Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1926, Page 16

JAPANESE eo Matsuda were a little arrived in the C . The Japanese Ambassador s under the blossoms -in Potomac yesterday, proving the statement that f trees will continue in’ b for at a al Photo. _CHERRY IN THE PONCE DE LEON PAGEANT. At left, Miss Nancy Hoyt, M with Miss Maxine Hankins liss Daytona Bes . The three-day pageant in memory of the landing.of Ponce de Leon in Florida \m?&fhl at St. Augustine, and it was one of the biggest affairs of Okl‘lt'“lxlllu‘ 9 World Wide 'RECK OF ATL. \\ll((ll‘ train of the Pennsyly N. hil king a curve at a high e of speed. The e The piotograph shows the wrecked which the passen Matsudaira and their da but they came out IXPRESS. En route to the ye = l'hl* different varieties | toppled from eer, fireman and r, W 1 Mintz of Photo by Acme g By Park. The bloom Spring had really passenger were Killed. least two weeks, New York, was killed. WOMEN ARE SWORN 1IN AS DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHALS. After taking the oath himself, United States Marshal Edgar C. Snyder swore in his deputies, Miss Agnes A. Marlo) iss Vera Dunn and Mrs. Lillian Trammell. hington Star Photo. “MOST BEAUTIFUL BLONDE Laura La Plante that title by the directors, other movie stars and the World Wide Photo. SIGN C\l SES INTERFERENCE BY TRAFFIC OFFICIALS. This sign greeted those attending the “wet’ and “dry” hearings at the Capitol today. The police ordered the removal of the sign. The nlmlv\craph?r snap- ped the picture when Representative Hill of Maryland stopped to investigate. i= World Photo. has bee v “cash customers.” |China Beat World POLICEARRESTTS | FOR STRIKE PARADE Break Up Children’s Proces- sion in Passaic—Declare Leader Will Be Seized. By the Assaciated Press PASSAIC, N. J police today broke April 10.—Pa up two childre textile strike sted. announced that st organizer, woiald he ar Weishord, in turn, had sa.1 that police interference would in_a school strike of the chil- on Monday hore were no disorder A thousand children were gathered in front of Ukranian Hall. on Pre dent street. one of the meeting pla ! when police Many of th ied and were companied | mothers. | They fled he hall and the offi cers remained e ac- | Permitted to Parade. A motor cycie y axpectedly liceman after on guard ed to form s ent street. escorted h\ ed un- | for | rriv consn down police. At the head 1 a wrehed two 16-year per cent more children dle than in any other part of Why? work of Fifty in 7 New Jerse; | ght the mothers kills ! 1 kills them. Low “You kil them.” Carry Large Flag. ! Forty small children came next | caprving o large American flag. *Police leading the proces deply turned upon the marche dispersed them after a march of a block and a half, The child of march, attempted Hope avenue, were dispersed there and ran into Ukranian Hall again. Thirty police stood guard over the bullding. LEWIS W. TOl..MAN DEAD; SERVED U. S. 55 YEAR31 Former War Department Clerk, 88, | 1 in Hospital After , | Short Illne: | to reform at| T.ewis W. Tolman, S8 vea; | g time chiet of the Bureau 4tions and Accounts, War rt- | ment, died in Stanton Park Hospital Wednesday aft shortillness, In- terment was private Mr. Tolman servéd in the War De- partment here and was then trans- | ferred to Seattle, where he was em- loved in the quartermaster general’ rtment until returning to thi about 17 years ago. He then | continued in the Government service until retired soon after the retirement act went into effect, in 1920. - He was with the Government 55 years. He had long been a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is survived by a son, C. M. Tolman, of New York City. & . A fact not generally known is that black and green tea are both the product of the same plant. the differ- ence being in the age of the leaves. ren fled back over the line | | | America To League ldea 546 Years B.C. By the Associated -Press LONIX pril 10.—Those who have been concerned over placing of the honor of 7 first con ceived the id Nations b years before then irate which e or Ger- nt was tives ¢ to But two gue failed Three now China v » number divided 1 ndepen putting an cnd to war. states held out and the l¢ to come into exi hunded years later the brought” together Dby w methods under the Ch'in dyn; ‘BURBANKIS LOSING ~ INFIGHT FORLIFE Cond| ion Contmues Grave, But Physicians Are Count- ing on Patient’s Will. wuriated Press. A RC Calff., g from extreme 1d weakness, Luther Bu dition remained grave today The noted horticulturist has been ill at his home here for two weeks as a result of mental and physical strain due to overwork. G Following a turn for the worse yi Dr. Joseph N. Shaw, his per physieian,- wént. into consulta- on Jate last night with Dr. J. Wil son Shiels, a San F co specialist. They, issued this statement: > marked improvement has oc- curred in the .last 12 hours. ' The April 10— exhaustion ank’s con- { prognosis remains grave.” n earller bulletin, Dr. Shaw described Burbank’s condition as criti- 1. “but not vet entirely hopéless.’ Burbank, who is 77, has been wag- ing a v batt sainst deatlr, | The scientist’s cou live and continue h plants and flowe he comes from a long-lived family have combined to prolong his life, Dr. Shaw said. Burhank’s mother reached | | the age of 47, dving here only a few His brother, who died | springs, near here, two | vears ago, was older than the horticul e, experiments with prevented the mghing, which r needed sleep om obtaining cations have heen the principal ob. ‘nlarlek Burbank's physicians have,had in their attempt o put him on' the road to good health, PR Pressmen to Honor Berry. Pressmen’s Urion No. 1, will hold a banquet in honor of George L. Berry, president of the International Press: men'’s and Assistants’ Union of North in_the L’Aiglon Salon ' this evening at 7 o'clock. The guest list includes many prominent Government officials and representatives of the American Federation of Labor in ad dition to leaders of the printing in- dustry. his will 10! and the fact that | d gastrointestinal compli- |z JOURNALISTS PLACE WREATH UPON TOMB OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Dr, congress, president of the Jjoined in the ceremony honoring the unknown hero. LEGION AUXILIARY ACTIVITIES NOTED | Addresses on Constructive Program Made at Regional Conference. Reception Precedes Session. The Bastern Reglonal Conference of the American Legion Auxillary closed its sessions Thursday at the New Willard Hotel, with Miss Mary C. Covle of Waterbu: ‘onn., national president, presidin \The delegates were. welcomed to the city Tuesday by Mrs, Thacker V. ker, department president; Capt. Julius I Peyser, department com. mander of the American Legion, and Commissioner Frederick Fenning: Amon; !h( e who addressed the ses- sions on . John ’U)omw Ta G, \rnold tlefield, M member Olip] Wil De or, Maj. Davis National Vice Comdr. Lit- Donald Macrae, national chairman; <. 0. D, president: Mrs. hip ennsylvania eth O'Brien of Boston, plain. reception and danc night“at the Wil leatrice Goodwin sang and little ¥lorence Embrey danced. The na. tional representatives were = enter-. tined by Capt. and Mrs. Pe luncheon . at the Hotel “timrsday at moon and were honor zuests at a dinner later at the Wii- fard. Delegates from the several entertained their own State boys in the several hospitals at tea at the Willard. The delegates placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Thursday. after- noon. and Mrs, national | States Twin Girl Dies at Four Months. Special Dispatch to’ The Star. CHBURG, Va., April 10.—Lil- lian Jennings, 4 months old, daugh- | ter-of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jerinings, [ died Thursday at the home of the family in Manroe. A twin sister and the parents survive. | er, president of the | Walter placing the wreath at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Delegates from 21 Throwing Red Hot Coins to Beggars And Ducking Sailors Rich Man’s Sport By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 10.—Many stories are revived here of the eccentrict- ties of McEvers Bayard Brown, former New York banker, who died Thursday sboard his ' yacht, Valfreya, at Colchester, England. Not contented with frequently ducking members of his crew with buckets of water while they rested in their quar- ters, Brown had a large squirt gun made and, with this, he would steal into the forecastle at'night to shoot a stinging charge of water info the ear of a sleeping sallor. As rapldly as his angry victims left he hired others At high wages Sometimes he pursued his sailors with a red-hot poker. When beggars swarmed around his boats he would as W want, you scum of the earth? Money? Tell the cook to bring a panful. Then he would shovel red-hot coins towards the beggars. When they at- tempted to outwit him he threw hot water on them. Another of his methods of dis- tributing largesse was to wrap checks and notes around chunks of coal, which he would hurl at beggars. HAGERSTOWN TO ISSUE $400,000 WATER BONDS Potomac River System, Replacing Mountain Reservoirs, to Be in Service by January 1. cial Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, April 10.—Hagers- town will have Potomac River water by January 1, 1927, one year earlier than had been planned, Mayor Charles E. Bowman has just announced fol- (owing the ordering of ‘the issuance of $400,000 in water bonds by the city council.. Hagerstown has been using water from reservoirs located in the mountains, but the supply was in- adequate and during the dry season the city forced to turn to water from Antietam Creek, which was hard and could not be used by many local manufacturing plants. The contract for the first unit of the new pumping plant, located along the Potomac River about a mile and a half above Willlamsport, was let songe mohths ago. stead of letting separate contracts for building the new system, two of them, one for the erection of the fil- tration plant and the other for the pipe line from the Potomac to this dl\' a distance of about eight miles} wiil awarded simultaneously, Mayor Bowman has announced. NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY BILLS BACK TO CONGRESS D. C. Heads, in Reporting on Meas- ures, Say They Conflict With President’s Economy. Policy. Bills pending in the House and Sen ate providing for the erection of a National Guard Armory in the Dis- trict as a memorial to the ‘military and naval veterans of the United States are in conflict with the Presi- dent's financial program, the Com- missioners adivsed Congress, yester- day in reports on these two measures. Each of the bills, which are identical, carry authorization for an appropria- tion of $2,000,000, 60 per cent of which would be paid out of the revenues of the District and the remaining 40 per cent by the Federal Government. It also is provided that the arnory shall be. erected on Federalowned prop- erty. 7 The Commissioners pointed oiit that inasmuch. as it is planned to erect a memorial on Federal-owned property and that it will be more national in character than local, the entire ex- pense should be borne by the United States. The Commissioners explained that there i3 an urgent need of an armory for the National Guard in Washington, - Williams of the University of 2 ublics Washington Star Photo. DECIDES ON PRACTIC,E: AT VIRGINIA BEACH Adjutant General Sale Orders Use of Range in Spite of Pend- ing Litigation. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 10.—Adjt. Gen. Sale yesterday ordered use of the State rifle range at Virginia Beach by the sailors and marines, and informed them that they could fire on the range at will. He declared that while the Sunrise Development Corporation had begun legal action to prevent target practice there and that the suit still is pending, no step has been taken looking to actual development of the place. Ad miral Coontz of the Hampton Roads naval station, has been informed that the range was at his disposal, and the sailors and marines will begin use of the range the coming week. LIFER ESCAPES PRISON AS DID “PEG LEG” GORDON Utilizes Same Army Truck Left Standing Beside Wall of New Jersey Institution. By the Assoclated Press. TRL\TO"I, N. J., April 10.—When “Pég Leg” Jack Gordon, convict, with one wooden leg, scaled the State prison wall last Sunday his escape was faciliated by an Army truck left standing against the wall inside. Prison officials took several prevente| ive medsures, but neglected to move the truck. Yesterday Richard Ham- mock, a lifer, escaped as had Gordon. by climbing atop the truck and thence atop the 15-foot wall. Hammock, who was convicted of holding up a silk truck and killing the driver escaped from prison in January, 1919, and fled to Akron, Ohio. He was captured there within a mo: being wounded in the jaw by a detective us he attempted to escape. Discover Parasite Slaying Gold Fish In Mar\ land Pools An investigation of an epi which has been killing large hers of gold fish in the ponds commercial growers in Gaither: burg and Frederick, Md., has dis- closed that a small parasite cling- ing to the glittering scales of the family pets is responsible Dr. H 8 fish _disease specialist of the u of Fisheries has suggested a remedy of placing the fish in a treatment tank and then having them transferred to uncontaminated water, which, he believes, will save a large portion of the ultimate lm\\l dwellers BANKER'S SON DIES Recent Graduate of Williams College First Stahs Self With Shears. By the Assocfated Press. NEW YORK, April 10.—John C. Hilton a son of a banker, plunged headlong to his death from a sky seraper window yesterday after stab- bing himself with a pair of shears. The police are at a loss to discover why he should have ended his life. As he was dictating a letter in the | gontractor on Pasco-Elko Route | \ ! came ill | four | trustees +then s INTSSTORY LEAP LEITER LETTERS INTRIAL RECORD lessages to William J. Warr Figure in Suit to Qust Estate Trustees. { By the Associated Pres weiter sult yester- heirs who seek the the pair. The con plainants contend that Warr was a tool of Joseph Leiter and that Leiter used the funds of the coal company, art of the es as a per sonal reserve fund. s After the letters had been intro duced, -court adjourned until nest Wednesday, when Warr, who is suf fering from a heart attack. is expected to be able to resume the iwitness and. He was testifying when he be The letters from Leiter to Warr deal with the issuance to Leiter of notes for $25,000 each, from the funds of the coal company. The re. moval of Joseph Leiter and Warr as sought by the Countess of Suffolk, sister of Joseph. She con- tends that they did not handle the ate properly. 1 AIR MAIL SERVICE LINE | | offices of an advertising firm on the | twentieth floor of a building at Madi son avenue and Fortieth street, where was considered ‘“‘the life of the | young Hilton suddenly jumped | feet, stabbed a long pair of shears repeatedly into his chest and hurled himself from the window. He landed on a second floor extension and was dead when an ambulance arrived. The young man was a son of Frank L. Hilton, vice president of the Bank of Manhattan Co. During the past Christmas holidays the engagement of young Hilton and Miss Mary Mixsell of Bethlehem, Pa.. was announced at an elaborate social function given in honor of the couple by Mrs. Hilton. No date had been set for the wedding. Hilton was graduated fn 1923 from Williams College, where he was editor of the Purple Cow, was on the staff of the Williams Record and was a member of the muslcal clubs. His employer said he had been ill for sev- eral day: e A. P. OPERATOR PRAISED. John Chnders Has Tnken 75,000, 000 News Words Over Wire. John Childers, an operator in the trafic department of the Associated | written up in the/ Press, was recentl Bristol, Va., News, his cxperiences having been made into a special Sun- day feature. After reciting all the big events Childers has received over the wire in the past 15 years as a press telegrapher, the article went into an analysis which showed that he had copied no fewer than 75,000,000 words of report, and that in’ doing so he had used 246,000 shects of copy paper and the staggering total of 5,400 type- ‘writer ribbons. SUSPENDED FOR 60 DAYS Halts Transportation, Begun Tuesday, Due to Mishaps. service started last 'I‘un\da\ on con 't bv Walter T. Varney of San Francisco, has been suspended for f days ord of the suspension was recefved yesterday by local postal au thorities ™ from W Vandervoort superintendent of railway mail service attle, who has been in Pasco rt of the service. Varney in his effor's to establish the line. Two of his six planes have no been delivered by the factory. t Monday a plane en route t. from Hoise was dewaged i making a forced landing. On the first trip north Pilot Franklin. Rose made a forc landing, and. after making repal could not » off from the mudd field in which he had landed. Thi ily eliminated his plane. post office officials belfev. r service will be resumed a soon ax Varney gefs his twe additional planes on the route, SHARK VICTIM BETTER. HILO. T. H., April 10 (#).—The con dition of Mrs. Leonard Carlsmith, w was bitten by a shark while swimmin: Thursday evening, is improved. Phy sicians now hope it will not be n sary to amputate her badly torn right leg. Mrs. Carlsmith was the only person to see the shark. She saw its mou: open just befa it seized her. A 6-foot sh killed in Hilo har bor ¢ had nothing in it stomach. It resembled a shark fre- quent]y seen near here. from Elko