Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1927, Page 7

PRESIDENT INVITED TOINDUSTRY SHOW Elaborate Displays Ready for Commercial Exposition Opening Tonight. President and Mrs. Coolidge have been invited to attend the industrial exposition which the Chamber of Commerce will open tonight at the Washington Auditorium. In extend- ing the invitation today, M. A. Leese, president of the chamber, expressed the hope that they would be able to attend, it not on the opening night, on one of the other evenings this week which have been dedicated to &he armed forces of the United States. Sponsored by the chamber, in- dorsed by the District Commissioners and others high in official circles of the National Capital and supported by representative business houses, the exposition will be thrown open to public view at 8 o'clock tonight, when President Leese will deliver a welcoming address which will be broadcast. Will Present Elaborate Array. After weeks of preparation and in- tensive activity during the last few days on the part of exhibitors, the annual inds 1. show will reveal, its sponsors assert, a more elabor: and attractive array of industrial, dommercial and public displays ever before has been assembled by the organization, which for three years has labored annually on a graphic reviewing of the business life of the National Capital. IExhibits have been placed in taste- fully desigmed inclosures finished in white with a champagne background. Festooned bunting and American flags hung from the ceiling make both floors of the auditorium espe- cially pleasing in appearannce. An attractive and highly informa- tional exhibit by the Post Office De- partment, one of the most extensive in the show, was one of the first completed. The Naval Gun Factory + today was finishing its array of large and dmall naval armament, which will hold a prominent place on the exhibi- tion hall floo An innovation in the mechanical type of displays is a cross- tion of a street railway track in- <ludedin the Capital Traction Co. exhibit on the auditorium floor. This illustrates the design of the under- ground. trolley system employed by thé Washington traction companies. This Ts “Army Night.” “Army night" is the designation of this evening's program. Repre- sentatives of the Army, headed by Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Rockenbach, commanding the district of Washing- ton, will be the honor guests. Since a special invitation has been extended to Gen. Pershing, it is hoped to have him present tonight or on a later evening. The Army Band, directed by Capt. W. J. Stannard, will play tonight's usical program. The Navy and Marine Bands will play tomorrow and Saturday evenin~s respectively and again next wees, The auditorium management, exposition officials an- nounced, have given the use of the $100,000 organ installed there. This will be used to supplement the pro- gram of music, which calls for eve- ning concerts by 50 and 60 plece mili- tary bands while the exposition is in progress. The exposition will be open each day_except Sunday from 2:30 p.m. to & pm. and In the evening from 8 to 11 o'clock. ! AL TN MACHINISTS’ UNION ASKS PRESIDENT’S AID Navy Yard Workers Seek to Have Wage Scale Case Reopened by Wilbur. President Coolidge today was asked to use his influence with Secretary of the Navy Wilbur for the reopen- ing of the recent wage awards affecting the Washington Navy Yard handed down by the Navy general wage board, of which Capt. Clark is chairman. A delegation from Columbia Lodge, No. 174, International Association of Machinists, brought the protest to dhe President. Their objection is to he action of the wage board in deny- ing them the 2-cent per hour in- crease in wage awarded by the_local board, of which Admiral Yates Sterling is chairman. The machinists’ present wage is 84 cents an hour and the workers asked for an increase to $1 an hour. The local wage board compromised upon 8 cents per hour, but this increase was overruled by the later action of the general wage board. The delegation which called upon the President today comprised James J. Noonan, president of Columbia Todge; M. H. Lockman and W. J. Kiine. In addition to the Washing- ton Navy Yard, these men repre- sented machinists at Annapolis, Md.; Dahlgren, Va., and Indian Head, Md. They left the President a brief out- Mning their case favoring an increase mnd made the specific request that he forward it to Secretary of the Navy ‘Wilbur with the recommendation that the case be reopened. AUTO TAG ISSUANCE TO RESUME TOMORROW 28,000 Pairs Hand, 10,000 More Expected to Arrive by Saturday. on Distribution of the District's 1927 sutomobile identification tags will be resumed tomorrow morning, it w nounced today by Commissione tor L. Dougherty following a confer- ence with Wade H. Coombs, superin- tendent of licenses. Issuance of the tags was halted January 31, when the supply became exhausted. Since that time Mr. Coombs has received 28,000 pairs of tags from Chicago manufacturers who gave up the contract, and the Kentucky firm which was awarded a contract for the yemainder of the tags needed has promised that a shipment of 10,000 palrs of tags would arrive in Wash- ington Saturday The time limit for the use of the 1926 tags expires April 1. Mr. Coombs believes that he can complete the dis- tribution of the entire quota of the 1927 tags by that date. Applicants for tags are required to give the following information: Make of car, type of body, engine number, ake of headlights’ and. name and home address of the car owner, ‘Woman Stabbed in Fight. Marian Lee, 24, colored, of 55 Myrtle *street northeast, was cut and stabbed in an altercation in front of her home this morning. Robert Cook, 31, col- ored, 434 Franklin street, wis ari and held at the sixth precinct charged with the stabbing. Oook is said to have told police he ¢ ght the woman with another man. The woman was taken to Casualty Hospital, where she was sald to be only slightly injured, . 7 Tail Spin Danger Overcome, Says Plane Designer By the Associated Press. SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 10.—Donald Douglas, airplane manufacturer and designer of the United States Army ~world flight planes, said here yesterday that he would announce ‘at the third an- nual Pan-American commercial conference in Washington, D. C., May 2 to 5, that a new method of balance had solved the tail-spin problem of flying. A shift in the weight distribu- tion of the airplane, by the re. moval of fuel tanks to the center avity, has conquered the air bugaboo, Douglas said. _Planes’ built here have been utilized to > the success of experiment, Tests to devise a method qf over- coming the tail spin, frequent cause of air fatalities,. have been under way here for several years. MODERNIZED SHIPS ASSGNEDPLACES Admiral . Eberle Announces Texas Will Be Flagship of United States Fleet. e | { important changes in_ the arious fleets of the v made necessary oning of certain vessels which have been modernized were announced this afterncon by Admiral E. W. Eberle, chief of Naval Operations and Acting Secretary of the Navy. The battleship Texas, on€ of the first to undergo the modernizing process, will become the flagship of the United States fleet of which Admiral C. F. Hughes is_commander-in-chief. The change will take place on July 15. At that time Vice Admiral Robertson, commanding the scouting fleet, will hoist_his flag on the U. S. S. Arkan- sas, from which he will operate until | the U. 8. S. Wyoming completes her | modernization. The cruiser Seattle, which is now serving as flagship of Admiral Hughes, will be sent to the Navy Yard, New Some make-up of the United States by the recommi ested | York, as receiving ship, relieving the cruiser Pueblo, which will proceed to the Philadelphia navy yard for decom- missioning. When the modernization work on | the battleship New York is completed about October 20, that vessel will pro- ceed to the Pacific to be assigned to the battle fleet in Division 3 of the battleship divisions to take the place of the Oklahoma and Nevada. The latter vessels have been transferred to the Scouting fleet and are now un- der orders to join it on May 1. These vessels will take the midshipmen on their annual practite cruise to the Pacific Coast via the Panama Canal, leaving Annapolis June 3 and complet- ing the cruise on August 25. et ENVOY TO GO TO BRAZIL.| By the Associated Press. Minister Freyre of Bolivia, saiis from New York March .26 to attend the International Congress of Jurists at Rio de Janeiro. His steadily improv- ing health determined his attendance at the conl o *| rection of | intendent. quests No word has come from Bolivia con- cerning the reported transfer of Freyre to Madrid. Fryre may go to Bolivia tollowing the congress, and it is ex- pected that a decision as to whether he will remain In Washington, be made at that time. If his health im- proves consistently he is expected to remain her THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY; MARCH PLANTING OF TREES ON STREETS BEGUN Petworth and Jail Vicinity to Get Most of 1,500—Some Old Ones to Go. The Spring tree planting pyogram of the department of trees and park- ings was rted today under ghe di- Clifford Lanham, :super- Approximately 1,500 trees will be set out, principally in Petworth in the vicinity of Sherman Circle and on Kentucky avenue southeast and on other streets contiguous to the Dis- trict jail. ’ The planting of the new trees will not add-materially to the total num- ber, Mr. Lanham explained, because a number of the old trees will be d stroyed by the street widening pro- gram, Many of Washington's finest old trees are along Connecticut ave- between Dupont ircle and Flori- da avenue, which wil be widened this Summer., The new trees to be planted are chiefly Norway maples, red oaks and American_elms. Connecticut avenue will be replanted with red oakl after the widening is completed. Mr. Lanham has planned to trans- fer 3,000 seedlings from seed boxes to the nursery rows . at the District’s nurseries at Fort Dupont and the Ana- costia. flats, The tree-planting program calls for the replacement of syca- mores on FEleventh street between Pennsylvania and Massachusetts ave- nues. The old trees on this street were destroyed when it was widened. It will not be possible, however, Mr. Lanham said, to plant an even row, as the widening brought many store vaults nearer the curb line. 1so TRUNDLE IS ELECTED BY CITIZENS’ GROUP Michigan Park Association Urges L Elimination of Center Trolley Poles. Lewis 8. Trundle was elected presi- dent of the Michigan Park Citizens’ Association at the annual election and meeting held in the Bunker Hill School, Michigan avenue and Four- teenth street northeast, last night. Other officers elected are: Vice president, James T. Reside; secretary, W. M. Deviny; assistant secretary, Charles J. Hausler; treasurer, Samuel Rossi; delegate to the federation, E. J. Brennan; executive committee, 8. H. Hoddinott, B. B. Pettus and J. W. Connolly, and nominee to succeed himself as a member of the Citizens’ Advisory Council, Robert R. Faulk- ner. - The association recommended that trees be planted on both sides of streets not already lined with trees, that trolley poles be removed from the middle of Michigan ayenue be- tween Twelfth and Monroe streets, and that the Bunker Hill School build- ing be enlarged in the near future. Resolutions cxpressing the appre- ciation of the association to the Dis. trict Commissioners and members of Congress for legislation involving the elimination of the grade crossing on Michigan avenue was passed. Re- for additional fire apparatus and street paving in that section were expressed in resolutions adopted. .- e “Decent treatment, reasonable wages and human hours” will be sought by the butlers, cooks, footmen and maid- servants of Boston, who have taken the preliminary steps for the organi- zation of a union The Store of the Newest Fashions If You Wear Size 40,42, 44, 46, 48 or 50 Then Attend This Event Stout Women's New Silk DRESSES TOMORROW 16 An important event for large 316 7th St. N.W. | Office. WORK OFF FOR HAWAII. Will Preside at Sessions of Pan- Pacific Conference. Secretary of the Interior Work left Washington yesterday on the first leg of his journey to Hawali, where he will preside over sessions of the Pan- Puacific Conference on Education, Re- habilitation, Reclamation and Recrea- !mll.fi to be held in Honolulu April 11 to_16. v Heads of several Government bu- reaus will attend the sessions of the conference, among them Stephen T. Mather, director of the National Park Service; Dr. Elwood Mead, Commis- sioner of Reclamation; Dr. John J. Tigert, Commissioner of Education; Dr. Hugh 8. Cumming, director of the Public Health Service; Dr. J. C. Wright, director of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, and Dr. Nils A. Olsen, acting chief of the Bureau of Agricultural FEconomics, Department of Agriculture. Fifty more delegates from States and vari- ous national organizations will repre- sent the United States , at the meetings. The purposes of the conference, as outlined by Mr. Work, are to exchange views on education, rehabilitation, re- clamation and recreation. LINK IS COMPLETED INWATER SYSTEM Main From Conduit Road Reservoir Is Connected to “Y” Branch. One of the most important links in connecting up the District water sys- tem with the Government reservoir at Dalecarlia, Conduit road and the Dis- trict line, was completed today with the joining of the main from the Con- duit road reservoir to the District’s new “Y” branch at Seventeenth and Taylor streets. Although the mains connecting the systems were laid, it will be several months before water is actually pumped through from the Conduit road_reservoir, pending completion of the Dalecarlia filtration plant, which is under the United States Engineer's Connection with the Government reservoir means that the Brightwood reservoir will be gradually done away with and the function of the Bryant| street pumping station will be taken over by the power plant at Dalecarlia. Fifty feet more headway will re- sult from the joining of the new sys- tems which will serve the Mount Pleasant area and the district lying between the Soldier's Home and Con- necticut avenue, and from Florida avenue to Buchanan street. J. 8. Garland, superintendent of the' District of Columbia Water Depart- ment, and other officials visited the “job” at Seventeenth and Taylor streets this morning. The official party included, D. W. Holton, assistant superintendent; Thomas Wilson, chief inspector of valves; A. W. Lybrand, engineer of the work; M. E. Ward, as- sistant to the engineer; B. B. Alsop, foreman of the work, and W. R. Wood- ward; general foreman. R. A. SIMMONS, JR., DIES. Expires at Homeopathic Hospital After Brief Illness. Robert A. Simmons, jr., 19 years o0ld, employe of the F. H. Smith Co., died at the Homeopathic Hospital yes. terday after a short illness, He leaves his father, Robert A. Simmons, sr., 1426 T street southeast, and a sister, Miss Eva E. Simmons: Funeral services will be conducted at the T street address Saturday aft. ernoon at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Fort Lincoln Cemeter: 2 MELLON-BERENGER AGREEMENT STANDS Unaffected by France's Plan to Pay $10,000,000 Additional on Debt, Officials Say. The payment by France of an ex- tra $10,000,000 under the latest offer will in no way affect the integrity of the unratified Mellon-Berenger debt- funding agreement, it was sald offi- clally today at the Treasury. Dispatches from France indicated that in some circles there an impres- sion was held that the temporary ar- rangement by which France would pay more than usual on its old war supplies debt, to have the additional credited agalnst the unvatified debt agreement, had temporarily at Jeast shelved the agreement. Text of the French notes in the mat- ter was pointed to at the Treasury to show that the additional payment v.as} not intended to Have any bearing on the Mellon-Berenger accord. ALL WORLD SIN-SICK, SAYS LENTEN SPEAKER Dr. Howard Kelly of Johns Hop- kins University Addresses Keith’s Audience. “This is a_sin-sick, evil world,” Dr. Howard A. Kelly, eminent surgeon of John Hopkins University, Baltimore, decl: d in his address at the Lenten services at Keith's Theater today, under the auspices of the Laymen's Association of the Episcopal diocese of Washington in co-operation with the Federation of Churches of the District. “Is this world a good world?” Dr Kelly asked, in referring to the mal administration of law, the World War and “the breaking up of our homes.” “The world is sin-sick and evil and needs but a little shove near- er the abyss to put it in a state of complete hoplessness,” he said. After describing the suffering and crucifixion of Christ, Doctor Kelly said, “If He would come back to earth, 1 doubt if he could spend three years of preaching in this country and keep his life. I fear he would lose it sooner than he did 2,000 vears ago.” Dr. W. Sinclair Bowen presided at today’s service.. Prayer and invoca- tion were offered by Rev. E. Pinkney Wroth, pastor of Christ Episcopal Church, Georgetown. Mrs. Mary Sherier’ Bowie, soprano soloist of the M. E. Church quartet, sang. . W. A. Wilbur, dean of George Washington University, will be the speaker tomorrow. Comdr. C. T. Jewell will preside. Rev. H. W. D. Millington _ will offer prayer. Gn Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of Washington, will be the speaker. There will be no service on Saturday or Sunda RETURNED FROM CHICAGO. | Damon Marlon, recently brought back from Chicago by Headquarters Detective Edward Kelly, to face charges of grand larceny, petit larceny and passing a bad check, was held for the action of the.grand jury on a bond of $5,000 on the first charge following an_arraignment today in Police Court before Judge Robert E. Mattingly and sentenced to 60 days in jail on each of the remaining charges. According to Kelly, Marion stole apparel from an apartment on Con- necticut avenue March 2 and later cashed & worthless check on a propri- etor of a shop. Marion is said record in Chicag | to have a police R L T | | 10, 1927. YOUNG WOMAN MISSING. Miss Audrey Louise Mayhugh, 21, Disappeared Week Ago. Failure of Miss Audrey Louise May- hugh, 21.year-old telephone operator, formerly employed at the Franklin Square Hotel, to communicate with her mother, Mrs. Lela Mayhugh, Ster- ling, Va., prompted an investigation that resulted in a report to the police of her disappearance a week ago from her apartment in the Plymouth, 1236 Eleventh street. G. D. Mayhugh, father of the young woman, who rooms at 1220 Eleventh street when in the city, visited the daughter’s apartment yesterday and learned she had not been there the past week. Miss Mayhugh is #aid by her friends to be an attractive blonde. She has light hair and blue eyes. Her disap- pearance has heen broadcast and po- lice of other places asked to aid in the search. DRAMA TOURNAMENT JUDGES ANNOUNCED Eight One-act Plays to Be Pre- sented Tomorrow and Satur- day Nights. Judges in the One-Act Play Tourna- ment to be held tomorrow and Satur- day nights in Columbla Heights Cen- ter, 1ith and Harvard streets, will be Mrs. Maud Howell Smith, chairman of the dramatic committee of the Arts Club of Washington; Miss Sarah Simons, head of the English Depart- ment of Washington high schools; Miss Ruth E. Jones of the Times- Herald, Prof. Will Hutchins of the dramatic department of the American University, and Denis 1. Connell, for- mer director of the St. Patrick's Play- ers, it was announced today. Four plays will be presented each night at 8:15, each running about 20 minutes. In addition to the players for the first night already announced the plays and players for Saturday night include: “The Florist Shop" to be given by the playmakers of Thom- son center with May Foute, Richard Sawyer, Robert Miils, Lilllan Alber and E. Stayton Ely; “The Red Lamp” given by the Park View players with Elizabeth McGarry, Edith Raphelson, Russell Davis, Ethan Heflin and Dorothy Harvey; “The Pot Boller,” by the Dramatic Club of Jewish Com- munity Center with Milton Korman, | David Tavan, Nathan Freehof, Harry 8. Wender, Kitty Shapiro, Louis Tan- rienbaum and Betty Leibsohn, and “The Rising of the Moon,” by the players of Cleveland Park Club with George S. Pope, E. W. Washburn and Robert H. Davidson in the casts. Miss A. M. Goding, princjpal of wil- | son Normal School, is d&b-operating closely with the Community Center Department in arranging for the plays to be given at the center in the Wilson Normal building, and is assisting with he properties. Harold Snyder of the community centers is director of light- ing and stage manager. Tickets for the tournament are to be had at the main office of the Com- munity Center Department in Frank- lin Administration Buflding, 13th and K streets; atthevarious centers in the city, of the players of the different groups who will take part and at the door. The tournament is under the au- spices of the department and under the direction of the section of drama and pageantry, of which Marle Moore Forrest is director. Mounted police in Bradford, Eng- land, will in future have small electric tail lights fixed on the strap at the back of their saddle: A Specialized Two-Trousers Suit, Superb in Style. Supreme in Value 20 ~ D N a season when Blue is the domi- nant idea, comparison will prove the Saks Blue the dominant value. MOTHER ACCUSED OF ABANDONMENT Formal Charges Placed Against Mrs. Edwards—Al- leged Father Arrested. | | | | | | | | | Charges of abandonment were placed against Mrs. Edwards, 30 years old, of ( burg, Md., and E. G. 1 years old, caretaker of gomery County General ol Md., was ordered held \ government witness, 2 sequel to an investigation by Detectives Fowler and Flaherty into the discovery’ of a month-old infant girl on the doorstep of the apartment of M Jane Brown 1200 Twenty-ninth street, uesday | night. Alleged Father Arrested. Local authorities this morning alsé received word from Gaithersburg, | Md., police that William Bennett, years old, of that city, had been rested in connection with the on information obtained from Mrs. | Edwards, as the alleged father of the He was rel under $500 a hearing | wards admitied | being the mother of the child Detectives Fowler and following the arrest of Mrs and Harding in Rockville and Oln Md., respectively sterday, put question of charges up to Assistant United Stat. Attorney at_Poli Court today. sult that the action w: Laundry Mark Is Clu The laundry mark reading “Mont- gomery County G 1l Hospital found on apparel worn by the in was the clue that led to the subSe- quent developments. The allegations are that Harding accompanied Mrs. Edwards to Washington with the baby, which was deserted on the door- step of the apartment house. Mrs. Edwards is being held at the House of Detention and Harding has been kept in a police precinct cell The baby is now at St. Anne's Orphan Asylum. e STANFIELD IS SUED ‘ FOR $1,121 BY MODISTE Wife of Oregon Senator Declares Action Is Result of an Oversight. Senator Stanfield of Oregon and Mrs. Stanfield, 2400 Sixteenth street, sued today in the District Sup Court by Carrie & Grantland, York modistes, for $1,121 for dres furnished about January 2, 1 and | for which payment has not been made, it is declared. Minnie | ithers. | ding, 30 the Mont Hospital at The items of the suit include ding gown and other dresses. Through Attorney: William J. Hughes, jr., and Eugene B. Sullivan, the court is told that the order for the gowns was given in November, 19: and the dresses were delivered about January 2, 1926. Payment was prom- ised by the defendants, it is asserted but the promise has not been kept. Senator Stanfield's daughter Ba bera was married January 21, 19 to Henry T. 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