Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1928, Page 2

ENGLAND RELIEVED -AS KING IMPROVES Hope Is Held That Worst of Monarch’s lliness Has Passed. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 24.—Hope that the worst of King George's iliness was past was replacing today the alarm that followed the announcement that there was congestion in one Jung. The official bulletin on King George’s condition today said that he passed a| fair night and his improvement was maintained. The statement read: . “The King passed a fair night and fmprovement was maintained. Pleurisy which commonly accompanies this type of congestion of the lung continues to be a prominent feature.” 3 The bulletin was signed by the King's physicians, Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir Stanley Hewett. All court life, however, has been stop- ped. The court circular appearing in the morning papers was a brief four-line announcement, whereas it is generally a fairly full document relating to the ac- tivities of the day. The circular merely stated that the Queen of Spain, the Duke of York, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice and the Dowager Marchioness of Cambridge visited Queen Mary yes- terday. Assuring Statement. At the end of an anxious day of watching for news from the sickroom yesterday, the nation was somewhat re- 1 en the official bulletin of the ysicians was issued. The state- ment sal “The King had a quieter day. His temperature is lower and there was no further extension of the mischief in the lung.” I{g the King's illness now follows a mild course leading to recovery, there is little doubt that he will be advised as soon as convalescent to take another sea trip as he did during his last seri- ous illness about four years ago. His physician at that time urged him never to spend another Winter in England, but to seek a milder climate. The King, however, set public devotion to duty first and this, added to his well known love of life in his home country, induced him to ignore the medical advice. Believed to Strain Health. ‘The recurrence of King George's chest trouble has caused many of his sub- jects to worder whether he is not straining his constitution unduly by re- maining in Great Britain all the year Tound. The hope inspired by the earlier bulletin that there was no extension of the trouble in the lung grew when it was stated at Buckingham Palace . just before midnight that the King was con- tinuing to make satisfactory progress. The Daily Mail today said that despite his illness the King seemed very cheerful when he was visited by a num- | ber of personal friends. He chatted with them on a variety of subjects and ex- pressed the hope that he would soon be out shooting again. ‘The newspaper said that he had not been informed of his lung infection. The public found another good omen in the fact that Lord Dawson was able to fulfill a private engagement after issuing the evening bulletin. Many Call at Palace. ‘The Duke of York, who came espe- clally from his hunting lodge and visited ‘his father, left the palace at 11 p.m. and Ferpos o 1o M;Te = d.rm!'::‘pez persons in formal evening their cars at the paliice gates during the evening and all were givén reassuring [ replies when they inquired as to the King's condition. Premier Baldwin was keeping in close touch with the palace so as to be at immediate call case he should be needed. The disturbing bulletin of yesterday noon that there was “a slight extension of the mischief” in the King's lung gm;ggb a constant succession of callers the day. These Lord ' Allenby, -Sir . Laming n-Evans and Lord’Chancel- lor_Hailsham. Outwardly the royal family was nat. greatly alarmed at the bulletin. Princess Mary went hunting in Yorkshire with her husband, Viscount Lascelles, and later they fulfilled an engagement in the evening. While it was announced that the Prince of Wales, who is hunting in East Africa, was being kept posted on his father's progress, it was stated that no arrangements had been made for the Prince’s return and that his plans had not been altered. include W CENTRAL HIGH TO GIVE VAUDEVILLE TONIGHT Second Performance Will Be Of- fered by Student Cast of Local School. A second vaudeville performance will be staged by students at Central High School. Thirteenth and Clifton streets, tonight at 8 o'clock in the school audi- torium. The curtain tonight will be an hour later than previously announced, due to the absence of a marionette number from the program, occasioned by the illness of a player. The program tonight includes two short, plays, one a burlesque written by Miss Grace Gordon, who graduated :m‘s!;: osfnt“lt l;lixzh {:lslt dyelr: the other sketch en! " Salesman.” e e A dance sequence is next, featuring clog and esthetic numbers, followed by several folk dances by the ensemble. Miss C. 1. Orr. member of the faculty, has been directing the players with the “qvlort se(vcrl:\l instructors. Most of the costumes and stage set- tings were designed b, Plasers, g1 y the student - UNCONSCIOUS AUTOIST FOUND PINNED UNDER CAR Youth Is Rushed to Hospital With Possibly Serious Internal Injuries. Lying unconscious where his 1 ht roadster had overturned and plngm to the ground, Francis Ralph Mc- Cutcheon, 21 .years old, of 3219 Ninth place southeast, was found by passers- by at noon today on Stanton road be- tween Alabama avenue and Sheridan road southeast. The injured man was rushed by police to Casualty Hospital, where he is reported to have sustained #erious internal injuries. McCutcheon's roadster, which appar- ently had gone out of control. bowled over a lamp?post before rolling across the curb and overturning. He was extricated from the wreck by F. D, Allen of the assessor's office, who call~ ed eleventh precinct police. How long McCutcheon had lain be- neath the machine could not be de- termined, since there was no eye- witness to the accident. At the hos- pital he regained consciousness. Woman Swallows Poison. MONTGOMERY, Ala., November 24 (). —Margaret Rush, 25, who said that her home is in Winchester, Va., is criti- c#l\' ill in a local hospital from the effects of a dose of poison taken in a hotel here yesterday morning. The young woman admitted to physicians that she took poison, but. refused to 8ign any motive for the act, ey Carcann ot gl ! MRS. W. C. N. MERCHANT, Of Chatham, Va., was re-elected presi- dent general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy during its thirty- fifth annual convention in Houston, Tex., recently.—Associated Press Photo. PUNIPING BELIEVED FATAL T0 VESTRIS Prober Thinks Efforts of Of- ficers to Save Liner Aided Disaster. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 24.—A theory that the very efforts taken by officers of the British liner Vestris to correct the vessel's fatal list in reality con- tributed to her foundering has been ad- vanced by Walter F. Brown, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Mr. Brown is aiding in one of the two Federal in- vestigations. It is his theory that the pumping of the starboard water ballast tanks in the lowest part of the vessel, while the coal bunkers above remained filled or partly filled with water,- raised the vessel and accentuated the list. Mr. Brown made his observations after the appearance on the stand of the chief engineer of the Vestris, James A. Adams, who testified that his fire- men mutinied on him, and their re- usal to fire the boilers probably con- ributed to the sinking of the vessel. This was in direct -contradiction of testimony by members of the erew that the firemen stuck to their posts until the last. Two of the firemen, James Boxil and Fritz Giddens, Barbados negroes, followed Mr. Adams on the tand and repeated their denials that here was any mutiny in the fireroom crew. The chief engineer when' questioned es to why he did not force the men to return to work at the point of a gun if necessary said he had no ammuni- tion for his pistol. Hero Tells Story. Leionel Licorish; a little negro quartermaster who emerged as a hero of the disaster, told his story for the first time before the inquiry being conducted g{“&nl(fll States Attorney Charles H. He belittled his own part in the dis- aster, and praiseds the officers and crew. e told of “stepping into the ” of one'of the officers-in super- intending the lowering of two life- boats and of unstrapping another boat from the deck, the boat which floated free and in which he picked up 20 persons and carried them safety. Two funds aggregating $702 have been raised. by .a newspaper and a private individual ' for Licorish. Both Federal inquiries, that being conducted by the steamboat inspection service, which is under the Department ! Commerce, and that being conduct- the week end. Plan Legal Action. While the inquiries were going for- ward Orrin S. Stevens, a survivor of the disaster, announced a plan to or- ganize rescued passengers into & com- mittee for joint legal action against the Lamport & Holt Lines, owners of the Vestris. ‘The proposed committee, Mr. Stevens said, would institute suits in behalf of second and third class passengers, who were financially unable to do so. He is manager of the Buenos Aires branch of the First National Bank of Boston. Mrs. Stevens was lost on the Vestris. COMMISSION REJECTS ' COMPENSATION CLAIM Mother and Sister Made Applica- tion on Death of J. D. Lay- ton, Vietim'of Pneumonia. The first claim for death from pneu- monia recorded under the provisions of the District. workmen's compensation act has been rejected, it was announced today by Deputy Commissioper Hoage of the Employes’ Compensation Com- mission. ‘The ruling, from which an ap- peal probably will be taken to the - trict Supreme Court, was in the joint claim of Mrs. Carrie Ever Layton and Miss Carrie Estelle Layton, mother and sister of Joel Davis Layton, of the 100 block, Rhode Island avenue northeast. ‘They declared that Layton contracted pneumonia while working for his brother’s firm, L. H. Layton & Co., 2103 Georgia avenue. The commission rejected the claim, it is announced, on two. counts, one being that it was not shown that Layton’s death was caused by injury or disease in the meaning of the act and the other was that the sister, being over 18 years of age at -the time of Layton's death, is not entitled to compensation under the provisions of the act. HELD ON DRUG CHARGE. Defendant Arrested by Inspector Posing as Naval Hospital Patient. Arrested by Narcotic Inspector Me- Donald. who posed as a fellow patient at Naval Hospital, Paul Stokley, 36 years old, pleaded guilty to illegal sale and postession of narcotics before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turn- age today and was held for the action of the grand jury under a $5,000 bond. He was arrested on a warrant lssued after Inspector McDonald had told the commissioner he had purchased nar- cotics from Stokley. ed by Mr. Tuttle. were adjourned over |’ - B IBULGARS ON MARCH AGAINST PETRITCH Bitter Fighting Expected When Soldiers Try to Arrest Michailoff. By the Associnted Press. SOFIA, Bulgaria, November 24— ‘Troops were marching today on Petritch, stronghold of Ivan Michailoff, leader of ian revolutionary party. The order that soldiers arrest Michailoff came after an exchange of deflances between the llud" and the government. It was expected that bitter fighting would ensue in the attempt to capture Michailoff. The government sent an ultimatum ordering him to discontinue all acts of terrorism and to abandon his march on Sofia. He replied that federal mem- bers of the Bulgarian government de- served death, and termed them the greatest enemies of the Macedonian people, The government then sent troops after Michailoff and rushed large con- tingents of soldiers into Sofia from the outlying districts to reinforce the gar- rison. Strong sentry forces were placed around all government buildings and a doubled police guard protected members of the cabinet. Government Powerless. Athanase Buroff, foreign minister, acknowledged in Parliament that the government was powerless to crush the revolutionary movement. This state- ment added to the fears of the popu- lation, which believed that general mar- tial law was inevitable. The foreign minister said he had cau- tioned Great Britain and France, who had protested against the activities of the revolutionaries, that if they wanted the organization suppressed they must procure the good influence of Bulgaria’s neighbors, since hundreds of thousands of Macedonians are now .living under Jugoslavian and Greek rule, The national ministry, like Buigaria, is divided into two camps regarding the Macedonian movement. War Minister Volkoff is an ardent supporter of the Macedonian desive for liberty, and For- eign Minister Buroff is strongly opposed 10 Macedonian activities. Michailoff Warned. Should the situation force the cabi- net to resign, this would probably only throw the country into further confu- sion and possibly give Michailoff the upper hand. The main purpose of his threatened march is to show that he is master of the revolutionary forces and to insist upon their demands being granted. He also wishes to remove by violence all those who have joined rival Macedonian groups. Adherents of the late .Gen. Proto- (lhemflv who was slain by Michailof's followers after a split.in the Macedon- ian_revolutionary . ranks, said that if Michailoff persisted in his march on Sofia they would' publish .all the past misdeeds and plots of the organization. They said that: this would be tranta- mount to signing their own death war- rant, since they' had been involved in many of these acts against the govern- ment and public safety. BRITISH JOURNALISTS LEAVE WASHINGTON Group to Stop in Philadelphia. | the belligerent faction of the Macedon- | HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, .D. C..-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 192 The coldest weather to date for the 1928 season will envelop Washington over the week end, when below-freezing temperature is expected to prevail for at least 48 hours. The thermometer may register as low as 25 degrees Mon- day morning, the Weather Bureau an- nounced today. The lowest temperature reached night in Washington was 32 degrees, barely freezing, while slightly warmer weather was expected today. It was colder in suburban sections, however, for standing pools of water were still i Week-End to Bring Coldest Weather To City With 25 As Likely Low Mark crusted with ice at 7 o'clock. Slightly warmer weather will prevail in Washington today and tonight, but by tomorrow evening the temperature | will begin its downward move again, sinking gradually until Tuesday morn- ing, when the cold spell is expected to break under the advance of warmer weather. Nearby mountain regions will be visited with a light snow, the Weather Bureau stated, but neither snow or rain is expected in the im- mediate vicinity of Washington. ‘The cold weather is being brought on by a gradual shifting of winds to the northwest, State’s ‘Best People’r Rappedby Governor lIn Swan Song Talk Fuller Warns Employes Against Greed of Bay State “Interests.” By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 24.—Gov. Alvan T. Fuller has taken a fling at this State’s “best people” in what may have heads. Warning the departmental chiefs that they must be ever on the alett against the greed of special inter- i ests, the governor, whose term is near~ ing an end, declared: “The greatest danger that confronts us in Massachusetts, in my humble opinion, is the result of avarice on the part of our ‘best people’ who want something more than they are really | entitled to. It is the ammunition which | the conservatives pass to the radicals that provides for their growth. “I have been discouraged to find that those ople who prate the loudest about the Stars and Stripes, who throw out their chests the farthest as our leading citizens, somehow or other in private are not quite as uniformly pa- triotic and disinterested as one might expect when listening to their 4th of July orations. “You are the gentlemen who stand between the public and special interests, and I do not want you to accept that term ‘special interests’ with any other | meaning than you out of your experi- | ence would provide for it. You know | what I refer to. “You know as well as I do that the one who wants something special may be a large corporation or it may be an individual who, for example, wants an | unusual or unmerited increase in salary. 1f you are not looking out for the public interests, nobody else is, because while individuals throughout the community might be interested, they do not know about the particular matters in issues.” FIRST OF BIG PLANE FLEET IS DELIVERED Tri-Motored Craft, With Total of 1,260 Horsepower, Sent to Col. Henderson Here. ‘The first of a fleet of 10 of the most luxurious multi-motored passenger air- planes ever produced in the United States, ordered from the Ford Motor Co., for the ‘Transcontinental Ailr ‘Transport,’ was ‘delivered ‘here today at the Naval Air Station to Col. Paul Henderson , vice president of the line. ‘The ship is one of the new type Ford monoplanes, powered with three Pratt & Whitney 420-horsepower Wasp mo- tors, giving a total of 1,260 horsepower. Each motor is controlled independently and any one motor will keep the plane in the air. ‘Will Sail for England December 1. ‘The group of distinguished British journalists who spent several days in the capital left Washington this morn- ing for Philadelphia, and plan to sail from New York Saturday, December 1, for England. 3 The journalists made their last formal stop late yesterday at the Carnegie en- dowment for International Peace, at 2 Jackson place, the organization which sponsored and financed their trip to this country, for the purpose of stimulating better understanding between the Eng- lish-speaking people. Other items on their program yes- terday included . sightseeing to the ‘Washington Monument, Lincoln Memo- rial, National Academy of Sciences and Pan-American Union. They were guests at luncheon at the Chamber of Com- merce-of ,the United States yesterday noon; During their stay in Washington they ‘were escorted’ by George A. Finch of the endowment. SIS e HOTEL GUEST ARRESTED ON BAD-CHECK CHARGE Stranger Taken !iere on Informa- tion in Telegrams From Chi- .. c@,0 and Philadelphia. Telegrams announcing that he was ‘wanted in both Chicago and Philadel- phia for passing bad checks resulted in the arrest at the Carlton Hotel this morning of William Moore Patch, 39 years old, who gave his address as 5 Park avenue, New York City, and his occupation as a broker. Although the telegrams, one received from the police in Chicago and the other from the Burns Detective Agency branch in Philadelphia, failed to state the amount of the checks involved, officials of the. Burns agency told police the Chicago case involved checks total- ing $8,000 given to the Drake Hotel there. The amount involved in the Philadelphia transaction was given by the agency as $250. The telegram from Philadelphia stated that' Patch was stopping at the Carlton Hotel and Detective William J. Du Busky went there. He found that Patch had just arrived this morning. He is held at the Fifth precinct sta- tion house. Three in Auto Drowned. CANAAN, Vt., November 24 (#).— Three men were drowned last night when their automobile skidded and Ylunged into the Connecticut River be- ‘ween this town and Beecher Falls. The men were John Boudreau, chief of po- lice: Sheriff Telsphore Beaudin and J. E. Boudreau, brother of the police chief, :ll of Coaticoke, Quebec, 20 miles from ere. At Big Profit G By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 24.—A man who a decade ago was one of the first to realize the money to be made in elling” the Brooklyn Bridge, today at 68 faces spending the rest of his life in jail. | " George B. Parker, which may be only another of his many aliases, was looked upon by the police as one of the suavest and most successful confidence men of his day. - His -turnover on the bridge was reputed to be big and often. i Man Who Often Sold Brooklyn Bridge oing to Cell for Life But yesterday it was a far different man who faced the judge in Kings County Court. A pudgy, gray-haired ‘The plane delivered today was sent from the Ford airplane factory to the Lincoln automobile plant for its interior fittings. It has been equipped as a rivate office for Col. Henderson and as desks for him and his secretary, a sleeping berth and seats for 10 people. Accompanied by Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier, former commandant of the 1st Pursuit Squadron, Army Air Corps, at Selfridge Field, Mich., Col. Hender- son will make a tour of the proposed lines of the company in the new plane. Maj. Lanphier now is manager of oper- ations for Transcontinental Air Trans- port, and is associated with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who is chairman of the technical advisory board. MRS. SCHENCK RENEWS HER SUIT FOR DIVORCE Former Policeman’s Wife Claims Violation of Promise Follow- ing Reconciliation. Mrs. Eva G. Schenck, wife of former Policeman Frederick A. Schenck of the sixth precinct, who first sued her hus- band for absolute divorce September 1, last, after a raid on an apartment in which Schenck and a woman compan- ion were arrested, and who subsequent- ly became reconciled to Schenck, to- day renewed proceedings for divorce in_the District Supreme Court. ‘Through Attorneys Raymond Neu- decker and Willlam C. Ashford, the wife of the storm center of recent Police Trial Board activities charged that Schenck violated his promise to wefrain from associating with the co- respondent within a few weeks after their attempted reconcillation. She avers that Schenck returned on September 14 and they were together until November 3, when he again left, and a few days afterward she tele- phoned the. apartment of the co- respondent and found Mm there. ‘This violation of his promise effect- ually separated them for all time, it is alleged, and she asked the court to award her an absolute. decree. The bill recites that the parties were mar- ried on February 2, 1924, in this city and lived together until a raid by the police on the apartment of the co-respondent on August 29, where Schenck was found. | Man Hurt as Wagon Hits Ladder. A coaster wagon occupied by two boys of neighbors of Christopher A. Sorrell, 2228 Thirty-fifth place, collided with a ladder on which Sorrell was working in front of his home yesterday afternoon, throwing him to the pavement. His right ankle was sprained and his body bruised. First aid was given at George. town University Hospital and the in- jured man was returned home. been his “swan song” to his department | U. S-EUROPEAN STRAIN EVIDENCED! War Debt and Disarmament ! Views Basis of Rift Be- tween Hemispheres. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chi News. Copyright, 1928, PARIS, November 24—Relations be- tween the United States and Europe at the present time are considered by ex- perienced diplomats and observers to be unsatisfactory. The fault may lle on one or both sides, but the fact remains. Europe has never accepted the Amer- ican viewpoint in the war-debt ques- tion, and there is no gainsaying that the United States has little sympathy over here, even among the smaller na- tions, in the disarmament thesis. As for President Coolidge's Armistice day utterances, the press has been pur- posely restrained nearly everywhere, and the press comment is far from re- vealing the real depth of European ir- ritation. About the only nation whlch“ liked it was Germany, and this for the | special reason that Germany just now is trying hard to effect a reapproche- ment with us to counteract the Franco- British entente. Imperialism Belief Grows. More and more it is the firm belief of citizens of Europe that Americans are & vast and imperialistic people, whose real alm is a financial and naval hegemony. In the cruiser controversy their sympathies are with Great Bri- tain; in the renewed tariff controversy their sympathies are with France. Every single great power earnestly desires an understanding with us, but apparently not one is now convinced that such an understanding is possible; not one is willing to effect an under- standing on purely American terms and every one, while still working for an understanding, seems busy concocting possible alternatives, -Some of theSe alternatives are worth watching, for they may affect America’s future. The situation in the Far East Is typical. Great Britain, France and Japan throughout the Chinese troubles have been trying to persuade the United States to join them in common policies of some sort. America has consistently refused, preferring to play a lone hand. For a while Japan seemed more or less to agree with our Chinese policies, but this is no longer the case. .True, America has been successful, American support of the Nanking government has helped it to establish itself, and ac- cordingly In its choice of advisers it re- sorted only to Germany and to the United States. Col. Bauer of the old German imperial staff has been ap- pointed military adviser. Henry Ford, Owen Young and others have been ap- pointed honorary financial advisers, Gen. Harbord is economic adviser and two American architects have been chosen to remodel Nanking. Trying to Get Loan. It is true that In return for these complimentary appointments the Chi- nese are trying to get a reconstruction loan from Wall Street, but this is not the only consequence. France, Japan and Great Britain are drawing together in something like a new Far Eastern alliance. The Franco-British entente seems to be extending its sphere across the Pacific. The French long have been intimate with the Japanese and now there is talk of a renewal of the Anglo-Japanese understanding. Count Uchida reports that Great Britain favors this, especial- ly since the failure of the Geneva dis- armement conference, and Baron Tan- aka also is known to favor it. In token of the new alignment, France, Great Britain and Japan have Jjust presented joint protests to Nan- king regarding "China’s unilateral ac- tion in changing the ‘operation of the salt tax administration. ‘All ‘three powers would like to work with the United States in the Far East. Their present attitude seems to mean that since this is apparently impossible they will work with one another. It is still believed that the going into effect of the Kellogg peace pact would do much to relleve the strain in Euro- pean-American relations. ~ President Coolidge's description of this treaty as the “most effective Instrument for peace ever devised” has been echoed by Pre- mier Baldwin, who says it is such a formidable thing that few men now grasp its full meaning and who adds that all governments will be obliged by it to remodel their policies. Wait On Senate. But although President Coolidge ap- peared to chide Europe for not imme- diately disarming in proportion to the new safeguards offered by this pact, the truth is that Europe is disinclined to base her policies on the pact until it has actually been ratified by the Amer- ican Senate. The memory of the fate of the Versailles treaty is still vivid in ‘European minds. Great Britain and several Latin American states are delaying ratifica- tion, If the Senate makes no definite reservations, possibly nothing more will be heard of the British interpretative letter covering the regions where Brit- ain claims to have special interests. But if America reserves the Monroe Doctrine, England may desire to make her own reservation more formal and specific. Also there is the feeling per- ceptible in Downing street that after the Kellogg pact passes the American Senate, it may be easier than at pr ent for Great Britain to make a ne comoromise proposal on the naval dis- armament. cago Daily Duckpin Devotees —will find something of keen interest to them in the sports columns of The Star tomorrow. It will have to do with an event scheduled to be held in about a month and in which both man and woman bowlers of nearby communities as well as Washington will have the opportunity to man with tear-dimmed eyes heard an assistant district attorney declare him a “menace to society” and urge that he be sent to jail for life. He had been | arrested for passing & bogus check and | as it was his fifth offense a life sen- tence under the Baumes law is com- pulsory. He was remanded -for sen- tence on ey « participate. This announcement in the pink sports section of The Star tomorrow will embody a challenge to your ability as a bowler. Read - i ettt Unclaimed Trunk Sold at Auction Reveals Man’s Body By the Associated Press. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, No- vember 24 —Purchasing a trunk for $14.50 at an unclaimed baggage sale, J. E. Betis of Burnaby found inside a wooden casket containing the embalmed body of a man. Betis reported his discovery to the po- lice, who expressed the belief that the body, apparently that of a Chinese or a ‘ Japanese, had been prepared for ship- ment back to the Orient. How it came | a mystery. ‘The body was taken to the morgue and to be among the unclaimed baggage ixl police are continuing their (AN d RYAN DEATH TAKES LEADING FINANCIER Wealth of Deceased Banker Variously Estimated Up- ward to $500,000,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 24.—Thomas Fortune Ryan, who died here yesterday at the age of 77, was rated as one of the greatest financiers in this country. Few men had more extensive and varied interests than the man who rose from poverty and died one of the richest men in the world. Estimates of his wealth vary from $100,000,000 to $500,- 000,000. The more conservative guesses in the financial district place his for- tune arotind $250,000,000. - This wotld be greater than the wealth of the late Payne Whitney, whose estate of $194,- 000,000, appraised this week, was the largest ever recorded in this city, a center of world wealth, Had Many Connections. In tobacco, traction, rallways, mining and rubber, Mr. Ryan was a dominant figure until in 1908, when he retired from 35 corporations of which he was a director. Although in retirement, he was frequently seen in his office at the Guaranty Trust Co., and as late as Monday had luncheon with one of the directors at the company’s offices. He was stricken on Wednesday with inflammation of the gall bladder. His age prevented an operation and death oc- curred yesterday afternoon, with 25 of his children and grandchildren at his bedside in his Fifth avenue home. His son, Allan A. Ryan, from whom he was estranged, is in France, but Allan’s wife and their six children were present. Mass Will Be Held. A solemn high mass of requiem will be held Monday morning in the Church of St. Jean Baptiste on Upper Lexington avenue. This church was built largely with money contributed by Mr. Ryan. The body will be placed in a vault in Oalvary Cemetery here until it is de- cided where burial will take place. Life Typically American. ‘The life story of this man of many millions is typically American. It is typical, too, of the careers of other pioneers of his period, who, after strug- gling through boyhood and youth, found use for latent talents in the busi- ness opportunities that were opening up in this country 50 and 60 years ago. Thomas Fortune Ryan, who was one day to_be denounced by William Jen- nings Bryan as typical of the “preda- tory interests” which the Democracy must battle, worked as a boy of 17 in dry goods houses of Baltimore. Two years later found him in Wall Street as a broker's clerk, and another four years saw him a member of the New York Stock Exchange. The still youthful native of Nelson County, Va., quickly developed an in- terest in street railways and lighting systems. Willlam C. Whitney, himself a traction magnate, became his friend, a relationship that led to Ryan's selec- tion as the man who was to have charge of the vast Whitney interests for a quarter of a century. Enters Traction Syndicate. Ryan got membership in the big traction syndicate that finally took con- trol of the New York Metropolitan Trac- tion Co, and its subsidiaries, a group that eventually emerged as the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Co. In this syn- dicate were such men as Whitney, An- thony N. Brady, John Dolan, P. A. B. Widener and William L. Elkins of Philadelphia, and the day came when the properties they controlled had a mmblPed capitalization: of a billion and a half. .o Mr. Ryan was interested in numerous rallway reorganizations in the South, in Ohio and in- West Virginia. and ex- tended the scope of his activities by ac- quiring equities in rubber and diamond concessions in the Kongo Free State. The financier’s place in politics was in the anti-Bryan wing of the Demo- cratic party. As a delegate to the 1904 national convention he was largely re- sponsible, sa the story went, for the ac- ceptance by various factions of Alton B. Parker's declaration for the gold standard plank. Attacked by Bryan. Bryan's excoriation of Ryan came in the 1912 convention in Baltimore. The capitalist, however, did not let the at- tack diminish his enthusiasm for the party and he always contributed gen- erously to its war chests. Mr. Ryan was known as a man of silence, who preferred to keep the pub- lic at & distance. When he did tfalk, especially in the earlier years of his success, it was often to extol the vir- tues of the country beyond the Alle- ghenies, which he believed was to be a land of fortune. Part of his immense holdings were in tobacco stocks, and he was long an important figure in that industry, as well as in utilities. Maintained Three Estates. Mr. Ryan maintained three estates— his Fifth avenue home, which was his legal residence; a 4,000-acre tract, Oak Ridge, in the Virginia county of his birth, and “Montebello,” at Suffern, N. Y. The latter, near enough for overnight gofourns, was his Summer home. At Oak Ridge he kept a stable of fine horses, although, unlike his old friend Whitney, he was not interested in racing. lcOrl'n‘,v two directorships were held by the financier when he died. One Wwas| gq in the Guaranty Trust Co, here, where he was reported to have maintained & deposit of $40,000,000; the other was in the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Rail- way, l\):lr. Ryan's first wife was Ida M. Barry, daughter of John D. Barry, pro- rietor of a Baltimore store in which fie worked as a youth. She died 14 years ago. His second wife, who survives him, was formerly Mrs. Cornelius C. Cyler of New York, whom he mairied in 1917 She wudln the family group at the death bed. Mr. Ryan is survived by his widow and three sons, John Barry, Allan A. and Clendennin Ryan. Two other sons, ‘William and Joseph, died some years ago. NATIVE OF VIRGINIA. Contributed Generously te Old Dominion and Provided Vault in Richmond. RICHMOND, Va., November 24 (#).— Thomas F. Ryan, prominent financier, who died yesterday in New York, was a native Virginian and was one of the outstanding workers and contributors for the preservation of the history of the Confederacy and the Old Dominion. It was Mr. Ryan’s contribution of $20.000 that made possible the mural military paintings depicting scenes and leaders of the Confederacy. by Charles Hoffbaur, which _adorn the walls of Battle Abbey of Richmond. Another contribution to Virginia his- ‘| active volcano and high above all like KENNETH T. O’'HARA, Arrested while working as a newspaper reporter in New Orleans, is being held as James B. O'Neill, wanted in Los Angeles on a charge of emberzling $176,000 in bonds while employed as a teller in a bank. BYRD'S SHIPDUE IN DUNEDIN TODAY F9ur Days to Be Spent Fix- ‘ing Cargo Prior to Start for South Pole. BY DR. F. D. COMAN. By Wireless to The Star and the New York . Times. ABOARD THE BARK CITY OF NEW YORK, November 24.—We are making | the best run of our entire voyage. The City of New York Wednesday night outstripped a gale which New Zealand shore stations had warned us would come out of Sook Straits. We are due to arrive at the expedition rendezvous at Dunedin today, just three months from our departure from New York: New Zealand's rugged shore with its sheer cliffs and fjords and its hills cov- ered with new Spring green is a welcome sight. Far in the distance can be seen an cccasional banner of vapor from an low hanging clouds gleam the ice-capped peaks around Mount Gladstone, We ought to make a colorful sight as we sail into Dunedin, bedecked in festival dress, shining like a yacht under new paint and scraped spars. And as usual Just before a port clothes are being aired, shoes tied on and many sundry devices for raising money are being employed among the members of the crew. What good is shore leave without money? Most of us have already spent our year's salary on stamps for our post cards. At Dunedin after a busy four days shipping cargo and completing the out- fitting of the personnel we expect to leave under Comdr. Byrd's leadership on Thanksgiving day for our great adven- ture. There will be a certain amount of redistribution of personnel, but most of the present crew of the flagship ex- pect to continue on to the ice barrier with this first group of the expedition. The remainder will have charge of stores left at New Zealand and will communicate with us through the supply ship; Eleanor Bolling, .which will not follow the flagship until after Christmas. ‘Three months at sea on board the City of New York has hardened us phys- ically and has cemented us into a fam- ily group all enthusiastic to get to the ice and to spend the most fascinating year of our lives on the wilderness of the Antarctic plateau. 3 Tk Times Co. through- or publication reserved i out the world.) GEORGE W. éARKMAN, SR. IS SUMMONED BY DEATH Retired Builder and Contractor, 83, Had Been K. P. 62 Years. Funeral Monday. George W. Barkman, sr., 83 years old, retired builder and contractor, who in point of membership had the distinc- tion of being one of the oldest mem- bers of the Knights of Pythias in the District; died ‘at his home in the Pair- fax Apartments, 1200 East Capitol street, last night after an illness of several weeks. Mr, Barkman had been a mem- ber of Calanthe Lodge, No. 11, Knights of Pythias, for the past 62 years. Born February 14, 1845, Mr. Bark- man was & lifelong resident of this city, and was active in the building and con- tracting business until about five years ago. He had been an active church mem- ber. He belonged to Epworth M. E. Church, South, and was one of the first trustees of Marvin M. E. Church. He bullthflw old St. Paul M. E. Church, uth. Funeral services will be conducted in Epworth Church, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will- be near Clarendon, Va. . Barkman is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Barkman, and two sons, John T. and George W. Barkman, jr.. Gnmi. Duke Sails for U. S. PARIS, November 24 (#).—Grand Duke Alexander, brother-in-law of the late czar, sailed for New York aboard the steamship Leviathan yesterday to deliver a series of lectures in the United States on Russian affairs. tory was made by Mr. Ryan when he donated $10,000 for painting of por- traits of the London Co., which settled Jamestown and of Queen Elizabeth and John Smith. These portraits were exhibited at the Jamestown Exhibition. The flag over Battle Abbey will be flown at half staff today through re- spect to the memory of Mr. Ryan. Mr. Ryan, iIn giving Sacred Heart Cathedral to Richmond. provided space in a vault beneath the church for burial of all members of his family who desired -it. ‘Two sons, the wife of a zon and the child of another son are interred in this vault, It is understood by friends here that Mr. and Mrs. Ryan planned the vault as the last resting place for all members of his family. D.C. HEADQUARTERS 15 AIM OF GRANGE Committee to Report on Sug- gestion at Next Meeting in Seattle. Steps looking to the advisability of providing a headquarters building in Washington for the National Grange and Potomac Grange, No. 1, of this city were taken at the coneluding session of the sixty-second annual convention, which adjourned during the early hours of this morning. The idea of the proposition, as sub- mitted by the local grange, is to erect here eventually a representative build- ing to stand not only as a monument (o the grange organization, but provide & permanent headquarters at the seat of Government. A committee will be appointed to confer with the officers of Potomac Grange, the charter chapter of the order, upon the problems of its future work and development and re- port at the next annual convention in Seattle, Wash. The scarcity of suitable meeting . places here, the petition of Potomac Grange points o(it, makes it necessary for the local group to look forward to securing some more suitable assemblage * place in the near future. Frequent visits to Washington of patrons of hus- bandry from various States make it de- sirable that the meetings of the Founders’ Grange, as Potomac Grange is called, be equipped properly to enter- tain such visitors. y Methods to Be Worked Out. It is the feeling of the local Grange that with the co-operation of the na- tional body, suitable headquarters could be provided here for national offices and conventions and serve likewise for the various Granges in this vicinity. The best methods of accomphishing this are not clear at the present time, but it was belleved that preliminary - arrangements could be worked out through conferences with a committee representing the National Grange. The membership of Potomac Grange * includes many Government workers, who are constantly traveling over the States, which gives them an opporiunity to aid greatly in extending the order and strengthening its work. “It is im- portant that this membership be thor- oughly grounded in the purposes and objectives: of the order and its ritual- istic work,” the Potomac Grang= points out. ‘Opposes Hasty Program. Agreeing with Senator McNary of Oregon, with regard to the urgency of farm legislation, the Grange exprezsed its views on this matter in the follow- ing_language: . “The time.of the short session of Con- gress will probably not permit adequate consideration of -a comprehensive pro- gram for farm tariff legislation, there- fore, “Be it resolved, that we express our opposition to any hasty or half-way increases and unless a comprehensive program including tariff revision can be passed at the short session we favor , calling a special session of Congress for the purpose.” 3 Insistance that the Government ’ | “honestly strive to make this country dry” was voiced in one of the resolu- ! tions adopted by the Grange at its con- cluding session, which reaffirmed the position formerly taken in favor of rigid enforcement of the eighteemth amendment. Other Resolutions. Other resolutions adopted requested the Federal Radio . . to re- store to full-time al dio sta- tions “freely and regularly serving the farmer”: condemnation of “the despic- able policy of the power trust in making use of our institutions of public educa- tion to carry on propaganda designed to further its interests”; urging Con- gress to authorize “Agricultural day®: a call for the continuation of present immigration restriction policies and commendation of the Federal Farm Loan Board for its recent reorganiza- tion, but criticism of some of i policies. The Grange further recommended that a committee be set up to study the advisability of the Government pro- viding free radio service to presidential and other candidates for public office within a reasonable limit. The idea of this resolution was to remove any pos- sibility of one political party having advantages over another in radio service during a campaign. Another resolution contemplates s number of important changes in the items enumerated in the agricultural census, and a shift to Autumn as the census date. ST IR ARREST BELIEVED END OF AUTO FUEL THEFTS Colored Man Pleads Guilty to Steal- ing Two Gallons of Gas From Parked Car. With the arrest and conviction of John W. Twine, colored, 20 years old, of the 2100 block of Newport place, Ro- lice of the third precinct believe t! » have solved the mystery of a series of. thefts of gasoline from automobiles in the vicinity of Twenty-second and Q streets. The complaint came from George E. Keneipp. manager of the District of Co~! lubmia Division of the American Auto- mobile Association, who was informed that motorists in that neighborhood frequently found it impossible to start their cars in the morning because all the gasoline nad been remaved during . the night. A policeman was detailed to the lo- cation, but after a week passed and the thefts continued, Capt. h Stott of No..3 relieved the patrolman and assigned Policeman Charles F. Swann to the task. On his first night's shift Swann claims he saw Twine appear with a five-gallon tank in one hand, a syphon in the other, and started taking gas from an automobile listed to James B. McCord of the 2200 block of Q street. ‘Twine was charged with the larceny of two gallons of gasoline, pleaded guilty, and was fined $10 by Judge Ralph Given. High Court Warns Against Appealing To Procure Delay By the Associated Press. Notice was served by the Supreme Court yesterday that it intends to enforce a rule penaliz- ing those who bring up cases merely for the of de- 748 Seizures, 267 Prosecutions Made By U. S. Food and Drug Officials in Year By the Associated Press. Prosecution under the food and drugs act ofthe manufacturers of a so-called cure for cancer, which was only a milk and bread poultice, a preparation put forward for pernicious anaemia, which was largely ground granite, and a tuber- culosis “cure” of turpentine gum were reported today to the Secretary of Agri- culture by W. G. Campbell, director of the one-year-old food, drug and insect- ide administration, which is - now charged with. the enforcement of .the pure food acts. S Campbell in his first annual report described the development by Federal scientists of various devices to prevent infringement of regulations by manu- facturers and packers of foodstuffs. Among ' these were “a machine to eliminate wormy and otherwise unde- sirable blueberries before canning, and a method for testing tomato products for the detection of decomposed ma- terials which would spofl the pack.” A total of 748 seizures and 267 pros- ecutions were reported. They were_ chiefly for medical reme- | dies and butter or vinegar adultera- purpose laying the execution of the orders of the lower courts. The question developed in two cases, one from Nebraska involv= ing the distribution of Pl‘flp!r'-y among the heirs of John O'Connor and the other from Kansas involving an act intended. to preserve the old Shawnee Mission in Johnson County, as & memorial of the days when it was an outpost of civilization on the Western frontier. The court declared that the resent a Federal question, and then announced in each-case that it would reserve the right of determining whether those responsible for appealing the cases should be penalized. Under its rules a penalty of not 10 per cent of the amount involved may be imposed.