Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1926, Page 2

2 » DISTRICT'S FUTURE NEEDS DISGUSSED Planning Board Meets With Representatives, of Mary- land and Virginia. = afic requirements of metropol- | ftan Washington of the future were | looked into, forecast and discussed | by the National Capital Park and! Planning Commission today, together with the matter of laying down a_com- prehensive park system to_extend | across the boundaries of the District. | when that body met with the regional development officials of the two bor-! der States, whose nearby territories | will be oncerned with any | tory immedintely adjacent so connect up and conform with that in | the capital. i The commission had before it a! tentative plan for the development o | & regional highway system, made up | of main arteries of traffic with the District, and leading into sections of States. where investigation as shown the heaviest traffic de mands are. The plan has been work- ed out by a corps of experis. who, for several moanths, have been stady ing the area, using recent fic survey privaie comypx . June the date for the adopiion of the tema- tive progiam. and I the inte further investigations will be made. Result of Olmsted Siuvdy. The park plan presented in a tenta-; tive form was the result of a study of soveral weeks made by Frederick 1. Olmsted, a_member of the commis- sion, and employes of tha body. Per- sonal inspections have been made, and the tentative repoct lays down before the Maryland and Virginia regional commissioners a plan for the acquisi- tion of park lands in these States in advance of the expected commercial and residential development. The regional commissioners present vesterday and today were: Maryland Maj. 1. Brooke Lee, T. Howard Duck ett, J. Enos Ray and Charles H. Mer- ryman: Virginia, W. L. Bragg, H. Earlton Hanes. (. F. Kincheloe and Burr P. Harrison. the latter a repre- sentative of the State Highway De- partment of Virginia hese changes include a revision of the street line of Connecticut avenue, Tiden and Yuraa streets to provide for a system of boundaries around the Bureau of Standards and to con- nect up with the new park area in Svapstone Park, a recent addition to the Rock Creek Park system. The commission also approved a change in the line of U"tah and Nebras- ka avenues so that it would follow the curve of the nld Rock Creek Ford road. It approved change of the lines of certain streets in the southeast sec- tion 20 that they would run around Fort Dupont instead of passing through that reservation. Brentwood Project Approved. Reopening of the old Brentwood road northeast along its original path, 80 that it would connect with T street, also was approved. When this road- way is opened it will make possible the use of the T Street Bridge across the Washington terminal yards, and it is believed will relieve Rhode Island avenue of some of its present traffic. The commission this afternoon is considering the regional highway plan, taking in the District of Co- lumbia and the so-called Metropolitan district adjacent to this city and lying in Maryland and Virginia. For the consderation of this plan the commis- sion has called into conference repre- sentatives of the regional commission appointed by the Governors of Mary- land and Virginia. This is the first time that these State officlals have been called upon to participate in the discussion of the regional development. A tentative fhan has been laid out as a result of the study made by a corps of ex- perts called into consultation by the commission. Tomorrow the commission will take up the consideration of a regional parking scheme which will provide for the extension of the park system of the District of Columbia into the adjacent areas of the two neighboring States, RAIL WORKER IS HELD ON POISON CHARGE Fellow Employe Tells of Receiving Impure Candy and Two Anony- mous Threatening Letters. By the Associated Press OELWEIL JTowa, December 11.— Anonymous letters demanding money figured in a mystery revealed here yesterday when Walter Jorgensen, Oelwein railroad worker, was ordered held for the grand jury on a charge of glving poison candy to a co-worker, Ed Froney. Jorgensen failed to fug- nish $10,000 bond. Froney reluctantly told officers yes- terday that he has received two un- signed letters, each demanding that he deliver $1,000 in Chigago. ‘The first note was received November 29, six days after he claims Jorgensen gave him candy which, analysis has shown, contained enough poison to kill a man and the second came yesterday. It instructed Froney to bring $1,000 to Chicago December 12. Officers have not been able to find any cause for enmity between the two and Froney says he and Jorgensen were on friendly terms. e JOHN J. McGUIRK HEADS STANLEY CORPORATION Vice President Is Elevated to Suc- ceed Late Jules E. Mastbaum as Chief. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 11.—- John J. McGuirk, vice president of the Stanley Co. of America since it was founded, was elected president yester- day by the directors, replacing the late Jules E. Mastbaum. Abe Sablosky was elected to the vice presidency, succeeding Mr. Mec- Guirk, and Clifford B.” Hawley was chosen a director of all the Stanley subsidiary companies. Albert W. Fleisher was also elected a director of the Stanley Co. Mr. McGuirk also was elected presi- sent of the subsidiary companies of Which Mastbaum was president. The directors of the Stanley Co. of erica declared the regular quarter. y dividend of 76 cents a share on the vapital stock of the company, payable Qanuary 1 to stockholders of record December 18, 1926. ———————— Detective’s Daughter Is Sleuth. NEW YORK, December 11 (#).— The detective instinct runs_ through trie family of one Willlam J. Burns, former head of the United States Secret Service. Willlam Van Puls called on Mrs. Burns and her two daughters in the capacity of a window cleaner. One daughter watched him and sald she saw him take a $20 bill ‘helddn BURNS PROVE FATAL. | William Ryder, Watchman, Dies of Injuries. ! i Willlam Ryder, 65 years old, 123 North Carolina avenue southeast, died | at Emergency Hospital last night as al result of burns he received November | 29, while working as watchman for the Brenizer (‘onstruction Co. ; Ryder was firing a steam shovel in ¢ the renr of 525 Sheridan street, police reported, when his raincoat ignited. Coroner Nevitt deemed an inquest un- necessary. Lyder s death marked the third fa- trom: the safie cause here in 24 ne being poured into the. fluld container of an iron yesterday after- noon by Zellin Davis, colored, 909 Co- lumbia road, exploded and burned Mrs. Davis about the fage and arms. he was trexted at Emetgency Hos- pital, where it was said she had not been seriously burned. Sy SIGN $150.000 LEASE Get Together Long Enough to Let Chicago Plot at Huge Annual Rental. I By the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 11.—Joseph | Leiter and his sister, the Countess of | ! Suffolk, who are opponents In @ sut Love their father’'s millions, got to- gother yesterday long enough to sign a L000-a-year lease at a rate of $438 a square foot, said to be the highest leasing rate recorded in Chi- | cago, if not in the country. The lease was taken by the Clark- Madison Building_Corporation for 99 | yeurs on a 50x125 site at the south- { west corner of Clark and Madison streets, and the erection of a bulld- | ing to cost 00,000 Is planned. | Capitalized at 5 per cent the lease represents a ground value of $3,000,- | 000 for the 50 feet of frontage. | While the countess and her brother | were visibly pleased with the finan- | cial matter. so far as known there | was np closer approach as far as | their litigation was concerned. Lefter, under cross-examination, #aid yesterday that the trustees, he acting in hix own behalf and also| holding the powers of attorney of his mother and sister, had agreed to deny access to the honds of the estate to any except two of the trustees to- gether or one of the trustees holding | power of attorney for two others. He denled the act was a step to prevent the Countess of Suffolk from having such access, but admitted that the bonds were held in the name of “Joseph Leiter, trustee,” and that he was the only person to whom any ever were delivered. ARMY WITHDRAWS FROM WAR GAMES Lack of Funds Will Not Per- mit Participation With Navy in Maneuvers. | | By the Assoctated Pre Secretary Wilbur was formally noti- fled yesterday by Secretary Davis that the Army could not participate in the proposed joint maneuvers next May on the New England coast, be- cause of the expense involved. Avallable appropriations cannot be stretched, the War Department has decided, to provide the necessary $25,000 minimum cost of even minor war games to the Army. The plan for joint maneuvers was devised last year after Congress had provided for the Navy sufficient fuel appropriations to permit the fleet to come from the Pacific into the Atlan- tic during 1927. | It was originally expected that the fleet would reach the scene of the maneuvers after next July 1, and the War Department prepared to ask the Budget Bureau to approve a special fund to allow a large-scale war game, with National Guard, Organized Re- serves and Army aircraft taking part. Navy plans, however, required the flest to reach the scene in May and the War Department directed Maj. Gen. Preston Brown, commanding the 1st Corps Area, Boston, to confer with Admiral C. F. Hughes, com- mander-in-chief, United States fleet, to determine if a limited scope “‘minor” joint maneuver at the earlier date would be possible. Gen. Brown has reported that it would cost at least $25,000 and prob- ably much more for transportation of troops and supplies, lease of camp sites and other items if the games were to be on a scale that would be of any value as a military study. Examination of available funds at the War Department failed to find money to cover this cost and Secre- tary Davis ordered the authorization for the Army's share in the games canceled. Additional naval exercises to train the fleet probably will be substituted #sr the joint games. A New Booklet On the Presidents At Handling Cost special @trangements The Evening Star is able to offer its readers a new 40-page booklet on the Presidents of the United States. This booklét contains in- teresting facts about the Presi- dents, their portraits and bi raphies and statistics about their wives and tamilles. 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Gree.y, dean of Arctic explorers, last evening presented Dr. Rasmussen with an honorary life mflnt\flrflmn in the National Geographic Society when the latter addressed that so- clety at the \Washington Auditorium. Dr. Rasmussen is the twenty-fitith man to be invested with this honor by the National Geographlc Society. In replying to Gen. Greely, who rep- resented the society’s trustees in the Dr. Rasmussen paid high tribute to the society for rec- ognizing that geography means ‘‘not only exploration, but adventure and romance,” and for its wide dissemina- tion of the results of its expeditions and geograbhic knowledge in general among interested laymen as well as among sclentists. Describes 20,000-Mile Trip. Dr. Rasmussen described a 20,000 mile trip he made by dog sled and afoot in the-Far North, from Creen- land, across northern Canada to Alnska, visiting practically every Eskimo tribe in the world. He said that civilization owes a great debt to these people who “inhabit the shores of fcefilled oceans where no other population could survive. “This debt is large in the ald which Hskimos have given to all Arctic explorers,” he rald. The speaker departed from the cus- tomary description of the habits and customs of the far northern people to dwell upon thelr spiritual life, philos- ophy, culture and religious bellefs. Eskimo, he said, is always smiling, dancing, playing and singing. His honesty and kindliness is all the more noteworthy since life among primitive tribes {s so rigorous that old people must be left to atarve and girl | babies often are killed because they are too great an economic burden. | Some of the Eskimo folk lore, stud-| fed for many years by Dr. Rasmussen, | discloses beliefs that suggest the Dar-| winian theory. For example they tell | of a time when animals changed into men, and when there were many kinds : of animals and only one tribe of men., Others suggest the scriptural account | of Creation, as when they tell of the; days when all humans were men, but, ! the speaker humorously added, they | will inform you that those times were | “very peaceful, but monotonous.” \ Rich Store of Fables. The writer of animal stories would | garner a rich harvest of tales from | those which the Eskimo relate—tales | which show the imagination and point | a moral, as do many of our own| antient fables. The motion pictures portmyed life! among the Greenland tribes, those of | Northern Canada, and then show the. Alaskan Eskimos indulging in their | wolf dances. elaborate rituals accom- panied by songs. in which the parti-) cipants wear animal masks and pro- trude thelr heads through holes to| carry on their pantomimes. Every | Eskimo, the speaker sald, composes | his own song and his own poem. | Among the most remarkable of the | pictures were those of a herd of 20,000 reindeer, a development from a small herd Introduced. in Alaska by the| United States Bureau of Education. | These originally were provided in or- der to give the Alaskan Eskimos a| means of earning a llving: but they now promise to add substantially to our meat supply. TOSCANINI TO QUIT LA SCALA, IS REPORT Conductor Will Be Succeeded by Mascagni at Opera Post, According to Rumor. By the Associated Press. MILAN, Italy, December 11.-—It was reported here yesterday that Arturo Toscanini is to resign as di- rector and conductor of La Scala Opera. Pletro Mascagni, the noted Itallan composer, is mentioned as his successor. There has been considerable un certainty in recent months concern- ing the plans of Toscanini. Last May he announced that he would temporarily vacate the post of or- chestra director of La Scala Opera to obtain a rest, but denied rumors that his resignation was imminent. Later it was reported that he planned to leave for the United States in October to conduct or- chestras in various American cities, but this trip never materialized. Still later, it was reported in musi- cal circles in Rome that he was to become _director of the Costanzi Opera, Rome, which, it was said, would replace Milan as Italy's most important opera center. Mascagni, composer of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and other operatic suc- ~eases, last September denied a re- port that he had arranged to go to the United States to conduct his operas and had then broken the agreement by refusing to sail at the ast minute. Not only did he not wign any contract providing for such @ visit, he said, but he had definitely rejected the conditions proposed. He did not intend to visit the United Btates until he received a contract in keeping with what he considered “worthy artistic conditions.” NEW MUNSON SHIP LINE. Passenger Service, Baltimore to Miami and Havana, Proposed. NEW YORK, December 11 (#).—A passenger and freight steamship serv- ice from Baltimore to Jacksonville, Miam{ and Havana will be inaugu- rated Christmas eve by the Munson Line, Frank C. Munson, its president, announced yesterday. ‘The new service will begin with the sailing of the steamship Munorleans December 24 from Baltimore, This vessel will leave Bxltimore again Jan- uary 7, and, with the addition of the Munamar, which will sail January 14, a_weekly schedule will be main- tained thereafter. Northbound vessels from Havana will omit calling Jacksonville, but the stops at Miami and Baltimore will be made regularly. _Robbed of $60. Lawrence Mattingly, 1650 U street southeast, was held up by two colored men, one armed, on B street between Eleventh and Twelfth streets last: n:goht about 11 o'clock and robbed of Mattingly had gone to get his parked {to New York. | l Club Asks Refund, Saying Nobile Can’t Speak English Well ' | ! | | | 1owa, December 5 n husiness Davenport, ture hece Monda Umberto Nohiie. n who flew over the th Po v :it for $1,800 f 1seney b chi Al presentation, cluimi Nobile was unable to express hm- self in English and could not make himself understood by the audience. g 3 FATHER IS ACCUSED OF KDNARIG LD U. S. to Be Asked to Aid in Finding Louisville Man Be- lieved in Venezuela. By the Associ LOUISVILLE, K Indictments charging Sydne accountant for an oil and his mothe tie M. Tolle, with kidnaping vear-old son were returned by a g fury here vestes Tolle's tale of marital traged culminated with indictments charging theft of her cl 6 by her estranged hu mother. | was made known ause,” she sald, “while 1 have dreaded the pub- leity that must ensue, I will do any- thing to regain my baby, and the po lice authorities arc my last hope.” Tolle and his wife are hoth natives of Muskogee, Okla. She had known him for 14 vears before {he riage, and they had been fric: her first husband died unexpe edly six weeks after marris Were Married in 1921, In 1916 Mrs. Tolle moved to Louis- ville. Tn the meantime, Tolle had be- coma an auditor for an oil company in Tampico, Mexico. Out of their friendship love came, and they were married in_Loutsville in 1824, Mr. and Mrs. Tolle returned to Tam- pico, where they lived for three months, Then Mrs. Tolle went to the home of her mothe: ogee, and seven months later child " was born. She had sought no divorc had given no intimation of the c of her estrangment from her husband. Mrs. Tolle returned to Louisville and began work for a business con- cern where she formerly had been em- ployed. Recently she received a let ter from her sand in_ which he told her that he was the victim of an incurable disease and that ing to the States to unders operation. He becged that allowed to €ee his son. Says Father Took Child. Tolle called at his wife's home No- vember 6, she sald. She was away at work. A sister let the father see the boy, she said, and he asked permis- sion to take the child into the yard. Instead, the mother said and the in- dictment charges. he sped away in a taxi with the child. He went to Jef- fersonville, Ind., his mother was waiting, having come here f{rom Fort Dodge, ans., Mrs. Tolle de- clared, and the child was taken o In- Qianapolis, From there, investigation owed, the trio went East, probably nd it is believed they are now in Marigaibo, Venezuela. Joseph Lawson. commonweiith's at- torney, sald that i governmental souice ing the father. he be s for aid in find- VETERANS’ MEMORIAL FUND IS ENRICHED Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent and Family of War Victim Among Recent Contributors. Contributlons from the Ellen Spen- oer Mussey Tent. No. 1, Daughters of Veterans, and_from the mother and daughter of Jesse Morse Robinson, Washingtonian, who died in France June 1, 1918, are among the latest gifts to the District of Columbia World War Memorial to be erected in Po- tomac Park. The additional contributions were announced by John Poole, treasurer of the fund and president of the Fed- 330,000 Reindeer In Alaska Offer Santa Wide Choice‘ Santa Claus has more reindeer for his sleighs this Christmas than ever before. There are 350,000 reindeer in Aloska, the Biological Survey re- ported today, an original herd of 1,280 animals imported from Si- bexia 25 years ago having increzsed tu that exten:. @ The raising of reindeer has be- come an important commercial en- terprige in the last few years, the animals belng distributed over the territory in 110 herds. PHIPS 1S OPPOSED 0 CONDENINATION Holds Direct Land Purchase 1926. NFDERMOTT TR RESUMES MONDAY 'Widow of Stain Editor to Take Stand After Coro- ner Has Testified. ALFALFA CLUB TO DINE. Col. Carroll Elected President at Recent Meetin At a recent meeting of the Alfalfa Club it was decided to hold the an- nual dinner of thé club at the New Willard Hotel on Saturday evening, Ja 3 tollowing officers we elected: Maj. James Calvin Hemphill, president emeritus; Cao John H. Carroll, president; Milton Elliott, first vice president; Judge J. Harry Covington, second vice presi- . Wilds P. Richardson, club rterfieid Light. se and Maj. Glen water hoy. d of managers consists of Carroll, Judge Covington, J. Cunningham, Maj. Edgerton, Elliott, Cary T. Grayson, & Light, Thomas P. Littlepage, rd V. Oulahan, Col. Richardson, Snyder and J. ORATORY LAURELS FALL TO PRENTICE he E. By the Associated Press. Ohio, December 11. - Roth prosecutor and defense in the trial of Patrick Eugene McDermott, charged with the murder of Don It Mellett, Canton publisher, were p paring today for the start of testi- Monday. The jury was com- terday. There was a. recess | Edward Most of Monday, says Prosecutor €. B. McClintock, is to be used in pre- ting to the jury the story of how fellett, crusader against the under. world, was slain at his garage door shortly after midnight on July 16. After Coroner T. C. McQuate tells what the autopsy revealed and what he learned in a consultation with experts who examined the death S | terday that it has been the experience | ing land for schools, playgrounds and | | man of the Public Buildings Commis¢ eral-American National Bank, as fol- lows: Ellen §pencer Mussey Tent, Daugh- tors of Veterans, $26; Mary G. Kelly, $5: Dorothy Robinson, $10, and Har- riet M. Peot, $50, mother and sister of Lieut. Robinson; Mrs. Sarah M. Lockwood, $25. The District memorial by act of Congress is to take the form of a Are More Advantageous in Price and Terms. Senator Phipps of Colorado, who has charge of District appropriations in the Senate, told his colleagues ves- of the District Commissioners in buy- parks that they have been able to| secure lower prices and make more advantageous deals directly with the owners than through condemnation. He was prompted to make this ob- servation while Senator Smoot, chair- { mott, 2ion, 18 delivering his speech on the Federal bullding program in Washing- ton. Senator Couzens of Michigan had interrupted to suggest that he thought it would be wiser to buy all of the land in the Pennsylvania ave. nue trigngle by condemnation than to give the Treasury Department dis cretionary power to buy either by di: rect purchase or condemaation. Prefers Option In Bill. “I think it has been the experience of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in acquiring property in this clty for school buildings, parks, playgrounds and other purposes that they have been able to secure lower prices and make more advantageous deals directly with the owners than where the owners refused to set a price and they had to take them into court under condemnation proceed- fngs,” said Senator Phipps. “'AS a rule, where they have resorted o condemnation proceedings, the owner has gotten about the price he asked for, which the Commissioners were unwilling to accede to without the order of the court. I belleve great wavings would be effected by adopting the language of the bill as proposed, leaving it optional with the commis- sion (the Public Buildings Commis- sion) to deal directly with the owners rather than to take them all into court.” Would Save Time. Senator Smoot, in answering the query of Senator Couzens, said that in making purchases in the District in the past property owners have been interested in reaching an agree- ment without being halled into court.) “Of course,” he added, “we know that the Secretary of the Treasury or the commission will not agree upon a price for land unless men who are well versed in values say that that what the land is worth at this time not the prospective price, but what it is worth today. If we can do that it will save taking the men into court and save time, and that {s the only reason for wording the provision in this way. I am quite sure that a great many condemnation proceedings will be had. AUTO TALKING HORN BASIS OF LITIGATION By the Associated Press. DETROIT, December 11.—A speak- ing automobile horn which, it is claimed, will voice clearly and in the best of English the information that the driver of the car purposes turn- ing to the right, etc, is the subject of litigation. Charles Negrim, who described himself as financial backer of the device, was granted an injunction vesterday restraining his partner and the inventor, Benjamin Freeble, from disposing of the rights to the patented device. Negrim claim that, in addition to automobile usage, the principle could be applied to raiiroad cross- ing signals, which ould chant, “Trains coming north,” etc., or what- ever was desired. Court and spec- tators, eager for a demonstration of the device, were disappointed. was not produced. Negrim testified Freeble had sold the manufacturing and marketing rights to him. Negrim then hired beautiful marble Doric temple, to be | Freeble to manufacture & number of placed in Potomac Park between the Tidal Basin and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool., and to be used for concerts_by the Army, Nayy and Marine Bands. Plans call not only for instgllation of a public address system by which the music may be heard for a distance from the memo- rial itself, but for an extension and loud speaker to carry the music to Haines Polint. The commission behind the move- ment is hoping that Washingtonians who have not yet contributed to the memorial will add materially to the fund_during the Christmas season. Checks may be sent to John Poole, g;a‘s‘urer. Federal-American National N RTINS VU Appointed to West Point. G. Everett Hill, Long Branch, N. J., and Robert E. Robinson, son of Capt. Edgar E. Robinson, 42d United States Infantry, at Camp Galllard, Panama Canal Zone, have been appointed by President Coolidge cadets at large at the United States Military Academy, subject to qualification at the entrance examination next March. o ot Capt. Cloward Resigns. Resignation of Capt. Ralph E. Clo- ward, Army Medical Corps, has been accepted by the President to take ef- fect December 31 at Honolulu, Hawali, his present station. Capt. Cloward is from Utah and has been connected with the Army Medical Department since July, 1917, Labor Indorses Calles. MEXICO CITY, December 11 (#). —The Regional Confederation of La¢ bor has adopted a resolution in sup- port of President Calles. It praises the President for his “energetic atti- tude adopted before his enemies, who also are the enemies of labor.” BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra at Stanley Hall," today, 5:45 o'clock, John 8. M. Zimmermann, leader; Emil A. Fen- stad, second leader. \ = gl it Bt Ao average _docf oW TorkeCity $s about $2,000 a.year, the devices and the latter agreed to finish them on a certain date, the bullét, Mrs. Florence Mellett of Indianapolis, widow of the publisher, will testify. Mrs. Mellett first openly named as the murderers ‘the three men now charged with the crime—McDermott, Ben Radner and Louls Mazer. She sued them in Federal Court for $100,000, charging that they plotted against her husband's life, slew him and thereby deprived her and her children of the companionship of a husband and father. At the conclusion of the four and one-half days’ struggle to get a jury, the jurors were taken, with McDer to the murder scene. The jurors spent their first night in the custody of a balliff, the three women and ten men being qu in a Canton hotel. Counsel predicted today that the trial would not be over before Christmas. EFFORT TO ADVANCE | REVOLVER BILL FAILS Senate Opposition Halts Plan to Purther Prevention of Sending Weapons by Mail. The bill to prevent shipment of re- volvers through the mails wis reach on the Senate calendar yesterday afternoon, but was laid aside when several Senators objected to its con- sideration. When Senator Moses of New Hamp- shire inquired whether there was seri- ous objection to the measure or merely objection to its consideration t this time, Senator Reed of Penn- anta replied: peaking for myself, I think the bill is bad policy and ineffective. 1 think all the laws denying law-abiding people the possesston of firearms and the right to transport them result | only in disarming law-abiding citizens, | to the great advantage of the crimi. | nal class.” Senator Moses, explaining the ne- | cessity of such a law, said that many States have laws prohibiting the pur- chase and carrying of firearms except under permits, and that persons who re unable to obtain permits in their own States may buy firearms through the maile, a situation which the local authorities cannot take care of. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania re- plied that in New York State the Sulli- van act “has disarmed the law-abid- ing citizens and it is not perceptible that any criminal has been impeded in the least in his activities.” Further objection was made and Senator .Moses had to give up his Em»rt to obtain consideration of the PRODUCE PIONEER DIES AFTER GREAT CAREER Starting as Pushcart Peddler, J. H. Steinhardt Built Up $15,- 000,000 Company. By the Aesociated Press. NEW YORK, December 11.—Jaseph H. Steinhardt, 62, who rose from pushcart peddler to the presidency and sole ownership of the produce firm of Steinhardt & Kelly, doing an annual business of $15,000,000, died of heart disease at his home here yesterday. He was one of the chief figures in the opening up of the fruit and vege- table regions of the West and North- west, and owned extensive fruit lgnds in the Imperial Valley, Ariz8na, Colorado and New Mexico. He was credited with having introduced the Second Place in Ten Eyck Confest Goes to Rocke- feller’s Grandson. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 11. —John Rockefeller Prentice practices what he preaches, nor is he without the faculty of preaching what he prac- tices, A grandson of John D. Rockefeller, Prentice is working his way through Yale as night switchboard operator at a hospital, learning the lesson of lead- ership through discipline and training. Last night, competing in, the Ten Eyck oratorical contest, he expounded 50 successfully his views on leadership that he was awarded second prize, carrying with it somewhat of honor and §50 in cash. Not Gods’ Gift. “The capacity to lead is not a gift of the gods,” he said. “Throughout history, from the days of the Medes and Persias, dominance has been based on_diselpline and training.” Prentice has disciplined and trained himself sufficiently to win the James J. Hogan scholarship, awarded for strong character, personality, good anding in the student body, fair cholarship and recessity for self-sup- port. His average in scho hip has been well avove %0 per cent. Training for Leadership. Perhaps he is training himself for leadership because he feels that there is a dearth of gbility along that line, for in his oration he remarked: “It is significant that the period when Rome was at her height and the period when she reached her lowest ebb_were not far apart. “Now that Yale is evidently at the height of her power it {s time to con- sider whether sight may have been lost of the principles on which the university was founded, for it might even be the case that now we are facing an abrupt decline without rec- ognizing its presence.” . $17,500 IN AWARDS TO SPUR ARC WELDING Prizes Announced at Meeting of Society of Mechanical Engineers. By the Associated Press. JoNEW_YORK, December 11—The of Mechanical Engineers will be held in Kansas City April 4 to 6; White Sulphur Springs, May 23 to 26, and ¥ in July or August, ¥'s council decided at its closing meeting vesterday stablishment of awards totaling $17,500 to “stimuiate thought” along the line of the use of arc welding, was announced by Charles M. Schwab, new president of the society. “The replacement of cast iron with arc welded structural steel is prob- ably the next great step forward to be taken by the industry,” he satd. The awards are provided by J. F. Lincoln of Cleveland and wiil be ad- ministered through the soclety’s coun- cil. They are for papers with de- seriptions _and drawings of the ap- paratus designed to advance are- welding. The prizes are: First, $10.000; second, $5,000, and third, 2,500. . SERVING 5-YEAR TERM, CONVICT GETS LIFE Western apple in New York and the honeyvdew melon in America. and later grew crop in Colorado. A SUES UNION HEADS.: the first commercial H It | brought these melons from Amm‘f Found Guilty of Stabbing Fellow Prisoner to Death During Brawl Following Drinking. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY. Kans., 11.—Edward Murphy. who was serv- December complainant testified. The date came | Suspended Leader Seeks Place on|ing a five-year sentence at the Leaven- and went, Negrim declared, but the “talking horns” did not make their appearance. Miners’ Ballot. PITTSBURG, Kans.,, December 11 worth Federal Prison for a narcotic law violation, must return to prison for life for killing John Bowers, a fel- ‘When he pressed the defendant,|(P).—A suit to enjoin officials of Dis-[low convict, September 5. Freeble demanded $5,000 more for trict 14 of the United Mine Workers Murphy was convicted and sen- his invention and, when he was re- |from keeping his name off the district [ tenced for the slaying in Federal fused, secreted the completed de- vices and also his plans, Negrim said. Since, he has learned, other persons are negotiating with Freeble for the device, he said. Dr. Verrill of Yale Dies. NEW HAVEN, €onn., December 1 (#).—Word has been received here of the death of Dr. Addison Emery Ver- rill, professor emeritus of zoology at Yale University, in Santa Barbara, Galif., yesterday. He was born in Greenwood, Me., h 1839, He was the father of Alpheus Hyatt Verrill of New York, noted explorer and author. Woman Is Fined For Jabbing Car Man With Hatpin Special Dispatch to The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., Decem- ber 11.—Mrs. Irene Malberg of Riverdale pleaded gullty to a charge of assault and battery upon Charles ‘W, .McCracken, Washington Rail- l}leg{lc Co. conductor, ,on a car at Riverdale yesterday, “before Justice of the Peace Robert E. Joyce here last night. She ad- mitted sticking McCracken with a hatpin, saying that she had been insulted by him, whichi McCracken denied. Two other conductors of the com- pany—Garnett F. Luttrell and James D. Px t, told Judge Joyce that Mrs, Malberg on previous oc- casions also had stuck them with hatpins, Mrs. Malberg also ad- mitted this, saying they, too, had molested her. Both Luttrell and Padgett denied the accusations. The only charge against Mrs. Malberg, however, was in connec- T I it T was. h costs, which she pald. 35 ballot in the coming election was filed here yesterday by John Fleming, for- mer international board member. Fleming was suspended by John L. Lewis, international president of the union, in October, 1821, when Alex- ander Howat was removed as dis- trict president. Recently Lewis ruled vice president, Fleming and others were ineligible to run again for dis- trict office. Court here today. Bowers was stabbed to death in a brawl at the prison when a group of inmates imbibed too freely of liquor they had manufactured from dried fruits taken from the larder. Murphy pleaded that he killed in self-defense when Bowers attacked him with a 1 [that Howat, August Dorchy, deposed |sledge hammer. ‘The slayer was sent to the peniten- tiary in December, 1924, from San Francisco. YOUR RELIGJON What Do You Believe? THE QUESTIONNAIRE ou be willing to have m’m in_which there is ;: church’ 9. 1 ¥ i3. Do you thin] element of I ur -(nowuv 0. Were-you brought up in a religious home? - of ? . Do you send your children to any schoo struction liglo n some n To¢ the ladividual and fof the community? 27 meetings of the American Society | SA0O00TOTAL - INVOLVED N SUIT New Phase of Court Proceed- ings Over Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. | = [ By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohlo, December 11 other chapter in the legal battle for control of the Goody Tire & .o ber Co. of Akron, and its $200,000.01 0 in assets has been opened United States District Court here the filing of a bill of compl: ing that . A. Seiberling, former presi dent of the company, and his ciates be restrained from acting voling trustees of a majority of company’s common stocl 'he present suit fs the fourth actio involving controi of Goodyear now pending in the courts. Recently tw suits were started in State courts Akron. The first, brought by stock- holders, seeks to reopen the 1923 re- financing settlement whereby control of the company was vested in a bank- ers’ committee. action has a simi s directed against C fdent of Dillon, Read & Co. of New York, and John Sherwin, Cleveland banker, mem bers of the bankers' committee. A third action brought by the Summit County proxecutor and ineolving the 1923 refinancing settlement is in ti E preme Court The latest action was filed yesterday in bebalf of Mrs. Katherine . Bene dict of New York, wife of Harr v per Benedict, former president of the Remington Typewriter Co. Mrs. Benedict, a stockholder charges that control of the common stock has been retained by Seiberling and Russell L. Robinson and Henry S. Manson, his associates, through trusteeship of a large part of the common stock, despite the fact that Seiberling was ousted from the presi dency of the company. The bill asks that control of the common stock be taken out of the hands of a board of trustees named in 1921 and placed in the hande of the actual stockhoiders. MKINLEY'S BODY SPLACED N TOMB Officials of State and Nation at Funeral of Distinguished lllinoisan. An in th int ash By the Astoviated Press. CHAMPAIGN, 11, December 11.-- For the second time in a month officials of the State and Nation mingled with the townsfolk of an Illinois community vesterday at the grave of a son distinguished in public service. The body of Senator Willlam B. McKinley, in a casket covered with Scotch heather and roses, was buried in the family lot at Mount Hope Cemetery before an outpouring much like that which paid a final tribute in November to the Senator's late friend and comrade, Joseph G. Cannon. In the First Presbyterian Church, to which he was carried as a baby to hear his father's first sermon in Champaign, the Senator's funeral oration was spoken by Dr. B. J. Brinkema, present pastor. who said memories of an exemplary life, ! through which McKinley had ob- served the counsel of his minister- father, would constitute the greatest monument to his memory. Many Unable to Enter Church. Thousands who could not get into the church stood outside and heard the services broadcast by loud speakers. A congressional delegation of 33, officials of the state, business as sociates and emissaries of elemosyn- ary institutions benefited by McKin- ley's public gifts joined with men and women from humble walks of life in the services. Senate colleagues who attended the rites included Senators Deneen. Robin son of Arkansas, Moses, Overman, McNary, Fletcher, Shortridge. Ashurst, Weller, Broussard, Fess, Harris, Ernst, Stephenson and Tyson, while among the delegation of 18 Representatives were many with whom McKinley served before his election to the upper house. Others Pay Tribute. After Dr. Brinkema's sermon, two others spoke—Dr. William M. Hudson, president of Blackburn College of Carlinville, Il., which McKinley had befriended, and Dr. Walter Malone of the McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church. Among_ those who attended was Senator-elect Frank L. Smith, victor over Senator McKinley in his last Senate contest, who paid high tribute to_his one-time political foe. More than 70 motor cars were re- quired to carry from the church to the cemetery the mourners and official guests. Not until the casket was lowered into the grave did the ordi- nary processes of life resume in Cham- paign and its vicinity. UPROAR IN POLISH DIET IS DUE TO FIGHT CHARGE Two Deputies Charge Beating at Hands of Police—Inquiry Is Promised by Speaker. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, Poland, December 11.— Charges that the police had severely beaten two deputies at a meeting in eastern Poland, one, an independent Peasant and the other a White Rus- sian Communist, precipitated a bois- terous scene at yesterday's session of the Diet. A Deputy, supposed to have been one of the victims of the alleged at- tack, made a flery speech, and when he was called to order by the speaker he opened a portfolio and threw a blood-stained shirt at M. Bartel, vice premier. Almost at the same moment another deputy threw a shirt in the direction of M. Bartel. Order was restored when the speak- er promised to conduct an Investiga- tion into the charges. - —— Marine Corps Changes. Capt. J. E. Brewster has been trans- ferred from Quantico, Va., to the Asi- atic station; Capt. J. N. Popham, from 1st Marine Brigade, Haiti, to Norfolk, Va.; First Lieut. H. B. Liversedge, from Quantico to San Francisco; Sec- ond Lieut. R. G. Hunt, from Quantico to the battleship Oklahoma; Second Lieut. E. E. Larson, from Parris Is- land, S. C., to Pearl Harbor, Hawall, and Capts. W. C. Byrd and E. D. How- ard and Second Lieuts. L. F.