Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1927, Page 17

e e e e e e ATULATES COTTON-GROWING QUEEN. 18-year-old farm girl of Nz of Secretary of Agriculture J raiser. Miss E'ga Daniels, ogdoches, Tex., receives the congratulations rdine as the countr: The champion, who was presented to President Coolidge yester- champion cotton day, raised two and a half bales of cotton on an acre of ground. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. THE EVENING STAR, BELGIAN ROYALTY MOURNS the funeral of the 87-year-old Empre: casket is placed in the flower-covered hearse for burial there. MPRESS CARLOTTA AT CLOSE OF TRAGIC CAREER. A view of , the widow of Maximilian of Mexico, at Laeken, Belgium, as the Wreaths bearing the names of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, who attended the funeral, are seen on the hearse. The funeral was held in a driving snowstorm. Wide World Photos. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4 —_— Sir Auckland Geddes, former British Ambassador to the United States, arrives on the steamship Acquitania at New York for an extended visit in this country. © Underwood & Underwood. speed camera he has just invented. not in jagged lines. ENGINEER PHOTOGRAPHS LIGHTNING. J. Westinghouse Co. photographing artificial lightning with the new high- W. Legg of the The camera, which can make 2,600 ictures a second, proves, he says, that lightning travels in spirals and Wide World Photos. SACASA ADDRESSES HIS CONSTITUENTS. The leader of the liberal forces of Nicaragua, Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa, speaking from the porch of his two-family residence at Puerto Cabezas to a group of followers he is leading against the Dianz government. Acme Photos. " CHAPLINS ARREST ISASKED BY WIE Failure to Support Her and Babies Charged—Doubt Move Will Succeed. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 4—Dis- trict Attorney Asa Keyes today had under advisement the demand of Lita Grey Chaplin that her screen star husband, Charles Chaplin, be arrested on_a charge of failure to provide for her and her two children s the result of the financial impasse she encountered in her attempt to collect temporary alimony. The request was made yesterday through counsel for Mrs Keyes indicated that he would con- fer with Chaplin’s attorneys before acting on the request. Members of the prosecutor’s staff said it was im- probable that a complaint would be issued. Lioyd Wright, the comedian’s per- sonal attorney, contends that the charge is without basis, since Chap- is sending his wife's attorneys week for the children’s main- rce. Thus far Mrs. Chaplin has refused to accept these offerings. Meanwhile Mrs. Chaplin is_pre- vented from collecting the $4,000 monthly ard for temporary ali- mony by income tax liens against the actor's estate. A writ of pro- hibition, obtained by his attorneys, prevents the receivers in the divorce action from n ing the payments. Wright himself was the object of a legal attack ye y when Mrs Chaplin’s attorneys obtained a cour order for him to appear next Tues- day to show cause why he could not be cited fo contempt. The ult of Wright's re- nswer more than 200 ques- n a deposition taken by Mrs. Chaplin's counsel in an attempt to information concerning the officials said the practice of prosecuting attorneys here never had gone the length of asking extradition for persons accused of failure to sup- port unless the plaintiffs paid the cost of transportation for the cused REPORTS SALE OF ISLAND. Cablegram to Manila Times Tells of Fuga Deal. MANILA, February 4 ().—The Ma nila Times today r ved a_cablegram from J. Danon, M oker now in Shanghai, saying he had sold Fuga Jsland, a small unit in the extreme North of the Philippine group, to an unnamed buyer. Danon said he wa acting for the Vincente Masigan: The cablegram route to Japan to Japanese firm, but i Danon was en 1 the island to & that before leav ing Shanghai he found a prospective | scribes buyer there. The price was not stated, There has been some question as to 11 the the legal right of Masigana to owner of the island, | | | Col. Charles S. Hill, commanding 1,200 officers and men of the 4th Regiment of United States Marines who embarked at San Diego, Calif., yesterday. The men expect to pro- ceed to Shanghai eventually. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. RESCUE IMPRISONED MINE MULE. Hoisting to the surface one of the six mules Imprisoned for two weeks in a_coal mine at Bloomfield, Towa, by a cavedin. six feet square and 270 feet deep. a small ration of corn and dri Story of $50,000 Strawberry Basis OfBig Damage Suit By the Associated Pross. DES MOINES, Iowa, February 4.—A story that the R. M. Kellogg Co. of Three Rivers, Mich., paid $50,000 for a single, red, luscious strawberry, known among profes- sional growers as Rockhill No. 26, was falsely circulated over the country as a publicity stunt in 1922, it was charged here yesterday in a damage suit for $138,333.36 filed in Federal Court against the company by Hartwell Rockhill of Conrad, Towa, grower of the berry. Rockhill alleges that instead of $50,000 he onty received $1 for the berry. He seeks $38,333.36 due, he claims, as an agreed royalty on the fruit, and $100,000 for damage to his health, business and reputation throughout the strawberry pro- ducers’ world as a result of the hoax. LETTERS WERE USED Asks $100,000 Damages of New Yorker Who Printed His Epistles. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 4.—The question of whether a letter belongs to the writer or the reciplent forms the basis of a suit for $100,000 dam- ages filed here yesterdav by counsel for Geovge Bernard Shaw, Eritish playwright. g haw, who wrote four letters in to a then youthful admirer, Will \ge, now a publicity man for a York theatrical organization and uthor of White Way ‘“inaide secks not only damages from . his publisher, Edward A. Miller, and Nathan Cohen, printing press owner, but also an injunction against the three prohibiting further use of the letters. The epistles were included by Page in a volume of stage chat recently is- sued, and used under the heading, “Addenda, Teaching a Grandmother to Milk Ducks—Several Letters by Bernard Shaw, Edited, with Notes by Will A. Page.” In his suit, the dramatist says he prohibited their use, after at first agreeing to read them and delete the improper for publication Under the English laws, Page has asserted, he understands the letters belong to the writer, but the opposite, he believes, is the case in this country. Asks Divorce and Alimony. Mrs. Catheryne H. Lederer has filed suit in the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce and alimony from Willlam €. Lederer, whom she de- s owning $30,000 in stocks |and receiving an income of $300 a month from realty investments, They were married October 20, 1915, and have no children. Mre. Lederer island to a non-ci The Govern- charges cruelty. She is rTepresented | mand for INEW YORK SCRAPS PLAY JURY SYSTEM District Attorney to Become Virtual Censor of Stage. Will Ask Prison Terms. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 4.—New York City's citizens' play jury was scrapped today and hereafter Dis- trict Attorney Banton will be the virtual censor of the stage. He announced his abandonment of the play jury system in a statement in which he asserted that hereafter salacious shows will be prosecuted quickly and vigorously and that he will personally appear and urge prison sentences for producers and others responsible for objectionable productions. “In my last interview on this sub- ject,” Mr. Banton said, “I asked for the opinion of the citizens of New York. Responses have been received in great numbers. The concensus of opinion is that the play jury plan has not proved effective. I have reached this conclusion myself and have decided to abandon it definitely. Will Ask Prison Terms. “In the future I will confine my ef- forts to the course defined and laid out in the penal law and code of criminal procedure. “From now on a vigorous prosecu- tion of those responsible for the pro- duction of objectionable plays will be taken. “I have never appeared before a judge asking far any particular sen- tence in a given case, but in theatri- cal cases I shall appear before the court and urge prison sentences for the producers and those who are re- sponsible for objectionable produc- tions."” Pending the return of Mayor Walker from Havana, a committee of nine representing theatrical interests is attempting to formulate a scheme that will be acceptable to the city administration and powerful enough sfy an increasing demand for fon of Broadway plays. ction on any proposal can bhe taken by the city until the mayor returns, a subcommittee was told at City Hail. Governor Supports Demand. Gov. Smith 1s supporting the de- cleaner plays, but it understood he 1s not in favor of cen- sorship. Reports from Albany are that he belleves that conditlons can be corrected by vigorous action by authorities with the aid of present laws. A citizens committee or police wit- nesses who would report stage obscen- ity to authorities for prosecution as a nuisance are among the governor's campaign suggestions, say reports from Albany. Bishop Manning of the Episcopal Church, speaking at the dinner of the | Church Club of New York, included risque stage productions in his indict- ment of a “new morality." “Amateur Mussolini” Urged. “It is time,” he said, “for us to tell ment recently refused to buy it to pre-| by Attorneys T. Morris Wampler and wvent its sale to Japanese, Robert E. Lynch, L] the producers of filthy plays, the sordid sex novelists, the publishers of The mule is being hauled up through a shaft All the animals survived by eating ing water thut seey=i into the mine. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Mary McCormick of Amarillo, Tex., a song protege of Mary Garden, re- turns to the United States after her sueccess at the Paris Grand Opera. She is making a two-month visit in this country. © Underwood & Underwood. Americ: airplane at an altitude of nearly a amplifying device, his voice could the ground. VOCAL BROADCASTING FROM THE CLO! an baritone, broadcasts a son S. John Charles Thomas, recital from the cabin of an le. By means of a powerful new be distinctly heard by persons on 2 Acme Photos. STENOGRAPHERS FACE INQUIRY IN U. S. LETTER WRITING PROBE Budget O‘ffici;ls Ev; Seek Age of Type- writers—Machines, Not Girls—in Effort to End Bureau Waste. is | The Government stenographer, both the pretty miss and the male of the species, along with their typewriters and their product, the letter, are in for sharp investigation at the hands of the Bureau of the Budget. Launching a probe Into what Di- rector ' Lord of the budget calls the “Increasing mass and mess of cor- respondence with which the Govern- ment 1{s inflicted,” budget officials have called upon the Government de- partments and cstablishments for ex- tensive data on the whole situation, down to and including the age of typewriters—the machines, not the girls. Probe Under Y all Steam. The investigation has been put un- der full steam following the pro- nouncement last Saturday night by Gen, Lord, at the business meeting of the Government, that there was “too much dictation and too much typewriting,” and that something must be done about it. Many representatives of the Gov- ernment spending agencies who heard the general's pointed remarks have responded with various suggestions as to how the trouble might be cleared up and savings effected, and already. according to budget officials, shorter letters and fewer ones have resulted. But a scientific survey is to be made of the vapious elements of the situation open to such study, includ- ing the cost of typewriters, their re. pair and the proper age for replace- ment with new machines. Question- najres have gone out for this data. How the Government may be able to get along with fewer stenographers, male and female, is one of the ques- tions to be studied. “Pool System” Urged. Among the proposals already ad- vanced and being given serious study is the possibility of installing or ex- tending the “pool system” of stenog- raphers, under which many Govern- ment workers, who now have per- sonal stenographers, would be de- prived of this privilege and would be called upon to push the button and call one from a central room. This proposal. it is known, meets with stiff objection from numerdus officials. Another possibility under serious consideration is the feasibility of ex- texding use of the dictating machine. ‘There are “too many carbon copies,” according to one suggestion.. There is too much “interbureau” correspon- dence, which could better be done by the use of the telephone or personal contact, according to another sugges- tion. One proposal has advanced the no- tion that there are entirely too many letters of mere acknowledgement. SEAPLANE RACE IN TIBER. Mouth of Italian River Picked for Schneider Cup Event. ROME, February 4 (#).—The inter- national seaplane race for the Schnei- der Cup is to be held this year at Ostia, situated at the mouth of the Tiber River. The special commission charged with selecting a course for the race, which was won in the United States last November by the Itallan Maj. Mario de Bernardi, today withdrew its objections te the Ostia course. It was decided that the seaplanes could land and take off from the mouth of the Tiber. By removing some sand- banks a straightaway water course 3,000 yards long can be provided. indecent magazines, and the apostles of the socalled new morality that their productions are a sin against God and a crime against the life of our land, and that we will find a way to put a curb on them.” Plays exhibited in New York would not be tolerated in England, says J. M. Kenworthy, Labor member —of Parliament, who is visiting New York. Drastic actfon by a single citizen- censor was urged by Cosmo Hamilton, playwright ana author, in an address before the Book and Play Club. He would have the censor be “‘an amateur Mussolini,” a “gentleman” who would decide whether a play was intelligent enough for production, A COAL SHIP ON SHOALS. Selwyn Eddy Badly Damaged off Tarpaulin Cove. ‘WOODS HOLE, Mass., February 4 (#).—The steamer Selwyn Eddy, Bos- ton for Norfolk, struck on a shoal at the west end of Tarpaulin Cove late last night. It is feared she will be a total loss. The Selwyn Eddy is of 2,846 tons gross and is engaged in the coal-carry- ing trade. The steamer’s bow was badly dam- aged and holes were made in her side, flooding the engine room. Two Coast Guard patrol boats are standing by the stranded vessel, prepared to take off the crew of 28 men. The Selwyn Eddy is owned by the Mystic Steamship Co. of Boston. She was built at Wyandotte, Mich., in QUIZ RUSSIAN OFFICERS. WARSAW, Poland, February 4 (). —Two aviation officers, whose names are .not given, but who are said to be Russians, have been hrought here for questioning by the general staff, hav- ing landed on some undisclosed part of Polish terrvitory, Their plane, which is being held by the Polish authorities, is described as of the latest German type, containing cameras and maps of Polish frontier districts, : VETERA LSTED ASSPEGAL UEST Disabled Men in Hospitals to Attend Washington’s Birth- day Celebration. Disabled American veterans of the World War has been extended a spe- clal invitation to attend the celebra- tion which will be conducted on Wash- ington’s birthday, February 22, at Poli’s Theater, by the District of Co- lumbia Federation for Patriotic Ob- servance, consisting of about 90 pa- triotic organizations. The local chap- ter of the Red Cross will take care of the transportation of the veterans from the various hospitals. Announcement was made last night at an executive committee meeting of the federation that Sir Esme Howard, Ambassador from Great Britain, will make the presentation of the gold medal awarded by one of the partici- pating organizations of the federation to the successful competitor in a. prize essay contest, open to all pupils of the public and private schools of the District, on the subject, “William Pitt, Lord Chathem: His Service for ‘America’s Welfare.” As in past years, the exercises will be largely attended by officials of the Federal Government, the District gov- ernment, the diplomatic corps and others in official Washington, as well as prominent residents of the city. The instrumental music for the oc- casion, the third of the kind conduct- ed by the District of Columbia Fed- eration for Patriotic Observance, will be by the Navy Band. POISON FOUND IN BODY. Enough to Kill Five Persons Dis- covered in Dead Girl. CENTERVILLE, Ala., February 4 (#).—Sufficient poison to kil five per- sons was found in the body of 15-year- old Nellie Greathouse, whose father is in jail charged with the murder, by Associate State Chemist C. L. Hare, of Auburn, W. L. Pratt, Bibb County probate judge announced yesterday. The Bibb County grand jury has been summoned to convene Monday to hear evidence in the case against B. F. Greathouse, father of the dead girl. Charges of brutality and torture in- flicted on the girl and her 17-year-old brother by the father and stepmother of the children have been made to officers and will be bresented to the grand jury. EDITOR ARRESTED. CINCINNATI, February 4 (#).— Rev. Travers Harrison, an editor em- ployed by the Standard Publishing Co. here, was arrested late yes- terday on a fugitive warrant. According to Harry A. Abrams, as- sistant United States district attorney, Rev. Mr. Harrison is under indict- ment at Jacksonville, Fla. with 18 other - officials and agents of the Florida Citles Finance Co., the South- kNEY ndrew Ulezycki's party for three Falling in Bucket Off100-Foot Tower, Man’s Life Is Saved By the Associated Press. ALLENTOWN, Pa., February 4. —TFalling from the top of a hun- dred-foot tower, Robert Bright- well, 32, yesterday caught up with a steel bucket that preceded him in his drop. Fellow workers at the Fogelsville plant of the Le- high Portland Cement Co. found Brightwell tightly wedged in the heavy steel container, but con- scious and able to direct them how to release him. Both hips were severely lacerated, but sur- geons at the Allentown Hospital sald he would recover. MUSSOLINI PLANNING FOR MORE REFORMS Duce About to Offer Important Changes in Counecil of State. By the Associated Press. ROME, February 4.—Premier Mus- solini is about to introduce important reforms In the council of state, which is the highest administrative tribunal in Italy. L'Impero expresses the hope that the reform measures will make it pos- sible to remove anti-Fascist members such as the former Deputies Ruini, Giuffrida, Cammillo Corradini and Sen- ator Luisignoli. The premier is also expected to re- form the internal organization of the foreign ministry, dividing it into three branches dealing with the diplomatic and consular services, emigration and interpreters. John Charles Thomas and Albert Spalding to Be Featured. The aftermath of the success of the broadcast of the Chicago Civie Opera is a series of concerts by fa- mous recording artists, the first of which will be broadcast tonight at 8 o'clock over the National Broadcast- ing Co.’s blue network, WBZ Springfield and Boston, KDKA of| Pittsburgh and KYW of Chicago, in addition to.a group of Southern sta- tions, including WSB of Atlanta, | ‘WMC of Memphis and WSM of Nash- ville, who are breaking their silent hour to participate in the event. The broadcast will be known as the “Brunswick Hour of Music.” The program will feature John Charles Thomas, the noted American baritone, and Albert Spalding, violinist of international reputation. The Brunswick Concert Orchestra, under the baton of Walter B. Rogers, and the Brunswick Hour Ensemble, direct- ed by Walter B. Haenschen, will sup- port the artists. Foug Die After Party. ! YORK, February 4 (#).— ern- States ity Corp. and the Flor- ida Estate ol‘l‘fhn“u of using the to d ¢ of | told the YOUTH IS ANEED FORKILING VONAN E. K. Sayer, Scion of Noted Family, Protests Innocence on Gallows. By the Associated Press. FOLSOM PRISON, Calif., February 4—Edward K. Sayer, 25, son of a prominent Denver family, was hanged in Folsom State Prison at 10:06 a.m. today for the murder of a Japanese woman. The trap was sprung at 10:06 o'clock. Sayer's mother and father from Den- ver and his wife from San Francisco parted from him last night after hav- ing spent the day with him. The execution ended a legal battle in California courts waged since more than two years ago, when three men drove up to a small store in Penryn and ordered a Japanese woman to open a safe containing $5,000. The woman and a Japanese clerk ran, and Arthur Muller of Sacramento, it was later established at the trial, fired the shot that killed her. Slayer Found Dead. Muller went to Sacramento, told his father about the crime and then went to San Francisco. The following day he was found dead in a rooming house. Sayer and Ray Arnold, who was hanged last Friday at Folsome Prison, were tried jointly for complicity in the crime. The jury convicted them and they were sentenced to hang. A motion for a new trial was denied and an appeal was filed with the State Supreme Court. The decision was upheld. A rehearing was grant- ed by the higher court and the deci- sion of the trial court was again sus- tained. Arnold was a member of a promi- nent Sacramento family and Sayer's family are influential residents of Denver. Scores of friends of both families interceded with Gov. C. C Young for clemency. The governor, after a review of the case, issued a formal statement in which he sald that he found no grounds for execu- tive clemency, Protested Innocence. Arnold, just before he was hanged, witnesses that they were about to see an innocent man exe- cuted and requested that the noose be cut into 13 pleces and one portion be sent to each juror and the prose cuting attorney. Desperate efforts to save Sayer were made during the last week. A mem- ber of the President’s cabinet, a Con- gressman, former governors and other influential residents of Colorado and Sayer's former schoolmates in Denver ~ petitioned Gov. Young to spare him. J. K. Mullen, a millionaire Denver miller, made a personal plea to the governor. Sayer’s widow and daughter live in San Francisco. i Mrs. Wright Asks Divorce. Mrs. Nettie D. Wright has filed suit for a limited divorce and alimony from Augustus F. Wright. They wers friends Wednesday night had a tragic ing when he and his guests were fqund dead in the apartment in Mas. p&h, which was filled With gasgumes, married January 17, 1924, and have one chil® The wife alleges cruelty and non-support. She is rep: by, Attorney. Alfred D, Smith,