Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 14

SCHMOOL YOUNGSTERS TRIM TREE FOR THE BIRDS. Puplils of the Jackson School, at R and Avon streets northwest, providing a Christmas tree feast for the birds of their neighborhood. The trimmings in- berriés and other choice morsels to make a happy Yuletide for the clude small baskets of crumbled bre feathered flock. The tree stands in ea the school yard. Y s st g Washington Star Photo. TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT. 01d Santa is all ready to make his rounds in the wee hours tonight, while small heads buzz with dreams of the good things he is bringing. A ;T.?NSE MOMENT IN THE MAL T. tion snapshot of the heavyweight battle in New York Wednes- Maloney, the Boston battler, in defeating Harry presses him so hard in Persson is only saved from falling through the ropes when Maloney 9 . Jimm; Persson, Swedish fighter, reaches out to support him. 00000 GOULD BATTE NAR D Heirs to Estate Said'to Have Reached Agreement in 10-Year-0ld Suit. the Associated Press NEW 'YORK. December 24.—The New York World says that the heirs of the Jay .Gould estate. once esti- mated at $52.000.000, have decided io end a legal fight that has lasted for more than a decade and is estimated | 1o have cost In attorney’s fees at least £3.000,000, The World is informed that a score of lawyers, representing the children, | grandchildren and great-grandchild ren of the founder of the Gou'd for-| tune, have arranged a formal agree-| ment zmong the litigants, and that a final settlement is at hand. The legal tangle was precipitated when the four trustees of the Jay Gould estate filed an accounting of | their stewardship. Objections to the | nocounting were filel by the two 1oungest children lay Gould, | ¥ rank J. Gould er, Anna. the Duchess nd, who charged their eldest bhrother, George J.. with - mismanagement, ‘and de-| elared nis actions had: caused u shrinkage £20,000,000 in_ the es tate The purpose of their hold the trustess re estute for the ed in 1914 in hhv removed as nstes Amonz the points of contention : gued a $4.25 bill for dog meat and a %1 license fee for dog owned | by Mis. Finley J. Shepard. formerly | Helen of fight was to meible 1o the v succeed- | 2 George J. Gould | collateral is the va in the and cluding George Gould | who now is the ord, to share in the children of econd wif ] | estate. CLUB IN LONDON, OLDEST IN THE WORLD, ON SALE Troprietor Offers Building to Fel-| low Members on Terms They | Deem Acceptable. | By the Ascociated Press | LONDON. ' December 24.—“White's Club” in St James street, claimed to | be the oldest in the world, is shortly | to be sold and will probably become | the property of its members. The | proprietor or landlord has offered the | premises to his fellow ‘club members | on terms which will bring it into their possession as a freehold prop- | erty. | Founded in 1697 as a chocolate | house, it gradually became one of tht most fashionable resorts in London for young “bucks” of the day who were noted for their betting.- The building was burned in 1733, and the present club ToxnAed oo SHeEwe: Pope and Swift mention celebritios who resorted there, Hogarth recordzd it in some of his pictures, and of re- LONEY-PERSSON BOU' An un- a s the final round that Copyright by P. & A. Photos. of any wrongdoing” SPEAKER DENIES BASE BALL FRAUD CHARGES. E former playing manager of the Cleveland club, snapped on his arrival i - that city the other night as he told néwspaper men he was “innocent n connection with the alleged base ball scandal revealed by “Dutch” Leonard, former Detroit pitcher. Tris Speaker, Wide World Photos. PUPILS TRIM TREES FOR VETERANS AT, WALTER REED HOSPITAL. Youngsters of all grades of the Elizabeth V. Brown School, in Chevy Chase, were busy yesterday trimming 24 Christmas trees to be sent to the Army hospital. The trees are being placed in the rooms of veterans who are unable to attend the community tree in the Red Cross building. Some of the children are shown working on the trees. Washington 8tar Photo, PUP JUST FILLS LOVING CUP PRiZE. Winning Way, the “pint- size’ eanine entry of a itish dog fancier at the recent show of the Griffon Brusellois Club in London, finds his lovin comfortable receptacle for himself. He was the smallest cup award just a og in the show. Acme Photos. MILK DIET MAKES SWEET TIGRESS. This mild-mannered tigress has just joined the London Zoo after being raised entirely on a bottle. Now about the size of a Newfoundland dog, she has only a few more inches to grow to attain full size. She shows no objection to the caresses of a lady visitor. Works at Washtub While Billy Slides, Says Watson’s Wife By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 24, —Mrs. Anna Shapiro, wife of Wil- liam Shapiro, known on the bur- lesque stage as “Sliding Billy Watson,” told the Domestic Rela- tions Court yesterday that while she “worked over a washboard™ to support their children, her hus- band was “laughing at the world and the world at him.” Judge Glass ordered Shapiro, whose sec- ond wife was slain in New York last April, to pay $25 a week. Mrs. Shapiro had requested a court order for $75 a week. Sha- piro denied his wife's asse that che had recefved only from him since thelr estrangement in 1902. He said he earned $100 a week for 36 weeks of a year. HURRICANE VICTIMS - GET CHRISTMAS AID Red Cross Financial Awards for 500 Families to Make 16,000 Rehabilitated. for Santa Claus, the American Red Cross tomorrow will present Christmas presents in the form of financial awards for the re- building of their homes to 500 Florida hurricane-stricken families. Of 22,904 families which appealed to the Red Cross for relief after the hurricane last September, the or- ganization announced today, 16000, ‘epresenting approximately 60,000 in dividuals, have been rehabilitated. In this work the Red Cross has dis: tributed a fund of more than $3,450,- 000, the assistance being directed chiefly toward the rebuilding of homes and the providing of -shelter and clothing. About 600 families are be- ing rehabilitated each week, and the undertaking is expected to be con cluded in about 10 weeks. i The Red Cross also will give an- | other $10,000- to help children refugees | in Bulgaria. ~The contribution authorized after nest P. | nell, vice chairman, cabled from Paris saving the situation in Bulgaria was =perate. CUBAN HOUSE ADOURNS, IGNORING FINANCIAL AID Action on Treasury Bill Seems Sure to Go Over Until After Holidays. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, . December - 24.—The House adjourned last night after a| four-and-a-half-hour session without | passing legislation to better the finan. | cial condition of Cuba's treasury, al- | though. Secretary of the Treasury Hernalidez Cartava has told the House that revision of the budget was neces- sary immediately. " The Senate is expected to take up the legislation Monday if it can be Ak an agent cent years it has numbered nong its members most of the aristocratic J rushed - through the IHouse by that with him at the presentation. SENATE PAGES PRESENT VICE PRESIDENT WITH “PIPE” FULL OF PRESENTS. A large size pipe of the famous style bearing his name, brimming with dolls and other playful relics of Christmas, was presented to Vice President Dawes yesterday by the Senate pag: Mr. Dawes reciprocated by tendering the pages a dinner. shown Copyright by Harris & Ewing. LEAVES CITY $50,000 IF IT BURNS HIS BODY Recluse Stipulates That Funeral Pyre of Cordwood Be Built in Own Back Yard. By the Associated Press. PEORIA, Ill, December 24.—The city of Kewanee, which once awaited the return of a ‘“millionaire” to re- celve his gifts, only to find that-his “fortune” was a hoax, is preparing to receive a gift of $50,000 provided in the will of a recluse who stipulated ithat the city should burn his body, the Peoria_Transcript says. 000 is to be ysed for a park fund. The recluse, Fred F. Francis, 71 vears old. and 'a graduate of the University of Illinois, was found dead at his home. His will disclosed a strange request—that the city burn his body on a funeral pyre of cord- wood in his own back yard, but if health authorities preferred, it could be_cremated privately. Failing to do as the will provided, the money was to be given Francis' alma mater and several Kewanee charities. IWILL JOIN WORLD COUAT. Santo Domingo Notifies League Signing Has Been Authorized. GENEVA, December 24 (#).—The Republic of S8anto Domingo has noti- fled the League of Nations that the Dominican Constituent Assenibly has authorized the signing of the statutes of the Permanent Court-of Interna- tional Justice, better known as the World Court. time, but this is considered unlikely John D. Whistles, Dances Jig and Quotes poetry When He Sinks a 20-Foot Putt By the Associated Pre: ORMOND BEACH, Fla., December 24.—When John D. Rockefeller sinks a 20-foot putt, he quotes poetry, whistles and dances a jig. He won the second hole from four companions yesterday after making “just about the best drive” he could remember and a putt George von Elm would have sighed to achieve. It was then that Mr. Rockefeller quoted poetry and danced a Jjig. - Just what the millionaire sald a moment later on the third hole, when he took a 9, is not a matter of record, but the Rev. Dr. C. Woeltkin of New York City, was along, so it must have been just blank verse. Dr. Woelfkin, Gen. Ames of Lowell, Mass., a close friend, and- Mr. and Mrs. John Dick of Toronto, Ont:, made up a fivesome with Mr. Rockefeller. The Standard Oil king, usually straight from the tee, had power with him and at the third hole was 2 up on all but M- Dick and 1 up on him. For the six holes plaved Mr. Rockefeller had a 35—649, 753. The other cards were: Gen. Ames;, 659, 647—37. Dr. Woeltkin, 756, 735—3 Mrs. Dick, 756, 5x4—XX: John Dick, 656, 545—31. HUSBAND FREED, AGREES TO TREAT WIFE BETTER Prisoner Promises to Play Prince Charming and Court Allows "’ Him to Go. By the Associated Fress. CHICAGO, December 24.—A mar- gied Cinderella came to light yester- day when Municipal Judge Burke or- dered her husband to play the part of Prince Charming to his wife in return for his freedom from jail, granted by the courts for the sake of the Christ- mas spirit. 1t was disclosed that Mrs. Julius Poradula, 20 years younger than her 56-year-old husband, and her three| children lived in semi-squalor in one part of the house, while the children of his first marriage dwelt in com- parative comfort in the other part. " So Poradula gave the exacted prom- ise that he would treat his wife like a princess. The optional elause -dealing - with compulsory arbitration also wil be| Pop bottles left by tourlsts have oy . . gt DOLLS USED TO SELL NOTED ALSATIAN DISH Paris Restaurants Put Pate de Fole Gras Under Skirts of Pro- vincial Toys. By the Associated Pre PARIS, December 24..—The Alsatian restaurants of Paris have hit upon a new way to sell their pate de foie gras, the food that made Strasbourg famous. Cans of pate, all ready to be taker home, are placed beneath the volumi- nous skirts of dolls dressed in the pro- vincidl costume, with big Alsatian bows adorning their hair. A wife, sweetheart or daughter, taken into the restaurant for a good dinner, is almost sure to be attracted to the . dolls, placed on tables in the center of the: room. When her escort yiels 0" her whim and decides to buy the~doll, he has: to. buy the pate de foie gras that gves with it—and there are few delica- the m: PERFECTION OF COAL AS AUTO FUEL SEEN Low-Temperature Distillation Suc- cess Reported—May Hurt 0il Industry. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24.—The New York American, in a copyright article, says chemists of the Interna- tional Combustion Engineering Cdrpo- ration have perfected methods for the low-temperature distillation of coal which will make possible the produc: tion of a good grade of gasoline with- out dependence on oil. { This new motor fuel, the American | says, is the expected outcome of the | connectlon- formed between the Inter- national Combustion Engineering Cor- poration and Nobel's industries, Ltd. through the recent election of Sir Harry McGowan to the American di- rectorate of the corporation. Sir | Harry is chalrman and managing di- rector of Nobel's industries. “Experts pointed out to the New York American,” the article says, “that if gasoline could be produced in a practicable manner in Europe from coal, and produced more cheaply, than it could be imported from Amerjcan refineries, this would not only give a tremendous impetus to the American coal industry, but might seriously af- fect the petroleum interests in the United States.” it LENTD SO Pink Puppies New Fad. PARIS, December 24 (#).—Pink velvet pupples, with bright red pro- truding . tongues and an overfed ai #Ave -thei-ifashionable .playthings at presengin Paris. This animal, one of ‘amusing ever placed on tHe | Island. Drives Stolen Auto Long Way in Vain Hunt for Her Baby Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va.,, December 24.—Mrs. Edna Catherine Wright, 19 years old, of Philadelphia, is charged with stealing an automo- bile, which she drove here from that city in a hunt for her baby. Mrs. Wright was married when 14-and has two children. She is separated from her husband, who told her, she one of the chil- dren was he th his mother. After arriving she learned that the child is in Philadelphia. The owner of the auto has“refused to prose- cute her. BALDWIN CORRECTS INSURANCE FIGURES Official Says He Was Misquoted in Testimony Before House Subcommittee. Superintendent of Insurance T. M. Baldwin, in a letter to The Evening Star received today, corrects figures r_oorted in an article bearing on his testimony before the sub-committee of the House District Committee last Monday night, wherein it was re- ported that he stated that during the last year fire insurance companies had taken in some $22,319.648 in premiums _ while sustaining only $6,619,897.67 losses. In his letter Mr. Baldwin says: “May 1 correct this article to the extent that instead of the above total of premiums paid in the District being on fire business, it represented the total premiums on all classes of in- surance transacted in the District of Columbia during the year 1925. Of this amount the fire premiums were $2,521.798.62, with losses paid of §847.686.35, or 33 3-5 per cent. “The article further states that I am credited with the remark that in the proposed general code, real estate title insurance legislation is embodied. I did not make such a remark but to the contrary said that such legisla- tion had been taken out cf the gen- eral code and would be considered in a separate cod FAMILY LEFT IN COLD BY SMUGGLERS SAVED Father, Mother and Children Res- cued From Freezing to Death on Island. By the Associated Press. ‘WINDSOR, Ont., December 24.—A Belgian family of father, mother, a small girl and a baby were rescued from freezing to death yestérday on the isolated little stretch of land in the Detroit River known as Peche ‘Through -interpreters, the caretaker of the solitary residencé on the island, who brought them back to the river- side, learned that they had paid $100 to be smuggled across to the Amer- ican shore. % In the darkness, they sald, the smuggler landed the family on the holiday? market, is the king of the Christ@ias counters where seekers of wood strewn beach of the island, far Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. MENCO REDLESTED TODEPORTHOWARD Father Makes Plea After Al- leged Plot by Son to Kid- nap Parent. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 24— John F. Howard, former salad dress- ing manufacturer of Haverhill, Mass., has asked the police to deport his son, John C. Howard, arrested here in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap his father. The arrest of young Howard and two companions, described by the Mexico City newspapers as “‘gunmen from the United States,” prevented an affair, the police say, that might have caused -trouble between Mexico and the United States. John C.“Howard and his brother Albert followed_their father when he came to Mexico several months ago and attempted to ‘ebtain his return to Haverhill or mometary provision for his second wife. The elder How- ard has since been married twice, and is said to be honeymooning with the former Senora Leonor Cordero on one of her ranches. The police allege that one of the men who entered Mexico with young Howard on his latest trip has con- fessed that they plotted to kidnap the father. This is denied by John C. but the police repeat that they have a confession and proof, and the news- papers unqualifiedly assert that the elder Howard would have been kid- naped and in serious danger of death if the police had not discovered the alleged plot in time. The elder Howard is quoted by the police as saying that he has already given his son John a small fortune and that now all he desires is peace. He asked them to send the son out of the country and keep him out. —_—— COAL CAR LEAVES RAILS AND CRASHES INTO TRAIN Several Passengers Are Hurt as Wreck at Garrigon, N. Y., Ties Up Traffic. By the Associated Press. GARRISON, N. Y., December 24.— A number of passengers on a train bound from New York to Poughkeep- sie were injured last night when a gondola coal car on a southbound freight train jumped the track one mile south of Garrison and crashed into the passenger train. The engi- neer and fireman of the Poughkeepsie train were seriously injured. The pas- sengers in the derailed cars were said to have been only slightly hurt. Several hundred feet of the railroad track were torn up and both north and south bound traffic was tied up. The fireman of the train, Edward Cox, was taken to the Julia Butter- fleld Memorial Hospital, at Cold Spring N. Y., suffering from lacerations, shock and bruises. Harry Stewart, engineer, returned to his home, in Poughkeepsie, after' being treated at the scene of the wreck. Several passengers who were slightly injured were treated at the m their expected destination, and et scene by doctors from nearby towny 4ad wenl k2 phels homas, v