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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
LAWYER CLEARS UP
MYSTERY OF RECLUSE
Explains How Woman, Thought
Very Poor, Left Small
Fortune.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 30.-The mys.
terry surrounding the life and death
of Mrs. Mary Crilley Sterling French,
recluse of Park Ridge, who died
January 6, was dispelled today. The
woman, who lived for years in a
tumble-down shack and was thought
to be extremely poor, left an estate
of nearly $50. 900 to Mrs. II. f. Dahl
man, a neighbor. Today Albert E.
Lake, an attorney who represented
Mrs French during her lifetime, told
her story.
In 1885, he said, Mary Crillev,
Mary French and Georgetta French,
all of WatertoWn, Mass, came to
Chicago and opened what later be-
came n Fashionable dressmaking
establishment. few years later
they purchased the property in Park
Ridge and made wills in each others
favor.
Shortly afterward they retired and
Georgetta died, leaving her share OF
their earnings to her cousin, Mary
French Mary Crilley then was mar
ried to a man named Sterling, who de
serted her. Shortly afterward, Mary
French, fearing that after her death
her relatives might contest her Will
adopted Mary Crilley as her daughter
When she died, Mary Crilley Sterling
French came into the accumulated
property of the three women. For
years she lived in the Park Ridge
house, which was boarded up, and
gained a reputation for extreme eccen
tricity. Mrs. Dahlman, to whom she
left her money, was her only friend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

OF Terrestrial Magnetism. made a
mathematical study of the Poary OBJ
serVationS, proving ConClusively that
they had been made en- route to and
close to the North Pole" he explained.
Gives Scientific Proof.
Mr. Mitchell explained Peary's
proof" as follows: The suns diam
eter apparent varies only about one
half minute of are from being equal
to 80 minutes of are, SO in set of
observations on the double altitude of
the sun, taken in the far North, with
the sun changing slowly in altitude,
these observations should differ by APP
proXimately twice the diameter of the
sun, that Is by about Ga minutes of
arc. This is shown clearly by the
observations taken by Peary at Camp
Jesup on April {, 1909. the differences
there being 63 degrees 10 minutes and
63 degrees 80 minutes, by Marvin s
observations in latitude s. degrees AZ
minutes on March -, 1909; where the
mean difference was 63 degrees 10
minutes by MarVin'S observations of
March %, 1909, by Bartlett's observa-
tons Ell route to the Pole and by
Peary's observations at a point 10
miles beyond Camp Jesup. This is
matter of simple astronomical cal
CuldllpH anu Is llOl del'tiiuCill Oii
anyOne's observations.
But, and this is the climax of the
entire matter, Cooks observations on
page PSI of his book gives differ
ence of the double altitude of the
suns upper and lower limbs tor
edges OF only 81 degrees and 10 min
utes, and on page "a the difference
is 80 degrees and Is minutes. This
quantity is about once the diameter
of the sun. There is really no way
TO nationally explain these observa-
tons. Certainly the sun did not
shrink to half its size when viewed
by Cook, nor could refraction have
affected the two limbs by such differ
ent amounts as to account Tor II.
The effect of the motion of the sun
would be less than a minute of arc,
and if observed close to elimination
would be negligible, practically zero.
Charges Cook Faxed.
There is but one way in which
to account for this peculiar discrep
ency in Cooks So-called observations.
They were faxed, and by some one
who was not familiar with the artiti-
cial horizon, and who did not pause
to consider the simple mathematical
truth that the difference between the
double of two quantities is double the
difference of the two quantities..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
SHOALS HEARINGS
WILL Be RESUMED
Senate Agriculture Commit
tee to Consider Issue To-
morrow and Tuesday.

The Muscle Shoals question, which
has been bobbing up and down in Con-
greSs for the last 10 years, Will be
gin another voyage tomorrow over
the tempestuous Senate course.
Three times the House has taken
action to settle the issue, but each
time it foundered on the rocks in the
Senate. From present indications the
going will be rough at this session.
With the opening Of the Senate
committee hearings the same inter
ests are found lined up in battle
array. There is one major change in
the situation, however, by the an
nouncement of Chairman Norris that
he will urge definite action at this
session. Previously he has stood out
against a final vote because the Sen
ate would not adopt a Government
operation proposal.
1t appears that the main issue at
this session will be between the group
wishing to utilize Muscle Shoals for
power development primarily and the
group that is trying to advance nj
trato production as the principal use
of the property.
Senator George, Democrat, Georgia
has notified the Senate agriculture
committee that he wishes to appear
in support of his amendment provid
ing for the distribution of power from
Muscle Shoals. He will offer the
amendment to the House resolution
which would create a joint congress
sional committee to negotiate bids for
the property.
The committee has allotted tomor.
row and Tuesday for the hearings and
night sessions are promised If more
time is needed. A vote will be taken
on the House resolution Wednesday
Representatives of several Southern
organizations have asked for time to
testify.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
TWO NOTED ARCTIC AUTHORITIES
SAY PEARY DISCOVERED POLE
Danish Explorer, DIR.
LANCE Koch, Pins
Faith in Admiral.
Hugh c. Mitchell, Who
Checked Data, Says
Cook Faxed Figures.

Another echo of the flare-up created
among Arctic authorities last Sunday
| by Capt. Roald Amundsen's reported
statement that DIR. Frederick A.
Cooks claim to discovery of the North
Pole was as reliable as that of Ad-
| miral Robert +. Pearys was heard in
Washington last night when two eX-
pertS on the subject advanced infor-
nation in support of the deceased eX-
plorer.
One of the late admirals supporters
is DR.. Lange Koch, director of all
Arctic work for the Danish govern
ment and recognized as the worlds
foremost authority on Arctic cOndl-
tons and subjects. His views were
made public by DIR. c. r.. ResSer, as
Sociate in the division ON paleontology
of the National Museum, who recited
a conversation with Or. Koch in
Copenhagen last September, which
was in substance. that there is not a
doubt but that Peary discovered the
North Pole.
Checked Peary's Observations.
The other supporter is Hugh c.
MITCHELL mathematician, United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey, who
checked Peary's astronomic obSerVa
tons, and whose statement was ac-
Cepted by Congress as the basis for
the national award given the explorer.
Mr. Mitchell not only advanced strong
arguments in behalf of Peary. but was
just as enthusiastic in attempting to
diSprove the Observations advanced
by Cook, summing up the latterS re-
ported findings as faxed"
DR. Koch said he had personally
found Peary'S markers on the extreme
northern coast of Greenland, at the
edge of what is known as the great
lead" "a deadly body of open water
filled with churning cakes of ice, Dr.
Resser related. This water, which
runs from several miles to 20 miles
in width, according to weather con-
ditions, is kept in a constant turmoil
by terrific winds that describe a great
circle in that part of the world. 1t
represents the greatest obstacle in the
path of an expedition attempting to
reach the North Pole, DR.. Koch eX-
planned.
Actually Crossed Lead"
Once across this great Lead the
Danish expert told DR.. Resser, the
rest of the 500 miles to the Pole Is
easy, the way being over smoothly
frozen sea which never thaws. DR..
Koch declared he investigated and
has numbers of reliable E,sklmoS to
swear that Peary crossed the great
lead" Favored by an unusually fine
season, nothing stood in the way of
Peary reaching the Pole from then on,
and. he added. nothing was ever found
to indicate that Cook even reached
northern Greenland.
THAT Peary actually reached the
immediate vicinity Of the North Pole
on April CT, 1909, Is an accepted
fact" declared Mr.. Mitchell, proven
in many ways, but IN none more con-
vincingly than by his astronomic OBJ
servations taken en- route TO the Pole
by his assistants, Marvin and Bart
lett, and by Peary himself. close to
the Pole
b In 1910, Mr.. Mitchell and c. r.
Duvall, now of the Carnegie Institute
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
SHORT-TAILED SHEEP
BREEDING SUCCESSFUL
Nine Years Experimental Work
Now Beginning to Show Results
in South Dakota.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BROOKINGS, s Oak, January 80.
Nine years experimental work in
the development of a tailless breed
Of sheep under the direction of Prof.
James w. Wilson, director of the
South Dakota experiment station at
State College, is beginning to show
results.
Lambs have been born in the
State College flock with tails SO
short that they do not have to be
locked They have been developed
from crossing native Siberian rams
with ewes of the Shropshire. Hamp-
shire and Ramboullet breeds.
After several years work in fus-
ing these breeds a ram lamb was
born which had neither the marked
characteristics of the Siberian breed
nor any evidence of a tail. Eighteen
out of twenty-one of this rams Off
spring have been born with tails so
short that they needed no docking.
Among the objects of present ex-
periments is that of determining
whether the strain of sheep born
thus is prepotent. In the working
out of this phase all OF the short
tailed breeds are being used. partic-
ularly in the crossing of short tailed
with Western-bred ewes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
five SEEK VIRGINIA
EDUCATION PLACES
Colleges Vie in Effort to Have
Choices Named by Senate
Next Wednesday.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

RICHMOND, Va, January 80
Three members of the State Board OF
Education are to be elected by the
Senate next Wednesday. Under the
law the faculties of the five State-sup
ported institutions Of higher learning
nominate one candidate each. There
are three places, and each of the five
institutions is making a desperate eff
fort to have a choice elected.
The nominees are Col. Henry G,
Ford of the Virginia Military Insti
tute. Lexington; DR.. J. M. Page of the
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
DR.. ]. l.. Jarman, president of the
Woman's College at Farmville; DR.. ]
E. Williams of the Virginia Polytech
mic Institute, Blacksburg, and DR.. J
A. G. Chandler, president Of the Col
lege of William and Mary, Williams
burg. For several days the friends OF
the candidates have been here. hard
at work.
The election was to have been held
yesterday, but on motion of Senator
Holt Of Newport News, the matter
was postponed to Wednesday next at
1890 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, January 30.-How a
telephone call from his sweetheart
foiled a scheme to stage fake rob
berry in the National Butchers and
Drovers' Bank, which, if successful,
would have meant a loss of nearly
500, 900, was told today by Robert
Sherwood, vice president of the bank.
His story followed the arrest of three
bank employees and a depositor, who
were arraigned before Magistrate Nc
Ouade and held in $40 600 bail each for
a hearing Thursday on charges of
grand larceny.
Melodrama stalked through the tale.
Over the wire to the girl, waiting for
the thrill of her fiance'S voice, came
something of a different sort to set
her pulses throbbing. 1t was a
whisper, hoarse with tenseness:
Tell Mr.. Sherwood for Gods sake
not to go home"
When the banker picked up the re-
ceiver a minute afterward his sweet
hearts excited voice was demanding
to know who first had answered the
phone. She learned it was watch
man, William Peters, and she repeat
ed his mysterious message, adding the
Watchman'S breathleSS explanation
that he himself could not get to Mr.
Sherwood to warn him without spill
ing the beans"
From that time-7:30 Friday night
until early yesterday things nap
pened in quick, detective story fashlon
There was a police tralled taxi car
carrying the Waterman and buhdle
of spurious money to a rendezvous
with two of the purported ccnsplr-
ators, an arrest and an alleged con
fession involving two other persons
Widow Reused in Night.
A white-haired widow. reused In
the middle of the night by detectives
who explained evasively hat her
son. a good boy and her sole sup
mort since his brother was drowned
last Summer, was needed to explain
some trouble at the bank-her " orlo
crashing pathetically about her as
disbelief gradually gave way to
realization.
A wife, the mother of two chill
dren, stumbling, tear-blinded from
before a magistrate who mad held
her husband on a charge OF steal
ing.
And then. riding with their own
thoughts in a black maria to a night
in the Tombs:
Louis Hoerber, SO. Of Brooklyn
who in seven years had worked uE
from a modest clerical position tC
paying teller of the bank at 500 q
week.
William Hartman, rs, six months q
bookkeeper in the bank. former pro-
hibition officer and one time Harlem
candidate for the State Senate.
Raymond Rapport, %, another
bookkeeper, employed a year, who
lived with his mother at Washington
Heights.
Robert Feinstein, 81, said to be
partner with Lew Tender. the pug
list, in the Guardian Dress Company
$4,000 in Rubbish Can.
Sherwood had followed Peters tc
the porter's room in the basement Of
the bank when the Waterman Wen1
there on pretense Of changing his
clothes. It was his night off, and he
had told Sherwood earlier that Hart
man had given him ticket to the
Click Dundee fight; and he hadn'1
seen a bout in 20 years. In the base
nent Peters strange conduct was eX
blamed when he drew from a rubbish
can a paper-wrapped parcel contain
ing $4,000 in bills.
Hartman had told him that Louie
(Hoerber) was in the hole" $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
GIRL FOUND DAZED:
JUMPED FROM AUTO
Miss May Riston, 10, Discovered
Lying on Street With
Head Gashed.

Dazed and suffering from a cash
on the head, Miss May Riston. 10
years old, of 1917 Four and a Fiafe
street southwest. was taken to
Emergency Hospital last night after
being discovered lying on l. street.
between Third and Four and a Half,
southwest.
Detectives Springman ard Darnell
obtained information to the effect that
the girl had been injured in a jump
from an automobile. and were en-
deavoring to locate the driver Of the
car early this morning.
A colored man notified the police
when he found the girl, unconscious,
in the street, and Policeman Hebrew
and Padgett of the fourth precinct
took her to Emergency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
WHISPER ON PHONE
PREVENTS 100000 FAKE ROBBERY
Bank Official, Warned by Sweetheart, Finds Package
of Money in Can of Rubbish in Basement.
Four Arrested When Plot Is Barred.

on his books through advances to
Feinstein. Mr.. Sherwood quoted
Peters as saying, and had asked him
to take the $4,000 and S31 900 more
which he would find in the teller's
cage to Feinstein at his business ad-
dress before going to the fight. He
had tried in vain, he said, to get Mr..
Sherwood's attention without being
observed until the telephone solved
his dilemma.
Detectives Behan, Corcoran and
Quinn arrived on Mr.. Sherwoods call
a moment before Hoerber telephoned
to Peters at the bank to learn what
was delaying him. The Waterman
was instructed to make an appoint
ment on a corner nearby and when
he kept it-With a package of en-
velopes instead of bills-Hoerber and
Hartman We're arrested. The detec-
tives said they confessed, involving
Feinstein and Rapport.
Another $4,000 Found.
The depositor was arrested first as
he was starting for meeting Hoerber
was forced to arrange. Detectives
said they found in his office an addi-
tional $4,000 in Federal Reserve notes
and 1862 in gold and silver, all of
which they said he had drawn from
IloSi Dtl uuIlllS lHt uiS rapport was
arrested last.
Mr.. Sherwood said the advances OBJ
tanned by Feinstein through Hoerber
and subsequently alleged to have been
concealed by him, Hartman and Rap
port, total $4,000 with an additional
shortage of about 900 on the ledger
which is still to be explained. He
said he was convinced the sole pur-
pose of Hoerber and Hartman was to
obtain enough money in the fake rob-
berry Qeaving themselves bruised and
locked in the basement to be discov-
| cred this morning) to make good the
shortage on their books
They reasoned, he said, that the
surety company would make good on
| the robbery and the bank would not
lose cent, while they would finally
get themselves in the clear by forcing
Feinstein to redeposit the banks own
| money. Feinstein is said to have en-
tertained the three employees fire.
quently and to have deposited worth
less checks which carried them
through inspections of the books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
URGES CIVIL SERVICE
FOR DRY AGENTS
u. S. District Attorney at Balti-
more Also for Additional Judge
to Make Law Effective.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DlSpdtCn tp 'lne star
BALTIMORE, Nd, January So
Maryland need not look for fewer
liquor law violations until an add
tional Federal Judge is appointed and
prohibition agents are put under civil
service, declared Amos W. w. Wood
cock, United States district attorney,
today.
Mr. Woodcock said Judge Norris A.
Soper last year disposed Of twice the
average number of cases handled by
Federal judges IN the United States.
There We're 2,S47 cases on the Federal
docket, he said. OF this number LAP
were violations of the Eolstead law.
In 1922, when he started in office, the
total number of cases was 677.
Regarding appointment of prohibi-
ton agents under the civil service,
Mr.. Woodcock said: 1T is as i'm
portant to select.prohibition agents in
tbis way as narcotic agents. 1t Is
essential that agents should be ap-
pointed by merit. that they are not
afraid to do their duty"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
FRANCE RESENTS
LEN|ENCY TO|TALY
Thinks U. S. and Britain
Have Been Unfair in Mat
ter of Debt Terms.
BY WILLIAM BIRD.
BY Radio TO The Star

py hfliO 10 Inc star.
PARIS, January 30.-France is
astounded at the leniency shown Italy
in her interailied debt agreements as
compared with the stringency of the
demands made upon France.
From the French viewpoint, Eng
land and the United States have We'd
TO Guido each other In granting Italv
the easiest possible terms. The Anglo
Italian settlement, signed this week
was even more favorable to Italy
than the 1talo- American agreement.
Frenchmen of all shades of opinion
are inquiring with some bitterness
why the American and British democ-
racies make such concession to Ital-
ian autocracy, while refusing similar
treatment to French democracy.
Nor is this sentiment confined 10
France. Even in England many ad-
verse comments are heard from those
who believe that political, rather than
financial considerations dominated
the Anglo-Italian agreement. Jibes
the thrown freely at Prime Minister
Baldwin and Winston Churchill for
trucking 10 Italy in return for ex-
pected Italian support in international
councils.
w Edl SdllS tIle fTenCn most Is
that this discrimination comes at a
time when Franco-Italian rivalry is
becoming acute. These two powers
are engaged in a struggle, as yet
friendly, for mastery. of the Mediter-
ranean. The French interpret Great
Britain's. and to some extent Amer
ica's, benevolence toward Italy as a
sign that Anglo-Saxon sympathies,
when the crisis comes, will be on
Italy's side. British aid in coal and
shipping is essential to Italy's sue
cess.
For these reasons it is not surpris.
ing that Austen Chamberlain's de
parture from Paris was speeded by
wits with the remark that 1.-The spirit
of Locarno is so per cent under
proof"
Copyright 1926)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Rangers Paw Good.

Capt. P. w. Miller of the Texas
Rangers drawys a salary few hundred
dollars larger than that paid by the
State to is governor. Capt. Miller
was paid SIS a month when he joined
the rangers nearly 80 years ago, but
today his pay is $500 q month. He
was the central figure in the now cele-
brated Maria" incident when the
rangers disposed of some 800 Mexi-
cans. Miller once disarmed Villa also.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Crandall Theater for Frederick.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FREDERICK, Md, January 30
Proposed construction of a theater and
office building was announced yes
terday with the purchase of the Schley
property on West Patrick street by
Harry M. Crandall, Washington,
founder of a chain of theaters bearing
his name. The property, comprising
about four acres, was purchased for
about 5000. The house in which
the Schley family had lived for nearly
q century will be demolished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
RAIL WOMEN ORGANIZE.
500 Form Group They Hope to Elk.
pand Into National Organization.

CHICAGO, January 80 P.-Ap-
proximately 500 young women en-
ployes of railroads have organized
the Railway Business Women's Asso-
citation, which is expected to expand
into a national organization.
An announcement said that the or
ganization hopes that Thorough it's in
fuence there will have crystallized a
profession of railway and steamship
women that will be known for their
common understanding, their business
ability. and above all, g. better and
finer womanhood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
SUFFRAGE LAW IN FORCE.
Imperial Japanese Edict Orders
Enforcement.

TOXIC, January 80 R.-An I'm
perial edict today promulgated en-
forcement Of the regulations Of the
1925 universal suffrage law passed by
the Diet. 1t will be applicable at
the next election.
The act fixed the voting age at %
years and abolishes property holding
qualifications. 1t is estimated that
the act will increase the total vote
in Japan by approximately 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
FORCE KILLING OF COWS.
Health Officers Overcome RELIGIOUS
Scruples Of Farmers.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, January 30
Because he believed the Scriptures
told him it was sin to kill a sick
cow, Levi Sollenberger, a farmer of
Hamilton township, was cited in court.
State health officers had tested his
herd and found four tubercular COWS,
ordering the animals destroyed. The
law was upheld and the COWS were
put to death.