Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1926, Page 17

PITCHING CAMP IN EAST POTOMAC PARK YESTERDAY. pup tents before breaking camp early this mor About 500 me THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. The 10th Regiment of Marine camped here en route from Quan- ng to hit the road again. enjoyed a refreshing snooze under Washington Star Photos, STILL FOLLOWING THE MAST » yachtsm: at the wheel of hi the clas: days ago. Here is Sir Thomas Lipton, famo: Iatest Shamrock, one of the entries in ¢ Cowes regatta at Calshot, England, which opened a few Copyright P. & A. Photos. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 192 6. CLARABELLE' Clarabelle B: ceeded in record time. well-wishers on the Engli CROSSE son, onl. Bergen, in the ship. feet long, arrived sa way, in the track of t NORTH ATLANTIC IN NORS| ! TRACK. fely in Boston he famou This pocket-size harbor. the other day after cros: seman explorer for whom it is named. iki 2 the Atlant Four me; JING PAR ith _her mal AN BEAUTY of honor, all ready to represent the metropolis nual Procession of Flowers at Boulogne, France. Here is the Queen of Paris (at Wide World Photos. Trying avother role. Obsorne C. Wood, son of Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines, who says he has gone through his Wall street fortune, is shown in the garb of his present job as a common_lahorer in an Kvansville (Ind.) refrigerator plant. SMILE ALMOST CARR F rett’s plucky attempt to swim the KEi Photo shows the RRIED HER THROUGH. This glish Channel two ew York s She got within miles of the Frenc WIN ATLANTIC TILTING (| Roy Compton of the Washington tilting title when they defeated P here yesterday, which was carried the Sesqui regatta at Philadelphia. nming teacher receiving it before ( rude Ederle sue- a rousing send-off from rh coast. Copyright by P. & A Photos MPIONSHIY Ww. ens and Canoe Club won the Atlantic coast ntomae Boat Club tilters in a_match over between these two finalists in Copgright by Underwood & nderwood SESQUI ARPLANE FIREMEN TOHAVE SERVICE S TESTED Commodious Cabin and Easy Control Impress Newspaper Men Passengers. First-hand knowledge of the opera tion of the aerial mail and passenger between Washington Philadelphia was obtained yesterday by f Wash who were conveyed to the Sesg tennial City aboard the as guests of the Philadelphia Transit Air Service. v the pilot, Lieut. Alton Parker, Marine Corps Aviation serves; 2 mechanic., two paid pas. sengers, two representatives of the ocompany and four newspaper men, the bhig okker tri-motored monoplane jumped inta the air at Hoover Field exactly at noon, and one hour and 17 minutes later the wheels se rd gen' to the ground at the League Island Navy Yard field, | A short distance from the Sesquicen- | tennial grounds The huge plane. heralded in aero nautic circles as one of the marvels of the age. made a profound impres- sion on the guests by fts easy flving | ability. It rode out the bumps so smoothly that this objectional feature of air vel virtually un noticed Vibration was reduced to a minimum and althoush the sliding | windows the cabin were open to Jet in the bracing 5.000-foot afr, 1 the motors did not versation ) 1y the occ s left their wre arranged in two rows chairs each, separated to look over the shoulders | rs pnd also get operation in s of demon Lieut ich con ilerons with | “up” the ch e. Whirlwind” 9-| B were evolutions per = tail wind boosted five miles were thout the The the service and ton newspaper men, | Rapid B. Re whick wi isle seats of four by an of the other | AS A my easy enabled Thi cylinder assistar strong. arrival The airway Havre Wilming Laurel. Bal Elkton passes over on the gre taken on a tour whict The visitc the expos completed Those who had seen th wtly ter it ope; & d at the progress that had been made. It that a visitor on foot would have to devote three days| of his time before he could get a com prehensive idea of the completeness of the institution. One of the most fnterésting “active” features was the | military display on the parade grounds Infantry. Artillery. tanks and Cavalry were massed in parade. while over head bombing ition and pur suit planes carried on as in The return journey was made by train. reyuirinz 3 3 hours and 15 minutes. The guests hold nothing against the ra: now is vir exposition was d were| is said obse road, but it was unan tmously voged thatsthe air route fur niched more comfort and interest than the overland trip. - | come to the | and | communities promising to send ! hibited from " . domestic fowl or pigeon | residents on the block | Fowler. BIG DAY IN COUNTY Parade With Many Communi- ties Represented to Feature Prince Georges Event. Special Dispateh to The Star, RIVERDALE. Md., August Firemen of Prince Georgy will bBe here tomorrow in full for the fourth annual convention. A of decorated will be a feature of the session, with Mount Rairier, Brentwood, Cottage City, Bladensburg, Hyattsville, Col- lege Park, Berwyn Heights, Branch- ville, Seat Pleasant, Greater Capitol Heights, Capitol Helghts, Laurel, Riverdale and other communities rep- resented. The auxiliaries of the va- rious departments also will be repre- sented. Mayor to Voice Welcome. The program will open with a wel- city by Mayor Schafer response by L. L. Moxley of president of the Prince Volunteer Firemen's 13— in parade Brentwood, Georges County Association. There will be an election of ofticers, selection of the meeting place for next vear, installation, reports of comrait | tees and speeches before adjournment | of the business s ion Firemen of communities outside the county have been invited to attend the convention and take part in the pa-| early this morning by unidentified H. Topping, pastor of the tbrushed by her and jumped cut of a will t front first-floor ‘window. rade and entertainments. Rev. W Riverdale Presbyterian deilver the invocation. Decoration Work Tox The work of decorating the appa ratus will he done chiefly this evening at the various fire stations throughout the county, and tomorrow the appa- ratus will be taken over the hishway converzing at Riverdale. Alexandria is among Church outside del- egation to take part in the parade. the FOWLER ASKS FOWL BAN.| Permission of Majority of Neigh- bors Needed Under Plan. County | array | apparatus | ! | ! had taken with three s JE! UIT TEN' TIST their fifth annual conven ME]| {TING IN CONVENTION HERE. n, are shown on the steps of the Healy Building of Georgetown University. Membe rs of the American Association of Jesuit Scienti , who are holding BURGLAR, SURPRISED, FLEES FROM HOUSE Gold Bracelet Missing After Col- ored Man Disappears From Six- Caugh third Davis. scribed vears suit Mrs the first floor, hear th hird flo him. tried and 18 the m tered floor old, and_soft teenth Street it in the of 1837 an to_police as brown 1 who w said th until Davis he or man open the f awakening ar-old jumped o1 says he took the s A ch Davis of the showed white apphires eck-up home 5 feet 9 inch daughter were sleeping on the second floor. ntime the colored man dasbed | Home. Sixteenth M colored He i being s, wore a h 1t he was ront her Anne, {to the open window which he had and it. Mrs, de with hi rooms of the | that the ld bracelet which was Residents of the thickly populated |property of Miss Davis. |PROTESTS DOUBLE ROAD 1ld be pro- ny kind without the written consent of a majority of other under a pro- sections of the District keeping posed amendment to the police regu- | tions submitted to the Commission today by Health Officer W Even then. roo er not be kept unless the written con-| ally stipulated assent sents specifi regulation would require The new the written consents to be filed with | the Health Department The health officer would be charged with the is suance of the permits, subject drastic stipulations as to the condi- tion of the house and yard used as pens. | One Dea;l‘ —3 lrlrnrtiirn Auto Crash. August 13 (®).— | that | ture: RALE H. C.. Bernice Johnson. Wake County farm er. was Killed and three persons were injured near here last night when their automobile crashed into a tele phone pole after being struck by another car. 1 struction of one along Conduit 10 |along Potomac avenue, the proposed | received by | ALONG POTOMAC RIVER| sleeping she did not | on She arose and challenged | When he rushed downstairs and | to | screamed. ct of ransacking the | A, man de- about on the who | In en Davis m. man set the C. P. Carter Suggests One High- way Be Built, Combining Best Features of Two Proposed. A pro cliff Natinal Commis of 362, Mr. Carter contends that drive. h: es two par ) s heen Capital Parl jon from ] Lowell street against the p llel boule ad ar oposed con- ard 1 another | the | robi | Charged with intoxication and_de- tained at Gallinger Hospital, Mrs. Alma Porter, 25 years old, of 1230 Fourteenth street, who was fined $50 in Police Court last week for dis- ing at Thomas Circle, today awaits a hearing on a second public en- counter with the police Police report that Mrs. Porter at- street | tempted to disrobe last night, but got Ira |no further than taking off one stock- {ing and one s Enraged because she was ha according to the police, the young woman is alleged Disrobing Act in Public Tried Again By Woman Recently Fined, Police Say to have bitten Policeman R. H. Mc- Ghee of the first precinct on the leg. Michael Tilton. 3000 Connecticut avenue, informed the police the woman came up to -his automobile, | which was waiting for pedestrian traffic to pass, and without warning slapped a companion sitting beside him in the face. Tilton further avers that she showered a_torrent of abuse on the occupants of his car and when police tried to put her in it to take her to the station she kicked his wife, who was sitting on a rear seat. THREE OUTINGS PLANNED. Deaf Delegates Among Those Going to Chesapeake Beach Tomorrow. Three organizations will hold out- | ings tomorrow at Chesapeake Beach | —the Government Printing Office | Press Feeders’ Union No. 1; the Na. tional Assocfation of the Deaf, and | Gen. son A. Miles Camp, No. 1, United Spanish War Veterans. Miss | M. F. Koester is in charge of arrange- ments for the press feeders’ The ex- cursion for the deaf will be one of the closing features of the triennial con- | vention of the organization. Officers of the local branch, who are in gen- | eral charge of the outing arrange- ments, are W. E. Marshall, chairman; | R. J. Stewart, treasurer. and W. P. Souder, secretary. The general excursion committee for the war veterans is composed of Harry J. Stahl, chairman: Jerome Shipman. C. D. Wise, J. B. Carver. Ralph Chapman, Frederick Zulch, F. ! L. Cisne. Thomas Connelly, Robert E. 5 Sam Gates, H. J. Fowler, J. D. L. C. Nelson, A. E. J. Davis, 0. M. Barker, C. O. Pierce, A. E. Pierce. J. H. Cook, W. H. Cooper and P. E. Shomette. The athletics committee is composed of Lorin C. Nelson. chalrman: Joseph elson and PIANNINg | s1wood. W, H. Beck, Frank Boynton, incey P. only rter one | F. C. Braddock, James H. Brookes, John Carrothers. William J. Delaney and John B. Leavall. The first aid boulevard should bhe constructed, and | committee fs composed of Dr: A. it should embod: the bes G of the two proposed houle t fes In a conference with Fred G. Col dren admitte: that he was alone in his objection, and | that the people generall secretary of the comm! d. according t o Mr. Col on, he | ldren in that sec- | | McGee. chairman: Pr. Samuel L. Han- non and Dr. J. W. Pollock. Print E. Shomette is commander of | the camp. Plans are fnder way for giving 24- Those injured are Vivian and Violet [ tion were in favor of the improvement ! hour electric'service to homes in the Johnson, daughters of the dead man, 2nd William Lawson. = pd of both roads. No action has been | Azores, which now during-the day, Saokin s dse b have no-current ALBANIAN UNREST DENIED. |Legation Here Says Country Is Well and Firmly Governed.' The Albanian legation today issued the following statement: “Two days ago, several newspapers |in the United States published a cable- gram from Europe stating that seri- ous disorders had broken out in Al bania. This information is altogether baseless, and is due to the inventive imagination of a Belgrade newspaper called Vremia. “Under the firm hand of President A. Zo's1, the best government that Al- bania nas ever had maintains perfect order from one end of the country to the other. It is not too much to say that so far as public safety and tran- quillity are concerned Albania today compares favorably with any other country in Europe. A Death Caused by Exhaustion. RICHMOND, Va., August 13 (#) — Bruce Phelps, whose death followed a scuffle In a local hotel Tuesday night, dled as a result of “exhaus tion following drinking of whisky and fighting,” Coroner J. M. Whit- field announced as his opinion yes- Busy Changing Tombstone Date. FREMONT, Nebr., August 13 (#). [ In 1911 . “Grandpa’ Mohr, Fre- mont. then 81 vears old. carved his {own tombstone and inscribed “191—" on it. In 1920 he changed it *192. Yesterday he celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday anniversary and to | OPEN BIDS AUGUST 24 FOR STREET WIDENING City Heads to Start Work on 11th Between New York and Massachusetts. Bids will be opened August 24 for the widening of Eleventh street be- tween New York and Massachusetts avenues, the last project in the 1 street-widening program—it was an- nounced today by the District Com- missioners, Work s mow progressing on the widening of Eleventh street hetween Pennsylvania and New York ave- nues, and by January 1, 1927, portion between New York ' and Massachusetts avenues is scheduled to the completed. When finished Eleventh street will be 70 feet wide between Pennsylvania and New York venues and 35 feet wide between New York and Massachusetts ave- nues. Streets already widened this are Connecticut avenue from K the intersection of Eighteenth, from Fifth to Thirteenth and Thir- teenth from Pennsylvania avenue to E street. The proposed street-widening pro- gram for next year will be consid- ered by public hearing in the District Building next Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Eight streets have been recommended for widen- ing. but Engineer Commissioner Bell pointed out that it is not probable that more than two or three will be approved. vear to PR Whippet Pup Catches His Rabbit MONTREAL. August 13 (@).— There's a happy whippet dog in the local racing kennels. Something went wrong with the mechanical rabbit, which he had been vainly chasing over many hot, dusty miles, and the pup, catching up, tore it to bits with every evidence of canine jubilation Celebration in Manila. MANILA, August 13 (#).—Spanish- | American War veterans and others joined today in celeh ion of Oceupa | tional, the twenty-eighth anni versa® of the arrival of American his_principal reflection was that he might have to 10 “198="* change the tombstone ‘;&a:iven. .::5.“ troops in Manila. A holiday program many efficers | into the death of | in" the dark, the | the Commissloners at a | the boardroom of CHAUFFEUR'S BODY FOUND AT CODGAN'S Pclice Believe Film Star’s ex- Employe Ended Life—Had Shot Watchman. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 13.— An inquest is scheduled here today Herman Everett McRae, former mily of Kie r, whdse body ge at the Coogan rester Don the film Shipley, alias chauffeur for Coogan, child was found in a ranch near Campo . Angeles detectives, who found the body, said Shipley apparently had ended his own life by shooting him self through the head. Shipley was sought in connection with the shooting of Joseph Block, a watchman, on the lawn of the Coogan home in Los Angeles last Tuesday. Finding of the body followed re- ceipt yesterday morning by Jack ogan, sr., of a post card mailed at a town near San Diego, Tuesday aft- ernoon. on which was scrawied a message saying that if the Coogan ranch were searched the chauffeur would be found there “cold.” A penciled note, apparently written and addressed to Mrs. Coogan, was found on a table in an unoccupied house near the garage. It read “Mrs. Coogan—I am writing this in the dark. ¢Could find no guns here, so do not know. I am going to take my life, so you can be happy. Sorry I had to hit Joe, but he shot first. i ease notify my folks and send the body to Tipton, Towa, for bur With the same love for you. DO Coroner S. C. Kelley brought Ship ley's body back to San Diego last night. Shipley had heen discharged and { re-employed several times by the (oo { gans. He formerly resided in Tipton, lowa, where police said he had a wife fand two children | Block, who was seriously wounded in an exchange of shots with a man he identified as Shipley, has a chance of recovery, physicians s AUTO IN SUN IGNITED. | Piercing Solar Rays Blamed by Po- | lice for Blaze. STAUNTON, Va., August 13 (#)— The top of an automobile, parked in | downtown Staunton, was ignited by solar heat yesterday and only the use of a fire extinguisher prevented | probable loss of the machine. _Police |Officer J. E. F. Long said smoke, | originating atop the caught his |eve. Inspection showed a square sec- | tion of the top to be aflame. The | theory is that the textile employed in manufacturing such tops to render | them waterproof must have respond- led to the piercing rays. Close in- vestigation showed numerous small | blisters, which, by continued expos- Los softened patch ignited from | ravs. of materfal which the scorching solar School Heating Bids Opened. Bids were opened by the District | Commissioners vesterday afternoon for t installation of ‘a complete steam 'heating plant in the Bowen School, at Third and K streets south- west. W. L. Gary Co,, Inc., was the low bidder at $6425. 3 | ure, evidently became fused into a | EMPLOYMENT AID " URGED FOR DEA | Speaker Stresses Necessity of Labor Bureaus to Form Contacts. Creation of labor bureaus for the deaf, for the purpose of bettering the contact between schools for the deaf and industrial concerns where deaf students must later seek to earn livelihood, urged in an address this morning before the National As- sociation of the Deaf, at the Willard Hotel, by Marcus L. New York insurance man and social work- er, who is being prominently men- tioned for the presidency of the as sociation. Mr. Kenner pointed out that the proposed bureaus would face a diffi- cult task in enhancing the com mercial possibilities of the' deaf, b would _serve good purpose it promoting industrial training for the deaf that actually could be made use of in adult life The xpeaker declared that but few of the graduates of schools for the deaf pursue trades and occupations for which they were trained in school. “It behoves us to inquire in all seriousness whether our institu- tions for the deaf are producing the kind of men and women who are prepared industrially to meet the de- mands of today,” he asserted. The election of national officers will be held tomo oW, the closing day of |the convention. Others heing boomed for the pr denc in addition to M Kenne; e Michael Lapides, Ha ford, Conn., reputed to be a million re; Arthur L. Roberts, Chicago, I, the incumbent; Alexander Pach, New | York photographer, who many times |“shot” the late Presideni Roosevelt, and Harley D. Drake of Washington, a mber of the program committee. his afternoon the association will %o to Arlington National Cemetery for a ceremony at the tomb of the U known Soldier, and tonight the N tional Fraternal Society of Deaf will hold a conclave at the City Club and another socfal gathering will be held at the Northeast Masonic Temple. i SAMARITANS TO ELECT. a was | Kenner, {D. C. Band Plays for International Session at Richmond. | RICHMOND, Va., August 13 (®) Thousands of delegates to the Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans yesterday combined business and pleasire at the annual international convention in session here. Delegates from throughout tha United States and some parts of Can- |ada are in attendance. The Ladies |of the Orient, also holding their an- {nual conclave in conjunction with the i male fraternal order, had a busy day, devoted largely to routine matters and entertainment | Election of officers is scheduled for {today. Under the system’ of advance- tmem of officers to higher positions, |J. Charles Hackland of Chicago will be elected supreme monarchos, Edgar S. Mosher, supreme klalifah, and Timothy N. Young, supreme coun- jselor. A large group of candidates from Lynchburg, Roanoke, Norfolk ' :;)r;d mchmo’:m received the Perfection gree at the Academ; usic. The band of Mithras O A i D. €. with . o