Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1926, Page 17

SRR ANR SHTING OLD FIRE-FT in the days of Geor which Is being produced by the M. Sy APPARATUS TO corge Washi BE USED IN PHOTOPLAY. ington, etro-Goldwyn studio. will play a prominent part in a new movie, “The #4 ‘This Alexandria, :'xl', “‘engine, ire Brigade,’ Wido World Photo THURSDAY, ARING FOR SES Q ptor, working on one of th horses for the Philadelphia celebration NIAL. Lemilio Anig big heads of a group of | which opens in June. ‘Wide World Photo. MAY 20, 1926. JIRLS CONDUCT AFFAIRS OF olding all the offices, preaching 1 the chure photograph shows a mail truck with girl worke THE CITY OF SPOKANE, WASH. s and working in the industrial For a week the young ladies are lants of Spokane. The Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. SR OF THE 'AR TROPHY. Dorothy White of the ington Golf and Country Club (left), winner of The Evening Star trophy at the Indian Spring course yesterday. At right, Miss Phyllis Keeler of Washington Golf and Country Club, who was the runner-up. LISTENI) IN FOR A WORD OR TWO FROM THE! first man to fly to the North Pole, at their home in Boston. ing and Richard E., jr., are attempting to “pick up” the polar regions with the radio. THER. SOUTH METHODISTS PARLEY NEARS END Calendar to Be Cleared for Adjournment by Noon—Re- ports to Come Up. By the Assoclated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May Z0.—The quadrennial general conference of the | Methodist Episcopal Church South, in | session here for almost three weeks, | today began in earnest to clear the | rcalendar for proposed adjournment | sine die at noon today. Night sessions, with early adjourn-| ment in view, have been the recent| order. | Outstanding among yesterdey's ac-| tions of the conference was the in- crease of lay representation to be| allowed the church in future. Hence- | forth one lay delegate for each 800 | members in the district will be al- lowed at annual conference meetings. This practically doubles the lay repre- sentation. Action Most Important. The action is described by church leaders as perhaps the most important tion passed by the present gen- eral conference. In turn, the increase in annual con- ference representation will increase membership in the general conference. Spirited debate was called forth yes- trday afternoon by a proposal that all bishops aned to foreign districts be required to keep their residences in the place of thelr work. The measure was sent back to committee at the aft- ernoon session and reported’ again at the night session, when both a minor- ity report and a majority report were voted down, leaving the situation un- a Ze The liberal element in the confer- ence scored a decisive victory vester- day in the re-election of Dr. Stone- wall Ande: as secretary of the board of educ Routine Moves Fast. Routine business and reports were 10 be disposed of in short order this wmerning to facllitate the closing of the conference necessity if the adjournment resolu- tion was to be carried out Studious avoldance of the frequent verbal clashes on modernism and uni- fieation that have characterized the sezsions heretofore was the order for the day. Duplication of even one of the wordy battles waged on the floor of the con- ference hall in earlier sessions would jeave the conference with matters of tmportant business hanging fire for another four years. LEE MANSION PROTEST. Representative Rankin Protests Placing of Ingersoll Speech There. Representative Rankin, Democrat, issil in a letter to the Secre ar vesterday against placing a speech by Robert G. Ingersoll in the Robert E. Lee Mansion at Arlington National Cem- ctery. In asking for removal of the auto- graphed copy of the speech, Mr. Ran- kin asserted it offensive to every decent, loyal, val from th presence was necessary desecration home. and un- of the Lee Speed was a matter of protested | ADVENTISTS TO MEET. | Executive Officers Will Attend Con- | i i vention in Milwaukee. Executive offices of the General Con- | ference of Seventh-day Adventists will | be transferred from the administrative | | building in Takoma Park to the Me- | chanics’ Auditorium In Milwaukee for | the quadriennial convention of the | General Conference to be held there from May 24 to June 17. Seventh-day Adventist clergymen | and missionaries in 119 nations of the world will be represented at_the con- ference, which will elect officers for the ensuing four years and formulate plans for extending the missionary and other activities of the church. The | tenure of office of all leaders of the | church now attached to headquarters at Takoma Park will expire at the convention date, including those of W. A. Spicer, president; C. H. Watson, general vice president; O. Montgom- ery, vice president for North America, |and C. K. Myers and B. E. Beddoe, | secretaries. | BIG CARNIVAL PLANNED FOR LYON VILLAGE, VA. Citizens' Association Committees | Decide on June 8, 4 and 5 for | First Annual Event. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. LYON VILLAGE, Va., May 20. Decislon to conduct this community’s first annual carnival on a pretentious scale was reached Tuesday at a joint | meeting of the carnival and executive | committees of the Lyon Village Citi- | zens’ Association at the residence of | Jesse N. Rice, carnival chairman. | A large dance and band concert pavilion will be erected on the grounds at Rucker avenue, Key boulevard and Hollywood place, and an adequate lay- out of booths for games, concessions and refreshments will be provided. The carnival, the proceeds of which will go toward the civic development program of the citizens' association, will be held on the evenings of June 3,4 and 5. The celebration will open each eve- ning with a band concert, followed by dancing. Special features are planned. Due to the new law prohibiting games of chance In Virginia, the association will sponsor only games of skill. Val- uable prizes will be awarded. Special subcomm!ttees appointed iast night follow: Dance pavilion and hooths, D. G. Lamberson, C. D. James and H, C. Short; band concerts, Gor man M. Hendricks; lights, P. Griffin and Horace Benton; dance music and srab game, Mrs. Amos C, Crounse; dance management, Stuart T. Ashton; !booth arrangement and decoration, A. B. Eaton; Ice cream, E. H. Harris soft drinks, man: tenpin game, | prize games, H. E. Stelle and Amos | C. Crounse; automobile parking, S. G. reckson; publicity, James E. Chinn {and N. Rex Collier. {"The carnival committee will hold another meeting Monday night in th new office building of Lyon & Fitch “The executive committee will meet to- | night at the same place for conduct of routine business. | Hotel Key Postage C. 0. D. The traveler who inadvertently | carries off his hotel key may return |it by mail, the postage to be paid by | the hotel, under a bill passed yester- |day by the House and sent to the! | Senate. Hotel men have supported the measure. o PR Poland is holding a series of na- xhibitions called “City Apart- ments,” which include displays of cverything pertaining to apartments, ! from building material to furnishings. CHURCHTO ELEG MODERATOR TODAY 66th General Assembly of Presbyterians Opened at Pensacola, Fla. By the Associated Press. PENSACOLA, Fla., May 20.—Dr. Geoge Summey, New Orleans, as re- tiring moderator, today opened the sixty-sixth annual general assembly of the "Presbyterian Church in the United States with the moderator’s sermon, in the First Presbyterian Churclr here. Dr. Summey told the commissioners | present, numbering more than 300, | that the words of lIsalah “and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” express he “heart of the zospel” for all. Great good would come, sald the retiring moderator, if the beginning of the church's court session_should be made into a fervid evangelistic meeting with the words of Christ ringing clear, ‘‘Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and T will give you rest.” The precaher's plea was for a pos- ftive gospel. The positive gospel speaks for itself, he declared. The gospel hears and answers the cry of the soul, “God be merciful to me a sinner,” he said, and added that the essence of Christianity is in that answer. Following the sermon the sacrament of the Lord's supper was administered before adjournment until the after- noon for the election of a moderator. The assembly was to lose no time in plunging into the business of the session, for immediately after the elec- tion of moderator and other officers reports of important committees and agencies awaited delivery. The after- noon electlons were to be followed with a night meeting. Sl e ANCIENT CHINESE DRUG FOUND USEFUL TODAY Declared Superior to Other Medi- cines in Curing of Asthma. Tried for Hay Fever. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis., May 20.—New uses have been found for an ancient Chl- nese drug, ephedrine, which indicate it will be powerful aid in the hands of modern physicians in ralsing the blood pressure, treatment of asthma and colds and as an anesthetic, the Unl- versity of Wisconsin announced today. Research conducted by Dr. Ko-Kuei Chen, university pharmacologist, with the drug, Indicates, he said, that t is superior to adrenalin in ability to alse blood pressure over long periods. Iixperiments are being conducted to determine whether it also is useful in the treatment of hay fever. The drug has been submitted to tests here and at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Pennsylvania, he sald. ST R Air Mail Bill Passed. The Post Office Department would be permitted to contract for the carrying of mail by airplane at & fixed rate per pound under a bill passed yesterday by the House and sent to the Senate. Under present law. the air mail contractor receives four-fifths of the revenue from the mail carried on his route. The children of Comd The youngsters, Katherine Am . Byrd, the , Evelyn Boll- Photo by Acme. ‘First Locomotive to Make Trip To Sesquicentennial on Own Steam | By the Associated Press | BALTIMORE, Md., May 20-—"All | | the way under his own power, over | | the trunk line.” Tom Thumb, first lo- | > built in America, will wheeze | ant its way from the Mount hops of the Baltimore and Ohio 1d to Philadelphia on May 30. | Railroad running time will do a | backflip to 1830 when Tom Thumb trundles away, dragging what to mod- ern eyes appears a dog kennel on wheels—once dignified as a *‘passeng- er coach”—to creep humbly, albeit | with ancient pride, intb the shadow | of bullthroated giants of the rails and luxurious parlor-buffet-observa- | tion cars at the Sesquicentennial Ex- | position. i Tom Thumb and his battered con- | sort will not feel thefr way over the unaccustomed standard ze rails alone, however. A marvel of later date, Mogul 600, exhibited in Phila 50 ve g0 as the world’s will grumble and rumble along behind. Mogul 300 hears a family likeness to the railway engine of the pre day, but Tom Thumb is a glorified handear. No car protects the “driver’ of Peter Cooper's 1830 sclentific mas- | He sits under the blue sky, | terplece. surrounded by coal box, water barrel, smokestack o and flywheel. Tom Thumb Is all there In the original, except his bofler, which has been re- placed with a counterpart, rivet for rivet, that will stand the strain of the long exposition trundle. CALIFORNIA STRIKE {300 Said to Have Attacked 15! Non-union Carpenters in San Francisco. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, May 20.—Police | riot squads, with drawn revolvers, arrested 42 men yesterday in the mo rious outbreak so far in the strike of union carpenters and joiners here and in Oakland. About 300 men, said to be strikers, attacked 15 non-union workers on a building in a San Francisco apart- ment house district. The non-union men were retreatin; in a shower of rocks when the polict surrounded their assailants. Many of the latter broke through the cor- don and fled in automobiles. The 42 detained were charged with dis- turbing the peace and rioting. Fred J. Koster, an executive of the | industrial association, sponsor for the | “open shop” plan of employment., which has caused the strike, said to- day that unless the police can control the situation the employers may seek Federal aid. PSR S O S | WILBUR IS SPEAKER. Makes Address at Luncheon to Louis B. Mayer. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur was the principal speaker at the luncheon tendered to Louis B. Mayer, vice president of the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Co., at the Mayflower yester- day. Others who spoke included Representatives Connery of Massa- chusetts, Kahn of California, Wison of Mississippi; Maj. Raymond A. Wheeler, assistant engineer commis- sloner of the District; Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, and Rear Admiral Wil- jliam R. Shoemakér, chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Secretary Wilbur stressed the in- fluence of motion pictures on the life of the sailor and the public, and said that the newsreel in the fleet was not only entertainmenqt, but a means of uplift for the revolutionized modern naval training. Children by means! of the pictures, he said, are being taught for the first time the natural wonders of our country. ———— So large is the dome of the new building of the Port of London Author- ity that a small railway has been built around the outside of it to simplify ‘the cleaning of its windows, EDISON’S FIRST RADIO RIOTERS ARRESTED' SPEECH IS 10 WORDS| Attends Banquet of Electric Light Association and Views Talking “Movies.” By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, May 20— | Thomas A. Edison made his radio debut last night. “I have never spoken over the radio before—good night!” were the words spoken into the microphone of station WEAF by the inventor, who thereby broke his previously an- nounced intention of never speaking over the air. Mr. Edison, who rarely breaks his custom of refraining from attendance at large public gatherings, departed from that rule yestesday by visiting the convention of the National Elec- tric Light Association. He was given a spontaneous greeting by the 9,000 delegates. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Edison and Dr. Lee DeForrest “took in the sights” of the convention on the Million-dollar Pler. It was the first time DeForrest and Edison had met. Mr. Edison say a { demonstration of the DeForrest talk- ing motion pictures. RESERVISTS TO DINE. District Naval Men Will Hold Af- fair on Destroyer Allen. Officers of the United States Naval Reserve of the District of Columbia tonight are giving a dinner aboard the United States destroyer Allen, their training ship, now moored at the Washington navy yard. They will have as their guest of honor Sen- ator Oddie of Nevada, who has been deeply interested in the work of the lo»al reservists. Lieut. Comdr. Finney Bascom Smith, commanding the reservists, will pre- side at the dinner, which will be given in the wardroom of the vessel, which is commanded by Lieut. Comdr. Wolf of the Navy. Explorations Authorized. The Interior Department today an- nounced authorization has been grant- led the Smithsonian Institution to con- duct archeological research work in the Wupatki National Monument. The work will be conducted by the Bureau of Ethnology and any prehis- toric relics found will be placed in the National Museum. James C. Tattersall, who, at the ninth annual convention of the Re- tail Coal Merchants’ Associati Washington, was_elected president of the organizatio He lives in Trenton, D J. | Gopyrizht by P. & A. Plotos. | VAR ner CONGRATULATED. Representative Will the Pennsylvania primary race for Senator, being congratulated n S. Vare, win- by S. C. Kraus, vice president of the Broad Street Trust Co. of Phila- delphia, yesterday afternoon. Photo by Acme. REEDURCES VOTE ONDRY QUESTON | Pennsylvania Senator Holds ¢ | Chaotic Politics in State Due to Wet Fight. Believing that the vote in the Re publican primary in Pennsylvania hinged on the prohibition issue, Sen- ator Reed, Republican, of that State. | | came out yesterday in a statement | {in favor of a direct referendum on the liquor question in which the voters of both pargies could express them- selves without complicating the ques- tion with a primary or election cam- paign. ntil_the question is clearly and directly decided by such a referndum,” he added, “the present chaotic con- ditions of politics in Pennsylvania will continue. I expect to advise my | friends in the legislature to support | the proposition for such a referendum. | Twould have made this statement | many months ago but for the fear | that the expression of my own views | might prejudice the candidacles of Senator Pepper and my other friends.” Senator Edge, Republican, ' New | Tersey, a leader of the Senate wets, | said there could be no sidestepping | the facts regarding Pennsylvania’ primary. “‘Peopie of the country are worrying over supergovernmental dictation and supervision,” he said. “With count less millions the Volstead act mon strosity is the straw that breaks the | camel's back. They demand an early return to sanity, and no matter what the other issues are, will embrace every opportunity to so express their | determination.” Pennsylvania “proved yesterday that prohibition is the outstanding fs- cue before the country, and set the pace for the other States,” Charles S. Wood, national campaign manager for the Association Against the Prohibi- tion Amendment, declared in a tele- gram. GIVEN TEMPORARY WRIT. Complainants Oppose | Clarendon Undertaking Establishment. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., May 20.—An order temporarily restraining William J. Ives from constructing an under- taking establishment on his property, at Wilson boulevard and Spruce street, ' Clarendon, was yesterday signed by Judge Samuel G. Brent in the Circuit Court of Fairfax. The injunction becomes effective from date of record and will be returnable June 21, the opening day of the June term of the Arlington County Cir- cuit Court. | The complainants, Willlam L. Bragg, Leo C. Lloyd, Mrs. George Robert- son, Mrs. Lucy Harrington and John G. Hanford, claim such an establish- ment would injure the value of their property. They are represented by | Attorney W. Thomas French. State Senator Ball and Lawrence Douglas will represent the deféendant at the coming hearing. pRid SO The Tibetans’ love of a lofty height and viewpoint leads them, to select for building sites the top of a mountain spire or else the ledges of rock on the tace of some oliff. ' TRAFFIC CHECK MADE. No Material Changes Noted on in traflic_checks by attac the office of T Direct idge. On Seventeenth lessened materially. Comy: that du to 11 p.m. there were 3 the average this year on Fifteenth street, 11,220 on Sixteenth street and 4.656 on Seventeenth street, against 5114 on 927 on Sixteent eet and 6.113 on Seventeenth street in 1925. The fig- 5 were all taken in one for this year are daily taken from April 30 to May 15. LAYMEN MAY HELP ELECT ° BISHOP BREWSTER’S AIDE Informal Expression of Choice In- vited at Hartford in Second Balloting Attempt. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., May 19.—Lay- men of the Epjscopal Church indicated isons of the two years show | ng the 15 hours from § am. | 1, | ifteenth street, 11,- | 'WRIGHT'S DIVORCE | Public Barred on Ground Hearing May Develqp a Detriment to Morals. By the Associated Pres: MADISON, Wis., May 20—A ro- nce that ended three months after ank Lloyd Wright. internationally known chitect, married Mirian Noel, sculptress, in a midnight cere mony onla bridge over the Wisconsir River at Baraboo, will be aired i - divorce trial opening hers m Judge A. C. Hoppmann barred spectators on the ground that public hearing would be detrimenta to morals. _Wright seeks an absolut« divorce. Mrs. Wright is contestin: the suit and seeks separate mair | tenance. | The fate of newspaper men seekin: admission to the hearing was in dout a few hours before the opening court. Judge Hoppmann said he wa | “Inclined” to admit the press unless here yesterday that they might play | a part in the second attempt to elect | a bishop co-adjutor to Bishop Chaun- cey Brewster. Bishop Brewster, in an address to the convention yesterday, voiced the hope that the diocese would continue un-| broken the tradition of noteworthy freedom from partisanship and from ‘what might be called ecclesiastical politics.” I's Under the canons of the diocese | the lay delegates cannot vote until after a’choice has been made by the was said yesterday, however, that an informal session of the lay: men might be held while the clergy is balloting and that many of the clergy would be glad to receive an expression of choice from the laymen. [ LAND FREE TO SCHOOL Giving of Property Adjoining Campus to Exempt Taxes Equal to Purchase Price. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis,, May 20.—Annex ation of $1,500,000 worth of privately owned property without cost to the State and without loss to the owners would provide land for future ex- pansion of the University of Wiscon- sin under a scheme brought forward yesterday. Under the plan owners of four blocks of property adjoining the uni- versity campus would give their hold- ings to the institution. With uni- versity-owned property exempt from taxat.on,' the property owrfers would | continue to use the land under rent- free leases for 30 to 35 years. In that time, it was explained, the money that would have been spent for taxes would equal the present value of the | property. City authorities say that they will oppose the scheme, because it would take much valuable land from the tax roll. e The two largest hoists in the world are now in use in Canada. They can raise 560 tons of ore an hour from a depth of 3,200 feet. | “unusual” circumstances ar | Wright Charges Desertion. { Wright charges his wife desertel { his home, Talisien, at Spring Green Wis. His wife charges him with misconduct. She named Mme. Olga Milanoff, Montenegrin dancer and ! Qivorcee, who was his housekeeper Three months ago Wright was ordered by Judge Hoppmann to pay S to his wife, who pleaded she | was penniless. She had been lfvins | in Chicago | A prolonzed hearing appears prob- Wright has maintained he is willing to make any reasonable settle- ment, but would not admit infidelity Several attempts to settle the case out of court proved futile. In 1909 Wright forsook his business in Chicago and deserted his wife and six children in Oak Park, Chicago suburb, to elope to Japan with Mrs Mamah Borthwick Cheney, wife of Edwin H. Cheney, also of Oak Park. After spending several vears abroad they returned. and Wright builc Talisien for Mrs. Cheney. Sculptress Disappears. | Two children were born. The ohil {dren and their mother were slain by a negro servant at Talislen in 1914. i Federal authorities conducted an in- | vestigation a. year later when Wright's | former houseckeeper, Mrs. Nellie Breen. ireported that Mirlam Noe! was the | architect’s companion at Spring Green | The sculptress disappeared, and three | years Mrs. Wright in Oak Park | obtained a divorce. | Wright and Miriam Noel were mar | ried November 12, 1923, on the middle [ of a bridge over the Wisconsin River at Barahoo by a mutual friend. Three { months later she went to Los Angeles Reconciliation _efforts were futile. Both started divorce suits, but Mrs. | Wright finally withdrew her suit. de | ciding to contest his action for free dom. | Mastelx: Plumbers Organize. | Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., May 20.—The Arlington County Master Plumbers’ Association was formed in Arlington County at a meeting in Cherrydale {last night with 15 charter members. George H. McCrillls was elected president, William E. Clever of Ar lington secretary amd E. H. Birch ef Cherrydale treasurer. e