Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1927, Page 4

g N ASKS §100,000.000 YEARLY FLOOD AID Report to Mississippi Com- | mission Forecasts Peti- tion to Congress. Br the Asco ST. LOUI its next session, aside an annual or whatever 20 —Congress, asked to | nd of $100.000 amount ¥ he 1pre veport Way of st at will be 000 which 0 rent shall ehtedness all Mississippi 1,000,000 | report approval of h srmal sanetior rt were sugges ¢ Hoover has approves messee, Ark and Missouri attend A section t the jurisc Commis: 1o include the entire tion. extending from the Alleheny Monntains ¢ ams which directly of the 17-Year-0ld Victim Tells Police. | Tespite Alleged Threat of Death. By the Aecociated Press FLORENCE . August 20—} pretty 17-vear-old ’ Mr. and Mrs. Frank | Bishop, tonight told S. E. Stafford, Muscle Shoals detective, that elght | masked men kidnaped her from her home the night of July 8, took her 1o a woods and whipped her with a leather strap. The grl Bishop, has kept the secret under threats of death. she | told Mr. Stafford, Her father and mother also were threatened with vio- larce if they reported the affair. | Chief Stafford has turned the case | over to Lauderdale County author- ities and warrants are expected to be isgued Monday. The irl told officers that she recog- nized three of the men, who wore | hoods bearing the letter “K.” whipping | ENJOYS EGGS TILL— | Foliceman Discovers Those He En- | joyed Were Snake Variety. Special LEX County brought snake y this w Officer Hall had eggs for breakfast, and he complimented his wife on their unusually good flavor. Mrs. Hall decided to fry“S8ome more egge for breakfast and asked her | husband to go out to a nest where | the first ezgs had been found. Hall found a large black snake and a | couple of snake eggs in the nest, and | he beat a hasty retreat to the house to tell Mrs. Hall of his find. A description of the snake eggs brought an explanation from Mrs. Hall to the effect that those were the kind of eggs she had fried for the first breakfast. | spatch to The Star : JTON. Ky., August 20— | Patrolman” James Hall | forth a new mid-season rn rece: It came about ¥ et Snake Is Chloroformed. Special Dispatch to The Star. HIAWATHA, Kan., August 20.— When a Hiawatha woman went into a drug store here to make purchases, she was startled to find a large bull snake coiled up on a shelf behind the counter. She screamed and the proprietor of the place came to her rescue. The snake continued to roost peacefully on hottles filled with expensive medicines. The drugeist was afraid to kill the | reptile by striking it with any weapon for fear of breaking some of the bot. tles, so he called a doctor, who admin. | istered chloroform. | ' e | Airplanes Rout Locusts. | Correspondence of the Associated Press. MOSCOW.—A signal victory on the ocusts front” is reported by the serial expedition in charge of ridding Soviet farms of the pest. A total area | of 324.000 acres are id to have been cleared of locusts } spra from airplanes. Olongapo on the Map. Correspondence of The Star. MANILA.—Olongapo, once only a #peck on the map, is now a larger and plainer dot. It has been made a per- manent marine hase as the result of sending the naval There re about tioned there, and isen sprung up troops to China. | 1,000 marines sta- and stores, restaurants it establishments have | German Exports Gain. August 20 (P) today, were the high- - heginning of the year and considerably in excess of the same month in 1 nd the monthly aver- ages for the previous years. The total was 845,000,000 mar an in-| crease of 1,000,000 over the exports for | | way interfere with the administration THE ]NEW ARMY STAFF OFFICER | WON MANY SERVICE HONORS N. GEORGE 8. SIMONI Stmonds, who 19th Brigade on stant chief 1 Zone, where he is at present. S Torn in Cresco, lowa, March Gen. Simonds was graduated BRIG. G George S the Panama Canal n appointed and placed in |, fgned to the Infantry in which he hed the grade of colonel in July In November 1924 he was made in th. Regular During the World War he held sion the grades of lientenant ~olonel, colonel and brigadier genoral handling e force of land served as adjutant, 26th Div ing with the |assistant chief of staff G-3, the World War. He | Headquarters, A. 5. F.: chief zion of Honor | 2nd Corps, and commanding the Order | Embarkation Camp, Le Mars. the Brit-| As chief of tha W of the Second Army |2 | nt operations | the i the of Hindenburg line Sambre Canal and was | Army the Distinguished Service | in Med: “his great rinistrative ability I AL itish™ in dur own by the Italian government. | Maj. Gen nce the World War he has served | assigned to the command of the 7th successively as instructor and later Corps area at Fort Omaha, Nebraska. nt commandant of the Army |Gen. Simonds will leave Panama on College in this city, as com- | nt of tha tank school at Camp . Md., and as commander of the divect to this city to assume his new duties. McCarl Halts Mississippi Flood Control| Plans by Disapproving $2.900,000 Fund By the Assoclated Prees |as an_emergency act and which the Revision of the plans of the Army | next Congress was to be requested to engineers assigned to design methods | replace. President Coolidge, Secretary of flood control in the sastppi | Of War Davis and Maj. Gen. J Vallay itieRmuctanibibatme v g | Chief of engineers, had approved the 2 D 3 ¥ 48| ransfer on the theory that the emer: the result of the refusal of Comptroller | gancy existing In the Hood area was General MeCarl to approve transfer of | such that extraordinary procedure was $2.000,000 to the Mississippi River | proper. The $2.000.000 was to have Flood Commission from the unex-|been expended in the Louisiana flood pended balince of the rivers and |Z°he 1 4 Bitbuey: appropstition Inasmuch as flood relief measures ¥ have been going forward in anticipa It was announced yesterday tion of the transfer, the ruling of the MeCarl had withdrawn his appr ‘omptroller General is expected to the transfer, which was to be made ! cause materlal changes in such plans PROTEST STRIKE PLANS FLYERS SEEK LOST MAN. ARE HIT IN SWEDEN PHOENIX, Ariz., August 20 (#).— | Two Army transport planes from Labor Group Holds Walk-out| Would Violate Contract Kelly Field, Tex., failed today in a With Employers. search over the desert north of Glen- dale, for Alfred Z. Menard, shell shocked veteran of the World War. missing since last Tuesday By the Associated Press. Aeriara. deft ‘the Fanch TOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 20. The Sacco-Vanzetti defense Commit- tee of Sweden has renewed agitation for a general strike following rejec- tion by the Massachusetts Supreme Court of the plea for Sacco and Van- zetti. The central hoard of the National Federation of Labor, however, has re- fterated Its warning that any such strike would violate the contract be- tween Swedish employers and labor. It also is recalled that Premier Ekman of Sweden already has informed a Sacco-Vanzettl deputation that the Swedish government cannot in any after leaving a note stating that he intended to lose himself in the desert of law in another country. REPORTS ARE MISLEADING Headlines in Germany Show U. 8. Is in State of Civil War. BERLIN, August 20 (P).—From | headlines appearing in some of the | German press one would judge that | the United States was in the throes | ot a civil war over the Sacco-Vanzetti State of Siege in New York,” ate of Alarm in Ame and “Wrestling Match With Yankee Jus: tice” were among the captions used in some of the papers, while in one case Chief Justice Taft was described as the man “who could save Sacco and Vanzetti if he only would.” The more extreme newspapers published cartoons of the electric chair, the Statue of Liberty being rushed off its | pedestal and “Miss America” wearing a death mask. TWO CAMPS TO CLOSE. | Children Give Program for Moth- ers on Vacations. Camp Good Will and Camp Pleasant | will close this week after one of the | t successtul seasons in their his | Many needed mothers and chil- | ve been glven a vacation at! the two camps during their seasone. Performances by children visitors | have helped to entertain the children | their mothers Winter give some ears, under the direction Mise Theima Callahan, has been one of the entertainers, and last Fridav night Theodore Tiller, jr. 14 years old_gave a show with marionettes, in a theater he made himself, afford to own The Bank a Loan with a Smile The terms of Morris Plan Loans are simple and practical and fair —it is not an accoun For each $50 or fractionborrowed you agree to de- Dposit $1 per week in an Account, the proceeds of which may be used to cancel the note when duec. Deposits may be made on a wecekly, semi- monthly or monthly basis as you prefer. $ $5,000 $10,000 MORRIS PLAN BANXK Under Supervision U. 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Watkins, command Department, American Legion. red “it was better if need be for the manhood of America, embattled and fearless, to stand in defense of | with the un- the machine American institutions sheathed bayonet gun to protect them Radicaliem ing the Wisconsin Legion here today hax challenged those institutions and nd the Legwn must be found firmly back | of every movement to defend them | “The world has been rudely awaken- ed recently and Amerfca’s gelf-com | placency has disappeared. Radicalism varying from the red flag to the i | ternationalistic slogan. has allgned it- | self with Sacco and Vanzettl. The | bomb and dynamite have sought t take the place of the books of the law. The red flag has sought to replace the Stars and Stripes. and violence. intimidation and threats have sought {to cow and conquer the courts and | the processes of justice. | *“The present radical crisis is a chal- | tenge to American institutions and those who believe in this Governme and must be met firmly | by an i public and its off to continue under this Government with any hope for its future.” ONE-HOUR STRIKE - ORDERED IN MEXICO | Regional Confederation of Labor Protests Sacco and Vanzetti Conviction. By the Associated Pross MEXICO CITY, August 20.—The {annual convention of the Regional Confederation of Lahor. the dominant organi in Mexico, at fits s adopted a reso lution protesting st the execu tion of Sacco and Vanzetti The resolution ordered a onehour general protest strike throughout Mexico in the event that the con demned men are executed and in structed officials of the confederation to telegraph the United States Supreme »pealing for action to prevent the execution. The resolution, which « by the federation labor svndicates of the federal district, declares that “Yankee capital, in opposition to the laboring people ot the world, is execut- ing Sacco and Vanzetti because they symbolize socialism, and making these innocent men pay with their lives for daring to rehel against the old social order.” The resolution urges laboring clas: throughout the world to resent this “bloody sacrifice and take necessary measures against Yankee capitalism Pollce anhd detectives continue a zuard ut the United States embassy the consulate genera nd at the homes of all American officials labor openin, s writter, i Has Dime After Wedding. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., August 20 (). —"Ten cents and a wife are all I've got now,” Charlés B. Wesner, 50 year-old farmer of Campbellsburg, de. clared just after his wedding. Wesner of his]and his bride walked 70 miles to Jef- brother, George Menard, at Glendale | f@psonville to be married. The license and ceremony cost him $4.50. He had only a dime left E. F. DROOP & SONS CO. 1300 G Street: STEINW AY BABY GRAND, EBONIZED. ... In planning any changes in your home arrangements for this Fall or thought to a “Music Corner.” coziest place in the house, where family and friends gather for pleasure and fruitful enjoyment. Good Music should be played on a Good Pjano—and we advise you to buy the best grano you can You cannot find any better values in every sense of the word than are contained in the STEINWAY “THE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS" VOSE «~ ESTE BRAMBACH The Daintiest Anartment Grand Fver Constructed . INSTITUTIONS URGED’ he usserted in address | Latest War Figures Show That 77,771 Died in A. E. F. ! Latest oflicial figures show there | were 77,771 deaths in the American ! BExpeditionnry Forces, including those on transports. The number | of graves vegistered to June 30. | 1927, aggregated 77,701, or 99.9 per cent of the number of deaths. ! Of the total, 46,284 bodles have | heen returned to the United Stat | 405 were sent to foreign countries for_Interment and 30.812 remained in Europe. Of the number remain- ing in Europe buried in American cemeteries, four are to he veturned to the United States, 29,880 are buried in France, 431 in Great Britain, 373 in Belgium, while 123 | have, at the request of their fam tlies, been left undisturbed where they were originally buried. Of the hodies returned to the United States 14.2 per cent are burled in national cemeteries. SIXTEEN MINISTERS " ASK COMMUTATION| LI’etizicn of Clergymen Is Sent to Fuller—Holds Guilt Is in Doubt. | By the Associated Pre | BOSTON, August 20.—A petitior | asking commutation of sentence for | 8acco and Vanzettf to life imprison | ment was sent to Gov. Fuller today | by 16 clergymen of various denomi nations in this and other States “We petition your escellency.” the petition said, “to commute the sen tence of Sacco and Vanzetti to life | imprisonment that the people of the United States may not he responsible for the d | still remai | The th of two men whose gnilt in reasonable doubt.” included Hubert 0. Herri ry of the department of s of the Congr | | tional Churches of the United States: | i osdick, Union Theo- | York: Dan F. Congregntional Cleveland; Henry Sloane resident Union Theological | Clement G. Clarke. First | Church, Portland, | Dieffenbach, editor | Register, Boston Gilkie, Hyde Park Baptist ago, William E. Gilroy r the Congregationalist. Boston O. Hartm editor Zicn ¢ rald. Boston; Cl s Clayton Mo ison, editor the stian Centur\ and Paul (¢ Nacy, Washington Co gregational Church. Toledo, Ohio. . New adley, | Church, Coffin Semina Congregational Oreg.: Albert {of the Chr | Charles W Church. ( edit Lewls o tian BANDIT ROBS WOMAN. | Mre. Reily Held Up as She Waite | for Car. | Held up by a negro bandit as she | waited for a street car to come down- | town to meet her husband at Wiscon n avenue and W street, Mrs. Cora Reily of 2105 Thirty-seventh street was robbed of $3 in bills and change. | Mrs. Reily told police a colored man | approached her and asked her what time it was. She veplied she did not know and started to turn away when | | he pulled out a pistol, pointing it at | | her. After taking the money in her | pocketbook he asked her whether che. had a watch. At this juncture a street car approached and she ran for it, getting aboard. 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