Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1928, Page 14

A4 “.., THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D Q4 SEPTEMBER 23, 1928—-PART 1. FUROPEAN ORATORY ' ENTRANTS ARRIVE British, German and French Champions Spend Day in New York. Arriving in New York City late yes- terday, 18 hours ahead of their sched- | | ule, Dudley Raymond Barker of Eng- land, Heinz Barth of Germany and Rene Ponthieu of France, champion orators of their respective nations who will compete in the third international oratorical contest finals here October 13, today are enjoying their first real day of sight-seeing in th_Unl(Cd States as they tour the Metropolis “The trio of national champions band- ed as the S. S. America of the United States Lines, made her channel port| halts before starting out on her voyage | across the Atlantic. Heinz Barth was the first of the three to join the ship as he boarded her at Bremen. Ponthieu was second and he met Barth when the America stopped at Cherbourg. Young Barker was the final member of the party to join when the ship halted at Southampton. After the trip across the ocean the America put in at Boston, where {he boys caught their first glimpse of the New World, and then she swung down the coast to New York. Tonight Efrain Brito Rosado, cham- ion of Mexico who has been in Wash- ngton several days, leaves the Capital for New York to become a member of the oratorical band on its way to Chi- ago. i ’%‘he four boys are scheduled to make the day trip up the Hudson River to- morrow arriving eventually at Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Their next big stop, however, will be Toronto, Canada, where William Fox, jr., the Dominion’s champion, and James R. Moore, Som- erset, Ky., boy, who will represent the United States, will join them. After a day or two at Toronto, the six boys will swing down to Detroit, Mich., where they will visit the Ford Motor Co. plant. The trip to the Ford factory is on the itinery because each oratorical cham- pion of a foreign nation has told Ran- dolph Leigh, contest director general, that he is more curious about that in- stitution than anything else in the United States. g From Detroit, the six orators will travel on to Chicago, where a week of entertaining awaits them. While in the Illinois city, the boys will stay at the Union League Club. At the end of their stay there, the entire party will come to Washington October 11. The day before the European, and the Canadian and American contestants reach the Capital, Jose de Tomaso, champion of the Argentine, will end his long trip from his homeland down on the lower west coast of South Amer- | ica. He began his journey yesterday. The international contest finals will be staged in the Washington Audi- torium at 8 p.m. Saturday, October 13. ‘Tickets for the meet will be ready for distribution Tuesday at contest head- quarters, room 323, The Star Building. As it was_announced through this | newspaper Friday, mail applications for the passes should be accompanied by self-addressed envelopes. Personal calls will be handled directly at headquarters. ‘Telephone calls can not be honored. | Indications at present are that the meet will be a brilliant gathering of international personages and the scene of stiff forensic combat between the boys designated as the spokesmen for their nations. UNVEIL MONUMENT T0 BRIG. GEN. BRETT Men He Commanded in France Will Participate in Service at Arlington. A monument to Brig. Gen. Lloyd H. Brett, who died a year ago, will be un- veiled this afternoon at 3 o'clock at his grave in Arlington National Cemetery, near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Veterans of the 80th Division, A. E. F., whom he commanded in France and members of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, of which he was later adjutant, will gather at the exer- cises, which mark the first anniversary of his death. v Gen. Brett had a colorful career in | the service. Upon his graduation from ‘West Point in 1879, he took part in the Sioux Indian Campaign in Montana and won the Congressional Medal of Honor. He likewise took part in the Cree and Geronimo Indian campaigns. He was provost marshal general of Gen. Shafter's army in the Spanish- American War and later commanded the 100 picked men who represented the American Army at the surrender of the Spanish troops at Santiago de Cuba. He participated in the Philip- pine insurrection and served on the Mexican border in 1916 in command of a cavalry brigade. Gen. Brett was appointed brigadier general early in the World War and organized the 160th Infantry Brigade of the 80th Division, which he commanded in France. He was awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Medal and the French Government bestowed upon him the decorations of Officers of the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre. STARTLED BURGLAR BATTERS WOMAN | Reservoir Road Resident Knocked | Down When She Finds Man Prowling in Kitchen. Discovered in the kitchen of the home | of Mrs. Ethel Vermillion, 3421 Reservoir road, last night, a colored man knocked | the woman down and then fled through a rear door. A search by seventh pre- | cinct police was fruitless. Mrs. Vermillion said that she went to the kitchen at 9 o'clock last night and found the man there. She presumes that his purpose was robbery, aithough he was so startled by the opening of the | door that he was in the middle of the {not definitely known, ley Raymond Barker of England. Six of the contenders for the high sch here next month. They are, upper, left to ri TOLL I BAAIS BELIEVED SHAL First Boat Since Storm Reaches Miami From British Possession. By the Associated Prass. MIAMI, Fla, September 22.—Reas- suring word that few lives are believed to have been lost or the out islands of the Bahamas as a_result of the storm that swept British possessions Sunday | before it struck the Florida coast were brought here today by officers and pas- sengers of the auxiliary schooner Ena K., first boat to reach Miami from Nas- sau since the hurricane. Loss of life in the outer islands is according to Charles Pettee, first mate, as Inagua Island and Eleuthers Island had not been heard from when the Ena K. sailed. His summary of storm damage on islands already surveyed follows: New Providence Island, of which Nas- sau is the principal city—Three dead, great property loss in Tesidences and temporary suspension of utilities. Harbor Island—Ninety-six buildings demolished. Governors Harbor—Almost complete loss in buildings. Bimini—One house left standing. Spanish Wells—Nine buildings de- stroyed. J. R. Rescher, an American photog- rapher was one of the Ena K. passen- gers. He said he knew of only one fa- tality at Nassau. that of a girl who was drowned in a draining ditch after the storm subsided. AL SMITH COMPLAINS ABOUT HOOVER; BUT— It’s a Different Al and Hoover Happens to Be the Name of a Street. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 22.— Councilman Fielder Sanders came down to his office and saw this noie on his k “Al Smith called and said Hoover has never been dedicated.” First he wondered who was trying to kid him. Then he saw it all. A client had opened an allotment which in- cluded Hoover avenue and he wished the curb cut away at the entrance. Al Smith is the district supervisor in the utilities department who has charge of such affairs. @he Foening Htar Riwcy orfll BRIG. GEN. WALKER CONFERS WITH LORD Canal Zone Governor Praises Or- ganization at Pan- ama. Brig. Gen. Meriwether L. Walker, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, whose four-year term will expire Oc- tober 15, has arrived here to conier with Director of the Budget Lord in regard to estimates for next year's ap- propriations for the Canal and close up the affairs of his administration. According to Gen. ‘Walker, there are two remarkable things about the administration eof the Panama Canal. “The first,” he said, s the fact that the plant as de- signed by the en- gineers at the be- ginning s still GEN. WALKER. functioning per- fectly after 15 years. that the plan of organization devised at the same time has been unchanged, except in minor details, due to in- creased business. ItYis one of the most wonderful organizations I have ever known.” On the settlement of his business here Gen. Walker will be given a short leave of absence, on the conclusion of which he will proceed to Boston, for duty with troops in the 1st Corps Area. Col. Henry Burgess, Corps of Engi- neers, engineer of maintenance of the Panama Canal and now acting as go ernor, has been promoted to the gov ernorship of the Canal Zone, effective on the expiration of Gen. Walker’s term. Who will be detailed to the office to be vacated by Col. Burgess has not yet been announced, but Lieut. Col. J. Franklin Bell, former Engineer Com- TROJAN, The Man’s “Works Like a Trojan’ HUGHES PEN SHOP NATIONAL THEATER BLDG. IVERTISENENTS ( RECEIVED HERE Kenner’s Pharmacy—17th & Q Sts. N.W. Is a Star Branch Office The second is | fioor when she first saw him. For your convenience these Branch Offices are located in TRAVELING MATES NOW—CONTESTANTS OCTOBER 13 00l forensic championship in the Third International Oratorical Contest ight: James R. 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Painleve, minister of war, consents to relinquish the military air service to the new minister, or even to permit _any effective co-ordination among the three departments, and this deadlock has become so serious that M. Eynac is creditably reported to have threatened to resign. Now It s learned that Andre Tar- dieu, who, after Premier Polncare, Is 2.1 S ¥ the most outstanding man in the pres- ent cabinet, and is generally belleved to be M. Poincare’s eventual sue SOT, Te- Jected the offer of the air post because he foresaw the difficulty which M. O. Eynac has encountered. It was cor- rectly reported two weeks ago that M. Tardleu was the likeliest candidate, but despite the urgings of Premier Poincare and the whole cabinet, he flatly de- clined. The reason is now obvious. France has three distinct air serv- ices—army, navy and commercial—and from present indications, M. Eynac will control only the last named unless, in- deed, he disgustedly abandons the task. According to reliable information, the principal trouble with French avia- tion is widespread graft surrounding the orders for motors, which has made it impossible to institute any real test of excellence. The consequence is that a multiplicity of untested designs are llldOW!d annually by the various serv- ces. Probably Prance’s aviation is not in any worse situation that that of many other European nations, but unquestion- ably appreciable improvements are pos- sible if all purchases could be con- centrated in one department headed by an acknowledged expert like M. Eynac. But the mere creation of an air ministry, without giving it any power to control the nation’s aviation policy, will plainly not effect the ameliorations which the country expects and there- fore M. Eynac's insistence on a free ORES I hand, particularly in purchases, Is easily understandable. This disagreement in the cabinet has placed one more stumbling block in the cabinet's stony path, and makes it in- creasingly difficult to see how the gov- ernment will manage Parliament when it reconvenes in a few weeks and begins discussion of the budget, which at best is unpopular. s (Copyright. DITCH“BODfY HELD HERE. Man Who Killed Self on Train Was Ill, Companion Says. The body of Joshua J. Ditch, 70 years old, of the Cedars, Marshallton, Del., a suburb of Wilmington, who com- mitted suicide early yesterday on a Sea- board Air Line Florida-to-Baltimore train, was being held at the morgue last night to await the arrival of relatives. Ditch, occupying & Pullman berth, cut his throat with a razor, and was dead when discovered upon his arrival at the Union Station here. Charles S. Donovan of Venice, Fla., who had been traveling with him, said that Ditch was on his way to Baltimore to undergo treatment for a nervous disorder. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt ordered the 1928 body taken to the morgue to await the advice of relatives. N 21} PLAN NEW TEXTILE UNION. | Radical Workers Open Two-Day Convention in New York. NEW YORK, September 22 (#).—A two-day convention called by Albert ‘Welsbord, radical labor leader, for the purpose of organizing a new national union among the textile workers opened today at Irving Plaza Hall. Of the several hundred in attendance there were said to be present delegates from textile centers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. ‘The conveation, which at once elected Weisbord temporary chairman and adopted the temporary name for the organization of the National Textile ‘Workers, is an echo of the biennial con- vention here_last week of the United Textile Workers of America, where two delegates were unseated for “disloyalty"” for the part they played in the Passaic and New Bedford textile strikes. Cuba to Greet Veterans. 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