Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 17

29 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY, AUGUST 19217. AWAITS GOOD WEATHER FOR FLIG Lieut. 0tto Koennecke. the German flyer who, undaunted by the ilure of the two et pinnes. iy completed all preparations and Is awaiting only rable weather to take off in the plane Germania in an attempted He is shown with his wife and small son. yright by Underwood & Underwood. PRESIDENT ADDRESSES SIOUX INDIANS AT GREAT RESI 10,000 members of the tribe listening to an address by President Coolidge du Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The Indians gathered from all ¢ greet the President and Mrs, Coolidge at the Pine Ridge Indian agency. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. SRVATION GATHERIN ing his recent visit fo the Pine ers of the big reservation to BRIDGES AT CAMP HUMPHREYS. Members of the 1215t onal Guard getting a little practical experi 1 bridge building mph reys, ot only teaches the guardsmen one the fln'lll. s a good muscle-building job for DISTRICT GUARDSMEN BUILDI reers of the District N t fav of the most transatlantic flight. anybody. i THE VIEW FROM A COUNTRY CLUB PORCH. This photograph of President Coolidge, lidge and their son John was taken during their recent visit to the Hot Springs Country Club at Hot Springs, S. Dak. Yellowstone Park visit and until their return to Washingt John, who recently arrived from the East, will remain with his parents during their Copyright by . & A. Photos. ENJOVING I shooting_grouse o FAVORITE S King George of England the Duke and Duchess of British monarch is a g(m(l N 5 BRE. giant Navy seaplane PN-10 45 minutes at San Diego, € record of 1,569 n Machinist’s \Inte Homer Vincent whicl ‘alif. K THREE s and a speed record for 2 WORLD RECORDS IN SEAPI h recently brought three In addition to this duration record, 2,000 kilometers, and Lieut. Byron J. Connell. fi Left to right: ANE FLIGHT. The crew of the cords to America in a flight of 20 hours and the flight established a distance Lieut. H. C. Rodd, Chief Cop: t by P. & A. Photos. EIEUNE REVIEWS | STUDENT DROWNED BOY SCOUT CORPS ~ ON WAY T0 CANP Group Breaks Camp at Quan- | Millard H. Thorne, Jr.. 16, Falls Boarding Steamer for Fort Washington. tico After Greeting Neville and Getting Awards. Missing his footing in attempting to board the steamer Gen. D. H. Rucker, in use between Washington Bar s and Fort Washington, Md The Washington contingent of Boy Scouts who have been encamped at Quantico, Vo., for the past two weeks, broke camp this merning, arriving the Navy Yard wharf at 10:30 o'clock, | where students of the c and demonstrated their ability as a|tary training servi drum and bugle corps before Maj. Gen. | Millard 1I. Thorne, j John A. Leje who reviewed them | filling a vacation per ield beside the reflecting pool | the steamer, fell « on the field be the re g pool | amer, 'ell ov at 11:30 o'clock. | The group included Jocal troops who, under Marine instructor have been striving to be- come proficient in_the playing of the drum and bugle. They made the trip home under the care of ergt. Wil- liam Halsey of the Marine Corps, who has virtually been in command of the camp. The officer actually in cl ge was Capt. Joseph J. Staley, who also accompanied the Scou did Private h J. Slonovski, ho‘ has been their musical structor and 3 directed the bhand in it monstration before Gen. Lejeune to : Their plac t Quantico will be taken by the East 1 nsdowne, Pa., troop of Scouts, which is reported to be one of the crack troops of the country. The boys proved that they have had good mxum‘xmn when they greeted Maj. Gen. W. C. Neville as he arrived in camp \,.q. day, with the r\lvmes and flourishes” due a general officer. Just to show their versatility they put on ahout # ).m dozen other num- bers for the gener At the final ce the camp Y commanding ge Barracks at Quan and other aw: the various cc termine the b yartienlar bray .’wr\v al hundred g » forward to hav meda n his hreast and to receive 1 commen from Gen » are in 16 year camp, old, | on on at the drowned erboard was ade steame: ic efforts at rescue we students on the 50 Scouts from | jje by many and others, and harbor precinct conducted a search that proved futile. This Bernard Hicks, 427 O street south west, borrowed a hook from the ha bor precinct police, dropped it over- board at the scene of the drowning and recovered the body. Scores of the students h the city on leave yesterday amer hooked to f at Washington B: return trip about 5 o'clock. Thorne | was serving as deckhand. one of his | duties being to assist intaking in the | gangplank. | An inquest ‘orps d heen in and the be held at the ue tomorrow morning at 11:30 o'clock. The body has heen turned over to an undertaker to be taken to Friendly, Md., the hoy’s hgme. will mony which ended en. Neville, VIRGINIA ELKS MEET AT FREDERICKSBURG ihe Awinmers of | Banquet and Dance Tonight Will K“u‘w"’;)‘::‘-l"l' ot Follow Business Program and Sightseeing. h of scoutin cpectators e Dispateh to The Star EDERICKSBURG, Va., Augnst Virginia Elks, in annual conven tion here, were given the freedom of ing by Mayor J. Gar- GALLINGER HOSPITAL IS QUARANTINED AGAIN Xt i dent of the ate assoe at Mflmclpfll Institution | response. The convention was opened at 9 o'clock with the registration of delegates, after which W. B. . Cole, xalted ruler of the local lodge, called | the meeting to order. s occupied the del ing and during the early visits were made to points of historic interest. Tonight the visitors will be enter- a banquet and dance in the ore than 100 delegat Patient Found to Be Victim of Smallpox. nger Municipal Hospital | - the second time this month was sed under quarantine today follow the discovery of a case of small- nong its patients. The vietim, | Department | taines sinson, ecolored, | Elks’ Home, it southwest, | were present at the opening se quarantine placed Election of officers and choice of ne. when a colored o vear's _convention city or tomorre tion will was found to have smallpox w il o on | lerly | s lifted | A then police of the morning scheduled | i ) nm’r AIN'S ans at Banfl, A.P.MOSCOW MAN Following Operation—Had Wide Experience Abroad. | By the Associated Pres August Moscow cor- pondent of the Associated Press, early this morning after an op- which he underwent Satur- Mr. Whiffen had wide experience as a foreign. respondent, servin in the Far Last and Mexico, as well | as on the European Continent. After a_period of service in I)n | Chicago office of the Associated CLAIMED BY DEATH, Walter C. Whiffen Expiresj |his first foreign assignment was in | Mexico, where he reported the events of the troublesome days of the Diaz- Madero regimes. In the battles and | counter-revolutions that followed he e | teed in the international pegce tr American Jews out of the 1 AVERICAN JEWS PLAGED ON COUNCIL Dr. Stephen S. Wise in Presi- { dium of New Body to Pro- tect Minority Rights. By the Associated Press. ZURICH, (Jewish Telegraphic can - Jews e given in the Council on Jewish I | created at the ights, August 22 Ameri- prominent Switzerland, Agency) W a Conference on which ended its sessio t. The which will take | the mittee of | was formed for th | guarding the minority new the rights guaran- aties oncluded after the World War. Twent were given to I making one seats .|Ilu-rNI bonuet” presented to_him 5 PREMIER IS MADE BIG CHIEF OF CANADIAN TRIBE. Iberta, after they had made the distinguished British visitor Chi luring the ceremony. Premier Stanley Baldwin and Mrs. Sitting Eagle of the tribe. Baldwin with a _group of Stoney The prime minister wears the Wide World Photos. THREE ARE RELIEVED OF CASH BY BANDITS Fourth Escapes Loss When Thugs Fail to Get Any Money. Four cases of Danditry were re- ported to the police in the last 24 hours. Spencer Davis, 1000 G strect, taxicab drive s held up by a colored panicd by a woman, I and robbed of Pennsyl- today to lln\r ml street vicinity. Isaac Bunyers, 4318 Sheriff road northeast, told police two colored bandits held him up in front of his home vesterday morning, but they failed to get any money Albert Conway, colored, Salvation Army Hotel, Seventh and P strects, reported he held up in rear of 1300 Florida avenue early yesterday colored man and robbed of $76. isted the bandit, the umpl\ (6 the ¢ ing the struggle he received an injury to his right hand that was | dre: d at Garfield Hospital. George B. Lewis, colored, York City, a northeast, told police he wi |in South Washington yesterd { noo by three colored men woman and robbed of $67 and s for $20. of New ‘ close with A heach re st M rostsr sort on the Potomac River. A million dollars a year for four vears is to be spent in advertising b the National Shoe Retailers’ Associa- tion, one of the most extensive ed tional advertising c: @igns ever con: ducted in the shoe Indrstrys a 16-day period. 1 = Robinson had been a patient at the hospital four days before it was dis covered that he had smallpox. Health Department physicians believe that be contracted the disease from the crderln Spilliolin Hurt in Fnll Spinellis Spillolin, 30 years old, pro- prietor of a lunchroom at 3253 M street, fell through a trap door this \fternoon and suffered three broken ribs and possible internal injuries. He was taken to Emergency Hospital, | | | The old familiar small of denatured alcohol in hot automobile radiators will be missing next Winter, Prohibi- tion Commissioner Doran explained to- day, announcing t the manufac- e producing by the new Government formula, including alde- hol, which smells like hot grease. The new formula, developed by prohibition laboratori a \’unuux'. but more [has been exter mented with | alcohol from wh .| with the formu! 'New U. S. Anti-Freeze Mixture Baffles Bootlegger Chemists Seeking Alcohol Mr. Doran said, and has been used in hot_radiators boiling for hours. The formula was declared by Dr. Doran so far to have proved itself a great success, in that no samples of illicit liquor made from denatured cohol of the aldehol formula have seen reported anywhere in the count The aldehol was adopted virtually impossible to extract from the pur h it is mixed. Boot- have been struggling it is known, but Dr. Doran feels sure that they have not yet succeeded in renaturing the liquor. leggers’ chemis {MISS ANNA O’BRIEN DIES TAUGHT HERE FIVE YEARS Funeral Services to Be Held Wed- nesday for Teacher, Il1 Three Weeks. Miss Anna O'Brien, 23 years old, teucher at the Tenley School, died in ! the Georgetown University "Hospital after a three-week illn v sided with her Mrs. Willlam V. hirty-fifth piace, d been teaching for about five yei z e of Western igh and had taken up course of study at Catholic University, Besides her father and mother, Miss O'Brien leaves a brother, ge O'Brien; an aunt, Miss Annie O'Brien, and several other aunts and uncles, Funeral services will be conducted in Holy Trinity Catholic Church Wed- nesday morning at 9:15 o'clock. In- terment will in Holy Rood ceme] tery, x> CLIFFORD SPENCER LEWIS IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Assistant Astronomer at Naval Observatory Will Be Buried Tomorrow Afternoon. Cliftord Spencer Lewls, 49 years old, a States Naval Observatory, where he had been employed since 1909, died of pneumonia at his residence, 1901 P d, yesterda He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is survived by his widow, Mrs, Isabel M. Lewis, and a son, Raymond W. Lewis, both of this city; 1wo sisters, M Lewis, and his mother, Mrs, Arthur Saintelair Lewis, all of Cincinnati. * Funeral services will be conducted at Hygong's furleral home, 1300 N street, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Cedar Hil Cemeterys R s - Vaiamttte Istant astronomer at the United | TWO HELD AS AUTO CUTS THROUGH CIRCLE Motorists Fail to Escape After Driving Car Through Street Plot., Injuring trees and knocking down | shrubh itomobile plunged | cer E ped thr ||;:hy Grant Cir morning re polic B am_ Huff, )1 Second that he had been drivi seven y but he w sted and charged with reckless driving, sec- ond offense, and destroying Govern- ment proper i A passenger_in his circle-bisecting car, Charles Emmett, Takoma Pa Md., was charged with being drur and with assulting John Hutchinson, No. 6 Grant Circle, who came to the aid of Motor Cycle Officer Mihill of No. 10 precinct, when the occupants of the car are alleged to have at-! tempted to escape after their mad | told pulnol a car for of the World War. was in the thick of the fray, and more than once came through perilous _encounters with graphic news stories of the happenings. ‘Wounded at Front. Petrograd. place he Later transferred to now Leningrad, which | reached after visits to many nters of Europe, he arrived | at the time of the outbreak He was slightly wounded on one of his various trips to the front. The Russian revolution came and went during his Petrograd assignment, but Mr. Whiffen termed it a “tame affair” to what he had experienced in Mexico. Later he was sent to Peking and shortly afterward to_ Vladivostok when the bolshevists, Japanese and American_interests were involved there. He stayed through the re- treat of the Kolchak army and then returned to Peking, where he re- mained until 1921, when he went to Tokio. He was assigned to Moscow early this Summer. BORAH VOLUNTEERS SACCO CASE STUDY Offers to Go Over Data With Coun- sel to See Whether He Can Be of Service. ) By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 22.—Senator Wil- liam M. Borah has telegraphed the dash through the circle. The car, a coupe, was going north | on New Hampshire avenue and when | | it reached the circle it went right on | | through. & { | BADAJOZ, Spain, August 2’ | King Alfonso will be rey s (ceremonies next month dedicating a {monument of Francisco Pizarro, con- querer of Peru, at Trujillo. The monu- ment is the gift of Mrs. Mary Harri- man Rumsey of New York, widow of Charles Cary Rumsey, sculptor and international polo plaver. The statue was exdcuted for the San Francisco oxpositi RN citizens’ national committee for Sacco {and Vanzett that he “would be glad to go over the case with counsel,” the defense organization announced last night. The telegram added: ** find T can be of service relative to o i 1. will volunteer national committee cco-Vanzetti defense com- to proceed to Boston and began ten- tative arrangements for airplane transportation to speed his arrival. The committee also urged the Sena- of the | up the council. resentatives of | various countries, Dr. Wise is Presidi Dr. Stephen §. Wise. pi {the American Jewish Congress: thum Sokolow, chairman of the cutive of the Zionist world or- : Dr. Leo Motzkin of Paris, Chajas, chief rabbi of The other 30 dre rep- Jewish groups from sident of Dr. Vienna; to the presidium of the council. The plan of organization for the new body, which was adopted unani- was submitted by Louis , president of the Zionist or- ganization in America. A lively discussion preceded the adoption by the conference of a reso- lution protesting against the “prose- cution of Zionists and the Hebrew language in Soviet Ru lution was sponsored by M. U A head of the Jewish National Fund of Jerusalem, and Rabbi Max Heller of New Orleans, Several resolutions were concerning Jewish problems rope, including one cha the ’governments of England States with failure to carry into ef- the international obligations with rd to conferring citizenship upon all_the residents within thelr terri- tories, The American members of the coun- cil are: Max D, Steur, New Yor! Rabbi Max Heller, Rabbi Barnet Brickner, Cleveland; Martin O. Levy, secretary of the Independent Order of "Brith Sholom; Robert Silverman, Bos- ton; Mrs. M. Archibald Sflverman, Providence; George Hugo Pam, Chi- cago; Judge Gustav Hartman, Louis Lipsky, Jacob Fishman, Max Hol- lander, Dr. Joseph Tenebaum, Bernard G. Richards, Dr. A. Koralnik, Ben- jamin Titman, Emanuel Hertz, George Fox, Carl Sherman, Benjamin Win- ter, Les Wolfson and Marwin Lowen- thal, adopted in some Claims Son’s Estate. John Waldman today applied to the District Supreme Court for letters of dministration on the estate of his son, Leonard, a member of the \ E.F. who died in France Jctober 22, 1918, The son left a balance of $6,446 due tor to request Goy. Fuller to stay exe- cution until his a cal. Senator Borah's message came from Spokane, Wash., the defense commit- 199 said. < from the Government on a War Risk Insurance policy. The father says he is entitled to letters and is the sole ficiary of the estate. He nted hy Attorney Jullus A.