Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1927, Page 13

_ THE® EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €. TUESDAY. AUGUST" 23, 1927. - WORKING ON RUBBI SUBSTITUTE. Production of an efficient rubber substitute from cactus plants is the object of lahoratory experi- ments now being made by Dr. John C. Wichmann, Los Angeles chemist. He is shown here ex ing one of the plants which he believes will the country’s rubber supply problem. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood GOEBEL'S PARENTS AWAIT HIS RETURN. Household duties for the mother and father of Arthur Goebel, shown here in their modest Los Angeles home, will be made lighter for them by their son’s victory in the Pacific air derby. Goebel won the $25,000 prize by piloting his Woolaroe plane to first place in the race. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Miss Morgot E. Webh, who chosen as “Miss Atlantic City” and will act as official hostess ng beauties during the mational beauty contest and pageant there next month. She is shown with Armand T. Nichols, director of the contest, just after her selection. UTH. Walter Stickney, 63-year-old farmer, 5SS 'TO BEAUTIES. who won this year's h: pwing contest at the Farmers' and Home- makers' week the U ersity of New Hampshire, congratulated by Miss Helen Bernaby, 19-year-old co-ed of the university, who won the contest last year. Wide World Photos. AGE TRIUMPHS OVER YO OUT FOR A RIBBON AT THE FAIR. Jack La Olney, Md., with the prize-winning heifer which he has entered in the Rockville, Md., fair. The fair opened today with a children’s day pro- gram of pony races and a pony show as the feature for the first day. n, farmer lad of respectively, stronger. MIXING NATIONALITIES IN A MIXED DOUBLES MATCH. The United States and France pooled their tennis talent to provide a thrilling doubles exhibition match at Forest Hil 1 The two teams are shown here. Jacques Brugnon (at left)) and Henri Cochet, the Frenc with Helen Wills_ (at left) and Fileen Bennet, and the Brugnon-Wills combination proved the Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. 1 nd, the other day. Long I stars, were paired, Charlie Chaplin, the screen come- dian, wears a happy smile at Peb- ble Beach, Calif., after reaching a property settlement with his wife, which has now been confirmed in the divorce decree. Wide World Photos. A SIDE LINE BEFORE THE BIG FIGHT. Jack Dempsey takes a turn at “punching” the keys of his typewriter is his hotel room at Chicago before the ex-champ moves on to his trainin, pare for his battle for the title next month with Gen '3 %uxrters to pre- ne Tunney. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. 1 Lindbergh Avoids | THIEVES TAKE PISTOL ALROAD PARLEY *Youmg Lady's Kis| | | | WILL BE RESUMED Py Quick Thinking By the Associated Ps MADISON, Wis, August 23.— Fast thinking by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh kept him from being kissed last night by a young lady guest at a banquet in his honor. The young woman presented the flying colonel with a bouquet, and as he accepted it, smiling, she sought to kiss him on the cheek. Col. Lindbergh held up a basket of flowers, stepping backward as he did so, and the young woman quickly withdrew. The flyer had Minneapolis as his destination today as -he pre- pared to resume his aerial tour of the States. His mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh™ of Detroit, was to meet him there. Four Eastern Lines and Loree to Continue Discus- sion of Merger Plan. | i ] By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 2 of high executives of the four E ern trunk line railroads and IL. F. J.oree, sponsor of a fifth trunk line, | will be resumed this Fall, it was| Jearned here yesterdav, to reconsider | the Eastern consolidation plan. The | meetings probably will begin around the middle of next month, and the in- | jtiative likely will be taken by the | Pensylvania, which has come off the | side lines and is undersiood to be pre pared to enter actively into discus- sions of the merger scheme. | In the coming -conversations the Pennsylvania and Loree interests are expected to line up on one side, with the New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio and “Nickel Plate” interests on the other. Pennsylvania officials | have taken the stand that the four- | system plan now pending will have to | be materially revised and must take into consideration the fifth line pro- posed by Mr. Loree. A strong effort, it is understood, will be made to break the disagree- ment which has exisied between the Meetings | SCREEN CELEBRITIES WITH ROGERS PARTY | Noted Movie Figures to Arrive| Tomorrow With Comedian for Picture Here. Accompanying Will Rogers when he | |arrives in the Capital tomorrow morn- ing to make scenes for a motion pic- ture play, in which he is to be starred, | will be Louise Fazenda, Ann Rork and [ to be a healer, to return $25 intrusted |ot a report with the police last night. Pennsylvania and the three other |Mrs. Rork, Richard Wallace, director, roads since the consolidation scheme |and Mrs. Wallace, Jack Wagner, com- was presented to the Interstate Com-|edy constructor, and a retinue of tech. merce Commission about two years ago. Eastern railway men have ex- pressed the feeling that unless some program is devised in which the four roads and the Loree interests wor in concert a new mmission plan” must materialize. which would he unsatisfactory 1o ull the parties involved WOMAN’S BODY FOUND UNDER BASEMENT FLOOR Estranged Husband Locates Corpse of Wife Believed to Have Been Slain. e the Associated Press STREATOR, HL. August hody of Mrs. Matiann ectranged wife of Di. H oculist, was found today burled in the b ment of her home. Fractures on the skull Indicated murder Mrs. Hill was last seen alive three weeks ago. Her husband and several officers yncovered the body after Dr. Mill had previously found evidence that the basement floor had been removed. Streator authorities have instituted o search for Harry Hill, 2z, the wom an's son, who is a traveling repre sentative for an advertising firm. Dr. Hill, agitated by the prolonged absence of his wife, who lived apart from him, went to her home last night with Dr. George A. Didus, yautual friend. They searched through the house and finally entered the lasement. They noticed the brick finor had heen disturbed and there was evidence that dirt had been sprinkled over it The two rolice and covered 23 Hill, Hill, an Streator was un informed the body men later can | he | | nical men including cameramen and assistant directore. | The Rogers party is coming aboard |a private car, which will be attached to the Liberty Limited from Chicago and is expected to reach Union Sta- tion at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Rogers will be met and entertained during his stay of 8 to 10 days by the National Press Club. Other motion picture players who will be associated with Will Rogers in the filming of the Washington scenes will arrive from New York City either OF POLICE CAPTAIN| Intruders in Home During Vaca- tion of Collins Appropriate $50 Diamond Pin Also. Capt. Maurice Collins of the seventh 1 police precinct returned from his vaca- tion yesterday and discovered intruders ! had been in his home, 1116 Fairmont street, during his absence and had taken his service pistol and-a diamond pin valued at $50. Examination of the premises disclosed that entrance had been gained by breaking a pane of glass from a basement door. Failure of a gypsy woman, claiming to her by Ella Murphy, 231 Elm street, several days ago, prompted the filling Mrs. Raymond O. Fletcher, 1730 Irving strest, appealed to the police last night to recover a diamond ring valued at $200. The ring, she stated, was taken from her home yesterday. Loss of a mink stole valued at $100 was reported to the police by Miss Emma Payne, apartment 509, 3701 Six- teenth street. The stole, she =aid. was taken from a seat in a theater Sunday. BIG SALARIES CHARGED. Decimo Club, Inc., Accused of Hav-| ing $100,000 Officers’ Pay Roll. | ST. LOUIS, August 23 (®).—Na- tional officers of the Decimo Club, Inc., with branches throughout the country, receive approximately $100,- 000 in annudl salaries, according to testimony yesterday in the State suit to oust the corporation from Mis- souri, Hugo Monjar of New York, national president, receives $36,000 annually as president of Decimo Club, ‘Inc., and an affliated concern, the Apasco Pur- chase & Sales Corporation. In addi- York and read at a hearing here yes- terday, he receives $5 out of the 3 initiation fees for members and netted $262,000 from this source in tonight or tomorrow morning, and {these include Douglas Fairbanks, jr.; | George Marion and Sam Hardy. Fol- lowing the completion of their work here. ihe actors will journey to the West, where ranch scenes will be made for the production. CAPT. CUNNINGHAM DIES. Veteran Richmond Employe Suc- ceeded Father as Tugboat Chief. to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., August 23.—Capt Thomas Cunningham, 71 for more than 55 years connected with the city government, serving for more than 32 years as captain of the city tug Thomas Cunningham, is dead at his home here. He had been in ill health for a long time, but refused to surrender his post or to retire from the vessel he had so long directed. Capt. Cunningham succeeded his father as commander of the tug, the | vessel having been named for the older man in recognition of his long ind faithful service. Capt. Cunningham is survived by his widow and two daughters and tiiree sixters. He was a brother to the |late Capt. Frank W. Cunningham. well known as a singer and public officer {for many The funeral took place today at 11 o'clock. 3 Special Dispate vears old. | . | her husband, Sylvano Balboni, resid. { less than two years. LOST LOVE AND FLOWER THEMES | CHEVY CHASE POOL LEAD IN U. S. SONG POET CONTEST {Mortgaged Home, Sorrowing Mother and DECLARED UNSAFE | Montgomery Commissioners - Ask Owners to Submit Plans for Lowman Summons Northwest Chief To Explain Liquor| By the Associated Press. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August returns in a contest being con- ducted by the Associated Glee Clubs of America, is a sad young man from the West sentimentally preoccupied with love, preferably unrequited, mortgaged homes, sorrowing mothers and the humble flowers of the field He cares far more, this typi poet, for babies than for either bat- tles or for bottles, lullabies are wor- thy of his talent, but martial airs | sound mot in the chambers of his {mind, and with one lone exception he has no need of the galloping meters of the old-time drinking song. He has but faint stirrings of pa- triotic fervor, avoids religious themes entirely, seldom permits himself the use of humor, and when he scans lite in general for its hidden mean- ing, if any, it is with a slightly jaun- diced eve that expects the worst and | is fairly confident of finding it. War Themes Lacking. He digs almost never for his sub- ject matter in the inky lines of the laily news, Lindbergh himself being the inspiration for but one song in the contest, though aviation in general was the theme of four others. Other Sad Subjects Predominate in Typical American Ballads. 23.—The | pecially noticeable that there was an cal American song poet, to judge | entire absenc | In classifying the poems it was es- of war themes and that the collective poet had no ax to grind at all. Not one of the entries is in any way propaganda for any cause, nor is there any versified argu- ment for or against any sort of re- strictive legislation. Offerings in the contest, which con- tinues until December 1, are not ac- companied by the contestant’s name or address, but from letters sent in for information, from postmarks and the handwriting and style of the sub- mitted poems, readers in the glee clubs’ offices have been able to recon- struct the typical contestant. The great bulk of the manuscripts have come from the West, many of them from small towns, with a generous sprinkling from the South. But a small minority are from the Eastern States. | | Object of Contest. | The contest is in two parts, one for song poems suitable for four male voices and the other for musical com- positions for the same purpose. The prizes, one of $100 for words alone and_another of $300 for words and music, were offered “in an effort to stimulate the writing of songs, to | Assistant Secretary Lowman, in | charge of prohibition enforcemen'’, announced yesterday that an ex- planation of “why so much liquor still . flows into the Northwest” would be demanded of Roy C. Lyle, prohibition administrator for W h- ington, Oregon and Alaska. Ly X summoned to Washington aturday for a conference with Lowman and Commissioner Doran. He will arrive September 1. Another subject to be taken up, he said, is whether sums of money have passed between rum runners | and enforcement agents. Much of the liquor coming into the states under Lyle's jurisdiction is smug. gled from Vancouver, British Co- ot BIGOTRY IS ASSAILED AT CATHOLIC MEETING| Reconstruction. | 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. 1‘ ROCKVILLE, Md., August 23.—A.| J. Scullen, a Washington engineer ap- polnted Jast week by the Montgomery | County commissioners to make an in- | spection of the new swimming pool at | Chevy Chase Lake, today reported to | the board that the pool, because of | large cracks which resulted in its| closing some time ago, was unsafe for use. He suggested that the construc- tlon of exterior buttresses would make | the tank fit for use. i John_Corridan, George Heon and | Hugh Reed, representing the corpora- | tion which owns the pool, were asked | by the commissioners to submit plans | for the necessary reconstruction, but the board would not promise to issue a permit for its operation even if the suggestions were carried out. Due ta_the lateness of the season, it is not expected that action will be taken immediately, but the corpora-| tion’s officers indicated they would at- | tempt to have the pool ready for operation next Spring. o | Orders { Criticisms of Fraternal Also Denounced by Chap- lain at Fort. DOHENY PROGRAM DENIED West Texas Leasing Venture Held | Undecided Upon. | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA 1.0S ANGELES, August 23 (#).—Of- | gj v Wi s: ficials of the Pan-American Petroleum | 1 o jioeigy L os August 23.—| d and a plea for the application of Christian prin('lble" |'of Maurice Mouvet, | the end that, before the veteran num- | bers are done quite to death, a new {and virile glee club literature may M. E. Porter, secretary of the As- sociated Glee Clubs, has made the fol- lowing classification of the first batch tion, said a deposition taken in New | of song poems received: Love, flow- ers, 36; home and mother, sophical, 15; lullabies, 8; sea poems, humorous, 7; patriotic, 5; aviation adventure, 4; Christma: drinking songs, 1. philo- | have been born.” The musical compositions will be by a committee headed by nk Damrosch and the poems by John Erskine, Robert Frost and rshall Bartholomew. CHILD AND WOMAN HURT IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS | Boy Struck by Auto, While River- dale Resident Is Injured | UNDATED WILL IS VOID. Lawyers Win Suit Over Testament | of Scenario Writer. | 1.0S ANGELES, August 23 (P).— | Failure of June Mathis, scenario I writer, who died in a New York the: | ter recently, to include the year 1927 {in the date on her holographic will, has resulted in its being refused ad- mission to probate in the Superior | Court here. The will, written last March, made uary legatee after the conclusion of a life trust for the benefit of Mrs. Emily Hawks, the 84-year-old grand- mother of Miss Mathis. Mrs. Hawk! attorneys filed the objection, which re- {sulted in the will being thrown out yesterday. Should the grandmother win in the.final proceedings, she will obtain Miss Mathis’ separate estate in fee as the sole heiratlaw and a half of the community property. The petition for probate offered by Bal- | in value, . | Processes for developing linens de- | vised 4,000 years ago are still being useds 2 & Iboni said the estate exceeded $25,000 | in Collision. Russell Hayden, 7 years old, of 1226 R street southwest, was struck on | Sixth street between Maryland avenue fand C street southwest yesterday | afternoon by the automobile of J. B. Kingston, 1452 Spring place, and was | injured about the face. Kingston'took him to Providence Hospital, and had his injury dressed. Mrs. James Ritter, Riverdale, Md. land W. H. Baldwin, Chevy Chase, Md., were drivers of automobiles that col- lided at Seventeenth and P streets yesterday afternoon resulting in In- Jjury to Mrs, Jane McRae of Riverdale, who accompanied Mrs. Ritter. The injured woman was treated at the of- fice of Dr. George W. Creswell. | Bud Fisher Wins $730 Bill Case. NEW YORK. August 23 'y C. (Bud) Fisher, cartoonist and_horseman, does not have to pay 1 $730 doctor's bill of his estranged wife, the former Countess de Beau- mont, it was decided in the appel- late division of the Supreme Court yesterday. = w—" | By the Associated Press. DETROIT WINS CONTEST FOR SPEED IN TYPING‘( Commercial High School Pupils Average 79.7 Words a Minute., | Milwaukee Gets Second. ! NEW YORK, August 23.—Detroit Commercial High School, Detroit, Mich., whase 45 entrants made an av-| erage typewriting speed of 79.7 words a minute, was announced today as the | winner of the 1927 competent typist | ' contest, held annually by the Gregg Writer, Shorthand and Typewriting | Magazine. The contest was open to business and commercial schools throughout the country. i Second piace went to St. Francls Commercial School of _Milwaukee, Wis., whose 22 entrants averaged 78.5 words. Third place was taken by Nor- folk High School of Norfolk, Nebr., whose 36 entrants averaged 70. words. First of the individual prizes was won by Miss Eleanor Hardy of the Detroit Commercial School, with a speed of 110.8 words a minute, Miss Gertrude Suliivan of Providence, R, 1., who won second place, averaged 110.3 words. i The competent typist cup, presented | the winning sciool each year, was won | last year by the Alvernia High Schooll of Chicago. Corporation here denied that the E. L. Doheny interests had decided def nitely to enter a development pro- gram of West Texas leases, as report- ed in Wall Street press information yesterday. They said Doheny would return to his office today from a trip to Texas and that the question of operations in the field might be decided upon dur ing the day State to Aid Gambling Drive. BATON ROUGE, La., August gambling houses in St. Bernard Par ish was offered Sheriff L. A. Mereaux vesterday by Gov. O. H. Simpson if this assistance should be necessary. Eight Miles After Losing Front Wheel Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., Au- gust 23.—J. M, Darlington, jr., was arrested by State police here this morning after they had followed him eight miles on the Williams- port pike while he drove his car on three. wheels so threateningly that they feared to try to cut in front of him. He finally was ar- n;.ltled when his car gave out on a hill. Agcording to the officers, Darling- ton dropped his right front wheel in the middle of the bridge over the Potomac. State officers were following him, and he immediately set out at a 35-mile-an-hour rate. The pike shows a train of dents where the axle hit. The axle itself was worn half-way through. He was arrested on & charge of driving a car w?lls intoxicated. (#).——The aid of the State in ('luslmi’ to the solution of social and economic problems was voiced at opening ses sions of the Catholic Central Verein | of American in convention here yes-| terday. | The organization, composed of Cath- olics of German descent, is in its| seventy-first year, and is meeting here | for the first time since the centennial celebration in 1876. | Rev. Charles O'Gallagher, chaplain | of Fort Sam Houston, Tex., denounced as bigotry criticism of fraternal or- ganizations whose members arve of a | different sect, and praised Masons for thelr aid in the building of a chapel | at the fort. | + Sex appeal through the medium of salacious magazines and motion pic- tures was condemned by the Rev. Ferdinand Gruen of Quincy, IIl, at the convention session last night. Father Gruen attacked so-called | “beauty contests” as well as some | magazines, which he said succeeded | dime novels as purveyors of indecent | literature, It was announced received from Pope Pi XI conferred | the decoration “Rpo Ecclesta Et Pon- | tificl” upon Mrs. Sophia C. Wavering | of Quincy, III, national president of | | the union, and upon Mrs. Catherine | | Felsecker of Milwaukee, Wis., treas | \urer. } { CLAIMS STOCK BURNED. NEW YORK, August 23 (#).—Claim- Ing that his 50 shares of stock of the New York, Ontario & Western Rail. | |road ‘were burned with some oid| papers, Edmond Fortier of Montreal has asked the Supreme Court to or-| der the company to issue a new certif. | ' | at a_cablegram | icate. The stock is now worth about | Word y ithe death of Rev. Marcellus Horn. a share. LECION T0 HONOR FREACH NKNOWN American Survivors of For- _eign Unit to Light-Flame at Paris Tomb. ssociated Press PARIS, August 23.—The survivors of the little body of American volun- teers in the French army at the be- ginning of the World War will be charged with the task of lighting the flame at the tomb of the unknown sol- dier tomorrow, the anniversary of the incorporation of the first American vodunteers, members of the American Legion were informed vesterday. Of the 20 American boys who went into the Freneh Foreign Legion at that time there remain alive, so far as known, only four, Joseph W. Ganson, president of the Volunteers Associa- ion; Robert Soubiran, James Bach and Jean Mouvet. The latter is a borther the dancer who died in Switzerland recently. These four henceforth will be charged with the task of lighting the flame on the evening of every anni- versary of their incorporation, Au- assification of a growing cor- respondence is now occupying most of he time of Legion officials now in Paris, along with determination of odds and ends of the convention pro-. zram which has not yet been definitely adopted. LEGION PUSHES PLANS DESPITE OPPOSITION Veterans in Paris Continue Con- vention Arrangements, Ignor- ing Reds’ Attacks. By the Associated Pre . PARIS, August 23.—American Le- gion headquarters showed.its usual activity this morning despite the ac tion of the Communist organ L‘Hu- manite in urging “defiance” of the egion convention because of the Sac- co-Vanzetti executions. Legion officials were as busy as they have been since the headquar- ters was opened in “American House” preparing for the convention parade. while a half dozen police- men, discreetly stationed across the way, scrutinized all callers. The program for a tour of Europe by 250 chosen legionnaires is ap- proaching completion. The tour will start September 25. and its general itinerary will be: Nice, Monte Carlo, Genoa, Rome, Lucerne, Strasboursg. Metz, Brussels and London. The members will leave from Rheims where, on September 25, one the be of the greatest celebrations bombarded city ever saw will held in honor of the legion. g Former Pastor Dies. {BERLAND, Md., August 23.— was received here yesterda £ rtier said that he had owned the |O. M. C., former pastor of SS. Peter stock since 1912 and that last year he gave his niece some papers which | Wheeling Sunday, ness of several months He was 41 e thought worthless to be destroyved. ‘He later found, he sald, that he had ' years old. native of Wheeling. given her the stock. nd Paul Catholic Church hers, at following an il Father' Marcellus was &