Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1926, Page 12

ARMY TENNIS CHAMP GETS TROPHY. Sheridan trophy h"?resenud to Capt. R. C. Van Vliet at con- clusion of the competition among the Army racquet experts. 'he photo shows Col. Waite C. Johnson, Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga., and Capt. Van Viiet, with Gen. Fox 0'Connor, U. S. A., the acting Secretary of War, who presented the trophy to the su sful contestant in the final match. Army men from all over the country competed. P. & A. Photos CHINESE FLAG FOR MARBLES CHAM Francis Kau, Chinese- American clmlnrloll of Honolulu, enters national championship tourna- ment at Atlantie City, and is honored by Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to the United States, by the presentation of the miniature WIN GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIPS. Four Central High School seniors who were successful in the annual competitions for these prizes will enter the local university next Fall for four-year courses that are provided free for Washington preparatory school students. Left to right: Lewis Dembitz, Virginia Shull, William Dyer and Louise Cocke. Washington Star Photo. Acme Photo. flag from the Orient. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ARCHERY EXPERT IN SESQUI EVENT. Paul Garber of Smithsonian Institution trying out his bow and arrows in preparation for Philadelphia competition. - He is the champion archer of the Di Sesquicentennial program. ROADS ASSOCIATION FLECTS WHITFELD Mississippi Governor Picked at Coast Convention to Succeed Trinkle. By the Associated Press. SANTA MONICA, Calif. June 12.— Gov. H. L. Whitfield of Mississippi was elected president of the United Btates Good Roads Association at the final session of its fourth annual con- vention here yesterday. Gov. W. W. Brandon of Alabama, who presided over the convention in the absence of E. Lee Trinkle, former Governor of Virginia, was complimented with a nomination, but declined. Morristown, Tenn., was selected as the 1927 con- vention city. Other officers elected were: Di- rector general, J. A. Rountree, Santa Monica; vice presidents at large, Gov. W. W. Brandon of Alabama, Gov. Ben son of Montana, Gov. of Georgia, George B. Dickinson of California, John A. Crook of Colorado and Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada. L. T. Kirkpatrick of Charlotte, N. C.. was elected president of the Bankread Highway Assoclation, which meets annually with the other associ- ation. Other officers elected were W. B. Cardwell of Atlanta, first vice president; J. A. Holloman, Atlanta, second vice president; J. G. Kéating, Florence, Arlz. third vice president: Leon Jones, Talladega,Ala., treasurer: and J. A. Rountree of this city, di- rector general. Mrs. Albert E. Thorn- ton of Atlanta was elected president of the woman's commission. Reports from the 13 States through which the highway is routed showed that it is 80 per cent complete. The istrict and will represent this city in the matches on the P. & A. Photos. BABY 15 SECURITY FOR TIRES. Calif., needed the tires when they reached Healdsburg, Calif., and 5 ames Maksente, garage man, Mr. and Mrs. A. Murray of Fort here shown with the baby, is the first person on record to accept such security for a garage bill. CLARK COLLECTION GIVEN UNIVERSITY Rare Books, Valued at $4,- 000,000, Donated to Cali- fornia by Senator’s Son. By the Assoclated Pr LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 12.—A valuable collection of first and rare editions of famous books, housed in the residence and handsome library building of Willlam Andrews Clark, j son of the late former United Mor: , bas been donated to the University of Cali- fornia, southern branch, hore. Announcement of the gift, which is valued at between $4,000,000 and $5,- 000,000 was made by Dr. E. C. Moore, director of the university. The book collection comprises vol- umes mostly in the original or in cost- ly bindings of the great masterpieces of English and French literaturs from the sixteenth to the nine.centh cen- “turies. Included are a Dryden collection, 882 volumes; Shakespearc's works in 12 folios and 32 quartos; an Oscar ‘Wilde collection of 1,000 pieces, and rare editions of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Dickens and other English authors. The library also includes e collection of French manuscripts and the Kess- ler collection of - books relating to Montana and the Northwest. Under the terms of the bequest, the donor retains a life interest in the estate. —_— BISHOP BAST’S ACCUSER SUES METHODIST CHURCH Rev. John P. Ingerslev Asks $6,- 300 for Expenses in Going to Federal Government will be asked to take over the road as a national high- way when completed. e MEMORIAL DEDICATED TO DR. JOHN B. MURPHY Chicagoan Credited With Great In- fluence on Surgery in Lifetime of Service. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 12.—The . lifetime of service of Dr. John B. Murphy was eulogized last night by the founder of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Franklin H. Martin, at the conclusion of the program dedi- cating the Murphy Memorial as the national home of the college. Few chapters in the surgical text boks of the future, said Dr. Martin, can be written without reference to the ploneer work of Dr. Murphy, and he was among the first to develop suture of the blood vessels, surgery of the brain and spinal cord, surgery of the intestines including the inven- tion of the Murphy button and one of his greatest achievements, surgery of the bones and joints, “But Murphy was more than fnventive and mechanical genius,” Martin continued. *He was our #st interpreter of surgery:* an Dr. | ties Denmark From U. S. By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, June 12.—Rev. John P. Ingerslev, principal accuser in the bishop’s imprisonment on a in the Bishop’s imprisonment on a charge of misapplying church funds, has brought suit against the Metho- dist Church for compensation on vari- ous angles of the case. Mr. Ingerslev claims $5,300 com- pensation for his expenses in moving from the United States to Denmark. He further requests 100,000 kroner because of his excommunication from the ministry of the church, which he maintains was caused by his opposi- tion to Bishop Bast's administration, LEPER ON PRINCE’S SHIP. NEW YORK, June 12 (#).—A case of nodular leprosy was found in the crew of the Swedish-American liner Gripholm, whic¥ brought the Crown Prince of Sweden to New York last week, and the man was deported on the Swedish-American liner Drottning- holm Thursday, immigration officials have just disclosed. The case was detected through the intimate physical examination against which the crew of the French liner Paris protested Wednesday. Authori- sald the man is a resident of Sweden, but lived in Brookiym for Acme Photo. OLD-TIME FISTIC RIVALS ON STAGE. Jim Jeffries (right) and Tom Sharkey, rugged warriors of the ring, who fought each other twice in rough and tumble matches, with success for the former in each encounter, are now appearing together in vaudeville. Corbett and Fitzsimmons. Jeffries defeated Wide World Photos. CAR DEMOLISH PHILADELPHIA GUARDHOUSE. Machine, out of control, erashes into building in Fairmont Park and plunges almost completely through it. A park guard had just stepped out of the box at time accident occurred, escaping what might have been fatal result. ' Wide World Photos PRIMATE OF ALL IRYLAND 'AHRI\'ES IN AMERICA. Patrick Cardinal 0'Donnell comes on the steamship President Roosevelt, on the way to Chicago to attend the big Encharistic Congress. Leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, who will have an important part in the deliberations of the religious gathering on this continent, is seen as the chief figure of a group which includes the bishops that constituted his party on the way across the water. COAL MEN WARNED TO PREVENT STRIKES Industry Must Stabilize Itself to Avert Nationalization, Banker Tells Association. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 12.—Periodic strikes in the coal industry are of such vital public concern that a lasting working agreement between work nd oper- ators must be reacned to avert na- tionalization, Malvin A. Taylor, presi- dent of the First National Bank of Chicago, predicted at the National Coal Assoctation convention. He sald the coal industry roprecents 4 per cent of the national wealth, scattered through 29 States, and is a visible or invisible force in the life of every individual worthy of the warn- ing that it may force governmental control in the end. The speaker admitted that “Govern- ment supervision does not in itself cure any evils” and that the best hope for the industry lies within itself. The association, representing bitu- minous coal producers throughout the United States, adopted a resolution expressing its “‘unalterable opposition to any Federal legislation which singles out the coal industry for reg- ulation.” LONGFELLOW’S KIN DIES. Mrs. Elizabeth Longfellow Stewart, 98 years old, a cousin of Henry Wads- worth Longfellow, the poet, died last night at her residence at Common wealth Farm, Colesville, Md., accord- ing to word received here by friends. Mrs. Stewart lived on Mintwood place here for many years. She leaves two children, Dr. Laura 8. Brennan, who resides at the farm, and Dr. John Bradford Stewart of Columbia, 8. C. Funeral services will be’ conducted from the funeral chapel of W. 3 Chambers Monday at 2 o’cl , with Restaurant Men Want U. S. Cafeterias Limited to Bona Fide Federal Workers i wlpm by the By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 12—The Federal Government was asked to con- fine its operation in Government-own- ed cnfeterias to the feeding of bona fide Government employes, in a reso- lution adopted by the directors of the National Restaurant Assocfation here Yesterday. This resolution includes, in addition to tha numerous eating houses oper- by the Government in Washing- TO LOSE RAIL STATIONS B. & 0. to Close Depots at Buck Lodge, Morgan, Branchville and Muirkirk. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, June 12.—Notification of intention to close four railroad sta- tions in_ Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties has been flled with the Public Service Commission by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The railroad requested the commis- sion to authorize the closing of depots at Buck Lodge, business to be handled by the agent at Boyds, and Morgan, business to be handled by the agent at ‘Woodbine, in Montgomery County, and at Branchville, business to be handled by the agent at Berwyn, and at Mulr- kirk, business to be handled by the agent at Laurel, in Prince Georges County. Agents to handle passenger and freight business now are maintained at these stations by the company. Under the proposed plan employment of these agents would be elimjnated and freight business at the seven depots handled by agents at the nearest sta- ons. . test -against the . closing of the Mulrkirk station have been received ( ton, D. C. restaurants operated in many Federal banks throughout the United States. H. J. Boeckenhoff of Des Moines, Towa, president of the association, de- clared he has received repeated com- plaints that Government restaurants are feeding the general public at prices which restaurant men cannot meet, because they must pay rent, taxes and other overhead items which, they claim, the Government establish- ments do not hav Lt v b Yoverarenh D NOODE mensdonotheye.. oo e FOUR MARYLAND TOWNS |ADMITS TAKING $150,000 FROM BANK IN KANSAS Edward §. Dolson Tells Officers He Used Money for “Invest- ments,” Not Meaning to Steal. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, June 12.—Edward 8. Dolson, charged with wrecking the Farmers’ State Bank of McCune, Kans., five years ago, admitted here in the presence of officers, that he took $150,000 from the bank for “in- vestments” in a period of 11 years. Dolson, who was arrested in Louis ville, Ky., several days ago, undes the name of H. E. Jones, was being returned to Crawford County, Kans. “It's the same old story,” he sald. T am not a criminal. I borrowed the money. That's the way default- ing cashiers go. They don’t mean to steal. And when I left the bank I was a poor man. “I am glad it is over. I am only 45 and life means much to me. Per- haps the future will be brighter, at least I hope so. LS GG L e ‘Woman tobacco strippers in Porto Rico _have suspended work because of the M‘:t ?‘g’clfion“ol thlubac&cv, whic.lol makes t, for them to earn centa & days r Underwood & Underwood. EXPEDITION TO TEST TROJAN WARS’ TRUTH Breasted, Explaining Egypt Mu- seum Fiasco, Says Proof of Homer’s Tales Is Sought. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 12.—Dr. James H. Breasted, head of the Oriental Insti- tute of the University of Chicago, ad- dressing an alumni reunion last night, ascribed the failure of recent negoti- ations for a $10,000,000 museum in Egypt-to insistence by the Cairo gov- ernment on an all-Egyptian faculty for the institution. The plan, which he negotiated on behalf of John D. Rockefeller, jr., included as & neces- sary provision that the museum was to be in charges of a_group of se- lected scientists from all parts of the world, Mr. Breasted said. Failure of the Egyptians to grant this point blecked the enterprise. Dr. Breasted also announced that the Oriental Institute has sent a new expedition to the Hittite country in Asfa Minor to finvestigate new ma- terial relating: to the Trojan wars of Greek -mythology. The expedition hopes to prove the actual occurrence of the wars described in Homer's poems. RUM CHARGES DROPPED. NEW YORK, June 11 (#).—Charges that Second Capt. Albert Fontaine and First Lieut. Ean Rochet of the French liner Paris had attempted to smuggle lquor ashore from the liner several weeks ago were dismissed by United States Commissioner G'Neill > Assistant U ssistant United States Attorney Ames A. Farmer said, after consult- ing with Assistant United States At- torney O. M. Harlan, in charge of pro- hibition law enforcement, he had de- cided the evidence would not warrant holding the ship's officers, DAWSON SHOT SELF, INDIA 0 END OPIOM - EXPORTS IN DECADE Abolition of Traffic. SAYSU.S. FFGAL American Had Been Reported Slain in Mexico—Murder Rumor Persists. i ! Gradual Except for Medicinal Needs, Announced. By the Associated Press. NOGALES, Ariz., June 12 —Rich- ard Dawson, American. reported to have been murdered at Los Mochis, Stnaloa, Mexico, did not meet his death at the han of others, but committed ~suicide, H. F. Jones,| United State consular agent at Los Mochis, told the Nogales Herald upon his arrival here yesterday. Jones, who is vice president of the United Sugar Co. at Los Mochis, said Daw- By the Agsociated Press. LONDON, June 12—Export of opfum from India, except for medicinal purposes, will cease in 10 years. according to an announcement from the India office just made public. The loss in revenue involved, it was stated, will be $7,200,000 annually, and to avold too serious economic effect a gradual curtailment covering the son, destitute and despondent, ended his life with @ pistol shot on the out- skirts of the Mexi “Young Dawson , “ar- rived at Los Mochis 10 days ago look- ing for work. As we were closing our factory my assistant advised him to leave. Saturday Dawson was miss- ing from his hotel and Manday morn- ing his body was found on the banks of an old canal in the outskirts of the city. There was a bullet wound, blackened by powder, in_ his temple. He was rushed to the United Sugar Co.'s Hospital, where he died. “In Dawson's pockets were found 10 vears has been arranged. The first 10 per cent decrease will be effected in 1927 and the final export will take place in 1935. “The government of India," says the communication, “with concurrence of the secretary of State, have decided to fix 10 years as a period within which the export of opium from India for other than strictly medical purposes will be progressively and finally extinguished. During this period exports will be by direct sale to the government of imperting countries.” e several cartridges of the same caliber as the bullet fired into his head. This ::;1 us to belleve he had taken his own 0. A conflicting report was brought here by Willlam Young, a produce man at Los Mochis and a roommate of Richard Sargent, who viewed the body. Young said that when Daw- son's body was found authorities call- ed upon Sargent to identify it. Sar- gent had told - him there were no bullet wounds, but that the head had been crushed, Young said. SEEEECS FILM MAN ASKED REFUND FROM MISS GISH, HE SAYS Charles H. Duell ‘Denies Personal Interest in Sum—~Prosecutor’s Phrase Stricken Out. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 12—United States Attorney Emory S. Buckner, prosecutor n_the prejury trial of Charles H. Duell, fermer president of Inspiration Films, solight to show yes- terday in cross-examining_ the de- fendant that he tried to “squeeze Lillian Gish’s windpipe” in the mat- ter of finances. ~ Mr. Duell's counsel objected to the use of this phrase, saying that “gen- tlemen do not squeeze the windpipes of pretty ladies; they may squeeze their hands.” Judge Goddard then ruled out the question, including the phrase objected to. < Duell admitted having written | MASONIC CLUBS’ LEAGUE FROWNS ON SUSPENSIONS Refuses Support of President’s Ac- tion After Directors Had Approved Step. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 12—Sus- pension of two New York clubs from the National League of Masonio Clubs by President Charles A. MacHenry was disapproved by a majority of the delegates to the league’s convention here yesterday. The president’s ac- tion was taken because of “un- Masonic cpnduct” in trying to in- fluence Congress to hold up ratifica tion of the Italian debt settlement. President MacHenry was sustained in his action by the board of directors. but after a debate on the floor only a few of the 400 delegates stood to signify their approval. A proposal that a fund be establish- ed for the founding of a chair in for- eign service at George Washington University, Washington, D, C., was referred to a committee COURT RESTRAINS PAIR. Men_ Accuded of Infringing Bu- charistic Congress Insignia. CHICAGO, "June 12 (#).—Federal Judge Cliffe yesterday temporarily restrained Thomas Crone, jr., and George P. Vashink, manufacturers, from infringing the.copyright of the Miss Gish a letter saying he has |twenty-eighth International Eucharis- reached a financial crisis and asking | tic Congress Corporation, covering the her to return $42,000 she had been | official shield and flag of the congress. , pald by Inspiration Pictures, which | The complaint, filed by Very Rev.( featured her in “Romola” and other | Mgr. C. J. Quille, secretary of the productions. Duell denied, however, ' Congress Corporation, alleged the de- that he was to receive $26,000 of the fendants had been manufacturing snd money if it were returned by Miss | distributing representations of the ef- Gishe & ABclal ipsignia of the congress,