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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
PARK AND BUILDING
BILLS INTRODUCED
FernaId Measures Provide
for Structure Program,
Plaza and Stadium.

Three bills of outstanding impor
lance to the District of Columbia were
introduced in the Senate today by
Senator Fernald Of Maine. chairman
Of the committee on public buildings
and grounds
They were: The sl65, 0O0.0 900 public
building program to provide needed
Federal structures both in Washing
ton and throughout the country. o.
the total amount authorized. $50, 600.
900 would be for Government build
ings in Washington.
A bill authorizing purchase OF
seven squares of land lying between
the Capitol and Union Station, tC
complete the long pending Union Sta
ton plaza project The bill authorizes
and directs the Vice President. the
Speaker of the House and DaviG
Lynn, architect of the Capitol, to &C
quire the property by purchase OF
condemnation.
Unexpended balances of appropri-
atoms made some years ago for this
property would be reappropriated by
Senator Fernald's bill, together with
any additional sum required TO com
plete the purchases. The Government,
already owns a part of the proposed
plaza site, put mas never purchased
the large portion owned by the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad.
The third measure is the bill to au-
thoriZe the Washington Stadium AS
ISOLATION to erect a large and attrac-
tive stadium on Government property
in Washington under the supervision
of the director of public buildings and
parks.
All three bills were referred to the
public buildings and grounds commit
tee for report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
ASKS MORE BRIEFS
IN OIL LEASE CASE
Five Questions Put by Justice
Stafford in Elk Hills
Litigation.

Justice Wendell p. Stafford of the
District Supreme Court today invited
counsel in the case of The United
States against former Secretary of
the Interior Albert II. Fan, II. +.
Sinclair and Edward l.. Doheny,
growing out Of charge of conspiracy
To defraud the United States in con
nection with the leasing of the Elk
Hills ana Teapot Dome naval oil re
serves in California and Wyoming, TO
furnish additional briefs covering five
questions on which the court still en-
tertains doubt after a careful peru
sal of the briefs already submitted
to him.
The five questions follow:
Il. Do the statements of matter OF
law in the Indictment tie the Govern
ment To the legal theory that Fail
was acting with legal authority in
dealing with the oil and gas lands
under the executive order of May 81,
1921?
~ If the executive order of May 3
1921. did not give Fall any legal au,
thority to deal with the oil and gas
lands in question. did it nevertheless
give him color of legal authority tC
deal with them? Citing Mccain vs..
Des Noines, ia L. $, l6S.
49, If the executive ordr OF May 81
1927. gave Fan nothing more than a
color of legal authority to deal with
said matter might the defendants
nevertheless be guilty of a conspiracy
TO defraud the United States in respect
thereto, if they acted in the dishonest
manner alleged in the indictment?
Il. Under the allegation that the
conspiracy was that the leases and
contracts in question should be award
ed by Fall, would the Government be
at liberty to prove that, while in fact
they We're to be awarded by Fall, they
were to be executed by the Secretary
of the Navy. and that the Secretary
of the Navy had left the actual award
ing OF the leases and contracts t
Fail?
- Is it necessary that the indict
ment should contain a direct aver
ment that the naval reserves in ques
ton did in fact embrace oil and ga:
lands on which there We're no pending
claims or applications for permits OF
leases under the provisions of the act
of Congress of February %. 1920, OF
pending applications for United States
patents under any laW?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
STARVING MINERS
|. RAID FOOD STORES
Canadian Workers, Failing to
Get Immediate Relief,
Carry Off Provisions.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
GLACE BAY, ova Scotia. January A..
Distress among the coal miners of
Glace Bay and New Aberdeen, where
| there Mas been lack of steady employ
ment in collieries of the British En-
pire Steel Corporation, eliminated last
night in raids upon several provision
stores by unemployed. Storekeepers
suffered the loss of considerable stocks
in both places, and one store in New
! Aberdeen was burned.
The disturbance followed mass meet
! ings under control of the United Mine
Workers of America. They We're called
to consider any replies that might have
/ been made by the Nova Scotian gov
| eminent to an appeal by the miners
that the government come to their re
lief. The resolution declared that if
provisions were not forthcoming the
miners would be forced to take what
, we need wherever we can find it
\ telegram received by Mayor Nor
riSon from Premier Rhodes said, while
responsibility rests with the munich
pality of Giace Bay. he would recon-
mend to the cabinet that the province
guarantee a bond issue of the town
for sufficient funds to satisfy imme-
! date requirements. The telegram was
unsatisfactory To the men, who said
/ their needs were 50 urgent that i'm
mediate relief was necessary.
The meeting was adjourned late in
the evening, after which the men pro
ceeded to various stores in Glace Bay
and New Aberdeen and carried away
large quantities of flour, meat and
canned goods.
Approximately | 900 men formed
the band of raiders. Mayor Morrison
said today he was of the belief that
no one municipality could cope with
Il raid of such serious proportions,
since the entire community was bound
up in the activities of the two colleries
where unemployment had been rife
for more than q year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
QUEEN MARCHERITA OF ITALY
is DEAD AFTER BRAVE FIGHT
Continued from First PageD

"Ontllutu from FlTSC 1dBe.D
a bright hue, in contrast to King
Humbert, who was noted for his SIM
l'licity of apparel.
She kept in touch with the latest
developments in the arts, literature
and sciences. She wrote a work on
The Heroines OF Shakespeare" that
never has been published. She also
wrote poetry.
She was opposed to divorce. A bill
introduced in the Italian Parliament
In 1902 was withdrawn at her request.
Assassination Attempt Failed.
An attempt was made to assassinate
her in 1905 while motoring at Little
st. bernhard. Two arrests We're made.
While at EVANS Les Bains she was
+pned
Sh" loved motoring She was ar
'ested and tnNd tor speeding In Swift
Hsr.4nt in 1905
%. 1851 tho ,5s,4.-Eter of Prtrcf rerd;.
nan5 al ~wvay. baEe ~ rtraoa and
lrlncess ll..@,retll of SAKE
she '.a.i married at l. % p'"1cH
tiuni1ert OF Piedmont. who ~ ears
later, at the death Of his tIther. Victor
Emmanuel II, became King of italy.
She had only enc child The present
King, who assembled the throne when
his father was asSasSinated. July %,
1900.
Most Prominent Woman
For more than half a century the
M prominent woman in Italy was
Queen Margherita, who commanded
the respect admiration and love of
al her people. Despite the fact that
she was almost an octogenarian at the
time Of hCr death. she still held q
charm and fascination over all with
whom she came in contact.
Sharing the throne of popularity in
italy from IA different point Of view is
Queen Elena, who likewise has con.
quered the hearts of her subjects be
cause of her domesticity. love for her
children and, above ALL, her ardent
patriotism. During the war this trait
led Queen Elena to serve as an in
valuable and interchangeable nurse.
How closely Queen Marsherita felt
for the welfare Of her people. which
was returned at the mere suggestion
of wish. is shown in two instances.
When the Queen Mother received
the late Adolfo Apolloni, sculptor, sol.
der. propa gandist for the war and
mayor of Rome, she showed him from
|, window a long stretch of the Via
Neneto. She told him that every
day she saw poor, tired people wan,
dering there and thought what n
comfort it would be to them to have
a few benches on which they could
rest
Marble Seats for Avenue.
Apolloni's first act as mayor of
Rome was to see that marble seats
were placed on the avenue--the seats
which are now to be seen between
the trees.
Shortly afr the tragic death OF
her husband the Queen Mother re
ceiVed Senior Cane of Buenos Aires
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04

who mentioned that he had seen her
majesty leaving the Pantheon.
YES" answered Queen Margherita,
Il went there to pray at the tomb
of my husband" After a pause she
said she would like to go there more
frequently, but found the noise of
the traffic over the uneven paving of
the stree too diStracting.
Indeed, the vibration of my own
carriage on the stones causes me
actual pain" she added
Later on Senior Cane became inten-
dente of the municipality Of Buenos
Aries. lie sent to Rome enough Ar
gentle timber of a special quality In
order that the Pantheon Square should
be paved and made perfectly even
thus deadening the sound of traffic.
Queen Elena and the King are in
many ways totally unlike the precon
ceived notions of what royal couple
should do and should be. This is due
to their simple Ia bits of life and &c
the fact that while being of an ex
allied position, they in reality have less
power than the President of the United
States or of the Argentine Republic.
Cares Nothing for Society.
Queen Elena cares nothing for so
ciety. She is devoted to her children
and delights in being with them III
private. She is an ardent climber, a
daring rider and a past mistress il
shooting. Her majesty fiuently speaks
French. English. German and Rus
sian, besides her own language.
Queen Elena is such an exception
ally good shot that her father, who
was intensely proud OF her achieve
ments. said he would be quite willing
to let her shoot an apple off his heaC
If only she could be induced to try.
1T is much easier" he said 'for
Elena TO hit than TO miss. She has ar
instinct for shooting straight"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04

submitted by that time. Mr.. Stillman
would be in default and the plaintiff
would apply to the Supreme Court
for an interlocutory decree on the rec
ord OF evidence in the unsuccessful
action Of the former banker, who
sought to divorce his wife, naming
Fred Beauvais, q Canadian Indian
guide, as correspondent. Mr.. Mills said
he did not believe Mr.. Stillnan would
contest the suit
Mr.. Stillgnan was reported to have
offered to make settlement of from
81 ,000, 900 to 81 500 900 in stocks, bonds
and real estate upon his wife in lieu
Of the alimony she is expected to seek
If she wins her suit.
Mrs. Stillman is now receiving 500
900 a year. Mrs. Stillman refused to
discuss the reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
SCORED AS CRIMINALS.
"Hit-and-Run" Drivers Roundly
Denounced From Pulpit.

Preaching on 'Why Obey?" Rev.
William A. Lambeth, pastor of the
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Epis-
copal Church yesterday characterized
the "hit -and-run' driver as one of
the most dastardly of criminals and a
menace to the community.
Though he may escape through in
ability of the helpless victim to iden-
tify him. the pastor said, ''he will
pay dearly for his crime. Although
he may never be arrested and brought
before a judge he still will have to live
with himself. and the runr'oG~n cf
AIS suit always will haunt him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
MAN ADMITS STARTING
FIRES FOR EXCITEMENT
New Yorker Says He Has Lighted
More Than 40 Buildings in
Past 6 Years.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 4.-Walter
Foley's contribution to holiday festiv-
tiles was II fires. which he has con-
fessed he set in tenement houses on
Christmas eve "for the sake Of excite
ment." Altogether, he has admitted
setting more than 40 fires in Brooklyn
within the past six years.
Foley told Fire Marshal Brophy yes
terday that he ran from house to
house, sometimes setting fires within
two or three minutes of each other.
In most of the cases the fires were eX-
tinguished quickly.
"Why did / do it?" he asked. "Only
excitement, that's all. I never
thn''~h about the pe"p.e inside. ]
49,. ,,>.t~s /. .,tii. anybody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
WALSH BILL FAVORED.
By the Associated Press.

A favorable report was ordered to-
day by the Senate judiciary commit
tee on the bill of Senator Walsh, Dem
ocrat. Montana. providing penalties
for American citizens living abroad
who refuse to testify in foreign courts
when called upon to do so by Ameri-
can courts.
The measure was drafted after the
Federal Court at Cheyenne. in the
Teapot Dome case, was unable to Oh
tain the testimony abroad of James J.
OMEN and Harry y. BIackmar, foi-
MGR officials Of the Prairie and Mid
west oil companies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
Food Is Requested.

A request that the Navy Depart
ment send food for the natives of
American Samoa, where food planta-
tons were destroyed by a hurricane,
was received by the department today
from the naval governor
Reporting additional details of the
storm damage, the goVeruu. IA. =.
inspection of a number of the islands
by the mine sweeper Tanager revealed
that several of the crops were com
pletely destroyed, while others were
damaged as much as 40 per cent. EST
mates of the food supply on hand ran
from one day for breadfruit TO from
three weeks to month for CocoanutS.
At Manua the Tanager found several
officers quarters damaged. while a
church and school and 90 native
houses We're demolished.
Several quarters were slightly dam
aged and a hospital hut, a church
and some native houses were destroy
ed on Ofu Island. while on Olesaga
Island, church, copar sheds and 81
natives houses We're demolished
At Sila, 10 native houses were
RACED. as were many on Tau Island
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
Hurricane Reported.

LONDON. January 4 Cp).-An Eve
ming News dispatch from Christ
church, New Zealand. reports that a
terrific hurricane is raging at Apia
on Upolu, one of the Samoan Islands
The correspondent declares the
storm Is worse than that Of 1883.
when a number of American and Ger
man warships We're wrecked there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
Gilbert at White House.

By tho Associated Press.
S. Parker Gilbert, agent general
for reparations payments, had a long
talk today with President Coolidge
He said he discussed reparations and
European affairs generally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
Opposed His Father.

Like most Hohenzollerns, Carol has
always opposed his father, whom he
seems almost to hate, and although
he was allowed all conceivable liber-
ties. he found even the slight limits
prescribed by the semblance of pre-
serving appearances, intolerable.
When some 10 years ago Carol first
announced his intention to marry Zizi
LambrinO, he had already trumpeted
his readiness to abdicate State
reasons later prevailed and, having
tired of Zizi, he was persuaded to
marry a princess of Greece, with
whom he has lived an entirely dis
harmonious life. Now he has again
found the lady of his heart, the wife
IF a Rumanian major, a ieWess OF
great beauty, and as usual, he does
not intend to allow any reasonable
consideration to oppose entire fulfill
ment of his passions.
4 break with the family was there
fore inevitable. Another disrupting
cause was Carols political convictions
lie openly avows preference for all
extreme radicals, including Commun-
lists. but his real sympathies are with
The anarchists. He has publicly
reprma nded his father and has
generally announced his desire to see
IN anarchistic republic installed in
Runania with himself as dictator.
Carols self esteem is without limit
Since the position of constitutional
king of Rumania is unsatisfactory to
} being who dreams of an unlimited
empire he prefers to be nothing, or
rather he prefers to lead the revolu-
tionary party, which will smash the
existing order which he believes
cramps his style.
At moments of excitement or exal-
tation. Carol considers himself Lohen-
;;iin or Hamlet. Really he is a neur-
u,ic weakling, subject to the latest in
1uence. and is fundamentally unbal
auced
iGsp1Eisht. 1896. by ChicaSo DAILY NeWsy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
GALE LAYS WASTE
AMERICAN SAMOA
Hurricane Leaves Destruc.
tion-Famine Is Imminent.
No Lives Lost.


PAGO PAGO, Samoa, January A.
The hurricane which struck Ameri
can Samoa is over, leaving 'struc-
ton and wreckage. The matched
houses Of the prosperous Samoan viii
lagos are streWn everywhere and
MAN. villages wny" complet aly wiped
ou' Nrt without loss Cf life because
% tta irbt construction If the ma
i've Uru-~~
Giant 'p"so-od by he cu,g q
aa wuG ,ta .H>r steep ".ua'aiu.
Numerous larl.' ICES ara blocking
roads md Eov"r III 8 arr down.
Ii ls irursSe t4 q he present inc
to reach 'he au'lvlnE Hayes on Tu
tuila Island on a'rpunt of the road
hei"-. blocked win landslides and
fali. 81 Noun. am trails were OBJ
..teg 80 also. Native runne"y are en-.
dea,prng to ges through deter
mine the amount Of destruction.
Crops Greatly Damaged.
Bread fruit, banana and taro plan
Ia lons were almost completely de
stroyad and the cocoanut crop was
greatly d. mayed.
The L. :. =. Tanager was dispatched
to the Manua Islands Immediately fol
lowing the storm, when the radio
proved unable to establish wireless
communication.
Many Manua Island villages are re
ported to be almost completely de
stroycd, but no loss of life has been
reported. Native food plantations are
ruined.
American Samoa is facing a greater
food famine than in the hurricane of
1915. The present food supply on the
islands, it is estimated, Will last two
weeks. The island government is TAX.
ing steps TO assure a food supply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
BAKERS FACE NEW
MONOPOLY CHARGE
Continental Corporation, in
Answer, Defends Its
Merger Transaction.
By the Associated Press.

y new complaint. alleging violation
of the Clayton act by the Continental
Baking Corporation in acquiring con-
troll of more than a score of smaller
bakeries throughout the country. has
been served by the Federal Trade
Commission. Filed December 10, it
was made public today by attorneys
for the corporation in presenting its
answer, a denial that the merger had
effected a monopoly in the baking
trade.
The complaint, originally issued last
October and revised to include several
bakeries whose stock recently was OBJ
tanned by the Continental corporation,
alleged that the consolidation acted
to lessen competition, restrain COM
merce and to create a monopoly in
bakery products. 1t cited the corpo-
ration to appear at a hearing before
the commission next February s.
Controls COrby Co.
The company recently acquired a
controlling interest in the Corby Bak-
ing Co.. Washington's largest baking
concern, and through the Corby in
terests controls former Corby plants
in Washington, Alexandria and Rich
mond.
The answer of the concern. which
some time ago completed a huge
merger with the Ward and General
Baking corporations of New York,
declared it has no monopoly in any
product in which it deals, nor can
any one obtain such a monopoly in
any community in the United States.
1T is physically impossible" it con-
tinued, for any concern to acquire
or obtain such a monopoly because
the business related to products that
are made from materials available
in adequate quantities at reasonable
prices to thousands of going business
concerns and to millions of homes in
which various people are capable of
producing such products in case of
necessity"
Denies Competition.
The Trade Commission charge
that the consolidated bakeries, op-
Grating in nearly every State. were
in competition with each other was
denied by the corporation, which set
forth that the nature of the products,
mainly bread and cake, was such
that they could not be successfully
sold and distributed, except within
very limited distances from the point
OF production. Citing high transpor-
tation costs for such materials. the
answer continued:
1T is. therefore. possible for one
company to acquire Il large number
of plants producing such products
so that each plant will serve a differ
ent community and in no wise &C.
cupy a field of distribution which has
been or could be occupied by any of
the others
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
STILL Ian GETS FINAL
EXTENSION FOR ANSWER
Wife's Attorney Doubts If He Will
Contest Divorce Suit-March
Date Set.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOUNT VERNON. n. Y. January
flames A. Stillman, former New
Rork banker, has been granted a final
extension of time until March /, to
answer the suit for an absolute
divorce brought by Mrs. Anne U. Still
man.
Her attorney, Isaac n. Mills, said
yesterday that If no answer has been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04

Denmark s live stock census showed
large reduction in the number of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-04
LED DISSIPATED LIFE.
Carol Described As Another Mad
HohenZolleru."
BY EDGAR ANsEL MOwRER.


By Radio to The star and Chicago Daily News.
BERLIN, January 4.-"Another
mad Hohenzollern" is the way GER
tain persons here who are personally
familiar with members of the reign
ing house of Rumania described the
latest abdication of Prince Carol.
From birth, Carol showed traits
common. to many of his family-a
weak but extremely passionate ma
ture, troubled by mysticism, liable to
Illusions of the strangest kind and
withal possessed of fully developed
agalomania.
Carol began early to lead dissi-
pated life governed by violent but
brief passions. In Paris at various
times he INDUCED in strange de-
bauches. In one of them, seven years
ago. he declared that he abdicated his
ions
Evening star., 1926-05-27
U. S. TRADE BALANCE
ADVERSE FOR APRIL
Exports Of $3s7.s71,0o Reported,
Against 1897, 1868, ,0oO-Crude
Materials Are Bought Here.

Finished nufactured goods made
up almost half of this country's total
exports of S3S7 .S7I 900 in April. while
crude materials lei all other commod-
ity groups il imports, which were
valued at S%97 .9G3 900.
An analysis of April foreign trade
by the Commerce Department today j.
showed the following exports for last
month IA comnared with April, 1928:
Finished inarufa Ctures. $lSS S.017,0 600
as aGair.t $40 o.69S.00o: crude mat
erials. $50 5O6, 600 against $50 .763. 900;
semi manufactures, S57.910 0 900. against
S60935 900; manufactured foodstuffs,
38,170.000. against S33 365 900; crude
fondStuffs and food animals $14.595,-
900. against S36 1872. 900.
Imports tor the last month and
the same month d year ago We're:
Crude materials. $l64 800 600. against
S139.3l2. 900; finished manufactures,
SIC, $4,000 against S62 2.000 semi.
manufactures S70.61O.000. against
$59.6l1 900: crude foodstufis and food
animals S471o 1o2.000against S63,533.-
600; manufactured foOdstufIS, 9,249.-
000 against s4S.423 900.