Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1927, Page 9

ORMSTONS WIE | MAY BE CALLED Charge of Impertinent Letter From Mrs. McPherson May Bring Subpoena. ciated Pross. SLES, January 1 s Ormiston, estranged wife of Kenneth G. Ormiston, through her | announcement recently in Austr: that she had received an “impe letrer” from MePhe n, h to be witness subpoenaed n the pending on criminal District Attorney Asa ke cutor definitely de- | cided that Mrs. McPherson and her co-defendants, including Ormiston, | must stand trial. He said 1 he was awaiting the grand jury, now condu vestigation of the disapy before fil winf. fying the « fendants will be tr! is expected to mu Tuesday. Denies Letter Impertinent. Mrs. McPherson admitted that she wrote to Mrs. Qrmiston Mav 18 last, | she disappeared from Ocean ch and the day prior to the arance of Ormiston 1 resort, with a whom the State ch ist. Mrs. McPt 1 that the letter was * MES F. CURTIS, of the citizens’ commit- ering numerous demands r information on the Children’s Hos- 1 Club—an organization to stimu- n interest in the annual charity hall Monday night at the New W fard to raise funds for the Children’s Hospital. rtinent. Ormiston’s movements from time he left the Seaside Cotts Carmel, on M until he ocated recer burg, Pa., were disc dio man him selt in a statement to the newspaper. the HOTELS AIDPLAN FORILL CHILDREN 65 Stands in Center Market Join Move to Boost An- nual Charity Ball. Stopped by Reporter. The radio man deciared he left Car- mel with his voman com- panion for Los with the avowed purpose of assisting the au- thorities bere in their investigation e of Mrs. McPher- e time. Ormiston was “I was stopped by aper reporter. d my companion. He told us he was looking for Mrs. McPherson and after viewing ~the woman in the car he was satisfied she was not Mrs. McPherson, and we drove on. “Moore and I laughed and joked about the incident and the case of mistaken identity, which it really quoted say ‘Wallace Moore, He talked to r Every hotel in Washington and 65 stands in the Center Market have Jjoined the Children's Hospital Club, membership in which carries the ob- ligation to support the annual charity ball to be given Monday at the Wil- lard Hotel for the benefit of the hos- pital. “Washington hotels are unanimous in their support of the Children’s Hospital,” Frank Hight, managing ai- rector of the Willard and a member of the business men’s committee for the ball, said today. The market mas- ter of Center Market yesterday as- sisted a representative of the busi- ness men’'s committee in obtaining enrollments from the stands. These stands now are displaying the club’s red and green card of membershig Pleased With Response. “The generous response on the part of Washington business men to our committee's appeal,” sald Mrs. James F. Curtis, vice chairman, “shows con- clusively that the National Capital is foreign minister, “cannot deny that |back of the Children's Hospital. real progress has been made in the| “The Children's Hospital Club_is reconciliation of the peoples.” He|not a temporary organization. We ives much credit to the Germans for | are building not only for this year's gflhllns and concluding the Locarno | ball, but for the future welfare of negotiations. the hospital. The Children’s Hospital “Not all our problems have been |pelongs to the people of Washington. solved,” continues the message, “but |Tts doors stand open 24 hours a day the Belgians, in view of their danger-|:o the children of the Nation’s Capi- ous geographical position, are particu- | ¢a) - larly happy over the results achieved. This joy will be appreciated by the Increase in Patients. great American people, who in the| “Each year shows:an increase in darkest days of the war stretchéd a|the number of little patients seeking helping hand to Belgium.” admittance. Unless more funds are In conclusion, M. Vandervelde says | made available some day some hel there remains “the economic restora- | joss Jittle one may be turned awa; tion of Europe, which is not only a European but a world problem. Let|yrings requests for information on us hope that before long we shall over- | 050 VEET 0 odle "gor tickets to come the economic and financial diffi- | {16 (1 culties in internationl relations, be- L cause they are retarding the return of prosperity.” e S FIGHT OVER FORTUNE et Sl EUROPE SEEN NEARER TO RECONCILIATION Belgian Foreign Minister Praises Locarno Spirit—Wants Eco- nomic Accord Next. By the Assoclated Press. BRUSSELS, January 1. ending last night brought agreement” instead of the imposition of the “will of the victor over the van- quished,” declares Foreign Minister Vandervelde in his New Year greeting to the American people. * “The deepest pessimist,” said the and green cards have been dis- tributed. JUDGE ORDERS FREEING DEVER T STAND FOR RE-ELECTION Chicago Mayor Abandons Eu- ropean Trip in Order to Make Campaign. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Janus both from within party, Mayor W put aside visions of r 1.—Tmportuned outside his . Dever has election. “I have been feel,”” he sald, In announc didacy for the Democ tion, “that I should not at allow my personal inclin weigh agalnrt by civie r Mayor Dever said h! tions to nsihility.” decision was | local problems and Chics | gram are at a critical ing prompt and willing response from ery citizen. Yields to Importunities. When he reluctantly quit a Su- perlor Court bench four years ago to assume his present duties, the mayor |announced he would not be a candi- date for re-election, but for two weeks lelegations, including both Republic ans and Democrats, have stormed his office and yesterday he yielded to thelr urging. His entrance into the race gives two candidates aspiring to another term, William Hale Thompson, Republican who served two terms before Dever, having announced. A third similar candidate is being mentioned in the person of Carter H. Harrison, five times mayor. Dever Only Democrat to Announce. Mayor Dever is the Arst Democrat announcing for the Spring ballot bat- tle. Dr. John Dill Robertson, former health commissioner, and Edward R. Litsinger, member of the Cook County Boara of Review, are candi dates with Thompson for the Repub- lican nomination The Dever administeation made its debut with a vigorous law ment campaign embracing stead act, but recently the m; repeatedly stated that prohibi cannot be enforced under present con- ditlons. When the United States Sen- ate was appealed to last Spring to in vestigate charges of alleglance of crime and politics tn Chicago, Mayor Dever came to swift defense of the city and blamed the dry law for many difficulties. the - DAWES’ NEW-YEAR EVE IS JUST ANOTHER NIGHT Refrains From Wishing People of Nation Happiness Because He Thinks It Presumptuous. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 1~To Vice President Charles A. Dawes, New Year eve s just one of the 365 eve- nings of the year. The Vice President spent the evening at his Evanston home. An Associated Press correspondent called Mr. Dawes, asking the Vice President if be did not have something to say to the people of the United States on this occasion. “That,” replied Mr. Dawes, “would be assuming.” Mr. Dawes was then asked If he did not wish the people of the United States a “happy New Year.” “That,” he replied, “would not be modest.” The correspondent then asked Mr. Dawes If he could wish him a “happy New Year.” “Happy New Year” replied Mr. Dawes. TAKES SOVIET VOWS, British Miners' Secretary Swears Allegiance to Reds. RIGA, Latvia, January 1 (#).—Before leaving Leningrad for home after a Mrs. Curtis says that every mail | threeweek visit in Russia, A. J..Cook, secretary of the British Miners’ Fed- eration, did honor to Lenin in the form of a written vow, which he deposited Over a thousand of the club's red|in the Soviet leader’s room at the Smolny Institute. The vow reads: “To Lenin's teachings, to the tre- mendous work begun by him, I shall devote all my strength as his loving disciple. the Boviets! Hall the revolution!” % IS LAUNCHED BY RADIO Scollards, Recently Separated, ‘Hurry From Different Points to Battle in Person. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., January 1— With thousands of miles separating them as they hurried here to fight for possession of a large amount of securites, George F. Scollard and his wife engaged attorneys by radio today and opened the skirmish at long range. Mrs. Scollard was on the steamer Mahwah, plowing the waves of the Pacific Ocean toward San Francisco, while Scollard was in New York, hav- ing arlved from Europe. The two separated recently in Buenos Alres. When the Scollards were married last year in Chicago the fortunes of the two made a sum estimated at $500,000. A large part of this repre- sented the amount made by Mrs. Scollard when she was known as “Hetty Green” of La Salle street, Chicago. Scollard today learned that his wife had engaged an attorney and had directed him to inspect securites held in the Scollard safe deposit box in a Seattle bank. Engaging an attorney by radio as his wife had done, Scol- | OF EDITOR FROM JAIL Surplus Is Inoreased. X PITTSBURGH, January 1 (#)—An B R el January 1.—8u.|Increase of $3,000,000 in the surpius . of the Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh perior Judge Denver Sevier yesterday |to $50,000,000, voted vesterday by the grdered the release of Albert Lindsley, | qirectors, 'will give the institution the Bureka editor, who has been serving a ’ sentence of 1,000 days for contempt. Lindsley is in the Humboldt County Hospital suffering from inciplent tu- ‘berculosis. The editor was sentenced by Judge Sevier after publication in the News, a weekly paper, of a series of articles which the judge interpreted as being in contempt of court. He had served more than 10 months of the sentence. Efforts to gain the release of Linds- ley attracted widespread attention. The appelate courts were petitioned repeatedly, and the governor was asked to act, but all decided that Judge Sevier's order should stand. - -’ Subsequentyly Judge Sevier ran for re-election and was defeated. His re- 8:30 to 13 pm, leaso of Lindsley yesterday was|DIRECTION OF HAPPY WALKER among his last official acts, as his term expired at midnight. largest surplus of any trust company in the world, & bank announcement ARCADIA AUDITORIUM “Washington's Madison Square Garden 14th and Park Road NEW YEAR’S NIGHT be Foraiy Drunk Takes Three Minutes to Fall, Is Held ‘Incapable’ Hy the Associated Press. LONDON, January 1~—Precisely what constitutes “drunk and In- capable” has been placed on rec- ord by a methodical London po- liceman. He arrested a man who in West London Police Court denied he was incapable. The bobby pulled out his note book and read the following entry: “At 10:20 p.m. I found him lean- ing against a_ shop window. At 10:22 he trfed to move and at he fell down.” That comes under the heading of incapable,” agreed the magis- trate. —_— BOSTON SENDS ICE CREAM CARGO TO FLORIDA PORT [ Steamship Carries 5,000 Gallons to St. Petersburg, First Shipment of Kind on Record. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, January 1.—A steamship sailed from Boston yesterday with a cargo of ice cream for Florida, the first shipment of the kind onrecord b The steamer Corapeak, Boston for St. Petersburg, Fla., carried 5,000 gal- lons of ice cream in a specially con- ucted refrigerating case. The re- zerator was connected with the 1's motors and the freezing proc. will be continued during the 1,600- mile voyage. Agents of the vessel sald the cargo was the first instaliment of a 500,000- lon consignment. The fce cream was manufactured in Lawrence, and ment were conducted to demon- strate the possibility of its shipment to the South. Professor Wins Honor. NEW YORK, January 1 (#).—Dr. Roger Adams, head of the depart- ment of chemistry at the University of Tllinols, has been awarded the Nichols medal in chemistry for 1926 for his work in the application of chalilmoogra oil to leprosy cures, the American Chemical Society announced yesterday. D. O, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1927 SHOW-OFFS SCORED BYKING'S CHAPLAIN “Vulgar Ostentation” of Many Americans Draws Ire of Rev. G. A. S. Kennedy. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis, January 1.— The “monkeydom” of some Ameri- cans who primp in fine and gaudy clothes, while milllons walk in rags and tatters d a tirade from G. A. Studdert Kennedy, chaplain to the King of England, in an address by fore the National Student Conference here last night. “The urgo behind the vulgar osten- tation and insensate luxury that marks our age and that marks American life is the desire to show off,” he began. “It is a causeless aving. It begins 'when we are little children and does not end even with our death because it comes out in our funerals. “Man’s passion to show has been a_mercil insatiable urge, driving him to cruelty and excess. Always it has driven some men to live in palaces and keep their brothers in pig stiles; some to women to dress, or half dress, themselves in fabu lously costly cloth while their sisters went in rags. Man is still in a stage of “demi- semi-civilization” with his primitive passions still flerce and unrepressed, Mr. Kennedy declared. He attacked natlonalism. The “my country, right or wrong, theory as a symbol of the mammoth egotism of man. “Militant natlonallsm, bolshevism are but forms of egotism,” he continued, “that eats one- up evitably in dreams of con- quest, imperialism and tyranny.” o Elks Touring West Indies. HAVANA, January 1 (P).—Four hundred members fo Elks' throughout the eastern section of the United States arrived hei yesterday on the steamer Doric from New York After a few days here they will re- sume their West Indian tour. militant lodges | CLUB CLIMBS PEAK Colorado Group Lights Beacon of Flares on Summit. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan- uary 1 (A)~—A brilliant display of vari-colored flares and rockets at 9 o'clock last night indicated to Colo- rado Springs that the members of the famous Ad-a-Man _Club had reached the summit of Pike's Peak through miles of drifting snows, and were prepared to greet the New Year at midnight with giant beacons of light from the top of the peak. Members of the club climb_the peak annually to start the New Year. | BOYEOTT AS WEAPON. Penalty Urged for Filipinos Who Oppose Independence. ho work s the Philippines, ht by Gen L speach to the ention of Legion of War Vet- Mascardo, who is chairman of the committee of natlonal defense of the Supreme National Council, an Inde- ce organization, branded as de. serters the Association of Veterans, of which Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo is president, because “they have an- nulled by open alleglance with Gov. Gen. Wood the labors of war against the advent of Americans, and the war of the revolution.” Combine to Be Investigated. Senator Harris, Democrat, Georgla, lay at a conference the Federal Trade ents would be t a_ few to make an investigation of the charges which he and Representative Rutherford, Democrat, Georgla, had placed before the commission, alleg- ing that the cottonseed ol trust was fixing and depressing prices on cot- tonseed. sent il Clearance House For Repossessed Finance Co. ears Renosscsusd Floancs % 976 and 1927 Models | | INVESTMENT BU Basement I 15th & K Sta. N. Open Evenin TUBERCULOSIS CURE TEST IS SOUGHT British Health Ministry Says Swiss Bacteriologist’s Co- operation Was Asked. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January l~—Invited to say what the government was doing with respect to the treatment for tuberculosfs developed by the noted Swiss bacteriologist, Dr. Henry Spalilinger; the minister of health, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, stated yesterday his department had made a definite offer to Dr. Spahlinger to arrange a thorough test of his remedy in Great Britain, Mr. Chamberlain declared the min- fstry of health knew nothing of an offer alleged to have been made by Dr. Spahlinger to present the secret of his cure to the world without any monetary reward. A story of how Dr. Spahlinger was deluged * with virulent tubercular cultures through the breaking of a vial while he was working in his laboratory came to London yester- in a Geneva dispatch to the Daily Express. Discussing the Spahlinger tu- berculosis treatment in the medical Gl t >=7 830 13th St. N.W. 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One Dies in Trying to Save Other From Icy Water. VEVAY, Ind., January 1 () -Two brothers were drowned and their play- mato narrowly escaped a similar fate when he went to their rescue in - tle Creek, near her foe, thinned by yesterday's th way. ‘The three were skating, when Da vid Furniss, 14 1 through the weakened fce. Clayton, his 12-year-old brother, plunged in after him, but, as neither could swim, both were drowned. Manley Chase, their play mate, attempted to rescus them, but turned back before he himself was drowned. Otto May, Editor, Dies. AURORA, 111, ary 1 (P).—Otto May, 66, editor of the Aurora Volks freund, a German language publica tion, died yesterday. 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