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THE EVENING. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. . THURSDAY, JUNE 10, COL.. ROOSEVE IN THE CAPITAL. Mr<. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the Hounse, and her brother. Col. Theadore Roosevelt, once Assistant Secretary of the Navy, leaving the Senate Office Building yesterday after attending the primaries investigation session. National Phote MRS. COOLIDGE TURNS FIRST EARTH FOR NEW BUILDINGS OF WASHINGTON CITY ORPHAN ASYLUM. The new b he constructed on Nebraska avenue northwest just east of the Mount Vernon Seminary. The simple ground-breaking cerémony was held in the presence of about 30 of the children from the present home, at Fourteenth and § streets northwest, and members of the board of trustees. Copyright by P. & A. Photos ATTENDING AN INVESTIGATION. and Mrs. Pinchot leaving the Senate Offi ernor appeared yesterday as a witness hefo . Ing expenditures in the recent Keystone The Governor of Pennsylvania Bullding, where the gov- e the committee investigat- ate primary. Nauonal Photo * PLACING THE CORNER STONE OF NEW CHURCH. The Rev. Wil iiam W. Shearer, rector of St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, using the growel at corner-stone-laying ceremony for the new church. The new BRIDE 1S 32, THE GROOM IS 19. At Newport News, Va., a few days ago, the wedding of Roy Hinton Matthews, 19 years old, and Mrs. T. R. Mouring, 12, took place, and the couple have just returned from their honeymoon. They met at a funeral, and it was “a case of love at first SEATED UPON HIS PEACOCK THRONE. The first photograph of the new Shah of Persia wearing the royal robes and resting comfortahly Reza Shah Pahlevi was once in the DISCOVERING Prince of Sweden, A FEW THINGS ABOUT BASE BALL. The Crown sustavus Adolphus, at the Polo Grounds, New York, cock throne, Buflding will he located at Forty-second and Albemarle streets northwest. Washington Star Phato. MANAGING BOARD OFD.A. R MEETS Receives Pen With Which President Signed Bill for Battlefield Park. The board of management of the Paughters of the American Revolu tion held its regular mesting in Me. morfal Continental Hall yvester and in the course of the proceedings recelved from Representative Charlex S. Abarnethy of North Carolina the pen with which President Coolidze signed the hill making Moore's Creek Rattlefield. In North Carolina. o r tional monument. Mrs. Alfred .. Brosseau, the presi dent zeneral, received the pen for the national society. She was told by Mr. Abernethy that without the assistance of tha Daughters of the American Revolution the battlefield would never have heen preserved in perpetuity by the Government as of ite national shrines. Mrs. Bros seau thanked Mr. Abernethy hoth for his address and for the pen. Back New York Officials. Among the resolutions of importance. passed by the hoard was one in which the full approval of the Daughters of the American Revolution was given to the action of Dr. William O'Shea. superintendent of New York sc and Frank Graves, State comm! of education of New York, for stand in refusing the American Liberties Union the privilege of ing a_freespeech meeting in Stuyve sant High School. New York A pension of $15 a month was voted to Mary Key McBlair, granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star Spangled Banner.” 33 States Represented. BRoard members from 33 States prerent. Among them were Mr red Rrossean, Connecticut sell William Magna. Massacht Mrs. L. Victor Seyvdel, Michigan Jullus V. Talmadge. Georgia; John Rrown Heron. Penns) Mrs. Charles Read Banks. Jersex: Mrs. Eugene H. Ray, tucky: Mys. John M. Beavers, District of Columbia: Mrs. Samuel Williams Earle, llinois; Mrs. Adam M. Wyant, Pennsylvania: Mrs. Eli Helmick, District of Columbia: Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, Ohio; Mrs. Ilerbert M. Lord, Malne: Miss Alice Louise McDuffee, Michigan: Mrs. Horace M. Farnham, Vermont: Mrs. Joseph . Frelinghuy- sen. New .Jersey: Mrs. Allen Cox, Arkansas: Mrs. Charles Humphrey Bissell. Connecticut Cann, Delaware: Mrs. James M. Wil- ley. District of Columbia: Mrs. Frank J. Bowman, Illinois: Mrs. Daniel Mer- shon Garrison. Maryland: Mrs. James Charles Peabody, Massachusetts; Mrs. Lucius B. Holland. Michigan; Mrs. “William A. Becker. New Jersey: M Samuel J. Kramer, New York: Mrs. Fdwin €. Gregory, North Mrs. Herbert M. Backus, Ohio: N. Howland Brown, Pennsylvanis Mre. William Leonard Mancheste Rhode Island; Mrs. William B. Burney, South Carolina: Mrs. Walter . John! son, Tennessee, and Mrs. James Reese Schick of Virginia, ¥ you need work, read the want columns of The Star. one. | Mrs. John Pearce | Carolina: | Mre. where he saw h |BONDING FIRM WINS SUIT. | Des Moines Company Awarded $201.500 Against Four Others. DES June 10 (®).—The huthern Co. of Des Moines { vesterday granted a directed ;\'rdl"! for £291.500 against four Fastern surety companies by Federal Judges Jo Pollock. The sum rep- | resented £275.000 and interest for suns | paid by Souther rety in losses | | incurred when the Carnegie, Trust Cq {of Carnegie. Pa. a suburb of Pitt burgh, closed its doors in April a year | ago. The companies against which judg- ments were returned vesterday are the Fidelity and Casulty Co. w York, 108,000 General Reinsurence Co. New York, $78,000: Sum Indemnity Cc New York. £33,000, and the Mans: achusetts Ronding and Insurance Co. Mf Boston, 000, U. S. ADVANTAGE SEEN IN LAUSANNE TREATY | Turkish Foreign Minister, Hoping | for Ratification Here, Cites | l Favorable Terms. 1 | | By the Associated Prese ANGORA. Turkey, June 10.—The | | Lansanne treaty. signed on August | 6. 19?3, gives the United States fid'\} | vantageous conditions in Turkey stich as have been granted to no coun- | 'y of Europe, in the opinion of Dr. | | Tewfik Rushdi Bey. Turkish foreign minister, as expressed to a correspond- | ent for the Associated Press | The fore inister believes that | the United States Senate fails to ratify the treaty no future govern- ment in Turkey will grant America such favorable terms. | “AmM a has an opportunity of he- | | coming, throngh this treaty, a coun- | try of commanding influence in Tur- | k he said, “and I hope the Amer- i Senate will not ignore that op. portunity. Indeed. so confident are | we that the treaty will be ratified that we are sending a charge d'at- faive< o Washington and have | already assigned a consul general to ew York JUDGE DIES IN WRECK. | | | President of South African Su-| 1 | i | | preme Court Among 15 Killed. CAPE TOWN. South Africa, June “u (#).. —~Among the 15 or more persons killed in & railway derailment yeste: |day at Salt River, two miles east of | |Cape Town, was Sir Malcolm Searle, | | indge president of the Cape Provincal | Division of the Supreme Court of | | South Africa. About 40 or 50 ppr-nm" | were injured. ! The train broke In two and the rear cars crashed against the uprights lof a bridge. their sides being ripped | 2 Saige el Bodies of Boys Found. COKE. Va., June 10 (#.—The bodies of Gates Coffey and Ralph Rogges, two young bovs, were found vesterday in a ponl at Carvans Cove, {near Hollins. They left their homes |here Tuesday on their bicveles with- |nn|t telling their parents where they were going and when they fafled to irflurn‘ home search started. for b | Sherry, Special Dispatch to The Sta CHARLESTON CHAMPIONS OF NINE CITIE! phis, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas Cif first game of American hase ball manager of the New York Giants, standing at right. John McGraw, Phota hr Arme and Boston, an on the famous p Persian arn The former ruler is living in Paris. Wide Warld Photo S MEET ON A NEW YORK ROOF. The girls represent {he cities of Buffalo, Detroit, Mem- they will appear in & RBroadway production. ‘Wide World Photo. LOUIS SHERRY, FAMOUS J RESTAURATEUR, DIES/ Internationally Known Was 70 Years Old—Started With $1,300 Capital. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 10.-Death ves- terday ended the career of Louls restaurateur of international | whose name h; long been revered wherever hon vivants have | gathered. He died after several weeks' illness in the Sherry apart. ment in the Hotel Ambassador. | He was horn in St. Albans about 70 vears ago. | Mr.-Rherry was one of New Vork's | Caterer fame, most noted bonifaces. The restan- rant hearing his name at Forty-fourth | street and Kifth avenue was for years | A _center ahout which the social life of the old 400 revolved. The name | herry's was synonymous with social | success and the gathering place of | epicures. The original Sherry's came into being at Thirty-eighth street and Sixth avenue. 1t was started with a capital of $1.300. Fame and for- tune came rapidly to Mr. Sherry and in 1919 he retired as one of New York's best known caterers. His name will be perpetuated through Sherry’s, Inc., which is now a leading Park avenue restaurant. Richmond Vote Small. RICHMOND, Va., June 10.—Tues: day's municipal election in this cit evoked little interest. Out of a reg- istered vote of 40,000, only 3,251 went to the polls to elect the members of the council and one-half of the board of aldermen. There was no opposi- tion to the nominees of the primary. In no precinet was there 10 per cent . them “was |of the registered voters who cast a|against her. ballot, | penitentiary Charlc;ton “Jumpers” Win in a Walk Special Dispatch to The Star. LYON VILLAGE, Va., June 10.—In a crowd of almost 2,000 persons in the State that takes credit for the origin of the once popular Virginia reel, not one of its exponents could be found last night to compete with a group of | charleston “‘jumpers’ 'in the dancing contest that brought to an auspicious close the four-day carnival of the Lyon Village Citizens’ Association. It was a alk-away for the modernists. The contest had heen widely adver- tired and attractive cash prizes offered as an inducement for the Virginia reelers to show the gracefulness of the old-fashioned dance as compared with the contortions, wiggles, hops and akips of the modern charleston. An immense throng. the largest, perhaps, that ever turned out for a carnival in rs Fail to Reel Arlington County, came to witness the competition. Among them were scores of charleston dancers. but not one couple could be drawn from the crow for an interpretation of the old Vir- | ginia reel. The carnival committee | therefore, called off the reeling exhihi- tion and ibstituted a waltz for the prizes donated by E. H. Harris and Amos C. Crouse. Twenty-five couples competed in the substitute event and Bernice Brawer and Wardman Mun- son glided to victory and a substantial ecash prize. The charleston eontest was hetwean | winners of the competition at the three previous nights of the earnival | and was won by Robert Mahoney of | Arlington, Va. Second prize went to Katherine Cogawell of Washington, D. | .. and third prize to Betty Carey of Clarendon, Va. FORGER GETS 30 YEARS. Woman Sentenced in Richmond After Pleading Guilty. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., June 10.—Sue Boyd, colored, 20 years old, has been sentenced to serve 30 vears in the for forgery. sentenced on three charges before Judge Mathews of the Corporation Court. The detectives arrested the woman several weeks ago after a series of bad checks began to appear in the varlous homes in which she was employed as a domestic. Only two or three of the checks were in exceas of $9. There were a dozen or more cases She entered a plea of guilty to the charges in three cases. 3 She was | CHILD LAWS VIOLATED. 458 Cases,of Illegal Work Found in Maryland in 1925. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | PBALTIMORE, June 10.—Four hun- idred and fifty-elght violations of Maryland's child labor laws were dis- covered last year by inspectors under Commissioner of Labor and Statistics | Dr. J. Knox Insley, according to his | annual report just made public. | Dr. Insley reported that there were |75 prosecutions of industrial firms and parents because of the violations. These prosecutions resulted in fm position of fines in 24 Instances and in reprimands in 51 other cases. The number of inspections made by the department was 397" per cent in excess of the number made in former years, FAMOUS PEDESTRIAN IS FOUND WANDERING E. P. Weston Was Lost in New York—Believed to Have Hiked ' Prom Philadelphia. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 10.—Edward Payson Weston, famed pedestrian, {who was taken to Bellevue Hospital | vesterday after wandering the streets |in a daze, has returned to Philadelphia | with his daughter, Mrs. Anna |O'Hagen. She believes her father ‘,wn!ked here from that cit Weston was indentified by clippings found in his pockets after he was | unable to tell police how he came to be {wandering along First avenue. He | was removed from a municipal lodg- ing house to the hospital and his | daughter notified. She came here from | Philadelphia at once. Weston's first claim as a long distance walker dates back to 1861, when he walked from Boston to Washington, a distance of 443 miles, in 208 hours. He began his profes- sional career a few vears later by walking from Portland. Me., to Chicago, 1,326 miles, in 26 days, He He marched 5,000 miles in 100 days in |England in 18824, and in 1909-10 | walked from New York to San Francisco and back. | | ! Mrs. Fiske to Get Degree. | NORTHAMPTON, Mass., June 10 | ®).—Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, for | nearly a half century a leading figure on the American stage, will receive n master of arts degree from Smith College at its commencement exer- rises this month, it was learned yes: terday. The average Englishman eats five times as much mutton as the average Am{lna. { PROHIBITION ACCLAIMED. | Norwegian Lutheran Church o America Opposes Any Change. M1 APOL! June 10 (®) Opposition to attempt to modify the present prohibition laws was ex | pressed by triennial convention of the Nerwegian Lutheran Church of America, as it came to a close here |late_vesterday “The Norwegian Luthern Church of American gave thanks to God for the eighteenth amendment to the Con stitution of the United States introdue ing national prohibition. and for |every effort of the Federal and State overnments in maintaining pro | hibition,” the resolution said f ny HEART’S PULSATIONS PUT ON PHONOGRAPH Physicians Able to Diagnose Symp- toms Through Clarity of Re- productions. | By the Associated Press | ROSTON. Junme 10} | time in the history of medi | the sound of heart heats has heen re |corded on phonograph records and | reproduced for a class of physicians A hundred doctors from arts of the United States and from «anada Rathered at the M chusetts Gen eral Hospital yesterday, listened simul taneously through individual stetho- scopes to heart beats engraved on phonograph records. The sounds were recorded and reproduced in such minute detall that they served for studies in diagnosis. The fnvention, designed for anal and study of both cardiac and respir | tory disorders, is expected to be of far-reaching significance to both the medical professon and the general public. The recording and reproduc ing devices were developed by Dr. Richard C. Cabot of Boston. noted physiclan _and educator. and Dr. Clarence Gamble of Philadelphia, and they crown 18 years of study and ex perimentation. Former Office Boy, Who Rode 875 ‘Worth, Says He Is Cab Cured. NEW YORK, June 10 (#). _Sen tenced to 10 days’' imprisonment for failure to pay a $75 taxi bill. Roy T. Clark. 21 years old. of -Tampa, Fla.. declared he was “taxi cured and never wanted to get in one again.” Clark rode from Albany to this eity last Saturday, telling the driver he had been a guest at the wedding of Gov. Smith's daughter. When they arrived here Clark revealed he was without funds. He claimed to he the son of & Florida millionaire, but Tampa police said _he had been employved there as an office boy for a newspaper. - Plans Coal Parley. PITTSBURGH, June 10 (®.—Dr. Thomas S. Baler, president of Car- negie Institute of Technology, sailed from New York last night for Europe. He will invit leading European sclentists to con'¢ ‘o Pittsburgh next November to taie | ut in an interpa- tional conference on bituminous coal. The coal confer¢Bice planned by Dr. Baker will deal With new uses for bittiminous coal, SENTENCED FOR TAXI RIDE SHOTHITSTHREE NSTRREPARLEY Overseer and Wife Held After Shooting at Meeting to End Walkout. By the Ascociated Press AUGUSTA, Ga., June A0 Thr | persons. two women and a man. were wounded yesterday when an unknown person fired into a4 gathering of sirik ing textile workers. A. R. Gosset: overseer of the Sibley Manufacturins Ca.. and his wife have heen arrest in_connection with the shooting The wounded were Miss Almetis Morris, Miss Alma K. Baird and Tsdel of Sibley. mill operatives Only one shot was fired, the bullet «triking the three persons and infli ing flesh wounds, none of which w considered serions. The shooting oceurred when the striking operators met to take action on an agreement reached hetween the mill officials and the strikers’ commit tee. The strikers, weavers, quit work Monday last following the inaugura tion of a new system which they clatmed required more work without increased pay The Gossett home is near where the strikers met. Police say they found a revolver in the home and that one chamber was empt The Sibley Manufacturing Co. te offered a reward of $500 for apprehen sion of the person who fired the shot. The Gossetts deny any connection with the shooting. police sald, but will he held pending an investigation. FAMILY OF CitlARLEY ROSS PROBES DELLINGER CLAIM | Brother of Boy Kidnaped in 1874, Himself Taken Same Time, Appreciates Interest. the place By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA | been announced here that members of | the Ros: mily are privately invaesti | gating the claim of Juljus Coleman Dellinger of Denver, N. C., who he lieves that he may he Charley Rosx who was kidnaped from Germantown, | Philadelphia, July 1, 1874. He hns ! been hefriended by Mrs. Plerre (. | Starr of New York City, in his effort to establish his identity. The announcement was made on he. | half of Walter L. R of Chestnut | Hill, Philadelphia, who. it was stated, appreciated Mrs. Starr's interest in the matter. Walter Ross i3 a brother of Charley and was kidnaped at the | same time and released the same day. Huge Still Is Seized. Special Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE, June tion agents yvesterday seized four alleged moonshiners and destroved | 800-gallon wooden still in the f I near Great Mill, S§t. Marys Count The prisoners, brought here for ar- raignment hefore Commissioner Sup- plee, are Paul Ennells, Leanard | Combs, Charles Thomas and Richard }(‘Inrh. The agents said they con- | Ascated S.000 gallons of mash. 1:0 |zallons of liquor and a quantity ef sugar. 1 N

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