Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1934, Page 5

Balkan Government Sees Malicious Intent in Athens Report. By the Associated Press. TIRANA, Albania, December 24— The Albanian government, in denying peports from abroad of revolt, said today there is complete calm through- out the country. An official statement by the foreign office said false reports concerning an uprising in the Dibra region were circulated in Athens with the ap- parent purpose of marring the cele- pration today of the tenth anniver- pary of King Zog's ascension. CAPITAL REPORTED IN PERIL. Athens Newspaper Says Army Leaders Head Uprising. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, Greece, December 24— The newspaper Kathimerina said to- day travelers from Albania reported a | revolt was under way against the government headed by King Zog, and that 2,000 men were marching on ‘Tirana, Albania’s capital ‘The revolters, the newspaper as- gerted, are led by former army officers under the direction of the King’s aide- de-camp. Martial law was said to have been declared with a partial mobilization of the nation’s military forces ordered. Anniversary of Ascension. Today was the tenth anniversary of Zog's ascension to head of the nation and a national celebration had been planned by the little Adriatic kingdom. King Zog, 39, is unmarried, which has been a source of disappointment to his people. He is a hereditary chieftain of the Mati Clan and in 1924 led it against the Serbs. As a re- sult he was proclaimed the first Presi- dent of the Albanian republic and four years later was made King. For more than a year he and his men fought the Serbs until a new kingdom, aided by the great powers, was created. During the World War Austrians, charging him with con- spiring with Bulgarians, kept him in Vienna until the armistice. Wounded in 1924. A year later Zog called a general assembly and in an election became minister of the interior and then commander-in-chief of the army. As a reward for a successful campaign against Serbs on the northern fron- tier and for crushing a domestic revolt, he was made premier. This office he held until 1924. Then, on February 23, he was shot ' and wounded by a member of the opposition and Tesigned. A revolu- tionary group established a govern- ment, which was over thrown six months later by forces under Zog; and on December 31 he was pro- claimed president. Both he and other leaders of the tiny country felt Albania would be| more unified as a monarchy and he| was _elected king by the national as- sembly, September 1, 1928. An ambitious program of develop- ment has marked Zog’s reign, which | emphasized development of national Tesources. An attempt to assassinate him in Vienna in February, 1931, re- sulted in the slaying of one of his aides and the wounding of another, but Zog was unhurt. DENIED IN LONDON. Albanian Legation Scoffs at Rumor From Athens of Revolt. LONDON, December 24 (#)—The Albanian Legation scoffed today at re- ports from Athens at a revolt against King Zog. “It is an ol story,” said a spokes- man, asserting if it were true the lega- tion here would have been the first to hear it. “Greek newspapers which have no Jove for Albania are always stirring up something of the sort,” he said. LEGATION AT ROME SCOFFS. *Perfect Tranquility” Prevails in Albania, Says Message. ROME, December 24 (P).—The Al- banian Legation here received a tele- gram from Tirana emphatically deny- ing reports published by a Greek news- paper that a revolt had broken out in that country. The telegram said: “Alarming and tendencious reports in a Greek news- paper that a revolution has broken out in the region of Debra are abso-! lutely without foundation. Perfect tranquility reigns in all Albania.” s - =55 Many Lives Can Be Saved by Keeping Inebriates Off High- ways, Says Official. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va, December 24— To catch twice as many drunken drivers on the State roads during this Christmas season than ever before is the declared intention of the State Division of Motor Vehicles. “We are going to make things hot for men and women who take a car on the road after filling themselves full of Christmas spirits,” declared John Q. Rhoads, director of the division. “Many accidents can be prevented, many lives saved, if we catch the drunks, deprive them of their licenses to drive and keep them off the road,” paid the director, “and we expect to tatch many chronic drunken drivers and to see that they don't drive any pmore.” There are 35,000 more cars in Vir- ginia today than there were last Christmas, Rhoads said. —_— MRS. DELIA WALDRON EXPIRES AFTER FALL Injuries Received Newark Crash Blamed for Death of ' Local Woman. Mrs. Delia Waldron, 48, of 1620 Q street, who received a fractured skull in an automobile accident at Newark, N. J., in October, died yesterday after & fall in her home. The coroner’s office issued a cer- tificate of accidental death and at- tributed the fatality to the Newark injury. Mrs. Waldron was confined to St. James’ Hospital at Newark for some time after the automobile accident, re- turning here following her discharge. in Gk THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934, NEW YORKPOWER ([ G1oria Shielded by Detective saoeii. Scene in the club room of Fort Stevens Post, No. 32, American Legion, when the post gave a Christmas party for chidren Saturday night, the program including singing of Christmas carols, other entertainment features and the distribution of candy and toys by Santa Claus, a role played by Howard Bucher, the post distributed 38 baskets of food, toys and clothing to needy families. Crew of Fishing Describe Battle With Sea {Captain Says Ship Was Under Water Three Times—Deck House Swept Away With Wheelman Lost. By the Associated Press. PROVINCETOWN, Mass., December 24—The Mary T. Goulart, last of Provincetown’s old fleet of opulent fishing days, coasted into this snug harbor yesterday with one of the most hair-raising tales in this port'’s an- nals of the sea. She had that “black look,” old salts | said, as she slid up to her dock, her | flag at half mast and her decks strewn with wreckage. The two- masted schooner had lived through the most rigorcus Atlantic storm she had ever known Christmas was a sad prospect for the crew, for somewhere in the rolling deep, about 106 miles off Yarmouth, Nova Secotia, they left Frank Silva, 58, probably still imprisoned in the wheel | house in which he was washed over by a boarding sea. Under Water Three Times. Capt. Lawrence C. Santos said the craft was under water three times during that storm. “I never expected to come back alive,” he said. Then he told of the night Silva went over. “I went up to the wheel house where silva was at the wheel and I asked him how she was holding. He said she was O. K. so I went to my bunk and turned in. About 10 minutes had gone by when I heard a huge wave hit the schooner. A minute later my | room was flooded and I was forced to | swim from my cabin. I went on deck | to find that the wheel house had been | washed away. Silva had gone with it.” | The skipper had high praise for his | would pull the vessel under the hungry Schooner crew of 27. He told how Alfred Joseph crawled forward the length of the vessel, grabbing the rail, and cut the foresheet just as it seemed the sail waves. He told how Manuel Santos, his brother and the engineer cut the motors at that moment to contribute in saving the craft. The next min- ute, he said, gigantic seas nearly cap- sized the vessel and spilled acid from batteries in the engine room which severely burned the engineer. Crawls Length of Vessel. Joe Brava also crawled the length of the vessel to free the anchor chain after the anchor had broken loose. He received a badly gashed hand. Added to the threat of the sea was the horror of fire when the stove in the galley tipped over as the vessel heeled and set fire to a pile of oil-| skins. The men succeeded in beating | out the flames. | Santos estimated the damage to the vessel at $4.000. Her winches were disabled, her sails in tatters, rails bent, and dories smashed. Six dories were washed overboard. But for the anxiousness of the crew to make this Christmas a happy one, it might not have been so sad. After being on the banks for two weeks, the schooner still carried plenty of bait and the crew prevailed upon the skipper to stay longer, swell the catch and make Christmas that much more abundant. It was during the last week that the storm broke. The ves- sel brought in 62,000 pounds. Lindbergh’s “Sky H 00k” Proves Plant Spores Fly Over Ocean By the Associated Press. A niche in science’s mythical hall of fame was reserved for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today when it became known that he had gathered the first proof that unseen organisms which cause plant diseases can travel through the air across hundreds of miles of ocean Designing a “sky hook”—a sort of | aerial fly paper—Col. Lindbergh caught hundreds of microscopic bac- teria, fungus spores and pollens, as his plane zoomed over the North At- lantic. The samples, collected during the flight Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh madei in 1933, but not revealed until last night, constituted the first proof that these air-borne organisms can be car- ried by winds over such far-flung stretches of ocean. Called a feat that may be of “tre- mendous economic consequences,” the collection was made in co-operation with Fred C. Mefer of the Department of Agriculture. Meier, who planned the project and analyzed the organisms, already had gathered evidence that they can be carried alive for hundreds of miles across land areas. Announcement of Lindbergh's work appears today in an article by Meier in the January Scientific Monthly. The tiny objects Col. Lindbergh collected include beneficial as well as disease organisms. Though the air over the Northern oceans contains fewer organisms than are found over warm land areas, sci- entists point out that even a single spore could reproduce and spread rapidly if it landed in a favorable place. Lindbergh’s instrument for the col- lecting job projected above the cock- pit. On the upper end glass plates coated®with a sticky substance were exposed to the air. The organisms caught on the sticky surface. Each time a collection was made Lindbergh made notes showing the Fingers Are Sent When Judge Asks For Identification By the Associated Press. BRUGES, Belgium, December 24 —A carefully wrapped parcel containing eight human fingers and two thumbs, neatly packed and labelel, reached a surprised magistrate here yesterday. It had been sent in response to a request directed to a com- munal guard at Vlisseghen to send the fingerprints of a person who had committed suicide by drowning. The guard, being unfamiliar with modern identification meth- | Special Dispatch to The Star. ods, resorted to amputation. location, time, wind direction, weather conditions and other facts. Organisms such as these are among the hardiest forms of life. Several kinds survived trips to the strat- osphere, attached by Meier to the outsides of the balloons of both Comdr. Settle in November, 1933, and the Army Air Corps-National Geo- graphic flight last July. FIFTH AVENUE TAILORS LIST 10 BEST DRESSERS W. Goadby Loew and T. Markoe Robertson, New York, and A. D. Biddle, Philadelphia, Named. NEW YORK, December 22 (N.AN. A).—A poll of Fifth avenue tailors whose clientele includes wealthy men from all parts of the country reveals the following as 1934’s 10 best-dressed men: W. Goadby Loew, T. Markoe Rob- ertson, Walter Dorwin Teague and Hunter 8. Marston of New York; E. T. Stotesbury and Anthony Drexel Biddle of Philadelphia, I. Newton Per- 1y of Chicago, Claude K. Boettcher of Denver, Lewis Stone of Hollywood and Alfred P. Sloan of Detroit. Only 3 of the 10, the Messrs. Loew, Robertson and Biddle, received a unanimous vote, each being regard- ed as a proper candidate for the title of “the world's best-dressed man.” (Copyright. 1934. by North Amcrican Neéwspaper Alliance. Inc.) i CP BITUMINOUS COAL PER $g8.50 TON Sremies T B Yesterday a committee of —3Star Staff Photo. ENGINEER BLAMED IN RAIL TRAGEDY Failure to Observe Signal Said to Have Caused Crash Killing Three. By the Associated Press. DELAWARE, Ohio, December 24.— An engineer, who died with two other trainmen in a collision of two New York Central trains loaded with Christmas mail and passengers, was blamed today by a railroad official for the accident that also caused injuries to 34 persons. “It was a case of the engineer fail- ing to observe a red signal,” said E. F. Hayes of Springfield, division super- intendent of the railroad with offices at Bellefontaine, Ohio. Hayes was in charge of the investigation of the wreck for the railroad. The State Utilities Commission opened another investigation. James Newman, & 55-year-old vet- eran railroader, was the pilot of the first locomotive of a double-header midnight express, which sideswiped the road's eastern mail at a junction nesr here early Sunday. Newman's fireman, H. B. Barrett, 38, of Galion, was the only member of the crews of the two locomotives to escape. He suffered severe burns to his hands when he grabbed hot pipes and swung clear. R — CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TOMORROW. Meeting, Tau Epsilon Phi Fratern- ity, La Fayette Hotel, 7 p.m. Strangers’ Christmas Dinner, Shore- ham Hotel, 6 p.m. Tea dance, Beta Mu Sorority, Wil- lard Hotel, 4 to 7 pm. . City Restaurateur Will Give Dinner To “All Comers” Louis Pappas Plans to Serve Yule Feasts to 750 Persons. In the hope that no one in Wash- ington will go hungry on Christmas day Louis Pappas will provide 750 men and women with free turkey din- ners between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to- morrow at his buffet restaurant, 511 Ninth street. Although many tickets for the din- ner have been printed and distributed through welfare agencies and friends of the restaurant proprietor, Pappas hopes to feed every hungry person who presents himself—ticket or no ticket. There will be turkey with all the trimmings, topped off by steaming coffee or large glasses of milk. The restaurant seats about 400, it was said, so the dinner will be served over a five-hour period to accomodate all comers. “After this party is over tomorrow,” Pappas said, “I hope there will be not & hungry man, woman or child in Washington.” @hristmas Binner $1.25 12:00 to 2:00 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Fruit Cocktail Oysters on Half Shell Beef Broth Turtle Soup Celery Relish Tray Olives Filet of Sole, Tartar Sauce 0 0o Mountain-bred Virging Turkey (From our own farm) Broiled Tenderloin Steak Fresh Mushrooms Maryland Fried Chicken Corn Fritters Fresh Green Peas Candied Sweet Potatoes Creamed Onions Cauliflower Hollandaise Choice of Salad Tray Hot Mince Pie Apple Pie a la Mode Plum Pudding, Rum Sauce Ice Creams and Sherbets Coffee Our New Parrakeet Room —Attractively modernistic in lfl?r T wi sy. Quality A-1 always. Prices surpris- ingly low. BURLINGTON CITES D. C. CUTS Calls . Attention to 50 Per| Cent Rate Reduction Here. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24—The New York State Power Authority to- day called to the attention of New York City utilities the experiences of ‘Washington, D. C,, in effecting a 50 per cent reduction in electric light and power rates over a period of nine years, filing copies of its findings in three-year study with the companies and with the Public Service Commis- sion. The power authority’s action fol- lowed on the reply of the utilities to New York City’s preparations to con- struct a municipal power plant as the answer to sharp increases in the city’s 1935 power and light bill. Opposes Experiments, The utility industry pointedly warned against experiments in ‘“un- sound” and costly municipal socialism and deplored efforts to “make war” on the utilities industry during the fight for industrial recovery. The power authority’s bulletin stated that es result of a concerted movement in Washington for pub- licly operated power plants for bring- ing down electric costs, the Potomac Electric Power Co. in 1924 reduced rates by more than half. “The average consumption of cur- rent by residential users has doubled and the company has earned as high as & 10 per cent return on its in- vestment,” the power authority pointed out. Similar Arguments Used. “The bulletin shows,” sald Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the power author- ity, “that all the stock arguments now used against the St. Lawrence project were urged against the public develop- ments of Potomac power to reduce rates in Washington. “It also shows,” said Walsh, “that Newton D. Baker, who as a utility lawyer, is now fighting with might and main to prove the Government's great Tennessee Valley project unconstitu- tional, as Secretary of War and chair- man of the Federal Power Commission gave to the Potomac project a glowing indossement.” STRANGERS WILL HAVE DUTCH TREAT DINNER Dr. Grace A. Thompson Will Be in Charge of Affair Tomor- row at Shoreham. ‘There will be a Dutch treat Christ- mas dinner for strangers in Washing- ton at the Shoreham Hotel at 7 p.m. tomorrow as a result of the success of the strangers’ Thanksgiving dinner held this year. Strangers in the city who wish to j attend are asked to assemble in the Garbo room at the hotel at 6 o'clock, where the committee in charge will introduce guests to each other. The dinner is planned, it was explained by Dr. Grace A. Thompson, in charge, “to afford an opportunity for visitors, newcomersgor longtime residents of 1 Washington t» meet and dine to- gether in a spirit of friendliness and good will. Reservations for the dinner may be made by teleproning the hotel, Adams 0700, Dr. Thompson said. sy FIRE ENGINES COLLIDE DANVILLE, Va, December 24 (#) —Two fire engines, their sirens screaming a warning to other traffic, rounded the corner of Jefferson and Paxton streets last night and col- lided. The only fireman hurt was the driver of one machine. Both pieces of equipment were answering the same alarm for a minor fire. Postman to Make His Usual Rounds On Christmas Day By the Associated Press. The postman will make his round on Christmas day. ‘The Post Office Department— only Government agency which is not declaring a general holi- day tomorrow—intends to see that first-class mail and parcels are delivered on that day, but it hopes that only one delivery will be necessary in most parts of the country instead of the usual two or three. ’ Regular mail carriers and sub- stitutes will handle the work. & ROSSI VERMOUTH W. A. TAYLOR & CO., NEW vOre EDUCATIONAL. Accountancy Courses; B.C.S. and S. Degrees. C.P.A. Preparation. Day and Even- ingClasses; Coeducational. Send for 28th Year Book. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION BLDG. MET. 2518 National University Law School January 2, 1935, at 6:30 P.M. Standard three-year course lead- ing to degrees of LL.B. and J. D. Graduate courses leading to de- lgre;s of LLM., M. P. L, and S. All classes held a* hours con- venient for employed students. School of Economics and Government Degree courses of collegiate m«:fl in Political Science, ment, Economics, ol ::s, History, usiness Address NAtional 6617 Secretary 818 13th St N.W. 4 over week ends. Vanderbilt's New York home. [ Private detective shown clutching at head of Gloria Vanderbilt, 10- year-old heiress, to shield her from photographers as she leaves with her mother, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, for shopping tour on first day of their reunion Saturday. By court order child’s mother is to have her Christmas week end was the first they were together since the famous court battle over Gloria’s custody. Photo taken at Mrs. —A. P. Photo. Eerie Home of Slain Spinster Combed for Suspected Wealth Killer of Recluse Find $2,341 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24—The eerle house of mystery where Miss | searched yesterday for the secret of | her death. Bank books showing deposits of $2,341 were found, but police con- | tinued to poke through the littered rooms-to determine if cash was- hid- den there. A killer who believed the tale of se- creted wealth and who sought to get it for himself was blamed by investi- gators for the killing of “Miss Vie- Believed Prompted by Story of Hidden Cash—Police on Deposit. toria”—found dead of a skull fracture on her back parlor floor last night. | Like a speetre in the fog that drifts Victoria Muspratt lived alone and died | in from the Narrows, the three-story | jyn recluse who died {alone—by a killer's bludgeon—was | mansion with its leaky mansard roof | natyral causes. rises behind a row of scraggly lilac | bushes, about 25 feet back from | Brooklyn's dignified shore road. No Modern Improvements. Behind its sagging shutters, always fastened, there was no electricity, no | running water, only an open wood fire in her bleak back parlor for heat and the cooking of her meager meals —and not one bed. She slept by with the PLANE DISAPPEARS IN IGE AND SNOW Pilot and Three Young Pas- sengers Sought Near Elko, Nev. By the Associated Press. ELKO, Nevada, December 24— ‘Three young airrlane passengers and a pilot, who vanished on a flight over the Winter-lashed mountains north of here, were sought by rescue paities today. The missing plane, in which Floyd De Long, the pilot, was taking two girls and a boy to their homes at Mountain City, 90 miles north of here, disappeared in blinding snow and fog yesterday. De Long’s passengers were Donald Stinton, 13, and his sister June, 16, children of a Mountain City cattle man, and Ruth Womack, 13, daughter of a Mountain City resort owner. No trace of the plane was reported after it was believed to have been heard roaring through clouds of snow and fog above Gold Creek an hour after it was due at Mountain City. Gold Creek is 30 miles off the course. De Long’s plane left Elko ahead of another plane piloted by Lieut. New- ton Crumley, jr., former Army fiyer, in which the parents of the Stinton children, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stin- ton, were passengers. Lieut. Crumley said he saw no trace of the De Long plane. The Stinton family was returning home after another airplane mission had failed to save the life of & son, Thomas Jewell, 17. Lieut. Crumley brought the son, critically il with pneumonia, to Elko last week to receive hospital care. He died and the Stintons were going home from the funeral here when the sec- ond threat of tragedy came. — window in a great easy chair, nodding over a Bible printed a hundred years ago. Every room of the house of death was littered with curios as victorian as was Miss Muspratt, with 75-year- old magazines, yellow newspapers, creaky furniture and even a wheezy organ or two. There even was a let- ter once carried by pony express. Sister Died Six Years Ago. When Miss Violet, her sister, fell dead of a heart attack in the nouse six years ago, a builder offered Miss Victoria $200,000 for the crumoling structure. She refused. The house was built 80 years ago by her sea captain father, | The theory that Miss Victoria hid money in the house was bolstered by the stories of trades people. They said | she paid her bills with notes of large | denominations. | Her death recalled, too, the $960,000 | fund hidden in the antiquated home of Miss Louise Herle, another Brook- recently of | However, Mrs. Sarah Rickard, ¢ | neighbor from whom Miss Muspratt obtained water, said she always had doubted that the 79-year-old spinster had much money. There were no mirrors in the house and its eccentric mistress would have none, the neighbor added. She quoted her as saying, one time: “I do not wish to look at an old woman growing older each » YOU'LL BE AMAZED AND DELIGHTED BRILLIANTLY BEAUTIFIED RESTAURANT 1423 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. AY, new Spanish atmospheres! foods . . . celebrated bevera New charm! « « mellow wi D New comfort! Makes Childs tempting e TWICE as delicious! 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