Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1928, Page 13

TAKING PART IN CHARITY TABLEA THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928.° One of the tableaux to be presented for the benefit of Catholic charities of Washington, showing St. Joan d'Arc. posed by Miss Francesca Stewart (at left), being seen as a vision by St. Margaret, posed by Mile. Reine Claudel, daughter of the French Ambassador. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. AMERICAN GIRL TAKES HINDU HUSBAND. Miss Nancy Ann Miller, now the Maharanee Devi Sharmista Holkar, is shown here with her Hindu husband, Tukoji Rao, the former Maharajah of Indore, at Nasik, shortly after their arrival in India for their marriage Saturday at Barwaha. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. fiving over Cincinnati, the pilot of landing on a river front street. Th flat the plane stayed in this position. LANDS ON NOSE AND STAYS THERE. When his engine went dead while RECONCILED AFTER FAMOUS this air mail plane made a forced e nose of the craft was smashed so The pilot was udinjured. Assoclated Press Photo. with a coat hanger. The mother was SPANKI of Kansas City, Mo., welcomes with open arms the return of her 16-year-old daughter, Lorene Jones, who caused her mother’s arrest for spanking h»- Mrs. Charles Woodside fined $100. Assoc d Pri MINER MUSICIANS HERE TO SEEK AID FOR CAUSE. This little band of miner musicians arrived here today to seek help for the destitute families in the Pennsylvania bituminous strike area. Left to right: Bert GETS NEW RUDDER AS HIGH AS HOUSE. For a few days the big liner Aquitania was a ship without a rudder, but she was in dry dock at Southampton, England. This shows a gigantic new rudder being hoisted into position while the ship was laid up for replacement of this important FOUR TRAINS PILE UP IN PENNSYLVANTA WRECK NEAR HARRISBURG. Twenty persons were injured when three fast freight trains and a passenger train were wrecked almost simultaneously at a curve on the Pennsylvania Railroad five miles from Harrisburg, Pa. The crash of two freight trains caused the cars to buckle across the four tracks of the main line, resulting in the wreck of an oncoming passenger train and another freight. Winders, Samuel Lees, Calvin Reisinger, union official, and Arthur Varner. Washington Star Photo. part. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Copyright by Underwood & Un: jerweod. YSTERY BLAST WRECKS BUILDING Score Suffer Minor Injuries as Kansas City Explosion Series Continues. D7 the Amocizied Prees. KANBAS CITY, March 19 —A score or more of North Side residents are Bursing minor juries received when a5 explosion last night wrecked a three- ¥ brick swrehouse and damaged 3 over 3 larn It is be- the storenouse. blown from hinges and windows broken for a of more than two blocks, DO oD { | i 1 | s Iotlowed was quick! the biast was the 500 biock of 2 storehouss viasts were 1 Cisryvery oA v ombe Jed W an werk by wrecking witT, BROKEN NECK IS FATAL. B4y P. Marshsll, § Toree Yezrs Afrer Divi 7., 17, Lived ng Injury Kize Deed in Mine Fire Ve n'// IVER . y Yn i the Granby Cons, gor Mouniein, r W decth fve seriou el VeI VMBS Ui K uve |Two Youths Held | | In Ransacking of Blackton Mansion the Associa VNEW YORK. March 19—Two youths were held on burglary charges Festerday after they had been caught attempting to remove an expensive chandelier from the 47-room Pratt Mansion in Brooklyn, now owned by J. Stuart Blackton, moving picture producer. Policemen had been stationed in the house after the caretaker re- poried that rugs, tapestries, brass pieces and antiques had been re- moved. and an organ, valued over a period of two months. Early yesterday, they said, Domi- nick Banardo, 18, and Andrew Ma: tone, 26, entered the home and we arrested after they had started take down the chandelier. FPitti valued at $3,000 were found \ome’s room. Police placed the of the swien goods at more than $10.000. PARIS PALACE DISMAL, POINCARE DECLARES Premier Remembers French White House as Gloomy ister when he was 26, Ful uhrn he \«u & portfollo of his own Treicn r Leon he pondered and L vanes Wnite House, i which 7 years ax the head of the ! which not two the most 2 yesrs medivere | & somiber dwelll mont ancient aeeupant of mi tes oucupent &1 spwaks of each us wre 2nd ¢ w be rid of ie DYy SHIPS ON WAY TO CANADA. ve Brit Service March )~ Fhe WG jan crubwers Champlain and recently itained from Lhe noth faturday | formerly the | have been | Twa e 1o Enter LANIA. Kew Cru Lomin 'u,n,,, ¥ the plase s.rion end Patrd strenyth 1he 1wo modern it Bestrigers which the gorernment hes dpeined v ordes wie sty Sob wavice A $9EL, Aerrit 'D. S. C. for Forbes As Recent Award Denied by Davi lS By the Associ Published su(emen',s that Charles R. Forbes, who was released some weeks ago, after serving a sentence for conspiracy to defraud the Gov- | ernment in connection with hospi- | tal contracts, had recently been | awarded the Distinguished Service | Cross are emphatically denied by Secretary Davis of the War Depart- ment. Answering 8 letter from Repre- sentative Newton of Minnesota, who had made ing; newspaper report, Forbes possesses Service Medal awarded h: ognition of his service as div gnal officer of the 33d Div uring the War and delivered in May, 1919. The Secr explained that the time awards for the World War exp April 7, 1923, and no award rad | | [ sry TORRENT RELEASED BY DAM BREAK SWEEPS AWAY HE by the breaking of the S been made after that date. 'NOTABLES MOURN VY CONCRETE BRIDGE. Striking evidence of the force of the great wall of water released t. Francis Dam is shown by the wreck of this steel and concrete bridge, above Santa Paula. Only the end sections are left standing. Wide World Photos. WALKER AT PALM BEACH , TO REST FROM LABORS But Gotham Mayor Makes Polit-| Btatement Concerning Hylan on His By the Aswr srens PALM BEACH, Fla, Mayor James K. Wa came o Palm Beach yesterday after- t, but issued & political| t before he had alighted | from his private car. ter that former Mayor w York had an- d e a candidate for / election “if the d.” the mayor replied: ayor Hylan of New York e in inter- P u! b ton of Palm Beach ght. He sald he mm how long he would stay, add- | t he came tu.- solely for a rest, WALES FAVORS PHOTO MEN | | Prince and Others of Royalty Cour-| OUTSTANDING WORLD EVENTS OF PAST WEEK BRIEFLY TOLD Lated ical the Asso Preas. Europe remained peaceful last week | in the face of events which are merely developing. ‘The preparatory commis- sion on disarmament has reassembled | at Geneva. The various delegates, in- eluding representatives of the United | Btates, Russia and probably Turkey, | have much work to do on preparing the agenda for a future disarmament con- ference. They looked the ground over | in the last few days, discussing security | pacts and armaments, Russia expects the commission to up its proposal for complete dis- armament. 1t has already been inti- ed by more than one delegate that security and disarmament must Ko hand-in-hand. The suspension of the negotiations for a commercial accord between Rus- ia and Germany by Dr. Gustav Strese- | mann, German forelgn secretary, ap- \peared W come as a surprise to the Boviet Bix German engineers were {put inder arrest by the Russian | | authorities for alleged sabotage of Ho- | iet mining operations. Germany { wants to know all the details of the chiarges. and in the meantime decimes | gpui LU T G 0 Pl 10 _continue trade discussions | - . & HALIFAX, Nova ootia, March 19 ) |A In London the King of Afghantstan, | V* Performed amid scenes of splendor ¢ Prince of Wales and other mem- | Amanullah Khan, was recefved with MOUTH ORGAN POPULAR Players on Increase All Over st subjects | V€N ArmS. He ' was the particular e King and Queen of Eng World, Statistics Show. yally are the ea | guest of the ographers, Dr. Richard Neville | land, for England is destrous of cement- | BERLIN.— Mouth organ players seem {to be a growing tribe all over the ging director of a firm | g ')u relations with that strategle world, Judging from German export cers have court martial in store for them. As the story goes, they were in disagreement over social events, partic- | Arrival. | | ularly the appearance of the battle- March 19— er of New York| given by the admiral, which the captain refused to permit In a letter to Gov. Towner of Porto | Rico, in response to the demand of the Porto Rican Legislature that that coun- try be constituted a “free state,” Presi- dent Coolidge rejected the plea and in- formed the Legislature and the people of Porto Rico generally that there would be no change in the status of the coun- try for the present Italy has adopted Mussolini’s measure | for complete control of the election of the amber of Deputies by the ¥ ist Grand Council. The only man seeming- ly, who dared oppose the bill in the Chamber, was the aged former Pre- mier Glovanr olittl. He declared that it was in direct contradiction to the constitution, by the people Coverted to the Hindu religion, and purified by Indian rites, Nancy Ann | Miller, an’ American girl, was married ,m Tukoji Rao, former Maharajah of teous to Camera Wielders, I British pussibly nt having rican 79 Bodies Recovered at Santos, March 19 () further slides from Mount been wyerted, in the apinion the author He vrmy—“ nine bodies Lisve been recovered from | the debris left by the avalanche March 10, ‘The potice tay only two bod remain W be found, this Hxing the Wil @ekth Wil ut 81, 1 photograph | people —one tragie, the other ! Amerien. Their attempt I teareq. | Phowed an increased demand for Gel o oholivahices ek etera close o that have alght arrived here en route o | * but for the pr statistics ¢ guest of & con- nide ended 1n. diasster. for 5 man mouth organs, the manufacture of EONe Thomy. theo Kl word “""’um. h glves employment to_thousands 4 nox e o Great Bri- O T o 4 #board e | uin has always had & paternal hand | b whise firm are warrant | 90 the Afghan King's shoulder, and i S0 Ve Prince of Wales and e | 9910w of keeping it Uiere for "reasons | d Queen of Belglum, said royal | U1, pate During 1927 Germany sold nbroad | hotagraphers | Capt, Wl “'m‘}"}mft‘l:‘"r“m,“"‘,"l""“" 1 50,600,000 mouth organs, sbout a mil- Ireoman i ackiy, daring | o, more than the previous year, and | v, disappeated from the shores |of"{icye 21,800,000 went o the i e "o, . dupgersof e A | Sten Qreat Britain and Argenting j antic Ocean in an ttempt o fly to| WEe 8mong other - countries - which | NTOS, Bras) roof b or Three high officers of the British |©f WOTKers In and around Trossingen, navy were involved in u verbal battle [ Wurttemberg al Malta, This came to the ears of the admiralty, and then Parlisment. The admiral’s fiag hos heen lowered on the kood ship Hoyal Onk, sud all thice of- it no . Btreet cars In Ottawa, Canada, Are heing equipped with headlights for night tavel . | ship's band at an entertainment to be | proclaiming free elections | Indore. Enormous crowds in picturesque | which | the | United | lousTING OF BRATIANU ‘ DEMANDED BY PEASANTS | Party Wants Leader to Assume| SMULSKI'S DEATH President and Hoover Among Ihose Who Send Condolence Messages to Chicagoan's Widow. Office as Premier of Rumania. By the Associated P | BUCHARSET, Rumania, March 19.— | Leaders of the National Peasant party today awaited the decision of the regency which rules for the young King Michael on their demand that their leader, Julio Maniu, replace Vin- tila_Bratianu as premier. Five mass meetings, organized by the Peasant party, were held at various Bucharest to voice this de- ew elections also were advo- cated. It was intimated that the dele- gates, who came from the country, would not leave the capital until they received the reply of the regency, which wats expected toda, Government circles were not moved by the demonstration and it was al- lowed to proceed without Interference The goveriment view was that it was | e i w a5 ~ the Inst despairing attempt of the op- | oIk, Wired that UMr. Smulski has beer I position and that the regency would, piy o - olish people itisenship.” Vice | retuse eld to “stree ot ! | refuse to yield to “street intimidation.” | py.qdent Dawes described Mr. Smulski ' ke one of the most useful cit FILM ACTOR BURNED. i“' Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden tele- Art Acord's Face Seared as Cigar- By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 19.—Mess: condolence from President Coolidge. Vice President Dawes, Secretary Hoover and many other prominent men were received foday by Mrs. John F. Smul- ski, whose husband killed himself with a pistol at their apartment yesterday. Smulski was president of the tern Trust & Savings Bank, & for- and city officeholder and a figure in Polish-American af- Despondency over illness “ |\ as the reason for his suicide was found dead when his cha summoned by Mrs. Smulsk through the bolted bathroom door. A | small-caliber revolver was clutched in hand. | ary Hoover, with whom Smul- ski was associated in Furopean relief nationa ir ve phoned his sympathy from his farm ette Lights Leaking Gas. iblican national committee, was among | the hundreds received 0 P As ing treated for burns about the face | ki had taken his life while temporarily {and which he recelved when gas es- | jic o near Oregon, 1L A message from W HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 1¢ 1t from the coroner's office m a leaking pipe was ignited RITUAL DANCE REPEATED. n M. Butler, chairman of the Re- Art Acord, film actor, today was be- [ oday expressed the opinton that Smut- whoy™ star started to light | Rector Disregards Bishop's View of were, sears resulting interfere expressed that possible from the burns might With Acord's screen career, | . = | Innovation. Two Hurt in Auto Blast. | ! Liie NEW YORK, March 19 (#) —The BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 19 (4 | annual ritual dince, which has caused | Auson W, Allen, asatstant general | fishop Willlam 1. Manning to suspend | supertendent of the Tennessee Coal. | fram = his episcopal visitations — the Lion and Rafload Co, & United States | Church of St Mark's 1n-the-Bouwerie, teel Corporation subsidinry, and his | was produced at the church yesterday ite were Injured here last night when | under the divection of the rector, Rev a mysterious explosion demelished their | Dr. Willlam Norman Guthrie automobile while they wore driving | Before a vell drawn in front of the | | along & main street. Police expressed | altar, young women i white drapertes | the opinion that an explosive wrecked | executed tableaux and movements i the machine. The gasoline tank was | an “order of service” written for the found intact although the car's top | church by Dr. Guthrie in celebration was blowly mway and the sides of the | of the Feast of the Annunciation of the | body split by e blast, Vg Mary, ens of ' ¢ POLIGEMAN HURT: DRIVER ARRESTED ‘Standmg on Running Board of One Auto, Officer Is Hit by Another. While standing on the run: he was bull s | was gt en fir was alleged to ! ¥ '\d Robert L 1 old < ASIATIC FLEET BEGINS CRUISE OF CHINA WATERS Headed Vessels Leave Manila—Will Visit s En Route, by Japanese Port sciated P Headed by the the Asiatic fleet he tes Navy left Manila today nual cruise of China waters, The fleet will e first time th visited Japan since the have earth l’le ‘1933 divish ext month and eduled to return Fall DIE FROM HDSPITAL FIRE. Albany Film Blaze Blamed for Deaths of Three. ALBANY, N. Y., Mareh 19 () —Fire. which drove 31 patients from Memaral Hospital Saturday night, was believed indirectly responsible for the deaths of three persons here yesterday. Fumes from smoldering filn X-ray room of the hospital hastened. according to their ph the deaths of the following Mrs. Margaret Selley, Rensselaer, Memorial Hospital Mrs. Elvina, Gartner, Peter's, rs. Cora B. McCarg, Albany b Memortal, who died at her marine Fumes in in the sed or e, Lo Rensselaer, in m 8t