Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1926, Page 13

.__THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1926. BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN THE STATES NU) pageant staged at fhe Sesquicentennial Exposition. Men of th tumes and Philadelphia women took the parts of colonial dames. A scene from the High street historical Marine Corps were dressed in colonial cos- Photo shows the old-time sedan chair. SALM AND HER S PETER. Exclusive photograph apped the heach at Southampton, Long Island. The countess was s Millicent Rogers, daughter of H. H. Rogers, P‘l’ dard Oil magnate. THE CROWN PRINCE OF SWEDEN BECOMES AN ARAPAHOE INDIAN. At least he has been initiated into the tribe, and this photograph shows f the cere The heir to Sweden’s throne is seated and Col. Timothy McCoy, noted Indian authority, nslating ribal name of the prince i 2l n 5 . The t o LINCOLN'S “BUTTER AND EGG MAN.” Angeles, who sold butter and eggs 1L, before the Civil War, Charles Beck, 98, of Tos to Abraham Lincoln in Springfield; Beck fought in the war between the States. Photo by Herbert. Copsright by P. & A. P) orld Photo. Booley Mitcheil, 4 municipal courts tennis ¢ ship of Washington. He h cup which was presented to him on the Monument Grounds Sunday. Copyright by Underwood & Vnderwond. f the 1926 TO HELP THE DRIV BY NI Bureau of Standards experimenting with a new headlight arrangement of four lamps. One set is for a widle flood light in front of the car. The other is designed to throw the light far ahead. . 7 GHT. Dr. H. C. Dickinson of the Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Why does Mrs. Coolidge carry the whistle? You may answer the question, for she has not told why. Maybe it Is to call the White House m- l'm accompanied the Presi- ”r‘p‘fly to White Pine Camp? wht by Underwood & Underwood. “OPEN-EYE"” HOSIERY FOR SUM Chaney. for the hot Summer days. MER DAY The idea comes from California and has been introduced on the Pacific Coast by Miss Maris The stockings are a mass of “wide-open spaces, nt ideal Copyright by Undarwood & Underwond. PLEATO PRESIDENT IN RANCH TRAGEDY Mother, Bitten by Snake, Ends Children’s Lives and «Dies—Father Was Away. Echoes of a desert tragedy on the sun-swept wastes of Arizona several months ago, when a mother, bitten by a rattlesnake, shot and killed her two ehildren and then lay down to die from the snake-bite and loss of blood, came to Washington today in a re- uest from two Arizona members of ongress to set aside temporarily land Jaws and relleve the husband and father of the obligation to remain on | his homestead until his claim is proven. Senator Ralph Cameron and Repre- sentative Carl Hayden of Arizona have filed with Commissioner General Spr of the Qeneral Land Office w letter sent to them by Evan Cox, the home- steader, and plan either to urge President Coolidge to issue an execu- tive order lifting the residence re- quirement. in this case or to introduce a bill granting this privilege to Cox in Congress nmext December. Cox de- clares in his letter that the flood of gemorlu brought back to him in e lonely cabin on the Arizona desert makes it impossible for him to remain in the house for the seven months’ residence required each year by the land laws. No ' Precedent Found. Commissioner Spry says he cannot do anything toward setting aside the law even in such a case as that of Jones. The power of lifting the law does not rest with him, he points out, aven though he feels deeply that spe- clal dispensation should be made in what he characterizes as s “horrible tragedy.” There is no precedent for an exeoutlve order setting aside the flaw in & case of this character. Aroused by a noise near the chicken on the lonely Arizona farm one night lgst Winter, Mrs. Cox stepped outside her cabin to investigate. As she walked toward the chicken coop she was bitten on the instep by a rattle snake. Hurrying back into the cabin, she tled a tourniquet on her leg below the knee and cut the wound open to facilitate drainage. Her hus- band was 50 milas away working on 2 dam project and her nearest neigh- bor was six miles away, with no tele- | | phones available. Failing to pull the tourniquet tight, she did not stop the flow of blood to her foot, and as she cut open the wound of the snake bite she severed an artery. Fearing that the children might be bitten by a snake or die of hunger, she seized a shotgun and killed them and then laid down on the floor to expire. Neighbors found she three bodies later. Can Understand Feeling. Cox told Senator Cameron that his title to the land has been sealed by the blood of his family, but that does not meet the requirements of the law. Commissioner Spry says the homesteader finds it impossible to return to his lonely cabin, marked with the blood-stains of his family. Commissioner Spry is familiar with the difficulties faced by those who go out into t sandy wastes of the ( Southwest to grapple with nature for R a home. “I can ploture the feeling of this woman after she was bitten by the snmke,” he said. “‘Far from other human habitations, she could visual- Malt Output in U. S. Increases 46.4 Pet. By Census of 1925 | | | anufactures of malt had an put valued at $24,053,000 in 1925, an increase, the Commerce Department announced today, of 46.4 per cent over the $16,431,000 production in 1923, when the last census was taken. Of ihe total, $21,767,000 was contributed 038,000 bushels of malt 000 by othef products. The number of establishments remained the same as last at 22, with nine located in Wiscon: sin, four in New York and the re- | mainder in Tilinois, Minnesota, California and Towa. CHURCHILL REPLY TOBORAH DECRIED | | | London Paper Assails Bandy- ing of Words and Defends Debt Pact as Practical. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 27.—The action of Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, in retorting to a state- ment by United States Senator Borah concerning the Angfo-American debt | settlement has drawn an editorial re- buke from the London Times. The paper strongly condemns the “irregu- ar, protracted and aimless contro versy” between the two countries on | the debt. question. "The Times argues that plain speak- ing, even upon. such a delicate sub- ject, is not harmful as long as proper proportions are observed. “It may even do good,” the paper continues, “if it reminds the American people that the British attitude on war debts differs in some essentials from that expressed in the policy of their own Government. Holds Recriminations Futile. | “What is utterly futile, intolerable I and even dangerous is to let a serious discussion degenerate into a bandying words, a fusillade of mutual minations. Mr. Churchill has now | gone so far as to make public retort to | one of Senator Borah's tirades. When | things-reach that point it is really necessary to call a hait.” | "The gist of the Times' editorial is | that | States has been settled on the only terms possible and that there is no goud in tryiug to go back on the agreement. ‘Asserting that there is a new dread of instability pussing over lurope { the paper add ‘This_is the very | worst moment for the two nations, | which have vindicated thelr stability, to undermine by petty controversy the basis of a practical agreement by | which they mutually assure their pres- | tige and marshal their joint forces and | resources for the benefit of a world in | great distress. 1ze h children slowly dying from hunger, possibly bitten by snakes, to dle a lingering death. Of course, we cannot know what passed through her mind, but undoubtedly she thought she was doing the right lb‘ng." re- | the British debt to ‘the United | DWYER GETS TERM Fine of $10,000 Added in Conviction of Alleged “King of Bootleggers.” By the Associated Press. NEI YORK, Jui Dwyer, race track owner and head of a svndicate sald to have controlled 8 steamships and smuggled $40,.- 00,000 worth of liquor into the Unit- ed States, has been found guilty of | conspiracy to violate the prohibition law and sentenced to the maximum 1 0 . (. Cohron, garage owner and “payoff” man for the syndicate, was cted with Dwyer, six tried with them, y are Arch . Walter W mbridge, Edward 1d William B. Maloney. | Federal Judge Julian W tenced Dwyer to two years ment and fined him $10,000 after his conviction Jast night. Cohron got two years and $5,000, They gaid they would appeal. Court Says Guilt Is Clear. The court refused a plea of the de- fense for leniency and for delay in sentence, saying: “There has been wholesale bribery and violation of the law and on the evidence there is not a shadow of doubt of gullt.” The prisoners spent the night at home in the custody of marshals, be- fore being remanded to prison today. The specific charge against Dwyer upen his arrest with 20 others, De- cember 3, 1925 conspiracy to bring 4,083 liquor into the Unfted States in bunkers of the steamship Augusta. The ring had of- fices in a New York bank bullding. In remarks of prosecution counsel in court, Dwyer was referred to as “the ng of the bootleggers.” On January 26 the grand jury in- dicted 61 men, including 13 members jand former members of the Coast | Guard. Three days later Hans Fuhr- mann, one of the most important wit- ; nesses against Dwyer was found in his hotel room with a bullet through , his head. i Other Indictments. Pending. | _Among three indictments against | Dwyer on which he has not been tried is one of felony in sending 12 men to their deaths in an unseaworthy vessel. | Dwyer owns the Coney Island race track at Cincinnati and the Mount | Royal track in Montreal. began July 6. Two days were needed | to_pick jurors because talesmen not prejudiced against the prohibition law were hard to find. One defendant pleaded guilty and two were dis. charged. Witng or the, Government told of bribery and of attempted bribery of coast guardsmen, customs inspectors and prohibition enforcement officers, of i the use of Government vessels to land liquor, of a coast guard vessel em- ployved to guard rum vessels and hint- ed of protection from Washington. A. Bruce Bielaski, '‘under-cover” for the prohibition forces, testified that as the representative here of Lincoln C. Andrews, he received a salary of §1,100 a month and that he paid varying amounts to confessed rum runners ap- pearing as prosecution witnesses in the trial, Gallagher OF 2 YEARS IN JAIL His trial | Cohn Sues Cake in Alleged Fake Sale Of Collection of “Genuine” Rare Abe Cohn, 606 Thirteenth street suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $7,500 from F. H. 8. Cake. 1431 Chapin street. Cohn charges that Cake deceived him re- garding the genuineness of a collec- tion of stamps and collected $9,000 from him. when the collection is really worth only $1,500. Cohn tells the court that May 18 last Cake visited Charles Kohen, agent of the plaintiff, and told him he had a collection of genuinely rare United States stamps, including many of high market value to stamp col- lectors. He agreed with Kohen to pay | him $5.000 commission if he could ef- fect a sale for $30.000. Cake, it is al- leged, would exhibit the collection tamps only after sundown, when the plaintiff {and his agent, Kohen, could not ‘‘de- tect the character of safd stamps.’” Cake also insisted, the court is in- formed, on a cash settlement. The purchaser now declares that the stamps are not genuine and rare, but are ‘“pleced together and that ordinary stamps of little value havé been put, inverted and pasted so as to hdve the appearance of rarities.” | Thls “was discovered, he states, on close inspection by experts dn the Treasury Department and other philatelic experts, who declared. he |asserts. some of the stamps to be only “cardboard proofs of genuine stamps.” Attorney Harlan Wood appears for the purchaser. s STAYTON WILLAD INDRY SHIP FIGHT Wet Leader Offers Letters to 0’Connor in Backing Up Leviathan Charges. That he is prepared to substantiate by letters and testimony his charge that liquor is being sold on the Levi- athan was the information conveyed to Chairman O'Connor of the Shipping Board vesterday by W. H. Stayton, head of the Association against’ the Prohibition Amendment. He said he shad no thought of criticizing any member of the board, but, on the other hand, sought to show that “in spite of honest efforts of able men, your board, along with many officials in other departments, was the victim of a cancerous law. “If you decide to Investigate the matter, 1 will gladly co-operate with you and produce all the letters and testimony 1 have.” In a letter to the Shipping Board chairman, Stayton declared the pro- hibition law could not be enforced on land or sea, and continued: Defends Leviathan Seamen. “How can we expect the employes on the Leviathan to either respect or obey the law? They see alongside them a Cunard liner (British flag) going out of New York. They know that the Constitution forbids the presence of intoxicating beverages on that ship in our waters. They know that the Supreme Court of the United States declared that the presence of such liguors on the Cunarder would be unlawful and unconstitutional. They know that in spite of this the Cunarder is connivingly permitted to bring the stuff into our ports and sell it at sea to the profit of the British owners and the advantage of the Brit- ish taxpayer. ~And they know that the American shipowner is penalized and discriminated against, because he is American and not British, and he is not permitted to make the profit the Britisher makes, not to aid his fellow taxpaver. “A system which such discrimia- tion and winks at constitutional viola- tions in fayor of the British cannot be expected to appeal to those who know of Lexington and Concord.” PISONEDLGUOR SUSPECT FOUND Man Wanted in Series of Deaths in New York and On- tario Gives Self Up. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y, July 27.—James Voelker, sought as the distributor of poisonous liquor which has left a trail of dead and blipd along the Buf- falo-Niagara frontier, today appeared voluntarily at police headquarters in | company with his lawyer and sur- rendered. Voelker was named as the some of the fatal liquor by soft drink places where. victims pur- chased it. The police said they found in a garage in the rear of Voelker's home white sticks of a chalk-like substance which is used in remeoving poison from wood alcohol. Voelker refused to make any state- ment to the police. It was said he would be given an opportunity to plead to a charge of manslaughter, first degree, later in the day. ! May Have Been Imported. | Police and Federal authorities. on i both sides of the Canadian border | were runing down clues today con- cerning the origin and novement of | the poison which took 34 lives and | made others blind and ill. ‘i One theory was that the liquor | originated in Germany or Belgium, | ;Wnn shipped to New York and from | there to Buffalo. Here it was un- successfully . redistilled and was smuggled into Canada, where it was used in the production of cheap gin and whisky. Some of this liquor found its way back to Buffalo soft drink places falsely labeled as good Canadian liguor, and the remainder was disposed of In Canada at cheap prices. HAMILTON, Ontarlo, July 27 (). — Robert Little, a carpenter, is dead, Supposedly from _ having drunk poisoned liquor. -He {8 the seven- | teenth resident of Ontario reported to have died recently from alcoholic poisoning v —_— Pride in Ancestry. From the St. Paul Farmers' Dispatch. HOLDS ARICA ROW MAY BE SETTLED Ambassador Collier, Reach- ing New York, Says U. S. Mediation Still Possible. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. July —Settlement of the Tacna-Arica dispute through American mediation still is possible, William Miller Collier, Ambassador to Chile, sald yesterday on his arrival from Santiago on vacation. “I left Santlago 19 days ago,” Mr. Colller said, “and therefore am un- informed as to recent developments in the Tac rica matter. At that time, however, despite Chile’s previous formal declaration that the good offices of the United States had Leen unavailing, there was in political as well as business circles a manifesta- tion. of strong, sincere and very geu- | eral desire to renew the efforts to settle the matter in this w: 1 be lieve that eventually this will succeed. ‘There is no reason to be discouraged by the negotiations to date.” PROTEST IS ORDERED. Chilean Envoy Asked to Notify Presi- dent Coolidge of Attitude. SANTIAGO, Chile, July 27 (®).— The Chilean minister of foreign rela- | tions has sent instructions to the | Chilean Ambassador at Washington | requesting him to present to the arbi- ter, President Coolidge. a vigorous protest against the recent motion of | Gen. William Lassiter declaring that | a plebiscite in Tacna-Arica was im- | practical at present. The protest will argue that not even the arbiter himself was empowered to make’ such a declaration, and much less Gen. Lassiter, who only had those powers that had been delegated him. It is also understood that a contention will be made that, since all armed forces within the territories in dispute were under orders of the plebiscitary commission, even if unfavorable con- ditions existed, Gen. Lassiter did not have the right to declare the plebiscite fmpractical wntil all means at his dis- posal had been exhausted for improv- ing the situation. Furthermore, the protest will in- clude arguments and data presented by Augustin Edwards, the Chilean del- | egate, before the commission designed 1o refute the facts on which Gen. Las- siter based his resolution against an immediate plebiscite. May Uphold Lassiter. Pending receipt and study of the Chilean protest against Gen. Lassiter's motion declaring against a plebiscite at the present in Tacna-Arica, it is anticipated here that the President will uphold the general’s position. 1t is pointed out that the general has actyal knowledge of conditions in the two 'provinces and that President Coolldge has indorsed his actions throughout. Olive 0il Exports From Greece. By a recent decree, 2,500,000 okes of ollve oil may be exported trom Greece, .subject to an export tax of 3.80. drach- mas per oke. As to districts of origin, 1,000,000 okes of this amount may. he exported from each of the islands of | : It's all right to brag about vour ancestors if nothing has happened since that you're proud of. Mitylene and Crete and. 500,000 okes |Five Men to Face Trial in| | it moving. without lights, in the direc Lady Astor Departs| On Mysterious Trip| | Here for Rest Cure/ By the Associated Pres LONDON, July American-born peeress and member of the llouse of Commons. has started for the United States “for a good long rest’” but when she started and on what ship, where she is to land and how long she to be away, her private secretary refusee to say. “Lady Astor desires complete quiet,” the secretary said this morning. “If the American report- ers find her when she lands, the onus won't be on my head.” T.ady Astor, PETEET CASE JURY SBENG SELECTED Mexico on Charge of At- tacking U. S. Girls. By the Assaciated Press. SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 27.—The last chapter in the tragedy whicl claimed the lives of the family of ‘Thomas M. Peteet here last February ‘was to be written today in Tia Juana, resort town across the Lower Cali- fornia border from here, when five men will face a Mexican court charged with having outraged the two Peteet daughters, Clyde and Auarey. The two girls, with their parents, were found dead in their gas-filled room a few days after they declared they had been drugged and assaulted in the border city. In a note found near the bodies, the father declared the family sought death rather than endure the shame they felt was theirs. Defendants in Qourt. The defendants—Zenaido Llanos, former chief of police of Tia Juana; Luis Amador, keeper of the saloon i which the girls alleged they were drugged: Refugio Alvarez and Fran- cisco Navarro, bartenders, and Salva- dor FEspinosa. taxicab driver—were brought into court yesterday morning | and the complaints charging them | with violation and ecriminal attack read. Judge Urias then \prdered all bt Alvarez returned to Jall, where they have remained since they were arrested February 10. Alvarez has been at liberty on probation. Subpoenas were fssued yesterday to 30 Mexican citizens who are to form the venire from which the 12 jurors will be drawn. Of the 12 selected nine wil form the jury, while the three others will be alternates, to serve only in case of accident to the others. All Retain Counsel. Both counsel for the defendants and the district attorney expressed belief | yesterday that the trial would not last longer than two days.. In the event of conviction the men may be pun- ished by prison terms ranging from 6 to 8 years, District Attorney Linares announced. ¢ The Peteet tragedy aroused a storm of indignation throughout this ecoun- try and Mexico. An inquiry was be- gun by Mexican authorities and from the island of Corfu. (1 oke equals 2.8215 pounds.) were released. | the mother | street address. seven men were arrested. Two later 'enjoyment STORE SAFE TAKEN INGAR SOON FOUND | Three Youths Said to Have Confessed Removing and Abandoning It. Less than an hour after a safe had been removed bodily from a Sanitary Grocery Store, at 2017 Eleventh street, about 1:30 o'clock this morning, it was found intact in an automobile aban- doned on the base ball dlamond at Ivy City northeast, and shortly after three colored men had been arrested for the theft. All are said to have confessed to re- moving the safe frow the store with the intention of tuking it to an isolated spot_and rifling it. Before they could break the safe, however, they wera frightened from the car by the ap- proach of Policemen O. E. Duvall and J. 1L Major of the twelfth precinet, who approached it after they had seen tio of the wooded section near the | base ball diamond. Police found the car was owned by of Roland B. Fields, 23 vears old, of 413 Washington street. Detectives John Fowler and John Flaherty arrested Flelds and Gloyvd Holmes, 23, and Charles Walker, 21, who also reelde at the Washington Fields is said to have made a clean breast of the theft im- mediately after his arrest, and the other two are said to have made simi- lar confessions later. The yvouths said. according to the police, that after discussing the mat ter of stealing a safe, they selected the one in the store hecause no one lived over it and there was a,pane of glass missing from the rear door covered only by cardboard, which made access to the store easy. Tools found in the car already had been used in efforts to break open the safe, which contained receipts of the store for three days. Walker is sald to have told of par- ticipating In thefts of liquor from drug stores and detectives today are checking up on the stories of the prisoners in an effort to determine if they have been connected with other robberi GEORGE OFF FOR RACES. LONDON, July 27 (®.—King George and Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles, have mo- tored to “Glorious Goodwood™ for the deason’s last igreat race meeting of the English social season, which, be- ginning today, will run through four days on the private course of the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood Park, one of the most beautiful places in southern England. During the four days there will be entertainments at Goodwood House, in which the King and Queen and other royal personages and invited guests will participate, and at various nearby estates where persons promi- nent in the social and racing world and numerous Americans will be pres- ent. . A number of Americans have rented houses for the season, adjacent to the race course. Goodwood is less rigidly fashionable than Ascot. It has much of the pic- nic aspect about it and consequently depends upon fine weather for full of the racing angl’ the festivities.