Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1928, Page 17

Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty crowning Miss Kath- ryn Sebastian as “Miss Columbia Heights” of 1928. The coro- nation was a feature event of the big carnival and parade con- ducted by the Columbia Heights in that section last night. Miss Dorothy Brandt, last year's canuval queen, and Frank J. Sobotka, president of the Asso. ciation, are shown in the group. The smallest dirigible pays a visit to the biggest town. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1928, ° At Business Men's Association greeted son, As —Star Staff Photo. The ; Goodyear baby dirigible Puritan hovering over Battery Park in New York yesterday on a visit from Lakehurst, N. J. The world's smallest dirigible intended to land in the park, but a high wind prevented it. MURDERISLINKED - T SEWER INQUIRY New York Grand Jury Charges D’Olier, Graft Wit- ness, Victim of Slayers. By the Ascociated Press. NEW YORK, September 28.—Investi- gation of the death of William D'Olier, dmportant witness in the Queens County sewer contract investigation, was given impetus today with the report of the ‘Queens County grand jury that he had been murdered. At first it was believed he was a suicide. D'Olier, president of the Sanitation Corporation, which received subcon- tracts in the building of the Queens County sewers, in which work, it is al- leged, $16,000,000 in graft was taken by various parties, was found shot to death on a lonely road in Queens County September 2. A pistol was lying in the crook of his arm. % Police listed the death as a suicide, but on the insistence of D'Olier's widow and other members of his family an in- vestigation was started. The grand jury heard 58 witnesses, but failed to dis- cover who killed him. D'Olier was to have been a witness in the trial of former Borough President Maurice E. Connolly and Frederick E. Seely, former Queens engineer of sewer | desi; . now under way. On the night D'Olier was killed he ‘was reported to have had an engage- ment to meet with others involved in the trials. Whether he attended such a8 meeting has never been disclosed. ‘The death of D'Olier was the second among persons involved in the sewer investigation. John M. Phillips, head of the so-called “Queens sewer ring,” died in Atlantic City, N. J., July 3 shortly after he had been indicted with Connolly. The cause of his death was given as acute appendicitis. i It has been charged that the main sewer graft was engineered through contracts so worded that successful bid- ders on sewer construction were forced to buy their pipe through Phillips, who had a_virtual monopoly on a special kind of pipe in Queens County, ADMIRAL MAY GET POST. “Magruder's Assignment to Duty Seen in Naval Conferences, Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder. former commandant of the Philadel- phia Navy Yard, who was relieved from duty last Fall because of magazine ar- ticles he wrote criticizing the Navy, may be given a post soon. Several conferences with high naval officials have been held recently by Secretary Wilbur to consider what dis- position would be made of the admiral, who has been “awaiting orders” in ‘Washington since he was relieved of all duties. Admiral Magruder has two more years to serve before he reaches the yetirement age of 64 years. He is of the —Associated Press Photo. 40,000-Ton Blast Shatters CIiff In Quarry Work Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., September 28.—The largest blast of dynamite ever recorded east of the Rocky Mountains went off yesterday at the Nessle quarries of the Pitts- burgh Limestone Co., when a cliff was shattered by 40,000 pounds of the explosive. Movie cameramen of several companies were on hand and the skies were filled with the smoke and dust for several minutes. 1t is estimated by Norman B. Scott, manager of the Limestone Co.. that 200,000 tons of rock were displaced. The explosive had been placed in 43 holes, representing a total depth of one mile. WOMAN BRAVES GAS TO SAVE-EX-MARINE Works Alone on Retired Sergeant | Major for Hour Before Rescue Squad Arrives. James W. Thompson, 52-year-old re- , tired sergeant major of the Marine | Corps, was saved from death by gas poisoning yesterday by the efforts of a young woman who worked over him for an hour before she could obtain as- sistance. He was discovered uncenscious in his | bed in his apartment, at 1316 I street, about 4:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Pearl Allen, who occupies an | apartment on the same floor. Gas| was flowing from an oven burner on the gas stove, and the jets on top of the stove were still burning. He had gone to sleep, and through the faulty flow of gas, the flame inside the oven had been extinguished. Mrs. Allen said | this morning that she had smelled the | odor of gas all day. She rushed into his apartment and | opened the windows and then called to | other occupants of the building for as- | sistance. She said that they appeared | frightened and refused to help her in | her lone efforts to revive Thompson. | Finally the Fire Department rescue jsquad was summoned, and Thompson | regained consciousness after oxygen had | been administered for 35 minutes. He | was taken to the Naval Hospi ere this morning his condition was said to be still serious but somewhat improved. | FORCE WILL DISBAND. | lEXpmimPn';l M"‘(‘h:Tni?Nl Unit | End Activity Monday. i The Experimental Mechanized | Force, organized at Fort Leonard Wood for raining during the past Summer, will be disbanded next Monday and all the troops of that force will return to their regular stations in this vicin- ity and elsewhere. All experimental material will be re- turned to chiefs of bureaus concerned, with the exception of the tractor- drawn_equipment for two batteries of the 6th Ficld Artillery, at Fort Hoyle, Md. The entire mechanized force at Fort Leonard Wood took the field today to so-called “upper half” of the rear ad- mirals and receives $8,000 a year sal- X2 for the last time this year and gave a tactical demonstration of its military <apabilities in the feld. 14 right: Count Uchida, ting Wash- ington on his return from signing the war tenunciation treaty for Japan at Paris, is on his arrival by Nelson T. John- sistant Secretary of State. —Copyright by Harris & Ewing. Drastic and humiliating penalties are being meted out to Ameri- can University freshmen for violation of rules of conduct becoming new arrival: around on one leg. Mexican delegates to the International Congress of Americanists at New York, ari For instance, Burke Edwards has to wear this waste- basket on his head wherever he goes, and Jane Rice has to hop —Star Staff Photo. Gov. Smith acquires another Indian title on his campaign swing through the West. The Democratic stand- ard bearer, surrounded by braves and squaws of the Uf , Blackfeet and Flathead tribes, wears the handsome bonnet presented to him when the Indians adopted him as Chief Leading Star. The ceremony took place at the Montana State Fair in Helena. And here’s another example of how the “upper classes” at American University are dealing wi ith fractious freshmen. Davis Ma- gee has been silenced in this effective fashion because he associated with girls. The placard tells the world about the offense. —Star Staff Photo. e in Washington for a brief visit on their return trip to Mexi- co. They were welcomed on their arrival vesterday by Director Rowe of the Pan-American Union, and John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie In- stitution of Washington, who are shown in the center of the group with F. E. Mariscal, chairman of the delegation. —Copyright by Harris & Ewing. TWO A. E. F. SOLDIERS CITED FOR GALLANTRY Capt. H. E. Kyburg, New York City, and Pvt. D. L. Mason of Nashville, Tenn., Given D, 8. C. Capt. Henry E. Kyburg of New York City and Pvt. David L. Mason of Nash- ville, Tenn., have just been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the War Department for extraordinary heroism in action in France. Capt. Kyburg was a first lieutenant, 28th Infantry, Ist Division, A. E. F., and during the at- tack on Hill 240, near Exerment, France, ber 6, 1918, “constantly ' exposed himseli to a very heavy, sweeping ma- chine gun and shell fire in order to su- pervise personally the reorganization of his company and the consolidation of the positions gained.” Pvt. Mason was attached to the 115th Field Artillery, 30th Division, A. E. F. According to the citation, he and an- other soldier during the battie of Mont- faucon, France, October 5, 1918, “on two occasions ran the telephone line be- tween the battery and the forward ob- servation post. passing through a heavy enemy barr Having accomplished this task, they discovered that the wire had again been cut and proceeded to repair the line. While so engaged, his companion was wounded and died al- . Pvt. Mason continued to repair the line under shellfire, there- by enabling the battery of his battalion to continue firing effectively.” . Germon Motorists Sail. BERLIN, September 28 (#).—One hundred and thirty members of the Aligemeine Deutsche Automobile Klub, the oldest motor association in Ger- many, sailled aboa the steamship Muenchen for New York today. They will tour the United States for five weeks, studying motoring. RELIGIOUS BODIES IN U. S. SHOW 54,624,976 MEMBERS IN 1926 Census Bureau Compilation of Communi- cants of All Deno Substantial Increase Over 1916 Report. By the Associated Press. There were 213 religious bodies and denominations in the United States during 1926, with 54,624,976 members, organized in 231,983 churches, parishes and congregations. The Census Bureau reported these statistics yesterday, and compared them with its finding 10 years before—for 1916—of 200 religious denominations, with 41,926,854 members and 226,718 local organizations. The figures were those furnished by the church organiza- tions themselves, the burcau expiaining that in some cases it included all bap- tized persons, while in others it was limited to the actual persons enrolled, or classed as communicants. While the number of religious de- nominations increased during the decade, the report showed that 19 religious bodies recorded in 1916 had passed out of existence or become ab- sorbed by other denominations, while 32 new denominations had been created or arose from divisions in existing denominations. For 1926 expenditures reported by all religious bodies amounted to $814,371,- 529, while the value of church build- ings and other property was $3,842,577,- 133. In 1916 the reported church expenditures amounted to $328,809,999 and_church property was valued at $1,676,600,582. By far the largest single religious body reporting was that of the Roman minations Develops Catholic Church, credited with 18,605, 003 members in 1926, compared with 15,721,815 in 1916. The largest single Protestant body and third largest de- nomination was the Methodist Epis- copal Church, with 4,080,777 members in 1926 and 3,717,785 in 1916. The second lgrgest was the Jewish congre- | gations, which reported 4,087,357 mem- | bers in 1926, a very large gain over the | membership’ of 357,135 reported by Jewish congregations in 1916, The | Census Bureau explained that the 1916 | Jewish congregation membership re- { port had included only seatholders and | contributors. The fourth largest religious body was that of Southern Baptists, which had 3,524,378 members in 1926 and 2,708.- 1870 in 1916. And the negro Baptists! |came fifthywith 3,196,623 in 1926 and 2,938,579 id 1916. Among other large denominations with memberships for 1926 and 1916 were Northern Baptists, 1,289,966 and 1,244,705; Congregational Church, 881, 696 and 809,236; Disciples of Christ, 1,377,595 and 1,226,028; United Luth- eran Church in America, 1,214,340 and 763,696, Evangelical Lutheran Synod- ical Conference of America, 1,292,620; Methodist Episcopal Church South, 2,487,694 and 2.114,479; Presbyterian { Church in the United States of Amer- ica, 1,894,030 and 1.625817, and Prot- estant Episcopal Church, 1,859,086 and 1,092,824, PIE-EATING CONTEST HELD AT ST. ELIZABETH'S Races and Burlesque Help to En- liven Field and Track Meet for Patients. Sound bodies that compensated for whatever other ills they may possess provided patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital with the means to enjoy a lively field and track meet yesterday under the supervision of the Red Cross director at the institution and with the kindly aid of the District Chapter of the Red Cross, the Park View Ladies’ Associagion and the Army Band. ‘Whild serious events, including a 50- vard dash, 100-yard dash, three-legged race, sack race, jumps and tug-o’-war, were run off, buriesque and hilarity had its part on the program, when a pie- eating contest served to splash pastry and its “filling” on happy competitors, from whose minds nothing was further than their ills. William Leitch. athletic director of the Red Cross, with headquarters at the hospital, directed the meet, while the local Red Cross chapter supplied re- freshments, which were served by the Park View Ladies’ Association. Music 1 hour. was furnished by the Army Band. Woman Denied Compensation. Compensation for the death of her husband on July 23 in the performance of his work was denied Mrs. Nannie Clanton of 423 Six-and-a-half street, in a ruling handed down yesterday by Deputy Commissioner Robert J. Hoage of the United States Employes’ Com- pensation Commission, who is admin- istering the District's compensation | measure. Mr. Hoage held that the, woman was not entitled to compensa- | tion because she was not living apart from her hushand for a justifiable vea- B0R. l | —Associated Press Photo. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, wl gel 0se campaign addresses have drawn the fire of Democratic mana- s, conferring at Chicago with James W. Good, Republican western campaign manager. Mr. Good replied to Democratic protests that he wished Mrs. Willebrandt “could make more speeches.” —Associated Press Photo. Patrons Served By Robbers in Drug Store Raid NORFOLK, Va., September 28— John D. Belk, 18 years old, and Lu- ciano Anthony Russo, 18, of Char- lotte, N. C., were arrested Wednes- day night shortly after they are al- leged to have held up a drug store in Portsmouth. According to the police, one held the proprietor, S. T. Hanger, at the point of a pistol while the other “waited on the trade.” Hanger was made to lie on the floor while his pockets were rifled and the cash register looted. The pair then tied up the druggist, turned out the lights and sauntered away. Hanger released himself and gave the alarm. The boys were arrested as they were in the act of leaving the city by ferry, About $48 was re- covered. URGES VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR YOUNG Prof. S. E. Kramer Stresses School Training to Aid Pupils in Choos- ing Life Occupation. ‘The importance of vocational guid- ance as a duty in the public schools was emphasized by First Assistant Superin- tendent of Schools S. E. Kramer and three school principals at a “vacational guidance” luncheon meeting of the Ki- wanis Club in the Hotel Washington yesterday. Miss Bertle Backus, principal of Pow- ell Junior High School, declared that a department of research .is needed in every school to help find “misfits” and to help guide the pupils along lines of study and vocation that will prove the most benefit to them. She urged the Kiwanis Club to take action seeking an adequate budget for vocational guid- ance work. H. E. Warner, principal of Hine Junior High School, declared every school needs a full-time teacher for vocational guidance work, pointing out that ap present only one hour a week is devoted to that subject and that no regular teacher is assigned to instruct in that Mr. Warner said a questionnaire cir- culated among the pupils of his school showed that 158 boys chose to be avia- tors and 43 girls beauty specialists. H. P. safford, principal of Macfar- land Junior High, declared the schools are depending on Kiwanis for vocational guidance instruction in the schools. The meeting was sponsored by the vo- cational guidance committee of the club, Eugene R. Woodson, chairman. The members of the Kiwanis Club have taken turns in giving addresses in the various schools on the intricacles of their particular business. T TR R Adds $25,000 to Smith Fund. NEW YORK, September 28 (#).—A contribution of $25,000 from George Macdonald, director of the Liberty Na- ‘ Ci CRUSADE ON VICE SEEN INNEW YORK Secret Police Conclave Tak- en as Clean-Up Drive on Speakeasies. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 23.—New: | papers today saw in a Secret meeting of high police officials the possible laying of plans for a city-wide vice clean-up centering principally on speakeasies flourishing in the Broadway district. The spectacular raid of detectives on a midtown speakeasy early yesterday morning, in which one of their number engaged in a pistol and fist duel with the proprietor was taken to be the first move in the clean-up. The meeting was held in the office of Deputy Chief Inspector Lewis J. Valen- tine, confidential man of the depart- ment, who would only say it was of a “very important” nature. Commissioner Warren said the meeting had been called to_discuss proposed reforms in police office procedure, but he did not say whether any other matters were dis- cussed. The meeting was attended by the deputy chief inspectors in charge of Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island and the officer in charge of the white light-eistrict. FORMER BAPTIST 7 PASTOR UNFROCKED ouncil Asks That “Hand of Fel- lowship Be Withdrawn™ From Rev. E. J. Blenderleith. By the Associated Press. ANAHEIM, Calif., September 28— Rev. Ernest J. Plenderleith, resigned pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, has been unfrocked by the Council of Santa Ana Valley Churches, meeting here. The accusations against the minister were based on charges of immoral con- duct while he was pastor of a Baptist church in Vancouver, British Columbia The council vesterday *recommended to the membership of the local church “that the hand of fellowship be with- drawn from Rev. Plenderleith.” The church membership later approved the recommendation and he was asked tn turn over to the council his ordinati- papers and “hereafter take no par: the work of the Baptist churches.” NORFOLK MAN- STRICKEN. NORFOLK, Va., September 28 (#).— Thomas S. Southgate, one of the best known shipping men on the Atlantic Coast, died in a Philadelphia hospital early last night after a short illness. He left for Philadelphia Monday to at- tend a meeting of the board of di- rectors of the Norfolk & Western Rail- tional Bank of New York, to the Smith- Robinson campalgn fund was an- nounced vesterday by John J. Raskob, Democratic national chairman, e way, of which he was a member. Tues- :hyk he was stricken with a heart at- ack following in twn an attack of acute indigestions .