Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1926, Page 17

THE EVENING e STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1926. “PIRATES” AT A FLORIDA BALL. Mrs, William Hayward of New York, former Ambassador to Spain Alexander P. Moore, Mrs. L. M. Boomer and Maj. Fullerton Weaver of New York at Bernard Gimbel's costume ball, held at the Miami-Biltmore Country Club. Copyright by P. & A4, Photos. SPANISH e AVIATORS ARRIVING AT RI10 DE JANEIRO AFTER LONG FLIGHT, of the 1 of Comdr. Ramon Franco and his . across the Atlantic, ] ¢ The first photogtaph ides. Ruis de Alda and Duran, in Brazil after flying from Copsright bs P. & A Plotos. This photograph, from Tallinn, Esthonia Tt entered the port of Tallinn covered with a Copsright by Underwood & Lnderw shows one of the ships that sail the Baltic Sea in Winter. heavy coat of ice from stem to stern. GETTING AT THE TRUTH BY peychoanalyst and inventor, demor del Rio. photoplay star. The great devi MISSING MINISTER S HELD WITH GIRL Former Pastor of Fashion-| able Philadelphia Church Taken in Los Angeles. LOS —Rev. of & o olatfon of the formerly a was held Lever, holr singer the church s a materlal witness. Federal office: «loped to this cf e trip by automoblle, been living 2 Jones wa bail pending pat the couple under preliminary § hearing vears of ife and . former pastor Is ind is sald to hav sons in Philadelpha i w). | der | , WHS e r nt ]:lqm'u)’)l\[l hurch here about eight months ag 1 months afte harging ppropr funds | isted to Lim by James Hill, an| for the benefit of| uring his | rom the city. counsel had been ent and that| upon later for | 1 to turn it over.| returned | i latter's al he emporary {lliam for when *he money Finally, Wacker sald, Jone £1,000 of the but disappeared before the rems was patd | ife | From that | his had a > Navy. rned rom cker said Jol bere and a son in t other sources it Jones hud No information was obtain: re- zarding the girl reported to have been posing In Los Angeles as Jones' wife. Since his disappearance St. Barnab: (has been without a rector. EXPRESS CO. INDICTED. Violated Embargo on Japanese Beetle, Officials Charge. PHILADELPHIA, Februar: 1 —A Federal indictment forviolating the Japanese beetle embargo was T vesterday against the Amerl Way Eapress Co. The action, sald to e the first of its kind in the country, grew out of the shipment last Decem- ber of two rubber plants from this| city, one to Auburn, R. I, and the other to Hampten, Va. Bertrand 1 a Federal district would b pon all t absolute | vainly sought for ‘weelks | eral entertaining feature MACHINER Herbert Lapham, rating his “lie detector” on Dolores claim of the inventor is that his ~ will make a woman tell her correct age. Copsright by P. & A. Photos 2,100 PARKING ARRESTS. | District Collects About sm,ooq From Offenders in Three Weeks. Capt. Thaddeus R squad working on ov Bean's traffic stime parking have made ap ests i1 the in the congested ar proximately 2,100 ary past weeks, ing overtime, parking d zones are he per- intend the prin sons a to_continue the e t. T id the District had collected un average of $5 from each of the 2,100 persons arrested CAROL LIKELY TO MEET HIS MORGANATIC WIFE| Son Believed on Way to Him in Paris. By the Assoclated Press BUCHAREST, Februa 2 Former Crown Prince Carol of Ru- mania, who is sojourning in Paris with Mme. Lupescu somewhere in the vicinity, may soon have the oppor- their office wife, Zizi Lambrino, and son. The Rumanian foreign yesterday finally’ granted Mme. brino permission, which country. She will depart tc Paris {s reported to be her destinaiion departure is regarded as sig- nt in view of the fact that the 5, while not informed of Carol's intentions, are openly without hindrance, the likelihood of his returning to Rumania after the resignation of the present Bratiano government, which is expected next month. ALUMNI TO GIVE DANCE. _ Business High Group Will Hold Event Tonight. The Alumni Association Business High School will hold a subscription dance tonight at 2400 Sixteenth street. Music will be fur- nished by the Marceron Orchestra, under the direction of Eddie Rei muth This is the first open dance the association has held in over two years and it is expected to rival the regular monthly dances that the association held two years ago. A committee, consisting of Dorls Schutz, chairman; Amy Norton and Jerome Kaufman, has arranged sev- including Evelyn { the a specialty number by M Davis, popular young dancer. M NEW LA FOLLETTE RISES. | Robert M., Seeking West Point Place, No Relative of Senator. The Army is to have a Robert M. La Follette, provided he is able to pass the examinations to be held next Tue: for admission to the West Point Academy. 1 Towa, 1 e wus ails from Fort ceived his Al epablici, uid to be no relation | | | | | | | girl | tunity of again meeting his morgan-|and himsei? | atle Lam- | authorities = CALLING UPON “THE GREAT WHITE FATHER” AT THE WHITE HOUSE YESTERDAY. Full-blooded Osage Indians. in Washington connection with Indian legislation, John W. Harreld and Representative S. J. Montgomery of Oklahoma. FAVOR EXTENSION .| House Subcommittee Also| 0. K.’s Improvements at Walter Reed. The subcommittes on streets, high- ways and traffic of the House District committee today voted a favorable re- port to the full committee, at the next regular meeting on Wednesday, on the bill for the extention of Four- teenth street and for certain improve- | Former Crown Prince’s Spouse and |ments in the Walter Reed General Hospital reservation Chairman Zihlman explained that the bill represented an agreement be- tween Col. Bell, Engineer Commlis- sloner of the District; Gen. Ireland, representing the Medical Corps of the Army; Gen. Glennon, representing the hospital reservation; Senator Cap- per of the Senate District committee, chairman of the committee. He said ents what_the *“meldcal Walter Reed insisted House District « the bill repre has | upon, and which we, interested in the © the | origi «l bill, were forced to conce | to et legislation passed.” Moving Aspen Street. Zihlman Mr. also explained the discussing, | provision for moving Aspen street 5o as to provide additional space in the Walter Reed Hospital grounds, and the contention by the District Com- missioners that this should be paid wholly by the United States Govern- ment. This amendment was ordered written into the bill. The entire subcommittee showed its conviction that no legislation could be put through the House which would allow street raflway, motor bus or truck traffic through the Walter Reed reservation. ‘When Lieut. Col. Bell, Engineer Commissioner, was called as a witness, he commented that he is “incidentally chairman of the Public Utllities Com- mission, and therefore qualified to ad- vise the committee that in this bill the Walter Reed Hospital is ade- quately protected against possibility of the commission granting franchises for street railways through the reser- vation along the extension of Four- teenth street.” He sald he spoke not only as a Dis- trict official, but also for the Army. He emphasized that it is very desirable that this legislation be passed at this session, especially to permit the open- ing up of Fourteenth street from Montague street to ‘the hospital groun in order that the development of that section of the city may not be retarded. Would Benefit Hospital. Col. Bell said with reference to the moving of Aspen street that the Dis- trict Commissioners have not urged change, but that the hospital au- s want it and it would make v valuable improvement of the an said that all development of the on 1 long seen up a tirongi erritory to the Chairman wdents of the Wash ve a | | | By the Assuciated Press | . CHICAGO, Febru g0 to jail will be the rule of an all- mony bureau planned here to ald dtvorcees collect $3,000,000 due them annually. The bureau in Chicago, the first large city to enter the business, will be affiliated with the soclal service bur and will provide a complete service to force payment-dodging hus- {bands to comply with court orders awarding alimony or to explain why y should not go to jail, Superior Judge Joseph Sabath announced yes- terday. —Pay or the expenses of the new bureau. Robert E. Crowe, State’s attorney, sald he would support the movement by providing a prosecutor to take charge of all cases arising from fail- ure to pay_alimon “Every day I am confronted by a the White House to shake hands with President Coolidge. $5,000,000 Annually Owed by Backward Ex-Hus bands to Be Collected by New Department. and | Satisfaction Will Be Demanded. The judge, who proposed the | plan, stated the county board would | be asked for an appropriation to meet | The delegatio number of women who comiy that { their former husbands have falled to | comply with the alimony orders of | the court,” sald Judge Sabath, “They | have been forced to hire lawyers to seo that they are given the support nioney they are entitled to for the keep of them s and their chil- dren. Often they are employed and are in danger of losing their positions becauso of the frequency of court hearings. * “The new bureau will do away with all that. The husbands will be or- dered to pay their alimony to the officers appointed by the county. The bureau will turn the money over to wives, paying them, perhaps through banks in the neighborhood. “If thelr husbands fall to pay, they will be haled into court by the special assistant State's attorney and asked why they have fallen behind. Lack of a satisfactory excuse will send them to jail.” REGRETS DRYS’ REFUSAL TO HOLD RUM SHOWDOWN Head of Wet Association Declares Congress May “See Light Overnight.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 26.—Capt. W. H. Stayton, head of the Associa- tion Against the Prohibition Amend- ment, at a dinner in his honor at the Hotel Astor, said he regretted to learn that the Anti-Saloon League has called off its “showdown exposition,” and sald that it was abandoned be- cause they could not get John D. Rockefeller, jr., and Elbert H. Gary to underwrite it. Capt. Stayton predicted modification of the Volstead act by the present Congress. “I belleve,” he said, “that the pres- ent Congress will grant us a relief in akin to what we had for two years during the war—wines and beer minus hard liquor.” Representative John J. O’Connor, New York, Democrat, sald the Presi- dent or Congress might “see the light overnight” at any time. DENIES ARSON CHARGE. Youth Accused in Victoria Apart- ments Blaze Pleads Not Guilty. Harold S. Marsh, 19 years old, re- cently indicted for arson in connec- tion with the $150,000 fire at the Vie- toria Apartments, Fourteenth and Clifton streets, January 31 last, today pleaded_not guilty when arraigned before Justice Bailey In Criminal DI- vision 1. Marsh resided with his parents at the = tments and i< said to have | fuld poilce and newsps men that | hie set fire to the building. e was for toidde the form of a return to something MISS TALMADGE WILL WED BRITON, IS REPORT Constance to Marry Oliver McIn- tosh of London Tomorrow, Los Angeles Paper Announces. By the Associated Press. n was accompanied by Copyright by H, v s rus or caicaco sonsav| -5 ENTERS TRADE OF 14TH STREET PACT WITH TURKS Each Accords to Products of | Other Favored Nation Treatment. By the Associated Press. The Commerce Department nounced today that a temporary com- mercial agreement had been entered into between the United States and Turkey under which each country grants to the products of the other most favored natlon treatment. The agreement, which is in the form of notes exchanged between Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, Amert- can high commissioner at Constan- tinople, and the Turkish government, 18 a modus vivendl which provides for a temporary mutual grantine of most favored nation status during the pendency before the Senate of the Lausanne treaty with Turkey, which would establish peace-time diplomatic and commercial relationships. A direct effect of the agreement is to nullify discriminatory duties against American goods exported to Turkey and which come in contact with the exports of the allied na- tlons. # The Turk! cently raised its tariff schedules in ac- cordance with its treaties with the allied countries, but the rates applied to goods from other than allled na- tions were considered unfair. LOS ANGELES, February 26.—The Examiner says today that Constance Talmadge, the film star, and Oliver McIntosh of London are to be married tomorrow at Burlingame, a suburb of San Francisco. The engagement of the couple and their intention to marry tomorrow was connrmed here last night, the newspaper says, by Joseph Schenck, | brother-inlaw of the actress. Miss Talmadge, her sister Norma and MclIntosh are guests at the Bur- lingame home of Jean St. Cyr, where the wedding will be held. It will be Miss Talmadge’s second marriage. In 1920 she became the wife of John Plaloglou, wealthy Greek tobacco dealer. As a result of the marriage she became a Greek cit- izen and only recently regained her American citizenship by taking out naturalization papers. CALLS CAPITAL ‘GATEWAY’ Pennsy to Locate Assistant Gen- eral Passenger Agent Here. PHILADELPHIA, February 25 (). —The Pennsylvania Railroad an- nounced today that “recognizing the growing importance of Washington as a great center and gateway of pas- senger traffic,” it has created the po- sition of assistaft general passenger agent in that city and appointed to the place Capt. Charles E. McCul- lough. At present he is division pas- | senger agent in New York « The | companyealso announced that N. Weill | has Leen advanced to district pas- Asnger a ASKS WRIGHT’S ARREST. Wife Declares Architect Is in Chi- cago With Another Woman. CHICAGO, February 26 (). s, Moriam Noel Wright, wife of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, whose mari- tal differences have been aired in the courts of Wisconsin lately, yesterday appeared at the State’s attornev's office and obtained a warrant for her husband's arrest, charging he was living here with another woman. A few days ago Mrs. Wright charged that her husband had fled to Canada. She charged that the woman with whom her husband is in Chicago is from Spring Green, Wis., the site of her husband’s Summer home, and where Mme. Olga Milanoff, Mr. Wright's housekeeper, was accused by Mrs. Wright of misconduct with the architect. - CLEARED IN ASSAULT. Restaurant’ Proprietor Wins on Jurors’ Testimony. Joseph H. Mena, restaurant pro- prietor, was acquitted late yesterday afterncon by a jury in Criminal Di- vision 2, before Justice Stafford, after two of the jurors Had testified against | the veracity of a Government witness who had denled remaining in the courtroom after all witnesses had been excluded hy order of the court. Mena was charged with a felonious ault on a young girl who had been in his employ. Attorney P. H. Mar- Shall reprosenied the aoouapd, . government re- | during the running of the Cambrid ham. Engiand, recently. and the rider received only minor TWO FIRMS BANKRUPT. Ehrlich Shoe Co. and OIld Plate { Shops File Petitions. Rudolph Ehrlich and Albert Foer, trading as the Ehrlich Shoe Co.. at | 3014-6 Fourteenth street, today filed a petition 2 lankrupte 1 v Louis Ottenberg appears for the merchants. An_application also filed by She i rey imon. Koen | & Brez SORROW CAUSES DEATH OF MME. VAN DE VYVERE Daughter, About to Become Nun, Finds Mother Dead in Bed on Morning of Ceremony. By the Assoclated Press. CAEN, France, Overcome, it is believed, by sorrow at the decision of her daughter to become a nun, Mme. Van de Vyvere, wife of the former Belglan minister of agriculture, died on the morning of the solemn ceremony of taking the | vows at the Convent of La 3 jande of the Order of the | Virgin, M. Van de Vyvere and his rived here Wednesday | dined with their daughter. Then the father went to a hotel and the mother was given a room in the con- vent. When the daughter went to the mother's room yesterday morn- ing before the vows were to be taken she found her dead. The doctors declared she had dfed in her sleep of heart disease. Mgr. Lemonnier, wished to postp February 2 ife ar- and bishop of Bayeux, e the ceremony, but M. Van de Vyvere, mastering his grief, Insisted that it be carrled out. He only requested that his daughter take the name of Mary of the Cross instead of & de Gon- zague. An |P. R. R. Track Walker Had €ov- ered 104,220 Miles. George R. Kidwell, $0 years Confederate veteran and retired track walker for the Pennsylvania Railroad, who had estimated that during 25 years’ employment in that capacity he had walked 104,220 miles, died at his residence, 1329 F street northeast, Wednesday, after a short illness. He ‘was a native of this city and retired from active work about 10 years ago. Mr. Kidwell was a member of Ben- ning Council, No. 21, of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He leaves two sons, Albert and Will Kidwell, a sister, Mrs. Mary Cuning- ham, and a grandson. Funeral services were conducted at the residence this afternoon, with in- terment at Glenwood Cemetery e Rail Employe 60 Years Dies. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., February 26. —Lawrence Donagan, who entered the | employ of the Baltimore and Ohio { Railroad In 1867, died at his home in Connellsville yesterday, aged 8 years. He was born iy Ireland, Daddy-Long-Le, GEORGE R. KIDWELL DIES. | | 0ld, = photograph snapped teeplechase at Cotten- a nose dive at the jump. ge University di bruises dan BANON COUNTESS INFILMS PROPOSED !Motion Picture Owners Roused by Accounts of Party Given by Carroll. stage IW 1se of motion i NI and it tim honor o the countess B T him for leading part in her own play result of the party the statement made that the Motion Picture Theate: | Owners of America will her fror their screens. The organization represents 80 pe: cent of movie theater owners in thr TUnited States and has been assurec upport by the American Motion Pi Advertisers. Carroll Deniés Story Published reports party was featured chorus girl in & wvine has been d v thy As : | the « ippears that the Woodhull, president re Owners' center about the Countess of Catl If this is just another piece ¢ advance publi o her o wou be a great attraction in the box offi I speak now for the 15,000 member; of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of Amerlca that we shall make ever effort to prevent her from appearin on any of our screen: Probe at Standstill. Investigation into the Carrol apparently is at a standstill, Federa! {and police officials declining to d © it. Actors and actresses in Broadway production have pass resolutions censuring the party. The dramatic committee of the Fed eral Councll of Churches of mportuned to do s the drama,” J nference to consider means of supporting plays of serious purpose and worthy intent It will begin next Wednesday night, Channing Pollock, producer and playwright, who has conferred with the councll committee, said theaters were losing patronage because “trash” now being producec to par STATION CUTS POWER. ‘WNBH Reduces Strength From 250 to 100 Watts. In the midst of the present wave of high power for radio broadcasting on: station has reported to the Depart ment of Commerce a decrease in the strength of its outgoing signals. The station Is WNBH, at New Bedford, ass., which has cut its power from 250 to 100 watts, and its action in re ducing its output Is the first to be re | ported to the department in m: months, The station operates on the ! 248-meter wave length, e