Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1924, Page 12

AT TOMB OF UNK Pope at Holy ! resented the thousands of members of the Holy Name Society. DRAWING OFF HIS TWO-SEVENTY-FIVE APPLE JUICE. Representative Hill of Maryland first squeezed the liquid from prime Maryland apples, then he allowed it to ferment as a test of the prohibition law. The photograph shows him drawing the stuff from a keg into gallon jars. The Farms, Mr. Hill's home, and many guests were present. MAKES HS FORNAL FAREVELL TOARMY General’s Brief Note to His “Comrades” Made Public by War Department. Bearing the address “to my com- rades” and the simple signature John J. Pershing, without other indica- tion of his rank than the heading at the top “General of the Armies,” the general’s formal farewell to the Army was made public yesterday at the War Department. The message was written in the form of the last gen- eral order he signed on his birthday anniversary, September 13, and it will be read to every Army organization by the commanding officer at the first parade formation after it is received. General's Personal Note. o words seem adequate to express to you the conflicting emotions that I feel upon reaching the date which of- ficially marks the termination of my | active service,” Gen. Pershing wrote. “Our experiences together have been varied. We have withstood the same hardships and shared the same pleas- ures. We have faced discourage- ments and rejoiced over victories. “Today the recollections that swift- ly pass in review fill my heart with a deep sense of gratitude for the loyal service and warm appreciation of the sincere devotion to the country of the patriotic officers and men with whom it has been my good fortune to be as- sociated during the fleeting years of my Army life. Proud of Men of All Ranks. “It is my proud privilege, in part- ing, to say of the men of all ranks who have borne arms under the flag that none have more earnestly wished peace, yet in defense of right none have .ever been imbued with loftier purpose mor more completely conse- crated to the maintenance of our ideals. “My esteem for them and my admi- ration for their achievements con- tinue to increase with the passing of time. The inspiration of their exalted conception of citizenship and their fulfillment of its obligations should ever assure the preservation of our institutions. The glorious example of their fidelity and courage will be re- membered by those who come after us. Assured of Lasting Interest. “It is with an abiding confidence in our national forces, and with the as- surance of my lasting interest in their welfare, that I bid you all an affec- tionate farewell.” Delegates to Report. At the morning service in the Fourth Presbyterian Church tomor- row the delegates to the Young Peo- ple’s Conference, held last Summer at Ocean City, Md., will give reports. At the evening service Rev. Dr. Ward will preach on the “Virgin Birth of Christ.” Soviet Claims Coal Fields of Tunguska Greatest in World By the Associated Press. KRASNOYARSK, Siberia, Sep- tember 20.—According to a survey just completed by a governmental commission headed by Prof. Obroutcheff, the Tunguska Basin, in northwestern Siberia, con- tains the greatest coal deposits in the world. These deposits were said to embrace an area of several thousand square miles. Members of the commission found immense deposits of sulphuric minerals, 3,500,000 tons of graph- ite and traces of platinum in the Norel Mountains, situated in the basin. SHERIFF AND RIVAL CANDIDATE INDICTED Don Chafin, Logan County Official, and Five Deputies Held on Liquor Charges. Dy the Associated Press. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., September 20—Don Chafin, sheriff of Logan County, and five deputy sheriffs were among’ those named in indictments returned by the Federal grand jury yesterday. Two indictments were returned against Sheriff Chafin. One charged conspiracy to violate the Volstead act, and the other charged him with engaging in the sale of liquor, nam- ing as his partner, Tennis Hatfleld, one of the sons of the late “Devil Anse” Hatfield, a prominent figure in mountain feuds years ago. Hatfield, Republican candidate for sheriff to succeed Chafin, a Demo- cratic leader in Logan County, was one of the government witnesses be- fore the grand jury, United States Attorney Elliott Northcott declared in announcing the return of the in- dictment. Emmett Scaggs, county superintendent of schools and Demo- cratic candidate for sheriff, was named in one indictment charging illegal possession of liquor. Others indicted included John Chafin, a deputy sheriff, upon a charge of hav- ing liquor at a polling place during a national election; Sim Thomason, a deputy sheriff, upon a charge of releasing a prisoner for a considera- tion of $200 after his arrest upon a prohibition charge, and William Din- ges and John Browning, deputy sheriffs, upon charges of violating the prohibition laws. John T. Gore, another deputy, and H. S. Walker were named in another indictment charging _conspiracy to secure the arrest and conviction of Frank Lewls, & negro, upon a pistol- carrying charge. Walker was com- mitted to jail by Judge George W. McClintic, charged with having at- tacked and beaten William Avis, one of the witnesses before the grand Jury. A Visitors to the English Parliament average 5,000 on ordinary days and more than 20,000 every Saturday. ceremony took place at Franklin DRAIN RETURNIG TO LEAVE CAPTAL New Legion Chief Expects to Move to Indianapolis Within 10 Days. By the Associated Press, ST. PAUL, Minn., September 20.— Pledged to increased efforts in re habilitation and child welfare work. delegates were en route to their homes today from the sixth annual convention of the American Legion, which ended here yesterday after James A. Drain of Washington, D. C., was elected national commander. Comdr, Drain announced he expect- ed to move to Indianapolis, the na- tional headquarters of the legion, within 10 days. First attention the ensuing year, as in the past, he said, will be given to disabled service men, with child wel- fare on an enlarged scale coming next in consideration. Americanism, preparedness activities and many leg- islative activities also are on the year's calendar. Russell G. Creviston, national adju- tant, selected by John R. Quinn, who retired yesterday as national com- mander, will retain that post under Commander Drain, the latter an- nounced before his departure for ‘Washington. Mrs. O. D. Oliphant of Trenton, N. J., was named national president of the American Legion Auxiliary before ad- journment of that organization’s an- nual convention, late yesterday. SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED. Davis-Bryan Club to Hear Mrs. Blair Tuesday. Prominent speakers, including Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice chairman of the Democratic national committee, will address the next gathering of the Davis-Bryan Progressive Demo- cratic Club, Tuesday night at § o'clock at the Shoreham Hotel. Mrs. Walter E. Hutton, president of the club, will preside. Vocal selections will be rendered by Miss Mamie Rouse, assisted at the piano’ by Dr. Albert Harmed. Head- quarters of the club are meanwhile open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at room 520, Southern Building. James R. Baker is in charge, and will take care of registration for voting in the various States. —— Senior League to Meet. The Senior League of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church South will meet at 6:45 o’'clock tomorrow evening. Miss Ninan Schnell will be the leader, and the topic will be “The Beatitude of the Psalms.’ s ! It is just 75 years since the last great cholera epidemic visited the United States, T NOWN SOLDIER IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. William Cardinal O’Connell, personal representative of the ame convention in Washington, placing a wreath on the tomb yesterday afternoon. In placing the floral wrea the cardinal rep- Copyright by Miller Service. Thomas . Willett, a Portland, Oreg., policeman, who called on President Coolidge yesterday. Willett is a direct descendant of John Quiney A National Photo DISEASE IN BY ROBERT T. SWAL] Base ball in the National Capital no longer is a national game. It is a disease, a flaming epidemic, a wild, raving mania, and if something doesn’t happen soon to ease the strain on the faithful fans half the popula- tion of the District of Columbia will be dead of heart failure. No army fighting in foreign lands ever had the support that the old home town is giving to the Nationals in their dazzling fight for the Ameri- can League pennant out there in the West, where men are men, where base hits are a blessing and errors the saddest words of tongue or pen. Entire Population Involved. From the White House to the hum- blest alley dwelling, Washington hangs daily upon the base ball scares. It is no longer a question of waiting for the final results. The games by half innings are flashed to the far corners of the city. They are posted in the office buildings; they are chalked upon the windows of the cor- ner groceries; they are passed by word of mouth along the street: the trolley conductors and motormen carry tidings, good or bad. It is bad enough for the fans to have to fol- (low their own team in 'such minute detail, but they have to watch the Yanks in the self-same manner. It is no exaggeration, no mere fig- ure of speech, to say that Washing- ton is base ball crazy; base ball hungry, and it is an irony of fate that the first time the Senators have had a real chance for the old gon- falon, the team had to go away from home for all of its crucial series. Craze Is Widespread. is. If the team were playing here, business probably would be sus- pénded all day instead of merely dur- ing the base ball hours in the West- ern cities. Washington can't keep its mind on the job while the scores are coming in and makes no attempt to. Wherever you see a group of substantial business or professional men talking together, it is all about base ball. In the Government de- partments Uncle Sam is losing thou- sands of dollars a day through the utter helplessness of his employes. They've got the base ball palsy. The psychology of the situation here is interesting. The great bulk of the population believes it would be too good to be true for Washington to win. They never have won, so it is psychology of precedent, a complex of pessimism. Refuse to Express Doubt. But the “defeatists” won’t admit their feelings even to themselves. They are out at the scoreboards every day rooting for all they are worth, and each day the shade of the game is the mood of the Nation's Capital. Thursday, when Cleveland was four runs ahead up to the fourth inning you could cut the gloom in Washing- _ .ton with a scythe. There was no need But the craze is bad enough as it & ARCHBISHOP CURLEY CELEBRA TES MASS. Michael J. Curley, Arch- bishop of Baltimore, celebrant of the solemn pontifical mass at Catholic University yesterday, leaving throne to begin the mass, National Ihoto, ranking American cardinal, reading the gospel from the throne at the solemn pontifical mass. The representative of the Pope wore the com- plete robes of a cardinal. FIRST APPEARANCE OF POPE'S REPRESENTATIVE AT THE HOLY NAME CONVENTION. William Cardinal O'Copnell was tendered the same welcome as would have be Rev. L. T. Tighe, 0. M. L: Archb; 1. J. Ripple, director of Holy Na BASE BALL IN D. C. CLASSED EPIDEMIC FORM Becomes Wild, Raving Mania, Passing From the Realm of National Game—Entire Population Involved in Throes of the Malady. to ask the score. That Washington was behind was written on every face vou met on the streets, in hotel lob- bies or office building corridors. Then came the big eighth and ninth innings for Washington. The sun shone, the birds sang and there wasn't a sour disposition at a single supper table in all the city. The fact that Washington is pitted against such a team of veterans as the Yankees in such a pitiless strug- gle as the race has turned out to be is hard on the fans. They would have liked to see Washington romp in, but if victory shouid come after such a harrowing race, the joy will be all the sweeter. 1f Washington loses in the end, however, the disappointment here will be little short of a national calamity. ‘Washington people eagerly ask vis- itors if New York is as excited as the capital and they cannot understand the apparent indifference of the Bronx and Manhattan fans. Different in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn it is different. There the mania is almost, if not quite, as bad as it is here. Brooklyn has here: tofore won pennants, but you would never know it from the inflamed con- dition of her fans. They block traf- fic around the scoreboards, shutting off Brooklyn's famous service that gave the team at one time the sou- briquet of “Trolley Dodger: The fans are dodgers no longer. They take their stands in the streets and say “They shall not pass.” The police are powerless to fight a way through. And_Brooklyn will mever forget that final Sunday game with the iants, when the fans stormed the walls, like ancient infantry, when the gates had to be closed almost as soon as they were opened, and where Judge Landis and the chief of the fire department couldn’t edge their way in with a shoe horn. From the: artistic and sentimental points of view it would be a shame if Washington and Brooklyn did not win out. Another battle between the Yanks and Giants would leave most of the country cold. New blood in the series would be life giving to the national game. S o Staff Sergeant Retired. Staff Sergt. George Dixon, Medical Department, on duty at the Army Medical Center, this city, has been placed on the retired list on account of age and will proceed to his home. Resume Full Services. Transfiguration” Episcopal Church has resumed all its activities for the Autumn. The evening service will be resumed tomorrow at 7:30 o’clock. ‘Two choirs will render the music of the service. A series of interesting sermons will begin tomorrow at the 11 o'clock service. en acvorded the Pope himself. hop Curley of Baltimore, me Society. CHICAGO THRONGS WELGOME WHEELER Progressive Candidate Deal With Dawes’ Record in Speech Tonight.- to Ly the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 20.—A big crowd chanting “La Follette and Follette and Wheeler,” Senator Wheeler, Independ- presidental candidate, to Chi- cago today. Behind a_band in an_ automobile procession, which included Represent- ative John M. Nelson of Wisconsin, La Follette campaign manager, and E. Shephard, chief of the Order of s, the candidate s’ hotel and pre- sented v am calling for three public appearances, in addition to_a night speech. With Mrs. Wheeler the senator was made the central figure at a luncheon gathering and at a 3 o'clock recep- tion, the latter chiefly for women. The program also provided for a banquet at 6 p.m, Chicago labor organizations took an active part in the ali-day reception and promised that the attendance of their members alone would tax the capacity of the auditorium for the night meeting. His written speech was known to have the career of Gen. Dawes, Republican vice presidential candidate, in public and private life as its chief topic. CONCLUDES OHIO TOUR. I La Follette’'s Running Mate As- sails Daugherty. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, September 20.— Enthusiastic over the gradual but steady increase in size of audiences afforded him as he has made his way westward, Senator Wheeler of Mon- tana, vice presidential candidate with La Follette on the Independent ticket, departed from Ohio today to make his first halt and his next address in Chicago tonight. He told his Cin- cinnati hearers during the course of his last night's speech that he ex- pected the Independent ticket to carry Ohio, and also described for them in glowing terms symptoms of political revolution which he said had been seen in FEastern States earlier in his tour. Through the course of seven ad- dresses in Ohio the Montana Senator has harped insistently upon the of- ficlal conduct of former Attorney General Datigherty, an Ohio man, and the latter's Ohio associates in the conduct of the Department of Jus- tice, and _has charged corruption in the Republican administration. Be- fore leaving the State, however, he was known to be preparing new data dealing with the personal and politi- cal record of Gen. Dawes, Republican vice presidential candidate, and his advisers sald these would be promul- sated in Chicago and later addresses. Photograph taken at Catholic University yesterday. rdinal O’Connell, Mgr. Havelin, sccretary to Cardinal O’Connell, and the Very Rev. Youth, Flirting, Beaten to Death | At Bottle Plant| By the Associated Press, September and a cudg- brother was third companion was also | eled after, it was alleged, the | three men had passed and re- | passed a local bottling plant and flirted with the girl employes Robert Li augh, Charles Pey- ton and Charles Byrd, three em- ployes of the plant, were arrested and charged with murder. hurt BANDIT TERROR OPENS NEW FIGHT FOR PARDON Israel Patterson, Serving 60-Year Sentence in Maryland, Reigned 30 Years Ago. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, September 30.— Israel Patterson, the “bandit of South Mountain,” who, several decades ago, terrorized the entire Cumberland Val- ley, has filed an' application for re- hearing with the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, according to word received here. Patterson is servinz a 60-year sen- tence in the Eastern Penitentiary, and on several other occasions has applied for a pardon, only to have it refused { him. His reputation as a bad man has pre- vented his release, despite the fact that his attorney declare he has re- formed. This plea in the past has failed because Patterson in one short | penitentiary sentence earlier in his life | emerged from the stone walls a more wily bandit than ever. | For years Patterson roved the moun- tains of Franklin, Fulton, Adams Counties, Pa., and Washington County, Md., and robbed farmhouses and small town shops. At times when attempts were made to serve warrants upon him he either shot up the posse or dodged across the line out of jurisdiction of the authorities. His daring and marksmanship finally caused cessation of efforts to arrest him. He grew bolder, notified police he would be in their town at a certain time and that they should leave—and they did. Rev. E. H. Swem’s Sermon Topic. “Autmn Sfory, No. 3: A Man Who Wanted to Run Side by Side With a Rabbit!” wil be related tomorrow night at 8 o'clock by Rev. E. Hez Swem, pastor, Centennial Bi Church. The morning subject is sullied Inside. The tentative itinerary ahead of | his campaign party will carry Sen- |ator Wheeler during the next few days to Western cities where Gen. Dawes has already been. He is scheduled to be at Bloomington, IlL, September 22; Davenport, Jowa, Sep- tember 23; Minneapolis, September 24; Duluth, September 25, and Omaha, September 27, traveling by private car, Front row,- left to right: Very Copyright by Mil HIGHWAY POLICE DECLARED ILLEGAL Ruling Hits Virginia Warfare Against Speeders and Reckless Drivers. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., September 20.— Attorney General Saunders has ruled that the action of Motor Vehicle Com- missioner Hayes in naming deputies to have charge of the enforcement of laws on the highways and to put an end to speeding and reckless driving is_without authority of law. Tncidentally. the position of the at- torney general and that of the direc- tor of the legislative reference bureau are in direct conflict, the latter hol ing that the commissioner has ample authority for course and that the ction of the com- The matter is not settled is expected to be reopened and revised on a further statement of the commissioner to the effect that the enforcement of speed regulations and all other laws are to be conferred on the deputies, who have been named in a number of in- stances and for whom the equipmest has been ordered and some of which is said to be on its way here. The governor and the members of the State highway commison are backing Commissioner Hzyes, and many persons have written the com- missioner and commended him for his “efforts to put an end to the reckless work of moonshiners and speeders who endanger human life by fast driving over the hifhways at all hours of the day and night.” COUPLE ASPHYXIATED. Colored Honeymooners in Hospital After Blowing Out Gas. Lee McPherson, 24, and Cora Mc- Pherson, 22, colored, came here yes- terday on their honeymoon from Gainesville, Va, and narrowly es- caped a fatality by their lack of knowledge of gas fixtures. Last night, at the \home of the bride's mother, 308 T street northwest, they blow out the gas upon retiring. Early this morning both were found un- conscious from the fumes and were removed to Casualty Hospital, where they were revived, and later removed to Freedmen's Hospital, where their condition was said to be Serious. Three Stewards Elected. Three stewards were elected for the balance of the present year at the quarterly conference of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church South. The officers chosen were E. E. Overholdt, R. L. Arm- strong and E. C. Stout. AL ) The apple contains a greater per- centage of phosphorus than any other fruit.