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Evening star., 1926-02-02

The all mail service, pioneer IN
commercial aviation in the United
States and world trail blazer in the
art Of night flying, Is on the eve OF
an expansion which will benefit a
large portion of the country.
Within the next few months air
mail service will be provided for two
score more cities. with Indirect benefit
to other places in a wide eXpanSe OF
territory. This progressive step has
been taken under the law passed last
year permitting the Postmaster Gen
eral TO contract with commercial avia-
ton enterprise for the carrying OF
the mails through the air.
Dozen Contracts Let.
Contracts have been let or have
been advertised for a dozen routes.
The first to begin service will be the
Chicago-Detrpit and the Cleveland,
Detroit routes on February Is, and
by April a majority Of these routes
are expected to be in operation.
Postmaster General New and Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General w.
Irving Clover, who has direct super
vision of the Air Mail Service, are en-
thNsiastic over the prospects of the
new air mail routes.
The first air mail service was initi-
ated in 1913 between New York and
Washington. A through service be-
tween New York and San Francisco
was begun July l, 1924, and an over
night service between New York and
Chicago has been in operation since
July /, 1925.
Air mail pilots have flown more
than 10000, 900 miles since establish
ment of the service. During last year
2,501,555 miles were flown. With the
new air mail contract routes now
proposed, mail pilots, 1t is estimated,
will fly a total of 4,015,s04 miles
yearly.
New Services Listed.
The new services with the yearly
mileage include contract routes be-
tween:
Boston and New York via Hartford,
117,504 miles. Chicago apd st. Paul
Minneapolis via Milwaukee and La
Crosse, 230,724 miles. Chicago and
Dallas-Fort Worth via Moline, st.
Joseph, Kansas City, Wichita. and
Oklahoma City, 6O4,O44. Chicago and
st. Louis VIA Peoria. and Springfield,
ILL.,. 170.136. E,lko, New, and Pasco,
Wash. via Boise, idaho, 2S6.22O. Salt
Lake City and Los Angeles via Las
Vegas, New, 367 200. Seattle and Los
Angeles via Portland, Medford, Sac
ramento, San Francisco, Fresno and
Bakersfield, 6S6,052. Detroit and Chi
cago, 145,044. Detroit and Cleveland,
55,692. Chicago and Birmingham,
Ala, via Indianapolis. Louisville and
Nashville, S.S28. Chicago and New
Orleans via ST. Louis, Memphis and
Jackson, Miss, 532,440. Atlanta and
Miami via jacksonville and Tampa,
406,36S. Seattle and Victoria, British
Columbia, 20,S32. New Orleans and
P1lottown, La, 14,720.
Other services of the air mail under
operation by the Government are
between:
New York and Frisco.
New York and San Francisco via
Bellefonte, Cleveland, Bryan, Chicago
Iowa City, Des Mofnes, Omaha, North
Platte, Cheyenne, Rawlins, Rock
Springs, Salt Lake City, Elko, Reno
and Sacramento; transcontinental
service ,945 ,45o miles yearly.
NGM YQGk and Chicago. via Rssla
Evening star., 1926-02-02
Winter Base Ball
Played in Alaska
Amid Green Lawns
By the Associated Press.


JUNEAU, Alaska. February -
With a warm sun shining, the
first Midwinter base ball game seen
in Alaska was played here Sunday.
Weather for the contest was
more suitable than usually attends
the opening of the local league in
the middle Of May. More games
Will be played if the warm weather
continues.
There is hardly any wind and
snow IS seen only above the tim
ber line on the higher mountains.
Lawns are green and bluebcrry and
salmon berry bushes are budding.
Timothy blossoms were brought
here from a nearby sheltered bay.
Dandelions are blooming at Doug
las and strawberry blooms arc re-
ported at Sitka, towns III south
eastern Alaska.
Evening star., 1926-02-02
FRANCE DESIRES
DEBT PACT CHANGE
Britain to Be Asked 10
Tighten Burden in Two
Respects.

PARIS, February 2.-Thc French
government seeks to have the pro
visional Caillaux-Churchill debt agree
ment with Great Britain revised in
two fundamental respects, 1t is under
stood, before inStructing Ambassador
Berenger to proceed with the debt
funding negotiations at Washington.
1t desires Great Britain to renounce
her insistence that payments made TO
her by France shall be propcrtionate
to those made by France to America.
1t also desires that she withdraw her
demand that payments from her debt
ors. either former enemies or allies,
shall be on q scale sufficient to meet
the British payments to the United
States.
ItaIy's Treatment Cited.
Finance Minister Doumer, who is
France shall have the same treat
ment as Italy regarding the gold de-
posted against the war debt with the
Bank of England. Italy, under the
agreement recently reached is to have
her gold deposit returned, and France
asks the restitution of the % ,000,0 900
gold francs which she placed in Lon
don.
French experts will endeavor to re-
duCe the annu1tleS arranged Dy NJ.
Caillaux, former finance minister,
from fI2.500 900 TO $4,000 or at
most 1880 900. The British treasury
is described as giving no encourage
ment to these proposals.
The tentative agreement reached
between NJ. CaillauX, then French
finance minister, and Chancellor of
the Exchequer Churchill last August
provides for 60 annual payments Of
f12, 800, 900: with partial moratorium
until 1880.
Conditional on L. 5. Funding.
The agreement was made condition
al by the British upon the funding OF
the French debt to the United States
on the same terms. NJ. CaillauX was
unsuccessful in his subsequent ne
gotiatiOnS in Washington.
The above dispatch indicates that
the French government seeks both
to scale down its payments to Eng
land and to divorce the F'ranco-Brit-
ish settlement entirely from that to
be made by France with the United
States.
Evening star., 1926-02-02
Citizens Postpone Meeting.

The meeting of the Trinidad Citi-
zens' Association, scheduled for to-
night. has been postponed until March
2 because of the desire Of members
to attend the celebration arranged for
the opening tonight Of the fire engine
house at 18th street and Florida ave-
nue. northeast. Announcement Of the
change was made by DR.. Robert Nc
Cullough. president. who is chairman
ot the arrangements committee for
the ilr"hoHse eslsbEali2l md Qaraaalee.
Evening star., 1926-02-02
FILES SUIT FOR $3.50, 900.
Wealthy Man Charges Conspiracy
to Alternate Wife.

NEW YORK. February CP).-A
$250,000 alienation suit has been filed
by Cameron L. Wylie. wealthy adver-
tising man, against Lieut.. Roger S.
Ransehausen. Z. S. N, Of San Mateo,
Calf, and Mr.. Wylie's mother-in-law,
Mrs. Sadie l.. Hart. it became known
yesterday when Mrs. Hart filed pa
pers to Quash service of a summons
and complaint against her.
Wylie's >complaint charges that
Mrs. Hart and Lieut.. Ransehausen
conspired together to ALLEVIATE the af-
fection of his wife Mrs Constance
GagQIy1 NYllA.
Evening star., 1926-02-02
OPPOSITION TO PREMIER.
Once Defeated, Again Will Have to
Contest for Parliament.

PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan,
February 2 R).-Premier w. l.. Mac
Kenzie King, who was defeated in
North York constituency in the gen.
eral election last October, will be op-
posed by Capt. D. l.. Burgess, an in
dependent candidate, in the Prince
Albert bye-election, to be held Febru.
ary 1. Shortly before nominations
closed yesterday Mr.. Burgess papers
were fled
The Prince Albert bye-election was
caused by the resignation of Liberal
Member Charles Macdonald, who re-
tired in favor of the premier, who
could not appear in Parliament with
out sat.
Evening star., 1926-02-02
CONVICT CLAIMS
S6,0D0,ODOE
Inmate of Marquette Prison
Files WiII to Be That of
Rich ReCIuse.
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO. February "a uew
claimant to the $4,000 900 estate of
Edwin 3. Jennings, wealthy recluse,
who died in 1923, was revealed yes.
terday, when Edward Koester of
Grand Rapids. Mich, filed q will In
the Probate Court, which. he said.
Was signed by Jennings and which
gave the entire estate to Koester. 1t
was dated October 3, 1918.
The will is signed by three persons
and leaves all the estate to Koester,
who is termed my dear friend" and
appoints the Northern Trust Co. of
Chicago as trustee. Koester, attor-
neys said, has located two of the
witnesses to the Will.
One will, which was badly mutt
lated and which left much of the es-
tate TO educational purposes, was
thrown out because the attesting wit
nesses' names We're not decipherable.
Then a number of distant relatives
Is still pending.
Inmate Of Prison.
MARQUETTE, Mich, February .
lP.-Edward c. koester, inmate of
the Marquette branch prison, who
yesterday filed q will In Chicago pur-
porting to be that of Edwin =. Jen-
nings, wealthy eccentric. Chicagoan,
and which directs that the entire Jen-
ntngs estate be given to Koester, said
yesterday that Jennings made the will
in Chicago on October 8, 1918, in the
presence of three witnesses.
Il was not present when Jennings
made the will" said koester, "but I
was with Mr.. l&nnings a few minutes
before the wiz was made and Joined
him again a short time later. The
Will was made in the Victoria Hotel
in Chicago and the witnesses were
Miss Mary Stahl, public stenographer
employed in the hotel at that time;
William Lawrence, whose address I
do not know, but who lives in Chi
cago, and Lester Ensign of Grand
Rapids, Mich.''
Found Will i'm Book.
Rooster says his mother was Il sis
ter of Edwin r. Jennings wife
Rooster declares that he knew his
mother had q copy of the Jennings
will, but did not know what its con-
tents We're and never saw the will
until some time after his mother died
three years ago. lie says his sister,
who lives in Toledo, found the will in
a book which belonged to his mother
and sent it to him. Koester says his
case Is being handled by Chicago
law firm. Last night he was busy
preparing a full statement of his
claims in connection with the will.
This statement will be forwarded to
the Chicago attorneys today, he said.
koester IS 40 years old and is said
to be in extremely poor health. He
was sentenced in 1925 to the Mar
quette prison from Detroit to serve
from to IA years for forgery. Ac-
cording to records in the prison he
served a term in the Michigan re-
before coming to Michigan and also
also served term in the Michigan
formatory in Ionia.
Evening star., 1926-02-02
WATER PLANS EXPLAINED,
Arlington County Project Laid Be
fore Civic Federation.
Special Dispdtnb TO The star.


CLARENDON, Va, February .
The Arlington County Civic Fedora.
tIon, which initiated the movement for
modern water supply system for
arlington County resulting in the
reation of the Arlington County
W ater Supply Commission and com
prehensive plans for the water by the
after organization, will have the en-
IKE project as far as it has developed
Splalned to it at its regular meeting
Il the courthouse tonight. The com
mission has delegated Asa Z. Phillips,
IT'S consulting engineer, to tell of the
plans and explain the status of con-
sresslonal legislation which Is neces-
>ary to allow the county to draw on
the supply of the Federal Government
1t the Dalecarlia Reservoir and the
District of Columbia supply. II. c.
Saffell, chairman Of the commission.
md r.. Is. Moore. engineer Of the
Maryland SANITARY Commission arc
,Iso announced TO speak.
Evening star., 1926-02-02
Commission Asks
ClosinggNon-Payingg
British Coal Mines
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, February =. - The
Westminster Gazette prints a fore
cast of the coal commission re-
port, according to which the rec
concentrations will include the
grouping Of mines somewhat after
the manner already done with the
railways, and the closing down of
Improbable pits. Such grouping
is said to be essential for the salts
factory reorganization of the in
dustry.
While longer hours and lower
wages are not advocated, the COM
mission considers that lower wages
may be possible. which In the long
run would give the men equal pay
with their present earnings.
Evening star., 1926-02-02
Fall Injuries Fatal to Woman
,ecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, February 2.-Coln-
plications which followed q fall il
which she fractured limb several
weeks ago proved fatal to Mrs. Annie
K. Reilly, wife of o. 7. Reilly OF
Sharpsburg, who died in the Wash
iRgtQp COUNTY. Hospital here
Evening star., 1926-02-02

Lime salts with which the famous
Amati violins are stained are the
cause of the Instruments rich tones,
is the latest theory Of German manu-
faGtuEeIS.
Evening star., 1926-02-02

Weather records were broken dur
ing the recent cold spell in England
when the aerometer at the meter"foSi-
sal slpuop al Q2I4r MAS JclzsQ.
Evening star., 1926-02-02
New York and Frisco.

New York and San Francisco via
Bellefonte, Cleveland, Bryan, Chicago.
Iowa City, Des Moines, Omaha, North
Platte, Cheyenne, Rawlins, Rock
Springs, Salt Lake City, Elko, Reno
and Sacramento; transcontinental
service, 1916 ,45o miles yearly.
NGW YQrk and Chicago. via Bella,
Evening star., 1926-05-09
TOlUeIs and
Touching
At Interesting Savings

Turkish Towels, heavy double
thread grade, extra large size.
with pink, blue or gold borders.
Sold regularly at 76c AOC
each ..................
20x40 Double-tliread Turkish
Towels, heavy, absorbent weave,
with neat fast-color red
borders. Regularly 40c COC
each
Turkish Wash Cloths, close
woven, absorbent grade, with as
sorted color borders. 15c 70c
and 19c grades, at....... NV
1886 Henfnned Huck Towels,
soft-finish, Quick.drying kind, in
all-white or with red bor- To-
ders. Former zoe grade. at AOO
12Izc Henmed Huck Towels,
fast-color blue borders. absorbent
grade for hand or side o.
towels. Each .........,..
All-Linen Check Glass Towel
ing, a grade that will not lint;
red or blue checks. Sold 70c
regularly at csc yard.
Goldenberg's-First Floor.
Charge Accounts Invited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-17
COMMUNITY FUND
SPEAKERS MEET
Chairman Asks for Hearing
by All Citizens.

Rev. Floyd Van Keuren, rector of
Christ Church, president at a lunch
con for Community Fund campaign
speakers at the Claypool today. He
has accepted appointment as chair
man for the 1927 campaign bureau.
Rev. Van Keuren appealed to
speakers and citizens for hearings
in every church, lodge, club and
plant that they might re-
ceive the spirit of the Community
Fund and have answered questions
that arise regarding financing of So
cial work.
Homer w. Borst, executive secre-
tary Of the fund, In demonstrating a
set of enlarged photographs and
charts which have been made for
use by the speakers, said: I'VE find
1t very advantageous to visualize for
the public the work of our thirty-six
organizations. No better way has
been discovered than to show actual
photographs of individuals typical of
certain problems which our agencies
must constantly meet"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-17

to the scene. AS they approached
the. wrecked auto, two men ran.
They took up the chase, which cov-
cred several block Of Haughville
streets, and fired several shots at the
men. Running through yards and
hurdling fences they finally eluded
the officers.
According to the few witnesses, a
new Buick auto laden with the
liquor was attempting to out-ruu
the hi-jackers, going east on w.
Tenth St., early today. At Belle
Vieu Pl., the driver attempted to
turn, but crashed into pole and
fence. DESERVING the auto and
liquor he fled. The hi-jackers
hesitated, but realizing police would
be called, also continued on.
That the liquor was being hauled
in from Chicago sugar alcohol stills
for the weekend booze supply is the
belief of police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-17
WHENISQUEEN
NOT A QUEEN?
Coming Visit of Marie Pro-
videS Riddle for u. S.
RH TTnifed press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Ofi-
cials here today we're trying to solve
a riddle in etiquette and diplomacy.
Following receipt of official notice
that beautiful Queen Marie Of Rou-
mania will arrive in this country
next month for an extended visit,
the experts have been put to work
on this problem:
"WheM is a queen not a queen?"
If her royal highness were travel
ing as a queen, this government
would follow the usual diplomatic
etiquette and provide special trains.
ENJOYS and receptions.
Or If Queen Marie were coming
'incognito" as the Prince of Wales
did, this government would give only
informal recognition.
But the Roumanian foreign minis
ter's language. in notifying this gov
ernment Of the visit, was vague re-
garding the exact status under
which the queen chooses to travel.
And the Roumaniap legation is un-
certain about its sovereign's desires
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-17
.HOLD-UP OF BUS
DRIVER NETSS17
Trio of Youths in Stolen Car
Rob Driver.

Three men. using stolen auto to
escape. held UP a bus driver Friday
night at, Fifty-Fourth st. and Cen
tral Ave. They got SIT.
Frank Wilkinson, 273e Cornell
Ave., driver of the Peoples Motor
Coach Company bus, said the men
drove up to theNbus as he stopped
at Fifty-Fourth St., to turn around.
One Of the men leaped out of the
auto and pointed gun at him.
The others came into the bus and
took the money. He obtained the
license number of their car as they
drove away. Police said the car be-
longs to Lynn Smith, 1852 N. New
Jersey St., and was stolen from Ala
bama and Ohio SITS.
Samuel Harris. 3161z Muskingum
St., reports his home entered by
burglars who pried a lock from a
door and took SIS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-17
LIFE TERM GIVEN
IN LAKE COUNTY
Wife of Man Convicted of
Murder to Be Tried.

BIZ United Press
CROWN POINT, Ind, Sept. H.
William A. Donaldson was brought
into Lake County Criminal Court to-
day and heard the verdict of jury
sending him to the Indiana State
Prison for life.
Donaldson was tried for the muir
der of Joseph Mullins, Gary steel
mill worker, slain last spring in a
park at Gary. The State had asked
that Donaldson be sentenced to the
electric chair.
Mrs. Virgie Mullins. wife of the
murdered man, will be brought to
trial soon for her part in the mur-
der. She has confessed that Donald
son, a roomer at the Mullins home,
was her lover. and that with him she
plotted to murder her husband.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-17

Wedding bells can still sound
sweet though you've passed the
three-score years and tenl
Mrs. Caroline Backer Feldt, rs.
and Carl julius F'eldt, 81, who were
married Thursday, both declare go.
They live at the Althenheim, the
German home for the aged, 2007 N.
Capitol Ave., both entering there
nine years ago, few months apart.
Yes, We'll 'housekeep' right here"
the bride smiled.
She has been & childless widow for
thirty-five years, coming to this
country from Germany Immediately
after the death of her first husband.
The groom has also been married
before, bis wife dying three years
ago. at the home.
Dear, dear, it's lucky we don't
have many weddings" commented
the matron of the home, Mrs. Wally
Neussel. THE bride and groom left
early Thursday morning, saying they
were going for a walk. When they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-17
VESTRYMANPUT
UNDER GRILL IN
HALL-MILLS QUIZ
Widow and Three Relatives
to Enter Plea of Not
Guilty.
BIZ sTt,H6 Tnitsd Press =

bu IntfC1 PTCSS
SOMERVILLE. N. j.. Sept. IL
With Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and
her three relatives ready to plead
mot guilty" late this afternoon to
the Hall-Mills murders, the investi-
cation centered today on Ralph v.
Gorsline. the vestryman who was at
the scene of the murders with
choir singer. but for four years de-
MED he knew anything about It.
Without equivocation Alexander
Simpson, speciau prosecutor, said
today that Gorsiine had not told the
whole truth ~ sthe grand jury-that
In addition 70 concealing what he
knows. he lied.
Gorsline was being given another
third degree" today. At the same
time it was announced that the April
grand jury would be convened again,
probably Monday, and that indict-
ments for perjury would be asked.
Indicted Four
It was the April jury that indicted
Mrs. Hall. her brothers, Willie and
Henry Stevens, and their cousin,
Henry De La Bruyere Carpenter, for
the murder of Mrs. Halls husband,
the Rev. Edward w. Hall, and Mrs.
Eleanor Mills, choir singer, on Sept.
IA, 1922.
It was revealed by persons pres
ent that while testifying before the
grand jury Wednesday, Gorsline un-
consciously had drawn his hand
across his throat and that a juror
had jumped to his feet and demand.
ed that Gorsline be held as a per-
jurer. charging that he had wit
messed the cutting of Mrs. Mills
throat.
A woman designated only Mrs.
H." OF Cincinnati, is on her way
here to be questioned about her
knowledge OF the Hall-Mlls murder,
Inspector Underwood of the Jersey
city police, one of the investigators,
said today.
Simpson. it was believed. suspects
that Gorsline saw the murders and
hopes To draw from him a confess
sion that would solve the mystery
anu 6iNO TIC Cldle n case on WHICH
it could convict. All Gorsline told
the jury was that he had been in
DE Russey's Lane, near the Phillips
farm, where the bodies were found,
on the night of the murder, and had
heard voices, shots and screams. The
girl who was with him, Miss Cathe-
rine Rastall, told the same story.
Other overnight developments in
the investigation included the state
ment by Simpson that he had a wit
ness who had seen Henry Stevens
at the murder scene.
Simpson also obtained an order
for a special session of the Supreme
Court next week to decide on i'm
panelling jury from another coun-
ty for the trial, to insure an unbiased
verdict.
1t generally was expected that
Mrs. Hall would be committed to
Jail after todays hearing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-17
MOANS ON
DEATH BED
FOR LOVER
49, Year Old Girl Takes
Poison at Theater-
Calls Name.

"Its all because of Lee" moans
Miss Pauline Pritzer, 10, from her
bed at city hospital, where doctors
are making every effort to save her
life.
She was taken to the hospital
Thursday night, after drinking a
bottle of poison in the rest room Of
the Ohio Theater.
Hearing a bottle crash from the
balcony at the theater, Wylie Camp
bell, 26 w. st. Clair ST., Investigated.
He found Miss Pritzer PROSTATE in
the rest room. She told him she
had taken poison because of a love
affair. Before reaching the hospital
she lapsed into Inconsistencies.
Late at might she revived and called
Lee, Lee"
Despitei efforts to save her life,
she is still critical today and has
not recovered sufficiently for ques-
tioning.
Identification was made by a slip
in the girls purse. She has been
employed at the home Of Morton
Sternfels. 4404 Park Ave. She has
never had any company at the home,
the family declare. They have no
knowledge of any love affair. f,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-17
SMUGGLED ALIENS
|NBy AIR ROUTE
Ex-Manager of Flying Field
ConfeSSeS.

BIZ UntrRd PfeSS
DETROIT, Sept. 17-Virgil Sim
mons, 29 years old, former manager
of Packard flying field here, today
confessed that during the past three
months he had smuggled eighteen
aliens into Michigan from Ontario
by airplane. He was arrested at the
field Wednesday after landing with
Josef Kenetty of Czecho-S -Slovakia and
Lagos Kish of Hungary.
immigration authorities are hold
ing Simmons for arraignment before
Federal Commissioner J. Stanley
Hurd. Lewis Stewart of Detroit, ar
rested at the same time with Sim
mons as alleged driver Of an auto
mobile held in readiness to trans
port the smuggled aliens into De-
troit. denied any participation in the
smuggling.