Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1927, Page 17

JAPANESE DOLL AMBASSALDORS PRESENT THEIR “CREDENTIALS.” On the steps of the Japanese embassy yesterday before tbe doll ambassadors of good will were officially presented to the children of America, before a notable go thering at the National Theater. Left to right, front row: Jane Davis, daughter of the Secretary of Labor, vwho received the dolls; Nasa Matsudaira, daughter of the Japanese Ambassador, PAULDING 1S DRYDOCKED FOR REPAIRS. The force of the col- ision which sent the submarine S-4 and her crew of 40 to their grave off Provincetown is clearly shown in this view of the shattered under- rd destroyer Paulding. She is in dry- COMDR. BYRD TRIES OUT SLEDS FOR SOUT!F POLE E PEDITION. The American naval explorer (on front of sled), at the New Hampshire dog trainingy farm of Arthur Walden (standing), who will have charge of the dog teams on Comdr. Byrd's expedition to the South Pole. The expedition leader inspected the teams of huskies now being trained for their work there. #n the sled with him are W. D. Vaughn, A. W. Crocker and 8. C. Goodale, who are going into the Antarcti Copyright by Paramount News. water bow plates of the Coast Gua Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Dr. Sidney Gulick and Ambassad who presented them, and ¥ime. Matsudaira. or Matsudaira. Back row: Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of the Secretary of Labor, Copyright by P. & A. Photos. OBREGON bergh icd with Byrd. AS mnmgu-s GUEST. Col. Charles A. Lind- e only remaining candidate in the dock at Boston for repairs. THEORETICAL HELICOPTER FAILS TO OVERCOME GRAVITY IN FIRST TEST. A view of the novel Pitts helicopter, which disappointed its inventor by failing to get off the ground in its first official test at Detroit the other day. The whicling umbrella-like propelier, extending over the entire machine, proved un- Mrs. Evelyn Rosencrantz, secretary of a religious community in Cali- fornia, who has ordered construc- tion of a monoplane in which she expecys to fly to Rome, Itay, in the ENJOYS YULETIDE WITH GRANDDAUGHTER. Chief Justice W liam Howard Taft, with his 6-year-old granddaughter, Helen Taft ning, sitting_beside the Christmas they spent Christmas day together in the merry fashion tree in the Taft home kere, where Christ- mases in" the Taft household.. “Boche” Is Barred As Soldier Term ‘Spring. Wide World Photos. SIGMA NU TO OPEN Copyright by P. APHADELTAPH FLIES and Alvaro Obregon, forthcoming n ;?ldqllhl election, at Valbuena Flying Field Just before “Listre le” took Obregon aloft for his first flight in & . FAMILYS EGQNDG bk e equal to the job of vertically lifting the 2,700 pounds of weight. Wide World Photos. MARKS BRTHDAY [NEW. GERMAN ENVOY WEDDED ELumberjack Leaves i $13,000 to Provide | f IN BURGLAR'S LOOT Turkey Also Disappears From | East Capitol Street Home. ! Lead Cable Stolen. | Property and articles valued at | more than $9¢) and ranging in de-| seription from eggnog 1o 1,600/ pounds of lead cable were reported | stolen in the past 24 hours. H Mrs. Mary J. Byars, 902 East Capi- | tol street, informed the police that a | burglar took the famed Christmas | drink, together with a turkey, china | platter and flashlight. The cable| as reported stolen from the Din- | trict warehouse at Potomac and M | streets by James C. Bimpson of the ! Dastrict Electric Department. It was valued at $300. Early last night a robber entered the apartment of Mrs. Catherine Ma- honey, 913 M street, and took wear- | ing appare] and a string of pearl beads. Mrs. Mahoney valued the Joot at $300. B. B. Sandige, superintendent of | Emergency Hospital, asked police 1o | investigate theft of female wearing apparel, valued at $100, the property | of Minnie Plerce, 715 U street, a pa- tient. RBobert Burgess, 3210 N street, the theft of 3160, from a by reau drawer in his home. ' Police are Jooking for an individ-| ual who took clothing worth 3§50} from & trunk in the locker of David A. Shilling, apartment 114, Ruthiand Courts, 1725 Beventeenth sireet. The trunk was in the basement. Mrs. Mary Ritter, 62 southwest, reported that a ring on ber husband’s fnger disappeared sfter he had been taken 1o Gallinger te) seversl duys ako. ";wrln:wm store of Mrs. Marian H Wiltiame, 218 L street, was entered by » burglsr about 1 v'clock this morn Sng and robbed of shirts, tes and hose valued st $15, entrance having been gained by breaking u gluss in the front duor. Bhortly sfterward, police ‘were wid that a colored man had been discovered on the wp of & bay-window of another store of Mrs. Willlams at | 1307 New Jersey avenue. e w frightened away Opposes Alimony Order. | Hubert B, Bpessard has asked the District Supreme Court o wet axide an alimony order o, 879 per month 1o | hie wife, Mre, Ruth Hpensard, 4312 | Wew Humpehire avenue, The hus hand says the wife esrns $2,100 from her employment with the Civil Bervice Commizsion and s whle 1o support herse(. e In represented At worneys Jumieson & Ward "“r iowr Car Firm, | ordan Motor Car Co., u Dela-| in the District Bu['nune Court fur | $20,000 by Murvey 1. Rab .11, an 8t ] torney practicing before the Internal Revenue Juresy, for slieged profes | wiona) services. Wabbitt sy he ob ined rebates for the compuny 1otsl ing $82,000 AQuring the past three| yeurs, He ix represented by Attorney | Norman B. Landreau | -0 C ptreet struction of & new subway for ':"’rllltul Ralirosd in Gieece hos been started nesr Athens, |termined by wn Xovay exami “Swimming Hole” By the Associated Press. » DULUTH, Minn.. December 28.— Mindful of the days when the old swimming hole brought to him some of life’s happiest moments, Hans Christian Jorgensen, shortly before his death, drew up a crude will which leaves part of an estate valued at $13,000 for a “‘new swimming hole for the kids at Lincoln Park” here. e Jorgensen, known in “Minnkso- ta’s north woods as a lumberjack who had saved carefully through- out his 1e, died October 17. He had no known relatives in the United States. It was not -until a petition to probate the will was filed in Probate Court here yester. day that Jorgensen's estate was made public. 'EFFICIENCY REPORTS T0 BE CONSIDERED | District Commissioners to Confer with Herbert D. Brown on January 5. with Herbert D. Brown, chief of the Federal Bureau of Efficlency, to con- wider meveral of the bureau’s reports and recommendations which have not been acted upon, Heversl conferences already been held. and missioners Instituted some of the re. forms ndvocated by the bureau. At the forthcoming meeting wpecial con- sideration will be given a recom. mendation for abolition of the District contract hoard INJURED IN FALL. Josiah A, l;:;:vu‘aly Hurt in Front of Home. Jomish A. Roth, b0 years old, realty luwyer, residing at street, was seriously injured about 1 o'clock this morning when he fell on the sidewalk in front of his home after slighting from hin automobile, He wus given first ald at Walter Reed Hompital Later he was transferred to Kmer- wency Hospital and treated by Dr Jeutkowrki for u fracture of the skull The extent of his injury will be de fom, ESTHER DU PONT TO WED. have Daughter of Capitalist Engaged to Camphell Weir. WILMINGTON, Del, December 2% (®).—~Announcement hus been here of the engagement of Mis [Ksther du Pont, deughter of Lam: | woman's mont du Pont, du ¥ behl president of ¥. 1, t de Nemours & Co., to Camp- ir, also of Wilmington the son of Mrw. Henderaon Welr, Is & native of Wilmington. wraduated from the West Point Mil tary Academy in 1924 and later re wigned his commission (o return hers The wedding will take place 1n thix City some time next Seplembey, . aw a result the Com- ! 4426 Fourteenth | made He OF W W.CORCORAN | Louiée Home Holds Recep- tion—Plans for Public Meeting Abandoned. The annual birthday reception in {honor of Willlam Wilson Corcoran yesterday was held at the Louise | Home, 1500 Massachusetts avenue, one of the fnstitutions ‘founded by him, with several hundred guests in attend- |ance. The directresses in the recely- ing line were: Mrs. Thomas Bavard Mrs. B. Hellen. Mrs. Rigley Hunt and Miss Emily Matthews, Miss Mary Willlams, matron of the home, pre | sented the guests. The home was decorated specially. A® had been the custom for meveral years, a date of Mr. {oreoran’s birth, Decem 1789, was cut and served to the | Plans of the National Weifare An: woclation 1o accept the offer of the | Xational Theater for a public birth. |day meeting in honor of Mr. Cor- coran yesterday were ahandoned when {1t wan found that it did not have wuf- ficlent time to organize such a meet: | ing. re-| The District Commissioners Will| "It also has been announced by the u- | hold another conference January 6 |association that its Corcoran memorial committee, now being formed, wil kive consideration to the publication of & book on the life of Mr. Corcoran, wimilar to the book on O. Henry, now {being dintributed at Asheville, N. by the O. Henry memorlal committee. In_connection with the anhiversary o Mr. Corcoran’s birth, the assocla tion calls attention to the following { renotution adopted unanimously by the {House of Reprewentatives February 1885 | 'hin belng a day set apart for con slderntion of business relating to 1 | District of Columbla, thiy Houwe {1t not inappropriate to plice upon jtx i.u-mdu @ testimonial of respect for |the memory of ‘that eminent citizen lof the District, the late Willlam W. eemn i Corcoran, who, as a munificent patron of arts, sclences, letters and many pub- |1ic und private charities both at/ the National Capital and in the country at large, has left a memory that deserves im be gratefully cherfshed not only by every resident of the District of Co | lumbia, but by all the people of the {country, of the working of who {wtitutions he wus i conspleio | lustration { SNYDER PLEA DROPPED. EDnmnnd Woman sAbandons Plan of i Supreme Court Appenl NEW YORK, December 28 (A Abandonment of # proposed uppeal 1o the United Btates Hupreme (ourt as part of the defenwe program (o wave Mrs, Nuth Bnyder and her paramour, Henry Judd Gray, from |the death’ penalty for mu of the hushand, announced yesterday by counsel for Kagar . Havelton, Mrs, Bnyder's chief attorney, mald he was convinced that the case involyed no constitu: tonal question on which a hearing could he sought in the Bupreme Court Hauleton wsld he was concentrating on an appesl (o ba made to Gov Altred K. Bmish for executive: clem engp i behsll of his client, big birthday cake, bearing the | | | {AUTO GAIN IN 1 NOBLEWOMAN IN FASHION SHOP. Correspondence of the Associated Press. to the post of Ambassador 'from his Friedrich von Prittwitz reaches Wash- ington to take the portfolio made va- cant by the death last Summer of Baron Ago von Maltzan, With him will come his wite, for- merly Countess Marle Louise von Strachwitz, and their daughter, Marisa, 4 years old. In the wife of the Ambassador Washington will meet the first mem- |ber of the German nobility to go in for a living. ‘The daughter of a cav- |alry “captain, she opened a fashion | BERLIN.—One of Germany's young- |¥hop In _Berlin in 1914 when her | father’s death on the battle front left jer diplomats will succeed in January |pe family in straitened circumstances. | She conducted it for six years, and | nation to the United States, when Dr. | her marriage to Dr. Prittwitz in 1920 was held in the shop among model |gowns and a profusion of femipine finery. | Dr. Prittwitz is as widely known In | Germany for his interest in sports, the arts and music as for his accom: plishments in_the field of politics and | economics. He is notably fond of and adept at golf and tennis. | The envoy and his family will leave {for Washington soan after the holi- days. NEAR EAST RELIEF SELLS FLOWERS OF HOLY‘LAND Refugee Widows and Orphans Make Articles for Benefit Sale. Flowers from the Holy at the Near Fast Rellef headquarters, 1334 Connecticut avenue. - Proceeds from this sale will be sent to aid refugees In the Near East. The flowers, which were gathered on the Mount of Olives, on the shores of Lake Tiberius and in the country- sde near Bethlehem, have been A on_card children of the ast_Rel phanage. children who gather, press and mount cards are half or- phans and o wole support of thelr aged fathers, according to Har old K. Pellegrin, Potomae Division di- rector of the reilef organization. They must support themselves and their father by the male of thewe fowers articles in the sale, made by L are linens, pottery and rugs 927 HAS LOW PERCENTAGE Actual Number of Increase Is Bmallest Since 1016, Annual Burvey Bhows. By the Awsociated Pross NEW YORK, December Autos moblles registered in the United Btaten in 1927 showed the smullest percentage increase since the infancy t the fndustry and (he smallest nu merieal Increase since the an nual wurvey by Magagine Hhows Withdrawal of the Ford car trom the minrket during the last half of the year and morg wilespread Junk i operations were held responsible for the poor showing, An increase wan forecast for 1928 Registrations aw of January 1, 1l whow 23, L an i over Junuury 1, Passenuer curs now i use nwmber §2,000. “and trucks, 94,000 @ Increane wan wimallel by 7,600 than in the depression year of 1021 and 61,000 smgller than in the war year of 1918, Klevan Htatew showed a layger gain than i 1920, but there was no change In the relathve atanding of the Wiates in the number of vegis tered vehlclos. New York increawed itw lead over (' nin, selting o new mark of 1,058 an apsingt Call fornka's 1,700, 0igy 1028, Lanel are | included in the holiday sale of articles | made by refugee widows and orphans | SYNAGOGUE MEMBERS URGED TO JOIN CENTER Jewish Women Organize Teams and Speak in Behalf of Community Enrollment Drive. Members of the Sixth Street and Fifth Street Synagogues last night were asked to enroll as members of the Jewish Community Center at a Chanukah festival held at the latter [ house of worship, by Louis Spleg- ler, chairman of the conter's enroll ment_campaign, and A. L. The Sixth Streot Synagogue Players presented “The Seventh Daughter of Hannah,” a oneact play. Organization of the woman's divi- wlorr of the drive was perfected yes- terday afternoon at a_meeting at_the nter. Mrs. Mor wirz and Mrs. Edward Cafritz were chosen chairmen of the division. George lLevy and Mrs. John M. Safer were host onsen. Morris Cafritz spoke (o the | Women, urging them to put forth their best efforts in the drive, which will last through January & ‘The drive teams will hold another rally tomorrow night at the center. First reports on the progress of the campaign will he read. An open smoker, at which Stator David 1, Walsh of Massachusetts will be the principal speaker, in scheduled for Junuary 3 as another drive featurs PARIS FLIGHT PLANNED, M “Diamond Queen" Reported Seek- ing Bennett and Balchen as Pilots, NEW YORK, December 28 () The New York American sayn today that Mabel Holl, known as “the Dia. {mond Queen,” s weeking Flovd Hen. {nett and Hernt Halchen am pilots for (8 proposed fight to Paris next May Hennett, who aoeo e Conndr. Richard 1. Byrd on his flight to the INarth Pole, und Halchen, a member of Byrd's transutlantic orew, have tentatively agreed to head a company In the procesa of organixation to back tho Might, the article ¥ays. Miss Holl will foot the entive expense, $100,000 of which will be for the services of the (two men, Canada Tobacco Exports Gain. OTTAWA, Ontarlo, December 28 (M) —(reat Britain absorbed 99 per vent of the $2.460,300 worth of to. bacco exported from Canada in 1937 the departimpnt 0f trade and oon merce reported here yeaterday, Tobacco rapidly s portant la in Canada’ trade, t wald, The 1927 exy totaling 830072 pounds, wis times greater than that of 1921, Schiller. | SESYONS TONGHT | Fraternity Convention, Be-| ginning With Smoker, to Attract Many Delegates. | | | | | Delegates from every State in the Union are expected to attend the four ddy biennial national convention of the Sigma Nu college fraternity which wiil open with a smoker at the Mayflower Hotel tonight. About 300 glegates, representing 93 co c to_Washingt . F. Fleming, m of the convention commit ared today Tomorrow morning Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty will welcome the « officially at their first busi eting in the ballroom of the In the evening there will e a dance at the same hotel, the of which inelude Judge ,Ed Parker, Wade Ellis, Maj. Gen | Rpbert Allen, ‘chiet of Infantry, and other men of prominence whe are | members of the fraternity. | The prosram calls for a banquet | {Friday with a closing business session | Saturday morning and a pilgrimake to | Lexington, Va., in the afterncon. It was in the Virginia Military’ Institute at Lexington that the fraternity was fotinded shortly after the Civil War, The grand ch executive com- mitee, which s ing the details of . the convention. consists of Mr. Floming, George H. Chasmar, advis-| jory chaivman. "M, ¥ Enlows. chair min, financial committes; Frank - L 1 Yates J banquet committee; | Rieh . chairman, dance committee; Guy v, chalrman, publicity committee; Lewis . Rhodes, chhfrman, — reiSUAtOR committee; Fred B Khodes, chairman, transporta tem committe and Lloyd K. Gibson, {Who I8 arranging the smoker |~ Girand Regent Oscar Palmer is the { hugional head of the fraternity. The | organteation held itx last national con: vehtion at West Baden, Ind. | { | i R 400 ORPHAN CHILDREN | GET CHRISTMAS TREAT Various ! Wards Are | Quests o Manager Beatus at ! Palace, Theater, in Hom i l ohildren from the Maptist Home for Children, Central Untion Mission, the Episcopal Howe { for Childven, the German Orphanage, | the Gampel Mission, and the Jewish 1 Fopter Homo Wwere Kuests vesterday atln Cheistmas party, tendered by v latvvence Beatus, manager of the Logw Palace Theater, tn connection with the showing of "My Hest Giel* staqring Mavy Fioktord” Ihe theater and staft were placed at the diaposal of the ohildien, Wha weve traguperted 1o and from the Palave ry hpases supplied by the Washingten Rafifay & Hleotrio (o, the Red Star | Lime, the Washington Rapid Transit Cog the Rlack & White Taxi Co. and tha Gray Line ‘The theater guosts veoeived novelty |V Igs o My Heatus, and candy, )" Anlied by Walter Heawnley Ceaperation n avranging the OrlanE’ party wWas extended by the Washington Counetl of social Ay p*u. Pour hundved i i v plane, had crashed in Alaska ,!un Measu ater Qeral 1 sald last night fAxing, structure, United Chapters of Delta Beta Phi at Austatia, In Foreign Legion By the Associated Press. SIDI-BEL-ABBES. December 28%. —"Boghe,” the sneering term by which the allied armies referred to the German soldiers during the war, is taboo in the French Feor- eign Legion Germans make up about 60 per cent of the present effectives of the Legion. They are good soldiers, their officers say. A Frenchman and a German Legionary were having a viclent verhal battle recently when the former, as a crowning insult, shouted. “Boche™ ““Ten days in the brig.” officer the next day when ter was reported MAJ. MARTIN HURT AS PLANE CRASHES D. C. Man, Passenger in Craft, Also Injured in Accident at Hicksville, N. Y. By the Associated Press. HICKSVILLE Decembder 28.~Maj. Frederick L. Martin ander of the United States A round-the-world flight in 1924 companion, escaped with cuts bruises when a plane piloted by Mar tin_cv { last night fn an attempt to land in a plowed fleld Maj. Martin and William of Washington were en Washington to Mitchel By the fleld beacon lght, for some time and brought the plane dow The machine, Curtiss was demolished sut fered cuts on the face and body and Ives a few bruises Maj Martin dropped of the round-the-world fight after his plane He Was piss ing for some time, making his way R, lves through the snows to a settlement in the Aleutian Istands, NYE BACKS HAUGEN BILL AS FARMER PROTECTIO as Parallel to Exist. ing Tarift Schemes—Denies U..§. Is Prosperous By the Amociated Press, NEW YORK, Décember 5 - Amer ners, in seeking akd through Nuvy-Haugen bill, only asked the same maasure of protoction aftord. ot other commodition through exists R AT sche: United States Sens Yo of Novth Dakota “E the MeNavy-Haugen bill is price: then &0 s our entive tavift " he oM members of the helr golden fubilee dinner. Senator Nye declared that America™s “boasted prosperity 1x w wyth” and quoted statistios (0 show that 1t does ot exist In the agricultural States or AWONE arporations as & whale, - . o AR AMerican company s the anly AT MARING tehnis twekels iy CONVENTION OPENS 200 Delegates Register for Annual Session—Justice Stone to Speak. 0 delegates istered for he ninetyv.sixth annual cénvention of Alpha Delta Phi, nationa! college fra- ternity, at the Willard Hotel todar. The co inve n sessi | Friday night, will be opened informally with a reception and smoker in the small, balircom &t the Willard tonight. Justice Harlan F. Stone of the “nited States Supreme Court. & mem- der of the fraternity, will address the delesates he opening business ses- sion tomorrew morning at $:30 o'clock Shortly after noon. the convention visit President Cooidge at ase. program alse will tw- | seeing tour during the afternoo A reception at the resi lence of ice and Mrs. Stone, 2340 Wyoming avenue, and & theater party at might Speakers en Program. A s sessions will be feltured sses by leading members of The speakers and their follows: W. R Vak Servive”: Adrian N choolmastering*: Henry The law Charies W Maticive” and & Hareington The Minists Offfcers will Do elected Friday eve. n and the snnual hanguet in the at T ovlock will clope the Thomas K un W the pramihent Washington the fraternity are Justive of War Davia Sen llett and Keves. Represeata- tives Allvich, Beedy, Douglas, Froth {ngham, Purker, Treadway and White, Frederick A, Delane, Lars A \ | Alvert Douglas, Rev. Wiltiam Pe- {Vries, Rev. George C. F. Bratenah! Rev. Gearge F. Dudiev, NewdoM Nayes, Witlame R Velance, George [F “Rowerman. Altred A, Wheat, De | Ubarles W, Stilea, D s R D Harry HoKerr, Aldert W. Atwoad. Harey Q. Dwight, Clinton Odext JHC Tuder Morsell, James retee. fMatthew Trimble. Gen. Timatdv K FWicox, George Shivas, Aithag Hakw, JChartes (L Glover, fr. aad Rivgand | Witner Committee L. Dr. De Vries is chairman of the gan eral committes in charge of arvanee ments. assistad by Howard & Lo Ray and Sidney K Kent. Chaitman of the VArious conmitioes are as tollows: W, Carey Crane, teception: Howarnd & Le Ray, reglatration: Odell 8. Swith, hotels and banquet, H. Tudor Morwell, entertalument; Willm L. Clarke, PrRtIRG And s, asd Jean M. Crane, finance, Oftloors of the Washington Qraduate Chapter, under whose & e convention s being heMt Howart 8 Lo Ray, vonar M. Ravkus, HStokas, secretary And treasuier, aod Norman Jo Wall, corvesponding secie ey,