Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1926, Page 4

STENRODS QUITS LAUREL MARATHON Finn Refused Right to Run in! Native Colors—Michelson Becomes Favorite. By the Associated Press LAUREL., Md. May 15 Stenroos of Finland and Wendling. Olvmpic withdiew from the al Amateur Athletic Union to-Baltimore marathon atart Stenrova hecame en tangled in entry regulations. He de sired to run under the na of his native ecountry. bui. the marvaihon neing an Ame:ican ¢ o vegula tions forbade it than run under other colo withdrew Waondling ws evented from taking his place at the s iine by lness Fifty four the Washing Albin Frank ner of Buffaio pionship Laurel before the todas from n boulevard as tl sun barkea sharply noon, standa me. Last-minuie scratches had cut the number down from 68. tenroos out, popular favor at rt swung 1o Albert (Whitev) twice winner of Baltimore > course, and ihe Laurel Raltimore record of 2:41.39 2.5 set in 924 when the course was 1,274 feel ong MICHELSON LEADING. Stride Ahead at 5-Mile Mark—Demar Is Second. RALTIMORE. Md. Mayv 15 (®). Albert (Whitey) Michelson of the Cvg A. C. East F Cont Ciaver Demar of by a de. when the Nation: marathon runners passec \ile mark of he Laurel-Baltimore course today. MRS. S. 0. ALEXANDER DIES Widow of Union Army Veteran to Be Buried in Minneapolis. Cheser Mre Sarah O xander old and iong a vesident of W3 ten, died at the residence of daughier, Mrs Clarence J. Blanchard 2033 Sixteenth stree, vesterday after a lengthy iliness. She was the widow of John H. Alexander. a Union Army veteran, who served as an investi- gator In land fraud cases in Oregon during President Roosevelt's adminis- tration. Mrs. Alexander was residents in Norih spent the greater part life there. Resides her daughter, she leaves a son, William J. Alexander of Seattle, and a grandson, John Blanchard of thir city. Funer: At the residenc o'clock, with Rev oficiating. The bodv taken to Minneapo ment will be Monday. ey E; LONDON’S MILLIONS AGAIN RIDE TO JOBS AFTER BIG STRIKE “mong the early akota, having of her early ires will be conducted this afternoon at 3 James H. Taylor will then be where inter- ned from First Page.) at the earliest possible moment,” he sald. This statement. together with an agreement between' the raflway man. agers and the rallway men’s union, and arrangements made 1o resume .work on the iramwavs, subways and omnibuses, has been greeted with hearty satistaction. Some ailwav men denounced what they regard as the humilizting terms signed by their union leaders. At a meeting of rafl Ponty Pool, a busy center at Western Railroad, the repudiated the agreement last night and increased their pickets over wide areas Welsh miners are displaving dissat- isfaction and other mining districts ! 1o vehemently ex- - proposed settle- A conferen f the miners’ dele- gates called this morning ad- Journed shortl: afier gathering until next Thur No~ decision was reached o erning the government proposals for i seitiement of the dis pute between ihe miners and mine owners Beltween now reday the government proposals will be submit- ted to varlous disiricts by the dele- gates. Although the government proposals ® careful consideration by the and elucidation of doubtful epresent a forward step, A. J. Cook. inasmuch ment at last has placed proposals before us to govern future development of the mining industry.” Reiterating that he was “'as anxious as any one in the country for a satis- factory and peaceful settlement of the mining problems,” Mr. Cook de- clared such settlement could only be secured on the basis of a living wage. Public Sympathy Asked. He called upon the British public, whose sympathv, he said, was with the miners. to “express itself in defl- nite form,"” tions. ““The great mining community.” he added, “expects the British public to treat it fairly and squarely at the present moment. Next week will be a decisive week of our history, and no doubt it wiil decide the future of the mining industry in this country. * * ¢ 1 hope the government will recognize 1hat any attempt to depress our pres. ent standard of living will be me with the greatest possible oppo:ition, and that if we are beaten down it will only mean an unset state in the future of our industr The governmeni's proposals have met with sich a degree of approval, that in some quariers iL was believed . ballot by the districts themselves would not be nec “It is quite yossibla that a decision may be made next Thursday by the miners’ confer- #nce without & ballot.” said one mine leader. "If the government interprets the proposals generously and fairly much progress will be made toward #n honorable peace.” DINNER AT WALTER REED. during the new negotia- City Y. M. C. A. to Honor New Commanding Officer at Hospital. The Washington Y. M. C. A. will mve a_dinner tonight in honor of Brig. Gen. James M. Kennedy. the new commanding officer at Walter Reed Hospital, and Mrs. Kenendy, at the Service Club at the hospital. Wil Itam Knowles Cooper, general secre- tary of the local association, will preside. Other guests will include Surg. Gen and Mrs. Ireland, Col. John T. Axton. chief of chaplains of the Armv: offi cers and staff members at Walte: Reed and their wives and some of the directors and other officials of the ?MMJL& oAy Upper, left to right: Lieu Conant, Bureau of Aeronau sistant Secretary Robinson, w and Lieut. Thomas of Aeronautics, who won the y. L Conant _was first in group thre nd Lieut. 1. W. Curtain (lower left) and Chief Boatswain . C. Fitzpatrick, Naval Air Station (lower right), were winners in group one and two respectively. All the pilots, by taking first honors in their groups, including Lieut. Jeter, will receive gold wrist watches from The Star. LIELiT. JETER WINS CURTISS AIR RACE; SETS NEW RECORD _(Continued from First Page.) for the trip down the river was a big F-5-L. piloted by Lieut. C. T. Simard, and numbered 2. This was followed by Lieut. Curtain in a similar_type, and then came Lieut. Davis. Boat- s«wain Fitzpatrick was the last off in the big ship classes, followed by Lieut. Russell Pollard of Hampton Roads in a UO-, fitted with a 220- horsepower air-cooled motor. Lieut. *. C. Champion of the Bureau of Aeronautics, flying the big loggy SC-6, and powered with a Packard $00- horsepower engine, roared and whined around the pylon, followed by Lieut. Conant in another UO-1. The last to start were Lieut. Jeter and Lieut. Barner, whose marked in- crease in speed and beautiful 180 de- gree turns at the pylon drew admira- tion from every one. The race had not progressed far before it was evident one of the two hawks, screaming and groaning under the full throttles, would carry away the honors, and while the interest cen- \ered about these two pilots, Lieut Conant kept creeping up on the slower ships. In relation to the order of finish, he won third place with an average «peed of 104.115 miles per hour. Lieut. Champion took fourth place with a speed of 97.229 miles per hour, but did not win out in his group. Lieut. Pol- lard was fifth with a speed of 92.71 miles per hour; Boatswaln Fitzpatrick was sixth with 77.477 miles per hour; Lieut ain seventh with 74.3 miles per hour, and Lieut Simard was eighth with 72.085 miles per’ hour. Lieut. Davis did not finisi Kept Low Altitude. At all times the planes never flew over an altitude of 500 feet and the numbers on their sides and wings could be seen plainly from the ground. One of the most interesting features was the manner in which Lieuts. Jeter and Barner made their turns uround the pylon. Lieut. Jeter, roar- ing up the stretch, cocked over on the leit wing and dived on the turn, losing very little distance. In a flash he was off down the river. Lieut. Barner, always in hot pursuit, began to dip over on the left wing about 500 yards before the pylon was reached, and “wrapped” his little plane around the imaginary pole in the air. The manner in which the big boat pilots took the turns with their trucks of the air” was amazing and commendable. The winners in each group received the congratulations of Secretary Wil- bur, Admiral Moffett and other offi- cials who witnessed the event from with oil and slightly fatigued from pushing” the ships around the course. “I'm mighty glad T won,” declared Lieut. Jeter, “because I've needed a watch for more than a month.” Lieuts. Conant, Curtain and Boat- swain Fitzpatrick also were highly pleased with the reward to be given them for their efforts. Carl F. Schory, secretary of the contest committee of the National Aer- onautic Association, which sponsored the contest, acted as judge of the race. To Mr. Schory. goes the bulk of the credit for the success of the event. Handicapped by time and encounter- ing many difficuities in the way of ob- taining the necessary planes and per- sonnel, because of meager facilities here at the present time, Mr. Schory nevertheless paved the way for future sporting contests of the air in Wash- ington. Star's Efforts Appreciated. The Star was complimented by Ad- miral Moffett for its interest in the pioneer aircraft contest here. I think "The Star has done a mighty fine thing,” declared e admiral, “and we all appreciate it immensely.” Mr. Schory, at whose suggestion the prizes were donated by this news- paper, declared: “The offers made by The Star are responsible for the in- {ense competition that developed dur- ing the race. Had it not been for this inducement, the pilots of the other planes, with nothing to win and prob- ably a forced landing or two to keep in mind, would have had very little interest in the outcome. As it was, | however, they pushed their motors wide open and attacked those pylons with blood in their eyes.” During the exhibition, before the race, Chief Rigger Alvin Starr of Lakehurst, N. J., who has ‘made more than 100 parachute jumps, won a watch offered by A. Kahn, Inc., jew- elers, to the man coming closest to a designated mark in the fleld. He, with six others, jumped from two Marine Corps bombing planies. Five De Haviland planes from Quantico also gave formation drill in the air and a Navy torpedo plane from Hampton Roads lald a smoke screen down the river. While this curtain was being put down, the six Marine pursuit planes dived through it onto the fleld. A loud-speaker devise, installed on an automobile and developed by the Bellevue Naval Labratory, informed the spectators at the air station of the progress of the race. It was operated by Lieut. C. D. Palmer, -adio officer of the station. The Marines who participated in wie pursuit tactics were: Lieuts. H. 3. Norton, leader of the first elemsnt of three planes, W. L. McKittrick and Master Sergt. Robert G. Liguie Lo t/ the beach. All the pilots were smeared | THE EVENING STAR, ’ IV]CTORS IN THE CURTISS MARINE TROPHY RACE YESTERDAY WASHINGTON, second eement,and Capt. J. T. Moore and Lieut. C. F. Schilt. The DeHavil land pilots were Capt. Robert J Archibald, Capt. Thomas R. Shearer, | Capt. Willlam T. Evans, Lieut. George H. Towner, Lieut. Jacob F. Plachta and Gunner Elmo Regan. Aviation Pilot George M. Strode handled the smoke screen plane. Detalls of assembling the pilots ana planes and thefr assignments were in charge of Lieut. Comdr. Homer C. Wick, commanding the Naval Air Sta tion. ’ Acting in co-operation with him, Col. T. C. Turner, commanding the marine aviation base at Quantico, fur nished the program of entertainment prior to the event. Officers at the station directed the work of handling the spectators and the racing planes. WATER BOND ELECTION IN ARLINGTON JUNE 15 Judge Brent Signs Petition Speci- fying €750,000 as Amount of Proposed Issue. Special Dispatch to The Star CLARENDON, Va., May 15— Whether Arlington County will issue honds for installation of main trunk lines of its proposed water system will be determined at a special election June 15. a petition designating that date having been signed last night by Judge Samuel G. Brent The petition, which w: by Commonwealth Attorney conformity with a resolution adopted by the board of supervisors, specifies that the amount of bonds to be issued shall not exceed $750,000. Just how much the operation will cost, it is pointed out, cannot be gleaned until the extent of the demand for the water and where the mains will be located is determined. It is the pur- pose of those pushing the movement to make water avallable to all of the thickly settled ar at the outset and to extend the lines as the needs require. While the entire county will vote June 15, the poll in each of the three will be counted separately and the failure of any one district to favor the issue will have no effect on the others. $3,000 DAMAGE BY FIRE IN DOWNTOWN STRUCTURE Barber Shop Robbed During Blaze and Offices of Attorneys Also Suffer. Fire of undeterfnined origin early | this morning In the business and apartment structure at 711 G street caused damage estimated at $3,000. Dense smoke pouring from the build- ing hampered firemen trying to get at_the source of the flames. Fear for the lives of two persons living in a third-story apartment sent the rescue squad up ladders through flames, but they found that the two occupants, Mrs. Myrtle Buckles and her daughter, were absent from their rooms last night. The fire burned the stairway be- tween the first and second floors, damaging the barber shop of G. Floria and the offices of Karl P. McElroy, patent attorney, and Alfred M. Houghton, lawyer. Floria told tho police that $50 worth of his shop equipment was stolen during the fire. The fire was discovered at 2 a.m. by George B. Mader of 556 I street northeast, who summoned the fire companies. |FEES ASKED 8Y FENNING UP TO JUSTICE SIDDONS Court Will Pass on Legality of Commissions Denied by Auditor in Case of Adolph Adler. Justice Frederick L. Siddons, who was formerly District Commissiones in charge of police, the position now beld by Frederick A. Fenning, will be called on to decide the question of the legality of the fees asked by Commissioner Fenning in the settle- ment of the latter’s final account as committee of Adolph Adler, insane ‘World War veteran, now in a hos- pital in New York Attorney W. W. Millan, counsel for Mr. Fenning, today sent down for hearing at the next motion day the exceptions filed by him_vesterday to the report of Herbert L. Davis, auditor of the District Supreme Court. The auditor in his report not only refused to allow Fenning to retain a commis- sion on his bond as committee, but required him to pay the entire pre- mium out of his own pocket, refusing him any commission for his services as committee during the past year. As the case has an even number it fell to Justice Siddons in the division of the court work. It is likely that Justice Siddons will set the hearing for next Saturday morning Instead of taking it up in the regular motion list next Friday. PILGRIMAGE APPROVED. Garnet C. Wilkinson Favors Hom- age to Late Frederick Douglass. Asst. Supt. of Schools Garnet C. Wilkinson. in a letter to his prin- cipals, yesterday stated he “heartily approves” the recommendation of the teachers of his divisions that an an- nual pllgrimage be made to the home of the late Frederick Douglass, at Cedar Hill, Anacostia, by both teach- nd puplls on Memorial day. 'he purpose of the annual pil- grimage,” the letter states, commemorate the life and services of the late Mr. Douglass, thereby insur- ing a fuller knowledge of his per=on- ality and a wider appreciation of his noble work for his race and his coun- try.” R. F. HARVEY'S SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS COLUMBIA 157 LOWEST PRICES Sler YEARS of high- standard service to every customer since 1864 demand high-service standard to every customer for 1926 —and ever after! HIRES TURNER GLASS COMPANY MERNHARD W. 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MAY 15, 1926.° Woodmward & Lnthrop 10th, 11th, F and G Streets Silver-—the Age-old Gift Even if it were not for the precedent which the gift of silver carries with it, the richness of silverware, exquisitely patterned, qualifies it as an ideal wedding gift. Sterling Silver Three-piece After-dinner Coffee Set, of graceful design. Sketched. $63. Console Set, of sterling silver, $55.50. Chop Plate, of sterling silver, $60. Duplex Vegetable Dish, sterling silver, $60. Sterling Silver Sandwich Plates, $16 to $35. Compotes, of sterling silver, $8.50 to $18 each. Silverware Section, First floor A Gift from France There is an individual dignity typically conti- nental in these imported Girondoles, that will charm the bride and bring a touch of beauty to her new home. Exquisite Electric Girondole in French gold finish with dainty hand-colored china flowers and a figure of a girl and two lights, with lovely chiffon shades to match. Sketched, $47.50. Others, with figures of a boy and china birds. $20 to $47.50. Other designs, with one. two or three lights. with elaborately trimmed cut prisms, colored drops, candle flame bulbs and etched designs. $18 to $30. Lamp Section, Sixth foor. Furniture for the Bride Just such pieces of furniture that the bride her- self would choose for her new home. Decorative Occasional Chair, of solid mahog- any, with graceful curved frame, handsomely upholstered in rich tapestry. Sketched, $50. Others, $35 to $195. Tea Wagons, of solid mahogany or walnut, $29.50. Other Tea Wagons to $65. Gateleg Tables, with drawer, $25. Others to $52.50. ;.zo; Flores Coffee Tables, mahogany with glass top, _ Windsor Chair, a useful gfit, $8.75 to $14.50. Folding Screens, decorative gift, $27.50 to $115. Govetnor Winthrop Desks, $87.50 to $145. Console Tables, ular with brides, $18 to $70. Handy little Emfo 'Fables, $9 to $25. ‘Furaiture Sectiom. Sixth floor. Exquisite Table Linens For the bride when she entertains there could be nothing that would make her table so com- plete and lovely as a Chinese cut-work cloth or filet luncheon set. Handsome Spanish Handmade Filet Luncheon Set, consisting of a runner and 12 mats, was made to grace a bride’s table. Sketched. $50. Exquisite Chinese Cut-work Table Cover. of elaborate design that lends dignity and charm to the bride’s table. Handmade filet edges this handsome cloth and filet insets add unusual charm. $150 and $175. All-over Handmade Filet Luncheon Set, con- sisting of one runner and 12 mats. $32.50. Linen Seection. Second ficor. Crystal Mirror Gifts A perfect gift for the bride—who plans to live in either a large home or a small apartment—is a erystal mirror that adds light and brightness fo any room. l&great variety of shapes and sizes suitable for every purpose—mantel, buffet, living room or hall. You may choose from mirrors, with dainty etching and mitered designs. Console Mirror of purest crystal, with a charm- ing etched design and narrow gilt frame. $50. Others, $6.75 to $85. Mantel or buffet mirrors, $30 to $75. Mirrer Section, Fifth floor. Chinese Rug Gifts The bride will appreciate a gift of a handsome Chinese Rug. These are in distinctive designs —and exquisite colors—mellow tones, taupe, rose, blue, gold and gray, woven in rich color combinations. This is a most advantageous time to buy Chinese rugs as indications are that they will be higher priced in the Fall. 9x12Rugs. . .......$275 to $395 8xJ0Rugs. ........$235t0 $285 7x9 Rugs . A 6x9Rugs. .........$150to $195 LT 4x7 Rugs........$67,50 to $110 3x6 Rugs. . .......$57.50 to $65 215x5Rugs. .........$45t0 $55 Bug Section, Fifth foor.