Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1926, Page 21

THE EVENIN( ‘ 1 D. €., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1996. STAR, WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT'S SON RIDES IN PPARK. John Coolidge, son of Presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge, who has returned from college to spend his Christmas vacation at the White House, enjoys a horseback ride through Potomac Park. Photo taken near the Lincoin Memorial. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. ENTS NATIVITY PLAY TONIGHT. 'morial Presbyterian ( lary Hoskins. . Milans, Wi A scene from the CHURCH PRE! urch, at Sixteenth sented by the Gunton-Temple o'clock, under the direction of M Mildred Omwake as Joseph and Me: Shown in the scene are Miss Doris Dyson as Mary, Mis s and More as the three wise me; | ——— Former Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky photographed as he left the Atlanta Penitentiary the other day. He was paroled after serving 11 months of his twe- year sentence for conspiracy to vio- late the prohibition laws. 5 Wide World Photos. play ““At His Throne,” to be pre- h and Newton streets, tonight at 8 Washington Star Photo. SAVING THE BEAUTY OF THE and other decorations can be had for Christmas without using th disappearing holly and ground pine, Miss Loui: She holds one of the many attractive in Washington. Beautiful wreaths fast- Rea demonstrates. e substitute decorations now on sale Washington Star Photo. WOODLANDS. FATHER OF BASKET BALL COACHES CO-EDS. Dr. James Nai- smith, who is generally recognized as having invented the game of basket ball in 1891, while at the Springfleld, Mass., Y. M. C. A. College, instructs co-eds in the game at the University of Kansas, where he is now a member of the faculty. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, SONTRIED T0 STEAL & e Deivens FATHER, POLICE SAY, _ === | Analysis Reveals | BOSTON, December 23.—Married men have more respect for author- ity, more mature judement and a greater sense of responsibility than #ingle men, and are, therefore, more careful automobile drivers, is the conclusion reached by the accident prevention bureau of the Association of Mutual Liability Insurance Companie: The statement is based on an | analysis of several thousand high- | way accidents in 1926, the bureau explained. The study, made by safety experts, revealed that single men were involved in more than half of all highway accidents. Young Howard Held in Mex-| ico After Entering Country | on Faise Passport. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 23.— Frustration of a plot to kidnap John F. Howard, former Haverhill, Mas: salad dressing manufacturer, by the Mexico City newspapers in the arrest here of one of his sons, John C. Howard. The police say two companions few days ago on a false p resisted arrest when Mex service men located him. The trio ar FIVE ARE RESCUED IN APARTMENT FIRE charges of impr The two | Cut Off by Flames, Four Women others are id ified by police as | . J. M. Crocker and Carl Their | and Boy Are Carried Down Ladder to Safety. pung Howard, with entered Mexico a port and | jcan secret bome addresses are not known here. | Fail¥d to Convict Him. | John in- | po women and a little boy were nd carry | According to newspaper: e e s Sy, and car™y | 5 ken down a ladder to safety early to- E = '0 | day when fire cut off their escape from .. b e owa ! - S orida avenue. first wife at Haverhill some months “?lf‘l;f: fésgl‘md S Colored Jusiie: dilin: orc and ems > ® - 5 ' s 'S, argaret chelor, lowed here Ly his s John C. ‘Mrs. Eiizabeth Dyaon, Albert. They b | 58 years old, and Miss Emily Dyson. pigamy and per, | Lieut. H. A. Chapman of No. 4 Truck father in connecti directed the rescue work. Firemen and second | quickly got the flames under control. charges were Damage was about $300. 'i-f_m“v-drm' t Prompt work of students and facul- nite with hi their 1 with the divorce : When these missed by the Mexi- | ns returned to the | d the revelation, . that one of them was an capital came as ty roads northeast, building from serious damage by fire { 1bout 4 a.m. The fire started in a store- room on the third floor. It had been hurch surprise, Howard's rest 3 friends denounce up” and say By the Ascociated Pre at the Holy Cross Foreign Mission ‘minary, Harewood and Rock Creek | saved the liculous. | extinguished when firemen arrived. Seven delivery wagons, last of the | streets until blocked by hundreds of automobiles, all PRESENTS NURSE WITH CHRISTMAS GREEN. Little Doris Reynolds, former patient of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society, re- members her visiting nurse, Mrs. Nannie Davis, at Christmas time. Mrs. David Potter of the society’s board of managers, stands in door- way. The organization is still making its appeal for $38,000 to complete its 1927 budget. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. CARUSO0'S WIDOW RETURNS WITH CHILDREN. The former Mrs. Enrico Caruso, widow of the famous tenor, returns to New York on the steamship Paris after her recent divorce in Paris from Capt. Ernest A. Ingram of the British Army. She is shown with her children, Jacque- line and Gloria. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. FORMER CHAMPION TRAINS ¥ ANOTHER CHANCE. Jack Dempsey, deposed from the heavyweight throne by Gene Tunney, starts training for his attempted comeback in a Los Angeles, Calif., gym. Jack says he wants another bout with Tunney to demonstrate finally whether or not he should quit the ring. ‘Wide World Photo. SAWYER IS SHOWN AS U. S. COURIER Mexico City “Mystery” Is Reveal- ed as Bearer of State Department Papers to Sheffield. i | » MEXICO CITY, December 23.—The “mysterious mission” of O. H. Sawyer to Mexico City was cleared up yester- | day when it was learned that he came | By the Associated Press | as a special courler of the United | CHICAGO, December 23. A wom. | Dikiee Dimte: Depertment With ‘com- |, can play Banta Clavs as well as s | for the American em. [ AR ISs LN 0] i ™| man, Mrs. Mary Alban, 23, maintain. | ed, when she declined the offer of her | erring husband, now serving a jail sentence for non-support, as a. Christ- nas present. “This 1s a revelation to me,” said Municipal Judge Francis Borelli, when 43 other wives, whose husbands are members of the Alimony Club in the House of Correction, likewise turned down the Christmas release proffer, through which the court ex- pected many reconcilfations. Only 10 of the b4 wives summoned to the Court of Domestic Relations vesterday to hear the release offer, accepted, and some of these were not more than lukewarm to the idea. “I had hoped that after their hus- bands had been removed to the Bride. well for a period, and their wives had a few peaceful moments in quiet con- templation that we could effect o rec- . Mr. Sawyer, described as a resi- dent of Vermont, had been featured by the Mexico City newspapers for several days as a close friend of President Coolidge, as conferring secretly with James R. Sheffleld, the American Ambassador, or as a repre- sentative of powerful private interests | on an important confidential mission affecting the relations between the United States and Mexico. While diplomatic couriers are used less between Washington and Mexico City than between Washington and other capitals, those well informed intimate that Mr. Sawyer's trip was not to be regarded as of special significance. i IMPERIAL VALLEY WILD |44 JAILED HUSBANDS REJECTED Only Ten Accept Court’s Offer to Release Men Held for Non-Payment of Alimony in Chicago. onciliation a tthe time when peace and good will are supposed to pre- vail,” the judbe continued. He expressed the hope that those who accepted his offer would *‘profit happily by it. Mrs. Alban, who appeared with her 20-month-old baby in her arms, sald her husband never had supported her, and when a court attendant suggested that the baby would have no Santa Claus, she replied with spirit: “I'll be his Santa Claus.” She insisted she did not want her husband back. Mrs. Margaret Kelley, 30, told the court that she and her five children had been happier and were getting along better since her husband, John, was sent to the Bridewell. “We can do very well without him,” she sald. Another wife, Mrs. Mary Adler, 25, said she could get along without her husband, but that his mother was ill, and she would like him released on ' PHILADELPHIA POLL iFive Accused of Fraud After 378 Votes Are Returned Out of 375 Registered. | By the A L PHILADELPHIA, December Iive men, comprising the elec | board of the twenty-second division. | forty-fifth ward, were held in $1,000 | bond each for court on fraud charges ,,\'esterduy by Magistrate Violet E Fahnestock. They are Louis Lichtendorf, judge; John J. Donohue and Frank Mar- cinck, inspectors, and Edward Van- derslice and Adam _Belch, clerks. Investigation by the Committee of Seventy, an Independent organiza- tion interested in clean elections, re- vealed, it was testified, that 375 pe sons had been registered in the div sion for_ the general election last month and that the election board had returned a total of 378 vote: Of this number United States Se ator-elect William S. Vare was cred ited with 354 and his Democra opponent, Willlam B. Wilson, Two were cast for candidates of other parties. Twenty-five men and women whose names had been certified as having that account. Most of the Alimony Club members are in for six months. voted denied that they had cast bal- lots. AS RIVER BILL IS 0. K.’D El Centro, Calif., Turns Out to Cele- brate Action Taken by House Committee. By the Associated Press. EL CENTRO, Calif., December 23.—— Bedlam broke loose yesterday when an Assoclated Press dispatch from ‘Washingon telling of favorable action by a House committee on the Colorado River development bill was telephoned here by the Brawley News. Business was suspended, fire com- panies raced n ly up and down the LAUNCH RETURNS HOME FROM FATAL JOURNEY | Linseed King Docked in New York | as List of Missing Ts Checked and Captain Held. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December battered hulk of the launch King, with a jagged hole in its port | bow, returned yesterday from a fatal Jeurney across the Hudson River, be- tooting their horns. | [ FACY 4ro: | By the Associated Press. BOOTLEG LIQUOR FOUND POORER THAN LAST YEAR Only One-Sixth as Much Fit to Be Sent to Hospitals, Philadel- phia Finds. By the Assotiated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 23.— Philadelphiabootleggers are supply- ing thelr customers with a much poorer grade of liquor this year than in 1925. NEW YORK TIMES CITES AMERICAN OWNERSHIP Statement Made by Law Disproves Senator Heflin’s Allegations, Paper Observes. NEW YORK, December 23.—Refer- ring to the statement of Senator Heflin of Alabama yesterday in the Senate that the New York Times was “owned This was noted today in the report horse-drawn vehicles of the Manhat- tan Laundry Co., 1336 Florida avenue, ng the previ- | Virginia Electric and Power Com- Every whistle in the countryside was | tied down in celebration of what was | construed to foreshadow favorable ac tion by Congress on the Swing-John- son biil. Imperdal Valley long has fought for Colorado River development, primarily as a flood control measure. Many thousands of acres of land would be Irrigated from stored water if the pro posed dam at Black Canyon is built. The craft in which 30 laborers are known to have lost their lives when an ice flow broke the hull and sank the little vessel was hauled to the Ninoty-fifth streot dock A search of the cabin revealed no | more bodies imprisoned, only pipes, | vacuum bottles, lunch boxes, caps and other articles, evidence of the tragedy | that was enacted when the laborers | were trapped by the inrushing water. | Capt. John Rohweider, in commana | of the launch when it sank, is beir held witheut bali on a charge of su vicion of homicide. The district at-| torney said he believed the accdent | was the result of gross negligence on the part of the master of the craft. A list of 25 persons still missing| was compiled from those known tp have left thelr homes and families to board the launch Monday morning. It i¢ possible that the missing may ex- ceed this number, officers said. 1,000 GIVEN PAY RAISE. pany Grants 6 2-3 Per Cent More. RICHMOND, Va., December 23 (#). —An increase in pay of 6 2-3 per cent for all of its motormen, conductors, bus drivers and platform men was announced here by the Virgini: Electric and Power Co. The increase will become effective Januar 1 and ous controver in which the sons | des ed by fire about 3 a.m, kidnap him and said they were at-|rear of the laundry. It is believed the | Dar declaring al they wanted was for him | §4,000. wn except to close not want them to know whi he is. | City Council Asks State to Repeal his third wife, formerly nora s ‘council, which votes wet . adopted a motion memorializing the Nineteen children of New York police- | seizure act i< | tion of the Volstead law as proof that had their father , the latter | Ten horses were rescued. A policeman declaring all they wanted was for him | giscovered the fire in the stable in the tempting to force him to give them | flames started in one of the wagons. part of his fortune v denied this ige was between $3,000 and 1o provide properly for their mother. | o L The exact whereabouts of the elder who refuse to reveal it, say CHICAGO GOES WET AGAIN' s afraid of his sons and does S o Reliable information, however, indi cates that he is honeymooning with Dry Law. ly & 30, December 23 (#).—Chi- eonor Cordero, on one of her Mexi- | b e can ranches periodically, did so again yesterday. The city fathers, by a vote of 40 to 7, Tenor Entertains Children. . | a8oried, @ motion m repeal the State NEW YORK, December 23 OP).— | prohibition law and the search and wen killed in line of duty were guests | Advoeates of the act pointed to the ) vecent State referendum on moditi Chicago s not in favor of prohibition. Coifn The Salvation Army has 1,262 fleld sOEps and -uw:-u L Amerion, affects more than 1,000 employes o the company in Richmond, Norfolk Petersburg and Portsmouti, of District Attorney Charles E. Fox. In 1925 approximately 75,000 gal- lons of liquor were condemned by the courts, while in eleven months this year_ 118,071 gallons were de- stroyed. -Hospitals were given 4.175 quarts of whisky, 8,678 gallons of alcohol and 1,161 quarts of wine last year, but this year only 704 quarts of whisky, 1,953 gallons of alcohol and 590 quarts of wine were found fit for patients’ consumption, a total of about one-sixth of last year's. by British capital,” an official of the Times said last nigh “The fact that the New York Times, as required by law, prints twice a year a sworn statement of the names and addresses of all stockholders holding 1 per cent or more -of its stock, and that these are all American, and fur- ther, that this is followed by the sworn statement that the Times has no bondholders, mortgages or other security holders, evidently means nothing to Senator Heflin.” T Ducks Accompany Prince. HANDLED BILLIONS' ‘1 WINNIPEG, Manitoba, December |23 (P).—Twenty-two Manitoba ducks Messenger for 25 Years Has|for the lakes and ponds of the ances- tral estate of Baron Byng of Vimy, Carried Fabulous Sum. former governor general of the Deo- NEW 2 __ | minion, were passengers on the steam- Ar!:el‘r“ha‘r(-gl‘}rffz' g:fi%""afl Iirfig’(cy er which carried Prince George home. shipments amounting to the enormous They were captured in nearby total of $30,566,382,435, James W. Allen | Marshes. is celebrating the completion of 25 vears' of service with the Natlonal City Bank, where he has been chief mexsenger 'in charge of gold and cur- rency Waasportation, e ‘omen's Athletic Club, in 0, The Tilinois recently openg la! wotlds | | \PATINO’S RISE BARED s et o ARMHDLSE G SHOT LS WA Greet Each Other Beatrice Meany Dies After By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 23. —A Long Battle With Troopers. Three Others Wounded. judge and the man he sentenced to hang exchanged Christmas greetings, it became known yes- terday. Henry “Midget” Fernekes, known as the midget bandit, un- der sentence of death for a murder during a bank hold-up, sent the first card. It went to Judge Wil liam N. Gemmill, who pronounced the death sentence. “Your conscience lies dormant,” Fernekes wrote on his card, that bore the inscription “‘Cordlal greet- ings and all good wishes for Christ- mas.” Yesterday Fernekes received a return greeting. On one side of the card was the inscription, “Greetings of the season, with hearty good wishes for your happi- ness.” On the other side the judge wrote, “Pray that your consclence may be void of offense toward men.” By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., December 3 —Beatrice Meaney, 43, died in & hos pital here early today of a bulle wound recelved yesterday, when more than 30 State police poured « hail of shot into a farmhouse at Ju land, where she and her two broth ers had barricaded themselves after sisting arrest. Corp. Matthew Daly and Trooper Smith wers wounded by the hail of shotgun fire that poured from the barricaded house, but returned to the battle after treatment. Brother Is Wounded. James Meaney was shot in the left knee. Timothy Meaney, the other brother, last night was taken to Flemingto: the Hunterdon County seat, for arraignment on charges of assault and battery with intent to BY STOCK OFFERING Deed to Bolivian Land, Once Held ‘Worthless, Founded Fortune of $150,000,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 23.—Bring- ing to light one of the most amazing stories of sudden rise to wealth, a public offering is being made in Wall Street today of 200,000 .shares of the Patino Mines and Enterprises, Con- solidated, the property in Bolivia which is estimated to hold approxi- mately 10 per cent of the world's available tin supply. Twenty-five years ago, Simon I kill. The trouble began when agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who Tuesday night went to the place to investigate complaints that the farmers were not feeding their live stock well, found the outbuildings barred and the brothers standing guard, refusing them admis. slon. The agents returned later with Trooper Alfred Larson and a search warrant. The party were met by Tim- othy, who menaced them with a club. While Larson was tussling with the man James appeared and fired a shot- gun at him. Larson shot James in the knee and the pair backed into the house, barricading the doors. Patino, the fqunder of the company, Reinforcements Sent. was a salesman and collector for a small merchandizing company in Bolivia Sent out to collect a bill for $260, Patino found that the debtor was unable to pay. He accordingly accepted a deed to some land in lieu of the cash, but his employer refused to take the deed and discharged Patino. The property covered by the docu- ment during the-last 10 years has vielded tin ore worth more than $60,- 000,000. Patino's fortune is now esti- mated at $150,000,000, making him the richest South American and, inas- much as he now resides in Paris, he probably is the richest European. The stock offered today {s part of Patino’s personal interest in the min- ing compan- The offering is being made by Lehman Brothers at $25 a share. Shares outstanding total 1,400,000 G Kills Self in Pari PARIS, December 23 (#).—Harri- is the | York, rgest \clubhglise for women im the night, the third American to commit \ aulcide in son Spencer McKillop, 42, of New shot and killed himself 1last within a L Reinforcements were sent from Trenton, Morristown, Somerville and Washington, and for more than 1z hours the trio gave no sign of weakening under a gas bomb attack and intermittently volleys from the troopers’ riet guns, revolvers and rifles. Officers could not explain why the bombs were in- effectual. Timothy Meaney later told them they did not know what they were. Once during a lull in firing they sec up a deflant shout of: “Don't throw any things in here.” The place was stormed shortly after dawn. Breaking doors before them, the troopers found the wounded pair lying down in the dining room, and Timothy, gun in hand, hiding behind a stove.” He was subdued without & shot. more of those Bandits Get $15,000. LOS ANGELES, December 23 (/). —Three men, masked and armed, 1o- y held up Olympic Auditorium, ene of Tuesday night's flights, and