Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1926, Page 3

\ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 1926. D. C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, \ SUNDAY FOOT BALL RULING HITS THREE Managers and Fan Held in| Pittsburgh—Golfers, Tennis Players Not Molested. By the Aesooiated Prese PITTS WH, October 11.—The ban placed on Sunday foot ball in Pittsburgh was generally observed vesterday, only three arrests having heen made in the few instances where volice tovk « hand to prevent or Imeak up contests, while car Director of Public Safety James M. Clark’s “blue law” enforcement order. <un, golfers and tennis players were lested, the orde these sports having been lifted Satur- day, when the city's law department | ruled that such games did not “tend | |CHICAGO OUTLAWS 's were arrest- | id to have con-| o produce disorder.” Two Managers Ignore Order. "I'wo foot ball manage ed when they were nued play after having been warned ¢ pollce. The third arrest was that A resenting fan, who was charged | with disorderly conduct. All were for “hearings today, after | ing $30 forfeits There was semblance of disorder 'n ordered two el en to refrain from playing at an Oakland athletic park. A considerable crowd | of fans was reluctant to disperse, al- | though the gridders had announced there would be no game. When five| additional officers were cailed to as-| sist the 10 already on the scene, the crowd quietly s attered. ! Basis of Director's Decision. | r Clark’s decision to invoke ancient “hiue laws,” passed in| was made early last week, when 2 minister protested u game scheduled for a lot near his home. At first only foot ball was prohibited, but later the order was extended to embrace all =ports. A second change brought the edict back to its original form. ving out | | cupation -Speaker For U. S. ARD WENIG. DRIVEN T0 COVER {Grand Jury in Active War on Gangsters and “Liquor Lords.” 8 the Cousolidated Prees CHICAGO, October 11.—Scampering for cover is the principal present oc- of those organized outlaws who have given Chicago a world-wide reputation as a gang-ridden city. This place for once is as tight as a drum, while the king-pins of the booze racket duck hither and thither trying to keep out of the way of the Federal grand jury which is to meet In the meantime police had been given orders to arrest all offenders| while they were at play, but this was | also recinded and fnstructions given | to take only the names of offenders, | COL. FF%EDER;CK DEAD. Retired Officer to Be Buried in Ar-| | lington Tomorrow. Col. Daniel A. Frederick, retired In- fantry officer, who had been ill for sev- | eral months, died here vesterday and | Will be burfed in Arlington National Cemetery tomorrow morning at 10 «’clock With full military honors. | He was from Georgia and was| zraduated from the Military Academy | in June, 1 His entire service was | in the Infantry, in which he reached | he Erade of ‘colonel, in September, During the Spanish War he was 1najor of the 45th Volunteer Infantry. | In June, 1917, he was transferred to the retired list, at his own request, nfter more than 40 years’ service. hers” Aegoo dmonda Sehool, Oth and D sta. av, October 13, at 7:30 p.m. Bo ‘sure to attend ‘this meeting as there wili | ba an open discussion on the consolidation of tha two organizatio ot Nine } a Twent: n (2R MARCH kit Hundred and Save on the EIGHTE! AD. 1022, jns oF ed to John Foust and thereafier assigned to Georga W Offutt, Jr. has been Jost or destro fhat f have apnli of the District ot A duplteate of eaid certificate. GEORGE W 1318 F COWELSH. S Sales (ompany. and 1o tho Commissionera | umbis. to' 18sue to mo oF | a corpora. 1, FUGENR Murray 1 fion of the District of Colimbin, do herebw | tions here. His department. knows | Loyt At 8 meeting of the stockhold | thom and has had them under arrest |1 offien’ of 'tha eorporation dh Washington. | At various times, only to find that | ot Amg el cr. 1026, | wnge immunity. with the. Coda 0t Law of the Distret of | . lsators have been pry- Columbig. did cnisugs the'rama of ‘the said | ing into this situation fo H”mm'-l" In '.“' A Tire Rales ypore and just ne ubher Comuans, Tt oman Haanas g | ammunttion. eftertiv as of Septemier b batch of officlals and gangsters gets e o pysandiah or e seal of [ahad folt. The investigators say that NORTH BEACH (MD.) TOWN The Couneil hereby_gives n 100 to be held rih Bea s, November for m rer and six o h on Ti yor. treas. | THE COUNCIL, Br WM. F. 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Police learned that .18 machine guns had been distributed nd that trouble was imminent. The Federal Government stepped in just at the time local officials admitted their inability to cope with the situa- tion. Charles MacDonald, a special in- vestigator and prosecutor, had heen unable with a ¢ of grand juries to answer the question, “Who killed Assistant District Attorney 1M gin, and why?” The Federal men say that they already are a good way along in answering that question, which will probably solve much of the riddle of gangster immunity from punishment. Hits Police Officlals. They also intimate that 15 pollce captains in Chicago and 150 police- men may coms in for treatment by the new Federal grand jury. Several per- sons in county offices are likewise said to be in for treatment. Chlef of Police Collins declares that there are only 40 or 50 men who really are responsible for gang condi- ft which interests. extends from the officlals had not been looked for. IRISH SOLDIERS HONOR WORLD WAR BUDDIES British American Dead, Placing Wreath on Unknown's Tomb. Homage to the soldier dead of this Natlon was paid this morning by Maj. . . 05 Charlton, military attache v, on behalf of the 10th and 16th Irfsh Divisions of the British forces who performed vali- ant services in France early in the nied by a group from the Gen. Charlton laid a wreath on the- tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. The wreath was inscribed: “From all ranks of the 10th and 16th Irish Divisions who served with the British divisions in the World War, 1914-1918.” At the call to the defense of the 300,000 Irishmen voluntarily enlisted, forming two great divisions, which were maintained throughout the Fifty thousand were killed, and war many wounded and maimed. They participated in many crucial conflicts nee. unveiled at another at commemo- sh divisions. A memorial recently was Guillemont, France, and Wytschaete, Flanders, to rate the services of thesIri | | i | | WENIG.U. 5. ORATOR, HERE FOR CONTEST French Spokesman Due To- morrow or Next Day—Presi dent to Attend. Herlert Edward Wenig, represent- ative of the United States in the inter- national oratorical contest, reached Washington this morning in fine con- dition for the competition to be held in the Washington Auditoritum on Friday evening in the presence of President Coolidge and other notables. ‘Wenig was met at the station by Jose Munoz Cota, the Mexican spokesman; Herbert Moran, the Cana- dian spokesman, and William Meades Newton, the English spokesman. These four contestants are great friends and have been together almost continu- ously for the last month, the only ex- ception being the interval in which Herbert Wenig spent six days resting in his aunt’s home, at Great Neck, Long Island, before coming to Wash- ington. During thelr trip together to Mexico, returning via Chicago, the finalists rehearsed their speeches among then ves and offered friendly criticisms on delivery and phraseology. French Speaker Due Soon. Maxime Raymond Puel, the French spokesman, {8 scheduled to land in New York tomorrow from the steamer rance and. will reach Washington either tomorrow mnight or the next morning. In their competition on Friday eve- ning these flve secondary schoal pupils will give the public here the first opportunity it has ever had to hear English, French and Spanish used fn a public speaking contest. The arrangements for the meeting are such that it wjll be possible for every person in the audlence to know what each speaker is saying, even though two of the languages will be unfamiliar to many of those present. The speeches of the Mexican and French champlons will be printed in English and included in the printed program which will be handed to each member of the audience. It will be possible, therefore, to compare the literary ‘as well as the forensic merits of the flve contestants. Fix Order of Speaking. ‘The speakers will appear in the fol- lowing order, their places upon the program having been determined by lot drawings made by the Swiss Min- ister, Marc Peter: Herbert Moran, Canadian spokes- “Canada’s Part In the New William Meades Newton, English spokesman, “The British Empire. Herbert 1. Wenlg, United States spokesman, “The Constitution of the United States.” Jose Munoz Cota, Mexican spokes- man, “Bolivar and the Latin Amerl- can Peoples.” Maxime Raymond Puel, French spokesman, “The French Govern- ment."” The chairman of the meeting will be John Hays Hammond, who will briefly introduge President Coolidge. The Chief Executive will then dellver an address of welcome. The meeting will be broadeast by Station WRC in connection with WJZ of New York. SPENCER BROUGHT HERE TO FACE CHECK CHARGES Captured in South, Suspect Blames Difficulties on Wife’s Death and Drink. Charles Frederick Spencer, 43 vears old. a native of England, was returned ashington yesterday from Mobile, to answer a number of charges ng worthless checks here. Spencer was captured by the Southern a vear or | Authorities and was turned over to v are exploding theh: | Headquarters Detective Thomas Nall With each blast a new | Who brought him here. Worry over | the death of his wife and drink were | blamed by the prisoner for his plight, le system here is honeycombed | police said. According to police, Spencer de- seribed how he persuaded Capt. J. A. interest on the part of national | Mendelsohn, an Army surgeon, sta. Peo- | tioned at Walter Reed Hospital, to ple here are hoping that it means the | cash a check for $100. | final cleaning out of the whole local | the officer introduce him at the Bank He later had of Brightwood, where he deposited a | check for $850 and drew out $650 on account. Both of these checks, it was said. proved worthless, | | | | | | SPEECH CLINIC TO REOPEN Georgetown University Hospital Will Resume Aid. The speech clinic at Georgetown University Hospital will reopen at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. it was announced by Miss Jennie Hedrick, director of the clinic #nd also of the Washington School for the Correc- tion of Speech Defects. Children who cannot talk or who have any speech disorder, as well as | adults who stutter. lisp or have lost their ability to articulate, have been jted to present themselves at the | clinte. FIGHT CAUSES SHOT. Joseph McCaffery Wounded in Leg in Lunchroom. Joseph McCaffery, 28 years old, of 74 Bates street, was shot in the right leg during a fight in the Atlantic Lunchroom, Pennsylvania avenue, early yesterday morning. Two other men, William Dement, 1345 Spring road, and John Histon of the National Hotel, were arrested for disorderly conduct. The pistol is said to have been discharged when it fell from the pocket of one of the men and landed, ger first, on the floor. McCaffel was taken to Casualty Hospltal, but q | | Willard Hotel tomorrow night at § | Spencer met Capt. Mendelsohn at El Paso, Tex., where he had a civillan position with the Army, He said he went to Canada after passing the Military Attache Honors checks and later cut back to Alabama. Spencer has a little son, who was with him when he was captured. The boy is staying at the home of the Mobile police chief, who, it is sald, is anxious to adopt him. Spencer pleaded guilty in Police Court today and was held for the grand jury in $500 bond. FARMER BROUGHT HERE ON NON-SUPPORT CHARGE Wade Lynn, Found in West Vir- ginia, May Be Accused Also of Bigamy. Wade Lynn, 29-vear-old farmer, was brought to Washington from West Virginia today by Detective Thomas Sweeney to answer an in- dictment of failing to support his wife and children, who are living here. A charge of bigamy may be lodged against the man in West Virginia as a result of circumstances discovered by the Washington officer. Detective Sweeney said he found Lynn, after 2 midnight ride across the Shenandoah River in & small flat- boat and a long tramp over mountain trails, with a young woman who was introduced as his wife. The detective did not tell the girl that her husband had a wife and family in Washington. The authorities of Nearville, W. Va.. where Lynn was found, are investi ing the alleged second marriage, how- ever. BOARD OF TRADE TO MEET First Fall Assemblage Scheduled for Tomorrow Night. ‘The Washington Board of Trade will hold its first Fall meeting at the New o'clock. Reports will be read by the chair- men of the following committees: Membership. W, W. Ross: sewerage, Asa E. Philllps; streets and avenues, George (. Shinn; bridges, George W. Offutt, and public utilities and trans- portation, Jesse C. Adkins. Tt is expected that most of the for- mer presidents of the board will be present and discuss the progress of the organization to date. An entertain- ment program by the board’s quar-. tette and a buffet supper will conclude the meeting. J. Harry Cunningham, president of the organization, will pre. side. =g Miss B. B. MacFarlane, recently elected president of the Life Under- | writers’ Association of Louisiana, is _an | E94uROA- 30U FERRIAG 4O S8 HRNOk ' LG GBI HORGR. L@ LOIGIUAL DOSie Haitian troops under Pulaski‘at the M. Hannibal Price, Minister from Haiti and Maj. Gen. Ell K. Cole, U statue of Count Casimir Pulaski at Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue this morning. VALOR OF PULASKI AND HAITIANS RECALLED. S. Marines, placing a_wreath on the The service of storming of Savannah was recalled. . PULASK! HONORED Ceremony Also Recalls Part Island Troops’ Aid to U. S. in Revolution. A picturesque interlude in American history was recalled this morning when M. Hannibal Price, Haltian Minister to the United States, placed a wreath at the b tue of Count Casimer Pula street and Pennsylvania avenue. The Polish nobelman, it will be re- called, was mortally wounded at the head of his troops when the colonlal forces under command of Count D aing stormed Savannah. The dying soldier, who the French and American Cavalry, was taken aboard the Brig Wasp where he died a he ship w: the Savannah River. He was buried at sea. On the day of his death approxi- mately 800 Hailtians were serving with the colonial forces under his command. Haiti at that time was a French colony. D’'Estaing had reout- fitted his fleet at Port-au-Prince in anticipation for the selge and_ the Haitlan volunteers had sailed back with him to help the cause of Ameri- can liberty. Pays Tribute to Both. . Price’s part in the ceremony to- 147 years from the day of Pu s death, was to pay honor not o the great Pole, but also to the ans whose service to the hard- pressed colonies has been lost from sight. He delivered a brief address. he ceremony auspices of the Sons of the Revolution jin the District of Columbt The minister was assisted by Maj. Gen. EIl K. Cole, commander of the marine base at Quantico; Maj. Gen. TLejeune, commander of the !\lnn!w- Corps; M. Jan. Clechanowski, minis ter from Poland, and Maj. Georges Thenault, stant militar of the French embassy. » The ceremonies were opened with invocation by Chaplain L. k. of the United States Navy which the national anthems of Haitl, Poland, France and America, were Band, Committes in Charge. The committee from the Sons of the | Revolution in charge of the ceremony was as follows: Brig. Gen. George Richards, U, S. M. C., chairman; Brig. Gens. Charles L. McCawley and | Dion Williams; Cols. Harry R. Lay and George C. Thorpe; Lieut. Cols. Westcott, Maj. Jullan C. Smith and Lieut. Willlam C. Hall, U. S. M. C. HONOR FOR KOSCIUSZKO. Celebration for Polish Patriot Next Monday. Governors of the 13 original States, high representatives of the Army and Navy and of the principal patriotic educational organizations of the United States will gather here next Monday for the observance of Kos- cluszko Recognition day, it was an- nounced today by sponsors of the cele- bration. It will be the 150th anniversary of the presentation to Thaddeus Kos- cluszko, Polish and American patriot, of his commission as a colonel of Fngineers in Washington's Army, and the beginning of the fortification of the Revolutionary area. The ceremonies will take place in Memorial Continental Hall, under the ausplces_of a committee headed by Charles Evans Hughes, and with the co-operation of the Kosciuszko Founda- tion, which is furthering the ex- change ‘of scholarship students be- tween universities of Poland and the United States. Speeches will be de- Ili\'ered by President Henry MacCracken of Vassar College, head of the Koscluszko Foundation; resentatives of the Army and Navy, Jan (lechanowski, the Polish Min- ister; Mrs. Alfred Brousseau, presid- dent-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and others. . | Russian wheat is being used eXten- sively in Latvia, and recently a ship- ment of 163 carloads was received there. Something New—Stove Size Screened Soft Coal Ton Mard Coal in All Sizes for Immediate Delivery John P. Agnew & Co., Inc. I8 1ith St NW. 1% | Main 3 BY HAITIAN ENVOY, had commanded | leaving | was neld under the | attache | Niven | . following | rendered by the United States Marine | Charles R. Sanderson and Charles T. | Noble | rep- | |PAINTERS CALL ON FARMERS | TO FREE U. S. OF FOREIGN YOKE Convention of Industry’s Executives Here Urges Tung Tree Cultivation in Line With Florida Experiment. Paint Manufacturers’ Association of the United States, maintained co- operatively at Twenty-second street and New York avenue. I. A. Gard- ner is director. Members of the convention have arranged an _interesting educational exhibit showing the progress of the paint industry, in the palm court of the Mayflow: For the convention 955 paint executives and members of thelr families have made reservation: The Natlonal Varnish Manufa Paint farming offers a new avenue for American agriculture. It is up to the farmer to free the house painter from the foreign yoke. This was stressed at the annual convention of the American paint and { varnish industry,” whose executives were in session at the Mayflower this morning. One of the most important ingre- dients of palnt, it was pointed out, s tung oil. This now is obtained almos! exclusively from China. It is extract- | turers’ Association, of which A. cd from the nuts of the tung tree. | Graves of Buffalo is president. met i s | this morning in the hotel ballroom to 1 Florida Tries Experiment. discuss, among other things, consoli- |, Plantings of tung tree seedlings|dation with the paint manufacturer: have been made in Florida and the | who are meeting this afternoon, pre. experiment is proving successful, the | sided over by J. Sibley Selton of paint manufacturers clalmed. Land|Pphiladelphta. The former association Which otherwise would be waste 18 be- | was founded in 1903 and the latter in ing util Due to scientific cultt-| 159y, vation and extraction, a better qual- Racquet Club Dinner Tonight. ity of oil than is secured from the Orient is being obtalned on a small| The Federation of Paint and Varnish Production Clubs, now in session, will scale. Tung tree cultivation is the | meet tonight at 7 o'clock rner stone of the painters’ declara- tion of independence. the Racquet Club, where new officers In addition the United States now | will be installed. Among those who is producing chemical colors and lakes | will address the convention during (insoluble color compounds) which for- | the week are Elliot H. Goodwin, resi- merly were imported from Germany. |dent vice president of the Chamber Cultivation of flax and soy beans [of Commerce of the United States: for paint oils is being encouraged. | Merle Thorpe, editor of the Nation's Hitherto the painters have been par- | Busine: organ of the chamber; E. tially dependent on Chile for flax | T, Trigg of Philadelphia, v p;' | Iaboratos Manufz v of the N irers’ ational Varnish Association the Indust Alcohol and Chemical Division, prohibition unit. LOCAL CHINESE BROUGHT BACK ON CHECK CHARGE | All this work is directed from the | | and the | {CHAPLAIN CELEBRATES | AT SOLDIERS’ HOME ! — | | Rev. Charles Clement McGonagle | Observes Twenty-Fifth Anni- versary of Ordination. Joe Bak Ping, Caught in Augusta, | Accused of Fleecing Capital Man of $1,300, Wants to Make Good. The police of Augusta, Ga., notified detective headquarters Friday that they had arrested Joe Bak Ping, 28 Vears old, a Chinese, who was wanted in Washington on a charge of passing & worthless check on Charles Lee, 325 Pennsylvania avenue. Detective KEd- ward J. Kelley went South to bring the prisoner back. To the Augusta chief’s dismay, how- ever, he discovered six hours later that an error had been made and that Joe was not in custody. Just what happened in Augusta the next few hours is unknown here. But when Detective Kelley arrived in the Geor- gla city he found his prisoner duly locked up and awaiting his return to the National Capital. Joe, it is sald, admitted his identity and also passing the check for $1,300. He told headquarters authorities on his arrival today, they said, that he would seek permission to make good the money. W _LEETH BROTHERS Rev. Charles Clement McGonagle, chaplain of the United States Soldiers’ Home, celebrated the twenty-fifth an- niversary of his ordination with solemn high mass in the chapel of the llome yesterday. As a spectal honor, the papal bless- | ing was bestowed on all those attend- |ing the mass. The little chapel was | crowded by residents of the Home, Sisters of Charity from the Home hos- | bital, a delegation of Dominicans from the House of Studies at Brookland and many relatives and friend: | The sermon was delivered by Very |Rev. V. F. O'Danlel. Rev. Celestine Dely was deacon, Rev. Raymond R. King subdeacon, and the servers were Brothers Arthur Kelly, Clement Kearney, Adrlan Manning, James Ruby and Arthur Van Heuckeroth. James McConagle, a student at Cath- olic University and a nephew of Rev. Father McConagle, sang during the offertory. There will be another celebration at the Dominican House of Studies next Sunday. Father McConagle was born at Moxahala, Ohlo, April 5, 1873, He en- tered the Dominican order when a youth at St. Rose Priory, Springfleld, Ky., and was ordained by Archbishop Moeller in St. Joseph’s Church, Somer- set, Ohlo, October 10, 1901. He as- sumed the chaplaincy at the Soldiers’ Home July 1, 1921, The date October 10 is the anniver- ysary of four important events in his {life. He assumed the habit of St. { Dominic October 10, 1894; made his j first profession of religious vows Octo- ber 10, 1895; pronounced his solemn | vows October 10, 1898, and was or- | dained October 10, 1901. Small 'i%BOOKS BOUGHT:x= “Bring Them In” or Phone Fr. 5116 BIG BOOK SHOP,933 G St.N.W. 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