Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1927, Page 4

gNe s AID RURAL GIRLS, AIN OF ALLIANCE Southern Women's Associa- tion Board, in Session Here, | Plans to Promote Education. Plans for openink new avenues of to women, were discussed at n today of the two.day annual meeting of the exec e hoard of the Southern Woman's Bducational liance at the Mayflower Hotel here. allianee is at work on impaizn 10 bri hefore girls who live in the cr v the ady be ohtained in cities President O. Latham Hatcher sub mitted a report on the hook, “Occupa tions for Women.” which the alliance has prepared. and told the members wch had heen accomp hed in 1ds of rvice which wom especially in the field of anly’ have new op rural girle heen hut i has been shown have the ad opportunity rural women onoaing sess portunities for dis ¢lnsed, he said vantage ¢ Mountain F; Among these was listed the car untain dis- t has been found than the in oper lities Cited. rrying has made of t T stressed the need for better edu e less popu it girls, cational advan’ o the cities to escape fe and to get the better tional advantag e cities offer, i was pointed . By co-operative work and keeping in closer touch with 1he latest developments of science and education, it was deciared, vantages ean he brousht to the r where they can he studied e leisure and with better districts. with me resulis, Members Meet at Luncheon. The discussions were carried on through a luncheon at headquarters of the American Association of Uni- versity Women, and this evening there will be a forum for discussion of the various human adjustments which are under way in coilege edu cation today, making it bear closely upon life. Following another business session tomorrow morning the conference will close with a lunch- eon. This afternoon from 5 to 6 oclock a reception will be given at which the members of the alliance will meet Southern members of Con- gress and their wives. Many college presidents and deans, as well as various professional men and women outside the field of wom- en, are present at the meeting. . MAFALDA CAPTAIN DECLARED SUICIDE; 324 LOST IN WRECK (Continued from First Page.) Mafalda, so as to be near when she sank. On the bridge of the sinking ship stood her commander. Injured while directing the work of rescue, he was determined to go down with his ship. Searchlights of the rescue ships flluminated the scene. They revealed many people clinging to pieces of wreckage and life preservers. Around them floated many who were dead Suddenly the Mafalda sank, reveal- ing the great hole blown in her side by the boiler explosion. Many of the engine crew and probably others were believed to have been killed by the explosion, for mutilated bodies were seen floating on the waters. Masses of wreckage of all kinds dotted the sea. Many survivors were in the water waving their arms and shouting in desperation for aid. “They clung to veritable clusters, threatening swamp them by their weight,” log of the Mosella recorded. The British steamer Avelona, which reached the scene 10 hours after the Mafalda sank, observed empty life- boats, broken spars and rafts, but not a single human being. Survivors reporied that the launching of the Mafalda's boats many were overturned by excessive loading. As the hoats were launched the passengers ran panic stricken | about the decks, seeking means of salvation. The rescue ships cruised about the scene of the disaster for hours after the Mafalda sank until their com- manders were convinced that all that could be done in the matter of rescue had been done. The Italian embassy announced that Prof. Comado Gigli, president of the statistical institute of Rome, was saved, in to the the lifeboats in s, Deny Faulty Boats. The embassy also issued a ment denying that the life-saving paratus was faulty. It read: had a_capacity persons; the Mafalda carried . "The lifeboats were examined by of the port captain at Genoa previous to | ture. The entire ship was thor- inspected shortly before Octo- The captain stayed on the bridge of the sinking ship.” The last word of the captain, trans- mitted by the radio operator of the was: tl in says: ‘There is great bravery aboard on the part crew and all the male passengers, We have aboard many wome and chil dren. 1 am confident of calming the panie. 1 will order signal fares lighted.' The agents of Buenos Aires said that according to their information, the total numb of survivors of the wrecked liner were 932, out of a total of 1236 ahoard the ship. The Italian Embassy here announced that its reports indicated ] ved. na brought survivors rs, 149 membs crew. The Forr have 353 survivors the Mafalda at of the Ma was reported aboard. to Two Die On Ship. The Mosella nded and 22 meml f the crew a hia. On its way to Bahia, two wom one man and one ch ued from the catastrophe, died. The Brazilian liner Bage reported that it had received a message from the Alhena, stating that the catus. trophe was due to the screw Rold be- ing broken open, the water thedl ente in; the eng! within six hours. anitary inspectors and a corps of physicians and nurses hoarded the Alhena when it arrived. Sixty of the rvivors ahoard were reported to ave been injured or suffered exposure in the disaster. The Alhena was then ordered to go to Isle Fiores, nearhy which had n_rescrved a con centration point for survivors. OFFICERS BLAMED. R Id r Burvivors Say Seriousness of Disaster Was Concealed. BUENOS AIRES, October 28 (#)— Dispatches to La Nacion from Rio de Janeiro, where survivors of the Prin- cipessa Mafalda disaster were janded, say they are incensed eaver silence of the officers of the ship, and dgglared that the first-class passengertl were not informed of the importance of the d r. The ship, inlly | the | 1wes which cannot | these ad- | val | more | | at $867,444, of the | robm and the ship | | | | GEORGE E. S. WILLIAMS, G.E.S. WILLIAMS DIES AT AGE OF 66 Representative of Kodak Firm Was Active in Fraternal Affairs, Goorge E | sentative of Williams, local repre- the man Kodak o, died early this morning ineral services Fourte and M on veet, services, Mr. Williams, who was a prominent member of various civic and fraternal organizations in the Capital, was b gust 30, 186 at Sharon, Ohio. ne connected with the I | firm 30 years ago, serving firs - | timore and later traveling for the or- | ganization. He was sccrets ! Optimist Club, Shriner of Alma ;’lv-mplo. a life member of th Club and a past master by affilia of Harmony Lodge, No. 17, F. A. M., of the District of Columbia, with {which he became affiliated Februar {14, 1917, from Joppa Lodge, No. 315, Mich. survived by his widow, Mrs. | Elizabeth 1 Williams: four | daughters, Edith Margretta, Eva H., Emma K. and M. Elizabeth, and one n, William W. William: 'BERRY WILL MAKES BEQUESTS ABROAD Former D. C. Lawyer, Who Died in Paris, Leaves $40,000 to Mar- quise de Polignac. at with religious He ry-treasurer of the The will of Judge Walter Van Ren- salaer Rerry, former Washington la; r, who died in Paris October 12 was filed today for probate. He leaves £40.000 to his cousin, Marquise de Polignac_(formerly Nina Croshy) of Reims, France; $20.000 to his friend, the Duchess of Marlborough (formerly) Gladys Deacon) of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, kngland, and_ $10.000 each to his cousin Comtesa Lonis du Montgomery (formerly Alice Thayer) of P Harold Townsend, jr.. of | New York , a godson, and George W. | Lopp of Paris. Judse Befry left his servant, John Beaurain, $4,000, and his chauffeur, Henri Levigne, $1,000. The remaining estate, the value of which is not disclosed, is_devised to the American Security & Trust Co. in trust to pay the income for life to his sister, Nathalie Alden, and at her death, to surrender the property to his cousin, Harry Grew Croshy of Boston. The trust company will act as executor, Mary Russell, York October 8, who died in New left an estate valued according to the peti- tion of the American Security & Trust Co. and Robert 8. W. Wood of Tuxedo Parl Y., who are named as ex- ecutors under her will. The bene- ficiaries of the estate include Lady Maud W. Fairfax of London, who re- ceives $200,000, and Mary A. Huges, a_half-sister, of London. She also has a half-brother, James M. Me- Kelvie, whose children are benefici- {aries of a trust fund of $150,000, Broken Neck Fatal. BRYAN, Tex., October 28 () bin Sebesta, 17-vear-old high student, died yesterday after living 11 weeks with a broken neck. He suf- fered the injury when he dived and struck bottom in the Brazos River. to save themselves and the high loss of life among the first-class travelers was due to this silence. g one of the survivors, said that when the Mafalda began to sink great confusion prevailed and that this hampered the rescue work. The first lifeboats lowered, he declar- ed, were in bad condition. Many of them let the water in, he asserted, and others were o crowded with passen- gers that they sank immediatel Both Rosas and Jugenio Zani rear-old survivor, said they heard no plosion. Zani xaid that strong quiv- erings were felt at the stern and of- ficers asked about this replied that nothing abnormal was taking place, even though everybody had a fore- hoding that something serious w happening. He added that the ship had halied several times between Ge- noa and the place where it sank, be- cause of damaged machinery. Rosas declared that a breakage of the propellor shaft occurred, but no explosion. e asserted that the pas- sengers were fold it would take five hours for the ship to sink, but that it nk within four and a half hours, V It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bai Borrow, | Easy to Pay Monthly Deposit For 12 Months $10.00 $15.00 $20.00 $25.00 $360 $30.00 $540 $45.00 $1,200 .$100.00 1 $6,000 $500.00 THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H STREET, N. W. d LJ Loan $120 $180 $240 $300 | Roberts, |lert the stand. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. EVERHART REFUSAL TO TESTIFY UPHELD BY JUSTICE SIDDONS inued_from_First Page.) bearing on financial re tionships between Fall and Sincla and the Tres Ritos Cattle & Land The witness balked on one ques- n but answered atter the court directed him to do so. The five questims which Fverhart nerimination were: Ritos Cattle Co. made by Sin- n 19 “Do vou know of any Joan to Fall by Sinclair in 1922:" “Did_you pay on _cattle while in New York in 1 vou know freight office transaction between of any 1, 19 res Ritos Cattle C “IFor whom were You trustee of 33 shares mentioned in this sheet?” This latter question dealt with a stock certificate of the land and cattle company upon which were written in Fall's handwriting “certificate of col lateral, M. D. Thatcher, Pucblo Colo.” he Refusals Sustalned Again. A Government witness yesterday, who is an official of the Thatcher estate, testified the estate held some stock of the Tres Ritos Co. as col- lateral for an advanced loan. When Roberts sought to ha@h the witness identify the handwriting he declined to he should answer it. Whereupon he said, “Secretary Fall's, I thin Justice Siddons upheld the conten- tion of the witness that he si he was finally excused. It cost the Government $253.40 to verhart refuse to answer ques. tions which the prosecutors deemed vital to their case. The witness col lected that amount from United States rshal Edgar C. Snyder after the He has been in at- tendance on the court for 14 days at per day, making a $2% witness fee He was paid $3 a day for his subsist ence for 16 days, including Saturday ind Sunday when court was not in ses sion, making another $48, and his mile ge ‘fee amounted to $177.40, totaling 3.40. Everhart left this afternoon or ‘Tueblo, Colo., his residence. Following Iverhart's testimony Roberts produced numerous banking officials and employes and delved into the distribution of the $90,000 in Lib- erty bonds which turned up in Pue- blo, Colo., in May, 1922, in the hands of Everhart, according to evidence submitted yesterday. KFrom the wit- nesses he “obtained banking rgcords referring to deposits of Liberty*bonds and coupons, but when the noon rece: was reached he had not connected these up coherently for the jury. From the testimony and document- ¢ evidence produced by the wit- nesses, it was shown that on Novem- bonds in the amount of $15 were deposited in the Kirst National Bank of Texas to the credit of Fall, and that on October 21 of the same vear $5.000 in Liberty bonds were deposited to the defend- ant's account. Witnesses from this bank—J. E. Benton, vice president and cashier, and I. Gonzales, recefv- ing teller—testified that the numbers were recorded. Fall personally did not make the deposit, they said. On March 30, 1923, Liberty bonds in the amount of $50,000 were deposited been wearing a Kni their second Knittex. Knittex in Herringbone kind of coat. The same 100% pearance, and the $30.00. refused to answer on the ground of | Do _vou know of any loan to the | by | the | nswer, but Justice Siddons ruled that | uld not | answer the other five questions and | rizoz0, in the Exchange Bank of Ci i n. In N. Mex., to the account of F addition, coupons valued at §§ deposited. Proof of this acti given by A, D. Brownfield of } receiver for the bagyk at thi R. K. Lemon of Carrizoz sistant cashier, and B. . n employe, now living Mex, timony that 90 coupons of the first Liberty loan 3 per ¢ were forwarded to the Iederal Reserve Branch Bank. in Denver, in October, 1922, from the First National Bank of Pueblo, where $90,000 were d: Everhart in May, 1922, according to evidence yesterday, was given by B. A. Carlisle, assistant cashier of the bank, and Mrs. 1. J. Smith of Pueblc then & clerk In that institution. J. F Olson, managing director of the Den- ver Reserve Branch Bank, gave testi- mony and documentary evidence that the coupons were reccived. Roberts next produced a receipt de- livered by Olson for £300,000 in Liberty bonds purchased from brokers for the Continental Co. by the Dominion Bank. This documentary evidence was pro- Auced by Hector G. Henderson of Mon- treal, an employe of the Dominion Bank of Montreal, in whose New York gency the Continental Co. maintained an account. s items hurmond, in Hatch, entered into the ledger on April 13, 1922, showed pur- chases made for the Continental Co. of $300,000 of first United States Lib- erty bonds. The first entry showed purchase of $100,000 in honds from Solomon Brothers, the second entr: $100,000 worth from Walter Brother nd tw additional entries of $50,000 cach from Rhoades & Co. Henderson testified that he had made a note of the numerical numbers of each bond in the regular form and locked up in safe. fo whom were asked Roberts. “They were delivered to Olson May 8. was the reply. “Did you get a receipt?” Produces Receipt for Bonds. Henderson produced a receipt from the Dominion Bank's ageney in New York signed by Olson. “Where was the delivery Roberts asked. “To the agents in New York.” “Olson carried the bonds away,” Henderson testified. “lHow were they wrapped? “They were wrapped in brown pa per, in a bundle,” Henderson replied At this point the ceart interrupted amination of the witness, the hour of recess having arrived. Just_before Roberts had hooked up the delivery of the bonds to Olson sev eral other bank employes were put on the stand to identify Liberty bonds deposited in their banks. These witnesces included Mrs, Martha Anderson and Marguerite Trada of the Denver I'ederal Reserve Branch Bank. Preparing the wav to producing evidence of the honds delivered to Olson, Roberts put on the stand Foh- ert Ray of New York, employe of the New York agency of the Dominion Bank of Canada. “Did the Continental Trading Co. have an account with you?” Roberts asked. “It_dld,” Ray replied. * Ledger sheets of the account were produced to show Liberty bond sec they delivered?” on made e: Many men in this town have -tex Coat for several years. Many are now on For you we have good news: and English Tweed patterns. They look so different from what you are wearing that you'll feel you are getting an entirely different guarantee, style, smartness, fineness of ap- ame price, 5440 F Street at Qth | SOL HEmOG Inc. - | ceived them or to whom I am to h | making of the lease of Teapot Dome?”" rities held by the bank on a loan to| the Continental Trading Co. “At whose instance did vou ope! this account and get instruction: Roberts asked_the witness. “From 1L S. Olson of Canada.” A letter was next produced from Olson to C. S. Howard of the Do- minion Bank, to which defense coun- | sel_objected. The objection heing overruled the letter was then read. “Please purchase for the credit of | this company Li honds to the value of $300,000,” it stated. Everhart 1s Grilled. When Everhart took the s terday afternoon. Roberts laid the | foundation for more pertinent questions to follow by identifying the witness I's son-in-law; as a close associate of Fall in the cattle business in New Mexico, in that they were par ners and stock owners in the Tres Ritos Cattle and Land Co.; that he was cretary-treasurer of attle com- pany; that he had authority to conduct business in the company’s name; that le had never been in the Government | employ; never officially connected with the Mammoth Oil Co.; never in the employ of Sinclair; never had ar official connection with Sinclair or an of his oil companies; that he had noth ing to do with the leasing of Teapot Dome; that he never had any business transactions of any kind with Sinclair prior to February 1. Then Roberts asked if the Tres Ritos Co. ever had any business trans- actions with Harey F. Sinclair or his companies prior {o February 1, and the witness, who previously had de- ined to answer several questions concerning his connection with Fall on the ground it “simply leads up to the time I would be connected up with these bonds,” refused to answer. lHe requested leave to make a statement to the court. The jury was excused and Everhart read a lengthy state- ment, which the court afterward ob- served was prepared by a “skillful legal hand.” The statement said it is “apparent” that Roberts ‘“desires to prove by me the source of such bonds and facts surrounding the receipt thereof by me and as to these facts, or as to any conversation that I may have had with any one before, at or after the time the » said to have come into my possession, or as to the time when, the place where or the person from whom I am supposed to have re- e delivered them, or as to any ‘conver- sation I am supposed to have had with any such person or persons, 1 respectfully decline to make answer and I again state that In so declining I am actuated by and acting with but one purpose, and that is to portect | mysell and nobody else from the dan- ger of prosecution.” Jury Is Recalled, The jury, which had been excused while art read his statement, was recalled and the question again propounded by Roberts. The witness' reply was * Did you personally take any part in the negotiations which led up to the Toronto and yves s asked Robert “I did not,” replied the witness, When did you first learn that the Teapot Dome had in fact been leased?” “I decline to answer that, sir.” The court said it was unable to per- ceive that an answer to that question would tend to incriminate the witness, and added: “You may answer whether you ever met him. “I decilne to answer,” hart. You understand that the court has We Promise You This We promise you that your Worsted-tex Suit will wear as well as any suit you can buy at any price or we will replace it. We promise you that your friends will think it cost $60—not $40. Nothing like it has ever been offered to the public at— FRIDAY. OCTOBER 28, |the witness, 1927. ruled that it is an answer which you must make and it wculd not tend to Incriminate you? Do vou understand tha asked Justice Siddons. The witness' attorney, Charles A. Douglas of this city, sought to inter- pose, but the court refused to hear him. Everheart thought for a mo- nt, asked the stenographer to re- t the question, and then answered, “When and where?” asked Roberts, It was in Three Rivers. Were you in New York in May, 9 Sverhart?” “I decline to answer the question on the same grounds that 1 have already given.” The court saw nothing in the reply to incriminate the witness and Ever- rt answered, “yes.” Were you in Washington in May, shington in May, 19 1 did.” The witness then admitted that he had testified in the civil suit in Wyom- ing that on arriving in Pueblo he had “certain Liberty bonds” in his » -~:es- From whom did you receive_those $90000 of bonds and the $140,500 of horMs which you sold to the M. D. Thatcher Fstates Co.?"” “l decline to answer on the grounds I stated before.” “Do you press that question, Mr. Roberts?” the court asked, and when informed that he did, the jury was ex- ised for the day and Douglas and jerts argued the point until after 30 o'clock. Douglas contended that by answering the ques- tion, would be subject to indictment for conspiracy, but Roberts main- tained the most he could be accused of would be an “accessory after the fact.” same MOSES BACKS BUTLER. Former Lodge Adherents Urged to Support Senate Candidate. BOSTON, October 28 (#).—United States Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, in an address last night, appealed to friends of the late Henry Cabot Lodge to support Wil- liam M. Butler for the Senate in 1928. He spoke at the Lodge-Roosevelt memorial dinner at the Middlesex OPPOSES STRAW VOTE. Arlington @. 0. P. Chairman Warns Against Participation. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON. Va. October 28.— Col. James G. Pepper, chairman of the Arlington County Republican committee, issued a statement today urging all Republicans of the county not to participate in the straw vote, which is being advocated among the citizens' organizations affiliating with the Arlington County Civic Federation by a committee of citizens headed by Dr. Frank T. Stone. Mrs. Julian D. Simpson, reported as | a member of the committea plannint | the straw vote, issued a statement to- | day disclaiming any connection with the movement. | DEATH HELD SUICIDE. James E. Cooper Killed Self, Cor- oner's Jury Finds. A coroner's jury today returned a verdict of suicide in the case of James E. Cooper, 65 years old, who was found dead in a gasfilled room yesterday at 639 E street southeast, where he has resided several years. Policeman Edwin C. Hinsley of the fifth precinct, who investigated the death, was the only witness at the inquest. lle testified that Cooper was found on his bed, with the windows shut, the gas jet turned on and the kevhole stuffed with paper. On the dresser were private papers, includ- ing an Insurance policy made out in favor of his wife, with whom he has not lived for 27 years, and a diamond ring. Rites for C. B. McDonald. Funeral services were held afternoon at the chapel of T. 8. Sergeon for Claude B. McDonald, 78 years old, of 929 Tenth street, who | died Wednesday morning. He was tormerely emploved in the Govern- | ment Printing Office and*had been on tiie pension list of Columbia Typo- graphical Union, No. 101, since. 19 He had been a resident of Washing- this ton for 34 years. He is survived by two brothers and a sister. PURCHASE OF CANAL FOR PARK USE ASKED Conduit Road Citizens Send Reso- lution on Plan to Com- missioners. Acquisition of rights to the Chesa- peake and Ohio Canal by either the District or Federal governments sepa- rately, or the combined purchase of the property by the two governments, with a view to including it in the park and boulevard system of the District, was advocated in a resolution adopted by the Conduit Road Citizens’ Association last night, meeting in the parish hall of St. David piscopal Church, Conduit road and Nebraska avem ‘The resolution called for purchase of the property from Georgetown to Great Falls, or possibly as far as Cum- nd, Md. That part of it in Mar, land probably would have to be ai quired by the Federal Government, it was pointed out. The resolution is being forwarded to the District Com- missioners. J. W. Cornell, chairman of the asso- ciation’s membership committee, re- ported plans for a_drive to increass membership from 250 to 400. A request that repairs be made to Foxall road was referred to the com- mittee on sireets and highways. 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