Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1928, Page 17

‘THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1928.% On the speakers’ stand at the big political rally last night of Virginia Democrats at Leesburg. Before the microphone is Lewis Nixon, a native of Leesburg and now prominently identified with New York Democracy, who delivered the principal address. Behind him are seen, left to right, Senator Claude A. Swanson, Wilbur C. Hall, chairman of the meeting, and Repre- Newark gave Mr. Hoover a moisy reception. The republican standard bearer is shown riding from the station in the New Jersey city yesterday . with Mrs. Hoover and Mayor Raymond. Note the outstretched hand of a fair admirer in the crowd resting on the nominee’s coat sleeve. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Another French invader captures the American tennis crown. Henrl Cochet receiving from Walter Hall, presi- dent of the West Side Tennis Club, at Forest Hills, Y., the cup emblematic of the American singles championship after his great uphill victory yesterday cver Francis T. Hunter (at right), the 34-year-old New Rochelle veteran, whose brilliant game carried him to the finals. —Associated Press Photo. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover visiting the home of Grover Cleveland on their trip to northern New Jersey for the candidate’s Newark address last night. The wife of the Republican nominee carries a large bouquet of flowers presenied to her on the trip. —Associated Press Photo. PRISONERS RIOI; THREATEN STRIKE Ritchie Visits Penitentiary During Outbreak—Hearing Dented Six Convicts. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, September 18.—After a WRANGLING MARKS VARE-WILSON GASE Senate Body Fails to Make Progress Due to Tilts Be- tween Counsel. By the Associated Press. Further effort to get light on the riot last night threats of a general strike ' Vare-Wilson senatorial election contest ! at the Maryland State Penitentiary here of 1926 was made today before the Sen- were made this morning by prisoners. | ate investigating committee, but the Guards were redoubled. A score of | constant legal squabble prevented much city policemen and 10 city detectives | progress. were called to the prison. | Guards herded 800 prisoners from the | dining room into their cells last night | because of a disturbance. Immediately | 1he prisoners started yelling, beating the | bars and walls of their cells with pans, stools and anything that came handy | and throwing everything loose at the | guards who patrolled the corridors. | Report Held Cause. | Officials of the prison said that a re- | port of Stuart S. Janney, director of | ihe State Bureau of Welfare, absolving | the officials and guards of the prison of charges of cruel and inhuman treatment | of prisoners, which was made to Gov. Albert C. Ritchie Saturday, was respol sible for the riot. Denial of an imme- | diate audience with Mr. Janney, which was made by six prisoners, four of whom are serving life sentences for murder, | precipitated the disturbance. These six prisoners told Warden Pat- | rick A. Brady that a general strike | would be called by the prisoners unless | a public hearing of the charges of cruel | treatment was granted them. Ritchie Visits Prison. | Gov. Ritchie went to’ the prison dur- | ing the early stages of the riot. Warden Brady said that all prisoners who would go to their tasks this morn- ing would be allowed to do so and that all others would be locked in their cells as a disciplinary measure. The noise of the riot could be heard | for several blocks. The police found ! more than 2,000 persons gathered out- side of the walls, attracted by the noise. ‘These were dispersed. { REWEDS EX-HUSBAND. | ‘Woman, Given $1,000 Monthly Ali- mony, Remarries Former Mate. CHICAGO, September 18 (#).—Mrs. Anna M. Cairns, who was awarded a| property settlement of $150,000 and | $1.000 monthly alimony when she di- vorced James E. Cairns, grain broker, last January, was rem to him | yesterday at Michigan Ci | The Cairnses separated a year ago. Mrs. Cairnses charged cruelty. Two hours after she had filed her bill for divorce she was in consultation with her husband and said she wasn't sure she “would go through with it.” sl Plays Cornet for School. FARMER CITY, Ill. (#).—Labor day, which marks the opening of schools, is | the occasion for Ben Garver, druggist, | charges of fraud which they never | ! quieted. { <jclared that the Allegheny County re- Ralph H. Frank, counsel for William | B. Wilson, the Democratic opponent of William S. Vare, called E. B. Babcock, | county commissioner of * Allegheny | County, to question him as to charges of fraud in the Pittsburgh primaries of 1926. From the moment the wit- ness took the stand there was em- bittered language, as counsel for the Vare forces insisted that the primary election of 1926 had nothing to do with the general election, the result of which Wilson has protested. “I propose to show election frauds, ballot box frauds, other frauds,” Fral asserted, “and that the primary is part of the general election system in Penn- sylvania; that there was fraud in both elections and that the matter is a continuing system.” Questions Alleged Plot. In the ensuing argument, Edward Kelly, chief counsel for Vare, demanded to know “how Vare, loser in the Al- legheny County primary, could have| been an element in the conspiracy that | carried the county against him. Charles | D. Pritchard of Pittsburgh, Keily's as- sociate, contributed the remark that the Wilson lawyer was “again using the committee . to broadcast repeated | ile Roland B. Mahany, another of the Wilson representatives, demanded “protection from the committee against | unseemly imputations,” Chairman | Waterman sought to stop the wrangle. He ruled that Frank could proceed with questions as to the primary election though the evidence might not be ad- | mitted later by the committee, and en- deavored to stem the flow of objections | by additional rulings with the threat’ that “it might be necessary to exclude | somebody” ~ unless the ~ controversy | prove ‘Wh One Box Affected. Babcock, when allowed to testify, de- ! turning board had not found election frauds in Pittsburgh “of sufficient con- | sequence to leave a mark in my mem- | ory.” Frank pushed the examination as | to one contest there affecting the! status of State legislative candfdates, | and Babeock said this “affected just one | election ballot box out of 1,400.” i Chairman Waterman seriously ques- tioned the bearing of the testimony sought on the segatorial contest, on the ground that “a primary election is only an interparty squabble” and that the general election was the real object of the investigation. He assured the Vare lawyer that they would be given every | opportunity to argue before the full committee for the rejection of the | testimony they contested. It was a wild race. Bill Darragh qualified as a broncho buster when his car made this lunge into the air against an iron fence in a race yes- terday at the Mineola, Long Island, track. It happened on the second lap of a six-lap elimination race, and Bill escaped with mere lacerations of A prominent aviatrix takes in the big air show at Mines Field. 1In the face of several mishaps, Miss Amelia Earhart, of transatlantic flight fame, continued the transcontinental flight in her tiny Moth plane and landed in Los Angeles in time to witness the national air meet. -—Associated Press Photo. Two new recruits for the “talkies.” known English actor, brings his —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. George Arliss, the well pet parrot, Whiskers, along with him on his voyage over in the Leviathan to make talking movies in Hollywood. Whiskers seemed enthusiastic about it. —Wide World Photos. AVIATION STUDENTS WILL TAKE TO AIR Two Legion Classes End Ground Course—Will Build Own Hangar. ‘The District cf Columbia Air Legion, a co-operative organization of student aviators in training to obtain trans- port pilots’ licenses, will take to the air this week, after putting two classes through a ground school of flying. Lieut. Walter A. Brooke, chief of operations and head instructor of the legion, is expected to lave Columbus, Ohio, this afternoon for Bolling Field, flying the legion’s new plane, a Lincoln- Page biplane, which will be used for training purposes by the legion mem- bers. Reports of adverse weatrer con- ditions over the mountains may com- pel Lieut. Brooke to postpone his flight until the weather clears. | i i Traveling Justices Carry Courts To Water Front to Try Hlegal Crabbers| Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Scptember 18.—Court sessions held in autos, with traveling judges, are the latest innovation in Maryland judicial administration. These courts have been put into use by the State conservation department to try persons accused of violating the | erab laws, according to Conservation Commissioner Earle. A justice of the peace accompanies the conservation deputies when they go out to inspect crabbing boats. If any crabbers are arrested, they are taken directly to this justice, thereby saving the trouble of a court appear- ance, Earle said. “The department has had consider- able trouble in carrying out the crab the great number of shores and: places which are visifed by pleasure crabbers. While we have posted all these resorts and crabbing points, we still found vio- work and at the same time save the ble of being carried to a justice of the peace, it was arranged to take a justice in the car with the deputies.” SHUBERTS OBJECT TO SHOW’S NAME Ask Court to Restrain Theater Here From Producing “Artists’ Models.” ‘The Shubert Theatrical Corporation The legion has leased the Wind|mm;0§ Péfl;v Y';’lfk E‘fldav asked the District : 7 P 7He of Columbia Equify Court to restrain estate, two miles north of Silver Spring, | the Gayety Theater here, Izzy Hirst Md., on the Seventh street pike, as a | and Ben F. Bernard, from advertising landing field, it was announced today |and putting on a show called “Artists’ WALKER DEFENDS brandt's Comment on “Enforce- nfent” by New York Police. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 13.—Mayor | James J. Walker made public last night | his reply to a letter from Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt in which the Assist- laws during the past month, owing to| lators, and in order to expedite the! crabbers who were arrested the trou- | ACTION ON DRY LAW, i | Mayor Replies to Mrs. Wille-! |EIGHT LOCAL BOYS IN AVIATION MEET | Chosen From List of Twelve Win- ners in Miniature Exhibit to Enter National Tourney. Eight local aviaticn enthusiasts out of the list of 12 sent as winners in the District miniature aircraft tournament nament at Atlantic City October 5 and 6, 1t was announced today. Out of this number six are in the Junior class and two are seniors. The boys are George Bell, Douglas Bruce, Clayton Fish, Thomas Robins, Ernest Stout and Langfitt Wilby in the junior division and Herbert Dorsey and Lloyd Fish, senior winners. The total number of possible en- trants in the national tourney is 100 an average of less than two boys from the 60 cities represented. The local lads established such a high record in comparison with the other contestants that_eight young plane builders from | the District will compete. They will go | to Atlantic City the morning of October 15 and return October 7. ! Paul Edward Garber, technical adviser i of the local contests, and Miss Sibyl | Baker, director of the Community Cen- | | | sentative R. Walton Moore. —Star Staff Photo. Off to invade the corn belt as Democracy’s standard bearer. Gov. Smith waving the famous b rown derby from the rear platform of his special train as it pulled out of Albany for his campaign tour of the West. M ly Smith Warner. ‘With him are Mrs. Smith and their daughter, —Associated Press Photo. FIVESAVEDAS SHP Survivors Clinging to Raft for 60 Hours. | By the Associated Press. SINKS; 17 MISSING Rescued After! JOTOR ARUYCOES NTO BATTLE TODAY Mechanized Force to Hold Its Biggest Fight Test at Fort Leonard Wood. | Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, September 18.—Witn OWEN SOUND, Ontario, September | | 18.—Five men, believed to be the cnly | Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief survivors of 22 members of the crew |Of stafl of the United States Army, and |and passengers on the cattle boat |15 foreign military attaches as a gal- | Manasoo which foundered in Georgian |i€ry, the experimental mechanized Bay early Saturday morning, were re- | force will take part in the largest of its are eligible to enter the national tour- | to play “School Days” on a cornet in Y A 7 S front of his store. Fifty-five per cent of the residents For 25 years he has sounded the notes ' of a Swedish town close to a large of the ald song on the holiday. power station use electricily for cooking. by Edward L. Brimley, secretary cf the legion. Members of the legion will be- gin construction of a hangar this week. Each of the 150 members Will be re- quired to bring one sack of cement and to wheel one wheelbarrow load of gravel or sand to the site. The other expenses will be apportioned among the members and the construction work also will be done by the members. Flight classes at the field will begin under direction of Lieut. Brooke as soon as the ship arrives and will sup- plement the ground school maintained by the legion at its offices in the In- ternational Building. Two classes have been completed in the ground school and the third class will begin its course September 27, e Models.” The plaintiff corporation al- leges that this show misleads the pu lic, through advertising, into the belief that it is the Shubert production, “Artists and Models,” which has been coming to Washington in either Oc- tober or November since 1923. The plaintiff says that it has spent “upward of $1,000,000” in developing and popularing “Artists and Models” as a musical show, and has spent thou- sands of dollars in this city in an- nouncing the production. The Shubert Corporation, through its attorneys, Willlam E. Leahy and William J. Hughes, jr., alleges that the defendant intends to mislead the public, and that its advertising iseuch that the public will be mjsled. | ter Department, which directed the ant United States Attorney General in | tournament, along with the parents of charge of prohibition enforcement |the boys, will attend the national praised local police for “beginning to! The program for the national finals make a drive on New York night clubs.” | includes five indoor and five outdoor Mayor Walker in his reply said that | events in both junior and senior classes. the records show police to have re- - ported to the Department of Justice German Admiral Resigns. since January 1, 1926, a total of 1,593 violations of the liquor laws. Although| BERLIN, Beptember 18 (#).—Admiral 12 complaints were made against one | Zenker, chief of the naval department place, the letter said, no action was|at the ministry of defense, has ten- taken by the Department of Justice. dered his resignation after 39 years in Saying that 3,500 policemen have | the naval service. been added to the force during his administration, Mayor Walker expressed the conviction that “nothing made this increase in our police force so necessary as the disrespect for law, the bootlegger feuds, murders, crimes of violence and the prevalent use of narcotics which followed the enactment of the Volstead act.” | covering from exposure here today. | The five were taken from a life raft by the Canadian Pacific steamer Mani- toba yesterday and brought to this port. All are expected to recover. The 16 other members of the crew and one passenger are believed to hav perished. Chief Enginegr Thomas McCutcheon of the Manasoo died aboard the raft shortly before the rescue. was stripped of its clothing and tossed into the bay to lighten the raft. clothing was given to Arthur Middle- boro, the purser, who had escaped clad only in his underwear. The survivors said the Manasoo sank | almost without warning before day- | break, giving no opportunity to launch lifeboats or warn the members oi the | crew who were below decks. | Darkness Bars Aid. , In the darkness the men on the raft | had no opportunity to rescue any of | the missing. When dawn came they saw two lifeboats, one overturned with two men clinging to its sides, the other apparently unoccupied. They quickly drifted away, however, and were not seen again. It is not believed the two men could have hung on long. Rescue forces were mobilized to search the bay today. Lake tugs, air- planes and steamships plying the bay and Lake Huron were requested to join in the search. Numbed by Cold. The rescued men were $o numbed by the cold that they said they could not have hung on the raft another night. Those saved were Capt. John McKay, First Mate Osborn Long, Mr. Middlebro, the pursuer; Ray Fox, an oiler, all of Owen Sound, and E. Wal- lace, cattle drover of Oil Springs, On- tario, a passenger on the ship. The missing are Second Mate Frank Hutchison, M. Beattie, quartermaster; Second Engineer Allan Scott, Sing Quon and Hum Tom, che: Donald Rose, waiter; H. Chambers and E. Stewart, watchmen, all of Owen Sound: Dougald McClean, fireman, of Port Alfred, On- tario; Joseph Mansour, a waiter, of Little Current; Clark Fox, fireman, Oxedon, Ontario; five deckhands whose names viere unknewn and an unnamed passenger. The Manasoo, formerly the passenger ship Macassa, had been in service on the lakes since 1888. Pastor Tenders Resignation. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., September 18.—Rev. R. P. Rixey, Baptist pastor at Shenandoah Junction, near here, presented his resignation at the close of his sermon Sunday, to become ef- fective in December. He will go to Florida, where he has business interests. | on which they had drifted for 60 hours His body | His | “battles” today at Fort Leonard Wood. The operation will be an “attack problem” in which the entire force of more than 1,100 men, 36 tanks and 200 other vehicles will participate. The Air Corps is supplying 14 planes for the occasion. Many Army officers on duty at the War Department, headed by Brig. Gen. Frank Parker of the general staff, es- corting military attaches of most of the foreign embassies in this city, left here in automobiles this morning at 8 o'clock for Fort Leonard Wood for the demonstration. The demonstra- tion began at 10:30 o'clock and lasted until noon. It illustrated the advan- tages of the new military mechanized force in a penetrating attack on an enemy in a strong position. Following the operations the visitors were entertained at luncheon by Maj. Gen. F. W. Sladen, commanding the 3d Corps Area, and the officers at the post. The foreign military attaches in attendance were: Lieut. Col. Angel M. Zuloaga, Argentina; Maj. Zorobabel Galeno, Chile; Capt. Enrique A. Prieto and Lieut. Rafael Alfonso, Cuba; Maj. Georges Thenault, France; Col. R. Pope-Hennessy, Great Britain; Brig. Gen. Augusto Villa, Italy; Col. H. Wa- tari, Capt. N. Kusunoki and Capt. N. Abata, Japan; Col. Samuel Rojas and Capt. Juan Beristain, Mexico: Col. Jose Urdanivia_Gines, Peru, and Capt. Rit- tter von Radlmaier and Capt. Aust- mann, Germany. {REFUSE DISPOSAL, TOPIC. |D. c. Problem Subject of Discus- | sion at Conference Tomorrow. { _The refuse disposal problem of the ' District will be discussed at a con- | ference_ tomorrow morning between | Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant | Engineer Commissioner, and representa- tives of a number of citizens’ associa~ tions in Northeast and Southeast Wash- ington. | Maj. Davison plans to outline plans | for future refuse disposal and seeks the | co-operation of the civic bodies particu- ! larly in the sections where incinerators | likely will be erected. Fox Raising Increases. It is estimated that the fox-raising industry in Nova Scotia increased 20 per cent last year, bringing the number of foxes in captivity up to approxi- mately 12,000, says the New York Times. There has been a noticeable increase in the holdings of small own- ers and it is reported that approxi- mately 80 per cent of the industry is now in the hands of individuals. Live foxes sell for $400 to $700 a pair, il