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a9 BACK PROHIBITION, APPEAL OF BORMH ! Holds Negro Disfranchise- ment Does Not Justify MEDALS FOR BALLOONISTS Van Orman and Assistant Honored by N. A. A. in Paris. PARIS, June 15 () —S8pecial medals in honor of their victory in the contest for ths second Gordon Bennet Cup st night were presented to Wade T. Van Orman. who piloted the American balloon Goodyear III, and his assistant, Walter W. Horgan. ‘The ceremony took place ata banquet of the Paris chapter of the National Aeronautic Assoclation, which had the 'THE EVENING S'I;AR. WASHINGTON, D. (., TUESDAY. JUNE 15. 1926. = Philipsborn POLICE PREVENT MRS, SCOTT'S FAST Wife. of Condemned Man Planned to Raise Funds to paild admission. Mrs. Scott entered | the cage wearing & nightgown, dress- ing gown and slippers. There was A bed, chalr and stand in the cage, as in a hospital room. Follows German's Phan. Mrs. Scott said she had been in- spired by veading newspaper ‘ac- counts of the fast:performed by Herr Jolly of Germany. “if he could do it T can.” she said before the police interfered. . . ‘Theatrical officials, 'under whose di- enter a glass cage to hegin a fast to Toami hearing, held suddenly six hours he visible 24 hours a day to all who | before the time set for hanging. “ At this hearing ‘Scott was granted a ‘aay and & sanMy hearing before a jury. The jury sent Scott to the Chester’ Asylum for Criminal Insgne, where he was subsequently adjudged sane by a group of alienists. The State's atigrney now seeks con- fivmation by the courts so the execi- tlon may be carried out. The Tllinols. Supreme Court has denied a peti- tion of- Scott's counsel for a_change of venue from the .court of Judge Marcus - Kavanaugh. Scott's sanity will be determined by & jury in this court next week, ) 608 to 614 ELEVENTH ST. ! medals struck off. | Van Orman is sailing for home next | Thursday. ! 'SOCIETY OF NATIVES | ' T0 PICNIC SATURDAY R - 1 Retta her tast, last night took steps to | restrain police interference with the | affair when they filed suit for an in- . jJunction prohibiting. police {interfer- ence on the grounds that Mrs. Scott's plan to starve herself is not fllegal. |— There will be a hearing tomorrow. Was Granted Stay. Scott was convicted months aga of the murder of Joseph Maurer, drug clerk, and_ was sentenced to hang. Efforts of Mrs. Scott and a group of Detroit clubwomen opposed to capital punishment and intcrested By the Morris of Prince * Fight Execution. Nullifying Dry Act. Judge Georges County is the only wom&n justice of the peace in the State of d. rection Mrs. 8cott was to cunduell By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 15. The police yesterday stopped Mrs. Russell Scott trom appearing in a continuous | “starvation show” to ralsg funds to America’s experiences with the con atitutional amendments giving full ¢Ivil rights to®the negro do not jus- Iify efforts o nulliiy the prohibition amendment, in the opinion of Senator s Bar Bilbaat Toa KaTE. Borah of 1daho, who has taken a lead- | The police, acting on advice from inz position recently in support of the Duhamel to Give Address on His- |the State's attorney's office. Invoked . Ary law. a law forbidding the exhibition of Tecently the Kenator was misquoted tory of Rock Creek Park at | direct_or indirect results of crime. Miller's Cabin. Springs Water . in an article published here as saying | An officer went to the theater at the ! fact of Scotl's having formerly lived Fhone o Wil fows Biteritasd that emancipation of the negro at the time Mrs. Scott was scheduled to in Michigan rvesulted in a midnight | . A i ! time he was emancipated was a mis- | e e e e e American Waters Corporation take. What he did sav was that it | 933 Woodward Bldg. Washington was unjust te the white and unjust | - Phane Main 2244 ' to the nezro to enfranchise him with- = out permitting him to work out, —made to order for any three- piece suite with hest grade Bel- gian Linen. Special-— through time and education, his fran: Upholstering “Much is now being said about ‘the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments,” TO UPHOLSTER YOUR 3.PIECE PARLOR SUITE—LABOR ONLY— the Idaho Senator said in a statement Your Old Furniture Made New vesterday. It is said in some quar- —hy our experts at prevailing low prices to get you? work right | An address on the “History of Rock Creek Park” by James K. Duhamel, athletic contests and varions other forms of entertainment will feature the annual picnic of the Society of Na- tives of the District of Columbia at Miller's cabin, Rock Creek Park, Sat- urday afternoon. The program will start at 1 o'clock and continue until 7 o'clock in the evening. Wednesday—Impressive Values in an Opportune Sale of 5,000 Pairs Beverly Chiffon Hose $1.39 | 3 Pairs, $4.00 Mr. Duhamel, who is intimately ac quainted with much of the histor Washington and the surrounding ter- ritory, will give a detailed history of the historic park and its development. Mrs. Lewls J. Battle, chairman of the entertainment committee, is arranging for a program of vocal music and other features. Miss Mollie ¥orbes, chairman of the sports committee, an- nounces that prizes will be given ners in the various athletic contests, to include running and jumping, three- leg races and a tug of war. Lee D. Latimer, chairman of the transportation committee. announces that special Washington Railway and Electric Co. busses will leave the end of the Mount Pleasant car line at in- tervals of 20 -minutes for Miller's cabin, with bus service to be furnished also for the return to the car line. Mrs. J. G Kondrup is in charge of general arrangements, 4nd requests that all members and guests who ex- mect to he present notify her at 3012 Cambridge place. 1 think the enfranchisement of the negro at the time and in the manner 1t was brought about was a great mis- tale. It was unjust to the whites and unfair to the blacks. It put upon , the latter a burden for which he was wholly unprepared, and ‘because he could not meet that burden he has heen severely eriticized. 1t would have been far better if we had fol- lowed the advice of Lincoln and grant- »d the right to vote as the colored man became prepared for ft. But T do not admit that the four- teenth and fifteenth amendments are heing nullified. 1t was a fearful prob- lam which these amendments placed upon the South. but there is every svidence that they. are meeting the problem with patience and patriotism, and in time, in mv opinion, it will he worked out’ with justice t6 all and in harmony with the spirit of the Con- stitution. 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