Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1927, Page 17

g, et HONORS. h the Hereford steer for w Clifford Johnson, or live stock feeding contest of the on, at Chicago. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. _... THE . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,..D. ¢, TH PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE RECEIVE VATICAN CHOIRS AT WHITE HOU portico, President and Mrs. Coolidge received members of the Roman Polyphonic Society Choir yesterday. In center of group, left to right, are Mrs. Coolidge, the President, Ambassador Martino of Italy and Signor Andrea Cuccia, leader of the choir, which gave a benefit recital here after visiting the White House. TRSDAY, DECEMBER T.. 1927., [E. After they had been serenaded from the White House Copyright by P. & A. Photos. DEFEATS CUBAN FOR WORLD CHESS TITLE. Alexander Alekhine, 35-year-old former Russian nobleman, now a citizen of France, who has Jjust won the world chess championship from Jose R. Capablanca, title- holder since 1921. The match, played at Buenos two months. res, lasted more than ght by P. & A. Photos. Copy FRANCE BUILDS MOTOR CYCLE AMBULANCE. unded {3 inacer “mll"mu the The vehicle stretcher room. G For the removal Lo four-wheel ambulances of the t Armiy has designed this motor cycle ambulance. “the driver, physician and patient, with ample Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAINS IN FATAL CRASH AT DAYTON. Wreckage of the two trains shortly aftercthey collide® at a siveet crossing in the Ohio city, resulting in one death and injury to 15 per- sons. the locomotive and two cars of the freight overturned. The diner and one sleeper of the passenger train were upset, with three other sleepers derailed and Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Miss Margaret Beavan, the first woman mayor of Liverpool, Eng- land, wearing the insignia of her at thg recent ceremonies of pduction into office. ‘Wide World Photos. her ventors of this novel haud- PLAN CHANNEL VOYAGE IN UNIQUE CRAFT. The French in- pelled craft are.shown giving it a fimal test on a lake near Paris before venturing on an attempted crossing of the English Channel to prove its seaworthiness. peller is turned by sliding bars. An underwater pro- ‘Wide World Photos. EAPSY LOSES 50 INARNED ROBBERY Phrenology Parlors of Mrs. Mary Stanley Entered by Four Members of Band. An armed robbery early today fur- ther complicated a gypsy marriage deal that has become so involved that the zypsies have called upon police for mid in disentangling it. Four gypsy men broke into the phrenology par lors of Mrs. Mary Stanley, at 1920 Fourteenth street, early today and at the point of two pistols robbed her of $500, she reported. According to the story the gypsies told, Tom Miller of Passaic, N..J., paid Frank Stanley and his wife, Mary, $3,200 for their daughter, Annie, to become the wife of his son. Later on, Miller said, Annie left his son’s house- hold and returned to her parents here. About the same time $1,100 disap- peared, he said. E Yesterday Chief John A. Galatian of the Passaic polics came to Wash- ington and local detectives arrested Annie, he- father, and Steve ttanley a brother. Chief Galatiar. drove them back to Passaic last nigh That left Mvs, Stanley at home with no husband. She appealed to John Evans, 2 gypsy leader for aid, and he lent her $300 to be used in the de- fense of her famil She wrapped it in a red flannel cloth, locked it in a trunk and went to hed. Half an hour after midnight an automot.ile drove up to the rear of the |} phrenology emporium and four men got out and burst through the Lack door. M;a. Stanley let out one scream and then a pistol was pointed at her head. She remained quiet while the men picked up the trunk, hroke it open and extracted the red flannel eloth and $500, and a necklace of gold coins as well. As the men made for their car, Mrs. Staniey ran to the street calling for aid in no uncertain terms. Several people were on the street, but none cared to argue with the robbers and their pistols, and so the car drove away unmolested. Mrs. Stanley said today that the yobbers were gypsies and that she had seen them around Jersey Cit he 18 preparing to set out for Passaic as #00n as she can raise more funds to defend her family, and she hopes to see them there. HAUGEN STANDS FIRM FOR EQUALIZATION FEE Representative to Introduce Farm Relief Bill Embodying Features of Vetoed Measure. By the Associated Press. Representative Haugen of Iowa, co- author of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, returned to the Capitol to- i€ay for the opening of Congress, in- |micting that the agricultural group would demand the equalization fee as the basic principle of farm legislation, Haugen considered a farm board and a large fund to operate an equgli- zation fee as necessary features of a farm relief plan. He intends to in- tinduce a hill embodyving all of the fmportant features of the McNary- Haugen bill which was killed by a presidential veto, . and a CRUELTY IS CHARGED. Wife, Asking Divorce, Says Mate Loves Another. Mre. P. Marie Murtaugh, 1821 Nineteenth street, in « suit for main- tenance filed in the District Supreme Court against her husband, Robert F. Murtaugh, tells'the court that her husband left her October 26, and two weeks later informed her that he “could no longer live with her and be fair to the girl he was now going with.” . The wife says they were married in December, 1921, and lived together until October ‘26, when her husband left her, telling her to go home and live with her relations. November 12, she saye, he made an appoint- ment with her and then told her about | the other woman. She charges cruel- ty and non-support and_explains that her husband makes $13 a day as a brickl She is represented by At- torney Henry M. Fowler, COMMITTEE OF 100 WILL AID CITY CLUB 2,000 New Members to Be Sought in Campaign—Chance An- nounces Appointees. A committee of 100 members of the | City Club who will canvass the city for 2,000 new members was announced | by Merritt O. Chance, chairman of the membership committee, today. The membership campaign started yester- day. Those appointed are: Henry J. Saunders, Chester M. Wright, Henry J. Horner, Col. John W. Oehmann, John Brady, C. H. Frame, James De g 8. Pardoe, T. Dy David_McWilliams, Wayne Kendrick, ed Spencer, H. F. Stewar George Offutt, Everett Lancaster, Rai dall Elliott, John Cherry, Charles Hik legeist, Elmer Sauter, H. C. Rawson, C. W. Gosnell, Robert Doing, Clifford Day. Maurice King, Sam Shulman, C O. Buckingham, John Wright, O. H. Smith, John Houck, B. K. McCloskey, Grant Leet, H. S. Shepard, George McGinty, John Dugan, Lawrence y Williams, John Bullough, J. M. Weinnemore, P. M. Dorsch, Edgar Czarra, John P. Evans, William C. {Honson, C. T. Kingsberry, James jCouncilor, Charles Crane, Willam M. | Davies, J. E. Gensheimer, A. Schip- | pert, James B. Edmunds, W. N. Free- man. Milton A. Buck, E. E. Herrell, William Russeil, Dr. 0. B. Hunter, W. Pearce Raynor, Paul Heideke, Raymond D. Hill, James Tate, C. Rettler, Jack Mullane, Dr. Robert Sime, J. . Le Roy Gad- C. Bonde, F. C. Graham, Thorup, Arthur Tew, E. C. Balt Dean Gallagher, Dr. M. Johnson, Carl Sessinghaus, I. E. Lowenberg, Harry Helwig, Henry F. Allwine, Dr. Frank Ballou, George Emmons, E. J. Febrey, Ralph Focht, Albert Grever, C. M. Houchins, Arnold Jorgenson, H. C. Leapley, Louis T. Lohmann, Frank C. Steward, J. D. Ashby, F. Harold Deland, H. L. England, H. L. Kengla, Ward Loveléss, J. Enos Ray, C. B. Stovall and George D. Tilghman. The first flying restaurant to be put into service between Paris and London carried on its inaugural trip recently 10 passengers, a pilot, a_me- chanic, a wireless operator, a cook ward, FRIENDS PROTEST PROBER OF MEXICO Berkeley Groun Charges Bias to Barrows and De- mands Resignation. By the Associated Press. BERKELEY, Calif., December 1— The Berkeley Society of Friends sent a letter of protest yesterday to James Brown Scott of Washington, head of the Carnegie Endowment, demanding that David P. Barrows be removed as a representative of the Carnegie Foun- dation commission investigating con- ditions in_Mexico. The society claimed Barrows' recom- mendations that the United States should intervene in Mexico were not conducive to international peace. The letter quoted parts of a ment_purported to have been the. University of California newspaper by Dr. Barrows, clared: “In view of such expressions on the part of Dr. Barrows, we feel it might be more helptul to international good will and peace and satisfactory Latin- American relations if individuals en- gaged in such delicate embassages were not prejudiced with respect to any of the nations south of us Dr., Barrows declined to ¢ on the society’s action. He is mer president of the Unive of California, and his name has been put Dbefore President Coolidge as a possible governor general of the Philippi state- given daily and de- The protest of the Berkeley Soclety of Friends has not yet been received, { included, | [(858,881,3 { Walter M. Hicks, H. D. Copp, Oscar | it was said at the office of Dr. Scott this morning. Dr. Scott is out of the city, and there was no comment forth- coming on the protest from any other source. MEXICO FACES DEFICIT. Estimated Debt Payments to Reach High Total. MEXICO CITY, December 1 (#).— The Mexican government will have great difficulty in fulfilling its inter- national financial obligations next year, a treasury department state- ment announces. The reason assigned is that the es- timated revenues total 250,000,000 - 1 pesos (roughly $140,000,000), while the ‘ {payment of interest W. Gude, Z. D. Black-{of debts, both those included in the nd amortization Pani-Lamont agreement and those not total 117,762,679 pesos [ TRUCK HAULS $10,000,000 Transfer of Bank Assets Through - Chicago Causes No Stir. > CHICAGO, December 1 (#).—Ten million dollars in cash and securities was moved through downtown Chi- cago last night with as little excite- ment as though the truck that carried the fortune was loaded with congres- sional seeds. The gold, currency and securities Wwere being moved from the National Mlk’:i‘;le':{ ]('ummm'w to its new con- home in t| A 3 o, ‘Bullding, he Chlcago Trust ‘n(-wm'l of the discu: :jRigh‘t Time but Wrong Place Brings Woe William P. Storty, 817 _Twelfth = e street, declares that if the early bird really got that worm it had reliable advance information as to the worm's location. Mr. Storty, under the early-bird theory of reasoning, should have been the first Washingtonian to get his automobile tags at the District Build- today. He was there early a.m., to be exact—but man | nor bird, no matter how early, can | catch his quarry by looking for it in | the wrong place, he argues. Mr. Storty waited patiently, with his | application made out, through the long | To Driver Secking First 1928 Auto Tags nocturnal hours and into the dawn, only to learn at 7 o’clock this morning that' he was waiting in the wrong place. When he recovered from the | shock and rushed to the other end of the District Building, he found four others ahead of him. A certain night watchman in the building was to blame for the mistake, it seems. Mr. Storty said he asked this hman early today where the line was to form for tags, he was di- rected to the Thirteenth street end of the huilding. He didn't become sus- picious that anything wrong until he saw another line forming at the | other end of the corridor. COMMITTEE SEATS Large Representation of Pennsylvanians Brings on Bitter Contests Today. Bitter contests over committee places in the House during the coming Congress are being thrashed out to- day in executive session of the com- mittee on committees which: ‘has charge of making up the slate of com- mittee assignments. The meeting started at 10:30 a.m. in the interstate 1nd foreign commerce committee room, Some of the regular Republicans are opposing their leaders on the proposal to elevate John M. Nelson, Republican insurgent of Wisconsin, to the chair- manship of the pensions committee. There also is a dispute over the proposal to place Representative-elect Estep of Pennsylvania on the ways and means committee because other old members of the House seek the seat on that powerful body. In this fight there has been a re- on about the large representation Pennsylvania already | has on the more important committees of the House, such as judiciary, bank- ing, naval and militar _flf which Pennsylvanians are the chairmen. ADMITS FAKE SALES. iMnn Tells Judge He Sold Spurious 1 Jewelry for Years. George P. Myers, who gave his ad- dress as Akron, Ohio, and claims to be a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, pleaded guilty before Judge | fitt in Police Court today to selling fake jewelry. Myers admitted that for several years he has made his living by this method, traveling all over the country. Myers confessed that he was in the habit of purchasing rings for 50 cents and selling them for three or four dollars, He carried on the most thriving trade, he said, with taxi drivers, whom he approached late at night with a story that he had lost his money in a poker game and that he wanted a loan and would redeem the ring later. ‘ Myers insisted that he is a ward of the Veterans' Bureau and is suffering from a nervous ailment. Accordingly the case was referred to the probation officer for investigation before sentence 18 passed. A CAUSE HOUSE FIGHT | |at | | | LAST 70 B PLACED | Ceremony Tomorrow to Com- plete State Representation in Washington Monument. Vew Mexico State stone position within the When the is placed in shaft of the Washington Monument at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. the of the 48 State stones will have aced in that memorial to the fi President Simple but impressive ceremonies have been arranged for the placing of this stone in the monument, which will be featured by the presence of President and Mrs Coolidge and a brief address on the part of the for- mer. Arrangements have been made ta extensively broadcast the exercises. There -will be_music furnished by a section of the Marine Band Senator Jones of New Mexico, will preside at the ceremonies, and others who will make brief addresses are Senator Bratton and Representative Morrow of New Mexico, and Mrs. Wil- liam Pope, the widow of the last chief justice of the Territory of New Mex- ico, who will personally represent the governor of that State on this ocr | casion. The New Mexico stone will be placed around, and will be of the red sand variety. Upon it has heen carved | symbols of the sun and the name of the State, under which is the State motto, which in English is “We Grow as We G FILE LIEN ON BUILDING. ment on Structure Here. A mechanic's lien 'for $203,077.48 was filed today against the Washing- ton Building, at New York avenue and Fifteenth street; by James Stew- art & Co., Inc., a Boston contracting firm’ which erected the building. The amount ‘represents a balance due from the Washington Central Trust, which owns the building through its trustees the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, Samuel Powers and Robert H, Montgomery, who made the contract with the Stew- art Co. June 1, 1925. Clephane & Latimer appear for the builder.: NEW MEXICO STONE a point about 300 feet above thel Boston Contractor Seeks Attach-| DRY GROUPS PLAN | PROGRAM FOR 1928 Organization Heads Meeting Here to Map Out De- mands for Parties. The demands wlhich the country's dry or, ions will make of the two | political parties in the next presiden- tial campaign were being formulated at a meeting at the Raleigh Hotel to- day of the National Temperance Coun- | cil, which is composed of the chiefs of these organizations. Their attitude toward individuals mentioned as candi- ates for the presidency, including Gov. Smith, 'Nicholas Murray Butler and others, wi so discussed. The stand of the dry council on these subjects and on the questions of ref- erenda, a Federal constitutional con- vention and temperance education will be embodied in a report to be drawn up by a special committee and pre- sented to the council’s legislative con- ference, which meets late today. Indications today were that the council will demand of both major parties definite statements in their platforms of their attitude toward the eighteenth amendment and the en- forcement laws. It was believed likely that the council would also draw up a quiz, which would ask of candidates a flat declaration of whether they were wet or dry. y's sessions and those of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Pro- hibition and Public Morals, which closed yesterday, are preliminary gath- erings to the thirty-fifth biennial con- vention of the Anti-Saloon League, which will open at the Mayflower Hotel Monday. The final advance gathering will be the thirty-second annual meeting of the International Reform Federation, which will get under way tomorrow at a supper conference at the Church of the Reformation, adjoining the federa- tion’s headquarters at 206 Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast. Guests will be Assistant Secretary Lowman of the Treasury, Assistant Attorney General, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Prohibi- tion Commissioner Doran and dry Sen- ators and Representatives, AUTOS TO BE TESTED. Various Machines Scheduled for Demonstration Near River. a Various type of muiti-drive vehicles adapted to military purposes, will be given a public demonstration tomor- row at 1 p.m. on the rough and broken section of West Potomac Park be- tween the Speedway and the river, west of the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Two entirely new trucks, one equipped with a drive for six wheels and the other with a four-wheel drive, will climb in:and out of big holes and over the roughest kind of surface. Various types of cargo and pas- senger vehicles also will show their capabilities under unfavorable condi- tions. —_— Following the death of a 14-ycar-old boy, caused by the overturning of a cart containing a_heavy load of lum- ber, which he and a companion were Attorneys i pulling, Tokio authorities are investi- gating cases of -other children being overworked. & CATHOLICS OPEN BAZAAR. Hundred Attend First Several Night of Benefit Event. Th: bazaar of the Catholic Daugh- ters of America opened last night at the organization’s headquarters, 601 E street, with an attendance of sev- eral hundred. There are nine booths and several other features, including an old-fashioned country store. The r is opened at 5:30 and lasts till 11. Dinner also is served. This eve- ning there will be a Dutch supper, turkey having been the main feature of the menu last night. The proceeds go to the organiza- tion’s building fund. WISE FINDS EUROPE TIRED OF WAR GAM | Youth Protesting Against Use as| ™ Pawns, Jews Told. Yere The youth of Europe is tired of being used by militarists as pawns in_the game of war, and this young interconti- generation .is forming nental societies to promote friend- ship, James Waterman Wise, son of Rabbi Stephen Wise, told a capacjty audience in tke Jewish Community Center last night. Mr. Wise, who recently returned from a-tour of Europe. spoke on “The Youth Movement.” While over there he repeatedly noted what he termed “the Federation of Youth,” in nu- merous . groups and organizations which have been formed with a view to building a future of peace instead of war. Following the address an open forum was held and the audi- ence showed a lively interest in the topic. Louis E. Spiegler, chairman of the Iyceum committee of the community center, presided at the meeting and introduced the speaker. . Wise de- cided not to enter the pulpit after studying for some years for the rab- binate. He is the author of two books on Judaism. SAILOR’S BODY FOUND. Coroner Approves Accidental Death Finding in Boyd Case. The body of Reece William Boyd, 26 years old, a sailer, was found float- ing in the river just off the navy yard yesterday. He disappeared from the U vember 17. The body was taken to the morgue at Naval Hospital and an in- vestigation resulted in a report that the drowning was accidental. Coroner Nevitt gave officlal approval to the | finding. e REQUIEM FOR CARDINAL. Bonzano Services at St. Patrick’s Church Largely Attended. Solemn requiem mass for’ Cardinal Bonzano, former papal delegate, who died early this. week. was sung this morning at 10 o'clock at St. Patrick’s Church, with members of the Catholic clergy from throughout the city in attendance. Archbishop Fumasoni- Biondi, papal delegate, presided. ‘The Roman Polifonic Chorus of the Vatican. Cholr, which had a concert engagement here vesterday, remained over to sing at the mass. auditorium of the S. 8. Mendota' the morning of No- | (GIRL SCOUT DRIVE OPENS TOMORROW Dinner at Willard Will Launch Campaign for $55,000 ! to Aid Work Here. | bl | | More than 200 workers for the Wash: ington Girl Scout campaign to raise $53,000 to provide a permanent camp { fund and budget to 1930 will assemble | at a dinner meeting at the New Wik i‘lm’d Hotel tomorrow evening at 6:15, rking the formal opening of the not corclude campaign, which will until December 9. Speeches will be made by Mrs. Her< bert Hoover, who is chairman of the executive committee of the Girl Scouts of America; Mrs. Charles S. Lindsay, jr., general chairman of the Washing- | ton Girl_Scout campaign, and Mrs. George Barnett, executive chairman. Practically all of the captains and teams for the campaign have been or- ganized. according to the reports of the eight majors who are serving un. der Mrs. Barnett, .The membership, includes many of the best known wom- en in’ Washington, among them wives of officials, Army and Navy officets, and women high in Government serw- ice and from all the residential sroups of the city. £ The captains are as follows: Miks Mildred Ty Mrs, Goring Bligs { (also_serving as co-major of division A), Mrs. E. Brooke Lee, Mrs. Monte Appel, Mrs. Earl Chafee. George Gray, Mrs. Theedore Wilkinson, Mrs. R. W. Breckinridge, Mrs. Sturdevant, Mrs. Francis P. vy Mrs. Martin Jones, Mrs. G. W. Rust Mrs. Enoch'G. Johnson, Miss Elisa- beth Ives, Miss Caroline Chamberlain; Mrs. Johnston Gray, Mrs. Claude E. Brigham, Mrs, George Unmacht, Mr& Colden Ruggles, Mrs. John Thomas Taylor, Mrs. Harry L. Gilchrist, Mrs: Charles H. Le Fevre, Mrs. George ¥. Worthington, jr.: Mrs. Georgzia Knex Berry, Mrs. William L. Hart, Mrs, Henry C. Smithers and Mrs. Isadc Gans. The wives of two of the District Commissioners are active in the ca paign, Mrs. Proctor L. Dougherty, a member of the committee on pr liminary gifts, and Mrs. Sidney ¥. Taliaferro, as the major of division G. An attractive illustrated leaflet will be delivered to thousands of Wash- ingtonians Friday either hy Girl Scouts in person or through the mails. CHURCH ON WHEELS HERE Former Bootlegger's Car Now Usad for Religions Services. A church on. wheels, formerly a bootlegger's car, drove up to the White House today and its traveling preachsy ers were lntredu%d to President Cool= idge by Senator Hale of Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Cliften A. Plummer, the latter First Deputy Secretary of State for Maine, and Lawrence FP. Greenwood sald - that they had preached en route here from Wis< casset, Me. 'The miniature cathedral: was financed, they said, by the: Church of the Open Door and was: Interdenominational in character, . The car, with Gothie windows and., peaked roof, has a removable steeple? which is placed in position when the [s chapel is stationary,