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The Washington times., 1925-05-19
MEANS IS IN CUSTODY
OF U, s. MARSHAL HERE

CASTOR B. Means, former agent
of the Department Of Justice, is in
the custody Of United States Mar
shall Synder today after being sur
rendered by his bondsman, Milton
Kronheim, no receipt Of notification
of the mandate Of the Appellate
Court in New York refusing Means
q new trial.
He was convicted on g. charge of
conspiracy and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary. Means
has requested District Attorney
Gordon to arrange to have him sent
to Atlanta at once.
The District Attorney consulted
the Department of Justice as to
the wish of Means and is awaiting
decision. The case here Of forgery
against Means was continued yes
terday for one week by Justice
Siddons at the request of Attorney
T. Morris Wampler, representing
the accused
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
Now Showing
Hoisted On His
Own Petard
A Fairly Universal Picture
Produced by Flather Film Co.
Titles by AL Day Parker

l.. Time: November. 1924-Scene
in office of NJ. o., Eldridge, then
on staff Of American Automobile
Association. Eldridge and Ernest
Smith, general manager OF the
American Automobile Association,
in vigorous conversation. Lean
forward in chairs and heat table
Title: I tell, you, Eldridge down
town parking is nuisance. We've
got to help Washington police put
a stop to it. Down with the DOWN
town parking hog!
2. Time, December, 1924-Scene
in office CT Commissioner Bell.
Eldridge, Smith and Bell in deep
study over parking rules. Lean
forward and heat table.
Title: l tell you. Mr.. Commits
sioner, the downtown parking hog
has got to goi
Bell rises and firmly grasps
Smiths hand.
Title: You're right, gentlemen.
He must go. Down with him:
3. Time: Today-Scene at Six
teenth and II streets northwest.
Smith drives ur IL auto. parks,
and goes into U. s. Chamber OF
commerce building.
4. Police note car.
Three police confer.
Title: He can't park here.
5. Enter Captain Father, noted
police official. Looks at car.
Waves hand dramatically.
Title: He can't park here.
Big funeral at st. Johns Church
today. Take it away!
6. Police motor truck drives
up. Smiths auto is loaded on
truck, and carted away. Police
nod heads sagely.
Title: Let that be a lesson to
him.
The final scenes of this stirring
film, graphically telling what
happened when Smith came out
of the G. of G. building and
couldn't find his car, and what
Captain Flather said, ETC., etc.
will be told exclusively in this
paper tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
KEEP
WELLSON
RENTS
Department of Justice Asks
McCarI to Decide Right to
Use Funds for Salary

A. Coulter Wells, counsel for
the District Rent Commission, if
the Department of Justice had
it's way, will continue his job of
prosecuting rent cases after Fri
day, it was developed today.
It is with the view of having
Wells carry forward the work
under the Attorney General, that
the Department of Justice has
sought a decision from the Comp
troller General, on the disposition
of the $3.50 unexpended balance
of the commission.
Department Wants Time.
The Department of Justice Of
ficials want to engage Mr.. Wells.
They find that the most practical
way in which his salary can be
taken care of is out of the unex-
pended compassion balance, and for
this reason they hope that Mr.. Nc
Carl will decide the Justice Depart
ment will have the right to spend
the sum instead Of turning 1t back
into the Treasury.
While the decision of the - ':np-
troller General was expected late
today it was said that it may not
be rendered until tomorrow.
Those familiar with the situation
are anxiously awaiting the verdict
as it will mean much to the rent
paying public If the experience of
Attorney Wells is aligned to the
Justice forces.
Days Respite for Board.
Chairman Oliver Metzerott an
nounced today that the Comptroller
General has ruled that the commits
sion as a body will expire on Fri
day midnight instead Of Thursday
midnight.
The decision was asked by the
District Auditor.
A number of appealing letters
were received by the commission
today from tenants who declare
they have received notices within
the last two days that their tents
are to be raised
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
BUG HOLLOW NOTES.

We are forced to admit that the
Rug Hollow Blues are not SO good
this year, Sundays game over to
Oilia making lost to 4 won. Harry
Cox was holding the Drillers pretty
well. TIL lizzie pulled him out In the
tenth with the score tied. putting In
Wash Burns, who was busted for
hits and runs In the last of the
eleventh, by Morris Chair, COminan
Settle and Dewey Fragrance, them
winning the game 10 to 8. There 10
some talk of getting a new manager
and captain.
The hack was drove by Eddie Kett
yesterday and today. Mike Robe
being gone to Pink City to bring
home his new Smackard Bus, which
he will use from now on.
Henry Blue Clay was over to BObb's
to strawberry shOrtcake supper last
night. Which one of the girls made
Il, Henri
Con Carney was over from Wa
hOnkas last night seeing the sights,
Including Miss I.eda Merrfchase, and
arranging for the Blues to play the
scorpions over there Sunday.
William Snubgrass was brought
home today from the SanitaPium at
New Olden, where he has been since
mis- return from Jamaica. suffering
from woOdalcOlitis. He is not well
yet but As better now. William IL
having to get acclimated all over
again. GENE BLOSSOM.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19

Advocates Of Mt. Hamilton
Plan Find Property Can
Be Acquired

Purchase of Mount Hamilton
tract in northeast Washington for
great, national botanic garden
and aboretum, will be asked of
Congress this winter, according to
plans now under consideration by
advocates of the plan.
The tract will be destroyed for
this purpose unless acquired this
year, according to a survey of
building operations in the vicinity
which was presented to the House
last session.
Site Can Be Acquired.
Portions Of the proposed site. 1t
is said, can be acquired through the
laws providing for creation Of the
Anacostia river parkway
Congress has provided $25, 200 for
the purchase Of land for the park
way this year in the valley Of East.
ern Branch above Benning Bridge.
These purchases, however, are re
stricted to lands Immediately adj
jacent to the river, and the money
cannot be used for purchase of the
Mount Hamilton portion of the tract
| Purchase of the tract by. the Ma
tional Capital Park Commission has
been advocated.
This course, however, will not be
followed, it is said, since the pro.
posed arboretum will be national in
character and therefore will be sepa-
rate from the District park system
Officials Of the Department OF
Agriculture are now making a study
OF the Mount Hamilton area and
other sites in nearby Maryland for
establishment Of the arboretum.
Data for Conference.
The results of their study will be
presented to Congress soon after it
convenes in December.
Continued use of the present
Botanical Garden, in the Mall at
the west foot of Capitol Hill, is in
conflict with plans for the develop
ment Of the city.
Plans for transfer of the garden
to the grounds south OF the
Capitol, extending southwark to the
War College, have been advocated
in Congress and appropriations have
been made for construction of sew
eral greenhouses in this area.
Department Of Agriculture offic-
ials, however, state that this will
be but a temporary expedient and
that some provision must be made
without delay for creation Of a
combined garden and arboretum on
which there will be ample room for
future expansion, and which is
naturally suited tor cultivation of
variety Of plant life which is
impossible on the proposed Capitol
area.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
CHARWOMAN'S ORDER ON
LADDER SAVES DOVE NEST

For several weeks a high ladder,
used by the building employees in
the POstoffice Department. has
stood undisturbed. A tiny note
hung to it and the warning con-
tanned therein has been respected
by all, though it was penned not
by an official but by a charwoman
employed there.
The note directed that the ladder
be not removed as a nest Of doves
had been built atop it, The ladder
was not disturbed until recently,
when the little birds had gained
enough strength to sally forth from
the nest. But until that happened.
the word of Sadie johnson char
woman, was law.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
WILL PLAN FOR
DEFENSE Of
KA|TL|N
Lawyers to Meet to Discuss
Case of Man Charged With
Selling Church Wine

Plans for the legal defense of
Samuel\ Kaitlin, charged with il
legally selling sacramento wine,
will be discussed late this afternoon
by Judge Milton Strasburger, Milton
King and Bert Emerson, attorneys
retained for him by Harry /. Car
roll, president of the OheV Sholem
Congregation.
Although Kaitlin is charged with
violation of the law by selling four.
teen gallons of wine to Jewish
prohibition agent, who, he alleges
represented himself as being mem
Der of his congregation. all Of the
evidence in the case has not yet
been filed, it was stated at the
office of the prohibition agent TO-
day.
The charges against Kaitlin may
he quashed when the case comes UP
Friday. according to opinions ex-
pressed today by members OF the
congregation.
This is not a case against an
individual, but against the entire
congregation. Mr.. Kaitlin was
within his rights in dispensing wine
to Hebrew worshipers. That has
been done for thirty centuries,
Rabbi ]. T. Loeb declared today.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
President May Travel
In Private Car On
Trip West

When he goes to Minneapolis
in June to attend the Morse
American centennial celebration,
President Coolidge will travel
as far as Chicago as an ordinary
citizen in regular Pullman
sleeper, the White House an
nounced today.
From Chicago to Minneapolis,
however, the President may use
a private car, it was said.
Last December the President
shattered all precedent by trav-
cling to Chicago and back in a
Pullman, taking his meals in
the regular diner.
The Pullman was decided upon
to cut expenses, it was an
nounced.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
POLITICS RULES
IN COMMERCE
CHAMBER
EIectioneering for National
Councillors Precedes Big
concIave's Opening

Election day in a voting COM
munity-and Washington is vote
less, don't forget-could hold no
more tumult than does the United
States Chamber of Commerce
Building today, where the. national
councillors of the national body are
In session to elect seventeen d.
rectors for the ensuing year
Campaign literature is scattered
over the chairs in the auditorium,
vote-getting solicitors fill the cor
ridors and suave "buttonholers"
are at work at the registration
desk.
The rooms adjacent TO the audi
forum. filled with papers, fran
tically flying employees and as
sorted desks, give noisy testimony
to the fact that the thirteenth
annual meeting of the amber.
opening tomorrow, will be SOME
cOnclave.
The principal business today Is
being done by the councillors. who
will remain in session throughout
the afternoon. until their work of
selecting directors is completed.
Ballot by departments.
The baIloting du: iEg the morn ng
hours today was fUr directors repro.
senting the eight departments of
the chamber. inciuoing domestic dis.
tribution, manufacture. finance. for.
eign commerce. insurance, national
resources production, Transportation
and communicative the new
department of civ ( deV elopmsnt.
Later today the councillors are
TO act OF nominations for directors
from the nine gengTG phicaf districts
In which the chamber is divided foi
election purposes. Each department
and each district ic represented TT
the direct ate by two members, one
half being elected each year.
Rivalry was intense today. anC
questions or suggestions from ths
floor cleverly introduced names FOL
the considerat ton of the electors
While the auditorium seetfeC
with election activity, hundreds o.
ANW arrivals from all parts Of the
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
@5dlEARDIoSEkM8
aGEkADB BY BILL PRICE
. BY BILL PRICE
OUR NAMES GALLERY.

OUR NAMES GALLERY.
John B. Deadman, of Bridge
port, Conn.,, declares nc is still
alive.
A. Swindler, from Tennessee,
is a dealer in oil stocks.
M. Y. Kneedle, Tampa, Fla,
is a tailor.
Harry Slaughter, West Vir-
ginia, is a cattle dealer.
Charles Shaver, Missouri,
often needs one.
Frank Tehee, Kansas, split
his sides doing it the other day.
It is hereby announced that
the wedding of Marie Day to
Paul Knight will take place at
nightfall.
Dunbar Slide, Colorado, did
so in a game for the first time
in has life.
RIDGELY J. BELT.
HIS MISTAKE.
He kissed her in the garden
When the moon was shining bright,
But she was q marble statue, and
He was drunk that night.
f. n. HI.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
N. Y. BONDING COMPANY
SUES JOHN |. FUCITT

suit for $1,000 was filed in the
District Supreme Court today by
the Fidelity and Casualty Company
of New York against John Lemuel
Fugitt.
The New York concern, repre-
sented by Attorneys Clephane, Lati
mer & Ralf. alleges that September
9, 1897, 1t went Fugitt's bond as
an employe of the American Sc
curity and Trust Company and tina:
III October last it compromised with
the trust company, paying it $4,000
which was declared to be due on
the bond.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
Belgian Ambassador
Recalled For Debt
Conference

Baron Cartier de Marchienne,
Belgian ambassador here, has
received instructions from his
government to return to Brus-
sells to discuss the funding of
the $47O,O0O,000 debt of Bel
GUM to the United States, it
was announced at the Treasury
Department today.
De Marchienne has informed
Treasury officials that he will
sail from New York on June g.
Belgium was one of the ma
tions called upon by this Gov
eminent to enter into negotia-
lions for the payment Of her
war debt.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
MAN SUES FOR AUTO
ACCIDENT INJURIES

Neils Bentsen. 20S Bates street
northwest, today filed suit in the
District Supreme Court against
Merritt Wilson, Psi Four and One
half street southwest, for 5000
damages alleging personal injuries.
Represented by Attorney David
L. Sherman. Bentsen says that
while crossing the intersection at
Seventh and c streets northwest,
March 81, last. he was run down
by Wilson's automobile and injured
seriously and permanentlY.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
TAKOMA PARK TO HEAR
TALK ON BETTER HOMES

Miss Julia D. Conner speaks on
Better Homes in America" at a
meeting Of the Takoma Park Civic
Club at 2 o'clock today in the Ia.
koma Theater.
Officers will be elected. and re-
ports submitted on attendance at
the Montgomery County Federation,
the annual meeting of the District
federation, and the Maryland Fed
GRAFTON annual meeting.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
INDIANA SOCIETY HONORS
PRESIDENTS SECRETARY

Everett Sanders, Secretary 20
President Coolidge. became a full
fledged vice president at the In
diana Society election last night
Also Postmaster General New. Con-
gressmen Bert Nestal and Harry
Garfield.
COngressm" n Fred Purnell of In
diana. whose efforts during the
year are said to be responsible for
a so per cent increase in member
ship, was reelected president.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
LEVI WOODBURY.
WILL IS FILED
ORPROBATE
Late Head of Steamboat Com.
pany Leaves Numerous
Cash requests

Levi Woodbury., president of the
Washington and Norfolk Steamboat
Company, who died May 8 last, in
his will and two codicils, filled for
probate today, leaves numerous
cash requests to the members Of
his immediate family and includes
also shares of capital stock in the
steamboat company, of which he
was the president.
The First Congregational Church
Of Washington is remembered with
a bequest of $4,000; the Founding
Hospital of this city is to receive
50 900, and Bruen Home $1,000.
The First Baptist Church at Salem.
New Hampshire, the testator's ma
tive town, is remembered with a
cash bequest of $4,000. A bequest
of $4,000 to the town of Salem,
the income of which was to have
been used to build a high school
building, was revoked in one of the
ccdicils.
The testator directs that he be
inferred in the family lot at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Salem, N. H., and
81 900 is set aside in the will for
the selectmen of that place to keep
his burial lot and that of his father
in good order.
Cash requests of 1000 each are
given to Emma j. Howe, niece of
Ii Il - b Onw IL IN
Johnson, grandniece Of his wife;
to Levi Woodbury. Wheeler; to each
of the two daughters of Levi Wood
bury Wheeler, Gerald and Jane; to
Ella s. Wilson and to Bessie A.
Rollins. Walter Parker Is reneIn-
bered with $500 provided he still be
in testators employ at his death.
Charles o. Woodbury., brother OF
testator, Is to have $4,000 and 100
shares Of the capital stock Of the
Washington and Norfolk Steamboat
Company; Milton g. Woodbury.,
brother, also is remembered with
$4,000 and rs shares; Mrs. Abbie
G. Foster. a sister, is to have $4,000
and 100 shares, and the niece, Nellie
Gertrude Woodbury., is remembered
with $4,000 and Is shares.
The American Security and Trust
Company and George L. Starkey, as
trustees and executors of the estate,
are to have $4,000 and 100 shares
of the stock and are directed to
pay the income thereof in quarterly
20 the nephew, Charles
Burton Woodbury., for life, after
which it Is to go to his wife and
children. The exc cutors also are
directed to set aside $4,000 TO the
American Security end Trust Com
pany and George l.. Starkey, who
are directed to pay its income to
testator's grand nephew, Levi Wood.
bury I'd, until he is twenty-one years
old for purposes Of maintenance and
At twenty-five he is to
receive the entire trust fund.
Testator's library, statues. oil
bric-a-brac, cut glass and
silverware contained In his resi-
dence at II Iowa circle, are divid-
ed between Levi Woodbury., End
and testator's sister, Mrs. Abbie
c. Foster.
The rest of the estate is to go
TO the executors who are directed
to distribute it in equal shares be-
tween the wife, Mrs. Sabra J.
the brothers, Charles O. |
and Milton G. Woodbury.; the sister, |
Mrs Abbie C. Foster; the niece
Nellie Gertrude Woodbury.; the |
nephew, Charles Burton Woodbury., !
and the grand nephew. Levi Wood
bury. Ind
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
PSYCHO-ANALYSIS

cit is useless either consciousness or
knowledge to Define
Said q psychO-analysist, who was
well up In his line.
For who cares for definitions about
things we clearly know?
The brain Ii the reservoir of con-
seriousness from whence thoughts
flow.
eve find the center Of consciousness
there from the very beginning,
The human spider that all through
life continues Its constant spinning,
And we are able by self realization,
deduction and analysis
To tell individual polarity In which
we find distinct paralysis.
"As an illustration. the micrOphOne
Is q simple instance
Which when we talk carries the
voice an unlimited distance.
Therefore we know the microphOne
IL masculine In its relation,
For IL feminine IL would talk back
without hesitation"
p. s. The psychO-anaIysist reached
this result, no doubt,
Because his wife does the talking
whenever he goes out.
Being learned he knows q prOfanc
silence 1t is best to keep
And viii only talk freely over the
mike" or in his sleep.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
WASHINGTON CHAMBER TO
BE ALExANDRIANS' HOST

Seventy-five members Of the Alex
andr' O. Chamber of Commerce will
be The guests Of the Washington
Chamber at a meeting tonight at
the New Willard Hotel.
The principal speakers at the meet
ing will be w. c. Culkins, of the
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce.
Robert n Harper and NJ a. Leese,
chairnen of special committees, will
report on two referenda Of the
national chamber.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
RUNAWAY STUDENT HELD
BY DISTRICT POLICE

Robert Wilton Ekedahl, fourteen,
a student at Randolph Macon Mill
tary Academy. ran away from the
school yesterday and was arrested
last night at the Union Station by
Headquarters Detective James
Springman.
According to Charles L. Melton,
superintendent of the school, this
Is the second time that the young
ster has run away this year. He
will be taken back to the school
today.
Superintendent Melton said that
the boys parents had advised him
that he had run away from his
home in Pittsburgh several times
before he was sent to the school.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19

Feel Public Has Right to Know
How Funds for Big Projects
Are Spent

Demand that a strict accounting
be given the public Of funds
spent on the construction of the
Arlington Memorial Bridge and
other large Government projects
will be made, it is expected, in
report to be drafted by the ex-
ecutive board of the Associated
General Contractors, following
their discussion of the day. labor
question, at the Washington Hotel,
tomorrow.
Hold Two-H0ur Session.
A two-hour session was held to-
day by the board which is gathered
for its spring meeting. For the
remainder Of the day the contrac-
toSs will be at the United States
Chamber OF Commerce building, urg-
ing the election of a professional.
associate, Noble Foster Hoogson, Of
New York, to the directorate of the
chamber.
It was stated today on behalf OK
the executive board that the con-
tractors throughout the country
feel that government is mixing en-
tirely too much in business, thus
depriving private citizens OF legfti-
mate contracts.
Rap DAY Labor" Method
Members of the executive board
will report tomorrow, it was said,
that in various cities the city
authorities have withheld contracts
from private business, going ahead
themselves with day labor and with
supervisory workers taken from
public plants.
The contractors charge that such
procedure is intended to give the
public an impression that its money
is being carefully spent, while in
reality the day labor method
places the worker under political
obligations to his employer and
STILES competition.
Want Strict Accounting.
In the report on this phase of
business, it was learned, the execu-
tive board will ask only that an ac-
curate account of funds spent on
such jobs be given to the public,
rather than a request to Federal,
State and civil authorities that the
day LABOR m0LnOo De dUOAAsHSO
outright.
The bill providing for the CEN
struction of the Arlington Memorial
Bridge on a ten-year building basis
contains a clause providing that an
account be kept of expenditures on
the project. Indications are that
the executive boards report viii in
sist upon strict compliance by the
Government with the language of
the caluse, inasmuch as some work
will be done by day labor.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
Addresses on Education

Physical education will be dis.
cussed by the Central High School
Parent Teacher Association at 4
meeting tonight in the school
library. Miss Elsie Sanders will
speak on physical training for
boys, and Doctor Valeria Parker
will talk on Safeguarding Adde'S
cence." Officers will be elected.
The Washington times., 1925-05-19
!. c. c. to Hear Case

The application of the New York.
Pittsburgh and Chicago railroad for
authority to construct 2S4 miles Of
railroad across Pennsylvania from
Allegheny City to Easton, together
with two thirty-mile branches, viii
be- heard by the Interstate Con-,
merce Commission on June 20, 1t was
announced. today.