Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1927, Page 17

PRESIDENT PRES Service is presented with the bronze trophy by President Coolidge for the outstandiny 6. The ceremony, attended by Secrectary of War Dwight Davis (in center) and other of- The award was made to Maj. Hoffman for his work in de- nautics during 192 ficials, was held a velopment of the parachute. e White House yesterday. A TS COLLIER TROPHY TO ARMY AIRMAN. Maj. E. L. Hoffman of the Army Air THE EVENING zchievement in aero- Copyright by P. & A. Photos. STAR, WASHINGTON, Mrs. Myrtle F. Huddleston, 30-year- old mother, who succeeded in the difficult Catalina Channel swim Monday. She is the first woman to accomplish the feat, for which she required more than 20 hours. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. D. O, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY: 8, 1927. Marion Meyers, 19-year-old Univer- sity of South Dakota co-ed, who has confessed to attempting to rob the First National Bank of Vermilion, S. Dak, She was surprised in the attempted night robbery by a po- liceman. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. MRS. COOLIDGE INSPECTS TEMPORARY WHITE HOUSE. The White House automobile parked at the ) entrance of the Patterson mansion, as shown here, will soon be a familiar sight to its Dupont Circle neis bors. House yesterday for an ipection of the rooms. The car was snapped at the entrance after taking Mrs. Coolidge to the r: The President and Mrs. Coolidge will occupy the residence while the White House is being repaired. rospective temporary White Copyright by Harris & Ewing. ‘WILL ENTERTAIN FOR HOSPITAL BENEFIT. Miss Ida Belt (right) and Miss May Day, specialists in the clog dunce, who will provide one of the entertainment features at the ball to be held for the benefit of the Casualty Hospital fund campaign in the rose room of the Hotel Wash- ington tomorrow night. WILL DROPS IN FOR A CHAT. when he took his departure. Will Rogers, the humorist, drops.in for lunch and a round of golf with John D. Rockefeller, sr., at the oil king’s Winter home, at Ormond Beach, Fla. The humorist, shown with his host on the doorstep, was the proud possessor of a bright new dime ‘WideWorld Photos. ture has produce PERFECTING THE PUTTING “CARPET.” After much diligent re- search, the Arlington experimental farm of the ed what it regards as the perfect put the golfer. As shown here, the new “velvet bent sod” can be handled in large sections and is tougher than any other yet produced. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Department of Agricul- ting green grass for LOCAL CO-ED RIFLERS WI) MATCH. Katherine Shoemaker (left), captain of the George Washington University girls’ rifle team, and Ruth Ballard, captain of the Drexel Institute team, which met defeat in a match at Philadelphia with the local co-eds. ‘Wide World Photos. . BUILDING PROGRAM SLIGHTS OFFIGERS $710,000 Expenditure at Camp Meade Solely for En- listed Men’s Quarters. Officers at Camp Meade will get no new quarters under the $710,000 build- ing program which is due to begin at the post early next Summer. The entire amount will be spent for bar- racks for enlisted men, and, it was learned today, the only relief the offi- cers may expect is use of materials from buildings to be razed with which to atch up the shacks in which they are living. Al the officers at the post are liv- ing in war-time buildin; ich in the last stag of d tually impossible to keep t and they are a constant fire hazard. Officers Pay for Comfort. Many of the officers have spent hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets i effort to make these quarte , and ave to be braced, patched a tinually to keep them from falling to pleces. The prospect today was that these officers would continue to live in the same shacks indefinitely, and that en- en would be kept busy re- uctures with mate- d from torndown build- Hanford MacNider said it may be 20 to 30 years before the Army is able adequately to house its officers. All money used for work at Army posts, explained, comes from s property of the Army. money goes through channels and is appropriat Col. MacNider le of surplus Although this regular budget d for the source and sup- from this - present rate it will be 30 years hefore enough is ra vide for needed construction work arious posts throughout the coun- try, he said Relief for the enlisted men, however, is assured before next Winter. A total of §710,000 is now available for parracks to house three battalions of Infantry at ( eade; plans now bei struction Summer down will | be used to 1 in_which 1 definitel TRANSFER RESERVATION. Touisiana Tract Will Be Used for Lighthouse. At the request of the 3 Commerce nd with the approval of the Secretary War, the President has ordered the transfer of the north- west corner of the Fort Jackson mili tary reservation, in.Louisiana, front- ing on the Mississippi River, to the Department of ¢ rce for light house purposes. ation has been derlared surplus for military pur- posan. R W e is due to begin early next The building be torn rovide materials which may wir the officers’ quarters, will probably live in- Secretary of SHOOTS WIFE AND FLEES. Man, 62, Sought by Posse After Firing Fatal Shot. STATESVILLE, N. C., February 3 (®).—John R. Rector, 62, shot and fatally wounded his wife here yester- day afternoon and had not been apprehended late last night, although an armed posse was reported hot on his_trail. Within an hour after the shooting occut -ed several hundred persons, in- cluding city and counity officers and: citizens armed with rifles, shotguns and pistols, set out after Rector and last night officers said they were cer- tain they had him surrounded but were unable to locate him. Rector was said to be armed with two pistols and officers expected re- sistance when they attempted to ar- rest him. ENTENTE DISTURBS JUGOSLAVIA FOLK Resentment Over Italian-Albanian Pact Seen in Recall of Min- ister From U. 8. By the Associated Press. Intimations of increasing resent- ment in Jugoslavia over the new Italian-Albanian entente are seen by some Washington diplomats in the unexplained recall by the Belgrade government of its Minister here, Dr. Ante Tresich Pavichich. They profess to see in the move plans on the part of Foreign Minister itch to ablish closer relations construction | ¢ drawn up and actual con- | | with Russia, to offset the Italian- | Albania . understanding. It is bel | other changes in Jugoslavian diplo- | matic assignments are in prospect. Dr. Pavichich formerly represented the Belgrade government in Russia and 1s familiar with the Russian lan- | guage. It is regarded as quite likely | he will be intrusted with a mission of }snet‘inl significance to that country. |LAND OFFERED FOR USE IN PROPOSED CAUSEWAY | Arthur C. Moses Promises Two Acres If Area Is Included in Park System. In connection with a pending pro- sal to establish a_causeway in the illey south of the Bureau of Stand- s and extending to Rock Creek , Arthur C. Moses of 2700 Tilden as written a letter to Chair- ‘apper of the Senate District | committee, expressing a willingness e two acres of his land for | paths and driveways in case the area | referred to is made a part of the park stem In his letter to Senator Capper Mr. pointed out that in the development of the city no | park has been established between | Dupont Circle and Chevy Chase and | that there is a great need for recrea- |tion grounds in that vicinity. | The proposed parkway toward | which Mr. Moses offered to dedicate |2 strip of his land if it is needed would be bounded approximately as |follows: ~ On north, at Sedgwick | street, the Bureau of Standards; the east, by Rock Creek Park; on the south, by Rodman street, and on the west, by Thirty-seventh street, » h M eved | SECOND DEFICIENCY BILL PUTIN'SHAPE Measure, Facing Action Late .in Month, Already Shows $13,000,000 Total. By the Associated Press. ‘With the last of its regular supply bills, that for the legislative estab- lishment, calling for passage today, the House appropriations committee has begun drafting the second de- ficiency bill. Already including items totaling about $13,000,000, the measure will be held in committee until the last week of February awaiting additional re- quests for funds to supplement exist- ing appropriations for Government activities, Army Wants $7,000,000. Chief among the bill's provisions is a request for $7,000,000 for the War Department, including $2,500,000 for pay and subsistence for additional soldiers to bring the Army up to the authorized pay strength of 115,000 by June 30. The regular appropriation bill already enacted for the next fiscal year provides for an Army of 118,750 men. The War Department budget also includes $950,000 for completion of a. new building for Walter Reed Hoapi- tal, $800,000 for removal of explosives from the Curtis Bay munitions depot at Baltimore and $141,000 for ex- | penses of Reserve Corps aviation of- | ficers. Navy Figures Cited. Of the $2,942,000 recommended by the Budget Bureau for the Navy, $1,060,000 is to meet expenses in- curred in providing a Marine guard for the mails. Remainder of the Navy fund would be used for con- strution or repair of public works. The Interior Department would re- ceive $1,500,000; Commerce Depart- ment, $441,000, and State Department, $197,000 for miscellaneous activities. SMOKER IN PARISH HALL. Addresses Will Be Made by Frank J. Hogan and Others. an will be the prin- - at a smoker and get | together meeting of the men of Sacred Heart Parish, to be held tonight 18:15° o'clock, at the Parish Hall, [ teenth street and Park road. Addresses will also be given by Rev. J. M. Moran and Rev. Father P. C. Gavan, The program includes sing- ing, under the direction of Denis E. | Connell; banjo solos by John Paul Jones, vocal solos by Lawrence | Downey, comedy songs by . Luke { Fegan, selections by the Sacred Heart | Quartet, composed of R. M. O'Lone, W. R. Cross, I. L. Stormont and J. | B. Towers, accompanied by Miss Mary Louise Sullivan, recitations by William J. McNolly. Horse Kills Breeder. BAKERSFIELD, ~Calif., February 8 (/). —George D. Winters, 76, ploneer breeder of race horses, died here yes- terday from injuries received when he was hurled from a horse. His skull was fractured. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 8.—Substi- tution of the confessional for the psychonalyst's office is urged for Protestants by the Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. He views the Catholic confessional as “an amazing service for the treat- ment of sick souls,” and advocates a “renaissance of evangelistic preach- ing” to replace old-style evangelism, “thrown out the back door” by mod- crn Protestant Christians. “For six years I have conducted— Baptist though I am—what I call a confessional,” the pastor of the Rocke- feller family told the Greater New York Federation of Churches yester- Confessional for Protestants to Aid Sick Sg_lis_ls_prged bz Dr. Fosdick day. “I am nat afraid to recover things the Protestants threw away— beauty of service and the confes- sional. “We modern Protestants fail in some things. Our Roman Catholic brethren in keeping the confessional have pretty nearly wiped us off the stage in one feature of human service, Through the confessional they have built up an amazing service for the treatment of sick souls. A good priest, through the confessional, can develop a treatment for the individual and we have nothing to compare with it. Some one has said that the Protes- tant Church has no_technique for caring for sick souls. We have hand- ed over that problem to the psycho- analyst.” QUARTZ CRYSTAL USED IN LONG-DISTANCE TEST Experiment Indicates Plane Drift- ing on Sea Could Direct Rescuers. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 8.— Using quartz crystal, with different crystals for different wave lengths, Lieut. Herbert C. Rodd, radio officer of the VS-2 squadron of the battle fleet, successfully communicated with radio stations in Japan, Alaska, France, England and the principal stations in the United States with the eight-pound high frequency radio set in the seaplane PN-10 No. 3 on several recent occasions. In announcing success of the experi- ments Comdr Harold Bartlett, com- manding the VS-2 squadron, declared that the set, equipped with a hand- driven generator, weighing 17 pounds, would enable a plane drifting on the surface of the sea Wwith crippled en- gines, as the late Comdr. John Rod- gers' plane did on the Hawaiian flight, to communicate its position to rescuers, DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S MEETING FEBRUARY 23 National Organization Will Hold Annual Session at Clubhouse Here—To Honor Wilson. The annual méeting of the Woman's National Democratic Club will be held at the clubhouse, 820 Connecticut ave- { nue, February 23. The day’s program will start with a formal luncheon at 12:30, at which policies for the year will be discussed. Then the annual pilgrimage will be made to the Washington Cathedral, where a wreath will be placed on the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, At 3 p.m. the.annual business meet- |ing will be held. Mrs. Andrieus Jones, wife of the Senator from New | Mexico, has been nominated for a second term as president, and Mrs. Wilbur W. Hubbard and Mrs. James Meredith Helm for second terms as vice presidents. All of the board of governors have been renominated with the exception of Mrs. Stephen Bonsal, whose resig- nation has been received and her place filled by Mrs, Rose Yates For- rester. ‘There will be a dinner at the club- house in the evening, at which a prominent Democrat has been in- vited to speak, AUTO IS OVERTURNED; TWO SLIGHTLY INJURED Fire Alarm Box Put Out of Com- mission by Accident—Two Other Collisions Occur. The automobile of Albert Epstein, 4012 Illinois avenue, overturned at Warder and Kenyon streets about 7:15 with the car of Julian C. Gregory, 518 Columbia road. The overturned car landed against a fire alarm post and put the box out of commission. Epstein and Fannie Clar, the latter 30 years old and residing at 615 Ken- yon street, were slightly injured. A collision between automobiles driven by Thomas R. Green, 3340 N street, and Edward D. Scott, colored, 1511 Fifth street, occurred at Twenty- fourth and M streets yesterday after- noon Scott sustained an injury to his left shoulder that was treated by Dr. Jackson Herbert at Emergency Hospital. William A. Patterson, 5 years old, 3916 Legation street, received an in- jury to his left leg vesterday after- inoon, when struck by the automobile of Frank E. Proctor, 3641 Oliver street, near Connecticut avenue and Thirty- ninth street. He was treated by Dr. E. L. Mason. U. S. TRUCK JOBS OPEN. Civil Service Board Announces Va- cancies Here. The Civil Service Commission has announced that until March 1 it will receive applications for positions of motor truck drivers for duty at the United States fuel yards here. The pay is 51 to 54 cents an hour when actually employed, with pay- ment for overtime service. The examination consists of a rat- ing on experience and a rating on physical ability. Full information and application blanks may be obtained at the office of the Civil Service Commission, 1724 F street. Mrs. Hall Asks Divorce. Fannie V. Hall yesterday filed suit in the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce and alimony from Robert J. Hall. They were married March 12, 1925, and have no children. The wife charges non-support and de- sertion. She is represented by At- torneys Welch & Daily, o'clock last night. due to a collision. T21 HURT IN CRUSH -AT RITES IN TOKID Two Victims Die Watching Emperor’s Cortege—Many Are Made Il by Cold. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, February 8.—Official police reports tonight revealed that 721 persons avere injured in the crush of 1,000,000 faithful subjects, who packed the streets of Tokio last night and to- day during the funeral of the late Emporer Yoshihito. Most of the injuries were minor in | character, although several were se- | rious, and there were two deaths. It was estimated that about 3,000, 000 persons were assembled in the capital during the funeral, but no more than 1,000,000 were able to crowd to a point within sight of the funeral cortege, or even. to get mear enough to glimpse the procession. Many Are Made Ill. The number of those who contracted pneumonia and influenza from long hours of waiting in the cold streets is inestimable. The four sacred oxen, which were used to draw the gorgeous catafalque of the dead monarch over the four- mile route from the imperial palace to the funeral gardens, have been placed in one of the imperial pastures to live in ease for the remainder of their lives. Lumber and other material used in building the pavilion and other funer- al articles, were donated to charity. The catafalque and the palanquin which bore the body from the pavilion to the grave have been preserved in the imperial museum. Emporer Hirohito will journey to the grave of his father at Asakawa burial ground tomorrow to worship privately. TRESTLE WH.EHE WRECK OCCURRED THOUGHT SAFE Rail Official Unable to Explain Ac- cident Resulting in Death of Two in Georgia. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, February 8.—The Hazle- wood Creek trestle near Demorest, Ga., at which a Tallulah Falls rail- way passenger train was wrecked late yesterday, resulting in death for two persons and injury to 14 others, was | “practically new,” J. F. Gray, receiver for the road, reported to the Georgia public service commission today. Mr. Gray said he was unable to ac- count for the accident. The engine, baggage coach and one passenger car of a train from Franklin, N, C, to Cornelia, Ga., went through the trestle. Thirteen persons in another car which remained on the track es- caped with bruises. E. S. Hogsed, news agent of Cor- nelia, and an unidentified negro were killed. A. H. Pendleton of Hayesvi N. C., was taken to a Gainesville hos- pital. He_ suffered a fractured skull. TP , engineer, and his fire- man wer§ scalded severely, A. Flock- er, supedintendent of the road, was cut abouff the face by glass, $300,000,000 IN BUDGET. Estimated Expense Present Year for Chicago and Suburbs. CHICAGO, February 8 (®).—Chi- cago and Cook County, which includes a number of suburbs, will have a $300,000,000 budget this year. The city fathers provided for ex- penditures exceeding $200,000,000 and the county board at its budget ses- sion added millions more, allotting $24,000,000 to running the corporate government and nearly $28,000,000 to building and improvement. The largest city budget in Chicago’s history provided $55,000,000 for op- erating the corporate government and set aside a large share of the balance for civic improvements. MRS. ORMISTON WILL FILE DIVORCE SUIT Wife of Aimee McPherson’s Radio Man Gives Hint of Sensational Disclosures. By fhe Associated Press LOS ANGELES. February 8.— Mrs. Ruth Peters Ormiston has an- nounced that her attorne; pre paring her divorce suit against Ken- neth G. Ormiston and that the com- l‘)k_\m[ would be filed here within a few ay “I'll take my divorce on the grounds I'm_entitled to,” she declared after a conference with her lawyer. Mrs. Ormiston said she would refute statements attributed to her husband that a divorce had been mutually agreed upon on the grounds of incom- patibility and that he had deserted her because she threatened to name a co- respondent in her suit. Ormiston was named as a co-defend- ant in criminal conspiracy charges against Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, now dismissed. The wife of the former Angelus Tem- ple radio man, who declares she has in her possession a letter from Mrs McPherson which she received a short time after the evangelist's disappear- ance last May, said: “The newspapers have printed Mr. Ormiston’s story, but they haven't printed mine.” Mrs. Ormiston returned last week from Sydney, Australia, where she has been visiting her father for the last year. DENIES EVERGLADES PLAN Governor Holds He's Not Pledged to Drainage Scheme. MIAMI, Fla., February 8 (#).— Official denial that he is vpledged to any plan for draining the Everglades, as announced at Tampa yesterday by ‘William Griffis_of Okeechobee, was made by Gov. John W. Martin, in a telegram to the Miami Herald last night. “1 would be foolish to pledge my- self- to any plan for reclaiming the Everglades this far in advance,” the government's statement read. “I dis- cussed the matter with Mr. Griffis when he came to see me Sunday, but did not pledge myself to any plan, flood control or otherwise, at that time. —— Nobody would mind so much why girls leave home if only they would make an effort to get back a little earlier, ) B WOMAN WITNESSES TRAGEDY ON LINKS Husband Shoots Friend At- tempting to Save Her, Then Kills Himself. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 8.—The story of a tragedy on the golf links was woven today into the annals of the royal and ancient game in Los Ange- les as police sought to learn why An- drew Jankowski, Toledo, Ohio, ‘auto- mobile dealer, yesterday shot and prob- ably fatally wounded his old friend and business partner, Cornelius J. Cal lahan, on the Bellevue Club links, and then killed himself. Mrs. Jankowski, who was with them in a threesome and who witnessed the shooting, was under the care of a physician after having become hysteri cal and unable to tell a coherent story. Temporary Insanity Suggested. Police believe Jankow seized with a fit of temporary insanity, pre cipitated by an argument over the golf cards. Mrs. Jankowski told Deputy Sheriff Stensland _her husband flared into & rage, cried out that he was going to kill her and drew a pistol. Callahan, she said, leaped between her and her angered husband at the critical mo- ment and dropped with the bullet in his_head. “You've killed the be had,” Mrs. Jankowski Jankowski then turned his weapon on himself and sent a bullet into his temple. Mrs. Jankowski's story was corrob orated in part by Edward Wells, a caretaker of the course, who said he saw Jankowski kill h The woman’ other pla; both men lying on the green. Jankow- ski was dead when they arrived. Cal lahan was taken to an emergency hospital. Had Nervous Breakdown. Jankowski recently suffered a nerv ous breakdown and came here with his wife a month ago hoping to re- zain his health. Callahan accompanied them. The two friends frequently played golf together, as physiclags recommended outdoor exercise for Jan kowski. The Bellevue is a public course. Jankowski and Callahan had been close friends and business associates for several years. The former was president and general manager of & motor sales company in which the Jat- ter was a heavy stockholder. Calla- han was general manager of a soft drink manufacturing concern in which Jankowski was oe of the heaviest stockholders. Bésides his widow, Jankowski leaves a son, Andrew jr., who is in St. Jos- eph's ‘Academy at Monroe, Mich. HOWARD PLAYS TONIGHT. Howard University basketers will entertain their dearest foes, Lincoln University, tonight on the local floor. The Bisons showed power in trounc- ing Bricks College of North Carolina, 79 to 24, in the Howard gym last Sat- urday night and are confident of giv- ing Lincoln a highly interesting eve- nl?'. ki w