Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1927, Page 17

JATS YOUNG BRITISH STAR FOR AMERICAN TENNIS TITI ©. Miss Helen Wills receiving from nbolic of the American tennis ch . THE- EVENING mpionship, after defeating Miss STAR, WASHIN PON, e D2 Cs S § WINS ARLINGTON BEAUTY (CROWN. Miss Marie Duchring of Au- ra Heights, Va., posed for this picture last night after being chosen fiss Arlington,” in the beauty contest conducted by the Arlington Post of the American Legion and the Arlington County Chamber of Com- merce. Washington Star Photo. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER. 1.. 1927. some of the scenic tours there, si nds at the right. ENJOYING SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS SCENERY. President and Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John, viewing the grandeur of the Yellowstone River Canyon from Inspiration Point, during their recent tour of the Yellowstone National Park. Supt. Albright of the park, who conducted the presidential party on Wide World Photos. LITTLE BRITISHERS ENJOY NEW THRILL. A London amusement park put on this attraction for youngsters the other day, and it made a hit. The Hlama was imported from its mative clime in South America, and it is now more popular than the ponies at the park. Henry Miller. Mrs. Corinne Brock, first wife of William 8. Brock, now on a world | flight, who says she has no knowl- | +edge of the divorce he- said he ob- ned before marrying his present | Associated Press Photo. i HEIRESS HOPES TO FLY OVI: American heiress, who is id to have offered large sums to avi ATLANTIC. Miss Mabel Boll, the tors to from France to America, is shown stepping out of Charles Le- s plane, the Columbia, after a short ride with Droughin, the French Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Otto Newlin of Georgetown, IIL, who beat a field of 892 of the coun- try's best trapshooters, to win the 1927 Grand American Handicap at Vandalia, Ohio. He broké 98 birds out of a possible 100. Wide World Photos. | UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER | the American Legion convention | French soldier (in center). They ar i the Trocadero Building, headquarters of the convi ground. AIN. Two Legionnaires, on hand for in Paris, chumming around with a passing under the famous tower with ntion, in the back- Copyright by P. & A. Photos " WCRAY GOES HOWE HUGHE OR HOOVER TOPG.0.P.HOES AS PROBE LOOMS . Wants to See Young Grand- Candidale Most Likely to! child for First Time—Fu- Beat Al Smith Object if ture Is Indefinite. Coolidge Is Out. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. September - L—| ity the increasing likelihood that rren T. MCCraY.|goy Al Smith will be the Democratic distance from | pbesrphein By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, The of W wh the career h Erocery cl spanncd nominee for ien led to a cell in the | Atlanta, ' date, are their caleulation largely on contingency. They fizme, in other words, that a Repub b penitentiary- at a new phase today. from prison vesterday . vinz three years ‘and four months of a 10-vear sentence for using o defraud. the former gov- | PI* rted at once for his h unp}{’)‘f‘ dife he has not seen | Clance Atlanta penitentiary. | MOre 5o friends | 8On€ and a few close friends | (o;vention will narrow its choice 1o meet him. One of | e | andidate with surefire vote-geiling fue; fupmer Sexecutive | both above and helow th wanted to do was hix grandchildren, | grory. © peep thought, in fact, is one of them, now nearly 3 years old, | ity PR, hia Dhase of the who was born after McCray entered | 4 n so suddenly precipitated by A His future, has said be worked out May Be Grilled | reasonably sure of carryinz the ¥ State ugainst Smith. As next § ches nominatio: the ins to run bombshell of August 2. There’s fairly general ement {that only two Republicans now in the he declared | jipelight could hope to give Gov began Serving | Smith a real race in his own bailiwick avowed then | These are Charles E. nhimself and repay | Herbert Hoover. and associates who in his own financial | May 1. 1 10-year would vindic nds ien he sentence. ile His friends account Hughes a better bet in New York than Hoover, because Hughes not only was sted governor of the State rried it by a plurality of 110, against Woodrow Hughes Own Obstruction. What is keeping the Hughes “move- ment” stalled, however, is the fuct that the former Secretary of State, now in Europe, to date stands firm on his statement of last Winter that he is “too 0ld” to be President. The | Hughes hoosters several weeks ago {dispatched Republican State Chair- man Lockwood of New York to the Old World for the purpose of ascer- taining whether Hughes has changed {his mind. Up to this writing, Lock- vas a possibility, hinted but atfirmation, ed into the ithoritative t be precipit: political affairs now ! oceupyini much attention in Indiana. 1t stood 10 Some quarters that 1t be called witness before Marion County (Indianapolis) grand jury, now winding up vestigation charges of ical + and irregularities $10,000 Offer Charge. was he its in into -Cray, should he be ed 1o testify, probably would be questioned about an offer of $10,000 which it o been charged was made by Indiana’'s Wod has not reported. iy ey Hushes has admirers who are cer- present governor Ed Jackso ”’- nd 191 {2in he will stand pat on his former hich MeCray to name Ji dictum. Not long ago he told Wash Donald a Marion County n friends that 2 man who would Publis] e vears old at the end of a first offer have =aid th cted | torm. in 18 at the end of a 1 for- | S2cONd term, “has no business o | running for P % of th 1mv l\}zl} Hoover, throug engineering, serving A 1€ woridrelief and Department of Com has been MeN-| perce contacts in the realm of big tioned in 1t charg M| Syt | business and high finance, undoubted ade reg: Is to conservative New York prosecu The name of D. C mer grand dragon Klan, w wentence Stephenson, es that have been » -1)v appe: inz the alleged $10,000 offer ar }smle almost as strongly as Hughes McCray refused 1’.‘,:,;.’:;‘.‘H,\\\.‘--‘:: P | would. But he, of course, lacks the po- . - |litical fighting record that Hughes late vesterday i hae to his credit. It is common to hear New Yorkers, both Republicans and Democ s, say that they'd vote for Al Smith for Governor for as many terms as he could be in- duced to take, they'd shy at voting for him for President. The argument thus is that while Smith is practically invincible in New York at the head of a State ticket, the Commonwealth would record a different story if he sought its electoral vote at the head of the Democratic national ticket. Others Farmer-Minded. Both Vice President Dawes and Gov. Lowden are held incapable of staving off a Smith victory in New York State, because they are so ‘‘farmer- minded” Evea the fact that Dawes v feal sit tioned uy from the A ation in n his release Janta penitentiary Charges Attack by Four r1al Dispateh to Th PPSVILL Md.. September . Starrett wope | has reported to police that he| attacked and eut and bruised by | olored men while motoring home | from Washington along the Ram’s| Horn road about 1 o'clock this morn- ing. He declared he was attacked and his automobile taken and smashed against a telephone pole, Mrs. Star- reit. wife of the wounded man, tele- Phoned Wa police word of what had after he had vesched home in & passing automobile. 5 Sw in 1928, | k to the governorshib of | p. prican leaders, even at this earlv | | lican ought to be nominated who is| nt Coolidze’s T-do-not-choose-to-" Hughes and | go &t <! Wilson in 1916. | though | SPRINT STAR SETS PACE FOR FAIR RUNNERS BEFORE BIG MEET. Charlie Borah, famous sprinter of the University of Southern California, pacing champio Calif. On the left is Frances Keddi e, national 220-yard champ. girl athletes around the track in preparation for the national women's championship track and field meet, to be held at Eureka, Wide World Photos. banker by pro- | nal ties | in corporation quarters does not per- suade hard-boiled G. O. P. politicians that he could take away New York from a vote-nabber like Gov. Smith. | Lowden’s Eastern managers think the former Illinois governor's close | identification with big money, through | his Pullman family connection, di-| vests him of any character that com- | | mercial and financial New York might | fear. But Republican leaders are con- | fident Lowden will seek in vain for anything but isolated delegate th east of the Allegheny Moun- lis a capitalist and Smifth's people are reputed to be- lieve that the governor has clear sail- inz—if nominated—against any Re- publican that can be put up, now that President Coolidge himself is out of the picture. “Al” has had a very wholesome respect for “Cal's” strength in New York State. Smith chances against a Coolidge nomination in 1928 {would have been assessed vastly be- low what they are held to be against {a non-Coolidge nomination. It only remains to be said that | clear-minded Republican politicians are under no delusions about the men- ace of a Smith ticket. Against an Republican the governor is held to be {a decided threat, not only in New York Dbut in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut, because of the large wet and Roman Catholic vote in tho: States. Nor are level-headed Repub] {cans indulging in any day-dream labout State after State in_the Sout falling away from the Democr: lelectoral vote if Smith is the candi ldate. A national Republican, recently | in the Southwest, found that normally ock-ribbed Democratic region steadily | reconciling” itself to the Smith idea. It's a case of not loving the governor more, but loving less the prospect another siege in the patronage wilde: ness. (Covyright. 1927.) From $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 is paid out yearly for papers that used Swim Marathon Grand and Terrible, By the Asociated Press TORONTO, Ontario, September 1.— The Toronto Globe says today that the swimming marathon, won by Ernst Vierkoetter, a German baker, was, at least 1o the writer of the ar- ticle, “the most beautiful and the most cruel athletic event he ever wit- nessed.” “The agomy of countenance and the dull, dogged determination of the ut- terly exhausted as they summoned every ounce of physical energy and grit_within them to crawl on to a possible rich reward, only to crumple up far from the finish, was the other side of the story. “Out there in the open lake a poor, doubled-up creature was hauled up, stiff and motionless, except for the pitiful shivering of his body, and laid, bent up like a jackknife, in the bot- tom of the boat. “Another, a woman, was rowed off | Writer Says in Picturing Battles the course in apparent stupor. Face ashen and drawn, jaws set, she lurched in the boat, barely able to retain a sitting posture. There were scores like that, and vet, not to paint too somber a picture, Eva Morrison, Pictou, Nova Scotia, girl, called out a “I'll trade places with you! as observers passed her 5 miles on the “‘Some swimmers wanted to quit and their boatmen wouldn't let them. Others wanted to go on when their last ounce of energy and strength was exhausted and their boatmen wouldn’t let them. “The old story, in another setting, was used to flag tiring energies: ‘Vier- koetter has quit. You're away out in front. Go on, go, on, fight, fight!’ “But where spirits would have fought, spent arms refused to be lifted to thresh the blue water for more hours. “It was grand, and it was terrible.” NICARAGUA ‘COLONEL’ ESCAPES 0CCOQUAN Miguel Sequeira, Who Was Serving for Misconduct Toward Girls, and Another Sought. ‘Miguel Sequeira, who posed as a colonel in the Nicaraguan army, es- caped from the District workhouse at Qccoquan, Va., Tuesday afternoon while serving two ‘sentences of 11 imonths and 29 days each on charges to be destroyed before Joseph Gatti, a Park Row newsboy, hegan collecting them and selling them to mills that make wrappers and cartons, ‘of misconduct with two small girls, it became known today. He had been imprisoned ahout a month. Ji. The x;rlu-nrrxwm wick Tuesday and was taken to the hospital, es- caping during a short time he was un- observed. It is believed that he took to the woods and remained until dark, probably leaving the vicinity by got- |ting assistance from a passing mo- torist. George Ellis, colored, took French leave of the prison about the time Sequeira went away. Police here have been asked to search for the two fygi- tives. z Sequeira first came to public notice several months ago when he appeared here and told of efforts he was mak- ing to form an alliance of the Central American countries, saying he was connected with the Unionist party in Nicaragua. ! Later he was arrested and sent to the District jail for alleged failure to settle a board bill at the Willard Ho- tel. When released from the local jail he was surrendered to the Baltimore authorities, serving a short term in that city for a similar offense. |MRS. HELEN ENGLE DIES | Member of Many Patriotic Organi- zations Was 80 Years Old. Funeral Saturday. Mrs. Helen A. Engle, 80 yvears old, | for the past 60 years a resident. of this city and member of many patriotic or- ganizations here, died in Sibley Hos- pital yesterday from complications re- sulting from injuries sustained in a fall down steps in her home, 128 Mary- land avenue southwest, Sunday. She never regained consciousness after the accident. Mrs. Engle was the widow of Capt. James Edgar Engle, Union Army vet- eran and holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor. She was historian of ianor House Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution; a member of the Dames of the Loyal Legion, the Women of the Honor Legion, the Le- gion of Loyal Women, and an honor- ary member of the Old Guard, a mili- tary branch of the Grand Army of the Republic. She is survived by three sons— Charles E., Norris H. and Clarence G. Engle. Funeral services will be conducted at Schippert's undertaking establish- ment ~ Saturday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Rev. W. W. Shearer, rector of St. Columba's Episcopal Chapel, will officiate. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery. GARGES CELEBRATES. Daniel E. Garges, secretary to the Board of District Commigsioners, today observed his thirty-sefenth anniver- sary_as an employe of the District government. Just a boy in his teens, Mr. d"fin was appointed a messenger in the En- gineering Department September 1, 1890. He was promoted to chief clerk of this department in Ay in the same month of 1919, he #d (0 his present powitiel AFTER FALL DOWN STEPS| %Bottle Message Puts Coast Guard On Hunt for Girl By the Associated Pre NORFOLK, Va., September 1. “I am held a captive on a rum 1un- ner off Cape Hatteray.” This message, purportedly signed by Miss Adele Macon, Philadelphia found at sea in a bottle and deliv ered to Coast Guard authorities in Baltimore, caused Capt. F. £ Van Doskerck, commandant of the Nor- folk Coast Guard division, yester- day to dispatch all available Coast Guard craft at his disposal in quest of the supposed author of the note of distress “I don’t know whether there anything in this message or not.” said Capt. Van Boskerck. “It may be true and it may be a hoax, but I'm not taking any chances.” 'VERMONT BUILDING SOLD AT AUCTION | | | Changes Hands for $251,000, After | ca i Late Owner Loses Injunc- tion Suit. | The Vermont Building. 11-story office structure located at the corner of Vermont avenue and I, street, arected several years ago as a medical build- | ing, yesterday was sold at auction after the late owner of the buflding, James E. Glass of Philadelphia lost an injunction suit in District Supreme Court by which he sought to prevent the sale. The building was purchased by the Federal City Securities Co., with head- quarters in the Southern Buildi whose representative made a bid of $251.000 cash during the auction sals in front of the Vermont Building. which was ' conducted by Adam A Weschler & Son, auctioneers The building also is subject to a first trust of $327.500 and a second trust which was held by the Mer- chants’ Bank & Trust Co. The Verniont Building has been sold several times and Mr. Glass pur- chased the property only a few months ago. After defaults were made in payments on the building, Percy W. Pickford and Andrew D. Porter, trustees of the property, ad- vertised the building to be sold at auction yesterday afternoon and Mr. Glass filed suit for injunction, alleg- ing the property had been sold to him under misrepresentation as to its value at the time of purchase. De- nial of any misrepresentation and an assertion that the notes had been pur- chased in_the usual order of business were made by the Merchants’ Bank & Trust Co., as holder of the second trust on the building. Chief Justice Walter 1. McCoy yesterday dismissed the injunction suit and also denied Mr. Glass a stay of sale until he could appeal the case. The Vermont Building has a front. age of 131 feet on Vermont avenue ‘and 62 feet on L street, Salvaged Grease Utilized. As a further step in its economy plan to make each dollar appropriated by Congress go as far as possible, the Quartermaster Corps of the Army, is now using oil and grease salvaged from airplanes to lubricate laundry machines and heavy trucks, an idea for which Capt. H. L. Hart of the nd | corps, stationed at the Air Intermed- iate Depot, Middletown, Pa. is ofcial gredit. - L given MUSSOLINI FAMILY EXPECTING STOR 1l Duce Keeps Veil of Secrecy Over Home—Few Know of Event. i By the Associated Press. ROME, September 1.—The veil of ~ecrecy imposed by Mussolini over in- timacies of his home life to keep them e from the prying eyes of the gen- 1 public is being drawn with more than usual care with the approach of [ the date when an addition to his tamily is expected. Although that happy event now is A matter of weeks, not more thin a few thousand of Italv's 42,000,000 in- habitants suspect that Signora Mus- solinl again is to become a mother. Among the privileged few who are | “in” on the secret, interest runs high |and rumors fly fast. Tt it is a boy, they say, he will be lled Romano; if a girl, Romana. An | elaborate lavette has been ordered | from a famous Naples firm, say some, | while others Insist that Donna Rah- | cele is doing her own sewing. There |is talk of doctors and nurses and | plans. but its vagueness reveals the | fundamental truth that nohody knows |anvthing definite and nobody can find | out | Duce’s Villa Closed. | Villa Carpena, near the Duce’s birth- place, where the wife is staying, is | closed to outsiders and the curious— amateurs or professionals—know it would be taking their lives in their hands to try to run the gantlet. The | press is without printed word about | the matter and the rest of the nation | is at a loss to understand the unusual { frequency of Mussolini's visits to Car- | pena this Summer. | The Duce's attitude toward pub- {licity in home affairs was expressed some time ago in this remark to a prominent Faseist journalist: “Remember that journalistically my wife and family do not exist. In Italy there is room for only one Mussolini and at times he is too much.” Ever avid about personal publicity abroad, Il Duce is credited with court. ing attention because, using himseit as a symbol of the new Italy, he em. ploys his fame for patriotic ends. At home instead he is said o desire only the attention which emphasizes his in. | fallibility, his loftiness and his unique. ness in order to heighten the cult of ‘Wml(lei_fil.'illlr\fl which is extremelv {usetul in maintaining discipline and | orderliness. Publicity About Daughter. His daughter Edda's recent emer- gence from obscurity was reluctantly | conceded also for political reasons, but it is rumored that her Mussolinian temperament made it difficult for “Daddy” to refuse to ailow her to come out. It is known, for instance, | that the recent trip she went on with an English companion ended in failure | merely because she didn't feel like ) learning English. | o2 | 26 Dry Charges Filed. | Twenty-six charges of dry-law vio- lations were preferred against persons arrested during the 24 hours ended at 8 o'clock this morning, the charges in- cluding conspiracy, sale, possession and transportation of intoxicants. ‘There were 39 persons arrested for in- toxication and three for driving while intoxicated. ~ Seizures _included 36 g:l:rrls of whisky and 200 bottles of