Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1926, Page 17

THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE RECEIV town University conferring the degree of doctol on. The degree HONORARY DEGREE. of Taws upon Seeretary Hoover duriny University commencement exercises yesterday after: T service for the promotion of foreign trade and world-wide service for humanity. President Lyons of George- the Georgetown recognition of Wide World Photo. was awarded The Sesquicentennial celebration in Philadelphia is blamed for this hat style. Miss Dorothy Deuell wears the Liberty Rell, created by one of the leading New York milliners. Wide World Photo, | Dr. William Mather Lewis, presi- dent_of George Washington Uni- versity, in the pitcher's box in the annmal base ball game between the faculty and the Pyramid Honor fety. Copsright by P. & A. Photos. T THE OPENING OF WASHINGTON'S SPRING FLOWER ongworth, wife of the Speaker of the House: A SHOW. I President. and Mrs. Charles G. Dawes, wife of the Vie auspices of the American Horticultural Society. The Spring Teft to right: Mrs. Nichglas Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, receiving roses from Lynda Bistet, show g held under the ht hy P. & A. Photos A TRIBUTE TO FRANCE'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Herrick, who represents the United States in France, placing a wreath upon the Unknown Soldier’s tomb in Paris. hands on Memorial day ta honor the World War dead. . Ambassador America and France joined Copyright hy P & A. Photos. | . SECRETARY WILBUR TAKES A FAST TRIP DOWN THE POTOMAC. The the speedboat Silver Heels at the Corinthian Yacht Club yesterday afternoon and t! demonstration of just how fast a The biggest Potomac River regatta ever held will take place in the Autummn, and Silver Heels is entered in the contest for the Secretary W erday by W. boat was piloted can travel. K. Carter. ¥ head boarded n he received a bur cup. The de World Phote Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, former | president general of the D. A. R.. | who will he awarded the honorary de- | gree of doctor of laws at the com- mencement exercises of George Wash. | | Ington University tonight. ht by Tinderwaod & Tinderwood, with a bunch of Mrs. Washington Hortict q{wle!y. he. Spi ral Tarrytown, N. PLAY JURY BANNED ~ TOREOPEN TONIGHT “The Bunk of 1926” Pro- tected by Injunction—Pro- ducers Protest Drive. By the Amociated Press. NEW YORK, June 9.—Broadway is protesting vigorously against getting jta ears washed, claiming they are al ready clean. Theatrical and motion picture pro ducers and night club owners were on the defensive today against charges of exploiting nudity and scandal, and againat drastio new orders. Producers of “The Bunk of 1326 will reopen tonight under protection of an Injunction. The musical show was closed Monday by a play jury of 11 citizens because of its scantily clad woman actors. “Fight of the 11 jurors that passed on my ocase are named in the social register.” zaid Ramsay Wallace, pro- ducer, “and they take it upon them- melves to decide arbitrarily what the masnes shall mes and approve.” He considers that the show has been proved clean because Reryl Halley, a dsncer who bas a leading part in a Garden of Eden scene, was arrested recently and released upon her prov- ing to the satisfaction of a court that she really did wear ‘‘some” clothing. Another show, “Beyond Evil," had been cast into limbo. It was ocon demned by the booing and hisses of its first audience Monday, and not by a play jury. “John Cort, owner of the where it opened, padiocked the bullding last. night. Night club owners have protested to Meyor Walker against a new curfew order that closes their places at 32 a.m. They do not insist on revoking the order, they say, but merely want it modified to let them remain ' open COLORED MAN STRUCK BY “HIT-AND-RUN” CAR Police Report Machine, Driven by White Man, Was Equipped With Dead License Number. Charles Carney, colored, eld, 1216 Sixth-and-a-half street, was the victim of a hitand-run trafic accident near Seventh and N streets early this morning. The sedan that knocked him down and slightly in- jured him, police reported, was driven by an unidentified white man "and enuipped with a dead license number. Carney was able to go home after re- ceiving treatment at Freedmens" Hos- | pital. 7_John Auth. 405 Sixth street south- west was injured early last night when his automobile was in collision with another car at Twenty-sixth and 1 streets. He received treatment at Georgetown University Hospital and ‘went home. Mre. H. B. Van Deventer, 50 years old, 718 Twenty-second 'street, was knocked down by a cab backing to the curb at Fleventh and G streets yesterday afternoon and severely in jured. Theodore G. Chastin, 1135 New Hampshire avenue, driver of the cah, took her to Emergency Hospital he- fore reporting the accident to the police. It was reported at the hos pital thie morning that Mre. Van De venter spent a restful night and her condition wae much luproved. 23 years | }Senate Needs Crep(_e; {for G. O. P. Funeral, ‘H rrison Declares by the Associated Press The Towa pr Senate debate late vesterday when | Senator Har Democrat, Mis- i sissippi, asserted Repu Sena- tors were “going dow defeat ‘ stood by Andy too long” \avies got into the son A because they clung to Cal and “It i® no wonder,” he s: the Senate chamber appears | a funeral. All we nee crepe and flowers here.” Senator Watson of Indiana, Harrison said, “squeezed through” in his recent contest “by clinging to himself or somehody “And now." he added, “he’ ing to the Vice President. ORPHANS’ HOME SITE DEDICATION TODAY |Mrs. Coolidge to Turn | Spadeful of Dirt-at Hill Crest | This Afternoon. 1. “that like is some cling- .| First | i | | | { Tending a traditional significance | to the ceremony, M Coolidze this afternoon at 4 a'clock will officiate at the dedication of the site of the mew | home of the Washington City Orphan Asylum, “Hill Crest,” soon to be con- structed on a tract_of 131, acres on braska avenue fust east of the | Mount Vernon Seminary. | Mrs. Coolidge will turn the first | spadeful of earth for the new building of the institution founded more than 100 vears ago, with Dolly Madison, wife of the then President Madison, as the first president of the board of lady managers. The ceremonies will be in charge of the present board of managers, of which Mrs. W. V. Cox is president. Other membera who will assist are Mrs. Huston Thompson, Mrs. Douglas T. Birnle, Mrs. L. M. Saunders, Mrs. B. W. Parker, Mra. Mark Kauffman, Mra. A. B. Brown, Miss Fonrose Wainwright, Mrs. Fernando Cuniberti, Mrs. Andrew Bradley, Mre. William D. Colt. Miss Carrie Tisdel, Mrs. F. A, Fenning, Mrs. Wrisley Browne and ! Mrs. George M. Eckels. ‘The orphan asylum now Is located on alarge tract at Fourteenth and § streets, which was donated by W. W. | Corcoran. U. S. POSITIONS OPEN. The Civil Service Commission an- nounces open competitive examina tions to fill the following vacancies: Dietitian, Public Health Service and | Veterans' Bureau, at entrance sal- aries ranging from $1,020 a year plus quarters, subsistence and laundry, to $2,040 a .year without allowances. Associate agronomist, Bureau -of Plant Industry, Department’ of Agri- culture, for duty at Garden City, Kans., at $3.000 & year. . Junior entomologist, Entomology,; Department ture, at $1,860 a year. Motion picture photographer and operator, Bureau of Reclamation, De- partment of the Interior, at $1,680 a ar, * Full Information and application | Manks may he obtained from the | office of the Civil Service Commission, 1724 ¥ street. Bureau. of of Agricul- L ] | declared | there would not OBSERVANCE OF MEMORIAL DAY FOR AMERICA'S WAR DEAD BURTED IN ENGLAND. London, where rest many American heroes of the World War, cemetery. i Photograph taken in Brockwood Cenfetery, S. T. Wilce-Taylor of the British Legion leads the procession through the |Auto Death Rate So Far This Year | | ! Automobile accidents in Wash- ington claimed a total of five lives during the four weeks ended May 22, one more than for the same period of 1925. Announcing the automobile fatalities today. the Commerce . Department said the death rate in autemobile accidents in the Capital was 12.3-per 100,000 inhabitants. a lower rate than for the preceding weeks of 'the’ year and for the entire vear 1925. Twenty-nine persons have met death in Washington in automobile accidents from January 3 to May 22, a fatality rate of 14.3 per 100, 000 inhabitants. The rate for the calendar year 19 17.4 per 100.000, while the rate: from 4 to ) esponding 1o to May 22 period of 192 per 100,000 . . Throughout the rntire United States, 487 persons were killed in .auto accidents during _the. four weeks ended May New York leading the-list with $9 fatalties. a rate of 19.6 per 100,000 inhabitants. IR U | BROTHER OF TILSON |M ST. BRIDGE BILL ACCEPTED IN HOUSE District Committee Votes to Sub- stitute Senate Measure’ Calling for $250,000 Structure. The House District committee to- | day voted to substitute the identical hill which has already passed the Senate for the House bill providing for construction of a new bridge at a cost of approximately $250,000 to replace the M Street Bridge over Rock Creek. The Stalker subcommittee on streets had previously held a hearipg this morning, at which Engineer Com. | missioner Bell and the engineer of | bridges testified regarding ’'the need for the new bridge. It was shown that the present structure had been unsafe and closed about a year ago: that it would cost $15,000 | to repair that bridge and that then be room ‘under it for the propnsed Rock Creek drive. Commissioner’ Bell explained that the new bridge is to he of steel girder and concrete construction, the contract to be let under competitive bids and the.work to be under the constant inspectien of District en- gineers. : g MAIL PLANE CRASHES. Pilot Willlams Hurt at Cleveland « Wheén-Propeller Breaks. The New York-Chicago' overnight | air mail plane. which left Cleveland at 3:80 o'clock . this morning, was demolished and Pilot Warren B. Wil- liams was injured, though net derl: ously, when the plane crashed, to the ground shortiy after leaving the Cleveland field. After attaining an altitude ~of 300 feet .hoth, propeller Mlades broke off, causing chive to fall. “The mail warded by another plane, |Fire Guns, But Victi By the Assomiated Prees GREENVILLE, 8. C., June 9.—Be- {cause & number of mountaineers: dis- charged their guns, supposedly . snakes, negro workmen in the vicinity of Hogback Mountain became frighten- ed and fled Monday night. This was the story.told here yester- day by Sheriff D. Willis and his depu- ties upon their return from the dark corner of Greenville County. News was received her Monday that mountaineers had surrounded a road construction camp and were fir- ing into it. A heavily armed sheriff's posse left here only to find that the re- port, while not without foundation, was exaggerated. The officers met droves of negroes Negro Workmen Flee When Mountaineers ms Are Only Snakes leaving the camp and efforts to stop them were in vain. One peg-legged his comrades. Continuing to the scene of the al leged trouble, the officers found that |a number of mountaineers had fired | thefr guns, but no harm had been done, and so far as officers could learn none bhad been injured. The mountaineers claimed to have been firing at snakes and as the shooting took place in the bushes, out of view of the construction camp; the negroes became frightened and left. z ; All wax quiet in the “dark corner’ this morning and no further disturb- ance is expected. HUERTA SEEN IN HOTEL IN SAN ANTONIO, TEX. Former Provisional President of Mexico Had Been Reported in Various Cities. | iB.' the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO,- Tex., June 9.— | Adolfo de la Huerta, former Provision- | al President of Mexfcoand the man of ystery in Mexican politics, was in g‘:n sz!onlu yesterday. When recog- niged as he strolled through a hotel lobby with a friend he did not deny tity. B e fived. here Sunday.from Los | Angeles.” the former revolution leader | declared, - “I- don't know how long I will be here.” Then he departed in a taxicab. The whereabouts of de: la Huerta has been one of the mysteries of Mexi- can politics_since the revolt against ent times reported in Cuba, New Or- leans, Washington and New York. Donble bicycles are not being made .. &my more. Obregon collapsed. He was at differ- | GERMAN TRADE INQUIRY | DIRECTOR IS SELECTED | Clemens Lammers, Centrist Mem- ber of Reichstag, Elected to Post. Lawyer by Profession. By the Awsociated Press. BERLIN, June 9.—Clemens Lam- mers, Centrist member of the Reichs- tag, has been elected chairman of an economic commission which is to in- vestigate Germany’s capacity for pro- duction in all lines and her marketing facilities at/home and abroad. Herr Lammers is a lawyer by pro- fession, but is closely identified with industrial interests. 'He is a member of the directorate of the Federal League of Industrialists. The new body, which holds a char- ter from the Reichstag, will immedi: ately begin its investigations. It com- prises 18 members, of whom nine are membhers of the Reichstag. The oth- ers have been recruited from indus- trial, agricultural, financial and aca- demic circles. . Sailors used to wear their hair in a longz pistall, negro was said by Sheriff Willis to be | keeping time with the remainder of | CARPENTERS ACCEPT | IS NAMED FOR BENCH $10 IN WAGE BOOST, ndeto Sign Two-Year Agreement After Asking $10.50 in Vain—Op- erative Builders Balk. President Sends to the Senate Nomi- nation of Georgian, Vigor- ously Opposed. President Coolldge today sent to the Senate the nomination of William {J. Tilson of Geergia ‘to- be United States judge for the newly &reated Federal district In that State;- Mr. Tilson is a_brother of Rcmaen{nuve John Q. Tilsom of Conneecticut, " Re- publican Jedder of the House, and’his appointment to ‘this bench has been A compromise agreement has re- sulted in the local union carpenters receiving an increased wage from $9.50 t0 -$10 per day. Negotiations have been carrled on between the employers and the union mén, who :J;isf'd for $10.50 per day since Janu- Heoruay o T e : The agreements signed are for two | Ha al eorge of .Georgla. It s vears. Rufus &. Lusk. president of, understood that the latter will be ac- the Operative Ruilders’ Assoclation, | tive In opposing confirmation, ot this which builds a large portion of -the | Nomination. NE“"ROSE NAMED FOR MRS. COOLING Coolidge ros a The roses are grown | by the agreement. residential structures in the city, an- nounced that the association opposed the increase and will not he bound | Mr. Lusk says; that this increase will add more than ‘With, the Tilson nomination the President also sent to the Senate the ‘Tfominations of Bascom S, ver to be-United States attorney andiSamuel Purvis to be United States marshal $500,000 to the cost of buflding. The unifon carpenters, however, say that their particular trade is a vital factor in building and that they are paid less than many other building crafts and therefore are entitled to | the increase. The raise affects 1,200 men. | for this newly created judicial district. | It i, understood . that :the last two | nominations also will meét. with op | positiorl whén they are ‘considered for confirmation. 3 .Y kS The opposition offered by Senators Harris and George to the appointment of Mr. Tilson was principally because | he te not a resident of.the boupdaries | of the new distriet, they. sal 5 e LINE SUFFERS DEFIGIT. Application Filed to Abindon Little Used Bus Rout 4 An application for. 4 ty to abandon the motor bus lige running from: Fourteenth.and Kemmedy streets to the Rock Creek Park: Golf Course was filed -with the Public -Utilities e | Comriilssion by the. Caphtal 'Traction San Diego County district attorney: | C £ Webh's opinion held that Filipinos| The line is_being opefated by the are classed .as “Mongols” under sec- | Washington Rapid. Tranisit Co. as tion 600 of the civil code, which. pro-'| agent for the Capital “Traction Co. hibits intermarriages of the races, | The lacter company poinis out in fts and the San Diego authorities were | petition that only 2,071 revenue pas- instrueted mot to issue ‘a. license to ' sengers were carried last month, and persons of that cluscification. it- suffered a deficit of §395, n v INTERMARRIAGE BARRED. California Rules That Filipinos and Whites Cannot Wed. SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 (#).— Fillpinos ‘and white persons cannot intermarry in California, U. 8 | Webb, State attorney general, ruled ldn an opinfon handed down yester- ay. The opinion was requested by the Miss Helen Hildebrand ed for the first. time in show._of the_American by F. R. Pierson of Capsaht by P. & A. Photes. . exhib ring . flowe ATTEMPTS TO KILL | Cabinet Maker, Near Grave | of Mother, Fires Two Bul- | lets Into Body. ’ ) ' At a spot not far from the grave of his_mother in Rock Creek Ceme t Robert Kaiser, 47 vears old. a cabinet maker of ‘the District govern ment, fired two bullets into his body just below the heart yesterday after Moon“and today is in a critical condi tibn at Garfield Hospital. The noise of the shots startled. Roh ert . Howell and Jonathan S. Kemn employes, who were in the office of |the cemetery. They rushed to. the bleeding man. npt 100 vards away from the. gate. and found Kaise stretched full length across the lawn of a plot owned by Dr. Thomas J. | Reed. " The pistol was by his sid: Police at the tenth precinct were notified. A patrol rushed Kaiser tn | Garfield Hospital. Physicians refused {10 probe for the hullets in fear of astening death. The two bullets from a .25 caliber pistol had missed the heart. passing directly under it and puncturing the left lung. Kaiser is married and lived with his | wife and three children at Washing. ton Grove. Md. For more than 1a {Years he has been an emplove of the | District government and was highly | popular with his fellow workers and | associates. | Recently, however, he {0 be in depresséd spirits, hi vas attributed. by ol 3 his fellow employes tn {1l health and fear of not recovering from a chronic ailment. At the hos { Dital he refused to give any statement |regarding his act, confining himselt to disclosure of his name and addres | Mrs. Kaiser. emplove of the Bureau | of Engraving ana Printing, was noti. fled of her husband’s condition upon her arrival home last night and hur- ried to his bedside at the hospital.: | = {PARK VIEW CITIZENS ADD ' $20 TO FUND FOR JULY 4 Appropriation of $25 Made for Benefit of Veterans at 8t. Eliza- beth's Hospital at Meeting. The Park View Citizens' Assoclation, meeting in Park View Schoal' last night, appropriated $20 to the general fund for the. Fourth of July celebra- tion in the District. Twenty-five dol- lars‘was appropriated for the. Park View unit of the American Red Cross to be used at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for World War veterans, . 2 | _Announcement was made of the or- | ganizing of an A, B. C. Club along the lines laid down at the recent Congress |of Parent-Teachers in Atlanta. The club’was organized in the Park View School by Misses Emily Hale, Mildred Rhodes, Margaret Veit and Vers. Gar- ner, students at Park View, and each class has its president and other. off. cers taken from the student body. | “Always Be Careful I8 the motto un- i der. awhich they work; and, besides in- | stilling the spirit of caution in the | minds of the other students, the mem.- | bers of the club pledge themselves to {keep the school buflding and grounds iva clean sanitary condition. The ssociation: voted to recess until the Fall meeting. Fresident Fred S.-Walker presided.