S WILL tinued from First I nd Pear or both have na described « | . more erect and with shoulders held | former President Poincare of France | jand the burg. Cardinal Bourne intention of coming attend the funeral BRUSSELS, Belgi P).—Cardinal Mercie brought from Malines to the capital to lie in state in the Cathedicl of St. Gudule, in order to permit wider popu. lar homage, if the government's pres. Grand Duchess of 8 announced his from England to m, January 2% s body will be bold) Cathedral. in the cardinal's wishe | It is taken for granted that the Sen- ate and Chamber will grant the neces- sary credits for a state funeral on a large scale. The Council of Ministers is unanimously in and preparations a way. GERMAN ccordance with are under S ‘BEST HATER. | Berlin Press Concedes That to Dead Cardinal. BERLIN, January 25 editors find it difficu Honor -German of the church and as a natfonalist, but they concur in designating him the “best German hater” of the World War. It is also recalled Emperor formally protested to the Pope because of Mercier's alleged offi- cial interference with German military authority in Belgium. Germania, the Centrist organ, suggests that after what has occurred in the Rubr in the way of passive resistance to the Franco-Belgian occupation, it will be leasler to undersiand the cardinal's | conduct. at the German | Hyattsville Chamber to Elect. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | HYATTSVILLE, Md., January —Officers will be elected tonight 1 the Hyattaville Chamber of Coin !merce and a banquet will be served by a committee of 1 ekahs o1 O Fellows' Hall, Lty % ‘ the han of »ALEKHINE’S WIFE HELD Tt "ot are Beliched NOT BONA FIDE ¥ISITOR """ i o e Luxem- ! ent plans are carried out. Afterward it will be returned to Malines for in. | terment in the St. Rombaut (or Rom inguish | between Cardinal Mercier as a prince | system under wh he: vould I uiTe 0 onerate ad- p tional Toume. The i were e PROBE $20,000 BLAZE. pened on anuary 4 Watchmen. i king their rounds during the nigh were attracted by drafts of col and found two broken windows, the windows and within the il were County Authorities Suspect Fire- bug Near Downsville, Md. @ of the House s ¥4 e, Have Plenty of Time To Take Fresh Air They are relieved of many of the most bother- some details of house- keeping by the fine service provided at the r()l"OMAC 21% uw € STS. nw Pioneer House on the Park The » e s There is Only One Wesley Beights -and it is the most unique resi- dential community in the shadow of the National pitol. Pic- turesque scenery; artistic Homes —Miller-built. If you want to see a wonder- ful combination of natural beauty and architectural d signing, it awaits you at Wes- ley Heights Homes available from $14,250 to $35.000 Terms Arranged Motor out Massachuseits Areni across Wisconsin Avenue. tnto Cathe dra) Avenue. Or. take Wealey Helgbts Bus at 20th and P Streets W. C. and A. N. 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She Will Be Deported Saturday. Firemen were called late last night to the woods near Tuxedo. Prince GULDENS Mustard C Lb. | Florida Oranges By the Associated Press Georges County. where an unoccupied NEW YORK. January 5 —3Mrs. | shack w covered to be in flames Annalfe Ruegg-Alekhine. who was|Cause of the fire and ownership of held at Ellis Island for several weeks | (he place were not learned. Only with her son. is planning to divorce | rude boiler was saved. her husband, Alexander Alekhine, —————————————————————— world known chess player, and is not @ hona. fide visitor to this countr | Immigration Commissioner Currar First Mortgage Bonds {said today. 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