Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1926, Page 17

N W r mount i afte ONE OF TH v first prize with h 1 Horse Show yesterday won Capi VI WEST SHOW Sioux tribe, who i~ teatured in the Wild West and Far East is COMING. INN 1 the children's class at the Naf ptnoon. Wide Whold THE EVENING STAR, WAS of the Senator from Idal dia Mrs. Willlam E. Bor the Representative from HINGTON, D. s HOW YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. James G. Strong, wife of th resident’s secretary, This is Chief Standing Elk of the performance of Miller Brothers' 101 Show, in Washington next Monday ENOUGH TO WRECK A BATTLESHIP. Anthony Augustus, the heav. iest sailor afloat. He is commissary steward on the U. S. 8. Utah, : he tips the ship's scales at 12> pounds. claims that he has 250 pounds since he eulisted several 0. TO DRAW THE EYE O A Hern he largest ever caught on the Pacifi Gy Commis Weighi on Six Parking Liberalize inners lges. The joint recommendntion fic Director M. O. Eldri of Police Edwin B densing the District liheralizing parking restrictio downtown conge hours were District Commissic than a month’'s con The Commissione time adopted a v tricks ving more than D000 six bridges per clal vehicles with a of 28,000 pounds Highway ki Bridge acr The bridees pounds limit ning i River; P'enusylvania over the Anacostia Street South the Baltimore tracks: Wharf northwest and the Di foot of Eleve Restri recoms ed zone durir pproved from using commer: maxienm weizht to continue to use Yard er 20,000 Re ind he AT which placed over the follow \ on i Avenue River; Sixteenth B M D across Avenue | nd No. 6. een M Gigna Are Considered. rdation to prohibit heavy ehicles from dential stre w veferred rector Eldridge for study and The oners recently public o conside posa ded that ~hould he deferred until the Traffic Director makes a recommendation on the ques tion The rec a twoway teenth and with park ric nth strest ions A commercia Di report held this pro. action road be made e hetween Six streets 1est that P'a thoronghf Mount Pleasant prohibited on the north side was approved. Park road now s a oneway sireet for west-hound traffic from Fourteenth Meunt Pleasant street. The Commissioners also approved the request of Barber & Ross and other commercial establishments lift the restriction on heavy truc using Rhode Island avenue hetween Jowa Circle and North Capitol street. The commerclal vehicles now are pro hibited from running on Rhode Island avenue from Connecticut avenue to North Capitol street Chief among the new traffic regula- tions adnmedr ®ll vehicles app: ®olng in either direction which are located on the highway shall come to a full stop not closer than eight feet from the near- est exit. This regulation is designed to car lines cn the side of such as Wisconsin avenue between Massachusetts avenue and Thirty-seventh street, nue between Belt road and the Dis trict line, arounds:Dupont Circle, F Etreet from Seventh to Ninth street, B street northeast from Delaware ave- nue te First street, B street southwest from First street west to Delaware roaching street car ENAPPROVAL . |enth and B ling a one which will require | consin ave- | Train Wins Race With “tork; Baby Born in Hospital | Special Di-pateh o The Sta CUMBEDRLAND, Md., Train Baluimor Railron day won signal t a telegram to Paw iel hoarded ~zed high An ambu and Mrs. was taken to Western . Hospital - just fow | ad of the stork, whicn 1 bor. Mrs. Barkman ced in Curberland. She the Salvatlon Army Taternity Tospital in Philadelphia nd deceied to return to Cumber- land 3 — =1 from First | street southwest Fourteenth sireet, from B sireet to B First sireet north- | outh io Maryland | hwest from | h to High reet to the | from Sev- . Benning road eenth and H 'nion Station northeast from Fifty the District line and Kenilworth avenue from SBennir | tion to the District line. Other regulations approved follow: “ ‘0 prohibit all vehicles from pas: car on either v street when it h { or discharge passenge! prohibit parking in front of for- eign embassies or legations. jift the ristriction on morning ternoon rush hour parking on reets in the downiown congested | | come to | ing or en hiz opted | ion of Mahon. who 1 T o on inadequate because it de for a vehicle intend turn from an ifter into « boulevard or ivenue, B Twelfth to street. northea: street southe west from avenue, Ca B to Il street way Brids | bridge, M street street the appr rom from the viaduct streets north | Plaza, Dix stre | fourth street | one-w \ require complete stop befo: | teri voule | way on account | Police Court held that th | this subject | does not pre |ing to make secting vire terial highway - streets were cry as follows: O st n Thirty-fifth street and Wis- n avenue, for eastbound traffic v; P street from Twenty-eighth to hirty-sixth street, for westbound traffic only, and Twenty-eighth street from Dumbarton avenue to P’ street, for northbound traffic only. Two-hour parking limit’ was estab- (lished on the following streets be- | tween 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.: F street from Sighteenth to Nineteenth street, G {from Seventeenth to Nineteenth reet, H from Jackson place o} | Eighteenth street, Kighteenth street { from Pennsylvania avenue to F street, | Seventeenth street from Pennsyivania { avenue to K street and New York ave- i nue from Seventeenth 1o Eizhteenth | stree Th2_only regulation in the joint re. port of Maj. Hesse and Director Eld- | | ridge which was not approved would require automobiles parked on the| left-hand side of one-way streets to burn their headlights at night or a cpecial parking light on the front of the machine, of u in Georgetown, JOIN JOY EDSON GIVEN BIRTHDAY LUNCHEON AT N eightieth birthday, and the Hays Hammond and L. C. Probert. TIONAL luncheon was given by the National Press Club Building Corporation. PRE; CLUB. A FISHERMAN, he Washington banker 3 Seated at the table are Mr. Edson, John ‘TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1926. Left to right: Mme, e Representative from Kansas; and Mrs. Fred Purnell, wife of Copyright by P& A. Photox. T 9-pound black se: h, Calif., after a four-hou Coast Wide Whold Phot sa Be: WATCHING THEM FROM tional Capital Horse Show yvester wife of the Assist Misses Louise and Suzette, HE R lay BIDDING FAREW TO PRE. enger, French Ambassador to W i yesterday before leaving sterday celebrated his Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. BUILDINGS REPORT | ACCEPTED BY HOUSE $165,000.000 Measure Now Goes o | By the Associated Press. 3 ; CLEVELAND, Ohio., May 18.—Be- President for Final ! cause’ pie in jail costs more than pie i oufslde, ahoga County Common Action. fudges will trv to find out if Fréd Kohler of Cleveland has rrofiteering in seiling candy, tabacco to v'!)\ln(“ Jail Congress action was completed on the $165 000,000 public ' buildings hill today when the House. adopted the conference wt which proved by the Senate yesterda) measure to the Pres for his signature. And beeause Louis (¢ man’), Sagers, former prisoner, says .he was charged $1 a day, rental ‘for a cell used toreroom when he was the sherifl f snlesman, a grand jury inquiry into conditions at the Jail may_be -made. Chief Justice Homer G. Powell of the Common Pleas Court said he would lay the matter before the judges this afternoon. = Judge Frank C. Phillips said’ he would determine if 2 grand jury could investigate the charges of “Louie thé pie. man,” es- TPecinlly ' his statements that bread, now ident 30,000,000 for * much- in Washing- vernment * et i ely - scatiered and in .many - strug: es that are known tq he fire traps. Chairman Liliott of the House pub- | th' buildings r")lmm ttee, Wi & |nexi'n— i er of the Pul : Buildings 'Commiy- Sho e has oy Wb | Priserers, for whose food the sherift 0 t Ort, i is allowed 45 cerits a. day. made to gés ppropriation in the [ =,pp OVE T8 ¥ deficlency, appropuiation bill now sheriff admits ple costs more in jail because of “handling expenses, being frained, so that work may be ; e started this Summerson a couple of | Put he denies he made anything like Prisoner Admits Food Profiteering Among Others as Agent for Sheriff Loule the pief coffee 2nd soup formed the diet of the | $30. to $40 a day profits, or that hungry prisoners bought five pieces of costly pie a day because jail fare was insufficient, as Loule charges. “It's.all ‘la-la, but it makes a good story,”. Sheriff = Kohler told. news: paper men. “Loue the pie man” said he was | the chiet sales agent more than six months, and that when released he owed $42 back - rent on his cell. Storeroom.. He sold for 20 cents. cig. arettes that cost 15; penny hoxes of miatches cost prieoriers 10 cents for four; chewing ‘gum cost -double, and 33.cent ples. were cut.in six 10.cent portions, Louie related. Prigoners paid 5 cents for daily and 15 «cents for \Sunday papers, he said. Fach day Sagors and his five aseistants: were ‘chargéd .up ‘with so many pies, ‘o many’ cigarettes’ and 0}, and every morning he had.to account to a deputy for-his sales .and give him the- money,Sagors sald. *The judicial inquiry, will procesd on the theory that the sheriff ia‘an of- ficer of the courts, and that the | judges have the power to make rules he must follow in controlling the jail, | Chiet Justice Powell said. | new public buildings in Washington. HONDURAS CHOOSES GOLD. | TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, May . Woman Rider Killed. ATLANTIC CITY, May 18 (P).— Mrs. Fannie Dennan of Davenport, Towa, was -kiiled. when she was 18 (#).—The Honduran Congress has | thrown from a horse while riding on adopted a law establishing the gold | the beach today. Shecame here with standard for currency, which hitherto | Her husband, who is a delegate to the has been on a silver basis. The new | National Electric currency unit will be called “lémpira” | convention. instead of peso. The circulation of foreign silver curfency in the country is forbidden;:| Brides of England are wearing the. only legal tender being the cur:| wreaths of brightly colored Spring rency of Honduras and the United flowers instead :‘I orange blossoms. Light Association | Tire Company Buys Jungle. Advices to the Contmerce ‘Depart- ment_say the French Michelin Co., a leading European manufacturer of | pneumatic tires, has acguired about | 120,000 acres of virgin jungle_in. the | rubber belt of Cochin, French Indo China, to place under cultivation with- in two yaers. More than 4,300 warkers are con- BENCH AND BAR MEET ON LINKS TOMORROW 1 Golf Contest at Congressional Club ‘Will Feature Outing of D.'C. Attorneys. Jurists and lawyers will vie in a golf tournament tomorrow after- noon at the .Congressional Coun- try Club -on_ the occasion of the annual outing of the Bar As- sociation. A base ball contest he- tween the older and younger mem- bers of the bar is also to feature the outing. ~Most of the justices have accepted invitations and it is expected a large number of the lawyers will be in attendance. :Dinner will be served at 7'o'clocks e Joseph A. Burkart is head of'the committee on arrangements,: with Ab- ner “H. Ferguson’secretary, and the following. members: Leon .Tobriner, John Lewis -Smith, Alexander H. Bell, W.. W. Millan, John Laskey, J. Miller Kenyon and Julius I. Peyser. Richard E. Wellford is chairman of the ticket committee and has the fol- lowing assistants: Willlam C. Ash- ford, Arthur P. Drury, Bertrand Emerson, George C. Gertman, Luns- ford L.: Hamner, Bolitha J. La Godfrey L. Munter, David A. Pine, Frederick Stohlman and Lucian H. Vandoren. The golf tournament will be in charge of Roger J. Whiteford, Ralph P. Barnard and Willam E. Richard- son. Mr. Stohlman will have charge of the base ball. John Lewis Smith, president of the Bar Association, will preside at the dinner' and will'award prizes to the structing the extension of the govern- ment-owned railroad in Colombia. successful contestants in the differ- * ent, Eporta, - N El)ay-[)r(*aming Held Drain on Emotions 'And Harmful Habit ‘ BERR By the Ascociated Press AT NTIC CIT May 18, Day dreams are in reality evil things which sap the enfotional strength of a child or adult and weaken his grasp on reality, declared experts at the convention today of the Na tional Health Congress. The teacher: should study those pupils who are inattentive and aid them “in overcoming the vitiating day-dreaming habit. Dr. Henry C. Schumacher, Philadelphia psychia- asserted in one address. is fantasies are full of mag ical solutions of all his difficulties and are for him a much more plea urable activity than school work," he said of the dreaming child. “The teacher should try to uncover the deficiency in his environment or personality make-up for which the day dreaming is a compensa- tory function. It is her duty as a teacher so to gulde the child that he will adopt reality and abandon the fantasy where (he principle of egoistic pleasure predominates.” . CONGREGATIONAL CLERGY | HOLD CONFERENCE HERE | ! timore Churches Begin Quarterly Meet in Cleveland Park. 'he Washington Association of | Congregational Churches, with rep resentatives from both the District and Baltimore opened its quarterly { conference of ministers this after | noon at the Cleveland Park Congre gational- Church. Thirty-fourth and | Lowell streets. Dinner will be served at 6 o'clock by women of the con gregation in charge of Mrs. Knowles Cooper and Rev. George Farnham, the pastor. At the evening session, at 7:30, Dr. Charles G. Abbott of the Smithsonian Institution, and Dr. Carleton Ball of the Department of Agriculture speak on “Religion and Science.” The association sermon will be delivered by Rev. Kyle Booth of Ingram Con gregational Church. Rev. Juett No- ble McDonald, from the Associate Congregational Church of Baltimore is presiding as moderator. Among _the churches 'represented are the Firsl Congregational, Mount Pleasant, Ingram Memorial, Lincoln Congregational and People's, SHOTS STOP RUM BOAT. Canadian Vessel Confiscated After Chase in Lake Ontario. ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 18 (#).— | The Coast Guard cutter CG-2330 made its first’ capture of the season early today, when it overhauled a 45-foot Canadian rum runner off Braddock's Light, placed three men on the boat under arrest and confiscated the boat and its cargo of ale. The capture followed a chase in Lake Ontario north of Rochester, which ended only after the cutter had fired five shots across the rum runfier's bow. The three men arrested gave their laddresges as Toronta. spirited AlL. for a vacati | Ministers of Washington and Bal-| i means to unde will | three miles | A picture snapped afternoon. Mrs. Charles S, Dewes, ut Secretary of the Treasury, and her two daught IDENT COOLIDGE. Henry Ber hington, calling at the White House n his home land. Wide Wh N Photo HOWARDINITIATED BY PHI BETA KAPPA !British Envoy Inducted at | Celebration of 150th Birth- day of Society. Sir Esme Howard, the British An bassador, was initiated into Phi Beta | Kappa. the national honor soclety fo scholarship. last night at the May | flower Hotel. at the sesquicentennial celebration of the founding of the so clety. A distinguished gathering of scholars, legislators, publicists and diplomats attended. Sir Esme was made a member of the Alpha Chapter | of William and Mary College, where the fraternity was founded 150 vears ago. The conducted by Dr. Robert M. Hughes of Norfolk A member of the Alpha Chapter Sir Esme extolled the scholastic so ciety and expressed appreciation of | the honor of his induction, pointink | out that the Alpha Chapter had con | ferred the honor upon but one other British subject, Sir Arthur James Bal four. - ceremony was | 3 Speaks on Books. Taking as his thesis the philosophy “Nothing that is human is alien to me.” Sir Esme delivered an extended discourse on the value of novels as a anding the life and {ideals of forcign peoples. He said | Cervantes’ “Don Quixoté” was the outstanding example of a novel which gave a satisfactory index of the in tensely human characteristics of the | people it portrayed. | Senator Glass of Virginia was | toastmaster, and Dr. J. A. Chandler president of William and Mary Col lege, presided in the absence of Dr Albert Shaw, president of the Alpha | Chapter. who was 111 Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing. na | tional president of the fraternity. who |is president emeritus of Western Reserve University, recounted the history I'hi Beta Kappa and paid a high tribute to its scholarship. Senator Gilass read a greeting from Chief Justice Taft, who was not able to be present. A welcome to Sir Esme was delivered by David Jayne HilL Senator Glass was chairman of the dinner committee. Other members were Vice President Dawes, Chief Jus tice Taft, Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chi nese Minister; Representative Burton of Ohlo, Dr. George Otis Smith, direc tor of the Geological Survey; Dr. Gil bert 1. Grosvenor, president of the Natlonal Geographic Society; Dr. Ver non Kellogg, secretary of the Na tional Research Council; Dr. Willlam T. Thom, president of the Washington apter of Phi Beta Kappa: W. C uediger, dean. school of education of George Washington University, and William A. Har Among the guests were Representa tives Bland, Brigham, Burtness and Burton, Frederick V. Coville, Rear Ad miral Qary T. Grayson, Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvehor, William A. Hard, David J. Hill, George Horton, Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg., Representative Montague Representative Moore, Maj. Arthur N. Tasker, Alfred P. Thom. Representa tive Tucker and Benno Lewinson of New York City,