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CONSTABLES RATED PARTOF U. 5. ARMY . Cvty Pollcc Dry Officers and! Sheriffs Also Classified at Geneva Parley. B. Woob. nd ity By Cable to The Star GENEVA. Junc county correspe 0 Daily News, volicemen dence school detectives with mail order pistols are to be included | e ] rapidly, { miles an hour were on display. | sheriffs, village constables and | ARMS HISTORY SHOWN. Overthrow of Saxons and Work of Modern Army Displayed. TLLONDON, and modern tax e 17 (#).—Crossbows s all played a part in tournament staged rena at Aldershat late in the presence of 30,000 ory was made thooughly and for scardely 40 minutes clapsed between the overthrow of the Saxons by William the Conqueror, a later battle of bowmen of the Tudor period, and the encampment of a modern English army under the walls of an Eastern city. The latest de- velopments in airplanes dropping bombs and tanks traveling at 20 Suspects Not Identified. in RICHMOND’S BANDIT Three Youths, Suspected of Being 2 5 By the Associated Prese. RICHMOND, Va., vouths over a throughout yesterday that they were the famed De Autre- mont brothers of Oregon, veposed in the home of a Richmond citizen as guests while many fcer which would have been bis had he sighted the harmiess trio. The THE EVENI GHASE IS FRUITLESS Nortorious Gangmen, Prove Harmless Tourists. June 17.—Three from Pennsylvania, chased dozen Virginia counties on the belief last night an of. stood agape at the near thrill “lead” was furnished West Point who saw the au a man omobile NG fishermen in the James River yester- day afternoon. This, however, was not without result, for two of the men are held on charges of beirrg deserters from the United States Army and the police will put in a claim lur $150 re- ward. Telephones were busy and many an officer was tempted to super-exertion by the large reward which has ac crued as police of the Nation have tried futilely to round up the De Autremonts. The climax of yesterday's events comes in the fact that the youths last night slept in the home of their host, a Richmond policeman. This, inciden- tally, was their original de-«unatiou COAST GUARD MEN HELD. SAN DIEGO, (‘Al!f. June 17 (). Under arrest and facing a general court-martial as a result of the alleged disappearance of more than 500 cases of gwhisl from the rum-runnin NEW comedy. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY. PRIEST SUES COHAN OVER MUSICAL PLAY Producer and Associates Accused of Plagiarizing—$500,000 Dam- ages and In]nnchon Asked. By the Associated Press, YORK, approximating $500,000 were alleged to have been suffered by Rev. O'Reilly of St. Church, Rosedale, yesterday brought injunction proceed- ings against George M. Harbach and ers of “The O'Brien Girl." The priest charges that the music: June 17.—Damages Frank M. Peter's Roman Catholic Long Island,. who Cohan, Otto nk Mendall, produc a hit of the 1920 theatric JUNE 17, 1926. season, was plagiarized from a play of his own entitled “Buzz Saw.” He said he wrote his play while a patient in a Government hospital in Washing- ton. while recovering from the after- effects of poison gas, which incapac- tated him while serving as a chaplain with the 2d Division, American Ex- peditionary Forces. e defendants, in averred that “The O'Brien Girl” was based on th ry of “Give and Take,” the drama rights of which they had | secured. their answer, Explonon chtlms Now Total 12. GARY, Ind., June 17 (P).—Charles Holland, negro, was the twelfth victim of the explosion which Monday wrecked the by-products plant of the INlinois Steel Co. He died late yester- v of burns received in the blast. Deputy Coroner Robert Marshali will conduct an inquost into the cause of | 19 g GOD- MADE MAN UPHELD. | Baptists at N-'\shvllle Reject Evo-| lution Theory. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 17 (#).— At the annual meeting of the Baptist | v School Board of the Baptist| Corrects ntion here yes unani- | mous indorsement wa. en to the | Gout resolutions adopted at the convention Dyspepsia at Houston to the effect that “this con-{ g} i vention accepts Genesis as teaching | Rheumatism that man was a special creation nx‘Bladdwr Trouble God, and rejects every theory, evolu- | iy, i 5 tion or other, which teaches that man | ]‘":,rl blsiie originated in or came by way of a | Cidily | Caleuli (Stones) lower animal ancestry." Phone or Write for Litsraturs These High Blood Preesure Diabetes Constipation Approval was given by the hoard to | 1 to hold at Memphis Jan- | Ailments APON Springs Water Kidney Troubles Bright's Disease Stomach Troubles General Debility a combined meeting of all| Ame=ican Waters Corporation hool forces of Southern Bav- | g0 tists, with separate conferences for “’" Waoodward Bldg. h grou; Phone Maln 2244 Washington Jaunch 8. K. S., Boatswain John De Zeeuw and six enlisted men, com- prising the crow of the Coast Guard cutter No. 239, arrived in port yes terday on I)m Anum Vaug .| containing the three youths in transit d immediately the hue and cry wa ised. Officers between West Point and Richmond, where they were reported heading, primed themselves-and had visions of the $15.900 reward offered the De Autremont hrothers, who in natic armament, W!- subcommittee armament conference U after heated argument Should any disarmament program bo adopted on these terms the Uniced aska, June 1 1 -inspector. from Portiand, Oreg., examination announced ta: T arrested here last are not Ray and Hugh 1 two of three brothers w the military of the preliminary dis has decided 25&&&&1 OUIS GOLD CO r?? #RERE %QQQR&QR?‘ Sy Autremont, held up a 1923, ported the launc i captured May The boatswain's report says the ¥ States, were it a pariy, would have to reduce the police forces of cities |\ like New Yor oonstables in A In order t and discharge surplus rhansas it the L jtrein in Oregon October 11, kson, one of the p was retained on a bad-che Q the other, John Mart iuiry whether he has ¢ ican” territory Al- | for three years ago_dynamited a train in .|« tunnel near Siskivou, “|cost the lives of four membe: Oreg., which s of the reizure took place a day later, and that instead of hetween 500 and 600 cases of whisky, as the sheriff de- clared, there were only 38 cases seized Over 1,200 Summer B was attached to three ' from the launch. S@M Sold € 1214 F, Street Special Sale! 600 Pairs of SILK HOSIERY Formerly $1.49, $1.79, $2.00 and $2.49 the pair Friday and Saturday Only “Propper Hosiery” The hose with the blue edge. A beautiful qual- ity chiffon with lisle top. Full fashioned. tlons mizht 1 nd appointed by the United States Sen- ate’s failures to ratify its endeavors, Maj. Gen. Dennis Nolan, in behalf of the American delegation, assured ¢ the committee that American State | and municipal are not and can- not be controll v the National Government A hitherto SRS RE B ) LRREBRRERE e SILK DRESSES have been reduced for Friday and Saturday Selling Five I mportant Groups That F ormerly old from $15 to $49.50 L] Group Two 12 Group Four Group Five 19 *235 Hundreds of new Summer silk dresses have been added to our stock the past few days, making in all over twelve hundred beautiful dre to choose from. unsuspected “military organization” wvhich is under Gov- ernment control in America s the prohibition enforcement unit, which, according to the military subcom- mitee’s interpretation, is part of the national land and sea armament. , LR ¥ German Force in Mind. | While in ion of city police in national armaments is ridiculous so far as the United States is concerned, of the countries involved are concerned with the underlying pur- pose of the interpretation, which, though it has only been hinted at, is to strike at Germany's éfficlent Green police. Under the Versailles treaty Ger-! many is allowed a volunteer army of 100,000 men, with a 12-year enlist-| ment period. She also has 100,000 | Green police. France insists the Green police are in every way equal to the army, thus giving Germany an \ actual army of 200,000 soldier making polic. enlistments onl, months, it is alleged. German: provided 700.000 trained reserves. The French insisted upon adoption of their thesis that organizations “capable of immediate use without mobilization” are armaments. Ger- many made the most vigorous opposi- tion, the American delegation merely making the reservation that the Tnited States could not accept in- clusion of bodies not organized on a military basis and not controlled by the Government as armament. Issue Put to Vote. The committee could not agree and the chairman finally put the French proposal to a rollcall vote. It was adopted by the following vote: In fa- vor—Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Ttaly, Japan, Jugoslavia, Poland and Rumania. Opposed—Brazil, Germany , and Great Britain. Not voting—Chile, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Cnlled States. Absent—Uruguay. Though it is not formally decld~d tn‘ ohserve this theory, which is assured ! the same line-up, trained reserves, of | which France has 4,000,000 and Italy has 5.000,000, are not regarded as armament because they cannot be used without mobilization. he French definition of armament reads as follows: \rmaments are: 1—Forces in serv- fce in peace time, permanently organ- ized, armed forces and the materials nm! establishments they use. 2—Forces prepared for wartime (re- gerves of trained personnel and stocks | 8¢ of materials and preparations of every | g2 description undertaken with a view g ey " ;1.4 Group One 10 MATERIALS | Crepe Elizabeth Crepe Georgette Flowered Chiffon Plain Crepes Colored Tubs Striped Broadcloth Plaid imported fabries Plain and Figured Georgette Radium Silks Crepe de Chine Combination Materials Group Three 15 STYLES Two-Piece Dresses Street Dresses Sport Dresses Dance Dresses One-Piece Dresses COLORS Including all the season’s popular shades, also rwhite, bhu-k and navies 'y ZARRXSVLRBLIRDLRVT L2222 2 BB 4 R AR S gy L8828 Thread Silk A good serviceweight hose with lisle top. Full fashioned. Colors W hite 4tmosphere Champagne Nude French Nude Biscuit Blush Grain Piping Rock Rose Taupe Gun Metal Black Sizes 8V to 10, but not all sizes in all colors. & : & & Clocks, Hand-Drawn and Embroidered Black only. Sizes 8V to 9. .Colors Nude o BB R Rose French Nude Duotone Cork Mulot Ponciana Brown Gun Metal Black Sizes 81 to 10 Balbriggan and Silk Combination Dropstitch Hosiery Jacquard Sweater Hosiery—a well-knouwn brand, splendid quality. Brown and black only. Sizes 814 to 10. B White Balbriggan Sport Dresses. Polka Dot Silk Trimmed. Flannel Sport Suits, in all white—and col- ored jackets with chite Flannel Sport Coats—all white and pastel shades—fancy stitching—f u r and braided effects. 315 “Special” Friday & Saturday Values from $7.50 to $9.50 Sport Jumper Sport Dresses Dresses. with silk dress. $10 $12.50 Flannel Sport Suits, in all white —and colored jackets with white 5 RERRRRL 2D to war). 3—Ultimate war forces created dur- ing hostilities by means of all the general resources at the disposal of a country, the resources not being in themselves armaments properly so- | called.” (Copyrizht, 1926, by Chicago Daily News Co.) SENTENCE IS CONFIRMED Jack Durand’s Conviction Stands, State Supreme Court Holds. SPRINGFIELD, 111, June 17 (#®).— ‘The robbery sentence of Jack Durand { foster son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott | Dura.nd‘ wealthy Lake Forest dents, was affirmed by the Illinois Supreme Court vesterday. He was found guilty of robbing the | home of F. Edson White, president | of Armour & Co., in Lake Forest. He was indicted with two companions. —_ e e Ly BRBRRH D PHLLRRTIREER visit the gF REATLY reduced round trip summer fares via the Baltimore and Ohio make it possible for you tosee the wonders of the West this year at moderate cost—California, Colorado,the National Parks, Pacific Northwest,Grand Canyonandmany other interesting places in this western vacation land. Let the Travel Bureau Help You Plan Your Trip Our trained representatives will give ou detailed information. make res. ervations and furnish descriptive literature without charge Reveal Exquisite Skin the new Beauty-Curve Way XQUISITE skin is part of the complete charm of the bathing costume. No hair must concealits beauty. The creation of the Beauty- Curve-thecurvein curvrrT, theWoman’sRazor—permits you to remove hair with safety,speed,and ease. CURV- FIT is crerved to fit every inward and owward contour of the feminine form. It assures ab- solute safety in denuding the body of hair. Use curverr and you remove the hairthe moment before you go on the beach. One dollar and up. Blades, the package, 50c. At all dealers. QURVLIT Ghe qnomns.f{amr' CURVFIT PRODUCTS CO, Inc. 91 West 23rd Street, New York 2202022000008 1 Plan your trip via the Baltimore and Ohio; a convenient :lnd .mo.d;m Circut | "E":'n”' the West and Pacific 'ffi!ll e pl’.o‘"d.e . e“. 2 *efll:?: Tl«oml Portland and other Chicago or St. Louis including- Pucific ~ Coast points lllM 35 The CAPITOL LIMITED -[ (i n:.' ‘l".",?f.n.f.:l Sfl'..“n": The NATIONAL LIMITED : to St. Louis Bothare nll-Pullmnn-.-no extrafare. llm-ky Mounnln Parks mhul by side-trips from Denvi Fine equipment—good meals— courteous service. Return Limit of all Tickets October 31 Direct connections are made with western lines, offering you the B To_fian Franciseo and Los Angeles 3 s e - 816 Pairs of Pumps and Semi-Oxfords Every pair a Summer Shoe in White, Gray and Blonde Kid, Patent Leather, Satin and Tan Calf. Hzgh or Low Heels Sold € 1214 F Street P Smart Millinery Friday and Saturday An important selling that $ nieans great savings to the ‘ shopper who wisely awaits these sales. There are espe- cially exceptional values in tailored straw hats of unde- niable smartness and charm. choice of many attractive routes. Stop-over anywhere without extra cost. Por inform and reservations, telephon talt the Burea: ‘Woodward Bullding, 15thiand H Stes N. W Mn.-;rl'l.-‘:nd 0 WALTER V. SHIPLEY, Asaistant General Passenger Agent timore & Ohio FEPR YRR ER TR IRE YRR EY BEEBEBWENWRNN WW