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s L “Washington Scientist Gets Post ’ Z effects of JURY TO CONDUCT PROBE ON FLOGGING 'Mial Term Cglled to In- vestigate Mob Violence by Hooded Men. -~ By the Assoclated Pre: LOUISVILLE, Ga., January 15. Preparations went forward here toda for the opening Monday of a speci: #arm of Toombs Cou Superior Lourt, called to impanel a grand jury “to {nvestigate the flog #ys of Wimberly E. Brown, an attor- ney, near Lyons, h)“, band of hooded xen. ..The special term was called after }udge R. N. Hardeman and Solicitor S. Bradley had conducted a pre nary investigation and reported to, v. Walker, who offered a reward r the arrest and conviction of the rst member of the mob. No arrests ve been made. In a formal report to the Governor licttor Bradley declared that a of acts of nee in Toom County, climaxed by the flogging Brown, had rendered ordinary cesses of law “inadequate to meet the ituation in which a terrorized popu Tdce has been overawed by a small minority.” *The attorney was beaten by his masked assaila Baped him on the m: Lyons shortly after he had a the State in the prosecution ifen, all of whom werc acquitt charges of slaying Willie Wil Mitter was shot down by members of @ masked band, who broke into hi héme in an attempt to seize him difter his name had been linked with PEtty thefys in the count “**When the verdict of acquittal was returned Judge Hardeman, who pre. Mded at the trial, denounced “hooded THoodlums” whd® t the law into Aheir own hands 3.STORY PLUNGE BREAKS GIRL'S NECK, 90-Year-0ld Clerk Removed in <~ Dying Condition From Shaft of Cumberland Store. s, who n street Special Dispath to The Star ~ CUMBERLAND, Md., January 15 Miss Gladys Kennedy. about 20 years ©ld, fell three stories through an e vator sh Levine's department @tore late this afternoon, landing in | #he basement =Bhe was removed to a hospital in a dying condition, her skull fractured -and neck broken. i 8he fell on paper which acted some. what as a cushion. Miss Kenneily has been residing with her auni, Mrs. dmna Baldwin, Front street. She was | employed at the store temporarily as a.clerk, :DR. WYCKOFF IS NAMED ON RESEARCH STAFF With Rockefeller Institute for Biophysics Work. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, Januaty 15.--The Rockefeller Instituta for Medical Re- mearch has just appointed to its scfen- tific staff in the*division of biophysics Dr. Ralph W. G. Wyckoff of the geo- Physical laboratory of the Carnegie Ipstitution at Washington. Biophysics seeks 1o explore and de- termine the nature of the effects of physical agencies on the physiological | and pathological yrocesses of the odies. of men, animals and even of plants. This means a study of the light, including daylight, ultra-violet rays, X-raye and radium, @s well as the influence of electricity, magnetism, stellar phenomena (sun spots) and’ other physical forms. “Dr. Wyckoff graduated from Ho- bart Coliege with the degree of bach- , ¢ @lor of science in 1916, receiving his ¢ doetor of philosophy from Cornell in 1919, during which period he served fér two years as instructor in chem istry. Since 1919 he has held the post of research associa‘e with Carnegie Institution. STRESEMANN DRAWN AT GENEVA BAR Caricature Shows @erman Minister «0o With Wurst, Rye Bread, Beer = ‘Before Him. By the Associated Press NEVA, January 15. tional German combination of beer, frankturters and rye bread is per. sonified for League of Nations hang- erson by Gustav Stresemann, the German foreign minister, The only Bavarian bar in Geneva ias hung up a caricature by a Hun- garian cartoonist of the German statesman seated at a beer hall table smoking a black cigar in his famous cigar holder. and with a plate of wurst, thick slabs of rve bread and + stein of Pilsener before him. Dr. Stresemann seeks out this bar about midnight when conferences are over. Though invariably surrounded by a horde of French and German newspaper men, it is a standing rule that political discussions must be drowned in foaming suds. Ly USES PLANE FOR SUICIDE. Passenger Jumps Overboard From Spanish Machine. ALICA Spain, January 15, () —An airplane suicide was recorded y as the first in 8panish ae Maurice Boucher, engi a plane of the Latecoere Co., jumped overboard as the ship was sonring at a great height over vill of Bacadot. The pilot of the machine at first did not notice the disappearance of his passenger. When his attention was called to it he retur to spot, and searched and found the body of the suicide. FEES CALLED T0O LOW. Supreme Court Gets Protest From Trio in Boundary Case. @ B. Baiigy, Charles A. Barton and Merace Van Deventer filed objections With the Supreme Court vesterday to the allowance of $2,700 each made by the court for their work as commissioners in locating and marking the line in the boundary dis pute between Arkansas and Tennessee. Each claimed that he was entitled to not less than $50 a day for services while engaged in the work. On that basis Bailey claimed a salary of $5,250, Barton asked $5,600 and Van Deventer $5,550. Each petition pointed’out that he commissioner while on the work spent a large portion of his time away from home, tually camping out in he fleld, each asserted that the importance of the case warsaniod lie compensation claimed. e tradi- onautics on ging Christmas | | work | feet of railroad siding for the recep- | be the | separate THE ‘SUNDAY 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ARLINGTON BRIDGE WORK TAKES FORM Pier Above Water, District Abutment Progressing. Rapid Procedure Seen. No. Eridge With the completion of Pier 1 of the Arlington Memorial ahove the evel R | dam which has held back the bridge is begin ake on such an appearance that passing layman may get of the progress of the pler is the first to be comp! the water line and as soon feet more of concrete are laid and taced with granite this structure will be completed. In the meantime work g is going forward on other piers ¢ “\‘"f-I I“m While it has ken about six ‘"""l’ i“" heing menths to complete the first pler, it | nearing completion. water ver, and the removal of t struet the < work ted s seve This above moved to be used to FIRST PIER OF ARLINGTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE COMPLETED- AT RO Fows e R R R pths of work, Pier No. 1 is finished above the surface of the Potomac and the illustration shows the hold back the water around Pier No. o JANUARY 16; i B b A the next to be started. Pler No. 2 is 1S HOLDINGS HUGE N LATIN AMERICA Investment of Americans| Found to Reach Total of $4,000,000,030. was pointed out t the others arve S s I not expected to take that long be cause the forces employed will be bet nized and can proceed faster Joseph G. Mehaffey, Army ngineer Corps, in charge of the con uction of the hridge, said that the overnment is still proceeding on the | theory that the bridge proper will he ompleted by 1930. Plans are being rawn now for the contr s fo the e and superstructure and ed that the latter will be let some time in the Summer, at which time it is belicved that the contractor engaged in erecting the river piers ind shore abutments will have com pleted his work as far as the site of the draw over the channel Abutment Is Progressing. The Potomae Park abu the Lincoln Mémorial, is progres sfactorily and mow is about below the surface of the ground H is pol Work on this is being jearricd on simultaneously with the river pier work. Pier No. 2 in the river also is near ing completion, and it will not be many months before this is above the water line, which will permit the with dra of the cofferdam for use on another pier. At the present time workmen are engaged in sinking coff am arour th site for No. 3, using the material being tak from around Pler No. 1 for the work It is now believed that all of the on the substructure will he Gre: completed during the current calendar Th rreatest vear, but at the same time work on sim the superstructure will r have to be iit until all the former is completed beg: The contracts for the granite ¥ t been let. That for the substructure, | senting the loaning of money to Latin which is to be faced with Stone Moun- | American nations or governmental tain, Ga.. granite, now is arriving at bodies within those republics. the storage yard on the Virginia | The largest individual figure 'for | shore, and plans now are heing made | American investments was attached for the construction of 3,000 additional | to theq meat packing enterprise con trolled by the larger Chicago con-| cerns. Four of these companies had | 1 capital investrent of approximately | $50,000,000 in Argentina plants. - Ameri- | can banks operating in the Argentine | republic likewise held about $40,000,- | 000 in deposit . ment, near sing Associated P ments ma States Inves United countries have $4,000,000,00 ment has concluded investigation now n by its agents. The s repre. sented b the ownership of public securities such as national, provineial'| and municipal bonds, and by the | proprictorship or - participation in u | {wide range of privite enterprises, in- cluding mmes, public utilities, indus- | vial piants, :and companies and trad ng establishments By American I value of ahout Commerce Depart o result of an ng completion the amount est Growth Since 1915. growth in the total 1915, when American ause of the in n to take large amounts issued securities repre vestors irope tion of the Mount Air; which is to he used to face the super- structure, o that contractors will not be delayed in any way on this account. Plans Being Drawn. The detailed plans and specifications for the bascule bridge now are being drawn by the J. B. Strauss Bascule | In Bridge Co., of Chicago, which was the | became interested on a large successful competitor out of six for /in eopper mining, and later as much the work of designing this bridge, As |as $23.000,000 was invested by.Ame foon as these are completed, bids will {cans in the purchase of a single pub- asked to supply the fabricated |lic loan. American participation in | steel to be used in the construction, |the nitrate industry has also. come | C., granite, Big Holdings in Chile Chile, American investors By the Associated F PARIS, Janua feathered heroes of the great war, . carrier pigeon which helped save Verdun, has just died of old age. The | bird had a wound stripe on its leg and was one of the government's pensioners, having been given a home ~One of the | i ; , | In this connection, it has been decided |to represent large amounts. The | that no attempt will be made to face | Chile Copper Co., with capital assels | granite. 1t was pointed out that there 1y American enterprise listed in that | is no use in trying to camouflige a |country | granite. All that it is hoped to do is | Where a number of American com.| to make it conform to the appearance | Panies have large holdings. of fruit sides of the bascule will be covered |tions of South America have not yet with ornamental iron, designed to con- | been compiled. bridge, and this will be painted white The contract for the superstructure will be let in an entirety, although it | will be awarded when half the plers | IS HONORED IN DEATH ment. By the time the superstructure | : R S contractor completes his task to this | Carried Message Through Barrage | plers will have been completed, and | he then may proceed on the Virginia | of Verdun. starting work as soon as the draw { span abutments are completed i A | East Indian Lecturer to Continue Talks Here. and a larder by a grateul nation. Through a of ‘shiwpnel the turer, who has been delivering a se- | kept Iroideterre Hill from ‘Jeing cap- ries of lectures here, will speak again | tured. In an order of the day the Thursday nights at 8 o'clock, preceded | maintained communication with the by a musical program at 7:45, the sub- | front line when all human méans ["Law of Attracting Abundance and |parrage the pigeon was hit by a hell Health” and “How to Develop Per | splinter that carried away its’ claws. In addition to his public lectures | y1ice: i r museum? the past week, Swami Yogananda has | P2 c0 1 the Verdun war m George Washington University and of | American University and has been | CHEER FOR PATIENTS. Press Club and the National League of American Pen Women. Today he | Londorn Hospitals. LONDON, January 15 (®)—Cheery speak on “India’s Contribution {Lions' Club_and_on “The Busine: uraging patients to look on the Man—How He Can Attain Success” | bright side of things. | up to its neck in hot water, it still OFFICERS. J‘ continues to sing.’” James J. Breen Is New President| philip Inman, superintendent of Charing Cross Hospital, says the mot- nual installation of officers at a meet- | ey ing at the Raleigh Hotel Wednesday BLAMES DAWES PLAN The officers installed, all of whom | e | German Economist Says Reparation |15, were as follows: | { . James J. Breen, president; - Dawes plan is responsible for 450,000 assistant secretary, and W. L. Howen. | ;1" sert v, one-fourth of gy | jobless in Germany, or r retiring officers were | peich ot Geputy. That number of | presented with gifts as a token of | o pat SCPULY. i be employed in ib during the past year. gold b » gsvnd | It costs the government about $50,- Work will be started soon in dredg- |Amount must really be charged up as ’ ir y kelenz figures lonial Beach, Va., to provide a con. third Dawes year, Erke : trolling depth in the tiver to Wawn. |OUt that reparations will cost Germany that vessels of large size, in vessels, may come here. York Harbor to the Potomac River | (#).—A rare piece of ‘rag money” of. for this work, and the lighthouse serv- | the Civil War days has just been dis- been laid out in survevs made under| The yellowed scrap of cloth was the direction of Maj. Brehon Somer-|found my souvenir hunter in a budget | . — of the Mississippi River. Its face | A rat trap which may be set by the nd it was printed when this steel, part of the. bridge. with |of §125,000,000, was the largest. pure- | steel structure to make it appear as | ‘The survey for Central America, | of the remainder of the bridge. The |and timber lands, and for other por- form to the general designs of the - D are completed to the draw span abut point, it is believed that thy ikt ho fopter | During Famous Battle side, the bascule bridge contractors | SWAM! SPEAKS TONIGHT. Swami Yogananda, East Indian lec- | pigeon in 1916 carried a me fage that tonight, Tuesday, Wednesday and|army cited the pigeon for “having Jects to include “Science of Healing,” | failed.” In its flight through the sonal Magnetism. The pigeon will be mounted gnd been heard by the student body of honor guest at a number of clubs, St is guest of honor at theWomen's City to | motto cards have been hung in several at the City Club Friday. | One of the most popular cards reads: The nurses call the cards “cheer DFREI DR e toes have done more good than ivers | night. Pact Keeping 450,000 Jobless. Iton Cross, vice president; | St employed, says Antone Byron B. Collings, the TR e apprectation on the part of the club | gainful pursuits with the capital Ger- | 000 a year to support the 450,000 un- ing the Kettle Bottom Shoals of the |(Ndirect reparation payments, Ington of 24 feet. This depth now is | Pearly $420,000,000. i ” “RAG MONEY” FOUND. The Diesel electric dredge Willets e ice has been requested to provide the | covered in this little town near the vell, U. 8. A. engineer officer in|gfold documents and is the only speci- § {00t instead of the hand. bas been in upied the town | d {Woman . Delegates | of Public Welfare of the District of COOLIDGE IS INVITED. | Asked to Visit Montana if He Makes Western Trip. Awsoetated Press sident Coolidge Was' invited ves- | terday ato visit Montana in the event | of his making a Western Summer. Representative Leavitt, Republican, | of that State, and Williay G. Fergu- | son of. Helena and Charl® -1, Sheri- | an of Great Falls, extended the invi | tation, and Leavitt said the President appeared to listen with interest story by Sheridan -concerning catching of 7 and § pound frout Montana streams. By the P | | | | 8 trip next to a the | in | WELFARE BUILDING S URGED FOR CITY | Hear | Pleas for Headquarters of Activities Here. d reports of ‘public welfare | onditions in the ‘Disfrict and reasons for the erection of a proposed public | welfare building here were prasented vesterday afternoon at the ~losing ses sion of a meeting of ‘the nublic wei- fare committee of the District of Col- umbia Federation of Women's «lubs. The meeting was held at the Grace Doflge Hotel ‘and was “attendel " by many guests who participated® in the meeting of the hoard of divectors of the ‘General Federation of Woren's Clubs, whith closed Fritay | ffer n luncheon meéting, which was addressed by Mrs' Waiter Mc Nabb Miller of St. Louis, chairman of the public welfare committes of the federation, and Miss Julia K. Jaffray, chairman ‘of the committee on prob. us of delinguency of the reral dergtion, hoth of whom discusged national aspects of their work_ sthose participating in the meeting reiained in the dining room for the aftérnoon ession , "The ‘nieed of a public welfare tiuild- ng in Washington was brought -out by the speakers, especially ny Mrs. Virginia White Speel, president-of ‘the District of Columbia Federafion of Woimen's Clubs, .and the other speakers told of the practical welfare activities which are befng carried on in the District and which -enlist .the co-operation of the-public’at large. George Wilson, director 6f the Board [ Célumbla, 4tressed the pomt that a publi¢ welfare building would not only contribute to ‘the effieiency of the welfare work, but ‘would co-ordinate ctivities and.permit of greater ex- pangion. Dr. Dorén Johnson spofe on wel- fare conditions here, and Dr. Thomas Parran, assistant surgeon geners the Public Heulth Service, stre the' “influence of environmeént health, and - detailed many methods by which citizens may lend their co- operation to heaith societies in, the prevention of digease. Such co-opera- tion, he said, is not only a great aid in promoting the general health and welfare of the - community but re- sults in the lowering of infant mor- tality figures to-a decided degree. Mrs. Mina-C. Van Winkle, - direc- tor of the women's bureau of the Metropolitan police, gave a detailed description of institutional conditions in the District and outfined the work of the bureau. The meeting, which was an l-dxy‘afl:lk perved to ex- elfare we plaia the 10 guests from many States ard fook the for of an informative gathering, there being no b\fllnel program. FLAG GIVEN: SCHO_OL.' Allentown Presentation Made by Jr.0. U. A. M. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALLENTOWN, Md.,: Jgauary 15— Anacostia, . Council, ior ~ Order United American Mechanics, presented the Alientown school an American flag on Sunday. Past councilors of Anacostia Council, No. 14, Daughters of America, Were present. -Repre- sentative John M. Robsion of Ken- tucky was the principal speaker and presented. the flag. Prof. Nicholas Orem, county -supérintefdent . of schools, accepted the figg and extend. ed thanks on behalf of the school and commurity. i« ANal These past councilors of the Daugh: ters of America were present: Mrs. Pearl Tomey, - Hattie - Beall, Laura Mitchell; Mary . Thorne,- Fannie - Bar- rick and H. Beall. Music was fur- nished by the Junior Order U. A. M. Band. on IRV <8 LI T HE MUST HAVE HIS TEA. Novelist Quits Rehearsal to Get| Customary Drink. LONDON, January 15 (#)—The call of the tea‘hour is heeded by Ar- nold Berinett, the movelist, regardiess | of what' {s happening. 2 He was watching a rehearsal of a dramatic version of his'novel, “Ricey- man Steps,” when he glanced at his watch.and was astounded to discover it was 4 o'clock. “‘At this hour,” he exclaimed, “T al- ways.have an overwhelming desire for tea.” He jumped up in the middle of the rehearsal, gave. his. bowler: hat a pat ahd hurriedly-left the theater. “I don’t care what's happening,:I must have my tea.” N e o Eleoted Guild Preside: Special Dispatch to The Star. GLENNDALE, Md. January 15.— Mrs. Stephen Rigola has been elected president of St. George's Guild, Mra. ‘Roy Seigler- secretary.‘and Miss Vir- ginla Wormwood. treasurer, * 3 e b It isn't a hick iown unless a, lady nt, - among them the National Women's|Bright Mottoes Hung on Walls of Club and during the coming week w American Business Methods” at the London hospitals as a means of en- - . | “Remember the steam kettle—though CLUB INSTALLS tonics.” The El Dorado Club held its an.|of medicinal remedies. | were elected at a meeting December rition ety ey BERLIN, January 15 'UP.—The {1926 and oth president for | jirglenz, economist and democratic members for the service rendered the |1y is sending out of the country in + |employed. Herr Erkelenz believes this Potomac River in the vicinity of Co. | A Instead of paying $357,000,000 in the | 21 feet, and it is the desire to increase Point has been ordered from New | MESILLA, N. Mex., January 15 gulde buoys in the work which has |Mexican border. j charge of this engincering district. |nen of its kind known to exist west vented. in the early years of the war, can enjoy her telephioue two hours at | & stretchy ” [ice in husiness. in the Distriet!|. | ernor, CHARGES INVOLVE HOFFAAN JURORS Druggan, With' Two, Ordered Arrested—Six Who Returned Verdict Are Mentioned. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, January A story 6t an-attempt to influcnce the jury | Wwhich acquitted Péter Hoffman, for mer sheriff; Terry Druggan, beer dbaror, and others on charges of con spiracy to obstruct justice, resulted today in an order for the arrest of Druggan, Joseph Delehenty, poli- tician, and a body guard of Druggan, named Glove Delehenty into custody Judge Louis F enge of Hor ely was _taken lling Federal in the pres- hompso! assistant United States district attorney, of dealings with Dru and a juror. Hoffman,. Druggan and others were tried on charges of alleged liberties allowed the beer baron and his con- federates while serving sentences in the county jail. Juror Supports Part. Walter Peterson, a member of the jury which acquitted them and who Wwas mentioned in Delehenty's story, | present - today. He partly sub-| stantiated Delehenty's st in a statement to Prosecutor Thompson. le aid Delehenty had brought him a bundlé of laundry from his mother in Wayne, near , 1L, and had said something Deletienty claimed that,: by prear. rangement with ‘Druggan, he inti- mated_to Petetson that he would be rewarded if Druggan were acquitted. Petérson said he told Delehenty to “get away and give that package to the bailiff The order of arrest was signed by Judge Fitzhenry, who presided at the trial and set bonds for the three at $50,000. Peterson s reported to have told investigators that six members of the Jury sald to hini they expected “big Christmas presents,” from Druggan, just a few hours before the verdict of “not gullty”” was returned. The names of six jurors in question were not re vealed and it was not known tonight whether they would be summoned to answer Peterson’s charges. NASH EMPLOYES FETED. Banquet Held at Raleigh in Honor of President. More than 100 employes of the A. Nash Co. stores and their friends at- tended the annual banquet of the Happy Nash Family of Washington at the Raleigh Hotel last night, Guests were present from this more and Philadelphia. The banquet was' in honor of Arthur Nash of Cin- cinnati, president of the company who declared that the present pros. perity of which so much is heard is not general throughout the country, but $ confined to a few I in- dustries. He urged an ideal of serv- W P. Harms was toastmaster. BRENTANO'S, INC., MOVES. One of “0Old-time” Stores Transfer- red to New Location, One of the “old-time” storer of ‘Washington, Brentano’s, Incorporated, will open tomorrow morning in a n« home, at 1322 F street, after more than 20 years at the southwest corner of F' and Twelfth streets. The old store had long been patron- ized by. prominent people of Washing- ton, and all the Presidents during the past two decades have been among the customers, The business was es- tablished in Washington 40 years ago near Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street, but , Brentano's, Incorporated, already had been in existence in New Yerk for 35 years, The new store is finished in fumed oak and is deslgned to look like the interior of a Gothic cathedral, WOMEN DE—NiED OFFICES. Oklahoma House Bars Fair Sex From State Jobs. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., January 15 ().—Women will not be permitted to hold major State offices in Okla- homa, the House of Representatives decided today. A bill which would submit the question to a vote of the people, failed to obtain the necessary majority. There were 47 ayes and 27. nays, with 86 members absent. The offices from which women are barred are governor, lieutenant gov- attorney general, treasurer, secretary of State, audifor, superin. tendent of public instruction and State examiner and inspector, $10,000 SUIT IS FILED, Willlam Sudduth Charges Mali- cious Prosecution in Arrest. William H. Sudduth yvesterday filed sult_against Barmett Rosénbloom for $10,000 da: s for alleged false ar- Test and clous prosecution. He declares that Rosenbloom, December 7, accused him of an . offense which was nolle prossed in Police Court. At- ‘torneys Ashford’ and Sheehy appear for the plaintiff. - - Declaring that a safety zone failed to protect him from being an automobile bel J. Shepard, Tobe O n sujt -against Shepard for $5,( ages for alleged personal in. says he was standing in the Nineteenth and Calvert. street: tember 8 when he was struck. torneys Welch and. Dalley appear for |, the plaintiffy 1927-~PART 1. | PRISONERS SAVED AS Riot Averted When Blaze Is‘ Checked in Missouri Pe| By thy ] Associater FERSO! 15, Fire all The cells in one in the prison, were the prisoners saved, officials believe. ‘Warden Les| he “hoped” all of the negroes got out, but added that it was possible a few of the cells were not opened, and that some of the pi death. The officials estimated the damage between $15,000 and $25,000. The entire burned and caved In did not fall. the structure, which is about long, the tiers of cells extending the top of the buflding, four stories high. After fighting the fire for more ti two hours, prison and city fire dej ment officials to save the building and directed ef forts to keep Joining cell houses * most hardened convicts, about 600, are housed in cials feared caught fire and it would have been necessary to was brought o'clock. ALL-METAL PLANES | SHOWN IN PARIS Exhibitrd at International Aero- nautic Exposition—Radial En- gines Also on Display. By the Associated Press, PARIS, Jan cloth-winged near the end background b; That is the tour of t autic Exposi French bui num alloys everything fusillage to t struts and even the accessories. Radial engi runping out the spokes of in evidence this vear than the more | familiar automobile cylinders arr: lines. DIXIE COMM‘IANDER DIES. Gen. C. H. Hatton of Confederate Army Expires in New York. NORFOLK, Gen. C. H. Hatton, ( in New York ccording to here. Gen. Hz ton and Cornelia Riddick Hatton, both of well known famihes of this section, commander of the New United W partment, erans. He ‘was one of the class of cadets of Virginla M |engaked in the battle of New Market, | Va., and was around Petersburg. of major durls adjutant general of the United Con- federate Veterans. Hatton Gen. diploma. at V He is surv Mrs. G. H. F W. E. Smith of Scotland and Mrs. C. L 2.8.2.2.0.8.9 ¢ ¢ ¢ ek sk kA ke ek ke ek Aok ok ek ok eokokodek kokedeok sk Aok kAo late | | cell hullding. inside the Missouri | | penitentiary, in which 790 negro con victs were quartered from from One of the radial engines on display had fourteen cy w - 93 o etes " Feom FUTURE FOR DRYS DEEMED HOPEFUL Jack Rabbit Bounty 3 the Associated Press - | Andrews, Wheeler and Mc- Bride Comment’ Favorably on Seventh Anniversary. CELLS BURN | FOPEKA, ns., Janu The long ear of the Kansa rabbit has extended from the west untles into the august mbers of Kansas Supreme 1 the requiring counties to pay ent bounty for each j rabbits ears uries of several countie William A. Smith, attorney itioned the Supreme »f mandamus to nitentiary. today general Court for compel rabbits ears presern He said the suit w State bounty law enacted in A recent survey by the Feder Government disclosed there were 250 jack rabbits on every 640-acre tract in northwest Kansas.. B. W. Brooke, _county attorney of Winona, Kans., declared 250 jack rabbits consume as much pastur age as 25 sheep Last month Grant County, near the Colorado line, paid $1,690 for 38,800 pairs of rabbit ears, and Smith belfeves other counties af fected will become defendants fn the State action for the purpose of testing the law. q N ross CITY, today Mo., Jant Phiteel Commenting vesterday ‘-mh birthday of prohibition, Assista Lincoln ¢ Andrews of t} harge of enforcing the for the futu ed Secretary Treasury, | law, sald te the hopeful Wayne B the building, the oldest pened and all outlook was lie Rudolph said tonight Whesli asiti B Soat ! McBride of the Anti-Saloon leag declared “though hard, the fig! has not been disheartening and healt} | progress is being made Moonshiners Are Active. | Andrews asserted that i > | seven years und o dry law the | Government had learned how to kee | the prohibition baby from its evil toys | Most of the liquor sources had bee: plugged or seriously hampered, he said |and a machine had finally been orga ized which could successfully combat the usual areas of supply. As these leaks are stopped. he declared, moor | shine dlstilleries were increasing the work and he depends on local thorities to help suppressing factor risoners were burned to the building Ger he stone walls re no floors in 50 feet | o roof o There FIRST LADY HEADS - CHARITY BALL LIT | Mrs. Coolidge Lends Name t: Dance for Hospital at abandoned all attempts a it from spreading to The B and “E 5 in 1 house if the and_offi- building cell Drys’ Joint Statement. riot Mr. Wheeler and Mr. McBride, |a joint statement, said 1927 would | fectuate more fully the right of the 0 | people to promote the general wel | fare announced in 1787 when the con { vention ratified the Constitution of the | United States. “This natlon has never reversed | itself on a moral issue,”’ they declared “The American people believe it bet ter to do right imperfectly than wrong successfully. They realize that con ditions under prohibition at its worst, where ite foes are dominant. are far better than the best conditons under lard Hotel February 10. The pro- licenze, ceeds of the ball will go toward a e REWARDS OFFERED IN DERAILMENT DEATH become sick. | | Southern Railway and Mills Put Miss Mary Virginia Boyce is chair man of the alumnae dance committee, Up $2.000 to Catch Alleged Train Wreckers. Miss Hazel Crowe, treasurer; Mrs. a The fire at 7:30 remove them under control Willard Feb. 10. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge will head the of patronesses for the fourth an | nual alumnae ball of the Emergency +| Hospital Training School at the Wil ua The wood-and airplane seems to be of its day, put in the v all-metal construation impression gained from he International Aero- tion in Paris. Iders have used alumi- to a great extent for the sides of the | he gasoline tanks, the Jessie Clark, secretary, and Mr: Stanley Deroski, in charge of adv tising. The floor committes in Sandidge, chairman; I Borden, Dr. Elliott M. Campbell, Dr. Willlam Earl Clark, Dr. H. A. Fowl- er, Dr. G. B. Gill, Dr. John H. Lyons, Dr. James F. Mitchell, Dr. Arch L. Riddick, Dr. F. G. Speidel. The complete list of patronesses is | ludes B. B. | Dantel L. with t = a cent a wheel, wer > cylinders al hub like € far more nes, By the Associated Press ROME, Ga., January 15.—Rewards for the apprehension of persons re- as foilows: Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs, Ev.|sponsible for the derailment at Lin- erett Sanders, Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, |dale, near here, last night of the Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. W. H.|gouthern Raiflway's Florida-to-Chicago ro son, Mrs. N y e | T £ tvion e Y Ui fiyer, the Ponce de Leon, mounted to- hart, Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mrs.| "y 5 4 |day as county authorities and special George Barnett, Mrs. Hamilton Fish, | (o¥ 8 COURE SO0 Pressed their in. jr.; Miss Janet Fish, Mrs. John Hays ey st _ ce | vestigation which ~ they expected Hammond, Mrs. W. H. Goddard, Miss | /116" jead to an easly arrest. Mebel Boardmsan, Mrs. Fox Connor, o 2 .| “The death here today of Engineer Mry. Samuel Graham, Mrs. Charles|; G waitt of Atlants, the only per B, Wood, Mrs. Charles Dewey, Mrs, Frederick Hicks, Mrs. William B.|Jo0 injured in the wreck, was fol- Borah Mrs Hes Chilts M lowed by the announcement of offi- St s el on, MrS.|ejals of the road in Atlanta of a Peter ‘G. Gerry, Mrs. Logan Tucker, | S ts0 oriod Toring P Mrs. Robert Stanfield. Mrs. Chandler | 3ot nureet of tamonoroe yiin e . _Anderson, Mrs. Hilary P. Jones, | .0 i "B s switch at Lindale. At the same time Mrs. James F. Mitchell, Mrs. Sher- |11 b sfefkieham, agent of the Masea wood ‘A. Cheney, Mrs. Franklin H. | P . Hlile; Mis:G./Dy Gff, Mrs: Harty A} e Mlle St Lindais; ofiatiin Fowler, Mrs. Charles I.. McNary, Mrs E W ek s LMrs | The engine and three cars of the Henry W. Keyes and Mrs. Perry | yraln were derailed when they ran elmont. through the open switch, which offi- - clals said had been thrown in a de- Asks $1,000,000 for Indian Lands. liberate attempt to wreck the train Representative Hayden, Democrat, Arizona, yesterday asked a $1,000,000 Discuss Canal With Coolidge. appropriation to enable the Secretary | pe gt. Lawrence waterway situa of the Interior to purchase land for | 4jon was discussed with President the Navajo Indians in Arizona and |Goolidge yvesterday by Representatives New Mexico. Clague, Newton, Knutsen, Furlow and Andresen, all Minnesota Republicans, who expressed the appreciation of was held on the telephone between |Minnesota for the Presidant’s efforts in Boston and Salem November 26, 1878, | behalf of a waterway 1.0.2.0.0.2.0.0.2.0.2.9.0 920208208208 0¢01 “When Base Ball Was Young”’ A Series of 30 Articles written by JOHN B. FOSTER who has been called “the god- father of the game” because of his close association with it from the early days,. will be pub- lished type, in one with or the anged two inders. Va., January 15 (®). . 8. A, dled today at the age of 77 years, information received atton, son of Danfel Hat- ork_De Confederate Vet Military Institute, which wounded in the fighting He rose to rank ng the war, and became was awarded his M. 1. three years ago. ed by three daughters, Royster of Suffolk, Mrs. Neck, N. C., R. Barnes of Crandall, The first long-distance conversation Exclusively in Washington in “HICK” CARPENTER. he Foening Star. Beginning Tomorrow, Monday, January 17th Mr. Foster will relate intimate anecdotes; interesting incidents, many of which laid ‘ the foundation for the present rules. They are stories which have never been . told in print before—and every Fan will enjoy them immensely. 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