Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1927, Page 17

ARRIV McPhersq spotlight camera at a lo Aimee Semple the publicity poses for the 1y, prepared to as been under e last yi ved yester shington Star Photo. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927. PLIFIED H gather in clinic to hear hea a diagnosis in which the patient’s heartbeats and murmurs were amplified thousands of time: SARTBEATS SOUND LIKE ROAR OF TRAIN. Medical students of the Universit: rtheats of patients as loud and clear as the rumbling of a tr — TR Mrs. Philip Reiner, widow of Bob Fitzsimmons, former champion of avyweight battlers, strikes a pose eer she has she preached her 'mon in East Chicago last Wide World Photos. Wide World Photos. THREATENED SUIT CLOUDS HONEYMOON. Robert Ames, actor star of “The Ragged Edge,” and his new wife, the former Miss Muriel Oakes, a New York society girl, photographed in a Chicago hotel after returning from their elopement. The marriage has involved the groom in a threatened breach-of-promise suit by Miss Helene Lambert. Acme Photos. WILL ENTERTAIN AT HOSPITAL BENEFIT. Allan Allen, baritone, and Roger MacGregor, pianist, who will give a recital of Scottish folk songs at the George Washington “birthday party” to be held February 22 for the benefit of the George Washington University Hospital. LOS AN GELES NOW CLAIMS “LARGEST STILL.” And the claim seems well founded, for this is only a small part of the huge distil ling plant seized by prohibition agents there the other day. The equipment, estimated to have cost more than $100,000, occupied an entire three-story building. Acme Photos. EXHIBITS MONASTERY ART RELICS. The Right Rev. Raphael Walzer, archabbot of the celebrated Benedictine Monastery at Beuron, Germany, who exhibited to a gathering at the Mayflower Hotel last night valuable specimens of the monastery’s art works. The art piece shown is the Chalice of Beuron, which is valued at $100,000. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. LEVIATHAN GETS NEW PROPELLEI power required to drive the giant ships new propeller to be installed while the liner is now in dry dock at Boston. The three-blade propeller is supplanting a four-blade one, which caused too much vibration. Herbert Photos. graphic idea of the motive en in this close-up of the READVERTISE BIDS FORDISTRICT TAGS Officials Disgusted by Com- edy of Errors—41,800 More Plates Needed. Definite steps were taken trict officials today to end automobile identification tag fia Completely disgusted by the com- edy of errors t as marked their most patient efforts to procure the tags, the officials readvertised for bids for furnishing 41,800 pairs, the num- ber estimated as necessary to equip the remaining motor vehicles still ating in Washington with the dis- colored 1926 plates, Maryland Penitentiary Balks. When Representative-elect Igoe of stepped out of the license tag farce last week, plans were made to give the order for those plates which he said he could not furnish without & heavy financial loss to himself to nd State Penitentiary. institution submitted the bid on the original con- 1 a price of 13 a pai officials thought that it Wwould be in the interest of good busi- ness practice to allow the prison labor to turn out the rest of the belated tags 3ut Maryland Penitentiary author- fties did some careful calculatir discovered that it would be n: 10 charge 15 cents a pair for the t at this late date, partly because tk steel it planned to use is of a better grade than called for in the specific: tions and partly because the of plates ed wa is smaller than called for in the original | contract Tired of Quibbling. than quibble any longer Rather ete., District officials ult decided to put the contract | market for com cifications already have been ma number of Al tag manu and their Dbids will be opened Monday M. C. Havgrove, District agent, explained that the bidder wh pron: the earliest delivery and t the one w ahmits the lowest quotation probably will be awarded the contract. So Washing tags car May 1, on th ive biddin oper 19 edition by DEEDS BILL IN SENATE. expect at least, The Commissioners’ bill authorizing an appropriation of $900,000 for and building to house the Recorder of Deeds’ office, Municipal Court and the Juvenile Ceur S 1te tod: yeferred to th The bill provided the total appr acquisition of t not specify. the location, District committee that $25 all be for 'he bill does ITALY PROTESTS ATTACHE'S ARREST De Martino Complains to Kellogg That di Cellere Was Brutally Handled. Charging that Count Macchi di Cel- | lere, attache of the Italian embassy, was brutally treated and arrested without cause Friday by Tampa, Fla., police, the Italian Ambassador today registered an official protest at the State Department. Count di Cellere returned to Wash- ington yesterday, discolored left eye, as a result of his encounter with the law, which he characterized somewhat ~vehemently dirty thin, A _declaration, of the young diplo- mat's version of the affray at the Tampa fair grounds and police sta- tion, under the signature of Ambassa- dor 'de Martino, was given to Secre- tary of State Kellogg. Count di Cellere states that a police- n wrenched his arm as he stood r the fair ground ticket office after he had pulled his diplomatic passport and traveler’s check book out of his pocket in an endeavor to find some money to buy his admission. The d | policeman approached him, as he was | about to depart upon the discovery | that he had no money on his person. and demanded who he was, at the same time ignoring his protestations and his hort. Two more policemen joined his first assailant, Count di Cellere said, and struck him repeatedly in the face and \bout the body and finally locked him up in a police station cell, where purchasing | site t was introduced in the + by Chairman Capper and | there 000 of other prisoners could view his plight. He remained incarcerated and w | the abject of further verbal and bodily abuse from early in the morning | until his release in the middle of the | afternoon, following the arrival of the { Italian consul and the chief of police, who apologized profusely and offered ! 10 conduct him personally through the fair, he said. A report from Tampa said the dis- | pute arose over the count’s attempt | o cash a traveler’s check at the ticket window. ] O { WILL AID UNEMPLOYED. | French Chamber Votes 10,000,000 Francs to Relieve Situation. PARIS, F 15 (). —The Chamber of Deputies today voted 10, )00.000 francs for unemployment re- lief. (The problem of unemployment has caused some concern in France, partic- | ularly in recent months. Premier Poineare appearing before the Cham- { ber of Deputies on February 4, were 57,000 cred ur oved persons in whom 00 were in the I vict. Be fore this period of unemployment had set in, there was almost no idleness in France) > displaying a badly | FORMER COMMISSIONER RECEIVES TESTIMONIAL GIFT FROM CITIZENS. The silver service which was presented by the citizens of Wash- ington to Cuno H. Rudolph at the time of his recent retirement as president of the Board of Commissioners. The presentation was made at the time of the testimonial dinner in December, but the service has just been marked and made available for photographing. Washington Star Photo. SEARCH OF 36 YEARS PUTS MAN IN JAIL Authorities Say J. P. Baldwin Is ! Wanted in Tennessee for Vir- : ginian’s Murder. | | By the Assoc MACALESTER, Okla, February 15. ‘or 36 years the “law” has been | looking for J. P. Baldwin, a moun- taineer, wanted in Tennessee for mur der. Today he is behind the Pitts- | burgh County jail bars. | Baldwin was charge | the slaying of Joel N, ginia_officer, just acro |line in Tenne: The chronicled in the Flanue feud ted Press in 1890 with essary, a_Vir- the State killing was y-Townsend “er his- with Will Flannery and nd all three held Baldwin's real name officers to be Patton his t | Dave J.'F for authoritics. is believed by | Flannery. | Submarine Accident Unfounded. | MANILA, Pebruary 15 (P).—Report: received Manila_ newspapers I night that a serious submarine dent had occurred at Olongapo deve lnn(-d merely .that the crew of the $38 had picked up six native men from a small overturned boat, One Killed, Seve;'al Hurt When Thirteen Tons Nitroglycerin Explodes in Texas By the Associated Prese. BORGER, Tex., February 15.—One man was killed, several persons in- jured and_virtually every window in Borger buildings broken when 13 tons of nitroglycerin exploded last night in a magazine two miles west of here nt flash and terrific concus: n were followed by a hail of roc over a two-mile radius t rd all the casualties. No one was known to have been' near the magazine. Melvin Norris, 37, a driller of Uncas Okla., working on a derrick on Main street here, was killed when a rock struck him on the head. Others were cut and bruised by fragments of rock and flying glass. TRAIN KILLS MAN ON POTOMAC BRIDGE Colored Passenger Fell, Jumped or Was Pushed Off—Legs Severed. A survey today showed that all of the larger plate glass windows here were broken. The walls of nursrous structures were cracked. The blast was reported to have formed a crater 200 feet deep and to have torn off the side of a nearby hi Officials of the Thompson Hardwa , which owned the magazi e no_explanation. caps were kept near the which is used in “shooting” oil wells The magazine was used to store e3 plosives for the recently developed oil flelds near here. A charge of from 40 to 100 quarts of nitroglycerin often loosens oil or gas bearing sands suf- ficiently to bring a well into commer- cial production, An unidentified colored man was | fatally injured when he fell, jumped or was pushed from a Southern Rail- Co. train at the outlet bridge near the Washington end of the High- way Bridge at 11:15'0’clock this morn- ing. The man rolled under the tfain and both legs were cut off above the knees, He was taken to Casualty Hospital, where he died an hour and a quarter later. STORM’S TOLL MOUNTS. Deaths in Japanese Snow Ava- lanches Show Daily Increase. TOKIO, February 15 (P).—The death toll from the dsiastrous snow storm in northern Japan, which yes- terday exceeded 100, continued to mount _today. Home office reports from Fukui Prefecture recorded 50 fatalities and many injuries from the snow avalanches.” The death of 13 persons and the injury of 35 others in Isikawa Prefecture also was re- ported, -~ H. J. Mills, track foreman; J. M. Fox, superintendent of track ways, and L. H. Hamilton, who were work- ing on tracks at the time, said the man apparently fell from the vestibule of one of the cars. They thought some one was in the vestibule behind him and that he may have been pushed, they said. He wore a white | coat or apron, such as is used by train porters or dining car waiters, wit- nesses said. The train, which left Washington at 11 o'clock for New Orleans, did not stop, but a telegram from the con- ductor was received from a Virginia town shorly"after. The message CHILE BARS RUSSIANS. Several Believed to Be Propagan- b dists Sent Back to Argentina. SANTIAGO, Chile, February 15 (®). veral Russians, who = tried to enter the country by train from Argentina, have been sent back to Argentine territory, the Chilean fed- eral police alleging they are engaged in a propaganda mission. The police were - ordered .to keep MYSTERY DEATHS | ALED IN URDER PUZZLE POLICE| AND PEONAGE CAS Woman and 4-Year-0ld Son| Officials Charge Brothers, Are Clubbed in Ohio Home. Who Gave Up After 5 Years, Drowned Negroes. By the Associated Press, CONNEAUT, Ohio, February 15.— e L Authorities today were puzzled by the| _ MONTICELLO, Ga., February 15 slaying of Mrs. Fred Brown and her| Hulon and Marvin Williams, sought caroid son. They were found for more than five years on charges clubbed to death in their home by | of murg FRRE TRy Gubbed to death in their home b¥| of murder and peonage in connection with a Federal investigation of condi- last night. Money and other valuables in the| tions on the Williams farm in 1921, house were untouched. Brown said | ware in jail today. he had no enemies who might seek re-| ", SR | The two brothe The woman’s body, with her cloth-| thorit terds ing torn to shreds, was in a sleeping | nder bond v s Gk porch. The boy’s body was found in Galon Ll L b Ll the basement. Walls of the house | se, and their father, J. S. were spattered with blood and a blood serving a life term in the stained base-ball bat was in a was paper basket. Officials considered the theory th: «l ving might have been the act a crazed person. The house was in disorder. Furniture was overturne: and other evidence of a terrific strug- gle was found. When Brown, a caller at the Nickel | Plate engine house, arrived } me the | radio was still turned on and he dis- covered the bodies as a jazz tune came from the loud speaker. FOUNDER OF.GRAY NUNS UP FOR BEATIFICATION Sister Marie Marguerite’s Case Now Before Sacred Congregation of Rites. By the ciated Press, irrendered to au- Another brother, Leroy, is in_the e Williams “| penitentiary. arged 20 Negroes Were Killed. The Williams case came into public notice after Department of Justice agents visited the Jasper County farm in the Sprnig of 1921. The Govern- ment investigators - at that time charged that more than 20 negroes on the farm had been killed from time to time and their bodies buried or thrown into Yellow River, which flows near the farm When officers discovered 11 bodies in shallow graves on the farm, Williams and his three sons were indicted in the State Court for murder and the Federal Court held them for trial on peonage charges. The elder Williams, tried in the State Court, was convicted of murder largely through the testimony of Clyde Manning, a nesro farm laborer, who BN Adsteta e Bradis said that he had been forced to ald MONTREAL, Que., February 14— | the farmer in “getting rid” of negro teation 5t Tsiater “Marie- | Plantation workers. ite do I Jemmerais, founder | _Manning described how nesroes that and first superior of the Sisters of | Were to be killd were chained to- Charity, also known as the Gray Nuns | S¢ther and thrown into the river de- (Montreal), now is before the sacred | SPite their shrieks and prayers. congregation of rites of the Roman | “Prame-Up" Catholic Church, in Rome H P The name of Sister Marie-Margue-| Williams denied an rite was first brought to the attention | the negroes and u of the Vatican for beatification in 1890. | the victim of The Archbishop of Montreal was then | The three ordered to study the merits of the fled before recommendation. His findings were | against them. approved by Rome in 1909. { vears later ‘Well informed Catholics in Montreal | hearing on the murder charge. He believe that, having reached the sacred | was acquitted and later gave bond congregation, the beatification is a| on the peonage charge virtual certainty. Hulon and Marvin_ Williams are be- Sister Marie-Marguerite died in Mon- | lieved to have remained in hiding in treal in 1771. Florida since the investigation. No e statement has been given by Rallroad ticket B 23953, reading from | o s pee b to why they returned to fac i Williamsport, Pa., to Calverton, Va., | indictments. fonfcet jumped through a window of the col’ | ored coach north of B G tower. He is crazy.” Police of precinct 4 were investix ing the affair when the conductor’s | abel Normand, screen act message was received. No marks of | ress, is confined to her home here suf- identification could be found on the | fering from an attack of bronchial le Alleged. part in slaying dintained he was ame-up.” ns of the convicted man ictments were returned Leroy returned three nd asked an_immediate Mabel Normand ITI]]. VER Calif., February a close watch along the frontier to reads: prevent the entyy, of propagandists, . “A-colorefl man, with Penasylvanla man’s torn clothes, and he appeared | pneumonia. Arrangements w.re bein t0 be about 28 years of age, physicians | made last night o remove the star to salde . i . & hospital,