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The Washington herald., 1922-12-25
SAYS GIRL DARED
POLLARD TO SHOOT
EYEWITNESS Describes Quarrel
on Porch Before
Killing Occurred.
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about. Mrs Register says. told her
that the worst had happened.
Mrs. Register declared she had
kent silent about the matter, fear
ing that she would be forced to
suffer unpleasant notirety.
On Saturday, the commonwealth
attorney visited Mrs. Register
home and had her re-euact her part
in the tragedy. She showed him
where she was standing when she
said she saw the woman hold out
her arms to Pollard and hurl her
dare at him and made note OF the
time that would have elapsed be-
tween that moment and the time
that the shots were heard.
The commonwealth attorney states
that the time that elapsed was eight
seconds. judged by the test he made
yesterday.
Richmond citizens. generally. were
relieved when another definite step
had beer taken in unraveling the
mystery surrounding the Staying of
the former stenographer. They feel
that IL should have taken the course
directed by the police justice: that
it was a matter for the grand jury
to thresh out. 1t will be the most
important case to be considered
when that body conyenes jan
uary ..
ATTRACTS INTEREST.
Indications are that the Pollard
case will be second only to the
mysterious Henry Clay Beatty case
when Beatty's wife was slain in
Chesterfield county ten years ago.
Beatty's defender was Harry y.
Smith, one of VirgInia's most famous
criminal lawyers. His son, Hiram
Smith. will defend Pollard. assisted
by the brother of the accused. 1t
is also likely that the aged father
of the accused, II r. Pollard. one
time city attorney OF Richmond, but
now retired, will aid in the defense
When Robert n. Pollard took the
stand here yesterday to testify as
to his knowledge of the killing, he
revealed story of scion of q
prominent family gone wrong.
The brother told how the accused
had been a source OF grief to the
entire family; how he had repeat
edly pledged to attend strictly tc
his business and live up to the high
record set by his family in the
past.
BROK EPROMISE.
In August last, the brother testi.
fled. Pollard promised their father
that he would stop drinking, settle
down and look after his wife and
small daughter. Within a few days
following this pledge. 1t was testi
fled, Pollard was showing attention
to Mrs. Bertha Beck. known tC
police here as the "baby-faced choir
singer"
Mrs. Beck. blonde and blue-eyed
is Of the same general type as the
late Mrs. Richardson.
An affidavit by Mrs. Beck. now
IN the hands Of the commonwealth h
attorney. declares that Pollard pro
| posed marriage to her, suggesting
that the ceremony take place as
soon as the two OF them could oh
| tain divorces. In fact. Mrs. Beck
already has filed petition ir
Hastings Court here for divorce.
The dead woman's husband
| from whom she was divorced. and
her two brothers are here to assist
the prosecution. and were closeted
with the commonwealth attorney
yesterday.
While acting as associate counsel
for his brother. Robert N. Pollard
will be one of the star witnesses for
| tho deffnse
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NJ H-~ ~csnta-
tive Johnson %
Qua.
10 expected TO be
taken up in the
Senate prob
ably by Sepator
David Reed. Of
Pennsylvania. .
world war vet.
eren. .
The proposal.
q e C o riding TO
r epr esentative
John son. has
the appro val
OF the American
Legion and
other vet eran
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CIGARETTES RUIN GOWNS.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 35.-Thres
Young women were suffering from
burns today received when the
f1imsy costumes worn at the Arctic
ball given by students of the Penn
sylvanta Academy Of the Fine Arts
Friday night tented from cigarettes
carried by young men. One Of
them was treated at q hospltaI
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Communism to Rule
i'm Canadian COLONY

TORONTO. Dec. 24.-An expri-
ment in communism is to be at
tempted In northern Ontario.
Sixty families are settling thirt.
ty-five miles south of Fort William,
where the Arrow River touches the
international boundary. The crops
will be pooled and divided accord.
ing to the number of each family.
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Iohnsou prsd,cttd yesterday that
tuch Q eepnmittss win Be sstab-
ushed and function in the next
session Of Congress.
Former service men in Con
sress are convinced that only
through the creation Of . special
committee can measures affecting
our war veterans be given the
necsssary time and study this kind
OF legislation demands" said John
SON. ~you have only to recall how
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Student Extravaganza
Blamed on Faculties

LONDON, Dec. 24.-Much criti.
cism has been directed against the
faculties of Cambridge and Oxford
as being responsible for the ex-
travasant life led by many Of the
undergraduates
The subject gained wide public
ity recently when student COM
mitted suicide because of finan-
cial difficulties
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S. Bill Clue to
Mint Robbery;
Omaha COmbed

OMAHA, Neb.. Dec. "a.
FOLLOWING the finding Of
l. S. bill In Auburn. near
here. which was identified as
one Of those stolen from the
Bank Wagon" In front Of the
United States Mint In Denver
last Monday. police tonight
started to comb this city In
the belief that the bandits are
hiding here.
Detectives haye arrived from
Denver to participate in the
search.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-25
French to Start Art
School for Americans

PARIS. Dec. 24.-The- minis: ry> OF
fine arts has completed arrange.
ments to establish In the palace at
Fountainbleau a school of architec.
ture and painting for Americans.
1t will be opened June 20 next,
and Is intended for the use Of the
large number Of Americans located
at Fontainbleau, where already there
is an American conservatory Of mu.
sic under French direction.
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AUTO RUNS OVER HIS FOOT.

George Phillips. 931 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest. while crossing
n Ninth and + streets northwest.
last night. suffered q fracture Of
THE right foot whan struck bv TN
automobile driven by Allison
tlumphries. 1884 Corcoran street
northwest He was treated ut
Emergency hospital
The Washington herald., 1922-12-25
Greece Faces
Uprising as
Plot HatcheS

ATHENS, Dec. "a.
GENERAL arrests were made
y tonight In connection with
reports that there Is . definite
and well-formed plot being
Matched to overthrow the gov
ernment.
Athens Is seething with tur.
moi, and officials arc coutenl-
plating martial law.
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Foymer service mon ir the
Houss Of Representatives ere max
ing On intsnsive drive 70 secure
leaders sanctien for special com,
mittss to handle all isgtslation
dealing with war veterans.
The drive. started In the House
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SCIENCE GUARDS
NATION 'sPEACE,
|SAYS HAMMOND.
Engineer Warns Government
Against Economy at Expense
of Federal Laboratories
AssAILs scANTY BUDGETS
Ayers Meager Appropriations
Vital Research Undertakings
Have Forced. Suspension of
By JOHN GOLDSTROM.'

S..,ersai -, r,so.
John Hays Hammond, jr., fore.
most radio engineer and inventor
in an interview yesterday warned
the United States against saving
money on appropriations for sci.
entific work at the expense of ma
tional safety.
Government Laboratories which
have been conducting valuable re.
search work have been compelled
to close for lack OF adequate ap-
preparations" he said. "and the
result Is that we are wasting time
which is more valuable than
money.
WAR MAY COME.
mo war is in sight for US for
at least ten or twelve years. and
we hope very earnestly that we
may never have another war, but
neither Congress nor anybody else
can guarantee that we shall not
have one. Practical-minded men
know that we must be prepared
for any eventuality.
"Peace-time is the time for
preparation. That is time which
we can afford to waste only at
national risk. That is the most
essential element In scientific de-
velopment. 1t cannot be bought
for money or for anything else.
We should have learned that les
son from our experience In the
world war. 1t cost US a lot Of
money"
MIR. Hammond came to Washing
ton from his laboratories at Glou
cester, Mass. partly TO spend the
at his home here, but also
to consult with government officials
scientific military work
which he is doing for both the
army and the navy.
New radio instruments developed
at the Gloucester plant are to be
tested at the winter maneuvers OF
the fleet in southern waters.
Please make il clear that per-
sonally l have not the slightest
complaint to make in connection
with my own work for the Gov
ernment. l have received com
plete coopera ton. but other men
doing valuable work for the Gov
ernment have not. due TO -'lack
OF funds.
Government workers in scien-
tific development are very poorly
paid. and they are hampered in
their work by pitifully small ap-
preparations. II we do not now
spend more money for scientific
national defense, later on we may
have occasion TO regret it very
bitterly.
WITH EXPERTS.
Mr.. Hammond does not share
with other experts the view that
IN the next war cities and produc
ton centers Will necessarily be a,
the mercy of enemy aircraft, pro
vided that proper attention is now
paid to the development of anti
defense He said:
Too little attention has been
paid so far to anti-aircraft Of
fense. The theory should be
offensive rather than defensive.
In the next war-if we have one
properly developed artillery can
greet a&craft with an aerial bar
rage which would be impene-
trable
Railroad lines between bases
will probably be done away with
in favor of motor transportation.
1t is too easy to destroy such a
fixed agency as a railway line.
As TO the naval warfare of tn,
future. Mr.. Hammond thinks tha,
it will be mostly in the vertica
rather than the horizontal dimen
sion.
In principle" he said. the sea
tleet will simply be carried up into
;he air.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-25
Perfume Stolen;
Woman Sought

"Cherches Ia Femme" declared
police Yesterday when they were
informed Of the theft, Saturday
night, OF $50 worth Of perfume and
atomizers from the drug store at
1405 North Carolina avenue north
east. Fifteen dollars was also
removed from the cash register.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-25
Ek!{$l3l} 3l}zSQI|QIX
Is There q Santa Claus?

f,psntr-fipe ysars ago little V1sinia o'Hdnlon,
psrplsssd by tks question, tUrote to The Editor Of
the Nsw York Ssn: 81 ON years old. Some Of
nv little trfenls say there is no Santa Claus
Please tell ne the tssth, Is there a Samta Claus"
The fsllovise sSiterisi prbhshsd in The Sun tx
1897, one Of the finest things N oar hteratrre on,
swsred for al time and all children thss Old Old
question.
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al and all children ths Old Old
questun
vzn little friends wrong They have been affected S
sepca They do net believe except they see
They think that nothing Be which not BY Their
Virginia whether they be mems chdrens
little In this great universe of ours man mere insect an ant
compared with the boundless world about him. a.
by the intelligence capable of gaspns the whole OF truth
and knowledge
virginia Claus He exists certainly as love
devotion and that they abound and
five life il. highest beauty and joy Alas how drssy
world there Santa Claus! would be drea
there Virginia There would be no chdks faith then no
sxcsp and sight The eternal light with which
childhood fills the world would be extnguishsd
Not believe Santa Gsus You might ss well not believe an
might TO hire men TO watch In All ne
chmns Christmas to catch SAINT. G.p but even they e
santa CLAUS but thu. t that there no santa Claus me most
things the world ARE thoss that neither Children nor men
Did ever fairies dAncns on the nwn OF course not nus na M
that they not there Nobody conceive OF ~
the wonders that are snd unseeshe in the world
apart the babys rattle and see what makes the
noise but there veil covering the world On
al the strongest lived could tear apart Only EA
tain the supensl beauty and glory be-
nothing else real and abiding. &N
No Santa Claus! Thank God lives and he lives ETW
forever thousand years from Virgins, E% sE
he will continue & NEM
to the heart Of childhood. EM XzSSS
Dso.su aud
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violins. They were expressing so well
shortly, yes--and what he would be ready
to take, too! For the passive stage was
never of long duration in this simple or
ganism. Firmly and slowly, he slid his
chair against Mrs. Dale's, pressing his
left knee closely against hers. It was
Vancouver he always practised When lis
tening to this sort of music. 1t made him
relish it the more.
"He thinks that it is only my chair he
is touching" thought Amy, much embar-
rassed, and she tried to give him. more
room. But she was already quite in the
corner against the velvet partition. So
she decided, in order not to seem dis
courteous, that she must keep her knee
perfectly rigid, and thus save his High
ness from the embarrassment he was
bound to feel on discovering, after a mo-
ment, that he had been led, through ab
sent-mindedness and his great bulk, to
incommode a lady by taking up. more
room in the box than he was entitled to.
Although rather flattered on the whole,
the lady was feeling a little dizzy and
very uncomfortable. Her companion was
his own, and she felt something must be
done; that it really ought to be stopped.
Suddenly he began to murmur something
in her ear
"Till that auspicious moment when you
will make me happier still, you cannot
know all the blissfulness with which you
have this night, with your SO admirable
nearness, filled my entire being. When
may | embrace you, when make you all
mine own, far from these vulgar eyes?
Where, Schaytlein, shall it be, mine or
thine, the chosen love nest?" '"'
This phrase sounded exaggerated to
Mrs. Dale, but she readily set It down to
his Hiehness imperfect knowledge of
French. Suddenly she felt upon her
wrist a warm, moist pressure which trav-
elled slowly and clingingly up her arm.
Amy started to her, feet. She could
scarcely account for her sensations, but
she knew she ought to 20 home.
please, please, your Highness," she
cried like a frightened girl. mot here,
not nowV "a.
In the shadow of the curtains. ".Now,
nowp'
Il took her a month to accomplish her
ambition, but at the end of that time she
was actually married to Prince Hogwitz-
Schweiningen. II was done by special
license In London. where His Highness
Allied q honorary diplomatic position and,
belonging as he did to the Protestant
branch Of his great house, It was easy for
this virtuous potentate to obtain the nee
essary papers from the Archbishop Of Can
terbury.
The ceremony, according to the press,
was simple and impressive. The bride
wore travelling costume Of gray peau-
de-soie with sable. His Highness was in
the famous uniform Of the second reserve
regiment Of the Royal Orange Hussars.
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The curtain will rise in ten minutes on the
second act, so we would better be soon
installed in the loge where your Highness
wishes to remain for the performance"
Continue, continue" said the prince
carelessly. "Allez-vous en-, by all means,
mon ami! Being in clover here, why
should wander further? Mon ami. Be-
this gracious lady has something TO say
to me-"
Mat was certainly astonished to find
that this prince, who at dinner had ex-
pressed such an ardent desire to meet
Bricotte, should be ready and willing
to sit out whole act exchanging social
amenities with his middle-aged mother.
He vaguely supposed that persons Of such
exalted rank had been trained to bear
ennui and that perfunctory politeness of
this sort had become to the prince Sec
ond nature.
"I will meet your Hiphness at the Alb
baye in an hour" he said, and bowling
courteously, left the box.
The door Of the loge was no sooner
closed than the prince drew his chair
close to that Of Mrs. Dale and concen-
trated his attention upon the stage, Being
a man Of little amorous imagination, he
always counted upon what was passing
across the footlights to give him happy
lnSDlThtiOH. ~ inuithst sosotcSstVht
he realized, when the curtain rose, that
they were presenting the second act Of
Tristan and Isolde and that nothing could
be more propitiously chosen to aid his
purpose and give a pleasant edge to, his
tender wishes.
There was nothing particularly sugges-
tive to be culled from the part Of the
performance which was being enacted on
the stage, where there reigned an almost
total darkness, but where occasionally,
In a misty CLEAN Of moonshine, q very
small tenor might be detected ineffec-
tually attempting to escape from the por.
tentous embrace Of massive prima
donna who seemed to be doing her very
best to smother the poor fellow.
In the meantime the orchestra was
hard at work, and for some minutes the
prince sat quite still, filled with sort OF
passive and voluptuous animal content,
which he expressed by inarticulate sounds
He stretched his great limbs in sensuous
enjoyment Of the whining strains Of the
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her life when her son Mat, mistaking the
number Of a certain box at the opera in
consequence of a particularly merry eve-
ming at Paillard's, ushered into his
mothers baignoire a blonde giant Of
heavy cast Of feature, under the mistaken
impression that he was entering the loge
of Mile. Bricotte, Who occupied an
analogous position upon an upper tier.
The lights were up on the stage, throw
ing the audience into obscurity 80 that for
a moment Mat was unaware Of the mis-
take he had made and announced in'cheer-
full burlesque tone the rank Of his
princely companion:
Petite cherie, moule de mon coeur,
voici le type couronne qui desire METRE
little apple of my heart, here is the
crowned guy who wishes to place In your
paws half Of his kingdom).
The phrase was hardly out Of his mouth
when he recognized his break and realized
that the single occupant Of the box where
they had penetrated was his mother
decked out in full regalia, and since he
was courteous II not tender son he felt
II incumbent upon him instead Of beating
a hasty retreat to present the prince in
due form.
"His Highness Prince Hogwitz- -Schwein-
ingen desires the honor Of meeting you,"
said he. Now, the Teuton was scarcely
what might have been called an intuitive
prince that could "tel hawk from
hernshaw," and his tastes inclined him to
that class Of beauty which the modern
romancer characterizes as "ripe and
voluptuous." In his secret soul, and but
for the dictates Of fashion TO which he was
a slave, he would have preferred the
somewhat bovine charms Of this handsome
matron to the girlish suppleness then pre-
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vailing among the modish Parisiennes,
and certainly to the almost boyish con-
tours which the vogue of Mile, Bricotte
had made the rage among the most
famous viveurs Of the capital. So he gave
sly dig with his finger into the ribs of
his cicerone, remarking with a cultural
playfulness:
"Gochon, feinard; du zais les joisir"-
which, fortunately, was quite as in
comprehensive a phrase when spoken to
Mat and his mother as it looks set down
in print.
The princes mode of courtship was un-
embarrassed by either delicacy or fnesse.
We might naturally suppose that at his
second word the dignity Of outraged
pride would fly to arms, and that the
offended lady would even appeal to her
young and gallant son. TO avenge the in
suit offered.
Mrs. Dale, to whom such Q thing had
never happened before, was quite ecstatic
at this new mode of address, which she
found original and charming, and very
unlike the language Of either the Ameri-
can colony or the boureeoisie. The
prince began by informing her that her
charms far surpassed those possessed by
any of the mercenary sisterhood. He be-
came very personal In his favorable esti-
mate of certain portions Of her figure,
and dropped into German in order to
expatiate more ut ease upon the desira-
bility Of such.
The object Of his praises, who did not,
It must be confessed, quite understand
all that was said, was much compliment
ed. Surprised, she was, unquestionably,
and felt herself somewhat confused at
this style Of address. She had not i'm
agined that what she termed "royalty"
would talk like this, but she vaguely re-
membered that once or twice in her
youth she had laid furtive hand upon
three or four forbidden books in the
library, and recalled that, according to
these authorities, princes were generally
accorded a latitude Of language and a
freedom Of department not allowed to
men Of lower station or less privileged
caste.
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The Countess de Chambrun
(nee Clara Longworth)
Tells Us Just How an
American Divorce
Hooks a Royal
THE Countess de chambrun, who was Prince
Countess de Chambrun, who was
Miss Clara Longworth, sister Of

THE Countess de Chambrun, who was
Miss Clara Longworth sister of
- Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati,
husband of Alice Roosevelt, has written a
remarkable novel, playing With Souls"
published by Charles Scribners Sons,
New York;, in which she gives us some
sparkling inside pictures of high Partisan
society, including the Americans who
have found their way into it.
The Countess de Chambrun's husband,
Count de Chambrun, is now in charge of
the French Embassy in Washington, and
is great-great-grandson Of Lafayette.
The Countess knows the best people in
France-and il well informed about the
others.
In an audacious, vivacious, epigram-
matte manner she sketches the salient
traits of some of the most celebrated men
and women, French and American, in
Partisan life. Her characters will be
recognized as composites of many noted
fashionable figures. The name of her dis
sipated young French nobleman, Tony de
la Fortinere, Immediately suggests that of
Boni de Castellane.
The divorced and expatriated American
woman, Mrs. Dale, about whom the novel
revolves, marries a royal prince, which
reminds US that the only American woman
who has married royalty was Mrs. Will
lam B. Leeds, although there are vast diff
ferences between Mrs. Dale and Mrs.
Leeds. The latter's young son in
turn had the honor of being the first
American man to marry royal princess,
a match which was engineered, the gos-
sips say, to bring the help of the Leeds
millions to the impecunious Greek royal
family.
But the authors divorcee runs over to
London for her wedding, and then we
recall that Miss Dorothy Deacon had to
make q similar trip when she was mar
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From, "Playing With Souls"
By Countess de Chambrun tnee Clara Longworth).

TONY de la Fortinere finally intro
duced "Mat" Dale to Mile. Bricotte,
= who was just emerging from a
grubby life at Montmartre to butterfly
existence which entailed some celebrity.
Young Mat, with the exceedingly peculiar
form of conceit which usually character
ICES the youth of his species, was quite as
proud of his conquest as IL the same might
not have been made by any likely young
fellow with an adequate number OF
shekels in his pockets.
The affair was beginning to be well
known in Paris; wherever the monde ou
ron s'amuse is accustomed to congregate
Mile. Bricotte was proud to exhibit her
young American in leading-strings, and
they became such well-known figures in
Partisan life that Sem sketched them for
his album, and the three views which so
amused Mats rival clubmen not only
vividly represented the couple but typifed
certain phases Of the life they and their
friends were leading, with such caustic
sarcasm that the series might have
formed modern pendant to the old
Rake's Progress.
We have spent no more time in describ-
ing the character Of Amy Dale than is
warranted by the slender interest which
can legitimately attach to women Of her
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Mat stood up.
He thought that
they had done all
that was neces-
sary to propitiate
his mother, and
he felt a comfort
a b lie conviction
that she had not
even noticed how
we'll t h e y both
had dined.
"Monseigneur,"
said he, "if your
H ig h n ess is
ready, we might
C o n t inue e our
round of visits.
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tsAG~SSs - <SSsESy.

ally by the royal prince. This passage we
are enabled to reproduce through the
courtesy of Messrs. Charles Scribner's
Sons. 1t should be explained that at this
and studying at Paris preparatory
school, is devoting himself to the vaude-
vile celebrity, Mile. Bricotte, and by
blunder leads the prince into the society of
his mother instead of the other woman: