Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1926, Page 17

BREAKS ANOTHER RECORD. I« shown signing_his $100,000 contract vaudeville cire highest figure e sentative of the ¢ Babe Ruth, it after the next world seri written into such a_cont is shown at right. Yankee home-run king, our over a Western is_said to be the . Miln t for a 12-week Thi FUNERAL CORTEGE OF planes droned a requiem overhead. VAL AIRMAN Cemetery yesterday of Comdr. John Rodgers, hero of the Hawaii; cortege Is shown here approaching the gates of the cemetery, where PoLIC striking mill operatives at Man which several persons received bull gone to the s ille, R, WATCHING RHODE ISLAND MILL STRIKERS BEFORE RIOT. 1., who engaged in a battle with s and others were injured by throw et wo These are some of the 1,800 tate police there last night, in missiles. State militia have Acmo Photos, AKING seems sparring round dui SOME to be in tei HARD ONES. Gene Tunney. RLING T0; n flight, who was killed in a plane crash at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. ore hig h officials of the Navy Department gathered for the services, as naval v distress a: training at Atlan Full military honors attended the burial in Arlington National The Copyright by Harris & Ewing. NEIGHBORS CROWN TRUDY. Gertrude Ederle is shown at the block party given her by her nelghbors of New York's Amsterdam ave- nue, wearing the crown of “Queen of the Waves” bestowed upon her as the first woman to swim the nglish Channel, Herbert Photos sey’s sparring partner the champion is snapped in a ic City for his bout with Copyright by P. & A. Photos. PHOLDING RACKET HONORS OF FRANCE. The quartet of tei team are snapped at the national doubles tournament at the Loy Left to right are Henri Cochet, Jacques Brugnon, Jean Borotra and Rene La Coste. La Coste and Cochet with Brugnon in the tournanfent. nposing {he Fre at Brookl is_paired with & A. Photos. Copyright by P, ACK BUCK PRVATE FOR LECION HEAD. nsas Hero Boomed to ad Second A. E. F. to | ance. Opposing Pershing. | ; i BY ROBERT MALL. pposition having developed to the 1 of electing Gen. John J. Persh- commander of the American ion to lead a second “Invasion” of fnce next year, there has now been ght forward the suggestion that ead of a general a buck private I be made the national com- der for the trip back to the battle- s and to the boulevards of Par proposal has caught the ination of many Leglonnaires [ real progress is being made. As atter of fact the private to make already has been selected. Thomas Amory Lee of | ns., described by his “a man who might have a colonel or & general. but whose e and zeal to ve his country whose impatience at delays made a man of the ranks.’ e American Legion still is going ard with its plans to hold its e 7 in France next vear. marking h anniversary of Americ: 1 into she World War and the first ng of American treops on Euro suil ere is widespread belief in Legioni that the French anti-Ameri- | butburst. or tie past Summer will | died aown and been forgotien he time the Legion veterans sail France next Autumn. The French | rnment within the last fortnight | reiterated its desire to have the | rican doughtoys come to France their reunfon and has assured on officials there never has been slightest feeling against the men‘ fought beswwe the pollus on the | tern frent This undoubtedly is | | for some nundreds of ex-dough- | L stin tn France were asked to hide with the French veterans as| Fotest against the American debt | e g N osed Paris trip will be L ed out at the meeting of the fon in Philadelphia next month raca Pyt ! Promotion Now Rule. gion has \hshed» the lers through the various Kn\«l?@f to lonal commander. 1f either Gen. | rhing or Pvt. Lee were selected | he French invasion the precedent | d have to be temporarily set; Jo.. There is likely_to be oppos {10 such a move. LYt it Is argued | it the trip to France is to be| e on sentimental grounds, (he" mander for that trip should be| en by the same token. fhere Is & great deal of romance hind the new battle o “Let & X private lead the second A. E. F. France!” The Pershing boom has e powerful men in the l?gl(l)\ be- | 4 it, but recently in New York the shing t«cket to the national con htion at Philadelphia was defeated o counter talk for a buck private sprung up only within the last days and, according to fri ds of Lee, 1t <o happens that there is ihe Legion a “buck® capable of | ng the office of national com a man of spiendid executive it 0 begin with, Pyt. Thomas Amorg | the American Legion ever Lee is a university man, a_gradua of Kansas University and of Harvard Law School. He fought through-the war hs a private, but now is a major in the Reserves. Pvt. Lee's war rec- ord is something of an epic. It starts on the Champagne front in the Fall| of 1917 before American troops had | entered into action. ! He served in the Foyer du Soldat, and was more or less a “guest” of the | French army, doing nothing much but fight the Germans and getting shot at—repeatedly. | Quits for U. S. Forces. In the latter part of Janua enlistment paper French artillery. In theo a member of the famous Legion of France and was assigned to the artillery school at Fontaine- bleau. However, his orders were long delayed, and, growing weary of walting, he secured his release and enlisted in the 26th United States Infantry, a part of the famous First Division, which was in action all through the war. Lee was in the first fighting at Cantigny. He was in the Mondidier-Noyons defensive, in the second battle of the Marne, and was Injured at Cantigny and at Sotssons. He was cited for gallantry on the field and recommended for the Distinguished Service Cros Private Lee has heen prominent in since its organization. and was a_member of the Legion pilgrimage which visited France in 1921. The Western ele- ments of the Legion particularly are expected to make a strong bid for his selection as national commander of the second A. E. F. which, ac- cording to present plans. may number anywhere from 30,000 to 50.000 men (Covy 2 “African Golf" Hard Hit. F €ITY, N. 3 1918, | in the ¢ he was | reign . September 1 n golf continues to be the | favorite recreation of too large a percentage of the local citizenry. says Director of Public Safety Beggans. campaign against craps on the books” for the past 13 years, he ordered it intensified BROTHER OF HALL WIDOW QUIZZED Insists, as He Did 4 Years Ago. That He Was Fishing on Night of Murders . By the Associated Press SOMERVILLE, N. J.. September 1. —A check of the statement by Henry Stevens, brother of Mrs. Frances Ste- vens Hall, as to his movements on the night the latter’s husband, the Rev. Edward W. Hall, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were slain, was in progress to- day. Stevens was questioned by investi- gators at his home in Lavalette yes- terday and repeated the story he told at the time of the original investiga- tion four yvears ago. He has maintained he was fishing with friends the night the two were shot down and that he returned home and retired about 9:30 p.m. The time of shooting has been set hetween 8:30 and 10:30. Mrs. Stevens is willing to see her husband o to jail, if his arvest will help solve the four-year-old mystery. What we want is a solution, and if it will help any to put Mr. Stevens in prison, let them do it.” she declared was the position of both her husband and herself. Henry Stevens is a brother of Willie | Stevens, who with Mrs. Frances Ste- vens Hall, the widow, and Henry Car- pender. her cousin, are now charged { with murder. 1Bab ];oru (;11 Way AcrossD.C.Line; Side Unknown A race with the stork to a Wash- fugton hospital ended about 10 o'clock last night at or near the District line on the Good Hope road when a lusty 8-pound baby girl was born in an automobile to *Mrs. A. E. Yost of Prince Georges County, Md. The birthplace of the voungster will probably never be known, for the two adults in the car with Mrs. Yost as the child was born do not know accurately whether the birth took place be- fore or after the District line was crossed. Dr. Charlton R. King of Nicholas avenue southeast, the physician who attended Mrs. Yost a few moments after her child was born, is in a quandary as to whether to send the birth certifi- cate to the District authorities or to the ryland Bureau of Vital 2015 Mrs. Yost left her home on the One thing that mukes me think that France understands that she can’'t out o° paxin® ix that she’s quit speakin oo New models come an’ go. but ther still seems ' be a lo folks who | prefer t' end ther days in ther present cars. (ConysighicJohn Dilie Ood Waldorf road in an automobile driven by a neighbor, and with her mother, started on the 10-mile jou ney to a Washington hospital, dur- ing which the child was born. The attending physician cl acterized the occurremce as very musual. Both mother and child are doing well today at a private hospital. While only $0 aircraft units were shipped from the United other countries in 192; 74, The Timid Soul Go AHEAD, CASPAR, SHooT! 1 0g soratnen sisz, 7,7 ’ < 77/, /o it P S iy BY WEBSTER. TUST A MUINUTE. WAIT TiLL THOoSE FELLOWS GET OUT OfF RANGE. | Por'T WANT To RISIK HITTING THEM PPt THE SECOMD TIME HE EVEF PLAYED '™ HIS L&-rmm World) Press Pub. Co. LIFE — - F by | NEW test, Adopts Substitates for ‘“Garcon.” YORK, September 1 (P).— You need no longer gargle over an attempt to recall the pronunciation of “garcon” when you want the waiter. rant Owners' Association, after a con- announces five alternative ap- pellations (or epithetsi—service, stew- ard. orderman, cardman and server— as being preferred to that of “waiter” | high school The United Restau- the big-thumbed soup bearers. ped In a single month recently, falling cost of living ~ Sought Man 18 Years. MONTPELIER, Vt., September 1 P)—Sherift Vernon Rand chewed the dry cud of chagrin 18 years before he had an opportunity to serve a dusty warrant on Gordon Guy as the man who escaped from the sheriff while under arrest on a forgery charge. Spanish Ambassador in Cuba. HAVANA, September 1 (#).— rancise Gutierrez De Aguera, | Spain’s first Ambassador o Cuba, has presented his credentlals to Presi- in settling labor troubles in Norway |dent Machado. There were the usual States to|recently, provision for new wage ad- 40 were ship- | justments to accord with the rising or ceremonies. Spain previous- elaborate Iy had been represented in Cuba by Two Somé 450 MrpSs Away | Burning Flowers Fell Firemen. NEW YORK, September 1 (®).— An esthete would see much to ad- mire in the plight of seven firemen who were temporarily overcome by the fumes of burning flowers while an audience comprised largely of men and women in_evening attire from nearby supper clubs watched. All the firemen recovered. i i Log Swiftly Reduced to Paper. | THREE RIVERS. Quebec, ber 1 () —Elght new giant machines convert a 12-foot log in three minutes into a strip of paper half a mile long that goes into le and ¢ Septem- | GERMAN PAYMENTS ONE-THIRD IN COAL and $156,318.000 Goods Mark Second Year. ated Press. . September 1.—Germany met nearly 54 per cent of her repara- tion payments in the second year of the operation of the Dawes plan end- ing yesterday by means of deliveries of materials, This will be shown'in the report of S. Parker Gilbert, agent general for reparation payments, to be published about November 15 The total payments amounted to 1,220,000,000 gold m 360,000) and the deliveries in out $166,- Allies from from cir- eycle ing ma- from bottle and from varied from coal to lion t dyestuifs to kitchen ran; | cult breakers for motor rosaries, from candy chines to Baverian hops washers to trout spawn cigar molds to cotton gins More than one third of these de- liveries were gf coal, coke and lignite, as seen fréM the following rough classifications in round millions of gold marks by the agent general's office: Coal, coke, lignite, of coal, ete.. $4; d uets, 11; chemical coal Ly-products, products, 17; timb laneous, 177. he payments included ir lions, reparation bonds, contributions, 250; 241.9; interest on tures, 125. In addition Germany by 21 will pay these amounts as part of the second annuity: Interest on rafl- way reparation bonds, 45,000,000 gold marks; transport tax, 8,195,000, bring- ing the total of payments during this second year under the Dawes plan to ,220,000,000 gold marks. Of the sums thus at the disposal of the agent general of reparations, 1,063,000,000 gold marks were ex- pended for creditor nations, of which France got approximately 367.000,000, Great Britain almost 227,000,000, Bel- glum_about 116,000,000 Italy 78,000, 000, Serb-Croat-Slovene states 38.000 - 000, United Sstates 15,000,000. Minor creditors, such as Rumania, Japan, Portuga), Greece and Poland, received | altogether, 21,000,000, Interallied commissions and arbi- tral bodies consumed 18,500,000 The charge for services in arranging the German external loan of 1924 amount- ed to 97,000,000 While' almost 54 per cent of the second year's reparation were paid for in deliveries in kind, the re. mainder was covered by the follow- ing classifications: Occupation costs almost transport tuffs, drug prod fertilizers, 88,000,000 transfers ,000,000. ellaneous classification in Judes one interesting items—2.100. 1000 gold marks for the restoration of | the Louvain Library cash Aneous 71,000,000 {and misce! The misc One of the first causes of British overseas trade is said to have been other-news Drinted ‘on it. rings caught in the Baltic Sea, ¥ S to | reparation recovery acts | MILITIA GUARDS RHODEISLAND MILL | as Mob of 1.800 Charges State Police Force. By the Associ MANVILL] ted . R. L, September Natfonal Guard troops rattled into Manville on trucks today to quell rioting which culminated last night in injury to nine persons during a clash between State police and a mob of 1,800 striking operatives of the Manville-Tenckes Co. textile mills. Thirty-five men of the Field Artil tery, accompanied by ambulances and Medlcal Corps detachments, reached the mill €oon after midnight to sup- port 154 State police officers and dep- uty sheriffs who have guarded the plant since trouble started with the arrvial of strikebreakers Sunday. After a night and day of disorders during which an attempt was mude to set fire to the mill, the trouble reached a peak last night when strik- ers gathered at the head of the Bla stone River Bridge leading to plant the Tear Gas Checks Mob. man, starting to cross was pushed back by he crowd wavered a o- rushed. The police met with swinging night icks, but were forced to retreat be- superior numbers, and to re- to tear gas bombs. The bombs again checked the mob's ance, but another series of rushes finally brought volleys from rict guns olvers. Five strikers and sympathizers went down wound- ed with buckshot, while Aram Au- | clair, 18 years old, of Woonsocket, a | nephew of Mayor Soucy, was struck |in the face by a revolver bullet fired | over the heads of the crowd. He was lin a crowd of spectators on a hill overlooking the battle. {__Deputy Sheriff Percy Butterfleld of Providence was shot in the face by a charge of buckshot. Lieut. John | Baird of the State police was struck {in the foot and one of the State po- |lice was cut about the face and head by stones. Pastor Pleads With Mob. Pleas for peace from leading citi- zens and Rev. Eustace Magnan, cu rate of St. James' Church, sent some |of the crowd away, but the situation | remained critical and Col. E. 8. J | Chaffe, commander of the State po- |lice, called on Adjt. Gen. Cole for troops. Charges of strike leaders that the ! State police incited the crowd to riot | were denied by Col. Chaffe. He sald that his men retreated from the bridge lonly because he wanted to use riot guns at a range that would not re sult in fatalities. His men fired be cause clubs had proved useless, he said. The strike was calied August 18 | protest over the employment of th non-union loom fixers A sympath strike later was called in a mill of the Manville Co Woonsocket . Lfforts are being made to reduce One bridge. police. ment, thel advance the State American homes with | the exchange of native wool for her-|the government's servant tax im the etheriands.