Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1926, Page 17

BOY SCOUTS annual pilgrir AY HOMAG 1ge to the grave of the late President at O, er Bay, Long Island. Jo: red Boy Scouts j in their ph Root, Scout official, in pioneer costume, is placing a wreath at the grave. The tribute to the Scouts’ mentor bears the inscription! “Our Hero, the Greatest Scout.” Copyright by P. & A. Photos. RIC T INDIAN PLEADS FOR who are now in Washington conferring with T an effort to obtain more of his income in order to “m Barnett, through oil royalties, is reputed to be the richest American Indian, but his estate is tied up in litigatio Copyright by P. & A. Photos. ¢ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1926. MYSTIFIES MEDICAL STUDENTS WITH NEEDLE-STICKING PERFORMANCE. Rahman Be tian performer, terday, when they watched him stick needles deep into his cheeks, without apparent discomfort. gave a wide-eyed group of George Washington medicos a lesson in arms Copyright by Unde ‘painless surge and other parts of his anatomy pod & Underwood JUST AFTER THE CEREMONY. Eugene Brewster, millionaire Corliss Palm i 4 e immediately after th Mexico. The ceremony was performed 24 hours after Brewster Tishe pose at thy Ensend: was £ and his bride, whe r Los Angele nted a divoree., er, former movie ir marriags Acme Photos. THE CA\. two big MERA PROVES IT WA ck fish he caught Sunday scales at 22 and 26 pounds. Oliver A FISH STORY. R. G. Heukelman, Was trolling off Blood Point light, roud angler display his cat whil s s helping the ngton angler, displays the Chesapeake Bay. The fsh tip the 3 s He even slices the ball. Controller neral J. R. McCarl, well known for his propensity to slice Govern- ment expense accounts, was said to - that tendency with his golf the Congressional Railroad’: lden State limited st ousted from the cab by the fair fire JDE TREATMENT FOR FATHER TIME. As the Southe s on its first run from Los to Chicago on a schedule cutting five hours off the run, this ceremony is held at the station. Father T moniously Acme Photos. ne is being u eman. OPEN BEER SALES FACE CANADA BAN Proposal Would Limit All Purchases to Bottled Goods, the Same as Liquor. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, November Ferguson has changed his proposed Mquor legislation, on which he is ap- pealing to the voters, so that the open gale of beer will be forbidden, the Toronto Telagram says. “Beer will be classed along. with all other beverages of alcoholic con- tent,” the Telegram kays, “and will be disposed of in 1 form only by government venders, Objection has been taken that the open sale of beer would contribute to 2+ Premier the possibility that spirituous lquors might also be sold, illezally tels, and the prericr has, accordingly conclu th © iottled beer through government venders may be purchased. Poor Man to Be Protected. ORILLA, Ontarlo, November 2 (M. «Commenting here on a statement in the Toronto Telezram that the open gale of beer will not be legalized and that beer will be sold only through government venders, Premier Fergu- son said: “If necessary to present clearly to the people the principle of government control and to see that it has due con- sideration, I will require that all lquor, becr as well as spirits, be sold through government stores, but will arrange to man’s rights by seein cure a bottle « through a government Premier Ferguson said the govern- ment is not going to allow the big issue between the Ontario Temperance Association and a nced temperance legislatio clouded by un- scrupulot entation about ale of beer.” RINGLINGS GET WRIT TO HALT CIRCUS FILM Proposed Minneapolis Movie Said Falsely to Represent Life Under “Big Top.” By the Associated Press MI APOL November 2.—The Ringling Brothers and barnum & Bailey circus sterday obtained a temporary restraining order against the showing in Minneapolls of a mo- tion picture film which, officials as- sert, is “damaging, degrading and harmful to the circus as an institu- tion.” M. J. Frisch, manager of the Fed- erated Booking Offices, a producing company which he represents, and Finkelstein & Rubin, Twin City the- ater owners, are made defendants in the suits. The picture is under con- tract to be shown here in December. The picture is said to show a trag- edy within a circus, and a fire, “the very things that a high-class circus always and continuously, cauti and zealously guarded complaint sets forth. iteelf is misleading, in that, as a por- trayal of circus life, it is inferior in quality and disparaging in its influ- ence on the public,” it is charged. beer at actual cost rency.” | Kendrick, 1-Man Police Force, Rotten-Egg Target, Quits; Leaves Town By the Associated ¥ ALFRED, N. Y, ) Motor Cycle Officer Harry Burley of this town’s lene police ned and left town last night 200 college students had belabored him with rotten eggs and tomator He had been here for three months. Witnesses said some one let the air out of the tires of Rurley’s motor cycle last night and he s > his mind. The collega boys took after the officer and forced him to ndon his machine, after which they took it o SESOULANOUNCES MLSE TEST PREES Two Firsté Each to Contest- ants From Denver, New York| and Philadelphia. wember By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November Denver, New York and Philadelphia each won two first prizes last night in the national music contest of the Ses- quicentennial Exposition for contest- ants between the ages of 10 and 24 years. Miss Inda Rains, 23, Denver, and Frank Dinhaupt, 19, of the same city, carried off the prizes for soprano and | baritone singing, respectively. Other winners were: Virginia D. Pittsburgh, contralto; Philadelphia, tenor; Irene Peckham, New York, piano; Helen Berlin. Philadelphia, violin; James Kahn, New York, cello. A number received honorable men- tion in each class. They included Dorothy Cressey, Grand Rapids, Mich., soprano; Nell Eshling, Birming- ham, Al and Elizabeth Stucker, Ot. Kans., contralto: Francis W, and James H. Hatton, tenor; Paul | Dederson, Bell Plaine, Iowa, baritone; | Alice Spencer, Mount Vernon, Iowa, and Lou Hoffman, Logansport, Ind., | plano; Francis Wiener, San Francisco, wviolin; Flora Swabay, Detroit, cello. Winners of the first prizes each re- ceived $500 in cash. The contest was 2 Charles Akline, under the auspices of the Nuflomlllo Federation of Music Clubs. Seventy-five voung men and women competed in the finals last aight. The final in the organ contest will | be held today. Miss Rains plans to| sail next Saturday for Italy to con- tinue her studies for the operatic stage. Iowa Alumni Club Formed. Former students of the Iowa State University are invited to become | members of the Washington S. U. I. Alumni Club, which was organized October 25, and of which Karl S. Hoffman, 1301 Clifton street, is presi- dent, it was announced today. The organization meeting was held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Bell, 803 Rittenhouse street. With Mr. Hoff- man as president, Miss Carrie Ring- Irish was chosen secretary-treasurer. ACTIVE IN T contender for Iature, poses with Gov. McMullen of that State at a pre-el rail at Omaha, » Star Spangled Banner Ends Gridiron Riot |GENNA GANG CHIEF After Texas Student Is Fatally Injured ARNOLD DALY HURT; DISPUTE OVER FALL Actor-and Employes at Night Club Disagree on Place of Injury. By the Associated Press. W YORK, November 2.—Arnold aly’s role in ‘“Juarez and Maxi- milian” was filled by his understudy last night while the widely known actor lay on a hospital bed with a fractured skull, suffered when he fell in the early hours of yesterday morn- ng. Although in pain, Daly in the after- noon told a friend the story of the fall and entered a dispute as to the place of his accident. Police investi- gating the report of Daly’'s injury elicited from employes of Tommy Guinan's Playground, a night club operated by the brother of Texas Guinan, a story of Daly falling on the tile floor of a washroom. Another version had it that Daly fell on a carpeted floor of the club. But the actor told his friend, War- . Munsell, general manager of er Guild, that he had fallen lewalk near Fifty-first street and Seventh avenue. The visit of Munsell ended another dispute about whether the Daly in the hospital was the actor or some one not averse to being taken for Arnold Daly. Leaving the ward where the actor resting comfortably, Munsell said: “It's Arnold Daly, all right. He's getting along fine, but we'll have to put his understudy in his place for a few performances. Philadelphia 0il Man Dead. NEW_YORK, November 2 (F).— Lewis Dixon, vice president of the Cheyenne Oil Co., having offices in Philadelphia, died vesterday shortly after he had become ill as he was about to board a train in the Penn- sylvania terminal. Mr. Dixon, who was 60 vears old, came here on a business trip. T AL RING, 0. el the heavyweight title and member of the Nebm Acme unte Mww (eft), rising n& otos. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., November Playing of “The Star Spangled Ban- ner” by the band of the Texas Agri- culture and Mechanical College, which brought the cadet students of the school to attention, ended a clash of Aggle and Baylor Unlversity students between periods of a foot ball game at Waco, Tex., but not until after Charles M. Sessums of Dallas had been injured fatally Saturday, wit- nesses said. Sessums, at first thought to have been slightly injured, died yeterday of a fractured skull. An account of the fray, as related by Miss Esther Didzun, who attended the game, was that a truck loaded with Baylor girl students was driven o= | . won the title itest MEET THE CHAMPION HOUSEWIF of champi ion e of Southern nmmnmvumlume-!wdwow.mu to the Aggie side of the grounds. An Aggle student jumped on it. One girl tumbled off as he landed on the truck. Immediately students from both schools rushed onto the fleld and fought, refusing to heed efforts of their cheer leaders and others to sep- arate, until the notes of the National anthem brought the cadet students stiffly to attention. The band kept up the music until the Baylor students had been herded off the fleld. The Aggiles returned to their sections and the game proceed- ed. Sticks, chairs and torn clothing littered the space of encounter and Sessums was taken to a hospital. Practically all A. and M. students are members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. PENNILESS IN 1890, GETS $11,000,000 BUILDING $4,000,000 of Sum Paid for Phila- delphia Structure Will Aid Cripples. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November 2. — Joseph Caplan, 42, a penniless immi- grant from England in 1890, yester- day became one of the largest indi- vidual holders of real estate in Phil- adelphia when he accepted con- | veyance of the Widener Building, held at a sale price of $11,000,000~ Built in 1912, the building, an 18- story structure, in the Italian renais- sance style, cost the late P. A.*B. Widener, traction magnate, in excess of $8,000,000, of which one-half represented the purchase price of the site. The grounds, which formerly were occupied by a mint, cost the Government $31,666 in 1829. Of the sale price $4,000,000 is said to have been set aside with a trust company as an endowment fund for the Widener Home for Crippled Chil- dren. % PACIFISTS USING CHURCH, DECLARES SUMMERALL Advises Woman Members of Gov- ernment Club to Scan Doctrines., By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 2. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, new chief of staff of the Army, believes that pacifists are using religion as a shield for their activities. Speaking before woman members of the Government Club yesterday, he decried what he termed move- ments to bring about adverse con- sideration of citizens’ military train- ing camps, which, he said, “mold the young man into the best kind of a citizen.” Such a movement is noticeable in some religious organi- zations apd schools, he said. “It is up to you women,” he as- serted, “to inquire into the policies of your churches and to examine the doctrines taught in the schools which are adverse to good citizen- ship. You must oppose those in- fluences from the inside, not from the outside.” I 1) Irs. R. B. Lieurance, who California at he an- receiving the cham. Copyright by B, & A. Photos. APPEALS IN ITALY Eldest of Six Brothers Fled From U. S. to Escape Death—Im- plicated in Theft. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 2.—Chicago’s liquor gangsters learned today that Vincenzo (Jim) Genna, who fled to his native Sicily after the third of his five wealthy brothers fell in reprisal war- fare, and of whom little or nothing has been heard since, is fighting to cut short a prison sentence he is serv- ing in Italy for a jewelry robbery. Genna is appealing from his sen- tence of several years’ hard labor for theft of the jewels of the famous Ma- donna di Trapani, in which he denies complicity, according to a cable to the Chicago Tribune from Palermo, Italy. ‘The newspaper’s correspondent said Genna was arrested at Rome in Janu- ary at the instance of the prefect of police at Palermo, who is credited with wiping out the Mafla gang. It was charged he planned the theft of the jewels shortly after he returned to Steily in 1925, spending money lav- ishly. Jim Genna was the oldest of the six brothers who in 15 years rose from the status of immigrant laborers to be chieftains of a powerful bootleg clique. The family fortune was put at $5,000,000. Potomac Park Road to Close. The roadway in East Potomac Park will be closed for its entire length for 24 hours, beginning at 7:30 o’clock tomorrow morning, it was announced today at the office of Public Build- ings and Public Parks. It will be necessary to keep fraffic off the road- way during this period to oil the road. Those using the golf course, however, may reach it through the inner road. City Attaches Pay Of 200 Employes For Lapsed Taxes s attached the salaries ves who Dersonal property taxes. he action, said to be unique in the United Statbs, was taken at the order of John How, director of the department of revenue d finance. School teachers, firemen, police, clerks and all employes regardless of positions were included in the . COTTON FIVANCE GROLP RGANZE i Corporation Will Loan Grow- ers 9 Cents Per Pound on Withheld Surplus. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., November 2.— The Central Agricultural Finance Cor- poration, with a proposed capitaliza- tion of $2,750,000, was organized here yesterday as a step in the plan to retire the surplus bales of this year's cotton crop. Bankers representing five States in the Memphis territory elected L. K. Salisbury, Memphis cotton grower and banker, to head the company which is designed to provide a huge pool for lending to cotton growers in an effort to store 600,000 bales for a period of 18 to 20 months. Having named six vice presidents, a board of directors and an executive committee, the conference authorized legal counsel to draw up necessary papers and make application for a charter. A committee on subscription of capital stock will proceed at once to procure pledges from bankers and financial institutions of the territory. The conference, attended by approxi- mately 100 bankers and planters of west Tennessee, west Kentucky, north Mississippi, Arkansas an southeast Missourl worked with de- termined enthusiasm for several hours over details of forming the rellef corporation. Under the plan sponsored by Eugene Meyer, chairman of the Fed- eral Cotton Commission, the stock of the corporation will be used as a basis of borrowing at 10 to 1 from the intermediate credit banks of the Fed- eral Farm Loan Board. Execution of the plan will make available $27,500,- 000 for the retirement pool. Cotton owners who store thelr bales will be loaned nine cents a pound on their products, giving ware- house receipts for security. it SN i TEN HORSES DIE IN FIRE. Harness Racers Caught in $75,000 Blaze at Driving Par! LIMA, Ohio, November 2 (#).—Ten harness race horses were purned to death last night when a $75,000 fire destroyed the main barn at tye Lima Driving Park. The horses were own- ed by Irvine Ridenour, Orlle Parks, L. G. Lerch and John R. Ashton. STUDY OF JUSTICE URGED BY HUGHES Defects Due to Lack of Train- ing, He Says, Opening Harvard Campaign. By the Assocta BOSTON, the admin | out the country ar | lack of equipment training those who administ . Charles E Hughes ary of State aid last night r at the Har vard Club, opening wpaign to | raise an endowment of $3,000,000 for the Harvard Law School. “The multiplication of laws, unnec- essary delays in vindicating rights, unpunished crimes, the lack of adap- tion of the law and its machinery to new condition: i lect upon ! apacity fc government,” When we of bills introduced, probably most of them introduced Wy lawyers, at each séeslon of otir Leislagures, the pleth- . ora of new statutés turned out by our law factorles, the crowded calendars of courts, the increasing volume of law reports, which has. made thin paper the only salvation of our Ii- braries, it would seem that we are suf- fering from what may be called un- due process of law. “And when we reflect upon the law- lessness in great communitles and the unwholesome spectacles afforded by sensational criminal trials we cannot escape the conclusion that we are lamentably remiss in our primary so- clal duty.” Gifts of $5,000 each were announced from Dean Roscoe Pound, Prof. Jo- seph H. Beale and Samuel Williston of the law school. Defects in through- f- = REPORTS TO PRESIDENT. Dr. Weizmann Tells Executive Zionists’ Work Gaining Rapidly. Dr. Charles Weizmann, president of | the World Zionist Organization, called lat the White House yesterday, with H. Getty Chilton, charge d'affaires of {the British embassy, and told Presi- |dent Coolidge that rapid progress is {being made in the reconstruction of the anclent Jewish national homeland in_Palestine. Dr. Weizman arrived in the United ’Slalefl from Europe recently on his | fourth visit in the interests of the | Zionist movement. He returned to [New York last night and will soon | begin an extensive tour of the United States. Verdict for Defendant. A verdict in favor of the Marlow Coal Co. was rendered yesterday by a Jury in Circuit Division 2, before Jus- tice Siddons, in the suit for $25,000 damages brought by John H. Carter, 208 Tenth street. Carter charged that he had been permanently injured by being struck By a truck of the com- pany near his place of business No- vember 25, 1924. Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman and Austin F. Canfield appeared for the compan: EEEEs Persia will spend m 181,000,000 on its highways 3.'1&:."32 next year.