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Evening star., 1925-03-08
S10O,OOO LARCEN|ES
CHARGED TO MAID
Police Claim Confession of
Thefts From Three Homes
Where She Was Employed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March Arrested
and charged with the theft here and
in Chicago of more than 100000 in
jewels and furs, Mrs. Anton Wer-
nitzer is said by the police to have
confessed today to the robbery of
three homes in which she worked as
maid. She implicated her COM
panion. Herman Lieberwirth, who
was also arrested, and said that he
played the stock market with the
results of his operations.
When arrested Mrs. Wernitzer is
said to have confessed to the theft
of jewelry valued at $4,000 from the
home of Mrs. Morris Vehon of Chi
cago, and of jewels, furs and silks
valued at $4,000 from the home of
Mrs. Lucille Schamberg of New York.
Police said she also admitted taking
valuabIes from the home of family
in Glencoe Ill, where she had been
employed.
Lieberwirth, according to the po-
lice, had been interned during the
war on a charge of being a German
SPY The couple were arrested In
their luxurious Brooklyn apartment
Lieberwirth had 81 200 in cash on his
person They had been traced
through a secondhand shop where
they had left articles for appraisal.
Mrs. Wernitzer, according to the
police, said she bought German war
bonds in the early days of the war,
and found herself penniless when
they deprecated in value. She had
been separated from her husband, and
sought employment in the homes of
wealthy families.
Her first employer, she said, was
Mr.. vehon of Chicago. where on jan
uary % she took, among other val
liable property totaling $4,000, a
string of pearls valued at s2S,00o, a
platinum diamond ring worth $4,000,
a $4,000 diamond bracelet and a
watch valued at $500.
Later, she said, she obtained en-
ployment with Mrs. Schamberg in
New York and stole jewels and silks
worth $4,000 and furs valued at
$4,000.
Mrs. Wernitzer told the police that
she met Lieberwirth here a year and
a half ago and fell in love with him.
The couple were charged with grand
larceny Most of the loot was re-
covered, police said.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
LITTLE RELIEF FOR MOTORISTS
ON MAIN STREETS BEFORE MAY
Winter's Damage Is Being Repaired Rapidly as
POssibIe-Suburban ThOrOughfares
to Take Longer Time

by the period of snow and ice in
January.
An automobile ride through the
city reveals the presence on many
of the streets of ruts and depressions
from the Winter, despite the fact that
patching gangs have. been at work
since the latter part of January.
According to officials of the engin-
eer department. approximately 1900
was expended for repair work during &
Februay, Of which $4,000 was in
asphalt patching and $4,000 in mend
ing outlying macadam Dads.
Engineer Hunt admitted yesterday
that there is still great deal of re-
pair work to be done before the high
way system of the city VIII be in good
condition. In answer to question
ne said the streets are in greater need
or repairs now than they ordinarily
are at the end OF Winter. He at
tributed this to the steady period of
snow and fee, during which repair
work was practically at a standstill
Held Up In Winter
For six weeks during the Winter
he explained, repair work could not
be carried on. Activities were re
sumed on asphalt patching about Jan
uary 16, but, officials of the engineer
department say, holes continue to ap-
pear until warm weather sets In
steadily.
There is a feeling expressed among
motorists that delay in repairing 6
small breaks in the surface not only
adds to the cost OF doing street work
by giving these small ruts a chance
to grow, but also places an added ex-
pense on the public in the damage
done TO vehicles in he
bumps
Some of the streets listed in the
new appropriation act for complete
resurfaclng are in bad condition at
present. In these cases, engineer de-
partment officials say, only the most
dangerous holes will be patched, pend
ing the letting of contracts to resur-
face them during the Summer
Mr.. Hunt said the streets broken
up during the Winter were principally
the asphalt streets that are from
20 TO 80 years old
The new appropriation act. which
became a law about 10 days ago, car
ried total of S2,815,95O for all
classes of street work. This is ap-
proximately the same as the total for
the present fiscal year.
The principal items are: 100000
for paving alleys and sidewalks un-
der the assessment and permit system
s3s9,150, for the paving of new
streets with concrete; 1912, 900, rep
resenting the gasoline tax collections
to be used in paving and resurfacing g
~ streets; 100000, for repairs to
streets.
or this last mentioned sum, about
100000 is used for the complete re-
surfacing of old streets. The streets
to be resurfaced are not named in the
act. but are designated by the com
missioners during the year
The appropriation in the new act for
repairs to suburban roads is S297, 500
an increase of about s22, 600 over the
current allotment. When this money
becomes available on July /, Super
intendent of Suburban Grabill plans
to increase his forces in smoothing
out all of the important outlying
highways.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
FOREST PLAN DROPPED
IN SMOKY MOUNTAINS
Commission Says Title to Land to
Be Purchased Was
in Doubt.

The National Forest Reservation
Commission announced yesterday 1t
had abandoned plans to establish a
national forest in the Smoky Noun
tains of Tennessee. Title to land
which would have been purchased
was in doubt, it was said, and in ad-
dition, the commission wished to
leave the way clear for the National
Park Commission, which is consider
ing establishment of park in that
region.
Purchase of 1887 acres of forest
land in Eastern States at an average
of $4.77 per acre was approved by the
commission. The land is in Pennsyl-
vania. Virginia. North Carolina, Geor-
gia. Alabama and Arkansas. During
the II years in which purchases have
been made 2,593,421 acres have been
added to national forest at an aver
age cost OF 1896 per acre.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
COOLIDGE MAY NAME
SHOALS COMMISSION
Prospects Seem Bright After Con-
ferences With Weeks
and Underwood.

The prospects that President
Coolidge will act favorably on the
House proposal to name a commission
to study and make recommendations
to the next Congress on the question
of disposing of the Muscle Shoals
property gained added weight yester-
day after conferences between Presi-
dent Coolidge, Secretary Weeks and
Senator Underwood of Alabama.
Senator Underwood called on the
President early yesterday to discuss
the Muscle Shoals question and Mr..
Weeks visited the White House later
for the same purpose. 1t was under
stood that both callers discussed the
commission proposal as adopted by
the House after the Underwood Ieas-
ing bill had failed of enactment.
Those close to the President be-
lieve he will name a commission of
three members, as provided in the
House resolution, to make a thorough
study of the shoals problem this Sum-
mer and report back at the beginning
of the next session of Congress.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
TELLS ABOUT PARTY
WORK IN COLLEGES
Organizer Informs Coolidge 900.
600 Students Will Vote Repub-
lican Ticket.

When the congressional and State
elections are held in 1926 more than
200, 600 college students in the United
States Will vote the Republican
ticket, according to Lawrence Hunt
of Princeton. assistant director OF
the college bureau of the Republican
national committee who was a caller
yesterday at che White House Mr.
Hunt came to Washington in the in
terests of the executive committee OF
the Associated University Republican
Clubs, and, while discussing Repub-
lican organization work among the
colleges, predicted that in 1925 there
would be an even larger number OF
college men and women who will
vote the Republican ticket than those
VINO cast their ballots in the presi-
Dental election last November
Mr.. Hunt said there is unfortunate
ly widespread Indifference on the
part of the college men and women
today toward public affairs and to
combat this the Republican national
committee, during the last campaign
formed clubs and sent out expert
enced organizers to the colleges and
universities. He said that to assist
in this work the Associated Uniyer-
sity Republican Club was formed
which organization has been kept in
tact for the next campaign.
Speaking OF the complaint that
there is not enough intelligent in
terest in public life among the
younger generation, Mr. Hunt said
This movement in the colleges and
universities Is of more Importance
than from the standpoint Of a single
party. 1t tends to create public
opinion and to provide the country
with young men and women who
have an Intelligent grasp of public
questions, thus suiting them fol
leadership of the future"
Mr.. Hunt said that the college or.
ganization work has received the
hearty support of President Coolidge
Evening star., 1925-03-08

Washington motorists are still
humping and bouncing over yawn-
ing holes left in the streets by the
winters storms, and there is little
nope OF more satisfactory relief, even
in the main highways. before May.
The possibility of repairing surbur-
ban thoroughfares is yet more for
lorn.
Between the disastrous effects OF
erosion, caused by the slowly melting
ice, and the destructive work of the
chains motorists used to prevent ac-
cidents, thousands Of holes were
washed and chopped in the very
center of the city's arterial highways
Some have since been worn still
deeper and present actual menaces
to life and limb when they are OBJ
scured by night
Now motorists not only have to
dodge as many Of these holes as they
can, but many times on the journey
10 and from the office they have to
make corkscrew turns to keep from
running down the repair crews. G.
Il. Hunt, engineer of highways, esti-
mated yesterday that his men will
have restored the asphalt streets in
the city proper to good condition by
May !.
Ample Money Available.
With respect to asphalt streets,
there is ample money available and
this class of patching, Mr.. Hunt said
Will go on rapidly as the city
asphalt plant turns out the material
augmented by small amount OF
asphalt obtained daily from the plant
of a private contractor. In addition
to the balance left in the current
fund for repairs to streets, Congress
hse H.. ;ot; e.
this character of work imm iately
available.
In the case of suburban roads,
which are cared for out of a separate
appropriation. l.. r. Grabill, super
intendent, said yesterday he has a
balance of only $4,000 to keep his
division going until July l, when his
new appropriation becomes available.
Mr. Grabill said he could employ
two or three times as many men as
he now has to advantage in remedy
Ing the damage done to outlying
highways during the Winter, but he
expressed opposition to such a
course because it would necessitate
laying Off his regular gangs for a
time before the end of the fiscal year.
At present the suburban road di-
vision has about 100 men split up
into small gangs, and Mr.. Grabill
said that with this organization he
will have TO limit his expenditures
on repair work to an amount be-
tween $500 and $4,000 a week for
the balance of the fiscal year.
New Paving of Streets.
AS far as the complete new paw
ing of streets is concerned, the Dis
trict is on the eve of a year of mark
ed progress, with a program that
calls for the surfacing of more than
125 streets in all sections Of the city
This new paving work will go on
gradually during the next twelve
months.
The immediate and pressing need.
in the opinion of those who have OBJ
served the condition of the streets,
is for general patching of the ex-
listing surfaces that We're broken up
Evening star., 1925-03-08
RECEPTION is HELD.
Federation of Colored Women Hon.
ors Former National officer.

Miss Halle /. Brown, past president
Of the National Association of Colored
Women. was honored at reception
given by the Washington Federation
of Colored Women last night at the
PHYLLIS Wheatley Y. W. c. A.
In the receiving line were Mrs Julia
West Hamilton, Mrs Daisy Lampkins,
Mrs. George s. Williams, Mrs. Mary
Booze. Mrs. M. c. Lawton, Mrs. Graves.
Mrs. o. B. Stokes, Mr.. and Mrs. c. w.
Matthews, Mrs Johnson, Miss N H.
Burroughs, Mrs. Preston and Mrs.
Gotta.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
PRAISES GALES REGIME.
Former Postmaster General Calls
on Kellogg.

Former Postmaster General Hitch
cock, who has recently visited Mexico
City discussed Mexican affairs yes
terday with Secretary Kellogg. He
told the Secretary that President Cal
les had a strong grip on the situa-
tion and that under his administration
an era OF progress was promised
Mr. Hitchcock said that he dis
cussed Mexican affairs only inciden-
tally with the Secretary Of State and
that the real object of his call was
to renew a friendship begun when
both were members of the Republican
national committee.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
SLAIN WOMAN FORESAW
DEATH BY STANDARDIZATION
Youth Who Resented Her Psyche
= analyzing of His Life Is Sen
fenced to 12 Years.

BY Gable to The Star and New York World.
VIENNA, March Rudolph Hughe,
19-year- youth. today was sen
fenced to IL years Imprisonment for
strangling his aunt, DR.. Helmuth
while she slept. DR.. Helmuth, a dis
tinguished practitioner and a pupil
of Freud, predicted her own murder
after psycho-analyzing the boy.
Writing to a friend shortly before
her death. she said: MY whole life
is an expectation of a blow. l am
terribly uneasy. I see myself with
him standing before me and then
squeezing me around the throat"
The motive for the murder was re-
vealed at the trial as the boys re-
sentiment of the exposure of details
of his childhood in a book written
by his aunt. New Ways of Under
standing Children a Ereudfan text
book.
Copyright 1921
Evening star., 1925-03-08
Credit Men to Meet.

The Associated Retail Credit Mems
Association will hold it's Spring din
ner in the oak room of the Raleigh
Hotel, tomorrow night at $50 o'clock.
The speaker will be A. F. Goldsbor-
ough, executive secretary, Baltimore
branch. A regular business meeting
will follow, and, an educational pro-
gram will be presented. A. Coonan
will act as toastmastef,
Evening star., 1925-03-08
BoRGLUM TO FIGHT ON.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GREENSBORO, N. c.. March T.
With the withdrawal of requisition
papers for him now a matter of his
tory, Gutzon Borglum, former Stone
Mountain Confederate Memorial
sculptor, now plans to remain here to
wage n fight to have all indictments
pending against him in Georgia nolle
pressed.
The sculptor made this announce
ment tonight after City Court Solic-
itor c. w. Ramspeck, representing
the State of Georgia, had requested
Gov. Mclean to return the Georgia
requisftion papers, which were based
on charges of malicious mischief, and
had signed a consent order for the
dismissal of habeas corpus proceed
ings instituted by Borglum. follow
ing his arrest here last Saturday. Tn e
signing of the consent order by
Judge Michael Schenck of Superior
Court was a mere formality.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
Barry Farm Citizens to Meet.

Maj. William II. Barrett of the Sal
walton Army will speak at a meet
ling of the Barry Farm Citizens As
sociation Tuesday night in st. Johns
Methodist Church. A program of en-
tertainment, including music by the
church choir, will be presented Re
freshments will be served Henry
Braxton, secretary of the association.
is in charge of arrangements. Ellie
S. Hoffman, president, will preside.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
Borglun, to Carpe
Mountain Statuarv
In South Dakota
By the Associated Press.

bS the Associated Press-
GREENSBORO. n. c., March =
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, an
nounced early today that he had
accepted a contract to carve the
figures of Washington and Lincoln
on a mountain in the Black Hills
Park of South Dakota and soon
would start work on the project.
Il have had the contract under
consideration about a year" Borglum
stated. Il have been informed that
plans for the project have been ap-
proved by the South Dakota Legisla-
ture and by Congress"
conference between Senator Nor
beck, South Dakota, and Borglum
was held In Washington Friday. the
sculptor said, adding that at this
time he was informed everything was
in readiness to begin the work.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
MRS. WILLEBRANDT FLIES
Makes Trip in Airplane to Boston
From Washington.

BOSTON, March Mrs. Mabel w.
Willebrandt, United States assistant
attorney general in charge of pro-
hibition prosecution, arrived here this
evening by airplane from Washing
ton. The supply of oil in the big mail
plane was so low that the pilot did
not dare to cross Boston harbor to
the airport, but circled the shore.
The 400-mile trip took s hours. IS
minutes, including a stop for lunch
Of an hour and half near Bruins
wick, n. ].
Evening star., 1925-03-08
MRS. BATCHELDER DIES,
Husband Formerly Was Goyerno,
of New Hampshire.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 7
Mrs. Mary T. Batchelder, wife of
Nahan T. Batchelder, former gov
ernor of New Hampshire, died hers
tonight after short illness. Mr. ana
Mrs. Batchelder were spending their
first Winter here. The body will h.
taken back to Andover, N. H.. where
funeral services will be held newt
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1925-03-08

The oldest form of fishing boat is
the coracle, which is stiH used by
fishermen in the Cardigan district of
Wales. The boats are very fragile, be-
ing made by covering wicker frame
work with leather or oilcloth,
Evening star., 1925-03-08
February Circulation
Daily ..1O1,868
Sunday .107,268

District Of Columbia, ss.:
FLEMING NEWB0LD. Business Manager
of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR does
solemnly swear that the actual number of
copies of the papers named, sold and distribut-
ed during the month of February, AID 1925
was follows:
Evening star., 1925-03-08

He said that an executive COM
mittee Of IA men and 1 woman was
selected. but that no member of the
L. d. c. was included. He alleged
that 1t was "cut-and- dried" pro-
gram, adding that Z. Rivers was
chosen first vice president, IAN onto
his title was also tackled that of busi-
ness manager"
Mr.. Borglum declared that for the
first time there was more money COM
Evening star., 1925-03-08

1T was not known" the statement
said, that in addition to securing
S3,50O,00 by popular subscription for
building the memorial 1t was also
possible to secure an additional
S2,500.000 from the sale of these
coins
The sculptor said AT the time of the
annual election of officers in April,
1924, the association, faced wonder
full possibilities" 1t had been under
stood that the presidency of the as
ISOLATION was an honor that should
be passed around from year to year.
This was not alone an understand
ing. it was a precedent.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
May Recommend Legislation.

j. w. Murphy served notice that
when the matter comes up for con-
sideration again he will move that
the membership of the council be in
creased to % and that all reference
to the Federation of Civic Associa-
tions be stricken from the report
The question of employing an at-
torney to represent the federation IN
the suit against the city in the fight
on the zoning law, now before the
local courts, was discussed when the
report of the Zoning committee was
presented by L. B. Henderson. The
matter was referred TO the committees
on coming and law and legislation
for report at the next meeting. The
federation did go on record as gup-
porting the zoning commission in it's
contest and giving the federation's
full moral support.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
DAILY.

Daily average net circulation 1O1,
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-09-10
HADASSAH OPENS new
PALESTINE STATIONS

In report summarizing the ac-
tivties OF the Jewish health agencies
in Palestine during the last two years,
Dr. A. Kaznelson, secretary OF the
Waad -Briuth palestine Health
Comcll), dwells on the growth in scope
Of the Hadassah Medical Organization
to meet the needs of the increased Jew
ish immigration. The Hadassah Med
zeal Organization has increased the
beds in its four hospitals in Jerusalem,
Tcl-Aviv. Haifa and Safed from 2S9
in 1929 TO 32S in 1924, which made it
possible TO admit 4J0 more patients
than in the preceding year The city
clinics and those maintained In the
agricultural settlements and villages
showed an Increase in the number
patients IN the same year Of 3.19T and
Ia treatments of G.142. The number of
meteorological and chemical analyses
in 1924 was S0.74J as compared with
GG.3S2 in 1923. One of the most i'm.
portant evidences of growth OF the
hospital work during the past year was
the opening of the Roentgen Institute
in the ROthschild Hospital in Jerusalem,
the only one of its kind in the Middle
East made possible by large contri-
buttons from the American Jewish Ply
sicians' Committee and Hadassah, the
Women's Zionist Organization. The
HadasSah Nurses Training School,
which has turned out "a fully trained
iur ~ i, about to hold its fourth grad
tiation. "a
Not only the hospital work but the
preventive medical and. educational
work of the HadasSah Medical Organi-
zntion has taken n long step forward.
over lJOO0 children have been ex-
amined in the schools. where S79.9Ss
treatments Of skin, eye and other dis
eases have been made as compared with
159.D4j treatments the preceding year.
4 vigorous campaign against trach-
oma has been extended to alli .le agri-
cultural settlements The Infant Wei
Continued on page O.
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-09-10
FORD MONEY DWARFS
TOTAL JEWISH SUMS

New York-wlth Henry Ford head.
Ing the list OF income tax returns. with
tax paid by himself and the Ford
Motor Company OF s2l ,2GO.O21. the fol.
lowing figures OF the earning power of
well known Jewish citizens published
in the metropolitan newspapers are OF
interest:
Louis Marshall, sG5039; Max ID.
Steuer, Sl9s.45J; y. ]. Rosenberg.
SlG.243; Felix NJ. Warburg. SAT- .4O4 .
Mortimer l.. Schifr. s450,4lO; Otto Fl.
Kahn s39I.77G; Simon Guggenheim.
s3lO.Oi3; Michael Friedsam. s20o 1906 /:
Aaron Nanmburg. s4S.G04: Fannie
Hurst $77O; Jewish Press Publishing
Company, owner Of the Jewish Morn
ing Journal" $2,6o7; Isadore Gains.
burg, s20312; Lewis l.. Straus, Sl3.344 /:
Nathan Straus. s93S; David Sarnoff.
s4I93: Armand Baer. Jr. $3.50.
Isaac Gimbel, $21,G0O: Nathan
Straus, Ir. $2,193; Hugh Grant Straus.
SI,S4: Joseph Streeck. $0.oSs: Horace
A. Saks, slG,GoO; Henry Seindenberg
S4G,752; Bernard NJ. Baruch s1O.11l;
Adolph Lewisohn, S44.52S; Eddie Can.
tor, slG,190: Julius Rosenwald. sos
S12.3S; Sears Roebuck. $2.o59.7 .713.52 (;
Hart, Schaeffner and Marx $2G9, ,O33 81 /;
Mrs. Mary Fels. S51.SG1: Abraham
Flexner '.511; F. II. Gimbel. $1S.o15:
l.. ]. Horowitz, Sll, ,JG7 Florsheim Shoe
Go. Of Boston, $313.334; Alfred Decker
& Co. Chicago. $780, ,47G; James F..
GreenebautA, Chicago, $1G,749: Paul
BAerwald. &165,SS7.
Louis Wiley, $5.49S: Bank of United
States, $14.356: Levy Bros. Realty Co.
x35.789; New York ..Times" Co. SAIL
PIG; $. Stroock 4 Co. Inc. SG9,375 ::
Emanuel Celler. $3.50: Adolph 8. Ochs.
$8839O; HAITI X. Strnus. s1GS.203; NJ.
Schinasi. $JO.5j4: Leon Schinasi.
$o3,574; Simon W. Straus. S75.565
Ediath A. Straus. s14.2oS: Percy
Strans, II. II. Macy & Co, S3S,519: A.
II. Sulzberger $2,GO1; Betti Schinasi.
Continued on page o.