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Evening star., 1925-12-31
M. H. BEACH RETIRES
AS CLERK OF COURT
Quits Office in District Supreme
Tribunal to Resume Practice
Of Law.

Morgan II. Beach retired today from
the Office OF clerk of the Supreme
Court Of the District Of Columbia and
will resume his law practice. Mr..
Beach was formerly an Assistant At
torney General of the United States.
but has held the office of clerk of the
court for the past five years.
No ceremony marked the induction
into Office Of his successor, Frank L
Cunningham. formerly of Westmin-
ster, Md, who has been an assistant
clerk of the court for "a years. Mr..
Cunningham took the oath of office be-
fore Chief Justice Walter 1. Mccoy
and filed his bond required by law.
Cunningham Is the fourth person to
hold the office Of clerk of the court
since the organization of the District
Supreme Court in 1863. The first
clerk was Return J. Neigs. who served
until his death in October, 1891, when
he was succeeded by Jonn X. Young,
who died in May, 1920. when Mr.
Beach was appointed.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
SEEKS NEW AUTHORITY
FOR JUVENILE COURT
Monday Evening Club Would In
trust Non-Support Cases to
Judge Sellers,

Amendment of the law creating the
District Juvenile Court so as to take
it out of the machinery of criminal
procedure, and of the non-support
law to give the court jurisdiction in
such cases, was urged at a meeting
yesterday OF the Juvenile Court com
mittee of the Monday Evening Club
The committee Endorsed the bill in
troduced in the House by Representa-
tive Cnderhill of Massachusetts, TO
amend the non-support law along
these lines.
The need of amending the court law
was discussed by Mrs. Louis Often
berg, chairman, who declared the
present law limits the action of the
court and makes effective preventive
work impossible"
Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor said Judge
Sellers Of the Juvenile Court had in
formed her that of the two new
assistants which the director of the
budget had allowed the court, she in
tended. when the necessary legislation
was enacted. to place one in charge
of non-support cases. Judge Sellers,
she said, believed the court would be
able to handle expeditiously all cases
that would come to it under amend
ment of the non-support law.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
.ULT|MATUM GIVEN
PALESTINE APPEAL
Wise Must Resign, Else Mil
lion Jews Will With
draw Support.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 31.-The
United Palestine Appeal today has
the choice Of permitting Rabbi
Stephen s. Wise to resign as it's chair
man or facing the threatened loss Of
support OF l 900, 900 orthodox Jews,
who are warning on DR. Wise because
of reports of his recent sermon de-
scribing Christ, mot as a myth, but
a man"
Last night DIR. Wise, breaking his
silence for the first time since the
theological storm broke around his
head, asserted that the controversy
was caused by Interpretations of his
sermon OF December 20.
While he was giving out his state
ment however, representatives of
Agudath Hara abonim, an organization
of orthodox rabbis, and of Mizrachi, a
laymen'S organization, after a stormy
five-hour meeting, accepted reports
Of the sermon at face value and de-
manded that the United Palestine
Appeal accept DR.. Wise's offered
resignation. Unless he is allowed to
withdraw, they decided, they and their
1000 900 followers will no longer sup
port the appeal.
The two statements attributed to
DR.. Wise, which started the contro-
versy. were that Jews must accept
the teachings of Christianity" and
that the teachings Of Jesus are an
unparalleled code of ethics"
Neither of these remarks was made
by him, DR.. Wise said, adding that
1t was "a mournful commentary on
the infinite hurt which the Jews have
suffered at the ha nds OF Christ endOrn'
that a Jewish teacher could not talk
Of the ethical contribution Of Jesus
TO the world without being hailed
as a Sonvert to Christianity and mis-
understood by some Of his fellow
Jews"
Evening star., 1925-12-31
FUND STILL SHORT.

The fund being raised for Friendship
House. 326 Virginia avenue southeast,
In order to obtain the $1,000 offered
to it on condition that a similar
amount Is raised by tomorrow Is still
more than 5000 short of the necessary
amount.
Patrons Of the we'll known settle
ment house. which Is the center for
many community activities of children
in the southeast, announced today that
they hoped to obtain a weeks extern
sion of the time limit specified in which
TO raisa the required amount.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
S. ,0OO,O 900 WILL SUIT
SETTLED OUT OF COURT
Son-in-Law's Action Against Medi-
cal Firm Head Right, Lat
ter Declares.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla, December
31.-The will suit brought against E.
W. Grove, president Of the Parish
Medicine Co., by his son-in-law, r. l..
Seeley of Asheville, n. c., involving
property valued at between S. 900, 900
and 5000 900, will be settled out OF
the courts, Mr.. Grove announced here
late yesterday.
The suit has been filed in Circuit
Court at st. Louis by the son-in-law.
When questioned as to legitimacy of
Seeley's claim that his father-in-law
had destroyed or revoked a will, made
according to terms of an agreement
reached by the two 20 years ago, and
deprivine Seeley Of compensation.
Grove dec lred, II expect he is right"
Seeley is said to claim that 20 years
ago his father-in-law agreed to transfer
a controlling interest in the Parish
Medicine Co. or all other of his prop
erty to Seeley at his death, If the lat
ter so chose. He said he was suing so
he could testify on certain points be-
fore his father-in-law' death.
Mrs. F. l.. Seeley, Groves daughter,
Is understood to be in Miami, Fla She
was in st. Petersburg several weeks
recently caring for her father during
his serious illness
Evening star., 1925-12-31
Horses Of Capital to Get Big Dinner
At Animal Rescue Home Saturday

Banned from certain Washington
streets and conscious TO q certain de-
gree that machines Of steel. iron and
rubber have supplanted the tracrive
force they once supplied with stout
hearts and ready limbs, horses of
the National Capital nevertheless will
find one warm and appreciative spot
Saturday from 10 to o'clock at the
headquarters of the Animal Rescue
League. 349 Maryland avenue south
west, when the annual Christmas tree
will become q focal point of equine
interest.
On the tree win be luscious apples,
lump sugar ana choioo oats.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
URGE NEW BRIDGE.
Randle Highlands Citizens See
Need of Larger Structure.

a new PENNSYLVANIA Avenue Bridge,
70 relieve the growing congestion of
'ratfic over the present bridge, linking
Two of the most important highways
between Washington and Maryland, is
10 be urged by the Randle Highlands
Citizens Association. according to
Paul +. Mckinney, delegate from that
body TO the Federation OF Citizens
A ssociationS.
The recent development in this sec
ZION Of the city ana the increased
.raffic between Maryland and Wash
ington. Mr.. Mckinney says. makes 1t
imperative that a new Pennsylvania
Avenue Bridge be included in the gen.
erai bridge program of the District.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
SAYS ANTI-TUBERcULosIs
SERUM HAS BEEN FOUND
Sydney Doctor Treating 72 Pa
tients-Claims 10000 Can Be
Cared for at Cost of $375.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 31.-Dr. Small
page, an expert on tropical diseases,
announces that he has discovered an
anti-tuberculosis serum extracted from
the spleen, says a dispatch to the
Daily Express from Sydney. New
South Wales.
DR.. Smallpage made the discovery
during the course of malaria expert
ments. Many professors, including
the dean Of Melbourne University, are
credited with saying that the serum
of Dr. Henry Spahlinger of Geneva
fades into obscurity beside that Of
DR.. Smallpage."
The correspondent adds that the
commonwealth government will take
over DIR. Smallpage's patent. Sew
enty-two patients are under treat
ment with the serum and 10000 can
be treated at cost Of Els about
$375l
Evening star., 1925-12-31
RED CROSS Meeting OFF,
Surgical Dressing Unit Gathering
Omitted Tomorrow

The usual Friday meeting of the
surgical dressing unit of the District
Red Cross chapter will be omitted
tomorrow because of the holiday, it
was announced today by Mrs. Albert
Gleaves, chairman of the unit.
Mrs. Gleaves appealed for addi-
tional volunteers among Washington
women to assist the unit in meeting
the needs of local hospitals for
surgical dressings In order to release
nurses for professional work No
previous experience in making sur
gical dressings is necessary, she said,
and even several hours service q
week would be welcome.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
SEEK L0NGER>PARKING.

A petition for the establishment Of
a, two-hour parking limit on l street
between Seventeenth and Nineteenth
streets has been submitted to NJ.
0. Eldridge, director of traffic. 1t was
signed by 20 residents of the COM
rnunity, the majo ity of them physi
clans. The parking limit on l street
between Seventeenth and Nineteenth
streets at the present time is one hour.
Mr.. Eldridge promised, to give the
petition serious consideration
Evening star., 1925-12-31
FRIENDS" SAYS MRS. PRYOR
Munsey's Boyhood Sweetheart Re
fuses to Discuss Romance,

LOWELL, Mass, December 81 CAp).
Mrs. Hart E. Pryor Of this city, who
as Miss Annie Downs Of Gardiner. Ne.
was the boyhood sweetheart Of the
late Frank A. Munsey, New York pub
Usher, refused today to discuss the
romance of their youth
We were always friends" she said
He was splendid man, a great man.
Both my husband and myself enter.
tanned a deep friendship toward him. -
Mrs. Pryor, who is 10 years ole, was
left an annuity of 81 900 by Mr. Nun
seys will. Her husband is a State
auditor.
Evening star., 1925-12-31

And for those horses whose teeth
are bad, a special set of delicacies
have beenl supplied-bran mash and
such stuff which is easily digestible
with little mastication
Believing that many in Washing
ton can remember the thrill they felt
at the loyalty and friendship of horses
before heartless machines displaced
them. Mrs. M. r. Blumburg. vice
president Of the Animal Rescue
League, who is in charge of the din
ner, announced today that she would
receive contributions of food or
money at the headquarters of the
league. at the above address.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
TWO BODIES DISCOVERED
NEAR FOUNDERED SHIP
Mystery Attaches to Deaths of Men
Believed on Florida Rum
Cruiser.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Fla, December 81
Melbourne authorities today are seek
Ing a solution for. the mysterious death
of two unidentified men-one white
and one negro-whoGe bodies were
found near a foundered cabin cruiser,
which contained 342 bags of whisky.
Neither of the bodies bore signs Of
violence The fact that the boats rum
cargo was seemingly intact tends to
increase mystification of the authori-
ties.
The vessel carried the number
y-14O29. A coat was found on the boat
marked "B. Smith," while on the
negro was found belt buckle with
the initial "S." The white man appear
ed to be about IS years old and the
negro about S.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
COUPLE RE-MARRY.

J. Wallace Killian, SO years old of
South Hill, Va. and his former wife,
Mrs. Susie Allen Killian, "a, of Ro-
anoke, Va, came to Washington Mon
day and were remarked by Rev.
William NJ. Hoffman. The Killians
were first wed August Is. 1908, but
had marital difficulties. and a divorce
followed in 1913. They have become
rsconciled and the new marriage re-
suited.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
C0UZENS APPEALS
$4,000, 1000 TAX CLAIM
Will Fight Treasury Departments
Assessment for Alleged
Ford Transactions
By the Associated Press,

Senator Couzens. Republican, or
Michigan today took formal appeal
to the Board OF Tax Appeals from the
Treasury Departments assessment o.
$4,000. 600 back taxes, which it claimed
the Senator owed as the result of his
transactions in Ford Motor Co. stock
The Senator was given 90 days In
which to take an appeal or pay the
assessment. He said today that he
would fight the claim of the Treasury
Department through all of the neces
sary stages of court procedure.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
9th Birthday
Finds Postal Head
Busy on Routine

Postmaster General New today
celebrated his siXty-seventh birth
day anniversary by porting over q.
wealth of Legislative matters con
cerning the Post Once Depart
ment, which has been submitted to
him for consideration.
There was nothing in his manner
TO indicate he had taken cognizance
of the event, ii being the last day
of the year for him. This after
noon. however. following a long
established custom, the director of
the postal system is holding an in
formal reception for employees in
his office TO officially close the cal
endar year.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
Bus and Auto Collide.

Passengers on a Washington-Balti.
more bus were shaken up slightly, but
not injured. when the bus and an au-
tomobile operated by Michele Caddce,
511 G street, collided at Bladensburg
road and South Dakota avenue late
yesterday. Both vehicles were slight
ly damaged.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
SAYS DUST RUINED CROP,
Snf ciai Dispatch to The Star.

Spe cial Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, December 81.
Charging that his apple crop was
practically destroyed by dust from the
North American Cement Corporation
plant near here, DR.. c. r. Shelter has
filed suit against the corporation for
$40, 900 damage.
Outcome of the case will be watched
by other orchardists. DR.. Shelter is
former head of the county health
board
Evening star., 1925-12-31
RESENTS RADIO REMOVAL,
Fan Sues Landlord for Taking
Down Antenna.

CHICAGO, December 81 R).-Be.
cause his landlord removed his radio
receiving antenna from the apartment
building in which he lives to permit
the use of the roof for a transmitting
aerial Norman T. Brenner has sued
for 81, 200. He contends that the land.
lord, Jacob Lowenberg, was not with
in his rights in removing the aerial
without notifying its owner.
Brenner charges that Lowenberg
had leased third floor apartment to
Fred Marcl. who planned the installa-
ton Of a transmitter, insisting that
there be no other aerials on the roof.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
|MUNSEY LEAVES
S25,0OO,0()O TO ART
Metropolitan Museum Made
Chief neutrality-suspicious.
Given Bequests.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 31.-Frark
A. MunSey after a life of achievement
in the newspaper and magazine field.
has chosen to perpetuate his name as
4 henefactor of art rather than as
publisher.
His will leaves the bulk of a fortune
estimated variously from SIS 900, 900
to $40, 600, 600 TO the Metropolitan Mu-
scum Of Art
The New York sun, the New York
Evening Telegram and the nlaga Zir1S
which made up the greater part of
the estate are to be converted into
cash within the next five years by his
executors.
His bequeSt is the largest ever made
TO the metropolitan Museum, and Will
make it the richest art institution in
the world.
Gave More Than Morgan.
Through It Mr.. Munsey stepped
ahead of J. Pierpont Morgan as the
chief benefactor of the museum, the
Morgan gifts totalling about SIS, ,000,-
O0O
Mr.. Munsey publicly had never
shown particular interest in the mu-
scum, his contributions being limited
TO Sl0-a-year membership.
Among minor bequests made by Mr.
Munsey, bachelor, was an annuity
of $1,000 a year TO Mrs. Hart f. Pryor
Of Lowell, Mass, who was g. sweet
heart of Mr.. Munsey many years ago.
Mrs. Pryor Is 20 years old Friends
said Mr.. Munsey and Mrs. Pryor, then
Annie Downs. had been engaged in
Gardiner, Me-, 90 years ago.
William T. DeWart, an executor Of
the estate, says there will be no i'm.
mediate sale of the Munsey publica-
tions.
The valuation of the estate is ex-
pected to take several years, and the
time limit for the sale may be extend
ed In the discretion OF the courts. AL
ready 1t has been reported that the
New York Sun will eventually go to a
group of Republicans anxious to pre-
serve 1t as leading party organ.
Requests to Friends.
Mr.. Munsey left approximately
$500, 600 to his business associates.
and $250.000. with life annuities re-
quiring as much as principal, to his
sister, nephews, nieces and friends.
He also left $250,0O0 to Bowdoin
College, which gave him an honorary
degree.
About the time the will was filed
yesterday a letter written recently by
Mr.. Munsey showed that he was
opposed to the World Court TO the
time of his last illness. The letter was
addressed to Miss Vida Milholland.
daughter of the late John E. Milhol-
land, and revealed Mr.. Munsey's de-
termination to fight President Coolidge
on the issue. He characterized the
court as loaded dice" and said he
would oppose it until the last.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
BU|LDERSATTACK
TRUCK RESTRICTION
Say Cost of Construction
Will Be Increased if
Rules Continue.

The cost OF building operations Will
be materially increased if the regula-
tion providing for limiting of the load
capacities Of trucks and the preven-
ton OF Solid-ttred vehicles from using
certain streets is continued. Traffic Di-
rector Eldridge was told today in a let
ter from the District chapter Of the
Associated Contractors of America
While this letter shows the traffic
director that the organization stands
behind him in enforcement of good
traffic regulations, il states that the
two rules above mentioned will create
situation more burdenSome than the
situation demands
James p. '. Haltigan, secretary of
the chapter. stated today that test
case on the two regulations is being
prepared and soon will be brought
before the court. Additional costs
brought about by these regula tions
will be cited in this case. Mr.. Haiti
gan states II is estimated that these
two regulations will cost not only
truck owners and builders several
million. dollars. but will mean also
that approximately 1,5e0 more trucks
will be necessary to handle the haul
ing now done in the District
Increased Cost.
He declared that in one instance
il costs more than s. in excess of
the regular charges to haul a truck
load Of building materials from K
street to Rhode Island avenue north
east. This was brought about. he
said. by the fact that trucks were
barred from Rhode Island avenue
This additional cost, added to the
many thousands OF hauls necessary
1
create great burden" said Mr.. Hal
ttgan. who declared, Every TAXPAYER
III this city should rise and protest
against these measures. which seem
TO be the outcome of complaints OF
few wealthy and influential property
owners. Prospective home owners and
taxpayers will pay the ultimate cost
due to the increase brought about hv
these two regulations"
The letter to Mr.. Eldridge reads In
part, as follows:
The development of the past few
weeks in including certain types of
motor trucks from several of the i'm
portant arteries of the District of Co.
lumbia, as we'll as limiting the loads
with which these vehicles may be bur
dened, has indicated TO our member
ship handicap which Is now facing
the building industry of the District.
Back Traffic Laws.
I'VE are in accord with any modi
f1cations and traffic regulations which
your office may deem necessary 70
safeguard life and property, as we'll
as facilitating the movement Of We
hiCles in the city.
I'VE will lend our support to these
measures where they are justified and
the results in Washington or other
cities justify their effectiveness.
However. the limitations noted
above. in our Judgment. are too oner-
Gus, and from our knowledge Of trar-
f1c regulations in other cities are
more burdensome than the situation
demands.
Our membership is very vitally
concerned in the building operations
Of Washington and is more particu-
larly alive to holding the cost of hous-
ing to as moderate sum as possible -
The letter goes on to offer to dis
cuss the situation, with a view to i'm
proving traffic conditions, and protests
the two regulations.
Evening star., 1925-12-31
Feared He Would Kill Her.

A fragmentary diary, in which she
expressed fear that her husband
would kill her, was found in her purse
when arrested. Several months ago
she told the police. she had persuaded
her husband to put title to his prop
erty, valued at about $50, 600, in joint
tenancy with her. 50 that it would
pass TO her at his death.
Detectives believe Winn was in
volved in recent stock yards bank
robbery. He had q small pistol when
arrested, Of the type Goff described as
used to threaten him. He served g
penitentiary sentence in 1914 for rob
berry.
A letter, which the police said was
written by Mrs. Nusbaun, was found
on Winn when arrested. Officers pre-
vented his efforts to destroy it. Il
contained what the police called refer
ences TO the Staying plot, as:
Il don't want to be in the house
when 1t happens. I'm a woman, YOU
know
Play holdup. and when YOU
get him ransack through the house
and tear everything up and down. ]
hate 10 do it. but il must be either
you or me or him. This will be a
pretty good scheme. providing it goes
OF as holdup or robbery"
Evening star., 1925-12-31
IS TOLD
BY GRANDMOTHER
Husbands Body Dragged Up
stairs With Ice longs, Ac-
compIice Says.

CHICAGO. December 31.-In the
AZ years of their married life, her
S5.year-old paralytic husband bought
her ice cream once, while John Wal
ton Winn, former convict, loved her
and waited Is years for him to die.
This was the defense of Mrs. ENz.a
Nusbaum, 58-year-old grandmother, IN
a confession, police say she made, OF
plotting with Winn and three Others
to kill her husband Albert, whose
battered body was found yesterday on
a South Side prairie.
Wtnn, at pistols point, compelled
Edward Goff to kill Nusbaum with
an ak, Goff said in a confession. With
two pairs of ice tongS, Winn and
Goff hauled the body into the attic
of the home of Mrs. Delilah Martin
held as an accessory. After supper.
they redressed the body, loaded r.
into Nusbaum's sedan and carried it
to the prairie. abandoning plans to
burn the house or bury the body IN
the back yard.
Skull Found in Car.
Winn, 81, was arrested in Crow.
Point, Ind, and brought to Chicago
early today. Held also were Goff
Mrs. Martin and Marion Stringham.
whose clothes were used TO garb the
body
First accusation against the grand
mother came from her eldest son
Roscoe. father Of eight children. His
son Lloyd, 20, was then under arresf
after police found a part of the grand
fathers skull and bloodstains in al
automobile Lloyd was driving.
In efforts to shield his son, Roscoe
told of the love affair Of Is years
duration between his mother and
Winn. She gave Winn $3.50 a month
Of his fathers money. Roscoe said
once his father shot Winn through
the head.
Internationally and without regret,
the police said, Mrs. Nusbaum told
how she and Winn had planned for
a long time to kill her husband, after
a stroke Of paralysis had failed TO be
fatal.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-18
Senator Bingham Thinks
 Air Laws Are Next Thing

New Haven, Aug. Is F-Sehator Hiram Bingham was the speaker yesterday at an aviation luncheon held by the New Haven unit Of the National Aeronautic association, Senator Bingham predicted the pas sage of law by congress that would provide rules for the air, for licensing of pilots and examination of engines.
 Senator Bingham reported on what he had seen of airplanes Tn the west. Chicago is yet without a municipal airport, he said, and 1t is necessary to take an hours ride from that city to reach the nearest field. After desribing various types of planes he had seen, he commando ed Edsel F'ord's interest in flying and described the work being done along these lines in Detroit. Presi- dent Horner of the New Haven unit alos was a speaker.