Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1927, Page 13

ATLANTIC STORM PLAYS HAVOC WITH SHIPPING AND SHORE PROPERTY. Ambrose New Dorp, Staten Island, N. Y., whicl barge at New beach by the terrific storm that uwsfit to come in, with the death list st LIGHTENING THE DOUGHBOY’'S LOAD. studies, United States Army a have weight of the regulation Inf: from 79 eight of re; mh.p"wk pack and Corpl. Le Roy Nicholso: ‘World’ War, to heavy CLUB STANDSFIR FOR JVENILE BILL Monday Evening Group Fa- vors Zihiman Measure—Mc- Leod Plan Opposed. '8 pol The Monday Evening Club reaf- firmed support of the Juvenile Court bill introduced in the House by Rep- resentative Zihiman and announced opposition to the McLeod bill at its meeting last night at the Grace Dodge Hotel. The measure, which is_spon- sored by the Commission on Publics Welfare Legislation, provides for chancery jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over the Juvenile. Advantages of Measure. The action was taken following an address by Col. James Easby-Smith on “Pending Juvenile Court Legislation.” Col, Easby-Smith took up the pro- posals for changing the status of the Juvenile Court and pointed out the advantages which he said the meas- ure contains. Discussion of the meas- uges by the club was lod by Mrs. Louls Ottenburg, Mrs. J. W. Byler, ‘Walter S. Ufford, James E. Stewart wnd Joseph W. Sanford. 7 ‘Willard C. Smith, who oresided in the absence of Mrs. Archibald Hop- kins, ‘president, announced appoint- ment of the following committee chair- men in execution of the new social service program of the club: Dental clinic, Dr. Loren B. T. John- son; Children’s Sanatorium, Mrs. E. R. Grant; Jarger staff, tuberculosis clinic, Dr. George M. Kober; increased ac- eommodation, Tuberculosis Hospital, Mrs. Agnes H. Stewart; increased ap- Ppropriations for Health Department, Arthur C. Moses; more school doctors and nurses, Wallace Hatch: increased ascommodations for feeble-minded, Arthur Doerin Call Mrs. Van Winkle Named. ‘New Mimnicipal Lodging House, Miss ‘Aline E. Solomons; Public Welfare Building, Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle; Public _Contagious Disense Hospital, Dr. Willam C. Fowler; municipal bathing facilities, A. J. Driscoll; ade- quate playground facilities, Dorsey W, Hyde, jr.; development public library system, Evan H. Tucker; codi- fication of welfare statutes, George S. ‘Wilson; modern commitment law for mentally ill. Miss Sarah F. Schroeder; new Juvenile Court law, Mrs. Louis Ottenberg; modern child labor iaw, Nrs. R. Thomas West; licensing child- caring institutions, Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor; indeterminate sentences and parole law, Francis De Sales Ryan; supervision of dance halls, Dr. W. L. Darby; housing, John Ihider; jarger personnel, Board of Public Weifare, Mrs, Whitman Cross; work- men’s compensation, Edwin 8. Potter; wsayward minor’s act, Miss Alice Deal. —_—— Army Engineers Transferred. Recent changes in the Army Corps of Engineers include the transfer of Maj. Dwight . Johns from the Pan- ama Canal Zone to_the office of the chief of Engineers, War Department; the transfer of Maj. Oscar O. Kuentz, from the General Staff School at Fort JTeavenworth, Kans., to the Panama Canal Zone; the transfer of Tirst Tdeut. Frank Z. Pirkey from Fort Humphreys, Va., to Honolulu, Hawai, and the transfer of First Lieut. David A, Newcomer from Honolulu to Fort Humphreys, Va. As 3 result of post-war the ames Lau; th t_one. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Lost Cars Caused Creek Gold Flow, Rail Chief Claims DENVER, February 21.— The mystery of the source of gold dis- covered in Cherry Creek, which flows through Denver, was believed to have been solved yesterday. ¥For decades prospectors have vainly searched the upper reaches of the creek for.the place the gold came from, and years ago panning the sand of the creek would produce $3 or $4 worth of the metal a day. ‘The first discovery of gold in the creek in the early days of Denver caused a ‘gold rush to its mouth, and the find was considered rich. But no one has been able to ex- plain the presence of the gold. Harry Petrie, president and gen- eral manager of the Mount Tamal- pais and Muir Woods Railway of San Francisco, yesterday gave an explanation of the mystery. “On July 4, 1885, Mr. Petrie said, “Cherry Creek was on a ram- page, and the yardmaster of the Denver Rio Grande Rallroad, for which I worked, believed he could save. a across the créek by welighting it down. He put six narrow-gauge cars loaded with gold ore on it. The bridge was swept away, and all we ever r:u::d of those cars was one pair of trucks.” The gold is believed to have washed down the creek and lodged at its mouth in a sand bar, FLOODS PARALYZE PACIFIC RAIL LINES California- and Oregon Rivers Sweep Away Houses and Live Stock. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., February 22.— With the Willamette River at flood stage and ocean shipping delayed by a storm, transportation was demoralized today in western and southwestern Oregon and northern California. The flood followed several days of un- usually heavy rains, Thirty small houses were swept into the Willamette at Eugene. Rowboats were used to rescue nearly 50 persons marooned at West Springfield. Train service south of Eugene was virtually at a standstill today. At Portland the Willamette was a mill race, filled with logs and_drift- wood, which menaced bridges. Heavy live stock losses were reported. Damage of $100,000 was caused at Grants Pass, where all streams were out of their banks. Losses estimated at $300,000 resulted at Medford. while a section of Portland was flooded, forcing residents to leave. Ships were unable to enter or leave the mouth of the Columbia River last night. —— Ordered to Take Treatment. Maj. Herbert L. Taylor, United States Infantry, at the West Point Military Academy, has been ordered to this city for treatment at Walter Reed General Hospital, h was driven ashore and pounded to pleces on the the Atlantic seaboard. Reports of ships in distress at sea continue growing. The property damage ashore also has beén heavy. e The wreckage of the Copyright by P. & A. Photos. AGAIN WITHHOLDS * Chicago_public_utilities by LUSH FUND” TESTIMONY. wagnate, photographed during his questioning the Reed “slush fund” committeo of the Senate vas brought out that he made further contribut Samuel Insull, f'esterday. Although ions of $40,000 in the inois primary, the witness declined to say to whom they were made. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. EDITOR _CARRIES FIGHT TO SUPREME COURT, (lelt), the Muncie, Ind., editor and foe of the Ku Klux Klan, photographed with his counsé], former Senator Moses Clapp (center) and Roscoe him in his fight to escape the several prison Festich, They are aidin sentences imposed upon him. st e il George R. Dale FAIR CO-EDS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TAKE SORORITY PLEDGES. Scme of the 82 fair initintes of the Greek letter sororities of the university, who observed its “Pledge day” custom yesterday by taking the sorority pledges at the several pledgee wears a corsage bouquet and LARGEST SPONGE MAKES AMPLE HEADGEAR. Here is the hr;: sponge ever taken out of the famous sponge grounds at Key West, The youngster who wears it has.a nice light sunshade as long as rain burden. olds off, but a shower would zdd a hundred pounds er so to the. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. uarters of the societies. In accordance with tradition, each new n representing the colors of her respective sorority. ‘Washington Star Photo. NEW YORK'S MAYOR ATTENDS THE RACES. l;hyor “Jimmie"” Walker takes in the races at Miami, Fla., with Rosa singer. The mayor of the m Ponselle, the opera his either “bet” to vie- tory with a stentorian shout or trying a high “C'! for the benefit of his operatic companion. ENGRAVING BUREAU OFFICIALS TAKE OATH FOR NEW POSTS. Jesse C. sistant director and superintendent of the plate printing assistant director; W. R. Wertman, assistant accountant; Mr. Swigart, Mr. Baker and A. W. Hall, director of the Bureau. ision, respectively, of he Bureau of En; Swi and Charles A. Baker being sworn in yestardlfi as as- et ving and Printing. Left to right: C. R. Long, ‘Washington Star Photo BRITAIN CONSIDERING PROTEST TO SOVIET British May Send Note Opposing Communist Propaganda and Other Activities. T By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 22.—Reports current in wejl informed circles in the lobby of the House of Commons last night indicated that the British government i considering the dis- patch of a note of protest to Soviet Russia_against communist propaganda and activities in Great Britain. Ever since the Chinese situation be- came critical Lord Birkenhead, Chan- cellor-of the Exchequer Churchill and others of the ultra-conservative min- isters are understood to have been urging the government to break off relations with Russia. Premier Bald- win and Foreign Secretary Chamber- lain, however, have been opposed to such a step, the foreign secretary be- ing unconvinced that the threat would be effective, It now is understood that whether and in what form the protest shall be sent will be debated at a cabinet council tomorrow. PD A DISCUSS OIL SURPLUS. Operators in Seminole Field, Okla. | homa, May Restrict Supply. TULSA, Okla., February 22 (#).— Operators of the Seminole oil field meeting here yesterday heard a report from Ray Collins on conditions in the fleld and adjourned until today without definite action of curtailment ¢ pro- duction in the area. The meeting was secret, and recdm- mendations made by Collins, who re- cently was named as umpire to inves. tigate and formulate a restrictive pro- gram, were not revealed. Production in the fleld has over- taxed pipe line facilities and caused a CRIBS, . o it comn i il i T s A Rockefeller Loses Shiny Dimes to Woman Archers—Magnate Could Not Hit Balloon By the Associated Press. ORMOND BEACH, Fla.,, February 22.—John D. Rockefeller, who has ac- cumulated quite a bit of this world’s goods by outguessing the other fellow, has been tamed. Three women did it with a little bow and arrow. The locale was a goif course, not the stock market. Mr. Rockefeller, teamed with two friends, lost some of his shiny dimes while try- ing to match the accuracy of the wom- an_archers. When the women had beaten him, 2 up and 1 to play, the oil magnate was still dissatisfied, though in excellent humor. “Let me see that bow and arrow,” he said to Mrs. Charles 8. Pike of Detroit, champion of Florida woman archers. The women had winged their arrow shot for shot with the men ex- cept on the greens, where, instead of shooting for the cup, they aimed at little balloons staked alongside. Mr. Rockefeller assumed a deter- mined stance and let fly at a balloon. He missed by two feet. Then taking note of a smiling gallery that had col- BANK CLOSES AFTER RUN. Institution at Warsaw, N. Sound, Say Directors. WARSAW, N. C., February 22 (#). ~The First National Bank of War- gaw voluntarily closed its doors yester- day after a run on it by depositors. Closing was by order of the directors, who requested the controller of the currency to send a representative to take charge. Directors said there was no short- age and that the books were in perfect condition. The bank’s liabilities are about $300,- 000. The bank was organized as a State institution in 1913, becoming a C., national bank in 1820, Capital stock is {to Russell 8, Codman, $50,000, with $10,000 surplus, ., ... - on May 25, 1026, lected dimes every time the teams halved a hole, he remarked, apolegetic- al ou see I can’t even hit a bal- He played a fancy game with his woods and irons, though, and with J. P. Whiten of Cleveland, and J. W. Dyke of Philadelphia, set out at a fast pace after yielding to a moment of hesitancy. The financier had heard that arrows sometimes backfired, and then, too, he wasn't up on the game. /A woman once asked me to teach her to play golf.” he remembered. “She explained she didn’t even know how to hold a caddie.” Mrs. Pike promised to show him how to hold a bow, and then with Mrs, Mortimer Day of Morristown, N. J., and Mrs. Dorothy Johnston of Bed ford Springs, Pa., won the first hole. Mr. Rockefeller passed out the shiny dimes, On the next hole the dimes were returned when he nonchalantly holed a 12-foot putt for a win. Rockefeller, apparently intent on winning, played briskly and with good support, but the women, gauging wind to a nicety and nipping the balloons with regularity, were not to be.denied. ELINOR PATTERSON SIGNS. Actress to Play in Movies Over Long Period. NEW YORK, February 22 (#).— Elinor Patterson, daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, of - Chicago, ' pub- lisher and novelist, has aigned a lo 7 term film contract,. Carl ‘Laem- ‘mle, president of the Universal Pictures Corporation, announced: yes- terday. Miss Patterson notable success on stage role of the nun.in ‘‘The Miracle.” Previously, she appeared with a stock gomplny tlan Lo eete!-' her mlrg::: er ren ANnnoun r fie jr., ef Boston at Putnam, Conn. nem'ud.h-;n first | JEANETTE RANKIN INJURED IN CRASH Former Woman Representative From Montana Recovering From Her Hurts, By the Assoclated Press. TRENTON, February 22.—Miss Jeanette Rankin, former Representa- tive from Montana, injured with her mother in an automobile crash near here on Saturday night, will be able to_leave McKinley Hospital today. Miss Rankin suffered a fracture of the right wrist, and her mother, Mrs. Olive Rankin, severe bruises when their automobile crashed into a truck. They will continue their trip from Miss Rankin's home in Georgia to visit her sister, Mrs. J. W. McKinnon of Jersey City. —_— ADDRESS BY LINDSEY BARRED IN MISSISSIPPI Brookhaven Takes Action Follow- ing Four Meetings by Minis- terial Association. By the Associated Press. B. Lindsey shall not speak this city on a lyceum program in April. _Nego- thuon’l with the um_bureau to obtain a substitute for Judge Lindsey gested g allowed %o ¥ all ticket take. part, and the final wagi50 to.30 against Lindsey. Millions of Mice, California Pests, Removed by Poison By the Assoclated Press. BAKERSFIELD, Calif.,, Febru- ary 22.—Annihilation of the mil- lions of house and fleld mice in- habiting the dry bed of Buena Vista Lake was reported yesterday by Whit C. Barber, horticultural commissioner in charge of the ‘work. Barber said practically every mouse in the district has been killed through the use of poisoned grain, scattered over 25,000 acres of infested land. SINCLAIR DENIES U. 5. ADVISES HIM O#l- Magnate, in Mexico, Has Received No Instructions . From Kellogg. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, February Harry F. Sinclair, president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, who has been in Mexico City for sev- eral days, declared today that he has recelved. no instructions from the De- partment of State in connection® with the Mexican land and oil laws. His statement was made in answer to press dispatches from Washington reporting that Secretary of the Treas- ury Meilon, Edward L. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair controlled 82 per cent of the oil lands in Mexico, and that they had been obeying Secretary of State Kellogg's instructions as to policy in connection with the new laws. ‘Saying the total of the percentage given was perhaps correct, he added that t Sinclair holdings were 80 small as not to merit forceful defense by the United States. He believed the Washington statement was a ma- liclous political maneuver. Mr. Sinclair expressed himself as highly pleased with the results of his visit to Mexico and his conferences with government officials, although he declined to state the nature of the discussions. 22—~ —e DAUGHTER OF SLIDELL, 84, DIES IN PARIS Baroness Frederick Derlanger’s Father Was Confederate Com- missioner to France. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 22.—The death of Baroness Frederick Derlanger is an- nounced: by the Paris edition of the New: York Herald-Tribune. She was a daughter of John Slidell, who was Confederate commissioner to France, She was 84 years of age. John Slidell was sent to Paris by Jefferson Davis, president of the Con- federate States, in 1861. He never re- turned to America, living in En, amdil his death at Loudon in 1871. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. FIND STUDENT DEAD ANOTHER STABBED Officials Undecided About Death by Rifle—Youth Tried Suicide. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 22.—One high school student was found shot to death last night, and a short time later another attempted to end his lite by plunging & hunting knife into his chest. Authorities were undecided whether the dead youth had committed suicide or shot himself accidentally, but the otier boy, who stabbed himself, said, fore lapsing into unconsclousness, that he intended taking his life. He gave no reason for his act. Doctors said he probably will die. Harold Marks, 17-yearold high sohool senior, was found dead in his father’s garag> a rifle lying’ across his body. His parents said he was cheerful and had no school troubles or love affairs and declared that he had shot himself while trying to fit a cartridge or different caliber into the rifle. The police were inclined to accept this theory, but were investi- gating to determine if there was a motive for the boy to end his life. was shot through the head and the police were also investigating this angle for a possible slaying theory. John Brasel, 18, Barrington high school senior, drove his father’s auto- mobile into the depths.of the forest preserves and plunged a hunting knife into his chest below the heart. Fel- low classmates found him wandering along the roadside, blood streaming from his chest. “I stabbed myself,” he told them. Police said they belleved he tried sul- cide after reading accounts of other students killing themselves recently. REPAIR “JUSTICE” HOME. Workmen Get Busy After Sections of Ceiling Fall. Following the fall of several sec- tions of ceiling in the privately owne! building occupied by the Department of Justice, at Fifteenth and K streets, workmen have made a survey of the entire structure and are strengthen- ing the ceilings in those rooms where danger seems to exist, A large number of clerks in the file section barely escaped in the first ac- cident last Summer, when @ huge plece of celling, including the plastering and its metal lath, fell with a crash short- ly after the clerks had left for the day. Since that time smaller parts of the ceiling in different rooms and floors ::;: dropped. So far no one has been DELAYS U. S. VISIT. HAVANA, February 22 (#).—Presi. dent Machado, who is suffering from an attack of influenza, has postponed ‘)‘l‘ll trip to the United States for two ys. Announcement was made yesterday at the presidential palace that the President would leave Havana. Thurs- day instead of today. !