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Evening star., 1925-11-14
MARKHAM DOUBTS
GIRL WROTE VERSE
Thinks Poetry of Nathalia
Crane Is Hoax Perpetrated
by Distinguished Writers.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. November IA
Doubts about the authorship of inter
nationally famous poems credited 10
12-year-old Nathalia Crane Of Brook
lyn are now raised by Edwin Mark
ham. honorary president Of the
Poetry Society of America and winner
or last years 5000 Poetry Review
prize.
Over his signature in the Brooklyn
gle Mr.. Markham wrote yesterday:
''Cnquestionably the whole thing is
a genial hoax, fabrica ted, perhaps, by
four young men and two young wom-
en- while lingering over the wine and
walnuts-alI of them distinguished
poets, with dexterous pens, and all de-
termined to break the monotony of
the hour with this delectable decep-
lion. This Is a moment in merry
America.
THE sophisticated viewpoint on sex
and on life. the special knowledge Of
history and archaeology, places then,
beyond the reach of any juvenile
mind"
Later Mr.. Markham, in a statement
10 the New York World, qualified his
views by saying:
And yet it is entirely possible that
Nathalia Crane has written these
poems with her own mind and pen
In that case she is the most ex.
rraordinary girl In America, and
wish her high good fortune on the
path OF the poetic life
Some doubters have been trying tc
locate William Rose Benet, who wrote
the introduction to the first book, but
ne could not be found to throw any
light on the subject. Clarence P
Crane, Nathalias father. said: Mr.
Markham, an old man and dean OF
poets in the United States, has made
an unprovoked attack upon my daugh
ter, treating her work as a Jest and
subjecting her to the whim Of his
opinion.
III this Is the way great poets are
supposed to act, and II this Is the
uourtesy OF the craft. then I must con
rlude that the whole brood are g
pretty poor lot
Mr.. Markham owes my daughter
an apology"
Evening star., 1925-11-14
Challenges Rumor
That High Officials
Favor Wet Move

Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun-
sci of the Anti-Saloon League, to-
day laid down a challenge to spon-
sors Of whispered rumors" that
officials high in the councils of the
administration are recommending
modification Of the Vclstead act.
We challenge the sponsors OF
this story to name any individual
authorized to speak for the ad-
ministration on this question who
makes such suggestion, said
Mr.. Wheeler 'If there be such,
the public is entitled to know who
he is and his reasons for 1t.
ITO modifytthe Federal enforce
ment laws SO that violators of the
Constitution in nine wet States
may be immune from prosecution
because no penalties are provided
would make this Nation the butt Of
the worlds jests.
THE Sixty ninth Congress,
stronger against modification than
any of it's predecessors, will doubt
less give short shrift to this appeal
of the brewers"
Evening star., 1925-11-14
FORMER HOUSE MEMBER,
GEORGE A. LOUD, KILLED
Lumberman Meets Death in Auto
Accident in Oregon-Fought
at Manila With Dewey.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
MARSHFIELD, Greg, November IA.
George A. Loud, former representa-
tive from Michigan. now a lumberman
at Myrtle Point, was killed last night
In an automobile accident.
DETROIT, November IA LP).-
George Alvin Loud was a member of
Congress from 1903 to 1918 and from
1915 to 1917 from the tenth Michigan
district. He was a veteran of the
Spanish-American War. and partici-
pated in the battle of Manila Bay.
Loud was born in Brace Bridge, Ohio,
June Is, 1852, and moved to Michigan
with his family when a child.
Before going to Oregon, Loud made
his home in Au Sable, Mich, where he
was in the lumber business. He was
at one time vice president and gen
eral manager of Au Sable and North
western Railroad.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
j. S. OIL INTERESTS
STATUS DISCUSSED
British Papers Speculate on
Present Standing in Mes
opotamian Fields.
By the Assnclated Press.

LONDON, November Hibiscus
sion OF American interests in the
Turkish Petroleum Co, which has q
75-year concession to exploit oil in
Mesopotamia, fills considerable space
In the newspapers today.
The Daily Mail quotes the Anglo
Persian Oil Co. people as saying thai
the belief that an American group
which included the Standard OIL Co.
had abandoned its holdings of 25 per
cent is a mistake, as the Americans
never held any of the shares because
the negotiations for the inclusion OF
Americans in the company never were
completed. It adds, however. that the
negotiations will be continued.
The Herald says: THE refusal o.
the American oil men, under pressure
from Washington, TO accept any in
terest in the Mosul Oil fields left big
block of shares in the hands of the
British government. At Locarno.
Austen Chamberlain. the British for
eign secretary, offered these to Ger
many on the understanding that ac-
.ceptance would imply diplomatic sup
port of Great Britain'S claim in the
Mosul negotiations. The transfer OF
these shares to a German oil group
now is in progress, but as yet is in
complete.
A dispatch from London yesterday
said there was much interest in a
statement made at a meeting of the
Anglo Persian Oil Co. that Az per
cent of the shares of the Turkish Pc
troleum Co. were held by the Anglo.
Persian Co. 1t was added that this
showed that the American group had
given up the % per cent of the shares
it previously held.
A dispatch from Constantinople as
serted that American oil interests had
been granted a monopoly for the sale
of petroleum in Turkish territory and,
the belief was expressed In London
that there might be some connection
between this and the new group in
the Turkish Petroleum Co.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
FRAUD IN GERMAN STOCK
is CHARGED IN NEW YORK
Shares Worth Two Cents Alleged
to Have Been Sold by Mail for
$3.50 by Firm There.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 14.-An in
junction was granted yesterday by Su-
prene Court Justice Lazansky of
Brooklyn against the firm of H. and
3. Wolf & Co. on complaint of Attor-
ney General Ottinger that the com
pany was violating the State law by
offering for sale virtually worthless
German securities.
The company has been barred from
operating in Pennsylvania. German
securities offered We're asserted to be
shares Of the Deutsche Handelsbank
or German Bank of Commerce, Ltd.
of Frankfort -on-t he Main. These shares
were sold for $3.50. the deputy attor-
ney general said, whereas they had a
value of about cents in Frankfort.
The firm specialized in mail orders.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
HITS SUN-QUAKE THEORY.

CHICAGO, November ID R-
There is no reason to believe there is
any connection between huge sun
spots and recent violent earth shocks
in North and South America in the
opinion of Prof. Edwin B. Frost di-
rector of Yerkes Observatory at viii.
liams Bay, Wis.
Commenting on a statement of Prof.
Martin Gil, Argentine astronomer Of
the National Observatory at Cordoba,
that a huge sun spot might be re-
sponsible for the quakes, Prof. Frost
said he regarded this as unlikely.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
DROP REFERENDUM PLAN.

COLUMBIA, Mo, November IA LED.
The student council Of the Univer-
sity of Missouri yesterday voted
unanimously to call off the student
referendum on compulsory military
training. set for November IT. Tho
board of curators, at a previous meet
ing, had ruled that compulsory mill
tary training at the university would
continue to be enforced, regardless of
the referendum result.
Henry Depping, student council
president. issued a statement declar-
ing that "the discussion on this Ques.
ton has resulted in the wrong impres-
sion going out over the country" and
that the controversy. which started
several weeks aay, Wvuld Cease.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
POWER INTERESTS HIT
IN CHICAGO WATER ROW
Industry Leader Declares Propa-
ganda Is Conducted Against
City by Moneyed Group.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 14.-Charges
that hydro-electric power interests
on both sides of the border at
Niagara Falls are responsible for an
organized propaganda attack upon
Chicago's diversion of water from
Lake Michigan for sanitation pur-
poses, and that those interests and
others are diverting more Great Lakes
water than is Chicago, were voiced
yesterday by Col. H. F. Miller Of the
Chicago Association Of Commerce.
Not only are the power interests di.
verting far more water than Chicago
needs, but several cities are polluting
the lake with sewage and contribut.
ing to the conspiracy against Chicago
in order that more water may furnish
more power to selfish interests" Col.
Miller said.
Detroit has recently increased di.
version through the Livingston chan.
nel.'
Evening star., 1925-11-14
HAWAIIAN OBSERVATORY
RECORDS QUAKE SHOCKS
Severe Tremor, Probably Near
Philippines, Also Registered in
New South Wales.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU. November 14.-Dis-
tant earthquakes, starting at 1:o6
am. yesterday. Honolulu time, were
registered by the United States Mag
netic Observatory at Eva, on this
island.
The shocks continued about two
hours. They were about the same
distance away and of about the same
intensity as those the Eva seismo
graph recorded November 10.
SYDNEY, New South Wales, No.
vember IA P).-The Riverview OBJ
servatory recorded a severe earth
quake shock at 1924 o'clock last
night The center of the disturbance
Is believed to have been in the
Philippine Islands.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
POLICE IN GERMANY
SEEK HAU IN VAIN
Former D. c. Lawyer, Slayer,
Sought to Serve Out
His Sentence.
BY the Associated Press.

KARLSRUHE, Germany. Noven.
Der 14.-The police have been unsuc-
cessful in their search for Karl Hau.
former Washington, D. c., lawyer,
whose arrest was ordered for the
completion Of a sentence for the mur-
der of his mother-in-law 90 years ago,
and 1t is intimated that he has left
Germany.
Hau recently published a book de-
picting his trial and life in prison,
scathingly criticiZing the judicial and
prison officials. He has notified his
publishers that he has no intention
of surrendering to the authorities, as
the warrant Is unjustifed and constl-
tutes a personal act Of revenge by
the states attorney, who, he believes
was offended by the revelations In his
book.
Hau was convicted of the murder
in 1906, on circumstantial evidence.
The death sentence returned against
him was later committed to life i'm
prisonmeRt and subsequently to 20
years. He was released in Septem-
ber, 1924, the remainder OF the SEN
tence being waived.
IIAu- n VIZ TT CTTTnENT
Evening star., 1925-11-14
WOMAN'S WILL LONGEST
OF RECORD IN ENGLAND
Contains SO, $40 Words, Written by
Herself, Covering an Estate of
More Than $4,5OO,OOO.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 14.-Wills of
the length Of short novels have often
been written by wealthy men, but 1t
has remained for a woman to compose
the longest testamentary document re-
corded in England. 1t contains 96.940
words, and is the work of Mrs. Fred
erick Evelyn Stillwell Cook, of Brock
enhurst, who left an estate Of more
than E 900 900 or about $4.S50,000.
All the dispositions Of property
which Mrs. Cook desired are in her
own handwriting as well as the long
list of special bequests. though some
Of the indexes attached were written
by her secretary.
The bulky document. filed recently
at Somerset House, consists of four
books heavily bound In blue leather
with additional outer covers. The gilt
edged pages number 1,10S. each 3
inches square.
The shortest will recorded at Sonner.
SCI House consisted of three words
AIl " mother"
Evening star., 1925-11-14

lished In America or any copies of it
distributed here. Officials at the Ii
brary of Congress established the fact
1t was never copyrighted in the United
States.
1t was recalled today by Prof. Hodg
kins that Mr.. Hau was a very like
able teacher at the university, where
he had many friends, and when news
came from Germany of his being
charged with and convicted of murder
it was Sreat shock TO them
Evening star., 1925-11-14
PIGEONS AID CEREMONY.
Bring Message to Coolidge From
York Reservoir Celebration.
Dispetch 70 The Star

s%seal Dispetch 70 The Star.
YORK, Pa, November 14.-Bearing
messages to President Coolidge and
telling him of the dedication of a new
reservoir here today, pigeons belong
Ing to fanciers Of Washington and
also the United States Navy were
liberated today.
The birds, two from each of the
lofts of John H. Holmead, D. r.
Mathews, II. c. Burke, +. H. Crown,
Louis Hofer, William F. Dfsmer and
the Navy, were liberated just as the
sinal ceremony Of the dedication came
70 close.
The officials in charge of the dedi-
cation are awaiting a reply from the
President, as the winged messengers
ere expected to arrive in their lofts
seversl hours after they We're lib
srstSs
Evening star., 1925-11-14
Egg and Water War
Among Students
Quelled by Police
By the Associated Press.

MANCHESTER, England, No
vember IA wild student bat
tie was quelled yesterday only
after all the city's available po-
licemen were rushed 10 the scene
and dozen leaders We're arrest
ed. Two hundred university stu
dents invaded the College of Tech
nology. armed with crowbars, clubs
tear bombs, decayed eggs, toma-
toes and stones. They smashed
the windows of the building. from
which the defenders played fire
hose at close range. The stu
dents were put to rout. a number
OF them with injuries.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
GERMANY HAS FOURTH
PLACE IN TRADE LIST
League Report for 1924 Attaches
Special Importance to Evi
dence of Recovery.

By the Associated Press
GENEVA. November 1.-THE trade
experts connected with the League OF
Nations attach special interest to the
fact that in the announcement of the
league regarding world trade condi-
tions in 1924 statistics show, despite
her difficulties, Germany in that yea
held fourth place, as compared with
second place prior TO the World War
In the figures for 1913 and 1924
Great Britain heads the list, and after
her in 1924 come the United States.
France, Germany. India, Canada and
Japan, the latter having jumped to
seventh place from thirtieth place
held in 1913
Russia. according to the figures
has fallen from sixth place TO thir
tieth place.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
New World I'm Making.

1t is now realized that these extraor-
dinary rays detected by DR.. Millikan
are evidence Of the actual construc-
ton of matter throughout all space.
He suggests that they may be evil
dence for the condensation into mat
ter, somewhere out in space, of the
light and heat continually being radi-
ated into space by the sun and stars.
Our own sun dissipates into space
each second some ten millions Of tons
Of mass In the form of light. It is a
hopeful conception that in some other
part of the universe this fundamental
stuff and that emitted by all other
stars is being synthesized into matter
from which other worlds can be made.
How much more cheerful this Is than
the disintegration that accompanies
radioa ctivity!
The Millikan rays also probably
affect virtually radio communication
for near the top Of the earth's atmos-
phere where they first impinge they
help create the ionized conducting
AenneIleX Aeayiside layer Of the at
Evening star., 1925-11-14
Newspaper Editor Dies.

SAN JOSE, Calf. November Il
CD.-A. c. Sands, veteran Cincinnati
newspaper man, died here yesterday.
He was 68 years old and came to San
Jose two years ago to regain his
health. He was managing editor of
the Cincinnati Enquirer for many
Years,
Evening star., 1925-11-14
HAU G. w. u. STUDENT.
Also Taught Here. Never wrote to
Friends i'm United States.

Karl Hau, a student and teacher at
George Washington University from
1901 to 1905, has failed to maintain
any contact with his Washington
friends since he was imprisoned Tor
the murder Of his mother-in.law or
after his pardon and the pupllcatlon
of the OFFENDING book. which has
caused his latest difficulty, It was
learned today.
Prof. Howard Hodgkins of George
Washington said neither he nor any
other former associates Of Hau at the
university had heard from him since
he left the city in 1905 to go to Ger
many to get needed funds. Prof
Hodgkins said that he understands
the murder trial brought out that
Hau had murdered his mother-ln-iaW
because she was an obstacle in the
way Of his getting hold Of his wifes
nOney.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
Solar System Long Lived.

Some 40 per cent of the stars In the
heavens are binary, and Prof. Mac
MILAN considers 1t probable that many
Of them at one time were solar sys-
TENS.
Looking so far into the future and
into the past has greatly changed as
tronomers' ideas of the lifetime of a
solar system. Whereas they used to
think solar system had life expect
ancy of q mere hundred million years,
Prof. Macmillan now estimates 1t at
a million billion years, called for con-
venience an con. Once an con, on an
average a star will make close ap-
proach to the sun, an event which
would be explosively disastrous to our
part of the universe, whether it hap
pened while the earth still existed or
when the earth had long since dis
appeared in the clutches of Jupiter.
DR.. r. A. Millikan's startling an
nouncement of the discovery of ultra
X-rays of great penetration and
cosnic origin Is still the chief topic
Of conversation among the leading
scientists gathered here.
Evening star., 1925-11-14
Wife and Daughter Suicides.

After Hau's disgrace his wife and
daughter committed suicide by drown
ing themselves in a lake near Zurich
Switzerland.
Immediately after he was pardoned
on September 2, 1924, by the Grand
Duke of Baden he announced he IN
tended to settle down in Germany
and write his memoirs
While he lived in Washington he
lived at the Highland Apartments:
He was admitted to the local bar and
many OF his associates refused to be-
lieve that he could be guilty OF the
act of which he stood accused.
Graduated In 1904.
Mr.. Hau was graduated from the
George Washington University Law
school in 1904. He afterward lee
tured on Roman law and for time
taught German.
Prof. Hodgkins said today he had
never heard Of the book which Mr..
Hau is credited with saving written,
and voiced doubt tnaL it Was pub
Evening star., 1925-11-14
Special Dispatch 70 The Star.


MADISON. Wis, November IA. -
The ultimate fate Of the solar sys-
tenn Of which the earth is part is
that 1t will become two stars, one Of
them the sun and the other a new
star made up of all the planets with
Jupiter as a gathering point. This
is the prediction Of Prof. w. d. Mac
MILAN of the University of Chicago
upon the basis Of new mathematical
studies reported in his paper TO the
National Academy Of Sciences meeting
here
Yet there is no need for immediate
preparations for Judgment day. for
Prof. Macmillan estimates that 1t will
probably be some five hundred billion
years before Jupiter becomes a star
and swallows the earth In the proc
ess Of doing so.
The reason for this end of the solar
system and its conversion into a BIZ
nary or twin star is that the planets
are actually growing, extremely slowly
Of course. They are sweeping up the
cosnlic dust or nebulosity throughout
space, somewhat as a SNOWFALL in
creases in size, and when the planets
gather up enough matter they will
be gobbled up by the largest Of them,
due tothe action of the laws Of gravi-
tation. The result will be a star.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
AIR MAIL FOR S. A.
BY M|D-W|NTER

Coincident with the nations &C
acknowledgement of place in the sun
for San Antonio and with the rapii
development of the Southwest, air
mail service will be fact in San
Antonio shortly. tying this city with
metropolitan ccnters of the United
States in fast airplanc schedule.
Not content to longer remain in trc
background Of the nations commerce.
San Antonio is demanding and getting
big city service, and the network Of
airplanes will unite her with New
York. Chicago, st. Louis and San
Francisco.
Fred Herndon. publicity secretary
of the Chamber Of Commerce. will 30
to Dallas early in November to con
fer with officials of the National Air
Transport. Inc, in regard TO maE
ing San Antonio the terminus of the
Chicago. air express.
This will speed up mail delivery to
San Antonio from all over the United
States. the planes picking UP east and
west mail at Chicago and st. Louis.
Merchants estimate that the say.
ing in time will help them greatly
and bankers say that the speed of the
planes means many dollars to San An
tonic.
Mr.. Herndon will hold conference
with Luther X. Bell. traffic manager
Of the air transport company. and
Paul Henderson, general manager.
both of whom favor the extension of
the route TO San Antonio.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
MUSEUM SITE
To Be PICKED
At PARK
Tcbin and Lambert Will
Select Location When
Mayor Returns.

Mayor John W. Tobin and Com
missioner of Parks Ray Lambert will
probably select a site for the White
Memorial Museum in Breckenridge
Park Monday.
With Il ruling handed down by City
Attorney joseph Ryan stating that
the museum can be legally placed in
the park, city officials began Satur-
day to definitely change their plans
for the museum and art gallery.
Material, which was conveyed TO
the site in San Pedro Park. where
the city had started building the first
wing of n museum to cost approx
matcly $31 900 will be removed TO
BracIcnridgc Park as soon as the new
site is found.
Mayor Tobin said the first wing
will be constructed as planned, and
when the $4,000 bccucst made to the
city by the late Alfred WHITE is OBJ
tanned. the remainder of the building
will be added. the entire structure be-
ing known as the Wittc Memorial.
Officials hope to have the museum
near the car line. which will make
the three entran -es to Breckenridge
Park equally good sites for the
building.
Commissioner Lambert. however.
will decide just where the building
is to be placed when the mayor re-
turns TO the city next Monday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18

by those so-called female
troubles" which are getting
to be so common among
them nowadays. Every
promise they make has a
big If in it. eff | am able"
they say so often it gets to
be a by-word with them.
And this is bound to be
the case as long as they al
low themselves to go on suf-
fering from those distress
ing ailments, such as head
aches, backaches, pains in
he back and sides, dizzi-
ness, nervousness. nausea,
cramping, irritability, faint
ing spells, and that awful
rundown, tired-out feeling
of apprehension and depres-
sion.
This condition is just the
opposite of what Nature in
tends. Nature means for
our body to serve us. Every
woman is given a capital of
nerve force and energy suf-
ficient to last her all through
life, if she spends it wisely.
But too many allow them
selves to be robbed of their
birthright of strength and
vitality by that dreaded NAL
ady, Catarrh of the Female
Organs, which has now been
definitely proven to be the
direct cause of fully 80 per
cent of woman's pain and
suffering from these So
called "female troubles"
Finding out this startling
fact concerning Catarrh is
what led the discoveries of
the phenomenal medicine
known as st. Joseph's G. F.
p, to give it these peculiar
properties which enable it
to overcome and stamp out
that terrible disease, and
thus relieve and help weak,
thin and undernourished
women in thousands of
cases where everything else
has been tried and proven a
dismal failure.
This amazing principle is
what is making G.. F. P. so
immensely popular, where
ever it is being introduced
to correct those periodical
disorders of women, that it
is now selling at the almost
unbelievable rate of more
than a million and a half
bottles a year.