Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1926, Page 17

CAUGHT IN THE LONG ISLAND “TWISTER. other day left this kind of wreckage in its wake, telephone and light wires. The exclonie storm w lem olishing ho THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. hich hit Sea Cliff, Long Island, the - uprooting trees and tearing down wsly injured and many received mi or hurts. Copynght by Underwood & Underwond. FECTIVE, GRACEFUL. N. Dak., who holds the distance record of 3 the bow, is shown trying to better his mark at the National Archer Assaciation tarzet meet at Bryn Mawr, Pa. D. €. THURSDAY. Charles Curtis of Pembi yards for this shot w Acme Photos. AUGUST 19, 1926 taries held of the Navy. (0.ORDINATING THE NATION'S AVIATION DEVELOPME their first conference yesterday. The photo shows, Secretary of Commerce; F. T. Davison, Ass NT. The ant Secretary of Wa WINS (U this loving pounds of wi AN MELON CONSUMER. cup and the Hlon in 3 minnte Robert Zecher, 13 years old ia championship by eating ht by Underwood & Underwood, won n Copy will attempt a non-stop nate pilot; Sikorsk L. 8% ht from New York to Paris. designer; Rene Fonck, French ace and commander of the 's and designer of the huge Sikorsky plane which In the croup, left to right re Homer Berry, alter- ht, and Licut. Snody, Copsrizht by - & A Photos es t Malk he brol 101 targets withomt a ecent shoot at the Atlan- n Club, Mrs. J. C. Wright 1z up a new world_record for ficnt Wide World Photos RECEIVES TOKEN OF Payne of the American Red (ross is holding from the Belgian Red Cross as a toker the American organization in the left to right, W. H. and E. P. Warner, APPRECIATION. Chairman appointed air secre- acCracken, Assistant Assistant Secretary Copsright by P. & A. Photos three newl, ohn Barton ilver medal received of thanks for aid extended by n floods, Belg Capyright by P. & A. Photos RAMSAY 1S CHOICE CF ALABAMAL.0.P. PROGRAM INDORSED Capitalist Nominated for? Eight Thoroughfares Pro- Senate Seat to Be Vacated | posed, But All May Not by Underwood. Be Approved. By \he s I Pres BIRMINGHAN &me on The proposed street-widening pro- gram for 1928 was given the unani- indorsement of civic and busi- ders of the District at a pub- conducted by the Commis- v in the hoavdroom of Building \ the tentative schedule the widening of eight thor Commissioner Bell explain- not more than two or to ba approved. eight streets slated for widen in the proposed program are Thirteenth from 1 to Massachusetts e Fifteenth from 1 to Massa- chusetts avenue, Tenth from ¥ to Ma. \usetts avenue, F from Fourth to Fifth, Twelth from Pennsylvania avenue 10 E and New | Massachusetts avenue, avenue from N to Dupont circle and [from Eighteenth to X street, Seven teenth from Pennsylvania avenue to K and I from Seventh to Thirteenth. Suggestions were mada that the list | include Fifteenth street from York avenue to K street, and I and G between Seventh and Ninth streets Only two ohjections were 1 Virst the entire program. One by Charles Conradis, represent i Church of Christ, Scientist, pted out that widening of street to the extent pro spoil the plans for alter- ch it recently acquired for ast cor. streets. Dovle, former judge of the Mu surt, as representative of the of Tudor Hall, at Tenth and husetts avenue. protested Jan to widen Tenth street sentatives of civie and busi-| anizations told the Commis the widening of these swntown streets would be a far ~iching step toward rvlieving traftie extion | Among president | Association of - Council A A1 19. ggestions of action Republican rday 1st herin mous Ku Klux K named minghan that » ikely sed national commiended and con £ in th ing the 2 ison pa- | when tained prote need o role pow clsed for t Brandon's Removal alko was f cluded an appea disapproved! the mines tiorm in pa New streets ised | and eig of Florer hth distri nomir slxt! tri Sin the iz convention ; ne rteenth posed woull T ited anent | wote of emo. cha the mes sent 8o alle Ce nominate he accepts Der Driscoll Citizens them were A. J of the Mid-ity W. Pearce I Trade and Ross Ramsay Silent on Futu NEW YORK il Ramsa whethe nation for yester the Distriet P. Andrews of Merchants and Mannfacturers Association, Harold H. Levi, viee | Jirestdent and general manager of the ! Hiecht « Arthur E. Sevmour, sec ary the Washington Cham of Commerce. and Howard & » .»: three | York avenue to | Connecticut | vner of the | HELPING F " THE CHAMPION FOR THE BIG BOUT. is shown with his sparring partners at the training camp, where he is preparing for the projected hout with Gene T Jack emp sey, heav: yweight chani on, wearing the | ht ba in the center, Copyrizht by Underwood & Underwoad HERRICK DEFENDS PEOPLE OF FRANCE Hardships Due to Depreciat- ed Money Calls for U. S. Sympathy, Says Envoy. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND. August 19.—Home to vest for a short time before he de- parts for Washingtone Myron T. Her- {vick, United States Ambassador to | France, vesterday urged that a toler- ant attitude for “the grief-stricken sister nation across the sea” be main |tained in this country. “The depreciation of the franc has affected the French people very much and they are irritated because of it,” he said. “We ought to be pa- tient with them, and ask ourselves if we would he as patient as they if our currency had depreciated seven or By the Ascaciated Press YORK, August thief in recovering a leged police here last night W. Ford, former Peninsular State Bank Park. Mich.. admitted ho! bank last July 17 and esca Appeals to Police to Recover And Is Arrested for Bank Robbery 19.—An al- who sought the aid of part of his | Ioot from two women was arrested | to the police a The man, who said he was George | here from employe of the! Highland | D the 1dir with | as a fu 5.000 7 peared up at cash w A woee 00, 1 hefore $800 of the ed missing. Ford wrote a letter king aid in tracing he had hrought N. Y. and who, valite containy had the disap- hold- bank's polica said three di the time st topen 20 two whom Ruffal d, had take 000 from 1 re<ulted in itive from women he ing £ gati justice. Washington Barrack Forestalled. An attempt to popul 'ARMY OFFICERS BAN | ta those which s Ordered i | | irize A hase the HIGH-SPEED LIMITS BASE BALL GAMBLING| ON STREETS SLATED Attempt to Popularize “Pool” at|List of Certain Boulevards Will Be Submitted to Commissioners for Approval A list bt which it of < the on | ACCUSED SLAYERS OF GIRL MENAGED Tennessee Couple, Bound Over to Court. Arouse Hos- tility and Threats. By the GR Associated Press Tenn., wife Alma August 19 were hound over v to the October term of Criminal Court after a preliminary hearing her s terday on a charge of murdering No vella Winkle, 12-yearold girl. Tipton, 43, and his wife, 40, not guilty to the ch Winkle chi [ was found cellar of tiwir home arly 2000 per whose hody Monaa mutilated in_ the near her sub ithout privilege of bond | | machine is a mystery. | get-away. | on their present career of outlawry | few | complished POSSES IN PLANES HUNT BOY BANDITS Youthful Pair Elude Pursuers After Terrorizing Entire Colorado Community. By the Associated Pre PUEBLO, Colo.. August 15.—Two boy bandits, Lester and Forrest Gonce, aged 18 and 14, are re-enacting exploits of the Jesse James gang in a series of robberies in this section, eluding with apparent A halt dozen posses, afrplanes equipped with tear gas hombs and scores of volun teer sentries. The pair recently shot their freedom in Garden City, Kans. being arrested for holding up a f station, and fled into Colorado. Since coming to this State they held up and robbed a deputy sheriff of his au- tomobile and weapons, “stuck up” Y. M. C. A, camp at Rye, a small r sort town, and so generally terrorized residents at the resort that many of them are closing up their e shortening their usual Summer tion, Just when the sheriff’s forces lieved they had carnered the pair ina canyon near here last night a lar 1utomohile sped through the streets Rye and from its open windows the hoy desperadoes waved an urchin- like greeting to the inhabitants as they sped west Where they ease way to fter he. the mear been the commandeered Ranch Rye said it apparently had placed in a fleld by friends of boys to enable them to make It bore no license tags The two youngsters, fugitives from Colorado penal institutions, started a have the weeks ago and to date rivaled the exploits of some of West's most notorious “bad men.” All their escapades have been ac- in the face of an inten- sive search that has h condueted for them since they robhed the dept ty_sheriff a week ago. Both hoys are armed officers belleve a pitched ensue once they are cornered mother arrived from Garden vesterday to ald in the search. SUN VICTIM SOUGHT. heavily hattle may Their City ing | their | and | S510.000 BARRACKS " WILL BE ERECTED Fort Humphreys and Camp Meade Included in List for Improvement. Fort Humphreys, Va. and Camp Meade, Md., are included in a list of 17 milltary posts in ‘the immediate building construction plans of the War | Department, designed eventually to provide permanent barracks for the 40,000 enlisted men of the Army now living In wartime cantonments, tents and other temporary structures The total allotment for construction work to hegin this Fall and_due for completion next Summer is §7.420.000 Of that total. $: vill be spent in the constriction of two battalion bar racks at Fort Humphreys £410.000 nstruction of one hattalion s at Camp Meade. Ten set flicers’ quarters are to he constructed at the arsenal at Edgewood, Md., with an allotment of $90. The zeneral bullding project was made possible by an of Congress authorizing the appropriation of | meney derived from the sales of sur plus War Department real estate, in luding the sales of surplus buildings, A constitutes the first size housing prozram authorized sinee the Waorld Ont the total 0,000 for immediate condruction work. only £180.000 used for the construction of officers’ quarters The amount allotted for barracks for | enlisted men 1= $4.669.000, for hos | pitals, £200.000, and for quarters for non.commissioned officers, $371,000. The largest allotments are posts embracing school instal such as Fort Benning. Ga., where the Infantry school is located; Fort M mouth, N. I, where the Signal School is located: Fort Humphreys, where the Engineer School is located, and Camp Meade, where the Tank 1 | is located 21 FORD TOUR PLANES DUE IN CLEVELAND TODAY Airmen in Reliability Test Flying From Cincinnati With Beach and Meister in Lead. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND. Ohio, | Twentyone airplanes participating |the 2500-mile " Ford reliability _ton of Motment of to he Augnst 19 | Wife of C. G. McMahon Searches Capital—Lost Him in Ohio. Acting on Information that her hus band, Charles George MeMahon, 31 vears old, advertising manager of the | Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch. who believed to be an amnesia vietim and s heen missing since August 7. may {in Washington. his wife. Mrs. Nin McMahon. is searching the city today in company with Headquarters De tective Cieorge Darnell . Mrs. McMahon says that her hus- | gome band was stricken by a sunstroke in |yprer | procure bond for Tiptom, contended | Detroit on August 4, and that while [that it was a physical impossibility she was taking Rim 'to 4 resort ne ! {for the woman to have commirted | Chicago she lost him in the station i i i [ the crime. i) i ey fan v bl o [ = SO0 AL SRR T Telling of to Pittsburgh and thence to Philadel- | John R. Bennett, 61 vears old, for oMU, an. officer tes phia, where a newspaper man told her | mer Washington resident, died at his threats had ‘heen made ag he had seen her husband in Wash. | home in New Brunswick, N. J.. on lies ot thi acc i earndis. vt August &, after a long illness, friends | | here have heen advised. | . Mr. Bennett is survived by his widow. Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett: two . Mrs. Mary Ella Bennett Hibbs shington and Mrs. Rachel Riley t times and our eountry was filled | ball pool, similar Levi hath With rich foreigner | District police attempted to stamp out Sltuation | Instances of tredlinent ot | ios oo, among dien the | Americans in France have not beem | % ' o gy 3 |t |zeneral. but have been unpleasantly |A! the Washington B: ks has met | magnified in country, he said. | with prompt and decisive objections h-“r ”"'l’!f)k will “l’"M 2] m\f;m:{fl' |trom the officers of the post, it was & ctreets. Mr. Ravner sug. |the home of his son, Parmel 0 | e e L s Raehts Trein T ‘te Wk, | for cosnferences withi By A copy of ene of the ponl Rt street from Pennsylvania {idge and Secretary Kellogg after | sheets mailed to The aveniis to |, mndliEifteenth ifrom 11 [ W hich hensill weturn o Barracks yesterday to K he widened first, because they = = e | timation are “traffic bottle neck i S e e ook the s | L+ & N RAISES WAGES. gestions under advisement = $1,000,000 AQUARIUM GIFT an honr K G speed. Tir prepared ler, actin was Mol- conrrroom and officers to suppress demon spectators, who sho tility to the aceused Tipton, weeping, de | child, who had been | Tipton home for t | Tipton, whe had tol Novel | were scheduled to arrive at the Cle: |1and airport_about noon today from Cincinnati. Twenty.one checkers, one | for each machine, will see that e fiyer's log for the leg from Cincinna‘i is completely checked and timed The tour, while primarily an endur ance and reliability test. has becoms a race, with Walter Beach of Wichita Kans. and Louis . Meister of | troit jockeving their planes for 1 lead, Chicf Starter Floyd J. Log | sata of the Thaver Printing Co Mr. Andrews and Mr cpoke particularly of the around the hlock occupied by Patent Office and explained that | would he remedied by the widening of F and G sireets hetween Seventh | Col tions from the intense hos - ed killing the guest in_the weeks. Mrs, | she slew air of uninter the was ivil the eplisted < the new speed bhoule- inter- . The ured in Bal » ship. Lo it Timit | vard sto sections al signs are hey timore and s ped hefore begin immedia While Col M the houlevar to increase the spes that portions M Wisconsin avenues ar score | rom the | the f in- e being made ted_personnel I il lot tioned in the District | of Columbia to wager their mon i 14,500 Employes Affected by New |q chance. Sl e | Inquiry at the office the com- |jist. as a8 ' LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 19 (P, | thorities are unalterably opposed to || street the District 19 UP).—A* new | —Representatives of the:Brotherhood | this base ball gambling among the | fimit now is 30 miles an ¢ the proposed | of Railway and &Steamship Clerks, 'men and orders were issued to fore- | some sections of this road, Shedd Aquarium by John G. Shedd, | Express and Station wealthy (hicagoan, in addition to |officials of the Louisy nploves and | stall general circulation of tickets on | Mount Olivet Cemeter; e and Nash: | the pool. 3 his previous donation of $2.000,000, | ville Railroad Co. vesterday signed | was announced last night. {an agreement whereby approximately | M A, Travlor, president of the | 4300 employes of the L. & N. will re. Shedd Aquarium Seciety, said when | ceive wage increases totaling §400,00f it became apparent that plans for a |annually 1 building equally imposing as the Field | The new agreement provides for ,i mentally unsound. The bady g w tress. My robhers ing to bir men ent lanks, tly re found under rock and ea Death appare ilted from ax hlow he State, in opposi the effort to hat efforts wer ¥ ed t 1 he ) reveal nroposes | is known setrs and led in.the road for h and e aviators will hop off from here 1 the Army st row at 10 a.m. at one-mini pretense When heara men . — of i Fif the | that | drop their weaj ind intense feeling in August 0 for north of Escaped Convict Returns. R MICHIGAN CITY, Ind A ) —James Wienger, | trusty at the who esc: terday, bring | “ Two Get Commissions. Exports from the I'nited States to | Matrimonial Asset. s . Noted Geologist Dies. CHARLESTON, (#). —Farle Sloan Alton S. Heyser, 3348 Mount Pleas |the Orient for the month of Aprit. ac 19 | From the Baston Transcript ant street, this city, has been ap.|cording to the Department Com “There is one good thing about mar- | pointed a second lieutenant in_the |merce, were $11,000.000 greater than |of Haddon Heights . and three [ T | Air Corps, and Clarence W Ren. |for the same month in 1925. However, | brothers. Josiah Bennett of Tucker- “What is it?” | shawe, Garrett Park, Md. a firet [our total trade with the Orient for [ton, N. J.; William Bennett of New It makes a man think more ;Mlueunum of Infantry, th in the | April showed a p of 7.2 per cent as| Brunswick. N. J., and Constantine talk lesas! Officers' " Reserve Corps of the-Armys compared with¢Je previous month. ' Bennett of Philadelphia, Pa. Ay M pas EX forme: C., August of assistant United States geologist and authority | on the Charleston earthquake of 1386, | ied today, He Es also South Caro- cience | Museum could not be accomplished [sliding scale of wages according to job in |with $2,000,000 the extra million wasy length of service and type of work added, bandleds e, said he becam stricken. He will retain hi charge of the prison water works,