Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1927, Page 17

HIGH OFFICIALS ATTEND UNVEILING OF MEADE MEMORIAL. unveilin, George ac cords at the spokesman at the ceremony. WHILE FANDOM PAYS ITS TRIBUTE. Walter Johnson, who ended with the Nationals by asking for his release his famous pi the other day, is with_his Rappahannock . While rumors .connection with the game, he quietly énjoys his favorite sport. WEATHER BUREAU ~ ANSWERS CRITICS Crop Season of 1927 Held on Par or Better Than Many Others Recently. By the Associated Press. Answering critics of its- special ‘weather review of last August 17 the ‘Weather Bureav, in its weekly weath- er and crop bulletin, declared that the crop season of 1927 up to October 1, when the composite condition is con- aidered, has been “‘on a par with or better than many other recent sea- mons,” and that the weather has “not been markedly harmful to general erop production.” Recalling that “‘marked attention has been drawn by the press to the Summer of 1927, whose weather char- acteristics were to be s0 adverse to crops as to at least menace the Na- tion’s food supply,” the bureau issued a “summary of facts” which, it said, “fully justified the statement” of two ‘months ago. Cites “Off-Year” Tendency. TReviewing both favorable and un- favorable weather conditions up to October 1, the bureau declared the “outstanding unfavorable features of | the early season comprised the exces- sive rains and severe floods in the in- terior valleys, whose harmful effects to the general agricultural situation ‘were most pronounced in the conse- q t “delay to Spring planting and the damage to fruit in some sections by frost.” “As previously stated. however,” the bureau added, “the latter was due Jargely to the prematurely advanced stage of fruit by reason of the preced- ing unseasonable warmth, while an- other cause for the general small fruit crop this year was the natural off-year tendency in ing following last year's enormous production, and this is not properly chargeable to the ‘weather.” Answers North Dakota Charge. “The bureau also reviewed “‘more or less localized adverse conditions” which it had said had not had a marked general bearing on crop pro- duction and, referring to private fore- «casts of hail damage to crops in North Dakota and to criticisms of its special August review for not featuring crop losses, it concluded ““The relative unimportance of these is mow indicated by the latest official report on the 1927 harvests for North Dakota, which shows that the wheat crop was one of the five largest in the history of the State. Furthermore, the composite condition of all crops in North Dakota was mors than 20 per cent above the 10-year average for the State. “BUCKY” HARRIS HAS SON. ‘Washington Ball Team Gets New Recruit, Born Yesterday. A mew recruit was signed up last night by the Washington base ball club. Manager Stanley Raymond Har- ris regards him as the most promising recruit in the history of the team, , which is not surprising, since Harris is his father. The stork arrived late yesterday aft. ernoon at Garfield Hospital and pre- mented Mrs. Harris with a 7-pound baby hoy. Before her marriage Mrs. Harris was Miss Elizabeth Sutherland She is the daughter of Howard Suth. erland, aliep property custodian. Botanic Miss Henrietta Meade pulling the dedication ceremony yesterday for the impressive memorial to her father, Maj. Gen. iordon Meade, famous Union general, in the grounds of the cepted the memorial on behalf of the Nation from the State of Pennsylvani: President Coolidge ¥ Fisher was Star Photo. | | | | | | | Rodney Bengene at the fly as to Walter's next Wide World Photos. Coolidge delivering his address Th Civil War. IT'S ALL IN GETTING USED TO IT. That is what Capt. Schneider, famous German lion tamer, says rbout this stunt of putting his head between the capacious jaws of one of his “pet” lions. His exhibitions of fearlessness with the big brutes are a popular attraction in Berlin and other German communities. e World Photos. PRESIDENT ACCEPTS )ll-].\l(lll'[\l. al memorial to Maj. Gen. Meade of the U he President paid high tribute to Penn: the VETER. tion. of Detroit junior major league circuit, Ban Johnson stepped mogul seated at his desk Curing the meeting of the league’s directors at which he turned in his resigna- Attending are, left to right: Thomas Shibe of Philadelphia, George Barrett, attorney; Frank Navin nd Clark Griffith of Washington. out of office t th er day. This shows the diamond Wide World Photos. REVEA London phys S HOAX IN CHANNEL SWIM. Dr. Dorothy C. Logan, the ician, who has given the British public a shock by admitting that she faked her “record-breaking swim” of the English Channel. The physician, shown here with her trainer, Horace Carey, said she did it to show how easily th blic could he PRISONER DENIES BLACKMAIL PLOTS Sicilian on Trial as Leader of Band Which Scourged Countryside. By the Associated Press. TERMINI IMERESE, Sicily, Octo- ber 20.—The deposition of the alleged ringleader of an infamous gang at- tached to the dreaded Mafia, who looks more like a dive keeper than the comic opera conception of a ban- dit chief, today was before the court which is trying him and 152 others | for various' crimes from murder to blackmail. Salvatore Ferrarello, the alleged chieftain, resolutely denied, as his four brothers had before him, par- ticipating in the crimes imputed to the gang. Jury Scans Letters. Threatening letters, which he is accused of having sent, were passed to the jury for inspection. As he heard these described he ‘stroked his | black mustache and gazed con.| temptuously about him. Once he was | sharply rebuked by the presiding | judge when he attempted to criticize the police and the examining magis- trate before whom he had come earlier. Salvatore is a short, wiry, fellow, with piercing black eyes. His | black mustache is_not of stage | proportions, During his examination he sported a soft white collar, com- paratively clean, which definitel moved him from the apache who stand trial collarless on principle, Salvatore was mild of manner and deft of gesture. Whether or not this was due to his recent illness in jail, he seemed to fulfill his rugged old bandit uncle’s description, uttered on his death bed: “My nephew Salva- tore was once a member of my band, but I afterward dispensed with his services because he was not suf- ficlently energetic.” Salvatore’s bland se worldly goods were inherited from his uncle Gaetano evoked smiles from those in the courtroom who knew the old brigand’s past. Gaetano was “on the run” for 33 vears, having started his career of crime by shooting a pugilist whom he suspected of paving attention to his inamorata. There- after he stayed in the mountains or in gullies which led to the sea. His brother Santo supplied him With food and ammunition for 12 years while he hid suave contention that thy that came his BINGHAM SEES KELLOGG. ! Senator Tells Secretary of Condi- tions in Far East. Senator Bingham of Connecticut, who returned a few weeks ago from an extended Far Eastern tour, and Secretary of State Kellogg were in conference at the State Department today regarding the Chinese situation. The Secretary’s desire to get a first- hand statement of the Senator's ex- periences and views regarding the present disturbed cbnditions in China was the only purpose of the confer- ence disclosed. MEMBERS OF MISSIONARY SOCIETY RECE Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church callin, left to right, are: Mrs. May L. Woodruff of New Jersey, ) society. $ VED AT THE WHITE rs. Coolidge, fooled. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. HONORED IN INTERNATIONAL Institute. EXHIBIT. John Kane, 60-year-old artisi, who has recently been “discovered” in Pittsburgh and honored by having his works hung in the international exhibition at the Carnegie He is shown at work in his tenement “studio. Wide World Photos. HOUSE. to pay their respects to President and Mrs. Coolidge vesterday. Goode of New Jersey, president of the the President and Mrs. W. H. ( Delegates to the annual convention of the Woman's Home In center of group, Copyright by Underwpod & Underwood. BRITIH IN TRIBUTE 10 UNKNOWN HERD Admr. Cowan Places Wreath on Tomb—Theater Party for Guests Tonight. Admiral Sir Walter Cowan, com- mander-in-chief of the West Indies fleet, who is here for a 10-day visit with two light cruisers from his fleet, journeyed yesterday to Arlington 1 tional Cemetery and placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. As Admiral Cowan and his staff en- tered the military reservation at Fort Myer a field artillery hattery fired a #lute of 17 gune. A troop of cavalry escorted the British officers to the cemetery. Admiral Cowan laid the wreath on behalf of the Royal British Navy, of which he is one of the outstanding figures. ‘The Canadian Minister, Vincent Massey, today entertained Admiral Cowan and his staff at luncheon. This evening the officers and men of the cruisers, the Calcutta and the Cairo, will be guests of the Belasco Theater. This afternooh the British sailors will pit their strength against Ameri- can tars in a tug-of-war at the Navy Yard. Other athletic events will be staged, weather permitting. o $200,000 More for Missions. An increase of $200,000 in the ap- propriation of ®he Foreign Mission Minister MacMurray, who has been in the United States on leave after ! having been called home for confer- ences, will return to his post at Pe- king early next month. Board of the Seventh-day Adventists, making a total of $4,428,361 for carry- ing out its missionary operations abroad during 1928, was announced todags 4 s By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October | An electrical machine with a ‘“me- chanical mind” that solves involved mathematical problems with ease has been perfected at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Dr. Van- nevar Bush, professor of electric power transmission, and a staff of re- search workers. The institute, in announcing the de- velopment today, said the apparati known as a “product intergraph, would open the way to hitherto inac- essible flelds of research. These are expected to lie largely along electrical a accurately problems of advanced elec- trical theory which have troubled en gineers, “The product integraph,” Dr. Bush explained in the announcement today, “might be called an adding machine Where workers in the business world are ordinarily satisfied with addition, subtraction, multiplication and divi- sion of numbers, the engineer deals with curves and graphs which repre- sent for him the past, present and fu- ture of the things in which he deals.” In operating the machine the mathe- matician or engineer, in effect, feeds into it the equations and parts ol the problem which cannot now be solved by formal mathematics. The answer is turned out in from eight minutes to a few hours, A watt-hour meter, similar to those used in homes for recording elec- trical power consumption, is the foun- dation for the engineer using the machine, plots on paper the equa- tions used, and these are passed slow- ly under pointers which operators, sta- tioned along the apparatus, keep on the curves of the plots. As the pointers move along the curves the power flow- ing-through the meter varies propor- tionately and that used is totaled and lines, as the work was begun several | vears ago in an effort to evolve a ma- | chine that would solve rapidly and| carried to an extreme in its design. | |Scientist Perfects Machine to Solve f: Hardest Mathematical Problems Easily {recorded. The meter controls a motor which drives a pencil along another moving sheet of paper on which a curve, known as the integral, is traced, {and this is the result sought. The apparatus, the announcement said, will solve practically any * ond order differential equation,” a t. of equation, which, in many cases be solved only after long computation. Associated with Dr. Bush in the de- velopment of the machine were F. G F. D. Gage. TRAGEDY VIC.TIM BURIED NEAR FALLS CHURCH Mrs. Young Laid to Rest Near | Former Home—Friend Awaits | Murder Trial. While the man accused of strangling her to death in New Yor turday awaited a_hearing next Monday on a charge of homicide, Mrs. Helen Young was buried today at Andrew Cbapel, Fairfax County, Va., mnear Falls Church. Funeral services for the 26- year-old woman were held at 10 o’clock this morning at the home of her mother, Mrs. Florence Hughes, 28 Florida avenue northeast. Rev. John E. Briggs of the Fifth Baptist Church officiated. Surviving Mrs. Young are her parents, her husband, Samuel Young, ‘Washington taxi driver; her 8-year-old son Billy and five brothers, all of ‘Washington. Harry Gilmore, butcher, killed Mrs. Young, according to New York detec- tives, .when she pointed a knife at him, knowing that he was in mortal dread of this. Police say Gilmore took Mrs. Young away from her hus- band here, the couple having met in ;ll"l;t;burgh. during the world series of Kear, H. L. Hazen, H. R. Stewart and | STORM CAUSES TWO DEATHS INNORTH Many Homes Are Flooded, Bridges Out and Rail Serv- ice Delayed in Pennsylvania. By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, October 20.— Western and central Pennsylvania re- mained today in the grip of the storm which has been lashing the East since Sunday while Philadelphia and sur- rounding territory welcomed a bright sun. Reports from many State told of flooded homes, bridges as the downpour of the past several days swelled rivers and small streams to_flood stage: In the Manayunk section of this city 6,000 residents and a dozen textile mills faced the prospects of a serious flood as the Schuylkill River eontinued to rise, Two deaths were attributed’ to the storm near Hallstead, Susquehanna County, when a Lackawanna pas- senger train struck a washout last night, killing the fireman and engineer. Near Wilkes-Barre the Susquehanna River had reached a flood level of 17 feet and was still rising. High water ‘was reported at many towns on the river and nearby local streams were out of their banks. Two collieries ‘were forced to suspend operations at Awvoca.. Mg L Sailors once believed that the stormy petrel was exclusively a sea bird, lay- ing its egg at sea and carrying it around under one wing until it hatched. . [ference yesterda sections of the| down and interrupted railroad service | ARCON EXPLANS RADO BEAN HERE Inventor Says New System Is Superior to Cables in All Ways Except Secrecy. An important step in the progress of transatlantic radio-communication and in the development or radio- | telephony and the transmission of pho- | tographs is seen in Guglielmo Mar- coni’s latest invention to restrict radio emanations from sending stations to | a single beam, which. he explained at | the international radio conference here yesterday, would increase the strength | of incoming signals from 100 to 200 | times. The effect of this, he said, was that all the energy of transmitting stations, which undey ordinary circumstances would have been spread in all direc- tions, was concentrated along this beam. In transatlantic communication between this country and England, he added, the beam system had strength- ened messages 100 times. To obtain the same strength of incomin, without directional transmission the sending power would have had to he increased 10.000 times, he explained | adding that this would have been un feasible, Sees Cables Outdone. Since the success of radiotelephony tand photographic transmission are dependent upon the strength of the incoming signals, Marconi declared he considered his experiments with beam transmission as improvement of the science. Asked whether wireless would ever completely replace the cable, Marconi | said the latter had on! of secrecy, but that with the beam tem secrecy is practically absolute in radio, since words are transmitted at as high a rate as 500 per minute, requiring complicated and expensive receiving sets. In addition, such mes- sages are subject to reception only by | stations in the direct path of the beam. Championing the cause of the radio amateur, a subcommittee of the con-| v banished restrictive regulations cramping his activities | when the United States, joined by Can- | ada, Australia. New Zealand and Ire- land, moved for formal recognition of the international status of amateurs. They suggested that a special band of frequencies be set apart for their experiments and that no international | restrictions be imposed upon the! power they may use, but that this be left to the discretion of each indi- vidual country. There was no opposition to the pro- posal despite the general understand- ing that considerable resentment ex- isted in several countries against the activities of amateurs as interfering and competing with commercial radio concerns. The next plenary session of the con- ference was called today by Secretary Hoover for October 25. At this ses- sion, it was announced, the conference;| will pass upon any articles of the convention or the regulations which committees shall have reported. Chicago Store to Close. CHICAGO, October 20 (#).—Hill- man’s, one of the leading State street signals | basis for the| he advantage | ALABAMA OFFICIAL RESIGNS FROM KLAN Attorney General McCall Hits Certain Leaders as He De- nounces Conniving. |36t sasncisia e | MONTGOMERY, Ala.. October 20.— | A Klansman whose wholesale invest gation of reported floggings incrimi- nated the invisible empire has branded “the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama as the | greatest menace to constituted au- | thority™ in tendering his unconditional resignation from that order. In a sweeping condemnation of that organization, Attorney General Charlie | €. "McCall directed his letter of with- drawal yesterday to “the Exalted Cy- | clops, Klan No. 3, Province No. 2, | Realm of Alabama.” | The action follows Immediately after the extensive probe of the at- torney general into a series of alleged whippings in Oneonta, Blount and Crenshaw Counties. His _activities prompted-an investigation by a spe- cial Crenshaw County grand jury last | week at Luverne, which scored the | Klan in returning 102 indictments. | Adheres to Principles. | ‘While professing an adherénce to | “those fundamental principles which the Klan has publicly pronounced,” the attorney general in his letter de- clared that he had “become vinced that the Klan in Alabama in the hands of a lawless leadership.” “I have become convinced that it i {not the purpose or intent of its lead- ers to aid the duly constituted officers of the law where crimes are commit- | ted by its leadership,” he continued. “I have become convinced that many of these crimes by hooded mobs which I have investigated have been plotted and planned by Klan leaders. . “Instead of the leaders of the Klan in this State aiding the officers of the law in their efforts to ferret out crimes committed by Klan members, the leaders of this organization have spread a wave of intimidation over many law-abiding members, and have dealt in caustic and cowardly remarks cencerning the motives and action of officers of the law,” he declared. Holds Leaders Responsible. “Many of these leaders, in my juds- ment, are responsible for the wave of lashings and floggings which have taken place in this State and many members of the Klan are placed in fear of drastic action by its present State rulers, if they tell the truth in courts.” In conclusion, he said he regarded his oath as an officer of the law su- perior to any private or fraternal ob- ligation, and he did not feel he “would follow longer behind the banner and under the leadership of those leaders in their religious, political and crimi- nal connivings, placing themselves at war with constituted authority.” Mr. McCall, at the same time, in a public statement, denied that he had launched a State-wide investigation of the Klan. Woman Dies of Auto Injury. Elizabeth Briscoe, colored, 42 years old, Charlotte Hall, St. Marys County, Md., died at Freedmen's Hospital yes- department stores, will pass out of existence December 31, it was an- nounced today. Inability to come to terms on a new lease was given as the cause for the cessation of busi- ness, which was founded 28 years ago. ago, terday as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident near her home a month ago. Her death was- caused by a dislocation of the spine. Bertha Butler, sister of the deceased, and Maryland authorities were notified of her death. >