Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1926, Page 16

AFT Field, Va., station st ing veseue of the erew was ace ING TWINS VISIT WHITE HOUSE. e and Virginia Loomis, twin Charleston dancers, ident Coolidge yesterday. The ted acting queerl Senator l":flwr. with ing upon girls come from Kansas, and they recited an original Kansas poem for the Chief Executive. [FE TERM ASKED FOR MRS. COURSEY! Prosecutor Says Failure to Interfere With Fatdl Beat- | ing of Son Is Ground. Special Dispatch to The Star. Md., Ma the testimony « charged ar-old allered her huband, TOW NS h ol M ¥ with fataily Eldridge confession Ralph causing . State's O'Connor _de. nt. He ad- lusion of the lowing £ May Coursey. heating her avpudiating son the child" Attorney manded i dressed the ju testimony, «nd «aid that even if the nother did not administer the blows ~he failed to interfere when they we administered Ly her husband, and this, he decl was ground enough for life imprisonment. Mrs. took vesterday. I was born and res in oline County.” she said. am 27 vears old. Lidridge was horm near Denton, at my brother's home. At that time T not married. 1 communicated with the child’s father, who had courted me four years, but he never even answered me. He mar- red some ona else. the stand late red Sent to Institution. *A lady who sald she was from a family welfare association came to e a few days after the child's birth and said she had heard of my mis- fortune. She told me if T would give her $30 to get clothes for the child, she would put it in an institution at on. 0 I gave her the money. and when the child was five days old she took it. and T eame to Baltime “Did your husband know you were 1he mother of the child?” Mrs. Cour- ked. . 1 told him before . He promised he as if it were his we ame engag would' care for it own.” She then told him, after her mar | riage, she and her husband had gone to the Eastern Shore to reclaim the child from Mrs. Earl Clough. Treated Kindly at First. “My husband treated Eldridge fine,” she said. “until his own children came. Then he began to neglect him.. Grad- ually he became more and more cruel.” Then she told of the beating on tlie night of February 5. Eldridge died ebruary 7. “My husband beat Eldridge because he would not bring some nails from the cellar,” she said. “My husband went down the cellar and beat him for five minutes with the handle of a toy broom. “"Then the boy ran upstairs from the cellar. While he tried to open the ellar door my hushand continued to at him. with the stick, then slapped him with his hands. **You should not 1 him like | that,’ 1 told my hushand,” she said. “f ecouldn’t help it, he aroused my temper,” she said he answered. . Ordered Here for Treatment. | Tieut. Col. James Prentice, Coast Artillery Corps, at Fort Story, Va hias been ordered to this cit ment at,Walter Reed General Hos-| -pital | avenue Copyright by P. & A. Photos. §2,000 MORE GIVEN SIBLEY HOSPITAL Drive for $325,000 Has Net- ted More Than $16.000 in Past 24 Hours. Baltimore Woman's today a e Conference of the Missionary nounced the gift of 000 now being raised for § Memoria? Hospital. The gift was cen at a meeting of the 5 Tiome along memorial gift v fund total more t the past 24 hours be made over th ntensive canvs ve every one of the §9 rooms in the new hos- pital building named by Monday night. merous lied the 0090 in s are to 1, through Last Meeting Monday. The last report meeting of the cam- paign will be held in the City Club ballr onday evening at 6 o'clock, although it was decided in charge of Mrs. ance, associate chairman mpaizn. Araoug the memorial glfts { nounced within the past 24 hour: zift of §1.250 from Mrs. Melville Moffitt and grandchildren to name and furnish a room in the new hospital bullding in_memory of the late Dr. Melville M. Moffitt. The five d. of Mr, and Mrs. I'rancis Osbu hburn, Miss Abbie ves and Miss Jennie Graves gave $1.000 for a memorial room Dr. A. C. Christie gave $500 to name a nurses' rest room in honor of his wife's mother. His wife did the same honor of his mother, making a total Bift of $1,000. Drinking Fountajns Nanied. Mr. and ‘Mrs. Herbert Scribener gave $500 to name a drinking foun- :ain in memory of Mrs. Johanna Gross. Mrs. N. E. Webb and Mrs. D. Olin | Leech also named drinking fountains in memory of their husbands, both former Washington physiclans. ‘The woman's Bible class of the Ana-~ costia Methodist Church gave $500 to furnish two rooms. Mrs. Bettie Lee Hopwood gave $250 to furnish a room in memory of her husband, Melvin H. Hopwood. Mrs. A. J. Prescott, a Sibley nurse, gave $160 to name a baby carrier in memory of her son, who died when 7 years old. ’ Speclal appeals are to be made in the churches tomorrow in an effort to wind up the $325,000 for the new ma- ternity building and nurses’ home as quickly as possible. Policeman Suspended. Alleging that they detected the odor of liquor on the breath of Policeman Bennett Lancaster of the ninth pre- cinct when they found him No. 10 Engine Company’s quartes aryland near Thirteenth street, Night Inspectors Stott oves suspended him. Lancaster ies that he had taken a drink. The affair will be, investizgated by the trial Luard next week, THE "EVENING® STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOSE-DIVED INTO CHESAPEAKE BAY. The Army blimp, after leaving the Langley i ied its nose into the icy waters of the bay. A thrill- CopsTight by . & A. Photos. The largest banana ever received in Washington, according to Sal- vatore Scalco, local merchant. 1t weighs 18 ounces and is 9 inches in circumference. Held by Charles Binns Tebbs, 3d, of 2230 Cathedral avenue. Washington Star Photo. THE NEWEST to a depth of 200 feet. W. R. & E. Co. Asks Authority to Substitute Improved Vehicles for 01d, to Cost $202,500. | L | The Washington Railway and Elec- |tria Co. applled to the Public Utilities | Commission today for permission to replace 15 of its opeman street car with new and improved, ones, of the same type to cost a total of $202,500. ! The application confrented the com- | mission with a perplexing problem, as it recently adopted.a policy of refusing to permit additional one-man cars to be put into operation in the District. The company pointed out, however, that its proposal is not to increase the number of one-man cars in opera- tion. It specifically offers to scrap the 15 old ones. The new cars will be equipped with both front and rear exits, the com- pany informed the commission. Pas- sengers can open the rear doors by standing on a ‘treadle” on the rear platform when. the car ‘is brought to a stop. The commission has set March 25 as the date for a public hearing on the petition of the same company to tear up its tracks and overhead' coristrub- tien on the'long abandoned line which operated from Wisconsin avenue and Macomb street to Western avenue. Lieut. Horn Transferred. | First Lieut. Charles A. Horn, Air | Service, at Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex.. has been ‘ordered to this city for duty in the office of the chief of Alr Service, War Department. R o Because he said she was too fat, Agnes Ayres, film star, is suing Cecil B. De Mille for $03,000. LARGEST SUBMARI at the Brooklyn Navy Yard after a test cruis Palmer Hutchinson, American Newspaper Alliance correspondent with the Wilkins Arctic expedition, who was killed by an airplane pro- peller yesterday. His articles have been appearing as a feature of Photo by Aeme, JOHNNY JONES IS ON THE JOB. SATURDAY, “QUACK-QUACK"” FOR Yellott and Mary Carolyn Henry took their pet with them. and he is better behaved when the Jones became known to a greater part of the world when he found the American balloonists in 1920 and guided them back to civilization at M Now he is among the gold seekers at Red E OF THE T tice, in northern Ontario. ake. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood MARCH 13, ' 1926. A WAL went w SO THE LITTLE F HES CAN'T GET OUT OF THE BASIN. TS FROM TH s on the playing reach an agréement as to how th the 1926 season. Putti E SHEEP fleld at Tampa., e local base b; iffith and Man- attempting to 1 s Several good outfielders and only W up gates at the Tidal Basin ont let yesterday in order to keep in the young bass, sunfish and crappies placed there by the United States Fish Commission. This photograph of the big underseas craft was taken PLANS TO INTRODUGE IMARVELS OF LIFE OF FLOWERS 15 NEW ONE-MANCARS ~ SHOWN IN UNUSUAL PICTURES Bursting of Bud to Formation of Seced in Few onds—Movement in, Pollen and Other Wonders Displayed at Lecture by A. C. Pillsbury. Flowers bursting into colorful bloom, then fading into dried seed, within a few seconds, curious hob- goblin-formed ferns unfolding like creatures of a fairy tale, and swirling movement within a graln of living pollen, as it grew into life, were among marvels projected on the mo- tion pieture screen at the Interior De- partment buflding auditorfum vester- day afternoon before a distinguished gathering in connection with a lecture, “The Life of a Flower,” by Arthur C. Pillsbury, official photographer of the Yosemite National Park. The occasion was an invitational gathering by the committee of the National Capital, of the Garden Club of America, with Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, chairman of the committee, and, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, first vice president of the .Garden Club of America,” as hostesses, Among the guests, which included members of the Garden Club.and some of the fore- most Sclentists and floriculturists in ‘Washington, were Secretary of the In- terior Work: and* Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Camera Specially Timed. The unusual motion pictures were made by Mr. Pillsbury with the use of a special adaptation of his motion picture camera, whereby photographs were taken at stated intervals varying from a few seconds to several min- utes, over the period of the flower life desired. Surprising and at times startling Jovely effects were achieved in the colored action pictures of grow- ing flowers and plants, Bclentific Interest has been stirred by this magnified display of plant life, especially as it concerns the disclosure of action details within the grain of pollen. These pictures, taken by using two microscopes in tandem, re- vealed swirling protoplasm within the grain of pollen, and the action of the nucleus, floating in protoplasm. With further development - of * system, Mr. Pjllsbury anncunced he hoped to be able to bring to the sight of the naked eye on the screen the chromio- somes,' which sclence says cafry the qualities of heredity. Bootleg Kills Flowers. Should the visibility of chromosomes in motion pictures be achieved, Mr. Pllisbury said, ‘there were possibilities of making discoveries of “noteworthy” value to the study of heredity. Photo- graphs of other living plant cells were shown and' described by the 'speaker’| as somewhat similar to the living cells within all 'plant and anfmal life. ' The pollen pictured was that of the sweet ea. : Among the flowers which were pro- Jjected with beautiful coloring upon the screen were the purple heather, azalea, blazing star; -orchid, poppy, trillium, columbine,® Wild rose, dog- wood, leopard lily and others. - Grow- ing acorns, seeding grass and bloom- ing maple trees were also revealed in action. X > A novelty was the effect of “bootleg” in bottles on certain flowers. The mo- tion pictures revealed that flowers in water stood erect, bloomed, opened and shut, in health, but that even in a solutlon as weak as 5 per cent of “bootleg” they withered. Mr. Pillshury also took in pletur the eC- his audience |and it was submerged by P. & A. Photos CITIZENSHIP URGED FOR OUSTED SENATOR Virginia Legislators Sign Petitions to President in Behalf of Smith. | Special Dispateh to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., March 13.—Mem- bers of both branches are signing pe- titions asking that President Coolidge and the Governor of South Carolina grant a full pardon to former nator who was expelled from the Virginia Senate Thursday on charges that he had been convicted some years ago of forgery in South Carolina and also in Virginia. Few members of the Senate have so far declined to sign the petitions, some who voted against him leading in the move to have a pardon issued to the man. Smith was at the Capitol yesterday for a brief time. —_— grandeur .of Yosemite National Park, revealing the power and glory of nu- merous' waterfalls, canyons and high s, The speaker was introduced by Stephen T. Mather, director of the National Park Service of the Depart- ment of the Interior, who commended Mr. Pillsbury for his work, both in the interests of Yosemite National Park and of the flowers. The honorary chairman of the Com- mittee of the National Capital, Garden Club of America, under whose aus- pices the lecture and exhibition were givem is Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. In ad- dition to Mrs. Noyes, the chairman, the officers are Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, vice chairman, and Mrs. Willlam Cor- coran Eustis, Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, Charles Moore, Frederic Delano, Da- vid Fairchild, Maj. U. S. Grant,'3rd, Mrs. Robert L. Bacon, membe: of the advisory councll, Alfredl. C. Smith of Norfolk County, | The Basin is expected to be a great resort for Washington fishermen t RARE PROGRAM DUE AT SHOW TONIGHT Carnival Spirit to Prevail as Industrial Exposition Comes to Close. [ Carnival spirit will prevail Washington Auditorium tonight when the second annual industrial exposition of the Chamber of Commerce Wwill be brought to a clo: Designated night.”” limax of 10 highly Chief among tonight »e announcement of awards in vari contests. An expert committee, he: Roy Thayer. will judge the the Charleston competition committee man and Sol “All will mark the finals in Mardi G n evidence tonight, u formulated by the ¢ tee. rmitted in the udi following the closing to. night—is pl . while it ix probabl that visitor: be allowed to until a later hour than usual. Chance for * t Look.” In the crowd tonight are expected to be a large number of persons who, having visited the exposition last week or earlier in the current week desire to obtain a_last look at the various exhibits. Exhibitors reported a considerable total of such visitors during the past few days. and the expectation is that the aggregate will be augmented tonight. Prominent men in civic and com 1 circles were present last s “Board of Trade and National Guard Night” activities. Aniong some of the leading organization members present were J. Harry Cunningham president of the Washington Board of Trade; Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commander of the National Guard: Ross P. Andrews, president of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation; Martin A. Leese, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Isaac Gans, past president of the chamber, and Richard L. Conner, assistant sec- retary of the Board of Trade. The National Guard eyhibit drew hundreds of interested spectators throughout the evening. This display, complete to the last detail, shows graphically the work of the National Guard, indicates its duties, portra; its leading activitles and gives an i sight into the important art of public protection. Guardsmen Serve as Guides. Guardsmen were kept busy last night guiding visitors through the mazes of their interesting “sand pic- tures” and explaining the operation of various firearms. This exhibit will, of course, be open tonight, as will all the others that have been a feature of the exposition since the opening. The 121st Engineers' Band, und the direction of Warrant Meyer Goldman, furnished throughout the evening. Among the entrants in the Charles- ton contest, and from among which number tonight’s winners may be drawn, are the following: Juvénile class—Celeste Howe, Mar- Lgaret Leyvy, Frhel Willis, Esther Osin, to be held music the | Washington | S [and sometimes the per iold- | s Summer Waghington Star Phot “FORBIDDEN CITY" LECTURER'S TOPIC { Dr. Osvald Siren Describes Wonderful Group of Royal Buildings in Peking. | One of the most remarkable existinz groups of roval bt s, “the Purpl | ¥ 1 Pek was de | seribe d for members of 3 aphic Soclety - Dr. Osvald Siren of Stock rersity, who made a study of with the Tant roperatior ynal guidancs peror. The he Masoni jof the youthful deposed red Temple Auditorium. | Gate after gate is thrown across tt great inclosure. Dr. Siren declare Jach is placed on a huge terrace ion to being a gate {rier supports huge and | lecorated buildings, most of them ha mi-public character | gleaming [m, buildin = golden greatest of the structures is the Hall of Supreme Harmony.” in whicl is a tall throne dais. Another hal was used especially for the receptio jof scholars. vt of im | porial dep ent of agr Iture. ir | which i Spring the Empere viewnd ural implements | seeds, The was the ple | in another apartments ¢ |e | o of Cloudless Heavens H sure palace of the ruler o emperor and hix onsort. f Joveus Song" | was a pri ATl thess | halls ha 2 the { rise of the r | “Outside the | but still carefully inclose: led a Pa ] | the banks of lakes. Picturesque Nomenclature. ! Picturesque ( nomenclatis e | there rises to its g sights, The | group of building: the “Pa vition of Sweet Frag ' the “Pa vilion of the Feeding of the Fish,” the “Pavilion of Diffused Coolness™ and the “Pavilion of Wriggling Bright ness.” In the grounds of the palaces fly birds with wooden whistles at tached to_their tails, so that their flight produces a weird sound. The sea palaces and their grounds are see: | by foreigners only during presidentia! rden parties. “orbidden City prope arve the s hese are o Anna May Wilfrey, owiotis, Florence Abell, mma Trexler, tin, Evelyn Logan and Sa Girls' division—Georgia m ‘Fusch, Margaret y Lindsley Browning, Margaret Voigt ump, Caroline Springsguth, Dor- thy Cotes, Helen Dulin and Margaret Mulli Bo; Herman, Kound Anna ¢, Thelma ser, Albert Bernard Phillips Emanuel Angelico , Adolph Ditoto, Ilarry John Baggett, Louis Kraemer, Oscar Snow, Teddy Mosley Joseph Sheehan, Fred Finch, Charles O'Brien and William C. Devlin. Emma. Ton Fusch and Jerry Man- 527 had entered in the “doubles.”