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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-01-19

possible, por clerto, de sus colores.
Yo soy sportsman Y veo con placer
Ell triunfo del mejor caballo. "A
tout seigneur". -.
+ -Graclas,
KS que debemos ser asi, nosotros
les VerdadGrcs t.lrfmen. mo cree?
-S1, ind1da ablemente, pero Ell pla-
Ger de trlunfar...
Mo, va lie die mi opinion.
Largan; corren; el crack galopa
delante de su enemigo, Quien, en-
aingun momento compromete la vic
sor1a del gran caballo. Este, va de-
linda la carrera, al sentir las rien-
aas fcjas, Sc abre levemente y cru
IA Ia Hnea del contrario, cuyo joe
key levanta aparatosamente. Sc CO.
menta con ironia la maniobra y to-
dos Sc vuelven hacia Ell dueho del
"1Itsider''.
-iQue canalla gu Jockey! lAa
vistn el gesto?
-Si, he visto; un POGO exagerado
quiza, pero... en- verdad, ha habido
cruce.-. todos 10 hemos Observable.
j.. ST mi jockey 81 el reclamara, ell
reglamento es terminate. Con per-
MISC, voy YER.
Y el sportsman integerrimo vuela
haeia 81 pasaje a ordenar que Sc re-
clame, que Sc intente ell lance de de-
rrotar al gran caballo, porque aque-
llo Gle "a tout seigneur" fu6 sim
plemeate "peur la gailerie''.
Evening star., 1925-09-22

At 4 o'clock this morning the tele-
phone at No. precinct station aroused
a sleepy desk man from his lethargy
with the information that burglars
were rampant in the fashionable
Sheridan Circle section.
This is Mrs. Hilliard, at 2131 Mas.
sachusetts avenue the shrill voice
at the end Of the line gasped., Come
quick, there's somebody in the base
mentr
The sergeant jumped to his feet,
only to find that the squadroom at
that moment was empty. During the
next few moments, while he was en-.
deavoring frantically to round up
the precincts burglar sleuths, the
same voice called twice more for as
sistance.
The riot squad meanwhile swung
into action with faces set and guns
ready. The distance from Twentieth
and K streets to Twenty-second street
and Massachusetts, avenue was COW
cred in record time. AS the big gray
front OF the big stone residence loomed
into view the policemen dismounted
and. rur~ied stea'thily to tbs sce-e.
Abrief inspection of the outside of
Evening star., 1925-09-22
EXCESSIVE EXPANSION NOTICED
BEFORE SHENANDOAH BREAKUP
New Note Introduced in Testimony Today-Wit
nesses, in Accord, Tell Vivid Stories in Con.
nection With Disaster.

dent of that board He said the two
most intelligent OF these witnesses
agreed that the ship broke at the bot
tom. Others. less intelligent. Comdr.
Klein said. insisted that the craft
bumped up" and broke at the top
The special board was told by some
farmers near the scene of the wreck
that the wind was the strongest they
had ever experienced. Comdr. Klein
said it appeared that the wind was
coming from all directions at once.
None of the witnesses saw any
Klein added, and there was no evi.
dence that there was any fire of any
Kind before, at the time of, or after
the craft broke up.
After all the officers of the Shen-
andoah have been heard the court
will face the question of the additional
witnesses to be called.
Stories Show Accord.
There was practically complete
agreement between the officers and
men who testified yesterday as to
Just what the ship did before the
crash as she was making a second
rapid ascent In the squall. None Of
Tered any suggestions. however, as to
what caused the wreck; whether 1t
was due solely to the storm or to
some inherent weakness in the ship
Itself. There was no reference to the
structural changes which had been
made in the ship to accommodate water
tanks, but 1t is stated on behalf of
Continued on Page 4, Column 2J
Evening star., 1925-09-22
GAMBLING PlUNGER
KIDANPED BY BANDITS
Ransom or Revenge Are Seen as
Motives of Men Who Held :
Up Machine.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 22-Ransom
or revenge were police theories today
on the kidnapping of two armed men
of Henry Belford. known as wealthy
real estate dealer but identified by his
wife al Hickory Slim one Of the
biggest gambling plungers in the
country.
The revenge theory held that some
heavy loser in Belford's operations,
which raised him from the crap
shooting class to the millionaire rank
as bookmaker, may have decided to
punish him.
Mrs. Belford told the police of the
KIDNAPPING early last night. She and
her husband were returning from .
theater a short distance from their
fashionable hotel, when two men halt.
ed their automobile, demanding money
and jewelry.
She threw jewelry valued at $4,000
, on the floor and stepped out The
men drove off with her husband.
When she told them her husband
was Hickory Slim." police recalled
the stories Of the famous plunges
! credited to him. Hickory Slim
had a luck or acumen, that was pro.
pverbial His associates were wont to
| declare his talisman was the first
dollar he cut from crap game. His
rise to wealth was steady.
His most recent coups were made at
Hawthorne track, where, with New
York bookmaker. he cleaned up $780,.
! 900 or more a day. His real estate
holdings in Florida We're listed at
! S:JQtl 600.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
WOMAN IS SLAIN
IN LUMBER KILN
Placed in Furnace Alive,
Fireman, Arrested, Says
He Feared Poisoning.
BY the Associated Presr

NEW YORK, September 22.-Mrs.
Sophie Poleski, whose body was found
by police today in the furnace of an
East Side lumber yard kiln, was
placed in the furnace while still alive
and was burned to death, Medical Ex-
aminer Schwartz announced following
an autopsy.
Two fractures were found on the
woman's skull. George Symuk, fire.
man in charge OF the furnace, was ar
rested and charged with Mrs. Pole
skis death after policeman had been
woman'S screams.
George Symuk, fireman of the lum.
Der yard, was arrested for the wom-
ans death.
Patrolman William Merrick, hear
ing a woman's screams coming from
the lumber yard, investigat ted. AS he
scrambled over the piles Of lumber the
screams ceased.
Merrick found Symuk near the fur
mace. but he denied that a woman was
on the premises. AS Merrick began to
question him, Symuk fled and Mer-
rick fired his revolver. The shot was
heard by two other patrolmen, who
caught the fireman and took him back
to the furnace room. The officers
found Mrs. Poleski's body inside the
furnace. the door of which had been
closed and a shovel proped against it.
Symuk told the police that the wom-
an often visited him at the yard and
that she once threatened to poison
him. When she brought him two bot
ties of wine early this morning he
suspected that she had placed poison
in the wine. He said he beat her over
the head with>a bottle and then carried
her body from an office in the main
building to the furnace room. Police
said Mrs. Poleski was gagged before
being placed in the furnace.
Symuk told his captors that when
he ran from the lumber yard he in.
tended to commit suicide by jumping
into the East River nearby. He was
held on a charge of homicide.
A new angle in the case developed
when detectives found John Poleski
the dead woman's husband, in bed at
his home with a serious wound on the
head. He was taken to the district at.
torney's Office for questioning.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
ASKS BAL T|MORE'S
AID IN PARK PLANS
Sheriff. Urges Rotary Club to
Help Work OF Developing
Area Between Cities.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, Md. September %.
Need of a comprehensive plan of
regional development of the National
Capital being put on a sound basis
in the near future, to the end that
parkways and watersheds in Wash
inEton and vicinity may be obtained
before they fall into the hands of land
spectators. was pointed out this
afternoon to the Rotary Club of Bal
timore. at its luncheon meeting in
the Hotel Rennera here, by Lieut.
Col. Clarence O. Sheriff., director of
the office of public buildings and pub
lie parks of the National Capital.
Col. Sheriff. told of the plans as
now laid down, of the cooperation
being given by Gov. Ritchie and the
Maryls nd Suburban Sanitary Commits
sion and Gov. Trinkle of Virginia,
and explained how important it was
also to Baltimore to aid to the fullest
extent in the plan which eventually
will join the two cities by an inter
vening area of parks, boulevards and
well-planned home development.
Forests Must Be Saved.
NOI only fICCk 1Toek, Ine Northwest
Branch, the Potomac and Anacostia
rivers must be protected, but the
PatuXant and Patapsco rivers must
be taken into consideration, with the
idea of preserving the forested areas
along their banks for park areas and
great national Fairgrounds, he said.
The rapid growth of the popula-
tion around the National Capital with
in the counties of Montgomery and
Prince Georges, Md said Col. Sher-
rill, serves to emphasi the impor-
tance of this comprehensive plan of
development being put on a sound
basis in the near future. Although
divided geographically by invisible
lines from the District of Columbia,
these sections in Maryland are so
closely associated that it is evident
that the planning of the area outside
of the District should be closely co
ordinated with the planning Of the
Federal City.
while it Is true that the Patuxent
and Patapsco Rivers do not immedi.
ately affect the District of Columbia
the conservation of their stream flow
Evening star., 1925-09-22
SHENANDOAH DAMAGE
TO FARMERS DENIED
Klein Declares Losses More Than
Covered by Admission Fees
to See Ship.
By the Associated Press.

LAkEHURST, N. j., September %.
One of the three Ohio farmers on
whose property parts of the wreckage
of the airship Shenandoah fell took
In $4,000 in admission charges 20 tour
lists and for sofe drink concessions, the
naval court of inquiry was told here
today by Comdr. Jacob H. Klein, presi-
dent Of the special board which inves-
tigated the wreck.
This farmer is c. w. Niswonger and
it was on his property that the main
section of the wreck came to rest
Comdr. Klein said Niswonger showed
him his bank book carrying deposits
in this amount from September 3 to 8.
Because of this the officer recommend.
ed that Niswonger's claim for $500
damages to property be disaIlowed.
The other farmers, a Mr.. Davis and
Ernest w. Nichols, put in no claim.
but each made an unnamed amount
from tourists. Andy Canary. who
rents part of Davis place, claimed
$500 damages by reason of the control
car and part of the ship falling on his
property. Comdr. Klein recommended
that he receive $111.75 and that a
claim for damage to the linoleum on
mis- kitchen floor be disallowed.
II do not think the United States
Government is responsible for this
damage" Comdr. Klein said.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
HOPE FOR FRENCH
AGREEMENT GROWS
Debt Settlement Appears
Probable as Both Sides
Accept Principles.

Prospects of success in the forth.
coming Franco American debt neco-
tiations today appeared brighter than
ever.
Although there was no official or
observer in the Capital who would
go so far as to predict definitely that
the French debt of more than 81 900,
100000 to the United States will be
funded, several factors combined to
indicate that the two countries are
now nearer a solution of the delicate
and troublesome question than at any
stage Of the several approaches made
since the war -7y,.--es..
Admittedly, the French negotiations
are looked forward to with consider
able uncertainty. both on account of
the failure to make substantial prog.
ress in the past, when advances were
made by French representative in dis.
cussing their debt, and on account of
the present economic situation of
France, about which there seems 10
be difference of opinion in various
quarters
Agree on Principles.
Hopeful signs. however. are plain.
from the steamship Paris, with
Finance Minister Caillaux and his
commission aboard, now approa ching
American shores, and from America n
on1clals have come assurances that
the two debt commissions are pre-.
pared to get together for an imme-
diate businesslike consideration of the
problem.
Both commissions already under
stand. 1t was said here yesterday. thai
a basis acceptable to both, in brief is
that the entire principal Is to be met
and that the negotiations will turn or
the kind of terms and the interes,
rate which will constitute payments
such as France will be able under
her present economic situation tc
meet.
Capacity to pay"-those words
Continued on Page 4. Column A.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
LAST DAY OF SUM MMER
FINDS CITY SHIvERING
Mercury Drops to IS Degrees, and
Will Stay Low, According
to Weather Man.

'Tis the last day of Summer. and
right chilly departure she will take
when she passes out of the picture to-
morrow morning at S:44 O'Clock, ac-
coriing to the Weather Bureau.
Autumn just couldn't wait to make
her debut, 1t seems, and so the fore
caster found his thermometer at a
low ebb today. F'ifty-eight degrees the
mercury registered at noon, which was
only three points higher than the mini
mum of SIS reached during the past
"a hours.
Not much change in temperature Is
in sight for the immediate future
either, Forecaster Weightman opines.
To add to the discomfort there will
probably be number of shiyery
showers tonight and tomorrow. he as
sertS.
Washington is only one of score
of cities throughout the country whose
inhabitants are unpacking cedar chests
today. In North Dakota the mecury
was near the freezing point today,
while in the Yellowstone II stood at
2s and in Sheridan, Wyo., at 80 de-
grees.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
BY the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
LAkEHURST, N. j., September 90.
"A new bit of testimony-that there
was unusual expansion of the gas
cells before the airship Shenandoah
broke up-was given today before the
naval court of inquiry investigating
the loss of the ship.
Lieut.. Thomas S. Hendley, COM
munlcatfons officer. testified that he
was awakened by the pressure of a
gas cell on his face and likewise by
the unusual angle at which the ship
was riding. Previous testimony had
been at this time the Shenandoah was
ABOVE her pressure height-that is,
where the inside pressure of gas
equaled the outside pressure of the
air.
Before Lieut.. Hendley was called
Lieut.. Charles E. Bauch. watch officer
on duty at the time. declared inspec-
tion some time before the accident
showed that the gas pressure was not
excessive.
Both Lieuts. Hendley and Bauch. as
well as Lieut.. Roland c.. Mayer, con.
struction officer on board. agreed with
other witnesses that the breakup oc.
Cured when the ships nose was sud.
denly tilted up during a second rapid
ascent.
Stories as told by civilian eyewit
nesses to the special investigating
naval board were summarized to the
court by Comdr. Jacob II. Klein. presi.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
Burglar Scare Brings Riot Squad
To Fashionable Home-for Lowly Rat

the house convinced the officers there
was no way of escape from the base
ment, except through the front door
way. so they went to the entrance and
were admitted into :, dimly-lighted re-
ception hall, where Mrs. Hilliard and
several pale woman servants had
gathered.
Down there" one of the servants
whispered. Listen, you can hear
him at work.
The policemen bent forward, cooked
their ears and detected slight
scratching sound emanating from the
basement. Motioning for the others
to follow. the leader of the squad tip
toed down the steps, revolver in
hand. The scratching noise con-
tinued. 1t came from the direction of
the furnace. 1t seemed to be inside
the boiler.
A flashlight shot it's rays ahead and
focused inside the boiler. There en-
sued the sounds of a desperate en-
counter. followed by thud and then
silence.
The squad returned to the station
house, its work done.
ANY burglars?" the sergeant in.
CURED eagerly as they entered.
/ Rats" was the only reply.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
SCHOOL ROUNDUP
WILL Be LAUNCHED
Authorities to Seek All Chill.
dren Due in Classes
Under New Law.

With previous opening day enroll
ment records shattered, the public
schools are looking toward the largest
pupil expansion in their history this
year as a result of an announcement
today by Miss Fay l.. Bentley, direc-
tor of the department of school at
tendance and work permits that a
dragnet would be spread over the Dis
trict at the close of the week to round
up children affected by the compul-
sorry education law, who have not re-
ported to school.
While the compulsory education law
already has played a large part in in
crea sing the enrolment record for
the first day of school, Miss Bentley
believes there are yet some children
affected by the law who have not en-
rolled Principals of all schools, paro-
chial and private as well as public,
have been notified to furnish Miss
Bentley at the close of the first week
of school with the names of pupils
who attended their schools last year
and who did not report back this
year. These cases viii be investigated.
This method of checking up will be
one of Miss Bentley's mediums of en-
forcing the new law.
61,679 Are Registered.
The schools began the new term
yesterday with record breaking frs,
day enrolment of 61,679, an increase
of 2.0o4 over the first day of school
in 1924. Further increases are looked
for daily until October Is. when the
peak probably will be reached BY
that time school officials anticipate ar
enrolment exceeding $4,000, or abou,
1000 more than were enrolled las,
year.
Distribution of the total of 61,67e
was as follows: High schools. IL ,746
an increase of 967 over last year; ele
Evening star., 1925-09-22
"Were They Goldfish" France Asks
Berlin of Stock Hurt in Plane Fall

the German government is demanding
payment of a 6,000-mark fine for fiy.
ing over German territory without
permission.
1t is expected that the matter will
be amicably arranged, although the
French government objects to the fine
on the ground that the aviators did
not purposely' fly over German terri
tory, but merely lost their way in the
clouds
Evening star., 1925-09-22
CONTRACTS AWARDED
FOR STREET GRADING
Commissioners Also Authorize
Building of Another Section
of Rock Greek Sewer.

A contract for the grading of sew
eral new streets was awarded by the
Commissioners today to G.. b. Mullin,
Co., Inc.
The streets to be graded are: Sec
ond place northwest, Tuckerman to
Underwood Streets Upland terrace,
Thirty-third street to Western avenue
northwest; South Dakota avenue
northeast from Monroe street to Otis.
and from Otis to Twentieth street:
Gault place northeast, east of Forty
second street.
The Commissioners also gave a con-
tract to the Kirwan Engineering Com
pany to build another section of the
Rock Creek interceptor sewer at a
cost of $4,000. This large sewer is
being constructed to intercept the
sewage which now flows into Rock
Creek
Evening star., 1925-09-22
Cout Killed Adam,
Ancient Document
In London Asserts
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, September 22.-Adam
died of gout. says an ancient
document held by the Heralds'
College of London. The document.
the origin of which is unknown,
but which was written in the six
teenth century, processes to trace
the genealogy of the Saxon kings
back to Adam and Eve
1t asserts that Adam succumbed
to "goWte" and was buried in
Hebron. Whether, If he had con-
tinued to eat an apple day he
would have kept the doctor away,
is not mentioned.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
AIR PILOT NEAR DEATH.
Mail-Carrying Plane Crashes t,
Earth During Flight.

ATLANTIC, Iowa, September % CE).
w. c. Hopson, air mail pilot, mar
rowly escaped death when his plane
crashed to earth southeast of Anita,
near here, yesterday. it was learned.
The plane was badly damaged and
the pilot was severely bruised.
The electric beacon at Anita was
not in operation and in the darkness
and storm the pilot lost his way.
The plane was taken to Omaha and
the mail was taken aboard another
plane.
Evening star., 1925-09-22
PRESIDENT TO LET
I CONGRESS FIX US.
ARMS PARLEY ROLE
Wants to Do Nothing to Dis
courage Leagues Plan,
However.
GENEVA Is UNDECIDED
ON BID TO AMERICANS
Questions Whether Experts Could
Work on Body Directed
by Council.
BY the Associated Press.


American participation in disarma'
ment conference plans of the League
of Nations should only be undertaken
on congressional authorize ton, in the
judgment of President Coolidge.
The President wants to do nothing
to discourage efforts for a cut in arma-
ment by mutual agreement, but he is
not inclined to cooperate in a League
of Nations disarmament conference If
there is possibility that Congress
will object.
No suggestion whether the Wash
ington Government will be asked to
take part in the expert committees of
the league which will discuss plans
for a disarmament agreement has
reached here through official channels.
IEACJTE HEADS pJ'ZZJ Ell
Evening star., 1925-09-22
Further Building
OF Dirigibles by
i. S. Waits Probe
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
No steps toward construction of
n new dirisible are contemplated
by President Coolidge pending the
outcome of inquiry now in progress
at Lakehurst into the wreck of the
Shenandoah
The President does not expect,
however. that the inquiry will re-
veal such difficulties in dirigible
building as to convince the Gov
ernment it should abandon such
construction
Evening star., 1925-09-22
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 22.-Germany, it
now develops. is asking 5000 marks
reparation for damage caused to the
fish, when the French aviator Dieu.
donne Coste fell into the river near
Freiburg-in-B Breisgau, Baden, and the
French are facetiously asking whether
the stream is stocked with goldfish.
Coste has been held by the German ms
since September 13, the date of the
accident, in which his companion
Eoberte Thierry. was. killed. In I'd.
dition 10 the reparations for the fish
Evening star., 1925-09-22
Toxic Fire Laid to Workmen.

TOXIC, September % GP). = Three
workmen have been held for trial in
connection with the destruction of the
Diet Building here on September IS.
II nav develop that the fire was OF
incendiary origin.