Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1927, Page 13

NOTORIOUS CHICAGO PIG Police Court in Chi downtown sectio I, while lln‘ v DIFFICULT SHOT WINS FIRST ow playing Ralph G ard title, demon remarkable five-ball shot that won t ON SLAYER FACES TRIAI as one of the bi is brought to trial. enleaf at New York for the latter's world pocket trates how the balls were placed when he made the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JAN UARY Witnesses for the “prosecution,” jam the charg>d with preying on the hundreds of pigeons in the A witness in front of the judge’s stand holds a dead pigeon as an hawk watches the proceedings from his « Photos S (left), Byt BLOCK. Edwin Rudolph, who is ar-old f He he first block of the match for him. Cariins Channel vitor. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. TRAINER BOASTS TWO long-distance old short-distance champion of that country, both ¢ 0'Byrne, manager and trainer of George Young, They display a few of the cups they have w —_— CUTTING FIGUR AT LAKE PLACID. Maud K. Smith Eastwood, &Fark ice a few capers at the New York W annual figure-skating contest to be TURNIN with musie crities of New York when the latter invite them to cr e the front of the piano, left to right, are Josef Hofmann, Ernest Hutchesen, Gershwin and Richard stan George . MORE CHAMPIO! champion of Canada, Olga and ceived a Department of Massa bitin Wide World Photos I scratching its mistress, , who was ordered to spare it for two weeks’ LIFE REPRIEVE two-week rep usetts, after being sentenced to execution for The feline G THE TABLES ON THE MUSIC CRITICS. Five prominent musici: their charity Persia, a Boston ieve from the State A SHORT CUT IN PERSONAL shown with the nbservation. World Photos back and arms of Ada Forman, featured dancer a current New York presentation. Wide DECORATIO American illustrator, paints a design from an old Chinese print on the n “The Ch Wide Wo concert. C. E. Millard, nese Jade,” d Photos. BODY EXHUMATION AY ENDMYSTERY Post-mortem to Decide if Victim of Love Letter Hoax Was Slain. By the Associated Pr MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, 24.—JSxhumation today of the body of Charles Elrod, old Lewellen, Neb., widower, may solve the mystery surrounding the yo a fort night ago in a Marshalltown hotel year room. With authorities undecided whether | the victim of a love letter hoax was committed suicide, died of slain, or natural causes, to Towa City for examir ‘Wilber I of Jowa seve of poisor The dead man’s school-girl heart, Veda Bellefeuille, has turned to her classes, school ities having requested that main away until the inve into Elrod’s death is Officers have found ne the “Keith Prestor Miss Bellel attempt to make a rival for her ha Univers tion by Dean of vital organs caled no trace sweet tig pleted lea ers n had rod in M denial U. S. SHIPS IGNORED. of Count from Carry Only Third « For transportatic can fore revenue NEW YORK JURIST WEDS. Mar- Woman Supreme Court Justice Black ried to New YORK Orleans NEW preme Cc Black, a ried to horough e cerer “John R 1, recently severed his connections with the Supreme Kingdom, Georgia fyn- damentalist organization, is pastor. the body will be taken | | Even Wild Animals ) I sy o AL BLLACTON Yo Tncependent |5 BARNUNS HOPE By the Associated Press. LEIPZIG, January the wild animals of republican Ger- many are facetiously being credit- ed in some quarters with getting so independent that they refuse to be driven up to the guns of the hunters, as in the days of yore. Game isn't so as d to be in some parts of Reich. A party of 43 men who s in the morning from Oberwiesern thal, Saxony, came back in the | evening emply handed. wenty- | three hunters took 20 helpers | beat the game from cover. | Predicts if Congress Ap- proves Return to 1920 Rates Benefits Will Accrue. it the Hope that the | opportunity to take on the postal rate Se will have an tion this week revision bill, includ- ing a return to the 1920 rates on s ond-class matter, was expr statement issued today num, chairman of tee of the Americ: Assoclation. d in a Ao he postal commit- Newspaper Pub- even a rabbit was bagged. by { DRIVER IN SECOND CRASH WHILE TESTING BRAKES cted that if Con- s proposed change in the second-cl es the result will be to increase the use of postal fac ties by newspaper publi thereby benefitinig both the public and the de- partment on Rumning Board | When Accident Occurs—Solo- | mon Temple Held. | Policeman the running Newspaper Mail Slumps. ings before a joint subcommit- e fact that Even policeman on rd does not mean insurance agal as Herman W. Gregory, Maryland avenue, driver of a produc uck belonging to W. F» McConkey 941 B street, found out this morn- ing. After a collision with a tr longing to the Consumers’ Coal Co., driven by Solomon Temple, colored, O street, Gibgory was having his akes tested by Officer C. C. Grimsle of the first precinct when a sedan driven by Phyllis Georgia Hawkins 12 Thirteenth street northeast, ram- | ed into the rear of his tr em- | ple was held and will answer charges of “colliding.” street not far collisio AIR MAIL CONTRACTS. Companies Iay Week. b accident, Hes tee of Congress developed t since 1920 there has been steadily decreasing volume of newspaper mail handled by theé Post Office Depart- ment, Mr. Barnum pointed out The evidence shows, he said in » the Post Office Department | handled 21,000,000 pounds smaller vol | ume of newspaper advertising mail | than in 1920 Ciry During the same period of s, he said, the eirculatic ¥ pers outside of the mmls increased more than 20 per cent and the size of the papers themselves increased 33 per ent “Had eatur | croas | Dey | ce ck he that ion Shows Rise. which Officer Grims- mavoidable,” ocecur- between Tenth and from the scene of d on B Fileventh the in rates passed th the postal on_ point 1 v of 1921 and 1925, the rtment in 1925 should have re ed more than §8,000,000 from pub. ers above what it actually did r Mr. Barnum declared BRITISH BAN NEGRO. Davis Trinidad. (). — nercial Get Job Within ated Pre at Deny Frank Permis- to Land HAVANA, Ja i ation ght the case ernment h that Trinidad W Id Davis, allas John njamin, a permission to land theve. Davis, who served in American war se 3th Cavalry, was int exec until his recent r from the i De Cul pr where vi term for robbery he Trinidad authorities, the immi gration department explains, contend | that Davis forfeited his right to claim which can satisfactorily guarantee | British citizenship by enlisting in the that the service will be permanently United States Army | carried on. iy Mis. Lane, Author, Dies. LONDON January 24 (#).—Mrs. \m e E. time sups - ind director of the Be Music, is dead was the widow of John La London publisher, who died two years ago. | She wrote extensively for m ines, | and was the author of several works of fiction, arests will are n i Postmaster ement of the the two contracts scontinantal Air | () wted by the Go rerel usly awaitin New’s announc bidders for on the rvice now ope suc: ion in essiul anuary 24 r ithor had settled British officially notified Cuba Fr n carry Mail ernme Indic week or rched mitted bids | be a ition rprises that i deny to determ hree aviation en: opened January contrac ns Spanis the oner s. one in here Sar w the Air Maii Service are proceed carefully in investigating the pro posals determined the contracts shall not be awarded except to companies Women Sml Dodge Jury Duty. the law permitti juries in Austrs force several mof vet has been empaneled in the In making the Although women one rve o Conservatory for s, no woman of state of Queensland announcement recenidy, the attorney general safd that very few applicants had been received frog those who were willing to ser Prisoners in Federal Penitentiaries ‘ Nearly Double in Past Seven Years jails, Departnient county a of number of prisoners in the three | Fede prisoners statement from Justice said: “If the percenta the prohibition are substantial The Federal peniten bled in the past seven v to Department of the figures having jumped trom 4.1 in 1919 te 8,750 in 1926. The largest increase is provided by i the Volstead act, which has steadily | contributed its number of violator | for the vear 1926 there w | 1.837 incarcerated for violations of th | prohibition law. While the number | in the penitentiaries for violations of | the narcotic law fell off from the prior vear, it was still larger in 1926 than | aside from the | the total liquor law violators, the drug | laws, 659 were there for violation of s numbering 1,991 | the national motor vehicle theft act, gures were given for the first time | 270 for violation of the revenue laws |from county jails throughout the|and 793 for violation of the postal States, which are housing 6,514 Fed- [laws. eral prisoners. Figgures on prisoners violating the Although there are no details given | prohibition act are shown only as far as to the reasons for incarceration of | back as 1923, when there were only 9 | HINDENBURG’S SISTER EXPANSION PLANNED BEFRIENDING THE POOR| FOR LOCOMOTIVE PLANT at 75, Though Sufierer‘]Baldwin Work: From Illness, Personally Answers From Philadelphia to Eddystone, Innumerable Calls for Aid. aries has nearly dou according | of violators of and the drug act the same among these prisoners as among those in the prisons, there would be in the ty jails approximately 1,300 viola 5 the prohibition law and about violators of the r onal end of the pe fiscal 1 prohibition and narcotic | Fraulein, to Be Transferred Delaware County Suburb. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January The entire plant of the Baldwin Loco- | motive works, situated at Broad and Spring Garden streets, near the heart of this city, for more than half a century, will have been .moved to ddystone, a Delaware County sub. urb, by the middle of nect Summer. In moving to the new_ site, which zovers 600 acres, Samuel M. Vauctin dent, id the plant would have plenty of room for expansion” and the concern was ‘“determined g0 after the world’s business.” Some of the company’s shops were moved to Eddystone several yea Mr. Vauclain said that output of the works in 1926 about 40 per cent of their n the concern had made money. outlook for the future, he added, {unusually bright. LONGER éEDS IN KANSAS Hotel Comm sioner Propnses Bill By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Janus 24.—Although suffering from acute rheumatic and handicapped by defective | eyesight, President Von Hinden- burg’s only sister, who continues to answer e appeals for assistanc These reach her her Potsdam | two-room apartment, where she pi lly replies in firm long-hand 24— pains is | ola, daily numera | sor w he greatest joy cor able to help others,” Associateg Press, ery day brings |appeals from the sorely needful who | think that because I am the pre | dent’s sister I must have unlimited | funds. They forget that my brother directly receives more than 400 re- quests daily, so I could not think of | bothering him. "I must do what I can to collect funds privately.” Fraulein Von Hindenburg’s rels tion to her brother is touching, and her face assumes a beatific_expre: |sion when he is mentioned. “Der gute, gute Alte,” she murmurs, nd then’ tells her caller about the many thoughtful attentions shown her by to Regulate Le 7th. “Der Feldmarschall’—how on her recent birthday he personally brought |, TOPEKA, Kans., January 24 (9).— Har T iz hosket of goodies. hew, | Men in Kansas grow tall like the sun. late in December, he interrupted his | flowers, so Phil E. Zimmerman, State labors on a_New Year address to the | hotel commissione diplomatic body to write her a long |inches high, insists letter of good wishes, humorously {his jurisdiction provide | adding that he was writing by can- |enoush for the State's lengthy sons. faleh 15 something had gone w Zimmerman found a s the Berlin electric plant; how otel bed to be 6% feet long. \n_automobile last Summer to |enough for Zimmerman to squeez her to the Berlin station but too short for other Kansar seaside resort train. Tess Willard, the former heavyw Fraulein Von Hindenburg has gone | champion, who is 6 feet 6 inches. {to Berlin only once to visit her| The hotel commissioner has asked | brother at the presidential palace, | H. W. Behrens, a State Senator, who lest people will think she is taking |stands 6 feet 7 inches, to push a bill | advantage of his high position to ob- | empowering the commissioner to reg- tain favors for herself. ulate the length of hotel beds. ts in being she told the to was only imum, The was that hotels under beds long rong s he to for Willing Workers Club Elects. Paul dent of | « Two Die in Frisco Fire. SAN FRANCISCO, January 24 (@ | Two presons were burned to death, when fire destroyed a large tenement | | house in the Latin Quarter last night. MaGowan the Rev. was elected presi- R. B. Robinson's, Willing Workers' Club yesterday. Other officers selected were Miss One body was recovered, and firemen | ldna M. Ryan, secretary; Miss Bo- l\\'cle conducting a search for the |gan, treasurer. The club is planning second. The. cause of the fire was'a drive to secure funds for the Bhl' undetermin Memorial Bible Institute. drug | ries | himself 6 feet 3 | Louisiana munity S | i action of Lilano cc evolution, ship the Georg Pic 1 manager. The colo: munities of the United fixed the for The tro ago during ar islature was lution law. The colonist ett said, in a that he spoke lution ony I for far d thous s and a church, me a discor ony, Mr. expelled from efforts to eje munity have joined with an been _expelled stockholder to rd of Pickett ng more “I'm the m; ulously claimi an to whom Pickett said charging the story a I for any one tc from the may ville Mr. Pickett which he said ¢ the colony N doll for ch, owed BANDITS Rob Miami MIAMI, Fl $3,500 cash of diamond valued at §: the watchms the store. of the, they RECEIVER ASKED FOR DIXIE COLONY poused Evolution Theory. rife, colonist, »perative colony as favoring has brought about a peti- tion in Civil Court st Started Year at Leesville, when the Louisiana Leg- | member in favoring th and added that while the foot of ground would be granted for The speaker Pickett colony tions existed. False, § this ¥ outstanding, MAKE BIG HAUL. Store of $3,500 Cash and $50,000 in Gems. Three men overpowered the man and robbed the vault of a large department store here last night of ,000. The robbers bound | owned by a Chinese who, fearing that hey then chipped the wall | can enterprise o gain admittance, where | to erect a_suitable sign also. Vice Playthings | Consigned to Fire Following Revival | By the Associated Pres: v ORLEAN Magnolia, Miss, purified by fir Into a community citizens consigned all questionable literatur plctures and | | | | | 24— was January yesterday Communist Com- aid to Have Es- bonfire 1,500 cards, dice, salacious :s of from town told of how the around the lephone Pike Count citizer i thered 1 Methodist spire cards and dice upon the fire flagration gathered forc The bonfire was precipitated by revival services conducted by Howard S. Williams, layman-evan- gelist, who formerly published a Hattiesburg newspape; THEODORE F. BROWNING, COFFEE MERCHANT, DIES | | st htivad o2l WekABInEton fand | ay: | Resident of Riverdale for Many 1 t urday SEATTLE La., January 24 the outgrowth of the who declared the tossin as | son | Whitehall, ber sking a receiver- the colon; according to kett, president and gen- one of the few com- industrial socialism in es, does not espouse Mr. Pickett said. Ago. started almost a 1 anti-evolution meet ory E ex ago, ted fter aut um: year 5 Years—Funeral Wednesday. considering an anti-evo- | | Special Dispateh to The Star, RIVERDALE, Md., Janu Theodore Frelinghuysen Brow years old, a coffee merch Washington and virtually a resident of this shortly before neral services will day afterncon at interment in Fort I The Rev. Robert Ev: Baltimore, a nephew, will officiate Mr. Browning's death resulted from infirmities of age. He had been seri- | ously ill for several weeks. Born in Washington on Septembe 1844, Mr. Browning, with his pa the late Mr. and Mrs. Peregrine ed moved to Riverdale, is one of the oldest and in this section of at that time, Mr. Pick- Gl s public speech declared the sentiments of every theory of evo- ted her ning of Octol not charge h as he was James roth fronted th zed sands of ac schools, not one community noon yester be held Wednes- was censured and be- the home, with | dant member of the col- said. He was later colony membership, but ct him from the com- been unavailing. He notger member who had and induced a third file suit, charging that directors had misman- and that immoral con- they saw lean ncoln Cemetery ns Browning of | Near they Wash., | piciou; which ¥ - the man ents Browning, The family most prominent Maryland. On May 11, Ella Maddox, ys Pickett. | asserted the suit was than an attack on him. in whom they are ridic- ng is living with wom- I am not married,” Mr. hese men who are ve been circulating | ong time. I am willing » find out my reputation or and citizens of Lees- fed Miss pt. Wil- , and M hington an s County, Md. Mrs. Browning as do a son, Perry W. Browning of Riverdale and W ton, and a daughter, Mrs. Ha Willhoit of Washington. Upon his retirement from active ! business, Mr. Browning was succeed- ed by his sons under the firm name ate. with an actual as.|of P. W. Browning & Bro., at 614 taxes of $490,000, and |Louisiana avenue. = He established g debts of $64,000,|his coffee business about 60 year: to mm idual members, |280- not an actual lability. | —_— | Up With the Times. From the Market for Exchange. In a section of Washington where there are located a number of cheaper restaurants and stores, one concern. upon opening for business, erected a huge sign with the words, “Open All Night.” His nextdoor neighbor and competitor was not long in erecting a sign on his restaurant with a similar ecks and a quantity{ message, “We Never Close. watches and jewelry, | The third store was a little-laundry 1874, he mar: ¢ Dehn, daughter of = chemi. quantity stomach Let mamish ington after investig; she had of a Sarah 101 from | ons, produced halance sheets | howed t| e were approximatel nationally ). — January 24 watch- He 'w: work i on Union superintended Hudson this with wire to a pillar in|he was not keeping abreast of Ameri- and energy, hastened n the strong bex. read, “Me Wakee Too. C. Dobbs, who 14-year-old findir n a slo n on After apparently picion in connect was found. arcotic body a two-wee DENTIST ACCUSED OF KILLING GIRL C. C. Dobbs to Face Charge of Murdering Pretty Seattle Student. January 24.— and dentist, the pretty Letitia student, alive ust face trial in connection her strangled oss from Lake ovember 14. being exonerated n with the the girl, Dobhs ¢ night. _Officers, ed from a body 10 home and saw of the ked his a nine-hour examina. rned from a Sate > tour with his wife. was known to have seen the W Treated Her Teeth Free. the last person girl alive. He teeth in his office the eve- 20, patient for lad to do and Co dent and dec positive that he He said he did the work, inything for her. William = Gerard, eld, Wash., con- when he was be- lared they were the man whom over a bridge rail 1 which the girl's At previous exam- stified_that while re- arby irl's inert form. noticed leaped into the coupe and drove away. Mount Vernoh, man acting sus- was a coupe, in ‘When the Gerards, he n Stomach. > investigation was reopened by the announcement of Prof. Wililam M. University that he had found a deadly narcotic of Washington in the girl's was found in_Sam- gh, across Lake Wash- attle, November 14, ch. At repeated it was announced that ed either from drowning or ng D. Colvin an al murder charges iinst Dobbs. BRIDGE BUILDER DEAD. John Francis Anderson, 79, Suec- cumbs in California. £GO, Calif., ancis Anderson, known as a civil engineer and bridge builder, died at his home here yesterday at the age of 79, s born in Sweden and began country as a laborer Pacific bridge work. tunneling tiver and built bridges in Venezuela, Australia and England, in addition to Mississippl and Ohio River bridges in this country. 4 Two brothers Hve in January 24 inter- He under the Sweden.