Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1926, Page 17

THE WHIT CELEBRATION, YK BEAUTY VISIT HOUSE. Miss Louise Clerc of New York, declared by irnest Linnenkamp to be one of the most beau- tiful girls in America, visiting the White House yesterday with her father, an employe of-the Department of Justice. WASHINGTON INSPECTS HIS TROOPS DURING VALLEY FORGE Many of the early celebrations of the Sesquicentennial exposition are re-enactments of Revolutionary incidents, and here we have Gen. George Washington, the role being filled by Capt. J. Kirk McCurdy of Swarthmore, inspecting DER AFTER FIVE YEARS OF FIGHTI This is the first photograph of the surrender of the Riff forces to Spain and France, after a warfare covering the past five years. The leader of the Riff army, Abd-el-Krim, is riding (at left) into the French camp as a prisoner of war. Unofficial reports say that Photo by Acme \ the war resulted in 20,000 casualties in Spanish ranks. Copsright by P. & A. Photos. Copyright by T'nderwood & Underwond his troops at Valley Forge. JUST A FEW WORDS WITH THE POLICEMAN. Cardinals Ronzano (left), papal delegate to the Euchar- istic Congress, and Hayes of New York chatting with one of the bluecoats during the New York parade and reception. Visiting Catholic Church dignitaries were officially welcomed by Gov. Smith and or Walker. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. READY FOR THE DEAD LETT! include all sorts of Dey whi h goes under the hammer, ER SALE. “Dead letters,” which arcels, are heing sold at auction by the Post Offi rtment, and this photograph shows only a part of the “dead mail" Copyrizght by Underwand & Underwood BOUQUFETS FOR THE NEW (H AIRMAN OF THE SHIPPING BOARD. nor, new chalrman of the Shippinz Board, was almost filled with flowers the board was held yesterday afte noon. The private office of T. V. 0°Con- yesterday. The initial meeting of ERGUSON'S BON STAND S DECRIED Bankers Declare Should Do All Possible to Re- store Investors’ Faith. Wr the Assoriated Press DALLAS, Tex., ment by James E. of Gov. Miriam A. preted as suggesting a repudiation of the millions of dollars of Texas dis triet road honds held invalid by ‘the courts, was decried hera last night by a group of (hicago investment bank ers. Speaking at Wichita Falls in behalfl of the candidacy of his wife for re- election, Ferguson charged that per- | sons urging a special session of the | Legislature to validate the honds were trying to “saddle on_the backs of the | people of Texas §$100,000.000 in honds | which the Supreme Court United States has said you owe.” June 17 erguson. inter 000 in district dered invalid. agitation for a spe: Legislature to valid: road honds wi There has been much session of the e the honds, but Gov. Ferguson has refused to issue a pof Hartfor | hasband’s call. T. K. Carpenter, president of Tay- lor, Ewart & Co. and head of the party of 13 Chicago investment banks | in Texas to Inspect the proposed Hen- | derson County levee distrigi No. 3, de- | clared that Ferguson's remarks, “com. | ing at a time when the investing pub- | lic feels that Texas would take every | Atep necessary to restore the credit of the State, can only have a dlsastrous | effect.” L. R. Billett, freasurer of the com- | pany, declared that validation of the | road honds is “the thing most needed | to restore public confidence in Texas.” | He added that heavy discounts are | now being applied to Texas securities, “even those not in any court.” HEARST SUES PAPER, SAYING SON LIBELED Publisher Charges Los Angeles Edi- tor Said Youth Was Arrested After “Wild Party.” By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 17.—William Randolph Hearst. the publisher, acting for his son, Willlam R. Hearst, jr., filed a libel #uit in superior court here | yesterday demanding $125.000 dam- | ages from the Record Publishing Com- pany, Henry R. Briggs. managing editor of the Los Angeles Record, and | Rodney L. Brink, city editor. The complaint allezes that young ! Hearst was libeled June 10 in a story which conveyed that he had been | “named on police hooks in connection | with a criminal offense,” that he had | been on a “wild party,” and that he | Had falled to return rented auto- ' mobile. The suit was the outgrowth of a story about A. Herhert Jovce gheing found Injured in o wrecked ¢ bean Texas - { Homerie he was finall Mussolini Called A “Pickpocket” by Hungarian Leader ¥ the Associnted Press BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 17. —Premier Count Bethlen was greatly embarrassed in the Na- tional Assembly vesterday when, in the presence of foreign diplomats, tion deputy, Geza Mala- led Mussolini a plck- Government memhers of the as. sembly quickly rose to the occasion with cheers for the Iaseist pre- mier. Neveriheless, Ttaly is expected to make diplomatic representations, PRINCESS GOES BACK WITH RUNAWAY MATE Somhitie Explains That War Ex-| periences Made Prince Very Nervous. WARLIKE SCEN By the Associated Press, YORK. June 17.--Princess WHEN NEW PRESIDENT OF POLAND IS INAUGURA professor, Ignace Moszicki, of Lemberg University, in foreground with Marshal Pilsudski dominated by Pllsudskl, who refused the office’ of President, but hold§ the power of dictato D). The inauguration The new chief executive, a few rl|ay- ago an unknown ceremony is said to have bheen Coprright by P. & A. Photos. Somhitie returned to her vesterday on the Olympic ative land | CREATED AT OXFORD for apparently mysterions events | of three wec g0 were forgotten. Lectureship Designed to Bring Outstanding Persons, Particularly Princess Somhitie, daughter of the Inte Edward W. Hooker, former mayor From U. §,, to University. . ‘onn., expiained that her experiences with the | Russians on the norihern front had made him very nervous, but that. he i= perfectly well again. Princess Somhitie asked the police | on May 21 to find her hushand, whom | she had wed in Paris April 6. She told detectives that he had left a| farewell npote with £3.000 in currency | By the A on a pillow at their apartment After | a hurried search for the prince on the | located aboard The princess was barely abie to get aloard the linar before it sailad, and a speedy reconciliation was effce.od. | CLOTHING STRIKE LOOMS. G 5 | eminent distinction from some other 50,000 Workers Expected to Be''ountry, particularly the United iated Pres. OXFORD, foundation of a new Rhodes Memorial Lectureship, worth about £500 annu- ally, was announced at the Rhodes dinner last night by Sir Otto Beit, rustes of the Rhodes trust. The ob- ot of the foundation is to bring to xford some man or woman of pre. the Pa G England, June 17.—The | ates, so that speclal learning may Involved in General Walkout. - |he made avaifable o the university. A New Zealander, A. E. Porrett, | captain of the Oxford track team, ex. pressed some criticism concerning jhe age of the Rhodes scholars, who, he said, being graduates of other univer- sitles, had an advantage of about four NEW YORK, eral strike in the cloak and suit in Austry invoiving 50,000 workers ap- pears inevitable, Louls Hyman, man. ager of the foint board of the Cloak- June 17 (P).—A gen-| i turers to adopt lunied Siates troatin - makers’ Union, said after negotia- tions had failed to break the dead. lock between_the manufacturers and union representatives. The ~manufacturers rejected the |75y OYORLSPORS | ad master union demand for a 44-hour week. A | o Wyinchester College. said thet min guaranty of 36 weeks a vear and|yecent tour of Amerfcan schools and unfon control over “hiring” and |coneges had convinced him that they “firing.” The workers refused 1o!\ere the most attractive on the face consider an offer of the manufac- | y¢ the earth. the resolutions of a | fact-finding commission appointed by | Gov. Smith. <‘ Canada Seizes Schoomer. vears more experlence of the world as compared with English students, and were also thereby enabled to monopo- Holds Fight Films Are News. ALBANY. N. Y., June 17 (#).—At- torney General Ottinger, in an opinion - given out vesterday, held that movin; CANSO. Nova Scotia, June 17 (#).— plctures of boxing bouts are eurren‘l The fishing schooner Judique of events or pictorfal news within the Buchsport. Me., has heen confiscated ' definition of the motion pletures cen- by the (anadian government. It i | corship law. charged that the schooner had been! Accordingly, the attorney general nseq for shipping aliens out of Hali- fheld, the commission may not apply in vialiten of the Canadian- | the censorship Ty to sueh pletuves or [ \ 'Lost Soldiers’ Articl | In Furious Biddi Brisk bidding was encountered this morning by the crowd which jammed the conference room of the Post Office Department at the auction of un- claimed articles accumulated -in the division of dead letters and dead par: i cel post. Clothing, jewelry and house- hold effects lost in transit.during the war, from sweethearts, mother sfsters to their soldler hoys bverseas, by reason of incorrect addresses, furnished the bulk of the goods offered for disposal. Although the bidding on any one auction lot or number rarely exceeded $10, the competition between house- keepers, dealers and philanthropists was fast and furlous. sweater of vivid violet hue proved a bone of good-natured but determined contention between three old-clothes dealers before the auctioneer knocked the royal purple down to the loudest disputant for $1.50. The two auctioneers, Charles Kracke A knitted | es Knockea Down ng at P. 0. Auction and C. W. Zepp. postal employes, shouted themselves hoarse. extolling the indlvidual bargain gems and the huge case lots. The clothes dealers were very partial to gross lots of wearing apparel, both new and worn, while housewives ahd their husbands hid enthusiastically for dozens of socks and cloth bolts of fetching designs. Several persons charitably inclined were to he rved among the audience making purchases tators obviously remained merely to enjoy the pageant of human nature. | The auction continues this after- ricon and tomorrow, when packages of personal effects containing a_choice |varlety of wrist watches, lockets, rings, knives, pipes, ete., will go under !the hammer. The proceeds of the auction 'will be credited to the ac- lcount of the Post Office Department on the Treasury Department books in the last sale of the fiscal year. REGRETS FIRING AT.SHIP. Coast Guard Official Apologizes for Endangering Lives of Bystanders. MIAMI, Fla., June 17 (#).—Comdr. C. G. Porcher of the Coast Guard base at Fort Lauderdale yesterday personally apologized for the action Saturdey afternoon by firing on a suspected rum boat in the Miami River. Comdr. Porcher expressed his regret of the incident to T. M. Welss, man- ager of the Grenada Apartments, | whose guests were in the line.of fire. {He said that he had completed a | thorough investigation of the affair, and had tatien steps to prevent a re- dcurzgnce of similag shogtingt. of Patrol Boat No. 297 in endanfgering | the lives of several hundred wrtlomzi LOCKOUT DECLARED. ‘Builders Tie Up $10,000,000 Proj- ects at Gary, Ind. GARY, Ind., June 17 (P).—The Gary Building Contractors’ Association last | night declared a lockout egainst all | organizea labor, completely tying up a $10,000,000 building program. Building material men backed up the contractors by locking out team- sters and refusing to permit delivery of supplies for building purposes dur- ing the lockout. - The unions claim that the bullders used material made hy non-union workers, and refused to work on such Jobe. ings under censtruction were for stec! plants in and near Gary, attractive | for their pet hobby, while other spec- | "PAPER RENEWS FIGHT i ON COURT SECRECY Madison, Wis,, Capital Times Seeks Dissolution of Injunction Suppressing Testimony. By the Associated Press. | MADISON, Wis.. June 17.—The Cap- ital Times, Madison newspaper, re- | newed its fight against court secrecy and for the right of the press to dis- close court proceedings. Through ita attorneys, the newspa- | per mought dissolution of an injunetion |of Circult Judge A. C. Hoppmann restraiging the paper from publishing or divulging testimony in a recent in- vestigation conducted by him into charges that editorials in the news paper prevented Rudolph Jessner fr obtaining a fair trial on a murde charge. Hoppman took the matter under ad- visement after an all-day hearing. ‘The newspaper hopes to have the State Supreme Court establish the right of the press to print whatever transpires in a courtroom. To enable the paper to carry the case to the highest court, the court must refuse to dissolve the injunction ! Taft to Leave Tuesday. ‘With his condition improving stead- ily, Chief Justice Taft plans to leave Washington Tuesday for his Summer | home in Canada. Although he is re- { maining In bed upon tie advice of his { physiclan, the Chief Justice has been 4 | advised he will ‘be able to travel next | week. | - = D'Oisy Reaches Chita. CHITA, Stheria, June 17 (P).—Capt. A considerable portion of the build.; Pelletier d'Oisy, flving from Paris to | home, is said to have heen ¢ lT«klv-.'mrl\'eof here vesterdny. He ety Ligutsk late Tuesday, allesnoan. { | {Dreaming He Heard |Cry of “Fire,” Man Jumps to His Death | By the Associated P; REENVILLE, S. C.. June 17. --Dreaming that he heard some one shouting “Fire!” o frightened unidentified man. helieved to Jack Extine, that he leaped to < death yesterday morning from the second- window of the Alexandria an nd dived 0w, tear-. he passed e roof of the gcreen through. Landing on he front poreh, ha ran io the edge nd jumped to the pavement he- iow. The jump was made at 1 oelock and death followed at 8:43 aclack. He inli ambulance tendants that he had heard some one yelling “Firel” and upon awakening he jumped out of the window. 120,000,000 FACTORY, MILE LONG, PLANNED Delco Company Announces First Step in $100.000,000 Expan- sion Program. By the Ascociated Press. DAYTON. Ohin, June Tmme- diate construction of a $20,000,000 fac | tory addition, one mile long. at Mo | raine City, near here, by the Del Light Co., was announced today. the first step in a contemplated $100.- 000,000 expansion program which com pany officials say is due to newspaper advertising. The new factory will be used ei tirely in the construction of electric refrigerators. It will add 36 acres of | foor space to the Moraine City plant, 6,000 names to the pay roll—twice the number now employed—and raise the capacity to 600,000 electige refrigera- tors a year. Delco distributors and branch office managers from all over the country will participate in the ground-breaking exercises tomorrow. | "“Wa have been large users of space |in 1,850 daily papers since last Octo. | ber, ‘and in that ‘period have enjoyed {our period of greatest growth,” | Biechler, 36-year-old president and gen eral manager of the company, said. g o TWO HOUSES BURNED. Blaze Near Arlington County Oil Tanks Does $2,000 Damage. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., June 17.—A fire | alarm from the oil company -sertion of | Rosslyn yesterday drew out the best in county fire-fighting equipment and also No. 5 engine from Washington. | The firemen arrived, however, {the homes of Ernest, Walters and Nora Hunter, colored. i what is known_as. Phillips’. raw, ablaze and little danger of flames spreading to the oll tanks. Assisted by the Wash- ington company, firemen from Cher- rydale, Clarendcy and Ballston con- nected their hose v '*" ‘wells abott 500 teet away, but to little avail, hoth nouses having heen destroyed. The fire, which started in the Hunter psed hy mated n dafective flue. Damage is e al §2.000, to find | TWO DEAD, 41 HURT INTORNADOINWEST 'Buildings Razed, Communi- | cation Halted, Radio Tower Blown Down by Wind. ST By the Ascaciated Press Tune 17. —Twe killed and 41 hurt in n which struck at Clarinda. and at Torrington, Wro. reports reaching here said. amage at Clarinda was estimated at §130.000 and at several thousand at the Wyoming town. Homes, business houses and farm buildings were razed in both places, . and communieation was halted. A radio tower of Station 50 was hlown down. | Wfforts to reach Clarinda were hampered by heavy mud roads. in some places reported as impassabls, due to rain. The dead at Clarinda are Dennis Usher, 12, and J. A. Douglas, about 0. Residents in the vicinity of Scotts | RIuff, Nebr., attempted to estimate the damage to crops in the North | Platte Valley due to storms last night. |and the aggregate, it is agreed. will | run into thousands, with hay. corn and small grains suffering the most | The beet crop was stripped by hail. but farmers declare only 15 daye’ de lay will result in harvesting the crop. as a result o | SHRINKAGE OF $8,000,000 SHOWN IN GOULD ESTATE | Accounting on File in New Jersey Court Shows Funds Dropped From $20,000,000 to $12.371,419. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June -A shrinkage of nearly $8,000,000 in the estate of the late George J. Gould is shown in an accounting on file in the Ocean County Orphans’ Court at Toms N the New York World < were several months, but was revealed only yvesterday, when argument o postponed in the court. Cov period from December 31, 19 September 30, 1925, the accounting was filed by Kingdon Gould and Schuyler Neilson Rice as executors. Tt revealed that on the latter date principal and income totaled only $12,371.419, as compared with an est mate of $20,000.000 at the time of Mr. Gould's death, in May, 1923, [ 2 P . f Time Limit for Claims. | August 31, 1928, has been set as the | time Timit for Americans who gerved lin the British army during the ‘World War to file pension or disability | claims with the British government. according to advices received by the | United States Veterans' Bureau. A | suboffice has been opened in Ottowa, | Canada, it was stated, to handle pen | sion ratings and authorize medical { treatment. | LS, | 1f there were no <uch a word as fail {come unscrupulous man would soom inyent one. {