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Evening star., 1925-05-23
BY WILLIAM p. HELM, Jr.

More than 500 rum runners-small
motor boats capable of making from
10 TO 80 miles an hour, and of carry
Ing from 90 to $50 cases of liquor in
n single trip-have been tied UP, out
or business, 1t Is estimated. along the
Long Island and New Jersey coast
since the Coast Guard began it's block
ade OF rum row three weeks ago. Dur
ing the same period the row has
thinned, until today less than 100 600
cases are waiting for the runners on
row.
At the height of its activity of
Few months ago this section Of rum
row consisted Of nearly 100 ocean
tramps. varying In kind and size from
tlny schooners of the Gloucester fish
ernan type capable of carrying about
o.ooO cases. to supply steamers of g.
ooo tons register. A single one of
these big boys of the row, fully loaded,
has room for more than 100. 900 cases.
AT Its heyday rum row had waiting
Tor the runner not less than 10000
cases of liquors of all kinds.
They used to lie fairly close to the
shore with only mile or so of blue
water between them, these rum car
rlers. but now they have moved from
20 TO 80 miles off the coast, and
ieagues separate most of the indiyid-
ual ships. Those that are left have
settled down to grim waiting, as If
theE Intend TO rock idly at anchor till
Nemesis goes home. Little do they
KNOW Nemesis of the Coast Guard.
Trailed by Coast Guard
From so to 10 rum carriers have
given up the fight, at least Temporal
rily' and sailed or streamed away. The
masters or these vessels seemed to
think they could depart in peace. In
TINS they erred, for with each depart
ing carrier went one of the Coast
Guard vessels. 1t is the intention of
the Coast Guard to send its ships
Wherever the departing rum carriers
go until many leagues of brine lie
between each smuggler and the main.
land.
Some of the baffied rum carriers
nave been conveyed almost as far as
Bermuda. others hundreds of miles on
their way to Halifax or the West In
dies. Talk about the rum fleets in
tention to sail down the coast, shake
OH the Coast Guard squadrons, and
set up In business in the Chesapeake
is Just that-talk. Cervera's ships
at Santiago had some such idea, elimi.
mating the rum equation. The rum
fleet will find 1t as hard to shake off
American pursuers as did the Spanish
admiral.
In its first great drive against the
smugglers, the Coast Guard combed
the Eastern coast for vessels. 1t sum.
moned the cutter Ossipee from Port.
land, Me-; the Acushnet from Woods
Hole, Mass; the Seminole, Seneca and
Manhattan from New York: the
Gresham from Cape Hatteras; the
Yamacraw from Savannah; the Talla.
poosa from Mobile, and the Red Wing
from New London, Conn.
Commander Is Terror.
For its flagship it sent to Honolulu
and impressed the Mojave. For COM
mander-in-chief of the blockading fleet
1t picked sandy-haired Bill" Wheeler.
a mild-mannered bachelor of so, whose
run ashore is to tend his Pennsylvania
farm. Gentle and soft-spoken on
Evening star., 1925-05-23
AWAIT BIG SHIPMENT.
Coast Guard on Lookout for German
Boat With Pottery"

NEW YORK, May % Po.-Rum
Rows blockaders We're on the watch
today because of reports that Ger
man steamship was due off or in New
York with 25,650 cases of Scotch,
made in Latvia and consigned as pot
terry.
Sir Broderick Hartwell, British
baronet, who recently excused his
failure to continue big dividends to in
vestors in his rum-running syndicate
on the ground that his liquor had
been confiscated. Is reported to be
backing the German craft.
Orders were sent by radio to all
Coast Guard boats to keep customers
in small craft from shore from COM
municatiny with the steamship. to
which various reports give the name
Margaret or it's German equivalent.
Some reports said the vessel
planned to dock in New York to un-
load it's pottery" as its crew was
unaware that the real purpose on the
voyage had been disclosed.
POW
Evening star., 1925-05-23

(COntlnueO ITOIn flTSI TdS6.D
he was president of the National
Metal Trades Association.
His predominant business interest
at present is in banking. He is vice
president of the Chicago Trust Co.
and a director of a number of Chicago
business houses. But the wide range
of his interests is shown by the list
of organizations of which he is either
a member or an officer. These in
clude: Chicago Association of Com
merce, Chicago Sunday Evening Club,
National Guard Commission, EpWorth
Assembly, Chicago Crime Commission.
INFANT Welfare Society, Chicago Y.
M. C.. A, American Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers.
He is on the advisory committee of
the Boy Scouts of America and of
the Chicago Boys Club. He also is
president of the Board of Trustees
of the Oakland Methodist Church in
Chicago.
Advocate of Preparedness.
Mr.. OLeary has taken a prominent
part in movements for national pre-
paredness. One of his outstanding
contributions to this cause was made
in Chicago in 1915. AT that time
there was much unorganized senti-
ment tnaC America SnOuiQ take more
definite steps to make ready for pos
sible participation in the World War,
which many far-seeing citizens be-
lieved was inevita BILE. Mr.. OLeary
organized Chicago's famous prepared
ness parade, which was held within
three weeks after a citizens commit
tee which he headed was organized
AS head of the Chicago Association
of Commerce in 1917 he did much in
preparing the sentiment Of the people
for the universal draft.
During 1917 and 1918 he was prom
inent in war work, especially In the
locality of Chicago. In 1919 he was
a member of President Wilson's in
dustrial conference.
Mr.. O'Leary is married and has five
children.
Vice presidents were elected yester-
day as follows:
Eastern division. Lewis E. Pierson,
chairman of the board of the Irving
Bank Columbia Trust Co., New York.
North central dfvision-William
Butterworth, president, Deers & Co..
Moline. Ill.
South Central diyisiop-Rohert r.
Evening star., 1925-05-23
Asks Var on FLys
BE Concentrated on
Places of Breeding

The war on the house fly should
not be confined to the screening
OF doors and windows and the lber.
al swinging of swatters. but should
include the elimination of breeding
places for the pests. Health Officer
Fowler urged today.
DR.. Fowler laid stress on the
necessity for keeping garbage pals
tightly covered and added that ac
cumulation of rubbish around the
back yard should be avoided.
All food-stuffs in the kitchen
should be protected, DIR. Fowler
said, against possible contamina-
ton from flies.
Evening star., 1925-05-23
QUITS PACIFIC RUM ROW.
Ship Sails North-Won't Be Back
Coast Guard Told.

SAN PEDRO, Calf, May % P).-
The rum ship Gertrude, which has
been lowering off the Southern Cali
fornia Coast for several weeks, has
sailed northward with the announced
intention of remaining absent from
the waters indefinitely, the Coast
Guard cutter Vaughan reported when
it put into port here today.
The master of the rum ship was
kind enough, said Capt. W. A. Wood
of the Vaughan, to leave in her wake
as she sailed away yesterday noon
an empty whisky case surmounted by
a white flag. Inside the case the
Coast Guard cutters skipper found a
note which read:
I'VE are going away. You won't see
us again. Goodbye and good luck"
Evening star., 1925-05-23

zens' Association from 1895 to 1898 he
began a number of movements for i'm
provement of the District. He served
on many committees of his assocta-
ton and was reelected it's head in
1923, 1924 and 1925. 1t was under his
leadership, his friends say, that Ana
costa citizens were able to get Con-
gress to grant a charter to the first
electric street railway operating cars
south or east of the Anacostia River.
Reclamation of the Anacostia Flats Is
pointed to as the most important
movement with which he was asso.
ciated.
Evening star., 1925-05-23

Ellis, president, the Hessig- Ellis Drug
Co., Memphis.
Western division-Paul Shoup, vice
president, Southern Pacific Railway
Co.. San Francisco.
Treasurer-John Joy Edison, chair
man of the board, Washington Loan
and Trust Co.. Washington.
Honorary vice presidents-Owen D.
Young, chairman of the board of the
General Electric Co., New York;
Henry NJ. Robinson, banker, Los
Angeles. and Rowland w. Boydsn,
Boston,
Evening star., 1925-05-23
MAX NAMED PREMIER.

BRUSSELS, May % LP).-The King
today asked Burgomaster Max of
Brussels to form a cabinet to succeed
that of Premier Alloys van de Vyvere,
which resigned yesterday. M. Max
agreed to attempt to form a tempo
rary business ministry, unaff1liated
with any parliamentary political
prOunS
Evening star., 1925-05-23
CALLAN ARRESTED
IN SHEPHERD CASE
Politician in CeII-Is Accused
of Attempt to "Fix" Pro-
spective Juror.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, May ga charge of
contempt of court faces James c. Cal
Ian, politician, accused by Philip j.
Barry of attempted jury tampering in
the trial of William d. Shepherd on a
charge of killing his foster son, VIII
liam N. McClintock, with typhoid
germs.
Callan was arrested last night as
he was leaving the offices Of his at
torney, who throughout yesterday had
promised he would surrender him to
the States attorney. He admitted he
had been retained as a defense inves-
tigator and had talked to Barry, but
denied making any attempt to infiu-
ence him.
He knew Barry. Callan said, and
merely had asked him If he was a ve-
nireman after Barry had first asked
him the same question. He was held
overnight in a police station. and his
attorneys said if he was not released
before tonight they would seek a writ
of habeas corpus.
Only Four Jurors Selected.
Beyond the investigation of the al
legged jury tampering attempt and
search for Robert White, vanished
States witness, the almost completed
first week of the trial has produced
only four tentative jurors to try
Shepherd.
Examination of IS veniremen dur
ing five days resulted in acceptance
by the prosecution and defense of F.
c. James, As. Desplaines, Ills. florist;
II. Pillar, %, chauffeur; A. r. Hoyt
25. former school teacher and now
real estate agent, and r. +. Sedgwick
"a, purchasing clerk.
Since the defense announced it
would accept the first II men tender
ed by the prosecution in order to stop
the talk of jury tampering, William
Scott Stewart, Shepherds counsel
has asked only a few perfunctory
questions of the veniremen as they
pass before the attorneys for ques-
tioning.
Evening star., 1925-05-23
SOVIET GOLD IN LONDON,
Part of $4,000, 900 Bar Shipment
Bears q. S. Marks,

LONDON, May 23 CP.-Gold val
ued at f2,000,000, some of it in bars
said to bear the United States Gov
ernment stamp, has just arrived in
London from Leningrad, says the
Daily Mail. The metal was consigned
by the Soviet State Bank and de-
posted in the Bank of England to the
credit of ARGOS, Ltd, the All-Russian
Cooperative Society's trading organi-
zation.
Extreme precautions for secrecy
were taken when the gold was unload
ed from the Soviet government steam
er Gercen. Boxes were placed in a
motor truck and covered with posters
advertising Danish bacon and taken
to the Bank of England vaults under
heavy guard.
Evening star., 1925-05-23
SIX SAIL SOUTH.
Rum Ships Clear From Halifax for
Bermuda and Other Ports.

HALIFAX, n. s.. May 23 CE).-Six
rum ships which put into port after
the establishment of the United States
Coast Guard blockade along rum row
cleared today for southern ports, In
cluding Bermuda, Honduras. Cuba and
Nassau. The rest OF the fleet Is eX-
pected to clear within the next few
days.
Evening star., 1925-05-23

all disappeared by the time you have
recrossed the ferry and satisfied the
immigration man that you are a free
born. liberty-loving American citizen.
Once more life seems solemn and
gray.
Evening star., 1925-05-23
SWAT THE FLY

Take advantage of an early
start by an aggressive war on
the fly at the beginning of the
season.
The Star has for free dis
tribution. wire-handle fly swat
ters.
Ask for one at the main Office
OF The Star, or at any Of the
Branch AEsncisa.
Evening star., 1925-05-23
u. S. FACING BRIGHT
TRADE OUTLOOK, SAYS
NEW C. OF C. CHIEF

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1925-05-23
Commander Is Terror

For its flagship it sent to Honolulu
and impressed the Mojave. For COM
mander-in-chief of the blockading fleet
1t picked sandy-haired Bill" Wheeler,
a mild.mannered bachelor of so, whose
FUN ashore is to tend his Pennsylvania
farm. Gentle and soft-spoken on
The Washington times., 1925-11-07

Few persons, either Of the
stage or of any other profess
sion, have seen so much of life
in varied forms as Henrietta
Crosman and yet today she has
the animation and enthusiasm
Of a youngster.
In the days when the Union
Pacific Railroad was being laid
across the western prairie
Henrietta Crosman was there
with her father, Major Cros-
man, who was in charge of a
detachment of soldiers who
protected the workmen from
hostile Indians. She was born
at any army post at Wheeling,
w. Va, but like true daughter
of the regiment was at home
wherever the flag was flying.
Miss Crosman is descended
from a fighting family. Her
grandfather, Brigadier General
George H. Crosman, of Philadel-
phia, lived at 2014 Delaney
street and was the oldest officer
of the United States Army at
! the time of his death. He. also
4 was one of the founders of a lead
ing Philadelphia bank. Her uncle,
Lieutenant Commander Alex
ander Crosman, was classmate
of Admiral Dewey and later
was devoured by sharks in an
attempt to save the life of a
sailor.
&&x
It was when her father had
retired on his half pay that
Henrietta Crosman decided
that she would either become
q great singer or a great artist.
Strange as it may seem, she
had quite a pretty talent for
both arts. A family council
decided upon a course Of study
with grand opera as the OBJ,
The Washington times., 1925-11-07

jective. There were protests
from the grandparents in
Philadelphia who held social
position, but nevertheless the
younger Crosman family emf
grated to Paris and there
Henrietta began her studies.
Her health failed and her voice
failed, but she had acquired
quite an insight in the dra-
matte art, and when the family
returned to Youngstown, Ohio,
she began to lay plans to be-
come an actress.
More viol.e mt objections.
This time from parents as well
as grandparents and other
relatives in Philadelphia. How
ever Henrietta gained an au-
dience and a small part in
Pittsburg stock company. Her
salary. not being enough to
support her she added to it by
painting china, especially
plaques. miss Crosman esti-
mates that there are about
1000 pla ques in American
homes today that she hand
p a in tie d, unl less they are
broken). The plaques sold
we'll. she was success in
1.-THE White Slave" and things
went swimmingly.
Then she married Maurice
Campbell who became not only
her husband, but her manager
and with his advice and guild
ance she soon became a sue
cess. She appeared in such
plays for Augustine Daily and
the Frohman's as "As You
Like It" Mr.. Wilkinson &
Widows, z "The Junior Part
ner," and "Gloriana."
+ +
1900 she and her husband
The Washington times., 1925-11-07

after they're through with the
*AIexanGria news and the real
estate transfers lot Of kind
friends. i repeat, have asked this
writer, point blank: DO You favor
censorship OF moving ptcturesl
Now. it's hard to tell such
steady patrons to come around
again when the Christmas rush IS
over, or chanage the subject 70
something sprightly, like Wen.
what do you think they 90 %
Mitchell? RI
:sWell, yes and no.
The mo- is Just a little bit
stronger since yesterday. when
got in. the mail q bulletin or an
Indiana league that approves
moving pictures. on page one.
in the first column. was an article
headed. Comment from Our
Kindergarten Z and ii the ad-
joining column was a long screed.
entitled Report ct Mrs. Schmidt.
That's the trouble with reforners
they take their blessed work
SO seriously.
A new movie firm the MetrO-N
,nolitan Pictures Corporation. is
Starting out with brave dis
play Of cash and talent. George
Melford and his company have
returned from Alaska, where they
filmed Rocking Moon, 3 III which
I.ilyan Tashman VIII have her
first starring part. LasIxa Win
ter, the savage little beauty who
has been missing from Washing
ton screens for so long, is ii the
cast. Monte Katterjphn, scenarist
of The Flame OF the Yukon and
THE Sheil has gone on the
Metropolitan scenario staff. The
cleverA F'inis Fox also Is there.
The Big Parade is bound to
start q new flood OF war pic
lures. for here comes notice from
Hollywood OF Raymond HattOn
and Wallace Berry IN Behind
the Front. !" d Hugh Wiley story
of the funny side Of fighting.
About twelve pictures with war
themes are now In the making.
Universal is to film Uncle
Toms Cabin, after all these
years. The press agent. with
typical Hollywood conservatism,
reports that the Civil War in Its
entirety is being included o the
script =
The Washington times., 1925-11-07

wbv do you suppose Fox IS
affar the theater in the National
press Building? Why is Para
.raenT,t. thinking OF putting up It's
own house here? Why are war
ner- Brothers angling for local
p1s These wise old boys don't spend
,,,iIl;ona FOR the pleasure OF keep
ing currency in circulation. Iney
nnva come to know that, glVeL
the. proper attention, Washlngto
scan. turn out the best premiere
audience in the country. And they
,ow realize that the leading resi-
Z .5e,st. ~ this citywhich includes
tt1a. president and his Cabinet
saro,ild rather wait for the picture
~ come here than dash off to New
York for the privilege OF being q
! first nighter.
The film executives know this.
And our times coming.
4 ~ course, we haven't had a
really important historical picture
since s.The Covered Wagon. with
the outstanding exception Of the
Tror Horse but Winds Of
chance. 2 on view at the Metro
pofitan this week, deserves more
than the usual mention.
z Frank Lloyd apparently tried 70
do for this Rexe Bach story what
he did for Sabatini's Sea Hawk.
with broad splasIles of colorful
detail he tried to tell what the
Klondike rush was like. At the
same time, he was to enfoid
rather meIodramatic story.
Iloyd's local color and the Incl
dental comedy bits furnished by
claude Dillingham; and another
old stampeder sometimes jumped
all over the story, leaving II hang
Ing over the cliff and yelling Tor
help. Then he picks up the yarn,
and tries to convey the period ana
place BY costumes and back
ground. The job was Weli-nign
Impossible. No director could
have done it. ".
Lloyd tried an epic. but fell
short. The result was q very.
very interesting picture. often
beautiful, sometimes draggy anu
overbalanced. There Is great
deal that is good in Winds OF
Chance Edited a little, ] think
it would have withstood criticism
much better than 1t does.
A lot of kind friends, who for
reasons best known. to themselves,
read this column week after week
The Washington times., 1925-11-07

lind of the age in "As You
Like It." She also at various
times appeared in 1.-THE Other
Man." "Burmah," "House of
Cards." Joan of~the Shoals"
Sword of The King" and
later in "Children Of The
Moon" and with Grace George
in Getting Married"
1t was only with great per-
suasion that George C. Tyler
obtained the consent of Miss
Crosman to appear as Lady
Candour in "School For Scar
dial" and she declares that she
did it because of her great
regard for this manager and
the standards that he has set
4 Z 4 &
The Washington times., 1925-11-07


produced mistress Nell" De-
spite the opposition Of the
theatrical trust at that time
the play was a success ana
finally rea { he d New York
where it had a long and
financially successful run. 1t
was in this play that Henrietta
Crosman became nationally
famous and later in Sweet
Kitty Bellairs" she added to
that fame.
Among the other high lights
in her career were her appear
ances with Sir Herbert Tree
in The Merry Wives of Wind
sor" and the reputation that
she won as the greatest Rosa
The Washington times., 1925-11-07

in the theater. She had tenta-
lively decided upon retirement
when Mr.. Tyler's offer came
and true to the tradition that
requires stage stars to chop
about a bito on farewell tours,
she decided to fade out in a
blaze of glory, rather than so
obscurely as to excite occas-
ional co m m g n t s as to the.
whereabouts of Henrietta Cros-
man.
Especial local interest at
taches to another member of
the "School For Scandal" cast
because Of splendid character
work done by him throughouy
The Washington times., 1925-11-07

the season of the National
Theater Players this last sum
mer. Romano Calender will
be seen as Snake. W
Also there will be Jefferson
De Angels, not seen for ages
in this vicinity. And Julia
Lydig Hoyt, heiress, actress
and arbiter of things in a
social way She has been here
once since her appearance with
William Faversham in 1.-THE
Squaw Man. but the name of
the play eludes. 0. p. Heggie's
last appearance here was in
Molnar's Fashions For Men. "
The Washington times., 1925-11-07
THE GATE POST
.Bu HmoLd PhiELips

AZ generation ago Crosman reignng toast of
the height of her the stage
mistress Nell" Today there lack of
made Of and Miss Crosman is found not only
admitting insisting that she is of the old school,
surrounded glorious of actors and actresses
making her final farewell to thesergoers OF
loved her well
youths girls who often heard Of her
will Schoo for Scandal at the
National appearing Mrs. Candour,
quota of interest she will retire.
The Washington times., 1925-11-07
ANGI ING FOR
THEA TER SITE HERE
BY JIM RING

New York or no New York. Washington destined to be tne
motion picture capital Of the world and the day q supremacy
is not far distant,
corners who making film. The lrsn oI
later the env1ed
back reports Of the World
of The Merry WIdoW. ana
soon thew will regale folks with stories Of ben HUI
bde his time There many many
great pictures those pictures viii pc given ~
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-03-09
Il ingenierO NOneS Ie eSUbrc al Director.

Canals en- su proyecto de presa. Sc
necesitaran 100000 de galones ca
da "a horas, y sera necesarto en-
tonces construir un embalss ea ia
toma del RIO Bayam6n para alma
cenar las aguas torrenciales de- rio i;
por este motive la presa debe ser
calculada para ese aiio de 1850, CO.
mando como base el volumen de
aqua que es necesario almacenar
y no la perdida de carga en- la tu-
IBERIA como 10 ha hecho Ell senior Ia
nails, al calcular su presa.
LA economic de los S34,000.00
que calcula Ell senior Canals ia.
yor de la presa en- arco, son pura.
mente te6ricos; Ell sefior Canals 1e
asigna el mismo precio unitario al
hormig6n de la presa en- arco, y
al hcrmig6n de la presa por grave
dad, no siendo este asi en- La prac-
tica; Ell hormig6n de La presa por
gravedad es mas barato por va
rias razones; ell precio fijado en- ei
presupuesto al hormig6n de la pre-
sa en- arco es sumamente bajo y
no ser$ obtenido en- la subasta; ell
senior Canals Sc olvid6 de tener en-
cuenta el valor del acero para ell
refuerzo de la presa en- arco, re-
fuerzo que no lleva la presa de gra
vedad; y por iiltimo, ell hormig6n
de la presa en- arco no debe ser
cicl6peo como 10 especifca el Sc
nor Canals con un 25 por ciento de.
piedra en- bloque; este hcrmig6n CO.
mo todo hornig6n en- obras calcula
das como HoRMIGoN REFoRzA-
DO, debe estar compuesto de ce4en
to, arena Y piedra menuda solamen-
te, sin intercalar en- La masa pie
dras grandes, como Sc ha especii-
cado para la presa en- arco.
Al terminar esta extensa carta
quiero hacer constar que como mace
algdn tempo los aconteci ~ crtos
nos hacen aparecer como incapa-
citados para proyectar rn simple
acueducto como Ell de San Juan, pa
ra demostrar 10 contrario dsoer rs
defender con datos y argumentos
Ell proyecto original que dehsmos
terminado en- los archives del Mimi
cipio, cuando renunciamos junto
con los sefiores Travieso Y Rivera
Ferrer.
suyo amigo y compaiero,
Rafael MONIES.