Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1926, Page 13

RETURNS TO TRE. eturned to his desk European powers, to find himself Incidentall hesfound his desk la; WIVES ARE CHEAP IN T¥ by Farran Zerbe of Tyrone, Pa necessary wherewithal a man ne Africa to acquire a wife. ALUMINUM TRUST CHARGED IN SUIT Haskell Asks $45,000,000, Alleging Breach of Agree- ment to Aid Monopoly. By the Associated Pre: NEW YORK, Aluminum Co. of Americn must de- fand itself against a suit for 845 000,000, brotight by George D, Haskell of Springfield, Mass. Haskell. president Machine and Tool Co., e ruit in Feder: amount, alleging that as a result of an alleged conspiracy between off cers and directors of the aluminum | company and the late James B. Duke he suffered damages estimated at $15,- 000,000, Three times the estimate of actual loss is demanded under the | provisions of the Sherman anti-trust Jaw. Haskell alleged that the aluminum dompany “maintaing a monopoly of trade and commerce in crude and semi-finished aluminum.” The suit is brought under this allegation monoepol August 24, The of the Bausch | vesterday start Court for that Officials Also Named. Other thur \". Clapp Hunt and are: Ar- | George H. | Rov A defendants named Davis, president David L. Gillespie, Alva K. Laurie, directors, | and Richard B. Mellon, secreta treasurer of the Aluminum Co. of Ame George Allen of Scars drle and New York City and two other executors of Mr, Duke's will William R. Perkins of Montclair N. 3., and Nans Duke of 1lills oo, N, J Ail of the in those wh | dants ex exves ure given | v Pittshureh, where the Aluminum Co. maintains ite head | offices The compan has reduction plants in 1linois and smelting plants in W k. North Carolina, Ten nessea and Canada The suit. Taskell on the frustration in which he en 1 with Duke, IH’ 1924, the complaint av 1. Haskell | and Duke, who then owned a plan on the Saguenay River, Quebec. ¢ pable of generating 00,000 horse power. entered into a tentative ranzement whereby Haskell was he supplied with power by the Duke and Duke was to aid Haskell n the manufacture of alu alleged, is Lased | of an enterprise § minum Charges Monopoly Was Upheld. Haskell | ~d of the Haskell During these neg alleged. 1 e teri c d in mind & ,'1‘1.“ defendant Davis and other de fendant directors,” Ilaskell averred, “gained information of the enterprise and conceived & scheme and plan of defeating the ente which threet ered 1o interfer the “monopoly which ieretofore Aluminum Co. | of America had succeeded in main taining. Duke was induced to with- draw, Haskell alleged. and to repudt- ate his and obligations to Haskell and to join the Aluminum ( America in maintaining and pr ting an almost complete nionopoly.” - . l1ast year, with its rainfall of 29.87 inches, sives England a surplus of 1.98 inches for the 12 months, iations. ion SURY DESK AFTER EUROPEAN TOUR. ds in the | Democrats Expect to Adopt WOMEN WHO CONCEAI . Miss Belle Sherwin, presi- dent of the National League of Woman Voters, who declares women who don't vote because they have to disclose their age are “out of date and a handicap to political progress.” Charles vesterday after a t our of confer Acting Secretary of the Treasu Dewey, Assistant Secretary of nees with the financial minjsters of , in the absence of Secreta Mellon, den with floral greetings fr his associates. Washington Star Photo. Copy ht by Underwood & Underwood. RUDOLPH VALENTINO ON HIS LAST VISIT ¥ New York vesterday, was taken wil rs of the IHalia uary. Left to right are A. Guglieln of the sereen st OUGH THE AMERICAN CAPITAL of State and Mrs. Kellogg as the A oss, exhibited here, is all t Belgian Kongo“region in Copyright gy Underwood & T'nderwood. ors passed through here yesterday for a visit at Lady Astor’s old home in Virg e William Asfor, Viscount Astor, Mrs. Kellogg, Lady Astor, Secretary of State Kellogg, Phyllis' Astor and David_Astor. 1 o A PARADOXICAL POET. Left Washinston Star Photo to order while you wait. Tourist Is Robbed Of Property, Auto, Money, Wife, Child ““ By the Associatéd Press BAT 1 Mick 24 Samuel udson, « tourist from Bremen, Ind., was the vietim of & thorough theft, he reported to police Another tourist, he made away with: his automobile, money, personal effects and also his wife and child. August LIEUT. DOOLITTLE. Platform Today—G. 0. P. to Take Two Days. ' former ene and | The | le [ o tons the rem = = Describing Him. From the L lon Opinion. Head of the house—Gentleman wants to see me? Who is he? Maid (under notice)—Don't know. ‘1o just said ‘e wanted to see the Ivin’ scoundrel wot lives ‘ere! A New York lexicographer say: that what we need is not more word but fewer. | . . . . BR""SH STRIKERS ieut. J. H. Doolittle, Aerial Dare-Devil, ‘ A Flies Over Andes With Broken Ankles | ut. James . Doolittle, Army Alr [a porch and broke small hones in | | Corps pilot extraordinary, who has|each ankle. By prearranged plans AL queer | h® was to give an exhibition flight in o OBty 4 his Curtiss pursuit plane the follow ST adventures ‘1‘1' ”"“m_x' day. Physiclans placed casts | 2 H field of milits | about each ank \61000 Miners Enter Pits in aviation, has Just|rests, the pilot was lifted into his | T C t D f .n ;Hum\etl (1..~mHII‘|.|;me He tore up and down the ounties, Detyl by operating his | yafn streets, looped, spun, rolled and wo 2 Y g ;»l'nlw \\thl WO gide slipped. When he landed the | : ini broken ankles asts had disintegrated. | Union Officials. Last week tele- | Jje ypain was lifted from’ the plane S T 4 wraphic advices g pew ts were put on. Then he ‘, from Antofag: began the flight over the Andes, carry- By the Associated Press. ‘1 h”;"-' ;'"l-"lh' ;l | ing as passenger a pair of erutches. | ‘DON, e , »olittle, who 18| Tjeut. Doolittle, on leave of absence s st g on an aerfal tour |from the Army and with permission {slon of coal digging in England, which of South America, | to leave the continental limits of the has lasted. four months, was broken ';vl'"fi"'d ('he A\‘nd“-“!'nllml States, giving a demonstra- i soal NeamAt Bt Mountains at an|tion of the Curtiss fighting plane, R | altitude of 15.000 | standard equipment of the Army and | from the mines in Nottinghamshire feet, accompanied | Navy. Last vear at Balthmore he land Derbyshire. About 8,008 miners, by a pair of |won the Schneider seaplane trophy, lin defiance of their official leaders, crutches .in his | in competition against two Navy, one *| descended into the pits and resumed g British and one Itallan’ planes. His levor "l‘m"h') o hm‘". ) h..'\r;_o?rdln;! to word received here by | home station is McCook Field, Dayton, { o e Tt . 3 Cook, secre. | IS friends, Lieut. Doolittle fell {rom | Ohio. [tars of the miners federation, and his agsociates are working hard to D et of this Treakaway, | CUBAN FLYERS FINISH MAN KILLS GIRL WITH AX, which, however, has mnot been on Icuetr & v seate as the owners had [ ROUND FLIGHT TO HAITI| STRIKES WIFE AND FLEES {hoped. *A similar break in Warwi ~ o | shide occurred early in the present By the Assoriated Press, i | Siemte e was Speedily checked by | President of Republic Greets Avi- | Posses Search Louisiana Swamps COLUMBUS, Ohio: August 24.—Re- | the miners’ leaders and active picket- i . Skl i el LT ators at End of First Inter-~ | for Slayer, Now Armed today to adopt party platforms on| The hreak in the miners’ ranks is national Airplane Trip. s With Shatgun. which they will go hefore the voters|jimjted to the two countles named; | 3 for preference {n ':r\\|c‘m)‘wx' and to | there is still no sign of the men vield | BY the Associated Press, By the Associated Press. ay down the gauge of attle. {ing In Northumberland, Yorkshire or | HAVANA, August 24.—Capt. E.| ALEXANDRIA, La., August 24— y iy 1] Smé age of o Sy b | swamps for John Schmidt, 45, wl their husiness this evening. Republi:| Gned on descended into the pits in |A'MY aviators, have maae a flight | fiamps for John Schmidt, 45 who s planned to take two days to do| the early morning shift; others came |from Havana to Port au Prince, |afiss L. Jolly. and serlously wounded heir wo et " ¢|on the fater shift. and ‘more are ex- | Haiti, and refurn. They were greeted |hia wife with an ax yesterday in Thomas J. Duffy, former member o resume work tomorrow. But [as they landed at the Camp Columbia | Rpinehardt, Physiclans safd . Mrs the State Industrial Commission. and | there were evident signs that Secre- |aviation fleld by Bresident Machago | schmidt probably will not recover. - attorney for the Ohlo Federaton o [tary Cook’s lightning tour through |and Secretary of War Zayas Bazan, Schmids o his wite hatire Labor, is to make t “; EVIDLe spReCl| e inties had spread indeelsign | ‘The flight was the first of an Inter- | g i Step-daughtas The LB e | among the men. ® | national character pagticipated in by | COE 08 L G0 ded tn several places n for Gov. Vic Donahes Both cubinet minigters and labor | Cubuns, and constituted one of the | WO was WOURGER I Several Places Riiele titket ders wie absent from London and [first steps in the plans of President | {0 the BIGHS SHUL WG COuehed. Governor merene will sup £ mpEis Belngimanadtince otlas] MAchade SO0 T AEVRIODMERE OBV | o o ive rori the killings e fileliive et . or a settlemen tion in the island. G ¢ : plement the address 3 tor Wl Fhe. government will send some |#laver is known fo be armed withja The Beediiicen Keviote adincer naval officeys to the United States to | ShOtsUN. TG ol Gl el obtain kroWledge in flying hydro-air- e T planes which are to be bought for the . and his speech will be supplemented s Ny L s A Needed Invention. sy addresses by Senator IFrank : ; : Willis, candidate for re-election, and From the ( hn-.nyzn Service Monitor. Myers Cooper, gubernatorial nominee +He's a great 13;{\_@"'“ ] L Adoption of the Republican platform “What's he working on’now? will go over until tomorrow. firecracker. . and, over their pro- | I tion. ‘Hangman"s Threat | Of Noose for Wife HOLDS STABILITY NEEDEDBY FARNIER Meredith Declares Collateral | for Loans Must Be Steady ' to" Assist Credits. | » . - Brings Fine of $50 August . who iged so many Spanish-American s he can’t remem ber the exact number, threatened | to hang his wife if she did not i return to live with him. Judge | Carlin T Smith hung a 50 fi i \tioner b ipinos in the War that he s on the ex-hangman and cantioned him to curb his professional activi By the Assocated Pres 0 ties until the next wn least DES MOINES, August 24.—Stabili- zation of the price of products of the | farmers is what they need rather than | $100,000,000 Joan fund, in the opinion | HUNTED IN CHICAG Wilson's cabinet. \ Mr. Meredith expressed his opinion | in addressing a Jocal farm organ It was reported in,New York Herbert Tuero of Louisiana Left Home to Collect $6,000, Relatives Say. recently that a plan for a’$100,000, credit for farmers was to be consid- | ered by President Coolidge, but th was followed by a denial at the mer_White House, at Paul Smith N. Y, that the President had any knowledge of any such plan. “There s no more need for an insti- tution for financing the farme Meredith , said, “than there is e financing city business. JAny busin man with stable security can find| necessary money. That is the point The farmers’ security finder our pres- | ent system ig hot. secure. No one/ knows now What corn, now worth | 70 cents, ‘will be worth six month hence. Possibly $1; possibly but 3 cents. The banker cannot speculate as to the value of the collateral he| takes. He needs to be safe. He must loan on agricultiral products as though the price will go off per | cent during the term of the loan -this | due to the fluctuation in the price of agricultural products, “T'he greatest aid to the financing of the farmer would be to stabilize his collateral—his corn, cotton, etc By the Associated Press. 0. August 24. # reputed wealth cigar manufacturer, has missing from the home of relatives here since Saturday night and fear felt for his safety atements made to before his dMapy concernt for M Tlerbert New Or- friends here nee have caused uero. who has often ticipated in Louisiana political ampaigns, although never o - for public offiee ng the howe of relatives in Mr. Tuero remark t he expected (o collect @ $6.000 and anticipated difficulty. Friends receNed anonymous telegrams stating that the missir man was in that his collateral may he looked upon | SOMe hospital. A_ch s being made favorably by all the financial Institu. |10 an effort to find Tiero, who tions of the country: Stabilizing the |41 10 ¢ price does not necessarily mean higher | “5% 7 prices of fixed prices over a term of | vears, but it does mean stabilized | prices for 4 season, Mr. THE DUMBUNNIES —Out of Sight—Out of 1 WONDER HowW LONG HE'S GoING To STAY ? [ AND.HE'S GOING To STAY HERE AT THE HUTCH HOTEL.Toe ! OH- LOOK AT THAT WONDERFUL | SHEIK WHO HAS JusT / | I ARRIVED . MRS. DUMBUNNY ! s e I WONDER WHAT) / ANP DOCTOR I'D BETTER / ANGORA JUST WEAR FOR OUT OF SIGHT ! DINNER 9 sRarnaall, Counselor is selling his wares on the streets of London, England. heen | candi- | hicago on a visit two weeks | di Villanov: Copyright by N This practical minded poet, Victor Hilton, He writes them Wide World Phatos GEORGETOWN WINS LEAD OVER PLAZA | West End Athletes Half Point Ahead as Rain Halts Play- ground Meet. Rain this morning halted fourth time the third annual playground meet at Plaza playground after five events had heen decided. Seven remaining events will be de cided tomorrow morning at 1030 if rain does net-mgain inter- for the inter | o'clock, | fere, Athletes of Georgetown playground, coached by Ben Kail, scored 16 points to take the lead by 12 point over Plaza, that was leading at the resumption the program this morning. Point totals now are: Geor; 3 b 221 Cooke, (X Road, 1315 Garfield, 11: Henry, 9; Bur- roughs, 4; Hayes, Bloomingdale, Brookland and Happy Hollow, 1 each. nping Record Made. One new record for the meet was get this morning, when M. Nathanson of Cooke School leaped 17 feet 9 fnches in the 100-pound class running broad ump to hetter his own mark of 16 feet | Tinch made in the 1925 meet. The remaining events include the 100-vard dash. unlimited, in which the finalists are Jones, Cooke, He stler, Plaza: Newman, Henry; Bur- dette, Henry: Culler, Cool Ford, | Columbia Road; Flynn, Georgetown: Hotan, Virginia Avenue, and the fol | lowing for which all teams are elix ble: Ni-poumd class ning high jump and 0-yurd i 100 pound, 410-yard relay: a-poumd #0-yard relay and unlimited run- | ning A Jump and $80-yard relay. Today's Results, tods ents follow class—Qualified for finals ovard relay — Plaza, Ludlow, and Brookland. S3-pound class —Go-yard d by Hospital, Georgetown; Gordon, Georgetown, third, Cooke. Time, 74-5 seconds. 100-pound " class—Running broad jump—Won by M. Nathanson, Cooke; second Johnson; third, Har. ris. Columbia Road. Distance, 17 feet |9 inches (record). 115-pound _class—Running broad {jump—\Won by Sheehan, Plaza: sec ond, Wolf, Columbia Read: third, Henry. Distance, 18 feet 4 Jun Res T0-pound h-—Won second, Scanlon, Won by Linkins second, S third, Shriver, Cooke | seonds. . Unlimited class | Jump —-Won by Lilly | Buckley, Georgetown; | ington, Tiappy Hollow. | 4 inches, Running high arfleld; second, third, Wash Helght, 5 feet — { Three Get Reserve Commissions. Allen W, | Powhatan | sioned a nee owger, residing at the Hotel, has been commi captain in_the Military In Division; William J. New- 2002 Thirteenth street, a first lievtenant of Infantry, and Martin Leatherman, Riverdale, Md.. a first leutenant in the Chemical Wartars ce, in the Reserve Corps of