Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1926, Page 4

4 » CHECK OF STEVENS - ALIBI CONTINUES Steps Taken to Have Former State Trooper Returned From Prison in West. terday continued to check the ziven by Henry Stevens for his ac- tions on the night his brothe law, the Rev. Edward W. Hall, AMrs. Eleanor Mills were slain under b apple tree on the old Phillips | farm near New Brunswick Stevens sticks to the story he told | detectives in the initial inquiry four s on a fishing o miles from runswick the lovers | illed. Prosecutor Simps Jersey City late yvesterday for 'l i [ 1ait who Stevens' sto John A, G have heen home at whe Deputies o o 1t of Ocean County watching the Stevens Lavalette since Wednesday, pson declared alibi wit- ne: told conflicting stori Steps were taken hy Government authorities apson_announced yves terday. to return to this State former Siate Trooper Henry Dickman, now a prisoner in the Army Disciplinary Bar vacks at Aleatraz Island, on the P citie Coast In a purported interview in the San | Francisco Chronicle three weeks ago. Dickn who took puart in the orig- inal investigation of the murders four vears ago. wus quoted as admitting | that he accepted money “to shut up and get out.” v wus later de- | nied oflic Henvy murder tlon a few « found one of Mr Hoag of wick, whose home Is a few feet from where the bodies we and who testified at_the he adinission 1o hail of Wil tevens and Carpender (hat she heard fous shots, talked to Henry Stevens, Hayes at VeIy nervous fier the bodies w 1o Patrick the runs. wdred found ng for te will ascribe | the dis- Mills as the motive fo covery by Mrs. wanted Dr. Hall to get o divoree. MELLON, IN LONDON, VAGUE ON HIS PLANS Arrives Without Notice and Keeps Cilent on Possibility of Financial Talks. By the Asso LONDON, Septe i W, Mellon, Ameri Secretary of the Treasury, who arrived last night | from Paris, picked od time for | reaching London tnnoticed. the week end exodus of officials and notables | already being well under way. i The American embassy had not been informed it he was leavin Paris, and neither American nor Brit- | ish o the 0 to vieat hin. forelgn oifice and treasury esmen today dis claimed wledge of 1y fortheom inz conf < between M. Mellon | and officinls here. i} The Secretary told the newspuper | men he wus here on a holi He could not suy whether he would con- | fer with Winston Churchill, chan-| cellor of the exchequer, or Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England. He insisted he had made no plans whatever for his stuy and did | not know whether he would see the | American Ambassador, Alanson B | Houghton. v on vacation in | Scotland. The Evening News was “most charmingly his visit.” MAJ. BROOKS BETTER; PRESIDENT CHEERED White House Colored Steward Still in Critical Condition From Heart Ailment. | el P Andrew Melton | bout | va Mr. vague H By the Associated Press PAUL SMITHS, X September 4. —President Coolidge was encour- aged bu a telezram from Washington ¥ i Part THE THRILL THAT COMES ONCE IN A L DETECTIVE AGENCY *\W3 tiEVER SLEEP” Copr. 1926 (N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co. 'THE 'EVENING STAR. \WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1926. N IFETIME. —By WEBSTER. | S SSs SRR S E g AR RN i BLINP' TEST TRIP DECLARED SUCCESS Crew Well Pleased With! Storm-Conquering Flight. Will Return Soon. By the Associated Press. BELLEVILLE, Members of the blimp TC-5 today pleased with tk dirigible which: came safely th ded at Scott Fileld, vesterday an almost gley Field, Va. test of the trip came the Al- The next | Terre The two storms and lan near here, y tlight which before from Lan The first r when the ship swur | leghenies Wednesds when Ind., trial Haute, of the storm the crew rain during heavy Lieu pre other d the belief t non-rigid models The flight was made with s to opening a lighter-than-air way be- { tween Langley I'eld and Scott Iield | ¢orresponding to the airplane airw. rew was drenched models behavior is was Cros night. passing over Thursday ship’s officers swumng it back toward | the northwest to run around a avoided, in a hea twisting winds, W. A. Gray, commander, ex-| the TC-5 and | were better | able to fight out a storm than rigid | night. 111, September 4 of the said they were well the bugh Army of after hours storm. | but | now In use by the Army between rious flelds. The trip night bombing operations. The ship traveled | cause of the storm detours, the airplane mileage is only vesterday stating that Maj. *Arthur | i planned to fly the T Rrooks, negro steward at the White Tiouse, and the valet who attended ; Presidents Taft, Wilson and Harding as well as Mr. Coolidge, is improved and there is a faint hope he might | survive a heart attack under which | he had sunk into a coma Maj. Brooks is one of the finest men in Washington, President (‘ool- fdge told friends today in comment- | ing on the steward Maj. Brooks | served in the negro Militia of Wash- Ington and for yvears was employed &t the War Department. the physician in ce on Maj. Brooks, today de- his patient had a “fighting to recover. Brooks, he said. was stricken | August 26, and his condition rapidly became worse. By Wednesday it was thought he would not survive the day, and the doctor remained in his presence constantly. Since that time the patient hs owly improved, but his condition still is critical. Maj. Brooks lives at 1302 & street. GIRLS CAUSE INCREASE IN TOBACCO IMPORTS Necessary to Enlarge Warehouse at London Docks Due to New “ Rank of Smokers. Br the Assoclated Press TLONDON, September 4{.—Hea smoking by large numbers of Lon- don's girls and women, many of | whom consume a package or two of eigarettes a day, is held responsible } In _measure for the fact that the! authorities are being forced to add | another story to the huge tobacco warehouse at the London docks. The present buflding, through which all imports pass, has heen far too small. | Dealers about the city confirm the | that the growing demand for| on the part of the female population is one of the prime rea- | Pens wWhv tobacco imports wn from about 50,000 tons in 1910 nearly §3,000 lust vear. “Look at the number of girls and women who smoke nowadavs—Ilook at the amount they smoke,” said the head of one of the largest retail| tobacco firms. “Before the war! women smoked comparatively lttle. | Now a substantial percentage of our customers are girls, many of whom ! smoke from 10 to 20 cigarettes a‘ day.” | - . | “There,” said he; “that will remind me to take the darned shoe off at night!” g | Bay {steamer Southland, chartered for the Payne, chairman : made also [ to test the reliability of air ships for bac] ing Wednesday or Thursday. 1,200 miles be- although 0. It {250 TODAY GO ON CRUISE OF ALCANTARA CARAVAN | Alhambra Excursionists Fill Char- tered Steamer—Party to Return Tuesday. Two hundred and fifty member: ravan, Order of Alhambra, will s guests of Alcantara on d rnoon annual excur: this aft { occasion. Lewis A. of the committee in charge, announc- boat has ed that all space ¢ been taken. The Southland will call at Annapolis tomorrow morning and at a number Church services will Sunday. ‘Washington of other ports. be’ held on the bo: party will return | Tuesday morning. Stunts, cards, dancing and concert entertainments will feature the trip. [§ own at m the at to 3:30 _— BUSINESS SHOWS GAIN. Checks, Car Loadings, Mine Pro- on duction and Prices Advance. General business conditions through- | the railway train, and lifted wad and out the country continued good dur- ing the last week of August, accord- ing to a Commerce Department sur- Business made public as seen fr continued to vey activity, ments goods, as shown by ing the third week of August today rom show advances over a year ago, and distribution of ar loadings dur- con- r the tinued to record increases o' previous week or the corresponding awarded during the last week of the month were larger than in either the previous week or the corrsponding | week of 192 Bituminous coal production third week of August was larger | vear, | than in the same week of la and the petroleum output for the last | week eclipsed that of the previous | week. Wholesale prices during the fourth ! ¢ week averaged higher than in the pre- | vious week for the first time in al-| most two months, but were still below the average of a yea r ago. IR SRS e Drop Cigarettes or Lose Jobs. LYNN. Mass,, September 4 (®).—| School teachers must give up either Mayor cigarettes or their Bauer has his way. jobs, it view and 0. 11, their Chesapeake the The ‘Motorist Refusing ToGive Up Revoked Permit to Be Fined | Any motorist who fails to give | up his operator's permit after it | hax been revoked will be subject to a fine of $25 to $100, under « new regulation adopted by the Commissioners yesterday. An amendment to the traffic code providing that the present han on left-hand turns for southbound fic from Vermont avenue into 1 street shall apply only during rush hours aiso was approved. The rule also prohibits left turns of east and west bound traffic from H street into Vermont ave- nue or Madison place. Another order issued yesterday abolishes parking at any time on the west side of Seventeenth street from K street to Massachusetts avenue. VALENTINO’S DOCTOR a Gives Detailed Description of His Diagnosis and Technique in Actor’s Illness. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 4.—A let- ter describing in technical detail the steps of diagnosis, operation and treat- {ment of Rudolph Valentino during the illness preceding his death, written by Dr. Harold E. Meeker, the surgeon who performed the double operation for appendicitis and gastric ulcer, to the actor's manager, S. George Ull- man. was made public last night. Dr. Meeker stated that he examined Valentino for the first time at 5 p.m. August 22, at the Polyclinic Hos- pital, where the screen star had been taken after his collapse. The physi cian sald he urged immediate oper: tion. In technical detail, Dr. Meeker described the serious conditions ne found, including round hole one centimeter in diameter in the anterior wall of the stomach.” He then de- scribed the progress of Valentino's | condition up to the time sepsis set in, eight days later, ending the actor's life. V:Iesse Jamgs w':l‘ A book about this bandit T lately have perused; the author nobly planned it; it kept me much enthused. It seems it is a libel to say that James was bad; he often read his Bible, he was a pious lad. When not engaged in robbing or other lawless acts, he read, with spirit throbbing, all kinds of soulful tracts, His heart was full of kindness, it made him sigh and groan that heathen in their blindness bowed down to wood and stone. His soul would often quiver with deep and wearing pain, he longed so to deliver the land from error's chain. But he had aunts and cousins who looked to him for bread, and so he held up dozens, and shot them full of lead. By | tearing up the trackage he stopped package from every weeping swain. And if ‘a wight resisted the bandit stern and grim, James wotted, weened and wisted that death would do for him. His hands were red and reeking with blood in business hours. but leis- ure found him seeking religion’s finest flowers. Although his worldly meas- ures were desperately wrong, his mind was stored with treasures from Solo- mon, his song. The author strives to clear him of legends that affright, and trying to revere him I've sat up half the night. But all his pious motions will not conceal the tale of how, be- in the |tween devotions, he hit the murder | [trail. 1t is a common trouble, the one the bandit had, to try to travel | { double with good things and with bad. | To sing the psalms on Sunday, to| grovel and to pray, and then go forth | n Monday to cheat or rob or siay. Religion has no merit if laid aside at times, if people only wear it between their sins and crimes. And men Who | once were boosting this James. who'd 'rob a church, will loathe him, now he oosting upon a holy perch. | WALT MASON. | (Coosright. 1926.) MAKES FULL REPORT| ‘The absent-minded professor care- fully tied a knot in his shoe string. EXIGAN SENATE| Legislative Body Unable to Function Due to Contests Over Seats. By the Assoctated Press MEXICO CITY, September 4.— The Mexlcan Senate still is unable to function. This is due to the fact that the rival political groups have been unable to agree on the con- tests for seats in the upper chamber by candidates in the elections held July 4. A measure embodying new re- ligious regulations limiting the num- ber of priests in each State is being prepared for submission to Congress by the department of the interior. It enacted and approved by President Calles, these regulations will sup- plant those promulgated by the chief executive recently which caused the religious controversy be- tween the government and the Roman Catholic Episcopate. While nothing is known as to the detalls of the bill, it is reported that it may permit one foreign clergy- man to’ officiate in each church of a foreign congregation. This would apply to all denominations. Meanwhile the episcopate is busily engaged in completing the petition which it intends to place before | Congress for modification of the re- liglous laws and in seeking some one to Introduce and support the petition. NEW BOGUS $5 BILL. Federal Re;erve Note Is Poorly Made, Says Chief Moran. Chief Moran of the Secret Service today warned that a new counterfeit $5 note on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has been in evidence. The bill_is described as follow “Nineteen-fourteen series; check letter ‘'F"; face plate No. 751; back plate No. 3333; Frank White, treas- urer of the United States; A. W. Mel- lon, Secretary of the Treasury; portrait of Lincoln. “This i8 a poorly executed counter- feit produced by photo-mechanical process on one sheet of paper. The serial number is imperfectly impressed and printed in black ink, while the seal is off color, probably tinted by hand, and the portraiture dark and smudgy. Several fine lines appear on the face and back in imitation of silk threads, but. these are not colored and are reproduced in the etching process. The back is more deceptive than the face, which is nearly one- fourth of an inch shorter than the genuine.” - THIEVES STEAL SAFE. Two-Foot Strong Box Taken From Market Contained $34.04. Entering through a window, stand of Charles E. Yeatman at Eastern Market, Seventh and streets southeast, late yesterday aft- eroon, thieves carted away w small iron safe containing $34.04. The cash drawer also was rifted of 9 cents. The safe was about feet wide, feet tall and 115 feet deep. Police of the fifth precinct are investigating. ANSWERS IN DAMAGE SUIT Ice Company Denies R‘esponsibilityl for Byrd's Injuries. The Terminal lce Company, in a plea filed in the District Supreme Court vesterday, denied responsibility for injuries received by William R. Byrd. who was run over by his own automobile and sued the ice commpany for $25,000 damages. A truck of the company collided with Byrd's machine as he was filling his radiator near Third street and Massachusetts ave- nue. ‘Through Attorneys Craighill & ‘Tebbs the ice company says Byrd failed to have a proper light on the rear of his. machine, which was parked at an improper angle. the a | M i Times sa GROUPS HOLD UP | mammn EBON IS CERTAN OF PAR WELEONE Isolated Jeering of Tourists | Makes No Change in 1927 Convention Plans. The recent acts of discour com- mitted against American tourists in by a few “bands of rowdies” will change in the plan of the ican Legion to hold its annual convention in the French capital next Summe Chi the Legion’s headquarters in Indian- v was accompanied by the ation that officers of the Legion e convinced the disturbances indi- ted no inhospitable feeling on the part either of the French govern- ment or the mass of the French peo- of the Dai express the language London to own feelings, officers Legion quoted the British newspaper' editorfal on the incident as follows: Hospitality Long Proved. has _offered hospitality 1o foreign tourists long enougH now for them to know that the constancy of her welcome has been tested and proved, Her prove Al gallantr :ntimental con- sideration the French people fully in the material advs and courtes urists from | United States 1o ance a nd if they know the people they will need no_res as to reception they will get. The echo of the grumbles of an insignifi \lcontents has already t no effect. of turist t contint home, affic that the merey of @ > or fitful wind. ting as the celiness of this land of France and 2t as its hospitality.” Continuing with their {atlon of the situation, the Legion of ficials declave: Welcome Is Assured. e Quotidiar s Soir France Mutil J*rench public for the 1927 conyention of the Ameri o gion in France. Cablegrams of assurance that the 30,000 American veterans will be received with all Kind- ness by the French people when they go to Paris next September for the convention, sent by the French for elgn office and the veteran organizi- ., the latter representing 2,000,000 have heen given wide publicity the “Tourists. dica and Britain, need not rmed if some of their fellow men have been booed while along the port of jeering the eing cars filled with strangers i widespread. It is confined to ove grown vouths and hysterical girls. The responsible citizen has other things to think about. The manifesta- tions of an irresponsible minority do not represent the opinion of @ na tion." " from Am he driving The new Papa Tired of Restaurant. INDIANAPOLIS, September 1 (). A restaurant busine: here is for ale. because “papa left mamma and is going to sacrifice at once,” according to an advertisement in a local newspaper. The nouncement |tached to the r own presen- | the | other | | publication of in these columns is 'WOMEN NOT ONLY COSMETICS USERS IN U. S.. DESPITE DENIALS " ROBERT T. SMALL. Whenever the Government make public its estimates of cosmetics pro- | duced in this country or imported from | abroad, the popular pastime is to jump | to the conclusion«that the heavy in-| creases of the past few years have been due to the flappers. And the finger of scorn in general is held up all womanheod. If any blame is at- elous cosmetic fig- ures the women are blamed. There is no question of the fact that | women have been won over completely {0 the art of make-up. It doesn't seem ) many vears ago that novelists were writing about the “painted ladies” as a term of moral turpitude. Nowa- the unpainted lady is so rare as be inordinately eonspicuous, and y regret heard abroad in the d is that so many children are hid- ing their natural healthy colors under the carmine of the cosmetic maker's art. However, the point is that the ladies are not alone to blame for the great i in the output of the so-called smetics. When it was softly sus- gested a short ime ago that men were equally guilty with the women of the country, there was a masculine howl which could be heard from Bastport. Me., to the Gulf of California. Irate man resented what he put down as a| dirty dig. He was outraged. e never heard of such thing. He dared the women to prove their case But He Does Use Cosmetics. trouble with mere man is that ¢ thinks of rouge and lipsticks cbrow pencils when you speak s, and he'll be darned if he things. And he is quile" 3 the onl; he uses such right. But mere man had no knowledge o just what the Government refers ta < cosmeti And, probably, he had of the amount of money his own very particular barhershop spends | But Articles principally‘ Demanded by Men Are Shaving Lotions, Hair Tonics and Dentifrices, Statistics Indicate. | fon | to the men. JUGGLING OF FUNDS CHARGED TOMAYOR | Ouster of Kansas c‘ity, Kans., Official Sought Pending Court Trial. is benefit—the and scents and cams and the it shouldn't | society, but “cosmetics” for after-shaving powde lotions, the massage c hair tonfes. Of course, be mentioned in_polite there is also the little matter of hair dyes. All these things are cosmet By the Accociated Press | _TOPEKA. Kans. September 4 { Charging rities in the admin " |ist ¥ affairs, Attorney 3 . Grifiith vesterday Gene to the Government. Therefore, they |fijlad an ouster petition against Mayer rdon of Kansas City, Kans., must be cosmetics to the mere male. |y "W, ¢ The Government also classifies den-|in the State Supreme Court. trifices as cosmetics, and here again of the petition foliowed the male of the species, very properly by 1. s and commendably, is as “zuilty” as|Kansas City attorney, operating un- the more deadly female. der the supervision of the attorney s g general. The petition chargbs Mayor v Makers Growing. { Gordon with jusgling city funds and The significance of recent Govern-|expending public money for personal ment statistics is that the United | use f individuals, permitting the States rapldly is coming into its own | manufacture and sale of lquor, pro in the manufacture of cosmetics.|tecting gambling houses and tolerat- Probably this will be renewed cause |ing vice rings for hatred of Americans in Burope.| The Attorney general announced he Time was when virtually all the cos: |had prepared a motion for presenta inetice came from France. They still | tion to the court come from there in increasing millions | immediate remo of dollars in value. But the curve of | pending trial of the suit. production in this country rapidly is| The Hapvey report, rising and the French cosmeticians |yvesterday, mentioned soon will have to look to their laurels. | flcfals. “Asked if he was preparing The cosmetics produced in the United {additional ouster petitions. Mr. Grif- States last year hmd a total value of | fith said could do only one thing $141,488,000. The largest item was the [at a time.’ m and rouges, amounting to $34.- . 178,000, The next largest. how BACHELOR AND LEONARD | DENY GUILT IN KILLING was the dentrifices, valued at § an made public other city of- 00b. Taleum and other powdel third place, with @ value of $21.423, 000. Infants and men must share the talcum toll with the ladies, Locker yoom attendants at the golf clubs re- port a heavy increase in the use of these powders. The $9.480,000 worth of hair tonics | made last vear can nearly all be traced They are inveterato users and our barbers continue the best salesmen. T men object to being c metic addicts they must get the Gov ernment to change its labels. «(Copyright. 1926.) | Pair Will Go on Trial Tuesday for Murder of Former's Father-in- Law in Alabama. By the Associated P WETUMPKA, Ala, September 4 e and Hays Leon- ard. a nesro, vesterady pleaded not guilty of murder in connection witi the ‘sia st Monday night of Judge nith, Bachelor's father- '$113,704 SHORTAGE | | REPORTED BY FIRM Baltimore Prosecutor -Summons | Score of Witnesses in Open- ing Investigation. | al Dispateh to The Star. | ALTIMORE. September 4.— State's rney Herbert R. O'Conor today ! ed an investigation of a reported | rtage of §113.704.57 in funds of the | estment brokerage and banking firm of W. W, Lanahan & Co. A score of persons have been sum- moned and it is intimated that sev- cual indictments may follow. A state- ment was given out by Henry W. r, a member of the firm, fol- “Recently we discovered there was an_apparent shortage in our cash, although this shortage was not found by the outside certified public account- at our last semianpual audit. ‘pon_discovery of the shortage we immediately called in auditors, and upon their checking back it has been ascertained our cash is short to the extent of $113.704.57. Our securities have been checked and found intact. | curred | were « |MRS. HART'S DEPARTURE | Friends at Loss to Understand Re- “We are bonded to the extent of in-law, who was shot to death as he in bed in his home. The plea followed indictments for first degree murder against the men, who signed confessions admitting the killing. Leonard alleges Bachelor em- ployed him to kill Smith and when the negro “lost his nerve,” forced him At the point of a revolver to fire the shot The men triad Tuesday. $50,000, and the balance of the loss has been charged against the profits of the firm for the first six months of this vear. We have discovered the manner in which the shortage oc- nd those in our employ who nected with this loss are no longer with us.” will be placed on Helicopter Rises Five Feet. MINEOLA. N. Y., September 4 (#). -A heliocopter tested heve I five feet in the air, stopped and moved forward 4 miles an hour. s FROM RENO PUZZLING port About Wife of Western Film Actor. By the Aesoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 4. Friends of Mrs. Winifred Westover Hart, who stated that the former film actress had gone to Reno, Nev., to ob- tain a divorce from Willlam S. Hart, noted Western film character, were at a loss to understand reports from Reno that Mrs. Hart, who has been living there under an assumed name, intended leaving the Nevada city An announcement by her lawyers | from Reno stated that she would | leave there yvesterday on mccount,of published reports that her presence there presaged a divorce action. Holly- wood reports said that Hart did not even know of the presence of his wife in Reno. Mrs. Hart's mother and young son are with her. | Take your youngsters for a i vide around the Tidal Basin | on the SWAN BOAT | and less fortunate children will | benefit through | THE CHILD WELFARE SOCIETY (Tidal Basin at 1ith St.) [ Tipster Sheet Washington has been flooded with various alleged newspapers telling people who want to invest their money of “sure things—of wonder- ful opportunities to get rich quick.” People receiving these publications should be cautious. 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