Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1926, Page 17

DAY, MAY 4. 1926 ha, Nebr., who was elected pre dent of the Boy Scouts of Ameri- ca at the recent sessions of the National Council in Washington. Copyrght by Harris & Ewing TEST ARRIVAL AT THE LOCAL Z00. ved from Borneo and presented to the Zoo by Victor J. Evans of Yvashington. The animal, about one-fourth grown, uoi:h(\‘!' mu‘l‘u]m - National Phot PRINCES An orang-utan, just re- started tod e iscilla Bridges of Hancock, Md. and Mary Russell. .E BLOSSOM FESTIVAL. The Winchester, Va., celehration ngh tomorrow. The princesses attend the queen of the festival, Miss Left to right: Susan Steck, Lillian Smith, Julia Reno, l'?linlhl‘lll[l,!fll"s National Photo. THE CIRCU S ON ITS WAY! Here we have “Happy X' Adler, one of the star clowns of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Circus, coming to Washington next Monday and 7 v mule is known as “Little No'l™ i (o d IN CHORUS. At least, that is the uther Burbank of Canarydom.” His hered songsters of the Tyrol have attracted considerable attention all over Europe. Copyri Underwood & Underwood. ‘RN GOLDEN EGG TO BE MOTHERED BY ORDINARY HEN. The recently laid condor egg is 30 by the Washington Zoo. The condor is almost extinet, and an attempt will be made to hatch the egg with the ordinary hen as a mother. The photo shows R. R. Lambert. custodian of I‘l(ll; ecg. Copsrizht by Harris & Ew Aiss Nellie Clavh pra tehfield trophy and natio Ward Van Orman, who landed on Copyrizit by P, & A. Phntos. BIDDING FAREWELL TO THE ARMY'S ENTRY IN BALI bhouquet to t. Hawthorne C. Gr: of the Army’s entr loon race, which started from Littie Rock, Ark. Th. e was won by the bank of the James River, near Petershurg. Va. REPLY OF ENGLIS SCORED BY HOUS ‘Irrelevant and Impertinent,’| Resolution Says of Judge’s Defense. Br the Associated Pres The House today approved 3 resolu tion describing as “irrelevant and im- pertinent” the reply of Federal Judge George W. English of eastern Illinois to the impeachment charges filed against him The resolution accompanied the re. plv of the House managers to Judge Encglish’s statement before the Senate vesterday in defense of his official ac- tions. The reply also was approved. House Reasserts Stand. The replication reasserted the stand of the House as stated in the articles | of impeachment and accused the | jurist of wilful usurpation of author- ity over State officials and other high misdemeanors in office. The trial of Judge English by the Senate, it was said today. probably will go over until next Fall. Chair- man Cummins of the Senate judiciary committee said. however, that the mat- | ter had not yet been finally decided. 1f the trial goes over until the Fall, 1t will be with the understanding that Judge English will not sit on the bench in the interval. Between Two Fires. Many of the Senators. some of | whom have campalgns ahead for re- nomination and re-election, prefer to have the case go over, thereby permit- ting an earlier adjournment of the Senate. On the other hand, there are Senators who believe that a case of this fmportance should be handled by the Senata without delay. A postponement of the case until next Fall would not be opposed by by Judge English, it was sald today. TJudge English made reply to the charges against him in the Senate yes- terday. The Senate will meet again tomorrew to receive the replication of the House managers of the case. All | pleadings must be submitted by May | 10, according to a resolution adopted | by the Senate. . i The decision of the Senate as to! when the trial Is to be held will be | reached at an early date. i EEAL TWO HURT IN CRASH. BRANEATY RN | Wagon and Street Car in Colliuion1 on Georgia Avenue. { Shedrick Harper, colored, 50 H! street northeast, and Charles Eu-| hanks. colored, 220 R street, were thrown from a wagon at Taylor street and Georgia ~venue abont 6 o'clock | this morning as a result of a collision | between the wagon and a street car. | Harper was treated at Freedmen's | Hospital for injuries to his head and | knees. His companion refused hos. ! pital treatment. - Albert Michaud, 47 vears, 432 Manor | {! place. was knocked down at Park road | and Georgia avenue early this morn- | ing by an automobile driven by Jacob J. Miller, 4423 Ord street northeast, under instruction. Michaud. his Jeft leg cut, was taken to Garfield Hos- pital. Miteciones were firet placed on Enz lsh reads by the Lemans. Older Navy Heads Ordered to Learn How to Be Flyers Br the Associated Press The Navy is preparing to give its older heads as well as the voung sters more aviation training. Under an order issued today 32 officers of the rank of lieutenant commander or higher will be trained at the Pensacola school. Another pro mit captains who fail to qualify aviators to take rank as naval ob- servers, entitling them to command aireraft carrier Recently this vear's Naval Academy was ordered to take flight training. and today’s order will provide a group of higher commanders of air forces of mature years and wide experience, DOGWOOD APPEAL 1S MADE BY EDITOR Star’s Campaign in Preser- vation Plea on Radio. class at the Calling on the people to leave the dogwood for all to see. P. S. Rids dale, editor of Nature urged his WCAP radio audience last night to give heed to The Evening Star's eampaign to save thiz wood land beauty. “Nature Magazine is conducting a | national outdoor good manners cam aign.” sanid Mr. Ridsdale today. ‘The Star does a great service every ear when it calls on the people to spare this wonderful bloom. Tt ig a disgraceful =ight to see auto parties returning from the country earrving | thousands of these hlooms that fade %o quickly. Trees are stripped and broken heyond human understanding. “Newspapers throughout the land are cooperating with Nature Maga- | zine in its campaign for outdoor good manners. “Did yon ever find your favorite | nook defiled with the refuse from the | last pienic, flowers torn up and per- haps a campfire still smoldering? Why work for the preservation of nat- ural scenery? Why urge the creation of parks when often the use of such privileges suggests that a little shade and a trough might more fittingly provided? “Dwellers along the great highways, especially in the scenic portions of the country or near the centers of population, find conditions increas- ingly intolerabie. It is not alone tourists and campers, but even many ; respected citizens, old and young. of almost any community who seem to suppose that enjovinz the freedom of | he open means throwing aside all ecent regard for the rights and prop of others. All outdoors is the of lighthearted vandals, who break down dogwood branches and strip the roadsides of every lovely b ossoming thing. The American peo- only need to have the acts of some ed to thelr attention by such good k as that of The Evening Star. ‘ng 1 am sure the situation will he corrected.” t d erty prey Magazine, | be | headed by Herbert Bryan. was ap. | { SRMAN DELEGATION INSPECTS MERCHANDI rman merchants are guests of the Mere e Chamb: nf Commerce of the United NG METHODS OF WASHIN 'ON STORES. N S. On a threeday visit in the Capital, the Assaciation. Loeal department stores, the Department f Commere nd St 'BORLAND LAW HEPEAL’Wmnan Stowaway on Wilkins’ Airplane GIFTS T0 CHURCHES ASKED BY cmzensiBetrayed by W Shalic | By the Associated Press Manor Park Association Also Pro-| PATRBANRS, | Alaska, May 4, — | test “Home Work™ Assigned to |Capt. George Hubert Wilkins, leader, : | and Carl B. Eielson, aviator, of the School Pupils. { Dotroit Arctic expedition, prepared | ihere yesterday for a flight of 500 | imiles over the Arctic ©cean. The expedition was organized to tion aga Ve search for land in the Arctic Ocean, on again'went on record ealling for | 0y S0 et Wilking \and Tislson aboslute repeal of the Borland 1aw re- | fiew north 150 miles from the edge Rarding assessment of the cost of re- »f North America, going further than | Pairs of street paving against proper. |Any recorded penetration in this Yot irection, e e it DiEht At & meeting °f| The plan is for the airplane Alaskan and Mrs. Jokin D. Smoot, 413 Ritten. | {0 IV from here with little more than | ey o e enough fuel to make Point Barrow, o siuent . to fill up to capacity with gasoline | Members of the association spoke | 3 " emphatically against the Borland act |(ored there, and then fo make the | a big jump. Plans announced for the and against the nroposed bill adve: lexpedition, which came here February | The Manor Park Citlzens' Associa- | of the ince When Hit by Bundle 23, were that if no land was sighted on the initial flight over the Arctic. and no suitable place for alichting was seen, the journey might be con tinued to Spitzbergen Island, north of the Norweglan mainland. But i IN RUTHERFORD WILL| Relatives, Physician and Friends Also Remembered—Corcoran Gallery Gets Paintings. March 31 Wilkins and Eielson saw | stretches of open water which they pronounced fit for alighting in the Alaskan. Miss Laddie Kyle, a came here from the eastern part of the United States this Spring. was | removed from the rear compartment Alaskan, when detected by Lieut. Eielson. Miss Kyle had stowed away with a sleeping bag. She probably would not have been noticed had she not winced when Eielson dropped a bundle upon her as | he was loading the plane for the flight to Barrow. which would modify but not repeai WOMAN GETS 15 YEARS. the act. Unqualified abolition of the system was demanded. | Convicted of Assault With Intent 2 to Kill. The association also adopted a res- Mabel Washington, ' colored, was | olution protesting against the “large { amount of home study” which pupils 1 in the graded and junior high scheols | are expected to do, and a committee, | entenced to 15 years in the peniten- memb»lrsl;i! ;he"s;';:t:n;thgard. Speak- | Uary by Justice Stafford ‘in Criminal ers pointed to udy as injuri- | oo o T eyelght And health in genoraf, | Divislon 1 yesterday for assaulting An Intensive membership drive for | With Intent to kill Mrs. Sarah Cohen next Fall was decided upon and team | at the latter's store, at 1633 Twelfth captains appointed for the campaign. | ¥ vas 5 The aseociation is to have a place In | 't The colored woman was try- | the new Manor Park School for its | IDE to rob Mrs. Cohen and when she meetings next Fall. | resisted attempted to cut her throat. | o A deputy United States marshal, na;ls- I 4 ing the house, heard the cries of the Manassas Bill Reported. woman and captured her assailant. The House committee on military ‘William Bell, colored, was given 10 affairs today favorably reported the|years in the penitentiary for shooting hili- sponsored by Representative | James H. Gross during a quarrel Moore, Democrat, of Virginia, for the [ over a knife last December. Terms | pointment of a commission to look | of 10 years each were also imposed | er the Rull Run or Manassas battle- | on John Triplett and Harry L. Cox, pointed to lay the matter before fields, with a view to proper marking [ both colored, who held ‘up John of the fields and otherwise preserving ' Viisedes with o pistol February 2% ~ points of historical interest. _last.and robbed him of $68., , HOWARD HEAD NOT NAMED Board Expects to Announce Dur- kee's Successor Here June 8. NEW YORK, May 4 (#).—Five members of the Board of Howard Uni- versity who me: here vesterday to consider a successor to President James Stanley Durkee, who recently resigned to become pastor of the Ply mouth Congregational Church of Brooklyn, have not yet made a choice. Theodore Roosevelt said today that the names of several prominent edu- cators were considered and that an announcement probably would be made about June 8 at Washington. Two Killed in Blast. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 4 (P).— Two men were killed and property damage estimated at $25,000 was caused when a nitrate building of the irasselli Chemical Co. exploded today near Hillsville, Pa., close to the Ohio- Pennsylvania border, - writer who ! The will of Sophia L. Rutherford, who died April 29, has heen filed for probate. She gives premises 2001, 0 street with the library and certain portraits therein, to the Home for Incurables; $2,000 to St. Paul's P. E. Church; $2,000 to the Washington } City Orphan lum; a case of toys | to the Children’'s Hospital and certain jewelry and precious stones to St. Thomas P. E. Church for a commun- fon set. Her godchild, Katherine V. Crisp, a granddaughter of her cousin, Kate C. Stone, is given $25,000 and certain jewelry and silverware; the cousin, Kate C. Stone is also to have $25,000 and certain household effects, while the latter's daughter, Katherine V. S. Crisp, is given $25,000 and other household effects. Bequests of $1,000 each are made to Jessie Armstrong, Annle Paynter, Daisy Hunter and Miss E. L. Chapman, while George Curtis gets $500. The Corcoran Gallery of Art is to have a marble statue and the National Museum a duchess lace fan. Dr. Ster- ling Ruffin is given two paints. A number of relatives and friends are | remembered. The remaining estate is to be dis- tributed among Kate C. Stone, Vir- ginia S. Crisp and Katharine V. Crisp. Harry G. Meem and the Washington Loan and Trust Co are named as executors. | | | | i given to her sister, Sarah C. Malvan, and §1,000 each to 10 nieces and neph- ews. A liberty bond of $50 goes to a Loan a nstance 8. Bruce, and a.seal tor. niece, Co! By the terms of the will of Laura | V. Frith, who died April 27, $2,000 is' The remaining estate is devised to her | Bill to Establish U.S.Department of Education Is Lost The House committee on edn cation in executive session today killed for the present session of Congress the Reed-Curtis bill which would create a new department of education with cabinet rank This measure has been stubborn] fought for several vears by paro- chial and private school leaders, who protested that it would lead to Federal domination of all schools. This measure calls for an appropriation of $1.500 000 a vear. The same committee killed, for the present session at least. the Upshaw bill providing for Federal censorship- of motion pictures. ALIEN, 63, BECOMES AMERCAN CTZEN Seven of His Children Also Accepted—Court Acts on Other Cases. Gaetano Tassa, 63 vears old. and 7 of his 10 children under the age of 21 years. became American citizens yes- terday at a hearing before Chief Jus- tice McCoy of the District Supreme Court. Tassa's wife and 3 grown chil- dren avill have to make separate ap- plications. Tassa arrived from Ttaly in 1920. Mrs. Katharine D. Brennan regain- ed her American eitizenship, which she had lost by marriage with an Austra- fian. She is a native of Massachu- setts, and is private secretary to Rep- resentative Vincent of Michigan. She has one child. Others admitted to Atizenship in- clude: Karl Gustav Frederfk Land- berg, Sweden: Morris Goldstein, Ru- mania; Gerrit Smithkamp, Holland; Edna Cers, Latvia: Rafal Poland: Michael Fraiman, Russia’ Genevieve Rizik, Syria; Hilda Vellmer ; Fernandez, Spain; David Kuperman, Rumania: Joseph Elias Habeeb, Syria; James Albert Blackmore, Eng- land; Marcel Caussin, France; Kyria- kes Leucopoules, Alexander = Philip Eliades, Solomon Ereza, Dadaian and Sarah Breza,- Turkey: Aron Meigar, Louis Merman, Sarah Merman, Hellel Schpund, Joseph Borodowsky, Minnie Spund, Me Breverman, Edna Cers, Joseph Per| mutter, Willlam Weinstein, Russia. The following natives of Germany were admitted: Linda KEsch Hahn, RosinDecker, Willlam Peter Hein. rich Johann Harms, Verena Leon- hardt, and from Ireland came Annie Simpson, Patrick Keady. Lillian ‘Walsh and Minnie O'Hanlon. Greece furnished the following: Anthony Veizes, From Italy these were admitted: An- thony Roche Cala, Giuseppe Giuliani and Guilie Fioravanti. coat to another niece, Laura L. Glenn, brothers, John C. Bruce and Elis- worth M. Bruce. The Washington nd Trust Co. is named as execu- Turover, | Krigdopher | Demetries Stelson Santorios. | ROE IMPLICATED -~ INSON'S MURDER ;Police, However, Think Mrs. Bolin Can Shed Further Light in Accusation. lBJ‘ the Associated Press. PETERSBURG, Ind.. May 4.—Mrs Beatrice Bolin, 55, held in connec {tion with the death of Leander Roe a.year-old mascot of the mearby town | of \Winslow. has told the police that | the youth was slain by his father | Thomas Roe. 55. but authorities today | were skeptical that her statement re | vealed her entire knowledge of the | case. Roe. in solitary confinement has denied any knowledge of his son's ath. He has not been told of Mrs | Bolin's statement | Prosecutor William Dudine re | sumed his questioning of the woman | insistent upon her assigning a motive | for Roe killing the boy, and check |ing carefully her statements that Roe placed the lad’s clothes on the bank of the Patoka River, hid the body in his home while searchers dragged ihe stream and then, when the search was abandoned, dumped the body, with the aid of two men whom she refused to identify. in the manner in which it_was found last Friday Mrs. Bolin professed that much knowledge of the crime through twn jcasual visits made last week to Roe's home. adjacent to her own, to horrow | household supplies. She said she was convinced Roe hid the body in a trunk {in an unused room of the house and carried it to the river bank in this container. She did net explain how she knew of two men helpinz the |father. After breaking the dogged silence she has maintained since be |ing arrested Saturday along with Roe. Mrs. Bolin again became un communicative, and continued a self |imposed hungar strike. | The Pike County grand jury will« | consider Mrs. Bolin's statement. ta- | gether with substantiating facts which Dudine claims he has gathered, when {1t meets Thursday. BLANTON TO SF;EAK. Will Address American Meeting Tonight. Representative Blanton of Texas will address the members of George Washington Post, No. 1, the American Legion, tonight at 8 o'clock at the clubhouse, 1829 T street. A feature in connéction with the meeting will he a band conesrt from 7 to 8 o'clock on the lawn in front of | the clubhouse by the United States | Army Band. Vocal solos will he ren | dered by Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, a local { legionnaire. At the conclusion of the { address of Mr. Blanton Mrs. Lyons wil { sing “Taps,” accompanied by a bugler, while in the library on the second floor the “echo” will be sounded by | another bugler. | _The meeting will be opened by Post | Commander J. J. Murphy and turned over to the entertainment committee, which has charge of the program. It i will be “ladies’ night” at the club, and | all legionnaires are invited to attend with their wives, daughters and other members of their family. Member of the American Legion Auxilia veterans' organization in the L are also inyited. Legionnaires must present thelr membership cards. Legion