Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1927, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, N. €., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. 19 FATHER ARRANGES FOR DOTY Biloxi, Miss. (at right), father of Ben youth who is 'S RETURN. nnett J. Doty, urning home after his relcase from the Legion, is shown with Senator Harrison of Mississippl, who e in obtaining passport for his son, World Ph 00D WILL FLIGHT TO MEXICO, The fa d studying the route he will follow on his flight 18 to take off next Wednesda, In the group, left to t. Nowland, Sergt. Howe, who has charge of groo 5 on the flight will appea s young flyer is om Washington to ht, are Burwell, 1z the Spirit of St wsively here in The Wide World Photos. on which he p Hing Pie ight, and C excl law designer of the Chamberlin-Levine transatlan- tic plane, who hopes to make a New York-Rome flight with the backing of Om . business BIG CHIE Yakima_Indian, is not en voice which, he hopes, will carr. He is con w York fro th to study under Pasquale Amato of ¢ ing a w TUDIES FOR OPER A him to the Chief Yow r whoop here, but is pinnacle of gr servation in Washington St he Metropolitan Ope GEORGETOWN STUD! and conqueror of Nurm guest to train on the outdoor board track. crowd of undergraduates. AN, 3, STRUCK BY CARASHE FALLS Slightly Injured After Step- ping Into Excavation—Two Policemen Are Hurt. As he was attempting to cros: teenth street yesterda cavation on the car tracks in the 3400 block, just as the car was almost upon him. The ble fo stop and the King. He was removed to his home, where he was treated by his family doctor for bruises on his forehead and a cut on his hand. His condition was said not to be serious. While crossing Pennsylvania avenue between Fourth and Fiith streets yes- terday Fred Williams, 43 old, 317 Pennsylvania avenue, was struck Dby an eastbound automobile driven by Morris Rubin, 1369 C street northeast. Rubin took Williams to Emergency Hospital, where he was treated for scalp lacerations. He later returned to an e ing too sharp a turn on his ; cycle early this morning, Po- n Ralph H. Knapp, old, of the fourth precinct feil from his' machine, breaking his collarbone and sustaining lacerations to the right side of head. Knapp was riding_his motor cycle west on G street southwest. As he turned north into Water street the . He was taken to pital in a patrol on duty yesterday evening Policeman W. W. Olff of the thir- teenth precinct sustained a back and a bruised left leg when his horse s and fell on the icy pavement ave and Sheridan DOCTOR’S COAT STOLEN FROM ART GALLERY| Coop of Chic and Woman's Coat Also Reported Taken. of the Farragut nteenth and 1 police last night overcoat and pair basement esterday The coat ) and the gloves at $10. robberies received t were from Siman Rubin, street southeast, who Jost a coup of chickens worth $10, and from Martha Darlington, 231 Tenth street southeast, who stated that a black plush coat valued at $20 had been stolen from her home Wednes- day. ens ments, & streets, reported n expensiv of gloves he had of the Corcoran Art afternoon had been 1o . Grain Vessel Races Ice. SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario, De- TS ACCLAIM GERMAN TRAC! Wide, received a noj ned | % TAR ON VISIT HERE. ¥ welcome from the students when he appe Members of the university’s track squad a Dr. Otto Peltzer, Germany's famous middle-distance runner d_on ‘the campus yesterday as the university's e holding him on their shoulders for this photograph with a it by Harris & 15 OF NEW CONGRESS. 'h the president of the club, Mrs. ht: Mrs. James S. Parker, Mr: wife of the Se Members of the Congressional Club attending the gath- ator from Rhode Island, received wives of the new members Gerry, Mrs. Alben \W. Barkley, Mrs. W..W. Chalmers Coy ht by P. & A. Photos, URGES PROTECTION OF FOREIGN TRADE Admiral Rodgers Holds U. S. Must Safeguard Interests in Other Nations. American business men who invest money abroad under concessions prop- erly obtained from foreign govern- should be accorded diplomatic protection, as well as American tour- Rear Admiral William Led- Rodgers, U. . re- told a meeting of the Anti-Monopoly League at the Raleigh Hotel yesterday. He defended the policy of the State Department with regard to foreign concessions and op- posed a resolution for an investiga- tion by the Senate of this policy, which Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, reputedly is expected to in- troduce. “International concessions are mere- ly business bargains whose ju tion is to be found in mutual vantage,” said Admiral Rodgers. “This country depends for its prosper- on foreign trade. In that general perity every one in the country The business men who g0 abroad and take up concessions and invest capital are a part of the business system of the country. “The whole world is an cconomic unit, in which the great manufactur- ing nations are competing for trade, and in this competition we must keep our place. The rest of the world be: lieves in relying upon force in’the backzround of all dipiomatic effort. For the United States to adopt another attitude in present conditions of civili- would mean decadence and ruin Frederick J. Libby, secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, took issue with Admiral Rodgers, insisting that “the imperialistic policy which the United States has pursued toward Latin America is condemned by the basic principles on which free gov- ernment is founded, and by the ideals which our found proclaimed to nkind.” 'he meeting was opened b min C. Marsh, executive 3 the Anti-Monopoly League, whose name was recently changed from the People’s Reconstruction League. HUDSON HEADS SOCIETY. Elected President of State Association. Representative Grant M. Hudson of in was elected president of the Michigan State Association at the an- nual election Thurs v night. Other officers elected were: Representative Hooper, president; Consaul, Joseph A. Fenton, treasurer, and Francis L. L. Hiller, chaplain, The following were appointed mem- bers of the executive committee along with officers of the association: Mrs. Grace Collins B «dell, Bert H. Brock- way, Fred G, Coldren, Dr. Mark F. Michigan A. ¥ (®) —The steamer Assin- boia, the first of a fleet of 25 grain- Jaden vesscls making a race against the ice, passed down-bound through the Canadiun locks vesterday for lower Jake ports. Since its passage, other ships of the fleet have been ving, gome anchori above the locks and others passing through to anchor in ghe lower river. cember 10 Finley, Phelps F. Ferris, Mark Foote, Miss Lucy Ford, William T. Hebbard, Jol < Mrs, Minnie I Keyes, Delbert . Libbey, Donald L. Luxford, Henry M. Rose, C. Roscoe swift and Howard W. White, The annual banquet in celebration of the annive v of Michigan's ad- mission to the Union will be held Jan- Ay 26, OIL KING ENJOYS GOLF AG Fla., with his friend and golf ¢ estate, N ON RETURN TO FLORIDA ESTATE. mpanion, Gen. Adelbert Ames. John V. Rockefeller, sr., playing on his private course at Da, He is following his custom of years of spending the Winter season at his Klorida ona, Copyright by P. & A. Photos. MRS. BROSSEAU TO TALK TO SOROPTIMIST CLUB New Officers Will Be Installed Tonight at Annual Session and Banquet. Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, will be the guest of honor and principal speaker at the annual installation banquet of the Soroptimist Club in the Carlton Hotel tonight. Miss Helen Doocy Reed, retir- ing president, will act as foas - The new officers who will be insta ed a Carolina B. Stephe! president Lewis, first vice president . Jane Ryan, second vice president; Mi »eth Thom treasurer; Miss Margaret Conley, cording secretary, and Lawyer, corresponding secr Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle Turner and Miss M greaves are the new directors. The invited guests i the Dis- trict Commissioners, Katherine Spiegel, representative of the timist Club of The I line M. Burns, represe Soroptimist Club of London, and offi- cers of several out-of-town Soporti- mist clubs. Rev. James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House, will give the invocation. FIRES AT A Man Is Assaulted by Pair and Goes to Hospital. After being as men early this mor; Kinley, colored, years old, 1117 Twenty-second street, ran into the street as they drove 1y in an auto- mobile and fired se: I shots af his retreating The two m BRIDEGROOM IN WEDDING RACE FIGHTS STORMS IN AIR AND SEA Finally Reaches Chicago From Peking, and Finds Fiancee Has Postponed Marriage Until Today. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 10.—Balked for weeks by the elements, a bride- groom who raced half-way around the world by land, sea and air arrived in ‘hicago to meet his fiancee, who informed him their wedding had been postponed until toda orsythe Sherfesee, financial ad- viser to the Chinese government at Peking, completed the last lap of his journey when he stepped from an air- plane at the municipal field last night, just 6 hours after the time scheduled for his wedding to Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson of Chicago, Mrs. Ryerson s the widow of Arthur Ryerson, the wealthy steel man, who lost his life when the Titanic sank. A storm on the Pacific soon after he left Yokohama ayed the E arrival of Mr. Sherfesee's ship at Van- SSAILANTS. [couver, British Columbia, two day: * |record snowfall in the Rocl sitated a rerouting of his t Paul, Minn., and set his schedule back several hours further. Determined that the wedding should be held as planned if humanly pos- sible, Mrs. Ryerson chartered a plane to fly to St. Paul, pick up the bride- groom and bring him here. But it was a losing battle with the elements, for again strong headwinds, snowhound roads and bitter cold ®eather cost ny valuable hours, When it was learned the plane could not possibly arrive in time, Mrs. Ryer. son attended a scheduled reception, although informally, and announced the marriage would be celebrated | today. rriving in St. Paul, Sherfesee was met by pilots of the plane, who told him of the plan to fly to Chicago. Motor trucks carrying gasoline and oil to the airfield were caught in a snowbank and another 3-hour delay to dig them out followed. When the plane finally started strong head- winds were fought every mile of the way. The wedding couple, who met in Peking, while the guests of Mrs. William J. Calhoun, expected to leave for New York after the wedding. They planned to sail December 13 for Italy and proceed to Persia on their wedding trip, CONSENTS TO VERDICT. D. C. Railway Company to Pay Damages for Injury. The Washington Railway & Elec- tric Co. consented to a verdict for $10,000 damages against it yesterda by a jury before Chief Justice McCoy in_favor of Gilbert Gude, son of Adolph E. Gude, 1308 I street, for injurics sustained when an automo- bile in which the boy was riding was struck hy a car September 24 at Sixth and ¥ strects. Attorneys Wilton J Lambert, Rudolph . Yeatman and Georze D. Horning, jr., represented the plaintiff. Victor northeast, Capltal Tra wited by two white ing, William Me- Casalege, 1314 S street has filed suit against the ion Co. to recover $5,000 damages for alleged personal in- juries. ITe says a car of the -com- pany collided with his automobile Feb- rua lust, at Sixth and I streets northeast. He Is represented by At- torneys Lambert and Yeatman. ame to the door of o 1741 Johnson avenue, where McKinley is employed, to bu some gasoline, A dispute arose, al- leged to have been based on some pre vious difference between the white men and tehe colorde man. One of the visitors is said t6 have grabbed MeKinley around the waist and struck him in the face with his fist. Me- Kinley wrested himself free and the white men jumped into their car and drove off. " McKinley was taken to Freesdmcn's Hogpital i Fire Destroys Acid Factory. COLUMEBIA, 8. C., December 10 (#). —The sulphuric acid factor and acid chamb of the F. Royster guano company here were completely de- stroyed by fire early yesterday. An estimate of damage Was given as over $100,000, o s CITY TRAFFIC ORDINANCE HELD NEED BY HOOVER Uniform Laws May Be Solution of Problem, Secretary Tells U. S. Chamber. Development of a municipal traffic ordinance is the first step to be taken toward solving the growing problems of municipal traffic, Secretary Hoover aid yesterday before a meeting of the committee on munieipal traffic_ordi- nances and regulations at the Cham ber of Commerce of the United States. The committee is endeavoring to de- velop a model municipal traffic ordi- nance to apply to all cities. A tentative report submitted to the committee today suggested that the traffic problem is intensified by inade- quate street aren n transpor- tation,” the report points out, “has reached such volume and compl as to impede free movement of vehi cles and pedestrians. This con occasions an important cconomic loss Provisions of the model traffic law being worked out will includs all phases of handling traffic by munici- palities. TEACHER ASKS $5,961. Woman Seeks Back Pay, Bonus and Allowance. Mabel J. Matthews, t art in the Arm: cacher of do- rong Techni- 0ol, ye sued the District of Columbia for $3.961, repre- senting her salary, honus and longev- ity allowance from February 14, 1924 to July 1, 1926. The teacher was r stated by mandamus of the District Supreme Court March 6, 1926, to date back to February 14, 1924, The District refused the make pay- ment, according to Attorney Crand: Mackey, who filed the suit. Chile-Bolivia Row Settled. AGO, Chile, December 10 (). 5 Chile and ecent capture of two Chilean “soldiers in Bolivian territory has been settled in friendl fashion, it was indicated in informa- tion made public yesterday by the LChilean minister of foreign affair: The incident, the minister said, was laue to a very ‘comprehensible ervor.” PROBATION SYSTEM 1S HELD SUGCESS 85 Per Cent of Freed Men Justify Leniency, D. C. Officer Reports. The probation system in the Di: trict Supreme Court is working satis factorily, according to the report of Amos A. Steele, probation officer, sub- mitted yesterday to Chief Justice Me- Coy and the a s of the court for the fiscal y ling June 30.« The report was delayed awaitir figures on the surveys of the history of probationers after the expiration of their terms, which were made in setts and New York. The are not yet available the court 5 informed. Stecle savs that about $5 per cent of those given the benefit of the pro- bation system make good and fre- quently many of them continue to re- port to him after their terms have expired and express their appreciation of the clemency of the court. The other 15 per cent are taken into cus- tody and made to serve their terms in_prison, the probation officer says. Mr. Steele’s office looks after res dent probationers who have been sen- tenced in other jurisdictions. One of these is a man convicted in Virginia for killing his wife, who has been reporting for many years to Steele, and will continue to do so be- cause he is on probation on a life sen- tence. Steele’s office also acts as best friend in some parole cases, especiall from Massachusetts, New York, New : Pennsylvania and California. parole cases report regularly Steele transmits their reports to rious institutions. Collections and disbursements in non-support cases are also handledaly Steele and. his as they collected and This Is a decline fr year when $(2,795.35 was handled. Steele explains that much of the non- uppert matters are now disposed of in_the Juvenile Court. During the past year a total of 551 cases was investigated by the pro- tion office and probation extended to 181, Ot this number 110 are white and 71 colored. There are 157 men in the group and 24 women. Joy-riders head the list of last year's probation- ers with a total of 43; grand larceny ranks next with 39; housebreaking, 20 forgery, 13; larceny after trust, 9; petit larceny, §; receiving stolen pro wlt, 5; faise pretenses, § otic act, 5; knowledge, 4 . 4; bigamy, 3; smoke screen, 3 violating postal laws, 3; violating pro- hibition_law, reeny from United 1t sodomy, 1: Dyer act, 1; gam- ing table, 11; conspiracy, 2. ONE-WAY STREET MADE. Hesse Orders Thoroughfare Set Aside for Holiday Traffic. Eighth street from Market place to F street became a one-way thorough- fare today for northhound traffic by er of Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, super- intendent of police. The two-way traffic will be restored after the holi- The narrowness of the street and ASKFIXED PROGRAM INFLOOD CONTROL | Two Senators Introduce Bills for Establishing Permanent Federal Policy. A permanent Federal policy for | Mississippi flood control would be es- tablished under separate bills intro- duced in the Senate yesterday by Senators Robinson of Arkansas, Dem- ocratic leader, and Hawes, Democrat, of Missouri. Both plans differ from the administration scheme for flood ntrol which is now before Congre: The Robinson measure proposes t have the Congress s that “the United tes hereby recognizes and its obligations to prevent structive floods in the Mississippl lley,” while the Hawes measure ¢ down the policy that the Government assume and ain exclusive control of flood prevention, Referred to Committee, Both plans were referred to the commerce committee, which also has before it President Coolidge’s message transmitting and indorsing the plan | of control of the Army engineers, which would apply solely to the lower ley, with a system™ of spillways and "improved levees. The Hawes plan calls for a total expenditure of §1,000,000,000, funds to be rai bond issue, if necessary, with §100.- 000,000 to be spent annually. T! Robinson plan calls for $100,000,000 a year until completion of the worl Meantime, the House flood contr committee is proceeding with its hear- ings, Cha id_announcing nex I hear Secre: Hoover and Davis of the Comr and War 1 Jadwin, chief of Army Complete Reports Foreseen. The chairman said: “In th mony Congress will receive an comprehensive and co ot the flood problem from it of the Federal G Enginec ment.” Secretary Hoover, who fs leaving Monday for a final inspection of the flooded region, will be the last witness of the group of Government officials, being preceded by Gen. Jadwin and the War Secretary, respectively. They are expected to come before the com- mittee on Friday ana Saturday or early the following week. — CANCER HEALERS MEET. “Victory Dinner” Marks Success in Raising $1,000,000 Control Fund. t night at the Ameri- ety for the Control of Cancer celebrated the successful close of an 18 months' drive to raise $1,000,00€ Winthrop W. Aldrich, toasrmaster. told of gifts from John D. Rocketeller ., amounting to $275,000. Edw Harkness gave $100,000 and was contributed by J. P, Morgan & Co. An individual member of the Morgan firm sent a check for $50.000. 1. Ful- ton Cutting gave $250,000. the great volume of traffic it carries during the pre-Christmas rush season caused Maj. Hesse to make it a tem- y vf ay thoroughfare, It was said that $100,000 yearly was needed for the work, which sum is expected to be made available by fur- ther contributions,