Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1928, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, SATURDAY: EPTEMBER 1. 1028, 3 SERGEANT'S SUICI L | | SMRIS INUU'RY Cracks Un " Eh§|§sh Craft| | \ | | Joseph Dlouhy of Headquar- ters Company Had Ap- peared Depressed. An investigation was under way today by a special board of the 16th Brigade into the death of Master Sergt. Joseph Diouhy, attached to Headquarters Com pany, who committed suicide early v terday morning in the company q ters. at 1800 C street. * Dlouhy. who had bern mess serg ince organization of the Headqu: Company siX ago, shot himself througn: the with & .25-caliber pistol Reports tha' 2 head s were denied em- ly t.day by Capt. A. R. Bolling, nding officer of the Headquarters ny, who is & member of e board trying to every pos: reason for the | suicide examined his books found no susy taching | he emphasi he about $5,000 monthly. Jared I. Wood. officer of the follow sergea assigned | station at} of 2! S Diouhy_w: All 3 comrades who heard® the <no! to his side. He was treated by Capt. | Ralph Duffy and sent to. Walter Reed | here he died while ‘being | The bul- ) | | when | hed | i a investiga cate of suicide le the board of inquity any motive, that the sergeant | me time. | louhy has | boen separated from his wife since 192! re he became attached to headgua tezs company. She is said to be residi San Franeisco. S R iciarcd that Sergt. Dlouhy whs one of the most experienced mess in the Army. He was well v both officers and men. He came s country from Budapest. FOUR TAKEN IN LOOTING " OF CAPITAL RESIDENCE Badio Set in Baltimore Room Held Clue to Thefts From Home of Dr. L. W. Eugster Here. Headquarters Detective L. M. Wilson fotay went to Baltimore to return four men under arrest there in connectlon with the looting here on August 20 of the home of Dr. Louis W. Eugster, 3620 Aiscomb street. Baltimore police last night notified Jocal suthorities of ithe arrest there of | Carl Panzram, 41, who says he is from Mgrada. In his room they found a| o bearing the same sarial num- T oin from Dr. Eugster's ollowing ! “yof yPapzram, tey also took into custody Henry Ne- | geara, Melvin Schulman and Joseph | Cgerwinski, all of Baltimore, They are | charged as accomplices in that they are | leged to have helped Panzram dis- pase of jewelry valued at approximately $1.000 htat was stolen from Dr. Eug-| ster's home at the time the radio set was taken. Most of the jewelry has | been racovered. §. A. CHUMBLEY NAMED NATURALIZATION CHIEF ‘Will Take Up Democratic National | Committee Duties in Chieago | Immediately. | ‘ Once Owned by Lady } Heath. | }Her Passenger, New York { Publisher, Also Is Un- injured. By the Associated Press. PITTSBUGH, September 1.—A plane | cessfully flown from England o outh Africa and back by one aviatri came close to being & death machine | for another woman fiyer, who had ned her fame by being the first of | h °X to negotiate the treacherous At- antic. At Rogers Field, near here, last night Miss Amelia Earhart, Boston social | werker. and co-pilot of the transatlan- | |tie plane Friendship, cracked up the | English plane Avero-Avian. It once the property of Lady Heath. As Miss Earhart was making a land- ing. a wheel became mired in a rut. he plane swerved, stood on its nose for a moment and appeared to stagger in the wind. Then, as it seemed cer- in it must turn over, it settled, nose the ground h its tail 15 feet in e air. Miss Earhart and her pas- George P. Putnam, New York u , were uninjured. A lower left wing was broken and the landing gear was smashad. Repairs r was | | continue expedited through the sendins | ate Avian plane from s will be salvaged r experience, Miss he would remain in h until repairs were cor She said she did not care Earhar pleted. ) | dropped her helmet and gogg cement walk. [IMISS EARHART ESCAPES DEATH | IN PITTSBURGH PLANE CRASH here from Rye, N. Y., an ho particular destination, simply being stop will be made at Cleveland. Asked if she was making a transcontinental P “I have been told that accid smiled and said, “Well, this is a good | omen, at any rate.’ n._c. AIDED VICTIV SHORT WEEK URGED BY CHURCH COUNCL Uremployment Cited as Fa~§ voring Five Work Days | for Labor. tember 1.—The sage of the Federal Coun- cil of € s of Christ in Ame in calling attention to the present wide- pread unemployment in this country aises the question as to whether the ve-day week and shorter of 1 soon be practicable he coineidence of unemployment nd the 7 advancing power of ind the dvaneing productive power of the due to the in- | creased usa of machin: new power | resources, - seientific - mar | the growin, bor suggest the possibility of a further shorteni of hours and of a five { tain industries," s assenger few ‘Ssu“\i' through its Commiss said she had | Service | Conditions Called Intolerable. | Estimates that there were 3,000,000 | persons unemployed in the United last Winter, the message X a condition that is economically un- {sound and intolerable from the poin of view of Cl 1 brotherhood.” h W Labor day mq AMELIA EARHART. her journey in any other plane. It was her first crash in 10 years of flying. Miss Earhart and_her on a vacation. It is expected her nex journey she said she Had no definite! " 5. | s came in_cycles of three” Miss Earhurt said ‘Bug I hope such is not tru» in case.” As she made that remark she los on the ho goggle ien, she : and_co-operat » possibility of hitherto unatt social process.” The Council denominations represent Pieking up and noting they were un 1 includes 28 000,000 Bit ETENTION HOUSE INSOUTHEST HT Residents 7of Section Protest Location—Refuse to Hear Mrs. Van Winkle. 3 Refusing to allow Mrs. Mina Van | Winkle to take the floor in behalf of the proposal to establish the House of Detention in Southwest Washington, residents of that section in mass meet- ing last night voted unanimously to oppose the Commissioners’ plan. Mrs. Van Winkle was denied the floor in a “courteous” resolution adopted by the assemblage. When she sought to state her position, anyway, there arose good-natured cries. of “I object,” Pu't her out” and “Get a sergeant-at-arms! It was evident the citizens were de- termined to abide by their formal de- cision not to permit the Woman's Burean head to speak unless she had something to say against the plan to remove the House of Detention from Ohio_avenue and Fifteenth street to 908 B street southwest. The mass meeting, called when it became known the District Government had leased the southwest property for use as u House of Detention and ‘Woman's Bureau headquarters, was held in ‘the ‘Marvin M. E. Church South, near the disputed site. . Resqlution Adepted Unanimously. | Mrs. Van Winkle, in the brief period she was on her feet, declared the Dis- triet Commissioners Ifad nothing to do with her attending the meeting. The resolution refusing her the privi- lege of being heard unless she spoke in negative terms regarding the proposed new location was introduced by Milton P. Barrett, lawyer, who, after stating that Mrs. Van Winkle should be treated with courtesy, declared: “I don't know why Mrs. Van Winkle invited herself to _this meeting.” Mrs. Van Winkle sought to gain the floor after the meeting had unanimous- ly adopted a resolution to appoint a committee of five persons authorized to take whatever steps necessary to pre- vent the location of the House of De- tention in the seetion. John A. Chumbley, - attorney, 301 | Detention House Termed Jail. Mrs. Van Winkle had heard the bley, Homer Bulléing, has been made direc- | house termed a “fail” by both Willlam tor of the na?\fi'flmuon bureau of the | K. Wimsatt, 910 B street southwest, Democratic national committee and will | who presided at the meeting, and by take up his duties immediately, with| George E. Sullivan, lawyer, who sug- headquarters in Chicago, it was an- | gested that a permanent injunction be nounced today at the local Democratic | sought to prevent the use of the bulld- headquarters. | tng for that purpose. Chumbley has been active in| ocratic politics for many years. In | man shortly after the meetin, the 1920 campaign he was director of | alized citizens’ bureau. 1 three years under Herbert | the war relief wori, was pecial assistant attorney general in the | presecution of commodity dealers in the | war waged by the Government on the t of lving immediately after and now holds she post of n-chief of the Bons of eterans. war Mr. Wimsatt, who was elected chalr- opened, sald: “You have been called here fight for your heritage—your home: He declared that if the House of De- tention is located on the B street site ) property will be greatly cut in v{‘llge, n many cases to almost nothing." “If the House comes here I will hardly be able to give my house away.” Mr. Wim- | satt declared his hnfi\e is next door to ding in question. ll}fc:;i\u“ :hll you will, the House of | Detention is & jall, and how many of you want to teil your friends you live | on the same block with a jail?" Mr. | Wimsatt stated NINE BOMBING PLANES READY TO START ON | ok . st S Sl TRANSNATION FLIGHT:{:’M erecting a house of detention for nors at Sixth street, Massachusetts | avenue and C m'eedlx xmr;h““' n(‘)’:‘: nding in court, declared “‘comm o \gflflt"glhfiuld preclude location of the + should the fleld necessitate single | House of Detention for adults at the fls the plapes will have to follow | B street address. “It can't be located nerr off one by one and wait in | there,” he continued, “without the con- or the others %o depart, at the | sent of 75 per cent of the peaple within (Contin ed from First Page.) ¢ taking their proper places in ation Knerr's route and swops in- Pope FPield, Fort Bragg, Fay- i C.. Augusta, Ga.; Maxwell Ala. la Field, San The number stopping are up to him. Change Return Route return trip the bombers will elr 1oute as far east as Ban then turn northeast on stopping_at City, Mo lleville Wright Ohig, and Bolling Field, Wash- the pllots and officers ¢ nerr flight Capt Harold W Ford L. Fair, Wil- rger, Harold L. George F. Peak, flight surgeon re experienced in bom- 4 represent some of in this phase of he taken quadron in- reme care that for operat . the planes Y parnng enemy” on sunation During the » re P P eles the P be th 4 \ is held T | an “| Detention being crected in & residen- 200 feet of the building,” adding: “It is difficult to conceive why the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia have gone ahead again to do the shme thing they tried to do in Northeast Washing- | ton™ Urge Injunction Move. Mr. Bulivan then declared that some of the officials of the District govern- ment wanted to send nuJ,-rrmmmea to the meeting “to be hear after they have refused to hear us.” He urged the citizens to apply for ad im- | mediate restraining order Referring (o the geueral question of institution such s the House of area, Mr. Sulivan Ceclared tal zone that “one of the expressed purposes |Of marine and fsherte ons 15 that a tablished In a of the zoning regul sanatorjum can't be residential area withou liefore us | | | ! l | | HASS| | t the consent of |PUoy. painted dark blue with white let- |75 per cent of the people within 200 | | feet of its proposed location. A il 1 | far worse than a sanatorium ' Mr. Bultvan declared that before the { house could be utilized ns a jlouse of | Detention iron bars would have to be | placed at the windows, making 3t | semble a fail The comm night 0 carry out the wish of the 200 | ball e of five appointed Jast or more people at the mass meeting 1o | prevent the use of the B sreet house | | as the House of Detention ineludes Mr, Wimsait, W. A. H. Church, 013 street southwest: J. M B street southwest, G | B street southwest, and Mr ! Mr group 8. Fraser, Legion Ex-Chief Weds, CHICAGO, September 1 (4 P Bavage, former national commander of the American Legion, and Miss Lu {'Mary Van Oss | today at 8L M for Atla m‘ Mr @ niirse Church thelr a widower They left honeymoon were married sehafter, 1010 | 1000 | Barrett. | p. Sullivan also is to work with the | | Howard | iween S liams and W Protestant Church member _H- Fruive ew of the Government tug Tecw h burncd and sank in the Potomac. ¥ro nning, W. M. Keith. Back row, left to right: 2 ——— WOMAN SUCCUMBS 10 CRASH INJURIES | il st lirs. Bessie Retzer Dies at Hospital Here After Acci- dent in Virginia. Injuries suffered last night wh automobile in which she was riding struck by a Washington-Virginia way car at Penrose Station, in A ton County, Va.. resulted in the deat in Emergency Hospital of Mrs. Be Retzer, 41 years old, of Barcrofy, Her husband, G. Perry Retzer daughter, Thelma Retzer, 9 yea are both in a serious condition tot the same hospital as a result crash. A second daughter 13 years old, is less seriously The crasi occurred shortl o'clock, when the Retzer famil; the way to visit friends at nr tion. Witnesses sald that Retz his car near the tracks to let an car pass and then drove slowly on tracks. He evidently did not hear { whistle of the car, for it struck the machine with terrific Torce, dragging it | for nearly 200 feet. . Passengers and members of the car crew pulled the victims from the wreck- age. ~Mrs, Retzer and her younger daught® were taken to Emergency Hos- pital in a passing automobile. She ¢ at 8:25 pm. Retzer and the o daughter received first-aid tre: Fort Myer Hospital and tI moved to Emergency Hospital . Dr. B. H. Swain, Atlington coroner, following an investizatic the collision, appeared at Hospital this morning to issu. cate of accidental death Motorman Loveless voluntarily pre- sented himself before Judge Harry R. Thomas in Police Court this morning, n day jured before 7 | “Apostle” Issues Message. Rev. Dr. John McDowell, | secretary of the Presbyt | National Mission known man,"” day message. “Any social and industrial which grinds up men and won children to make cheap goods uncertain s is one of his Speech Is Barred assaciate | erian Board of | s to be | s the “apostle to the laboring | issued his annual Labor sabox Peace,” Miss Lauder, Fiancee, Says. ell as a boy himself of wes! Pennsylvs father w {as a miner 'BOTH PARTIES FACE POLITICAL PUZZLE | IN RHODE ISLAND| ___(Continued Denies She Plans to Join Him in Eutope for Cere- mony. from First Page ocinted Press LIEUT. MINA VAN WINKLE. FLANE FLOAT FOUND OFF NORWAY IS FROM AMUNDSEN’S CRAFT (Continued - from First Page ) the North Pole in the dirigible Norge | in 1926. The unfriendly relations be- | tween the two arose after Nobile had | radioed from Alaska an account of the | flight to Premier Mussolini of Italy. The | expedition had been recognized as an| Amundsen idea. It was aided financially oy Lincoln Elisworth, an American, who as captain of the Norge at a salary and that the airship had been purchased from Italy. i Both Amundsen and Ellsworth | charged that Nobile, who took to lec-: turing in the United States, was ukmg1 too much credit for the suceess of Lhe‘ expedition. The Italian in replying to | these attacks declared that the outcome was due mainly to the Itallans on the | Norge and that Amyndsen “did notmngl during the flight.” | ‘The bitterness befween the men was | forgotten when the Italia came to grief on May 25 of this year. Amund- | sen was one of the first to offer his| services, and Ellsworth anonunced his | willingness to advance funds or to take part in a rescue expedition if he were needed. Both had previous air experience in the Arctic. On May 21, 1925, each accompanied by a pilot and mechani- cian, they hopped off in flying boats from Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, en route | to the North Pole. A little more than | 100 miles from their objective they were forced to come down to conserve fuel, They descended on the water and thelr ;na(’hmex became locked in the Arctic ce. It was 28 days later before they re- appeared. They explained that they | had managed to free one of the planes | and by pooling the fuel resources and discarding all equipment they managed to fly back to Spitzbergen with all six men in the one machine. The brood which had been operating off Vann Island, but into Tromsoe at 3:30 Saturday morning. Capt. Facig told the authorit'! that he had picked up the pontoon at 9:30 last night, 10 miles northwest of Phoresborg - Light- house. on the northwest side of Vann Island. A Norweglan expert on Arctic waters who accompanied the rescue expedition of the Russlan ice-breaker Krassin, said that if the pontoon belonged to the Latham the accident must have occur- red after the plane had turned and | was coming back, | LL BUOY THOUGH | | | | | | | FOUND. | HALIFAX, Nova Scotla, September 1 (®).—Discovery 500 miles at sea off Greenland of a 5-foot balloon and a buoy was reported yesterday by the steamer Bothun. 1t ‘was belleved they might have been dropped by the missing Amerla-to-Sweden plane, the Greater | Rockford | The message reporting the discovery, | received by an agent of the department reads om 8. 8. Bothun 28, passed small spherical “Following received August ter “H' in 57.36 north, 31.51 west, and in vicinity thereof, a blue gutta percha oon 5 feel in diameter. Might be from Greater Rockford," The designated position would place the buoy about 500 miles east southeast Cape Farewcll, Greenland May Be From Cutter. NEW YORK, September | () -A buoy and a small balloon found foating 500 miles Lo the southward of Green- land by the steamer Bothun and be lleved by her master to have been dropped by the missing afrplane, Great er Rockford, may have been set adrift the Coast Guard cutter Marion, which has been in that region for se eral woeks, charting ocenn currenty wae pointed out here last night The Marion, commanded by Comdr E H. 8mith, salled for the waters be- Greenland and Labrador last month. By means of her short-wave radio she has reported her observations regularly and was for a time ordeced to abandon her schedule temporarily and scan the vieinity for Waces of the Greater Rocktord, it | street, State, 15 also not too good. There ns here and there of improver ad some of the mills which have been running part time, or not at all, are | now running full time, or have opened | Polly L for part time at least. there has been no industrial disturb- ance. nothing which has forced the calling out of the State Militia as in 1922 and other years. The Republican leaders “tap on wood” when they point this out. For a eall of the militia to handle *conditions during _industrial | strikes has been an omen of Democratic success in State elections in the past If there fs religious issue, with Gov. Smith, & Catholic running for P; dent, it is soft pedalled here by b sides. Neither will admit that there is such an fssue: And both Republicans and Democrats insist that the voters are broadminded and will not brin teir religious afiMations into the cam paign wAd ‘carry relfglous prejudice to the voting booths. Senator ~Metcalf, | Republican, and Judge Felix Hebert, probable Republican candidate for the Senate against Senator Gerry, and Pat rick H. Quinn, Democratic national committeeman, all contend that church affiliation is not an issue in the cam- paign here. The voters, they say, will with few exceptions stick to their party tickets. unless they shift for some So far this y said afterward that he had hired Nobile | son other than religion Many Foreign Born. Rhode Island has a large foreign- born population. The census for 1920 gave the State 420481 native born and 173,499 foreign born. Many of the na- tive: born are the sons and dau of European stock recently arri this country. The French group been an important factor in poli this State for a number of years sands of workers of French extraction have come from Canada., The great bulk of thess French familles is I In two valleys, the Blackstone Valiey, which includes Pawtucket, Central Falls | and Woonsocket and the Pautuxet Val- ley. containing many small miil towns. In some of thess places the French American vote is more than a majority of the total vote. And the French vots has been more solid, perhaps, than any | other racial group. of voters, with the | exeeption of the Irish-Americans, and | the Prench have usually voted Re- | publican. | Whether the religious issue, so called enters into the campaign this year in Rhode Tsland or not. there fs o ractal | antagonism between the French and the 1 in has | in | Irish Americans that gives promise of | playing its part. This crops out par- in Massachusetts as Island. Here it has period of years, 1l as in Rhode ted over a long during which th can; the Irish Ameri The dissension bet groups has been somewhat intensified in the last year because of a row over the diocesan high schools. The Catho- | lic bishop of the State, Bishop Hickey, called for funds from the various par ishes to be uscd to erect high schools in Providence. The French population | is located largely outside of. Providence. | These French Americans got it into | thelr heads that their money was to be used for schools which would not ns, Democratic N the two racial { benefit the children of the French, but | {tneous death of the Irish Amerioans, Purthermore, | Bishop Hickey has taken the position| that the buse studies in the parochial sehools should be taught in the l‘vll);‘!’wll; language, and this has been resented by the Franch, too. 8o strong becany the feeling that E. Dalgneault, a lnwye of French descent, entered sult agains! Blshop Hickey in connection with the | expenditure of the funds raised from | the French churches. The sult was de cided by the courts in favor of th bishop, and - Daigneault journeyed to Rome to protest against the action of Bishop Hickey, but he recclved no en couragement there Dalgneault 1s president of the Franco- American Soclety and has o very con siderable following While the Repub. licans are not mixing in this row, they are inclined Lo bolieve that the quarre between the French and th Irisk Americans will not incline the ¥ voters in Rhode Island to support Bmith ov. | BEatt‘ered Trench Mi? | tion | and | polic NEW YORK, September 1.—A copy- cd dispatch from South Bristol, Me., in the Daily News today quotes Miss ud indicating the possibility © marriage to Gene Tunney wil place until a successor has wes vyweight title relinquished by that h not ta the . the News quotes her, | ‘that as soon as Gene is-really rid of the boxing title he will be quickly for- gotien. As soon as a new champion is crowned the masses will forget the old ne. Chen we can marry and live in peace When the cere are not decided as to that vet, it b2 done as quictly as possible.” Lauder join Tunney in E Paris The ex-champlon’s flancee sald she knew nothing of Tunney's aciivities abroed. pe’for a wedding in gone lo | | { what is going on over there. | smaller diamonds. Since Mr. Tunney has scarcely been | ring is.also of enough for me to receive a| stones. GENE TUNNEY MAY NOT WED TILL NEW GHAMP IS CROWNED k : 5 o o | ant “Then We Can Live in MISS POLLY IAAUD"‘.‘ letter here,” she sald. “I have' no idea We have received several cable messags from him, emony is performed. and | byt they are always addressed to all at home. I eertainly am anxiously await- | ing a’ letter. denied she would soon | Miss Lauder is wearing an en ring which she descrijed a: ing.” 'The ring consists of a square-cut diamond, about & half-is in diameter, in a lacy platinem se! , inlald with The cirelet of the f platinum, set with smaller gement ‘charm- FALLS TODEATH NSUBMAYSTATION abhi Pitches From Flatform Beneath Whez!s: of Train. Al Ci By Assoclated Pross. W YORK, September 1.—Dr. Leon ison, 62 years old, St. Louls rabbi, his death today under the wheels an uptown subway train at 116th treet and Bro y. - Abraham Harrison, a brother, whe identified the body. said that Dr: Har- rison had returned last Monday from a European trip taken to recuperate from A nervous breakdown. e rebbi had been living with his sis- David C. Goodman, at 417 NE Har Riverside drive an attack of vertigo Dr. Harrison walked across the al- | French Americans have bsen Republi- | most deserted uptown local platform as crowds of office workers waited for a downtown train across the tracks. As in uptown train pulled into tae sta- but before it had begun to slow down for a ston, the rabbi pitched for- | ward to the tracks. ‘The motorman, John Quinn, who re- ported that the rabbl deliberately jumped to his death, applied his brakes, but the train’s momentum was too gres the forward truck of the first car ed over the rabbi, causing instan- ‘The body was so wedged that the police emergency squad had to work 25 minutes to extricate it and northbound traffic was held up during that time. The body was taken to +the- nearest statlon, where it was tentatively dentified by three $50 traveler's checks made out to Dr. Harrison and by the clothing lnbel of a 8t. Louls tatlor, Abraham Harrison was located at a hotel where he lives and rade positive identification. Although polee at first ealled the death suicide, they finally listed 1t officially as an accfdent Smith Supporters Plan Drive. 8pecial Dispateh to The Star DANVILI Va, beptember 1. The cily Democratic committee has issue a call to members of the party to meet next Thursday night to organize a mith Club,” this being the first step by the party regulars toward the prose- |eution of & vigorous campaign ror on Man‘s BO Prevents Burial in Potter's Grave But for & hattered trench mi i found In his pocket, James Bdward Hill, | colored streel swoeper, 1242 Union would be destined for a grave | in the potter's field, instead of in | Avlington National Cemetery, it was | revealed today at police headquarters. Found 1n gn alley in the rear of 1232 Buclid street Thursday, Hill's body was taken to the Morgue and lay unclaimed until today. In the man's pockel wus found an old trench mirror, on the back f which were found some worn markings | The mircor was taken to Sergt. Fred ndberg, fingorprint expert of the Pow Department, and by the ald of & magnifying glass he made out the lets ters, “sup. o, 351" The maw's in- itials were alsh on the mirror. Working on this clue, the police called the War Department and discovered that, Hill had served in Prnge with the A61st Fleld Artillery, but had never ap« plied for compensation A Arrangements have beor mume to give HUL o military) funeral in Cemetery at 2 b'elock Tuesday noon. Hee | LEABLE T0 SHUN- MONROE DOGTRINE Council Decides Not to Com- ply with Costa Rica’s but was not heid. Sheriff Howard B. Fields told the court that he could not see any reason for holding him sponsible for the crash, CAPPER CONTINUES TRAM MERGER STUDY Wotive for Declining to Define| Confers With Effciency Burean | ¥ o Officials on Plan—Report Monroe Doctrine Is Dis- Expected This Month. cussed Here. ACTION IS MOOTED | 1 Continuing his study of the stre o \ railway merger problem, Chairman Cap- " . per of the Senate District committee BY DAVID LAWRENCE. conferred today with officials of the Nine years ago objections were raised | Bureau of Efficiency, who were requested (o the cove: u‘:‘i of J|‘.he League of Na- ve,n’ months ago to ma_kc, & spstan tions on the ground that it might per- | SUrvey of the street railway consolida- mit interpretation of the Monroe Doc- | O plan. 4| ot with Since his return | | with & shaw The brother expressed | | teularly in things. political. " It is found | the opinion that the rabbi had suffered Request. By the Associated Press GENEVA, September 1.—Costa Rica's | request for a definition of the Monroe { Doctrine will be declined by the Coun- cil of the League of Nations. After many hours yesterday spent se- | eretly in discussing this complicated po- litical question, the Council last night had virtually reached an agreemcn: upon the text of the reply which will be forwarded to the small Central American state. This reply, though couched in considerate language and of deference to Costa Rica's ition, will in effect point out the difficulty the Council has in in- terpreting any political doctrine which | ' has been enunciated by one government | only, in tivs case the United States The opinfon generally expressed and embodied in other words in the reply whs that it is for the states concerned— | the United States and the countries of | Latin America—to make their own in- | terpretations of the Monroe Doctrine— | or, sald another way, that it is none of | the League's business. Following the secret session yesterday one member of the Councll made the remark that the discussions had been | “amazingly interesting.” Beyond that | hardly any comment was forthcoming and newspaper correspondents had the utmost difficulty in learr what had taken 5, the Assocaited Press learned that a sum- mary read by the Colombian jurist, An- tonio Jose Restrepo, most challenged the attention of the councilmen Restrepo is said to have traced the history of the Monroe Doctrine from its inception, speaking particularly of its application during the Maximilian regime in Mexico. ‘The speaker called attention that in this epoch of 1866 the Monroe Doctrine had bsen beneficial | tion, Judge McMahon replied that he | and Sadie Allen. 10 B and protective to South America HONORS ADMIRAL HYDE. NEW YORK, September 1 (#).-New York's officlal welcome went yesterdas to Rear Admiral G. F. Hyde, commandet of the Australian cr Australia, which arrived In port Thursday for a brief visit Mayor Walker recelved Admiral Hyde and staff at City Hall. Sir Harry G Armstrong, British consn! general hers, and David M. Dow, Australlan trade commissioner In New York, were in th: party. BAND CONCERT. By the United Statos Soldiers: Home Military Band, at the bandstand at 5:30 o'clock. “The Banner of Lib- ¥ Zimmermann "The Village. Festival,” O'Keefe Moore Mareh, Entr'acte, “The Post Horn" “Dance Anclenne—Le Palals Royal” ., Bonheur The Old Sangs of Seol- mpe land” | e Patrol orlental “In Chlre Von Blon Arlington | Finale after- | alse Danseuse” . ... Miles Nobles of the Mystic Bhiine” “The Star Spangled Banner,” Sousa trine. Today's cable dispatches from | Geneva telling that the Council of tha | League had declined to -interpret or | define the Monroe Doctrine as requested | by Costa Rica and backed up by other | Latin American countries were received | | here with mixed feelings. | For while the Council has declined | to admit the doctrine to be within its | jurisdiction, there, is nothing to prevent the same- subject fram -being -raised in | Vitally Interested. | . The United States, while not a mem- ! i ber of the League, is vitally interested | in the trend of the discussion, for the | League has a large membership in | Central and South America. Also at! this moment the United States in the ! notés preceding the signing of the pact | of "Parfs last week made it clear that ! the Monroe Doctrine was a part of American policy and any invasion of that doctrine was an attack on Ameri- | can interests. i What the Costa Rican request means i(s that the League has been asked to | define the limits of American foreign | poliey. And while \1e European coun- tries on the Council are to a large ex- | tent actated by a desire to avoid fric- | the United States which | might result if the Council undertook | to deéfige the Monro¢ Doctrine, the real reason for avoiding the issue is that the | British have a Monroe Doctrine of their | own wi\ respect to the Suez Canal | and the Japanese have a kind of Aslatic | Monroe Doctzine. Delicate Matter. To begin to define the foreign in- terests of a nation 5 a delicate mattsr and touches on the problems that are onsidered as wholly domestic in their | treatnient, or at least wfolly national in their perspective. So the various powers whese voices are controlling in | the council will not wish to limit the | United States in its application of the | Monroe Docirine any more than they would wish the United States as a member of the league or a party to a diplomatic discussion to define British interests in the Near East The Monree Doctrine was announced by the United States gs ' single-sided policy as between the United States and | countries in the Eastern Hemisphere. | 1t was. designed to protect the Western Hemisphere countries * from invasion from the outside. The United States has not asked the other republics to | perate in enforeing the Monroe | | Doctrine and has insisted that the im- cations of the doctrine are just as al as the original princple—namely, complications should be avoided or nipped in the bud befofe they lead to an nvasion or occupation of ter- | | | | | that | ritory by European or Asiatic interests. | (Cpyright. 1928 KNOX TO BE TRIED NEXT WEDNESDAY Court Overrules Motion to Quash Reckless Driving Charge Against | Son of Late Secretary of State. | A motion to quash the information charging Philander C. Knox, jr., son of | a late Secretary of State, with reckless | driving was overruled by Judge John | P. McMahon in Traffic Court today and | the case set for trial next Wednesday. The motion was filed by Knox's at- torney, T. Morrls Wampler, but was| not_argued | Upon being informed by a representa- | | tive of the attorney that he would not | | appear in court today to argue the mo- | | assumed that such & course would be | | followed, announced the motion thera- | upon overruled, and set the date for | the trial | WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE | Mrs, Raid on Woman's Apartment. Charges Abuse. Absolute divorce i asked i a suit fled toduy by Mrs. Sva G. Schenck against Policeman Frederick A. 8chenck of the sixth precinet who, yesterday was suspended from duty following his a i a raid at the apartment of | Mrs. Catherine Joyce, Eightenth street, |inst Wdnes 1y | Through Attorney John A. Chumbley the wife tells the court she was married | Fehruary 2, 1024, and during the last few months her lite has been anything |but happy. Schentk, she says, mis- treated and abused her He often stayed out was froquently away | days at a time. | Al the time of the raid, she says, | Schenck's clothes were hanging in the Jclosed of the woman's apartment. Ali- mony is asiffd by the wife's petition. all from night home and | for | witnesses and poli SUSPENDED POLICEMAN'S |5 Schenck Files Suit Following B The Senator is taking advantage of bis trip to Washington at this tme to acquaint himself with what has been done since Congress adjourned by the several agencies that are gathering in- iovmation for the committee on the merger legislation. Following his talk yesterday w Dr. Milo R. Maltbie, the expert employed by the compmittee, Senator Capper an nounced that Dr. Maltbie would have @ preliminary report ready by Septem- ber 15, which will be forwarded to the members of the committee to- advise them of the progress of the inqu! Dr. Maltble, however, will continue his in- vestigation until Congress meets, at which time he will m; a fi complete report to the Senate c GIRL DRIVER JAILED IN DEFAULT OF FINE Miss Pace Held for Payment of $100 Following Smash-up in Friend's Car. Climaxing the misfortunes lowed when. she sst out (o friend’s c.r August 9, Miss Hilda Pace, 18, 518 Third street, was sent to the District Jail yesterdey afternoon in de- fault of the payment of a $100 fine im- posed by Judge John P. reckless driving. She was remain there until today, fine was pail. Using the machine of Hermar rett, Miss Pace -et out from Sixt! a blocks, had struck two parked She was arrested for reckless d operatin~ without a permit after colliding. taken to th Detention and releassd under bond. She demanded a jury tri the vermit and leaving after charges, and will be tried on t Her reckless driving chargs trial August 21 pear in court w v on that day and Judge N dered a $100 bond forfeited After hearing the tes N Iahon yesterdas McMahon imposed sentence of $10f 25 days. HELD FOR JOY RIDING. Henry Dratfinsky, a soldier stationed at Fort Myer, was held for the jury under $1.000 bond today by Judge Robert E. Mattingly. in Police Court, on a joyriding charge. ratfinsky is accused of taking the automobile belonging to Walter Estep from his residence, 223 Third street, last night. Police arrested the soldier a few hours later, when he drove into a gaso- line station at Eighteenth and CQali- fornia streets. | Marriage Licenses. am P. Slegfried. 3 v. Prancts X. Cav Ernest 8. McNeil, Rev. Jesse Willi and Elsle C Pop 24; Re: agh . and Darothiy § Homer J_ Couneilor aker, 35. and Mary ¥ Walter J Hubbard L. 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Wilton “Gockes. ' 33. and Bernice. Brockwell. 18, both of Petersburs. Va.. Re Willlam M. Hoffman. James A . B C 9 neinnati. Ohio, and Margar on, 3 VW L Re a e Charles D. Herd, 3. and Dorothy E. Qol- . 18: Rev. T. Vincont Fitegerald teler, 31 and Agnes L oy, Bdward Gabler Carl Jones 33 and Virginia Butler. both of Ame Rev. William M. man. Fred Lewis, 3% and Margaret Laws, 30; Rev. Charles A De Vaushn Rogiilald K Roberts. 3. and Pearl 1 ott. 38 “both of Falls Chureh, \ James W_Martis Lester ¥ Townsend Townsend. 20. Rey 19, Hoft- ra R ) cF and Oather ne T Thomas, .