Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1927, Page 13

WHEN THE CIRCUS Man”’ invites the INVADES tallest in London. to take a ride in his hansom glant demurs after scanning the dimensions of the vel advertising the arrival of the Olympic Circus, - LONDON. The “world’s shortest b. But the le. They are England’s biggest show Copyright by P. & A. Photos. THE WORLD'S LARGES as the largest in captiv is feeding , but as one of the most capable circus performers in England. staliment of the 400 pounds of fish he consumes daily. This 17-foot elephant seal is not only distinguished One of his keepers s he is appropriately right by P. & A. Photos. repertoire. Mrs. James Wire of Kountze, Tex., says bobbed hair has no charms for her as she exhibits these plaited locks that just escape the ground. Wide World Photot LIBERTY BELL RI wife of Philadelpl S IN NEW* YEAR. 's mayor, strikes the ndepender Hall with a gold-tipped mallet as the new year is born. Mayor Kendrick ds be chain of stations. sta WINTER SPORTS IN FULL SW) ING. Enjoying one of the most popular Winter sports in Canada. Tobogganing at its best is found on this famous slide at the Chateau Frontenas in Quebec. While the tobogganist risks an occasional spill, the results are rarely serious. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. METROPOLIT! star of his home town. DEBUT. of Nashville, Tenn., as the bearded king has_just made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera Co. beginning his career as a singer, MacPherson was a sandlot base ball &%333’%» Joseph T. MacPherson, basso, | 1 Verdi's “Aida,” in which he | Before | inaugural ceremony in the Assemb | Albany. | Acme Photos. before the microphone. TAKES FOURTH GUBERNATORIAL OATH. ork taking the oath of office as governor for his fou Secretary of State Florence E. S. k Al Smith of New h term, at the State Capitol at sters the oath Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Gov. chamber of the NECK-AND-NECK OVER THE JU take the water jump de his wife as the bell tones are bro Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. deast by radio through 'MP. England’s best steeplechasers in the Pegasus Handicap at Galwich, with the flying bodies of horses and riders reflected in the pool. The horse Jack Horner, winner of the Grand National, which, placed third in this race, is seen at the left. Wide World Photos. - NEW FIGHT LOOMS " ONGUN ELEVATION House Naval Committee Drafts Bill to Increase Range of Warships. By the Associated Press. A renewal of the old fight to have guns on American warships elevated to increase their range to equal that of British ships was forecast today when it developed that autherity for the work probably would be sought in a bill drafted by members of the House naval committee. s Two years ago the House voted an appropriation for such changes, but they were held up on the ground that the agreements reached at the arms conference might be violated. Later the appropriation was withdrawn. Butler Favors Measure, Chairman Butler tosed the plan of committe uthorize *the gun elevations, he would vote for the proposed bill. He ported the administration’s position two years ago, he said, because of the prospect of world naval disarma ment. Now, he said, “they have had thefr meeting and have walked away with their hands in their pockets.” The chairman agreed with other members of the committee, he said, that the British avy, with its first line guns at a higher elevation than those of the United States Navy, b who dis en to said Part of Brain Gone Boy of 10 Retains His High Mentality By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 3.—Despite the fact that he recently lost five ounces of his brain in an accident, Alfonso Bedra, 10 years old, is de- cribed as above the average men- tally. . The hoy suffered a cut in his head when struck by an automo- bile and lost part of his brains from: the occipital region. He re- covered after an operation and was given an examination by Dr. Fran- cis Gerty, superintendent of the Psycopathic Hospital. Dr. Gerty said the boy is above the average mentally and described his physical condition as excellent. The youth’s only difficulty is that he is unable to see when he looks to the right because of an injury to the left occipital lobe of the brain. Shas it $50,000 IN PRIZE FOR WILSON ESSAYS| Foundation Aims to Influence Study of Principles of ‘War President, By the Associated Press. SW YORK, January 3.—With the aim of inducing the youth of the tion to study the principles of Wood row Wilson, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation has announced two prizes of §25,000 each to be given the young a 2000 or 3,000 yard ad e and could us in battle.” Action Planned. be sought by Mr. to authroize 10 avy. He intro. ¢ with the support when it was found the rtment appropriation bill djd not provide funds for con struction of three cruisers already au- thorized Other members ¢ indicated they will appropriation me: the i floor least n ships ARRESTED AS SLAYER. itshoot Early wetion will committee k to amend the e when it reaches to include funds at construction of three the | man and woman who write the best {article on the subject, “What Wood- row Wilson Means to Me." All residents of the United States [.between 20 and 35 years of age are [eligible to compete. ‘The articles are | not 1o ex 500 words and the con- | g n Getober 1 4 “‘most out the title will win the awards the jury ‘decides that none is worthy of an award It was announced that a special donation made the awards possible. NOTED VETERAN DIES. Capt. Roberts, One of Two Living Men Who Talked to Jackson. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan pt. John Kelly Robert | | | D. C. Colored Man Brought Back From Baltimore. Evans, colored, 25 wenty-sixth street, al slay of Samuel Lu of 2600 1 . at Year eve celchration 4 was located Baltime throu; torts of d Nelll zomery « recinct PrEvans rrested } more 1 : turned he: Petective ¥ \ « 1 coroner’s jur cd at the morgue J. Ramsay Nevitt and the action of the grand jury. oner committed him. to jall, Jesse years old a New H street vesterday n Mc third the Balti b by by Coror was held for The cor- of the two living men who knew ' with Gen. Andrew President of the Unite | died here yesterday | The death of Capt | was born Janu leaves Capt. W. E. McE Roane Count; Tenn., the sole living man who kne: Gen. Jackson, according to John T. Moore, State historian. Roberts, who Fire Laid to Children. Children playing by the vo pouss ible for settin iree in the home of Irene War n, 1746 Willard street, about 9 mate with ties to have GOODWILL FLYERS REPORT PROGRESS At Guatemala City Ready for Next Hon on 20,000- Mile Journey. By the Associated Press. GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, January 3.—A short hop of 55 miles to San Jose, Guatemala, and then the 110 miles to San Salvador are the next stages ahead of the U. S. Army good will flyers. The five amphibian planes came down on the flying field here at 1:05 o’clock yesterday afternoon, complet- ing the 383 miles from Salina Cruz, Mexico, in 5 hours 55 minutes With the completion of the sixth leg, the flyers have put a little over 1,400 miles behind them in their 20,000-mile journey which began at San Antonio, Tex., December 21. Their route will take them down the west coast of South America, across Chile and Argentina to Buenos Aires, and thence northward, to end at Washington, D. C. Welcome by President Chacon. President Chacon of Guatemala, sur- rounded by cabinet officials and mem bers of the diplomatic corps and a great crowd of citizens, welcomed the American flyers after they landed. They were presented by Geissler, the Ameri i “I am very pl plished the journey to without mishap,” the clared. “Your visit is great satisfaction to the and people of Guatemala, name I welcome you.' Maj. Herbert A. Darque, command- er of the flight, who landed first in his plane, the New York, thanked the president and presented a’letter from President Coolidge. Then, the band played “The Star Spangled Ban- ner” and the crowd cheered loudly. President Coolidge’s Message. President Coolidge’s letter, which has made a deep impression on the government and people of Guatemala, says, in part: I trust that your excellency will see in the visit of these American aviators another evidence of the ar- dent desire of the Government and people of the United tes to pro mote understanding and better ac- quaintance between the two govern ments and peoples—an object which was the chief motive inspiring the undertaking of the voyag DEATH TOTAL FIXED AT 4. HANOVER, An you my country lent de matter of government in whose hé ruins and a careful check of all boarders fixed | the death total at four in the which destroyed the boarding house of the E. H. Clapp Rubber Co. here. Four bodies were recovered Satu | day and no more were found by vo unteers who cleared awey the debris ies Wallace, 60, of Hanover; Philip Grushey, 15, of : | o'clock last night. The fire did $50 damages X Rockland; George and Kiler McPher- #on, brothers, of Nova Bcotia, , fire, ANCIENT YEW TREE TREASURE OF CATHEDRAL GARDENS HERE Giant English Plant Found Among Ruins‘ of Old Port Royal Estate Dug Up and | | | Brought to Capital on Truck. | An ancient yew, the finest known ¢pecimen in the new world, which probably was brought from England as a sapling during the seventeenth century, now is one of the moet treas- ured of growing things in the bishop's garden at Washington Cathedral. This old tree, beautiful in itself and given a semi-human personality by the richness of medieval tradition which surrounds it, was found this Fall growing in a ruined garden at Port Royal, Va. The garden itself and its owners long since had van- ished and the yew was left standing alone. The yew in English tradition is the tree of ghosts and forgotten wars. hades mossy churchyards. From its boughs were fashioned the long bows of the wars of the roses. It is very rare in the United States. It was brought to Washington late in November under the direction of the All-Hallows Guild of the Cathe- dral, the oranization primarily in- terested in beautifying the landscape of Mt. St. Alban’s. The transplanting was an_adventuge in itself, it is re- vealed by Mrs. Florence Bratenahl, chairman of the garden committee. SHIPBUILDING MERGER WILL BE NATION-WIDE Plan for Protecting Industry in All Branches Perfected on Atlantic Coast. By the Assoe led Press, PHILADELPHIA, January solidation of all branches of shipbuild- ing into a closely knit organization, tion-wide in scope, for the proter tion and advancement of the industry, has been perfected by the Atlantic Coast Shipbuilders’ Association, it as announced last night. 2 has been accomplished through the creation of g national committee. s ahd ship repairers lo- port of the United States, according to Clarence Samuel King, secretary of the association, sciation’s Philadelphia office becomes a national clearing house for information on all matters requiring co-operative effort in the construction and maintenance of ships. The com- | mittee will ‘be made up of 67 ship- builders and ship repairers. After a week of packirg and crating the caravan, a powerful truck and trailer, started from Port Royal at daybreak and kept on all day over the Tidewater trail. They stopped all night at Quantico and started again early the next morning. The whole weighed 15 tons, far too heavy a load for the bridge at Occo- quan Creek, which was marked for a capacity of only six tons. There was no other’way to get to Washington and the truck and trailer finally were peeded across, with the bridge bend- ing under them. Tt required a whole day to maneuver the trec on rollers to its Ic jon 1in | the boxwood garden at the Cathedral, a distance of about 500 feet. Then it was necessary to wait two days be- fore it could be planted. It finally was placed in the nole dug for it on a bitterly cold day. A dedication was_held on Monday, November when the Dean of Chester, then a guest at the Cathedral, threw seven shovelfuls of earth on the yew. Bishop Freeman opened the service with prayer. The ancient tree seems to be thriv- Ing in its new location. $50,000 SWINDLE BALKED BY PRIVATE DETECTIVE Alleged Confidence Man, Nabbed in Wisconsin, Also Implicated in $314,000 Florida Fraud. By the Associated Press. i SUPERIOR, Wis., January 3.—A swindle involving §50,000 was frus- trated terday by a private de tective, who nabbed an alleged con- fidence man in Superior who had chosen as his victim a wealthy Du- luth widow. Search for the con- fidence man began in Florida last February, when a Miami widow was fleeced of $314,000. Three, possibly four, men, high in banking and mining circles in Duluth, had -been_marked as prospective vic- tims, R. E. Mason, St. Paul, superin- tendent of a private detective agency, ced from Minneapolis Friday, . H. Wheeler, about 50, alias 3. Randolph Atkinson, is in jail in Su- perior waiting to be returned to Miami, Fla., to face an indictment returned by Dade County grand jury charging conspiracy and fraud upon complaint of Maude E, Brickell. He will not fight extradition, Wheeler in- formed Mason. Autoist Robbe¢ on Bridge. Two colored men and a white man held up Benjamin James, 2144 L street, near the north end of Anacos- tiaBridge, foot of Eleventp street southeast, early yesterday morning. | James said he was robbed of $22.15] and a spare tire, tube and rim. London Bobby’s Courtesy Lapses. LONDON, January 3 (#).—The London bobby, commended the world over for his courtesy and good tem- per, has just received a reproach. Sir William Horwood, commissioner of | the metropolitan police, has issued a memorandum saying he has received many justifiable complaints of impo- Jitenes he part of the police and remarl To be polite costs nothing. Impoliteness lowers the standard of the whole police force in the estima- tion of the public,” B [4 James described the trio and said he could ideptify thems THREE STUDENTS END DREARY LIVES Two Shoot Themselves on Yule Holidays, While Third Jumps From Bridge. By the Associated Pre NEW YORK, January Three students, home on Christmas vaca- tions, have committed suicide after concluding that life had nothing more to_offer them. Rigby Wile, 16-yearold student at the University of Rochester, found life “barren and futile 21, of the Univers lieved he had expes had to offe of Brooklyn of accounts queer” to mar nced all that life > Alfred Kehoe, ple and a stus Life “Dark and Worthless.” Wile, author and or sinai rifle er re- Wile, son of Dr. Ira of books on mental disturbances abrormalities in children and dir of the mental clinic at Mount Hospital, shot himself with Satufday night in New York tiring at_his home. thing is dark and worthless,” he wrofe in a farewell note to his parents, stating he had found life “barren and futile,” Dr. Wile said he thought his son's act was' the result of convincing but faulty Interpretation of his philosophy of life. Dean Charles Hoeing of the Univer: sity of Rochester characterized him as an extraordinarily brilliant student, while fellow students said he seemed normal in all of his college relation- ships. Shoots Hiiself at ry. Joseph Moore, whose father is physician at Guanajusto, Mexico, died in a hospital at Aurorn, 11l., yesterday of bullet wounds seif-inflicted during a New Year eve party. He left a note in which he said he “had expe- rienced all that life had to- offer and, therefore, was better off dead.” Kehoe, who jumped from Washing- ton- Bridge over the Harlem River in Manhattan yesterday, left a note in which he referred to a girl, Eleanor, who believed he was “too queer” to ma. He had been crippled from birth. - He became depressed at a New Year eve party, at which his friends danced, but which was impossible for him, due to his lamenes: TETANUS FATAL TO THREE Christmas Fireworks Claim An- other Victim in Macon, Ga. MACON, Ga., January 3 (P).—The third victim of tatanus from use of fireworks on Christmas died in a hospital here last night. He. was Seaborn Woodard, 9-year-old negro. The previous victims were white boys. All were bugmed with blank ecar idges used in pistols. he hosplal announced_that ten persons had $een treated with tetanus antitoxin d@ring the day because of S . a| |Hungry Deer Runs |> Miles After Hay Wagon; Wins a Feed By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Janu- A hungry deer pursued Richard Kefter, who was driving a delivery wagon loaded with hay and apple: Kefter says the deer followed him for five miles, in- sing its pace as he speeded up, until he finally threw out some hay and apples. The deer thereupon called off the chase. ' KANN SONS COMPANY PLANS HUGE BUILDING Will Construct Department Store at 13th and F Streets to Cost Near $5,000,000. 8. Kann Sons and Company will construct a building costing between $4,000.000 and $5,000,000 at Thirteenth and F streets to house their depart- ment store, it was officially made known by the officers of the company today. This bore out the annoynce. ment in The Evening Star two week: ago that Kann’s would move from its present location at- Eighth and Market space and take over the Homer building, on the northeast cor- ner of Thirteenth and F streets. The remodeling and enlargement of the Homer buildin; s well as the building next door, 1219 F* street, will begin early in 1 when all the leases “on the present structure will expire. The organization will move the latter part of 1929, it is expected according to the official announc ment. ‘The plans for the new store | being drawn by Starrett Van Vleck, architects, who designed Lord Taylor's and Saks department stores in’New York. They will collaborate with Abppelton P. Clark, jr., of this city, designer of the Homer Building. C. A. Wheeler of Chicago will be the in- terior decorator and fixture architect. The entire structure will be of the latest design and equipment. All deliveries will be made through the new warehouse recently built at Delaware avenue and C street south- west to avold traffic congestion, it was stated. U. S. EMPLOYES DECREASE | Net Reduction of 129 Shown by % No\’ember Figures. A net reduction of 129 during No- vember ip sthe total of Government employes,in Washington was shown in figures made public today by the Civil Service Commission, which placed the | total on November 30 at 59,489, There were 736 additions and 865 separations during the month. i The largest turnover came in the | ‘War Department, where 99 additions | were more than balanced by, 183 sepa- | | rations, a net loss of 84 employes. The | Treasury Department also. showed a large turnover with 83 additions and | Ormi are | “Miss NEW LEAD PROBED N WFPHERSON CASE {Inquiry Centers on Woman at El Paso Hotel Before Aimee’s Return. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 3.—A new investigation of the movements of Aimee Semple McPherson last Sum- mer, during the time she declares she was held for ransom by kidnapers, has been started by the district at- torney’s office, the Times says. The inquiry centers on a hotel registra- tion in El Paso, Tex., two days prior to the evangelist's reappearance in Mexico. ¢ A woman who registered at an El Paso hotel remained there a day |and a night after June and de- parted on a westbound train which t through Douglas, Ariz., approxi- ely 10 hours before the evangelist found in Agua Prieta, Sonora, s the boundary from Douglas. Check Ormiston’s Movements. | The investigators are attempting to determine whether the woman who registered at the El Paso hotel was one or accompanied by other per- sons. They also began a check of the movements of Kenneth G. Ormiston, former Angelus Temple radio man, a codefendant with Mrs. Me- her mother, Mrs. Minnie , and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice and suborn perjury. The officers said they believed that n had parted in Chicago with the woman whom he has identified as X.” nad about Junme 20 re- turned to Seattle, and from there came to Californ The route backtracked that which they charge the radio man and his mysterious woman companion had taken when they left Carmel, Calif., hurriedly May 29. Records to Be Produced. The authorities last night took steps to obtain the original reglstra- tion books of the EI-Paso hotel for June 19, 20, 21 and 22, to submit them to handwriting experts. “I don't care what they claim to have uncovered in the way of trans. continental jaunts,” said Mrs. Me- Pherson when informed of the new developments. “Mr. Ormiston may have traveled about the eountry while I was in the hands of kidnapers. I have already stated that I was not ‘Miss X' He said his companion was ‘Miss'X." I was not at Carmel, an_ghmast -mm‘as ll;.nt." e State in the conspiracy case has contgnded that the woman with Ormistor'at Carmel was Mrs. McPher- son. — «~ Honor Bmo‘n on Birthday. In celebration of the seventy-fifth’ birthday anniversary of Representa- tive Theodore 1. Burton of Ohio, his colleagues ‘in the Ohio delegation will attend a banquet Thursday night in the Willard Hotel, as guests of Rep- 143 separations, a net loss of 60 em- resentative Martin Davey, of Kent, Obio, ~o A