Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1926, Page 17

NAVAL ACADEMY HAS STRONG emy athletics are already predicting Followers of Naval tories for the 1926 crew CREW. many Vi the Spring races. This photograph was taken at the academy Saturday, just hefore one of the practice trials IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO PASS ON THE SAME T RACK. tlantic Coast Line freight train tried it, however, a few miles outside of Richmond, Va. The Not a single person was injured in the wreck, but locomot and an photograph shows the result. pretty hadly smashed. POLA AND RUDOLPH press” Copyright by P. & A. Photos. TWO DISPUTE SIZE The Norfolk ‘THE_EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, T. and Western "t [ s and cars were Photo by Acme. TOTRY SEPARATION OF ‘WOLF'S ESTATE If Love Can Endure Four Months” Absence They’ll Marry, Says Miss Negri. By tha Assoc | LOS ANGEI March . Pola Negri the Polish | actress, who reported to have | married Charlie Chaplin, is now to| marry screenland’s sheik, Rndnlph“ Valentine, If her love for him can| #tand the test of a four-month separa- | tion. ‘The actress, who only recently em- phatically declared that she would not marry Valentino or any other man, has confessed her love for Valentino, mecording to the Los Angeles Times. “'He 18 the supreme man —he is per- fection,” she sald of him. “But I take marriage very seriously, very seri y. If 1 am ever married again, 1 re it will be for all time. o first T must prove my love. 1 am going away soon to Europe.” She will be away four months. “True love ought to outlive this separation. If I feel the same when [ return as [ Ao now, and his feelings are the same. thera is nothing to prevent our mar riage." Valentino could not discuss the hetrothal er to Ex-Wife, | 8 (. —Winifred | FHudnut, div ed wife of Rudolph | Valentino, arriving yesterday for a) theatrical engagement, commented on reports that Valentino and Pola Negri wera betrothed Bhe said at she, and not tino, had always vearned for family life, renorted as a re. Valentino's attachment to Mis egri “It's funny Rudolph never men tloned his passion for a home and famlly while we were ma jed.”" she rald. “I1's quite a recent development, We lived in hotels and rode in hired automobiles he would not have added responsibilities. 1 do hope he buys her pretty things if they’re mar ried. We were always too busy pay ing up lawyers to invest in real Jewels alif. vivacious was be reached to Seems Qu CHICAGO. March Valen- quiet for PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION | LAW CHANGE IS VETOED | Pinchot Says Act Seeks to “White- | wash" Legislators—De- clines Aid. Ry the Associated Press 1 HARRISBU Pa. March §—| Gov. Pinchot last night announced | his veto of the joint resolution passed hy the General Assembly at its recent extra session providing for a com- mission to codify and revise the Penn sylvania_election laws. He declared the resolution was intended to serve as “a smoke screen and excuse for the refusal of the majority at the extra gession 1o enact effective legislation in the Interests of clean elections, and to postpone consideration of elec- tion questions until public interest in them has subsided. “It is intended,” he said. “to per suade the people that legisaltors who in fact oppose clean electlons are in favor of them. I decline to lend my olf to any such deception.” . The eclgar-making industry in the United States employs 100,000 persons. \4 | triet Lawyer Says $3,000,000 Was Left—$250,000, Daughter Holds, By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 8.-The versy over whether John W ington, the “Wolf of LaSalle left an estate of $3,000,000, or $250.000 continued yesterady. Alice Worthington, daughter of the confidence man who died in Atlanta Penitentiary Tuesaay. maintained that the entire estate was valued at the smaller sum and that she pos essed a will leaving it all to her Thix assertion was countered by Robert I.. Cohan, an attorney, who represented the sick financler when' he returned to Chicago from Mexico last October. He produced a mass of papers purporting to be revoca- tions of wills, blank checks to be filled out on half a dozen European banks, confidential _correspondence before and after “The Wolf" was <ent to prison. and bank statements from abroad showing billions of Ger- man and Austrfan marks, Italian lire and Austrian kronen on deposit to the credit of John Whitehouse Worth- ington. Col red that he was lefi $250.000 He expl contro Worth Street,” merely ned that he drew up the will when Worthington returned to Chicago last October, that there were no witnesses hecause of the fear that Worthington would be arrested hie presence here was known. Worth ington had more than $500,000 in stocks, honds and negotiable paper plled on his bed at the tme, Cohan related, but he sald he did not know what became of the securities Among the documents held by Cohan is a paper purperting to be a revocation of all previous wilis and codicils. Tt is dated Los Angeles. October Henry man. P. Leavitt and Alva Harsh {MABEL NORMAND RETURNS Will Re-Enter Pictures, She Says. Interested in Murder Clues. LOS ANGELES., March 8 (®.— Mahel Normand. film comedienne, re- turned to Los Angeles from the East vesterday, after an absence of more than a vear, to reenter motion ple- tnres. Discussing the recent revival of interest in the Willilam Desmond Taylor murder case, which took Dis Attorney Asa -Keyves East on the traill of new clues, she said that she was “the most anxious person in the world” to see the mystery solved. SPANISH COLONEL DIES. Founder of Foreign Legion Shot in Eye in Morocco. TANGIER, Morocco, March § (), Col. Millan Astray, founder of the panish Foreign Legion in Morocco, died Friday night of wounds he re- celved in the fighting of last week if | , 1924, and is witnessed by | THERMITE USED IN ATTEMPT TO BREAK GREAT ICE GORGE IN ALLEGHENY RIVER. Barnes, Montreal scienti: $950,000 DISBURSED FROM GARLAND FUND Despite Payments and Pledges, Assets Nearly Doubled in Four Years. By the Assaciated Preas NEW YORK. March 8.—Ofcers of the American Fund for Public Service have distributed or pledzed consid- erably more than the $950.000 donated to the fund by Charles Garland four vears ago. but still have on hand a balance of $750.000. according to their report is€ued yesterday. Phenomenal increase in the value of the bank stock in which most of the fund orig- inally was Invested nearly doubled the assets. TUp to July, 192 ed, donatfons from $325.556. and $181,650 was then out- standing in loans. with $200,000 pledged as future advances. Activ- ities in the last half of the year car. rled total dishursements nearly to the million mark. Perlodicals and publications re ceived $31.800. workers' education $28.- 500, research $18,500, educational propaganda $10.700. legal $9.500, negro agencies $8,500 0 for civil liberties. Gifts to organizations for ordinary operating expenses took up 39 per cent of the money given during the third year as against 62 per cent the year before. The total amount loaned in the fund's three vears of existence has been approximately $280,000, of which $100,000 was repaid. “Our gifts and loans continue to be made chiefly to enterprises in the | labor movement or in its interest, and the fund totaled and the report show- ' defense | their | | | home FAIRBANKS ARFE in New York MR. known to mo ture, “The Bl the premier thowing. AND MRS, e fan , to dislodge the ice jam at Franklin, Pa.. with thermite were hampered on account of bad fu chemical were “shot,” and Dr. Barnes expects to use electrical squibs in further efforts. Herrick Calls Halt on Theater Jibes At Uncle Sam as Ha By the Associated Press PARIS, March §—Americans in France have hecome quite used to, and usually take in the best of good humor, littie digs on Uncle Sam's role as hard-hearted creditor, and their reputed habit of profiting on the slipping franc. In recent months they have had frequent opportunity of hearing all about this In carabets and music halls. and even from such casual acquaintances as taxi drivers and fellow passengers In husses and trams. But once in a while there has been too mich vindictiveness even for Rgood nature, and so the American " They made the trip from California to attend RIVE. Doug and Mary. rather well NEWLY DEVELOPED RUBBER for the opening of Doug's new pi . ards conducting experiments with cial product. Consright vy UnHAEwo0A A Trdariood It is reported that the efforts of Howard T. Two containers of the The Allegheny River ice gorge is 16 miles long. Copyrizht by P. & 'WESTERN RAILWAYS rd-Hearted Creditor| ASK HIGHER RATES 1 SIS iIncrease on Freights at “‘Earliest Practicable Date” Demanded in Brief Addressed to I. C. C. es. hotos. Ambassador. Myron T. Herrick, was forced a few davs ago to call the au- thorities’ attention ta a number of | “impolite” songs on tap in the music | halls. The offending ditties were then voluntarily withdrawn. i There is some humor in the fact | that one of the songs regarded as Py the Aseociated Press the most ohjectionable was being| CHICAGO, March 8. Increased sung in a music hall that appeals | freight rates, to he made cffective “at almost entirely to American and: the earliest practicable date,” are de- other foreign patrons, most of whom | manded by attornevs for the Western sat blissfully unaware that they |raflways committee in a brief to be were being lampooned. even | presented to the Interstate Commerce applauded the comedian not | Commission today in connection with understanding the words couched in|the Western freight rate advance Parisian slang. case. Figity Feet Get Rufiaway Rastus Jugged When Charleston Stuff Fails Travelers' Ald officials and members of the Women's Police Bureau haye had thelr hands full keeping track of Jakey Ford. a 10-year-old colored boy, who started to dance his way front hts | in Wilmington. N. C., to the| home of his aunt in Rochester, N. Y., | winning his transportation fund& by | gyrating through the “Charlestan” be- | fore groups of passengers. Jakey arrived in Washington Sat-| urday in the clutches of a serious- minded colored porter of a Wilmington train, who had listened to his story of his “Charleston” abilities. but who couldn't believe the boy had reached the “age of discretion.” Jakey, con- sequently, was placed in custody of | the Travelers' Aid. Those good-heart- ed guides, at a 10ss to know how to | “For five vears the Western rail- ways have failed, under existing rates, [to earn the fair return upon their | properties contemplated by law,” the | brief says. “During this perfod the | net earnings of rafiways in the East | ana South have steadily increased, ot 01} | but returns to the West falled to show corresponding improve- ment. “The Western carriers have no “ha'nts keep pulling de cover off me | %0 ah eaint sicep.” | Money was sent from Jakey's home Lolliatass to tranaport him back tn Wilmington, | MEAN of recovering past loases. nor and he was taken to I'nion, Station | d0 they seek to do so. They have, vesterday to he placed on a south-| Nowever, applied to the Interstate Fe e e e e O e Smn | Commerce Commission for relief, in put,” the Travelers' Aid reported, He | Order that in the future they may Pefised o o M eported. an, | maintain an adequate system of trans. Auctor eved the lively Jakey with con- | Portation under conditions which will B el ey N Cona | be falr to their shippers, passengers. forn;jand declined to be responsific employes, investors and owners, and House of Detention and the “ha'nts.” | i the interest of the public at large.” He is being held there until a rela- tive can arrive here to take him back to Wilmington. 1 Shakespeare Fete Not Halted. 2 STRATFORD-ON-AVON, England, T March 8 (#).—The managers of the Moore Scouts King's Visit Rumor. | Shakespeare Memorial Theater, which PALM BEACH, Fla., March § (), |Was destroyed by fire vesterday, an lexander P. Moore. former Ambas. | nounce that they have obtained an- | keep Jakey still, sent him to the House | qador to Spain, said here today that |other large and suitable building in In this fighting his right eve was| for the protection of minorities,” the | while he was men against the hidden Moroccans He lost his left arm in 1924 as a consequence of wounds received the Moroccan fighting. shot out leading his | report said. George Washington's wheat fore the revolution. flour | in| was notable in the London market be- | of Detention. There, Jakey's natural propensities | for shaking his feet were tremendous- | v augmented. There were “ha-ants” | in the house, he declared to SQ:" Milliken of the Women's Bureau. M.i only that, Jakey declared, but these ¥ | repo the town, where they will carry out the plans already arranged. The per- | formances 1 plays for Shakes. | peare’s birthday anniversary festival 2 in April and the Summer festival in Even When'it {s carrving a cargo of July will be rehearsed and given as onlons d ship should beware of leaks. sch‘fllfl:l- 'ts of a visit to the United States by King Alfonso of Spain in the early Autumn were groundles — n roads have | “JOAN OF PASSAIC” IN ARMOR. many labor battles, wearing a * troubles at Passaic, N. J. El onstrations. IS ALMOST AS STRONG AS STEEL. a new acidproof rubber which is expec STATESHO Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, veteran of hat™ while taking part in the textile The photograph shows Dr. Moon trying the strength of a p beth leads the mill workers in their dem- Copsright by Underwaod & Underwood. Moon of the Bureau of Stand- 1 to become a valuable commer- > of the new rubber tyhing. DDY BAN HANNA CRITGZES DECLARED INVALID NEW UTILITY LAW Supreme Court Holds Law of Pennsylvania Is Uncon- stitutional. By the Asso The the use af day by the Supreme Court ated Drees Pennsyivin shoddy declared voy In an opinion by held tha shoddy ¢ of sterilization of sterilized sk unlawful Justicr [nlmes dissen day's & Court irg that if the Penn ture belisved the dangerous to health to prohibit i Justices B sentad, but ions. The Pennsylv: the use of «l in renovating mati sters, comfortables ticles of upholster Twenty ed in the validity Alab Indinna Louis Maryland, Missouri. Mon tana, North Carolina, New Jersey | Tennessee and Utah. and the ¢ Spokane, have laws prohibitir use fn certain articles, but broad as the Pennsylvania statute The Pennsylvania law was chal lenged on the ground that it diserim inated against sheddy. The Palmer { Bros. ('n. and other manufacturers | contended that shoddy he rendered harmless to health b izing, and that it was unconstitn tional for any State prohthit use when sterilizec disinfected | while permitting the of other | second-hand materials after steriliz ing. It w no more difficult for a State by ite inspection service to de termine whether shoddy had been thoroughly sterilized than to tell when feathers were properly steril ized. they asserted, insisting that feathers and other material permit ted in mattresses and ng were as dangerous to heal ddy Picturing the, various sources from which material is obiained for manu facture into shoddy. including rag. pickers, textile, clothing factovies and workshops vania contended that it was impossi ble, except hy expensive chemical analvsis, » whether shoddy had b sterilized Shoddy manufacturers asserted that no State except Maryland had tried to go as far as Pennsyvania. From public health viewpoint, they insisted there was more danger of contagious diseases through the making-over of mattresses 11, cles of bedding. containing feathers and other permitted ma from hospitals and sickr from the use of properly shoddy. nse o and that use § { { ( m nion. declar mia <ho had 1t s ndeis and Stone id not law prohihited making or pillows, hal- ishions r urniture (tos terest of the law, and Towa, Kentuc seve ind determine n properly »ms, than sterilized Film Actress Dies. HOLLY WOOD N —Mrs. Blanche Dunbar sereen actress. formerly L with the Ameriean Film Co. at Barbara, died here vesterday. follow- ing an attack of heart disease. She was the wife of Qgvid Duntar. ch 8§ (#) A2.year. Calif., 1 ed and steril- | and tedious | f the spread | anta | sion | sary Jand its co |and not b its | Dislikes Plan to Have Com- panies Pay for Val- uations. Objection the proposed amend blie Ttilities Commis: would publie to the ex ions of physical voiced in a letter re. W. E. R. Covell, As Commissioner. today anna. viea president n Co. Officials and Elec roved the ment tn the act utitity qui finance f their Properties wi ed by Ma I . from John H of the Capita of the Washing rie Co. alrea pian We he ) provisien fs rn rezula sent tend k. toward ns from utility iing them,” utilities are neces. of great whether service v o« prine removine companies ald Mr and particular to city ey the Regulation. n of these utilities to provide the cost to the pensa property gulation is le large 1e by them public who hed by the we helieve ment to the n act 18 not pper put to puhlic in the interest ervice furni this reasor ed utilize thi utilities. th amer Public Utllities Commiss in_the public interest The letter came in request by Maj. Covell fe of opinion from all the utflity com panies. Thus far replies have not heen received from the Potomac Elec tric Power and the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. Ma Covell has forwarded coples of the replies to the te and House Dis- t DESTINY IS OUR OWN, LENTEN SPEAKER SAYS vesponse to a i exprassions o Sens iet committees. ;RF\'. Samuel Judson Porter Speaks other Pennsyl- | at Theater—Stuart B. Mar- shall Presides. ng to helieve i toward an ev. Samuel First Baptist at_the noon-day at Keith's Theater wich more pleasant it in shape our stance of a gence. The true anity.” he said, 1d, conscious ler a divine “It is not that our unalter: Judson Church Lenten service today How is to believe own lives w divine guidin, pleasant t are shap t the hle orter isserted des h the int Chris o the w twe a of the influence." Stuart | day’s session tin West Church noune Dr. Howard kins Univers row's se Marshall presided at to- aind the Rev. C. B. Aus. Washington Baptist the benediction. of Johns Hop at tomaor. The fellow who puts up a good front isn't so apt to be kicked behind his back. -