Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1927, Page 17

SPEAKER LONGWORTH BECOMES A SCOUT. of the House being “sworn in” as a member of the Boy Scouts when he The genial Speaker returned home to Cincinnati the other day to take part in local election affairs, Troop No. 45. The card in his left hand is his certificate of membership in Copyright by P. & A. Photos. HELPING THE VISITING NURSE BUDGET. Judge Mary 0'Toole of the Municipal Court making her contribution in the present campaign to raise a 1928 budget of $65,000 for the GOING AFTER NEW ENDUR NCE RECORD. Bert Acosta (at left), one of the erew in Comdr. Richard Byrd's transatlantic flight, and Instructive Visiting Nurse Society. Miss Ruth Tanner, headquarters secretary, is receiving the contribution, Harris & Ewing Photo. Eddie Burgin, who will attempt to break the endurance flight record recently established by German flyers. Additional fuel capacity is being provided in a Fokker plane for the attempt. Associated Press Photo. — PRESIDENT PRESENTS REGATTA CUP TO SPEEDBOAT PII.OT. drove the flashy racing craft Miss Syndical Mr s. Delphi te"to victory in the mah: event of the Fflswe"l'fl Cup regatta here in September, receiving the trophy from President Coolidge yesierday at the White House. ine Dodge Cromwell, who The skill dem- onstrated by Mrs. Cromwell as a racing pilot was one of the outstanding features of the regatta, TRAFFIG ACCIDENTS INJURE 8 PERSONS Bad Weather Believed Re- sponsible for Portion of Hurts. Eight persons were struck by ve- hicles, one woman being seriously wite | . 2 of Rev. Dascomb E. Forbush, e, e e I hen ontr|Canandaigus, N. Y. pastor, who dis- tions. Mrs. Catherine de Bell, 65| years old, whose address the police have not ascertained, was seriously hurt by a motor truck, driven by Alfonso_ Corporaletti, 28 years old, of 4429 New Hampshire avenue, on Sixth street between L and M streets about 6:30 o'clock. Mrs. de Bell, hurrying through the downpour of rain, police believe, failed to see the truck and the driver was unable to avert the accident. Physicians today reported her condition undetermined. First aid was given the woman at Sibley Hospital, but the patient was later transferred to Gallinger Hos- A note pinned to her dress re- quested that Mrs. William Goedeke, 1450 Chambers street, St. Louis, Mo., | be notified in case of accident or death, Hits Steam Shovel. No. 14 truck company and the fire rescue squad were called out when ‘Wiley D. Hunt, colored, 30 years old, of 12 N street failed to take cogniz- ance of danger signals on a steam shovel parked in the 3000 block of ‘Woodley road and drove his car into it, the vehicle overturning and pin- ning the driver underneath. The fire- men rescued Hunt from beneath the wrecked automobile and he was taken to Emergency Hospital. His right leg ‘was fractured and he also suffered | head injuries. Six-year-old Lawrence Jones, col- ored, 31 Defrees street, was seriously injured early in the evening when knocked down by a motor truck of | the Tri Pure Water Co., 1319 Four-| teenth street, near Third and K| streets. He was treated at Freed- men’s Hospital by Dr. §. E. Lewis for a compound fracture of the right leg, snjuries to his face and possible in- ternal injuries. Miss_Maud Dubant, 50 years old, 1336 Columbla road, was slightly bruised and shocked as a result of being knocked down at Fourteenth and Belmont streets by an automobil Rhe was treated at a private hospital. Miss Dubant told police she failed to obtain the license number of the car, Struck by Bus. Miss Mildred Smith, 29 years old, 1811 Monroe street, was knocked down at Eleventh and E streets by a bus of the Capital Traction Co. Suffering from bruises and shock, Miss Smith was taken home in a passing taxicab. Mrs. Mary E. Lattin, 54 years old. %27 Fern street, sustained a fractured | collarbome and cuts and bruises when | struck by a taxicab while at Georgia avenue and Rock Creek Church road. Victor Lees, 106 Second street, driver. | 100k the injured woman to Garfield Hospital. Police charged him with ! reckless driving and released him on | eoliateral. Mrs. E. L. Bean, 60 years old, 944 | X ‘street, was knocked down at Tenth | and H streets by an automobil Physicians at Emergency Hospita rendered first aid. Herman Obermeyer, 42 Fourth street nmortheast, FLOODS HAMPER Wlienist Seeks | nue | Parker, colored, 73 years old, 134 S I street, was knocked down by an auto- years old, | mobile driven by Marie Schwartz, 1915 was | Sixteenth streel knocked down at Twelfth and E was refused, FORBUSH IN NORTH Identity of Woman Reported Seen Near Wheaton, Md. The sixteenth day of the search for Mrs. Ann _Ramsey Forbush, appeared from Keit tober 19, opened today with but one slim local lead to follow, but with | several clues which would appear to indicate that she is hundreds of milcs away. Dr. Robert G. Cook, an alienist;and Rev. G. E. Finlay, Baptist pastor at Canandaigua, conferred this morning with Montgomery County authorities in an attempt to establish the identity of a mysterious woman in brown who has repeatedly been reported seen in sections of that county, particularly near Wheaton. She has not as yet been identified. It was disclosed today that two days after her disappearance here a family friend of the missing woman saw a woman whom he believed to be her in the Grand Central Station, New York. He followed her and addressed her, calling her *“Mrs. Forbush” and “Ann,” but she brushed by him and walked away. At the time of this meeting he did not know of her dis- appearance, and had just heard of her recovery following her disappearance from Canandaigua a few weeks before she slipped away here. Information from the Green Moun- tain region of New Hampshire, to which the anxious husband is hasten- ing, was to the effect that a woman resembling Mrs. Forbush had spent the night in a woods 40 miles from her country cottage near Canaan on Saturday, the night after the meeting reported at the Grand Central Station. After driving 600 miles without a stop except for gasoline, Rev. Mr.| Forbush was compelled to spend last | s Theater Oc- | night at Rutland, Vt., on account of a heavy flood, ch made motoring further impos: He wired Mr Ellen G. Ramsey, mother of Mrs, T hush, now her % he hoped to be | able 1o go on to N today. | PETER McDERMOTT DIES. Peter D. McDermott, 63 years of age, for 21 years a machinist at the Navy Yard, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at his residence, 606 I5| street mnorthcast, KFuneral services will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Joseph's Church, with requiem high mas: Interment will be_in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mr. McDermott is survived by six daughters—Miss Mamie and Miss Catherine McDermott, Mrs. L. Garner, Mrs. O. Murray, Mrs. J. Fields and Mrs, W, and by one son, Frank. e residents of Wash- ington. Mr. McDermott was a mem- ber of the Holy Name Soci . Joseph's Churéh. o streets by the automobile of Edgar Lavener, Rosslyn, Va. and his left hand injured. He was given first aid at Emergency Hospital. While crossing at Pennsylvania ave- nd Seventh street George W. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. YALE LINK N the going rather easy this season TY LEAVES ATHLETICS' FOLD. The smiles worn by Ty Cobb and Connie Mack, manager of the Athletics, during their Philadelphia con- ference “price” have received $60,000 last year. rove there was no hard feeling, but only a consideration of hind_the release of the veteran outfielder. Cobb is said to Associated Press Photo. Bridge. RED CROSS FLOAT IN ARLINGTON COUNTY PARADE. floats, entered by the Arlington County Red Cross Chapter, is shown in the parade staged by citizens of the county yesterday to celebrate the turning on of water into the county from Dalecarlia Reservoir. The parade formed at Peace Monument and passed along Pennsylvania avenue, entering the .county over the Highway say, to a banana diet. A TESTIMONIAL FOR THE POPU! the age of 1 year, Vivian Kellman of New York owes it all, her parents Statistics show she has eaten 3,000 bananas since placed on the diet after refusing milk when 10 days old. R FRUIT. Hale and hearty at Copyright by P. & A. Photos. WARTS FACE MARYLAND CHARGES TOMORROW. for the Yale backfield. Yale meets the College Park eleven tomorrow at New Haven. WAR BONUS LOANS TOTAL $81,222,454 Director of Veterans’ Bureau Re- ports on Aggregate of Trans- actions Up to October 1. Veterans borrowed $81,222,454 on thelr World War bonus up to Octo- ber 1, it was announced today by Director Hines of the Veterans' Bu- reau. This vast loan was advanced both | from the banks of the country, and | from the Veterans' Burcau or its | agencies. The hureau loaned $31,770,000 to ap- proximately 353,000 veterans since the first of April, or an average of more | than $4,500,000 per month, while the ¢hich have been loining since the fi 432, renewals, the figures include some 8,- 339 renewals amounting to 761,667, which have been reported as such. In addition to this the bureau has al- ready paid out $3,267433.76 to the banks of the country for the redemp- tion of 154,026 notes, which the vet. crans failed to take up at date of ex- piration of the loan. SASSOON ON AIR TRIP. British Air Official. With U. 8. Party, Visits West Point. Assistant Secretary F. Trubee Da- viton of the War Department accom. panied Sir Philip Sessoon, British un- dersecretary of state for air, and staff in a flight from Mitchel Field, New York, to West Point today for an in- spection of the Military Academy. The party made the trip in three Loening amphibian airplanes, plloted by Maj. George E. Stratemeyer of West Point, Capt. Ira Eaker of Wash- ington, D. C., and Lieut. Newton Longfellow of Mitchel Field. Under- secretary Sassoon and his staff will t. Hospital treatment sail from New York for Englang to- MOrrow, - The sturdy linemen of Yale’s Valet to Three Kings, Oldest Retainer, Gets Gold Stickpin on Golden Wedding Italy, November 4.—A large and beautifully wrought gold stickpin, adorned with the coat of arms of the House of Savoy, is gracing the modest black cravat of Stefano Proia and making him the proudest inhabitant of this little vil- lage near the regal hunting lodge. The pin is the gift of the Italian royal family to its oldest retainer, upon the occasion of his golden wedding. Stefano has served the Royal House for 53 years. He has been the per- onal valet of three kings—Victor Smmanuel II, Umberto I and Victor Emmanuel IIT—and for a long time was custodian of the wardrobe and jewels of the late queen mother, Margherita of Savoy, widow of the murdered King Umberto. The present ruler of the peninsula, who was only 4 years old when Stefano entered the royal service, has had many a pick-a- back ride on Stefano’s broad shoulders. “And I'll bet I could carry his majesty again the same way, this very day,” the venerable valet avers. BLAST SINKS RUM SHIP. Grey Ghost Reported Lost as Speed- boats Stand By. LOS ANGELES, Calif., November 4 ().—The Grey Ghost, elusive liquor schooner operating off the West coast, was reported to have sunk yesterday with a cargo of 1,200 cases of contra- band liquor. The sinking followed an explosion, Four members of the crew were re- ported picked up by speedboats stand- ing by for cargoes from the rum runner. The Grey Ghost, Federal agents sald, carried a supply of liquor from Canada for the holiday trade along the Coast. Foot Ball Player in Hospital. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., November 4.— Frank Carter, former local high school athlete, is in a serious condition at the local hospital with internal in- jurles sustained in a foot' ball game between Frederick A. C. and a Balti- more Coast Guard team last Sunday. Assigned to Active Duty. Lieut. Col. Isaac Weil, Ordnance De- partment Reserve, of this city, has been assigned to active duty in train- ing at the ordnance station in Pitts- burgh. SRR U. S. SAILORS VICE VICTIMS President and Secretary Wilbur Told of Conditions in China. BALTIMORE, November 4 (#).—In letters sent to President Coolidge and Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Na the Baltimore religious Society of Friends urged that measures be taken to protect United States Navy men stationed in China from alleged immoral conditions. The society has been reliably in- formed, the letter stated, that the men “‘are being subjected to vice conditions that are resulting in widespread moral degradation.” The society attributed the reports to Nelson Poe, Navy's Y. M. C. A. sec- retary, stationed about 600 miles from the mouth of the Yangtze River. o Lieut. Silverstone Retired. First Lieut, Harvey J. Silverstone, United States Infantry, at the Tank School, Camp Meade, Md., has been transferred to the retired list of the Army on account of disability incident to the service. Tailor Shop Looted. The tailoring establishment of James London, 409 G street, was robbed between closing time last night and opening time this morning. Lon- don told police that clothing valued at $150 was stolen, forward wall who have been making Their next job is to stop the speedy ball-carriers of the University of Maryland when ‘Wide World Photos. SENTENCED TO DIE, MAN BERATES JUDGE Spragins Halted in Tirade After Hearing Fate of Murder of Prison Guard. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., November 4.— Benjamin F. Spragins of Richmond, Va., today was sentenced to be hang- ed for the murder of a guard in an attempt last July to escape from the State Penitentiary. Standing alone, his hands in his pockets, Spragins became rigid when he heard the sentence of death and | learned that his appeal for mercy was to be denied. “I've had some bad breaks in my tim ” he shouted to Judge Grayson, d if it wasn't for the presence of men in this courtroom I'd tell you what I think of you."” He was preparing to say more when an official ordered “Take him cut!” He was taken by car to the peniten- tiary, and will be executed on a date to be set by Gov. Ritchie. Spragins was serving a sentence of 10 years for burglary committed in 1922. With Charles P. Carey, serving a life term for murder, the two, after obtaining a gun, made their way on forged passes to the main office of the prison shortly before noon July 5. Shooting Alfred H. Walker, the guard on duty at one of the important gates, they took his keys and were making their way to the main door when an- other guard shot them down. Beauty Parlor Operator Sued. Emile, Inc., a concern which op- erates a beauty and hair dressing par- lor at 1221 Connecticut avenue, was sued yesterday in Circuit Court for $50,000 damages for injuries alleged to have been received by a patron who says she underwent treatment for the removal of hair from her face. The plaintiff is Sylvia Dorfman, 4524 Fourth street, Attorney T. Morris Wampler appeared for her, g A prize winner in the class of semi-public ‘Washington Star Photo. MARYLAND LOSES PATROL BOAT ROW Game Warden Withdrawn From U. S. Craft After Pro- test by Virginia. Gov. Ritchie ot Maryland, advocate of State righ has had his hand called by Gov. Byrd of Virginia, who insisted that the sovereign State of Maryland was being favored un- duly by the Federal Government on the Potomac River, through the game Virginia’s rights were thus violated. Consequently, Maryland authorities likely will place a State game warden patrol boat on the Potomac for the use of its law-enforcing officers, fol- lowing yesterday's action of the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture in ordering immediate withdrawal of the Maryland deputy warden aboard the Curlew. This order came on the heels of a protest by Gov. Byrd that the Federal Gov- ernment was assisting Maryland to enforce her game laws from a Federal patrol boat. Announcement Made. The Government's position was set forth in this announcement: “Judge William S. Snow, one of the commis- sioners of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and who also represented Gov. Byrd of V ginia, conferted today with Biological Survey officials relative to the ques- tion of continuing co-operation with the Maryland Conservation Depart- being ment on the survey patrol boat Curlew, operating on the Potomac River. The Virginia authorities feel that inasmuch as there is a controversy between the two States relative to the accuracy of the boundary line that the survey should not permit a Mary: land warden on the Federal boat for the purpose of enforcing Maryland laws involving violations which might be predicated upon the locatign of the offense with regard to the boundary line in dispute. “The survey desires to co-operate whenever possible with the various States in the enforcement of Federal and State game laws. In the present instance, however, when a controversy in good faith is involved that does not in any manner affect the Federal regulations under the migratory bird treaty act, the only course open to the Survey is to take a neutral stand in the matter. Pending the settle- ment, therefore, of the controversy between the two States, the Biological Survey patrol boat, Curlew will be operated by United States game war- dens only.” The hunting season on the Potomac opened November 1 and continues until January 31. Federal regulations in connection with the hunting of wild geese and ducks will be rigidly enforced by the Blological Survey. Maryland authorities have given notice that all hunters in Maryland waters must have a State license and that non-residents must comply with the license and hunting regulations of the State. The license fee for non- resident hunteré is $15.50 and for use of a special blind an additional license fee of $5.50 is imposed. — By flying upside down for 10 min- utes and 58 seconds Fisler, a German aviator, recently established a record Zurich, Switzerland, at ! ardent | warden patrol boat, Curlew, and that | ASKUNITED FRONT ON FARM PROBLEM Dickinson Urges Lowden as West’s Choice—Nye Hits Campaign Costs. | By the Associated Press. Though at odds as to a residential { candidate, two Western Republican | leaders in Congress have called for a |‘united front on the problem of farm relief from all in the agricultural area. Insisting that the new farm bill must Include the equalization fee of the McNary-Haugen measure, which drew President Coolidge's veto, Repre- sentative Dickinson of Jowa, in a statement issued late yesterday, point- ed to former Gov. Lowden of Illinois as the logical choice of the West. “The mere suggestion of the farm problem,” he id, “points to Mr. Lowden’s name.' Expenditures Scored. Senator Nye of North Dakota, who with other independent Western Re- publicans of the upper chamber ad- vocates candidacy of Senator Norris of Nebraska, simultaneously address- ed a letter to the Farmers, Union con- vention at Jamestown, Dak.. in which he raised the subject of Low- den’s campaign expenditures at the Chicago convention in 1920, though not referring to him by name. “Choosing_a candidate for Presi- dent,” said Nye, “must be done with eves wide open to the fact that such matters as freight rates, credit costs, the influence of wealth in the conduct of campaigns, as well as_the purpose sought in the McNary-Haugen bill must enter into any thorough farm. relief program.” He declared that the farmer can never hope to compete politically it election to office is dependent “first upon the size of the purse.” Equalization Fee Asked. Mr. Dickinson pointed to farm con- ventions at St. Paul. and more recent- Iy at St. Louis, as proof of his claim that a substitute for the equ fee canont find general acceptance. Only one conclusion can be reached, he declared, “that there will be an equalization fee in the new farm biil or an equalization fight in the next campaign.” ‘With Gov. Smith of New York car- rying the standard of the Democrats, Dickinson predicted the loss to the party of two large Eastern States, and pointed to Lowden as the man who, he said, could make up this discrep- ancy by means of his ‘popularity, not only in the agricultural area, but in the border States as well. . PLAN STAGE PROGRAM. Catholic U. Drama Club Seeks St. Patrick’s Players’ Outfit. ‘The “Catholic University Dramatic Association, which confines its efforts to the entertainment of the students there and utilizes youths for feminine portrayals, after the fashion of the Elizabethan stage, is negotiatizg = obtain some of the theater properties of the St. Patrick’s Players, wmich have suspended activities. The association, which has been of. fering about four productions a year, is planning on appearing before th footlights once a month now.