Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1926, Page 13

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1926. PERSHING WATCHES DEMONSTRATION OF NEW ARMY TRUCK. When the ‘War Depart- -duty truck over some of the rough terrain on the river s oa) asten :yewfllel;??"er. , standing at right of truck, was on hand to see k is designed for rough fleld use in the service of supply. QUEEN MARIE BIDS FAREWELL TO AMERICA. The Rumanian sovereign and her children, Prince Nicolas and Princess Ileana, waving good-by to the crowds on the pier from the rail of the Beren as they sailed on the steamer yesterday from New York. NAVAL PLANE ON P ANAMA FLIGHT. The PN-10 forced down over the Caribbean Sea last night after completing about 1,440 miles, according to naval esti- mates, of the attempted 2,060-mile non-stop flight from Norfolk, Va., to Panama. The other plane which at- tempted the fiight, the -10 No. 2, also was forced down at the Isle of Pines, but has resumed the flight. ENGINE TROUBLE HALTS 1, which was me‘n! | bank near the Lincoln Memorial yesterd it conquer some of the obstacles. The truc! SCHOOL C(HILDREN PRESENT in the costumes of the Pl&{v thelr parents yesterday. It THANKSGIVING PLAY. Third-grade youngsters of the Oyster School “The First Thanksgiving,” which they gave for the children of the was the first entertainment of the kind to be given in t by Underwood & Underwood. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Copyright by Harrls & Ewing WILLIE STEV displaying any of MAKES he eccentricities hool and he new school and was Was Photo. the trial. He is directed by Miss A. E. Driscoll, third-grade teacher. " MIDDIES EMBARK FOR CHICAGD GAME Delegation o Service Classic‘ Gets Rousing Send Off at Annapolis. tes Na ternoon as som compri ced upon &pe Saturday academys yest a the® er feld. ar shouting, the sentatives will a quiet hotel unt wotion against the of the referee'’s v | Brown University Is Given Collection Of Lincoln Letters By tue Assvciated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I., November 25.—Brown University has recefved as a gift from alumni a collection of 485 tetters by Abraham Lincoln. One of the donors is John D. Rockefeller, ir., of the class of 1897. The letters are to generals, gov- ernors and private individuals. One, sent as a telegram, as was Lin: coln's frequent custom, proclaims the victory at Gettysburg. In_another Lincoln character- izes Grant as “‘a very copious work- er and fighter, but a very meager writer or telegrapher S STORM CUTS WATER SUPPLY'ABOARD LINER Some Passengers Fill Bottles, | Fearing Supply Is Likely | to Be Exhausted. the Ase ted Press. BOSTON, November 25.—Because | longed voyage due to stormy the supply of water ran lo on the steamer Westphalla of the Hamburg-American line, which put in | here vesterday two days late to dis-| embark passengers. The vessel later inued to New York. ‘hen notices were posted about the sting the passengers to cut consumption of water r | in order to conserve the supply, some | of the more timorous filled water - |bottles and prepared for a_famine. | ant Secratary *rrubee 1 iund 3 | secreta jharles S { lames W : Represe: v| country, Howe, ;. Glover, jr., and X sides of the \nnual y Capt of the vocal, al o upport of two of i A e Pershing and Maj erall, chief of staff. Gen. Sum eofs hinmself too busy to make th tp to th o, 4 Ll Their fears were groundless, however, | nd the tanks still held a small quan- tity when the Westphalla docked here. | iligh seas kicked up by a series of westerly gales tested the sea-going alities of most of the 250 passen- s Officers of the liner said one of the best saflors on board was Mrs, | Alexander Rumann, divorced wife of | Prince Augustae Wilhelm, fourth son the former Kaiser of Germany, ! is on her way with her husband | triends in New York for six | or a vear. | incess, alway s an early riser, | became hungry one morning after a | brisk © early promenade about the | s and decided that the breakfast too far off. She entered the | d with the permission of | d some eggs for her own | ning_meal. | gage! nts will probably prevent the | attendance of Gen. Pershing. Although the official supporters of the Army and the Navy will mingle s friendly enemies abourd the official ars which will bear them across the onee the Chicago playing | field is reached there will be a sharp | e of demarcation. The cohorts of | > Army, irrespective of age, rank cr sex, will join the Army cheering | tion on side of the field, while | all of tho Navy supporters are ranged on the other side. From that time on the cheering, like the game, will be fast and furl-| ous. After the game has passed Into tory the Navy midshipmen will re- by the same routes over which | came. The cadets will reach ashington about 3 o'clock Sunday fternoon and are due to be “‘present and accounted for’ at the academv | estimates are given by | two small children were burned to COMMISSIONER PRESENTS BU Field Executive J. P. Hovey the sil IMPRES SIVE WITNESS. Far from with which common report has ac- credited him, Willie Stevens, as one of the three defendants in the Hall-Vills trial, proved one of the most capable witnesdes introduced at shown testifging in his own defense. Acme Photos S 5 PRESENTING superintendent of the Washington famili THANKSGIVIN( Central Uni vesterday for Thanksgiving. jon Mission, at 624 Lot BASKETS TO THE NEEDY OF WASHINGTON. iana avenue, presenting baskets of food Each of the 350 baskets presented John S. Bennett, [ contained five pounds of pork, five pounds of potatoes and numerous other articles of food to provide a happy Thanks giving dinner. ‘Washington Star Photo ESS MEN'S CUP TO BOY SCOUTS. Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty presenting to Scout er loving cup given to the Boy Scouts of their section by the Northeast Business Men's Association. The presentation was made at a meeting of the assoclation last night iy the Masonic Temple, at Eighth and F streets northeast. ALIEN PROPERTY VALUES| Difference of $100,000,000 Discov- ered, Which Presents Problem to Ways and Means Committae, Discovery that there s a spread of | $100.000,000 between estimates of value of alien property has upset the calculations of the Housa ways and means committee, which is now trying to draft legislation for restoration of this property. The widely divergent | Undersecre- tary Winston of the Treasury Depart- ment and Howard Sutherland, the|yegrold Marle Suzette Stevenson, a Allen Property Custodian. 1tiny Belgian refugee from the war- | The committes had been proceeding | o $ L years ago 5 torn flelds of Europe 12 on the $400,000,000 estimate of the | & 5 e Indersecretary, but Mr. Sutherland | Jeeterday, is e Dritish hetress o result of that same war which spre: told the committee that the value Of | misery and ruin across half of Europ the property would not exceed $300,- | gor, BoC TLIE B orOn e gtom, where 000,000, perhaps less. her father was an artisan. When the | This disclosure forced several com- | f ; % nations . leaped at one another’s| mitteemen to trim sails and seek NeW | throats she was 2 years old. Her| avenues for settlement. Representa- tive Oldfield, Democrat, Arkansas, de- | gy manded that the committee request i h England. the President to furnish an audit of | SUZeLe Was brought to Fngland. the property, drum refugees’ camp one day. Suzette By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 25.—Fourteen- thousands of other refugees | | VARIANCE IN ESTIMATING {TINY BELGIAN REFUGEE OF 12 YEARS AGO BECOMES HEIRESS) EBritish Noble;nan A_dc;—ted Child Found on% War-Torn Battlefields and Left Her Fortune in His Will. ! \ was_scarcely old enough to see it. Lord and Lady Stevenson stepped out of their limousine in search of a child to gladden thelr home. The wand pointed to flaxen-haired Suzette and she became their adopted daughter. For three years Suzette had filled the Stevenson home with laughter. Lady Stevenson died in 1918. But on her deathbed Lord Stevenson prom- ised Suzette would never want for anything. The second Lady Stevenson, there came the death of Lord Steven- son, and his will, just made publig, brings to Suzette a legacy of £25,000, which is all her very own. The custedian sald he had no plan 'SHOOTS FRIEND AND SELF. to offer, but belleved the property skould be returned. LONG BRANCH, N. J., November 25 (P.—Clifton C. Martin, a Long . Manitoba, No- | Branch patrolman, shot himselt mother and her | 1 ough the head after telling his wite that he had just killed his friend, C. Spencer Gulick. Martin is said to be | dying. Gulick's body, with three bul- let wounds, was found in his car in an alley back of the Martin home. Martin and Gulick were close friends and no motive could be found for the e THREE PERISH IN FIRE. GILBERT PLAIN vember 25 (P). death in a fire which destroyed the home of Steve Latowski yesterday. An attempt had been made to light the kitchen fire by applying gasoline. Steve Latowsk! and his sister were in the kitchen when the woman pour- ed gasoline in the stove and applied a match. After the explosion they were able to save themselves despite | shooting. Both were members of the serious burms. American Legion. Martin was re- Mrs. Latowski and the children had | ported lately as “acting strangely.” not yet awakened, and their charred | Martin has three small children. Gu- | bodles were fmmdhnn a had after the 'lick leaves his widow and two chil-| fire was extinenished drar WRIT IN WAR RISK SUIT. Justice Siddons of the District Supreme Court yesterday clted Gen. | Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans’ Bureau, to show cause December 3 why a writ of mandamus should not be issued against him to compel him to pay to Essayas C. Bonger, former musician in the mili- tary band at West Point, the amount due him under war risk insurance poliey. The petitioner, throughh Attorney George F. Curtis, tells the court about $10,000 is due Boniger for the time he was detailed at St. Elizabeth’'s Hos- pital from 1918 untll his release August 5 last. It is allqzed the bureau is fllegally withholding pay- ] PRIZE TURKEY BEATS AX Bird Sent to England Last Year for Thanksgiving Will Escape Chopping Block. By the Associated Pross. | much-traveled prize turkey which was ,sent last year from the Vermont farm 1of President Coolidge to make a ‘Thanksgiving hollday in London, s the luckiest gobbler on earth. For the second time he has escaped the chop- ping block, and this time for good. Jim was destined to grace the fes- tive board of an American banquet in | London last year, but was reprieved when the dinner was canceled be- cause of the death of Queen Alexan- dra. He was sent to a farm in Kent to fatten up for this year’s Thanks- giving feast of the American Soclety, father went to the front, and along | too, loved Suzette. A few months ago |8nd now the chef of the Savoy says he's too tough. So Jim is going back to Kent, and the danger of the ax is gone. ACTOR WOUNDED IN PLAY. ATLANTA, Ga., November 25 (#).— Charles De Roche, vaudeville actor, | played through his act last night with two wads from & blank cartridge em- bedded In his side. At the climax of the piece he caught the herofne in his arms, but when the curtain fell he collapsed. In _the act De Roche is fired upon by Harry S. McLaughlin, in the role of a French detective. Last night the two were closer than usual when the action came. At a hospital De Roche's wound was described as “not serfous.' An extra horn button is attached to the emergency brake of an automobile through the invention of an English- mar A BY GETTING TOO TOUGH | LONDON, November 25.—Jim, the | !Attack on License | Of Doctor Claiming To Cure by Radio By the Associated Press. OSKALOOSA, Iowa, November 25.—A petition to revoke the phy siclan’s license of Dr. C. A. Abbott red a ase by radio, was filed in District Court here by R. J. Woodward, county attorney. Unprofessional conduct and fraud in connection with Dr. Abbott's al as to his ability to se are charged The prosecutor stated that Dr. Abbott, who has held an Iowa physiclan’s license for more than 25 years, claimed he could treat disease by transmit electric waves, to be ¥ the pa- ients at their homes through the edium of a metal contrivance which the doctor provided and which the patient placed on his head 'ELLIOTT SPENT $836 | INCALIFORNIA RACE | Democratic Candidate Files Report With Senate—Other Campaign Figures Received. | Cafopatgn contributions ot $890 und expenditures amounting to $836 have been reported to the secretary of ocrat, who unsuccessfully opposed Sen- |ator Shortridge, Republican, in 1 | fornia, in the recent election.” Senator { 8hortridge said that, inasmuch as Re. | publican funds were collected and ex- ! pended by the Republican State cen- tral committee, ho was unaware of the amount spent for him. Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican, North Dakota, reported contributions of $387 from the Republican State chafrman, and expenditures of $515. A contribution of $5,000 from the national senatorfal Democratic cam- palgn committee was reported by El- mer Thomas, elected in Oklahoma, who spent $7,293 in his campaign. Expenditures included donatfons to Indlan picnics and fairs. The prohibition candidate for Sena tor in Indiana, Albert Stanley, Indian- no_contributions. | No contributions and expenditures | of $828 were reported by A. Scott Bul- litt, unsuccessful Democratic candi- date in Washington. TRANSATLANTIC TESTS. Attempts to rebroadcast European programs in the United States prob- ably will be resumed after the first of [ { The experiments will be conducted, as they have been in the past, by the Radio Corporation of America, whose '{)B:ll demonstration of transatlantio listeners last Winter. Although reception conditions in the United States have been unusually good for several weeks, this same con- dition has not prevailed in the ether above the Atlantic. A rat trap tn which the rat that is tmprisoned automatically sets the trap again for destruction of his brethren, the Senate by John B. Elliott, Dem- | apolls, reported no expenditures and | the year, it was learned here today. | ng was given United States | | GOVERNOR'S RUM CASETOBE PRESSED {Prosecutor Denies Porter | Has Cleared Alabama Executive and Friends. | Bs the Associated Press { BIRMINGHAM. Ala., November 1—So far as the prosecuting atterns of Baldwin County knows, Gov. W Brandon and nine his friends ippear tn Cou Court there mher 6, to answer charges v the prohibition law. Solicitor Hall today described a< ‘unfounded” reports that negr vorter had pleaded gullty to possessink 13 quarts of whisky at a hunting mp where the governor was a | visitor and that by assuming fu responsibility had caused charge~ agalnst the others to be dropped. The solicitor told the Associated Press he left Bay Minette, where the hunting camp is situated, yesterda: {at 130 o'clock and that the cases |then had the same status as wher | each of the nine persons posted $30¢ {bond for his appearance | “I have not investigated the matte | because I have not been able to con ter with the deputles who conducted the raid,”” he sald. “If my investiga | tlon discloses that one man owned a! | the whisky, of course arrangements could be made for the others. | not know Gov. Brandon and his friends were | playlng cards at the camp whe: | deputies interrupted to search tle | premises. Fach of the party dis | claimed ownership of the whisky: | The governor has declined to com | ment on the affalr. An_unidentified member of Gov | Brandon’s party was quoted as saving the negro porter had pleaded guilt, to the charge. Sheriff Ramsey Stuart who ordered the raid, said the same report had come to him, but that { | was without foundation. ——— 'LA FOLLETTE TO ATTEND. lsenntor Denfes Illness Will Keep | Him From Coming Session. STER. Minn., November nator Robert La Folletts of Wisconsin, vesterday dispelled report. |to the effect that illness would pre | vent his attendance at the opening of | the Seventieth Congress. He declared he will be in Washing ton when the session starts and {s copfident that his health will be fmn proved. The youthful Senator has been & pa | tlent at the Mayo Clinic here for some time. He i3 suffering from phlanitis e ACCUSED OF FRAUD. CHICAGO, November 25 (. \ bert J. Gallistel, secretary of the Friendship Bullding and Loan Asso clation, wus charged with operating n confidence game yesterday in a war. | rant issued from Municipal Court. | _The action followed discovery of a $200,000 shortage in his accounts. | When the shortage was announced about a week ago, Gallistel returned £100.000, €*. D. Macy, president o saide