Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1926, Page 27

FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1926. ANNUAL MAY DINNER. Woman's National Demoeratic Club to Entertain Tomorrow. The Woman's National Democratie Club will give its fourth annual May dinner tomorrow at 7 p.m. Among the speakers will be Mrs. A. A. Jones, president; Mrs. Borden Harriman, na- tional committee woman, and Miss Antoinette Funk. Miss Laura A. Knott will speak on “Why I Be- ame a Wilson Democrat.” Mrs. eorge W. Kernodle will speak on “Senater MeKinley and the World Court.” Miss Agnes Wilson will speak about the platform on which her father, Willlam B. Watson, is run ning for Senator in Pennsylvania. Mrs, Frank Morrison will give an ap- preciative of Willlam Jennings Bryan. Mrs. Rose Yates Forrester has for her subject “O. M. F." Mrs. John Allen Mutray has a line of her own. Other spedkers will he Ellis Meredith, Mrs. George M. Eckels, Mrs. S. J. Penn, Mrs. B. Ashby Leawell, and Miss Ade- Jalde Borah will give a reading. Mrs. Wesley Martin Storer will speak on “Freedom of Speech.” $100,000 MAIL THEFT IS SECRET FOR WEEK Two Pouches Stolen at Lafayette, Ind.~—No Clues Found by Inspectors. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, CHURCH GONCLAVE HITS EXTENSION e gmeee ) DUEINMEMPHIS OF LIABILITY LAW e L ] Judge Mechem Protests In- erson, as toastmaster, will introduce : Sl creasing Responsibility of Employers for Agents’ Acts. the speakers, Representative Rath- GOLDEN JUBILEE DINNER BY HAHN STORES TONIGHT Officers to Make Addresses at Cele- bration of Expanded Chain SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and_Sailings From New York. SCHOOL CONGRESS ELECTS OFFIGERS pabiaclal ) | Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter Again Heads District Parent- Teacher Body. i ARRIVED Yrésflr,nmv. Twentieth Quadrennial Ses- sion of Southern Methodists to Open Wednesday. Aquitunia President Stavangertjo Haiti [hone "of Tllinols, and J. Thomas Harding Lyons, Baltimore banker, formerly of 2l the Baltimore Sun. The guests will| be welcomed by the officers of the company, Morris Hahn, pr Edmund Hahn, vice presiden Hahn, trezsurer: ilbert Hahn sistant treasurer, and Harry Hahn, secretary, who is in ¢ the banquet arrangements. A feature of the gathering, to which the presidents of all the Washington civie organizations have been invited, will be a massive birthday ke, from which two pretiy girls wi rge to distribute appropriate favors to all the gue: The history. of the Hahn busi- ness. frem its ineeption in 1876, will | be depicted by a pageant of girls carrving hand-painted posters. The v has zrewn from the partnership of William and S. Fred and Morris Hahn. in modest quarters on Pennsyl- vania avenue, tn a corporation con- trolling eight stores in the Capital and one in Baltimore. CENTRAL BATTALION WINS HONOR IN DRILL . ;. . |taxy. Associate and departmental Takes First Place in Annual Com- | ioioraries meludesRev. H. H. Sher- petition in Wilson Stadium—Me- man, Rev. R. H. Bennett and Rev. J Kinley Battalion Second. DUE Muenchen nril 2 Montevideo a0 % 0 v the Associated Pres Avri 20 By the Ay ted Press. L April 4 MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 30.-The vanguard of Southern Methodism who will move on Memphis for the twen- tieth quadrennial session of the gen- eral conference gathered today to com- plate arrangements for the foremost {event of the denomination. Prelates and lay leaders in opening preliminary sessions will be joined by the main | hody of delesates and visitors by the first part of next week, and the ac tual_conference will open next Wed nesday. Prior 1o the general sessions sev eral of the largest bo: s of the Methodist Episeopal Church South are ! scheduled to hold meetings here, be sinnin today with the General Roard of sation. Tishop Edwin D. Mou- zon. nresiding prelate of Memphis and | | Tennessee Conterences, is pr ent of 1on_board. Bishop James . of Washington, D. ¢ 1 nt, and Rev. Stonewal Strenuons opposition te any pro- posal for extension of the lability of the employer for.the acts of his agents was voiced by Judge Floyd R. Mechem of Chicago, I1l., in addressing the American Law Institute at its morning session in the auditorium of the United States Chamber of Com merce. “We are seeking {o state or restate the existing common law on the sub- jeet of agency and not to reconstruct the whole social order.” he declared. “Some. leaders of the bar have pro- posed. that the principal's liability should be extended. We have already carried that extension to an extreme. and in most cases it has done more injustice than good. Fears Too Wide a Statement. 1 am frankly fearful that we may draft a code that might unwittingly include too wide a statement of thi liability of the principal for his agen Judge Mechem declared. . Judge Mechem spoke in connection with the presentation of the first | draft of the proposed restatement of the “nnwritten law” of agency, of which he was in charge. He was as- sisted in the draft of the restatement by E. R. Keedy, Richard R. Powell, Harry S. Richards and Warren A Seavey. “The Jaw i# and ouzht 10 be,” Judg Mechem continued, “that. the liability of the principal for the acts of his agent is based on the consent he gave the agent—and goes no farther. The speaker was supported by sev- cral members. Judge Mechem em- phasized that in the draft of the tenta- tive restatement of the common law on the subject of agency, he intended 2| merely to clarify the existing law and ! ot to add in any measure to existing |law as is to be drawn from the | “wilderness of legal precedents, de- cigsions, that make up the common aw Mrs. Giles Scott Tafter was unani Eotiem i mously re-elected president of the District of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher. Associations at_an annual gathering today at the Ham iltpn Hotel. The delegaies, in reelecting Mrs Rafter, also cast a unanimous hallot | for 1he following: Vice presidents, Mrs J. N. Saunders, Mrs. Andrew Stewart Mgs. George P. Leishear, Henmry ark. Selden M. Elyv: treasurer, M n. B‘chklsmne. carresponding Toloa ... Puerto_Limon, Mexico @ LihE Bt avana; DUE MONDAY. Alhert Rallin. Hamburs. April 2 il Liverpaoi. Apri Naplea. Aori ancamano Gothenburg. Apri Con Drottingholm art Victoria | Minnewaska 4 i ; Aort 23 ntwern: 3 Livernool. ADHI 34 a Gyamgow. Apri 24 Martha Washington 5 San Lorenzo San Juan, Aoril 29 | OUTGOING STEAMERS. +sailing ‘Hour: Daylight Saving Time.) SAILED YESTERDAY r=. E. M. Patterson: his- Brown: delegutes to- the Federation of Citizens' Asso clalions, George H. Russell and Mrs H. S, Parsons. A resolution was adopted placing the organization on record as favo Ing a movement to establish more narent-teacher associations in the churches. Committee reports will he ! made at a business session this after- | noon following a publicity luncheon. | Tonight the members of the Dis- | irict congress, together with dele- | fes from neighboring States, will tend a banquet at the Franklin Square Hotel, when Representative | Reid, chairman of the 1louse subcom- | mittee on schools. and Representative | Gasque, author of the elective school board bill, will be amonz a number of “prominent speakers. Berlin—Bremen ... G- ipsholm—-Gothenbur n Juan i SAILING TODAY Leviathan—Southampton Rotterdam—Rotteraam | the edu Cannon Br the Associated Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 30 haustive preliminary investization of the $100,000 mail robbery here a wesk ago has failed to reveal tangible clues. News of the robbery became known last night. TPost Office Department agents have been assigned from all parts of the Middle West to work on the ease. Some of them were working here while others were in Chicago. The loot was two pouches of register. ed mail, taken from a mail truck at a railroad station platform Postal authorities first learned of the robbery when the Fowler National Bank of Lafayette reported that it had not received a receipt for $84,000 worth of negotiable securities con signed to the Fletcher American Na- tional . Bank of Indjanapolis. Besides the securities the two missing mail sacks contained approximately $16.000 in post office remittances being forwarded to the Indianapolis office hy smaller cities. The Lafayette Bank shipment was covered hy insurance. Martin Culbreth. W, 15 Hogan Is | treasurer FIVE OFFERS MADE T0 AID VANDERBILT [ One Proposal Would Give Young| Publisher $1,000.000 for One Paper to Avert Crash. Segund Lancast Central High School Is elated today following the success of the 1st Bat talion of the 1st Regiment, undes Cadet Maj. Harold Jenkins, which 939323 333 GEORGE W. JUDD DIES. BiAoie s § Athoriiey ISuccatibs Suddenly in Apartment. George Welton Judd. 50 years old Income tax attorney. died suddenly to- day in his apartment in the Monmouth Hotel, 1819 G street, following an at t1ack of heart disease last night. He! was prominently identified with the Mzeonic order. members of which | haye taken charge of the hody and will arrange the funeral. Mr. Judd came here from Chicago with his daughter, Miss Eleanor Jndd, sn# was prominently identified with the War Trade Board and other branches of the Government service during the World War. His daughter, an accomplished musician. lived with him, BANK MESSENGERS SHOT. yesterday carried off first honors in | the annual battalion competitive drill | | | il 35553 2 £33 held in the Wilson Stadium. McKinley Manual Training School took second place with the Ist Bat talion of the 24 Regiment. under Cadet Maj. Irving O. Linger, while | the 3d Battalion of the 1st Regiment. Central Hizh School. under Cadef | M) Robert” Grax. won the cmm!m e Seteia e bt The 2d Regiment Band. McKinley | YORK, april 30 Manual Training School. under Cadet | DAYE HEeDHIAGE S pn Capt. Eugene Zuck, was given first |Nelius Vanderbilt, jr., in r prize. Judges, all from the Army 070 which he said was needed Music School, were Warrant Officer | aVert crash of his chain of news. James I, Simmons, Mantel (‘omulada | Papers in Los Angeles, San Francisco | ani Robart Reata, | and Miami. Fla. according to an The judges In | anmouncement of Dudley -Field Ma petition” were Maj. Fred L. Walker, | lone. his legal adviser. Paul Baade and Capt. Levin C. Allen. [ One offer was for the purchase of Lieut. Col. Wallace M. Cragie, pro. |an unnamed Vanderbilt paper for fe of military science and tactics, | $1.000.000. Mr. Malone said. He did today was congratulated by school | not reveal the Identity of the would-he | officials upon the excelience of drill- | purchaser or of the four others who | ing exhibited by the High School | offered financial assistance. The offers | Cadets vesterday. are bein nvestigated. he said. BUYS HISTORIC HOME. The 28-year-old publisher, heir to a Newport News Church to Make part of the Vanderbilt millions, ar Parich House of Wythe Place. nounced that a meeting of the stock- holders in his enterprises would be NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 30 | ®).—The colonial home of George called as soon as possible after 30- day notlces have heen delivered, for the purpose of electing a new board of directors In & statement by Mr. Malone, who with Clarence Darrow has been re Wythe, at one time the headquarters |tained as vanderbils advicer in the of George Washington, hereafter will | DUeS ) = ‘ vealed that Vanderbili family. a " | he used as the parish house of Old the package of money the messengers [ 1 T8 G0 r Prne house is situ- "";"': e truck by the volley of |Ated divectly behind the church. An- Ot e K B bt i hew | NOUNCement of its purchase was made shots the robbers returned. hut they [RONnCement of lis purchase was made continued to fire until the robhers sped [1o42% 28 D [c A 1 iz away i1 an automobile. The injured : P avang Cuyamapa— Antilia Veneruela—~ristohal INDICT WHISKY RAID ALLEGED RINGLEADER. ™ e e vt e | stitute that in time the restatement | of the laws of the land will be accept ed hy the courts and by the legal | profession in general, with a great resulting clarification of understand. ing of what the law fs. The draft of the restatement presented at this in- stitute will not be voted on finally, it was explained, The session was presided over by George W. Wickersham, former At torney General, president of the insti- tute, and among the eminent jurists attending today were Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court and Justice Harlan F. Stone, member of the Supreme Court. Will Meet the President. [pewe The members of the institute are| 1o be received by President Coolid at the White House late this after- noon. The institute will close with a hanquet at the Mayflower Hotel at 7:30 tomorrow evening. akers will | he Mr. Wickersham, Indge Frederick Kvan Crane New York Court of Appeals: Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law School, and Judze Flovd E. Thompson | | of the Supreme Court of Illinofs. ! Elihu Root. addressing the session | | vesterday afternoon. declared -the give | American Law Institute 1{ foundation for an orzani ! American will 23 32! SR> >0> ¥ o 2 Five of Hope Courts Will Accept. Federal Grand Jury at Baltimore Holds James M. Geisey and Six Negroes. P ! Dust Fires. No record of a spontaneous dnst ex- plosion has ever heen obtained. says a report made by the American Chemi cal Society. A spark. flame or other source of fire mmst he present to Ignite the dust In the last year $3.000.000 worth of property was destroyed, 45 lives were lost and 28 people were injured by ex- plosions of dust and fires resulting from them. the battalion com By the Associated Pras BALTIMORE, Md., April 30.—James ¢ vesterday was indicted by deral grand jury as a leader in 000 whisky raid on the Mc- |G distillery at Tannery, Md., last January, and the railroading of | $36.000 worth of heer into Baltimor The beer charge, United States D trict Attorney Amos W. W. Wood cock indicated, was the result of undercover investigations carried on since the Natlon-wide liquer inquiry instituted by the Cleveland grand jury in Febhruary Rix negroes were indicted with him. . Thorough. From the Londan Puneh. Nerve Speciallst—You musi give up vour cocktails and night ':IHM, and vou must stop smoking. Jady—But 1 don't do any things. Nerve Specialist —-And [ will vou a letter to my colleague. He wi be for vour loss of memo the § nnis Bandits’ Attempt to Steal $20,000 | Results in Gun Fight. ATI. Ohio. April 30 (P).— messengers, transporting $20.000 by automobile from the post | office to the First National Bank of | Norsvood, were seriously wounded to Aay In a gun fight with robbers, who magde an unsuccessful attempt to rob them. When commanded to hand over for preservation of the coun- legal system, free institutions and ordered liberty. Members vesterday elected 1o the institute's council for terms of nine vears are: James Byrne. John W Davis, Willlam V. Flodges, Nathan Matthews, John Milburn. Victor Morawetz, Georze Welwood Atlee Pomerene, Elihu Root Charles E. Huzhes. Henry U Alabama. and William Mitchell n esota, weré clected new members. A plan for_raising a $5.000,000 fund for creating a research department at the Harvard Law School was dis- d by the school's alumni asso- n. headed hy Wilson M. 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Coupe Give us a ring if you don’t see what you want Main 5780 24 Jewett Touring $450 16NORFOLK POLICE ' ASKED T0 RESIGN Liquor Disclosures Behind City Manager’s Action—Two Sergeants in List. | | By the Assoetated Pres NORFOLK Va., April 30.—The resignations of 16 policemen, includ- ing two sergeants, were called for to- day by City Manager 1. Walke Trux- fon. Action against five others was under consideration The city manager said the resigna- | tions were the result of an investiza- jtlon by Federal prohibition department investigators who were sent here at his request by Gen. Lingoln C. An- drews several weeks ago. ) The evidence against the policemen was not disclosed, but Mr. Truxton said they were given the alternative of resigning or facing a police trial board. Almost simultaneously with the city manager’s action, four squads of po. licemen began a series of raids, un- der search warrants issued by a Fed- eral commissioner-at the request of the investigators. g GATINEAU STILL HELD BY FEDERAL OFFICERS By the Assoriated Press SPOKANE, Wash.. April 30. - Georges Ferdinand Gatineau, grand son of Georges Clemenceau, former premler of France, is still in Spokane in_custody of Federal immigration officers” and uncertain when he would be returned to Seattle to start his journey to Shanghai, China. Gatineau was taken from a train here last night, after fmmigration authorities in Seattle had started him to France. He is charged with having entered the United States illegally. Department of Labor officials have granted his request that he be sent to Shangha!, where he savs he has a job waiting him. Although he sald the county jail here “is a very nice jail as jails go," Gatineau was so anxious to avoid spending another night hers that he volunteered to pay his own fars to Seattle. migration officials declined to grant his request. l Woilld Cancel Naturalization. United States Attorney Gordon has asked the District Suprems Court to cancel the naturalization of Francesco Sciscione, a native of Italy, who ob- tained American citizenship April 4, 1919, while residing at 3744 M street. ‘The Italian has returned to his natf 1and and the Government now charge: he did not have the intention of re- siding permanently in the States and that his American natural- | {zation was fraudulent. 277727 750 Spring a Summer Hats Ina Remarkable Sale Group Select ANY HAT From This Group, Pay But 5199 for @ Wonder Value—Then Select Amother PAYING ONLY ONE CENT MORE You Get Two Excellent Hats for $2 In the absence of instructions, im- || United | i * DEMANDS JURY TRIAL. !llph E. Ruby, Former Dty Agent, Denies Violating' Law: Plading not guilty to.violatien of the national prohibition law, Ralph E. Ruby, former asgistant chief of the prohibition .agents. qof this citv. demanded a jury trial when ar- raigned hefore Judge George H. Mac donald in Police Court today and was released upon a .bond of $500 Ruby was arrested yesterday by Policeman il. W. Lineberz the tenth précinct and with iransporting and possession of 61 gallons of whisky. A speedinz charge was also placed against him and a continuance was granted in that by Judze John P. McMahon In memory of some one near and deay 1o you who served in the armed forces of the United States in the World War, contribute 1o the Doric Temple of Marble, to be erected in Potomac Park. Contributions will he received at your ban| J. S. Clemence 15th & You Sts. N.W. Is a Star Branch It’s a lot handier if you live in the neigh- borhood of J. S. Clem- ence’s at 15th and You Sts., to leave your Classified Ads for the Star at the Branch Of- fice there—than to take the time for coming all the way down to the Main Office. The service and rates will be the same. No fees are charged. The Star prints .MORE C(lassified ads every day than all the other papers here combined. Results give The Star the de- cided preference by advertisers. “Around the Corner” is a Star Branch Officc 804 7th St. N.W. 7th Above H. Continuing Our 6th ONE-CENT HAT SALE SATURDAY Hats purchas- ed for this sale did not arrive in time for Fri- day’s selling as ,advertised. We are therefore continuing sale Saturday - with a marvelous collection of new hats. 2N P77 2227 7 7 Some Originally Priced Up to $10