Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1926, Page 17

TUNNEY HAS NARROW ESCA PE IN ICY PLUNGE. The heavyweight champion (pulling the sleigh) is shown walking over the ice on Moosehead Lake, near Rockwood, Me., with his holiday companions shortly before he lost his footing the other day in attempting to leap an ice wrinkle and plunged into the water. By forming a human chain his companions were able to pull him out. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. FORSAKES SOCIETY FOR BUSINESS. ter of Illinllrhlfia Colby, Secretary tion, photograpl concern. When she started work intentions were serious, and it was Miss Catherine Colby, daugh- of State in the Wilson administra- ed at her desk in the office of a l’hflad(\lphl& shipping the other day Miss Colby said her not merely an adventure. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. TY'S HOME TOWN TESTIFIES turned to his home at Augusta, the citizens of his home town turned out to give him a testimonial welcome. TO ITS FAITH IN FORMER DETROIT PILOT. When Ty Cobb re- » the other day, after his alleged implication in the new base ball scandal, The diamond veteran, who made a flying visit to Washington yesterday in connection with the alleged scandal, is shown with the bas- ket of flowers presented to him at Augusta. ‘Wide World Photos. ANOTHER KIND OF “SKI” COP. snow covers the ground all Winter and skis are the most practical means of locomotion, Bill Dowling f¢ 10,000-acre beat of snow. HOUGHTON FACES MYSTERIOUS SUIT Woman, Ambassador Says He Does Not Know, Files $50,000 Action. * By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. December 28.—Alan- son B. Houghton, Ambassador to Eng- land, who i{s home on holiday leave, has the role of defendant in mysteri- ous ltigation. The plaintiff in a $50,000 suit for false arrest is a woman whom he denies knowing. Dorothy A. Mason has obtained per- mission from Supreme Court Justice Gavegan to serve papers on Mr. Houghton by mail because she has found it impossible to serve them on him in person. Mrs. Mason alleges, in a supporting affidavit, that Mr. Houghton falsely accused her of robbing him of an heirloom pin and $1,500. The time and place of the arrcst are not given, and aside from her name Mrs. Mason is not identified. Absurd, Says Houghton. Mr, Houghton, who is at his home in Corning, N. Y., denies knowledge of the suit, “The matter is absurd,” he declares, | “for as a maw=r of fact, I do not know who Dorothy A. Mason can be.” Mrs. Mason claims that a deputy sherdff sought to a- dor on December 2 1 he arrived from Europe, hut Mr. Hough- ton landed “surreptitiou protectio ice and sec the sum uld not be served. She she then unsucerss- fully attenipted to serve the papers in Mr.” Houghton's office on Fifth ave- nue and at home. A registered latter addressed to him fafled to bring response, sho claims, and she was re peatedly told over the telephone that the whereabouts of the Ambassador were unknown. She stressed the im- portance of immed service. since Mr. Houghton is reported planning to return to his post in London in an- other week he would be ex- Both Mrs. Mason and her attorney refuse to discuss the case. Tn April, & Nathan B. Chadsey, a lawyer, insisted in serving a sub- poena on Mr. Houghton, as well as on several others, including Dorothy Mason, described as an investigator for lawyers, char a woman. Chadsey was committed to the Manh: State Hospital and was discharged after two months. No details concerning the alleged prosecution of a woman were revealed. Mrs. Mason, in September, 1914, hrought sulf against former Gov. Wil- liam Sulzer for 0, charging that the money was due her for service in his_political campaign. Mr. Sulzer g prosecution of | Up at Lake Placid, N. Y., where ollows the fashion in patrolling his Herbert Photos. Girls With Strong Appetites Best to Wed, Pastor Says By the Associated Press. SKELLINGTHORPE, England, December 28.—Marry the girl who can eat a good breakfast of por- ridge, four or five rashers of bacon, do honest housework, plain sewing and feed the pigs, is the advice of the Rev. Ot. Halliton, of the local parish, to young farmers who are thinking of takeng wives. The clergyman does not think much of the present day pleasure seeking girls, and he admonished the youths not to marry “one of those wasp-waisted girls, or one of those cigarette-smoking, couch- lounging, plano-slaving, jazz- thumping types.” DOYLE DEFENDS - SPRT PICTURES Assails University of Wiscon- sin Professor for Mis- | quoting Him. By the Associated Press. WORCESTER, Mass,, December 28. —Dr. Joseph Jastrow of the Univer- | sity of Wisconsin has drawn the fire of Sir A. Conan Doyle, the noted au- thor and exponent of Spiritualism, be- cause of an add at the recent Clark University symposium of psy |chical research, became known {last night. Sir Arthur, in a letter to Dr. Carl Murchison, who was chairman of the symposium, declares that Prof. Jas- trow made two assertions about his (Doyle's) views which are inaccurate. “The one is,” he writes, “that I | have shown photographs (psychica) { which were not genuine. This is en- tirely untrue. Of all the photographs I have shown (hundreds in number) the only one I ever showed that was | questioned was one I showed, with res- ervations at the time, once in New York. Dr. Prince assured me it was not reliable, and as it was from an American source I took his word and | withdrew it.” | _The Dr. Prince referred to is Dr. Walter F. Prince, president of the | Boston Society of Psychical Research. Referring to Prof. Jz | tion that Doyle “is convinced that | fairies as well as spirits appear In pho- tographs, even when the fairy photo- | graphs show the marks of the shears, | consistent with the Sherlock Holmes conclusion that they have been cut lout of printed fllustrations,” Sir Ar- {thur declares the photographs have | met all criticism. Concluding his letter, he asserts that it made & general denial and said he had heen her attorney when she obtained @ divorce from wind T. Mason, it 1s “Prof. Jastrow who shows ex- strow’s asser- | guest of honor at a dinner a roast cut from the beef w| years old, of Deer Creek, FAD OF FEMIST CRUSADERS EEN Women Advised to Drop Sex- conscious Ideas and Get Down to Work. By the Associnted Press. NEW YORK, December 27.—A plea that women who desire to make | themselves felt in politics next year “take a New Year resolution to drop feministic and sex-consclous ideas and get down to work” was volced to- day by Sarah Schuyler Butler. Miss Butler, -daughter of Nicholas | Murray Butler, president of Columbia | University, is vice president of the { Republican Woman's State Com- mittee. “The day of the feminist crusader in the United States is definitely over,” she said, “and the only way now for women to function fully in | the political field is for them to start at the bottom and learn the game | from the ward canvassing stage on { up. Getting Into Conferences. “There are only two ways for & woman to get invited to important political conferences. One is for her | to be so influential that she is neces- | sary, which is unlikely, and the other is to inspire the leaders with con- fidence in her political judgment. Women need practical experience in the chores of ward and district work, and they should be judged only by re- sults, as men are.” Miss Butler said there is a great need for women in politics, and they are taking more interest every year. They do detail work painstakingly, and she has observed they are capable of great loyalty. Frequently, she | added, they are likely to consider | politics the main interest of life and { not as only one of the necessary ele- i ments of being a good citizen. “To devote the whole of one's life to politics,” she said, “is to warp one’s | point of view. Yet we find that if we | don’t keep our women workers busy hetween campaigns we lose them to | other organizations, other drives, cam- paigns and movements, which will make use of their surplus enthusiasm. Party Loyalty Stressed. “One of the greatest lessons which women should learn is party loyalty. | Women should realize that the two- | party system, with all its faults, is the best instrument to date for demo- | cratic government. Unless the people | have parties, which it can hold re- | sponsible, as it would an individual, | the result 1s something like Mexican chaos, or kaleldoscopic ministries, as in France. | “And, in working for a party, a | woman binds herself to abide by the will of the majority in the organiza- tion. ‘“‘Non-partisan organizations com- traordinary credulity In accepting such storles ; posed only of women are as out of date as the suffrage movement.” SECRETARY JARDINE DINES ON PRIZE BEEF.| The Secretary of Agriculture (second from left) was iven at the Grace Dodge Hotel yesterday, at which the piece de resistance was ich won first prize in the Junior Hereford Club class at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chlcll{‘o. The hotel purchased the beef, which was grown by Eugene Naffziger, 17 P. & A. Photos. Niagara Falls Going Dry in 5100 A. D., As Land Tilts Toward West, Says Expert By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis,, December 28.— Father Time and Mother Nature eventually will settle the lake diver- sion controversy and with no regard to the arguments of either side, Frank B. Taylor, Fort Wayne, Ind., geolo- gist, today told the Geological Society of_America. If the present land tilting in the Great Lakes basin continues the two will step into the picture about 5100 AD., sald Mr. Taylor, and decide in favor of Chicago, causing the four upper lakes to discharge at Chicago and Niagara Falls to go as_the result of uplifting of the land at Buf- falo, Mr. Taylor based his conjecture upon the work of Dr. G K. Gilbert and Sherman Moore, Michigan geolo- ists, whose studies show that in the fake Fiuron region land nas been ris ing during the past 2,700 or 8,000 CITIZENS’ BODY HITS PROPOSED BOND PLAN Randle Highlands Association Pro- tests Issue for Acquisition of Additional Park Property. The Randle Highlands Citizens’ As- soclation last night volced vigorous opposition to the proposed bond issue for the acquisition of additional prop- erty for the District in a resolution adopted at its meeting, in the Foun- tain Memorial Baptist Church, Naylog road and Q street southeast. The sentiment of the session was that such a ‘bond issue would impose on the citizens of the District a use- less burden of taxes and that Con- gress should appropriate out of Fed- eral funds more adequate sums for parks if it deems present,provisions not sufficient to keep pace with the development of the Capital. Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Anacostia Citizens’ Assoclation and a member of the Citizens’ Ad- visory Council, spoke in opposition to the bond issue. ‘The association went on record in fa- vor of better roadways for the Randle Highlands section, especially along R street southeast befween Twenty-sec- ond and Twenty-sixth streets, in or- der that the bus service there may be more regular during wet weather. Other resolutions indorsed William McK. Clayton for people’s counsel on the new Public Utllitles Commission and asked the erection of a junior high school in the section east of the Anacostia River. N. C. S8hoemaker presided over the meeting. Abattoir Plans Denied. Special Dispatck to Tho Star. CLARENDON, Va., December 28.— Reports, which have become wide- spread in the county and which have caused no little uneasiness among civic leaders, that the N. Auth Co. of ‘Washington, D. C., had recently pur- chased a tract of land in Rosslyn for the purpose of establishing an abat- tolr were denied at the company's office today. \ years approximately 148 feet a cen- tury. “Producing the hinge line from Lake Huron to Lake Erie,” Mr. Taylor ex- plained, “shows that in the same pe- riod Buffalo has been uplifted .5 of & foot a century. The hinge line passes about four miles north of Dunkirk, N. Y., and 32 miles south of Buffalo. Belng at the northeast end of the lake, every inch of the uplift at Buf- falo raises the water level of the whole outh of the hinge line the rise of the water level is the same as the rise of land at Buffalo. “Barring human interference, and supposing the rocksill at Buffalo to hold firm, Lake Erie would be raised to the level of Lake Huron.as it was before the present extreme low stage) in about 1,600 years, and in about 1,600 more the upper four lakes would discharge at Chicago and Niagara Falls would go dry.” PERSHING ENROLLS IN BOARD OF TRADE Membership of Organization Now Reaches Total of 2,816, Execu- tive Committee Reports. With Gen. John J. Pershing and Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen heading a new list of members, the Washington Board of Trade yesterday reached a total membership of 2,816. The executive committee at its meet. ing yesterday admitted 36 new mem- bers, which makes an increase of 204 over last year, not counting resigna- tions. Those admitted, in addition to Gen. Pershing and Maj. Gen. Allen, were George A. Baker, J. Herbert Beall, William _F. Brice, Joseph E. Clarl Arthur J. Dinger, G. V. Graham, Au- gustus Gumpert, J. H. Hanna, Rich- ard E. Harrls, J. E. Heberle, Ray- mond H. Hillsinger, Edward H. Johan- sen, Edward K. Jones, Sheridan Kleindienst, H. H. Leffler, John H: { Libby, Harry M. Lockwood, John J. Lynch, Loy Poole, J. A. Probey, Luther R. Ray, F. Douglass Sears, Ernest W. Spink, Colin F. Stam, Al- bert W. Tucker, Frank S. Warfleld, Martin R. West, Robert E. Worthing- ton, Albert E. Yeatman, American Au- tomobile Association, represented by C. P. Clark and Ernest N. Smith, and ] Oftutt Oil Burner Co., represented by | Thomas Offutt and T. E. McGrath. | E. C. Graham, president, presided. Boy in Elevator. ‘While playing in a freight elevator [in the Manor apartments, at 1324 | Monroe street, late yesterday, Osie Ward, colored, 10 years old, of 726 Co- lumbia road, was seriously injured about the legs. Police report he was hurt as he leaped from the elevator while it was in motion. He was treated at Freedmen's Hos- pital. Walter Smith, colored, also 10, Ward's playmate, was not hurt. In- vestigation of the accident, police say, has been referred to the Juvenile Court, . Grant B. Miller, who has just as- sumed his new post here of chief post office inspector,. succeeding Rush D. Simmons.. Mr. Miller for- merly was inspector at Chicago. Henry Miller. GRAYDON ISANED CHCAGDSHERFF Promises to Rout “Hellholes” of County Towns “if There Are Such Places.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 28.—Charles E. Graydon became sheriff of Cook County today with the promise that if there are any ‘“hellholes” in his Jurisdiction, as some members of the county board that elected him think, he would rout them out. “I have been rellably informed,” said William Busse, a board member, as he voted for a successor to Peter M. Hoffman, who resigned because he said the prohibition act could not be enforced here, ‘‘that Mr. Graydon has pledged himself to clean up the ‘hell- holes’ of the county towns. Therefore, | I vote ‘aye’.” Anton Cermak, board president, re- marked that he had not known there were any, and the retiring sheriff in- terpolated the temark that if Commis- sloner Busse knew of such places it was his duty to report them. The new sheriff, asked about the Busse statement, said: “I don't know just what he meant, but if there are such places in Cook County we'll try to find them.” Sheriff Graydon's term will extend until the next county election, which will be in June. Hoffman, who has held political of- fice in Cook County since 1898, recent- 1y .was acquitted of charges of con- spiracy to defeat justice, after he had served 30 days in jail for contempt of court in connection with charges that he had allowed uridue libertles to two beer runners. . In a formal statement, Hoffman as- serted that for four years, “in the face of overwhelming difficulties,” he had ; striven to enforce the prohibition law, but that “the odds have been too great.” In assailing the statute he said that as a private citizen he would *join the large number of' courageous men and women who have organized to bring about a change in this law, which has been forced upon an. un- organized majority by a selfish d misguided, but organized, minority."” Hoffman’s regular term already had expired, but he continued in the office because of the death of P. J. Carr, the Democratic sheriff-elect. Chic Headgear for Navy Nurses. By the Associated Press. The Navy is partial to the ladies. Instead of waiting for Easter the Navy nurses will blossom out in new bonnets, chic chapeaux for stormy weather, on New Year day. Secretary Wilbur has authorized a cap of navy blue waterproofed mate- rial, with cord insignia in embroi- dered gold, and the nurses are author- ized to wear them after January 1. They, howeye¥, are not intended to re- place the regulation Winter blue beaver or white straw Summer sailor hats, nd will be used only in stormy Wa er. Millerand Opposes Ratification of Debt Accord With U. S. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, December 28.—Former President Millerand is “funda- mentally against” ratification of the Washington agreement for funding of the French war debt to the United States, he @eclared in an interview with I'Avenir on the eve of launching his campaign for re-election to the Senate. ‘“We must have confidence in he sald, “We have done well not to ratify the Wash- ington agreement.” BRITISH PURE FOOD BLL RASES ISUES Ban on Prleservatives Caus- ing More General Use of Refrigerators. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 28.—Neville Chamberlain, the minister of health, has his hands full of new problems which will confront the government on January 1, when regulations pro- hibiting or restricting the use of pre- servatives in food ‘become effective. The fight against preservatives has been waged here for years, the dis- pute centering around the use of boric acid instead of benzoate of soda, as was the case in the United States when the pure food bill was up for discussion in Congress. In consequence of the new regula- tions there has been a boom in: re frigerators. As compared to their us. age in the United States, these con. except in the homes of the wealthier class. - . After January 1 the use of pre- servatives will be prohibited or regu- lated in sausages and sausage meat, fruit and fruit pulp, dried fruit, non- alcoholic wines, ginger beers, coffee extracts, pickles and sauces. July 1 next preservatives will be totally prohibited in bacon, ham, and egg yolk, and in 1928 no preservatives will be allowed in butter and cream. Dealers have bitterly “fought the regulations on the ground that they will lead to an enormous waste of EXECUTING THE “ST. MORITZ GLIDE.” Hilda Ruckert, world famous fancy skaters, demonstrate their new skating step at the Swiss Winter resort, for which it is named. do not recommend it for beginners. trivances are almost a novelty here, | cordials and fruit | juices, jams, sugar, beer and cider, | from the bench when the verdict of alcoholic wines, mineral waters and ! Howard Nicholson and They Herbert Photo: REORGIA ATTORNEY LASHED BY BAND Lawyer Who Aided Prosecu- tion of 4 Accused of Mob Killing Is Flogged. By the Associated Prees. LOUISVILLE, Ga., December 28.— The identity of members of a hooded band who kidnaped Wimberly E. Brown, prominent attorney, on & street in Lyons, near here, and flogged him severely Christmas eve was sought today as authorities Investi gated the second act of mob violence in Toombe County within six months. The lawyer, who had alded the State in the recent prosecution of four men charged with the slaying of' ‘Willle Wilson during an attack on his home by robed men on a night last July, was seized in front of a drug- store at Lyons by approximately 30 men, their faces covered by hoods, who drove up in automobiles. He was taken several nilles outside the town just as dusk was falling, whipped, then brought back and flung into the street by his assailants. Court Orders Inquiry. The incident came to light late yes- terday when it became known that Judge R. N. Hardman had received a formal report from offictals at Lyons and had ordered an inquiry. Brown was said to have described the affair to the judge, exHibiting scars on his back caused by a_severe lashing, but he has refrained from making a pub- lic statement. Wilson, whose name had been linked with accusations of sirup thefts in the county, was wdunded fatally last July *6 when he was fired on bv members of a robed band who forcibly entered his home with the apparent intention of kidnaping him. Four Were Acquitted. The four men arrested in connection with the affair, all farmers of the county, were acquitted December 3 after a trial in which Brown assisted Sollcitor A. S. Bradley in the prose- cution. Judge Hardman, who pre- sided at the trial, issued a statement acquittal was returned, declaring: “If hooded men continue to parade the streets at a midnight hour, marauding and preying upon the pub- lic and taking human life, the ht men will be caught some time and then it will be my pleasure to sentence these masked hoodlums to hanging or death in the electric chair. | perishable foodstuffs, and consequent- ly to higher prices. Negro and Wife Held in Murder. ASHEVILLE, N. C. December 28 (P —Willlam Avery, negro, and his wife, Mary, were arrested early today in connection with the alleged slaying of Miss Mary McGuire, nurse, whose “The law does not provide for hooded men to sit in judgment in the dark to administer punishment which they have no power to give.” Governor-Eleot Studies Job. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dacember 28 P).—Gov.-elect Bibb Graves will share the office of Gov. Brandon from today until the day of inauguration, Jan- body wWas found in the negro section of the city early Christmas morning. The negroes were held without hond as accessories after the fact. uary 17. A desk will be provided the incoming executive so that he may be at hand to co-operate with the in- cursbent.