Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1927, Page 17

star of the University of California, in the country to wear glasses during the game. wearing his heavily reinforced and Irving “Brick” Marcus, backfield who is believed to be the only player He is shown here protected goggles during practice. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON BRITISH OFFICIAL AT WHITE HOUSE. Sir Philip Sassoon, British undersecretary for air (at left), with Sir Esme Howard, the British Am- bassador, who presented the visiting official to President Coolidge at the White House yesterday. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1927. WINS TYPEWRITING SPEED TITLE. Miss Josephine Pitison, 20- year-old Brooklyn, N. Y., typist, whose lightnin, fingers wrote 117 words a minute for the world amateur speed champlonship at the contest in New York. writing. She maintained that speed for haif an hour of continuous ‘Wide World Photos. D. N FLYERS RETURN AFTER HOP-OFF. M yson, William_Stultz, pilot (at left), and Brice Goldsborough, navigator, just before they took off from the heach at Old Orchard, Me. on the projected flight to Denmark. They were forced to return a few minutes by an unbalanced fuel load. Cop: it by P. & A. Photos. OFFICIALS RECEIVE GERMAN ARMY CHIEF AT WAR DEPARTMENT. Gen. Wllheln':hzlayr, chief of staff of the German Army, who will make a tour of the United States to study American systems of vocational training, called at E. Margetts, Col. Stanley Ford, Gen. Heye and Secretary of War Davis day. In the front row, here, to right, are Col. N. department on his arrival in Washington yester- LEGIONDRAFTLAW |CALDER PREDICTS FOR WAR OUTLINED Will Urge Conscription of Capital as Well as Labor in Emergencies. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 19.—A uni- ersal draft act, conscripting capital and Jabor as well as manpower in ease of war or other national emer- gency will be urged upon Congress for adoption by the Americkn Legioy during .the coming vear, Edward E Spafford. newly elected national commander, declared yesterdav. Spafford presided for the first time today, taking office at the sess'n called 1o ratify proceedings of tne recent Legion convention in Paris, which were not legal because ahey were held beyond the limits of the United States, to which the Legion's | charter from Congress confines its actions. Membership Dues Unchanged. ‘ALl motions of the Paris conven- tion were approved except a resolu- tion increasing the annual Legion dues. This decision was reversed and membership fees left unchanged. “The Legion has just returned from France and Continental Europe on a peace-time mission,” Spafford said in ontlining the policy of his adminis- tration. *T belleve in peace. we believe that one of the hest pre- wentives of war is the enactment of a bill which shall place the burden of war—if 1, comes—upon all. Let labor and capjtal be conscript at a sacrifice | t ! have been prominently mentioned in | as well as men. “purthermore,” Spafford continued, “the Legion does not wish its sup- port of this bill 10 be interpreted as & militaristic gesture. The universal | draft act me just. the kind of preparedness that brings peace.” Executive Officers Elected. ‘At the national executive commit- tee meeting which followed the con- vention, Scott Lucas of Tllinois wa. named judge advocate, Bowman Fl- der of Indianapolis, treasurer, and Putname of Welleslevy Hills, Mass., national historian. James F. Barton of Des Moines was reappoint- ed national adjutant. At the request of Comdr. Spaf ford » committee of 10 was appoint ed to investigate alleged nvercharg- ing by Parisian shops and hoteis dur ing the recent convention. Edward M. Stavton of Kansas City, Mo., was made chairman of this committee The dates of October 8. 9, 10, 11 were selected for the 1928 national convention, which will be held in San | Antonio, Tex. SLAYS ESTRANGED WIFE. Man Shoots Her Escort, Then Turns Gun on Self. MILWAUKEE, Wis., October But | SMITH NOMINATION Fom\er Senator, However, Sees Republican Vietory at 1928 Polis. { | win the Democratic nomination for | President next vear, but will be de- |feated in the national election, no matter whom the Republicans nomi- nate, was predicted at the White House ltoday bv William M. Calder, former Republican Senator of New York, | now president of the National Repub- |lican Club of New York City, who | was one the President’s callers. Former Senator Calder gave as his reason for feeling so confident of Gov. | Smith's nomination by the Democrats the fact that his party will be com- pelled to put him at the head of its ticket and would not dare to turn him down again because of his re- ligion. Defeat in Dry Stand. Senator Calder based his prediction | ot Gov. Smith’s defeat, if hs is nom- |inated, upon the fact that he con- {lican and overwhelmingly dry. In his opinion, Gov., Smith’s pronounced at- | titude regarding the wet and dry ques tion would cost him many votes. It was the opinion of the former | Senator that Gov. Smith, as the pres idential nominee, would not be able to carry New York ate against any one of the several Republicant who connection with the Republican pres- idential nomination since President | Coolidge eliminated himself | consideration. | Holds Coolidge Is Out. | Former Senator Calder is confident | thar President Coolidge is definitely and finally out of the race. He took occasion, during his call upon the | President today to express his regret |that he would mot he a candidate zain and to congratulate him upon his courage in refusing what is gen- jerally looked upon as an absolutely ,sure re-election 1o the presidency. There is considerable sentiment in | New York State for President Coclidge for another term, the former Senator stated, but citizens generally have come 1o the conclusion that the Presi- { dent has definitely withdrawn and are sting abour to their suport elsewhere, Hughes In his opinion, with Pr idge eliminated, former Secretary ot | State Charles' E. Hughes stands | stronger with the voters of New York State than any other mentioned in | connection with the Republican nomi- | nation, | | place Favorite. ident Cool- Senator Bingham of Connecticut, another of the President’s callers to- day, urged the appointment of Wal- 19:lace R. Farrington, governor of the (#).—Encountering his estranged mro,jflawauan Islands, as governor gen- in front of a Jewish temple as hun- dreds of worshipers were filing into the building, Fred Schulze, 31, last night shot and killed the woman. He turned the weapon on Gordon Goetzinger. 16, who was accompany- ing Mre. Schulze. and wounded him, probably mortalix Then he shot himeel! gd he fell geriously woundgd. {eral of the Philippines to succeed the |late Gen. Wood. Senator Bingham { reminded the President that Gov. Far: {rington has shown rare executive ability and efficiency in the conduct of the affairs of Hawaii and hecause of this and his familiarity with Ori- ental problems he fs eminently well fitted for the Philnpige post. | | That Gov. Smith of New York will | | siders the country nominally Repub- | RUSSELL ESTATE LEFT 'AVERAGE MAN' ISRUN TO E ARTH.: | NEW MOTOR COACH LINE 'TO RELATIVES IN ENGLAND BOASTS FEATURES IN ALL OF US TOAWN from | SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TAKE OVER NEW HEADQU tional hgldqulrleru of the society at 1227 Sixteenth street, at the meeting of the national e: Henry F. Baker, national committeeman, presenting the deed; Rev. Dr. Z. B. T. Phillips and Ernest E. Rogers, president general, accepting the deed. QUEEN PRESENTS STANDARD TO THE SPANISH FOREIGN LEGION. address at the presentation of the standard to the troops which have fought on the battlefields in Morocco. ent visit of the Queen and King Alfonso to Morocco. A view of the impressive ceremony as Queen Vicioria delivered an The presentation was made during the Wide World Photos. cutive committee. ARTERS HERE. Presentation yesterday of the deedl to the new na- In center of group, left to right: ‘Washington Star Photo. Lady Fairfax S8hares in Bequests of Will Filed for Probate Here. Jewels and $200,000 in ca to Lady Maud Wishart Fairfax, wife of Lord Fairfax of London, by the |terms of the will of Mrs. Mary Rus sell, widow of Cornelian Peyton Rus . | sell, who died October 8, according to | BY 'he Associated P \her will, filed yesterday in the Pro-, NEW YORK, Oc bate Division of th District of Colum- | prietor bia Supreme Court. Most of the bene- | in ficiaries of the estate are heirs. Her personal are given to Mrs. Mary London, f-sister of Other personal property is sgiven to her nephew, Ala tir C. McKelvie, ! and a trust fund of £150,000 is created for the benefit of McKelvie and his | | wife h are left By 19.—The pro- clothing Iowa has store been kK man” Dutton, writing in the an Fort Madison English | chosen as America’s by William S $200,000 | American Ma s of | ither a lea airs of his averag effects and A. Ht the deceased. | in the ay, ard s an average home drives an aver head of a family average used by o age car f four, which is the the Census Bureau Averag .. Robert 8. W. Wood of Tuxedo N. Y. and the Se-| & Trust Co. na {executors. ~The value of the estate |is not disclosed. { | Study of Steel Making Wiider Way. i | PITTSBURGH, October 19 (P).—A five-year program of scientific study in the physical chemistry of steel mak- ing to be carried out by the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the United States Bureau of Mines and an ad-| " A party man in national politics, visory board of Pittsburgh steel exec-|he is independent on local issues, His utives and metallurigists, was launch- {attitude on prohibition is non-commit. ed last night at a meeting of the ad-(tal because he believes neither wets visory board and representatives of |nor drys are giving him accurate in- 26_steel companies. formation on the issue. He is a mem- Renewed pledges of co-operation | bher of the Chamber of Commerce, | from representatives of the steel com- | the Rotary Club, the Elks and the panies gave impetus to the plan to|0dd Fellows. extend the research work, which was| ‘“‘Most of all.” he says. “I am inter. started last yegro .. .l Park { curity n Everything. { He member who do vegularly. His run from cur ical composi- is a ch attend services j tastes in radio music {rent jazz to light cl | tions, |be not as bad as they are reputed to ibe. The younger generation does not alarm him. He has an average in- terest in matters which do not direct- ly affect his home or his bustness. i 2 €sted in my honfe. And next come the | o average | nd he believes the movies to| ‘Writer Chooses lowa Clothing Store Pro-| prietor as Representative of Typical American. hecause my home de- He likes to read the better than any- ads the advertise- me they keep me in touch with the latest developments.” In the newspapers he reads with interest about new inventions, then t disasters or unusual news has no appeal e speeches of the Presi- vernor of Jowa he ginning to énd. The choice of Mr. Gray to wear the title bestowed upon him ended a Nation-wide search in which Mr. Dut- | ton used a map, a weather chart and | the census report, dividing the num- ber of cities and towns in the coun- fry into its population to find that Fort Madison was the average town lin_population, location and climate. Once Fort Madison was selected, its citizens were asked to choose from among themselves the man who best represented the average. The city found that “there is a little bit of all of us in Roy L. Gray.” DAL Five Dead in African Blast. JOHANNESBURG, Union of South Africy, October 19 (#).—A. great ex- plosidn_ occurred at the East Rand Power Station, at Brakpan, yester- day. Five pe-sons, including one my business, pends upon it.’ current 2 thing European, were killed and many in-| Jured, APOLIS IS OPENED New Service Will Include Two Re- turn Trips Daily, Replacing 0ld Plan. A new de luxe coach line, operat- ing the latest type bus over the Marl- | boro pike between Washington and | Annapolis, has been inaugurated by | the Washington, Marlboro & Annapo- |lis Motor Lines, Inc. | Leaving the Washington bus ter- !minal, Ninth street and Pennsplvania javenue, at 9 am. and 2:45 p.m., the | coaches make the run from the Cap- tal to the United States Naval Acad- |emy in 1 hour and 40 minutes, with ! necessary stops to take on and dis- | charge passengers en route. Two round trips are made daily, including Sunday, and on the return trips the busses leave Annapolis at 11: and 445 pm. The new service replaces the origi-|; nal busses operated by the same com- | pany, and will eliminate the necessity of changing coaches at Mount Zion. | L. L. Altmann is president and gen- {eral manager of the wuhhfiton. Marlhoro & Annapolis Motor Lines, Ire. . ADOLPHE MENJOU ILL. Actor Taken to Hospital After Col- - lapsing While at Work. LOS ANGELES, October 19- ().~ Adolphe Menjou, motion picture actor, is ill in the California Lutheran Hospi- tal following a collapse caused by -cul:n stomach troubles and a kidney malady. Hll‘ghylhlln sald he probably would be confined to his bed two or three ceks, Menjou ‘collapsed lm}-fiy UNONVETERANS CUMBERLAND RAIN MEETINREUNION - FLOODS POTOMAC Society of Army of Polomac|AHl Tributaries in Valley Out at Banquet Recalls Civil | of Banks' With Downpour War Experiences. Continuous Since Sunday. | Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN. Md., October The Potomac river was at flood st Williamsport this out of its hanks at s of Members of the thinning ranks of the Society of the Army of the Poto- mac celebrated their forty-sixth re. union with a business session in the District Building yesterday afternoon. | and a banquet in Harvey's Restaurant Jast night, where they heard adc | es of glowing praise f | Army ‘of the Repubiic. | with reference to *“Johnny |a worthy foe. Declaring that Civil the North and South | due to the economic contrast betwe the Potomac the two sections of the country. port whether it had come when it did or | J. A at some other time, Postmaster Gen- | ohserver eral Harry S. New, one of the princi- | reparts the total precipitation since pal speakers at the banquet, empha- | Sunday is 5 i sized that the result s the best for | It was raining hard today through- all concerned, adding: “No Dawes plan | out the area and the stage of the Po- could ever have put the South back |tomac River here at 8 o'clock this on its feet if it had won the Civil| morning was 7.3 feet. Another 24 War.” 3 hours of rain will result in serious Mr New said the South not only | damage to property in the lower sec- would have been bankrupt had it won | tion; »rtions of which already are the Civil War, but would have re-|under water, and traffic will be held ! mained purely ‘an agricultural coun- | yp on rallroads or highways. accord- try, “with not a single - great eity ling to the authorities. south of the Mason and Dixon line. 2 " e ANNUAL ADDRESS DUE. Senator Dale's Tribute. at morning and veral pls 2 result Cumberland night Practically all of the wing and. boats are reach the power plant of Edison Co. at Williams- continuous rain Valley since tributaries wre re- quired War s inevit Dbetwe Miller. government weather at Keedysville, near here, Senator Porter H. Dale of Vermont | paid high tribute to the valor and 2 character of the Union soldiers, and Baptist Conven > # |told of the part plaved by them in | — POt tion “to Hear Its defending Washington, emphasiz President Today. that without their efforts there would | %t R be no Washington as it is today. v the general Eaplist Senator Dale declared the defeat fONVeNt { the District o- of the Union forces at the first battle | {Umbia, now being held in the Mount of Bull Run was one of the best > loriah Baptist Church, Third and L [ nings that happened for the North, | Sireets will hear the annual address stating that it had the effect of mak- Pt e el bt EAE 1 N e e R Speakers for tomorrow include Dr. a task before it, while it made the | g myel Judson Porter, pastor of the First Baptist Church, and Dr. John South overconfident. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 34, exX-{p Briexs . A e tended the veterans an offcial wel. |, B¥iE8%. Work by the young peopls that the people here greet them as|the church pi & 1t should. in cordlally now as they did when the | addreds &b the 3 i same veterans marched through the| streets here under command of Gen | Meade. whose statue unveiling: and {dedication they attended this after- | noon. Del |banquet. Tudge Hosea B. Moulton, | the secretary. was re-elected to that office, and also was honored with the (office of vice president. Henry Lilly was hosen tred Other presidents are to named by preside Other Speskers Heard. Other rs were Maj. Gen sident of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland; Win- B e vanlony, s ey Plans for Future Meeting. Redfleld. Rev. James Shera Mont. | The president was authorized to call gomery. chaplain of - the House f | (he next meeting after consulting the Representatives, delivered invocation | YV1Shes of members of the society re- and benediction, garding the matter by mail. R R titiot. wecaraim. was ope Pd’ The president reported that thres by Col Charles A. Shaw -m_ejm'p’m past presidents of the society and a tal of 73 members have died since of the society, Who was toastmaster. | i z Hol o In a brief address C 3 ! the meeting held in 19 A rising vot : . v_de-fof thanks was extended to Col. Shaw clared the . veterans of the Union |for his work as president of the so- Army *“are rapidly passing away."“c,,,v_ be calling attention to the fact that the | The following committee was ap- soclety, with an original membership | pointed to serve as guard of honor of 5,000 men soon after it was organ-|for the headquarters flag of Gen. ized B9 years ago, has dwindled to|Meade at the time of the battle of !‘- than 200 at the present time.|Gettysburg, during the statue dedica- ‘Men of our age cannot expect to|tion exercises this afternoon: live long,” he continued, “but while| Henry Lilly, John M. Kiine, Col. we do, you will find our hearts warm |Shaw, Hosea B. Moulton, Charles V. to_our country.” Petteys, Alvin R. Bailey, John Finn, Shaw was re-elected president | George R. Brown, Jesse W. Mills, B. of the society at the business session | N. Woodruff. Edwin Rankin, Edward in the Distgict Bufl#n‘ preceding the Riker and William Z. Smith, %