Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1927, Page 15

CHOSEN FOR BEAUTY CONTEST. a has been chosen to represent Spokane, Wash., in the Atlantic City She is shown here presenting Secretary Hoover with beauty contest. a beaded vest during his recent visit Miss Alice Garry, an Indian girl, to Spokane, oclated Press Photo. AS THE MARQUIS DEPARTS. the Marquis de la aise, an affectio at Los Angeles, as he left the other was merely one of his semi-annual Co! Gloria Swanson bidding her husband, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, onate farewell in the railroad station day for Pa The marquis said it homeward trips. pyright by Underwood & Underwood. ATTENDS SERVICES FOR DEAD HUSBAND. mania, in her mourning robes, leaving the church at Curtea after serv- FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1927. Queen Marie of Ru- ices for the repose of the late King Ferdinand. The Queen is a figure of grief in this photograph, taken several weeks after the King's death. “Wide World Photos. BRITISH FOUR DISPLAY SHARP GAME. to play No. 3 on the British polo Cup games against the American is shown here with the Maharajah said to be largely flnancing the British team. Capt. C. T. I. Nork, ch am in the International Chall ig four” at Meadow Brook, N. Y Singh, the Indian potentate, who is Herbert Photos. KEEPING PIRATES IN THE FIGHT. Paul and Lloyd Waner, the two young brothers whose punch at the bat and fast outfield play is doing much to keep the Pittsburgh Pirates in the thick of the National League pennant fight. Paul (at left) mark around .380. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS HURT 11 PERSONS Boy’s Leg Fractured by Hit- and-Run Autoist—Police- man [s Injured. Edward R. Keyser, colored, 15 years ©old, 4051 Benning road, was knocked down by an automobile near his home at 1 o'clock this morning. The driver of the car, said to bear a Maryland ‘license, is reported to have failed to stop. The boy was taken to Casualty Hospital by the polics. His right leg was fractured. Policeman Charles W. Peters of the fourteenth precinct, residing at 4405 Alton place, sustained injuries to his right knes and left elbow yesterday afternoon when thrown from his skid- ding motor cycle near Thirty-eighth and Harrison streets. He had to be relieved from duty. Collision Injures Two. Etta Cohen, 6 years old, 638 Ken- von street, and Anna Cohen, 20 years 1, 1203 Seventh street, were slightly t night as a result of a col- wesn an automobile in which a riding and the automobile sell J. Moore, 3 Thirteenth street, in front of 1507 Seventh stneet. John Gibson, colored, 11 years old, 1318 8 s was knocked down by #n autom o on the street near his is leading the league with a batting Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Man Is Pardoned After Confessing Crimes of Another By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., August 19. —James S. Willis, 28, of Stockton, who pleaded guilty to crimes he never committed, was pardoned yesterday. Willis was arrested following the holdup of two Sacramento service stations, during the robbery of one of which Oscar Jones, proprietor, was shot. He pleaded guilty and was sent to San Quentin. Two months later Vincent Bohac walked into a police station in De- troit, Mich., and confessed to the crimes for which Willls was sen- tenced. Bohac was returned to Sac- ramento and convinced the authori- ties that he and not Willis was guilty. Bohac is awaiting trial. Willis declared he pleaded guilty because he had a criminal record, no alibl and believed he would get a lighter term if he pleaded guilty. GARY’S WAR SERVICE PRAISED BY GENERAL | Chief of Staff Summerall Details| Activities of Steel Magnate in Letter. | By the Associated Press. A tribute to the service rendered by home vest afternoon just after passing between two parked cars, ce veported, and his right ankle 1 broken and his head cut. He was given first aid at Children’s Hospital. | Boy Cyclist Hurt. Keller, 15 Cha 1d, son of Keller, 4109 sustained a rears D. Herb Mr. and Mrs. fth street, ture of ries ye 1 k when his bic collided at Ko He s out motor w nd shock e gues Neighbor for Slander. 2| THANKS U. S. OFFICIALS. 5 2 Officers to Take Courses. ley H O'Mohundro and d States In d to Camp to take a at the re now on duv troops, and one and minor | the late Elbert H. Gary to the cause | of national defense is embodied in a | letter addressed by Maj. Gen. Charles , chief of staff and Act- of War, to the United | 8 Steel Corporation. | “During the World War under his {ch ship the central fron and steel 1ssuring adequate supplies of iron and | steel o4 in the munitions pro- n. Summerall gaid. | With the coming of peace his patrl- | ardor never cool As a mem- ivisory board of the New e procurement district, r of the War Deartment | Men's Council and as an | ser of the Army Indus- \e has given of his time | in furthering industrial | Irom his long experi- der in the industrial | enly alive to the ne- | ing in time of peace, It | loyalty that he | t to our endeavors in | cessity of pl | was with gave his supp that direction German Embassy Secretary Praises Services to Flyers. ! Saieel d upon the s the chiefs | other departments | h aviation and conveyed | appreciation of the Ger- ent for the generous co- | )n accorded the German flyers reports to Ger- | rranging for accom- | American aviation | of qivi concerr the many as we modation on fields. the r expressed the hope that | the good services of those dep: ments might nble s 1 nn\'i y the flight at a later sh co-operation was readily | assured by the authorities. | H. Wylle to M PACIFIC IS COMBED FOR TWO PLANES IN HONOLULU DERBY. Flint, Mich., school teacher, is shown here with the plane named for her and in which she flew as a passen- ger, surrounded by other participants in the Dole prize race, shortly before the take-off from the Oakland airport. Y. M. C. A. HERE AIDS FLOOD SUFFERERS Association Joins National Move for Restoration of Stricken Area. The Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation of Washington is joining with other associations of the country in a program of rehabilitation among Mississippl flood sufferers, including extension of aid to more than 600 hes destroyed in the flood, ac- cording to an announcement by Hugh A. Thrift, president of the Y. M C. A A flood relief fund has been raised here for this purpose, and Y. M, C. A. executives in the South have sent out an appeal for more money, it is stated. Needs of the desolated communities in the Mississipp! Valley will engage the energies of the Y. M. C. A. State committees in that region for another year, the local organization has been advised by R. H. King, Y. M. C. A. regional executive for the South. “Although on the rim of financial extinction or grave impairment for years,” Mr. King reported, “the State committees of Louisiana, Mississippl and Arkansas and the Greenville, Miss., association have carried on as splendid a program of emergency service as the organization has ever known. “Y. M. C. A. flood service includes the best adaptation of its war service. It has been able to command the s of 20 laymen without salary for every employed officer engaged. Thus the results have been out of all proportion to the special fund asked from the associations for this work. “Numerous needs in the flood sec- tion will engage us for a year. It is estimated, for example, that mote than 400 white and 200 colored churches have been swept away, and that the congregations will not aries, ‘It is important that all asso clations outside the flood area which have promised financial aid shall ex- tend this co-operation promptly and generously.” NAMED TO NAVY YARD. Army Men Will Study Ship Repair Work. By the Associated Press. Under an agreement with the Navy Department, three officers of the Army Q Corps have been as- s for instruction srmaster ned to navy in ship repair supervise such w other Army craft Capt. John R. Holt has been ordered to Philadelphia, Capt. William C. Ma honey to Norfolk and Lieut. Robert e Island, Calif, LON WARNER KILLS SELF. Widely Enown Publicity Man Found Dead in Home. MIAMI, Fla., August 19 (#).—Lon Varner, 55, widely known publicity n and brother of Henry Edward rner, of the Baltimore Sun, was found dead in his home at Hialieah yesterday with a bullet wound in the head Police said he committed suicide. e - Plants growing near hot springs often bloom and ripen their fruits weeks ahead of their neighbors a few feet Quiside the warm steam zone, local | lable for a vear to pay pastors’ sal- | By the Associated Press. | The flapper of 1927, her older sister who held the stage a few years ago, and the younger sister who will be the flapper of 1928 are threatening world morality, bringing opprobrium upon the name of American women in for- eign lands. This, in_ brief, is the belief of Mrs. John B. Henderson, soclal leader in the National Capital. “In the name of a poor kind of free- dom,” says Mrs. Henderson, ‘“the American flapper in indecent apparel threatens not only America but the world itself. Considered Undesirable. “In certain forelgn countries Amerl- can women are considered undesirable and even dangerous. In other coun- respectable families bring up young women with the very atest care, “In China American women are thrust aside as teachers or compan- ions for their young. Missionaries are discredited “In American business flap- pers are invading the land, and in one case policemen were cailed for Japa- nese relief, says a Japanese journal. “In Italy the Pope of Rome is an active ecclesiastical chieftain with ban- ner flying for moral righteousne | pros mano, | broadsides against the American film industry, now much too often a repre- sentative of flapperism. “The glory of America has been not only its ideal manhood but also its ideal womanhood—the latter intelli- gent, efficient, largely self-supporting, per cent free of drug habits, and, jove all, inherently and naturaily re: spectable. “That former high American women now justment. standard of needs a read- Miss Mildred Doran, the young Her plane and the Golden Eagle are the two which failed to reach the goal in the long flight. Copyright by Paramount News. FLAPPER IS DENOUNCED BY D. C. SOCIAL LEADER {Mrs. John B. Henderson Says Dress Styles Are Menace to World Morality—Urges Change to Modest Fashions. “How much longer must one endure public streets filled with women bare. legged to the knees, as evidenced by carefully selected stockings of flesh color; high-heeled slippers, upsetting the natural balance and rhythm of the spinal organs; faces painted be- yond the trade signal of the former underworld? This occurs not only in publio streets and drawing rooms but in business offices and industrial es- tablishments everywhere, “Do not our sons, husbands and fathers now need protection from our ‘women? “It is natural and proper to look one's best, also to desire the admira- tion of men. Poor fools! Not to know that the best of men hate a brazen disrecpect of modesty and the pro- prieties generally. They give a cer- tain attention, but seldom marry the kind here indicated. “For three years American respec- tability has waited patiently for a de- sirable change from French fashions in women's apparel. We have had atrocious French fashions before— tight corsets, long heavy skirts, high heels, etc. But in America they never before were indecent. Calls Fashion a “Tyrant.” “The changes to a fuller skirt, light tn weight, reaching one or two inches above the ankle tops and loose waists are easy. There is no reason why American manufacturers, assisted by French artists, should not supply the world with the most beautiful and ap- proved of women's apparel. “Let independent America now be- come a world leader for normal health, efficiency and propriety. “Let employers employ only women properly dressed. Iet schools and colleges, women's clubs, the press, in- dividual leaders, become the allfes. “‘Aux armes, citoyens!’ hion is a tyrant, but America 1s not a good place for tyrants.” POSTMAN THOUGHT SLAIN Car Forced Into Gully, Mail Car- rier and $600 Missing. INS, W. Va.,, August 19 (#).— Search was being made today for | Andrew Iarsp, 40-year-old rural mail carrier, belleved to have been slain for $600 he had In his posses- slon. The man's car was found lodged against a tres 20 feet down in a 400-foot gully along the Cheat River and tracks indicating the auto- mobile had been pushed from the road, led to the theory he had been robbed and possibly murdered. Harsp was last seen when he de- livered mail at the home of a farm- er at the end of his route on Wed- nesday. His car was found yester- day morning. Negro, 122, Dies in South. LUBBOCK, Tex., August 19 (#).— Jncle” Mose Kyle, 122-year-old negro, who served 67 years as a slave, Is dead at his home here. He was the father of 25 children, whom he outlived with the exception of one, v BARRED FROM APARTMENT HEBREW SUES SAUL Charging that he was not allowed to take possession of an apartment in the Maryland Apartments after he had pald a deposit of $10 because he is a member of the Hebrew race, Isidore Janet, 501 Twelfth street northeast, has filed suit to recover $10,000 damages from the B. F. Saul :,‘0., which has control of the build- ng. iflst January, the plaintiff says, he made the deposit with a man named Riley, who was agent of the |da company, and agreed to move in February 1. He brought his furni- ture from New York, he states, but was told when he attempted to take possession that he could not do so “because he is a member of the Hebrew race.” He charges that his wife was made i1l by the incident and he lost much time from his work. Janet claims he has been deprived of rights, privi- leges and immunities conferred by the Constitution. Attorneys Willilam Cogger and Francig J. Crilly appear for the plaintife, Mary Bennett, 5-year-old swimming prodigy of Panama, who recently gave a demonstration of rescuing her mother from drnwnlnf with her hands and feet tied in this fashion. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. FEDERATION TQ ACT ON ONE-MAN CARS Yaden Plans to Call Special Meet- ing August 27 if Deci- sion Is Deferred. Tt the public utilities commission does not decide the question of au- thorizing a number of new one-man street cars before August 27, James G. Yaden, president of the Federation of Citizens Associations, intends to call a special meeting of the _feder- atlon for that night to consider the problem, he indicated today when he made inquiry at the District building as to whether the commissioner’s de- cision would be deferred that long. Mr. Yaden said the citizens’ advis- ory council, which also is studying the matter, probably will meet to take action before August 27, but that he thought it advisable to give the com- mission the views of the federation as well as the council if there is time to arrange a meeting. Officials of the commission said yesterday that they would await the report of the advisory council before acting. MURDER STKTEMENTS DOUBTED BY POLICE Two of Five Men Under Arrest Deny Participation in Killing Watchman in Shack. Inspector Henry G. Pratt, chief of detectives, today expressed doubt as to the truth of statements from colored men arrested Tuesday ni ing the murder of Willlam R watchman, in a shack at Wiscon avenue and Grafton street, Somerset, Md., May 30. Two of the five men under arrest, who went into minute details of the | killing of the watchman and fire to his shack, the inspector now deny participation in the killing. Members of the homicide squad, checking up the alleged confessions, reported so many discrepancies that they are far from being convinced of their participation in the numerous mes mentioned in the reported ons. State's Attorney Robert Peter, ir., and members of the Montgomery County police squad, have conferred with_inspector Pratt and members of the homicide squad in an_effort to learn if enough evidence had been ob tained to warrant their taking any of the men to their jurisdiction. The five men are still in custody while police_check up statements of thelr allaged complicity in hold-ups, automobile thefts and burglaries. Kiwanis Has Musical. Vocal selections by Miss Margaret Payne and Miss Kathryn Payne, ac- companied by Miss Emma May Payne, teatured a luncheon of the Kiwanis Club in the Hotel Washington yester- Y. Many visiting Kiwanians were pres- ent at the luncheon. William S. Quin- ter, president of the club, presided. Workman Loses Arm. ‘While working in an ice plant at La Plata, Charles County, Md, last night, Xavier Barnes, colored, 22 years old, resident of La Plata, caught his right arm in the machinery. He was brought to Providence Hospital by Ralph M. Lorenz, his employer, and surgeons found his, arm so badly mutilated that it had Yo be amputated. A BLESSING IN DISGUISE. This grape-grower, Carl Graber, of the Lawrence, Kans., district, has the Mississippi Valley flood to thank for the finest crop he has ever had. ‘When the flood came, Graber thought his crop would be ruined, but the deposit left by the water produced this bumper crop. Cats of Kilkenny Becoming Effete; Dogs Safe in Town By the Associated Press. KILKENNY, Irish Free State, August 19.—The cats of Kilkenny virtually have given up fighting. No one knows why, but the Kil- kenny cats no longer chase the dogs out of town. A lleutenant of police told the Associated Press that while an oc- nal cat fight fills some neigh- horhood with noise and fur, the Kilkenny cat has lost his reputa- tion. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of this cathedral town say the old cats fought enough for several gen- erations before they quit. Tradi- tion has it that after some of the old-time fights only the claws re- mained to tell the tale. EMPLOYES’ SOCIETY HAS ANNUAL PICNIC 3,000 Take Part in Outing of Rail- way Relief at Glen Echo Park. The fifth annual outing of the Washington Railway Rellet Associa- tion, composed of employes of the Washington Railway and Electric Co. and the Potomac Electrle Power Co., their familles and friends, was held at Glen Echo Park yesterday. About 3,000 attended. The Boy's In- dependent Band and the association’s clown band provided music. Following were the winners of the varlous athleti Fifty-yard race for girls weighing 85 pounds and under, won by Thelma Rosenberg, Anna Gilllam, Mildred Donaldson; 50- yard race for boys weighing 85 pounds and under, won by Clarence Lyons, John Souder, James Vincent: 100-yard race for girls welghing 100 pounds and_under, won by Alico Lauxman, Ellen Haggenmaker, Mil- dred Donaldson; 100-yard race for boys weighing 100 pounds and und won by E. W. Harnden, Roge Vaughan, Russell Herbison; 100-yard race for girls weighing 115 pounds and under, won by Eugenia Godfrey, Eleanor Hurdle, Mae Dixon; 100-yard race for boys weighing 115 pounds and under, won by Robert Luca Gerald Gorman, Richard Saunders; stone gathering contest for women, won by Miss M. I White, Miss Sarah Argent, Mrs, A. A. Smith; 100-vard dash for men, won by J. W. Witkow- E. L. Brumbley, N. Bradshaw; 50-yard sack race, won by E. L. Brumbley, R. L. Smiernoff, Ralph Shoemaker: 50-yard race for women, won by Mrs. L. Denis, Rosemary Wiles, E. Vincent, Two Thefts Reported. Theft of $57 from Room 1508, Navy Building, Eighteenth and B streets, was reported to the police last night by Carrie D. Nicols, 3931 Ellicott street. She said the money was in an envelope in a locker in the room when it was stolen. ‘Willlam F. Riddick, 1210A Carroll- burg place southwest, reported tothe police the loss of his watch and chain while returning from an excur- ‘Wide World Photos. WATSON PREDICTS CUT IN TAX RATE $300,000,000 Slash to Be Made Despite Extra Ex- penses, Senator Believes. By the Associated Press. Predicting a tax reduction of ap- proximately $300,000,000 by Congress this Winter, Senator Watson, Repub- lican, Indiana, said yesterday that he did not believe appropriations for flood control, aviation, farm rellef and naval construction would cut mate- rially into the Treasury’s estimated surplus. He explained these appro- priations necessarily would be extend- ed over a period of several years, thereby minimizing initial expendi- tures. The Indianan declared he construed President Coolidge’s announcement as definitely removing Mr. Coolidge from the 1928 campaign, adding this left the fleld wide open, with no one in position to deliver the Southern dele- gates. Pressure for a farm relief bill simi- lar to the McNary-Haugen bill, which received a presidential veto, s ex- pected by the Senator, who also looks for enactment of railroad consolida- tion legislation. Mr. Watson is chair- man of the Senate interstate com- merce committee, which has jurisdic- tion over this subject. STAFF CHANGES MADE. Negro Research Group Announces New Program. Additions to the staff and a new pro gram of activities for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and His- tory are announced by Dr. Carter Woodson, director. John J. McKinley of Chicago, for- mer instructor at Winston-Salem Teachers’ College, has been employed as fleld secretary, and Dr. Robert (. Woods, former president of Virginia Seminary. as financial agent. A drive for §20,000 for publication of negio Juvenile literature will be the firs: project of the new organization. Under the present program branches will be established in all large eities for the purpose of saving records of the negro, including old newspapers. books out of print, manumission pa- pers, old deeds and similar papers, RIVIERA FORESTS AFIRE. Americans in Villages in Path of 40-Mile Blaze. Sta Iy e S e PARIS, August 19.—A 40-mile wall ot fire, cutting off extensive forest areas of the French Riviera, with heavy swirls of acrid yellow smoke in Antibes, Juan Lespins, St. Rafael and other towns where many Americans are vacationing, is clearly visible from Cannes and Nice. No lives t are endangered, but villagers are fleeing from the towns of Vilieneuve, Loubet, Biot, Roquefort and Tanneron. A strong north wind is fanning the flames through the forests of the Alpes Maritime, which sion to River View, Md. last night. He valued the timepiece and chain at §50. are burning in 20 places. Troops have been rushed from Nice to dig trenches and fight the flam>s with dynamite.