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THE WEATHER ,
' Unsettled with light rain tonight; tomor
row partly cloudy; not much change in
temperature; lowest tonight, 30 degrees.
OWNER OF CAFE SLAIN
Ashurst Flays Dawes on Floor
MRS. DENNISTOUN SOBS
UNDER CROSS FIRE
' BABES HER
LOVES HI
PARIS
English Beauty, However, De
fends Boy Hero Who Died in
World War'Trench
By DAVID M. CHURCH
LONDON, Mart* 5. —After
eight hours of continuous testi
s Bony regarding the intimate rela
tions she is alleged to’ have had
with various men, Mrs. Dorothy
Dennistoun, divorced -wife of
Colonel lan Dennistoun and crea
tor of. one of English society’s
greatest scandals, broke down
sobbing today and begged the
court for a rest. It was granted.
While Mrs. Dennistoun
resting, Sir Edward Marshall
Ball, defending the colonel in
Mrs. Dennistoun’s suit for $6,C00
she claims to have advanced to
pay his debts, accused the plaintiff
of intimacy with a Mr. Senhcuse.
Defends Boy Hero.
Weakened though she was, Mrs.
Dennistoun flared up, crying it was
not true and adding: “He was a
fine boy, a thorough sportsman
and died in his first week -n the
trenches.” She did admit that she
became hysterical when told he
_had fallen in France.
j * Then Mrs. Dennistoun denied
that she had been intimate with a
Mr. Bolin of Spain while still .under
b_ the protection of the late General
Sir John Cowans, war-time quarter
master general of the British artiiv
and “General X” of the case.
Mrs. Dennistoun had charged that
Colonel Dennistoun urged her to
suffer the General s attentions so
her husband would be promoted.
Under questioning by Sir Edward,
the witness admitted Mr. Bolin lived
for a time in her home and that
•he promised to go to South Amer
ica with him as his wife.
Denies Divorce Plea.
Mrs. Dennistoun broke down
•gain when Sir Edward asked
what she was paying to prosecute
this case, retorting:
“Nothing! Nothing like ' the
thousands Colonel Dennistoun paid
to have me followed everywhere.”
The witness said it was untrue
that she had expected the dowager
countess. Lady Carnarvon, whom
* Colonel Dennistoun married after
the dissolution of his first union,
I would pay, rather-than have this
case go to trial.
Mrs. Dennistoun, under cross
examination regarding the most
intimate details of her life, admitted
that after the death of General
Cowans and about the time she
was being divorced by Colonel
Dennistoun, she was intimate with
Bolin. She admitted she was ex
pecting a child at that time but
denied that she appealed to Den
nistoun to permit her to divorce
him so she could marry Bolin.
Prince Odescalchi is a member of
one of the oldest Italian families,
which also has an ancient Hun
garian branch. The prince is the
son of Prince Geza, who married
the Countess Andrassy.
Cables From America.
Mrs. Dennistoun admitted that
While in Budapest she received
••bles from America from a “Mr.
F,” who has been described as an
intimate friend of young Lord
Carnarvon.
She admitted she saw Prince
1 Odescalchi several times in Buda
pest. but that she never had stayed
in Budapest more than ten days.
When asked if she had gone to
Spain and Portugal with Colonel
Jwnes. Mrs. Dennistoun replied:
"Yes, with Colonel Innes and a
on Page 2, Column 2.)
Dawes’ Pipe Wrecks
Dining Room Rule
At Willard
List one more precedent torn
into shreds today by Vice Presi
dent Dawes.
The Illinois “comet,” who has.
blazed a brand new' trail
through the Capital’s traditions,
walked into the dining room of
the Willard calmly snjoking his
pipe. He continued to draw
upon the famous briar at inter
vals during eating.
A matre-de-hotel, two head
waiters, an assistant manager,
and ’ scores of guests were
knocked for the proverbial “row
of hoops.” In all its years, the
Willard’s rule against pipes in
the dining room has never be
fore been broken.
“But what can we do,” solilo
quized John Smutzer, head
waiter, ‘Tie’s the Vice President
of the United States.”
YOUNG NISEIS
SOUGHT 81
FRIENDS
Miss A. L. Driggers* Where
abouts Unknown Since
She Left Hpspital
Miss Anna Lee Driggers, beautiful
eighteen-year-old blonde with bob
bed hair, is wandering about the
streets of Washington, penniless
and jobless but too proud to ask
her friends for money to return
to her home in Cumberland. Md.,
whence she came a short time ago
as a student nurse.
Fired with ambition, it is said.
Miss Driggers left her home with
her parent's consent and came, to
Washington. She kept rather aloof
while here,, not divulging her social
activities to her friends or to any
of the other girls who lived with
her in the George Washington Uni
versity Nurses' Home, at Thirteenth
and L streets northwest.
When advised that she was not
adapted to the work of nursing, it
was said that she became despondent
and sad. Her pride led her to hand
in her resignation a day or two
after a conference with the officials
at the hospital where she was
serving her apprenticeship, but no
amount of argument could persuade
her to remain until she got enough
money to get home on.
With her sudden disappearance
the police and hospital authorities
notified her aunt and uncle, a
minister in Cumberland, and they
asked her friends to search for her
here. When she left the nurses’
home it was said she took her
trunk with her. An Investigation
showed that she had not made ap
plication at any other hospital for
work.
• Any communication concerning
Miss Driggers’ whereabouts is re
quested to be made to a friend,
Miss Watts, residing at the Newlon
apartments, 1440 R street north
west.
FILIPINO REBEL PLOT
CONFESSED BY PRISONER
MANILA. P. L, March 5.-4- plot
,; to assassinate govermnent officials
and burn government buildings was
confessed by one of the Colorum
fanatics captured today by federal
' troops near San Jose.
The Plot centered at Nueva Eciha
where it was planned to seize the
■ provincial government. Seven Co
, lorums were killed by the constabu
lary before their attempted out
break was put down.
i AMERICAN GIRL TO WED <
j POLISH COUNT IN LONDON
LONDON, March s.—The engage-
I rnent of Miss Mary Frost, of Santa
Barbara, California, to Count Vicot
, i’odoski, assistant military attache
I : of the Polish Legation here, was an-
I nounced today. f
J Miss Frost is a niece of Amer
ican Charge D’Affaires Sterling, and
a granddaughter of Joseph Choute.
Fthe_ rr~ MA-r i a U fTDAILT? -
NO. 13,180 ft MARCH 5, 1925, SjSSff, THREE CENTS
KELLOGG IS
ATNEW
POST
New Secretary of State Sworn
In by Justice Butler in
Simple Ceremony
By LIJDYD LEHRBAS.
Frank Is. Kellogg, former
United States Senator from Min
nesota and late ambassador at the
Court of St. James, became Sec
retary of Stale today in succes
sion to Charles Evans Hughes,
who retires to private life after
four years at the helm of the
ship of state under the la£e Presi
dent Harding and President Cool
j idge.
The new Secretary of State
'was sworn in by Associate Jus
tice of the Supreme Court Pierce
Butler, who was appointed to the
highest bench from Minnesota, in
the presence of a few close
friends, members of the State De
partment and the Minnesota dele
gation in. Congress.
Ceremony Simple.
The utmost simplicity marked the
event and within a few moments
after Secretary Hughes entered the
State Department offices with Mr.
; Kellogg he had transferred to him
•the responsibility for conducting
American foreign affairs and walked
out. without a care in the world,
ready to sail for Bermuda for several
weeks of quiet and rest before re-
I entering the practice of law in New
< York city.
The two meh were in vivid con
trast as they stood before Justice
Butler-—Hughes tall, straight and
• his far famed whiskers adding to ni.»
commanding and distinguished ap
pearance; Kellogg, small, round
; shouldered and lacking in the
j exuberant, vitality and personality
j of the retiring statesman.
Mr. Kellogg was visibly nervous
j as he raised his right hand to take
; the oath from Justice Butler and
; his hand trembled noticeably while
i Justice Butler was speaking.
Confers With Coolidge.
As soon as he had been sworn
: in. Justice Butler shook hands and
congratulated him. Then Mr.
Hughes offered his congratulations
and walked out of the diplomatic
i reception room where the cere
| mony was held, a private citizen
again.
i Secretary Kellogg immediately
; left for his first conference as
Secretary of State with President
Coolidge.
Congressman Allen J* Furlow of
Rochester, Minn., where Secretary
' Kellogg began the practice of law,
asked for the pen with which
Mr. Kellogg and Justice Butler
signed the oath of office and
; Secretary Kellogg handed it to him.
wood getspermission
TO SAIL ON FREIGHTER
VALENCIA, Spain, " March 5.
Lieutenant Osborne C. Wood, may
i realize his ambition to return io
, America where he hopes for a fresh
chance after his financial troubles
in Paris, Biarritz and Madrid.
The London office of the United
States Shipping Board today t< le
graphet) authorization to Cantain j
i Lunde, commanding the Shipping
' Board freighter Westchetac, to ac
‘ cept Wood as a passenger. The
; Westchetac sails today from Va-
I lencia and would land Wood in
' Miami, Fla.
Radio News, Page 16.
Puzzle, Page 22.
a
New Hand Is At Wheel
of American Ship
of State
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HK j/BES
Bl J J
bcShl
FRANK B. KELLOGG,
Sworn in this morning by Su
preme Court Justice Pierce Butler
as Secretary of. State to'succeed
Charles Evans Hughes. The cere-.
mony was simple and attended''
only by close friends, members of
the Minnesota delegation in Con
gress and a few high dignitaries.
HOCHESSOLVED
BOUNDARY
PROBLEM
Last Official Act of Retiring
Secretary Was Concluding
of South American Pact
The last official act of Charles
Evans Hughes as Secretary of State
was the conclusion of an arbitra
tion agreement between Brazil. Co
lombia and Peru to settle a long
standing boundary controversy be
tween these South American coun
tries at the headwaters of the
Amazon river.
Announcement of the agreement
was made at the State Department
shortly after Hughes retires as Sec
retary.
Mr. Hughes’ suggestions for the
settlement of the controversy,
which has been agreed to by ’ the
three governments, were that Brazil,
withdraw its obseration regarding
the boundary treaty between Co
lombia and Peru; the ratification by
Colombia and Peru of the boundary
treaty; and the signing of a con
vention between Brazil and Colom
bia by which the boundary between
those countries would be agreed to
on the Apaporis-Tabatinga line.
Brazil agreeing to establish in per
petuity. in favor of Colombia, freedom
of navigation on the Amazon and
other rivers common to both coun
tries.
MEXICAN GUARDED BY
COUNTRYMEN FROM MOB
ELKO, Nev., March s.—Seventy
five armed Mexicans were sur
rounding the county jail here to
day prepared to repulse any at
tempt at lynching Guadalupe
Acosta, Mexican prisoner, the con
fessed slayer of Deputy Sheriff A.
C. Lewis, who was shot to death
when he tried to arrest Acosta
Saturday night. ’
Feelings between Americans and
Mexicans was running high and
authorities feared fatalities might
result if a mob attempted to rush
the jail.
“JOHN ’DOE 7 ’”SENDS -
CHECK TO GOVERNMENT
AUGUSTA, Me., March 5. —Col-
lector Frank J. Ham, of the Inter
nal ,Revenue Department here, is
in possession of three checks, total
ing $6,100. from “John Doe & Com
pany” and drawn upon three indi
vidual Chicago banks. A letter ac
companied the chocks, each for
about $2,000, and merely explained
"Tax and interest.”
Inquiry made of the three banks
revealed that the sender of the
checks was not know to them and
that he gave the name of "John
Smith,” eC Cleveland, Ww
RECESS IS
USED TO
CHECK
TALK
Senator ( Hale Takes Blame for
Vice President’s Absence
at First Session
By GEORGE R. HOLMES.
The smouldering resentment the
Senate feels over the “dressing
down” it received at the hands of
Vice President Charles G. Dawe«
came to the surface today a few
minutes after it met.
With General Dawes himself in
the ehair, Senator Ashurst (Dem.)
of Arizona, succeeded in getting
into the record his opinion of
General Dawes’ action yesterday
as “unseemly ahd untimely.”
Ashurst’s criticism was directed,
not at the speech of the Vice
President in which he denounced
Senate rules, but at the General’s
action in interrupting the swear
ing in of new Senators to “shoo”
everyone out of the chamber for
the Coolidge inaugural ceremonies.
Hale Takes Blame.
M hen the Senate convened at
noon today, Senator Hale (Rep.) of
Maine, and Senator Reed (Dem.) of
Missouri both demanded recognition
£rom the chair. After a moment’s
hesitation. Vice President Dawes
recognized the Maine Senatotr.
Hale said he had “noticed in the
press certain criticisms” of the Vice
President for not returning to the
Senate yesterday after the conclu
sion of the Coolidge ceremonies, in
order to preside. Hale said he took
the blame for this, and wanted to
explain to the Senate how it hap
pened.
Ashurst Gets Floor.
Senator Ashurst then obtained the
floor.
“Mr. President,’’ he said, biting his
words off, “I saw in the press this
morning certain criticisms attribu
ted to me of the Vice President. I
rise to a point of personal privilege
to say that there are certain parts
of the Vice President's speech with
which 1 am in accord. My criticism
was directed at the unseemly and
untimely interruption by the Vice
President of the ceremony of the
new senators taking the oath of
office.”
“After the President concluded
his speech,” said Hale, “the Presi
dent and Mrs. Coolidge, and the
Vice President and Mrs. Dawes
left, the stand and started down
toward the cars. The Vice Presi
dent said to me: ‘I must return
to the Senate to preside, how do I
get there?” I informed him that
he was not to return to the Sen
ate, but was to go to the White
House to review the parade. It
was a misunderstanding on my
part. If there is any blame at
tached to it, it is mine.”
General Dawes stood erect behind
his chair and said nothing.
Republican Curtis succeed
ed in shutting off any extended
criticism of General Dawes by ob
taining a. recess until 2 p. m. in or
der to notify President Coolidge that
the new Senate is in session and
ready for business. However, it
may only be delayed as several Sen
ators. among them Reed, Democrat,
of Missouri, endeavored to get the
floor during the brief ojiening ses
siop.
Not onlj' the Democrats and in
surgents are "sore,” but Adminis
tration Senators as well.
Not to Be "Submerged.”
Whatever be the ultimate result
of Dawes’ explosive beginning, his
friends gleefully observed today that
at least the volatile General has
shown that he does not intend to be
submerged in the usual obscurity
that falls to the lot of Vice Presi
dents.
With flailing arms and stamping
feet. General Dawes told the Senate
its present rules are a disgrace and
“subversive of good government.”
He had reference to those tradl-
(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
Striking Parallel In
Two Slayings
Facts draw a striking par
allel between the brutal mur
der today of Thomas Pappas
and that of William H. Mickle
on November 16. 1911.
Pappas was killed in his
place of business, a restaurant.
Mickle was killed In his place
of business, » cigar store.
Pappas was killed at 1202.
Seventh street northwest.
Mickle was killed at 1004
Seventh street northwest.
Pappas’ head was unmerci
fuHy crushed with a wrench.
Such was the case with Mickle.
Pappas was dead when found.
The same was the case of
Mickle.
Mickle was murdered about
6 o’clock at night.
Pappas was killed about 6
o’clock in the morning.
6 COMMITTEES
OF HOUSE TO
BE FILLED
Madden'proup to Pick G. 0. P.
Members of Those to Work
_During Recess
The House Republican Commit
tee on Committees met today to
organize and make Republican se
lections for some House committees
that are to get away to an early
start on legislation next fall.
Congressmen Martin B. Madden,
Illinois, is slated, for re-election as
chairman of the Committee on Com
mittees. Upon him will fall the
burden of petitions and pleas from
new Republican members for selec
tion to positions on the more im
portant committees.
The committee today will fill Re
publican consignments to the Ap
propriations, Ways and Means, In
terstate and Foreign Commerce,
i Agriculture, Banking and Currency
; and Accounts Committees. Each of
i these is to function in advance of
i the meeting of Congress next De
cember. Republican assignments to
other committees will not bs made
until Congress meets.
In its work today the Commit
tee on Committees will determine
finally the status of the Wisconsin
Congressmen and others who sup
ported La Follette, who have been
read out of the Republican ranks.
Congressman James A. Frear. Wl®
consin, is fourth on the Ways and
Means Committee, and Edward
Voigt, Wisconsin, is fourth on the
Agriculture Committee. Congress
man James H. Sinclair, North Da
kota, also is on the Agriculture
Committee. The Committee on
Committees will determine whether
they are to be permitted to remain
on their committees, be left off or
be dropped to the bottom of the
Republican list, and have their hope
of Ultimate chairmanship shattered.
Congressmen Madden is slated for
re-election as chairman of the Ap
propriations Committee; William R.
Green, lowa, chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee; Gilbert N.
Haughon, chairman of Agriculture
Committee; Louis T. McFadden,
Pennsylvania, chairman of Banking
and Currency Committee, and Clar
ence McGregor, New Yory, chair
man of the Accounts Committee.
The House Democratic Committee
on Committees will make. few
changes in their committee assign
ments. The leaders have decided
it unnecessary to make selections
prior to the meeting of Congress.
GIRL IS CHARGED WITH
SLAYING SWEETHEART
NEW YORK. March s—Dorothy
Perkins, seventeen, charged with
killing a suitor, Thomas Templeton,
of Jersey City, at a party at her
home was held without bail by
Magistrate Goodman.
The girl, after her arrest, declared
that the shooting was an accident,
caused primarily by the attempts of
her parents to maJce her marry
Templeton, police said. He had been
calling on her for a year and a
half, she said, and her parents
furthered his suit and opposed her
friendship with another man.
According to police, the girl sail
that at the party Templeton up
braided her for her attentions to
hLs rival, and that during the argu
ment her father entered the room
and tried to strike her. He hit a
revolver concealed In her sleeve,
she said, and discharged it. The
shot entered Templeton’s heart.
HOME I
EDITION
BRUTfIILV BEATEN TO
DEATH IN KITCHEN,
FOUND Bl COOK
Brutally and mysteriously slain, the body of Thomas
Pappas, forty-one, Greek restaurant keeper, was found
today in the kitchen of his case, * 1202 Seventh street
northwest. He had bepn beaten to. death.
A fifteen-inch wrench covered with blood was found a
few feet from the body.
The back of the man’s head was crushed in and there
were four distinct gashes, three and four inches long.
He was lying face downward, a piece of burlap and an
overcoat thrown over the lower limbs.
The body was found at 11 o’clock and was still warm.
Police believe he was slain about 9 o’clock.
There were no signs of a struggle, nor any evidence of
a robbery.'
A sixty-four-year-old man, William Joseph Tappy,
cook in the case, found the body. He was taken into
custody for “investigation.” Police do not suspect him.
Tappy lived with Pappas in rooms above the case.% He
said he last saw his employer at 10 o’clock last night.
He went to bed, leaving Pappas in charge of the store.
He said Pappas usually wakm him in the morning.
"I didn't wake up until late, ”•
Pappy • told police, “I immediately
went down stain. The door lead
ing into the restaurant was locked.
I knocked several times, tout
no answer. Then I thought some
thing must berwrong.. 1 broke
through the door. It was then I
found Pappas’ body.”
Called In Police.
Tappy rushed to the front door
and called in a policeman passing
by.
Tappy, who says he has lived
with Pappas three months, denies
any knowledge of the slaying. He
gave police several tips which were
quickly run down and proved fruit
less.
Inspector Clifford L. Grant, chief
of detectives, was called In. He
assigned a half dozen headquarters
men to the investigation.
Did Not Use Bed Last Night.
A search.of the rooms above the
store showed that Pappas did not
sleep in his bed last night. Tappy
declares he was such a, sound
sleeper that Pappas may have come
up and he wouldn’t have heard
him.
There was evidence that Pappas
was in the case shortly after 6
o’clock this morning. Neighbors
declare they saw him in front of
the case.
Attacked From Behind.
Police are at loss to find a rea
son for the brutal murder. The
man undoubtedly was attacked from
behind, his assailant giving him four
ci five blows with the heavy
wrench. If there was a struggle,
it was brief. Pots and pans nearby
were not disturbed.
Pappas was without shoes when
feund. The footgear were lying a
CHARGES FACE
GIRLS AFTER
JOY RIDE
Will Meet Accusers Today to
Convince Them Taking Auto
Was Only Joke
John A. Schroth, of 702 Maryland
avenue northeast, and Lieutenant
Guy E. Burlingame, the officer who
last night arrested Minnie and Lulen
Jones, the two young girls who were
said to have stolen Schroth’s car,
will meet in the Assistant District
Attorney’s office today and try to
decide whether It was just a joke
on the part of the two country girls
or Whether they really meant to
steal the automobile.
After a ride in Schroth’s car, dur
ing which time. It is said, there was
some drinking done, Schroth left
the car parked with the girls in it
and he and a young man. who was
said to have been Thomas Murtaugh,
entered a house near New Jersey
avenue and F street northwest. ;
When they came out the car and
the girls were gone but a short time I
later they were found getting gas
at a station near Second and Pennsyl- 1
vania avenue northwest. The girls ’
spent the night at the House of 1
Detention and were sent to Police i
Court today where disposition will be I
made of the case. <
I
few feet away. Several other piece*
of clothing were nearby.
Pappas, who has been In this
country about seventeen years, la
reputed to have been worth about
>15,000. When he first came to
America he went to California and
worked as < chef. When the Bal
kan war broke out he enlisted in
the Greek army, fighting for three
years. Returning to this country,
he came to Washington and opened
the Marathone Restaurant on
Seventh street. *
On "Outs” With Brother.
He was known to be on the
"outs” with his brother, William
Pappas, who conducts a restaurant
at 1027 Seventh street northwest,
several blocks below. Detectives
Cullinane and Fowler visited the
brother’s case, but learned the man
was taken to Georgetown Hospital
three weeks ago and operated on
for appendicitis.
Two cousins of the slain man,
Leon Pappas, of 43 H street north
east, and Chris Pappas, of 1027
Seventh street northwest, came to
the case after being notified by po
lice.
"We never knew much about
Pappas,” one of them declared.” We
used to meet him In market and
speak to him. But that’s all. He
never went around with anybody in
his family.”
The relatives declared they knew
of no persons who might seek
Pappas* death.
"He got along all right with
everybody, so far as I knew,” one
declared.
Had Man Arrested.
Police are investigating a report
that Pappas several weeks ago
swore out a warranter a colored
man for grand larceny.
Fred Sandberg, fingerprint ex
pert of the police department, took
photographs of the kitchen and also
got fringerprints on the wrench.
Pappas restaurant, crowded night
ly, was spick and span today. Police
believe that Pappas cleaned up last
night, went out and returned this
morning. They are inclined to
doubt neighbors* statements that
Pappas was seen about 7 o’clock.
They believe he came in the case
about 8:30 or 9 o’clock and found
his assailant awaiting him in the
kitchen.
No Money in Register.
Apparently Pappas had not yet
opened the case. There was a bag
of bread in front of the store near
the door. The coffee had not been
made.
Police failed to find any money in
the cash register. They did not,
however, believe this was because
of robbery. They declared Pappas
in closing for the night probably put
his money away and did not have
time before he was killed to put any
money back into the register.
7th Street Slaying
Similar to Unsolved
Mickle Murder of 1911
The murder of Thomas Pappas is
strikingly similar to the unsolved
Mickle murder, which was com
mitted within two blocks of Pappas’
rA sit ti lira n t
The body of William H. Mickle
was found in his place of business,
a cigar store at 1004 Seventh street.
Both of the men’s heads were beat
en in with wrenches and both were
found lying face downward on the
floor.
It occurred shortly after 6 o’clock
on the night of November IS, 1911.
The aged man’s skull was fractured
in several places.
Department of Justice agents and
members of the detective bureau
worked on the Mickle murder
months without obtaining a clew
as to the identity of th* slayer.
Several aufpects were taken into
custody, bufrall were later released.
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