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RHINELANDER SUES
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Charges Wife Has Negro
Blood and Concealed Fact
Before Wedding.
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NEW ROCHELLE, X. T.. Novem
ber 27.—Leonard Kip Rhinelander,
scion of one of New York's oldest
families, who married Miss Alice
Jones of New Rochelle October 14.
yesterday filed suit In the West
Chester County Supreme Court so an
nul the marriage. Rhinelander al
leged that his wife concealed from
him the fact that she had negro
blood In her veins.
The papers were supported by an
fore a Kings County notary pubaffida
affidavit made by Rhinelander before
a Kings County notary public.
The complaint declares that the
“content" of the plaintiff, Rhine
lander, to the marriage "was ob
tained by fraud." and that the de
fendant. formerly Miss Jones, told
Rhinelander she was white and had
no colored blood." Rhinelander the
complaint states, entered Into mar
riage on the basis of such repre
sentations, which ho has since dis
covered to tie untrue.
Rhinelander is 22 years old. He is
the son of Phillip Rhinelander, heirj
to a fortune of $100,000,000 In Man
hattan real estate, and a member of
one of Manhattan's most exclusive
families. His Huegenot ancestors
settled in New Rochelle in the sev
enteenth century.
The -marriage of Rhinelander did
not become public until a month
after it was performed by Mayor
Harry Scott of New Rochelle.
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
■ WILL MEET IN DALLAS
Southern Doctors to End Conven
tion Today With Election
of Officers.
By the Associated Pres-.
NEW ORLEANS; La.. November 2T.
-t-Thc annual convention of the
Southern Medical Association will end
here today with election of officers.
The executive committee last night
selected Dallas, Tex., as the 1920 con
vention site.
Calling upon his hearers to "turn
a deaf ear to those who would inter
pret Christian brotherhood to mean
racial equality," L>r. W. A. Flecker.
State register of vital statistics of
Virginia, told the public health sec
tion, if his warning was not heeded,
there would be a time when "our
tyhole, population is a mongrellzed
helpless mass of mental weaklings,
incapable of strong government or of
effective resistance to any nation of
pure race which chooses to exploit
it."
"The future of the white race and
its civilization in America are in the
keeping of this generation,” the
speaker said.
The little top minnows, dwellers in
nearly every ditch and pond, with a
little public co-operation, are going
to be the means of ridding the South
ern States of most of their malaria
and other fevers. In the opinion of
speakers at the session of the malaria
field workers.
Dr. H. R. Carter, United States
Public Health Service, Washington,
vas named honorary chairman of
the national malaria committee, and
Dr. William (Jerry Morgan of Wash
ington vice chairman of the section
on gastroenterology.
MINING TOWN QUIET
AFTER BOMBING ATTEMPT]
5-Year-Old Child Shot During j
Fusillade From Hillside Is
Expected to Die.
i
Hr th# Asaor'atf'J Press.
MORGANTOWN, W. Va„ November
27.—The mining town of Scott's Run
was quiet last night following an
attempt early yesterday to dynamite
the tipple of a mine operated by the
frhriver Coal Company and the firing
of a volley of rifle shots from a
nearby hillside which resulted In the
probable fatal wounding of a S-year
old child.
Sheriff W. M. Yost and members of
the State police were continuing their
investigation of the disorders. The
victim of the firing. Sarah Rokya,
who was shot down as she stood at
tin* door of the house occupied by her
parents, was not expected to live.
The mine had been operating on an
ope.n shop basis and the cxplosioh
damaged part of the tipple, although
the greater part of the charge failed
to explode.
SUGAR STRIKE STUDIED.
Zayas Flans to Insure Safety of |
Industry.
HAVANA. Cuba, November 27.
The newspaper La Rrensa said yes
terday that it learns from what It
considers a reliable source that Pres
ident Zayas is considering- asking
Congress for authority to suspend
the constitutional guarantees in
Camaguey and. Orlente provinces to
deal with the situation caused by the
strike of sugar mill workers. Em
pFoyers and workers failed to agree
on terms. The report could not he
confirmed, but government officials
declared more men were returning
to work and reiterated that all pro
tection would be given them and
shat all necessary measures would
l«4 taken to Insure the sugar crop.
“BEAN KING’’ IMPATIENT.
Sands Anxious to Face Trial in
New York Failure.
TAMPA, Fla., November 27.—When
informed here yesterday that Sheriff
Horace Kelsey and another officer of
Orleans County, N. Y.. were on their
way here to return him to Albion,
N, T„ to face charges of first degree
larceny in connection with the fail
ure of his business of nearly $1,000,-
000, Lewis E. Sands, "world bean
king," stated: “I wish Sheriff Kelsey
was here now. I am impatient to re
turn to Albion and face the situation
tliera fully and frankly. I am confi
dent of coming out of any Investiga
tion with a clean slate.”
Auction 100 Barrels Whisky.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. November 27.—One
hundred barrels of 8-year-old Ken
tucky whisky were sold at auction
yesterday at prices ranging from 125
toe S3O a barrel by the Baltimore Dis
tillery Company. Any one could buy
the whisky, but very few could get
it out of the warehouse. Most of It
was bought Just before wartime pro
hibition by persons who did not be
lieve prohibition would last long.
Storage charges and taxes have ac
cumulated. The buyers were persons
wbo believe that they will be given
permits by the prohibition directors
to remove the liquor for use for va
rious purposes not outlawed by the
i’rohlbltlon act
Coolidges to Go
By Auto to See
Army-Navy Game
President and Mrs. Coolidge plan
tc leave here Saturday morning by
automobile for Baltimore, where
they will attend the annual Army-
Navy foot ball game.
The presidential party will have
luncheon in Baltimore as the
guests of city representatives be
fore going to the foot ball field.
Tradition will be followed by
Mr. and Mrs, Coolidge and their
guests by occupying seats on the
Navy side of the field during the
first half and changing between
halves to the Army side.
The party will make the return
trip to Washington by automobile
immediately after the game.
BEnERUGHTSSEEN
AS ACCIDENT CURB
Commissioners to Fight for Funds
Held Vital to Increase
Traffic Safety.
Believing that adequate illumina
tion of the streets is an important
factor in accident reduction, the Com
missioners will exert every effort to
obtain an increased appropriation
for street lighting at the coming ses
sion of Congress.
City officials are hopeful of having
Congress appropriate in the next Dis
trict bill the first installment toward
the carrying out of the comprehen
sive lighting program, which calls
for the ultimate expenditure of at
least $1,500,000.
Whether It will take five or eight
years to complete the program will
depend on how large Congress makes
the annual installments.
"There Is no doubt," said Engineer
Commissioner Hell, "that a large per
centage of serious accidents occur at
night. It follows, therefore, that
better street lighting will prove an
important factor in the effort to make
the streets safer.
"In working out our plan for the
city-wide improvement of lights we
have proposed special types of il
lumination for the streets and
avenues that are natural traffic ar
teries.”
The street lighting program contem
plates the gradual substitution of
electric for gas lamps and the Im
provement of some of the existing
: electric units with new and stronger
! types.
EASTERN HIGH PLANS
VAUDEVILLE SHOW
Three Playlets to Be Included in
Program Scheduled for De
cember 11 and 12.
I Diverting from Its usual form of
dramatic productions. Eastern High
School will present. December 11 and
12, as its annual theatrical entertain
i ment a vaudeville show, which In
cludes as features Booth Tarking
ton's "Bimbo and the Pirate,” "Her
Tongue.” by Henry Arthur Jones,
and "Waiting for the Bus," by George
Main, one of the school’s young
dramatists.
Casts for the plays already have
been selected and are rehearsing un
der the direction of Miss Ella Monk
of the faculty, assisted by Miss Knee
and Miss Murray. "Bimbo and the
Pirate" will be enacted by Tom
Howard. Mildred Repetti. George
Finger, Nathan Clark and Julius Ha
dlee. There will be a chorus of
singers composed of James Kiine,
Lewis Kline, Francis Timmons, Irving
Raley, Charles Dorman. John Beu
chert, Ernest Parker, George Voeg
ler, Carl Martin, Robert Williams,
Edward Knott, Jesse Nussear. Nor
man Van der Linden, Edward Andrus,
Warron Dyson, Wilton Gibson and
Nathan Clark: and a group of clog
dancers—Manuel Rice. Parker Faber.
CUfton Zier, Robert Hutchinson.
Waller Rhine. Eugene Gates, Francis
Ladd, Perrie Lowrey, Arthur Garrett
and Carl Hoffman.
The cast of "Her Tongue" follows:
Laura Barrett. Marie Moore, George
Main. Graham Lowden and Frank
Kre glow. "Waiting for the Bus" will
be played by Joseph Greenwood,
Josephine Tremain. Margery Kelm,
Elizabeth Newsome, Margaret Knapp,
Helen Rifenburg. Evelyn Bixler. Han
nah Stolar, Reverdy Clagett. George
Waters and Frank Scrivener.
BLAST WRECKS TRESTLE.
Gasoline Tank Car, Exploding,
Burns Railroad Bridge.
CLARKSVILLE. Tenn., November
27,—When a tank car of gasoline in a
Tennessee Central train exploded on
a trestle near here yesterday, ten
other cars were plunged into the
ravine under the trestle and more
than 200 feet of the trestle itself was
burned before the fire could be ex
tinguished. No one was hurt, rail
road officials said.
The cause of the explosion could
not be learned here last night. Os the
other cars thrown into the ravine
seven contained gasoline and oil, one
sulphur, one paper and the other gen
eral merchandise.
Local railroad officials said last
night that It probably will be four or
five days before the trestle can be
repaired and normal traffic resumed.
The financial loss la estimated at
about SIOO,OOO.
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GIRL’S MIND STILL DARK.
Pretty “Mystery” Maid Fails to
Respond to Remedy.
CHICAGO, November 27. —Active
preparations for a big Thanksgiving
dinner at the hospital where the
"mystery girl” who was found on the
floor of the Union Station a week ago,
her mind a blank, is a patient, failed
yesterday to recall to the 19-year-old
pretty brunette memories of home
and parents.
Complete Isolation will be the -next
move to be resorted to in an effort
to stir her memory. Visitors have
come to the hospital by the hundreds
to see her. it was explained, many of
them with missing relatives whom
the description of the girl fitted, they
believed. Dr. Clarence Neyman,
psychiatrist, who had tried hypnosis
and other means to restore the girl's
memory, said he had given up the
case, having become convinced that
the girl is faking her condition.
I ~
Cfjristmaa
Is Coming
Shop Early
So You Can
Mail Early
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. O t , THURSDAY, yOVEMBER 27, 1924.
GUARD MAN HELD
IN GKIRDER
Canadian Authorities Take
Accused to Safety—Caught
After Night Search.
By the Amoi-laled Pre»«.
IIOULTON, Me.. November 27.
Harry Williams, arrested early yes
terday after Cynthia and Neotia Fos
ter, sisters, 14 and 10 years old, had
been found murdered in a shack oc
cupied by Williams at Fosterville.
N. 8., on the Maine-New Brunswick
border, was taken last night under
heavy guard to the York County Jail
at Fredericton, N. B. The authori
ties feared that attempts might be
made to lynch Williams, who had
been threatened by an angry crowd
today. The girls, his nieces, were
found last night with their hands
tied behind their backs, shot through
the head.
* Discovery of the double murder
was made by Ward Foster, father of
the children, when they failed to re
turn to their home. Williams had
taken homestead rights to land ad
joining Grand Lake and it had been
the girls' custom to go to his shack,
about a mile from their home, to cook
for him. They went to the Williams
place as usual yesterday, and in the
evening, when they did not come
home, their father went in search of
them.
Found Bodies in Shsnty.
He found their bodies, one on the
bed in the shanty, the other under
the bed.
Scores of villagers turned out to
asslit Foster in his search for Wil
liams. After a posse had scoured
the woods all night In the vicinity of
Fosterville. which is about 18 miles
from Houiton, Mrs. Mary Kinney dis
covered Williams hiding behind her
barn. The poses surrounded the
building and Williams surrendered.
A hurry call was sent to Fred
ericton, summoning the sheriff, there
being no regular police force or jail
at Fosterville, which has only be
tween 200 and 300 inhabitants. In the
meantime a guard of citizens was
formed to protect Williams, who was
being threatened with lynching by
the angry crowd. Late yesterday
Sheriff Hawthorne arrived and took
charge of Williams. Scores of cit
izens and the sheriff's deputies ac
companied him as a guard on the
long automobile trip to Fredericton.
Williams was to be formally ar
raigned at Fredericton today.
2 HELD IN $60,000 PLOT
ON MAGAZINE DEALERS
Confessions Said t 3 Implicate 20
Others in Forgeries
Obtained.
By the A*«Oci«(ed PrCM.
NEW YORK. November 27.—Dis
covery of a plot which cost the
American News Company $60,000
caused the arrest yesterday of Gus
tave Gerber and Andrew Nekrltz on
charges of forgery.
Arraigned In Tombs Court, Gerber
was reported by detectives to have
made a confession Involving 20
agents of the American News Com
pany and the Union News Company
operating stands at the Grand Cen
tral. Pennsylvania and Hudson Tube
terminals.
Gerber's ball was set at $2,500 be
cause of bis alleged confession.
Nekrltz was held In $25,000 hall. Au
thorities said more arrests would
follow.
The forgeries are alleged to have
been perpetrated on credit slips
through a system whereby Union
News agents would be credited by the
American News with returns on peri
odicals which actually were not re
turned. but were kept on the stands
for sale.
Detectives who made the arrests
said they saw Gerber and Nekritz
split $260 as their share of $960 ob
tained in a single day through the
forgeries.
SIR GILBERT PARKER.
ON VISIT, HIT BV AUTO
British Novelist, Recuperating in
Carolina. Is Painfully
* Injured.
By the A«»oclit»d Pre«».
AIKEN. S. C., November 27.—Sir
Gilbert Parker of London suffered
severe Injuries hero late yesterday
when knocked to the ground by an
automobile.
Sir Gilbert's attendant nurse, Miss
Cashmere, was also painfully hurt
when she was thrown beneath the
machine and caught In its running
gear.
Sir Gilbert was thrown heavily to
the ground, hut the wheels of the
automobile did not pass over his
body. He was removed to a nearby
inn. Physicians announced that he
received several injuries about the
head and severe body bruises, but his
condition is not considered alarming.
Miss Cashmere received painful
bruises and lacerations. She was re
ported resting well, but suffering
from the shock.
NEW YORK, November 27.—Sir Gil
bert Parker, who is 62 years old, ar
rived In New York aboard the United
States liner President Harding No
vember 21, on his way to South Car
olina to recuperate after undergoing
an operation in London and to revise
a novel he has written which deals
with the period of Loulv XIV.
SUBMARINES IN SEVERN,
Arrive Off Annapolis to Permit Of
ficers to See Game.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 27.
Three divisions of submarine boats
of the control force, United States
fleet, including the V-l, the largest
submarine in the American Navy, ar
rived In Severn River off the Naval
Academy yesterday following a se
ries of maneuvers In the lower bay.
The submarines will remain here un
til Monday, thereby permitting prac
tically all of the officers to attend
the Army-Navy foot ball game in
Baltimore Saturday.
Rear Admiral M. L. Taylor com
mands the fleet and the Savannah is
his flagship. The admiral made the
trip up the bay aboard the V-l.
WILL CRUISE WORLD.
Athletes to Set Soil in Eighty-Foot
Boat.
BOSTON, November 27.—A sailing
cruise around the world in an 80-foot
boat, now building at Gloucester, will
be started next June by a group of
Princeton athletes, Howell Van Ger
blg announced yesterday. With Van
Oerblg, wbo was a foot ball and
hockey star on Tiger teams up to
last year, will be "Buzz" Stout, cap
tain of the Princeton eleven this Fall,
and Sidney Legendre and Maurice
Legendre, New Orleans brothers, who
have been gridiron stars at Nassau.
Van Gerbig is to be in Boston
through the Winter watching con
struction of the craft.
DE VALERA TO BE RELEASED >
FROM JAIL IN A FEW D4YS
Irish Officials Plan to Give Him His Liberty to
Avoid a Demonstration in
Dublin .
BY WILLIAM H. BRAYDBN.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally New*
DUBLIN, November 27., —Eamon d e
Valera will be released from Belfast
prison on Saturday or Monday. The
release Is not expected to provoke
any demonstration. When he was
brought to Jail a crowd of Orange
workmen assembled to hoot him, hut
as the hour of release Is unknown
there will be no opportunity of
demonstration from foe or friend.
De Valera emerges in time to take
part In a new miniature general flec
tion in the Free State. It Is the
first time since the general election
that he ha* had an opportunity to
lead his party In a challenge of
vacant seats. The election campaign
begins at once for nine seats, al
though the polling will nos be held
until after Christmas.
Judging by the general election
figures, the Republicans think they
have a fair chance of winning at
least three seats. For five seats there
will be a straight fight between Re
publicans and Free Staters. For each
of two constituencies, North Dublin
CONTRACT AWARDED
FOR AQUEDUCT LINK
Allen Pope to Build Tunnel From
37th to 44th Streets
for $230,270.
Maj. Gen. Harry chief of
engineers of the Army, has approved
the recommendation of Maj. James
O'Connor, the United States engineer
in charge of the District water sup
ply system, for the award of « con
tract to Allen Pope of this city for
the construction of a tunnel from the
second high reservoir at Forty-fourth
and Upton streets through high
ground on the line of Upton street to
a point at Thirty-seventh street near
the Bureau of Standards, on Pierce
Mill road
The tunnel will be about three
fourths of a mile long and Is the first
section of the connection to be built
between the second high reservoir
and the District distributing system
at Seventeenth street near the
Brightwood reservoir on Sixteenth
street. Mr. Pope submitted a bid of
$230,270, the lowest of the five re
ceived. The contract just made is
the last large contract for the con
struction of the new Great Falls ac
queduct project designed to add 100,-
000,000 gallons' a day to the water
supply of the District.
The project, which will cost about
$9,000,000, Maj. O'Connor says, will be
completed and ready for use by Jan
uary 1. 1927, under the present plan*,
if the necessary funds aie provided
by Congress. The approved esti
mates for the next fiscal year amount
•o $2,500,000.
THINK MOTHER, SUICIDE,
KILLED TWO CHILDREN
Police Continue Search for Young
sters. However—Husband
Planned Divorce.
By the Associated Brent.
PERTH AMBOY, N. J.. November
27.— Police held out but little hope In
their search for two small children
who have been missing since last Sat
urday night when their mother, Mrs.
Joseph Antal, 24. of this city, com
mitted suicide by throwing herself
in the path of a railroad train.
The officers hold to the theory that
the woman killed the children before
*he ended her own life, but their
search is going on.
Information that Mrs. Antal's hus
band planned divorce proceedings
reach the police today. Antal said
that when he returned home Satur
day evening and found his wife and
children missing, he thought it was
only another of her visits which she
so often made unknown to him.
It was not unusual for her to take
the children away for days at a time
without revealing in advance any of
her plans, he said.
ZONTA CLUB’S FAREWELL
TO MISS LONGFELLOW
Organization of Business and Pro
fessional Women Honors Mem
ber Leaving for France.
The Zonta Club of business and
professional women held an im
promptu farewell party for one of
the members. Miss Caroline A. Long
fellow, at their regular monthly clos
ed meeting luncheon, at the Raleigh
Hotel, Tuesday. Miss Longfellow
will leave the end of the week for
New York to sail for France, where
she expects to spend an indefinite
holiday. Miss Longfellow will spend
the first few weeks, at least, along
the Riviera and may go Into Italy
before the Winter is over. At the
luncheon every member of the club
offered comical suggestions and ad
monitions to the prospective traveler.
Miss Mary Llndsley, president of
the club, announced that the Decem
ber 9 meeting will be a closed one,
with a group of guests from
Baltimore at the luncheon. A special
business meeting to discuss fully the
chief work of the club, assistance to
rising young business and profession
al women, will be held at the Grace
Dodge Hotel December 6, at 8 p.m.
All members are requested to be pres
ent.
The regular-closed meeting sched
uled for December 30 will bo held
Instead on December 23, so that the
members can have guests and a
"Christmas evening party” December 30.
MAYOR SHANK MARRIES
WIDOW HE MET ON TRIP
By ths Associated Pt«*».
KENDALVILLE, Ind., November 27.
—Mrs. Eva Hayes Findley of this
city and Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank
of Indianapolis were married here
last night.
Only Immediate friends were pres
ent, as the bride’s father, at whose
wish the wedding took place, lay
critically ill In an adjoining room. It
had been planned to hold the wed
ding about the first of the year, but
the serious illness of Mrs. Shanks’ fa
ther, Dr. J. •L. Gilbert, caused a
change in plans.
The bride’s first husband, James
Hayes Findley of York, Pa., died five
years ago. Mayor Shank’s first wife
died about a year ago.
The mayor met Mrs. Hayes while
making a speech here during his
campaign for the Republican nomina
tion for governor last SpHng. Mr.
and Mrs. Shank will remain hers a
week and then go to thetr new home
In Indianapolis.
Tips amounting to S6O a week often
are given to porters dealing with the
baggage of American travelers at one
London railway station.
City and the joint constituency of
Leitrim and Sligo, two members must
be elected. This brings in the com
plication of proportional representa
tion, voters having to mark their
first and second preferences.
Represent Old Nationalists.
It Is thought that It may also in
troduce candidates who approve nei
ther Cosgrave nor De Valera, but
represent the old Constitutional Na
tionalists. Hitherto In the elections
they have either voted for the Free
State or abstained from the polling.
Though they are a considerable sec
tion of the community, except for
(’apt. Redmond they have not been
represented In the Dali or In public
office.
It is regarded as probable now that
in the Dublin contest some moderate
candidate, whether old Nationalist or
business man, will afford doubtful
voters an opportunity of polling. As
only 60 per cent of the register has
been polled in previous elections, this
would make the result more Inter
esting.
(Copyright. 1924. by Ohlcsgo Dslly News Co.)
FOLLOW UP TRIALS,
NEW POLICE ORDER
Sullivan to Warn of Absences
From Court When Cases
Come Up.
Maj. Sullivan, superintendent of po
lice, will Issue a general order to
precinct commanders In a day or so
Instructing them to warn their men
to follow up their cases pending in
court and be on hand when cases are
called for trial.
The major will act as the result of
the Inquiry made into two cases re
cently, In which the officers wene not
on hand when the trial of persons
they had arrested were called.
In one case Maj. Sullivan found
that the station clerk failed to tell
the officer of a message from the
court giving the date of the trial. In
the other case the officer admitted.
Maj. Sullivan said, that he received
notice of the date of the trial, but
that it slipped his memory. The re
port of Inspector Pratt recommended
that, in view of this officer's "good
record In the past, he be given a
warning.”
PASSPORT PROBLEMS
TAKEN UP BY LEAGUE
Commission on Transit to Recom
mend Wide Inquiry on Ob
servance of Convention.
By the Aifocltted Br*».
GENEVA. November 27.—The pass
port problem was discussed yesterday
by the Permanent League Commission
on Transit. The members decided in
principle to recommend an Inquiry of
all governments as to what they In
tended to do byway of observing
more generally and effectively the
passport convention of 1920.
This convention, which was signed
by a few states, provides for the sup
pression of the visa system, if not of
the passport Itself, and calls upon
the governments to reduce the pass
port delivery charges to 2 francs 50
centimes in gold and the visa chargez
to 1 franc.
The Investigation by the league in
dicates that passport technicalities
are burdensome and bothersome. At
today's meeting the transit commis
sion agreed that the delays and con
fusion In International train connec
tions at the frontiers were due either
to passport examinations or customs
formalities.
The prevailing opinion is that with
the war over, since 1918, the time has
come to relax the passport complica
tions. Another opinion Is that the
issuance of passports should not be
made the source of revenue.
DANCE HALL HELD UP,
TWO YOUTHS ARRESTED
Girls and Men in Social Club
Within Block of Police Station
Give SI,OOO to Bandits.
By the Associated Brass.
NEW YORK, November 27.— Within
a block of a police station five armed
men held up 20 girl and 25 man
dancers in a social club last night,
and escaped in an automobile with
money and Jewelry estimated at SI,OOO.
Two youths, who entered the club
prior to the hold-up, were locked up
charged with suspicion of robbery.
They described themselves as Tony
Scarpullo, 18, and Thomas Calabra, 22.
CLUB INCREASES ROLLS.
Six Admitted as Members of Clv
itan at Meeting.
Six new members were admitted
Into the Clvitan Club at Us luncheon
meeting Tuesday afternoon in the
Lafayette Sixteenth and I
streets.
With “solemn” rites and over the
“objections” of rgany members, the
following were sworn in as support
ers of tha Clvitan creed: John S.
Dunn, L. 8. Jullen, Dr. Eugene A.
Taylor, Frank Stryker. Ernest Glch
ner and Martin W. Hysong.
The club\ls preparing for the an
nual election of officers a few weeks
hence. Three candidates are running
a close race for president, five for
vice president and seven for the
board of directors. The present of
ficers are James M. Proctor, presi
dent; Luther C. Steward, first vice
president: James B. Henderson, sec
ond vice president; Charles F. Crane,
third vice president; Charles B. Lyd
dane, treasurer; W. O. Hlltabldle, sec
retary. and Dr. Roy Van'Valkenburgh,
sergeant-at-arms.
SMOKING RUINS TASTE.
Woman Tea Graders Not Allowed
to Use Tobacco. '
Correspondence of the AetocUted Brent.
LONDON, November 6.—No woman
who smokes cigarettes can hope to
become a professional tea-taster, ac
cording to Miss Margaret Irving, the
only woman among London's millions
of woman tea-drinkers who has quali
fied as a tea expert. She has taken
her place alongside men who get
thousands of pounds a year Tor grad
ing and Judging the leaves which en
ter into England's favorite beverage.
Woman tea-tasters must also es
chew perfomea and perfumed soaps
and talcum powders. The nose and
palate co-operate In deciding upon
the flavor of tea, and must be kept
free of all Influences which might as
. Tect their functioning,
JUDGE BAKER CASE
■ TESTIMONY ENDED
House Committee Hears Both
Charges and Denials of
Wet Corruption.
n.r the Auociated Pfv»*.
PARKERSBURG, W. Va.. Novem
ber 27.—A mane of testimony, much
of It contradictory, had been placed
before a congressional subcommittee
las! night when it closed two days
of hearings here on charges of mis- '
conduct fifed against Federal Judge
William E. Baker of the northern
district of West Virginia. The
charges were filed with the House of
Representatives by Brown, dis
trict attorney of the same jurisllc
tlon, as a basis for possible impeach
ment proceedings against Judge
Baker. The committee indicated that
the next hearing would be held at
Wheeling, probably within a few
weeks!
More than GO witnesses were heard
yesterday, mainly In denial of the
charges, while on the previous day
the committee devoted its time to
testimony offered in support of them.
Judge Baker on the witness stand
today made a sweeping denial to the
three specific charges covered in the
present inquiry, that of changing
court records, the transfer of con
fiscated liquor and his alleged use
of liquor. Other witnesses called by
his counsel testified of various inci
dents during his term on the bench.
Many of them declared they had
never seen Judge Baker under the
Influence of liquor or showing indica
tions that he had been using liquor.
Details of Case.
Considerable time was spent on de
tails of the case of Mike Sawa, who,
after a plea of guilty, was sentenced
in a prohibition case at Wheeling in
May, 1922. The original information
against him, filed by the district at
torney’s office, charged possession of
two moonshine stills, but a charge of
manufacturing liquor was inserted
later, and the main question was
whether this insertion was made
after sentence had been pronounced,
as charged by Mr. Brown.
Judge Baker in his testimony de
clared that when Sawa was first be
fore the court he admitted manufac
turing moonshine, and that he in
structed the assistant United States
attorney, Charles J. Schuck, to draw
a new Information on this charge. In
stead, he said, the interlined informa
tion was presented, but because it
was legal to amend an information
he permitted it to stand. It was not
until the next day. he' said, that
Sawa’s plea was taken and sentence
imposed.
Transfer of l.lqnor.
With reference to the transfer of
confiscated liquor to Elkins, his home
city. Judge Baker declared that the
.order was made at the suggestion of
C. E. Smith, the United States mar
, shal, because storage space was
available in the Federal Building
there and because of thefts from
other places where confiscated liquor
was stored. Smith corroborated Judge
Bakers statement that the transfer
orders were made at his suggestion.
A quantity of liquor, said by some
witnesses to be 800 quarts, moved
from Clarksburg to Elkins, was plac
ed at IGO to 200 quarts by John
Koontz. a deputy marshal, who said
he Tiad charge of moving the liquor.
He testified on cross-examination
that most of the liquor was destroy
ed in the Elkins Federal Building by
pulling out the corks and emptying
the contents Into the sewer.
Judge Baker characterized as
’■false" the testimony of Mrs. A. C.
Moore that he was present at a party
in a house she owned In Clarksburg
where several of the company were
Intoxicated. James Carter, occupant
of the house; Charles S. Dyson and
A. C. McDaniel of Clarksburg, alleged
to have been in the party, denied that
there was any such occurrence or that
they ever saw Judge Baker in that
house.
Had Not See* Him Drunk.
In all. seventeen witnesses declared
that in their association with Judge
Baker since he became Federal judge
they had never seen him either un
der the Influence of liquor or showing
that he had used liquor.
Wade Coffman, clerk of the court,
denied having been in an intoxicated
condition, in company with Judge
Baker in a Wheeling hotel, as wit
nesses had asserted. Judge Baker
also denied It.
Koontz, Charles K. Welch, a deputy
marshal, and Louis Buckwald. pres
ent United States marshal, con
tradicted testimony of Mrs. Marlon
O. Greer that Judge Baker had been
"boisterously’’ drunk in the marshal’s
office In Elkins on the night of a
court term there.
Changes in Stations of
Army and ISavy Officers
Os Interest to Capital
Comdr. Edward C. S. Parker
Lieut. Kellum D. Grant and Lieut.
Deane L. Chamberlain. Naval Dental
Corps, have been relieved from all
active duty and will proceed to their
homes.
Officers at the Annapolis Navak
Academy have been assigned to other
stations as follows; Lieut. Lyman S.
Perry to the U. S. S. Lawrence. Lieut.
John E. Whelchel to the U. S. S. Han
nibal, Ensign Stephen G. Barchet to
the battleship New York and Ensign
Carl E. Cullen to the battleship Texas.
The resignation of Ensign Andrew
W. Cruse, U. S. N., attached to the
U. S. S. Chewink, has been accepted
to take effect November 30.
Lieut. Comdr. William G. Faus
at the navy yard, Philadelphia, has
been assigned to duty on the U. S. S.
Melville, and Lieut. Comdr. Elmo H.
Williams of the Melville and Lieut.
Arthur F. Anderson of the U. S. S.
Wood have been ordered to Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii.
First Lieut. Edward H. Young, 12th
Infantry, at Fort Washington, Md.,
has been ordered to Manila, P. 1., for
duty.
Capt. William F. Friedman, Signal
Officers' Reserve Corps of this city,
has been ordered to duty in the
laboratories of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Co., New York
City. Later he will go to Camp Vail,
N. J., and deliver a course of lectures
on military codes and ciphers at the
Signal Corps School.
Lieut. Col. Carroll D. Buck, Corps
of Engineers, recently promoted, has
been relieved from duty at the gen
eral intermediate depot, Brooklyn, N.
Y., and assigned to duty at the Bth
Corps general area depot. Fort Sam
Houston, Tex.
Mulse Corps Changes.
Capt. O. Salzman, at Quantlco. has
been ordered to San Diego, Calif.;
First Lieut. E. F. O’Day. at Quantlco,
to St. Julten's Creek, Va.. and Second
Lieut J. E. Kerr, at Quantlco, to the
battleship Nevada. Marine officers
ordered to Quantlco include First
Lieut. H. S. Hausman, at St. Julien's
Creek; First Lieut. F. X. Bleicher, at
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Second
Lieut E. F. Carlson, attached to the
battleship Nevada.
Second Lieut R. S. A. Gladden, at
Guantanamo. Cuba, has been ordered
to the navy yard, Norfolk.
Popularity of the omnibus among
the leaders Os society In London is
ascribed to tko Indifference of tip
taking taxi drivers,
Bean King Wants Trial
" ■' 11 " i ,IHI
L.UUIS h. MMJs.
ArrrNtfd in Florida in ronfctiOß with
bin \ew York bankruptcy, iron df
rlarr* hr ft« hhiloun to Miami trial and
In confident hr can itraghten oat hl>
financial tangle.
CHINA WINS POINT'
IN 01|i PARLEY
Proposal for Rigorous Law In
Foreign Courts Is Placed
on Agenda.
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, November 27—China made
a determined stand at the interna
tional opium conference yesterday on
the question of exlra-terrltorlallty,
as related to opium, and finally in
duced the business committee to place
China’s proposal in the conference
agenda.
The proposal is in effect that foreign
courts In China, which do not follow
Chinese law on opium suppression,
shall have a law as drastic as that
of China and will agree to apply the
same drastic punishments to foreign
ers, including deportation, upon con
viction of Infringement of the law.
Another point Is that the Chinese
government shall be permitted to
have Chinese assessors sit in the
foreign courts when foreigners are
tried.
India Fights Proposal.
India today actively combated at
tempts to bring in so-called new ques
tions which India and some other
countries feel do not fall within the
scope of the agenda. If the Indian
move proves successful it would have
the effect of shutting out two or
three Important features of the
American proposal?, including the one
stipulating that opium smoking should
come to an end in the Far East
within ten years.
Yesterday s debate touching on the
competency of the present confer
ence occurred at a private meeting
of the business committee of the
conference, which was so lengthy,
owing to the difficulty of reaching
an accord, that the schedule of the
Plenary session of the conference had
to be altogether abandoned. Stephen
G. Porter, the American representa
tive, got into action immediately
when the Indian plenlpotentary ob
jected to some of the American pro
posals. Mr. Porter reserved the right
to bring them up at the plenary con
ference.
Porter Makes Reservations.
Heroin, like the question of sup
pression of opium smoking in the
Far East, was the matter on which
Mr. Porter made reservations.
Interest was created by the an
nouncement by the League of Nations
that Sir Herbert Ames, financial di
rector of the league, had received a
letter from Mr. Porter asking what
would be a proper contribution of
the United States toward the ex
penses of the present opium confer
ence. This letter constitutes a prece
dent and fulfills the idea of many
Americans visiting Geneva that the
United States should contribute its
share in the costs of the league's
activities in which it participates and
by which it profits. Sir Herbert now
is figuring that the American share
probably will be the same as Groat
Britain’s—that is 10 per cent, or
$1,500.
YOUTHFUL PRISONERS
ESCAPE FROM TRAIN
Flee From IT. S. Agent at Balti
more Station—One Later
/
Recaptured.
Two boys, one 14 years old and the
other 15, en route to this city as
United States prisoners to serve five
year terms In the Training School for
Boys on Bladensburg road for auto
mobile thefts, jumped from the win
dow of the compartment when their
train pulled into the Baltimore Union
Station yesterday and made their es
cape from the custody of Department
of Justice Agent William M. Meeks.
One of the boys. Price Skipworth,
15. later was caught In Baltimore.
The other Robert Sanders, is still at
liberty.
A third prisoner, en route to Che
shire. Conn., to serve five years in a
reformatory for a post office robbery,
refused to Jpln the others in flight
and arrived ' here last night,, being
held at the 4 sixth precinct between
train connections.
Meeks, stationed in the Oklahoma
district of the Department of Justice,
left Muskogee Monday In charge of
the three prisoners. When the train
arrived In ’ Baltimore ho removed
handcuffs from the wrists of the pris
oners to allow them greater freedom
in eating. He had just ordered lunch
for the youths, leaving them appar
ently safe in the compartment, an/
had gone outside to join his daughter,
who was making the trip with him,
when a shout gave warning. Meeks
returned to find the window open and
the two boys gone. A city-wide
search instituted in Baltimore re
sulted In the recapture of Skipworth,
but Sanders’ whereabouts is unknown.
SEEK 3 RUNAWAY GIRLS:
Virginia Police Told Bobbed-Haired
Hikers Are Southbound.
Special Dispatch to The SUr.
RICHMOND, Va., November 27.
Agnes E. Snowden, Margaret Sharp
and Mede Geiger, each 15 years old,
all from Camden, N. J.. are said to
be In Virginia bound southward on
a lark. The police of every city tn
Virginia have been asked to- take
charge of the girls in case they are
found.- Parent* of the* hikers are
anxious to have them held and to be
notified. The girls are said to be of
the bobbed-haired type and good look
ing- v:.. 4 ...
CUHMADE
LEADER TOM ORROW
Warren Likely to Waive
Claims at G. 0. P. Party
Conference.
The conference of the Republican
senators to select a leader in place
of the late Senator Lodge of Massa
chusetts, at 11 o’clock tomorrow
morning, will choose Senator Curtis
of Kansas for that office, it is ex
pected. Senator W'arren of Wyoming,
entitled to the leadership under the
seniority rule is expected to waive
the claim to the place so as to give
his entire time to his duties as chair
man of the appropriations committee.
There.are at present 51 Republican
Senators and Senators-ciect who will
serve In the session of the Congress
opening Monday. The vacancy cre
ated by the death of Senator Bran
degee of Connecticut Is yet to be
filled. It is necessary that 26 Sen
ators be present, or represented by
proxies, in order that a quorum may
be counted for business. While many
of the Senators are still absent from
Washington, it Is believed that with
in the next few hours a considerable
number will have returned to the
Capital and that a quorum will be
present.
The Senators-elect who have been
invited to attend and take part in
the conference are Senators Means of
Colorado and Metcalf of Rhode Is
land, Senator Butler of Massachu
setts, appointed by Gov. Cox to till
the vacancy due to the death of Sen
ator Lodge, also has been invited to
attend.
Will FUI A acaacies.
As soon as the leadership has been
settled, a chairman of the Republican
committee on committees will be ap
pointed by the new leader, filling the
vacancy in that chairmanship caused
by the death of Senator Brandegee.
Senator Watson of Indiana will be
come chairman of the committee on
committees, as he is the ranking
member of that committee, it ia un
derstood. The committee on commit
tees will then proceed to fill the va
cancies in committees and assign the
new Senators to committees.
The selection of assistant leader and
whip, offices now held by Senator
Curtis, may be allowed to go over
until a further meeting of the Re
publican conference. A number of
senators are being considered for
this post.
The Republicans, by holding their
conference and making selection of
leader and filling committee assign
ments, will have their organization
completed and will be ready to begin
business aa soon as the session of
Congress convenes.
Contest I n likely.
A contest for the leadership, with
Senator Wadsworth and Senator Wat
son as contestants against Senator
Curtis,‘was believed possible at one
time. But Republicans appear to
have ironed the matter out and to be
ready to go ahead with their party
organisation in the Senate smoothly.
When the Senate meets Monday at
noon, as soon as resolutions have been
adopted appointing a committee to join
with a similar committee from the
House to notify the President that
Congress has assembled and is ready
to receive any communications he may
desire to make, and providing for a
regular meeting hour each day, an ad
journment will be taken out of respect
to the memory of Senator Lodge. Sena
tor Colt of Rhode Island and Senator
Brandegee of Connecticut.
The President is expected to send his
message to Congress on Tuesday. It
will be read in the respective Houses
that day. President Coolldge, In sending
hia message to be read instead of ap
pearing In person to deliver it to a
joint meeting of the Senate and House,
will depart from a custom re-established
by President Wilson when he came Into
the White House and continued by
President Harding. Mr. Coolidge him
self delivered his last annual message to
Congress in person.
3 CLEARED IN MURDER.
Self-Defense Plea Accepted by
Jury.
TUSCOLA, 111., November 27. —Leon-
ard Campbell, Harley Campbell and
Leroy Benskm were found not guilty
of murdering Sherman Denny by a
Jury In the Doug’as County Circu;.
Court at 12:16 a m. today.
The case went to the jury at 10:10
p.m., and after fi’-e ballots had bet:i
taken a verdict was reached.
The three men were charged with
the murder of Sherman Denny on the
night of May 17, when his body was
found near his home. Leonard Camp
bell admitted shooting Denny, but
said that he shot in self-defens- ,
which plea was successfully estab
lished.
BOWIE ENTRIES
FOR FRIDAY.
FIRST RACB-»urse, $1,800: maiden 2-jeir
old a: 6 furlongs.
Wonder-light 114 Bruns J}<
Eyelash 114 Cardiff .. 114
Harry Baker 114 Wish I Win. 11l
Zeebrugge H 4 Also eligible:
Little Fox 1U Balrsge 114
Ttudlane 114 Cottage R. 114
Transformer .... 114 MoCully ••••...- IJf
Csrthaae 114 Lady Ambassador. 11l
FltTTer HI Gala Night 114
Gray Bock 114
SECOND RACE— Claiming; purse. $1,800;
all ages; «'» furlongs.
Sea Sand 117 tLady Boas 110
Lady Audrey 114 t Camouflage 107
•Partner, jr 108 *Lucky strike — 103
•Admirer 100 Also eligible:
•Frank Monroe... 102 Crimp ... . 07
Belle Artiste 114 ‘Without 100
Muskellonge 107 Elemental 107
Demurrage It* ‘Atlantlda W
•Appellate 115 *1 enlielos lOd
jMrs. 0. C. and C. P. Winfrey entry.
THIRD RACK —Claiming: puree, $1,300: 2
year-olds; 8 furlongs.
Peter Paul 116 Ramus iO4
Young April HO Tod Renesor 101
•Bother 106 Also eligible:
•Klrkfleld 102 Lady Classen.... 116
•tClarichord 99 ‘Night Shade 105
Can’t Say No 113 Tangara 113
•Sea Fairy....... 108 •Wavecrest 102
W| ler 104 Kathleen Crosby. 110
•tToppanite 102 Grace Troxler 98
Clique HO ‘Sandpile 0$
BUI Winfrey 107
tW. A. Woolman and Joaquin Stable entry!,
FOURTH RACE—The Consolefion Handi
caps. $1,500: for all ages; 1 mile and 70 yerds.
Xoel HO fWampee OS
Fraternity 2d 112 Lieut. 2d 107
Leonard 0 102 Flagship 4 07
Setting 5un....... 107 - -
f 3 pounds claimed for rider.
FIFTH RACE —Claiming; purse, SI,BOO ; 3-
year-olds and up; 1 mile end 70 yards.
Proceyon 112 ‘Mersdale 107
•Erica 107 ‘Modo 107
•Eagerness 05 Freely Sneexy... 106
A1 Boyd 112
SIXTH RACE—•Claiming; purse, SI,BOO ; 3-
year-olds and up; Iftmlles.
•Metal 112 Demijohn 108
The Reaper 107 *B«n W00d...... 0*
Despair 103 ‘Pensive 108
•Black Sbeste 100 *S terms 103
•Bclcross #8 ‘Frosty Boy 100
Reliable 109 *Play On 95
•Ed Pendleton 106
SEVENTH RACE—Claiming; purse, $1,800;
8-year-olds end up; IA miles.
•Jacques.... 109 *Rechebite 102
Ticacy.,,.. 106 •Miser.... 98
Trappean 102 •Fictile 108
•Sligo. 68 *Zouese 102
•Dr Mayer...... 108 Tjandi OS
Mystic..... 108 *Lady Glaffney... 67
•Apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather clear: track feat.