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Evening star., 1926-12-09
JOHN D. ON WAY SOUTH
AS SNOW STOPS GOLF
"Too Weak to Talk" Says Mem.
Der of Party, Despite Recent
Activity in Business.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, December 9.-John d.
Rockefeller was on his way to Flor
Ida today for his annual Winter of
golf at Ormond Beach. The founder
of the Standard Oil Co. was accom-
panied by a retinue of Is. including
a physician, his housekeeper, friends
and servants. They left New York
on his private car "Mogart." attached
to the Havana special of the Atlantic
Coast Line. due at Ormond Beach
shortly after pm.
Mr.. Rockefeller's health has been
represented to be so good in spite Of
his 81 years that he has recently been
taking an active interest in the bust
ness from which he retired quarter
of a century ago. but when a report
er sought to interview him on the
way to the train he was stopped by a
member of the party, who said. Don't
you see he is too weak to talk?"
Mr.. Rockefeller has broken As for
nine holes frequently. His departure
is only few days after snow stopped
all golf hereabouts.
Evening star., 1926-12-09
Jamaica Hits Panama Ban.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December
@.-The Legislative Council passed
a resolution protesting against recent
legislation Of the Panaman govern
ment excluding Jamaican and other
West Indian negroes from Panama.
The protest Is being sent to the Brit.
ish government, and retaliation Is
threatened by the Jamaican govern.
ment
Evening star., 1926-12-09

The story is told Of Miss Gertrude
Ederle, the famous American swim
mer, that when she was returning
from Europe on the Berengaria she
was told to put on lifebelt for a ship
drill Miss Ederle asked the reason
and was told that it was merely to be
ready in case of shipwreck. Nothing
doing" she said, IF this ship Is wreck
ed the captain will have to cart his
old lifebelts ashore himself"
Evening star., 1926-12-09
Inventor Of Air Torpedo With Range
of 100 Miles Gets Fritz Gold Medal

Armistice. II that had not come we
would have had 10000 flying guns
which could have been sent into
enemy forces in no time"
Evening star., 1926-12-09

Raisins grown in the Dynia region
of Spain this year had total weight
of nearly $4,000 tons.
Evening star., 1926-12-09

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Evening star., 1926-12-09
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Evening star., 1926-02-04
BODY Of WOMAN
FOUND IN FURNACE
Police to Question Husband.
73. Arrested on Request
of Children.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa. FenruaT!
Burned almost beyond recognition, The
body Of Mrs. George Solomon, a year
old and the mother Of nine children
was found wedged in the furnace dooH
at her nome here last night. Her two
oldest sons asked police to take int
custody their 73-year-old father,
Solomon at first maintained that his
wife was away visiting friends, bur
finally asserted that she had beer
burned in adjusting the drafts.
No formal charges have been placed
against him, but the police planned 70
subject him 10 lengthy Interrogation
today.
Physicians said the mother died oI
asphyxiation from the furnace fumes
The face and shoulders We're Charred
Since noon yesterday. children told
the police. the father had answered
their inquiries regarding their moth
er's absence by telling them she was
at friends home. When the oldest
boys came home from work he told
them the same story
Nearly eight hours after the tim
the father fixed as that of his wife's
death, and when Maurice and Law
renee, the elder sons, were preparing
to leave home for the evening. Solo
mon called them and said he hau
something TO tell them.
He said their mother had gone intc
the basement about II o'clock to fiE
the furnace, but the drafts had not
been properly adjusted and a puff Of
flames enveloped her as she opened
the door and burned her 10 death.
Hurrying into the basement, the
boys found their mother, wedged into
the open door nearly TO the waist
When the father did not explain how
the body came to be in such d posi-
tion the sons called the police.
The children said their parents had
Quarreled lately. Younger sons said
when they came home from school a
noon for lunch their father told them
Mother is away"
The police said they were not salts
fed with Solomon's explanation ami
would place some charge against him
IL necessary to hold him for question
ing.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
BIRTHS SHOW HUGE
DECLINE IN BRITAIN
Heavy Taxation, insufficient Nu-
triton and Birth Control
Blamed.
BY HAL O'FIAHERTY.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
LONDON, February 4-Heavy tax
alton, insufficient nutrition and birth
control are held Jointly responsible
for the astounding fall in the birth
rate for England. Scotland and
Wales which is revealed IN figures
issued today by the registrar general.
During the last year the birth rate
dropped to 1873 per thousand Of popu-
lation, as compared with 1871 in
France. While the number of births
decreased, the number OF marriages
remains practically the same as be-
fore the war. indicating that the
number of children per marriage has
declined by one-fourth.
The Rev. James Marchant, secre-
tary' of the National Birth Rate Com
mission, declared today that the fall
ing birth rate had terribly adverse
effect upon the commerce and litera-
ture Of the nation, owing to the fact
that the decrease was occurring
among skilled workmen and profess
sional elements and in the educated
and wealthier sections of the COM
munity.
This, he feels, Is due to the crush
ing burden of taxation, the heavy cost
of education and late marriages. 1t
means, he declares. q preponderance
of births among the feeble minded,
the criminal and the unemployabIe,
with the consequent lowering of the
whole national life.
Societies which are interested in
England's social regeneration plan q
series of meetings to inquire into
the underlying causes. One organi-
zation declares that the lower birth
rate Is due to the lack of fertility in
duced by improper feeding, Jack of
nutrition and wrong living conditions
tCopyright, 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co. }
Evening star., 1926-02-04
Public Wants Melodrama and Comedy.
Not Sex Pictures, Cinema Men Think

motion pictures, the president explain
ed. is primary object
The distributing interests OF the as
sociatton are represented by 80 branch
offices in principal cities OF the com
try. Affiliated with the company
from the producing field are the Da-
vid Hartford Productions and allied
interests.
Aflliation of eight other indepe ndent
producers will be considered later by
the directors, Moeller said
Officers Of the association. in addi-
uon TO Moeller, are Joseph p. v Off
Detroit, vice president; Adam, J. Blake.
Detroit, secretary, and Edward Lesz-
czynski. Detroit, treasurer.
Executive Offices will be in Detroit.
with general Offices IN New York ard
an office In Los Angeles. The studio
OF the David Hartford Productions,
Inc, in Detroit, will be maintained,
but most of the pictures will be nade
In Hollywood
Evening star., 1926-02-04
ExTRADITION ASKED
IN GRAVE BREAKING
Return Of Broker From Florida
Sought-Body in Wrecked Car
Declared Stolen.
By the Associated Press.

oS the Associated frcs5.
BINGHAMTON. y. Y, February
4.-Extradition of Fred G. Beale,
broker, on n charge of violating q
grave in the Hancock Cemetery, for
which he has been indicted, Will be
asked OF Gov. Smith. Beale was ar
rested IN Miami, Fla, where, accord
ing to the police, he has been living
under the name Of G.. Q. Burton.
The former president of the Mo-
binco Brokerage Co. has been missing
since September rs, when his auto
mobile, wrecked and burned. was
found at the foot OF an embankment
near Hancock. A body, believed to
have been that OF the broker, was
found in the car, but police halted
funeral services when it was found
that the charred corpse was that OF
James H. Davis, dead six months.
The grave had been violated in the
cemetery close to the scene of the
accident.
District Attorney "A. Z. O'Connor
of Hobart will present Il formal ap-
plication for extradition, probably to-
morrow at Albany.
After Beales disappearance police
learned that he had collected $1,000
in Monticello and about month
earlier had taken out life insurance
policy for $4,000, with double In
denlnity in case Of accidental death.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
BIG BEN, HARVARD CLOCK,
PASSED OUT AFTER SPREE
Timepiece on Memorial Hall Tow
er Is in Disgrace for Actions
After Years Of Sobriety.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, February A.
Harvard's big Ben the clock in
the tower Of Memorial Hall, is in dis.
grace. The timepiece has gone on a
spree after years Of sobriety.
For three days Ben has been acting
queerly, but the crowning misbehav-
ior came yesterday. Horologist Wal
ford went up to see what was wrong.
He took along a bottle of something
or other, gave a little to the clock,
and straightway things began to hap
pen.
The hands leaped from 1145 to
1880, hesitated, and reeled to $50.
Here they abandoned the last vestige
of dignity and Charlestoned back and
forth between 500 and 4 o'clock.
Tired at last, Ben Topped to 1890 as
neighboring clocks sounded l, and
there the hands stuck.
Walford plans to let him sleep 1t
Off today. Then he'll resume the in
SASf1SNtjoSS.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
CHARGES OF SMUGGLING
STIR CANADIAN HOUSE
Committee Will Be Named to In
vestigate Alleged Official
Connivance
BY the Associated Press.


OTTAWA, Ontario, February T.
Charges that smuggling on large
scale from the United States across
the Canadian border has been going
on for some time with the knowl-
edge and connivance Of Canadian
government officials have become the
chief topic in the House of Com
mons.
The governments motion for ad-
journment of the House until March
Is was opposed stubbornly yester
day by the Conservative oppositions
which seeks a committee investiga-
ton into the charges.
II. II. Stevens. former minister of
trade and commerce in the Conserv-
ative administration. made the
charges Tuesday, and the minister
Of customs, G.. H. Boivin, has prom
ised to appoint a committee at once.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
Jail Spree, With
Music andDancins.
Destroys Evidence
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch 70 The Star
RICHMOND, Va, February -
Liquor seized by officers and placed
IN the Jail at Louisa Courthouse,
to be used as evidence, disappeared
several days ago.
Prisoners in some way got piece
Of wire and coaxed one OF the jugs
TO 4 point at which q tin cup could
be placed under the Jug as it was
tilted. The liquor gurgled out, and
the prisoners got drunk.
One OF them had 4 banjo and
supplied music for the spree.
Others danced. Now there is no
evidence against the bootleggers
scheduled for trial.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
Olympic Captain
Thawed From Suit
As Ship MakesPor

NEW YORK, February -
Sheeted with ice. the steamship
Olympic slipped through heavy
snowstorm 10 its pier last night, 80
feet Of It's upper deck rail. window
panes and lath screen of its navi-
eating bridge having gone over
board in the north Atlantic storm
which Sunday sent 45-foot head
seas crashing over il.
CapJ. William Marshall. its com
rnauder, after bringing IN his 9G1
passengers uninjured through the
storms thar delayed the Olympic
80 hours, retired TO his cabin.
Three stewards thawed his frozen
uniform. In which he had remained
for five days, before they could re-
move II.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
WIN CHILDREN'S THEATER,
Turkish Women's Union Victor in
Fight for Special Films.

CONSTANTINOPLE. February 4
P.-The Turkish Women's Union,
the first organization of its kind in
Moslem Asia, has just won a fight
for special motion pictures for chill.
dren. Through the influence of the
union the managers of all motion pic
ture houses in Constantinople have
agreed to cooperate in the building of
a special movie theater for children,
and after its completion children less
than 16 years old will be barred from
all other movie houses in the city.
Until this project is realized one
or the existing theaters will show spe-
cIal programs on certain days.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
PLAYS DOMINOES AT 100.
Centenarian to Continue 2O-Year
Contest on Birthday.

CENTRAL FALLS, r. L., February
4 @.-Leprelet NJ. Logee Will cele-
brate his one hundredth birthday to-
morrow by continuing his domino
tournament with Henry Gallagher.
The tournament has been in progress
for 20 years, during which they have
played $4,000 games. Gallagher has o
two-game lead, which his centenarian
rival hopes to wipe out on his birth
day. Logee was born at Burrillville,
became a textile operative at IL and
retired to play dominoes when II.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
CONVICTED OF FRAUD.
Four Found Guilty in Morosco
Company Case.

NEW YORK, February 4 P).-
Four men were convicted last night
of mail fraud in the sale Of Morosco
Holding Go. securities. They are
George X. Bentel. Benjamin Leven,
William c. Amos and George Dorr.
The Federal jury acquitted Albert
Blum of the same charge. 1ndict-
ments against two other defendants,
George Hynson and G.. H. Pierce,
were dismissed several weeks ago.
During the trial. which lasted more
than seven weeks, Oliver Morosco, as
Government witness, testified that
he lost his entire fortune in the COM
pany, which had been formed to pro
mote his theatrical projects. 1t was
charged that investors lost 50 900, 900
through the sale of stock.
Notice of intention to appeal was
given by counsel for Bentel, who was
formerly president of the company.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
Custom Not Wanted.

From the London Post.
The wee Scots lad was in the habit
Of entering the village bakers shop
and asking the proprietress there to
give him two ha'pennies for a penny.
This continual request so irritated the
lady behind the counter that one day
losing her temper, she scolded him
and told him not to return. The
young Highlander readjusted his bon
net on his head and said gravely:
''Michtyi It's a wunner tae me how
Ea kSap yer SNSt0
Evening star., 1926-02-04
MILLS MOURN WOOD.
Flags at Half-Staf in Model VIII
\ 1age Magnate Built.

SHAWSEEN VILLAGE, Mass, Feb
ruary 4 OP).-Flags of American Wool
en- Co. mills here and of all textile mills
In Andover and Lawrence are at half
staff for William M. Wood, former
president Of the company.
The body of Mr.. Wood, who COM
mitted suicide at Daytona Beach, Fla,
Tuesday. is being shipped to Andover
for burial in the West Parish Gene
terry Sunday.
This village Is the model community
which Wood built for his mill workers
at q cost Of S2O,000,000.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
CHECKS YEARS OLD FOUND
IN DEAD DOCTORS DESK
$1,000 in Cash and Paper Guarded
by Policeman at Home of
DR.. Bigelow.
By the Associated Press.

BY tle Associated Press.
LEOMINSTER, Mass, February
"A policeman today stood guard
at the desk of DR.. Charles E. Bigelow
widely known in this section for his
charity, because Of the discovery that
the desk contained $4,000 in cash and
undeposited checks.
DR.. Bigelow died Monday. Yester-
day his attorney opened the desk.
Many Of the checks, made out by
patients, were dated several years
ago.
The physician had a wide practice
among all classes. He had the repu-
tation of never sending a bill.
There are no immediate relatives.
The attorney who opened the desk
had drawn up will.
DR.. Bigelow, who was in his sew
enty second year, served as chairman
of the Leominster Board of Health
for years.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
Flattery to Him.

From the London Tit Bits.
Manager about to give clerk a lee
turel-Mr. Jones, of late your work
has been very perfunctory.
Clerk-Ive been working here for
three months now,>sir, and though
I've tried my best, that's the first bit
of praise have received since I came
here, Thank you. siEs
Evening star., 1926-02-04
1000, 900 AIRPORT SITE
SOUGHT BY EDSEL FORD
/ 1,OOO-Acre Purchase in Indiana
San nctioned-Seeks 400 More
at Chicago.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February Sale Of
900 acres in Hammond, Ind, to Ed
sci Ford for the probable site of a
Chicago airport and factory center,
has been sanctioned by Judge E. Miles
Morton in the Lake County, Ind, Cir
cult Court. Action looking to the pur-
chase of 400 acres more in Cook Coun-
ty (Chicago), adjoining the 1000, also
was taken.
At the same time a petition was
filed for permission to sell a narrow
tract to the Sinclair Pipeline Co., SO
that a direct oil line to the field may
be installed.
More than s1,0OO,OO0 is expected to
be the total involved in the purchases
Of the two tracts.
Evening star., 1926-02-04
RITES FOR MRS. WALTER.
Services Held for Native of Ger
many Who Died at Age of S5.

Walter, IS years old, who died at her
residence, 1928 Thirty-fourth street,
Monday, were conducted at Peck Me
mortal Chapel this> afternoon at 2
o'clock Rev. Irving W. Ketchum.
pastor of the chapel, officiated. In
terment was in Cedar Hill Cemetery
Born in Strasburg, Germany. Mrs
Walter came to this city in 1854 and
had lived here continuously since
that time. She is survived by one
son. John L. Walter: two daughters
Mrs. James +. Reynolds and Mrs
Elizabeth Wells: 20 grandchildren and
Il Sreat-STan6cbuaTen
Evening star., 1926-02-04
The Occult Sciences.
IN the Kansas City Times,

FTOnl Cut hdllSdB Clty IIuleS.
The name occult was given in the
middle ages to those sciences" that
were supposed to be subject Ito the ac-
ton or influence of hidden qualities or
supernatural powers, such as magic,
divination or fortune telling, NEGRO
nancy, alchemy and astrology. In
modern times the expression occult
sciences" has been applied TO ;lll forms
OF mysticism aud ss2iscis IAilps9Qhya
Evening star., 1926-02-04
BY the Associated Press.


DETROIT. Mich, February 4.-The
moviegoing public Is tired of sex"
pictures; 1t wants old-fashioned melo-
drama with plenty Of comedy relief
and the whole clean as a whistle"
This was the united opinion Of pro-
ducers, distributors and exhibitors
meeting here for the formation Of the
American Cinema Association, an or
ganization for handling pictures from
their inception to their exhibition.
One Of the reasons advanced for
the formation Of the new association,
as explained by A. J. Moeller of De-
troit. its president. is TO give exhib-
itors voice in the selection of ma
terial for screening.
Through the American Cinema or
ganiZat!on. its members hope to de-
fate film prices. Projection and ad-
vancement Of independence in the pro-
duction. distribution and exhibition Of
Evening star., 1926-02-04
Freedom by Installment.

Near Burma. India, there is still a
section where slavery exists, but a
move is under way to allow the slaves
there to buy their freedom. They will
be allowed to pay on the installment
plan. This is the only place in the
British empire where slavery of hu-
p3aQS StiU axiatS
Evening star., 1926-02-04
SINGERS ARE WANTED.
Augmented Chorus Planned for
"Lohengrin" by Washington Opera

Voice trials to select singers for a
greatly augmented chorus for the
opera "Lohengrin," which will be sung
March % by the Washington Opera
Company, are being held today and
tomorrow at 1914 G street by Edouard
Albion.
Mr.. Albion hopes to give the opera
as Wagner intended, which requires
the use Of a huge chorus. In some
parts of the opera four separate cho-
rusas are required. In particular, Mr.
aA1siYA MALLS Altos aud high teQoEA
Evening star., 1926-02-04
CENTRAL BOOSTS
ORATORY CONTEST
5000 Pupils at High School
Rally Inspired by Talk of
Director Leigh.

The weekly chapel exercises of the
rentral High School, held this morn
Eng in the school auditorium, assumed
ehe form OF an opening rally in the
snterest of the third national oratori-
raj contest and the first international
pra torical contest. The scope and pur
poses Of the movement and q full ex-
planation Of the details of this years
fontest, which Is again being sponsor
ed in the Washington district by The
Washington Star, were explained by
rhe principal, Prof. A. w. Miller, and
by Randolph Leigh. national director
Of the contest. Great interest was mani
rested on the part of the nearly 5000
pupils assembled and school authori-
ties generally predicted, as Il result
of the meeting, that the largest and
best representation 50 far in the CON
test would be registered this year.
Centrars EnviabIe Record.
Preliminary TO introducing MI.
Leigh, Prof. Miller referred to the
creditable record OF the school to
date in participating in this big an
nual event in the local high school
"alendar, recalling that the repre-
sentative OF Central had Won first
honors in the District finals In 1924
and tied for first place in the ma
rionaI finals Of that year, and that
last years Central champion gave q
most creditable account of himself.
Prof. Miller stressed the value of the
experience to be gained. whether con-
,teStants win or lose, and urged pu-
pills to enter the contest this year
with the full determination to bring
10 the school the honor of represent
ing the Washington district in the
national finals and OF representing
the United States in the meetings to
be held abroad, which will be climaxed
by the final international contest In
Washington on October Is, 1926. The
national finals Will be held in Wash
ington on June { and all seven Of
the national f1nalists viii be taken
on the European tour with all eX-
penses paid.
IN his remarks. MIR. Leigh stressed
the various features oil the enlarged
competition this year. emphasizing
The unusual attractiveness of the
prizes. Sketching the European tour,
Mr.. Leigh mentioned the fact that
the touring party, consisting of all
Of the tinalists, would visit and view
rhe Ieadt2g points OF historic and
general interest in France, Italy, Ger
many, Holland, Belgium and Eng
land. He touched on the educational
value of the tour, declaring 1t to be
a splendid cultural background for
subsequent college training.
Other Opportunities Stressed.
In closing, the speaker referred to
the fine openings afforded by the
contest in expressing school pride
as result of, the opportunity af-
forded ambitious pupils to gain valu-
able and intensive knowledge of the
Constitution of the United States and
of the great fundamentals of the
American Government. as well as the
opportunity Of winning recognition
III Il III tn -i1, lnn
Evening star., 1926-02-04

local national and international. En-
phasis was placed on the fact that
experience In conducting the contests
demonstrated the fact that previous
oratorical training was not neces-
sary to make a Creditable showing
or, in fact, in gaining the highest
honors in the competition.
In his closing remarks Prof. Miller
also called attention to the attractive
ness and value Of the awards this year
and to the obvious advantages to the
individual In the preparation and pres
entation of the orations on the Con
stiNItion.
Il wish every boy and girl in Cen
trail TO catch the spirit and meaning Of
this splendid competition" he said.
"and as many as possible to enter
these contests. Win or lose, the effort
and the experience are we'll worth
u hile -