Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1926, Page 13

STUDYING THE UTH AMERICAN FLIGHT ROUTE. Maj. Herbert A. Dargue (left), veteran pilot of the Army Air Service, who has been named to command the 10 Army pilots to make the South Aerican flight, Is looking over the route with Capt. Ira C. Eaker, one of the flight pilots. Leoning amphibian planes will be used in the flight, which will cover more than 18,000 miles and is expected to get under way next November or December. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. ONE CHAMPION CONGRATULATES ANOTHER. Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel, visits Jack Dempsey’s training camp at Atlantic City, where she is greeted by the heavywelght cham- pion after watching him maul some of his sparring partners. Photo shows Jack and Trudy with Dudley Field Malofie, her financial adviser, at right. Wide World Photos. VALENTINO’S BODY ARRIVES FOR LAST RITES. picture shows the body of Rudolph Valentino being ren The casket was removed before reac ive services, attended by all the n Hollywood Cemetery yesterday when the bod. near Los Angeles. disorderly scenes. Impi / JOIN HANDS AS "TENNIS PROS. Miss Mary K. Browne (right), turned professional, with Suzanne ith whom Miss Browne will make an vf the United States this Fall. cent mateh in France. This photo was taken Copyright by P. & A. Photos. D AT LOCAL of the Army rrived in Washington to take comn the ‘world 1 commander Bolling Field. During wrecked in Alaska. FIELD. aj. Frederick L. Martin, pund-the-world flight, who has nd of the Army Air Station, at flight Maj. Martin’s plane was Wide World Photos. GERMAN to present ec into numerous new. fields of labor. as & mason’s apprentice in Berlin. RL THROWS MORTAR. nomic conditions in Germany has been the e One result of the readju s Margaret Zechern is working Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. was laid to rest COMMAND OF UNITED STATES aval tradition attended the f, n 1 F. B hes of the United States fleet I Hughes, wh i ul, photographed when hoard remonies. day at San Pedro, uel 8. Robisa the flagship his new conun. attle for the Sent from San Francisco over a telephone wire, this ed from the special train on arrival at Ri g Los Angeles to avoid a possible repetition ables of the movie colony, were held at the n a mausoleum. hfleld, Copyright by I'. & A. Photos. EET. All the cere 1 assumpti other succeeds A al San our Copyright by P & A. Photos HAZEN SEES NEED OF SMALL PARKS strict Acquisition of Areas at Street Intersections. Increased appropriations for the ac- Quisition of small park areas at the intersections of streeis is urged by Melvin' ¢. Hazen, District surveyor, in his annual report to the Commis sioners, made publio today These small park areas, Mr. Hazen stated, are desirable in the develop- ment of the city. An appropriation ot $5,000 for this purpose last year, he eald, was manifestly too small, as roperty values in the District are ncreasing enormously, making it difficult to Institute a proceeding for the acquisition of land. Summary of Work Accomplished. A summary of the work of the surveyor's office showed that 5.7 survevs were made for the District and private partles and 15,790 plats, ublic and private, were drawn in oks. Many surveys also were made; he said, and monuments planted to street corners in accordance treet plan pointed out that seven is were closed during the law recenty Congress, with the result owners have been en: ivantageous land which 1t up or di through the old roads or streets i the vear enacted by that property sbled to make a development of tr had been unnecessarily h sang less articularly es it pro ing out an and o ve plan of the report. "It enables in the development property. o provide streets dance with the highway plan Aiminating old d without rela- he mean *sa an long before | ay plan was adopted. Such however, necessarily had to be »usly made, and every safeguard depriving any owners of their was incorporated in es Listed. ven declared that his office all preliminary work in with 68 condemnation Of this number, Condemnation streets, park : cquisition of for pub) firmed stil! pen The du the 1iscellane smounted to § for the ulley « sed and 42 are o the report. d by the juries, in confirmed, the condemnation n the Barry Farm ntirely completed ‘n said. thus largest condemnation ken in the District More than $50.000.000 of American made automobile parts and accessories were sent to other countries in the _moaths. past-six and recorded completing 1t case ever unde Surveyor Urges A 89 | Girl, 16, and Boy, 18, Die in Suicide Pact; Marriage Opposed By the Associated Prees. KEARNEY, Neb., September 8.— Leaving a note which intimated they entered a suicide pact and re- questing that they be buried in one grave, Pearl Walte, 16 years old, and Ernest Miller. 18 vears old, committed suicide by shooting in a ravine near Lake Kearney. Opposi- tién to their contemplated mar- riage was hinted in the note. The bodies were found yesterday. They were soclally prominent. The note also requested double funeral services. SEVEN PERSONS HURT IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS Two Children Reported Slightly Injured—Colored Woman Suffers Dislocation of Elbow. Seven persons were injured last night in a variety of traffic accidents. One boy was knocked down while skating, another lad of 4 years was cut by flying glass while a passenger in an automobile. None of the cases is serious. . Mamie Nelson, colored, 47 vears old, 1806 Half street southeast, suffered a dislocated elbow when an automobile operated by James Windsor, 1513 Pennsylvania avenue south col- lided with a horse and wagon and overturned the wagon in which she was riding, police report. The acei- dent happened at Eleventh street and Potomac avenue southeast. Four-year-old Warren Oster was cut about the head by flving glass while riding with his father, Novel J. Oster, 4 Thirty-fifth place northwest, when the Oster car collided with another automobile driven by John meyer, 1317 Pennsylvania | southeast, in front of the latter ad- dress. street southeast, while skating on Po- tomuc avenue southeast was struck by an automobile operated by Mrs. | Maude Cooper, 303 L street south- He was taken to Providence spital in a passing automobile. While riding a bicyele near Fifth treets, Ernest L. Savage, col- s old, 714 Morton street, | was hit by an automobile, which the police say failed to stop. The boy was injured about the right leg. | POPE OPPOSES POLITICS. | Decries Linking Religious and | Secular Movements, He Says. ROME, _September 8 (#).—The | Catholic Church regards as undesira- | ble the linking of religlous move- {ments with political movements. the { Pope declares in a letter to Cardinal Andrieu, Archbishop of Bordeau | commending that prelate's proval of a movement in his arch | diocese which sought | veligious lay body with political aims. Such political manifestations, the Pontiff remarked in hu‘ke_lur. GUARDIAN NAMED FOR C. W. MORSE Son Will Handle Affairs of In- dicted Ship Magnate, Held Incompetent. By the Asspciated Press BATH. Me., September W. Morse, former steamship nate, vesterday was placed under guardianship by the probate court 8.--Charles mag- | Mrs. | to Mexico to organize a | without foundatien. ‘show | Stanislas Pestkovsky, 5 Ministes-to - Mexioas here as incompetent to handle his own affairs. On petition of Harry F. Morse of New London, Oonn., and Erwin A. Morse of Washington, his sons, Judge James F. Lowell named Harry as guardian for his father and ordered $10.000 bond. lowed the will of M Clemence Cowles Dodge Morse, wife of Charles W. Morse, who died July 15, and appointed Harry F. and Erwin A. Morse administrators. The court set bond at $50,000 to be furnished by the administrators jointly. Mrs. Morse's estate was valued at $50,000. At the time of hiz wife's death, Charles W. Morse, who was at his home here as the result of several shocks, was ordered to appear in New York Federal Court to answer an old indictment charging fraudulent use of the mails in the sale of steamship company stock. Because of his serl- ous condition, Federal Judge Edwin R. Holmes postponed the hearing to October. MRS. VELATI AGAIN BRIDE. Widow of Caramel Co. Founder to Wed H. A. Allen. Mrs. Mary A. Velati, widow of the Sant- | founder of the Velati Caramel Co., avenue | 616 Twelfth street, who recently re- sided at the Wardman Park Hotel, is to be married in New York today to Paul Gray, 12 years old, 1015 Twelfth | Henry Ashton Allen of the Chastleton Hotel, this city, according to word re- ceived here today. The bridegroom is a widower. Mr. Allen, who is a salesman, and ‘elati obtained a license to marry in New York City yesterday. | They announced none of their plans. Mrs. Velati is a native Washingto. nian, the daughter of Patrick and Catherine Walsh Mulvihill. Mr. Velati died in September, 1902. Mr. Allen was born in Brooklyn, Y., the son of Edward B. and Marion Ashton Allen. Both Mr. Allen and his bride are 49 years old. SOVIET ENVOY TO STAY. Report That Woman Would Sic- ceed in Mexico Is Denied. MOSCOW, Russia. September 8 (). —The report that Mme. Alexandra Kollantay, former Soviet Minister 10 would be appointed Minister was declared today to be The Soviet government. it was stated. has no intention of recalling the present NEBRASKA PRISONER BEGINS BREAD AND WATER SENTENCE Another Will Enter,_]ail Todas! Wltl’l Slm lar Diet Prescribed—Doctor Holds System Is “Murc»lerous.“ By the Associated Press. TEKAMAH, Nebr., September 8.— A loaf of rye bread and a tin cup of water made up the first rations offered to Roy Carson, 35 years old, Bertha farmer, placed on an abbre- viated jail diet as part of his punish- ment for violating liquor laws. Thomas Nelson, 50, Craig farmer, under a simillar sentence, which calls for 60 days in jail, the first and last 20 on bread and water, en- ters the jail today. Nelson last night was seeking some one to take charge of his 240-acre farm and 270 sheep. His three minor children expect to live with his mar- ried daughter while he is in jail. Because each of the mien served five days on bread and water in April, 1925, prior to an unsuccessful appeal to the State Supreme Court, their first stretch of the diet will be only 15 days. Doctor Decries Sentence. Carson said he was not hungry when Sheriff Smith provided him with his evening meal. He was ar- rested late yesterday and. spent his first three hours in jail reading. Despite a report to Dr. lziah Luk- ens, pioneer physiclan and former Tekamah mayor, that both Nelson and Carson are underweight and might suffer harm from their meager diet, and that such a diet was “mur- derous and cruel,” County Attorney Rhodes sald no physiciaY examina- tion would be given the men by the county physician unless they de- veloped unmistakable symptoms of 1llness. While Carson was looking over his habitat for the next two months, Max Saltman, 16 vears old, who has six days to go before beginning another 10-day stretch on bread and water, was enjoying the regular jail menu taken from Sheriff Smith's table. In four days he has been given regular food he believes he has added several pounds to his weight. Many law vio- lators have served similar sentences, but the cases of Carson and Nelson attracted nation-wide attention be- cause of their fight to the higher courts. “Too Much Sob Stuff.” The task of_ providing only bread and water to prisoners as ordered by County Judge Chatt, now at Roches- ter, Minn., where Mrs. Chatt is ill, is an irksome one to Sheriff Smith, he said today. “I prefer to give the men solid fgod, but all I can do is abide by the judge's orders,” he sald. “I have no desire whatever to profit by the prisoners’ discomfort.” Sheriff Smith is paid 76 cents a day for feeding each prisoner. County Attorney Rhodes, while not’ subscribing to the judge's’ prescribed menu, said he was loyal to him. and would see that his orders were en- forced. He said there was “too much sob stuff being displayed over the judge’s sentence, which has been in usage for years.” There was one deviation in Carson's first meal. He was given rye instead of white bread, as suggested by doc- tors. Sheriff Smith says the men may \have all the bread desired, but that So far no prisoner has eaten an ‘entire loaf at one meal. WOMAN AUTOIST SUED FOR $10,000 DAMAGES H. Kilcoyne Takes Action Against Mary Bell, Chim'ing Personal Injuries in Collision. J. Suit to recover $10,000 damages has been filed in the District Sppreme Court by J. H. Kilcoyne against Mary Bell for alleged personal injuries. The plaintift says the defendant was. op- erating an automobile which colliged with a machine in which he was a passenger September 2 at Twelfth and 1 streets. Attorney H. M. Welch ap- pears for the plaintiff. who claims to have sustained serious injury. William H. Hoyt. jr., a_minor, through his father, Wiiliam H. Hoyt of Yankeetown, Fia., yesterday flled suit to recover $25,000 damages from the Pullman Co., the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and the Washington Terminal Co. for alleged personal in- juries. The plaintiff says that while he was a passenger going through the tunnel leading from Union Sta- tion to the South the door of a coach was left open and he was thrown to the tracks sustaining painful injury. He is represented by Attorneys Bert- rand Emerson, jr., and Russel Kellypy 65 WEST POINT BERTHS AVAILABLE TO SOLDIERS 38 of Regular Army May Take Exams and 32 From Na- tional Guard. Appointments as West Point Cadets next year are available to 33 enlisted men. of the Regular Army and 32 en- listed men of the National Guard, in- cluding the local organization. Notice to that effect has been given to the commanding general of each Army corps area, the authorities of each State, the Territory. of Hawali and the District of Columbia. These appointments are open to en- listed men of both services between the ages of 19 and 22 years who have had at least one year's service. In the case of a National Guardsman it is also required that he shall be not less than flve feet four inches in helght, and be a member of a unit recognized by the Federal Govern- ment. All appointments will be made as a result of competitive examina- tions to be held next March, and will be effective the following July. iy Public telephone cabinets will be in stalled in Melbourne, Australia, by the government postal department, MITCHELL ELECTE Preparedness Advocate Chosen Commander Unani- mously, Winning Ovation. Col. William Mitchell was elected commander of Costello Post. Amevican Legion, by acclamation at a meeting in the boardroom of the District Build- ing last night as the first step on a journey which is planned by his friends to carry him far and high in Legion affalrs. After a protracted ovation Had sub- sided, Col. Mitchell sounded a call to the membership of the post for atten- tion to the defenses of the Nation, pointing out that the persons most fit to judge, the measures of this sort were the ones who had borne the brunt of the struggle during the last war, which he declared was charac- terized by American unpreparedness. Henry M. Jett was re-elected first vice commander: Curtis Jackson, sec: ond vice commander; Willlam Scrim- ger, third vice commander; Thomas J. Murray, quartermaster; Frank Gi son, sergeant-at-arms; Dr. J. J. Kilroy surgeon; Frederic William Wile, his- torian, and Rev. Francis J. Hurney, chaplain. Thomas Mason and Grover M. Chapman were elected colorbearers. The installation of officers was con- ducted by Theodore T. Cogswell, sen- ior vice department commander. Im- mediately after the installation, Comdr. Mitchell announced appoint- ments of staff officers as follows: Wil- liam F. Franklin. adjutant; John O'Connell, finance officer; Richard O'Brien, judge advocate, and Maj. Dan- iel Donovan, post representative on the department executive committee. Brief addresses were made af the meeting by Frederic Willlam Wile, Past Department Comdr. Julius I. Peyser) Harlan Wood and Paul Mc- Gahan. COMDR. RUDE NAMED. Coast Survey Officer Heads George Washington Post, No. 1. Comdr. Gilbert T. Rude of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, was elected commander of George Washington Post No. 1, American Legion, last night at a meeting of the post at headquarters, 1829 I street. Other officers elected were: First vice commander, Henry W. Longfellow; second vice com- mander, James Cromwell; third vice commander, Bernard C. McGee; quartermaster, H. J. Rath; sergeant- at-arms, J. Brashears, jr.; mas- ter-at-arms, J. J. Owen: surgeon, Dr. H. M. Darnall; historian, Past Comdr. Howard S. Fisk: chaplain, Rev. H. E. Tayler; color bearers, H. J. Rath and William Lawler. " Comdr. Rude is vice chairman of the board of governors of the club- house owned by George Washington Post, and Vice Comdr. Longfellow is manager of the clubhouse. Both are active members of the board of gov- ernors. Third Vice Comdr. Mc has served for the past two vears post adjutant. A report of the recent department convention was ted Comdr. | Tast D. C. POSTAL REVENUES SHOW NOTABLE ADVANCE Receipts Increased 12.25 Month Last Year. August postal receipts ton marked an inc cent over August of Receipts from the showed a slight decline fi an incre e of ) over i vear. Total receipts at selected post offices announced today 26,714,198, 084,541 August last vear. Vorth, led all, with 50.90 per cent i crease over a year ago. Atlanta wi second with 26.33 per cent, Los Ange- Jes third with 21.97 and Dayton fourth with 21.28. Increases in Southern cities werd Baltimore 10.53 per cent, Dallas 8.38, Louisville_2.54, Richmond .93, Mem- phis 8.95, Nashville 3.21, Houston 19.52 and Jacksonville 8.77. Three cities: showed decreases, in- cluding New Orleans, with 2.18 per cent. MOODY TAKES STAND AGAINST TEXAS KLAN| Democratic Convention Adopts His Plank Opposing Activities of Secret Societies. By the Associated Press SAN ANTONIO, Tex., September 8. —Attorney General Dan Moody, who defeated Gov. Mirigry A. Ferguson for renomination, told\Vthe Democratic State convention here last night that he had been outspoken in his oppo- sition to the Ku Klux Klan and other secret societies that would abridge religious freedom and that his positior is_unchanged. . Following the primary James I Ferguson, husband of the governor, charged that Moody’s nomination was a victory for the Klan. The gubernatorial nominee during the day urged the adoption of a plank calling for the resignation of Klansmen holding State office. As adopted, the plank did not men- tion the Klan by name, but declared that “the participation of secret socleties in the public affairs and politics o good co ience ought to end.” The plank declared that political activities | by secret societies had result.d in injury bitterness’and dissension. the activities of the board of gover- nors by Comdr. Rude, and plans for the coming elghth national conven- tion of the American Legion at Phila- delphia, October 1115, were outlined by Past Comdr. Howard §. chairman of the Philadelphia conven- tion committee of the post. New members elected included E ward E. Glasscock and Raymond Hill. ¥ g Announcement was ‘made of the death of Mrs. Alice Lee Waggaman, mother of Ennalls Waggaman, member of the post in Franc and resolutions of regret adopted The installation of 3 elected officers will take ay, September 21, at the clubhouse. Comdr. J. J n the absence of by Past|Murphy, Vice Comdr. Walter J. West -of presided. all | this State * ¢ * in all| to the State and engendered | Fisk, | FASCISTS CNORE GREEN'S CATIISM Mussolini Declines to Com- ment on U. S. Labor Leader’s Attack. By the Assaci ROME, September 8.—The denuncia tion of fascism by Willlam Green, pres. ident of the American Federation of Labor( was received very cooly here. Premfer Mussolini refused to comment, as he considered the attack represent- ed nothing more than the personal opinion of Mr. Green. An ofliclal of the government said: “Italy is not in the slightest inter- ested in criticisms made by persons who do not or who re- fuse to understand fasclsm. In the present instance, as the critic 1s a foreigner, the most dignifled course is silenc La Tribuna. semi-official Faseist or reply to Mr. Green, ies of facts, tending to conditions in the worse than In Fas- ing conditions in the , the paper asserts, are able. Women are compelled to work all night, it says, and_ all attempts of workers to or- ganize are defeated by spies. that Stat en, chief of the Ameri- n of Labor, on Sunday, ork, addressed a national anti-Fascist convention and declared that the federation would join in a movement to drive fascism “from the face of the earth.” RICHARD D. POLLARD, 75, IS REPORTED MISSING Man Who Accused 60-YearOld Stepson of Grand Larceny Mysteriously Disappears. Richard D. Pollard, 75 vears, who came into public notice little more than two weeks ago when he caused the arrest of his 60-year-old stepson, William Francis Pollard. on of grand larceny, was repo ing from his home last police are conducting a search for him. Relatives of Mr. Pollard say he be- lieved the trial of his stepson was scheduled for yesterday and was last seen when a youth helped him on a street car .to go to the courthouse. According to court records, the trial set for tomorrow. Mr. Polland is described as 5 feet 130 pounds, of gray mustache P vearing a dark mixed sult, black shoes, dark slouch hat and carrying a cane. It is explained he is “very feeble.” night and city-wide Skipper Is Drowned. - Special Dispatch to The Star. NEWPORT NEWS, September s Capt. Johnston, skipper of the Swed- ish schooner, Thann, was drowned yesterday as he fell while d Ql @ ladder into-a-