Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 5

—_— TINEY S CONDTON GRAVE NENTALLY Comedian Can Ever Return to Theatrical Work. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 24.— Discouraging reports on the condition of Frank Tinney, blackface comedian, came from the Naval Hospital here today . Physicians fear that his stage career is at an end and they hold but little hope of his complete re covery. He is suffering from a ner. vous breakdown. Physically, his condition was said to be compara- tively good, but mentally it was re- ported as “very grave.” Tinney has showed no improvement since he was brought to the Naval Hospital December 12. He has been 111 since he was stricken on the stage in Detroit last September and was taken to the Naval Hospital for ob- servation and treatment. No one is garmiued to see him except his rother Joseph, who lives in.this éity, nurses and attending physicians. Not in Bed Constantly. “We fear,” said officials of the hos- pital today, “that Mr. Tinney will never again be able to return to the stage. Although we hope for the best, the chances of his complete re covery are slight. Physically, his con dition is comparatively good, but mentally it is very grave. He is not confined to his bed altogether, but is able to be up some of the time. Al first his condition gave us some en- couragement, but these periods are becoming less frequent. We have not yet, however, given up all hope of his ‘recovery Tinney was born in this city and worked for two -undertakers, a de- partment store, a jeweler and ran an elevator in an office building. His first engagement on the stage was at en entertainment given by the porochial school he attended. Went With Minstrels. His family sent him to Texas for his health when he was about 20 years old. Upon his return he join- ed Barlow’s minstrels as a musiclan at $10 a week. Later he was raised to $25, but lost the job when he asked for an increase of 28 cents with which to get his laundry. ‘Then he set out for himself! In Maysville, Ky., In 1905, he inaugu- rated the idea of crdcking jokes with the leader of the orchestra. Until then he had been billed as the “only rival to Paderewski.” FRENCH ACTRESS PLANS TO TAKE VEIL IN YEAR Eve Lavalliere, Once Pet of Paris, Disappeared Ten Years Ago. By the Associated Press. 3 PARIS, December 2%i.—After 10 ronn of austere living, neither receiv- ng her friends nor hearing any news from the outside world,, Eva Laval llere, once France's most popular ac- tress, is beginning a year of prayer and meditation prior to taking the veil in the Franciscans’ Convent at Hyeres. Her sudden disappearance from the Paris stage 10 years ago has never been explained. Reporters tracked her to a small town in the Vosges, but she barred the door to them. Friends Wrote #sking for. appoln ments, but she never answe: the letters. Now she has returned to Tou. lon, where she was born in 1868, plan- ning to spend one year in meditation and prayer before she takes the vow. Eve Lavalliere first made her ap. pearance on the Paris stage in 1888, when she was 20 years old. Five years later she was the idol of the public. For years she was the star at the famous Varieties Theater. Now #he is living in a small house near the Toulon water front, Her only com- panion is a friend who is also planning to enter the convent. GUZZLING HURTS DRAMA. English Writer Places Blame for Short Plays. OXFQRD, England, December 24 P).—Nlght guzzling 1s ruining _the drama, says St. John Ervine, drama- tist, who belleves that too many per- sons prefer to eat late, leisurely din- mers to theater going. As a conse- quence the short play was becoming more popular. “There was a thing called ‘late din- mer' and another thing called ‘last train,’ and the play had to be made to fit in between the two.” sald Mr. Ervine in a lecture to the Oxford Arts Theater Guild. This habit also is on the increase fn the provinces, where the late din- ner has just become an institution. — LOST PLATOON BARED. Disappearance of 54 Shown by Bonus Records. TOPEKA, Kans., December 24 (#).— Kansas has a “lost platoon” of 54 World War veterans, They have dis- appeared without claiming the bonus offered by a grateful Commonwealth. Each veteran was entitled to $300 to $700, Kansas having awarded a bonus of §1 a day for service in the war. By virtue of a law which raises the presumption of death seven years after a person's disappearance, the State Bonus Board will declare the missing men legally dead and ask the Legislature to appropriate money for their beneficiaries. KING LIKES HORN RIMS. Wears Modern Spectacles to Bead‘ and Hunt; Queen Uses Them, Too. TLONDON, December 24 (#).—Horn- rimmed spectacles have become® a regular part of the accessories of the boudoir at Buckingham Palace ¢ Not oniy does Queen Mary wear them: for reading but King George has followed sult since he wore a pair at the Wembley exhibition on A palr when leaving Ruckingham Palace the other dav for the country on a shooting expedition. He discards them, however. when making his veual remarkable kills amongst- the pheasants and partridges. 500,000 IN MOVIE FILMS. German Rowing Association Re- produces Championship Races. BERLIN, December 24 (#).—The 500,000 members of the German Row. ing Assoclation are keeping in train- ing this Winter with the aid of motion pictures of virtually all champlonship regattas run Off last Summer. The films have been acquired by the asso- ISEAMAN DIED TRYING TO SAVE " SKIPPER OF BURNING SCHOONER Capital Sail;r Eulo,,‘lzredr by Rescued Companions for Heroism in Fire That Destroyed Guard Ship. Out of the darkness of disaster arose a shining memory yesterday when survivors ‘of the Coast Guard supply schooner, Lincoln, which sunk in flames off the North Carolina coast Saturday morning, carrying five of her crew with her, told of the heroism of Olaf Hansen, chief petty officer, of 1308 Sixth street southwest, revealing that he lost his own life in an attempt to save the life of his skipper, Boatswain Thoroff A. Erlinz- son, after he had given the trio who were saved all of the. available life preservers. Still clad in the nondescript gar- ments lent them by members of the crew of the British freighter Di fender, ‘rescue ship which hove just in time to save them from a rag- ing sea, Howard Carter of Pasadena, Md., and Gordon J. Schultz of Chicago reported at Coast Guard neadquarters here yesterday and told for the first time the detailed story of the tragedy of the deep. The thi survivor, Oluf Laveson, is in a criti- cal condition at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, suffering from burns sustained fighting the flames which formed the Lincoln’s shroud and from the effects of 36 hours adrift in an almost water-logged lifeboat. Carter, with an arm seared by fire and a leg torn by the rigging of the pitching schooner as she was buffeted by the mad sea, could not speak with- out emotion of the manner in which Hansen met his death and of the deeds of the gallant skipper he strove to save. Schultz, older and of a more phlegmatic temperament, bore on his face the shadow of tragedy and told in fragmentary sentences of the last heroic moments of his shipmates. Skipper Calm in Tragedy. The flaming schooner had listed to the water's edge, they said, and huge waves were washing over the deck, vet failing to quench the flames, when- the crew were forced to take to the water. The skipper remained on the burning deck, cool and calm in the face of disaster, urging his men not to give up hope; that the lifeboats from the approaching Defender would reach them in time. But wind and waves and tide thwarted the efforts of the sturdy Britons, who were pull- ing frantically at the oars, and their craft could not be brought near enough to the fast-sinking Lincoln to 'save her crew. As the crew of the ill-fated ship began to take to the water, preferring to go to a sailor man's death rather than to be burned alive by the flames which were spreading fast over the entire schooner, Hansen siezed the only three life preservers which had not been destroyed by the fire. “He wouldn't take one himself,” said young Carter, “but he made me take one; he threw one to Laveson; and he handed the other to Schultz. he skipper took off his sheepskin but I wouldn't take it and jumped overboard. ¢ “When ! looked around again we were all in the water. Hansen was swimming near me. I think he might have kept up like we did, even with- out a life preserver, if he hadn't started back to the ship toward the skipper who stood on the deck yelling at us not to give up hope. Last Thought of Skipper. His strength spent through hours of battling futilely against the fire, ‘Hansen just managéd to make the ship through the heavy sea. He crawled on deck, which had sunk to the level of the water, the two sur- vivors stated, and made his way through the smoke to Erlingson, who seemed determined to go down with the ship no man could save. Those struggling in the water saw the young seaman—he had just been promoted to the rank of petty officer— take his chief, who was badly burned and exhausted, in his arms and leap with him in the waves. For a second they could still be seen, the’slight form of Hansen vainly trying to keep the 200-pound Erliugson above water. Then the waves closed in and they were seen no more. Lavason, clinging to the half-filled liteboat, was soon lost to sight. He was picked up by the Clyde liner Seminole 36 hours later. The tide and the wind carried Carter and Shultz within range of the Defender's life- boat, which picked Shultz up jut as he lost consclousness and was about to slip under the waves for the last time. Throw Out Life Buoys. Life buoys, tethered together by ropes, were thrown from the deck of the Defender, which had steamed as near as she could get to the burning ship, her captain, E. Maycock, seeing that his small boat was unable to schooner. B anaged to grab one of the ropes,” said Carter, “and hung on until the crew of the lifeboat hauled me aboard. The water wasn't so cold, because the Gulf Stream swings in- shore there, but the wind was icy and I never saw so rough a sea. The crew of the Defender were a fine bunch of men and did evefything they could g 1o i last thing I remember was swimming to_the lifeboat,” declared Schultz, “but I'll never forget Hansen. ‘was a man.” e aa it not been for the fire, it was explained, the crew might have been able to stay on the ship until life buoys thrown from the Defender were washed within reach, but the heat grew too intense to bear and flames forced’ the Coast Guardsmen from ir vessel. m;!lrghung like madmen in the black- ness of the night against flames which burst through bulkheads and devoured | first the forward section of the schooner, vainly striving to reach land with all sails set, her engines having stopped, men of the &allant orew of eight used mattresses and small boats, known as punts, as shields against he scorching_terror. 3 e Fignt it boys! Fight it! Dom't give up the ship!” Erlingson kept cry- ing all through the night of horror, the survivors stated, until the dawn witnessed a tragedy which marked the close of another chapter of heroism in the annals of the Coagpt Guard Service. One Swept Into Sea. A ghastly foretaste of the fate which was to fall to the lot of all but [three of the men of the Lincoln oc curred “some time during the night,” the survivors stated, when a great wave lashed across the deck, washing overboard into outer blackness and unknown depths Coxswain Willlam H. Alston, jr., of Absecon, N. J., as he was endeavoring to beat back the! blaze. Fate selected its victims with tragic care, for each member of the crew was regarded as one of the best men in the service, and Alston, still in his twenties, had served throughout the Sesquicentennial at Philadelphia as the representative of the ideal type of Coast Guard surfman, givnig daily demonstrations of the proper method of rescuing drowning persons. But of small avail was his prowess as a swimmer and strength .as a man clation for circulation among the nu- merous rowing ciubs for a nominal fee as a training measure for the 1928 Olymrgges. Among the features is a serie®of slow motion films, the stroke of the exemplar crew heing followed in tealning at rowing marhines against the waves which' foamed by the little ship with resistless force, Just as the fingers of dawn tore back the black curtain of night which hid the little ship, aboard which such a dramatic battle was belng waged, from ihe sight nfrym'tllvle rescuers lookout on red the and an the to and finally enabled the the Defender to see the dreaded beacon of a ship afire at sea, flames reached the big lifeboat it was partially capsized in attempt to launch it. This was boat that later bore Laveson safety. Rewarded For Valor. Carter and Schultz, taken the Defender, found themselves bound for Galveston, Tex., due to dock there today, but Tuesday a Coast Guard patrol boat met them off the Florida coast and took them off the ship, landing them at Fort Lauder- dale, where they received orders to proceed direct to Washington. Very much abashed becauss of their ~clothing, which was of the “catch as catch can” variety, and so limited in funds that they subsisted on a diet of ham and eggs all the way here, the two seamen were re- ceived today by Lefut. Comdr. 8. S. Yeandle, outfitted with new uniforms and given two weeks’ leave of absence with pay. Carter had his burnt hands and rope-cut leg treated at the Navy Yard Hospital. The League of Coast Guard Women added to the regulation outfits issued them. Coast Guard officials, after a private hearing with the survivors, stated that thelr accounts more than cor- roborated the tale of the heroism of the skipper ard crew of the doomed ship indicated by terse radio mes- sages previously relayed from the Defender. Borrowed Clothing Returned. Before attending to their own wants, Carter and Schultz insisted that the clothing which their rescuers had lent them be returned to the De- fender and the garments were straightway cleaned and pressed and sent to the British embassy, with the request that they be forwarded to the Defender. Refreshed in body by hot baths and clean clothes and heartened by the praise of their superior officers, the rescued men left for their homes last night. Schultz is on his way to his mother, in Chicago, and Carter, too, headed for home, eager to be with his mother at Pesadena, Md., and enjoy an old-time Anne Arundel County Christmas. There's a little home in southwest ‘Washington, though, hard by the water frent, as a sallor's man's home should by, which will walt in vain for the familiar step of a smiling youth whose sailor's tread falls no longer upon this earth. But to the 20-year-old wife of Olaf Hansen comes the spiritual consola- tion that the name of her - saflor lover is writ high . upon the tablets of the Nation's herioc dead and that he met his Heath with courage in his eyes and the glory of self sacrifice in his heart, OLD HOME OF WEDEKIND? "PLAYWRIGHT, IS LOCATED Famous Author Traversed Four Flights of Stairs to and From His Berlin Apartment. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 24.—Probing Into neglected former homes of . lit- erary lights in Berlin, an investigator found the rooms in which Frank We- dekind, famous author-playwright and actor of the last generation, lived in 1889. Tramping up four flights of narrow stairs in the rear of an old apartment house built around a court, the investigator and his companion were greeted by a rather rusty-looking individual who said he was a “‘com- poser.” There wasn't much incentive for more than a brief inspection of the disordered, musty, unventilated rooms. “You know,” said the occupant, as the“visitors turned to go, “I was not personally acquainted with Wedekind, but it is a great honor to breathe the same air that he did.” Giving a last glance at the tightly shut windows, stepping into_the hail and proceeding downstairs, the chief Investigator remarked to his compan- ion: “Yes, it was indeed the same air.” BARITONE MAKES RECORD Michael Bohnerd Sings in Four Operas in Five Days. BERLIN, December 24 (#). — Michael Bohnen, Metropolitan Opera baritone, has made something of a record by singing roles in four operas in five days in three citles—two of them as far apart as Paris and Berlin. He sang “Hans Sachs” in ‘“Die Mels- tersinger” in Leipzig on Saturday, took the role of “Ochs Von Lerche- nau” in “Der Rosen-Kavalier” in Ber- lin on Sunday, airplaned Monday morning to Paris, where he sang “Mephistopheles” in _“Faust” the, same evening; returned to Berlin by alr the next day, had a rehearsal, and sang “Scarpla” in “La Tosca” here the following evening. UNIONS SEEK FUNDS. British Want to Finance Future Strikes, They Say. LONDON, December 24 (#).—~Trade union .circles are considering the ad- visability of mlklnf a levy of 4 shil- lings a year on all workers to pro- duce a national fund of £100,000 for the financing of strikes. The suggestion comes from the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade ‘Workers, whose leaders are inviting members to place it on the agenda of ithe next trades union congress. HUNTS WORST BOOKS. — British Humorist, Out to Corner 50, Already Has 32. LONDON, December 24 (#).—Capt. Harry Graham, humorist and play. wright, is making a collection of the world’s 50 worst books. He has chosen 32 so far, and had them all bound alike. He is still searching for suitable candidates for the remaining 18 places. ABSOLUTE URITY . makes EVERFRESH taste better and act efficiently. Insist upon it by name. N aboara|” Above: A “before and after” picture of Howard Carter (left) and Gordon 4. Schultz, survivors the Coast Guard schooner Lincoln, who were brought here yesterday in the clothes given them when rescued from their ship. New uniforms brought a trans- formation. The single "{mnrnlt is Olaf Hansen, chief petty officer, who lost his life and died a hero. Hansen lived at 1308 Sixth street southwest. MRS. BISHOP IS HELD | IN HUSBAND SLAYING Wife of “Two-Gun” Detective in Oklahoma City Is in Jail Awaiting Trial. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., December 24 —Mrs. Edith M. Bishop was bound over for trial in District Court at the conclusioneof her preliminary hearing here late yesterday, on a charge of slaying her husband, Luther Bishop, two-gun State detective. . The de- fendant was ordered committed to jail pending the trial, the date of which will be fixed later. Bishop was shot to death in bed at his home here December 5. The State charges Mrs. Bishop killed her hus- band with his two pistols, which were found in a closet at the Bishop home the day after the slaying. Prosecution witnesses testified that the widow’s shadow, or ailhouette, was seen at a window In the bedroom dur- ing the shooting. It also was testified that Mrs. Bishop had suspected her husband was involved with another woman, and that she attempted to have a private detective shadow him. An expert on firearms declared it would have been impossible for a gun- man to have fired the fatal shots from the window where Mrs. Bishop asserted she saw flashes of gunfire. Two “surprise witnesses” were pro- duced by the defense today. They tes- tified they saw and heard two men leave the Bishop home immediately after the shooting. —— NEW KINK IN DAWES PLAN Price of Beer to Advance in Ger- many in January. BERLIN, December 24 ().—All Germay will be drinking_more sol- emnly to the health of the Dawes plan after New Year, when the price of the country’s famous beverage will prob- ably be boosted 5 per cent., The tax on beer {s one of the controiled reve- nues to guarantee reparations pay- ments. Breweries have given notice that the price will be increased ac- cordingly. Some members of the government, fearing a_ further decline in beer drinking, insist that the brewing com- panies, which, with few exceptions, are paying dividends of from 10 to 20 per cent, can stand the tax boost with- out increasing the price. The cost of a pint stein at present is about 15 cents, During a recent storm in Fran the rain contained sand that had blown from Africa, OIN THE CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB OF THE FEDERAL-AMERICAN “Everybody’s Doing I¢" —prompt service in all plumbing emergencies. Colbert’s r e putation for dependable work at Right Prices makes every Colbert patron a satisfied one. Maurice J. Colbert Heating—Plumbing—Tinnin, 621 F Street Phome 3016-3017 2 2 B 2 2 a2 DESPAIRING ENGLISH BOY INDULGES IN GUESSING Geography Examination Elicits Queer Answers, Which Experts Class as Rare “Gems.” By tha Associated Press. LONDON, December 24.—'‘Denmark is washed by the Catty Cat and the Scraggy Hack,” wrote a despairing English boy at a geography examina- tion. Other gems embalmed in the examination papers included: “The_highest peaks in the Alps is nc Mange.” ““Amongst the islands of the West Indies are the Pyjamas, noted for toi- let sponges.” “Ceylon is joined to India by a chain of coral wreaths."” “A focus is a thing like a mush- room, but if you eat it you will feel differently from a mushroom, for fo- cusses {s polson.” “Habeas corpus is what the people used o say to the undertakers at the time of the great plague of London. It means, ‘You may have the body.’ " “Louls XVI whs gelatined during the French Revolution.” “Chaplets are small places of wor- ship.” Goldfish Poaching Grows. LONDON, December 24.—Goldfish poaching in the Temple grounds, the ancient headquarters now used for homes and offices of the legal guilds, has reached such a stage that special porters have been posted to watch for the thieves. Water lilies are a favorite food of wild ducks. XTENDING— MISSKATE COLBY ENTERS BUSINESS Daughter of Former Secre- tary of State Goes to Work in Steamship Agency. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 24.— Intending to remain single, Miss Kate Colby, daughter of Bainbridge. Colby, former Secretary of State, is learning the steamship agency business. Business is a cure for restlessness among girls and more should try it, in her opinion. Hoping to learn the business from ‘‘the ground up,” she is at her desk from 8:456 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day, having begun work Monday. She is an attractive brunette, ap- parently in her twenties. She refused to divulge her exact age, declaring it made no difference “if one is 16 or 60; this is a wonderful era for women.” Combines Business and Pleasure. “I shall never marry, you know," she said. “Marriage makes too many ties. There is always some one else to consider, and I'm more interested in lots of people than one. “Working here is really combining business wsth pleasure, for I meet so many unusual people. They come here planning to do just the things I like to do. Father thinks this is a good experience for me. JReally, it is nothing unusual for me to be working. Most society girls work in New York with the Junior League or something. It was a bit of luck that got me my job. One night at a dinner party my present employer sat next to me. “I confided to him that I wanted to go into busi- ness. ‘Do you really?’ he asked. I convinced him that I'did, and he said, ‘Come to Phllldelvhl’ and I'll give you & job." Well, here I/am and I think 1t's fine. Does Not Miss Parties. “I don’t miss parties. I enjoy them as much as any girl. T will go home after business on Friday and have Friday night, Saturday and Sunday to play. Of course, I am missing some Christmas dances, but one has to make some sacrifices . “Eventually when I learn the busi- ness, I hope become an assistant in_an office in New York.” In this city' Miss Colby resides at the Acorn Club. Her father, a New York lawyer, was Secretary of State under President Wilson. HOUDINI FOUND TROUBLE IN DECEIVING FARMERS Country Folk “Harder to Fool” Than Were City Audiences, Magician Declared. By the Associated Press. NEW _ YORK, December 24 (#).— Harry Houdinl found farmers “‘harder to fool than city people,” and several timea the magician’s tricks nearly failed when he performed them face to face with rural audience: “‘In country parts, where men them- selves perform the magic of making the soll bear harvest, I've found them less gullible,” he wrote in an article published today by Farm and Fire- “They know it's just a trick.” Houdini's first training in legerde- main was in the small towns with fraveling shows and later as a magi- cian at county fairs. As example Houdini told of an experience in an Yowa, town, where he undertook to escape from a thief- proof barn within an hour. “Finger the locks as I would I could make no impression on them,” he said. “I exhausted myself and leaned against a door section to rest for a final spurt. To my amazement the door opened and the witnesses applauded me. I bowed with grace and went back to the farmhouse to dress. The farmer came into the bedroom and explained that, out of pity, he had left that section of the barn door unlocked, unbolted!” SPLIT ON BIRTH CONTROL Socialist Party in England Is Fac- ing Break. LONDON, December 24 (#).—The Socialist party in England is threat- ened with a split over birth control. Proponents of the jdea want an understanding that in a future gen- eral election the Soclalist party will adopt birth control teaching as a part of its platform. They say that the advice which is open to any married woman who the money to pay her private physician should be given the poor woman free of charge. The executives of the party, how- ever, reported that birth control was a matter for individual decision and could not be made a party cry. The report, however, was referred back for further consideration. —_— Chinese Woman Wins in Britain. LONDON, December 24.—Miss Kath- leen Hoahing, 23, is the first Chinese waman to pass the British solicitor’s final examination. She has been in England six years, and for four years has been studying law with a London firm of attorneys. She will practice in China. | BRIAND’S READING CUT. Cost of Foreign Papers Limits Num- ber Taken in Paris. PARIS, December 24 (#).—The high cost of American newspapers in France and of all foreign periodicals from gold standard countries has compelled the French foreign office to reduce by half its daily digest of the nress of the world. This_boiled-down news is for the consumption of the harassed M. Briand, minister of foreign affairs. who naturally hasn’t time to read all the papers. even the hundred or so sheets published In Paris. Parliament, with this new high-cost- | of living problem presented to it, has Just added 80,000 fran to the press fund of the minister, previously fixed at 320,000. ROYAL TOURS HELD TAX ON RALWAYS Special Trains and Special Cars for Foreign Visitors Big Expense Item. By the Associated Press. Supplying of special trains and cars to distinguished foreign visitors who wish to see this country in de luxe style has become an ‘interesting phase of Americn railroading. Through the courtesy of the rail roads, in many cases, members of royal families and other notables have been able to tour the United States and Canada in luxurious equipment at nominal cost to themselves. The trans- continental jaunt of Queen Marle of Rumania and the earlier visit of President Machado of Cuba are out- standing instances when the raflroads themselves played host and footed most of the transportation bills. Cost Next to Nothing. The Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden paid for the special car which, attached to regular trains, took them across the country on their recent visit, but the Prince of Wales and Marshal Foch of France rode in spe- cial trains that cost them next to nothing. ‘The most consistent user of special trains is President Coolidge, but he buys his own ticket out of a special appropriation providéd for the pur- pose. The Government at times em- ploys special equipment with which to transport distinguished yisitors from New York to Washington and return when they pay official calls to the National Capital. More than the desire of the rallroads to be courteous hosts to visiting sight- seers is necessary In supplying trains at nominal cost to the guests. Under the law only railroad employes are al- lowed free transportation and in order to carry Queen Marie, for example, at a $1 fare, a special tariff had to be filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission and that body's approval received. Queen Rides 10,000 Miles for $1. In Marie's case, she paid out of her own pocketbook $1 for herself, her two children and each member of her im- mediate party to each of the several railroads over which she traveled on her 10,000-mile tour. Railroad fares alone, at Winter tourist rates, would have totaled approximately $20,000 for the nearly 80 persons aboard the Royal Rumanian. Another huge expense borne by the ‘was that incident to stocking diners and private kitchens aboard the several special cars making up. the royal train. Special illustrated book- lets describing the country through which the Queen passed and elaborate menu cards also were paid for by the rallroads. Railroad men agreed that the Royal Rumanian was the most luxurious equipment ever assembled, compris- ing six special cars, all of them the property of railroad presidents, and equipped with the most modern con- veniences. ¢ SRR O TS0 TRESSES ARE GOLDEN. Mrs. Kiep, Wife of German Attache, Handsomely Adorned. BERLIN, December 24 (#).—Mrs. Otto Kiep, wife of the newly-appointed counselor and charge d'affaires of the German embassy at Washington, will attract attention, It is believed in social circles, because of her un- usually long and beautiful hair. Mrs. Kiep, nee Miss Alves. who comes from’ one of the old bankers' families of Berlin, has a head of golden blonde tresses which might well be the envy of many a woman less well endowed WANTS MONTANA 10 SELL GASOLINI Attorney General Suggest Move to Increase Revenueg By the Associated Press HELENA, Mont., December 24. Refining and sale of gasoline by t State of Montana was proposed ye terday by Attorney General L. Foot as a measure to increase t State’s revenues from its ofl lan and reduce the price of motor fu to the consumer. In a letter to the register of Stay lands, commenting on a_proposed ne istrative land ¢ the attof v general urgently advised the i clusion of provisions by which t State may enter the retail oil fiel refining its own oil. asserted that the venture is a rized by the constitution and t court's interpretation of the provisk is broad enough to permit it, but su gested as a matter of prec mission of ment specifically authorizi to maintain its own refineries and dij ibute its own oil and gasoline, wit such additional oil and gasoline as < chase From its royalties on producinf leases the State received in July th year nearly $44.000 on the b $1.15 a_barrel The law now requires the State t accept cash for royalty payment: The' attorney general advised a las permitting the State to accept of instead of cash. “JAZZ THROA.T" EPIDEMIC London Diners in Public Place Suffer From Hoarseness. LONDON. December 24 () —Man| habitual diners in public places in th| West End are suffering from an af tack of “jazz throat” and suffer s| badly from hoarseness that they havy to be medically treated. This, says throat specialist. is caused throug) attempting to carry on a lively con versation during ‘mealtime througl} the din of modern dance music. And then over on Harley street ti “Charleston knee" is o new ailme: occupying the attention of specialist Numbers of girls are now gois about with bandaged knees becaut of ligaments strained doing the dan for long periods when unaccustom to the Intricate and unnatural si wave. New Tanning Process Foana. GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Decembey 24—A most appropriate Christmag gift to this community, which subsietg almost entirely on the manufacture of gloves, is the trade announcemery that a new process of tanning heq been perfected which is expected ta give marked impetus to the industry, A new steel which is hard on the surface and soft | ¢ a Pery Merry Christmas to . CLAFLIN Opticians Optometrists 922 14th St. Opposite Franklin Square - 711_Thirteenth Street WHERE THE To spend SPOT New Year’s ve $3 Cover Charge 3o Tazs Band INNER 2 lice Tupman Dancer by nature, even among those who have succumbed to the prevailing tendency toward bobbed hair. o4 Oh, Very MERRY! . s istmas O You the Season's Greet- ings with our appreciation of the pleasant business relations which we have so much enjoyed. ARTCIAFT SUOLS 13l F Stregt Served the day of days from 12:30to 10P.M. @ Tuck a reminding stocking . . . You can't miss this! Qo «QY Qv B ER.T <L we serve it? Onessigh of this Turkey Good- ness and your appetite will leap ahead like a rooftop reindeer you'll believe Santa Claus has turned chef. ... for you'll be charged just— Two Dollars for your Christmas Dinner & Dinner? Will t and note in your fireplace OLMSTED OLMSTED GRILL, 1336 G Street PR YT AT LT A A