Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1926, Page 17

ATIVE IS GIVEN BIG WELCOME BY NEW Y Cardinal Bonzano, papal legate (in center), entered the chuivh. From the York Catholies. THE EVENING STAR. TI R vn g AL RSN RO (23 ORK CATHOLICS, his photograph was taken outside St. Patrick’s cathedral steps the cardinal viewed a parade Photo by Acme. WASHINGTON, D. (¢ Y, "TUESDAY. JUNE 15, 1926. PRESIDENT OF HAITI IS GREETED UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN TH Wright and the naval and military aides were among those who met P President and his wife stand in the center of the group. E CAPITAL. vesident TLou Secretary of State Kellogg. Assistant Secretary J. Butler Borno of Haiti at the ion Station yesterday. The Wide World Photn SENATE COMMITTEE 70 GREET BYRD. This special . committee Will greet the first man to fly to the North Pole, when he arrives in Washington. In front: Senators Gla nd Swanson of Virginia. At back: Senators Walsh of Montana, Oddie of Nevada and Keyes of New Hampshive. Copsright by Underwood & [nder SIX FIREFIGHTER |Norris Says Scanty ! Dress of Women ts Farm Income | the Associated modern woman's dress to the Senate's farm-relef vesterday., when Sena- Another Is Hurt by Fall nd Locke of the University of fastest human he- 4 broken all sorts of sprinting _records and has even hettered the marks set hy the speed marvel, Charlie Paddock. A, Thotos, how did not stand far awa, tor Norrvis. Republican. Nebraska. observed that the woman of today wears fewer clothes on the street than her grandmother wore 10 bed That's all right with Senator Norrie, wa verbally waved on their way to oblivion the bustle and other m strappings. but the point e iade was that while the textile manufacturer eould make | up for the reduction in cloth zoing | into dresses by making silk stock- | i the farmer couldn’t do that. l | Through Skylight in Blaz- | ing Building. Six firemen veceived burns and an other was slightly injured at a fire tn the workshop of the awning and tent irm of R. C. M. Burton & Son. | 911 E street, shortly hefore 2 o'clock | this morning. Three of the firemen | the hes' of his crops, if he gets any were taken to Emergency Hospital | 2t all. and were later able i go io iheir | i S semees ATOKILLSCHLD | DASHING IN STREET The three men taken to the hospital | wers Sergt. Murchel Lamp and Pvis. A. L. Littera) and Oscar C. Kramer ot No. 14 engine company, Janet Farnham, Daughter ot} Minister, Hit by Car of Mrs.. Conrad Syme. | Yaces and hands were burned. Tae soil tiller, he sald, must make | whose | | ®ar! Bingham and T. 8. Newell of No. 2 engine company were slightly burned about their hands, while Pvi. N. G. Giftord of the same company was slightly injured as a resnlt of a fall through a skylight. ‘The men were burned in the explosion of a fluld used in connection with the firm's business. B. €. Hartman. watchman in the bullding of the Darby Printing Co.. 905 B street, discovered the fire and | sent in an alarm. When Deputy | Chief P. W. Nicholson, who narrowly eacaped burnse when the explosion oeourred. rveached the bnilding tl entire workshop in the rvear of the main bullding was threatened with ! deatruction. Firemen had gotten the hlaze under control. however. when, witheut the slightest warning. the ex- plosien nccurred. enveloping the fire- men in flames. It was probably due 10 the wet condition of their uni- forms that they escaped more se- riour burns. as they made a rush for: the neareat exit to the alley. The fire was quickly extinguished after the explosion. Origin of the fire was not mined. Firemen and police Sergt. P. H. Buehler and Pvls.‘i | | I 1 | Mrs. Vevie Syme. wife of 4onrad | Syme. former rorporation counsel of | the District. residing at 2458 Macomb | .street. was driver of an automobile | that killed Z.veareld .Janet Farn- | | ham. daughter of Rev. Gieorge I. Farnham. pastor of Cleveland Parx Congregationai Church and pres dent of Cleveland Park Community Association. in front of 3003 Macomb street, about 4:30 o'clock - vesierday | afternoon. i Mrs. Svme was driving west on Macomb street in the direction of her i home, and a number of children, little | Janet Farnham among them, were | | playing on the sidewalk, when (ne {latter = said to have run from the | mated the damage at $3.000. ' sidewalk so suddenly that Mrs. Syme B ¥ was unable to bring the machine to DUGGAN SAFE IN GUIANA, |* 5iop in time o prevent the fatality « | Capt. Ebner H. Inmon, U. 8. M. C. o | who arrived on the scene just after | the accident. examined the body and naid he helieved death resulted aimost ‘ immediately after the child's head struck the asphalt pavement Police hooked Mrs. Syme as held for the aciion of the coroner and pa- | i roled her in custody of her husband. | Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, acting coronel viewed the body, heard statements 25 1o how the accident happened and | Will eonduct an inguest at the deter- esti- Argentine Flyer Reported at Town in French Province. BUENOS AIRES, June 15 (#).—La Naclon’s Rlo Janeiro correspondent has received advices from .Para to the effect that Bernardo Duggan, Argentine - aviator flying from New York to this city, arrived at Oyapock, ¥rench Guians. yesterday morning. Oyapock is on the river of the same t g “ yame. neat the Brazilian frontier. SR Tonioek Fiomono Duggan and his two companions g i left l’araml.xilbn Sunday morr‘\inn and = <A R i had heen missing since passing over g . . Cayenne, French Guiana. | Maj. Gullion Coming Here. Maj. Walter €. Gullion, adjutant Igeneral's department. mow on duty with United. States forces in Chin: HUNTINGTON. W. Va. ‘June 15 has been assigned to duty in the ad- | P .—Thomas Hackett. negro. was |jutant general’s office, War Depart- killed and Fletcher M. Davis, a ment. | deputy sheriff. suffered minor ‘wounds | in a gun hattle tnday hetween the | nexre and officers. vho sought to ar- restmu% = ®Negro Killed by Offcers. Salmon, pike and Afzh arve posed never to sleep. sup 4 A BIT LIKE THE DAYS WHEN THE DOGS OF WAR R. teen hreakfast at the Union Station yesterday to Quantico. HE 1S OUTLINED IN ARROWS. dancer, demonstrating her iron nerve by allowing herself to be care- fully outlined by straight-fiving arrows. AN LOOSE. United States Marines from ‘Detroit, he age of 91 years she ic fliv- vering from Chicago to New York. She is Mrs. Abigall Whittaker, and this picture was taken just hefore she left the Windy City for her long trip, traveling alone the entire distance. Miss Lucille Hill, San Francisco But the chap who hent the Wide World Photo. Photo by Acme MOVIE ACTRESS WEDS CLUBMAN. Photograph taken in Les Angeles immediately after the wedding of Flaine Hammerstein, well known photoplay actress, and James Walter Kays, fire commissioner of Los Angeles and well known clubman. Wide World Photo. | English Domestics Red Cross workers, assisted by Members of Congress. serving a_can- who arrived in Washington yesterday on their way to Coprright by Harrie & Ewing ENGLAND'S PROTEST President Awards Medal to Switch Man | CLARENDON CARNIVAL TO MOSCOW IS MILD| Saving Woman From Onrushing Train ted’ Press den: Coolidge has awarded a 1 of honor to C. M. Giblin 2 Orleans for saving the 'ife of a woman September 29 laat ar the Jack son avenue crossing of the entral Railroad at New Orleans. Chamberlain Reveals Nature of | Note Over Sending of Russian Money to British Strikers, By the Associal interstate Mra. Jennie Austen | for forsign af. | "ecommendation of the R | Commerce Commisston. , vesterday gave the first officlal | \veigman. the woman saved, had account of the British action toward | crossed two tracks at the crossing ia growing out of the dispatch|and had relnched a third wh{n( she 2 s s lled to"stop and wait for & of Russian funds to support the re.; Wa$ compel i i 't] track. cent genera! strike in Great Bettain | oo fo passion. fie Zogrh of ' the [ilinois | proach of the other train The medal, the twenty-fifth of its | footboard of the locomotive's tender. | spacal Dispateh to The Star. %ind to be awarded.'was bestowed on ' and. realizing the woman did not see DELAY IS DECREED, jan Ilinois Central iransfer train was | Indefinite Postponement Pending | approaching. and. due to the noise of S ain on the fourth track and the Court Ruling in “Games of confusion at the busy crossing. Mrs e Chance” Case. Weidman was unaware of the ap-' | P Gvitchman Giblin was riding on the | CLARENDON, Va., June 15.--The annual Spring carnival of the Clar- endon Citizens' Association, scheduled for June 16 to 19, inclusive. has been indefinitely postponed pending the outcome of the appeal to be noted in |or hear the approaching train. he ra | She took a step backward just as His r—xnlflna»tbn confirmed what has U] avcogms of the tassaction| 11 GANGSTERS ENROLLED IN NEW REFORM CLUB erated. l v mild form of protest | which the forelgn secretary admitted | “Little Augie,"” Notorious Leader. Among Those Signed Up. aving made in note to Russia ot accuse the Soviat government | One Now Under BfilL By the Associated Press. tself of providing the money. but only complained of relaxation in favor of the British strikers of the Russian law agalnst the export of mone: Moveover, it is understood the gove ment hardly expects Russia to reply to its protest, . NEW YORK, June 1t _is believe e real! intention of | F: Y the British note was, first, to please | (e motectous ~Eitte the strongly anti-Russian section of | the “government's supporters in_the press and Parliament, and. second, in the hop; m:;{ such a protest might | deter the Russlans from ’ sending| " emirn additional funds. ~¥oraithough e man evement o Gkl amount of money the Russlans for-!""sitheus * Geer, fotinder of the T e e YoUlL bl slle movament, admitted that one of the o strikers more than a tew | o)y v - me; is now. under to prolong the strlke, vel the moral| pjje hut said that he had persuaded effect of money from abroad was to|pin' 1o return a golf bag found in brace the men to hold out. e e e & “The lad is going straight.” said The raok is the .only bird that re- | Mr, Geer, “but even If he went wrong pairs his nest in the Autumn. The |I'd ‘be with him.” same bjrde use the same nests year. after year, And just hefore migrating | they. touch np ‘their nests and put! them In orderffor thte Wint 15.—~Eleven rried of the gang which for years cai ‘on a bloody feud with the Dopper” gang, enrolled last nigh Thermovolls, Wyo,, has the largest hot springs n the world, among them | the notorious “Little Augie,” leader | 1d | D'ltala. t.Rin “has been created in the Swiss city, | the first of the clubs of the Marshal! the paper s: By the Associated Press. MILAN, Italy, June 15,—The sug- | gestion that Vienna replace Geneva as the seat of the League of Na- tions is made today by the Popola > An urpleasant atmosphere | | ' , by “Soclal-Democratic & “ and the indifference of | propagand: o population = toward - the | | the Tocal | league. - i | Referring to the recent troible at 'an anti-Fascist meeting in Geneva, ! the paper asks whether “it is possible | for a minister on an official mission | 1o he the guest of a city where ave | held public meetings at which his | country, chief and King are insulted.” The favorite months for marriage in Great Britain are July, August and september,’ when 30 per cent of the| Germany's exports per caplts: are total marriages of the year take plagq, more today than in 1910, f i jumped from the footboard, ran ahegd | of his train diagonally across the | { tracks and pushed the woman to one side. Both fell beside the track just {as the wheels of the locomotive tender | .naasod them. Mrs. Weidman suffered | the decision of Judge Harry Thomas great.sbhock, but Giblin was uninjured. | relative to operation of games of chance and sklll , rendered in the cases against operators of games at URGES LEAGUE CENTER | tne recent carnival of the Lyon Vil . lage Citizens’ Asociation. This ac- | { tion was taken at a meeting of the | Citizens' Assoclation last night in | Citizens' Hall. | Italian Paper Declares Atmos- 3 The new firé siren. installed o Cew | ays ago on the roof of Citizens' Hall. | phere in Geneva Has Become | was sounded vesterday afternoon, ac. | & o | cording to Chief A. B. Eaton, result- Wil |ing in mamy volunteer firemen rush- | Ing to the engine house. They dis- | covered, however, that there wasn't | any fire and that the chief-and some ! of his officers were testing the new | apparatus. These tests are to be, held at 6 o'clock each evening during the week. Fire fighters, the chief states, cannot now offer the excuse | when not turning out to fires that they did ‘mot hear the alarm. The | new siren, he says, can he heard for | great distances, and is guaranteed to | awaken the soundest- sleepers. The association authorized the sec- retary to communicate with the | county health ‘department calling | attention to an open sewer drain, which is proving objectionable, in rear of property on the east side of Clarendon avenue, and asking that steps be taken to abate the nuisance. | on their 10-day trip to Philadelphia. | Moftatt Speeds 220 Miles in 70 'BROWN MURDER TRIAL POSTPONED Case Not to Come Up Until October Term—Insanity to Be Defense. Held Less Slangy Than U. S. “Grads” Br the Assnciated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 15.~De- claring that the domestic in Eng- land uses better English than the average American gzirl graduate. James M. Beck, former United States Solicitor General. told 105 man and woman graduates of Drexel Institute yegterday that they should endeavor to speak cor- rectly. “One of the most distressing thinas we face today.” he said, “is the debasement of the Engl zuage hy many slang expr Graduates of the leading women's colleges are not immune, from this criticism. The domestic in England uses hetter KEnglish.™ | MISS AITON CHOSEN TO REPRESENT D.. Selected as Candidate Teacher Award Contest Thomas B. Brown. whe was recent | v indicted for murder in the first degree in connection with the death | of Mise Frances Voegele June 2. will | not he tried next Monday as scheduled Justice Stafford in Criminal Division today continued the case until the Octoher term of court on application of Attorneys RaynMnd B. Dickey and Edward €. Kriz, who contend they have not had time to prepare properly defense of the prisoner Counsel admit they will interpose a plea of insanity and need time to look up the Army record of the accused. Brown served. thev say, from 1893 to 1900, and saw active service in the Cuban campaign and later in the Philippines. He suffered from tropical fevers, and cgunsel declare it is nat. ural to conclude that mental disorder grew out of such sufferings. According to the police, Brown tried to persuade Miss Voegele to enter his automobile at Fourteenth and Fuclid streets about & o'clock in the after noon. and when she demurred he emptied a revolver Into her hody. causing her death. The indictment. { which is in nine counts. was rushed through the grand jury two days afier the homicide, and Rrown was ar raigned the next day and entered a plea of not zuilty | An attempt is heing made tn estab- lish identity of a policeman wanted as a witness in the case. It devel- oped during the investigation of the tragedy that a policeman was accom- panied to the Olympia, 1368 Euclid street, about March 1. when, ft ix stated. Brown had trouble with Miss Voegele. He was not arrested at that time and the policeman, it {5 stated, made no report of the incident. 55 STUDENTS WILL GET HONORS AT ST. JOHN'S in Miss Maude E. Aiton. principal of ! the Americanization Schonl Associa- tion, will represent the District of | Columbia In the American Teacher Award contest being conducted by the management of the Philadelphia Ses quicentennial, it was announced at the Franklin School today. She was; chosen by a subcommittee named by, E. C. Graham, president of the Board | of Education, from among 13 local teachers, Miss Aiton’s record of 19 years' lead- | ership in kindergarten teaching and her outstanding work in connection with the organization and develop ment of the Americanization School caused the subcommittee to accord her this honor. I She will accompany Lawrence I O'Nefll. 18 years old. 602 Twenty-sec ond street. and Miss Roberta Harrl son, 17 years old, 636 D street north east, selected to represent the National | Capital in the Youth Award contest, | | Commencement to Be Held Tonight at College—Oratorical Contest on Program. St. John's College will hold its com. mencement in the college auditorium tonight, when 55 students will receive academic and military honors. Right Re Mgr. P. C. Gavan, rector of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, will preside, and Very Rev. Edward J. Fitzgerald. O. P. M. T. 8., of the Dominican College, Brookland, D. C., will address the graduates. Judges in the oratorical contest will he Rev. Bro. Abdas, F. S. C.. presi- dent of the Ammendale Normal stitute, Ammendale, Md.. Rev. Pacomias, principal of the Xacerian High School. Alexandria: Willlam €. De Lacy, D. C. L., and P. T. Haltigan, K. S. 8. Tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock competitive examinations for five ‘| high schoel scholarships, representing Turkey is to have radio programs |$1,000, will be held at the college. from Kurope over the broadcasting | Boys who have completed the eighth atations to be erseted at Stamboul by | grade in parochial or public seheels a French company. are eligible for the examinations, ' and on a tour of historic battlefields. FLYER SETS RECORD. Minutes in New Plane. ! DAYTON, Ohio. June 15 (#).—Lieut. | R. C. Moffat, McCook Field test pilot. | set a speed record for cross-country fiying vesterday when he flew from McCook Fleld to Selfridge. Mich.. 220 | miles, in 70 minutes, or an_average | speed of almost 200 miles an hour. The flight was made in a new type pursuit plane equipped with a super- charger. Bro. e e \