Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1926, Page 3

b RICH SPORTSMAN BURNED TO DEATH F. B. Pearson’s Lighted Cig- arette Sets Hotel Room Ablaze—Was Drinking. By tho Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, _February 20.—Fred- erick Beverly Pearson, 30, millionaire sportsman, was burned to death in a room at the Claridge Hotel early this morning. A coroner’s inquest de- cided that the cause of the fire was a lighted cigarette the young man was smoking when he fell asleep in an armchair. A companion, John H. Hogshead, who had accompanied Pearson on a round of cabarets earlier in the evening, barely escaped with his life from the blazing room. Hogshead told police that he and Pearson had reglistered at the hotel after visiting the six-day bicycle race and varlous downtown cabarets, where Pearson drank -heavily. He| retired after leaving the young mil- lionaire seated in an armchair, and was awakened by smoke and flames burely in time to save himself. It was not until the flames had been ex tinguished by hotel employes that Pearson's charred body was found. Pearson was the son of the late Walter B. Pearson, president of the andard Screw Co who left ,001,000 in trust for him, the prin- cipal of which was to have been turned over to him on his 35th birthday. His aged mother, Mrs. Jillen Pearson, with whom he lived, d not been Informed of her son's ath tonight, due to her serfous ill- | Tess. oung Pearson’s wife, Mrs. Gladys Sams Pearson, divorced him recently, ing habitual drunkenness. 1e tive in sports, especially polo, and kept a string of polo ponies at the Chicago Riding Club, According to the story told police by Hogshead, who is the son of a T.utheran minister here, Pearson had been drinking steadily for the past month, and he accompanied him on Jast night’s party to “watch out for him.” He said that he and Pearson had been chums since boyhood. —— HOPES U. S. REIECTS ITALIAN DEBT PACT “Washington Must Free Europe From Mussolini,” Says German Paper. | i i | . Febr | | ton must free Eu Mni,” declares Vor . ! . today i s om the United Siates of on | position in the Senate to the deht. | funding _agreement concluded by | Count Volpi and Se tar of the Treasury Mellon. i “In the interests of I3 ocracy it must be hoped that the op- position against ratification of the ropean dem- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTOM |ORATORS T0 FACE HARRIS ¢ EWING BODIES AR SOUGHT - IN RUINS OF HOTEL Two Known Dead in Blaze. Others May Have Lost Lives. N Bs the Associated Press AST ST. LOUIS, 111, Febr remen tonight searched ru the Arnold Hotel for hodies of two | men believed to have lost t lives in | rly today destroyed the hotel and routed Three Property ary 2 50 guests in night clothing men were severely injured. damage exceeded The known mis: agreement will be so strong that the cabinet will remember the great traditions of the country,” swvs Vor- waerts. “It would be a gruesome joke | of world history if. throuzh the ! Washington debt agrement, the name of one of the nablest champions of the freedom of peopl ington, were 1o be the name 1 freedor:, Mussolin ‘“There is a complet perm 1 Suppressor | ek of logic | fn treating fascist Italy in a man- better than demo- | asserts that Mussolini | now plays a role in Kurope similar to that of the Kaiser before the ; war, and makes the charge that his ruthless oppression of all opposition dates from diplomatic triumph over Secreta: \rollun i FIELD’S SHRINE READY. | Body of “Children's Poet" Transferred March 7. CHICAGO. February 20 (#).—The body of Eugene Fleld, “‘the children's yoet,” will be reinterred in the me- morial cloister at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenilworth March 7. Rev. Leland Hobart Dan- forth, rector, announced toda: The marble slab which mark Field’s final resting place has been completed and will be sealed at the lime of the burfal. An elaborate and impressive ceremony final interment. to Be, will mark the STUDY SYRIAN MANDATE. League Officials Adjourn Till Mon- day After Brief Session. ROME, February 20 (#).—The per- manent mandates commission of the T.eague of Natlons adjourned until Monday after a brief session today. for | discussion preliminary to beginning | work on the report it is expected to draft on the French mandate in Syria. The discussion was confined to an analysis of the nature of France’s ob- ligations there. 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