Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1926, Page 2

NO. 21 ENGINE GETS TROPHY TONIGHT Commissioner Dougherty to Present Cup in Speed Test. Public Invited. It will be open house tonight at the headquarters of No. 21 Engine Com- pany, Lanier place near Ontario roud, when the company is presented The Mvening Star cup for having speeded out of its quarters on an alarm in less time than any other fire preven- tion outfit in Washington. The United ates Army Band, under the leadership of Capt. W. J. Stannard, will present a concert pro- gram in front of the engine house from 8 o'clock until 8:30, when the presentation ceremonies are to begin. | been extended | The general public a cordial invitation to attend the con- cert, the ceremony and an inspection of the winning apparatus and its quarters. Origin of Speed Contest. The fi speaker will be G. yon, associate editor of The St who will explain why this paper offered the cup a year ago to the corn- pany which madeé the best time get- ting out of quarters on an alurm. At the conclusion of Mr. Ly Mr. Stannard will personally lead the Army Band as it plays “The Evening Star March.” which was composed by Mr. Stannard and dedicated to this paper. District Commissioner Dougherty will then make his first public appe ance in his new capacity He will extend his felicitations to the ent company 2 Capt. T. B. mander, in the company il next year, when another contest will be Rheld. The cup becomes The perma- nent property of the cbmpany win- ning it three times. Inspection of Quarters. At the end of Commissioner Dough- erty’s address the band will play “America,” after which Capt. Stanton will express the appreciation of the entire company. The formal exer- cises will close with the playing of the national anthem. After the cere- mony all visitors will be intited to make a tour of the quarters. The engine that set a new record of six seconds will be present for inspection. Chief Engineer Watson has ar- ranged to have a special company stationed half a block away from No. 21 quarters to respond to alarms that outfit might have to answer. This will not only assure the spectators of no interference in the program but it will at the same ne give the district covered by No. 21 its usual protection. All of the regular mem- bers of the company will attend the presentation ceremony. - D.C. GUARD TO LEAVE FOR FORT MONROE, VA. 260th Coast Artillery Detachment Will Entrain at 9:10 AM. Tomorrow. The 260th Coast Artillery, National Quard of the District of Columbia, will leave tomorrow morning for Fort Monrve, Va., where this outfit will take two weeks of training with the coast defense guns there. The vrgani sation is commanded by J. W. Burng, who left Thursday in charge of a motor caravan and a_de- tachment of cooks and kitchen police. They went in advance to get there | in time to give the main hody supper at the post on Sunday night . The main body of troops will leave at 9:10 o'clock tomorrow morning from the Union Station aboard two special coaches, with a baggage car for the equipment, attached to the regular train, and are due at Old Point Comfort at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. This movement will be in command of Capt. Louis M. Gosorn, commanding Battery A. The troops will assemble at the armory at Water and O streets southwest. at 3 o'clock this afternoon to make preparations for the trip. Battery A will remain at the armory all night to guard the equipment, while Battery 13 men will be dismiss- ed to spend the night at their respec- tive homes, but under orders to re- at the armory at 5:30 w morning, Breakfast will be served at the armory, and box luncheons will be distributed on the train en route. WOMEN OF FRANCE HAIL MISS EDERLE Regard Channel Conquest as Tri- umph for Feminity—New Strokes Held Superior. By the Associated Pre PARIS, August 7.—Gertrude Ederle being France's guest. her feat in swimmingy the English Channel is greeted with enthusiasm, particularly by the women folk, who regard it as a triumph for femininity. . The newspapers print all the details of the swim they had been able to obtain this morning. They also print accounts of the American girl's career and photographs of her. In swimming circles it is consider- ed that Miss Ederle's successful ex- ploit demonstrates beyond all ques- tion the superiority of the new styles of swimming, such as the crawl, over the old breast stroke, on which most of the channel aspirants have pinned their hopes for success. PR Some Pajamas. Prom the Londoh Telegraph. A dbluff old colonel was telling a jungle story in the club coffee room. “Yes,” he exclaimed dramatically, it was in the dead of night. side was a roving elephant bent on de. struction. I crept out and shot it dead in ¥ny pajamas.” “But, colonel, how did the beast get into your pajamas?’ drawled one of the listeners. idress, |1 Walter | WIS EDERLEVINS COTHAM PLAVDTS Channel Swimmer Is Toast.of Home Town—Praised by Leaders in All Fields. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August Ederle was the toast of her town of Manhattan today Suffrage leaders, prominent ath- | letes, politicians and traffic cops here and in neighboring communities ad- mired and drew conclusions from the feat of the 19-year-old girl who was the first of her sex to swim the English Channel and broke the time records of her five male predeces- sors. | Work at her father's sausage fac- {tory was suspended for jubilation when the news came. Miss Ederle's older sister, Helen, was in a New York newspaper office sending fre- |quont bulletins to their mother at the Ederle Summer home, in High- ands, N. J. Mother Weeps for Joy. s wept for joy daughter had rtrude home she knew hel sed the charnne “T am the proudest mother in the world,” she sald, “but I knew Gertie would do it this time. s immer in the world, man or woman. But 1 feel sincerely sorry Miss Clarabelle Barrett, who m splendid effort and failed Barrett, Clarabelle's s . Y., offered congratulations and her own daughter ‘hannel again. “What 7" she asked. Miss | Barrett was taken from the water |two miles from her goal last week mming 40 miles, part of the time lost in fog. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, suffrage recalled that 40 years ago a leader sald *‘Woman's free- {dom would go hand in hand with { her bodily strength.” Praises Modern Woman. ““The woman of today,” said Mrs. Catt, “is a far better specimen physically than two generations ago, is ashamed to be {Il."” Glenna Collett, national woman's golf champi sald in Providence, J. that “the men will have to oy again to get the record back.” Earlier this week Miss Collett wished that she might play golf Mke a man, but “this goex to show that women can even beat the men if they try hard enough,” she now declares. Joseph V. McKee, acting ma New York, and other city officials joined in formal acknowledgment of Miss Ederle’s accomplishment. PRESS OF LONDON HAILS SWIMIMER Miss Ederle Replaces Su- zanne and Helen Wills as Featured Athlete. de aid she would not tr By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 7.—Gertrude | Ederle has hecome “Gertrude of | America” to the British press, dis- | placing Suzanne of France and Helen |of America as the leading news fea- | ture in the London newspapers. Suzanne Lenglen's decision to turn professional, Helen Wills' comments on Suzanne's move, and Anita Loos’ arrival in London to direct the pro- duction of her new farce, had over- shadowed all the doings of mere men for several days before Gertrude's the channel. The universal comment upon Miss Fiderle’s channel victory is that Amer- fcan athletes won't stop until they have won every world prize. ‘‘America has sure put it across the little old world this time,” declares the Star in its comment on._ Miss Ederle’s success. Several of the London newspapers remark editorially on the irony of her victory at a time when the Olympic authorities, after a long delay, have agreed to concede the right of women to compete in a few of the classic events. By knocking the meén's record for the channel swim sky high,” the Star says, Miss Ederle har “given the lords of creation cause to think furiously.” SKES W()M"L‘ EMANCIPATED. BERLIN. August 7 (®).—The Chan- nel victory of Gertrude Ederle is hail- ed by the sports editor of the Zeitung Am Mittag as ‘new and conclusive proof of the athletic émancipation of the once ‘weaker sex’.”” “The female champions of today," he says, “swim distances and estab- lish records which seemed unachiev. able to the male masters of yesterday. “Miss Ederle's triumph also is the triumph of the modern woman ath- léte and the triumph of the only cor- rect style of swimming, that is the crawl. “‘While several years ago it would have been branded as insanity to at- tempt such a distance by the crawl stroke, today it is proved that Miss Ederle’'s modern style helped her to make such excellent time.” The American girl's victory is fea- tured by the eptire Berlin morning press, but the news was received too late for comment on the -editorial pages, A. J. HANLON NAMED T0 DRY UP DETROIT Special Investigator Supersedes Regular Head in Drive to Halt Wide-Open Selling. A. J. Hanlon, a special investigator, has been placed in charge of anti-rum running operations at Detroit, after having reéported that conditions are “wvide open” there. He supersedes the regular prohibi- tion administrator at Detroit, and is expected by offitlals here to tighten materially the patrol against river smuggling. Traffic Tables Turned as Pedestrian Knocks Boy From Bicycle Into Street ‘Woodrow Bigelow, 16 years old, a ‘Western Unfon messenger, of 721 L street northeast, was knocked from his bieycle and injured by an uni- dentified pedesttian late yesterday aft- ernoon, according to police reports. The paradoxical accident gives rise to speculation as to Whether this was the overt act in & long-smouldéring Pedetu'inn revolution, in which Wash- on’s oppressed multitudes of jgv- ers and safety-zone hoppers rise and mete out reprisals to the menacing hordes of vehicle opera- tors infesting the streets. Withesses discredit the idea, how- ever, since they point out that the pedestrian was not of the hit-and-run type, despite the fact that police failed to obtain his name. It is said he was running to catch a street car when he eollided with the boy on the bike. Woodrow was treated at Emergéncy Hospital for bruises about the and arms. He Iater reported the af- fair to police of the first precinct. 3 Gertie is the | STAR, Gertrude Ederle, American champion, first woman to swim the English Channel. Miss Ederle, in spite of mountainous waves, gale and, finally, & heavy rain, cut 1 hour and 59 minutes from the best previous mark for the dis- tance, made by an Argentine swimmer, THOUGHT FRIENDS’ FEAR FAKED, MISS EDERLE SAYS AFTER SWIM Heard Cry for Her to Board Tug, But Never Had Slightest Impulse to Quit, Channel Con~ queror Declares. BY GERTRUDE EDERLE. World Champion Woman Swimmer. By Cable to The Star. DOVER, England, Augnst 7.—Here it is hours since I have accomplished the ambition of my life as a_swimmer and I am rather at a loss for words to tell what I have been able to do or how I did it. 1. frahkly, am more than a little @arved by my success and by the abuse 1 took from the roughest sea I have ever encountered for any considerable length of time. At that, I was sure all the time that I would make the crossing whatever the conditions. But now that it is all over it is difficult to explain away the fears that, it ap- pears, a lot of those friends of mine aboard the Alsucg had for me when 1 was swimming along in good shape and had in no wise lost confidence in my ability to find the English shore, wherever Bill Burgess indicated it lay. Felt Cramps at Start. Probably not more than a quarter of an hour after 1 took off from Gris Nez 1 experienced rather severe cramps in my stomach, but as my trajner was then cautioning me to take it easy and save up for the tougher stages of the swim I saw no occasion to mention the fact, for 1 then would have had to put back, no doubt, and after the seizure passed, make a fresh start. We had gotten under way about 20 minutes behind schedule and the day promised to be so favorable that I was anxious to continue without any turther delay. TYkely it was the peach I ate for breakfast dessert. Bill Burgess didn't entirely approve of it, any way, but I felt like eating it. But, any how, the discomfort soon wore off as I continued to swim slowly for a time. And after that it was all jnst a wood, long, hard swim. T never dreamed that they were worrying about me along about the éleventh hour, as they tell me they were, until some one—I don't know who—called to me loudly to board the tug. Thought Some One Kidding. At first T thought somebody was kidding mé, and then I was angry, but 1 conlin't make out who had shouted the order, and as I knew it wasn't pop or Burgess, I dismissed the incident from my mind. I was feeling quite strong just then, although T had | had a couple of brief mental sinking spells previously as the water con- tinued to grow more and more rough and the occasfonally visible cliffs north of Dover seemed still mighty far away and the tide terribly strong to attemnt to cross to landward. 1t was more than heartening to me every time one of my swimmer friends came alongside me to keep me com- pany for a time, but 1 think the sweet- est words I ever heard were those from Pop and Burgess and Margarét and Julie Harpman when, after we had gone past the nasty Goodwin shoals, they suddenly burst forth with the assurances that I could not miss then—that the worst of it was over. The seas were vicious and icy, but the proximity of the shore and the pelting rain seemed to flatten out the water a bit for short intervals and 1 knew I was making good time. I at ne time felt weak physically while I was in the water and the feeling of elation I had when Burgess instructéd me to spurt across the tide toward the beach that proved ito bé toward Wal- mer Castle, Deal, from Kingsdown. “It won't be long now.” I told my- self—and it wasn't. For, though I knew I still could cover a good many miles if need be, soméhow the thought of feeling the siwf roll and then the good old terra firma bepeath -me was anything but unpleasant, and I'll say 1 put all I had into & trudgeon crawl spurt that took me in in what seemed 1ike no time at all. Felt Intoxicated at First. I experienced an intoxicating feeling of elation us I swam under water through the heavy surf and found a footing in the beach sand. I can't fully describe that sensation. My head swam a bit—it had been so long since 1 had 5tood erect. But 1 wasn't grog- gy nor partioularly fatigued, though, when I took stock of myself, 1 found my face stinging from the long hours of wave slaps and & little swollen, and my tongue stiff and painful to move, A lot of English people swarmed about me and prevénted jmy going back. into the water to sW¥im to the Alsace, which was standing off a safe distance, The colored flares and the search- lights, the hubbub on shore and the din of boat whistles and sirens some- how recalled to me some childhood fairy story or dream of mine. T want- ed more than anything else right then to get back to the tug and Pop and Margaret, and all the rest, who had done &0 much for me since I came over nearly two months ago. I belleve I was happler when they took me into the boat to go out to the tug than when I landed. Aboard the Alsace everybody putterel around try- ing to make me comfortable when T wanted just to be let alone to try to realize thit all T had been hoping and planning end training for had ma- terlalized at last. Wanted Only to Sleep. I wanted sleep—not food—rest and quiet, not congratulations. I judge we had been on the way to Dover 15 or 20 minutes before a good old-fash ioned tired feeling overcame me—the reaction from the excitement and ex- ertion, T guess. I want to say the stupid delay in landing here at Dover because all of us lacked our passports, and the order to be on hand at the passport office at 10 o'clock this morning seem- ed to contribute more to my wearl- nese than any amount of swimming could ever do. Of course, I'm glad its all over with, and I'm so proud to have made it, despite the bad weather, in faster time than had been done before, but I'm licked when it comes to figuring how I can ever repay all those who were so kind and good to me during my training and the swim, and partic- ularly Lil Cannan. She's the best aport ever. I'll feel more normal tomorrow and try to be more coheren Everything wae lovely all the way except that chicken broth they fed me. I appre- clated it because it was warm, but it wasn't seasoned nearly enough. GERTRUDE EDERLE UNFATIGUED AFTER HER RECORD SWIM _(Continued_trom First_Pag self. Capt. Corthes, a veteran chan- nel mariner, who had accompanied swimmers on scores of similar at- tempts, and even her veteran fvainer, Thomasy llam Burgess, the Eng- llshman who was second to swim the Channel, insisted that ghe be taken fiom the water before the waves bat- tered her into uncohsciousness. Such terrific'seus were baitering the tug thet Capt. Corthes had much ditficulty keepihg near enough to her for any one to save her should she col- lapse and sink. Great waves were sweeping over the Alsace. Butgess, who tried ' the channel swim 36 times before he sueceedeq lemanded that this mermaid, makin, ut her second attempt, be orderec vut. He declared ha would no 1bhger accept responsibility tor her safety and insieted Pop Ederle sigh a paper releasing him from any claims and eriticisi should she beé lost beneath the waves. Father Is Adamant. Ederle was adamant, however, pointing out that Trudie had yet to object to contihuing oh. Margaret sided with him. All others on the tug were .agreed that achieving her Ambition on this try was now hu- manely impogsible. Finally some one loging” hix head shouted from the Al- sace. “Come out, girl, come out.” Trudie unaware of the excitement and debate aboard the tug heard and turned in amazement to ask. “What for?” Never once changing from hér pow- erful, long crawl stroke and resting only the few times she took nourish- ment, Trudie plied indomitably on and on tp vindicate her proud parent’s con- fidence in her and at no time showed any sign of weakening. 8he woré out three, capable swim- meng who took to the water at inter- vals to swim béside’ and lend en- couragement to her—Afirst Ishak Hel- water again in the late stages of the epochal performance, and also Lillian Cannon, the Baltimore swimmer, who, with a fine show of sportsmanship swam_beside her and chatted gaily with her rival when the ghing was very rough. And she completely ran away from Lolis Timson, an English swimmer, who had come out Dover in'a small motdr boat to cheer Trudie on. Never Felt Seasickness. Both Helmy and Miss Cannon he- eame slightly seasick, but not so Ger- trude. When the terrific wind and viclous seas made vocal communica- tion from tug to swimmer impossible, cheering messages e written on a blackboard and the ard lowered over the side for Trudie to read. Thege included messages of encourage- ment from America received by wire- less aboard the Alsace. As night began to settle over the turbulent waters and a heavy rain set in, when Trudle was about a mile off the English coast and swimming down the third tide of her journey, the cold, racing sweep of water down from the North Sea, she stopped talk- ing and settled down to the serious business of finishing this brutal task. By now the tug captain and Miss Ederle's trainer had put down their fears and recovered somewhat from their amazement and returned to con- fidence in the girl's astonishing forti- tude and stamina and were shouting assurance to her that she could not fail to succeed now. Last Spurt Incredible, Red, green and hlue flares were dotting _the coastline from Deal to Bouth Foreland when finally Trudie made her last speedy dash. She gave all she had for this gesture of triumph, and her progress through the mging water to the surf was at an incredible rate. The Alsace had to stand out a bit, bui we watched her plough on through the heavy rollers, head through the foaming surf and, as a wave receded, stand erect on the sandy heach. Trudle was in—her goal attained— but far from all in, as the slang phrase ft. After what the ex- pedition had been through we on the tug could scarcely helieve our eyes. It seemed too good to he true. A woman—our_Trudie—had crossed the Channel undep hor own power. ‘The now centered showed us that she was soon swal- lowed up in a welcoming throng, hastily drawn from far and near along the coast, but soon she was made out tearing away from the handwringers, heading back toward the surf. Kindly hands had difficulty in re. streining her from going back into the water again. She later explained it had occurred to her that all these welcomers were strangers and that she had friends—good friends-— aboard the good old Alsace, and rela- tives, too. Meant to Swim to Tug. She had meant to swim back to the Alsace and thank those who had aided her to accomplish whatever it was ehe had accomplished—in her dazed if happy state, she could not be sure, a8 she later admitted, just what it was all about. From the sea, the first person to reach her was a correspondent of a press association aboard the tug La Morinie which had caught up with Trudie and her official accompanying tug three hours out of Gris Nez. The Morinie was heavy laden with corre. spondents, photographers and news- paper cameramen, but about arf hour before she touched the sands of Eng- land the Morinie’s wireless had failed and, having nothing better to do, the corrvespondent, in his enthusiam jpver his countrywoman's victor: bver the relentless sea, had gone over- board in his street attive and swam in to_personally congratulate her. Trudle sald nothing while she was on shore being lionized by the wel- coming thousands for a brief period. As shé explained later she was too bewildered by it te think of anything to-say. But then she entered a rowhoat, o hoard the Alsace to race to Dover' to spend the night, she said: “Well pop, I guess I get my road- ster."” % Father Wins $175,000 Bet. Pa PBderle had promised her the gift of an automobile if she succeeded in negotiating theé channel. He can well afford it for he had wagered $25,000 against $175,000 through Lloyds that she would succeed. from ! searchlights | WASHINGTON, D. (., SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1926. [but overcome by the excitement of ithe climax he had done so much to make possible. Although the aged Briton, who swam the channel in 1911, misjudged Trudie’s mettie in her darkest hour, his knowledge of winds and tides and conditioning for the channel swim had meant very much indeed to Gertrude, and in a general way she followed all the way the course he had outlined weeks ago. She had traversed almost identically the route he had chosen, up to the eighth hour. Thereafter she wavered to the east und then to the \north of her fimtended course, dué chiefly to the stormy seas that de- layed her approuch to the dreaded GGoodwin sands, the Waterloo of count. less would-be charnel swimmers. Burgess had planned for her to fin- ish ‘her swim very near to Dover, to the Rolkstone side of that port, but when she was carried farther north than expected and when it was ap- parent she was yet strong enough to breast the southwestering third tide slantwise and cut into Kingsdown, the wise trajner shunted Trudle in that way, Mpreover, the tide veered the east after 9 o'clock and Burgese was quick to have Trudie snap up this advantage. Tug Captain Aids. Corthes, the tug captain, also gave ‘Trudie truly ymarvelous assistance by his expert accompaniment of the swimmer, is the only man in the world who hagjpiloted both a success- ful man ande,a successful woman across the channel. Besides the American girl, he plloted Charlex Toth of Hoston, who accomplished the exploft in 1923 in\16 hours 40 minutes, and was the last\person to make the crossing in - the \water, until Miss Ederle swam it. En route to Dower, Trudle, who was her own, natural, calm self within 30 minutes after sheswent aboard the tug, declared: “I ean't yet realize I did it. T prob- ably newver will fully realize it."" Burgess kissed her again on the cheek as he did just hefore she entered the water in' France. He wept from jov and was speechless for some time from his great emagion. Torthose who ohserved the champlon { trotting up on the Kingsdown beach it seemed incredible that she should swimming test in all history. She was pretty well tuckered out, how- ever, when she and her party came ashore at Dover last at night and took lodgings at the Grand Hotel. There was considerable delay in landing due to the party's lack of passports. Felt Cramps at Start. cramps shortly after she began her ) momentous awim, but she said she { auickly “‘wore them off" and. at no { time considered quitting the water, until she could walk out on English territory. When she retired to well- merited slumber, she was still in- | eredulous of what she had heen told | of the lack of confidence in her, at one trying stage of the swim, dis- played by all aboard the Alsace but her two kinfolk. Waves Affect Tug Crowd. Things decidedly were not all gravy for the passengers on the tug duriig the crossing. For hardly a soul on_hoard but felt the effects of the heavy seas. One old-timer declared that in 16 years on the Channel he has not seen choppier weather for such an attempt. Upon returning to the tug. follow- ing the great reception, as she walked up the beach, the champion herself, who had battled the waves all day, felt the pitching of the little boat and was overcome for a time by seasickness while speeding to- Dover. Upon the arrival at the Grand Hotel in Dover, however, she imme- dintely _recovered and4 ‘ealled for sandwiches and raw tomatoes, which fore turn- last remark as she went to her room was that she felt perfectly fit and was the happiest girl in the world. “Pop” Fderle, who was much more | excited_than his daughter_over the is under- stood that Lloyvds lost an immense amount which was placed against el Miss Ederle and her party will re- to | Jjust have ended probably the severest | Trudie revealed that she experienced | TORTURE SLAYING Sweetheart’s Story Sought as Boy Is Accused of Killing Mother. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., August 7.— Police today placed their hope of solv- ing the torture slaying of Mre. Ell. G. Bearse by her son Richard upon Miss Marfe Wilson, his sweetheart. The crime, discovered vesterday morning by authorities who broke in to find the aged woman's mangled body after neighbors had been horri- by a night of anguished scream- . has been branded one of the most atrocious in the criminal annals of the State. Young Bearse, who held in his afms | the torn body of his mother, sub- mitted to arrest without protest and pending examination by alienists was held on a charge of first degree murder. He was unable to glve a coherent explanation of his crime and today police Were anxiously awaiting the recovery of Miss Wilson from a breakdown she suffered on learning the news. Bearse had spent the early hours of the night with her and officials believe she may be able to shed light on the tragedy. Fred 1. Bearse, treasurer of Hamp- den County, father of the youth and divorced husband of Mrs. Bearse, at- tributed his son's act to an Infatua- tion for the girl. The day preceding the crime, Richard, then apparentiy normal, he said, had spoken hopefyllv of entering husiness. It was thought he may have unsucceasfully attempt- ed to obtain money from his mother. | el S Ll Organist Recovers. Georga Wilson of 2011 E street, or- ganist of Foundry M. E. Church and well known radio accompanist, was released from Emergency Hospital vesterday after having been there for several days for treatment for a frac- tured jaw which he sustained from a “hit and run driver.” He was found in front of the Ralelgh Hotel on the evening of July 27, turn to Cape Gris-Nez this morning, after which they will spend a few days in Paris, and then will journey to Germany, where Miss Gertrude's grandmother Is anxious to welcome her famous grandchild at her big farm at Bissingen. After a two-week rest they will return to Paris, sailing home as soon as possible after that. All the London papers are head- lining the conqueror of the Channel this morning, dwelling principally on the record speed and fitness of the swimmer upon landing after battling almost a gale during the last hours. They are unanimous in their praise of her pluck, stating, “Miss Ederle bested the Channel because she her- self did not know when she was beaten.”” (Copyrigbt, * 1926, Chicago Tribune News Sergi INMARKETDRVE Mid-City Group Seeks Aid of Southwest to Bring Cen- ters Into Sections. A plan for consolidating the infiu- ence of Southwest and Mideity Washe ington inte a co-operat compromise campaign to move retall lines Center Market to the Convention H section and the wholesale farmer lines to the southwest waterfr when the markets are ahandoned make way for new bufldings broached at a meeting of the Midet steering committee yvesterday after noon and was being developed today An invitation for representatives o the Southwest Citizens’ Association and Business Men's Association te join with civic leaders of the Mideity Citi- 7ens’ Association and merchants in the vicinity of the Convention Hall Market next Friday afternoon wae/ extended by the Mideity group tods on taken ut yestere Urges United Action. Salvatore Scalco, chulrman of the boosters' committee of the Southwest group, stated that although he would have to confer with other commitiee members before speaking officially on the project he was entirely of the personal opinion that concentration o an agreed plan would not only hring harmony, but would he of great valie in obtaining what each section de. sired most. The plan as outlined at the Midelty Citizens' committee meeting yester. day afternoon is virtually with- draw all appeals and petitions for locating the Farmers' Produce Mar. ket, dealing in wholesale quantitics of produce, in the vicinity of Cond vention Hall and to unse all efforts ‘o bring the retail trade of Center Msre ket, inclnding the retail farmers, o | the present Convention Hall Market section. Would Divide Center. Individuals at the committee meet- ing yesterday, which was presided over by A. 1. Driscoll, president of the Midcity Citizens’ Association, express. | ed the opinfon that if Southwest would support such a project the influence of the Convention Hall neighhorhood would be swung in return to bringing the Farmers' Produce Market and : lied lines to the iwaterfront, whera the Municipal Fish Market is now lo- cated. Sealco has been informed of the Mideity proposition personally and an. nounced he would bring the details before the Southwest group. The plan then would he to separatd the two branches of foodstuff concen- tration in Washington—the retail lines going to the mideity distriet, while the wholesale lines would go to tha waterfront, In_easy access to railroad |terminals and river transportation | terminals. A meeting of the southwest steering committee is to be held Wednesday, at which time it is expected a decisfon will be reached as to whether co- operation In the plan will be extended, Woman Arrested for Theft Is Given 50 Cents by Detective and $5 by Judge Receiving 50 cents from the detec- tive who arrested her, and later re- ceiving a five dollar bill from the Judge who convicted her, was the novel ex- perience that befell Mrs. Florence Tyler of Dix street northeast, charged with thefts from a local hotel, where she was emploved as a_maid. Precinct Detectives Frank Varney and Steve Brodie visited Mrs. Tyler's apartment vesterday on the complaint of the hotel management. Finding her with her three small children, hungry and in destitute circumstances, Vare nev offered her all his pockets could produce, which at that time happened to_be G0 cents. Hearing of her circumstances, the hotel authorities pleaded in her behalf in Police Court today, with the resuly that Judge George H. Macdonald placed her on probation and gave her five dollars for tempora relief. Richard Reed, hotel detective, told the court of the various things she had taken from the hotel, but asked that she begiven another chance. i ELIZABETH BENSON. THE CHILD, IS Chassjinns) ANNE AUSTIN, THE MOTHER, IS A Champion Human Being AT 12 —_— NOT a freak: NOT a “prodigy™: a healthy, sane, happy little girl. Has an intelligence quotient of 214%~—a world's record. Hae been aceepted as a freshman at Barnard College. A perfect physical specimen. S A contributor to séme of the larg- est magazines in the country. p s Knows the classics as most people know the best sellers. A Chamgpion of Motherhood AT 30 Mother of Elizabeth Benson Has earned the living for herself and her daughter for twelve years. Has edited several magazines of national circuletion and written short stories, novels and articles for many others Has conquered repeated illnesses, and all the tragic crises of a woman alone in the world, and emerged filled with enthusiasm for living and for motherhood Has kept the appearance and the joy in life of a girl in her early twenties. When she returned to the tug &nd clambéred nimbly ahoard she said: T'm all right but I can't realize what it's all about. T guess ever) thing's all right =0 long as I made it. T'm thé firkt woman to swim it, am 1 not?” She refused solid food and wanted only to rest on a couch in the cabin as the tug proceeded at full speed, for Dov Aftér a time she demanded pineapple to ease her swollen and severely cut tongue. Her face was slightly swollen, too, and she was very cold and sleepy, but chéer- ful and seemingly far from exhausted. “1 can freeze now," she remarked, with a broad grin. Crowd on Tug Joyous. Aboard the Alsace there was a de- lirlum of joy. . Margaret went ovérboard before a Bderle row boat was lo Pop the danced a jig of joy. Burgess was al “Women can have careers and children,” says Anne Austin How? Read “The Story of Elizabeth™ * by her mother, ANNE AUSTIN A Romantic Story from Real Life of a Woman" Struggle Against Hea Odds. Filled with Common Sense Principles of ’Clu'fl E i Awaken National Discussion. BEGINNING IN Tomo;row’s STAR earing That Will ‘