Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 17

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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 2 photo- . in'a drive S WINGS ARCTIC OWL AND PRESENTS HIM TO Z0O. the snowy owl which he shot while hunting du slightly injured and has been presented to the have been driven south this Winter, urv‘«unub of Richmond, Va mission to this cout v at New k Saturday With he land after a heari g :t( !'Ili\ I~I'\ The bird scarcity of food. 00. b, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14 1926. v denied ad- she nrfin-ll hu\lb.unl OIL KING ARRIVES IN FLORID. of golf on his private course after Winter months. panions. John C. Letts, Washington business man, exhibi ks the other day at Belmont Bay, Va. one of many of the . The owl was only ctic species which Washington Star Photo. Abbot A. Laj shooter of who won the n champlonship at istol and revoly ‘nited States tion. be-spectacled sharp ew Rochelle, N. oeat sxa At recent outdoor - matches of the volver Associa- Wide World Photos. The 83-year-old oil A FOR ANOTHER WINTER. al the other day at his Ormond Beac king is talking over some of the shots [& John D. Rockefeller en joys his first round Fla., estate to spend the of the teh with his golf col pyright by Underwood & Underwood HINDU JOURNALIST CALLS Jjourn; ON PRESIDENT. t of India, photographed with his wife as they called on Presi- dent Coolidge at the White House yesterday. Nihal Singh, They will make an ex- tended tour of the United States before returning home. UMANE WARDEN OFOLETISDEAD Whitman’s Health Affected After Being Forced Out of Post Last Summer. By the Aseociated Press. CHICAGO, December 14.—John L. ‘Whitman, former warden of Joliet Penitentiary, whose advocacy of hu- mane treatment of convicts gained him a nation-wide reputation as a penologist, died in a hospital here yesterday after several weeks' illness with heart disease. Mr. Whitman suffered a breakdown shortly after he was forced to retire as warden at Joliet last Summer on the recommendation of a grand jury which investigated the slaying of a deputy warden and the escape of seven prisoners, six of whom have since been caught, tried and sentenced to be hanged During the investigation Whitman's humanitarian methods, and particu ison “honor farm” which d, were under fire. Physi aid that the criticism affected Whitman, who was 64, began his eer as a criminologist and penolo- as a guard in the Cook County Jhere more than 30 years ago, later as superintendent of the THotse of Correction for 10 years, then superintendent of prisons. len at Joliet. e insti tuted was nt of corporal punishment, entertainment for prison- ers as a reward for good behavior. His plan of a odel prison, ventila- tlon and sunlight provided by huge sjasn walls facing the cells, has been chpied ghm. he assumed charge at Joliet { he summed up his policy as follows | “I expect to do my duty, but to | temper my work with justice and | | mercy, 1 am following the Scripture, “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” rather than the other v . 1 my Asks North Dakota For Death Sentence As Murder Penalty By the Associated Press BISMARCK, N. Dak., December 14.—Restoration of the death sen- tence as the penalty for murder will be recommended to the North kota Legislature at the coming session, Attorney General George ¥ afer said today. Experience has convinced him, the attorney general said, that crimi- nals engaged in robbery where a murder may become an incident.to their efforts to complete the rob- bery prefer to operate in States where life imprisonment rather fill(fln death is the maximum pen- alty. . ADMITS MOVE WIFEOF AMERICAN Mrs. Marbury Taylor AIIowed'i to Enter After Delay at Ellis Island. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, December Marbury Taylor, the former Georgette Lyon, French film actress, and wife of Capt. Marbury Taylor, whose en- trance into this country was held up Sunday, was permitted to enter yes- terds ter a hearing before a board of inquiry on Ellis Island. . Mrs. Taylor was stopped from land- ing from the liner Suffren Sunday by immigration officials, who said there was a discrepancy in her visa. She |was admitted to this country under { the six-month visa issued to her in ‘)',\rlh Capt. Taylor & a wartime | member of the staff of Gen. William { Wallace Atterbury and been_ rep- | resenting an American firm in Pari: 14.—Mrs, | brother's keepe: e want to give | our men a sense of responsibility human beings We want he honor, the pride and the man- f our men, to convince them y will go out of Joliet better | than when they entered.’ tman once quelled a riot by ug into the House of Correction, ting the prison. alking to them. One | prisoner wh an iron bar was knocked down by another prisoner, who later explained bhe acted because Whitman had been * kind to him His widow services will be ing at an undert interment will be survives him. Funeral held tomorrow morn ker's chapel. and at Woodstock, 111 Would Quit Man She Wed Twice. BAYSIDE. N o) Mrs. Alwyne can't ynake up her mind . who bas been her husband, off and on, sinee November 6, 1924, In the inter- vening two vears she married him twice and now wants another “out™ via the divorce court, December to appeal | to strike him with | where he married Mrs. Taylor. His | papers were not questioned stated that his wife's papers order and said it was merely v on the part of the Immigra- tion inspector which led to the -em- | | porary exclusion. Capt. Taylor lives Richmond, Va. Capt. Taylor was not admitted to | the hearing at Elis Island. Mrs. Tay- {lor sald it lasted only three minutes and she was asked only a few per- | tunctory questions. such as when she | met Capt. Taylor and when they were | marrie The Taylors said they would leave |1ast night for the Taylor home in | Richmond. They said ‘the object of | their visit was to see Capt. Taylor's { | mother, ; ‘Workers Get $1.14 an Hour. BEDFORD, Ind.. December 14 (). Organized workers in ihe building industry of America receive a total | wage of $1,140.000 an hour, it was | found in a nation-wide survey made TROLLEY MERGER BILLS INTRODUCED Capper Offers Measure in Senate and Zihiman in House. Senator Capper of Kansas, chair- man of the Senate District committee, and Representative Zihlman of Mary- land, chairman of the House District committee, today introduced in the Senate and House the Commissioners’ bill to force a merger of the street railway companies, which yesterday received the sanction of the Budget Bureau. - This merger proposes to boost the tax on the gross revenue from 4 per cent, as at present, to 6 per cent, but promises that if the merger is effected by July 1, 1928, this tax will be re- duced to 4 per cent. ‘The bill also promises to relieve the merged companies-from the bridge tax and from the cost of maintaining traf- fic police officers. The merged com- pany is also guaranteed protection from wmlimited bus competition. Companles in Merger Plan. The companies to be merged named in the bill are the Washington Rail- way and Electric Co. and its subsidi- aries and the Capitol $raction Co. and its subsidiaries, except the Takoma Park line. ‘While Jegislation on the merger bill was moving forward at the tol, President Coolidge, through his spokesman, today said he has re- ceived no decision regarding the sign- ing of a bill creating a new public utilities commission. The Prestdent let it be known today that the bill was referred to the Attorney Gen- eral and others among his official advisers for study, but as yet no report has been received by him. He is awaliting the opinions of these advisers regarding certain features of the bill before he reaches any conclusion. Ultimate Approval Seen. It _is thought likely, however, that the President will eventually approve the bill, although he has ‘let it be known that in its entirety it does not meet with his full approval. The President is understood to have given virtually no thought to the ap- pointment of the two civillan Com- missioners who, along with the En- gineer Commissioner of the District, will constitute the new public utilities commission. Neither has he consid- ered the appointment of a peoples’ coungel, as provided in the bill. The President was represented as having put aside the thought of making these appointments until he has dis- | posed of (hc blll itself. Thoml Needham Dm. STUBENVILLE, Ohio, December 14 (#).—Thomas Needham, 47 years old, former National Ieague catcher and recently scout and coach for the C |by the Indiana Limestone Co. average hourly wage of each worker wis $L14, ¥ cago White Sox, died today. Need- ham played with the Boston and Chi- cage Natlonals a score of JOAIS A&H, FAKERS CLEAN U P $500.000.000 YEARLY, PUBLISHERS ARE TOLD Patent \’chlcme. Health Beauty and School ‘Ads’ Rcap Harvest for Crooks’ Trade, By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, December 14.—A de- termined fight to exterminate fake advertisements of “anfi-fat” remedies, patent medicines for incurable dis- eases, beauty lotions, creams, soaps and other cosmetics, “health belts” and industrial schools practicing fraud will be waged by the Federal Trade Commission. W. E. Humphrey, member of the commission, in telling of the commis- sion's plans yesterday at the conven- tion of the Subscription Book Pub- lishers’ Association, ' estimated _that such fraudulent advertisers obtain more than $500,000,000 annually from the public, a greater part of it coming from the poorer classes. “Fabulous sums are spent for these fakes since the female skeleton has become the fashion,” he said. ‘“There is no viler class of criminal known among men than these publishers and advertiters. We have accomplished something, but comparatively little. They are usually flect and cunning crooks that engage in this business,” The commission expects, however, eventually to “put most of this vast army of crooks and parasites out of business,” Mr. Humphrey asserted. He expressed the opinfon that pub- lishers who allow such fraudulent ad- vertisements in their publications should be held equally responsible with the crooked advertisers, and that Official Says in Warning. the only way to prevent this preying upon the public was to stop publica- tion and circulation of such adver- tisements. He advocated proceeding directly against the guilty publisher. “By one action against a magazine we can more effectually throttle 50 fakers than we could possibly do by 50 separate cases against each of the principals,” said Mr. Humphrey. He asserted that he could “produce today magazines that in a single issue carry not less than 50 of the vile, dishonest and indecent advertisements." Earlier in his address Mr. Humphrey had pointed out what he termed the advantages resulting from changes in the Iederal Trade Commission’s methods of procedure, particularty the change whereby the commission, ter making -a complaint against a firm for illegal practices, may accept from the accused firm a stipulation that it will desist from the pract causing the complaint, thus ave the necessity of a trial. This new rule alone, Mr. Humphrey agdserted, already has saved the tax- payers of the country mere than $1,000,000. During the first year of the new rule, he said, the public was protected from the fraudulent prac- tices of 270 concerns, 54 by orders and 6 by stipulation, while during the last year of the old rule the commis- slon issued only 50 orders to cease and desist MRS. STURTEVANT DIES. ‘Washington Woman Taught Public Schools 20 Years. Mrs. Jennie A. Sturtevant, 71, widow of Albert L. Sturtevant, bank- er and business man, died at her resi- dence, 3400 Sixteenth street, yesterday afternoon. She has been ill for sev- eral months. Mrs. Sturtevant was a school teacher in the District Public Schools for 20} years. She was born in Springfield, Mass., in 1855. She came to Wash- ington in 1875, and was married in 1895. Her husband w: one of the first residents of Mount Pleasant and one of the organizers of the National Savings and Trust Oo. She is survived by two sons, Fred H. Sturtevant, Springfield, Mass,, and Charles L. Sturtevant, this city Funeral services will be hf‘ld ‘Wed- nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at her late residence, Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. SR SUSPECTED MAN FREED. The party of seven, held for in-| vestigation yesterday at the second | precinct in connection with an early morning “free-for-all” at the Oriental Gardens Club, Ninth and R streets, has been released from custody. Nothing developed to show who fired the shots which wounded David Mar- Hn, colored in BOND FIXED AT $5,000. Roy Prebble Held for Grand Jury in' Hotel Hold-Up. Roy C. Prebble, 22 years old, of 1312 Sixth street southwest, charged with assault to rob, waived preliminary hearing before Judge George H. Mac- donald in Police Court today and was held for the action of the grand jury on a bond of”$5,000. The charge al- leged that the defendant attempted to rob the Plaza Hotel yesterday morn- ing while Frank O'Brien, the night clerk, was on duty. An’ additional charge, one of petty larceny, was prefered against Prebble, and on this charge he was found guilty of stealing a pistol from an automobile accessory staticn at North Capitol street and Jackson alley. He was sentenced to serve 60 days in jail. It was with the same pistol, police say, that Preblbe attempted to hold up the Plaza Hotel. The defendant is said to have been frightened from the hotel safe by the ringing of a telephone and quick thinking by the night clerk. He was arrested A:rulmds in the Capitol N g Bengm\hon Accepted Resignation of Second Lieut. Daniel H. Robertson, jr., on leave of absence at Oak Park, Til, has been accepted by the President to take effect December 15. He is from Illinois and was gradu- gted from the Military Academy last une, | partment for liquidation. FORD'S CHARGES UPIN CONGRESS Bloom Asks Probe of State- ment That Jews Control Federal Reserve. By the Associated Press. The revived controversy over Henry Ford's opinion of “the inter- national Jew” has heen brought into the congressional picture by Repre- sentative Sol Bloom, Democrat, New York. Investigation by a House commit- tee of seven of the sources of in- formation on which the Detroit man- ufacturer based his charges, in a statement several days ago, that “the international Jew is in direct control of -all financial centers of government, including the United States Federal reserve system,” is being sought by the New York Representative. His _resolution would direct the committee “to_inguire into the truth or falsity” of Ford’s statement, which, it said, “presented grave charges con- cerning the operation of the Govern- ment, the activities of the Federal reserve system and the *Jewish peo- ple.” P'he committee would' have the right to subpoena witnesses and doc- uments dealing with the investiga- tion, which would be aimed primarily at the part of Ford's statement quoted. “Believing such a statement is un- true and without foundation,” Repr sentative Bloom declared in a state- ment “my resolution will permit Mr. Ford to substantiate his charges against the Federal reserve system. here 15 a good old saying that ‘money talks.’ I belleve thatt up to now Mr. Ford’s money has been talk- [+ ing, and that something else besides money will be heard from in the fu- ture. “Mr. Ford has stated that the only competent judges were the American people, and that it is now proper for the Jewish spokesmen.to meet the issue by addressing their defense to the American people. My resolution carries out his suggestion. “Our Government is a representative form of government, with the Con- gress of the United States represent- ing the people. I am appealing to the people, through the Congress, to de- clde whether Mr. Ford’s statement is correct or not. “In his statement Mr. Ford said he would direct those inquiring into his assertions to the facts. This is a chance for Mr. Ford to direct the committee proposed in my resolution to the sources of his information upon which he based the charges.” Mississippi Bank Closed. CLARKSDALE, Miss., December 14 (®).—The mmercial Bank - of Clarksdale was closed yesterday and turned-over to the State Banking De- J. 0. Lam- kin, president, said general conditions, slos? collections and a decline in de- posits caused the failure, but that all depositors d be paid in full. The bank was {papifalized at $200,000 and Mr. <1 said its deposits Here Is the That Made Gloomy Dean Inge Laugh By the Associated Press. LONDON. December 14.—Here is a story that made “Gloomy’” Dean Inge of St. Paul” laugh out loud, and it was told by his wife: A doctor who left his patient on his athbed at night ordered the man's wife to take his tems perature every hour. In the morn- ian arrived to find pt3 " said the wife. “We dldn’'t have no thermometer. So I gave him the barometer. That pointed to ‘very dry'—so I gave him two pints of ale, and now he's gone to work."” BOARD T0 HEAR BUS ISSUES TOMORROW Public Hearing in District Building Set for 10 0’Clock in Morning. Four matters that have been pend- ing for some time on the calendar of the Public Utilities Commission will be considered at a public hearing in the board room of the District Build- ing tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, The most important are an order which the commission proposes to issue requiring all interstate busses entering the congested: section of Washington to provide “reasonable and adequate terminal facilities,” in- cluding waiting room, toilet facilities and accommodations off the public streets for loading and unloading pas- sengers, and a. petition of the Bur- leith Citizens' Assoclation for the ex- tension of the Burleith bus line from its present terminus at Tenth and E streets to Florida and Trinidad ave- nues northeast. The extension proposed would run from Tenth and E streets to the Union Station Plaza via E street, to Fifth street northeast, north on Fifth street to K street, east on K street to Flor- ida avenue, and thence to Trinidad avenue, with a loop north on’ Trinidad avenue, east on Morse street, south on Orren street and west on Florida avenue to Trinidad avenue. The re- turn trip would be made over the same route to Tenth and E streets. The other guestions concern the pe- tition of the Washington Railway and Electric to discontinue service on its Portland street line in Congress Heights and remove tracks, poles and overhead construction on this line, and an application of the H bus line for permission to establish stops on Bunker Hill road at Eight- eenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-eighth streets and to ted ! transport intrastate passengers, with Copyright by Harris & Ewing GREEN REHEARSES HIS TRIBULATIONS Deposed Dry Administrator, #nder Charges, Testifies in Own Defense. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 14.— The trials and tribulations of a pro- hibition administrator were related in Federal Court yesterday by Col. Ned M. Green, deposed dry chief, charged with the embezzlement of seized liquor from Government storerooms. Taking the witness stand to deny unconditionally that he ever diverted confiscated liquor to his own use, the one-time head of the Federal enforce- ment forces in northern California and Nevada described his term of of- fice as a continual round of harass- ment and questioned motives. Some Tried to Be Funny. Every once in a while,” he said, 'some person, to be funny, would group empty liquor bottles outside my door. Once I found two empty cham- pagne bottles in my waste basket. T had to be careful, as T did not want any of the maids. upon being ques- tloned, to be able to say they ever found any empty bottles in my room The removal of several bottles of liq- uor from the Government Subtreas- ury by the former administrator, a point stressed by the prosecution, was admitted by the defendant, who called it an outstanding example of a will- ingness to question his motives. The liquor was removed, he said, while he studied the source from which the in- toxicants came. “I wanted to determine whether the brands indicating it was fim- ported liquor were genuine,” he sdid, explaining that a number of la- bels had been cleverly counterfeited and it was only through a compari- son of corks that he learned the stock was really bottled in this country. “At no time did I ever drink or serve to friends any Government lq- uor. I testify to that positively, Green told the jury. A remark attributed to him that {t was a “shame to destroy good liquor’” was confirmed by the former dry chief. He said he still thinks it is a shame to destroy it when it could be sold for lawful purposes and the pro- ceeds used for enforcement of the law. Green was on the stand at adjourn- ment and was to resume his testimony under direct examination with the opening of court today. e MUSIC SOOTHES SICK. Pain-Racked Bodies Cease Their Tossing in Hospital. ST. LOUIS, December 14 (#).— Music has a soothing effect on the sick, experiments here showed. Pain-racked bodies in the fracture ward of the City Hospital ceased their tossing after musicians had com- Rl:led a test program. The Board of ligious tions -nmmd musicians ‘would be trained at. & fare of 10 cents for such mm,\mm m!tflnuhmfll-