Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1924, Page 12

WILL GO TO HOUSE Committee to Report Out Mc- Kenzie Bill With Mad- den Amendment. The House military committee voted to report out Henry Ford's of- ‘er for Muscle Shoals as embodled in the McKenzle bill and the Madden “mendment providing for duplication of the Gorgas plant which was sold to the Alabama Power Company. The committce defeated an amend- ment which would have made Ford personally responsible for full per- formance of every phase of the con- tract. Acting Chairman McKenzle, publican, Illinois, was instructed to draw up a bill which would em- body practically the same terms as originally presented to the committee by Mr. Fora. Provision for Interest. The committec decided t Tord would be required to pa cont interest on ail money which had been expended from the time of his original offer. A proposal by Re resentative Hull, republican, low to further cgnsider the other threo offers which had been made was vot- ad down. Another proposal by Rep- resentative Hull to have the Secre- 1ary of War dis the McKenzie bill llkewise met defeat. The McKenzle bill, with the so- called Madden amendment, withstood all attempts to amend fit, The committee also reconsidered and threw out an amendment considered yesterday to put the Detroit manu- facturer'’s offer under the federal waterpower act and to limit his lease to fifty years. —e VENIZELOS PREMIERSHIP CONDITIONAL ON HEALTH Promises Cabinet at Bedside He Will Retain Post, Awaiting Physician’s Orders. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, February Meeting at the bedslde of Premier Venizelos, the cabinet has accepted his promise to retain the premlership until he has received the verdict of the heart specialist who is hurrying from Paris to_examine him. Tt is hinted that should the republi- cans, in the absence of the premier from the assembly, succeed in win- ning over enough Venizelist deputies to pass their bill declaring the Glucksburg dynasty abolished. M. Venlzelos might be tempted, if his physiolans permit. to renounce his intention of resigning. MORE THAN SCORE HURT IN HEAVY CHICAGO FOG | argentine av: Elevated Railway and Other Acci- dents Caused by Heaviest Vapor City Has Enown. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, February 1.—More than u score of persons were injured to in_elevated railway and other acci- dents attributed to fog, one of the thickest blankets of vapor exper ed in daylight in Chicago in Twenty persons were hurt in Hsion of two trains on the western elevated railw. S special at $10.00. NEW SILK Statue of “Serenity’ Positien in Capital The Senate late yesterday passed a joint resolution authorizing the crection of a Carrara marble statue of “Serenity” on ground now owned by the government in the District ‘of Columbia, _The statue is a gift of Charles Deer- ing to the people of the United States. The resolution was reported favorably from the committes on library by Senator Pepper ofe Pennsylvania, chairman of the committee. and at his request passed. The resolution now goes to the House for consideration an action. g Abe Martfiays:‘ Wearin’ our hearts on our] sleeves hain’t so bad, but ought t’ keep the'r souls out o the’r eye: Ford is out o’ th’ presidential race, but we still have his back- ers, an’ th' worst of it is, they hardly ever look around before they back. Very few people know that th' saxophone is a very ancient musical instrument, an’ if it wuzn’ fer sluggish, close-up dancin’ it never could have come back. Miss Fern Moots says she al- lus hates a holiday ’cause she can’t git in th’ jewelry store t’ git her wrist watch fixed. (Copyright National Newspaper. Service.) SAIL TO PLAN AIR FLIGHT. girls tors to Prepare in London for World Trip. BUENOS ATRES, February 1.—Maj. Pedro Zanni and Ensign Nelson T. Page, Argentine aviators, who are to attempt an airplane flight around the world next summer, sailed for London yesterday” on board the steamer Andes, to begin thelr preparations. Zanni and Page, on their arrival in London, will obtaln a plane and equip- ment for the round-the-world filght, on which they plan to start, probably in June, from Rome. Tt is their pure pose to fly eastward by way of Japan and thence to Canada. UST arrived — stunning draped negligees of the new “Glow Sheen” satin—very i 1 | nock, 'THE EVENING ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 1 (Special).—Sidney D. Emith, twenty- two years old, alleged kidnaper of fourteen-year-old Flsie May Dobson, was placed in the city jail 1ast night to awalt actlon of the grand jury of the corporation court, which will in- vestigate the case February 11. Whether the girl was a willing cap- tive of the man she told police she loved could not be determined vester- day, when the girl refused to take tho stand. Smith testified that he loved the girl and wanted to marry her. His only object, he sald, was to remove the girl from the home environment, Which, he alleged, was not all that it should be. 2 Smith declared that he had not used force, but had merely persuaded the &lrl to go with him. This evidence corroborated the testimony of Miss Jessle Garland, who was with the gir] When she was taken away to a lonely cottage several miles west of the city, Miss Garland said that the girl had mafldly protested going, sayting that she was not properly dressed. She quoted the girl as telling Smith, "I love you, but 1 can't go tonight. Judge' Duvall held the man for grand jury investigation after he had been informed by Director of Public ; Safety Morton that Smith was want- ed by Prince Willlam county authori- tles in connection with a house- breaking charge at Quantico. Smith sald that the parents of the Eirl had refused him tha right to see the girl and that he wanted her. He further: sald that they had intended to be married in Rockville, Md., yes- terday. The girl was released in custod. her parents, who Intend to send her to the home of her grandparent She was in tears when she from the courtroom late yesterday afternoon after a medical examination report had {ndicated that no criminal charge of assault could be placed against Smith. Immorality among the minors of the city is advancing at an alarming rate, Judge Duvall said yesterday aft, noom, when he disposed of two boys and two girls, all minors, who con- fessed to him that they had intended to run away in a car belonging to tho father of one of the boys. The plan was frustrated when the ma- chine was wrecked near Tappahan- seventy miles south of this of city. Walter Lemeshewsky, sixteen years old, 720 King street, and May Stone, fourteen years old, 112 South Wash- ington street, were santenced to re- main fn the custody of the state board of public welfare until they attained the ages of eighteen. Leme- shewsky, in addition to charges of contributing to the delinquency of minors, was faced with charges that he broke the lock on his father's garage and took the machine. Oliver Faulkner, clghteen years old, 203 Queen streef, was fined $50 and sentenced to thirty days in the city jall for his part of the escapade. Vera Dobson, fourteen years old, 215 North Patrick street, was released on parole in custody of her mother, The Stone girl had’ violated a similar parole. Burled beneath a mass and loam, fifty-five of corn whisky, highly colored, were found near Snowden, several miles south of the city, yesterday afterncon by Sgate Prohibition Inspector Virgll Wil- liams and Sergt. William Campbell. Harry Davies, owner of a farm near the place the liquor was found, was arrested and held in $250 bond for his_appearanco before Justice Troth of Fairfax county this aftcrnoon. Alexandria may be chosen as the site of a new plant and laboratory of the United States Army Signal Corps, according to statements made before the Kiwanis Club yesterday by Lieut. Col. C. A. Scoanes. Col. Seoanes was here looking over pros- pective sites. Work on the new Y. M. C. A bulld- ing has been started, although not offictally. The lot was staked out yesterday, and it is safd that ground will be broken formally within the next few days. The contract for the greater portion of the building has been let and all is ready for the work to go ahead. J. Fred Birrell has been appointed movie censor for Alexandria by the state board of censors in Richmond. 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Other and dark c8lorin Sheer navy _and flesh color. $7.50 to $18.00. Stockings e e S - scailoped and lace trlmmp:d. white or autiful crepe.back satin and GOLD STRIPE Chiffon Silk STAR, WASHINGTON INDIAN DIES DURING FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Denied Admission to Maryland Sanitarium Because of Ar- rest for Vagrancy. i | JUDGE SCORES OFFICIALS; Prominent Men and Women Inter- ested in Case. Speeial Dispateh to The Star. RIVERDALE, Md., February 1— The strict letter of the law triumphied over, humanitarianism Wednesday, when Jesus Mendoza, a fullblooded Cherokee Indlan, dled of tuberculosis in the house of correction at Jessup. The red man belleved he was friend- less, but before his end came club- women, medical men, a circuit judge, officlals at the house of correction and the state board of health were inter- ested in his case, which was taken up by Mrs. J. V. Stubbs, tuberculosis nurse, of Riverdale. For’ elght years Mendoza was an expert woodsman in the county, lv- ing in a cabin near Bowie. He be- eame ill last fall. Dr. G. E. Lancaster of Bowle cared for him and, together { with Mrs. Stubbs, made arangements Yor his admittance to the state tuber- culosis sanatorium. While Dr. Lan more recently, ter was in Balti- | rranging for the | | necessary papers, the sick Indian was | jarrested on a charge of vagrancy by { Constable_Smith of Bowie and_ sen- tenced to Jessup by Justice of the Peace | White. To procure Mendoza's release it was necessary for the state health depart- Iment to sue for a writ of habeas corpus beforo Circult Judge Matting- ly. The judge issued the writ, but not before he ecored the justice of the peace and constable for their narrow Interpretation of what constitutes vagrancy. Lost Place in Sanatorium. The arrest and subsequent court proceedings caused the helpless red man to lose secommodations assigned him at the overcrowded state sana- torflum. _The state health department gave orders that he be returned to his bin under the care of a nurse, but Mendoza died while the attempt was heing made to defeat the law's red tape. He will be buried Monday morning at 10:30 from Laurel. The Prince Georges county club- women who were active in his behalf are Mrs. George H. Morley, chalrman of the welfare department of _the county federation;. Mrs. George Fur- man, chairman 6f institutional rela- tions; Mrs. Forest Dicke: rr;nlrman of social service; Mrs. E. N. Cory, Chalrman of the anti-tuberculosis committee, and Mrs. Charles Holmes of the Riverdale Current Topics Club. WESTERN BANK CLOSES. Brookings, S. D., Institution in Hands of Examiner. BROOKINGS, §. D., February 1.— The First National Bank of Brook- ings closed today. W. F. Shéehan, natlonal bank examiner, took charge of the Institution. The bank was capltalized at $100,000 dnd had de- aggregating $660,000. e taken tonight svhen members of the ‘American Legion meet in the rooms of the chamber of commerce. Plans| and progress of the building com- Mmittes aiso will be heard. Arrange- Ments are complete for the first of a sorles of dances for the benefit of the fund to be given in Elks’ Hall, Feb- ry 7. T he Empty House” senlor play of the Alexandria High School, was pre- sented before a large crowd last night. The show will be repeated to- night and tomorrow. DD N ) 1D D DN N D ST N T S SN ) () ) D) D Y N N ) ) N P N s 3] T Spring Showing of G A i (C=CES () oo SLIPS $12.00 Crepe de Chine Extra_fifle qual- Ity, handsomely tailored; tucked yokes with filet in- an—zo.xm:n white, dium siik slips, pastel That Wear! blaci; Stockings _D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Weeks Rejects Unknown Soldier - Monument Design Secretary Weeks, head of the speclal commission designated by the President to select a design for a suftable monument to mark the tomb of the unknown soldler in Arlington natlonal cemetery, has finally disapproved the design made by Thomas Hastings and ap- proved by the Commission of Fine Arts. and has asked the architect to supmit another design. A full sized model of the original design was placed on the tomb and carefully studied by the members of the commission. It conslsted of a shaft about thirty-five feet high rising from the top of the tomb. Tt was decorated with several carved symbolic figures near the apex and Inscribed with tributes to the unknown hero on the sides. It is understood that Secretary Weeks and his assoclates have suggested a smaller and less elab- orate memorial ———— —— THREE SENTENCED TO DIE ESCAPE DEATH CELLS | Hold Up Prison Warden and Son When Breakfast Is Brought to Them. By the Ansociated Press. - LITTLE ROCK, Ark., February 1.— Emery Connell and Joe Sullivan, con- victed of murder in connection with the slaying of two Little Rock de- tectives, and Eulos Sullivan, under; sentence to be electrocuted Febru- ary 15 for the killing of J. Walter | Sasey, a deputy United States mar- | shal, escaped from death cells at the | Arkansas penitentiary here today by | holding up Hamp MArtin, prison wa den, and his nephew, R M. Haskins of Kansas City, when Martin and! Haskins went to the men’s cells with | thelr breakfast. VIRGINIAN HEADS COUNCIL. MEMPHIS, Tenn, February I.- Dr. R. E. Blackwell, president of Randolph-Macon College at Ashland, Va, was elected president of the Council of Church Schools of the South last night. MISSES’ 1924, THINK COUNTERFEIT PLOT GANG WiPED OUT /- Arrests by Federal Operators of Men Accused in $1,000,000 Spuri- ous-Note-Shoving Attempt. By the Associated Pre: CHICAGO, February 1.—With the arrest last night of Nicholas Giori. |ana and Frank Reubeto, federal op: eratives belleve they have taken the last members of a gang of counter- Tuuaged felters who plotted to circulate more than $1,000,000 in spurious $20 notes on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chi- cago. gang, Salvatore Mangiapano, Olivaro and_Frank Raymond, arrested in Raymond's home, in York, Tuesday night. Gabriel dl Fiore, » government op- erative, became a member of the gang and worked with them for over a year, federal officers said. A sau- sage machine invented by Mengia- pato was used as a blind to cover the counterfeiting operations, which were carried on in a hotel here, About 400 of the notes had been printed and a small number clrcu- ated here when the gang separated, federal officers sald. The machinery was shipped to New York by th New Three other allezed members of the | Mario | were | thrde arrested there, it is said, and |the counterfeiting plates, negativ d other parapherni in the raid on Ray ZIHLMAN CANDIDATE. Again in Race ft;l:;;-Electiuu Representative, Dispatch to The Star. MBERLAND, Md., February 1 At a dinner given at Annapolis Wed- nesday night by James Campbell B, ton, this county, member of the hous. of delegates, the candidacy of Fred erick Zihlman, this ciiy, for re lon _and ‘re-election to th | House of Representatives formall announced ) BACON SALE e 1216 F St. NW. NEW Our regular brand of special dry-cured, hickory-smoked bacon—preferred by house- wives for over fifty years. To add to the already great popularity of our bacon and to acquaint new customers yith its superior merits. At all good grocers, own market stands. “LOFFLER’S” Bacon chain stores and our Be sure to ask for this week-end. Keeping Tryst With Fashion! ? 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