Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1926, Page 12

DID NOT CAR Mayflower's dock vesterday afternoon, when the President and Mrs. Cool bhurg, board (he presidential v cht. ABOUT TRIP TO WILLIAMSBURG. THE -~ EVENING Photograph taken at the ge left for their trip to Williams- Their pets, the White House collies, had to have considerable coaxing before they agreed to Copsright by Underwood & Underwood. STAR, WEDDING BE at present, accor WASHINGTON LS IN THE AUTUMN. ing to rumors which have not heen denied after the ring service they will be known as Mr. and Mrs. St D. C. SATURDAY, At least, that's the program And Jay (Bucky) Harris.* The bride-to-he is Miss Elizabeth Sutherland, d ter of the alien property custodian. the Washington base ball team. Bucky has more or less to do with Wide World Photo. MAY 15, 1926 BRITISH FASCISTI DISTRIBUTING strike is practically a thing of the past, the Fascisti members are still culars ahout Mussolini is the recognized head. mt row, left to right: At back: Senator Shortridge of California, Secretary of War Davis and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Copyright hy P. & A. Photos. CALLOWS LOOMING ACAN FOR SCOTT Slayer to Be Examined hy| Sarity Board to Determine Present Condition. The shadow of 1in Russell ice was saved from the looms for n sensational last-minute The erstwhile Canadian financler, deals man handled million.dollar a petty sticl doll drug store | up rs will be examined to Hospital for the | and if found mental. be returned Cook entenced tn death. Hearing Date Not Set. -ommission to make the test will| Judge C. H. Jenkins, of public welfare. The vet heen set sentenced to he hanged | fer of Joseph Maurer,| a few hours before the | xecution the morn petition for an s granted b roused out of | Chester to named e director te has ne v the i : W Wwho was ott's attorneys. ring was held a week later, pite the testimony of many | ite experts that Scott was sane, the otherwise, and he was| hester Asylum to “die recovery and die on | found with the sanity test an an apparent attempt to cscaping from Chester by asylum officials. Re of candy addressed | hed the prison, and in Dr. St eld. superin Chester, large as heen < reveale: tendent at o close surveillance since. Made Desperate Fight. Previous o the sanity trial, Scott| made a desperate fight, aided by rela tives and club n' of his former | home city, Det 1o stave off execu- tion until a search could he made for | nic brother fRobert. upon whom he shouldered all the hlame for the Kill ing of Maurer. Robert later was found .n a California prison and returned to Chicago. A fake telegram. signed with Rob- ert's name and stating that he was re- turning to help his brother, caused Gov. Small to issue a reprieve. After it was shown the telegram was a hoax, sent by a Detroit telegraph operator because of sympathy for the con demned man, Gov. Small declined to further intervene. It was then the| doomed man’s lawy successfully employed the sanity test. Robert Scott goes on trial for the | slaying of Maurer June 16. | Officer Sent to Manila. First Lieut. John R. Vance, Infan try, at the Army War College, \WWash Ington Rarracks, has been ordeved to Manila, P, I, Tox-Gulys | nee | been a judge of the State Court of |BRICE CLAGETT HONORED. Witness Hugging Girl in Richmond Court Fined $10| Special Dispatch to The St RICHMOND, Va, Ma : in court is tahoo with Judge k Mathews. A witness was the judge to give a young woman a squeeze as they met in the courtzoom. Judge Mathews called the offender before the bar and imposed a fine of $10 and 5. —Hug- seen b ince Judge Mathews has heen he bench he has several times leaved his court of idlers and the ngers-on s, = WILL OF A. B. PARKER | PRAISES HAPPY HOME Politician Leaves His Estate to Daughter and Widow, and Com- mends Their Amity. Br the Associated Press NEW YORK. May 15.—The will| of Alton B. Parker. who died here | last week, filed in Kingston, N. Y., hequeathed the bulk of his estate to his widow. Amelia Day Campbell Parker. and a daughter, Bertha Parker Hall, wife of the Rev. Charles Hall of Bridgeport, Conn Parker, who died suddenly in utomobile while driving through entral Park, was Democratic nomi- for President of the United States in 1904 and prior to that had Appeals. The will gave no hint as to the value of the estate, although it is «nown Judge Parker had consider- able property, including much real estate in Florida. In the will Mr. Parker paid the following tribute to his daughter and the widow, his second wife: “They are wonderful women, have lived together and helped one another in attractive fashion and have made my home a most delightful one, for all of which I 2m exceedingly grate- ful to hoth of them. I hope they | will together continue the home | which I have loved for So many years.” Former Washington Newspaper Man Decorated by Jugoslavia King. Brice Clagett, former Washington newspaper man and for a number of vears White House correspondent for the Associated Press, has been decor- ated by the King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes for his services during the World War while attached to the office of the director general of rail- ways. . Mr. Clagett served his apprenticeship in newspaper work on the local news- papers. He ‘covered” the White | House during the first Wilson admin- istration and succeeded in making a number of notable news heats, includ- | ing the resignation of Secretary of | War Garrison. Mr. Clagett left the | Associated Press to take an important | post in the Treasury Department. | Jater to ally himeelf with the office of the director general of railwayvs. where he achieved the enviable yecord which caused’his decoration. SNAPPED AT THE HORSE SHOW. right: Assistant Secretary of War MacNider presenting the cup to Miss Mooser, the silver trophy. Alvin chut. F. Starr, who event just be- ces yesterda; within Chief Rigger won the p fore the seaplane His parachute landed feet of 1 markad spot. Vas 7 Star Photo Miss Josepls Mr. and M the Nation vesterday Horse Show & Ew At left: Miss Georgia Mooser taking a jump on Summerhill in the hunters' class for lady riders. her thoroughbred having won first place, the blue ribbon and GENERAL VIEW OF OPENING OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL taken from the grandstand yesterday afternoon whi ined by the judzes. Several thousand Washington Quartet Seeks 49 Bar of Beer Buried ¢0 Years one of the classes 1< saw the opening ol €1 60 vears o sought by Henderson. r it vesterday. Nev. owner h was razed mer. e the men permissi sink a shaft in an effort to loc: the beer. Jacoh Ritter. original owner 'y, stored the heer in a eet underground, 60 3 Soon thereafter, the tunnel leading to the cell caved in and no attempt has he made since to salvage the beer 'STRIKERS CLUBBED BY PASSAIC POLICE ‘Textile Workers Dispersed When Attempting to Post Pickets. Three Arrests Made. ery. wh At National Photo. By the Associated Press. VICTIM OF LONG ILLNESS Was With Capital Traction Co. for 42 Years—Drove Horse Cars in District at One Time. Joseph B. McWhirt, Confederate veteran 78 years old, and retired motorman of theyCapital Traction Co.,| where he was employed for 42 vears, | daughter, lighteenth died at_the residence of hi Mrs. W. B. Railey, 2102 street, Thursday Mr. McWhirt first worked for the company as a driver of the old horse drawn cars in the Di ning the electric cars when they were first installed. He had been ill for the past several years. He was a member of the Junior Order of United Ameri- can Mechanics. Besides his daughter, he leaves another daughter, Elizabeth Morison: three sons liam J., Robert E. L. and W. Mrs. Railey Mrs. Wil . Mc Whirt: eleven grandchildren and nine | great-grandchildren, all of this city. Funeral services will be conducted at Gawler’'s chapel. 1730 Pennsylvania avenue, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. J. J. Muir, chaplain of the United States Senate, will officiate. Interment will be in Glenwood Ceme- tery. NOTED ENGINEER DIES. STOCKHOLM, May 15 (#).—Per Thorsten Berg, one of Sweden's fore- most engineers and a leader in the work for co-operation and un- derstanding between America and Sweden, died here yesterday. He was 73, Mr. Berg, formerly chief engineer of the Carnegie Steel Works in Pitts- burgh and technical representative in Furope of the United States Steel Corporation. was made United State vice consul In Sweden in 1915, trict, later run- | Representative Tucker, Democrat, | Virginia, who has refused to accept the increase in pay which Congress some time ago voted itself, has been convinced, after a protest to the Treasury Department, that -the de- partment or some of its clerks is not ng to josh him about his action. ir. Tucker has heen forwarding each pay day his check for his addi: tional salary to the Treasury,.and he discovered a few days ago that these I [ . [JOSEPH B. McWHIRT, 78, |“Rich Tuck” on Excessive Pay Checks ° Make Representative Tucker Protest| paid checks were returning to him through his bank marked “Rich Tuck.” So he wrote to the Treasury Department for an_explanation. He has now received the Treasur: assurance that hte word “Rich” sim- ply meant that the amount paid by him had been referred by the Treas. ury to the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank and was not intended to signify ny possible indifference by Mr. Tucker to the difference hetween the salaries of $7.500 and $10,000 a year. Several thousand persons, including high Government officials as well as frolicking school children, gathered on the Capitol plaza and jammed the steps and windows of the Capitol Building today to see the Hopi In- dians from Arizona demonstrate their famous snake dance to show mem- bers of Congress that there is nothing about the ceremony that would war- rant it being prohibited on their Western reservation. Senator Cameron of Arizona, who arranged for the exhibition, in a pic- turesque sombrero: Vice President Dawes, with his characteristic pipe; | Speaker of the House Nicholas Long- | worth, and scores of other members of the Senate and House formed a circle around the arena which had been laid off by David Lynn, architect of the Capitol. { _The high steps leading up to the Capitol injthe center.and at both ends | of the buildinz were a solid mass of woemen and childyen, in all the bhright , as the Indians Thousands See‘Hopi Indians Dance On Plaza to Prove Rites Harmless in their native costumes sallied forth from a tent which had been hastily erected on the plaza. ‘With all of the pomp and ceremony with which they go through the dance on their reservation once a year, the Indians re-enacted this ritual of their religious belief. The group of Hopl tribesmen brought here for the event are among the mostly highly trained snake danc. ers on the reservation and they han- dled the squirming reptiles without any apparent indication of fear. In addition to the snake dance, the Indians also depicted the victory war dance, the Buffalo dance and the Kathina dance. Lieut. Cahill Transferred. First Lieut. Martin O, Cahill, Quar- termaster Corps, at Philadelphia has heen assigned to temporary duty at Camp Meade, Md., tollowing which he will take station at Fort Myer, Va., <l preferred ngainst him. PASSAIC, J. May 15—Two BLOOD TRANSFUSION MAY SAVE CHESIVOIR Man Injured in Alleged Rum Car Chase Expected to Recover—Dbc- tor Comes to His Aid. to picket mills in this cliy en masse vesterday were dispersed and clubbed by police. but a third detachment in the adjoining municipality of Clif ton succeeded in posting the first pickets at_the plant of the Forst- mann & Huffman Co. There was no_disorder in Clifton. The Passaic clashes occurred when strikers sought to march past the Botany and Gera Mills at the close of their afternoon meetings. Three Persons, ene a woman, were After the crowds dispersed one or two severe heatings were adminis tered by the officers. In one instance a striker, his wife and daughter were clubbed and the man's head was laid open. Several curious groups, eager to see what was taking place, also were clubbed. Chief Zober, in discussing the clashes, said the strikers were getting “too tough.” They won't do anything you tell them to." he asserted. A transfusion of 750 cubic centi- meters of blood given Ben Chesivoir, 26 years old, driver of an alleged rum car that hit a telephone pole near Ritchie Station, Prince Georges Coun- ty, Md., Thursday night, is expected to save the life of the injured man. Dr. William H. Lawton, member of Casualty Hospital staff, who gave the blood, stood the ordeal well and was not materially weakened. It was reported at the hospital this morning that Chesivoir's condition showed marked improvement, and physicians think his chance for recov- ery s good. BOY CYCLIST BADLY HURT. Morris Butler, 11, of 1409 D street northeast, was seriously injured last night about 9 o'clock when his bicycle and the automobile of Paul Dimarzo, 24, of 316 Fifteenth street northeast, collided at Fourteenth and C street northeast. The boy was taken to Casualty Hospital by Dimarzo and treated for fractured ribs. puncture of the lung and sever injury to his head. His condition was reported serious. Thomas E. Boaz, a sailor, detailed Naval Medical School, was st night after an automo- was driving struck and slightly injured J. N. Palmer, 50 vears old, 804 Twelfth street, at Pennsylvania avenue and Nineteenth street. A charge of failure to make s identity known after accident was T. D. McDERMOTT DIES. Succumbs at Age of 78 After Sev- eral Weeks' Illness. Thomas Davey McDermott, 78 years old, a clerk in the United States Pension Office for nearly 40 years, died at his residence, 32 I street, today. He had been in fail- ing health for the past three ve: and had been seriously ill sev weeks. He was retired from the Go ernment service eight years ago. Mr. McDermott is survived by widow, Mrs. Mary McDermott, two sons, Joseph and Thomas Mc- Dermott. Funeral services will be conducted at_the residence Monday merning a 8:30 o'clock and at St Catholic Church, where ma sald, at 9 am... Interment in Moust Olivet ‘Cemetery. bile he will be will be HORSF groups of textile strikers. attempting | ested. | The strike is in its sixteenth week. | Aloysius | busy circulating posters and cir- ,ondon. The British Fascisti is the outgrowth of the Italian organization, of which Premier Copsrisht by P &K P SHOW. 1§ of thoroughbreds was being exam- day’s events 3 » is picture was HAUGEN BILL FOES ALLIANCE 1S SEEN Curtis-Aswell and Tincher Measure Adherents May Unite on Farm Aid. Br the Associated Press i With reading of the Haug | retie bill for endment h | completed and the price | section app tenance (fter a on the House, week end res ne work reas esday. e and he the the « expect vote Thur Friday Meanwh f the three I? el T stra There are ind {of an effort by of influen tial members to b = hout an alll ance between the Tincher and Aswell |camps. Leaders among the Tincher | bill supporters have made overtu lto those favoring the Curtis-Aswell plan in the hope that the combined strength of the two sroups will defeat | the Haugen measure and result in passage of a compromise measure more to their liking | Bills' Merger Studied. | _One plan is to retain the framework | of the Curtis-Aswell bill, with its pro- vision for marketing each commodity through a national organization. and to add the $100,000,000 farm loan fund | which is the principal feature of the | Tincher proposal. The Tincher bill | has been indorsed by Secretary Jar | dine. | Proponents of have combined on the |assault on the Haugen | sentative Aswell, Democrat coauthor of the comn | ing bill, referring in the terday to the proposed appropriation for cotton in the Hay bill, safd it w absurd to under openly and brazenly to bid for the votes of Southern members by offer ing money.” He asked “what sort of an intellect some men believe is found in the South.” Debate 1s Tempestuous. | After a tempestuous debate, during which numerous amendments were offered, the House approved without change the section of the Haugen bill | requiring the proposed Federal farm board to maintain the price of every basic commodity at its world market quotation plus the import tariff. The House previously had accepted an | amendment by Chairman Haugen of | the agriculture committee requiring | the board to obtain consent of “a sub- stantial number”’ of farmers' co operative associations before putting into effect the scheme to contract for purchase of a surplus to stabilize the price. When consideration of the measure is resumed. the mooted equalization | fee provision will be under discussion. This fee would be levied on the sales of wheat, corn, cattle, hogs and but | ter. ana after two vears on cotton | Representative Newton, Republican | Minneso iready has served notice Jthat he will ‘move to sirike out the I section. already floor ip an hill. Repre Louisiana, ket both bills