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Evening star., 1921-05-18
ZAYAS NOT TO RUN AGAIN.

HAVANA. May 1S.--pr. Alfred"
IaSas. Cuban president -tic't. an
nUEnCcd last night that he would not
be- a candidate for reelection. His
statement was made at banquet
rendered him by the Havana Bar AS
4ncia lion.
Evening star., 1921-05-18
WEATHER.

Fair tonight ann tomorrow, mod
crate temperature
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at pm. Today: Highest. IS. AT
pm. today: O'west. 4. at $50 am.
today.
Full report on page i6
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
WIFE JAILED AFTER
HER HUSBAND Is SHOT

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-Frank De-
santes, a subway guard, is under
arrest, accused Of having shot his
wife three times yesterday, in their
home, in Brooklyn, because she re-
fused to become reconciled to him.
Although all the bullets struck ths
woman in the face, she was not Sc
riously hurt.
The quarrel started several days
ago when. It is said. Mrs. Desantes
found letter from another woman
in one of her husbands pockets. She
tells that she refused to have any
thing further to do with him. He
called yesterday to plead to be taken
back, she said. According to one ac-
count, the husband insisted he could
not live without her and offered the
revolver to her, asking her to shoot
him. After the shooting the hus-
band attempted to turn the revolver
on himself. Mrs. Martha Imbriali, his
wife's mother, said. She told that
she threw herself on him and Crap
pied with him, but that Desantes
kept on shooting, the bullets going
wild. Neighbors had Desantes pinned
to the floor when Detectives Dwy>r
and Foy arrived and arrested him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
RAINBOW VETERANS TO
HEAR OF OHIO MEETING

J. Bentley milford, newly elected ma
tional first vice president of the Rain
bow Division Veterans, will report in
full on the recent convention Of the
Rainbow men in Cleveland at the meet
ing Of the District chapter tonight in
the chapter dugout. 1905 e streets
northwest
Due to the absence from Washing.
ton of both president and vice presi.
dent. Edwin j. Stubs and Elmer +.
Neagle, this evenings meeting viii b
presided over by Ralph S. Kiefer OF
the executive committee.
All local and transient Rainbow vet.
Grams are invited to attend.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
BARON KoRFF TELLS HOW
AUSTRIAN DIPLOMACY WON

WILLIAMSBURG Mass, Aug. s.
The story Of how the political for
tunes Of Russia and Austria seemed
for many years to turn upon tho
diplomatic maneuvers Of the two
countries in the BalkaPs and OF
how the cleverness OF one man
finally won out for Austria, WIS told
by Baron Sergius A. Korff, former
deputy governor-general of Finland
in his lecture before the institute OF
politics at Williams College today.
Baron Korff told how Russia and
Austria struggled for years to gain
a foothold in the Balkans and then
related how the Count d'Aerentha'
introduced the Austrian influenc,
so strongly that when the world
war broke out, Bulgaria went in on
the side of the Teutonic allies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
HOUSE STARTS /.
TODAY ON TASK
OF TAX REVISION
Transportation Leyies Receive
First Acknowledged or
Reduce" Is Payers Slogan.
by international News Service.


The difficult task of deciding on
repeal or reduction of taxes was
started today by the House Ways
and Means Committee.
Transportation taxes were among
the first to be taken up. The taxes
on railroads and steamships, freight
and passenger, have given the COM
nlittee much concern. Pressure for
their repeal has been heavy and con.
sistent.
Secretary Mellon recommended that
the transportation taxes be cut In
half for the fiscal year 1929 and
removed totally during the fiscal
year 1924. The committee hopes
to be able to remove them altogether
with the close of the present fiscal
year. They yield over 100000, 900
in revenue.
In connection with the repeal Of
these taxes the American Express
Company asks the removal Of the
tax on it's express business. The
company denies II Is an active or
dangerous competitor Of the parcels
post, and charges that the latter
has an advantage in carrier rates.
The Ways and Means Committee,
however, does not look with favor
on repeal of the express tax.
Congressman Keller of Minnesota.
who is urging a land value tax and
opposes repeal of the excess profits
and surtaxes, issued a statement to-
day criticising the Ways and Means
Committee for its tax revision plans.
He warned the Republican party that
il was riding TO its destruction In the
next election because of the policy of
reducing taxes on those most able
to pay and shifting the burden on
those least able to pay.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
STURDY OAK TREE SAVES
FIVE GIRLS FROM DEATH

UNIONTOWN. Aug. S.-Only n
sturdy oak, which had grown on the
side of the mountain, about fifteen
feet from the National pike at Point
Lookout. saved the lives of five girls
when an automobile crashed through
the guard rail along the pike and
headed directly toward the bottom Of
a sixty-foot cliff the scene of several
deaths.
the base OF the tree and II withstood
the impact. In the car at the time
were Lydia Hanbenk, Frances Halter,
nellie Akar, Frances Kadalek and Alice
Alberts. The girls were slightly cut
and bruised.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
LIN. WANTS To
GUT BIC MELON,
PETITION SAYS
Tells |. c. c. 1t Desires to Dis
tribute $50, 100000 as a
Stock Dividend.

The Louisville 4 Nashville Rail.
road today asked the Interstate Com
,merce Commission for authority to
issue S53. 000,0 of capital stock
and to distribute dividend pro rata
among shareholders.
This request was accompanied by
request for authority to execute
and deliver first and refunding mort
gage to secure various series OF
bonds.
The carrier also ask ID the commits
sion for authority TO issue Series A
Of these bonds, aggregat!ng s2S,5l5,-
008, and to sell s12,753.0oo of them,
holding the balance in the Treasury
for future disposition.
The bonds to be issued will bear
6 per cent interest, payable semi,
annually, and will mature April i,
zoos. They are redeemable at the
option of the carrier on October y,
1886, or on any interest date there,
after at 1o2 per cent OF the full
amount with accrued interest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
MAN SHOOTS WOMAN
TWICE; THEN HIMSELF

NEW YORK, Aug. s.-Mystery sur.
rounds the cause OF the shooting OF
Mrs. Josephine Kruer, thirty-nine
years old, by Thomas i. Mccarthy
forty.five. a city engineering foreman
The shooting occurred as Mrs. kruer
was returning to her home in the Hen
drick Hudson Annex. Mccarthy Is
unconscious in Knickerbocker Hos
iptal, unable to explain the mystery.
Mrs. Kruer. who was taken TO st
Luke's Hospital. said she could not
understand what prompted Mccarthy
Her husband, Bernard Kruer, who was
with her, also professed ignorance.
Mrs. Kruer told the police she had
spent the evening with a woman friend
IN a nearby apartment house. The
husband took her to st. Luke's Hos
pital in a taxicab. One bullet had
wounded her under the LETT ear and
the other in the right breast.
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y Her former mistress's startling ca
reer Is recalled to mind by the arrest
of Mrs. Burkett, who has been posi-
lively identified as her maid. But the
prisoner, although charged once be-
fore with a similar offense, does not
handle her alleged crimes with the
same broad sweep of Imagination that
characterized Diss De Bar.
Divorced wife of General Diss De
Bar, the notorious woman swindler
married Theodore jackson in Chicago,
and with him perpetrated many and
various types of crime, including re-
ligiOus cult. -
De Bars Biggest Dupe.
Diss De Bars most notorious ven.
ture as the deluding Of an old man of
wealth and artistic faster Luther
Marsh, of New York, who she defraud'
ed by means Of "spook pictures" The
canvasses, which were found to have
been painted by her husband, an art
list Of no small ability. we're smeared
over with chalk. which she rubbed off
at seances, thus fooling the victim
who believed his enslaver's hands were
guided by the spirits OF dead artistss
For this hoax the Goddess of the
Shows" got a. sentence of twelve
years. But later she and Jackson ap.
peared In London with their notorious
cult, "theocratic unity" the machina-
tons of which brought them to the
attention Of Scotland Yard.
The practices of their domestic cult
were barred to a shocked public. A
London court sentenced Jackson TO
fifteen years in Jail and Diss De Bar
to seven. But the Queen" Of her fol.
lowers survived, and finally came
back to the United States to appear in
vaudeville.
Not tho least Of her remarkable
claims was Diss De Bars constant as.
sertion that she was the daughter OF
the likewise notorious Lola Montez,
one-time favorite of the poet-ling,
Ludwig 1, of Bavaria. now long since
resting in Greenwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, under a slab which says
simply: Mrs. Eliza Gilbert
Career Of Lola Montez.
Lola Montez's career was distin.
guished II not for financial swindling
at least for the vicissitudes of her love
affairs. An eloper-at seventeen
with a young English officer, 30 as
to avoid an unwelcome match, she
was soon deserted by her husband, who
found another lady more to his lik
ing. Little did the young bridegroom
realize that the young damsel he neg
lected would yet be the prize for whom
kings and princes would compete.
Irish and Spanish blood combined In
the makeup of the daring Lola, who
capitvated Paris in 1929, when she
visited the city billed as Dolores Mon
tez,' a dancer. She could not dance
any too well, but 1t is said her beauty
made other qualifications unnecessary
for success. Her eccentricities became
famous and often led to her Danish
ment from various towns she visited
whose staid> Inhabitants would have
none Of the caprices of the dancer. Al
the age OF twenty-seven she met Lud
| wig, king OF Bavaria, himself sixty
and IL Is said she represented TO him
the beauty and poetry of life that the
extgencies OF his stern career had kept
| repressed In his nature. She became
his favorite and was given the title OF
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
QUAKERS URGE PRESS .
AID FOR DISARMAMENT

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. SIN the
old Quaker Meeting House from which
William Penn issued his first appeal
for universal peace. the Philadelphia
quarterly meeting Of the religious
Society Of Friends passed a message
urging "the press OF America" to help
the international disarpament confer.
ence called by President Harding to
abolish the causes for wars.
The call was issued in the form OF
IAN appeal to the newspaper editors
OF the United States" IL asks them
to use their influence Through head
lines and printed articles for peace
through disarmament"
The message was adopted unani.
mously very few minutes after the
meeting was convened,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
ALASKA WENT
DOWN WITH A..
1866 RESCUED
Shipper Dies at Post-Heroisn
Writ Large as West Coast
Liner Hit Reef.
BY international News Service.

EUREKA, Cal, Aug. s.-Again has
the rock studded, reef-strewn. fog
clouded coast Of northern California
taken heavy toll of life. And again
has an epic of sea heroism been writ
ten in the annals Of the Pacific.
Today the horrors Of Saturday night.
when the steamship Alaska, hit the
treacherous Blunt's reef, slid off. shiv-
cred as II In mortal agony and then
plunged beneath the cold waters of
the north Pacific, were memories re.
counted with varying degrees Of emo
ton.
A Believed Lost.
The Humboldt county coast has
added to her already long list a fresh
harvest of possibly forty-four lives.
according to figures Of the Portland
end San Francisco Steamship Com
pany.
: Written brightest in the high lights
of the disaster are the names of three
Capt. Harry Hobbey, Of the Alaska
Mrs. Grace Campbell, stewardess of
the same ship. and Captain Snoddy, of
the rescue ship. Passengers and crew
are awesomely repeating today the
megaphoned words Of Captain Hobbey,
as he mounted the Alaska's bridge a
few seconds after the ship struck.
II am going down with this ship,
but II you do what tell you nobody
will go down but myself" he shouted.
He went down with his ship, out
to his cool direction, undoubtedly
was due the partially successful clear
ing Of the ship.
No less courageous was the con
duct of stewardess Grace Campbell
The women and children were guided
and in some instances carried TO the
ships boats by her. Tiny children
distracted women and those infirm
with age owe to her supervision and
personal efforts their safety.
"She worked as II inspired" said
mother today.
And the third hero. Captain Snod
dy, shares his distinction with his
crew.
Intrepid Crew Saves 1866.
Captain Snoddy. OF the Anyox. per.
formed a miracle of the sea In reach
ing the scene Of the wreck and taking
from the oil and wreckage strewr
waters 166 souls. Every boat and raj,
that had been launched from the
| Alaska was picked up. and in add
ton men and women struggling In the
water were hauled to safety.
| Credit due our crew Tor handling
all survivors without mishap," was
the terse and modest manner in which
Captain Snoddy told Of his night OF
| heroism.
Today the search for the bodies OF
those who lost their lives was In
progress. Hundreds watched alone
the rocky shores of Cape Mendocino foI
the sea to give up its dead. OF
Blunts reef, five miles out from shore
half a dozen small craft secured the
| surface Of the ocean for bodies.
Only a partial list Of the victims Of
the disaster is available as yet. Among
the known victims were:
Thomas Johnston, Brooklyn: f
Pickall. Hubbard, Ore: A. N. Hutch
inson, Portland, Ore; s. Kumazawa, q
steerage passenger, and the following
members Of the crew.
Chief Steward Hesne: Steward F. K
| King, Frank Comm, Ralph j. Mock
EFT and an engine hand named Larsen
Twelve bodies had been recovered
early today and thirty-six person.
were reported missing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
Refugees Travelling.
BY RARLE c. REEVES,
International News Service.

LONDON, Aug. S.-A million and
half of famished, disease-ridden
Russian refugees are pouring into
the Pinsk and Brest-Litovsk districts
of White Russia, near the Polish
frontier, according to f. l.. Thomp-
son, an American relief worker, who
arrived here today. The Russian
refugees are arriving ut the rate OF
1000 daily. They are interrible con-
dition, especially the children.
The British foreign office has sent
an agent into Russia to investigate
the famine and cholera conditions
Although he was supposed to have
arrived at Moscow on July 80. moth.
ing has been heard from him. Belief
is expressed that his dispatches may
have been held up by the soviet of.
ficials who are censoring outgoing
messages in an evident attempt to
minimize the famine conditions.
Government officials were amazed
today at the report that Lenine would
come to Great Britain. They said they
did not believe II and characterized Il
as Incredible"
Up to this afternoon no word had
been received from Riga that the re.
leased American prisoners had arrived
there from Russia
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
LIGHTNING KILLS CADDlE
SHELTERED UNDER TREE

NEWARK, N. J., Aug. Slight
ming struck a tree on the Beequahic
course. between here and Elizabeth,
late yesterday, instantly killing Arr
thur Schantz, fifteen.year- caddy,
who was seeking shelter beneath Il.
Four members of the club, who were
standing near him, were temporarily
paralyzed by the shock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
MEADE ROCKIES
WILL BE GIVEN
ARMY TACTICS
Demonstrations of Real War
Work on Program for
This Week.

CAMP MEADE, Md, Aug. s.
This week probably will be the big
gest that the boys of Company NJ
from Washington in the civilians
military training camp here will ex'
perience during their months stay,
for demonstrations Of the activities
Of the arms of the service allied TO
the infantry in military tactics will
be given by troops from the regulars.
These will include cavalry move.
ments, loading and firing of machine
guns, automatic rifles, trench NOR
tars, light and field artillery, avia
ton. signal corps operations and
tank movements by infantrymen
themselves.
Routine TO BE Changed.
Tho object of these demonstrations
is to give the men a comprehensive
knowledge of all of the various activf
ties which they will see in case they
are ever called into active service
and will at the same time be vaIu
able to them in learning the work
done in that branch while they are
studying. They will know something
of all Of the things the army does
when they finish their work here
with the possible exception OF the
operations of the quartermasters
corps and the ordnance department
Besides these demonstrations, there
will be a change in the routine which
the men will undergo, the moving
pictures, which all last week were
given at 8 O'Clock. being changed To
o'clock in the afternoon.
After several days II was found
that showing these films in tn,
afternoon was too much for the men
as they started the days work a
$50 o'clock, and went at it hare
until o'clock in the evening. Thi,
change Will give them the entire
evening off after retreat.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
TOOK MONEY FOR FAKE
ADS, is CHARGE; JAILED

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. Bill
lie Howard, advertising solicitor,
known all over the South, has been
arrested by the police charged with
obtaining money under false pretenses
by claiming to place an advertisement
that never appeared.
Local police say the charge is only
technical and that Howard Is wanted
on more serious charge by Los An
geles police.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
Cans 1870 Jars of Berries.

BEELEFONTE, Pa. Aug. s.-Mrs
c. A. Van Vain. OF Unionville, Center
county. has virtually made a corner
on the blackberry crop in that locality.
She has canned $50 quart Jars OF the
berries and expects to make Il 200 be-
fore the crop Ia all harvested,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
See New Spanish Cabinet.

MADRID, Aug. S.-The general
opinion here is that Premier Allen.
desalazar will remain In power, but
that he will take into the cabinet
members OF the Conservative ele.
mcnts, which at present are not rep.
resented in the government.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
Women Are
Recalled BY Arrest in
Roosevelt Note Affair
BY MARGERY REX,
ationaI News Service.

NEW YORK, Aug 8-Following in the furtive footsteps
of whom she called Goddess and whom she served
personal maid Mrs. Emma Richardson Burkett of Indiana
is in the Tombs awaiting trial the charge of forgery
Forging the of the late Colonel Roosevelt note
for $4,000 is the charge against this who
waited that spook prestess and adventures whom it
alleged she has since emulaed Ann Odea Diss De Bar
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
Farmers Die In Runaway.

OIL CITY, Pa, Aug. SAN auto
mobile frightened the horse driven
by John Lauffer, seventy-six, and
Willie Hill, fifty, farmers of West
Washington, Armstrong county. to-
day, causing 1t to run away. throw
ing them out and causing their In
atant death.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
Death Rate Lower.

LYNCHBURG. Va, Aug. s.-The
death rate here in July, 81, was the
lowest on record since the establish
ment OF the vital statistics of the pub
lie welfare department. There were
70 births reported during the month,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
FORMER FROHMAN AGENT
SUES WILLIAM A. BRADY

NEW YORK, Aug. S.-William A..
Brady has been sued in the supreme
court by c. E. A. McGeachy for $3.50
900 for alleged libel In Mr.. Brady's
book, 1.-The Fighting Man" McGeachy
was publicity manager for the Froh-
man interests during the fight waged
thirty-three years ago over the dra-
matte rishta of Rider Haggard's
she" ~
McGeachy alleges that falst state
ments are made, in the book concern
ing happenings in st. Paul in 1889,
when he was sent there to convince the
public that the Brady company play
ing she" was not the Frohman com
pany which played She" in New York.
He denies that he was taken out of
bed, arraigned for libel and held in
$40 600 bail for the grand fury.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
HASTILY DUG TRENCHES
ISOLATE TOWN FROM FIRE

GENEVA, Aug. S.-Troops and fire
men yesterday dug trenches and felled
trees to save Fort Ecluse, where tons
of gunpowder are stored, and Collonge
and other villages, from a forest fire
which swept down the northern slopes
of the Jura Mountains.
The fire was q mile in width, driven
by hot south wind. The smoke,
which obscured the mountains, was
visible in Geneva.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
100000 KILLED
BY CHOLERA IN
LAND Of LEN|N
Horde of Million and a Hail
Famished Russian Refugees
Reach Polish Border.
Nv international News Service.

LONDON, Aug. S.-Cholera deaths
in Russia to the end of July totaled
10000, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen
today quoting reports received there
from Riga.
Brigands are ravaging the famine
district along the Volga Valley. The
brigands have burned all the timber
and farmsteads on $4,000 acres of
land in the Ural district.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08
NATION SAVED
THE RAILROADS,
NJ ADOO HOLDS
Message to Convention Signifi-
cant Of Leadership Of Party,
Says hapgood.
by NORMAN HAPGOOD.

William G. McAdoo, asked for a
message to be sent to the trainmen
who begin a convention In Toronto
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-08

tOudy, beieCto
as his two re-
lated topics
the railroad
question and
disarmament.
Just what
he says It
would not be
proper to mar
rate until the
m e 8 q a & e Is
made public.
1t Will be
printed IN full
in the next
issue of La
bor."
The signin-
canoe of the
stand taken,
however, can
he discussed