Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1927, Page 7

WILBUR STRESSES SEARESERVENEED Points to Necessity of Keep- ing Forces on Highest Possible Plane. 'he value of an adequate Naval Re- serve force in national defense was stressed by Secretary of the Navy Wil- bur in an address at the annual ban- quet of the United States Naval Re- serve Officers Association at the Wil- lard Hotel last night. Secretary Wilbur said the importance of the Reserve force in national defence has become clearely recognized, and pointed out the necessity of keeping the personnel of the service on a high plane. Prepardness, he said, is vital to the life of the country, and keeping up the standards of the Naval Reserve is an integral part of prepardness. He emphasized the importance of the Navy to the country. The real strength of the Navy is In its Reserve, he added. Senator Oddie Speaks. Other short addresses were made at the banquet by Senator Oddie of Nevada, Assistant Secretary of the avy Warner, Admiral E. W. Eberle, Representatives Carter of California, | and Spearing of Louislana, and Mayor Beacon of San Diago, Calif. Admiral Eberle traced the growth of the Naval Reserve force from its relatively small beginning to the im portant position he said it now has z sumed in the defense of the countr He pointed out that an adequate Reserve is necessary to an adequate | Navy. {ALL SORTS OF CATS Former Illinois Disti Ignoring the Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, an avowed dry, that the pro- | hibition law was being violated on lts very floor, the House of Representa- tives listened with interest yesterday to a long speech in which Representa tive Willlam E. Hull, Republican, a | former Peoria, IIL, distiller, bared old | trade secrets of the industry and read | into the record bona fide recipes for | the distillation of three grades of | whisky. | Mr. Hull spoke, he explained, in be- kalf of his bill to authorize the manu- facture of medicinal whisky by pri- | vate distilleries, instead of in Govern- | ment plants, as recommended by As- | sistant Secretary of the Treasury An- ‘ drews. He insisted that medicinal spirits, “4 years old and bottled (n‘ bond,” should retall for 80 cents a | pint,'instead of $2.50, which druggists | ‘harge now. Explaining that he had been “im- portuned” b; “many Congressmen’ to make a statement, Mr. Hull said he would begin by detailing the proc- ess of manufacturing whisky. The first he described was cologne Spirits, the purest article that can be made.” He had just completed an explana tion of the process this spirit goes through and begun giving & recipe | | | gre: the d HOUSE GETS WHISKY RECIPES OVER PROTESTS OF BLANTON| vehement protests of | |be a THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, iller Explains Making of Spirits in Argument Against Fed- eral Manufacture. for bourbon, when Mr. Blanton rose to a point of order. “There is a law passed by this Con gress—" the Texan began. “The gentleman will state his poirt | " the chair interrupted. relm‘b‘d m.\mon which prohibi adve) |1hun, tribution over the United States ny recipe for the manufacture of distilled spirits. The gentleman from 11. nois ‘now is placing in the Record the mode of distilling intox Jiquors, knowing that the Record can ifbuted all over the United | States. Again Representative Chindblom of New York, acting as chairman after the House went into a committee of the whole, asked Mr. Blanton to state his point of order, whereupon the latter insisted that he had done so, and repeated, “What the gentleman has already placed in the Record c be reprinted and circulated in vio unn of the Il “The gentleman from Texas has not stated a point of order, in the opinion of the chair, but in so far as he has claimed a point of order, the chair overrules the point of quPr, Mr Chindblom responded, while the House laughed Thereupon Mr. diser of whisky. Hull proceeded to More than 50 delegates were ])rcaer\t at the annual convention of the a etion, which was held all day y day at the Willard. Scott, director of the and Capt. E. B. Fe r of | Navy districts, addre S OYII in the afternoon on the situation in | the Reserve force. Capt. Scott out-| lined the conditions regarding ln\rson—l nel and administration, and Fenner gave an outline of the polici affecting the Reserves. Capt. Macklin Presided. Capt C. F. Macklin, retiring presi- dent, presided at the sessions. New officers elected for two years were: pt. E. A. Evers of Chicago, president pt. A. H. Woodbine, Los Angles, vice president, and Comdr. J. A. Scho- tield of this city, secretary-treasurer. The association passed resolutions indorsing the three-cruiser program now before Congress and upholding the methods of the Navy Department for building up the Naval Reserve. Slight changes in administration were suggested in another resolution, and another urged continued support of the Merchant Marine. The association voted to purchase trophies to be awarded to battalions and aviafion units with the best record of merit. SEEKING FOUR MORE VICTIMS OF SLAYER Police Believe Man to Be Executed in Texas Killed Thirteen Persons. By the Associated Press. ‘WHITTIER, Calif., February 1.—A barrier of clay today stood between the police and the possible discovery of four more victims in the murder career of George J. Hassell, now awalting execution in Texas for the slaying of his wife and eight step- children there. Hassell, according to a letter re- celved from Sheriff L. L. Leaward of ‘Walker County, Tex., confessed re- cently that 10 years ago he killed a woman with whom he was living here and her three adopted children, bury- ing their bodies befieath the house. Guided by a chart prepared by Has- sell, police in relays last night dug their ‘way through hard clay to a point | ‘which they estimated to be within two | ;eet dof where the bodies should be | ‘oun Explains Mukder. | Authorities expressed the belief that | the victims of Hassell's admitted slay- ing may have been Mrs. Marie Vogel, formerly of Pittsburgh, Calif., and her three adopted children, who disap- peared from here under mysterious circumstances in 1917. Hassell, in his purported confession, sald he was living here under the name of “G. Baker” when he mur- dered the woman with whom he was living over an argument as to whether he should go into the Army. He said he choked and clubbed “Mrs. Baker” to death and then killed the sleeping children. Mrs. Myrtle Lark, a neighbor, yes- terday told the police of the strange | disappearance of “Mrs. Baker” and her children. Mrs. Lark said she saw Baker| carry a large and apparently heavy trunk to the garage on the day that the woman and children were first missed. At night she saw him car- rying “other small bundles” into the garage. During the days which fol- lowed Baker was noticed ecrawling under the house, throwing out dirt and rubbish. | Later Mrs. Lark observed Baker | digging a large hole in the floor of his garage. A few months later Baker brought | another woman and child to live with | him. She was introduced to Mrs. Lark as his housekeeper. Soon after | that Baker disappeared. | Hassell i{s sentenced to die in the| eloctric chair at the State peniten- | tlary at Huntsville, Tex., February 25 next. WOMAN KILLED IN FALL WHILE LEAVING AUTO Mrs.. Walter C. Johnson of Uni- versity Park Believed to Have Fainted While Alighting. Special Dispatch to The Star. UNIVERSITY PARK, Md. ruary l.—Arrival of a sister, Mrs. Virginia Fox of Philadelphla, was being awaited today before making .rrangements for the funeral of M Kathryn M. Johnson, 42 years old, wife of Walter C. Johnson, who died carly last night after being unconscious yesterday afternoon her automobile in the backyard her home here. Tt was stated by relatives that Mrs. Johnson has for some time been suf- tering from high blood pressure and t is believed that she fainted and slipped as she was alighting from the automobile Besides her husband, ) eaves an adopted daughter., Mildred, iged 12, five brothen: Walter N. Preston of Hyattsville and Frank, Willlam, Charles and James Preston, \1l of Philadelphia, and another sis-* ter in L‘ullfcrnla Feb- in of . Johnson Ploneer Englneer Dead. { tion ‘will construct a temporary shel- found | AT FELINE REVIEW Long-Haired, Short- Whnkered and | Garden Variety at Annual Show. Cats—long-haired cats, short whis- kered cats, red, white and blue cats, common and uncommon cats—were on hand today for the big feline re- view of the Washington Cat Club at Wardman Park Hotel The first animal to greet the visitor is a great white beas Drumgold Wendell Revelatign, owned by Mrs. E. C. Payne. Just behind this white Eiant 18 10 be found a row of red Persians, with clear amber eyes, car- rying the mystery of their native land. In the end of the room is a cage containing a mother white Per- sian and her six husky youngsters. She is Nanabhoy, owned by Mrs. W. Francis Finn. Considerable alarm was created this morning when Nanabhoy escap- ed from her cage to hide beneath the platform on which a row of cages was supported. After much coaxing | and moving about of furniture, how- ever, she was retrieved and restored to her unconcerned fami One of the largest cats in the show is Bozeau, a_smoke Persian, owned by Mrs. M. L. Blackistone. Reddy, owned by Mrs. F. M. Thompkins, is | another of the larger animals. A whole row of the cages are de- voted to “just plain cats,” in which are includéd the shorthaired frisky variety that most_kiddles know T ik b S Btk thers hep Are | tocrats even in this class, and Prince, a_ tremendous white cat, owned by Mrs. N. M. Kranz, is one of the out- standing. Miss Ethel Champion of New York City, a noted cat expert, is judge of the show. She was judge also of | the last exhibit staged by the Wash- ington Cat Club 13 years ago. Officers | of the club which is conducting the show include Mrs. H. L. West, pregs dent; Miss Emma C. Payne, E. 8. Schmid, Mrs. Frank Thompson and Dr. H. A. Locke, vice presidents. g R BUS WAITING ROOM ASSURED CITIZENS Will Be Built at 17th and Penn- sylvania Ave., at Request of Randle Highlands. Announcement was made at the Randle Highlands Citizens’ Association meeting last night in the Fountain Memorial Chureh that Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, had notified the association a waiting room would be erected at Seventeenth street and ‘Pennsylvania avenue southeast for the convenience of passengers transferring from street cars to busses. According to Mrs. Eugene Emmett, secretary, the waiting room will cost approximately $7,500. In the mean- time, said Mrs. Emmett, the associa- ter until the waiting room is bujlt. The temporary structure will cost about $100. A resolution was adopted by the as- sociation, requesting the District Com- missioners to_have electric lights in- stalled on Minnesota avenue. The Commissioners, it was stated, already have ordered the installation of large gas lights on the street. 1t was announced that the Commis- sioners have acceded to the request of the association to regrade the streets about to be opened in this dis- trict, so that the trees will be saved. James G. Yaden, president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, urged that the association evolve a | definite program and then fight con- sistengly for its adoption. F. E. Sny- der presided. CHECK ON ELOPMENTS UNDER MICHIGAN LAW| Visitors From Ontario and Ohio on | Matrimonial Errands Face New Regultion. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February 2.—Eloping to Michigan has lost much of its novelty for Ontario and Ohio couples. A law effective a year ago requires that names of applicants for marriage licenses be published for five days before the ceremony is performed. Four thousand fewer licenses were issued here in 1926 than in 1925, princi- pally because Windsor, Chathan and | Walkerville, Ontario, couples went ewhere to wed when the law took Mich., hear the Ohio border, s than half as many licenses st year as the year before, and other border towns count heavy decreases. Ohio couples now marry in their own State, where no delay is required, and many Michigan couples go to Ohlo. Meanwhile Ontario has made its mar- riage laws more rigorous, forestalling those who would go from Michigan to Canada to wed. bl i V5 1 Chamber Directors to Meet. CLARENDON, Va. February 1 ¢o%B SAYS FIVE . CLUBS WANT HIM Released by Detroit, and Is Free| to Sign in Either League, Declares Ty. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S. C. February 1—Tyrus Raymond Cobb has celved offers for his services from five big league teams, he said here todty. Cobb came here last night | with members of his family en route | to a hunting preserve near Ridgeland “I have been released by Detroit, which makes me a free agent,” the former Tiger manager said. can sign_with any club in the American or National League, and probably will accept one of the offers when T get back to Augusta next week. Cobb said he was in fine physical shape, and expected to go back for a year of active play “in apprecia- tion of the confidence the American | League fans have in me.’ Cobb refused to name the five clubs from which he had received offers. PEACE WITH CENTRAL AMERICA IS URGED Pennsylvania House Adopts Reso- lution Favoring Harmony Consist- ent With U. S. National Honor. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., February 1 The House of Repr night passed a resolution designed to place Pennsylvania on record as fa- voring preservation of peaceful rela- tions between the United States and Central American states where there are internal disturbances, in so far as this is consistent with the national honor. The Senate referred the reso- lution to the Federal relations com- mittee. Declaring that the Nation was en- Joying the peak of prosperity, and | that “serious internal disturbances in the Central American states have af- fected and endangered the continu- ance of peace which should be pre- served,” the resolution said: ‘Every effort should be made by those in charge of the diplomatic re- lations between those countries and the United States consistent with na- tional honor to preserve and main- |tain the happy relations which have { heretofore existed.” INTERAMERICAN COURT HONOR CONCEDED HAVANA Dr. James Brown Scott Suggests Establishment of “Court of First Instance.” By the Associated Press. HAVANA, February 1.—Havana's claim to be the seat of an Interamer- ican Court of International Justice was approved by Dr. James Brown Scott, American authority on interna- tional law, at a lecture last night at the National University. Administration of justice in rela- tions of the Americas, he said, should be as perfect as the internal justice of the American nations. He suggest- ed the establishment of a ‘‘court of first instance,” in which differences of the Americas could be arbitrated, and a court of appeals. He was certain that the Pan-Amer- ican conference in Havana in 1928 would establish an international court for interAmerican questions, and he thought that Havana should be the permanent seat of this court. IFIRST GRADUATION HELD IN WHITTIER SCHOOL Ernest H. Pullman Makes Princi- pal Speech; Florence Whit- comb TIs Valedictorian. The first graduation exercises of the eighth grade of the new Whittier School, Fifth and Sheridan streets, was_held yesterday afternoon. Ernest H. Pullman, president of the Manor Park Citizens’ Association, was the principal speaker. Diplomas were presented to the graduates by Miss H. G. Nichols, prin- cipal. Elizabeth Ogden, president of the graduating class, presided and delivered an_address of welcome, Humorous selections were given by William Scott and Wesley Harding. Charlotte_ Warren, Ethel Payne and Florence Mas Whitcomb gave & plano trio. The class poem was delivered by Ethel Payne, the valedictory by Flor- ence Mae Whitcomb, while Isabel Dahl read the class “will.” MYSTERY WITNESS WEDS. Teapot Dome Figure Takes Mary- land Bride. CAMBRIDGE, Md., February 1 (®). ~—James G. Darden, “mystery wit- ness” in the Senate hearings on the CLEVELAND, February 1 (®.— JaBez R. Garner, 80, veteran engi- neer who piloted the famous world’s fair fiyer and was an active membar ) unhm h(md m Locomotive Engi- (Special).—The board of directors of the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce will meet tomorrow after- noon at 4:30 o'clock in the chamber’s quarters, in the Rucker Building, to clect officers for the year. Teapot Dome ofl lease, was married here Saturday to Miss Margaret Lar- rimore of this city, it became known yesterday. The eounle left for New York im- mediately after the ceremony. the various recipes and grades | re- | entatives last | HYATTSVILLE ASKS LTS EXTENSION | |Residents in Territory Mile|| Into Town Corporation. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 'hat Hyattsville within a few | ' s will small city of close 00 people appeared today a Vi certainty. Petitions signed by }m: jority of property owners from the | section west of the corporate limits of Riverdale and from Hyattsville Hills asking that the sections be made a | part of the corporate limits of Hyatts ville last night were submitted to a meeting of \nmmi(h s that are pre- paring proposed le ation to be laid before the slature,’ now in session : A committee made up or and Town Council, an- other representing the Chamber of Commerce and a third representing the citizens at large received the pe- | tition: A special committee of attorne: comprising C. L. Alello, chairman: | Charles W. Clagett, Waldo Burnside and S. Marvin Peach, is drafting a | bill to be laid before the Legislature Thursda It was agreed last night that prov on should be made for the. becoming effective immediately | upén its passage. Would Comprise Fourth Ward. The territory it is planned to annex | embraces from the Hyattsville line at | west side of Calvert strect to south side of Colesville road, along south ide of Colesville road to New C ' thence along east side of New Cut road to Sacred Heart Home prop- y and east of the Sacred Hea { Property to present northweat line of [ Hyattsville. decided that the bill should ]\rn\, e that the territory should com | prise the’ fourth ward and that it hould be represented by two council- !men. Both would be chosen at the next regular town election, on May 2, {one to serve for one year and the other for two. After this year the ward would elect one councilman each rve for a two-year term. The bill, agreed, should provide | that the people of the new area be ex empt from town taxation for one year. || Yvery effort, though, will be made to ! secure from the county the rebate on taxes pald by property owners. | It was stated last night by John H. Hollingsworth, who presented the petition from property owners in the territory west of Riverdals, and H. | Wilson ~ Spicknall, representing the chamber of commerce of Hyattsville who presented the petitions from | Hyattsville Hills property owners, that the on the petitions repre sented dec erty owners in the more could be secured. A number of citizens from each territory backed up | the views expressed by Hollingsworth and Spicknall, Committee to Go to Annapolis. The proposed bill will be taken I()l { Annapolis by Mayor Irving Owings. !@Dl‘efi(‘n(lhg the mayor and counc I ‘Waldo Burnside, representing the citizens’ committee of Hyattsville, and || Dr. H. T. Willis, president of the chamber of commeérce, or some repre sentative of the ichamber designated by him. It was estimated last nfght that the territory it is proposed to annex |l covers at least a square mile, with a | population of about 600. It is develop- ing rapidly and its population within a few years will, it is thought, with the_ improvements such -as better | roads, lights and fire protection, jump ! to several thousand. Among the measures to be pre- sented to the Legislature are those giving the town authority whenever it deemed it for the public benefit to take over and improve any street within the corporate limits, strength- ening the law regarding town tax sales, providing that the anmual salary | of the town treasurer shad not exceed $2,000 (this office is now on a fee|! basis), making it unnecessary for the town clerk to personally appear in court whenever a copy of the town| ordinance is required to be submitted, providing that appeal from decisions after convictions for violating town laws shall be by certiorari, changing the law as to the appointment of town assessors so that they shall be named | in January instead of June, and be required.to report at the first meeting of the council in May, and providing that when only one candidate is nomi- nated for a town office the election shall be held in any ward designated by the mayor and town council. THEATER GUILD PLAYERS WILL MAKE FIRST TOUR || New York Group to Offer Four Plays During Initial Road Trip. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 1.—The Theater Guild has begun packing its trunks for its first tour. The trunks of the guild thespians will contain the wigs, costumes and || grease paint used in presenting four plays in its Broadway repertory. i George Bernard Shaw's “Arms and | Franz_Molnar’s “The | * A. A. Milne's “Mr. Pim Passes By” and Sidney Howard's “The Silver Cord” will be presented. Tentative arrangements have been | made for performances in_Cleveland Houston, Denver, Detroit, Milwaukee Minneapolls, Utica, Philadelphia, At lanta and & number of Pacific Coast | be a | tu s composed of ho sought to Pecstablish the, medioval gulld idea, Its first workshop Theater, where it es 1919. Four years later, after produc- ing a number of plays, among which were some rejected by Broadway pro- ducers, it had outgrown its first home and_moved into a $500,000 structure on West Fifty-second street. O COLISEUM EXTENSION. Historic Chicago House Will Be Greatly Enlarged. CHICAGO, February 1 (#).—The | Chicago Coliseum, historic site of | numerous national political conven- tions, exhibitions, circuses and sport- ing events, will be remodeled to double its present capacity by the Fall of 1928, it became known yesterday. The north and south halls of the present structure will be opeimi into the main auditorium, nearly doubling the floor space. The cost will approximate $1,000,000 ——————— Mexican Envoy Not Coming Here. MEXICO CITY, February 1 (#).— The foreign office hgs officlally an- nounced that Secretary of the Treas- ury Pani is to be appointed Mexican Minister to France. 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