Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1928, Page 13

THE STAR. WASHINGTON, D. U, TUESDAY, JULY 8.7 1928. EVENTNG Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson and Capt. George H. Wilkins, Arctic fiyers. arriving at the New York dock yesterday. The metropolis staged 3 parade’'up Broadway and the avialors were officially wel- comed at the City Hall. —Wide World Photo. Babe Ruth presenting Acting Secre- tary of War Col. C. B. Robbins with a base ball and bat for an outstanding player of the bee Davisor for Aviatio 0 Assis at right. Associated Press Photo. Start of the International Balloon Race at Detroit. Big gas bags. representing many nations, entered the annual event for. the Gorddn Bennett Trophy. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Gen Alyaro Obregon, newly elected President of Mexico, and his family. News dispatches record the July 1st election as one of the most orderly ever experienced in the country across the Rio Grande. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Maj. Gen. Lutz Wahl, adjutant general of the Army, placing a wreath at the statue of Comte de Rochambeau, in Lafayette Park yesterday during a 203rd anniversary ceremony. Attending the ceremony: W. L. Burnside, Ma ). J. A. Ulio, Maj. E. E. Lombard, E. F. Riggs, Maj. Gen. Lutz Wahl. Rev. Charles T Warner, Maj. F. G. Munson, Maj. E. S. Hege and Dr. Marcus Ben Jamin. OCHS PAIDTRIBUTE - BY GIATBANQUET New York and Chattanooga Associates and Many Oth- ers Honor Publisher. 3 By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.,, July 3.— Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the Chat- tanooga Times for 50 years, was en route to New York today at the con- clusion of a three-day celebration ten- dered him by the City of Chattanooga and many friends of national promi- Dpente. The occdion was climaxed last night #t a banguet attended by 600 admirers who had gathered to pay their tribute in a semi-centennial program. At the banguet, Chattanooga and New York friends, associates and or- ganizations, including the Associated Press, rivaled each other in tribute, “Telegrams from President Coolidge Thomas A. Edison, and between 500 #nd 600 others were read, and scrolls were presented by the Chamber of Com- merce of New York and the advertising club of that city. Testimonials from Chattanooga organizations and from the New York Times staff, bound and rinted, were presented o their “be- Jovea chiet Mr. Ochs gave most of the credit for his success to his parents, friends, as sociates and aldes, and hoped that h never would “abuse the confidence.” ributes pald Mr. Ochs during the ree-day celebration inciuded honor of citizen emeritus conferred by the City of Chattanoogs yesterday. Gen. am L. Frierson of Chattanooga, who wes eral under President Wilson, as toast- master, declared Mr. Ochs was honored ot for his Tame and riches, but fof | %y the recognition and fulfiliment of the stewardship they involved Dr. John H. Piniey, editor of the New York Times, the “junior” newspaper owned by Mr. Ochs, also paid tribute his_chief, declari than publisher me MAN IN AUTO CRASH FINED $260 ON 4 COUNTS Accident Was | ninety olice Car in 8ay Jen—Faces Joy-Biding Charge Randolph Smith, colored snd-a-Half place 3260 or jall by Judge Gus A, & Court yesterday for tions following a collision car he was driving and 8 stre North Capitol and C stree t olice sy wan sutomobile &t time. rraigned on a traflic between Jiee nig stolen will be later Following without his stepfather passenger in address the accident, Smith Richard A. Garnett the car. gave police Fourteenth street s placed against Smith and Leaving B per- lmposed colliding. $100 or 3100 or $30 day o 30 da were P 30 days it driving ae, | WIDOW GIVEN MOST the | United States solicitor gen- ! him a “greater | 1224 Bix- | Parks, and former Representative Al was given fines total- | entences totaling 100 | huldt in Po-{ % viola- af el car ot Baturday | b driving @ and he oy-riding charge | Jeft | king his identity known, but a his The car Smith was driving is said w0 belong to Miss Marie Rish, 4424 L, 10 or 10 i OF RIXEY’S ESTI\TEt | Admiral's Will, Filed in Arlington, Leaves Her $100,000 and In- { come on Residue. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | CLARENDON, Va, July 3—Mrs.| Erieana English Rixey, widow of Rear | Amiral Presley M. Rixey, U. 8. N, is | the chief beneficiary under the will| of the admiral filed for probate with | the clerk of the Arlington County Cir- | { cult Court yesterday by Attorney John | | S. Barbour of Fairfax. Mrs. Rixey re- | | ceives $100,000 and the income on the | | entire_residue. ’ A Dbrother, C. Jonés Rixey, is be-| | queathed the income on $10.000 for life {and after his death the fund to go to { his descendants per stirpes other than { his two sons, Charles J. Rixey, jr., and | Presiey M. Rixey, jr, who are given | | $10,000 each. i | _ Others to benefit under the will are John 8. Barbour, $5,000; Mrs. Mildred | | P. O'Malley, a cousin, $5,000 for iife {and then to her surviving children Elizabeth Goode O'Malley, daughter of | Mrs. Mildred F. O'Malley, $5,000; John | | a nephew, $5,000; Edith & niece, $10,000; John & nephew, $5000; | Charles Brown, a servant, $5,000 and a plot of land in Arlington County: | the endowment fund of St. John's Epis- | copal Church of Washington, $10,000; | House of Mercy, District of Columbia, | |$5,000: St. John's Orphanage, $5.000 endowmen¥ fund of the University of | virginia, $10,000; bullding fund of the Washington Eplscopal Cathedral, $10,- 000; the trustees of St. Mary's the Church of Our Mothers at Rixey Sta- {tion, Arlington County, primarily and {especially o protect the church from {any indebtedness thereon, $20,000 After the death of the widow the estate is to be equally divided among Edith Peaseley Moore of Berryville, Va.; {Mildred F. O'Malley, Elizabeth Goode {O'Malley, Earlena Isabel Morton, Col Presley M. Rixey, U. 8. M. C.; Charl Rixey and Sarah West Tallaferro, { torney John 8. Barbour and the Vi {ginia Trust Co. of Richmond are named 85 executors, TREE PLAN1"|NG TODAY. Meridian Hill Park Ceremony Is | i i { Tribute to Judge Bundy { A tree will be planted at a special | ceremony at Meridian HIl Park, Six- | teenth street and Florida avenue, at 5 o'clock this afternoon, in honor of the i seventh birthday of ~ Judge | Charles 8. Bundy. Among those who | will speak at the exercises are Commis- | sloner Taljaferro, Col. U, 8. Grant, 3d | director of public baildings and pub! | drews of Nebraska Judge Bundy was born July 3 t Windsor, N. Y Hamilton College ‘with the class of 'b0. He served during the Civil War, and {later becume & judge of the Municipal | Court, Afier retiring from the bench e wrote “Bundy's Justice,” two edi ons of which have been published For many years he has taken | active interest in local civic affairs | was chairman of the commitiee parks and reservations of the Washing- | 1on Board of Trade from 1909 to 1923 and Is & vice president of the Oldest Inhabitants’ Askotiation, a life member of the Columbia Historical Soclety and the Columbla Helghts Citlzens’ Asso- ciation, 1831 1 | e H [ ¥ Parmers of Pennsylvania used nearly | crossing at Thirteenth and K streets last and graduated from | ¢ | the Lawyers' Manresa Club of Wash- | group. ~—Washington Star Photo. There was a circus in town yesterday! The Wheatley playground children were the clowns, acrobats and musicians, and they performed at the opening day ceremony of the Children's Health Camp, under the auspices of the Washington Tuberculosis Assoclation. Miss Rosemary Easton directed the playground —Washington Star Photo. WOMAN PEDESTRIAN IS VICTIM OF AUTO| Mrs. Ella Mitchell, 65, Receives Broken Hip When Struck at Crossing—Other Accidents. Btruck by an automobile as she was night, Mrs. Ella D. Mitchell, 65, 1221 K street, was taken to George Washington Hospital and found to be suffering from | a fracture of the left hip, lacerations u.; the scalp and slight concussion of the brain. Her condition is considered seri- | ous. The automobile that struck her} was operated by Samuel G, Chaney, 1209 | 3 treet | | Ja Oser, 5, 5938 Geor, J | | was treated by Dr. G. B. Heinecke, 5634 | Georgla avenue, for scalp lacerations re- | ceived when he was struck and knocked | down at Colorado avenue and Military | road by an automoblle operated by Wes- {ley C° Whitmer. 21, 1443 Palrmont \ o} strect. The child’s injurles were con- sidered minor colored, 55, 601 M| Harriett Muck | street, was slightly injured when she | was struck at Fifth and K streets by | an automobile operated by John P. Mc- ’L‘ullhv of Kensington, Md, 3he was | ‘ll"nh(l at Providence Wospital. HONOR JUDGiE’S MEMORY. | Lawyers’ Manresa Club Pays Trib- | | ute to Work of Late Justice Smith. | A tribute W the memory of one of | s members, the late Justice Jumes | Francis Smith of the United BStates | Court of Customs Appeals, was paid by | | ington last Sunday at the clost of the annual three-day religious retreat of the club conducted at Manresa-on-the- Bevern, near Annapolis, Md Justice Smith was to have attended the retreat. A resolution on Justice Smith's death, extolling him ws o so0l- dier, Jurlst and citizen, was adopted by the ‘club 400,000 tons of commercial fertilivey 10 1927, wt & cost of more than §10,- 000,000, - L3 The club Is composed of wbout P Catholic attorneys of Washington, Justice Baulh was s Retive mombe mnd e ITREATY PLACES RIFLE MATCH ‘OUTSIDE OF OLYMPIC' GAMES 1;Germams NotrAilowed to practice Shoot- ing, Hence Contest, Including U. S., Is Mcrcly Curtain Raiser. By the Associated Press OCHENBURG, Holland, July 3.—Be- cause the treaty of Versailles forbids rifie practice by the youth of Germany, the International free rifle team match, scheduled to be held here July 21-25, must take place as & sort of curtain ralser to the Olympic games Instead of being made an event in the interna- tlonal contests “In 1924 the question came up for the first time after the war of German par- cipation In the Olymplc games,” said Capt. W. J. M. Linden, general secretary of the Dutch Sharpshooters’ Federation, who 15 In charge of the arrangements for this year's match. “We then found that under the treaty of Versallles there can be no rifle shooting In Germany. would not have been falr to admit Ger- many to & part of the Olymplc games and to bar them from others, so sharp- shooting was stricken off the Olympic program and the match conducted alongside of the Olymplcs. Effort to Include Germa “Last year, after the Rome maich when the federation met at Monaco, Col bury, who was in_charge of the An jcan Leal tried to work out a way by which the rifie mutohes would be re- Instated as part of the Olymple pro- gram, yel permit Germany to partici- pate. His attempt was in vain, The reaty of Versailles still stood in the way." The nounced have an- participation: _ United States, Holland, PFrance, Belglum, Sweden, Portugal and _BSwitzerland. Curlously enough, Great Britain takes no interest in the mateh, "'Nlu{ are not & shooting nation,” Capt. Linden humorously remarked, For the American delegation, which will arrive al Rotterdam later in July, quarters have been arranged at the Jote) Wittebrug, half way helwegn the following countries thelr It Hague and Scheveningen, the famous Dutch seaside resort. Originally the match was to have been held at Driebergen, within earshot of ex- Emperor Willlam's exile at Doorn, but the financial support was not forth- coming for making the event a success there. ‘The choice then fell upon Ochen- burg, a short distance from The Hague It 1s sald here that S. J. Van Der Bergh, father of the present president of the "Dutch Sharpshooters' Federation, had out of enthusiasm for the sport bullt a covered stand of 20 targets with « 300-meter range. The stand has since passed into the hands of a stock com- any, which, with the municipality of he Hague, has subscribed the neces- sary funds for assuring the success of the international matches. Man and Woman Veterans to Gel 700 Scholarshiy By the Awsociated Pross CHICAGO, July 3. —8even hundred college wnd university scholarships for the coming school yenr have been made avallable for men and women who served In the United States forces during the World War and for their descendants, It was announced yesterday by the trusteos of the La- verne W. Noyes estate. ‘These scholarships will be divided among 50 _institutlons of higher learning. Former nurses, soldlers, sallors and Marines who qualify for the free tuitions will receive com- plete or part time scholarships, ac- . cording to thelr needs. Virtually the enbire field of loarning s coveyed, \BANDITS GET $26.50 | | Another Reports Looted Apartment to Police—Gems, Watch and Dresses Gone. I Held up by two armed colored men last night while he was walking on G street Letween Second and Third streets southwest, Prank Thompson, colored, 11618 Fourteenth street, was robbed of $26.50, he reported to police of the { fourth precinet. He gave the police de- | seriptions of the hold-up men. Maurice Hall, 1307 Twelfth street, re- turning from a two-week vacation, re- | ported to the police last night that his | | apartment had been entered during his absence and robbed of two suits of clothing_valued at $115. Carl D. Powell, 1010 Eleventh street, reported the theft from his home terday of a wrist watch valugd at § | and & $33 pistol. Jewelry totaling $33 in value was stolen from Mary Pearce 1620 Florida and Virginla Becton, avenue, Officials of the Cameo Furniture Co., | 800 Four-and-a-half street, were today | attempting to estimate the amount of | loss resulting from & visit paid their | store Sunday. A window was found | broken and 18 house dresses stolen. It |is thought that other articles were | | taken also. | 15 DIE IN RIOTS. | Twenty-five Wounded in Religious Demonstrations in India. CALCUTTA, India, July § (@, Newspaper advices say that 15 persons have been killed and 25 seriously wounded in religious rioting at Kharg- ur, Hindus and Stkhs attacked a Mo- ammedan religious procession, which was “"fi'fl music when it attempted to pass a Hindu temple. Most of the deaths occurred in fight- ing in the byways, gullies and houses, where police were unable to separate the combatants. Two women were stabbed to death when they tried 0 aave the Hves of relatives, i v FROM STREET VICTIM 5 s Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic nominee for Vice President, is welcomed by the home folk in Little Rock, Ark. Photograph snapped while the Senator answered the address of welcome. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. e v SHIPPING ‘NET/S Arrivals at_and_Sailings From New York. ARRIVED YESTERDAY. | American_Trader—London. | Ancon—Cristo! > | Ryndam—Rotterdam | Caronia—Southampton "L | De Grasse—Havre ..... | Columbus—Bremerhaven . | Duilio—Genoa ... Prederik VIII—Copenhage Minnel london ... New York—Hambure | Stavangertjord—Oslo | Coamo~San Juaa..... Ponce—San _Juan. Rarlsruhe—Bremer Atlantida--Kingston Laconia—Liveipool ... Cananova—Kingston ... DUE TODAY. Prance—Havre ... American Legion-—fivienos Aires Essequibo—Valparaiso . . 3iboney—Havana < Tivives—Puerto _Barrios Huron-+Yurks - Island Commewsyne,-Bart au Prin Haiti—Cape Hait! DUE TOMORROW. | Republic—Bremerhaven .... Homeric —Southampton Evangeline—Yarmouth. N.'8 Baracoa—Puerto Colombia. . | DUE THURSDAY. JULY 5. | Bermuda—Bermuda“ ;. ........... | Metapan-_Santa Maria. .. | Nerissa—st. " Johns 2 Bourdonnais—Bore | Yorop-Kingston DUE PRIDAY, JULY 6. | Auitania—Southampton 5 Valendam—Rotterdam President Rmnlt—l:umerhn on... ‘June Ju DUE SATURDAY. Manuel Calvo—Barcelona ... DUE SUNDAY. JULY & Havana—Vera Cruz..... Muenchen_-Bremerhaven Pastores—Port Limon Evangeline—Yarmouth, N. 8. DUE MONDAY. JULY American Shipper—London Caledonia—Glasgow Celtic-—Liverpool Deutschiand—Hamburg Minnewaska—London Havre erpool vre San Juan n J JULY 7. June 4 June 30 June 38 July .. June 30 June 30 San Lo San Jusn. OUTGOING STEAMERS. SAILING TODAY. Gripsholm—Gothenburg. President Harding—Cobh. Plymouth, bours and Bremerhaven. California—Mediterranean’ cruise. SAILING TOMORROW. weviathan—Cherbourz and Southampton. Fort Vicloria—Bermuda C: D no g Puerto Cabello and Cher- -8 uan, aracaibo. Qlancho—Puerto_Cortes. Santa Marta—Kingston. _Cristodal, Car- tagena, Puerto Colombia and Santa Marta. SAILING THURSDAY, JULY 3. President Monroe—World crulse. De Grasse—Havre Santa Maria—Cristobal, Daraiso. Westohalia—Cobh and Hamburg Karlsruhe—Southampton, Boulog; Bremerhaven Coamo—San Jua Mevico—Havana. Belgenland—Piymouth, Callao and Val- and n, Progreso and Vera Crux Cherbours and Aut- ern. American Banker—London. Homeric—Cherbours ana Southampton, SAILING FRIDAY, JULY & Caronta—Plymouth, Havre and London Erance—Plymouth ‘and Havre Columbus—Plymouth, Cherbours and Hre- merhaven. Dullio~—Napies and Genoa. SATLING SATURDAY, JULY T Laconia—Cobh and Liverpool New York~Cherbours. Southampton and Wamburg Ryndam- Plymouth. Boulosne and Rotter- ‘oamo-—San Juan and Santo Domingo. reder(k Vill—Christiansand, Oslo penhagen \vives—Santiage, Kingston, Puerto Castilla, (boner—Havana Republic—-Cobh, Plymouth. Cherbours and temerhuven, Mipihekahda~Plymouth, Boulegne and Lon- Cobh and Liverpool fotdNeveen. and’ Corinte. N o Blata. Santo Dominge and ne Havana, Cilstobal and Port ) and s imon. wuda -~ Hamilton. o S a—Puerto Cortes. Johns Newfoundland. .. June 28 | June 28 | «.June 23 | 7 | son, 23, in connection with the bombing . J—‘\I|v 13 " a3 Juine 30 | attached. June 33 June 30 June 30 | POLICE SHAKEUP DUE INGANG WAR ”‘INew York Force Fails to Ar- rest -Slayers in Series of Murders. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 3.—A shake-up in the New York Police Department ap- Th? net result of a day's intense | police activity appeared to be the hold- ing for questioning of Lottie May Dob- |to death Sunday night of Benjamin | Kanowitz, to the starter of whose auto- | mobile a stick of dynamite had been The girl, who was preparing to depart from her rooming house when taken { into custody, was said by the palice to June 30 | have been a close friend of Kanowits. June 36 | ne "3 June 28 The Kanowitz siaying. however, was | only one of three gang slayings in the ’hul two weeks. There a) ntly were no clues de- machine-gun slaying, on ) Uale, also known as | Frankie Yale, Brooklyn's philanthropie | gangster, and the killing two weksk :” of Edwin Jerge, reputed drug A silver coffin, valued at $15,000 and apparently a duplicate of the one in which Dion O'Banion, Chicago gang- ster, was buried, has been prepared for | Uale's body. The body has been claimed | by Mrs. Mary Uale, who last June was 9| granted a divorce. \COLORED MEN HELD IN CHURCH LOOTING Clarence Johnmson Said -m Confess to Seven Robberies in City Within Two Weeks. Apprehended by Headquarters Detec- | tive Thomas Nally at Pennsylvania ave- | ue and Four-and-one-half street today, | Clarence Johnson, colored, 43 years old, is sald to have admitted the here within the past few weeks of seven | churehes, most of them ! Johnson was crossing Pennsylvania Avenue, carrying an electric fan, when Nally saw him. When questioned he taold the detective that the fan had been | given him by the owner of a nearby lunchroom to have repaired. Nally ac- companied Johnson to the lunchroom and the proprietor denied ever having [T was then that te used | was then that detective aca | him of the church thefts, and Johnson | admitted them, it is said, clalming he %0t the fan in a church at First and | H streets northeast, and was on his | way to sell it. He promised to acoom- pany Nally and his partner, Detective E. E. Thompson, on & tour of the vari- aus churches he has entered. He is said to have admitted serv terms for thefts before | Among 1 | | silverware, dishes, rugs and furniture, Most of these articles be Is claimed to have sold. Germany 1s the lw maker and user of w! » it present-day