Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1928, Page 5

CURTIS 1S MAKING . OLD-TIME FIGHT Carries Republican Cam- paign for Farmers’ Votes on Heels of Gov. Smith. B the Associated Press. CURTIS' PRIVATE CAR IN TIOWA, BSeptember 19.—An old-time campaigner. Senator Curtis of Kansas, waging an old-fashioned campaign with its back platform speeches, hand-shaking and street parades, is carrying the Republic- an fight for farmers' votes on the heels of Gov Smith in the agrarian lands. Speeding across the farm fields of Il- linois and Iowa by railroad and motor, + the Republican vice presidential nomi- nee made 14 speeches before retiring last night on his newly acquired private car. Today he halted for a breathing #pell near Sxensor, Jowa. where he was 0 deliever » nrepated sddress late in the dav. Hzs Unusually Strenuous Day. Every stop of the train until last night found Senator Curtis on the back | latform for a few words. Three times e detrained and once he motored across country to get to Peoria, with motor police clearing his way. It was ¢ s strenuous a day as any campeaigner ,*vs& #ttempted, perhaps, but no request rom (ke Republican leaders of Illinois, Wi turrounded the 68-year-old veteran on his private car was turned down. A higher protective tariff against agricultural importations was the prin- cipal theme of his talks to the farmers. He also held out hope of legislation to improve marketing conditions, pleading for non-partisan consideration of the problem, and referring repeatedly to the promise of Herbert Hoover to call & conference of farm leaders. He de- clared the administration of Calvin Coolidge to be “the best in history.” He pronounced Mr. Hoover “one of the best qualified men to run for President in the Nation's lifetime” and always | » E:t in a word for the State and local | publican tickets. Voice Grows Husk®. | His voice was husky by nightfall and he told his audiences he was “awful tired.” but he always had a smile and spoke everywhere until the train pulled * out. Passing freights competed with him at times. At Morris, IIl, a noisy cow tried to drown out his remarks to farmers. The clink of horseshoes fall- ing in a contest at the Henry Fair iand the monotonous moan of merry- go-round music across the track failed to stand up to the thunder of declarations. Now Rides in Private Car. Some of the luxuries.of modern cam- peizning were made available to Curtis yesterday. At Chicago he boarded a rivate car equipped with dining serv- ce, radio and shower bath. It is the first time in his years of campaigning that the Senator has used a private car. Nor did he ask for it. ( Today, his private car was at Sheldon, * Jowa, from where he could motor to Spencer. ‘Tonight he goes westward again to visit tomorrow at the Rosebud Indian reservation in South Dakota. YOUNG WOMAN DECLARES TAXI DRIVER GOT LIQUOR Judge Mattingly Angered When He Hears Intoxication Charge Against Former. Angered upon learning that a taxi driver had bought the liquor for a young ‘woman, who was sul uently arrested for intoxication, Judge Robert E. Mat- #ingly today told Francis Irving Davis, the dri that he wished there was some way he could send him to jail. Davis was brought to court today and admitted buying “one drink” from & colored man in Woodburn for Miss Ethel Hunter, 23, said to live at 764 ¥ Perk rcad, charged with intoxication. ‘When the young woman was brought before him yesterday, Judge Mattingly, on referring to the records, saw she had been arrested six times for the same offense this year. He refused to hear the case until she told where she had the liquor, When she named the €axi driver, the judge ordered the case continued until today to have Davis summoned. After denouncing the driver, Judge Mattingly listened to a plea by the girl's mother that she be given another chance and suspended a six months’ sentence. B SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN GROUP OF G. 0. P. MEETS! Metcalf Confident Will Get Big Majority in Upper House. ‘The Republican senatorial campaign | committee is in session here today | ving further consideration to its plans for co-operating in those States where Benators are to be elected this year. Senator Metcalf, Republican, of Rhode Island, chairman of the sena- torial committee, expressed confidence some time ago that the Republicans would have a substantial majority in the Senate as the result of this year's elections, The committee convened at 10 o'clock this morning and expected to be in session the greater part of o the day. BRUNDAGE MADE HOOVER SALES CLUB TREASURER Executive Succeeds Charles W. Hoyt, Who Died Suddenly After Election. By the Associated Press. Republican headquarters today an- nounced that J. Robert Brundage, vice president of the White & Wyckoff Manufacturing Co. and president of the New York Sales Managers’ Club, had zecepted the post of treasurer of the Hoover-Curtis Salesmen’s Prosperity Lezgue, left vacant by the death of Charles W. Hoyt of New York City. The league was organized last week and Mr. Hoyt died suddenly on Sunday. The acceptance of honorary vice presidencies by sales executives in 14 Btates also was announced. NEW DIRIGIBLE TESTED. German Airship for Transatlantic Service Exceeds Expectations. FRIEDERICHSHAFEN, Germany, Beptember 19 (#).—The huge dirigible “Graf Zeppelin,” built expressly for transatlantic service, which it is expect- ed to inaugurate shortly, was aloft three and one-hall hours yesterday on its first test flight. Dr. Hugo Eckner, on its return, de- clared that the airship had exceeded the greatest expectations on many points and had easily flown 120 kilo- meters an hour on the stretch between Priederichshafen and Kehlen, which ‘was covered twice as a speed test. Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl, U. 8. N.. commander of the dirigible + Los Angeles, was the only guest on the trial flight. “The cooler weather is not definitely | here until the four bricks which have | gerved to mark the base ball diamond g2 bark to their former fob of being al pests.—St. Louis Post’ Dispatch, Republicans| DRYS INDORSE G. 0. P. California Prohibition Party 0.K.’s Republican Electors. SACRAMENTO, Calif., September 19 (#).—California members of the pro- hibition party in convention here yes- terday adopted a resolution directing that the State Ropublican electors be certified as the electors also of the pro- hibition party. There was some opposition based principally on the contention that the prohibition party might lose its identity through such a move, but the resolu- tion was finally adopted by a un- animous ‘vote. CARAWAY ATTACKS B.0.P. FARMSTAND Says Borah Admitted Re- publican Party Was Un- worthy ef Support. Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Ark- ansas, flayed Republican policies, par- ticularly those toward agriculture, at a meeting of local women supportin; the Democratic ticket, at the heac- quarters of the Democratic central committee, 16 Jackson place, last night. Senator Caraway also directed his verbal fire at Senator Borah. Referring to Borah's projected speaking campaign in behalf of his party, Caraway said it was an “over- sight” on Borah's part that he should advocate the “retention of the Repub- lican party in _power without demand- ing that the Republican party cleanse itself of corruption which renders it utterly unworthy of support. as de- clared by his speech in the Senate on March 19 last.” | Senator Caraway asserted that Borah | had said that the Republican party could not retain the money given it by Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, “with- out approving and ratifying the orig- 1!"“‘ transaction as it§ original incep- ion.” Caraway questioned the accuracy of the unemployment figures when the Republicans came into office in 1920, given by Herbert Hoover in his Newark speech, and said the Republican poli- cies had “driven nearly one-fifth of the farmers frorn their farms, and ren- dered homeless 5,000,000 people, and destroyed a third of the invested capi- tal of agriculture.” The meeting also heard speeches by Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Democratic national committeewoman for the Dis- trict; Mrs. Charles F. Taylor, who has been placed in charge of woman's activities of the Smith-Robinson Club; William Rutledge McGarry, writer and economist, and Jo V. Morgan, local | attorney. Nine-year-old Dorothy Bauman of Mount Rainier, Md., organizer of a children’s Smith-Robinson Club, was present and took part in the program. OLD MAYAN COTTON FABRIC DISCOVERED Ball Game of Ancient Ameri- cans Also Brought to Light. Ey the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—Discov- ery of well preserved ancient American woven cotton fabric, said to be the first of its kind ever found, was announced here last night before the International Congress of Americanists. A new find in ancient American| sports also was announced, in evidence that the type of ball then played was more widespread than hitherto believed. Both announcements were made by Prof. Franz Blom of Tulane University, New Orleans. He made the discoveries this Summer while conducting the John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition of Tulane through the site of the great Mayan _civilization, which flourished in Central America about 2,000 years ago. Found in Cave. The textiles were found in the State of Chiapas, Mexico. Before their find- ing, he said, scientists had known only of a few charred scraps of Mayan tex- tiles. The Tulane trophies were recov- ered from an ancient burial cave, open- ing into the side of a cliff, which two Mexicans found while hunting honey. Blem, describing his own entry in ] cave later, said: | “Sticking my head inside the mouth | of the cavity, I saw that it was formed ‘l like a large globe and that its walls had a hard, shiny glaze of crystalline limestone, through which no water | could penetarte. The floor of the cav- ity was covered with fine and very dry dust, and it was evident that a squir- rel had made a nest here after the entrance had been forced open by the bee hunters. Deep in the dust I came upon a small piece of excellently pre- served white cotton cloth. A further investigation brought some more frag- ments of cloth to light. Cloth Is Plain. “The cloth is plain white, without any coloring or design, woven out of cotton and so well preserved that it will stand hard pulling. Two different types of weave were found, one having three woofs together and the other t the woofs being finer and thinner than the warp. On some of the fragments the original edge is preserved, and two pisces are sewn together with long stitches.” The other discovery, the finding of several ball courts in the southern Maya area, Blom said, overthrows “one of the fundamental theories regarding cultural migrations in Central Amer- ica.” This theory was that the ball game, called tlachtly, was not played by the early Mayas, but was introduced by Mexicans not long before the Span- jards arrived in America. These ball courts were shaped like a capital letter 1, with sloping walls covered with cut stones set close together, smooth surface. Blom said he found them in the old emp area, where it had been pr: supposed the geme was not | played. T;vo Soldiers Retired. Master Sergt. Wayne G. Phillips, Ordnance Department, at Walter Reed Hospital, and Technical Sergt. Michael J. Kerwin, 3d Cavalry, at Fort Myer, have. been placed on the Army retired list, at their own request. Each of these soldiers has had more than 30 years' continuous military service. Now Is the Time To Inclose the Back Porch See Us for— ' WINDOW FRAMES 7 i $13.5¢ Windows from $2.20 Up Small Orders Given Careful Attention No Delivery Charges 0% £ Fn&k Kelly, .lnc. Singles $4.25 Twins forming a | region of the ! -THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, UTILITIES SHOWN AGTIVE FOR LAWS Daily Reports Received on Bills Introduced in New Jer- sey, Probe Reveals. Steps taken by the New Jeresy Util- ity Association to keep in touch with legislation pending before the State Leg- islature were traced today in th> Fed- eral Trade Commission’s investigation of power utilitier during testimony by | Wililam H. Roth, sccretary. He produced financial records, which Robert E. Healy, commi counsel, disosed that daily reports of legislative activities were received, along with copies of all bills introduced. Cor- respondence also brought out that refer- ences to discussion of matters pending before the Legislature had been elimi- inateq from minuies of the association mesing. One ietter. w8ltten by Roth in March, 1027, regaryt*2 an increased assessment for suppess of the State public utility informati=* committee, described that committe= as having done “much good for utilittes generally, especially in the matter o opposing and preventing ad- verse legtlation from getting through.” Benefit From Publicity. “This is a matter that we don't ad- vertise for obvious reasons,” the letter continued. “The general educational benefit derived by the utility industry through the dissemination of facts through our information committee cannot be measured in dollars and cents.” Roth wrote that such committees were working in 38 States to put informa- tion of all kinds at the disposal of schools and other institutions, and said this “would bring about a better un- derstanding of the importance of the utlity industry. And, as you know, when a person understands a thing he is less apt to oppose it.” Healy’s examination dwelt particular- Iy on the connection with the associa- tion of Prof. Theodore J. Grayson, who docs extension work for the University of Pennsylvania. Many small payments to Grayson were listed in the financial accounts, and Roth said these were for expenses in conncction with arrang- ing and attending meetings for the association as its treasurer. Discussion Report Kept. He said under questioning, that Grayson had kept the minutes of the February, 1926, meeting at Trenton and had included in them a report of dis- cussion affecting legislation. Following this, Healy produced let- ters which showed that Roth had re- vised the minutes to eliminate the: references and that Grayson had ap- proved the revision. Roth said tnis practice was “a policy of the executive committee,” The financial account showed that the association contributed $1,000 to the information committee last April toward the printing of pamphlets on utilities intended for scgml distribu- tion. Roth testified, however, that he understood this printed matter had never been distributed. He noted that the information committee was distinct from his association, which he said ::fitltianed headquarters in Philadel- Copies of Bills Sent. A letter from Roth to Grayson, Feb- ruary, 1926, said that there were in- closed *copies of the bills so far in the Legislature which appear to affect utili- ties.” Described as Senate bill No. 8 and Assembly bill No. 60, the letter said the first measure was ‘“particularly bad” and ‘&hn the second was “also detrimental to water companies and might easily be extended to gas and electric companies if it should b2 passed.” Roth also wrote to George B. Blanch- ard of P. W. Chapman & Co., Inc., Chicago, Il., February, 1926, inclosing notices of bills affecting utilities then before the New Jersey Legislature. In refil:ence to Assembly bill 80, Roth said: J “What we are doing regarding this bill has been done for many other bills in the past few years. There will be quite a number of utility representatives present at the hearing March 1, and everything possible to prevent the pas- sage of bill No. 60 will be done.” Lighting Official Heard. When Roth was excused temporarily A. J. Marshall, New York, secretary of the National Electric Light Asso- ciation, took the stand, and Healy ex- amined him immediately regarding the financial accounts of that organization. At the outset he inquired concerning a check for $500 made out to William Allen White, editor of the Emporia, Kans., Gazette, in May, 1926. Marshall The Finishing Touch to the Well Planned Costume soft black fur . .. well tipped brush. said this sum represented White's fee for “his attendance to address the Atlantic City convention at the invi- tation of the convention.” One of the documents put in the r:cord by Healy was an April, 1927, re- port to Dr. N. C. Miller, director of industrial ~extension, Rutgers Uni- versity. New Brunswick, N. J., by an ad- visory committee on public utility edu- cational work. The report, which was signed by Prof. Grayson as chairman, concluded “that it would be advanta- geous and profitable to establish ex- tension courses in public utility opera- tion in New Jersey if such courses were planned so as to cover the fleld ade- quately and were properly and efficient- Iy taught by experienced men.” “Your committee also believes that a course such as this may be par- ticipated in by leading utility men,” the report declared. Members of the committee, besides Grayson, were A. W. Cuddeback, H. L. Davis, Philan- der Betts, Harlow C. Clark and J. 8. S. Richardson. Richardson at that time was publicity representative for the New Jersey uti'itics, and is now in charge of such work for the Joint Com- mittee of National Utilities Associa- HONTFOR I M IN'DEATH MYSTERY Promoter Last Seen With Wealthy Couple Found Killed Under Auto. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 19.—The disappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Albert La Huis, wealthy Zeeland, Mich. and Miami, Fla., residents, believed cleared up by discovery of two bodies beneath a wrecked automobile near Sandberg, Calif., search was begun today for F. J. Walter, Lajolla oil promoter, in whose company the couple last was seen. Although identification of the two bodies of the elderly man and woman found yesterday under the automobile has not yet been established, a search of the car revealed it had been licensed to Mrs. Evelyn D. Walter of Lajolla, wife of the promoter. Inspected Oil Lands. Walter was with the La Huis’ in Bak- ersfield August 18, when they were last heard from. He had gone there to show the Michigan capitalist oil lands which the latter had purchased sight unseen for $75,000, and which he wished to in- spect. Relatives who instituted a search for the missing couple last ‘veek brlieved they had met with foul play. Deputy sheriffs, called to the scene of the wrecked car, which lay in un- derbrush 1,000 feet below the mou tainous highway, recovered the man's body, but were unable to raise the car from the pinned woman and went to summon help. ‘Fhe officers did not have ‘*ime to search the underbrush along the path from which the car huriled to destruc- tion for the body of the promoter and a searching party was organized early today to return to the scene, Found by Insurance Man. Discovery of the car was made by Harry E. Nichols, an insurance man- ager, and R. B. Savage, a mechanie, while traversing the highway in search of a client’s missing car. Authorities early today were attenipt- ing to reach C. J. La Huis, Miami, son of the missing man, and H. C. Coith of Cincinnati, his son-in-law, in an effort to establish identification of the bodies. The two men came here last week to aid in the search and were repcrted to be in Bakersfield. Sandberg lies be- tween Bakersfield and Los Angeles. The son had told police his father habitually carried large amounts in negotiable checks and securities, but the officers who recovered his body made no report of discovering any such papers. - Army Resignations Accepted. The President has accepted the res- ignation of Second Lieut. Charles C. Coppin, jr., Army Air Corps, stationed at Fort Riley, Kans., and that of Second Lieut. George E. Levings, U. S. In- fantry, stationed at Fort Wayne, Mich. Lieut. Coppin is from Kentucky and was graduted from the Air Service Fly- ing School in 1924. Lieut. 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Mc- | Kinney, 22 years old. 785 Irving street, driver of the cab, was held at the first precinet station house pending an in- quest at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Van Horn was born in Hart- ford City, Ind., February 3. 1876. He came to this city 10 years ago snd ‘w3 first employed as a Tinotype =pera- ».or on the Pest until comins to Tha Evening Star about years a, where he was working as a ‘member of the night force in the composing room. He was a member of Columbia Tvpo- gravhical Union, No. 101, and of King So'omon Lodge of Masons. i He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nellie Van Horn: ‘a son, Gray Van Horn, and a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Riley. H. Bagby, 30 years old. of Lyon Park, Va. sustained a fractured skull when struck by an automobile operated by Harvey M. Burke, 325 Todd place northeast, on Messachusetts avenus be- tween Twentieth and Twenty-first i?eo}t{s. _lzv]»zby was taken to Emergen- y Hospital and his conditi - | nounced serious. S James McDoneld. colored, 49 years old. 34 L street, was treated at Emergency gggg;tl:l,flv“rnen lén(g:ked down at enue an y "hétt-an?(-r.!,m" driver, S ety & rucl y a street car at P - vania avenue and Seventh s(rpef.ngi‘!;]n F. Ryder, 63 vears old, 1228 Quincy :;z\l:r" ll{a?t 1’&“ l;b was treated at Emer- cy Hospital for bruiss mw;,-" uises and then sent am Swindell, colored, 8 yi 1006 Girard street, Tast night wae trear: ed at Children's Hospital for bruises received when, while playing, he ran Lnat;‘ une gnfik«f automobile at Sherman A n amont street, - .tion is not serious. T ol i ot R S POLICEMAN INJURED. The wind and rain were last night | held responsible for the injury ot both | Mounted Policeman Edward H. Noden | g’f‘r s:h! fourteenth precinct and his | Noden was knocked fro r at Connecticut avenue urr:tli hl‘;orfi?s?;' sireet by an automobile operated by Ralph H. Chase, 435 Raymond street, Chevy Chase, Md. Chase took Noden to the home of Dr. J. J. 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