Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1926, Page 17

ONE AND WORLD W AR VE NS RECEIVED AT WH 'THE EVENI HITE HOUSE Heroes from the service hospitals around Washington were the honor guests of the I‘r?xldem and M Coolidge yesterday afternnon. Uniformed workers from the American Red Cross, the g s, y ladies from Wal- G STAR, INTRODU WASHI\*GTON. THE WHITE HOUSE FLAPPER. one of the White House pets, at the garden party yesterday afternoon. 'D. .. FRIDAY Prudence Prim, NE 4. 1926, |hf v |I¢M| f the class of 1926. b e siinE (e Cther 20 Srtvaitactalio s iRADU Midshipman John Sylvester for class of 1871 sword for proficiency in practical and ATION EXERCISES. Secretary of graduating_at "the Prudence wore a Spring honnet of straw, trimmed, it Is said, by Mrs. ter Reed Hospital and special assistants from the Veterans' Bureau aided in the arrangements for the big (nulldge with maidenhair fern lnd green ribbon. National Photo. reception. thearetical ordnance and gunnery and the ( gation. ol. Robert M. Thompson sextant for his knowledge of navi- Copyright b Undersnnd & Underwaod HA‘\Dl\G OUT THE 1926 DIPLOMAS ing the diplomas at the gradi exercises .in Dahigren Hall, \lvll Academy, yesterday. Twenty-three Washington men are num- bered among the lrlllnllln; class of 415, Wide World Photo. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur ING GREETS THE VETERANS AL at the White House. garden part where he falked with many of the men he had days in France. ANOTHER AWARDING OF A I’RIZE. ceiving an additional award after w tary of the Navy Wilbur. An incid ing exercises yesterday. A NEW QUILT FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. Escorted by Ernst-of Kentucky, five ygurig ladies of Berea Colle; White House vesterday and presented Mrs. Coolidge w in the Imh trial donnr'm!nl of the college. The former leader of yesterday alternoon, nown during the war Wide World Phote Senator called at the a quilt made \lMshlpmnn C. B. Hart re- ed his diploma by Secre- of fhfl Naval Academy ll"d\la'v Wide World Photo. & AMERICAN NEARLY | SHOT, HE WRITES Bandits’ Captive Was Target | of Mexican Troops ‘Who Came to Rescue Him. By the Associated P LAREDO, Tex., June 4. count of how he narrowly missed being shot by soldiers who rescued him trom Mexican bandils Is given hy' Conrad €. Braden in a letter re ceived here yesterday by his wife. Braden and Jules C. 1aken by handits at Br Durange State, May 18 by Mexican troops M “We were captured gang at the mine,” reads the Jetie ““The first thing they did to us was to take our clothes and boote. giving | ue theirs, with only pleces of leather for shoes. They gave us two tortillas | a day. just enough to keep us alive. “On Thursday. May 27. troops found Gallagher and myself. ~They looked Zood 1o us. Then shooting hegan. 1 dropped behind a tree and after a few seconds got up and ran toward the soldlers with my hands up. of them took a shot at me, thinking. An den’s mine in nd rescued of course, ] was one of the bandits, | as my beard had grown half an inch. | That, with my ragged clothing, must | have mede me look like one.” BISHOP'S HOME SEIZED. | Wholesale Arrests of Churchmen Who | | Protested Juejutla Case Expected. OGALES, Ariz. June 4 (#). Word received by the Herald from Hermostllo, Sonora, Mexico, yvesterday statad that the residence of the Bishop of Sonora had been seized under or. ders from the Mexican central gov- | ernment in pursuance of a plan to | punish all churchmen who protested | the arrest recently of the Bixhop of Juejutia. The Bishop of Sonora, Juan Nava- rette, is being sought and will be held for hearing, and the bishooric will be converted into a federal =chool, the dispatch sald. . Reports reaching Hermosillo indi- eate that a majority of the Catholic | churchmen protested the arrest of the Tishop of Juejutla, ahd it is helleved there that wholesale arrests will be made. INSPECT BRIDGE WORK. Congressional View Memorial Span Progress. Senator Fernald. chafrman of the public bufldings and grounds commit- 1ea of tne Senate, and Representative | Eliott, chairman of the corresponding | committee in the House, hoth mem- hers of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, today were taken on an inspection tour of the construction of | the bridge by Maj. U. S. Grant, 3rd, executive officer of the commission. They also were taken over on Co- Jumbia Island to see the changes he- ing made there in connection with the construction of the bridge. They were guests at luncheon on the Army angaged in = in the Polomac at thi |-d clory that he had been acked 1o | nicipal 1i becomg “‘ezar’ of tha-AaKlile-induslme 45, Gallagher were | One | Committee Heads | oldier’s Grouch |At Rising Early Ma Be Eased ln Music| Band music at reveille puts the soldier in the right frame of mind. | but an alarm clock or too much |- bugling conduces to a morning | arouch. said Senator Bingham of | Connecticut vesterday in support | of . greater recognition for the Army Band. Harking back to his own days in the uniform, he told a House com- | mittee that’ “our band went up ! and down the company street at daybreak plaving ‘The Stars and | Stripes Forever, and the men liked it The Senator appeared on behalf of his own bill, already passed by the Nenate. making bandmasters | cummissioned officers and designat- | ing the band as a separate military | wnit SHOT AFTER SCOLD, BOY BLAMES MISHAP William H. Gnnholm 10, in Hos- pital Seriously Wounded | Through Body. Special Dispatch to The Star, RIVERDALE. Md., June 4.-Fol- | lowing a scold by’ his mother for falling to get along with his playmates «-, ar-old Willlam H. Granholm, son Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Granholm, wng. uder street. East Riverdale, fired : liber builet lmmn.'h his’ body early lant right. At Casualtv Hospital, Where he wi rushed by Roy Ford and Roy Fre neighbors of the Granholm family, his condition is critical. After some difficulty with his com- panions the hoy was ordered in the house and fo hed by his mother, it s sald. A short while later he ran into the vard, where his mother was feed- ing chickens, exclaiming he had shot himeelf.. -Ford heard the hoy's eries | | and, grabbing him as he was about to | all, placed him in his machine and rushed him to the hospital. In an attempt. to save the victim's life an operation was performed- last night. The bullet entered the boy’s side just ahove the heart and passed upward | It lodged in a wall. The bov's father is employed as fore man of the checking counter, Wash- ington Terminal Co. Following the operation, which was performed by Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, assisted by Drs. A. Magruder MacDon- ald and Joseph Villipiano, the boy spent a quiet night. He told a’ nurse he had accldentaily shot himself while | playing with the riffie. He explained to-the nurse that he had been sent | in the house and, having nothing else {to do, picked up the rifle and started { playing with- it. The rifle fell from his | sald; and was discharged. He said he { hoped he would get well. . < Textile Men to Co-operate. { A co-operative movement ' between | Northern and Southern groups of tex- rile manufacturers to eliminate waste and meet other common problems will be inaugurated at a_meeting to be held soon in New York, Secretary Hoover announced The Commeree. Secret anremeement in den: made the n publich- hand, he | AT THE AMERIC Crown Princess of Sweden, with the CRADLE OF LIBERTY. adelphia, visiting Independence Hnll The Crown Prince e mayor and Mrs. Kendrick of Pl pyright by Underwood & Underwood. h!ll,l\fl FOR HONEYMOOM . Bruce aboard the S. S. Pro lmm “New York. Secretary of the Treasury- The bride was Miss Aflsa Mell EUROPE. Mr. and Mrs. David ident Harding just bel fore it sailed daughter of the Copyricht by P. & A. Photos. |AUTO CRASH VICTIM'S BODY IS TAKEN HOME B. D. Booker's Remains Sent to Newport News; Collision Inquiry to Be Held Tuesday. The hody of Bernard Douglas Book- er. Philadelphin lawyer, ‘wha was 1!a|a‘l\ injured in an automobile cal- ; lision Wednesday evening while riding {on the Washington-Baltimore houle. vard in the machine of Meyer was taken to Newport New: Va.. | the family home, last night, accom. panied by G. B. A. Booker, hix father. Mr. Booker came here yesterday aft. ernoon after he had received word of the death of his son. An_investigation into the accident will be_conducted by Justice of the Peace Fainter at the office of Con- stable Thomas Garrison of Hyatts- ville, Md., next Tuesday night, it was announced today. Justice Fainter sald the hearing would be held with- {out a jury. as a preliminary investi- gation had convinced him "that the | accident was unavoidable. LIBRARY OFFER FAILS. | Commissioners Reject Proposal for D. C..Building Branch. An offer-hy Dr. George F. Bower- man, librarian of the Public Library to furnish municipal reference library service to officers of the District gov- | ernment, contingent upon the neces- sary funds, was turned down by the Commissioners today, in view of “the many more urgent municipal needs.” The proposal to furnish such service was made 17 years ago hy the Public Library and renewed recently because of agitation by the Citizens' Adviso) | Council anad ‘several - eivic organ 3 for-the esialtishment of a mu- in_the Dictrict. Build Davis, The folklore of the poorer Malay classes of Sumatra, which they pre- serve on joints of bamboo, and the plants of Formosa and Sumatra will alike be collected this Summer by | Prof. H. H. Bartlett, director of the | hotanical garden of the University of Michigan, who has just been appointed | honorary ' collaborator of the Smith- sonian Institution. Prof. Bartlett spent a year studying rubber-producing plants in Sumatra and hecame interested in the folklore | of the Malays, and particularly in their custom of writing it on joints of bamhoo. These manuscripts contain their faiths and legends, descriptions of magical apd medicinal uses of plants. The writihg is done when the bamboo jeints are green. Afterward they are dried and thus preserved in- definitely. Malay Folklore Preserved on Bamhoo Will Be Collected for Smithsonian Because the poorer Malays are look- ed upon with contempt hoth by the | Dutch and the Mohammedan natives, their interesting folklore has been lit- tle studied. Prof. Bartlett is working on the language and may be expected to make some new contributions to the ethnology of the Dutch Fast In- 5. dl‘:l'he plant collections to be made in the islands by Prof. Bartlett. one set of which is to go to the Smithsonian and another to the University of Michigan, will be welcome in. this country, where the flora of Sumatra is but poorly represented. The flora of both Formosa and Sumatra is not only rich, but of grea{ economic im- portance. Practically all the camphor produced comes from Formosa, while Sumatra is in the heart of the world's rubber source. CANADA DROPS CASE. Will Do Nothing in Seizure of Ex- cursionists’ Liquor. VICTORIA, British Columbia, June 4 (f).—Seizure by American customs officials here of about 900 bottles of MWquor from ‘an Everett, Wash., party of excursionists as they boarded a boat for the Unifed States here Monday is a_closed incident as far as Canadian officials are concerned. It has been learned here that the Dominion government has decided to take ‘no action, as it, has been ex- plained to them that the seizure was made at the request of the leaders of the excursion party. | . Our-ancer and impatience often {prove much more mischievous .than mz things abeut which we are angry_ lmpadent, LA TOUR PORTRAIT SOLD. Price of 1,000,000 Francs Regard- ed as Low. for Painting. PARIS, June 4 (#).—A portrait of Mme. Rouille de Lestang by the famous . Lia * Tour brought 1,000,000 francs at:ia sale of the estate of the late Paul Dutasta, secretary of the Versaflles peace conference. At the present value of the franc art collec- tors regard the'portrait as a bargain. A“similar work before the World ‘War brought 3,000,000 francs. Ordered to Duty Here. Maj. Leonard T. Gerow, Infantry, at lefl General Staff . School, “Fort Leavenvworth,-Kans.. has heén. ordercd to this city for duty in the office of " st SlKhAa oAk * 8 | THREE ARE ARRESTED IN THEFT OF MACHINE Held Within Five Hours After Auto Was Reported Stolen. | Caught With Tires. " | Within five hours after an auto- mobile was reported stolen from Emmett Gisler. employed at the Judd & Detweller plant at Florida avenue and Eckington place northeast, police from' the ninth precient had arrested three men charged with the theft of the machine and stripping it in the woods near Barney street and Rhode Island avenue northeast.; Detectives Wilson and Thompson of the ninth precinct, with Policemen Kauffman and Redlick, halted an automobile during the early hours of this morning when one of them noted five automobile tiresin its rear. After questioning at the ninth pre- cinct the men are alleged by police to have admitted ‘taking the Gisler automobile and stripping it in the They gave their names as Robert R. Jones, 319 C street northeast; Charles Trussell ‘of 65 S street, and William King of 219 C street. SALOON IS RMDED Raiding th@ near-beer saloon of Peter Loftus, 329 Thirteen-and-a-half street, opposite the’ District Building. today, police arrested the proprietor on a charge of illegal possession and ‘sale of intoxicants, after a reported seizure of a pitcher of corn liquor. A disgruntled patron is said to have turnished the information op which the search warrant was issued after prohibition agents' falled in attempts to_purchase intoxicants there. Loftus conducted a bar at the ad- dress. for. many. .vears prior to the advent:‘of- nrohibition, and mnet ‘long age an. unsuccessful attempt wasz Houae Pays Honor To Blind, Handless Voteran of War Signal honor was paid by the House yesterday to Carl Bronner of Cincinnati, whe lost both hands and the sight of hoth eves in the World War. While Bronner and his mother weredn the gallery. the House, the request of Mrs. Edith Roger: Representative from setts, set aside busine: minutes whilé she paid, tr soldier and in his rehabilitation work since the war. Three times the } se_member- ship rose and applanded Bronner who. Mrs. Regers said. would juate from the University of nd this vear, despite that discharge from the Army he had, besides his phyvsical affic tion, onlv n mentai ratinz " S.vearold child, 'FILM DISTRIBUTORS | AND EXHIBITORS WAR Warm Conflicts Over Contract and Credentials Mark Session of Theater Owners. 1 By the Aseociated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 4.—Conflict Between motion picture owners and -film distributors. repre- sented by Will H. Hays. loomed today as the result of action taken here yes: terday at the annual Motion Picture Theater America, Declaring ' that the spirit of the | uniform ‘contract with distributors <hnd been . nullified through the ad- dition. of clauses during a conference with Hays-last Spring. the exhibitors at a the work of its ‘advisory committee and appointed a. new committee to draw up another contract. Before the action was taken, Charles Pettijohn, attorney for Hays, president of the Motion Pictures and Distributors of America, warned the gathering that there positively: would be no conference with Hays organiza- tion this year on the contract matter. Although the contract discussion brought forth heated debate, another subject, that of credentials, all but disrupted the gathering. When the allled States’ group was denied representation because, it was said, its dues had not been id, the entire group. headed by Willlam “Al" Steffes of Minneapolis, threaténed to walk out. Harmbny was ‘restored after an impassioned plea by Harry Davis of Pittsburgh. MEXICO PLANS ECONOMY. Congress Agrees With Calles on Cut of 230,00 Pesos in Expenses. MEXICO CITY, June 4 (#).—Presi- dent Calles in a statement says the permarfent commission, of Congress has notified. him that Con, ‘will be glad: to co-operate in his “economy program, which calls for the legisia- tive body to reduce its monthly ex- penditures by 230,000 pesos. “The -drastic curtailment in copgres- sional expenditures has caus-d a po- litica) theater | convention of | Owners of | tumultuous session repudiated | INSURANCE FIRM - ASSAILS BALDWIN Charges L:cense Suspenslon Was lllegal—Impairment of Capital Alleged. M superintendent of insurance of the Dis. trict. in suspending the license of the Provident Relief Association for | alleged impairment of its capital stock I was held to he illegal and contrary i to fact hy Attorney W. B. Themas. counsel for John Brosnan. jr.. presi dent of the organization. at a hearing ay hefore the Distriet Thomas contended that the law requies the. ~parintendent. of ineur | ance tn serva notice 60 davs before | suspending the license of a company | of the character of the Provident Re | lier Association. but that Mr. Baldwin | withdrew the license almost immedi | ately after digcovering the allegeéd im | pairment and failed to allow the legal limit in which to make it'zood. He also charged that W. Gwynn Gardiner, | former District _Commissioner, ‘wha condueted the affairs of the associa- tioh at the direction of the court-dnr- |ing a period of litigation, Was . gullty of “misconduct” and ‘negligence:” He contended that Gardiner is respoi | sible_for the debts of the company, which amount to more than $100.000. | The insurance superintendent said that he complied with the law in no- tifying the association May 14 that its capital stock had hecome impaired | and that he is certain that the capi | 121 stock has heen “abeolutely wiped out.’ The Commissioners announced that hefore deciding on the appeal .from Mr. Baldwin's suspension order thev would give consideration to a hrief | to be submitted by Attorney Thomas next Friday. FACES AUTO CHARGE: After spending a month in_jall in Baltimére for colliding, = Weedoh Miller. . 36 years old..a Hyattsville, Md... plumber, was returned .to this city yesterday by Detective Henry M. Jett to answer a charge of joy-ridipg in the automobile of B. R. Stewart. Franklin Square Hotel. The car was taken_ from in front of the hotel May 3. MiMer is said to have told the’ d' tective that he drove to Baltimore with two companions in Stewart’s ear and had a collision with another car | which resulted in his arrest there. He will be arraigned today in Pefice where he is said to have heen nflrnlod several months ago on & xw riding charge. HOSPITAL POST OPEN, The Civil Service: Commission:today announced-an open competitive nu-.l nation for seamstress t6 fill vaca! in ‘St.’ Elizabeth’s Hospital,-at n trance salary of $1.020 a year. A cants must have had at least three months’ experience as seamstress. Full information - and application blanks may be obtained from the Civil ervice representative at 8t. Fliza- beth's A 2 s o] 1