Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1926, Page 17

», THE - E e et e ——————— e e e e et RECEIV GOLDEN RACE TROPHY. L. Gordon Hammersley of New York with the President's Cup, which he won in the recent speed- boat regatta on the Potomac. The cup, valued at $5,000, was presented by the President at the White House yesterday afternoon. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. AND THESE most beautiful ties of this country. ARE THE FAIR ‘T OF ENGLAND'S FAIR. VENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1926. A happy group of competitors in the third elimination contest to determine the girl in England. It is said that the winner of the contest will come to the United States to compete against the selected beau- the West Coast to Washington. Copyright by P. & A. Photos SCEIVE SCHIFF MEMORIAL E:J‘I.Rll‘..rs. .\‘I. C., seated in the cockpit of the plane which he flew from He receives the .\'rr"hl!’ trophy, awarded annually for flying the greatest nuniber of hou TROPHY. Capt. H. Denny Camp- past year. & A. Photos. FIVE MILLION POLISH CITIZENS GREET PRE: Poland’s Sesquicentennial celebration co Ciechanowski, with the President at the White House DENT COOLIDGE, yesterday. mittee, at left, and Prof. Iwanowski and the Polish Minister, Jan The greeting of the Polish Leopold Kotnowski, chairman of John J. Kiely (right), postmaster alling at the White House yesterday with First General Bartlett. Postmaster Kiely, besides being Assistant Postmast g postal cards and stamps, has 17,000 postal kept pretty bu: ople fakes Consrusnt oy b &'« Photon employes under h upervision. Cop by Harris & Ewing. |||f hn'm‘ of "ifi',m,‘,“r's in a large !Nltlk, E Stamp Licker Asks m{GES M"]B”Y |Post Office to Use SITE FOR MARKET ccr Teting Gum By the Aseociated Press. Post Office Department scratched their heads today wonder and amazement over latest voluntary —suggestion hoom their business. It came in a letter from the “always-willing-to-help” manager of a trade magazine, who expressed enthusiastic approval of everything about Uncle Sam'’s stamps except the “stickum™ on the back. “It's the same favor we hav had ever singe the Civil War da the letter complained. “It is bad- tasting, “I want to put some flavoring extract in the past have: some peppermint. sarsaparilla, and other nice-tasting favo It will help sell stamps. People will feel a longing for & little flavor and they will go in and buy a stamp and write a letter to mother.” officials in the to Cathedral Heights Body Also | Attacks Methods of D. C. | Insurance Underwriters. thedral Heights Citizens’ ciation approved the mideity loc for the enter and Farmers' markets | in resolutions adepted at its initial Fall meeting in St. Alban’s Parish House, Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues, last night, A. J. Driscoll, president of the Mid- | City Citizens' Assbeiation and chair- | man of the committee promoting the central location. addressed the meet tng, pointing out the desirability for | market purposes of the territory he tween K street and New YVork avenue | T e he i seeoraine. 2| PRANKS OF WIRES DUE TO AURORA BOREALIS | marketing experts fr Maryland | Asso- tion Agricultural College. was sufficiently large to provide accommodations for years to come. Northern Lights Cripple Service in New Yerk and New England. He referred to the frequency of parades and other processions passing up Pennsylvania avenue and the an novance caused to dealers on the market line. who. he declared, we unable to do business hecanse buyers | could not cross the Avenue to reach the markets. Merchants helow the | T5:=2adivora Avenue are further handicapped. he 5 5 ‘ g said, in that their delivery wagons |Porealis. cutting In the Far | and trucks are compelled to go 1o | Northern sky. laid a paralyzing hand | either First street southeast or Eight. | on telegraph wires in New York eenth street northwest in order to|New England and Canada today. cross the Avenue to the north Earth currents caused by the phe- Of approximately 300 dealers in the | nomenon were noticeable throughout market, he said, 426 had signed a | po night, and reached their greatest petitiort to locate in mideity, and of | o (R 5 So B T nrire, | this number mnearly all are farmers | - | actually “taking -food out of the | The electrical disturbance was de- ground.” Fostering the Fifth and k | SCribed as “very strong® by wire ex- Street site was the result. he sald. of | Perts of the Western Union Telegraph the many requests of farmers to inter. | C. _Telegraph communication was | cede in their hehalf. His idea is to | N0 Stopped entireiy, but the wires bring business to the peaple, similar | Were muffied for periods, necessitating to the method nsed he the several | the repeating of messages on commer- chain grocery stores. The cost of | Cia] lines and delaving traffic on the procuring necessary land in the mid. | 35rociated Press wires serving New | city section would be just as reason. | YOk State and IUElng. e | ble. he said. as in any other part of | o \Vall Street also was affected hy the | ey : disturbance, trading in stocks and = 2 3 nther market transactions hetween Hits Insurance Rate-Making. k and London being delaved Alibenonn iroiest: Amalimeae iy »f the interruption of cable | Hugh M. Frampton. president of the | i the earth currents. | association. against the manner in which the District Insurance Under- writers’ Association was being allowed | to “run rough-shod” over property rs in the District in the matter OF hre insurance rates. Lack of an | Associations wiil be asked to support | insurance code here. he said. permits | the bill. | the rate-making hoard of the insur-| G. H. Powell, delegate to the Fed.| i e O e Please. | eration of Citizens’ Associations. re- | responsible o no recognized au. | Ported on the membership campaign | thority. Gen. Eli A. Helmich read | to he conducted between November a report on a proposed bill to provide | 13 and 20 and urged the association’s | for & model code for insurance rate | oo iicipation, declaring that the | citizens’ organizations are becoming | making in Washington. recognized more and more as influsn—‘ He cited figures showing that in 0 v eceding 19 there was but | o iy . tial bodies, offering. as they do, the | mouthpiece the citizens 34 per cent of the premiums expended Vi cl <. =, n ted, 3 IR el e e e, | ave, Theiqkastie eaiyianotawsrels to increa: the rolls, but to induce ' would indicate larze earnings and in- | ates the possibility of reduction in | " fn‘:-. were there a cade here enahling | A Ereater number of citizens to become | the superintendent of insurance in|active in the work of determining the | the District to govern the action of | needs "f_'hf“lfl!nmnn:(_\ the board. R. W. Rittenour was elected to| membership. It was voted to hold Resolution ¥avors Enactment. | the next meeting of the association A resolution was adopted favoring | Cites Interruptions to Business. | | | Associated Prees. W YORK, Octoher capers be appointed to investigate the mat. | ter, The Federation of only real in Wesler: Heights, where a Narge the passage of the bill providing for | number of its members reside. Presi- ap insurance code and a committee will dent Frampton presided. Citizens' | I THE PEN e is 40, They of New York is giving a prize to ANT AS NEW YORK'S BI AMILY. Have 16 children, the youngest, a baby the biggest family in the city, and M of Judge Harry B. po ) Cornelius_Bolster, the father of this family, is 42 years months old, not being in the photograph. The National Food and Mrs. Bolster entered their family in the competiti o EE THAT THEY CARRY NO MACHINE GUN ler, where two alleged gangst n machine-gun nests have resulted in spec Ree cent o ing speetators in the courtroom breaks, barrages and out- ts. Photo by Acme. |Red Cross Flyers May “Bomb” Cities At Next Roll Call | | Airplane stunt flying may be a feature of the tenth annual roll call of the Red Cross, which opens on Armistice day and continues through Thanksgiving, it was an nounced today at national head- quarters. The success attained Ellifritz, chairman of las. | Tex., chapter, in last roll call with a stunt aviator who hom barded Dallas and surrounding | towns from the alr with Red Cross publicity, impelled the officials to attempt to make the feature Nation-wide. Red Cross officials said there are | enough privately owned and oper- ated airplanes in the United States to bomh more than 1.000 areas if | the aviators can he enlisted in the | annual drive. i 'WASHINGTON RELICS | IN WAKEFIELD RUINS by the R D B. Excavators at Virginia Birthplace Find China in Old Foundations. | Fricht by P. & A. Photos. MUSIC CLUBS HONOR MRS. EDGAR S. KELLY Dinner Scheduled Tuesday, Novem- ber 6, as Tribute to National Federation President. Rudolph. Bell and Dougkerty and their wives will be among the prominent guests at a dinner to be given hy the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs aturday evening. November 6, at the Raleigh Hotel, in honor of Mrs, Edgar Stillman Kelly. president of the Na- tional Federation of Music Clubs. Mrs. Kelly is the wife of a well known American composer. and is herself a prominent musician and an accom- plished public speaker. Mave than 100 reservations have been made for the dinner, which ia to | he at £:30 p.m. _All who are interested in music in Washington are Invited. The ticksts may be obtained from Mrs. Holer, 3803 Thirteenth street northwest. “Although Saturday night is choir night, it is the only night Kelly is to be here, and arrange- ments must be made accordingl; cording to Mrs. J. M. Stoddard, the committee. The dinner committee includes Karl Ho'er, tickets; Mildred Meyers and Esther Linkins, invitations: Frances Gutelius and Mrs. Henry White, dec- orations; Mrs. J. M. Stoddard, seating: Ruth JelJffeJrs, ushers, and Miss Miller, program. Commissioners S Spreading Viper Harmless. Contrary to superstition ‘regarding this reptile. the spreading viper is | harmless. It is not polsonous and the teeth are too short to inflict a wound in case the snake did strike at a per- | son. One of the peculiar habits of | thig snake is that of feigning death, which it accomplishes by rolling over on its back. When turned over it im- ' mediately resumes this abeurd posi- tion. Prince, Wooing Princess, Foiled Gossips By Posing as Servant at Royal Chateau Each time the prince came he traveled third-class on the railw dressed so as not to Aattract atten- tion, and from the station carried his own handbag to the royal house, where he was always welcomed as By the Associated Press STOCKHOLM, October 15—The wooing and winning of Princess Astrid, niece of the King of Sweden, by the Belgian Crown Prince reads like a chapter from the pages of an old-fashioned fairy story. a guest. Even the sly, gossipy vil- Prince Leopold won the heart of |lagers assumed that the modest the princess, to whom he will be|young man was merely a butler or married early next month, without |pantry man traveling back and forth the outside world knowing anything | between the chateau and the capital. of his plans, by the aid of a servant's| By this strict incognito the future make-up. Details of the prince's|King of the Belgians and the princess numerous visits to the country home | were able to spend many days to- of the princess’ family last Summer |gether in the countryside of southern have just come to light. Sweden, MRS. A. C. CLARKSON DIES.| POLICEMAN SUSPENDED. Resident of Washington for Past|Accused of Living With Wife of 55 Years. | Another Officer. Police Pvt. Gharles P. Bryant of the third precinct was suspended without | pay by order of the District Commis. Mrs. Annie Caroline vears old, died suddenly today at her residence, 4915 Thirteenth street. She was the widow of James A. Clarkson, contractor, who built the old conven- tion hall at Fifth and K streets, and had resided in Washington for the past 35 years. She was a member of Hope Lodge. No. 30, Order of the Eastern Star: the board of managers of the Baptist Home and president of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Central Baptist Church. She is survived by a son, Edgar J. Clarkson, patent attorney of this city, and two daughters. Mrs. Ruby May Guinon and Miss Eleanor M. Clark- Clarkson, 72 | police trial board on October 25 on a | charge of conduct unbecoming to an | officer. The officer is accused of hav- |ing lived in a cottage at Colonial Beach. Va., from August 1 to 7 with the wife of another policeman. Several other changes in police per- | sonnel were ordered. Pvt. Willlam | S. Sager of the fourteenth precinct and Pvt. Wilson L. Davis of the eleventh precinct were relieved from duty as horse-mounted officers, and Pvt. Henry Osborne of the four- teenth precinct and Pvt. Frederick H. Xander of the eleventh precinct were son. | assigned to duty mounted on horses. Funeral services will be conducted | with additional compensation at $450 Monday at 2:30 o'clock at her late |a year. Pvt. Clifford J. Garry of the J. J. Muir, chaplain ' ninth precinct was relieved from of the Senate, followed by interment | duty as a motor cycle officer, and Pvt. in Rock Creek Cemetery Edward M. Taylor was assigned to s motor cyele duty; with an increase of Excursion airplang flights over $120 a year. Budapest and Lake Bafaton, Hungary, in the past year carrigd nearly 1,100 passengers. 3 ; The use of ofl as a fuel is increasing in chilly Norway. | sioners today pending trial before the | SHERMAN RESUMES MORSE TESTIMONY Former Secretary of U. S. Steam- ship By the Associated Pres® NEW YORK, October 1 the three and 14 other defendants on charges of conspiring to sell stock fraudulent continued with Thomas A. Sherman, former sec- retary of Co.. again on the witness Minutes of an alleged meeting of the United States Steamship Co. In 1916 revealed 500,000 was turned over to N. bert, been a c until aftes its_cross-examination of Sherma the mini®:s yesterday and they were |admittad over the opposition of the de- Of the $12.5 fense, ment coni | stock in various subsidiar of the st 500,000 wi ADMIRAL TOGO ILL. Japan’s Victim of Nervous Trouble. TOKIO, greatest naval fighting man, Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, outstanding figure of the Russian-J: bed-ridden as the resull trouble. Because of his advanced age, 79. his physicians are somewhat anx- ious. It was which ou the Russi engagement in the which was the turning point of the war. admitted as evidence for Government, but they will not be read Excavators, working at Wakefield, the Virginia birthplace of George ' Washington, have unearthed the | original_foundations of the Washing- | ton homstead and a number of speci- | mens of China dating back to the| period of 1720, it was announced by | the Wakefleld National Memori sociation. The assoclation is seeking | to have a repliea of the Washinzton family’s ancestral home built on {he old foundation and preserved for all time. Included among the hits of china found by the excavators were rare | examples of salt glaze china. fash.| foned by Dwight of Fulham, England. | These were dated back 1720. A number of other historically import- | ant discoveries were catalogued at the | same time. The original foundation walls of the house in which George Washington was born were built of | brick,.these show. | This s the first time it has heen | possible to trage out the outline of the old home. The house was of | irregular shape, its greatest length at- | taining 51 feet and its utmost width | being 31 feet. In the same house also | were born Washington’s father and | grandfather. Their tombs lie only 2 few vards from the old foundations. | The house itself was destroyed by fire in 1779. | Mrs. Harry Lee Rust, presiden: of the memorial assocation, told Presi- dent’ Coolidge personally of the dis coveries of the excavators. The I’resi- dent was greatly interested. He has demonstrated marked interest in the work of the Wake National Memorial Assoclation from the beginning. The association has obtained a tract of land surrounding the Washington homestead, which it will preserve, to- gether with the famMy burial lot and the replica of the house itself when it is completed. Company Recalled to Witness Stand. -Trial of sons of Charles W. Morse in Federal Court toda the United States Steamship tand. - contract whereby §1 L. Gil- in the company, have the lerk 1 the defense has conducted herman n had identified a copy of 00,000, the Govern- tends $10,000,000 represented rompanies eamship company, and $2, as in cash. ] Naval Fighting Leader October 15 (#).—Japan's . Island Storm Drowns Eleven. TOKIO, October 15 (#).—Vernacular dispatches from Hakodate say a se- vere storm on Yetorofu Island October 13 did heavy damage. Eleven persons were drowned and a number injured. Six steamers and two motorboats were 1 beach~d. Yetorofu Island is a short distance due north of the Island of Hokkaida, ! panese war, is of a nervous Admirals Togo's strategy t maneuvered and defeated an fleet in their spectacular sea of Japan, | noon a lecutive, [of M. FATHER SON WEEK PLANS QUTLINED Exercises November 7 to 14 in District in Conjunction With National Program. Preliminary plans for the conduct of Father and Son week, from Novem- bher 7 to 14, were laid vesterday after- at a meeting of the executive committee in charge of the project at luncheon at the M. C. A, The ohservance of the week in Washington is eo-operative with the national Father and Son week and is fostered by the rational councll, Young Men's Chris tian Association and the International Council of Religious Education. Committees * to handle particular phases of the project were appointed at the meeting, over which Hatry Hoskinson, chairman, presided and at which E. B. Fuller was elected secre- tary. Father and Son week activities < =uggested and approved by the ex committee ecall for a father and son serivee on Synday, observance home night” Monday. round-table discussions for fathers on boy prob. lems Wednesday; a banquet for fathers and thelr sons Friday and a day of recreation Saturday. Churches and (lubs Represented. Yesterday's meeting included the fol- lowing representatives of religious and civie organizations: Dr. G. F. Dudle; D. D.. Episcopal Church: Rev. H. W. O. Millington, Baptist Church; Rev. W. O. Waltemeyer, Lutheran Church; Rev. Henry H. ' Ranck. Reformed Church:; Rev. B. H. Melton, Disciples of Christ; Rev. W. L. Darby, Wash- |ington Federation of Churches: H. J. Odenthal, City Club; Vergne W. Pot ter, Lions Club: E. D. Shaw, Mer chants and Manufacturers' Associa tion; F. V. Thomson, Boys Club: Linn C. Drake, Boy Scouts: Dr. P. A. Me Lendon. American Business Men's Club: Thomas N. Stearn, Civitan Club; A. Leese, Chamber of Commerce; J. Harry Cunningham, Board of Trade, A. L. Baldwin, Newcomers' Club: Frank N. Plerce. Optimist Club; Rev. J. Phelps Hand, Methodist Episcopal Church: Rev. R. V. Nicholson, Metho dist Protestant Church: L. W. De Gast and Earl B. Fuller, Y. M. C. A. Committees Appointed. The following committees were ap pointed: Publicity committee—'. H G. Morgan and Alton L. Wells, ch—Dr. W. L. Darhy, Rev, W. emeyer and L. W. De Gast. Clubs and_business organizations—Thomas . Stearn, Vergne W. Potter and E. D. Shaw. Welfare organizations—F. E. Thomson, Linn €. Drake and E. B. Fuller. REDS ISSUE ULTIMATUM. Demand “Subversives” in Russia Cease Their Activities. MOSCOW, October 15 (#).—The newspaper Pravda issues an uitima. tum today in behalf of the Communi party. demanding a definite and un. equivocal answer from the opposition whether it intends to cease its sub- versive activities. The ultimatum comes on the eve of the joint meeting of the central executive committes and central con- trol commission of the' party, which is to decide the fate of Trotsky, Zin- ovieff and the other Communist gls- santess, Claudy, [