Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1927, Page 13

THE VANDERBILT SCION COOKS OWN MEALS. Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., enjoys a self-prepared breakfast the kitchenette of his little three- dison avenue. s saving as m 000,000 debt. The scion of the wealthy New ng income as possible Wide World Photos. JAPAN'S DEAD section of the As Yoshihito, 1234 Emperor of Japan emony hel EMPEROR IS LAID awa burial ground, on which the mausoleum ¢ while the ground was canopied for the consecration ion of the mausoleum. I rites were held in the beautiful Shinjuku TO was Photo take Funer REST ON CONSECRATED GROUM er Gardens, before the body was borne to the sepulcher, about 22 miles awa; EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1927. A view of the cted to receive the body of Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Minister Ichiki of the imperial household of Japan, whose official duties placed him in formal charge of arrangements for the funeral of Emperor Yoshihito. © Underwood & Underwood. WEAPONS TRACE PHILIPPINE HISTORY. collection of weapons from the Philip) Institution is preparing for exhibition. of the Smithsonian, holds one of the Part of the interesting pine Islands which the Smithsonian Miss Suzanne Kyner, employ weapons, a talibong, or head knife. Wide World Photos. PERFECTS PHOTOGRAPHIC SOUND RECORDER. C. A. Hoxle, New Meet the new jazz censor, Julian T. Abeles, who has been chosen the zar of syncopators by leaders of OPERA STAR PREPARES OWN SPAGHETTI. Giuseppe De Luca, Gladys Da England’s champion woman fencer, who is now training for a series of inter- national matches with other CHAMPIO! ATES ON STILTS. Sidney Chariton, skater of the British Isles, finds stilts are no hand cutting feats. He is using them here as he carves a champion fancy ap in his figure- flower on the celebrated baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Co., is particular about the way his national dish is prepared. The chef of the liner Acquitania invited the singer to demonstrate the approved method and he accepted. Broadway jazz orchestras. For a salary of $25,000 a year he has undertaken to keep jazz music “within the bounds.” the device he has just perfected for Placed at_any distance from the and record the voice of the York scentist, demopstrates photographically recdrding sound. } stage or movie set, the device can pick uj European champions. She may visit America in her quest for actor, which is transmitted through sensitive microphones. ‘Wide World Photos. Wide World Photos. ‘Wide World Photos. world supremacy. Herbert Photos. = WOMEN VICTIMS OF GANG WARFARE One Killed, Two Others Be- lieved Lost Lives in llinois Feud. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Iil, February 7..—One woman has been killed and possibly two others have fallen victims to re- cent gang warfare in southern Illinois, which has cost 13 lives. Scrubby timber patches in Wash- ington County were searched today by organized bands in an attempt to clear up the mystery of the disappea; ance of Mrs. Ethel Price, wife of Lory Price, highway patrolman, Wwhose body, . bearing two gunshot wounds, was found near here Saturday. Price and his wife were abducted January 17. Belief *was expressed that Price was killed because he knew ‘‘too much” of the activities of the rival Shelton and Birger gangsters, and au- thorities were convinced that Mr Price also had been slain. First Woman Victim. The first woman victim was Mrs. Steve George, wh ago in the dyn hady Rest, a Charies Birger, ing and burning of cottage belonging to leader of one of the Hints also have been given that the mysterious death of Mrs. Helen Hol- brook in St. Petersburg. Fla., had connection with the Birger-Shelton |t feud. When the ers were on trial last week in Quine; 111, on a ckh of mail robbe ter M. Provine, United States ot | p attor she might could not when Mrs. burg, 111, her favor w by Carl Shelton and Bir incident with the se P Ca Earl and F convicted ¢ il robbery a new rial, arrived t prison at Leavenworth to ing tery 25 vears each tinued to maintain they testify. Holbrook lived in Ha i Shelton, | ¥ and denied the Fede in serv They con had_ been Charles Birger is Free, was a Government wit- free today, hav ial witnes conspi was murder connec f Mayor Joe 4 ing ser band has count s among its members, ns have counted lling before Price’s bod when Birg ' d | and burz X found in th was Bankruptcy Lioyd E. Coc n, pay and dealer in dry goods at 17 umbia road filed a petition in v tary bankrupt He lists his debts at $11.711 nd estimates his assets $11,196. He is represented by At- torney L. H. Vandoren. : Petition Filed. By the gangsters, who have died severa! weexs | of dollars gambling houses and racetrack hang- outs here, are believed to ha n warring factions. er from Perio, Ilk., was held up ear a day by a band of seven men, who ob- three Shelton broth- | tims of the raid at |a hold-ups, machine it de | resenti; | ated as presiding offi Dog Trots Ahead Of Subway Train For Sixty Blocks sociated Pres YORK, February 7.—A subway express got 18 minutes off schedule today trying to chase a dog off the track. A small white poodle jumped off the Canal Street Station platform in front of the train and trotted ahead of the cars for more than ty blocks to Fifty-ninth_street and thence through the East River tunnel to Queen's Plaza terminal. Motorman Henry Groth tried to catch the dog at Times Square, but was frustrated, the animal ap- parently taking the chase as a joke. Shrieks of the train whistle failed to fright the dog off the track. NEW CHICAGO GANGSTERS WIDEN THEIR FIELD Bandits Heretofore Plying Trade in City Now Operating in Neighboring Territory. By the Associated Press. February 7.—Chicago ken thousands es of raids on CHICAGO, in a ve added ghboring cities to their area of op- tion. A gaming the river to- resort across cash and jewelry valued by vic- between $10,000 $20,000. As is usual in such no report was made to the Belief was expressed that the aines nd police. band came from Chicago. At almost the same time a quartet of hold-up men invaded a cara room on Chicago's North Side and collected hetween $7,000 and $10,000 from gam |ing patrons. In several previous gambling hou robberies here the invaders packed zuns of the type used in re- cent gang sl G. W. U. DEBATING TEAM WINS OVER WESLEYAN | Local Students Awarded Decision in Opposing Cancellation of Debts. Debating Saturday on the nega tive 2 of the question, “Resolved, tha he United States should cancel its interallied debt,” George Washington University debaters won a two-to-one fon over the forensic team rep. ng Ohio Wesleya tor Willis of Ohio, who offici- , took occasion to state that after listening to debates on the same subject in the Senate dur- ing the past sl he had learned som v through the prese undergraduate bat The George Washington team was composed of Cyri L. Hoaglanc eorge Sanders and Wil mson. Ohio Wes were Arthur Fleming, and Lawrence Appley. J dges were Dr. F. W. Collier, Dr. George B. Woods and Ernest H. Van Foss.n, si Sen the de pointx | SKI EXPERTS RACE FOR EASTERN Manor, Pa., which was won by Olav Satre of Salisbury, Conn.e A large crowd of Winter s) contestants over some rough terrain in the Pocono Mountains. MATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. The start of the 12. -mile _cross-country championship race at Pocono port lovers gathered for the race, which took the Copyright by P. & A. Photos. SEEK MISSING GIRL IN FOUR COUNTRIES Young Heiress, Daughter of Di- vorced Couple, Lost Father by Death in Switzerland. By the Associated Pre BOSTON, February 7.—The govern- ments of France, Germany, England and Switzerland will be d to aid in a search for 9.year-old Lucienne Helen Nolan, heiress to the $180,000 estate of her father, the late Harry E. Nolan of Hartford, Conn. Thomas D. Lavelle, counsel for Mrs, Lucienne Bond of Quincy, announced st night that Representative James llivan of Boston had agreed to ask the State Department at Washington to set machinery for the search in motion. irs. Bond, who was Nolan in France in 1917 a little more than was rded cu then & married to} 1 s divorced | r later and the child, w of when health. The he went to He died in Switzer child was with him velle says, given to of afterward, never has been heard from since by her mother. The attorney lined to comment on a report here that a legal adviser of the Nolan family .had said that Lucienne w e and contented with n aunt, Mrs. Emily Nolan Prieth, in Bavaria, German Mistrial in Lynching Case. DOUGL, Ga., February 7 (P).— mistrial ared yesterday in e of Tilden Smith, on trial for ion in the lynching of Dave near here last August others apprehended as the th of the lynching have been rwelve outgrow son sentence§ ranging from 8 to life imprisonment. The Jury was out 2 TABLET TO SMEDLEY BUTLER Philadelphians to Ignore General’s Fling at Drys, Declaring They Tend By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 7.—A bro; tablet memorating the services of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler while he was director of public safety here is to be erected whether the general wants it or not. In a letter to William R. Nicholson, jr., secretary of the Law Enforcement League, Gen. Butler said that if the memorial was to be taken down or “its turned to time he was attacked by a ‘“wet” newspaper he would prefer that it be not erected. M cholson had writ- ten the general asking about a speech he delivered at Oakland, Calif., in which he criticized the methods: of enforcing the Volstead act. Going Ahead With Project. Members of the memorial commit. said today that while Gen. But- anguage “might seem impetuous even intemperate, it was merely his way,” and that they were going ahead with their project. The tablet, commemorating Gen, Butler’s fight for law enforcement while head of the Philadelphia police department, will be placed in Wash- ington, D. . The National Art Com. al commandant of is said M, Gen. Lejeune, the Marine Corp promised to make that it is conspicuously displayed in the capital. “I don't care this monument,” wrote Gen. Butler. guess it would be better not to do it, as I intend to be myself the rest of my life and not have strings tied to have to me by anybody or be put in.a position where I constantly have to keep earning my own epitaph.” ry effort to see | whether you put up | “to Run Away.“ the wall” every easily | | | mission has approved the design and | SOvVerning 1 those in favor of decency in America is that they run away and are con- sistently suspicious of each other, while the other side hangs together. In other words, Mr. Nicholson, our crowd does mot know how to fight. They won't organize, and unless they look out, they will be trimmed. I don't know that a tombstone to a living man is a good thing, any- how, and I certainly would not rest if I thought it were erected by a lot of people who are so timid that they run away when there little breeze.” NEW AIR?%UI;ES PLANNED. Association Urges Round-the- World Category. tablishment of rules and a world record category for attempts to cir- e the globe in the shortest possible time, and in which such undertakings will employ aircraft for the greater t of the circumnavigation, has been recommended to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, world body for aircraft perform- ances, by the contest committee of the National Aeronautic Association. The committee also has agreed to supervise timing of the proposed race around the globe by Lester D. Gard- ner, New York aeronautical publisher, who has set 24 days for the comple- tion of the -roject. Gardner plans to start as soon as the Moscow-Peking air line is established PO In Berlin, Germany, there is one woman physician for every 9,000 peo- “As I see it, the great trouble with | ple. WAR TALK IS OFFSET BY VOICE OF PEACE French Foreign Minister and U. S. Ambassador in.Paris Advocate “Good W1l to Men.” By the Associated F PARIS, Febru: —While blings of war and revolution are heard from three continents, Foreign Min- ister Briand and Myron T. Herrick, Amerfcan Ambassador to France, are lifting their voices in the cause of peace. Speaking last night at a banquet of veterans of the Saloniki campaign in the recent war, M. Briand defended with vigor and some asperity the Lo- carno policy, but spurned charges of Messianism” leveled at him by op: ponents. He insisted in ringing tones “France, after the victory she won neither lowers nor compromises her self when, free of all thoughts of im. perialism, she rises before the whole world to announce, ‘I declare peace rum- lor Herrick, addressing 3 persons at Lyon on “Peace Through the League of Nations,” de. ed: rbitration, security and disarma ment must be the common ends to which all efforts are indefatigably bent. War has been an atrocious reality through long centuries; we now must make a reality at last of those noble words, ‘Peace on earth, good will to men. Candidate for Governor Dies. WASHINGTON, Towa, February 7 UP).—Alex Miiler, Democratic candi date for governor in the last campaign and well known newspaper man, died at his home here vesterday. He had been Il two months. s O Marquis Minutolo Dies in Naples. NAPLES, Italy, February 7 (P).— Marquis Capece Minutolo di Bugnano, vice president of the Colonial Institute of Rome, died suddenly while*at his club yesterdagwHe had visited the United States§ several times, | chie Wilbert H ice at Bernese Oberland, the Swiss Winter resort. Acme Photos. Professor Sends U.S.Penny to Make Debt Sum Simpler A copper cent has been donated by a professor of a coliege in Massachusetts, whose name is withheld, to the Bureau of the Budget in order “to reduce the National debt to a more conven- fent figure. Judging Director Lord of the Bureau of the Budget, the profi Or must have heard Gen. Lord say over the radio a week ago at the busine: meeting of the Government tha the National debt at its peak in August 31, 1919, was $26,596,701,- 648.01. Of course the one cent balance disappeared, or was changed the next day, and is frequently changing. In offering the one cent on the debt, however, the professor said, “If I could do the same for the four preceding decimal figures I should wish to do so. MAL GEN. SUMMERALL CHOSEN AS SPEAKER Wilbert Barrett Also Will Address Washington Birthday Celebration, from his letter {o Maj. Gen. of sta Charles P. Summerall, . United States Army, and Barrett, president general of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion, will be the principal speakers at a joint celebration of Washington's birthday, under the auspices of the Sons of the American Revoluticn, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Children of the American Revolution, in the Memorial Conti- mental Hall, February 2 is an- nounced. Mrs. James M. Willey, Dis trict State regent, D. A. A., will pre- side. The program also will include ad- dresses of welcome by several mem- of the patriotic organizations represented, a vocal solo by Mrs. Ruby | Smith Stahl, invocation by Lic ‘t. Col Thomas J. Dickson, honorary presi- dent of the 1st Division Society and chaplain-in-chief of the Miltary Order of the World War; reading of George Washington's papers by Arthur Deer- ing Call, secretary of the American Peace Society, and the recitation of Allegiance to the Flag and of the “The American Creed” by the children of the American Revolution. Music will by furnished by the Marine Band. Another feature of the celebration will be the presentation of a medal by the Daughters of the American Revi lution to a student of George Wash- ington University who writes the best essay on some historical event. Denied Habeas Corpus. | James Blevins, colored, who claimed | the Ku Klux Klan wanted to get him and that the authorities of Alabama could not protect him, has noted an | appeal to the Court of Appeals from | a decision of Justice Siddons dismis | sing petition for habeas corpus by which Blevins sought to defeat his| removal to Alabama to answer a criminal charge. Attorneys Mclau rin and Richards appeared for the agcused. -— lligator eggs are eaten as a deli- | Ge: DEFENSE MEETING OPENS WEDNESDAY :Noted Speakers to Address Sessions of Women’s Patriotic Conference. The program for the Women's Patriotic Conference on tional De- fense, which will convene in Memorial Continental Hall Wednesday evening, has been completed. Representative Longworth, Speaker of the ‘House of Representatives, will address the opening sesslon. He will discuss problems confronting National de- fense. Others who will address the inaugu- ral session include M Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion; Mrs. Adalin Wright Macauley, national president of the American Legion _ Auxillary; Representative Edith N. Rogers of Massachusetts, Senator Bingham of Connecticut and Rev. G. C. F. Brathenahl, dean of the National Cathedral. The conference will continue through Friday and all sessions will be open to the general public. Four hundred delegates, coming from every part of the United States and repre- senting 26 national woman organiza- tions, have signified their intention of attending. Many Speakers Listed. Speakers at the varlous se have been announced as Thursday morning, invocation by Rev. J Montgomery, chaplain of the Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, nt Secretary of War Hanford MacNider; “Preparedness from a Mother's Point of View,” Representa- tive Florence P. Kahn, California; ‘“War, the Whole Nation’s Business,” Representative McSwain of South Carolina. Thursday afternoon, “The Warning re of Pacifism,” Paul V. McNutt, an of the University of Indiana Law College; “Our Dwindling Opportunity for National Defense,” Brig. Gen. John Rose Delafield, Reserve Corps, of New York; “Radical Propaganda Among Women, hman, New York; Responsibility of Being Led,” B. L. Robinson, president, Massachusetts Public Serv- ice League, Boston: “Protecting ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’” Mrs. R. R. Holloway, Baltimore. Resolutions on Friday. Friday morning, invocation by Rev. F. J. Hurney of St. Patrick's Church; Military ~ Aviation,” Representative Fitzgerald, Ohio; “Necessary for Ade- quate Preparedness as Revealed by Losses Suffered in the World War,” Senator Tyson of Tennessee; “Coms mercial Aviation in Its Relation to National Defense, William P. Mac-.; Cracken, jr., Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics of the Department of Commerce, Friday afternoon will be devoted to resolutions, and a decision upon the permanency of the conference, the . present gathering being only a called meeting. Discussion on topics of in- terest to the conferees will follow, led by Mrs. William Sherman Walker, chairman of National defense for the Daughters of the American Revo- caly in the West Indies. lution,