Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1926, Page 12

WALKING TO THE LITTLE PLYMOUTH (| z flowers to the cemetery mnes dge are making a brief visit. attendant, carryi and President (' ERY. that of Col. John Coolidge, father of the President. "ANNING THE SEAS FOR LIKELY LOCT. Here’s a swashbuckling crew of Jolly Roger, which plundered visiting craft on the opening day of the Southern California Yachting ! tion regatta at Newport Bay, Calif. The pirates are Los Angeles society girls. the old Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt. The flowers are for the grave of her son Cal Mrs. Coolidge, accompanied by a secret service where she n, Photo by Aeme. pirates manning the ssocia- Photo by Acme MMORTALS GUIDING L8 Matusow) directs Betsy Ross Sesquicentennial. serving as guides Abramson) over the streets of Treasure Island at The girls are U T_VISITORS. i Janice Eicholtz) and Pierrot (Leonore ihe Philadelphia niversity of Pennsylvania students, Coprright by Henry Miller SHEARING STONE LIKE PAPER. This machine, designed at the Bureau of Standards, shows WASHINGTON TOWN HALLMILLSCASE ABANDONED T0 FIRE Pacific Village Residents Flee as Forest Flames Continue to Spread. Br the Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont., August 7.—Good | progress was made erday in hold ing_in check the for in Montana and Idaho, but the situa- tion in western Washington was de. restry officials to be grow- ious of Ashford, Wash. the inier National Park termi Tacoma kastern Railwa virtually abandoned the town in t face of an approaching fire. All pos- sible belongings were loaded on freight ‘ars and moved to Natlonal, a nearby village, Hopes of saving Ashford hung upon. rallway tank cars and fire-fighting equipment rushed to the scene. Smoke from the blazing fore Montana_and Idaho had, swept central Wyoming to such an extent that the sun was virtually obscured at_Thermopolis. . The two largest fires on the Flat head Forest, now burning over 50,000 acres, were sald to be causing the most concern. Two other fires in the Flathead re- glon were reported to be spreading. while six smaller blazes had been checked. Fighters on the Kaniksu reserve succeeded in getting control of the dangerous Q Creek conflagration, where 75,000 acres now are burning. ARRESTS FOR JULY Mount nal of th SHOW 281 INCREASE | 472 Taken for Felonies—Traffic Violations Lead List With Ag- gregate of 3,180. A total of 7.730 arrests were made by the police for all offenses last month, an increase of 281 over June, according to a_report submitted to Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, by Inspector William S, Shelby. The increases were reflected in the arrests for felonies, misde- meanors, violations of the Volstead law and. traffic regulations. There were 472 arrests for felonies, 1,917 for misdemeanors, 509 for viola- tion of the Volstead law, 917 for viola- tion of the Sheppard law and 3,180 for violation of the traffic regulations. Alcohol seized in July amounted to 2,560 gallons, a decrease of 590 gallons under the preceding month. There was a decided Increase in the amount of mash seized, the report Showing a total of 16,160 gallons in July, as com- pared with 4,090 in June. Two Named for West Point. George W. Pond. son of Col. ( Pond, Infantry, at Fort Slo T Y., and Paul D. Bupker, son of Maj. P.'D. Bunker, Coast Artillery Corps, at Fort Totten, N. Y., have been ap- pointed by the President cadets at Jarge at the United States Military Academy, subject to qualification at the entrance examination in Marel next. B. t fires burning | Mills OFFICIALS SILENT Declare Warrants Issued for Five Persons, But Names Are Unconfirmed. By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. I.. August 7.— The revived investigation of the Hall murder mystery continued its spectacular course yesterday with threats of arrest and questioning of witnesses. State Senator Alexander Simpson, functioning as a special deputy attor- ney . and Capt. J. J. Lamb, officer, active in the i Both gave - lists did not_agree. Justice of the Peace William I. Sut- phen, said by Senator Simpson and Capt.” Lamb to have issued the wa would not confirnt these state- Six witnesses were examined. Four of these were brought to the head- quarters of State troopers and were questioned by Senator Simpson. Two others were hrought in after Senator Simpson’s departure for Jersey City. State troopers would not say whether any of the witnesses had been ar- rested. Senator Simpson =aid that questioning revealed nothing new. FORD RAIL MERGER PROPOSAL OPPOSED Plan to Acquire Control of Other Lines Is Recommended for Rejection. the Refection of the proposal of the De- troit and Ironton Rallroad to acquire control of the Detroit, Toledo and Iron- ton Railroad and the Toledo-Detroit Railroad, all of them owned by Henry Ford, was recommended to the Inter- state Commerce Commission by a commissioner examiner. Minority stockholders of the De- troit, Toledo and Ironton have con tended that the proposed merger was a “tail wagging the dog” proposition, since their line is 460 miles long compared with 11 miles of the Detroit and Ironton. The Ford interests countered with the assertion the plan was offered in good faith. The fact that the Ford in- ferests have 100 per cent ownership of the Detroit and Ironton and about 99 per cent in the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, they said, had been used’ by the intervenors “and played upbon by them in an attempt to indicate un- fairness to minority stockholders and fraud in the transaction.” PR S L R D CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. | The Wanderlusters’ hike for tamor- row will start from Chesterbrook, Va. Meet at Rosslyn, Va., at 2:45 pm. Short walk to clubhouse. Bring lunch. Coffee wil: be furnished by the club. Mr. Handy, leader. It seems useless for a stenographer to say she hates belng dictated to. MEETING THE N Building yesterday with Proc duced to the Commissioner, L. Dougherty, new Commissioner in tering the pressure it takes to shear it. t how hard building stone is by re, Cony by Harris & Ewinog. o delivered a brief address to the asse mbly. CHANNEL CHAMPION PLANNING HER GREAT CONQUEST. Gertrude Ederle. who, as the first woman to swi p the Engflish Channel, smashed all speed records for the swim, pwn studying the Channel course shortly hefore the day of triumph. Left to right are Mrs. Margaret Deuschle, the swimmer's sister; Miss s Fderle, Capt. Corthes of the tug which accompanied her, Julia Harpman and Henry Ederle, G father. A ROPEFUL OF THE WORLD'S BEST. pion lassoer, are gathered virtually all the topnotch woman swimmers of the during the Nitional A. A. U. swimming championships at the Philadelphia Sesqu Within the noose tossed by Miss ertrud Coprright v P. & A. Ph Mabel Stricklan ountr; Photo was taken ntennial this week. Copyrigh & A. Photos SW COMMISSIONER. Commanding officers of the Metropolitan Police Department lined up on the steps of the District harge of the Police and Fire Departments. Each officer was intro- Washington Star Photos. SONS OF REVOLUTION HONOR 1776 PATRIOT Delegation of Army Officers, Mem- bers, Lay Wreath at Statue of Nathaniel Green. A delegation of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Colum- bia this morning placed a wreath at the foot of the statue of Nathaniel Green, Revolutionary patriot, in Stan- ton Square. The wreath was laid by Maj. Gen. Kenzie W. Walker. Invocation was by Chief Chaplain John T. Axton of the Army. The French embassy was represented by Maj. Georges The- nault. The American flag, the Bourbon flag of France, banners of the socety and the first flag of the Continental Army were carried. The committee of the Sens of the Revolution in charge of the cere- monies_included the following mem- bers, all Army officers; Col. Mervyn C. Buckey, chairman; Lieut. Cols. Wil- liam_ Baird and Francis B. Wheaton, Majs. Alexander W. Maish and F. Granville Munson, Lieut. Cols. .J.- Ml ler Kenyon and James B. McCord and Maj. Clayton E. Emig, O. R..C. bers. The committee was accompanied by the color guard and members of the board of managers of the society, headed by Brig. Gen. George Rich. ards, U. 8. M. C. president, and Charles P. Light, secretary. POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN. Washington Figure Advances 7.44 Per Cent During July. Postal receipts in Washington ad- vanced 7.4 per cent in July over the same month a year ago, Postmaster General New announced today. Receipts from 50 selected citles ag- gregated $26,783,420, an increase of 4.19 per cent over a year ago. Fort Worth led all cities, with an increase of-25.44 pgr cent. Baltimore was second with an increase of 14.48. Five citles showed decreases, in- cluding New Orleans, which reported .85 per- cent less business *n for July a year ago. By the Associated Press. A wite who contracts with her hus- band ‘to glve him half her income cannot deduct that amount as a busi- ness expense from her taxable income, the Board ‘of Tax Appeals held today. The decisjon was given in the case of Mrs. Edwyna Applebye Robinson of New York, who explained that she and her husband, a sea captain, agreed upon their marriage in 1900 that she would give him half of her income and pay half of the home ex- penses if-he gave up the sew. Testimony showed that all was love- Iy until the husband heard the call of the sea again, as a result of his wartime experfences in the Navy. The Income of Wife Shared With Husband Not Tax Exempt as Business Expense de- was had been contract, meanwhile, another stroyed by fire, but signed, reading: “I hereby agree, for value received and on condition that my husband. William Applebye Robinson, gives up the sea-farmmg profession and takes up no other that will take him away from home, to divide all monfes coming to me from every sourge whatever, share and share alike, he to take half, and I to take half, as long as we live to- gether; all home and other expenses to_be shared equall; Under her mother's wiil, Mrs. Rob- inson was paid $12.645 in 1920. She gave half to her husband, but the board held that the entire amount was income and taxable against her. M. I. T. ALUMNI HONOR DOUGHERTY AT LUNCH New Commissioner, Guest of Alma Mater Organization, Lauds Engi- neering Professton in Address. The need. of more men in publie service with engineering training was stressed by Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty, at a luncheon given in his honor by the Washington alumni of the Massachusetts Institute .o( Tech- nology, yesterday afterncon’ in the University Club. The new commis- sioner 18 an alumni of M. I. T. Other: speakers were Maj. W. E. R. Covell, Assistant . District Engineer Commissioner; Prof. F. H. Newell, former head of the United States Reclamation Service, who presided; George A, Ricker, Charlés W. Eliot, 34, and George K. Burgess, director of the Bureau of Standards. Among the guests were Maj. Carey H, Brown, assistant to the’director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, and Capt. Herbert C'. Whitehurst, Assistant Dis- triet Engineer Commissioner in charge of zoning. The Washington Soclety of Engi- neers of which . Mr. Dougherty is a member, today made public resolutions felicitating the neéew Commissioner and pledging its support to his efforts in behall of the District, COMMERCE CHAMBER BAN BY TURKEY UNEXPLAINED Shocked American Business Men There Mention Their Pleas for Ratifying Lausanne Treaty. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 7. The action of the Turkish govern- ment in ordering the closing of all Chambers of Commerce, as reported in dispatches from Angora, the Turk- ish capital, has come as a considera- ble shock to American. business in- terests here. Thus far British of- ficials have declined to suggest the reasons for the orders. American business men are inclined to point out fironically that their Chamber of Commerce has taken the lead in urging American ratification of the treaty of Lausanne. Inas- much as the government’s orders close also the British, French and Italian chambers, it is thought that the Turk- ish government viewed these com- merclal organizations as perpetuation of the principle of extraterritoriality whose . aboltion was sanctioned by | the treaty of Lausanne. : YR B The annual convention of the Ameriean Federation of Labor will he opened in Detroit the first week of October. DOLL CONTEST WON BY VIOLET M’KINLEY Seventy Entries at Georgetown Playgrounds—Other Prizes Are Awarded to Youngszers. ixhibiting & doll with “the most realistic_baby expression, in a_grand array of 70 dolls of varlous descrip- tions, Violet McKinley, 12 years old, of 1725 Thirty-third street, was award- ed first prize in a doll show at the Georgetown playgrounds yesterday afternoon. Jean Rawls, 5 years old, of 18 -seventh street, with a “character doll,” was second, while Margaret Gray, 7 years old, 1724 Thir- ty-third _streét, was awarded third honors. In the assortment-on exhibit were dolls of practically every description known to the child and doll world. The show, which was under the direc- tion of Miss Abble Green, in charge of girls' activities at the playgrounds, was oven to all zirls of doll:playing age and, in addition to the exhibitors themselves, an enthusiasm of a_high order was shown by a large audience of hoys and irls. In addition to the prize winners, Edna McKinley, 10 years old. 1723 Thirty-third street: Doris Jenkins, 10 years old, 1215 Thirty-fourth street: Thelma Kenney, 12 years old, 3331 N street. and Evelvn Wright, 8 years old, 1320% Thirty-fifth street, were given honorable mention and ribbons. Thelma Kenney exhibited twins, which won much admiration. A red silk pocketbook was awarded as first prize, while second prize con- sisted of a necklace and bracelet and third prize a handkerchief. Forest Council Elects. ASHEVILLE, N. C., August 7 (#).— W. D. Tyler of Dante, Va. last night was re-electéd president of the Appalachian Forest Research Coun- eil in session here. E. H. Frothingham of Asheville was re-elected secretary and Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt of Biltmore, N. C., was made chairman of the execu- tive committee. Election of officers followed a husi- ness session. Today the delegates will visit. Mount Mitchell and Pisgah National Forest. GUN FIGHT INQUEST HELD UNDER GUARD Killing of 3 Men in Florida by Dry Agents Being Probed at Miami. Br the Associated Press MIAMI, Fla., August 7.—Sheriff's deputies and _mpolice officers were | thrown about fhe Dade County Court house here today to preserve order during the coroner’s inquest into the deaths Thursday of three Homestead men who were killed in a pitched battle with seven Federal prohibition agents. An inquest at Homestead yester day was postponed hecause officials had not completed thelr preliminary investigation into the killings. The fight occurred when the seven officers, en route to Miami in two au tomobiles from a liquor raiding expe- dition in the Everglades, were pur- sued and fired on by the three men, who drove up behind them in a third car. The officers, who were, riding in closed cars, returned the fire, and in the exchange the three men were killed. The slain men were J. A. Brinson Clyde Parrish, son of a former Home- stead police officer. and M. P. Merritt, who was recently discharged by Gov. Martin‘as constable of the Homestead district. Enmity between the slain men and the Federal agents is thought to have caused the gun fight. Parrish is said to have been unfriendly with Sol Mills, one of the raiding party. The gun fight took place in an iso- lated section near llomestead, about 50 miles south of Miami and 13 miles from Royal Palm State Park. H. M. DUDLEY TO PREACH. o ) American U. Professor Will Fill Trinity M. E. Pulpit 4 Sundays. _Prof. H. M. Dudley of the American University will preach the next four Sundays of this month at Trinity M. E. Church. His subject tomorrow morning is. “The Great. Command.” Prof. Dudley graduated from Simp- son College, Indianola, lowa, in 1917, and received his B. D. degree from Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, I, in 1920, and the M. A. degree from Northwestern University in 1921. He spent two years in post-graduate work in the field of history at the University of Chicago, 1921-23, and for the last three vears has been teaching history at Simpson College. He spent seven months with the A. E. F., serv- ing with the 33d Division. and was in the front lines of Somme, Verdun and Meuse Argonne seetors for 60 days as an infantryman. Special Bible for Masons. Masonry, being based upon the- teachings of the Bible, has brought out a need for a special Bible for the use of Masons and one of the large Bible houses has issued one with a Masonic concordance. The concord- ance provides reference to thousands of allusions in the Bible relating to Masonry. ‘With thé new jack screw just in- vented it is 4ffid one man can move 100 tonse. / . VINDICATES FATHER *OF MURDERED GIRL |Woman Witness Says Man Following Miss Gaines Was Not Her Parent. Smith College f June 16, when in this ‘city Cloyes Gaines, r of the dead girl, who is on trial charged with murder. . who the night of June © way home with her band from a_theater, testified that meeting Miss € es walking a trail on the lake shore and near a grove where the body was found the next day, they saw a man pearance alarmed them okes told the jury that she es had related indica tlons that the body of the girl was dragged from the margin of the lake into the grove and declared that it was stripped of clothing except for a ribhon around the neck. Miss Gaines had heen choked and had been beaten about the head. A stained rock was found nearby. MT. PLEASANT TO GET FIRE RESCUING SQUAD Chief Watson Planning Its Loca- tion in No. 11 Engine Com- pany Quarters. Plans for the creation of another rescue squad in the District Fire De partment, to be located in No. 11 En gine Company’'s quarters on Four teenth street between Irving and Ken yon streets, are being worked out by Fire Chief George S. Watson For several years Mr. asked for funds with which to or {ganize an additional rescue squad |and with little hope of getting them |soon. believes that he will be able to create sueh a squad without a special appropriation. As Mt. Pleasant and Columbin Heights comp: s a hazardous area because of its numerous apartment houses and its residential status, the fire chief is of the opinion that a rescue squad is very necessary to serve these sections. The pioneer rescue squad, located downtown, now responds to calls in any gection of the city. FEquipped as it is to meet’ almost any emergency, Mr. Watson pointed out that the squad has been an exceedingly worthy adjunct to the fire fighting force. \ Will Return From Panama, Col. Jacob 7C. Johnson, inspector general's department, now in the Panama Canal Zone, has heen as- signed to duty at headquarters, 6th Corps Area, Chicago. He will re- Iieve Col. Charles E. Stodter, inspec- tor general's department, who has been ordered to the Panama Canal Zone for duty. Watson has ’ /