Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1927, Page 17

HOTEL FIRE DRIVES the Benedict Hotel, at Sixth st the st ladds The blaze, whicl avenue and Sixth stree cet to escape the smolke and fumes. F confined to on THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1927. s st A i ANIC. Fighting the nd Pennsylvania remen where about a doze 3 directing hose lines from a fire esc room, caused a half-hour tie-up of t fic on Penn Clara Shear, young Massachusetts TY (OBB SIGNS WITH AT Detroit Tyzers wears a smile Mack (vight), Philadelphia n signing to pl as 1LETI he ager, in the Quaker City ¥ with the Athletics this sea The former manager of the photographed with Connie yesterday after son. Cobb's salary under the contract is unoflicially reported to be $60,000, a record figure. Wide World Photos. Mrs. Frederick Edey, chairman of the national field committee of the Girl Scouts, who will address mem- TRACK. Result of ¢ Georgia avenue and Upshur street, caused by a northbound car jumping sengers of the car were slightly s tied up on the line for half an hour during the rush period. Wa haken up when it swung into the tr ternoon switch it off at the the track olley pole and snappe bers of the District Council of Girl Scouts on the scout movement tomorrow and Friday at local headquarters. INATE SETS SPEED RECORD. Senator George H. Moses of New mpshire (left), as president pro tem of the Senate, and John C. c| , reading clerk, proved a fast team when the Senate set a unobjected measures during the first ay. Wide World Photos ENJOYING THE ALLIGATOR GLIDE. Miss Myrtle Munson, fair resident of Los Angeles, uses one of the 'gators as a handy tohoggan on the chute at the Los Angeles alligator farm. The ’gator’s protesting Jjaws don’t seem to detract from his companion’s sport. Herbert Photos TOY MAKERS DISPLAY NEW IDEAS. This sail racer is one of the toy novelties exhibited by American manufacturers at the toy show now being held in New York. While the sail is only an auxiliary to the necessary pedal work, it helps a lot when a fair breeze is blowing. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. neighbor of Geraldine Farrar, who will sing in the Chicago Opera Co.'s presentation of “The Masked Ball’ here next Wednesday night. cord by passing r of the night session Mo NEWSPAPERS HELD . PUBLIC NECESSITY New York Publisher Says Week Without News Would } Amount to Catastrophe. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 9.—A day without a newspaper would be an in- convenience and a week without a newspaper would be a catastrophe, Fred A. Walker of the New York Telegram, chairman of the Publishers’ Association of New York City, told the Broadway Association at luncheon to- day. ‘Whatever happens, the public looks first to the newspapers for informa- tion, and this is the est tribute that can be paid to the truthfulness and accuracy of the daily press, he said. Untruthful Reflections Cited. “Some people unkindly and un- truthfully cast reflections on the de- pendability of the news as it is printed, yet those who h to do with the making of the papers end who have a real ith the detail of new distribution know t nctivity human r speed antity are ly performed the wi ce in which actors that s the col- rld’s news and its distribution of the daily news- paper is the most efficient single op- eration of which the world has any record, he said. “If all the necessiiies of life were as efficiently and economi- cally handled as are the newspaper the cost of living might easily be re- duced 50 per cent. World’s Eyes, Ears and Mouth, “The newspapers are th s and the mouth of hey perform hearing and telling every d n the put florded eyes, the the world. Upon the newspap different f turn on i Indescribable chaos would result if the newspapers were suspended “The Associated Press puts at your world-wide news-g of what is in many t complex ¢ has ever known en, located in every e watch lance for the wc ty thousand he inhabi with ne s for you PAYS $3,500 FOR PICTURE. §t. Louis Collector Buys Vandyke Portrait of Queen. LONDON, February 9 ®).—V ke's portrait of Queen Henrie Maria, wife of Charles I, is said by the Daily Expre have been pur chased by a St. Louis collector paper understands that it ie shipped on the Mauretania. The portrait was sold in London from the Duke of Hamilton collection in 1882 for 700 guineas (about $3,500) The owner is said to have paid a five figure price. being | vest, | destruction of a r | to drink liquor First Air Wedding On Rocks as Wife Sues for Divorce By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Febru- ary 9.—America’s first airplane marriage has ended in the divorce court. Seven years ago Samuel Bater, then of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Louis P. Wolfe of New York City were marrled in an airplane 3,000 feet above the Boardwalk. Yester- day Mrs. Bater, charging deser- tion, petitioned for alimony and her husband was put under bond to remain in the State until the divorce action is brought to trial. FIGHT PADLOCKING OF CHICAGO CLUBS Owners of Three Cabarets Appeal to United States Circuit Court. ciated Press. GO, February 9.—Owners of rs Inn, Moulin Rouge and Tearney's Town Club, three of Chi- cago’s brightest night-life centers, ; filed briefs in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in their fight to obtain a reversal of Federal Judge Adam C. Cliffe’s order padlocking the three cabarets for one year for permitting violation of the prohibition laws. The padlock- ing order was stayed pending the result of the appeal. judicial history has a private individual's mere fail- ure to act policeman been made an_offen: 1s the tenor of the briefs, wh sked “Where is there a rule of to warrant the aurant business because a_customer took some liquor there on_ his hir “Let Congress make it an offense in public places and zents or other t violators ruin troy ause let the Federal such law business men vears of prohibition officers but why honest efforts of 4 such men failed to whom they had no authority to arrest and who were not violating any law in drink- ing liquor. “Let it be department hote known that any bank store, office building. club or other business struc- tu in be closed for one year on the uncontroverted word of a prohi- | bition agent and no business will be the briefs said the three after Federal he order cabarets agents te | buy | with ks ued mix it from with s of the ice nd ginger ale and another fluid poured which customers had them, the nature of the conter the flasks being unknown to agents, Greathouse Is Indicted. CENTERVILLE, Ala., February 9 | P).—Indictment charging B. ¥ Great. house with first d e gnurder in the | death of his 14-year-old daughter by poisoning was returned y a Bibb County grand jury. of | 1 Mood ed they had seen patrons { M KINDERGARTEN MUSICIANS and Hiatt place northwest, who gave a band concert at the Parent-Teacher me on the extreme right. TERTAIN SCHOOL GATHERING. Yo ng at the school yesterday. sters of the kindergarten class of Johnson School, Lamont street The band was led by adley Tooten, Washington Star Photo. ORATORICAL CHAMPION TO ADDRESS EDUCATORS Herbert Wenig Is First Student Ever to Speak to Joint Con- vention of Teachers. Herbert Wenig of California, win- ner of the national and international championships in the 1926 oratorical contest, will speak before 15,000 edu- oint convention pciations at Dal- ebruary Wenig will del the speech on the Con- stitution of the United States which he used in the contest last year. The convention will be pres over by Dr. Randall J.sCondon, perintendent of schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, and president of the department of superintendence of the ional ucation Association. In addition to addresses by prominent educators there will he speeches by Gov. Dan of Gov. Lamartine Hardman of Georgia, Louis Bl mayor of Dallas, and Sarah I Arnold, national president of the C Scouts, This is the a student of cators attendin: of 14 education: las, Tex., on first occasion on which i American high school or coll has been invited to addres the associations. Wenig is now student in Leland Stanford University. ROUGH ON PROWLERS. Pittsburgh Woman Hurls Intruder from House. PITTSBURGH, Night prowlel have no Mattie hoemak ¥ burglar on the fi early yesterday sh coat collar and thr the door into the street. Then she told the police about it. P).— for nding a t floor of her home took him by the him through February ¢ | plantin FORD PLANS TO PROVE VALUE . OF INDUSTRIALIZATION ON FARM Theory That 15 to 20 Days Is Enough to Do Work to Produce Crop Will Be Tested in Michigan. - v the Associated Pre DETROIT, February 9.—Henry Ford will attempt to prove that work it | takes farmers a year to do in produc- ing farm staples can be done in 15 to 20 days through application of ef- ficiency methods, according to an ar- ticle Theodore Pric aring in today's issue of and inance, ho experiment will be conducted on a huge farm which the automobile | manufacturer has purchased near Dearborn, Mich., and the test will be open to public observation. Ford pur- poses to prove the soundness of his theory of indu: ‘ming, »plication of organization “His estimate,” Price writes, “would allow two days for the plowing and harrowing that must be done before | one day, for the planting it- | days for cultivating during | and_two days for harvesting | which can now be | by .a machine and the If, five wih thrashing, simultaneot thrashe: done which s, which fs | only half of Mr. Ford's estimate, and would lea other 10 days for ditch- ing, feneing, distribution of fertilizer and doing any other work fairly chargeable to the cost of producing a particular crop, [} “When that 20 thus analyzed. the claim s is all the time that need be spent in raising and harvesting most of our staple crops does not seem preposterous, but as I pointed out to Mr. Ford, it presupposes the use of such machinery and the labor |crowd pressed around trying to shake of n tainable if the: 1y hands that might not be ob- were only to be em- ployed for a few days at a time and not more than 20 days altogether, Cites Organization Possibilities. “In answer he said that those who were willing to pay good wages could easily be so organized that a con- nuous employment for the labor en- ed in it would be provided. His conception, as I grasped it, s that agricultural contractors who had the necessary men and machinery could go from farm to farm and do the work that has to be done in a few days at a cost that would be much less than the value of the time the farmer now devotes to it. “Obviously he did not mean that his prosposal was applicable to dairy arming or for the raising of live- stock.” Ford is quoted as saying that it costs of agricultural production are to be reduced so that the farmer can make a profit, the farmer will soon have a surplus unless consumption can be increased. This he thinks could be brought about by sharing the economles effected with the public, WALES MAKES HIT BY PRAISING BABIES Prince Pleases Mothers by Visiting Maternity Hospital in Lon- don’s East End. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 9. something complimenta to say about each of their babies, the Prin Wales won the hearts of 48 nu mothers when he visited a maternity hospital in one of the most crowded districts of London's East End last night. The prince walked through several congested streets, pushing his way through dense crowds of mnoisy but good-natured admirers. His ions began to show concern By finding as the Wales' hand, and when a man elated with liquor shouted, “Hold on, prince” | ; and tried to struggle to the front, they urged him to return to his car. But Wales looked laughingly at the noisy man and said indulgent ‘He's all right.” Girls were foremost in the crowds; they insisted on shaking the prince hand and he pleased many of them by granting their requests. HUSBAND WAS SAVING. Wife Charges He Even Read Neighbors’ Newspapers. CHICAGO, February 9 (P).—James Olsen, 24, in Domestic Relations Court yesterday told the judge that if he had a saving wife he could retire at 35. Mrs. Ethel Olsen, the wife, said he took the bulbs out of electric lights to save bills, locked the coal shed to save fuel al read the papers, explaining he would tell her evesything in them, She got $10 a week alimony. mpan- | wisited the neighbors to | Street Car Uses Trolley Pole as Mast After Crash ‘When the forward truck of a W. R. & E. street car decided to con- tinue north on Georgia avenue late vesterday afternoon and the rear truck decided to turn up Upshur street, toward Soldiers’ Home, the car itself, with a large number of passengers in it, crashed into a trolley pole and cracked it off, then carried the pole along on the front of the car like a mast. Police of the tenth precinct, in- vestigating, found that passengers escaped without injury and that the car itself was but slightly dam- aged. Motorman J. W. Pullman and Conductor E. R. Good were in charge of the car. Street car traf- fic was tied up for a short time un- til the trouble could be remedied. FINAL TESTIMONY FILED IN LEITER SUIT Court Adjourns Hearing, After No- tice That Case Must Be Closed by March 3. By the Associated Pres CHICAGO, February bit of 9.—The setimony in the long trial of the suit of the Countess of Suffolk and Berks to oust her brother, Joseph Leiter, from co-trusteeship of the es- tate of their father, went into the vol- uminous record yesterday. Judge Denis E. Sullivan immediately ad- Jjourned the trial until F bruary 18, when he will hear final arguments Judge Sullivan told the attorneys last | that the case must be concluded by March 3 even if night and holiday essions become necessary. The testimony of the final witne: E. A. Bronson, auditor for the Leiter estate, was interrupted by the state- ment of counsel for the countess for | the first time that they believed Lei- | ter guilty of malfe 3 nce as well as gross mismanagement of the estate as alleged by Lady Suffolk. 'hy are you introducing this evi- inquired Judge ~Sullivan. is no charge of malfeasance bill, is there? believe there is,” replied Frank cott, chief of counsel for Lady Suffolk. Leiter for many years had been the | manager of the estate, supported by the votes of Mrs. Campbell and Wil- liam Warr. CHARLESTON SEEKS MILLS South Carolina Boosters “Gunning” for Textile Factories. CHARLESTON, S. C., February 9 | (). —Boosters in’the State are gun- | ning for New England textile mills. | Isaac M. Bryan of the South Caro- | lina National Bank, is chairman of a “new industries committee” of the Chamber of Commerce which hopes to attract locations of textile interests planning branches in the South. \The committee believes that Charles- ton’s prospects for unlimited power regources will appeal to cotton manu- fagturers generally, WEALTHY WOMAN WEDS SIXTH MATE Keeps Promise Made to Fifth Husband and Leads An- other to Altar. By the s ited Prbes. PIKEVILLE, Ky.. February Eastern Kentucky's wealthie has kept her promise to her fi band, taking her sixth on Jan Announcement of the marris Mrs. Kentucky Musick on that to Rev. Allen J. Maynard of Zebulon, Ky., has just been made. The bride: groom gave the chilly condition of the Big Sandy Valley as the reason for delaying the announcen Mrs. Maynard, now §: outlived all her previous husbands. She lived with each until death, except her third. n 1860, s on Septe M. Scott. e was mar- derate vet- ed in the pted Sam- uel T husband, but sought legal separation when the mar- ze proved uncongenial. Salyer die st year. In June, 1902, she married { James Press Powers, a traveling s | man, who came here to live. After Powers' death she married U §. Musick, a West Virginia realtor, | Promising "him at their wedding on Her ter 14, After, Mr. | ried fo R. M. death 11, Con March 12, 1919, that if she outlived him she would marry again Maynard Proves Winner. _ Musick died last year and after an | interval the hand of the Widow Musick was sought by several beaux, but Rev. Mr. Maynard, despite his | being 30 ye: the widow junior, found a receptive ear for his wooing. | This is his second matrimonial ven- | ture. Mrs. Maynard has real estate hold ngs in Florida and central Kentucky in addition to her holdings in Pike ounty. She has no children. TWO LIVES SACRIFICED. Outcome of Altercation Between Friends on Golf Links. LOS ANGELES, February 9 (8).— The cost of an ument on_the Belleview Club Golf course here Mon- day stood at two lives tods Cor- nelius J. Callahan, soft drink manu- facturer of Toledo, Ohio, died in a hospital vesterday from the wound inflicted by his old friend and busi- ness associate, Andrew Jankowski, Toledo automobile dealer, who also killed himself in the clash, Mrs. Jankowski, who witnessed th tragedy, told police she was pre) ing to drive off from the eighth hole when she heard a pistol shot behind her back. Whirling around, she saw Callahan fall and her husband start toward her with the gun pointed at her. She said she struck the weapon away with her arm. Her husband then placed the gun against his own head and fired, dying instantly. ‘Vienna is as gay as ever. An aver- &pe of 60 entertainments paid license fees every day last year.