Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1926, Page 17

AT ANNU! Maj. Gen. Eli A. Helmick, sented a number of awards to cadet officers and companies. Central High Stadium yesterday afternoon. THE EVENI G BTAR, . BRIGADE INSPECTION AND REVIEW OF WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CADETS. spector general of the United States Army, officiated at (I Photograph of the review exercises and pre- ng stand taken at Washington Star Photo. “THE VOICE OF THE HORSE SHOW.” ing Swifty over one of the four amplifiers which will be u week at the National Capital Horse Show. announcing the various events, the four-day show. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1926, F. C. Montuori rid- d_this The amplifiers will aid in winners, the time, ete., during the Washington Star Photo. izhbred w owned by W displayed unusual courage and speed in winning the race. N OUTSIDER, WINS RICH PREAKNESS STAKE AT PIMLICO TRACK. Johnny Maiben ich won the $53,000 purse at the Baltimore track yesterd: alter J. Salmon, was not_thought a contender hefore the start of the ¢ affernoon. Display, car-old stake, ¢ Copyright by Underwood & T A BIRTHDAY PARTY ON THE CIRCUS GROUNDS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. Miss Lillias: Leitzel, star aeralist, was hostess, and little Dolly Jahn, a d aughter of one of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey performers, celebrated her fifth birthday. Dolly is being trained as an aeri: FENNIG INPURY Gibson Subcommittee to Be-f gin Hearings Again—Pre- | pares First Report. " subcommittee of the House District committee expects to ings tomorrow night to record in the Fenning in- This concerrs testimony ar of the Supreme Cou District and information concerning Mr. Fenning's ac. ‘lvity in guardianship cases since he 1< been Commissioner. ‘The Gibson subcommittee was in| axecutive se#sion this morning and again this afternoon preparing a pre itminary report to the full District committee tomorrow. This will not be a written report, but will represent | the consensus of the five members of | the subcommittee on suggestions for | remedial legislution. Thes recnm-} mendations will include curtailing | guardian or committee fees, will pro- { vide for appolntment of a guardian ' ad litem 1 se in which the subject has : living relative in the Dist an attempt to solve Liem in regard to abeth’s Hos r an additional Police Court Bullding. | Will Ask Extension. | Chafrman Gibson will ask the Dis- trict committee tomorrow to continue the time 1 the subcommittee The Gibson resume he: complete it: vestigatior by the of the es beommitt hearing because its time | was limited to May 10 and the sub- committea feels it should not con- tinue longer without specific direc- tion from full committee. The subcommittee has received a letter from. the bar assoclation of- ces in an advisory cc. ing remedial legislation. a today that the sub | committee take advantage of the offer and while preparing the varfous bilis will call in the District agencies affected to be sure the hill in right before it is submitted. It was made plain during the execu- tive session today that the intent of the entire subcommittee is to bring out constructive legislation and . not | to tear down any actlvity of the Gov- | ernment merely for the sake of mak- | inz a change, but to have united | actior for jmprovement of the ad- Muskrats Called Beavers® Slaves In Building Dams 0 By the Associated Pres: NEW YORK, May 11.-—Thou. sands of helpless muskrats are en- slaved by brutal beavers in the North woods, take it from Chase Osborn of Michigan. To Broadway skeptics he answers that ants have slaves, drones in a bec hive are slaves, wild turkeys lure tame ones from barnyards and cnslave them, and on Duck Island, Sault Ste. Marie, the beavers make the musk- rats build dams! BOY HURT IN BLAST. Gas Tank Explodes as Youngster Plays in Automobile. Richarled Colmar, colored, 11 years old, of 13 E street southwest was se- verely injured when a gasoline tank in an automobile ‘in which he was i playing, on Canal street near South Capitol street, exploded today. Cause of the explosion has not been determinad, although police believe the boy may have dropped a match or a glowing sliver in the gas tank. The boy was to Providence Hospital and later removed to Chil- dren's Hospital, where little hope is held out tor his recovery. The explo- sion threw him to the street and ig- nited his clothing, burning him severe- 1y about the body. The automobile was_demolished. and Commissioner Fenning as defend- ant, with counsel. ing evidence against Commissioner Fenning will be given an opportunity | | to present it by notifying Chairman | Graham. The subcommittee members who will sit »s judges with Mr. Chri phereon are Representatives Dy Missouri; Yates, Illinois; Perlman, New York; Kurtz, Pennsylvania; Go man, Illinois; Strother, West Virgis Major, Missouri; Wheeler, New York: Bowling, Alabama; Weaver, Carolina, and Tucker, Virginia. The judiciary committee intends to | expedite the hearing as much as pos- sible, S0 as to make its report to the | e. | let and in order to provide approaches House at the earliest convenient da The Gibson subcommittee expec | to continue brief hearings to complete its record in the Fenning case, prob- ably tomorrow night. The House veterans’ committee to- day concluded its investigation into guardianship conditions in the District and thmugflout the country. Chair- man Johnson, Republican, South Dakota, announced after an executive Anybody else hav- |, 1o North | list National Phots GIRL SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES FROM EUROPE ARE RECEIV ED AT THE WHITE HOUSE. In the center of the group, left to right: Mrs. Mark Kerr, Mrs. Essex Reade, the President and Mrs. Lyman De lano, member of the United States Girl Scout Board and hostess to the girls in Washington. \CITIZENS OF TAKOMA ASK STREET PAVING | Want Approaches to Subway to Be | Constructed Under Tracks. Bus Extension Urged. |, The District Commissioners will be |vequested by the Takoma Park Citi { zens’ Association to include in the annual estimates for the year ending Juna 30, 1928 item for paving | Laurel street from Bastern avenue | i long Second street | t, and along Van | n et to the proposed subway | nth the tracks of the Baltimore | Ohio Railroad. who introduced the resolution asking for these improve- I ments at the association’s meeting 1a night, pointed out that the con- | t for the construction of the sub- - at Van Buren street had been land {to the subway thoroughfares would have to be provided. The resolution was unanimously adopted. The extension of the bus service from Grant Circle to Rittenhouse street was advocated and the chair- man of the public utilities committee was requested to urge the extension. | " Objection will be filed at the hear- {ing May 20 of the District Zoning Commission to changing that portion NINETY CANDLES ON HIS C Speaker of the House, celebrated Dan 3 ¥, last Friday, and the photograph shows Canion, dnee at his home in n about to cut Wide World Photo. “Uncle Joe s ninetieth birth poe utilizes windpower. atlantic voyage. FIRST ROTOR SHIP, INVENTED BY GERMAN, ARRIVES IN NEW YORK HARBOR. Anton Flettner is the inventor of the ship, which has just completed the initial trans- The vessel Copsright by P. & A. Photos Baby Suffocates to D As 500 Toil 12 Hours to Rescue Him MAN’S MURDER STORY | By the Assoclated Press. BENTON HARBOR, Mich., May 11. —Digging down 38 feet, volunteer workers late last night took from a well on a farm near here the body of the 14-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elkneh Carter. More than 500 work- ers from the vicinity, spurred on by the possibility that the child might still be alive, worked for more than 12 hours to reach the body. After efforts to revive the infant | with_a pulmotor proved unavailing, | Dr. W. T. Bertrand pronounced him | dead. He sald death was caused i suffocation and not by the fall, bear- | ing out the theory on which rescue work was started, that if the child could be reached in time it might be | taken out alive. No bruises were found on the body when it was taken from the well. - The child was missed shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning and shortly afterward it was ascertained that he had fallen in the well. The shaft leading to the water was so narrow that it was -believed the child had slipped gradually, rather than fallen, into the well. Rescuers located the body where it had lodged Copsright by Harris & Ewing. eath Wedged in W ell?WIFE'S BODY VERIFIES| | Waters Yield Corpse, Sought Since about -4 feet above the water. The child was so tightly wedged against the wall of the shaft that it was im- | October, After Husband Con- possible to bring him up with pling hooks fastened in his clothin fessed He Killed Her. ! Efforts were first made to sink a | | shaft wide enough for a man to go down, but the sand caved in constant- ly and rescuers were forced to aban- don this method. Grading shovels were brought and an inverted cone- shaped hole, with its point where the child lay and about 75 feet in diam- eter at the top, was dug. Cave-ins again hampered the work- ers, tons of loose sand falling several times during the operations and de- laying the workers. In one of these Robert Lachien, one of the workers, was buried and taken out uncon- scious. He was revived and found to | By the Associated Press. ASHLAND, Wis., May 11.—The cor- | pus delictt, or, literally, the body of | the crime, has just been revealed in the case of 2 man held since last Oc- | tober for the slaying of his wife on | his .own admission of guilt, althoug] | the body of his victim was missing. The waters of Chequamegon Bay, free of their Winter burden of ice, vesterday washed up the body of Mrs. | John - Crowley of Ashland nearly : | seven months_ after her husband sur- Le it e leHily tmpied | rendered to the police and confessed | When darkness threatened to put a | glaving her. ! stop to the work, an improvised elec- | “Crowley was charged with heating tric lighting system was placed about [ the woman to death Wwith an oar and the well so the diggers could continue | throwing her body into the bay, but their work. The child’s father work- | haq never been brought to trial be- ed with the rescue crew, refusing to | cause of failure to find the body. He stop for rest, until he fell from ex- |surrendered and confessed several hgustion. Other workers were or-|days after the slaying, later pleading ganized into shifts of about 100, re- | not guilty to murder when arraigned |and De Sales | nint ing, |store ‘was reported Lower House Opens In Georgia With inging of Hymns By the Associated Press ATLANTA, May 11.—The House of Representatives of the Georgia General Assembiy has a traditional custom of opening its sessions with hymn singing, which is in addition to the daily prayers by the chap. lain. Almost every one of the 207 members pa Members however. d ample. 'HOTEL SNEAK THIEF GETS $300 JEWELRY | Woman Misses Diamonds From Room—TFive Girls Robbed of Clothes. ieorgla Senate, not follow the ex A series of mindr thefts, inve approximately $430 in all. w ported to the police last night. From the room of Jane N. | Hotel Grafton, Connecticut treet. a chamofs jewel bag, containing a platinum ring set with two diamonds, a gold ring with five small diamonds and a ring set with garnets, as well as a $20 gold plece, totaling $300 in value, were taken by a sneak thief. Beatrice Middleton, all residing at 301 First street southwest. reported the | theft of wearing apparel and jewelry | valued in all at $82. Miss Lillian Norton of 3932 Twenty- | street northeast, employed at Chapin-Sacks Co.. First and N streets northeast, reporied the theft of a oat, a pocketbook containing a $10 2 In car tokens and $4.05 in cash from the locker room at that plant yvesterday. At the same time and from the same place Miss Marie Horner, another empl reported the theft of a pockethook containing $2.70 and a pair of shoes and stock- ings. Theft of a pocketbook containing | $20 and jewelry valued at $15, in a | by Mrs. Samuel | Plerson of 5331 Georgia avenue. RECORDS OF BRYAN'S lleving each other hourly. in Circuit Court. He had been held U. S. NEEDS MECHANIC. {in the county jail since. MRS. PEARCE BURIED. | | | | | | | LIFE BEING COLLECTED Mary Robinson, Blanche Woods and | CONVENTION RULES WORRY DEMOCRATS McAdoo and Smith Adher- ents Seek to Change Two- Thirds Majority System. Adoo and ocrati e Adoo supporter from Io red Norman E. mith follow er, asking an opinion on the rules which contributed to tying up the 1924 convention in New York, and prevent ed the nomination of Champ Clark in as also signed by York believed the na 1 committee should end the next na tional n that the two-thirds rule be that nomina tions be n ajority vote of wde the unit rule Mr. Mack Marbury recon > permitting the unit rule & from a State the entire vote of | the State delegation. “A majority vote should be sufi clent in a free field.” Mr. Mack said “The effect of two-thirds rule is to per mit a strong minority to nomination of a candidate nate a convention. It kills fr expression. The same may be said of the unit rule.” The national January. committee meets in BALDHEADED CLUB WON'T BACK HAIR STUDY PLAN Refuses to Consider Founding Col lege, Claiming It Would Inter- fere With Growth. By the Associated Press. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 11.- More than 600 bald men assembled | | i | sossion this morning that he had ap- GYPSY KING DIES. - Recollections and Other Data to ministration of municipal affairs. | of territory bounded by Fifth and| Judiciary Body to Act. The judiciary committee of the House, in full session, <ty to start | hearing evidence in tne charges against Mr. Fenning probabiy a week from tomorrow. Chairman Graham, after an executive session today, ap- pointed a.subcommittee of 12 mem- bers, with Representative Christo- pherson of South Dakota as chair- man, to conduct the investigation, with the full committee present whenever ! possible. Mr. Graham made it posi- | tive that the subcommittee will hear nothing but 1égal evidence, with every * charge made to be substantiated by proof before it is accepted. Speeches are to be barred. H The proceedings before the judi-! ciary subcommittee will be in the na- | ture of a court trial, with Representy tive Blanton ap I pointed Representative Luce, Republi- can, Massachusetts, Representative Montgomery, Republican, Oklahoma, and Representative Bulwinkle, Demo- crat, North Carolina, a subcommittee to draw up legislation affecting guar- dianship of mentally incompetent war veterans throughout the Nation. It was indicated that no difficulty would be encountered when it came to re- vising the laws for guardianship in the District, the legislation to be around the recommendations of Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans’ Bureau, which would give him authority to supervise the practice here and break up “wholesale guar- dianship.” As to the remainder of the country, Gen. Hines probably will be given discretionary powers to take over isolate of maladminis tion of v : e guaid Ninth, Peabody and TUnderwood | streets, from A restricted, or de- tached homes, to class B, permitting row_houses. { W. A. Hooker, chairman of the Fourth of July community celebra- tion committee, reported on the plans for that occasion. (. C. Waters has been appointed chalrman of the com- mittee on finance and the representa- tive of the Citizens' Association of | Takoma, D. C., is Dr. A. Owen i Penny, it was announced. The meet- ing was presided over by Elmer E. Reynolds. Yes. London Has Bananas! LONDON, May 11 (f).—Yes, Lon- don will have bananas. A shipload | has arrived and Leop carted to mar- kel without uccding ' protection, Examinations for Postal Equip- ment Job Are Anrounced. The Civil Service Commission today announced an open competitive exami- nation for subordinate mechanic to fill vacancies in the mail equipment shops of the Post Office Department, and vacancies in positions requiring similar qualifications. The entrance salary for this position is $900 a year. After the probational period required by the civil service act and rules, advancement in pay may be made without change in as-| signment up to $1,140 a year. Full information and application blanks may be obtained at the office of the United States Civil Service Com mtssion, 1724 @ sueet, R Funeral Services Held at Residence of Daughter. Funeral services for Mrs. Fredelena A. Pearce, widow of William H. | Pearce, who died at 1833 Kalorama | road Sunday night, were held at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Harold Smith, 3805 Military road, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Edward 0. Clark, pastor of Chevy Chase Bap- tist Church, officiated. Interment was in_Rock Creek cemetery. Honorary pall bearers were Judge Sewell W. Abbott, Theodore W. Noyes, Comdr. Paul P. Blackburn, U, S. N.; Burtis W. Sommers, James W. Ryon and Frank H. Pelouze. | i Steve John’s Body to Lie in S"Ate: Before People. ! SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May u] | P —steve John, 75, king of one of | { the greatest trihes of gypsles in| America, himself an expert worker | in gold and jewels, dled of heart failure at his camp at Red House Crossing late yesterday. His body | will lie in state in a magnificent cof- | fin for several days, while about 1,500 of his subjects gather here for the | traditional Romany funeral rites, ter which it will be shipped to hicago, where @ costly mausoleum been ordered for it. The gypsy reh is survived .by his aged , Binka Steve, and two sons, The o pproximately $100,000,000, e face value of the banknotes | here last night as delegates to the | fourteenth annual convention of the Be Kept by Nebraska His- torical Society. By the Associated Press. i LINCOLN, Nebr., May 11—Intimate | records of the life of William Jen- nings Bryan are being collected from his political and personal friends by the Nebraska State Historical Sociel for a W. J. Bryan collection to be pre- served in the society’s museum here. Included in the plan is the assem- bling of personal recollections of Mr- Bryan from persons in Nebraska who knew him during the important years of his life here. | In newspaper files, clippings, pam- | phlets and books in its library_ for the period 1885 to 1925 the society has a vast collection of source m: terinl hea on the Common life. g | headed Club | Ba ded Club of America. S v Homer § Cummings, a bers, acted as toastmaster at a ban quet. John Rodmeyer of Greenwich president, announced receipt of a let ter from the American Hairdressers' Association, ing that the Bald seriously the mat ter of the establishment of a college for the study of hair and the cause and cure of baldness.” The president led in the club’s re- fusal to consider such a proposition, declaring that such a tollege would interfere with the growth of the club. Of ail the States, Washingten aldne s the mame of a native-born crican.,