Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1928, Page 2

TRIAL BOARD FINDS | POLICEMAN GUILTY Worthen's Dismissal Recom-; mended—Four Other Of- ficers Are Fined. | Policeman C. W. Worthen of the ond precinct was recommended al from the Metropolitan force vesterday aftermoon by board following a hearing discovery e sulted from his of July 10 on a dark s h a fellow officer and two Two other officers were ex- by the board yesterday and ound guilty and fined a to- Policeman Frank J. Sco- | 3 precinct appeared b esterday with a dis- mbrance of the in- that he found nan Bradley A precinet, in the Cyele Says He Saw Two. jorthen in the front form, in the rear. to induce the officers to to their precinct, Scoville v became abusive and struck vith his nightstick, then a s revolver, and whea was taken from him, struck Sco- over the left eye with his bla Scoville testified that Worthen | > quiet Henry and offered ce to the motor cycle offtcer. e is to be heard before the Thursday. 2 W. H. Turner of the thir- who was found in a mobile in an allegedly in- condition by Lieut. J. E. Bow- was fined $50. Policeman | . also of the thirteenth was found in_another r at the same time, was ilbur H. R. Bran- who examined both officers a utes after the incident, testified | rner was unfit for duty at the that Cannon was sober. J. H. Wood Fined. es against Policeman J. H of the ninth precinct of being aied while on duty and of fail- report at the proper time were d by the board and Wood was, £75 on the first count and $10 on | »ond. Wood was suspended Sat- by Lieut. Gustave Lauten of the | precinct when the officer is al-| d xics | next ycar. The plane will be ready injw 1:30 o'clock. | Policemen S. R. McKee and C. F. h of the eleventh precinct, charg>d Lieut. Sidney J. Marks with willful | bedience of orders, were fined $20 The officers were six days late cting a traffic accident, Lieut. | declared. | he case of Policeman John Sirrola ths ninth pretmct.':hnmd with g:" ifi shooting of & dog. Was o > - showed that the | d. The testimony antinal was il and its owner could not | be_found. In the absence of the president of the | Woard. W. H. Wahley, Alexander Bell jr, an assistant corporation eounlel,] | presided S { NEW CLUES REPORTED IN SHOOTING PROBE s Investigation Into Smith‘: Case Is Delayed by i More Leads. ! report of his i on the While working i Bd tnvestigation of the shooting 8. Smith. colored, by Policeman Ernest | C. Spaulding of the twelfth precinet, | Assistant United States Attorney Wal-| ter M. Shea yesterday was confronted | with new clues which made it Im'pm-l sible for him to conclude his tnqmry. today. as be had hoped. ! Shea declined to make public the | exact nature of the clues, but said that he had been looking the records of | all parties “on both " of the ease. | He confirmed the report that he had | received from the manufacturers of the | pistol that Policeman O. K. Stanton | claimed to have found near Smith's| body word that the weapon was 20 years old. He has asked ‘the firm for | more det: Only one new witness was injerviewed vesterday, but his identity could not be learned. In adi to tracing his new clue, Shea plans w0 devote considerable fime today, as he did yesterday, in getting the facts already collected together in suitat'e form to lay before District At~ torney Leo A. Rover. The investigation is understood have disclosed that Smith had a pol record ST P ARMY PISTOL SOUGHT IN SLAYING OF POLICE OFFICER IN ALEXANDRIA Continued_from Pirst Page) | to ice | 1 fired the fatal shot would but the assallant’s weapon t be located. ullet, which entered the thigh, | found across the street, where it | a fence and dropped to the police and all of the|was sald that his skull may be frac-|forfeited $10 collateral and the third and cities were no- he murder, and roads were ely guarded uest for bioodhounds was made rict Workhouse at Oceoquan, als there told the local pulice re the shooting had oc- 1 hard-surfaced pavement and some sofl where the hounds k up & trace who served as director ) this city for several made city manager Campbell said that tnesses 10 the trag- lues with which they might They admitted having but refused to reveal them he neighborhood Me hand after the sh re heard. However, able to furnish any de- #li whether the man was the approval of the City wow adjourned for i mer months, with of the city, Mr. Morlon announ a rewa:d of $500 for any positive clue Jeading 10 the arrest of the murderer Bergl. Hummer entered the city serv ces s 8 patroiman he Alexandria Police Department on August 17, 1937, one year and a day before his death, He was regarded highly by city officials one of the most efficient and fear- embers on the force and on June 1928, was promoted 10 @ sergeant’s ranking Prior 1o becoming a - man Sergl, Hummer was employed by Southern Railway Co. as & fireman years, Before that he worked ncle on s farm near Hegndon He is survived by his mother and Alpheus P. Hummer, 78 years mer, and Coun: 1 New Fishing Spot Sought by Coolidge % When Season Ends| By the Assoclated Press SUPERIOR, Wis., August 18 | Faced with the prospect of a closed season on his Brule River trout after August 31, President Coolidge has asked for a Minnesota fishing license to assure continuatfon of his favorite sport. After two and a half months of daily fishing, virtually from his front doorstep, the Chief Executive after September 1 will have to fish either on the private lakes of the Henry Clay Pierce estate, where the trout are so numerous as to provide little sport, or must turn to bass, pike pickerel and other fish in more dis- tant lakes. He already has a Wisconsin license and therefore is entitled to fish in lakes in this State. Mr. Coolidge however, that he might wish to try the Minnssota waters for a change and applied for a license in the neighboring State. CAPT.LYON REPEATS MARRIAGE DENIAL Says There Were Many in West Who Had Same Name and Rank. | unless the rain Br the Assoctated Pres: PORTLAND. Me., August 18—Capt Harry W. Lyon, jr. transpacific f last night reiterated a denial he made in Boston yestercav that he was the| husband of Mrs. Erma Meler Lyon or Lyons, who was reported in San Fran- | cisco dispatches as having been grant- ed an annuiment of her marriage to the navigator. When shown a dispatch which report- ed a San Francisco marriage license was issued January 4, 1920, to Harry Lyons, master mariner, and Mrs. Erma | | Dyer Meier, a divorcee, Capt. Lyon de- | clared he knew scveral navigators on the Pacific Coast who answered to the name of Lyons. Capt. Lyon was tendered a dinner lasi night by the local Chamber of Com- merce, which he attended in company | with Mrs. Keith Miller of Ausiralia, Capt. Newton Lancaster of the British | the form of local showers and may not THE EVENING AUGUST WETTEST MONTH SINCE 1906 And With 13 Days Left, All| Records May Be Shattered. 13 days Dbefore September this month may go down in his- as the wettest calendar month ever recorded by the Weather Bureau here. Since August 1 the total rain fall in this city has been 11.58 inche: which is 8.82 inches above the normal rainfall for the first 18 days of August. Even though not another drop of rain falls the rest of the month, August, | 1928, will go down as the third wettest menth here since the establisShment of the Weather Bureau. The wettest month ever known here was August, 1906, when there was a rainfall of 14.36 inches for the month. In August, 1875, the total rainfail was 12.93 i On July 31 the total precipitation in this city since January 1 was 5.67 inches below the normal for that period. | By viriue of the heavy rains this month | the precipitation to date for the year is .15 inches above the normal That the month is in a position to break all previous records is attested by the fact that more rain is cxpected | here late this afternoon and tomight. The rain, however, is expected to be in With comes tory be very heavy. No damage is expected should be unexpectedly | heavy, as the flood waters in and | around Washinglon were subsidmg | ‘oday. Th Potomac River was nearly normal | today. according to Harry C. Franken- | field, flood and river expert at the | Weather Burcau. The gauge at Key | Brid: registered only 3.9 feet above | the mean low tide mark at high tide | this morning. Thi but seven-tenths of a foot abové the normal high tide mark and shows that the river here | hes subsided more than a half foot | since yesterday's high tide. East Potomac Park remained flooded today, pools of rain water standing in all the low places. The golf course is out of use. Base ball diamonds, tennis courts and other recreation areas in the local parks were to be reopened for use at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Rock Creek, which was in flood yesterday, has gone down considerably today and all roads in Rock Creek Park are open. The flood waters at Bladensburg, Md., | amy and his mother, Mrs. Henry W.|which reached the highest point at- | be made in May, he said. Lyon, sr. He is planning a trans- | tained in 35 years yesterday, had reced- atlantic hop from New York to London | ed today and the Washington-Balti- with Mrs. Miller and Capt. Lancaster | more beulevard and the Defense High- v. whieh e under 4 feet of December. and the start probably will | water yerterday, were reported entirely .;ir\' and reopened to traffic this morn Ing. CALLS AFFAIR CLOSED. sae taxrr s e sevr wes' DORSEY WINS IN FOUR| Woman on Coast. SOUTH PARIS, Me., August 17 (#) —Walter L. Gray, legal adviser to Ad- miral Henry W. Lyon's family here announced last night that he had re- ceived a telegram from Syivester J McAttee, lawyer, of San Francisco, say- ing. “The whole matter of the contro- versy regarding Capt. Harry Lyon's marriage to Mrs. Erma Maler Lyons of San Prancisco has been straightened out. There is nothing to it.” Gray sald the telegram was in reply to a query sent by him as soon as he learned that an annulment had been granted to Mrs. Erma Lyons, who mar- ried a Capt. Harry Lyons on June 5, 1920. “Capt. Lyon is not now and never was legally her husband,” Gray said last might. “LYON'S MOTHER HELPED." Bride Tells of Plans for Annulment of Marriage. SAN FRANCISCO. August 18 (P.— | Mrs. Erma Meier Lyon, who obtained 2 decree annuling her marriage to Harry | Lyon. navigator of the Southern Cross on the Golden Gate-Australia flight, stated that Harry's mother had helped | lay plans for the annulment. “If Harry Lyon's mother is correctly quoted in news dispatches, she is doing me a grave injustice,” said Mrs. Lyon. “When she was here we had a long talk. I did not ask either her or her | son for financial assistance and never received any. “As far as Mrs. Jane Lyon is con- cerned, she has known for some time | that Harry had another wife. His| mother sent word to her while she was here, after I had seen her. and Mrs. | Jane Lyon telegraphed back that she would do anything Harry's mother | thought best.” ARMORED MONEY STRUCK BY ANOTHER The money taken in by many of the | Atlantic & Pacific tea stores of Wash- ington came close to being scattered all over the street yesterday afternoon when an armored car belonging to the Nagle National Detective Agency was struck by another machine at Thir-| teenth and C streets southeast as it was | in the midst of its daily collection | rounds to the various stores. | The amount contained in the ecar| could not be ascertained, but officials | of the A. & P, Co. said today that it| may have been carrylng anywhere be-| tween $10,000 and $40,000. Both cars| were slightly damaged | Lawrence Diggs, colosed, 18 years| old, 440 New York avenue mnortheast, | driver of the touring car, sustained | severe lacerations and bruises to the | head. At Casualty Hospital, where he| was taken in a passing automobile, 1t | CAR years | tured. Neither Allen Orrison. ifl the driver | old, of 6909 Eighth street of the armored machine guards was injured. l | muni | second place EVENTS AT AIR MEET| Boy's Model Craft Stays Up 49| Seconds in Fuselage Type Contest. | | | Herbert Dossey, 16 years old, of 3708 | Thirty-third street flew his model air- | czaft to four victorles and one second | place in the five events of the District | miniature aircraft tournament held at | Macfarland Junior ‘High School last | night under the auspices of the Com- | —_ Center Départment of the public schools. Young Dorsey, fiying in the senior class, took first in the contest| for fuselage models of the rise-off. ground type, with a flight of 49 secon | first in the scale model type with 8| and 2-5 seconds; first in the contest for hand-launched fusclage models with a time of 49 4-5 seconds; first in the hand-launched scale models con- test with a time of 13 seconds, and in the weight-carrying scl|l¢ model contest with 1.11 weight ratio. Lioyd - Fish captured second honors in the al the senior events except the last, in which in outpointed Dorsey. In the junior contest Clayton Fish, | Lloyd's younger brother won three first | prizes in the five events staged in lhntl class. The results of the junior con- test are as follows Fusel model contest, first, Clayton Fish, 17 3-5 seconds; second, Billie von Berneiwtz, 16 2-5 seconds; third, Ernest Stout, 9 2-5 seconds. Scale model, Ernest Stout. 6 seconds. Hand-launched fuselage model, first, Clayton Pish, 33 seconds; second, Thomas Robins, third, Frank Salisbury, 15 seconds. Hand-launched scale models, first Ernest Stout, 5 1-5 secqnds. ‘Weight-carrying contest, Clayton Fish, 375 weight ratio. PAPER THIEVES JAILED. Judge Gives Two 30 Days for Fail- ing to Deposit Pennles. ! After hearing 45 cases of newspaper | rack thieves during the past week, Po- lice Court Judge Robert E. Mattingly today carried out his threat to give straight jall sentences to such offenders and sent two colored men to jail for 30 days. ‘The men were Henry Scott, 1222 T street, and Robert 8. Granton, 228 Twelfth place northeast, both of whom pleaded gullty. Three other men were arrested by Officers Laflin and Dodson of the eighth precinct, in a drive gafiist newspaper thieves. Two of them | | | | | | { | forfeited $20. They were Paul Chaney, 2009 Twelfth street; Leon Johnson, nor the two 1907 Eleventh street, and Walter Stew- | her art of 872 Howard avenue. COURSE ALL WATER HAZARDS NOW three | | everal members out | | | | her into custody for questioning | that a burglar had entered, placed a | that if she ever sald anything about STAR. WASHINGTON, D¢, BROKEN WA SATURPAY, AbUuUNT 18, luze. SERVANTS ADMIT BOURNE ROBBERY Two Women in Home Held| With Two Others in | $190 Theit. | | With the arrest of four persons, two | of them servants in_the house, Head- | quarters Detectives C. J. P. Weber and | the mystery of the theft on Tuesday night of $190 from the home of Mrs. Linnie M. Bourne, 2027 Hillyer place, one of the ‘few surviving members of | one of Washington's oldest families. | Those arrested are Clara T. Payton, | colored, 25, 1617, Thirteenth street. Mrs, Bourne's mnal mald; Lucinda Brown, colored, 31, 1317 Q street, her | eook; Willlam A, Brown, colored, 32, husband of Lucinda, and Alice Lewis, | colored, 24, 924 Forty-ninth street. The | three women have been charged with | grand larceny, and the man is held un- | der a technical charge of investigation, The women all admit the robbery. Notices Light Out. When Mrs. Bourne relurned home about 10 o'clock Tuesday night she noticed that a front second-story win- dow was open and that the light, which she had left turned on in her bedroam, was not burning. She called the police and when they entered they discovered | the loss. Shortly. afterward, the detectives say. the Payton woman came in, looked the situation over and immediately started shouting that $25 she had in her room had been stolen. Since she had not yet been to her room, the detectives im- mediately became suspicious. When they went there and found that it, too, had been thrown into disarray, they took | Threatens Suicide. ‘The woman refused to talk that night | but on Wednesday told the detectives pistol against her head and told her the case he would “blow her brains| out.” Later she admitted her part in the case and named the cook and the Lewis woman, as her accomplices. I According to the Payton woman, she | knew where the money was kept and where the kcy was secreted, so arranged to perform the robbery while Mrs. Bourne was out. The detéctives recovered’ $110 from the maid, ‘? from the Lewis woman and but $6 from the cook. The latter sald that she had spent the rest of hers in_having a good time. The maid, as originator of the scheme, got the larger part of the loot. police say. Mrs. Bourte lives alone except for servants, She is the widow of Thomas Bourne | day. 1 Leon Cuashman of Great Britain in| SOUTHERN RIVERS RECEDING; JAMES CONTINUES TO RISE (Continued from First Page.) descended in torrents during the after- noon. A tree felled by lightning derailed a train at Oxford, Pa., and several fac- tories were flooded at Chester. Officials from the Baldwin Locomotive Works, at Baldwin, West Chester, were marooned | when their automcbile stalled on the | looded roads. A new 150~foot concrete bridge across Cobb’s Creek, near owne, was washed away, stranding scores of mo- torists. Trolley cars and automobiles were | Howard Ogle believe they have solved , stalled and telephone communication in _many sections was disrupted. The deluge esiablished a record for the month of 1.76 inches of rain in 24 hours. BRITISH RAGER WINS IRISH AUTO GRIND Keye Don Carries Black Cat and Clover for Luck—Mis- haps Mar Event. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, Northern Ireland, August 18.—Keye Don, noted British automo- bile racer, won the Royal Automobile Club's international tourist trophy car race over a 410-mile course here to- an Alvis car was second. Don, who drove a Lea-Francls car, | carried a horseshoe, & black cat and a four-leaf clover for luck. The race was marked by a number of accidents and withdrawals, in which several cars were wrecked and one man | was injured. He was W. U. Dykes of | | Great Britain, |townards and was taken to a hospital who crashed at New- unconsclous. 64.06 Miles an Hour. Don took the lead at the end of 25 laps and continued to hold it through- out the five final laps. H. Mason of Austria, in an Austro- Daimler car, was third. ‘The winner's average speed was 64.06 miles per hour. Cushman, who finished only a few yards behind Don, averaged 64.02. Capt. Malcolm Campbell's blue Bugatti car burst into flames on the | second lap, but the captain, who was the favorite, leaped out. His machine was destroyed. J. M. Anderson of the United States had a slight crash half way round the | track, but continued. Baron D'Erlanger retired from the race with a disabled car, E. McClure, British entrant, skidded into a bank and withdrew; J. D. Barnes, another British entrant, crashed rounding a turn and was aslightly injured, while J. Martin's French car overturned, but the driver was not hurt. 250,000 Watch Race. R. C. Gallop of Great Britain was the leader at the half-way mark, doing 205 miles in 2 hours 30 minutes 50 seconds. The crowd which lined the 13-mile course was estimated at 250,000. Viscount Curzon withdrew on the teenth lap, because of a broken ga: Hne pipe. After the half-time mark, Anderson began making up his time lost by earlier troubles and rea red ‘on the score- board, but was still behind two British machines in the same class. Lieut, "eter Ross Frazer, British eh- trant, was able to extinguish a blaze in his car and continued. T. Thistleth- wayte, In & Gierman machine, ovarturn- ed, but was not hurt. Hoover Adds Speaker. LOS ANGELES, August 18 (#)— Lieut, Gov. Buron Fitts today has been added to the retinue of campaign speak- ers for Herbert Hoover, Republican presidential nominee, as the result of a conference here last night during the nominee's visit. Pitt’s according to it plans, wiN stump Texas. Mon- New York and the New England States during September and O glaber. HURRIGANE SWEEPS COAST OF ALGIERS | | | Tidal Wave and Quake Add to Devastation—Fifteen Reported Dead. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 18.—An Algiers dis- patch to Le Petit Parisien today sald 15 persons had died and 150 had been injured in a hurricane, accompanied by a tidal wave and earthshocks, which | devastated the coast of Algeria prin- | cipally between Bougie and Jijelli. The :proper y damage was described as “im- mense. As wires were down, the full tale of the disaster has not been told yet. It is known, however, that a dredger towed by a steamer foundered near Bougie. Five of the crew of seven were drowned. | At Jijelli a number of houses col- {lapsed or were unroofed. Eight to ten | persons were killed and 150 injured. Trees were uprooted. Aid is being rushed to the district, jbut the roads have been obstructed, making approach difficult. Food tents {and other supplies are on their wa with a detachment of 60 military engi- neers. The prefect from Constantine and the sub-prefect from Bougie have ;l;rokgone to Jijelli to superintend rescue STATE BANK CLOSED BY TOOMBS LOSSES Defunct Chicago Broker Was For- [ mer President of Illinois { Institution. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, August 18.—TFhe financial | dificulties of Roy C. Toombs, Chicago broker and St. Louls insurance execu- | tive, nave resulted in closing the State Bank & Trust Co. of Downers Grove, | & suburb. | Until his resignation last Wednes- day Toombs was president of the bank. State Auditor Oscar Nelson ordered the | bank elosed following & meeting of its officals last night. He explained | that steady withdrawals since Toombs' recent troubles in Chicago and St. Louis made the closing advisable, although he believed the bank to be in good condition. Bank examiners today began a re- view of the bank’s assets, while Chicago police sought Toombs on a fugitive war- rant from St. Louis, charging grand larceny of $85,000 from the Interna- tional Insurance Co. of St. Louls. Alleged shortages in the insurance compeny, of which Toombs is presi- dent, and in his Chicago investment firm of Toombs & Daily, have put both concerns into receverships. Above: Scene at Fifteenth and B streets last night when a broken water main flooded B street from Fourteenth 0 Seventeenth streets. Many automo- biles had stalled before the park blice tould erect barriers and warn the motorists. Even then they continued to 1un the flood and a dozen were stalled in the course of an hour. Waier Depart- ment employes, working feverishly, stop- ped the flood just when it threatened to overflow the street into the exeava- tion for the new Department of Com- merce Building. Below: Some of the ma- rooned cars. Several remained in two and a half feet of water with their passen- gers wntil the water drained off. Other | motorists waded to shore. i -—Star Staff Photos. (OHID SENATORIAL * VOTE COUNT SLOW Official Check Needed to De- " termine Victor in Hunt- | Locher Race. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 18 (P).— | Only the official vote as declared by Sceretary of State after a canvass of the certified county by the 88 county election boards will determine whether Cyrus Locher, Cleveland, or Graham P. | Hunt, Cincinnati liberal, has received the Democratic nomination for the short term United States senatorship. A complete recheck of the vote, the majority of which still is unofficial, Locher, who had the indorsement of the Anti-Saloon League. Hunt started out yesterday with a lead of 445, but corrections and re- visions in the unofficial vote of many counties and 'the reporting of the official vote by others cut his ?elfl down. The complete recheck- gives Hunt 93.566 and Locher 93.470. } The contest is so close. the office of the secretary of State declared that the final result can be eobtained only through a compilation of the vote from the ofi- | cial abstracts which the county boards | will mafl him. | Possibility of errors in transmi |of even the officlal vote by tel or telephone would make it virtually useless to attempt to compile the final | cm‘ml n that manner, it was poLntedI out. In the recent primary 712418 votes were cast in the contests for the Re- publican gubernatorial nomination, while in the Democratic governorship races 253,347 voted, according to com- | plete unofficial tabulations by the As- | soclated Press today. |SIX PERSONS INJURED IN VARIOUS KNOCKOUTS | Baltimorean Beaten by Unidenti- fied Assailants—Colored Man Wounded in Fight With Wife. Six persons were hurt in fights in various sections of the city last night and were sent to hospitals for treat- ment. mol;io‘{ld 'Wbléllnmuh - ‘m"'om Balti- 3 stop temporart! at 1105 D street southwest, wupobn by three unidentified white men ln‘:‘:‘t of 613 C street. ichard W. Davis, colored, 22 years old, 2629 Sheridan road southeast, was treated at’ Casualty Hospital for head wounds received, according to the police, | in an altercation with his wife. Marie Dyson, colored, 338 W street, was treated at Freedmen’s Hospital for cuts suffered in a fight with a man in front of her home, and Mary Ward, colored, 22, was treated at Casualty Hospital for face wounds received when another colored woman struck here with a bottle. Henry Cole, 33 and colored, 920 Twenty-fourth street, netted a fractured rib and a scalp wound in a brawl with an unidentified colored man in a cab- aret at Seventh and S streets. Clinton Timberlake, 24, colored, 745 Hobart place, received a cut over the right eye when his roommate hit him th a vase during an argument. | SIX IN MAIL CASE FREED, | Jury Acquits Defendants in Alleged Padded Claims Case. NEW YORK, August 18 (®.—-A ver- dict of not gullty was returned Thursday in Mrs. ON SMITH AS WET Ross Tells Institute Democrats Will En- force Law. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Au- | gust 18.—The prohibition issue cannot logically be raised against the candi- dacy of Gov. Smith, the Institute of Public Affairs here was told today bv former Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyo- ming. The widespread fendency to inject this question into the present campaign, Mrs. Ross said, denotes insincerity, mis- information or doubt of the Democratic candidate’s veracity, since the nominees of both parties stand pledged to support the eighteenth amendment, the Demo- crats going a trifle farther than the Re- publicans. “Neither ‘party,” she said. “either through its platform or the utterances of its presidential candidate, proposes to repeal it. Both parties have pledzed themselves to enforce the amendment. ‘The chief difference is that the Demo- cratic party, tarough the declaration of its platform and candidate, has- de- .. more frankly and honestly with the public. Calls Smith Honest. “Gov. Smith’s views 20 years ago are not pertinent to the question today. It is with the pledges and opinions of Gov. Smith experienced executive that we are now concerned. When he speaks, the people believe him, for he is known to be a map of his word.” ‘Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Ross pointed out, did not believe in the Volstead act and vetoed it, yet he enforced it as vig- orously as possible. with the result that drinking actually diminished during the closing years of his term, only to in- crease again under the Harding admin- istration. Doubtless, she said. there are prohi- bition violations in New York State un- der Gov. Smith, but these are found even in Washington, where “it is a mat- ter of common knowledge that even among the Congressmen who vote ap- propriations to enforce the prohibition law there are those who set the ex- ample of violation ‘to subordinates whom they invest with authority to en- foree it.” Says Coolidge Liked Beer. President Harding, she said, was cer- tainly not'a dry and only shortly before his death announced that he would ston drinking, while President Coolidge never has declared himself in sympathy with prohibition, and “his biographers tell how, as a young man, he enjoyed beer as a beverage.” cldsely on the heels of the religious issue, introduced unexpectedly Thursday, the equally delicate race issue was brought into the deliberations of the institute yesterday at the round table on political parties conducted by Dr. A. R. Hatton of Northwesern University. . Prof. Hatton said ml: ‘l’n th! Dplnlm:‘j the Republican party had long passe the point whfle’i‘t would try to inter- fere with the methods of dealing with colored voters in the South. and that i would drop the colored man like a hot potato” if they thought there was any real chance of carrying the gave Hunt the slender lead of 96 over | South. The colored vote in the North. he said, is breaking away from strict Re- publican adherence, as is the case with the almost solidly Dentocratic vote of Harlem. Asked il he thought the colored race had advanced to a point where it could take part in Democratic government, Prof. Hatton sald: “No—nor all the white race eithe Discusses. Treaty. A hitherto unsuspected source of weakness in the multilateral treaties fssion | 1ogg left out, Dr. John H. Latane of Johns University told the round table on Latin American 2 7airs. This, Dr. Latane believes, was in:entional, and he pointed out that Groat Britain, as an offset had reserved her own “sphere of influence,” which could only be in- terpreted as Egypt and India. Thus. he said, two of the most fruitful sources of trouble are left out altogether. ‘The vast extent of cutover land in the United States constitutes an economic problem of the first importance, George H. Rommel of the Department of Agri- culture said yesterday. These land: pointed out, are recognized as so useless for farming that some States have pre- vented colonization projects on them as fraud under the “sky-blue laws,” and hundreds of thousand of acres have re- verted to the States for taxes. NEW ENTENTE SEEN IN ANGLO-FRENCH NAVAL AGREEMENT (Continued from First Page.) support France in her European stabilization policies, and finally that problems of industrial financial co-operation will be carefully considered. As neither Prance nor Great Britain for the moment admits any such scoj of the accord, these rumors should discounted. Yet in international politics, actions write a clearer language than official communiques. There is a hm? and unescapable symbolism in events. Motives Seen Behind Accord. Those who believe an entente has been reached suggest that Great Britain’s motives are to form a Euro- pean front against American diplo- matic and financial activitiés in case Hoover is elected president and brings his well-known aggressive efficiency to the conduct of foreign affairs: to en- list the support of France and her allles in the diplomatic struggle wiih Russla; to slow up the Franco-German rapprochement. which was proceeding u:“ '“ll llllo Suit Great Britain: strain ly from aking: dangerous in- itiatives in the Balkan xln‘:: nearest to her, and to insure naval supremacy and guarantee the empire’s communica- tions continental menace Similarly, the motives attributed to night by & jury in the trial of six men charged with mail fraud in connection with alleged padded insurance clalus for damage by fire in the Mirabelli Bros'. warehouse, Elizabeth, N. J, last | By the Associated Press NEWARK, N. J, August 18.—A new method of color photography has been demonstrated here by Fredeiick T. O'Grady, its inventor. The process does not depend on a combination of two or three beams of colored light, but throws the seven primary col directly on the screen. The plctures are made of ordinary com- ”merc al film, utilizing only standard ens. The demonstration was made before a group of scientists and newspaper- men. The company backing the new i)rneeu is called Natural Color Pictures, ne. As explained Mr. O'Grady the color disc attac mt revolving in front of the film behind the lena regis- ters on alternate color exposures. These, projected on the scisen at & apeed Nl Cilis Miniia Woocass. Fliihion. All Primary Hues Djrect on Screen slightly faster than that at which ordi- nary black and white pictures are run, ernate so fast that all of the colors appear to be present at the same time. The new devel ent depends for Its success on the fact that the differ- ential between any two suecessive : tures is infinitely small so that, i ef N two pictures are shown in rapid succes- slon. The human eye remembers the first picture and unconsciously rim- poses the second upon i, giving im- Ppression that but one picture with all the colors was being used. wgn of the mo:hl:- showed an orange, the color sald to be one of the h: .t duce, showing up very realis other pictu® showed a flag . wa A breese angd there was no overlap or sim lors as frequently m ¢ "M proces France are to form a diplomatic and front against the United States to insure the protection of her awn colonies ;‘n: her own communic Africa, and to insure supremacy :z‘:x: Mm '; ":‘t.: the strongest nav by Tests of preservir s entente, if it really exists not fail to have an almost lmme«;u effect on all such questions as repaia tions. evacuation of the Rhineland naval and military disarmament and All such disaffected regions as the ¥a West, the Near East. the Balkans and central and eastern Europe. BRIGANDS HOLD WIFE. Demand $62,000 Ransom From R manian They Released. . August 18 () lh-u‘:“: ransom of for lesco, whom they Nicolesco was tal leased. h::"ml:dh“ Qrevena t ot o I wil s wife, bul 1t was first rted that the bandits had captured the Dutch viee consu! and his wife, but this report proved '