Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1928, Page 17

AMBASSADOR ENTERTAINS FLYERS DECORATEDBY CHILEAN GOVERNMENT. raay by Ambassador Davila of Chile in honor of the Army’s pan-, announcerent was made of their decoration by the Chilean government. and sther Army and Na officials. merican “good will Four of the eight members of the flight. including Maj. Herbert A. Dargue, the commander, were present, with Secreta: Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. THE EVENING STAR., WASHI D. 0. FRIDAY, TANUARY 20, 1028, Guests at the luncheon vers, at which SR Confederacy, placing a_wreath statuary hall on his birthday yes right) spoke on Lee’s life. Davis, Secretary Wilbur HONOR CONFEDERATE LEADER ON AN Phillips, president of the Mildred E. IVERSARY. Miss Frances Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the statue of Gen. Robert E, Lee in Senator Barkley of Kenfucky (at Copyright by P. & A. Photos. CHICAGO SIGNS TALLEST COURTMAN. Standing 7 feet 2 inches and reputed to be the tallest basket ball player in the country, Milas Shoun shows how he can outreach the average size player. Shoun can almost “hand” the ball into the basket. Wide World Photos. AS HAVANA BID FAREWELL TO PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDG President and his wife aboard to begin the return journey to Washingto “AERO SLED” MAKES BETTER THAN 100 MILES AN HOUR OVER IDAHO SNOV' airplane motor and propellor, this sedan sled is the latest thing in Winter transportati speed of more than 100 miles an hour over the snow fields of Idaho, and has no troub’ snow in which an automobile would be helpless and an airplane could not land. Driven by a powerfal 't has been timed at a ing over deep lays of The U. 8. S. Memphis steaming out of Havana Warbor with the American fter their visit in the Cuban capital. where Mr. Coolidge addressed the Pan- American Conference. Waving crowds lined the piers and waterfront to see them off as the Memphis moved out of the harbor for the run to Key West, where the jourfiey to the Capital was continued by train. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. JERGEROFCOAL ARMONY SOUGHT | INTERESTSSEEN FOR CHURCH DRVE West Virginia Operators Re- | Presbyterians Meeting Here ported Planning Huge Move for Co-ordination in Combine. Campaign for Shrine. ! £ | [ ger of more than 20 in the Pocahontas and of West V i Co-ordination of the work of various committee engaged in securing Nation- | wide support for erection of a National Presbyterian Church at Connecticut avenue and Calvert street was the ob- Jective today of members of the board of trustees and committee members, | at a national conference. | Prominent speakers told of progress and plans at a luncheon gathering at the Mayflower Hotel at 12:30 o'clock, with Rev. John Timothy Stone of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago 5 presiding officer. Speakers on the luncheon program were: Former Sena- r Richard P. Emst, chairman of the isory committee for the National hurch: Rev, John C._Palmer, George | G. Barber, trustee; Rev. George B | Stewart, chairman of the National Capital Presbyterian Commission, and Rev. William -R. Taylor lowing the luncheon, a visit to the site of the future imposing church | was arranged, as were visits t three of the national churches crected in the city, All Bouls’ Unitarian, Immanuel Baptst and Washington Cathedral a. ng s in the mak- tions now going on in 1gton and Charleston, ncinnati ad- street, and is presiden a8 Fuel Co B of the York and a th headquarters in be reached at new eompany s et o One hundred and ity guests have been invited 1o attend & dinner to | be held tonight st 730 o'clock in the | Chi 1 of the Mayflower Hotel Hey les R, Erdman will preside | d Bishop Willlam ¥. McDowell of the | cthodist Episcopal Chureh will jn- ke the blessing. Bpeakers will be | ative Beck of Pennsylvania, Iy, Charles Wood, chair- | man of the National Capital Extension Committee vod arranged W entertain a woman g special luncheon at her home reet ence al g 2110 B VERMONT BUILDING SOLD | TO NATIONAL REALTY CO.!| | 11-8tory Office Btructure, Built n | 1923, Brings 700,000 | in $1,750.000 IS NEEDED TO PRESERVE NIAGARA Den) Vermont [} Lhe and 1, ding 11 -story cornier Ver street, has been i the Federnl Cities Be of Washingon by the Na | Jualty and Secunties Co, Ine, s a Washinglon concern, for & con alion amounting W approximately | L 8900,000, 31 was sunounced todsy by the | al estate depsrunent of the Mer- | | chante’ Bank & Co, which Lianaled the deal CLftora K. Allen, president of the firi purchssing the Vermont Bullding wnd wlso of Uie Qur Home Life Lnsur il Co, wnnounced tday that both | These concerns would locate thelr offices igding In the near future | Thiont Bullding was ercoted by Isadore Freund, wnd was orginally for ftices for pny- | nd dentists, but later was ‘ tor genersl ofMces " ocon 200 ofice roume wnd b cight on Wie ground floor The aild changed Lsnds Lhice Uies 5 Commliuetion, Trust Hiaop v Biluce 1w the fanks, PRESIDENT RECEIVES DELEGATES TO DYERS AND (1 S* and Cleaners calling on President Coolidge at the White Ho: his return from Havana. NERS' CO! yesterday. VINER IS ELECTED TO INSTITUTE BOARD Dyers and Cleaners Name Other ! the Associated Preos ! - j | DEL MONTE, Calif, January 20 Officers—Visit President | A plot to extort $1,000 from Mrs. R. G # Tunison, wife of & Chicago physician Coolidge. by means of death threats e | mvestigated today while Andrew Hen nek idy on the De Mntoe Nk being held by proba tion offic pending determination of his share in the affair Henneken was trapped squad when he took w de from the stand in u tee hox where Mrs ol Aveesnd in Harry Viner, president of the Arcade- Sunshine Laundry Co, was elected to a 10-year term on the board of direc- tors of the National Institute of Dyeing and Cleaning yesterday at the closing ! sessfon of the annual convention of the | Tunison had be Nationul Assoclation of Dyers and | money Cleaners at Washington Auditorium. | Army The institute is located at Silver Bpring, | e wter o soar, va. vue|WOMAN SPEAKER SCORES e e, W vaOuer of: | “OPPRESSORS OF LABOR’ Heinze of Clarksburg, W. Va. Other of- | Milkn a shotgur He nald a man dressed 1n ar hat and blouse and civiliar ficers elocted are. G, Earl Smith Wilkes-Barre, Pa, first viee presdent | K Milholland, of Dallas, Tex ; H. M Cawet of San Prancisco, Frederick An derson of Portland, Oreg, and A ) Marshall of Mason City, Towa, sectional viee presidents, (. M Chapman of Bt Louls, secretary-tre arer, a4 leo Boukup of Lincoln, Nebr, sergeant-at- arms, were re-elected The entire convention body, consiat ing of approximately 1,500 delegates and thelr families were recelved by Prest dent Coolidge at the White House yes Lerday he annual banguet und dance was held ut the Willard Hotel last night. | Many of the delegates wined 1n | Washington today The annual golf | tournament 15 1 progres ot the Wash tnglon Golf and Country Club. A sight- seelng tour of the city, Mount Vernon and Alexandris also was conducted Lo day. $1,000 REWARD OF FERED. TORONTO, Ontarin, January 20 . Vhe Toronto Board of Police Com- misstoners hiss voled o offer a reward of $1,000 for nformation leading Lo the . e conviation of the slayers of 4 It y':‘lu".::l Florence Coatello, whose | Btolen Car Found Afire body was found frosen in s creek nest| An sutomo her home thiee weeks ago | Hoover, 1 A coroner’s Jury found that the girl, | w who disappesred December 14, WA [ grounds abot 1210 0'clock s o clubbed t death by several persons who [Ing 1t liad been atolen eatlier f i hiad aasaulted lier, ovening. Sablich, Now Under Bond Dereribes Efforts to Ald Colo Miners rado sors of labor” tn Colorad led by Milka Hablich ssoclaten the “Colorado Jows for her eftorts i behalf o tikIng miners of that State in o h night at raphic he Inter e uple: « national Work Woone of a she fs delivering throughout the Nation (o arouse sentl ment for the miners Misn Hablich s now hond for “trespasy Colurado wnd must returm shortly stand Uial. However, she stated, “be fore 1 veturn in Febraary 1 shall make my campatgn for the yights of the min ers of Colorado.” out on §1.200 ¢ and pleketing dress nhe wears wa symbolic of he Cause, she told of violence with whicl she sald the police of Calorado deal WIth the mineis and hersolf itte atolen from Chalos Hook Creck Chuech o abaidoned afie i Soldic | Says He Was Hired to Retrieve Money s being | in yenvelope 1 ordered to hide the addrens 10 the course of the talk, which the | Hisiber. Dr E F. Kelly and Dr 10-year-old il delivered in the ved Wl Mo NVENTION. Delegates to the convention of the National Association of Dyers The President donned a raincoat to receive the first body of c. Copyright by H: 'REPORTS OF REVOLT | DENIED IN LITHUANIA | Premier Plans to Visit Berlin Next Week to Confer on Trade Treaty. Extortion Plot | | trousers had offered him $5 to go get | the envelope | __The death threat note was found in | Mrs. Tunison’s automobile when she | prepared to drive to her mother’s home armel after a golf game here. She - [notified police. They arranged to have 1| Charley Brown, eaddy master on the links, disguise himself in feminine garb f | and place in the sand an envelope con- | taintng slips of paper cut the size of ) | bank notes Within 10 minutes Henneken took the envelope from the sand, and was arrested 1| The boy denied any part in the plot, 1 weeping as he protested his innocence DRUGGISTS' SERVICES TO PUBLIC DISCUSSED . Eugene C Addyess, Med Piv January v dispateh mier Waldemaras has o | ot rep m Latvia s { where that a revolution has t i Lithuay The premier quiet prevails throughout the country and there is no cause for disturbance Other dispatches from Kovno w tlon preparations of Premier maras to visit Ber wmection with & comme: nd note the appointm Saladaeius as mil Kovno along with thanks to the retiring e as, from Prostden A Telegraphte » Brokmeyer, fn Banquet Makes Plea for Their Proper Recognition, | telephone tnqy | have brought the reply | { there oA for greater vecognition on | e ot et the | DISABLED VETERANS . TO HEAR McCORMACK o | K ©. Brokmeyer, general connsel FLfor the Nattonal Retall Drugglata’ Asso- clation, Who spoke before 300 members | e (g of the Diatiet - of - Columbti - Rettl [y q S T e Drugatats’ Assootatlon and thetr guests [ re oRER W S [ dohn MeCarmack benent concert | the Washington Auditonum o the annual banguet last night shiine of the Tmmaculate Con, ) | the the Raleigh Hotel I Transportation: will e furniahe m Maryland and bela participated I last nights meet- | | Vincent B Costello Past of toan Legion g Commisstoner Proctor L. Dough erty, Representative Fiee of Califoriia Repiescntative Reed of New York, Past- | RO manter W M. Mooney, Robert N.|wiceing, W. Va. who have JOA Lamong the hardest workers forthe Shrine, will attend the concert They | Talbot were guest speakers % are each over 78 years old. The lrish |N,UR|ES PROVE FATAL atger has dedicated & apecial numbey . W them | Mgt Bernard | Wiliam Gaynor, 45 years old, died | dirvector of the v Alexandiin Hospital veaterday after- | Shiine today o Lol fon Injucies sustatied varlier i nal Dowgherty | the day, when e fell from w box ear i | Vv Palla the yards of the Richmond, Frodevkoks he olass ot buig & Potomae Ratlioad, of which he | Philadeliphia witt | was an emiploye [ tribute G0 (h He veatded With his siater nle Qaynor, w231 R atieel, s of Kovnoe Wt all fs quiet plea ne from W of Cath Mt at the »- by and beeny Huntington v V| ¢ A AMoKenna, natl tmaculate. Coneeption At w apecial Wothe o al Ca uip Overbiook Hemtn attend dnow bady as diector, who s one o Miss Min that olas, | development af water power.' [ suing of stoeks | eurities, and there are substantial vavi atlons it al | A Ol make answer ATV, L Ehen can take care i of the most distingtinhed graduates of | Federal Government LEXINGTON MAKES READY FOR TEST RUN. The giant plane carrier Lexington, sister ship of the Saratoga, in dry dock at Boston, where she is receiving finishing touches before her test run next month. This view shows the extreme side position of the mast and stacks to provide a clear landing deck for planes. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. POWER PROBE SEEN ADM. MAGRUDER AS POLITICAL ISSUE; HITS INTOLERANGE {Senate Decision on Inquiry! Uses Robinson-Heflin Dispu- { Looms as Factor in Com- ’ tation in Scoring Racial and ing Elections. ; Religious Prejudice. t ce, w fied by the ators Heflin and Robinson, was de- nounced i by Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder in addressing the banquet of the Philadelphia Booksellers' Association. “1 am against religlous tntolerance and racial prejudice.” he said. “We have po- | the con- | it must| fes. For mem- ying the vote er or not to that e always is & power tn kind of a trust, and mem- Congress are well aware of the such things make in ¥ conf Smith Rejection Cited. 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