Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, c D. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 192 KILLING PACE THINS OUT ARMY OF TRANSCONTINENTAL RUNNERS. the 275 entrants away at the Ascot Speedway in the $48,500 Los Angeles-to-New York foot race. miles of the scheduled 3.400-mile jaunt had been com, nearly half of the entrants. pleted yesterday, the fast pace set by the leaders ha Widt Just before the starter's gun sent Although only 133 d forced out World Photas. Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, second cousin of the former Kaiser, as he arrived at New York in the midst of a dispute among charitable organizations regarding concerts he is scheduled to conduct. Underwood & Underwood. A LATE CALLER AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Mayor James J. Walker of New York (at left) leaving the Executive Mansion yesterday with Paul Block, newspaper publisher, after calling on President Coolidge some 30 minutes later than scheduled on the President’s appointment list. Associated Press Photo. ENVOY'S DAUGHTER RIDES IN SOCIETY CIRCUS. Mile. Reine Claudel, daughter of the French Ambassador, with the mount on which she will ride in the tandem feature of the society circus to be given at Fort Myer this month. ‘Wide World Photos. Douglus Drew, the 8-year-old Lon- don boy who is being tested by sci- entists for supernatural powers which are said to have caused chairs and other objects to move near him with- out being touched. WHEN THE LOS ANGELES MADE THE FIRST VlSi'l' OF A DIRIGIBLE TO PANAMA. The Navy's giant air- ship shown here moored at Fi nce Fleld, in the Canal Zone, the morning after her arrival from the North. She landed there ahead of schedale by mooulight after an uneventful cruise down the coast and across the gulf from Lakehurst, TAKING AN EARLY DERBY WORKOUT. Reigh Count, entry of Mrs. John H. Herts of Chicago in this Spring’s famous Kentacky Derby, shows plenty of snap In this workout at the Hertz farm. near Cary, Ill., just before being shipped to Louisville to finish training. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. YOUNG DEFENDS DR. MEEK GIVES TALK. | Addresses School Teachers and Oth- | ers on “Child Guidance.” Dr. Lois Hayden Meek, educational secretary of the American Association of University Women, and her assist- ant, Miss Nell Boyd Taylor, addressed LOANS T0 BROKERS an audience composed of high school | Says Federal Reserve Has, Contributed Only Part of ’ Credit Expansion. "By the Associated Press. The recent Increase in brokers’ Joans through the Federal Reserve sys- tem is only a part of the tremendous expansion of credits throughout the | country and “industry and commerce | have not been denied credit because of | 1" Gov. Roy A. Young of the Federal Reserve Board sald yesterday in testify- ing before the Senate banking and cur- | rency committee on the La Follette res- | olution te restrict loans fo: “speculative | " | been conservatively made,” sald Young, | “and I am convinced that the Federal | Reserve rediscount facilities have not ! been abused % bring about the credit expansion.” He added that the board already has taken $300,000,000 out of the market by | sclling securities and exporting gold in | the last three months, and that if there | should be such further expansion of | brokers' loans as o constitute “unwar- | ranted speculation” appeal could be made 10 the Pederal Reserve Board | “There is no constructive legisiation | that I can recommend to change the credit situation in the country,” Yuunul added. But Edmund A. Platt, vice gov- ernor of the board, suggested that it | might he helptul if Congress would au- thorize the board to distinguish offi- cially between time and savings deposits or if 3t would pas: a tax reduction bill which would leave more purchasing power in the hands of the public. Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, professor of banking at Harvard University, toid the committes that he did not believe the brokers' loans constitute an evil 10 eoncentrated investments in local sctivities is a danger and the stock market provides a necessary outlet for the surpius funds BALDWIN TO AUDRESS GIRL SUFFRAGE MEET) Flspper Vote Beckers Call British since Prime Minister “Daddy” in Campsign Merch % —An bistorie precedent will be established ey in Ergland when the Women's Eque) Suf- frage forces hold s nuge united fra ehise Gemonstration in Queen's H snd Blanley Baldwin, prime minister Griivers an wooress It will be the first Ume that & prime minister while in office has sddreseed a meeting of women suffysgists ‘The young suflre will drese picluresgue costumner o meel " Didd Beldwin, snd, recruited from 150 suf- frage organizations, will merch around the hall, singing Remssy Macdonsio ehief, and his follower Lave spproved the orive fappers” and Lhe young cer 30 Bir Oliver Lodge will s equs @ anchise for women from the ey point of the sclentist, st tie meeting Lahor 0 Furliament 1or “vores for women un party Poison Ends Tube Feeding ANDERSON, Ind. Msich 8 Yervert Drumfield, )1 who for more Then & yeer has been fed lguid foods tiwough & Lube Inbo i stomach, died tel lest night after e had lon Urough e tube yester- 16 tried U end by swallowing the Jiquid causing stdcture of sgur. fince then he had pot boan vie o swallow, Jie epop 1 Mineola Bl |assistant principal of Dunbar: Rev. R. faculty members and others on “Child | Guidance, ,” at the residence of Mrs. | Cora W. Wilkinson, 2563 Nichols ave- nue southeast, Tuesday night. | Amot those present were: Miss | Kirkland, principal of Shaw unior High School; Miss Julia Brooks, | Albin Fairley, Mrs. and Leanna Johnso PENNSYLVANIA GROUP VISITS FLOWER SHOW, 500 Florists Arrive Here Todny: to Inspect Amaryllis ‘ Display. More than 500 florists and repre- | sentatives of garden clubs from Penn- sylvania are visiting the fifteenth an- nual amaryllis show of the Department of Agriculture today as guests of Sec- retary Jardine and Dr. Willlam A. Tay- Jor, chief of the Bureau of Plant In- dustry. They confirmed the formal as tion of the Washington Florists’ Club | in passing a resolution that the present | show is the best of its kind ever held | in this country. Granville Gude president of the Washington club, escorted the visitors and entertained them at luncheon. ‘There were 4,061 visitors at the show Gladys W. Fairley | yesterday, including large groups from more than & score of schools, academies and colleges, both public and private The school attendance is continuing to- day, with 31 schools listed to take ad- vantage of the lesson in botany by ex- perts of the Federal department There has just been placed in the show a new attraction, This s & plant with 10 blossoms, which is & record for the department, and as far as the speclalists have knowledge, it Is the first time that an amarylls with 10 blooms has ever been put on exhibition. The pelican plant s now In flower, and as a botonical freak Is attracting a great deal of attention J. Wise Byrns, superintendent of the greenhouses, today threw the door of the citrus fruil conservatory open o the public. Here are orange, grape- frujt, lemon, cumquat end lime trees in bloom and bearing ripening fruft, The school children are especially in- terested in this exhibit ASKS DECREE TO END 47 YEARS' MARRIAGE H. A. Buck, 78, Files Suit in Flor 1ds—Couple Han 14 Children LEROX, Mass March A Buck, 16 of Winter formerly of lenox Dale, has filed suil tor divoree from Mrs. Amber Bno suck, 60, whom he married more than 47 years ago when he was 29 and she only 13 here wre 14 chilldren, 12 of whom sre now hving 45 and the youngest 20, They nlso have A1 wrandchildren and 3 great grandehil- dren Waord of the yesterdey, bt the grounds action were not sated The couple wan married August 25 1281, ot Canaan, N Y., and for 37 yesrs wed in the same house in Lenox Dale Leking up Winter residence 10 years ago in Florids B e hert Haven, F) for the . Many Ways to Farn. “There are sald to be no few r than | 16837 aim Wyl making & lv- ing n Engla, ' ’ the eldest lmwnl sult was recelved here | SOCIETY MAIDENS PREPARE FOR RIDING STUNTS nearby military post March 24. Left to Miss Mary Henry, Mi EVENING STAR CLUB INSTALLS PRESIDENT Dance Follows Entertainment Pro- gram—Cartoonist Gives Chalk Talk. Varled and well recelved entertain- ment featured the cclebration last night by The Evening Star Club, in its quarters in The Star Bullding, of the inauguration of its new president, Francis T. Hurley. The formal program was followed by a dance, with muslc furnished by Hendley's Orchestra. President Hurley opened the monies with a brief speech of welcome, and George O'Connor, uccompanied by | terday In thelr places of worship and | led in group songs. This duct by Bill followed by Raymond, Matt Horn, vas followed by a vocal Raymond and Fred East, solos by Mr. East and Mr hoth accompanied by George Wilson, | Mrs. Agnes Whelan McLaughlin sang a wolo, accompunied by Mr. Wilson Cliftord Berryman, ftar, gave a humorous chalk talk, full of anecdotes wbout men famous in pub- ! life, und illustrated by cartoons of | was conducted a block from the City'cago who them Miss Betty Jeanne Wheatley sang o solo and danced, accompanied by her | it other, Mrs, Willlam J. Wheatley Frank Daugherty sang & bass solo, accompanied by Miss Edith Brennan, {followed by Paul Grove in a mono- logue. The entertalnment was con- |cluded with a reading by Miss Agnes { Walters and a banjo and vocal solo by Percy Lowd |0IL PRODUCTION CUT IN CALIFORNIA FIELDS fhutdown Ordered in Ventura Dia- trict—65,000 Barrels Will Be Baved Dally 1Y Uie Asaointed Views BAN FIRANCIECO, March #. A shut aown of Ventura field, one of the lead- Hing ol production areas of the West |#nd curtatiment of other producing #pots I the Btate within 48 hours, was |ureea upon_ here yesterday repre- sentutives of the Industry and Goy Young's conservation The action is expected to reduce the Hiate's oll production In the Ventura fleld lone by wpproximately 65,000 bar- rels a day and will conserve more thsn 65,000 000 cuble feet of ges now belig wasted dally, cere- | right: Miss Evelyn S FORT MYER CIRCU . 4., to which she made a safe return. ‘Wide World Photos. A GOOD CURE FOR ENNUL When life becomes a bare {o Buddy Mason he finds this stunt of riding his bicycle around the roof cornice of a 12-story building & great relief to his jaded spirits. Buddy gives Los Angeles a good many thrills like this. A group of those taking part in the riding event to be held at the Victoria Taylor, Miss Louise Claytor, Miss Katherine Dent, Miss Imogene Taylor. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. 'CHICAGO PROTESTANTS JOIN ELECTION PRAYER SERVICES Pastors Lead Thousa;\ds in Seeking to | Stimulate Clean City Balloting. | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, March 8-Chicago Prot- | estants gathered by the thousands yes- bowed in prayer for a city's political | soul resolution which deplored politicul and 1(.‘h|ln'llmr|\ of varfous denominations gathered in ‘special mass meeting at |the Rogers Park Methodist Church. In | several churches the regular Wednes- day evening prayer meeting was given |over W services for good government. Dr. Thompson, at the Methodist Tem- | the province of every good citiren to | Probably Fatally Wounded When | | clated with that of Al Capone, gang |body, | “The meetings resulted from passage |ple, referred to the approaching elec- | a recent meeting of ministers and a | tions, telling his listeners that “it is| | moral conditions in Chicago, and*which [ administer the soverelgnty of his elti- | sel mslde March 7 as a day for Prot- cartoontst of The | cotants to pray together for divine ald | | In the election of city office holders. One of the meetings largely attended | Hall, in the Methodist Loop's church skyscraper. Temple, ‘ Mentions Elections. “O Thou who didst care for Nineveh land didst spare it.” prayed the temple | pustor, Dr. John Thompson, “and Thou who didst weep over Jerusalem * * * we pray Thee to rule over Chicago, this {young and strong, good and bad_city, land out of man's worst bring Thine {own best.” | Fiteen minutes of ench hour during {the duy were devoted o speclal prayer pservices at’ the Immanuel Haptist Church, on South Michigan avenue ; CHISHOLM INDICTED. | Death Sentence to Be Asked | Man Who Killed Two Boun, GARY, Ind., March 8 (#).-Two In- dictments, charging murder in the firat degree, were returned agalnst George | Chisholm yeaterday by the Lake Coun- ty grand Jury. ‘The electric chalr will be demanded for Chisholm, who confessed drowning | his two little boys In the Indlana Har- hor Bhip Canal, Prosecutor Oliver Atarr declare He would make no com- promise with defense attorneys, who appealed (o W. . Hullivan, Canadian for vice consul I Uw-nu. for naslatance, | 14 tobacoo vompanies spent 19,360,000, | clox | zenship.” | Challenges Church, | “There are,” he sald, “men in Chi- never give is gone, but the white slavery of the North remains in graft and corruption.” The Rev. John Heyworth, pastor of the New England Congregational Church, at that church's services, sald “We have come to a crisis where something has to be done, and it is up to the churches to do {t, Just as long as we are content to go along and be- Meve it doesn't concern us and that we can let the other fellow do it, we are not golng to get anywhere. In this situation, which s about as bad as it can get, the churches are bound to take the leading part.” | ADS COST $225,000,000. Publishers Announce | Total Bpent With Them in 1007, | NEW YORK, March & (#,--Na- | tlonal advertisers spent $225,000,000 ‘lul' newspaper advertising in 1937, the | bureau of advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers' Assoclation ans nounced yosterday, Estimates showed that 358 ocom- lmllu had spent §182,600,000, of which he greatest sum, $33,006,000, was apent by 87 automoblle concerns, Kighty-twe food advertisers spent 834,045,000 and Newspaper CHICAGO GANGSTER SHOT BY MACHINE GUN TRIO| Attacked in Store—Bystander Also Wounded. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 8. 26, whose name has been closely asso ~Jack McGurn, | SMITH CLUB TO MEET. Democratic Group Will Have Ses- sion Tonight. ASKS ETHIGS CODE The Al smm:‘ zmt:cl:u% Club is | to meet _tonigh! urlington Hotel at 8 o'clock, with Representative ! Fitzpatrick of New York as the princi- | pal speaker. | Plans for the Jefferson day luncheon, {in honor of the “father of democracy,” jto be held at the Burlington Hotel April 2, 1928, will be announced. Prom- inent party leaders from more than a dozen States have accepted invitations to this affair. Tickets are being dis- tributed at the club’s headquarters in the Southern Buil . P. A. Shugrue, secre! of the club, snnounced today that pl are pro- gressing encouragingly for the election of an Instructed delegation to the Houston convention. He promised that | “veteless Washington will have an op- portunity to indirectly express their choice for the President of the United States at the ballot box in the coming es." 'EX-PRIEST AGAIN | GUILTY IN MURDER Former Cleric Convicted at Second Trial Over Slaying of Los Angeles Broker. By tha Associaiad Press | SANTA ANA, Calif. March 8—A | verdict of gullty was returned yester- win, former priest of the American | Catholic_Church, charged with slaying J. J. Patterson, Los Angeles bond broker. The | imprisonment. | _Goodwin will be sentenced Friday ! Defense attorneys announced an ap- |peal would be taken to the Supreme Court. vl 1t was the former priest's second trial for the killing of Patterson, whose trussed with wire, was found leader, fell probably fatally wounded March $1, 1926, burned almost beyond before submachine gun and pistol fire | recognition in a mountain canyon near in a cigar store on the near North | here. At the first trial he was con- Side late last night. Nick Mastro, 37, a | victed and sentenced to death An ap- real estate operator, was shot acciden- | peal resulted n the granting of the tally when he walked into the line of | new trial. fire. Three men followed Mastro Into the | win, is serving a life term for his part | Mussilini's firm store, located in the McCormick Hotel McGurn, who was in the rear, recog- | testified for the prosecution that Qood- | Jdents of the Ttallan | Dewey Gatnes, accomplice of Good- in the killlng. Handwriting experts day in the murder trial of Philip Good- % Jury recommended life o | BY the Awsociated Py TORUEALENSTS Black of New York Would | Put Court Experts Under f Federal Board. By the Associited Press. A demand that a code of ethics be drafted to govern testimony of alien- ists qualifying as experts in court cases, particularly criminal cases, was made in the House yesterday afterncon by | Representative Black, Democrat, New | York, during consideration of the Par- | ker bill to provide for co-ordination Federal public health activities. The mesasure. which was subsequently passed and sent to the Senate, would provide for an increase in the scope of Federal public health work and also cstablish a nurse corps in the Pudlic Health Service. Black, who said he favored the meas- ure, contended that sensational murder cases frequently have presented a clash of allenists and demonstrated a need for a code of ethics. He added that the alienists “have discouraged by the contradictions the confidence of the public in their profession.” The New York member said he had introduced a bill proposing creation Federal board fo study mental dis- eases and disseminate information. The board. he added. also would be directed to draft a code which alienists tes- l{:_:euu in court would be compelled to observe. ITALIAN AUDIENCE CHEERS AUSTRIAN OPERA Richard Strauss Gets Ovation ia Milan After Brief Protests Against Waltz. . March 8§ —Premier stand on Austrias charges of mistreatment of German res- faled to MILAN, Italy, nized the trio and darted into a t*le- [ win as well as Qaines forged the name | Juell the ardor of admirers of Richard phone booth, The three opened fire, one with a machine gun ana the others with pistols. As MeGurn fell and Mas- tro, shot in the arm and shoulder staggered, the gunmen left the store and drove away Police belleved the shooting marked thelr souls a!a reopening of gang warfare on th the | chance. The black slavery of the South | North Side. The store In which th attack took place 1s but three blocks from the Holy Name Cathedral, in fron of which “Hymle" Welss, gangster, was nssassinated. . At a hospital where he was taken McQurn refused to answer questions of the police, demanding to see his lawyer FILM THEATERS IN TOKIO CLOSE AS PRINCESS DIES Voluntary Action Is Sign of Re- spect at Death of Emperor's Infant Daughter. Ay (he Awsociated Press TOKIO, March 8.--As & algn of re- apect for the grief of the royal family over the death of the &-month-old Prinvess’ Hisa, all motion ploture theas tors n Toklo voluntarily closed todwy. The princess will be interved at ‘Toshimagwoka, on the outakirts of many other wembers of famlly are buried, instead ¢ fvat. under T years of age, there will be no rublh\ mourning, but on the day of the funeral the i of muste will be & praded oton ploture theaters agaln i | | Quanajuato, Michoacan aud - Colima, of the slain broker to securities and that Gaines cashed checks bearing the forged signature of Patterson. REVOLT CALLED CRUSHED IN 4 MEXICAN STATES oops and Planes Will Re With-| drawn, Government Asserts. | Travel Now Is Safe. | By the Associated Press | MEXICO CITY, March &-—Undet- | of War Miguel Pina stated | that in the states of Jalseo, | secretary today where Catholies took the feld the government in protest of rell st lous proaching normal Bands of taurgents have been al- most oxterminated, he sald, only w few remaining - the wmountatns. Travel | was declared to be safe in the districts Y had been active and wgt- | cultural laborers were betng permitted | 10 return (o their hames | oonslderable number of troops | which have been pursuing them would be withdrawn, he continued. Two avia- tion squads at Cuadalajara will retutn | to Mexieo Oty within two weeks. A fow cavalry regiments will remain \llllll' the movement Ia erushed completely from Te) Diapa 0 Teplo sald that anuel 1, AN insurgent leader, ‘nwngua:’nunw ovon or several n Avalioa m“m -uvmwm ' unconditionally with 80 fellewers. Thelr AT, horses and munitions wete turned ovel o milivry am*m‘\ Strauss, Austrian composer. When Strauss’ “Rosenkavalier” was produced at La Scala last night for the first time in nearly 20 years, there were A few noly protests at the start of the performance. These. however, were ar tistic rather than palitical in character, same of the audience ohjecting to Strauss using the walts so persistently on the operatic stage. When Strauss himself appeared in the director's box the audience arvss and gave him an ovation. which was re« peated at the end of each act. CAROL SEND.S MESSAGE. Appears Before Talking Movie Ma- chine With Brief Message. NICK. Frauce, March 8 (#.—Prince |legislation, conditions were rapidly ap- | Carol of Rumania yesterday delivered his st message to the Amerioan pev- R, but 1t was canned He registered his voice and tinage on A new talking wovie apparatus ana Taughed like & Ploased bay at the new expertence. The prince proved himselt & good diplomat by talking rapiily o §0 seconds without saying anvthing ex Cept that he hopad soume 10 visit th United States and weet the Americar people face to face. Records Reported Stolem NEW YORK, Mareh & P -The Waorld sald today fvestigators into the SAIN000 sewer c\\n\n«u soandal in ve the Borough of w wered that recards W the Bquiry have been siolen th & sertes of laties I the ofleas of persons apd W lvalved n the case, *