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Evening star., 1928-12-15
$3.50 AND LIQUOR
TAKEN IN HOLD-UP
Trio Arrested by Washington
PoIiCe-TWo identified
by Victim.

Ten cases Of liquor and $3.50 in cash
were taken from Simon Herson of 1901
Warder street when he was held up on
the State road near Bryantown, Charles
County, Md, shortly after last mid
night, he reported to police of the
eleventh precinct
Two young men, one of whom
threatened him with a revolver, robbed
him after their car had forced his into
the side of the road. Herson said. He
did not see the driver of the other
car. Ssss "a /
Lying in wait after receiving the re-
port. Policemen znamenack and
Chmylko of the eleventh precinct ar
rested three men in an automobile
near Good Hope Hill. Two of them
were identified by Herson, police re-
ported
These registered as Arthur Harry
Murray, Il years old, and William Mel
vim, % years old. of the 800 block of
Twelfth street. The third man, who
was not identified, was booked as Will
liam Russell Carpenter, 25 years old,
Of the HOO block of F street southwest.
Carpenter was driving the car. All
declared they knew nothing of the rob-
berry. No trace has been found of liquor
or money. Herson explained that he
was on his way home with the LIQUOR
when robbed. After identifying the two
men, police stated, Herson left the sta
ton with the intention of returning to
Bryantown, saying he would state his
complaint to magistrate and request
the issuance of warrant Later the
men were turned over to the Maryland
authorities.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
MISSING CASHIER
DISCOVERED DEAD
Bank, Closed After Disap-
pearance, Reports Accounts
Are in Good Order.

BY the Associated Press.
MIDDLETON, Del, December 1S-
The body of Watson K. Belts, 42-year-
old cashier of the closed Peoples Ma
tional Bank of Middleton, was found
today in Drawers Creek, near here.
Belts left Middletown in his automo-
bile several hours before the directors
closed the bank yesterday and last
night his car was found on the hank CT
the creek, about 4 miles from here.
1t evidently had run into tree.
The bank was closed on orders of the
directors, after run had been started
on the institution following what direc-
tors stated we're false rumors. 1t was
given out that the bank was perfectly
solvent and that business was tenn
porarily suspended to avoid raising cash
to meet the run.
1t was also stated that an examira-
ton of the banks accounts so far as 1t
had gone did not indicate any shortage
on the part of any employe or officer
The bank has capital of $50 900,
surplus Of $4,000 and deposits of
94OV,uUU.
The bank was taken over by the ex-
aminers after run which resulted in
Withdrawals by depositors of approxi-
mately $4,000 before noon.
State police said that Belts, evident
Iy on his way to Wilmington, had driven
his car down cutoff at bridge and
crashed into a willow tree on the bank
of the stream. The front wheels rested
in the mud and there were blood stains
in the car.
Belts had been cashier of the bank
for 10 years. He lived next door to the
bank building with his wife and son, a
university student, and was prominent
in civic and other neighborhood ac-
tivities.
A bank examiner, who came to Mid
dletown on routine inspection, it was
said, remained here and Is going over
the books.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
CHILD TRIES TO PLACE
BET, RAIDERS REPORT
Four Arrested on Charge of Operat-
ing Gambling Game-Boy
May Be Witness.

Investigating reports that children in
the northwest section had been playing
the policy game, Policeman M. A.
Anderson, in charge of special investi-
gative work, this morning had Detec-
tives j. l.. Billman. r. F. Mccarthy and
r. F.. Graveley of the third precinct ac-
company him to 2608 K street, where
a raid was made.
While members of the raiding party
were in the house, it is stated, a 9-year-
old colored child appeared and ex-
pressed desire to play as cents. The
raiders recorded the childs name as
prospective witness.
-Four coiored persons were arrested
and charged with violating the gam
bling law relating to policy, one of them,
William Washington, 80 years old, being
an occupant of the house where the
raid was staged. The others registered
as Carroll Ford, "a years, King court:
Mary Jackson, 80 years. Hatfield, Va,
and Nathan Beckwith of the HOO block
of TWenty-third street.
Police reported the seizure of quanti-
ties OF alleged policy slips and about
$50 in cash
Evening star., 1928-12-15
PRESIDENTS TRIP
MAY Be CANCELLED
Change in Mrs. Goodhue's
Condition Likely to Halt
Vacation Plan.

Whatever plans the President and
Mrs. Coolidge may have been making
Ior CHRISTMAS are likely to be partially,
II not completely, abandoned because of
the unfavorable change in the condition
OF Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, Mrs. Coolidge's
mother, who has been seriously i'll in
northampton for several months.
DlScouraging reports received at the
Whlte House have prompted Mrs. Cool
ldge to make preparations to 60 to the
pedslde of her mother. 1t was said to-
DAY that Mrs. Coolidge may leave WASH
lngton early next week unless she is
called there before.
Inspired by Last Trip.
Something in the nature of a trip to
some attractive spot in the South dur
ing the holidays has been under con-
Slderation by the President and Mrs
Coolidge for more than a week. 1t is
understood that the rest and endowment
derived during their visit to the Blue
Ridge Mountains during the Thanks
giving week end inspired a desire to
make similar visit during the Christ
mas period. Nothing definite was agreed
upon, but the impression given by the
President was that he was considering
gong to either Asheville, N. c., the Blue
@SAA5N Va oOA4lC opOU Ill oOubIl CdrOllll3,
Although the President has given no
intimation of his leave-taking for this
brief vacation, it was supposed that he
would not leave until after Christmas
day. Throughout their married life the
President and Mrs. Coolidge always have
followed the custom of spending Christ
mas at home. They have always OBJ
served Christmas at the White House
| during the more than seven years Mr.
| Coolidge has been President.
Son Not Coming Home.
Christmas at the White House this
year undoubtedly will be less lively
than formerly because of the absence
| of John Coolidge, who is employed bv
| the New York, New Haven 81 Hartford
Railroad, at New Haven, Conn. John
| has notified his parents that he is not
coming home.
Even though the President and Mrs
Coolidge forego what anticipations they
| may have had regarding a Southern
trip Christmas week, they will visit
Florida for brief period in February
| The President is to formally dedicate. a
bird sanctuary and carlton at Noun
tain Lake, Fla. He will be accompa
MED on the trip by Mrs. Coolidge. It is
understood that they may remain in
Florida for several days and stop for a
| day or so at one or two places on the
| journey back to Washington.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
MOSES PROPOSES
PACT RESERVATION
Four-Point Declaration OF
American Rights Attached
to Anti-War Treaty.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A four-point declaration of American
rights was set forth in a resolution pre-
sented in the Senate yesterday, and de-
signed by its author, George H. Moses
of New Hampshire, to be approved by
that body along with its ratification of
the Kellogg anti-War treaty, which ac-
ton he forecasts.
The resolution setting forth the Amer
ican declaration under the Senator's
plan then would be transmitted to all
signatory nations along with the formal
announcement of the final action by
the American Government on the pact
The resolution was drafted after the
Senate foreign relations committee, at
it's third meeting earlier in the day, had
deferred until Monday a vote on the
treaty. The Moses proposal was re-
ferred to the committee, of which the
New Hampshire Senator is a member
1t will be brought there in connection
with the pact.
Chairman Borah Dissents.
Still confident of mastering major
ity for the treaty in its present FORM
and without even the proposed accom-
panying resolution, Chairman Borah OF
the committee last night announced his
opposition to the Moses proposal.
The resolution is based largely or
letters from Prof Borchard of Yale ano
Prof Brown of Princeton, who take
the position that the messages from
England and France modify the treaty
Borah answered their arguments in
a statement, which said:
Take the English letter, or commu-
nication. 1t declares Englands right
of self defense. Under the treaty, Eng
land and every other nation has the
right of self-defense and has the sole
right to determine what is its self-de-
fense. thousand letters wouldn't
make it any more implicit.
'Dr. Brown states: We are committed
| in advance to acquieSce in any measures
of coercion it (the League) may adopt
| against nation held to be guilty ol
wrong I assert, with the greatest oI
confidence, that this is literally without
| foundation. There is nothing in the
treaty and nothing in the correspond.
| ence which commits us in advance, ol
| at all, to acquiesce in any measures oi
| coercion or to acquiesce in the use Of
| force in any way. We are committed tt
| just one thing, and that is, to settle oul
controversies through pacific means
| That's the whole treaty"
Senators Give Approval.
Senators, who have been somewhat
undecided in their views on the treaty
last night, rallied in support of tht
Moses proposal.
Presentation of the resolution was th(
first move in the open, indicating any
objection to the pact which Presiden
! Coolidge has earnestly requested be ap.
proved before his administration ends
! March 4.
The offering of the resolution, how.
ever, is expected to cause considerable
discussion when the treaty is brough
up, although it will be voted upon, un
der present plans of the author, sepa.
rately from the treaty.
Senator Moses said last night he wa
willing even to have the resolution con
sidered after the Senate votes on ratifi
cation Of the pact.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Partly cloudy
and slightly colder tonight; lowest tenn
perature about SO degrees; tomorrow
fair; moderate northerly winds, becom-
ing variable.
Maryland-Partly cloudy and slightly
colder tonight; tomorrow fair; mod
crate northerly winds.
Virginia-Partly cloudy and slightly
colder tonight; tomorrow fair: moderate
to fresh northerly winds, diminishing.
West Virginia-Partly cloudy tonight
and tomorrow; somewhat colder tonight.
Records for % Hours.
Thermometer-4 pm, As; 8 pm, As;
IL midnight, As; am, A; 8 am, A;
IL am, As.
Barometer-4 pm, 30.12; 8 pm,
3014; IL midnight, 1920; am, 30.27;
am, 30.34; IL am, 30.40.
Highest temperature, 48, occurred at
2:45 pm, yesterday
Lowest temperature, 43, occurred at
am, today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 81; lowest, AZ.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey)
Today-Low tide, 4:40 am. and 4:37
pm; high tide, 1915 am. and 1923
pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 5:22 am. and
5:21 pm; high tide, 1888 am. and
HOS pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 1920 am; sun sets
4.47 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 720 am; sun
sets 4:47 pm.
Moon rises 10:14 am; sets 7:44 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Condition of the Water.
Great Falls: Clear.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
PRINCESS INVENTIVE TALENTS
NOW DEVOTED TO HEALTH RAY
Award of Three Patents Yes
terday Reveals New Re-
search Efforts.
Success of Development Is
Indicated in Early Tests,
She Says.

Granted patent rights on three in
ventions yesterday, Princess Elaine Won
der Lippe-Lipski today said she is turn
ing her creative efforts to the develop
ment of new and Wonderful heallng
ray and life rejuvenator.
Roughly, the princess explained to-
day the new machine upon which she
is working, with the help of Bureau of
Standards experts and inventors who
have come to her aid will pour the deep
red therapeutic and violet rays, with
coupled longer light rays, into the
body, to work with medical preparations
BY the use of the new machine, ex-
periments already made show, she
claims, that old and wrinkled skin can
be restored to its natural youthful re-
siliency and texture, hair can be grown
back in its original color and major
surgical wounds which have taken as
long as As days to heal can be closed
in from seven to ten days.
Granted Three Patents.
The patents received yesterday by the
princess were for an automobile head
light which increases and diminishes its
power automatically, an automatic 22-
reel capacity motion picture machine
which could be utilized for advertising
purposes and a vacuum -incased barrel,
which, she says, will keep meats or
other perishable foodstuffs without ice
for periods as long as six months.
The automatic headlight device, a
simple cell containing negative selenium
and incased in several refiectors, which
could be manufactured at small cost,
the princess believes to have a great
future. The cell, she explains, is affect
ed negatively by light, so that as the
outside light increases the headlights
decrease-that is, when there is COM
plete daylight the headlights of the au-
tomobile will not be working. The city
street lights, working on the cell, will
serve only to dim the headlights, while
Evening star., 1928-12-15

A new dockyard planned for Singa-
pore. Straits Settlements, will cost
nearly $40,000000, and require seven
years for construction.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
REFORM LEADERS
TO END SESSIONS
Last Meeting of Series of
Week to Be Held at CAL
vary Baptist Tomorrow.

The various reform organizations
which have been meeting separately in
Washington during the past week will
conclude their sessions with a joint
mass meeting tomorrow afternoon in
Calvary Baptist Church.
Clifford Pinchot former Governor OF
Pennsylvania, will be the principal
speaker. His subject will be. How
Prohibition Can Be Enforced" Other
speakers on the program are William
ID. UpShaw of Georgia; DR.. William
Sheafe Chase, Brooklyn, N. Y, and
Clinton N. Howard.
The mass meeting will be attended by
the National United Committee for Law
Enforcement and representatives of the
International Reform Federation, both
Of which have been meeting separately
here this week.
The National United Committee, con-
sisting of Is federated national bodies,
held its final session in the Raleigh
Hotel last night. All officers were re-
elected, Clinton N. Howard, being
chosen chairman for the fourth con-
secutive year.
Resolutions pledging support to Presi-
dent-elect Hoover and urging the ap-
pointment of known "drys" to all Off
cial posts during the next administra-
ton were adopted
The international Reform Federation
held its annual banquet last evening
in Calvary Baptist Church Miss Fran
ces E. Winters discussed causes for de-
linquency among modern youth and
Canon Chase spoke on the effect of
modern motion pictures on youth.
At a meeting following the dinner the
prohibition problem in its present and
future aspects was discussed by u. S.
Prohibition Commissioner James M.
Doran Representative William H.
Sproul of Kansas, and Clinton N.
Howard.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
CAPITAL AIRPORT
LACK IS DEPL0RED
Bingham, Speaking at Con-
ference Dinner, Sees City
Shamed by Problem.

The National Capital has been
Inundated before the entire world be-
cause of the lack of adequate airport
facilities here during the International
Civil Aeronautics Conference, Senator
Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. presi-
dent of the National Aeronautic Asso-
citation, declared last night in an address
at the banquet at the Mayf1ower Hotel
which brought the conference to an
official close.
He pointed out that Washington has
been the most this week to aeronautical
delegates from virtually all nations
where the airplane is used commercially
and IN all Of which magnificent airports
have been established at the capital.
But, to our chagrin," he said, "these
delegates could not be welcomed to our
Capital from the air. for, except for the
very hospitable but inadequate bit of
ground used jointly by our Army and
our Navy we had no spot on which for
them to land"
Came Here by Train.
The visiting delegates were taken by
air from Cleveland to Chicago and
from Chicago to Dayton before coming
here, Senator Bingham pointed out, but
some of them were brought to this
city by railroad.
1T is diScouraging, indeed" he said.
Tor any American citizen to return to
this country from a visit to Europe,
where splendid facilities are provided
for aerial transportation and. to realize
that the Capital of the United States
has no airport"
Senator Bingham paid glowing tribute
to the guest of honor Orville Wright.
inventor OF the airplane, as did Lord
thomson. Great Britaih's former secre-
tary of state for air and chief of the
British delegation to the conference.
who was the other speaker on the pro-
gram.
Sees Future Expansion.
Lord Thomson declared that the eff
clent air mail system of the United
StateS had won the admiration of the
entire world. Here in America" he
SAID, you have wonderful opportu-
nlty IN your great distances. We in our
country, with our limited space, may
only hop, while you can spread your
wings" He profesSed to see in the well
defined air routes already mapped out
and in the broad viewpoint habitual to
American business the groundwork for
a great commercial transportation air
system in the not-distant future.
AT the conclusion of Lord Thomson's
address Mr.. Wright was called upon.
but responded to the toast only with
his usual smile and bow. The entire
company arose to honor him.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
COURT TO DECIDE
ON ROTHSTE|N WILL
BenefiCiaries Plan Legal
Fight for DWindIing Funds.
Bi|Ier May Surrender.
BY the Associated Press.

by tne ASSOCldJeu HTeSS.
NEW YORK, December 15-A fight
for the shrinking estate of Arnold Roth
stein, now estimated at less than 81
100000 is to be carried to the courts.
Beneficiaries under two wills, the last
Of which his widow and mother and
father are attempting to have voided,
were unable to arrive at an agreement.
Inez Norton, show girl friend of the
slain gambler, refused to accept lump
sum in place of the interest Of one
sixth of estate willed her.
Signed on Death Bed.
The will under which she is a bene-
ficiary was signed by Rothstein as he
lay dying in the hospital, too weak to
write his full name and able only to
make cross.
The will which relatives wish to have
declared his last testament does not
provide for Miss Norton or several 9TH
er persons named in the contested doc
ument.
Rumors were current today that Hy-
man (Gilly) Biller, sought on a murder
indictment in connection with the
shooting of Rothstein, was in hiding in
New York and would surrender in the
next few days.
United States Attorney Charles H.
Tuttle today was preparing evidence for
a start Monday on the trial of Joseph
Unger, arrested in Buffalo, as mem
Der Of the international narcotic ring
Rothstein financed.
Witness Is Held.
Unger left Buffalo for New York
under guard of Federal agents. 1t was
in Unger's pockets that Federal agents
found checks for the trunk full of mar
cotics confiscated in New York.
Mrs. June Boyd, who is expected to
be witness against Unger, Is in jail
Evening star., 1928-12-15
ADJUSTMENTS
WARDNfAN PARK THEATER-"The
Mystic Sword"

Stirring tales of King Arthur and his
knights of the round table are pre-
sented this week end by the Ogle,
Tinnin, Brown players in 1.-THE Mystic
Sword" the third of their series of
plays for children being staged at the
Wardman Park Theater this season.
Artistic staging and careful direction
played their part in the success of this
as we'll as the other plays produced by
this little company Gordon Kilbourne
who played the difficult role of Ariel in
The Tempest" is cast as Arthur.
Shirley Horton plays Sir Lamerack and
Armstrong Pierson is lovely as Lady
Margaise, daughter of Sir Ulfias.
Katherine Brown, the technical di-
rector of the play. is also its author.
Miss Brown adapted choice bits from
the Tales of King Arthur" evolving a
play which is admirably suited to the
Juvenile audiences, for which it has
been written, and interesting as we'll to
the Older folks.
Next week the company will present
their Christmas Offering, "One Night in
Bethlehem.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Writer Terhune Hit by Auto.

POMPTON LAKES, N. j., December
Is LAp.--Albert Payson Terhune, the
writer and dog fancier, was injured yes
terday, when he was struck by an au-
tomobile on the State highway a mile
from his home. The driver speeded
away Terhune was walking alone on
the road when struck. Mrs Terhune
said her husband was hurled 80 feet,
but Dr.. William S. Colfax believed he
was not seriously injured.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

as material witness. She was unable
to provide $25o00 bail She had been
detained at hotel under guard of the
agent who found $500.000 worth of mar
cotics in her apartment in Chicago.
Indications are that the trial of
George McManus, the only one in Gus
tody of the four indicted for Rothstein's
murder, will be postponed until the
other three men are captured.
Evening star., 1928-12-15

on an open, unlighted road the head
lights will burn with full power. BY
the same system approaching headlights
of another car will tend to dim the
selenium cell-controlled lights.
Still Confined to Bed.
Still confined to her bed because of
the injuries which she received in her
home several weeks ago from an assail-
ant whom she has steadfastly refused
to prosecute, the Princess today said
that she is anxious to get clear of the
tangle of litigation which has character
lied her family affairs for the past sew
eral years, so that she might devote
more of her time to her research work
She says that the ideas on which patent
rights we're granted yesterday were her
own and that she did all the work on
them.
Evening star., 1928-12-15
Zoning Petition Date Set.

Persons wishing to have changes
made in the zoning of their property at
the next meeting of the Zoning Com
mission were advised by the commission
today that the closing date for petitions
to be heard on January 9, 1929, viii be
December %. 1923.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-24
Some Children Are
Very Slow to
Respond
IL COnstance Canreron

a mother. visiting kinder
gardsn one afternoon. said to the
teacher III great amusement:
Why, johnnie comes the first
time you speak to him, but 1t
home ! cail and cali until my
patience Is exhausted and he
comes when he gets ready to"
"A good many others have been
confrOnted by this problem and
Il Il quite possible that III meas
llre the fault il theirs. There
should be fair play in the home;
you should not play the role Of
tyrant nor should you let your
child no 80. But, suppose that
gou had yards 81 shimmering new
cloth laid out for new negligee.
the pattern was just laid on and
you were anxious to cut 1t out
and prepare il for sewing would
yon jump with joy II someone
shouted:
Come right this very instant
and set ready for your lunchF'
~ course you wouldn't How
ever II the voice had said con-
aiderately lunch il almost
ready. q finish what you are
doing now. then later yon can
! come hack 10 ii AFTER you've had
some nice warm food your mind
would have been prepared for an
interruption and yon would havs
gone to luncheon in = happier
frame of mind.
Try to give your child time to
finish what he il doing, Or at.
Ieast to complete certain por-
ton 81 il then make him under
stand that on the final call ne
must come Ak once Or miss what
] ever II i you have called him
Tor
Ne Al glow with . certain
warm JOY when someone says,
That's fine. Well done! Chill
arcn are no exception to this rule.
~ praise prompt response to
your call with That's 4 good
boy. 1t makes mother 80 happy
when you help her by coming the
very first time she calls you."
BY little references to time and
law little stories OF how soldiers
obey commands; how father obeys
the stop and no signs" down.
town for his safety and the safety
81 sall other people there. estab-
fish 81 sense in your child, that
there are laws which must be
Oheyed by both big and little
people. show him that he isn't
being singled out to jump at
your command, just to please you.
&c Il for his safety. We all have
to obey commands.
re father didn't get up when
fIne alarm clock told him to, he
would lose his position and there
would be no money for food, or
clothing. r. mother didn't get up
and get breakfast at certain