Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1927, Page 15

SACHING TOUR. Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles evangelist, waves to a throng of her followers 15 she leaves that city on a preaching tour through the East, after dismissal of the conspiracy charges returned against her in connection EVANCELIST LEAVES ON PR YOUNG CANADIAN SWIMMER TRIUMPHS IN CATALINA MARATHON. This photo, transmitted by wire, shows George Young, Ii-vear-old Toronto boy, who surprised the sports world by winning the Catalina Channel swim and the $25,000 prize, vesting in bed after his great victory. %oung, competing against some of the best distance swimmers of Ameri the only one of the entrants who started DANCERS WILL ENTERTAIN TONIGHT AT THE BAL BOHEM The McKinley dancers in a pose from the Oriental dance ‘in which they will appear at the Bal Boheme of the Arts Club tonight at the Willard Hotel. In the group, left to right, back row: Ruth Shoemaker, Mary Callaway and Dorothy Parsons. from Catalina Island to reach the mainland TROUBLED COMEDIAN SUFFERS He was in the water BREAKDOWN. Charley Chaplin (left), screen comedian, conferring in New York with his attorney, Natl Burkan, shortly after his arrival from Los Angeles, where his wife has filed suit for divorce. Chaplin since has suffered a breakdown and has been ordered to stay in bed for a week or more. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. 15 hours and minutes, with her story of being kidnaped W listed r P Washington one of the A. Photos. Front row: Mary Schultz, ¥y Lyeth and Alice Callan. Copyright by Harr cities she will visit TEXAS PASTOR TAKES TRIAL CALMLY. A courtroom scene at the trial of Rev. Frank J. Norris, Baptist pastor of Fort Worth, Tex., for the murder of D. E. Chipps, prominent lumberman, in the pastor’s office last July. Norris is shown reading a newspaper as his lawyers confer during the selection of a jury. ; Wide World Photos. DANCER WINS ACCLAIM OF PARIS. Senorita Amarantina, who is popularly hailed as the most beautiful Spanish dancer i Paris. She also has won equal fame in the French capital for her accomplishments as a dancer. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. MAYOR PLEADS GUILTY TO m.ldllc of Atlanta, Ga., is haled ors in a campaign to end “jay “JAY-WALKING.” Mayor I N. into Police Court as one of the first -walking™ there. But the smile with which the mayor pays his fine raises a suspicion that he is only advertising the campaign. Wide World Photos WARD AND FATHER ATRACES IN CUBA Baking Magnate and Long- Missing Son Also Seen at Casino. By the Associated Press HAVANA, January 17.—Walter S Ward, missing since his mysterious rance while en route to New glo.:l?pf':nm Baltimore last May, today | was the guest of his father, George | §. Ward, former baker magnate ‘Ward arrived Saturday night on the | steamship Northland from New Or Jeans, where on Tuesday of last week he met his father at a hotel. Both oc. cupled rooms on the same floor and checked out on Wednesday. The father has had a home in the suburbs | for two vears, being interested in a| Cuban dairy business. | Servants Are Reticent. | Although servants at the Ward | home in Country Club Park admitted | that Walter was visiting his father, they said he was not in the house and denied knowing of whereabouts before he came here eral persons sald they saw the father and son at the race track yesterday afternoon at the Cas D alter | Ward's found May 6 e N. J., with the wi a large stone on 3 urder theory persisted fo and @ mearby creek was said he Numerous rumors £ to Ward's| whereabouts followe An exhausted carrier pigeon was | p at Bryn Athyn, Pa.. with to its leg, signed was imprisoned in = Delawa River asking ght automobile was near Trenton 1d broken and | ront seat. A ome time dragged Trenton by | left Police Search Fails ess search, | His family maint dic not know his whe Ward first br 922, when s she: Westche and confessed (larence Peter tried to blackma claimed he September at N. Y., he was acquitted BARONESS QUITS JOB. Beautiful Berlin Mannequin Forced ¥rom Paris by Competitors. January Baroness von Har BERLIN Margaret French would not tion and we The publicity ed the attent producers, who ar uade her to enter &he has refused all offers. per far erm | Has strangler of 15 | dr | E STRANGLING OF 15 LAID T0 SUSPECT Indiana Police Try to Identify Him as “Gorilla Man” Who Attacked Women. BURG, Ind., January 17.— notorious ‘‘gorilla man, women, finally been the captured? Petersburg officers think he has. In that belicf they have asked officers in California. Oregon and Missouri where the “gorilla” operated, if the description of & man under arrest here conforms to descriptions in those cities of the garroter The suspect, who gave his name as Peter Ojers, was arrested when wom- en complained he walked into their | homes demanding food. Speaks No English. He indicated he could not speak Snglish and what little knowledge has been gained from him has come through the aid of an Italian inter- preter. Ojers was described Italian or Greek, 35 to 40 yea feet %1 inches tall, stooped heavy shoulders, black hair eyes, of heavy build and about 175 pounds. Ojers e been making his to Louisville ed and wore a such as named iption. women recently strangled . three in Oregon and thre ouri, all were believed to h e hands of the “gorillz On October 18 last trace was On that date, in Karas City women and a Y were cither an old, 5 with weighing way lon in a shabbily gray over broadcast coat de Cali in M ling on vagrancy ntific GRACE YEAGER Artist Will Butterfly” Yes soprano wil Appear in “Mme Friday Evening. er, American mezzo- role « presentation of ¥ fadame Butterfly committee in for the childre ece announced xception one sing the Friday charge of today of artist st will ¥ being taken from Albert Parr entire Americans e chorus is telle Wentworth dio here. The Minister of me Greece and Ma which intere: performance, Senatc rbe Hoov MeNary ynesses Mellon evening, are patr ‘Treasury box for Friday have also Mrs. Hoover, Seerelary of ( and Mrs. Bingham. ey of iken a Suzuki ini's of refu- Sabanieval a Greek, Simopoulos are sponsoring this mong Sec- has as wife of the | Amato and M CLEAVING THE WATER FOR A NEW WORLD SPEED RECORD. 151-class hydroplane Angeles as he drives it at a speed of 60.11 miles an hour for a new world record, over the course of Newport Bay, Just after crossing the finish line in this record test, the speedboat took a nose dive at a turn and was seriously damaged. Ralph Snoddy, speedboat sportsman, is snapped at the wheel of his alif Wide World Ph T0 SING IN CAPITAL squinty | believed to | from St. | n " | ends here, and lasting seven and one- | ployed itions. | TO SING. | the | »mmerce and Senator | committes Nearly $113,000,000 in salaries for Company to Go on Tour of 17 Cities e approximately 65,000 employes in Beginning on January 29, | Washington, a big majority of whom When Season Ends | ha | appropri | approy is carried in the annual being consid: ve families n bills now By the Associated P | ered in Congress. CHICAGO, Jan 17.—T! B | g0 Civic Opera nounced a tour January 28, when There are 47,656 under the civil un. | service and paid under the nning | tion act, who received a total of $86, 698,509, and of em in the vernment salary 145, does four of nployment for the highest grade of skilled labor—the Bureau of Engrav ng and Printing, Government Print {ing OfcE, Washington Navy . Yard {and the Washington City Post Office | with its 69 substations. of 17 « the opera season alf weeks tot | The { 500 by t the most not of will include 57 perform s underwritten for $1,162 cities on the itinerary. Two 250 musi 1s and g0 15t our nd fans | technici: ins, carr ers, scenery will its visit in company on and The 16 perfor weeks. Baltim through the E where Pittshurgh, Chattanoog open_in ch 3 in Jack ill be spent in Antonio nd scheduled for the company p will be The company tc Washington Ru cinnati and Or uary 28 it will mingham on M son, Miss, Two days Houston, three in San five performances Dallas. On March 14 appears in v for a twoday en gagement, after which it will proceed to Joplin, Wichita and St. Louis. The performances will be in Detroit March 19 to 21, and the company dis | bands March after appearing 5,151 in Engraving Office. At the Bureau of Engraving and | Printing there are 5,151 employes rep. resenting 22 recelving a total | pay roll o 000 a year. | Governme nting Office there are 1 4,100 emp representing some 30 tr vearly pay r | $8,250,000. Washington | Yard there employes repre h In are 3,11 \UMBRELLA LOSSES HUGE. Ohs 11 Every 100 An, Patis Hesch Police Each Year. January 17 () in every hundred, at le [ umb in Parls every yea police lost and found department took {in 30,000 rain shelters this year. They |came from taxicabs, churches, re ants, telephone booths. and some even were picked up in the street | Akron. Heads Catholic Women. PARIS, cone . Mrs. C. M. Croccia has been re-elect- ‘e | ed president of the Union of Catholic | Women, connected with Holy Rosary | Church. This will be ninth con secutive term. Other officers elected were: Mrs, M. Fratantuono, vice pr Mrs. $. Sealla, recording secre-| Jt is an old saying in Paris that if vy AMrs. A, Giuffre tant re-|one needs an umbralla he has only to cording Mrs, Circeo, | go to the Church of the Madeleine, de treasurer Scola, assistant |scribe the kind he wishes and get what treasurer Facchina, Mrs. J. | he asks for. Worshipers and_sight- . C. Ciffo, membership | seers leave hundreds of umbrellas Mrs. C. Rotundo and Mrs, | there every year, and many of them financial committee, are never claimed, secretary; Mrs, I M I T, Giustr CHICAGO CIVIC OPERA |$113,000,000 in Salaries for 65,000 Local U. S. Employes Considered in Congress In the | DELAYS ARE SEEN IN PRAYER REVISION Church Assembly Cannot Act Until July Parliament in Autumn. senting some 50 trades, with an annual pay roll of more than $6,000,000. Post- Mooney has 1 employes ive $3,480,000 a year in sal- aries. The Federal budget, which is the | is for these appropriation bills, the | ge of which is the principal duty | By the Associated Press second and short ses-| LONDON, January sion of ti v-ninth Congress, calls {tion of the revision | for $4,01 ,125. The larg single | Common F T, item of the expenditure, 5,000,000, | bated for many years, cannot be set or more than 23 cents out of eve tled finally by appraval of the Church |dollar of revenue collected, is for Assembly before July, and is not like. terest on the public debt. Add to this|ly to reach Parliament for sanction { another £563,629,561 for public debt |until late in Autumn. retirement from ordinary funds,| The Archbishop of C: h is more than 17 per cent of the |day issued a statement rning d we find we are paying more | public a, st what he called 40 cents of every dollar on this | flated speculations” published horse.” Our outstanding debt press regardi the scope 30, 1926, was $19,643,183,-|of the proposed variatic he says, “‘exagger {07 9 Biggest Business in World. | ments,” which, he fears {to “fan into controversial The postal service, the biggest busi- | ! ntecon in the world, the one Govern-|SPiFit of —earnest but agency that is nearly self-sup. ‘P'mn | porting and_which directly serves permissive usages and deviations, | every other business in this country, | Pf g - i pee and without which any and all other which will be ready within a few da but explains that they will only come businéss would be paraly equires | PUL € A it Amraeiations. totaling. $757.969 115, - | betore the convocation on March 29. 90-YEAR-OLD BICYCLIST. |BREWERIES PREFER BOYS. | | Locksmith in Berlin Still Calls For [ Art of Making Beer Is Highly Dif- and Delivers Goods. ficult One. BERLIN, January 17 (#).—Heinrich| DUBLIN, January 17 UP).—Oliver Krohnen, 90-year-old locksmith of sl‘t'nn‘well.b'w;hlgve C;Irqgirnd lh: “art of rewing" befol e became famous as Duisburg, in the Rhineland, stills calls | 25t 28 o s, e among for and delivers the goods to his|the boys of today, who have taken up eustomers on. a bicycle. He re- be:)r m-lklr;‘u ?!Rpmk?”m"( A5 g ne of the largest breweries in Ire- pairs the most Intricate locks and |, ORe o Hho IEER Dreweries In Jre: mechanisms _ without the aid of glasses, for his eyesight is excellent. chester School for training, as the task of turning out a fully qualified He enjoys cycling, and since his busi- | brewer ed. upon as being a ness isn't big enough to warrant a de. | highly hnical one. A thorough livery boy, he uses his steel horse him- | knowled self. The bicycle, which he also keeps of biology and advanced chemistrg¥ is necessary in any fermen- in repalr, accompanies him on all va- cation trips, 2 « pas; of the present 17.—The ques. S of the Book of which has been de the “in nterbury wh total than “dead on June ted state- are intended flame the uninformed ness ment archbishop hopes to draft new | tation igflustry and takes at least | PROPOSED MERGER PROBES JUSTIFIED | Donovan Says Prevention of Illegal Combinations Proves Policy Wise. the antt Results obtained u | trust policy adopted about a by the Departmer | which inary | made int | peting corporations engaged such a policy, in the belief ¢ er of Justice, under examinations posed merg: Donovan Attorney | he opinion is expre in a report t ention of ! made Call for Statements. Under the policy, whic as * and exped Donovan explained it w; to upon or to pe ing to merg anies to submit fact in connec While this pr: pproval in any way |of plans submitted me said it di | Government to secure from the | ested parties all the available fact | the most direct and immediate | He added that the policy not | enables the Government to get the facts be in case it wishes to insti | tute proceedings, but it also effects | savings and time in connection with | investigations com ments of ctice he 16 Cases Instituted. Donovan showed that |1ast fiscal vear fines totalin | were imposed in anti-trust equity decrees were entered during the $520,301 and | manufactured commaodit | The budget allowance for operation of the anti-trust division for the next fiscal year is approximately $200,000 whereas the average annual cost fc |such work during the past 24 yea URGES FARM COMMITTEE. Indiana Bureau Heads Wants Poll on Relief Bills. By the Associated Press. termine the interest of agriculture in the McFadden branch banking bill, railroAd consolidation and other meas- ures before Congress designed to fa- cilitate business was asked last night by William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, In a letter to the heads of five lead ing agricultural organizations, he sald that in view of the designation by the United States Chamber of Com merce and the Industrial Conference Board of a committee “to make a na- tional program for agriculture,” it was only just that the farm interests,,in [ turn, should inquire into the effect upon themselyes of legislation desired by ind | iam | 11 | !cases were instituted, involving many | NEW SCOPES TRIAL PETITION PLANNED Opinions of Court Contra- dict Law, Defense Claims. Teachers Are Uncertain. | NASHVILLE | The stat the Stat volution the mas Press. ested t a egality today ehear- 1y to the re to argu- was | e made for related ¢ ted only ce, did which ed the Among Teachers. ind_Clarence dispatches will pre- sovernment the law is Confusion Dudley Fi | Darrow s bel 4 ¢ tire another ter if the said Dar- that reargument of the e full bench would do ar | Arrangements re the case until defense ¢ red with a statement from e as to plans for (‘olton, also of ced that he 4 n for rehear- imong other things, nded down three dictory in its in- w, so that teach- in doubt as to regarding man's T addin case before to ¢ | have { will not |attorne Coincident { terpretation of [ers }what t | origin. Malone would be 2 | the defense |ever to the | court asses the point was, the appeais. Fine Above Legal Limit. The Superme Court made the point the trial the judge assessing a above the legal limit, Malone said, and so raising it went out of its way to find a way in which to nolle prosse the indictment. The shville Tennessean today said “a small” but insistent move- ment worked toward having the evo- lution tute repealed in the next session of the State Legislature. biolog ey may teach id a rehearing probgbly ed on the ground that no exception what- 4 ich the trial Scopes’ fine. He sald therefore, not at issue in Denver Evangelist Here. George W. Griffin, dn evangelist of Denver, is giving a' course in Bible study each Tuesday night in room 219 at the Y. M. C. A., at 7 o’clock. The subject is “The Bible as Lit Other Bible teachers will wn!.h lectures, g