Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1926, Page 17

MRS. COOLIDGE LAYS CORNER STONE OF NE' A. BUILD used a trowel patterned after the one used by George Washington in lay The new building, now under construction at § the District of Columbia Chapter of the Young Women 's Christian Assaclation. THH ING. The First Lady of the Land the corner stone of the Capitol. venteenth and K streets northwest, will be the clubhouse of Wide World Photo. Q. THE MODERN J0. OF ARC 1 Richard Andrew, Boston artist (ri “Joan of Arc Memorial,” in the M Thomas of Auburndale, Mass., and was selected from 1,000 0., TUESDAY, She is Miss Marje L. irls by zht), to pose for his painting, the assachusetts State House. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. S FOUND. MAY 25, 1928 WHITE HOU KEY STARTS TACOMA, WASH.,, MUNICIPAL POWER PLANT. The President touched the golden key yesterday afternoon, and then Tacoma had new electric lights. The key was made by stu- dents of Tacoma and presented to the President by James Moslof, 19, voted the most po Moslof was entertained by the Hi-Y clubs and local Y. his home city. r school boy in C.A. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. FI INJURED wreck here pictured. WRECK OF FAST EXPRE S8 AND FREIGHT. The Chicago and Northwestern trains came together at Wilmette, 111, and the loco- motive and five coaches of the passenger train were derailed. A split switch resulted in the Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Washington the Swedish legation, one of the apital. WHERE SWEDISH ROYALTY Wi the Crown Prince and w ed f S ation buildings “opyright by Harrie beautiful K FORMER SOLDIER CROWNS HIMSELF THE SHAH OF PERSIA. Riza Khan, who became premier and then seized the Persian throne, was crowned in ceremonies that tions for their pomp and oriental splendor. ave been unequaled in many geners- The new ruler wears the army uniform Copsright by P. & A. Photos. . CITIZENS TO UNITE ON COMMISSIONER West End Group to Join in Meeting to Get Backing for Candidate. The West End Citizens’ Association, meeting in Corcoran Memorial Hall of George Washington Un ¥ night, voted to participat- in a meet ing of the Dupont Circie Citizens' As. sociation called for the purpose of formulating plans for the concentrat- ing of citizens' groups on selected in- dividuals for appointment to the office of Commissioner of the Tisirict of Columbia. It was suggested in the letter accompanying the invitation to co-operate that there is the prospect of several appointments to commis- sionerships and it is felt that the cli- zens should be prepared to name per- sons for appointment who have the backing and support of the largest group of citizens. Morric Hahn and Danlel Folkmar were appointed o rep- resent the association at the meeting Thursday evening. The committee on laws and legis- Jation was instructed to investigate the status of laws govefning notaries guh]lr and take appropriate action 10 ring about relief. It was pointed out that it is a simple matter to de fraud under the present regulations, which were cited as lax. Judge Webb, chairman of this committee, referred to a number of cases showing that with little or no effort notaries of fn- tegrity have heen led into swearing-in persons who have committed unlawful acts through misrepresentation. An effort will be made to have laws govd erning mnotarles copied after forelgn laws. which require that identification by the notary must be absolutely sure before the notarial’ seal is placed. The association voted to oppose an increase in dues for membership in the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions, The secretary was directed to address a letter to Assistant En- gineer Commission Maj. Raymond A. Wheeler, commending him for ‘the manner in which he has conducte:d the affairs of his office, expressing re- gret at his being transferred to an- other post of duty and wishing him success in his new fleld. be urged 8 on the west side of Twenty-first street from G stree yania_avenne and on both street from Nineteenth to Twenty-first street. I street west of Twenty-fourth street was pointed out as a quagmire and it was voted 1o urge its repalr. Paving is » Twenty- first, Twenty-second, G H streets. Placing of electric street lamps is to be requested for G street between Nineteenth and Twenty-first streets. 2t wae voted to adjourn until the Sep- wember meeting. Mrs. Jennic Wels- ner; R. L. Neuhauser, M E. Huston and Mrs. Lillian Daw were elected to membership. President Luther W. Linkins presided. From Town With Record Name. NEW YORK, May (#).—Mrs. A. E. Bassett, who left several alphabe behind in Walies, is bound for Water- town, S. D.. to visit her brother, A. E. Ta) She comes from a place with a me of 58 letters, beginning: “Llanfair” and using a lot of conto- nants to mean “The Church Near the Red Pool near the Rapid Whirlpool ok the Fed Caver last | {NECK BROKEN, MAN LIVES. | depdls | Worker, 60 Years Old, an Enigma to Baltimore Surgeons. Spacial Dispateh 10 The Star. BALTIMORE, Md. May 25.—An en- igma to medical authoritles, John M. Peregoy, 60, Mount Washington farm- | hand, lles in Maryland General Hos- pital w broken neck— | | and liv Surgeons said an Xoray discloed | the spine completely severed at the | hased of the neck: no connection ap- parently links brain and hody. Peregoy has been in this condition | head foremost into an irrigation ditch since Saturday noon, when he plunged 1 | | where he was working near Harris- burg, Pa. - | He was brought to Baltimore in an | ambulance on an especlally construct- {ed “fracture cot,” a pallet made to | guard its occupant from the least | shock o jar. Hospital authorities marvel at the | #0-year-old man's resistance, They it has been years since such a case | has been listed in Baltimore. EVANGELIST'S BODY SOUGHTBY DVERS |Depths of Sea Being Search- | ed at Lick Pier. After | | o | Week of Failure. | By the Associated Proes. LOS ANGELES, May 23.—Deep sea divers today started’ an extensive search for the body of Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, who disap: pearsd a week ago today while surf bathing at Ocean Park. The divers establighed their base'at Lick Pler, where the evangelist ls thought to have entered the surf. The crowd that has lined the beach for a week abandoned the.search, leaving only a few. of Mrs. McPherson's fol: With the finding of a bathing suit in the McPherson —automobile last inight. police believed they had un- | covered a new:clue, but the clothing: {was identificd as belonging to Mrs. {Minnie Kennedy, the -evangelist's i mother. AVl Eduardo Oliviero, formerly of Norfolk. WRITER IS EXPELLED BY RUMANIAN DECREE |New York Times Correspondent Accused of Insulting the Crown. " BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 25 (#).-—The . newspapers announce that Clarence Streit,. correspondent of the New York Times, has been ordered by the government to leave Rumanis within 24 hours. ' The press announcs- I ment alléges thdt ‘Streit wrote for his | iowera to continue the vigil. { néwspaper ‘a‘ rerles of articles which {were corridered insulting to the crown !and. government.. ... i* This is the first time the Rumanian |government. has taken such action |against a foreign correspondent. Wrote of Carol's Abdication. DRS, EN ROUTE FROM NEW YORK TO BUENOS AIR the Italian air service, and Lieut. from New York to Buenos Aires in a 430-horsepower flying boat. The first to be; Mrs. Kennedy said today she didi 5 inot approve of a propdsal to offer & | NEW YORK. May 25 (#).—-Clarence 1$10,000 reward for the safe return of | Streft, staff correspondent of the her daughter. ¢ York -Times, ordered to.leave - o el {mania,.went, to Bucharest at the end ‘ 4 ]nr Mareh to writé of political condi- CONDUIT ROAD PLANS. | tions there, aftér the renunciation by Prinee Carol of his right of succession > lnTt‘}‘n _trhronm R i < | The Times printed fiye articlés by Aseistant Engineer c"""m"‘d"""";Mr. Btreit. He wrote that King Ferdl- to Push Highway Improvement. n::'d ;tncednt‘nd lhednhglcatlon of Carol ‘i N advice and the ‘“‘gravest rea- | Plans for the development and beau- " % = | tiication of Condult road were started | 2072 o ate Mung b TowenvelEe as & “prudent king nor as a normal today by Maj. Raymond A. Wheeler, p aasistant District Engineer Commis. | (3ther:’ hecause the momrehy o sioner. The improvement of this high-’ ;i3i7eq by his action. way was delayed pending passage by ¥ Congress of the bill giving the Dik | o T 1o trict furladiction over it as far a5 the1 Cuban Legislators May Mest. | " The paving of the two roadways and | SAN JUAN, ‘Porto Rico, May’ 24 { the development of the proposed park- (#).—With the return. yesterday of way between them, according to Maj. '‘Antonio Barcelo, president of the’ Sen- ! Wheeler will have to wait on tha ap- | ate, . from : Washington, it was re- i proval of the estimates in 1he 19 3 | ported that an extra session of the iget. Fle helieve: tha would. be . called . vefore the Disirict | Legiclature }will be abie o lay ‘the sidewslks va - July 107 Gov. ‘Towner: returned frogs R PR ] i et \ —— Teachers. Demand : -Evoluti-on ‘The i By the Amsocjated Press, PADUCAH, Ky., May 2i for. a trial- where: they: might defend themselves from alleged charges of having taught’ thieories ‘of ‘evolution to thelr puplly are. belng .made by Miss Esther Smith, biology instructor, and Mrs. Aimee Buchanan, head of the English department of Tilghman High' School here.: * - * - The two teachers allege that they wers 10! re-elected by the Paducah { Board of Education on complaints of patrons alleging that they had taught evolutio: ERROR IN POPULATION. | 8,000-to 10,000 More in Lynchburg Than Records Show. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, V: May 25.—The bulletin of the census bureau giving Lflm’chbur; an increase of 500 in popu- lation gince 1920 fails to take into consideration the annexation of Jan- uary 1, when between 8,000 and 10,000 persons were addefl to the city. The i bulletin {s based upon Phe average in- | creases of the city during the past two censuses, but fails to give the city credit for the added population, due to the enlargement of the borders by more than élght square miles, in which practically all of the suburbs in. Campbell County were included in the city. Auto Driver Is Killed. Spacial Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., May 25.—Wag- oner McCartney, 23, clerk in a drug {store at Aitavista, was {nstantly Ikilled Sunday night near Altavista when an automobile driven ol- iideg ~with avother, M{ ni and Ciaiborne Creasy of - : zh. They b Gre contesting a div juit; but’ b M ez of the trip was completed Trial, Holding ories Lost Positions Both women deny teaching evolu- tidn, but admit having answered ques- | tions asked by puplils following a lec- | ture by Dr. Arthur 1. Browmsof Van- { couver, C. During the lecture Dr. Brown assailed theories of evolution | as regards ths origin af man. | The incident recalls that of last year when Miss Lela Scopes, sister of { John Thomas Scopes, whose trial on charges-of teaching evolution at Day- ton, Tenn., drew the attention of the Nation, was denied re-election in the Washington Junior High School here last year after her brother's trial. BAN ON RACE TIPS UPHELD | Cleveland Wins Fight to_Enforce New Regulation. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 25 (#).— The city “won ‘its fight in Common Pleas Court yesterday -to enforce a new ordinance prohibiting the sale of publications containing race track odds and tips. - An injunction sought by the Solo- mon News Co. to restrain enforce- ment of the ordinance was denied, the court holding tHat such publica. | tions encourage gambling. { The complaining company immedi- jately appealed and obtained from the County Appellate Court a temporary restraining order pending final de- cision. S N S O Length of Skirt Contested. WORCESTER, Mass., May 25 (#).— Perhaps Samuel 0. Wilcox, who raises | chickens, and Mrs. Wileox will com- promise on the height her skirt should i be above the ground. She thinks it! chould be at least § inches. He in-| enoug| heen ! L% REACH NORFOLK. VA. Bernardo Duggan, Argentine sportsman; Capt. esto Campanelli of the Rome-Australia-Japan Iast night, when they arrived at flight are attempting a flight Copyright by P. & A. Photos. MODERATOR RACE INTEREST IS KEEN Election Expected to Feature Pres- byterian General Assembly in Baltimore This Week. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, May 25.—A deter- mined struggle between liberals and conservatives, centering about the election of a moderator, is ex ed to feature the one hundred and thirty- eighth annual meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In the United States, to be held in Bal- timore May 27 to June 2. President Coolidge has been invited to attend the reception to be held at the 5th Regiment Armory on the night of May 27, following the election of the moderator. More than 1,000 commissioners, rep- resenting Presbyterian churches in every State of the Union, will attend the assembly. Chief among the candidates for the office of moderator are W. O. Thomp- son, president emeritus of Ohio State University, and Dr. Lapsley A. Mec- Afee, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, Calif. Dr. McAfee is being supported by the conservative element in the church, while the liberals have cen- tered upon Mr. Thompson as their candidate, Oldest Soldier Retired. Staff Sergt. Otis C. West, Quarter- master Corps, at Fort Hayes, Ohlo, the oldest soldier in the Army; First Sergt. ‘William D. Rosson, 34th Infantry, at Fort Eustis, Va., and First Sergt. Wil. liam Matzkuhn, Ordnance Depart- ment, at Pig Point, Va., have been | placed nn the retited list of the Army th lication. I of i Sy TRAIN IS BOMBED. Two Cars Derailed in Cuba—One Passenger Injured. HAVANA, May 25 (#).—A passen- ger train on the Cuba Railroad, where a strike has been in progress. struck a _bomb yesterday at Guayos, Santa Clara. Two cars were derailed. but only one pssenger was seriously injured. U. S WOMEN REACH PARIS FORMEETIG Will Seek Equality in Labor, Says Doris Stevens, Who Is With Delegation. ' By the Associated PARIS, May Press. 25.—Twenty-four dele- gates of the National League of Women Voters of America, headed by Miss Belle Sherwin, president of the league, arrived in Paris late last night to attend the International Suffrage Alllance Congress, which opens next Sunday. The members of the delegation were forced to visit five hotels before they could find accommodations, owing to the congestion of tourists and the other participants in the congress. ““No women are really free until all are free,” says Doris Stevens, vice president of the National Woman's Party and wife of Dudley Field Ma- lone, who has arrived to attend the congress. - ‘““We have been happy.” she added, “to accept the invitation of the al- lance to send fraternal delegates to the congress, because we wish to fur- ther in every way possible the inter. national organization and co-operation among women. The influence of inter- ‘hational groups is growing daily, and what women gain in one country will be wiped out by international influ- ence in less advaneced countries it we work only nationally. :“Another reason for our.coming is that we are the only organization in the United States which represents women who belfeve in‘equal rights in industry and oppose special labor laws, Knowing that this question will be discussed at the congress, we wish to add our strength in any way we can io other national groups who be- lleve as we do that complete economic equality for women must be assured.” e \HEARING,ON RAIL ISSUE. Senate Commerce Committee Told of Maryiand Labor Trouble. The Senate interstate commerce com- mittee will hold-a‘further hearing at a time to be fixed later on the Ship- stead resolution calling for a Sen- ate investigation into labor troubles {which have existed on-the Wetsern :ll'yllm‘l Railroad since last Octo- T. both assalled and defended during the testimony yesterday. The contentions of the raflroad’ workers were present- ed by W, A. Paddock. assistant grand chief of ‘the Brotherhood of Locomo. tive Ensi the management's an fi: of & controversy was submitted [ ‘The management of the road was! UDGARY SHLAR L UP N HOUSE iAction on This and Incfease of 12 Judges Hoped For | by Tonight. | | Turning its attention to legislation recommended by its judiclary com- | niittee. the House today set out teo zet action before night adjournment two Senate bills, one proposing material salary increases for the Federal judiciary. and the other pro- viding for 12 new Federal district | judgeships. g Under the first measure the salary of the Chief Justice would be in- ‘Yrrraspd from $15.000 annually to $20,500, while those of associate jus- tices of the Supreme Court would be raised -from $14.500 to $20,000. Other increases would be as fol- lows: | Cirenit $12.500; $10.000; chief justic Claims, $8.000 to $12,500; oth claims judges, $7.500 to $12,600: chief justice, Court of Appeals of Distriet [of Columbia. $9,000 to $12,500: as- sociated judges. $8500 to $12,500: chief justice, District of Columblia Supreme Court, $8,000 to $10,500, and assoclate justices, $7.500 to $10.000: presiding judges, Court of Customs Appeals, and associated justices, $8,600 to $12,500, and members of the Board of General Appraisers, $9.000 to $10,000. i The other bill would provide ad- ditional judges for the following dis- tricts: Northern New York, 1: weat- ern New York. 1; southern New York, 3: Connecticut, 1; eastern Pennsylvania, 1: Maryland, 1; e: srn South Carolina, 1; eastern Michi- gan, 1: South Dakota, 1,’and south- ern California, 1. on $8,500 $7.500 Court to to of from judges, judges, district NEW TRAIN SCHEDULE TO CHESAPEAKE BEACH New Program Effective Saturday Until June 19, When Augment- ed Egxcursion Service Starts. The Chesapeake Beach Railway will put its early Summer schedule of trains in effect Saturday. to continue until June 19, when augmented ex- cursion service will start. Weekiday trains will leave the Dis- trict line at 9 and 10:30 a.m. and 2:20 and 5:40 p.m.,.returning at 6:35 a.m. :30, 2:30 and 7:05 p.m. Satur- y trains will leave the District lne at 9, 10 and 11:30 a.m. and 2:30, 5:40 and 8 p.m., returning at 6:35 a.m. and 12:30, 2:30, 6. 8 and 10 p.m. Sunday trains will leave District line at $:30 and 11 a.m. and 2, 3:20, 446 and 8 p.m., returning at 7 a.m. and 12:30, 3, 16, 8 and 10 p.m. Monday, which will be observed as Decoration day, will see regular Sat- urday service in effect with additional rains as occasion may: demand. The new commutation rate recently approved ‘by the Maryland Public Service Commission becomes effective | Saturday. This new tariff of 50 trips ! for $7.50 will be a reduction of $8.34, present rate being is L)