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w1 A it 1928. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19. A shipyard is an unusug place for a ship to sink in, but that is what happened to the freighter Ponce while under- going repairs yesterday at foboken, N. J. This shows the freighter’s stern settied deep M the water with her deck awash At right: The Englishwoman's hockey team defeated the All-American team at Merion, Pa., this week, 9 to 1. This shows the Yankee captain, Anne Townsend (right), shaking hands before the game with the ‘Young women on the committee arranging for the card party and dance to be given at the Mayflower Hotel next Wednesday by the Democratic central committee. Left to right, front row: Miss Grace Tumulty, Miss Dorothy Dial, Miss Helen O'Connor and Miss Dorothy Magee. Rack row: Miss Anna Marle Howard. Miss Anne Grogan, Miss Marie Slaven, Miss Babbie Jackson and Miss Beatrice Butler, —=Star Staff Photo. after a sudden list caused wat® to ~—Copyright by P. & A. Photos. pour into the portholes. leader Mary Pickford displays her smartest from Paris. The beach suit, with parasol and‘other accessories, is only one of the smart costume combinations which came back with Mary from the marts of Paris. But she likes it the best. RELIGIOUS PAGEANT] ‘70 OPEN TONIGHT Second Performance Planned Tomorrow—Seats. Still Are Available. i | “The Cross Triumphant” huge re-| ligious pageant, proceeds of which are to go toward the Episcopal General Con- vention fund, opens tonight at the| Washington Auditorium at 8 o'clock. | Another performance will be held to-| morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Convention headquarters reports the | advance sale of seats has been heavy, | but that a limited number of reserve and unresreved seats are available for | both performances and two or three boxes as yet are unsold | The pageant was written by Marietta | Minnigerode Andrews, who is directing the finale, he Child of all Ages,” with Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest general di- | yector. Choirs 6f the Church of the Epiphany | and the Church of the Ascension, the orchestra of the Marine Band, con- ducted by Siegfried Scharbau, principal musician of the band, and groups of | singers from St. Thomas' Church and | other churches in the District and near-! by will furnish music for the psz"m\f.‘ under the general direction of Adolph | “Torovsky, assisted by Mrs. Henry Hunt, McKee. | Pageant Episodes Outlined. { | The twelve episodes of the pageant will include “Joseph of Arimathea. with a cast from St. John's Church, ! directed by Rev. F. Blang | lban,” presented by St ic Club of St. Alban’ | Augustine.” re: d by Church { sented by the Panl Bleyden Studio and | Gunston Hall School; “The Cru- | or presented by groups under the g ction of Miss Virginia Hunt: “Cran- | Ly groups as: John | by descendants of First Communion at Jam Church of the Epiphany of Pocahonts Church of Our Satior; * Colonial Days.” pres: of Colonial Dames 0" by St d of All Ages Church. Alexandri Church, Howard Univer of Washinzton, St. Barnabas o] §t. John's Church, Rock St | Church, \dria; St. Alban’s | School. Cf f the Redeemer, Glen Echo; V heological Sem- | inary. All Is' Church, St. Agn School, Alexandria: Toc H. Boys, Christ | Church, Georgetown: St. John's Church, | Georgelown; Norvood Parish reserves of the Youn | lan Association will sisl in_seve cpitodes, and stude of the McKinley Studios will lake par in the St. Alban scene. Students of the Paul Bleyden Studio will appear as nuns in the St. Hilda episode, with pupils of Gunston Hall School in the roles of convent pupils. Miss Katherine Judge will have the role of St. Hilda in this episode, Bleyden Groups Represented. Among these representing the Bley- | den groups are Helon V. Harper, Lucy L. Hopking, Hattie E. Herfurth, Jane “Tucker; * Alb: St. Stephen town,” by the The Baptism ted by the; » Church in nted by the Club | “Missionaries by { * Church: | presented by Andrew’s | Artz Glub ! t {emerged from a restaurant —Wide World Photos. Invents Telephone to Receive Messages in Users’ Absence By the Associated Pr CHICAGO, October 19.—John Collins, Waco, Tex., yesterday demonstrated before a meeting of the Independent Telephone As- sociation an “ansophone,” which when installed in the telephone will_receive messages when the telephone user is absent and later transmit them in the sender's own voice to the person for whom the message was intended. The nousewife of the futnre, it was pointed out, on returning home from marketing, may ex- pect to find anything when she turns on the telephone, from the latest neighborhood gossip to a message from the husband that he woi't be home for dinner. Lynn, Marguerite Venables, Mrs. Ben- jamin _Dulany, M | Mary V. Doyl Hartley, Loretta Clark, Frances Sherer, Mary D. Jenkins, Anita V. Mueller, Ruth Mayberry, Rose H. Hartung, Marie Miller, Charlotte Han- son, Helen Iscii, Frances King and Ada Codman. The ushers for both performances are under the chairmansiip of Maj. Carey H. Brown, U. S. A, who will have a large corps of exps seat the large audience expected. A special _convention edition of ‘“The Cross Triumphant” program will be in charge of a committee of attractive joung Washington girls, with Miss Marion Jardine, daughter of the Secre- tary of Agriculture, as chairman, and jncluding the Misses Nina Randell, Georgette Yerby, Jane Love, Nanc Beale, Maty Margaret Wren, Soph Beale, Florence Beale, Katherine Car- michael, Betty Skibley, Laura Louise Barkley. Sara Nell Wilson, Betty Beale and Katherine Fechet. GIRL, 15, AND FOUR MEN Alice Sherer, SHOT IN PARKED AUTO? More Than 15 Bulle Machine—Mistaken Blamed. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. October 19.—A 15- year-old girl and four man companior were shot last night when a here and s they sat in More than 15 Fired Into Identity opened fire with a pistol parked automobile. |shots were fired Into the machine by | the man, who escaped. The girl is Eila May Glorgio. She is in a critical condition. Her companions were Charles Brown, 33. shot in the right leg and side: Frank Volloni, 38 wounded in the chest and foot; Isador Goldstein, 38, wounded in the chest and and (hip, and Rockne Cosiclio, 25, wounded | in the right leg. Police suld they believed the shooting was @ case of mistaken identity in con- nection with & bootleggers’ war persons were held as material wiine Forfeits $25 Collateral. Arrested as he was attempting to sell a coat to an automobile dealer on Con- necticut avenue near Dupont circle, a man describing himself as Anton Ver- ligh of New York City was charged with being an_unlicensed peddler snd_for- feit~d 525 collateral in Police Court today, 4 Deman. nced assistants 1o | | | | | | man | of the invading team, Kathleen —Wide World Photos. As it was in the ancient days. Prince Chichibu, heir apparent to the Japanese throne, and his bride, the former Miss Setsuko Matsu- daira, in the traditional court robes, which they wore at their re- cent weddi —Wide World Photos. Not one, but two street cars, smashed into this auto yesterday. It happened on East Capitol stree t between Fourth and Fifth streets, and the only occupant, Miss Elizabeth Michael, 652 East Capitol street, escaped without a scratch. —Star Staff Photo. Youngsters of the Barnard School kindergarten costumed as “Clown Doll at the first meeting of the school year of the Parent-Teacher Association, in the school auditorium. for their part of the entertainment program presented last night —Star Staff Photo. “CHARITYiTO BENEFIT BY THOMAS’ LECTURE Observer of War in Palestine to Speak Here November 9—His Only Appearance. Lowell Thomas, noted American au- ! thor, traveler and lecturer, will give a motion illustrated lecture on | expericnces as the only American observer with Col. ‘I, E. Lawrence in Arabia and with Gen. Allenby in Pal- estine during the World War, at a| charity benefit to be staged at the! National Theater on Friday afternoon, | November 9. pictur be equally divided between Protestant | and Catholic _charities in the City of Washington, has been planned by a | | committee of prominent Washington | women, inciuding Tady Isabella How- | ard, wife of the Ambassador of Great Brifain to the United States; Countess | | Scherr-Thoss, daughter of * the late | Henry White. and Mrs. Walter R. Tuck- erman. well known philanthropist. Mr. Thomas will make his only ap- | pearance of the season at the benefit | performance. As an_official Historian | the war, recording the ejection of the | Turks from Palestine by Allenby'’s cav- | alry, and was the only person to bring | back the pictorial record and an eye- | witness story of the deeds of Col. Law- rence of Arabla, who ralsed &n army of 200,000 Bedouins in the Arablan desert to fight the Turks, Claudel Arrives in New York. NEW YORK, October 19 (#).—The French cruiser Duquesne bringing Am- bassador Paul Claudel and his daughter | from an inspection tour of the French | The benefit, proceeds of which will | ~ | he went into the Holy Land early in s Labyginth of Radio To Supreme Court Ry the Associated Press. Members of the United States Su- preme Court yesterday listened to tech- nical descriptions involved in one of the most important of all radio inven- tions, the feed back furnished by the audion tube. None of the members of the court | qual a radio fan tumiliar with | the ge of those who build ve-| P ceivers, culty that some of them followed Fy edick H. Wood, who argued today counsel for the Westinghoue Electric Manufacturing Co., as he claimed pri- ority of invention for Edwin H. Arm- strong, Using a large chart to aid, as best he could, in illustrating radio | court Is Explained in Audion Tube Suit he tried to through high and low frequencies, acrials, coils, grids, plates, filaments, condensers, alternating currents and other radio language, causing one of the members to ask whether it would be ne ry for the court to pass upon facts, or whether there was some ques- tion of law for it to decide. In recognition of the importance of the twa s brought by the Westing- hou: lectric & Manufacturing Cu., ming the audion feed back as the Ltion «f Edwin H. Armstrong, the ullowed sdditional time for the oral argument, which will be partici- pated in by Charles E. Hughes among the counsel for those opposing those claims. / terms, take the court i RECEIVE ZEPPELIN MAIL. Get Post Cards| From Relatives in Germany. Among the Washingtonians to receive brought to this country by the | Graf Zeppelin, were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schultz of 4 Adams street. The mail | consisted of two post cards, containing | of Borghol: 1, Germany, e from relatives of Mrs. Schull in that city, The postage on each car amounted to about 50 cents Ame money. Mf . Schultz hope to| be able to courtesy of their relatives by sending picture cards to them on the Zeppelin's return voyage. Washingtonians Lieut. F. C. Pyne Resigns. The President has accepted the nation of Second Lieut. Frederick C. Pyne, Coast Artillery Cor recently stationed at Fort Eustis, Va. Lieut. Pyne was born at Guam September 8, 1902, was graduated from the West West Tndies, arrived here today for a week's vigit, Point Military Academy in June, 1924, | and assigned he Artillery arm, WILL SEE NEW FILM. Star Carriers Be Guests Leader Theater. Carriers ‘of The Star will see the opening chapter of the new serial, “Perils of the Jungle,” at the Leader Theater Saturday at 10 am. and Sun- day at 2 pm the guests of Sidney Lust, proprietor of the theater. Ar- rangements have been made between Mr. Lust and the circulition department of The Star to give the boys a gala time, to at Museum Given $l,00i),000‘ NEW YORK, October 19 () —The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced yesterday the gift of $1,000,000 to the institution by Mr. and Mrs. George Blumenthal of this city. Mr. Blumenthal, who has been an active trustee of the museum since 1919, was, until his retirement_three years ago, president of the Prench banking firm of Lazard Freres of New York and Paris, _ CANNON RESENTS ATTACK BY RASKOB Bishop Denounces as ‘‘Absolutely False” Charge of “Bigotry” and “Religious Intolerance.” Bishop James Cannon, jr., of Rich- | mond, Va., in a statement issued to | the press today vigorously denied the | accusations of bigotry and religious in- tolerance In his_ atfacks sgainst G Smith, made agalnst him by J. J. R ) kob, chaitman of the Democratic na- tional committee, in the secular pres {and echoed “all along the line.” an pointed to his prohibition record of 30 vears as branding the charges “abso- lutely false.” “I was accused in the secular press by Mr. Raskob of using ‘Prohibition as a Cloak for Bigotry.' " said Bishop Can- non, “and Gov. Smith at Oklahoma City declared that Senator Owen and others, including myself, who are op- posing him on .account’ of his Tam- many affiliation are using Tammany a: { n ‘red herring’ and that the real ground | of opposition to him is ‘my religion.’ “This charge of intolerance is in reality a smoke scrcen intended not {only to becloud and obscure prohibition |and Tammany, real issues in the cam- | paign, but to arouse in Gov. Smith’ | behalf the very religious Intolerance his supporters ure publicly denouncing $o vigorously. “So far as T am persorally concerned, my prohibition record of 30 years { brands 1t as absolutely false ber of editorials appearing in official Roman Catholic publications which he said furnished incontrovertible evidence of the use being made of religioys ap- peals in behalf of Gov. Smith, = A The apple is under scientific Investi- gation at the Lister Institute, London, to deterntine its vitamin content, Bishop Cannon quoted from a num- | Miss Martha C. Bevins, 18-year-old licensed pilot of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., who is all set to go after the woman's fiight endurance record. “he plans to make the attempt tomorrow from the Teteboro, N. J, airport in the plane in which she is shown here. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Woman Marries “Cave Man” After Being Abducted By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY. Kans., October 19.—Turning cave man, Fred Obynik, 27, vesterday kidnaped the sweetheart who had refused to see him after a quarrel and made her his bride. Miss Ruby Crockett, 27, capit- ulated to Obynik’s brand of love making and married him a few hours after she was abducted. Obynik stopped William Krau- land, 31, who was driving Miss Crockett to work, threatened him with a jack handle and drove away with the young woman. The couple returned home to find police awaiting Obynik. In- stead of occupying a jail for his audacity, however, the cave man, with his bride, will _entertain Wililam McMullan, police chief, at a weding party. |KIWANIS MEETING Three-Day Convention of Capital District. attend the three-day convention of th Capital Kiwanis district there. Dele gates to the Capital Kiwanis district, | Washington Hotel. | A delegation of Kiwanians | Municipal Band evtertained the | €lub with several selections. The club authorized the sending of s telegram to De Wolf Hopper in N seventieth anniversar; attend the Bynum E. Hinton, and Edwin F. Hill. Alternates clected by the Eugene R. Woodson, convention are Radford Moses, presi- slow, secretary, and Edgar M. Wallace, Dwight N. Burnham, Z. D. Blackistone, H. Frame, Stephen H. Talkes, Vincent Callahan, F. A. Meatyard, Fred Schutz, James B. ney J. Harman. Albert M. Brig { T. Mitchell, William H. Pattis Charles H. Pardoe. vans, Bert Brewood, Pinck- Frank n and Asks Absolute Divorce. Mrs. Amanda Stokley, 201 F street, who recently sued her husband, Wil- liam B. Stokley, a conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad, for maintenance, today changed her plea to one for an absolute divorce. They were married July 1, 1914, and the wife charged that he obfained a fraudulent divorce in Maryland from her and is living with anothy* woman. She is represented by Attorney Jean M. Boardman, OPENS IN RICHMOND Washington Delegates Attending| Members of the Kiwanis Club made | Richmond, Va. their mecco today to | | | which includes 48 clubs in the District | of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware and i Virginia, were sclected at the meeting | of the local club held yesterday at the ! troni | | Hagerstown, Md., and the Hagerstown local York City, congratulating him on his club are | George O. Vass, John C. Wineman and Other members of the club who arranged to attend the dent: Edgar Morris and James B. Ed-) monds, vice presidents; George H. Win- P. R. Bailey, Harry G. Kimball, Charles | William Dyre, Ellsworth T. Simpson, | ARGENTINE CADETS VISIT WHITE HOUSE ‘Naval Students Go on Sight- | seeing Tour—Plan Annap- olis Trip Tomorrow. Twenty-five naval cadets from the Argentine training ship Presidente Sar- | miento went to the White House at |noon today for a visit with President | Coolidge, following a morning of sight- seeing in Washington and adjacent points of interest. Arriving in Washington at 7 @'clock | this morning, the future naval officers ‘Imm the Argentine established head- quarters at the Mayflower Hotel and after breakfast left in busses on a sight- seeing trip to the navy yard, the Cap- itol, Washington Monument and Lin- coln Memorial. Before going to the White House the cadets called at the Argentine -embassy, where they were | greeted by the Ambassador. The party was served luncheon at the Naval Observatory and left immediate~ ly afterward for Arlington Cemetery, where they will place a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A re- lception in tHeir honor will be held at the Argentine embassy at 5 o'clock. Comdr. Costa Palma is captain of the hip. Accompanied by the Argentin: mbassador and a group of his officers, . | he called on Secretary of the Navy Wil- bur and Admiral Hughes, chief of naval operations, while the cadets were mak- ing the rounds of the clly. The cadets will leave early tomorrow morning for Annapol attending the foot ball game between the teams of the Academy and Duke Unlversity be- ifore returning to New York in the eve- s ning. | EDUCATORS TO SPEAK. | The Washington delegates selected to | Hibben and Garfiel 5 Richmond meeting were | eld to Address Claude W. Owen | District Audience Wednesday. Presidents of Princeton University iand Williams College are to speak Wed-~ | nesday night at the Washington Audi- {torium before a political ~gathering | sponsored by the District of Columbia unit of the national Hoover-Curtis Uni- ve;antg"l (‘ngmmee, ni e present”campaign Dr. John | Grier Hibben of Pflncegnn has never taken an active part in politics. _Harry A. Garfleld, president of Wil- liams, is the son of President Garfleld. Both speakers will be introduced by Cloyd H. Marvin, president of George Washington University. LIQUOR CAR ABANDONED. Auto i | Containing 88 Quarts Hands of Police. A message received at the eighth pre- cinct police station early this morning told of an automobile containing liquor having been abandoned at Fifteenth and V streets. Policeman Ostenso re- sponded to the call, took charge of the car and drove it to the station. It was fou to contain 88 quarts of comn, whly. . . y in

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