Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1927, Page 16

nis of the wind-up of ivering his 1 lines were forsotien many of whom wil AS SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS COMES the session in the House yesterd: w mber of the House. the good-natured the next session. THE EV TO AN END. ith Senator- e in ( of o After the gavel ended the levity (hat marked the le; en member A. Phot ng betw MEETS DEATH IN SPEED TEST. J. G. Parry-Thomas, British racing driver, at the wheel of the new speedster in which he was killed Thurs- day at Pendine, Wales, while trying to establish a new world record. He held many racing records and was one of the foremost English speed drivers. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Federal Radio Board, has Brownxville, N. Y. ENING he s, AR. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NTERTAIN AT HOUSE SONG-FEST. Mme. Luella Melius, col of the Chicago Grand Opera Co. the House of Representative Cliften A. Woodrum of Virg Connery, jr. (at left), who sang at the adjournment part chamber ia (at so were heard yesterday. Representative ud Representative W. P. National Photo MARCH 5, - 1927, CARNIVAL PR ing stand of the official for the colorful event wh arnival commission. SPECTACLE ALONG FAMOUS HAVANA BOUL carnival parade along the Malecon in the Cuban eapital as the elaborately de: i The streets were banked with spectators who turned out 'h each year features the Havana Winter s . A view of the recent orated floats pass the review- ason. « rs of the home at h controls A. Photos. SECRETARY PRESENTS Commerce Department Bowling I BOWLIN! Commerce Hoover presenting to T. F. McKeon (right), president of the League, the champi awarded to the winning team of the league. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. TROPHY. Secretary of nship trophy to be TREASURY UNDERSECRETARY TAKES OATH. New York (at left) taking the oath of office Ogden L. Mills of s Undersecretary of the Treasury yesterday, administered by Samuel H. Marks, assistant-chief clerk. Although Mr. Mills has been perforn for some time, he deferred taking the oath expired yesterday. g the duties of the office il his term in the House Copyright by P. & A, Photos. CHARGES AGAINST JUDGE UP TODAY Impeachment Given Special Order in Indiana Senate After Feud With Editor. sociated P INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. March Frocedure to remove Clarence Dearth as judge of the Delaware Cir- cuit Court cleared two legislative burdles and was made a special order of business in the Indiana Senate this afternoon. Articles of imp Maucie judge were filed in Chamber by 1be liouse of Represer: instrument contained seven charges alleged “corruption and other high crimes” in office, including interfer- ence with freedom of the press and the filegal selection of jury panels. Meanwhile 1 in Muncie by business associates and Jtiends of George R. Dale to stage a demonstration when the publisher ar- yives home toduy from Ohio. It is a Tour-yeur-old feud between the pub- lisher und the jurist that culminated in the fmpeachment action. The judge y2cently stopped the sale of Dale's weekly newspaper because it con- 1ained a violent criticism of the judge aad the mayor. Dale was cha the grand jury with criminal 1i Late yesterday Lieut. Gov . Van Ormon placed th snatter before the entire § ator James J. Nejdl cader, said it was optional with the Senate to when it should hear the case and then cited statutes tend- ing to show that the body had no juris- diction in the matter, He was followed by three other Re- publican Senators, all att , who Jield that under the constitution Jaw of 1897 it was the ~uty of the Sen- &ate to b the case. The impeachment ainst a Genera By the .. 5.— w. inst the upper hment a th Sen- Republican tloor s egal tangie when Arthur L. Gilliom dvised Gov. Juckson not to appoint a suc- « or pending the impeachment trial un the ground that the impeachment voas null and void. NEW UNMASKING BILL UP. na Lower House Tables ran up Attorney North Cavol Meas NALLIGH Yower Gener 1abla passed by then Touse, After recon the bill was returned to u com which favor- ably reported a substitut: bill in the House yesterday. The measure | March 5 (P).—The of the North Carolina mbly yesterday voted to asking™ bill which was hoth houses last week and reconsidered by, the Lower pvides that it would be a telony to belong to an order whose rules and regulations require that its wembers keep their identities concealed. . WOULD PAY ROBBERS. ALBANY, N. Y. March 5 (P).—A filing station proprietor, whose plant was robbed, advertises an offer to pay the visitors for their trouble if they will return some night soon and 1e viace & missing window. ans were being made | Rescuer Is Killed By Explosion After aving Gas Victim v the Associated Press KANE, Pa., March 5.—After res- cuing an employe overcome by gas fumes in a railroad tank car, George Probert, 45, superintendent of the McKean County Oil Re- fining Co.’s plant at Farmers Val- ley, 30 miles from here, lost his lif¢ when an explosion blew him through the manhole of the car and hurled him 50 feet awa: Probert had just succeeded in lifting Arcnie Brooker, g2, from the car when the explosion oc- curred. Brooker and three others were burned. 'CHURCH TO RECEIVE BEQUEST OF $10,000 Mrs. Sarah’ L. Pratt Also Leaves Funds to Institute and Missions. The Mount Pleasant Congregational “hurch is given $10,000 by the terms | of the will of Mrs.’ Sarah L. Pratt, widow of Capt. E. A. Pratt, U. S. A., who died February The National Metropolitan Bank is named as execu- | | tor and trustee. The estate is esti- | mated at $250,000. Billings Polytechnic _Institute, at Billings, Mont., is left $5,000, and bee quests of $2,000 each are made to the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions of Boston, American Missionary Association of New York, Congregational Board of Ministerial Relief of New York, Woman's Board of Missions of Boston and the Congre- | gational Woman's Home Missionary Federation of New York. Legzacles of $20,000 each are given to Edith W. Meloy and Isabel R, Meloy | of this city; $10,000 each to Julia M. | Nourse of this city, Robert W. Nourse | of Clearmont. Wyo.; Margaret Couch- | {lin of Baltimore, Frederick L. Pratt | | of Washington, Kittie P. and Dorothy | Hull of New York: $5,000 each to 1 { F. Miller of Durham, N, Y.: Mary- R. | Muncaster, Natalie L. Pratt and Rob. ert D. Cone. Carrie P. Gallt and Charles Pratt are each to receive | £1.000. The Natlonal Metropolitan Bank is to hold in trust $20,000 for her grand- [ nephews, Bdward L. Weston, jr., and | Robert Weston, during minority, As | h becomes 21 years old he is to re- ceive $10,000. The. remaining estate | is to be distributed equally among Julia M. Nourse, Robert W. Nourse, Margaret Coughiln, Edward L. Wes' ton, jr., and Robert Weston. “BARNYARD GOLF”}EAINS. New Plant Planned to Manufacture | | Horseshoes. | | ROCHESTER, N. Y., March 5 (®).— | Organization of a new firm to manu- | facture horseshoes brought the expla- nation that it was due to increasing | interest in “barnyard golf” (. e. | horseshoe pitching). rather than to a comeback by Dobbin. Twenty-seven days left to flie your personal tax return. Automobiles { bought on the installment plan must be returned by the persons buying them if the cars were ni their posses. | sion on January 1, 1927, PRINCETON STUDE) 'S DERIDE FACULTY EDICT AGAINST AUTOMOBILES. A group of students at the New skates and “wise cracking” posters in playful protest against the faculty’s recent decree a; ue G00S oei < 1 . COKED. - cars were held to be a disturbing factor in the academic life of the stud ents. Jersey University don roller gainst the use of automobiles by the student body. Motor Herbert Photos. PLAN DECORATIO FOR CITY EXPOSITION| Industrial Show Official Survey for Dressing Auditorium. Officials of the forthcoming of Commerce industrial exposition to- day are making a survey of t! ington Auditorium prepar: beginning the work of decor: building for the exhibition to be open- | ed there next Thurs Rudolph Jose, chai orations committee, the color motif which ha ed will con of champz white. Red, white . n: annour decoration, ide walls of the booths lower than formerly, to ma sible to display to better a the approximately 100 exhibi will be arranged on the two the auditorium for the ever will continue through M Actual placing of announced tod president of the chamber, under way v next week. proportion, Mr. Leese stated, prise working exhibits, in w ery will be placed in ope indicate the actual processes in making the products show varjous exhibitors. WALK SEVEN MILES Teachers Travel Long Around Rooms BOSTON, Mass., March average schoolma’am w miles a day in her class cording 1o a rurvey b vt in charge of foot clinics, 1 n of the dec s heen select- and blue and flags will complete the scheme of exhibits, At NS 8 Up | Make | By | pa W pe |a Chamber | tos he Wash- | atory to g the pa serum race 5Sz:ppalla. Famous Musher, Dodges Bad Eggs As Boston U. Men Attack Rivals’ Parade ted Press. March 4.—Leonard Sep- n musher, who won ime two years ago in the to Nome, had a new ex- rience yesterday when he dodged few aged eggs in the streets of Bos- m. The famous dog driver escaped the Ass BOSTO. la, A orid-wide unscathed. Seppalla, who recently presented an an husky to Northeastern Uni- as mascot, delivered the gift . coming lhere from Poland , Me., with the young dog. A rade of Northeastern students, 1 1,000 strong, escorted Seppalla and the mascot from the station to the uni- versity. As the proces: ings of the Bo on passed the build- ton University School of Boston University students at- tempted to break it up by laying down a barrage of eggs and shop-worn fruit and vegetables. Northeastern cheer leaders strove successfully to keep the parade ranks from breaking and police hustled several of the attackers from the scene of action. There were no arrests. nced that [ igne and bunting | > to be | It ke it pos- | dvantage its which floors of it which | 19 it w Lees will HILLUM HEIGHTS ASKS VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS ems to Be Included in Next Bud- | Chicago Astronomers Sense First | get Are Proposed by Citi- zens’ Association, Recommendations proposing im- provement items for inclusion in the next budget were adopted 1 by the Chillum He ciation, t night hts Citizens' Asso- the Joseph R. meeting at Keene Schooi hich ma- eration to employed | n by the | wa nedy street from Third street to Blair | rodd DAILY. Distance | tn Ne A four-room addition to the school, remodeling of the present building and filling in of the level of the terrace was requested, as hool ground to the as the laying of a sidewalk on Ken- The association urged further that e section of Kennedy street from rth Capitol to Third street be kept y residential lution was passed commend- ing the “efficient and effective” work (). —The | of s seven om work, | Sel : city ex- | ne bu teacher of the fifth gr: Miss Lucy Hopki for 10 years le at the Keene hool. transferred recently to the Whittier School. The five year ng program was Indorsed, COMET TO NEAR EARTH IN JUNE SEEN IN OFFING ; Faint Traces of Heavenly Body | Heading This Way. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 5.—saint traces of the famous Pons-Winnecke comet, which is expected to approach within 4,070,000 miles of the earth next June, made their first appearance here Thursday night. Astronomers at the Yerkes observa tory of the University of Chicago, at Williams Bay, Wis.,, identified dim splotches on photographic plates made through a 24-inch telescope as the first | faint traces of the comet, now on a { journey that will bring it closer to the |« _th than any other solar performer. Next June, astronomers anticipate | that the tail of the comet, itself sev- eral million miles long, may envelop the earth, but nothing will happen, they say, since the queue consists only of harmless gases. “e Burma Is now the chief source of Jade. of Business Administration, a group | APARTMENT ROBBED OF $320 AND WATCH Thieves Beat Colored Man and Take $30 as He Alights From Street Car. Mrs W The apartment . of ank Murg N street, entered early yesterday morning and $320, a watch and a pistol were stolen, ac ding to a report filed with the po- lice yesterday. An unidentified young colored man was seen leaving the | apartment building at about 2 o'clock, the probable time of the robbery, she said. amuel Dent, 25, ville, Md., was knock 1d robbed of $30 as he a street car at North C: d Il la avenue, at clock last night. Dent who interviewed him at | Hospital, that two colored youths struck him in the face just as he left | r. He furnsihed a description of | ttackers. | pyner, colored, 1346 T street reported to pelice vesterday that he | was robbed of $39 at the point of a Jistol by an unidentified colored man n a Fourteenth street pool room at 30 o'cloc afternoon. An automatic valued at §10, as the only article stolen from the P. Kirkpatrick when it was en- operator yester- colored, of T d unconscious lighted from itol strest about 10:3) told police Freedmen’s o P *jimmy on. cred by a lay afterr Autoist Runs Down 7 Children. JIXON, Tenn., March 5 (#).—Chief of Police H. B. Hudson last night turned over to Davidson County au- | thorities Mark A. Bell 16, of Cin- cinnati, detained here in connection with the running down with an auto- | mobile of seven school children at | Bellevue, 12 mijes from Nachville, late 1 iSecretary of War, | ’ | Sorry Wadsworth Is Out of Senate| By the Associated Press. Secretary Davis of the War De- partment has made public a letter he has sent to former Senator ‘Wadsworth of New York, express- ing the regret of “the entire War Department, and 2very officer and soldier of the Army individually, that the New Yorker's 12 years’ service in the Senate has come to n end. “In the long history of the United States Senate,” Mr. Davis wrote, “I doubt that any member has ever equaled you in knowledge of the military problems peculiar to the United States, the purposes of our Army, its ideals and the aspira- tions which actuate its personnel. “The War Department and the Army will greatly miss your in- valuable counsels in the Senate during the coming ve: o gl We sincerely hope that again your name. may in a distin- guished public offic '3.YEAR PRISON TERM " FOR STEALING AUTO Convicted Man Sentenced by Jus- tice Hoehling—Other Offenders | Draw Severe Penalties. Keller Brechvill was sent to the | penitentiary for three years yesterday by Justice Hoehling in Criminal Di. | vision 1 for stealing an automobile of | John M. Craig June 28. He had a | criminai record. | Walter Dodson was given a term of | |two years for assaulting William | Waters with a knife January 8 last. | and Harry H. Davis, who admitted | shooting at James H. Davenport De- | cember 28 last, received a similar sen | tence. John Jones, colored, will also | spend two years in the penitentiary | for attacking Frank F. Isaac with a | knife Janua Hattie Frey, col- | ored, who shot her brother, Elijah | Frey, December 31, was given a t of two vears and six months in the penitentiary. Augustus B. Winston | Bot two years for larceny. | Anna K. Reed, who has “done time" for violatinz the Harrison anti-nar. cotle law. was before the court on a similar charge. She glven a sen- tence of two years and nine months. Fred Cook and William Russell, both colored, were given 18 months in the penitentiary for grand larceny. Terms of imprisonment at Occoquan | were imposed on Leroy Savoy, colored, one vear for housebreaking; Frank I. Butler, one year for larceny; Max W. Thompson, one year for forgery Georga ‘Thornion, one year for housebreaking: Robert R. Johnson and George F. Johnson each nine months for assault. MINISTERS GET VERDICT. Not Responsible for Snow | Parsonage Steps, Court Holds. NEW YORK, March 5 (#).—A min- ister may not be held responsible for keeping the parsonage steps clear of snow, rules a Brooklyn magistrate. The residence is church property, the decision held. on Parls, with 100,000 trees, has only ore oak, | Williams, codic | which is | bute the shar | by it in trust for for charitable and phil | Emergency | fund: | F. i WS, WILLIAN WILL FILED HERE | Most of Estate to Be Held in Trust Until Deaths of Three Children. Carcline Caton with six probate + & Trust Co. red as execttor and trus- th of the three chil company is to distri- of the property held the daughter Mary hropic pur The wil Is was by American On the de the tru tee. dren P In this distribution be paid to the ¢ Hospits Wentworth o $100,000 is to Dispensary and to establish the Williams Memorial ,000 to the Home for Incur- .000 to the Instructive Visit in:, Nurse seiety: $35,000 to the Un versity of Vermont, at Burlington; .000 to the Child's Welfare Society of the District, $20,000 to the Norman Wiliams Publ L , at Wood- ock, Vt. Whatever remains of the share of the daughter Mary goes to the Associated Charitie: $5.000 for Library. Specific in the will and Mary abl bequ | codicils include $5,000 to the Norman Williams Public Library at $10,000 to the ¢ School Union 000 to Mary. I Wood- American Sun- of Philadelphia; Batchelder of Lit- Boars He V. H.; $2,000 to An- Robins of ( mantown, Ia. 000 to Helen Boyd of this ci to John Bland; $2,000 te Mary L. O'Connor; $2,000 to May O. Mahoney Clara Boettcher, a former emplo; is to have u life annuity cf $1, and oth:r employes remembered in- ciude Peter son, $3,000; George Coulton, $3,000; Catherine Murray, Hilma Bystedt and May Berlet, each $1000, A diamond col and a diamond nent are given to in-law, Joan Williams. Jewels to G Norman William: to have $10.000, and J a granddaughter, will receive $10,000. a diamond necklace, a string of pearls and other jewels. Other jew- elry is given to the daughter, Laura Williams, together with the contemts of the home at 1 3 nih ereef. The daughter is s ave a life interest in the Sisteenth street prem- ises with a cash bequest of $30,000. The remaining estate is to be divided into three part ch _for_the daughter Laura the son, Nor man_and_the third share of the daughter Mary is to be held in trust by the American Security & Trust Co. during the iife of the brother and sister. In acelition to the share of the estate a specific bequest of $40,000 is made to that fund. nddaughter. randson, is an Willians, { CALL LEOPOLD AND LOEB. JOLIET, Dls., March 5 (P) —Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, slayers, of Bobby Franks. serving life sen- tences in prison_here, yesterday were informed that they will be called to testify next week in the second trial here of the $100,000 damage suit brought against them by Charles Ream, Chicago taxl chauffeur, who alleges the youths mutilated him, The jury at the first trial Qisagreed