Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1928, Page 17

The gathering of signatories of the war renunciation treaty as guests of President Doumergue of Fran EVENING STAR. W ESDAY. SRP FEMBER 5. ce, in the garden of his country residence, Rambouillet Castle. In the center of the group President Doumergue is holding Secretary of State Kelloge’s arm. On the extreme left is Foreign Minister Briand of Fran: s American Ambassador Herrick, who arrived at New York yesterday for a vacation from the extreme right ce and on ~Copyright by P. & A. Photos As the sport seasons overlap the popular bathing beach at Wildwood, N. J., is invaded by the foot ball training squad of Georgetown University. Here is Coach Lou Little putting the local collegians through a setting-up exercise on the beach as Summer resorters crowd around to get a look at the husky athletes. NEW YORK-CAPITAL AR LINE PLANNED Clarence Chamberlin to Be- gin Passenger Service in About Week. A commercial air line between Wash- ington and New York is being started br Clarence Chamberlin, transatiantic fiver, and he is expected to begin car- rying passengers regularly in about 2 week, At first he will pilot the plane himself and will make one round trip each day. The first test flight was made yester- day, when landed at Hoover Field in his Loenfpg, amphibian with U companions, fineluding Lwo newspa men and a anic. He flew back to New York veftejday afternoon with two sdditional pssgngers. 1f the air{life proves a success he to the red Si amphibing will pl then turn the ship over now a Fokker test pilot Plan of Landing. Chamberlin_plans to land his pas- ne Washington Channel near es at this end of the trip, ex- w » the river is incumbe: with Then the Hoover Pield is to be it is thought, although it was in- timated b C. Burghduff, sales man- ager of the Mount Vernon Alrways Co. h operates the field, that all the oni may be on larg having a R passenger ds 10 & prese g f 50 that b a few ) the e anding o Sehedule of Trips ton Hotel Girl Run Down by Truck Boecial Disp: FREDERICK Miriam Mch of Mr and No. 4 ® serio ruck nome ember r-old daughte McMillan, Plan ocal hospit as @& result of b Md llan Mrs. J R he sc100) n automobile trick ne Bhe was on her way W estab- DOUGHERTY GREETS * ARNY-NAVY NON District Commissioner Wel- | comes Delegates to 40th Delegates to the fortieth annual con- vention of the Army and Navy Union and members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the unign were welcomed to Wash- ingtop today by Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty at a joint meeting in the Hotel Washington. Commissioner Dougherty outlined briefly the history of the government of Washington This afterncon the union delegates «d in a business session in the Temple on Ninth street, while es to the convention of the fary were holding a busi- sion in the Hotel Washington. Preparedness Urged. senfor vice T and who presided at the morning he absence of Maj. W. 1 tional commander, who is il address urged an armed for in this country equal to that of an other nation. Other speakers spoke of the ideals of patriotism and Am canism for which the Army and Navy Union stands Other speakers include Mrs, Virginia Brenner of Marlon, Ind., national com- mander of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Union 3. 0. Howard of this city. and Henry Eberts of Pittsburgh, past national commanders of the Union Mrs. Eva Lawlor of New York and Mrs Cora White of New York, past national commanders of the Auxiliary, and Gen J. R. C. Ward, Civil and Indian War n. Invocation was delivered by N orih national chaplain, commar Union James preliminary Meeting A meeting preliminary to the sessions the Union today was held in Pythian | mple yesterday, where delegates were | welcomed N Comdr Peake. o One of the principe ntion will be t ization the events wnual dinne honor of Maj W gh Hotel tomor- Rale i held WOMAN, 19, AND CHILD, 4, ARE INJURED BY AUTOS Injury Bruised Dolly Deyerle tain ored Girl 1 Mrs by Truck wenth street Hospita) Jast reated for brujses and an i cap after she hiad been knocked down at Pourteenth and N strects by an uwuto mobtle driven by Elvena N. Rowe, 4624 Forty-third place Running into the street in front of her home last night. Amy Ackers, col y | ored, 4 years old, of 624 8 streel, wa ¢ | knocked down and brufsed by & truck r | operated by Charles 632 G thwest 19 ired kuee | by & new ~—Wide World Photos. Young contestants in the finals of the District model aircraft tournament Field. 0LD EDWARDS HOME BOUGHT BY CAFRITZ Landmark Will Be Razed to Make Way for New Structure. The old Colonial home of the late John L. Edwards, on the southwest cor- ner of Nineteenth and F streets, is being purchased from the estate by Morris Cafritz, Washington real estate opera- tor, as the site for a new building opera- tion of major proportions, it was learned tod: “The razing of this old home, which | has stood there for about a half cen- | tury, will mark the pessing of another landmark of the Capital, to be replaced structure Final papers in the transaction are being signed today by Mr. Cafritz and Robert V. Fleming of the Riggs Na- tional Bank, who is a trustee for the} ards estate. The property contains 30,000 square feet. It is im- proved by a large double colonial dwell- ing. The property is to the west of the Department of the Interior and to the north of the new All States Hotel Mr. Cafritz stated today that plans are under consideration for the new bullding there, but no definite decision been reached as to its type, size or cost. He indicated that the building would be large and would cover'a large part of the site of 30,000 square feet. Sues for 350’,000‘ Washington Terminal Co. was ued yesterday in the District Supreme urt for $60,000 damages for alleged rsonal Injurles by Lilllan Edna Sha- 917 Ffteenth street, She says Ed: about | ¢ | pe | Bogue | Unton Station November 20, 1926, and she was entering & car an iron trap | door in the vestibule fell and struck her on the head. She says she has spenl 1,000 in an effort to he cured Attorneys Crandal Mackey and Argyle Mackey sppear for the plainuff. she was employed in cleaning cars at} Herbert Dorsey continued his winning way in District model aireraft tournament vesterday. The inton, transatiantic fiyer, his tiny R-O- iled through the air for 1 minute and showing to Lieut. Walter H model hydroplane, which sai seconds. the finals of the youngster is —Star Staff Pho! Lifeboat crews from Atlantic The race was won by a crew from the liner liners and Coast Guard stations staging their big race in New York Harbor. Mauretania, which is shown out in front here at the midway mark, closely followed by the Sparreholm and Fort Victoria boats. The race, which has become an annual event since its institution last year, is sponsored by the Neptune Association. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. This gridiron “water wagon,” which promises to becomesan institution of the game, made its first ap- pearance on the field during the practice of Army gridmen at West Point the other day. Instead of using the old-fashioned sponge method. The players can get quicker results by spraying themselves in the heat of battle with the hoses attached holding the miniature planes which competed yesterday, at Bolling —Star Staff Photo. Boy. 6, Mounts | Little Edward Whalen, 6, 1247 Thirty- | fifth street, has harbored many a harm- less ambition in his brief span of life. | ayed the role of with poor re- But yesterday he e motor cycie policeman sults. Today he is in Georgetown Hospital with a fractured leg. And he has ended his desire to ride motor cycles ling' machine parked in front of the policeman’s home, 1205 Thirtieth street, NEW PLANE HOPS OFF. Craft Tri-Motored Leaves on Inspection Tour Piloted by Lieut. Harry A. Dinger, the new Fokker trio-motored transport plane acquired this year by the Army and assigned to Bolling Field, was flown | from Washington today on a nation- wide tour of inspection which will last a month Lieut. Dinger will pick up Representa- tive James of Michigan, chairman of the House committee on military affairs, at Hancock, Mich. Mr. James will at- tend the alr races in California and later will inspect various fying fields in_the West. The plane took off at about 10 o'clock this morning with Maj, T. W. Ham- mond of the Army War College and Midshipman Harriman of this city as passengers. Harriman will leave the ship ut Chicago. The plane addition to Lieut, Dinger, includ Hergl. Paul A. Ritter and Alr Mechanic 2d Class Louls L'Esperance. A stop is to be made at Dayton, Ohio, for fuel, after which the ship will proceed to Haneock. Transport Women need not mow wear hats when sightseelng In Exeter Catfiedral in England, but must do so when at- tending services, " OffiCEr‘S It Falls and He Edward saw Officer Millard F. Col-| and cherished a longing to mount the metal steed and be on his way. The machine was tall and Edward was short. It took all sorts of clamber- ing for the youngster to gain the sad- ile. And then the motor cycle toppled sr and fell on the child's leg. | Collins, hearing the boy's cries, lifted | the machine and rushed him to George- town Hospital. At the hospital today it was said that Edward had passed fairly comfortable night. a | TAKES POISON BY ERROR. | | Mistakes Toxic Tablets for Medi- cine—Condition Serious. Mistaking polson tablets for medicine, Mrs. Annette Walters, 23, 4501 Illinols avenue, had & narrow escape from death | 1ast night when she swallowed three of ihe tablets. John Walters, her husband, heard her | seream, and, seeing the tablets on the | floor, hurried her to Garfield Hospital | Dr. Clyde Cantrell, staff physician, said | her condition would remain serious for | | several days | GETS SIX MONTHS. Willlam Herbert Morand, 34 years old, of Norfolk, Va, who was returned Gets Broken ch% here on August 24, with Mrs, Frances Ann Mutter Taylor, 32 years old, to answer & charge of bigamy, was found guilty of a statutory offense by Judge { Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court today and sentenced to six months in jail, Mrs. Taylor also was found gullty and given a similar sentence, but exe- cution of 1t was suspended. The bigamy charge against the cou- ple was dropped and the statutory of fense substifuted when they were first “arraigned here last week. JOHNSON IS NAMED ON COLLEGE SURVEY University of Maryland Dean Will Collect Engineering Data From Land Grant Institutions. Dr. Arthur N. Johnson, dean of engi- neering at the University of Maryland. was designated today with Dr. Andrey A. Potter, dean of engineering at Purdue University, Indiana, as a me Land Grant College survey staff of the Bureau of Education. Dr. Johnson and Dr. Potter will assist in the survey of engineering in the land grant colleges to prevent its conflict with an extensive investigation of engineering education recently conducted by the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Educa- tion, an Interior Department announce- ment sald Dean Johnson and Dean Potter have been in Washington for the past four days assisting in the preparation of a questionnaire and schedule on engi- neering in conjunction with regular specialists of the higher education divi- sion of the Bureau of Education. its completion, the Interior Department sald, the questionnaire will be sent to a special advisory committee composed of leading members of the engineer- ing faculties in a number of the col- leges for final revision. It will then be | ooy "o . Se logos for oal rovision. | 15 Wit ek ea | dAY 1n conference with Senator Borall | throughout the country for the collec- tion of data on the various phases of engineering education conducted in them. The department pointed out that the engineering questionnaire is one of the Jast being prepared in the land-grant college survey Woman Overcome by Fumes. Mrs. A. O. Wolff, 56, 123 A street northeast, was overcome yesterday by fumes from gasoline she was using to lean clothing in the basement of her home. She was revived by Dr. Louls Jimal of Casualty Hospital. After | to the wagon. HOOVER SCHED TOSPEAK INSOUTH INFR —Wide World Ph ULED [TINERANTS DIE EIGHT WRECK | AT | Address Set for October 1. Several Maimed When Nine | Nominee Will Also Invade New York. Herbert Hoover proposes to carry his fight into the stronghold of Democ- racy, the “solid South.” and to chal- lenge Gov. Smith in his home State. Foilowing a labor speech in Newark N. J. on September 17, he plans to enter the South about October 1, either at Asheville, N. C., or Knoxville, Tenn returning to New York City on Octo- ber 17. At Republican campaign headquar- ters it was said that there has been a strong bipartisan appeal from the rank and file of dry voters | Mr. Hoover personally lead the dry | movement in the South. with as- | surances that there is a better chance | than ever before to disturb its Demo- | cratic solidarity Say West Is “Safe.” The decision to invade the South was ' announced officially after a: surances were received at headquarte that the great farm areas in the We: are safely Republican. There is question as to what the Far West will do, Ray Benjamin of San Francisco | pyndon, a small station ate vesterday after a careful | ihle position delayed the rescus work followed encouraging word from & con- | rived late last night ference of Ohlo leaders headed by the | - s reported la survey of the Pacific Coast region. This State chairman, Harry D Silver. Just how extensive the Southern tour # | will be is still to be decided. Some doubt was cast upon the poss bility of the Republican nominee mak- ing & speech in Chicago. It became |known that he considered his declara- | Branch. Iowa, probably was as close at | he would come to delivering an address in the Middle Western metropolis ‘There remained a remote possibility ) however, that he would visit Ohlo. such |an invitation having been_extended to {him several days ago by Semator Fess {Other party leaders from that State who visited him_today did not mention such a trip to him, although they al- | ready have taken up the proposal with the Republican speakers' bureau While the candidate will speak on labor in his appearance at Newark. he has given no thought as yet to the sub- ject of his address in New York He already has worked out a rough draft {of the Newark speech, devoting some time to it during the week-end holi- days Borah to Take Stump. Mr. Hoover spent some time yester- on the general strategy and policy of the campaign. Senator Borah is to take the stump for the Republican cause and will make his first speech of the cam- | paign at Detroit, Mich., September 19 | Charles E. Hughes also will be one of !the headliners for the Republican | Speakers' Bureau. He Is now abroad, but has cabled Chairman Work volun- | teering to take the stump. He is ex- pected to reach New York the latter part of this month and in the mean- time a speaking itinerary will be ar-| | ranged subject to his approval Mr. Hoover also is scheduled to make & speech in New England, but the date and place have not yet been deter- mined. to have | i- | | ber of the | tion of his views on farm relief at West | | Cars Are Smashed as They Steal Rides. By the Associated P MAUSTON, W September Wrackage of nine freight cars that piled up with terrific impact on the Milwau- kee road, 12 miles, east of here, early to- day repelled the onslaught of rescu hting to release victims belie beneath its heavy weight. The battered body of one youthful rider of the rods” has been taken from the debris and lies unidentified here Ten other maimed “passengers,” known only as itinerant workers, were brought to hospitals here. Physicians sald sev- eral would not live Several ‘orms have been glimpsed by rescue crews. Trapped when a loose: truck derailed one car and eight oth shot into the pile that now blocks the ht of way. these men were buried under tons of wreckage. Hope was slight that any would be brought out 5 00 | alive. The wreck occurred yesterday at Its inacces- A wrecking crew from Milwaugee ar- MAN IS KlLLéD BY GAS; RESCUE ATTEMPTS FAIL John A. Weaver, 31 years old, of ireenwood avenue. Takoma Park, Md was found unconseious in the gas-filled bathroom of his brother's home at 1440 Oak street about 6 o'clock this morn- ing. After the Fire Department Res- cue Squad No. 2 had worked on him for about 30 minutes he was pronounced dead by Dr. Leon Gordon of the Emer- gency Hospital stafl. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt viewed the body this morning and decided to have ss upon the death. The jury N in some time today, and inquest may be held later in the called at the Oak street ight and decided to spend the night there with his brother, Rob ert Weaver, because of the mteness the hour, the brother declared. The window was closed. but the door was not locked when he was fo slumped on the floor this morning. was flowing from the jet. His brother declared today that he thinks he must have accidentally turned on the gas while reaching for the electric light switch. Members of the rescua squad sald that Weaver appeared to have been unconscious about four hours. Mrs, Virginia White Speel, Republican national committeewoman for the Dis- wriet of Columbla, today designated Mrs. John W. Frissell. former president of the Federation of Women's Clubs of the District of Columbla, to be the | chalrman of the home makers' division of the Republican national committee for the District of Columbia. Mrs Thomas G. Winter is national chairman of the Home Makers' Bureau. ¥