Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1927, Page 4

* * OVERSEAS PHONE CALSNET$1000 Transactions Involving $6,- 000,000 Are Completed by New Service First Day. Anti-Gossiping Bill 7 Carries Penalty of Fine and Jail Term National—"Pi 8:20 p.m. Matinee at 2 Belasco— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, i9?7. — —'—__——'——————_T-—_—————_ D =t 7o DeatH v 40 1007 | zw Hustand Biacte LI TUANIAN LABOR |comedy, at § ‘ | pm WANT I]- [;- “] PAY TO DEATH IN 48 HOURS| Ag Husband Blasts . YEARN FOR HOME . - szt AL PAVING GOSTS) "= s s Self WithDymamite “HEADS EACE EATH stances as Frank C. Wallace, 20 . m. | From Heart Attack. By the Associated Press Keith’s—Will Mahoney, vaudeville, i ' w ot | Mich Chillum Heights Citizens Urge Represented by Friends as Repeal of Borland Being Weary of Paris. comedy, at 20 p.m. “The Arabian > 20 p.m. Matinee at Circum- By the Associated Prese NASHVILLE, Tenn., 8.—The author of Tenne evolution law has State Legislature, to make go ing a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment. or hoth. Senator J. W. Butler of Macon collaborating with Sena- Chrisman_of Cheatham, in the Tenness ate a bill which would 130 Leaders to Be Court-Mar- tialed in Kovno, Dispatch to Berlin Says. . el L home In a Philadelphia suburb, a little | escaped death yesterday. vaulcville, contintoUs T840 1L DY | less than 48 hours after her husband, ; i Ok | FFrank C. Wallace, editor and publisher | of the Chester (Pa) Times, had ex- | pired under the same circumstances, according to a long-distance telephone message to The Evening Star from a | friend of the family. In both instances a heart attack, was the cause of de Mr, Wallace for a long time w [ the Government Printing Officehere, ment, the members of Chillum | holding the post of superintendent of | leigghts Citizens' Assocfation agreed | 4ocuments when he resigned 12 years | In favoring the Fereal-of the Berlens | G T Scquinag an invevest iy this Chester paper the regular meeting | ~ Mr. Wallace fell dead held in the eph R. afternoon, and grief is’ | Keene and Riggs roads. [ hastened his wife's end. She called A copy of the resolution was o to a woman in the hous: h her als and the early this morning that she “felt very A adly,” and was dead before assistance ne, secretary, rewewed |could be summoned hool building plan for| The couple will be buried together | years and appealed to| Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The to make am effort to|funeral will be private, at Chester wddition for the . A _resolution = . introdu by Cyrus Bright re Vandals Strip Phone Lines. questing the District Commissioners | MEDIA, Pa., Jaruary 8 (#).—Van nelude an item for the beautifica- | dals last night stripped whole sectfons | Wife w the grounds of Keene School | of copper wire from poles in this sec survived also by a daughter, M Protestiie fn a ottt to hold no They 6:30 d 9:40 p. in the 1928 budget was passed tion, crippling telephone service be- | (eorze ewlett, wife of Comdr QSR imis s p - il ,',",’,”..lu(-f“m the Sin il ikt Tho ation also will ask that | tween Philadelphia and cities as far | Hewlett, who is stationed here. Fu bttt E_“" recent shooting of g Riggs road be closed in front of the | West as Cleveland, Ohio. neral and burial services will be held munists T ety at the | 12,000,000 FOR CHARITY, | school ana that Concord avenue be |4t Cheyenne. ! e ¥ left the country at the | In connection with reports fror senatorial investigation | continiied from Plair read. A request | . | Lithuania that the new government January 8 GP)—Vir.] was ordered sent to the Federation | £12,000,000 estate of Edward . Réaraon of New vorcl HUNTFORSBOWENDELR was proposed to President Coolidge | = © been away ever since | TULSA, Okla.. | which came into power in Lithuania | of Citizens' Associations to permit the | philanthropist, who | today by Senator Copeland and Rep. [FRuadly SUiC S - after the recent coup d'etat would Yeu Charles 8. Page, president of an association to act in TEonibi6 stalieel 1 the fulnire! and TH isedl do e | died Bere December 27, was left to the | the place of an absent representative, a | [ Thetn Dant worlkiite Hloctt on Fraies tain type of Américan died he various charitable enterprises which | The proposed $200,000 bond issue of entative Weller, Democrats, New | Jeslie Brownlee, | unions in their present form, it he would g0 to Paris, Blackmer he. curated during his lifetime, | the federation for the purchase and . for the vacancy on the Federal the Show Nelds of Moont [5,“““ & Welegriphy Unton @epater O'Neil have been in Paris, they have| His will was filed for prol with | maintena of additional parks and Commission the | Hood since January 1, has been de- | from Kovno that while the gover done Paris to a turn, and they told| the clerk of the County Court here. | play nds in the District was dis- | st of the Mis: 1 no |clared at an end. More than a score | ment has not issued a decree forbi B I e Avanlin it that they | The estats wus estimaied by the at: | cussed and placed in the hands of the on the commission. |of experienced guides and mountain- | ding strikes, they are, in effect, it would trade all of Parvis for one | torneys filing the will as worth $12.- | committee on law and order. :sent an attorney for | cers returned to Battle Axe Inn with- | possible, as the country is und glimpse of old Broadway. Americans | 000,000 D. Morris, -siid love to travel. They love to denounce; { their own Government. They love to | out trace of the lost b martial law. te the eighteenth’amendment and which 1 Ream’ the United States is no longer fit | : o denials of the de.|to live in. But once tell them they | s e e © [ean't comé buck and they realize therc | BENS shas D {is no fairer Jand on the face of the taxi driver before, was dis-{ earth | d late yesterday after 24 hours| . Friends of the faraway ofl men ro.| Tl 20 ballots had | cently returned from Europe have told | e 3 U of their postalgia, but say they are de r to a verdict N oring the plain was killed when a stick of dy: mite in his clothing exploded. Koski placed the explosive lighted fuse, in the pocket him, trand ound the Clock,” musi cal presentation, continuous 12:30 to | 11 p.m. Tayety—“Sliding . burlesque. sright Ey with | of his and then clasped his wife to telll they both must die.” Mrs. ki managed to free herself and got out of range bhefor the explosion occurred. Koski was killed instantly. il Mrs. Annie Wallace, 50 years old, S ; at 2:15 anc 5 p.n el 5 ng away from the arm Barle “Misses and Kisses Revae,” died suddenly this morning at her| ¢ po. hugband, Mrs, Waino Koskl Amendment. Watson's nd 8:15 p.m. . The entire cost of street paving im provements in the District should be shouldered by the District Govern tor Billy” introduced ce e 2 z g 2 iy person “who shall willfull BY ROBERT T. SMALL. | knowingly or maliciously repeat or While the United Statese Govern-| &0 communicate to any person or per- |ment is doing its utmost to get two| ] sons a false rumor or repert of vigsilod” witnesses back from I slanderous or armful nature of | for the trial of Harcy F. Sinclair Hcsoter or: stinfing: f much bert B. Fall in connection with the other person or whether | Teapot Dome oll leases, the il ! have frankly admitted thel such persc is 2 priv STt th annlantetor iome | that they are the most homesick pair in all the world Mr. Butler would have the of- g fense described made punishable Yet the chances of their by a fine of $10 te $100, or impris- | home at any time soon seem mote. onment from 10 to 50 days, or both. | - e I LFOPOLDLOEB SUIT - ENDS IN'NO VERDICT = ness. Service Meets Hope. | i 'he possibilities of extension of the | 7 . ocihe possibilities of cxtension of Cw (Jury Stands 8 to 4 in Favor atrated in a call between the New : L : i of Taxi Driver—New Trial York Worl and its London repre in March Likely. burlesque, A dispatch » Communist news says the military vno is preparing to 1ders of Lithuantar execution if convicted them are 67-year-old Dr. Do | matsehnotshius and his two sons. The dispatch says that the Lithu anian government has opened an i1 ternment camp 1o accommodate its numerous political prisoners, especial NEW YORK, Jan ily telephone in ads | hamlet in the country today bgcame | a possible link with London follow- | ing the inauguration of the transatlatic service | Yesterds No greater techpical difliculties would be involved in extending the service to other cities, officials of the AmericanTelephone and Telegraph Co. said, than would be met In ordinary long distance connecti extersion, they said, depended mere Iy upon the public demand. More than 40 conversations marked the opening of the New York-London service at an estimated the subscribers of §1 | from Kovno to tt aper Rote I commander of court-marti who fz he shenck, 5:40, Nervous at 10:4 7:40 and every cro labor, Amo The Flaming at 11 am., § and 9:55 pam Alto—“The Sin," a.m 12:45, 2:30, , 30 5 p.m | sent to District offi Columbia ion_of W. & Distriet next five ociation n eight-room chool Bulldin suecessful Fore: 2:30, radiophone Wednesday to have amend . \mendr | Prominent Wyoming Man Expires at Hotel. Burdick, 66 vears old, ey and oil m of | Cheyenne, Wyo., and former chalr an of the Republican State eommit- | 1Y laborites. died this morning at 9:30 o'clock | (€. Smetona assumed the presi rd Hotel, where he | 9ency of Lithuania last month after est for several weel coup d'etat, which overthrew the contracted a -cold I Socialist government headed by ‘h developed into pneumonia | VT, Kasimir Grinius nd resulted in his death. His | Kovno corre with him at the time. He is ssis@he Zeitung also by a daughter, Mrs aldermen have been ar Popular coming | her re was Charles W | prominent ed (second week) A | the | the ' | the wce of the earth and ¢ something like £100,000 or so ha provided in case they fail to to th ummonses which have across the ocean Harry M. Blackner and J. B , the missing ones, are rich men fortunes gained in ti oil busi and the h fines proposed for been | nswer | been | ony 4:15, 6:10, 8 and 9:50 p.m. Wardman Park- “Napoleon Josephine,” 7 and 9 p.m. Ambassador-—Risky Business,' m t Mystery * Club, tiorf of Keane e Sunday pondent of the ports that six cost 1o | | ¥ | is to it time of and Reardon Urged for Post. sentative, during which the St n for Broadway. Post-Dispatch listened in t ordinary long-distance’ conne Another call received here by Edward Bo diry the Cap: him over at a n Clty, Calif Tnaugur pectations of cials in every the worst At int PORTLA Organized s 21, lost in D, Oreg. sald that when a cer arch for hoped | and | Ma tor of co Januar agains Loeb, 10,000 suit Jus ind Richard nd mutilation the Mazch term of ¢ 7.000 miles away of the service met ex lephone company ot way, they said, despite na mon had to U pended, due to the awr disturbances, | but the delays were only temporary and all conversations were completed. | charging must tion urt sard ever had seen the AIKEN FOR RIDING Poinciana CourTs FOR TENNIS PiNe+ORST _ London Hears Better. i FOR. GOLF While reception here at times was rather difficult, at other times the con- | versations became as clear as over any ordinary telephone line. Loundon{ heard ew York. however, far better than New York heard London == consideration ; i { . iy { termined not to return until the Sin -, 1 clair case is dispos r | The two missing witne are said | by the Government to possess impdrt- | wnt information. They are wanted to | testify to certain transactions in which Liberty bonds were passed. Some of these bonds have been traced, but there is Said to be a gap in the evidence which only Blackmer, O'Neil and H. 8. Osler, a Canadian, could fill. | May Postpone Trial. » is little or no chance that the n go on at {left them no cl an S to 4 division iff. The nent resulted begause who held out against | ment did not believe it possible Ream to identify the ilants who mutilated him on the night of No. | vember 19, 1923. The belief of the | four was strengthened, Joseph Boylan foreman, said, by the testimony of three Chicago policemen that Ream. on the night of the crime, in a hos-{ pital, had told them he could not identify the men who did it. Both Loeb and Leopold were re- turned to prison after they had testi fied Thursday, and were mot in court when the jury was discharged. They are serving life sentences for the mur- | der of Bobby Franl | sly from' two radio stations at separated wave lengths, there- ening the static. service was officially opened at $:44 in the morning with formal cere- | monies and continued until 6 o'clock | last night. During that period finan- cial transactions involving more than $6.000,000 were completed. news dis. patches and advertisements were re- ceived. There w sations. The trial, set for Februar: | that time. Secretary ill with pneumonia in and even if he recove long while before he Winter trip back to "Washington for | s ind ordeal before a jury of his This inevitable delay may give the Government an opportunity to of- fer further inducements or to provide further threats against the missing witnesse: The suggestion has been made re- cently at the Capitol that a further act of Congress should be passed pro- hibiting persons who refuse to come home to testify from ever returning to their native land. Whether such an | act would be constitutional is said to | be open to question, but nevertheless it is seriously discussed and later may be put through. £ no privacy in the conver. can stand a . & 11148 m Listens at Will. The New York World today p verbatim copies of many conver tions picked up by its radio receiving station, and a wireless amateur ,in Johannesburg, South Africa, reports he was able to listen in"at will. | The World explains that the first | day's conversations were experimen- tal, and so a report of the conver: tlons is not eavesdropping, but a re ord of the successes and failures of | rom G. Conklin, died at Garfield Mayor Walker of New York, talking Hospital yesterday after an illness of with the Lord Mayor of London, re.|three months. - marked that since only millions were | Mirs. Conklin was born at MRS. E. E. CONKLIN DIES. Resident of District Since 1894, Expires After Illness | FElizabeth E. Conklin, ; H hts a- Mr=, T mother of Dr. Coursen B. Conklin, 1500 Crittenden street, and widow of Green- listening, he would talk confidentially. The world's log of conversations notes references to confirming busi- wich,. Conn., in 1848, and has been a resident of the District since 1894. She is survived by her son and four Although absent, the part Blackmer and O'Neil might play in the case if will be stre P UL cantlegary Sweatidl Tornids Livendte present d by the prose- cution when the case comes to trial, and the defense will have to explain the missing witnesses, which may not prove to be such an easy task. The first effort of the defense will be to keep the names of Blackmer and{ O'Neil entirely out of the case and out of tke minds of the juror: EX-MARINE DROWNS SOON AFTER LEAVING HOSPITAL Body of Peter J. Fifin Found uenl, Highway Bridge and Identified by Fellow Roomer. grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Mon- ! day morning at thé residence of D however, | Conklin, conducted by Rev. already had warned that secrecy was | Ball, pastor of the Metropolitan Bap- impossible at the present stage of de- | tist Churche at 11 o’clock. Interment velopment of the service. Later, it is | will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. hoped to eliminate any possibility of THE WEATHER Hstening in on conversations. District of Columbia—Cloudy, with For $25 a minute everything was discussed that would be the subject rising temperature today and tomor- row; lowest temperature about 26 of a call anywhere to the suburbs— degrees. the weather. the wife, the children, | etc. One New Yorker asked a London | Maryland—Cloudy with rising tem- perature tonight and tomorrow; pos- friend to have a drink for him. sibly rain or snow. NAVY BILL STEAMS OVER TO SENATE V([glnHloudy with rlsinq tem- AFTER HOUSE T'LTlperaxure tonight and tomorrow. | 34 N ness deals by cable. Asks For Drink. The telephone company, Casino BeacH FOR. < o Southern Resort Fashions 2 5 hours after his discharge from the Naval Hospital vesterday afternoon the body of Peter Joseph | Finn, 47 years old, a_ retired marine sergeant, was found in the Potomac River near the Highway Bridge by Ross Hunter, 2023 H street. He noti- fied park police. Police of the harbor precinct took the body to the morgue, where it was identified by letters found in the| clothing. William Harvey, 907 Twenty-third_street, where Finn also roomed, verified the identification. Finn had been a patient in Naval Hospital since December 1. He seemed well and in the best of spirits when he was discharged from the institution early yesterday afternoon, it is stated, and police were unable to find any witnesses of the drowning. Mrs. Catherine Minton, 210 Curley avenue, Lackawanna, N. Y., a sister, was advised of the drowning. i MISS H. b MORSMAN DIES. Long Illness Preceded by Heart Attack Years Ago. Miss Harriet Adelaide Morsman, daughter of the late Lewis William Harvey and Maria M. Morsman, died at 1:15 o'clock this morning .at her residence, in the Woodward' apart- ments, following a long illness. Miss Morsman _was 78 vears old and had d in Washington since 1891. Morsman_was born at the North Evans, N. Y., the v home for several generations. She was stricken with a heart attack four rs ago and never fully recov- Her health failed visibly after ksgiving day. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. P. R. Mallon, and two nieces, Mrs. Lela A. Oothoudt and Miss Winifred Mallon. A few % West. Virginia—Cloudy and warmer tonight, possibly light rain or snow. | Temperature for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 31; 8 p.m. 12 midnight, 25; 4 am, 21; 8 % s %92, 9% The wardrobe that goes Southward is characterized by a touch of sophistication —an air of being carefully designed for the particular moment when it is to be worn. (Continued from Firs{ Page,) ing the propriety of overriding the President and the budget, and also the | 13; noon, 23. ., charge that by merely approving; arometer—4 p.m., 30.22; 8 p.m, without change, the administration |39.32; 12 midnight, 30.34; 4 a.m., 30.38; fur-;‘rks,l::mfi:xr;,mn was serving as a8 a.m., 30.40; noon, 30.37. erstamp. temper: 2 Sentiment which had been growing | an!f;lOe“p.m< ‘fi::;‘:«i:; in the House in favor of the Tilson | Lowest temperature, amendment appeared to crystallize |at 6 a.m. today. when Representative Garrett, the! Temperature same date last year— Democratic leader, supported it and | Highest, 29; lowest, 24. : was followed by Speaker Longworth. | ¢ Garrett described the amendment as | Tide Tables. :ii:\ flagl;_rmic’!ln of a (‘l'hrheurlr“ he{\]:‘een | (Complled by United States Coast and e White House and the Republican | Geodetic Survey.) floor leader,” but declaved he believed | S o 9 %d! Today—Low tide, 11:43 a.m.; high Tilson was' “doing the right thing.” | ;”FXe 0 213"6:20 pm. Longworth Gives Up Chair. Tomorrow—Low tide, 1 a.m. Having relinquished the chair dur. | 214 1238 pm.; high tide, 651 a.m. ing the debate, Speaker Longworth |2nd 6:0 p.m. warned the House that it was as/ The Sun and Moon. much the duty of Congress to see-t! 1 y. 2 3 the Navy did not fail below. treaty | . oday—Sun rose e strength as it was to see that it did | "5 ©° not exceed the treaty. Members onq TOMOITOWS-Sun both sides of the aisle cheered the [ SUR %618 BO8 PG, statement und thus led leaders of the | Moon rises 1103 am.; fight for the cruisers vic. i SEbt for the crulsers to expect Vic| ™, stomobile lamps to be lighted one- | half hour after sunset. Tioweyer, impassioned appeals by | Representative Burton, Republican, | ‘Weather in Various Cities. Ohio, who has figured prominently ! i S TN, AR o in the Nation’s for affairs, and by Representative French, Repub- | lican, Idaho, in charge of the appro- priation bill, appeared to have telling | stations. effect and until the vote the issue was in_doubt Mr. Burton decried the “glaring in- consistency between advo of a conference for the limitation of arma- | Apllen® ments and at the same time expand- | Atlanta . ing our Navy by the building of three | Atantic battleships which will cost over $50,. | BAUMON: 000,000, while Representative French | Bismarck cited repcated messages from the | Boyon - President to Congress, in which the | o axecutive stressed the prospect of an-| other arms conferénce and the un- wisdom of present naval expansion. . 33, occurred 19, occurred One finds in the Woodward & Lothrop collection of fashions for Southern Re- sorts individual smartness for every oc- casion of the tropical day — from the sports of the morning to the pleasures of the moonlit nights. Appare] Sections, Third floor. rises T:27 am. sets 10:40 3 g g 3 g H H &n Weather. +aaeworeg Nagh-ecch Hack it i, o .. Ptcloudy i Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear &mf Funeral services will be conducted o Tuesday at 3 o'clock in the Church >)35 75 of the Reformation. Burial will be . in Congressional Cemetery ‘SHEIKS’ BRING SMALLPOX Arabs Fine ;o—; Movies, Say French, But Must Be Vaccinated. PARIS, January 8 (P).—A make picturesque screen sheiks the French Academy of Medicine says they are bringing smallpox and other diseases to France, and wants them all vaccinated.! Outhreaks in Moore Backs President. Support of the President’s position came also from the Democratic side, Representative Moore or Virginia | Jogemsaie declaring that the House should stand | K C by the Executive and that President ! Coolidge would & able to take care of himself two vears hence. Just before passage of the bill, the g 3 House received a ~request from the | Omaha President for an appropriation of | bhnao’ $75.000 for expenses of continued | Pittsburgh ‘American participation in the dis- | hortland ¥ cussions Geneva. 1 A move by Representative Fish, | Republican, New York, to have the House request the President to ca another conference on cruiser, sub- * marine and aircraft was ruled out of order. Helena .0 hian Tonidy. Hloudy SJear oudy bs may but Paris and at Doual, enne and Valence are blamed The academy Sugge thorough examination of all colonials ?qu M Clionille - ermbogidond cap fal N335, gt Lous.. St. Paul. 3 “loudy . eattle 0. T g Seattle Senate Group to Hear Farmers. Sholane WASH..D. The Senate agriculture committee plans to begin consideration of farm relief legislation next week. The que tion already is before the House ag wdony, B Clear culture committee. As at previous ser, S hagen Dk kjond sions of Congress, there are severa e Qg different bills pending at both ends of Osceola, whose mother resides at 1618 | Horta (Fayal). Azores.. Part cloudy | the Capitol, representing the varying East Capitol street. She will have his e Fart cloudy | yiews of members as to how the prob- Vody brought home. ; Part clouds lems of the farmer should be solved. . N 5 Learns of Son’s Drowning. Word was received here vy morning from Boston police drowning in Boston Harbor of Thomas Quinlan, cook aboard the steamer Temperature. Weather. ndon, England.. . 6 Clear A