Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1926, Page 2

2 L NEW YORK IS COLD T0 WORLD SERIES “Sang-froid’ of City Expectedi to Fail, However, When Big Games Start. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. NEW YORK, September 30.—New York, outwardly, is s cold and in- different as ever to the world buse ball serles. Perhaps this attitude is due to the cold weather of the past week, which has been suggestive of many things, but not base ball. Per- haps it is just the usual metropolitan pose of sung-frold There was no red fire burned here when word came from St. Loufs that the New York Yankees had finally won the pennant. And when the triumphunt Yanks re. turned from out of the West on a #ula special train there was only & handful of relutives at the station| to meet them It 18 not that New York is lacking in civic pride. New York will make @ big thing of the serfes. It will pay out more money than St. Louls to #ee the games, because the ball park here 18 larger and because there will be the usual sell-out And once they are in the stunds and bleachers the New Yorkers will catch the infec- tlous spirit of base ball and will yell U;feIr supposedly sophisticated heads o Crowd Always Cosmopolitan. New York's base ball public always 18 cosmopolitan. The crowds here consistently contain a heavy percent sge of “forelgners,” or visitors from what New Yorkers are pleased to call “the sticks.” New Yorkers like to refer to ‘“the sticks” beceuss most New Yorkers came from the disdained hinterland themselves. No ons is 80 much of a “New Yorker" as the most recently arrived resident. Broadway must be nonchalant, so today HBroadway Is nonchalant to ward the world series. Probably some ©of the nonchalant ones haven't the price of the necessary tickets, but does not rob them of one whit of r Jaunty alr of indifference. The truth is, of course, that New York has taken it for granted one @actlon of the world series would be plaved here. The Yanks were so long and so far out front during most of the campuign the metropolis consid-| ered them as good as “In’ They slipped and skidded and siid in the Jast Qquarter, more than most cham ionship teams usually do. but ew ork did not lose confidence, or if it aid, there was no outward indication. And then again, New York has had more than its share of series In Limelight Again. For a time it tried to monopolize both ends of the “clussic.” This was broken up in 1924 when Washington crashed through te a pennant snd then humbled the Gian! ast year found New York completely out of the limelight, but now it is in agatn. New York doesn’t take its base ball as personally as St. Louis or Pitts- burgh or Cincinnat! or Washington does. Base ballihere fs an amuse- ment rather than an institution. The crowds here will go to the series in the hope that Babe Ruth will diam atize the spectacie by whamming out @ home run with the bases loaded If he doesn't do something like that, or if it isn’t & good “show” in some particular, New York will feel disap pointed. win or lose. New York has its hectic moments. It responds as readily to a ballyhoo as Squash Cen ter or any other American municl pality. The meropolis will go wild over the return of a Channel swimmer or a champlon golf player or the wearer of a new pugilistio crown, because it seems at the moment the thing to do It will also go wild to some extent at the proper time over the world series ~ unleses there is excitement in some ether quarter “Underdog” Has Backing. The New York attitude toward base bell as an amusement rather than & vital matter of civic pride makes the local ball vards the fairest playing Krounds In either league. The! “jinderdog” always has a show here. | New York fans toward the close of the season were pulling for St. Louis te win That was because St. Louis so long has been the underdog Thers will be thousands out at the Yankee stadium on Saturday and funday rooting for the “Cards” with all their might and main. New York is that way. And thut is why a visit ing team can make such a good show ing here. The Yanks reallze that when they gei to St. Louis it is goin to be war 1o the knife und the knife %o the hilt. ELDRIDGE DESIRES QUICK PUNISHMENT IN TRAFFIC CASES ontinued from First Page.) malning 54 were declared unavoldable | accidents. i Trafflo accidents for the first six| months of 1925, Mr. Eldridge reported. | totaled 8,840, und resulted in personal| nfurfes to 1,087 persons. Most of these {nfuries were of a minor nature Of the persons infured 740 were pedes. trians and 347 wers cccupants of au tomobiles Involved in accidents “In 62 per cent of the pedestrian ac- | cidents,” Mr. Eldridge said. “the fault was definitely traced to the pedes: | trians themselves and were largely | due to fnattention. jay walking. in.| toxication, playing in the streets, : walking from behind parked cars| without looking. etc. By far the great- est number of accidents due to any one cuuse has been traced to children playing in the streets. Of the 74 pedestrian accidents 214 were children under 14 yvears of age. “Responsibility for these accidents should be placed squarely where i1 | belcogs: first. on the parents who permit their chiliren to play in the streets. and second, on the motorists who fall to exercise due caution in passing parked cars and other ob- structions where children ave at play. Of the 3240 accidents during the first six months of the ourrent calen- dar vear, tha traffic director explained that 76 per cent occurred at street fntersections £l per cent vceur red in clear weather and 69 per cent | in dayvlight In other words,” he “75 per cent of all these acci 1 under the most fa | oonditions. ix indicating | nead of better pro esections and ore of | greater cautlon on part of the | motorists when approaching inter- | wections which are occupied, or about %o be occupied, by pedestrians or unwrl vebitles. The report showed that 4 nal vers were involved in accidents dur- | & the year Woman drivers figured | i 187 the accidents Mr.' Eldridge praised the sutomatic traffic signals. pointing out that dur-| 0 their first six months of operation ! there was a serious accident at v of the 2¢ intersect itrolled by the lights hat in that only one pedestriay hit person, he said sttempted 10 Cros: Fixtesmth street al Swan street at night egainst the signal. and was olghtly injured ' 10t This | the | weather in sight just now May Be Envoy Here VINCENT MASSEY Will be appointed Canadian Minister at Washington, Premier Mackenzie- King has announced, but no formal intment will be made until the prime minister has had an opportunity of conferring with members of the British government during the com- ing imperial conference. STATE WILL CALL “MISS X" T0 STAND Mrs. McPherson Testifies by Proxy—Officers Assigned to Watch Witnesses. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif, September -District Attorney Asa Keyes to- day plans to cal Miss Lorraine Wise- elaff, confessed “Miss X.” hoax perpetrator, as a witness in the pre- liminary hearing of Aimee Semple McPherson and her mother, Mrs Minnie Kennedy, in an attempt to prove the evangelist's kidnaping story an “absolute fabrication. The prosecution also relies upon the testimony of Mrs. Sielaff to prove the State's charges that the Angelus Temple pastor and her mother feloni- ously conspired to pervert and ob- struct fustice in order to support Mrs. McPherson's abduction story. Testifies by Proxy. Mrs. McPherson appeared on the witness stand by proxy yesterday when the transcript of her testimony recently given to the Los Angeles County grand jury was read into the record of the preliminary trial. The reading of Mrs. McPherson's dramatic recital of her alleged abduction and escapo from captivity consumed the major portion of yesterday's court proceedings and will be resumed at the opening of the Municipal Court session today. Mrs. Kennedy's testi- mony hefore the grand jury also will be read. Mrs. McPhergon, her mother and five others on criminal conspiracy charges. She infected herself into the case when she charged that she had been hired, schooled and financed by Mrs. Mc- Pherson to produce a ‘) X" to refute intimations that the evangelist spent 10 days at Carmel-by-the-Sea with Kenneth G. Ormiston, former Angelus Temple radio operator. Defense Scores Point, August English scored for the de- fense vesterday when he testified he had seen the woman who was with Ormiston at the beach city and was positive she was not Mrs. McPherson. Howard . Benedict, owner of the cottage Carmel and one of the principal State witnesses, testified that he did not belleve Mrs. Sielaff had occupled the cottage. He said she told him certain things about the house which only Its actual occupunt would know, but that she gave the impression of having lLeen coached by the actual occupant Following reports that State witnesses have been followed to and from the courtroom. Keyes last night ordered his detectives to arrest any person attempting tamper with the witnesses. Officer: were also assigned to guard the apart ment of Mrs. Sielaff. two of the | MOTHER OF 2 CHILDREN DIES BY GAS IN HOME Mrs. Howard Wade Left Note Say- ing Death Was Best for All Explaining In a note that her death | would be best for all concerned, Mrs. Funice Wade, 38 vears old, 628 F street northeast, mother of two chil- dren. inhaled {lluminating gas in the Kitchen of her home yesterday after noon and was found in a dying con dition by her brother. She was rushed o Casualty Hospital, but was pro- nounced dead on arrival. Coroner Nevitt conducted an investigation and gave o certificate of suicide. Mrs. Wade. In the note. addressed to her husband, Howard Wade, re quested that jeweiry and other per- sonal propriy be distributed to cer- tain members of the family. Relatives of Mrs. Wade said she had been in 1l health for a year LOCAL WEATHER al]TLOOK WET FOR NEXT FEW DAYS October Dawn Doomed to Be as Damp as Exit of September, Says Forecaster. September and its 30 days will make 4 damp, dismal departure tonight, making way for an equally depressing October dawn, according to the fore- cast issued today by Forecaster Mitchell at the Weather Bureau Washington's weather outlook for next few days is all wet, Mr. Mitchell announced in a discouraged tone. “It's no use,” he admitted, after scanning his maps for a ray of sun- shine. “There’s nothing but rainy Rain to and probably tomorrow and at least through Saturday the schedule. But mavbe by Sunday the sun may sucoeed in break- ing through the murky gloom. I can't make any definite promises, however."” The temperature has been rising radually. he said, and will reach nor- mal by tomorrow, night showers Files Set-Off to Claim. Robert E. Dailey. garage keeper at 1 L street northwest, yesterday filad a plea of set-off to the suit for $2.511.59 recently brought against him I public Oil C'o. on a promis. Dailey claims $17,080 is from the comvany for fur- him with oils said to have been of inferior quality. Attorney rge R. Sheriff appears for the de | Katle R. FLORDAFUNDHEE NDW ABOVE S50 Contributions Are Received From Those High in Of- ficial Life. The fund being raised in Washing- ton for rellef of persons stricken in the Florida hurricane today leaped upward toward the half-way mark of this city’s quota of $50,000 with the receipt of a fund of $4,682.64, which had n sent by local residents to the national headquarters of the Red Cross instead of to the District Chap- ter, 16 Jackson place. This sum, in addition to other col-| lections at the local chapter. raised | yesterday's total of $19,886.82 to u grand total of $25,119.90. Local Red Cross officials confidently expected | the total for Washington to go well | over the $25,000 mark before the day | is over. High Officials Contributed. The latest additions include many large gifts, some of them from per- sons of high officlal position. Among them were donations of $500 each from the Japanese Ambassador, Tsu- neo Matsudaira, Woodward & Lothrop Co. and Samuel Ross. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg added $250 and Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis gave $100. Another prominent contributor was Charles H. Burke, commissioner of Indlan affalrs. The total sum raised to date na- tionally could not be ascertained, as no new total has been tabulated at the national headquarters since Mon- day. The last total announced was $2,860,400. List of Donors. Subscriptions for the Florida relief fund from District residents recaived at national headquarters of the Amer- fcan Red Cross were reported ae fol- lows: | Mrs. M. F. Goldsborough. 5.00 Miss Louise Hansmann 1.00 Miss Bagby 6.00 Nellle M. Lak 1.00 Kehr family .. 5.00 Mr. Ward .. 5.00 Anonymous ...... 5.00 Ralph W. Payne Ida M. Hill .... Bertha H. Looker . Young & Simon . H. L. Rust Co. . sanaa Margaret C. Loughborough. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Lang ... Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese embassy ... Sty W. L. Capps ..... Florence 8. Hellmai Maj. N. E. Bailey Mr. and Mrs. H. Wiley G. H. Loudenslager Mrs. J. Q. Proctor . A. W. Bradbury J. D. Yelverton .. Washington Hebrew Bation R. D. Linsey ..... Lynn J. Frazier . W. J. Fowler . 1. Febrey & Co. . Parke F. Engle . W. B. Marbury Beta Phi Fraternity E. H. Swem 5 Josephine Peck 1. H. Taylor - John de la Mater . Marjorie de la Mater Mrs. Stokes Halkett ........ Charles H. Butler and John A Kratz ... B A, N. Moore ... E. L. Herndon . H. I Byrne .. 1. E. Stolberg . H. P. Howard Willlam F. Ham Willlam . Worthington . Potomac Insurance Co. Washington Hebrew Congre gation ARl o Washington Hebrew Congre. gation = 5 Mrs. R. 1. Col. and M Katherine ( B. G. Foster ... Charles J. Bogan Lucy A. Brickenstein . Mary R. Brickenstein .. W. W. Eggleston Helen F. Singleton. Anonymous ... Mrs. J. A. Donohos. Max Hanemann Anonymous Albert Mann . ... Franklin W. Marsh....... Mr. and Mrs. Richard F Jones ..... . 2 Walter §. Harban Mary R Miller. Edith W. Lester Mary Harvey Besste T. Chandler 1. L. Sitgreaves. . el P. Morse. Miss Alice E. Brown Dwight F. Davis Mrs. A. K. Warren Mrs. D. F. Sellers. . flls. ... Lucile epperd. . B Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Crockett. 1. M. McFadden. Willilam C. Rives............. | Mrs. Casey .. ; Miss D. G. Stewart. ... A | A. B. Gooch ...... s i Anonymius " Gel. W. Slauson & Sons Polly Sutton Ethel M. Peter. J. B. Cleland Nellle Bennyson. Anonymous ...... Rowena M. Godding Dr. G. Wythe Cock. Central Presbyterfun Church. Carl H. Osborn frrerees Anonymous . ot Margaret Merigold ... Congre F. S F Upton 0 | 100.00 | 25.00 | 100.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 0.00 00 | 3.00 | 10.00 | | HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES ‘l (For Friday, October 1.) PIRST BACE—Purse. $1.300; maiden 2 yoar-oids: & furlongs Fenlig! 112 His Hour 115 L Hour. forue! iy tQuaker Lady 1 1 1 1 11 112 Contest +Walter M. Jeffords entry "OND RACE—Purse. $1.800: claiming: m‘-ooldb Inlll‘ up: 8 furlongs. ) ... 110 Mexican Pete. el 108 Miheara Maxive ... 108 °*Lieut. SMeridian ‘Hill.. 100 » Oakwoof *Philo . 92 Prince Theo. Lady Glassen. 114 *Alley Oop. THIRD RACE—] 3-year-oids and up. Ses Sand .1 The Cocoon Sron. - “Red Stone George I Elicha " Lee FOURTH Chatelaine furlonas 1Gtlded. Easel 1ol 104 SR BN 108 Palnted Lady YGien Riddle Parm entrs IPTH RACE—Purse. $1.800, claiming. | 3-yest-clds and up: 1 mile &nd 70 yards -rnr; s \sl a Blinks 9 < 104 Bluy 111 - 11 Rt - 108 B i RACE—Purse. $1,300: claiming: L Sl g e - o e . . = 0f irthd: PTEERETL ol Trallite s; 1| *Arrow Hawk . 102 *Kinsman o B ll *Zeod P | 1 Rigel 1 03 S Ul 0 | RACE—Purse. the Purse 2-year-old L] . 104 Fair Star Sanabar 110 *Alletache 09 | *Swoop | SEYENTH RACE—Purse, $1300. claim. | ing. 3-vear-olds and up: 14 miles | acey 100 Massey 101 | late 107 *Harrs Carroll.. 98| 1ssors 108 Demi Jobn 108 *Real Artist... 105 STrajanus 103 *Apprentice allowance claimed Weather, cloudy: track. sloppy. Piret race—3:80 p.m. | Marte J IME | at the District Hornsby's Mothe\r Dies, But He Remains In World Serie By the Associated Press. NEW TYORK, BSeptember 30.—The dying wish of Mrs. M. D. Hornsby that her son Rogers stick to his post as manager and second baseman of the St. Louis Cardinals and lead his team against the New York Yankees in the world series is to be carried out. The manager had contemplated a race to the bedside of his mother in Austin, Tex., that would have kept him out of the first two games of the classic, starting here Saturday. The mother, who had watched from an invalid’s bed for the past 11 years, the steady march of her son to base ball leadership, dled yesterday. Her son was informed that her last wish ‘was that he stay with his team. Then he announced he would do as she de- sired. A telegram to Mrs. Rogers Hornsby from Austin had much to do with his decislon. It wus signed “The Folks'" He needs you. All is done here. 2.00 6.00 10.00 26.00 6.00 10.00 10.00 6.00 6.00 80.00 16.00 6.00 1.00 00 5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 3.00 10.00 100.00 500.00 15.00 500.00 8.00 1.00 1.00 26.00 6.00 8.00 1.00 5.00 10.00 5.00 2.00 10.00 100.00 2.00 Polly Miller ... Mrs. H. E. Monroe. Ruth B. Seibel Mre. F. H. Wigmore Leah 8. Du Rell. E. R. Weaver . > r. and Mrs. J. O. Tolbert. Rosa. P. Chiles Burton M. Varney E. H. Rosengarten E. W. Davis...... Florence H. Matchett. Mrs. Agnes Gray < Mrs. Charles G. Mathews. * W. Van Wagner.... Charlotte Husselbusch harles H. Burke. J. W. Chapin. Miss Edna Hunt ‘Anonymous .. Mrs. C. V. Riley Bamuel Ross . Rachel E. Decker Woodward & Lothrop. Arna P. Taylor Florence G. Hillyer. Mollie W. Anderson. Hugh R. Wilson. Elizabeth Richmond . H. McConnon Lilllan Nutting Butler. George Andrews Hugh E. White. Lillian Hicks . Rushing. C. M Norma M. Miss S. A. Hall Kathryn E. Vernon. Clifford Jones . Mrs. R. Barrett... Lillile W. Garrutt. Carl Herrmann Mary Stone e A. R. C. Nursing Service Al R. ¢, miscellaneous. .. Harry Woodward ..... F. S. Lappelle. . Marion Murphy C. W. Simpson Mrs. J. L. Leavitt Anonymous i Mary Peck.... M. L. Alexander I N. P. Service Teresa. Manicini. D. M. Nesht. Mary L. Soule. Anonymous Mrs. Holton . A. Brown... Anonymous eennaens Loulse H. McGachlin R. B. Murphy....... ¥rank B. Kellogg. . Shlth.. .. ,eoe 5.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 5.00 .00 25.00 10.00 1.00 20.00 5.00 1.00 20.00 .00 250.00 10.00 Total $4,682.64 Contributions received by the cashier of The Evening Star today were: Acknowledged previously.. W. A, F. e Mrs. H, C. Rothrock .. Miss Eberly . e Cash .. D. B. Todd . cesean The Anchor Masonic Cluh Emma Stahl Rau . S Mrs. W. D. Green . John Mills Anonymous . P George D. Hornin, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Polkinhorn 10.00 5.00 .00 10.00 8.00 Total receipts at The Star $4,280.59 received the Red contribut) Chapter of Additional Cross were: Andrew McIntosh Edwurd 4 tanle; J. H. K. Helen M, RNCSB G Helen B. Erwin G. W. Wallace Rocca | Mrs. Irene . Findley Helen Louise Sargent Anonymous . . Cash .. Mrs. A. Crawford Mrs. Nichols ADDED GIFTS SWELL D. C. MEMORIAL FUND Contributions Still Sent in for Erection of $200,000 Doric Tem- ple to War Veterans. Donations for the District of Co- lumbia World War Memorial in Po- tomac Park continue to come in, ac- cording to an announcement today at the office of John Poole. treasurer of the District of Columbia Memorial Commission. Latest contributions include a gift of $26.50 raised by the employes of the Federal Trade Commission, and one of $15 from Mrs. lda mith Walters of 1631 Sixteenth street. About $200,000 will be needed erect the imposing memorial to to | Washington’s boys who served in the World War. The monument will be in the form of a Doric temple, in which will be inscribed the names of Checks for the memorfal fund | should be made out to John Poole, treasurer, District of Columbla Me- morial Fund, Federal-American Na- tional Bank, Fourteenth and G streets. ple, No. 8, Pythian Ststers, will give a reception in honor of the homecoming of its Grand Lodge officers tomorrow, 8 p.m. S, Fulfilling Last Wish ‘The spirits of the Cardinal players, downcast at the news of Mrs. Horn: by's death and the possibility that their leader would be out of the line- up, lightened a little after his decision to stay was made known. They spent the morning and early afternoon in practice at the Yankee Stadium while Hornsby remained in his hotel room attempting to decide between conflicting calls to duty. The men learned of Mrs. Hornsby's death when they returned from the fleld, and after a silent evening meal ex- pressed thelr sympathy te the manager. Sorrow over the death of Hornsby's mother was also expressed by Miller Huggins, manager of the Yankees John Heydler, president of the Ni tlonal League, and Commissioner Landis. ‘Hornsby,” Landls said, “will have one of the hardest fights a man ever had to get hold of himself. A boy feels deeply the loss of his mother, but I think a man feels it even more. I am deeply sorry for him.” PRESIDENT TO URGE CONGRESS ACTION ON RAIL MERGERS (Continued from First Page.) the supervision of the Interstate Commerce Commission, with power to approve or disapprove individuel plans for mergers. The bill introduced at the last ses- sion by the later Senator Cummins provided for consolidation, but stipu lated that the latter would be permis- sible or voluntary only for a perivd of seven years. After that date the mergers would be compulsory. 1t was because of this compulsory feature that considderable objection was raised to the bill on the »art of the rallroads. Although it was reported favorably by the interstate commerce committee of the Senate, it was not passed. s According to the President’s advices, the raflroads of the country are get- ting their full share of prevalling prosperity, and, although he is happy to know of the improvement in the condition of the carriers, he is sald to be of the opinion that these conditions could be hnproved by proper consoli tations. It is thought by those about e Exexcutive that his next message to Congress will contain a section de- veted to this subject. - Besides discussing consolidation and other raflroad legislative matters with the Prestdent, Mr. Thom informed him of the splendid work being done throughout the country by the legal advisory boards which have been working in co-operation with the rallroads in the matter of affording better transportation facil- ities. Mr. Thom sald the advis- ory boards, of which there are now 11. were directly responsible for furnishing adequate transportation facliities during the past Sum mer when the crop movements were the heaviest. He called particular at- tentfon to the work recently done by the regional board in Texas in con- nection with the successful movement of a tremendous grain crop In that State. Recelves Republican Group. The President today recelved a delegution representing the Young f\[i‘!!'x Republican Club of New York, which formally extended to him an invitation to attend the celebration under the auspices of that organiza- lll)u_ to commemorate the birthday anniversary of George Washirgon next February He took the invita- tion under advisement. Those in the delegation were Richard B. Scandrett, George H. Howard, Charles . Wray, Berhard S. Barron, John L. Hop. kins, Irwin B. Kurtz, Meade Brunet and 'David Hinshaw. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. npf:m:f_fl:nx-up conference wiil be D omorrow at the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. at 3:30 p.m. and continue untl Sunday evening, to con- clude with a candle-light service at night. A reception to the new girls by the restdence committee will be held tomorrow from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. | _The woman's interdenominational service for intercessary prayer will be held tomorrow, 2 p.m., at Mount Ver. non M. E. Church South. Miss Swan Hester, graduate of Moody Bible Insti- tute, will speak. | Stearns' Bible class will meet tomor- row, 1 p.m., at Mount Vernon M. E. Church. Dr. K. B. Moomaw 'n charg: The District of Columbia Public School Association will meet October 6. 8 pam., in_boardroom of Distriet Bullding. C. F. Carusi will talk on “The Public School of Washington." he Chillum Teights Citizens' As- gociation will meet tomorrow evening at Joseph Rubin Keene School. Elec- tion of officers. | Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty | will open the City Club’s forum season at its luncheon tomorrow, 12:30 p.m in the blue room of the club. Subject: “Civic Opportunities.” The City Club will give a dance Saturday night at its country home. The special guests will be officers of the 1218t Engineers, District National Guard, commanded by Col. John \Y. Oehmann. They will bring their own orchestra. Entertainment features The City Club will present a musical in its lounge, October 7. at 8:15 p.mn. Will Plerson will open the program with introductory remarks and pre sent the artists: Columbia Trio, direct- ed b} Katherine Crowley: Mrs. Ray mond Dickey. violinist, accompanied by Mrs. C. W. Frietag; Mme, Marie von Unschuld, pianist, and Mrs. Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler, sopranc. The Stafes Councll and 1 subordr. nate councils, Daughters of America, have been invited to attend the bene- fit concert by the Boys' Band and the (iirls’ Glee Club from the Junior Or- der of American Mechanlcs' Home, at Tiffiin, Ohlo, to be given tomorrow, 8 p.m., at Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue. Pro- ceeds will go to the Orphans’ Home. Horticultural shows under the aus- pices of the Potomac Palisades Gar- den and Landscape Club, will be held tomorrow in Community Church, Po- tomac Heights, from 2 to § p.m. and from 7 to 10 p.m. The Chevy Chase Circle of the Child Conservation League will meet tomor- row, 2 p.m., at the home of Mrs. G. Waite, 4109 Garrison street. An Alpha Deita Phi business lunch- eon will'be held tomorrow at 12:30 p.m., at the Franklin Square Hotel. i Bread-and-Water Fast Not So Bad, Say Lawyers, Ending Test With Beefsteak Howard T. Jones and Arthur L. Henderson, assistants to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attor- ney General in charge of prohibition enforcement, have called off their self- imposed bread-and-water fast after 48 hours. The two lawyers started the ex- periment after a discussion concern- ing the bread-and-water sentences im posed by a Nebraska judge on boot- leggers. The trial never has been oonsid- Department of Justice, and Jones and Henderson have been subjects of much bantering. They deny that they serfously intended to test the alleged cruelty of the Nebraska sentences. Last night they broke the fast simultaneously by a sumptuous steak banquet. Both declared they felt none the worse for their experience. | " “A sentence of bread and water for liquor violators,” Jones said, “is not so bad. In fact, it ought to do the prisoner good. We both feel all right and have lost a little waight, wi Barms Sated asmertios I memtocmeme 9280 88 B BRI WIRAYmE0S a) Lie ¥ de ua 1o barme” \ L} | safety THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY., SEPTEMBER 30, 1926. SIX SHIPS MISSING INMEXICAN STORM American Steamer Was Due Tuesday—Vera Cruz Loss Not Great. By the Assoctated Press. MEXICO CITY, September 30.—The American steamer Judith, of the Pacific-Caribbean Gulf Line, from San Francisco, and the Mexican steamer Villa Hermosa, from Tabasco, which ‘were due at Vera Crus Tuesday, have not been heard of and fears are held for their safety. Four schooners also are missing. The War Department announced last night that federal troops are co- operating in rellet work in Vera Cru ‘Wrecking crews have been ordered from Jalapa to repair raflroad wash- outs and telegraph lines. No Reports From Ships., The Weather Bureau announced to- day it had been without reports since yesterday morning from vessels with- in 400 miles of the center of the trop- ical disturbance between Bermuda and the Bahamas. The storm was belleved, however, to have been of slight intensity. Plantations Are Damaged. RBUENAVENTURA, Colombla, Sep- tember 30 (#).—Telegraphio advices recelved Here state that great destruc tion was caused at Santa Marta to banana plantations by a tornado. The United Fruit ¢ plantation was re- ported to have suffered heavily. The town of Clenagas suffered dam- age from floods crused by the storni. *CITY RETURNS TO NORMAL. Little Evidence Found to Indicate Damage Was Great. VERA CRUZ, September 80.—Al- though considerable property damage was caused in the city of Vera Cruz by a hurricane which swept it Tues- iy, the oity yesterday was returning to normal, with little to.justify early reports that it had been destroyed or greatly damaged A correspondent for the Associated Press, who arrived on the first through train from Mexico City in re- sponse (o reports that the city was severely damaged, found the business and residential sections presenting & normal appearance. Although re- porte were recelved that two persons had been drowned, the local author- ities thus far have been unable to find any dea Propert which may reach 200,000 0 250,000 pesos, consist of razed Wwooden bufldings alonk the water front, including & yacht club, a group of frame houses and refreshment stands and a wrecked marine coal landing station. Cane Crop Damaged. Banana and sugar cane plantations were severely damaged over an area extending about 100 miles inland, the torrential rains beating down plants and ruining many crops. Twenty or thirty small craft in Vera Cruz harbor were beached and dam. aged by the pounding on the shore. . American Vice Consul Willis A Myers declared vesterday that the hur- ricane was the worst Vera Cruz has known in the past quarter of ‘a cen . despite the fact that no deaths have heen verified and no great prop erty damage caused in the business and residential sections. A rainfall of cloudburst proportions fell for 14 consecutive hours. com- mencing Monday night and flooding the city streets. About 10 o'clock yes- terday morning a terrific wind swept over the city from the gulf. The storm disrupted radio and tele- graphic communication with Mexico City, resulting in the reports which flooded the capital that Vera Cruz had been destroyed or greatly damaged. Regularly scheduled raflway trains be- tween Vera Cruz'and Mexico City maintained service losses, Communication Re-established. MEXICO CITY, September 30 (P).— Manuel Merino, an official of the Mexicano Railway, last night nform- ed the Assoclated Press that railway and the telegraphic communications with Vera Cruz have been resumed. He said that he had received reports indicating that Vera (ruz had not suffered as heavily as at first be- lieved. Offic at the Tacubaya métro logical station last night said that the storm was a local tornado, which is very rare in Mexico. The only one Bitherto registered was at Monterey many yvears ago. Joaquin Gallo, chief of the mete- orological station, expressed the opin fon that recent torrential rains in various parts of the world were due to atmospheric disturbances created by short-wave radio broadcasting in- tensely charging the atmosphere with electricity. One Navy Ship Damaged. Commodore Hiram Hernandez, com mander of the cruiser Anahuac, re- ported to headquarters here vesterday by radio that all the Mexican war- sahips withstood the hurricane, except the cruiser Agua Prieta, which was slightly damaged. The wind reachéd the maximum velocity of 200 kilometers per hour, the commoder reported. Five mer: chantmen and two schooners were de. stroved and sunk. as well as several fishing smacks. The lighthouse was dumaged. Numerous houses in the poorer sections were destroyed. The light and tramway services were sus pended. There is some fear for the of fishing boats and the steamer Piza, which safled from Vera Cruz Monday and have not been heard from. Heavy Damage in West. NOGALES, Ariz., September 30 4P).—Equinoxial storms along the West coast of Mexico. usual at this time of year, have caused heavy damage at Mazatlan, State of Sinalos, and lesser damage at Manazilla and Guaymas, State of Sonora, according to_the meager advices received here. Wire service is interrupted. It is not known whether there was any loss of life. Classified Advertisements for The Evening Star must be redelved by 11 p.m. day before insertion. Effective September 30 and thereafter the closing time for Help and Situation ad- vertisements will be 11 p.m. day before issue. The clos- ing time will then be 11 p.m. day before issue for all clas- sified advertisements except Losts hnd Death: i Losts and Deaths will be received as usual untll 12 o'clock noon, except Satur- day and legal holidays, when will be accepted up to 0oam. . The closing hour of 5:30 p.m. Saturday for the Sun- day Star remains the same. By the Assoclated Press. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., September 80.—Total deaths from the tropical hurricane, which swept over the east coast of Florida on Saturday, the 18th, were approxi- mately 400, and there were 2,600 injured, 500 seriously, according to figures announced by Dr. Willlam R. Redden, director of Red Cross medical rellef work. . Dr. Redden. in making public the figures, stated that they rep- resented as near an approximation as could be made at this time. The estimates, sald Dr. Redden, were made after careful survey and check of the entire disaster area. GLENNA COLLETT BEATEN IN TOURNEY BY VIRGINIA WILSON their thirds, each took 8 putts to get dow; the title holder once more ing & short shot by inches for her b. Miss Wilson finally squared the match at the short ninth, where Miss Collett hooked to the rough and then pitched into a tral er the flag with her third, she hdled out in 4 while the Chicago player, hole high from the tee. was down in par 3. The cards Par out— Miss Collett out— Miss Wilson out— 4656 Miss Collett Wins Tenth. 1400 Florida Dead ! And 2,500 Injured, Miss Collett won the tenth hole to become 1 up, her drive carrying 30 yards beyond that of Miss ‘Wilson and her approach dropping 25 feet from the flag for an easy par 4. Miss ‘Wilson, short with her approach, needed 3 to get on and then took 2 putts. Miss Collett was in the brook at the eleventh and finally conceded the hole to her opponent, who played safely and carefully all the way. The twelfth and thirteenth were halved, both getting birdie 4s at the former and par 3s at the latter. A saving recovery was made at the thirteenth by Miss Wilson, who pitched dead to the pin from a trap and holed out in 1 putt. Miss Wilson Takes Two. The fourteenth hole was halved in 5s. although Miss Collett was called upon to make & clever recovery after slicing her brassie into a trap. Miss Wilson, straight all the way, was on with her third, a safe niblick toss only 15 feet from the flag. The champlon’s fout was 30 feet short, but she sank her second putt, a five-footer, to keep the match all square. Miss Wilson became 1 up at the fifteenth, where Miss Collett failed to keep her wet and slippery midiron under control. She sliced to a trap and the ball sank so deeply into the sand that one stroke failed to lift it out. On in 4, she needad 2 putts, while Miss Wilson, straight all the way, was down in At the sixteenth, famous Merion quarry hole, both sliced their second into the pit. Miss Collett failed to 6465055 4342 64656066 4—46 56 3—46 Wilson came out nicely a lo-footer to win the hole. The seventeenth was then halved. The cards Par, i, ... Miss Collett, in Miss Wilson, in. s Cummings Loses First. Miss Cumming: hort tee shot cost her the first hole, the Philadelphia player going down in par 4 to the former title holder's 5. Mrs. Stetson also won the second hole when her opponent, after being trapped on her drive, sliced out of bound and finally escaped with a to the Eastern woman's 6. The next | two holes were halved in par figures The fith and sixth holes also were balved, but at the seventh Miss Cum mings scored her first win of the out- going nine with a birdie 4 to Mrs. Stetson's par 5. Here Mrs. Stetson's approach landed in a trap below the green, while the former chumpfon, on nicely in two. almost sank « 3(-footer for an eagle. Mrs. Stetson came back to win the elghth and ninth. making Miss Cum mings 3 down at the turn. At both holes the latter was in trape The cards: Mrs. Stetson— Out Miss Cummings— Out Ends at Thirteenth Hole. Flubbing her drive and dropping into a trap on her second, Miss Cum mings became 4 down by losing the tenth, requiring a 6 to Mrs. Stetson's safely played 5. The former title holder continued to find trouble at the eleventh, where she was in the water with her ap proach shot, taking a 7 to Mrs. Stet son’s par 5. The match turned inio a rout at the twelfth, where Miss Cummings again was trapped to the right of the green. She seemingly could not get her frons under con trol, pitching far over the hole on her recovery and losing, 6 strokes to 5. The thirteenth was then halved in 3s, ending the contest. The cards- In— Mrs. Stetson... Miss Cummings. ORGANIZ_ATION ACTI"VITIES. TONIGHT. The Esperanto class under auspices of the International Language Club will meet, 7:30 o'clock, at 1715 Euclid street. Lessons are free. The dormitory committee of Joseph H. Milans Lodge Chapter. E. 8., will have a card par! at the residence of Mrs. Anna Forman, 411 G street northeast. Loyalty Chapter, No. 32, O. E. S, will have a card party, 8 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Abigail Zimmerman, 3120 Sixteenth street. Of the 26,000,000, homes in this coun try, 14,600,000 have electricity. recover on her first stroke, while Miss | nd then sank | | pulsed the Gerr W, SECOND DIVISION Check Discloses| DL ANS FUND DRIVE Seeks to Ralse $150,000 for Memorial Here to War Veterans. Plans are shaping up rapidly for great monument here to memorialize the famous .2d Division of the American Expeditionacy Forces of the World War, an organization in which 65,000 men served and which incurred casualties numbering 25,000 killed and wounded In the great offenses that stopped and turned the German ad vance. The campalgn to raise $150,000 witt which to construct the memorial was officlally launched when Mrs, John A Lejeune, wife of Maj. Gen. John A Lejeune, commandant of the Mirina Corps, presented the first coniribution to Assistant Secretary of W Han ford MacNider, who is president of the 2d Divislon Association Committees have been formed for varfous session of the country. and quotas assigned, and it s belleved that both those who were membars of this famous division and those who had relatives or friends in it will be prompt to subsowibe, it was sald. As a matter of fact, promises of some large contributions were received be foro the campaign was officiall launched. It is believed that the ful amount will be in hand within a vers short time. Robertson Is District Chairman. The District of Columbia is a part of a district in which also are Virginia and West Virginia, headed Qy Archi bald G. Robertson of Richmond. This districts quota in the general fund is $6.000. Contributions should be sent there. Similar committees and quotas to be ralsed have been allotted in various parts of tha country to the full extent of the 0,000 Maj. Gen. James Harbord, re tired, was named chairman of the memorial committes at the recent convention of the association, and he was empowered to appoint his ew: subcommittees. The convention passed the resolution for the memorial At 1< last meeting, but aside from autho: tzing the raising of the funds, nothing more. It i= the purpose «f the association, it was sald, to firs get the funds in hand, and then take proper steps for getting a design aml a site. It is probable that it will he located in one of the public parks, i which event special authority will have to be obtalned from Congress But those directing the movement want the money in hand first, and expected that the commiiten wil be able to report to the conventior next June that it has the money One thing that has heen decided, addition to that of having tha mem orfal, is that whatever design is e lected, will have provision made on for inscribing the names of the 3343 members of the division who died during the war. Maj. Gen. Lejeune commanded the Marine brigade in this division and Assistant Secretary MacNider served in it as a lieutenant colonel, This was the famous division which re an_advance at Cha Relleau Wood eau Thierry and June of 1918 Division Plans History In addition to planning a memorial this division is planning a history of ftself that will cover every datafl of its actions, which should be preserved in history. It is not to he rushed ont but it is expected that it will require about three years to complets it. The various divisions laid out for the collection of the fund, thome fr charge and the quotas to be raised follow: The present Division, $2,600 Brig. Gen. Paul B. Malone, Fort San Houston. Tex. United States Marine Corps. $8,000 Maj. Gen. W Neville, headquar ters, Marine Corps. San Francisco New England, $20.000, Maj. Ger Preston Rrown. [ A.. headquar ters, 18t Corps Area, Roston New York and New Jersey Lieut. ¢ol. John A. Hughes M. C. (retired), Pennsylvania, Delaware and Mary land, $20,000, J. D). Ayres, Bank Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pa. rginia. West Virginia, District of Columbia, $6,000, Archibald . Robert son, Virginia lway and Powe Buflding, Richmond Georgla, Alabama and South Carolina . Slayton, Grant Building, Mississipy islana and Kentueky. $6§0 Myers, headquarters New Orleans, Ohfo, Indiana and linois. John A. Holabird, 104 South 3 avenue, Chicago. Michigan _end Wis Frank W. Brooks, jr., ¢ Mich. Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming North and South Dakota, $5,000, Wil llam W. Dean. 760 Fairmont avenue St. Paul Minn, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska rado, $10,000. Robert B. X city commissioner, Topeka, Kan: Missouri and Arkans: Milford, 316 Greeley ster Groves, Mo, Texas, Okiahoma Arizona, $8,000, Malone. Fort $3 Florida $10,000, At Tennes«en Col. H. B 87th Division N W £15.000 “higar onsin, $5.000 sse Pointe. w4 Colo New Mexico and Brig. Gen. Paul R Sam Houston, Tex Callfornia, Nevada and 'tah $10,000, Maj. Gen. W. (. Neville, Head quarters Marine Corps, San Franciseo Washington, Oregon and Idaho. $5,000. Malcolin Douglas, County-City Building, Seattle, Wash Medical _ Personnel, no queta assigned, Dr. O. E. Van Alyea, 25 East Washington street, Chicago, “GOLF BACHELOR” IN JAIL Wite's Assault Charge Due to Her Fondness for Links, He Says. MINEOLA, Y., September 30 Nova Brawn, an advertising writer, who described himself to police as # “golf bachelor,” was In fail toda on i charge of assuult, made by his wife. He was arrested after his wife dazed, was found roaming the streets of Westbury. Brown said it was his wife ness for the lnks that caused t in their home. Mrs. Brow months ago, brought action fc ration, in which she alleged her hu- band at one time broke a golf ciub ~ver her head. He denied her charges Government employes who &rs ~ro- moted by the Classification Board' reallocation in the last half of any month will receive increased pay for all of that month, under a decision of Controller General McCall, made public today In reply to a query by Secretary of the Interior Work Under the old system the dishursing the first pay das officer went back peses of the ) of computing, | o | in the 16-day period. | also ¢ The new computation fs based on |when made in the lust half. the recent innovation, which makes the pay period one month, for pur-|was halled by employes today ‘audit, and undex which | distinct benefit. - McCarl Ruling Gives U. S. Clerks Beneht Of Increased Pay During Entire Month only one pay roll is submitted to the controller general for audit each month, and that at the end of the month, Instead of two rolls. Persons whose reallocation by the Classification Board 1s dated during the first 15 days of the month will, of course, not be affected Decreases in salary, which occur less frequently than increases, will ome under the same regulation The ruling by the controlier general