Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1927, Page 6

GHAMPION FATHER - DANGES YEAR OUT * Man, 72, Celebrates Prior to| Bringing 34 Children o See President. A Br_the Associated Press WILLIAMSTON, N ‘champion father of the United | fiddled and clog-danced while was making its advent. Reuben Bland, 72-year-old father of 34 children, is a& famed as a fiddler and f£lag dancer in Martin County as he expacte to he throughout a wider sec- . tion of territory next week when he journeys to Washington to pay 7 ¥iWt to President Coolidge and Con Eress. Riand laid claim to the pater champlonship recently after a Geo farmer who had fathered 28 children . was introduced to Congress and the President. Tmmediately he decided he would go te the National capital and let Mr. | Crolidge and the members of Cc | gaze "von a father “who is a f: {-He plons to leave Wednesday Bland . has been married twic There were 15 children by his fir *wife and 19 by the present Mrs. Bland. . Only 15 are living and the oldest is 50 and the youngest 10 The number of grandchildren will not be, known, Bland said, until after . the annual inventory this month. He “mdid he thought there were 3 great- ¥ grandchildren Since it became known that claied the a father, wait One letter from a woman in the West proposed marriage and another was from a patent medicine concern | seeking testimonials. | Bland is uneducated and farms a simall tract of land near here. January 1 al a | { | | | Bland {onal championship as he has been deiuged with | | Rurgeon for Charleston Fans. January 1 UP).—So many plaints of “Charleston | ‘Charleston ankle: de- | veloped because of the strain of the | energetic dance, that C. B. Cochran | has retained the services of Wilfred | Smith, manipulative surgeon, for his | _Charjeston Hall. AR Here we are with the “big boy” of Sales—the 1_'e_al one!! The Fashion Shop’s Winter Clearance SALE Just as the New Year begins, the real “big boy” of sales is making its annual visit to Washington. while your resolution to save money the coming year is still “hot,” comes your chance to save a lot of it! The sale of sales—the Fashion Shop’s once-a-year | By the Associated Pr | paid, First New Year Washingtonian Arrives at 12:02 A boy born to Mr. and Mrs. John Epner Sawyer of 2211 Naylor road southeast, in Sibley Hospital, two minutes past midnight, yesterday morning, was probably “the person to become a native Wash ingtonian in the vear 1927. The native population was also in creased by thre® additional visits of the stork during the day. The other births were a daugh- ter born to Mr. and Mrs. Hubert S. Moore of 1008 1 street south west, at Columbia Hospital at 5 yesterday: a son to Mr. and ph O'Donnell, 502 ist, born in Sibley , and a daughter Raymond Juncal, avenue at 11:15 FRENCH HOLIDAY TRADE Hospital at to Mr. and M 5115 xlh(-'rh 50 PER CENT NORMAL | Trop in Buying Due to Increase in Value cf Franc Without De- cline in Prices. PARIS, Janyary remembered the children of France as usual last week, but very few grown- ups received as many of the tradi- tional ‘New Year gifts as they were wont to in the past. Purchases for year-end remem- brances generally make quite an item in the French family budget. The rapid rise in the franc without an: fall in prices brought about a tight- ening of purse strings this time, how ever, the public being of a mind to wait better values. During the holiday shops were filled with visitors as much as in previous years, but busi- fess was 50 per cent below the turn- over of the previous season. The working cla relatively well went in_strongly for retrench- ment, as there was _considerable alarm over the laying off of artisans in several industries during Decem- while in others there have heen pects of temporary stoppages or reductions in personnel. b season the More thah 600 Jewish workers are | busy in building roads and construct. ing drainage work in the Hanifa Bay development project in Pales- tine R Winter Clearance is on. Hundreds One and .2 PANTS of SUITS Including Those Celebrated DOUBLE-WEAR SUITS OVERCOATS REDUCED 23" 133 Grades up to $40 $437 Grades up to $50 5 Grades Up to $65 1.—Santa Claus | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. D. €, JAN UL\RY 2, 1927—PART _1. THE SUNDAY NEW YEAR GAYLY GREETED IN ALPS Flu Raging in Lower Levels| of Switzerland, While Heights Are Merry. By the Associated Press. GSTAD, Switzerland, January 1. [ Influenza ‘which has fastened itself in lemic form on the inhabitants of Switzerland living on the lower levels had no terrors for the thousands of merrymakers who joyously greeted the New Year on Europe's roof—the | Swiss-French Alps. American and Englishmen, includ- {ing many distinguished figures, pre- dominated in the crowds that gam- bolled in the gorgeous sunshine in the high altitude Winter resorts. Condi- tions were unusually ideal as a_ cold snap froze the skating rinks hard and | packed down the skiing and bobsled sourses. A a result, the Alps, with a ow a foot deep, have literally been ringing with lgughter from the heaith | and merriment seekers. Every hotel and chalet was packed, the skiing and bobsled courses were jammed, while large galleries followed the international matches in every Winter sport, especially hockey and skiing. Fancy dress balls were indoor at- tractions at all the leading hotels. The Winter sports costumes this year are more varied than ever be- fore, with girls showing a_ preference for dark breeches with double-breasted | coats having big pockets, bright-col- ored scarfs and red leather hats. A series of bobsled accidents has be. (allen the more daring sports lovers who ventured to slide down the main mountain roads instead of sticking to the regular courses. Kight Swiss were Injured, in one accident when their bobsled crashed into the read end of an automobile. Hollywood Wins German. BERLIN, January 1 (®.—Conrad Veidt, popular German motion picture who has just returned from 'wood, declared to the German press that his two months abroad | were the happiest of his whole life. | He is proud of the fact that he was | the first of the German movie stars | to reach Hollywood Now, PR P D I N 2P U1l "N . T ol 50 'BULLDOZING PRESIDENT BEGINS U.S. DIPLOMAT! S FOREIGN CAREER Day a By the Associated Press. “Join the Navy and see the world" is an alluring call to adventurous voung Americans, but who would as- sociate spicy adventures in strange lands with the sedate young consuls nd budding diplom service? They don't look the part, one thing, and yet- Not so long ago a new charge d'af falres, fresh from Washington, arrived to relieve the American Minister at a foreign station. He was dumped ashore, with wife, bag and baggage, to find a legation car waiting and a lanky young American, in showy uni- form dnd with two guns strapped to his waist, who asked a ride to the presidential palace on the road to the legation. He got the ride, and en route breezily explained that he was a special secret envoy of the President. Protests Stranger’s Arrest. At the palace door the “secret en- voy” got out and blithely stepped for- ward, only to be checked and taken prisoner by the bayoneted rifies of the bare-footed palace guard. The charge, in horror of what might happen, leaped to the rescue of a fellow coun- tr-man. He demanded surrender of the prisoner into hig custody until ex planations could be had. Failing that, he demanded instant audience the President. Finally they were ad- mitted to the palace with an auto- matic_pistol still tickling the ribs of the charge’s now less breezy young companion. A small much-flustered officlal ap- peared. On learning the diplomatic status of the charge, he apologized and ordered the prisoner released in custody of the diplomat. They started out, but found their car missing, wife, baggage and all. A palace underling had ordered it away. The charge boiled over. Rushing back, he shook the little official by the shoulder and demanded a palace car at once. He got it, with more apolo- gies. At the legation he learned that the man he had befriended—and who was later deported as undesirable— was what he had claimed to be, but « for Suite. Picks Up Strangcr. Loses Auto and Gets Officer of Guard Arrested First ts of the foreign | with | Genuine Mahogany Dining Room 10 pieces complete.......... Dining Room suite of Walnut and Gumwood. 10 pieces complete. .. | t Post. | was suspected of double-crossing his | employer. | Next day the charge was officially Introduced at the palace. He was ap- palled to find the flustered little man he had shaken up and bellowed at was the President. Also he discovered that the officer of the guard that took “secret envoy” prisoner had gone calaboose for ten days in pun- ishment. Still Jater, when the charge and the President had become yery friendly, the American official feit called upon to assume the pedcemaker role in an impending revolutionary crisis and set out into the back lands to talk with the rebels. The Presi- dent insisted on a body guard, who appeared in the person of the recently | jailed officer. “It's all right,” the President ex- plained to the dubious American. “He | bears you no grudge. “And besides; he's the best in the army.” | shot | il BOYCOTT IS DECLARED ON PARIS RED EMBASSY By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 1.—The Russian chauffeurs of Paris with Czarist pref- erences—and they are numerous—have declared a boycott on the Sbviet em- bassy in the Rue de Grenelle. Any | one asking to be taken to No. 79 in that aristocratic left-bank street is liable to be deposited almost any where en route on the pretext that the machine has run out of gaso- line, that a tire is leaking, or some- thing of the sort. For a time, persons having busi ness with the Red Ambassador’s staff were able to get somewhere near the embassy by giving numbers in the 708, but the Muscovite chauffeurs caught on to that tr Nowadays, the only sure way to approach the embassy—in the event the driver is a Russian—is to give the addre: the ministry of education, 1k 709-711-713 TWELFTH ST “The House CHRONIC ESCAPER FREE TENTH TIME, Ralph Lee, Held in Indiana on, Murder Charge, Has Rec- ord in Four States. By the Asmaciated Press. FRANKLIN, Ind., January 1.-- Ralph Lee, who has been playing hide and seek with the law 15 of his 28 rs, still is free, after his tenth escape from confinement here New Year eve. Lee, with two fellow pris oners, beat a deputy sheriff into un- consciousness to attain liberty from the Johnson County jall, where he was being held to answer a charge of murder during an attempted grocery hold-up at Indlanapolis in July, 1924. Posses of officers and citizens are arching Johnson County for the criminal. while authorities in other parts of Indiana and in adjoining States are on the lookout. Record in Four States. Lee has escaped from State prisons, State reformatories and State farms as well as city and county jails in In- diana, Arizona, Washington and Tennessee. The bandit's periods of freedom have been short.lived and in most in- stances he has been recaptured with- out a demonstration of force. Lee first began playing tag with law and order in 1911 in his “home town” of Edinburg, Ind, where he was convicted of burglary. He was sent to the Boys’ School at Plainfield He escaped after nine months. Arrested in 1914. In 1914, when he was 16, Lee stole a huggy=at Columbus, Ind. By out- scuffling a city Jjall he escaped. Two years later he was apprehended for forgery at Coleville, Wash., con- victed and sent to the State reforma tory at Monroe. After 14 days he scaled the wall to freedom. . He was arrested at Tombstone in i917 for robbery and was sentenced to the State prison for 5 to 20 years. Three years was sufficient time for him to effect his escape. Six vears later Lee was caught on a chicken stealing charge at Martins- | seribed in relation to his family, ville, Ind. A year's sentence to the ate farm terminated in 60 day: NEW NOVEL BY GORKY SOON TO BE PUBLISHED “Decadence” Traces Family of Factory Owners Through Three Generations. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 1.—A new novel by Maxim Gorky is tg be published in England this month. He calls it “De sadence,” and with his characteristi cally mordant pen traces the fortunes of a family of Russian factory owners. through three generations, First, there is the sturdy peasant, who by his indomitable purpose cre- ates the firm, and last there are his grandchildren, whose shoulders are not strong enough to bear the burden of their inheritance, The chief character is Pyotr Arta- monov, whose life is minutely de to the | outside world and to his own inner consciousness. “‘Decadence” begins in the czarist times and covers the World War, the Russian revolution.and bol. 8 when he walked out. He was recap- tured and recelved 1 to 14 vears in the reformatory. Grocer Slain in 1924. Iee was there seven months. The | convict was arrested in Indianapolis two days later, returned to the re- fermatory and a month afterward was free again. Abner Peek, an Indianapolis grocer, was slain on July 4, 1924, dur- ing & hold-up of his store. Lee was arrested for the crime at Seattle, Wash. Then followed two escapes from the Johnson County jail. Later in the year Lee was convicted in Knoxville, Tenn., for robbery and sentenced to 15 years. While being held at the Knoxville city jail he es- caped but seon was retaken. On April 9, 19; caped from the Tennessee State prison at Nashville. He was arrested at Buffalo, N. Y., on April 19 and re- turned to Indiana te face a jury here fore the Peek murder® The jury dis- agreed, Lee was to g0 on trial again next month, R R Y, Wireless Pictures in China. A German company has announced that it is erecting a wireless station at Mukden, China, for the purpose of ex perimenting with _wireless photo- graphs, and when the trials are com- pleted another station will be estab- lished at Peking. Eventually all of | the Far East will be covered, the an- nouncement say: with the Green Shutters” An Attractive Offering of Lee and 16 others es- |} END OF MASKED BANDS DEMANDED Georgia Sollcltor General Calls for Use of All State Power to Crush Them. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, January 1 nary processes of law have dered “totally inadequate” the situation brought about by & series of recent acts of vieience at- tributed to bands of masked men In ‘vomes County, where a terrorized | populace has been “overawed” by & | swail minority, Solicitor General A. Bradley of the Toombs circuit de- lared in a written report today to Gov. Walker, The report. which dealt with the flogging on Christmas eve of Wim- berly E. Brown, a prominent atterney, near Lyons, stated that the latest outrage had cast a pall ever the town and added that It was “next te Im- possible to obtain even the most meager information” as to the identity of his hooded assailants be- cause a majority of the “good people of the coun stand in terror and horror before “an unknown foe which strikes under a mask.” Because of this, Soliottor Bradley admitted that “it does not seem we can aoccomplish anything” with no more knowledge than the authorities now possess. “In my opinion.” he sald. “the sit uation calls for the exercise on the part of the State of Georgia of every power and resource at its command . to ascertain the perpetrators of this outrage * * * and that the humblest citizens of Toombs County may be offered that protection to whick they are entitled.” Pupils’ Answers Original. 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