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CROWDS WAITING TO VIEW THE BODY OF VALENTINO. of a New York undertaking establishment yesterday njured in the ¢ (lmu nl the rnahli»llmpu A nu glass w ber of persons were Weighing congressional brains. Dr. Arthur MacDonald, whose project to make an anthropological study of the mentality of members of Congress is being fathered by its scientific is examining the head ist. nderwood Theusands gathered at the funeral parlors to file by the body of Rudolph Valentino, screen idol. h outside when the pressure of the crowd smashed the plate Wide World Photos. EX-CHAMPION STAGES COME-BACK. Mrs. Molla Mallory is being congratulated by Miss Elizabeth Ryan after defeating the latter for the national singles tennis championship at Forest Hills, in one of the most thrilling matches ever played Illl're t by U'nderwood & Underwood SORORITY SISTERS GREK ING MI WILLS. On the day Mrs. Mallory won the si Hélen Wills, who was unable to defend her tennis title because of a recent operation, geturned to her homw State to resume her studies at the University of California. mma Sorority of (he university. Kappa Kappa LOOKIN Tors Niapor Hendtick of Phila nIT right of the mayor, inspecting the Dempsey ia, at center, and G ene Nor Sesquicentennial S tadi Uniting__brewery millions. Miss Louise Uihlein of Milwaukee, W whose engagement has been an. nounced to Gustave Pabst, jr.. heir to the Pabst Brewing Co. millions, and whose marriage will unite two of the largest brewery fortunes the country. Copyright by P. & A. Photo INDIGTMENTS HELD INBANK COLLAPSE Will Be Presented to Atlanta Grand Jury—Bankruptcy Suit Filed. By the Accoriated Press ATLANTA, Ga of indictment sh of the Bar Atlanta and the n Trust Co. of subsequent closing of nearly 100 small Georgia and Florida banking hous acted as fiscal agent, Ed A. Stephens, ass general, for presentation to the special grand jury Investigating the bank- ruptey proceedings of the institution. Meanwhile bankruptcy proceedings against the ‘inance Co. Jacksonvil filed In T: by were held today II:1~ State o . were vesterday Ar o stock of the wned by Atlanta, srgia State Bank- Sixty per cent Jacksonville it the Banke:rs now ,in recelx attorneys for the G fng Departmen Property of Mank ¢ this 60 per perty of W £ closed nt was D. Man- Atlanta Virty the | ley, presi banking he ki proces having heer and protect The Flor capital stoc eral hanks heing hel. Co.. and reorganiy that closed leaned Testimon: etal Iu the sanin directed at many p er's lfe, his phys his family life Realty Profits “on Pape Arthur Powell. representing rela- tives of Manley who guardian for him on the ha i= mentally ineapac day told the jury that profits of $1.800.000 estate. most of which, *“on paper Powell testified éstimate Manley'® income hec the banker himself set it v ey said her hus rational for ve ar Atlanta home was pu hev wne His fir CESSes, said, wer urds shed by her Dr 11 Allen ) the Allen Sanator! at M Vil Ga., where the banker | n a patient said !nb did not helie tunley w T insanity ‘O the ot hand.” he said. “h . effort to appear some instances he succer well CHILD PARALYSIS GAINS. P4 Stricken, 5 Dead Orphanage—Other BERLIN, August of Infantile paral more numerous. Orphan Asvium reported that 24 children have heen stricken and that five have Other cases reported in Hannover and two in Spandau, near Berlin. cen o cor depositors r his supe by the Bav order 1o i ton of he sto: some Tefore = 1vestigating anley £ the hank- ondition and vesterda: at Manley Florida he said, veste: mai real was he was unahie t s? and not 8 wi N chased business made wit nki nd in very sane in Gernian Cases Listed. ) Reports becoming the Catholic at Hannover it with the | for which it | tant solicitor | S| M ire seeking a | d that | is | died. | clave, will be in charge of the meet- | inss. Officials All Quit When Accused of Neglecting Town By the Associated Press NEWCASTLE, Va., August s the result of a petition charg: | fne tht aftairs of the town o |COUNtY Officials Plan Inquiry | Newcastle have been mismanaged Into FiIing of Goodyear' Company Suits. and neglected, the entire town council, the mayor and the town sergeant have resigned amd New- castle is without municipal gov- ernment. ‘The petitioners, repre- sented hy G. W. Layman, appear- ed before the council at a meeting 26 e Saturday night. declaring that the AKRON streets and sidewalks had heen | Vestigation of neglected and requesting an item. |Prosecntor G. ¥ ized statement of expenditures. | Inz sulte against the oodyear Tire After reading the financial state. |and Rubber Co. in the Ohio Suprema | ment of their administration, the . Court at public expense was expected council reported that it was im- | today following the announcement t possible to do the work asked for |!wo members of the Summitt Coun and that the repairs could not be |board: of commissioners that they made until the 1926 taxes are col- | would begin a probe of the action at lected. | once. The investigation will | the two commissioners said. 'BARNETT SAYS WIFE {3 &7 the county to int KEPT HIM lN WEsT of any group of stockholders. | George Pfarr and Walter | the two commissioners who made the lannouncement, sald that no official | notification of the suits had been re- Declares She Can Go AWfiy’ He:v:\'\»d by the board, and Booth, upon Wants to Live on Okla- | his return from Columbus today, re- | homa Farm. | Angust 23 -An in- the activities of ter Booth in bring- | | be conducted, hecause e {n tha private fused to give them any information | concerning them. The group of | stockholders back of the charges in | the suits hax remained. unidentined | since the action was Dbrought by e . - {Booth. Okla.. August 25| qn'g gtatement, Rooth sald the two iett, world's yichest In-| o it were based on charges that the “hankering” to come |G, qear. Co. issued management {back to Oklahoma for three years. but | qooc ot $1 par value. in violation of his white wife made him stay'in Los| "o aiyte calling for a minimum value Angeles In their $100,000 home, he said S BN et | llezations of the first. attacks Bomnett the right of Wilmer and seven other members of the hoard of direc tors, elected by virtue of powers de- rived from the issuance of the stoc to hold office in the company. | By 11 Jackson b dlan, has been was brought ®ack here to Federal grand jury and is charges of contempt of tn!lll‘ {lure to appear before the grand | jury in July, i o T 08 10N SLEUTHS ne Bir BUsbaEd o ceiain bRl s tn a hurry to get out | Waiting for “Carload of Booze," He Slays Chief of Detectives, T.was glad to see the officers tha came m arrest me and bring me her: fornia, If he savs that. some one has put Driving With Family. e atvert arvived o cown hia| H- jACKER KII.LS HEAD| him up to it. He can do whatever hoi | to his farm. - st soon not have money.” he | . hogs. 1 Woman. | she can ro t of money now | B the Assointed Press LIN, Mo., August FRATERNITY IN SESSION. " - chief of derectives, was shot hi and instantly killed an utified assailant, suppos Governor to Welcome Sigma Phi edy While driving with his z 2 famiiy and fr s on & road several Eps at Richmond. | miles northvest of here last night. 2 B 3 25 ®).—| The slay + from the roadside ) !..I,I,:,l:“ ke Hi Epstlon | and, 1 light in the face of Fraternity Laster, driving. demanded | try are here to know he was goi tie | the stlver Gov. ]l)len s we're looking for et i v car Harry 1 . Fulmer | 3 carloa 1901, Sig- | An officer, until | of detect and | and esen chap- <oy wlave. the matiers to be con proposed erection in Richmond of a 4 hall and n headquarters hullding at an estimated ; iudgment by default against her for. cost of $160.000. This city for a num-|mer husband, Carl Jenkins. for $3.260 bher of years been the site of rho‘arxo« < of alimonv. hy the District nationAl headquurters. Rodney C.|Supreme Court. She was awarded a Re general manager of the con- divorce with alimony by the Indian |apolis court, January 23, last. Attor continue [nevs Palmer, Davis and for the plaintiff, Jess on 7 shing a who was Pyed und Mavor J 1 weleome the vi in Itichmond 1 tpsiton has expanded now it has ¢ II.(“ s in o4 coliege : the he the man fired told him < of Jopi Gets $3.200 Alimony Judgment. Mrs. Blanchs A dianapolis, Ind Chief amon: sidered is the The session will through Saturday. MAY BRING PROBE k it the business of | affairs of a corporation for the benefit | man for | was chief | In- | cott appear | Desertcr From Coast Guard Surrenders. ‘ Tellmg Start]mg Story of Rum Runmng By the Associafed Press. DIE Calif, Aug Telling a startling story of ru ning as a machinist's United States Coast east coast an having when in fear of ney of Grafton, line from and ~v||INHIHP:1 \ 6. and a veteran of the World \\ il he joined the Coast | Guard New Londe Conn., under the name of nes Hanni- gan and W to service aboard the (o cutter No. | 7. He said before he | ’HOWARD IS MISSING IFLURIDA TROOPS WIN was supplied a uniform he found — | himself in a crew of rum runners. m run-| 1le told, in_ detail, of rum-running operations while on patrol duty. His in the | .y for landing liguor cargoes, he Guard on the | stated, was $3:000. . deserted | While he was ill, he said, the crew of the boat was arrested and, fearing arrest, he fled to Colombia, from | there going to the Canal Zone and then to San Pedro. He then was employed by Rudolph Valentino to take charge of the latter's yacht. | the Phoenix, he said, but two weeks ago_lost his employment and went to T Juana. Whitney is being held here for re- turn to New London, Conn. mate rossed the erday assigned ard that even . AFTER WIFE'S DEATH' RIFLE TEAM TROPHY| Continue Successes at Southeastern Meet at Fort Screven Range. | Son Says Wealthy Man May Have ; Marines | Fled to Avoid Settlement of Estate. | Associated Press. 1CO CITY, August ard, the rich salad dres from Iaverhill, Mass., disappeared following the death | his second wife on Sunday. | Tlis son Albert suspects that his | father has fled to the United States Screven range, in the Southeastern to avoid coming to a settlement with | rifle and pistol meet. him and his brother, who are seek-| (ieorgia troops, members of the |ing to make the father divide his|122d Infantry, were second with 507 lestate with their mother in Haver- points. The South Carolina hill, the father's first wife. The sons | unit, arriving too late for declare they will press charges of \won third. bigamy and forgery agalnst the! The United States Marine Corps father to force him to make a proper | marksmen continned their victories of financial settlement. There is no |previous days in the present meet by suspicion whatever that the second | winning the Southeastern champion- wife, who was Mrs. Eleanor B. Phillips | ship team match in the pistol division. of Milwaukee, died from other than |Sergt. . Russell and Sergt. J. R. | natural causes. The American hospi- | Tucker of Parris Island composed ital reports the cause of death as dou- | the team which ecaptured the prize ble pneumonia and spinal meningitis. | with a combined score of 192. { The hody will be sent to Milwaukee | phe sth Infantry team—Sergts. J. | | for burial. B Sharp and J. A. Rivadeniers of | Fort Screven— TWO K”.I.ED EIGHT HURT | two-man team match with the rifé| IN WORK-TRAIN WRECK | By the Associated Press. SAVANNAH, G August Hae Florida soldiers of the 124th Infantry - r\\\(m the adjutant general's team | trophy with a total score of 530, firing at 200 and 600 vards, on the Fort | M F. Hov John | 258 practice, at 600 yards and 1,000 yards. Their combined scores were 195 at 600 yards and 196 at -the lr)nxer range. - RADIO DEVICE INJUNCTION | AGAINST SPLITDORF CO. | Accounting, Believed to Involve Millions. Ordered in Favor of 3 Concerns Claiming Rights. i |22 Cars Derailed in Accident in | | New Mexico—Conductor and Woman Are Victims. By the Associated Press WINSLOW, Ar August A man and a woman were killed and | eixht persons injured when 22 cars | of a Santa Fe work train were de- | { vailed a mile east of Thoreau, N. Mex., | early this morning. | The dead are i Conductor J. | N. M | 3w train fu The dead to Gallup, | pectead to on, MAJ. CHANLER DIES. CANANDAIGUA .. N. (). —Maj. Winth {years old, of Geneseo, lionaire sportsman and alde to Gen. Pershing during the World War, died last night at Brigham Hall here, fol- lowing a second strok® of paralysis within three weeks He leaves his wife, four daughters and three sons, By the Associated Press TRENTON, N. J., August Fed- | eral Judge Bodine imposed a restraint today upon the use by the Splitdorf Jlectrical Co. of a patented tuning 'stemn as part-of a radio receiving set, the rights to which were claimed by the Radio Corporation of America, the General Electric Co. and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufac- turing Co. The court also ordered that the Splitdorf company account for profits derived from the patent. This phase | of the decision Is believed to involve millions. It was claimed in the suit that the complaining companies held exclusive patent rights on the tuning systems B. Tucker of Gallup, Jue Tlansen, wife of the work | an nd injured were remove he wreckage was ex be cleared shortly before | to permit main-line trains to device, it was said, was invented and patented in October, 1913, by Ernest F. W. Alexanderson, who sold | rights to the General Electric Co. The latter concern licensed the Radio Cor- poration to manufacture and sell the invention, Guard | now in general use on radio sets. The | | again his | | ! TENOR GO California tou He is shown STOCKS REACTION LAIDTO PROFESSOR Advance Copies of Article byI Ripley of Harvard Held Cause of Drop. i NEW YORK, August 25.—The New York Times says that advance copies of an article by ?Prof. Willlam Z. Ripley, Harvard University econ- omist, to be:published in the Septem- her issue of the Atlantic Monthly, | found their way into Wall Street vesterday and were partly responsi- ble, in the opinion of Wall Street, | |for the sharp reaction which took place in the stock market in the final hour of trading The professor’s article urged fuller publicity in the financial affaire of corporations and suggested that the Federal Trade Commission exercise the powers already vested in it to| | compel the submission of more com-d {plete and comprehensive reports. The fact that individual companies | were severely criticized in the | article for their faflure to keep their stockholders and the public intelli- gently informed concerning their | affairs was emphasized for the bear- | ish influence which such strictures | were likely to have. Several months ago excitement | was caused in Wall Street by the| comments of Prof. Ripley on non- voting stocks. which led to a change in the policy of the' New York Stock | Exchange in the listing of such stocks. 'MIDDIES RETURNING FROM SUMMER CRUISE ' vere victors in the | Landing at Annapolis Today to Be Followed by Leave Until September 25. | Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS. Md., August - Word was received at the Naval| Academy this morning that the prac- | tice squadron bearing midsipmen on | thefr Summer cruise had reached {he | entgance of Chesapeakes Bay on its | return and would land the vovagers Mussolini Orders Tablet Unv!fledw | ton ow. The cruise was al Atlantic coast hetween Newport, R. L, | and Guantanamo, Cuba. It began | June 5, | ‘The midshipmen will be given leave immediately vessels W ng the | until Septembn making the cruise are yming, New York and Utah. WEE | PARIS MEETING OPPOSED Michigan Legion Post to Fightl Against Convention'in France. OWOSSO, Mich., August 25 (®) A movement to put the Michigan de- partment of the American Legion on rd as opposed to holding the 1927 | onal convention of the Legion in | because ot ill feeling there Ameri ns aroused by ‘the, debt controversy was launched, by | the local post of the b vesterday. } A resolution adopted instructed del- egates to the' State convention to raise the issue there, . The the McLaughlin, at right, and (1!['1 ]7 (,hdrm‘d |With Robln-r\, Goes On Ilungvr Strike! By the Associated Press. ELKHART, Ind, Pauline MeNeer, 1 i held young men on ok up a filling station, take any food 3 ¢ ‘morning, never e T never will. 1 shoved through b dog,” asserted the g tive brunette. The Fitzrand, of woleon, Ohio, and Jim' List, 19, of Port Morris, N will be charged with ban ditry.” She said she joined two hoys at Columbus, Ohio, and that they had committed robberies in Columbus, Cleveland and Toledo August rs old, of with two holdi has refused to her e authorities said. en ve ard, Ky., here since pture in a jail and have food t me like a an att with ¥ won't rl, "TOURISTS CROWDING CITIES OF RUSSIA| Soviet Orders Special Courtesy for Americans in Hope of Aid- ing Recognmon By the Associated Press. LENINGRAD, R Not since pre-war ds I there been so many tourists in Russia there are now. The hotels in Moscow and Leningrad have been taxed be- vond their eapa; and the local au- thorities have been forced to provide ymmodations for travelers In pri 1ses arly 400 South American tour mostly from Argentina, have arr . August 25, ts ed here, bringing the number from North | and South America alone to almost thin the last few months the gov | ernment has let down the bars against the entry of foreigners, especially Americans. Believing that American | recognition will come sooner if large | numbers of Americans are permitted to see Russia as it actually is, the gov- drnment has relaxed its previous se- vere passport reetrictions and has given orders to all frontier and cus- toms authoritiess to be as accommo. dating and lenient as possible to | Americans. WILL HONOR MARCO POLO. at Genoa on Columbus Day. GENOA, ) Premier ted that Columbus day celebrated here of- fic the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Marco 'olo. Although Marco Folo wus a Venetlan, he spent much time here writing of his explorations. obile, captain of the dirigible Norge on her ) th Pole flight, willy head the mariners’ section of a huge ! parade. NOTED CHINESE DIES. SHANGIAL Chang Chien, China's leading cotton mill. magnate and industrialist, died today at Nantungchow, near here, at the age of 74. Chang achieved fame when he transformed a wretched na- tive village into the so-called model city of Nantungchow. He also was a noted scholar. tant role in Chinese-American com- mercial relationa, August August 25 (). s | He plaved an impor- | Helen is being greeted here by her sisters of the World Photos. Wide World Phote FORDNEY DEFENDS TARIFF MEASURE Says Law Benefits Farmers as Well as Other Indus- tries by Free List. By the Ascociated Press. SAGINAW, Mich.; icisms of the wor ney-McCumber tariff law relative to alleged high duty rates on articles | chiefly used by farmers are wholly | unjustified, former Representative | Joseph W. Fordney declared in an in | terview published here today. | ““There never has heen a law placed on our statute hooks that gives such full measures to protect our farmers, as are provided for in the present law, | and every article produced on the {farm has heen adequately protected by this I Complaint s being made that farm | ers are suffering from the high r of du to such state. ments, Mr. v, who was | man of the commitiee on ways and means, when the law was framed, said any one sufficiently interested ti sxamine the bill will find that most 1 necessities are on the free list Leather goods of all kinds—except ing fandy articles—such as boots, | shoes and harnesses are on the fre | list. Al kinds of farm machiner | and vehicles used on the farm are on and nearly all kinds of huilding materials are on the free list,” he said. “There is a small duty n lime and cement, but none on hrick | and lumber. Barbed wire also s on | the free list. These are among the | chief articles purchased by farmers. | “When framing the present tariff the committee on ways and | s, of which 1 had the honor to he chairman. took particular pains to see that attention was given to the protection of American labor against the cheap labor of foreign countries, We are purchasing foreign-made goods and selling to 111 governments or sub- divisions of governments, and the law cannot specifically be directed against any particular foreign government. “All must be treated alike under in | ternational law. In the Orient, Asia and parte of Europe, labor receives | from 10 cents to 30 cents per day. It | would be disastrous to our people to bring them in competition with this cheap labor.” Angust 25 —Crit ngs of the Ford | the free list, [NEW SWIMMING LESSONS ‘Inatmctlon and Sport Avalilable for Three Days at Central. The Community ment has wschedule season pool. There will be a period from 1:30 to 3:30 tomorrow, Friday and next Tuesday for children, while adults {will be agmitted in the evenings of those days with periods at 7:30, 8:15 and 9 o'c¢lock. Children can receive instruetion for 49 minutes, heginning at 1:3% o'clock. In tie evening women and large girls will receive instruction at the first period, wom at the second period, and men women at the last speriod. All wishing_ instruction can secufe it on these days or nights without having previously registered. Center Depar arranged a swimming for the closing days of th at the Central High School Nearly 2.000,000 safety razor blades |from America were used in British South Africa in the past year.

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