Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 17

FEATURE CITY CLUB PROGRAM. The City Club Syncopators, who will feature the vaudeville show to be given in the lounge of the club and put on the alr next Thursday. H. J. Odenthal, executive secretary of the club, is arranging the entertainment program. THE EVENING STAR- WASHINGTON, D. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, ORCHESTRA T0 BE HEARD IN CONCH High School Orchestra, which will give a concert next Friday at : The orchestra’will be under the direction of George k. Hurt, director ¢ The concert will be the first of the Kind ever given in the public schools here. street. schools of the District. RT. the Powell ENGLISH LADIES TRY PUSH-BALL. A tense moment in the push- ball game between two women's teams which featured the recent celebration of “Civic week” at Fulham, England. All hands are ready for & mighty push when the ball descends from its temporary flight. EIGH]’ lflSE ”VES W:):l:;bly;:u‘;: Jllll‘y INBURNING HOMES {Duty as Too Irksome {In Irish Free State Dream Saves Boy as Mother and Three Brothers Die. Four Children Trapped. B the Associated Press. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Feb- ruary 28.—Sex equality has failed in the Saorstat jury box and legis- lators have drawn up a new bill exempting women from court duty. Under the constitution the com- plete equality of men and women in the Saorstat was established, with identical political rights and responsibilities. But women found the political duty of serving on juries {rksome, Not more than 30 women have served on Saorstat juries within ihe last two vears, it having been arranged for them to be exempted upon application, and the ministry of justice concludes that the exist- ing law does not justify adminis- trative expenses. PRINCE REGARDS U. . TARDY IN AVIATION William of Sweden Impressed by Slow Development of Com- mercial Air Lines. | | | By the Associated Pre DETROIT, February 28.—Dreaming that some one had stolen his toy wagon from the front vard of his home here, Morris Couzens, 8 years old, awakened early yesterday and ran downstairs to investigate. The action probably saved his life, for as he reached the lower floor he discovered the house in flames and called to neighbors for help. Before ald arrived however, his mother, Rose Couzens, and three brothers, Meryl, 15 months; James, 8 years, and John, 2 years, trapped in the rear of the house, were burned to death. The fire is believed to have been caused by an overheated stove. - QUEBEC, Quebec, February 28 (#).— Four children last night lost their lives in a fire which destroved their home at Thetford Mines. The victims, chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Vital Roy, inage from 10 years to 7 montl bl followed an explosion of gasoline | with which the father was kindling a | fife in the kitchen stove. The mother | wi$ attending mass. RY AGENTS FACE TRIAL. ur and Chauffeur Charged With ¥ § Slaying in 1924. t1al Dispateh to The Star. JALTIMORE, -February 28.—Pro- ition Agents Ford, Barton, Stevens Ely and their chauffeur, William ing, will go on' trial before Judge r and a jury in Federal Court to- frow on charges of slaying Law- ce Wenger, who they sought to st on a liquor charge in Harford inty on November 19, 1924, e trial in Federal Court will fo ¢ a controversy between Fede d State authorities which resulted | mented a Supreme Court decision sending | “If I had to choose between adven. | 86 1o United States Court and | turing in the big cities or in Afric: ving charges of perjury and con- | I believe 1'd choose Afr spiracy to be tried in the Circuit | Prince William will rem Court of Harford County. Wenger |cago until Tuesday. was found dead in_the woods about R ) EX-REPRESENTATIVE DIES. 500 yards from a still the agents raid- James S. Havens Succumbs ed mear Madonna. Agents claimed Rochester, N. Y., Aged 68. tley saw three men running from a atlll. Shots were fired, agents ad- ROCHESTER, N. Y.. February 28.— James S. Havens, 68, former Repre. | mftted, but they denied shooting in the direction where Wenger Wwas Sentative in Congress. and in recent vears head of the legal department | found. the Kastman Kodak Co.. died ves- | FIRE LOSS IS $250,000. ! Wagon Company's Entire Plant Is Threatened for Time. WILSON, N. C.. February —Damage estimited at from $250.000 A, 300,000 was done by fire which de- | Capt. Louls Furtell of Chicago, mem stroyed a portion of the main build ber of the I Brothers' Revue. died | ing of the Hackney Wagon here fat a hospital here last night from Saturday. blood poisoning. the result of an at. ‘The fire threatened severa! adjoin Ilack by one of a group of lions with ing houses and the entire $1,250,000 |which he performed in a vaudeville plant. Officials of the company sald |act. Furtell was badly wounded on that no official check could be made |the body several day: at tl time, but that the loss might {to feed the lions. He was rescued reach '$300,000. with difficulty. By the Associatad " CHICAGO, February 28, — The thing about America that particularly impresses Prince William of Sweden, he ing from Detroit on his Middle Western tour, is the tardy development of commerclal tion as compared with European s 5. jumps between cities on n continent would nat- urally seem to make time saving here more important than in Europe, Prince William said, “Over there we feel as safe climbing into our airplane as boarding a train,” he added, “and the percentage of accidents is virtually the same.” Of prohibition in America he said: “You people seem to have turned prohibition into politie: And of American cities he com- in Attack by Lion Proves Fatal, CA, N. Y., February 28 (#),— ago while about |+ William Burns, was of Lake View High School, shooter’s medal with four hon Corps. hicago, or bars In 8 recent match she made out of 500 shots, using an Army rifle. by the Reserve Officers’ Training a perfect score of 500 bull's-eyes Copyright by P. & A. Photos. C.. MONDAY, Membel the Powell Junior I School, Hiatt pl and Lamont ector of music in the junior high ar Photo. FEBRUARY 28, 1927. James Gerard, former American Ambassador to Germany, enjoys a game of beach ball at Nassau. He is Wintering at the Bahama resort. © Underwood & Underwood. LEAVES FOR EUROPEAN HON who before her marriage here S. widow of the commander of the with her husband at Union Station will spend a three-month honeymoon in Europe. Saturday ill-fated MOON._ Mrs. John Caswell, Ir. ay was Mrs ary Lansdows dirigible Shenandoah, is snapped as they leave for New York. They Wide World Photos. Washington & WORKS AS STEEPLEJACK WIT! Baltimore is_believed to be the o business. He 'H ONE ARM. Harry Weinsing of only one-armed steeplejack in the shown here atop a high flagpole on a downtown department store, installing a new flag rope. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. TRIUMPHS IN FAMOUS ROLE. Maria Corda, noted European fllm actress, in one of the striking costumes which she wears in the role of Madame Du Barry, a screen version of which is now being produced in European studios. Wide World Photos. ARRANGING FOR PHILIPPINE SOCIETY BALL TONIGHT. Juridical Society’s inaugural ball to be given tonight at the Congressional Gapuz, Francisco Ortega, Candido Elbo-Tobias, Jesus Y. Perez, Alfonso P. Donesa, Pablo G. Cornista, Isaac Capayas and Claudi Temperature 8 Miles in Air Recorded at 96 Below by Weather Bureau Balloons OWNER OF “CAVE DOG” DENIES PUBLICITY AIM Refutes Charge of Elaborate Fu- neral—Says Love Prompted Costly Search. By the Associated Press OLUMBIA, 8. C., February A master's love for his dog, and not any desire for the widespread pub- licity that resulted, was the sole motive of R. V. Kelley of Woodruff in spending several hundred dollars and working night and day to rescue his fox-hound “Ring” from the cave in which he was trapped like Floyd Collins, Mr. Kelley said in communi- cation received by the Associated Press. Mr. Kelley took exception to re- ports that he had planned “elaborate memorial excercises,” after Ring died from pneumonia last week, a few hours after being released from the cavern in which he was prisoner for 110 hours. “I want the world to know,” Mr. Kelley wrote, “that I undertook Ring's rescue with never a thought that any notice would ever be taken of it. thought, perhaps, people would laugh at me and call me a crank when they heard of it. “] did not attempt it because he was such a valuable dog. I under- took it. simply because I loved him and because I knew he would starve to death if I left him there. His barking would have haunted me the balance of my days it I had made no effort to release him.” RESCUED SHIP IN PORT. British Schooner and Crew of Six Towed From Storm Peril. PORTLAND, Maine., February 28 ). beimg dashed t Wood Island by the southeast storm which swept the coast, the British three-masted schooner Ronald C. Longmire, and its crew of six Nova Scotian seamen arrived vesterday in tow of the coastguard cutter Ossipee. The schooner, in- command of Capt. bound from Bos- ton to Digby, Nove Scotla, loaded fertilizer, with | from the |the path of an onrushing westbound | ub, Sixteenth and U streets northwi A temperature of 96 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, within a little more than 8 miles from the earth’s su was recorded during the flight of one of the ited States Weather Bu- reau’s sounding balloons sent up last Spring from Royal Center, Ind., in a series of flights whose results are just announced. This temperature represented a drop of 166 degrees from that prevailing at the surface. Forty-four flights were made of balloons, either single or in groups, attached to a case of recording instru- ments and a self-opening parachute. Thirty-seven of these instrument cases were found and returned to the bureau after flights extending in highest altitude ever reached by any aviator, The highest was 17,200 meters, or about 1013 miles, but on this flight the lowest temperature was a little higher | than that found 2 miles lower on the | other flight, the minimum being 88 below was not experienced titude, but 2 miles or balloon entered what weather men call the stratosphere, a relatively warm upper crust of the atmosphere, < The balloons used in these Weather Bureau experiments are about 40 inches across when inflated. The re- cording instruments, with parachute and wicker case to take up the shock of arrival at the earth’s surface, weigh less than a pound. The balloons rise until they expand to the bursting point in the rarefied air, which at 10 miles amounts to about one-tenth the density of surface air. Most of the balloons came down within 50 miles of the starting point. One was found at Vanceburg, Ky., 213 miles southeast, and another landed at Tilbury, Ontario, 200 miles north- east, having crossed Lake Erie en route. TWO TRAINS CRUSH AUTO. Mother of Three Killed in Crash; Five Escape. GARY, Ind., February 28 (#).—MIrs. Maude Edwards, mother of three chil- dren, was killed while five other per- sons miraculously escaped death yes- terday when their automobile waa struck by two trains coming in oppo- ;1!8 directions at a multiple crossing ere. James H. Garbett, a tin mill super- intendent, received a fractured skull, which may prove fatal. The other four were injured only slightly. ‘The first train, easthound, crashed into the automobile and hurled it into rain, which carried the machine 4 uarter of a_mile down the track be fore it was stopped. o Retired Bishop Dies. LONDON, February 28 (#).—Right Rev. Charles John Ridgeway, former Bishop of Chichester, died today in & London nursing ho;:ai.“lic retired He was in" his eighty-sixth year. INFLUENZA SWEEPS CUBA. Epidemic Declared Milder Than in 1918-19, However. HAVANA, February 28 (#).—An in- fluenza, epidemic in Cuba is officially announced by Secretary of Sanitation Fernandez. The disease is widespread, but, although full reports have not been received, there s assurance that the number of persons affected does not reach the record of the influenza epi- demic in 1918 and 1919. 5 . Balloon Breaks Away. I STROIT, February 28 (#).—The S rk, a balloon owned Detroit Flying Club, in which X Warren and W, C. Naylor, balloon- ists, hoped to establish new distance and endurance records, broke away while being inflated Saturday night. The balloon, without passengers, was last. reported headed eastward in tow of a 40-mile wind. Officials are at. tempting to locate the bag in Penn- sylvania and New York. - | French Official Officers and _members of . the committee on arrangements for the Philippine Left to right: Bernardo B. Suterio. est. GOVERNOR CANNOT ACT IN CASE OF ATTACHE Has No Jurisdiction Over Cities, Florida Executive Says, When Told of Mistreatment. By the Associated Press. TALLAHASSE Fla., February 26. —Because he has no jurisdiction over the city authorities. Gov. John W. Martin can do nothing in the com- plaint of the Italian embassy of the alleged mistreatment at Tampa re- cently of Count Di Cellere, an attache, except to refer the matter to the mayor of that city, the governor an- nounced today. The count, according to a complaint filed with Secretary of State Kellogg at Washington, was attacked by police officers, arrested and placed in jail “without provocation.” Secretary Kellogg asked Gov. Martin to in- vestigate the matter, WAR COSTS ON NEW BASE. Suggests Reap- portionment Among the Nations. HAVRE, France, February 28 (#).— M. Marin, minister of pensions, speak- ing at the veterans’ banquet yester- day, said the war costs should be reapportioned among the nations, so that those which suffered most through the loss of manpower and territorial devastation would not be crushed financially. M, Marin qualified this declaration, however, as his “personal opinion.” — e SLAYERS SENT TO DEATH. Negroes Executed for Killing De- fender of Two Young Wonjen, BELLEFONTE, Pa., February 28 (#).—Francis Webb and Max Amos Vilson, negroes, were electrocuted in the Western Penitentiary at Rock- view today for the slaying of Walter &nden at@CHester, Pa., last Septem- T The two Bwere convicted for o was trying to panions. 5 killing protect two girl g Death of 20 at Sea Revealed by Sailor Picked Up in Boat By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 28—A Greek seaman, who was rescued clinging to a boat and landed at Penzance, Cornwall, reported the floundering of the Greek steamer Stenies, with the loss of 20 men, ds’ dispatch from that The seaman described himself as the engineer of the steamer and said the vessel was in colli- slon off Lands End with an un- known craft shortly after mid- night Thursday. The ship’s boat was launched with 21 of the crew, but all were drowned except the engineer. The Stenies was a vessel of 1,073 tons. o MILLIONAIRE TO GIVE CENTER OF LEARNING Henry E. Huntington Will Convert Famous Collection Into Re- search Laboratory. By the Associated P: INO, Calif., Februa . E. Huntington, millionai railroad man, celebrated his seventy- seventh birthday here yesterday by announcing the adoption of a plan which eventually will convert his fa- mous collection of art works and rare manuscripts into a free research labo- {:;ory for the advancement of learn- ~'r. Huntington owns one of the finest private collections of English and American literature in the world, including the original manuscripts of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and a large collection of Lincoln let- ters and manuscripts. The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, including a handsome library building; the Huntington resi- dence, botanical garden and 200-acre estate here, have been transferred to a board of trustees for the purpose. The donor, however, has elected to per- form the duties of the trustees, and maintai the residence which contains his art collection for the use of himself during his lifetime. s FAMOUS SCHOOL SAVED. Scene of Walt Whitman's Early Days Bought for $60. NEW YORK, February 28 (#).—The little schoolhouse in Woodbury, Long Island, where Walt Whitman t.ught at_the age of 17, was saved from de- struction yesterday by a group of New York admirers of the poet. They raisec funds to buy the structure from the house wrecker who bought it at auction Saturday for $18. | 1 2ems Taylor, composer, and Fdna St. Vincent Millay, poet, were among the contributors who raised $60 as the purchase price. Frank Velsor, the house wrecker, had bought the build- ing Saturday to use the historic tim- bers as second-hand lumber. Julia . Hoyt, who owns a plot of ground across the road from the pres- ent site of the schoolhouse, consented to have the building removed to her property. | Cooper DIVORGED ELOPERS ' FAGE GRAND JURY Marson and Mrs. | Capt. } Burch Defend Action and | Say They Intend to Wed. By the Associated Press, SAN FRANCISCO, February 28.— Capt. Arnaldo Marson, Italian war hero, .and his stepdaughter-inlaw, Mrs. Isabelle Keyes Burch, young Yonkers, N. Y., society matrom, who turned their backs on their familles, their friends and the law last Septem- ber and eloped to San Francisco, today attacked the last obstacle between them and the happiness they seek. Ordered before a Federal grand jury here to present their side of the four- cornered situation, they sought to convince the inquisitorial body that they had intended no wrong, and that since neither Mrs. Burch’'s husband nor Capt. Marson's wife would consent to divorces, they had taken the only way out. They were indicted here about two months ago on Mann act charges, which were not pressed. The overnment now seeks an additional indictment for conspiracy to violate | the Mann act. Left Free by Divorces. Recently Lyndon W. Burch, husband of Mrs. Burch and grandson of the late Bishop Carl Sumner Burch of the Protestant Episcopal Church, ob- tained a divorce in New York at the same time Mrs. Grace Shotwell Mar- son, daughter of the late bishop, was granted a divorce from Marson. In statements issued yesterday Mrs. Burch and Marson said that they had no regrets. “Yes, it is wogth it cried Capt. Marson. “Love, real love that often comes to us too late in life for fulfill. , has no valuation. There is no ‘!u big to pay for its attain- men price ment." Mrs. Burch Hopeful. 2 Burch, less deflant, was more hopeful. “I am working, and shall continue to do so,” she said. “There must be ultimate peace somewhere in the future, and I am willing to work to- ward that end.” Capt. Marson continued. “Now that the divorces have gone through in New York, we can only hope that nothing arises to prevent our mar- riage when the necessary legal period of three months has elapsed.” ROI MEGRUE SUCCUMBS. Playwright, 43, Was Author of Several Broadway Attractiozs. NEW YORK, February 28 ().~ Rol Megrue, playwright / and author of several Broadway, attrac- tions in the last dozen years, died sud- denly yesterday in his hotel. He was 43 years old. Among his better known “"171 Pnysu'r: Adverti: ay,” “Under Cover,” “Am Girls,” and *“Honors Are Eves o i He was born in New York City and educated at Trinity College and s lumbia University. 2. plays were “Het Only