Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1927, Page 17

2 LEGION PARADE. An & gionnaires in Paris as it p ans crowded the line of ma o HIGH ABOVE TH procession of th de I'Opera. Pari columns of ] PASSING THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER IN THE LEGION PARADE. Members of the Aux- iliary_Corps tossing blossoms on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier as they wder the Arc de Triomphe. The French shrine was buried under the floral tribute of the parading legionnaires when the last line of the PARADING WITH THE LEGIONNAIRES IN PARIS. Riding in this car at the vanguard of the impressive American Legion procession in the French capital are, left to right, Gen. Pers| Com IVAZE, NOW Suce ceeded by Edward E. Spafford as national commander of the legion, and Marshal Foch. The ade officially opened the Legion's Paris convention. ht by I’ & A. Photo: al view of the colorful ssed down the Avenue \ to cheer the parading Wide World Photos. procession had passed. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. SPEAKING OF THE HAZARDS OF TRANSATLANTIC FLYING. eles, enjoys his over dry land. An‘f wide at the Southern California fair Here he is rounds, in ing his biplane under a iverside. bridge, the flyer went under the bridge at a speed of 125 miles an hour. “second A. E. Roman Warren, stunt fiyer of Los bridge 16 feet high and 50 feet n order to clear a row of trees 200 feet from the ‘Wide World Photos. - AMMONIA ROUTS FOLK FROM HOMES Broken Pipe Causes Alarm at Twelfth and V Streets as Fumes Spread. Ammonia fumes escaping from a broken pipe in the plant of the Home lce Manufacturing Co., at Twelfth and V streets, last night spread alarm through the neighborhood and drove many persons from their homes until this morning. Patients in Children’s Hospital, diagonally across the street and members of the hospital staff of doctors and nurses found it difficult to breathe as the fumes rapidly per- | meated the big building, but no one in the institution was injuriously affected. Policemen Michael J. Mahaney and J. C. Baum of the eighth precinct were slightly blistered by the ammonia while they were engaged in rescuing about 30 horses in the adjoining sta- ble of the Thompson dairy. One horse ‘was killed and two others so seriously affected that they were unable to go on the milk routes this morning. Firemen Fight Fumes. Firemen from Engine Companies Nos. 7, 9, 11 and 12, No. 6 Truck and Rescue Squad No. 1 attempted to smother the fumes by pouring water into the ammonia plant. They were forced to don gas masks, but the am- monia, which penetrated their cloth- ing, caused great discomfort. The ammonia. was breathed by persons as far away as Fifteenth and V streets, and Traffic Policeman C. E. Brant, on duty at Fourteenth and U streets, found difficulty in getting his breath. The trouble started when the hang- ers by which the ammonia pipe was suspended from the ceiling broke away and the two-inch pipe fell to the floor and broke off. Ammonia fumes filled the room instantly and spread in a few seconds to the whole build- ing. It was about 7:45 o’clock in the evening and the six men on duty were eating supper. First to notice the fumes was Shadrick Jones, colored, who was in the storage room. 8. C. Tetlow, chief engineer of the Sce plant, happened to be in the build- ing and immediately took charge. The police rescue squad was summoned and soon after its arrival a fire alarm was sounded. Break Is Repaired. While the firemen attempted to smother the fumes with water, po- licemen rushed into the Thompson Dairy stables and led the frantic horses to the street and thence to a vacant lot at Eleventh and V streets. It was after midnight before the break | was repaired and any one was able to | enter the plant without danger. H Many of the residents within a block of the ice plant fled from their homes within 10 or 15 minutes after the | breaking of the pipe, so quickly did | the fumes cover the neighborhood. | Others were able to stick it out by | putting down windows. The police | warned the authorities of Children’s Hospital to lower their which was done at the point nearest the ice plant, but the slight wind that was blowing at the time took most of the fumes in a southwesteriy direc tion, away from the hospital. Some of the persons in the vicinity | did not return home until this morn ing, preferring to take no chance of breathing the biting ammonia their sleep. AR | | Pupils at various schools in Lon-| @on range from a baby of two at a| | yursery school 1o a man aged 76, who is attending & n'ght class George Washington ’ \BOYS FREED ON BOND | brought here by Detective Cole. windows, , ' | prices on the Chadbourne, N. C., Memorial Scene Of Masonic Rites Spectal Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., September 27.—Five hundred Masons, includ- ing a large number of Shriners, are to make a visit to Alexandria on the night of October 18, at which time the Shriners will have a ceremonial session in the George ‘Washington National Memorial, the first gathering to be held in the new building. The Shriners of Alexandria and the northern part of the State have been named to arrange the details for the ceremonies, and they are listing the candidates who are to take the degrees. The Richmond party will leave here about noon of the day of the festivities, and there is to be a great parade of the Shriners, the candidates, the patrol, the band and all others, with an elaborate dinner preceding the ceremonies. IN CRAMTON CASE Two Are Brought From Richmond to Face Charges of House- breaking. Oscar Nydof, 17 years old, and Arthur Lapan, 16 years old, high school chums from Brooklyn, N. Y., who were arrested in Richmond, Va., Saturday night while trying to dis- pose of jewelry alleged to have been stolen from a home in New Jersey and in whose possession police found silverware and jewelry allegedly stolen from the home of Representa- tive Louis C. Cramton of Michigan, | 1829 Irving street, were returned here | from Richmond afternoon by Detective Harry A. Cole. Charges of housebreaking were pre- ferred against them. Lapan was de- tained at No. 1 police station until his father reached here last night and obtained his release on bond. Nydof's father arrived this morning and gave bond for his boy, and the latter was released from the House of Deten- tion. The boys had complete Boy Scout outfits with them when they were ar- rested. Their outfits and the alleged proceeds of the two robberies were It is probable that the cases will be heard in court later in the week. FLOWER SHOW OPENS. Dahlia and Gladiolus Exhibit Be. ing Held in Store. Many Washington flower lovers at- tended the opening of the dahlia and | gladiolus show at Lansburgh & Bro.’s store yesterday. A score of different species are on display there all week and an expert is there to instruct people on the culture of the flowers and to explain the varlous specles. One of the dahlias, named the Lans- burgh dahlia, remarkable for its trge proportions and rare coloring. It is a deep crimson hue, Trade Body Drops Charges. Dismissal of a complaint against J. R. Speal of Wyoming, Del., and others ged with forming a com- | bination for control of strawberry | mar- | the Kederal | | | | ket was announced Ttade Commission today The commission dismissed the com- plaint after the defendants had made voluntary = correction of conditions covered in the complaint, - by | sylvania A FAREWELL AT THE AIRPORT. of the monoplane American Girl, bids Thea Rasche, the German woman voyage as the latter takes off in her new Flamingo plane for totir of New England from Roosevelt Field, Long | pilot, bon Miss Ruth Elder (at right), pilot A FAMILY OF GIANT AIR MONSTERS IN THEIR “ ars here in her hangar at Lakehurst, N. VEST.” That is how the Navy diri ’ielcs aw J., with the smaller non-rigid airships, the 'C4. e tremendous capacity of the hangar provides a comfortable berth for all of them. ible Los An- 3, TC-5 and Wide World Photos PARENT-TFACHER BOARD OF MANAGERS CONVENES HERE. who are holding a conference here on rural life problems as related to t! | 12 Billion Loaves Of Bread Consumed Annually in U. S. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 27.—Fill ing the American bread basket re- quires 12,240,000,000 leaves of bread annually, Henry Stude, preside of the American Bal i tion, estimated tod: was one of the speakers on tods program of the ociation’s nual convention. Baking, he said, is one of country’s first industries. “The annual bakery bill of Amer- ica’s housewives is approximate $1,617,969.000.” he said, “and com- mercial bakers supply 80 per cent of the bread consumed. Of the total bakery bill something like Members of the board of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers he work of the: organization. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. LITTLE CHANGE IS NOTED IN INCOME TAX RETURNS Mellon Reports Current Receipts About Same as Last Year. Back Tax Payments Drop. Although back tax collections have not been so heavy during the first quarter of the present fiscal year as for the same period last year, Secre- tary Mellon announced that current receipts of income taxes were run- ning along about the same as last year. The income tax payments for the month up to September 23 had reached $433,450,000, it was an- nounced, with prospects of increas- ing to about $445,000,000 by the end of the month, a slight increase over September, 1926. This would bring the income tax for the quarter of July, August and September, this year, up to about $517,000,000, which is a decrease of about $18,000,000 from last year. About two-thirds of this decrease, however, was ascribed to the differ- ence in back taxes collected, the nonths of July and August last year being characterized as ‘‘peak months" for back taxes. STREET IMP—ROVEMENTS URGED IN RANDLE AREA Highlands Citizens’ Association to Ask Commissioners to Approve Paving Items. Various street improvements in the Randle Highlands district were in- dorsed at the monthiy meeting of the Randle Highlands Citizens’ Associa- tion last night in the Fountain Me- morial Baptist Church, As a result of a survey of conditions, the District Commissioners will be asked to approve items for the pav- ing of the following: Minnesota ave. nue from Eighteenth street to Penn- avenue; Naylor road from Minnesota avenue to Twenty-fifth street and Twenty-fifth street from Naylor road to Pennsylvania avenue. The association also went on record as indorsing Capt. C. P. M. Lord of the thirteenth precinet to fill the vacancy created by the recent death of Inspector Charles A. Evans of the Metropolitan Police. S. E. Snyder, president of the asso- du‘l:n, presided. P B - MR N tures at Psychic Lodge Writes on | By the Associated Prese. PARIS, September dinando Cazzamali of the University | of Milan, who two vears ago asserted |that the human brain_emits radio waves, now claims to have secured photographic records of these emana- tions. was read before the International Con- gress for Psychic Research, which opened here last evening. He wrote that in order to make his studies more complete in regard to the psycho-sensorial phenomena of the brain he had constructed an apparatus containing a sensitized plate. Describes Experiments. Subjects in a state of hypnosis were placed one after the other in a room with this apparatus, and later it was found that the sensitized plates were marked with lines and blotches | These markings, the professor con- tended, correspond to the thoughts of the subjects, being more or less straight as the subject was more or less of nervous temperament. The phenomena, he added, were not found in_persons of unsound mind. Prof. Cazzamali, who is head of the department of neurology and psychia- try in the University of Milan, asserted in’ a report published in August, 1925, that the human brain emitted sounds [ which were to be heard distinctly by means of a radio receiver. Using highly excitable persons' as ! subjects, he placed them in a hypnot state and, at the extremely low-wave length of from 4 to 10 meters, claimed to have heard sounds which he was satisfied came from the brain. The sounds were similar to wire- less signals, he said, but were often accentuated until they resembled whistling or the tones of a muted vio- lin. Lodge Paper Read. Another paper read to the congress was from Sir Oliver Lodge, Brit- ish scientist, who recommended that etheric phenomena of a simple and fa- miliar nature, especially any sort of Fadie wangmission, be utilized for RADIO WAVE FROM HUMAN BRAIN SHOWN IN FILM, SAYS Milan University Scientist Exhibits Pic- A paper describing his experiments | PROFESSOR Research Meeting. Ghost Rappings. testing (b ied in_ met | the ether was more likely to eliminate ‘U\“ necessity of using a medium. The first object of science, he said, a to discover the true nature of When that was accomplished, tion 1 things would be shown to be possible. Rappings by ghosts, for instance, were possible through the agency .of a form of matter created by the mind. Messages from the other world were quite plausible, he added, when the | psychical nature of the matter of the | “other world” was understood. Claims There Ts “Sixth Sense.” Charles Richet of France, who pre- | sides at the con declared that | metaphysics wa | coming an autho contended that x | sense” and promised to have well su- | pervised demonstrations of psychic | power during the five-day meeting. FIRST WAGES STOLEN. Take $1.25 Carefully Saved by Plant Manager. Correspondence of The Star. ¥ BIDDEFORD, Me. — Willlam F, Goodwin, manager of the Biddleford Motor Mart, where two safes were cracked by professional cracksmen jduring a thundershower recently, reports that included in the $350 they carried away was $1.25, the first money he ever earned. The money was in a little brown envelope in one of the safes. ‘When he was a youngster he as- sisted L. O. Bullock, an electrician, and received $1.25. He put it in an envelope, and when he became man- ager of the local plant he put the money in the safe. s ‘Women between the ages of 20 and 30 in England and Wales now num- ber 3,200,000, he sup ural powers stud- o 15 employment of | of incorporate bodies on | b STUDENT DRY COUNCIL ELECTS NEW OFFICERS C. 1. Carpenter of Bucknell Chosen President, Helen Roher of Ameri- can U. Secretary. Closing a week end conference at their headquarters, in the Bliss Build- ing, the Student Council of the Inter- collegiate Prohibition Association yes- terday re-elected as president. C. Irv- ing Carpenter of Bucknell. Miss Helen Roher of American Uni- rsity, who was elected to the coun- , was named secretary. Others elect- d or re-elected to the council wer Fred Luchs, Franklin and Mar- shall; George A. Jeffers, Furma: George A. Douglas, University Michigan: Lofton 8. R. W. Simmons, Washington and = Lee; Miss Helen Pinkerton of Muskingum College, and Miss Helen Honsinger of Syracuse University. WILD CANARY HIS GUEST. Camp Manager Visited Every Day at Breakfast by Bird. YOSEMITE.—Human beings and bears aren’t the only ones to be fed t the Camp Curry grill in the morn- ngs, according to Manager F. A. Nief. He has a wild canary named Tillie for a pet. “The 'bird was as typically afraid as any mountain canary, but a perse- vering friendship has won,” Nief says. “I generally eat breakfast out on the porrch about 9 o'clock in the morning and always at a certain table. | Tillie sits on the edge of the table ; and eats the raisins from my buns. } She has visited me' every day for a month now,” he explained. . “Duripg | this time Tillie become so tame. that she eats out of my hand, but.she leavés if any one else comes—perhaps being of a jealous nature.” As a reward for her breakfast Tillie hops up to a position back of Nief's chair and sings a morning solo—be- fore business separates the two friends for the day. { Wants American Name. Martino Libertino has asked the Dis- trict Supreme Court to Americanize his name. He wishes to be known as $700,000.000 goes for bread, rolls and coffee cake.” The three-day convention closes tomorrow. RECORD IN BUILDING AND PER CAPITA COST Labor Department Shows Washing- ton Ranks Among First 15 Cities in Construction Expenditures. ‘Washington ranked among the first 15 cities in per capita expenditures for new buildings and among the same group in the total per capita expend- itures for all building, according to a Labor Department tabulation an- nounced today covering the first six months of 1 With an estimated population as of July 1 of 540,000, the per capita ex- penditure for new buildings in Capital during the six months was $37.63, while each Washingtonian the- oretically spent $4.09 for repairs, ad- ditions and alterations, bringing the total per capita expenditure for all building up to $41.7 The per capita expenditure for new housekeeping dwellings was $23.74, while 47.8 families were provided for to each 10,000 of the population. The total amount of new construction was not given, nor the amount of con- thacts entered into in the District of Columbia. Throughout the country, however, perm covered an_expend- iture for new buildings in totaléd $1,381,910,891, a drop of per cent from the first half of 19: Yonkers, N. Y., showed the greatest per. capita expenditure of any city reporting, with an expenditure of $131.19 per inhabitant during the first 8ix months of the year. JAILED TO PAINT STACKS. Judge Puts Artisan to Work at Trade for 90 Days. Correspondence of The Star. CHICAGO.—Gust Lund, by profes- dion a painter of smokestacks, was brought before Judge Lupe recently on a charge of disorderly conduct and abusing eight “children. “Call up the House of Correction and see if they have any smoketacks that need painting,” the judge in. structed a clerk. The reply was in the affirmative and Gust got 90 days. — To Present Fire Depr.rune;:t Prizes. Commissioner P ‘getor L. Dougherty will present the yrizes and trophies won by the various fire units in the Martin Liberty. His petition for the change of name was filed by Attor- neys Taylor & Mooers and, G, di ‘G solamo. Fire Department's Labor day parade the | - 78 citjes | & CRACK TROOP UNITS TOFEATURE PARADE av. 2iry and 12th Infantry 2d in Military throughout the Army as a crack drill unit. and the silent arill company of the 12th Infantry, noted for its stunt evolutions, will he conspicuous in a colorful parade that will usher in the two-day military exposition and carni- val Friday and Saturday at Washing- ton Barracks, featuring a sham bat- in years the shuf. the clatter of A ind the strains of itary bands wiil be heard on Penn- Ivania avenue. The pavade will start from treet and the Avenue at noon oliow this line of march: West ifteenth, arotind the Treasury to the right, west to Twentieth, south on Twentleth to New York avenue, west For the fir of marci Sixth and on New York avenue to Twenty-first street, south on Twenty-first to B, east on B to Seventeenth, south on Seventeenth around the Tidal Basin to Water street, south on Water to G southwest, east on G to Sixth, south n Sixth to the Army War College. very branch of the Army will be |represented in the parade, either by |crack units or floats, displaying ths |latest war apparatus | Tickets for the sham battle, exposi- {tion and carnival went on sale today 1t leading department st and hotels. Adults will pay a dollar admis- vith children under 12, by_adult Souven be distributed without be no the r programs will ost. . There will harge for parking space within ition. “Monkey” Drill to Open Program. A Cavalry “monkey” drill will open | the ‘exercises. each day at 2:30 o'clock. | The sham battle, re-enacting the fight at Madeleine farm in France, with all | arms participating, will start at 4 o'clock. ; Following is the complete program: Afternoc 30, Cavairy, ‘mounted Artillery battery E screen (around War College point); 3:25, Signal Corps, I pigeon race (birds released at War | “ollege and race to Camp Meade): 3:35, {Cavalry, obstacle race (steeplechase): {4, all arms, attack on Madeleine farm (sham battle); 4:35, polo game; In- fantry, special drill; try, battalion parade. Evening—38:30, all arms, Madeleine farm sham battle; 9:05, Air Corps, night flying and pyrotechnics; 9:20. Artillery, battery drill (with fireworks). BIBLE LEAGUE TO MEET. Open Forum Will Convene at S 0’Clock ‘Tonight. The Community Bible Readers League will hold an open forum to night in the auditorium of the Mount Pleasant Library, Sixteenth and La- mont streets, at 8 o'clock. The need of the Bible in the home will be the topic for discussion, which will be led by Dr. William J. Seelye, president of the Presbyterian Minis- ters’ Association. The meeting is en- tirely non-sectarian and it is open to all interested in this theme. Teachers of Sunday and day schools are espe- 0, 5:25, Infan at exercise in the hoardroom of the District Building Thursday night at § o'clock.~ g . DR U LT GG 00 Ly 5 b clally invited. Mre. Louise H. Earll, president of the league, will preside,