Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1926, Page 17

MAGAZINE EDITOR U (in center, with cigar in hand) The magazine was banned, and Menckew, to make a test case in cou Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney, a THE recently palace in NEW CHARGE LAID ~ AGAINST SINGER Mrs. Dornblaser Accused of Blocking Justice in “Poison Pen” Letter Case. Ry the Amsociated Prass XEW YORK. April pen” letter alleged to have been sent her divorced husband by Mre Locke Dornblaser has resulted in an other Federal Indictment against the former opera prima donua. whose matrimonial difficulties have kept her before the public for the last de cade. Previously indicted for sending Aan obscene letter to Arthur H. Marks, president of the Skinner Organ Co.. #he now I8 accused of obstructing jus tice. Mrs. Mary Frances Adams of Joplin. Mo.. Mrs. Dornblaser’s sister. A “poison and Thomas F. Twyford. an attornev, | Wisn were indicted yesterday for ob structing Jjustice. Twyford is accused of having inter repted Mrs. Adams on her way to New | York last Fall to testify under suh poena. Admission Repudiated. 1t 1= charged that Mrs. Dornblaser and Twyford consulted Mrs. Adams re. garding the story she should tell the grand jury. Before the jury Mrs. Adams repudiated admissions that she had mailed the letter for her sister with the aid of a train porter at Belle- | fontaine, Ohio, July 29 last. The contents of the letter have never been made public, but it is understoofl to have attacked Mrs. Margaret Hoover Marks, who married Marks four months after his divorce from Mra. Dornblaser. At the time of the divorce, a set- tlement of $400,000 was made upon Mra. Dornblaser by Marks with a promise of an additional $100,000 if her conduct should be satisfactory to him for a year. Before the end of the year Mrs. Dornbiaser appeared with & child, which she asserted was Mr. Marks'. Investigation disclosed that it had been taken from an orphanage in Kansas City. Was Her Third Husband. Mr. Marks was the singer's third hushand. Her first was “Prince” Tay- lor. race follower, whom she shot and killad in Reno, Nev., in 1909. Taylor | exonerated her in a deathbed state- ment, asserting that the shooting was accidental. Her second husband was Orville Harold, Metropolitan Opera tenor. They were divorced in 1917 Shortly afterward she married Mr. Marks. Her present husband, Harry Dorn- blaser, formerly was her secretar: ALFONSO OPENS CANAL. Waterway Admits Large Vessels to Port of Seville. SEVILLE, fpain, April 7 (#).—The | Canal, connecting the sea, was opened ing Alfonso, who came Alfonso ~ XIII. Sevills with yestarday by here on the Afgentine cruiser Buenos | Afres. The ships to ente gardlaas of t nal will permit large the port of Seville re- al conditions. Ogden H. \Hammond, American Ambassador, a:‘ondad the blessing of the canal by Cdrdinil Thundain, Arch biehep of Sevill and the cutting of a rope by the k to~seactraflic, DOR appointed representative of the United § Madrid to present his eredentials to King Alfonso Lydia | g, opening the canal | STRE SALE under arrest in Boston for selling a t left center. Arresting officer at TO AN PRESENTS HIN (R} ates in Spain, returning Postal Receipts | Gained 15 Per Cent | Over March, 1925 By the Associaind Tress March postal recepits were larger | than any month on record, ex- cepting December, 1924 and 1925, the Post Office Department an- nounced yesterdar. Receipts at the 30 selected post totaled $33.454,478. an in of $4.3§0,387. or 15.02 per over AMarch last year hut $5.000.000 less than the month Drecember last crease cent. about vecord vea Fort Worth with an incres led the &0 -offices ase of 47.70 per cent Jacksonville was second with 38.45 per cent increase. Baltimore third 34.20, Akron fourth , with and Memphis fifth with 25.73. of the offices showed a de- Increase in receipts over March last vear in other Southern offices 50 selected cities _were: 17.61 per cent; Dallas, Louisville, 16.16; New 6.4% lchmond, 17. 2447 and Houston, FIRST BERLIN RO OVER DAWES PLAN Germany Proposes Inmternational Arbitration on Beer Tax Increase After Reichstag Acts. By the Associated Prees BERLIN, April 7.—For the first time since the Dawes plan became operative, a_conflict has arisen be- tween the German government and | Sir Andrew McFaydean, the commis- sioner of controlled revenues under the plan, The commissioner has | | ralsed objections to the measure | adopted by the Reichstag providing for postponement of the increase in the beer tax until January, 1927. ‘He asserted this might cause a deficit in the controlled revenues for next year, when Germany must meet heavy rep- | aration payments. | Sir Andrew agreed to postponement of the increase until July, 1926, but Germany now proposes to submit the | dispute to international arbitration in accordance with the London agree- ment, which established the Dawes plan.” Should the decision go against Germany, it i believed probable that the entire budget. of which the beer tax is a part, will have to be resub- mitted to the Reichstag. DISTRICT ATTORNEY HELD. | Wisconsin éo—ngrenionnl Aspirant | Charged With Dry Law Violation. WAUSAU, Wis, Aprll 7 (P.— George W. Lippert, district attorney of Marathon County and candidate agalnst E. E. Browne of Waupaca for the Republican nomination for Congress In this district, was arrest- ed vesterday on a Federal warrant | charging conspiracy to violate the prohibition law and the Federal pe- | nal eode. | He was released on £4,000 bhond Lippert declared he is ‘"absolutely innocent and the victim of a boot- 4 N wpy of his magazine on the street. 1, sold a copy in order o he arrested. IDENTIALS, BOSTO! Henry 1. Mencken Photo by Acme. Hammond, ¢ a trip to the A4 Photo. Ouden to the embassy aft BULLET CLIPS DICTATOR'S D. €, WEDNESDAY, ) NOSE. According to dispatches, Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy was not seriously injured by a bullet fired by a weman. This photograp! h was taken few days ago, when Mussolini saluted the Faseisti during the seventh anniversary review Fron Gov . R. Fa who is in Washingt of the Necretary of Hubert Work. Copy the islands to the westwa, W. R. Farrington of Hawali ) oas the CUPS EXCEPT THE ONE HE DESIRES THE MOST. unable to lift the biggest trophy of all, GEN. PANGALOS IN LEAD FOR GREEK PRESIDENT| | Has 90 Per Cent of Votes So Far, New Decree Empowers Demand of Confidence Every Session. By the Associated Press ATHENS, Greece, April 7.—An official decree has been lssued modi- fying . the constitution so that the President of the republic always can dissolve the Chamber hefore the ex- piration- af his term, The President also would be empowered to demand a vote of confidence In the govern- ment once every session, and that, if the vote is obtained, no motion of want of confidence can be moved at the same session. Under the present form of adminis- tration in Greece, Gen. Theodorus, Pangalos not only Is premler, but is also dictator. When he became die- tator he made the public announce- ment that he assumed all responsi- biffty. Presidential elections have been partly carried out. Twelve of the thirty-five provinces have voted, and Gen. Pangalos has received about. 90 per cent of the votes for the office of President. R S - Col. Hawkins to Manila. .Recent orders to €ol. Hamilton S. Hawkins, 34 Cavalry, commanding the post of Fort Myer, Va., have been amended so as to provide for his detail to the general staff and mssign- ( ment as chief of staff, Philippine de-|debut in the same character at the | He 'age of 10 with a juvenile company. partment, effective August 18. will_be\relieved nf his present du at Fort Myer in time,_to_sall, fi0) ew York the America’s cup. Wide World I This singing monkey is th thing in freak ani that Zip, owned Lincke, here from ( like 3 hird.” ADMIRAL PEARY HONORED AS OTHER E the tomb of Admiral Peary, in . y of the discovery Veterans of Foreign Wars and the National Geograpl teenth anniversary r trip to the Capital for w lidge by Senator Duncan U 1 Sir Thomas Lipton, now in this country to challenge the Ameriean and his collection of trophies won in various regattas. The cups were won over a period of 30 years, but Sir Thomas has been Conversion of Coal Into Gas at Mines Is Forecast by Expert as Future Step By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla, April 7.—A predic- tion that virtually the entire world's supply of coal'will be transformed into gas at the mine and distributed through “supergas” plants in the com- paratively near future eas made lust night by Arthur D. Little of Boston, head of a research laboratory hearing his name, in an address hefore the American Chemical Society in con- vention here. Dealing exhaustively In the uses and possibilities of carbon products, Dr. Little also predicted that petra: leum soon may provide the cheap est base for the synthesis of rubber. He disagreed with engineers who have prophesied that coal would be transformed into electrical energy by “superpower’’ plants at the mines. “Thelr sponsors commonly ignore the fact that the enormous quantities | of water required for such plants are very rarely available at any mine," Lit(le said. “Supergas plants, on the contrary, require very little water, but may nevertheless distribute potential heat energy over wide areas. “The Industrial use of gas has just begun and the inevitable house heat- ing by gas has hardly started. Hav- ing learned to cook by gas; we shall presently extend its use to the gas- fired refrigerator.” “PINAFORE” IS REVIVED. Famous ~ Operetta . Elaborately Staged by Shuberts in New York. NEW YORK, April 7 Gilbert and Sullivan's ‘“Pinafore, or the -Lass Who Loved a Sailor,” was glven last night in the most elaborate presentation in its 48 years, when the Messrs. Shubert received it at the Tenttiry Theater. - WilHam. Danforth Deéad Eye of the musical piece, a character originated by Temple. The performance also was in the nature of a revival for Mr. Dan- forth: as “he made’ "his theatrical The_setting for this presentation of ;3bip,. operetta includes a frigate. 60 ., from mt July 28 for his new [feét long, with 70 foot masts, which ®.—| was the Dick | Richard | 'BRITISH DIPLOMAT DIES. Sir John McLeavy Brown Noted for Successful Work in Korea. LONDON, Aprit 7 (®).—Sir John |"McLeavy Brown, noted for his career in the diplomatic service in the Far | age of 84. His most notable achieve- | ment in the Orient was his successful crossing of diplomatic swords with the Russian Admiral Alexieff, when the | latter ‘was first sent to Korea to at- tempt the peaceful financial annex- atfon of that empire to Czarist Russia | a quarter century ago. | Sir John was an authority on the languages of the Far East. He knew Chinese, Japanese, Russian and other European languages. He also was an | authority on Roman law. From 1896 to 1906, he was head of the customs ! East a generation ago, died here at the | Wide World Photo. MARYLAND GUARDS PICK VIRGINIA BEACH Encampment Starts May 25 if Liti- gation Regarding Military Rights Is Favorably Decided. Special Dispatch to The Star, RICHMOND, Va., April 7.—The Maryland National Guard has ar- ranged to have its summer encamp- ment at Virginia Beach beginning July 25, the date -on which the en- campment of the Virginia guard is td end, but there is a possibility that the litigation involving the right of the State to ise the camp and to engage in target practice may inter- fere with this plan. i % The suit has heen presented to the Circuit Court of this city. Until Judge Scott disposes of the matter the plans for the usual ‘Summer encampment will not be completed. For the first time since the World War, the Richmond Light Infantry Blues will not be in camp this year. { The command has been permitted to | leave the State and make a visit to | Burope, leaving here the first of May to be away a month. “Death Note” Laid to Boys. Police of the fourteenth precinct are searching for some mischievous ys who are believell to have sent a eath threat” to Edgar A. Beh- rend, 2803 Woodley road, last night. About 8:30 o'clock the Behrend door- bell rang vigorously and when it was answered, a piece of paper, bearinz skull and cross bones and the word | “death” was found. Lieut. Grove of the precinet conducted the investiga- EDITION onal Cemet North Pole. PREPARE Arlington Na of the fhe serviee w Society BALL. TEAM OF FLORIDA V nming the State cham Fletcher. Room Too Small For Couzens and Wayne B. Wheeler The meeting room of the Senate Civil Service committes was not big enough to hold both Senator Couzens of Michigan and Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, at the same time when the committee met yves terday to consider a bill which would place prohibition agents under civil service appointment e meeting was intended to ba executive, but apparently there was seme misunderstanding over this point and Mr. Wheeler and another individual were present just hefore the <ession started Sen: N who is ch aid he saw the two strangers in the room, and, since the meeting was to he a closed one, said he r quested that they step’ out. The Senator said he did not know either of ther d today what occurred, Sen- r Couzens said: After they had left the room an- other Senator inquired it M Wheeler could address the comm tee. 1 replied, ‘Not while 1 am chairman. If you want him to come in [ will go out.’ " The meeting continued in execu- tive session. BUSINESS OUTLOOK BRIGHT, SAYS GRACE Bethlehem Steel Stockholders Told No Cause for Alarm Is Visible on Horizon. By the Associated Press. NEWARK. N. I, April An optimistic forecast of business condi tions was made by Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration, at the annual stockholders’ meeting of the corporation here yes- terday. “I can see no cause for alarm over business conditions,” Mr. Grace said. ‘e have every reason to look for- ward to a bright future." Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of directors, touching on cor- poration affairs, said officers deeply appreciated the trust placed in them “We never have taken advantage of that trust for personal gain and we never will,” he added. *“We have no personal axes to grind. Everyihing we do is for the good of the corpo- ration and the stockholders.” C. Austin Buck, O. G. Jennings, Percy A. Rockefeller, Mr. Schwab and Harold Stanley were re-elected direc- tors. The recent offering of $35 000,000 7 per cent preferred stock was approved. Mr. Grace said the stock issue had been oversubscribed. Cupid Stages Own “Parade.” NEW YORK, April 6 (#).—Cupid held a_parade all his own yesterday to vie 'with that of Easter Sunday. A hundred and seventy-three couples paraded to the marriage license bu- | reau for licenses, and 96 were miar jried in the chapel by Deputy City i Clerk MecCormick. yesterday, in commemoration « TS THE WHITE HOU iship, F( Service at the seven- as held under the auspices of the Copsright by F A Photos £ v \_(N'i!o4 HA)M PS. 1" AL E. The girls presented to Harris & Fwing and they Copy were £ht by CHICACD SOPRANO T0 SING “SUZANNE Other Artists Secured for Double Performance Here April 15. Dora de Phillippe, soprane of the Chicago Opera Co., one of the many artists who offered their services for the special performance to be given by the Washington Opera Co., in hon- or of its conductor, Jacques Samas- . has heen selected by Director n to sing the leading role in “The ret of Suzanne. This opera will_be giv junction with “Pagliacc double performance April Washington Auditorium Miss de Phillippe, who is now ap- pearing for the seventh season with the Chicage Opera Association, ated the role of Suzanne in the inal production, and also sang {r. Albion several years ago in the Canadian Opera Co Many Offers Made. Ever since it was made known that the musiclans of the Washington Opera Co. would pay this tribute ta Mr. Samassoud offers have been com- ing in from artist friends of his from the Metropolitan, Chicago and other opera companies to lend themselves for the occasion After careful consideration Mr. Al- bion has selected singers for most of the leading roles. Ivan Ivantzoff, baritone, will sing opposite Miss de Phillippe, in the role of Count Gils. Sante, the part of the dummy but ler, will be done by George Chesha novsky, who received the great ova- tion lately in Washington as the herald in “Lohengrin.” He will also sing Silvio in “Pagliacci,” and the role of Tonio will be sung by Ivanisoff. The Russian tenor, Mark Markoff, who sang under the direction of Sa massoud in Leningrad. was being re served for a debut in New York next year, but, at the request of Mr. Samassoud, has heen asked to sing the leading role in “Pagliacei,” Canto, which is the role opposite Nceda, to he sung by Ellen Delos Miss Delossy is the prima donna in the Metropolitan who has created such a sensation in her charterization of Lizbeta in the opera “Cena della Beffe.” MRS. BYFIELD DIVORCED. Woman Who Sued Walter Candler on Ship Story Wins Decree. ATLANTA, Ga., April 7 . Sarah G. Byfleld was in possession of her first decree of divorce' from Clyde K. Byfleld today. Her suit in Fulton County Superior Court was undefended. Mrs. Byfield figured as one of the principals in a suit for damages against Walter Candler of Atlanta, in which Candler was alleged to have conducted himself improperly to- ward Mrs. Byfield aboard the Beren- garia two years ago. Mr. Byfield subsequently won a suit from Mr. Candler for around 000 on a note in at 15 at con- the the cre- An 18-hole golf--course has heen | in_connection with the same affair. Mrs. Byfield charged that her health tion last night and Lieut. Sullivan is started in connection with a tourist { had been impaired by the treatment eccordad-ies 1