davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1928-12-17
PROFIT
DENIED BY MOEBS
Building Owner Hits at FIe-
harty and Bowen in Com
mission Hearing.

Joseph J. Moebs, owner of the Dupont
Building, at Connecticut avenue and
Dupont circle, took the stand at the
hearing before the Public Utilities Com
mission today on the practice of sub
metering electricity and testified that
his tenants in the building paid him
les for electricity than he paid to the
Potomac Electric Power Co.
This was made possible, he said, be-
cause he added up the consumption of
electricity on all their meters and
charged them the power company rates
on the total rather than charge for each
meter separately. He said he consid-
cred the electricity and rental bills Sin
tegraP and did not try to make sepa-
rate profit from the sale of electricity.
Mr.. Moebs testified that his clients
benefited further because he did not
impose any penalty on them for failure
to pay their bills within Is days after
rendition. He introduced exhibits show
ing in detail the amount paid by each
tenant for electricity since the erection
OF the building, together with the
amounts he paid to the power company.
Mr.. MoebS' testimony was offered in
opposition to statements by Peoples
Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty and s. r.
Bowen, counsel for the power company,
that the practice of submetering all
lowed owners of large buildings to take
rebate from the practice of buying
power from the company and re-
metering it to their tenants at prof1t.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
ONE DEAD, 8 HURT
IN $500 BLAZE AT
ROOMENG HOUSE HERE
Continued From First page.)

Continued From First Pagel
man, years old; Fred. years old,
and Edward 8 years old, were taken to
the homes of neighborS for the night.
The Waterholder family lived in base
ment rooms, SO were not trapped by
the fire.
Persons living in the house this morn
ing said Donohue, or Goldsmith, as he
was registered at the hospital, chung tor
a window and shouted for assistance
for his wife and child while he was
being probably fatally burned.
His mother, Mrs. Julia A. Goldsmith,
TOT I street southeast, identified him
at the hospital.
Firemen were today attempting to
discover the cause of the blaze. 1t ap-
parently started on the third floor and
gradually burned down to the second
floor before it was discovered.
Police learned today that Smith was
employed by the Veterans Bureau at
Baltimore, spending every other night
at the c street address. He is Sur
vived by his brother, Sydney Smith,
an attorney of Norfolk, Va.
The house, which faces both on c
street and Indiana avenue. belongs to
the Washington Loan & Trust Co. and
is operated by Mrs. Lloyd Snider. She
lives on the Indiana avenue side, which
was damaged only by water.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
TEST OF STRENGTH
ON KELLOGG PACT
AGAIN IS DELAYED
Continued From First Page.)

were not. He said if the Monroe
Doctrine, for example, is considered part
of the policy of national defense of this
country, then, since the right of self
defense has been recognized in the
negotiations leading up to the treaty,
there was no particular need of making
any declaration about the Monroe Doc
trine in connection with the ratification
of the treaty.
Although the committee took no
action on the Kellogg treaty denouncing
war, it did report favorably to the Sem
ate eight arbitration treaties with the
following nations: Austria, Lithuania,
Finland, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Al
bania and Sweden.
Members of the Senate are being
deluged with letters urging the prompt
ratification of the Kellogg treaty.
Many Of these letters, however, not only
ask for ratification of the treaty to re-
nounce war, but they also urge the
Senators to vote against the naval con-
struction bill, which would add Is new
cruisers to the Navy. This opposition
to the cruiser bill is playing its part
in the delay Of the Kellogg treaty.
Some Senators supporting the Navy
bill are anxious to get that measure
through the Senate or well along be-
fore the treaty comes up for considera-
ton. President Coolidge has urged the
prompt passage of both the cruiser bill
and the resolution of ratification of the
treaty,
Evening star., 1928-12-17
CONDITION Of KING
CONTINUES BETTER
British Ruler Maintains I'm
provement Evident for
Past Two Days.
Continued From First Page,)

in a day or two more favorable bulle-
tins might be given out.
The meeting, which was that OF the
Metropolitan Hospital Sunday fund, de-
cided at the lord mayors suggestion
that instead of sending any 1ormaI
resolution to his majesty all unite III
sing ing God Save the King"
Sacrament Solemnized.
In view of the continued illness of
King George, the exposition OF the
blessed sacrament was solemnized yes
terday in all Roman Catholic churches
in the Diocese of Nottingham, ccomprls-
ing the Counties of Nottingham. Derby
shire. Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
The bishop of the diocese issued l60
circulars to the priests in charge OF
churches and missions, stating; In
view of the prolonged serious illness OF
the King, I beg you to exhort your peo-
pie to pray earnestly that 1t may
please Almighty God to restore his
maiesty's health and preserve for many
years to come the precious life OF the
sovereign. SO justly loved"
In issuing the pastoral letter, the
bishop remarked I'VE cannot get on
without George v. He has been an
head in the time of great crisis through
which. we have all been passing. We
should be extremely grieved If we were
to lose him, but myself feel that great
blow is not going to fall"
Gifts for Poor.
To commemorate the safe hon1ecom-
ing of the Prince of Wales from Africa,
Mr.. and Mrs Lethbridge Abel, old res
idents of Glasgow, handed the lord
provost 100000 for the relief of the city
poor. The money is to be invested and
the income devoted to permanent relief
work o&
The Duchess of York's private secre-
tary has written to the lord mayor of
that she is sending from her
infant daughter, Princess Elizabeth,
of toys and some Winter cloth
ing for the children of miners in the
and Durham districts.
Princess Mary sent shoes for the chill
dren.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
INTERVENTION AIM
DENIED BY HOOVER
Quoted as Declaring in Inter-
view That All Americas
Are Equal.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Deem
Der 17.-President-elect Hoover was
quoted in an interview appearing in the
newspaper La Nacion today as denying
the existence of "interventionist aims
ON the part of the United States.
For q long time" Mr.. Hoover was
quoted as saying, "the belief has pre-
vailed that there are among nations,
as in families fathers and sons, adult
and infant brothers Thus it was
thought natural that certain countries
should assume the guardianship of
others, at least in the spiritual sense,
and there were times when elder
brothers. felt that it was their duty to
act as policemen for the alleged minors.
Declares All Nations Equal
Il utterly disapprove such doctrines
No independent and sovereign nation is
a minor. There are not in the Ameri-
can continent big and small brothers.
All countries have attained the same
age, spiritually and politically. The only
difference among them is a different
historical moment in their economic
development.
"All nations in our continent are
equals. All of them are going forward
together, as friends with similar ideals
in mind. The suspicious which certain
people entertain about interventionist
aims on the part of my country, lack
foundation. Facts will demonstrate, each
day with greater. clearness, that no in
terventionist policies prevail, or shall
prevail in my country" .. ..
Stand on Customs Tariff.
Referring to customs tariffs, Mr.
Hoover said:
THE growth of population in the
United States requires every year a
greater part of our production, which
will soon be totally absorbed. Thus
competition between the United States
and Argentina will disappear, and a
moment will arrive when we shall i'm
port large quantities of Argentine prod
uctS which are produced in our coun-
try at greater cost, this, while compell-
ing us still to cover the difference
through customs tariffs, will not pre-
vent us from importing millions of tons
of goods needed by our growing popula-
ton
Discussing America in. general, Mr.
Hoover voiced this opinion: America, as
I see it, is land where men and
women may freely progress in any direc-
tion they want to follow, enjoying a
wealth which is not concentrated in
the hands of a few, but distributed
among all America is a land where
the happy under regime of freedom
and protected from poverty, have an
opportunity to enjoy a. more complete
life."
Evening star., 1928-12-17
WAS D. C. SOCIETY BELLE.
Startled Friends by Elopement With
Neighb0r in 1911.

Miss Elinor Hoyt was a society belle
of the Capital in 1906, when she was
married to Philip S. Hichborn, and
made her home here. The Hichborns
took house. shortly after their mar
riage, next door to the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Horace Wylie. For nearly
five years the Wylies and Hich-
borns were neighborS and moved in
the same social circles.
It was in 1911 that the then Mrs.
Hichborn and Mr.. Wylie startled Wash
ington society by eloping to Corsica.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wylie, on May 81,
rope on the same ship, Mrs
Wylie taking stateroom in one
part of the ship with her three chill
dren and Wylie reservation in another
part. Wylie did not go then, but sailed
later with Mrs. Hichborn.
In Corsica, where Wylie and Mrs.
Hichborn settled. they were known as
"Mr. and Mrs. Wyborn"
Shortly after Mrs. Hichborn left her
home with Wylie, Hichhorn filed suit
for divorce. naming Wylie as correspond
ent. About year after her departure,
Hichborn killed himself at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Paul S. Pearsall, 1902
Sixteenth street.
The "Wyborns," during their stay in
Corsica. had three children. In 1916,
after Wylie's wife had obtained a di-
vorce. he married Mrs. Hichborn, and
for the next three years they lived in
Corsica.
In 1919 the WylieS returned to Wash
ington and took up their residence here.
A few months after their return to
Washington Mrs. Wylie sued for a di--
vorce and it was granted on grounds of
deSertion. Then Mrs. Wylie moved to
New York, where she began her lit
erary career under the name Of Elinor
Wylie.
The success of. her literary efforts is
widely known. 1t was largely through
her work that she met William Rose
Renet. a post, whom she married Octo-
ber S,s7l9236
Evening star., 1928-12-17
HOOVER IN URUGUAY,
CLOSELY GUARDED;
TOUR Is CURTAILED
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
1890 a.m.-Visiit to municipal eoun-
Gil
IL a.m.-Received in session by the
National Council of Administration, the
supreme authority in Uruguay.
1880 a.m.--Visit to Parliament and
luncheon with President Campisteguy.
Afternoon Reception by diplomatic
corps and sightseeing trip with Presi-
dent Campisteguy.
Evening-State banquet
.NIr Hoover came to Monteviedo on
the Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires.
When the cruiser arrived a salute was
fired from the guns of Cerro Fort and
the Uruguayan cruiser Montevldeo.
Foreign Minister Ruflno Dominguex
welcomed Mr. Hoover when the cruiser
docked, and escorted him down the
gangway which was decorated with the
Stars and Stripes. The President OF
Uruguay was waiting on the pier with
members of his family and expressed
his pleasure at the visit.
Stays in Casino Hotel.
MIR. Hoover spent the night at the
Parque Hotel where an entire tioor had
been reserved for him. One wing OF
the hotel contains the Casino OF Monte
yideo where roulette and other games
of chance are operated under govern
ment monopoly. This is one OF the
largest gambling casinos in the world.
En- route Mr.. Hoover sent this mes
sage to President Irigoyen OF Argen-
tina:
II carry happy recollections of your
country and it's people. The wonder
full progress made by the Argentine Re-
public, of which had read has been
fully confirmed during this memorable
visit to your favored country, but the
generous hospitality, courtesy and high
culture of it's people had not been
adequately described. While still en-
Toying the hospitality of the cruiser
Buenos Aires, which your excellency
SO kindly placed at my disposition for
the voyage to Montevideo, cannot
fail to ask you again to accept the
sincerest thanks of my colleagues, my
wife and myself for all that has been
done to make the visit to Argentina
an unforgettable episode in our lives.
1 beg you, Mr. President, also to extend
our thanks to your distinguished COL
leagues and to the members of your
family.
Sees Better Understanding.
"It is source of deep satisfaction
to have had this opportunity of dis
cusSing with your excellency in a frank
and friendly manner the forces in prog
ress In our respective countries. be-
lieve that from this visit and from our
interchanges of ideas, there will re-
suit a better understanding of the
problems facing each of us. Accept,
Mr.. President, my best wishes for your
own health and happiness and for the
continued success of the administration
over which your excellency presides."
Leaving tomorrow on the u. S. S.
Utah, Mr.. Hoover will conclude his
South American tour with three
day stay at Rio Janeiro, sailing for
home Christmas eve.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
D. B. ADAMS SUCCUMBS
AT LONG ISLAND HOME
Death Recalls Suit Filed Here to
Recover Estate of Wife, Who
Expired in 1918.

Dunbar B. Adams, son of John d.
Adams, known as the chewing gum
king" died yesterday in Bay Shore,
Long Island, according to word received
here today.
After the death in 1918 of Mr..
Adams wife, Mrs. Edith Temple Oracle
Adams, her mother, Mrs. Constance
Setback Oracle, filed suit in District
Supreme Court to recover her daugh-
ter's $150000 estate. She charged that
the last will of her daughter, leaving
the entire estate to her, had been lost
or destroyed by the parents OF Mr..
Adams.
The case dragged through the court
for months until Mrs. Oracle brought
it to an abrupt close by withdrawing
her charges and offering public apol-
ogy to Mr.. and Mrs. Adams.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
ARMY TRANSFERS.
Maj. Harry A. Auer Assigned to
Duty in Washington.

Maj. Harry A. Auer, Judge Advocate
Generals Department, who has just
completed a tour of duty with the
United States forces in China, has been
the Judge advocate general, War De-
partment; Maj. Alfred B. Johnson,
Ordnance Department, at the proving
grounds, Aberdeen, Md, has been as
signed to duty in the Office of the chief
of ordnance, Munitions Building; First
Lieut. Keryn ap Rice. 1lth Engineers,
has been transferred from the Panama
Canal Zone to Fort Humphreys, Va,
and First Lieut.. Solomon M. Van Meter,
jr., Air Corps, recently stationed at
Mitchell Field, N. Y, has been trans
ferred to the Army retired list in the
grade of captain, because of disability
incident to the service.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
Pleads Guilty in Dry Case.

Failure to identify his customers
caused John Barker, owner of boat
house located about, one-haIf mile
west of Key Bridge on the Chesapeake
81 Ohio Canal, to be charged with the
sale of alleged liquor to revenue agents.
Police, say the sales were made on two
occasions.
Barker demanded a jury trial, but.
later pleaded guilty today. -
Evening star., 1928-12-17

Washington. solicitor general under
President Taft.
In 1906 she married Philip S. HIGH
born, son of Rear Admiral Hichborn.
In 1911 she eloped to Corsica with
Horace Wylie of Washington. HIGH
born killed himself year later and
Mrs. Hiehborn married Wylie in 1916.
In 1919 she divorced Wylie and came
to this city, where she began her lit
erary career.
She gained recognition almost at
once with her first two volumes of
poetry, Nets to Catch the Wind and
BLACK Armour" After these she pub
lished ',,Jennifer Lorn," 1.-The Venetian
Glass Nephew" and her greatest sue
cess, The Orphan Angel"
In 1923 Miss Wylie married William
Rose Benet, himself a poet. Besides
her husband she is survived by son.
Philip, senior at Harvard. Her pen
name was Elinor Wylie.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
Huge Mail Planes
To Carry Sorting
Clerk and Pilots
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 17.-Fly-
ing mail cars with sorting facili-
ties and three times the present
capacity of air mail planes. will
be produced by the Great Lakes
Aircraft Corporation Of Cleve-
land, William A. Wilson, chairman
of the. board. announced here to-
day.
Mr.. Wilson said 5000 pounds of
mail win be carried in the new
: planes, for which plans have been
completed. . A Asserting clerk and
two pilots will man the ships.
Evening star., 1928-12-17

tCOnGInUed FTOm FITSG PdBt.I
be effected in iseveral hours as against
the days previously required.
How long it would take to raise the
S-4 in the present test was dependent
on continued good weather and the
ability of the lifting hooks to hold the
craft to the pontoons which will pull
the vessel upward as the water inside
them is forced out.
Part of the test was TO determine the
accessibility of the hooks, and on the
bottom the vessel was listed about 25
degrees to provide additional diflculty
in the experiment. The list was created
by emptying some of the ballast tanks
in the side of the hull leaving other
loaded tanks and flooded engine room
to keep the craft down.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
"FLU" CASES TOTAL 81.
Nine New Patients Are Reported
to Health Department Here.

Nine new cases of influenza were re-
ported today to the District Health De-
partment, bringing the total of reported
cases up to 81 in December. No new
deaths were reported today.
One influenza death reported yeSter-
day brought the months total up to IL.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
Robber Battles Police.

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, December IT.
Three policemen and a spectator were
wounded and celored man killed by
am unidentified robber who held a. score
oF more police. at bay from a con-
fectiouery store here to-day,
Evening star., 1928-12-17

During the past nine months 3,325
persons were injured, IN Birmingham.
England, as compared with only 1000
In the IL months OF 1924,
Evening star., 1928-12-17

Attacked by an owl, which bit his
forehead so savagely that blood blinded
his eyes, Louis Linnett was thrown from
his motor cycle at Luton. England, and
badly injured.
Evening star., 1928-12-17

. Mural paintings believed to, be hun
dreds Of years old we're recently found
In a house at Readnb$ England.
Evening star., 1928-12-17
ELIN0R H0YT WYLIE,
POET AND NOVELIST,
DIES AFTER STROKE

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1928-12-17

A wireless dispatch from the steana-
ship Eleanor Boiling gave her position
Tiaro Head. New Zealand. She is bound
for Dunedin to get second load Of
supplies for the Byrd expedition.
(Copyright 1928. by the New York Times
Co. and the ST. Louis poSt-Dispatch. All
rightS for publication reserved throughout
the worldl
Evening star., 1928-12-17
SINKING OF S-4 HULK
LAUNCHES NAVY TEST
OF UNDERSEA RESCUE

Continued From First Page.)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-21
NAME GREEN ON
CLAIMS COURT:
QUITS CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (P-Rep-
resentative William r. Green of Iowa,
chairman of the house ways and means
committee, was nominated today by
President Coolidge to fill vacancy
on the United States court of claims,
which sits in Washington. AS soon as
his nomination is approved by the
senate Mr.. Green plans to resign his
seat in the house, where for II years
he has represented the ninth Iowa
congressional district.
Speaker Longworth and Representa-
tive Tilson, the republican floor lead
er, both predicted that Representative
Willis G. Hawley, of Oregon, would
succeed Green as chairman of the
ways and means committee, which
with its power to initiate revenue and
tariff legislation, is one of the most
powerful policy committees in either
branch of congress.
For number Of years Hawley has
been the senior republican on the COM
mittee and his elevation to the chair
manship would be in line with the
usual procedure in the house. On both
revenue and tariff questions, he has
held views similar to those of Green.
Mr. Greens whose home is in Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, first was elected chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee at the beginning Of the sixty eighth
congress. AS a result, he took an &C
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-21
SCIENCE, CHURCH
JOIN in CAUSE
AGAINST DOCTOR

HALL OF JUSTICE, LOS AM
GELES, Feb. 90 az Science and
church joined today in helping weave
the web of circumstance which the
state is attempting to draw about DR..
Charles M Mcmillan, on trial for the
murder of Mrs Amelia Appleby.
The cause Of science was represented
by r. j. Abernathy, county chemist,
who testified that spot on lapel of
Dr. IcMillan's coat was caused Dy
blood. Science also was responsible
for the testimony Of j. Clark Sellers,
handwriting expert, who declared that
a purported will or power of attorney
leaving all Of Mrs. Appleby's fortune
to the physician had been written by
Dr. Mcmillan himself.
The church was represented by Rev.
Bob Schuler, pastor of the Trinity
Methodist Episcopal church. Rev.
Schuler testified that on Christmas
night, the night on which deputy
sheriff said DR.. Mcmillan had declar-
ed he attended church, the pastor did
not see the physician in his audience.
DR.. Mcmillan had been quoted as say
inc that Rev. Schulers sermon was
delivered without notes and dealt with
something about Mayor Cryer and
the policeman fireman football game .
The minister, however, said that he
had read a statement on Christmas
night and had delivered no sermon.
the statement dealing with the William
Edward Hickman murder case.
Abernathy testified that he made
no test of the alleged blood spot to
determine whether it were caused by
human blood DR.. Mcmillan has
blamed the blood spot on razor
wound or nose bleed.
Sellers lengthy testimony, bolstered
up by long series OF Photographic
enlargements of the purported will
came to something of an anti-climaz
when McNIillan's attorney, Jerry
Giesler, told the court:
"Well stipulate that DR.. Mcmillan
wrote and signed this document and
he'll take the stand and tell you the
same thing"
The attorneys statement was made
during a sharp legal duel in whics
Giesler attempted to question sellers
regarding an affidavit said to have
been made by the expert in the suit oi
Mrs. .Appleby against Russell G. Jul
ian. Julian charged Mrs Appleby had
forged, documents which resulted iE
her obtaining 1915. Judgment against
him. The defense has contended thai
the suit showed that a man othei
than the doctor had motive for kill!
ing the wealthy widow.
The story of Deputy Sheriff David
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-21


Croushorn Of death threats said to
have been made against Mrs Appleby
by DR. Mcmillan were ruled out of
tho record Just ct tlle close Of the
days session judge Douglas Ed
mohds, who previously had overruled
q defense objection to the testimony,
late today reversed his decision on
the ground that the evidence was ac-
cusatcry
Croushorn. had declared Mrs Harry
Panagos had told him and the prison.
er that Mrs Appleby had confided to
her that Dr. Mcmillan, who served as
Mrs. Applcby's business manager, had
threatened her life.
Sellers draWn-out testimony and
the legal pickering prevented the hear
ing today of a. surprise" witness which
the prosecution had declared its in
tention Of calling This witness and
one other will close the states case
tomorrow, prosecution attorneys said.
The body Of Mrs. Appleby, the widow
of a wealthy Chicago invetnor, was
found the day after Christmas day
trussed up in a canvas sack and flung
by a roadside near San Fernando Dr..
Mcmillan was arrested few days
JatSr, after the body had been identi-
fled.