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, 1925-01-04
PAAVO NURMI IS
ATTRACTION Of
TRACK CONTEST
Best Track and
Field Athletes in US.
To Compete.
BY FRANK GETTY

Omitted Press STAFF correspondent
NEW YORK, Jan. g.
Try to get a ticket to the
Finnish-American indoor
games next week. Just try,
and then appreciate who is
the greatest running attrac-
ton Of the season.
our Finnish Friend" Panvo Eur-
,ui is TO be seen in two special
races, and ticket agents are emitting
loud and %raucious laughter when
any one tries to buy admission to
Madison Square Garden for the
night OF January G.
4 company Of 100 Of the best
track and field athletes in the Unit
ed States viii support the marvel
Gus Finn In his premier and eleven
OK them win try to dim his glory in
the feature mile and the special
1000 meter events.
Nurmi. who was the outstanding
Individual star in the olympic games
asst summer. winning races and
breaking records in n never
eaualled on the clnder path. is quite
confident. as he winds up his con
scieutious training for Tuesdays
test. that he will score new triumphs
over tho best Of his opponents in
'loors.
That he IS undertaking n large
contract. those who know anything
about different running on cir ders
and on the beard win readily admit.
lie has never raced indoors. He
Knows OF the perils OF competition
On the steeply banked corners, and
the pounding strain of a board
track. But the flying Finn has been
pccustoming himself to board tracks
In practice tho past fortnight and be-
lieves he has mastered the art.
Nurmi goes on lcng walks by him
self. won't talk much TO interview
era. and won't predict what he will
DO In. tho coming games.
But he is such n student OF run
ming. with his special stop watch
which he carries in competition and
his %physcolical OF a loot race, that
his followers believe he will win. He
has had made for himself 4 special
pair of indoor running shoes. a sign
he knows what he is about.
In the special mile, Nurml will
meet his old enemy, c%ountryman,
Willie Ritola. chesty Jole Ray. who
m on from Chicago on Monday.
bent on taking the Firms measure.
Lloyd. Hahn. Walter Higgins. Jim
Connolly. Leo Laravie. and f. Lev
endahl. Which is quite n company
for any star.
The 5000 meters Will bring out as
Nurmi's opponents. Willie RitoIa,
again, Vern Booth, George Lere Ed
mond, and Gunnar Nilsson.
There will be ninety minutes be-
tween the mile and the 5000, 80
Nurmi who can run all night II need
be. will have plenty OF rest.
AT tho mile. II seems to experts
as though Nurmi might be beaten
by one OF that high class lot, all
OF whom know so much more than
no about running on the boards. He
should have a walkaway in the 5000
unless Ritola. who has his knive out
for his c~ountryman, springs a real
surprise.
Some OF the fastest middle dis
tanoe men in the world will compete
in a 500 meter event, and a world
record ought to go. Allen Helfrich.
Joe Tierney. Vernon Ascher, Jake
Driscoll. George Stevenson and
Francis Daley are in this,
Walter Hussey. the sensational
former school boy captain Will show
IN the fifty meter dash, with Leon
Murchison furnishing tho principal
competition.
There are n hundred good things
on the program for those who wish
to shop early.
, 1925-01-04

I've got the money now John
o told Ewing.
Ewing refused tho offer with the
explanation that II was too late,
since he and other stockholders Had
considered tho deal called of def
nitely by johnson himself and that
plans already had been made for
the 1925 season on tho basis OF the
old ownership.
johnson was bitterly disappointed
and left almost Immediately for
home. He said he could not get his
release from the Washington club
unless he had secured a controlling
interest in some Pacific Coast league
club and that although he had been
offered the Salt Lake club, he pre-
ferred TO settle nearer the coast.
, 1925-01-04
GIBBONS TRIP
MAY Be BUST
Fight Offer in London
Is Given Razz by
Ring Expert.

Copyright, 1924. Casper Tribune)
NEW YORK. Jan. $50 Tommy
Gibbons will go to London to fight
Luis Firpo, will he?
Bunk. Tommy went to England to
fight Jack Bloomfield and did not
make a whole lot more money
than he made at Shelby when he
met Jack Dempsey.
In fact. he did not make as much
, 1925-01-04

American league owners at st.
Louis.
1t was announced that the season
would extend further into October
than last ear A week was clipped
from the 1924 program because of
the presidential election. but the
committee declared this would not
be done this year.
Harmony marked the conference
and apparently the unpleasantness
following the rebuko to Ban John
son by Judge Lands and American
league club owners was forgotten.
All queries dealing with that sub
ject were frowned upon. johnson
each time trotting out his now IA
nous retort, I have nothing to say
about that"
, 1925-01-04

in England as he did in Montana,
for the rcason that he received mis-
training expenses ana took a fair
buach Of money for admission to his
training camp at Shelby.
The English trip. in short. was
such a bust that the only way you
could get Eddie Kane and his meal
ticket. Gibbons. to fight IN England
again would be to hypnotic the two
OF them.
Yet Gibbons Jays he is willing.
Put that down to advertising. It's -
poor fighter who won't rise to a
chance to get his name IN tho public
prints. especially when he has no
bout on and is out II tho lime
light.
Turkeys will be craving dorsai
fins when Gibbons goes again TO
London to do battle.
Jack Renault might be willing to
go to London. however. His finan-
cial demands are more modest than
those of Gibbons.
w. rH-fx.-- ---tft-a =
, 1925-01-04
SPORT BRIEFS
lifornia-1a round bouts or less
(By United Press.

NEW YORK--John Meehan. SYRIA
cuse university coach. may succeed
Tom Thorpe as coach OF New York
university it was rumored tonight.
Meehan will ask his release at the
next meeting Of the Syracuse ath-
letic governing board. according TO
the report, and already has an offer
from n. Y. U. which he wants to ac-
cept. Thorpe's resignation was ac-
cepted by the N. Y. u. athletic
council here today.
, 1925-01-04
BATTLES IN MAJORS TO
OPEN THIS YEAR ON APRIL IA
Schedules Completed at Two-Day Session at
Pittsburgh; Approval Of Club Owners to
Be Sought in February.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 3.-(United Press)-The
major league schedule committee composed of President
John Heydler of the National league, Ban B. johnson,
president of the American league, and Barney Dreyfus,
Pirate owner, completed their labors tonight after a two
day session in the William Penn hotel.
, 1925-01-04

cHlCAGo-jack Johnson. colored,
formerly heavyweight boxing cham.
pion has gone on the lecture plat.
form. Ho VIII talk to Chica go's no.
bohemsns on My Queer Expert.
ences In Life"
, 1925-01-04
WALTER JOHNSON FAILS IN HIS
SECONDATTEMPT TOBUY CLUB
Certified Check for $685., 900 Fails to Turn
Deal for Oakland Club Of the Pacific
League; Star Is Disappointed.

OAKLAND, Cal. Jan. 3.-(Unted Press)-Thes sec
ond attempt of Walter Johnson, star pitcher of the worlds
champion Washington Senators, to buy the Oakland club
of the Pacific Coast Baseball league failed today.
johnson hurried to Oakland from his home in Reno,
New. TODAY with a certified check for $3.50, 900 and a plea
, 1925-01-04

LONDON-The All-Blacks. New
zealand's undefeated rugby team
soon will tour Canada, the New Zea-
landers defeated an All-English team
today. II to IL.
, 1925-01-04

CHICAGO-Bobby Bylund. Mime.
apolis wrestler. arrived here today.
He is slated to grapple with Johnny
Meyers. former middleweight cham
pion. here on Monday night.
, 1925-01-04
Drake Loses
To Creighton

OMAHA, Jan. s.-creighton uni.
versity's basketball quintet out.
classed Drake tonight. defeating the
fowans. 60 TO IA.
, 1925-01-04

DUBUQUE, fOwA-More than a
hundred entries have been received
for Dubuque's first ice skating der.
by. 1t is TO take place January 1s.
, 1925-01-04

10 j. Cal. Ewing. majority stock
holder of the club that they re-
open tho sale discussion started
weeks ago when johnson lacked the
funds e swing the deal
, 1925-01-04

For results try a Tribune classi-
lied Al.
Evening star., 1925-10-13
SEEK Z MORE DEAD
IN LAUNCH WRECK
Authorities Question Captain
and Host on Capsizing
That Took Ia Lives.
Nv tha Associated Press.

By tins Aseoclatec ITess.
MELBOURNE. Fla. october "a
Two bodies still We're being sought
by fishermen. as authorities today in
vestigated the capsizinS Of the
launch Clara \. in the Atlantic. IS
miles south of here Sunday after
noon. with Il death toll OF Il. Capt.
I'D Arnold. skipper of the launch;
Locke Davidson, vice president of the
Melbourne Farm Co.. host to the
party of realty investors aboard, and
others will be questioned.
Capt. Arnold who has sailed the
coasts of Florida and Nassau for
wears. today had not eaten. slept or
dressed the wounds he suffered In the
effort to control the craft when the
seas overw' elmed it just beyond Sc
ha sta = let. He smiles only at
ment.v of the rescue work OF his
sons, VIII. l., and James IS, who
saved the lives of three woman pas
sengers.
After being held head downward by
his father to retrieve the body of one
woman. only to find her past reviv-
ing, William jumped from the over
turned launch into the water, and
with the aid of James. who came
down the inlet In a Skiff, took three
women to shore.
OF the four couples in the party
only one. Mr.. and Mrs. David Barnes
of Philadelphia and Melbourne, sur
wives, one or both members of ~
other three couples being drowned.
MIR. and Mrs G. l.. Barton lost tee.
lives together, while u. L. Ruckles
of Wichita may he Joined in death
by his wife. who is now critically i'll
from pneumonia ami exposure. Mrs
Locke Davidson, wife of the land
company official, was likewise = vic
tim of the sea.
Railroads of South Africa are buy
ing 10 American locomotives
Evening star., 1925-10-13
Modern Day Dress
In Playing Hamlet
Held as "Misfit"
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. October l0.-"PluS
fours" and blank verse do not
mingle well. Sir Martin Harvey,
famous as a Shapespearean actor.
had declared in reference to the
production of Hamlet" by actors
in modern attire at q London the
ater. Sir Martin. addressing mem
bers of the British Shakespeare
Society, had little to say in COM
mendation of costuming of pro.
ductions of Shakespeare play in
the dress of the present day. In
regard 10 the recent production of
Hamlet" he expressed sympathy
with the ideas of the producer. ad-
mittinC that some OF the classical
dramas become hackneyed. but the
Bard of Avon, he declared, was
rock against which new ideas
broke. He said Hamlet" in mod
ern attire could be regarded only
as an interesting, but not artistic.
experiment.
Evening star., 1925-10-13
ASKS AID TO SETTLERS.
Oddie Says They Were Treated
Badly in Land Deal.

RENO. New. October 13 LP).-Cnit-
ed States Senator Tasker l.. Oddie
has appealed to President Coolidge for
executive action in behalf Of the
white settlers on the pyramid Indian
reservation near here, who have been
compelled to pay for the lands some
of them have occupied since tire COS
at their full value. after the settlers
had devoted years to their improve
ment and cultivation. Senator Oddie
asserts that the Interior Department
in making the assessments against
the settlers has been miSinformed and
miSlead some settlers having pur
cha eeh the lan1 from the Stnte.
Evening star., 1925-10-13
Stamped Tan
Linen Scarfs
69c Ea.

-1Sx5O-inch Tan All
linen II e m S t it c h e d
Scarfs, stamped in two
easy and very attrac-
tive designs.
Evening star., 1925-10-13
Children's
Stamped Rompers
69c Pr.

Pretty Ready made
Rompers, stamped in
pretty designs, on ex-
cellent quality linene.
Colors are rose, blue,
yellow and white. Sizes
| to ;.
kann' 's-Fourth Floor.
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
France Alone Delays
Ne1U Arms Farley
Bv GEORGE r. HOLMES.

If France can be brought into line It appeared
likely today that another international conference will
be held in Washington next autumn or winter.
Great Britain is willing Japan is wling-and President
Coolidge is ready to issue the invitations the there
appears reasonable for successful meeting 1t
with France
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
GIRLS PARENTS
BLAMED BY
YOUTH
Frank Moore, Held for Grand
Jury in Secret Hearing,
Denies Accusation

Irate parents who are unalter-
ably opposed TO their daughters
romance with twenty-year-old
Frank Moore, son of Major R. S.
Moore, of the aircraft division,
Munitions Building, here, are said
to be behind the serious charges
lodged against the young boy
yesterday, by seventeen-year-old
Katherine May Aldridge.
Judge Elliott Aldridge, of
Riverdale, Nd, and his wife, the
girls parents, it is alleged by the
Moores, have been trying to get
something" on Frank for some
time in order to break up what
appeared to be a love match.
Secret Hearing Held.
A hearing was held behind closed
doors and Moore was held for the
action of the grand jury yesterday
afternoon in the sum of $500. Inc
hearing was in the residence ~of
Judge H. j. Moffet and newspaper
men were barred.
Friends of Miss Aldridge are at
loss to understand why she tuTheu
against Frank so suddenly, save to
remind that her mother has re-
peatedly punished her for having
anything to do with him.
Moore said today:
Il met Katherine as usual during
her lunch hour and took her riding.
wanted to talk to her; so l
parked my car on the roadside.
Jealous, He Says.
"I was jealous of another boy
she had been going with lntely, and
! told her so, reminding her that
she didn't like me to go with other
girls.
"She kissed me, but it wasn't
the kind of a kiss she usually gave.
We QuArrelsd. but ] didn't touch
hers"
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
Walter Camp,
Coach, Is
Dead
by International News Service.

by International news SoTVIcc.
NEW YORK, March a.
Walter Camp, head football
coach of Yale University, was
found dead in his bed today in
the Belmont Hotel. He died
during the night of a heart at
tack.
His death was discovered
when he failed to appear for a
meeting of the intercollegiate
football rules committee meet
ing in the hotel.
w. w. Roper, of Philadelphia,
and a doctor went to Camps
room and found the body.
Camp was beyond sixty years
of age and to all who saw him
last night in health.
Friends here said the funeral
would be conducted in New
Haven, Conn.,, within a few
days, but had made no further
arrangements. The body prob
ably will be sent this evening
to New Haven.
The Washington times., 1925-03-14

nal organizers Of the University
Club here.
He is a member of the Board OF
Trade, Chamber Of Commerce
George Washington Post OF the
American Legion, and also has high
Masonic affiliations. being a mem
Der of Almas Temple.
Judge Hit is married and has -FOUR
children. He lives at 1909 Mckinley
street.
Also From Chicago
Judge Macdonald was born IN
Chicago, November 80, 1859, and
came to Washington about thirty
years ago.
He received his legal training at
the Washington College Of Law,
from which he graduated in 1902.
Following his education, Judge
Macdonald began his practice in
this city, and continued thus until
1920, when he was named United
States Commissioner.
The Washington times., 1925-03-14

She proved herself to be, exactly
like her immortal grandfather, in
tensely interested in victuals. She
devoted herself to her bottle with
savage glee. She did not toy with
it languidly. She did not disdaln
nourishment. She indicated clearly
that the taking in Of food would be,
and already was, for her an eX'
tre1nely important and enjoyable
part of life.
She postponed all consideration of
nublic questions till she had quaffed
her afternoon meal with delighted
and strenuous Quaffs and gulps.
she then let it be known, through
her nurse, that she was in the habit
of sleeping twenty hours day and
that her consideration of public
questions would have to be brief.
She then scowled.
Asked what she thought or the
League of Nations, she scoWled with
ferocity.
She then kicked.
Scowls and GrinS.
scowling and kicking and waving
her arms are among her principal
employments during the four hours
daily while she Is awake.
Her other principal employment
Is grinning.
On the wall above her. while she
was communicating her feelings to
this writer, there was a piture Of
her grandfather, scowling and grim
ming.
His intensity was no greater than
hers.
"Who will be your god-parents?"
inquired this writer.
Paulina turned dutifully and
Continued on Page 2. Column ~
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
ERNST Defends
TAX CLAIM ON
COUZENS
Kentucky Senator Says Col
league Is Influenced by AMI
mostly to Mellon
By KENNETH CLARK,
international News Service.

The acrimonious row between
Senator Couzens (Rep.) of Mich
igan and the Treasury Depart
ment broke out on the floor Of the
Senate today.
Vigorously defending Secretary
Mellon, Senator Ernst (Rep.) Of
Kentucky, a member of the spe-
cial committee investigating the
Bureau of Internal Revenue, as
sailed Couzens' charges that he
was being punished" by the
Treasury because of his prosecu-
ton Of the inquiry.
Posing as Martyr" he says.
Ernst charged that Couzens was
posing as a martyr"
THE action by the Department in
regard to Senator Couzens has been
followed In thousands Of other cases
and 1t has worked no hardships on
the tax payers" declared Ernst, who
said that If Couzens had signed tie
waiver setting aside the statute oi
Continued on Page 2, Column -
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
AS
DISTRICT
JUDGES
Coolidge dominates MacDon-
aid and Hit for New
Positions

United States Commissioner
George H. Macdonald and former
United States Commissioner Isaac
r. Hit today were nominated by
President Coolidge for the two
additional District Of Columbia
police court judgeships recently
created by statute.
Both nominees are well known
lawyers in this city and have
been active in Republican circles
for a number of years. The
names were recommended to the
President by Assistant Attorney
General Rush Holland, after re-
commentator had been made to
him by a special committee Of the
Republican National Committee.
Hit From Middle West.
Judge Hit was born September
Z, 1854, In Chicago, Ill.,, and was
educated at Northwestern Univer-
sity and the Kent College, Of Law.
He came to Washington In 1900,
and began his practice here. In
1900, he was engaged in the COM
pilation Of internal revenue laws.
During the world war he served as
major Judge advocate in the army.
For the past several years he has
served as United States Commits
sioner.
Judge Hit Is the most widely
known Washington jurist. Not
only does he occupy a high position
in his own profession, but is active
in civic affairs. patriotic and social
activities. He was one Of the orig1-
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
POLICE PROBING
WAL TER REED
DEATH
Otis B. Cartwright, Patient at
hospital, Said to Have
Shot Self
Xxx;

Police are investigating the re-
ported suicide OF Otis B. Cartwright,
warrant officer. today, in Ward So
at Walter Reed Hospital.
1t is said that Cartwright shot
himself with a pistol while in the
ward, where he was a patient. at
1890 last night.
Cartwright is said to be forty
years old, and while his home is in
Pueblo, Col. he has seen some
service in Washington.
Major Watson, executive officer
at Walter Reed, refused to give
newspapermen any facts concern
ing the suicide.
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
Pope May Hear First
Jazz Over American
Radio Set
By international News Service

ROME, March 14.-Whether
Pope Plus will like jazz via the
ether was q question in the
Vatican. today, as the beauti-
full radio phone set presented
the Pontiff by George, Cardinal
Mundelein, Of Chicago, was
being set up.
Jazz is part Of the Spanish,
Swiss and German programs
which the set can pick up, in
hardly lesser measure than it
is . part Of the daily enter
tainment Of Americas radio
listeners.
The Pope's set will be ready
for his use Sunday.
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
THE WEATHER

Rain and colder tonight;
lowest temperature above
freezing; tomorrow partly
cloudy and much colder;
fresh to strong west and
northwest winds.
The Washington times., 1925-03-14

Collapse of the Geneva protocol,
and with it all of the League OF
Nations plans for disarmament,
has, in President Coolidge's opin.
ion, opened the way for the United
States to take the lead in or
ganizing another conference.
Whether French objections can
be overcome remains to be seen,
but administration officials de-
clared today they were more nope
full than they have ever been that
the winter will see the world
powers again gathered around the
conference table to discuss mutual
scrapping Of arms.
French objections to another
American Conference" have thus
The Washington times., 1925-03-14

far been predicated upon the fac:
that France feels she did not get q
square deal at the Washington Con.
ference, and upon the further fact
that France would rather see an.
other conference held under league
auspices, rather than American.
The voice of France is a dominant
one in the league. and so long as
there was possibility of the
leagues plans working out Frame
was unwilling to subscribe or ell
courage American enterprise in the
direction of disarmament.
The leagues plans have now
Continued on Page 2, Column H.
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
COLLAP SES
()NFN'|NG
ACClJSER
Alleged White SLAYER Topples
Over in Dock-CirI Tells
Her Story

AS he sat in the dock in the
United States Branch Of the police
court today, where he had been
brought on charge of violating
the Mann Act, John Weikert, alias
Harrison, blanched as he faced
a sixteen-year-old girl from whom
were wrung the statements on
which he was held, and toppled
over, falling to the floor.
Carried Out or Court.
Weikert's case had been called
and he was brought to the court
and placed d the dock, almost
facing Lonfs Mcdowell, his ac-
cuser. Several moments passed be-
fore he was arraigned, and during
this time he shot several uneasy
glances toward the girl, seated sew
eral yards from him.
without warning, he suddenly
half rose from the bench and fell
face downWards. He was assisted
to his feet by court attaches . nd
taken to the room below.
More more than fifteen minutes
before he collapsed, the little girl,
her face tear streaked and her eyes
red and swollen, had been sobbing
dlsconsolately as she sat beside
Miss Alice Barrett, policewoman IN
whose custody she had been placed.
When the time came for her to
take the stand, however, she was
dry eyed and walked calmly to the
witness box.
Weikert Brought Back.
Weikert was brought into court
again and was arraigned before
Judge John c. Mcmahon, entered
plea OF not guilty to the charge
ana sank into a chair before the
judges bench.
The girl took the stand and very
reluctantly answered the questions
put to her by United States Dis
trict Attorney Joseph Bruce, who
prosecuted the case.
A nod of her head or a murmer
yes or mo" in a strained voice
were almost all that could be gotten
from her.
In answering the questions, she
admitted that she was a junior in a
high school at Waynesboro, Penn5v'-
yania, when on the receipt of several
letters from Weikert, who was in
Washington, addressed to her as This
WIFE" she left home in a taxicab
and came to Washington February
4.
Knew Weikert Was Married
For a week the couple occupied
separate rooms on l street and
later went to live as man and wife
on Sixth street, it was brought out
in the examination Later they
Continued on Page Q, Column ~
The Washington times., 1925-03-14
PERU AND CHILE EXPRESS
THANKS FOR ARBITRAMENT

kilograms from President Leguia,
of Peru, and Foreign Minister
Matte. of Chile, have just been
received by President Coolidge
thanking him for his services as
arbitrator in the Tacna-Arica
boundary dispute, the State Depart
ment announced today.
Both messages expressed the un.
reserved appreciation of the Peru
Wan and Chilean governments for
President Coolidge's decision as
arbitrator. President Coolidge re-
piled to the Peruvian president and
Secretary Kellogg has replied to
the Chilean foreign minister.