Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1927, Page 17

g - .. THE EVEXN ¢ 4 i [ TEACHER ARRESTED AS PICKETER. Prof. Ellen Hayes of Welles- ley College (at right) being escorted the police station after her arrest with other Sacco-Vanzetti picketers in front of the State House in Boston Monday. Wide World Photos. T ered in Union Square, at New York was held on. duty.as a precaution ag: G _STAR. WASHINGTON, , during the st disord P €. before the execution of the two me; s, the New York demonstrati gave the police little trouble WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1927 POETESS JOT American poetes of the State House at Boston. picketers. BOSTON PICKETS. FEdna St. Vincent Millay, the , leading a parade of Sacco-Vanzetti picketers in front She was later arrested with other Copyright by P. & A. Photos. = READ;#“OR‘ THE FIREMEN'S PARADE. The historic old apparat of the Friendship ¥ire Company of Alexandria, Va., presented by George Washington jn 1774, is shown all decked out for the s % resen parade there to- morrow of -the Virginia State Firemen's Association. B W gton Star Photo. cators, public Edmund 8. Walsh, luncheon yesterd: ing for home. RUMANIAN VISITORS WELCOMED ON ARRIVAL IN men and students, who 8. ., regent of the Georgetown U The group planned to leave Washington today for a trip to CAPITAL e making a good will tour of the iversity School of Fo, The delegation of Rumanian edu- United S reign Sert es are shown with Dr. , who tendered them a Niagara Falls before sal Miss_ Marguerite_Jingle holding a fan in the historical exhibit at the Rockville, Md., fair, which w brought to America on the May- flower by an ancestress of Mrs. John D. Wade of Cloppers, Md., its owner. Copyright by P, & A. Photos. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. JONES TIES RECORD AS MEDALIST. George von Elm, the defending champion, fore the start of play in the amateur championship. Jjust the amateur qualifying record of 142, while Von game, qualified with 154. Bobby Jones (at left) and on the links at Minneapolis Jones tied im, slightly off his Copyright by Paramount News. Triplets and Twins For Two Mothers Keep Stork Busy SLAYING OF MOTHER CHARGED 10 YOUTH he Associated Press. COVINGTON, Ky.. August 2 The stork made a prolonged visit at St. Elizabeth’'s Hospital here vesterday, leaving triplets and twins in adjacent rooms. The triplets are all boys, the sons of Naval Lieut. D. W. Hardin, who is on a cruise from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the U. 8. Texas, and Mis. Alice Tague Hardin. The news wus radioed to the father. The twins are girls and are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Collins of Latonia, Ky. CUARD SOUADRONS TOGET ARPLANES <o War - Department te Refit | Units With Modern AH- Purpose Ships. Police Hunt for Son’ After! Finding:Woman’s Body ; Buried in Basement. Br the Associated Press. CHICAGO, ide 244 today pursue Hill arouna Sicad August Chicago in his The Fish” they called or because of wift habits, for wi to have upbraid to have been ht, spending tie home, Fron . a well-to-do , was responsible for di of ‘the hody of tae wife, f m he had been estranzed ven years. lLearning ti Hill had not hcen seen si 4. he asked of him to the home in which she and her son lived | In the basement they came upon | K for Stepe were taken by the War De- vartment today for refitting National o suard squadrons throughout the ame upon the body of the a;- | Gua ¢ ! o e \«]nui;'-‘\d ey | United States with airplanes of mod. | ';_ arments and there were two hul | €T _constructio, especially adapted Jet holes In the head. Mye, Hill had |10 the use of such organizations. As | e {1 result of recent competiton for such = e e ound a | Dlanes, contracts will be e b Dac Dooch i wils Tound 2 | ine ' Dougla; AT plans 1o, o Amduin if.: the Keystone Aircraft R of Bristol, Pa., and the Curtiss i s {Airplane and Motor Co. of Garden | City, Long Istand e requivements for which designs were submitted by these companies ire for a light-powered two-seater of L 4 he had been {20 allaround, all-purpose type which explaining | €20 be used by the National Guard : on vaca. | sauadrons in fiying training, in fixed { gunnery training, in flexible gunnery | training, for an observer in radio and photographic training and for cross- v flying. The ‘motive power will be a Wright 5 motor, which has achieved so much s, T -time planes used in hiitoh 3 e t few years by the National itics, Prosecuting otficers were told(Guard are heing salvaged and are that mother and son recently had|now being replaced by the training bheen in sharp disagreement over the |Dlanes used by the Army Air Corps outh's plan 1o marry a Streator givl, | &t ts flying schools and by a very and 2lso over his reputed gambling | imited number of the service type 138n: | observation planes of ‘the Army. | As the work of the National Guard newly laid bricks. Digging, they e mother's ing his explanation ¢ Mrs. Hill lived towing her separation from her jand, almost sole inter retired C. NURSE ATTACKED. | Recovers From Shock suit load, the technical sec- F REDERICK, Md., pe 0f planes now used ounty, from the effects of an Officers of the National Guard ausaily pt, who aitacked Mrs. K —o— No. 3, and Maj. E. G. Atkinson, hack. BRITISH INVADERS PICK POLO TEAM TO MEET AMERICA’S “BIG FOUR.” Here is the quartet of British the American team in the international matches next month at Meadowbrook, I liams, No. 2; Capt. C. T. I. Roark, ) Long Island. Left to right: Capt. polo stars C. E. Pert, Copyright by P. as finally chosen to meet No. 1; Maj. A. H. Wil- & A. Photos. SHOOTING SEASON OPENS IN ONE WEEK Blackbirds and Reedbirds Plenti-| ful in Marshes Along Distriet Waters. | One week from tomorrow, Septem- | ber 1, opening of the Fall season for | shooting such migratory birds as orto- lan, reedbirds and blackbirds will be shooting in the marshes. Years ago | the season was ushered in by hun- | dreds of such sportsmen. That was when the marshes extended from . Navy Yard Bridge to the District line | and along the Virginia shore opposite the citv. but within the confines of the District. Reclamation of Anacostia Flats has greatly reduced the hunting area and | made it impossible for the army of ! hunters to be in evidence the open- ing morning of the season. The flats are not large enought to accommodate 80 many, persons familiar with the situation state. Under present conditions, it is stat- ed, most of the shooting probably will be done along the marshes above Benning Bridge, the distance from the bridge to the District line being ap- proximately two and one-half miles. | Tihose who' cross the District line into { Maryland there or into Virginia he- low Alexandria may expect nothing short of arrest by stute policemen and imposition of heavy fines by magis- trate unless they have provided them- seievs with State licenses. Blackbirds have flocked to the near- by marshes in large numbers, while a goodly number of reedbirds are re- welcomed by the sportsmen who enjoy | I E“Quite Good Lookirg™ Girls in Michigan (CAVE EXPLORER'S ~ Eager to Know Fairly Educated Marinesi STORY HELD PROVEN By the Associated Press. A group of “quite good looking" girls in Bay City, Mich., have aml tlons of getting ly educated, single They let their wants be known in a letter received recently by the com manding officer of Brown Field, Quan tico, Va. With a plea for for for their liberty, the letter said “'A number of Bay City young busi women working in offices, stores, highly respect: ingle and loving. good, clean f Marine aviators, iveness the habit of meeting seml-weekly to i play 500, read or just talk. | “We would like you if you don't quainted with “fair- | think it too foolish a notion, to send us the nam congenial fe care to corr We aver- age from 18 to 28 years of age, all well educated and quite good who would commander posted the letter under the title, “Attention, Marine Bachelor Officers,” but he withheld the name of the sender. CIVIL SERVICE TESTS. | Examinations Announced for Va- cancies in Departments. The Civil Service Commission to- day announced open competitive ex- aminations to fill the following va- | cancies: ssociate accountant and auditor, at $2,700 a year ant and auditor, at 00 a year; principal accounting and auditing assistant, at $2100 a year: Bureau of Valuation, Interstate Commerce Commission. Assistant ordnance engineer (pro- peliant), Ordnance Department at large, for duty at Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J., at $2,400 to §3,000 a year. Assistant agricultural _ engineer, Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agricyture, for duty in Washing- ton, D. C, or in the fleld, at $2,400 a year, sistant account- ported to have appeared there the past 10 days, and the ortolan are not yet plentiful. Shooting will begin at daybreak each day during the sea- san and end at sundown. o mainly of intrastate nature and does not demand long cruising radius arrangement for complete war- M. Finks o, i " % called for bids for a type of plane to ws Posse Vainly Seeks Man. those rticular needs—one Spe jal Dispatch to The Star i eral characteristics than afheld Hospital, Washington, is re | heavier than the primary training <covering at the home of her father, planes used at Brooks and Kelly S. Wienner, near Point of Rocks, this | Fields. e of the new es with_ enthusinsm identilied man. Searching yesterday and last night, |for the possibilities in the scope of posy e failed to find any trace of the | thelr training programs near her father's home, wheie ' of the greatest sh-ep-raising coun- spepding a vacation. tries in the world. iy 1 of the Army Air Corps recently Mrs, Guila Finks, student nurse at!in the Army Air Corps units, yet emptled assault Monday by an un | squadrons generally await the receipt :"'I’fi‘ as walking along the yailtoad | Pern fs expacted to hecome one Manv mothers know that it's never tos laie to mend, Head indexer, Office of Informa- tion, Department of Agriculture, at §2,400 a year. Junior patent examiner, Patent Of- fice, at $1;860 a year. Junjor civil service examiner, Civil Service Commission, at $1,500 a year. Junior undcr-‘h National Mu- e heen in | seum, Smithsonian $1,320 year. Associate bio animals), at $3,000 to § assistant biologist (di: fur { animals), at 00 to $3,000 a yea Bureau of F Survey, Depart- ment of Agriculture, for duty in the field. Junid $1 Institution, gist (di or biologist (rodent control), | a 60 to $2,400 a year; assistant biological aide (rodent control), at $1,500 to $1,860 a year; assistant ler (predatory animal control), at 31,860 to $2,400 a year; junior leader (predato nimal control), at $1,600 $1,860 a year;. junior biologist (diseases of fur animals), at $1.860 to $2,400 a year, Bureau of Bio- logical Survey, Department of Agri- culture, for duty in Washington, D. C, or in the field. Junior biological aide, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agri- culture, at $1,320 a year. Dairyman, Indian Field Service, Department of the Interior, at $1,380 a year, less $180 a year for quarters, fuel and light. Full information and application blanks may be obtained from. the United States Clvil Service Commis- sion, 1724 F street. [—, Construction of the Port Armuelles- | will be made of the instruments in his | Conception railway in Panama is to Stinsoi be started at once. Newspaper Correspondent Says Ashley Took Him to Spot Where He Dug Self Out. By the Associated Press. | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., August 24. The Chattancoga News says today that Lawrence S. Ashley furnished |one of its staff correspondents con- | vincing proof that he actually was | imprisoned in Nick-a-Jack cave last | week. 0. P. Pile, State mine inspec- in his opinion Ashley was not lost in the cave but that the entire affair | was a hoax for publicity purposes. | " Ashley took the News correspondent | on a tour of the cave and he reported | that he was shown a new cave and also was led to the point where Ash- ley claimed to have dug himself out Sunday morning after having been in the cave a week. The correspondent said he not only found footprints to show proof of Ashley's story, but that they hore marks of the peculiarly fashioned steel cleats of Ashley’s ! shoes. | The account said that Ashley fur- nished “almost positive proof” of his story and added that he was ‘“very of his account of the week spent in the cave.” . Will Test Plane Apparatus. DETROIT, August 24 (#).—“Duke" Schiller, who will pilot Phil Wood of Detroit on a projected non-stop flight from Windsor, Canada, to W indsor, England, starting Wednesday of uext week, took off at 10:10 a.m. today-for Curtis Field, New York, where tests -Detroiter monoplane, Schiller expected i make the trip in 8 hours. i Grocers Selling Beer Ingredients (= Arouse W.C.T.U.Ire By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 24.—Grocers who sell ingredients used in home- brewing of beer have aroused the ire of the National W. C, T. U. Mrs. Ella Boole, national presi- dent of the union, announced, as she stopped off here yesterday en route to the convention in Minneapolis. that the W. C. T. T\ likely would recommend that housekeepers patronize only those merchants who refuse to cater to “that_thoughtless group who flout the Constitution by the domestic manufacture of illegal brew.” HLLROGERSINGIY TOMKEFLNPLAY IComedian Will Be Entertained { at Press Club Dinner Saturday Night. | Will Rogers breezed into Washing- | ton in characteristic fashion early | this morning to take up a temporary residence in the Capital while scenes are befog shot for a new motion pic- ture play in which the humorous mayor of Beverly, Calif, is to be starred. Accompanying the Rogers party aboard the private car attached to the Liberty Limited from Chicago | were Mrs. Rogers and his company of co-stars. The three little Rogers were left at home in Beverly. | Surprises await Rogers at the N. | tional Press Club reception which | will be tendered him Saturday night in the W ington Auditorium. | Whether he knows it or not, he is to be initiated into the rank of “Con- 2ress,” and henceforth will discard his title of mayor for the more il- lustrious cognomen of the “gentle- man from California.” Senator Henry L. Ashurst of Ari- zona, who used to throw a mean lariat in his own early cowboy days, will introduce Rogers to the host of admirers who will welcome him on this occasion and “induct” him into his new office. Louis Ludlow, presi- dent of the Press Club, will preside. Before the reception Rogers will be the dinner guest of the board of governors at the Press Club. The Rogers party are at the Wil- lard Hotel, where some of the scenes in the new film are to be taken. Accompanying him were Louise F: | modest in his efforts to furnish proot | “enda, Ann Rornk and Mrs. Rork, Richard Wallace, director, and M ‘Wallace, Jack Wagner, comedy con structor,,and a retinue of technical men, including camera men and as- sistant directors. s CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. There will be a musical and literary “auspices of .the Tribe entertainment, 8 o'clock, at the Ver- mont - Avenue Baptist Church by the Musical and Missionary Club, under King David. George Onley, chairmai WOUNDING0F * PROSTRATES W [ Relstives Await Word of Carl l Woodward Shot in De- troit Hotel. With his young wife prostrated st |their home here by news of the | ‘ragedy, relatives today were anxiously | awaiting word of Carl Woodward, 19 | vears old, of 3602 Eleventh street, who was shot in the back by a drunken policeman in an unprovoked assault in_Detroit, vesterday afternoon, ac- |cording to an Associated Press dis "pulr‘h from the Michigan city. | Woodward's condition is reportea | serious, and his brother, Dewey Wood {ward of Sherwood Forest, Md., is leaving this afternoon to go to his bed- side in a Detroit hospital. In City Only Half Hour. The Washington youth, a carpenter, thad gone to Detroit to get employ ment, and had planned to bring his wife, Mrs. Ora Woodward, there when he made a home for her. He was accompanled by John P. Peters of 51" Sixth street southwest. They had been in Detroit less than half an hour when the shooting took place in a hotel. Two policemen were reported im- plicated—Herman A. Perry and Jo seph Yogus—and both were charged with assault with intent to commit murder. Perry is said to have done the shooting. According to Woodward and wit- nesses, including Peters, the assault was absolutely unprovoked. Wood- ward, it is recounted, was standing in the doorway of the hotel when the two patrolmen approached. Perry said, “I don't like your looks, Bozo, go sit down.” Shot as He Fled. When Woodward refused to obey, | Perry lunged at him, shouting: “T am a policeman,” and struck Wood- ward on the jaw, knocking him to the Several blows wera exchanged » Woodward went into the lobby and sat down. Perry followed him and slapped him several times. Woodward rose from his chair and ran for the door. As he passed through the door he was shot. Peters testified further that Perry kicked Woodward and swore at him. Police Inspector Louis Berg of Detroit is said to have reported that hoth policemen had been - drinking heavily. ELKS SELECT NORFOLK. 1928 Virginia Convention Will Be Held at Seaboard City. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., August 24.—Norfolk was chosen yesterday by the Virginia Elks’ Association, in an- nual convention here, for,the 8 convention. No other city was put forward, it being understood that the Norfolk delegation had reached an agreement with other delegations outside the convention. The convention closed yesterday afternoon and delegates mfldmd at a crab feast at River .resort.