Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1926, Page 17

VIEWING A NAVY EXHIBIT FOR THE SESQUICENTENNIAL. Adn THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1926. niral E. W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, viewing the painting by Miss Anna Abbott, depicting the uniform worn by women of the United rve force during the World War. Miss Abbott at the left. National Photo. Teeing off in tournament. Maj. Gen. John T. Hines, chief of staff of the Army, snapped us he drove the first ball of the Army golf tournament at the Columbia” Country Club. by a short two miles. Miss Clarabelle Barrett of New York, who made a plucky attempt to swim the English Channel. Copyright by P. & A. Photop. DRIVES 100 HOURS CHAINE TO STEERING WHEEL. Jimmie Burns, famous dirt-track driver of Kan- sas City, Just after completing a 100-hour endurance driving test, during which his hands were chained to the steering wheel and the motor brief stops for food and gas and oil. was locked in high gear. During four “JAZZ KING” SHAKES IT UP. doing his stuff during a concert given by his orchestra on the Mall, in Central Park, New York, after returning last week from a tour of Europe. 1 | Paul Whiteman, exponent of jazz, Wide World Photos. PRIMING FOR THE FIG training partner in preparatio training camp at Saratoga Spi PLANNING THE PROSECUTION. of New Jersey, recommended by Go Hall-Mills murder case, with hi over the case. State Senator Alexander Simpson Moore as special prosecutor in the secretary, Miss Emma Heubner, going Copyright by P. & A. Photos. ! BRINGS FOR A GREATER Cambridge, Mass., who has just t the National Capital with the Natlo mission. days and nights he made only Wide World Photos. CAPITAL. Charles W. Eliot, 3d, of aken up his duties as city planuer for nal Capital Park and Planning Com- Wide World Photos. GIRL'S MURDERER SAVED FROM MOB Quiet Restored in Ohio Town, Though Troops Are Held in Readiness. By the Associated Press COSHOTON, Ohlo, August Robert F. Thompson, confessed sla of Gertrude d'Ostroph {s in an adjoining county jail today, end the situation, which late last night gssumed menacing proportions, was quiet. Sheriff Marquand, in a_telephone conversation, said a crowd of about 1,000, which had gathered at the coun- ty jall demanding the prisoner, had been orderly and that after talking to them they departed. ‘The county grand jury will convene next Tuesday to hear the evidence mgainst Thompson, who vesterday pleaded guilty to a murder charge when brought before Mayor H. B. Heaton for preliminary hearing. Thompson will be returned here for the meeting of the grand jury, and £hould it be necessary troops will be called to protect him. In a conversa- tlion with the governor’s office at Co- Jumbus Sheriff Marquand was prom- imed State troops should they needed. . 'MOODY WON 944 MAJORITY FOR GOVERNOR OF TEXAS Complete Unofficial Figures Give Him 411,390 to 282,032 for “Ma" Ferguson. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., August 3.—Dan Moody won the Democratic guberna- torial nomination in the recent Texas primary by a majority of 944 votes, complete unofficial figures, announced late yesterday by the Te. election bureau, show. Final tabulation give the votes for governor as follows: Moody, 411.390; Ferguson, 282,032; Da- vidson, 123,025; Zimmerman, 2,888; Wilmans, 1,498, and Johnston, 1,008. Badiid FIGHT CATERPILLAR PEST. \British Caretakers in Hyde Park Battle Huge Swarms. LONDON., August 3 (#).—Hordes of caterpillars recently have taken Dos- session of Hyde Park in what an offi- cial describes as “the worst plague of its kind for years.” Whenever there is a_breeze great showers of caterpillars drop from the park trees. Men are forced to turn up their coat collars, while women find their sunshades the only effec- tive way of keeping the pests off. An army of caretakers, armed with palls of paraffin and brushes, have been battling with the swarms. Auto Injuries Fatal. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HARRISONBURG, Va., August 3.— Andrew Brown, 84-year-old Confed- erate veteran and popular old-time fid- dler, died at the hospital here this morning from injuries suffered last night when he stepped in front of an automobile near his home at Mount Crawford, six mlies south of here. E. R. Allenbaugh of Fayettesville, W. Va., driver of the machine, was ab- golved of blame by eye-witnesses. 10 years old, | be 1 Baxter Clegg Left $1 to Wife, Named “Fiancee” in Will Baxter Clegg, who died July attempted by his will to disinherit his wife, Mrs. Baxter Clegs, of Lafayette, La., by leaving her $1 and directing that the rest of his estate go to hfs “fiancee,” Miss Irene O'Connell, of Montreal, Canada. 2 “My making this will,”" he wrote, “is to protect Irene O'Connell in case of my death before I marry her and to whom I am engaged to marry as soon as I can be separated from | Mrs. Baxter Clegg." | The testator explained that he | has not lived with his wife for 14 years. Included in the estate, which is not valued, are the Anse La Butte ofl fields in St. Martin's Parish, Louisiana. Under the local laws a widow may not be deprived of her dower | right in her husband’s estate, it is | stated. CHARLES H. SWIFT * WEDS OPERA TAR i Claire Dux Abandons Sing- ing Career for Millionaire Packer. regson for i By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 3.—Green and vellow decorations of the University of Chicago chapel, the bride’s peach chiffon gown and her bouquet of roses and lilles gave color to the wedding yesterday of Claire Dux, opera fa- vorite, and Charles H. Swift, million- aire packer and patron of the arts. The service read by Rev. Dr. T. G. Soares, head of the department of practical theology of the university. closed to the bride the career in grand opera, which won her decorations | from three European rulers and which | brought her to America four years ago as a prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera Company. She has sald she would quit the stage upon her marriage, but only Sunday was she finally able to do so, when the San Francisco Opera Com- pany released her from contracts call- ing for her appearance there this sea- 1son, and accepted Miss Florence Mac- I Beth as‘a_substitute. The wedding, at the Joseph Bond Chapel of the university, was attended by friends of the pair, after which relatives were guests at a reception and dinner. Harold H. Swift, the groom’s broth- er, served as best man, while W. K. Winterberg of San Francisco gave the bride away and Mrs. Winterberg attended her. 2 The bridegroom, who is 53, is vice president of the packing company which hears ‘his father's name and was a lieutenant colonel in the World War. He met his bride several years ago at a luncheon at Chicago’s stock yards. The couple will spend their honey- moon quietly at Wianno, Mass. i Ly Persons bearing the same surname, although they may not be related in any way, are forbidden to marry in China. FINAL RETIREMENT LAW IS UNDECIDED Conference Soon to Act on Possible Further Plans for Greater Annuity. Although the Joint conference on retirement of civil se is.still in favor of a law more libers than that passed by Congress just before adjournment, the conference ‘has not decided whether it will seek further changes at the next session. Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the executive committee of the joint con- ference, sald today that a meeting of the heads of the organization will be held late in September or early i October, when a decision may be reached. While the new law grahts some in- creases in annuitles to those already retired, the additional amount is being raised by a larger percentage of con- tribution from the salaries of the Government workers. A group representing the organized employes gathered last night in the office of Senator Stanfield of Oregon to present him with resolutions of thanks for the fight he made to ob- tain the kind of retirement law the employes wanted at the last session. As chairman of a subcommittee of the Senate civil service committee, Senator® Stanfield piloted the $1,200 maximum annuity plan through the Senate, but the House, which had passed the Budget Bureau measure with a $1,000 maximum, would not vield in conference, and at the last moment the Senate accepted the House bill rather than have no legis- lation enacted. 2,000 GO ON GROTTO EXCURSION DOWN RIVER Athletic Contests and Other Events to Be Held at Marshall Hall This Afternoon. Favored by good weather, more than 2,000 members of Kalipolis Grotto and their families went to Marshall Hall today on the annual outing of the organization. The steamer Charles Macalester carried large crowds on its two early trips, but the largest group of the Veiled Prophets is expected to g0 to the resort on the final trip, at 6:30 o'clock. The athletic program, one of the fea- tures of every Grotto excursion, will begin upon the. arrival at Marshall Hall of the 2:30 o'clock boat. Joseph Leverton will have charge. There will be events for men, women and chil- dren. Other attractions include a Charleston contest, dancing and free refreshments. Harry B. Plankington is chairman of the general committee in charge of the outing. Assisting him are numer- ous subcommittees. Japanese Flood Toll Now 116. TOKIO, August 3 (#).—From latest figures available it is believed 116 persons lost their lives in the recent floods in Niigata Prefecture, across the island from Tokio. Thirty-three bodies have been recovered. vice employes | BARONESS SEALED SUICIDE PACT WHILE FLEEING Husband Tells of Hardships in Russia and America Loving Couple Escaped and Found “Only Greed and Lust” On This Side. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., Abgust 3.—A suicide pact, sealed when the Red army of Bolshevism was sweeping Russla, followed by an escape from the revo- lution-stricken country to America and the subsequent vicissitudes that beset Baron Royce-Garrett, a cripple, and his wife, who leaped to her death from the eighteenth floor of a hotel here Friday, were related in a copy- righted interview obtained by the Miami Daily News yesterday. The baron’s story was related to Capt. Michael Kustoff, himself a mem- ber of the nobility of old Russia and a veteran of the struggle of the aris- tocracy to stem the advance of the Red army. It tells of trials that beset the couple shottly after their mar- riage and events that led up to the tragedy of Friday. “The tragic story of the death of the baroness, known as Vera Lavrova, is the result and consequence of the late Russian revolution,” Capt. Kus- toff writes, “when members of the Rus- sian aristocracy were compelled to leave their native country, where they occupied high social and political po- sition, and to wage a hard fight for existence in the new countries of their adoption. “Baron Michael Royce-Garrett spoke feelingly of his first meeting with the beautiful girl whom he later made his wife. At the time of his marriage he occupled high social position, coming from an old aristocratic family high in the favor of the Russfan court. Met Bride in Hospital. “It was while lying wounded in the hospital, the baron told me, that he met the beautiful Russian girl. She had just graduated from the Russian Musical Conservatory, and was giving her wonderful vocal talents for the entertainment of the wounded of the White army.” The short courtship and marriage and the hardships the young couple endured were next related to Capt. Kustoff, who continues: “It was during these hectic days that the Royce-Garretts sealed their suicide pact. Never free from danger of capture by the scavenging Red army, they decided that should the fortune of war ever put them into the hands of the enemy, they would die together, if possible. “Weeks of almost daily conflict passed on into months. Incapacitated for active service, Baron Royce-Gar- rett gave the benefit of his wide mili- tary knowledge to the White army in an advisory capacity. “Then came the opportunity to es- cape from war-torn Russia. Fleeing the scourge of the Red invasion, the Royce-Garretts left behind a fortune of over $5,000,000 in properties and personal belongings. They came to New York. Here they discovered that the baroness’ musical talent and train- ing was a bread-winning asset.” - The fight of the Russian couple to make a livelihood in America was re- lated, and, in commenting on it, Baron Royce-Garrett said: “What an irony of fate to have es- caped the hardships and dangers of our native land, only to fall upon hard times in a land of apparent plenty.” Too proud to make their dire finan- cial condition known, the baron told The | Capt. Kustoff that they struggled on water has subsided and adequate re-!as best they could, but was somewhat lief is at hand. No further danger js_bitter in commenting friends. g on the fact that ‘many - oraised his FROM RED ARMY duging her life, that when bleak for- tune beset them “few came to lend a helping hand.” “My wife was proud. We could not beg. She loved me for my sake. She was willing to endure poverty rather than leave me. She had numberless opportunities to leave her crippled husband for a life of better circum- stances, but all of them she refused. For the last seven yeurs she has been away from me only one night. Sh was brave, she was fearless. “Several times she broached the question of ending it all. I remon- strated with her, explaining that we mizht again make money and again find the homes of our friends and so- clal activitles open to us. But she was too proud to wait.” The baron then related events of the day on which his wife leaped to her death, telling how he had urged her to walt a few days ‘1"“12 word of ]1; roposed concert tour in Havana cou Do Fecelved, to which he sald she re- lled: “No, no. I have lost faith in my people. I have lost faith in the world. 1 see around me only the lure of gold, greed and lust.” Added to the stress of poverty, the baron said that his wife had inherited a depression that weighed heavily upon her at times. He said that her parents had mated while both were po- litical prisoners in a dungeon, explain- ing that although her father was of the old Russian artistorcracy, he was LADY ASTOR GOES T0 MAINE IN FOG Given Gloomy Welcome to Coast, Where She Will Spend Three Weeks With Sister. By the Associated Press. ROCKLAND, Me., August 3. Astor andsher ch welcome to tne coast of Maine tod: s0 far as the weather was concerned. Soon after leaving Boston the steam- er Camden, on which they made the voyage, ran into a fog bank and driz- zling rain, which grew worse as the steamer neared Maine. The first woman member of the British Parliament traveled as demo- cratically as any of the other passen- gers. Her party remained in their staterooms most of the journey, but it was doubtful whether they wers able to sleep, because the fog siren blew continuously as the steamer nosed its way up the coast. Landing at Camden, they were con- veyed by automobile to the Camden Yacht Club, from where they em- barked on a speed boat for the Sum- mer home of Lady Astor’s sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, at Islesbo Lady Astor arrived yesterday on Samaria from Liverpool. The former Nancy Langhorne of Virginia, who once was Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw, 2d, of Boston, will spend the next three weeks in Maine. - ‘the exiled to Siberia rormnotl:‘tl:alvrusom. It was there, he sald, that Vera was born and spent much of her childhood. Baron Fasts in Jail. Baron Royce-Garrett may be forcibly fed If he persists in his refusal to ac- cept food, hospital authorities said today. Following a coroner’s inquest yester- day. at which the baron was exon- erated of all responsibility for the death of his wife, he was committed to Jail for two days at his own request. He declined to explain his reason for requesting confinement, and while he has refused to admit he is on a “hun- ger strike,” he remains firm in his refusal to accept food. Police belleve the two days’ confine- ment will allow Royce-Garrett to re- gain sufficient will power to avert an- other attempt at sulcide. He was found Saturday by police authorities in a tangled thicket north of Miami attempting to hang himself. His)in- ability to climb trees, due to the loss of a leg suffered in the World War, trustrated his plans. Friends of the Russian nobleman indicated yesterday they would aid him when he is released from the city Jail. - I0WA CORN FOR VETERANS Roasting Ears and Butter to Be Served Heroes of ’98. DES MOINES, August 3 (®.— Glant, roasting ears, fresh from Iowa's famous corn flelds, will be gerved free at downtown booths to delegates to the twenty-elghth na tional encampment of Spanish-Ameri- can War Veteran's, August 15 to.19. The ears will be cooked, kept hot and served by Iowa girls at the serv- ice stands. lowa butter, also a fa- BISHOP IS STRIPPED OF AUTHORITY IN U. S. Germanos Has No Jurisdiction Over Greek Orthodox Church Here, Judge Holdf By the Associated Press. ALLENTOWN, Pa., August 3.- Archbishop Germanos has no canoni- cal authority over the Greek Orthodox Church in America, Judge Claude T. Reno of the Lehigh County court held in an opinion in a case in which a congregation was unable to agree on the choice of a pastor. Judge Reno found that Bishop Aftimios of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was ordained to succeed the late Bishop Raphael, but whose ordination was never confirmed by the Holy Russian Synod because of its suppression by the Soviet government, “was at least bishop de facto, while Germanos at best is a mere intruder, a squatter upon the teritory bevond his ecclesi- astical dominion and Archbishop Ein, the patriarchiate of Antioch, but with- out canonical authority in America.” The court’s decision was awaited with interest by members of the de- nomination throughout the country. —— Mrs. Mary L. Bradford Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., August 3.— Mrs. Mary L. Bradford, 69 years old, ‘'mother of Mrs. Emily M. Anderson, wife of Town Councilman S. D. And erson, dled yesterday afternoon at the home of her soninlaw and daughter in Baltimore street here of heart mous product, will be added to the free list, .Service booths will be deco- rated with a profusion of green stalks trouble. Mrs. Bradford was a native of Lake Ridge, Tompkins County, N. Y. Her ,bu-;bm{ ‘Thomas Bradford, dled about 20 years ago, Lady | idren had a gloomy {Motorist Crashes | Into Front Steps, And Then Vanishes Charges of driving recklessly while drunk and of leaving the scene of an accident without mak- ing his identity known are await- ing the unknown driver of an automobile which jumped the sidewalk early today and crashed into the {ront steps of Samuel Vannaman's residence, 3336 N street, Georgetown. Mr. Vannaman and other occu- pants of the house were awakened by the collision and reported see- ing three men leave the car and disappear. Residents of the neigh- | borhgod believe the driver at- tempted to make a left-hand turn into N street from Thirty-fourth and failed to complete the opera- tion in time to prevent the acei- dent. The balustrade in front of the house was demolished and an au- tomobile parked at the curb nar- rowly escaped being damaged. | | MARYLAND PRISON TO HAVE REAL BANK Convicts’ Savings of $200.000 to $300.000 Yearly Make New Departure Necessary. | Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, August 3.—An up- to-date bank for the exclusive bene- fit of prisoners and their relatves and friends will be opened in the Mary- land .Penitentiary next week. Decision to install a regular bank- ing counter, with cashier and book- keeping windows, was made by Ward- en Patrick J. Brady and has become necessary because of the thrift of the prisoners and the amount of money handled each month for their accounts. According to Edmond F. Kilkenny, financial manager of the prison, the convicts save between $200,000 and $300,000 yearly. Nearly all of this money is paid out from time to time to dependents of the inmates. Al- most dally there is a line of bene- ficiaries waiting for payments. Heretofore it was sufficient that these funds be paid from the regular prison office, but of late they have grown so that it was found necessary to install a regular bank. Prisoners handle no funds of any description. The money due them for extra work in the institution work- shops is'placed to their credit in the prison bank. For every penny they give away or spend, a check is sent ! to the bank and the expenditure de- ducted from their account in true bank fashion. There is a speclal drain upon the bank during the Christmas holidays, when prisoners send out nearly all their savings to relatives and friends on the outside. FLORIDA DRY CHIEF ILL. P. F. Hambsch, Stricken on Visit “4n Annapolis, in Naval Hospital. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 3 (P).— Philip . Hambsch, prohibition direc- tor for Florida, is ill in the Naval Hos- pital here with intestinal trouble. He was stricken while here on a vacation two weeks ago, and when he did not respond to treatment an operation was performed. His condition was reported serfous. Mr. Hambsch was graduated from the Naval Academy with the class of MANDROWNSINDIN OF RIVER BATHERS Distress Calls of Youth, in Water With Recent Bride, Unheard Above Noise. His distress calls lost in the din caused by more than a score of bath- ers enjoving swimming last night at Sandy Beach, a mile below Chain Bridge. Reingold Frederick Keyser. 24 years old, a plasterer, was drowned be- fore his plight was learned. The young man's wife, also in swim- ing, missed him and informed the other bathers, and Howard Asson, 2524 Sherrier place, and A. Bowman, 4407 Conduit road, began diving and recov- ered his body. A hurry call was sent to William H. Reynolds, veteran boatman, and Emer- gency Hospital, but use of the pul- motor proved of no avail. Reynolds was delaved in arriving on the scens by an erroneous report that the man had drowned near the Three Sisters Islands. Keyser and his wite, it was said to- day-at his residence, were childhood sweethearts in the same village in Germany. He came to America and saved enough money to send for his sweetheart. They were married ahout 18 months ago in this city. Keyvser was only a fair swimmer. and it is be- leved that he did not realize the depth of the water. The body was removed today from the morgue to the home of his sister, Mrs. Eugene Sanz, 1110 Sixth street southeast, where funeral services will be held. Burfal will probably be Thursday at Cedar Hill Cemetery. CHILD STRUCK BY AUTO. Jack Ritchie, 6 Years Old, of Hy- attsville Seriously Injured. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., August \— Jack Ritchle, 6-year-old son of Mr and Mrs. Charles A. Ritchie of 29 Franklin ' street, Hyattsville, was knocked down by an_automobile on Franklin street about 7:30 o'clock this morning, suffening a probable skull fracture. He later was taken to Sib- ley Hospital, Washington. Accord- ing to witnesses, the boy ran in front of the machine. The driver of tha car, who gave his name as Earl Lewis, 3420 N street northwest Washington, stopped, according to pitnesses, as soon as he struck the y. Lewis was released by Chief of Po- lice Robert C. Gallagher pending out- come of the boy's injuries. SENSITIVE MAN SHOOTS 2. Had Been Called “Homeliest” in Business House in Chicago. CHICAGO, August 3 (#).—Sensitive about being called the ‘“homeliest man” employed in a local business house and believing Edward Parr and his wife Irma had made a remark about his appearance, Fletcher E. An drews last night.shot and woundea the couple on a street corner. Andrews, who was formerly em- ployed in Dallas, Tex., was seized as he attempted to escape by Morine Matthews, a former policeman of Oklahoma City. Parr is an official of a brokerage bere,