Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, .DECEMBER 31, 1928. Where tra wreckers caused the Santa Fe express from Los A Seven passengers were injured in occurred on the Mohave Desert me Spikes had been drawn and bolts 1 one rail. the derailment of ngeles to Chicago. the wreck, which ar Hesperia, Calif. loosened to remove At right: Christmas party —Associated Press Photo. A novel exercise for weak spines. Youngsters at a Berlin home for children with defective spines taking their daily stair-climbing exercise on “all fours” as the latest method of treatment. They spend thres hours daily in this kind of exercise. —Wide World Photos. BRIDE'S LETTER ‘SADDENS BANDIT Williams, Earle Theater Rob- ber, Weeps as He Reads Note From Wife. An air mail letter, the text of which 4s unknown to police, from his 18-year- old blond bride of a few days, has caused the first signs of weakening in the defiant demeanor of William El- more Williams, confessed Earle Theater bandit. 3 The letter was the first communica- tion received by Williams from the girl since he was taken last week by Chi- cago police and brought to Washington to face trial. It was received at police Theadquarters ay night and was taken to W ms. a cell at the fwelfth precinct, by Detective H. K. Wilson, in charge of the case. Wilson told the prisoner that the let- for had not been opened by police and that if Willlams would give assurances the letter was personal and had no bearing on the charges against him, its contents should remain a secret between the couple. Williams promised he would make no effort to take advantare of the offer. As he read the letter, Williams’ face showed signs of nervousness, and when he finished the reading he covered his face, deathly white, with his hands and sobbed. “Is there anything in the letter bear- ing upon the case?” Detective Wilson wcked when the man behind the bars, had partly re- d | States under Mr. T der the m “T'll take vour word for it,” the de- tmctive told him, After Williams admitted going to Baltimore after holding up th> Earle Theater, local police notified authorities of that city of the arrest, and the Jatter reported a desire to have members of their force come here and question him. Detective Wilson also arranged for & further questioning of the prisoner at volice headquarters today. 4 Copics of photographs of the bandit have been mailed to police of citics in all sections of the country in an effort to determine if he is m c f his allegad connectio youth after the I held at No. 1 po! communicate with hi Inspector Henry G. Pr: tective Wilson today announced the prisoners will be taken to Police Court Wednesday morning, where the assist- attorney will hear the story ant distri igation that led to the ar- of the in rests of the two men and of statements they made to police. have both men ar- They | raigned on charges of robbery. may be given a preliminary they may waive such hearing, and later. the grand jury wil ossibly next wee! P’- gation of the whol nted in anv of hearing or e HOOVER T0BE MUM (NTIL INAUGURATED President-Elect Determined Not to Interfere With Cool- idge Completing Term. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Herbert Hoover, President-elect, will make no public statement of policy and no speeches of any kind from now until the day he delivers his inaugural ad- dress. This was the word conveyed here to- day. It means that the President-elect | has determined to do nothing to dnter- | fere in any way with the completion | by President Coolidge of his term and | that any conferences which are held | here prior to inauguration will be in-; formal and of an advisory character.j Mr. Hoover will stick to his role of private citizen, consulting with leaders and gathering information for use after March 4. Good Will Speeches Made. Mr. Hoover's speechmaking on the Southy American trip was confined to messages of good will and were not intended as indications of a particular | trend in foreign policy. One newspaper | interview in which “Mr. Hoover said | that he did not favor intervention in the affairs of Pan-American countries construed as a rebuff toward the Coolidge policy in Nicaragua but it was not so intended. Mr. Hoover as a mem= ber of the Coolidge cabinet has approved the Coolidge foreign policy. The foreign policy of the United Hoover in Central h America will be what it has | been under preceding administrations— n opportunistic one. The facts and circumstances of a given situation de- |termine the amount of intervention, . diplomatic or otherwise, that is decided | upon by American Presidents, all, how- | ‘ever, with the general di: imer of | | permanent occupation or annexation of iterritory, the withdrawal from Cuba and ! xico being cited as sufficient proof | at the United States has acted sin- T : nd Sou N | thi | ce | Trip Boon to Future. | The trip_of Mr. Hoover to South will, nevertheless, play an im- t part'in future ‘relatio; of the past disputes tes has| Made by Police Here in 48 Hours | e nterpreted in in which it was open to Mr. Hoover has managed, by trip, to get more space in the South American newspapers giving the Ameri- ! can viewpoint and conception of rela- tions between sovereign peoples than it has been possible to get when isolated cases of frie 1 arose. | Mr. Hoover's good will tour is re- | garded here as the forerunner of other I trips by the new Executive looking | toward the same result. It would not | be surprising if Mr. Hoover took a good will trip to Evorpe some day when the Gladys Adelaide Cra Representative Crail of California, In the costume which won first prize for her as the prettiest at the daughter of en for congressional'and cabinet youngsters last week at the Congressional Club. —Associated Press Photo. Auto lands upright in fatal plunge from bridge. the James River Bridge at Richmond, Va., the light coupe of Frank Hillock of Morristown, N. J., crashed through the railing and dropped The driver was killed, but the car stayed on 50 feet to the rocks below. its four wheels. Members of the Constitution Chapter of the Daughters of the American Re: placed for the chapter yesterday afternoon by Mrs. G. D. Ellsworth. Chaplain Skidding_from guarantor that it will be paid. —Associated Press Photo. Dr. Mesirow’s divorce. : The latest invention for speeding up the air mail. It is the new package pick-up device, invented by Dr. Lytle S. Adams of Seattle, Wash., which has just been constructed under his supervision at Curtiss Field, Long Island. It will be first tested in an en durance flight to permit the plane to pick up tanks of gasofine. Mme, Trene Pavloska, the Chicago Civic Opera Co. prima donna, with her husband, Dr. Maurice E. Mesirow, whose alimony agreement to pay his divorced wife $45 a week was signed by the singer as They were married 24 hours after —Associated Press Photo. volution at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where a wreath was Vaughn of Fort Myer led the members in prayer.—Star Stafl Photo. BURGLAR FORCES LOCKS AND GETS AWAY WITH $500 Money Taken From Secret Com- partment of Automobile in Dr, J. W. Ross’ Garage. The methods of an enterprising | | burglar who appeared to know exactly what he was looking for were described to police Sunday night by Dr. Julian W. Ross, 619 Florida avenue, in reporting the theft of $500 in cash and valuable papers, taken from a secret, locked com- partment in an_automobile in his ga- rage, which itself was securely locked. Dr. Ross explained he had left the money in his car over the week end for deposit today. He berthed his car in his garage late Saturday night and did not discover the theft until Sunday night, when next he had cecasion to use the machine. Both locks apparently had been forced, Dr. Ross said. Notangible clue {to the identity of the burglar had been i developed this morning. 100 DRINKING ARRESTS Ending at 8 Today. One hundred arrests for intoxication were made by the police during the 48 hours ended at 8 o'clock this morn- ing, while arrests for sale, possession and transportation of intoxicants dur- ing the same period totaled 22. Two arrests were made on charges of driving while drunk and a similar number for drinking in public. Selzures during the two-day period included 396 quarts of whisky, 9 quarts of al- cohol ana 2 automobiles. i | cal situatiort abroad has clarified .| and a specific opportunity offers itself i|for the improvement of “relations be- : | {tween European and American peoples. «(Copyright, 1928, | politi ‘The territorial army of Great Britain recruited 19,033 men in the pest year, a gain of 6,466 over the previous twelve anenths, | | Slayer-Suicide Asks Husband's Thanks For Killing “Such a Woman as Your Wife” Early Sunday morning Heath arose, wrote five farewell notes, and awakened Mrs. Snyder. They chatted together, then Heath placed the muzzle of a revolver against Mrs. Snyder's temple and pulled the trigger. When Mrs. Nellie Quickey, Heath's By the Associated Press. DANVILLE, Ind., December 31.— Ralph M. Heath, 34, shot and killed | Mrs. W. E. Snyder and then turncd the revolver on himself yesterday, leav- ing a note to the woman's husband saying: “You should thank me for getting rid of such a woman as your wife.” In one room at the Snyder Summer estate here police found the body of Mrs. Snyder, 45, shot through the head. In another was the body of Heath of Indianapolis, operator of the Snyder poultry farm. Police said Snyder, manager of the Hotel Seward at Detloit, aware of his wife's love affair with Heath, sent her to dismiss Heath. the shots she went to investigate. Heath ordered her into the kitchen un- der pain of death. Heath then went to his own room and killed himself. 1In a note to his parents Heath said: “I know I have been a bad boy,” and asked them to “forgive and forget.” He described his act as the “best way out.” Heath was to have entertained his parents at a New Year celebration today. Stop worrying about your post- ing falling behind, and let a Star Help Wanted advertisement quickly find you an efficient book- keeper. Practically all the best people in and around Washington read The Star. Hence it is hardly possible for The Star Help ad to fail in its mission. ; Help advertisements for the daily Star are received up to 11 p.m. day before issue and for the Sunday Star up to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. ANGELL WILL DISCUSS DEMOCRACY’S CRISIS Lecturer to Open American Tour With Address Here Thurs- day Night. Norman Angell, well known publicist, | will open his American lecture tour with | aunt, employed as housekeeper, heard |an address at_the Central Community Center Yhursday night at 8:15 o'clock. His subject will be “The . Crises in Democracy.” Mr. Angell is dis- tinguis by his aptitude in answer- ing questions clearly and in- formatively and his mode of lecturing is to carry on a conversation with his_audience. His lectures last year Were spon- sored by the Car- negie Endowment and he addressed the student bodies of practically all of the leading American and European universities. Since the World War, Mr. Angell has written a great deal on the subject of crises in democracy and how to meet them with better electoral tools. RITCHIE TO RECEIVE. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 31— Hundreds of Maryland citizens, includ- ing officers of the National Guard from all over the State, will attend the re- ception to be given at the Executive Mansion here tomorrow by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, The reception will be from 3 to 5 pm. Norman Angell, —Wide World Photos. Ernst Udet, one of Germany’s greatest aces of the World War, who was a toasted guest the other day in setting a precedent for the ciub since the war. Paris of the Aero Club of France, Udet's war record credits him with bringing down more than 70 planes. —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. CANCER AID S SEEN - N PLANT STUDIES Discoveries May Throw Light on Solution of Disease in Humans. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 31.—Discov- eries having to do with “plant cancers,” which may eventually contribute toward the solution of the human cancer prob- lem, were reported today to the plant doctors of American Pytopathological Society. The plant disease, known as crown gall, causes considerable damage to vegetables and fruit trees, attacking them chiefly at the point where the root joins the stem. Like many human diseases it is caused by bacteria. New evidence of tne relationship be- tween crown gall and cancer in animals was presented by Dr. Michael Levine of the Monteflore Hospital, New York, in a paper dealing with counts of the chromosomes which carry the inherit- able characteristics of species of plants and animals from parents to progeny. Just as the chromosomes in the tis- sues of animals and, presumably, in human beings, are doubled and quad- rupled when they have cancer, he said, those of beets and flowering tobacco are multiplied when they are infected with crown gall. Virus Attacks Bacteria. The bacteria that caused crown gall are, in turn, subject to a virus disease which distroys them, Dr. J. H. Muncie and M. K. Patel of the Towa State Col- lege, told the plant doctors. This virus, they said, is effective only against the crown gall bacteria. Four University of Wisconsin investi- gators, Dr. A. J. Riker, H. E. Sacen, Dr. W. H. Wright and W. N. Banfield, re- ported that they had been able to es- tablish a difference between these bac- teria and those which produce the hairy root disease, which heretofore has been thought to originate from the same cause. Diseases which attack the plants that mal he world a more beautiful place to live in also engaged the at- tention of the plant doctors. The basal rot which causes heavy losses to narcissus growers in the United States and Holland was* described by Dr. Freeman Weiss of the Department of Agritulture as having been unusually bad this year on Long Island and in Virginia. Does Not Cause Disease. ‘The fungus which causes this disease, he said, begins its attack in the field, and unfavorable conditions during har- vest and storage, instead of being the cause of the disease, as had been sup- posed, merely contributes to its develop- ment. Under accepted methods of cultivation and storage, he declared, losses up to 50 per cent in cerfain varieties are sustained even by ex- perienced growers. One Virginia grower, he said, has reported a loss of more than $10,000 in bulbs of a single | NOBBERE PROBE * BY POUIEFUTIE Attempt to Capture Three Bandits Unsu: ssful as Chase Continues. AR RSN Only slight success attended efforts of police today as they sought to ap- | prehend three bandits who yesterday | held up a taxi driver and Steve O'Don- | nell, jockey, robbing them of cash and | their ‘automobiles. | The taxicab, taken from Ray H. | Shieids, 3827 Thirteenth street, in front of Catholic University early yesterday | morning, was found abandoned in | Soldiers’ Home grounds several hours | later. The two men who took the cab | and '$9 from Shields, at pistol point, | have not been. found. O'Donnell tuld pokice he was robbed of his automobile and $290, by a man he had picked up on Defense Highway after the stranger had hailed him and | asked for a ride. After driving a short distance, O'Donnell said he left his seat to look at the gasoline taik. When he started to re-enter the machine, he said, his passenger covered him with a pistol, took the money and drove away.in the machine. O'Donnell, who was stopping at the Plaza Hotel, left last night withou® leaving any forwarding address. Police said they did not know his wherealouts and had not been able to find the automobile or the bandit. Police beliéve the three robbers are members of a band figuring in numer- ous recent highway robberies in this vicinity. Robert H. Featherstone, propriétor of the Thomas Circle Garage, 1114 Ver- mont avenué, réported the loss of $200 Saturady night to a sneak thief who entered the tmiding and removed re- moved the money. from an open safe, when the night manager was called to the rear. to overcome. microscapic. eelworms and small bulb fiie: This treatment con- E of immersion for two and one- half hours in ‘Watér ‘at’110 degrees and, he declared, can aid in spreading the { basal rot fungus when healthy and dis- | eased bulbs are put together in the | same bath. To overcome this danger, he sug- gested immediate planting in cool soil after the treatment, or the addition of {a fungicide to the water. The repro- ductive bodies of the fungus, he said, can survive at least seven hours in water at 110 degrees. Means of controlling the wilt dis- ease of asters occupied Dr. L. O. Kun- kel of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, and Drs. L. R. Jones and Regina S. Riker of the University of Wisconsin. Spread of the leaf hoppers which carry the disease from plant to plant can be cut down, they said, by use of screens of wire netting or tobacco cloth four to eight feet high. Dr. E. E. Mains of the Indiana agri- cultural experiment station, s2id experi~ ments there had shown that the , Oregon, blueflag and yellowflag v variety in one year. This disease, he pointed out, compli- cates the treatment of imperted bulbs | S of Iris, together with some of the sweet and German species, were *1 -2 resiste ent than others to the rust dic:ase,