Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1928, Page 16

el o THE EVENI)] Only a part of the gallery following players in the national open golf champlonship at Olympls Fields Country Club. This photdgraph was taken at the tenth hole, Farrell were playing on the green. Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the Daughters of when Bobby Jones and Johnny ~—Wide World Photo. the American Revolution, turning the first shovel of earth at site of the new D. A. R. Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Adam Wyatt, treasurer general of D. A. R., at Mrs. Brosseau's right. —Washington Star Photo. J. ENOS RAY QUITS TAX COMMISSION POST Prince Georges Banker Resigns as BOYS PLANE MATCH | Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., June 23.—J. Enos | Ray, president of the Prince Georges | Water—One Land Machine | hation 1 Gov. itchic as chairman of | — nation to Gov. je as chairman of | 2 | the State Tax Commission and asked | G t in Ai { that it become effective August 1. Mr.| ets in Air. | Ray was first appointed to the commis- | sion by Gov. Harrington in 1919, and was made chairman of the commhsslon‘ After the unsuccessful attempt of by Gov. Ritchie in 1923, and his pres- | Models Fail to Rise From three boys to launch their model hydro- planes from the water at the Naval Air Station, the District of Columbia model aircraft tournament semi-finals got under way at Bolling Air Field to- day when the youthful aviators began fiying their “rise-off-ground” models with various degrees of success, shortly before 11:30 o'clock. e e Miss Sybil Baker, director of Community Center Department, under | whose auspices the contest was being held, said the boys were still in the ex- perimental stage of hydroplane con- struction and fiying. The contestants were Lloyd Fish, 2425 Third northeast; Allan Ham, 2312 Ashmead piace, and Herbert Dorsey, 3708 Thirty- third place. The models constructed by these boys taxied along the water in regulation fashion, but they refused to 1ift into the air In the land stage of the contest, Ra mond Harding 906 Virginia T was the first contestant to get his machine into the air, although the model fell less than 10 seconds later. The model was not damaged. Other contestants entered in the land phase were Ernest Stout, 5826 Thirtieth = president of the Che Pollowing hand-launche action. Toda; nament w ent term will not expire until 1931. | | In accepting the resignation, Gov.| | Ritchie saidy | _“Mr. Ray's services on the State Tax | Commission have been thoroughly capa- {ble and efficient, and I am sincerely | sorry, for the State is going to lose the | |benefit of them. I have urged him| | strongly to remain, but he feeis that| the obligations and demands of his| private affairs make this impossible.” | In tendering his resignation Mr. Ray | said he intended to deyote his full time {to the development of the Georges County Bank. Gov. will not name a successor until he re- street | yurns from the Democratic convention | at Houston next week. MEXICANS START - NON-STOP FLIGHT | Pachecho and Bieler Hop Off From Ontario for Home Capital. Prince | Ritchie | STAR, WASHINGTO ATURDAY, JUNE 23, 19 Maj. Umberto Maddelena (standing on his hydroplane), the Italian aviator, who is reported to have discovered Nobile and to have dropped provisions to the Arctic explorers. Photo taken just before the major left Holland. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. The V-4 of the United States Navy, the world’s largest submarine, going through her successful trials off Provincetown, Mass. The motor cyclist's version of surf riding at cycle carnival on the Isle of Man. There were a number of mishaps during the novel contest, one of the competitors in the novel race. but no bones were broken. ~—Copyright A woman was by Underwood & Underwood. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, jr., presenting Gladys Fabila, daughter of the agricultural attache of the Mexican embassy, with friendship school bags to ceremony took place at the quarterly convention of the W. C. T. be sent to Mexico. The , Hamline M. E. Church, —Washington Star Photo. yesterday. !DISTRICT A. A. A. ELECTS i T. P. NOYES AS ADVISER Succeeds Stanley Horner as Chair- | man—Will Attend Cincinnati Meet Next Week. the District the American was _announced headquarters. who has been long active work, succeeds | chairman. | Mr. Noyes and George W. Offutt will Nision at the convention of t today from Citizens’” Body Announces It Is Tentative Figure. Under Last Year. The Citizens' Advisory Council has 4 $40.000.000 as the tentative t This photograph was Copyright by P. & A. Photos. $30,000 IN DRUGS Seven Men Arrested, One as He Arrives With $25,000 in Nar- cotics in Satchel. Special Dispatch to The Star By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontari, June 23.—A ‘one- man research expedition to the mag- netic pole will be started within 10 days by Maj. L. T. Burwash, World War veteran, Arctic exploratory engi- neer and government official, He will travel by rail, boat and dog team, and expects to navigate a 40-foot snapped when the vessel was partly submerged, although she was going full speed ahead. . |One-Man Expedition to Magnetic Pole TAKEN IN BALTIMORE| Will Be Started in 10 Days by Canadian| BY MUTUAL CONSENT netic pole has shifted since Amund- sen's visit in 1908, and also to search for relics ‘and records of the {ll-fated expedition of Sir John Franklin. Two ships of the Franklin expedition. the Erebus and the Terror, met disas- ter near the magnetic pole in 1845 later were found on Boothia Peninsuia, Some of the records of the expedition | ENGAGEMENT ENDED Betrothal of Miss Villard and Louis W. Hill, Jr, Canceled, Her Parents Say. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Junc 23.-—The engage- 1,054 clubs of th Wednesday at Cir ‘The meml hip of the District’s budget for the 19: 30 fiscal year, which is now under preparation by the Commissioners. The estimates of the departmental ads total $46.538.082, or approximate- than those submitted duction is due chiefly ler budget asked by th Education, which is abo under its estimates of las opted the $40,000,00¢ at a meeting Thurs- deliberations were no e yesterday. Yaden, chairman of th A. A A, opening nati. Jne District di- made pu James Herrick Submits Draft of | last year when it considered the rec- | Peace Pact—French Stand | cmmendations of the trade organtzation | | council has a new recorder, who is | By the Associated Pre: {familiar with this pragtice. Cons: T. Herrick, American Ambassador, to- !added to or subtracted from when the day. The text was withheld for publi- | council begins consideration of the de- vision now totals 1 council, denied that the meeting was a secret sessio “There has been only % | with respect to activities of the counc by Reservations. |~ “Heretofore the recorder has made the | PARIS, June 23.—A new draft peace | quently he did not invité the press to pact for the outlawry of war from Sec- the meeting Thursday night.* cation on Monday partmental estimates. It is like The draft had a covering note and a meeting will be held the latter ps | | e secret meeting of the equneil since I have been its chairman, and that was | arrangements for the council meetings {and notified the press. This year the retary of State Kellogg was delivered | Mr. Yaden explained that the $40.- to the French foreign office by Myron 000.000 total is tentative and may be made a total of 11 pages. | next week for this purpose, he said French officials have not digested the | the practice inaugurated last year COUNCIL APPROVES ‘SOMOMO BUGET night at the BSchool, wher be staged in the sc The activ BALTIMORE, June 23.—Tlliclt drugs | overyment Jaunch through nearly 900 valued at more than $30,000 were seized | miles of icy Arctic waters, assisted enly in & round-up by Federal agents yester- | by Eskimos, stray trappers and fur day as part of a nation-wide drive | {raders, against dope traffickers | 'The object of the exhibition will be | Seven men were taken, one of them | to determine the extent which the mag- | Anthony Salmieri, 30 years old, New ! el | York, who was arrested as he stepped and it is said that one of the ships note and would not discuss it, but stand | calling in department head | can still be seen in the Arctic Ocean near King Willlam Island. Should this veport prove correct the ship may be raised to obtain for Canada the inval- belleved aboard ment of Miss Mariquita Villard of New York to Louls Warren Hill, ., of St | - Paul, Minn,, grandson of the famous | reservations. They would like to have 'ated this year because the council } rallroad builder, has been broken, by | them embodied or appended to the been furnished with a written explana mutual consent. ~ | paet, but it remains to be seen whether | tion of their needs. TRk asnouiceintnt | they’ will not be content with & less by Miss Villard's parents, formal method. Harold G. Villard. The By the Associated Press WINDSOR, Ontario, June 23.—Joaquin | Pachecho and Fritz Bleler, Mexico City | | 4 5, wok off from Walker Fleld e at 7:32 am. Eastern standard ta Nationa uable record authorized Y and Mrs rgagement was qr s h time today on their projected non-stop flight to the Mexican capital Beeause of weather conditions, which held the fiyers back for the change in the original made and instead of flying they announced the hway would be a direct line to th can capital. It would take them y sald, ightly v of Dayton, Ohio, The original intention had been to fi over Wa ton, Clrele the Capitol a afr gesture and then swing south- w Galveston, following the { coast o Mexico, The big Slinson monoplane, powered -horsepower Wright afr-cooled was fueled with 410 gallons of gasoline, which the two fiyers said, brought the total weight of their craft 11 above 3,000 pounds The plane with dull black body and golden bears the No. NX5829 inder the right wing NIGHT ST!CK.SPUNTERED. Policeman Breaks Club on Head of | la | route ! 1o Washington Colored Prisoner Policem: e of t ond pre ers the Washingt he tried 1o tered his b n Freedmen's up conduct and ing for & new stick Nine Killed in Derailed Car. v e Walter Reed Contract Let A contract for the cons addition 1o the medical Waller Reed Hospital has been ed by the quarterin general 1o San 1wl Pasguale of this city st his bid of 518,400 Iroad in into ruction of award- spect sabotage, from a train at Union Station, In the handbag of Salmieri, known also as Joe Brown, agents sald, were found 35 ounces of morphine, 15 ounces | of cocaine and 10 pounds of oplum, with @ total value of $25,000 | The haul was said to be one of the | i biggest on local record for several years The ralders sald they found narcotics sion of some of the six others | 1ts obtained by Agents | W. A. Carroll and J. O. | inposse | arrested on warr | H. W. Chammbers, McDonald. ; Will Attend Baptist Sessions. | 8pecial Dispateh to The Btar | LYNCHBURG, Va., June 23.—The fol- | | lowing Lynchburg Baptists will‘go next week to attend the world alllance of | | Baptists in Toronto, Canada: Dr. and | Mi M. A Maclean, Miss Lavita Mac- | Yean, Mrs. J. Lew Brown, Mr. and Mrs. | J. W. Flanagan, Miss Ruby Flanagan, Mr. and Mrs, C. P, Marshall, Miss Anna | Price, Miss Virginia Jones, Mrs. J. L. | | Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. J. Calvin Moss, Miss Elsle Gilllam, Mrs. Allce Sears, Mrs. A. F. Young, Miss Lottle Brown | and Rev. E. B, Willlagham. | After n wait of elght years the rail- | way station at Ban Luls Potesi, Mex! o, which was burned in 1920, i to b reconstructed, 2,000 CHORUS GIRLS PLAN TO FORM LABOR UNION Chicago Group Decides on Program to Promote ‘“More Cash and Less Conversation.” By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 23.—Chicago's 2,400 chorus girls have declded to organize a labor unfon for the promotion of more cash and conversation, 5o announces Miss Lorita Clevenger, in charge of organization work. “The idea,” sald Miss Clevenger, “Is to give the girls a break. We want to make it unnecessary for cabaret chorus less | girls to sit at the table with guests, as | they do in many places now, "Chorus girls who go to work at 7 m. for the dinner crowd ought to be through work by midnight.” Thirty-five dollats a week for chorus girls working in town and $10 move while on the road were the figures Miss Clevenger suggested a8 the minimum in the way of salary. Sunday and other shows would mean more money, CHINESE NATIONALISTS DETAIN U. S. AVIATOR Storm Near Shantung Bor- der, Returns. By the Associated Press TIENTSIN, June 24.—-An Anier | In one of the most turbulent sections of China was made known here today with the return of the fyer, Marine Pilot Sergt. Fry, to his base Sergt. Fry left Tientsin Wednesday for Hain-Ho, on the outskirts of Peking He had trouble with his gas tank when over Peltang and while he was adjusting it ran into a storm and lost his course | He was finally forced to land near Te- chow on the Shantung border, where he was detained by Nationalist troops while they investigated his story. They treat- ed him courteously and finally allowed him to depart, & missionary station fur- nishing the necessary gasoline, . Attempts of employers in India to in- | crease the productivencss of individual workers rather than reduce wages have et with opposition by the employes. | Marine Pilot Fry, Forced Down by | Marine aviator's two-day disappearance | Delivered in London. | LONDON, June 23 (#).—Ray Ather- ton, American charge d'affaires, today | | handed the British foreign office the | and was closely assoclated with James | feXt of Secretary Kellogg's latest note | S9RUL grandfather of her former | COntaining provisions a_ propased | Hance. " She was gradunted a year ago | multilateral treaty for outlawing war, from Bryn Mawr Oswald Garrison » . Villard, editor of the Nation, liberal | MGl Rrogueing : Mepts. weaklv. {8 hee-uticle | (MEXICO CITY, June 23 (@) Mr. Hill was graduated from Yale | Mexican government’s reply to Sex in 1925 and spent a year at Oxford. ,tary of State Kellogy's invitation to at- | | He is now with the Great Northern |end an international conference of ar- Railway, which his grandfather helped | bitration and conciliation is expected | build and of which his father is chair- | Soon to be ready. The invitation was | [man of the board of directors. ~He sent the forelgn office by the American started with a pick-and-shovel gang to ! embassy yesterday and this morning's learn the business from the ground up. | REWSpapers say that Secretary of State | Estrada has conferred with President | Calles regarding the answer. | Although their decision is not defi- | nitely known, it is believed Mexico will { accept. was announced Decembe X Miss Villard's grandfather, the late Henry Villard, was publisher of the New York Evening Post for many year he Robert Morris Dies in Hospital. {al Dispateh to The Star HYATTSVILLE, Md Robert Morris, 25 years old, son of Prof. G. J. Morris, principal of | Hyattsville High School, and Mrs. Mor- rls, died yesterday at Sibley Hospital, Washington, following an operation for an affection of the stomach performed several days ago . Young Morris, besides his parents. | is survived by a brother, Charles Mor- | ris, of Richmond, Va., and a sister, Miss | Harah Morris of Hyattsville, | S June e - Lightning Kills Two Boys. MIAMI, Okla.. June 23 (9. —Theodore Schrader, 14, and Joe Schrader, 11, sons of Mr. and Mrs, 8. E. Schrader, were killed yesterday when lightning struck & barn in which the boys were working on thelr father's farm near Fairland. Last Friday a tornado un- roofed the Schrader home and damaged L Several fanm ulldings. A MRS. WHITTLETON DEAD Widow of Civil W Native of Illigpois ar Veteran Wa Mrs. Emer Jane Whittleton, 84 year old, widow of Capt. Robert J. Whit ton, & Civil War veteran and em plove of the Department of Agricu! ure for more than 30 years ed & residen 2608 Twelfth riheast, yesterday Mrs. Whittleton was born in Harvard 1. She came to ngton whe her husband was given an appointmer in the Department of Agriculture b J. M. Rusk. Secretary of Agricultur under President Harrison. She is ived by two sons, R. Whittleton, cashier of the Bureau, and Pliny E Whittleto of the Harvard (L) Herald. sister, Mrs. Martha Griffith of Chicas Funeral services and burial will be Harvard, 1ML Robe Woman's Club Row in Court ATLANTA, Ga., June 23 (®.—Leg battle over the presidency of Atlanta Woman's Clud was carried the State Supreme Court yestexday when Judge John Humphries. in Pul- ton Superior Court, signed bills of ex- ceplions, N