Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1924, Page 17

MRS. COOLIDGE LA THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, CORNER STONE AT MERCERSBURG ACADEMY YESTERDAY. The two sons of the President and Mrs. Coolidge are students of the Pennsylvania school, the eldest, John, graduating yesterday. The corner stone was for the new chapel of the academy, and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur delivered an address. WATCHING THE YOUNG SOLDIERS DRILL. It was a happy moment for Supt. Kramer when Central High School won the annual competitive drill yesterday. The photograph shows him being congratulated by Com- oner Oyster, who is always an erested spectator at the drills. Washington Star Photo. At right, Dr. W. H. Irvine, president of Mercersburg Academy. CHAMPION SEWER OF MAIL BAGS. larrie L. Post Office Department, who has been mal She figures that she has sewed 28,080,000 four-foot seams and years, National Photo. Hurley of th ags for twenty- stitched 4,650,000 mail bags, and her seams. endto-end. would reach 21.275 miles. Coprrizht Ly Kadel & Herbert. MAJ. MARTIN MAKES REPORT TO WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS. T he commander of the round- theworld flight of the Army, whose plane w CHAMBER DIRECTORS PRAISE CIVIC MOVES Amateur Base Ball League, Oratory Contest and Boy Scout Camp . Indorsed. FOR RECEPTION PLANS Those Attending Contest Finals Will Be Invited. A number of important civic activi- ties in the District received the ap- proval of the Washington Chamber of Commerce at the meeting of the directors at the Homer hw#lding last night. The directors indorsed the Wash- ington - Amateur Base Ball League and will urge members to help sell < for the mame between the ling Baltimore and Washington amateur teams at the Clark Griffith Stadfum on June 21 Washington amateur teams, comprising about 2,200 sandlotte are members of the Mational Amateur Base Ball League. The teams will be chosen in Balti- more and Washington byy popular yote. Indorses Oratory Comtest. The oratorical contest was indorsed and the board announced it would invite all those attending the contest finals at Memorial Continental Hall Fri¢ay night to a reception at the Willard, where they will be recetved Ly the tontestants. A light supper will be given by the Chamber of Commerce to the con- testants, their friends and relatives. the judges and members of the board of_directors and their wives. % The chamber announced that it would continue its indorsement of the ceout activities at Camp Roosevelt and would donate medals from the Chamber of Commerce to scouts achieving notable credit in the courses offered at the camp. Committee Appointed. (& committee was appointed by Issac Gans, president of the Chamber of Commerce, to &ttend a convention at Lynchburg, Va., for the purpose o furthering the Virgimia historical bighway, which starts at Washington and tewrs the historical places of The committee “Wwas com- Capper’s Printing Proposal Would Cost $161,001.24 A request for the printing of 50,000,000 copies as Senate docu- ments of an eight page article entitled “The Peril of Narcotics— a Warning the People of America,” as proposed in a Sen- concurrent resolution offered Senator Capper of Kansas, has aused some anxiety for the Sen- at imittee printing. ator Moses, chairman of the committee on printing, received today from the public printer an stimate showing that it would cost $161,001.24" to print 50,000,000 copies of the article on npews- print paper, and $183,771.24 for the same number of copies ‘on ma- chine-finished paper. Theso fig- ures rather staggered members of the Senate committee and a hear- ing on the resolution will be held before the printing committee this afternoon. The article in question is from the Narcotic Eduga- tion A Former Repre- sentative Hobson of Alabama has earnestly supported the printing and _distribution of these docu- ments. RIVER BILL REPORTED. House Committee Acts on $11,200,- 000 Hudson Project. Favorable report on the proposal by Maj. Gen. Beach, chief of -Army engineers, to improve the Hudson River from Hudson to Water- ford. N. Y, at_ a total eost of $11,200.000, with $300,000 annually for maintenance, was made to the House yesterday by the rivers and harbors committee. Chairman Demp- sey said both the Standard Oil Com- y and the Henry Ford interests had intentions of using extensively such a waterway. Also he felt such an improvement would reduce greatly transportation rates for .the grain fields of the W ate co on posed of Ivan C. Weld, Robert N. Harper, William F. Gude. Mrs. Antonious, president of the American Hospice Association, now conducting a drive to raise funds to build an American bospice in Pales- tine, addressed the board. n wrecked in Alaska, arrived in Washington yesterday. % photograph shows him making his report to Gen. Pershing and Gen. Patrick, chief of the air service. The ional Photo. REINTRODUCES BILL FOR GUN ELEVATION Representative Fred A. Britten Claims Matter of Paramount Importance. introducing today his hill pro- viding for funds for gun clevation on thirteen battleships, Representative Fred A. Britten of Illinois, ranking Republican on the House naval af- fairs committee, declared his inten- tion to “press the State Department for an immediate interpretation” of the Washington arms conference treaty on this point. An amendment to the naval construction bill to ac- complish gun elevation was rejected by the House on the grounds that it would violate the treaty. “I regard the elevation of guns on our first-lme ships of greater im- portance than any other moderniza- tion possible,” said 'Representative Britten, “and if it is not done, we might just as well admit to the American people that we were bun- coed in the Washington armament conference, and that our Navy will not reach its intended ratio until our older ships have been scrapped and replaced by new ones provided for under the treaty. “Eight of our eighteen ships have slower speed and_shorter range than anything in the British or Japanese navies. “A simple change in gun elevations to 30 degrees, will instantly make powerful hitters out of present weaklings. “America demands a Navy equal to the best, and if the treaty of equali- zation is in fact a delusion, we might just as well know all about it with- out further Insiduous diplomacy. “I hope to get a favorable report from the Secretary of the Navy, and will press the State Department for an immediate interpretation of the treaty on this point.” Y. W. C. A. TO ENTERTAIN. Henry T. Offterdinger and| Members .and Friends Will Be Guests Tonight. The membership commities of the. ‘Washington Young Women’s Chris- tian Association will give an enter- tainment ht, at 8 o'clock, at Y. W..C. A headquarters, to all mem- Jack Turner of Birmingham, Ala., representative of the southern states in the national oratorical contest, who arrived in Washington yester- day evening. Washington Star Photo. DR. TUPPER TO SPEAK. Will Address Former Congregation Tomorrow. Dr. Henry Allen Tupper and Mrs. Tupper are spending the week in the city, and Dr. Tupper will speak at his former church, the First Baptist | Church, 16th and O streets, tomorrow evening. Dr. Tuppers literary work takes him to the east early in the fall. bers of tion. Mrs, William Adams Slade, former | general secretary of the association, | will speak on_“New Internationai Friendship.” = Miss = Bertha Pabst, member of the local board and na- tional secretary of the next national biennial convention, will =peak on the “National Business Women's As- sembly.” Convention reports will be given by Mrs. William S. Culberson, chairman of the religious education committee; Mrs. T. E. Brown, chair- man of the unified educational pro- gram; Mrs. Harry E. Hull, chairman of finance; Miss Klsa Peterson, chair- man of the girl reserve committec. Business girls who will report on the student, industrial and business as- semblies are Miss Theresa Pyle, Miss Mary Duvall, Miss Grace Braeme and Mis sic Bunting. and friends the organiza- —— e ———— Play at Howard Tonight. A fantasy, “Prunella on Leave in a Dutch Garden,” is to be presented by the Howard University Players on the university campus tonight, at 81 o'clock. It will mark the final out- door presentation by the players this season. Special music has been com- osed for the production. The com- Pined university orchestra and band, under the direction of Dorcy Rhodes and Wesley Howard, with Madeline Towles at the piano, will furnish music. costumes and settings represent the work of the players, under the direction of Alma Thomas and T. J. Hopkins. The production will be under the direction of Mont- Zomery Gregory, assisted by I Franklin Peters. The part of Prunella will be played by Roberta Dabney: that of Plerret, by Melyvin Greene; Scaramel, by Charles Willlams; the boy, by Velma Young; the maiden aunts, by La Verne Gregory, Anita Turpeau and,| Edythe Taylor; gardeners, by Mer- wyn Coy, James Cobb and W. Hop- kins; the parts of Queer and Quaint, by Mae Harper and Harriet Stewart; the Band of Mummers, by E. Levett, R. Watson, V, Rich, W. Brown, Ro- berta Dabney, Teresa Kinnard, Ed- COMPANY F OF CENTRAL, WINNI wi average of 94 per cent. MEDAL FOR THE WIN medal upon the bre ve drill. Practicing for the Olympic compe- tition. Miss Lillian Stoddard of New York, in training at Briarcliff Lodge pool. Eighty-five swimmers have entered the Olympic tests for Saturday. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. BAND CONCERTS. At the bandstand, navy yard, 7:30 to 9 p.m. this evening, by the United States Navy Band, Charles Benter, director. Mareh Mal. Bdwin Denby, (Dedicated to Mr. ‘Rienzi™ Suite of two songs baritone— (a) “Be Still and Know." Pierson (b) “My Curiy-headed Baby.” (Bandmasters G. De Giorgio and J. Mangzanaro.) Grand _scemes from the opera “Rigoletto” ......Verd Three dances from “Henry VTIL. German “Gallagher and Shehan,” arranged by Sousa (Through_ the courtesy of Mr. John Philip Sousa.) Suite— (1) “Ballet from Copelia,™ (2) “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” . the Winds”.. Excerpts from the musical comedy, “The Merry Widow” . Popular—Selected. “The Star Spangled Banner.” At 5 p.m. at the United States Capitol by the United_States Marine Band, William H. San- telmann, leader; Taylor Bran- son, second leader. March, “Old Comrades,” F. Wagner Overture, “Oberon”. .....Weber Characteristic, “Spring. ZephyTs” .........|. Grand scenes from “The z Valkyrie” .... . Wagner Walts, “Village Swallows.” Strauss Southern rhapsody.....Hosmer “Tor “Finlandia,” me poem, iy ROR “The Star Spangied Banner.” No Mourners at Funeral. ' When Mrs. Joyce O'Keefe, who had met a violent death at the hands of one @f her lodgers in Tondom, was buried recently, thousands of persons lined the streets and sidewalks out of morbid curiosity, but there was not a single mourner inside where the services were held. There was, in fact, none to carry the coffin, and volunteer firmen and police had to monia White and Loromia Badham.|be commandeered in order to conclude The “Statue of Love” will be rep- resented by Martha Jones, the ceremony, The police took NING CAPTAIN. chief of infantry of the United States Army, p st of Capt. T. M. Pelzman, who commanded Com- pany F of Central High School. the winning company in th . Gen. C. F. Far nning the Allison Nail annual com- Washiogton Star Photo, AT MERCERSBURG GRADUATION EXERCIS president of Mercer-burg son., John, and Dr. W. H. Irvine, tending the graduation exerci graduating class, theat Mrs. Coolidge laid a corner stor cals and the unveiling of a portrait. THE ANNUAL COMPETITIVE DRILL. Commanded by Cadet Capt’ T. M. Pelzman, this company adjudged the best drilled in the thirty-seventh annual competition yesterday at the American League Base Ball Park. The company had an Washington Star Photo Mre. Coolidge. her Academy, at- Young John was a member of the attended school National Phor OAKLAND, CALIF.,, DELEGATION TO CONVENTION OF REALTORS. This group is making things espe- cially lively around the convention headquarter: panies the delegation. HOSPITAL FUGITIVE CAUGHT BY OFFICER Daniel C. Phillips Apprehended, But Other Walter Reed Pris- oner Escapes. Bdward O'Neal, eighteen eyars old, and Daniel C. Phillips, twenty-two. soldier prisoners at Walter Hospital, who are alleged to have disabled Lawrence McMichael, a sen- try, with a shovel and escaped from the reservation, returned to the hos- pital last night, where O'Neal ob- tained an Army uniform. left the pistol that had been taken from the sentry and started toward the dty about 2 o'clock this morming. They were met at Georgla avenue and Emerson street by Policemen Denton and McKeoever, just after they had missed a southbound street car. The policemen stopped the two men and proceeded to question then, hard- ly believing they were the ones who had figured in the escape, and sud- denly the men started running from the policemen. One of them, who proved to be Phillips, was captured by Denton after a pursuit of three blocks, but MoKeever was unable to overtake O'Neal. _Phillips was locked up at the tenth precinct police station for the military authorities and for in- vestigation by the police. The fugitives were suspected of having held up Policeman Oliver Stanton of the twelfth precinct in Rock Creek Park last night about 7 o'clock and robbed him of the sev- eral shells he had in his pistol Policeman Stanton was motoring through the park about 7 o'clock, he stated, when two men held him up and reqquired him to surrender the ammunition in his pistol After get- ting his ammunition, he stated, they told him to leave Rock Creek Park. Stanton was about to place the men under arrest, it is stated, when ome of them pointed a weapon at him and demanded his ammunition. A mes- sage asking for the arrest of O'Neal was telephoned the several police sta- tions and authoritids of nearby states. O'Neal, formér resident of Boston; was arrested Sunday morning by De- tective C. J. P. Weber and Policeman W. S. Brown of the tenth precinct on a charge of larceny of government property, it being charged that he and Harry Harvey Brown, former sol- dier at Walter Reed ital, were discovered in the act of taking cof- fee, oggs and meats from the store- {WOULD PLACE Reed | A quartet of “Califor mess at the hospital and were frightened room of No. Sunday off by a sentry. Brown was locked up at the police station, the military authorities tak- ing charge of O'Neal. While consid- ering a request for O'Neal's sur- render to the civil authorities, offi- clals of Walter Reed Hospital had him working about the grounds with other prisoners in charge of a guard, and it was while so employed yester- day that he escaped. — 'HOWARD UNIVERSITY UNDER U. S. Cramton Introduces Bill Authoriz- ing Change—Says Institution Will Benefit. Federal supervision of Howard University through the bureau of. education 1s proposed in_a bill in- troduced yesterday by Representa- tive Louis C. Cramton of Michigan, which would _authorize annual ap- propriations “for aid in construction, development, improvement and main- tenance.” Representative Cramton out that “this university is ing a very important and effective work of a truly national character. Th limited supervision by p bureau of education which T propose will _be helpful.” Representative Cramton said. “The appointment of the trustees by the President is a de- served recognition of the institution and further desirable because of the federal contribution which the bill authorizes. That authorization is of real importance, the continued welfare of the institution being often menaced by points of order, the ap- propriations which have been made annually for forty years or more be- ing without statutory authority.” SHIP. MERGER PLAN READY Palmer Sends Proposal on Consoli- dation to Board. The Shipping Board yvesterday ceived from President Palmer of the Fleét Corporation for its approval final plans for consolidating the nine government trade routes from ulf ports to the United Kingdom, north- ern Europe, Mediterrancan and South American seaports. The proposed merger would be the third since the consolidation policy was adopted sev- eral months ago for economy and to assure paying cargoes. Detalls of the recommendations were withheld pending action by the board, but Mr. Palmer sald the merger would be “on a very satisfactory basis.” pointed perform- warblers™—real singer: Washington CONSULS ARE NOMINATED. Julius G. Lay, Thirty Years in Service, Is Reinstated. Julius G. Lay of Washington has a record of more than thir in the United States consular service Wwas nominated yesterday afternoon | by President Coolidge to be a con- sul general of class two. reinstatement, Mr. | sides at 1843 N street, in the bankin ew York the last four yvears, | At the same time the President | sent the following promotions in the consular service to Senate confirmation: From consul general of class four to consul general of class three— Homer M, ington of Connecticut Tracy Lav of Alabama and Clarence E. Gauss of Connecticut. From consul genoral large consul general - of class three— William Dawson of Minnesota, Nel- son T. Johnson of Oklahoma and Roger ‘Culver Treédwell of Indiana. From consul general of class five to consul geperal of cl four—W. Stanley Hollis of Massachusett, From comsul of class three to con- sul general of class four—George Messersmith of Delaware, Addison ¥ Southard of Kent Louis ¢ fus, jr, of California; Clarence. gan _of Californiz, Theodore of New York, Edwin L. Nevilla of Ohlo, Mahlon Fay Perkins of Cal fornia, John A..Gamon of Illinois, Philip Holland of Tennessee, Thomas D. Bowman of Missouri, Henry P, Starrett of Florida, Wesley Frost of Kentucky, George E. Chamberlin of New York, Ezra M. Lawton of Ohio, Lewls W. Haskell of South Carolina. Arminius T. Haeberle of Missouri, Ely E. Palmer of Rhode Island, Charles . Winans of - Michigan, Arthur C. Frost of - Massachusetts, Charles M. Hathiaway, jr., of Pennsyl- vania. From consul of class five to consul of class four—Carol H. Foster of Maryland, Thomas M. Wilson of Ten- nessee, Coert du Bois of California, Lowell C. Pinkerton of Missour), S Pinkney Tuck of New York, Charles R. Cameron of New York, (ieorge C. Hanson of Connecticut, Ma owan of Tenne: Anderson Wenry of 1 ¥ t Verne Riel York. From vice consul de class one to consul of ¢ Robert F. Kelley of Massachusetts e v In a cave in the Pantheon at.Rome the visitor, by only flapping his coat. create'an echo like the r a big gun. o This is a who re- has been en- usiness zaged the for at to Taware ardson of -~