Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 16

SMILES AS STRAIN OF TRIAL snapped as she arrived at court Mills trial, in wh charge of murdering Mrs. Eleano LIVE FOX MAKES NOVEL NECKPIECE. fancier attending the Silver Black IFox show at Denver, Col., one of the live foxes on exhibiti Frances Stevens Hall, last day of the Hall: ENDS ch she was acquitted, with her two brothers, on -the Mills, stain with Mrs. Hall's husband, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SA' State Senator Alexander Simpson, prosecutor in (he Hall-Mills trial, as he appeared in making his final rgument for conviction before the jury which acquitted the three Acme Photos Miss Edna Copping, a f¢ ries ol Reynard doesn’t seem to object, and probably would rather be worn in that form than as a mere pelt. il IN BALDWIN POOL Chicago Group. Headed by Arthur Cutten, Outfigure Wall Street Men. . By the Associated Press NEW YORK, dozen Chi Arthur W than §10 profits ou 4.--I1aif a headed b taken mor and paper 1 the last n Bald w York December ) specu utten, have 00,000 in aetual of Wall Stree 30 duys through operations win Loconotive stock. the Times savs today. 1ve completel t of the hands of ors “taken the New York v in Baldwi men w and have thelr ides of the transac i, in the pa sold at 165 price for vear. Aold short finding it diffienlt to meet commitinencs Movement in the stock began November 1. when rose_sharply 31z points to 11 Coup Ts Explained. high the and bears who e cpell Ay unfa Cutter l possibilit 1o spec line, profit A quiet Tation, in wheat, %in tng thre in the stoch str > their coup some by impelled the Chic says the Times. which perators who pool cannot now Baltwin withou of pain mited and > of ol than o month ago, Raldwin throus] and v vario ride on Tocomaotive With U under @ pled cagoans, more hegun quic in blocks < several brokers names. Rears sold tinued. One heen short 10 seeki pool in orde Othe: tremendons 1e only = repre large cers it off the m Talk of Corner Disputed. i had tp do was to bid e the small float h the bears bid themselves. try- - short shares t the pool rules r limb con- he serator is said to h short as v 000 shares at Main settlement suffered shares of Buldwin 0,000,000 exist, and these are held by offi- and others who keen ot AL the pe up the sto ing supply ocks on back the eet opinion is tk te stock excl turn the that ther control the company else to do with the profits of the rise ted with baving < in whuat last hested suin New Yok deal. Nis member change & i3 heve except 2 Mr. Cutt inada several milli vear and With havin of the most exper wheat operators in the nephew, Ruloff L. Cutten of the New York Stock I and of the firm of Hutton o handled s win transa anythin, is cr £ 00000 1S WON- « ight by P. & A. Photos. Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York, newly appointed Under- secretary of the Treasury, wears a cheerful smile as he leaves the White House after calling on Presi- dent Coolidge in reference to his new post. Wide World Photos, “S) USH” CHARGES FILED WITH REED | Massachusetts Republicar}s | Are Accused of Spending By the Associated Press BOSTON, December 4.—The return cam exnenditures of the | & committee filed here totaled § 2, includibg lia- bilities outstanding. Among them was | a total of $1.585 paid to Conrad W. Crooker, attorney for the Liberal Civie and the National Civ who Thurs night lodged '‘man Reed of the Senate | investigdting Republjcan organizations 36. of Democ today | League | League, with Ch | campaign | charges tha spent $45 committee | In this campaign Senator \\'lllmm: M. Butler w: Walsh for [United while Gov. Alvan T. Fuller was re elected over his Democratic apponent William A. Gaston. The report filed vesterday showed Gaston pald $14. ‘committee of tha $15 the law for his s defeated by tes Senator | t contribution from am| izatlon to the Democratic State committee was $19,005 from the As sociation Opposed to the Eighteenth | cndinent and from the As- ation Against the Prohibition wiment. The State Democratic party favored a modification of the | { prohibition laws, while the Repub- us’ plank called for a “strict en-| 1 laws.” | «d within a few da nation from steno- | : ing expenditures by ¢ Republican town and city com- | < 10 subistantiate his charges of | nwarranted expendi- art of Republicans. 1 last week assured him | zes would be submitted | full investigation committee | {on his return to Washington about | { December 8. Crooker Thursday night !telegraphed ‘the Senator that the in- | | vestigation by the league “indicated | flagrant violation of our State laws™ and hat we have already uncov tapula | mitte excessive und tn the 1o thr ered justifies continuing our request | | for full investigation here committee.” ! Chairman by vour rancis Prescott of the Republican State committee estimated | the Republican expenditures at about, 1$173.000, “or ahout $30,000 less than |in the campaign two years ago.” ' SUNDAY MAY RUN! [“BILLY” S YAKIMA, Wash, December 4 ). If the Democratie party nominates jGov. Al Smith of New York and the Republicans name any one but a dry ential candidate Wil- Billy Sunday gelist, wiil take the stump as @ “dry” candi date for the presiden: in a sermon here. Any person advocating a change in the prohibition law Is & traitor to the st of the Nation,” Su | The onl he " declared | David ¥ | YOUN Left to right: Miss Alita Henr) CIETY WOMEN OF WASHINGTON tables in the tearoom opened with the rummage sale, Miss Cecil Smiddy NOTED BRITISH AVIATOR. CALLS ith Henry Chilton, British charge d'affaires, as they was knighted by King sterday. Sir Alan, who ON IDENT. TURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1926. . ) Sir Alan and Lady Cobham, photographed calied ‘on President Coolidge at the White House eorge_after his recent flight London to Austraiia and return, flew to Washington from New York, with Lady Cobham in his tiny SEAPLANE FLIES plane performs a somewhat risky feat in ¢ screen laid down by su coast. The feat p e eraft during Pa nduces all the effect of f National Photo. MARYLAND C0-EDS PREPARE FOR RIFLE MATCH Miss H Beyerle (left), captain of the varsity girls’ rifle team of Maryland Uni- versity, and Mary J. McCurdy, manager of the team. They are pre aring h their teammates for rifle meets this season with some of the r ing college girl teams of the try. Copyright bv P. & A. Photos ific fleet maneuves through i and renders it difficult tor the pilot to keep his bea Copyright by Underwood & U'nderwood. who will provi tainment features for the testi- monial dinner to be given Cuno H, Rudolph, the retiring District Com. missioner, December 17. CHIMPANZEE AND SNAKE BURY H chimpanzee, and this huge rock-python are the best pals in the animal collection James E. Edwards of Long Beach, Calif. Maybe Billy knows the snake is s too well fed to carry his affection to the point of “eating his friend up. Wide World Photos. EDITARY FEUD. Billy, the IND SERVIC the Mrs. Geoffrey Thompson, M AT CHILD WEI old Federal Bank Building on F stree "ARE TEA. A group of those who are wa for the benefit of the Child Welfare Society. b s T b ing on the Robert Roebling, Miss Pearl Smiddy and Miss Allison Roebling. National Photo. FILIPINO FREEDOM IS BUNUAN DEMAND/ ——— | i | Commission Director Declares Com- plete Independenge Only Solu- tion to Philippines Problem. | By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, December .- | tistactory solution of the | Plylippine question is the granting‘of | immedtate, complete and absolute in- dependence, W. G. Bunuan, director of the Washington office of the F'hil ippine Commission of Independence, asserted Thurs: night_in address: ing the College Club of Philadelphia. The fear of certain investors that with the disappearance of American | sovereignty prutection of investments would be removed was unjustified, he said. “To, capital, to a new independent government. “The other objection 13 Japan,” he | said. “The main argument connected | with this objectiop is Japan's need for | territory for her expanding popula- tion, and that the Philippines is the natural direction for such expansion. This argument can be dismissed as being highly exaggerated. Japan has enough room for her own people. It is not land that Japan needs, but raw | materials.” 2 The speaker urged the College Clul and similar organizations in America to help create public opinion “strong enough to influence those in author- {1ty to end tha deadlock hetween Gov. | Gen. Wood and the Philippine Legis- |1ature.” He added that the faith of | the Filiping peop Amnerica mained unshaken. discriminate against _outside| he declared, “‘would be fatal | in re- | : 1 Item in the Lincoln Memorial to fur- nis wii !tract having been awarded to Biggs & {wil {oflice by Mr. Ryan in: of the lighting and ing sta | the sculptor, Daniel Chester I Mr. nstalladon of h proper illumination to the statue | fright I begin within a short time, a_con- Kirchner, local contractors, who | di I follow a w. uminating c of the General engineering lectric ¢ labora- | The eifects in the m 1 finally devised an artific scheme which would give tue the appearance intended nch. | today, | French. it was explained has heen dissatistied with the illumi- | made cefll | nation of the statue ever since the|light, completion of the memorial. o The investigation showed that only | the 123 s a small amount of light came through | be a single light of less intensity than | the translucent marble panels in the | the flood lights. The strong light comifig in | will be so arrs ing. new lighting sys- the shadow glving the fa intended by the sculptor. ing has been the cause of considerabl ppointment to many of the vi an prepared for the [tors there, it was said at the public Ryan, director of | buildings office. invisible. n the e an appearance of rather than one of repose, This ligh scheme providing for correcting i | this is the installation in the ceiling n exhaustive study {of 12 powerful flood lights grouped | After eight hours' deliberation a jury pemortal | at one side of the memorial and 12 ad- | 1 light- | ditional flood lights of less power on the | the other side, for the purpose of re- by |lieving some of the intensity of the)Harry E. Bester, president other group. panels are 1o be replaced by specially | The translucent marble glass, which will diffuse the vet make the lighting system translucent marble panels will The wiring system nged that certain groups the entrance served to wipe out the |of lights may be turned on in order to {effect of the ceiling light and cast |get the effect desired at any time. MUMA LOSES APPEAL. | GEORGIA BANK SUSPENDS. Court Rules He Will Pay 37,000:;Xn"\'billty to Realize on Farm Paper ¥ Fine or Stay in Jail. PHILADELPHIA. December 4 (). i MOULTRIE, Ga, Is Blamed. y December 4 (P).— —Jasper C. Muma of New York, one |The Citizens' Rank, with a capital of those convicted in March, 1 | connection with the transportation of | yesterday. \prize fight films out of New | either $7.000 or remain in jail indefinitely | under United States Circuit Court of Appeal The Cireuit will have to pay his fine the a decision yesterday of tho |POSits Court_dismissed Muma' n the deces it strict Julge tes b . in | stock of $100. Jersey. farm paper was s bank’s embarrassment. 00, suspended business to realize on id to have caused Its de- at the time the last statement Inabili was issued, in October, totaled §800,000. common article of food ] | | | Lincoln Memorial to Have New System | BASE BALL TEST CASE Of Lights to Prpperly lllqn_'linate Statue! RESULTS IN MISTRIAL Sbae | wrong direction, Hagerstown Jury Reported 7-5 for Acquittal of Harry E. Bester After 8 Hours. Special Dispateh to The Star HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 4. |in ctreutt &t last. night reported | its inability to agree in the case of of the Hagertown base ball club, who was charged with violating the Mar: law against Sunday base ball. The In addition, behind each of | jury, reported as standing 7 to 5 for acquittal, was discharged. Bester, who is testing the legality of the blue law, said he would con- sult his counsel ‘at once on the ques tion of demanding a new trial. The game was played August 8. A num ber of other base ball players were arrested, but their cases nolle prossed upon agreement to make a test in Bester's case. Mr. Bester says he is nxious to have the matter of Sun- day base ball settled one way or the other. La Foll;!ee Ilrnproven. OCHES' f\lhm..1 R ) La Follette | of Wisconsin, who has been a hospitad patient here for several weeks, will leave some time next week, he’ said vesterday. His condition is such that he fs permitted to sit up several hanrs each day and he i< rapidly re. &tining normal health. December 4 | 13GROUPS BARRED |CRABTREE HEARING ININSURANCE CASE! RECALLS LD WEST 'Licenses Revoked ~After In-iDepositions of Pioneers Sup- | quiry Into Fraternal Bod- | port Claim of Mrs. Carlotta | ies in Pennsylvania. | Cockburn in Suit. By the Associated Press, By the HARRISBURG, Pa.: December 4. BOSTON, | Revocation of the . Pennsylvania | the | licenses of 13 fraternal insurance or Ariz | ganizations was announced yesterday | yesterday in the Suffolk Probate Cour: by Kinar Barfod, State insurance |here. Pictures of the old days wers commissioner. drawn in depositions read in suppor High expenditures for s h of the claim of Mrs. Carlotta Coel percentage of lapses. excessive cost of | burn of San Gabriel, Calif., to shar. management and failure to attend|in the $4.000,000 estate of the late hearings on citations were among the | y Crabtree, actress. { reasons assigned for the revocation.| Affidavits of two old-timers of the | The commissioner also held that sev- | Arizon: mining camp supported the |eral companies were not subject to|contention of Mrs. Cockburn that she | the Pennsylvania insurance laws. was the daughter of the late John .\ Under the revocations, the organi- Crabtree, brother of Lotta Crabtres zations are barred from writing new |and, therefore, a niece of the actres: | business within the State, but must out contracts now in force, the | ominissioner explained | Organizations Affected. The organizations affected by the | revocations and their headquarters arer i - Modern Woodmen of America, Rock | Tombstone, described as.a town Island, 111 Independent Western Star | of 500 inhabitants, a day’'s journe: Order, Chicage, I11.; Holy Family So-|by stage from the railroad, life was ciety of the U. S. A., Jolict, 11 {simple, the aMants sald. Killings Benevolent Order of lgyptians, | were frequent and the vigilantes had Camden, N. J {much to do. Men were careful how Daughters of Norway, Minneapolis, | they talked about men and women Minn. | for they were held responsible fo: Natlonal Benevolent Society, Kansas | their remar In this background City, Mo, i both said, Jack Crabtree lved with his reputed wife. Reynoids and Rice | both swore that they knew of davghter born of the union. The had known Lotta Cral. ‘alifornia. and that the Cral. at they saw in Arizona i actress’ brother. Was Call Boy. Revnolds in his deposition said Jac Crabtree had told him he ingended 1. name the baby Carlotta after his sis ter. Te said that in 1585, when h- visited Tombstone, Jack's partner, Ed Bullock, took * him to show hin: “Jack’s kid,” which was done. Rice. who sald he met Lotta Crab tree while he was a call boy in a Sar ancisco theater, said he came across 'k Crabtree for the first time i mbstone TEXAS WINS ROAD SUIT. Recovery of $412,000 Is for Al- leged Excess Profits. iated Prese., December Echoes o 0. when Tombston« . was a roaring camp were heard 4. early Frontier Town Days. leponents were Robert Heny of Naco, Ariz, and Michae! Rice. now of Californfa. Both claimed to e been friendly with Crabtree in California and Inc., Order lelphia. o Encampment. | of Knights Hospitallers, i’h | Western Bohemian Frater clation, Cedar Rapids, lowa United States Grand Lodge Order of British Al York City. Grand United Order of Moses, Inc Charlotte Court House, Va.; Improved Order of Shepherds and Daughters « Bethlehem and the Supreme Lodge ¢ | the Natfonal Ideal Benefit Society, | Richmond, Va.: Royal Order of Mene {lik and Princesses of Abyssinia of America, Newport News, Va 51 Are Investigated. | ‘The commissioner notified the Po lish alma mater of the United States of America, with headquarters in Chi cago: that ynless valuation reports are | filed witk che department by the end | of the year showing it to be 100 per | | cent sofvent, the license for 1927 would | not he renewed. The revocations are the result of investigations af the organizations' conditions by the insurance depart ment. They formed part of a group of 51 organizations which were cited | AUSTIN, Tex., Dee to appear before the commissioner 10 | yuqenons ron Hhe ':mber £Ko show causa why their licenses to sell - T $412,000° against ‘the ingurance in Pennsylvanfa should not Mnan Construction Co. of Eastland, be revoked. S x entered in Distriet Court { The commissioner said tha the , » | companies Meensien were. ve=| 1ere 1D favor of the Sta voked because they were not subject | The recovery is for alleged excess xas highways contracts kes $1.012,000 which Attor i to Pennsylvania insurance laws would | profits on not be prohibited froimn continuin This w business in the State. ney General Dan Moody has won in ——me |the two suits against highway con An inflated rubber cap to keep a |tracting firms which held contracts Vewlmner's head alove the water has [awirded b Gov. Miriam A. Fergu been invented. son's highway commission. tree the was \