Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1926, Page 2

2 » NEW DRY SQUAD 10 FIGHT ALCOHOL New York Prohibition Direc-l tor to Head Division Formed Here. The Treasury Department last, night established new branch of i its prohibition machine by promoting John Foster, who for several months lias been prohibition administrator in New York, to the newly created post of “supervisor of alcuhol investiga- tions." Mr. Foster New York by graduate of Army officer, who for the past two months has been working into the position of prohibition administrator there, The new tion will up with headquarters in \Washington, effective tomorrow morning, but, ac to Treasury officials, much work remains to be accomplished in the way of assembling expert person- nel and setting up the new outfit. How large it will be has not as yet been determined. Worked Up to Post. Foster assumes his new after having through the ranks Jtevenue Service, in which he ha worked for several years. His pro. motion to the new position of super- visor of alcohol investigation followed his successful administration of the new prohibition machine in New York and later his leadership of a special alcohol squad. This squad for some weeks has been operating throughout the eastern part of the country, par- ticularly in New York and Pennsyl vania, with marked success, accord ing to Treasury officials The alcohol investigations fo der Mr. Foster will probably of the most expert men for this type a succeeded In P, Mills, a retired be Chester and will Maj West Point be set task | risen | the Internal M. of | She says 1.don't want to sa !ARMY GENERAL STAFF OFFICER REVEALED AS TIDAL BASIN HERO Maj. Leigh F. J. Zerbee Rescuer of Woman and Child. Secret After Plunge in Iey Water, Herolsm will “out, pr;}&l, Leigh F. J. Zgrbee of the gen- staff of the Army, learned this fact vesterday when | r an edition of The Star and found his piclure staring at him on the front page. alongside of a “hero™ story His modesty had led him to throw what he thought was an impenetrable veil about the identity of the “un. known hero™” who jumped in the Tidal Basin Friday afternoon and rescued Mrs. Margaret Dickey and her 3yearold sog Charlle. after the mother had thrown her baby and her- sell into the fey waters. But heroism will not be downed so easily, and when reporters were tipped off that Maj. Zerbee was the man they wanted, they managed to gain a few facts from an equally modest person, the major's wife, wh, as long as she had to go and the beans on me the way she did.” Maj. Zerbee told The Star last night. “it's only f: that I should tell the truth about her, lsn't it? Well, 1 just want to say—what's that, dear? a thing anyway, a lot of women would lost their heads, and the Mrs that's all.’ Burke Also Modest All of which is perfectly cording spill But, have didn’t, a rrect, ac to another participant in the rescue. JJ. E. Burke, a_voung traveling man. who resides at 2726 Connecticut avenue. Burke may he a hero. too but he denies it as emphatically as did the major with respect his own case. Burke says that all he did was pull the woman and child up on the xeawall as Maj. Zerbee handed them of work who can be found anywhere in the prohibition unit, here at Wash-| ington or throughout the field. Mr.| Foster will work directly under Gen. Lincoln ¢. Andrews, Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury. who is the fleld marshal for prohibition enforcement. | Work to Spread Out. | Eventually, it is anticipated. Mr. | Foster's new unit may operate | throughout the country and within a | short time may he expected to extend | its work to at least the entire east ern half of the United States, where. according to officlals, the alcohol ques: | tion is the most acute. The new alcohol investigation force will not be a duplica'ion In any way of the organization under Walton Green, the chief prohibition investi- gator, with headquarters in Washing ton. The only point of similarity be tween the two, officials said, will be that they will both be mobile forces and will operate regardless of any dis trict lines which bound the territory over which the 22 prohibition admin- istrators througlout the country have Jurisdiction. MAN'S TEN-DAY FAST ENDS WITH FUNERAL Intestines Paralyzed by Absti nence—Collapsed After Giv- ing Health Talk. 8recial Dispatch to The Star. KLAMATH FALLS. Oreg.. Fehru- ary 27.—A brief funeral service today marked the end of the career of Fred Westerfield, local dentist, 55, who doc- tors say was killed by too rigid adher- ence to his bellef that fasting was a cureall. His death was dramatic. Ending a 10.day fast he addressed a luncheon club Wednesday. explaining his health doctrine. Ten minutes later he collapsed. “Long fasting should never be at- tempted by a novice.” he said. “nor should a doctor he consulted. Fasting is a cure T have fasted vears frorm 3 to 15 days at a time and suffered no ill effects. If any present wish to trv | fasting as a_cure for any ailment, 1 would be glad personally to advise them He was notably weak and pale when he left the room. When he collapsed he was taken to a Qospital, in intense vain. Physicians® said too long abstinence from food had paralyzed his intestines. An operation revealed | also an ulcerated stomach, Physicians safd L might have lived for vears with proper medical or surgical treat- ment I he had not weakened his sys- tem ill-advised fasting. BEATEN AND ROBBED | OF $40 AND GOLD WATCH | Man Heia Up ana Then Hit by Assailant— aunotler Frightens Attacker by Cries. Two colorea men beat and robbed Albert L. Hartn., of 1742 I street, of | $40 and a $70 kold watcl., whiie he was | crossing First stieet at 8 street south- west late t nikht ding 1o a report filed with the pulice Hartmat. said that the men overtook him and grobbed him by the arm. One went through his pockets while the | other held him, and after the opera- | tion, the tatter struck him with his| fist. The two men ran away Hartman gave accnrate descriptions of his assailants Police are investigat ing Raiph Edwards. 2 vears old, a fireman at the Wasaington Termfnal | Co. while en route home to 1135 Abber. place mertheast lest might] was knocked down by a hlow over| the nead on reet northeast. be- | tween, Second and Third streets as ne fell Edwards caught sight| of a (owred man and velled. His| assatlant fled Edwards was taken to Casualty Hospital in an ambulance, | where it was found that the wound, evidently caused by a blunt instr ment, was not serious. Police he- lieve that the motive was robbery | but that tne victim's velling fright- | aned off the celored man Whie deing shaved in a barber shop at 713 O street, last night, Leroy Swartzosen, of Guithersburg. Md., | discoverea his pocketbook containing | $80 in bills of large denomination was missing fron. his hin pocket. He reportea it tu police at the second precinct, a8 ‘lost v stolen. ANOTHER HAMLET DUE. Ttalian Actor to Be Next to Inter- pret Melancholy Dane. MILAN, February ). —Still another Hamlet, this time an Italian version of the great nglish classic, will be seen this season in London where John Barrymore's interpreta- tion and the plusfour rendition alreadv have heen applauded. Ruggero Ruggeri, one of the best actors in Italy. will give “Amleto" at the Bt. James Theater and later at Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow. Edinburgh and l up. Be that as it may, and with all par- ties concerned disclaiming any credit whatever and “accusing’ one another of being the real heroes. the fact re. malins that but for the unhesitating | plunge of the major, the coolness of | the wife in summoning assistance and the part played hy Burke in hauling hero and rescued out of the er, Mrs. Dickey and Charlie might hoth be at the morgue today. instead of on he road to recovery at Emergency losg 1tal. Burke's Story of Rescue. Burke's account of the exeiting happenings Friday afternoon follo “I was sitting on a bench near the basin when I noticed a hoy about 6 vears old crving near the sea wall at the foot of Seventeenth street. I Afdn’t pay a whole lot of attention to him. Then. a moment or two later, T heard a woman yell londly and T looked up in time to see Mrs, Dickey deliberately throw a younger child into the water and then jump in her se “For the moment 1 was stunned. 1 could hardly believe that my eves were felling me the truth. Then 1 saw Maf. and Mrs. Zerbee running toward the sea wall. The major was | shedding his coat as he ran and when | he reached the wall he jumped In without giving any thought to deep the water might be. He acted the part of a real hero, 1 tell yvou The water near the sea wall was not very deep, but he didn't know that when he jumped in. and. besides, he had fo do a bt of swimming away" from the wall in order to grab the baby, which was drifting out. He swam back and handed up the half. drowned little fellow to me and then got hold of the woman, who was par tially unconscious, and handed her up, too. “Mrs. Zerbee in the meantime kept he picked up | hew | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. I TARIFF BOARD'S MAJ. LEIGH F. J. ZERBEE. her head. She ran out and stopped an automobile in wheih were two young men, and ordered them to take the mother and the two children to Emergency Hospital. That om plished, she helped her husband wrap his overcoat around him, and the two then invited me to their apurtment to talk the whole thing over. We had tea there, and laughingly agreed to keep the mujor's part in the rescue from the papers. le explained he didn’t like publicity Here is how Mrs, the heans' to The |afiernoon | “Maj Zerhee “spilled ar yesterday Zerbee and 1 were walking long the Tidal Basin near the John ul tue about 1 w'cinck yes terday afternoon when we saw a small boyv erving A woman who was on | the seawai! was ealling him 1 it | appeared to us as if she wanted to *hild that it was safe to go | ter. Wi hini, however, he ran away ‘We continued past the place where the woman amd two children were, and had gone alout a cly block. We were looking into the basin when we saw the older boy crawling up the bank away from the water, and 1 re marked 1o my husband that he still appeared afraid. 1 Child In. time the woman child and Saw Woman Throw about that up the younge ust picked instantly in herself. Maj. Zerbee and 1 place. The jor ran ahead, and, pulling off his coat, jumped into the water. “He got the child first, after swim ming a short distance, and handed | him to John E. Burke of 2726 necticut avenue, who had Jumped been sit- ting on a bench about the same dis | tance away from the place we were |only on the other side. He had run up. Maj. Zerbee then went mother, whose face was heneath the surface of the water. He pulled her to the wall, where it was quite steep, and Mr. Burke pulled her up. | " “About that time an automobile with two men in it came along and T called to them. They took the wom |an and children to the hospiial Maj. Zerbee put on his overcoat im media he was wet, we almost 1 home. He didn't want |any notoriety over the matter. as he | does not care to be held up as a he | for something, that any one cise would have done under the same conditiane." Maj. Zerbee contracted a cold from his lcy plunge and remained in his apartment vesterday. He left his bed to talk with The - aver the phone last night “That hero stuff is all wrong. major insisted. 1 didn't dive the ocean or somethinz like that merely jumped into the Tidal b: where it's mostly nd n the into 1 sin shallow. nothing heroic about that! TALMADGE WEDDING LACKS FILM SETTING Constance Becomes Wife of Capt. MacIntosh—Her Sister Norma Acts as Bridemaid. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February Only a scenario, a three-speed direc or in plus-fours and wearing the usual megaphone, and a camera man were needed to put into motfon pictures to- day the wedding of Miss Constance Talmadge. motion picture actress, and Capt. Alastir Willlam MacIntosh of London. England. at the home of Jean de St. Cyr, capitalist, at San Mateo, south of here. Everything was thers but a plot and the condition known ds suspense. necessary to a successful film. B turn out. The talent included Miss Talmadge, her sister, Norma, who acted as brides. maid; Buster Keaton, and Natalie Kea- | ton. who is another Talmadge sister. | and some lesser lghts. Four out of five of the scores of flappers who gathered about the gates )t the heautiful de St. Cvr home. for a glimpse of the bride. could acted as extras in the best motion ple- ture ever made. Willlam Rhinelander Stewart, jr. close friend of the bridegroom, acted as best man. The wedding, a civil coremony, was very quiet, with oni a few present, except the attendants. The couple announced that they would spend their honeymoon at Pebble Reach. Monterey, and Paim Beach, Fla. Miss Talmadge expects to continue with her picture work for some time. vervbody knew hew it was going to | have | | MORMONS THREATEN Schools of Sect Closed Because Students Read Bible and Study the Faith. By the Associated Press. CHIHUAHUA CITY ary Mormons of are threatening to return to the United tates hecause of the order of Presi dent (alles to close thelr schools Instructions have heen state officials to close the Mormon edu- cational institutions hecause the situa- dents read the Bible and are instructed in the Mormon faith. In the protest to Mormon officials said: ““If the schools of our sons are closed. we will go back to the United States where there {s liberty in all teachings We accept the constitution of Mexico but want to he free entirely in our consclences, We are ready to leave the state if the government closes our schools Five schools with an enrolled stu dent body of between 500 and 600 are affected. Archbishop Acquitted. MEXICO CITY, February 27 (#) district court today found Jose Maria Moray Del Rio, Ro man Catholic Archhishop of Mexico, not gulilty of violating the constitution and dismissed the case against arising from the investigation of an alleged Interview printed In local newspaper The interview, which was repudiat ed hy the archhishop. discussed alleged antiCatholie tendencies of the Mexi can government. Mexico, Febru Casas fssued hy a Mummified Horses Found in Pyramids Are First Egypt Has By the Aseociated Press CAIRO, Egypt, February 27.—Cof fins containing two mummifie¢ horses —the first ever discovered in Egypt— have been found in the pyramids of akkara, south of Cairo. The excavators also found & papy which reiated how a female singer from the court of Thotph, the Greek name for the Egyptian god of letters, invention and wisdom, came to en- courage the men in their work. But the result of her efforts, it the papyrus has been correctly read and can be trusted, was that the men ceased thelr work and repaired to the bank of the river to rest. Ishmael Sirry Pasha of public works, yesterday visited the tomb of the fourth dynasty, discovered In the pyramids of Giza last year by Dr. George A. Reisner of the Boston- Harvard archeological expedition. Tt is expected that Sirry Pasha will publish a complete communique deal ing with the contents of the tomb at Giza. One of the outstanding discov- eries in this tomb was the heautiful alabaster sarcophagus which some archeologists belleve contain the the minister Yet Disclosed hody of King Senefru, the first Pha raoh of Egypt v YORK, February 27 (#).- The discovery of t mummified horses In the pyramids of Sakkara, south of Cairo. evoked considerable | interest today from officials the Metropolitan Museum of Art. many mummified animals have heen found in the past, it is the first time that there has been any record of horses being preserved in that nian- ner, officials of the museum sald. Horses were not introduced Egypt until the seventeenth dynist) or about 18 centuries before Christ, according to A. Lansing, assistant curator of the Metropolitan Museum. He was Inclined to believe that the mummified horses were of a late date. There is no record, he says, of horses ever being worshiped as sacred ani- mals, The Apis bulls. held sacred by the Jgypuians, were frequently mummified and some excellent specimens are in possession of the New York Histor- ical Society. Mummified crocodiles have been found at yum In the Nfle Valley and mummi- fied cats, ibises and falcons have been frequently discovered, into n she went after | tossed him into the water and almost | arted on a run to the | Con- | after the | There’s | TO LEAVE MEXICO the government | Most | him | While | the Oasis of Sa-| ABOLITION URGED Farm Body’s Request Comes to Light in Record of House Hearings. A demand for abolition of the Tariff Commission was made to the House| appropriations committee during its| consideration of fiscal funds for that body, it was disclosed today In pub- lished records of the hearings. The demand was made in behalf of the National Board of Farm Organi- zations by Its secretary. Holman. He presented a resolution adopted by the farm organlzation at a recent meeting charging the com- mission “was guilty of “unwarranted delay in arriving at decisions: preju- diced treatment of parties appearing before it,” and attacking its secret hearings as having “created a situ tion approaching closely to a public scandal.” Mr. Holman asserted that the missioners are and have been sine the flexible tariff provision was enact ed divided among (hemselves, and so far as we have heen uble to ascertain, that division affects even the person nel of the commission in its staff. ‘The ommission has, to date, been unable to formulate any regular pro in the carrying out of its cages. com "onstant Turmolil.” constant turmoil in the commission.” remarked Representa- tive Wood, Republican. Indiana, chatr- ! man of the appropriations subeommit | tee which heard the protest. “It no longer a secret: everybody knows | there fs friction down there that ab- i solutely prevents the proper judicial functioning of the commission.” | The farmers' organizations repre- seited. Mr. Holman said, would “‘rather take their chances with Congress with respect to the tariff act ¢ * in preference to the delegation of func tions by Congress to enahle somebody else to change the act from time to [ time.” Producers of butter and other agricultural products whose business had brought them in contact with the commission. he added, felt it “a waste of public money” to provide appro- priations for the hody. [ Wood Voices His View “I have a fixed idea about this mat- [ter that vou have referred tn." Mr. [ Wood resumed, “and that is (hat the | commission 1= divided politically.” “That {8 correct, Mr. Holmes nded. ‘And that they consider these ques. as political questions rather than conomic questions, Mr. Wood continued. My theory fs that the [tarlft commission, If we are to have | ought to be In accord with the 1l Sees “There is re | tions |as | one. administration Chairman Marvin of the tariff com- mission previously had explained the work of the commission to the sub | conimittee without reference to any | differences. The committee recom mended appropriation of $699.000 to sustain the commission 'SOUTHERN TO SPEND ' $4,000,000 ON LINES ‘1‘000 Miles of Track to Be Laid |~y to Provide Faster aud Better Service. Ry the Associated Press ATLANTA, February Four mil lions of dollars will bhe spent by the Southern Rallway system for improve ments on siy of its Southern lnes. an announcement here today said. Approximatelv 1,000 miles of track age will be constructed to provide bet ter passing facilities, and roadwavs and structures will he strengthened to permit the use of heavier and more powertul locomotives. The lines affected by the improve. ment program are. Chattanooga to Macon via Atlanta. Bristol to Chat- tanooga, Chattanooga to Memphf | Richmond to Danville, Winston-Salem to Charlotte, Selma to Suggsville, Ala, On the lin between (Chattanooga and Macon, an important section of the Southern’s route to Florida from the West, electric automat signals will bhe installed. together with te phonic train dispatching circuits, The improvements between Winston, Salem and Charlotte will give an alter n line of heavy capacity between (Gireenshoro and Charlotte. Those be tween Selma and Suggsville will in crease train capacity between Selma and the port of Mobile. Those on other lines will work for general im provement of the servire, the an nouncement said BUS HEARING MARCH 5. Maryland Public Service Body to i Consider D. C.-Sligo Permit. | Spectal Dispateh 1o The Star | BALTIMORE, Fehruary 28. -A puh |lic hearing on the application of the | Washington Rapid Transit Co. for per- | mission to operate an intrastate bus line between the District of Columbia | line and Sligo. Md.. will be held befor the Public Service Commiss March 5 The company seeks permission to Jernte on the Brookevilel pike on a 15-minute schedule, and also to oper- ate along the old Rockville plke to | Linden, und thence along Dille street to Warren road. The company a requests the commission to grant pe mission to operate on a half-hour schedule on the service from Sligo to Forest Glen and Four Corners. Immediately following this hearing the commission will take up the appli cation of the Washington and Rock- ville Rallway Company in which per- missfon is asked to withdraw bus service from the District of Columbia line to L t G n NOON-DAY LENTEN SERVICES B.F.KEITH’S THEATER 12:30 to 1 0’Clock Speaker Tomorrow Bishop H. St. George Tucker Conducted by Charles R.| | | | 1 Rev. W. C. Waltemyer Every One Invited—No Collectio C. \avy amphibian plane in po- sition on_the catapult just perfected vy und demonstrated yes terday at Iiains Point. The new de- vice fires the plane from the catapult at a speed of 60 miles an hour. The plane as it left the cata- The l‘x,u‘rlm?nl was witnessed y high officlals, including See Wilbur, Secretary of War Dav sistant retary of Navy and Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. SECRET PASSAGE LEADSTO BIG STILL 300-Gallon Outfit Found on Third Floor of House in Shotts Alley. Digcovery of a secrel passageway to the third floor of a house in Shotts alley, opposite the § ing, resulted in Lieut. . A and policemen from the ninth precinet | seizing 300-zallon still and :l,mu.} gallons, of mash in a raid late las night. The police had entered the build- ing and found it unoccupied. Sergt E. Thompson. one of the raiders, dis- | covered upon inspecting the ontside | of the house that there was a third | story, windows of which had heen' carefully_hoarded up. Upon re-er tering Thompson found a sec stafrway, concenled in a closet on th second floor and led the wav to the! top floor. where the seizure was made. Police have a warrant for the a vest of the alleged occupant of the dwelling. | Police In Tussle, A tussle with a colored man in the loft of the premises at 1534 Ninth | street featured another productive raid | hy a police liquor squad vesterday aft ernoon. ‘The man, James Archie Mor- | gan, was overpowered and a large quantity of distilling apparatus con- | fiscated. | Capt. Fred Cornwell of the second precinct, in charge of the squad, en-| tered the house with Sergt. Roper, | Detective © Burbae and - Policeman Thayer. Roper climbed into the lof1 and was confronted by the colored man and two stills operation, the police assert. Morgan, It is said, intimated to R per that he was persona non grata and offered 1o prove it by tossing him down the very trapdoor through which he had entered without an in- vitation. Roper made an outcry for succor. in Arel the trapdoor came Capt Raising himself he started of the fact was slippery with mash Kept on going, but the other ged, and Capt. Cornwell bit Recovering his equilibrium dignity simultaneously. the captain took a short run and slid < the floor to the rescue. which 1 been patiently waiting hix appear Jdnmes Archie was uppropiately | ued and Jater natified at the | ond precinct that he was charged ! fllegal manufacture and possession of | Tiquor I with maintaining nuisance, including a slippery floor , Five hundred gallons of mash, eight gallons of peach brandy, and two 0. allon stills were among the paraph- | ernalia, confiscated, police records show. Through Cornwell. full height, unmindful to his to the rescue that the One, e Subdued. ’ | | reneg the dust. | and his | doughty | BANDITS MUFF ROBBERY | WHEN POLICEMAN BOOS, Patrolman Senses Something Wrong and Makes Haste and Havoc Righting It. Special Mspatch to The Si NEW YORK. February Pat man Thomas Ryvan of Brooklyn w trying doors he suspected might have been unlocked by abseni-minded trudesmen early today when he looked n the wind of a stilllighted stationery store and saw Harry Gold schalager, the proprietor with his hands lifted above his head as though he might suddenly have been petrified n the midst of an Interpretative dance. | But Patrolman Ryan did not think | 0. Goldschlnger had a worrled look. | Down on his knees went the police. | man. so he could crawl unseen past | the lighted window to the door, This' he kicked open as he leaped to his feet. Boo said Patrolman startled {wo young men who had not been In his line of vision from the | street. One was pointing a pistol af Goldschlager. while the other emptied | the cash register's contents In his| pockets, Both turned pale when they | saw Patrolman Ryan pointing his own pistol. They started raising thefr hands and the one with the pistol wnapped It at Ryan. The patrolman struck the man's wrist so that the weapon clattered to the floor. The other man vaulted the counter and Aashed for the door, hut Ryan flung his night atick and brought him down. He and Goldschlager then took the pair to the station, where both were charged with assault and robbery. w Tty Ryan * Rheumatism Is Rife. LONDON, February 27 (#).—Chronic rheumatism is the worst enemy of the working men and women of the United Kingdom. It Is responsible for one-sixth of all industrial invalldity and causes the loss of three million weeks' work an- nually among the Insured working population alone. Seventy per cent of these cases are caused by bal teeth and gums. = Father Found Dead. ORLANDO, I .| Theodore B. Martin, 84, father of | Ricardo Martin. Metropolitan Opera singer, was found dead on the balcony of a hotel here late today. Singer" ry | By tie FEBRUARY 28, 1926—PART 1. South Africa Fans “ Must Get License | To Have Radio Set/ By the Assaciated Press. The radio bug h bitten resi- dents of South Afriea to such an extent that a hill soon will be intro- duced in parliament at Jol b the Department of merce was advised vesterday impose a heavy penalty upon those wh all to take out receiver's licenses. Consular advices to the depart ment vesterday also said that Spain had decreed an import duty on radio tubes ranging from ap sximately $10 per kilo, or 046 pounds, to about $30 per | Kilo. Tubes or valves from the United States will he dutiable at the lower second felumn™ ¥ rate. or 1 W WARDNIAN TO BUILD - EW HOTEL HERE worked Eleven-Story Structure Will Be Put Up at Ninth and E Streets. an 11 streets the old Joeated erect Wardman will at Ninth and on the site of Hotel, which was reet Harry story hotel northwest Rochester 904 K 8 The new hotel will con rosms, with every modern and will be a commercial house sidex the hotel fenture of this struc ture the lower will contaln Dining rooms. smoking rooms and lounges will be included. The bullding will be of brick and stone. Work will hegin fmmediately The location of the hotel on this site will be an innovation in the develop. ment¢of Ninth street. it heing the first modern hostelry to he erected on this thoreughfare. The Carlt erected af n 145 facility tloors stores. n Ilotel now steenth and K hy Mr. Wardman will he ready September 1. The Ninth street ing will be completed in about a year SOUSA ASSERTS MUSIC BROUGHT SHORT SKIRTS Says Tazz and Forerunners De- veloped Need for Freedom of Feet in Dancing. ATLANTA. Gu. February 27 Music is responsible for short skiris Thix was the opinfon expressed here v rduy by John Philin Sousit | 1 director Music—particularly forerunners—hrought explained, “und dancing need for freedom of the feet “Plorence Mills herself couldn’t the rleston in i skirt with a bustle and a ground-sweeping hem Dancing brought another induce- ment for abbreviated skirts. This exercise developed the legs and made them more presentable than legs for merly had been.” | Mr. Sousa also stated that dancing And golf are responsible for maseu- line golf toggery, because theyv de veloped the male leg. “Plus fours.” he said. “would nm‘ fazz amd its danefng? he brought & o have hecome popular if the legs they reveal had no clalm to shapeliness.” More than 50,000 women are em ployed in the cigar-making Industry in the United States. | week were prepared to act to cleay | the *fié ACTION IMMINENT IN BATH MURDER Ohio Case Held “Perfect Crime” Because of Pau- city of Clues Left. By the Associated Pros After Meiale today up the F Ohio investi February gation TROY, of of the murder of Mrs Nesbitt, former Ohlo tennis plave: Her midnight. February W Jacob Nesbitt, in their home here, submerged in a bathtub of e skull crushed Neshitts, who were agents for kitchen appliance, were graduates | if Ohto State 'niversity For a week, Sheriff hief of Police Joh ectives from Dayto v night and on ermed the n hecause \ nystery o8 Drake niversity wa und at her hushand mt rits, Spillman, and de have case. for of here the he pe 1eity They ime,” lucs. 1t is expected a special session of the grand jury will he called Monday and today it was intimated offic had aceumulased enouzh evidence warrant possibly indfctment the actual murderer and a who s supposed to have heen efthe hefore after ihe two Derson AccessOTy or crime They refuse to make any of the ings public Neshitt find L. H days Shipm to be pre ployed a few was found Shipman his an after wife's hody the actiin was taken for any emergency.’ Coroner C. ) in his officinl verdict today, held death due to cor cussion of the brain, the it fracture. by an ' in the 1 1 ed Sance BELIEVE CLOTHING TRADED FOR LIQUOR Police Find Overcoats and Watches House Raided Dry Violation, in for Police last night started an invest: gation to determine whether a general | practice existed in come the city of leaving gouds und vajubl silateral for pavments of hootls followinz a rald by the fly on on the premises, 123 1, s southeast, where Charles Beule ored irvested on charges of sile possession king the raid. ¢ e and Policenmen Rinke don rin across a kil dozen overcoars ranging from ulimost new thmost gone, amd exactly 10 watches ‘The overcoats and watches were taken to police headquarters in an en deavor to discover whether any them had been reported missing. L last night none of the articles hi heen identified as property reporte missing and the inference drawn the police fs that possibly they wer left by hona fide owners in exchange for goods of a different species The fiving squadron reported fiscation of seven quarts of liquor result of the raid Fire Damages Home. sections o liquo, s o liquor Wt Rurlin ind Lang con ns Fire of unknown origin gutted the | ground floor of street northeast Rose Palmer, last night estimated at $1,000. premises at 1240 1 occupied hy Mrs Damage was Oregon Seeks to Break Will of Resident To Keep Fund Fron A bequest of the income from a fund of $10,000 left to the “United States | board of education™ by a resident of Portland, Oreg., named Francis rks, who signed his will as Zdwz Zwlz, has been contested by attorneys for the! Oregon State board of education, the | Interior Department announced yes terd: k The latter department presumes the | United States hoard of education re-| ferred to in the will is the Bureau of Bducation. The case is now hefore law | office; of the department. who are searching the statutes to find ot whether the bureau can accept a legacy of money. Attorneys for the State of Oregon want the fund to become the property | 1 Education Bureau the State and become part of the imon school fund. “The will reads, in part: “I bequeath all of my estate, wherever situated or located, to the United States board of education, but direct that only the in come of my sald estate be used or ex pended in Intellectualizing, integraliz fng and integritualizing Institutions “I expressly renounce any relatives, if 1 have any, and direct that any per son ar porsons claimin® as sueh he permitted to share in my snid estare.” Zdwz Zow1z wa 1 when b cigned tite will. on January 14, 1925 He willed his body to a medical colloge for dispagition. directing th be used, no sermon preached, no min. ister engaged and no funeral be held. WATER FRONT PLAN COMPROMISE SEEN Conference Held on Two Schemes for Beautification of Channel 3ank. Adoption of & composits plan from the two tentative ones for the im provement of the Water street side of the Washington Channel harpor front with a view to having it com pleted in time to submit to the cur. rent session of Congress is expeoted to result from a conference vesterday fn the office of Maj. James A. O'Con nor, United States Arm: 3 Corps, in charge of this d two plans which have been approved by the Commission of Fine Arts were discussed with representatives of the, trade bodies of the city and interests having property along the water front In addition to the trade body repre sentatives there were present owners of harbor front property in the area affected, representatives of the Nor folk and Washington Steamboat Com pany; Maj. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of the office of public bulldings and parks of the Nutional Capital: Ma Carey H. Brown, chatrman of the city and park planning National pital and Lieut, Col. J neer Commissioner of Columbla Differ in Parking Area. Representatives of the Washing Board of Trade, it was pointed ou leaned toward what is known as plan B The two plans, A and R, differ only in the amount of parking area provided In the territory to he affected by the proposed improvement Maj. 0 ont plans had heen developed in confory ity with the dir fon of IRress | the appropriation March % 1925, and it was the desire to get the views of every one concerned hefore submitting the final pl He sald that was not water area for large shipping deveion. ment in the Washington Channel an further that there was no | that there would be any large | trial deve ment in the southwest which would require shipping term nals by water there. One of sities for water transport sinted out, is outgoing commerce and at the present time it does not ap pear that there is any development this direction If there is to he any development the way of water commerce, whick course, must have ontg er to be successful il W along the Anacostia River wher there also are rallway 1litles transshipment ome of the sy pointed out that anether ohst the way of developing shipping merce was the f that done cheaper from Baltin Among those who spoke I proiect were Charles J. (° Merchants and Mani ¥ ) 14 Lee and W. E. Luckett of the Washing Roard of Trade, Gi. W. Forsherg . J. Callahan. the latter rey the Norfolk and Washir 1 Co he District of n mnor pointed that the act of n to Congress. . there enoue the of the Asso capt n and senting Steambonat ation ank Plans fo Boulevard Ma). i situation In connection wlith posed Improvement. pointing Forts being mude to develop & around the elty and passing ! sectlon Hoth he and Maj. promised full cooperation in velopment of the plan front development m with the high plant was pointed out ssed the highw the pro. vard the st wise. mi e not interl 1. Merrick. engineer of Maf. O/'Connor i that the view of the various interests will he studied and plan promptiy worked it 4 In the ofMe | the composite and that he ready out s probaila 14 he ¢ ta messior there w ot | though he doubted time enough that bods consideratior the ad Ax on ot Fine for bef Commi Arie has the tentat! ane " he e ¥ worked submitted JAIL BARS PUT END | TO'ROMANCE OF ROAD ! Two Brooklyn Boys. “Borrowing” Car From Home, Held for Parent ] Fihert 311 wireh ddre ¥ the first i wha sat ir pal <ippi \mot ith knig enins ins var Then Phil | | of dressed 1 Outside pit { with | tess. The likewise the the « while phi hy 1t Maltimore the « B The he ith [ ntlem bt girls were supplied They and ofl amp left The W M The party moved Washington lat girle [ | night in the Y th and started to negotia They called at the Owl (iarage street, where an attendant augpleions, The result was that Sn and Cox were talking Lieut. James D. McQuade of the se and Policemen Alk) Handley nat long there out early yes v mnenin A loan on the autamehile o RIS 1 hecame zht | “The girls were aroused at T o yesterday morning and hr second precinet for invest n Late vesterday afternoon returr wires from New York police had ver fled the story of the he a cirls. But the girls continued thetr hike to I while ched them depsit fre hars of 1 They | arrt miother | who will take them | her | SHOT BY CUSTOMER. Mis o back An argument ¢ price Danomiaer went tnte nst unidentified colored man Koblen r in the left sho show in ir d | The o Proy Do auarters assailant. rious. e Hos Tulle institiied Kobien's ound is not e