Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1927, Page 17

STARTING HIS SENIOR YEAR. gets back to the serious business begin at Amherst College. The steps of Walker Hall, wading into one of his senior year text books. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, John Coolidge, son of the President, of a student’s life again as classes meraman caught him here on the ss A D n airplane } a Cunni Wide World Photo. ER RECEIVES FLORAL TROPHY FROM SPOKANE DERBY QUEEN. s presented with a floral trophy in the shape Holman yesterday was officially declared win- ner of the $10,000 first prize with an elapsed time for the transcontinental flight of 19 hours and 42 minutes. w York-to-Spokane air derb; ngham, the derby queen. D @ C. W. “Speed” Holman Wide World Photos. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1927. Champion Gene Tunney looks as fit as ever the morning after his title battle with Jack Dempsey. This photo was taken on the roof of his Chicago hotel. Copyright by P. & Photos. won the title over a field which inel United States, Canada and Europe, Coy am Burns Horn of Kansas of_her victory In the na- n City, Long Island. _She fuded the best woman golfers of the yr ¢ Underwood & Underwood. TWO KING raler of Bulga S MEET IN ENGLAND. a, chatting with King George of England {center), and King Boris (at left), the bachelor WHEN THE BULL “SPEARS” THE MATADOR. This remarkable snapshot shows the bull {urning the tables on one of Spain’s most prom- inent matadors, REVIEWS GERMAN FLEET MANE UVERS. President Von Hinden- burg of Germany (at right) reviewing from the deck of a German cruiser TWO AIR CONQUERORS MEET. Dole air derby to Hawaii, sitting Art Goebel (at left), winner of the with Col. Charles Lindbergh during anor Villalta, and tossing him aloft in the Plaza de The matador was severely injured in_his misad- Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. CHARGE SPANIARDS ARE LAZY DISPUTED IN DUEL OF RHETORIC Withdrawal of Columbia the Duke of York at Balmoral Castle, where he called on the British sovereign during his visit to England. . Copyright by Underwood CHURCHES TO UNITE IN GITY-WIDE DRIVE the latter's impressive reception in the Coliseum at Los Angeles on his Associated Press Photo. KATHERINE BEVARD, SCHOOL HEAD, DIES the recent maneuvers of the German fleet in the Baltic Sea. On the left is Admiral Zenker. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Enters Priesthood NEW RAILROAD LINK " becrving ris vors TRAGED BY AUTHOR| Mce.on Sick Bedt Bilbao at Madrid. venture with the bull. FILM MAY INCLUDE CAPITAL SCHOOLS & Wnderwood. World War Pigeons, | | Message Bearers, Still in Service : Professor’s Joint Evangelistic Campaign Decided Upon by Minis- terial Union. By a unanimous vote this morning the Ministerial Union of Washington directed its co-operating committee to organize a city-wide evangelistic cam- paign to include all Protestant churches. The action was taken at the first mee‘ing of the union this Fall, held in the New York Avenus Presbyterian Church. The campaign is to be “in recognition of the nine- teenth centenary of our Lord’s entry into His public ministry. The purpose of the mpaign, as it was outlined to the meeting, will he to increase the membership of the churches and to bring about a larger attendance of those who are already members, The principal address was made by Rev. Dr. Guy S. Black, a conference evangelist of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who has directed evangelistic campaigns in many citles, He was introduced by William Knowles Cooper, general secretar fnary report of the work of the co- operating committee. Confer on Details. The committee will confer with Dr. Black tomorrow on the details of the ign, which is to consist of an intensive effort to gain converts and a follow-up system, perma nent church members sought Rev. Freeley Rohrer tor cupied the chair as president of the union. Dr. Black explained his method of training men and women for evang listic work of an intensive character. His work in other cities in recent years. he said, had resulted in an ud dition of 70.000 W churches. He also declared that oniv about 32 per cent of the present mem e Prote churches i s One lar nomiration fc it was hold P n memnbe about 65 of every 100 who join 10 h o) dvoeated in maki ‘salesmanship erts, Newspaper Man Speaks. ut this salesmans he hould be shot through with spirit of Christ. Thomas W. Taylor, a newspaper man and Sunday school superintend ent of Philadelphia, spoke briefly of the success of a recent evangelistic campalgn in that city. He said it wa his personal opinion that, if tri workers like Dr. Black were put to work all over the country, 95 per cent of the population tes would be ‘“profe within five year said the a Bessie Efroymson Clarence W. I msor vents, Capt 4120 Four- after a lon Mrs te t the home of her § frs. Louis T. Nathan, <nth street, yesterday Hliness Funeral services were conducted in sjer's chapel today at 11 o'clock. In- terment was in the \Washington He- Liew Congregatign Cemeledys TRIBUTE T0 MEMORY of | the Y. M. C. A, who made a prelim- | | announced to | siddons of the |SOUrt Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, oc- | i‘:,\kpd that the recor show | journment out of respect to the dead | members to the | By the Associated Press, A Canadian government request for information concerning War Department pigeon lofts has re- vealed ‘that a group of veteran birds that carried messages during the war still are serving the coun- try 4 With several among them bearing wounds 1eeeived in action, they are included in the 465 pigeons in the Army breeding loft at Fort Mon- mouth, N. J. There are also at the loft a number of pigeons cap- tured from the German army in the war. Among the pigeon heroes is President, the bird that lost a leg from a wound received while re- turning with a mes: from tanks in the St. Mihiel offensive. Spike is another St. Mihiel veteran, being credited with having carried 53 mes- sages back from front line units in that operation. Mocker is another of the war wounded, having had one eye shot out at St. Mihiel. OF JULIUS A. MAEDEL Announcement of Attorney’s Death to Court Followed by Official Expression of Regret. Attorney Alexander H. Bell, on be- half of the Bar Association, today Justice Frederick L. of the District Supreme | the death of Julius A. Maedel. years a member of the bar, t Thursday. The lawyer of the court | of an ad-| for man who died the usual notation lawyer. Bell recalled how he and the deceased had been law students to-| sther and had been admitted to prac about the same time. Besid : professional associates, Mr. Bel leclured, they had also been personal | {friends. Mr. Maedel, he pointed out, had, for perional reasons, withdrawn yfrom active court pra d had | jdevoted himself to the counseling of ned | | PEN WOMEN IN NEW HOME. | { hix numerous clients and to the exam- ltnation of titles for various building | jnd lonn associations, Justice Siddons, in | motion for the no of Mr redel, declared ticed his passing with a strong per- sonal regret in addition to the feel- {ing which a judge ought to have at | {the death of a respectable member of | {the bar who had aided so much in | | the administration of justice. The | court expressed his admiration of the | probity, integrity and kindly dispo- | | sition "of the dead lawyer. | | granting the n of the death | he had no | Will Dedicate Headquarters Jo-| | night With Business Meeting. | | The D , of Amer trict_branch of the Le: an Pen Women will open | its new clubrooms at 1108 Sixteenth | | street with a business meeting at| 8 o'clock tonight. Miss Alice Hutch ins Drake, first vis president, will | preside. | An outline of the year's activities will be presented by the officers, as the meeting will serve in the nature of @ roll call % | schools are expected to figure in | title of the film and a section of the | est, tion at the Boston convention Department of Superintend- ence Prepares Movies. Commission Holds Session. Washington school children and a motion picture film being prepared by the Department of Superintendence, National Education Association, for showing at the annual convention of the department to be held in Bo next February, “Keeping Pace With the Advanced Curriculum” will be the picture, in which Will Hays is de- clared to be taking a personal inter- was taken this morning at the pening session of the commission on association’s Sixteenth Dr. Fi tendent of scl headquarter Ballou, superin- and former presi- dent of the tment of superin- tendence, is a member of the com- mission on curriculum and is (-ww‘(exl‘; to place at the disposal of the com mission the successful results ob- tained in the local high schools. Needs of Youth. “The Senior High School Curri- culum” is the subject which the com- mission is studying this year and it part the needs of Ameri adolescent vouth. Twenty members of the commission will pre- pare an 1l-chapter book for presenta- How best to take care of boys and girls who drop out of high school be fore graduation is one of the topics of interest which is being discussed to- The commission is said to have ided that there of high school pupils who can profit 0ol and immedi aitional work than the high school conforming to cours 11 Important Points. 11 important points which the | discussing today and | will study tomorrow follow 1 The needs of American adolescent | auth in terms of the development of | the community and the school, having | in mind pupils who drop out as well | as those who continue to graduation. | A_thorough reconsideration of the | cardinal objectives of education to de- | termine how wide re influen ing practice and to make any nece sary refinements in the statement of them. i A study of groups of courses now available in high schools and of | courses actually pursued by a typical | group of high school luate: 4 The whole relationship between high school and college, including not | only the effect of college requirements | in determining the curricula of the | high schools, but also the effect ¢ the college-trained teacher point ¢ view on high school methods and or ganization | Man; ubjects Touched. | The appropriateness of subject mat I ter administered in high school as preparation for the life activities of | those students who are not going| to_college. The differentation of curricula for! pupils of different levels of ability. By relation of & counseling The comm Statement in Text Book Demanded by Former Teacher of Madrid University. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 26.—A long-range duel of rhetori over whether Spaniards are lazy came to light here yesterday when a Spaniard parvied a Columbia University pro- fessor's lunge. Its source was “human geography a text book by Prof, Russell Smith of Columbia University, which is said to contain remarks about the laziness of the Spanish caballeros and which has brought “an resistible explosion” from Dr. Jose Maria Albinana, for- merly of the University of Madrid faculgy and now residing in Papa- chula, Mexico. Withdrawal Demanded. The duel started a month ago with a letter to Dr. Nicholas Murray But- ler, president of Columbia University, in which Dr, Albinana demanded that Prof. Smith withdraw from his book the remarks about the laziness of Spaniar AUTOPSY SHOWS BLOW CAUSED PAINTER’S DEATH Neal Hollingsworth of Takoma Park Twelfth to Meet Tragedy During Tunney-Dempsey Returns. An autopsy performed yesterday by Dr. Harry C. Nalley of Mount Rainier |on’ the body of Neal Hollingsworth, 26-year-old painter of 204 Willow ave- nue here, who died Thursday. showed that death was due to cerebral hem- orrhage, caused by a fractured skull. Upton Crosby of Capitol Heights, Md. is held In the Bladensburk Jail with- out bail, it being alleged he struck Hollingsworth with a brick during an altercation occurring while the men were listening to radio returns of the Tunney-Dempsty fight at Cros- by's home. Hollingsworth is the twelfth person who died the ro- sult of the fight. It was thought at first that he had suffered only a scalp | wound. An inquest will be held before Jus- tice of the.Peace John J. Fai acting coroner, In the office of Pri Detective Thomas H. Garrison at H ttsville Thursday night at 7 o'clock. wton A. James is foreman of the coroner's jur Hollingsworth's body will be sent late today to Lima, Ohio, his former home. — guidance program to a secondary school curriculum program. The problem of the small high school, 100 pupils or under, in cur- riculum development. The senior high with reference to fication: tification and function. Evaluation of the elements of the hizh school program with reference both to curricula and extra curricula activities. including the question of credits. The junior college curriculum as an upward development of the high school, including a consltderation of the possibility of placing orienta- ul..nlo(.urses in the high school cur- Tigulum, - school teacher, training, quali- | Appeal to his superiors drew a “lunge” from Prof. Smith, who chided Dr. Albinana on his scholarly chiv- alry, asserting that this effort “to try te influence me by the process of compulsion” was “difficult to asso- ciate with the high ideals I have en- tertained of the Spanish scholar and gentleman.” Censurable Ignorance Alleged. Dr. Albinana’s parry came directly to Prof. Smith and contained an ex- planation that his first communica- tion to Dr. Butler was but “the ir- cesistible explosion of very human wrath, awakened at the pain of an offended country.” He then launched into the question of whether Span- iards were lazy and renewed his de- mand that the statements be with- drawn, “not only because they are untrue, but because they show cen- surable ignorance not in keeping with a university professor.” REED CALLED FOE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS “Bell Wether of Liquor Legions in America,” Says Dry League Official. By the Associated Press. SHEVILLE, N. C., September 26. Senator Jim Reed of Missouri,” A. J. Barton of Atlanta, chairman the executive committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America, told a large audience here last night, “is the bell wether of the liquor ligeons in the United States, a snarling and sneering enemy of the righteous, seeking to nullify the Constitution of United States. : candidates for nomination,” he from each of the great pa liquor, licehse, corruption, im- morality and nullification, and seek to undermine the basis of our Gov- ment, to tear down the flag of the United States and destroy the Na- tion.” Some other pointed shafts at the insidious wet ring,” as he denomi- d it, were: “If_either of the great parties of the Nation insult the sense’ of de- cency and intelligence of the Ameri- can citizens by nominating a wet man, the people of this land must rise up in revolt against that .party and teach it a lessen that will remain forever. “The elghteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States is the most benevolent, the most benef- icent, ever inaugurated by any people any- where in the history of the world, and any man who sneers at it is an enemy of God.” G. H. Gager Falls Dead. George H. Gager, 44 years old, roomer at 625 I street, fell dead while in the bathroom about 7:30 o'clock vesterday morning. Death resulted from an attack of heart disease, : esi- wo stand the id. P n the most far-reaching reform | Taplin Says $15,000,000 Project Needed for East and West Business. By the Assoclated Press, Refusal of major trunk lines to en- ter into traffic agreements with the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad for routing its traffic over existing roads led that system to launch its $15,000,000 project for 38 miles of new line between Connellsville and Coch- rans Hill, Pa.,, F. E. Taplin, chairman of the board of the Pittsburgh, today told the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. Interveners in the proceedings in- clude the New York Central, Balti- more & Ohio, Nickel Plate and Penn- sylvania Railroads. Desires Business Expansion. the construction, the ckel Plate, in a brief filed today, de- clared it would add to traffic conges tion in the Pittsburgh territory and bring about “a mere duplication of adequate existing facilities and a mere substitute in such routing for the 1ails of other carriers.” The Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Mr. Taplin said, desires to handle Last and West business through the Pitts- burgh territory by utilizing the West- ern Maryland in the East and the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Wa bash system in the West. “Got Absolute Refusal. “Nearly two years ago I approached the New York Central” he said, “for the purpose of obtaining through rates over the Pittsburgh & West Virginia and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, the latter 2 New York Central subsidiary. I got an absolute refusal finally in the endeavor, because the New York Cen- tral was afrald that the making of such through freight rates would re- sult adversely to its own business.” Mr. Taplin declared the extension, while directly increasing the efficiency of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, would also be of benefit to the general public by adding a new route for East and West traffic and relieving conges- | tion of traffic in Pittsburgh territory. WAL, INSLEY RITES HELD.| Army Officer Buried at Arlington | National Cemetery. i “Funeral services for Maj. Ch:n'lnsl R. Insley, finance department of the Army, who died Friday at “'anerl Reed Hospital, were held this morn-} ing at Chambers’ parlors. Burial was at Arlington National Cemetery with military honors. Maj. Insley was from Missouri and served in the National Army during the World War, first as acting adju- tant general of Base Section No. 3, then in command of 101st Battalion. Military Police, in Paris, and later | with the director of sales in that city. He received the diploma of the Order jof St. Sava from the King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In the Regular Army he was appointed a second lieu- tenant in the Quartermaster Corps in June, 1916, and in February, 1922, was transferred to the finance department, in which he reached the grade of major in March, 1926. He was on Keeping the vow made on what he thought was his deathbed, Rob- ert J. White, former tant dis- trict attorney of Middiesex County, is now at Sulpiclan Semi- Brookland, beginning his s for the priesthood. While ill and near death a year ago White vowed to dedicate his life to the priesthood if he rec ered. Immediately he began to get better. Last Summer he took steps to fulfill his ve was admitted to the seminary recently and now is well on his way to a new careel Shunning the publicity that fc lowed his announcement of his resignation and his intention of be- coming a priest, White has shut himself away from the world and will make no pablic statement. FORMER CONVICT TAKEN AS BURGLAR| Man Recently Discharged From | Prison Arrested in Chain Grocery Store. Elisha Edmonston, colored, left the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kans. three weeks ago, after serving a six- year term for larceny committed in this city. He had “made good” in prison and promised himself to get a job and be a good citizen for the rest of his life. His resolutions, however, were soon broken, as shortly after coming here he rented a room at 1337 Q street, ac- cording to his own admissions, and started_entering stores after closing hours. From a store on Ninth street he took candy and canned goods, he is said to have confessed, while from the store of Charles Alexander, 1 Columbia road, he took smoking ma terial. He was located in an A. & P. stor at 3422 Fourteenth street yesterday morning about 3 o'clock by Policeman H. Lancaster and arrested on charges of burglary. The policeman tound a panel cut from the rear door of the store. Lancaster secreted him- self In the dark. Edmonston soon sauntefed out and started to leave the vicinity of the store only to be stopped by the police- man with drawn revolver. The col ored man was not armed. It developed that Edfonston had partaken of cakes and cantaloupes while in the store, and his explanation | was that he went there bec e he was without food. Search of his room disclosed large quantities of candy, canned good and smoking material, which were seized as evidence. The prisoner will be arraigned in Police Court tomorrow. | Sister Named as Sole Heir. The will of Miss Alice L. Rigs daughter of the founder of the Riggs | National Bank, who died September | 2, has been filed for probate. She| names as her sole heir her sister, | Miss Jane Riggs. The sister is au-| thorized at her death to make dispo- sition of the estate, the value of which is not made public. N The majority of Amerlca’s 7,000 women physicians and surgeons are duty at Edgewood Arsenal, Md.,, at Ithe tinggot his- death, members of the Women's Medical As- soclation. , | paring | standards | Prin~inal of Ross Prominent in Educational Woik for 37 Years. | | | | Bevard, 5% ol and teacher | Miss Katherine Harper ears old, principal of the nee its dedication in 19 in public schools of this city for 37 vears, died at her residence in the | Clifton Terrace apartments yesterday | after an 1llness of about 12 days, re- | sulting from a cerebral hemorrh Flags at the Ross School were placed at half staff and the school was closed at noon for the remainder of today out of ri ect to her memory. Receiving her early education in the normal schools of Pennsylvania, Miss Bevard took her B. A. and M. A. de- grees at George Washington Univer- | sity, where she specialized in educa- | tion. | Ross Sc Prepared to Resume Duties. Her first assignment in local public schools was in an old-type one-room hool on Conduit road m the she went to the Johnson School, where she taught in the sixth grade for 12 vears, until transferred to the Ross School as its principal. She was pre to take up her duties again as principal at the opening of the session when stricken. She was widely known among t | ers and school officials in the District | ot Columbia, was a member of the Association of Public School Princi and the District of Columbia | Education Assoc which is af. | filiated with the ional Education Association. *uneral | at Hysc | N streets, | Rev. D | officiate. ville, ¥ rvices will be conducted chapel, Thirteenth and rnoon at 4 o'clock, George Fiske Dudley will Interment will be in Browns- g's Four Brothers Survive. | Miss Bevard is survived by | brothers, Dr. William A. Bev | this eity. Robert Emmet Bev !iphriam H. Bevard of Pittsbu James Thomas Bevard of ville, Pa Asst. Supt. cock, four rd of and ) and Browns- of Schools Robert L. of elements e Miss Bevard the 1 followi Miss Bevard wa known and honored in the schoo a woman of high professional ide | As a teacher she maintained high As a principal she sought the best possible development of her school—the Ross. She looked upon teaching as a high calling and brought to the classroom an atmosphere of re- finement and culture. Her influence upon teachers and pupils was helpful and uplifting.” HONOR U. S. NAVY CREWS. Officers and Men Feted at French Indo-China Port. SAIGON. French Indo-China, tem (#).—Seven United destroyers of the 45th Divislon, he: by the Paul Jones, have arrived hgre and extensive plans have been made to fete the American sailors. The French governor returned an official visit aboard the Paul Jones and a governmental dinner will he glven this evening for the ship's offi- cers. Entertainments are planncd Kq&