Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 15

' when he NEW QUARTERMASTER GENERAL yesterday as he assumed 5. Zalinski. TAKES OFFICE. his duties as Quartermaster Brig. Gen. F. H. Pope taking the oath General of the Army, succeeding Brig. Gen. Army officials are gathered in the office of the new Army supply chief, in the Munitions B\lllfllvlu. as he takes the oath, administered by W. F. Roe, chief clerk of the Transportation Service. BROWNING TRIAL IS REMOVED TO NEW SCENE. Edward W. New York realtor (left), and his chief attorney, Kevie llro\\nlllz, wealthy Frankel, rlmlu‘gnplled as they arri the epenin year-old b after first day to White Plains. Browning’s separation suit yesterday ide, Frances “Peaches” Browning. o ll"lll“ ved at_court at Carmel, N, :’. for was r!movtd Cy chyrlxht by P. & A. Photos. his recent breakdown. Copyright by P. & A. l’holvu CHARLIE SOOTHES. TROUBLES WITH MUSIC. screen comedian, who is being sued for divorce by his wife, Lita Grey Chaplin, seeks a bit of forgetfulness at the piano. apartment of Chaplin’s New York attorney, where he is recovering from MARY ELLIN POSES FOR FIRST PHOTO. Mrs. Irving Berlin, the former Ellin Mackay, wife of the song writer, and their baby daughter Mary Ellin, face the camera for the first time since the youngster's arrival last l‘lll Co Charlie Chaplin, “Photo taken in the Herbert Photos. right, Bach Bros , from Wide \\ orld Photo RIOTING CONTINUES AS CHINESE SITUATION BECOMES MORE CRITICAL. A view of ene of the foreign business districts at Hankow, China, which suffered from looting and rioting by Chinese mobs in the disturbance which forced virtual abandonment of she British concession. vn) u’ a bl()(’ll‘ shun. uhlrh was rl.ldtd and the tontmtn strewn about the street. Photo shows the wrecked prop- Acme Photos. PUGILIST SIGNS UP FOR SAWDUST RING. eavyweight battler of his day, gets acquainted with Jiggs, the orang- utan, with whom he will travel as an attraction of a Pacific Coast James J. Jeffries, former heavyweight champ, will team with circus. Sharkey in their circus act. Tom Sharkey, famous Copyright by P. & A. Photos. DEPOSED NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT SOJOURNS IN U. Carlos Solorzano, who still claims to and Berta de Balyeat, Nicaraguan c 8. Don be the legal President of Nicaragua, onsul, photographed at Los Angeles, Solorzano was forced out of Nicaragua by Gen. Chamorro's military coup, after being elected in 1925. ‘Wide World Photos. BOY'S §3 FIGURES INMILLION SWINDLE | | | Money He Made in Cotton Fields Vanished, He Says in Farm Products Probe. By the Associated Press ATLANTA, January Thirteen- vear-old George W. Clemons, a farmer boy of Coweta, Okla., told a Federal grand jury here yesterday how he labored under a blistering sun in an Oklahoma cotton field to make enough money for a Christmas present for his mother and father and how he was cheated of his savings answered a newspaper ad- vertisement offering 300 oranges for three dollars, and failed to receive them. He testified, other witnesses against H. D. Gaines hols, two of three ators of a nationn-wide who were in the day on 37 e of the malls to with alleged perpetr farm products swindle dicted joinly later counts charging u defraud. Reld in Default of Bond. With J. G. Augusta hospl the Wo men, here in default of bond, also are tised in Superior Court indictments of cheating and sw 1li and larceny connection with widespread news paper advertising of alleged fictitious Grimes, an held nmate of an | Kilts Not Devised to Cut Expenses, Lauder Declares By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January It takes more real sheep’s wool to weave a good kilt than would go into three pairs of English trousers, Sir Harry Lauder declared here yes- terday. Bare knees in his native Scotland, he added, did not originate in an economy campaign. U.S. KEEPS SECRET [TS FORD TAX PLAN Counsel to Confer Here Mon- day to Fix Date to Re- sume Hearing. - By the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 25.—Hearing of the tax suit against former stockhold- ers of the Ford Motor Co., concluded [ here vesterday, will be resumed in | Washington next week when the Gov- | ernment will begin presentation of its ducts the authorities charge, delivered der. 1dvance pay. rom persons \mnl‘,! furrors that-he ear ton fields, and, I chance to iner remember Christ of his 1 for the or to sell th Clemons 1 the $3.40 in the cot- and | hand three | with an intended mall profit riries _about h ents somely dollars order he said He orde pparently e | stock ment paid his ere ttaches and ot fund much s to see ses made A up his lost his trip Operations Are Explained. The three men charged with aving ope ames Hatcherie fictitious concerns, & o more. than & million dofiars In Vic North C: issippi irginia Louisiana Jersey we fied vesterd fied 4 Federal aid a seperate in dictment would be sought for C All are scheduled to go to trial next month in Fulton County Superior Court, montk ms of the alle arolina Miss Texas 1thoma, Oh and New witnesses who tes Colorado yest r | grand | s failed to | case. The date for resumption is to be | selected at a meeting of opposing | counsel at the Capital Monday. ¢ During the hearing here the Gov- ernment gave no inkling of its plan of | action to prove an original valuation | placed on the stock as of 1913 by the | Internal Revenue Department was er- X\ropmmh The | recover $30,000,000 in added income s the result of the alleged error S. Sees Error In Tax. The Government contends that an incorrect formula was used by the | department, then under the direction of former Commissioner Daniel C Roper, in computing valuation of the Government seeks to | States Army. drill and lrulnin;: Wi i CADETS PASS MlSTFR AT MILITARY INSPECTION. . Deems of the 8d Corps Area, is conducting the inspe ction with ork. Cadets of Eastern High School being inspected yesterday by officers of the United 'ol. Wallace Craigie, who is taking an active part in_cadet Wi auhlngtor\ \(’u‘ Photo. ONE DEAD, FOU Father and Son Resist | | 8y the Aswciatea B { MOUNT One were ress VERNON, man kille wounded Ba was at It received $20.000,000 in taxes on profits when the stock was sold in 1919 and claims it should have obtained more than $50,000,000. Strictest secrecy was maintained by | Government atto of action in support of the contention Thus far in the hearing, only defense testimony has been heard and Govern | ment evidence will await opening of the Washington hearing No Irregularity Charge. The Government has made no charges of irregularity as yet and whether it is intended to produce evi- | dence of collusion was not disclose Nor was it disclosed whether the ac- ton of Commissioner Roper in mak | swindle from |ing a special evaluation for the appel- ‘I‘U' 1ld be questioned. The Ford stock, a special rul ing by the Revenue Department, was evaluated for taxation purposes, prior to its sale in 1919 to Henry Ford. The | advance valuation, according to testi- | mony presented by the defense, was {made in order that the stockholders could determine how ‘much of the profits accruing from the sale the Government . would claim in income taxese | lants w ungder eys regarding plans | i ! physician’s office { here, last night when |and his father, John | sisted six = automobile | attempted to rob their J and three of the ! were wounded in { that followed the | Three of the gunmen e | Five | 12aving | Weave the_ he | EaJ “rank one of their lying n tk 't nu were her from gunshot wound: Baker, ed t offi ploneer wealthy that the expected to obtain ceipts of his store, | located in Bakerville, Small hope is held for of Weaver, » many in Venezuela, accy no ed there has prices-of-Lood-products, 1., kerville, rl Baker, b tol Young Baker was killed, would-be the revolver attempted hold-up. of the men fled after the sident, It is the theory hold-up R SHOT AS 2 BATTLE BANDITS Six in IlL- nois Hold-up-—Latter Is | Only One Slain. January and four near 1, re- who d Baker, ndits father robbers battle his ped. fight, umber, Cecll of West in e arrested , both suffering s re- men imulated re- bank being the recovery have desert- farms to work in the ofl fields that been a shortage of farm products and a consequent rise in wllhnu( discussion to-the public lands | over the head with an iron bar, re- to become By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, January 24.— Eight names for the eight windows of the new Western Hills High School here were adopted by the board of education after four ames submitted {by the pupils of the senior and junior high schools had been discarded and four others substituted. The names chosen to go on the window tablets were Abraham Lincoln, George Wash ington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Frankiin, Florence Nightingale, Louis tes and Gutenberg. ASKS PROBE OF CHARGES Arizora Senatar Introduces Eesolu- A resolution calling for investi, tion of charges of fraud in negotia- tions which culminated several yea ago in the Herrick Lumber Co.’s con- cessions on approximately 900,000,000 feet of timber in the Bear Valley sec- tion of the Malheur tional Forest, Oregon, was introduced in the Senate yesterday by Senator Cameron, Re- publican, of Arizona, in behalf of Senator Stanfield, Republican, Oregon. Another resolution by the Arizona Senator would authorize an exhaus- tive examination into charges that certain unnamed sections of the pub- lic domain in Arizona, California, New Mexico and West Texas were “fraudu- lently delivered into the possession of private interests.” Both resolutions were _referred ommitteey tion to Investigate Lumber Deal. | Edison, Columbus, Wilson, Shakespeare Lose Out in Picking Memorial Names | The four names dropped from the pupils' list were Thomas A. Edison, Christopher Columbus, Woodrow Wil- son and William Shakespeare. Randall Cordan, superintendent of schools, suggested that if the name of Wilson was included, Roosevelt also probably ought to be included. The name of Shakespeare chosen by the pupils, was barred be caused it contained 11 letters and the E hitect could make room for only nine. Edison was the only living per- on whose name was submitted, and "for_this on it was omitted. SLAYER PLEADS GUILTY. | Faces 15- Yeu Term for Man- slaughter. David Lucas, colored, indicted for | murder in the first degree in connec- | tion with the death of Thomas Blair, also colored, November 28, was al- lowed to plead guilty to manslaughter yesterday before Justice Hoehling in Criminal Division 1. Assistant United States Attorney E. Russel Kelly ac- cepted the offer of Attorney Harry T. Whelan for the prisoner to make the plea of the lesser offense. The max- imum penalty under the plea is a term of 15 years.in the penitentiary. According to counsel, the men were engaged in a game of craps at 609 Christian court southwest when quarrel arose and Lucas hit Blair suiting in-the death-of Blair, the name of | EIGHT TEXANS FREED IN ‘EXECUTION’ PROBE Mexicans Slain in Gun Fight, Not Put to Death, Ac- cused Plead. ‘ { By the Associated Press. RAYMONDVILL! anuary —~Eight Willacy C: mml\ officers and | former officers, including Sheriff Ray- mond Teller, named in charges filed in connection with the deaths of five pri ast September, were exon- sterday in the report of the Willacy County grand jury and the charges were dismissed. A special representative of the Mex- fcan government instigated charges of murder and accessory to murder agalnst the officers several weeks ago, contending several of the men slain were Mexican cltizens. It was alleged the prisoners were “executed.” The_officers declared the prisoners were killed in a gun fight with un- identified ambushers, who attacked the officers while the prisoners were being taken into the country near here to locate a cache of arms. The men were being keld in connec- tion with the Kkilling of two officers. one: ed Refuse to Accept Resignation. ‘War Department officials have de- cided not to grant an application by Maj. Campbell B. Hodgés, command- ant of cade Vest Point Academy, for leave off . University. Written Marriage Proposals Fail to Draw Any Support By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 25.—The oft-made assertion that “indorsers can be found for every proposition” is disproved. Assemblyman Steingut of Brook- lyn, proponent of a law requiring all marriage proposals be written, announces he has not received “a single favorable communication dealing with the idea. LINDSEY MAY ASK U.S. COURT APPEAL Deposed Jurist Declares He Is Vietim of “Infamous Conspiracy.” By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., January Judge Ben B. Lindsey, who has been ordered by the State Supreme Court to vacate the Juvenile Court bench here, where he has presided for a quarter of a cen- tury, today declared he was the victim of “an infamous conspiracy.” He said he would carry his fight to retain his office to the United States Supreme Court, if necessary. Judge Lindsey planned to continue his docket today following the ap- proval of the ouster order yesterday ruling his re-election in 1924 was il- legal. He announced he would con- form to the rule allowing 15 davs to file a petition for a rehearing and that if this was refused he “would fight to | the bitter end.” The ouster suit was brought by Mrs. Royal C. Graham; widow of Judge Lindsey’ opponent two years ago, who charged irregularities in the bal- loting in one precinct, where the vote was first reported, Lindsey, 548; Gra- ham, 15. The Supreme Court threw out this vote after the case had been dismissed in District Court, when recount gave Judge Lindsey a major- | ity of only 35 votes. This gave Gra- ham a majority. | Judge Lindsey said he had evidence at the time of the District Court suit to show that the Ku Klux Klan had | expended money in the election and | that the district judge refused to ac- cept the story of one witness because | “it was too fllmsv to even call upon | us for a defense.” ; Memorial Is Contemplated. Erection of a memorial in Wash- ington to ploneers of the Pacific| Northwest is contemplated under a joint resolution introduced in the Sen- ate yedterday by Senator Jones, Re- publican, of Washington. The memorial would be presented to the Government by the Oregon Trail Memorial Association, Ine., and would be subject to the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the | joint committee on library of the Sen- ate and House. The resolution au- thorized $10,000 to be used by the di- | te " rector of public buildings and parks for.the preparation of a site. a FISHERMEN CAUGHT INLAKE IGE JAM Three Marooned on Small Tug Supplied With Food by Coast Guard. By the Associated Press. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, January 25.—Three fishermen, marooned for | several days aboard a small tug in | an icefield about a mile and a half out in Lake Michigan off the shore of Grand Beach, near here, last night were completely cut off from the out- side world and no effort will be made to_recue them before today. Last Saturday they were visited by three members of the Coast Guard who narrowly escaped drowning and delivered one day’'s supply of food to the men l\)lhe expectation that the | tug would be brought to shore befors | Saturday night. | | | | | | Yesterday, however, the fce fleld around the tug had broken up to such an extent that the men could | not be reached, although the boat | itself still was held fast, and it may be necessary to bring a steel-prowed ship from Chicago to break up the ice and rescue the fishermen. Three members of the Coast Guard, Capt. Johnson, Walter Lutz and Frank Lisemeyer, Saturday made their way across the ice field, finally reaching the boat with supplies after being forced to leap across sev- eral open spaces. On the return trip the three were plunged into the fcy water when a cake of ice turned over, and Capt. Johnson nearly drowned hefore he was able to swim to an- other cake of ice and clamber on it. The ice field extends for several miles into the lake and a boat at- tempting a resuce will be forced to break its way through a great fleld of ice before it can reach the tug. The three men who are maroconed and from whom no word has been received since Saturday are Frank Jentzen, Harvey Freyer and Joe Vankirk. SLAYING OF COUPLE ON ROAD BAFFLES Police Puzzled Over Murder Thornton in Alabama. A. B. Moore and Mrs. By the Associdted Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., January 25.— Completely balked in their investiga- tion of the slaying of A. B. Moore and Mrs. Ruby Thornton, police yesterday turned to three exploded ~ shotgun shells in an effort to find the person who shot the couple to death on a de- serted road near Birmingham last Wednesday night. Authorliies have established _the fact that the shells were purchased from a mall order house and believe the mystery can be cleared up if the purchaser can be traced. That J. C. Thornton, husband of the slain woman, was in Atlantic City on the day of the murder was oo ve- Iy established yesterdax In a telegmmn from police in_the New Jersey Two negroes have been custody in.connection with the case, |