Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1926, Page 17

. ant in the t WHERE SITS THE GREAT LINCOLN the House and Senate on a pilgnmage to the Lincoln Memorial yester- day. Chief Chaplain W. E. Scott prayer at the base of the statue. TROOPS THROW TEAR BOMBS An Illinois delegation from of the Navy led the delegation in Wide World Photo. INTO CROWD. Theeo State troop- ers were forced to take extreme measures in the protection of Henry Butler, a negro_prisoner, during the trial in Sussex County, Del. ler, charged with assanlt, was co TESTOF BLUELAW JUSTICE ASSURED Tennessee Filling Station Operator Volunteers as Defendant. Br tue As sted Pres NASHVILLE, Ten: todern juriats will wwe! r ice the restored Sunday lawa of Tennessee. This was assured when the operator ? & gasoline filling station “violated" e ancient law in order to make a blue more than ozen other business Any citizen may swe efore maglstra wreising any of the lfe,” with the necessity or charlty” on Sunday, der the resurrection s t inw of six generatlons ago, which has remained inactive on the statute books for a hundred years. W. C. Thomas, operatol station, agreed to become the defend aue. He is charged with d. wi ex. rganizition ¢ xrabbing AS long as laws are sted 1 atute th "PUBLIC BUILDINGS BILL WILL COME UP MONDAY Measure to Get Floor Under Sus- pension of Rules in House—850.- 000,000 to Be Spent Here. The Republican steering commit the Ho todiy dectded to p the $£155.000,000 public build- bill under suspension of the rules ext Monday. This bill carries > building 1ir 000,600 1 prog s for hous agencles inder a i in n the National Cap It carries $100,000.000 for new pub. building ts throughout the ntry, and §15.000,000 to complete % on projects previously author ASKS RECORD ON CABINET A proposal to print the “minutes t cabinet meetings in Congres- ~ional Record was Introduced today by Reprasentative Black, Democrat, New ‘York. He said Congress “would be sreatly helped” if it could read what ¥ swld aund the cabinet table, of a filling | h| m to | Baut- nvicted within a few minutes and Photo by Aemo, LOUORLAWTES - SUTLOSTBUS Alcohol Permits Ordered Re- stored to Two Firms by District Court. By tus Assoclated Prow PHILADELPHIA, February f.— Efforts of Andrew J. Voistead, father | | of the prohibition enforcement act and | | his legal associates to obtain a broed | dectsion tightening the powers of the | Federal prohibition department in test suits before the Federal District Court iast Friday met defeat vesterday in an optnion by Judge O. B. Dickinson. The suits were brought by the Swanson Chemical Co. and the Beach Chemical Co., whose alcohol permits were cancelled December 31, under | the order of Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews stant Secretary of the Treasury vhen the concerns flled applic | tions for renewals for 1926, the depart- ment refused them. | The Government sought to obtain a | decision on the right of the commis- | sloner to cancel permits at the end f each year, and require the holders to apply for renewals. | " Judge Dickinson not only refused to pass upon the broad legal principles which Government counsel hoped would give the commissioner of pro- hibition far-reaching powers to re-| strict the lssuance of ulcohel permits, | but he ordered the permits of the two | s rest ( | at this| a question was not involved in | s case and declured that the real | tion was whether the refusal of | the commissioner to renew the two | permits was equivalent to a revoca. | tion of the privileses. Declaring that | this was the effect of the commission- | er's action, the court pointed out that | | in both permits were clauses provid- ing that they were to be renewed pe }pcmxuy unless surrendered by the holders or revoked by the prohibition | department for “cause.” One of the | permits was issued {n 1923 and the | | other in 1924, Before they could be revoked, the | court satd, the companies were es titled to a hearing on any charges | made against them. As neither had | had a hearing Judge Dickinson held, the action of the commissioner was | fllegal and the companies were en- | titled to the restoration of their al- cohol privileges. PLEADS]IOT GUILTY. SEATTLE, Wash., February 9§ (). | —Lieut. Cariton Smith, former execu- tive officer of the Coast Guard cutter Algonquin, pleaded not gullty here yes- terday to court-martial charges of mis- conduct and laxity of discipline. Smith is charged with having helped to ma- | nipulato repair bills so as to permit a | Portland concern to make a new bid when a Seattle firm entered a lower | igure. He Is also accused of having | permitted equipment and discipline | aboard the vessel to deteriorate. Lieut. Comdr. Willam Wishaar, former commanding officer of the Al- gonquin, faces similar charges when Smith's trial §s completed ) i } ; ! 5 ) S ? ) ) ! § § { { ) ) } { g { ¢ S ) ) § ) } { ) :(r { ¢ { { ( { { { { | o, THEY CHOP WOOD FOR THE WHITE HOUSE FIRES. Robert B. Barker of the United States Veter- ans’ Bureau and Grover Somers of the Patent Office are “first aids to the White House fireplaces.” They help keep the President and Mrs. Coolidge warm—regardless of a coal strike. White House wood in Rock Creek Park. THE FORMER KAISER TAKE: BUS LINE EXTENSION AGAIN BEFORE BOARD Technical Point Raised in Matter of Woodley Road Service Set- tled by Attorney Stephens. Action on the proposed extension of the Woodley road bus line into Rich- mond Park, delayed over a technical- ity raised by Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning, will be iuken by the Pub- 1i¢ Utllities' Commission at an execu- tive session this afternoon, it was in- dicated today at the District Bullding. The technicality was settled in an opinion by Corporation Counsel Fran- cis H. Stephens, which held that the absence of & Commissioner from |lic hearing of the commission would I not preclude hi from voting, and ved the way for disposition of the us route extension question. Commis- sloner Fenning had contended that the mere reading of the stenographic transcript of the testimony at a pub- lic hearing did not make Commissjoner Rudolph eligible to vote. Mr. Rudolph was in Florida when the hearing was held, and upon his return studied the transcript. Corporation Counsel Stephens, who was called upon to submit a legal opinion on the techuicality, completed | it todey and sent it to Earl V. Fisher, executive secretary of the Utilitles Commission. » Other matters which the commission may decide this afternoon are the pro- Poped ugreass 9f fare ou the Burleith S A WALK ON HIS BIRTHDAY; TH Of Rock Island, Who By the Associated Preas. GENEVA, February 9.—There is vererable German woman in Rock Island, I, who makes good coffee 1for her boarders and is estimable in many other ways, who wants to know the exact address of the Ger- man emperor. She has appealed through a friend to the League of Natlons for the information, This friend in the writing room of the Y. M. C. A. at Rock Island composed a letter to Sir Eric Drum. mond, the secretary general of the league. He revealed that he takes his meals with the German woman and wants to help her. The photo shows them cutting Copyright by Harris & Ewing MUSICIAN PLAYS “DEUTSCHLAND UEBER ALLES.” his sixty-sixth birthday anviversary, the exiled former Emperor of German: through Doorn, Holland. The musici League to Give Kaiser’s Address to “Lady Makes Good Coffee” “I would derive from what she says,” the letter read, “that she has known the kalser in infancy and that through the war she sort of lost trace of some of her friends. Her son works and they take on some roomers and hoarders. Everything on the table is of good quality and the old lady sees that every one has all the good coffee they desire, (a]kin% partly in English and partly' in Ger? The league will reply giving the de. sired addres: “Why not?” sald a league official. “We have not got so big and proud but we can be of some courteous service to the vener- able German lady of Rock Island.” ROME BANS MASKS’ USE. ROME, February 9 () —King Carnival s threatened with death in Rome, with the prefect of police as the executioner. An edict has been issued forbidding the wearing of masks in streets and public_places. Even at private mas- querade balls and dances; where cov- ering the face is not criminal, govern- ment officals and poligp officers have the right to demand that the masks be lifted and that the wearers identify themselves. bus line of the Washington Raflway and Electric Co. and the operation of a ‘“shuttle” bus service from the Bur- Jeith terminug $o Foxall Xilage, » - BLAMES ILLS ON TEA. BELFAST, Ireland, February 8 (&), —Tea-drinking is ruining people, and sllk stockings are to blame for some present-day {linesses, Dr. Dennis O'Hagen, surgeon of Louth County Infirmary, told a committee called to- gether to discuss the treatment of tuberculosis. % “What is required,” he said, “Is a health campalgn to get peoeple to feed themselves properly. I advise people to drink less tea and to get back to the days of ‘stirabout’ and -‘butter- |milk.’ There would be less tuberculosis i people tbok this advice.” Stirabout is a porridge of oatmeal or corn meal botlod in water stired, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1926. THOU DS FIGHT TO SEE injured in the mad rush to view the silver casket of Barbara La Murr, in Los Angeles. A MECCA FOR ASPIRING SCULPTORS. Statuary Hall, in the Capitol. ix a magnet to the young sculptors. Here we have Leon Hurwitz, whe has made miniature reproductions of all the pieces in the hall. vy P. & A. Photos FUNerAL PRUCESSIUN OF MOVIE ACTRESS. Several women were The police were un able to handle the crowd, and among those injured was Bert Lytell, an actor, serving as pallbearer. £ Celebrating with his wife, Princess Hermine, and her children took a walk ian at the left was sending out sad strains when the cameraman happened along. Copsright by P. & A. Photos. W00D’S MAIN ESTATE LEFT TO CHILDREN Manufacturer’s Widow Given Per- sonal Property Only at Her Re- quest, Will States. By the Aesociated Press. LAWRENCE, Mass., February §.— The will of William M. Wood, former president of the American Woolen Co., filed here yesterday for probate, divided the principal estate into three trusts for the benefit of two surviving children and the children of the late William M. Wood, jr. All personal tangible property is left to the widow, and a clause in the will says: “My fallure to provide otherwise in this will for my wife is due to no lack of love or appreciation, but in this T act in accordance with her expressed wish.” Two parts of the estate are left to| Cornelius A. Wood and the Old Colony Trust Co. as trustees for Cornelius A. Wood and Rosalind Wood, the sur- viving children of the testator, “for life and then to be disposed of as they by will shall appoint.” The other one-third is left in trust for the children of Willlam M. Wood, Jr. Among other bequests are three of $50,000 each to Willlam A. Currier of Shawsheen, a friend of the Wood family for many years; Mr. Wood's bookkeeper, and George M. Wallace. West Parish, Andover, is bequeathed and [ $10,000; August and Peter Fredrikson, emplagey &t the Woed estaie, will o Copyright by P. SEEK RCH GROGER ALUMINUM PROBE * INSLAYING PROBE REPORT DELAYED { iOfflcers Claim St. Louis Man |Senate Committee to Decide Had Stolen Car When Con- | Thursday on Recommenda- | stable Disappeared. tion to Be Made. —_— ted Press. Mo.. y 5.—A| 1l warrant charging violation of the Dyer nct was issued here yester- day for arrest of John G ola, wealthy St. Louis wholesale grocer, in | connection with an investigation into the slaying of Constable Ohmer Hock- ett of Edwardsville, 1L, and his as- sistant, John Balke. The warrant was fssued following discovery Saturday of an automobile that had Deen towed to a garage in Granite City from the old Sulli- § f\\n farm hoe Laks the Aluminum ( Senator Harreld, homa, presented recommend ing against a Senate ing whicl has been proposed in another report submitted a week ago by Senato Walsh, Democrat, Mon The two repc nearly two hours @ tee decided to time, the author will canvas members of the tee and the one receiving t number of signatures w \itted to pre the bodies ett and B; shallow grav: been slain | | . mechanic at the garage, | sald he got the car from the farm | January tie day Hockett and | Balke disappeared, on an order given him by a truck driver employed by Glannola. Later, he said, an order was given him by Giannola to have the car fitted with new tires. Issuance of the warrant was based ct that the car. stolen in St. January 13 from Angelo Saputo, | sides near the Glaunola home, | as apparently in possession of Bfan: | The car was selzed today by | tment of Justice agents and | brought here. Giannola, his wife said at his home, l1s out of the city on a trip over his trade territory. She sald he has been away three weeks. “grave douhts’ to “the vigor and gou Justice Department, reld held that thls d using all diligence in its inves tlon of the wluminum case added that the department | not be hampered in its work e dependent senatorial investizations 6THWIFE FINDS 5 OTHERS. ;o0 nwaITs UNION HEAD. Husband, Charged With Non-sup-| port, Admits Many Marriages. |Lee Placed on Active Roster of CHICAGO, February 9 OP). LT e Through her own Investigation Mrs.! CLEVELAND, Ohlo, Fel Agnes Marks dlscovered that Ralph|—William G. Lee. president of the Marks, to whom she was married No- | Brotherhood of Railroud Trainmen, vember 18, 1923, had five other wives. | eligible to one of the best passengze: { Marks, testifying in the Court of Do- |runs on the Union Pacific Rail*oad {mestic Relations, said he was mar- | which service he left 31 yvears ago to irfed in_ 1912 to 'Anna_Guslingur, at|become an officer in the brotherhood “rown Point, Ind.; in February, 1918, | He announced yesterday he had been {to Mary Herndon of Chicago; in|notffied by William M. Jeffers, gen | September, 1922, to Helen ¥ aw- | eral manager of the Union Paciflc rence of Chicago; in September, 1922, | that his name again has been placed to Anna Nemitz of Cleveland, andon the active roster and his senior! August 17, 1921, to Mary Jewell istes, | rights restored. !at Galveston, Tex. The last showed| Lee says he has no intention of ex no record o divorce. {ercising his right of eeniority, INDIA TO HAVE NAVY. ESIX ROBBERS GET $10,000. L ! 5 DELHI, British Indla, February 9| CHICAGO, February 8 OP).—Six UP)—Creation of a roval Indian Davy | masked robbers yesterday invaded the as a combatant force und reconstruc- | pome of H. Teller Archibald, wealth tion of the Indian mercantile marine |renitor. intimidated u butler and e, were announced by the retiring vice- | \wwoman servants, nsacked the entire roy, Lord Reading, to the council of | potica and eseaped with fewels state today |and fine liquors valued at $10, Archibald is sald to be in T celve $5,000 each. Several employes|wife, who has made and former employes are given $1,000 running a group of cands A eagh, S | *nxptns at the time of the robbesy. t ) ary § (&