Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 17

TAR. WASHING FON, ROCKNE PUTS HIS FOOT BALL ARMY THROUGH LIMBERING-UP DRILL. When the call for Spring THE TIMES ARE OUT OF JOINT. foot ball practice was sounded at Notre Dame University the other day by Coach Knute Rockne, 300 hopefuls 1¢d out in foot ball togs. This shows the famous grid mentor putting his small army of candidates thro .‘:h a s(ulng up dnll Wide World Phq -w 'Newark.” “HORSE MARINES” IN THE YOUNGSTERS' SHOW. The “Misses Jinks of the Horse Marines” all ready to inject a little comedy into the children's horse show here on St. Patrick’s day. Left to right: Margaretta Rowland, __Katrina McCormick and Anve Rollins. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. GENE ADDS BAHAMAS CROWN TO HIS LAURELS. Gene Sarazen seems a bit heavy for the homors Johnny Farrell (at left) and Bobby Cruickshank are conferring on him here after he won the golf champion- ship of the Bahamas in the tourney at Nassau. He won in a play-off with Farrell. cnpyrlght by Undvrwuod & ‘Underwood. sure that the lettering on Walter Johnson's new base ball uniform spells As old Barney takes up his Spring training burdens 25 manager of the Newark club he shows some effcct of his recent attack of flu. THE PRINCE STAYS UP AND ROMPS AWAY WITH ANOTHER RACE. This shows the Prince of Wales sailing over the last fence on his mount, De Gomme, to win his third point-to-point victory within a year at the recent Beaufort Hunt meeting at Hazelton, near Tetbury, Gloucester, England. Two riders fell during the 3-mile race, but ths prince took every fence cleanly. ht by P. & A. Photos. You may have to look twice to be Herbert Photos. INTRODUCING A NEW STEP I'ROM ZULULAND. A Zulu maid exeeut- ing the latest step of the African bush as she clings to her proud possession. a trombone. Her dance was the sole feature of a tribal performance staged for a visiting English cricket team near Durban, South Africa. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. EXPERTS PREPARE TO CUT GREAT LENS. A. N. Finn and C. C. Diller of the Bureau of Standards with the giant telescopic lens cast at the bureau and which they will have charge of boring. The boring job is such a delicate one that no commercial firm would undertake it. The lens is the hl’u'sl evrr cast in lhlt countr: Copyright byP &A Pho'(‘* . SENATE MAY SCAN {BRICK FIRM LOSES T97B RACE FUNDS BY MCARL RULE $380, {From United Clay Price After Local Plant Protests. Presidential Campaign Con-|Controller ~ Shaves tributions to Fore as Re- sult of Oil Probe. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Pollowing the 1920 pre-convention precedent, politicians now expect th United States Senate to take a hand in The United Clay Products Co., which was given an award to furnish the Dis- trict with 1,000,000 vitrified sewer brick, s cm]xrrom:vd with a} loss of approx- imately $380 under its contract as a supervising 1928 presidential campatgn ot %2 fiion of ‘Controller Gen- | eontributions. = Matters have DCEN | erg] McCarl, made public today by the brought to & head along toat lne by piret” Commissioners. late developments in the endless Teapot | “yycCar held that the Victor Cushwa | Dome-Sinclair scandal ¢ Co., a brick manufacturing firm of While the ftuation was Pre- | yagerstown, Md. was the low bidder cipitated by allegations of current]gng thay the law clearly requires the “siush” in connection with the Republi- | poc W0 100 (B CLRTN RIS HR) can contest for the presidenttal nomina- | (iR CIRC 8 G "ot no' more. can tion, members of Congress fecl thal| e paig by the District than would have public opinion 15 8o outraged ove been payable had the low bid been ne- revelations of past vand;l xha spprove close sc lam,)!:vn operatio BUNNIES RAVAGE GARDENS AND FARMERS DECLARE OPEN SEASON. g as an echo to the | y which stirred the Dis- l-al when John R brick controver: rabbits bagged hy one n' lh! sorties of ‘\‘rfllhlul hmlnunrri. ct Bulk‘ln., la: s > Nebra urrmuzx of Ar appointmen wa Co., protested the ntted e United Clay Products Co. was the second low bidder. the price it quoted being 38 cents higher per | 1,000 than that of the Hagerstown con- cern. “The Commissioncrs, “howeve FAULTY BY CITIZENS ples by "the latter did not mmmy with | Valuation Too ngh. Sfiyl North- pecifications Ehortly after the protest the Commis- | sloners submitted the case to the Con- troller General and he recommended | that the United Clay contract be can- | celed and that new bids be sought, be- | cause & test by the Bureau of Standards showed that the bricks offered by the Victor Cushwa Co. as samples were of better y than those offered by the United Clay Th in iz the “Renyon i mittee he by the former Republi- an Progressive cnator from Towa, now a Federal judge, that conducted celebrated inve: " By common cons mittee’s findin candidacies of publican president: O. Lowden of Leonerd Wood of Issue Given New Life. 15 of hoth pasties are dee tirred by the west disclosur ecting Binclair's Continenta! “Trading Co’s Liverty honds with the excheguer of the Republican nationas) i beaders do not Of Employer She By the Assoviated Press | NEW YORK, March 13.—Twent | five years' service as mald in the house- hold of the late Otto Horwitz, New | York lawyer, has brought Marie Kirch- mayer, 58 years old, a $40,000 estate A life interest in that amount was | set amside for her in the will of Mr Horwitz, who died Wednesday In Los Angeles. At her death the money re-| verts 10 the residue estate. ‘The money | | represents approximately one-fourth of the estate her employer left. Only the son, Walter M. Horwitz, emains of the family which she| tarted (o serve a quarter century ago when she answercd a_help wanted ad- vertisement and took the job. He calls her “Mother." “She 15 too broken up now ny one” he told reporters. [ here with me and wili be here u she recovers suficiently to go abr and visit her relatives in Austrin CIVIL WAR SOLDIER DIES. Edward Hook, Who Served in Lee's Army, Burvived by Widow. | il I o The Star CUMBERLAND, Md, March 13 Edward Hook, 90 vears old, who served east Association—Boxing Bill Also Opposed Strongly. o prin aspirants —Frank 3¢ E Gen. w Hampshire ‘The Wilson traction merger plan and | |the Walsh bill to legalize amateur box- | ing in the District of Columbla were | mx»upnmw-a by the Northeast Cltizens'| Assoctation at its meeting last night in | poseibliity of becoming Involved |1 ydiow Bchool. The resolution opposing | : tion it the award were canceled | he merger declared that the valuatior led the Commissioners to request MI. et on the transportation companies wa McCarl 10 further consider his rullog. |too high. A merger based on . lowe Because of this decision the Com- {valuation was urged, with free transfer missioners 1ake the position that they |at all points ure forced 1o deduct 58 cents from the | The bijl to legnlize boxing wes unani- | price of every 1,000 brick dellvered by ln::mly disupproved after some discus- | the United Clay Products Co slon designed 1o convey the agsoctatio trong feeling in the matter, The Ham- mer bill to make companionate mar- e Allegal In the District was tabled er m sharp discussion on the subject Lof Judge Lindsey's plan and other un- conventional forms of union. A bill [ which would give the purchaser of w | property court. title to it after the ) {1ation of stated period was referved tor turther aetion | Reporting one cfforts made to find o | Wi James Clay of this iy, Burial | %ay i ispose of the mieellaneos yef- | 11 be tomorrow i S, Patrick’s Cemes | U5 of the District, President Evan ery wt Lattle Orleans |'Tucker of the wssockation sald that al- Pt Ay e {though the Cominisstoners had disap- | in the Army of Northern Virglnin g proved of two plans submitted I bills, | the Clvil War under Gen. Robert K| fforts were bhelng made to find a suit i"'" 15 dend at his home ut Paw Paw able method which would provide for | 26 miles east of heve. The body will burning of the vefuse outside of the {he brought to this clty and inierred Distriet i B Patrick’s Cemetery . Me Hook was bor [ 1837 near Winchester, Va. HBesides his widow he Buna, uftaire ol e e and - WAR VETERAN DIES. {is survived by etght children—Thomus, tseue of mugnitude. How o | David, Jumes and Harry Mook of Weat a0 & owh e SEarion tho estuset Vitginia; Miss Kate Mook, at home; o o Dy eataats, | gl | Mrs, Rose Jenkins and Mys, Allco Hay | [ How o combst 1 1s g1ving Itepublican | Jamberland and Mrs, Annle Kidwell | tenders no less food for thoughit Polticlans wre speculating, o, es o the men likely U reap personal ad . W. Vi | Country v the fresin antuge from (he situation now hoiling . Girl, 17, Missing. scan0pl Eeleidsoscopm Benntor Wals wmong the Demo- | United Blales Bupicie PURTO 1 s the m cal Diepateh G The G LYNCHBURG, Va., March 13 -Tho o ConGematigy vantoge on Ui ol s Dobheny und Full crwi | Reed bies 8 first Men on e senatorial pulice hiere have been unable (o locate 1H8a not el resio Teuga! | ush fund Sscue Among the $epub- | M5y Badle Moyer, 17-year-old ds ghter of J. A Moyer, whu disappeared from | Dome snd Elk Hi M 1o leader has ns yelt epoken oul 0 the Government un pand thit divectiess of Senutor Borah her home on the Forest tond lest they were fiwudilen ned i outstanding Hepubl) Uhureday night Binclenr # taken the prohibi of contempl s But By Bl éimensions their standpoint At first Republicans th the Democrats h | with the oi) jssue hen it was - not off the g Mrs. MuyA Clay Dies. | even iess eapit s | But now comes 8l » developme to Nh r d, March 13 ar widow of Willimm € dled #t the home of her 1 b J W 1002 Lexington Bhe 1 ived by one other daughter and Lv.o e James Mellott and Jucoh W | 1gh fettie DioRenes sarch # an end yen) end pchals - H Senate’s miler tne Borah lelter i tions) Chalrman Butler, was piain in- | dication o politicians in both parties inat the Democrals 60 nob mean Porsh run eway with the ball ouchdowns are going W be tne Binclair propositlon, the Democruts manifestly invend thal they'll he unes g G0 the gosl-croveing Country's Keaction Studied Much depends, it 1 wck 8l hends, upon the “rews 1§ g1 think vm., Joe Ksbin in bringing wurs of Jepublican Na- Meny of them for an proa i ense publie opinion over all and sun- dry sssociated with the ol affalr from its enrliest inception Coupied with o, the Democratic Jenders belleve they can galvanize the Penneylvania and Winols primary Jush fund sftairs into new Mfe, and v Jet | ? any e in Powell to Be Burled Fiont Royu) Tomorrow, FIONT IOYAL, Va, Maich The body of Rulph Henry Powell who died Siunduy at the Jed On Uonul - Banitarium st Johnson Tep., wis brought Lo his home it morning He was w world vetevan and served In CFrRce for one yeas ey OB Ha of the Warren Post, will conduet th vices, weststed by fey, BUckney, sery s hebog held e thie Methodist Chureh oW Powell 1 I?l ¥, here an, Jr, communder Tesarve with the Borah 1 Hor | . Firemen to Meet, wivived by his widoy SCHOOL EXPANSION PONTIFF RECENVES PLANNEDINCOUNTY - CARDINAL OF .S, Montgomery Board of Edu- {/lundelein Presents Check gardens were lald waste by the hungry hordes, the farmers took the game law into their own hands and hunted them in small armies. MERGER PLAN HELD 'Maid Given $40.000 for Life in Will cial Dispatih o Phe Bl POTOMAC, Vi, March 13.-The Po omae Five Depritment will hold it o vk monthly macting tonight i (h W e fown Hall Bulding at 8 eeloek g ! - WACIALIIS BES boQUCHIEd L0 allond, ., silempled Jury that " cevelopments wich chance o be nominated revempen et by w Repubican pew life 5 e b becoine K prr e s o Ahl sy, W Ausm mfl W Cone child . The vetarn of salimon 1o Wik pabers can he predicied sl dag v youis 1 navaBee, Sovmriight 004 When rabbits became so thick in the Valdosta section of Georgia that Here are some 0 Wide World Photo BUTLER HITS BACK AT BORAH CHARGES' Says Senator Mnde Public Only Part of Letter Denying He Received Funds. Served for 25 Ycars‘ “She was with father in Los Angrh’:. when he died. I was here in ln\\n She nged everything and Came E with the body. Not until everything Iu«l been done, not untll after the funeral, did she let herself give in to her feel- | Ings. That is the way she is—a stoic but with the biggest heart I cver saw Since the death of his mother, Miss | Kirchmayer had taken her place when- ever he needed help or sympathy, he sald, “and she never, as much as we |loved her and as much as we practi- cally took h into the family—she never took advantage of our affection for her.” He Associated Press BOSTON, March 13—Willilam M. | Butler, chalrman of the Republican na- tional committee, last night made public the text of a letter which he wrote to Senator Borah declaring that he nor the committee had, during his mcumbens eived securities or money mentioned in the Senate Teapot Dome Investigation, Mr. Butler left Iy the sald her servant days were over and that shr would probably pend her remainlng years in Austria with her relatives, After other bequests to relatives and | charity of §30,000, the son receives the restdue of the estate, estimated to be | nmmlli $100,000. for Washington to- mittee. “Senator Borah's statement fssued erday in Washington is a one-sided affair” he sald. “He produced a copy W‘LL'AM leTH D|Es of certain portions of a letter ehich he l\\xnl.- to me, but he did not give my let- tor to the press, ¥ Retived Barton Mercheant Was Na- tive of Seotland, Special Dispateh (o The Star I he Hetter. ¢ "My Borah says this letter Is unsat- fafactory. It may be from his point of BARTON, Md, March 13, \\'llll-nu'\n-u but not trom mhu'\ l|»|:'l|r-| l‘u \‘w Smith, sr. widely known retired mer- | deliberate, well informed aa o the facts {chant of Barton, died yesterday, A | A0 ISt rather than injudiclous and secipitate.” native of CGlasgow, Scotland, he emi- | "' grated with his parents here at an G. W. BRADUUR DIES. arly age and had been a vesident of | Suecial Diupateh to The Star Barton for 54 years. He was & l'l'!'hh.\" terian nnlnl & Mason, Surviving ave his | widow, also w native of ticotland, and , ' CUMBERLAND, Md, Mareh 13 nine ehildren, Thomas It William & COMBULAND, Md, March 10 und Robort, W, Smith, all of Barton: | gijved farmer, diod At hia home on et i, Mowous Mook, P.i | Bedford road. one mile from Cumber- ) " | land, yvesterday, aged 70. Hesides his widow, he s survived by five children, Gy, Paul and Willard Bradour, Mvs Robert Moffatt, Cresaptown; Mys. Ste- nhen A Smith, Mareus Hook, Pa.; Mrs Earl I, 8haffer and Mrs, Richard M Mathows. He was & member of 5t Willlam E: Murray, Keyser, W. Vi, and Mra. Erneat O, Liller, Oaklund. | Luke's Lutheran Ohureh and the Junior I\iulr\ United Amer lvun Mechanies. BOY, 13, MISSING. PLANS TO RAISE S-4. Lad Disappears at Close of Bchool Poitoons are belig plated slongside No Trace Is Found, Special Thapateh 1o The Htar the ».ulnnmlim; "I‘ the ‘Nu\v Depart- Pl - ment was advised today, in preparation ATAUNTON, Va., March 18 No taee | ror (he ralsing of the orft. All ather s been found of Roscor Bartley, 13 work prepavatory to bringing the crait vears old, who disappeared from the | (o the surface s complete, sald w dis- Was going o publish his own as he had a perfect | vight to do, and as he should have done | cation Seeks $307,500 for Additions. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, March 13.—Defi- aite action looking to enlargement of | present buildings and erection of new iumr of school property. | information, neither | nieht to appear before the Senate com- | unton Grammar Hehool Mriday af- | nateh from O King, conman 100N After the closn of school. der of the for The wotual vatsing o Ahe hov o mide s home with his " the aubinavine will be begun as soon wandmoiher, M. Ballle Thompapiy #e wenlhor conditions wie faverable, | nes for public school purposes, to meet emergency needs for the school vear, which begins September 1, was taken by the County Board of Educa tion here today. when a program of construction activities was adopted and a decislon reached to immediately ask the county commissioners (o provide the necessary funds so that the work may be completed before the opening of the schools in the Fa: Several weeks ngo voard appointed a comm the school situation in an e certain the most urgent n posing the committee were Dr L Edmonds. Willlam H. McCh Mrs. Walter E. Perry of the Board of Education: Edwin W. Broome gounty superintendent of schools, and George E. Lewis, county The ¢ which spent much time gathering submitted its report today and the action of the educational board was in conformity with the re mendations therein made. $307,500 1s Sought. The plans of the county Board of Ed- ucation call for an estimated outlay o nppmxlnnuly $307,500. The program includes the erection of gymnasiums at the Takoma Park-Silver Spring Hig School and the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. each to cost $30,000, for which the last Legislature authortsed a bond issue, as 1t did for a similar butld- ing at Rockville, to cost a like amount the construction of which was weeks ago dectded upon Important among the projects cone templated s & 2-story. T-room build- ing at Somerset, south of Bradley lane, 0 cost approximately $40.000. The remainder of the schedule tols lows. Addition of foul to Takoma Park timated cost, §2 Addition of two srooms and base- ment rooms o Takoma Park-Stiver spring High School, $16.000 tee, AssTooms, one story mentary School 500, Plan Two Classrooms. Addition of two classrooms, With base ment, 10 Tear of next section of the East Silver Spring School, $14,000 Additionof elght classtooms, two storles, (o Bethesda-Chevy Chase High sichoal, $42,000, and an assembly room $38,000 Addition of two classrooms, with basement, (0 rear of next section af Glen Echo-Cabin John School, $14,000 Furniture and other equijpment for new rooms, §18,500. ‘There 13 sald (0 be no doudt that the county commissioners will provide the funds and that the work will go fore ward with promptuess. The last Leg- tslature authorised the commissioners O barrow not to excoed $200000 for CMergency Purposes ot certificates wof | indebteduess, and 1t is thought lkely ! that they will take advantage of that Act 1o valse the necessary money, als thought same other method may be de- vised to provide all or partsof the amount. . Choir to Broadoast ATAUNTON, Va, Mareh 13 -The Htuart Hall Ohoir, under (he leadershup of Miss Elisaboth Bowe, will leave here | | Friday morning for Richwond. where 1| \\\II broadoast that evening over Sta Uon WRVA. Rtisy Mavguiite mum.m.' some | for $1,500,000 for Col- lege in Rome. By the Associated Press. ROME. March 13.—The reception of Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago by Pope Pius yesierday was ons of the most nemorable in the nistory of the Vatican. was the first time an American dinal had acted in connection with an important transaction having to do with the congregation for the propaga- tion of faith, which stands so high in he orgal tion of the Catholic Church hat the cardinal presiding over It i known as the “Red Pope.” Cardinal Mundelein carried with him a ch for $1.500.000 from American donors for the removal of the College { Propaganda to & less congested sec of Rome. This he presented to the who asked him to convey a spe essing on all those who had con- Pope. ets Military Henors. cardinal was received at the er to the Vatican with mil . rendered by a detachment of Swiss Guard. From there he passed through the courtyard of San Damaso. ¢ papal gendarmes stood at at- and was greeted by the papal master of ceremonies. He ascended the marble staircase, entering Clem- atine Hall, where another detachment of the Swiss Guard presented arms. Papal chair-bearers helped Cardinal Mundelein’s suite to remove his mantle, ) he party proceeded to the papal anteroom, where a welcome was ex- tended by the papal military and ecclestastic court, and the cardinal was immedt of the Pontiff i his private Lidrary. Embraced dy Pope. al Mundelein prostrated him- but the Pope affectionately raised nd embraced him. The audiency precedents for length, last than one hour and a half. Pontiff accentuated the tm- ce of the assistance extended by America i behalf of the College of Propaganda, which was butlt three cen- ries ago, and is one of the most out- nding centers of clerical education The students now mumber 200, but § is hoped to increase the enroliment 300 500 SEEK 20 JOBS ON HIGHWAY PATROL Notor sioner to Name New Officers About June 1. Al Tspated 4o The Sta RICHMOND. Va. March 13 ~The last General Assembly added 20 men to the force of the State motor vehick department, these places to de fAlled by appointment at the hands of the oo missianer. There are at this tme some 30 men on the force and they cover the entite: State, The oummissioner wil! name the new afficers about June 1 and he has so far recetved 300 applica T porta; Virginia Vehicle Commi ftons for the 20 places. Wilbur's Talk Listed for Radio. Secrelaty of the Navy Wibur wi deliver an addiess on “Our Navy Re« uirements” during an intermission in the radio concert of the Mavine Band (b broadeast Thusday night through WRO and its asoclated stas tions of the National Mioadeasiing ©n A, Wilbar's talk will come from the st of WRC whits the concert will be hioadvash o the Marine Bars of Stuart Hall wii ln.uu ACCUIMPALGE Tavka