Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 23

VIREINANS DEFEA TAX ON CISHETS House Committee Votes 13 to 2 Against Measure After Public Hearings. Special Dispatch to The Star RICHMOND, Va., January 30.—Vir- ginia will not impose a metics, perfumes, lipsticks and fac powde: that meean so n the fair sex. The t i wils before the fin of the House, and large numbers of women interested in h and hool work, dry ts an ers in novelties and notions « opposition mittee re isure by a vote It aimed to raise about r. The law w favored kL 1k Ther ason t the 1¢ on the mov cently rer ment—a gate Norris i a few days ago that while 1 Gov ernme tax the thea ters same now as wher on cos G is every islature believe that same tax was re 1 Govern ibition Forces Active. 1 presented in ure LAWYER CLEARS UP MYSTERY OF RECLUSE Explains How Woman, Thought Very Poor, Left Small Fortune. anuary 30.—The m the life and de: Mary Crilley Sterling-French, of P ¥ who died was dispelled today. The for ye in a k and was thought poor, left an e $30.000 to Mrs, H. E nbor. Today Albert E. ttorney who represented French during her lifetime, told | Mary Crilley, orgetta French, he said, and ( proper in each others’ rchased th nd made wil ard th Ger ving their ¢ Wils mar- who de- Mary fter her death her will daughter. ried to a man named Sterling, ed he anch, fea her relative adopted Mary When 1 Fren proper house men. Park Rldge boarded up, and r extreme eccen- m she URGES CIVIL SERVICE FOR DRY AGENTS U. S. District Attorney at Balti- more Also for Additional Judge to Make Law Effective. Special Dispatch ta The Star. 'IMORE, Md., January 80.— need look for fewer until an addi ve is appointed and s are put under civil proh mos W. W. Wood- servi Soper last year disposed of twice the s handled by in the United States. 847 cases on the Fed d. Of this number 1 ons of the Volstead 2. when he star total number of ¢ al Juds were tment of prohibi- the civil service, “It is as im- ibition agents in agents. It is should be ap- they are not portant v as essential that agents pointed by me that afrad to do their duty.” RAIL WOMEN ORGANIZE. 500 Form Group They Hope to Ex- pand Into National Organization. CHICAGO, January 30 (P).—Ap- proximat 500 young women em- ployes of railroads have organized the Rallway Business Women's Asso- clation, which is expected to expand into a national organization An announcement said thal the or- ganization hopes that “thorush its in- fluence there will have crystallized a profession of railway and steamship women that will be known for their o ol I'WO NOTED ARCTIC AUTHORITIES ' SAY PEARY DISCOVERED POLE Danish Explorer, Dr. Lange Koch, Pins Faith in Admiral. Hugh C. Mitchell, Who Checked Data, Says Cook ‘Faked’ Figures. Another echo of the flare-up ereated among Arctic authorities last Sunday by Capt. Roald Amundsen’s reported statement that Dr. Frederick A Cook’s claim to discovery of the North Pole was S that of Ad- hert heard in ton xht, when 1wo e on the t advanced infor ation in support of the deceased ex- One of the la Dr. Lange Arctic work for ment anc enized the st authority on Arctic d subjects. His v public by Dr. C. i the \ ational Muse with admiral’s supporters Koch, director all the Danish - is re as tions made mber, whic is no last substanc THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, -D. U, JANUARY 381, 1926—PART 1. H C. MITCHELL United States Co Tervestial nathenatical s “proving wetism, made of the I conclusiv had been made en rout to the North Pole,” he explained. but that odetic Survey 'S astronomn whose Cor Wil statement was as the bas i given the ex: , and cepted by press rvations latter's re- personally | > extreme | lead.” a_deadly body filled with churnix Resser related runs from several miles to 20 mile: width, according to weather con- fon: kept in a constant turmoil that deseribe a great of the world. It st obstacle in the ath of expedition attempting to reach the North Pole, Dr. Koch ex- plained Actually Crossed ead. across this “great I Danish expert told Dr. Resser, the | st of the 500 miles to the Pole the way being over a smoothly sea which never thaws. O red he Inve and has numbers of reliable swear that Peary c é Favored by an unusually fine nothing stood in the way « the Pole from then on was ever found even reached of Onee northern Greenland “Thut Peary act imme » vicinity on April fact, ) in ma ched the orth Pol uly e of the 18 an Mitchell, but in none more con- ¢ his astronomic ob- dained “The ¥ n being equal a set Ititude far th. with lowly titud would differ b he dunieter of the about ies of wn el th ary o np the differences Peary' dism- s on the double the sun, taken i the D ites and | minutes; by Marvin's s in latitude 85 degr March 1900; wi mean d cooowa minutes March 23, 19 1 tions en to the atlons + point 10 mp Jesup. This is wle astronomical cal not dej on vations 1 this is the climax of the ubserva- did ot 1 'n viewed dffected t of the ute of the « mo ould b i a mi ind if oby would be 5 Charges Cook Faked. hut _one thi some one ith the artifi ind who did not the the sim dif conside fruth that Bank Official, Warned by ¢ Four Arrested Wh Special Dispatch to The Star NEW YORK, January 3 telephone call from his foiled a scheme to stage a fu / in_the ynal Bt Drovers' Bank, which, if succe would have meant a loss of £100,000, was told today by Sherwood, vice president of the bank His story followed the arrest of three k< emplo: ho | vere arrig Quade and held in hearing Thursd and larceny Melodrama stalked through the tale. Over the wire to the girl, waiting for the thrill of her fian voice, came something of a diiferent sort to set her pulses throbbing. It was & whisper, hoarse with tenseness: “Tell Mr. Sherwood for God’s sake not to go home.” When the banker picked up the re- cefver a minute afterward his sweet- eart's excited voice demanding to know who first had answered the phone. She learned it w: atch- man, Willlam Peters, and she repeat- ed his mysterious mesage, adding the watchman's breathless explanation that he himself could not get to Mr. | Sherwood to warn him without “spill- | ing the beans.’ From that time—7:30 Friday night —until early vesterday things hay- pened in quick, detective story fashion. There W police-trailed taxi cab | carrying the watchman and a bundle | of spurious monev to a rendezvous | with two of the purported ccmspir-| ators, an arrest and an alleged con- | fession involving two other persons. | Widow Roused in Night. A white-haired widow, roused in the middle of the night by detectives who explained evasively ‘hat her son, a good boy and her sole sup- port since his brother was drowned last Summer, was needed to explain some trouble at the bunk—her v.orld crashing pathetically about her as disbellef gradually gave way to realization. A wife, the mother of twa chil-| dren, stumbling, tear-blinded {rom before a magistrate who bad held her husband on a charge of steal- "%nd then. riding with thelr own thoughts in a black maria to a night in_the Tombs: Louis Hoerber, 88, of Brooklyn, who in seven years had worked up from a modest clerical posilion to paying teller of the bank at $50 a week. William Hartman, 28, six months a bookkeeper In the bank, former pro- hibition officer and one iime Harlem candidate for the State Senate. Raymond Rapport, 23, another bookkeeper, employed a year, who lived with his mother at Washington Heights. Robert Feinstein, 27, sald to be a partner with Lew Tendler, the pug- ilist, in the Guardian Dress Company. $10,000 in Rubbish Can. Sheerwood had followed Peters to the porter's room in the basement of the bank when the watchman went there on pretense of changing his clothes, It was his night off, and hc had told Sherwood earlier that Hart- man had given him a ticket to the Glick-Dundee fight; and he hadn't seen a bout in 20 year: In the base- ment Peters’ strange conduct was ex plained when he drew from a rubbish can a paper-wrapped parcel contain- common understanding, their business ability, and above all, & better nndl finer womanhood, ing $10,000 in bills. Hartman had told him that “Louie” (Hoerber) was ‘“in the hole” $25,000 of Money in Can of Rubbish | quently and to have de MYSTERIOUS WHISPER ON PHONE PREVENTS $100,000 FAKE ROBBERY | Package in Basement. en Plot Is Bared. weetheart, Finc to B 10ted and had 690 and $3 1ld find in th , Feinsteln at his bu going to the f in vain, he said, to g s ention without until the telephone his dilemma. Deiectives Behan, Corcoran rrived on Mr. Sherwood's before Hoerber i at the hank to learn whe ng_him. The watchman was instructed to make an appoint ment on a corner nearby and when he kept | a 7y ge of en- velopes instead of bills—Hoerber and 1. The detec- tives said they confessed, involving Feinsteln and Rapport Another $10,000 Found. he depositor was rested first as arting for a = Hoerber forced to Detectives id they 5 E - inal $10,000 in Federal Reserve notes and $642 in gold and all of ) they sald he had drawn from ber during the day. Rapport was silve 0od said the Feinstein th 1d subsequently concealed by him, Hartman and Rap- port, total $25,000 with an additional shortage of about $17,000 on the ledger which is still to be explained. He said he was convinced the sole pur- pose of Hoerber and Hartman was to obtain enough money in the fake rob- bery (leaving themselves bruised and locked in the basement to be discov- ered this morning) to make good the shortage on their books. They reasoned, he said, that the surety company would make good on the robbery and the bank would not lose a cent, while they would finally get themselves in the clear by forcing Feinstein to redeposit the bank's own money. Feinstein is said to have en- tertained the three employes fre- ited worth- less checks which carried them through inspections of the books. -—— ° FORCE KILLING OF COWS. Health Officers Overcome Religious Scruples of Farmers. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., January 80.— Because he beiieved the Scriptures told him it was a sin to kill a sick cow, Levi Sollenberger, a farmer of Hamilton township, was cited in court. State health officers had tested his herd and found four tubercular cows, rdering the animals destroyed. The w was upheld and the cows were put to death. =g Crandall Theater for Frederick. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., January 80.— Proposed constriction of a theater and office buiiding was announced yes- terday with the purchase of the Schley property on West Patrick street by Hairy M. Crandall, <hington, founder of @ chain of theaters bearing his name. The property, comprising about four acres, was purchased for about $65,000. The house in which the Schley family had lived for nearly a century will be demolished. a{ashore. Tt | of | have | ch differ-{ pause | YEANDLE SCORES COAST GUARD FOES Bitterly Attacks Those Who Undermine Morale—Convict- ed Guardsmen Sentenced. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 30.—The sen- tencing today at Atlantic City of eight Const Guardsmen to confine- ment for a year in the naval prison at Portsmouth H., brought from Lieut. Comdr. S. S. Yeandle of Wash ington, an outspe eritieism .of “those Insidious forces which seek to undermine the morale of the service. The eight men were snced for offenses ranging from disobedience to smuggling. Comdr. Yeandle, command of the ¢ guardsmen find it bullets of the rum perils of the | taunts en who is second in ast Guard, said ier to face the unners_and the than to bear the is this condition which kes the lack of enthusiasm a big m in the Coast Guard, he be- . and cuuses some of the men | to Pt the ever-present offers of rum runners. The guardsmen go to sea In small foot boats, Comdr. Yeandie pointed out. The boats pitch badly, tossed by slant waves. Slecp or hot meals are impossible. Night after night the ofl skin clad figures keep their silent vizll under the stars hours they lie plunging «bout, for stinging spray and chilling Insulted on Shore. After days of this they return to port, to be greeted with such epithe! ze gobs and “‘rum navy men." is the lack of public support that is doing the most harm to the ist Guard,” Comdr pecially is this true wet communities Atlantic Const rd men stationed at the picket hoathouse at Sandy Hook com- | plain that their wives are frequently insulted on thelr way to the stores at Atlantic hlands, N. J Other Coast Guard m fr base 2 or iten Island have been deliberate assaulted ashore. New London, Conn., a Coast Guard sailor was mur dered’ in cold hlood. His slayer has never been apprehended ich owners of rum release after cap- was cited by Comdr. Yeandle loss of morale in | pre lieve prey winds. als as a cause for the the Coast Guard service. *Frequent- Iy." he said hen a patrol boat brings in a attorneys are at the dock to secure {ts release. 1t it held by the thorities and d the rum runners buy it back. at least « ance the same boat six different times A lad whose grandfather before hin ly in the Coast ( with & high ideal of service,” serted. Moral “To him t sents a tradit} of honor and ard repre- its uniform, a badge 1 emblem of service. on furlough ud of new cket’s unif mes th 1k ng! He oze zob’ and ‘one of those rum na | Perhaps the girls will not dance him, preferring their flask-toting nions. e thin; bluej | s do not hurt the vet- eran with a 5-nch campaign bar on his chest. But to the raw sailor from the Ohio farm or the small Kentucky town, they are tragic. He returns to dissatisfied. [t attitude should d considers the war on. It points with {pride to the two L year ugo there were many, and calls ttention to the absence of the le | of speed boats, which was present few months ago. But it also fe tits job is permanent, and oft | press the fear that unless more public | support is forthcoming, many of the | guardsmen will continue to feel that they are enforcing prohibition all by | themselves ! GIRL FOUND DAZED; JUMPED FROM AUTO Miss May Riston, 19, Discovered Lying on Street With Head Gashed. Dazed and suffering from a gash on the head, Miss May Riston, 19 years old, of 1017 Four and a Hate street southwest, was taken to | Emergency Hospital iast night after being discovered lying on L street. between Third and Four and a Half, southwest. Detectives Sprineman_and_Darnell obtained information to the effect that the girl had been infured in a jump from an automobile. and were en- deavoring to locate the driver of the car early this morning. A colored man notified the police when he found the girl, unconscious, in the street, and Policeman Hebrew and Padgett of the fourth precinct took her to Emergency. SHORT-TAILED SHEEP BREEDING SUCCESSFUL Nine Years' Experimental Work Now Beginning to Show Results in South Dakota. By the Aseo ed Press. BROOKINGS, S .Dak., January 80. —Nine years’ experimental work in the development of a tailless breed of sheep under the direction of Prof. James W. Wilson, director of the South Dakota experiment station at State College, Is beginning to show results. Lambs have been born in the State College flock with tails so short that they do not have to be docked. They have been developed from crossing native Siberian rams with ewes of the Shropshire, Hamp- shire and Ramboullet breeds. After several vears' work in fus- ing these breeds a ram lamb was born which had neither the marked characteristics of the Siberian breed nor any evidence of a tail. Eighteen out of twentyv-one of this ram's off- spring have been born with tails so short that they needed no docking. Among the objects of present ex- periments is that of determining whether the strain of sheep born thus s prepotent. In the working out of this phase all of the short- tailed breeds are being used. partic- ularly in the crossing of short-tailed with Western-bred ewes. That the government allow each striking miner of Great Britain a cer- tain amount for each of the children according to the age was a proposal placed berore the British coal com- mission recently, and jibes of thelr companions | | becomi: SHOALS HEARINGS WILL BE RESUMED Senate Agriculture Commit- tee to Consider Issue To- morrow and Tuesday. The Muscle Shoals question, which has been bobbing up and down in Con- for the last 10 years, will be- gin another voyage tomorrow over the tempestuous Senate course. Three times the House has taken action to settle the issue, but each time it foundered on the rocks in the Senate. From present indications the going will be rough at this session. With the opening of the Senate committee hearings the same inter- ests are found lined up in battle v There is one major change in the situation, however, by the an. nouncement of Chairman Norris that he will urge definite action at this session. Previously he has stood out against a final vote because the Sen ate would not adopt a Government operation proposal. It appears that the main Issue at this sesston will be between the group ! wishing to utilize Muscle Shoals for | elopment primarly and the Uis trying to advance ni- wte production as the principal use of the property Senator George, Democrat, Georgia, has notifled the Senate agriculture committee that he wishes to appear in support of his amendment provid- | ing for the distribution of power from Muscle Shoals. He will offer the amendment to the House resolution, which would create a joint congres. sional committee to negotiate bids for the property. The committee has allotted tomor- row and Tuesday for the hearings and | night sessions are promised if more time is needed. A vote will be taken on the House resolution Wednesday Representatives of several Southern organizations have asked for time to testify. FRANGE RESENTS LENIENCY TOITALY Thinks U. S. and Britain Have Been Unfair in Mat- ter of Debt Terms. BY WILLIAM BIRD. By Radio to The Star. PARIS, January 30.—France is astounded at the lenfency shown Italy {in her interallied debt agreements as {compared with the stringency of the demands made upon France | From the French land and the United States have vie to outdo each other In granting Italy e easfest possible terms. The Anglo alian settleme ed this week was even more favorable to Italy {than the Italo-American agreement Frenchmen of all shades of opinion are inquiring with some bitternes why the American and British demo | racies make such concession to Ital an autocracy, while refusing similar reatment to French democracy _Nor is this sentiment confined lo Franc Sven in England many ad- verse comments are heard from those who believe that political, rather than | 8 consideratic dominated the AngloItalfan a { the thrown freely | Baldwin and Win truckling to Ttaly in return for ex pected Italian suport in international | counc What galls the French most is that this discrimination comes at a time when Franco-Italian rivalry is acute. These two powers |are enzaged in a struggle, as yet | friendly, for mastery of the Mediter- {ranean. The French interpret Great Eritain’s, and to some extent Amer- ica’s, benevolence toward Italy as a sign that Anglo-Saxon sympathies, when the crisis comes, will be on s side. British afd in coal and shipping is essential to Italy’s suc- cess. For these reasons it is not surpris- ing that Austen Chamberlain's de- parture from Paris was speeded by wits with the remark that “the spirit of Locarno is 50 per cent under proof.” viewpoint, Eng (Copyright. 1926.) FIVE SEEK VIRGINIA EDUCATION PLACES Colleges Vie in Effort to Have Choices Named by Senate Next Wednesday. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., January 30.— Three members of the State Board of Education are to be elected by the Senate next Wednesday. Under the }law the faculties of the five State-sup- ported institutions of higher learning nominate one candidate each. There are three places, and each of the five institutions is making a desperate ef- fort to have a choice elected. The nominees are Col. Henry C. Ford of the Virginia Military Insti- tute, Lexington; Dr. J. M. Page of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Dr. J. L. Jarman, president of the Woman's College at Farmville; Dr. J. . Willlams of the Virginia Polytec nic Institute, Blacksburg, and Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, president of the Col- lege of Willlam and Mary, Willlams- burg. For several days the friends of the candidates have been here, hard at work. The election was to have been held yesterday, but on motion of Senator Holt of Newport News, the matter was postponed to Wednesday next at 12:30 o’clock. SUFFRAGE LAW IN FORCE. Imperial Japanese Edict Orders Enforcement. TOKIO, January 30 (#).—An im- perial edict today promulgated en- forcement of the regulations of the 1925 universal suffrage law passed by the Diet. It will be applicable at the next election. The act fixed the voting age at 25 years and abolishes property holding qaulifications. 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