Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING ICE JAM PLAYS PRANK ON STEAMER PLYING DANUBE RIVER. This steamer was lifted up on a natural ry dock™ when it was caught in an ice jam on the Danube this Winter. It was held in this position, about 15 feet above the water, for nearly three weeks until the ice pressure relaxed and let the boat down into the water again. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. FLYERS PAY HOMAG atlantic flyers, Licut. E TO UNKNOWN SOLDIER. The French trans- Dieudonne Costes and Lieut. Comdr. Joseph Lebrix, standing before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier yesterday after placing a wreath on the American shrine. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE GREETS FRENCH OVERSEAS FLYERS AT WHITE HOUSE. Lieut. Costes (at left) and Lieut. Comdr. Lebrix were accompanied by Ambassador Claudel of France when they called yesterday to be presented to President Coolidge. The President congratu lated the two flyers on their aviation achievements and heard of their tentative plan for a transcontinental flight to San Francisco. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. REVIVING THE DAYS OF PIRACY IN THE TAMPA FETE. coming up Tampa Bay with pennants flying to_“attack” the city. when pirates held sway in the Caribbean and the coastal waters of Florida were re-enacted in the annual Gasperilla fete at Tampa. This shows the “pirate” ship Colorful scenes of the days Copyright by P. & A. Photos. ROCK CLIFF. : v Built in a great niche hewn out of solid rock, this striking memorial to the sons of Nice, France, who fell in the World War, was recently unveiled by the leader of the allied armies. more than 4,000 medals awarded posthumously to the city It is a reliquarium containing heroes. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. AMATEURS PRE: cast, Lewis. ENT Players in a scene from * of the Wilson Normal School, Eleventh and Harvard streets. in the one-act play tournament. The left to right, includes Olga Helms, Vincent Stubbs, Benjamin Doehrer, Reta Wilson and Betty AY TONIGHT IN he Boy Comes Home,” which they EH. SEAL RESIGNS AS BRIDE'S AIDE Stanley De Neale Named As- sistant Corporation Coun- sel of District. ‘The District Commissioners today ac- ©rpted the resignation of Elwood H. HEALING LICENSES | PROPOSEDINBILL Medical Measure Would Set Up Examining Boards for District. The various branches of the health profession in the District would be Beal, assistant corporation counsel of |licensed and supervised by one general the District, and at the same time ap- pointed Stanley De Neale as his suc- cessor, Mr. Seal's resignation will become effective March 1. De Neale will be essigned to take his place in Police Court. The appointment of De Neale was zecommended by Willlam W. Bride, cor- poration counsel, who pointed out in & report to the Commissioners that from a large list of possible appointees De Neale was selected because of his 2bility and record “both of accomplish- ment and of a willingness o do hard work.” Mr. Bride also pald a high tribute W Beal, who has been assistant corporation counsel since last July 1. Beal went w Police Court at a time when the docket was clogged with al- most 500 jury cases, the corporstion eounsel sald, and in co-operation with the other two assistants, this conges- tion has been entirely removed. “For this sccomplishment Mr. Beal is due # very great deal of credit along with Mr. Fowler and Mr Keech,” he said. De Neale is & graduate of Georgetown University lew school and has been pracicing for about five years. He ix & member of the District Bar Assocla- n and Delta Chi fraternity. CLAIM YEAR'S BUSINESS WILL EQUAL 1927 TOTAL Baukers Bee Similar Program Pre- in Operations of ook for 1928 i owall ¥ resemble the current e of the L Bsnrers Association Journsl, & prosperous bas vy moven MUY esrn for the strong, sg- smprovement upparent erveption of o Inaberisl © 1t BIOURG; presents w tulle of the susl reports of verioug i Fpations mwade public Lhus Sur, enowing Probive in 1927 of $608,256,- 00U & gain ot B4 par cent over the 3926 figures of $557,652,000 HUDSON 1S RE-ELECTED. Bsltie Man Heads He Vell Iy oGude Aseociation, BEW YORK Fetnuary 10 (A%, L Puts Suctnil dory Goe Assin sation wen i wiiial ¥ re-clecd Walph € Vmore, M0, e president presiente vlected nciuded Bt Yoonaingtn, Jackoon, Mise o e s Frederic M Ayres Inddunspolis ud, fn Middie Weol wnd ¥ Al Wedlod, Beallle, Wesh, fur U Agnin convention Hudeon | L hipal, viere b sk lg ik commission under a new medical prac- tice bill introduced in the Senate yes- terday by Senator Cur*lnnd. Democrat, of New York, and referred to the Dis- trict committee. The commission would consist of the president of the Board of District Com- missioners, the United States commis- sioner of education, the United States District attorney, the superintendent of schools and the District health officer. This commission would appoint e: amining_boards, one on the e sl ences, which would determine the appli- cant’s knowledge of the human body, one to regulate medicine and osteopathy and other boards to regulate drugless forms of healing. ‘Authority to suspend or revoke licenses BOY SCOUTS PRESENT PAG pageant to be given at Centr EANT IN CONNECTION WI iigh School tomorrow night In « ANNIVERSARY. Members of Troop 13 of Washington representing a ebration of the elghteenth annives DISTRICT'S PLAY TOURNAMENT. The Towne will present tonight in the auditorium ‘Washington Star Photo. ) 01L PROBE WITNESS | SANDINO DEFIES ide Show” in the 'y of the Boy Scout organization. would be vested in the District Supreme Court., MRS. R. B. BRANHAM DIES AFTER ILLNESS OF WEEK Central High School Teacher Vic- tim of in Kentucky. AGE BILL UNDER IRE AT RICHMOND Cloudburst of Debate in Sen- ate When Measure Legaliz- ing Betting Faces Vote. Pneumonia—Rites Mrs. Ruth Bell Branham, 53 years old, for the past 10 years a history teacher at Central High Bchool, died yesterday at her home, 2827 Fifteenth after an diness’ of less than & with preumonts srankiam was & native of George- Ky., and was educ ut Lthe University of Kentucky. She came Lo | Washington in 1918 U0 assume dutic Central High Behool. fShe was active ul organizations, including the Club of Washington, the By the Awsosiated Press, RICHMOND, Vi, February 10— A bill 1o Jegalize parf-mutuel betting on horse races, the storm center of the Virginta General Assembly since its in- troduction, faced o cloudburst of de- biate —and vote—in the Bennte today. Benator James 8. Barron of Norfolk 1 the ehitef proponent of te bl on be- st of Tidewater rexidents, who want & vace track ut Virginis Beuch. Henntor George W, Laymun of Crulg, e aut of prohibition in Virginte, 15 its oul nding opponent, and he bis gathe vd uround him &1l the cohorts ‘of op- position “Che b proposes par-mutuel bettng I counttes spproving 1t by popular vote, and s, therefore, belng defended wnow “local option” messure. Benator Barton succeeded In getting the bl to the foor of the Benate hrough his commities on county, eity and town or- gnniization. Benator Layman, however, obtained possession of & companton bili 0 crente a racing commission, and it now repases In s plgeonhole of s com- mittes on morsl, soclal and child wel- fare, ), the id the ory “Leuchers' Jound “Table - of the ory “Tewchers' Associstion Middle Blates und Maryland Bhe 8 survived by two daughters, Mre. W. N ¥ of Glasgow, Va, and Miss Katherine Branham, a senior sl Mount Holyoke College, her mother, Mrs. John M Bl una w Katherine Bell, who Waches o and one brother, Boward ¥ Larduglom, Ky The body will be taken o George gwn, Ky, Wdsy. Funersl services wll he hwld Lhere Voo ow sierioon, The coul strike in Pennsylvants snd Ol diws 0ot seem 1o have affected | consumers’ stocks of tuminous cosl Vs B0y Rrest extent Buwks W the hands of consumers | Junuary 1 toled 65,500,000 tons, u R : bialt miihon vons more thisn the ton- | niage on biand on Uhe suie dile i yeas DEN'ES MANN ACT COUNT. previous. e Commerce Department | Vuomouneced Voday, but 6400060 Lo ~‘V o Ahan the winount un hisnd Oclg | ! i Flyer Reaches Afvicn CAIIO, Egyph, Femuary 10 (A% Bert Hinkler, Biftish fiyer, en soute o Australia, wivived b Bengazd, Cpe salca, froim Malta yesterduy. He thon Pew 280 mtles Lo the eant o “Torlauk, BAN FRANCISCO, Febmumy 10 (A) D CCarley”) Wown, wealthy Toridin sportsmnnn, vecently hidict | Washinglon under the Mann act, ca Han Pranckeco yesterday o sl cr, wnd Uwough hin alloieys, o deny the chiarges agatint Wi The churges were refered o by him Dk i) Biown Dives on hils reich W Bhisats ! Gy, Gndidy as Rl of Sdoes Mrvedl Buiilincn Of Civilization 100,000 Years Old By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, February 10.--From the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert, u University of Chicago Egyptology expe- dition has unearthed relies, which 1t belleves proves the existence of a bar- barle civilization possibly 100,000 years old. ‘The location of the trail examined by the explorers les nlong the terraces of the Nile which they belleve once wis dense Jungle, traversed by m treams and thousands of barbaric “The it of the Nile which yielded this evidence date bk thon- sunds and thousands of years,” reported DEPUTY SHERIFF DIES. John Frank Higgs Vietim of Tlness of More Than Two Months, Suecial Dispatch to Th St BRANDYWINE, Md, February 10 Following an lness of two months, John Prank Wggs, 37 years old, died arly yesterday morning i the copul Eye, Kar and Throat Hospital, Winhington Mr. Higgs, & farmer, was & depuly sherllt of Prince Georges County for some tme, A nutive of Washington, he had lived here for UL BIX yeurs, Following funeral services at (hy home of Mr, Higgs' parents, Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Frank Higgs, al 1810 Potomae avenue southeast, Washing- ton, high mass will bo sung 8t 9 o'clock tomorrow morning at B Peter's Oath- alte Chureh, md and southeast, thnt fllu\'lvlm‘ My ents, are his O slreots y Higus, besldes Wi par- widow, Mis. Naomi A Higgs, thres childien, Thelma, Hilda and Warren Frankling two brothers, Tevig wnd Kl Higgn, wnd ono sister Mary £ Bmithaon of Washinglon . Went Again Invites President Preatdent Conlidige wink luvited yeiter duy to gl sperd his Bumimes vacation e the Black Hills of Bt Dkt Panl Bellamy, representing CGov. Buliw and the A Tated Clubs of the Black Billla, prencited ggv nvittivig Dr. Kenneth Sanford, a member of the expedition. “In_ these glant steps we found implements imbedded by which we were able to trace the slow develop- ment of man in pre-historie times. In the oldest terrace of all we were unable to find traco of these weapons, but in the next we dug up primitive fiint tools. In each inter terruce, we found tools and weapons of more and more ad- vinced types, showing the gradusl de- velopment of the anclents’ intelligence.” The most primitive of these implo- ments, the explorers belleve, justify the bellef that man originated in Africa and thetr discov as reason for that bellef. CHURCH WORKER DIES. Mre, ¥Frank E, of Falrfax Bronehial Puneumonia Vietim, Bpocial Dispateh to The #tar, AIRFAX, Vi, February 10.-Mrs unk K. mes died at her home in Wiax yesterduy afternoon piter & short fllness, which developed into bron- chlal pneumonta. Hhe was president of th Ladlen’ Ald of (he Falrfux Baptist Chureh, Bho s survived by her hus- bind, small son, Franklin - Ware Jonen; Ner father, W, Dunb, o drug- at, of Norfolk, formerly of Dinnavile, Vi | w brother ‘and two sisters, both of the lattor being teachers i Middlesex County, Mra. Jones, who was Kvelyn Byrd Dunn of Dunnsville, In Kssex County, waas distantly related to Cov. Hyrd. Bhe taught school at Lorton at the tme of her marriage, Hhe was 33 years old Funeral services will be held this aft- erioon at # o'clock at her late home Phe body will he taken to her old home at Dunisville, Va . Boys Favor Jasus Over Buddha, Jentis Okt wnd Ceorge Washington W groater men tian Buddia, I g (o boy puplls & night school Tokio, Jupan, the land of Buddhism A ol vecontly (aken wave Jdoaus it Washington the same nimber of votes With Huddha wext i e, Oontucius ot wud Thoiw Sdlagn Ofky Jonen “ INDIANAPOLIS VOTE PLOTIS GHARGED Present Mayor Named by Of- ficial in Suit for Job. Ny the Associated Prose. INDIANAPOLLS, Ind, February 10 The charge that L. Bert Slack was elected mayor of Indlanapolis by conspiracy was mado yesterday by Ira N. Holmes, clatmant to the oftice, who fled n second paragraph to his quo warranto sult against Slack and Joseph 1. Hogue, former city controller, de- manding custody of the ofiee. Hogue 1so clalma the office of mayor. *ilolmen waserts that Black, John W. Holteman, now corporation counsel: Claude M. Worley, ehlet of poll members of the City Counetl pals i the conspliacy. ‘The Clty AL, & majority of which s Repub- vecently ropudiated s action ohoostng Black, & Democtat, wnd last night ordered the olty clerk to have Holmes slgn documents tequiting the mayor's slgnature, Black, however, stil holds the office Holines denles there was a vacancy in the mayor's office s he was appointed olty controller. According to Holmes' theory, he became mavor after the sue- cosalve vealgnations of John L. Duvall Maude K. Duvall, who had ntroller 1 her husband's admintatration Hogue also has & sult pending tn the Hupreme Court, seeking custody of the ofice on the grounds that Duvall never legally elovted and (hat he, as clty 1 (e preceding aduninistva o, 1 entitled (o the oftive, the fariey ayor, Balel Lewls Bhank, died, haviong . Made o 1804 and tostalled at o stk mill e Taunton, England (827 & ateait enging that ds atil supplying POWer a (o be deplaced by an elevtiiy gl o — # REPORTED IN TALY Senate Learns Wayne 0’Neil Is Abroad; Jury to Act in Stewart Case. By the Associated Press Information reached the Senate T pot Dome committee today indi that Wayne O'Neil, another witnes investigators hoped could help solve the mystery of the Contin Trading Co. was absent from country. United States Marshal Jesse D. Moore, at Brooklyn, said he had been informed by the postal authorities that | the son of James E. O'Neil, former president of the Prairie Ofl and Gas Co. safled, on September 9, 19 Villa San Patrivio, Bordrigata, Italy | where his mail is now being forwarded. Delivered $800,000 Bonds. Testimony in the off case has been that Young O'Neill delivered $800,000 in Liberty bonds to W. S. Fitzpatrick, | chatrman of the board of the Prairie Co. on May 20, 1925, by direction of his father, who traveled from Paris to Mon- | treal to make restitution of the profits {he took from the Continental, which | bought oft at $1.50 a barrel and resold 1t to the Prairie Ol Co. and the Sin- th a barrel Chalrman Nye said today that a | rechecking of ‘the serial numbers of | these bonds showed they were not the bonds which ONett got from Canadtan Corporation, but were 1 placements. Case Ready for Jury, Qrand fury action against Robert W Stewart, chalrman of the board of the Standard Ol Co. of Indiana, for refus- g to answer questions asked him by the committee will get under way tomorrow, District Attorney Gordon an- nounced today Asststant District Attorney J_ V. Con- nolly_conferred with Senator Walsh o the Stewart case today and fomorrow will bexin presentation of the facts to the jury PUBLIC BUILDINGS BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS Total Spent Now Goes to White Measure Tncreasing to House By the Associated Pross today on the KOG B (o inerease from $163.000,000 (0 $290,000,000 the amy 10 be expended for tew public butldings throughout the country under the ad. ministration’s butlding program ‘The actlon came with acceptance by the House of the conference teport an the measure Which has been agieed (o by the Henate The measute would provide for o IMANINUM Annual appropriation of SI3000.000, 0f Which 1ot wore than $10,000,000° wnnually could be spent any one Htate or tervitory Funds o Mitlate (e program were cattied i e deficteney BL passed by Congress shortly alter 10 comvenad. and addi Gonnl oney (ar - the sevoidd year Werement of (e progsam s fF I (he Tremsny Bt Ofoe IR BOW AWAILIg avtion Hose . The WUtLh admivaliy bs co-operat g 1 Al of the Teprodue i of the exploits ofF the Q7 or wmystery ahigp suding the Waikd Wasy clatr Crude Oil Purchasing Co. at $1.75 | Be | Congresatonal action was completed ‘ MARINES T0 FIGHT | Nicaraguan Leader Would Join Battle on Mata- galpa Hills. | the \ pa and zlood wo | case. He protested ag: actions of the Ma ovia. This erith | be in objection to sive airplane bomb: several rebel stror tenantable. Advices here today placed Sandino's strength at from 100 to 600 m Some communication lines was suggested t Sandino, whereabou lounted Forces. The latest advices eived here. how- | ever, satd the le 1 EsG s | Ma | has that foncad Almost & year ad of the 1 gainst the Con: ment advices place follow nted on in order day. The rebel lead; ded for Muy M the south of Mata ande. Marine Garrison 230, Forelgners areiving sald the recent arey | there had caused a was believed 10 have 600 e ‘re wWere only A but today and it i bel e protect | Marine pu {Dl Narte, anding was from Matagalpa northwest o tast 1 New Vork Beals. Who aretved Dere. satd he had speat e hours with Sandine. MRS. COOLIDGE ILL. The slight cold whieh last night kept Mis Chalidge foan the President's din- Her o Hpeaker and M Longwarth was Viehding W WMent Gy, bus Fahe was sl coftied W her toom Thete were sl evidenwes of the sald and thioat it White deviared that the AL I el serivus, | . | Cheokers ot telt pleces, thive wehes LINK, are maoved about with the aid of Fietles WHR Loops inserted iy the top, the plaving of the new outdoos game o l.uy\m W VAl B, .