Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1927, Page 17

THE *'EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, FATAL PLANE COLLISION WRECKS HOUSE AT PENSACOLA. Two Navy flyers, Lieuts. Frawley and McCord, were killed when their scout planes collided at a height of 5,000 feet and crashed into the heart of the city of Pensacola, Fla. frame house on which it landed. - RESCUED AFTER SEVEN DAYS W (at left), skipper of the schooner Horatio J. Foss, thanking Capt. de Koning of the S. S. Volendam, which picked up Potter and the eight men of his crew after they had drifted for a week in an open bhoat doning the schooner. CRIME CONFERENCE OPENS TOMORROW Delegates Arrive From All| Parts of Nation—Prelim- inary Parley Today. Bent on reducing crime in the United “tates, prison, crime, social welfare wnd other.officials from all parts of | the country were converging here to- day for the opening tomorrow of the National Conference on Reduction of Crime, under auspices of the National Crime Commission. ‘The vanguard of the incoming dele- gates was composed of State and city crime officials, who will hold a_ pre- liminary meeting at the Willard Hotel this afternoon at the invitation of the Cleveland Association for Criminal | Justice. | To Convene Tomorrow. The main sessions of *the two-day | gathering will begin tomorrow morn- lock in the Wiliard continue through | evening. There will be| meetings tomorrow afternoon and; night and Thursday morning, after- noon and evening, the concluding event being a dinner-meeting, with | Newton D. Baker presiding. | F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Sec- retary of War, and a member of the executive committes of the commis- sion, will preside at the opening ses- sion, when the topic will be the work | agd plans of State and city crime com- | missions and crime committees. Rich-| ard Washburn Child, acting chalrman | of the commission, will present a re- port on the year's activities of the body. { J. E. Baum, deputy manager of the | protective committes of the Ameri- | can Bankers' Association, will report | on the work of the special vigilante | associations organized by State bank-| ers. Many Reports Due. | PBriet reports will be submitted by | the following bodies: Califo; Com- | mission for the Reform of Criminalj procedurs, Philadelphia Crime Com-|{ on, Crime Suppression League of Rhode Island Criminal Law Commission, Pennsy tion for Jdentifica mau of Commiss Crimins 1 Ju- clumbus, Missouri Assoclation for Minnesota Crime Minneapolis, Illinois A for Criminal Justice, Minne- Bureau of Criminal Appre- roit Bureau of Govern- h, Baltimore sion, Commission to Kentucky, Chicago “ommiss an_ Arms Commission of Detroit, Civic Welfare Allianoe of Boston, New Jersey State Crime Commission, Ass on of Grand Jurors of New York City, Cin cinnati Bureau of Municipal Research, | Social | for Research in yrth Carolina; ourts, Char- Merchants’ k, New York Transportation, Committee of Yale Uni- American Crime Study Institute e on Criminal jty Organization Assoclation of Ne Board of Trade Crime Study versity and Commission. A | try in which the government conducts | Wiley | which will serve to unionize the farm- IN OPEN BOAT. on aban- Copyright by P. & A. Photos. POLICE TO LOSE BEARDS. Order in Constantinople Requires Elimination of Whiskers CONSTANTINOPLE, November 1 (P).—The prefect has ordered that all policemen must have their beards and mustaches removed forthwith. A large number complied immediately, but the well known centenarian, Zaro Agha, who is a conspicuous figure in Cornstantinople’s street life and dean of the bachelor section of the police department, is reluctant to discard his whiskers. He says he is waiting to see what will happen on pay day, meanwhile retaining his adornments. FARM CHEMISTS HEAR DR, WILEY Honorary President Urges Legislation to Unionize Agricultural Industry. ho forty-third annual convention of the Association of Official Agricul- tural Chemists, formed primarily to promote the adoption of uniform methods of the analysis of materials relating to agricultural pursuits, attended this morning to hear the an- nual address of its honorary president, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. It will close tomorrow morning after a program devoted to the consideration of com- mittee reports, dealing with technical subjects which are important factors in modern farming and dairy methods. Addressing about 200 delegates and guests from every section of the coun- agriculturzl experimental stations, Dr. Wiley predicted that the farmer will never cooperate and fix his own prices during this era. Urging that the farmer share in the protection afforded industry, Dr. spoke in favor of legislation er just as authority to establish agri- | cultural stations has already con- {1e:-2d upon him the means of learn- { ing_scientific agriculture. | The proposed islation would cre- late a board of experts, members of | the faculties of land grant colleges |and agricultural experiment stations, to a ain the cost of production of certain agricultural products and finally permit the farmer to set a price of his product based on the permitting a reasonable percentage of profit. Many details are considered in the estimates, including the aver- age cost of all the States in reference |also to the quantity produced and lan allowance for the assessed value of the land. Parent-Teachers Elect. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEABROOK, Md., November 1.— { These officers have been elected by the Parent-Teacher Association of the Sea- hrook hool: Miss Eloise Creese, president; Mrs. Calvin Long, vice production cost estimated by experts, | This shows the wreckage of one of the planes and the shattered front of the The other plane fell on a garage. Wide World Photos. LOCAL GIRL LAYS SWARTHMORE CORNER STONE. D. C. TUESDAY, NO Miss Mar- garet Somerville of Washington, president of the Student Government Association of Swarthmore College, laying the corner stone of the new Elizabeth Powell Bond Memorial Hall at the college. Wide World Photos. EMBER T, 1927. AMBASSADOR MORROW GETS ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION AT MEXICO CITY. newly appointed American Ambassador to Mexico, is w h his family at the Mexi colony as he a Morrow, n capital. Diaz, Mexican chief of protoco. icomed by officials and members of the Amer In this group at the station are, left to | Miss Morrow, Arthur Schoenfeld, American charge d’affaires; Ambassador Morrow Dwight W. Morrow, ght: nd Alfonso Copyright by P’. & A. Pho! SECRETARY MELLON LAYS TAX REDUCTIO! the House ways and means committee yesterday to lay his recommendations for a “6f drafting & new revenue bill for the coming session of Congress. Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. CHAMPION OF PILIPPINE INDEPENDEN! 4 and leader of the independence movement in the island: shown in the center holding his overcoat, with Commissioner Pedro Guevara on the Senator’s left. PROGRAM BEFORE % is greeted by a HOU 225,000,000 tax reduct . COMMITTEE. The Secrerary or tne sreasut’y appearing before n before that body as it begins the task Seated in front, left to right, are Clayton Moore, secretal v of the committee; Copyright by P. & A. Photos. E. Senator Manuel L. Quez ipino_delegation on his arrival Copyrig sident _of the Philippine Senate on Station yester He is ht by Underwood & Underwood. TILLMAN CONVICTED OF FORGERY CHARGE Former War Department Clerk Ac- cused of Faking Discharge Papers for Nephew. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 1.—Fred Tillman, a 70-year-old veteran, of Mount Rainier, Md., formerly a clerk in the adjutant general’s office of the War Department, in Washington, was found guilty yesterday by a jury in Federal Court of forging discharge papers for his nephew, Cleveland S. Tippett. The Government charged that Till- man secured a discharge certificate in June, 1924, and sent it to Mrs. Velma Tippett, wife of his nephew, who was at the time serving a four- and-one-half-year sentence in the Fed- eral Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans. | Tippett was convicted on an auto {theft charge, it was testified, and his 1 wife also was sentenced to two-and- one-half years in the Colorado State { Prison. Mrs. Tippett was brought to Government witness. Mrs. Tippett testified she sent Till- man $500 “for the expense of investi- her husband. Witnesses from the ad- | jutant general's office testified that the discharge certificate sent to Mrs. Tip- pett was improper. Tillman. it was testified, was not employed in the department which handles such applications for dis- charge. 5 The certificate introduced in evi- dence was dated February preceding the June when the Government claims Tillman sent the discharge. The jury recommended mercy. Judge Soper wil impose sentence later. president; Mrs. Whedbee, secretary. Poland has conferred the Grand Cor- @on of the Order of Polonfa Restituta on Premier Tanaka cf Japan, and Mrs. Dixon, treasurer. A card | party will be given soon to raise wopey for the school’s piany fupd. . B In the long list of Speakers of the House of Representatives but one of them, James K. Polk of Tennessee, bepmme President of the United States, | | Baltimore from prison to testify as a | gating a charge of desertion” against | | IRISH IN CHICAGO SUPPORT MAYOR'S “KING GEORGE" DRIVE| Many Answer Invitation to Join America | First Foundation, for Campaign on “British Propagancla.“ By the Associated Pross. CHICAGO, November 1.—Mayor Thompson's arch foe, the British Lion, has begun to assume the proportions of an octopus. What a playful lion cub in the Chicago schools grew into a raging king of be: on the shelves of the Chicago Public Library, then suddenly under the magic wand of fast-moving events, was metamorphosed into a sea creature, its tentacles reaching out toward Americans, young and old. Such was the picture the mayor painted in an address in Toledo last night. His supporters at home added | other strokes to the canvas until a comprehensive picture of British propaganda has been painted. Nation-wide Drive. Addressing the Greater Toledo Club, | Mayor Thompson said he planned to make a Nation-wide crusade of his | fight against British propaganda. Urging election of “America First” | delegates to the national conventions of both parties, Mayor Thompson said: “I already sense the hand of Wall Street and the international bankers in the handling of the line-up for both conventions.” And while the mayor was campaign- ing for “America_ First” in Ohio, his platform was applauded at a meeting of the American Assoclation for the Recognition of the Irish Republic. Mayor Is Backed. A resolution passed by acclaim at the meeting commended the action of Mayor Thompson “in trying to purge our school t books of the pro- British propaganda poison with which they abound.” Moo Thom:p'- Natiop-wide | Mi campaign took the form of the Amer- ica First Foundation, members vitations being sent to governors, Senators, Representatives and_mayors throughout the country. Its an- nounced purpose is to promote better citizenship “with a Nation-wide edu- cational program to teach the Consti- tution of the United States of America and respect for our form of Govern- Replies to invitati tinued today to arri of the country. Hylan Joins Group. n F. Hyl: York C to join cou- rom all parts Joh 1810 for membership. United States Senator Charles Cur-| tis, Kansas, wired that he saw no need for the promotion of the organi- | zation. United States Senator Pat Harrison, ississippi, wrote he would be glad to join the America First Foundation. Directors of the public library in a letter to the mayor said they refused to be startled by his cry, “Lion, lion.” They declared the library to be an in- stitution of free speech, not to be throttled. Trucks Transport Engine. Correspondence of the Assoclated Pre: SYDNEY.—Two threeton motor trucks of American make recently carried a 16-ton engine 225 miles across Australia, most of the way over bush tracks. The boiler was placed on one truck and the trailer and the engine and the other gear on the second truck. The drivers said they made the trip in highe | Heights, ORDERS REROUTING OF PUBLIC BUSSES Utilities Requires Company to Abandon Terminus West of Key Bridge Approach. Commission The Washington, Virginia & Mary- land Coach Co., which operates motor busse from Georgetown to Lee Clarendon, Cherrydale and other Arlington County, Va., commu- nities, was ordered by the Public Util- ities Commission today to abandon its terminus just west of the District ap- proach to the Key Bridge and run the vehiclgs along M street to Thirty-third street, north to Prospect avenue, east to Potomac street, south to M street and back to a loading zone e stead of west of the bridge approach. Under the new routing the busses will be forced to make two left turns | instead of one in getting back on Key Eridge. The commission also authorized the Washington Railway & Electric Co. to extend its ourth street-Central avenue motor bus line from its pres- ont terminus at Channing street north- east to Franklin street, and invited the District Commissioners to par- ticipate in a joint hearing to consider the protests of street car and motor bus_companies against the proposed traffic signal installation program of Traffic Director William H. Harland. - Another Roof to Fix. Correspondenee of the Assoclated Press. PRINCES = RISBOROUGH, Eng- land.—Premier Stanley Baldwin shares with President Coolidge the difficulty of keeping a safe roof over his head. Like the White House in Washington, Mr. Baldwin's official country res. idence at Chequers has developed roof trouble. Many of the beams have rot- ted, and it is necessary to abandon the houss temporarily that steel beams may replace the insecurs oak rafte) n v hat is worn to ward off blows from in earthquakes and other disasters. J. G. WEIGAND DIES. Lynchburg Resident, 79, Survived by Nine Children. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., November 1. —John G. Weigand, 79 years old, died Monday at the Memorial Hospital here. He was born in Lynchburg July 18, 1848, and lived his entire life here. Mr. Weigand is survived by the following children: John W. Weigand S. R. Weigand, H. R. Weigand, W. Weigand, W. K. Weigand, M. H. Weigand, Mrs. F. W. Potter and Mrs. L. C. Peters of Lynchburg and Mrs. J. J. Peak of Roanoke. ADMIRAL EBERLE 1S DINNER GUEST Fifty Fellow Officers Pay| Tribute to Chief at Testi- monial Banquet. Admiral E. W. Eberle, U. S. N, chief of naval operations, was tender- ed a testimonial dinner at the Army and Navy Club last night by 50 offi- cers now on duty in the Office of Naval Operations. Admiral Eberle is to suc- ceed Admiral Hilary P. Jones as the president of the Navy General Board on November 13, when Admiral Jones retires. He is to be succeeded in the naval operations post by Admiral Charles F. Hughes, at present the commander-in-chief of the United States fleet. Rear Admiral H. J. Zeigemeier, di- rector of fleet training, presided. In front of Edmiral Eberle a signal yard- arm was placed, flying the signal flags and pennants, which, interpreted. read, ‘“Well done.' Rear Admiral Zeigemeler and Rear Admiral Thomas J. Senn spoke. Capt. W. H. Stanzley, who is to become di- rector of fleet training, and who is now commanding the battle fleet flag- ship California, brought a message from the fleet. In respcnding to the speeches, Ad- miral Eberle recalled his 46 years in the naval service. The music was furnished by the Navy Band Orchestra. . MRS. FOWLER MISSING. Capital Heights Woman Dressed Self for “Hike to Florida.” Clad in tan knickers and a red coat, and with $1.30 in cash and a dozen bananas, Mrs. Pauline Fowler, 23 years old, Capitol Heights, Md., set out yesterday saying she was going on a hike to Florida, her mother, Mrs. Gertrude Howell, 317 Fourth street southeast, today informed police. The young woman's blond hair is bobbed. Mrs. Howell told police that Mrs. Fowler was suffering from a nervous breakdown, Operatives of the Wom- an's Bureau and policemen through- out the District have been instructed to search for the missing woman, giv- ing special attention to hospitals. - Laborious Labor-Saving. ' From Answers. London. Black—Your wife looks rather tired. Smith— he’s been using a lot ot new lnor-nvln:émlhncu. W AN IDEA FOR DOMESTIC COMEDIES. This is not a home-coming scene in a comic film, but a demonstration of the pnewmatic hat device displayed at the recent California first-aid meet at Los Angeles. The falling debris ddring first-aid work Wide World Photos. CLUES IN FORBUSH HUNT ARE FUTILE Search for Missing Woman Has Now Lasted 12 Days. Friends Baffled. It has been 13 days since Mrs. Ann Ramsey Forbush slipped from Keith's Theater while her husband, Rev. Dascomb E. Forbush, pastor of First Congregational Church, Canandaigua, N. Y., waited at another exit and today the mystery of her disappear- ance is as baffiing as on the rainy night when she fell victim for the third time in eight years to an obses- sion which impels her to seek solitude. The searching party, which last week numbered about 30 Canandaigu- ans and friends from Rochester, N. Y., had dwindled this morning to Rev. Mr. Forbush and Clifford A. Parmenter of Rochester. A message was received, however, from Canane- daigua that Rev. George E. Finlay, pastor_of the Baptist Church there, and Dr. Robert G. Cook, head of Brigham Hall Sanitarium are en route here. They are expected to arrive early this afternoon. Maintain Permanent Posse. Home-town friends of Rev. and Mrs. Forbush have adopted a definite policy of maintaining a permanent posse here, as much to comfort the anxipus husband as to assist in the search. Although it is felt that a large posse is no longer necessary, unless some definite clues develop in which event the original posse of 23 men is in readiness to return here, two or more friends plan to he here for the duration of the search. Rev. Mr. Forbush and Mr, Par- menter_conferred this morning with Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle, head of the Women's Bureau, enlisting her co- operation in a canvas of rooming houses and places where feminine help is employed. The possibility has not been Jost sight of that the obsession which has twice driven the missing woman to hide herself in the woods may have taken this time a new twist, causing her to adopt a different mode of life and lose her identity in a large city. Rev. Mr. Forbush was somewhat encouraged by a report that a woman answering the description of his wife had been seen in New Hampshire. The Forbush Summer cottage is at Canaan, N. H, in the White moun- tains, and the theory was advanced early in the search that she might be attempting to make her way back to the cottage where she has spent many quiet hours. Clues Prove Futile. Yesterday was a day of futile clues as have been dreary preceding days. One clue led to a search of an aban- doned cemetery near Adams Mill road but it developed later that a woman who had been seen entering the cemetery did not answer the de- scription of the missing woman. When Mrs. Forbush disappeared she was wearing a small, tightly fit- ting brown hat, a brown coat with a raccon collar and hose and shces to match. She weighs about 130 pounds, is 5 feet 4 inches tall, and has light bobbed hair and gray eyes. National attention has been drawn to the search. Rev. Mr. Forbush has been in receipt of letters of sympathy and advice from all over the country. This morning he received a letter from a woman in Los Angeles,