Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1927. ot 7 _— MISSION EX-TREASURER Southern Baptist convention, was in-|ably would be held Thursday after- AMI SEMEN S i dicted here vesterday on four counts nunn.f and at that time the ....;.:: of grand larceny. would likely isdhe a statement on t IS INDICTED IN LARCENY | e first indictment charged him |alleed defalcations, the first stats NATIONAL—"Pigs.” | with the theft of $2,000 on April 15, | ment thus far issued by it A steady two-hour flow of chuckles, S A o | e punctuated now and then by an out- the third, $3,9%6.07 nd the fourth the burst of uncontrollable laughter or a Grand Jury in Richmond. | tear or two—this is “Pigs,” which 34 “within the Sanders has been held opened last night at the National Is Still in Jail. ‘Aiice the” ahortage i his Diserer with Ford and UNA | gy e Associated Press I several weeks | Merkle in the leading roles. s . T A The play, written by Anne Morrison | RICHMOND, Va., January A4--|T85 5 6 qove. corresponding sec A e Nutt, may have | George N. Sanders, former treasurer | retary of the board, sald that the L ] “CONGRESSIONAL” ON AUTO TAGS EXPLAINED AT LAST HOPE OF VETERANS | IN LOANS REVIVED 11926; the second Sanders, Held on Four Counts by | October 20, 18 A Greater Bank for Greater Washington The Bureau Officials Encouraged‘ FEDERAL-AMERICAN by Secretary Mellon’s View of Bonus Outlook. Secretar m's expressed opin fon that the would_accept to boost the hopes of Wete is that the problem > itself before long. Officials already sense & fon favorable to the and cited the fact n the directors of » yesterday morning met s ided to make loans on c regardless of whether the applicant « loan was a customer or not. Harold W. Brejning, assistant di rector of the Veterans’ Bureau in harge*of fi ing the bonus act taid today that the bureau believed Mr. Mellon's statement would have uch weight with banks that few, ex cept the largest ones, would even- tually refuse loans on certificates Merely Expresses Opinion. Although Secretary Mellon did not commit himself beyond saying that “when the banks understanc it (the loan provision by the bonu: they will make loans,” his statement was interpreted in official circles as t of the proposition to , if not While widespr fusal of banks to make loans on soldiers’ bonus tificates, which acquired a loan value for the first time Monda believe the Nume ¢ telegrams were °d from various points of the country from veterans complaining that they had been fused loans. At th > time, Breining 1, the Federal Rese Bank at Philadelphia had sent in a request for 10,000 additional forms, ing a desire of many banks to rate with the law In Baltimore it was said thy eral of the sm banks we ing loans to veterans, the bureau veady having been in receipt of affi davits and papers from one or two banks there. Treasury Shows Confidence. Meanwhile the Treasury, with $400,- 000,000 in its adjusted service certif- icate fund as a pledge to certificates having a loan value of approximately $200,000,000, is confident that bank- ing institutions will make such loans wvhen they re there is no chance for them to lose in these transactions. The Treasury yesterday added to this fund $123,000,000 which is made available to the director of the Vet- erans’ Bureau in meeting obligations which come to the bureau from the banks, this sum added to the fund already in the Treasury for the soldiers’ bonus making a total of $400,000,000. The Treasury, it was emphatized, has nothing whatever to do under the law with the vetergns themselves and cannot advance loans direct to_individuals. s' Bureau is prepared e the legal holder of the certificate defaul said Mr. Breining today. “There will be no unnecess: Mr. Preining stated that he did not # know why the Lanks apparently fail understand the law, since it has been in effect two years, and any bank desiring to get the information ould easily have done ro. As early as December 9 instructions were is sued by the Federal Reserve Board to all member banks. along with the necessary forh: nd affidavits, so that the banks would be in a posi tion to understand the procedure. Fails to Understand Delay. Mr. Breining said he had read with some amazem that it took one bank official here half an hour to y make out the necessary fdrms in con- nection with a loan. “It ought not to take anybody more than five min- utes,” he said Reports received here from many Bastern and some i id, indicate that 5 using loans, but that at least some ure making them. The reluctance of many banks to advance loans already has received brief attention in the House, Repre- sentative Fish, Republican, New York, charging that the banks were attempt- ing to “discredit Congress” by refus- ing to make loans, and Representative Wingo, Democrat, Arkan ssert- ing that it unfair to assume that ell banks were in league to withhold recognition to the former service men in this manner Chairman Green of the ways and means committee agreed with Secre- tary Mellon that the banks eventual Jy would give greater recognjtion to “ the certificate. W. J. Bailey, governor of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank at Kansas Cit expressed the opinion that some ditfonal legislation may necessar to set up machinery to handle the loans. This is a matter which is be- ing looked into by Chairman Johnson of the House veterans' committee country When Representati “people’s busines: Blanton of Texas left his car parked for two hours in the he was asked by park police not to do it again. But Mr. Blanton said he would keep on, as long as he is on the and explained that the “congressional” on his automobile tag meant just that. veway to the Navy Building, melodramic theme of the son return- |ing home in time to stave off the sheriff; one or two of the characters might have been slightly overdrawn, but if so, these things hardly became evident untll some hours later. While Merkle or Ford was on the stage was little time to pick flaws. There was hardly a line spoken by the principals or a moment when either was in evidence when the spec- tator was not smiling or chuckling. aking the parts of Thomas Atkins, jr., qnd Mildred Cushing, a pair of “infahts” in the eyes of the other folk, these two managed to get a finger in the pie of every one else, and in the end they ironed out a whole bale of difficulties. They were at that age, just passed high school graduation, when their elders ap- peared to them woefully lacking in \bility and possessed of that irksome impression that Junior and Mildred were still children. Mildred possessed an uncanny knack of always being present when any information about the private affairs of the others might ;| be garnered and seemed to know how to use this ability to further the aims of the young'pair in taking their fiyer U. 5. LACKS FACTS bility of Strike in Bitumin- ous Fields. Possibility of a bituminous coal strike in the union fields of the coun- try is a contingency on which Gov ernment observers in Washington are | as much at sea as the man in the street. Forecasts of a strike or continuance of work by the union miners beyond | March 31, when the Jacksonville agreement expires, cannot be made on any authority one way or the other. Whether or not the country will have to go through another strike period, such as the 1922 ces ation of work, rests entirely on what is done at the annual conyention of the United Mine Workers of Amer- jea, at Indianapolis, beginning Jan- vary 27. Even then nothing may be definitely known, and, even if there is strike talk at Indianapolis, it may be thwarted by a joint conference of mine union heads and operators, which seems certain to follow closely on the Indianavolis union meeting. Even Lewis Is Doubtful. Even John L. Lewis, president of the mine union, pcofesses mnot to know which way the wind will blow. An official of the union will be in Washington next week, and by that time something may be known of the attitude of the miners Government officials, who are watch- ing the situation closely say that even if there is a strike in the union fields it will come at a time when the country is well fortified with heavy stocks of bituminous coal—near the end of the big consumption period— and that in any event West Virginia coal can go far toward supplying the needs of the Nation. West Virginia is one of the strongholds of the non- union miners, notwithstanding at- tempts extending over many years to intrench the unions in the coal fields of the State. In the meantime Congress has be- fore it legislation whick would set up within an existing Government agency a permanent fact-finding body to report to the President on the state of coal stocks and production. This legislation would also empower the Interstate Commerce Commission, in time of emergency, to give priority to coal cars to points where coal is badly needed. The union coal fields are now oper- ating under the so-called Jdcksonville agreement of 1923, lasting for three years, arranged at a conference at Jacksonville, Fla., which Secretary Hoover attended .as a Government observer. Expires March 31. ‘This agreement expires on March 31, the end of the coal year and set up wage scales, which were an increase over the scales in effect the previous heavy production in West Vir- ginia of coal for export, demanded by Great Britain because of the Brit- ish mine strike, has jumped West Virginia production far above the normal rate. With the increased pro- duction has come a rise in the non- union wage levels, until today they are nearly at the Jacksonville scale and in some cases higher. acking definite word as to which way the mine unions will stand on a strike vote for higher wages and con- INCOAL SITUATION Officials at Sea Over Possi- night. The attempt to enter was made LYON PARK CITIZENS INDORSE ASSOCIATION Vote to Recommend Ratification of Constitution of New Arling- ton District Council. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYON PARK, Va., January 4.—At its meeting in the community house last night the executive committee of the Lyon Park Civic Association voted unanimous recommend, after a few modifications, the ratification of the proposed constitution of the newly organized Arlington District Council of Civic Associations. A similar recommendation was approved at the last meeting of the Civic Association for consideration of the Arlington County Civic Federation. It was announced that the special meeting of the joint committee from Clarendon, Ashton Heights and Lyon Park to secure a new voting preci will be held Friday night at s at the home of R. L. BEacho, Marioh avenue, Ashton Heights. The Woman’s Club will hold a five hundred and bridge party in the com- munity house tomorrow night instead of the business meeting previously announced. Mrs. B. F. Toulotte is in charge of arrangements. COURT DISMISSES PLEA IN SEIZED LIQUOR SUIT Appellate Tribunal Denies Motion for Returning Whisky Found in Brief Case Last March. Judge James Francis Smith of the Court of Customs Appeals, sitting in Criminal Division 3 of the District Supreme Court, yesterday denied the motion of counsel for George L. Cas- sidy for the retyrn of four bottles of whisky taken from a brief case left by the accused in one of the offices of the House Office Building last March. Cassidy was known as the “man with the green hat,” and es- caped from the building, but was later arrested. Judge Smith holds that the search of the brief case was justified by the facts and circum- stances which led Officer Chorley of the Capitol police force to be con- vinced that whisky was being trans. ported in violation of law. The court finds that the circumstances are stronger than in the Carroll case, where the United States Supreme Court allowed the search of a brief case In an automobile. “/IMMY” THIEF AT WORK. Robs Two Apartments, Taking Jewelry, Clothing and Kodak. A “jimmy” thief entered two apart- ments at 2544 Seventeenth street yes- terday, took jewelry valued at $105 and clothing valued at $50 from the apartment of Charles B. Deeter, on the third floor, and a kodak valued at $60 from the apartment of Barrett Schaffer, the police were informed. Another robber entered the home of William E. Porter, 2535 Thirteenth street, early last night. The house was ransacked, but nothing taken. Burglars made an_unsuccessful at- tempt to rob the Sanitary Grocery store at the southeast corner of Sixth and S streets about 9 o'clock last by forcing the lock on the front door, police were told, but the burglars were frightened away. Louis Shapiro, in business at 400 Florida avenue, told police that bur- glars gained entrance to his store about 9 o'clbck last night and stole a quantity of cigars and cigarettes. Board to Meet Thursday. PINCHOT HITS VARE Partly Stolen,” He Charges. Mellon “Machine”” Scored. By the Associated Press. Charges that Senator-elect William S. office was “partly bought and partly stolen” were made by Gov. Gifford Pinchot in his final message to the Pennsylvania Legislature today. The by the governor. Declaring that he had refused to support Vare in the elections for that no doubt that Vare deserves to be and will be excluded from the Senate, but whether he is or not, the mere fact that a Senator-elect from Pennsyl vania is in danger of losing his seat because of scandalous expenditures in the primary and notorious cheating in the election is a bitter disgrace to this community.” Attacks Two Groups. Gov. Pinchot opposéd, Senator-elect Vare and Senator George Wharton Pepper in the primaries, Vare gaining the nomination by votes rolled up in Philadelphia, his home. ‘Two “political machines,” the “Mel- lon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia,” he said, “spread their black, hawk-like shadows over the community, borne upon the wings of eminent respecta- bility and organized crime.” ¢ many years,” the governor olitics of this State have been run as a part of the business of in- terests. What these interests buy is non-interference, extortionate rates allowed public utilities and other spe- cial privileges for themselves at the expense of the people.” ‘The governor described as one wing of the political machines “men who depend for their living and their power on liquor, crime and vice.” “The other,” he said, “consists of mén who are so tled in with the business organization of the mag- nates that they profit from the exist- ence of the machine; partly of busi- ness men who are held in fear be- cause of their loans and credit: partly of the generally decent ci zens (of whom there are many) who follow the magnates because they assume that if a man is rich enough he can do no wrong; partly of per- sons who cannot resists the craving to stand well with those in power, and partly of such of the ostensibly respectable elements of the com- munity as are willing (in Pittsburgh, for example) to shut their eyes and make common cause with gangsters, vote thieves, divekeepers, criminals and harlots because of the social and financlal eminence of the Mellon name.” MRS. LUCINA DAVIS DIES. Mrs. Lucina Ellen Davis, 86 years old, widow of Mason Lorenzo Davis and daughter of the late Henry Gross Armstrone, died at her residence, 1725 Seventeenth street, yesterday. She was a native of Ogdensburg, N. Y. She is survived by her son-in-law, Jesse R. Eliot of Jackson, Mich.; a daughter-in-la-- Mrs. Sallie Greenlaw Davis of Dallas, Tex.; and four grand- children. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. HARRISBURG, Pa., January 4.—|in their parts. “Melion machine in Pittsburgh,” and the “Mitten machine” were assailed reason, Gov. Pinchot said; *I have in sick pigs, the basis of the story. Junior had aspirations to be a veteri- narian and used his stock.remedy, good for man or beast, indiscriminat- ly on the family or on ailing pets brought to him for treatment by his mother of Junior’s mother, who ruled the Atkins family with an iron hand friends. Another outstanding bit of work was the playing of Gertrude Augarde as Grandma Spencer, the dependent and in the interest of Uncle Hector, Election “Partly Bought, | her 1azy son, who posed as an invalid and couldn’t work. Uncle Hector, whose hectic love affair provided one of the problems of the story, was played by Phillip Barrison, who did very well with a character that was perhaps considerably overdrawn. May Buckley and George Henry Trader as Ellen and Thomas Atkins, sr., father and mother of Junfor, were excellent Others in tHe cast are Elaine Temple as Lenore ' Hastings, Vare's Republican nomination for that | Somewhat spoiled daughter of a wealthy father; Emerson Treacy, as Spencer Atkins, law student turned poet; William Cox as Smith Hastings, father of Lenore, and Frederic Mal- com as Dr. Springer. “Plgs” is as freey prescribed for those in need of a little laughter as is Junior's remedy for ailing “man or beast.” BELASCO—“The Arabian Night- mare.” A curfous but patient audience as- | sembled at the Shubert-Belasco Thea- ter last evening to witness the first performance in Washington of a new | comedy,” by David Tearle and Domi- nick Colaizzi, and called ““The Arabian Nightmare.” The same audience, at about 11 o'clock was still curlous, probably, but certainly not patient. At least a por- tion of those present had the feeling of having gone to see a bubble blowing exhibition that was spoiled by the bursting of the bubble too soon, or too late, according to the temperament. The playwrights seemed to have an idea of burlesquing the sheik and sheba theme of the modern movie, and they got away to the task in the first act in a very amusing manner, with a wildly modern young woman, who longed for a taste of the desert love and who broke her engagement with a perfectly normal New England young man when he had been held up by a burglar and relieved of a little wad for the honeymoon because he was not brave enough to tackle the burglar, who also had robbed her of her en: gagement trinkets. Even before the robbery she had had this young man trembling on the brink of desperation with a no-clothes Adam and Eve propo- sition, which, to her, was neither im- modest nor in any sense reprehensible. Immediately after, a_sanctimonious lawyer from Kansas City, with a sep- ulcher voice, appeared and announced the death of a relative, and that he had left her and her aunt a fortune. From this point the action jumps to a “castle” on the edge of the Ara- bian Desert, with real tragic and dra- matic sheiks who said their say in elaborate poetical language that quite fascinated her, but who put her to her wits’ end in avading their tender accompanying gestures. The girl is virtually kidnapped; the aunt follows after her, with the New England lover in a trunk; the rescue of the entire party is effected with the aid of doped “hooch,” and the final curtain falls with the audience suspended in the air and feeling very foolish. Possibly there may be a play some- where, but the authors have not yet been able to discover it, even with the assistance of such efficient players as Helen Lowell, as the aunt; Marian Coakley as the girl; Willlam Hanley play, described: as “an irrepressible | =5 i E i !§i_i £ =| E i i B 3 E: !; T our “Women's Shop,” <X 1207 F St. Evening, af il E as the New England lover; Maud Sin- clair as a village gossip; Charles Mill- ward as the big sheik, and others who did the best possible with the roles assigned them. — S There are 740,000 miles of railways in the world, according to latest sta- tistics. 3 L f | i il I a i E | been built, with variations, on the old | of the foreign mission board ®f the | monthly meeting of the board prob A Saks Suit or A Saks Overcoat And Every Suit Is a 2-Trouser Suit *30 N THE basis of normal ue, we would be more than justified in describing such Suits and Overcoats, at $30, as VERY, VERY SPECIAL. Yet they are regular Saks showings. New, authoritative in their fashion- ing, Distinctive in their woolens. Remarkable in their tailori Saks has a lot to say to the man who really values VALUE! —Main Clothing Floor.) T T —22 2 1 TP |11 TR 1/ /1 PR/ /L 2 (/) 11 TRL/ /5 VR, e % It’s Launched ! Hahn's Great time for everybody to buy shoes! (Third Floor iDWINTER (LEAR The great Semi-Annual Stock-Adjusting Sale has started with a Bang at all the “Hahn” Stores. b Bigger and better than ever before. Step lively, folks! This is the $200,000 Worth of Women’s Fashionable Street & Dress Boots REDUCED in four great groups ular stocks, in $7 to $8.50 Shoes $8.50 to $13.50 37.75 T our 7th St., “Arcade,” 41 9th St. and Pa. Ave ternoon and street shoes, in stores. Thousands of splen- every fashionable material, two great groups. The cream of our stocks! $12.50 to $18.00 $0Q).75 did women's shoes from reg two drastic $E£.75 clearance groups. The $7.75 group also at our other stores tinuation of the check-off, the best that can be done, according to Gov-| Special Dispatch to The Star. ernment officials, is to wait until the FAIRFAX, Va., January 4.—The workers' convention. Then if strike | Fairfax County school board will talk persists there will still be two|meet in the boardroom at the court- months in which to bring about an|house Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. und Representative La Guardia of New York. The proposition involves direct loans by the Veterans' Bu- reau Commenting on this proposed leg Jation, Mr. Breining declared today Athat the Veterans’ Bu would gladly welcome any respo lity placed upon it by Congress MISS ELIZABETH HOAG, NAVAL NURSE, IS DEAD Buried in Arlington Today With Military Homnors Accorded The $5.75 group also at F St., 2nd floor. 5.000 pl‘S. Men‘s Sl’lOCS! Some reduced from higher priced stocks—some made especially for this Sale—and manufacturers’ samples. 1 $4.85 Black and tan calf oxfords and high shoes—black and tan Scotch and collegiate grains—patent leather dress oxfords—sports oxfords. All sizes. Three Great Sales Children’s Shoes of the Better Sorts $9.65 $9.65 s5].65 E i JT—— 14401 TTPRALL1 /i TR My, T ,lll Illlllr"flull'l rA— Lieutenant. - RECEIVED HERE Phillips’ Pharmacy 2nd and Mass. Ave. N.\W. Is a Star Branch Office Miss klizabeth Hoag, chief nurse, Unlted Stat died at the Naval Hospital here § ay after a brief ill ness. Funeral services were conduct ed in Tabler'’s undertaking establish- nent it 11 o'clock, with Lieut Navy Chap Interment tery, with the litary honors accorded a lieutenant, g was an duty in this city : the World War and recently had been attached to the United States | Naval Hospital at Annapolis ) in Coxsac .. Miss Hoag aduated 1 the Hospital b pringfield, Mass serving | Naval Reserve Newport, R. 1., this city, Was appointed te regular service | in 1920. She aiso h rved in naval hospitals in New York and at Hamp ton ds, Va She is survived by a brother, John Joag of Cox N. Y., and & sis- ter, Mrs. a Jackson of Detroit. % SAVINGS Deposits mace befors Jan. 10 Diaw Interest From Jan. 1. If you need a servant, or office help, or want to rent or hire rooms, apartments or a huule, or have property for sale—you will find the Classi- fied Section of The Star the quickest means of getting what you want. For the convenience of patrons of The Star Classified Section, Branch Offices are maintained throughout the city and nearby suburbs. They display the above: sign . and are ready to serve you without fee; only It'sthe ReorLymeG cLou, regular rates are charged. entirely new, entirely dif ferent—rides smoothly at ALL speeds. 7th&K 414 9th St. 1914-16 Pa. Ave. 3212 14th 233 Pa. 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