Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1928, Page 16

PATENT SUIT KEEPS PARACHUTER AFLOAT. Jimmie Clark, Navy parachute jumper, lights a cigarette while he floats safely around in the Potomac after a 2.000-foot jump from a Navy plane here yesterday. The jump was made to test a new waterproof life- g suit designed for parach i ngton Star Photo. b MARINE landing at Corinto. scaled the 5,000-foot peak of El Chipote, the Marine pursuers. REINFORCEMENTS SCALE SANDINO'S MOUNTAIN STRONGHOLD. This shows a contingent of the reinforcements sent to Nicaragua Since the new force was landed there to press the campaign against the rebels operating under Gen. Sandino, the Devil Dogs have the last known stronghold of the rebel leader, who has variously been reported slain, wounded or fleeing from Copyright by P. & A. Photos. A GREAT DAY FOR SNOW SHOVELS. A young resident of the Capital merrily joins in the task of digging the city out of the heaviest snowfall of the Winter. A prophesied light covering of snow turns out to be & very ample Winter blanket. THE “BIG TRAIN & 7 can locate the plate for the Newark Bears this year as well as he trained his sights on these wild turkeys, he will be a useful member of his pitching staff. Barney had the big day on a hunting trip from his Winter home at Daytona Beach, Fla. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. UNCLE SAM'S TARS SWING INTO GUN DRILL AT WINTER MANEUVERS. Scene aboard the cruiser Concord during gun loading drill shortly after the arrival of the scouting fleet at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for ‘Winter maneuvers. The tars are putting plenty of snap into the drill, which shows them using rammer and loading powder and shell for a six-inch gun. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Miss Anna Louise Abadie, one of the debutantes appearing as a lady in waiting in “The Joust,” a comedy feature of the Arts Club's Bal Boheme at the Willard Hotel Monday night. PRESIDENT GREETS AUTOMOBILE SHOW QUOTA CLUB GROUP WILL OPEN TONIGHT Members of 50 Branches, Exhibitors to Offer 20 Body Here for Convention, Re- | Styles—Crowd of 80,000 ceived at White House. Is Expected. The eighth annual Automobile Show opens this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Washington ~ Auditorium, Nineteenth eets, The exhibits include 38 ars and 160 body types, be- ny accessorfes. Despite the 10w, & large crowd is expected at | the opening derit was headed by Dr. Mabel Palmer| Tomorrow the show will be closed, but Iowa, president of the| %l Teopen Monday afternoon at 2 ien and Miss |0'clock and remain open each evening all week until 10:30 o'clock. | With the last minor detalls of the decorative scheme out of the way and the new models in plac g 15 in readiness for the lft- rtain tonight 20 Body Styles Offered. e than 20 different body styles e offered. These include in ad- jon 1o the well known couple, sedan, coach, landau, touring, roadster, town {car and limousine, such distinctive | nomenclature as sportlf, phaeton, Ber- convertible, victoria, briolet, speedster, sportster, brougham ow enthusiasm has led the com- ) prep for a crowd of more 3 80.000. ives of more than B3I Quota cl throughout the coun were received at today by Presi- st the Whi s and E s | makes of m presen in! onal, " panguet ! preside past pre psible rof ” LWMOITOW Iort Frauk W Jhael Bemme delivered ove and WMAL, resident of the Washington ade Assoclation, and Mr U dealt with “The Mean- Bhow,” explaining significance o ¥ radio sta- Edward M Automobile Bhow,” I be given a descrip- U the Auditorium us To Broadeast Again week show peukers next suory of the pplied on both floors wnight and every DRY INFOHMéR'S TRIAL OFF UNTIL THURSDAY n v under the direction | KNIGHTS TO BE INITIATED. bis Ceremony to Be Held at Willurd Tonight vited tilght Kulghts of coi, Vi U New L snnual ceremontal | of Caravan Order o third degree ceremonial will be 10l atapuet s e altended by siwdelphils, § wiil e Lsstiniaster soter of Uie Ousis Lewis A A0k GALE SINKS OLD SPANISH GUNBOAT IN NEW YORK succumbed to theshigh seas lashed up in the harbor by the but it will probably be fished up again to be converted into razor blades and other such inglorious articles. HARBOR. Waiting to be scrapped for its steel plates, this old sea fighter of the Spanish navy recent gale. To be left in its watery grave would be a more fi e and | deputy grand | ference of the military leaders and cab- ],Efl] [}H'NESE I]lE New Anti-Aircraft IN COMMUNIST RAID Two Towns Sacked in Can- ton Province by Red Invaders. By the Associated Press, A new three-inch antl-afrcraft gun and mobile mount, considered by mili- tary men the most advanced weapon of its kind, has been designed by the ordnance department of the Army and adopted by the War Department “This new weapon is capable of send- ing 25 shots a minute almost three miles straight up, and 1ts horizontal range 15 more than twice that distance. Its mobile carriage presents, military oficers state, the latest developments combining stability and mobility and Shots a Minute, Gun Fires 25 Three Miles High can be emplaced from carrying posi- tion in readiness to fire in 15 minutes It 1s so Light it cun be towed across the country by a standard four-wheel drive truck ‘The gun is of .50 caliber and made fn two parts; an outer tube an nner removable liner. The lner is & marked advance in gun construction, doing away with the necessity for send- ing the gun to an arsenal for re- tubing when worn out. The liner can be mstalled in & few minutes by the gun crew and its cost iy little. By the Associated Press. CANTON, January 28.--Advices from the northern borders of Canton province today told of the sacking of two border villages and the murder of 1,500 men, women and children, There are no Americans in the vicinity Four thousand alleged Communisis from Honan Province staged the rald on the villages. No other details were glven, SHRINE UNIT PLAN Roe Fulkerson Will Be Appointed President—Stein Is Honored. Canton and the Province of Kwang- { tung hiave been Lhe scene of bitter fight- ing I recent months botween Com- | munists and moderate elements among | thie Nutonalists and milltary leaders in Bouthern Chini Only Jast month the struggle be- [ the conflicting parties resulted I ruthiless slughter, partcularly dur- Ing the crushing of ‘s Communist up vising In the oty Between 2000 and 3000 persons, ncluding at least 1110 tans, were estimated o have I killed by the tioops of Gen O | Fak-Wel, who, only two weeks before had been driven from the oty by the Comi | In the course of both the Communist uprisiog and it crashing, over a period of about three weeks, 1L was estimuted that 6,000 persons were killed on both sides, A resolution to continue the Caravan Club of Almas Temple and to make it w regulr unit of the Bhrine was adopted at a Juncheon of the club in the Ra lelgh Hotel yesterday Under the new arrangement the potentate of Almas Temple will appoint the president of the club from among Tand the bourd of governors will be up volnted by the past potentates Gieorge MeGiinty, Almas potentate, in dleated yesterday that he will name Roo Fulkerson s the first pr the new system. He also indicated that It In the destre to make the Caravan Olub one of the largest Bhrine and that 1t frequently will en tertain visiting Bhriners here Henry € Btein, president of the olub who will retire under the reorganiea fon plan, was presented with a tavel g civse wnd A sel of shirt studs In ap preciation for s seevice ws president Thie clyb will joeel each Fuiday, Parley Ends in Fallure. | PEEJNG, Janusiy 28 () - The con- et officers of the Norther Alllance ended here today without making the | move expected of - election of Marshal Chung Tso-Lan W the presidency. The Joariey s considercd o have been wi piuductive, the past potentites, and all other officers | dent under ! units of the ! JIM CROW BILL FACES Senator Blease Asks District Com- mittee for Action—To Put Measure on Calendar, An unfavorable report will be made Iby the Senate District committes on the bill of Senator Ble Denocrat, Lot South Caroling, (o require separate [ street cur mecommodations for white and colored passengers in this eity | Henutor Blewso advised the committeo | yesterday afternoon that he wanted the "eommittee tooact on the bill one way another, Inorder o get 1t on the e calendar Henator Hlease sald would make his fght for conaidera- Hon of the bill it fenate The District commitiee, at its meet g yesterday allornoon upproved (wo minor bills, one to modity the law re- [lating to the reglatration of architeets and (he other to give enliated men of the Army, Navy and Const Ciuard tree witomobile permits while driving for e Government | rhe committee wiil meet again at 4§ [ o'elack Monday afternoon (o take uy vending bills for pay Woreases i the Police and Fire depattmenta One bill would carry & flal fncrease of $500 for wll members of the dopartment while nother provides for a slding acale of Ihonaes, aceuidiig W 1k, {UNFAVORABLE REPORT| | | tting end for the old gunboat, Copyright by P. & A. Photos. NEAR EAST RELIEF APPEAL I OPENED Speakers at Banquet Hold| Ideal Attitude Toward U. S. Exists. An ideal attitude toward the United States exists in the 12 countries in which the Near. East Relief is carrying fon its charitable and education work, prominent speakers stated in ad- dresses at & dinner at the Powhatan Hotel last night, at which time the national appeal for subscriptions to a $6,000,000 budget fund Was opened. The local district quota 18 $75.000 Dr. Joseph R, Steoo, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbytertan Chureh, | Who visited the Near East countries last Summer, stated that the love for America among the refugees there is almost unbellevable. There 1s no maore | efMiclent body of workers anywhere than the Near East Rellef corps, he sald. Harold C Jaquith, divector of Greek and Egypttan work, corvob | orated the observations of Dr. Stao | Charles Vo Viekrey, genoral secre [tary, outlined the work to be under- ! taken by the organtaation under the new budget, and pald tribute to the United States Army and Navy for the support lended 1 transporting - sup- plies and other helpful capacities. e wlso lauded the support given the work by the United States Shipping Board Other speakers ineluded Dr. W K Doughty, Baiclay Acheson, divetor general - of overseas wark! Simeon Radeff, Hulgarian Miniter to the United States, and Risa Hey, counselor of the Turkish Embasay v L W Glagebrook, chatiman of the men's committee, presided. Mrs. Walter Tuek- erman, chaliman of the women's om [ mittes, was hostess More than 130 persans attended the dimner, Which was donated by & iviend Vb Lie Near Kast Relief, LOW-FLYING LANDS AIRMAN IN JAIL. Bert Acosta, one of Comdr. Byrd's transatlantic flight crew, blandly submitting to his sentence in the New Haven County jail, imposed for flying too low over Naugatuck. his former home town. The fiyer also is named in a warrant charging larceny of a plane. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. CHARGES WAITERS ~ OIL TANK BLASTS PERMITTED LIQUOR GAUSE 14 DEATHS * - ‘Douthitl Says Le Paradis 13 Big Containers Blaze in Two Fires in Texas—Cali- fornia Field in Danger. Employes Made No Objec- tion to Wet Party. ‘Waiters at Le Paradis, No. 1 Thomas U circle, made no objection when he! ANGEL poured cold tea—which had the color | Thirteen men were reported Killed of whisky—out of & whisky bottle in{ Yesterday when an explosion oecurred ! g "1 at tank No. 15 of the Humble Oll and their presence Into “set-ups™ of ginger ale and cracked ice, according to Harry N. Douthitt, field secretary of the C ren's Service Association, who was placed on the witness stand by the prusecution shortly before adjournment yesterday of the “ginger ale trial” bemng tried before Justice Charles S. Hatfield in Equity Division 2. ‘The Government, through Assistant United States Attorney Harold W. Or- cutt, s trylng to secure a permanent | injunction against the sale of ginger for _intoxt | Refining Co., where about 100 workmen | were employed. Several bodies wes seen hurled into the awr to fall dack 1 the swirling fames enveloping t plant. Twelve Tanks Burned. MCCAMEY, Tex., January 28 (9.— and twisted sheet a dozen oil tanks today marked ¢ fte of & spectacular Jdre here d resultad in dax ale for use as a “mixer” s from private flasks of patrons. ce Hatfield threatened to resort to night sessions unless the case is speed- ed He has been sitting all the week in the case and the Government an- nounced 1t had four more witnesses and | the respondents estimated they will call | ¢ about 25 persons in defen (0 satd he brewed the tea a aced it in a whisky bottle which rried to the ca He op poured the contents into the “set-ups, he stated. without objection from the waiters. The witness al 1d he asked if he could make accommodation for a large party and if they could bring along their own liquor, and was told by & waiter that it would be The withess failed to remember just what he had seen and what was the | s stze of the bottle exhibited DY & Patron | o disappear i i the cafe on one of his visits, and | black smoke Oreutt sought to permit him to refresh | across the open his memory by Jooking at his afdAVIE | od the 6.000 odd Tesich attached to the bill of complamt. OB | vear-ald off boom tow objection from defense evs SUCE | ponts of vant: ong HARRIA migseated that e be aliowed | ot wor tran Y to look only At certain portions of the | The damage was held down by dram AMdavit remarking that 1t would be un- [ ing the il fram some of the tanks by TAIE 10 perft the withess to d the [an underground pipe line systen:. whole statement. Douthitt will fesuie | It was the secand fire of the ¢y & i testimony Monday the Humble pant. The frst was . brought under contral after 3 cawsed “DIPLOMA MILL™ LAW |30t dsmass 873%™ * PLANNED IN VIRGINIA CALIFORNIA FIELD AFIRE. 2 NGTON o Delegate Price Would Qive Public % T e Instruction Head Broad | Five men were injured Starting yesterday afternoon with a terrific exploston i one of the 3000~ barrel tanks of the Humble OU & fntng Co.. the flames spread to 11 m filld for the most thrown to citement fames rep eral perse Hundreds Flock to Scene. W —Fire which broke out t e town Jot il flelds here last nghs sed three ol tanks to expiode and ened 10 spread 0 other parts of WhiCR there ate 00 wells ¢ Sprinklers were set i ope CTRIRN OVer (he Teld and all avatate fre apparatus and ¥ mhters were agamat the sprvad Powers, A Diapatch 1o The St RICHMOND, Va. January 38— Wide AISCTEUONATY POWETS (0 outlaw sos called “dipluna mills” fom operating I Virginda ave given the superintend- ent of public atruction under pro- Vislons of & bl mtiduced by Dele gate James B Price of Richmond The State B ogiven | supervision over mstitutions W determine i the T are quali fled 10 asue cortificates or duomas | Of gradustion. Only thase meeting certain qualifications are 0 be per- :umm 10 operate OF contiie operas o Quaduates of “wills® found disqualt: | flod under the Taw shall not be aliowed | My Sallie Marksdale CGardand 0 “operate. practice, seek or profess | tan, S0 vears okt widow of W velleve any aman il ANV | Chuistian, died a8 her home sart under the proviskans of the il | stveet which aceha W bar e (v (e ' She was & blaie e 0 gLy tern. - The W san atterwand 8 Al flowed foward i ol caught e viver W burning other tanks . Lynchdurg Woman Dies at 8. LYNCHBURQL Vi, Sanuay A R L)