Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1928, Page 2

8 HOOVER T0 ATTEND CHURCH ON 3TH T, Orthodox Friends Meeting House Makes Announcement About President-Elect. 9. “ Herbert Hoover, when he enters the ‘White House next March, will atiend the Orthodox Friends’ Meeting House at Thirteenth and Irving strcets, it was announced by the congregation today. The announcement said that Mr. Hoover was a birthright member of this branch of th Friends Society and that the meeting had secured Dr. Augustus T. Murray of Leland Stanford Univer- versity for minister. The announce- ment did npt make plain whether Mr. Hoover had expressed the intention of attending the Thirteenth street church exclusively. While Secretary of Commerce he has attended services at both thz I street meeting house of the Friends Society and the Thirteenth street church. Mem- bers of the I street church recently | have been making plans to accommodate the visitors whom they expected when the President-elect returned and still are under the impression that the Hoo- ver family will attend their church. In other quarters it was indicated that Mr. Hoover intended to continue his practice of going to the services at both churches. ouT WHALEN WIPES “HOMICIDE SQUAD” Retires Commander of Group That Failed to Solve Rothstein and 225 Other Killings. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 22.—Police . Commissioner Grover Whalen yester- day wiped out the homicide squad, the = ice arm which had direct charge of the investigation of the slaying of Ar- nold Rothstein, Broadway gambler, and retired its commander, Deputy Inspector Arthur A. Carey. The tailure of the squad to clean up the Rothstein case brought the admin- istration of former Police Commissioner ‘Warren under fire just prior to his res- ignation. Whalen announced that Carey was invited to retire, but preferred not to do so, “so I decided to retire him under the 60-year law.” “The record of the homicide bureau ghows that from January 1 to Decem- ber 20, 1928, Commissioner Whalen said in explaining his action abolishing the homicide squad, “228 cases of homi- cides were reported to the homicide squad for investigation, and the records show arrests were in only two cases. “A’record of that kind doesn’t de- THE EVEN MISS RUTH FLOES AND STORN DELAY BYRD SHP Blizzards Make Passage of Ice Pack Slow—Much Life Seen. BY RUSSELL OWEN. By Wireless to The Star and the New York ON BOARD THE BARK CITY OF NEW YORK, At Sca, December 20.— For the last two days we have not made much progress through the pack be- cause of thick ice and snowstorms, which at times make it impossible to see_leads ahead. Quite a wind blew last night with the barometer down to 28.50, but shel- tered as we were it nearly stopped us for a time, and we lay snugly in a small pond of water, surrounded by ice. Our sights today indicated that in the last two days, when it was difficult to get observations, we may have work- ed farther to the east than we desired to go, which may also account for the thick ice encountered. At present, however, the ice is lighter serve any consideration. And some of the arrests made in those two cases ‘were e precinct detectives. ‘Therefore, the homicide squad is abol- ished and a homicide squad will be es- tablished in each borough, supervised by a competent officer.” DEFENDS HER RIGHTS IN ‘ABIE’S IRISH ROSE’ Authoress Testifies in $3,000,000 Suit for: Damages, Alleging Her Play Was Plagiarized. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 22.—An in- ?gsnt mflu tc:ull life in Buffalo, N.Y., not ragedy of “Romeo and Juliet,” inspired Anne Nichols to write “Abie’s Irish Rose.” Testifying * in her $3,000,000 suit egainst the Universal Films Corpora- tion,, which she charged plagiarized her play to produce the “Cohen and the Kellys,” Miss Nichols said she had met the prototype of Able. During cross-examination by Nathan L. Miller, former Governor of New York and counsel for the defense, Miss Nichols declared her play is like the Shakespearean 3 “I don't remember much about *Romeo and Juliet’ except the ending and the music. But ‘Romeo and Juliet’ had a tragic ending. No, ‘Abie’s Irish Rose’ is nothing like ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ” she said. After saying that a Jewish boy named Irving Berg went through the tribula- tions portrayed in her play, Miss Nich- ols was asked if she ever talked to him. “Yes, once in Buffalo,” she replied. CLARK GRIFFITH SUED ON BUILDING CONTRACT Clarence H. Small Claims $1,282 pl Due as Balance of Commission in Comstruction of Home. Clarence H. Small, builder, 925 Fifteenth street, today filed suit in the District Supreme Court against Clark C. Griffith, president of the Washington Base Ball Club, to recover $1282.23 alleged to be a balance due for Small's commission on the erection of Griffith’s home at Sixteenth and Decatur streets. Small says he took the contract on a 10 per cent basis and the building cost $90,424.76, on which he would have been . entitled to a commission .of $9,042.48. At'the solicitation of Griffith, he says, he reduced his charge to $8,857.47, mak- ing a total of $99,282.23, on account of ‘which Griffith paid $98,000, leaving the balance sued for. Griffith, the plaintiff declares, May 15, 1927, put his “O K” on a bill for th: balance conditioned on certain adjust- ments of the work. Although those adjustments were completed before July 1, 1927, Small says, Griffith has neglected to pay the balance, although frequently requested. Attornsy Henry F. Woodard appears for the buflder. SUES FOR $250,000. CHICAGO. Deceiber 22 (#).—A damage suit for $250,000, charging breach of promise to marry, was filed yesterday against Oscar Spindler, 68, wealthy manufacturer and clubman, by Mrs. Louise Milost, 30. Spindler's first wife died last May. Shortly before the wedding was to take place Spindler asked Mrs. Milost to sign a pre-nuptial financial agree- ment, the suit charges, so that his two children might inherit his estate, esti- mated at $1000,000. She refused and Spindler offered her a $75,000 trust fund for release from the engagement, Mrs. Milost said. She refused that. In October Spindler went to Germany and married, returning later to Chicago. LABOR PACT SIGNED. STOCKHOLM, December 22 (#).— New collective agreements between labor and employers which will insure peace in industry for two years were signed today and were considered to be the best Christmas present that Sweden has had in many years. The agreement was signed after many weeks of negotiations. Workers num- bering 234,000 in shipyards, electrical gndustries. building trades, paper mills, awmills and foundries are affected by the agreement, * H. Stetford, 42 years old; Herbert Car- and we have hope of getting clear in a day or two more. But nothing is so certain as uncertainty down here. Coal has been shifted from the deck below during the day and now we have only a few tons left on the poop in bags. These will also go below. in the next few days. It is a great comfort to know we have such a good supply of coal. ‘We have been much amused today , which come to the edge of to watch us. We have also passed many seals, and not long ago what was apparently a killer whale came up alongside and disappeared under a floe. The abundance of life in these ice fields is remarkable. Comdr. Byrd heard this afternoon that Wilkins had flown over Graham Land and had found that a strait sep- arated that land from the Polar Conti- nent, and sent him the following mes- sage: “H congratulations on your splendid flight. Don't forget you'll find a warm weloame if you fly to our base.” (Copyright, 1923, by the New York Times Co. and the 8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) 0CCOQUAN PRISONERS WILL BE RETURNED Workhouse Officials Leave for Trenton to Bring Four Es- caped Inmates Back. Officials of the District Workhouse at Occoquan left today for Trenton, N. J., to return to #his city four of the fugi- tives who fled their quarters earlier in the week. The fifth man to escape had already surrendered. The capture of the four men—Edward ter, 25 years old: Vaughn Parrent, 27 years old, and Clifford Barnes, 22 years old—resulted from an intercepted “tele- hone here, in which the quar- tet requested funds and told of how they drove to the New Jersey city by way of the Lincoin Highway. police notified Trenton authorities and the men were arrested in the telegraph office. Archie McFarland, the fifth man, | gave himself up to Hagerstown, Md., po- lice on Thursday and was returned to the workhouse. He would have had but one more day to serve, since his family had planned to pay his fine and eff>ct his release. Army to Enter Show Team. An invitation by the Irish Free State for an American Army team to partici- pate in the international military jump- ing competitions, to be held in con- junctjon with the next Dublin Qorse McCONNELL. GIRL'S TRIP WEST HELD WERELY VT Mother of Ruth McConnell Describes Affair as Tea- pot Tempest. By the Assoclated Press. POTSDAM, N. Y., December 22.—Mrs. W. J. Maxfield, remarried mother of Miss Ruth McConnell, who this week was the object of a cross-country pur- suit by airplane, described the whole affair yesterday as a ‘“tempest in a teapot.” Mrs. Maxfleld, who was the first wife of Maj. Henry McConnell of Indianapo- lis, father of the girl, said there had been no secret about their daughter's trip to the West Coast, where she planned to visit relatives. According to Mrs. Maxfield, her daughter met Kenneth B. Coulter, wealthy broker and dairy owner of Rochester, while both were recuperating at the Clifton Springs Sanitarium. Mrs. Coulter, said Mrs. Maxfield, had visited !’Rl'eru:‘ome here Thanksgiving day with ul Concerning Ruth’s reported statement that she went West partly to avoid marrying Coulter, Mrs. Maxfield said: “I assumed he was interested in Ruth, but it seemed to be their own affair and I believed I should be acquainted of their intentions at the proper time.” ‘The second Mrs. McConnell, in In- dianapolis, yesterday was erroneously reported to be the mother of Ruth. It was she who said Dr. David O. Meeker of Rochester had been ordered to take to the air in an effort to intercept the g&::‘ aboard a train, because of her GIRL IN SECLUSION. 71 Youth Who Followed Her in Plane Reaches San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, December 22 (). —Miss Ruth McConnell, whose hasty journey from New York to San Pran- cisco attracted Nation-wide attention when it was learned that a young medi- cal student was pursuing her in an eirplane, remained in seclusion at her hotel here yesterday. David O. Meeker, the man who fol- lowed her across the continent, arrived here by plane today and announced that he had been commissioned by friends of the girl's family to guard her welfare. Meeker went to the Hotel St. Prancis, where Miss McConnell is staying, yes- terday afternoon, supposedly in an at- tempt to persuade her to return to her home in Indianapolis. F. B. Bowen, pilot of the Meeker plane, nosed his airplane into the Oak- land airport yesterday afternoon. Meek- er has indicated that he plans to per- suade Miss McConnell to return East in his plane. Despite the girl's protestations that she would not return to New York be- cause she wished to avoid offers of mar-~ riage made to her there, it was inti- mated that she might yield and re- turn with Meeker, at least as far as Indianapolis. Miss McConnell wanted to get rid of reporters and she did. She ostensibly checked out of the St. Francis Hotel with Mrs. G. M. An- derson, her companion. After that, even San Francisco friends of the young woman were unable to locate herall requests for information being met with the statement that she had left the Local | hotel otel. Mystery of her seclusion appeared to be clearing up later, when repo: persisted that she never left the hotel but merely moved to another room with the connivance of hotel authorities. River Floods Area in Russia. LENINGRAD, Russia, December 22 (#).—The Neva River rose last night to menacing level, flooding the Volodarsky factory district. Brcken ice, driven by the rising river, former huge piles around the Tinland Bridge and the Ivanov cataracts. Neighboring villages were flooded and many persons climbed to the rooftops. Workers were quickly mobilized to save machinery and raw show, August 6 to 9, has been accepted by Secretary Davis. Found Now to Be a By the Assoclated Press. In fixing upon Venus as the goddess of love, the ancients acted without ade- quate astroncmical information. For Venus is one of the colder beauties of the heavens, having a sur- face temperature about 41 degrees be- low freezing. Sirlus or Zeta Oricnis would have been a more scientific se- lection. The latter has a temperature of 41,000 degrees Fahrenheit, while more heat reaches the earth from Sirfus than from any other star. The facts which the ancients needed but did not have were brought out by Dr. Seth B. Nicholson, astronomer of Carnegie Institute of Washington, as a result of the measurement of heat from the stars and planets with a ther- mocouple and the institution's great 100-inch telescope at Mount Wiison Ob- servatory. The big mirror of the telescope, he explains, acts like the familiar “burn- ing glass” which brings heat from the sun into, focus to set fire to a piece of paper. By focusing such radiation from a star at points in a thermocouple where wires of different metals are joined an electric current is gencrated whith varies with the amount of heat re- ceived and can be measured. The thermocouple he uses is made with such minute wires that its com- materials. Latest reports said that the waters were' on the ebb. Venus. Once Revered as GO&&CSS Of Love, Rather Cold Beauty drop of water, and is placed in a vac- uum to diminish loss of heat by con- duction. The mass of the receiver which the star is called upon to heat is only one-third that of the complete thermo- couple, and an extremely sensitive gal- vanometer is used to measure the elec- tric current. “A star of the same color as the sun which is just bright enough to be seen casily without a telescope,” the astrono- mer says, “radiates on the whole United States about the same amount of heat as i; radiated by the sun on one square yard. “When such a star's heat, falling on the 100-inch mirror of the Hooker tele- scope at Mount Wilson, the area of which is six square yards, is focused on the recciver of the thermocouple, the temperature of the receiver is increased about one-half-millionth of ‘a degree Fahrenheit, and a current of electricity is made to flow through the galvanom- eter. The current thus generated is about one-twenty-billlonth of an am- pere.” . Much valuable information about the stars and planets has been gained in this way, he declares, and there is much more to be learned. “It is quite probable,” he says, “that the observed rates of cooling and heat- ing of the moon, as the amount of in- cident sunlight variss, may 1 to very definite knowledge cf the chfecter of plete weight is one-thousandth that of a the rocks of which its sur! is com- poseds” NG STAR, WASHINGTO FUSCHINI IS SILENT IN'SLAYING PROBE [Porter Died at Hands of Un- known Persons, Is Inquest Verdict. Vincent P. Fuschini of the 3400 block of Fifteenth street northeast, who, with Garner S. Barbour of the 1700 block of Massachusetts avenue southeast, was arrested yesterday on a gambling charge following incriminating testimony by | Barbour at a coroner's inquest, refused |to answer questions corroborating that | testimony when put upon the stand to- | day. The inquest, into the slaying Tuesday of Joseph Woodson, colored porter, em- ployed at what Barbour described as a gambling establishment, at 514 Tenth street, resulted in a verdict that the victim came to his death at the hands of persons unknown. Woodson was found wih his head crushed.t Police are still investigating the slaying and are holding James Davis, colored furnace ténder at the Tenth street address, and Ida Kelly, also col- cred, for further questioning. Today Fuschini was represented by Attorney James S. O'Shea, who objected to every question put to the witness by Assistant United States Attorney Neil Burkinshaw that referred in any way to the gambling activities which Barbour yesterday testified were carried on in the place. Asked ‘what was his occupation, | Fuschini replied that he was a cabinet- | maker. Yesterday Barbour testified that upon finding Woodson's body he telephoned |a man who for the past eight months, | he said, has employed him to run a gambling club there and was told to come to his office at Sixth and F streets. There, he said, he met Fu- schini. “Don’t Answer.” Burkinshaw, questioning Fuschini, asked who was with Barbour at Sixth street and Florida avenue. O'Shea: “Don’t answer.” Burkinshaw: “At that time and eight months preceding who employed you?” O'Shea: “Don’t answer.” Burkinshaw: “How did you enter the room where Woodson’s body lay?” Fuschini: “We went down into the basement and up on the elevator to the second floor.” Burkinshaw: “How many telephones did you disconnect?” O'Shea: “Don’t answer.” Eurkinshaw: “Wasn't there a special wire leading to Sam Beard's office?” Barbour named Beard in his testi- n}ony yesterday as the operator of the place. O'Shea: “Don't answer. Burkinshaw: “Didn’t you destroy a quantity of betting slips?” O'Shea: Don't answer.” Burkinshaw: “Isn't it a fact that for the t eight months Sam Beard has employed you to run a crap game there?” O'She “Don’t answer.” Objects to Questions. Barbour was again put on the stand today, but his attorney objected to ques- tions similar to those he answered yes- terday. The questions were asked by Campbell Howard, attorney for Ida Kelly, colored, who is being held in con- nection with murder. * Burkinshaw sought to have the Kelly woman identified by Fuschini as the colored woman he had seen in the base- ment of the building immediately after finding the body. Howard jumpsd to his feet and objected to her bek brought into the room as she appeares at_the door. - - He said the identification might tend to incriminate her. Fuschini said he wouldn't be able to identy her any- way. Jynmes Davis, colored furnace man, told the jury that he tl,lh‘d scen; g!:qg e in progress on the secon g:v?e‘ral times. A large wooden bar broken from a pool table was intro- duced in evidence as the probable weapon with which Woodson was slain. “Frankest Expose” of Gambling. Neil Burkinshaw, proseeutor of the case, termed the testimony given yes- terday by Barbour as the frankest ex- pose of gambling ever made in this city. Barbour's testimony revealed that the room in which Woodson's body was found was accessible only through an electrically locked and reinforced door and the freight elevator serving the building. The lock on the door was opened electrically by pushing a button from the inside and by a key. One of these keys was in the slain man’s possession and the other was held by Barbour. With these two clues to work on Woodson must have opened the door from the inside to permit the entry of some one he knew and of whom he was not afraid, or the killer must have entered the room from the freight ele- vator, to which any one in the build- ing would have access. Burkinshaw and members of the headquarters homicide squad, ~with | Sergt. Carl Sandberg, fingerprint and photographic expert, visited the place yesterday afternoon and were locked in the suite of rooms which formerly housed the gambling establishment for more than an houy, taking pictures and TtS | making measurements. Barbour testified the place was used for gambling and gave the name of the man who employed him to manage it. No steps have yet been made to take the owner into custody. He said he was the first to find Woodson’s body. He notified the colored janitor and then telephoned his employer, who told him to come to his office. There he was in- structed to return and remove the tele- phones and_then notify police. Detective John Fowler of the homicide squad was the first witness yesterday. He said he went to the home of Ida Kelly, colored, the woman claimed to be Woodson's wife, and who admitted that she had been at the Tenth street ad- dress looking for Woodson a short time before the discovery of the body. Fowler said he found a white dress at her home on which, he stated, were a num- ber of stains, seemingly of blood. He said she admitted having worn the dress . Tuesday. GOES TO JAIL FOR YEAR. Colored Man Convicted of Bicycle Theft Faces Other Charges. James Jones, alias James Ramsey, 24, colored, was sentenced to serve one year in jail by Judge Robert E. Mattingly when he admitted the theft of a bicycle | and a sweater in Police Court yesterday. Charged with 19 other offenses he was held under $10,000 bond to await the action of the grand jury. The other charges lodged against him include those of housebreaking, petit larceny and pocketpicking. BAND CONCERT. Band concert by the United States Soldiers' Home Band Qrchestra, Stanley Hall, this evening, at 5:30 o’clock. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. Anton Pointner, assistant leader. March, “Thundering Cannons”..Wacek ’...Koppitz Acte, (a) “Intermezzo-Amina” .Lincke (b) “Ths American Patrol,” Meacham Gems from musical comedy, “The Blue Kitten”... Fox Trot, “Mamma’s Gro and Papa’s Grown Old" Popular song waltz, “Twilight Flnnlei‘l;'ltsog:s Like This”..... “The Spangled Banner.” Notice—There will be no concert on Caristmas day, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928.° Plane, equipped with a kitchen, refrigerator, radio room and space for 20 passengers and their baggage, will be tested at Keyport, N. J., in a few days by Leigh Wade, one of the Army around-the-world fiyers, for Vincent J. Burnelli, builder of the huge monoplane. It was constructed for P. W. Chapman, a Chicago banker, for commercial flying. The machine has a wing span of 39 feet and is powered by two 650-horsepower Curtiss Congueror motors. It is of all-metal construction and has a cabin space 11 feet 6 inches wide and 17 feet long. speed of 175 miles an hour and a cruising speed of 150 miles. MAN, 76, BATTLES WITH BANDIT LONG ENOUGH TO STOP ESCAPE Merchant Receives Skull Fracture—Assailant Said to Have Confessed. Accused Is Held on Open Charge Pending Outcome of Victim’s Wounds. * ‘The courage of a 76-year-old mer- chant, who grappled with a would-be hold-up man yesterday afternoon al- though the latter had slugged him twice on the head with an iron bar, resulted in the arrest of Louis Brown, colored 23, of the 600 block of C street southeast, by police of the eleventh fiminct. The merchant, Isaac Sakolski, of 1225 Good Hope road southeast, is in Cas- ualty Hospital with a possible fracture of the skull. Brown, police say, has ad- mitted the attempted hold-up of Sa- kolskl. He is also alleged to have con- fessed that he participated in the at- tack upon David Bernstein, a merchant at 1224 Seventh street, Thursday night. Hits Man With Bar. Sakolski was alone in his store yes- terday afternoon when Brown walked in and asked for a sweater. As the merchant stooped over to reach under the counter the colored man struck him on the head with an iron bar. The blow glanced off, and Sakolski straightened up, calling for help. Brown started to run from the store and was pursued by Sakolski. The merchant overtook the bandit at the door and grabbed him. The Ilatter turned and struck Sakolski a second blow with the bar, knocking him down. Brown then escaped from the store, but Sakolski’s cries had attracted the SOUTHERN CLERKS 10 VISIT “HOME” Railway to Run Special to Bring Workers Back From Atlanta Tonight. As a reward for loyalty in transferring themselves to Atlanta last Fall, the Southern Railway Co.’is acting the role of Santa Claus for approximately 700 former clerks of its Washington offices who are returning here tomorrow morn- ing on two special trains to spend Christmas in the place they still regard as “home, sweet home.” To make their home-coming really worth while, the Atlanta offices will not reopen until Thursday morning, thereby giving the former Washingtonians an extra day of leave. Several weeks ago applications for | passes from Atlanta began to filter into the Washington offices from exiled clerks who were beginning to feel the pangs of home-sickness with the ap- proach of Christmas. So Southern of- ficials here held a conference. They made inquiries to determine how many in of the 1,100 clerks who had left here last October desired to return home for the holidays and favorable responses were received from fully 700 of them. Owing to the Christmas rush Pull- man cars were not available to form so large a “special” so the Southern of- ficials arranged for 18 first-class day coaches, with dining cars, to convey the | bY exiles home. To make the trip as com- fortable as possible each car will be filled to only half its capacity. Then came the problem of a day or night trip, and when put to a vote of the Atlanta employes, they agreed prac- tically unanimously that they would rather travel by night to avail them- selves of an extra day in Washington. So the Santa Claus special will leave Atlanta at 7 o'clock tonight, arriving in Union Station tomorrow morning about 11:30 o’clock. Like their day of departure, the hour of the home-coming will find a large group of relatives and friends to greet their arrival. “Such loyalty to the company as these men and women displayed in _being willing to leave their homes in Wash- ington is worth being ized,” & g recognized, Southern official sald today. “We felt h:pg!er it would make their Christmas it they could return home. haven't been in Atlanta long enough ’yet to call it ‘home,’ and the company felt everybody would be happier for a home- coming Christmas.” The departure of the 700 clerks would so cripple the Atlanta force that South- ern officials decided to give the clerks an additional day. The returning trains will Jeave Washington early Wednesday morning, the day after Christmas, an are due to reach Atlanta about 10:30 o'clock in the evening. INFLUENZA ON WANE. Los Angeles Epidemic Believed® Past Peak as Cases Drop. LOS ANGELES, December 22 (#).— Influenza attacks, which reached epi- demic proportions here two weeks ago, were reported on the wane in Southern California, after having taken 225 lives here this month. Health Department figures fixed the number of cases reported yesterday as 103, the lowest since the peak of 800 cases in one day last week. The total number of cases this month was re- ported as 7,540. Dr. W. M. Dickie, State health of- ficer, arrived yesterday from San Fran- glsco for a conference on the situation, ISAAC SAKOLSKIL —=Star Staff Photo: attention of neighbors and the delay had given them time to summon Po- licemen W. R. Greenfield and R. E. Burton of the eleventh precinct. After a short chase the officers overtook the man and placed him under arrest. Brown told Detectives Richard H. Mansfield and Curtis Trammell that he had originally planned to rob the store with two other men, but that he changed his mind and undertook the robbery alone. Admits Prison Term. He also told the detectives he was discharged from the Maryland peni- tentlary in Baltimore on November 6, having completed a three-year sentence for robbing a store at Reds Corner, Md. While in prison, he said, he worked in the shoe factory and earned $563, which was given him at the time of his release. He sald he lost most of the money gambling. Brown is held on an open charge, police having decided to withhold for- mal charges until the extent of Sakolski’s injuries can be definitely de- termined. MILLIONAIRE HOB0 DIVORCED BY WIFE Woman Says James E. How Told Her He Preferred So- ciety of Tramps. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 22.—James The plane has estimated high —Assoclated Press Photo. NAVAL-PEACE PACT ACTION IN SENATE PLEASES COOLIDGE (Continued From First Page.) a unanimous vote of the League of Nations Council. Under these circumstances Germany and Austria have begun to effect a practical union pending such time as they shall be able to declare the union in a legal manner. The penal codes of the two countries are now completely unified. Railway, monetary and even customs unions are being studied. There have been official exchanges between Berlin and Vienna and there is a certain degree of educational union. It is said that German capital gradually acquiring control of the Austrian press and industries. The object of these movements is obviously to place the uniting countries in a position where they will be able to face the opponents to anschluss with a situation where unity already exists in everything except in name. Some Austrians Balk. It is true that a few Austrian Con- servatives balk at seeing their nation disappear into greater Germany, and the German Conservatives dislike the Austrian socialism and Austrian Catholi- cism, but the mass of the population of both countries now openly favors the union viewpont. The Austro-German viewpoint is simple. Austria and Germany, it is argued, are composed of “one people, one na- tion.” The principles of nationality and self-determination upon which the peace treaty was supj based, are in- voked. Austria, it is said, as now con- stituted cannot exist. Union is a “great and inevitable historic evolution,” which In the long run nothing can prevent— g doubtless with a European customs union, with its final realization a “Pan-Europa.” To this the French and the allies reply somewhat as follows: Austria and Germany have never in history been united. Self-determina- tion implies oppression of the racial minority. In any case it does not con- fer the right of national suicide. When Belgium 1831, .after secession from Holland, wanted to join France Britain prevented the union by threat of war, and 11 years later even vetoed a PFranco-Belgium customs union. ‘The United States, under the Monroe doctrine, successfully opposes abdica- #&3 of bindependAeI:cf'1 or cession of ter- ry by any American to - Al;xlerlun mu.‘ S lany concessions have been made to Austria in the way of loans as repar; tions settlement, and commercial 1':# ties to make Austria’s economic situa- tion easier. The Little Entente has offered to take Austria in and make better economic arrangements, but Austria has refused on the ground that it could not join any combination not including Ger- Eads How, whose possession of a sub- | man; stantial fortune and choice of itinerants for companions combined to give him the title, “the Millionaire Hobo,” was free today to lead his life among his migratory friends. Superior Judge B. Rey Schauer grant- ed a divorce here yesterday -to Mrs. How and she was given custody of their 11-year-old adopted son, Holger. How was not in court and did not contest the suit. Mrs. How testified that her husband frequently brought *“hoboes” home to inner; that he informed her he pre- ferred their society to her’s and that on their wedding trip he humiliated her by taking her to the dining car of a transcontinental train and then dry crusts which he carried Last April 4, she said, he picked up his hat and coat and left after telling her that he was not going to live with her any more. Mrs. How told the court that her ec- centric spouse had an income of $800 a month on property left him by an aunt. Her testimony was corroborated a woman friend, and announcement was made that a property settlement had been made out of court. Chlicags on Avgust 16, 1620, Ho o on August 16, . W known nationally as the founder of the “Hobo College,” and Mrs. How told the court he had spent most of his time away from home in the interest of the college and ‘“the American hobo.” PLANS TELEVISION TESTS. Radio Commission Sets Aside Broadcast Band for Experiments. ‘The Radio Commission today decided to set aside a special broadcast band for television experiments and devel- opment. The commission also decided that it would not renew licenses of in- dividuals or companies who have been conducting television experiments in the regular broadcast bands. These licenses ex~ire January 1. Radio engineers have found that tele- vision experiments in the lar broad- cas bands have caused considerable in- terference. The frequencies to be set aside for television purposes have not been selected. . If Germany is allowed to annex Aus- tria, which has an area three times that of Belgium and a population of seven millions, Germany would have a total population of seventy millions and be :g:smenbly stronger even than before - war. For she would dominate the smaller states of Central Europe, where formerly Russia and Austro-Hungary played counterbalancing rales. Germany would inclose Czechoslovakia as in the hollow of a hand, and with the help of Hungary could soon extend her sway throughout the Balkans, join Russia to crush Poland and dictate the will of the entire continent. “Mittel-Europa,” the main objective of the World War, would then be real- ized. The world balance would be un- settled. The treaty of Versailles would be overthrown and the peace of the world endangered. France and Allies. For all these reasons Prance and the allies feel that it is in their vital in- terest to see that the treaty is faith- fully observed. This is also why M. Briand, in the present negotiations for the evacuation of the Rhineland, keeps asking Foreign Minister Stresemann for reassurances regarding anschluss. It is also why Prance hesitated to sign the Kellogg pact. She feared that if Ger- and Austria ‘declared a union, despite the treaties, France and the allies would be obliged passively to ac- cept the accomplished fact, because the Kellogg pact forbids the use of force except in selft-defense. - British Liberals, hostile to France and desirous of seeing a new balance of power between France and Germany, favor anschluss, but the Conservative British government favors the French viewpoint, at least for the present. 26 NEW FLU CASES. One Death Reported to Health De- partment Here Today. ‘Twenty-six new cases of influenza and one new death from the disease were reported to the District Health Depart- ment today. The death was the thir- teenth caused by the disease during RECORD PREES PAD FOR GENS AND AT Jewelry, Especially, Brings Fabulous Figures in Lon- don Salesrooms. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 22.—Fabulous prices are being paid for jewelry at the pre-Christmas sales now being held in Christie’s and Sotheby’s famous sales- rooms. A million and a dollars was spent in one day on jewels and art objects. Jewelry sold at Christie's on this day brought $950,000. This easily set up a | record, the best previous sale, held in | the same rooms in 1920, having realized % $648,665. The sensation of the record jewelry |sale was a huge and historic emerald, | formerly the property of a maharajah, | which was sold by Lady Rachel Verney. This gorgeous gem, which was brought from the East by Lord Amherst, Gov~ ernor General of India from 1923 to 1928, realized $233,500. ‘The next best price, $225,000, was paid for a single string necklace of 79 magnificent pearls. These sums are just under the record price given at Christie’s for a single article of jewelry, which is $250,000, obtained at the Red Cross sale 10 years ago. Furniture, pictures and books also found a high market. The old English and French furniture of the late Mar- quis of Lincolnshire brought $150,000 at Christie’s, a pair of Chippendale mahogany writting desks realizing $13.- 650 and a Louls XVI writing table $9,345. At Sotheby’'s nearly $100,000 war taken in pictures and - books. John Ferneley's spirited painting of the Bel- voir hunt in full cry, in which are eight portraits, was knocked down for $15,000 to Messrs. Ackerman, and » Zoffany portrait group, including a bo: fiying a kite, fetched $12,250. COOLIDGE HOPING MYERS WILL REMAIN President Wishes Federal Trade Commissioner to Continue Util- ity Power Investigation, By the Associated Press. President Coolidge hopes that Abram Myers, who has resigned from the Fed- eral Trade Commission, may be able to continue as a member of the com- mission until its investigation of public utilitv power has been completed. The Chief Executive does not know as yet who will he appointed as Myers’ successor. He rey the posts on the lco - ] Myclllt to fill, lllld he looks upon A ers as particularly fitted for the duties which have been placed upon him as a member of the commission. It was pointed out that Myers for & considerable time was a member of under the law, which, in the President’s opinion, qualified him for service on the commission. GEN. LAKE RE-ELECTED HEAD OF CITIZEN BODY Glover Park Association Chooses Officers and Indorses Education Board's Proposals. Gen. H. O. Lake was re-elected to the presidency of the Glover Park Citizens’ Assoclation last night at a meeting in the Home Industrial School, 2570 Wisconsin avenue. James E. Poole was chosen first vice president, Raymond H. Reubsan, second vice &resldem; Benjamin C. McQuay, secre- ry; H. O. Kephart, treasure d Mrs. H. O. Kephart, se: The association voted in answer to a question sent out by President Charles F. Carusi of the Board of Education as to favored an appropriation of $3,000,000 next year for school buildings and grounds, in dition to the regular school appropria: n. The association also took favorable action on a resolution fidence in Dr. George C. president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. WEATHER REPORT CHANGE Forecasts for South to Be Issued From New Orleans. ‘The Weather Bureau announced yes- terday that, effective January 1, the weather forecasts for Alabama, Missis- sippi and the portion of Florida west of the Apalachicola River would be is- sued at New Orleans instead of Wash- ington, as at present. The New. Orleans forecast also will include storm warnings for the coast of the Gulf of Mexico between the Apa- lachicola and the mouth of the Missis- sippi River. The change was made be- cause of better communication facilities and the nearness of New Orleans to the affected areas. The New Orleans Weather Bureau now issues forecasts for Louisiana, Ar- kansas, Oklahoma and Texas and storm warnings for the west portion of the Gulf coast. FASBIRIACRERTY ok S Joseph H. Shea Dies. INDIANAPOLIS, December 22 (#).— Joseph H. Shea, Ambassador to Chile during the administration of President ‘Wilson, died early today at the Meth- odist Hospital here. Policeman’s Fine Approved. ‘The District Commissioners at their board meeting yesterday confirmed the finding of the Police Trial Board in fining Pvt. H. B. Gilbert, tenth precinct, $150 on a charge of intoxication. December and the 26 new cases brought :‘l;neqtloatll reported during the month up d| Merchant Will Play Santa Claus In Giving Boxes of Candy to Children Inspired by the example of two other merchants in playing Santa Claus, to the poor children of Washington by glving them overcoats, shoes and stock- | Hornin ings, Bernard Harding, 309 Seventh street, has announced he will give away 100 5-pound boxes of chocolate candy. Mr. 's annuoncement is con- tained in a letter to Isaac Gans, man- ager of Saks & Co., in which he cites Mr. Gans’ custom of donating coats to poor children, and says he has “always felt as if I would like something for these youngsters.” Ac- cordingly, Mr. Hardnig requests that those who are given overcoats at Saks be sent across Seventh street to to do | “kide his place of business to receive a 5- pound box of chocolates. an dst for the ‘The shoes teockings children are being g’v:n by George D. Mtssices” Akcgetiier 128 paire ot ehoss . r 12 8! and 250 pairs of by him. The 41 children in the sion’s Emergency received theirs, while 84 more pairs will YA KNow), SINCE THE NURSE HAD MAMA MAKE ME Go To Beo EARLY AN DRINK LoTs OF miLk I FEEL STRONG AN’ HEAUTHY. 1 AINT GONNA 8¢ SKINNY ANYMORE be given the children who attend the Mission’s Christmas party at Keith's party the children are given of Hrl?l. wi 100 over- | Thea! ter. At the