Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1926, Page 17

3 WEST VIRGINIA SENATOR DIST ing on the truck ). terd BROTHER AND SISTER ARE C RIBUTES COAL t the coal fro HAMPIONS, James F. and Louise Sullivan of Grand Rapids, Mich,, winning the Charleston champion- ship in a Chicago contest. Contesta dancing stunts. SECOND WIFE HELD | IN DEATH OF FIRST Woman Arrested Yesterday In Connection With Charges of Poisoning. By tha Ascociated Press. BEAVER CIT 12—Mrs. Kate R eld second wife faced arraignment today with the alleged poisoning first wife Davis was arrested two as a culmination of five months' in vestigation. His wife died last Au gust, and he married their neighbor, Mrs. Kate Resler, four months late Goseip in Beaver City drove the counie from here, according to their own ad missions, and they moved to Lincoln Roth hlame “small town tonzue wag- | Nebr., February sler-Davis. 38-year-| of Bert M. Davis, | n connection of Davis davs ago ging” for their plight Prodded by neighhorhood talk. coun- ty officials exhumed the hody of Mr Pavis, and sald they found polso in the stomach. Her relatives in Towa alded the investigation. as did Davis® oldest son, who formally ac oused his father of polsoning his mother. Mrs. Resler-Davis, arrested vester- | 4y, has two children by a former | marriage. She was married to Davis | n Manhattan, Kans. While the case against him was be- | g bullt up here, Davis collected evi- | denos in his own hehalf, authorities | mid. He pleaded not guiity when ar- ed Wednesday. eople in a amall town do a lot ofwrhigpering hehind a persons’ back,"” s asserted. “T never gave any Peason for their heliefs. and as to our :’ofinxfl in a clandestine way, that & He.” CALIFORNIA IS IN GRIP OF VIRULENT SMALLPOX &1 Residents of State Warned to | Take Precaution of Vac- cination. By the Aseociated Prass. BACRAMENTO, Calif., February 12. ~A warning that smalipox of an ®extremely virulent tvpe’ Is preva lert in California and that no resi.| dent of the State who has not been | successfully _vaccinated in recent years can afford to forego this cautlon was issued vesterday by the | Btate Board of Health. For the first 35 days of the pres- ent vear,' sald a statement issued by the board. 443 cases of smallps- with 42 known deaths, have yeported to the California Board of Health. “gimdlar conditionx regarding amall- pox have existed and exist at the BOSASAY TNA LD elhor Alaleas neen | State | man failed to app | ing. nts from 30 cities took part in the Wide World Photo Armed Men Guard Silk Train on Trip Aeross Continent Special Disnatch to The Star CUMBERLAND, Md Febhruary 12—Manned with armed guards prepared to do battle with bandlts, a special express train of eight cars of silks, valued in the mil- lions, passed through Cumber- land en route to New York on the Raltimore and Ohio Rallroad. The =ilk, imported from Japan r a_New York johber, reached ancisco several days ago by ship. Loaded on special cars, the silk was taken across the conti- nent by way of Chicago. Arrange ments were made for through p: sage without delays. and move- ment of the train was kent a se- cret until it reached New York. NEW YORK TerET BACK ALLEGED GRAVE ROBBER Papers Florida for Man Held as Fred C. Beale. By the Associated Pr TALAHASSE Fla., €. 0. Burton. held at Mi €. Reale. on charges of bing, will be Extradition Honored in February mi as Fred wanted in F o forgery ve rob. returned to New York for trial xtradition papers were honored late v erday by Attorney General Carter when the Ar Lo contest. Fox of the New O'Connor, dis re (‘ounty for Capt. Daniel York police, and A. I trict attorney for Dela will leave immediately take the man in custody The suspect contends his is Burton and is supported in his claim name | by a wife and child in Miami removing | Beale was charged with the body of James H. Davis from a grave at Hancock and using it in an alleged attempt to collect $10.000 life insurance. Dressed in Beale's cloth- the hody was placed in an auto mobile, which was burned, officers charged at the hearing HORSELESS BULL FIGHT. Affair to Be Held in Jaurez Sunday. “Americanized” ‘BT PASO, Tex., February 12 (#).— announced an Mardi Gras next Sunday. The bulls will be killed, but it will be a horse- less affair. “As a compliment to the American | public no horses will be used,” says the announcement. Americans, with their ideas of giving everybody a fighting chance, protested against the pleador riding an antiquated, bony |and blindfolded horse into the ring, poking the bull in the nose with a long pole and then letting the horse take the consequences. Sidney Franklin, American matador, Awil dlspatch. the bulls, A MONG THE NEEDY senatorial circles, and the host in this particular instance was Senator M. M. Neely of West Virgin The lawmaker br m the West Virginia Miami to | A “coal pi is the Tatest 3 tstan, « mines, and then distributed it yes- Copyrizht by Harrs & Ewing ENOUGH TO GIVE YOLU THE SHIVERS! Hel taken at Canng the Our en action, Photograph Miss Wills, American tennis champion . where is hattle with preparing for her 74 the French pion. Copyrisht by I'. & A Misses Viola Shermont and Mary Francis Spear, Washington dancers. practicing in Potom Park toward the zero mark. vesterday afternoon—and iliaries and patriotic societies of the District who are lending their aid to the ball, which will take place at the Auditorium tonight. g ASSISTING VETERANS' JOINT COMMITTEE IN WASHINGTON-LIN COLN MEMORIAL AND RELIEF BALL. $ S. Grant, 3d, is the master of ceremonies for the veterans’ joint committee, and the ball and entertainment is expected to be one of the out- the thermometer gradually sliding Copsrisht by P. & A. Photos. standing features of the season in Washington. Assistant | |SEES AL SMITH POLICY | LEADING TO SOCIALISM | | Representative Mills Says Demo- crats Seek Political Power by Economic Means. . N. Y. February 12 (®).— An attempt attain “political su- premacy by economic” means was charged against Gov. Smith and the | Democratic party of New York State by Representative Ogden L. Mills, Re- | publican, New York, last night at the annual Lincoln day dinner of the Al- | bany County Republican organization. The Democratic course, involving State ownership and control of water power resources, municipal operation of public utilities and other features, was characterized by Mr. Mills as being fraught with danger, leadinj down an “‘unfamiliar” road, at the en of which, he declared, he could “dimly perceive the grim figure of Lenin and the sturdy figure of Mussolini.” ALBA to - — | Liens Seek Actors’ ;[nxei ANGELES, Calif., ‘February ncome tax liens directed against William Desmond, Tom Gal- lery and Tom Moore, motion picture actors,-and Isadore Dockweller, promi- | nent local attorney. were on' file in United States District Court yesterda: The amounts claimed delinquent are $155.04; Gallery, $40.24; Heroic American S ESTABLISHES NEW WORLD RE Association Fla. set Women's Swimming pool. St Augustin 3 Her time was Nearly all of Kansas City will travel to New York to hear her sing. A special train has been chartered hy the residents of her home town o that the hear Miss Ma Talley. 19 years old. make her debut with the Metropolitan Opera ( W of New Mi<« Martha Norelius of the York, who, at the world record for the 220-vard ORD. Casino ss 44 35 seconds for the distance. HISTORIC PILLOW PRESENTEI coln rested his head wh daughter of Mr. and Mre Ford’s Theater. William WILI divoree from th where <he is held of 1 r Davis. APPEAL TO ) TO WASHINCGTON SCHOOL. The pillow upon which he died has been presented to the Marjorie Webster School by who were owners of the house where Peterson. ailors Stage Double Rescue During Heavy Storm Off Norway By the Associated Press. N YORK, Fi United States Shippi d steam- er Casper, safe at Copenhagen, told her agents here by radio of a double rescie she performed off the coast of Norwav—first of the crew of the stricken Norwegian motorship Pinto and then of a eleton crew of her own sent aboard the Pinto. Capt. Harold RBill of the Casper in a measure to Moore & McCor- mick, steamship agents, said he had tried to tow the Pinto to port after her crew had been removed. hut most lost a skeleton crew of his own when the towing line snapped and the Pinto’s hatches were smashed in the_heavy seas The crew of 12.—The the Pinto, he said, aboard the Casper early sday morning. They had bheen ithout provisions for three days. The captain of the Pinto was swept overboard from a lifeboat, but was rescued. 5 A skeleton crew from the Casper manned the Pinto and they had been under tow several hours when the line snapped and it hecame necessary to abandon her hastily. Third Officer K. Hellwig, who had been in charze of the skeleton crew, was washed overboard from the life- boat returning him to his own ship and two men were hurt in trying to pull him from the sea. He was saved. The Pinto was abandoned and her crew of 13 men was taken to Copen- hagen aboard the Casper. taken MAY DELAY CREDIT. Federal Reserve Banks Allowed Time to Collect on Checks. NEW ORLEANS, La., February 12 (P).—The 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States are not required to credit branch banks with the amounts of checks immediately after they are received, but are permitted a period of time for_collection before giving credit, the Federal Court of Appeals held in an opinion yesterday. Bauk, - Moss Point and Pascagoula, Miss. filed the suit against the Atlanta Fed. eral Reserve Bank, contending that the latter was compelled by law to give immediate credits for checks re- cefved from the Mississippl institution. Judge Rufus Foster, New Orleans, handed down a dissentnig opinion in which he upheld the contentlon of the Pascagoula. bank. The French government is reported 1o have. sent several naval airships to the Brittany coast to help sardine fishermen. The air fleet finds the Officers of the various aux- Maj. U. E é Washington Star Photo “SON” NOT MENTIONED IN HUMMELL’S WILL Sisters Chief Beneficiaries to $1,000,000 Estate—Bakery Cart Driver Not Recognized. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, February 12.—The will of the late Abraham H. Hummell, once noted divorce lawyer, was filed yes- terday. No mention was made of Henry D. Hummell, bakery cart driver of Southportland, Me., who claims the lawyer was his father The chief beneficiaries Sophie 1. Kuffenburgh Bertha Hummell, two estate is estimated at $1,000,000. In an accompanying petition by his lawyer, Henry D. Hummell {s men- tioned as one who claims to be a son. are and sisters. more Mr Miss The than VICTORIA, British Columbia, Feb- ruary 12 (P).—Vice Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, R. N. (retired), has been living in Victoria more than a year, and much surprise was evinced over a story from New York to the effect that he was missing. Admiral Gaunt is preparing to_sail for the South Seas and thence to Eng- | Jand next Summeer. He will use the- auxiliary schooner Four Winds, which is being outfitted for the trip in & Whether 1 Tractor “Private Car” Put Up to Court r a farm in the expres: yrivate motor-driven car’ ed yesterday to the Dis- preme Court for decision in by Mrs. Charles Hoover the Inter-Ocean Casualty 500 on a policy on the d. Charles Hoo- The policy cont the pro- vislon as queted ahove, and it is understood the company declines to pay on the interpretation that it does not include a tractor. Hoover was killed while operat- ing a tractor on | rm at Lorely, Md., September 30. Attorneys Burk art & Quinn appear for the widow, who is beneficiary under the policy. SEEKS TO PROVE WOMAN WAS UNFIT FOR CLASS Cornell Botany Professor Asks $10,- 000 Defamation Suit Be Brought to Ithaca for Trial. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 12.—Arthur professor of botany “ornell University, has asked that a defamation suit for $10,000 brought against him here by Miss Lettie H. Witherspoon of Meridian, Miss., be transferred to Tompkins County, of which Ithaca, where Cornell is located, is the county seat Miss Witherspoon charges that his remarks caused university officfals to refuse her permissiom to continue a course in botany at Cornell. She took a degree t Columbia in 1923 after leaving Cornell. Prof. Eames’ motion for a change of venue was made because he in- tends to call fellow students of Miss Witherspoon and Cornell faculty mem- bers to prove that she seemed “unfit to pursue graduate study,” “had an offensive personality” and that any remarks he made concerning her were Justified. Prof, botanis mes is one of the leading in America. CHURCH SITE CHOSEN. New York Baptist Structure to Cost About $3,500,000. NEW YORK, February 12 (®).— Members of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, of which the Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick is pastor, were in- formed yesterday by letfer that the site for & new church had been select- ed at One Hundred and Twenty-second street and Riverside drive, and that work’ of construction would begin next Summer. The building will cost about $3.,500,000. The church will be in the Gothic WASHINGTON wife of the Earl of Catheart, who has been ordered excluded United States by a special b She has announced that Lady Gordon Carr at right Countess Vera Catheart (left), d of <he inquiry at Ellis I<land will appeal to Secretary sham Lin. Wenzing ed from = & Ew Lincoln wa Copyright by ¥ FASCIST MOVEMENT GROWS IN BELGIUM Two Veterans’ Associations Attack Premier Openly and Bitterly. By tha Associated Press. BRUSSELS, February 12—The Erowth of a Fascist movement rious proportions indicated vesterday velopments, following orous Nationalist dem: which Premier Poullet was cipal target. Throughout try numersus prote lished showing much among taxpavers in government’s financial p Two veterans' open and vigorou premier. The published an appeal to the dismiss Viscount Poullet and solve Parliament so that new ele tions could be held with a view the financial regeneration of country. The National Association erans sent an open letter premier declaring that it ref accept his homage to the arm letter concluded with: “The batants address to vou, to isters who directly or indirectly have sabotaged our national defense and to all parliamentary apaches who sus- tain you a serlous warning and ex pression of their profound contemp:.” The Catholic deputy De B speaking before delegates of the I eration of Catholic Clubs Assoc tions, denounced the poli Premier Poullet and Foreign Minister Vandervelde. He described the sentment felt in the army over the reduction of its strength and new measures with which it is threatened He expressed fear of Ger: u armaments, which he said were an- posed by an fincempletely equipped elgian army, which was bein acrificed to the basest demagox: This Catholic meeting -adopted resolution that the federation s attempt to prevent tha Socia from realizing their military gram. MAY QUIT FOR SEASON. Al Jolson Likely to Have Tonsil Operation. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Febru- ary 12 UP).—AI Jolson, musical com- edy star, may be forced to call off his engagements for this season, he said yesterday. “I am not sick but my tonsils have been bothering me. 1 shall go to New the cot Vot- to the 1sed 1o The min- pre styte-and will have a°300-foot tower as | York when I feel a little better and a memorial to the mother of John D. Rockefeller, jr.. The tower will house the famous Rockgfeller carillon. have them taken out,” he declared. “If the operation helps me, 1 shall rejoin “Big Bey” in Chicago.