Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 4

r1‘~' BODIES OF FLYERS STARTED FOR HOME Placed Aboard Vessel as Ar- gentina Mourns—Other Airmen to Continue. Br the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina. Feb A determined campaign has been started among the officers and enlisted personnel of the Army to have the old blue uniforms returned :to. thei former the service, replacing the present except field and fatigue du; | A suggestion for such a change al {ready has been submitted to the | assistant chiefs of staff of three divi | sions and the war plan division of the seneral staff. where it received unan. imous approval, it is understood. "It tatus as the official dveks of | Khaki colored uniform for all purposes | optional for a while ver THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 28, Return of Blue Army Uniform Sought In Campaign by Officers and Personnel in all branches for the return of the “blue Maj. Gen. Charles P. Sum | merall, the new chief of staff, is under | stood to favor the dressier uniform. Unless serious opposition rises in unexpected quarters, it is believed that the blue uniform will be made hortly and [later will become mandator Recom | mendations have been drawn up al- | ready for an appropriation sufficient | to reclothe the Army and will be sut | mitted to the Seventieth Congress ne | December. | The only reason the blue dress uni- MEXICO'S STATES Are 1,500 Miles Apart. Names of Indian Origin. Names of Mexican states most COVER WIDE AREA .- Two Territories of Republic ! GIRLS DENY LARCENY. | ’ sther and Gladys Eaton, Sisters, Held for Grand Jury. ! her and Gladys 43 L street, jointly charged with eny from the Inited ates 1 mails, pleaded not guilty in Police | Court today before Judge John P | MeMahon and were held for the ac tion of the grand jury on bond of | $500 each { It was alleced that the girls stole { mail from George T. Nixon, head of |the Nixon Keytag Co. in this city jand a roomer in the same apartment [ house. Eleven envelppes containing {money were taken. Precinct Detec tive Willis and Policeman Worm of {the second precinct made the arrests iton, sisters, | | committee 1927. INDUSTRIAL PLAN 0 BE MADE FIRM Shaw Says Permanent Or- ganization Will Be Effected March 14. Permanent organization of a joint for conducting the move-| YCASE GOES TO GRAND JURYE | Henry V. Morris Held for Assault With Dangerous Weapon. Henr V. Morris of 1386 street, charged with assauit dangerous weapon on har Saun propietor a lunchroom at 5914 gia avenue, waivec v ng before idge John F Me. Mahon in Police Court today and was held for the action of the grand jury on a bond of $1,000. he alleged assault is occurred when the proprietor up braided Morris for smearing his friend’'s fm'e with cheese. Morris Is said to have chased Saunders across the street, firing a pistol Nicholson with a | aid to have | COLUMBIA, S. A GOLFERS ARRESTED IN'SOUTH CAROLINA [Cigarette Bootleggers Ap- pear as Sunday Closing Law Is Enforced. By the Associated Pres: C., February 28. has now heen refei fiefs [ form was not returned several vea of all War Departn lago. it is said. was the opposition of their vie | the ‘Organized Rexerves and National ruary 28.—Renewed evidences of sor difficult for Americans and their | Golt bugs, many of whom hav tow on the part of the population of > e o ment for expansion of the industrial | wait six days between whacks at the activities of Washington and nearby BABY; 4 MONTHS OLD, Chihauhua, che-wah’-wah; Coa- Buenos Aires over the tragic death of Capt. Clinton . Woolsey and Lieut. John E. Benton, U Army good-will aviators, were shown today when the bodies were removed to the s Vauban for the 20-day voyage to New York. Several thousand near the Military Club, where the bodies had lain overnight. and at St John's Anglican Church, where serv ices were held. Other hundreds were at the pler. President Heads Cortege. The funeral cortege was headed by President De Alv . the ministers of marine and war, the personnel the American sy and consulate general and fi ' companions. High officials of both branches of the Argentine military establishment and the air service also attended Before the bodies were placed aboard the steamer, funeral orations were delivered by rpresentatives of Argentine army, navy and aviation service. The biers were covered with National Emblems of Argentinians the United States and with flor: tributes from scores of Argentinian: A battery in the port of Buenos Aires fired @ salvo of guns as a mark of respect for the dead airmen. Resume Flight Tomorrow. The flight will be resumed tomorrow with a hop to Asuncion, Paraguay. Maj. Herbert A. Dargue, in_ com- mand of the squadron, and Lieut. persons gathered Ennis Whitehead, reserve pilot of the | New York, had a narrow escape fugm death. Lieut. Whitehead injured his left ankle when he touched the ground with his parachute and now walks with some difficulty. Maj. Dargue described how Detroit crashed into his plane how he escaped with his life. “We were nearing Palomar” (15 miles from.Buenos Aires). he said. “The wind was calm. We closed up the distance between the planes, ac- cordirg to custom, in a formation re- sembling a_diamond. the front and rear planes higher than the machines to the right and left. so they could &0 lower in case of danger. Plane Begins to Fall. “When the crash occurred the De- troit was to the left of my plane, the New York. At the signal ‘break for- mation’ the Detroit began to heave. Beeing the formation opening I con- fined my attention to my own plane, but suddenly the Detroit, instead of continuing to open the formation, con- verged upon my machine, hitting it slightly on the left wing, and in- stantly the tragedy had occurred. “My machine failed to respond when T worked the levers controlling di- rection. It began to fall rapidly. the arrived. “I quickly started to unloose the straps which bound me in my seat and moved to open the parachute. I then saw myself lifted by the force of the parachute and the rapid fall of the New York. At first the parachute opened, but with the greatest anxiety I observed that a Jarge part of the parachute became entangled with the plane, and 1 started for earth with the machines, the New York and De- troit falling as one. Death Seemed Certain. “I tried to pull myself out some- how, but I believe my. weight helped in getting the parachute freed. Sud- denly it was released from the falling machines and I was saved from what seemed certain.death.” The remaining planes, the St. Louis and San Francisco, morrow morning for Asuncion, Para- guay. When thev reach Montevideo, Uruguay, thev will await the San An- . tonio, which has been lagging behind the main squadren since’it was held up at Tumaco, Colombia, because of engine -difficulties. The San An- tonio is now at Talcanuano, Chile, and js_expected to reach Buenos. Aires Wednesday. " FLIGHT ORDERED .CONTINUED. Authority Cabled to Maj. Dargue by Assistant Secretary Dagvison. Authority to resume the Pan-Amer- fean flight, which was halted Saturday by the death of Capt. Clinton F. Woolsey and Lieut. John W. Benton, two of its members, was cahled vester- day to Maj. Herbert A. Dargue, in command, by F. Trubee Davison, As. sistant Secretary of War for Aviation. [, Details of reorganizing the flight; which now has two planes and six pilots on the Atlantic Coast and one plane and two airmen on the Pacific/ Coast of South America, have been feft to Maj. Dargue, who will replace one of the pilots and fly one of the amphiblans home. Two of the pilots will he withdrawn from the flight and sent to Panama, Mr. Davison said. Story of Crash Received. The story of the collision and which destroyed the New York and Detroit, was received by the War Department v ay from Maj. Dar- gue, who correc arlier unofficial reports that Wools nd Benton sought to use their parachutes. Incorporated in a War Deps statement, the story suid that Dargue and Lieut. Ennis (. liead, assistant pilot of the New “jumped from their plane, their para- chutes functioning perfectly, and they landed safely. It is certain that nelther Capt. Woolsey nor Lieut. Renton attempted to use their para- chutes."” “The planes were flying in forma tion,” the statement continued, “one leading, ene to the right, one to the left of the leader a short distance behind and above, the fourth plane further back and following the leader. Maj. Dargue in the front plane zave the agreed signal to break formation and land. This was understood. The planes behind and to his right and left obeyed, one turning out to the right, the Detroit to the left. View Obstructed by Hull. “In this maneuver the hull of ‘apt. Woolsey's plane evidently hid from him the plane New York, which was at a slightly lower altitude, and turning to the right as he started his glide to land, the mose of his plane struck the New York. The planes, each traveling at least 100 miles an hour, locked together and wera out of control. *The shock of the collision evidently stunned Capt. Woolsey, who did not leave the plune. Lient. Benton, the other occupant of Capt. Woolsey's plane, may likewise have been thus incapacitated, he made no effort to leave the plane, but was thrown from it just before it hit the ground. FLYERS NOT WELCOME, Tragedy Changes Sentiment of Argen. tina But Slightly. dnd e R o BUENOS AIRES, February 28 —Th public attitude of the people of Argen- rash, tment Maj. York, the | the | and | The | first sensation was that my end had | will hop off to-{ White- | The Army full dress, dress and mes: | blue uniforms were banished July 3 {1919, The present field uniform. it is explained, has proved so unsatisfactory lin appearance that a widespread | movement has started simultaneously | Guard units, whose: officers would be | obliged to spend $300 for new outfits it was pointed out, however, that bot | the Navy and Marine Corps have dre | uniforms and that the Army suff lin appearance by comparison. SEDLEY BUTLER | | ORDERED TO CHINA of | 'Will Command Entire Marine Corps Force at Shanghai. Leaves Earliest Date. Orders were issued today at Marine Corps headquarters divecting Brig. en. Smedley Darlington Butler, now in command of the Marines at San Diego, Calif., to proceed at once to Shanghai, China, and take com- | mand of the entire Marine Corps ex- peditionary force there. n. Butler will take with him Cols. . B. Miller and Percy Archer and his de, Lieut. J. W. Whitaker. Marine Corps officials stated that the issuance of the orders means that Gen. Butler will leave for China on the earliest possible ship. There are now several units of Marines in China and he will take supreme-command. REINFORCEMENTS ARRIV Will Battle at Sungkiang, 28 Miles from Shanghai. SHANGHAI, February 28. dence having been restored to the shaken forces of Marshal Sun Chuan Fang by the arrival of extensive rein- forcements from Shantung Province, defense preparations to prevent Shanghal, richest military prize of the Orient, from falling into nationalist hands progressed of’a. large scale today. S b Principal activitigs centered _at Sungkiang, strategic} point: 28 _miles zouth of here. Preparations included the construction of attery itions, indicating that the Northerners,‘once ported on the vergeof losing Sung- kiang, had the. situation in hand there and were prepared to make a definite stand against the Nationalist advance. Sun Addresses Troops. Sun and Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang, commander of the Northeifi réiforce ments, returned today from the battle- front. While there, Sur adgressed 4,000 of his troops, felling them that they were mnow . united. with the Shantungese to fight bolshevism. Supplementing the land prepara- tions, and as‘a precaution against a Nationalist attack on Shanghal by water, Defense Commissioner Li Pao- Chang vesterday ordered the Woosung entrance of the Whangpoo River, which is the only approach to the city from the Yangtze Delta, closed from 6 p.m. to 6 aah. Consular Body Protests. The consular body immediately protested the regulation, pointing out that the vast amount of shipping enters and leaves the harbor as the tides dictate, and cannot be interfered with. Latest indications were that a compromise would be effected. A thousand more British marines arrived this morning on the troopship Minnesota. Ehe General Labor Union |called a one-tour strike as a protest against_the landing of the forces, but the walkout failed to materialize. DALE PLEA REINSTATED. { Supreme Court to Pass on Contempt Sentence to Editor. By the Associated Press. The appeal of George R. Dale, the Muncie, Ind., editor, under sentence of contempt by a State court, was reinstated today by the Supreme Court. Dale has long been in conflict with Judge Clarence W. Dearth of the Delaware County Clrcuit Court. Articles published by Dale in his newspaper brought a judgment for contempt against him, and the judg- ment . was upheld by the Indiana Supreme Court. Dale appealed to the apreme Court here, but the appeal dismissed on the ground that he had' not furnished funds for printing therecord of the case. Today's de- cision brings the question again before the cour Sun Confi 1 . prior to Sunday :demonstrated vividly the lack of friendship in which the United States is held here, largely as the result of anti-American propa- ganda following intervention in Nica- ragua. Then came the terrible traged ! sulting in the death of Capt. Clinton Woolsey and Lieut. John E. Benton, the American good-will flyers. Now all the poetic instincts of the Latin temperament hav the newspaper accounts of that tragedy. The public is honoring the dead, but that does not alter the fact | that the fiyers were not welcome, and even the usual Latin instinct of courtesy was not strong enough to efface the real feeling for the country they represented. Belittled in Press. No other official mission arriving in Argentina in the last 15 vears was =0 disparagingly received at as that of the Pan-American flyers. For weeks the: newspapers had belittled them, calling them = of* American | imperialism and agents of the Wall | Street octopus. On the day of their arrival the newspapers said that no one was interested in the coming of these representatives of the proud, imperialistic northern republic. For several days, Buenos Aires had been a bedlum of hombs, sirens and bells, every few hours of the day and night, announcing the departure and arrival of three other flights, but no bomb exploded. no siren blew and no bell rang as the four American planes soared majestically over Buenos Aires, They arrived amid the silence of disparagement. The public them and did not even go to the port to watch their arrival. No plane flew out to meet them and escort them to Argentinu's capital and the official party was the smallest pos- sible. Members of the United States Con- gress are better paid than any other \‘nl!lonll legislators in the world. been poured into| ignored | 'MINISTER SETS MARK " AS ‘BURIAL PARSON' | Denver Clergyman Has Officiated | | at 1,000 Funerals in Last Two Years. | | By the Associated Pres | V! ruary 2% < " developed the che: = . Barth, | tired" minister, Aas been given the wreath of cham- pion for his rec- ord in presidin fureral ~ serv He is 84 and has been in active service for more than half a cen- aury. He has officiated 1t more than 1,000 tunerals in the Jast two ye n addition, < of this ye “burial "pa established a vecord by Gustav tne Rev. Gustav Bao, SO0 officiating at e § IPor more than 30 years Rev. Mr. Barth held pastorates in Kansas be- fore moving to Denver to go into * tirement.” Bug a short time afterware | he stopped at a local mortu | pressed into emergency serv E ficlating minister and since has be come probably the hardest working minister in Denver. BORAH FACES RIFT WITH PRESIDENT ON NOTE TO CALLES Coolidge who look upon the whole move as a usurpation of executive power have the votes to limit the pre poked hearings to witnesses who are American citizens, or whether the anti-administration Senators will take advantage of the dilemma further to embarrass the handling of the Presi- dent’s foreign policy. A nice constitutional question may rise if foreigners are subpoenacd to sy, especially foreign officials, if the Department of State declines to give them permission to testify at such hearings on the ground that any- thing they bawe 1o say: should de ad drefsed “to-the pfoper./department ‘in thawexccutive: branichi of the Govern- ment. 1927 DATA. (Copsright, BORAH GIVE res Submitted by Calles on Oil Law Acceptance. By the Associated Press, President Calles of Mexico, in a com- munication sent directly to. Chairman Borah of the Senate foreign relations committee, has informed the Senator 3%0 companies have complied ith the Mexican petroleum law. nator Borah, who is hostile to the administration’s Central Anverican policies, made public today a cable- gram from the Mexican President, dated January 24, in which he listed 22 companies which have refused to comply with the law. Among these Calles Standard of listed Doheny and n r, Standard Atlantie, Mexican Crude, American International and Mexican Gulf, and Capuchinas and Mexican <rude, Most of Land Covered. Naming then the more important of the companies which have accepted the law, President Calles said the 380 companies which have complied have solicited on the hole 643 petroleum o) on lands with claims pre- to May 1, 1917, coneessions émbra the e a total ims prior y 1. 1917, which the 22 companies possess, who did not comply with the petroleum law, embraces a total extent of 1.661,000 acres. sequently the lands which have not complied with the petroleum law represent approxi- mately 6 pér cent of the total avea of land on which claims exist prior to May 1, 1917. T will send- you hy mail fuller and more detailed information. T am pleased at the interest which you ape taking in this matter and God grant the data submitted to you may be of use.” The message ately Vours | this messa nuary. 2 + “If.agreeable, may I.he advised as to the exact facts relative to oil com. panies accepting the new petroleum law? How many have accepted and hew many have not yet accepted? 1 would fike also to be advised the names of the more important com- ; panies which have not accepted.” NEW JUNIOR HIGH OPENS. Classes in Francis Cut Part Time _for Colored Children. Part-time instruction in six colored | schools was materially reduced today with the opening-of the new. Francls Junior High School, Twenty-fourth and N _streets. 1t was expected that the Francis Junior would be ready for occupancy when' the new semester opened the first of the month, but inspection hy members of the Board of Lducation i proved at that timé it was fat from | completion. Approximately 670 pupils will be en- rolled at the Francis today, relieving congestfon at the Stevens, Sumner- Magruder, Montgomery, Phillips and Wormley schools. signed “affection- 1t was In response. to > sent by Senator Borah on Sees Tl;ifl Incr ease as Farm Aid. Tariff increase on all. agricultiral products to the maximum . allowed by the ‘tariff act’ was suggested tc President Coolidge today by Repre. sentative Wurzbach, . Republican, Texas, us @ means of aiding the farmer, i . Py “ e " Mispoutt’ hax :gui" hE f sm‘:l’.“‘,w,' e X .,Mh k.s a tion laws.” —Danver | approximate proaunciations are { | huili, ko-a-wel sa-ka-tay’-kas ko: Michoacan, Giuerrero, guyr-r: G we-ha'kah: Guanajuato, gwa na-hwa’-to: Queretaro, kay-ray’ laxcala, tlas-kah™lah. Zacatecas, Jalisco, ha-lees” l me-cho-a-kan’; | ro; Oax | | Dispatches from Mexico have Im*l\% sprinkled with names of the United | of Mexico—Jalisco, Durango, » and other | Mexico has 28 states. Does the | average American know whether Chi- | apas is on the Pacific or Atlantic| Coast; whether Nayarit is in the | north, central or south of Mexico: if | Aguascalientes is a large state or a | small one, or if ‘Campeche is in the | ast or west of Mexico? | ame the two territories of Mex n on which many can name the 48| te capitals and the Ca-| provinees aould faf ays a | of the National Geographic | who Americ nadian { bulletin | Society. Has Two Territories. “Lower California, dry, arid, moun- tainous and sparsely populated, is one Mexican territory not yet granted status of a State. Fifteen hundred miles away from lower California lies Mexico's other territory, Quintana Roo, farthest South and farthest last. e common to think of Mexico as a great horn sprouting south from Southwest United States. The posi- tion of the two Mexican territories punctures this geographic myth Mexico is not a thin nation. i just as wide as it is long. While westernmost city Tinjuana, across the internationai line from San Diego, Calif.. the outermost point of the | Yucatan Peninsula lies as far east as Indianapolis. The United States has one smaller State than Mexico's smaliest. Rhode Island is 300 square miles smaller than Taxacala, which lies 50 miles east of Mexico City. Colima, a state on the Pacific coast of Mexico directly west, of the capital, measures loss than| Delaware. But the largest state of Mexico, Chihuahua, across the horder from New Mexico. is much smaller | than the American giant, Tex 1] approximates Oregon or Tllinois and | Indiana taken together. ! Coincided With Indian Tribes. he states of Mexico nally laid out to coincide roughly with reas occupied by the Indian tribes | which the Spanfards conquered.. Then conquerors apportioned the dis. s among themselves. Thus Her nando Cortes was ‘Marques del Val of Oaxaca. As ‘marques’ he laid waste the Zapotec Indians’ chief town, built A new city on the same site and named it Antequera, after a_town of Spain near Malaga. When Mexico won its independence from Spain the ety 1 sumed its old Zapotec name, Huaxi- | cae (modified in Spanish to O aea), | and the state took the same title. This is a story repeated with variations many times in Mexico., Practically all ; imed their Indian ceptions such as an Lois o uato and Nuevo Leom. | Ithough = the ancient Aztecs, Zapotees, and Mayas are responsible for the boundaries of modern States f Mexico, the borders often outline definite geographic units. There is a classification handy for Mexican States which our Republic cannot use antage. In Mexico there are Statex, high States and higher States. The low States are the Jast- ern seaboard units from mnorth to south, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Vera Cruz and Tab: The Ytcatan Peninsula_group of Campeche, Yuca tan and_Quintana -Roo also hugs sea level. Pacific coastal States are, for the most part, low States, too, but not ®0 low as east ¢ it States; Sonor naloa, Nayarit, Colima, were origi come the high States, tha which are 3,000 feet above se: Chibuahua, Coahnila and Durango, of which lie in the Rio ( N between the wide open arms of the mountai ges at border the famous Valley of Mexico, Richest States Higher. “South of Durango are the higher States, and, it may be added, the smaller, and the most populous and the richest States of Mexico. The average elevation of 11 States and the Federal District is more than a mile ahove sea level. Orizaba Peak, 1 milés coutheast of Mexico City, is the key pin of a gigantic pair of dividers opened to a 60 degreo angle, Iach 'mof the dividers is a mountain ange, the left arm connecting with the Rocky Mountains and the right losing itself af Montérey. “Between 1he arms spreads fertile mile high or highe: blue lakes and fruitful valleys,” ole- vated enough to have an equable climate. Just a4 the mountain ranges converge on Orizaba, so the trade routes ‘converge on Mexico City. Tike Washington, the Mexican capital has heen isolated within a_small ‘Distrito \Federal,” administered by the national Congress. But there is this differ enc Mexico it is the » W York as well as the Washington of Mexic Tts population of 906,000 nearly equals that of the most populous of the n tion’s provinces. i, *“Just as the :United States las, in the State of Washington, a common- wealth named for the hero of its Rev- olution, so Mexico has honored, the father ' of its freedom froni Spain >adre Hidalgo was 2 parish. priest n Dolores, in the State of (Guana- juato, until he led the revolution in 1810, the region of Named for Hero. *“Deolores has now become Dolores Hidalgo. A near-by area of 8,600 square miles of the Valley of Mexico has been carved out t& make the state of Hidalgo. South of Mexico City another relatively small, state, Morelos, honors another hero of Mex- ico’s revolution. “Difficulties of pronunciation barrier to a_development of Americs interest in Mexico. A man confront- ed with the name ‘OaxXaca’ is inclined to let the whole subject’ dr: “Mexjcan. .names. are difficult. In Mexico there are far more names in honor ,of the Indian than in. the United States. Aztecs and Mayas Toved and * Of course they had no written age intel- ligible today. So the kling In. dian names must be expressed in soft Spanish. In '/ the United States we have Anglicized the Spanish-Indian names. The name of Mexico and its capital serves as a good example. The central shrine of the Aztec capital was dedicated to Mexitli, the war god. paniards revamped the name to Mex- ico, prenounced meh'-he-ko. As far narth central Texas is: a town Mexia, <pronounced ‘ma-hea,’ but Mexico, has the hard “Asiglo- Saxon ‘x: 11, the Briush. post.office department ~highest pald woman is Miss J. Tow! chanan; . who: receives $4,000' an- |- nually. ~ N INSULL, SCHUYLER AND CUNNINGHAM CITED IN CONTEMPT T | the e.) | (Continued from First whom they gave two con hutions of $20.000 each Mr. Insull has insisted that these contributions had nothing to do with the senatorial primarie For that | reason. they contend, the Senate com mitte has no right to inquire to whom the money went Mr. Cunningham has taken the posi tion that the Senate committee has no right to inquire into o primary elec tion in a State After spreud. the facts in declination of nesses o testify in_its report today “Your committee eeded the limit of method of all the wit said 1z on the records connection with the recalcitrant the committe has perhaps ex-| forbearance in its procedure. but it is of the | opinion that the Nenate's power to| punish for contempt shouid be in voked only in extreme cases and after | every indulgence and recourse of a committee of the Senate been ex- bausted. Considerable Debate Likely. “Pherefore your committee reports | further a continued ohduracy of the gaid Samuel Insull and Daniel T. Schuyler, and recommends that they be adjudged in contempt of your com- mittee, and the Senate of the United St The witness Cunningham refused to amplify his testimony in any pa ticular, stood on his previous refusals to an: the interrogators propound ed to him and defied the jurisdiction of your committee, “Your committee therefore reports a_ defiant and contumacious conduct of the said witness, Thomas W. Cun- ningham, and recommends that he he adjudged in contempt of your commit tee and of the Senate of the United | States ‘The introduction of the resolution questing that these recaleitrant wit nesses he punished for contempt may leud to considerable debate. There are members of the Senate who believe not only that the Senate has exceeded it« authority in requiring witnesses to testify regarding contributions which they say were made to campaigns for local State officers, but also in seek ing to investigate a senatorial primar election, which they hold a matter fc the States. B. A. POWELL IS DEAD. Private Funeral Services Will Be| Held Tomaerrow. Henjamfn A. Towell, engaged jn' the transportation storage business with his son, L B. Powell, in this city, died at his vesidence, 4704 Seventeenth street, yesterday after a year's illnes Mr. Powell was a e Island, N. .Y, and en in the wholesale grocery husiness in New York City for ahout 30 years before coming o Washington. * 1o was a member of the Washington Board of Trade and the Covenant Lodge of Masons, Brooklyn, N. Y. He is survived by his widow, Mrs, BEmma B. Powell, and two son: Benpamin A, Powell, jr., and Leste B. Powell. Private be conducted to- morrow. Long funeral at his services late o will residence Record of Arrests Under Dry Law. Thirty arvests for sale, possession and transporting intoxicants were recorded by the police during the 48 hours ended at 8 o'clock this morn- ing. There were 97 arrests for fin- toxication. Four motorists were ar- rested for driving automobiles while under the influence of lquor and one for driving a horse under similar efr- cumstanc [ | of existing | and the I | Given, « Virginia and Maryland will be effect ed at u meeting epresentatives of local trade ciations, March 14, at the City Club, Edward D. Shaw secretary of the Merchants and Manu- ‘turers’ Association, announced to | da iZach trade body which in the project will point two official committee, which is the Joint Industrial has joined be asked to ap delegates to the to be known as Council, accord | ing to present plans. . Approval Is Voted. The Borad of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, Merchants and Manufac turers’ Association and the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce , al- ady have voted approval of ‘the movement and have appropriated $350 for a preliminary survey to he made industrial plants in this arei. The Washing istrict Association also pariicipate, Mr. Want m Real Estate Board { Columbia Bankers' re to be invited to w said. “Light” Plants. The movement contemplats bring- ing into this vicinity additional “light manufacturing plants of a nature that would not conflict with the plans for beautification of Washington, as a menns of providing additional employ- ment opportunities for Washington and to make more firm the financial jtion of the municipality, elimi- ing its dependency upon the Fed- eral Governrgent. The movement has been indorsed by the District Commis- semers as well as by many business and civic leaders. The board of governors of the Mer- chants and Manufactures’ Association meets tomorrow noon, at the City Club, to name its delegates to the or- ganization. Sh 24-YEAR-OLD WOMAN UNDER OBSERVATION Marie Charmaine, Charged With! Carrying Weapon and Intoxica- tion, Sent to Gallinger Hospital. The need for an institution for the fecble-minded was again emphasized in Police Court today following the trial of Marie Charmaine, 24 5 old, of 717 Tenth street southeast, charged with carrying a concealed weapon and being intoxicated. Upon the recommendation of Ralph istant United States attor- ney. Judge John P. McMahon ordered the pretty defendant sent to Gallinger Hospital for a mental observation. Mr. Given stated that it was ap- parent that 'the girl was not in her right mind, alihough not insane. He said she should be confined, but {hat jail_was no place for her. “The District of Columbia,” said, “is the only territory, of size. in the United S$tates that has not tome Institution for unfortunate people of this class. Congress should act at once to give the city a place of this kind.” The girl was arrested by Police- man Ambrose of the first precinct Saturday in a Chinese restaurant on Ninth street. He told the court that she was very intoxicated, and that he later discovered a blackjack in her stocking. The defendant denied being intoxi- cated and said the weapon was not concealed. Mrs. Maude S. Gates, her mother, of 3213 Wisconsin avenue, told the judge that the girl had had two seri- ous nervous breakdowns, and did not know what she was doing. . he its Two successive years of crop fail- ures have caused hard times for farm- ers in Latvia. ‘Practical jokers caused the dash of severa! fire engines to a church in ingland during services recently. THE NOUVELLISTE READS THE NEWS TO AN APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE E<HUMAN PROGRESS f5ouh fie AGES2] L TowNs WERE FAR APART and news was scarce in the time of Charles the First. Thgoughout Europe the Nouvelliste, or Reader of the news, was the only authorita- tive source of information at that time. It was customary for him to read the news in public places, that the inhabitants might enjoy knowledge of recent happenings. THE PEOPLE of modern towns. would not tolerate the meager, in- accurate reports of the 17th century. ‘They demand complete, accurate and interesting dispatches of the world's events. Ghe Assoriated Yress wires carry news of national and international significance daily to he Foeni af MAKES LEGAL OATH His Mark Is Acceptzdins Signature to Passport for Trip to Scotland. By lhe Associated Press. | _HARTFORD, Conn., February 28 Baby John Brown Wishert Rodger. & ‘monllls old, claimant for the title | the you s American to make oath to the state. | 3 ments In a pass- i e port request and | have a passport issued in his own name. | At the age of 4 | months John Brown swore to | %+ the truth of cer- ¥ 5 tain facts in 4 guage his father was able to trans late and affixed his mark. It w. accepted in Wash- ington and a pass port issued. 2 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rodger, the baby's parents, are from Scotland Baby John will be an American citizen automatically when he is 21, but when his father and mother prepared to sail for visit to their old home they found that he and his 3-vear-old sister Mar- garet would have to have passports. John Brown Rodger. |DRINK WITH STRANGER | COSTS $19 AND WATC One Nip and Victim Falls Asleep. Store and Tailor Shop Robbed. | Wilmer H. Koontz, 430 Third street, was robbed of his watch ‘and chain and $19 Saturday night, when; /cording to his report to the pof he accompanied a strange young man to an Jowa Circle house. | ger gave him a drink of liquor, he and he fell asleep. When he woke up he discovered that he had been robbed and that his “friend” had dis- | appeared. | Other week end thefts included five sui und three overcoats, valued at $275, which were ‘taken from the tai- loring establishment of Alfred IH. | Burdine, 901 Ninth A chain grocery s avenue and Grant street was entered turday night through a masherd pane of gl; in the front door and $50 in foodstuff stolen. An overcoat, hat and cane were taken from a display window of the stora of T. Linwood Williams, 1435 H sireet. The value of the property was placed at $78. Frank H. Cookson of Bav City, Mich., reported the theft from his room in a local hotel of $8 eeds for two lots and a package of papers. - . Negro Charged With Murder. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 28-- Bud Phillips, colored, was jailed here today charged with the murder of Charles Grayson, also celored, at Davidsonville. The killing, which oc- curred several days ago over 75 cents Phillips claims was due him, is the third to have occurred within the last 30 days in Anne Arundel County. . Attleboro, Mass., is one of the prin cipal centers of the jewelry manufac- turing industry in Ameri have had an to_borrow. For each 350 or! fractionborrowed you agree to de- S:o:lt 31 per week in an Account, the eeds of which may be used to . cancel the note when due. Deposits may be made on a weekly, semi- monthly or monthly basis asy you prefer. $500 $1,000 $5,000 $10,000 for Walk-Over al H| Easy to Pay pills, may expect no discrimination in | their favor in Gov. Richards' cam | paign to enfores South Carolina's | century-old Sunday closing law. | This was clearly indicated when | four players en route to the links in. | Greenville were arrested yesterday, the State's second “blue” Sunday ‘These were the only arrests, but the lid was generally reported as clampe down tight in all principal cities, fa more so at least than a week before when first attempts were made 1. enforce the law. Finish Out of State. | Proctor A. Bonham, a former s | licitor and State Senator, and W. G | Perry, jr.; Johu Cushman and David | Ferguson, three Greenville business men, were the golfers arrested. When released on their rcognizance, they be- | &an to play anyway, but were warned | that it would result in their “lock-up.” They heeded the warning. but finished their game at Biltmore, N. C., whers they drove by autome announced they would ¢ | to court | Gasoline fountains, cigar stores and r o | rants generally were closed down in | the larger cities, while drug stores | that remained open catered only 1 medicine purchasers. Cigarettes Are Bootlegged. Cigarette bootleggers were reported operating in Greenville, selling them for 50 cents a package. Newshoys were chased from tha streets in Aiken, a resort town, al though golf and polo were played without any arrests. All amusements, | however, were conducted outside the | city limits, At Camden, another re- |'sort center, announcements were made {in all the hotels that the law had | beent observed. | Columbia quietly observed the clos- stations, garages, | ing order, while at Charleston repor's were that only street cars and taxicabs operated. | GERMAN TRAIN SERVICE | SUBJECT OF CRITICISM = Better Accommodations Promised | by Railway Administration | Following Protests. The stran- | | By the Assoclated Press | BERLIN, February 28.—An effort to speed up German train service, es- pecially on the international lines, has béen promised by the federal railway administration in response to numer- ous protests from the National Cham- ber of Commerce and tourists' agen- cles. The complaints point out that the | extra-fare Berlin-Prague express uses more than three hours to_make the 100-mile trin to Dresden. The Berlin- Vienna express, also an extrafare train, vequires 12 hours for the 300- | mile ‘trip, while the Paris and London | expresses on the 10-hour stretch from Berlin to Cologne are scheduled on a running time averaging miles an hour, including numerous stops. P —— WOMEN TO COMPETE. Tn the Olympic games to be held at Amsterdam in 1928 women will ba permitted to take part for the first time. The International Amateur Ath- letic Federation has agreed that the events for women shall be 100 meters, 800 meters, 400-meter relay, high jump and_thr the . 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