Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1927, Page 13

WORKMEN BEGIN TASK OF REPAIRING THE WHITE HOUSE. ning the job of putting a new roof on the Executive Mansion and otherwise putting it in shipshape con- dition during the absence of the President and Mrs. Coolidge, who have moved-to the Patterson mansion Some of the repair apparatus is shown here on the ground, while workmen on top of on Dupont Circle. the building are going about the roof job. No time has been lost in begin- Henry Miller. NGTON, D. C., TUESDAY. MARCH 8. 1927T. CELEBRITIES CO and erstwhile prof a chat at the Nationals’ training camp at Tampa, Fla. R AT TAMPA. ional ball player, and Walter Johnson meet for | { ,; | | | | | Billy Sunday, the evangelist The evangelist recently paid a visit to the camp and demonstrated some of his old- time form as a ball player. Wide-World Photos. /i receiving from Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthu of the Washington High School Cadet Brigade. received commissions, were made yesterday at Central High School. as colon MAJ. GEN. MACARTHUR PRESENTS COMMISSIONS TO CADET OFFICERS. Solomon Alpher (left) commanding officer of the 3d Corps Area, his commission The presentations, at which 112 cadet officers Addresses were delivered by Maj. Gen. MacArthur, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, and Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education. Washington Star Photo. BREAKS RECO! eran of Los iy recol ship race at Culver City, {hll'. drove at an average speed of 124,71 FLURY BRANDSHIS | GRITICS AS UNJUST Teacher Assails Self-Styled Patriots and Defines Americanism. IN VICTORY. Henry Flury, teacher at Eastern High School, whose expulsion from the public schools was sought by the local branch of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, following a resolu- tion introduced by him at a meeting of the Secular League, January 23, o] broddcasting certain pre- addresses over a mnaval radio station, last night criticized the action of the federation as “‘unjust.” He also gave his own definition of Americanism and American ideals, de- fending freedom of speech and thought. Furthermore, indicating that certain s believe him to be unpatriotic, he launched into an attack upon those who “have labeled themselves as pa- triots,” and also declared: “There is & strong current in American thought today that favors an industrial and political dictatorship,” adding that “Mussolini looms large in the con- cepts of some industrial leaders in America.” Says Teacher Is Slave. Mr. Flury, who was addressing the ‘Women’s Single Tax Club at 1528 Fast Capitol street, declaring he was speaking from his views as a teacher, sald: “Teaching is not a profession. It is a trade and the teacher merely a wage slave who obeys orders from above.” The speaker then said ‘“the ideals of the American Federation of Labor express Americanism in its economic phase. Americanism must be some- thing more than a theoretical political jdeal. It must be a living reality ‘based on facts and judged by results,” he continued. Here, he indicated, that it must mean “higher wages, shorter hours, the five-day week and better working conditions.” Enlarging upon the definition of Americanism, he said, in part: ‘“‘Ameri- canism means tolerance. America is 2 land of differences and we should not try to abolish those differences and reduce everything to a deadly uni- formity. Americanism means poise— we mustn't get excited at every little ripple on the water or think that every firecracker is a bolshevist bomb. | We must think things out.” | Af this point he said President | Coolidge had stated in his Omaha | American Legion address that “prog. ress depends largely upon variety.” “Worships False God.” Giving a further definition ot | ‘Americanism, in which he emphasized the guarantee of freedom of individ- uals to develop in their own way, he said “Americanism means that hu- man rights transcend property rights.” “The trouble today in America,” he declared, “is that we are worshipping at the shrine of a false God, an idol, materialism, industrial efficiency—call it what you will. Those who will not ‘worship at this shrine are dubbed “atheists’ and ‘communists,” or any other name that seems at the moment to convey soclal condemnation. But America will live through it all and will ultimately find her soul—it is a phase, “tis but the flapping ot and not & rent made the i e at the wheel of in miles per A Duray, French racing vet- car in which he drove to & the 250-mile A. A. A. champion- , Who won $10,000 in prize money, it by P: & A. Photos. New Mountain Chain, 1,000 Miles Long, Discovered iated Press. LENINGRAD, March 8.—The Geological Soclety annoynced that a new and mighty cl of mountains had been discovered in the Yakutsk region by one of its sclentific expeditions headed by Prof. Obrutchev, a geologist. The mountains are along the In- digirka River. The new range {is described as more than 1,000 miles long, 300 miles wide, with many of the peaks 11,000 feet high. ‘The range probably will be named after Lenin, the late premier. WESTERN RAIL WAGE DISPUTE NOT SETTLED Conductors and Trainmen Still Con- ferring with Employers on Pay Increase. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 8.—The wage dis- pute between conductors and train- men of 93 per cent of the raillways west of Chicago and their employers still was unsettled last night, it was announced by win R. Morrow, member of the Federal Railway Medi- ation Board sent here to attempt to bring about an agreement. Conferences were continued, Mr. Morrow and T. E. Bickner, also of the mediation board, meeting first one side and then the other. The employes are asking a 7% per cent wage increase, which the rail- way managers contend the roads are not able to meet. ———————————— gale, 'tis of the wave and not the rock,” he said. Later in his address he compared those *“who labeled themselves pa- triots” with the Tories of the Revolu- tionary period, saying, in part: “The Tories are still with us today in the year of grace 1927, but they are ashamed of the name Tory, or reactionary, and have labeled them- selves patriots, custodians of the public morals, public censors of private thinking. They have defined patriot- ism as militarism. That their mate- rial and financial interests should co- incide with those of the steel trust and munitions makers may be more than a coincidence. I do not know.” Use Socialists’ Books. In conclusion, without additional eference to the attempts made to have him expelled as a teacher in the local schools, he said: “Is an individual to be safe from the attacks by organized bodies? Be- cause a group demands the head of some one it dislikes, does that make it right? 1f so, then a mob is right, be. cause it is a group, a great number of individuals; the more individuals the more right? “‘Our schools are using books writ- ten by Soclalists. H. G. Wells, Jane Addams and others are Soclalists. ‘Why don't they take them out? “Mention is made of communism in Julius Caesar. Why don't they take that out?” Several the meeting by Phillips, Mrs. Eilzabeth presided. .about 15 years ago, was confined to recitations were given at | M. | Mrs. Hifton King, president | vided. of the Women's Single Tax Club, | orchestra will danci TAKING PART IN THE Y. M. H. A. MINSTREL Si-lfl“' TONIGHT. Some of the chief entertainers in the minstrel to be given by the organization tonight at the Jewish Community Center. Left to right, front row: Rose Kruger, Flora Alpert, John Baldwin, director; Eva Rosenbloom and Ethel Norwood. Second row: Rosaline Patlon and #8is* @oen.” lbplll_l, Ina Baker, Bertha Blank, Belle Levy and Pauline Aein. Back row: Eleanor z ——— Willmott Lewis, American corre- spondent of the London Times, who will lecture tomorrow at the May- flower Hotel on “Some Aspects of Anglo-American Relations,” for the benefit of the George Washing- CLIPS MORE ‘TIME OFF THE MOTOR BOAT SPEED RECORD. Dick Foynes, speed boat pilot, at the wheel of Miss California, in which he established a world record for 151 class hydroplanes in the third annual Tampa Bay, completed the 5-mile course, at an average speed of 50.2 miles per hour. CITIZENS' BODY WANTS PROBE OF SCHOOL THEFTS AND LAXITY Manor Park Association Also Questions Wisdom of Student Government. Street Engineer Urged. PARDONED MAN HELD ON WOMAN'’S CHARGE Freed by Gov. “Ma” Ferguson, E. T. Vestal Is Accused of Hav- ing Two Wives. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, March 8.— Emmett T. Vestal, 34, the last man pardoned by Gov. “Ma” Ferguson of Texas, i in jail while police investi- gate allegations that he s the hus- band of two women—one the mother of four of his children, the other an expectant mother. He was arrested on complaint of Mrs. Ella Stanford Vestal, who, po- lice say, is his second wife. & Mrs. Offie Vestal, his first wife, the mother of six children, four of whom are Vestal's, declared she and Vestal came to Des Molnes two weeks ago to escape interference from Mrs. Ella Stanford Vestal, who arrived here a few days later. / Mrs, Vestal No. 1 sald her husband was convicted of murder in Texas an insane asylum, escaped, went to St. Louis, where they were married in 1920; returning to Texas, was sen- tenced to die and then given a life sentence, from which he was par- doned by Gov. Ferguson. WILL PLAN REUNION. Capital Branch of Second Division to Mect Tomorrow. Preparations for the anntal reunion of the entire & -ond Division Associa- tion to be held here the first week in June, will be discussed at the annual meeting of the Washington Branch of the Association in the La Fayette Ho- tel .t 8:30. o'clock tomorrow night. Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider, president of the national asso “ation, will preside at the meeting. Guests will_include Frederic Willlam Wile, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com- mandant of the Marine Corps, and Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, president of the War College. Following the business meeting a supper and entertainment\will be pro- | A sectlon of the Marine Band furnish music for ing. i Fla., regatta. The craft, shown here on the second lap, Copyright by P. A. Photos. After charges that “thievery” and other lax practices exist in Washing- ton schools had been made from the floor, the Manor Park Citizens’ Asso- clation, meeting at the Whittier School last night, unanimously adopted a resolution requesting that the Gibson Sub-committee direct that an investi- gation be made of “the inadequacy and inefficiency of the routine admin- istration given the high school by the principals.” The system of student government as maintained in some of the District schools was put under question also through a clause in the resolution which requested a report “as to the wisdom of allowing high schools to be governed the ‘so-called student governmen Text of Resolution. The resolution was passed without discussion or comment after its pur- poses had been explained by Herbert Wilson, who then introduced the measure. The text of the resolution follows: “Resolved, That the Gibson subcom- mittee be requested to have the in- vestigators of the United States Bu- reau of Efficiency cover the inade- quacy and inefficiency of the routine administration . given the high schools by the principals and report as to the wisdom of allowing high schools to be governed by the so-called ‘student government’.” A resolution of congratulation to Isaac Gans upon his appointment as a member of the board of education was | introduced by R. B. Ogden and unani- mously passed, after the voicing of many individual expressions of praise for Mr. Gans. - ‘The association urged that the Dis- trict Commissioners appoint an eng- | neer of street maintenance, who shall ing the Federation of Citizens’ Asso- clations to request injunction proceed- ings in order to restrain the erection of seml-detached houses in restricted areas. The association went on record as favoring the project to acquire a 25- acre recreational park tract in the immediate vicinity, upon which it is planned to establish a modern com- munity center. William C. Frye, 821 Quackenbos street, was elected to membership in the association. Hear of ‘Realty Romance. Prior to the business meeting the association was addressed by Hermon C. Metcalf on “The Romance of Real Estate,” and by J. B. Gordon, sani- tary engineer of the District, who de- tailed the plans for the Piney Branch Trunk Sewer and told in general of sewer facilities in the District of Co- lumbia. Mr. Metcalf illustrated his address with lantern slides, shoWing views of the old and the new Washington, graphically depicting the rapid growth of the city. In telling of the sewer projects, Mr. Gordon, who was pre-|. sented by J. D. Smoot, vice president of the association, stated that bids G. 0. P. LEADER’S WIFE WINS MAINTENANCE C. F. Edwards, Rich West Vir- ginian, Assessed for Alimony, Suit Fees and Separate Home. | By the Associated Press. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., March 8.— Granting of the suit for separate maintenance of Mrs. Mal McCormick Edwards, 43, against C. Fred Edwards, wealthy mattress manufacturer, was recommended by Henry Simms, com- missioner, who heard the suit, in a report filed before Judge L. D. Isbell of domestic relations court yesterday. Mrs. Edwards charged infidelity and cruel and inhuman treatment, while Edwards, a candidate for the republi- can nomination for United States sen- ator in 1922, in a cross-suit, charged his wife had been unfaithful. Simms recommended that Mrs. Ed- wards be awarded $12,000 a year ali- mony, attorneys’ fees of $10,000 and $35,000 with which to purchase a home. Edwards' fortune was esti- mated at $1,800,000 and his yearly in- come at not less than $100,000. ‘The report held that all of the alle- gations made by Mrs. Edwards in her bill of complaint had been sustained, but that none of the manufacturers’s charges had been supported. 27 T M el L’ENFANT TRIBUTE URGED. Speaker Advocates Memorial for “Man Who Planned Washington. A memorial to Maj. L’Enfant, the French engineer, who under the di- would be opened April 26 for construc, ) rection of Gen. Washington prepared tion of a link of the trunk sewer which will be five feet less than a mile. There are some sewers in the city, | the plans for this city, was urged in the National Capital by Clark Noble, sculptor, in an address before mem- ‘bers of the Maj. L’Enfant Chapter, he said, big enough to permit twol! D. A. R, last night. trains to pass in them. Dies in Winchester. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, March 8.— Miss Minnie Adler Miller, member . of a prominent Winchester family and head of a large music studio, is dead, supervise the maintenance of streets throughout the District. = A resolution was adopted request- following several months’ iliness. Two h:s:!\oru. G, 0. and G. C. Miller, sur- v 7 i v | ““speedily ‘undertaken.” Mr. Noble declared the erection of to L’Enfant should be He explained that steps already have been outlined and a committee organized to this end. The meeting was held at the home of the regent of the chapter, Mrs. Nobls Newport Potts, 1239 New Hamy avenue, gy Argfintina producsd neatly 223,000, a memorial . 090 byhels of wheat-this season. ~» - walls of the natural wonder. STUDIES WONDER FROM SUSPENSION CAGE. Dr. Chester Reeds. paleontologist of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, being lowered down the 230-foot sides of Natural Bridge, Virginia, in a boxlike cage, from which he is studying the rock formation of the Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Great Lakes Rise Foot Above Level Marked Year Ago By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 8.—Levels of the five Great Lakes averaged more than a foot higher on March 1 than they did a year ago, rec- ords of the United States Lake Survey, made public yesterday, show. The hydrographic data, Chi- cago sanitary district engineers said, tend to show that the down- ward trend of the lakes from 1919 to 1925 was due to subnormal rainfall and other natural deter- rents, rather than to diversion of water. The engineers plotted the expec- tancy curve, figuring on past phases of the lakes’ movements, and estimated that by 1930 the highest level in the lakes' history would be reached. ' SEARLES HEIR WINS POINT IN WILL SUIT Unshaken in Testimony That Re- cluse Heard Document Read and Understood It. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 8.—Efforts of counsel for Angelo M. Ellison, former elevator operator who is seeking to obtain_the $20,000,000 estate of Ed- ward F. Searles, Methuen, Mass., re- cluse, to gain an admission that Searles was too deaf when the will was read to him to understand what it contained, proved unsuccessful yes- terday in Supreme Court. Ellison is suing Arthur T. Walker. the secretary to whom Searles left the bulk of his estate, charging the use of undue influence in causing Searles to cut Ellison off with $10,000. Under cross-examination, William Y. Best, Boston lawyer and one of the witnesses to the will, clung to his original story that approval was given by Searles to each clause of the will @s it was read to him before it was offered for signing. His testimony on this point was corroborated by Dr. Henry T. Dar- born, the physician who attended Searles during his last illness and also witnessed the will. The doctor testified Searles was in good mental condition at the time the will was made. Best denled he and Lewis L. Dela- fleld, Searles' attorney, had any rangement to probate the will as guk':lr:ly as possible ufter Searles’ eath. RO iy ASK LIMITED DIVORCES. Two Wives Seek Separate Support From Husbands. Mrs. Mary M. Bernhardt has fiied suit for a limited divorce and alimony in the District Supreme Court from her husband, Arcenious W. Bernhardt, chiet electriclan at a local theater. They were married at Rockville July 18, 1916, and have two children, whose custody the wife seeks. ' Attorneys Mrs. Mary P. Wolt sued Charls ‘Wolf for a limited divorce and ali- mony. They were married dria, Va., December 81, 1918, two children. ‘The husband is a car- penter.- Mrs. Wolf is represcnted by Attorney Jacob N. Halper, i 5 TURBULENT FANS ROW WITH POLICE Tear Gas Used to Rout Mich- igan U. Students Celebrat- ing Basket Ball Victory. By the Associated Press. ANN ARBOR, Mich.,, March 8.— University of Michigan students and local residents, celebrating Michigan's winning of the Big Ten basket ball title here last night, clashed with yo- lice, who were forced to use tear gas to disperse the crowd of jubilant fans. ‘The crowd, estimated at 500 per- sons, gathered after the finish of the game with Iowa and attempted to rush two downtown theaters. The police, who anticipated such a move, were on guard at the places and suc- ceeded in routing the youths. The crowd gathered first about the Arcade Theater, but, after befag warned off by the authorities the.e, moved on down the street to the Ma- jestic Theater. Here a determired rush was made. As the youths, yell- ing and hooting, charged the en- trance, a special detail of police ap- v‘e‘amd and were showered with mis- siles. The fight continued for about an hour, when the youths were finall’ driven from the section and dispel . Three persons, two students and & local resident, were slightly injured during the fracas, and a number of others suffered temporarily from the gas fumes, Merchants in the battle sector were forced to close their es- tablishments because of the reeking fumes. The police, who made no arrests, reported that no property damage was done, and announced that the matter would be looked on as a closed inci- dent. University of Michigan offi- cials had no comment to make. 3 P ot s SUTER IS NOMINATED. Choice of Takoma Citizens’ Body for Advisory Council. Jesse C. Suter was selected ‘as the nominee for the Citizens’ Advisory Council last night at a meeting of. the Citizens’ Association of Takoma, D. C. held in the Takoma Public Library. Mr. Suter is representative at fl::yprmn'. time from the mh: tion to the Federation of Citizens' Associations. The association adopted resolutions urging the District authorities to con- | struct an auditorium to the Takoma public school, as provided in the orig- inal plans. New members elected included Mr. and Mrs. Stuart E. Womeldorf ‘and Claude C. Shelton. A resolution was adopted recom- mending parking on but one side of Eastern avenue In the vicinity of Dahlia street. The meeting was presided over 8. H. McCrory. 3 B Final Rites for James Pettibone. Funeral services for James Pettl- bone, 79 years old, vice president of . Pettibone Bros. Manufacturing Co.. of Cincinnati, who died 'y At his residence, 1704 Kenyon street, will be conduated Thursday in Clacinnati, 1 Mr. Pettibone, who was a Mason, {8 | survived by a brother, Russell Petth = bone of this city, g