Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1926, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR,” WASHINGTON, D. 0, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926. ING THROUGH THE GREATEST CRISIS OF THEIR HISTORY. Two of the Catholic cathedrals of Mexico uny, to which thousands BALL BATTLE BETWEEN POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN. The committee for the game, to he ecent days have been flockin L property, becomes effe ious offices. The edifice at for last devotional exercises before the government's regulation, under which it assumes possession of all tomorrow. the Catholic priests have been ordered by the archbishopric to withdraw from performance of left is the Cathedral of San Diego and that at the right the Cathedral of La Santa Vera Cruz. Copyright, P. & A. Photos. ARKANGING Li In the front row, left to right, are Supt. of Police Edw ans and Odell S. Smith, chairman of the committee. Fire ( eorge Watson on Star Photo SHOWIT THE! Cai Zone is shown with K R_AQUATIC iing_troupe g die Moran, legless TS AT WALTER REED HOSPITAL. ¢ an exhibition yesterday in the hospital swimm veteran at the hospital, who is also an accomplished sw Youngsters of the famous pool. The team mer. » Copyright P. Photos, & A WITNESS RECOUNTS PLOTTOKILL OSAGE: Burkhart Says Ramsey and Hale Planned Slaying to Get Insurance. July 31.—Detalls to kill Henry | the col 25,000 life insurance polic: day by Erne: “ourt trial of ed conspirac Indian, Burkhart ¥ his uncle, William K 1sey for Roan’s murde irkhart-is under sentence of life | prisonment for his confessed im- | ation in the dynamiting of the W. | Smith home in Fairfax, another | me that Government and State au- | thorities lay at Hale's door. | Hale Ramsey plotted Roan's | feath at resort maintained by | Henry Grammer, a former rodeo per- former, now dead, Burkhart testified Burkhart said he accompanied his un- | cle to the Grammer ranch *‘just for the ride. Planned to Buy Car. ater 1 talked with * Burkh ntinued. ‘“He said | a pointed out Roan to Ramsey and as did not have any W to get around, he was going to by him a small car. F id he was going to give him s, He said | people t $500 in addition to the Ramsey did not want him with 1. Later he said he bought the car and after Roan w: killed Ifale sald he hud given him the $500. 1 saw Ramsey riding in the car before Roan was killed. i “About 30 minutes after Roan was | supposed to have been killed, I talked | to Ramsey. “Tell Hale 's done.” [ as ‘buniped the him where the j the | Told of Death. “The next morning I talked with Hale. 1 told him what Ramsey had | told me to tell him Later I talked | with Hale before the body was found. I told Hale, John Morris and I had gone near the pasture. “Hale told me to some one else find the body. “Soon after paid Ramsey Ramsey didn't 30 days. “After the death of Roan Hale said the insurance company had not paid him and that they would have to— they couldn’t turn him down.” Hale now has a civil suit pending against the insurance company, seek- ing to collect. would bet’| have a dollar left in ISRAEL ZANGWILL ILL. Complete, Although Slow, Recov- ' ery Is Hoped For. LONDON, July 31 UP).—Izrael Zangwill, the noted Jewish author, § seriously, ill at his home in East tion. A telephone inquirs home this morning elicited this s ment from a spokesman: “Mr. Zangwill is seriously ill, but his doctors consider that complete, although slow, recovery may be hoped for. SRR Crying is the refuge of plain women | but the ruin of pretty ones. Emulating Durkin, Youth Is Jailed For Threat Note By the Associated Press. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, July 31. —A desi Martin Durkin, caused the arrest here yesterday of John Chapman, 20, on a chafge of send- ing threatening letters to George Sharpe, 70, retired wealthy manu- facturer. Chapman is married and has two children. Chapman wrote the manufactur- er asking for $16,000 under penalty of death. would have returned the money to Sharpe,” said Chap- man, “I only wanted to see if I could get It.' POLICE WILL STAY ONJOB IN WARREN | Official Red Tape Holds Up Ordinance to Vacate. Sheriff Also to Patrol. By the Associated Press. WARR Ohio, July 31.—Indi- cations today are that two sets of office police Warren tonight. Al- though a temporary injunction is in effect enjoining city council from en- forcing its ordinance abolishing the police force at midnight, councilmen say they can do nothing but go through with thelr program. The ordinance was passed Monday as an emergency measure because the city has no money to pay police. Policemen~say. they have received no official notice of the ordinance and will continue on hte job. While Sheriff John Smith refuses to make a state- ment, it is known he is preparing to police the city. Councilmen contend that only part of the ordinance in which the safety director is ordered to turn over police stations and other property to the sheriff is affected by the injunction, which seeks to prevent all city execu- ives from interferring with the police department. . Council eannot recind its action be- fore the ordinance becomes effective. It can vote informally to request the sheriff to police the city, but under a State law, which provides that a call for a special meeting must be issued 24 hours in advance, it can take no formal .action. Several councilmen early today had received no call. Requests that council reseind its action were discussed informally at a mecting which lasted nearly all night, but no announcement was made. Actress Seeks Divorce. LOS ANGELES, July 31 ®.— Cleta Smith, known in vaudeville as Cleta~Mack, filed suit here Thursday for divorce from Willlam H. Smith, New York theatrical producer, The clress’ suit charged that Smirh cked her into ‘going into a New k rooming house, where she was heid until she consented to marry him, the marriage taking place December 17, 1921. She asks $200 a week alimony and $5,000 attorney fees. : t : : P : Men can believe the impossible, bu never the improbable. ! GE’{TINQGQN,EYEI’;I"L; (_)rl“ LONDON. . t: ary of reasury, e T b of the British metropolis on his visit ment, taking a bird’s-eve view Failed but undaunted. Miss Mer- cedes Gleitze, young London typ- ist, who tried to im the English Channel last week. She intends to challenge the tricky channel waters again soon. Copsright P. & A. Photos. Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews, in_charge of prohibition enforce- there in connection with the rum-running problem. fon bound. Aftorney General t for his departure i a four-week out home. He President Cool- e Camp hefore rs to v White F courthouse today. FOUNDER OF THE NATIONAL GR. Oliver Hudson Kelley, founder grave in Rock Creek Cemetery. E IS HONORED. d_chief orga the National Gl Mrs. Elmer E. Reynolds is shown A mgnument was veiled yesterday to ge, at the agricultural leader’s naking an address at the monument. Copyright P. & A. Photos COURTHOUSE GETS ANNUAL BATH. The Distriet Courthouse felt the refreshing stream of a fire hose yesterday and feels like a new Washington Star Photos. SHENANDOAH BOOSTERS TO START FOR CANADA 4,000-Mile Trip Through New Eng- land to Spread News of Valley Opportunities. Special Dispatch to The Star. RRISONBURG, Va., July 31— ng a message of greeting to the North, New England and Canada and an invitation to become acquainted with the resources and attractions of the Shenandoah Valley, 230 booster ex- cursionists will leave here Tuesday on a special train which will carry them on their 4,000-mile trip, lasting 10 days. Col. Howard J. Benchoff of Wood- stock, president of the Shenandoah Valley, Inc., which is sponsoring the Northern special, as it did the Apple Blossom Special to Florida last Win- ter, heads the party. which repre- sents every phase of the valley's life. These boosters from 10 valley coun- ties include bankers, merchants, farmers, orchardists, lawyers, minis- ters, doctors, educators, ordinary busi- ness men and just plain citizens. They are combining the pleasure of the Jjourney with an opportunity to fur- ther broadcast their home country. The. Handley High School Band of Winchester will play along the route and, with speeches by various members of the party, will provide programs for a half dozen radio stations along the way. Citizens of Winchester subscribed $3,300 to defray the expenses of their young musicians, of whom they are justly proud Paris Plane Carries 20. PARIS, July 31 (®).—A new cross- c¢hannel giant plane has . arrived at the flying fleld at Le Bourget from Croyden. ‘It carried 16 passen- gers and covered the distance in 1 hour and 57 minutes. The plane re- turned soon afterward to England with 12 passengers. The machine is built to accommodate 20 pas lfel'! and a crew of four, ¥ R Police Force Will Wage Vigorous War To Rid City Lots of Unsightly Weeds Orders directing the entire Metro- politan police forve to begin a con- certed campaign to beautify the city and ald in the maintenance of its healthful and sanitary conditions were issued yesterday by Maj. Ed- win B. Hesse, superintendent. The police were insjructed to con- centrate first on property which has become unsightly through a heavy growth of weeds. If weeds more than 4 inches in height are found the instructions were for the officers to notify the occupants and call their attention to the law which forbids higher growth. “It should be borne in mind, how- ever, that every ' effort should be made to bring about the desired re- sult without recourse to law.” said Maj. Hesse's orders, “and to that end you ‘will impress upon persons re- sponsible for violations of such law the fact that removal of weeds will help greatly in the general ‘plan for beautifying the cit: “It is the desire of headquarters that members of the force manifest a lively interest in_ efforts to beautify the city and in the maintenance of healthful and sanitary conditions.” MISS MABEL SATTERLEE, MORGAN’S NIECE, TO WED No Date Announced, for Union to Francis Abbott Ingalls, Jr., Also of New York. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, July 31.—Miss Mabel Morgan Satterlee, a niece of J. P. Morgan *and of Miss Anne Morgan, 1s to be married to Francis Abbott In- galls, ir. No date for the wedding was named in announcements by Miss Satterlee's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, of New York and Green- wich, Conn. Ingalls is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Abbott Ingalls of New York. He s a Harvard graduate and served in the World War. He is a grandson of David H. Houghtaling, prominent tea merchant and a director of the United States Life Insurance Co. ey Life is not a speculation. It is a sacrament. - Its {deal is love. Its puri- fication is sacrifice. FRANCE FEELS QUAKE, LITTLE DAMAGE DONE Chimney Falls and Crockery Is Broken—Tremors Accompanied by Deep Rumblings. By the Associated Press, PARIS, July 31.—Paris and the whole of West® France, from Hayre to 1./Orient, =experienced a small earthquake last night. With the ex- ception of a tall chimney, which col- lapsed at Coutainville and the break- ing of crockery, no damage was ‘done. The fremors were accompanied at some places with deep rumblings. The weather was fine and the sea calm. i g K Cobham on Way to Montok. SINGAPORE, July 31 ‘U®)-—Alan J. Cobham, the British aviator who is on a flight from England _to- Australi d return, started - today for ’fi*ok, Baka 1sland, In-the Dutch Indies. Straits Settlements, | WIFE CLEARS PROBATE OF E. R. THOMAS’ WILL Mrs. Elizabeth Finley Thomas Re- moves Caveat Entered for Son When Document Was Filed. By the Associated Press. VEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July probate of the will of card Russell Thomas, New York and Palm Beach, is to be executed within a few @ays as a result of the removal of a caveat against the will by a former wife of the dead man. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas, last wife of the deceased, was bequeathed ap- proximately $£500,000. Mr. Thomas' mother was awarded enough property to net an annual income of $25,000 and his last wife’s mother enough property to earn a yearly income of $9.000. Mrs. Elizabeth Finely Thomas entered the caveat in_behalf of her son, Samuel Finley Thomas, almost simultaneously with the filing of the will. According to the document, Sarfiuel Finley Thomas shall receive a trust fund at the death of Mrs. Lucy Cot- ton Thomas. : LR g MLLE. CURIE TO WED. Daughter of Radium Discoverers ‘Will Marry Doctor. PARIS, July 31 (P).—Mlle. Irene Curie, daughter of Mme, Curie, co- discoverer with her late husband ‘of radium, is to be married, probably at the end of September, to Dr. ¥. Joliot, who has been working in the Curie laboratory on radium experiments. Mme. Curie and Irene are in Brazil at present but will ‘return to Paris in late September. The engagement became Known to Intimate friends of the family about & month ago and cansed much surprise, especially to the mother, Irene recemtly made im portant discoveries in -radioactivity, She is 26 and Dr. Joliot is 'two or three years younger. 1 Missionary Admits He Branded Boy Who Stole Apples By the Asso TOKIO, July the Tokio Asahi Korea, says Dr. C. American medi went on trial vang on charg ed guilty and that th adjournéd for sentence. curator bemanded a sentence of three months’ imprisonment. Haysmeir branded a small Ko- rean boy on both cheeks with ac some months ago after he hi caught the lad stealing apples from the missionary’s orchard. The Ko- rean word for “thief” was burned , on the boy. Dr. Haysmeir said he had no idea that the acid marks would be permanent. 59 TAKEN IN DRUG * RADS INNORFOLK Seven Pharmacists Among Prisoners of 47 U. S. Agents and 125 Policemen. ed Pres -A dispatch to from Seoul, A. Haysmelr, ¢ at Ping- . plead- was ‘The pro- By the Associated Prees. NORFOLK, Va. July 31.—Fifty- nine persons—7 druggists and 52 al- leged narcotics venders—are under arrest here today on charges of vio- lating the Harrison act, as a result of the most spectacular attempt ever niade to stamp out the¥llicit narcotic traflic in the five States composing the Washington division. Forty-seven Federal narcotic agents brought here from 10 States vester- day afternoon joined with 125 city policemen in making the biggest fseries of raids ever attempted in this section, according to Col. L. G. Nutt, chief of the narcotic division of the Treasury Department, who was here during the crusade. Five of the druggists have heen re- leased on bail of $10,000 each until next week, when all of the defendants will be given preliminary hearings be- fore a United States commissioner. The other defendani had not fur- nished bail early today. The arrests were made as a result of evidence collected during the last two months, officlals in -charge an- nounced. DRESS REFORM IN ITALY. Queen Backs Movements Against Paris Dictation of Styles. ROME, July 31 (#).—To discourage Italian women in looking to Paris as the world fashion center a national women's consortium has been found- ed, under the patronage of the Queen, by Secretary General Turati of the ‘Fascist party. Women of the nobiiity and those socially prominent are tu participate in the movement, which is in line with the Fascist campaign for économy. It is intended to carty on a propa- ganda campaign in favor of abandon- ing foreign styles and. products in women’s clothew and household fur- nishings and cidentally to bring about’ more lest fashions for women. . & DONALDSONKILLING BLAMED ONEXPOSE Ex-Convict, Slain in Hotel, | Had Fought “Bunco” Ring and Tracked Fugitive. \ By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, July 31.—Efforts of Bert Donaldson, special investigator for the county solicitor general, to rid Atlanta million-dollar “bunco” ring sev | eral s ago, and his subsequent | persistence in tracking down Jack Wil son, wanted for murder, are believed | by police to have led to his slaying {in a fashionable hotel here Thursda | night. Donmldson was found dead | with_two shotgun wounds in his head and back. | Selicitor General John A. Boykin last night advanced the theory that gunmen had been imported from Chi cago by the local criminal element | The investigator left his home Thur day in response to a telephone c Alarmed at_his failure to return, his wife notificd detectives, who found the body. | The position of the body and the presence of a chair in a clothes closet in a room indicated that the slayer waited there for his victim and fired without warning. Donaldson was un- armed. . Employes of the hotel reported hear- ing two shots. The detective is also reported to have been seen about the hotel Thursday night with three | other men, none of whom was known {to hotel employes. Investigation of Donaldson’s police record showed he once served a_one ear sentence in the Atlanta Peni- tentiary in connection with the rob bery of a post office. He pleaded gullty following his capture in Mil waukee. He also was arrested fol | lowing the $300,000 mail robbery at Rochester, N. Y., for which “Dutch” Anderson, associate of Gerald Chay man, was originally sentenced to At- lanta. Donaldson was released. After coming to Atlanta Donaldson renounced his criminal life, was or- dained to the ministry and began his work of prison reform. | ot & 1 NEW DYNAMITE PLANT. Site Selected 10 Miles Outside of Birmingham, Ala. WILMINGTON, Del., July 31 (® —Construction of a large dynamite plant, designed to supply high ex plosives to the Birmingham, Ala mining districts and the South Atlantic Gulf States at close range, will be undertaken this Fail. E. I. duPont Nemours & Co., announced yesterday. An option already has been taken on 1,240 acres of land about 10 miles outside of the city of Birming- ham. The plant. of the most modern type of safety construction, will act as an adjunct to the black blasting power- plant now in operation at Connable, five miles north of Birmingham, the notice said. A Crowder Leaves Hospital. HAVANA, July 31 (®). Endch M. Crowder, the Ame: Ambassiddor, returned to his oflice yesterday after about & month in the Camp. Columbia Military Hospital, where he underwent an operation. e was tanned from recent after noon automobile rides and ap) in excellent health. ¢