Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1925, Page 17

THE “CHARLESTON" OF ANOTHER DAY. Miss Viola Webster of New York wearing the oldfashioned costume and dancing the “Charles- ton” of a half century ago. The dance has again come into popular favor, but it is not exactly like the old-time novelty. ‘Wide World Photo. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1925. TALKED ABOUT THE WORLD COURT AND THE JERSEY STATE AFFAIRS. The President and his visitors at White Court, the Summer ‘White House at Swampscott, Mass., a few days ago. Senators Edge of New Jersey and Wadsworth of New York called with Postmaster General New, former Gov. Stokes and State Senator Arthur Whitney of New Jersey. The latter is a Republican candidate for Governor of his State. ARMY AIRPLANES AIDED IN CAPTURE OF PRISONERS. Five convicts who made a desperate attempt for freedom from San Quentin Penitentiary, San Francisco, being marched back to prison after their capture. A prison guard was killed, the convicts stole a tugboat and started across the bay. called into the chase, following the stolen boat. VIREIA TREASRY SHORT 10600 [Further Deficit Expected Be- fore Taxes Are Due—As- sessment Fight Looms. Special Dispatch to The Star RICHMOND, Va., August 25.—The State of Virginia has run short in its finances this year to the extent of $2,050,000, and the sum will be further increased before the taxes due the State are paid in Novemb The State is able to make good its ments, however, by reason of the that the law empowers the governor to borrow such sums as may be need- ed and at a very low rate of interest. Treasurer Purcell says that there is practically no money in the depositories, and in this he is ported by State Accountant Smyth. In many of the counties the valu- ations put on property by the asses- sors will fall below that of five years ago, it is reported, and in two of the cities—Newport News and Peters- burg—the assessments are to show a considerable reduction. In practically all other cities there will be an enor- mous increase, but it is not known if the increases which have been made in the cities will compensate for the failure of the assessors in a vast majority of the countles to keep the values to the figures of five years p: fact ago. That the fight in the Legislature this ‘Winter on the subject of adequate assessment of real estate will be warm is well known. Observers say, how- ever, there appears to be little hope that anvthing will be accomplished more than to lay the foundations for a vigorous campaign shen the next Legislature is chosen, two years hence. ‘With the shortage in finances, the .demand of institutions for additional money will not be met, unless there is an_increase in the tax rate, which may be the last resort of the Legisla- ture—and this is not thought profit- able. LAWNS ARE INSPECTED. Rhode Island Ave. Citizens’ Body Is Conducting Annual Contest. The Rhode Island Avenue Citizens’ Association is holding its annual in- spection to determine the best kept lawns and gardens in its jurisdiction. A committee, chosen from members of the association, will judge the con- test, which is expected to last about two weeks. Awards to the owners of the best kept lawns and gardens will be made next month. The system of grading based on ‘a 100 per went will include & points for parking space: attractiveness of ap- pearance from street, 20 points; plant- | ing, 15 points; front and side lawns, 30 points; condition of house, 10 points, and care of back yard, 20 points. August is one of the dangerous months for sunburn because then the sun delivers the most ultra-violet light, says a well known. eastern doc- o - POLIE ABANDON CONSPIRACY PROBE Withdraw Protection of Max Phillips, Who Claims Ruin Sought by Enemy. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 25. of Monmouth Cou N. J., have dropped further investigation of charges by Max Phillips, wealthy collar manufacturer and polo player, that unidentified persons are con- spiring to_ruin his reputation and wreck his business through entangle- ment with women and spiritualists. The police also have withdrawn of- ficial protection of the manufacturer and his estate at Eatontown, saying that the facts are insufficient to prove a conspiracy. Langdon E. Morris, acting prose- cutor, however, said that the grand jury on September 22 would get the case against three women and one man, all detectives, who were arrested on complaint of Mr. Phillips and charged with conspiracy and carrying concealed weapons. He says they tried to lure him to a yacht so he could be arrested for violating the Mann act. Private detectives remain on guard at the Phillips estate. Adds Hughes to Staff. Mr. Phillips, closely guarded, came to the offices of the Phillips-Jones Co., of which he is president, here yesterday. He announced that Charles Evans Hughes had been added to his legal staff. No information was forth- coming from the offices of the former Secretary of State. The sportsman also declared that he would appear in court as a wit- ness tomorrow, when Mrs. Margaret Campbell, a spiritualist, is given a hearing on a charge of “predicting the | future.” He has declared that Mrs. Campbell's arrest while he was in her apartment, August 11, was part of the plot to discredit him. The banker whom Mr. Phillips charged was at the bottom of the plots revealed himself as Joseph S. Marcus, 82 years old, of New York. Mr. Marcus said he was undoubted- ly the arch-enemy referred to, because Mr. Phillips held a grudge against him. The banker described the tale as a hallucination. Mrs. Mary Dulany, head of the social welfare office at Long Branch, N. J., revealed that Mrs. Beatrice Johnston, one of the three women under arrest, had admitted shadowing Mr. Phillips. Mrs. Dulany said she thwarted the woman’s desire to ad- dress a ministerial conference on the subject of divorce when she became suspicious that the occasion was to be used in comnection with Mr. Phil- lips’ divorce, seven years ago. Phillips today asserted that armed guards at his home last night re- pulsed two men crawling across the lawn. The alleged intruders arrived in an automobile and hid in a hedge surrounding the property, he said. Guards stopped them when they were within 150 feet of the house, firing three shots into the air to frighten -Authori- NGET, them. Owing to difficulty in starting | Brown was cut about the hand and their car, Phillips' men were unable |arm and bruised on the body. Rob-' Army airplanes were By United News Pictures. Albin G. Anderson, 46 pitcher for the Detroit printers, who vesterday, led his team in its victory over the Pittsburgh typos in the an- nual tournament of the Union Print- ers’ International Base Ball League. National Photo. Once a base ball star, now a steve- dore. Jimmy O’Connell, former New York Giant player, outlawed from organized base ball, working as a stevedore on the waterfront at San Francisco. By Acme Photos. Copyright by P.* & A. Photos. RETAINS THE CHAMPIONSHIP. day defeated Miss Kathleen McKane title of United States woman’s singles tennis champion, won in the doubles championship, being a partner of Miss Browne. Miss Helen Wills (left), who yester- (right) of England, and retained her Miss Wills also The match took place at Forest Hills, Long Island. Copyright by P.' & A. Photos AMBASSADOR'S BODY LYING IN STATE IN JAPAN. This photograph, which arrived in Washington this morning, shows the body of United States Ambassador Edgar A. Bancroft lying in state at the house in Karui- zawa where he died. RECORDING THE CHANGES IN MODES OF TRANSPORTATION. Walter A. Roth, Fred C. Reed and Paul E. Garber of the Smithsonian Insti- tution examining the exhibition which is attracting considerable attention at the present time. The various modes of transportation, from the early covered wagon to thepmodern airplane, are exhibited by models. . SPEED OF 240 MILES AN HOUR MADE BY NAVY PLANE IN TEST May Be Entered in Schneider Cup Race as Result of Successful Trials Along Potomac—Pilot Escapes Disaster in Ascent. 100 TAKEN IN CHICAGO GAMBLING DIVE RAIDS Gaming Devices and Liquor Seized in Forays—Police Shake- Up Announced. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 25—More than a hundred prisoners, dozens of gam- bling devices and quantities of beer and liquors were obtained in raids Jast night and early today on a score of_roadhouses. The raids were in line with the sheriff’s announced plan to clean up gambling and liquor-selling resorts in the vicinity of Chicago. Other developments were the an- nouncement by Mayor Dever of a city- wide shake-up in the police depart- ment_and indications that the Rev. Ben E. Ewing, former Ohio minister, Federal prohibition director here, Would be replaced in a short time by a dollar-a-year man. The Rev. Mr. Ewing, it was sald, expects to be given another command about Sep- tember 1. BURNED BY BATTERY ACID Victim Is Pinned Beneath Over- turned Auto. Special Dispatch to The Star. LONACONING, Md., August 25.— Andrew Staup, Edward Robinson and Robert. Brown were pinned under a touring car which tumbled over a wall 10 feet high into a small stream early yesterday. Staup, who was driving, got too close to the edge of St. Mary’s Terrace, to let another car pass. His worst injury was to his eve from acid running from the battery of the car over his face while he was unable to move. He was cut on the face and bruised on the chest. Accompanied by a roar and whine that made spectators shudder, the Navy'’s tiny blue racing seaplane yes- terday afternoon while being flown on a practice flight by Lieut. Frank H. Conant made bursts of speed in the vicinity of Hains Point that at times reached 240 miles an hour. In full view of hundreds of persons in Potomac Park and the War College grounds, the little craft flashed over the -water at altitudes less than 100 feet, disappeared over Alexandria and in an instant was back over the navy yard. Then the racer was dived from one or two thousand feet straight for the water and, alded by the dive, made its highest speed for a few sec- onds. Pilot and plane had a narrow escape on - the take-off. The Curtiss racer taxied up the Potomac in the direc- tion of Highway Bridge, turned around and then proceeded to get the air. A run of almost a mile followed, FIRE CAUSES $1,200 LOSS. Colored Salvation Army Quarters Damaged by Blaze. - Fire started in an unoccupied room on the top floor of 1501 Seventh street, home of Salvation Army Corps, No. 2, colored, shortly before 2 o’clock this morning, Smoke soon found its way through the building and aroused about 50 men occupying quarters there. 5 *Many of the lodgers hurried from the bullding without their clothes. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. while the blast from the 500-horse- power motor turnjng over at 1,900 revolutions per minute echoed through- out the surrounding area. Just as Lieut. Conant pulled it out of the wa- ter the “spinner” on'the propeller, a cone attached to the propeiler hub for streamline purposes, flew off. Serious damage to the plane would have re- sulted if the object had struck any part of it. Lieut. Conant will fly this plane in the Schneider Cup race at Baltimore the latter part of October if the Army does mot convert one of its Pulitzer race high-speed racers now being built into a seaplane for the event. This craft was flown as a land plane by Lieut. A. J. Williams, jr., in 1923, at St. Louis, where he won the Pulit- zer trophy, and a short time later es- tablished a maximum speed record for a three-kilometer course of 266 miles per hour. This latter record, how- ever, has been broken by the French. the corps, remained in -the building to assure himself that all the guests were safe. When Acting Battalion Chief Hu- bert F. McConnell reached the build- ing he quickly sent in additional alarms, fearing for the safety of those sleeping in the building, but the ad- ditional companies did not have to go_into service. Firemen succeeded in confining the flames to one room. The water and fire damage amounted approximately to $1,200. Glasgow plans Sgbez;s.tn. charge of ! censor. P P to have a fim ) - — GIVES TIME FOR PAYING TAX ON MOVIE FILMS An- nounces, However, New Law Re- Connecticut Commissioner quires Registry of All Products. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., August 25. —Further time allowance for the payment of the State tax on motion picture films now in the possession of ‘theater owners throughout the State was granted yesterday by Tax Commissioner William H. Blodgett, in an announcement made after a conference in Hartford with Bene- dict H. Holden, counsel for the pro- ducers and distributors of films, and Special Agent John J. Splain. The tax commissioner announced, however, that under the new State law, upheld by Federal Court judges, all ‘films must be registered when they are distributed, beginning to- morrow. An agreement was reached at the conference which will allow the exhibitors to show the films now- in their hands, the tax to be paid on these under the agreement in force since July 8. “ONE-ARM” WOLFE SILENT Attorney Advises Against Testify- ing at Hance Murder Inquest. MUNCIE, Ind., August 25 (#).— Charles “One Arm"” Wolfe, held for alleged complicity in the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hance, refused vesterday on advice of his attorneys to testify at the Inquest into the deaths of the couple. Wolfe indi- cated last week that he desired to testify. \ Hance before his death made a statement declaring he and his wife were shot by George “Dutch” Ander- son and that Wolfe accompanied Anderson. SMALL SEA CRAFT HELD MOST VITAL Big Vessels Have Place, But It’s Unimportant, Canal Advocates Say. Although cenceding that the great ocean liners, such as the Leviathan and the Majestic, have their place in the shipping world, credit for carry- ing the bulk of the world's ocean com- merce is given to the cargo liners and tramps in a review made public by | the Great Lakes-St. water Association. The association made its statement as a defense of the proposed St. Law- rence ship channel project, declaring it was idle to suppose the Leviathan and Majestic type of ships would steam directly “into the ports of Duluth and Chicago. Cargo vessels devoted to freight service- are rarely large, a majority drawing less than 25 feet of water, the statement said, adding that they must be small enough to enter sev- eral ports at both ends of their journey to obtain full cargo. Counting the numerous trips of express liners to Lawrence Tide- New York, the statement said, the, record of vessels engaged in foreign trade for 1922 shows that out of 8,526 inward and outward trips 70.7 per cent were in vessels of less than 25- foot draft and 93.8 per cent with drafts under 30 feet. Large Ships “Unnecessary.” “The large export vessels plying in and.out of New York and calling at Boston are not necessary to the suc- cess of the St. Lawrence ship chan- nel,” the association continued. “New Orleans and Galveston have reached great commercial importance though they can accommodate only light draft vessels. It is an error to assume that a 30-foot channel can be navigated only by vessels drawing less than 25 feet. Such conditions are applicable only at _entrance channels of exposed ports. Vessels drawing 29% feet navi- gate the 30-foot channel to Houston. In the protected waters of the Detroit and_St. Lawrence rivers and in the St. Lawrence and Welland canals ves- sels load to utilize every available inch. Small ocean ships navigate the pres- ent 14-foot St. Lawrence Canal draw- ing 13% feet and more. “At the ocean entrance of the St. Lawrence nature has provided depths ranging up to 100 fathoms. A 30-foot channel through the 33 miles of canal involved in the St. Lawrence develop- ment will freely navigate vessels loaded :to 29 feet. The large liners, such as the Adriatic, Baltic, Cedric and Celtic, are not expected in the Great Lakes ports any more than they are expected at Philadelphia, Wil- mington, Baltimore, Charleston, Sa- vannah, Jacksonville, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, Houston and other highly successful commercial ports.” Official Under Knife. ‘Warren Irving Glover, Second As- sistant Postmaster General, has sub- mitted to an operation on his eye, which has been pronounced sygcesstul by his physicians. ‘He will be confined to his apartment only four or five days, they-gaid, : Wide World Photo. L 100-VILE FLIGHT - PROIEGT RUSHED Navy Mechanics Preparing Planes for Non-Stop Air Journey to Hawaii. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 25.—Al- though given six days instead of three, by the postponement of the take-off of |the flight from San Francisco to | Hawaii, to prepare for the attempt at a 2,100-mile non-stop air journey, Navy mechanics today were pushing to the utmost their grooming of the three big planes. Delay caused by the necessity of re- placing the engine in the big Boeing PB-1 plane, which was forced down by a broken oil feed pipe on its trip to San Francisco from Seattle, oc- casioned the postponement of the start from next Friday until Monday. The two PN-9 craft, which flew here from San Diego last Saturday, are also being thoroughly overhauled by Navy mechanics, in preparation for the flight. The reports of the progress of the three seaplanes after they take-off from San Pablo Bay near Mare Island, at 2 o'clock next Monday afternoon, will be followed by wireless reports to Capt. Stanford F. Moses, officer in charge of the entire operation, from the Navy ships which will be sta tioned approximately every 200 miles along the course. KLAN CHIEFS SITTING IN NATIONAL COUNCIL Curb on “Assaults on Protestant- ism in Motion Pictures” Is to Be Studied. By the Associated Press. BUCKEYE LAKE, Ohio, August 25 —Convening here today in national council, grand dragons and titans of the Ku Klux Klan had problems of internal organization before them for their first day’s program. The meet ing will continue through Thursday. The sessions, being held in a small church, are executive. Results of the deliberations of the governing body are binding upon the order itself. Problems in handling newly organ ized realms, rebuilding realms, exten sion work, uniformity.in practices and other like subjects ar programed for discussion. “How to obviate the assault: n Protestantism in motion picture: another topic that will be discussed Dr. Hiram W. Evans, imperial v ard, who arrived in Columbus yester- day, will take part in the formal opening exercises of the council, but is not scheduled for a set addres Senator Goff in Arica. ARICA, Chile, August 25 (#) United States Senator Guy D. Goff of ‘West Virginia, who is proceeding from Santiago to Washington, stopped in Arica for a few hours yesterday. He visited Gen. Pershing, inguiring into the developments of his plebiscitary labora.