Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1927, Page 17

THE EVENING e ————__———=—7 S TO ABANDON PARIS FLIGHT. ‘Miss Ruth Elder, Lake- , aviatrix, with the co-pilot, George Haldeman, of her Miss America monoplane as they arrived the way to New York for their transatlantic flight. at Wheeling, W. Va., yesterday on Miss Elder rejected the plea of her backers that she abandon the flight. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. OVER THE JUMPS AT MARLBORO. ST AR. WASHINGTON, Thomas Waller of Broad Run, Va., taking his ribbon winner, Maid of Afton, over the hurdles in the hunters’ class at the Southern Maryland Horse Show yesterday. Entries from the District, Virginia and Maryland competed in the show, a fea- ture of the southern Maryland fair. ‘Washington Star Photo. D. €, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, PLANE “SHANGHAIS” BOY ON and was unwillingly carried aloft. 1997 FLIGHT. Seventeen-year-old Vincent Taylor of Hackensack, N. J., demonstrates how he rode on the tail of an express plane the other day for 30 miles. Taylor said he was helping the pilot turn the plane around when he got tangled up in the struts Copyright by P. & A. Photos. TITLE CONTENDERS NEARLY SCORE DOUBLE KNOCKOUT IN PHILADELPHIA BOUT. This unusual spectacle of both fighters being down at the same time was witnessed by ring fans at the bout for the featherweight title Monday night between Benny Bass of Philadelphia (at left) and “Red” Chapman of Boston. 1t hlspened in the ninth round when each connected with solid blows simultaneously. was down for only a brief count, ut the referee tolied off eight before Chapman was up again. FAIRFAX FAR OPEN WITH BIG CROWD Judging of Many Departments Begun—Live Stock Hold- ing Stage Tomorrow. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., September 14.— Bunshine, a large crowd, and an un- usually large number of exhibitors marked the opening of the fourteenth annual Fairfax County Fair today. Judging in many of the departments began at 10 o'clock this morning the live stock to be judged tomorrow. Two carloads of chickens from outside the State had to be refused for lack of ex- hibition room. One carload from Elec- tra, Fla., was benched two days ago. Judging in this department will be by A. H. Kirk of Herndon. W. C. Shack- leford of Profit, Va., District county agent, will judge the farm products, fruits, vegetables and the boys and girls’ 4-H club poultry and garden live stock exhibits, Miss Mary MacGowan of Blacksburg and Miss Belle Burke of Charlottesville are judging the women’s displays and the girls’ 4-H Club work. George C. Carey of Blacks- burg will judge of the cattle and live stock. Flowers Unusually Fine. The plants and flowers department presents an unusially attractive ap- pearance, with its walls lined with everg: a_background for the flower (i JuAzing in this de- partment at 12:30 this after- L. Mulford of the au of Plant Indus- of Oakton and Mr. all's, in Washington, as judges. This department is run by members of Fairfax Garden Club. Mrs. Amos Chilcott, president of the eiup, in clerk_and general superintendent; Mrs, J. E. Nickell, in charge of arrangements and florists’ . Robert Graham and Gillespie, in charge of F. D. Richardson, in skets and bowls: Mrs. «s Jemnie Moore of wdioll, Mrs. F. S. Mc- Candlis! nnuals and Mrs. Blake of potted ng This Afternoou. » races will begin at 3 include a \der, ridden by purse, $15, $10 and $5. blooded horses, 35 mile; $15 and sw.k Third, Prince William, Arlington and | Fairfax he 6 furlongs; purse, $50, $15 and $10. Fourth, ladies’ race, for | half-breeds only; purse, $25, $15 and | ; 4 furlongs. Fifth, hunting hurdle for horsgs she®n in the ; weight, 150 pounds; 64—, $30. $15 and $10. Tomorrow's feature will be the horse show, with 2 and two races, the hunter; ce for horses entered in the show, purse, $25, $15 and $10, and a 1-mile flat race, purse, £100. First classes to be judged in the horse show include vearling half- breds, 2-vearold half-breds, brood mares, 3-year-old mares sired by Gov- ernment stallion, green hunters, light- weight hunters, middle and heavy weight hunters, ladies’ hunters, road hack and hunters, pair of hunters, touch and out, over four jumps at 4 feet, free-for-all handicap and triple- War Jump. - aren unde Soap Bubble Again Wins High Favor as Aid to Science The humble soap bubble has again come to the aid of science— this time in determining the prog- ress of _gas-explosion reactions. How it is done was explained today by scientists of the “House of Won- ders,” the big plant of the Bureau of Standards out on Connecticut avenue. For some time science has been wondering just how gas explosions took place, how long they took to occur and how they reacted. So the Government experts sealed up the gas to be exploded in a common soap bubble and exploded it with a charge at the center of the bub- ble, focusing an instantaneous cam- era on the bursting bubble to obtain a continuous photographic record. Their success was remarkable b cause of the constant pressure ex- erted by the soap bubble, and they found the explosive reaction, in- stead of being a haphazard, wholly erratic process, to be law-abiding and absolutely symmetrical. The experiments have a valuable application in aiding a complete understanding of the gas engine and the explosive process involv- ed within the cylinder, SHAW HOLDS NOBODY WON JUTLAND BATTLE Declares, However, That Germany Came Out of War With Great Naval Prestige. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 14.—George Bernard Shaw, adding his voice to the long-standing controversy over the battle of Jutland, believes that mo- body won the battle, but thinks that Germany came out of the war with enhanced naval prestige. In a letter to the Evening Standard lished and in which he was quoted as saying that he “"had a suspicion” that Admiral von Scheer won the battle of Jutland, Shaw writes: “Nobody won the battle of Jutland and the ‘our side won' of schoolboys in both countries need not be taken into account. What should make us think a little is that we went into the war with great naval prestige nd Germany with none, though her military p: ige was the terror of Europe. Germa a new and very respectable naval prestige, while her military prestige had ceased to exist anywhere.” MASKED MEN SEIZE BOY. Negre Lad, Passenger in Officer’s Car, Taken—Reason Unknown. FRANKLIN, N. C. September 14 (®).—Fear of lynch law was rife here last night following a charge upon the automobile driven Derrell Ashe, deputy sheriff, by masked men who whisked John D. Bailey, 15-year-old negro, away from the officer, placed him in another car and quickly drove away. The coup was effected about 9§ o'clock in downtown Franklin. Mystery surrounds the kidnapping. Bailey, though riding in the officer's car, was not a prisoner, but merely a by SNSRI LD T L e————y. 10T 7T ] ny came out of it with | lin" Judaism a band of | Bass, who won the decision, Copyright by P. & A. Photos. GENEROUS STORK ADDS THREE TO BRING FAMILY COUNT TO EVEN DOZEN. four boys before the stork presented him with triplets the other day, all 6f them girls. busy figuring out how he will feed the dozen mouths on his income of $45 a week. to get acquainted with the three new arrivals. And dad is test there. BRAZIL'S BEAUTY WINNERS ARRIVE. Guilherme, adjudged the prettiest girl and the handsomest man in all Brazil, arrive in New York to capitalize their triumph in a recent con- Both have signed contracts to appear in Ame Miss Lia Tora and Olympio ican films. y P. & A. Photos The other youngsters Daniel Davis of Jersey City, J., had five girls and are gathered around the crib here Copyright by P. & A. Photos. WOMAN PLANS TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT IN GIANT AMPHIBIAN PLANE. This is the new Sikorsky amphibian plane in which Miss Fran- ces W. Grayson, real estate broker of College Point, Long Island, is planning to make a transatlantic flight with a pilot and navigator. The plane is powered with two Wright whirlwind motors and is sald to embody many safety devices for ocean flights. White House Gets New Master of Hounds To Handle Collies and Rest of Pets DAMAGED YACHT ADRIFT AFTER BLAST INJURING 4 Power Boat Maraval Missing at Sea—=Search for Craft Is Started. By the Associated Press. HALIFAX, Novia Scotia, Septem- ber 14.—The power yacht Maraval, damaged in a recent explosion at Syd ney in which four persons, members of the Grenfell mission to Labrador, were severely burned, was adrift to- day from its tow, the auxiliary. schoon- er Radio of the MacMillan sclentific expedition. The Maraval was being taken to Rockland, Me., it parted ways with the Radio off Cranberry Light, Guy- boro County, and was quickly lost to sight. Advices from the Radio to C. H. Harvey, local agent of the marine and fisheries department, failed to say whether there was any one aboard the Maraval. Harvey at once notified the Cana- dian government steamer Arras and all shipping along the coast to keep a sharp watch for the derelict. The Radio, which took supplies north with the MacMillan expedition, was returning to Maine and had picked the Maraval up at Sydney. The lat- ter had been bound north at the time of the explosion which occurred alongside a wharf where she had tied up for stores. JEWISH SURVEY PLANNED. Attitude of Youth Toward Religion ‘Will Be Sought. NEW YORK, September 14 (P).— A national survey of the attitude of Jewish youth toward religion as part of a program to stimulate the inter- est of the Jewish younger generation is planned by the Na- tional Federation of Temple Broth- erhoods. The federation's executive board at its annual meeting decided to send questionnaires to 20,000 Jewish young men in educational institutions throughout the country, it was an- nounced yesterday. They will be asked to state their attitude toward Jewish religious activity, and the replies will be used in outlining a program of st Maurice Ward, who for several years has been employed in the kit chen of the White house, has been placed in charge of the Presidential animal pets, which unoffi Xal‘ office rries with it the title of “Master of Hounds.” Ward succeeds Wilson Jackson, who has been the playmate and train- er of the White House pets for a num- ber of years, and who was the play- mate of the Roosevelt boys during the administration of President Roose- velt. Jackson has been transferred to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where he will serve as a essenger. M ackson was not included in the group of employes taken to Bl Hills, as it was deemed a useles pense to transport him that d just to handle the pe Ward made the trip, however, and very soon after the Summer White House was established he displayed a keen interest in the pets. This did not go unnoticed by the President and Mrs. Coolidge, and shortly thereafter, Ward was spending less time in the kitchen and more time with the ani- mals, displaying a decided aptitude for handling them. Although Wilson Jackson, the de- posed master of hounds, has been handling the pets at the White House since back in the days of President Roosevelt, it was not until during the early days of the administration of President Harding that he and the office he so picturesquely filled came into public prominence. Laddie Boy, the Hardings' famous a le dog, seemed to have a popular nppeal. At least he and his trainer were-given wide publicity, and it was not long before they both were nearly as well known on the streets of Washington as was the President himself. This prominence was by no means confined to the Capital. But it was not until the Coolidge administration that the master of hounds of the ‘White House became nationally known. The Hardings had only Laddie Boy, but with the Coolidges came Rob Roy and Prudence Prim, the beautiful white collies, the latter hav- ing died during the past Summer, and Tiny Tim, the rascally. airedale, who S48 QRAY. Ranished L. the Lissidens ‘Wide World Photos. because of his unfriendly traits. Then ame Rebecca, the pet raccoon. It was when the two lion cubs, a gift from the citizens of Johannes- burg, South Africa, to the President, arrived in Washington last Spring that the White House menageries and the master of hounds received their widest publicity. The problem pre- sented by the arrival of the cubs was settled by the President (only after he saw how big they were) when he presented them to the Washington Zoo Park. 5 SAILORS SHOW REFORM. Conduct of Bluejackets Wins Sec- retary Wilbur’s Praise. By the Associated Press. The conduct of Uncle Sam's blue- ilbur does not belleve it will be necessary to carry out contem- plated enlargement of naval prisons at San Diego, Mare Island and the Great Lakes The Se Secretary W who returned to the from an inspection tour, reduced imprison- ments to a growing spirit of content- ment among sailors that lessens de- sertions. He also thought that the speeding up of court-martial proceed- |ings might have had some effect on the deportment of the. gobs. MANY DIE IN QUAKE. Thirteen Additional Fatalities Re- ported in Russian Disaster. MOSCOW, September 14 (#).—Late reports tell of further deaths in the ecarthquake along the Black Sea coast. Thirteen perished at Yalta, 358 were tinjured and many houses were de- stroyed. A falling wall killed three at Misk- hor, where also the tower of a famous villa called the Lark's Nest, on.the summit of a Rocky Height, toppled into the sea. Shocks continued yesterday at Yalta, Sebastopol REASUTON 410 MRAN WlVa _ltsumpiiiis. ar RO DA TR 5 B IRy jackets has improved so much that {& LYON PARK TO FIGHT ANNEXATION MOVE Resolution Against Alexandria Acquiring Any Part of County Adopted at Meeting. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYON PARK, Va., September 14.— A campaign i nex a portion of Arlington County was inaugurated by the Lyon Park Civic Association at its monthly meeting night. A resolution offered by Arthur Orr opposing annexing any part of Arlington County by any out- side jurisdiction and requesting the delegates to the .Arlington County Civic Federatlon to have that body re- quest all candidates for the General Assembly record their stand on this {vital question was unanimously adopted. Louis A. MacMahon, Republican candidate, sald Potomac, Yards and Arlington County would lose $52,000 a year in tax revenue by the annex- ation, which would have to be made up |by a corresponding increase in taxes lin the balance of the county. “It was limperative that enabling act be passed by the Legislature giving the people of the county the right to de- cide their own form of government,” he said. Officers of the assoelation.chosen for the coming year were: A, A. Moore, president. K. Lewis, vice president; T. P. Gary, recording secretary; Jo- seph Haley, corresponding secretary; A. T. Rowell, treasurer., In addition to the officers, members of the execu- tive committee are: K. J. Merrick, jr.; J. F. Hardie, jr.; W. O. Tolford, L. L. Collie, J. W. Dorsey, L. C. Carl and C. H. Deaton. Arthur Orr, C. K. Lewis and E. J. Merrick, jr., ara delegates to tha Arlington County Civic Federation. @irls Board Wrong Ship. ‘When two days out from Scotland the captain of a steamer found two girls dressed in sailors’ clothos, and apparently members of the crew. The two_explained that they had boarded the boat under the impression that it was bound for one of the resorts on the Clyde, and when: they found they were headed out to sea they were Stage Folk Decry Neglect of Statue To Sir Henry Irving By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 14.—Dennis Nellson-Terry and his wife, Mary Glynne, noted actors, are aroused over the condition of the statue of Sir Venry Irving in Charing cros: i o atue was in terrible con- and nobody seems to have taken an interest in it,”” Mr. Terry said. “I.intend to look after the statue of the great actor as long as I am able.” (DIETING MOD.ELS FORCED TO ABANDON STYLE SHOW Paris Experiment Almost Fails When Girls Try to Reduce for Modern Gowns. Correspondence of the Assoctated Prest PARIS.—“That slender boyish fig- ure” all but ruined one of the most important recent dressmaker’s style shows. It did weaken the constitutions of half a dozen mannequins. Reducing rarely has had such dis- ciples as assembled every morning for months past at a certain dressmaker’s command to get in shape for the big showing for buvers. Strict diet lists were imposed upon the girls selected for beauty of face and figure. They were told what to eat and drink and what not and how, where and when. A masseuse rolled and pounded any bulges and the man- agement preached reduction until the girls grew haggard. All but one of the group of American models brought over by the house disappeared from the ranks before the training season ended, and when the big night came there weren't enough girls to show the models in the usual time. One girl whose voice was going to give her a career said she got so weak she couldn’t sing and gave up her job as a mannequin. Relief is in sight, however, because the fashion “prophets” see curves coming back. EFFICIENCY CHIEF AIM. dition Continue Good Service. MONTREAL, September 14 (P).— The present efficiency of the rail- roads must be continuously main- tained, not only because of the bene- fits accruing to the carriers, but as an _economic service to the country, R. H. Aishton, president of the Amerl- can_Railway Association, yesterday declared in an address before the assoclation’s signal section. He said railroads had made more progress in improved efficiency and greater econ- omy In operation than any other in- dustry in the past few years. Freight car shortage 1s being prac- tically eliminated, he asserted, by the increased efficiency In railway op- eration. e Youths Indicted in Murder. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., September | 14 (A)—A grand jury here yesterday returned indictments against Arthur Peterson and Connelly Donaldson, charging murder and accessory before BALLOTS ORDERED 10 BE IMIPOUNDED | Court Ruling in Vare-Wilson i Contest Covers 32 Penn- sylvania Counties. | By the Associated Pr HARRISBURG, Pa., September 14. | —An order providing for the imme- diate inpounding of all ballots cast in the November, 1928, general elec- tion in the 32 counties in the middle Pennsylvania district of the United States Court, was handed down here yesterday by Federal Judge Alberts Johnson, under an am ble agree- ment reached go last week in_the Vare-Wilson senatorial contest. The ballot boxes will be concen- trated with the prothonotaries of the Common Pleas Courts at Lycoming, Northumberland, Dauphin, Lacka- wana and Luzerne Counties, who are directed to safely keep all boxes and their contents, pending further dis. position of them by the United States Senate. Judge Johnson notified John H. Glass of Shamokin, United States mar- shal for the district, and the deputy marshals to meet with him at his office in Lewisburg tomorrow to re- ceive instructions for the impounding of the ballots and boxes. 1t is propgsed to start similar pro- ceedings in the Federal courts at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh either to- morrow or Thur: to have the in the eastern and western dis- tricts impounded. Petitions asking for the impound- ing of the boxes were presented to Judge Johnson today by David Wal- lerstein, Philadelphia, counsel for Wil- liam B. Wilson, Democratic candidate for the Senate last year, and by Francis Shunk Brown, former attor ney general, representing William S. Vare, Senator-elect. FEW PARIS ROBBERIES. R. H. Aishton Says Railways Must | Police Report Bad Year in French Capital for Housebreakers. Correspondence of the Assocfated Press. PARIS.—This has been a bad year for house robbers in Paris. Their big season is usually the Summer, when people who live in homes worth the attentions of first- class robbers have gone away to the mountains or the seaside. This year not so many people went away as in other Summers when the weather was better and the cost of loafing less. The police have had far fewer complaints than they expected from Parislans returning to town to find part of their belongings gone. Mosquitoes Cause Arrest. Mosquitos breeding rapidly and buzzing merrily caused the arrest re cently of W. A. Woddrop, who owns the estate of Muirland, near Paisley, Scotland. The sheriff had found that ditches on the land were in such bad condition that the pests were multi- plying rapidly and threatening to the fact in connection with the death persuaded by some of the crew to don the sailor outfits. The two were and Simferopol. Relief ' turned over to the British consul at |dealer. Rudd, 62 years old, was found $he pext port 4nd seas bagk beme e P P here during the night of August 25 of Samuel A. Rudd, feed and grain 499d in his store August 26. ' the mosquites, spread malaria through Scotland, The Upper District Court condemned the place as a_public nuisance, and or- dered that Woddrop clear It and oust o