Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1926, Page 17

TESTIFIES AT FALL-DOHENY (right), former Assistant Secretary house vesterday hefore g the trial of Albert conspiracy. ng on the stand as a e B. Fall and Edward L. Doheny He is shown with Robert Miller, his counsel. TRIAL. C of the Nav; Theodore Roosevelt snapped at the court- zovernment witness at on charges of Copyright by P. & A. Photos. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, NON-COMMISSIONED MARINE flight to San Diego, Cali Left to right: Sergt. C. of the flight, and Sergts. A. V. Frith, PILOTS sioned Marine Corps aviators who left Quantico, Va., Sergt. ON TRANSCONTINENTAL FLIGHT. The six non-commis- esterday in observation planes on a transcontinental They are piloting their own planes on a long-distance flight for the first time. * A. S. Munsch, Gunner M. Wodarczyk, who is in charge Paschal, A. Hockman and H. Pi D. €., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 Wide World Photos. 1926. B e R. G. Van Sittart, chief of the American division of the British foreign office, leaving the White House yesterday after calling on President Coolidge to pay his respects. Henry Miller. WIN NATIONAL HEALTH as the most nearly pl Iy perfec girls entered in the health contest Chieago. HONORS. Salley, S. C., and Aubrey Dill, 19, of Morehead, Miss., who were selected S ct of the thousands of farm boys and Mary Livingston, 13, of at the International Stock Show in Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Tibor Mindezenthy, a young Aus- trian, whose resemblance to the late Rudolph Valentino is one rea- son why he has ‘just come to the United States for a movie tr) out at Hollywood. Wide World Photos. leading teno Alb hion hip Olympic to *with which ht. of the T ector of the sing the I the company will open ., is greeted by 0., as he arrives o its season here mnext ilhert Van 1 of the N, owner hotel in which the Hall-Mills jury is lodged, who declared he a court affidavit that had overheard conversations indicating the jurors were biased in favor of the three defendants. Copy ht by P. & A. Photos. ADOPTS lawyer of Oklahoma, who ran to the United States Supreme Court a 10-gallon hat and flannel shirt, b CKTIE FOR SUPREME COURT. Sid White, into difficulties when he sought adm! as counsel the other day, wearing ecktie. When informed that the lack of necktie was against legal precedent, he borrowed one, but tore it off when he left the courtroom. National Photo. DEBUTANTES A IST AT CHILD WELFARE TEA. Miss Allison Roebling, chairman of the debutante committee of waitresses who are assisting at the tearoom which was opened 1 the old Federal ¥ for the benefit of the Child Welfare Society of Washingto: with the rummage sale sterday in connection g, on F street, National Photo. TAXFGHTTOLED . SESSIONSISSUES Alien Property Bill Also Is Ex- pected to Bring Sharp Con- flict of Parties. By the Associated Press. With the reconvening of the Sixt ninth Congress only four day: indications are rapidly multiplying that the principal battle of the short session will rage about tax reduction. Already the battle lines have heen clearly defined. with the Democrats determined to bring ahout immediate revision of the tax law and the Re. publican leaders equally that nothing of the sort shall be done ur the present ute has been gfven af least another year of prac tical testing. At the same time. lines are emerg: ing from the confusion of pre-session talk which will show that the bill be. ing drafted by the House way means committee to dispose of alien property seized during the war and adjust American and German claims will be the center of another vigorous fight. Democrats Draft Proposal. Thus far the Democrats are the only group that has formally drafted a tax reduction proposal aimed at the impending Treasury surplus. It was formulated by Representative Garner of Texas and other Democratic mem bers of the ways and means commit tee after conferences with Se Simmons of North Carelina, ranking minority member of the Senate finance committee, and is designed to reduce the Federal revenus by $350.000.000 a year. The ways and means committee as a whole hasn't gotten around to the administration’s proposal that the Treasury surplus be returned to the taxpavers in the form of credits on awa) fncomae tax returns which are to he paid in the first two quarters next having devoted its time to the property .bill, now nearing com pletion Chairman Green. however, and other Republican leaders have taken the position that revision of the tax Jaw i inadvisable at this time, agree. ing with the administration’s position that its actual revenuereducing ca pacity cannot he determined until it has heen given a further test. This year's surplus, now estimated at $300, 000.000, they hald, is not indicative of the operation of the law, since it includes considerable will not be received next vear. The Democrats, on the other hand. argue that the surplus will amount to 000,000 and that immediate tax vision is justified. Alien Property Bill Included. Tax legislation, meanwhile. has found no place in the tentative pro gram of major legislation which Re. publican leaders hope to see enacted, but the alien property bill is included in their list, and Speaker Iongworth has predicted that it will be disposed of quiekly. ®* The measure, however, already has aroused the oppoesition \ the issue of | determined | <fand | or | revenue which | {Planting Walnuts Urged by Experts AsFineInvestment | Planting a_bushel of black wal. nuts this Fall, the Agricultural Department dsclared today, would make a good investment for farm- ers in upland and hill sections of the South, the Ohio River Basin and the Central Mississippi Valley. Walnut, one of the finest cahinet woods known, Iz worth about $200 a thousand feet, and a bushel of nuts, of which there is a large crop this year, numbers about 1,500. Planted in ilie corners, waste strips and along_fence rows, a bushel in time thould return a huge profit. 'FIRE DRIVES MANY | OUT IN NIGHTCLOTHES One Woman Removed From N Street Apartment Through Window. COURT DENIES STATE'S MOTIO A for lunch just after the court had denied the motion OF HALL-MILLS JURY. he prosecution fo Dunster, foreman of the jury, with cane, is shown at right, talking with bailiff in charge. mistrial on the ground of prejudice among the jurors. et o . of the jury are shown leaving the courtroom Frank A. ,Copyright by P. & A. Photos. morning fire today, dis- in the Terrace An early covered by a passerby | Apartments, west wing, 3241 N street, | sent residents of the buflding scurry- | ing into the fey air in their night- | clothes, and caused excitement in the neighborhond from repeated cries of frightened women. None was hurt. The discoverer of the blaze was Charles H. Young., manager of the A. & D. store at 3403 M street, who about 630, was on his way from home to the store. Seeing a tiny blaze on the roof, Young. who formerly be- | longed to a volunteer fire department | at Amsterdam, N. Y.. rushed up the | steep steps, broke the glass in the front door, roused the residents, and turned in two alarms, one in the apartment and another at a nearby street hox. h Persons living on the top floor near !where the fire was belleved to have started from a defective flue, did not | | know their place was on fire until the big alarm bell in the apartment set up its clanging. An elderly woman | was taken out through a window on | the first floor. ! Fire Department No. 5. No. 1. No. 2 apparatus from and Second Rat- | talion Chief B, W. Weaver responded. | Police from No. 7 assisted in the | | rescue work. Damage was mostly to | |the roof and upper structure, and | from water which soaked down to the | first flood. | of Senator Borah. Republican, Idaho. | | who contends that “in principle” it | | “would indorse confiscation” of pri-} | vate property in violation of one of | | the fundamentals on which the Gov-| ! ernment was founded | -| “The property. should be returned | " | without delay and without regard to the claims of American nationals | against the German government.” he | declared after a conference with Presi- dent Coolidge. He also reiterated his opposition 0 the compulsory equalization fee principle which is being retained in the revised version of the MeNary- Haugen farm relief bill. another | measure that promises to produce | plenty of argument duting the short sescion. A DR. F. F. FRY HEADS NEW LUTHERAN MISSION BOARD Elected Executive of Merger of Five Former Groups of Church Workers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 2.—Dr. Franklin F. Fry of Rochester, N. Y. was elected executive secretary of | the Board of American Missions of the United Lutheran Church _of America at a meeting vesterday. His term will begin January 1. The board on which Dr. Fry will | serve will be a_merger of five former | mission boards conducting work among immigrant church members and the unchurched throughout the | country. The board represents a church membership of 1.400.000, has control | of assets of $1.500.000 in church ex- | tension funds and will spend $730,000 annually in mission work. On January 1 the new hoard will take over the work formerly done by the Home Mission Board and the Northwest Mission Board; on April 1| the work of the Immigrants® Mission | and the Committee on Jewish Mis-| sions, and on July 1 that of the West Indies Mission Roard. Plans for operation of the new hoard | and election of Dr. Fry were the | principal business at a “meeting of the joint commission for reorganiza- | tion ‘of home mission interests of the | United Lutheran Church of America. | Secretary Lutheran Bishop Dies. NEW YORK, December 2 (#).— offices of the National Lutheran Church of the death on October 29 at Leningrad, Russia, of Bishop Palsa, leader of the Esthonian group of the Evangelical Lutheran Church | of Russia. Death was attributed to the rigors of a four-month mission | Journey through Siberia. Senate Aspirant Makes Novel Report: Says Time Is Worth at Least $1 Per Day filed Senate yesterday by James H. Kir- by, candidate for Senator in the re- cent electfon in Illinois as an in- v wrinkles in cam with the secreta dependent Demdcrat. Mr. Kirby, who describes him- self as a farmer, and who hails from Petersburg, Ill, has includ- ed in a list of campaign expendi- tures barher the accompanying explanation: “From April 13 to November 2. When at home and not campaign- hills at are put forward, per- haps for the first time, in a list npaign ex- ry of the $£3.10 with ing, T al s shave myself and cut my own hair.” Other- items listed by Candi- date K include: One can pumpkin, cents; seven ‘Two- for' cigs 321 cents: two cakes kegs of nails, barn nails, $13.62; c cards, mpaign stamps, $50; hotel bill : cluding all tips; gasoline and cylinder oil, $30: wear and tear on_automobile, $200. The total given by Mr. Kirby is $473.3912 cents. He naively explains that “this does not in- clude my time, whi at least a dollar FEARS FOR PROSPERITY. Cham FREN (P).—Warning that there are several | menaces to the present record-break- ing Ameriean prosperity was sounded | | vesterday by Alvin E. Dodd, manager ! the of Comm partme.t Face here. He deprecated practices of selling | | below ! factories operating, of glutting already | supplied markets, and criticized the ber of ‘Warns of Mena “H LICK, Ind., United States ( erce's don in Brick ociation's As cost in order to Commerce stic distribution de- | ddressing, the Amer Official | ces. December 2 | of “hamber an | convention keep huge | shipments of Idaho potatoes to Florida | iWord was received yesterday at the |and Florida potatoes to Idaho and | similar movements as “tragic waste- | fulness.” | To curb these tendencies and pro- | long prosperity the speaker urged manufacturers to co-operate as closely as the law permits to prevent duplica- | after she had been burned when her tion of sales efforts production. v and excess | ENGAGEMENT IS BROKEN. | Clara Bow and Victor Fleming Said to Have Disagreed. LOS ANGELES, December 2 (#). The engagement of Clara Bow, screen star, and Victor Fleming, director, has been broken, at least temporarily, the “film flapper” announced vester- | day. A disagreement was given as the reason. The actress previously was engaged to Gilbert Roland, an actor, but this romance was shattered when Robert Savage, former college athlete and“ poet, siashed his wrists in what he caid w a faked suicide in an un- successful attempt to win the actress’ sympathy and affection. Woman Dies of Burns. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., December 2 (®).—Mrs. Sarah Bradley, 54, died in a local hospital yesterday, 18 hours clothing was ignited from an open- grate fire. “JERRY TARBOT” TELLS IDENTITY UNDER SPELL Mystery Man, Hypnotized, Gives Up Secret of Name to Hos- pital Doctors. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., December 2. —Under a hypnotic spell Hartfor “Jerry Tarbot,” wounded World War veteran and mystery man, is thought to have divulged the secret of his identity, He is Theodore Flint, 39, son of Joseph and Hulda Yates Flint of near Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is married to Virginia Miller Flint and has a brother, Mortimer, whose address is R. F. D. No. 4, Poughkeepsie, he told doctors at the State Hospital for the Insame while hypnotized. Relatives and the Poughkeepsie postmaster have been addressed re- garding the disclosures. The patient was picked up on the streets of Hartford about a month ago unable to identiy himself. After all other methods of identification had fafled it was decided to employ hypnotism and Flint related his complete history Dr. R. L. Leak, superintendent of the hospital, who cast the hypnotic spell, said last night that the results of the test had been satisfactory to the doctors. 5 L College Head Resigns. NEW YORK, December 2 (P).— Resignation because of ill health of Dr. Adolph H. Holthusen as pres- ident of Wagner College, Staten Island, to take effect immediately, was announced yesterday. Wagner College is operated by the New York Ministerium of the United Lutheran Church of America. Dr. Holthysen had been president since 018 & White Elephant’s Birth Hailed With Great Joy in Siam | By the Associated Press. BANGKOK, Siam, December The Siamese people are greatly pleased at the birth of what is de clared to be a white elephant in the north of Siam. The populace regard it as a particularly good omen in the year of his present majesty’'s accession. The baby elephant is accepted by local experts as a true white, al- though for the moment it is of. a pinkish color, and the claim to it being a “true white" has still to he pronounced officially. It s brought, at of the Chao Luang the request d Siamese au thorities, from the Borneo Co.'s estate to Chlengnai with great ceremony. Priests received it at the city gate. It was garlanded by the Chao Luang and lustral water poured over it. Priests chanted while performing the “tam kwan" rite in accordance with ancient cus- tom and in the presence of a great gathering of all nationalities. The King is to pay his first visit to the north in January, when the white elephante will be formally presented. In the meantime, it has been handed over to the Chao ll'.u«ng of Chiengnai for safe de- vei ALIENS ARE SERVED BETTER, SAYS DAVIS Naturalization = Expedited Changes in Field Organi- zation. by Better and more prompt service for aliens applying for citizenship has re. sulted from redistricting and closer fleld connections in the naturalization | service, Secretary of Labor Davis said | today in a section of his annual re- port, The outstanding feature of these re- sults is the disclosure in Detroit by the newly assigned district director of | naturalization of a systematic practice | of fraudulent naturalization previous Iy prevailing at that point. Arrests were made of 32 individuals, followed by the return of 74 indictments by the grand jury. Report was made of the conviction of 24 of these individuals, with penalties of imprisonment and fines imposed. _“Criminal prosecution was hegun in Nevada,” says the report, “of a for- mer naturalization examiner indicted in 1923 for fraudulent naturalization in | that State. This trial was delayed because of appeal carried by the a cusd to the Supreme Court of the United States against the order made in 1923 by the United States District Court of San Francisco for his re- moval from California to Nevada. His removal occurred in the latter part of 1925 and his trial began early in 1926. It was still pending at the te mination of the fiscal year, notwith- | standing repeated urgings by this de- partment upon the Department of Justice that the trial be expedited as much as possible ‘and assurances re- | terview. | to it." ceived of efforts to secure early prose- cutipn.” P . TOURISTS TRAPPED BY SNOW RESCUED Ex-Mushers Break Trail for 40 Stormbound in Nevada for Two Days. By the Associated Press. TONOPAH, Nev December 2 Two score or more of California-boun tourists who were trapped in a bliz zard at Montgomery Pass, in the high Sierras near here, are alive today onl: hecause of the heroic efforts of two former mushers, who effected their rescue when death seemed imminent because of cold and starvation The motor caravan, on its way to balmy southern California to spend the Winter far away from snow and cold, was caught in the pass in one of the worst storms in years. Thers were 31 automobiles in’ the group. Snowbound Two Days. For two days the hapless motoris remained snowhound in the pas without food, blue with cold, and ev burning trunks and other personal ef fects in a fufile effort to escape the freezing temperature. Meanwhile, Dan Haskin and Bill Farrington, veteran figures of the West, were pushing through with the motor stage to Bishop, Nev., un aware of the beleaguered tourist< ahead. Even though the snow was 10 feet deep in places, getting the stage through was a part of the day's work with them, and tney were accom plishing the job when they came upon 22 of the stranded cars. Nine othe machines almost covered with snow were encountered a short distance farther on. “What did we do with them?" Has kin repeated when sought for an in “Well, first wa broke tr: for them on to Benton. where Warre Davis, who runs a resort there, fille ‘em up with turkey and trimming< Help Tourists “Thaw Qut.” led ‘em to the h springs there and helped ‘em to g into the natural Turkish baths t thaw out—and that was all there wa “And then we The incident recalls the story of th Donner party, whose fate was one o the outstanding tragedies of the ol West. This party was trapped at th eastern base of Sierra north of Montgome: were snowhound for six months, dui ing which time 42 of the band of » | perished. Burnside’s Niece Weds. CHICAGO, December 2 (#).— M: Ella C. Patterson, who a short tin ago sued a New York soap manufa turer for $150,000 on the contention that the name of Gen. Ambrose Burn side, her uncle, was injured by the use ‘of the Civil ' War chieftain's cele brated whiskers in a xoap sales adver tisement, was married here yesterday to Frank W. Bond, retired lumber man, of Oshkosh, Wis. The suit, which attracted considerable atten- tion, wa# dlsmissed by the New York Stata Susreme Cou