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SALUTING HIS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. his hat to his father when the latter called at Camp Devens, Mass, Corp. John Coolidge touches The photograph shows the President returning his son’s salute. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. WINNERS OF THE NATIONAL DOUBLES TITLE ARE AWARDED CUPS. Vincent Richards (right), who defeated Gerald Patterson and John B. Hawkes of Australia. winning the Na- President Mesereau of the Nati tional Doubles tennis championship at Brookline, Mass. tion in center SMITH AND HYLAN . FIRING HOT SHTS Lightning Shows Lost Boy’s Body the Associated Pres NEWPORT, Mich uash of ni durin; storm here la night revealed the body of George Firman, 12 old, missing since Thursday. Laduke, standing in front of his house looking, at the sky and watching the August 31.- a severe elec- Vigorous Exchange of Ex- treme Personalities in New York Mayoralty Campaign. vivid flash of lightning. It was hang- {ing in a tree 40 feet from the ground. Investigation showed the child had fallen across a high-tension | wire and been killed. By the Aseociated Prees. NEW YORK, August 31.—Gov. Smith and Mayor Hylan are continu ing to tell the voters what they think | storm, saw the boy's body during a | cal Says Maintenance Cost Is electric | BY ths Associated Press. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY. AUGUST 31, 1925. MARINE MASCOT HELPS GUARD PRESIDENT. White Court, Summer White House, at Swampscott, Mass., has an able guardian in ter Peter Martin Duval, 6 vears old, who is the mascot of the Marine guard stationed near the President’s home. John Bryson of the Swamp- wost Salice o ol Copyright by P. & A. Photos the R A RECORD BUNCH OF GRAPES geles, Calif., holding a 10-pound bun Norris Williams (left) and nal Tennis Associa- ht by P. & A. Photos. FREE RAPS ALASKA Copyri Commerce. B. F. KEITH'S—John Steel. John Steel, the celebrated American | tenor, is heading the bill at Keith's | this week. He has been featured in the “Follies,” “Music Box Revue” and {18 under engagement to another big show this season, the late opening of which gives him a_chance fof a brief appearance in vaudeville. Steel has a host of friends in Washington, and last night they jammed the theater. | In good voice, he selected a popular | program and scored a big hit. After going through his repertoire, in re- sponse to persistent recall he sang selections from the big revues in which he has appeared. “Memories” and “‘Alone” proving knockouts. High—Call Country One of Mistaken Policies. SEATTLE, Wash., Representative A. M. 31— Call- August Free of | AMUSEMENTS Hansug i Tee 4D FALURE of each other as the municipal cam paign speeds up the final two week's drive before the primaries. The ma addressing an open-air band concert in Queens vesterday, "he governor has ately into our city and made trouble in our happy family “A few grafting politicians, Wall Street and the traction gang have tried to get vour mayor by the throat but I have stood like the rock of Gibraltar running the city for the in- terests of 2!l the people Governor's Latest Charge. The governor's latest point about the mavor, who he is accusing of lack of ability, is that he does not know what a corporation is. Answering the mayor's charge that the governor had been: hobnobbing with corporations, the governor Jate Saturday night rally eon Island said of the mayor “T don’t think he knows he is work- ing for a corporation.” Seeing a priest coming on the plat- form. the governor added “The mayor would be surprised if aten walked deliber- | at a| | fornia. ranking member of the House | MUSSOLINI IS HONORED. | committee on”merchant marine and i fisheries, who arrived yesterday from o Alaska. announced that he advocated Tablet to Fascist Chief Unveiled in ‘ abandonment of the Government rail- : road in Alaska, built for $60,009,000, House Where He Was Born. | on" ¢he ground that it was costing PREDAPP s ,.| more than it was worth. £ TR g o wiongust 31 UP-] ““Running from Seward to Fair- | ety i e, '04aY | banks,” he said, “the railroad serves Bettonnl - hes arble tablet |® Population of less than 5.000. The | Was anveiied omthe THithe jeeiet| cost of maintaining it each year is | where he was born July 29, 1883.| APProximately $400 per person of The tablet was erected by admirers | PoPulation along its route scattered throughout the t prov- | Won't Pay Interest. inces of Romagna and Emilia, thou-| sands of whose inhabitants came to| Free declared that not including | witness the ceremony. payment of interest on its bond or | " Scores of prominent Fascists and | sinking funds, the railroad has cost | leaders in TItalian political life also | the Government $2,000.000 a vear in came to pav homage to their chief. maintenance, and that the future held Numerous addresses were delivered | 7c prospect of a reduction. eulogizing the premier. | When asked what remedy he would o 2 | #4zgest, he said: | “Pull up the rails and make a high- way of it. or build a highway from = Aisps tar Portage Bay and abandon the rail- | Several hundred dollars was clearea |\ rree ~Representative = Wallace {trom the carnival held Saturday ] i 2 fish, under the auspices of the Stephen's |of the merchant marine and fisheries committee; United States Commis- Ttaly olini when a | Carnival Aids Two Funds. In a little sketch entitled ““Five Min- utes from the Station,” Henry Hull registered strongly. Its action is fast, and the star shines with every oppor- tunity the clever lines afford. = Edith Fitzgerald and James Baber give ex- cellent support. The Parisian comedienne, Mile. Ann Codee, also is a success, largely through the efforts of a supporting comedian whose name was not given. | After singing a characteristic French song, Mile. Codee goes through a sort of sidewalk conversation act with her partner, who proves to be an unusual- ly clever foil for her somewhat rough work, to peals of laughter. The act i very amusing. Van Cello and Mary open the show with a foot-balancing act; Coscia and Verdit, musicians, create lots of fun with the former's quiet comedy; Starke Patterson and Laina Cloutier offer a dancing act of unusual excel- lence, assisted at the piano by Wil- liam Reinhart, and Walter and Emily Walters, ventriloquists, are past mas- ters of their art. Miss Lindsey and her pony, Sultan, round out the pro- gram. he knew that the church itself was aland Rogers’ Heights Citizens' Associa corporation tions in celebration of the opening of ‘He made a great biuff about how |the new FEdmonston concrete road he's going to take off his gloves and |from the National defense highway call a spade a spade. He doesn't!at Bladensburg to East Riverdale. The know a spade from a hod.” | money will be used for road improve- As to the mayor’s statements about | ments in Riverdale Heights and as a the governor living at the Biitmore, | nucleus for a firehouse bullding fund the governor said that by statute the| for the recently organized Riverdale State had to pay for his hash and ham | Heights_Volunteer Fire Department. and eggs. The governor, day, plans no Lyons, another insurgent candi- until Thursday e, protests against what he re. 558 : | gards an injection of religion into the Hylan's Friends Form T.eague. | campaign. Bennett said that Gov. Hylan's supporters announce the |Smith, by accusing Mayor Hylan of formation of the Honest Government |dickering with the Klan in the Demo- League, with headquarters at the |cratic national convention, appealed Waldorf, to boom the mayor for @ |to Catholics, negroes and Jews to third term. Hylans opponents are | vote for Walker. expressing curiosity as to what the| Lyons is out with an answer to league will do if the mayor is de | Waterman'g slogan, “Say. it with feated at the primaries by State Sen. |shovels.” meanin; e build- ator Walker, backed by Tammany. | ing of subway says he has A statement by the league says an ace to trump Waterman's spade, that arrayed against Hylan are the meaning his knowledge of the city “traction interest, the mongrel pre: Grover A. Whalen, former secretar: the morons, the Broadway loafers|fo Mayor Hylan and for six and, on and parasites” and that the issue is | half years considered the closest per “whether organized vice once more|son in the administration to the shall be triumphant.’ mayor, is out for Walker. Whalen William ). Benneti. insurgent can- | was commissionar of plaats didate for the Republican nomina. |structures when he resigned come tion against Frank D. Waterman, or- | months ago to become a Wanamaker ganization designee, and against John | executive. who rested _\esver] more._ speechmaklng | % at ¢ and | | force. EARLE—Jimmy Gildea Co. A musical farce, “The Great Lov- ers,” played by Jimmy Gildea and of Commerce, visited Alaska to study |company, is the headliner at the Earle salmon fishing regulations. The |Theater this week. First honors are Representatives ' paid their own ex-|easily shared, however, by “A New penses. The salmon industry is regu- |Revue,” in which a wide variety of lated by the White bill. This was |good entertainment is furnished by the the first year it has been in full |eight participating. In the firstnamed act many pretty costumes are to be seen. There also 18 good singing, with very god humor in appropriate places throughout. In “A New Revue’ the Cox sisters, dressed in a kind of hick attire, fur- nish much entertainment with dances, singing and poses. Edith Bohlman, Money and Mandell, Ryan and Bar- don and Viola Kay, theé other members of the revue, also are good and re- ceived a large share of applause for their work. - An_ excellent performance, “Relaxa- tion,” was given by Valentine Vox, ventriloquist, assisted by Florence Talbot. “Bohemian Nights,” pre- sented by .Meyer Golden and featuring Seoma Jupraner, furnished good sing- 3 ing, along with much of color in cos- The National. League of Woman |tumes and scenery. Other vaudeville Voters of the United States is plan- (acts include Dudley, Liddell and Gib- ning to send 12 delegates to the Con-|son, in ‘“Just Vaudevillians,” and Nick ress of the International Woman ! Hufford in a skit of the idiotic va- uffrage Alliance, which is to mlrmy. in Paris next Summer, ! A motion picture, “The Lost Lady,” sioner of Fisheries Henry O'Malley and Lawrence Richy, confidential sec- retary to Herbert Hoover, Secretary Land of Mistaken Policies. Free said that his 10,000-mile in- spection tour convinced him that “Alaska s a country of mistaken policies.” Forestry and mining regulations are other ‘mistaken policles” that should be altered, he stated. These regula- tions, he held, were unnecessarily stringent and are throttling the two industries. ) The salmon industry will be on a permanent basis within three or four years, Free declared. The greatest menace to the fisheries now, he sald, are organized gangs of pirates. THE MAYFLOWER AGAIN CALLS was the President’s yacht. AT PLYMOUTH. But this time it The photograph shows the President and Mrs. Coolidge visiting Plymouth Rock, where the Pilgrims landed in 1620. Miss Fay Wilson Mays of Los An. h of grapes, which is believed to be a record. The bunch is to be preserved by the Los Angeles Chamber of Wide World Photo Wide World Pheto CR Soldier of France. featuring Irene Rich, is good enter-| | tainment with an unusual climax. It |is a story of a woman who is several times married and’ is unhappy. In contrast to most of the present-day | movies, she is lost in the end, for the | spark of true love has died out when her “old-man” husband has died and she has married a devoted lover of her youth. STRAND—Harry Walman's ~ Girls. The Strand Theater this week pre- sents as its outstanding feature Harry Waiman and his cohort of eight musicians, each an artist. Here is a band of beautiful girls, led by Waiman himself, who first tickle.you with a popular jazz melody and then in turn each member of the troupe entertains with a solo number, which was greeted with spontansous ap- plause last night after each number. Harry Waiman's recital on the violin proved a decided hit. The Charles- ton, danced by one of the terpsicho- rean members of the band, is.a sen- sation of its kind. Le Van, better known as jostles his audience into spasms of laughter with his funny puns, witty sayings and good com- edy. He is assisted by Miss Lettie Bolles in an act called “Méra Non- Jean and Jacques. in “A Seashore Flirtation,"” are two super- contortionists, and Billy Nelson and Bert Leonard are good as “Two Speedsters from Jazzland.” = They present popular songs and dances and some original songs that win much applause. “Matrimony.” a com- edy skit on married life, by Raymond Barrett and company, is well done to an accompaniment of laughter and applause. . The feature photoplay, “A Man of Iron,” written especially for Lionel Barrymore by Lawrence Marston,! smacks of the tense drama of do- mestic strife, and is laid in the back- ground of a great Steel mill, which | has been developed by Philip Dur- band (Lionel Barrymore), whose stern ruggedness has won “him the title of “A Man of Iron.” Mr. Barry- more is supported by a noteworthy cast,, including Mildred Harris, Win- nifred Barry, Dorothy Kingdon, Al- fred Mack, J. Moy Bennett, Isobel Deleon and Jean Del 'Val - “A Man of Tron” is a Trio Production, direct-, ed by Whitman Bennett. Short reels of news and educational interest completé ‘the -bill. - COLUMBIA—"The Coast of Folly.” Glorja ~ Swansosi's latest icture, “The Coast of Folly,” from the story Coningsby ~Dawson, represents Loew's Columbia's offering this week. ‘James Creelman did the adapting and Allan Dwan the directing. ““The Coast of Folly” concerns the daughter of a notorious woman, who |is deserted by the latter in infancy, and is left to the care of her million- aire father and a nurse. The crisis comes in her life when she falls in |love with a young married man and is sued by his wife for “heart balm.” (Continued on ‘Twentieth Page.) LEGION T0 PROB RIEMER'S CHARG McGahan Doubts lnefficiency‘ Exists, But Will Order Thorough Inquiry. Charges of Charles Riener, com- mander of the Stuart Walcott Post of the American Legion, that officers in the District department of the legion and its auxiliary are unqualified and selfish and that the state of the or- ganization is “deplorable” will be thoroughly investigated, it was an- nounced today by Paul J. Mc&ahan, past department commander and a member of the national executive committee. Mr. McGahan, however, challenges the accuracy of Mr. Riemer’s accusa- tions, and pointed out that the Wal- cott Post commander will be callsd upon to produce evidence to sustain them. “These charges constitute a serious reflection upon all of the officials of the department and upon veterans themselves generally,” said Mr. McGahan in a prepared state- ment. Denies Charges of Riemer. “As 1 view it from my own know edge of the affars of the department, declared Mr. McGahan, ‘“‘the allega- tions attributed to Comdr. Riemer con- stitute a grave degradation of the management of legion affairs in the District of Columbia as well as inac- curate statement of fact. Consequent- ly, in order that the whole subject may be thoroughly discussed and re- sponsibiiity fixed, either for failure to perform duties or for false accusa- tions, I shall request the department commander (Capt. Julius 1. Peyser) to cause an investigation to be made. As I view it, the department commander under the terms of the constitution may appoint a subcommittee to con- duct the investigation and bring its findings and recommendations before the department executive committee for final action there. That committee is representative of all of the posts of the legion in the District of Colum- bla. Comdr. Riemer is the representa- tive of his post on this committee. ““The American Legion in the Dis- trict of Columbia for a number of years has suffered before the public opinfon by reason of the unchallenged, inaccurate statements made by mem- bers of the department. If Ceomdr. Riemer is supported by facts in what he is quoted as saying, he can take no exceptions to the procedure I am proposing. His individual rights are protected by the very rules-and regu- lations with which he declares depart- ment officials are unfamiltar. And fol- lowing action by the department ex- ecutive committee there is the right of appeal to the national organization of the American Legion. “That the Department.of the Dis- trict of Columbia of the American Legion has mot made the forward MADE BY AMERICAN VETERANS PLACED ON placing a cross of silk poppies made by thegWorld War Veterans of Virgi MARRIES HIS 15.-YEAR-OLD WARD August N. Laggren, wealthy Plainfield. N. J., manufacturer. and his bride, the former Alice Amelia Laggren, who was his ward, The husband, once known as “Daddy,” 52 years old. The bride will continue attending the grade school PARIS TOMB. Carleton Penn of Roanoke, Va., ia on the tomb of the Unknown The military governor of Paris accompanied the American delegation at the tomb. Copsright by P. & A Blockaded Fleet | tockaded et EEK END MISHAPS Fis igh wate | 1 NJJRE T By the Associated Press BUFFALO, N. Y., August —The | et emonen T e Seeony found | Somersaulting Auto Lands in to float through and began to pass| Cemetery—Car Rams House, Hurting 13. through to Lake Ontario. The lake | level has been very low the last few | days and today's high water was the | result of continued favorable winds. | Orders have been issued to with- hold water from power users along | the canal to aid the lake boats. The old Welland Canal, which is now used only as a power canal, has been| drained to enable the boats to pass. 3,160-MILE DEIVE BEGUN. Auto Association Officials Leave in By the Associated Press CHICAGO., August 31.—Fifteen dead and more than 75 injured i end toll of accidents thro country. The majority of the deaths were due to automobiles, while a rail- road wreck brought injuries to 28 Two Colorado and Southern g ger trains collided near Mayne, Colo. No one was killed. and of the 30 re. ported injured only 2 were in a se- rious condition. A street in Ber- wyn, IIL, jumped the track and ram- med into a house, seriously injuring 13. More than a score received minor injuries. Traffic accidents in Chicago resulted in 10 injured. Two firemen were killed when their truck was struck at La .| Grange, Tl by a Burlington passen ger train, and another fireman was not expected to live Traveling more than 70 miles an hour, a racing car somersaulted at Reno, Nev., and killed the driver after rolling over about a dozen times. crashing through two fences and com: Ing to a stop in an adjoining ceme tery A man and bahy Springfield, I1l, and 8 injured in auto mobile mishaps. Fire started when a kerosene lamp was upset at Everett Mass., burned five children to deat! All were less than 13 years old. A grade-crossing accident at Greensboro, N. C., cost five lives. Sixty-three automobile deaths were | reported by eight Midwestern States | for the last week. | DRY AGENT’S NEW BASE. Sedan for San Francisco. Thomas P. Henry, president, and Ernest N. Smith, general manager of the American Automobile Association, began a 3.160-mile drive to San Fran: | cisco at 11 _a.m. yesterday, starting| from the Zero Milestone near the White House. They plan to drive 22 hours a da the sedan they are using being so equipped that one may sleep while the other Is driving. No definite hour has been set for arrival at San Francisco, where they are to be guests of the California. diamond jubilee celebrati but they planned to make the miles to Indianapolis by 8 a.m. toda The trip is intended to demonstrate the possibilities of long-distance tour- ing over modern roads. and to provide opportunity for study of highway con- ditlons-and touring facilities. The first leg of the drive takes the pair over the National Old Trails, and then the | Lincoln and Victory highways will {be followed into San Franclsco. were killed at progress that it should i attributable entirely “to the guerrilla warfare against those elected to office waged by others who are disgruntled and in- subordinate. ‘Will Probe Charge Fully. “The public of Washington is en- titled to have the atmosphere of doubt that has been created cleared up. There are some of us who are working unselfishly in the American Legion who are determined that this} shall take place. “Every penny of the funds—and they are meager funds at that—that have been administered by the de- partment are accounted for, One thing- the public should understand is. that when it supports the effort of an individual post mothing of what | t4ln headqurters as a general in. it contributes reaches the department. | telligence officer for the prohibition The income of the department for alj | SNforcement ~department, it was purposes is raised’ by a per capita | A0nounced here. levy of 75 cents per member. And the ohly salary paid by the depart ment is that of a fulltime employe, an executive officer, who receives Leader in New Orleans Raids As- signed to San Antonio. NEW ORLEANS, La.. August 31 (P).—A. R. Butler, assistant chief of general prohibition agents, assigned nearly one year ago to investigations which culminated in the recent whole- sale raids in New Orleans and fn the Guif coast under direction of E. C. Yellowley, then national chief of agents, has been ordered immediately to_San Antonio, where he will main. The Canadian Federation of Labor, which comprizes unions organized in ) Canada and having no international $2,000 a year. . The department head- | afliliations, will hold its nnnual con quarters at the present time are being | vention in Quebec the week of Sep- furnished rent free through a private | tember 14. The federaton elaims & donation.” membership' of 27,000.