Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1926, Page 17

- THE IN THE WAKE OF THE TROPICAL HURRICANE. Wreckage left in Biscayne Bay, on the lower coast of Florida, by the terrific storm, which also swept the Bahamas, causing more than 200 fatalitics among the BODY OF ROBERT TODD LINCOLN IS PLACED IN VAULT. Simnpli reports, and damage estimated at more than $10,000,000. ckage on the Florida beac These are some Photo by Act of the martyred President Lincoln at his Summer home in Manchester, V Beckwith of Washington, grandson of Robert Lincol; ing coffin to a vault from uhh‘h it will be sent !n \ DOGTORS CLEARED OF INSURANCE SLUR Misstatements of Insured, Rather Than Physicians, Blamed by Bryan. Misstatements of the Insured rather than any. willful intent on the part of physicians is responsible for the alleged falsification of sick and accident claims, complained of | by Thomas M. Baldwin, jr. Districi superintendent of insurance, in his annual report to the sloners according to F. B. Br deputy superintendent of insur: plied today to the request of Dr. J A. Gannon, chairman of the execu tive committee of the District Medi- eal Society, that the names of doc- tors gnilty of conspiracy to defraud ingnrance companies by making out preudo claims he made public. Supt. Baldwin has left Washing- ton and is not expected to until Monday and Deputy Bryan took the liberty of answering Dr. Gannon's communication of yester- day, which declared that the charges had cast a “slur’ upon the medical profession and should be removed. No Written Charges Filed. “No written accusations have ever heen filed with this department by any insurance companies in regard to the practice of doctors, Bryan's reply. “However is 1o doubt that some dishonesty exists in the signing of claim blanks as be- iween a few doctors and those in- sured under these small policies, but Jjust who is to blame is a question that can never be decided by guess- 4ng. nor is_any one willing to accuse Another. It is my opinion that it ts generally a case of misstatement by the insured rather than any will- ful intent on the part of ”‘? doc- tors that has caused this trouble. “I'am sure that Mr. Baldwin in- tended no indictment of the medical profession as such, but merely re- cited the incident as part of the re- sume of conditions in the insurance business in the District of Columbia. That a very small number of doctors are involved in the controversy is a certainty, and since the informa- tlon has come from telephone con- versations in regard to the settle- ment of claims, no re made of the compl Companies Not Mr. Bryan also explained that the four insurance companies—the Con tinental Life Insurance. the Life and Casualty Company of Tennessee, the Capital City Benefit Society and the | People’s Life Insurance (o.—men- tioned previously as complainants of | the pyactice, had not done so. The names of these companies were ziven, he sald, as possihle sources of informdiion as to th the doctors who have “indulged the practice of fraud “These companies,” stated, cavriers of health and accident lines | in this eity.” Mr. B e . L Employes’ Outing Planned. Employes of the Review and Herald{ Publishing Company of Takoma Park, D. C.. will hold their gnnual outing | on Tuesday at Chesapeake Beach. The excursion will be in the form of | #, big family picnic, with no set pro- | gram.- R. W. Conard, superintendent of the plant, i8 in charge of arrange- ments. return | ald Mr. | names of | in | “are among the most active | Objects to Midgett As HIS Legal Name Thomas O'Neal AIi-IgNI Jr. who is sald to he ubout 6 feet tall, yesterday | asked the District Supreme Court to take the word Midgett from his known as Thomas ©O'Neal petitioner, who it only 18 years old, filed the petition through his father, Thomas O'Nell Midgett, sv The boy says he ix employed on a dally newspaper as a and is frequently embarrassed when | introduced to angers because of | his name. He. finds the name Midgett a hinderance in business as well 155 seially. He Is represented by Attorney W. A. Coombe. FARMERS PROTEST BUSTRUCK BURDEN Taxes Higher Because of De- struction of Country Roads, They Tell I. C. C. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 30.—Destruction of country roads by motor bus trans- portation, and discontent by farmers { with their burden of hard-road main- tenance yesterday came before the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing -on automobile trucks and busses. The three-day hearing was completed. Representatives of farmers of nor- thern Texas and the Chicago area declared that they could not get along without the motor carriers, but felt that the commission should make some recommendation that would divide the burden of taxation which the farmer is now forced to shoulder. Full Hearing Promised. Commissioner Fsch explained that as this hearing is.only the first of a series to be conducted, the problem of the farmers would be given a full hearing in time. Bighty-five per cent of the gross destruction to roads in the rural dis- tricts rusults from bus and truck travel, which in a large degree use hard tires, R. D. Bowen of Paris, Tex.. told Commissioner Esch, pre- senting the estimate of road experts. J. P. Haynes, traffic director of | the Chicago Association of Com- merce, suggested that the motor truck industry be left free to find | its place as a common carrier. He | argued that for hauls of 75 to 100 ;jmiles, motor trucks give the best service, can carry nearly every kind | of commodity carrled by rail, can | reuch construction jobs that are not accessible to raflroads, and ean pro- vide emergency overnight ser within reasonable distances. Give Trucks Time. Kahl, traffic manager for Warner and Co., also de- red that Federal control should ‘-n\\nlt the time when motor trans- portation had found its place-in in- dustry. Interstate regulation was opposed | by H. R. Camp, representing the | National Tea_Co., who said his firm { operated 118 trucks, and through ‘ them gained a better control of their | shipping, quicker dellveries, and a better regulation of schedules. The commission’s hearing will be continued In St. Paul, Minn, today. | Sprague, IYouth Six Feet Tall‘ name and allow him henceforth to be | The | stenographer ! 1 pne of :m pallbearers. W H." WATERS LAQHIVG THE NE“' VI E\E’l‘l AN between Miami and Miami Beach are shown lashed into a tumult by the recent hurri EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, AIR. Coolidge at Paul ommercial aviation. and hs caller entering executive offices at Paul Smlth manufact 3 ports bri; prospects lur nferred. A POLICE pmobile of the ged badge of ntendent CAUSEWAY AT Il'll‘erI“III |m||u= of brigh D. . FRIDAY, Edsel Ford, son of the automobile ‘. vl here they World Phot JULY The new Iushznla mh!nh’d Maj. Kdw a e. ic| l.el. \\|ll| Star Photo. for the 3. Hes: W ashing MIAMI. The usually calm waters spanned by the picturesque bridge icane which swept the Bahamas and the lower Florida coast. - 30, 1926. PROBING THE COST OF THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY. cago, where the Senate investigating committee is conducting its Seated at table with backs to camera, at right, are Senators Jam primary election contest. ert M. La Follette. AMPHIBIOUS YOU Juveniles from the rk pool. Gail Halde 1 Photo by Acme. 11 CARMEN IN INDIANA GET SENTENCE TODAY Two Union Vice Presidents Among Those Held Guilty of Con- tempt in Strike. By the Associated Prese. INDIANAPOLIS, July 30.—Eleven men, four of whom have been found guilty and seven who pleaded guilty, will appear today in Federal Court for disposition of contempt charges made against them in connection with violation of an injunction to pre- vent |he car strike, which began here July 5. Jefferson Fade, former car com- pany employe, was found. guilty of contempt yesterday. Judge Robert C. Baltzell had already returned a ver- dict of guilty against two officials of the carmen’s national organization, and Edgar Day of lndlam\po“s ‘was found guilty by a jury. “The two union officers who are be- ing held in the Marion County jail without bond and who will receive sentence today, are John M. Parker of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Robert B. Armstrong of St. Louis, vice presi- dents of the Amalgamated Assoclation of Street and Electric Rallway Work- ers. They are preparing to take their case to the Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. The Ohlo Federation of Labor, in convention at Akron, Ohio, today as- suiled -Judge Baltzell for remanding Parker and- Armstrong to jall, and protested to President Coolidge and Gov. Jackson of Indiana. Although practically normal street car service has been maintained in the daytime since the first few days of the strike, occasional acts of van. dalism, including the placing of explo- slves on tracks, have hampered service late at night. A When building a ‘house the Jap- anese construct the roof first, num- ber the pieces, take it down, and then put it back again when the house is completed. The kitchen is put in the front of the house anfl the best rooms in the back. Disbarred Lawyer Cites Noah’s Case Petitioning Court for Reinstatement By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kan., July “30.—Disbar- red because a jug of whisky was found on the back porch of his home, Roy Bieber, Moline lawyer, turned vesterday from Kansas statute books to the Bible in petitioning the Supreme Court for reinstatement in his pro- fession. 5 After declaring mere possession of liquor_does not involve moral turpi- tude, Bieber cited a cage from the Old Testament; “When Noah, after the deluge, drank of the wine from his newly ac- quired vineyard and experierced the first recorded intoxication the cir- cumstances were inquired into and without ostracism, the unfortunate in- cldent was cloged. * * * Noah's death at the age of 950 was not conclusive that the sin of his youth was punished by a shortened life. “Many in_olden days erred through wine, and drunkenness was punished and censured, but, so far as we have ascertained, never until the decision of the case of State versus Bieber has any monarchy or democ- racy found it necessary to take away as much as even the value of the right to earn a livelihood in a ‘little Liberian village,” or the city of Mo- line, Kans., without an inquiry into the facts “In the light of the decision, one can but wonder what effect it would have had upon the brilllant member- ship of the Sanhedrin had some lo- cal peace officer happened upon the marriage festivities at Cana after the performance of the first recorded mir- acle.” After saying that shaving lotions and cleaning compounds frequently contain enough alcohol to come under the ban of the Kansas prohibition law, Bieber asked in his petition whether any of the Supreme Court justices felt they should resign and abandon’ the legal profession if any such substance were found in their homes. Bieber was disbarred July 10. The Supreme Court handed down an opin- ion stating that an attorney ought to be a help and not a handrance in the suppression of intoxicants, RHODE ISLAND LIGHTING PLEA GOES T0 D. C. HEADS Highway Has Gas Illumination at Some Points—Traffic Shows Big Increase. The petition of the Rhade TIsland Avenue Citizens' Association for in- stallation of brighter street lamps on Rhode Island avenue from Fourteenth street to Fourth street northeast, passed at the association’s meeting Thursday, will be laid before the. Dis- trict Commissioners ~with recom- mendations for early’ and careful con- sideration, Henry E. Spitzbergen, chairman of the legislative committee, declared today. Declaring the present Ilghu on the highway to be antiquated and inade- quate, Mr. Spitzbergen poinis out that _since the street has been'desig- system, traffic there has tremendously increased, adding to the dangers re- sulting from inadequate lights. At some places on the avenue gas lights still are in-use, he reminds the Commissioners, and at other points lights are on but one side of the thoroughfure. "The association is re- questing installation of electric lights. Action by the assoclation was upani- mous, OFF FOR INSPECTION. ien, Eli A, Helmick, Inspector General of the Army, left here. yester. day afterncon for Fort Eustis, near Newport News, Va., for the purpose of making a thorough inspection of the civilian military training activities under way at that post. The District of Columbia is well represented at the camp. Gen. Helmick will spend two days at Fort Fustis and later in the month nated as one of the arterial highways, under the operatign of the new traffic will make an inspection of similar ac- tivities at Camp Meade, Md. PEACE PACT SIGNED BY CHICAGO PRINTERS Franklin Association and 4,300 Employes Will Form Joint Board to Settle Disputes. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO July 30.—Provisions looking toward a true understanding werea made in a new three-year contract between the Franklin As- sociation of Chicago, theé commercial printing firms, and their 4,300 union printer emplayes, announced yéster- day. The instrument, signed after more than a year of negotiation which several times threatened to be broken by & sirike for which a “war chest” of $250,000 was obtained, granted in- creases of $3 weekly. Its unique and forward-looking paragraph is found in a stipulation for the establishment of an industrial commission of 10 members, five from each group, which in case of disputes during the life of the contract will become a trail board. Should 30 days of consideration fail to effect an agree- ment, a mediator shall be called in, although Hhe cannot vote. Walter B. Patterson, who sat as chairman of the employers' com- mittee, -declared the Industrial com- mission will provide - an opportunity for building up a spirit of mutual confildence not possible before, and will permit the ironing out of minor differences before they reach major proportions. The new contract will date from July 26. Under it .printers employed at day work will receive $54 for a 44-hour week, while night workers will receive $58 for the same number of hours, . The remaining unlon printers in Chicago, employed by the newspapers, signed a new contract last Saturday. A panorama view nquiry oungste: of the Federal courtroom in Chi- to expenditures in the recent Reed and Rob- Photo The fan swimming team y-diving show at the Wardman are touring the ted Sta Wide World Photos, Gasoline in Lamp Retrocative to May 27, it provides a $3 a_week increase for the first yeas and $1 weekly increase in each of the next two years, By Mistake Costs Youn,b Glrl Life | | Filli a gasoline cost Groges, G-y Mr. and Mr: Chicamuxen, kerosene “laump with the life of Vergie ar-old daughter of Thomas Groges of Charles County, Md. The child died vesterday at Providence Hospital from burns on the face, body and hands. Cor oner Nevitt gave a certificate of accidental death. The lamp, which had been filled by mistake with the wrong fuel, exploded Wednesday night, en veloping the little girl in a sheet of flame. She was burned so badly that physiclans at the hos- pital were unable to be of assist- ance BOYLES SUSPENDED 2 YEARS BY JUDGE Alabama Attorney, Linked With Fraud Case, Still Faces Rum Charge. —_— | By the Associated Press. i MOBILE, Ala.. July 30.—Aubrey Boyles, former United States district attorney for the south Alabama dis- trict, was suspended for two years and taxed with the cost of conducting the trial late vesterday by Judge W. I.| Grubb. Boyles was on trial in disbar- ment proceedings. Suspension instead of disbarment was resorted to in view of mitigating circumstances. Judge Grubb's preliminary remarks indicated his decision was based con- siderably on evidence relating to what he considered amounted to Boyles' aid ing Harry G. French to commit a fraud against John H. McEvoy several years ago, while French was acting as a_Government informer against al- leged bootleggers and reporting to Boyles. udge Grubb referred to Boyles' statements concerning Judge Robert T. Ervin of the southern district of Alabama at a conference with the At-! torney General in Washington, but in view of Boyles' attitude on the sub- ject ruled they were not sufficient for | disbarment, but were for discipline. | Judge Ervin's citation to Boyles to | show cause why he should \not be dis- barred from practice in the United States court followed the failure of the Senate a number of weeks ago to confirm the President’s nomination of Boyles for a second term. Boyles is yet to face an indictment returned by a Federal grand jury charging him with transporting and possessing prohibited liquor from (lovernment storage room. He ix also cited by the State Bar Association to show cause why. he should not be dis- barred in the State. 'HOOKING TURTLE FATAL. NEW YORK, July 30 (#). Louis J. Rhead. 89-year-old artist and sports- man, died yesterday at his country home at Amityville, “Lond Island, of a | Keves declares | naped at Ocean Beach May EVANGELIST T0 GET SHOWDOWN ASKED | Grand Jury Will Be Given New and Startling Data. Keyes Declares. By the Associgted Press. LOS ANGELES. July 30.—Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson's demand for a “show down" in the investiga- tion of her disappearance case has heen granted. District Attorney Asa the demand will be met with presentation of “new and riling” evidence before the grand ury, which reconvenes next Tuesday. The grand jury also will be asked to consider whether any of the wit- nesses at the previous session, in- cluding the Tos Angeles pastor, were gullty of perjur Mother Backs Evangelist. Mrs. McPherson is supported in her demand for a complete investigation of her 3i-day absence from Angelus Temple, of which she is pastor, her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and other temple leaders. Her foi- lowers maintain the pastor was kid 18, taken to Mexico and held for ransom by two men and a woman, and that she finally escaped, and after hiking across the desert reappeared exhausi- ed in Agua Prieta, across the border from Douglas, Ari Officials here are skeptical and have | been looking into reports that for a part of the time at least the pastor may " have been in Carmel, an art | colony near Monterey. Authorities also claim to have evi- dence that Kenneth G. Ormiston. former temple radio operator and friend of the evangelist, visited Car- mel during the time the woman identified as Mrs. McPherson was there. It was learned last night that evidence has been revealed which puts Mrs. McPherson in Los Angelas on June 19, four davs before she re appeared in Agua Prieta. All this, it declared at Angelus Temple, is but art of a plot to “get” the evangelist. Finger Prints Are Found. Assistant _ District _ Attorney Joe Ryan and Chief of Detectives Cline who recently investigated the Carmel angle, came back with new evidence with which to confront Mrs. McPher- son when she appears before the jury next Tuesday. The evidence includes finger prints found in a cottage there which the authoritles desire to com- pare with Mrs. McPherson's. So far she has declined to have her finger prints taken, declaring it all “a lot of nonsense.” But officials have obtain- ed what they aver is one of her finger prints off an automobile, of which a study s being made. to him to come forward and clear her name, AR S Policemen Sued for Damages. M. W. Settle and H. If. Carper, policemen, were sued vesterday for {$15.000 damages for alleged assault llml battery by Olin E. Jordan, an automobile mechanic, of 2819 Q street. Through Attorney J. Robert Esher, the plaintiff says he was opening the door of his place of employment, at 1913 M street, last Christmds when heart attack believed to have been in- duced by his exertions recently in hooking and landing a 30-pound turtle which had been devastating the trout ponds on his estate. Mr. Rhead was well known as an illustrator of children’'s books and as an author of books on angling. the policemen attacked and beat him. The men were convicted of the as- sault before the trial board and fined $50 each. Records in thelr trial show they thought a package of Christmas articles Jordan was carrying contain- liquor.