Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1928, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST 31, 1928. Miss Viela Allin. 20-vear-oid hicage beauty. who won the title of “Miss American Venus" over 2.000 ather aspirants there and along with it a tour of Europe. where she will enmpete in an international beauty contest. -~Wide World Photos. SMITH FOES STAND " FOKINDEPENDENCE Declaration Worded Like Fa- mous Document Adopted at McLean, Va. cial Dis 10 The Sta Va., August 31 Smith Democrats of Fairfax Cot made ‘their stand on a declaration independence worded similar to that the famous American document at meeting held here Iast night in the course of the life of the Democratic party” the declaration savs, “it becomes necessarv who believe in the principles enunci by its founders to temporarily dissol the bonds which have connected them with their party. and to assume before the people of their community the po- sition in which those principles place them, a decent respect to the opinions of their fellow citizens requires that | they shall declare the causes which impel them to the separation | Pledge Against Smith. In the self-evident truths which are then set forth is one 1 the effect that candidates should stand for and repre- sent the principles of those whose sup- pert he seeks and should stand for the spirit as well as the Jetter of the plat- form upon wh! ne is nominated Those present pledged themselves not to vote for Gov. Smith for the presi- dency. Between 200 and 250 persons were present. Fi gned application cards for membership in the anti-Smith Club which was formed with 100 men hers at Oakton Lwn weeks ago Frank 1 president of a for those ciples, presented tie eommittee had drawn night. Thir Dry Stand Cited od r as adopted unanimousl eeting a plattorm Smith Mr he m hasing o that nthers regarded the present stistactory and stated re desired o changes Parle Mutersbaugh of Chesterbrook who has recently been added 1o the ex- ecutive committes, presented a list of newspeper clippings tending to show Smith wes claiming and re- upport of northern negro genizations. Edward J_ Richardson tormerly & member of the Baptist clergy and o well known lecturer on prohibi- ton, is the speaker scheduled for next Tuesdey evening’s meeting of the anti Smith Club s\ Herndon. A meeting will be held on Fridsy night in the Andrew Chapel Bchool House Camera Records Lightning A photographic record has ben made of natural lightning Measured in millions of horsepower and miliions of & second, & stroke on iransmission wires of approximately 2500000 volts was recorded automstically by a cath nde ray oscillograph. a high-speed cam developed Jn &n engincering atory in Behenectady N Y. The pieture i¢ the frst of kind ever riede ip the world BAD CHECKS CHARGED. Thomas Hewitt, Attorney and Avi-| ator, Arrested in New York. | Charged with grand larceny in pass- ing a bad check at the Hotel Biltmore York City, Thomas M. Hewitt attorney and aviator, who gave a local address, was arrested last night in New York ! Hotel officials said Hewitt had given two checks ling $100, both of which were returned unpaid. The man is reported to be a former member of the Lafayette Escadrille. He was shot down in the second battle of the Marne, re- | ceiving a wound in the head as his ne fell. Hewitt forme attended hool here. URGES REVISION OF TRAFFIC CODE Harland Recommends Giving Judges Wider Dis- cretion. Revision of the trafic code 8o as to give the judges more discretion in de- termining the punishment for certain offenses. as recommended by Traffic Di- rector William H. Harland in his annual report tn the District Commissioners yesterday, has the backing of Gus A Schuldt, presiding Police Court, judge “Our Dears parade at Asbury Park. N. ). The vou viding on the float are Ada daughters of Representative s Hoffman of New Jersey w Mrs. the float which won the grand prize in the floats division of the annual bah nd Lillian Hoffman, A bit af pole ac at ngsters with the crack team from H. ¢ from the rear. America prepaces for the internationzl match next month one of the American dependa! pony's neck to hit the ball, w pirant for the American tram. Sands Poiat. Long Island, as colla Argentina. Malcolm Stevenson. es, is reaching under his Capt. C. T. I. Roark. as- is trying (o block the stroke pyright by P. & A. Photos werk block in Shelby, N. C tailor shop are thought to have caused the rollapse. The crowds are watching the rescue Where six nersons were killed in the pse of three buildings on a business Excavztions under a X ~Wide World Photos. Fellow aviators and scarchers examining the wreckage of Col. Lindbergh's Curtis Falcon plane in which the two flvers. Mazel M shed in a section of Pennsylvania wilderness. six miles from the town of Milford. The wreckage was hers to make their way to it through dense woodiand. The bodies were carried half a mile by foot to an Edwin Ronne. lost thir lives when the plane 5 spotted from the air and it took hours for sear overgrown wagon trail. Merrill and Capyright by P. & A. Photos A lucious feast for the Kiwanis Club members, President Rad- ford Moses of the club cutting the 144-pound watermelon served at its luncheon vesterday. It was a gift from the Kiwanis Club of Hope, | Ark. Others in the group, left to Schumacher and James Edmunds right: Fred Quinter. William Star Staff Photo Calling to talk over the New with H. E. Machold (left), Republic York situation. Herbert Hoover, an State chairman for New York, and William H. Hill, chairman of the Hoover-Curtis campaign com- mittee there, on the steps of Mr. just after their conference. Hoover's campaign headquarters, Assocfated Press Photo. \TWO WOMEN INJURED ;"Ca”ing to Account” by Hoover for Raids.LAST RUSSIAN ENVOY yand Edward H. Thomas, assistant cor- {poration counsel | Pointing out that in other juridictions | IN AUTO COLLISION alty for third offense speeding is based. | ; : { Judge Behuldt agreed with Director Har- {Miss Lillian Fletcher and Mrs f Julia Embry Badly Hurt—Other lland, that there is need for such a Himiv here. Under the present law a I sentence is mandatory upon the hird offense no matter how long pre- | Local Traffic Accidents | fously the firs, two offenses took place. ! Judge Schuldt expressed the opinion hat every man convicted of driving while intoxicated should be given | Beltsvilie, Md. and Mrs. Julia W. Em- ail sentence, but. that the length of the | bry 24 vears old. 636 1 street term should be left to the diseretion of | o “ FHEE O ; fae court. Uisiet Won nedeent v W ijured last night when the auto- | days ail and A fne of $100 i the |mobile in which they riding minimum penalty Director Harland | in a collision at New Jersey avenue and mends that 1all sentence for this | g coo o 0 % and also for the second offense | Lo 1 The women were in an automobile { reckless driving be left to the court’s | grjven by William M. Embry, 636 1] cretior COURT HONORS MEMORY | of the Tios ‘ond s yaenormiel e chure OF COLORED ATTORNEY ssion Adjourned Out of Respect of the ribs and a yrenched back, and Mre. Embry bruises and lacers to James M. Ricks, Who Died Advanced Age. Mise Lillian Fletcher, 33 years old, of northeast, | in were Sam Galub, 433 Ninth street southwes! drave the cab Mrs. Eleanor Botts, 23 years old Lanham, Md., suffered lacerations a possible fracture of the jaw last night when the automobile in which she wa riding, operated by Frank L. Newkirk also of Lanham, Md., was in a collislor al Maryland avenue and B street northi- east with an automobile driven by Ma tin M. Loats of Richmond, Va. Mrs I Botts was treated at Casualty Hospita. | o the memory of James M. RIcks, |™ jomes"craip " iolored, 10 years old, | «.’::;;"} “‘lawwr who died .V"V'“'Y:u?'x r‘-,mrmn] avenue, suffered a lu-m.l on | shoulder when he ‘was knocked down Ricks was said to be over 00 YEArs |y front of his home by an automobile | old and had heen a familiar fgure 'ooerated by Helen M. Gallagher, 3102 around Police Court for nearly half & | Georgin avenue. Al Children’s Hospital | | century. He was taken 11l in court 1ast | the boy's injuries were sald to be not week serfous He was horn in slavery and came 10 | Others injured, none washingtlon after being freed. He se- | Agnes M Fox, 31 years 2 cured & Government Jjob here and | necticut avenue; Walter £, Rhodes, 81 tudied for the bar in his spare time. | vears old, 48 New York avenue, Feggy In adjourning court Judge Mattingly | Dovell, 3 years old, 1208 N atreet: Thel expressed his regreta st hearing of the | ma Jamison. 8 years old, 816 D sire w’ i death of the lawyer, whom he northeast, and Grace Wade, colored, 20 had known for over :9!" ars, years old, 927 O street, of at When Judge Robert E. Mattingly ad- ourned the United States branch of Police Court today it was out of respect were: | Id, 2854 Cor 1 O e o ) | return for Herbert. Hoover has not attempted to | influence Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- | brandt, Assistant Attorney General in| charge of prohibition enforcement, she | Insisted today in formally denying pub- | lished reports that she had been called | o account in conjunction with the cent dry raids in New York City. The author of the story published based hi conclusions merely upon seeing New York political leaders and herself go- ing to Republican headquarters here on GETS HEAVY PENALTY FOR SWINDLING EIGHT Pleads Guilty of Tohs at $3 Promise olored Man to fering Good Per Chester Baldwin, colored, of 1615 swann sfreel, whose specalty was of fering jobs as matds on Pullman cars | to colored women, provided they gave him $3 deposit on & manicuring set, was glven a sentence of a $3.500 fine 42 months in fail by Judge Matting- in Polica Court today An additional sentence of 180 days was imposed as a result of a variation of the sck which a colord man made a dey of $7 on A uniform in the promise of a job as a or ly chauffeur Seven coloved women and the taok the stand against Baldwin pleaded gulity to all the charges Differing from the usual white rats tth pink eves, some with black eyes were recently foung in Central France, \ man He the same afternoon, Mrs. Willebrandt asserted “It is preposterous that Mr. Hoover | or any other candidate for a high and dignified office such as the presidency of the United States would presume to | control a public officer in the discharge of official duties,” Mrs. Willebrand formal statement issued at the Depart- | ment of Justice shortly after noon de clared, “Mr. Hoover has not done so | and would not do so. The conduct of | my oficial duties was not discussed | with Mr. Hoover ARMED MEN THREATEN ALABAMA SMITH BACKER! Withdraws Race Democratie Leader From After Aldermanic Warning. By the Assoclated Press JASPER, Ala, August 31.—Warning him that “somebody would be killed over this elebtion,” three men, armed with pistols, called C. L. Robins, local Demo- cratic leader, trom his home here short- ly before midnight Thursday night and told him that his talk about the Smith campaign must cease, Robins reported to county officials yesterday Officers were told that the men ac- cused Robins of making derogatory re- marks about Rev. L. D. Patterson, & speaker at an anti-Smith rally here earlier last night Robins, a prominent merehant of Jas- per, withdrew today as a candidate for alderman of the eity In the Irish Free State 1,687 miles of highways have been improved since 1928, Lk InNew York Denied by Mrs. Willebrandt| T U. S. DIES IN PARIS George F. Bakhmeteff, in Washing- ton From 1911 to 1917, Re- signed After Revolution. By the PARIS, August 31.—The Paris edition of the New York Herald announces the death here of George F. Bakmeteff, last Ambassador of the Russian Empire to the United States Bakhmeteff, who Minister to Bulgaria, Japan and The Hague, died Wednesday, the paper says He was Ambassador to Washington from November, 1911, until April, 1917 when he cabled his resignation to the provisional government at Petrograd In 1883 he married Miss Mary Beale, daughter of Gen. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, American veteran of the Mexi- can and Civil Wars and former Minis- ter to Austria. She died in June, 1925 George F. Bakhmeteff, the last Am- assador of Czarist Russia to the United States and Mme. Bakhmeteff, daughter of Gen. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, U. S A, were among the most prominent so- clal lights in the Capital during their stay here. Mme. Bakhmeteff died in 1025, It was through the offices of Am- bassador Bakmeleff that the embassy on Sixteenth atreet, which has been closed since the war, was acquired by the Russlan government. Ambassador Bakmeteff and his wife never returned to Washington since leaving here after his resignation in 1917 Mme. Bakmeteff's sister was Mrs, John R. Mclean, the mother of Ed- uishier. Assoclated Press also was former ward BS Mclean, the Mrs. Mazel M. Merrill and Mazel, jr. is life in ihe plane crash near Milford, Pa. whe lost hi wife and son of the aviater at Curtiss i Field. Long Island. before the finding of the plane. With them are “Casey” Jomes, president of the Curtiss Flving Service, who led the search for the plane, and Aviator Bil DEMOCRATS TO RALLY. Virginia Clurhrn;f District Will Meet Tonight The Virginia State Democrat of Washington will hold a rall o'clock tonight, in the Democra tional headquarters, 16 Jackson Among the speakers will be Repre: tive R. Walton Moore of Virginia, Cloyd Byars, former State senator. and John F. Costello, Demacratic national | committeeman. All Virginians, regard- | less of previous party affiliations. who | expect to support Gov. Alfred E. Smith | are invited to attend the rally. | H. Oden Lake, president of the club. announces that assistance will be given by the club to any Virginia voters by mail or otherwise, who call at 16 Jack- son place. FOR SPEAKING TOUR Will Go Into New England Next Week, Then to Farm Belt. By the Associated Press A far-flung speaking itinerary reaching from Maine to the Rocky Mountain States was before Senator Curtis, the Republican vice presidential nominee Winston Copyright CDUCATOR SUFFERS 5100000 SWINDLE Prof. Rand of Brown U. Ex- changes Valuable Stocks for Fake Securities. by P, from Boston that Presi- A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard had invested $70,000 in a stock venture now under investigation h bared another transaction in which the Federal authorities have interested themselves, in ‘which an Eas ator lost $100.000. The victim was Prof. E. A. Rand Brown University, who, according to & 0 ation in the -hands of postal horities here, handed over stocks worth $100,000 to two swindlers more than a vear ago. The pair are still at liverty Scheme of Suave Swindlers. Suave and bold, two men 3 inder the names of Robert B. Web: and C. Thomas Mitchell exchange ess certificates purporting to be in a Delaware firm for Prof Rand's real stocks, and by way of rub- bing it in gave him a share and a ouarter for each share the held. Needless to say, the shar quarter were worthless One thousand dollars’ reward i ered by the Government for the appre- The report upon his return to his desk here today “1 arning that Prof. Rand held a Dates arranged by Representative |00 of Breferred siock in nn‘: of th Newton of Minnesota, director of the | jargest industrial companies in the Eas Speakers’ Bureau, are not all definite, | ha pair wrote him, on stationery coun ibut the program ‘sends the vice presi- |terfeited from the company's letter- dential nominee into New England next | heads, advising him that the firm was | week and Into the Western agriculture |about to be reorganized and area the following week for a long drive. |he would care to convert his Senator Curtis showed up for work to- | ferred for the new common carry day after a strenuous four days in trav- i guaranteed return of 7 per cent | eling about New York State and Penn- | sylvania and was seemingly none the worse for his active hours at Syra | and Harrisburg, where he delivered speeches. The Senator has given the word that he will g0 on the “stump" wherever it | is desired by the national committee {1ts plans call for his appearance at | Boston next Wednesday, at Bangor Me.. next Friday, and at Portland. Me | on Saturday. The Maine election is Sep- | tember 10 | On September 15 Curtis will open the | Western campaign for his party at Lex- | ington, Ky. He will go from there to Louisville. Other tentative dates in this Western program are: Evansville, Ind September 17: Henry, Ill. September 18; Spencer. Towa, September 10: Rose- bud, S. Dak. September 20: Billings, Mont., September 22, and Denver, Sep- tember 24. From Denver he probably will go into Oklahoma FLYER'S 4,000-MILE TRIP.| Aviator Blazing Way for Air Serv- ice Across Ural Mountains. BERLIN, August 31 (® —A Lufthansa plane bearing Joachim vou Schroeder, hension and conviction of the pair e Get Stocks and Disappear A few days later one of th men visited Prof. Rand at Prov made arrangements for the transfer o | the shares. then he and his confederat went to New York. sold the valuable | Stocks and_disappeared. | One of the men later was picked up in Los Angeles on suspleion. He wa later freed and is still a fugitive from ustice DEMOCRATS PLAN VETERANS’ CLUBS Plans for organizing as many local war veterans as possible into Smith | Robinson clybs are going forward to- day, following the meeting at the head- quarters of the Democratic central com- mittee, 16 Jackson place, last night. at which the District Federation of Smith- Robinson Clubs was formally organized Separate. olub units may be formed by any 25 members of the federation and it 1s expected that each club will | have a fiying fluuamn to assist in get- | ting out absentee voters. The fiving squadrons will have motor trucks, with speakers and music. to conduct meet- of the Lufthansa Alr Service directorate :|rl\g; ‘;\h'h; l%l‘lr“"flgd,}:; l‘::r;lmr,\' ‘(,)1:“ v | elul e Victory Smith-! nson Vet- reached Irkutsk, Siberia, today after erans Club. already has been formed having flown from Berlin across the | jonn P, Costello, Democratio national Ural Mountaina over a distance of 4.000 | cammitteeman. and Brig. Gen. Samuel miles fn 31 fiying hours. T. Ansell, retired. addressed the meet- His mission is that of investigation of | mg last night. Richard Seelve .Jones Alr service possiblites between Europe ' has been named chairman of Demo- and the Far Bast 4 . ciap velejany aghivitigs ip the Digtriot. | |