Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1926, Page 17

the Marine Corp: with a Cutts compensator, by Col. the recoil, the compensator improves the ac- e MAIL BANDITS WILL FACE IMPROVED MACHINE GUN. Postmaster General New watching a dem- stration of the latest Thompson machine gun, equlfl:d inventor of the device. By checking R. M. Cutts curacy of the guns, which are being provided as equipment for marines now guarding the mails. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. D. C., WEDNESDAY, LEAVIN the British premier (at rlghl‘), 5 AN IMPERIAL CONFERENCE SESSION. Stanley Baldwin, leaving Westminister Abbey with Mac- kenzie King, Canadian premier, after a session of the imperial confer- ence, which has been reported as the most important gathering of the governing heads of the British Empire in its history. Acme Photos. 27, ' 1926. OCTOBER ————— ——— SPANISH QUEEN IS GREETED UPON ARRIVAL IN PARIS. Queen Victoria photographed when she arrived at the Quai d’Orsay, Paris, from Madrid. After a few days’ visit in the French capital the Queen de- parted for London, where her son is visiting English relatives. Acme Photos. Ak ' COMING HOME TO ROOST ON THE CARRIER'S DECK. An unusual close-up of a plane about to land on the United States steamship Langley, airplane carrier. Photograph shows the shielding wire screen to pre- vent the plane from landing on the lower deck. On the landing gear of the plane is a device to check the plane’s momentum after it strikes the deck and permit it to come to a full stop within the deck’s length. ‘Wide World Photo. FLIES ACROSS COUNTRY WITH BROKEN COLLAR BONE. A little thing like a broken collar bone and several fractured ribs, sustained when a motor cycle struck him on the,streets of San Antonio, Tex., did not halt the transcontinental flight ot James Monte, 64-year-old com- mereial pilot. He resumed the flight the day of the accident and is shown after landing at Mitchel Field, Long Island. Acme Photos. BELGIAN QUEEN TRIES OUT NEW AmPIA\'E AMBULANCE. Queen Elizabeth, strapped on a stretcher, is carried aboard a new ambulance plane for a flight over the aviation camp at Evere. The Queen tried the casualty role during a recent inspection of a Belgian army medical service station near Brussels. Wide World Photo. FIGHTS WITH TIGER, LIKES EXPERIENCE Beast, Wrestles Until Other” Can Place Shot. By the Associate HOUSTON, hand-to-hand battle ing tiger, which res requiring 29 stiteh ence for a man de in the opinion of C. A. intendent of parks at Minot, N. Dak. Recovering last night from a suc- cessful encounter with El Tex, a big Bengal tiger at Herman Zoo here, Wilson was in fine Builds Trainer's Nerve. “Bast kind of training for an animal man,” said Mr. Wilson as he lay on his bed in a hotel room. “It takes aocidents like that to make a good 200 keeper. It teaches you how to handle cats and helps build up your nerve.” Wilson yesterday with 1. October with a man-hat- alted in_wounds i ood experi- attacked by the tiger inspection tour tendent of the zoo, and M. Irwin, super- intendent of the Tulsa, Ol z00. The animal, which sprang from its shot and and the tiger Wilson’s left shoulder was 3 ’s teeth, his face was clawed and left leg ripped. Wrestled With Beast. A shot through the heart, fired under Wilson's arm, ended the life of the tiger, which had been known as & man-hater since its birth in captivity 16_months 9 N, Knowing the futility of attempting to escape after the tiger had clamped its huge jaws on his shoulder, tearing the fosh, at the first spring, Wilson olinched with it. He hugged the fighting beast to him’ with his left arm, while holding the clawing left fore-paw with his right hand. They wrestled more than a minute before Nagel could get an opportunity to place a shot with his revolver. WRECKAGE IDENTIFIES FOUNDERED SCHOONER Oaptain of Vessel, His Wife and/ Two Sons Believed Victims of 50-Mile Gale. By the Associated Press. EASTPORT, Me., Wreckage washed ashore on Grand Maman Island, N. B., during Mon- day’s 50-mile southerly zale was iden- tified by a nameboard vesterday as having come from the two-masted, 45- vear-old schooner Nelson Y. McFar- land. Capt. James H. Card, 73, of Wey- mouth, his wife, their son, Capt. Lee Card. and Charles Card, an adopt- ed son, were believed by mariners to have been lost. The vessel was bound to Boston with lumber from Wey- moutkh. The hull of the schooner had not been found, but from the position of the wreckage it is thought she struck on the o\m;r Iedg‘res. or fo:kndered yes- terday while trying to make a o dt-ybelng caught in the Bay of Fundy, graveyard of so many craft. Ne bodles have been found. October 27.— Golf Ball Imports Nine Months, 1926, Show Large Gain Golfing gentlemen who play with imported golf balls used more of them during the first nine months of 1926 than during the corresponding period of 1925, if figures made public today by the Commerce Department are taken as a criterion of the demand for imported balls. Golf ball imports during Septem- ber numbered 298,233, valued at $130.676. 2 unit value of 43.8 cents per ball, as compared with 415 cents in August and 40.9 cents in , the department said, placing imports of golf balls for nine months of 1926 ,975,134, agalnst 2,43 first nine months of 19 Golf ball imports in the calendar | year 1925 were valued at $1,165,864. WOMAN AND MOTHER DIE IN SUICIDE PACT Pair Leap From Eleventh Story of Martha Washington Hotel in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. October 27.—Mrs. Bertha Washauer, 52, and her 32- vear-old daughter, Dorothy, are dead today as a result of leaping from the cleventh story of the Martha Wash- ington Hotel for women. The two women rezistered under assumed names a half-hour before carrying out their suicide pact. They were identified through a doctor’s card, on which was written, “Brother knows all about the money.” There was a crash of glass as the mother’s body struck a canopy over the hotel entrance. A moment later Miss Marjorie Laplante, a nurse. of Toronto, Ontarlo, who occupied a room two floors below, was startled by a crash as the body of the daugh- ter stuck and was impaled upon the fron railing around a balcony outside her window. Miss Laplante seized the girl, but was unable to overcome her struggles. “Let me loose, you fool! Let me loose! I want to go with mother!” Miss Washauer shouted. She then fought herself free and dropped the remaining distance to the entrance canopy beside her mother. The police sald Miss Washauer had been treated recently at the Central Islip Stale Hospital for the Insane. The mother also was sald to have |been suffering from a nervous dis- | order. ' SINGER WINS VERDICT. Rose Ponselle Victor in Suit to Re- cover Salary Deductions. NEW _YORK, October 27 (#).—Su- preme Court Justice Ford yesterday directed a verdict in favor of Rose Ponselle in her suit to recover from the Metropolitan Opera Co. part of her salary deducted under terms of a contract with her first voice teacher, William Thorner, and by which he was to receive a percentage of her salary for obtaining a contract to sing in Metropolitan opera. The case had been on trial only a few hours when Justice Ford in- structed the jury to retygn a wverqict for Miss Ponselle. the reviewing party. M IS UNHEALTHY FOR MAIL BANDITS THESE D. t fieor:l?:gl:qs‘gw \’n;‘k metropolitan distrlclt. The marine guard being reviewed at the New York Post Of S. These straight-shooting leatherneck: SECOND-STORY WALKS FOR PEDESTRIANS URGED Delegate to Steel Construction Con- vention Would Reserve First for Autos. By the Associated Press. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., October 27.—The part which bridges erected on heavy piers play in augmenting flood waters was stressed by John A. Crook, president of the Denver Steel and Iron Works Co., in an address before the opening session of the annual convention of the American Institute of Steel Con- struction here yesterday. In a single month, he said, 60 bridges were lost in one county of a Western State when debris carried by rivers- in flood time piled against piers: and obstructed flow of the streams. Second-story sidewalks for pedes- trian traffic were included in recom- engineer of the institute, for reliev- ing congestion and the resultant toll of accidents. This would not only permit widening the streets to in- clude the present sidewalk space, he sald, but would put show windows and main entrances of stores on the | second floor, and permit remodeling the lower floors for parking of auto- mobiles More than 200 structural steel fab- ricators and representatives of lead- ing steel mills from various parts of attendance at the convention. o Bridge to Be Reconstructed. Plans of the Maryland State Roads Commission for the reconstruction of a bridge across the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Md., have been approved by the War Department on the recom- mendation of Maj. Gen. Edgar:Jad- win, chief of Army Engineers. mendations by Lee H. Miller, chief | the United States and Canada are in | French Baroness Visits Capital During Survey of American Business Methods Baroness Simone de Nanteuil, pro- fessor at L’Ecole Technique de Vente, Paris, and member of a distinguished French family, visited Washington Monday as the guest of Miss Isabel C. Bacon, special agent for retail edu- cation, Federal Board for Vocational Education. The French Chamber of Commerce sent Mme. de Nanteuil to.the United States to study the practices and per- sonnel methods in American stores. She has been attending the Prince School of Education for Store Service, Boston, to equip herself for her posi- tion at the newly organized Paris in- stitution where she is a mermber of the faculty. The baroness is one of the few titled French women who have con- tinued in public life since the war. The establishment of a school of sales. manship in Paris is an outgrowth of the war which shows the influence abroad of American business and edu- cational enterprise. Several of the largest Paris depart- ment stores are co-operating with the school Mme. de Nanteuil represents by sending employes there for instruc- tion and by conducting classes them- selves. The baroness, who is engaged in_bettering conditions for the Paris salesgirls, undertook her exacting task to keep herself occupled with other than purely domestic and social pursuits. Her training entailed not only close application in the_classroom but long hours of practical experience behind shop_counters. L'Ecole Technique de Vente is an innovation in French teaching methods in that the conference sup- plants the usual lecture. Here the girls not only listen to what the pro- fessor has to say but joifi in a gen- eral discussion. The girls who have been trgined in the school will in turn_become teachers in the stores in which they are employed until an increasingly large number of the em- ployes learn the Intricacies of com- pleting a sale. CLUBS PLAN CONVENTION { Maryland Democratic Enforcement Bodies to Meet. The United Democratic Law En- forcement Clubs of Maryland, with a membership of 88 clubs, will hold a semi-annual convention Friday at the Southern Hotel, Baltimore. Speakers will inclide Bishop Wil- liam F. McDowell, George H. Lamar and Mrs. Edward nklin White, first vice president of he General Fed- eration of Women'’s Clubs. Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson of Che¥y Chase, State chairman, will presid@ The first ses- sion will begv\l! 1% o'clock in the morning. WARNS ABSENTEE VOTERS Election Day Near, Senator Gillett Tells Vermonters. Senator Gillett of Massachusetts has advised Magsachusetts voters in Washington not to delay beyond Thursday of this week in making ap- plications for absentee voting ballots. “To vote by mail at the Massachu- setts election,” Senator Gillett pointed out, “it is necessary first that the voter should be registered in his city or town; second, that he make appli- cation, which must, of course, be checked with his- registration, and that he mark his ballot, after receiving it here, and mail it.” e re Uncle Sam’s challenge to mail rob- e, with Brig. Gen. Feland on right of Copyright by P. & A. Photos. GIRLS VOLUNTEER AIDS TO YOUTHFUL BANDITS Boys Commit Robberies While Female Companions Hold Cars for Get-Away, Is Charged. By the Assoclated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., October 27.— ‘While their girl friends waited in stripped-down cars for the get-away, four youths entered drug stores and took perfumery, face powder and cos- metics for the beautification of their ompanions, according to alleged confes- sions yesterday, began the criminal ca- reers of Percy Parker and Andrew Dorbuck of West Hartford, Harlan Wallenhoff of this city and Howard Beaumont of Rocky Hill, all in their ‘teens. The boys were said to have confess- ed that in the last five months they made 20 breaks in Hartford and at least 10 more in surrounding towns, specializing in drug stores, chain gro- cery stores and provision stores, inns and roadhouses. On each of these raids they were said to have been accompanied by five or six Hartford girls, none more than 17 Years of age. Parker and Dorbuck were arrested Monday when they were recoghized by an officer as -youths- previously con- victed of taking automobiles without permission of owners. Their alleged confession led to the other arrests. RIS Dry Law Badly Beaten. OSLO, Norway, October- 27 (@).— The final figures of the recent pleb- iscite on prohibition show a majority of more than 110,000 against the present law. The vote was: For prohibition, 421,202; against prohibi- tion, 631,435, The drys lost 67,725 supporters as compared with the 91! TW-eiu. while the wets gained 1 2! Trade Board Rule Changed in Unfair Practice Actions By the Associated Press. The policy of the Federal Trade Commission in withholding publi- cation of complaints charging un- fair trade practices until answérs of those attacked were on hand has been abolished. Commissioner Humphrey pro- posed the rule, which stirred up serious differences of opinion with- in the commission. In abandon- ing it, the explanation was given that since a respondent to a com- plaint receives a review of his case by the commission, oftentimes be- fore a formal complaint is filed, and since in many cases no an- swers are recelved, the commission found it advisable to abandon the STOCKHOLM HONORS PRINCESS ASTRID Swedish Capital Bedecked With Flowers and Flags for Her Mar- riage to Belgian Prince. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, October 27. —In honor of Princess Astrid’s wed- ! ding next week to Crown Prince Leo- | pold of Belgium, the Swedish capital is preparing a general decoration of its streets with flags, flowers and por- tals of honor, entwined with green garlands, in the old-time Swedish style. The bridesmaids have been announc- ed as Astrid’s older sister, Princess Martha; the Swedish Crown Prince’s only daughter, Princess Ingrid; the groom’s younger sister, Princess Marie Jose; one Danish princess, two Swedish noblewomen and two girl friends of Princess, Astrid of common birth. Leopold will be attended by the two eldest sons of the Swedish Crown Prince, Gustavus Adolphus and Sig- vard; their cousin, Prince Lennart, son of Prince Willlam; his, own {younger brother, Prince Charles; Count Bernadotte, a nephew of King Gustav V; a Swedish nobleman, Count Sparrs, and two Belgian officers, The civil ceremony will be perform- ed in the national hall of royal pal- ace by Mayor Carl Lindsagen of | Stockholm, the veteran Socialist leader, whose personal popularity is immense, and the religlous ceremonies will follow in Brussels. UNIFORM CONTRACTS LET. 15 District Firemen to Get Outfits at Public Cost. Contracts for supplying unifos 15 District firemen poi\t of the rx’)’l‘l;ltlg funds were awarded yesterday after- noon by the Board of Commissioners. Overcoats at $30, sack coats at $15.90 and trousers at $9.25 are to be furnished by Mark Cowen & Co,; caps {ronging from $2.25 to $2.90, by the Philadelphia Uniform Co.; rubber |coats at $12.40, by N. Snellenberg & Co.; rubber boots at $9.97, by L. A. & M. Herman, and metal insignia for officers at §1.70, by Harry Kaufman ne. 3 g n Steam railroads entering Chicago ex- pended almost $15,000,000 last year in ‘maintenance of suburban. service. DRNKING CHARGES ARDLSE COMMIONS Rebuke Fails as Names of Tipsy Lawmakers Are Offered House. By the Associgted Press. LONDON, October 27.—Dr. Alfred Salter, Laborite M. P., who is a robust teetotaler, yesterday was rebuked by the House of Commons for his recent speech in which he charged members with drunkenness. The House adopted a motion declaring that Dr. Salter had grossly libeled the House and had ex- ceeded his privileges in his speech. The House, Mowever, was mildly scandalized by Dr. Salter’s attitude when he was called upon to explain his accusations. He said that he was entirely unrepentent for his speech, and offered to substantiate his charges by giving names. He was prevented from doing this when a labor amendment to refer the matter to a committee of privileges, to whom Dr. Salter offered to give the names, 'was defeated 247 to 95. Conservatives Accused. Dr. Salter asserted that he himself had helped to remove hopelessly drunk members from the House, and that he had repeatedly witnessed dls- orderly scenes that were due to the influnce of drink. This, he said, was “a matter of common complaint with regard to members of the conserva- tive side.” This drew ministerial protests, but Dr. Salter remained undaunted and said that in order to have dignity in the House, he was ready to give names to any select committee the House might appoint. Amid Laborite cheers Dr. Salter withdrew while the matter was debated. Sobriety Progressing. 'T. P. O'Connor, the “Father of the House,” regretting Dr. Salter's “ex- tremism,” said that of late years so- briety both inside and outside of the House had taken enormous strides. Former Premier Lloyd George and John R. Clynes, the Laborite, con- curred in this. Premier Baldwin then mildly sug- gested that|“in an assembly of over 600 men there must be occasion when members would forget themselves.’” “We all know this, but we do not talk about it,” he sald. “There ought to be a more decent reserve, and what hurt the House was that a member should talk about these things outside and then should not regret doing so.” The speaker, havinig given the opin- fon that the House compared very favorably with other Parliaments, the matter was then disposed of success- fully without any member being openly stigmatized as a drunkard. KING GIVES AWAY LODGE. Royal Residence Presented for Life to Lord Lee. LONDON, October 27 (#).—King George yesterday presented a life lease of the royal residence, White Lodge, at Richmond, to Lord Lee of Fareham, who gave Chaquers in 1920 as u country home for British pre- Iniers. - White Lodge was bullt by George IL last occupant was the Duke of ork.