Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1925, Page 16

- . PRINCIPALS, REFEREE AND SPECTATORS ATTEND THE WEDDING SUPPER. After the wedding of Jack Dempsey, heavyweight cham- ) lle T 0, the friends of the wedded couple made up a supper party. Left to right, we have: Eddie Connors, James Dougherty, referee of the Dempsey-Gibbons fight; Joe Benjamin, lightweight boxer; Miss Helen Taylor, pion, and Miss Estelle Taylor, sister of Estell movie sar, in San Diego, Calif., a few day: Dempsey, Jack's nephew, and Frank Jones. FLYING MEN TESTIFY AT INQUIRY. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell (left), assistant chief of the Army Air Service, and Lieut. Clayton Bissell, who had charge of the bombing squadren which helped sink the Ger- man ships, at the Capitol yesterday for the craft investigation. Lieut. Bissell testified in regard to his instructions in hombing the German sl 3 DI INFLODDS INNEW ENGLAND Sericus Property Damage in Wake of High Waters of Past Two Days. Tr the Asso _ BOSTON, February 14.— Three deaths, the destruction of bridges and dams and the disruption of rail, telepione, telegraph ~and highway cemmunication _in varjous sections were listed ' today among the results of *he floods and ice jams.that have oceurred throughout New England during the last twWo days. Pete Silver lost his life while help- ing to strengthen a railroad bridge at West Canaan, N. H.i Carl Hooper, a Jumberman,, was drowned while try- ing to prevent logs from being car- ried away at -Biddeford, Me., and Alden Loring, 9 years old, was drowned in a brook which flooded at Stoneham, Mass., Highways in Vermont, New Hamp- shire and Massachusetts were blocked accumulations of ice left by the floods. At Montpelier, Vt. sweeping throuzh tion, caused heavy property damage, d in bursting a basement wall caused a gas explosion, injuring four men MARYLAND FLOOD OVER. ted Cress the flood waters, the business sec- Water Subsiding Rapidly in Port Deposit Section. Tix the Associated Press. PORT DEPOSIT, Md., February 14 Flood waters which for the last hours have menaced Port Deposit began subsiding late yesterday and it is thought that by Sunday train serv- jce will be resumed on the Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad. Gauges show that the peak of the flood was reached at the Holtwood Dam at noon yvesterday and since has been receding steadi White the flood was spectacular, the ge was small. No trains have ed here since noon Thursday. FOUR-MILE ICE JAM. Mohawk River 13 Feet Over Nor- mal Above Schenectady. Jir the Assaciated Press \CHENECTADY, N. Y., February 14.—Although the swollen Mohawk River today receded more than a foot, this city last night still was, endan- gered by flood conditions. ~ The “ice jam at the Knolls, west of here, had Irown to four miles in length, keep- ing the water level at more than 13 feet above normal. Two churches, the State armory and the Y. M. C. A. last night extended of- fers of shelter should dwellers along. the river banks be forced to abandon their homes. Win 0. R. C. Commissions. Ward Brown, 1211 Connacticut ave- nue, this city, has been appointed a ¢aptain of Engineers, and. John A. O'Callaghan, Indian Head, Charles County. Md.. a captain in the Chemical Warfare Servica both in the Officers’ Reserve Corpe of the Army, | | have Copyright by Mller Service $10,000 to Repair Monument Lift Asked by Coolidge President Seeks Money to | Put Elevator Again in W orking Order. To repair the elevator in the Wash- ington Monument, which has been out of commission since December, supplemental estimates amounting to $10,000 for the War Department are asked from Congress by President Coolidge, in a letter received at the Capitol today This appropriation required for making extraordinary repairs to the operating machinery of the elevator, according to a statement from R. O. Kioeber, acting director of the Bu- reau of the Budget. He explains that during the latter part of December, 1924, it was found necessary to dis- continue the use of the elevator with a view to correcting certain defects in operation which have become ap- parent. “It is now developed,” Mr. Kloeber says, “that the machinery, partic- ularly the main drive and spider gears, are in such bad condition as to demand the replacement of some o the main parts and the extensive r pairs of other parts, involving a cost greatly in excess of the funds avall- able for annual upkeep. The elevator has been carefully inspected by the. inspector of elevators for trict of Columbia and by mechanical experts of the office of superintendent of public buildings and grounds, who reported that it would be un- safe to put the elevator back into operation without extensive repairs and the replacement of some of the main parts.” WOULD ABANDON CARS. Bus Service Favored for Cumber- land, Frostburg and Westernport. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, February 14—State Roads Commissioner Mackall pro- posed to the Public Service Commis- sion that interurban tracks between Cumberland, Frostburg and Western- port, Md., be abandoned and bus service substituted. The Cumberland and Westernport Rallway Co. owners, had asked the commission to be allowed to start bus service without abandoning the tracks. Mackall said that would be dangerous because the State road is so marrow. He offered to spend $200,000 widening the State road, using part-of the raliroad right of way, If the tracks are abandoned. V. S. Radio Concert Heard in Syria BERLIN, February 14.—According to the Berlin Zeitung Am Mittag, an American_radio_concert has been heard on Mount Lebanon, Syria. G. H. Koran of Saadnail Observatory, Syria, caught signals from the American broadcasting station on a wave length of 70 meters. Krim Death Report Denied. PARIS, February 14.—A Havas dis- patch from Tangier says that recent reports of the death of Abd-EnKrim, the Moorish rebel leader, are untrue. It adds.that on Wednesday he was at his brother's home, near Sheshuan. the Dis-" Mrs. Cecilia Dempsey, Jack’s mother; the bridegroom and the bride; Joe Grossman, Mrs. Grossman, Mrs. Eugene Normile, Lloyd By United News Pictures. PRESIDENT'S STAND NEARS COMPLETION. Here is where Pre: dent Coolidge will stand when he takes the oath of office on March 4. The stand, which is net an elaborate affair, will be completed within the next_few day: HAUGEN MEASURE CHANGES PROPISED Live Stock Body Official Testifies on Farm Needs Be- fore Congress Committees. With little more than two weeks in which to obtain action on farm legis- lation at this session, both Senate and House agricultural committees today continued to hear testimony of wit- nesses as to what is needed M. A. Sykes of lowa, vice president of the National Livestock Producers’ Association, appeared before the House committee, continuing testi- mony he began yesterday and sug- gested several amendments to a bill by Chairman Haugen which would create a Federal co-operative market- ing board. He also advocated pass- age of a revised McNary-Haugen ex- port corporation bill to take care of agricultural surplus to be sold in world markets. The most serious thing “overlooked” by the President's agricultural conference, he said, was 2 plan to take care of such surplus. Before the Senate Committee C. F. Holman of the National Board of Farm Organizations declared recom- mendations of the conference failed to embody the viewpoint of an im- portant farming element. He sub- mitted statements from a number of officials of various groups in the na- tional body ed for “hasty action” in the closing days of the present Congress. Holman sald his group objected to the Willlams co-bperative marketing bill because “it approaches the prob- lem from the viewpoint of controll- ing or regulating co-operatives, rather than to assist them,” and be- cause it would “fortify the position of the middleman.” LEGAL CHANGE SOUGHT. Would Have Juvenile Court Hear Non-Support Cases. The District Commissioners trans- mitted to the Senate District com- mittee today a bill prepared by the commission on public welfare legis- lation intended to restore to the Ju- venile Court authority to hear and determine non-support cases. The Commissioners point out that the Juvenile Court exercised such jurisdiction comcurrently with the Supreme .Court of the District until a decision way rendered sometime ago by the United States Supreme Court which had the effect of con- fining these cases to the District Su- preme Court. EDUCATOR’S WIFE DIES. Mrs. Alexander Meiklejohn Suc- cumbs at Johns Hopkins. AMHERST, Mass, February 14— Word was received here yesterday of the death in Baltimore of Mrs. Mannine L. Melklejohn, wife of Alex- ander Meiklejohn, former president of Ambherst College. Mrs. Melklejohn had been i1l for some time at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore. declaring no need exist- | Disguised as - Delicatessen Clerks | | Copyright by P. & A. Photos. GIRL SWIMMER DEFEATS CHAMPIONS old, of San Rafael, by defeating Fthel L swimming stars, in a the world mark. 50-yard race at St. Augustine, Fla. Eleanor rratti, 15 years lif, who recently gained world-wide prominence kie and Gertrude Ederle, National and Olympic Her time equaled Copyright by Kadel & Herhert MILITARY COURT OF INQUIRY “pal” of Floyd Collins, imprisoned in court of investigation. AT CAVE. Johnny Geralds. reported Sand Cave, testifying at the military Geralds aided in the attempted rescue of Colline until the arrival of the Kentucky State authorities, and he testified that “he would have given his life to reseue Collir prright by T. & A WHEN BILL AUTHORIZING ABRAHAM LINCOLN MEMORIAL BRIDGE WAS SIGNED. The big new span will be a “banks of the Wabash™ affair, crossing the sluggish but romantic stream at Vincennes, Ind. This delegation called at the White House yesterday to see President Cool- Left to right: Everett Sanders, Thomas H. Adams, Senator Watson, Representative' Arthue-H. Greenwood. the idge sign the bill for the bridge. President, Representative W. W. Arnold, Senator Mcl | Izzy and Moe Seize Trucks of Liquor B the Associated Press NEW YORK. February Einstein and Moe Smith, indefat- igabl sleuths of the prohibition department, yesterday carted 500 cases of Scotch whisky away from two a la mode dclicatessen stores in the most effete section of Madison avenue. The Vanderbllt Fruit and Gro- cery Co. and the Madison Avenue Fruit Co, said to be under joint ownership, were the places raided. Although Einstein and Smith said action would be started against the owners, their only prisoner today was James Murphy, chauffeur of a truck alleged to have been unloading 50 cases 'of whisky at the Vanderbilt delica- tessen. The gilded neck of a bottle, protruding from a beribboned basket of fruit in the arms of a BROOKLAND CITIZENS | ASK FOR NEW SCHOOL ‘Want Junior High to Supply Needs of Woodridge and Langdon as Well as Their Own. 14.—Tzzy Establishment of a junior high school in a section central to Brook- land, Woodridge and Langdon, was urged in r lutions adopted by the Brookland izens' Association, meet- ing in the Brookland School last night. Disapproval was expressed at the suggested discontinuance of the seventh and eighth grades at this school, which action would compel the children to go long distances for accommodations. 1t was decided to invite neighboring citizens' associa- tions to aid In the endeavor to secure a junior high school. Because this cection is without public playground facilities, a reso- lution was approved asking that a part of the surplus fund in the Treas- ury to the credit of the District be appropriated for creating a municipal playground and public park on the site of the old Fort Bunker Hill, between Otis and Perry and Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets northeast. The Public Utilities Com- mission are to be urged, according to resoluticns passed, to compel the Washington Rallway and Electric Co. to bring the standard of its North Capitol and Brookland line up to that of its other city lines before they are permitted to extend bus lines. The service and equipment of the raillway company on this line are characterized as disgraceful. Requests for the grading of Fif: teenth street from Monroe to New- ton and the laying of sidewalks thereon will be made to the Com- missioners. A list of general street and sidewalk improvements were con- tained in resolutions adopted and will be forwarded to the Commis- sioners with the request that they be given immediate attention. - Removing of all temporary build- ings between the Union Station plaza and the Capitol and the establish- ment thereon of a public parkway, will be urged upon Congress. ~The regular meeting night of the asso- clation was changed from the second Friday to the second Monday, and will become effective with the April meeting. Vice President Lewis pre- sided. Young woman, was the clue for lzzy and Moe. She was bound from the shop to a hotel nearby lzzy and Moe, whose successful disguises have included tho of grave digger. jazz musician, negro man-about-town, and even that of prohibition agent, donned bibbed white aprons, put pencils over their left ears and posed the selyes in front of the Vanderbilt Fruit and Grocery Co. “All right to bring this stuff in?” queried Murphy. as he bac his truck to the curb. “Sure.” said Izzy As Murphy was earrying the second case Into the shop, Izzy and Moe broke the news. Murphy's arrest was followed by Investi tion, which, according to the pri hibition agents, disclosed rear rooms of both delicatessens piled bigh, with spirituous bottled goods. JURY CLEARS NURSE IN SUICIDE’S DEATH . | Finds No Negligence Responsible | for Action of Iseman B. Hartz. A coroner’s jury at the morgue to- day completely exonerated attendants | at the Emergency Hospital from| blame in connection with the death| of Iseman B. Hartz, who committed | sulcide yesterday. The verdict found that he came to his death as a result of cutting his| throat with a safety razor blade, but the jury specifically stated that’ mo negligence was to be attributed to| any of the hospital attendants. The testimony showed that the nurse in attendance had been absent only “for a fraction of a second” in a communicating room. Members of the family stated that two nurses were employed especially because of the fact that the patient had attempted suicide Wednesday and it was felt that precautions were necessary. Hartz, who entered business here in 1896 and retired last week, is sur- vived by three sisters and an aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Kahn, with whom he lived at 1233 Twelfth street. It was at the home of the last named that he was found last Wednesday semi- consclous from an attempt at drown- ing by submerging his head in a flooded bathtub. His aunt's husband, Marx Kahn, rescued him at that time by breaking in the locked door. He was then sent to the hospital. WOMAN’S ATTACK I;ROBED. RICHMOND, Va, February 14— After questioning ‘members of the party with whom young Mrs. Clucci went automobile riding last Tuesday night just before she was attacked near her home and beaten Into uh- consclousness with a hammer, police officers are said to have returned yasterday to the theory that the at- tack was committed by a negro. In a brief lucid period she was able to tell but little that would aid offi- cers in their investigation of the crime. Her mother remains at her bedside. Search for the assailant con- tinues. SHOALS BL LD BY SENATE DELAY | Conference Report Goes Over Until Next Week in Leg- islative Jam. Taug which b the lead behind an appropriation bill, rs calculated, sport. on the hoals leasing until next week the conference Underwood Muscle bill today went over Although the leaders had agreed to | 1l up the renort today and hold it before the Senate until it was disposed | of, Senator lican leades sidetrack Curtis of Kansas. Repub- today was unwilling to the bill for the | Shoals report When the azreement was made, he said he had expected fhe appropriation bill to be out of the way. The lead- ors now nlan to toKa ¥n the réngnt Monday if the appropriation bill 1s cu in the meanu Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, that it would be Arkansas, the declared today impossible to g=t to the Muscle Shoals report today because “a filfbustet is now on not only against the appropriation bill, but other pending legislation. Senator Underwood. Democrat, Ala- bama, author of the bill, said there were evidences of a filibuster, but he felt confident the report would be taken up and adopted next week. Senator Norris, Republican, Ne braska, leader of the forces opposing the Underwood hill, would not be ¢ !DANIEL P. THOMPSON, 81, VETERAN OF 1861, DIES Had Observed Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary at Home Here One Year Ago. Daniel P. Thompson, §1 years old, a veteran of the Civil War, dled at the home of his nephew and niece, Mr, and Mrs. W. Curren, 433 First street southeast, Thursd after a brief illness. Mr. Thompson was born in Maine January 20, 1844. He enlisted in the 6th Maine Volunteer Infantry in April, 1861, and served until mustered out of the service in 1865, fighting in some of the major engagements. He made his home at Annapolis, Ma., the greater part of the time since the Civil War, having moved to this city a short time ago. He was married to Miss Amney E. Halslett of Savage, Nd., and on Feb- ! ruary 28, 1924, the couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Mr. Thompson was for 50 years 2 mem- ber of Annapolis Lodge, No. 89, A. F. and A. M. He is survived by his widow, a brother, George Thompson of Maine, and a number of relatives, through marriage, In this city. Brief services will be conducted at the residence”by Rev. Dr. Joseph Dawson of Trinity M. E. Church Sun- day afteérnoon at 12:30 o'clock. Inter- ment will be in St. Ann's Cemetery, Annapolis, where Masopic services will be held under the auspices of the Annapolis Lodge. s consumed more time than | said the report| Iled up before Monday. | nley and J. T. Oliphant 54 U. S. Air Records o National Photo. %Sir Over Nosona TRESIDENT ASKED | |France Stimulated to New| i | | | i | Muscle | Of Which were | year ago, Efforts io Regain Aviation Marks. Superiority of the United States in aerial achievements, with 54 world airplane records for speed, distance, endurancl and ajtitude, as agains Great Britain's none, has awakened France and stirred the British to the point where they are now taking in- terest, according to advices are coming to United States officials from various foreign sources Information compiled by the Inter- national Aeronautical Federation shows that the United States heads the list of records taken with 54, 31 taken by the Army and 23 by the Navy. France is next, ith 14; Denmark, 5; Czechoslovakia, 4; Sweden, 1, and Great Britain, b. In defense of the British situation, it is asserted that the government does not encourage the aviation in- dustry: of that country to go after records and regards their attainment by official fiyers as destructive of pri- vate initiative in the alr industry. On the other hand, it is pointed out, the French government about a realizing that the Unitea States was depriving France of a great number of records, and know- ing that this would mean an ultimate | deterioration of her aircraft indus- try, began offering substantial pre- miums to manufacturers who won back these records. The result has been that in a comparative short time France has regained not only vital records for altitude, duration and speed, but also has encouraged her aviation industry. Practically the only encouragement received by the British industry now is from private sources, and even the flight in June, 1919, from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to , Clifton, TIreland. was registered only as an authentic performance and not as a world rec- ord. ARRESTED FOR R(?B_BERY. West Virginian Had $1,000 Mer- chandise in Home, Police Say. Special Dispatch to The Star. HARPERS FERRY, W. ruary 14.—Charged with systematic- ally robbing the Capitol Department Store by means of a homemade dup- lcate key, Louls Staubs was arrested here yesterday and about $1,000 ‘of merchandise was found in his home, according to police. The police obtained from his wife the information which led to his arrest. Robert Staubs. @ brother, is under Investigation. at Silver Grove, across the Shenan® doah River. Va., Feb- Praises Peru Sanitation. LIMA, Peru, February 14.—Dr. John D. Long of the United States Public Health Service and assistant director of the Panaman Sanitary Bureau, is in Lima en route to the United States. In an interview, he praised the sanitary Iimprovements inaugurated in Peru and urged the adoption of the sanitary code of the Panaman Sanitation Congress held in Havana last November. which | The Staubs live| 10 AID EXPOSITION \ Delegation Presents Plea for Sesquicentennial Celebra- tion of U. S. Independence. President Coolidge today received a delegation of Philadelphia who asked for his personal and official in- terest in behalf of the sesquicen- tennial celebration of American in- dependence. to be held in Philadel- phia in 1926. The extent of Federal and international participation in this affair will depend greatly upon the attitude of the Executive, it was pointed out to him today by this dele gation, and it was for the purpose of obtaining his support that the dele- gation conferred with him. Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia and [Col. D. C. Collier, director general of the proposed exposition, headed the delegation and outlined to the Ex- ecutive the tentative plans agreed upon by those in charge. The In- troductions were made by Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania. Outline of Delegation's Alms. moral and off- the President was 3 ed to submit to Congress a m recommending various steps to taken with the object in view of aid ing the project, such as the m of special coins commemo event, the printing of a spect of dollar bills of a design suita to the occasion, and the appointm of a special commission to co-oper with the managers of the celebration. It was explained that this commis- n should include the Secretary of State und the Secretary of Commerce, as direct representatives of the Presi- dent, and two representatives fron each’ State and Territory, making in all. This commission, it was fur ther explained, could serve as an ory body The President also was reminded of the resolution passed at the last se sion of Congress giving him author t sue invitations to foreign tions to participate and to invite latter to b sented: in the De ware Rive: warships symbolic of {between the United States | nations thus represented. The I* dent was told that there shou an appropriation of '$25.000 to xpenses of; the proposed mmission . Indians Express Goodwill. President Coolidge today trom* Senator Cameron of on behalf of the Smoki Indians that State, a testimonial of goodwill from that tribe, written on a 1 | plece of Indian tanned bucksk | Besides the testimonial the skin con- tained an invitation to the President to attend the annval ceremonial dances to be held by the Simokis next June. Accompanying nator Cam- eron was Miss Sharlot M. Hall, who brought the electoral vote of Arizor to Washington and who brought th buckskin. —_—— Brick stacking by electricity is now an accomplished fact, a machine hav- ing been devised which will do the work of 20 men in picking the brick from conveyor belts and automatical- Iy assembling them on dryer trucke Besides giving hi cial support and tha c received Arizona, ’