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The Washington times., 1926-08-31
ROWLING AROUND TIE RADIO DIALS
REST PROSPECTS

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Spanish ana Hawaiian, New York.
20" Great Moments from.
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d. Iia.--SalOn Concert, New
York: WEAF, WEI; WEI, WCAn.
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The Washington times., 1926-08-31
TouRnl sMENT AND BALL
scHEnlIL Ep Al. OXEN Hill

Charming women and stunning
attire will be de rigeur today when
st. Barnabas Church gives its
seventeenth annual dress tourna-
ment and ball at Oxon Hill. Nd.
Riding, baseball and q chicken
dinner win be among the features
of the day. A queen and her three
maids Of honor viii be crowned:
the Night Hawk orchestra will
play. The ball game, between the
Clinton and Groom mines. will start
at 2:3O D. M. Alan Bowie viii be
orator Of the day: Leroy Pumphreyr
orator OF the evening. Owen Moore
is chairman Of the tournament com.
mitfee.
The Washington times., 1926-08-31
SUNNE RSEASON.
ENDS IN AIR

None but the loud stayed in
Che air Iasf night-f0r power was
necessary hehihd the volume Of
proerafil tone to get Through tlle
cracking grinding atmospheric
disturbances Fort Worth, AZ
Ianta, Minneapolis and Des M0iIles
were again the bracket points Of
the receiving area-but they
mean little because the static
noises held down all hut the most
powerful stations.
The Washington times., 1926-08-31

negro orchestra, win ~ IT. Ntnlf
from IFEAF Tor half ezen St.
lions 1t O'Clock ana st the same
hour WRNY win present John
Barnes Wells Ia q series 0f irish
The Washington times., 1926-08-31
Earthquake Shakes Greece

ATHENS, Aug. 3I.-Many build
ineg In Athens were seriously dam
aged and havoc wrought through.
out Thessaly and Pelopunesus by
the eafthuuate Monday. It became
known today No lives were lost.
The Washington times., 1926-08-31

why men will leave home! Be-
cause they've won q Times free
ring-side seat 90 the "Sesqui-
Dempsey anneyD bout, Septem-
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The Washington times., 1926-08-31
SUMMER SEASON
ENDS IN AIR

The ides OF September are upon
us and radio program delivery is
IN a state OF. lux. with the sum.
mer schedules failing off into
nothineness and the winter ideas
not yet entirely settled. Hence
last evening was productive Of but
average entertainment for the liv-
ing room Ioud-speakers
In washington the distinctive fea-
ture Of the evening was the return
Of the Mozart String Quintet to
the AIR via WEc with an interesting
program. This subsidy Of real es-
tating has opportunity to do quite
4 lot OF things that are entertain
ing and mel0dious. df it viii get
over the idea that music Is solemn
and needs must be. played slowly.
The concert last evening indi-
Gated that the transfer TO WRC
from WCAP has given It g bit
more life and virn-but there Is
still room for Improvement. The
presentation OF its Cadn1sn and.
TschaIkomaIy numbers was very
wen done.
COFFEE INDUSTRY
VARIES PROGRAM
The opening feature Of the WRc
pr0afam last evening was the con.
cert Of the u = S. Navy sBand al
the Capitol Plaza the 0Iltst An lne
event OF which was the work OF
the cofnet soloist and his clear
top notes. Then came the Rocky
Mountain talk by DR.. Mansfield and
the coffee industry's weekly contri-
button song and instrumental en-.
deaVor from VIZ. The Maxwell
House ensemble has one of the
most varied assortments Of musical
wares that vIbrate the loud-speak-
ers, but not Of them stood out very
prominently last evening.
ssMfgnon was the offering OF
the Cesare Sodero grand opera
legions from WEAF, this being the
second time this opera mbroise
Thomas composed TO fit the Goethe
poem, wilhelm Meister," has been
presented to radio listeners. The
second helping wasn't so good as
tha first, for some reason or otl1lr.
There wasn't any particular thi &
lacking about TIE perform
Just seemed to Be on 8 dead level.
Outside programs did not register
very clear because Of the noise.
Cleveland came through with 4
excellent dance program from
WTAM late in the evening and
WSAI, Cincinnati, had a variety Of
music throughout the broadcast
period. Des Moines was also q late
conner from WHO with an assert
ment Of melody and dance tunes.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
MOVIE ACTRESS.
SAYS RICH M AN.
WANTED TO WE'D.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2 tP-The love
OF John H. Hubbard, wealthy Pitts
burgh shovel manufacturer, cooled
during an absence of four months III
California when she was engaged in
motion picture work, Miss Anne Cald-
well, New York musical revue girl
told a federal court jury today in
supporting her $500,00O breach of
promise suit against him.
Previously, Miss Caldwell said.
Hubbard had made ardent love to
her following their engagement ir
Atlantic CITY in 1922, maintained an
apartment for her in New York anc
sent her TO a school of expression
there to educate herself to become
his wife. She testified he paid the
hills and in addition gave her a num-.
her of gifts of jewelry, including an
engagement ring, and presented her
to socially prominent friends as his
intended wife.
Included in the Jewelry, she said.
was a string of pearls which We're
mot real
Miss Caldwell wept several times
as she told her story and once retired
to the chambers of Judge w. H. S.
THOMSON, presiding at the suit TO
recover her composure. She lost con-
troll of her emotions when, in descrIo~
ing her relation with Hubbard, She
said she Insisted that he marry her
tut that he refused, saying it "wouic
he a disgrace"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
Woman WiH Try SuUim
to Catalina Clad In Suit
OF Black Axle Grease

f. NEW york, Dee. "A coat
ing of black axle grease, ns the
l only .'hathing suit" OF Mrs. Char
Iotte Moore SchOemmell, of New
York in the $25,OOO marathon
swim from Catalina island 10
California january Is. has, beer.
approved by the rules committee
OF the event, the swimmer an
nonnced through her manager,
George NIaines.
Mrs. SchOenlmell, who holds
several long distance records in
e;lsterT waterways, said she saw
nO ''immOdeSty" In competing
without the regulation bathing.
costume. 1t has been described
as ''disGraceful,' however, by Mrs.
CleminstOn COrsOh. first mother to
swim the English channel, who
has been quoted as threatening to
withdraw from the 2S-miIe com.
petitioE If Mrs. SchOemmen com.
reted under Such conditions.
Mrs. SchOemmelI said she wOuIe
spread ten Pounds of grease over
her. body. She claimed she wOuso
be more amply clad than most az
the other contestants.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
MISSING GIRL S
BODY LOCATED;
YOUTH IS GONE

PRAIRIE DU CHEN, Wis, Dec g.
! (P)-A crude and hastily made grave
today yielded the body of Clara Olson
l22 year old farmers daughter, fol-
whom more than 1000 men initiated a
search here following several weeks
unsuccessful efforts to locate the girl
and her college boy sweetheart, Erd-
man Olson.
The body was accidentally discov-
cred when one of the searchers STUN
bled into clump ofN brush and his
heavy shoe dragged in a mound of
fresh earth barely covering the par
TALLY clothed body. No marks of vio-
lence were found. The cause of death
was not indicated, and while efforts
were made to locate the Olson boy, a
coroner prepared for an inquest to-
morrow, al, which a state pathologist
will take an active part.
Erdman Olson, Is, son of Albert Oh
son, a wealthy tobacco planter, re-
sided but short distance from the
spot where the body was found. The
two families are not related. Erdman
Olson disappeared II days after his
sweetheart dropped from sight. He
was charged with her murder in a
warrant sworn by her father before
the body was found.
Erdman is believed by some to have
taken his own life since his disappear
ance on September 81 from Gale college
at Galesville, and thought by others to
be in hiding.
Almost three months ago the girl
left her home as her parents slept
Erdman, at home at the time, subse-
quently was missing for several days
Then he returned to college, but on
September 81 he left again, telling his
professors he was going to Lacrosse
! for an aptration on his throat"
The girl was known to her parents
to be expecting a child, and her father
had urged Erdman to marry her and
come and live under his roof.
For two months and more the girls
! disappearance and the boys behavior
were matters of only casual neighbor-
hood gossip. A few days ago the girls
| father, however, expressed the belief
that she was dead and persuaded au-
| thorities 20 take the unusual course of
charging Erdman Olson with the girls
murder before it was known that she
was no longer alive.
Albert Olson, father of the youth
had maintained that The girl would be
found alive and that his son would be
vindicated. He had spent money freely
in the education of his son and had OBJ
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
RIFT IN HOME
OF CHAPLINS S
is PERMANENT

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 R1-Charles
Chaplin, film comedian, today denied
charges that he had ill-treated his
young wife, Lita Grey Chaplin, ana
declared that she left him when he
objected to drinking party in his
home.
81 have never ill-treated my wife.
7 have done everything l could to
make my home a happy one, bu. it
seems impossible" the actor stated
in an interview given at his Beverly
Hills mansion
'In her story of our separation my
wife referred to an incident last
Monday night. 1t was this: I OBJ
jec.ed to a noisy drinking party of
men and women who came to my
home at minutes past o'clock in
the morning while [ was asleep and
reused the entire household, in
Guiding the nurse and the baby
Chaplin explained.
"Wen," he continued, when I
heard the piano, organ and victrola
all going at once, it got the best
and told her to get the people out
a once. she did this and the next
day she left"
Mrs. Chaplin, who took her TWO
children and went to the home of
her grandparents, explained yester-
day that she and her mother. Mrs
Lillian Spicer, were entertaining a
party of friends in The Chaplin home
when she and her famous husband
quarreled The guests included Baron
and Baroness Mile De Precourt, ship
acquaintances which they had made
on their recent return voyage from
Honolulu.
The charge that Chaplin had ILL
treated his wife was made by VIII
liam f. Curry, Mrs. Chaplin's grand
father
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
DOUGLAS SAYS S. P.
is NOT INVOLVED In
PHOENIX RATE CASE

The hearing being held before the
interstate commerce commission at
Phoenix on refrigeration rates, in
which charges of failure to keep
their promises were made against
certain high officials of the South
ern Pacific company ny II. B. VIII
kinson, president of the Phoenix Main
Line association, does not concern
the Southern Pacific Railway com.
pany, according to a statement made
by Walter Douglas, president of the
Phelps Dodge corporation and di"
n ctor Of the Southern Pacific, to q
D.snH tch reporter here Thursday
night.
"The hearing is not on railroad
rates, but refrigerati n rates." Doug.
las stated. 1T does not cnocern the
railway company, except that at;or
neys for the Southern Pacific com
pany are representing the refrIger
ator company operating over the
Southern Pacific lines at the hearing
Counsel fer the Santa Fe railway
is representing the refrigerator com
panies in the same manner" Doug
las stated that he preferred to make
no statement concerning the charges
Of failure to keep their promises
made against himself, President
Srroule and Vice President Shoup, OF
tie Southern Pacific company.
Accompanied by A. e. Sweet, gen
eral manager; L. u Morris, super
intendent, and other officials of the
Southern Pacific, Douglas arrived in
this city Thur sday morning from
Yuma, where they have been making
general inspection trip. They wer,
travelling by special train ana eX-
rected to leave for Clifton and Nor
enci Thursday night.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
DEFENSE Opens
FIGHT TO CLEAR
ALBERT B. FALL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (P0.--Defense
counsel today began their effort to
clear Albert Il. Fall, former secretary
Of the interior, and Edward L. Do
henH, California oil magnate, OF
criminal conspiracy charges growing
cut of the leasing of the Elk Hills,
Calf, naval oil reserve in 1922
In an all day examination or Or.
Fl. Foster Balm, director of the in
terror departments bureau of mines
unGer Secretary Fall, Frank J Hogan,
chief of defense counsel, centered his
fire upon the governments conten-
tion that Fall personally favored
Dohenys Pan-American Petroleum
and Transport company in negotia-
tions which eliminated in three naval
reserve awards to Doheny interests.
The government rested today after
introducing in evidence through the
senate oil committees record an
other reference to the 100000 loan
by Doheny to Fall on November
80, 1921.
Balm testified Fall manifested nc
more interest in the Elk Hills nego
tiations than he mad shown in pre-
vious leasing proposals which did
not involve Doheny interests. The
secretary was out of Washington
most of the time the proJecv was
before the department, the witness
said
In support of the defense conten-
ton that the navy departments in
terest in the oil reserves and the
consequent contact of naval officers
10 oil
possibility of collusion between Fall
and Doheny. Hogan drew from Dr
Baina detailed account of the con-
versations between navy and interior
/ Officials before the Doheny contracts
were concluded.
Copies of letters from the Pan
American company to interior de-
psrtment subor1inates were sent to
Admiral j. K. Robinson, chief of this
navy bureau of engineering, as early
as February 1, 1922, go days before
the first award to the Doheny organ"
ization.
Balm told the juorors Fall author,
lied him and Assistant Secretary
Finney of the interior department to
handle the negotiations and that the
bids for the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
oil storage plant, for which the Pan
American was the successful bidder,
were never discussed with Fall. The
secretary he said, was in New Mex
ice when the bids were opened in the
interior department April Is, 1922, and
did not return TO zile capital until
after the contract had been awarded,
April 25.
Balm personally submitted specifi-
cations on the Pearl Harbor project
to five oil companies and three con"
tracing organizations, he testified,
in the same manner in which he pre-
sented them to PanAmerican rep
resentatives. The specifications orig
mated in the war plans division of
the navy department and were kept
secret, the witness explained, on ao'
vices from Assistant Secretary Roose-
welt that national defense plans were
involved.
In a Commute cross examination
Owen G. Roberts, of government
counsel, drew from Balm state
ment that Fall had remarked on
October 25, 1921, 40 days before the
, navy had submitted specifications or.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
MEXICO EASES UP ON OIL, LAND LAWS
TOMBSTONE is
BIG FACTOR In
COCKBURN Case

BOSTON, Dec. Q [P-The founda-
ton on which Mrs. Carlotta cockburn,
Of San Gabriel, Calf, hopes to build
proof tha. she is the niece of the
late Lolita Crabtree, popular actress
of another day, was laid by her
counsel in Suffolk proba.e court here
today
The special administrations of the
estate, which included a $2,OOo,000
trust fund for veterans of the World
war or their dependents, have asked
the court 20 find that Mrs. Cockburn
is neither kin nor heir at law and
hence unqualified to maintain action
against the will which was offered
for probate on the actress death in
1924.
Mrs. Cockburn, however, claims
thai she is the daughter of John A.
(Jack) Crabtree the family "black
sheep" who was too sporty" for his
famous sis.er. She claims that Jack
married in San Francisco, that the
record was destroyed in the fire
which followed the 1906 earthquake,
and that. she was born in Tombstone.
Ariz., and adopted by Ed Bullock, her
IdlHeE puE(u6E III the LIVELY DuSI-
ness.
No witnesses were heard today buc
more than a score of depositions
were offered Two San Francisco
officials stated that all marriage
records We're destroyed in the great
fire. Nearly a dozen depostions
concerned deeds recorded in Tomb
stone in 1881 and 1882 tending to
show that John A. Crabtree was a
resident there and had financial deal
ings with Bullock whose first name
was said to be Elizemond although
he habitually shortened it to Ed.
deposition by Robert A. Lewis,
81, of San Francisco, who claimed to
be the fifteenth man in Tombstone,
set forth that he had seen both
Lotta and Jack Crabtree in San
Francisco in the seventies when.
Lolita was known as the "songbird
of California
In 1881, he said that he saw Jack
in Tombstone with his wife and lit
tie baby. He deposed that Jack told
him he was a brother of Lotta but
that "the family look on me as Il
black sheep; I'm too sporty
LHe uedlH ceIllllcdle OI DoHH
Crabtree which said he was wild
over, was introduced. He died in
Charleston, S. c., in 1920.
Mrs. Cockburn, whose name is pro-
rcunced as if it was spelled Coburn.
was in court today. She is a tall,
slender, gray haired woman in her
forties
Judge Frederic H. Chase, of the
counsel for the administrators. of the
estate, indicated the course he would
pursue when he told the court he
would question the general respec-
tibility of the town of Tombstone in
the early eighties, together with the
manner of life there and the rela-
tions between men and women. He
said that he would also attack the
credibility of certain witnesses.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
RADIO BILLS
PLANNED BY
LEG|SL AT0RS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2
(AP) Senators and rep
resentatives evidently spent
many an evening at home
during the summer and
fall tinkering with ear
phones and getting nothing
but static, for today they
seemed to thrust taxes,
farm relief and alien prop
erty programs into their
desks until the millions of
listeners-in could obtain a
better hearing.
Within the brief space Of "a hours
radio, that new born entertainer so
soon deserted by it's federal guard
ians after discovery that no law
existed providing even for a foster
parent, has been ushered to the front
N legislative halls with promise OF
carly action to smooth out the differ
erces as between independent control
and regulation from within the COM
nerce department.
After visit to the White House.
Representatives Scott. of Michigan
White, of Maine, chairman and
ranking republican member. respec'
lively of the house committee thai
considers radio legislation, expressed
hope of an agreement being reached
on radio bill at the approaching
session. .si.ssl..4. .-.se
President Coolidge was represented
as being iasirous OF some settlement
of the present chaotic situation anc
to this and both Scott and White
we're confident the house member
ship would strive.
At the senate end of the capito.,
steps also were taken by group
OF representatives of the radio In
6ustry, headed by Walter A. Strong,
CT Chicago, chairman of the radio
co-ordinating committee of the indus
try. This group likewise expressed
hope of solving the situation and is
prepared to present a recommends
tion for ways and means of CON
trolling the ether.
Inc llISI 1iiONOH AOOiNA4Aeo
ment of the radio situation mus'
come from conferees appointed re-
spectively by the house and senate
to smooth out differences between
the White bill sponsored by the
house and the Dill measure enacted
by the senate.
From the first meeting of the con-
terence group last spring only statle
has issued from Their sessions. The
senate has held out for, placing con
troll of radio in the hands of an
Independent commission, while the
house has sought to, put the major
portion of control in tnei department
Of commerce.
Scott indicated today that while
the house conferees would not give
in on the general principles of the
house idea, they might compromise
on plan that would give an inde-
,ehdent commission authority to
prescribe rules but leave administra-
tion of such rules left in the com
merce department.
Scott believes that resolution
drafted by Chairman White for tenn
porary control, pending enactment
Of permanent legislation, should be
held up until the conference grouG
further discussed the situation.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
VETS AND DRYS BOTH
POINT TO VICTORY"
In ONTARIO ELECTION

WASHINGTON, Dec. R.-Wets
and drys in the capital turned to-
night 70 the Canadian elections for
their latest vehicle upon which to
transport their views.
Senator Edwards, democrat, New
Jersey a wet leader, saw N the
Ontario vote for liquor sales by gov
eminent permit an added impetus for
the American anti prohibItionists
drive for sane wine, beer and liquor
legislation, While Wayne b. Wheeler
of the Anti-Saloon league, declared
that while the "wets guessed right
in their plan to put across a wet
program he believed 'Ontario will
again so dry because the majority OF
the electors are in favor of the dry
province"
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-03
MANY POINTS
N Df$P UTE
ERADEcAEED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2
(AP) - The Mexican en-
bassy tossed a new factor
into the whirlpool of the
dispute over Mexican land
and oil laws today which
left state department offic-
ials completely at sea as to
what it portends.
On its face the embassy
announcement, HI ad e d
'plain fact sconcerning the
Mexican oil laws" seems
to wipe out many of the
points in dispute which
bruoght American Mexican
relations to an admittedly
critical deadlock on appli-
cation of the new laws to
American oil and mining
companies in Mexico. It
asserts the intention Of the
Mexico City government to
apply it's new laws and reg
ulatiOns, when thew become
effective in january, ''pre-
ferentially so far as foreign
companies are concerned
without confiscatory retro
active enforcement Of pro-
visions of. the Mexican con-
stitutional nation a lizin G
natural resources.
Because of the informal character
of this supplement to the formal
diplomatic correspondence already
published, state department officials
would make no comment. 1t TOOK
them by surprise and was promptly
subjected to close study. Whether it
foreshadows resumption of the for
nal discussion and escape from the
crisis which might have resulted if
the new laws and regulations had
been enforced to the letter against
American companies could not be
learned.
Specifically, the embassy statement
says of foreign rights acquired
through exploitation work begun
prior to May 1, 1917, the date on
which the new constitution went into
effect. that they will be confirmed
through governmental concessions on
application within one year from
December 81, 1925.
"The concessions through which
the government will confirm the
rights of foreign companies will
have exactly the same duration as
the original rights, being either for
the entire life of. the company, or
for the time provided in the con-
tracts on which those rights arv
based" the statement continues. "The
government has declared that in
cases in which interests of foreigners
are involved, the alien land law and
its regulations shall be applied pre-
ferentially."
Limitation of these concessions to
a 50-year term was major issue in
the official correspondence, yet the
embassy statement next states that
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