Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1926, Page 13

GETTING THE “LOW-DOWN"” ON PRIMARY CAMPAIGN IN ILLINOIS, Senators Reed and La Follette are conducting the Senate inquiry in Chicago and attempting to find out how'much it cost to ‘nominate a candidate for the Senate in Ilinols. meambers of the Missouri Society of Chicago. graph are OIL FIRE_ THREATENS WALL STREET. Business in the financial district of New York was stopped b; a manufacturer of and umes. engines and hundreds of firemen fight the blaze. Senator Reed at Iaft. Senator La Foll y this fire in & building occupied hg Great noon crowds watched 2: One woman was seri- Copyright by P. & A. Photos. otte at right. Otheks in the photo- Wide World Photo. IT WAS A WINDY DAY. the photogra M. E. Churel A young h shows just a part of the B i toppled over and the bell went on through to the cycione visited Earlville, N. Y., and e. The steeple of the auditorium. The storm damage is estimated at many thousand dollars. /Copyright by P. & A. Photos. BELGIAN AMBASSADOR TO BE DEAN 6"" DIPLOMATIC CORPS IN WASHINGTON. A recent photo- ph of Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Ambassador, who, with the retirement of Semor Don Juan mnn y Gayangos, Spanish Ambassador, becomes dean of the diplomatic corps. The Belgian Ambassador has represented his country in Washington since 1920. Photo posed in the library of the emb Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. ing and musical instruments was the S. S. Maravi. THREW Si.fiM.flM‘ CARGO OVERBOARD WHEN THEIR SHIP WENT AGROUND. British ship Port Kembla, which went aground four miles off Watling Island, in the Bahamas. of the Islands received a big treat, for the Port Kembla's million-and-a-half-dollar cargo of automobHes, clmrd- thrown overboard. FPhoto shows arrival Rescued crew of the The natives of the crew in New York Copyright by P. & A. Photos. tournament of the naval officers at - the Chevy Chase Club yesterday afternoon. He presented a cup to* the wiuner. Coryright by P. & A. Photos. WITH THE AMERICAN EAGLE. herself for the tournament season. Helen \\'Ill;. Ameriea’s “queen of the tennis courts,” and America’s symbol at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N. Y. Miss Wills has started light practice to prepare Herbert Photo ously injured. - LIQUOR CONTROL IN BAHAMAS SEEN | . ®OUIDA, Djebel Druse, July 28. U. S. May Maintain Intelli- gence Service in Islands-as Result of Pact. By the Amsociated Press. LONDON, July 28 —Aridity threat ens the Bahama Islands insofar as they are a fountain for thirsty stay-at- home Americans. | The oasis where the tenants of rum row get thelr supplies to sell off the | Atlantie Seaboard of the United States | is affectsd by an agreement reached | by Brig. Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews, ! head of prohibition enforcement in the TUnited States, and British officials. The British government gives the American prohibition forces certain latitude in the territorial waters of the Bahamas, lying virtually within an hour's steaming distance of the Florida Coast. Details Kept Secret. Although the details of ‘the agree- ment are being kept secret, it is de- scribed as constituting the greates blow to bootlegging since prohibithen ‘went into effect. It is understood that the United States will be permitted 1o have an intelligence service in the hama Islands to trace liquor ship- ents and also that the British gov- ernment will supervise carefully the use of the British flag by vessals en- gaged In carrying aicohollc cargoes and deal with iInfractions of the law regarding clearances, quarantine and other matters. An official statement says there was no question at the ronference of any. extension of the right of search. The agreement will become effec. tive as soon as the machinery can be set In motion. Master hootleggers who fall into traps likely wil be the | first to know when the new regula- tions are in operation and whether they will “be successful. Andrews in Ireland. | Gen. Andrews has gone .to Ireland, but will return Friday and give a dinner to Sir Austen Chamberlain,| foreign secretary, and other minister- ial department heads. While in Dub- lin he will pay his respects to Presi- dent Cosgrave of the Free States, and Gov. Gen. Timothy Healy. He will go to Paris Saturday and will, sail August 4 for home. Gen. Andrews declined to say how Jong ,he will remain on his present job. 'He declared, however, that his mission to London was the greatest success in his law enforcement cam- paign. ana added that he had enough in his head to give the: bootieggers something to think abdut when he put his pincers into operation. Leaves Walter Reed Hospital. Lieut. Col. John §. Fair, United States Cavalry. who has been under treatment at Walter Reed General Hospital, has been ordered to resime his Auties at Philadelphia as instruc- tor of the Pennsylvania National Guard R - “slways in a tearing: French Find Fleas, Militant and Agile, | Worse Than Druses| By the Associated Press. ~“The French troops who@ire oper- ating against the tribesmen around Damascus have two enemies in the Djebel Haurana—the Druses and the fleas. The soldiers say the fleas are the worse, The Druses scarcely give open battle to the French, but the fleas attack them in mass formation. They leap at the “soldier from all sides, front, rear and on both wings. The correspondent recently slept in an ambulance placed at his dis- position by the commandant of the French troops. The night was a sleapless one. To the orderly-a coai-black Senegalese who " brought his coffee in the morning, the correspondent complained of the close attention given to him by the pests. The Senegalese rolled his eyes, smiled broadly and, show- ing a wonderful display of white teeth, sald, with a touch of scorn: “You Americans have such sen- sitive skins. We don’t mind them.” * FORCE ADVOCATED Dr. Fowler Would Increase Staff Until Cool Weather Ends Biting. Believing that the number of per- sona heing bitten by unmizzled dogs | this, Summer_constitutes an emerg. | ency. Health Officer Fowler today pre- i pared a letter to the Comniissioners, recommending that two employes be added to the pound service - tempo- rarily for the purpose of placing an- other dog-catcher wagon in operation, Dr. Fowler has an old wagon and a horse that could be used in the pound service; for the remainder of the Summer, but he needs a crew to | man the wagon. Congress grants the | Commissioners appropriation annually | to take care of special gemergencies | that cannot be foréseen inadvance, and it is from that fund DF.. Fowler | has suggested a small allotment to en- |large the pound force tempovarily, Muzzling Order in Effect. The muzzling: order of the Commis- sioners will _continue in eéffect unt! | September 80, =o' that there woul. be two months in which. the pound could use two crews on dog-catcher work if Dr. Fowler's request is granted. “The number of dog-bite cases has been larger than usual this Sumper, and the health_officer belleves ft would be i the interest of safety to expend & small sim from. the emer- gency appropriation to operate An extra dog-catcher wagon during the balance of the Summer, g CONDEMNED LAND PRIE 15 PROBLEM McCarl Asked to Decide if 25 Per Cent Overcharge Limit Applies Here. . The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission. has asked the Con- troller General to give it an opinion as to whether the prohibition placed by Congress against the purchase of Iand for park purposes to an amount greater than 25 per cent above the asgessed valuation applies to con- Brown, acting director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public' Parks, sald today that the commission had not yet run into any.snags in. the purchase of land under thla year’s appropriation. Such land has been purchased within the 125 per cent limit, he said. The park commission s anxious to determine whether, if a plot of grotuind which it wants to purchasé for a park and playground is held for a rice -more than 25 per cent higher than the valuation, it ecan institute condemnation proceedings, and then if the jury makes an ar’urd greater than this 125 per cent limit it can“ still pay the bill. it was admitted at the public parks office today that if the Controller General decides question it will be Aiicult-to obtain much of the land which has been laid down in the plans for extension of the public parks. As a matter of fact, there I8 one project now pending for: which the owner.is' asking. mare than the 125 per cent limit. However, the commission has $150,000, or ‘one: fourth of the total appropriation, which it may use for the purchase of land in excess of the limit placed by Congross. JUSEERELC LS i LIQUOR CAR CAPTURED; TWO NEGROES ARRESTED MR Machine Containing 192 Quarts Seized by Dry Squad-—Another Auto ' Found Abandoned. Seizure of two cars and the arrest of the occupants of one of them was { made by Capt. Guy Burlingame's dry. {law enforcement squad - yesterday. Allen Ross and Harry Wiison, both colored, wete arrested with the seizure ot ‘fheir atomobile, which contlm, 192 quarts of aHeged liquor. Another car,seized at Georgla ave- nue ‘and Fairmpnt street, containing 72 quarts of lignor, had been aban- doned by two unidentified white men. The dry squad also selzed a handbag containing six quarts of liquor. just after it had been dropped by an un- identified negro.at Half and M streets gouthwest as he was being trailed by the police. * Assigred as'D. . Veterinarian. Capt. Louls L. Shook! Army ¢ Vets erinary Corps, stationed in this city, gy workers are Is it true that layx urry? o W'lahlngton- has been assigned -to addif 48 District veternarian; - dist demnation proceedings. Maj. Carey H. | adversely on ' they itional- di -comply. wi district ?L % MAY BE LEFT BY Expected to Be Placed in Although slx trunkloads of private | papers and documents, of Abraham | Lincoln now at the Library of Con: | gress probably will not be made public | for 21 years, in accordance with the ! wishes of Robert Todd Lincoln, the Civil War President’s son. who died Monday, other priceless Lincolniana | passessed by the son may he turned {over to the Government by testament- |ary provision, it was learned here to- day. . 13 | * “The historic articles, some of which i |are said to be in Robert Lincoln's | |home In Georgetown, include the | watch which President Lincoin carried | during his public career and the fa- mous Healy portrait, reputed to be the best likeness of Lincoin ever done in ofl. & The Healy painting, a three-quar- | ter-length, life-size - portrait painted | from life, Is understood now to be | hanging in the hall of Robert Lin- | coln’s house, at Thirtleth and N streets. : | If the intentions once expressed to friends by President Lincoln's son are carried out, the painting will be | given to the White House. Robert Lincoln is said to have made known his purposes in this conmection some years ago when the Library of Con- gress suggested that he donate the. portrait to the Government for exhibi- tion in the Capitol. He refused to do fifi, _explaining that he expected eventually to permit it to be hung in the White House. “The son {s known to have cherished this painting very highly, regarding as exceptionally trué to life. Another painting of Lincoln by the same artist, showing Gen. Sherman IMANY PRICELESS LINCOLN RELICS |1t SON TO THE U. S. Famous Painting Hanging in Home in Georgetown White House—Personal Belongings in Collection. describing his famous march to the sea to his commander-in-chief, was destroyed many years ago by fire. A number of remarkably fine photo- graphs of President Lincoln also were in the possessinn of the son, who had them on the walls of his Georgetown idence. Few persons were priv- ileged to see them, hecause of the reclusive nature of their nwner. President Lincoln's watch, a race |old timepiece in itself, was carefully preserved by the son, who tried un successfully for many years to ob- tain posseewion also of the chain which went with it, then in the hands of a Chicago collector of Lincolniana. is not known here whether the chain finally was secured or not, al- though the son at one time consid- ered offering valuable Lincoln doou- ments in exchange for the trinket. ‘The six trunks of papers at the Li- brary* of Congress were given to that Ipstitution in 1919 by Robert Lincoln, who stipulated at that time that they | should not be' made .public until 21 years after his death. The son later consented to a modification of this | proviso so as to leave the matter to the judgment of his surviving de- scendants. These desoendants, it is understood, are not inclined to change | the original agreement. | The donor's reason for making the stipulation, according ‘to Dr. Charles Moore, acting lbrariah of the Library of Congress, was that he felt there was nothing of historic interest in the papers that had not -already - been given to the public by John G. Nicolay and John Hay in their biography of Lincoln. Mr. Lincolf was loath to have the papers put on public view for many years, fearing that they might become the ohject of commer- clalization by drresppnsible writers. | ARMY POST SALE OFF. U. 5. Gives Baltimore Chance to Atquire Fort Armistead Tract. “Public sale of the old ‘Army reserva- tfon of Fort Armistead, Md., which was to have taken place tomorrow;. was “today called off by. Acting Sec- retary MacNider in order that the roperty “might be acquired by the City of Baltimore for park purposes. ' |, ‘Owing to_the increased value of the | property since the original appraise- (ment ‘was made, it will be reappraised and offered to the city at its present value. i McCARL DEF|NES JOBS. . Controlier Gemeril: : MoRel » it | ruled that emploves of the United/ States Agency of the Mixed Claims Commission, for United States and Germany ‘are employes of the: United- States, and therefore belong to the “unclassified ~executive * civil service of the United States.” ‘! The disbureing elerk: of*the commise sion has been called on by McCarl to lecision, which will th- the d ‘bring the employes in question under operation of th irement aet, CREDIT MEN HOLD FETE. New Meombers: Welcomed at An- nual Crab Feast. { New members of the Washington Assoclation of Credit. Men were wel- comed last night at the association's annual orab feast and barbecue held at the new plant of the N. Auth Pro- vision Co.. The host was John N. Auth and the program was arranged under direction of L. T. Watts, chair- man of the weifare committee, and W. F. Simpson, chairman of the membership committee. About 150 were present, . PR et e © Entéftainment’ was furnished by E. R. Smith's Jazz Band, Kin Car roll, Dick Marsh and Mulroe and Kuehling. ¢ v | . P. E. Church Conference Meets. . SWANEE, Tenn., July 28 (#).—The Protéstant Episcopal Conference open- ol Herée last night under the auspices of the University of the South. The sessions 'are expected to continue ‘a month. . ¥ % |ment. and aleo TRAFFIC “CUTTING" ESSPRONDUNEED Condition at Twelfth and Massachusetts Avenue De- clared Improved. Considerable improvement was noted today in the dangerous traffic situa- tion created at Twelfth street and Massachusetts avenue hy the practice of many drivers cutting out of the line of traffic and using the left side of the street in which to speed ahead for places of vantage. Seargt. W. F. Terry and Policeman M. 1. Bridges, hoth of the traffic bu- reau, and who made the arrests yes- terday, were at the intersection from & until'd o'clock this morning and dur- ing this period not one driver turned out of the line. They believe that this situation has been materially cleared hy even so brief a campaign as one day, but they have heen detailed by Inspector E. W. Brown, in charge of the traffic bureaw, to visit other inter- sections where this traffic violation has been reported. The court has, in strong terms, con- demned this practice and indicated a determination to break up the prac- tice of many drivers of cutting in and out of heavy traffic lanes. Harry S. Copperthite appeared before Judge Schuldt this morning and pleaded that he was only out of the line for the length of a couple of cars testerday. However, Judge Schuldt insisted that this was a dangerous practice and said that it must be stopped. Copper- thite was fined $5. » William Pecker, 5509 Thirteenth street, did not appear for trial, but forfeited $3, which he had deposited with the corporation coutsel. Three others did not appear or de. posit collateral and Sergt. Terry is ?:mllnl ‘warrants to be issued for NET CHAMPION ARRESTED Dennison L. Mitchell, Held for Craps Game, Forfeits $5. Dennison L. Mitchell, recent winner of the singles championship in the District publio courts tennis tourna- | ment, and three other youths today forfeited in Police Court $5 collateral x{ch they had given yesterday whén on a charge of engaging in a gambling game in Montrose Park. Jolin A. Robertson, John ii. H man and Howard T. Griffith others accused of shooting craps. The arrests were made by Park Policemen Toland and Browning, acting under orders of Lieut. P. J. Carroll, who sald he had recelved numerous com- plaints from residents of gambling on tennis courts in the park. £ The four youtlis were arraigned be- fore Judgs Isaac R. Hitt. U R SR D. C. Ordnance Officer Transferred D-“unmnu' Y t, B& H“tfl‘ ‘fia ffce fi'i nt, on du the ' ity in of tRé Chlef ‘of ' War Depart- Ordnance Officer, Dis- Delegates arrived here from New York, Canada, the Pacific Coast and every State in the South, by Wh;h?m:*n.w“ the Plca- has been ordered | H. |REED SAYS BALLOT ABUSE | IS WORSE THAN MURDER Chairman of Senate Inquiry Com- mittee, in Speech, Flays Evil Election Practices. *BS the Associated Prose. CHICAGO, July 28— The man who contaminates the liberty of the ballot was adjudged “worse than any mur- derer who has dipped his hands in blood” by Senator James A. Reed of Missourd in an address here. The chairman of the Senate com- mittae investigating senatorial cam- paign ® expenditures in Tliinofs, in | speaking before the Missouri Soclety | of Chicago, also assailed_foreign en- | tangleents and the World Court, which he saw as something not uniike the doetrine of the radical “reds” of Europe. “The age-old striggle for liberty has all been to obtain the boon of freedom for us, to obtain the simple right to cast a ballot which shall register our volce in the naming of who shall fill the seats of our courts and who shall legislate for us,” he said. “Who -would contaminate the use of that right is worse than the miur- derer."” LIUOR HACKED, BAND TELLS POLcE Colored Men Say ‘Stolen Whisky Was>Tal'<en From Them Later. A story of being “hi-jacked” out of seven of a dozen ocases of whisky stolen recently from the drug store of . Hill & Poole, at 3269 M street, was told police teday by five colored men, un- der arrest in connéction’ with the in- vestigation of that and numerous other robberies. g The men, two of whom were arrest- ed for the removal of a safe yester- day from the Sanitary Grocery. store at. 2017 Eleventh street, are said to have told police they sold five cases of the liquor from the Hill & ‘Poole store to a bootlegger for $250. 'While negotiating this sale, they are said to have stated, the other seven cases were taken from them. » The two under arrest who are un- der charges also in connection with e- the safe robbery are Roland B. Flelds and Glovd Holmes., The others are Wade H. Chestnut, 19 years old, of 621 Rhode Island avenue; George ‘Washington, 127, -of ' 1406 Columbla street, apd John Mills, 22, of 929 Fourth street. ki Detectiver are investigating the op- erations- of the ' five men, which are alleged to include also the theft of tires from autorioblies. * THey -are ex- ing tomorrow. B Lieut. ¥: H. D'ndgett. Resigns. Resignation of ®irst ‘Lieut, Frank ., Blodgett, U. Infantry, stationed at Fort- Benni Ga., has g cepted by the President, pected to be given & preliminary hear- \WARREN, 0, IN DIRE FIVANCIAL STRATS |City of 40,000 Will Be Minus | Police Force and Most of Fire Apparatus. By the Associated Press. WARREN, Ohlo, July 28. Financially embarrased to the peint ’n! dire poverty, the city of Warren, with its 40,000 population by Satur. day night will find itself without a Police Department, reduced to one fire station and faced with a public sub scription to buy tires for one of the fire trucks. By an:emergency ordi nance, which the eity council passed last night, the police foree of 16 men will go out of existence Saturday. As it is the policemen and firemen have received no pay for two months. Sherfff John Smith of = Trumbull County and-his deputy will patrol the streets and enforce the law in the city. The sheriff accepted the job from' the gouncll - and promised he would do the best he could. And In the meantime a committee will soleit the business men of the city for funds 4o maintain the Fire Department. The income from whatever fines are as. sessed in Police Court and from city licenses will be used to meet the back salaries of the polieemen. Fyom Bad to Worse. Financially, Warren has gradually been going from bad to worse. Eev. eral months ago it was necessary to Himit the Fire Department to two sta tions. Last night's emergency ordi- nance abolishes one of these. A truck in the remaining station is sorely in need of two new tires, and there, ap- parently, is but one way to get them Businesr men agreed to take up a collection to buy, the tires. The council's stringent measures, far as it could learn from Attorney General Crabbe vesterday, are legal. A telegram was- received from the attorney general volcing his opinion that the abolishment of the police force was within the right of the council. The growth of the city from 10,000 in 1910 to 40,000 in 1926, without a corresponding increase in revenue, is blamed for the present situation. Special Tax for Lights. Lighting facilities will be maintain ed through a proposed tax of 6 cents per front foot féor street ‘lights, the tax to yleld a sum estimated at $36, 000 a year. The city at one time con sidered an occupational tax, but dis- covered that 6,000 of its population, all mill workers, lived outside the eity. One 'member ‘of the discharged police force, Inspector Harry “E. Laukart, has been under suspension for two days charged with accepting a $40 bribe from the proprietor of a “speakeasy.” He was second in com- mand of the forfce. He is scheduled to have a hearing .Frida: Will Address Negroes. | “The Redemption of Afrfcan Ne. groes in Liberia” ‘will be the subject *of an address tonight at 8 o'clock at N ‘a meeting of the Universal Improvement Association,