Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 5

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASTHINGTON, D. €. AUGUST 7. 1927 -PART 1. " YACHT RACE PLANS NEAR COMPLETION Committee to Work Out Transatlantic Contest De- tails This Week. race, lized b: e true A transatlantic yacht dvcam of sportsmen first rea ristopher Columbus, will co 1in next year, and once azain it 1l he the Spanish erown that will r the prize to the heirs of Colum- who will brave the ocean for the first time since 1905 an in rnational yacht race acros: ic will be held next S windja bhetween York ar Spain, for offered by King Alphonso XTII. To an enthusiastic young $ sportsman now stationed in th Telongs the credit for initiating movement again to enact the drama The energy and re- wss of Mariano de Amoedo, of the Spanish embassy ht to the point of rc plan, which had been unsuc inselor bre n the the | cossfully ited several times during | ¥ impel 1 by a desire rm’ the enth ionships tished ud his ¢ for son Sehastian and | at Marblehead in | ve of sport and 1907 and ails. had pro Working Out 1 th race ke point where it was a crtainty before they were announced hy Mr. de Amoedo, Lut for the past twn wecks he hes been more active than before, wor Is wit the A an_committee and provid- ins ag: the possibility of some- thing goi wron; There now re- mains only to complete the entries, ure a full list of the trophies wh will supplement the King’s Cup and appoint American club to attend to the starting of the race. Mr. de Amoedo will meat with his committee week s meeting will | | { | st race have | vachts may swell the try 1 a score. In addition to | the cup offered by King Alfonso, other | hies will be donated by a number are the schooner hore. owned by Frank B. Noyes of | s Arthur Curtiss James' Aloha and Harold S. s schooner Vagrant. won the last ser's Cup in 1905, is to enter the lists. The At- . which was refitted and used as uhmarine chaser during the war, as burned to the water's edge two ago and laid up for repairs, but ed to be in shape for the She is owned by Gen. | Other starters probably will include Edgar Palmer's inevere, Edward F. Hutton’s Hussar, H. Wilmer Hanan's Dauntless, Albert Y. Gowan’s j Y Robert W. Johnson's ¢ and the two topsail schooners ng built abroad for Herman Oel- richs and Richard T. Crane. Mr. de Amoedo wrote to King Al- ptember suggesting that offer a cup for the contest. reply was immediate and enthusiastic, and suggested that the | contest take place in July so that it | might end during the King's Summer visit in San S an. This would assure presentation of the cup by the King himself. : "The plans now being pushed by Mr. de Amoecdo and a committee of American sportsmen call for making the race the first of a serles. The suggestion has been put forward that the vachts race back to this conti- nent from Palos, Spain, to Nassau, thus following lh(-l rnzte first taken v Christopher Columbus. . b)lntfollu\ving years, Mr. de Amoedo sugzests, Spanish yachts might race hack to this country, American clubs yeturning the courtesy that will be extended by Spain in 1928, Suitable trophies could be offered by Amer-| jean clubs for this purpose. It has| been suggested further to Mr. de| Amoedo that the race next year might be divided into two classes, Jarge yachts manned by professional crew! 1 craft operated by amateurs only. In this event the| IN TRANSATLANTIC YACHT RACE some 30 divisional sites throughout the cour Shelved for Pershing. By his own selection, Ge assigned 1o teain K9th Division, then stationed at Camp | IFunston, whereupon he threw himself | into the task with all the energy and | enthusinsm that had marked his weil | vounded Army carcer. While he might readily have expected, as senior officer of the Army, to he giyen command of the forces sent to Krance, it he felt iny chag at the selection of an officer so much his junior in the serv- s Gen. Pershing, it was not re- camp | |1y escaped d | tion | prematurely {hut who returned her to private use and | 5. In| made a cruise to Europe in 192 Marseilles she was burned to the water line at the stern and was laid up for some time. However, she is now pronounced fit again and is expected 10 be in the race next year. Several times since the memorable race in 1905 there have been proposals | for another such affair, Spain and the United States being anxious for a contest. It was dis cussed enthusiastically when the yacht enthusiasis of the two nations met at San Sebastian in 1907. and again when the sonder classes met at Marblehead in 1910. In 1910 the plans reached such a point that Presi- dent Taft permitted a trophy to be named after him for a race during the Summer of '1911. Chauncey Depew and others guaranteed $5,000 for gold cup to be named after the Pr dent for a race from the Lizard back to Sandy Hook. After much discus: sion and when everything seemed set for the race the plans suddenly fell through. And so, for one reason or another, the thrilling race of 1905 has not been duplicated and there has been no transatlantic yacht race since then. particularly (Continued fr irst_Page.) Geronimo in Arizona, N and below the border. Throughout these rdous cam- | paigns Wood displayed a capacity for | endurance and a reckles | danger which won for him the ad ! tion and respect not alone of the hardy frontiersmen, but of the friendly In- | dian traiic:s who accompanied the ex- pedition well. His ability as a ichter and his qualifications as | commander won speedy recognition at | the hands of his superiors, especially during the terrific forcpd marches through the desert wasies of the Southwest, hence the young officer was invariably selected to lead expe- ditions agzainst the fierce Geronimo, chief of the most ruthless and blood: | thirsty tribe of Indians in North | | Americ leloved by his men for w Mexico | *y velt. MA]J. GEN. LEONARD WOOD DIES AFTER OPERATION IN BOSTON later serving in the same capacity at Fort McPherson, Ga. Friend of Presidents. Gen. Wood has been the friend and upon many momentous occasions the | confidant of three American Presi dents—Cleveland, McKinley and Roose. When the first named was clected in 1892 he selected Gen. Wood fc gnment to the White House as physician and an appointment he continued to fill when McKinley came into office. As a result of the close friendship that sprang up between himself and Theodore Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, it was Gen. Wood who was chosen to_command the world famous “Rough Riders” of the Spanish-American war, recruited by Roosevelt from among the fron- tiersmen _and cowboys of the plain States. In this outfit Roosevelt con- tented himself with the subordinate rank of lieutenant colonel. The bril- aide to the President, | Monnis ROSEVPELS - Ny Aloha, owned by Arthur Curtiss Upper right, Harold 5. Vanderbilt’s Vagrant. Below, the Atlantic, entered by Gen. Cor- Upoer left: | the rank of major general and fina assuming command of the entire aind as military governor. In t position”he continucd to show | ime cool, clear-headed judicial ¥ that had marked his leader: Skip in the past, with the result that | he soon persuaded the natives to ac- leopt such sanitary and other condi- | tions s he saw fit to impose and at |the same tim= retained the friend- ship of all tactions—an achievement | considered nothing short of marvalous | under the eircumstances. His juris. |« - Cul ded in 1 when |he turned the government over to| | the first Cuban ¥ ent. The admiration Mr. Roosevelt hore Gen. Wood had been materially reased thro their a |on the battlefield, consequently there | was no great surprice when the latter was nominated to the rank of gen- 1 cificer in the rezular army short. | ter Ruosevelt entered the White | upon the death of President | McKinley. | From 1501 until 1906, during which | 1n promoted. this time to | nk of major general in the regu- | slishment, Gen. Wood w, busy straizhtening out Cuban affair serving as governor of Moro Prov ince in the Philippines, and later at- | tending Europen army manoceu s official obsorver of the United States. From 1908 to 1910 he com. | | manded the Eastern department and | {in the latter year was sent to Argen- tina_as special envoy of the govern- ment. | Melped Bulld War Machine, Subsequently, when Elihu Root w: Secretary of War and undertook the | ition of an Army general staff, he depended largely upon the advice and | theories worked out by Gon. Wood. When the law was enacted creati | the staff Wood became the first b and thus set in motion the machinery upon which the Government placed its main r ance in the war prepara- tions of 1917, Previous fo and also in ; ays of the European w: Gen. Wood atedly risked censure from the r Department because of his un- s to promote national de- nd preparedness me es in | Zastern department, which he mmanded. It was his per- sonial influence alone that resulted in the establishment of civi n training camps sburg and the Pre sidio in d again due to his efforts that hoth camps blossomed out in the “Plattshurg ldea” of civil- ian military t . Wood had the satisfaction of secing T | the s Il(lr e: w the | where I not to comm | permission | Gen. Wood goes there is controversy in his work at Camp Funston. Pursuant to a War Department or Gen, Wood, along with other di- on commanders, was sent to ance on an inspection tour of the battle front and as It later happened, this was his only divect view of the Woild War, although his division reach ance and participated in the fichting before the Armistice was | signed. The general himself narrow- th while on his inspec- tour through the bursting of a caliber sghich disc sed the brecch and standing near izhtly injured to return “fore a Sen- urgent need killed s it Gen. Wood wi carried out his orde home, where he testitied | ate committes as to the of rushing troops overses While his friends the pr t their have the lized in 3 to undergo an Army medi tion, which de passed successf officers ore rting all command to Wood uti- lled upon examina- Overseas Service Denied. He was then ordered hack to Camp Funston, and whed orders arrived | hat moved his division to the East | for embarkation, Gen. Wood I was divected by Sceret 4 1ker to procded to W he v Coast him: War, went over ile Wood par; ughout thelcou ng the clim that he v treated, the by th his case befor Just what ogeur) visit to the Whith heen disclosed, hut understood at the tin merely made the pledge of loyalty might be ¢ request, 15 being un- 1l was given Department President Wil- ed during this House has never | it was generally that the officer ident a further whatever post he | alled upon to fill. At his however, the orders were hanged to permit his return to Camp Funston for the pArpose of organizing a new division and his applic | oversen service hands of the While no formal 1 explana- tion of the inc uxm ever had heen issued, the Sprindicld, Mass., Repub- lican, upon the death of Woodrow Wilson, published a letter written by c Presidet to_the editor of spaper June 5, 1918, which the reasons for not send- ing Gen. Wood pverseas Reply From Wilson. President Wilson's letter was a re- | Joinder to an editorial in the Repub- lican calling attention to Gen. Wood's | abilities and pogular following and rving, in substance, that if it was not the administration’s purpose to s Gen. Wood to the tle front, it should, make that decision only ‘on adequats grounds “T hope you will not be surprised to know thet Idsubscribe almost in its entirety to the inclosed editorial trom the Repubjican,” President Wil- | son wrote, K “I am keenly aware of and keenly sensitive to the implications which will be d cut of the fact that I am not sending Gen. Wood to the other and I want personal friends like yourself ufion whose approval I Or my encouragement to know why I any not sending him. Called Storm Center, “In the first place I am not sending | Lim because Gen. Pershing he | to 1 on. s said | that he does not want him, and in the | second place, Gen. Pershing's disincli- nation to have Gen. Wood sent over is only too well founded. Wherever and conflict of judgment. side of the water we cz things of that sort, because the fight- ing is not done here, but it would be fatal to let it go on at or anywhere near the front. “I have had a great deal of experl- enco with C Wood. He is a man of unusual ability, but apparently ab- | solutely unable to submit his judg- ment to those who are superior in command. I am sorry that his great ability cannot be made use of in France, but at the same time I am glad to say that it is being made very much use of in the training of soldiers on this side of the water, a task for which'he is eminently well fitted and which he is performing with diligence | and_suc 2 ¢n the armistice was signed and of the On this | n take care of change of the Washington pol to supply presidential candidates for ext general election. i al booms were alread; stirring while Gen. Wood was still ac tive in demobh: ation work, but when he decided to the Republican | nomination he received immediate per- mission from Secretary ids his Army dut hia time to the c; When thz Repul vention asserabled Baker to lay s and devote all npaizn. mnal con- g0 ard he- on the list of cand ore it, the trend showed that . Wood had a_tremendous follow ing throughout the countr nd it was not until the convention—long deadlocked over the contending can- didates—decided to turn to Senato: Harding in the emergency that the possibility vanished for the nomina- tion of the doctor-soldier-statesman. After Harding’s election. the prob- 'm of the Philippines presented itseif again for solution, and it was to Gen. Wood that the P ent turned for In the meantime, however, th officer had been honored in striking fashion when the trustees of the v of Penns nia offered him the post of provost of that institution and he decided to accept. His decision meant either that he must resign from the Army or dafer his acceptance until he was eligible for retirement, and after much deliberation he decided upon the latter course, Goes to Phil This meant a delay of several months, and during the inte he was induced, with the acquiescence of the university authorities, to accept the post of Governor General of the Philippines, for one y Gen. Wood found much to do in the islands, however, and announced shortly after his arrival there that his work could not be completed before the begin- ning of 1923 at the earliest. Again | the indulgence of the unive; of- | flcials was sought and a further ex- tension of his leave from the school was granted, extending until such time as his insular duties could be concluded. In -December, 1922, Gen. Wood, although never installed as pro- ost, formally res pines. of the administ Governor ition and remain as General of the Philippine . Wood has pro- duced several hooks hearing upon the Army, among them heing tion of Citi - 1 Military Tr: “Our Military His Its Facts and Fal- lacies”” Throughout the three years of his military czreer he received the | honorary degree of LL.D. from Har- vard, Williams, University of Penn- sylvania, University of versity of the South. Unive Michigan, Union__College, Washingion and Wesley: ties, ien. Wood married, in 1890, Mi Louis Condit Smith, a resident of | Washington. sity of George n Universi- No Policy Change Seen. RAPID CITY, S. Dak., August 6 (®) —President Coolidge had retired Wood was dead, in_the mornin; While the Summer ecapital grieved the news did not come as a surpri It was seen plainly when Mr. Wood visited here a few weeks ago that he was a very sick man. That his death will cause any radical in He will be informed was | fi MAJ. GEN. LEONARD WOOD. £ ni- | orgia, Uni- | (5 Smei FIGHT ON RECORD 1S SEEN FOR 1928 {Oidfield ~ Says Democrats Welcome G. 0. P. Past as Campaign Issue. ! By the Associated P . HAVERHILL, M August 6. — seculation over whom the Republl. ‘ans | nominate is idle, as no candi- |date can survive the record of | the Harding-Coolidge administration, Chairman Oldfield of the Democratic | national congressional committee de- clared today in an address before the {.\l-‘l‘-.fi'" husetts Democratic State com- mit | "“Whoever may be nominated” he | said. “we know that the convention fof t se the Hard- oolidge administrations and that i he ki ¥ ace upon the rec- | ord of dministrations. {"pon | that record, I submit, the Republican r is not entitled to a vote of con- fidence or to a further tenure in of- | President Eliminates Sel | President Coolidge, Mr. Oldfleld sald, | has eliminated himself from considera- | tion in the political equation of 1928 | with “the very able assistance and | encouragement” of Nicholas Murray | Butler, Senator Moses of New Hamp- shire and other leaders of the Republi- n part 1 have no doubt,” he continued, ‘that the rising tide of opposition to |2 third term for him or for any other man contributed in no small degree to he somewhat ambiguous announce- ment of the President, in which he | said he ‘did not choose to run’ in 1928, Democrats Welcome Issues. “In a recent statement from the ack Hills, President Coolldge talked of prosperity, of foreign relations and of debt reduction and tax revision, and we may infer from what he said that it is on the Harding-Coolidge admin- istrations’ record on those questions that the Republican party will go to | the people in the campaign of next | year. As Democrats, we shall wel- | come such i but they will not be | the sole issues, by auy means. However much it' may wish to avoid them, the Republican party will not be able to evade the questions of graft and corruption in public office, and of debauchery in elections, of which the Pennsylvania and Illinois Republican primaries are the most aring instances. It is time this de. | bauchery was being stopped or it will vollute the whole body politic.” CARPE;S STILL CO—VER HOLLAND STABLE FLOORS Many Other Ancient Customs, However, Giving Way to Mod- ern Methods. Correspondence of the Associated Press. ZAANDAM, Holland.—Many quaint country traditions are passing in Hol- land with the widespread adaptation of modern agricultu”al methods, but scrupulous cleanliness is not one of them. It is still literally true that many cow stables in Holland are car- peted. The windmills which used to pump the water for much of the scrubbing that goes on are disappearing, how- ever. A national society for the pres- ervation of windmills recently sprung up to counteract the tendency of hard- h:aded Dutchmen to allow their wind- mills to fall down for lack of repair: once they discovered that it wa: heaper to use motors. I you have a house for rent —we need twenty houses in good northwest loca- tions (rental $100 to §150) for mem- bers of the Serv- ice arriving in the next two weeks. on Write or Phone Major D. B. Wills N. L. Sansbary Co., Inc. demobilizing the Philippines was regarded as un- likely since Mr. Coolidge generally had been in accord with the governor gen- Prospects today seem brighter than | at any time in the last 20 v and | through the efforts of a_ handful of | Queen of Spain probably will offer a the per- . and more than 4,000,000 men trained un- prize for the junior race. ! der the theo first applied at his| civilian ) accepted | liant achievements of the regiment at San Juan Hill and Las Guasimas with which he followed their and endured their hardships, rmy was under way, the country be- 1418 Eye St. N.W. Maln 5004 an turning its attention to the Na- Will Meet This Week. Mr. > Amoedo has been in con-| stant touch with ! tes dur- ing the last few weeks, and at a meeting which probably will be held in New York this week final plans Will be drawn up. After this meet- | ing a list of the prizes will be an- nounced, further entries will be made | known and American handlers of the race will be chosen. It is considered Jikely that the New York Yacht Club will be chosen to supervise the Jection of starters and other matters which must be attended to on this side. i 'he commit Ll plans is headed by Mr. ‘Amoedo in the absence of the Span- jsh Ambassador, Alejandro Padilla ¥ Bell, who is nominal chairman of the committe Other members are Commodore George Nichols of the New York Yacht Club, Commodore ‘harles Francis Adams of the East- racht Club of New York and onry Howard, who initiated the in- national sonder class races 20| rs That race, which was horn of good feeling and _sportsmanship, had an aftermath of bitterness, which, how- . has nothing to do with the race race was won by the| Atlantic, then u\\'nod} h broke all from Sandy Hook v3, 4 hours and cross rd in records, to the Liz 3 minute i d vachts went to the mark in the race, Never ed for a minute put forced thro the seas a thrilling speed, big blac N it. Char 1 of the ( Behind w dvmion, the came h [ 1, the ¥ & the | | ntic won the five-foot gold | 1 by th crman Kaise ve on one | on of Frederick | Until the war the 's Cup was a tre 1rophy. But during the rshall lost a son in France, one day in 1518 he tooK it to the stage | of the Hippodrome in New York, when | the theater was packed, and smashed it out of recognition. It auctioned . Charles 8. Whit rthy and Will Re £22,000. Willlam Fox gave $5,000 and the rest came in small donations from wil parts of the audience. A month Jater the dealer who got the cup an- younced that it was not of gold but pewter, with a thin vencer of gold. Mr. Marshall then had the At antic refitted and put to use by the vy @s a submarine chaser. Stout and comparatively new— she was built In 1903—the ship. equipped with euxiliary power, served unil the Armistice. After the war tle nto the hands of « side the G Atlantie passed ‘n, Vanderbiit, | persuaded enthusiastic Spaniards and Americans another contest seems assured. Fatally Hurt Between Cars. Crushed between two coal r the yard of the Marlowe Co 1231 First street northeast, Miller, colored, 37 v old, 44 Pi street, was injured fatally yesterday afternoon, dying at Freedmen's Hos- pital. An inquest will be held at 11:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Monday, August 8. Astrologers read tomorrow an unimportant day in planetary di- rection, but the influences are good. While this rule prevails, there likely to be an access of energy and a degree of optimism that promise is success. The stars presage for men and women who are prominent a contin- uance of good luck, which keeps them in high places. This is held to be a favorable day for giving presents or for doing favors that are meant to be recipro- ive meant to in- capital or brains should while this rule prevail rents are beleived to toward lar henefit of their childy this plane'ary rule. auspicious day for opean tour of a new ducation continues subject to ¢ ditions making for big incres students in colleges and unive -cial training for new profe 13 well as old ones, will be required 18 never before, the seers announce. Speculation in foodstuffs and other staples will cause wild flurries in the markets, astrologers insist, and they peat the warning to regarding money risks Wh id other gr subject to influences that cause un- for the William | s rather | be be carefulu | ed by his superiors for his n. Wood 3 of active » with a masterstroke—the tal. of Geronimo and most of I troublesome followers. His reward | came in the form of the Medal of | Honor and promotion to the rank of { captain For the next two yea | 1889, he was : -al posts and fo) and the Pr ending with on at sev- in the Southwest idio, San Francisco, ai were accomplished with the energetic e doctor-soldier as the actual directing head, serving as a colonel of volun- His promotion in July. 1898, to ank of brizadier general of the United States Volunteers was the di- rect result of this gallant command. Governor of Santiago. Upon the surrender at Santiago of the Spanish forces, Gen. Wood was made military governor of the city, later becoming civil governor with The and screen at United seen the s of time-worn old bank counter the cash room of the Treasury, which have of hundreds of bil- dollars since installation in | s of President Grant, will give v soon now to modern fittings of , marble, steel, h m, under pl ard in the hands of the supervis- irchitect, ans and specifications of the new tments have been drawn up, bids have been asked and the offers will b= opened next Tuesday afternoon 3 o'ele Contract will probably be let within the next few d after, The room where P wugural ball took ndergo | complete restoration for the first time | it was fitted, although some 3 1es have been made from to time in the meanwhile. in the hands of idding purposes, | an up-to-date | a conventionnl but pass: is to pre: . with Old Treasury Bank Counter and Screen Soon to Be Replaced by Latest Fittings| | dignified banking counter and counter screen. The old mahogany-frame counter screen is to give way to dis- tinctive bronze and heavy glass. The shiny white marble counters, which reflect light glaringly into the eyes of tellers handling millions of dollars, will he replaced with counters of steal cov- ered with linoleum of a darker color. easy on the eyes. The little counter out in front of the counter screen, for the use of the public, is to be in the form of a black and gold marble shelf. Another innovation to be introduced will be ths use of the names of the tellers. Heretofo the titles of the receiving and paying tellers have | been posted over the tiny little win- dow: The cash windows themselves are to be changed from the present-sty opening to the conventional bror with a sliding grill. Pancls below the counter ¢ will be of ‘ing_the ‘ble. New ers and money also will b provided. 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