Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1926, Page 27

10,000 ENROLLMENT ANSCHOOLS FACED This Record Predicted as First Week’s Total Con- tinues to Gain. “HAnalysis of the enrollment figures £6f the firet week of the nublic &chools | #rows there . &6 pupils en- #8lled on Friday as compared with 6,860 on the same dav last vear, or | a%r increase of 861 pupils. “This increase. announced last night Rallou. snperintend- ent, In slightly less than was antiel- pated. but the sehaol officials, judging from past experiences. has predicted tHte would he a lean enrollment vear with an approvimate increase of he- tween 1,060 and 1.200 pupils. “The enrollment of 1,237 the first ddy of schonl was surprisingly low. but each dav of the w showed an inerease of a 1riflc more than 1,000 puplle with the five days rolling vp a_grand total increase of 5,484 over the opening. figures “The enrollment Tuesday was 63 as compared with 64,480 in 1925; an Wednesday. £5.550 as compared with 65,194 in 1925, and on Thursdas L compared with 65.506 1275, T is confidently predicted that the | peak enrnllment of the schanis thie vehr will exceed 70000, & mark never hefore reached High Schools the Same, Practically all of the increase in en- reliment of the first week of schebl ie In the elementary zrades. The higl gehanle show practically the same enrallment as last vear in the aggre- gate, nlthough Central Hich Schon! h approximately . 300 pupils less than in 1925 Dr. Ballon held a eanference with all junfer high school hrincipale i hie affice vesterday afternoon for the purpose of informing them the exac statue of the 34 junior high schoo’ teachers whn are involved in the ealary snarl brought ahout hy the recent controller gen Adecisin ordering all junier high school teach | et who possasced college degrees July 1, 1924, place in the 2-cen® ealary grade. The srhool afficials, while at first he lieving that they would he ahle to give the teachers the optinn of acceptine 1he 2-cent salary plaremant or tur fng it down. now helieve ther mus arbitrarily place all of the teachers ar directed by the controller. The view thit situation with alarm, inas much as it will cause 10 of the teac ers to loge money, in one case ronniy as high as $2,300 The final decision on the matter wi he made by the Beard of Educatior and it is expected that the merits o the decision will he argued at lengt! at the meeting next Wednesday by Charles F. Carusi, a_member of the beard and a lawyer of note. REAR ADMIRAL LAWS, RETIRED, DEAD AT 97 Served in Civil War and Left Navy in 1895--Was Native of Pennsylvania. Be the Amnciated Press MORRISTOWN. 1. Septemb 2% _Rear Admiral Elifah Laws. re tirad, died foday at his home here He was 93 vears old and retired in 1895 In % of medal for Civil War, He was a native of Pennsylvania and was appointed a third assistant enscineer In the Navy in 1858 He held th> rank of second assistant en | angineer in the Nave in 1858 H mdvanced to chief engineer in 1870 ““Admiral Laws' death occurred after an iliness of only a few dave. He served in the frigate Pensacola with Rear Admiral Deweyv when the latter was A midshipman and at the time of Linealn's election as Presidsn: “Shortly thereafter he was dismisser Gm the service for a minor offense bt was reinstated hy Lincein. Tr 362 ho married Sarah Dingman. ther superintendent af the polvtechni Zrhen! In Braokivn, Z After his retiiement he contributed manx articles to naval publications WICHIGAN SCHOOL CHIEF MUST ANSWER CHARGES Another State Official Is Behind Proceedings Based on Alleged Neglect of Duty. Br the Ascomated Prese ZDETROIT, Ssntember 25 —Thoma< B. Johneon. State superintendent of Bublic inetruetion. foday was cited to appeac for a hearing October & an chargae of malfeasance and miscon durt nffice and willful neglect of Aty Gov. Alex I Groesheck an mninced in Detroit that charges in writinz, signed by L. T. Hands. com missioner of the State insurance de partment. had heen laid hefore him Zrd thar = copy of them had heen @iven the State polics for service. ° Hande charzed that Johnson ‘is whally unfit to execute properly the duties f the office.” that he had “un lewfullv and corruptly appropriated te his own use certain monevs. under | the claim and guise of salaries. from the funds appropriated hv the Con gress of the United States for the support and control of instruction in dgricnliure, trades and Jndustries and that he has “knowingly and will- fullv permitted a corporation. the Michigan Surety Co.. of which h 2 =tockholder and of which he s vice Brecident and d.rector. to write honds for emple 1 offic of State forma ools and coleges.” WIFE AND CHILDREN SEE (FASCISTS KILL CATHOLIC nselmo Cessi, Branch Head of Teachers’ Union. Beaten and advanced to the and given a during the | 1006 he w rear admiral his services Shot in Italy. | The <tar «nd New York World | september Anselmo | president of the Mantua | n Catholic Teach National was assass- | Pated by three fascists last Sunday at Castel Gofredo. a little town near Mantua. according to a report across the Italian frontier. who was leader of the Catho fic party in Mantna. was murdered Pefore the eves of his wife and chil ren as thev returned from a walk hree black-shirted men. two of ghem carrving short heavy sticks. ap roached them in a lonely street #ssi was ordered to stop and w gearched by one of the ruffians When thev seemed satisfied he was | fhe person they were looking for,| ghey beat him fiercely with their | ptick: ! % Hie wife and two children shrieked | terror and when they refused to! Quit ealling for help. one of the men | drew a revolver and shot the uncon l Ceas! dead. - i (Copsright.1926.) CHIA |OLD WHITE HOUSE COACHMAN | FINDS SOLACE IN MEMORIES| Tells of President Arthur’s’ Poker Levees Lasting i Until 5 A.M. From Box Seat He Viewed Life at Its Height in Hey- day of Capital. Memories of Washington in its Victorian heyday, ‘been painted vidly anew by a survivor of the era | £ antimacassor and crinoline, Thomas | Smith, octogenarian coachman ex- | traordinary to President Arthur, and a | 08t of other notables, who occupled, or over a quarter century following | the Civil War, a box seat in the! world of fashion in the Capital. | Tom Snmit veteran exponept of mutton-chop whiskers and cockade, now Keeps bhachelor quarters in a z.rnhh- in the rear of 17 H street, the property of the widow of Admiral LAt Tman, who was paymaster gen eral of the Navy in President Grant's ime. There. among the ancient relics of carriages and harness, in the! shadow of mansions famous for their | &eneration of Washington gentlemen |Marvin, a sister. Mrs. .ospitality 1n bygone davs, Smith site 1 a tattered Morris chair ver privations of prohibition, the e: netion of the horse and th> giories »f another day Picture to yourself an evening in | the early eighties four Morgan bays | .arnessed to a republican, setting out | from the White House portico, with Chester Alan Arthur and Tom Smith nsconced in the tonneau, bound for | .he home of some associate. Tom says he would often wait until 4! relock in the morning for his master who was enjoying the hospitality of ome friend. a Discreet in Their Vices. Gambling. drinking and firting, all vers recogiized proprieties in tnose walycon days, but these were in- luiged in alwave with dignified gal- | L1y accoraing o Smiin. Wash- | vno #ociely was confined to a | small cultured clique, whose mem- were were il equaly haugity and | caithy Tom reports ten-cou wners latd tor 24 g with a like umoer of vintages ol wines. Smith | \Aas An evewitness from the pantr, e lines, not oniy in the President’s | ousshold, but in that of the late ‘enator W, M. Stewart of Nevada, i James G. Blaine, Speaker of the House, | Senator Stewart. who employed | <mith as his coachman and confi- Linte for 20 vears, owned a large wing of herses and was a lavish oenaer. ‘ihe coachman had imme- | itate charge of four grooms, a dozen | wrees, and an assortment of stylish carriages. lie joined the Senator's ctinue back in 1885. Tom has a | _-2¢n memory. The old Siewart cas- | le on Dupont Circle, built by Bob | “leming in 1872, was the scene of | sreat balls given by Mrs. Stewart Wrs. Stewart. stickler for etiquette | ind_ correct also was consid | -ved an experi .orsewoman, and was | cen every day driving her four-in- ind about the eity. WWhen Miss He:sie Stawart was .itrisd to Lieut. Hooker, the son of ven. Hooker, the fenatar presented he bridegroom with a miilion dellare. | The wedding reception was hald in | he old Masonic hall. An arch of iowers extendad from the curb 16 the | sntrance, and seng birds imported frora New York for the occasion | hirped lustily trom the rafters. Mrs. | Hooker still a zrand dame | 2 the oid regime i Few of Old Regime Left. Vary few of the ld a left now. according o Sn Calvin Carlisle, wio live ~ 3 princess of the old & who conducts her housenold with the eremonial and eclat of the ninateenth entury. Senator Siewart was a hand- some man, a sartorial expert of the WET LEAGUE SEES SHITH REPUDIATED Sook County G. 0. P. Con- gratulated for Demanding Dry Law Modification. cy are By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. September Grati fied hecause the Republican Conk “ounty convention adopted resolutione favoring Volstead act modification, re using a “cat'spaw of honze sandits and gun gangsters,’ the Lih. ral Temperance League sent con sratulations today to party leaders. The message was addressed to “harles C. Barrett. author of the wet slank and member of the Crowe.Bar -ett-Thompson faction that dominated he convention. Simultaneously te he with the sending of ihe congratulatory message came the equest from the league for ail Re. publican candidates for Congress to “tate their views regarding prohibition modification. The county convention's wet plank practically repudiated the candidacy | of Frank L. Smith, Republican nomi- | wee for United States Senator, as he | s approved by the - AntiSaloon | League, the message stated. The league was termed an “unholy alli-| ance” by John P. Hart, the wet| zroup’s secretary and a State rep. resentative, who directed the sending ~f the letter. The county convention has taken he first step in the salvation of the Republican party in this great com munity. the letter stated. “We now | urge you to continue vour efforts and demand that every Republican eandi- date for senatorial or congressional office subscribe to that plank.” For Sensitive Prisoners. Light. cheery furnished roome for sensitive prisoners in police stations in London are being urged in a home office memorandum issued to aid the nolice in planning their buildings. The memorandum points out that there are some prisoners “upon whom the ordinary surroundings of a cell might infiict unnecessary hardships Lor feelings of degradation.” THE SUXDAY | | TOM SMITH. | (Who recalls some departed glories.) | first magnitude, who possesed, among other worldly goods, a half dozen chests of haberdashery. The older were bon viveurs and inveterate | musing | gamblers, as evidenced by such notable | pert Marvin, stil resfde in this citv. characters as Senator Thomas D. Pal- mer of Detroit, president of the Buf- alo World's Fair, who contrary to Mr. Arthur, did not believe in punish- & his team of horses with night dri ing. The fashionables of the time be- longed to the Old Hibernian and the Old Union volunteer fire departments. One of Mr. Arthur's haunts was the old Country Club on the present Glo- ver estate on Massachusetts avenue, ‘here he used to give his big dinnere. | Here congregated Tom Murphy of | New York, who frequently visited at | the White House: Col. Sk who kept hachelor hall on I street Sam Howland, race track owner Ales Palmer. District marshal, and George Evans, who rose from drum- mer boy to patent office solicitor. | Another haunt was Blise' gambling astablishment, the proprietor being an old crony of President Arthur when he was in the New York custom house. Here poker and roulette for high stakes went on all night. The President. Smitn save, used to give | White Ho poker levees lasting from 10 pm. to am. Smith sed to wait patiently outside with a Jandaulet or hrougham. to escort | guests home. | Drove for Secretary Stanton. Smith drove Secretary Stanton to the Soldie: Home after Lincoln's assassination, when that dignitary | feared the same fate, and for a period he was coachman to Senor Banderin- ale of Brazil president of the French American Claims Commission. who | employed nine man servants to guard him, in addition to one scullery maid. The gentleman from South America, | despite all hi= precautions, died of | poisen recently, but at the ripe age of 98 During the Civil War. Tom drove for Comdr. Portestar. Spanish pleni potentiary. Smith, having emigrated from England when four years old. and still a British subject. was abliged tn decorate his horses with | American flags and weay the national | cockade in order to avoid the ire of the wartime provost marshal. He came from a family of horsemen: his uncle owned a famous livery stable | on Sewards alley. near Lafayette Square, and his father established one | of the first riding academies in the | country on G street 1 Such were the days before prohi bition, Aivvers, broadcasting /and meviex. Smith finds solace in pacing the familiar sidewalks of his neigh borhood. making his daily rounds of what were formerly the homes of the cosmopolitan elite. But old joys of his gilded youth are departed. and with 1t the traditions of landmarks and personages. the beanx and helles of the sixties, seventies and eighties Man Returns Home After 37 Years to Find Grandchildren Asenciatad Press NEWPORT. Ky.. September 25, Relieved dead for many vears, John Abbott vears old, who disappeared years ago. leaving a wife and five children. has r rurned to his home here and h heen reconciled with his wife, Mrs Mary Abbott, 75. Hale and heart te extensive traveling. Abbott alked in on his wife vesterday and announced himself. His five children now are married and he spent today visiting his grand children. Mrs. Abbott was taken ill, due to the excitement. PRESIDENT ON WEEK END | CRUISE DOWN POTOMAC| | | Accompanied on Last Voyage Prob- ably Before Spring by Mrs. Cool- idge and Eight Friends. Taking advantage of their first week end here since early Summer, President Coolidge and Mrs. Coslidge. accompanied by eight friends, em barked on the Mayflower vesterday afternoon for a cruise down the Potomac. It was expected that the party would return early tomorrow. This| will probably be the last vovage the President will he able to enjoy before next Spring, owing to the lateness of the season. Although the temperature registered Midsummer degrees when the party started and the sun shone with July ferocity. predictions were in the air for a drop to comparatively cold level hefore the Mayflower will tie up again at the Navy Yard. The President however. was anxious to take the fullest possible advantage of existing atmospheric conditions, and was willing to gambie with the Weather Bureau as to the future. Included in the part te the President and Ars. Coolidge. were- Secretary of the Treasury Mel lon. Mrs. Sheppard. the wife of Sen ator Sheppard: Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Oulahan, Mr. and Mrs. William Hard and Mr. and Mrs. James P. Hornaday. . in addition More than 1.100 pianos and pianolas were xent from Amorica to New Zea- land in the past vear. | Ti’;ta Rulfo..Baritone. In Rome for Hi Br the Associated Press. ROME, September Amerigo Dumini, who was among those ac | cused of participation in the kidnap- | ing of the Socialist Deputy .\lll!!ot(l,i which resulted in the death of the | I3 Wislously: Roveded s Anti-Fascist Views stant watch by the police. It was' feared that like Gen. Cesare Rossi. who was acquitted on a conspiracy charge in the Matteotti case, Dumini might escape to France. Titta Ruffo, fhe baritone. who is a brother-in-law to the ill-fated Mat. | | latter, was arrested at his home today | teotti, is violently attacked today by | on a charge of using offensive lan-| L'Impero. for his anti-Fascist senti net Premier Mussolini | after serving a short sen. | tence for his part in the Matteotti| Wair, assumed ap anti Fascist_atti- | tude and since has been under con- guage agai Dumini, ments. In violent language the paper | virtually urges Italians in America to treat _the noted singer with violence, significantiy. recalling “the fate of his brother-in-law: # STAR: WASHINGTON, DISCREDITS NEWS Peary’s Report of Death on| Polar Trip Accepted. Scout Eskimo Story. By the Associated Press. ELMIRA, N. Y.. September “We accept the report of Comdr. Peary as accepted by the geograph- ical socleties of the world,” was the statement of members of Marvin's family in commenting today on the report that Prof. Marvin had heen murdered by Eskimos while a mem. ber of the Peary expedition to the North Pole. Comdr. Peary’'s book on the polar trip sald Marvin had drowned and | that report was accepted by geogranh lcal socleties. Marvin's relatives 1lsn have accepted it and have hecome reconciled to the belief that death w accidental. Prof. Marvin war a native Elmira, and his mother, Mrs. Mary J. | Lillian Ozlo‘ Grove. and brothers, William and Al-| of | Mrs. Marvin will observe her eighty- sixth birthday next week, . Mrs. Emma Oliver of London re- cently celebrated her birthday at 101 with her twin bachelor sons, aged 70. 1 S| on the college campus. D. " C; “SEPTEMBER" 25, ARVIN'S FAMILY - |“Sswete o ot |REPORTS PERSIST Penalty by Failing To Obey Red Light Another automobile driver was penalized vesterday by Assistant Trafic Director. 1. C. Moller for fallure to observe a traffic signal by the suspension of his permit for five days. Several days ago Col. Moller de- nied a motorist his privilege to drive a car in the District for five days because he drove past a houle- vard stop sign without halting. The driver penalized yesterday drove past a red light on Sixteenth street. Col. Moller observed the violation and ordered him to report to the Trafic Bureau. When the offender fafied to make his appear- ance, the police hegan a search, and. unable to locate him at the address on his registration card, combed the city until he was found. DRUG VICTIM A SUICIDE. AMES, lowa, September 25 (#).— Dr. H. 8. Murphy, 43 vears old, a member of the veterinary faculty of Towa State College, was found dead tn day in a locked room of a buliding Death was probably due to a hypodermic in- jection of some drug. self-adminis- tered,” Coroner D. G. Mills, said. “It is done.” were the first words of a rambiing note addressed to his wife found in the room. As the drug took effect, he wrote of his love for her, - directing that his body be cre mated and described briefly symp. toms of approaching death. Worry over financial matters is the only reason assigned for his act. 1926—~PART 1 T | OBREGON IN PERIL Yaqui Indians, in Border Ru- mors, Credited With Holding Mexican Ex-President. By the Associated Press. ) SAN ANTONIO, Tex. September 25.—Circumstantial reports that.Gen. Alvaro Obregon either has been Killed or is held as a hostage by the Yaqui Indians, who are ‘threatening him with death, continue to filter over | the border. A former employe of Obregon, who trades with the Yaqui, but who de- clined to permit the use of his name because he feared it would endanger him when he returned to Sonora. told a reporter from the San Antonio Light that he was present when a Yaqui hank took Obregon prisoner, and sent a message to Hermosillo threatening to take the former president's life uinless President Calles and Gov. Alejo Bey of Sonora resigned. Obre- gon's former employe also said the Yaqui were nursing a grievance against Obregon, charging him with having taken some of their lands. Conflicting_reports concerning Gen. Obregon and his whereahouts hav heen received during the last week. First the Mexican Under Secretary of War denied a report that Obregon had heen recalled to the Army and placed in charge of the campaign against the Yaqui. At the same time it was stated officialy that he was “safe’ home. Later a brief report mere! saying Obregon had. been killed w received in private sources in Wash ington. Yesterday official notices that Obregon would take the field in charge of the campaign were posted among | the Army garrisons in northern Mex ico. Today the fresh report savinz the genera] was dead was received in | San Antonio. KRASSIN'S LIFE AIDED Soviet Charge at London Reported Vigim of Pernicious Anemia. | Poison Suspected. | By the Assoctated Press. ' LONDON, September 25.— Leonid Krassin, who is expected to return to London on Monday to resume his post as the soviet charge daffaires. is stricken with pernicjous anemla in a most unusual form, says the Sunday Express. The newspaper adds the is a widespread feeling among Kras- sin's friends that he has been poisoned in som> subtle way by bitter enemies among the Moscow extremists. Krassin was stricken with what | was firat reported to be pneumonia in Paris early this year. Several times he has been revived by blood trans fusions. The Express says that many of, those who volunteered their blood for | these operations were impoverished Russian exiles. The paper comments | on the peculiar irony that czarists | have heen driven by poverty to offer | their hiood to save the life of ose of the soviet leaders. | AN TAKES HIS LIFE IN SECOND ATTEMPT Samuel Scher Found Dangling at End of Rope by Mother. Samuel Scher, 29 years old. 736 Princeton place. committed suieide by hanging himself to a pipe in the cellar of his home last night. His body was discovered by his mother. Mre. Bessie Scher. A hurry call was o sent to Emergency Hospital. but Dr F. F. McNeal pronounced Scher dead Police who investigated sav that Scher apparently jumped from a table which was in’ the cellar. after tyirg a short. stout rope around his neck. Only two dayve ago Scher was dis- charged from Garfield Hoepital. where he was taken September 9 after he had swallowed a half ounce of lodine. 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