Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1927, Page 17

DEMONSTRATES NEW MOTOR INVENTION TO HOUS! affairs committee witness a dem other modern warfare machines, of The inventor believes water or air. tlon of airplane engines. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, onstration by Lester Barlow (at left), new cooling method will be es) new device by which gas engines ar i COMMITTEE. , inventor of the fi cooled by steam instead of ant in the construe > A. Photos, pecially imp Copyris PLAYING THE BASKET GAME IN DIXIE. The camera snaps a fast moment in an interclass basket ball game between fair athletes of Wesleyan College, at Macon, Ga. girls play it these days. The game is no mild affair as college Copyright by P. & A. Photos. CATALINA VICTOR RECE 17-year-old Canadian boy, receiving donor, his checl as the award of vi Young was the only one of 96 swin the swim. . 000 CHECK. George Young, from William Wrigley, jr., the pri ctory in the Catalina Channel swim. ers who took the water to complete Wide World Photos. JANUARY 21, 1927. of the ballots, at left. ‘Wilson against Vare’s election. PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION BALI the Senate, signing for the first lot of ballots cast in the election of William S. Vare fo the Senate as they 'mond Walsh and Edward P. Vaughn, State officials having custody The ballots will be recounted for the Senate in the contest brought by arrived at 'the Capitol yesterday. OTS ARRIVE AT CAPITOL. Ra; David S. Barry, sergeant-at-arms of William B. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. il on 0 SCHOOLBOYS MAKE TOYS FOR HOSPITAL YOUN STERS. Seventh DOPE CONFERENCE PROPOSED HERE Mussolini and Others Favor Meeting in Washingtop to Combat Use of Drugs. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, January 21.—An interna- tional conference in Washington to study means of combating the grow- ing 1llicit trade in habit-forming drugs was unofficlaly suggested here yes- terday as a practical step toward meeting an evil which is causing growing apprehension. Members of the League of Nations) undoubtedly would prefer Geneva, but it is belleved that Premier Mussolini of Italy, for one, is ready to go to ‘Washington or anywhere else unless the league succeeds in achieving re- sults by stopping overproduction in accordance with The Hague conven- tion. For Ration System. Premier Mussolini, through Stefano Cavazzoni, his delegate to the League's advisory commission on opium, now in session. has given warning that the time has arrived to establish a ration system and to limit the factory output of narcotics in each country to me i e purposes, thereby porting the re. cent American note the powers urging stricter observance of The Hague convention Information reaching the League shows a steady increase in drug con- trabands. The United States has re- ported that large -quantities of mor- Phine, heroin and cocaine are being smuggled into America, with seizures becoming increasingly difficult because of the cleverness sy and because of indications of the ex istence of a powerful inter drug ring. U. 8. Delegate Absent. Lieut. Col. Arthur Wood expert member on the L mission, who led the fight inst the narcotic evil last year, is unable to at tend the commission sessions at pres ent and has designated as his personal representative 1. B Bt 10f Naw York, who is keeping him informed of developments Adherence of Bolivia to the Geneva oplum convention Shnormted with the reservation that Boliv not undertake to restri tion and production of coca her territory nor to forbid sumption of the leaf by the American De natives gue com. | BELIEVE JEALOUS LOVER MURDERER Police Th‘ink Railroad Execu- tive and Woman Were Vic- tims of Revenge. By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala,, January 21— The theory that a jealous lover shot down A. 8. Moore, 40, Southern Rall- way supervisor of safety and sanita- tion, and then fatally wounded Mrs. Ruby Thornton, 33, as she fled from the scene of her companion’s death on a lonely road near Birmingham was advanced by detectives today. The bodies of the man and woman were found late Wednesday night where Moore had varked his automo- bile in a pine thicket near the road. Woman Tried to Flee. Moore had ben kileled by a shotgun discharged directly into his face. Mrs. Thornton's body was 75 feet away. She had evidently attempted to flee from the assailant, as her wound was in the back of the head. A discharged shotgun and several empty shells were found near her body, and a number of prints of a man’s shoes were discovered on the ground around her. Although Moore was known to have had $50 in his possession hefore the shooting, and although his empty wal- let was found later a mile from the shooting, police discounted the theory of robbery. A-taxicab receipt and a piece of cloth, evidently from the lin- ing of a coat near Moore's body, may prove valuable evidence, police be- lieve. Husband Out of Town. Mrs. Thornton, the mother of a 9-year old daughter, had been living with here parents heer during the ab- sence of her husband, J. C. Thornton, an insurance agent, who, it was said, had been out of the city several months. Although Mrs. Moore and her three children have been residing in Chat- | tanooga, Tenn., for several months, Moore's parents denied the couple were separated | WANT NAME LISTED. Cab Operators Bring Suit Against Telephone Company. Proceedings in mandamus to compel Marine Corps Changes Ccapt. W. Woodworth at ters, Marine Co this « detailed to duty w Battle Monuments' Department First Lieuts. A. C. Small Fricke have been transferred the naval station, Guam States legation, Peking, China; First Ideut. L. C. Whitaker from n Diego, Calif., to Annapolis, Md.; First Lieuts. W. D. Rassett and H. B. Liv ersedge, from San ncisco to San Diego; First Lieut. O. A. Hill, from Paris Island, S. C., to Gendarmerie d’Haytl, and Second Lieut. R. Fagan from the battleship West Virginia to Paris Island, 8. G headquar Com War ission and A from to the United has been | the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele [ phone Co. to list the name of .the | plaintiff in its telephone directory were filed yvesterday in the District Supreme Court by the Owners' Association, erates the Diamond Cab | Through Attorney Henry M. Fowler, | the plaintiff says the telephone com pany declined to list its name because | there appeared in the directory the {name of a similar concern, known as the Diamond Cab and Messenger Serv- ice. Fowler says that concern oper- ates messenger business and not a taxicab business. He also asserts that the telephone company after | Taxt which Independent | tribal token of friendship. grade boys at the Hyde School, street, between Wisconsin avenue and Thirty-third street, display some of the toys they are making to brighten the hours of less fortunate youngsters at Children’s Hospital. the direction of their teacher, Mrs. Keliher. The toy-making is done under Washington Star Photo. | Alejandreo Cesar, the new envoy from the Diaz government of Nicaragua, calling at the White House yesterday to present his credentials to President Coolidge. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. OPERA STAR ENTERS PRIZI American soprano of the Metropolit: “Chun,” which she expects to add at the Pekingese show to open York, Monday. m&?‘ f%%»\ w; , who called to pay their respects HEARINGS DATE SET FOR MUSCLE SHOALS House Committee to Take Up Ala- bama Project Next Tuesday. New Bid in Sight. The question of what to do with the Government's properties at Muscle Shoals, Ala.. came to life simultane- ously vesterday in the House and at the White House, with a decision by the House military committee to begin hearings Tuesday on bids for the prop- erties. While the committee was taking thisaction President Coolidge received a group of American Farm Bureau representatives who asked his support for a new hid to be submitted shortly by the American Cyanamid Co. of New York. Meanwhile the House turned down on a point of order an amendment by Representative Allgood, Democrat, Alabama, of the Army appropriation bill to provide for Government opera- tion of the properties. Although re- jected instantaneously, it proved a vehicle for Representative Snell, Re- publican, New York, to declare he |would urge Government operation inless an acceptable bid was received shortly. It also developed Chairman | Madden of the House appropriations committee virtually has completed drafting a bill to carry out the | Cyanamid (o. offer and would intro- |duce it the first of the week. Resigns Commission. Resignation of First Lieut. William T. Van de Graaff, U. S. Infantry, re- cently stationed at Colorado Springs, Col., has been accepted by the Pres soliciting an advertisement from the plaintiff corporation declined to pub- lish it, dent. He is from Alabama and was appointed to the Army in November, 1 3 et yesterday. Mr. Coolidge holds a large PRESIDENT COOLIDGE RECEIVES SOME INDIAN CALLE A’ i W] 'SE. 2 ve po Todtint Trox the OLISk o e b RS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. The Chief Executive poses with a group of Osage red feather, presented to him as a Copyright by Harris & Ewing. ORGAN-GRINDER MAKES $100 PER WEEK IN NEW YORK Suit Discloses Music Bo;s Reap Rich Harvest—Brokerg Turn to Odd Jobs to Get Thrills. By the Aseociated Press W YORK, January 21.—In this v of surprises, the capital of Topsy- terveydom, Wall Street brokers and professional men turn taxi driver at night and organ grinders make $100 a week. When Antonio Pagluighi crushed to death by a truck while playing his hand organ in a gutter his wife brought suit for $75,000, and today his daughter Rose took the witness stand. She said her father usually collected $20 on Sa holidays and $15 on other days. That. the ranks of the city's taxi “night hawks” are recruited, at least in part, from society’s “upper crust” was revealed yesterday, when John B. Carrington, jr., of Park avenue was fined $5 in Traffic Court for “hog- ging the road” with his taxicab. Surprised Magistrate. When his name was called he stepped forward, an immaculately was the New Haven Journal-Courier, “you see I'm a broker in the daytime, but at night I drive a taxi An official of the taxicab company said later that voung Carrington’s case was not an unusual one. “Oh, yes, we have brokers among our drivers’ he said, “and doctors and lawyers, too. They like to get a little extra money, I suppose. Wanted to See Life. “I have ridden so much in taxicabs that I became interested in taxi chauf- feurs and wondered whether they really made any money to speak of. Besides, and what's more important, 1 had heard so often that a New York taxi chauffeur meets every type of humanity and sees so many angles of life that are denied to ordinary hu- mans I just wanted to try it for my- sell Asks “Permissive” Merger Law. A. P. Thom, general counsel of the Association of Rallway Executives, told the Senate interstate commerce clad figure with a jaunty boutonniere in his lapel. ““There must be some mistake,” sald the ~astonished magistrate. “You can’t be the taxi driver referred to in this case,’” “Oh, yes, I am,” sald young Car- rington, Whi ther is publisher of committee yesterday that the main point of difference between advocates and opponents of railroad consolida- tion legislation is whether it should be permissive or coercive legislation. He sald he believed a permissive law to start with would best serve lic interest. LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN HEADS HEBREW BODY Re-elected Chairman of American Congregations Board—M. D. Ros- enberg Among Vice Presidents. By the Associated Prees CLEVELAND, Ohio, Janu Ludwig Vogelstein of New York was re-elected chairman of the executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations at the close of the thirtieth biennial convention here yesterday. Marcus Raugh, Pittsburgh; Maurice D. Rosenberg, Washington, and Julius Rosenwald, Chicago, were named vice presidents. Agricultural settlements in Pales- tine, Russia and Poland and the spirit- ual and educational development of these countries was indorsed by the union. A resolution also was adopted upholding a policy of arbitration as the means of settling difficulties be- tween the United States, Mexico and Nicaragua. The national federations of temple brotherhoods and sisterhoods, allied organizations, ended their sessions yesterday. The temple sisterhoods elected Mrs. J. Walter Freiberg, Cin- cinnati, president; Mrs. Jacob Wert- heim, New York; Mrs. Maurice Stein- fleld, St. Louis; Mrs. Charles Cohn, Nashville, and Mrs. Henry Nathan, Buffalo, vice presidents; Mrs. Joseph Herman, Boston, treasurer. Thaddeus Austin Thomson Di AUSTI! Tex., January 21 Thaddeus# Austin Thomson, 74, mer Miniter to Colombia and for- BILLIONS AT STAKE UNDER DAWES PLAN Germany Claims $9,000,- 000,000 Marks in Dispute With Reparations Board. | By the Associated Press | THE HAGUE, January 21.—A case | involving German government claims totaling more than 9,000,000,000 gold marks opened today in the hall of | justice of the Peace Palace before the | Arbitral Tribunal and Interpretation | Court created for the settlement of differences arising between the Ger. man government and the reparation commission regarding interpretation of the provisions of the Dawes plan. Payments at Issue. The matter for - settlement whether certain payments by Ger- many should or should not be r garded as included in the annuities payable by Germany to the agent gen- eral for reparation payments. The items regarding which Germany has ralsed question are: Payments made September 1, 1924, or to be made by the Reich to German nationals under certain clauses of the Versailles treaty as compensation for retention, liquidation or transfer of their property rights or interests in the territories of the allied and assoct ated states, including Alsace-Lorraine; for transfer of the German rights in the Shantung (China) Railway; trans- fer of the German share of the capital of the Morocco State Bank and transfer of German interests in public utility undertakins in Russia, China, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey and the territorles formerly belonging to Germany or her allies in the World War. Complexion of Court. It is for payments made or to be made on these accounts that the Ger- man government estimates the large sum mentioned The court consists of a Frenchman, » German, a Swede and a Hollander, with Thomas Nelson Perkins of Bos- ton, as president. TRAFFIC PAUSES IN FIRE. Shipping and Delivery Annex of| Goldenberg’s Suffers Damage. Fire from an undetermined cause in the basement of the shipping and delivery annex of Goldenberg's, a three-story frame building at 909 Eighth street, last night threatened serious damage to surrounding struc- | tures, but was confined through | speedy fire-fighting and the weather conditions to the building of its origin. The fire swept, from the basement to the third story of the building, do- ing considerable damage to parcels awaiting shipment and delivery as well as to Christmas trimmings and decorations which had recently been was Texas hose way. stored away. The damage was undetermined, but it was ' believed that the total loss ‘would be between $5,000 and $10,000. Street car traffic on Seventh street “PEK IN SHOW. Anna Case, an Opera Co., with her pet Pekingese another blue ribbon to his troj at the Hotel Roosevelt, in New Wide World Photos. JURY FREES EIGHT INRUM BRIBE CASE Resentment at U. S. De« tective Methods Said to Have Swayed Decision. By the Associated Pres: NEW YORK the fourteen defe in the so- m ring today stood rges of operating a veen the United States ada_and of paying bribes to en, ants ru As to the others the jury was une able to agree after deliberating 24. hours. The trial had been in progress more than two weeks. g Resent Federal Methods. The verdict, reported late yesterday, was swayed through resentment of “under-cover” methods used by the Government ocuring evidence in the case, New York newspapers quote one of the ju s saying after the Jury This whose name was with- held, was quoted as saying he would have remained in the jury room “until doom’s day” before convicting any one on the testimony of “such witnesses as the Government produced.” Turned State Witnesses. Many of the witnesses were former rdsmen, defendants in the case, who confessed and took the stand E Government witnesses, Several d they accepted bribes from the rum ring, and then became cover” agents under A. Bruce Blelaski, head of the prohibition department's secret agents. n arguing to the ju Burkan of the defense nnurx};m“.gg:;: acterized such men as “rats’” and re- ferred to Bielask! as “a mysterious and invisible power,” who employed “pirates, hijackers, crooks and briba takers.” SCIENCE STUDY NOTED. Progress in Research by ‘School Pupils Observed by Educator. The progress of science in the pube lic schools of the country was des scribed by Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, pro- fessor of education and director of the Lincoln School of Columbia Universi- ty, in an address to teachers of science in’ junior high schools here. yester- day afternoon in the music room of Central High School. Dr. Caldwell said more children are taking up general |sclence and continuing their work in special sciences today than ever be- ore. Dr. Caldwell said the sarly method of teaching science was to give each subject as a separate course. The pres- ent tendency is to work from a gen- eral course to specific courses in the various branches of the subject, he said. Board to i’ul on Oiloer. Lieut. Col. Benjamin H. Kerfoot, Coast Artillery Corps, who has been under treatment at Walter Reed Gen- eral Hospital, has been ordered to re. temporarily tied up until the could be trestled across the road- LY port to the Army Retiring Board in this city for examination. ¥