Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1926, Page 17

TEMPERAMENTAL waiting for some ti bledon tournament. S easy frame of mind. lle. Lenglen, the French tennis , nne's temperament has kept the managers of the tournament guessi v THE QUE ppeared upon the courts for the Wim- THE EVENING N. After keeping Queen Mary ing and in an ido World Photo A STAR, WASHINGTON, THE SECRETARY PRESENTS DIPLOMAS. D. C. TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1926. Secretary of War Davis awarding diplomas at the United States Army War College yesterday. Maj. Max graduating paper. . Garber of Fort Bennings, Ga. (at right), receivin, his Copyright by Harris & Ewing. SPANISH CHURCH OFFICIALS CALL AT THE WHITE HOUS gos of Spain (right) at the White House yesterday afternoon with C: burra. gress. ssador Don Juan Riano y Gayan- asanova and Archbishop Cala- he Catholic officials came to Washington grom Chicago, where they attended the Eucharistic Con- National Photo. FLORIDA FISHERMEN MAK fish wi deep was The fish measured 19 feet across. BIG CATCH. caught near Pensacola, Fla., several day pooned and landed after a battle of four hours and a half. This 2,000-pound devil vs ago. The giant of the Wide World Photo. She was among the passengers who sailed for France yesterday. But before she left, Irene Castle stated that she was “sorry she had started the fad of hobbed hair. Wide World Photo. UDEYV the “Peacl TLL RTISTS HAVE FIELD DAY. hes” Browning cup to Mary Suchier, winner of the Charleston Al Jolson presenting contest at the annual fleld day of the vaudeville artists, at the Polo ew York. VIC BODIES PLAN ADVISORY LIAISON Organjzation Would Con- sist of Delegates From Lo- cal and County Groups. A resolution favéring the proposed establishment of an advisory liaison between the Federation of Citizens® Associations of the District and the civic federations of Montgomery Coun- M d Arlington County -, s tentatively adopted by repre- sentatives of these three organizations at a dinner last night at the Lee House. The proposed organization would be created through an interchange of delegates, and would consider only problems affecting the three com- munities. It would be composed of the president of each federation and three delegates from each. A committee was appointed to work out plans for the advisory laison. A report will be made at a meeting the home of Frank Hewitt in Silver Spring, Md., July 28. The plans de: cided on by this committee will be submitted to the three federations for their action. The organization committee is com- posed of Jesse C. Suter, chairman; Robert E. Plymale, vice chairman, and Maj. R. B. Lawrence, secretar Suter is president of the Federation of Citizens’ Asociations and ex-officio chairman of the Citizens' Advisory Council. Mr. Plymale is president of the Arlington County Civic Federa- tion, and Maj. Lawrence is chairman of a special committee of the Mont- zomery County Civic Federation ap- pointed to discuss the proposed ad- visory liaison with the other civic fed- wrations, Those who attended the dinner last night were Mr. Suter, Proctor L. Dougherty, William McK. Clayton, James G. Yaden, Mr. Plymale, C. M. Kincheloe, . G. Campbell, Arthur Orr, Maj. Lawrence, Col. W. Kroll and Mr. Hewitt. CHARLES F. HUNT DIES. Retired Business Man Succumbs After Long Illness. Charles F. Hunt, 69 years old, re- tired business man, died at his resi- dence, 1752 Church street, yesterday after a long illness. . Mr. Hunt was a native of Indiana, but had lived in this city for the past seven years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary L. Hunt: two sons, ¥arl R. and Maxwell Hunt; two daughters, Miss Gayle Hunt and Miss GGladys Hunt, and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Parker and Mrs. Flora Butler. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'cleck. Interment will be private. Acacia Outing Is Held. Members of the Acacia Mutual Life Association will attend the : ting to be given by the boar directors and officers of the associa- tion today at the hor Club. The program for the day included numer- ous sporting and athletic events as well as dancing, with prizes to he given the winners. Luncheon will he served at the club. is chalrman of the picnic committee. ANNUAL SU: Camp Sims, Congress Heights. MER ENCAMPMENT OF W. TON'S HIGH S Col. Wallace M. Craigie, head milit CHOOL CADET CORPS, ary i a group of cadets. At right: A group of the cadets on the firing line at Camp Sims. Wide World Photo. University of Kansas co-eds adoj suspenders. Here we have Isabel Ashford, a Summer session student, wearing a pair of vari-col- ored “skirt- Vincent. Richards, American tennis star, shaking hands with King George at the Wimbiedon tourna- ment. the court game. Both King George and Queen Mary show considerable terest in Wide World Photo. The camp opened officially Sunday morning, and approximately 100 cadets have ructor of the cadet corps, is camp commandant. The photograph on the left shows Col. Craigie holding a preliminary war game talk with DEATH UNDER INQUIRY. Jake Flannagan, 60, After Passing Into Coma. Succumbs An inquest is belng conducted to- day in an effort to determine the cause of death of Jake Flannagan, 60 years old, who was sent to Casual- ty Hospital yesterday afternoon for observation and diagnosis by Dr. W. B. Baker of Hyattsville, Md., and died six hours later after passing into a coma before definite diagnosis of his condition could be made. Flannagan, according to informa- tion coming to police, had resided with relatives at 6521 Eighteenth street northeast until about nine months ago, when he went to visit Mr. and Mrs. Norman Stanton Bladensburg, Md. He was stricken yesterday morning. R KLAN ACTION ‘DEPLORED.’ Interfering With Graduation at Mt. Rainier School Criticized. A resolution “deploring” the action of members of the Ku Klux Klan in interfering with the graduation exercises of the Mount Rainier, Md., Public School on June 17, because a Catholic priest had been invited to deliver the invocation, has been adopted by the board of directors of | the Mount Rainier Chamber of Com- | recurrence of the floods. Only the poor sections of the city |m merce. The resolution deplores ‘“the action of those who interfered with the pro- gram, both in the policy and in the manner in which it was pursued,” and declared. “*We do not feel such action in any way a_majority of citizens.’ our better The commencement program at the | interfered with because iam A. Cahill of Berwyn, invocation. at ! shows the sentiment of | thinking | FLOOD FATALTES MY BXGED 10 Waters Carried I}way Many Bodies in Mexican Disaster. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 29.—An estl- mate that the total fatalities in the flood at Leon will exceed 1,000 isj given by a correspondent of El Ul versal, who has -just returned from the devastated regions. He says that the exact number of victims never, be known because the flood, waters carried away bodies from Leon and the densely populated neighbor- {ing farming sections. Bodies daily are found in mud left by the receding waters, and thefe are fears in Leon that an epidemic may | result. Thirteen hundred houses \ere | destroyed, and an equal number have been— damaged beyond repair. Six| thousand families are lodged in public | to return to the city in fear of a | suffered badly from the floods. The the better residential sections. The houses there were scarcely damaged { because they are of stone construction. The number of bodies recovered thus far aggregate 100, but 1,000 per- | sons or more are missing. ‘bulldings, while 6,000 more are living| in the open on the hillsides, refusing | which yesterday defeated a Soclalist floods reached two feet in depth in| Sixty Students Il After School Feast; Diagnosed as Scarlet Fever and Poisoning By the Associated Press, 7 , Mass., June 29— y alf of the 136 students and teachers of the Weymouth High School who attended the graduation spread last Thursday were ill today. Thirty-five cases had been diagnosed carlet fever and at least 25 more a | were suffering from ptomaine poison- ing. Others reported septic sore throat. Dr. George O. Donnell of the State Board of Health made the diag- nosis of scarlet fever, The menu for the spread consisted of lobster and potato salad, chicken patties, ice cream, cake and coffee. First indication ‘that everything was not right came Friday, when several of those who had eaten complained of symptoms. of illness. On Saturday an outing, which had been planned for Cape Cod, found only 30 students on hand. and half of those returned to their homes immediately after reach- ing the Summer resort to which they were bound. A complete list of those present at the spread was in the hands of the State investigators, who took charge iof the situation after local physicians had reported that the cases had reached epldemic proportions. A num- ber of the scarlet fever cases were re- ported to be serious. PRUSSIAN VOTE UPHOLDS USE OF ROD IN SCHOOLS Diet Committee Refuses to Abol- ish Corporal Punishment, Even for Primary Pupils. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, June 29.—The dictum “Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child” still is taken seriousiy by the educa- tional committee of the Prussian Diet, motion to discontinue corporal punish- ent in the schools. ; Failing to obtain complete abolition of corporal punishment, the Soclalists attempted to obtain abolition of cor- poral punishment of 'girls, but this also fafled. They then introduced the motion to do away with whipping of children during the first year of pub- lic school when the average age is 6 years. This also met with no suc- cess. The American bison, or true buf- Mr. David Crouch Md., had been invited to deliver the falo, has no bump above the shoul The committee, however, has prom- EX-KAISER’S PROPERTY BILL IN FINAL DEBATE Socialists Expected to Vote for Compromise Measure After Fail- ure to Obtain Confiscation. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 29.—The electorate of Germany having shown by the re- cent referendum that, the country was not in sympathy with complete con- fiscation of the former ruler’'s prop- erties, the Reichstag will begin final debate on the government’s compro- mise bill providing for a settlement of the ex-Kaiser's claims. The Socialists, who suggested the referendum and advocated complete confiscation, failed to reach a decision last night as to their attitude toward the compromise bill. It appears, how- ever, they will vote for the measure, thus insuring the two-thirds majority necessary to carry it and preventing stered for the training course at Washington Star Photo. OPENING OF SESQUI ON SUNDAY UPHELD Exposition Directors Defy Ministerial Objection—Side Shows to Be Restricted. 1 By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June Sesquicentennial International sition 15 to be opened Sunda: withstanding demands of clergymen that State troopers be used, if neces- sary, to close it. The executive committee of the ex- position, in making the decision last night, announced it regarded the expo- sition as an educational, cultural and patriotic celebration of the 150th an- niversary of the signing of the Decla- ration of Independence. The Taj Mahal, which houses the Indian exhibition, and certain dances in the Oriental age will be re. stricted Sunda: The idea of a Sunday opening has been denounced by various minister groups, each claiming it was morally wrong and that it was in violation of the State laws. The Presbytery of Philadelphia de- manded that Gov. Pinchot send State troopers here next Sunday to prevent the gates from being opened. The Ministerial Association of Philadelphia adopted a resolution urging that al members of church choirs withdraw from the exposition chorus. =3 A giant serpent, 40 feet in length, known as the lau, has been seen ised to call a conference soon for fur- ! dissolution of the Reichstag, which 18 recently in the swamps of the Nile ther discussion of the questiom. X inevitable if the bill is defeated. ‘alley. . P Y ’ SUMMER SESSION 0. K. House Authorizes Ways and Means Committee to Sit. | The House authorized its wdts and means committee ing the Summer | man Green had committee hoped reces: explained the Repres see, the Democratic whether tax reductior ! sidered, but Mr. Gr | he aid not expect so. A number Democrats the committee recently ed new tax r on the hasis of an announced Tre | surplus for the present and next fisca | vears. WIDOW'S SUIT NEAR END. feader m | Mrs. Harlow Charges Husband's | Family With Alienating Affections | Special Diepateh to The Star ALEXANDRIA, June 29 ling of testimony for the jy $100,000 Mrs. G Washington a low and family of this cf sumed before a jury in Ci Court today, Judge Howard W presiding. The greater part of the day was ceusumed in hearing the testimony of the plaintiff. - The case may be concluded tomorrow evening. Mrs. Gladys Harlow, compla alleges alienation of the affections of her husband, now dead, by the family of her husband. The tak- laintiff in sht 3. Cowels Harlow of Smith ‘Townley in Governor’s Race. FARGO, N. Dak., June 29 (#).—A. C. Townleyy founder of the Non-Par- tisan League, was entered today as a sticker candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in the North Dakota primary election Wednesday. nant, ! PRINGIPAL PRAISES MORALS IN SCHOOL u S, |A. W. Miller Tells W. C. T. U. ! Children Who Err Are a Small Minority. ! moral standard publie the high | maintained by Washington's | school children, Alvin W. Miller, | principal or High School, speaking before®the Women's Chris- | tian Temperance Union of the Dis- . voiced the conviction that n 2 per cent of our youns people are doing the wrong thing.” He deprecated the habit grown- ups making too much over infrequent | scandals and adopting the viewpoint v of the school chil- are of the same stripe |as the handful which becomes in- volved in unfortunate escapades. Mr. Miller informed the members of the temperance union who wera | gathered at their quarterly | tion at the Takoma Bapitst | that smoking or drinking within the 0ol or 1 the immediate vicinity 1y impossible.” He stated on the other hand. cases are brought to light where boys and girls do smoke and drink, but they repre. )t about 1 boy in 1300 and 1 irl out of about 1.700 Praising Central Charges Are Unproved. He further declared that a thorough investigation had failed to prove any merit in cha made by local church lds concerning immoral conditions chools k by Miller t on the k and tobaceo Williams, followed a n corresponding on was called to « Poilock, first dent, who T i in the | Mrs. Emma f dent, who is in song servic Wheecler, after | were led in pra | Hoage. Minutes and Reports Read. convention L. Lusby, d also by surer; Mrs, . Parks. auditing committee: Mrs. Zdna I tary of the | Young Pe Mrs. R T. Stout. se the Loyal Temper- ance ings were extend- led by Dr. Rue, pastor | of the church: by 3. LaRue {and by Dr. Laur of the coma Park W. Response | to the addresses of welcome was made i by Mrs., Charles V. Durnside. The remainder of the program in- | cluded reports of the board of trus- {tees by Mrs. Eva C. Criswell, treas- urer; Miss Louise Weightman, Union | Signal; Mrs. Charles Montgomery, lit- erature, and noontide prayer, by Mrs. Moffatt Bradley. Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle of the | Women's Rureau of the Police De- | partment will he the principal speak- er at the session this afternoon, when | Miss Helen Pigeon also will address the assembly. The remainder of the program is to include prayer, a salute to the flag, several reports and elec- tien of delegates to the National Con- _vention W. C. T. U., in Los Angeles. £ Wayne B. delegates R which the er by | . the April Miss ¢ Minutes of | were read by | secretary. Rey | Mrs. Georse A. [TV