Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1926, Page 17

ALUMNI DAY CELEBI for the new mess hall of the MacNider and ED AT TH academ; ns. Stewart, Hines and the Cadet Regimental ( Among those on cott. MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POIN’ mdr. _ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY. JUNE 14, 1926. of War Secretary the stone. p e Ray . M e laid ¢ pyrizht hy HONORS FOR THE CLASS LEADER. Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, * chief of staff of the United States Army. talking with Cadet William G Baker of Clinton, Tenn., honor man of the 1926 graduating class of the Military Academy. Young Baker his class. received many awards for heading Conyricht by P. & A. Photos. WESLEY OF THE FRECKLE Wesley Barry, the “freckle kid." his bride, the former Miss he posed for this plcture at Newark, S MARRIED. ‘Well, he is ma Jdulia AL ATTEND (HURCH S the President and Mrs. Cool All movie fans know i now, and with vaudeville actress, Photo by Acme. Wood, N.J. ¢ was taken yesterday HE photograph of when they left of the First ( building has been Comyright by P, & A. Photos DO YOU K R THESE only for the games hetween the Los Angeles. Left to riglh Sam the Detroit team; Mike Donlin and PLAYERS? on the fix which they ns for the p out a I prepar plan to pur The beards were worn “O0ld Timers” and professionals in Crawford, once premier slugger of George Stov Cony P. & A. Photns FF BLOCK ISLA raising of the sunke d bring to the surface. R RECEIVING HIS DIPLOMA. N Sailors of the Navy at work submarine. Divers have already reached the vessel, by P& A Photos Edwin H. Feather of who graduated in the 1926 class at West Point, kissing s Vivian Mart The class of 1926 cont. f 4 exercises. ail Bogota, N. J., ned 152 cadets. Conymzht by P. & A. Photos after the graduating CONGRESS 10 QUIT JUDICIARY SOUARE . BYEND OF MONTH ~ URGED FOR COURT 4 Senate Expects Protracted Fight on Rivers and Harbors. Minor Bills in House. Leaders at bath ends of the Capitol expect to he ahle to bring the pres ent sesslon of Congress to a close by the end of June. Limitation of debate on the farm bill In the Senate will hecome effe tive tomorrow, with expeetations of a vote not later than Thursday. Defeat of the pending bill is forecast de spite the efforts heing made to modify its provisions. After the vate on Senate probably v radio bill with a view to action next week. That wiil ahout clea the Senate calendar except for the rivers and harbors hill which the com farm relief early merce committee is expected to report | early in the week A’ determined fight on a provisions of the waterway threatened and whether a be forced is regarded now what doubtful Upon reconvening tomorrow after an extended layoff. the House will dispose of a couple of election con- tests and then turn its attention to a number of minor measures while waiting for the appropriations com- mittee to bring out the final deficiency bill The election contests are those® of W', Bailey, Democrat, against Rep- resentative A. H. Walter, Republican, of the twentieth Pennsylvani triet, and Don H. Clark, independent- Republican. agalnst Representative Edwards, Democrat, of the first Georgia_district. The com mittee has reported ur faver of the incumbents. Indian oil leasing and aviation bill will occupy the House through Fr day when another three<ay recess is likely to he taken. GETS GERMAN MEDAL. number of hill as some- Neutral Red Cross Nurse With| Army to Be Honored. Miss Barbara Sandmaier of Falkstone’ Courts Apartment is to recelve a medal, through the Ameri- can Red Cross, from the German Red Cross for her service as a ‘“‘neutral” Red Cross nurse with the German army during the early part of the World War. The medal is one of about more medals to be awarded, several of the awards already having heen | made, but the ‘German and Austrian Red Cross. bheing unable to locaie several of the nurses, is forwarding 14 medals to the American Red Cross for the latter organization to present to the preper nariies. the | take up the Dill | is | vote can | the | 30 or| Fine Arts Body Recommends Site Between E and F Streets for Police. Laocation of the lice Building P in Judiciary square, recommended by Charles Moore, chairman of the Commission of Fine | Arts, in a report ta Chairman Capper | {of the Senate District committee to- | day. | The cost of the huilding the com. | mission has in mind would he §1,000,. | Mr. Moore said. That amount, id, would he entirely for con struction, no ornamental features heinz cantemplated “It would he impossible,” Moore eontinued. “to design 7 simple huilding than the comm contemplates.” Po. and propoced 2 B new Court veen streets Deplores Present Building. The chair of characterized the ’(‘nurl Building as dirty.” adding that it clean and that it i prevent the commission xisting Police | inadequate and nnot he kept [ impo: the herding of all conditions of people. Mr. Moore said the plan of 1901 con- templates the assembling of all Dis- trict of Columbia ccufts in Judici Square. He went over the ground | In the square with Chief Justice Me- Coy of the District Supreme Court and Judge Schuldt of Police Court. | after which. he said, “we were ali | agreed that the most convenient loca- | tion for the bullding would be in the | space between E and F streets as | prolonged into_the square.” H The Police Court Building, he ad-| vised, should stand on a line with | the Court of Appeals structure and | should he of the same character | architecturally and structuraily, but | could he longer. location recom- mended would save the heautiful elm trees along Fifth street. Will Meet Thursday. Mr. Moore said the Fine Arts Com- | mission would meet Thursday and that the report he made to the Senate committee today is in line with the ideas of the commission as already | expressed. | The bill containing legislative | | authority for a new Police Court; Building has passed the House and the Senate committee has been wait ing for the views of the Fine Arts| hody before acting. The matter may | | be considered when the committee | meets this afternoon. Senator Sackett | of Kentucky is in charge of the bill. The District commit‘ee at its meet- ing this afternoon will consider the bill providing for the annual instead of hiennial assessment of real estate in the District, the measure to create a parole commission in the District and the hill to authorize a nurses’ i home at Columbla Hgspital. | | body’ § REPRESENTATIVE OF of Mityle Photograph THE POPE ARRIVES i FOR THE EUCHARISTIC CON and papal legate to the twenty-eighth International Eucharistic Congress at. Mundel taken when Cardinal Bonzano arrived in New York Harbor aboard the S. S. RESS. quitania At left, center, John Cardinal Ba At right, and after he had gone aboard a yacht. o ATTEMPTED JAL - STILL BLAST KILLS - OREAKERS INDICTED TWO KENTUCKIANS zano, Archhishop center, Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Phoio by Acme. CHRIST NOW “HASTENlNG"EDry Agents Shoveling Coal on Ship Find ‘32 GIVEN DIPLOMAS 12 Cases of Liquor Buried in Bunkers |COMING, SAYS DR. BESANT| By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 14.—Dr. Anne Besant, president of Theosophical Society, says that Christ is “hasten | ing his coming slightly” to take the | of Krishnamurti, the young Indian, who was recognized at the convention of the Theosophists in Lon. | don last Saturday as a new “world | teacher.” * | Dr. Besant. according to the Daily Sketch, asserts that Christ is still liv- ng in_a physical body in the Hilma- Mountains and that she has | 1 Him say He {8 coming. Certain things had happened which placed the fact to her heyond dispute. “We had thought His coming would | have been later, Dr. Besant added. | “But the world is In a state of crises | which may have led Him to use | the words that He is hastening coming | slightly. We are now talking quite | plain] the same treatment Ile had in Pales. tine 2,500 he words I am using at my age and with my past without sincerity.”, | | Asquith Is III LONDON, June 14, (P).—Lord Ox- ford and Asquith, leader of the Libh. eral party, is il with influenza. It is not helieved his condition is serious, but it seems likely that his iliness will prevent him from attending an important meeting of the Liberal Fed- eration to be held at Weston-Supre. Ma're this week. 80 that Christ may not have | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. Jime 14— Seek- ing to enforce the Federal prohibition laws, eight customs officials turned coal heavers yesterday and for several hours tofled in the hunkers of the British steamér Exeter City. Twelve cases of whisky was their reward, Accompanied by Dr. W.'W. Chap- man, chief medical inspector, the officials had gone aboard to examine the cargo. Fverything was all right until_they entered the bunkers and hegan jabbing into the piles of coal with long, Dr. Chapman's picious object. The - customs officials asked the rod struck a sus- | captain to order his crew to shovel laway the coal. The request was re- | fused. and the customs men pitched in. The heat was almost unbearable, | Coal dust rose thick. Hats were d | carded. then and tles and in | some s shirts. When the task | was finished, and the liquor lowered | to a revenue cutter, the customs men | were covered with soot and dust and all but played out. Smiles were on { the faces of the eter City’s crew as the G sharp-pointed steel . rods. | «l { fora the collector of the port to plain the presence of the whisky. HOFFMAN HEARS SERMON Jailed Cook County Sheriff Rests Fine on Cell Cot, He Says. CHICAGO, June 14 (#).—Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman of Cook County at- tended church services in the Wheaton County Jail yesterday, where he is serving a 30-day Federal sentence for contempt for allowing extraordinary privileges to Terry Druggan and Frank Lane, Chicago beer runners, while they were prisoners in the Cook County Jail. “As good a rest as T ever had,” Hoff- man announced upon awaking this morning. ) - | 2 DIE AS AUTO PLUNGES. i - | Browned When, Car Goes Off Open Span Near Las Olah Beach. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 14 (A).—Two men were drowned here | yesterday when their :utomobile plunged from an open br Las Olah Beach. Alias Flaum, 45, of Fort Lauderdale, was niined Feneath the wreckage. Thom: Butler, 25, of Oliver Springs, Tenn. ped from the closed car but dr in the swift current. Flaum apparently did not see the open span and drove hls automobile off Inte 16 feet of wa AT ST. DOMINIC’S | Diplomas were awarded last night | to 10 puplls of the commercial class and 22 students of the eighth grade jof St. Dominic's School when gradu- |ation exercises were held in St. | Dominic's Church, Sixth and E streets i southwest. Rev. J. A. Cowan, prefect {of the school, awarded the diplomas. Father Cowan delivered the sermon to the graduates and also gave bene- ! diction of the blessed sacrament, at | which Rev. J. J. Sullivan was deacon | iand Rev. J. Callaghan was subdeacon. | Those in the commercial class who { were graduated, were Imogene Marle | Fil rick, Margaret Mary Hedder- {son. Fdith Katherine Klein, Gla, Jl‘alherlne Leon, Margaret Mary | Dermott, Marian Mary Quade, Eliz- |abeth Mary Raferty, Margaret Ros- {alie Renz, Anna Christine Spahn and Dorothy Marie Wise. The graduates of the grammar school were James R. Burke, John Dominic Springman, George Potzner, Joseph Robey, James Irving Knott, Edgar Allan Hawk, Edward Francis Flynn, Willlam O. McDermott, Thomas J. O'Connor, Frances Eliz- abeth Appich, Kathleen Curtin, Marie Duvall, Ellen Fitzgerald Walter, Eliz- abeth Jeanette Walter, Mary Madeline Cheseldine, FElizabeth FElien Flint, Christeria_ Elizabeth Smith, Mary Dorothy Zeaman, Mary Alice Wood- burn, Mary Margaret Schellenburg and xBernandine McCann, Six Charged With Assault With Intent to Kill by Grand Jury. Aseanlt with intent tn i= charged in an indictment returned to. day by the grand jury azainst the six negroes who made an unsuccessful tempt June 4 to escape from the Dis trict jail. Those accused are Denzie Jackson, Henry Valentine. Gieor tle. Horace Turner. Amos Curtls 4 William Jasper. They are allez | have attacked Mathew S. Rra | fall guard. with a dangerous | intending to kill him. According to confessions, haye been obtained hy Maj. W Peak from the men. Denzie Jackson was the ringlender. and the men were | zathered in a single cell when Rrana ! zan attempted to send one of them to another cell. Valentine. it is stated struck the guard over the head with {an iren support which had heen | wrenched from the cell hunk throngh | the combined strength of the men. | Little is also sald to have confessed | to striking Branagan, but the other men denled they laid hands on him. Prisoners Balked Attempt. Several prisoners, including Dane, prize fight promoter, and J | Middieton. a lifer, rushed ‘to the aid of the guard and the fighting prison ers were overcome. Thirty other indictments were re ported by the grand jurors to Justice Bailey in Criminal Division 1. and charges against 11 others were ig nored. August Haag, who had been charged with shooting his wife, Irene Haag, as she sat on the porch of her home, at_Cottage Hill northeast, June 1 talking with another man, who for merly boarded at her home. A eharge of homicide against Elia Holmes, col ored. in connection with the death of John Sherrill, R, was dropped. Other cases ignored include James W. Williamson, joy- riding: Richard Hunt, grand larcen (two cases); George, . McIntyre and Chester 0.’ Diven, violating national said Mary Clarke, assault; Willlam Green, violating -Volstead act, and George Murphy, violating Harrison anti-nar- | cotic law Other Indictments Returned. Others indicted and the charges against them are: Leonard ° G. Copeland, Lillian assault with a dangerous weapon; _Harry Smith. robbery: George F. Meade, Moses Howard, James Clinton Dyer, Russell W. Day Albert W. Hu: 't, George E. Hunit, | Emmett R. Hu and George E. Wood, grand larce.". Thomas West Joseph _Schriver, = Walter Wil James L. Jackson and Henry Woolley, housebreaking and lareen: Max W. Thompson, - alias _George Smith, L. Among those exonerated were . also colored, May | anto theft act: Minority Owens and | Bowie, Charles R. Johnson and Harry | | Edward W. Robertson, One Residence Wrecked and Another Damaged—Loss Estimated at $10,000. Rr the Associated Precs TOUISVILLE, Ky. Two men died hare when * 3 virtually damaged another, and uneoverad what police ealled evidence of an alehol re istilling © and moonshining plant operated on a wholesals scale. Houses were shaken by the foree of the explosion and hundreds of per sons went ta the scene. The men, wha gave their names ns S. 8. Seott and T. L. Anderson. were found with their clothing ablaze and were taken to ; +hospital. Police sald one of the rented residence contained an achol distilling plant and the other a meonshine aut fit. The twe houses were connected by pipes. Loss by explosion and fire that followed was estlmated at $10,000 ELLA C. BUTLER DIES. Was Daughter of Late Rev. Dr. J. G. Butler, e June 14 (A rday of hurne estroyed one r | Miss ENla | the late Rev. Dr. J. G. Butler, for many Years pastor of the Luther Place Memorial Church. died at her residence In the Cathedral Manstons | vesterday. She has been in falling health for several but . had {heen serfously il only a short while | Funeral services will he conducted | at_the home of her sister, Mrs. Philip G. Affleck, in the same apari- ments, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will he in the family Tot fn Oak Hill cemeter: Resides her sister, Miss Bulter ix | survived hy two brothers, Rev. | Charles 1i. Rutler. pastor of the | Columbia _Helghts Lutheran Church, and Dr. William K. Butler. also of *his clty. 3 Rutler, daughter of vears, = Conklin, alias Howard "Miller, false pretences; Max W. Thompson, aliae ! George Conklin (2 cases), forgery and uttering: Jeff W. Rose, forge and ufering: Peter Tolson, Farl J. Soffee, Clinton H. Martin, George Smith, alias Bill Smith and John Westley Evans, joy-riding: Curley Faote, Frank Wehster Richardson, Bernard J. Quinn, William Dixon and minor child: William Dixon and Ed- none-support: Paul Bradford, vio. Sec. 47 of penal ode: George S. Quigley, mayhem: William Little and Robert Soyflare. _carnal. knowledgs. -,