Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1926, Page 17

ALL AGES ARRIVE WITH TH Jersey way pose with one of thei descended upon the Nati in thousands of Klansn Capital fo n and thei KLAN Juvenile adherents ¢ elders on a the Klai families poured into the city ion Station early today with the thousands who parade and convention THE of the Ku Klux Klan from up By automobile and, special throughout the morning hours. Washington Star Photo. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, OONERS SAI ashington, w al events of the CAPITAL HO! Leroy Sherma was one of the so ship Paris as th sail for a foreign ho Miss Mildred Crandall, daughter of Harr Copyright D. 0, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1926. L. FOR EUROPE. Mr. and Mrs. hose wedding here Iast Thursday season, snapped_aboard the steam- moon. Mrs. Sherman was Crandall. Tnderwood & Underwood. SAL n THE PRECIOUS OUTCAST OF PROHIBITION mad scramble with pitchers, buckets and any other receptacles to recover seized wine as it into the gutter by prohibition agents at Van Brunt and Sackett streets. years ago this have been the dramatic staging of a water famine. P& A STIEht by NVADES HOME eloped_the rect whether to apply the rule st all POLICEMAN, CUT, KILLS ASSALANT Attacked While Arresting| Man, Artery in Arm Sev- | ered by Knife. ‘ After he is said to have slashed Po- liceman Clement L. Smith of No. § precinct across the arm with a knife, coloved, 28 vears, 58 was shot to ast night. New Jersey Arthur Mitchell Myrtle street northeast, death by the policeman The shooting occurred at avenue and I sty With an artery of the cutti taken to ( Joseph Rogers aitton to recoy ever. M lets, which enterved | them ! him ove in the Poli and P 1o the scer tween Mitche mond Bell Boxwell placed but he broke ed eman ospital 1 him he is expected his hand how led by 2 Ll S by ) of as a result | Smith was where Dr. | His co is serio fi heart and . | cman Smith Boxwell went nent be- | ~ wife and Ray 3 Fourth street. chell under arrest, and m the lunge at Policema mith with his knife, severely cutting him. It was after Smith had been ent and twice ordered Mitchell knife that the former hot in gelf defense. Bell was by Boxwell and cation. An inqu morgue tomorrow into Mitchell. to que e M wi drop said to have ken to the sixth precinet charged with intoxi will be held at the the death of | REPLACING OF ALASKAN | JUDGES URGED BY WIRE | District Attorney Also Mentioned in Appeal to President—Nomi- nations Held Up. Br the Ac dera ey | Alaska | the | | President replace b 1 District At division of chie public il fdge o Judge Shoup and 1 Ju third d i miade terday n Manly the Peopls He s o telegt the reque Alasha, who iplained intoler able coi 1 there, due to failure to replace the officials. Their nominations were sent to the last session, but withdrawn investiy by the Senate The President then chairman lowa, that the irmed m ves ector of at of n was sent citizens ary ivised Senator nominations co in the 1 o e con Thinks Editor Needs Switching. NEW YORE Re iber 13 (). Dr. Stratc prayin for Henry L. Mencken, but thinks treatment in the good old-fashioned hickory switch | style will help the editor further | toward the straight and narrow pathe ! FOR THE AGEIl Maria Leps, i8, inmates ;I( the her 'KENTUCKIAN IS HELD | By the Asso |13 Herman Horn, 8 n Home for the ha ow he home, - Photos KING UNE CROWNI first laurels in the national beaut, De Wolf Hopper as ing Neptun winner, watches the ceremony w AMERICA. 'Miss Norma Small ¥ contest at Atlantic Cit is Lanp hier ress Jessie Jim, being crowned wood, who, as “Miss Tulsa,” won Miss America of 1926" by 5, at the right of the Wide World Photos. e e Marines. Lieut. winner in the ifle match of the cup _for Hohn, & who diron meteor RED GRA made foot ball etained for the Marine ' sented ation land is month. Wide World RUDELY DEPORTI ed to leave Japan afte at Osaka for depo Conference at TI-BRITISHER. When entering witha ation by J panese pla Nagasaki. G t othes men. passport, he is uncerema » The Rajah attended the Wide World Photos camera as he sails for Sze (right) and Desen Sze (left). GIRL TAKES BLAME IN FATAL SHOOTING Georgia Official Believes Confession Made to Save Condemned Man. | By the Aee MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga Ruby Ray, inmate of prison farm here, today held to her story that she fired the shot which killed William H. Cheek following an attempted hold-up of the latter's Atlanta grocery store last Christmas eve. Miss ve | slaving, t she mitted th vieted s | tence to dic Morrow Th der sentence September 13 the State Ra rs told who was sentenced to an accomplice to the Warden B. Il. Duinway and not Jack Wilson, com- wurder. 1. Mel Gore, con 1 accomplice, is under sen in the electric chair to lore | < now un of life imprisonment and police have condiucted an unsiecess ful search for Wilson, who, they be s ught IS, & of China h his t by Underwood Ambassador Sao-ke Sze Washington post w Copyright by the | Szeming nderwood ON SLAYING CHARGE Accused of Shooting Constable After His Father and Uncle Were Killed in Fight. ated Precs. STONRBURG September Mellon. jr vears old, taken feud vengeance night by fatally wounding izemore. Prestonsburg con- arrested and lodged in the here charged with the Ky PR Rev alleged to e Jam stable county slaving Mellon. who denfes he fired the fatal shot, will appear before the grand jury in court tomorrow when his case will be considered. Sizemore's killing, on the porch of the courthouse, took place when the two men met for the first time since Mellon's father and an uncle were Sain in a battle after the primary election. {zemore was present at the row and did not break it up, it was charge Mellon order at Mellon, Lere. 1 without dis Meldinda who lives rrested home of Mrs andmother, the his Justice Appointed Judge. Special Dispatch to The Star LYNCHBURG, V: September 13, (Gi. Shelton, justice of the peace on distr Amherst County s been appointed judge of the juve- nile and domestic relations court of Amherst County Mr. Shelton has| qualified to fill the office. German Ship Sunk, Crew Saved. BUENOS AIRE Neptember 13 (#) The ( man freighter Christel Vin nen loaded with quebracho and bound for Kurope., has been sunk in| the Parana River. She was in rnl] lision with the British steamer Cana-| dian Transport. The crew of the Vin:| nen was saved, WOMAN IS ARRESTED ON MURDER CHARGE Said to Have Confessed Killing One Man and Wounding Other After Disturbance. By the Associated Press METTER, Ga., September 13. Charged with the shooting of John Suddeth, Candler County farmer and | stock raiser, and the possible fatal injury of his companion, Alex I . near here early vesterday M. Davis s in" the county here. With Mrs. Davis are being beld her | daughter, Miss Susie Lane Davis. and | M. P. Mosely, a boarder at the Davis | home. Mrs. Davis in a statement to Sheriff John Flint said she killed Suddeth and shot Larresy when Sud- deth kicked in the front door of her house. The officers are searching for a fourth man believed to have witnessed the shooting or possibly to have heen involved in the affray. ! COCK FIGHTS POPULAR. Irish Police Active in Attempts | to Suppress Banned Sport. DUBLIN, September 13 (#).—Cock fighting still flourishes in Ireland, al- though it has been illegal in the British Isles since 1849, and the police are active In suppressing it. Recently the police raided a game | 1t Swords, near Dublin, attended by | more than 300 persons, many of whom | motored out from Dublin at 5 o'clock | in the morning. The owner of the| premises was fined {5 and some spe tators lesser amounts, The pastime is also prevalent along | the Ulster horder, and the police of Ulster and the Free State have ar- ranged to cooperate in fighting-ity | tion | tiations Boy and Girl Swim 3 Miles to Shore To Send Aid to 7 After Boat Capsizes By the Associated Press, OCEAN CITY, September 13.—A 17-vear-cld hoy and his 16-) 0ld sister, both fully clothed, swam 3 miles to shore vesterday to summon aid for their father and six other men, whose fishing boat had ovi The hoy, Thorn Henderson, wi to reach land and inform life = of the mishap. Launching three mo- tor hoats, the guards headed for the open sea. Henderson going with them. A few hundred vards out they saw a figure swimming toward shore. “That's my sister Edith,” the boy “We were all out fishing in a 40-foot hoat when it hit a bar and cap- | We all managed to grab hold of the boat: but I knew we couldn’t hold on forever, so I said T was going after help. Fdith said she was going with me. She’s a dandy swimmer and kept up with me almost all the way. Don’t bother ahout her; she’ll get in all_right. The guards, howeyer, were afraid the girl would he exhausted and ap- proached to take her in. »on't stop,” she shouted. “I'm all right. Go out and get the rest of them.” And with a wave of dismissal she swam on toward the beach. When the guards reached the boat they found the seven men clinging to the upturned keel, all near exhaustion. sized. TOKIO MAY ABANDON | PLAN FOR BOND ISSUE| Apathy of British and American | | Financiers May Halt Floating | of Reconstruction Loan. | By .the Associated Press. TOKIO, September 13.—Apathy ot | British and American financiers to-| ward the authorized. but as yet un- issued, hundred milllon yen Tokio ! municipal loan bonds for reconstruc-! purposes mhy cause abandon- ment of the plan to market them abroad. London and New York financial houses are declared to be demanding | a higher rate of interest than the| bankers of Japan feel is warranted in view of the improved condition of the | country. Financial Commissioner Mori, who is now in London, ha been infor- n v negotiating for several months nd had expected to continue nego- this Fall, but the govern-| ment has indicated it is growing somewhat cool toward the entire busi ness, and bankers here fear the loan may. nevex be foated, GIRL AND BOY WOUNDED BY MAN ROBBING STORE Pair Shot When They Start to Run From Room Into Which They Were Driven. By the Associated Press. HERRIN, Ill, September 13.—A robber late last night, after holding up a confectionery and restaurant of Nick Tudoff in tne north part of town, shot and wounded a girl and small boy working at the place and escaped. Tudoff, who is attending the Ameri- can Legion convention in Springfield, had left the boy and girl in charge of the place. The robber, upon en- tering, forced the two into a rear room. After taking the money from the front of the confectioner the pair ran he opened fire. The ho was shot in the back and the was wounded in the hip. . Nearly 335,000,000 eggs laid by American hens were sent abroad in the past yean, he | started for the rear room, and when girl | | lieve, was the actual slayer. SAFE BROKEN OPEN [ttt oo, i AND ROBBED OF $226 tix the blame on Wilson becanse he vas a fugitive from justice Solleitor eneral John A. Boyvkin, in Atlanta, Watchman Arrests Chauffeur, But| Loses Him While Seeking Others in Store. WASHINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH RECOGNIZED Seventh-Day Congregation Taken Into National Conference—De- troit Pastor Preaches. declared he regarded the confession the girl an attempt to save Gore from the chaly There is no ubt In my mind,"” he said, “that Jack Wilson fired the shot that killed Cheek. Iiis ident has been established conclusively.” The Ray girl’s statement was made near Gor g the condemned Baptist | Rending iron hars in the rear win. man leaned against the bars, listen | Church, at Tenth and V streets, has |dow, safecrackers early this morning | ing to her words been officially recognized by the!made their entrance into the Star | Cheek was killed in his grocery Seventh-day Baptist General Confer-| Clothing Co., 825 Seventh street, broke | Store while his wife and child looked ence, it was announced at the meeting | open the safe and stole $226 1 when he resisted an attempted Task might: Theodore Nicks, 1202 Fifth street, | hold-up by three men and Miss Ray. Two months ago a petition was pre.| night watchman, discovered the mer . sented to the general conference, and | at work ard saw a colored man it || IBRARY DELAYS OPENING OF CHILDREN’S ROOM at the recent annual convention at|ting in am automobile with the engine The People’s Seventh-day Alfred, N. Y., it was approved. This | running. action, it was stated, brings about a change of ‘aith for the congregation of 100 regular members, with a church adherence of probably 23 persons. It also provides a temple for what is thought to be a large number of believers in this faith from other cities settling here. Several years ago, it is Isl(m(l. the V street church broke away from the Seventh-day Adven-| Itist conference because of its unbelief | MeXico Company Announces Rea- |in the writings and teachings of Mrs. | |E. G. White. Some 40 books are said to have been published by her anent | the Adventist faith. It was with cer- tain of the statements in these pub- Hications that the local church dis- sented. Rev. Robert B. St. Clair of Detroit, executive chairman of the conference vocational committee, delivered an ad- dress at the service last night and welcomed Dr. Lewis C. Sheafe, the local pastor, and his congregation | |into the national body. He also con- gratulated the church :on its equip. ment. | He arrested the man, but lost him | when he left him in the custody of two passersby while he went in to get | the safecrackers. In the meanwhile | the robbers had heard the commotion ‘out front and escaped. ORE MINES .EXHM;STED. Repairs Not Completed at Central Location—Books May Be Returned Upstairs. Failure to complete repafrs to the central children’s room of the Public [ Library, it was announced today, will | prevent its re.opening this week and | delay it until the week 20. The exact day to lute The announcement stated that all branch children’s rooms open and may be used by holders of borrc cards from the central children's room. Children's books, even those overdue before July 1, may be re- turned at the desk in the upper lobby, central library, without payment of fines, but no books may be taken out this ‘week. Orders for school libra- ries, personal requests or telephoned requests will filled immediately, in order not to inconvenience hers by the further delay in the of reopening the central children's room. under- son for Discontinuing Operations. MEXICO CIT September 13 (). Although the newspapers are making considerable ado over the closing of some allegedly exhausted gold and silver mines of the Oro Mining € in the State of Mexico, officials of the mines say the closing has no special significance. The company-announced about six months ago that certain mines had become exhausted of ore. Therefore the company served notlce that it would cease to operate them. It is tated that they are now carrving out the terms of thelr announcement | The other operations of the company re continuing. nounced e ey Noted Gynecologist Dies. GARMISCH, Bavaria, September 13 | (). —Professor Erich Opitz, noted gynacologist and director of the Women's Clinical Hospitad at the University President Dies. % & | Well Known Advertising Man Dies | LEBANON, Tenn., September 13| ATLANTA, September 13 (#).—Ar- University of Freiburg, died here to- | (#).—Dr. John Royal Harris, presi-|thur Manville Waples, 54, widely day of injurfes sustained in an auto- dent of Cumberland University since | known advertising man, died today. mobile gecident, - He .was 56 years old, -1922,. died today, “n was a native of New Haven, Conng