Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1927, Page 13

GENE SIGNS UP FOR FIRST contract with Tex Rickard, boxin; next Fall, his opponent to be decided by elimi EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANTARY 10, ITLE DEFENSE BAT . g promoter, to defend his he ation bouts. The papers g, left to right, are: Dud agel Rickard is seated beside Tunney, while stan WAITING FOR THE FISH TO BITE. Senator Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts (right) looks on as C. Bascom Slemp, former secretary to President Coolidge, indulges in a bit of patient ah:llllig in Florida wate Photo taken during their recent vac: ation at Mia Copyright by P. & A. Photos. avyweight title in a ht) signing his at New York St. Louis, Mo. Elwood nt, (seated at v bout signed at 1d Malone, were ey MOTHER FOILS YOUTH'S ELOP scion of the wealthy meat-packing ess, whose attempted elopment cessfully frustrated by the yout request, young Cudahy was taken sheriff before they ¢ | MENT. Michael Cudahy, mi'y, and Los Angeles th's mother At into custody by the Santa Barba Wide Waorld Photos. ruthful movie COMMISSIONER LANDIS HEAR ived of the actual scene in th tion of the ged White Sox “Swede” Rishberg and * the p implicated and Detroit scandal of 1917. k" Gandill, S BALL PLAYERS ON SCANDAL CHARGE. of the first pictures e hearing room at Chicago, as Commissioner Lai conducts investiga- In the background, left to right, are: Judge Landis, The latter two, who made the scandal charges, are confronting who -denied the charges. Acme Photos. Acme Photos. HIGH SCHOOL PLAY] , Frate Evelyn Forne i eth ( and Kl NGINEER KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Rear-End Collision of 20th| Century Limited Sections Injures 12 Passengers. | ated Prese. H, N. Y.. January 10 the rear-end colli- ? two sections of v Limited, crack has been s on the By the Aseoc SAVA ) Responsibility for sion h yesterday the Twentieth Cent New Yoirk Central placed by company shoulders of the wreck’s lone victim, Walter Buffalo, engineer. The 4 Involved “were | bound e for New | York and the other’ for Boston | The club car and tender of the | fourth section, the Boston train, which | ran into the third section e de- | rafled. No passengers were in the | club, which was partly telescoped. | Practi all passengers were | asleep at the time of the cr and the force of the in of them from th The third secti Just startinz when the . occurred; | was pushed 100 feet along the track | Train Lights Exting offic oville of many d colli 1 shed. the whi Confusion in the two tr ligh £ the v before. Itesid scene expecti and injured cue match and the | | street duced—Sco &aid, 1o caution an failed to heed dropped three quart @f the third The thirc Century veplace light, W into it. Th tion set the omatic fuses west he fourth pping of tha third sec omatic signals nd dan; working the statement wo trains Arthur perfectly said None Serionsly Inje Of 205 passenzers on the none Wi se ‘.mf—l‘ injured JKennedy of Oakland, Calif zer on the rth gectior ki : and was taken tc derson man, was sent ' been scalded by escapit A list of from bruise w8 given out by them were Albert L. Goldr veet, CI ine 5 Ogleshy sir ankle; F. W. Kiei, o a hospital, hay stean suffering wrasions Among pr 1 ng road We st 1y shoulder Haste s Hotell, Vamps and Sheiks Who Disrupt Homes Face Jail and Fines By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Neb., January 10.- The famous ‘“anti-sheik bill, which makes alienation of the fections of husband or wife a felony, punishable by either fine or imprisonment or both, will be reintroduced in the present Ne- braska Legislature by its author, Senator John W. Cooper, Omaha, bachelor. The bill failed of passage at the last_session. ’ “This bill is no joke,” Senator Cooper said. “If a penalty were placed on the practice of shelks stealing the love of a wife and se vamps stealing the love of usband there would be less n suits.” or woman npt to affections because there is no penalty. except possibly a civil | suit. There would be less homes | broken up if this practice were made a criminal offense.” PRINTING SHOP OWNER FOUND DEAD IN OFFICE | Employe Discovers Body of Wil-| | liam Doing—Natural Causes | does not ienate Blamed. Doing, 56 3 1, pro- | v printing shop at 305 Thir- | , was found dead in the office of his place of business o'clock this morning by one of his employes Police at No. 1 precinct spiciond to Doing's death said was due to natural causes ephen Bertiel of 1239 Twenty-ninth | found the body huddled in a corner and immediately notitied the | Emerzency Tospital. | Examination proved that Mr 1z had been' dead probab night AT 1726 Newton street, where Dol resided, members family said that the printer bad been in the habit of going to his shop to work Sunday | eveni They did not discover hi absence until iy this morning William . Doing, jr., one of his sons, said that his fa had been suffering from heart disease for some tim M 1 attached which s born in Indiana and | young man. He had ton and vicinity for ws. e is surviyed nnie D. this city, and three Mrs. William Aitcheson of Md.; Mrs. Lewis Erdman of Towa, and Mrs. D. D. White 1aft of Washington, His body was taken to aking establishment services have not yet been i £t ankle: Miss Forest, 11l “he Martin ankle: A. L. L, sprained were from New Doing came here as lived in Wask more than 40 y by h two of Dol Hin Chicazo, laceration of Gertr Lab, Lak sprained ankle: Mrs, Bl Los Angeles, sprained Hal v Evansion ‘nkle, ‘The others York. | upper | birt RENCH SOCIALITS | CAPTURE B SEATS Senatorial Election, How- ever, Fails to Alter Situ- ation Materially. By the Assoclated Press PARIS, January 10.—Full returns from yesterday's senatorial elections in France show a slight swing to the Left, but not sufficient to affect the general political situation materially or the fortunes the Poincare government The honors of the day went to the influence of Socialists, who won \ the expense of the Moderates. Communists succeeded for the firs time in getting representation in the house, capturing two seats. | vise, the composition of the | 2 is unmodified, of the out- senators being re-elected. of M. Peret and the De Selves deprive both and_Chamber of their M. De Selves has been president of the Senate and M. Peret of the Chamber Contrary Klotz, former ence: binet Versailles treaty “The Othe 2 suCCess failure of the Senate presidents. Loui Clem- first ministe and a signer was elected reports in the field. the | ERS TO PRESENT MUSICAL PLAY. d next Thu ad Iglesias, Ida Berman, Ruth Behrend, 1d obtain a license. Pupils of Business High who will ursday and Frida; The group lomina Petrone, Grace Wooden, Washington Star Photo. Mrs. Mary Bell, pioneer feminist, who by virtue of her recent election as chief magistrate and lord provost of Glasgow, Scotland, must assist at all executions. She is the first woman fo hold the dual office. Copy ht by Underwood & Underwood WINS POPULARITY ON AND OFF SCREE A recent studio portrait of Anna May Wong, Chinese movie actress, whose talents, Hollywood has discovered, are not confined to the screen. Her vocal and piano accomplishments have won wide popularity for her among the movie colony of the Pacific coast. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 10, unusual for visitors and sometimes home folk to get lost in the hustling loop, but it has remained for a street car, supposedly traveling a law-fixed rout the -Tt's not nyons of skyscrapers. or a_half hour last night the trol- ley wandered about the downtown area fn a snowstorm trying to get back on its charted course, under the guidance of an_ exploring motorman, who finally had to give it up as a bad job. Repairing of the tracks at Wash- ington and Clark streets made it nec- to become hopelessly tangled in | 1Trolley Lost in Storm in Chicago Loop As Dizzy Passengers Protest in Vain to send cars on a detour of a | block, but the motorman overshot | mark and ran into difficulties. The | conductor was summoned, but he beg- | ged off. | 7 “I just collect an_explorer.” While a car full of dizzy passengers protested that they only wanted to go north, the car careened through al most every loop street, and in all four directions,- seeking Clark street agaln, but luck was against it. - An angry inspector with a loud volce finaily overtook the trolley, commandeered the car and sent the crew to Clark street on foot. the fares. I am not CORNER STONE LAYING SET FOR WEDNESDAY Cabinet Invited to Attend Red Cross House Exercises at Walter Reed. The stone of the new Red Cross House at Walter Reed Hos- I pital will be laid with special exer- ses Wednesday at 3 pm. The new | building will replace the presesnt | convalescent house erected e: i { the Tt will cost $160,000. The corner stone will he held by corner war. Millerand, who when he failed ticke!, was def returned were Barthou, M Naux, Leo Victor biez, Justin God Pams, Paul Dupuy and Pie former ministers. HUSBAND OF WAGNER’S DAUGHTER DEAD AT 72 mer President indepemdently on his part Among t ran to get ed Lou ard Laval 1 Houston Chamberlain Son of Brit- ish Admiral and Nephew of Marshal. ary 10, 1in,” hus band of daughter va, is dead here, ot B he became . German citiz the World War and later joined extreme Nationa the sts. son +of 1 and Chamberlain_was the ar Admiral W, C. Chamb + Mephew of Field Marshal Chamberlain and Gen. Sir ( Chamberlain, His undations of the incteenth Century,” published in prifying Germar was warmly ised by the K and had a wide s a German in following the an 1915, August, 19 nouncement in had received th ribbon, for his service & non-combatant, this April, to Germany as Jules | { Mrs. Henry R. Rea of Pittsburgh, | who for more than seven years wa ne of the most active volunteer | \vorkers for the disabled veterans. | She was the first. Red Cross field director there in 1917 and she gave 1919 There will be music by the Army Band, Chaplain A. C. Oliver of Wal- ter Reed Hospital will say the in- vocation and there will be short talks by Acting Chairman James Fieser of the Rea ¢ and Merritte W. Treland The new bullding will conform in itectural plan with the design the permanent Army buildings, The first floor will house the admin- e offices of the Red Cross headed by Miss Margaret H. r, field director. n auditorium seating_800. The second floor will include 11 small bedrooms for visiting members of the families of sick patients me of the rooms also will be u s quarters for the Red Cros which m ns a 24-hour s Invit have been members of the President’s cabinet | membe; matic corp s Surg. Af Low rvice. sent to to attend. Birds of Feathers for Hats. is women have a new fad in birds made of real feathers for their velour hats. The pheasant is one | of the most popular designs. The decc ion takes the form of a single “feather” made of mother of pearl. 2 swimming pool to the hospital in | Gen. | There will be | of Congress and the mmo»} SCARF IS ABANDONED AS HOUCK CASE CLUE Police Convinced Garment Is Not Property of Missing Doctor’s Wife. Police investigators of the mysteri ous disappearance of Mrs. Glady Houck from her apartment at Nichols avenue southeast about the middle of last month today abandoned the brown woolen neck ing blood splotches, which was picked up in the Potomac River Christmas day, as a clue to her whereahouts. At the same time they announced that the status of the case today was the same as it was when the search for her began. “The scarf has nothing to do with the case, T am convinced,” said He: quarters Detective Ben Kuehling to day. The circumstances surrounding its discovery, partially dry, floating on top of the water on the Virginia channel side of the river, and the time it was picked up clearly indicate that it is the property of some one el We feel confident we i and rechecked every pos: | could point to her whereabouts. pt. James W m and Detective Manning of the eleventh precinct to- lay continued to follow up their con- fons that the scarf possibly might {have been lost by the many {duck hunters on the river Christmas morning. They huve received the co- operation of the owners of two | hunte blinds lying slightly above |and below shoro Point in the river. District Chemist Alvin Fuller was [unwilling to state today whether his |analysis of the spots on the scarf would reveal the fact that they were made by human or animal blood. “Our working material consists of about three pin spots,” he said, “and the test will have to run at least 10 days before a positive statement can that he | Prince of Wales feathers are also |be made, if it is possible to make one. iron cross with white | frequently seen and sometimes the The spots had been analyzed before they reached us, and th only adds to the difficulty and delay.," CATHOLIC CHURCH BONIBED INFRISEO Explosive Tossed From Auto Early in Morning—Services Held., None Injured. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, January 10.— Bombers attacked Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic: Church In the Latin quarter here yesterdhy, blowing down the temporary wood entrance arch- way and damaging the door. Several granite slabs of the floor were loosen- ed, but services were held as usual. o one was injured The bomb—the fourth thrown at the church within a year—was tossed from an_automobile shortly before 5 a.m., while a_policeman detailed to watch the building was in a park short distanc v, in plain view of the structure He witnessed the bombing and reported that he fired one shot at the automobile, but had been so blinded and confused by the explosion that he was not sure of his aim. The bombers escaped. MRS. EVELEI\VlAiDliliNNING DIES AT THE AGE OF 87 Descendant of Jans Decker, First Military Commander of Dutch Colony, N. Y. Mrs. Evele ect descen Dunning, 87 ant of Jans Decker, first I military commander of the-Dutch col ony in New died Saturday at {the Kendall House Sanatarium, 1523 | | Ogden str , following an illness of | | six weeks: Mrs. Dunning w tichmond, Staten Island, April 1840, the daughter of Capt. Charl American merchant ar Her husband, Capt. Willlam | Dunning, U. §. A., provost mar shal in charge of the stockade during the draft riots in New York at the time @ the Civil War. Mrs. Dunning spent several months out of each year in Washington at the Cairo Hotel. She rvived by A. C. J. Farrell, a nephew, living at the Congress H tel, and his brother, Rev. F. E. Far- rell of Minneapolis. Funeral services will be held at Hy- song’s funeral home tomorrow ev ning at 7:30 o'clock. -Rev. John Brit- tan Clark, pastor of the First Presby- terian Church, will officiate. Inter- ment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. ;di in York, born in Port Prof. Delbet, & famous surgeon of { vice | the | Alban, will conduct a_memorial pray | er service and Iron Pierces Auto And Pins Man Fast; |Girl on Lap Unhurt CHILD'S TIP SPURS MAN TO KILL WIFE Buys Little Daughter’s Secret of Mother’s Love Affair With Pennies. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, January 10.—A piece | of iron lying on the street vester- day pierced the automobile in which Joseph Jaloway, 18, was rid ing, passed through his leg and held him prisoner for more than an hour while firemen worked acetylene torches to free him. Later his leg was amputated. A girl sitting on his lap was un- injured. | By the Associated Press. | BLOOMFIELD, N. J., January 10 A “secret” revealed by a six-year- old childé to her father for a bribe of a few pennies led to the slaying of | her mother and the arrest of her fa- | ther on a charge of murder. Richard Stringer, 32, the father, who was under arrest today, told | police that when he returned home from work Saturday he found his two children, Marion, 2, and Anna, 6, alone in the house. Anna, he sald, rushed up to him with a shout. “Daddy,” she sald, “if you will give me money for candy I'll tell you a secret.” Tells of Strange Mai A few pennies were produced and | Anna told her secret. A strange man, she said, had been coming to the house in the afternoons to see her mother. tringer told the police he left the | he nd after a vain effort to pur- chase a_revolver in Bloomfleld, finally obtained mall rifle in a Newark sp ing nods establishment. On returning home, he said, he questioned his wife, Gertrude, also 82, and after a_quarrel that extended into the early hours of Sunday, he shot and killed her. He then proceeded to police head- quarters where he startled attaches by calmly announcing, “Sergeant, I just shot my wife. Police found Mrs. Stringer dead on the floor of a bedroom in their | home with a bullet in her brain. In another room were found the two children, Anna weeping bitterly. Stringer told the police he had re- monstrated with his wife repeatedly for coming home late at night. HOSPITAL TO DEDICATE MRS. WESCOTT WARD Memorial Services for Late Bene- factress to Be Held This Afternoon. | A ducted memorial service will be at Children's Hospital o'clock _this afternoon when the Keats Rodgers Westcott ward will be dedicated to the memory of Mr: Horace H. Westcott, an active wor er for the institution, who died a y ago last September. Mrs. Westcott's associates in the hospital work and present officials of the institution will attend the ser Rev. E. §. Dunlap, canon of National Cathedral at Mount St. | con- at 4 ar Mrs. Westcott will be lauded when Mrs. Frederick Brooke of the women's rd of visitors| reads the resolution adopted by t board at the death of the hospital's benefactress. An officer of the board of directors and Fr chief of the medi dren’s Hospital, will sj Mrs. Westcott was one of the most active workers for the welfare of | Children’s Hospital. The work she | did _for that institution, will he hon- | ored perpetually in the ward that will be dedicated this afternoon and for the support of which an endowment fund has been completed. ks SLAYER GETS 10 YEARS. | et nig Armentan Servant sentenced 1n| YIELD $859,209 IN YEAR. s Death. | e | Electric Plant BEIRUT, Syria, January 10 (#).— | s at Muscle Shoals The Armenian servant who murdered | Report Net Operating Revenue. Prof. Arthur B. Dray, head of the | dental college of the American Uni. | versity of Beirut, today was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at hard | labor. e (The Armenian, the dispatches said | PIPHC by the War Department today at the time of the murder, slew Prof. | DN (e, vear, the hydro-electrio tia . ant i am generated for g roniack of insnity: lsale to the Alabama Power o 4385, kilowatt hours of electric Dr. nk ff Leech, of Chil- Electric plants at Muscle howed a total net operating of $85 during the calendar year 1926, it was reported in figures made Shoals g revenue power. Receipts from sale of power totalled $872,617, with maintenance and opera- tion' costing $173,777, leaving a COBLENZ, Germany, January 10 (®). | operating revenue for the ;hm“ztz The Inter-Allied Rhineland Commis- | $698,839. France, receftly announced that there is an algrming frequency of a rare malady own as Breuger's dis-| case, which i a form of gangrene produced by niknown cause. \ ’ sion has issued an order prohibiting | For the steam plant, the ;;.‘!(hlhitim\ in the occupied :n'mi(hc Alabama_Power of a film picturing the exploits of the ceipts were $120,000 and re ts famous sea rover Emden in the World ' power gencrated $40,370, & ot sene. War. nue of $160,370. under lease to Co., rental re-