Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1927, Page 16

“THE 'EVENING STAR, ARY 22, '1927. mystified this group of newspaper three feet of dirt after being b just before descending into the * condition, induced by lowing reporters and others yesterday when t ried alive for three hours. The magicia graye” at Elizabeth, N. his tongue. ung Egyptian magician, hey saw him emerge from under n, who is shown in his white robe , claims the feat was made possible by a catalentic Wide World Photos. R AGES. Eva Tanguay a fame, and Allan Parado, her piano_accompanist, who gaged to be married. The comedienne returned to vaudeville six months ago, after a long absence, during which she was threatened with blindness. Copyright by P. & vear-old . Photos. " D. €, SATURDAY, JAN SCHOOL YOUNGSTERS PRES at Third and C streets southeast, Dallas Keith. NT PLAY ON THRIFT THEME. playlet based on lessons of the current Thrift weel. First grade pupils of the Brent School, who entertained parents and other children of the school yesterday with a The youngsters were directed by their teache FINDS BROTHER’S TROPHY HERE. Orville Wright (left), aviation pioneer, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Warner, with a awarded to Wilbur Wright, which his brother “discovered” for the hy rst time here yesterday at headquarters of the National Aeronautical Association. It was awarded for up to 1908. the longest flight made in France Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Luella Melius, American coloratura soprano, who arrived in Washing- ton yesterday for final rehearsals of “Lakme,” which she' will sk with the - Washington National Opera Co. at the Washington Audi- torium Monday night. GIRL MACHINISTS MAN SHIP. Girls of the engineering class of Hun- ter College, New York, took virtually full charge of Uncle Sam’s motor- ship Tampa, for a run down the coast [rom New York the other day. Two of the group are shown at their oiling job during the cruise. Copyright by A. & P. Photos. Maj. H. 0. D. Segrave, English racing driver, who will pilot Eng- land’s new racing car, the Mys- tery S, in an attempt to break the world’s speed record at Day- tona, Fla. ADMITTED TO SUPREME COURT PRACTICE. Representative and Mrs. John J. Kindred of New York, both of whom were admitted to practice yesterday before the United States Supreme Court. Representa- tive Kindred was an alienist before enfering law and politics, and Mrs. Kindred took her AB. at Vassar OPE ABANDONED FOR 27 ON COLLIER Rowboat and Name Plate of John Tracy Found on Georges Shoal. By the Ass BOSTO nitely the 27 men of the c John Tracy, a steel collier X off Cape Cod during the heigh blizzard on January 11 The finding v rowboat and the sel removed the that all had perishe Shipping men here inclined to the belief that the Tracy probably foundered near where its wreckage was picked up on the perilous Georges Shoal, aproximately 70 miles southeast of Highland Light off Cape Cod. The destroyer Burroughs found two heavy sections of the plank hatch cov ers of the ship and her name board, while earlier the fishing schooner Breaker had discovered the rowboat. Both radioed the information here. The Tracy sailed from 1 January 8 with 4,000 tons of coal for this port. Two Coast Guard cutter two tugs and an airplane searched without avail. The colller carried no wireles DESERTION CHARGED TO JOHN F. HOWARD —Hope defi- ndoned .today for teamer t seen of a v of a drifting te of the ves- tige of doubt Balad Manufacturer Accused of | Leaving Second Wife for Mexico. By the Associated Press HAVERHILL, Mass., J. An indictment chargir tion has been returned F. How: lnd dressing manufac: turer, whose marital exploits in Mex- ico have kept him before the public for the past year He is charged with deserting second wife, Mrs. Margaret How of this ci He went to Mexico Ci where he obtained a dive and 1 ried Mrs. Eleanor Phillips, a_widow, of Milwaukee, who subsequently died Howard then took as his fourth wife a Mexican widow, named Cordova. Two of Howard's sons have been embroiled with their father in at- tempts to persuade him to return to the United States or to make suitable settlement on Mrs. Howard here and both have had frequent clashes with Mexican police. John C. Howard, one of the sons, and two companions from this city are at present in jail in Mexico City on charges of attempted kidnaping of the elder Howard. wife deser his rd Ordjm:l to Aberdeen. Capt. George Schirch, Medical Corps, at Fort Washington, Md., has been ordered to the Army proving ground, Aberdeen, Md., fox- duty, ’ had | olk on [Y . | nomination would_be gainst John | FAIL 0 GAIN OPEN SESSIONFORWOODS Resolution on Nomination for Appointment to Commerce Commission Lacks Majority. Efforts to have the Senate meet in ssion on the nomination of . Woods of Pennsylvania for appointment to the Interstate Com- merce Commission failed yesterday. A lution proposing an ‘“open executive ses offered by | Senator Neel West Vir- ginia, and was adopted, 4§ to 31.°Sen- ator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, who is leading the fight for Woods, called attention, however, that the rules required a two-thirds vote. Vice President Sustained. Vice President Dawes agréed with | this interpretation, and Neely ap- pealed from this decision, but the Vice President was ained, 45 to 32. Both opponents and supporters of | Woods asreed that these votes were |not in the nature of tests on_the | auestion of confirmation itself. Neely land others were of the opinion that of ultimate victory were use the vote on the n secret. . snators from Virginia, West Vir- Kentucky and Tenne the fight to reject on the ground < from a State which is vitally d in the Lake coal cargo rate now before the Inte e Com-| | merce Commission, which affects also | the coal operators in the four so-called | Southern field coal States, | lessened be g Debate on Question Begins. After the dec on to keep the Sen- | ate doors closed, debate was begun | on the question of confirmation, with | prospect that it might continue | the | through several secret sessions on as R 3 s, _Republican, | ind Reed, Democrat, Mis { took the lead in the fight for an open with Reed of Pennsylvania al other Senators arguing |a departing from the regular | practice of considering nominations | in executive session. MRS. ADDIE B. WHITE DIES. Resident Here for 25 Years Ex- pires After Long Illness. White, 4 wife of | and a resident of 5 years, died at her ackson street north- fter a long illnes | her husband, she is survived | by a son, Francis; daughter, Doris; | her father, W. D. Brady, all of this city; two sisters, Mrs. Gladys B. Por- ter of Washington and Mrs. Mabel Hughes of Fort Pierce, Fla., and a brother, Eugene Brady of Baltimore. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Rev. S. B. Daugherty of the United Bretheren Church wiil officiate. Interment will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery,_ Mrs. Addie B. Doyle C. | th | resic |Jury in € ¥ P Sk an hour in road tests. CARRIES ENGLAND’'S HOPES OF BREAKING WORLD SPEED RECORD. The ped to America next month to attempt to break the world’s speed record at Daytona, Fla. The car, which was built by the be driven by Maj. H. 0. D. Segrave, English racing driver. Equipped with two engiries, the huge racer is said to have attained a speed of 133 ige British racing car, the Mystery iles Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. OFFICERS CONVICTED ON SLAYING CHARGE Constable and Deputy Sheriff Given | Life Imprisonment for Killing Man They Sought. By the Associated Press, PINEVILLE, Ky., January e Constable Bottner Smith and Deputy Sheriff Frank Bowman were to life imprisonment yester Court here on charges A. Lattimore of Blanche, K: da. The jury deliberated 1 two hours. Dr. Lattimore, physician for the Fox Ridge Mining Co., was by the two officers when they to arrest him on a minor cl contended that he resisted arrest and acked them he subsequent 1 of the office had aroused unusual interest through out Bell County. Feeling ran high be- tween factions represented, and ; precaution was taken ogainst any order in the court when the was'announced. Throughout the trial the Straight Creek train which runs here from the scenc of the shooting was crowded with witne: and friends of both sidas in the ca Woman Dies Reading Bible. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va. January Miss Lucy Strange, 35 years old, was found dead in the kitchen of her home yesterday. The dead woman was sitting in a chair where she had been reading a Bible. 'he room s filled with gas, several of the jets in the stove being found on full. Modern Jail Unalluring. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., January 22 (#).—Here's on anomolous situation: Months ago_the county spent large sums to reniodel the women's section of its jail. Where there was constant of kilt | wara | Be occupation in the old quarters, there Jhas not been one lnmate;!}nm}hw_ Woman Gives Up $1,300 Rather Than Pay 50-Cent Reward, But Later Offers $50 By the_Associated Pre WARK, N. I, Having raised the amount of the re from 50 to $50, Mrs. ierhorn will call at police headquar $1,300 which she lost on December 29 and which she declined to accept Thursday night when it sted that dollar w iate compen for the young waitress to whom ths recovery was due. She notified ‘With the money in sight she offeréd 10 cents, raised the amount finally to nd then left police station January Prescott, a waitress in the taurant of a department store, found the hmoney. Meanwhile Mrs. Gerhorn was offering a reward for the return of her savings and got in touch with the police. In checking Mrs. Gerhorn's story police discovered that a bag contain- vas found in her mattress d been an inmate of the > City Home at Livingston for She was required to pay for her re and attention and me to Newark. SAYS REBELS EQUIPPED WITH SAVAGE BULLETS cents today for a ptain of Detectives Sebold of her change of heart 24 hours after leaving headquarters with the declaration that he could “keep it all rather than pay a reward.” DEFENSE SEES VICTORY iN SCOPES CASE ACTION Dismissal of Case Hailed as Indica- $735 then Mexican Forces Carried Outlawed tion of Refusal to Pass Ammunition, Marine Officer on Law. Tells Court. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, 2.—Defense counsel in the John T. se | construes the action of the Tennessee Supreme Court in dismissing the c: on motion of the attorney general a very substantial victor Arthur Garfleld Hays, members of the de- fense, said yesterday. . “It’ seems clear to me that courts are dodging the issue,” Mr. Hays said. “I think the anti-evolu- tion law in Tennessee is dead, because the courts don’t want to pass upon it. There won't be any more arre cause Tennessee jurists aren't to interpret the statute. However, we will certainly find some means of com- pelling them to render a decislon, either by action in a Federal court or by another trial.” January 22.— Bul- at the “dum-dum’ type were seized at the time of the arrest of Gen. Enrique Estrada and his alleged Mexican revolutionary, army, Capt. L. R. Jones, U. £. Marine Corps, testified here yesterday in the trial* of Estrada and his followers on charges of violating the United States neutrality laws. Jones said the arms and ammuni- tion | confiscated were sufficient to equip an army of 500, One type of bullet, the officer testi. fied, had a depressed copper nose, which upon striking a firm surface, such as a bone, would spread out to a diameter of 1 inch. Another was a short, soft-nosed lead missile, simi- lax “to'the condemned _‘‘dum-dum.” _ copes ¢ the FORMER U. S. COLONEL WINS $6,000 VERDICT Gets Judgment Against British Of- ficer Over Fund Raised for Use in Mexico. By the Associated Press, * SAN FRANCISCO, January Col. Frank E. Webb, former United States Army officer, yesterday won judgment for $6,000 in his suit against. Col. Robert Mackay, formerly of the British army, for $8,000, al- leged to have been part of a $100,- 000 fund intended by prominent American politicians to placate cer- tain officials of the former Obregon government in Mexico in return for valuable concessions Col. Mackay introduced checks as evidence to show he had paid Webb $2,000. After testimony which fea- tured a $40-a-plate dinner in New York, at which United States Sen- ators were present and to which President Harding was invited, Su- perior Judge Van Nostrand took the e under visement January 19. ‘Webb t fied that shortly before the dinner he communicated with the President’s secretary and his personal physician and that as a re- sult President Harding did not at- tend the affair, New Home for Newspaper. FARGO, N. Dak., Januar; P).— The new $200,000 three-story" home of the Fargo Forum, morning and eve- ning newspaper, was formally opened today. Norman. B. Black, publisher, was host to newspaper men, business men and civic leaders. In commemo- ration of the event the Forum issued a 100-page edition. —— e e Prussian government offers » prémium of 750 marks to all mothers wh nurse their children for at least AGW £ 2 ) | passions today in America are speed POPULRCIORD” CENZALINSKIENDS, OF PRESSASSLED HIS ARMY CAREER Menace to Journalism, Editor | Assistant Quartermaster té | Retire After Banquet Tribute Tonight. Tells Conference on Char- acter Education. Br | sistant Q n act when he re By the ciated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Ja —*“Striking the popular chord h: come one of the menaces in journal- | ism,” declared Don C. of the | editorial staff of Outlook in an ad-|of law c dress before the third In- | asion a @ iary s evening, ferred to the by operation will nner will his asso- r Corps at H. H. Quar- and a John 8. interesting Among Gen. B. F. er Genperal, who will be termaster brigadler Mr. changing condi the World War, the tion prices became pos: new affluence the new a convenience rather ence. brought on by | torn e in subscrip- | con ble and in its [ Cha paper became than an influ- Run By Formula. | and Col. ¥ | promoted “Now," he said, “big_interests buy | Gener: up groups of papers and they are run according te a formula. Commercial- ism has come into play, by which | newspapers are captured and sub merged. Nobody will buy anythi now unless she sees it widely adver- | tised in the papers. This condition does not dominate the paper in morals, but it puts upon its physical side such a load that the intellectual | tineyished side becomes smaller. The sub-|jcas in the mergence of the dafly press and the |5 nrivate in th equal leanness of the cultural Press|par 1885 he w < a difficult path | e rats ot has no means of reach- | o, ing the vacant mind,” he inle: you make it feel that there is some- ase ball score of inski Army | He | Spanish War, | tion, the Mexica | Worla W ha in Octo- noted to nt in oned ory. In rred to the Corps h the rank ¢ gradual promotion he ie of b wdier general Qu -rmaster General at date he has Since t ned at the War Department. ched the g . ut | he national Assistant The speaker said that ks and inconvenience. “Nation of Button Pushers.” “The only real criti that vails in America today, that you are too slow. Bv caution has been taken to reduce thinking to its lowest. We have be- come a nation of button pushers. And we forget that under all this con- venience fs a vast servitude, “The public relies upon the clergy- man, the teacher and the editor to do the things it won't do,” he said. “The editor has the most difficult tasks in some respects. He has to coax sub- scribs entertain them by all kinds of things, and he does this frequently in the dark. The cultural publication has to reach a public widely scattere but it is the saving grace in the mal ing of American character.” | MRS. E. C. YEAGLE DEAD. | Succumbs to‘Pn:llmUlli;l After Twpof Weeks’ Illness. Mrs. Evadne C. Ye: widow of John Lynn Yeagle, formor city editor of the Washington Post, died at Gar- field Hospital last night. She had been il with pneumonia for two weeks. Mr. Yeagle was drowned in 1925 at | Pitman, . while bathing. | Mrs. Yeagle was born in St. Louls, Mo., in 1881, She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. John C. Walker, Asheville, N. C., |and Jean Lynn and Frances, and a | son, Allen Yeagle of Washington; her { mother Dr. H. M. Ark.; three Lufkin, Tex burgh, Pa sm he Hip Fractured by Fall. Injured by a fall as she was leaving the Franklin Square Hotel, where she has been spending the winter, Mrs. Cornelia J. Hagan, for more than 50 Funeral vices will years a resident of Washington, is a | Gawler funeral parlors, tomorre patient at the Homeopathic Hospital. |afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. Dr. John . C. Pearc \ s. Willard S. Allen, New York City, and one brother, Waj- " lace Cady, Beaumont, Tex. be held Mrs. Hagan suffered a fracture of the |J. Queally, rector of the Chapel of the hip. Her neice, Miss Frances Ben~lTra,nslls:urntiun. will officiate. The jamin Johnston of New York, is in body will be taken to Clyde, Ohio, for attendance. , ., . . 3 burial beside her husband. |