Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1926, Page 17

AUSTICE HO! ES CELEBRATI day, the justice, whe has s the day in his office at the the Chief Just and Mrs. Taft. BATTI Tity, Sine A SCIENTIST S ICE JAM. MeGill T ice gorge thermite. COUPLEARRESTED INDEATHINQURY Southern lllinois Officials Be- lieve Their Former Mates Were Poisoned. i By the Associated Prass FLORA, Ill. March 9.—Investiga- | tion into the deaths of Mrs. Laura Malinsky and Ajbille Bible, described | s having occurred under “mysterious circumstances,” continued today with the former husband of one and the former wife of the other, who now | are married. held in the county jail | on murder charges. | The two held without bail for a and jury are Ernest L. Malinsky, a ocomotive engineer, and his second wife, Mrs. Elsie Rible Malinsky. They | are ‘charged in information filed by | State's Attorney Williams with mur- der of his first wife, reported by a biological chemist to have died from Ppoisoning. Mrs. Malingky died September 26, | and information forming the basis of the murder charges was obtained through exhuming of the body Decem- ber 11. Little is known by authorities con- cerning the death of Bible, who died about a vear and a half ago. His present Mrs. Malinsky, ed to the engineer about weeks after the death of Ma first_wife ‘hile a_Clay County grand jury | at Louisville takes up the investiga- | tlon into the death of Mrs. Malinsky today, Coroner Holliday plans to ar- range for exhuming of the body of Bible, he said. Mrs. Malinsky's death occurred fol- lowing an illness after eating some watermelon. An attending physician said she died of ptomaine poisoning and cerebral hemorrhage, Persistent rumors and a request from relatives of the dead woman brought about exhuming of the hody. After extensive tests, Dr. Ralph Thompson of the National Patho logical Laboratory of St. Louis re- ported_he found no trace of poison- tng. The opinion of Thompson was concurred in by Dr. W. D. Collier | of St. Louis University. Later, how ever. a hiological chemist at the uni- versity took the organs for further examination and Clay County au- thorities said he reported her death was due to poisoning. The arrests followed. Officials said the poison Mrs. Ma- linsky was reported to have died from was the same kind of poisoning used In the Hight-Sweetin case, which stirred southern Illinols about a year »go. Wt;man Burns to Death. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. PARKERSBURG, W. Va., March 9. —Mrs. Macarius McNulty, 1, died at St. Joseph's Hospital of burns received when her clothing caught from an open stove while she was preparing dinner. She rushed into the street and two men with their coats quelled the flames, but she was already fatally burned. She is survived by her hus band, a shoe merchant, and two sons. She was/ prominent in St. Xavie Catholic Church. ed o Capitol. T S |shot in the right eye. ES HIS 85TH BIRTHDAY. Passing t « At Jeft, Dr. Howard Barnes of Montreal, who is attempfing to break the 16-mile llegheny River near Franklin, Pa., with the use of Photo shows him selecting point for the chemical tests. Coprrizht Photos. HUSBAND UP ON CHARGE OF MURDERING HIS WIFE Death From Poison Leads to Arrest of Man and Woman Companion. by P. & A By the Associated Pres DENVER, Colo.. March 9.—Charges of murder in connection with the death February 1 «f Mrs. Catherine Rosenbaum Massie were filed yester- Jay against Virgil A. Massie and Mrs. tene Divelbess, who are held in jail at_Golden, Colo. The charges followed investigation Colorado and the exhumation of Massie's body at Carthage, I, last week for an autopsy. District Attorney Joel E. Stone said he had certain notes which he hoped to prove were written by Mrs. Massie and which would constitute “serious incriminating evidence against the ac- cused pai 5 Mrs. Massie was found dead in hed beside her husband. who complained he was seriously ill. Massie said he thought he and his wife were victims of ptomaine poisoning. ROOSEVELT GREETED - BY 2,000 TOWNSMEN Theodore Welcomed at Oyster Bay. Kermit Called to Washington on Business. in Mr By the Associated Press. OYSTER BAY. N. Y.. March 9. Col. Theodore Roosevelt. who returned Jast week with his brother Kermit from an expedition into the wiids of the Himalayas, was officially wel- comed home here last night by his fellow townsmen, The Lyric Theater was crowded to capacity by about 1,500 cheering men and women, while about 300 more ! crowded the lobby and overflowed onto the sidewalk. Kermit, who was to have been joint guest with his brother, was called to Washington on business. Col. Roosevelt spoke for ahout an hour concerning his adventures of the past vear while he and his party were gathering rare specimens for the Field Museum of Chicago. | "He said that the most interesting |experience of ‘his journey was the witnessing of a devil dance by Llama pri in long, red cloaks in the Himalayas. As a climax to the dance the head priest rested his entire | weight on the point of a sharp sword and then :lay down on the ground {with a Mmrge rock on his stomach. The rock was broken to pieces by having other rocks hurled against it without apparent injury to the priest. —— e RUMOR-OF DEATH. DEMIED. Spanish Foreign Legion Chiet Shot in Eye, But Improving. MADRID, March 9 (#).—Official de- nial was made today of the Tangier report that Col. Millan-Astray, founder, and - leader of the Spanish Foreign Legion, had succumbed to the wound received * in fighting the Moroccan | tribesmen last week. The colonel was Official advices today were that his condition was improved. King Alfonso Luther Burbank has nearly 35,000 plant experiments under way and ex- pects to announce this vear some of his most important achievements has sent a message to the Tangier THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1%%. he fourscore-and-five the United Ntates Supreme Court bench for the past 24 years, spent he flowers were presented by the President and Mrs. Coolidge and by opyright by Underwood & Underwoed PRINCE CAROL ARRIVING IN PARIS. THE LLAMA KNOWS A hreezes hy shed his overcoat heavy covering around Easter. Photograph taken at the station, when the prince who renonnced the throne of Rumania came in from Milan. He Was accompanied by Mme. Magda Lupescu, “the auburn-haired won from Jassy. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. HING OR TWO. red around the Washington Zoo some time ago he did not According to the Zoo officials, he will take off When the first warm his Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. spaghetti - enting champion, A Modugno of Los challenges S he eat 13 's_of spaghetti, four times a day, at the rate of a mile a minute. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. UNIVERSITY GLEE (7 trick voic UB SINGS “BY COMMAND” AT THE WHITE HOUSE. gave a special concert vesterday for the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Wisconsin lads with Then the glee club, with the Chief Executive and the First Lady of the Land, posed for the camera men. THE PRINCE OF WAL GETS SOME « FACTS ABOUT ENGLANE “opyright by Underwood & Underwood. UNEMPLOYED. Photograph taken during the visit of the prince to the British Industries Fair at Birmingham. The heir to the British throne talked with the unemployed men in order to obtail MEXICAN POLICE USE FIRE HOSE WHEN WOMEN PROTEST EXPULSION OF PRIESTS. The trouble in Mexico City is said to have Then the Mexican government ordered the expulsion of all foreign-born been started when the Catholic Church refused to register its lands. priests. The women of Mexico City protested by way of a riot, and this photograph was taken when the police brought out turned on the water. DRY LAW DEBATED BY FACTION CHIEFS Wayne B. Wheeler and Col. Ran- som Gillette Meet in Syra- cuse Forum. By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE. N. Y. March 9.— Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, and Col. Ransom H. Gillette of Troy, N. Y., former general counsel of the Asso- ciation Opposed to the Prohibition Amendment, met here last night in a no-decision debate on repeal of the Volstead act. The™ fervor of the speakers and the audience at times swept away the intervention of the chairman. Col. Gillette broke into a pause in Mr. Wheeler's remarks in the open forum that followed with a shouted question, “Why don’t the Govern- ment _agents enforce it, then?” “They are doing It a whole lot better than you wish they were do- ing it,”” Mr. Wheeler shot back. The chairman managed to intervene. Col. Gillete made.a bittér attack upon the methods of Federal prohibition “The only he declared, “licensed to break the law and get paid to do it is the prohibition ~enforcement of- ficer.” Mr. Wheeler insisted that to ask that the law be repealed is inde- tensible. T RS L) Dinner Program on WGBS. ‘WGBS will broadcast the testimonial dinner which the Friars’ Club is giving to George Jessel, star of ‘“The Jazz 'Singer,” Sunday night, direct from the monastery in the club. The broad- casting will commence at 8:30 and con- tinue for an hour, during which time addresses will be made-by ‘Willle Col- lier, George M. Cohan, Arthur "“Bugs” Hospital praising the colonel’s bravery and--expressing hopes for his quick Fecovery, ot Baer, Augustus Thomas and many others equally well known on Broad- way, person {n this| Navy to Attempt Towing Sunken S-51 Under Water to Brooklyn Dry Dock By the Aseociated Pre NEW LONDON, Conn., March 9.— The Navy is to try to tow the sunken submarine S-51 from its ocean grave off Block Island under water to Brooklyn Navy Yard, 150 miles away. Twenty-five bodies of the 33 vic- tims of the collision between the sub- marine and the steamer City of Rome last September 10 are unaccounted for. Some of the crew are believed to have been washed overboard, but most of the bodies are imprisoned in the steel hull and will not be removed until the S-51 is in dry dock. The attempt will be made next month. Air-filled pontoons will be used in an effort to raise the crum- pled steel shell. Last Fall, until Winter storms compelled a postpone- ment of work, the mightiest cranes of salvage ships were unable to lift the craft to the surface. When the submarine is within 60 feet of thé surface it will be started on its journey to Brooklyn. FOUR STOLEN PICTURES GIVEN UP BY THIEVES Three Constable Products and One by Foster Sent by Mail to Lon- don Newspaper. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 9.—Three of the four pictures by John Constable stolen from the Royal Academy have been sent anonymously through the post to the office of the Daily Mail. A small picture by the English artist, Birket Foster, stolen at the same time, also was returned through the newspaper office. They were carelessly wrapped in rough paper and had not been se- riously damaged. The pictures had been removed from their frames, which were not re- turned... The packet ‘bore a London postmark. 2 Tt is assumed that the thieves be- came alarmed at the concern shown by the .authorities in the recovery of the paintings, and chose this as the easiest way of ridding themselves of their booty. The fourth Constable, however, still is missing. Evey “day;, Winter or Summer, Louis. Marquit, aged 68, takes a bath {In the ocean off New Jersey to “keep [ ] young,” FUR STRIKERS’ PARADE IS ROUTED BY POLICE Forty-Two Are Arrested, Rebuked and Fined $5 Each by Judge. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 9.—Fines of $56 each were imposed yesterday on 27 men and 15 women, striking fur workers, who ‘were arrested when po- lice charged a parade of 500 strikers at Seventh avenue and ' Twenty- fourth street, and a melee insued. The strikers were on the way to a meeting hall when police ordered them to keep'in line or disband. In the scrimmage that followed refusal of the men and women to disband until. they. reached the hall several strikers recefyed black eyes and dam- aged noses. Addresses ‘Washington Study. Dr. C. Van Vollenhoven, professor of international law at the University of Leiden, Germany, will deliver an address before Washington Study at Rauscher’s_tomorrow ‘morning at 11 o'clock. His toplc is to be “The Court of Arbitration.” Prof. Vollenhoven is also the umpire of the Mixed Claims Commission to_ settle the differences between the United States and Mexico, buskets on his -head and worl?nuuhluht the fire hose and Wide World Photo. 7 PERSONS SAVED ON BURNING YACHT By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla.,, March 9.—Seven per- sons were rescued from the 55-foot yacht Robaliss, which burned and sank off Cape Florida in an isolated section late Sunday. R. H. Gibson, owner of the boat, stated on his return here last night. The yacht FEunice W. ‘of Miami went to the aid of the crew and pas- sengers after they had taken to the lifeboats and were drifting to sea. Members of the party, in addition to Mr. Gibson, were Dr. and Mrs. O. C. Block, Mrs. Robert W. Hearley and Miss Wilma Denig, all of Miami; Capt. John J. Hawkins and Malcolm Jen- kins, mate, both of New York. The home port of the yacht was given as Providence, R. I. : SRR FRENCH FREE AMERICAN. Thomas Williams, Once With For- eign Legion, Is. Released. Thomas Williams of San Francisco, who was arrested by French authori- ties in Tangier after it was reported he had been captured by Riff tribes- men while serving with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, and had subsequently escaped, has been turn- ed over to the custody of Maxwell Blake, American diplomatic' agent at T iame’ release ms’ el was ordered’ the French government after tllg State Department had made repre- sentations in the matter through Am- bassador Herrick to the French for- elgn office. With the case now re- garded by the department as closed, ‘Williams is expected to return to the United States. —— At an exhibition in England recent- ANTI-BLUE LAW GROUP ATTACKS DISTRICT BILL Lankford Measure Tends to Create State Church, Resolution Holds. Resolutions opposing the pending Lankford bill for a Sund: obsery- ance law for the District as “meadle- some, vexatious and tyrannical legis- lation” were adopted at a meeting of the Association Opposed to Blue Laws last night at the Playhouse, 1814 N street. The resolution declared ultimate and “secret laws is to ‘‘establis in the United States, which, regardless of whether it Catholic or Prot: nt or Jewish or Shintoist or Confucian or Atheist, is a venomous violation of both the spirit and letter of the American Con stitution.” The association called upon citizens of all creeds and faiths in the District to fight the propesed law. The meeting was presided over hy Dr. Joseph A. Themper, president of the association. that the purpose of such h a state church an establishment S o PAIR TO GO ON TRIAL FOR KILLING SON, 5 Courseys, Accused of Beating Boy to Death, Seem Unconcerned About Charges. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, . March 9.—Trial of Ralph T. Coursey and his wife Edna, accused of beating their son Eld- ridge, 5. to death, wil start at Tow- son, Baltimore County, tomorrow. At- torneys for the defense have not vet decided whether separafe trials will be asked. . State's Attorneys O'Connor; Balti- more City, and Jenifer, Baltimore County, will prosecute the case, while Samuel K. Dennis and Gerald Hill will defend Coursey and T. Owen Knotts -of -Denton will ‘represent Mrs. Co;mm 'he Courseys are in city jail pend- }ing the trial. i “You would never know they're facing a murder charge,” Warden Martin said. “Frem all outward ap- pearsnces they might be prisoners charged with disturbing the peace.” Mrs. Coursey has maintained her composure. She displays no nervous- ness, but as the time of the trial draws. near she is becoming more concerned with her defense. Court prisoners perform no labor while in jail, but matrons interested in Mrs. Coursey occasionally ask her to help with somelight sewing to keep her mind occupfed. Coursey’s time hangs heavily on his hands. Glum and silent, he walks about the cell tiers. He talks with no one, and gives no sign' he real- izes the seriousness of the charge against -him. His principal concern seems to be making up with his wife, who remains indifferent to- ail his ad- vances. . Telephone: Expert to Spesk. Dr. George 'C. Squthwork 'of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. will speak_on “Some. Interesting ‘Things About Radio” at a meeting of ithe American Institute of Electrical their side of the industrial problem. Photo by ELSIE DE WOLFE, 61, - TO MARRY BRITON {New York Woman Has Been | Notable as Stage Star and Decorator. Acme | By the Ascociated Press. | NEW YORK, March 9.—Romance has come at 61 into the life of one of New York's most notable women, Miss Flsie de Wolfe, and society fs much surprised. She is to be married in Paris tomorrow to Sir Charles Mendl, head of the press section of the British embassy. Formerly an actress and producer, she has in recent yvears heen success ful as an interfor decorator. She is an intimate friend of Miss Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan. Paris dispatches say the engage- ment was announced to a small group of friends at a tea given in Paris by Mrs. W. K. Vanderblt. Miss De Wolfe was born in New York. the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Stephen De Wolfe. She was edu- cated in New York, England and France and made her stage debut in 90. Her first success was in Sardou's “Thermidor.” She became a member of the old Empire Stock Company, and later organized one of her own. She was both manager and star, produc- ing a number of Clyde Fitch's play While a producer she became inter- ested in interfor decorating and left the stage in 1903 to follow that pro- fession. - Among the buildings which she decorated in this country are the Colony Club in New York, the Ogden Armour home at Lakeforest, Ill., and the William Crocker home at Burlin- game, Calif. With Miss Anne Mor- gan ana Miss Elizabeth Marbury, she went to France in 1916 to work in hospitals. Twenty months later she returned with the Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with bronze star. In 1920 her collec- tion of antiques wass old for $101,901. Miss De Wolfe maintains a New York residence with Miss Marbury on fashionable Sutton place, near the East River. Most of her time, how- ever, is spent at the Villa Trianon, near Versailles. Sir Charles Mendl was an intel gence officer in the British arm: during the World War and was knighted in 1924. COLLATERAL REQUIRED. New Police Rule Covering Absence of Parking Lights. In_an effort' to alleviate congestion in Traffic Court, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendént of police, di- rected all officers yesterday to re- quire motorists ‘arrested for failing to have parking lights burning at night deposit collateral in station houses. The general practice hasg been in the past to have those arrest- |ed for such a violatlon meet the ar- resting officer In court without de- positing. collateral. A similar procedure for violators of the parking regulations was put into effect several months ago by ly, James Sainsbury carried 20 bushel | Engineers and the American Academy | Maj. Hesse and has had a tendency, clalmed the carrylng. of Sciences at the ‘osmos Club tonight at 8 o' he said, to reduce congestion Traflic Court, =