Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1925, Page 17

R s o S - KING NEPTUNE GIVES LIFE-SAVING DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE POTOMAC. Director Longfellow . of the American Red Cross, who gives instructions in life-saving and first He gave demonstrations yesterday afternoon before a special class, mac. _— CROWD OF 800,000 VISITS CONEY ISLAND WHILE NEW YORK SWELTERS. ord visited the resort last Sunday. The usual number of children were lost, 10,000,000 hot dogs were con- sumed, and Hot Corn Ike did a thriving business on the Boardwalk. ASHER ANDHARTZE INTROUBLE OF W Pry Agents Ordered to Ex- plain Charges of Conspiracy Against Peoria Officials. By the Associated Pre; PEORIA, IIL, July 14.—J. E. ¥lone wolf,” of the Federal dry sq: nd two of his mates, who introduced new wrinkle into prohibition raid- ng when they purchased a saloon and nder the banner “Uncle Sam’s Place’ btained evidence against Peoria boot- eggers, have encountered legal diffi- ulties of their own. Asher, Max Hartzig and T. L. How- Em have been subpoenaed to appear efore the grand jury to explain harges that Peoria city and county fMcials were implicated in a conspir- cy to violate the prohibition law. Agents Continue Raids. But while State’s Attorney H. E ratt was issuing the legal papers and eeking a consultation with Asher, wooped down on the city last Satur- he Federal agents, 40 of whom making 30 y to add to e ay, continued thelr raid dditional arrests Mond to confer with the attorney unless ates district attorney was present esulted in Pratt issuing the subpoena, ith a threat to file charges unless the agents appeared before the grand ury. 2 The city council also is expected to ake a hand in the affair, Alderman Valter Ireland stating that he would {ntroduce a resolution tonight asking | nn_investigation of statements cred- [wd to the agents that “two-thirds of he Police Department was involved in hady transactions.” Purchased Own Saloon. The Peoria round-up was one of the fueerest coups in prohibition enforce- fuent history. Asher and Hartzig tame to Peoria'two months ago, gain- $ng the confidence of liquor manufac- gurers and obtaining evidence. The paloon purchased by the dry agents #vas the base for operations. Arrange- nents were made for liquor supply gents to deliver alcohol to the saloon, nd as they arrived they were seized. he 40 dry agents then were un- 3eashed upon the city. Upon his return to Chicago, Capt. iA. C. Townsend, chief of general pro- ibition agents, -declared that anti- prohibition conditions in Peoria were the worst he had seen anywhere in ghe country. The raids served to revive the name bf Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champlon. Johnson's car was tagged or parking over the hour limit and vhen he appeared at the police sta- tion he was accompanied by two dry mgents who corroborated his story that he was assisting in the raid. ater, however, officials at the Federal efiummg cast some doubt on the ex- fent of his aid. Like to Be Arrested. Most of the 200 persons arrested fhave been released in $2,000 bond to mwalt the action of the Federal grand pury. Charles Wilson, whose place was | Rpeided Saturd.y, was jaided agaln yes, the United ) ) { | dolls, 150_dre Browning Finally Finds Girl to Adopt, But May Lose Her | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 14.—Margaretta Curry, 11-year-old actress, appeals to “dward W. Browning, wealthy real- tor, who has advertised for a pretty, refined girl that he can adopt in order to have a playmate for Dorothy Sun- shine, another adopted daughter. Margaretta was selected from the thousands of girls willing to be sisters to_Dorothy who has 100 - own Rolls. Royce. Mr. Browning likes Marga retta and Margaretta was convinced she would like to be the daughter of Mr. Browning. With the adoption papers ready to sign vesterday, the mother began to realize what losing Margaretta would mean. Ready to cry, she fled Mr. Browning’s office, where negotiations were in progress, leaving\Margaretta sitting on the floor playing with a string of pearls, the gift of Mr. Browning. A little later a woman friend of the mother came to Mr. Browning to say the adoption could not proceed until Margaretta's mother had more time to think things over. Meanwhile Mr. Browning is reading letters from the thousands that have poured into his office in the hope of finding another foster daughter should Margaretta’s mother decide she can- not do without her. U.S. CREDITOR HALTED BY CLAUSE IN WILL “Spendthrift Trust” Stipulation by Late Dowager Duchess Hampers Collection of $31,390. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 14.—A ‘“spend- thrift trust” stipulation in the will of the late Consuelo Montagu, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, ~yesterday proved a stumbling block to efforts of an American creditor to collect $31,390 from her son, Willlam Angus Drogo Montagu, Duke of Manchester. The appellate division of the Su- preme Court upheld restrictive pro- visions in the will and refused to grant a garnishee order against the United Trust Co. of New York, American trustee of the fortune of $1,236,000, sought by counsel repre- senting Clarence L. Hamilton, who alleged the duke owed him that sum. It was brought out in the trial that the “spendthrift trust” codicil in the will forts of the duke's creditors abroad to attach his income and estates in Eng- land and Ireland. Sixty-six petitions in bankruptcy have been brought against the duke in English courts, it was claimed, but all have failed. terday. In commenting on this case, Asher sald: ‘‘Peoria bootleggers are the funniest lot I ever ran across. I ralded Wilson's place Saturday, ar- rested him and took him to jail. To- day I noticed he had reopened his sa- loon. “I had my coat off and walked in the place with my gun strapped on the outside and he sold me another drink and I had him arrested agaln It seems as if Peoria bootigzers d ght in being arregted” 7 has effectually circumvented ef-| id, as King Neptune, in the Poto- National Photo. . The largest crowd on rec- Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. HARVEY'S DAMAGED BY MIDNIGHT BLAZE $6,000 Loss Confined to Up- per Floors—Two Firefight- ers Slightly Injured. Harvey’s restaurant, at Pennsylva- nia avenue and Eleventh street, na- tionally known because a former pro- prietor originated the method of steaming oysters many years ago, was the scene of a disastrous fire shortly after 11 o'clock last night, most of which was confined to the large dining room on the second floor. Fire and water damage was estimated at_$6,000. Bill Young, a night watchman, dis- covered the fire and sent in an alarm. When Deputy Chief Nicholson reach- ed the building and saw flames reach- ing through several windows to the roof he quickly sent in a third alarm, summoning additional companies. The fire was under control before all the additional companies arrived, how- ever, and only two of them went in service. Cigarette Blamed. The restaurant was closed about jone hour before the fire was discov- ered. There was no fire left in the building, it is:stated, and Fire Mar- shal L. B. Seib suggested that a light- ed cigarette left in the checkroom probably started the blaze. It was feared that the fire would spread to the President Theater, but quick work on the part of the firemen prevented it from reaching there. Water from the second floor of the Harvey Building reached the theater lobby and did slight damage. So Intense was the heat that many windows were cracked or shattered, a plano was ruined and a number of large mirrors wrecked. The dance hall on the third floor was damaged by smoke and water. There has been no dancing there since May 15, it Is stated, dancing always being suspend- ed during the Summer months. Joel Hillman, owner of the prop- erty, is in Atlantic City. Fire De- partment officlals reported that the loss is fully covered by insurance. Two Men Are Hurt. Lieut. Frank Chinn of No. 3 Truck Company ran a splinter into his wrist and Hillery O'Connell, sailor on the U. 8. S. Sylph, cut his hand while assisting at the fire. They were treated at Emergency Hospital. Several thousand dollars’ damage was done by fire yesterday afternoon in the transformer station of the Po- tomac Electric Power Ce., on Wash- ington street, between Fourth and Fifth streets. Insulation on the he#y cables ignited and smoke and “fire made conditions ynbearable. ‘When firemen reached the bulld- ing they had employes cut off the current before they used the water to extinguish the fire. The current was turned on soon after the firemen finished their work, but it will take some time to restore the destroyed insulation. _— - Prof. Annie Weaver of the London School of Oriental Languages, speaks 300 native dialects in addition to the 1a. Centinzutal %uugg. Maj. Ulysses S. Grant, 3d, who has *been appointed assistant director of public buildings and grounds of the Capital. He has been with the Ar- -lington Memorial Bridge Commis- sion for some time. Copyright by Harris & Ewin. BROADCASTS FROM THE OCEAN director of station WIP, Philadelphia, used a pressure-r lamp to see and describe the bottom of the ocean off Atlantic C y for the benefit of radio fans. The broadcasting was done at a depth of 75 feet. 75-MILE M A By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 14.—A man-made hurricane will clear the new Jersey City-New York vehicular tunnel of deadly carbon monoxide gas generated by the 46,000 motor cars it will trans. port daily beneath the bed of the Hud- son River. Deslgns for the ventilation system, embodying features entirely new to | engineering practice, have just been approved Driven by immense electric fans, a 75-mile wind will whistle through a seven-foot airway under the traffic road, to which it will have ingress through continuous slots et in each side a few inches from the bottom. The used air will be sucked out through ceiling vents, set every 30 feet, into another immense airway, assuring a continuous movement of air at every point in the two-mile tunnel. Four great ventilation houses—two on each side of the river—will contain the intake and outlet flues and the propelling and expulsion machinery Recognizing the load which would be imposed by the passage of more $14 FOR CORRUPTION IN $15 BOOTLEG SALE | Buyers of Liquor Abet All the Crimes on Calendar, Police Chiefs’ Convention Is Told. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, July 14.—Pur- chasers of liquor are paying their share for robbery, housebreaking, murder and other crimes, Forrest Bra- den, chief of the Louisville (Ky.) Po- lice’ Department, declared in discuss- ing the liquor problem before the In- ternational Convention of Police Chiefs here yesterday. “The man who pays $15 for a quart of what he thinks is good red liquor pays about $1 for the goods and $14 for the corruption of police officers and other legal agencies and thus is making his contribution to lawbreak- ers. It is regarded as a semi-respect- able form of crime, and in a pinch such criminals do not hesitate at housebreaking, murders, hold-ups or anything else.” Samuel J. Jackson, chief of police at Toronto, Canada, now first vice president of the organization, probably will be named president when the elec- tion of officers is held. “Quit mollycoddling criminals and crime will wane,” beleves Morgan A. Collins, head of the Chicago Police Department. “If young men were convinced that relentless justice would follow their adventure to crime they would never take the first step.” e £ Advancing years are the glory of Chinese, and it is sald to be polite to to be uppose your ese zuest michil thay -MADE GALE TO KEEP AIR IN VEHICULAR TUBE PURE| Blast Through Airway Beneath New York-New Jersey Tunnel to Enter Through Ports Near Bottom and Pass Out Through Top, Insuring Safety. CONFERRING ON THE CHINESE taken after Washington. BZD. ing_diving Dr. M. F. D’Elise, physical t Copyright by P. & A. Photos, than 16 cars a minute each way, the engineers installed the system in a Pittgburgh mine, where touring cars and rucks were operated under every conceivable traffic condition. With a 7-foot section above and be- | low the traffic roadway, nearly half | the 30-foot cross section of the tubes | has been given over to the malnten- | nce of an excess supply of fresh air. | Traffic policemen will be posted at intervals throughout the length of | the tube with an advanced type of | semaphore bearing the order “Stop all ‘motors,” as well as the familiar Stop-Go” signs. " ingineers declare the system will | insure continuous normal atmosphere. | Their nlans are not to change the air at stated intervals, but to keep it at normal purity at all times. Opening of the new highway is ten- tatively set for November, 1926. The under-river section is completed for its entire length. A world record for tunneling—95 feet in a week—was made at one | point, but frequently rock formations held the progress to between four and five inches a da: ASKS SORLIE TO NAME M’ARTHUR TO SENATE Mrs. Ladd Says She Favors Her Husband’s Secretary as Successor. Gov. Sorlie of North Dakota has been urged by Mrs, Ladd to appoint Douglass H. McArthur to fill the va- cancy in the Senate caused by the death of her husband. In a letter to the Governor, Mrs. Ladd emphasized the importance of having the place filled by some one “in sympathy with the line of work Sena- tor Ladd held so near to his heart and the interests of the people of our State.” No one, she stated, knew bet. ter his wishes or was more able to carry on the work he had started than Mr. McArthur, who was his secretary, and worked with him for four years. In a letter Mrs. Ladd stated that Mr. McArthur had been State Senator for two terms, and had materially aided Senator Ladd in getting through the | Legislature a number of pure food and other measures. There is no one, she added, whom Senator Ladd would prefer over Mr. McArthur to succeed him. D. C. Truck Driver Injured. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., July 14. Oscar E. Hawes, 16 Sixth street, ‘Washington, D. C., sustained a bad fracture of the left leg when a moving van, which he was driving from Washington to Pledmont, W. Va., overturned .on Culbertson’s Hill, near Westernport. The fracture was set at Western Maryland Hospital here by Dr. A. Leo Franklin and he later cretary of State Kellogg had been called from Minn, to Swampscott, Mass., for a conference with President The Secretary, after his talk with the Chief Executive, came directly to {Myron T. Herrick, American Amba: rned » Washington. acgompanied ret SITUATION. This photograph was ) oolidge. Wide World Photo. BALTO, DOG HERO OF ALASKA. POSES FOR PANEL TO BE PLACED IN CENTRAL Municipal Art Society of New York appropriated $7.000 for a panel relief of Balto, the dog which gained fame ulptor, is making the likeness, while Gunnar Kass in the Nome diphtheria epidemic, master and driver, holds Balto. RIVER IS DRAGGED FOR MISSING MAN James L. Towell, Pepco Em- ploye, Believed to Have Committed Suicide. Police of dragging the harbor precinc the river in the vicinity Highway Bridge today for the body of James L. Towell, 1437 Belmont street, who, they believed, committed suicide because of ill health. Sergt H. T. Miskell of the Park police found an automobile near the railroad bridge early vesterday morning. tag showed the car belonged to Towell and his straw hat was in the tonneau are Miss Cdssie McElroy, at whose home Towell boarded, said the man left home a week ago today after din- ner and announced he w going to see a doctor. She neither saw nor heard from him since. Towell, according to Miss McElroy came to Washington the first of Jan. uary from Pittsburgh, where he had undergone a serious operation. He never fully recovered from the oper- atfop, she said, and had been extreme- Iy nervous. He received constant medical attention while living at her home. Towell was about 45 yvears old. He was employed by the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. LAFAYETTE-MARNE DAY TO BE OBSERVED SEPT. 6 Eleventh Consecutive Celebration May Be Held Throughout United States. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 14.—The La- fayette day national committee has issued its eleventh consecutive annual call for the observance on September 6 ; of the anniversary of the birth of La- ‘fayette and the first battle of the Marne. Lafayette was born in 1757, and the first battle of the Marne was fought in 1914. The, two have been linked for a joint observance under the direction of the committee, which includes such men as Dr. Charles W Eliot, president emeritus of Harvar sador to France, Wickersham, former United States Attorney General. In the past ob- servances have been held at San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles, West Point Mili- tary Academy, Washington's home at Mount Vernon and New York, but it is hoped this year to make the exer- cises more general. and_George W. Cardinal Begin Improving. QUEBEC, July 14 UP).—Cardinal Begin of the Archdiocese of Quebec, who has been ill since Sunday, showed some improvement today. The at- tending physician described his con- | dition as “satisfactory at present.” Cardinal Begin became ill after a visit Sunday to St. Naziere, Dorchester, where he dedicated the corner stone of a newdshurch to be built in that sk, The license | NEW .\I’TI E FOR MERIDIAN work who was a classmat of Chicago. Th Schuetz, U. S. HILL PARK. The marble piece, “Serenity,” which is being placed in the park as a gift of Charles Deering is a memorial to Lieut. Comdr. William Henry e of Mr. Deering Copy t Annapolis. t by P. & A. Photos. R. Roth, and G. “Whittlin’® Champ” | Makes Full-Sized Violin of Matches! Special Dispatch to The Star. MIDL. D, Md., Ju 14.—John | Shields, known as_“the greatest | just added to his large collection of curios a violin of stan made of m vear comp) ment. He ard size He was over a this rare instru- wonderful col- iection of all kind of woodwork, all carved with the ordinary penknife. His work has been sent United States, and seve are now in Pari 'HEADLEY ISSUE AGAIN " BEFORE CIVIC BODY hes. i | | | ) whittler in western Maryland,” has | L over the al pieces | Chamber of Commerce Directors to | Confer on Denial of Hearing by Commissioners. Immediately following the decision vesterday of the Washington Board of Trade to drop the Headley matter nes T. Llovd, president of the| Washington Chamber of Commerce, | announced his intention of calling a | special meeting of the board of di | rectors of that organization to consid ler the reply received from the Com- missioners to its request for a hear- ing for Capt. Albert J. Headley. | Following a meeting of the directors | of the chamber last Tuesday a reso- lution was sent to the Commissioners | requesting a hearing for Headley | announcement of the reasons for | demotion. To this the Commissioner: declared the matter was a closed issue {and hoped the chamber would consid- er the action taken in the interest of [ good public policy. A large number | of the directors and officers of the or- | ganzation feel that this reply is not | satisfactory. And the board will meet | to consider a reply to the Commis. sioners’ communication. The civic affairs committee of the | Cosmopolitan Club last night adopted a resolution asking-that the Commis sioners communicate their reasons for the demotion of Capt. Headley and allow him to appear before them or be allowed to send his reply. THREE AUTOS CRASH. | Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., July 14— Three persons were in a local hos- | pital last night as a result of a three- |car smash-up at Vanclevesville, east of hgre. Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Free- man . of Jefferson . County, W. Vi were badly bruised and cut.’ They were in a car alleged to have been hit by another car, which turned over and rolled into a third car trying to pa The two men in the errant car fled over fences and have not been captured. German Communist Activities. BERLIN, July 14 (#)—The execu- tive committee of the German Com- munists today reported to the party’s national convention that its chief ac- tivities during the last year had con- sisted of mobilizing the masses against the Dawes plan and preparing_for a fAght against Luyerialsg, | the American peopl | 1can wall of PARK. The ny ed News Pictures MILLER DEFENDS PACLUSION LAUSE Representative Replies to At- tacks on Measure in Pacific Parley. By the Associated Press HONOLULL, July 14—W clause, it ne, Repr Wask tateme; rtant po! M recent titute of tions, an rternation: ence sessions here, in which immi have been freely dis The Washington Representative said e did not believe it likely that Con would repeal the exclusion clause, as it had been passed only after lengthy consideration and de bate, purely as an economic measure lusion represents the voicé of said Mr. Miller. “It will not be modified, because it is | the result of a fixed national policy orced by the standards of the United States elfish reasons alone, he de clared, account for the “academic” at tempts being made to assail the ex clusion policy The exclusion policies of America® and other nations were attacked in a speech before the institute today by M. Zumbto, adviser to the Japanese and former editor of the vall we have been up in the institute is the Amer discrimination,” he said SCOTT PUT IN DEATH CELL. Suicide Attempt by Canadian Ex; Financier Feared. CHICAGO, July 14 (#).—Russell T. Scott, former Canadian financier and writer on business ethics, sentenced to hang Friday for killing a drug store clerk in a holdup in 1924, has been placed in the death cell of the Cook County Jjail. The action of jall authorities, which set a precedent over the custom of con fining doomed men in the death cham Dber only on the eve of execution, was taken to prevent any sulcide attempt Meanwhile Scott’s attorneys pre- | pared to appear before the State par don board in Springfield to ask for a commutation of sentence to life im prisonment. Thomas Scott, his aged father, and his wife said they would appeal to Gov. Small to save him from the gallows in the event the plea for commutation was refused Gloria Denies Face Is “Revamped.” HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 14 U®).— Gloria Swanson, who in private life is Marquise de la Falalse et de la Coudray, has not had her face rebuilt, revamped or in any other manner exchanged for a new one. A sunburn at Santa Catalina Island and a subse nt slight peeling of the epidermis rise to rumors that the actress dergoae a faclal operation