Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1926, Page 2

it | »¥ PRESIDENT STUDIE FAMILY'S HISTORY Discusses Genealogy With Fred J. Cooledge of At- lanta, Ga. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge this afternoon is taking time off from his work to dis- cuss genealogy——Coolidge genealogy ~-a subject very dear to his heart and one in which he has always mani- fested u profound interest. Discussion of the Coolidge family and a record was brought about today by_the_visit_of_Fred J. Cooledge, jr., ©f T Atlanta, a second cousin of the President, although the former spells his name differently from the Ply- mouth Notch Coolidges. This cousin from the South, who is accompanied by his wife, was a luncheon guest er which he and the President be- ame absorbed in the discussion So dear 1o them hoth red Coolidge is probably even more interested than his illustrous cousin. At least he has given more time to genealogical research work and while he is in Washington will collaborate with another cousin, Dr. Marion E. Cady of Takoma Park, Md, with whom he will visit for several days, in the preparation w new history of the Coolidge family from the landing in Massachusetts in 1630 of Capt. John Coolidge of England to the present day. Their work will not be merely a genealogleul chronicle, but will in- ude a history of the various nehes of the family in America and 2 biographical sketch of the more prominent members of the family Brings Papers and Books, M. Cooledge has brought with him & number of papers and books, ag well as letters dealing with the subject. Both Mr. Cooledge and Dr. Cady are related closely to the President through Capt.” John Coolidge, u de- scendunt of the first Coolidge in this country, who migrated from Massa- chusetts to the hills of Vermont. The first Coolidge 10 g0 to 14 spot in a noteh then known nim=d wfter a mountain he phuce is now known us th Noteh. It was 1779 that Coolidge, after having served in the Revolutionary War, moved with his family from Lancaster; Mass., to the Green Mountains notch. One of the log buildings of his original home in Vermont is still standing. 1t is up on the side of Salt Ash Mountain, nbout 2 miles from the President’s home in Plymouth. Two Summers ago, when the Presi- dent was spending his vacation on the north shore of Massachusetts, he frequently visited some of the older cemeteries in those parts and dili- gently sought out the graves of the early Coolidges. As in the case of Fred Coolidge of Atlanta, some of these dead Coolidges used a different spelling for their name than the one used by the President. The P’resident commented upon this at the time. The spelling used by the President predonjinated, however. Finds Pirst Settler's Grave. One of these pilgrimages to burying grounds took the President to Water- town, @ suburh of Boston. It was in at place that the first American solidge settled, and when the Presi- dent discovered his gruve in the old cemetery he was greatly interested. To those who were with him at the time he turned enthusiastically and mentioned how pleased he was to have looked upon this grave of his ancestor, and then entered upon an interesting narrative about this first American Coolidge and the early Coolidges in general The President leaned against the 4 yunding the old burying ground and readily and clearly traced his line of Coolidges from this first American Coulidge. There are several books and pam- phlets in the Cooltdge library desling with the genealogy and history of the Coolidge family and it is unde rtood the President frequently studies these. Naturally enough, he receives uny number of letters from Coolidges from all over the country dealing with possible relutionship. Tred Coolidge is general manager bf & chain of stores in the South deal- ing in paints and varnishes. He is a native of Georgia, his grandfuther having migrated to that State from Yermont before the Civil War RADICALS HOLD FATE OF POINCARE CABINET ¥all Tndicated if Herriot Disavows Government at Bordeaux Convention By the Ascociated P BORDEAUX, France ‘he radical convention s trying to reweld the divided fac- tions of the party, will. in the next Yhree days, it is thought, wlso decide ghe fate of the Poincare ministry. The presence of Iidouard Herriot, ¥radical-socialist leader. in the ministry ®longside the old members of the bloe mational will be dis d, and if his participation in the governmer disavowed, the dismemberment and Jall of the cabinet is regarded as cer- Aain Henry Franklin-Bouillon Yollowers of the moderate wing will endeavor to have a resolution adopted wunitiug the party on the basis of an effort to complete the financial reno- Nation of the country behind the na Yional union cabinet Thus the fate of the Poincare min- $stry seems to hang on the outcome ©f the fight between the Daladier and Franklin-Bouillon TWO WOMEN DROWNED AFTER YACHT PARTY October 14 here, which and his ®Escort, Detained by New Haven Police, Says Man Companion Is Missing. Br-the Ascoriated Pre NEW HAVEN. ¢ Rwo women were d w Haven Harbor early today when w rowhoat containing the women and Ywo men was upset. One man, detain by police, said his male companion was missing The bodies of f] lower October in e two women were wwashed ashore. IPloating nearby was a man’s hat, bearing the initiais “B. 1. H." and said to have belonged to MBarney P. Hawco of Philadelphia, an euplove of a New York construction company which is erecting & building bere. The man detained said he was Om nion Omondson of Brooklyn. He told police there was a party last night on & yucht in the harbor ana that the yowboat was putting some of the sts ashore. [t was upset in maj ing the beach Police, by direction of Coroner Mix, prepared to search for Hawco's body, on the supposition that he had been drowned, as inquiry at his hotel he indicuted he did not-returnduring the sught. Vermont xe- | is | ITALIAN MOVIE MERGER AIMS AT U. S. FILMS Native Products Featuring Only Homeland Actors to Be Shown Under New Plan. By the Associated Press. ROME, October 14.—A motion pic- ture merger designed to crush Ameri- can competition in Italy has been formed under the auspices of the Ital- ian Commerelal Bank. The Stefano Pittaluga Co., the largest in the country, absorbs several others, taking over the ownership of 200 movie houses and the-control ef 2,000 others, and doubling its capital to 100,000,000 lire. ‘The films shown will all be of Italian manufacture and feature only Italian players. CRANE PRESIDENT OF TYPOTHETAE 1 Other Officers Named to Organiza- tion Meeting and Banquet. Charles . Crane was elected presi- dent of the Typothetae of Washing- ton at the annual meeting and ban- quet of the organization at the City Club last night, Other officers are: George B. Kennedy, vice president; W. A. Edelblut, recording secretary; W. W. Rapley, treasurer; Joseph H. Newell, James' A. West, George A. Simonds, Maxwell L Jones, John C' Jenkins, William N. Freeman. Charles H. Potter and Robert Heiner, mem- bers of thg board of directors. { Thomas W. ®adick, George H. Judd, O. T. Wright, Frank P. Howard, Rob- ert McP. Milans and Willlam J. Eynon, past presidents, are ex-officio members of the board. David Rosenblum of the Business Traning Corporation of New York adressed the diners on “More Effec- tive Selling in the Industry.” Fol- lowing Mr.” Rosenblum's address the Typothetae paid respect to the mem- ory of those members who died during the past year, John G. Hodges, Mrs. Maxwell ‘L. Jones and Franc E. Shetry. Among the guests at the dinner wero John Greene, deputy public printer, and John Deviny, assistant direator of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. A musical program was presented by a quartet under the direction of Caleb O'Connor, with %olos by Miss Frances Scherger, M, H Rule, W. E. Johnson and Henry Goldstein. J. Benton Webb led com- munity singing by all of the diners. Prizes were presented to the win- ners of several contests conducted by the Typothetea during the year. They were donated by Judd & Det- weller, Inc.; the National Publishing Co., the Mount Vernon Print Shop and the H. K. Advertising Co. Fol- lowing the dinner and musical en- tertainment the evening was turned over to daneing. SCRIVENER SLAYER BOY, A WOMAN OR THIN-NECKED MAN (Continued from ¥ chief of detectives; Detectives Kelly, Waldron, Sweeney, O'Brien, Nally, Keck, Thompson and Talley keep run- ning out the preliminary information presented, generally finding nothing at the end of the search. John F. Maragon, former narcotic agent of the Bureau of Internal Reve- nue, a famillar figure at one time around the District Building and at the Washington base ball grounds, is being looked for by the detectives. They merely want to talk to him to clear up preliminaries which may aid them with the case. He knew Scrivener well. Scrivener introduced him at a local bank, it is reported. Later, police are told, he and Scrive- ner had a disagreement. Informa- tion coming to the police, however, is that Maragon has been in Florida for the past several weeks. None of his friends knew of his leaving Florida recently. Illustrating the sort of work the detectives have been doing is the re. port of William H. Stribling, a taxi- cab driver of 2006 I street, who volun- teered information regarding a2 sus- plefous “fa vesterday. He stated that he picked up a4 man in an alley near Thirty-first and P streets, not far from where Scrivener was mur- dered, and was surprised to find that the man insisted on his backing the automobile into the alley. He then noticed blood on the man's shirt. He noticed a brush burn or scratch as if he had fallen down on his right evebrow and a bit of blood about the left wrist. The man asked to be taken to McLean, Va., not far from where Serivener's financee lives. The detec- tives ran out this angle only to find that the man was picked up about 11 o'clock yesterday, 10 hours later than the murder, and place very little importance in the report as the result of an investigation in the vicinity of McLean, Va. Hold-up Theory Studied The investigators, although inclined to drop the hold-up theory, are now again giving it consideration. They paid some attention to the theory that the murderer was one who would be benefited by killing Scriv- ener and thereby eliminating perils of prison because of information Scrivener held. This theory waxed und waned and now is an open ques- tion. There has been no lack of actlvity. Into the wee hours this morning auto. mobile loads of detectives scoured Georgetown's night resorts, lunch- rooms, poolrooms and clubrooms. They brought back no news. Yesterday afternoon attention was {given to the motive of vengeance | because of @ woman. Detectives vis- ited the home of the flancee and the former flancee of the deceased detec-| tive und were satisfled to let this the- | ory subside as to those angles after | their interviews. | An incidental fact coming to light | in the police investigation yesterday | was that Scrivener presented Miss Helen Barnes Parker, his flancee, with an engagement ring recently returned | to him by his former fiancee, Miss | Catherine Markey, a registered nurse | and former supervisor at Emergency | Hospital. The ring was returned a | few days ago, according to police. Blue Car Sought. They swung to the theory that lhe: Jank wall they are bucking, might | w0 | ha door which could be opened »v the key placed in the hands of the police by the two soldiers held at the seventh precinct. They broadcast Jook-outs for a blue-bodied automobile | sald to have been seen by Paul Schnopp of Fort Washington, Md., | and Victor Herbert of Camp Devens, | Mass., about 1 o'clock on Wisconsin | avenue, with a man standing on the running board and another at the wheel speeding out toward the out- skirts. This clue has yet failed to produce results. No such automobile has been located. The two soldiers are being held as deserters. Three other persons were question- ed by police regarding their knowl- edge of the case, but they are not considered important. Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, District cor- oner. is satisfied that Detective Scriv- ener received his death wound before | he clutched the tie of his slayer, the clutching belng evidence of an ante- mortem spasm. Such spasm almost invariably oocur in instances of persons dying from THE 26 LOCAL POLIGE DIED DOING DUTY Last Haif Century Contains Record of Deeds of Valor of Washington’s Defenders. Twenty-six Washington policemen have fallen in line of duty during the past half century. Seventeen were shot to death. died as a result of other injurles. The yellowing records of the depart- ment, re-opened now after the murder of Detective Sergt. Arthur Scrivener, throb with colorful tales of how these men came to die—some in thrilling gun battles against heavy odds, and some by assassins’ bullets fired in the dark- ness of lonely beats. Has Herolsm Tradition. The Metropolitan Police Department has a tradition of heroism to maintain. There 1s, for instance, the story of the slaying of Sergt. Fritz Passau of the seventh precinet by a colored mur- derer, Armstead Taylor. Taylor had killed a man in Montgomery County and fled to Washington. He took refuge in a house near the Georgetown University grounds. From his shelter he kept up a constant gunfire when it was surrounded by policemen. Police stormed the house and cap- tured the slayer shortly after Passau fell. An angry mob tried to lynch Taylor, but he was taken safely to a police station. Afterward he was surrendered to Maryland authorities and hanged. Story Most Colorful. One of the most colorful stories is that of Herbert Copeland, colored, who was hanged only a short time ago at the District jail. Early on the morning of May 21, 1918, Lieut. David T. Dunnigan and Policeman John A. Conrad, accom- panied by a Maryland officer, went to Copeland’s house to summon him to appear as a witness in Maryland. Probably the colored man misunder- stood the purpose of the policemen. From the shelter of the house he shot and killed both policemen and then fled, pursued by a posse of offi- cers, who kept up a steady revolver fire on the fugitive. Copeland was finally captured, so seriously wounded that he had onl a bare chance for life. He recovered, however, and escaped from jail. For several years he remained at liberty, but finally was recaptured and exe- cuted. Shot by One of Command. Capt. W. H. Mathews of the fifth precinct fell from the shots of a mem- ber of his own command ¢he after- noon of March 5, 1908. Policeman John H. Fowler was shot to death while chasing an escaping member of a chain gang on the morn- ing of September 9, 1884. The slayer, chased by scores of policemen and civillans after the murder, finally was captured in a house near Fourth and D streets, and afterward was hanged. One of the best known instances of the murder of a policeman was the killing in December, 1919, of Detective James E. Armstrong in Union Sta- tion by the boy “bad man,” John Mc- Henry, who just before had killed a Fourteenth street merchant. Me. Henry, after a long fight for hix life because of his youth, was hanged Samuel C. Hayden of the elghth precinct was shot to death Sunday Nine morning, February 27, 1921, a brother | policeman later killing his slayer Kills His Slayer. Americus N. Crippen, who 5 killed #he night of November 5, 1899, succeeding in killing his slayer be- fore he died. Other policemen shot to death and the date of the fatalities are recorded as follows: Francis M. Doyle, December 1871; John Smith, July 7, 1907; Harry Wilson, race riot victim, July 21, 1919; Oscar A. McKimmie, January 17, 1820; George D. Chinn, October 20, 1921; John Purcell, colored, October 17, 19, Raymond (. Leisinger, shot while on running board of alleged bootleg car, August 24, 1924; Leo W. K. Busch, September 28 last, and Detective Arthur B. Scrivener, early yesterday morning. Included in other violent deaths of members of the force were three killed by automobiles, two by bicycles, one in fall through a’skylight, one slashed to death with a knife, one by drowning and one in fall from a_horse. cages of drowning in which something is found in the hands of vietims. Detective Scrivener's body is lying in state this afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walsh, 3123 N street. Iriends of Scrivener will be permit- ted to view the body for the remainder of the day and until the time of serv- ices tomorrow, which will he con- ducted at the home by Dr. Earle Wil- fley, pastor of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church. The services in ‘Winchester will be conducted by Rev. W. L. Dudley, pastor of the Church of Christ, Winchester, a fam- iy friend. Ciardner Scrivener said this morning that it was the wish of his mother, Mrs. Emma B. Scrivener, who is near prostration at the family homse, that her son be buried Sunday afternoon. Turner A, Scrivener, father, and Dale Baker, brother-in-law, of the slain de- tective, returned to Winchester yes- terday afternoon because of condi- tion of Mrs. Scrivener, who has been {ll for months. Little knots of people were congre- gated for a distance of a block from the Walsh home as the detective's body was brought to the house, and after its arrival there was a steady stream to the bier of those who came pay their respects, a large por- tion of these being comrades of the dead man, who wept openly as they departed. The pallbearers for the funeral, chosen from the detective's comrades, are Detectives Edward T. Kelly, Joseph F. Waldron, Thomas F. Swee- ney, Henry M. Jett, E. L. Phillips and Eugene Davis. They probably will accompany the body to Winchester. Gardner Scrivener also saild that he would take no part in the investiga- tion into the murder of his brother or in the efforts to apprehend his slayer. He sald that he knows the Washington police officials personally and has every faith in their efforts to solve the mystery. While he.was awaiting the body of his brother, which had been at the artin W. Hysong funeral home, 1300 street, Gurdner Scrivener met for the first time Miss Parker. Detective Scrivener's body will be accompanied to Winchester by Mr. and Mrs. Walsh, his brother, and Wil llam King, friend of the Walshes. It is expected that other cars carrying Scrivener's companions of the Wash- ington Police Department and mem- bers of fraternal orders—Masons and Elks—of which he was a member, will join the caravan to Winchester. In the Fall of 1920, Scrivener was wounded in an encounter with Thur- man Brown, negro, escaped convict, whom he captured, and he was nursed back to health by the Walshes at their N street home. Following his recovery, Scrivener told Mrs. Walsh that if he should die in Washington, he would want to be sent to Winches- ter for burial, but before his body left this city he would want it to be brought ‘home” to the house in which he had lived for so long. A graveside service will be held by a delegation of the detective’s brother Elks, under the direction of Inspector Shelby, secretary of the order in ‘Washingt who will eulogize { claimed | Bureau of EVENING, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., BALLOT SHOWS SCHOOL HOUR CHANGE IS GROWING IN FAVOR Poll Discloses 78 Per Cent of Votes Asks 9:30 Opening in Order to Keep Childz2en Out of Traffic. ‘Washington parents continue to vote heavily in favor of changing the opening hour of school as a means of reducing the perils to children en route to class from the morning rush hour traflc, which reaches its peak shortly before 9 o’clock. Tabulation of yesterday's ballots in the poll being taken by The- Star to determine the wighes of Washington residents showed 78 per cent plus to be in favor of delaying the opening of school from 9 until 9:30 o’'clock, and 21 per cent plus in favor of either maintaining the present hour or ad- vancing it to 8:15 or 8:30. On the two preceding days' voting 92 per cent and then 90 per cent of the ballots were cast for the 9:30 hour, with the minority votes for either 9 oclock or earlier periods. Few Oppose Change. Of the 21 per cent of yesterday’s ballogs which opposed delaying the opening of school until 9:30 o'clock, only 8 per cent of the number were for maintaining the present 9 o'clock period, the major portion of this mi- nority vote going for earlier hours, 8:15 or 8:30. At the conclusion of the ballot the fl‘nal report will be submitted to Dr. Frank . Ballou, superintendent of schools, for guidance of the Board of Education in considering the proposed change, A new suggestion comes from Mary E. Sheads, principal of the Hr’yfl?\ School, who spoke for the executive committee of the Bryan Parent Teacher Assoclation. $he proposed that schools be convened at 8:30 and closed at 2:20 for whole-day schools and at 4 pm. for afternoon schools, which plan, she argued, would inter- fere only with breakfast in the morn- ings and would get all children home in the afternoon before the homeward rush of traffic begins. Principal Offers Fan. Principal Sheads wrote “If the hour for opening schools is delayed to 9:30, it will fix the time for closing the afternoon first and see ond grade schools at 5 p.m. instead of No one need he told that at 5 ded with added dangers for the little pupils. “@lder pupils attending college at 5 o'clock or later will he obliged to skip dinner in order to attend class. Again, the half hour at the beginning of the day cannot be utllized for study, piano practice or other purpose nearly so advantageously as could the half hour coming between 2:30 and 3. 1 would suggest that schools be convened at 8:30 and close at 2:30 for whole day schools and close afternoon schools at 4 o'clock, so'as to get the smailer folks safely home before the office hour clos. ing time. This would not disarrange dinner time or extra study time and would safeguard our children far bet- ter_than turning the last classes out at 5 pm."” ! L T Mrs. Edward M. Cleary, 756 Georgia avenue, in voting for the 9:30 opening, today pointed out the *“un- necessary hardships” that would be caused by the suggested 8:15 or 8:30 opening hour. “Husbands, and in some families wives and elder children as well,” Mrs. Cleary said, “are bread-earners and must get to work on time, usually at 9 o'clock. Consequently, they must have first consideration at home in the morning. If the opening of school should be set ag early as 8:15 or 8:30, the youngsters would be even more slighted than at present. Even now they do not, in many instances, get proper attention because of their parents’ rush to get to work on time. A 9:30 opening hour would give mothers more time to get their chil- dren ready for school.” On the other hand, opponents of a later school opening hour point out that the resulting later closing of schools in the afternoon would cut off a half hour from the youngsters’ available time out of doors. Voting ‘“‘absolutely no" on the 0 hour, Mrs. Chauncey D. Snow, 5719 Chevy Chase Parkway, declared: “Under our present system the children have lit- tle enough time out of doors; school should convene at 8:30.” H. W. Gauss of 711 North Carolina avenue south- east, voting for 8:15 or 8:30 o'clock, said: “A 9:30 hour would shorten the sunlight time for the child to play in.” Park View Opposed. Among those voting for the pro- posed 9:30 hour were Mrs. George McCann of 2112 F street, who said: “Yes, by all means, for the automo- bile traffic at Twenty-first street Is terrific”’; K. L. Nelson of 493 Jack- son avenue, who proposed the 9:30 hour for high schools as well as grammar schools, and E. M. Hay- ward, superintendent of the Swartzell Methodist Home for Children, who l;afl 20 children to send to school each day. The Park View Citizens’ Assoclation last night, at its meeting at the Park View School, voted against the de- laying of school opening because citi zens of that section found that there was no dangerous traffic congestion in that particular territory shortly be- fore 9 o'clock and therefore the change would be of no special benefit. Fred S. Walker, president of the assoclation, pointed out that for two years a schoolboy patrol has been or- ganized and active at the Park View School for the protection of the young- er children from traffic near the school. The system, it was recalled, was in- augurated at the suggestion of Miss Frances Fairley, prin of the school. Other actions taken by the association last night included adop- tion of resolutions calling for better lights on Georgia avenue, protesting against location of a gas filling sta- tion on Georgia avenue at Park road and approving the membership cam paign of the Federation of Citizens' Assoclations. About 100 attended the meeting, ASKS DALE APPEAL .BE DISMISSED HERE | Indiana Attorney General Requests Supreme Court to Deny Editor's Move for Review. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, October 14.— A motion asking the United States Su- preme Court to dismiss an appeal filed before it by George R. Dale, Muncie publisher, sentenced to 90 days on the Indiana State Farm for contempt of court, was malled to Washington to. day by Arthur L. Gilliom, attorney general of Indiana. The attorney general contends the Supreme (‘ourt has no jurisdiction over any of the questions involved. Mr. Gilllom also asked the dismissal of a request for a writ of certioruri, by which Dale seeks to place the case before the Supreme Court for review. The editor's citation three years ago was primarily based on his editorial allegation that a grand jury which had indicted him under the State liquor laws was “hand-picked.” Dale the liquor charge was “framed” at the behest of members of the Ku Klux Klan, against whom he had waged a fight. Dale charged in kis paper that the Klan controlled Muncie and Delaware County politics. Dale's sentence was affirmed by the Indiana Supreme Court, the justice who wrote the opinion holding that the editor's offer to prove his charges against the grand jury was no de- fense, “The truth of an article is not a matter of defense: neither is it a de- fense to show that there was no in- tent to comumit a contempt,” the jus- tice asserted. As a result of this opinion, Dale appealed to the United States Supreme Court on the grounds that his consti- tutional right of free press and free speech had been abridged. APPLES FOR TEAEJI]ERS. Looms as National Slogan, With 38,508,000 Barrels Remaining. CHICAGO, October 14 (#).—“Bring teacher an apple” may yet have to be resorted to as an emergency na- tional slogan. Reports today from the Government Agricultural nomics say that, despite the fact that the 1926 estimated total production of apples has been reduced 3,500,000 bar- rels in the last month, the country still has the heaviest commereial crop known. The new official forecast of market apples this season is 3%,508,000 bar- rels, including 1,600.000 barrels’ in- credse in Virginia, compared with a year ago. West Virginia's crop is doubled. * LONDON’S TACT EXPERT IS LORD CHAMBERLAIN By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 14.-The most tactful man in London is said to be Lord Cromer, the lord chamberlain, He it is who has to select the guests to be invited to the royal courk ball, and as the ballroom at Buckingham Palice holds only 2,000, his selection s @ matter of consideruble patienc and discretion. S The entertainment of foreig oreign poten- tates and their suites has to be ar- runged by the lord chamberlain, He is also responsible for the censoring of blays, and is the butt of uny amount of criticism from producer: and public alike, S put e lord " chamberlain haps at his best during a court ni S ght. He has previously settled the small: est detail. He has to be ready for any emergency should the wrong card reach him or else he allows. those who are making thelr bow (o come orward too quickly before the K and Queen. sl is per- NEW POLICE COURT IS ‘BASIS OF PARLEY OF FINE ARTS BODY ____(Continued_from street and Pennsylvania avenue w: approved today by the Fine Al‘lse(‘t:r!:)s- mission at the initiul session of a two-day meeting of the commission at the Interior Department. Maj. U. 8. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, suggested that the upper border .road be eliminated and the commission approved. The r: vine road between Q street and Penn- sylvania avenue will be constructed as outlined by the parkway commission. The commission approved a design for a large birdhouse in the National Zoological Park, and also approved a design for a Coast Guard World War memorial to be erected in Arlington Cemetery. The memorial will be an 11-foot stone shaft in pyramid shape, surmounted by a sea gull with out- stretched wings. This afternoon, members of the commission were making an_inspec- tion tour of the Northeast and South- east sections of the city with particu- lar emphasis on the availability and desirability of acquisition of Fort Stan- ton in Anacostia and Fort Slocum in Northeast Washington as park resar- vations. This has been proposed by the National Capital Planning Com- mission. The commission is expected to con- sider later the question of the District Jail and may also discuss location of the new Commerce Department Build- ing, aleng with other angles of the Government building program. Much of the time of the morning meeting today was taken up with discussion of design of chapels to be erected in American cemeteries abroad. e e e e e e e e e e e e e e School-Hour Ballot Do you favor later opening of primary and elementary schools to protect children from traffic dangers? Yes or No. ..cmames Do you favor 9:30 a.m. as-qpening Yes or No. cuammane If not, what hour do you fevor? Y Name.. ase opmecws L Address ¢ e oo riotnesimete oo o THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1926. SAYS WASHINGTON WED FOR MONEY Rupert Hughes, in Biography, Declares Great Love of Life Was for Friend’s Wife. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 14—The charge that George Washington, In- volved in a hopeless love affair, mar- ried for money is made in two biog- raphies just published. One was writ- ten by Rupert Hughes, who aroused quite a storm last Winter by a speech regarding Washington's drinking. The other volume is by W. E. Woodward. The books represent that Washing- ton’s marriage at the age of 26 with Mrs. Martha Custis was founded on business considerations, but that his love was given solely to Mrs. Sally Fairfax, two years his senior, and wife of the friend who had given him his first chance as a surveyor in the Shenandoah Valley. Hughes repre- sents that Washington, before he won the rich widow Custis, tried for the hand and fortune of Miss Mary Phil- ipse, who owned 51,000 acres. Martha owned only 15,000 acres, but she also owned 150 slaves and $100,000 in cash. Hughes depicts Washington as a church shunner and a most exacting man In business, although liberal with rum in his dealings with the voters. ““Washington was always drinking, but never drunk,” Hughes says. Love Letter Quoted. Woodward writes: “Washington was a one-bottle man At dinner he customarily drank a pint of Madeira besides rum punch and beer—if he was ever intoxicated I have never read of it and, judging from what I know of his character, 1 am inclined to think he never was. From a letter Washington wrote to Mrs. Fairfax after his engagement 1o Mrs, Custis was announced, Hughes quotes: “The world has no business to know the object of my love de- clared in this manner to you when I want to conceal it. * ¢ ¢ Adieu to happler times, if I shall ever see them. ql-hlel hours at present are melancholy dull.” The biographer comments: “There were numbers of people that knew he had loved Sally Fair- tax for a long time, She kept that love hopeless either because she did not love him at all or because she did not love him well enough to destroy him and herself and the home of her admirable husband.” Hughes characterizes Washington as a “past master of dancing, drinking, gambling, polite and exquisite flir- tation.” Hughes’ book, “George Washington, the Human Being and the Hero,” is published by Willlam Morrow & Co. Woodward's biography s entitled “Gieorge Washington, the Image and Man,” and is published by Boni & Liveright. ‘The father of his country was a swell from his sixteenth year on,” says Hughes. Serious in Puppy Loves. “No youth of such after fame ever took his puppy loves more seriously or was more inconstant_or more un- Wcky than George Washington,” vrites Hughes. They began, savs Hughes, with a &irl he romped with at school. Ry early manhood Washington had loved and lost with consistent regularity. There was the girl known only as “The lowland beauty,” then came 14- year-old Mary Cary, next followed her sister, Sally Fairfax, wife of his best {riend, and said to have been the great love of Washington's life, and still later followed an infatuation for Mary Philipse of Yonkers. Washington's love affair with Sally Fafrfax was the most serious and longest. She was two years his .f-nlor, wife of George William Fair- ax Washington was 22 years old and had just returned from his disastrous expedition to the Ohio River in which he had surrendered [ort Necessity to the French and also was being accused by the French of the assassination” of a “party of am- assadors,” who, Washington claimed, were niembers of an armed spying expedition. “If ever a man had need of wom- an's, kindness, Washington needed it now,” writes Hughes. ‘“He was dis- gusted with the world of men. He had finished with ‘the art military.’ Had Profound Influence. “It is no longer questionable that at this time Washington began to vield his heart to the love of his life, who was the wife of his best friend— unless she herself had been his best friend. “When the infatuation overcame him, how far it carred him there is no knowing. There i8 no proof, and no reason to assume, that it went be- yond wretched courtship on his part, and teasing, vet tyrannical, evasion on hers. “Sally Fairfax cannot be ignored in Washington's life story. She ought not to be. She deseryes the honor of having a profound influence on the formation of his character. She stirred his heart more deeply than any other woman ever did.” Other chapters are devoted to the “Centinel X" attack on Washington's Virginian troops as “dastardly de- bouchees”; Braddock’s campaign, in which Mr. Hughes asserts that, con- trary to general belief, Braddock took Washington's advice and was neither surprised nor ambushed, but lost be- cause of the strategy of a Frenchman and the stampede of his own men. Hughes, in an “afterwc &ays the purpose of the volume is “to find out as far as possible and to report as faithfully as possible just what George Washington ~was, did, said, wrote thought, and why and how." ’ Historians Are Assailed. No other man in history has suf. fered so much from mnlféu::-:ul:1 office by historlans,” says Hugh. early all of Washington's hiog-: raphers have felt it their duty net only to correct his writings. but to ue-pencll, rettify an y character.” T “It s poor patriotism, idolatry and rank dlshuneslr)]’dl!pnmgg; the host of other strugglers for lif, erty and progress of their just deserts and to perpetuate old slanders against his enemies at home and abroad in order to turn Washington into a god As a god, Washington was a woeful figure; as a man, he was tremendous,” STARTS FURORE HERE. Hughes Cites Letters of Washington Giving Intimate Details, When Rupert Hughes, the novelist, rather bruntly told members of a local patriotic Soclety at a banquet here last Spring that George Washington wasn't exactly a paragon of virtue, according to Sabbath school stand- ards, he started a fusillade of brick- bats in his direction from the four corners of the United States. Evidently Mr. Hughes withstood the bombardment without serious injury. As an aftermath of his famous speech he has just published the first volume of what is intended to be a monu- mental study of Washington, consid- ered as a human being and not as a legendary figure.| The period covered in this volume deals with a most interesting period in Washington's life—his love affairs. ‘Washington was a good husband, gen- but he has dug out of oblivion & m' tain Miss Sally Fairfax to whom the first President wrote letters which probably weren’t submitted to the cen- sorship of Martha Custis, who was then his flancee. One of the letters cited by Mr. Hughes follows: “You have drawn me, dear madame, or rather I have drawn myself, into an honest confession of a simple fact. Misconstrue not my meaning; doubt it not, nor expose it. The world has no business to know the object of my love, declared in this manner to you, when I want to conceal it. One thing above all things in this world I wish to know, and only one person of your acquaintance can solve me that, or guess my meaning. But adleu to this till happler times, if 1 ever shall see them. The hours at present are melancholy dull. Neither the rugged toils of war, nor the gentler conflict of A— B—s (assembly balls?) is in my choice. I dare believe you are as happy as you say. I wish I was happy also. Mirth, good humor, ease of mind, and—what else?—cannot fail to render you so and consummate your wishes.”" Author Interprets Letter. Interpreting this letter freely, the biographer finds vast significance ir the rounded period of the letter. He says: “Not the least astounding puzzle in this letter is the motive for \Q‘rlling it at all in the circumstances. Yet the motive is perhaps the finest thing about it and reveals his flerce hu manity, against which he always fought, conquering him at the time of all times when it should have been most repressed. “He loved Sally. He was going to marry Martha. Sally mocked him, perhaps with a deep hurt beneath her raillery. She may well have implied that he could not really love anybody. “This was the ultimate unbearable accusation. His love asserted itself with voleanic fire. He had to tell her that he loved her. She had the right to know it. She must know it. He wus like # mad Samson trying to bind himself in discretion. “It is the suppression, the editing and the destruction of such letters that have led people to describe Wash- ington as a silent man, a cold man, & mun under almost perfect self-control. “He Did Love.” “But he could love. He did love. “There were numbers of people that knew he had loved Sally Fairfax for a long time. “She kept that love hopeless, either because she did not love him at all or because she did not love him well enough to destroy him and herself and the home of her admirable hus- band. “In spite of his infatuation for her, Washington had made a try for the hand of Mary Philipse, who had coming to her—which (in those days when a woman los her legal integrity on marriage) meant coming to her husband. “By a strange coincidence Martha Custis also had acres; not so mdny as Miss Philipse, but more than any other eligible woman in Virginia. She had inherited about 15,000 acres, much of the land valuable from its vicinity to Willlamsburg, a number of town lots, 150 negroes and about $100,000 in cash Holds Washington Undemocratic, Some of the other observations of Mr. Hughes on Washington are the following: “It is small wonder that in an at- mosphere where even religion lacked democracy George Washington grew up to regard ‘the common run,’ as he called them, with a profound con- tempt that made it fmpossible for him in later years to act upon or even to understand the theory of another Vir- ginian that ‘all men are created free and equal’ Washington had bought too many white men and women to believe them essentially free. “Liquor of all kinds he loved and manufactured, imported, gave away and consumed in vast quantities. Where Charles Lamb won a bad name as a little sot because anything over a thimbleful went to his head, Washington was always drinking but never drunk. “Probably nobody ever lived who accumulated more defeats than Wash- ington. Yet he was never really de- feated. Few men have been purer in in- tention, more bespattered with abuse and slander and more incupable of ignoring them. ““HIis heart was in nothing else so simple and unrestrained as in his de- votion to children. Jacky and Pats: Custis had perfect love about them. WOMEN OPPOSE “DISRESPECT.” Wisconsin Federation Adopts Resolu- tion on Drinking Allegations. MADISON, Wis,, October 14 (P).— Prompted by the statements of Rupert Hughes that George Wash- ington drank intoxicants freely, the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs today adopted a resolution “againg expression” of disrespect and loyalty to the great men in our history, “The anti-prohibition forces have tried to make us believe that our national heroes were not opposed to liquor,” Mrs. W. P. Upham of Mil- waukee declared, “thinking that hy doing this they will be paving the v for a new deal as far as pro- hibition is concerned.” LAUREL ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. FIRST RACE—Claiming . 813 B:yenr tldmandvin: 0 falsapas ™ SO0 *The Cocoon Bachelor's Error 110 Sea Lady . Alley Ol 08 ingle . ... *Lingard Wellfinder o etk Tiandi Ballot 103 *Evelyn’ Sawsér 10 Tidane. . - Me Grore emno arcellus * .. *Danger Signal. B SECOND RACE—Claiming year-olds and up. reen Blazes Tacs Tree *Allumeur. jr. Harry Carroll purse, $1.300; T miles. *Dr'm_of Valley Poor Sport janus sslate Bramton o Also eligihle— sLieut. Farrell. *Ben Franklin. | 1 1 ¥ ! 1 1 o 0 0 o 0 Lanoil THIRD RACE—Claiming. purse, $1.300: 3-year-olds and up: 14 miles. *Alpha 99 Donarita *Real - Ariisis. .. 112 $Tea's Ready armenee Belle 104 SF: 107 *Roval Flag .. 100 SElint o TOE Battle Shot ... 109 *Viee Chatrman 102 *Who Knows M: Ao eligibio— Tony Griffith Dr. Mayer...... 107 Sotar Brient *Kickupoo 103 ean : FOURTH 2.year-olds: tClarifier Tarpersie tRougetto Golden Voit Peter Fiz ... Florenda ... Madder Muis tJoseph E. Widener entry. Sagamors Stable entry. {Btokmeade Stablo entry. ACE—St. Clement's Handicap: 53\ all awes: 6 Farlongs. . . 110 King Nadt 107 Sllver Song 107 Nor'wester 'y . 100 D107 Purse, $1.300: maiden arlonge Joan Grier . .. Flying Pennant tQuihbler Brown Chie: g~lnfr;‘uIIA % paniuh Aster Sin Rock - 18 FIFTH ourse, $2.000; X ety f; s ol P07 wales 12 IXTH RACE—Claiming! purss. $1.500: 2oyoar-olds: 1 mile. 108 111 0! . 10 103 o - 103 10 1 Ross entry. TRV carter Snd Ral Parr entry. SEVENTH _RACE — Clamine: pu $13550, 3year-olds and up: 17e miles, Golden Rule N | Hedge Fence. . . fien RUIP 21 112 sBoyard Gatewood ... 1 *Rasuli SGlenister 24710 1. PR e S s 1z 107 107 FIGHT WITH FISTS AT AIMEE'S TRIAL Counsel for Mrs. McPherson and Her Woman Accuser Exchange Blows. HALL OF JUSTICH, Los Angeies October 14 (#).—The preliminary hearing of Aimee Semple McPherson on a conspiracy charge in Municipal Court was thrown into confusion here today five minutes after the session started, when Attorney W. L Gilbert counsel for the evangelist, exchanged blows with S. 8. Hahn, attorney for Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff, State's star ‘witness and co-defendant with Mrs. McPherson. ‘The quarrel began when Hahn sald Gilbert had issued statements brand ing Mrs. Wiseman a “liar.” Gilbert said he was prepared to back up anything he had said. When Judge Samuel R. Blake declared he was not concerned with what the newspapers said about the case, the two lawyers sat down, but continued the argument Hahn Delivers Blow. Suddenly, after a remark from Gi bert, Hahn heatedly declared: +“You can't say that, even if I am not as big as you are,” and, according to those about the table, struck at Gilbert. The defense lawyer attempted to re {urn the blow, but other about the able Intervened. Judge Blake buked the two attorneys and the tria proceeded. Tor the third time important doc: ments in the Aimee Semple McPhe son case have been stolen. Mr. Hahn announced today his of fices had been rifled and that docu mentary evidence in the case was missing. Hahn declared that six photographs of Mrs. Wiseman and Mrs. McPhe: son, taken together after the two women had been made up to resemble each other, had disappeared, together with several telephone receipts which the attorney intended using to prove that the evangelist and Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, her mother, had had tele phone conversations with Kenneth G Ormiston, former Angelus Temple radio operator, while he was a fug: tive from justice. Other Evidence Missing. The first documents to disappes were grocery slips found near a cot tage at Carmel, where the State con tends Mrs. McPherson was in hiding with Ormiston during a portion of the time she asserted she was in the hands of kidnapers. The State con tends these were “obviously” in the handwriting of the evangelist. Recently it was reported that the ransom letter recetved by Mrs. Ken nedy, demanding a half million dollars for the return of Mrs. McPherson also had dropped from sight The closing chapter of the sensa tional “hoax" story of Mrs. Wiseman was unfolded toduy us the defens- prepared to subject the witness to « grilling cross-examination D. P. DAVIS JUMPED IN SEA, REPORT SAYS By the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 14.—David P. Davis, prominent Florida real- tor, who was drowned from the White Star liner Majestic en route to Europe from New York. “jumped through the cabin port,” said a wire less message today from Comdr. G R. Metealfe to the line's offices here Details were “very vague,” the mes sage said, adding that a witness to the drowning was ill. thus causing a delay In reporting the death. The commander said he was making thorough investigation. TAMPA, avis' death was “purely acciden 1 a message made public to ; by Arthur Y. Milam, vice presi dent of the D. P. Davis Properties here. Mr. Milam sald the message was sent from the steamer Majesti: by Raymond Schindler and w Montayne, employes of the Davis or zanization who were accompaning the real estate man to Europe. OUTLINES CHINA'S NEEDS. “The one great need of China to day is co-operation” Judge Charles S. Lobinger, one-time judge of the American Court in China, yesterday told the Washington Rotary Club Judge Lobinger urged the co-opera tion of the American Rotarians, with the countries of the East, saying he believed that world peace could be brought about through international Rotarians. He also urged the devel opment of resources of the Philip pines, stating that he did not belteve the United States could ever be inde pendent without them. Roland Robbins of Keith's Theater provided entertainment. Miss Ida May Chadwick and her company, who are starring this week at Keith's, gave several dances. 40 SCHOOLS FOUND WITHOUT WARNING SIGNS FOR AUTOISTS (Continued from First Page.) October 14 (®.—D that motorists are supposed to proceed with caution when passing a school, there has been no concerted plan or effort on the part of police or traffi officials to see that the danger zones of schools are well marked. Distinguished service medals will be awarded to members of the school boy safety patrol who perform meri torious acts, while watching over the smaller children at school interse: tions, it was announced today by C. P Clark of the Americun Automobile Association. Mr. Clark is co-operating With the schools in establishing the patrols by furnishing the white belts and badges worn by the boys during the intervals when the schools are taking in and closing. The plan which Mr. Clark has out lined 18 to have the principals of the schools make the recommendation for the medal whenever & patrol boy hax shown execeptional judgment in guarding the school crossings. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintend ent ‘of police, will be asked to receive the recommendations and award the medal, together with a certificate set ting forth the accomplishment for which it was awarded. Frank Jack, an A. A. A. official of Chicago and originator of the school- boy safety patrol plan, and Coleman Roberts, who instituted a_State-wide boy patrol system in North Carolina, are in Washington for a few days, and Mr. Clark is arranging to have them confer with Supt. Hesse, Traf- fic Director Eldridge and Superintend- ent of Schools Ballou. Mr. Clark be- lieves these two men will be able to give the local officials the benefit of their experience in the present move ment to make the streets of Washing ton sater for school children. | The boy patrol system was in augurated at three more schools to day—the Sumner, Force and Grant, and Mr. Clark is getting the equip- goens yeady for 82 other schosim