Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1929, Page 14

1929. ‘THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. ¢, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5. Members of the Bryn Mawr-Wellesley scholarship fund commitiee who are arranging for the benefit theatrical performance to be given for the fund at the Left to right, sitting: Miss Christy Jones, Miss Elizabeth Riley, Mrs. E. K. Morris, Miss Camline Johnson and Miss Violet Whelan. Mrs. J. Austin Stone, Miss Gertrude Macatee and Mrs. Edward Horgan. National Theater January 11. Standing: “Private Citizen” Alfred E. Smith has opened at 331 Madison avenue, si Governor of New York. ' The former go office as a place to receive friends and ing his hotel suite. APACHE KIDNAPERS SOUGHT BY POSSE Pursuers Hope to Recover Son of Sonora Cattleman in Indian Lair. By the Associated Press. DOUGLAS, Ariz, January 5.—Tr2k- king into the wild ravines of the Mex- ican mountains south of the border here, Prancisco Fimbres today was leading a party of 12 men bent upon finding the rendezvous of a band of Apache Indians, with whom they ex- pect to find Fimbres' kidnaped son. The expedition, which carried sup- plies for two weeks, was authorized. by Gov. Fausto Topete of Sonora to huat down and wipe out the band. ‘The son of Fimbres, who is a Sonora | cattleman, was carried away by the hostile Apache hand in October, 1925, when the family was set upon while riding to the Fimbres' home on Bavispe River. Mrs. Fimbres was killed and her body carried away. ‘The cattleman and a.daughter sur- vived the attack and escaped to their home, but Mexican officials at Agua Prieta, Mexican border town near hers, last night declared that two other per- sons were captured in the attack. The officials believed these persons also were being held prisoner by the Apaches, who live in the rocky ranges which form the border betweer the States of | Chihuahua and Sonora. * The Agua Prieta officials said Gov. ‘Topete was moved to hunt down the Apaches by the additional reason of recent large property losses in the Ba- vispe country. Evidences pointed to the wild band as responsible for raids in which large droves of cattle had beea stolen. The Apaches are the surviving de- scendants of the nttorious Geronimo band which 40 years ago terrorizad Southern Anzona. The band was broken up after many were captured by United States soldiers. Apache sur- vivors entrenched themselves decp in the mountains and continued their forays. . “DEAD” VETERAN DIES. Union Soldier's Death Reported After Battle in "62. OAKLAND, Calif,, January 5 (#).— George Perry, 90, legally dead since hel disappeared in battle during the Civil ‘War, died at the home of San Fran- cisco relatives yesterday on the eve off his re-establishment as a citizen and a | veteran of the Civil War. : | Perry was a Union soldier at the| Battle of Fredericksburg in '62. Struck | in the head by grapeshot, he lost his | identity temporarily and wandered away from his home, where he was be- | ing cared for. Later when he recovered | his memory, he sought an Army dis- | charge, but was informed that he was‘ dead. An Army mate had signed an| affdavit telling of his death and burial in a trench full of unidentified dead. Frog Price Mounts. PARIS (#)—Only can afford to eat frogs today. A small rich Frenchmen | —sStar Staff Photo. at his desk in the office which he ince the end of his long tenure as vernor explained that he opened the business associates who were crowd- —Associated Press Photo. Note Found at Sea Puzzles Officials of German Embassy By the Assoclated Press. An unusual message reminiscent of the plight of Robinson Cruso —which was picked up in a sealed bottle on the German coast of the North Sea last October, has been submitted to the State Depart- ment by the German embassy in an effort to secure information about its writer. ‘The message, which was difficult to read, has been deciphered as: “Help, help. I, Cranston Mar- shall, am on island, 45 degrees latitude, 60 degrees longitude. Only wild goats and (?) to eat. Cranston Marshall.” ‘The German authorities said the message does not show either north or south latitude is meant but the former intersection would lie in the vicinity of the Canadian coast. The message first was sub- mitted to the Canadian govern- ment, which stated it had been unable to ascertain anything defi- nite relative to its writer. FALSE CLUE GIVEN IN LASSITER CASE | Anonymous Letter, Giving Loca- tion of Man Who Kidnaped Policeman, Proves Fake. Information contained in an anony- mous letter received by Inspector Ernest R. Brown as to the location of the man who Wednesday night kidnaped Traffic to be false last night, when Headquar- ters Detective Dennis Cullinane went to the place named to arrest him. ‘The letter mentioned a certain apart- ment house near Dupont Circle. No one answering the description given by Lassiter was found there. ‘The detective expressed the opinion this morning that the letter was merely a ruse perpetrated by the kidnaper to throw police off his trail. The letter could have been written, Cullinane pointed out, to induce the police to lessen their scarch of other portions of the city and concentrate all their ac- tivities on the location given in the letter as the man's home. Seven Dips Daily For Seven Years Is Record of Rabbi, 73 By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 5—A 73- year-old man for the last seven years has been diving into the sea seven times every day except on religious holidays. He is Rabbi Narun Weisman of Brooklyn. Every day h3 arises at 2:30 am., spends an hour in prayer, drinks a punch, drapes a coat over his naked form, dons a fur cap—in Winter weather—walks to a Coney Island breakwater and plunges into the ocean seven times. He usually stays in the water 15 minutes. Then he lights a fire from newspapers cn the beach, dries himself, puts on his clothes, goes back home and attends dish of succulent legs costs $2, and | most restaurants have taken them off mfhalc menus entirels., to his official duties. He has been ill only one day in seven yoara Policeman Carl Lassiter from his post of | duty at Ninth and F streets, was found | Here is Roy Riegels, California center, in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena. e e Collegiate fencers take to the roof to develop sure footing. Members of the New York Uni- wversity fencing class enjoy a skyline view of New York as they cavort around with their foils on top of one of the university buildings. They have to watch their step when they get near the edge. —Associated Press Photo, Teeh game. by running toward his own goal when he picked up a fumble, is seen sitting on the ground holding his head after the run, while his teammates attempt to console him. The ball is seen where it was put in play after the run, 6 inches from the The dramatic climax of that 7. Roy Riegels, University of Calif California goal, off on that run in the wrong direction that sent a chill through the New Year day throng Just behind Riegel is Benny Lom, California’s crack halfback, who vainly tried to reverse his erring teammate and stopped him only when he was about to plunge over his own goal line after running 75 yards.—Associated Press Photo. most powerful ever built. It is designed to haul three ordinary freight trains over mountain grades. The locomotive giant of them all. Just constructed by the American Locomotive Co. for the Northern Pacific Railroad, this great freight locomotive, weighing more than a million pounds and stretching 125 feet in length, including tender, is the biggest and —Associated Press Photo. YALE OIL FIRM GIVEN CAT CREEK CONTRACT South Dakota Corporation Submits Highest Bid for Purchase of Royalty Production. The Yale Oil Corporation of South | Dakota, with headquarters at Miles City, Mont., was awarded the contract for the | purchase of the royalty oil from the Cat | Creek field in Montana, late yesterday by Secretary Roy O. West. The Yale Oil Corporation bid $1.01 above the highest posted field price for oil of 39 to 39.9 gravity, the department announced, on the basis of bids opened in the Secretary’s office on Wednesday. This bid was higher than any other submitted and was accompanied by a voluntary bond of $10.000. The production of the Cat Creek field for the past two years has averaged about 30,000 barrels a year and the midcontinent oil price at the end of the year was $1.51, the department said. oil sold on the basis of that price under the new contract bringing $2.52. This! premium, it was explained, is about 60 | cents a barrel - higher than under the| old contract, and the Government will receive $18,000 more annually under the new contract than it did under the old. VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA. | Julia E. Davidson Dies at Son's Residence Here. Mrs. Julia E. Davidson, 84 years old, widow of Dr. Henry H. Davidson, died | at the residence of her son, Charles M. | Davidson, _ 1840 Ingleside Terrace, Thursday. Death was due to pneumonia. Funeral services will be conducted in the S. H. Hines Co. funeral home, 2901 | Fourteenth street, tomorrow afternoon Mrs. at 2 o'clock. ‘Temporary interment will | be made in a vault here, pending burial } | Jater in the family plot at Huntington, | Long Island. Mrs, Davidson’s husband _practiced medicine at Northport, Long Island, for | 2 number of years. She had been spend- ling the Winters in this city for about 20_years. ] Besides her son of this city, Mrs. Davidson leaves another son, Robert Davidson of Bavonne, N. J.. and a sister, Mrs, Harriet Huit of Altoonsy Pa Champion Woman Stowaway Gone Again As Wanderlust Returns to Her in Home By the Associated Press. GALESBURY, Ill, January 5.—The far corners’ and strange ports of the world, which have repeatedly lured Betty Simpson. away from home and husband, have beckoned again. Yester- day Betty answered the call—the old wanderlust spirit which has earned for her the title of champion woman stow- away. She left for an unannounced destination—Shanghai, London, Paris, possibly Tokio—it's all the same to her. It“was just a few months ago that Betty came home to her husband, George Brogan, after seven years' trav- eling as a stowaway to various ports. Betty's last trip as a stowaway ended in her arrest in England. At the time she said she was through with traveling and intended to settle down. She has said she has visited nearly all the impor- tant capitals of the world and has never paid a cent for transportation. LEAGUE OF NATIONS ACTS TO SOLVE CRISIS IN COAL Experts Summoned to Study Lig- mnite, Oils and Other Sources of Energy. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, January 5—1In an attempt to solve the world crisis in the coal industry, belleved to be due to over- production, the League of Nations yes- terday summoned a meeting of experts for January 8. It was belicved that con- certed international action might be helpful. The experts will study the relation between the coal industry and other sources of energy, particularly the ex- tent to which lignite, mineral oils and charcoal are competing with coal. Various other .meetings were called also for January to discuss economic questions, the traffic in opium and the codification of internatonal law. Th2 permanent central board of control, which was instituted under the Geneva opium convention and-or which Henry May of Pennsylvania »s a member, wiil hold its first session on January 15. It will organize its work two days before the meeting of the advisory committee on the traffic in opium. This latter body is to examine illicit buying and selling of the drug in the Far East and South America. It will also study the plan for limitation of the manufacture of narcotics which was submitted by the American Government. Homeopathy Established. BERLIN (#).—Homeopathy has been definitely established as a special branch of medicine at Berlin University, Influenza Sweeping Beauvoir Home For Gray Veterans By the Associated Press. BEAUVOIR, Miss., January 5.—A thin, gray line of veterans, tried and found true under Union fire in the Civil War, is fighting an even grim- mer foe—influenza—which has swept down upon the Jefferson Davis Old Confederate Soldiers’ Home here. The disease, coupled with pneu- monia, has claimed the lives of five inmates of the home since Wednes- day noon. Twenty-five others are serfously ill and 108.of the old sol- diers, their wives an@~widows are on the sick list. Gov. T. G. Bilbo today offered his official and personal services to aid the aged veterans. Fish Fences With Man. SANTOS, Brazil (#).—When a sword- fish sits on its tail like a mermaid, at- tacks a man with real swordsmanship and puts out his eye Benedicto Mar- cal believes it is time to quit fishing and take up farming. Physicians say that he will lose an eye and that the stab may have more serious conse- quences. Three Settle Island. OSLO_(#).—The first inhabitants of Bouvet Island will be two wireless op- erators and a cook. The island is & barren rock of black lava in the South Atlantic, which Great Mritain recently recognized as belos Norway. POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH INTOXICATION | Curtis Carter, Who Was Found Un- conscious on Sidewalk, Is Sus- pended From Duty. Policeman Curtis Carter of the fifth precinct was suspended from duty last night by Lieut. O. T. Davis, also of | the fifth precinct, after he was dis- covered in an unconscious condition on the sidewalk at Tenth and E streets sbutheast and his subsequent arrest on a charge of intoxication. He was found lying face downward on the sidewalk by H. W. Hickman of 406 Ninth street southeast. Hick- man hailed a cab driven by Milton Hazel of 1319 Good Hope road south- east, who took the officer to Emergency Hospital. Both Hickman and Hazel thought Carter was either hurt or ill. Ac- cordingly the taxi was driven at an ex- i cessive speed all the way to the hos- | pital. ~ Sighting the machine speeding along Pennsylvania avenue with horn blowing and Hickman leaning out waving his handkerchief, Policeman E, D. Gemeny of the sixth precinct gave chase, but did not overtake the auto- mobile until the ‘hospital was reached. Lieut. Davis was notified and came to Ecr;ergency. He ordered Carter's ar- CALL MADE ON ARMY. French Fighters to Aid Campaign for Large Families. PARIS (#).—The French army will spread propaganda for larger families. Two officers in each regiment must be assigned, on order of the minister of war, to tell the soldiers why it is their duty to have cnildren. The min- ister, Painleve, is himself a bachelor. Much fun 'is being poked at the arrangement by newspaper humorists, who foresee that the “repopulation” officers will have dificulty in expound- ing the subject when they face the young recruits and the hard-boiled non- coms g: tk;‘eg dlsser:‘llumi; on why every Frenchman sho ve more children, g - | cently wrenched from their sockets had Locking up the election result at the Capitol. yard “backward” run in the California-Georgia fornia center, who stunned the crowd —Wide World Photos. E. Ross Bartley, secretary to Vice President Dawes, placing the first electoral votes received in the safe in the office of the Vice count. special messenger. President, to be held until the official Under the new law the votes were received by mail instead of by —Associated Press Photo. Death Cheats Sick Veteran Planning To Take Own Life By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, January 5.— Death entered a dingy room of a St, Charles street lodging house here today and defeated the plan of a sick old man to kill himself. Last night L. A. Benner, 63, of- ficer in the Spanish-American War, an interpreter to Gen. Pershing in the World War, and an itinerant Baptist missionary, went to his room and wrote a sui- cide note saying he had “decided to end it all.” ‘Today his body was found in the room without any trace of violence and the note was discov- ered nearby. The coroner an- nounced death due to natural causes. ONE MAN IS HELD IN VISIT ON CLUB Vice Squad Questions 40 Men and Women Found in Le Droit. “fhe vice squad, on an inspection | swing about Washington, with interme- diate stops at suspected gaming resorts, visited the Club Le Droit, 1900 block of Fourteenth street, yesterday afternoon, where 40 men and women were quizzed, and another, Frederick Bernard Har- per, 37, was arrested and held under $2,000 bond on a charge of being the proprietor. A blackboard posted on the wall at the club was said by Sergt. O. J. Let- terman to have been employed in con- nection with the acceptance of race wagers. The sergeant also reported evidence of other games, including blackjack and craps.’ Placards posted aboit the club, police alleged, announced the reopening of the cstablishment, and the iron bars re- been put back in place across the en- trances. ‘The squad. composed ‘also of Police- nen C. C. McCarron, W. F. Burke and Richard Cox, found. other suspected esiablishments abandoned, with pad- locks rusting in place and cobwebs col- lecting about doors and corridors. BREAK IN PHONE WAR. One Firm Comes to Terms With Illinois Bell Company. CHICAGO, January 5 (#).—The first public announcement of a break in the lines of those opposing the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. in Chicago's “phone war” was made yesterdav when D. F. Kelly, president of the Fair, State street de- partment store, made it known that his company had signed a new contract with the telephone company. ‘The new contract provides for a re- turn to the store of 22.5 per cent of the gross revenue from public telephone booths and the elimination of a daily guarantee by the store. Kelly was a member of a firm which drew up the new contract. Hotels, organized druggists and cigar stores, however, refused to accept the new terms. They formerly received 50 per cent of the coin box revenue and | guaranteed the telephone company 20 ! INFLUENZA DEATH TOLL 1,033 IN WEEK fDisclosure Made in Reports to Census Bureau From 66 Cities. i | | 3y the Associated Press. ! Influenza caused 1,035 deaths in 66 | cities during the week ended December | 29, reports tc the OCensus Bureau dis- closed yesterday, while reports for the preceding week from 67 citles showed 829 deaths. Pneumonia also caused 1,646 deaths during the first period and 1,092 during the latter. The general death rate for the country during the week ended De- cember 29 was 18 per 100,000, compared w{nh 13.8 for the corresponding week of 1927, The pneumonia deaths, it was said, were caused by this disease alone and were.not from influenza pneumonia. The weekly death rate from influenza has climbed to the present figure from a beginning ‘of 51 deaths reported dur- ing the week ended November 3. From that time the number steadily has in- creased each: week. WILBUR IS PROBING RACIAL WARFARE Fist Fights Between Sailors and Colored Men in New York Sub- ways Under Investigation. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 5—Fist fights between colored men and sailors in |New York subways were under investi~ gation by naval authorities today on orders of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. The investigation followed complaints by the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. Two spe- cific cases were cited, one in the Times Square station on New Year eve, which tock 40 policemen to quell, and another g: nnlsubwny train in Brooklyn Decem- r 21 Rear Admiral Louis R. De Steiguer,* commandant of the New York Navy Yard, after a conference with James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the race association, and Walter White, assistant secretary, dispatched radio messages to the U. 8. S. Richmond and the U. S. 8. Arkansas, en route to Southern water: instructing the executive officers to con- duct-an immediate inquiry. An Inquiry also was started by the executive officer of the U. S. S. Texas, now In dry dock in Brooklyn. Soviet Youths Study. MOSCOW ' (#).—Russian youth has been swept by a renaissance of interest in foreign languages. The rising Soviet generation seems intent on keeping abreast. of technical and scientific achievement the world over. The re- sult has been that facilities for teach- :ng gm'elgn languages have been greatly axed. Cnfrinetl Last Five Months. cents daily for each phone. Philadelphia’s public school system next year will it $33,853,112. e BELGRADE (#).—During its 25 years of existence Jugoslavia has had zsygov- ernments. The Ivem; length of each try is five mo: