Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1931, Page 21

DEATH STORY ENDS MEXICAN MYSTERY Many Tales Told Since 1914 of Disappearance of American Author. By the Associated Press. BAN FRANCISCO, April 25.—The THE SUNDAY BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 26, 1931—PART ONE. Mrs. Hoover Awarded College Degree GOUCHER UNIVERSITY HONORS WIFE OF PRESIDENT. ! Examiner today published an alleged | eye-witness account of the death of Ambrose Bierce, American author, whose disappearance in Mexico in 1914 gave rise to many storles as to how he came to die. i The story was told by S. Patrick; Reardon, San Francisco salesman and | former soldier of fortune, who described | himself as a member of the foreign con- | tingent of Pancho Villa's rebel lorce,‘ in Mexico in 1914. Bierce, & fnzndk and adviser of Villa, was in the con- | tingent, Reardon said. Reardon said the contingent was en route from Juarez to l.lgunl and had stopped at Mocho. About 2 o'clock in the morning, Reardon s.lld Mexican Federals attacked the town, catching ! the contingent in the open. | Federal Bullet Strikes. i The head of the rebel squad, Joe | O'Reilly, crdered his followers to crawl to shelter, said Reardon. Bierce, he raid, was too old (the uhutho!‘ \:u ‘lg then) to wriggle across the terrain an nr;:e A moment later a Federal bul-| ¢ tore through his side. i “We laid hlgn across the backs of two I men who crawled with him about 800 | ards” sald Reardon. ’ “Give me some water,” Ru‘x:don quoted Bierce as having said, “and| leave me with my rifie.” “We propped him against the wall of 2 building and left him,” Reardon said. “I{ was every man for himself after that. Body Found Against Wall. “Next day I returned with Villa's main force. Bierce was sitting against the wall. But he was dead. Many versions have been written of ‘Bierce's flllfiefll‘an“ Among them thet he was killed in the battle of Tor- 1€on: that he was scen alive and well in Scuth America after his dlslppe!r— ance from Mexico; that he had bee: driven from Villa’s camp and secretl shoi for criticizing the rebel chief’s military tactics, and that he deliberately valked to death by heading into the encmy’s lines at Chihuahua City. At one time he was a columnist on the Examiner. Reardon did not explain his long silence regarding the mystery. BIOGRAPHER 1S SCEPTIC. Man Who Wrote Bierce Life Story Thinks He Died in Battle. 108 Anotus April 25 (#).—The strange of _Ambrose Blerce, Amer\uu author, in Mexico in 1914 has broqzm 50 mlny stories of his fate, Carey Mc' Los Angeles , said \‘Mly. that they h‘n be- e “mythical Althou‘h he never knew Blerce, Mc- Williams has made a long study of the | c(rcum-unm preceding the author's | lisappearance. In 1929 he wrote a bkwuphy of Bierce. The story related in San Prancisco by S. Patrick Rear- don was read to McWilliams. “It is strange” McWilllams said, “how these stories suddenly arise years afterward with no explanal from the authorities of the reason for their "Ibixknhehmd.ndumheN'au in Jlnur{ v?‘z 4. i Panc! e time. e s | MISSIONARY CONFERENCE NAMES STATE OFFICERS | 1832 Convention Will Be Held lt‘ ‘Washington——Mrs. Copeland Elected President. Special Dispatch the The Star. BURG, Va., April 25 =—The annual convention of the Metho- dist Women's Missionary Union, Balti- more Conference, in session here since | ‘Tuesday night, adjourned yesterday afternoon to meet next year in Wash- ington. The selection of the church will be made later. Officers for the coming year are: President, Mrs. T. J. Copeland, Balti- more; vice president, Mrs. W. H. Bal- | lenger, Harrisonburg, Va.; conference | secretary, Miss E. V. Pepper, Baltimore; recording secretary, Mrs. R. G. Mow- bray, Baltimore; treasurer, Mrs. Jacob Hevener, Staunton; secretary of young1 ‘women, Mrs. Ida R. Groover, Washing- | ton; superintendents—children's divi- | sion, Mrs. J. R. Jacobs, Clarendon, Va.; | mission study, Mrs. E. 5. Woolf, Staun- ton; literature, | have plenty of empty space left. Goucher College of Baltimore formally inaugurated its new president, Dr. David Allan Robertson, at colorful cere- Pho monies Friday. Four women received honorary doctcr of laws degrees. inauguration, with, left to right: Dr. Robertson, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, to above shows procession following the Florence Sabin, anatomist; Miss Lizette Wood- worth Rese, Bl.lumore poet, and Dr. Winifred Clara Cullis, physiology professor at the University of London countries were represented by the 250 distinguished scholars who attended t,h: ceremonies. MIDGET OF STARS HEAVIEST OBJECT One Cubic Inch of Van Maanen’s Discovery Would Weigh Seven Tons Here. By the Associated Press. MOUNT WILSON OBS!RVANRYH Calif,, April 25.—Adriaan Van Maanen | sits at the turret of the world's largest | telescope here and measures the move- | ment of the stars. Heuoneolthedm-lncuhbeduuon-i omers Sir James H. Jeans, noted | British astronomer, is coming here to consult next week. In fact it is Van | Maanen’s star that gave to Jeans one | | of the bits of knowledge upon which the famed English observer theory that the whole away. ‘an Maanen'’s star is one of the mm remarkable objects in the sky from the astronomical viewpoint. It is named for him by right of his discovery in 1917. One of the faintest of the white dwarfs of the sky, at the same time it is one of the nearest stars to be earth. It is only seventy-six million million miles away. Star Heaviest Object Known. Smaller than the earth, therefore an | unusual midget among the stars, its| chief fame rests in weight. Man knows | of no other object so heavy. One cubic | inch of it would weigh seven tons if trans) to the earth. That is 400,000 times as dense as water. “A few years ago such an astounding density would have seemed absurd,” said Van Maanen. “No chemical ele- ment on the earth is known that has any such weight. “Physicists, however, have told us/ that the density of an electron is about | thirty thousand million times that of | redicates his iverse is WIB"- water, while that of the proton, the| nucleus of the hydrogen atom, is mu\ enormously higher. 1If, therefore, we | could strip the atoms of their widely | scattered electrons, and pack the elec- trons and nuclei close enough together, we could easily produce densities such as | we have found in our stars and still| Cubic Inch Would Weigh Ton. “Now, theoretical considerations have | shown that with the temperatures and pressures prevailing in these dwarf stars, we have exactly the conditions re- | quired to strip the atoms and closely | Heads Doctors || SEE FRAUD IN WILL [ OFLILLIAN RUSSELL Investigators Find Property DR. JOHN C. ECKHAID‘I' MEDICAL SOCITY 10 GIVE BANQUET | Annual Event Will Bring Dis- | tinguished Guests to Capital May 5. ‘With prominent physicians and sur- geons present from throughout the Eastern part of the United States, the | thirty-fourth annual banquet of the Washington Medical and Burgical So- clety will be held in the Mayflower Hotel Tuesday night, May 5. ‘The occasion will be marked by the | conferring of fellowships in the organ- ization on Dr. Francis H. Miner and | Dr. Paul 8. Putzki, in conformity with | awards. Dr. John C. Eckhardt, president of | the Medical and Surgical Soeiety, will preside st the banquet. at which Dr. | Luther H. Reichelderfer, president 0(1 the Board of Commissioners of the | District of Columbia; Dr. Willam H. Daughter Was to Share Disappeared. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 25.—The only daughter of the late Lillian Russell, noted comic opera beauty, today ob- tained in Orphans’ Court an order for & reaccounting in the estate of her mother and a second order withholding distribution of the estate of her step- father, Alexander P. Moore, former Ambassador to Spain and Peru. Judge Thomas P. Trimble ruled that | it appeared from testimony that Moore, | co-executor with the Union Trust Co. in the estate of Miss Russell, whom he ~| married in 1012, “fraudulently acquired assets of his wife's estate while as executor thereof, and had falled to account therefor or to make restitution thereof by his will or otherwise.” Miss Russell's daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Russell Calvit, went into court with & clatm for half of Moore's $600,000 es- tate after he left her only $1,000 in his will. She alleged that in a prenuptial agreement with her mother he wnm- ised to leave half of his estate to her, | the daughter. Distribution Suspended. Judge Trimble did not rule on the validity of the alleged agreement, but ordered distribution of the Moore es- tate suspended until there has been & final accounting in the estate of Miss Russell, or until further order of the court, “whereupon the court will con- sider whether the claim of Dorothy Russell Calvit for the one-half of this estate should be allowed.” Moore's will was filed for probate here last year. leathed $100,000 to Queen Victoria of Spain to be used for charitable purposes and $25.000 to the widow of Caruso. At the hearing on Mrs. Calvit's claim, | it ‘was brought out that Miss Russell had specified in her will that sufficient of the principal of her estate be in- vested profitably so that the income “chall amount without fail to $50 Ya’ i | the annual custom of making two such | week” to be paid to her daughter du | her lifetime. Moore filed a first and final accounting whereby $38,726.39 was provided for Mrs. Calvit. Jewels Unaccounted For. “Sald sum is not only insufficient to comply with the terms of said will, but | has since been reduced in value to [MUSSOLINT QUIETS STUDENT PROTEST |ltalian Resentment Against Demonstration at Brussels Becomes National Affair. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, April 25.—Ttalian resentment against anti-Fascist demonstrations in Belgium became a national affair to- day when Premlzr Mussolini, fixe Plr- Hament the University of the crowd of young men and said: “The Italy of the students is always ready to defend the revolutionary re- gime and Fascism against the stupld -Fascists.” calumnies of anti-] ‘The students cheered him wildly, then moved on toward the Belglan Em- bassy, but police stopped them a quar- ter of & mile away and dispersed the crowd. In the afterncon the Moulin matter came up in Parliament with the under- secretary of the interior julfllykl‘ the professor’s arrest. Moull said, “participated actively in a rul attempt to organize s movement against the power of the state.” ‘The rector of the university and the ‘Who will appear as the youngest member of the cast Festi A at Constitution Hall next week. e Pat P ¥ B-§ KIDNAPED DOCTOR: | 14 |Dr. Kelley Held Longer Than' 12 Others Excepting Gambler. By the Assoctated Press. ST. LOUIS, April 25—Dr. I D. Kelley, kidnaped physician, tonight hed: been held longer than uy of the other 12 persons kidnaped here last 16 months, with '-he exce] MISS THELMA LORRAINE PIERCE, —Star were wmvmmmmuuud nnn' government could not let itself be influenced, a member said: “We all remember how when the starry republic was trying two men for their Hm Gov Puller of Massa- chusetts a sea of protests with cold lnflexlhlmy saying ‘sov- eriegn, State judges; it can not be judged.’” Peerless Furniture Stores ZZ OLD MASTERS STOLEN Portraits Valued at $135,000 Cut From Frames in London. LONDON, April 25 ()—A group of | Reynolds’ “Miss Grant” and a portrait o'd masters and precious antiques| by Van Dyke. valued at $135,000, belonging to H. A. Haase, architect and 3 collector, was re- ported stolen today. Among the pictures, all of which were cut from their frames, were an outcome of recent cabinet Gainsborough's “Countes of Chester- | all Federal inspectors in the different field” and “Portrait of & Gentleman.” | provinces resigned today to leave Pregle~ dent Uriburu a free hand to reorganize the public administration. Argentine Officials Resign. BUENOS AIRES, April 25 (P —As NO EXTRA_CHARGE FOR CREDIT* We Mak’e A ‘ Contribution SPECIALS in the interest of BETTER HOMES Be honest about it! Your favorite suite HAS seen its best days. Per- haps you've become accustomed to-its frayed upholstery and weakened springs. But your friends notice these things—talk about lhem So let us help you. Ac our generous allowance SOmyouro]dbedroom, dmln room or living room suite odg:l pieces and apply it to the purchase of beautiful new furni- ture that costs so little at Peerless! Miss ~ Jessle ' Hough, | pack their parts Fredericksburg; Christian social rela- 'p‘s'x‘hteriu’n um"glg;:eh =rxm reason to tions, Mrs, J. H. Haley, Martinsburg, | think our figures sbsurd. Moreover, it W. Va,, and supplies, Mrs. A. F. Herlan, | was proved by Dr. Walter S. Adams, di- ‘Washingtop. A plea for more rigld |rector of the observatory here, a few | censorship of motion pictures was made | )zars ago, in a different way, that an- | | resident of the Medical ety i‘;"‘:fi? &.mno‘tcoxumm Bux:of}en |$34,925 Judge Trimble said, “and Merritt W. Ireland, U. 8. A.; Dr. Wil- | there is nothing on record to show that | the fund &o distributed has ever been | increased or that the sald Dorothy Rus- ‘st]l Calvit will have any assurance in Feature Interesting ' by Miss Maud M. Aldrich, feld secr: tary of the Federal Motion Picture | Councl. Miss Lela J. Tuttle, mission- | ary in Soochow, China, told of condi-' tions in that country. | Beas | Quake Causes Puuc | BUENOS AIRES, April 25 (@) —| Strong earthquake shocks were felt this | morning in Annjullon Province, caus- | ing a panic among the inhabitants, | but no damage was repuned C lemenceau School Will Pay Homage to| ‘Old Falher Victory’| ‘Andre Tardleu to Eulo- gize Wartime Leader at Nantes Tribute. By the Associated Press. NANTES, France, April 25.—Eighty | years ago a mischievous boy from | the Vendee region entered the high school here as a boarding pupil. He was the terror of his teachers and the plague of his playmates, and when | he left for Paris to study medicine there were few who pnmm»d he would | come to anything but a bad end. ‘Tomorfow the boy who used to reld‘ wild romances behind his geography | will have his revenge. The school has | not only adopted his family name as| land Stratford, other very small star, the companion of | Sirjus, has a density of about 30,000 |times that of water. A cubic inch of | that would, on earth, weigh & ton.” | Sir James Jeans will find another in-| teresting conferee here in Dr. Prancis G. Pease. He measured the diameter of Antars and found its density to be only one three-millionth that of water. | This means that it would take 100,000 cubic inches of Antares, on earth, to weigh a pound | ISTUDENTS WILL vISIT i HOME OF WASHINGTON By a Staff Correspondent of The Star CLARENDON, Va., April 25.—The | Arlington Rotary Club, exlndnn Ro- tary Club and the Alexandria Kiwanis | Club are arranging to take the student | body of Arlington Hall College to Wake- | field, birthplace of George Washington, | May 12. Places of historical interest to | be visited are Fredericksburg, Wakefleld | the birthplace of the | Transportation will be furnished Lees. including | by members of the clubs, about 50 automobiles. The committee in charge consists of Reger Sullivan, president of the A]ex-‘ andria Kiwanis Club; Lawrence Roland, | J. A. Martin and Joseph Eberly of Lm[ Alexandria Rotary Club, and Thomas W Phillips and Ashton Jones, ir., of mgl Arnngum Rotnr) Club ‘ DUMFR|ES BOYS‘ CcLuB | speaker and discussed plans for work el T. Boone, personal physician to | Sresident Hoover, and Surg. Gen. Charles | E. Riggs, U. 8. N, will be the guests of honor. Btrickland Gillllan will be the guest | {of speaker. The Banquet Committee is compl)m‘d‘ of Dr. Prank E. Gibson, chairman; Dr. | A. C. Christie, Dr. Custis Lee Hall nnd\ Dr. Reginald R. WIlk?r HAS ANNUAL ELECTION| Special Dispatch to The Star. DUMPFRIES, Va, April 25—Francis | Liming was elected president of the| Dumfries Boys' Club at the annual meeting, held in the school today. F.| D. Cox, county agent, was the guest | which club memters will carry forward |this year, including landscape garden- ing, vegetable gardens and dairying. Other officers elected were: Jack | Garrison, vice president; Raymond | Ferguson, secretary-treasurer; Weldon Crawford, reporter, and Harry Winfree, | song and cheer leader. Olney Braw- ner, Prancis Liming and Jack Garrison were appointed a committee on pro~ gram for the monthly meetings to be held durlns the ensuing year. 'BONES OF CAPT. MYLES STANDISH PLACED IN NEW its own but has crected a statue to him | in its central court yard. was Georges Benjamin Clemenceau. The memcry of the savior of France will be honored by one of his most intimste war-time and peace-time col- laborators, Andre Tardieu, former and now minister of agricul- re ‘The great and the near great will gather to hear his eulogy cf his great chief, who has gone down in his- tory as “Old Pather Victory.” Nantes is planning fitting homage to her {llustrious adopted son, and al- ready the tricolcr flags are flying from '.he u.hnol bulldings, public edifices and pumber of private houses. ne himni of the institution, calied together from all over Prance, will be out in force, though it is safe to say that not a surviving classmate of au will be present. “Old Pather Vlclory" took over the premiership and war ministry as a n in lll’l and hckcd it of November, 1916, November, 1918, His name | By the Associated Press. DUXBURY, Mass., April 25.—For the second time since his grave was dis- covered in the Little Pilgrim Cemetery 40 years ago the bones of Capt. Myles Standish, hero of the Plymouth settle- ment, were disturbed ~today. Forty years ago the town fathers npenca the grave to place the mortal fragments of the doughty captain in a wooden casket. Today's disinterment wu decided upon that the bones might be placed in an hermetically sealed casket and lald away in & new concrete tomb as & | decked permanent resting place. In the casket mflmmwm Simple Ceremonies at Duxbury Mark Transference to Permanent Flag-Decked Shrine. CONCRETE TOMB Myles Standish of Boston, direct | Gmscondant, "ot the warrlor of three centuries ago. The cemetery itself d:tu back virfu- ally to the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620, It was the site of their first church. Within the cedar grown church yard confines are slate slabs so old that inscriptions are either totally obliterated or t to read. Many believe that among them are stones marking the last resting places of Johnulnd Priscilla Alden, whose ro- mance . Standish was flag- lPallce the future that she will receive more than the income of said trust fund.” Mrs. Calvit charged Moore did not m'cmmt for many personal possessions her mother after Miss Russell died in 1922, and that he defrauded the es- tate in disposing of others. Among jev\vls the actress owned was a pearl ecklace. Evidence was introduced to v & jeweler had appraised its value for Moore at $8.500. Judge Trimble said that, according to the testimony, it appeared Moore “surreptitiously acquired the said neck- lace from the said Union Trust 3 and himself as executors by pay- ing therefor to his co-executor the sum of $1,000 indirectly through his agent, | appointed by him to effect his fraudu- lent purpose.” |FOUR REDS ARE INJURED IN ATTEMPT TO PARADE Demonstration Against Electrocutions in Alabama. Prevent By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 25.—Police today swung their night sticks and dispersed about 400 Communists who -hissed at an order forbidding them to parade in a demonstration against the forth- coming electrocution at Scottsboro, Ala., of nine Negro . Four demon- strators, all with minor injuries, were arrested. One policeman also was slightly hurt. , Crowds gathered at One Hundred and Fortleth street and Lenox avenue, where the parade was to have started despite refusal of authorities to issue a permit. Police reserves had been sent to the neighborhood in anticipation of disorder. Booing and hissing, the demonstrators carried huge signs bearing legends of “Down With the Lynch Law” and “Negroes and Whites Fight Together— Against the Scottsboro Frameup.” fl;{!m boys were convicted of assaulting U. S. “DUMPING” SCORED Socialist Newspaper in Brussels Charges Timber Price Cut. 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