Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1927, Page 17

CHRISTENS PLANE IN WHICH FLYERS WILL ATTEMPT ENDURANCE RECORD. s Adelaide Salomon, New York girl, christening the especially structed Stinson monoplane in which her brother, Louis Salomon (center), and George Wiess, jr. (right), hope to set a new endurance flight record at Curtiss Field, Long Island. The record was recently taken from America by two German flyers. Copyright by P. & A. Photo: King at Union MEET THE WORLD'S LARGEST DOG. Hal master, Bill Strother,” counselor of the claims that distinction for his big pup, who hs 195 pounds and British embassy; Vincent Massey, the Canadian Minister; Premier Mackenzie- ant Necretary s 6 feet 2 inches on his hind legs. Strother says the dog is 80 per of State William R. Castle, Luncheon with President Coolidge was among the premier's engagements cent _polar white wolf and 20 per cent Alaskan husky. They are touring today. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. the Pacific Coast together. y P. & A. Photos. CANADIAN PREMIER ARRIVES IN CAPITAL FOR ™ VISIT. Pren Station yesterday with officials who greeted him on his . Left to right: ¥ YOUNGSTERS OF JA! Y SCHOOL GIVE THANKSGIVING PAGEANT. Third and fourth grade pupils of the school wearing costumes in which they took part in the pageant depicting historic scenes associated with Thanksgiving day. The pageant, which included a Pilgrim meeting in England and a tableau of the first Thanksgiving, was directed by Miss Helen Burton, auditorium teacher. ‘Washington Star Photo. AN IDYL OF LA FAYETTE PARK. The pigeons of the spacious park opposite the White House count Miss Rose Horan among their best friends. One of them even perches with confidence on the young Gov- ernment worker’s head while she shares her lunch with them. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. HOLDING ANNUAL BAZAAR FOR FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME. Leonard, Francis and Gloria, Florence Critienton youngsters, invite your attendance at the annual bazaar for the benefit of the home, at Conduit and New Cut roads northwest. It will be held at the Mayflower Hotel on the afternoons and eve- nings of November 28 and 29. DOTY T0 BE FREED - BY FOREIGN LEGION France Makes Special Con- cession to Please American Public. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 23.—Bennett J. Doty, American, who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and was court- martialed in Syria for desertion dur- ing the Druse rebellion, will be re- leased from serving the remainder of his enlistment shortly, in response to #American public opinion.” This was announced by the minis- try of war, which explained that Doty’s release was to please Americans end was in “disregard of all regula- tions.” The order for the release was in compliance with a request of the ministry for foreign affairs. Now in Algeria. Doty, who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion as Gilbert Clare of Memphis, Tenn., has been stationed at Sidi del Abbes, Algeria, where he rejoined the ist Regiment of the For- eign Legion after he had been par- doned from military_prison. He had served 13 months of an 8-year sen- tence for desertion. 5 Doty’s pardon from prison w:ns\ esident Doumergue on and he was sent lo’ rve the remainder of hisi r enlistment. He had wonj tions while fighting in Syria, expressed the desire to “‘win some medals” to prove that his deser- tion was in no sense due to lacl bravery. Release May Be Surprise. | His release probably will be a sur-! prise to Doty, as recent letiers tof geveral friends, who helped to obtain | is pardon, spoke of his plans for the( jmmediate future as though believing| that he must remain in the Legion. ently was in good health | s he left Clairvaux, principal complaint | mply sewing pants id of fighting, as he wished. wad served the first few months of his sentence in the| Damascus citadel, was then removed | to Albertville prison in France, and,| finally, to Clairvaux. PORTIAS TO BANQUET. Annual Dinner Will Be Held at ‘Washington Hotel. | Arrangements have been completed | the annual banquet of the Wom-| Association to be held at the »n Hotel December 3. abeth Harris, president of ide as toast- September Algeria to s prison, was that he for soldiers, Miss El the associa nistress. of honor include Judg Allen, associate justice of the Su-y preme Court of Ohio, the only woman | in Americ d such a cial office; James F »ms Appeals Florence E. Bessio T r 'OFFICERS ARE RETIRED. Lieut. Col. J. A. Thomas and Capt. J. N. Merrill Listed. Lieut. Col. James A. Thomas, Coast Artillery Corps, and Capt. John N. Merrill, 12th Cavalry, have been trans- ferred to the retired list of the Army on account of disability incident to the service. Col. Thomas is from Georgia and served in the Spanish War as a first lieutenant in the Volunteer Army, and in the World War as a colonel in the Field Artillery of the National Army. He was commissioned second lieutenant of Artillery in the Regular Army in August, 1901, and reached the grade of lieutenant colonel in July, 1920. Recently he has been stationed at Macon, Ga. < Capt. , recently stationed at Fort Brown, is from Maine and was cited for efficiency in the World War while serving as a major in the Adjutant General's Department of the National Army. He has held the rank of captain in the Regular establish- ment since February, 192 ADVERTISING CLUB GUESTS AT DAIRY Members Inspect New Thompson Plant and Arrange for Night Meeting. The Thompson Dairy Co. was host to the Washington Advertising Club at a luncheon in the company's dairy at 2012 Eleventh strect yester The guests were welcomed by Miss Grace Thompson, member of the firm. The luncheon served by young women of the offi~s force. Miss Thompsen also gave a brief count of the founding and operation o da y, actributing its suce :ndeivor of the owners to “give rybody a square deal.” The guests were conducted on an inspecti of the building. The invitation to the club members to be the guests of the company was extended through Earl F wn, member of the Thompson Dairy force and the Washington Ad v ing Club, Announcement club will hold a ni featured by a pro: ment, in the Club Lic night at 10 lock. Acts frc of the leadi i feature the pro der the direction of chairman of the i srman_Kal, ing Club, member f th was made that the hi meating, to be m of cntertain- o next Tuesday any s are to h will be un- 'n De Ford, m committce, of the Adve Morris Kafka are weral committee on the meeting. luncheon meeting for that 118 been called off hecause of the been its custom, it is announ MAPS OUT PROGRAM. _ Several matters of interest to Wash- ngton will come before the Commis sion of Fine Arts at its December meeting, scheduled for December § and 9. The commission will make a further study of the treatment of the ’.l]r)u'n.lvh at the west end of the ington Memorial Bridge, with pa mee to the propos under , and will make of sever hool sites in Washington. 1) of the Federal Em).loyes’ tion Commission, and Josep Burkhart, presis t of the -local Bar Association. At the same time the comm on members will visit the t Division memorial to study the possibility of Jdandscaping around the shait, W STATEIS BALKED BY OWN WITNESS Prosecutor Battles With George Klug as Murder Trial of George Remus Proceeds. hington Star Photot By the Associated Press, CINCINNATI, November 23— George Remus' trial for murder today | the The | study | was a battlefield for an attack by the prosecution upon recalcitrance, forget- fulness and repudiation in one of its own chief witnesses. George Klug, driver of the automo- bile in which the former “king of boot- leggers” raced last month to Eden Park to slay his wife, Imogene, was the balky man. His story was at the,point where he was under instruction to report at Remus’ Price Hill mansion at 7 a.m. October 6, two hours before Mrs. Re- mus was to have gone to court to press a divorce suit. Arrives Late. Klug got there late yesterday, after ae had frustrated the State's expressed determination to prove through him that Remus, as the glayer, was an ac- tor in a four-sided conspiracy. In a statement to the police immedi- ately after Mrs. Remus was shot Xlug related that he kept the death car at his_home and Remus summoned him at 7 o'clock the morning of the shoot- ing. From the witness stand he testi- fied that jt was the previous night Re- | mus gave him instructions, George Connors, secretary to Remus, originaily directed him to report as {chauffeur, said Klug. Then he testi- | fied he had not seen Connors with | Remus the night of October 5, but ad- | mitted he had given that prosecutor. Klug_said he had driven for Remus and Connors for six months, abandoning his trade of pipe- itter, Klug had beén seated but a few minutes when the State asserted it | had been surpris stimony. | He was termed Per- mission was obtained to cross-examine him When court adjourned over night | the parts of Klug's testimony adhered |to were picced together thus: Drives to Hotel. On the night preceding the shooting, ve Remus to Mrs. Remus' They waited in the automobile ime. Remus made no effort to wife. Remus then was driven | to nis Price ITill home, giving instruc- {tions that Klug should return at 7 am. Klug spent the night at an g gambling club. He returned {to Remus' home the appointed s | hour Klug himself of the conspirators in the State’s open- Connors, Remus and secretary to a ing and the surgeon who performed an operation to try to save Mrs. Remus’ life. - Charges False Arrest. Robert R. Meeker, 314 Seaton place northeast, filed suit vesterday in Cir- cuit Cour anst Meve Herson, 62 H street northeast, to recover $25,000 damages for alleged false arrest. Through Attorneys Lane and Leeman the plaintiff says that on June 11 the defandant unjustly caused his arrest, identified as one | When Birds Peck The guinea fowls of Franklin Square have been exiled. No longer is the atmosphere of the park shattered by their raucous cackles. They are now in their na- tural habitat, a rural barnyard. Park police decreed that they must go after complaints had been received that they were too feroclous, attacking passersby on the winding walks. Sev- eral elderly women were driven from the sidewalk by the onslaught of the Guinea Fowls Driven From Park at Pedestrians’ Legs birds, who pecked at their ankles and manifested unmistakable enmity. At first it was proposed to kill the couple of fowls. But none of the police- ;mvn on duty there had the heart to do it. They had become attached to the birds, for nearly a year a strangely incongruous sight in the city square. Finally, a neighbor who has a friend who has a farm took one of the birds. The other bird was given to a Mary- land truck farmer. And the Franklin Square is peace- ful once more, given over to the pigeons and the squirrels. SHIPSTEAD URGES RELIEF MEASURES Minnesotan Outlines Pro- gram to Be Brought Before Meeting of 70th Congress. The program of the Seventieth Congress should include adequate farm relief, increased facllities for transportation on inland waterways, repeal of the national origin clause of the immigration law, and legisla- tion to limit and define the jurisdic- tion of equity courts in the issuance of injuncti in labor cases, in the opinion of Senator Shipstead of Min- nesota, Farmer-Labor member of the Senate. Referring to the McNary-Haugen bill to take care of the surplus crop {problem, Senator Shipstead said: “We shall challenge the opponents of this bill either to support it, produce one that will be more effective or join us jin repealing the special privilege legislation that is_destroying us for the benefit of industry, transporta- tion and the large banking institu- tions of the country. The Minnesota Senator said farm legislation was the most important of all the subjects he enumerated and predicted the question would | come before Congress in the shape | of the McNary-Haugen bill, whic sed the House and Senate in the Congress, but was vetoed. defended the constitutionality of this bill and also upheld the equal- ization fee method of financing the surplus crop. Senator Shipstead was not prepared the question of how he to vote on the organization of the Senate, which is an interest- ing question this year because of the narrow division of seats between Re- | publicans and Democrats. On the {subject of tax reductions. Senator Shipstead indicated he wanted to study the question before declaring his position as to the amount of re- duction that should be made by Con- gress. . $90,000 Turkey Dinners for Army. Under plans of the War Department the enlisted men of the Army station- ed in this country and in China, the Philippines, Panama and Porto Rico and Hawail and Alaska, will be given about $90,000 worth of turkey for their dinner tomorrow. This year the in- creased ration allowance will give each soldier about one and three-quarters pounds of turkey instead of the one- pound limit of former years. Cor- responding increases have also been ‘made in other items. BURGLAR ESCAPES DOGS AND POLICE Suspect Flees as Canines Reveal Presence and Re- serves Cover Milkman. Dogs, a milkman, police and a run- ning water faucet all figured early this morning in_a mad but futile chase after a residential burglar. The chase was enlivened by revolver shots which echoed through Georgetown streets and lent speed to the burglar’s fleeing feet. The growling of a faithful watchdog awakened W. L. Moffett, 3200 Garfleld street, about 2 o'clock this morning. He sat up in bed half expecting to have the beam of a flashlight thrown in his face, as has been the custom of a burglar in other Washington homes. Sees Fleeing Burglar. The dog growled louder, and Mr. Moffett heard a man running across his lawn. He reached the window just in time to get a glimpse of the runner, who resembled a description of a mys- terious burglar who ha$ preyed on more than a dozen Washington homes. Thirty-five minutes later H. M. Rothgeb, 516 Rhode Island avenue northeast, a milkman, about to de- liver milk in the rear of 2728 Thirty- fourth street, heard the sound of run- ning water. Peering around the back steps he saw a man, answering to the description of the man who raced across Mr. Moffett’s yard, drinking from a water tap. Shots Go Wild. He waited to see no more but ran for assistance, notifying Police- men Engene E. Ditto and Van Orman. Summoning reserves from No. 7 pre- cinct, they advanced towards the bou: Suddenly a stray dog ad- anced towards a patch of woods cross the street, stopped by some tall eeds, and began to bay. The policeman looked that way. The man, flushed by the dog, rose from the weeds and ran toward the trees. Policeman Ditto shot at him twice, but missed. The sound of the shots was heard by the reserves, hastening to the scene. Lieut. H. R. Lohman and a squad of men arrived just in time to cover the astonished milkman with drawn revolvers. The burglar, it it was the burglar, kept on going. Reserves from No. 7 precinct and headquarters de- tectives, in all about 25 men, search- ed through the neighborhood, but the mysterious marauder had vanished. One suspect was taken into custody, but police said that he did not answer to the descrjptiop of the early mor; fugitive }%w STRIKERS MOURN FIVE SLAINMINERS Memorial Meetings Only Ac- tivity in Colarado Fields. More Return to Work. By the Associated Press. DENVER, November 23.—Conform- ing to the announced policy of avoid- ing any demonstrations that would possibly lead to contact with State forces, leaders of striking Colorado coal miners today generally planned memorial meetings for five workers killed Monday as the only activity. Meanwhile, more men returned to work in the southern fleld to in- crease production to near mnormal, while National Guardsmen continued to patrol the northern district, where the miners were killed. The first of the memorial meetings was held at Walsenburg, in southern Colorado, yesterday. The assembly was addressed by miners and repre- sentatives of the Industrial Workers of the World, who called the strike, October 18, last. S A delegation appeared ‘with crepe armbands to give their version of the skirmish with State police at the Columbine Mine in Weld County. Many wept as William H. Loften, member of the general strike com- mittee, told how five miners fell mortally wounded when State police opened fire on a delegation he said were en route to the post office on the Columbine property. He then described how a score of persons, including two women, dropped near the mine entrance with gunshot wounds. Loften announced an extensive me- morial program had been arranged for tomorrow at the monument in Ludlow, erected in memory of the 13 men, women and children killed there in a strike disturbance in 1914. With patrol of the northern field progressing without incident, Adjt. Gen. Paul Newlon has divided his 400 odd Guardsmen and police into four detachments and assigned them to duty at the principal mining centers. Two inquests were ordered to start today in the deaths of the five miners. The adjutant general and the Sta police who participated in the sk mish have been summoned as wit- nesses. ‘A new movement to end the strike was understood to be under way, with a petition signed by upward of 7,000 miners ready for presentation to Gov. W. H. Adams, asking that he call a conference of strikers and operators. FRIARS TO CELEBRATE. Honoring the founder of the Order of Barefooted Carmelites, St. John ot the Cross, friars of that order will cele- brate high mass in their monastery, 150 Rhode Island avenue northeast, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Very Rev. Paschasius Heriz of the barefoot friars at Catholic University will celebrate the mass and deliver a sermon on the patron saint. At the close of mass the Carmelites will ex- pose for veneration a relic of the saint. Benediction will conclude the exer- cises. The music will be rendered by the choir of Carmelite priests and broth- ers at the monastery, 2 4 SPEAKERS LISTED. Tentative Program Announced for Rivers and Harbors Congress. A tentative program of the list of speakers for the National Rivers and Harbors Congress meeting to be held at the New Willard Hotel December 7 and 8 was announced today by the congress. Speakers include J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia, Joseph N, Teal of Portland, Ore Gen. William L. Sibert, Harvey Cam bell, Col. W. M. Wiley, J. P. Haynes, A. J. Weaver, Senator Frank B. Wil- lis of Ohio and Representative J. H. McDuffie of Alabama. A symposium on flood control lists among the speakers the followin; Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of en- gineers, U. S. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce; Senator J. E. Ransdell of Louisiana, Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and Frederick A. De- lano, chairman flood control commit- tee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Mrs. Izetta Jewel Miller will pre- side at the banquet to be held the evening of December 7. NIGHT CLUB CHARGE IS NOLLE PROSSED Corporation Counsel Holds There Is Insufficient Evidence of Sunday Law Violation. Charges brought on November 12 against the management of four night clubs, alleged to have violated the po- lice regulations requiring all places of public amusement where admission is charged to close at midnight Saturday, were nolle prossed today by A Corporation Counsel Elwood S announced there was insufficient eti- dence to proceed with an action. The management of the Better "Ole, one of the quartet, contends that ft is a private club. At the L’Aiglon it was proved that a private dance was in progress, conducted by George- town University students. In the cases concerning the Club Lido and Le Paradis the Government has but one witness, and he was able to testi- fy only that he saw persons dancing. In order to have a case against a night club, it was said, the Govern- ment must prove that on Sunday, other than between the hours of 2 o'clock in the afternoon and 11 o'clock at night, there was dancing, vaudeville or some other form of amusement going on in a place opened to the public and that s was charged. Governor Is Guest. Gov. Theodore Christianson of Min- nesota was the guest of the Min- nesota State Society last nigl the vashington Club. He spoke briefly. Bede Johnson, the president, ded. Refreshments were served. Those the receiving line were Gov. tianson, Carl T. Schuneman, Assistant Secretary of the Trea lepresentative Frank Clague of Min- nesota, Representative and Mrs. C. G. Selvig of Minnesota, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Merrill, Frank White, treas. urer of the United States; Col. and Mrs, George Thorpe, Col. and Mrs. exander B. Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam N. Morell and Miss Johnson. Mrs. Carolyn Norton Bost, Alden Potter and Laurence Murray enter- tained with song Dominican Republic, has just instalied an apto- matle telephong system. Little Santo Domingo, BIG STEEL MERGER 1S REPORTED NEAR Youngstown Bond Issue May Be Basis of Uniting Inde- pendent Companies. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, N New York Herald-Tribune tod: 3 it has learned in important banking circles that a plan to form a merger of independent steel-producing com- panies, which will have units embrac- ing the entire industry, is behind the sale of $75,000,000 bonds by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. With a probable ranking next in size to the United States Steel Co., it is planned to start this new steel glant with a capitalization sufficlent- ly large to permit it to compete with its most powerful rival, the newspaper says, Inland Is Mentioned. Youngstown Sheet & Tube, third largest steel company in the United States, will take the leadership in bringing about this combine, and the financing, just promoted by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., will be used in part to carry out its merger plans. If present negotiations are complet- ed two Middle Western organizations, Inland Steel Co. and Corrigan-Mc- Kinney Steel Co., will be the first tak- en into the fold. Other firms mentioned as probable merger units are Turbull Steel, Cen- tral Valley Steel, Jones & Laughlin and Otis Steel. Balance Left for Merger. Advisability of the combination, the Herald-Tribue says, is seen in the steel trade as due to the present low prices being obtained throughout the industry and the fact that United States Steel and Bethlehem are better able to meet such conditions due to their ability to purchase large quanti- ties of raw materials at relatively low prices. This has forced the independ- ents to the realization of the ad- vantages they would gain through combining into a new, large corpora- tion able to meet the competition of the two leaders of the industry. The announcement made at the time of the offering of the $75,000,000 bonds of Youngstown Sheet & Tube said the purpose of.the issue was to refund outstanding bonded 22,500. This leaves a bal- ance that can be employed for other purposes, the Herald-Tribune points out, placing the company in a position to head a merger. Mrs. Mengel Gets Reno Divorce. RENO, Nev.,, November 23 (#).— Mrs. Marion Gaynor Mengel, daugh- ter of the late William Gaynor, for- mer mayor of New York, has been granted a divorce from her second husband, Carl E. Mengel of Phila- delphia. Her complaint charged cruelty and stated she and her hus- band separated last May. They were married in Philadelphia in 1922, She was permitted to resume her maiden name, Marion Gaynor. Transferred to Capital. Capt. Ralph Duffy, Army Medical Corps, recently returned from service in the Philippines, has been assigned to duty with the 16th Br station in the Munitions Bujlding, this city. de, with