Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1928, Page 17

How neatly this youngster mi down the jaws of this monster thought doesn't disturb Bill Anderson, jr., son of a veteran fisherman of Hawaiian waters, who landed the 18-foot man-eater on a recent —Wit ght have slipped shark! But the great_ Frenchma to right, are: fishing trip. de World Photos. Still showing the way in the air derby. Earl Rowland in front of his Cessna A monoplane in which he retained his lead in the transcontinental derby for class A field yesterday for the overnight stop at Kansas Ci FIND §10.000 CACK INU.S.AGENTS A fAuthorities Arrest Revenue Officers in Alleged Ex- tortion Plot. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 7.—Ten thou- sand dollars in bills, which authorities described as the first installment of a $35,000 extortion fee, was found in the straw hat of an internal revenue agent, and todey he and a fellow agent were under arrest. The agents were Edward F. Brown and Elmer F. Andrews, who were ac- cused by Reginald W. Ragland, counsel for an unnamed Wall street concern, to have agreed to approve the firms claim for a $250,000 tax reduction if they were paid $35,000. Ragland notified revenue authorities of the proposal, and investigators listened in on conferences between the agents and the attorney. Brown and Andrews were caught yesterday as they jeft Ragland's office, where authorities said the two men were paid $10,000 on account. Andrews said he had no idea how the $10,000 in bills ranging from $50.to $500 got in his hat. *“Somebody must have slipped it there,” he said. { i MARSHALL BIRTHDVAY planes by landing ahead of the y. —Associated Press Photo. At right: Commissioner Dougherty placing a wreath dent Coolidge on the Lafayette statue yes- in observance of the 171st anniversary of the n's birth. In front of the statue, left Charles P. Light, Commissioner Dougherty, Brig. Gen. Richards, U. S. M. C, and Charles W. Darr. —-Associated Press Photo. Stopping at nothing. One of the “big boy” tanks of the Army’s mechanized force taking a hurdle at Fort Leonard Wood, Md. monster; all obstacles look alike. No detours are necessary in the cross-country journeys of this —Associated Press Photo. The fields of Kentucky beckon to the President for a hunting trip. English setter pup, Palo Alto, the other day by Clare Wildner (at right) of Superior, Wis., President Cool- idge admitted the idea of a few days’ hunting in Kentucky this Fall had a strong appeal. After being presented with this The President turned the pup over to Col. Starling of the White House secret service staff, to be sent to his Kentucky farm for training. George von Elm receiving from T. Suffern Tailer the gold mashie trophie, which he won in equaling the world record of 272 for 72 holes of golf over Tailer’s difficult course at Newport, E. I. Von Elm’s recent game makes him an outstanding contender for the amateur crown. Safety First Gem Anti-Theft Plan Fails; Loss $1,500 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 7.—A good way not to transport jewelry has been developed by B. B. Raucher, who sells gems for a New York house. It was common knowledge to Raucher that jewelry salesmen are too often prey of robbers. He evolved a plan to avoid it. It was quite sim- le. A salesman cannot be robbed if e doesn't carry jewels with him. ‘Therefore he didn't carry them. Raucher employed a boy. When Raucher had an appointment to dis- play his jewels he would go to the appointed place by one route, and the boy, with the jewels, would go by another. The trouble was, as Raucher com- plained to police, the boy, carrying 3‘11.500 worth of diamonds, never got there. RING ORGANIZED TO SMUGGLE ALIENS | Alleged South American Operations | Bared at Hearing of Stowaways in Baltimore. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, Md, September 7.— Testimeny tending to show that an in- ternational smuggling ring to ship na- | tives of South America into this coun- | MAJ. PEAK HEADS ARMY-NAVY UNION National Commander Is Re- Elected by Acclama- tion. Maj. W. L. Peak was re-elected na- tional commander of the Army and Navy Union by acclamation shortly after the organization had gone into the final session of its fortieth annual national convention for the election of officers, in Pythian Temple this after- noon. All other candidates for the office withdrew. Other national officers are to be elected later this afternoon. Resolutions were adopted earlier in the day. Principal among the resolutions adopted was one proposing a pension of $20 a month for all men, 70 years old or more, who have beendischarged from the military service and who are not otherwise provided for through pensions or compensation. The resolu- ilon proposes that each individual dis- charged from the service be paid the pension upon reaching the age of 70 in future years. A resolution also was adopted asking | that all Civil War Veterans now living be paid & pension of $72 a month. Hospitalization for all persons dis- | charged from the military service prior | | to the year 1898 is also sought in a( resolution adopted at today’s session. Another resolution was passed asking Congress to adopt officially “The Star ; 80 30 Descendants By the Assoclated Press. An 80-year-old Florida grandmother brought to Republican headquarters to- day a promisee of 30 votes for Herbert Hoover among her children, grand- children, nieces and nephews. She is Mrs. Jessie S. Goode of Mel- bourne, and she said 52 years of Re- publican campaigning in that State had not discouraged her. In addition, she told them a Georgia son-in-law, nor- -Year-Old Grandmother Pledges to Vote for Hoover mally a Democrat, would support the Republican ticket. Mrs. Goode was one of a number of Republican woman workers who sup- mitted optimisitc reports to the Hoover managers. Democratic as well as Re- publican farm and rural women ‘in Ten- nessee and South Dakota were described as actively working for Hoover by Mrs. Beulah O. Hughes and Mrs. Paul Rewman, Republican national commi teewomen for the two States. FULLER ASSAILS RELIGIOUS ISSUE Governor Addresses Massachu- setts Legion Men on Clean Politics. By the Associated Press. NEWBURYPORT, Ma: September 7.—Injection of religious prejudice into politics was attacked by Gov. Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts today in a speech before the members of the Amer- ican Legion at their State convention here. Appealing to the Legionnaires to “sound the tocsin that will start a re- volt to raise the tone of American poli- tics,” the governor said: “You men know and remember that there was no inquiry as to a man’s re- ligion or nationality when he offered to die for his country 10 short years ago. We must insist ever and always that [REJECTED DRAFTEE DENIED GRATUITY McCarl Rules Out Men Found In- capacitated When Drawn for Service. Decisions of interest to former serv- ice men of the World War were handed down today by Centroller General McCarl ‘The $60 war service gratuity is not payable io a draftee rejected and dis- charged by reason of physical disability which incapacitated him for military service, the controller genera! decided in the case of John Gary Davis of Allendale, N. C., who, it appears, was rejected under the draft because of underweight. “If, as you state, other draftees with service records similar to yours have received the gratuity, such payments were not authorized by law and would be held no justification for making a —Wide Woxld Photos. The oldest fiyer in the air derby. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Capt. Charles Dickens, who is the oldest licensed air pilot in the country and who will accom- pany E. E. Ballough of Chicago, whose plane is entered in the class B transcontinental derby. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. YOUTH 1S CAUGHT AFTER LONG CHASE Detective Stumbles, Goes Off, but He Gets His Man. Gun A foot race through streets and alleys between Headquarters Detective Frank Alligood and a colored youth suspected of “joyriding.” during which the detec~ tive stumbled and accidentally dis- charged his revolver, ended today in the capture of William Glover, colored, of 24 G street northeast and the recovery of A missing automobile. Alligood was driving near Third and K streets this morning when he sighted a parked car which had been reported stolen from George H. Robinson, 1410 Ridge place southeast, on August 31. He pulled to the curb and waited. Before long Glover appeared, got into the car and started to drive away, he said. Alligood gave chase, and Glover leaped from the car and ran. Alligood forsook his own machine and pursued Glover on t. The chase led through several blocks and up various alleys, in one of which Alligood nearly lost the race by stumbling on the pavement. His gun exploded as he hit the concrete. The detective regained his feet quickly and continued the dash, eventually get- ting his man. A civilian came to his assistance toward the finish. Glover told Alligood he had given an | umdentified colored man $2 for the use of the car and denied having had any connection with its disappearance a week ago from near North Capitol street Freed in Court For Building Fire On Floor to Warm Henry Cloud, colored, 57 years old, of 808 Virginia avenue, who built a fire in the middle of the floor of a house from which he was moving because he was cold, was freed this morning in Police Court when a charge of arson against him was dropped. . Cloud spent all day yesterday mov- ing from 303 Virginia avenue. On becoming cold and damp he decided to build a fire, and soon the floor was in flames. The Fire Department extinguished the flames after $30 damage had been done. AMUNDSEN SEARCH ON ICE PACK ENDED Hunt Will Be Continued Along Norwegian Coast for More Parts of Plane. By the Associated Press. OSLO, Norway, September 7.—Search | of the polar ice flelds for traces of | Roald Amundsen and his five compan- ions of the Nobile rescue expedition has { been abandoned. This was decided yes- { terday at a meeting of government of- | ficials and polar experts at the minis- try of defense. Search will be continued, however, { along the Norwegian coast in the hope of discovering more relics of the sea- plane in which the six men were trav- POLICE CAPTAINS HOME 1S BOMBED Dynamite. Explodes Shortly After Chicago Officer Conducts Raid. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 7.—The home of Police Capt. Luke Garrick was | bombed early today. His wife, who is ill, was thrown from her bed. Their 7- months-old granddaughter was buried under 8 inches of plaster as she lay in her crib. The damage was put at $10,- 000. The bomb exploded in the vesti- bule of the apartment house in which the police captain lives. Neither Mrs. Garrick nor the baby was seriously injured, but the woman suffered severely from shock and was taken to a hospital. Capt. Garrick a few hours earlier had led a raid on the Minerva Athletic Club, where 64 men were arrested for gam- bling. He said he believed the bombing was in retaliation for the raid. ‘The Minerva club raid was executed despite an injunction which forbade police from molesting the place. Capt. Garrick obtained new evidence that ‘rghhng was going on and then led the aid. Police had not determined early to- day whether the dynamite bomb was timed, or had been tossed into the ves- tibule shortly before it exploded. THEATER STRIKE ROW !try existed in the Southern Continent | i yesterday was introduced into the hear- | {ing of four seamen charged with be- | TO BE CELEBRATED there shall be no shaft of criticism ieveled at him on this account when he offers to serve his country in the days of {eling when disaster_overtook them. A pontoon_from the French naval ma- chine, discovered a few days ago off Spangled Banner” as the national and Massachusetts avenue. anthem. like unauthorized payment to you,” the decision declared. e Former Home of Chief Justice, ing implicated in the plot to bring 16 I stowaways in on the steamship Steel | and the death of seven of | The | i hearings are being held before United { foner J. Frank Supplee. | Near Front Royal, to Be Scene of | Inventor Exercises September 12. e Eaecial Dispatch to The Star TSt FRONT ROYAL, Va.. September 7.—! At Oak Hill. former home of Chief Jus- tice John Marshall, the 173d birthday of the great Chief Justice will be cele- | brated September 12, under auspices of | the Shenandoah National Park Highway | Association. H Judge John Barton Payne will preside. | Representative R. Walton Moore, Wil- liam E. Carson, chairman of the Vir- ginia State Conservation and Develop- ment Commission; Judge Frank S, Tav-| ener of Shenandoah and others will speak. Citizens from Arlington, Prince William, Fauquier, Warren, Shenandoah and adjotning counties will attend. SPIDER WRITES NAMES. Public Attracted by Work of In-| sect at Virginia Home. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va. September 7.— ider” has woven the words | “New York"” and “Miama,” | at the home of Mrs. M. A. Whitmire at | Pleasant Valley, Va. It does its writing | on the front porch of the home, the web extending lengthwise rather than being circular. When the spider writes at night it crases the words the follow- vivors of em in fumigation of the ship. ates Commis The witnesses were Charles Frank, the fatal ship’s hold on arrival here. Frank told of admissions made to him by three of the accused men, who admitted attempting to smuggle the men into the country. The fourth man. Edmundo Cunho, he said, denied all knowledge of the scheme, although the stowaways identified him as one of the men aiding them. A restaurant owner in Rio de Janeiro, according to testimony of the stow- aways, was the “go-between” in the negotiations betw members of the ship’s crew and the natives. They all paid into a general fund for food to be eaten on the trip, they testified, and were to deliver $300 each to the sea- men on arrival in this country. Manuel Calafata, one of the wit- nesses, said that many natives had been brought into the United States in the | same’ manner. Arranges Own Funeral. Special D! ch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., September 7.— Benjamin B. Parker, postmaster at Mid- dletown, near here, who died last week, | directed in his will that he be buried in | Mount Carmel Cemetery by the side of | his wife, named his funeral director, ing morning and daylight work is rub- bed out at night. Crowds gather morn- ing and evening to see what the “writ- ing spider” is doing. lected pallbearers, asked that Winche: i ter and Strasburg Masonic lodges be n tified and detailed other arrangements, Relatives carried out his wishes. | immigration inspector, and four sur- fumigation- of the The ladies’ auxiliary concluded its final session in the Washington Hotel shortly after noon, after holding me- morial services for deceased members and installing its newly elected officers for the coming year. The officers elected are: Mrs. Jennie Walls of Philadelphia, national com- | mander; Mrs. May Armstrong of Bos- ton, national vice commander; Mrs. Eva Hapley of Oakford, Pa., deputy com- mander; Mrs. Mae Miller, Cleveland Ohio, national adjutant; Mrs, Eliza- beth Bingham of Philadelphia, na- tional paymaster; Miss Ethel Wiggins of this city, master quartermaster; Mrs. Sadie Waldle of Everett, Mass., nationa! inspector; Mrs. Annie Van Wart of Boston, patriotic instructor; Mrs. Clara Britton, Germantown, Pa., chaplain; Mrs. Pauline Reader, Cleveland, Ohio, officer of the day, Mrs. Lillian Miller, Rochester, N. Y., officer of the guard; Mrs. Emma Rettig, Cincinnati, Ohio, field marshal; Mrs. Lillian Peters, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Bessie McCon- aghey, Philadelphia, color bearers; Miss Viola Diehl, Buffalo, N. Y., sentry; Mrs. Martini Conway of this city, picket; Mrs Florence McCann of Philadelphia, pianist; Mrs. Sophia, Kabbis, Union City, N. J. national historian. Ad- | ditional members elected to the counsel are: Mrs. Virginia Brenner, Marion, | Ind.; Mrs. Eva_Hatley, Flushing, L. I.. and Mrs. Cora White of Pittsburgh, Pa. | Several hundred delegates and mem- bers of the ladies’ auxiliary attended a banquet in honor of Maj. W. L. Peak, national commander of the union, in the Raleigh Hotel last night, James G. Yaden, department com- 1 | mander of the United Spanish War Veterans and president of the Federa- tion of Citizens’ Associations, urged an pegce. I say to you gentlemen that you faced no worse enemies of America on | the fields of France than Senator Heflin and Dr. Straton. We must not allow our politics to be torpedoed by prejudice. The right of every citizen to worship as he pleases and to aspire to hold any office within the gift of the people must be preserved and maintained inviolate.” ‘The individual citizen, the governor said, owed it to himself “to inform him- self candidly and as thoroughly as may ‘be upon those questions which require immediate answer and to hold himself free from bigotry, intolerance and lust for persecution which unhappily still linger and from time to time manifest b themselves with bat nd much more than medieval ferocity ‘awakening of interest among the vet- erans in the defense of the country” and declared that his organization always has stood for adequate preparedness. Others who spoke included Col. Stir- ling Kerr, who introduced Thomas P. Littlepage, the toastmaster; Capt. W. R. Van Auken, who gave a toast to the Navy: Col. Hugh Matthew, for the Marine Corps; Capt William J. Wheeler, inspector general, the Coast Guard; Capt. M. M. Barnard, Harlan Wood, de- partment commander of the American Legion; Willlam M. Bobb, department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic: Maj. Peak and Gen. Joseph R. C Ward, Union and Indian War veteran, Maj. Peak and Robert J. Graef were presented with Army and Navy Union rings in token of their service. A toast to each speaker was sung by Harry Evans, ‘The program included entertainment under the direction of Jack Mullane, In another case, involving insurance in the Veterans' Bureau, the controller general said: “Retroactive rating for permanent | total disability by the Veterans’ Bureau | may be recognized as maturing term in- surance prior to discharge or resigna- tion from the military and naval service of the insured only where the military or naval record discloses a disability during the period covered by such retro- | active rating. Where the effective date of such a rating, as determined by the Veterans’ Bureau, is prior to application for term insurance lawfully filed during military or naval service, total perma- nent benefits may be awarded from and after the date of application for insur- ance or from such subsequent date as the disability is disclosed by the mili- tary or naval record to have arisen.” S. D. WARFIELD ESTATE LISTED AT $5,142,784 By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., September 7.— ‘Two additional inventories listed today in appraising the estate of the late S. Davies Warfield increased the apprais- ment to $5,142,784.96. The inventories filed today in Or- phans Court included a partial personal inventory listing 27,000 shares of Sea- board Air Line prefererd stock valued at $486,000. A partial real estate inven- tory lists six pleces of property valued at '$47,500. A previous inventory had listed property aggregating $4,609,284.96. Mr. Warfield's will left the greater part of his estate to found Institutions for the aged in memory of his mother. i |WIFE FILES DIVORCE SUIT; ; SEEKS CHILD’S CUSTODY Letters Found in Husband's Pock- ets and Later Translated Are Submitted. Suit has been filed in Equity Court; by Mys. Gertrude Fischer, 1920 Penn- sylvania avenue, against Arthur Fisch- er, said to be an interior decorator, for absolute divorce and custody of their 7-year-old daughter. According to the wife's bill, they were married in Leip- zig, Germany, February 4, 1919 and moved to the United States in 1922. Attached to the bill of complaint | filed by Mrs. Fischer are copies of | translaied letters said to have been fouad by the wife in the husband's pockets. These letters are signed “Lilly,” and the wife alleged her hus- band 'admitted acquaintance with the writer, but denied he preferred her so- clety to that of his wife. It s alleged that Fischer deserted his wife and child July 20, 1927, and after- | ward the child was taken back to Ger- | many on a visit with the father'’s con- | sent. Misconduct is charged with an | unidentified woman. Attorneys Ray- | mond Neudecker and Willlam C. Ash- ford appeared on behalf of the wife. Turkey Accepts Kellogg Pact. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 7 (#).—Adherence of Turkey to the Kel- logg past was announced officially here today. It was sald that the note of acceptance probably would be transe mitted to Washington tomorrow, Tromsoe, convinced the officials that i the men were dead. | Today's decision was based largely | upon a letter from Admiral Kerr of the French Nat who has been aiding in the search h the cruiser Strasbourg. | He suggested abandonment of further effort along the ice pack, which is : steadily pushing southward around the Spitzbergen archipelago. Sir F. O. Lindley, British Minister to Norway, called at the foreign office to- i day to express regrets of his govern- i ment over the loss of Amundsen. BLAMES WIFE’S PARENTS IN DIVORCE SUIT ANSWER Blame for the marital troubles of James Howe, railway express employe, was placed on his wife's parents in an answer filed by the husband in District Supreme Court today to the suit of Mrs. Alice C. Howe, 120 Seventh street northeast. Howe denies charges of cruelty and intoxication and says his wife has been too suspicious of his conduct. Howe claims he was forced to leave the home of his wife's parents on last July 12, because of the unfriendly rela- tions existing between them. He denies assaulting his wife at a dance at Arling- ton Beach in July, and says his wife followed him to the resort, and aired their domestic differences to the as- sembled throng. Howe also alleged that his salary due the first of the month had been attached by creditors of the ENDED IN CHICAGO Both Sides Make Concessions at 24-Hour Parley and Reach Agreement. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. September 7.—Peace reigns and the music in Chicago movie theaters still lives. A 24-hour conference between officials of the theater owners and the Musicians’ Federation ended today in “victory for both sides,” and assured the public a threatened strike of all union theater employes would not take place. The theater owners met the demands of the musicians by agreeing to employ an orchestra of four men in theaters which had installed the “talking movies” and the musicians met the de- mands of the owners by agreeing to a working schedule for a season rang- ing from 10 to 44 weeks instead of a full-time 44-week schedule. The dispute reached a climax on Labor day, when musicians employed in about 250 neighborhood theatgrs re- fused to go to work after their contrac* expired on Sunday. OFFICER DROPS DEAD. Col. Herman Hall Succumbs Wh Playing Golt. PASADENA, Calif., September 7 (#). ~Col. Herman Hall, U. S. A., retired, wife. Attorney Raymond Neudecker appeared ! on behalf of the husband. dropped dead on the eighteenth fair- way of the Pasadena Golf Club yes- terday. He was 63 years old.