Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1926, Page 17

¢ ’herson’s | " KING DRIVES A LOCOMOTIVE. King Rama VII of Siam at the throttle of one of the locomotives of the royal state railroads. The King has encouraged the adoption of European and American inven- tions and convenie try. Wide World Photo. T NEW JERS HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, n. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1926. i¥ MOUNTAINS COMBED FOR MAIL BANDITS. Maj. Mark Kimberling (left) giving orders to a deta State troopers before the latter started their search for the machine-gun bandits who robbed the Flizabeth mail truc ordered to shoot to kill if the bandits offeréd opposition to arrest. According to reports, there are eight men in the bandit chment of New Jersey The troupers were and. © P. & A. Photos bup s g BN B s = NAVY'S DIRIGIBLE IN DETROIT. The Los Angeles Ford Airport after completing a non-stop trip fro chored at tkebhur The trip to and from Detroit was made without specis the big ship is now back in her Lakehurst I W(CE TEST. Six of the M , at Brandon, Vt, service troop don is a bay mare entered by the NEW MPHERSON SURPRISE LOOMS State Holds Exhibit of Evan-| gelist’s Attorneys Will | Be Proven Fake. Girl, 14, to Face Murder Trial for Killing Negro Boy ed Pross. w.-Tenn., October 18, —Bertie Wise, the 14-year-old girl yer of Richard Lo 9-year- I negro boy, must answer jury the charge of murder. shot the boy in front of her home near this city on Monday after- noon October 4. He died the fol- lowing morning. B Va juvenile judge had reserved decision in the following the h ing here By the Associated Press. 18.—H attorneys a LOS ANGELES, October which AMel'herson h to mysterious in he Lave come ¢ horse's tail instead of 2 wom This was intimated today as a prise” was pr ed by the prosecu tion with resumption in Municipal | Court of the evangelist’s criminal con- spiracy hearing after an over-Sunday 1 for hop Miss X from a head. *sur Friday, announced in court | morning that he would hold | 1 > girl for the grand jury without | bond. A plea of insa will prob- | ably be made for the youthful de- | pdant * her attorney indicated. t the hearing here last stified that after the girl v with a pistol, she | the street and | b A reans mee Semple fy the dragged him ac laid him under a chestnut tree, One J4-year-old boy said he saw her flourish the pistol in the dying boy’s face and with an oath threaten to shoot him again if he did not stop groaning. The “surprise” was lly by Mrs. Lorraine W Y, codefendant of Mrs. witness for the ator of the iseman- McPher- ate and liss X" | promised spe- | | { | % 'WOMAN DIES AS CAR AND TROLLEY BURN| Onkla of M 1 seam- Wis first | to tell under ned an afdavit | in’ which she man who spent Carmel in a with | LEXINGTON, Ky., ‘October 18.—A Ormision, former radio (woman was killed, her father and her us Temple, of which | i e o, ek | 18-month-old baby were hurt, and an wlston [automobile and an interurban car were ersen » evangelist | destroyed by fire as the result of a i Kidnaped and held oolision six miles from Lexington yes- A that she was never in | .. Wedged between the interur- ban and a stone wall, the automobile caught fire and ignited the Thir- |teen passengers on the interurban es- caped without injur | | Mrs. Ethel Finne ears old, who | was Killed, drove the automebile into the path of the interurban. Her fa L hoge where. | ther, J. D. Cole. 50, suffered a possible Known to b | fractured skull doubtful Wiseman and Mrs. Kim. | whether he will recover. The bab; before | was thrown clear of the wreck. His Mrs. Virla Kimball, stress and twin sister man, was su witness by the de oath whether she s ‘ By the Associated Press some t Kennet} operit o declares sk for ranson Carnel Mrs. Wis has testified that she was hired and paid by Mrs. McPher- son and Mrs, Minnie Kennedy, the s mother, and another de- "1 Miss X 1 testified she produced | man named Rachel *Miss X" a w dely abouts are When X ball appear {we | studles of the scientists. | past.” { Civic Duties to Be Outlined Tomor- ore whom |leg hroken. Miss X made | Rails were torn up and ties burned tively identified |for 30 feet, delaying traffic several the woman iwho |hours. Officers of the interur ust that she was |Starting an estigation company y cit | Finnell was returning from church. WOULD RETAIN PERMIT. ples of their hair for identification o Durposes, Mrs. Wiseman says how { Poolroom Operator Asks Injunction that both she and Miss Wells were | to Protect License. . tificial switches, made prob- , d :l?l':'rlfrx“iy:\”L A rom & horse’s luflf and ;| Suit to enjoin the I)l\‘trh\l Commis- that it is that Mr. Woolley has and |sioners from revoking his permit to not hers or Miss Wells' hair. conduct a pool-room at 203 Florida The statement of A Page, held |avenue northwest was filed today in at Sallnas on a forgery rge. that | the District me Court by Harry Mrs. McPhersen paid him $10,000 to | Moerman. 5 pose as one of her kid s, thus far | The plaintiff he cbtained a has failed to bring comment from de- ' August 11 last and went to fense attorneys. County officlals con- ense in equipping his place. tinue to scout his stor id he | s heard, he that certain | had served a term for hbors have written the Commis- | Ohio State Penitentiary sioners and the latter are at- that he was released from (ie Duluth, | tempting to revoke his permit. He Minn., June 4 last, is represented by Attorney J. B. Stein. | At an ar today Mr Me- in_court was not , as she is suffering with an | ubscess below the left knee. It was reported she had a temperature of 1017 degrees. ludge Bar the won her afidavit Mrs. Kin swore last “Miss X At the ti ng as ¥ e of the August affids Mrs. W an says that Roland Rich Woolley, Mrs. McPherson's attorney, who was present, requested Mrs. Wise- man and “Miss X" to give him sam- P E . W. A. Press Dies of Injuries. toher 13 (P).—W. hy manufacturer of | automobile is dead as a re- sult of injuries suffered when he was | | thrown from a horse in Lincoln Park. Tellez on Way Here. | Mr. Press began work in his father's MEXICO CITY. October 18 UP)—|wagon factory at the age of 18 and Manuel Tellez, Ambassador to the|assumed control of the concern in 1'nited States, has left for Washing- | 1891. His widow and foug. children ton. Senor Tellez has been spending | survive. The accident octlired yes- Lis vacation here, 7 terday. Press, | New | will | missioner of | supper Corpl. S. J. Mathewson winning fourteen starters in the Cavalry of the 3rd United States Cavalry. © P. & A. Photos. Queen Marie Tileson Wells, Rumanian con- zeneral in New York, who offic welcomed the Queen upon her arrival toda Wells is in charge of all New York receptions. © ferwvood & Underwood. greets sul Dwight F. Davis, jr. Secretary of \War, i ing out for the 1927 base ball team of Har- vard, and this photograph was snapped while he was taking Fall practice. Photo by Acme. WORLD pitched the St. Alexander, who was released by the Chicago € City. HERO NOW SELLS THE LATEST FALL HATS. Louis Cardinals to a world championship, s a hat s: ubs I)il the waiver rout v, who Tiaberdashery in the Windy & A. Photos a big fav SEES EUROPEAN RESOURCES LOW Dr. Vernon Kellogg Says| Shrinking Since War Im- pedes Scientific Research. By the Associated Pross. Furopean resources since the war have shrunk too much to allow the | accustomed expenditures on research work in pure science, Dr. Vernon Kel- logs, secr of the American Re- search Council, declared vesterday upon his return to Washington from abroad. There is great need for American | interests to fill the breach by enlarg- ing such expenditures here, said Dr. Kellogg, who is a trustee of the Na- tional Research Endowment, of which Secretary Hoover is chairman, which is seeking a_fund of $20,000,000 for scientific outlay. “In the pust the great research in- stitutions and universities of Europe have supplied the world with a wealth | of sclentific knowledge,” he related in | describing the situation abroad, “‘and in the United States, who have lagged far behind in our own re- | searches in pure science, have profited perhaps more than any other country. All human progress is dependent in the last analysis on the results of the Never before | have we been faced with such an im- ive need for funds with which to 7 on this work, and all because we have let Europe do it forg us in the BUSINESS MEN TO HOLD FATHER AND SON NIGHT row by Chamber of Com- merce. The montiily meeting of the Wash ington Chamber of Commerce at the Willard Hotel tomorrow night, known as “Father and Son be night.” The purpose will be to interest the sons of the members of the chamber in the civic activities of the National | Capital and to impress upon them! their responsibilities as future clvic | leaders. | The speakers will be William | Knowles Cooper, general secretary of | the.local and Maj. W. R. < Engineer Com- the District. A number of reports will be read by chairmen of various chamber commit- | tees. An entertainment and buff will conclude the program The meeting will begin at 8 o'clock. BOY EVANGELIST HERE. | First Colored Revival Service Tu«l night at 0dd Fellows' Hall. | Howard = W. Specht, 1l-year-old| evangellst, will conduct the first of | a series of services for colofed peo- | ple tonight at Odd Fellows’ Hall, | Twenty-eighth street and Dumbarton | avenue. | The boy was requested to come to Washington by the Christian Mis sionary’ Alllance of New York to as sist in the evangelical work here among the colored people. The se; fces will begin tonight at 8 o'clock. They will continue a week, {contest will start at {and closing with a children’s costume Perils of Bootleg Rum to Be Shown In Window Displays in Philadelphia By the Assocated Press. DELPHIA, Octc ture in prohibit here, by which the Gov to convince Phila- | phia tipplers of the danger of boot- leg liquor, is to. be tried out in the near future - The pians, an_elaborate paign, with liquor confiscated by the police and a realistic picture of what effect it might have on the imbiber. A cen tral city storeroom heen rented | Ly the prohibition department for the | play and daily demonstrations are nned. Confiscated liquor is to be to the display window and vzed in full view of the passing | crowds. As cach element is discov ered printed posters are to be hung| in the window showing the makeup | | A announced today, call for window analy of the human body and the effects of the incredients on its tissues and for the move,” sald . local prohibition administ that the public continues to believe that the liquor of today is as good as that to be had before the passing of the Volstead act. We are hoping to correct this fallicy. No man_will deliberately drink poisoned stuff unless he is an inverterate drinker or a fool. “We hope to convince the public the great majority of liquor to- s filled with poisons which have | hurriedly and improperly dis- | they are convinced the de- mand moonshine will be appre- | Ably ned and our job of en-| forcement made easier. Several weeks | g0 I proposed this method of enforce- | ment to Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews and | he was highly in favor of the plan.” | t day’ been tilled, COLUMBIA HEIGHTS T0 CHOOSE FAIREST Prettiest Girl Among 36 Aspirants to Be Selected at Tivoli Theater Tonight. will as- Columbia Heights residents choose the prettiest girl in 36 pirants to wear the crown of "l\(lssi Columbia IHeights” for 1926 at the| Tivoli Theater, Fourteenth street and Park road, tonlgnt. The selection will be made by the audlence, through its applause for each candidate. The 7:20 o'clock. “Miss Columbin Helghts” will be| crowned queen on the opening night | of the carnival. beginning Thursday | parade Friday night. She will be attended by her competitors in to- night’s contest, who will act as malds of honor at the Leauty court, which | will be located at Fourteenth and Kenyon streets | A parade, in which nearly 100 floats 1 decorated vehicles will take part, I be held Thursday night just be- coronation of the queen Final arrangements for the parade are being made at a meeting this aft- ernoon of the Columbia Heights Busi-, ness Men's Association, with Frank J. Sobotga chairman. Miss Columbia Heights' will participate also in the children’s parade I’riday night. EPISCOPAL CHURCH HOME T0 GIVE RUMMAGE SALE Funds Needed for Repairs and to Lift Mortgage at Institu- tion for Women. A rummage sale for the benefit of | the Episcopal Church Home for | Women will be held at 1405 F street, | beginning today and continuing | through Friday. Altiough the home has been in | existence for only two vears, it shel- ters 15 elderly members of the church, and there are others who need care during their declining years, it is| explained. | Founded by Mrs. Cornelia G. Jones, | who gave her own home at 3315 Wis- consin avenue to this cause, it has been playing a practieal part in the welfare work of the digeese, and funds obtained- through the are needed for nece: the lifting of a wportg the bulldings, vented the rescue of the entire party. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily | GLEE CL ELEVEN ON VESSEL | DROWN ONE BY ONE Unable to Climb Into Lifeboat, They Drop Into Icy St. Lawrence. By the Ascociated Press. ¢ QUEBEC, October 18.—Unable to get into the lifeboats when the cargo of | the steamship Guide shifted suddenly in high seas and the vessel foundered | in the lower St. Lawrence, 11 persons | hanging onto the boats dropped off | one by one Into the fcy waters and | were drowned, according to the story told by the chief engineer of the Guide here vesterday. The master of the Guide, Capt. Guenard, and one of the passengers were thrown into the water and | drowned when thelr boat collided with | the rescue schooner, a vessel owned by Prince Bros. Sixteen passengers and members of the crew were saved. Darkness pre- GOLD EMBARGO STAYS. Japan Explains Shipments to U. S. Are to Strengthen Reserve. News. 1 TOKIO, October 18.—Japan's re- sumption of gold shipments is ex- plained by the finance minister as necessary for strengthening the re- serve in the United States in order to avold any loss from an adverse ex- change rate. The communique insists that the shipments do not indicate an _early lifting of the gold embargo. Apparently the “Street” had been informed in advance of the govern. ment's shipment of four millions gold to the United States on Saturday, as | today's markets were not affected. Many observers predlct the gold em bargo will be lifted within six months. | Covyrizght. 1926. by Chicago Daily News Co.) i UB ANNIVERSARY. Dunbar High Singers Celebntei With Recital Tomorrow. i The thirty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Amphion Glee Club at Dunbar High School will be celebrated with a_testimonial recital, reception and dansante tomorrow | night at 8 o'clock at the high school. J. Henry Lewis is director of the club. Chairman of the committee in charge is Wellington A. Adams, and Ferdinand D. Lee is chairman of the invitation committee. JUGOSLAV PREMIER RETURNS 10 POST Ouzonovitch Withdraws His Resignation, Submitted After Cabinet Row. By the Associated Press BEILGRADE, Ouzonovitch October who with gned § e 18.—Premie members of Vinet v ur terd: functio be 1 Th truce will be of » minist the crisi neral beliet is hort d t the m There has bheen di ion in the Ouzonovitch cabinet for some time past and the trouble was brought to a head when Stefun Raditch, minister of education, was assailed by one of his radical colleagues in the premier’s anteroom Friday night. Efforts to- ward reconciliation between the radi- cals and the Raditch followers failed, and the cabinet's resignation was sub- mitted to King Alexander. | THIEVES® ACTIVITIES NET $3,400, VICTIMS REPORT Wine, Clothes and Jewels Among Loot of Past Few Days, Police Learn. Jewelry, clothing, smoking material, wine, money, surgical instruments and a camera Were among numerous articles valued at approximately $3,400, listed in reports of thefts to the police yesterday. Paul A.” Sweency, 3419 Wisconsin avenue, reported the theft of jewelry valued at $2,250 from his home. The articles included a solitaire diamond ring valued at $17%500, a platinum din- ner ring set with 13 dfamonds valued at $600, and a pearl ring worth $150. They were taken in the last few days. Ernest Santangini, 1737 ¥ street, reported the theft of wearing apparel valued at $500. A mahogany mirror also was stolen. Two bottles of wine, a_quantity of cigars and cigarettes, a pistol and $73 | in cash were reported taken from the apartment of Elmer Schalz, 2100 I street. Entrance was gained by forc- ing the door. Theft of a_handbag containing a camera valued at $100 was reported by Harvey D. Buck, naval air station. The bag was taken from Buck’s motor cycle. An oriental rug and a mahogany table valued at $100 were stolen from the lobby of an apartment house at Nineteenth and K streets. Dr. John O'Brien, 3000 Connecticut Aavenue, reported the loss of a case of instruments valued at $12: en from his automo: Mrs. Belle Frazier, Rochester, N. Y., told police that a b atehed her handbag in_front H o street northea: money and a fountain pen, she said. of 51 Former Envoy Hioki Dying. TOKIO, October 18 (#).—Eki Hioki, ormer Ambassador to China and Jap- nese delegate at the recent customs conference, is dying of Bright's dis ease and a stomach ulcer, statements of his physician said tode The bul- letins stated he could not live more than a few day! PO A butter, dish that holds ice in the bottom has been perfected. U. S. Liner Damaged By 800-Pound Fish Cast Up by Gale pciated Press YORK. October 18-\ adio message received last t the office: the United St Line from Capt. ‘ B. Ran dall of the Republic told how a slashing storm had washed an §00-pound fish of an unknown va- riety aboard the vessel. tats the message. "Only by 800-pound live fish, The bag contained $40 in | known, washed aboard by s over forward hatch, car part of heavy 1 s ng tves of the line said probubly would be kel the snip until it s can study it aboard when s 'WIFE'S THROAT CUT, . HUSBAND ARRESTED | 0il City Electrician Pleads Absence | in Murder of Woman With | Razor. | By the Associated Press : OIL CITY, Pa. October 18. | lace M. Jennings, 30, an electrician, is |in jail on an open charge, pending | further investigation of the death of his wife, who was found with her throat slashed. Jennings was rested when he returned home, after an absence which, he said, dated from Friday morning. ate police checking up his story. A closed, blood-stained razor was found by police on a stand In the bathroom of the Jennings home where the body was discovered by two children of the couple. An in quest will be held. Jennings was non-committal when interviewed in jall. The parents of Mrs. Jennings, whose maiden name is unknown here, are sald to reside at Wellsville, Ohfo. HOOSIERS TO MEET. Indiana Republican Group in Capi- tal Gathers Tomight. Republicans in the District of Co- lumbia who ‘are citizens of Indiana are to meet tonight in the rose room of the Washington Hotel, Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue, to arouse i greater interest in the coming ele Leaders among the Hooslers in Wash- |ington have been conducting an inten sive campaign to get out the vote in November. In their appeals to pro spective voters they point out that every Republican vote will be needed if Indfana is to retain its two Repub. lican Senators. The principal speakers tonight will he Theodore G. Risley, solicitor of the Labor Department, who has been stumping in the East for the Republi- 1 congressional campaign commit tee, and Thomas P. Littlepage of Maryland, vice president of the League of Republican State Clubs. Belgium to Act on Franc. BRUSSELS, October 18 (#).— Belgian cabinet council today make final decisions concerning sta bilization of the franc. It is expected the entire matter will he settled. De ture before he embarks for Stockholm an October 30. Four-wheeled motor cycles have ap- peared in England. Wal- | ar- | are | crees are ready for the King's signa- | ES 1205 MILES N ARCTIC PROBE | Mounted Police Officer Pene- trates Unknown Land to Investigate Slaying. OTTAWA | Details of a member Octoher 18 wh nad Ontario, ten-week hike. i in of the ed Police tri iles In Aretic murder case, are publishe cial report from one « zation’s lonely he long patrol was made outposts B Febr i, to ot ar {tie g 115 4 |in Eskimo several jcase Is not yet comp! | sults were not made pub | Wight's journey w: | taking him through | little known that the proved to be inaccu ation of several large tains. He visited a nu nds of on relieving their dis The mounted | trolled the whole the southe i have covered pir Axel Heibers, the southern coasts of e the whole of the 1 coasts of Baffin Island irt of the west coas raveled by tu iffin Island w while on E 3,300 miles figures are exclusive of ed in hunting trt 1. C. C. TO INVESTIGATE CLASS FREIGHT RATES cour latest s 1o lake round Schedules on Western Trunk Line | Will Be Considered, Beginning ¢ 1 January 11. | By the ! An investig 1frelght rate schedules in trunk line terr by the Interst ston Associated Press. ition of all of om 1d represen 3 1 commmission L co ference held Pptember 10 in Chicag the commission safd, had made it cor tain that the Western trunk line ass r adjustment Is badly in need | of revision “and revision | should be brought about at the carliest | possible d | A lare community grouped | ston’s considered sim r under ement of gener nesot, shippers number of in, rate con together with n proceedings tvidual int th and and werea commis o will e neous question affect the 1 frefcht in Wis lowa, Kunsas, N Dakotas T url, Col nd gra ain other commodities | generally move ur modity rates will* ) consideratic In orde investigati | me rts n products which ler 1 1 [ cluded fre 1in to perfeet plans for t m, the commission sut moned preliminary _conference be held at the La Salle Hotel, Chi m’r October 28, by its own agents with represeniatives of ate commie slons, shippers and carriers.