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The Republican., 1925-10-08
rHE NEW PROTECTION

The riot came but for once Paul
was unharmed. A new Proconsul ar
rived and the hostile Jews thought
they saw their opportunity to drive
the Christians leader away. Nov
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06

General de Chamhrun, who holds
the rank Of count in the French
nobility, Is also the brother-in-law
Of Nicholas Lopgworth Speaker OF
the House of Representatives, having
married Miss Clara E. Longworrh
in Cincinnati in 1901.
Countess de Ckambrun, who is a
social leader in Fee, is said to know
the territory under dispute between
her husbands troops and those of
Add e!-Krim almost as well as any
of the soldiers.
g Born In Washington.
General de Chambrun not only is
a citizen of the United States, but
also a citizen of Maryland. by virtue
of an act passed in 1898 granting
Maryland citizenship to all direct
descendants of General Lafayette.
He was born in Washington in 1872
while his father, the late Marquis
de Chambrun. was counselor of the
French embassy.
Two years after his marriage to
Miss Longworth, Count de Cham
brun was appointed French military
attache at Washington. He previous
ly had served with geographical and
military expeditions in Morocco and
in the Sahara desert, and had been
mentioned in dispatches for gal
lantry.
Served With PerShing.
In the early days Of the World
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
SIX KILLED IN
MYSTERIOUS
BLAST
Big Fire Follows Explosion in
Pittsburgh Suburb; Two
Are Missing

SWISSVALE, Pa, May g.
With six known dead and two
other persons missing in the ex-
plosion and fire which destroyed
four buildings here early today,
local police and county fire
Marshal Thomas Pfarr started
seperate Investigations to deter
mine the cause of the fire.
Pfarr after a preliminary in
vestigation declared bomb
might have fired the buildings.
$225,OOO Damage.
Witnesses reports of the blaze
breaking out simultaneously In
several places indicated that the
buildings might have been satu-
rated with gasoline before the ex-
plosion, Pfarr said
Damage from the fire was esti.
mated at more than $225,0O0. Win
dows in 200 buildings were broken
by the explosion, and several small
buildings were Jared from founda-
tons, Pfarr said.
The bodies of Clemens jeremiah,
sixty; Richard Baldis, seven, and
Anna Baldis, thirty-seven, have
been recovered and three other
bodies have been sighted in the
ruins.
Six Persons Missing.
Carl Baldis. thirty-six; Mrs. Helen
Keigler, thirty-six; her husband,
Charles Baldis, forty; Helen Jere-
miah, forty-two. and her sister,
Mrs. Marie Koda, thirty-eight, are
missing.
The three bodies not yet re.
covered have not been identified.
Fireman Jack Trax, thirty, was
seriously injured when he fell
through the roof of flaming
building. He was rescued from
death by other firemen after being
severely burned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
COAL OPERATORS LOSE
POINT IN RATE FIGHT

Pennsylvania and West Virginia
bituminous coal operators lost their
fight today to have their petitions
for lower freight rates on lake car
20 coal linked up with the freight
rate structure investigation now be-
ing made by the Interstate Com
merce Commission in compliance
with a joint resolution of Congress.
The Commission denied the petit
ton which was filed by the Pitts
burgh Coal Producers Association
Pittsburgh Vain Operators Associ-
alton and the Northern West Vir-
gtnia Coal Operators Association
By denying this petition the Com.
mission will restrict its decision fer
lower rates strictly to the evidence
already taken without regard to
what develops in the general freigh.
rate structure investigation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
CAM DENY son
SHE THOUGHT
DEAD
Mother Who Kept Secret 20
Years to Stand BY Youth
Caught in Man Hunt
INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEb
BY international News Service.

by I0NeEnAIhOuAI N0WS bCbbhECs
.BROCKTON, Mass, May 6.-"l
cannot cast off the baby whom
believed dead"
Mrs. Jennie woodward Sturte
want made the decision today soon
after she learned that the man
hunt for Earl Woodward In the
Vermont mountains had revealed
that Earl is the son she thought
dead twenty years.
Mrs. Sturtevant kept the tragedy
Of her girlhood from her present
husband all these years.
my Son." She Says.
Convinced that her son by her
first marriage was dead, the mother
said she never once dreamed the
child had grown TO manhood and
had been behind prison bars.
Now that she has learned that
he IS alive she cannot cast him OFF
even though she has a husband
and five children.
He is my son." she said, mo
matter what he has done or VIII 1t
is charged against him. It seems
unfair that he should have had
so much trouble in his life, poor
boy"
The story Of Mrs. Sturtevant be-
gan more than twenty-four years
ago in Manchester, N. H., when
she married Pierre Limoges. They
had son Earl, and when they
separated the mother took the boy
to the home of q friend at Gran
vile, VT.
Locked Secret in Breast.
A few years later, on the eve Of
her marriage in Manchester, N. H.,
to Simon Sturtevant, the mother
was told by her father that her boy
was dead.
The secret Of her first marriage
and the birth Of her son she locked
in her breast. And she had carried
it there these past twenty years.
Newspaper stories last week Of
the man hunt in Vermont for the
twenty-seven-year-old hill man who
kidnapped eleven-year-old Lucille
Chatterton revealed to Mrs. Sturte-
want that her son still lived.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
MORE CRUISERS
JOIN j. s. DRY
ARMADA
New York and New England
Send Requirements.
Vets Bottled Up"
BY International News Service.

NEW YORK, May 6.-Bucking
a forty-mile gale, twelve additional
coast guard vessels put to sea
early today to reinforce the Gov
eminent fleet that has so success
fully bottled up" the foreign
vessels at rum Row." that not
single case of whiskey or
champagne was struggled into
New York in the last twenty
four hours.
While these new vessels were
hemming in the rum fleet, twenty
one other coast guard vessels
stood ready to speed to their
aid if the rum vessels attempt to
break up and make contact with
shore boats at isolated places.
Whisl1ey Prices Jump.
With the price of real Scotch"
khiskey having been freely offered
in the market throughout New
York at Sc bottle and a case at
from $40 to $60-depending on
price. In the uptown district prices
were being quoted at $75 for the
real stuff"
The sudden activity of the Gov
eminent, following closely on the in
stitution of the paddock court" and
District Attorney Buckner's cam
paign against New York's famed
supper clubs was expected to
shoot the price of liquor to the
highest point since the Volstead
measure became a law.
Burns Up Rum Boat.
One Of the swiftest motor boats
in the rum trade was a charred
mass OF wood and iron at Seabright,
at $50, 900. A man, unidentified,
but whom Government officers said
they believed was the owner of the
boat, set fire to it after it had
been seized.
A number of the coast guard
vessels are equipped with one
pound guns. These. officials said
were to warn vessels, rather than
for purposes of attack. While no
definite instructions were given the
Government fleet, it was said, no
attempt would be made to board
any of the rum vessels because of
their foreign registry. The most
effective means of stopping the
smuggling will be to keep the rum
fleet hemmed in" it was said.
r. Q. Merrick. federal prohibition
director of New York, said he be-
lieved rum runners were beginning
to feel the full weight of Govern
ment enforcement and that boot.
leggers soon will be looking for
new occupations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
HUNDREDS FIGHT FIERCE
FOREST FIRES IN MASS

PLYMOUTH, Mass, May 6-Four
great forest fires were still burn
ing in this vicinity today. but were
believed checked by hundreds of
firefighters, who spent the entire
night in the woods.
The magnificent summer estate of
the late Levi Meyer, of Chicago,
Indian Hill Farm" was saved, but
o school house nearby was burned.
All night the sky was lighted and
today traffic was halted by a pail
OF dense smoke.
Residents in the path Of the
flames fled from their homes and
Joined the ranks Of the firefighters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06

War Count De Chambrun COM
manded a French artillery COM
pany. 1t fell to his lot to order
the destruction by shellfire Of his
own chateau near st. Mihiel, which
had been occupied by the Germans
and was being used as a head
quarters.
When the United States entered
the war Count De Chambrun, then
a colonel, was assigned to General
Pershing's headquarters at Chau-
mont where he served as liaison
officer between the French and
American forces. He returned to
the United States with the First
Division and rode In the triumphal
professions in Washington and New
York Later he was made q
brigadier general.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
S
EXPECTED
80 YEARS
HENCE
Labor Saving Devices and Ed
ucatIon VIII Bring 4, Leaders
at Convention Here Say
By FRED j. WALKER.

The funeral knelI Of mans rule
lof the earth has been tolled in the
opinion Of leading delegates to the
convention Of the international
Council Of Women.
A revolutionary entrance Of
women, during the next decades,
into politics and other activities,
heretofore regarded by man as
being his exclusive province, was
forecast today.
Labor saving household inven-
tions, universal education and the
worlds need of intelligent leader
ship are the forces which will ele-
vate women to parity with man
in every important activity, the
delegates declared.
Won't Vote Straight"
"Women's intuition and mans
cleverness will make an ideal COM
bination for the solving of political
problems" Nine. Betty Kjeldsberg.
president of the Norwegian National
Council of Women declared today.
In fifty years at the most wo-
men will have an equal representa-
ton with man in the political coun-
ellis of all nations. They will be
particularly valuable in handling
financial problems. Don't wives the
world over. prove this by their ef
ficient treatment of their husbands
pay check?"
Nine. Kjeldsberg believes that wo-
men will vote for individuals rather
than parties, because as a whole
they take their voting privileges
seriously and do not follow the
masculine practice OF voting the
ticket straight
Still to Rule Home.
Ruth Farnam. New York club
woman and war worker agreed with
Nine. KJeldsberg.
"Women's main activities will be
centered on improving living con-
ditions. They viii aid in stamping
out child labor, increasing educa-
ton and strengthening the race
through improved sanitation"
Women's entrance into politics,
although It IL coming the world
over during the next few years.
will not change her domestic life,
Nine. Avrtl de Satnte Croix. noted
French clubwoman, asserted.
Politics viii not change women
from their present outlook toward
life. They viii be women first and
competitors Of man In world Affairs
afterward." she said.
"Once the family 10 raised. and
with modern household conYen-
fences, 1t IL even possible that be-
fore the children are grown, wo.
men generally WIN be able to find
their particular vocation In life.
Some may prefer home life but
many undoubtedly will seek
careers"
Move Ii World Wide
Although South Africa has not
yet received universal suffrage.
Miss Mary H1ghan, Of Johannes
,urg declared 1t IL coming - and
soon.
"Women Of all lands will be vot.
ng in a few years and their in.
luence on world problems will be
profound. For the first time in
history, we are on the verge Of
"our place in the SUM-"
1.-THE barriers that have existed
rom early days when manly
strength ruled, are now being, over
urned. Education and the worlds
iced Of leadership win provide Wo-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
South African Beers
Give Wales Warm
Welcome
b. International sow servIee.

WORCESTER, Cape Colony,
South Africa, May 6.-The
Prince of Wakes train today
was enroute across the great
Karoo desert after a rousing
welcome from Cape Colony
Beers.
Five hundred Beers, astride
the tough little ponies of the
veldt, formed a cheering escort
for the prince, as his carriage
was showered with flowers
thrown by Dutch farm girls. A
chrysanthemum, which fell in
the carriage, was rescued by the
prince and placed in his button
hole.
He wore a grave expression
as the carriages passYd through
one street lined withablind chill
dren from a local institute.
They cheered and waved flags
as the heir to the British throne
came by.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
FlIERS FINISH MARKING
PLANE-LANDING STATIONS

SAN DIEGO. Calf, May g.
Lieutenants Harry Wellington, and
Reuben d. Biggs, air service, ar
rived at Rockwell field today after
completing an overland trip from
San Antonio. Tex, along which
route emergency landing fields for
airplanes were established every
twenty-five miles.
With the arrival Of Lieutenants
Weddington and Biggs, the United
States Army once more registered
as pioneer in the development
of the nations system of transpor-
tatiOn and communication.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
L.)EN|(QUNCE5
POISONING
CHARGE:
Mrs. Shepherd to Surrender,
But Says coroner's Jury
Verdict Is Fiendish
By international News Service.

CHICAGO, May 6.-Mrs. Julie
Shepherd, who went into hiding
after a coroner's jury ordered she
be held as an accessory to the al
legged murders Of Mrs. Emma Nc
Clintock and William Nelson Me.
Clintock, viii be surrendered be-
fore nightfalI to a Judge Of the
criminal court and her release on
bail will be demanded Immediately.
May Surrender to Judge.
This announcement was made to-
day by Attorney William Scott
Stewart. her counsel.
Indications were that Mrs. Shep-
herd would be surrendered to Judge
Thomas j. Lynch who is to try her
husband May 18 on the charge of
having murdered Billy McClintock
by the administration of typhoid
germs.
Mrs. Shepherd spent the night
at the home of a friend, where
she fled with hurried assembled
wardrobe in an automobile with
curtains drawn, on learning of
the coroner's jury decision.
Release on Bail Likely
A battle was forecast by Attorney
Robert M. Stoll to secure release of
following her surrender.
That this fight would be success
full through acquiescence of the
State was limited by States Attor-
ney Robert e. Grove in comment
ing on the verdict. He said:
at is extremely unfortunate at
this time, when the case of the
people versus Shepherd had been
set for May IS, that the coroner of
the county thinks that his jury is
a grand jury and that the chief
justice of the municipal court
thinks he is the States attorney
of this county"
When Mr. Grove was asked what
his attitude toward the question of
bail for Mrs. Shepherd would be,
he said:
1T think you can guess my atti-
tude from the statement have
given you"
Accompanied by Lawyer
Mrs. Shepherd was accompanied
by a maid and a lawyer on her
night flight from her home In
But even in her flight she was
overtaken by a reporter.
IF there is a God in heaven"
she moaned, "He will send fitting
punishment for this final exhibition
of fiendishness."
When Shepherd himself heard the
news in his cell in the county jail
he burst into tears.
my God, this is terrible" he said.
The finding of the coroner's jury
was reported at the close of day
of long argument by Judge Olson,
who pictured Mrs. Shepherd as ans
other Lady Macbeth.
The jury knew what he meant by
the allusion--a strong, fearless, am
bilious woman, dominating a COM
weak man, whom she
had enslaved by her superior will.
He pictured Lady Shepherd" ra
lentless. pushing her husband for
ward to one murder and then an
other, with a million dollars as the
prize, just as in the play Lady
Macbeth prodded her husband to a
single murder for the prize Of II
throne.
After the return of the coroner's
verdict. Coroner Wolff issued q
mittimus for Mrs. Shepherd. But
he was too late. Chief Deputy
Charles Fitzner and a policeman
started for Kenilworth with their
writ when Mrs. Shepherd was al
ready on her way to a selected
hiding place.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06

LONDON, May GA hearing at.
tended by a large number Of title1
persons was held Tuesday at Via
reggie, a dispatch to the Morning
Post today related. The former
Empress Zita, King Boris Of Bull
garia; Louise, first wife Of King
Ferdinand of Bulgaria and a num-
Der of princes and princesses gave
testimony in a dispute over legacy
payments made by his staff by the
viii Of the late Duke Of Parma.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
GIVEN ONE YEAR FOR
ENLIGHTENMENT OF $4,000

RICHMOND, Va, May 6.-James
Chason, convicted of embeZltng
$4,000 from the Tubize Artificial
Silk Company, of Hopewell, Va.
began serving a one-year sentence
here today.
Chasm was captured in California
and pleaded guilty when brought 10
trial.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
Lady of the Spyglass"
Traps Liquor Runners
On New England Coast

LYNN, Mass. May 6.-As twenty.
five crack rum chasers sailed out
OF New England ports today to Join
the dry armada modified off rum
row." band Of daring rum runners
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
Railway Extension Planned

The Southern Pacific railroad
asked the Interstate Commerce
Commission today for authority to
construct an eight-miIe extension
from Valley Springs TO a point on
the Calaverus river, California.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
French in MoroccoLed
By Native of d. 6.

PARIS, May Gone of the French armies fighting the
Rffian forces Morocco under the direct command of
American citizen. He is General de Chambrun, who holds
citizenship because he is greagrandson of General
Lafayette all of whose descendants granted this right
shortly after the revolutionary
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
INTENDS To
PUT JUNK
! CARSOFF
STREETS
Finds Mental Detectives Driv-
Ing Autos-others Without
Dollar to Meet Damages

Convinced that a large number
Of motorists in Washington, should
have their permits revoked. Di-
rector of Traffic M. o. Eldridge
today announced he would thor
oughly study the traffic law to
determine the extent of his au-
thority.
"There Dire certain cases n
which permits are automatically
revoked" he pointed out. "How-
ever, know that there are many
other cases, not specifically COW
cred in the law, in which permits
should be taken away.
MANY people unable to either
read or write are driving cars
about the city. There are others
who are mentally defective and
incapable Of driving an automo-
bile safely.
Would Ban Junk" Cars
"T have also observed that there
are many machines which are
nothing more than. junk Being
driven around the city. This
should be stopped. The drivers of
such machines are endangering not
only their own but other lives"
Director Eldridge said that he
had been considering for some time
the withdrawing of permits in cases
not directly covered by the law.
MY visit to Police Court last
night convinced me-" he said.
''There were some people arraigned
who couldn't read or write, and
were mentally defective. TIL ere
were others 50 penniless and ire
sponsible that they couldn't raise
q dollar If they had to.
Without General Plans.
I'VE should have only RESPONSE
bic people with average intelligence
driving automobiles in this city. 1t
will be difficult to cut down acts if
the present condition is allowed TO
continue"
Director Eldridge has no definite
plans for a general revocation Of
permits.
The recklessness Of some OF the
drivers in Washington is an indica-
ton to me that they should not be
allowed to operate an automobile,
he said. 81 see on the street every
day persons whose permits should
be revoked.
II hope that 1 can find some
way to weed out and eliminate
these irresponsible and mentally
defective motorists"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
FRA BOYS
ASK END
Of BAN
School Leaders Demand Re-
instatement-court Fight
to Follow

A demand for reinstatement In
scholastic and athletic activities
from which they were disbarred
because of fraternity affiliations
was today made on the Board Of
Education by five student leaders
: and their fathers.
The letter, drawn up by John
E. Laskey, former United States
Attorney for the District and
counsel for the fraternities in
their fight for recognition by
school officials, will be placed be-
fore the board at a meeting this
afternoon at Franklin school head
quarters.
Court Action Follows.
The demand, it was explained, Is
a preliminary to court action.
Should the school board refuse re-
instatement, the fraternities, through
Attorney Laskey, will ask the
courts to direct school authorities TO
replace the disbarred students again
in the student posts from which
they were ousted.
Chester c. Ward, student leader
at Western High School, is the stu
dent in whose name the demand
was specifically made. Concurring
in it was his father, J. Moultrie
Ward, 1901 Girard street northwest.
Similar demands were made on
behalf Of Robert YelIott, Western,
Junior, Second Lieutenant cadets,
member of Officers Club, athletics
track, footbalD and his father, Ro-
bert E. L. Yellott, so7 Insurance
Building. Charles Russell Dodson,
Seventh Semester, Mckinley Man
ual Training School, Vice President
&c. o., member of 1T" Club,
athletics baseball. track and his
father, Gilbert r. Dodson, SIS Long
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column 81
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WOMEN SOUND KNELL OF
MALE RULE OF EARTH
Today's Scratches
And Jockeys AT
PirnIico

The mutuel numbers I'm the left
hand column enable readers TO
tell the program iiandicappers'
selections and the field horses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06

International News exclusive rights
for republication. In form, of all news
dispatches credited to not otherwise credited in
this II is also exclusively entitled to for
republication all the local undated news pub
Iished herein well AZ all special dispatches
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-06
THE WEATHER

Official Weather Bureau Report.
Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair a
warmer; moderate northwest winds Tempe
ture yesterday-H;ghest 81; lowest, 46.
Evening star., 1925-12-27
Box Holders for the
Annual Charitv Ball

Leaders of Washington society will
he represented among the box holders
at the Charity ball given for the bene-
fit of the Children's Hospital by the
Board of Lady Visitors at the Willard
Hotel Monday evening. January 4.
The announcement that the President
and Mrs. Coolidge will attend gives
added interest TO this first bah of the
new year.
The list of box holders to date in
cludes Secretary Mellon. who will oc-
cupy the box TO the right of the presi-
dental box; Commissioner Rudolph,
who will occupy the one at the left:
Senator Phipps, Mrs. c. c. Glover,
Mrs. Frederick n. Brooke. Mrs. Adolph
G. Miller. Mrs. Arthur n. Houghton.
Mrs. Eugene Never, jr.: Mrs. Harold
b. Ward Mr.. William Phelps Emo,
Mrs. William Winter, Mrs. Herbert
Slocum, Mrs. Paul II. Bastedo Mrs.
James +. Curtis, Mrs. Walter =.
Hutchins. Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock
Mrs. Willard Brownson. Mrs. Peter
G. Gerry, Mrs. Frank Hight. Mrs
Marshall Field. Mrs. Louis A. F'roth
+! ingham, Mrs. Arthur O'Brien. Mrs