Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1927, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1927. SON OF CHIEF JUSTICE SPEAKS AT Y. M. C. A. EXERCISES. Chief J their son, Charles P. Taft, jr., at the Washington Auditorium yesterday, address at the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Young Men District. President and Mrs. Coolidge heard Mr. Taft's address, in which h growth of the local organization. Copyright by MOTORISTS CAUGHT IN FLOOD AT WESTFIELD. The State Highway at Westfleld, Mass., is shown here under 6 feet of water, the torrent sweeping almost over the top of these automobiles, which the owners abandoned with the rise of the water. Several lives were lost at Westfield. Associated Press Photo. IN LIVES AND PROPERTY. A raging torrent eeping over the railroad trestle spanning Otter Creek at Rutland, Vt. The creek, normally a small stream, was swollen to the Proporfl-mu of a great river, leaving its bed at numerous places and causing heavy dam: Communities in the Connecticut River Valley, however, were the heaviest sufferers in Vermont as well as in other New England States. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Underwood & Underwood FLOOD Si\'EEPS FREIGHT YAR! DS AND STREETS OF YERMO! NT TOWN. This view of flooded railroad property and streets was taken at Bellows Falls, Vt., one of the hard hit communities in that State. A string of freight cars and the locomotive roundhouse are under water here, together with other property. Reports indicate that the largest loss of life was suffered in Vermont. " 750,000 GATHER ATMILLS FUNERAL Harlem Turns Out to Pay" Tribute to Actress—Many Mourners Collapse. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 7.—After a ¥arlem funeral charged with emo- tlonal incidents, the body of Florence | Mills, negro singer and dancer, rested tnday in a grave on the hiliside of Woodlawn Cemetery. ;. At the service, Harlem, the world's | Jargest negro community, rendered + perhaps the greatest tribute it ever pald an individual to the actre tar, “who attained world's succes: An estimated 150,000 people gathered ahout the Mother Zion African Meth- edist Episcopal Church. Inside the *church 5,000 were crowded in quar- ters built to accommodate about 3,000. Scores Collapse. 55 Per Cent of Gold Coin in World Held | By U. S. Treasury By the Associated Press. Latest Treasury figures place the gold stock in the country at $4,- 500,000,000, which represents 55 per cent of the gold coin of the ‘world. The United States also can claim distinction for having more gold coln in one spot than anywhere on the face of the earth, as $2,000,000,- 000 in gold is stored in the Govern- ment’s assay office in New York, | representing 4,000 tons. 'BAKING POWDER FIRM LOSES COURT APPEAL { Justice Refuses to Halt Reopening, of Trade Commission Proby { ‘In & heavy atmosphere emphasized i'by the scent of great masses of flow- | {'ers, scores collapsed during the serv- joe. Juanita_Stinnette, during the “singing of the speclally composed solo, “Florence,” fell screaming to the floor near the bier. Sobs swept the igrowd and moans were heard above ainor walling of the spirituals. A negro bandsman, Robert Brown, el from his place in the cortege and died of heart failure before an ambu- Jance arrived. Thirty negro girls, in gray crepe de &hine dresses, headed the funeral pro- cession out of the church. feminine stars of the negro theater ¢ame out in double file and took their places as honorary pallbearers. Men WL the negro theater, the active pall- bearers, bore the massive $10,000 cof- | fin to the hearse, and the cortege fioved off between the motionless ghousands that lined the sidewalks of Beventh avenue for blocks. Many Floral Tributes. Floral tributes said £100,000 mage 12 automobiles into great vehicles of color. A great heart of roses was from Miss Mills' hus- hand, U. S. Thompson, who gave his 1lood to her in a transfusion follow- jng her operation on October 25 for sppendicitis. Harry Wills, negro pugi- Jist, sent as a tribute a wreath de- cigned as “Gates Ajar,” made up of & great variety of blooms. And there wag a ha of roses th eame “Mrom a friend N zland, £nd set Harlem to wondering whether he friend was the Prince of Wales, said to have heen counted in Miss Mills' London audiences 11 times. Rev. Dr. James W. Brown, pastor of the congregation..said in his eulogy that “the race has sus 1oss, and the theatr) Jost it greatest star. =0 great a loss to the negro ra 7ot been sustained since the d Rooker T. Washington Miss Mills died last Thursday In her thirty-third year. SWINDLERS HARD HIT. Correspondence of the Associated Press. TOKIO.—There are more than 300,000 unemployed persons in Tokio, mceording to hg vernagula ress, and petty crimes have increased pro- portionately. The number of robberies this year #» the highest on record, but swindling cases showed a decline. The explan- ation is offered that swindling de- creases in inverse ratio to the severity £f hard times. had h of Eight | to represent | ained a great | i 7 Justice Hoehling of the District Supreme Cpurt, today rendered an opinfon dismissing the suit for in- | junction brought by the Royal Bak- | ing Powder Co. against the Federal Trade Commission to prevent the re- | opening of a case in which the com- |pany is charged with misleading ad- vertising. | | The company sued out a writ of | certiorari and Chief Justice McCoy quashed the writ after a hearing and reserved to the company the right to have the case transferred to the Equi- ty side of the court if it should so {elect. The case was transferred and the Federal Trade Commission filed a motion to dismiss, asserting that the commission cannot be controlled by the courts in the matter of these | hearings and that while the case had | been dismissed it did not prevent the | commission from renewing its investi- | zation on motion. From an examination of the decid- {ed cases” says Justice Hoehling, “bearing upon the question presented | herein, the court is of the opinion | that, by the entry of the order of dismissal on March 23, 1926, the com- mission did not exhaust Jurisdic- tion over the case pending before it; that its order re-opening the case, as {wall its subsequent orders in relation thereto, were administrative and pro- edural in character; and that the me are mot subject to review by his court | { DUCHESS TO WED. | Ex-Wife of Prince Eitel Engaged! | to Rhenish Noble. OLDENBURG, Germar P).—Duchess Sophie as divorced in Prince F , November | rlotte, 4%, October, 1926, Friedrich, second son of the former German Kaiser, has |become engaged to Harald von He mann, 40, a former captain in the Royal Dragoons and ugtil recently a lieutenant in the Potsdam police. Von Hedemann 1s the scion of a Rhenish noble family living at Cologne. e met his flancee while on active duty in Potsdam, and their engagement was rumored even at the time divorce proceedings were pending. The former princess, who brought the proceedings, was granted a divorce on the grounds of ill treatment, negleat and incompatibility of temperament. Her engagement s frowned upon in Potsdam society, it heing asserted that she is marrying “far below her sta- tion,” y | who from ‘Wide Warld Photos. Y. W. C. A. GIRLS HOLD “INTERNATIONAL” TEA CONFERENCE ON DRIVE. Girls of the industrial de, umpd“‘: meeting during the current drive for a 1928 maintenance fund of $60, Four nationalities are represented in this committee group, of which Mrs. C. W. CHINESE INJURED WHEN HIT BY AUTO Two Others Hurt—Margaret Ham- mond, 13, Suffers Con- cussion of Brain, Tea Chung, 60 years old, a Chl- nese, of 325 Pennsylvania avenue, was run down and severely injured on Pennsylvania avenue, near Sixth street last night. He was treated at Kmergency Hospital for possible frac- tures of the nose and left wrist and to his 13 years old, 2523 Thirtcenth street, was knocked down near Fourteenth and 1 15t night by the auton derick B. Austin, 201 W Takoma Park, Md., .and se- verely injured. She suffered a frac- nd concussion of the She was taken to Emergency Hospital. Hilliard Berry, colored, 48 years old, 70 R street, w struck by an automo- bile yesterday afternoon while cross. ing at New York avenue and First street and his hip and back injured. He declared the driver of the car failed to atop and make his identity known, Church Waits; Pastor Dead. BERLI 7 congregs ¥nd church was kept waiting a long time yesterday for the service to be- gin. Then it was learned that the clergyman who was to have officat- ed_had been killed, together with his wite, in a motor collision while they were on their way to the ehurch, November FLYERS RESCUED FROM FREAK WRECK. Crashing headlong into a power line pole at Terrell, Tex., this plane then balanced itself on one wing long enough to permit the three occupants to be rescued uni injured by the fire department. The ladder was used in their descent from the cockpit. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Physician Claims Photographic Method Finds Unsuspected Tuberculosis Germ By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 7.—A photo- graphic method of determining the ex- istence of tuberculosis in mankind, even when unsuspected, was an- nounced today by Dr. Arthur Vernes, head of the Prophylactic Institute, whose work has been facilitated great. Iy by large gifts from Mr. and Mrs. ank J. Gould. Vernes asserted that more than fif- teen thousand tests have verifled ac- curacy ot his method, which is based on a protometric test of the blood. Tuberculosis is frequently active when 1hlad lungs are entirely free of it, he sald. The new system he explained as an “optical measurement of the blood after certain laboratory processes.” There is a definite scale of measure- ment, with 30 as the danger point. Any blood measuring up to 30 is free of "active tuberculosis, while that above indicates tubercular activity. He sald cases had been found where tuberculosis was not suspected but that the test showed 70" and the hid- den seat of the disease was then found. The Prophylactic Institute has®been specializing for many vears in similar | blood tests for other disea: HONORS FIRST WAR DEAD. Plaque Commemorating Valor of | 3 Unveiled in New York. NEW YORK, November 7 (A).—A bronze plaque in memory of the first three American soldiers killed in the World War was unveiled yesterday in the Chapel of St. Cornelius the Cen- turion on Governors Island. Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff of the United States Army, who made a special trip from Washington to take part in the exer- cises, delivered an address, in which he praised the valor and loyalty of Corpl. James Gresham and Pvts. Merle D. Hay and Thomas F. En- right, in whose honor the plaque was placed in the chapel. The three soldiers, all members of the 1st Division, died in action near Barthelemont on the night of Novem- ber 3, 1917, in defending their secto sgainst & rald by en?m)’ shovk treops. | bt ik DUCE 0. K.’S BIG FAMILIES. | 000 for the Young Women’s Chris Hurley (third from right) is chairman. Premier Congratulates Parents on Birth of Eighteenth Child. GENOA, Ilnly: November T (P).— Premier Mussoiini, like the late President Roosevelt, 1s a believer in large families among his people and glves encouragement financially to parents of numerous offspring. In the little town of Campoligure, near here, recently Giula Oliveri gave birth to her eighteenth.baby. Of thé whole number 12 are . alive and healthy children.: The mayor of the town advised Mussolini of the birth this eighteenth child and the premier wrote to the parents extend- ing his congratulations and enclosing @ check for 500 lire (roughly $27.60) for the youngster, ', ‘Bamboo for timber shoots up MASSACHUSETTS POST OFFICE NEARLY SWEPT AWAY BY FLOOD. Postal employes at Becket, Mass. are shown trying to salvage the mail and the post office there in the path of the flood. The structure was almost completely demolished when s mountain reser voir burst its barriers and sent a torrent down on the village, in the heart of the Berkshire Hills. ment committee holding s Association of the District. LODGE TO OBSERVE 125TH ANNIVERSARY Columbia Masonic Growp Will Have Celebration Tonight and Tomorrow. The 125th anniversary of Columbia Lodge, No. 3, F. A. A. M, will be ohserved this evening and tomorrow. This lodge, which was chartered un- der the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the State of Maryland on November. 8, 1802, will hold a ladies’ night tonight at the auditorium of the Masonic Temple, with entertain- ment and dancing featuring the pro- gram. Members of the lodge and their male guests will hold a banquet at Wardman Park Hotel tomorrow night, Past Grand Master Roe Fulk- erson’ and James H. MacLafferty are expected to deliver short addresses. Columbla Lodge, which has grown from a small membership to the pres- ent mark of over 500 master Masons, has these officers: Henry B. Kauff- ‘worshipful master; Harlan senior warden; Willlam H. Becksteln, junior warden; Alfred Pasternak, senior deacon; John L. F. Keenan, junior deacon; Lewis Bowadler, senior steward, and A. C. Milbrook, junior steward; William K. Cohen, or- ganist; Robert Schaeffer, soloist. Joseph M. Marzolf, who is now com- mander of Washington Commandery, No. 1, is the secretary. Past Master Harry Wilson {s the treasurer. For a number of years J. Claude Keiper, present grand secretary of the Grand was secretary of Columbia Amos A. Fries, potentate W8S & member an 1 the rate of ‘& fo0 § dew. Adviyesiod Post Mastep of Golumbia Lodger . President to Seek Quiet in Whittling After Term Ends By the Asociated Press. This {s the latest Coolidge anec- dote. ‘The President, asked what he intended to do after his term ex- pired, replied: “I am going back to Vermont.” “What are you going to do in Vermont?” ““Well—for a year or two, I am go- ing to whittle.”” CLUB TO REPORT ON Y. W.C. A. GIFTS Business and Professional Women Will Meet Tonight—Campaign Workers at Luncheon. | Reports by the six business and | professional women's teams in the | Young ‘omen’s Christian Associa- tion’s 1928 campaign for maintenance | funds will be made tonight at the Y. W. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and | K streets, to Mrs. Ruth Jeffers Saun- {ders, chairman, and Miss Bertha | Pabst, campaign director. At a previous meeting, scheduled for this afternoon, the greatest attendance since the campaign for $60,000 was launched had luncheon in Barker Hall of the Y, under the chairmanship of Dr. Jean Dean Cole, of Mt. Vernon Seminary. Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, president of George Washington Uni- versity, was the speaker. A corps of women, directed by Mrs. Robert C. Dove and designated as the Y. W. C. A. transportation commit. tee, have enlisted their services and their automobiles for the use of the campaign workers during the period of the drive. They include: Mrs. C. B. Asher, Mrs. H. B. Angus, Mrs, Cary Burbank, Mrs. C. A. Bergren, Mrs. F. M. Burns, Miss Margaret Cole, Miss Vera Colding, Miss Kathleen Dugan, Mrs. Kirk Holmes, Miss Marle Hancock, Mrs. F. Healey, Mrs. Audrey Hix, Miss Lucy Holland, Mrs. Willa B. Hammond, Miss Louise Kingsley, Mrs. Mabel Klempfel, Mrs. Howard Le Roy, Miss Dorothy McCammand, Mrs. Eleanor Mills, Mrs. S. C. Neale, Mrs. W. F. Newton, Mrs. Gale E. Pugh, Mrs. D. A. Skinner, Mrs. Thomas W. Sidwell, Mrs. Stiles, Miss Ethel Stewart, Mrs. George C. Schaef- fer, and Mrs. Ben Webster. — RELIEF FUNDS NEEDED. Near East Organization Official Is- ues Call. Assistance to 33,000 orphans under the care of the Near East Relief is the object of a call jssued today by Harold F. Pellegrin, Potomac Di- vislon director of the organization, for the observance of December 4 as Golden Rule Sunday. He suggests that a simple dinner be served on that day and the differ- ence saved be sent to the organiza- tion’s headquarters, 1334 Connecticut avenue, to aid in making the orphans self-supporting through education and training. Dorsey to Speak Thursday George A. Dorsey, anthropologist, phychologist and sociologist, will be the speaker at the second event of the Community Center Institute of ‘Washington at Central High Commu nity Center Thursday evening. He will have for his subject: “Has Our Givilisation- Falled?" = ‘Wide World Photos. FRANCE OBTAINS $73,000,000 LOAN Borrows From Swedish Match Monopoly to Liqui- date U. S. Loan, Is Report. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 7.—Acceptance by France of a $75,000,000 loan from the Swedish match monopoly is vari- ously explained here, but in some quarters there is a tendency to pre- dict that a political storm over the matter is in the offing. The official explanation is that the loan is purely a financial transaction without strings or any connection with the match company's recently rejected proposal to operate the French match monopoly. Financial sources of high standing on the other hand, say that the agreement presupposes an unrevealed reason for the willingness of the Swed- ish match monopoly to lend the French government so great a sum under the market rate. ‘The loan, which will be used to liqui- date the $70,000,000 still outstanding of the French $100,000,000 loan float- ed in the United States in 1920, is for 50 years at 5 per cent. The loan which will be liquidated was at 8 per cent, thus giving France a consider- able saving in interest payments. One of Premier Poincare’s close offi- cial collaborators today authorized the following explanation of the trans- action: “The Swedish Match Co. recently repeated to us the offer to take $75. 000,000 worth of bonds to refund the American loan. The offer was made in the first place while we were negotiat- ing with that company to take part in the management of the French match industry. “When the Chamber of Deputies re- Jected the proposal for farming out the match monopoly, the matter was dropped. Recently, however, while We were renewing a contract with the Swedish Match Co. for match- sticks, this remark was made to us, ‘We understand that we cannot be- come partners in the match business, but do you still want the money?’ RAIL MERGER ATTACKED. Representative Johnson Says Great Northern Plan Hits Competition. The proposal for consolidation of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads was assailed in a statement by Representative Johnson, Republican, Washington, on the ground that it would destroy competi- tion in the Northwest. “The proposed consolidation is not in the public interest,” he said. “It is established as ain undisputed fact that it will create unsound competi- tion that will jeopardize the interest of the entire Northwest, and particu- larily Washington.” . Worker Has Foot Crushed. v“’hl!e working on an elevator in Union Station yesterday afternoon, Francis Lyon, 20 years old, 1426 W street, caught his foot in the shaft and three toes were fractured. He was given surgical aid at y MmO at Casualty vniter has nine moons, t) . 'I-ma than: oun mhr“ S