Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1926, Page 17

ropped into Washi v to accept honorary membership in the tribe. ion to Seer the only living Indian who fought Just crowned “Miss America of 19! TO JOIN TRIBE by plane from ¥ Chiefs Cr: in ladelphia yes at Custer's last stand. THE ' EVENING v Horse and Eagle Hawk of the terday to invite the “Great White n the President’s absence, they are handing the in- ders in front of the Executive Offices. Chief Crazy Horse, who is 101 years old, is Copyright by P. & A. Photos. STAR, WASHINGTO th v, 1o be D. e historic gloves s C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1926. ss Ruth Anderson of he has just the flying fists o KANSAS FLOOD CONVERTS STREET INTO RIVER. Five persons perished and the floods which swept over southeastern Kansas the other da cipal street in Burlington, Kans., is shown here converted into a racing river, with the water ed in the street when the torrent descended. property damage was caused the tops of the automobiles stra WAVE. iss Norma Smallwood, 26,” believes that even her beauty can be improved by a permanent wave. She is being subjected to the waving process here in a Philadelphia beaut - BUSLINE CLAMS SE545 VALUE W. R. T. Makes First Move in Fight for Higher Fare on “Service-at-Cost.” With cluim h the sion Dis called the hearing ' the company for | LIBERALS VICTORS N CANADA RACE ash fare or adop. t-cost plan of op e rates would be 344540 was classi hysical property iplies, §21 ¢ elements, property tems: | equip or bus wits bus rniture ne physical v by ac placed a In| present-day | ocia commission fare + fixed point mpolite rission to de d on first calendar W Testities, ranklin re essary and Company Treasurer viod, complied | Louis C. | company, testi:| recessed for | d this after- rs of the After the( Commis would and tion are rising, | highest o | King, y parlor Wide World Photos. D MEET archy at Catl Philadelphia and Railroad Engine To Get Soft-Toned, Chiming Whistles Br the Assoctated Prees. OMAHA, Nebr.. September 16 longer will residents along the ght of way of the Chicago, Mil waukee and St. Paul Railroad be awakened from sound slumber by the shrieking of locomotive <. in the opinion of Eugena of the road . general agent “omotives are belng equipped With a new “chime” whistle, sounds from which are described by the designer, 1. K. Sillcox, as ‘‘soft as the wood-winds of i symphony orchestra,” Duval that while of the new whistle ix mellow, it can be heard as far as the I of the usual type used on engines. aid the sound | Meighen Expected to Resign | as Premier Due to Conserv- | atives’ Loss of Power. By the Associated Press OTTAWA eptember 16 —Final returns in the Canadian parliamen- elections show that the Liberal headed by W. L. Mackenzie will have 11% representatives the Sixteenth Parliament. vhile Consgervatives, led by Premier Arthur Meighen. will have 91, the Liberal-Progressives 11, and the Pri ressives X The remainder the membership of 245 will be made up of United Farmers of Alberta, Laborite and Independents The sult is a decided setback for the vativex, who had 116 seats in the old Parliament, and is a dis tinet gain for the Liberals, who previously had 101 seats. Although the sfrongest party Liberals still are without a majority all the er parties. public announcements e by either Premier Me rmer Premier King on the s It is understood, however, Meighen has summoned mem- hix cabinet to Ottawa. pre- the purpose of preparing resignation his government ould Mr. Meighen resivn, Gov Gen. Lord Byng would call upon Mr. King to form a new cabiuet. As he still 1s short four votes to give him 4 mafority in aPrifament, Mr. King would depend for support of his N ss mainly on the Liberal-Pro. gressives and Progressives, FIRE MENACES TOWN. Two Blocks of Buildings Destroyed at Homer, La. HOMER, La.. September 1§ (#). Damage estimated at almost three. quarters of a million” dollars was in Conse have on Mr sumably th caused by a fire which devastated two | blocks of bulldings in the business section of dlomer last night. Combined efforts of the fire depart- | s of Homer, Haynesville, Arcadia and sbsland and several hundred volunteers were required to gain con- trol of the fire early today, i of | in the house, the | Club of Washington. ca protographed They QUAKER CITY LIONS TRAVE] They were t DF CATHOLIC HIERARCHY HERE. attendance at the mee A of Boston. The hest prelates of the Cath- g of more than 60 members of the hier- , left to right: Cardinal Hayes of New York, Cardinal Dougherty of Copyright by H 1. BY AIRPLA This delegation came to the Capital by airplane yesterday and were guests of the Lio ndered a luncheon here after being talken on a motor through the city and its env Fannie returns again. Fannie Ward, former screen star, loaked as youthful as ever when she returned from Europe the other day on the steamship Majestic. tby P. Photos. Copyr Washington Star Photo. INNKEEPER IS HELD ON SHOOTING CHARGE Pritchett Free on $3,000 Bond After Attack on Boarder at Upper Marlboro Races. Special Dispat-h to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, September 16. —Justice of the Peace Harry W. Gore this morning held for action of the grand jury Lawrence Prichett, inn- keeper at Timonium, who vesterday fired into a group of peopie at the the fair here. Pritchett was charges of assanl erous weapon, carrving concealed weapon and discharging firearms in |a public grandstand. Failing to pro !'duce $3,000 bond, he was committed to jail, but later furnished bond and released. onard be who Kept bond . Utterback, said to |a ¢ Washington. but has boarder at the inn by was held in $500 Pritchett, « withess, Pritchett, officers said, fired into a group. in which were Utterback and | PritchettUs wite, one of the budlets passing between Utterback's arm and The trouble is said to have re Pritchett’s objection to 1Tt alleged attentions to his | side sulted | terback’s wife. Pritchett was a sted by State Of ficer Blizzard, who commandeered a | taxicab when the crowd at the fair { became threatening, and took the prisoner to the county jail. Many Foods, From New World. Not until Columbus discovered the ew World and the English and ench colonists became acquainted with the Indlans did the Old World { have such fouds as beans, corn, pota toes, pumpkins, chocolate, and maple sugdr, not to mention tobacco. The French, taught by the Indians how to make maple sugar, became highly proficlent, with a dan- | If the little giraffe could only read the flock of suggestions for his name that came in this morning’s mail! Some of them are highly complimen- | v and he would hold up his head| | even a few inches higher than norm [1y. Others don’t take him so seriou: |1y and_might make him pout all da: | it he doesn’t happen to be an e tionally good-humored little fellow. Five to Choose From. | Jean Wolfe, 9 years old. 5409 Geor- gia suggests five nhames— String Bean, Daddy Louglegs, Big Boy, Blg-Drink-of-Water and Aerogl | rafte, | Dora Marle Clayton, 11 years old, 9 Kenyon street, suggests the dis- | concerting possibility that Dr. Mann | may have made an embarrassing mis take and that what he has got, after | all, ix a little girl giraffe fnstead of | e itt 0T Te o e i Do jsed to bring to Washington. She | takes this possibility. into considera- | tion. 1 think,” writes Dora, “that Jerr | 1s & good name for a giraffe. It soun like it came from '‘giraffe’ and is | easy to use when you call him. Then, | 1f it turned out a girl. the name would fit just as well. T have found that this was & good plan in naming cats, as| | I've made mistakes sometimes, and |unything with Kittens lovks funny { with a_boy’s name.” Frank Craighead, 10 years old, 5301 41st street, turns to rhyme in his en- P MAYBE IT'S A GIRL, AFTER ALL, SO SHE NAMES GIRAFFE JERRY Taking No Chances With Dr. Mann's Diag- nosis, Dora Clayton Selects Monicker to Fit Either Sex. | however, thusiasm over having the giraffe prop- lerly christened. He writes: “His neck is long and lanky, “His legs are long and shanky, S0 T thought Shankypal a very suft- able one because he is to be the pal of all the children in Washington.” Mary Louise Colbert, 4708 Twenty- ninth ‘street, wants to get away en- ely from any reference to the gl- raffe’s physical pecularities, believing that he will be sensitive about them and that it {sn't fair to throw them in his face all the time. She suggests that he he Yawtoc, the initials of the “You are welcome to our city I think,” she says, “that come message is much better name about oue’s neck.” How About Necko. Swaln Magnusson, 12 years 3 Northampton street, insists, on Necko. His name Is| the main part of him, there's no get- | ting around the fact, and that's ali| there is to it, says Ruth. She feels he | fsn’t much of a giraffe anyway if he's | sensitive about his neck. She sends in a picture of him dressed up in a| satlor suit ! Paggy Kahn, elght years old, 2701 | Connecticut avenue, wants to name him Homesick. | Little Ada Belle Graves, nearly five | vears old, she telis us, of 3407 Twenty- | ninth street, insists that he be named Africa, after his home town. She lives near the Zoo and is going to wheel her little baby brother uvee to see him as soon as he arrives, named words, | a wel than a Ruth old, India_has appointed a commission | to study and improve the agricul- tural yield there, tand thi | Francis 16 DRIVERS’ PERMITS REVOKED THIS MONTH Drunkenness, Recklessness Speeding Charged in Cases Since September 1. and Sixteen automobile mits have been revoked Director M. 0. Eldrid, ber 1, according to u report he tr mitted today to Mujor and Superin- tendent of Police Fdwin B. Hesse. All of. the revocations were for such al- leged violations of the traffic act as driving while drunk, reckless driving 1 offense speeding. The drivers who lost thelr permits | were: Ralph A rher, Noble D.) Rutle tward _Jackson, Calvin Richa John R. Hurd, Thomas Loving, Ping, Harold W. Dill Rland, James F. Payn Curtls M. Dellinger, John H. Howell, Ford H. Flemmings, Laurence Hite, | William M. Merrick and Garnett War- bington, the report said. FIVE NEW STATIONS. Short-Wave Commercial Plants in Southwest Get Permits. Three short-wave commercial radi statfons. located at Randini, Calif.; Las Vegas, Nev., and Salt Lake City, have been licensed by the Department of Commerce to he operated by the Western Air Express Co. The sta- tions will communicate on a wave length of 49.5 meters, Two stations of the Marland Pipe Line Co. also were licensed—at Ponca City, Okla., and at Panhandle City. Tex. These stations will use 45.43 meter: operators’ by - since Sep per- ison Gin 2 E Complaint has been made that New | South Wales' new workers' compen- sation act will result in unemployment and also increase the cost of living, | and the controversy Is delaying the full enforcement of the measure, s P “MIXES” WITH IMPORTANT FOLK. es over the bar in the Hall of Nations delegates now attending probably holds the most important mixing one at the famous - it 105 tretch; Plays Piano Hours at Fingers Worn Raw Br the Associated Press OMAHA, September Bud Reynolds, Columbus, Ohio, claims a new world record for piano playing today. He completed 105 hours here late last night. The former record of hours established in San wciseo years ago. Reynolds was fed five 1l soup ‘e where performed nted last ‘Tuesday, but resumed his playing eight minutes lat His fingertips were bandaged eral times during the end test, and he was examined b tors twice each day. But in spite of these precautions, his fingertips became raw and his wrists and forearms swollen. PHONE RATE ACTION WAITS LAW STUDY Modification in Courts of Temporary Injunction May Be Sought. Dubious as to the existence of any loophole whereby it may resume con- sideration of the proposal to reduce further the rates of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. without judicial authority, the Public Utilities Commission, it was indi ed today, probably will seek u modification in the courts of the existing temporary injunction preventing it from putting into effect the lower rates ordered in May, 1925 The new rate case was abruptly halted by the commission yesterday in order to give Corporation Counsel Francis 1. Stephens an opportunity to find, it possible, some method to combat the company’s contention that the commission would be acting | fllegally in proceeding with the hea ing until the court has entered its de- | cision in the ¢ase now pending, unle: the existing injunction is modified As Mr. Stephens had given a similar opinion in the Potomac Electric Power Co. rate case 1n 1920, the com mission is not inclined believe that he can can very easily reverse it now | 80 as to take exception to the com pany’s technicality. At any rate, Mr. Stephens 18 review ing the case, preparatory to writing an opinion for the commission. In the meantime the commission will mark time with the idea of hasing its future course on the corporation counsel's recommendation. NEW BISHOP SEES DUCE. ROME, Reptember 16 (#). Mgr. Pietro Donno Munzani, newly elected bishop of Zara, and at 36 the youngest bishop In Italy, sat a prec edent today by paying his respects to Premier Mussolinl immediately after taking farewell of the Pope, When he congratulated Mussolini on his escape from assassination, the Duce replied: “I have already for- gotten that incident.” Signor | ns of dollars in The prin- pst up to Photo I Acnie Hle. Marguerite, who pre- Nations, patronized by League of the Assembly sessions in Geneva, barmaid’s job in the world. She Is apsh Copyright by P. & A. Photos. HILL GROUP BEATEN IN PRINGE GEORGES Lose County Contests Among Democrats—Stuart Named for Sheriff by G. 0. P. UPPER MARLBORO, M, § ber 16 unofticial ptem- Complete returns from yesterday's Republican primary in Prince Geor ity indicate that Weller de. feated Representative John Philip Hill for the nomination for United States Senator by 47 votes. The totals are Weller, 1,589; Hill 2 Mrs. Eva . | the only candi Georges County and the tor Ovir of Riverdale, from Prine running on the ticket an ever to he backed by a powerful § s of re 9 precincts in | the county, w lead of practically twe to one for the nomination for clerk of the Court of Appeuls over A. Kings |ley Love of St. Marys County. The figures are: Mrs. Chase 25, Love 917 Mrs. Chase was backed by t Weller ation and Love was the Hill canc Addison F rant for turns from “Mullikin of Baltimore, the nomination for rumni om 27 pr | him 1,669 1o 1.200 | Humphreys of Wico ciated with the Hill fr Wi one precinct, Nottingharp, out, Gov. Ritchie has 3311 votes fn the county to 780 for William M Maloy for the Democratic nomination for governor Organization candidates easily the five nominations for the House Delegates and the sheriff, the only among the Demos ts The hottest punty” fight party was furnished by Stuart of Bladensburg Constable Thomas 1. |Hyattsvilla for the Republican nom {ination for sheriff. Stuart is the win |ner by 35 votes, according to com | plete ‘unofficial returns, which give him a total of 1,285 votes to 1,250 for arrison. | Harvey | was the one lof nomination | stoner on th for Marion o County ces A. , assep- smination county contests in efther Charles . rict and rison of A. of Springfield » In six to fail for county commis Republican ticket | WIth the possible exception Robert A, Washington, whe it ap peared, Hkely would be found defeased {when the late returns had been tabulated, by John T. Fisher of Oxon | Hi, the entire slate of organization | candidates has been elected 1o the ‘4; 0. P. county entral committes | Ther ar six members of the ‘,II“YI)". The officfal eanvass of the votes wa in progress here today, but was not expected to materially change | results. CENSOR LIMITS NEWS. September 16 () correspondent of the Neues Wiener Tageblatt at Triest, ltaly, replying |10 & query concerning the rgeent dem. onstration befure the Frénch con sulate there, has tclegraphed his paper “The censor forbids we to say more than that there {s perfect quiet in * » city.” VIENNA The