Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1926, Page 17

LEADING THE BIG KLAN rial wizard of the Kn Klux Klan, parade, with J. M. Fraser of Hou was & member of the original Klan when it was organized in the re- construction days of BRINGS PET FROM FROZEN NORTH. pnanded by Donald B. member of the expedition com has just returned from Greenland puppy she brought back with her the northland. ARADE. warching at the head of vesterday Hiram W. Evans (left), impe- . Tex ear-old Klansman, who THE WHITE-ROBED PROCE! Copsright by Underwood & Underwood 1 colors in profuse display Mrs. William A. Thomas, a Millan, which and Labrador, with the Eskimo as a souvenir of her adventures Copsright by P. & A. Photos. and with jaws as formidable as one of two captured in the Malay Bronx Zoo. The reptiles are the and are believed to be descendants (BREGON ON TRAIN: HELD UPINMEXICO Troops Ordered to Sonora to| | which turned out Subdue Revolt of Yaqui | Indians. By the Ascociated Press MEXICO CITY, September 14.—Re. hellious Yaqui Indians in the State of Sonora have held up a train on which former President Obregon was a pas. senger. | In making an announcement to this effect the presidential office says that about 1,000 Indians stopped the train near Vieam and that the 150 troop accompanying Gen. Obregon made ready to defend themselves. The Yaquis. however. did not attack The engine of a military train sent out to rescus the former President was derailed and turned aver and two | persons were killed. \Whether the In- | dians ran the locomotive off the trac is not known. Gen. Obregon proceed ed to his home at Cajeme. i The Yaquis are gaid to be in open rehellion and federal troops have heen ordered to Sonnra to subdue them President Calles has issued personal tnstructions to all the anthorities con cerned tn spare no efforts to capture | and punish the bandits who are hold- $ag Jacoh Rosenthal of Woodmere, long Island Mr. Rosenthal was taken from an automohile by the bandits Sunday | while on his wav from Cuernavaca to | Mexico City with his son-inlaw, Jo seph Ruff. a resident of Mexico City and Jack Zahler and Mrs. Zahler, also Americans who live here. An automobile which passed the Zahler car while the bandits were rob. | hing the Americans and preparing to | take Mr. Rosenthal away was occu pled by H. V. Quick. a British subject employed by the Sub-American Bank in Mexico City. Mr. Quick attempted 1o stop his car, but the bhandits fired | two bullets through it. Thereupon he continued on to Cuernavaca and warned Arthur Lane. undersecretary of the American embassy, who was just starting off for Mexico City, to turn back to Cuernavaca. LOSES LEGS UNDER TRAIN. Stephens City Girl, 19, Is Expected to Recover. &pecial Dispateh to The Star. WINCHESTER. Va., September 14 ith May Reed, 19-year-old high school girl of Stephens City, who | ad both legs cut off below the knee Saturday, when she is said to have flung herself in front of a Baltimore | and Ohio passenger train near her home, is in A fair way to recover, at-| tendants said today at a local hospi- | tal. The girl suffered a nervous col- | lapse last Summer, due to overstudy and had only recently returned from a State institution, = | Limestone quarries and boulder de- | posits in India are being opened to| neovide material in the extensive | roaddullding program now undex] ey /528 Candidates in Today’s | over ail the other groups combined | elections of last vear tnumber of candidates | tario | tle change fn the other provinces. FIREMAN BREAKS LEG. Loses Grip on Sliding Pole and Falls to Floor. on the firemen's sliding pole at No. 3 truck house yes terday, Private V. M. Crawford of 211 Eighth street northea to floor below and fractured right leg. An alarm box in the Smithsonian grounds had heen sound for a fire, to be u bit of rub: b in a captured German truck on hibition in the grounds. « viord was takeén la a battalion chief's automobile to Emergency Hos pital. Dr. Daniel Borden treated him. BOTH PARTIES SEE VICTORY IN CANADA Losing his grip b Elections for Parliament for 245 Seats. NEARLY COMPLET By Kb SR WS URLE s s at the Fore River shipyards, th OTTAWA, Ontarlo, September 14.— The people of Canada today were THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, of the marching host of Klansmen, who, more than GIANT LIZARD ARRIVES AT BRONX Z00. ) AIRPLANE CARRIER FAC question has arisen as to when she will be able to too great to risk sending her through the channel between Quincy and Weymouth, Mass., and she may authorizes dredging of the channel. ON P! More than 9 feet long 1 alligator's, this huge lizard is Jjungles and just installed in the only live specimens in captivity, of the dinosaur. Wide World Photos PERPLEXNING D. SSING DOWN THE AVENUE. C., TUE MES. DEMPSEY IN NEW Rel champion, prepares for his busi SDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, The Federal Capitol looms as an imposing background 000 strong, paraded down the Nation’s Main street yesterday ess en, 1926. this view with Klan banners and the Washinston Star Photo While agement with Gene Tunney t ‘& Dempsey, heavyweight month, Estelle Taylor, the champion’s movie actress wife, looks out for his hotel property in Los Angeles. guest. Estelle is snapped here registeri Gins I3 t by Underwood & Underwood DWARFING H FE Cox, district attorney at of Texas, stood out conspic member of the Klan ranks, he bore th allas and ATTENDING CHEMISTS' fessor at the Naples Polytechn professor at the Scuola d'Ingegnes nent chemists of Italy, who a International Union of Pure and Ap; usly in yesterda, ESSIONS HERE. Instit JLOW PARADERS. The 7-foot stature of S) grand Kallif of the Kian R s rurnda as, the tallest plors in the procession. National P} he national "os Mm e, and F of Napies, two of the most promi: ttending the meeting here of the plied Chemis Copyright by { PROBLE As the giant a rplane car nove out of the river to the have to stay in the yard until C ompletion ved to he gress 4 Photos. r Lexington nears Her draft is bel Wide Wor ting their ballots in elections for Parliament. When the long-drawn-out campaign ended last night Arthur Meighen, premier and leader of the Conservative party, predicted that his followers would have a clear majority RAILWAYS URGE GUT IN FREIGHT CHARGES Six-Cent R-educn'on on All-Rail Grain to Seaboard Asked, Due to Water Competition. On the other hand. former Premier W. L. Mackenzie King, leader of the veral opposition, asserted that the Conservatives will be defeated. For the seats there are didates can fewer than in the general The reduction n the number of nominees is due largely to the fusion arrangements between the Liberals and Progressives The Conservatives have the largest in the field, with a total of 233. The Liberals have |ern seaboard is sought by the Minne 198 < 25, Liberal- res- S § ;’\,‘;s"fl:d'f"’r{“fl‘,“.:‘lfpgq"n: '{ffi_"""z‘}"',"f"‘i [apolis ana St. Louis Railway because and United Farmers of Alberta 12. |of waterway competition and rate The standing of the parties in the | “discrimination” against Northwest last Parliament, prior to the resigna- | tarmers. tion of Mr. Meighen upon accepting ! - the task of forming a new govern.| This was brought out at the open ing vesterday of the Interstate Com ment, was: Conservatives, 116: Lib. | <, 102: Progressives, 23; Labor, 2, | merce Commission’s hearing on the | and Independents, 2 proposed reduction by Minneapolis | During the campaign the tariff was land St. Louis spokesmen. The Soo a feature of the Conservative plat- line also seeks the r reduction. form, while the Liberals are espousing M. M. Joyce, counsel for the Minne. free (rade. Both Mr. Meighen and apolis and St. Louis, said even with Mr. King conducted vigorous battles | this cut Minneapolis would be ““forced | for political supremacy, having |to function under a rate handicap at | traveled from the Atlantic to the Pa. |least 9 cents per hundred pounds from cific coasts addressing hundreds of | the ter v involved as compared mestings In every province of the|With a 1 route to the trunk-line Dominion. | territory. Before the close of the campaign| The road proposes the establish- | last night Mr. King predicted that “is {ment of joint through all-rail propor- | arty would have a solid vote in Sas.|tional raies from Minneapolis to Iy solld vote in [Points in _trunk-line territory limited ' | to apply on grain and grain produets Eainaiin On *.T. Jaffray. president of the Soo line, and William H. Bremmer. re. of Minneapolis and St . | Louis. which initiated the rates now of the motor ship. In the |suspended, told the commissioners construction of which other countries | that the rate now in force, and which | are excelling, is held as one of the|they described as “discriminatory,” is | causes of the decline of England's|causing the Northwest farmers to leaderahip as & shipbullding countryy suffer, 1] By_the Associated Press. R INNEAPOLIS, Minn., September | 14.— Authorization for a 6-cent cut in | all-rail grain and flour rate to the East chewan, a pra. Quebec and make heavy He thought there would be lit- | | ceiver the Growth Big Tractor Tug Pulls Barges Through “Tadpole Ditch,” Opening Chicago to Gulf| WRECKERS OF TRAIN| By the Associated Press. pillar tractor that plods over sand | bars and through shallow water just | as an Army tank or farm tractor con- | quers obstacles on land premises Chi cago a waterway to the gulf while he proposed Government improve-| ment of a route is under way. Pulling | two freight-car-capacity | barges through water three and a| half feet deep, one of the tugs plowed %3 miles to return what Chicago has | for years called “the tadpole ditch” to | its former status as.a canal linking Chicago with the Mississippi. The channel, dug a century ago, | was used for several decades and then | Deaths of Two in Derailment of4 CHICAGO, September 14.—A cater- | KAve way to the railroad, -The trip | was the first over the route in many years. Coming up the Mississippi from St. Louis, the barge mnit entered the old | waterway at La Salle. I, and emerged into the generally navigable Sanitary Canal at Lockport. All avail able locks were used, but the barge string stuck on bars five times. But 21 minutes were lost through the stops, however, The tractor towhoat, which drops perforated paddles into the water as a land tractor does its cleated shoes, would open up, it was estimated, 15.000 miles of waterway freight route. The unit will take a full cargo back to St. Louis. WILL SUCCEED HAYAMI. Japanese Minister of Commerce to Get Finance Portfolio. TOKIO, September 14 (#).—The cabinet has agreed to appoint Chox- uon Kataoka as minister of finance to succeed S. Hayami, who died vester- day. Kataoka at present holds the post of minister of commerce. Ikuno- suke Fugisawa, one of the leading directors of the poiitical party Kensei- Kai. was chosen to succeed Kataoka | minister of commerce. Originally it was planned mier Wakatsuki to hold dual posts, tak- | ing on the duties of finance minister | to his present duties, but this was abandoned owing to exigencies in the premier's office, for pre. | | smail FUSE ODOR SAVES FAMILY. Awakened in Time to Flee When Home Is Bombed. SPARTANSBURG, S. C., Septem- ber 14 (A).—A long fuse that gave them warning of an approaching blast was responsible for the escape Sun- day night of Sidney Small, negro ten- | ant, and his family, when their home was wrecked by a dynamite bomb. George (brnwell, negro. has been arrested in connection with the blast. | and his family, asleep when the bomb lighted, were awakened by the acrid smell of the burning fuse and fled to safety. < - Germany has 1,500,000 radio recelv- ing sets, BLOODHOUNDS TRAIL Special Laid to Delib- erate Act. By the Ascoriated Press LITTLE ROCK, Arl | —The wreck of the Missouri Orleans to St. Louis, which cost | 1ife of Gieorge Bushey, gineer, and severely | Munda of Little Rock | deliberately executed, | nounced today after an |at the scene, near McGhee, injured fireman, offi Ark. September 14, Pacifie Sunshine Special, en route from New the Little Rock en- | H. Jdo was investigation | Rail officials s#id that rail fastenings | had been moved and | causing one of the the engine. | were found by the roadbed. Bloodhounds, were sent to t tity of any wreckers. . | injunction restraining striking ment workers from picketing |the garment district vesterday. lice arrested 480 persons in what | described as the great | strikers since the str When arraigned in ket Court before Magistrate bluth all but 20 were discharged. 20 were fined §3 each. e bezan spikes pulled, ails to turn under A spike puller and wrench in charge of officers, scene this morning. No clue was available as to the iden- | 480 PICKETS ARRESTED. NEW YORK, September 14 (#).—An gar- was used to break up the customary Mon- day mass picketing demonstration_in Po- was ind-ap of Jefferson Mar- Rosen. The ‘The infunction was issued Saturday by Supreme Court Justice Guy, * ’ACCIDENTALLY POISONED. Mrs. Helen R. Greenwood Mistakes Tablets for Medicine. An accidental taking of three polson Helen I 1664 ¢ ndition at rday afternoon visiting her Curtin, at 45 she reached Green- | bia | er | tablets placed Mrs | wood 6 vears I road in a seriot ¢ Hospital yest Greenwood Mrs. H. L. avenue, when a bottle of tablets and took hottle of poison tablets hy mis Her condition, according to physic at the hospltal, is serious. FOUR NUNS FREED ON PAYING $4.000 Customs Officer Decides No| Fraudulent Intent Shown in Not Declaring Lace. By the Associated Press ST. ALBANS, Vt. 14 Four Franciscan nuns who were tak- | en from a Montreal-Boston train at | Richford last Saturday, when a large | quantity of rare Breton lace was found | in their possesston, paid £1.000 duty on | the goods last night and were per mitted to continue their journey to Boston. Customs officials decided that there had been no fraudulent intent in | their failure to declare the merchan- dise. The money was provided by a priest and layman from Providence, R. I. Harry C. Whitehill, collector ¢ toms, in announcing that a settle. ment had been made, said he had acted under a clause in the customs act which reads as follows “If the undeelared articles are men- | tioned to the customs officers hefore | examination has hegun, or if they are satisfied that failure to declare \\‘«NI September cus without fraudulent intent, such ar ticles may he appraised and duty as sessed and collected on the passenger's declaration, but under no cireum atances will an amendment of the declaration be permitted so as to in | elude articles previously found by the inspectors.” The collector, in expressing his as | surance that the nuns had not intend | ed fraud, said three of them were for | eigners unable to understand English. The fourth sister, N. D. Des Oliviers of the Convent of Our Lady of Good ast Boston, he quoted as say Our ways and manner of lifa | give us much knowledge of | worldly affairs.” BUS ROUTES TO CHANGE. During paving of K street between Fourteenth street and Connecticut | avenue busses of the Washingtoni | Rapid Transit Co. will be temporarily | | rerouted from Thirteenth and H | | streets via H street to Sixteenth a then north on Sixteenth street, F {coming north from Potomac iaml Lincoln Memoral will turn Madison place and H street into H street and then along H street to Sixteenth and north on Sixteenth | street. at | to share the burden by s CHANBER T0GET BOND ISSUE PLAN Committee Approves Pro- posal Designed to Hold Tax Rates Down. A recommendation that the Distri Commissioners seek a bond are of permanent municipal im a means of preventing further increases in the tax rates dur ing the next few vears will he laid he- fore the Chamber of Commerce at nreeting next Tuesday night by its committee on taxation and assess ments. This committee, at a day, approved the bond issu presented in a resolution b W r. The resolution an’ issue total of § run for a period of 50 years retired by a sinking fund. During the discussions it was suggested that if the figure mentioned was deemed large It might be cut to $50,000.000 The theory on which the resolution was drafted is that since a large part of the money now being collected taxation is v purchase land, erection i improvements of a permanent nature, that will‘henefit future generations well as the present, it would he proper to require the taxpayers of the future reading the cost over a period of years. The preamble of the resolution re cited that the tax rate is about to ad- vance from $1.70 to $1.80 per $100 of assessed value, and that published re. ports indicate the rate is likely to ad vance to $2 or more ultimately. Another resolution was put forward calling for the appointment of a suh. committee to advise the Commission ers that the tax rate has reached equitable figure and shouid not higher. The utilities committee of the ch ber also met vesterday and decided to have a number of fts members attend the hearing before the Public ['ti Commission on the question of t. phone rates. SEES SUCCESS IN SYSTEM. Col. Sherrill Praises City Manager Form of Government. High praise for the city manage form of government was voiced todsy by Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, former director of public buildings and public arks in the National Capital, who the city en route to Philadelphia . Sherrill has been city manager of Cincinnati for nearly a year. It is a very good system of munici- government because it fixes re- sponsibility in one place for carrying on the executive work of a city after the council has acted,” said Col. Sher il The colonel is on his way to the aker City to address the national anization of Civil Service Officials on the subject of the extension of the ty manager methed of govermment and tne merit system of apponiment. He visited hix forme? associaies in the office of public buildings and public parks. jesue to take. provements a; session yester plan as Charles suggested 0,000,000 to for L)