Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1927, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 s According to Claude H. Freese, \nll l‘rnm‘l\('li hl\!nmr, ll“ filr[l'fll!?-llll"i!"!lfl will eross the \"Jn!lr in 52 hours and carry 500 passengers. The ship (eight-foot model in the photograph), is supposed to be 186 feet long, with a wing spread of 200 feet. MARATHON. Charles Toth nel swimmers, who took the re le marathon. Edward F. Keating of New York won first place, completing his long, swim at 330, this morning. on\ right b A. Photos. TOOK FART IN SWIMMIN Ernest V X (left) and = ONE THOUSAND REPORTED KILLED IN PALESTINE EARTHQUAKE. Panoramic view of Jerusalem, where many persons were killed and the property damage will run very high. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (building. with dome) and surrounding buildings are reported seriously fll the m(nslrunlw are bu‘kimz Iu man; of the outlying towns of the H Land. SEEKS A NEW ALTITUDE MARK, Lieut. C. C. Champion, U. 8. N,, who established a world altitude mark for seaplanes, July 4, is at- tempting to better his record of 37,995 feet. He is flying over Washing- ton, and yesterday was forced down al(?r reaching 37,000 feet on ae- ount of an ummmh e propeller. Wide World Photos. SHARPSHOOTERS. Sailors from the United States fleet lors and Ma- Underwood. AN ESPECIALLY GOOD SPOT FOR THE NAVY'S protecting the International Settlement in Shanghai. At other points in the Chinese city the rines hastily built forts of sandbags. Copyright by Underwood § MERCHANTS JOIN INHIGHWAY FETE | Association to Participate in Opening of Defense Road Saturday. CONQUERORS OF THE PACIFIC GREETED IN SAN FRANCISCO. Lieuts. Lester J. Maitland and Albert J. Hegenberger walking down the gangplank from their stecamer after they had been uMNuIIy welcomed by Mayor Rolph and Chief of Police Quinn of San Francisco. Photograph sent by wire to The Star. Wide World Photos. JACKSON GETS STAY UNTILNOVEMBER 1 Denied Lunacy Hearing, But Appeal Cannot Be Heard Until October. i Airline to Serve Six Course Dinner | To Plane Patrons| Geological Body Offers Complete Topographic Map By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 13.—A com- plete dining service, including a course chicken dinner, will be started tomorrow on airplanes of the Colonial Air Transport Co. flying between New York and Boston. The food will be taken aboard in containers and kept warm on electric heater: The company plans to extend the dinning service to its New York IN TRIANGLE DEATH Wife of Victim Says She Was Present at Louisiana Slaying. A new edition of a topographic map of ‘Washington and vicinity on a greatly enlarged scale has just been issued by the Geological Survey from field surveys by topo- sraphic engineers highest degree of accuracy and re- finement that can be attained in a map printed on the scale used. In- stead of the ordinary scale of one inch to one mile, the new map of Washington area is printed on a scale of two inches on paper to one mile on the ground. A map of the United States on this scale would cover between four and five acres, The map covers an area of 46! square miles, including almost v form of topography from the Jowlands along the Potomac River 10 the hroken country in Rock Creek Park and the picturesque gorge of the Potomac above the city. It is printed in four colors, with black used to represent rail- roads, wagon roads and houses; blue for rivers and all water sur- faces; brown for the contour lines and red for good automobile roads. The contour lines make of the map a_veritable dictlonary of alti- tudes for every point in the area, besides showing the shapes of all hills and siopes. EXICAN CATHOLIC BLACKMAIL PROBED | Officials Investigate Charge Fines Are Imposed by Fake Police. Plans for the participation of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Asso- ciation In the celebration Saturday of the completion of the new Defense | Highway between Wa ton and Annapolis were laid yesterday after- noon at a meeting of the beard of Zovernors of the merchants’ organi- zation, The following committee was named to represent the association at the dedication ceremony to be held at Priests Bridge, in which many Wash ington civie, fraternal and business groups will join with similar delega- tions from Annapolis and other Mary- Philip Jackson, colored, under sen- tence of death for a criminal assault | on Mrs. Daisy Welling in the Capitol grounds, rday was denied the m;hz to j his sa v, ]lnnh‘n\}: in when ~ Justice A. A. Criminal Court 1, handed down a lengthy opinion, fol-| lowing arguments by Attorney John | H. Wilson for the accused and Wil- liam H. Collins, Government pros- | eciftor. However, uporl completion of the court’s decision, Attorney Wilson promptly took exception to the ruling and gave notice in open court that he would appeal from the ruling of Justice Hoehling. This automatically gave Jackson a stay of execution which had been set for July 30, fol- Jowing motice of counsel on the eve of the July 1 date for execution thar he would move the court to appoint a lunacy jury, November 11 Ts Set. Just Hoehling said that as the| upper court cannot hear the case until the October term he fixed the date for execution on November 11 ad been fixed n of the slavers of whose cases also tice Hoehling said er court could not n case by that time e the date on motion » RED CROSS OFFICIALS CONFER IN WASHINGTON ON FLOOD RELIEF SITUATION. Back from their task along the Mississippl River, Sec- retary Hoover and his assistants met yesterday to plan further relief. Left to right: DeWitt Smith, James L. Fieser, Secretary Hoover, Robert E. Bond and Earl F. Gates. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. GIRLS’ CLUBHOUSES |COL. TOMPKINS SOON TO RETIRE [HAZLETON RE-ELECTED | ONWIDE PLAN INVIEW| FROM COLORFUL ARMY CAREER | GITIZENS’ PRESIDENT | Chain, National in Scope, Being FEast Washington Group Honors Other Officers at Annual Considered by Catholic Daugh- ters of America. Session. Colliflower, chairman; Charles A. Camalier, O. J. DeMoll, George Harris, Harry Sherby, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the association, and Edward D. Shaw, the executive secretary. Andrew Sullivan Praised. A tribute of appreciation for nearly a half century of service in the Dis- trict Fire Department was paid by the association to Andrew J. Sullivan, former deputy chief engineer of the department, who retired about a year ago after 48 years service. A resolution praising this service was adopted by the board of governors in the name of the association, and copies were directed to be sent to the District Commissioners, and a framed - | copy is to be presented to “Yank” Sul- livan, as the veteran fire chief is af- tectionately called. Sullivan” was present at the meet- ing and made reply to the tribute. Reports on Airport. Gen. Stephan made a report to the * By the Associated Press. FRANKLIN, La., July 13.—Mrs. Ada Bonner Lebouef, Dr. Thomas E. Dreher and James Beadle were charged today with the murder of James J. Lebouef as the result of an alleged love plot. The trio were indicted yesterday afternoon at a special session of the grand jury. The indictment came after an all- day session of the grand jury. ximately a dozen witnesses w Attached o one of the af- s in the case was the signed atement of Mrs. Lebouef that she as present when her husband was illed. Mrs. Lebouef blamed James le for the actual shooting. {Famous Indian Campaigner Returns to 7t]1 Cavalry, Where He Served 30 Years. for Last Command. * for the el Polices are on roct n Busch, appeal, chain of girls' cluh in scope, to be op- tholic Daughters of e discussed at the ipreme convention of the Daughters at Asheville, N. C., were reported upon last night by Rev.| Cavanaugh, chaplain, and C. Boland, grand regent 1 e 3 . delegates to the conventic reception in their honor at local headquarters, 601 E street. | for , nation: by the ( . which w E. T'. Hazleton was re-elected presi- dent of the East Washington Citizens’ Association at a meeting last night in the auditorium of the Bradbury Heights M. Church. Harry F. Welsh was elected first vice president. B. T. Johnson was re-elected second vice president, B. Frank Smith _was re-elected secretary, and M. Blair Domer was reelected treasurer. i Mr. eton and Mr. Domer were | hear the .| he would chan of counsel. Justice Americ recent By the Associated Press. There is rejoicing tinged with row out in the b ks of the Tth ¢ at Fort Tex., for a old Ind fighter, who for than 30 years knew mno other home than the 7th, is back again to his last 1nm|n.mt| | Pershing on Villa's trail. He received a silver star citation for his services During the war he led the its trying work along the back_in 1900 he rode with it against the Sioux in the battle of Wounded Knee. There is no doubt where his hea for his preference War Dopartment indi- type of duty desires then. Hoehlir Tth his _opinion, o both the nd medical authorities, in the »n of his opinion. He point- ting of a lunacy left to the | 1l court be- B in and Miss Boland | the ained in 1 been who had at the man insanity and {nat the lay witnes re not sufth » impanelin under | ¢ ms of oner pointed out - condemned ¥ his counsel and by | dicial milit rent procecutor. He said ed no indicate that nvd mind €01 wa of REDMEN TO CONVENE Great Cuuxvul nf Older Will Meet in Richmond Soon. | tion {of cathotic {and five of his as | from Cat {whila poli {lice did so | pects h- | mond Red *\Men of time. when vy in coming wil will come Osear D. Brin- » preat sachem for A the vear, ements for the Red Men, | cases started his task | ad alr m vomen will come to Richmond, v short | punk commi tee to | launch Anna By the Asso MEXICO CITY, July 13.—0n orders |7 the o of President Calles, attorney gen- | eral is conducting a drastic investiga- |} it residents, is charged that pe secret their homes, in violation of the religious law, threaten ing to punish them if the money w; chief of the ju- ¢ is under arrest, {{ ruc. Antonio Avila, v police, having fssued in Col. the President hing during the | tions that he be held pending an in- |y Jack- | vestigation into the allegation that he stants forced money | Distriet § closed their eves | sons posing as po- nte, whose ar- | rest alko was ordered, are reported to | have fled. Col. ment in charge of the igation, sus- an unnamed high military offi cial of complicity in the blackmailing He says all the guilty will be | of the depa scheme. Iy Rum Launch Seized. LAND, July 13 (®) of Canadian ale, estimated to $40,000 at current hootleg s captured by customs of- 1 it docked here today. The | crew of about 12 men escaped. Cus toms officials were to supervise the destruction of the cargo today, he worth into the wholesale blackmailing | cf which nting themselves |, from | ¢ t sl answered | not forthcoming. b grea | growth. | Copper-Laden Steamer, Sent Down Father Cavanauszh reported that the supreme oted to contribute 10 per cent of the | otal cost of erection of clubhouse y wilt in the various cities by the local | hapters. The clubhonses, some of | already are in operation in the | wger it will be residences for | 1tholic . where the to board, mlhlllw and study as well as for convention | 601 ¥ street, has such a residence for and at present mng women living rerunner, Father of the am in the The Ic heen operated he p three ye here are some 25 there, Tt i dence prog n the future. 7 ‘s reception-meeting me regent | . fon, de iddress on its history and ! SHIP SUNK IN WAR FOUND.| by U-Boat, Located by Divers. NOA, Ttaly, July 13 ().—Divers ted the steamer V German subn from Ameri ¥ the vessel at Camogli, not far from Genoa. The Washington had a cargo of cop- per, which is it hoped to recover, | things it livered | 4 the 7th and to’ | the Army he is “omn rom shave-tail second lieutens to colonel commanding, Col. Tompkins has caveied his saber in the 7th through every commissioned with honor to himself and the ment he loves. He was born h son of Gen. harles Tompkins and a family that has contributed its <ons to the officer corps of the Ame ican Army ever since that Army came along. Brothers in Lieut. Col. Daniel brother, also a C in the service 1 Army Careers. D. Tompl ryman, remains other ( ining unit there A Encot Ly e und: ol “Tommy ide his saber on his six birthday and the occasion will oxt regiment, wherever it is. Tompkit der look of the hor 11is haiv Is tinged with white now, but the flowing mustache that as the the old Indian scouts, of the plains in the days when the West was in the winning is still red- dish. And it is the last of its kind in the Arm; ‘FRANCE TO PROVIDE STAMPS FOR LEGION Heads of Washington and Lafay- ette Will Be on Issue During Convention Month. e with | -| Water named delegates to the had been eived superintendent J. Garl Department, that the wol water main nd Bowen ra southeast, for propriated at the last se | gress, would be undertaken in the early Fall. On motion of Mr. Welsh ! the “association empowered the pre dent to appoint a committee to wait on the Engineer Commissioner and explain the need for an earlier start of this work, if possible, in view of the fact that most wells in the vicinity had been condemned as unfit for use by the Health Department. By an- other motion, the association voted to call attention of the Traffic Direc- tor to perils of traffic at Forty-second street and Alabama avenue south- east, with a request that “slow” signs It was voted to con- ) told s | Readle told from | visited him yesterday afternoon, nd of the }you can tell the folks I don't need v {anything. 0. official am getting along all right his brother-in-law, 1f« they hang 1 be to mother s all there! lie Husband, yesterday it. Mrs. in LENGEL TRIAL STARTS. CANTON, first testimony in the trial of Lengel, Ex-Police Chief Hears First Testi- mony on Mellett Death. Ohio, July hiet of police her who | ‘and me, well, Mrs of Lebouef, of what she believed s a plot to poison her son two years Husband is matron of a Jesuit school near Franklin. Dr. Dreher was at one time a high the Morgan City branch of the Ku Klux Klan, a parish of- ficlal said. 13 (#).—The > one of honor to him and regret be placed there. for no officer of the 4 his brother officers to be so beloved by his men as Tompkins of the Tth, Even the serious-minded War De- partment was touched in his behalf by emotion such as it varely shows. 1¢ was a special War Department or- der that sent the colonel back from command of Fort Stanley, Texas, to the 7th, at Fort Bliss, for the last week of his active service that he might round out his career with the regiment with which all but six years of his Army life hig been spent. Col. ~ Tompkins' commanded ~ the th when it rode m mco with By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 13.—Delegates to the American Leglon's convention _in Paris_in September will have speclal stamps provided for them by the French postal authorities, They will be’ of artistic as well as. philatelic interest. ©° One, whose value will be 90 centimes, postal card rate, will be red, bearing the head of Washington. Another, -of “blue, with the head of Lafayette, is to be a franc and a half, the latter for the United States. The two issues will ‘be sold owy &l;ltnl Blmembor. which IM tinue meetings throughout the Sum- mer. John Benjamin Harrls was ad- mitted to membership, ALTIMOREAN, 110, DIESI Native of Russia Came to America ! 40 Years Ago. BALTIMORE, July 13 (), —Veslie Weinberg died here yesterday at_the age of 110.years. Born in Kiev, Rus- sia, h- cameto Aulrlu 40 years ago. others all were found guilty and three taken today following completion of filling the jury box yesterday to hea a first degree murder charge against him for complicity in connection with the death a year ago of Don R. Mel- lett, vice crusading editor. Lengel is the fifth person to go on trial on the same charge. The four of them were sentenced to life im- prisonment. Three of the other four trials. were those of admitted gan sters. The other was a policeman, Floyd E. Streitenberger. Streiten- berger, Lengel's former hvome. will be chc State rincipal wllnoll ] don for Amsterdan segers, of whom four were Americans, |board of governors on the action of |the joint committee of the three trade groups on the proposed airport for. the District of Columbia, which made recommendations to Maj. W. . R. Covell, assistant Kngineer Commis- sioner, who was designated by the Commissioners to prepare a statement on possible development of an alr- port here. Secretary Shaw was delegated to take a special Summer course in busi- ness at the National School for Com- mercial and Trade Organization Fx ecutives at Northwestern University Evanston, IIl, in the latter part of August. The following firms ‘were admitted to membership: Blossom Inn, Ouris- lmnn Chevrolet Sales Co. and the oland Co. Gen. Stephan presided |over the maeting, which was the lnst until the Fall season. . DUTCH PL/ PLANE WRECKED. Four Americans Among Passengers Who Escape Injury. ST. OMER, France, July 13 (#). A Dutch line plane, bound from Lon- with seven pas- lost its bearings in the fog and struck a tree while landing in a meadow near here last night. Ng one was hurt, but the machine was damaged and could not resume the broug] ht. The passengers wers to St. Omer by automobile ‘“’u