Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1925, Page 17

THE SECRETARY, TAKES A VACATION. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, forgetting the cares of his office at Southampton, Long Tsland. At left, Miss Olyve Graef of Washington. il Mellon. daughter of the Secretary Photos. Lakehurst, N. J Left to right: ( Lieut. In center, Miss A By Acme ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PERSONS WITNESS ASBURY PARK BABY SHOW. The thirtyfourth an- nual affair of its kind-drew speetators and contestants from all over the country. A feature of the show was a parade on the Boardwalk. The photograph shows little Norma Dreyer, who won the grand prize, with her float, “The Treasure Ship.” Copyright by Underwood & Underwood FEDERAL AIDASKED COASTGUARDPLANS .22 e 20, M GRS ADVCE INDICATES FOR DROUGHT AREA'TOHONOR WARDEAD x5 555« officials hold R. C. Crispell, Trinidad, | Colo., dispatcher, responsible for the | crash between two trains near | Mayne, Colo., that breught injujry to | i:w passengers last Sunday morning. | " ~ Th officlals found that Crispell| Heroes Will Be Placed in | tatied failed to give the northbound train| 2 bound train at Mayne. | Arlington Cemetery. | “Thex havenot vet announced what | Road Building May Employ|$20,000 Memorial to 195 Farmers—Two States | Pray for Rain. the proper order to meet the south- | | action they" will take in Crispell's| | case. | The Coast Guard plans to erect at! = | Arlington Xational Cemetery a man.i rial, to cost as high as $20,000, to the | 195 World War dead of the service. The Commission of Fine Arts was | advised of this project at its session Yesterday It will confer on the loea- | tion and design. | The campus of Howard Uni 'sit. is to be landscaped, at a cost of $10,- 500. The commission indorsed the | plan submitted by Dr. E. J. Scott, al- honugh the members felt that the fun. {on hand were hardly sufficient to carry out the full project By the Associated Pres ATLANTA. Ga.. September Prayers for rain and road building wer invoked vesterday in two Southern States as a means of relief from the suffering caused by one of the most disastrous droughts known in this sec- tion of the country in half a century At Columbia, S. C.. Gov. McLeod is sued a proclamation setting aside next Sunday as a day of fasting and praver for rain by the people of his State In Atlanta, representatives of the suffering people of north Georgia wait ed upon a joint meeting of the State highway board and their congressmen e AE, 2 10 ask that road huilding in north Botanic Garden Plans, Georgia be speeded up and put into| James L. Greenleaf, landscape archi- | Barnes, 62, oil millionaire, who lived execution at once, so the farmers and |tect of the commission, conferred withfin a two.room farmhouse with his their teams may be afforded employ-|George W. Hess, director of the Bo-|9).year-old mother, died in a hospital ment tanic Garden, regarding a new loca- | here. tion. An pection was made of | The Barnes oil field, in the southern | |grounds near the Capitol south of | part of Garfield County, bears his Maryland avenue. {name. Production in.the fleld and : d 24 | At the request of Acting Secretary | other ofl developments made him a stances, they said, farmers are cut-|oe‘\war Davis, the commission will ad-| willfonaire. tng down voung trees o feed the|yise on pians for the restoration of the | The Bathes farm has five producing foliage to live stock, at other places ! jinston Mansion. [vells. Bamias refiunad sonit: ot denito farmers are keeping hogs alive by feed. |~ g a5 given on a design for ! lease locations on AdjolniaE lande, do ing ragweed the V. )-cent piece | claring that oil operations ruined it ® Georglans asked thuir congress. |5 uth for farming. His death is expected to men to see if the Federal Government | gtyaq; for the McKinley Manual | result in the expansion of the field, | (hald not make immedialely available | Training School and for polige station | since five brothers into whose hands | the Federal money intended to- aid |13 were submitted s SEE . e gt road construction in this State. so that | Dot vl Bl o % pose its exploitation. | this money could be used in employ Barnes purchased a cheap automo- | ing the drought-stricken farmers bile in 1918 and drove it until he be- came ill recentl e i v 69 000,000,000 PAID e, S, i N DELINQUENT TAXES e i for* purchas They also con- | i 3 ‘ufl_ngua;_.g‘:.he development of proposed | HOWLAND TO BE EDITOR | : | B cho Asmoratod Bove OF CENTURY MAGAZINE! MAN IS FOUND SHOT. |aent with the publication ot last vear's income tax returns, C. M. Justice, chief supervising internal revenue agent, has announced . that since {1918 $2,000,000,000 in delinquent pen. |alties have been collected in the United States, a_half billion of which came from the port fo New York. Of- ficials of his department intimated that illegal Jiquor traffic has figured large: Iy in many of the delinquent penalties, Slight interest has been shown by the general public in the income tax returns as, far as visits to the inter nal_revenue collector’s office are con- cerned. Unlike last year’s rush, only 10 men and women, aside from news- paper repprters, have sought permis- sion to view the tax lists at his office, Coliector of Internal Revenue Bowers said. IN HIS 2-ROOM HOME| Elias Barnes Refused to Exploit, All His Fields, Holding 1 Land for Farming. By the Associated Press ENID, Okla., September 4. — Elias Feed Stock With Leaves. They described conditions in drought area as pitiable. In many the in ew Type Street Pole Proposed. here was a consultation with Dis. . trict officials on a new type of street Delegation Coming Here. pole proposed for Connecticut avenue, The full co-operation of thé Georgia | which will carry both lamps and trol delegation in Congress was pledged jey wires, to replace the center poles by Representative W Upshaw of i now in use. Atlanta, who said he would join the! rphe State highway board mext week in 2 ision trip to Washington to push the matter. | ares D. Indianapalis Man Will Succeed | Refuses to Tell Police How He Was Wounded. Samuel F. Sewell, colored, 50, was | taken to Emergency Hospital last | night for treatment of a sunshot eptember 4.—Hewitt | Wound in his right side, sustained at el known editor. of | his home, 1720 Thirteenth street. Po- will become editor of |lice of the second precinct, after in- Magazine. succeeding | Vestizating, reported that the wound Glenn Frank, recently elected presi- |appeared -to be self-inflicted, but that dent of the University of Wisconsin, | the Tevolver was nét found in the it is announced. Mr. Howland will|bouse.. Residents there vefused to take over his new duties October 1.{8&i¥e any information, Mr. Howland is a native of Indi-| Sewell is in a serious condition, ac- ana and grew up in close association{SOrding. to physicians at the hospital. {with such writer as Booth Tarking- | The Wound, it was said, was made by ton, George Ade and James Whit- |2 -$5-caliber pistol. comb Riley. He has been editor-in- =+ s chief for the Bobbs-Merriil Publish-| Panama’s 100-mile national Highway ing .Co. for many years. . . . - !soon will_be completed. Glenn Frank, New Wisconson | U. President. | the Associated \"rru' EW YORK H. Howland, —_— - Cloth is being made in Austr.a from string - bean_ fibar. mdr. Zachary Lansdowne, G. B. Lawrence of St. Paul, Minn.; | reachea THE OFFICERS IN THIS GROUP WERE KILLED WHEN THE SHENANDOAH CRASHED Y THE SHENANDOAH IN HER HANGAR. TERD This unusually good the Shenandoah was taken in the hangar at Lakehurst, N. J, several days ago. Followers of Viking Trail, Missing More Than Year, | Believed to Have Encountered Storm, Geographic | Copyright by P. & A. Photos. ] | | Society Is Informed by Explorer. Donald radioed to Society that Holstenborg, Bowdoin put dication B. MacMillan yesterday the National Geographic he had discovered Greenland. where the in_Tuesday, further in to confirm his belief that William Nutting of the Leif Ericson RlCH 0". MAN D'Es | and his brave comrades “have salled | Holstensborg. | | from their last port.’ | scientists and photographers of the Nutting sailed in the Spring of 1942 in & 40-foot sailing boat from Norway, with three companions, to follow the Viking trail to this country. The party Iceland safely and safled in 1924, for Greenland and o further word was heard August, Labrador. {from them, and it is feared they may have been lost in a storm MacMillan's radio message says. We have discovered here in Holsten borg the man who entertained Nutting of the Leif son and his party | during their stay in Julianehaah. Theibunker: with enough person who entertained Mr. Nutting is the retiring Governor of Holstenbors, O. C. Rassmussen. Gov. Rassmussen in 1 vas the Deputy Governor of Julianehaab. He was the last to say farewell to Mr. Nutting and his par The Leif Ericson. party spent their last evenings at the home of the deputy governor, now Gov. Rass- mussen, and discussed frankly their plans and hopes, and ordered, through his booksellers, books on the voyages | of the- Norsemen, the Norse Sages, etc., to be delivered to Nutting in the United States Planned Seven-Day Run. “He further stated ibat, contrary,to rumor circulated in the United States, Mr. Nutting’s destination after leav- ing Greenland was mot to be some port morth, but Battle Harbor, Labrador, the first radio station he could reach, Julianehaab at that time having no radio station. Nutting ap- proximated seven to eight days neces- sary time for the run from Juliane- haab to_Battle Harbor. “Mr. Nutting tok. only five gallons aditional gasoline, his tanks being full, “Gov. Rassmussen states that thres days after the sailing of the Lelf Ericson on a strong southerly gale set in which corresponded to the weather expected by me between Battle Har- bor and Newfoundland the same day, report of which was mailed to the United States Government. “Goy. Rassmussen has numerous photographs taken by him of Mr. | Nutting, his party and the ship ‘while in Jullanehaab, and will be glad to give these to Mrs. Nutting, cor- responding further with her on the subject if she-so desires. Rassmussen is ‘today retiring = as governor Holstenborg and Is being - succeed by Gov. Bistrup. Fears are Confirmed. At his home we were delightfully eutertained agr dinner this -evening. Gov. Rassmussen is now to assume a position of Deputy. Governor of thaab, South: Greenland, - where ac | of | Mrs. Nutting can reach him by mail. I regret to say that this further con- firms my bellef publicly expressed In | the press that Nutting and his brave | comrades have sailed from their last | port.” i The Peary rejoined the Bowdoin at Greenland. and the two ships of the MacMillan Arctic ! expedition put In a hard dav's work [ there. according to a radio message re ceived by -the Geographic Soclety earlier yesterday. Through the courtesy of the Danish | government and the co-operation of the Minister of Denmark to the United | States, Constantin Brun, the Peary was able to procure enough coal at | Umanak, Disko Tsland, from the very limited supply | haab, to steam on t Godt- where she replenjshed her to make the rest of her homeward trip. | Eskimos See Movies. | The message also states that the | photographers and scientists were verr busy on scenes of every descrip- tion and in studying the various kinds of fish brought in by the Eskimos. | All the Eskimos attended a_ motion | picture show on the deck of the Bow- | doin The Bowdoin was scheduled to leave | yesterday for Sukkertoppen. 100 miles to the south and just below the Avetic Circle, a new port of call for all the members of the expedition, including Comdr. MacMillan. ~Comdr. McMillan reports wonderful weather at last, the finest of the season. The Peary was to leave this morning to rejoin the Bowdoin off Sukkertoppen, and the tw oships will then proceed to Godt- haab together. A third and delayed telegram re- ceived yesterday further describes the activities of the expedition’at Disko Island: “There was not a single killuete, that primitive musical instrument of the Eskimos, available at the village, nor a single native with the ability to play the killuete we brought from- the north, “In the middle of our radio pro- gram Capt. von Brignhof_ of the steamship Hans Egede was sitting at our microphone in ow- dining salon, which becomes our studio on occasion, delivering a greeting to Australia and New Zealand. ~We suddenly noticed a strange movement of the steamship Peary and also of the Egede. It was a tremendous tidal wave 'caused by the bursting of an iceberg, hundreds of which were in the immediate vi- cinity and some of which would welgh more than the Wooiworth Building, or the birth of a new ice- berg from one of the enormous | glaciérs, one of which in this vicinity | advances at the rate of 50 feet per | day. W4 were forced to interrupt the captain in his address, as he had not | noticed trouble. Both the Peary and the Egede in_ this little harbor ere ‘pulling _at thelr line and anchor The photograph was taken at some time ago, and the officers who posed all met death when the great dirigible met a storm in Ohio early yesterday morning. n command of the ship, who lived at Greenville, Ohio; Lieut. Comdr. Louis Hancock of Austin, Tex.; ut. A. R. Houghton of Aliston, Mass.; Lieut. E. W. Sheppard of Washington, D. C. Wide World Photo. ANIMAL STARS OF THE SCREEN ARE TENDERED-A BANQUET.. Buster Keaton's cow, which h part in several movie comedies, was the-hostess of the banquet at a hotel in Los Angeles. The guects were the Great, a police dog; Cameo, another traified dog: Jimmy the monkey, and Poily, a well known scre ELECTION HELD ON TRAIN. Parm Paper Editors Hold Business Session En Route. JASPER, Alberta, Septemb: The American Agricultural Association, visiting Western fon the purpose of studying agricul- tural conditions and methods, held its annual meeting while en route from Vancouver to Jasper. Officers were re-elected as follows: President, C. A. Ruralist, Atlanta: John Cunningham, sulturist. Racine, treasurer, T. L. Farmers' Guide. Huntington, Ind directors, C. W. Peterson, Farm and Ranch Review, Calgary; M. Baynard, Natfonal Stockman and Farmer, Pittsburgh. JARDINE MUST PASS ON PACKERS’ MERGER Alone Has Authority, Attorney General Sargent Is Said to Have Been Informed. Cobb, Southern vice president Wisconsin Agri- Wis.: secretary- Wheeler, Attorney General Sargent is expect- ed in some future time to refuse to submit an opinion as requested by Secretary Jardine on the legality of the merger of the Armour and Morris packing interests. The Attorney General has been ad- vised that Congress specifically gave full power of administration of the packers and stookyards act to the Sec- retary of Agriculture. Secretary Jardine requested the At- torney General to rule on the case after a series of public hearings. The Secretary has promised a decision in the case within a week or so. chains, as both ships were tied up fore and aft R “Lieut. Schur rushed down from our upper deck shouting that a small Eskimo boy was in the water. boy had been sitting in a dory high and dry on the rocks when the tidal wave rushed in, seized his boat and capsized it. ‘“The z er made the rocks now an island ahd another huge wave rushed in and pulled him back to deep water. His mother dashed té the shore, the father closely following, and en- deavored to jump after her boy, but she was restrained by the father. “By this time the captain and Lieut. M. A.'Schur had, in one of our small boats, reached the point where the boy was last seen. His unconscious form wnfi finally: fished from the water, @ was taken -aboard the Peary and after about two hours of work was pronounced out of danger. “During this entire action we de- scribed what was taking place over the micropnone, and. If we were reaching New Zealand and Australia, as we have for the past few weeks, this must have been very dramatic at their end. However, last night was one of the rest radio nigl since being in S‘.’é’ Arctic, - and hv:: attributed this to the almost pér- pendicular wall of mountains that surround the Umanak ~Harbor on three sides. MacMILLAN. g e it ¥ Indiana | The ! JUST BEFORE START OF THE Rodgers at the bow of the PN.9, PACIFIC FLIGHT. Comdr. John . 1, a few minutes before the big plane started on her attempted flight to Hawaii. The commander and four com- panions have not been heard from si GET SECOND PLACE Guardsmen Beaten by 5th| Marines for Regimental Championship. | | Special Dispatch to The Star | CAMP PERRY. Ohio, September 4. | ifiemen of the District of Columbia ational Guard today finished second |in the match for the regimental rifie team championship of the United | States, the -famous 5th Marines of Quantico, by a margin of a bare nine | points, taking first place, with a total | score of 500, against the guardsmen's 551. All other teams of the regular serv- ices and National Guard trailed into places behind the local soldiers. The course of fire consisted of 10 shots standing, at 200 yartls and 10 shots prone at_§00 yards. At the diffi- cult offhand stage the team had ‘the exceptionally high average of 45 out of a possible 50. Notable Records Made. Sergt. BE. D. Andrus of Company E, 121st, Engineers, distinguished himself with a 48 out of 50, closely seconded by his company cemmander, Capt. Clar- ence’ S. Shields, with a 46. The same men likewise turned in perfect scores of 50 each at 600 vards, despite the fact that no sighting shots were al- lowed at the midrange. Staff Sergt. Alex Thill, Company A, 121st Engineers, and Master Sergt. F. F. Bernsdorff, of headquarters and service company, were next, with a 4% and a 46, respectively. In the final stages of the match four regi- ments of Engineers were crowding the { Marines for first place—namely, the 121st National -Guard, and the -2d, 1st and 8th Regular Engineers. Reg- ular service regiments of the Infan- try, Cavalry, Artillery, Marines and units of the Navy all placed in brack ets below the various regiments of the Engineer Corps. Meeds Gets Back. Staff Sergt. Lloyd T. Meeds, who has Just returned from his trip abroad with the United States international team, reported today to Team Cap- tain J. C. Jensen for duty with the District rifiemen. There is much merriment in camp over the recelpt of a.mysterious pack- age by express for Sergt. Andrus. After paying 4 heavy collect charge, Sergt. Andrus-unwrapped a. gold brick, or at least an excellent imitation, in- scribed as a love token from the other sergeants of Company E, 121st Engi- neers. Bécause of an ax cut on the foot, received -during minor engineer- ing operations, ‘Sergt. Andrus escaped heavy duty the Virginia Beach camp, and hie- fellow non-coms took ter had not escaped their notice. Capt. Peyton G. Nevitt, range officer from _the District of Columbia, lost his baggage and was forced to go on the firing line and direct the work on his group of targets in civilian clothes. this method of showing that the mat- | nce they were forced down Tu day Copyright by Underwood & T'r oo ken Peter parrot Wide W Photo LOCAL RIFLEMEN ~ PRISONER SLASHES - OFFIGER' FINGER Colored Man Attacks De- tective Ogle With Knife, In- flicting Severe Wound. Precinct Detective Howard FE. Ogle narrowly missed heing seriously stab- bed last night at Second and D streets southwest, near the spot where Po- liceman John Purcell, a fellow officer. was killed several months ago, when a prisoner at bay drew a long, sharp knife and started for him Ogle threw up his hand and took the blow of the knife on the middle finger of his left hand, grabbing the wrist of his assaflant with the other hand. The finger was almost split in halves. Officer Effects- Arrest. After the scuffie he arrested the man, giving his name as Samuel Hen- sen, colored, 24, of 108 Canal street southwest, charging him with taking {an automobile without the pwner's |consent, reckless driving and assault. {Charles’ Colbert, colored, of 111 D street ‘southwest, was arrested at the !same time by Lieut. Holmes and Po liceman Wise. The fight in the dark was the cul- jmindtion of an automobile chase {through Southwest Washington. Holmes, Ogle and Wise started after a large car at Fourand-a-half and C streets southwest when it crossed the jintersection at a fast rate of speed. {As the police went in pursuit the car {put_on more power and Onally was |abandoned near First street and Vir. |ginia_avenue southwest. It was in |pursuing and arresting the alleged oc- icupants that the fight took place. | Answers Description of Lost Car. | The ear, it was found, answered the {@escription’ of one reported stolen {earlier in the evening from Seventh |street and Virginia avenue southeast {by Daniel Woods, living near that cor- |ner. Police were told by Willlam Ki- nard, colored, of 219 Virginia avenue |southeast, that he had witnessed the ltheft and chased the car, only to lose {1t shortly before the police picked up |its trail in Southwest Washington. | 0gle was treated at Emergency Hos- pital and reported back for duty this morning. SRl X y Brookhart Majority Totals 194. Senator Brookhart's lead _over Daniel F. Steck, his Democratia opponent in the November elegtiong, was estimated unofficially todax af 194, after the discovery o fdi- tlon ballots on a recheck of the fig- ures announced in the lowa election recount. The local guardsmen are squadded to fire today as individuals in the fNavy match, consisting of 20 shots offhand at 200 yarde, and the National Rifle Association match for members. consisting of 10 shots prone at 00 yards. . Excellent weather prevails;