Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1928. VNN RVAVAVA I A A REPRESENTATIVE LEAVITT'S 84-YEAR-OLD FATHER FLIES WITH LINDBERGH. Among Col. Lindbergh's passengers on his second day of flying wtih members of Congress at Bolling Field were Representative Scott Leavitt of Montana and his father, shown here with the famous fiyer shortly after he received the Congressional Medal of Honor at the White House. The 84-year-old Montanan, making his first flight, said it was the biggest thrill of his life. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. ENGLAND WELCOMES KING AMANULLAH. The Prince of Wales greet- ing the King of Afghanistan aboard the Maid of Orleans, at Dover, as he arrived the other day for his visit in England, on his tour of Europe. King George and Queen Mary greeted the royal visitor at Victoria Station, Lon- don. SECRETARY WILBUR VISITS S-4 AS NAVAL BOARD INSPECTS VI L. The Naval Secretary is shown here with members of the Naval Board of Investigation aboard the ill-fated submarine as she rests in drydock at the Boston Navy Yard. They are watching removal of batteries. Examination of the inside of the hull showed that cold chisels, hand wrenches and other battering tools had been used by the imprisoned crew in a desperate effort 1o save their lives by knocking a hole in the hull. Associated Press Photo. gsy\-www Copyright by P. & A. Photos. AN QUENTIN RECEIVES HICKMAN AND HUNT. The two young pals n_crime, William Edward Hickman (at left) and Welby Hunt, in their cell row shortly after arrival at the San Quentin, Calif., Penitentiary, where Hickman is under sentence to hang April 27. Hunt enters the prison under life sentence. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. URGES CAMPAIGN 0., 70 SUPERVISE AGAINST RADIGALS - NIGARAGUAN VOTE S. A. R. Official Pleads for Presidential Decree Puts Gen. Awakening of Ameri- McCoy and Marines in DON REAL TOGS FOR LINDBERGH.FLIGHT. Misses Sarah and Louise Kent, daughters of Representative Everett Kent of Pennsylvania, wearing flying suits and parachute packs for a flight with Col. Lindbergh over Washington, from Bolling Field. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. GERMAN BIKE RACERS DO SOME HIKING. In the recent cross-coun- try bicycle race from Pichelsborg to Berlin there was almeost as much hik- ing as pedaling. This shows the field of more than a hundred towing their bikes up a steep snow-covered grade. 2 Wide World Photos. BATTERED DOOR OF COLUMBIA S'I’A'l'll.).\' BANK. Robbers with acety- lene torches cut through the vault of the Peopie’s State Bank, at Columbia Station, Arlington, Va., last night and escaped with $2,200. ROBBERS GET S22 ARREST OF SLUSH ATARLINGTONBANK. WITNESS SOUGHT | | Intruders Use Torch to Cuthing to Charge Phi|ade|phiai Through Vault Doors of | Political Leader With Con- Institution. ! tempt of Senate. Robbers forced their way imto the People’s State Bank branch at Colum- bia Station, Arlington, Va,, early todey, eut through two heavy steel doors of the vault with an acetylene. torch and got sway with $2,200 in cash and a few checks. ‘The vobbery was discovered by J. H. White, jr., cashier of the bank, when arrived for work at 8 o'clock this morning. The safe-crackers apparently had carried on their work undisturbed, for no one the vicinity could be found who bad seen or heard anything the bank bullding, structure compileted rear th a fimmy aping were cut through the outer vault on each side of the combination front of d was stationed 50 he might sig- those inside by pulling the string should any one approach The bank is next to the trolley sta- thon and surrounded by & small group of stores and houses. On finding the doors of the vault ajar, ‘White immedistely potified Sheriff H B. Pields and the main office of the People’s Btate Bank st Cherrydale Bheriff Pields sent for fingerprint ex- perts from the Washingn Police De- The sefe Geposit boxes were untouched. BRIDE, WED AT CABARET, ASKS FOR ANNULMENT Robert ¥, Beck Bays She Was Time of Mre Intoxiceted at Ceremuny Declaring that she was intoxicaied sna in Do condition o realize what wes happening when she went through | & masriage ceremony, et 1 o'clock in ne morning of March 12, on the dance fioor st the Vilis Romse Inn, on the Fockville pike, Vivien H. Beck, 19 years oid. wdey ssked the District Bupreme Court w sonul ber marriage 10 Robert ¥. Beck, 34 years old. Bhe says she yewurned 1 She ceremony and Beck went elsewhere Bise never intended 1o merry him and hes 1o ntention of Lving with him she maserts, The young bride tells the court through Atwroey P. B. Morehouse, that Beck was merely &b whom she had Dot seen oy dinner engagement only W keep & dinne ernier 1,.f;:.. the r‘:rnln( she and Beck were arinking, snd both became asserts. When the proposel oy merriege wes made, she fell in ihe scheme only beceuse of ber ol Uon, she stales. for three the sequaintance | end with whom she intended drunk, she | with By the Associated Pregs. A resolution directing the immediate |arrest of Thomas W. Cunningham, a | prominent Republican of Philadelphia, | will be presented to the Senate tomor- row, Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, | |today informed the Senate. | Senator King presented a report | |today from the Senate campaign funds { committee, citing the refusal of Cun- |ningham to tell the committee about | hjs 850,000 contribution to the cam- | paign fund of William 8. Vae | Cunningham is treasurer of the Penn- | | sylvania State Republican committee He is clerk of the Quarter Sessions | Court in Philadelphia at a salary of | $8/000 a year, and the investigators | were unable to understand how he could have made such a contribution out of his own private funds | | The Philadelphia political leader ap- |peared before the committee both at Chicago and Washington, and each | time refused to give any information {about his contribution except that it| had been taken from his own private | funds and had been pald over to| {Thomas F. Watson, treasurer of the | | Vare campalgn organization, in two | |cash installments of $25,000 each i This is the second time within the | | session that the Benate will have been | | called upon to order the arrest of | | witnéss for refusal o testify to one of {its committees. Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the Standard Ofl of In- diana, is under indictment now after his arrest by the Benate for failure to reply | |10 questions put by the Benate oil com- mittee | In u second report prepared by Sena- | tor King, h* dealt with the cases of Bamuel J. Insull, Tinoks, public utilitles operator, and his attorney, Daniel | Behuyler, who at first declined to give | | any information s o the reciplents of | | certasn contributions Insull made to | political organizations in Cook County for use in the sume campaign in which Frank L. Smith was « candidate for the Hepublican senatorial nomination After the Bupreme Court d | the Mal 8 Daugherty case, | Behuyler sent word they | and enrly this session | betore the committee submits their mony at that time without recommendation, leaving the question of action up 1o the Senate I} ision 1n | they appeared Benator King | | SEEKS PLANE RECORD. | BT. PAUL, Minn, March 22 A Another sttempt at setting & new air- her mother's home after | plane endurance record was planned | by Gene Bhank, Young St. Paul fiyer |late today, He will pilot the same | plane which e used in his unsuccessful attempt Wednesday | ed in the wir more than 12 hours His take-off is scheduled for 6 pm . Seaman Takes Poison, 1 ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 22 | #rd Brackett, 30 years old. & seaman, is |in the Naval Academy suffering from effects of polwn Laken ‘Tuesdsy night. A How when he remain- | [ | | Hoepital here | th | JUNIOR HIGH PUPILS GIVE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF SPRING PLAY TONIGHT. The group of principals, flower girls and dancers appearing in the Jefferson Junior High School operetta, “Tulip Time, The costumes for the play were made In the school's sewing department. THOMAS A WISE NOTED ACTOR DIES Shepherd of Lambs’ Club, 63,I Was Forced to Quit Play in Chicago Last Year. By the Aws NEW YORK, March Broadway today mourned Thomas A, Wise, shep- herd of the Lambs' Club and one of the great character actors of the American stage He died last night in a hotel, next door to the club of which he was head, from the effects of a bronchial and heart attuck suffercd Tuesday The 63-year-old actor had been in falling health for w year, A month “go he became N1l while appearing in Chicago in “Behold This Dreamer” and returned to New York to recuperate, He essayed many roles, but s prob- ably best remembered for his portrayal of Falstaft n “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and Senator Willlsm H Langon n *“The Gentleman from Mississippl,” w play of which he was co-suthor, A young actor by the nume of Dougles Pairbanks was & member of the cast of that play when it was first produced in New York 1008, Wise toured the country in “The Old Boak,” playing the part of Clem Hawley. "He also made & Lwo-year tour with Mrs, Minnke Maddern Fiske in The Two Rivals " He was born i Paversham, Kent England, March 23, 1865, bul was brought o this country al the age of 3, apd began Lo earm his own living at age of 9. His first appearance on Slage was In a varlely show al isom. Calif, In April, 1683, ated Preve, " to be presented in the school auditorium tonight and Friday and Saturday evenings at 8§ o'clock. Capitol Photo Service |Ex-Kaiser's Brother-in-Law Says Kongo Holds Escape From “Tales of Orgies" | | | | | By the Amsociated Press | BRUSSELS, Belglum, March | Bick of reading what he termed “un- true tales of orgles,” Alexander Subkoff is determined to hunt big game in| Africa, The youthful husband of Princess Victoria of Schaumberg-Lippe has been expelled from Germany, but he says he does not understand why the Brussels police have become interested in him and are likely to order him to leave the capital. He said the Belgian govern- ment had not informed him that there would be any restriction on his trip to 1] the Kongo, Explaining his trip to Africa, Subkoft said: "I intend to visit relatives there. “My wife, with whom I have almost daily correspondence, does not object to my trip, and, furthermore, it would give | me a chance to Indulge in my favorite sport of big game shooting “My wife understands that I need a change of air. She knows also how sick 1 am of reading daily the misleading reports of my doings and untrue tales | of orgles In which I am supposed to have engaged. Offered Flight Here. “My life_In Germany became intol erable, as I always had a flock of r porters at my heels. 1 could not move without being followed by n staring crowd, which flocked into any estab- lishment I chose to enter. “I have been offered film engage- ments and been approached with pro- posals to write my memoirs, I have also been asked to make a flight to America, and should a reasonable offer be forthcoming 1 would accept, for I to earn my living decently { “As yet I have concluded no engage- ments, but when I do I shall not forget that ‘business 18 business.’ " FORGERY IS CHARGED. Handwriting Expert Seeks No Divorce. Preparing to accompany Elisabeth Nyssen, & girl companion, to a dance, Bubkoff asked the correspondent that denial be made of any contemplated di- vorce from the sister of the former German Kalser Subkoff was expelled from Germany after w brawl in which he knocked a | pageboy In & Berlin cafe senseless. The expulsion was on the ground that his passport was defective, A severe cold confined him to his bed here for two days SIX RESCUED AT SEA. Bhipwreck Victims May Return Home by Way of Sweden. NEW YORK, March 22 (#).—Wires less reports yesterday told of the rescuc of the six men of the crew of the Nova | Heotlan schooner General Byng, 600 miles east of New York, and indicated that the shipwrecked satlors will have to return home by way of Sweden The teport was received by the Bwedish-American Line from Ity motor freighter Korsholm, outward bound for Blockholm. The report gave no details explaining why & rescue was necessary | Testifles Duke Estate Suit. SOMERVILLE, N. J, March 3¢ James Vreeland Haring, testifylng as # handwriting expert yesterday for the exeoutors of the estate of James B Duke in the litigation of « $2,000,000 fund left by the late tobacco magnate, asserted that in his opinton the basis of the clalmants’ case was a forgery Haring sald that the handwriting In the Thomas Duke Bible and in the recards of the Hopewell Primitive Bap- st Church, which connected a family in: or what had become of the General Byng, a 196-ton erafi, whioh was bound for Bt Johns, Newfoundland, from Kingston, Jamalea, ] l relation between Thomas Duke and Washington Duke, appeared to have not _been done by the same hand that wiute the other part of the records, CANADIAN SLAYER | PLANNING APPEAL | Girl Wife, Spared, Shows No Concern Over Husband Who Absoved Her. By the Associated Press MONTREAL, March sentence commuted to life imprison- ment, indications today were that o last-minute effort would be made to save QGeorge McDonald, sentenced to die on the gallows at Valleyfield Jatl tomorrow morning J. C. Legault, defender of the McDonalds in their trial for the slay- ing of & Lachine taxi driver last July 22~ His wife's sald he was considering an appeal o | Justice Eugene La Fontaine, chief judge of the Court of Appeals, for a of execution He sald he however, whether the necessary afii- davits and new evidence could be pro- cured in time. Mrs. McDonald her commutation calmly shortly afterward had a fit of woeping. 8he seem unconcerned, how- ever, over the fate of her husband. Bhe has refused to answer his “letters since he absolved her Mrs. McDonald had frequently said she would die willingly If her husband could be spared. 8he has expressed no desire (o see her husband again and probably will not be given an op- portunity to bid him good-by It was planned to take the ocon- demned man to Valleyfleld Jail today from Bordeaux Jall, here. where he has been confined. It 1s belleved the execution will take place some tme before dawn LOMOITOW morning. . Lockjaw, caused by the serateh of & thorn, caused the death recently of & uan u\inml. England, the news at first, recetved of but can Citizens. An awakening of good Americans to | protect the United States “against the inroads of all types of radicals and | pacifists” has become necessary, due to | & “governmental irresponsibilit part of the people of this N clared Harry F. Brewer of New Jersey director general of the National Society Sons of the American Revolution, and chairman of its committee on Ameri- canization and altens, in an address at A meeting of the District of Columbia Society, S. A. R., in the Lafayette Hotel last night. By subtle means, the speaker sized, radicals and pacifists wo stroy the Government, religion | morality of this country Mr. Brewer also attributed conditions existing in politics a | development of crime as s business” to the failure of more 50 per cent of qualified citiz country to exercise their votd lege. Defending State rights, Mr. satd much of the Government is hec {ing centralized under the Federal Gov- ernment that ought to remain Jurisdiction of the States. Those persons who seek to undern | good government and who are ng {the Nation and degrading its morals should be driven out, declared Mr Brew: “in the same manner as the mon Temple of Solomon.” Dr. J. T. W. Brown explained the ef- forts of the Sons of American Reval | tion to decorate the grave of every so {dier of the Revolution, and requested | that the location of any such graves, | with the name of the soldier buried, be | sent to him | Voeal selections were rendered at the meeting by Mrs. J. E Kinsella, accom- ! panied by Mrs. Howard Blandy. ! The following were elected to {board of management: §. C. Ct | Howard T. Cole. Col. Alonzo Giray and | d de- and tr willlam S. Parks. iMOTHER FL(iGS TEACHER. Punishment of Pupil Behind Row Before Virginia Court stay | doubted, | Special Dispateh 1o The S WINCHESTER, Va. March suspended jall sentence of 80 days was given Mrs. Lafayette Henry of Rosen- | berger, Frederick County, following her |trial here on & charge of loniously |beating Miss Edna Beasley of Sparta, «‘ur:hue Oounty, Va, with a stick last eel Miss Beasley s teacher of the publie school at Rosenberger. She satd it had become necessary to. administer “wild corporal Rul\bml\wul t© Mrs, Honry's soan, who had persistently violated rules of the schoal, stoned the butlding and frequently absented himselt without exclse Judge Tavenner sald he sus pended the fail sentence solely on e~ Jcount of Mrs. Henry's presence being | d At home to care for an infant urt indicated that warrants prob- | ably would be issued against persans | charged Wi having send sowrriious letters 10 Miss m“ \ | changers were driven out of the | Charge of Boards. By the Associated P MANAGUA. . 2 By virtue of a presid de United States will supervise the na- tional election in October. The decree follows the lines of the McCoy bill de- feated recently by the Nicaraguan House. The election machinery, which 1t sets up, will be effective until after | the results of the election proclaimed by the new Congre: is to take office on December 15. A brass band parading through the streets of Managua proclaimed the signature of the decree. This was in line with an old Spanish custom called “Banda,” by which of a dential decree annow election board, and one the board authority on of voter and all other matt 3 lon. " The pre: both n rd wit ative e boal case of d! tive members, b vote. If Preside: | that dectding d decide ists. Gen. MeCoy act alone. of 13 members dltshed en of tends owered to & and | Americ | the toc to bring to act boards ¢ 1,000 SALL FOR NICARAGUA. New Marine Force Leaves South Care- { lna for Election Duty, CHARLESTON, 8 €. March The first units of the new Marines being sent to Ny i supervising the Nie satled from C afficers and contmand of Capt Island, boarde ship Rridge this afternoon and i diately the vessel put to sea HEALTH EXHIBIT HELD. | A baby show and health exhidit feas {tured the mauguration of a four-day | cornival in the gymnastum of the Phylis | Wheatley Young Women's Christian As= {soctation by the Musio Education As- soolation, s & part of the latter organ« [lsation's program loking o the pure Johase of musical instruments and the ffurnishing of musioal mstruction to children W evlored sehoals Tonight the chiel atiraction at the carnival will be boys’ stupts and es- thetie dancing Entertainment by the | Harmonious wartet and a fashion show 15 schediled for the final night. Officers of the Music Rducation Ase soolation are: Mus. Luey Yardorough, president: Mrs. Thamas L. Jones, treass urer; Miss Virginia Williams., secretars, and Q) O, Kelly, business manages. C. N