Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1925, Page 17

Y the trophy, emblema in the matches with the French Left 1o right: Julius Merrick, Norris Williams. . DAVIS CUP STAYS IN AMERICA. R. Norris Williams, captain of the United States tennis team, recei ic of the championship of the world, after the Ame cugis, captain of the French team, and J. W. Mersereau, president of the American Lawn Tennis Association. A CLOSE PLAY BACK FROM CAVES Legion Post’s Auto Trip Into Virginia Slightly Delayed by Storms. The automobile caravan of Stuart Walcott Post, No. 10. the American Legion. tn Shenandoah Caverns. Va.. although delaved several hours on ac. count of rain and electrical storms, pulled into the city this morning at 1 o'clock. with every car which started Saturday afternoon coming through at this finish in good shape. The caravan of motor cars was piloted by George H. Plckett, 3d, of the Stuart Waleott Post The start was made Saturday aft- arnoon at 2:15 o'clock. followlng the road through Falls Church, Fairfax, Aldie. Middleburg. Paris, Millwood and Winchester, thence down the famous Shenandoah Valley to Shen- andoah Caverns, Va., where the tour- ists spent the night. The return trip was made yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock, returning up the valley Winchester, where the membe; the legion were met by Comdr. John H. Rosenberger and E. C. Goss of the Robert Y. Conrad Post, No. 21, of Winchester, Va., and escorted to the cemetery, where a wreath was placed on the tomb of Maj. Gen. Daniel Mor- gan, an outstanding figure in the Civil War. Sheriff Objects to Sounding Horns. Just as the legionnaires were leav- tng Winchester at 3 o'clock the first slgn of another storm made its ap pearance. The run was continued on to Berryville, where the first unwel- enme greeting on the entire trip was noticeable. The sheriff objected to the motorists sounding thei horns while passing through the town, as had been the custom since the trip was begun, and he overhauled the pllot car i his machine and velled out to the driver: ‘“Where do you think vou are?” Pilot Pickett passed quietly on through the town and on to Harpers Ferry, W. Va. About five miles out from Berryville the tourists ran into & heavy downpour, followed Jater by finding the roads obstructed with fallen trees and telegraph poles. Many of the trees had been uprooted and falling over the telegraph lines, were suspended in midair, making the traveling dangerous. The greatest damage was done in the vicinity of Charles Town and Halltown, where it was necessary for farmers, with the aid of the caravan members, to clear the road with axes. Beyond Halltown it was necessary to make an elght mile detour. The cars were lined up and checked in on the outskirts of Frederick, where a two-hour stop was made for supper and rest. Here they were met by Comdr. Alton Y. Bennett and Past Comdr. Danlel E. Leatherman of. the Francis Scott Key Post No. 11, of | nirs were presented to every member | éach afternoon at 1 o'clock, arriving Frederick, Md. Several hundred mem- bers of the American Legion aux iliary and the post, together with th mayor and other town officials, had prepared a reception at 5 o'clock and only disbanded after a telephone mes- sage from the valley informed the reception committee o the delay caused by the storm which overtook them. After supper the legionnalres went . to the hotel hallroom, where they were greeted by David 1. Winebren- ner representing Maver Lloyd C. Cul-/ who made an ad- to the visitors. ler, of Frederick, dress of welcome AN YESTERDAY'S GAME. inches from second on Ruether's single. WALCOTT CARAVAN . OF G HTS EIGHT | llengers at the Germantown Cricket Assistant Secretary of Wa Peck sliding into home * BOLEVARDTOPS ?Disapproves Enforced Halt- ing Without Traffic Officer Stationed at Points. | | | { | The committee on" public safety, po- |1ice and fire protection of the Wash. | ington Chamber of Commerce, in re- | sponse to a letter from Trafe Di- {rector Eldridge today, declared its unanimous disapproval of boulevard | stops on Rhode Island avenue at Sev- | enth, Ninth and Eleventh streets and New Jersev avenue and Florida ave- nue. and on Massachusetts avenue at Ninth street and at New York avenue | and Seventh street uniess an officer or |an automatic stop light be placed at | each point to control trafc. The committee also went on record against painted lines to show safety zones at street car stops. The question as to -the houlevard stops and the painted safety zones was ralsed by a letter from Trafc Director Bldridge asking the cham- ber's opinion as to whether the street cars should stop at the above inter- sections and whether the street cars should be required to paint safety zones on Fourteenth street between K and S. The committee declared that as the boulevard system was to be main- tained at the points in question the street cars should come o a full stop, but further stated that it was the consensus that Massachusetts and Rhode Island avenues be not main- talned as boulevards at these points unless a policeman was stationed there or unless a light was put there to_control traffic. Most of the members of the com mittee fully agreed with Vice Presi- dent Hanna of the Capital Traction, who sald that the boulevard system should not be extended into the down- town area, where traffic is heavy on most of the streets. The committee also adopted a reso- lution recommending the passage of the proposed bill designed to control trafic in firearms in the District, at the same time eommending Commis- sioner Fenning for his stand in favor | of_the blil. .Speeches also were made by Past Department Comdr. Frank L. Peck- ham, Charles Riemer, commander of Stuart Walcott Post, and Comdr. Ben nett. Early yesterday morning the 100 or more legionnaires visited the Shen. andoah Caverns, returning in time for a nobn-day dinner. At the conclusjon of the dinner Comdr. Riemer intro- duced E. M. Savage of Washington, Robert D. Ford of the Richmond | Times-Dispatch and Hunter B. Chap- | man, proprietor of the caverns, all {of whom made brief speeches. Souve- Iof the party and the homeward-bound rip commenced at 1 o'clock. No accidents marred the entire trip, several punctures being the extent of accidents during the outing. In the party were a physician and two nurses, but their services were not required during the two-day run. Prize winners for the best deco- rated care on the run were George E. Pickett, 3d, pilot on the run, silver serving tray: Comdr. Charles Riemer cecond prize. small mirror; Glenn D. Tubbs, third prize, silver flowe: vas Lewis Werden, fourth prize, framed picture. Clnh St ‘THE ‘EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., MONDAY, ing n team had made a clean sweep Philadelphia last week. donor of the cup; Max De- near r Davi Acme between Perkins' legs, scoring by National "!?qm Ca. ‘ SAVIOR OF THE PN-9 No. 1 AN 'PAIR HEADS CRUSHED, \FOUND IN BURNED CAR Trail of Blood Leads to Auto Near | East St. Louis, Where Couple Was Killed. By the Associated Press EAST ST. LOUIS, I, September 14.—Madison County authorities are |trying to establish the identity of a {man and woman whose charred bodies {were found in a burned automobile | near he vesterday. The skull of | | each was crushed. | | The burned machine, a touring car |of expensive make. was found in a |thicket near a little used lane at a point about half mile from the Na- |tional trafl. A trail of blood led from |the lane to the car, indicating tha kill- ing occhrred before the machine was |removed from:the lane. The bodies. were ,found by Cyrus Oatman of Colllnsville, while on | his wav to work at a smelter. They | were unrecognizable. The clothing had heen burned off, but a belt buckle initialed “G" and a plain gold wedding ring were found. SPECIAL TRAINS PLANNED. Extra Service to Marlboro Races Announced by Railway, A special train service for the Marl- boro races, which begin tomorrow, was announced today by the Chesa- peake Beach Railway Company. The races will continue for five days. Trains will leave the District Line {at the track 20 minutes later. The | return trains will leave following the Jast race. The round trip rate has | |been fixed at 78 cents. The Winter schedule of trains to| and from Chesapeake Beach became effective today On week days trains !'will-leave the District Line and 5:40 p.m., returning at 5.am. and 2:30 p.m. On Sundays trains will leave the District Line at 10 a.m. | 'and £:45 p.M., returning at 8 a.m. and pm. Although the boardwalk | t 9 am.| amusements have been closed. the|takes two months, ‘was accomplished | the internal injuries which threatened ! resort ix apen for fishermen. Hotels ' and cafes are still running.. . . “MISS AMERICA™ CROWNED BY California, chosen last week as Miss KING NEPTUN Fay Lamphier of America of 1925, at the Atlantic City beauty pageant, heing given the crown of her office by King Neptune. Ernest Torrence of movie fame, and FIRST NEWS OF HIS § welcome his boy, furlough-shortly. D HER CREW. been tossed abous the Pacific Ocean for nine days. Gen. Butler Sees V Despite His Failure in Philadelphial By DYING MRS. COOK By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, September 14.— Director of Public Safety Butler, who said last Saturday that law enforce- ment in Philadelphia had been a fall- ure because of lack of co-operation, amplifying his views today, stated that “in the long run the bootleggers and crooks are going to be heat in this coun That will be only he added, “when the people avoid petty lawbreaking themselves. “When 1 leave at the end of the year 1 can do so with the conviction that 1 never gave an inch to the forces that wanted me to be easy his court. Yeme. S SAFETY. James R. Connell, chief engineer of the Monongahela River locks at Pittsburgh, first reading of the rescue of his son, Lieat. Byron J. Connell, a member of the PN-9 No. 1. He will ‘practically returned from the grave,” on his expected P. & A. Photos. ictory for Laws | | on certain forms of law violation be- cause they represent a big invest- ment or because some big interest was back of them. ‘What has happened in this city with regard to law enforcement, look- ing at the results in attempting to enforce the liquor laws, does not harm me, but it does harm the entire cause of law enforcement everywhere in this country Gen. Butler's two years' leave of absence from the Marine Corps ex- pires December 31. He is under or- | ders to make an inspection of marine | posts around the world after the firat | of the year. MRS. EMMA J. SWINGLE DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Widow of Internal Revenue Bu- Chief Was Litelong Resident of Washington. Mrs. Emma Johnston Swingle, 73 years old and a lifelong resident of Washington, died at her residence, 1447 Fairmont street, Saturday, after a lingering illness. She was the widow of Robert Duncan Swingle, who was at one time chief of a di- vision in the Bureau of Internal Rev- enue, United States Treasury Depart- ment. He died about 20 years ago. Mrs. Swingle is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Suzzanne Cannon of ‘Washington, Mrs. D. B. Street of Jersey City, Mrs. C. C. Clark of Chevy Chase, Md., and Mrs. C. F. Reed of Dover, N. J.; two sons, W. B. Swin- gle and R. J. Swingle, both of Wash- ington; a sister. Mrs. Tda Mitchell, and a brother, Hughle Robb, both of this city. Funeral services ‘Will be conducted at the residence tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Joseph Daw- son will officiate. Interment will be in Congressional Cemeter: reau Payment of trea in_ Ontario, ¥ money to Indians Canada, which usually this year in three weeks by means of - v | | WOMAN HIT BY MACHINE WHILE HELPING OTHERS Mrs. Mattie Goren, Struck While Returning to Not | Car, i Seriously Injured. While aiding a group apparently hurt in a roadside accident Mrs. Mat- tie Goren, 48 years old, of 1336 H street northeast, yesterday was in- jured herself when an automobile struck her while on the Washington- Baltimore boulevard about 10 miles from the city. Mrs. Goren was riding “with her husband, Morrle Goren, when she noticed a group about a disabled auto- mobile in the road. Goren stopped the machine and Mrs. Goren went to see- if she could be of some assistance to those in the disabled car. She was returning to her own machine when an automobile. Baltimore = bound, struck her, hurling her to the side of the road. She was taken | Hospital here and Joseph D. Rogers. Although thought in a serlous condition last night, Mrs. | | Goren had improved considerablv this | morning and her recovery is expect- | ed. She sustained severe bruises but | to Stanton Park treated by Dr. | about had cleared up after a good rest last night. % SEPTEMBER 14, 1925. LECIONNAIRES PARADE IN NEW YORK. ture of last week' P.'Qé WL LaSociete ¥ des |3 " 40 HOMMES ¢t ™ 4 8Chevayx * 4! Yorture #o ot i Thirty-five thous: 1 veterans march up Fifth avenue a s convention in honor of New York state department of the American Legion. fea Above, one of the floats, a reproduction of the famous “40 Hommes, 8 Chevaux,” the box cars of cherished memories, used to transport troops in France. horses™ belanged to the Westchester post of Dutchess County, N. Y. demonstration, The U. S. submarine R-4, which found the drifting airplane off the Hawaiian Islands after it had P VINTON YOUTH NAMED & A. Photos. Mother-in-Law Refuses to Reveal Identity Until Officers Re- turn to Crime Scene. By the Associated Press, VINTON, Iowa. September 14. Mrs. Myrtle Cook, slain Women's Christfan Temperance Union presi- dent and head of the women's organ- ization of the Ku Klux Klan in Ben- ton County, whispered the name ot a Vinton youth to those gathered her death bed shortly before she died from a bullet wound. Mrs. 8. W. Cook. her mother-in-law. admitted fast night that she had heard the name spoken, but with held comment, preferring to wait until of. ficers were present before divulg- ing it. State agents were out of town yes. terday, checking up on clues. They were admittedly working on two angles, one that G. B. Cook, husband of Mrs. Cook, who told officers he was at Grundy Center, Iowa. 50 miles from the scene of the murder, Monday night, knows more of the shooting than he has indicated. The second theory is that the murderer was either a Jquor or drug addict and that he committed the act while in a half- crazed candition. . SIR JOHN JORDAN DIES. Former British Minister to Peking Expires at Meeting. LONDON, September 14 (#).—Right Hon. Sir John Jordan, former British Minister in Peking and member of the League of Nations advisory com- mittee, died suddenly at a meeting of the China Association here today. He was born September 5, 1852, at Bal- loo, County Down, Ireland, and was knighted in 1920 after four years’ service as head of Peking. Sir John was a member of the League of Nations opium commission and took an active part in the move- ment to prevent smuggling of Ifluf): smoking purposes. the legation at | ELDRIDGE APPROVES NEW SAFETY DEVICE. ! | | It needed no introduction to the members. 3 LEWIS CA ON STRKE SPREAD Warns Terra Haute Miners Not to Go on Sympathetic Walkout. | Br the Associated Pr TERRE HAUTE. Ind., September 14.—The threat of a svmpathetic | { mine strike in the Terre Haute coal | { field was modified as the result of a | mass meeting held here vesterday which was advised indirectly by John | L. Lewis, the international miners’ president, that such a strike would be a violation of the existing contract. | Miners at Clinton are on strike as the | increasing the fares charged them for result of the C. and E. I. Railroad use of a work train. The local miners | fearing similar action by other rail- | roads have been talking strike. The mass meeting was advised by | President Lawton of District No. 11 of Mr. Lewis’ view of the matter. An- | other meeting was set for tomorrow afternoon at Clinton to consider the controversy. WILL CONFER WITH PINCHOT. sympathetic By the Associated Press. | MILFORD, _Pa., September 14— John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers, is ex- pected here today to discuss th suspension of mining in the anthra cite fields with Gov. Pinchot, who is seeking first-hand information on the situation, En route from Philadelphia by auto- mobile. Mr. Lewis stopped at Hazleton yesterday for a brief conference with Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the miners’ organization. Neither Director of traffic inspecting safety gear for autos At 35 miles per, it scooped up a daring pedestrian three times without a hruise. ! | ties that Mr. had any statement to make after the meeting. Gov. Pinchot heard the operators’ | side of the hard coal situation on Saturday from W. W. Inglis. presi- dent of the Glen Alden Coal Co. of | Scranton and chalrman of the opera- | tors’ scale negotlating committee. He | spent some time vesterday in as. sembling these data in preparation for | his conference with the miners' leader. The governor declined to re- veal what impression the statements of Mr. Inglis had made on him Gov. Pinchot also has taken a han in the. bituminous coal situation. Declaring that the Pennsylvania soft coal industry was seriously threatened by discriminatory freight rates, the governor has appealed to the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce to come to its rescue. He sald the State would back the Chamber of Commerce to the fullest in any move it made to obtain adjustment of the alleged discrimination. HERBERT PARSONS HURT. Fall Prom Motor Bicycle Injures Former Representative. PITTSFIELD, Mass., September 14 | (#).—Herbert Parsons of Lenox and | New York, former Representative and | former member of the Republican na- | tional committee, was in a serious con- | ditfon in the House of Mercy Hospital | here last night as a result of injuries received in a fall from his motor bl eycle at his home in Lenox Saturday. The hospital officials said last night the 'that Mr. Parsons’ condition was weri- out, but not dangerous, This particular “40 men, 8 P. & A. Photos. P. & A. Photos. LLSHALT FACING OPERATION, TALOR TAKES LI Solomon Cohen, 68, Drowns Self in Tidal Basin—Suf- fered From Cancer. Choosing death rather than an op- eration, Solomon Cohen, #KR.vear-old retired taflor of 300 M stree ~om mitted suicide today by drowning himself in the Tidal Basin, near the “bottle-neck™ bridge. His body was recovered near the seawall by harbor police ahout four hours affer his hat and coat had heen found hanging on a tree hy fishermen. A piece of paper bearing his home address and telephone num. ber was pinned to the garment According to members of the he reaved family, Mr. Cohen was to have undergone an operation for cancer today at George Washington Univer- sity Hospital. He had expressed dread of such an operation, it was said. and was known to be greatly despondent When police first called the tele phone number noted on the slip of paper, prior to recovery and identi- fication of the body daughter of Mr. Cohen said she believed her father had ended his life. as he had recently indicated his intention to do_eo. The daughter advised the authori- Cohen had been in a highly nervous state of late, znd had left his home about 4 o'clock this morning “to take a walk.” His failure to return had aroused -he family’s anxiety for his safety, she said About 6:30 am. a fisherman, Charles E. Sanford of 313 Linworth place southwest. told police he saw Mr. Cohen place his coat and hat on the tree and walk along the sea- wall. Sanford supposed he was seek ing a place to fish and did not re- port the occurrence. Half an hour later a driver on a Potomac Park golf course bus saw the apparel and notified Pvt. D. M. Bennett and Sergt Leonard Purtlebaugh of the park police Harbor police suspended their work of searching for the body of John Hayes, believed to have drowned Sat urday in the Little River, and drag ged the basin for the suicide’s body, recovering it near the shore. Former Combatants Celebrate. ST. MTHIEL, France, September 14 (#).—The Federation of Former Com- batants of the Meuse Department, celebrating the seventh anniversary of the Franco-American offensive here yesterday, adopted a resolution ad- dressed to President Coolidge express- ing “unwavering gratitude” to the American people. Hope also was expressed that ‘“re- membrance of our fraternity of arms will hover over the war-debt negotia- tions soon to be opened between the two countries. Prominent Virginia Woman Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. \ WARRENTON, Va.. September 14. —Mrs. Mary Upton Groome, wife of Harry Connelly Groome of Warrenton, died last night at York Harbor, Me., where she had spent the Summer. She was president of the Warrenton Wora. an's Exchange, a past president of the Warrenton Garden Club, the Warrenton Library Assoclation and the Chancel Guild of St. James' Church.