Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1928, Page 16

Yesterday's $50,000 finish at Pimlico. Marshall Field's High Strung beating Dr. Freeland to the pole by a head, to win the big Pimlico Futurity stake. The winner, with Jockey McAtee up, was hard put to stave off the closing challenge of the second place horse. It was pledge day yesterday —Star Staff Photo. for the Chi Omego sorority at George Washington University. Julia Denning, senior class presi- dent, is here pinning a pledge bouquet on Corolyn Brash after she had taken the sorority pledge as a new member.—Star Staff Photo. IDEAL HOME SHOW 10 GLOSE TONIGHT Thousands See Exhibits at Auditorium—Experts Give Free Advice. “The ideal home show at the Wash- ington Auditorium by the local Real -Estate Board will come to a close fol- lowing the exhibitions this “afternoon and evening. During the week thousands of resi- dents of Greater Washington have at- tended the show to study the sug- fi:tlons from home owners contained zae more than 100 large exhibition ths. The exhibits depict all phases of Bome financing, building, furnis equipment and decoration in their re- Iation to the home owner or the pro= spective home buyer or builder. On the ditorium floor of the hall are numer- ous educational exhibits, while the lower floor, for the most part, i$_givenf- over to material and equipment exhibjté, In the educational booths are stas tioned bankers, building and loan ex- perts, realtors, builders and other exe perts in lines related to home develop- ment to answer questions concerning home problems. A number of government agencies and local associations are co-operating with the realty board in the exposition, which is under the direction of a com- | mittee headed by Waverly Taylor and | the supervision of officers of the board, of which Ben T. Webster is president. | DEBATE SHIRKING CHARGED TO PEYSER| Al Smith Democratic Club Rally! Hears Accusations Against Republican. #ray. Julius I. Peyser, leading the Republican drive for veterans' votes | Bremen Honors Bale of Cotton From Zeppelin By the Associated Press. BREMEN, November 3.—Never before have such honors been accorded a bale of cotton as were extended today to the bale which the Graf Zeppelin brought from Lakehurst, N. J. As thousands cheered and cameras clicked the cotton was hoisted out of a freight car and onto a raised platform on a truck. ‘The truck then proceeded, with a solemn procession accompany- ing it, through streets which were lined with people. After the town had paid the bale due honors it it was placed in the Cotton Ex- change, where i, will be auctioned off on Tuesday for the benefit of the airship's crew. ALEXANDRIA, ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 3 (Special).—Peter Hall, 68 years old, wad | fined $120.50 by Judge William S. Snow in Police Court this morning for vio- lating the prohibition law. In a raid on his home, 424 North Peyton street, yesterday Detective Sergt. Edgar Sims, Police Sergt. Ernest 'Suthard, Motor Cycle Policeman Harry Eberhardt and Patrolman Charles Quartermouse found nearly five gallons of liquor and a quart of wine, Harold Roberts, 48, and Bernard Mel- lit, 26, each forteited $14 for failure to’ appear in answer to charges of drunkenness, while Henry William Dure, 46, of Washington, forfeited $2 for vio- lation of a traffic law. Officials for the election Tuesday have been named as follows: First ward, Scott Grim and J. Edward Shinn, Dem- ocratic judges: Mrs. C. A. Strauss, Re- publican; Louis B. Poss and T. Alton Moore, clerks. Second ward, Frank C. Creighton and Frederick Schneider, Democratic judges; David E. Robey, Republican judge; Henry Callan and Leo Deeton, clerks. Third ward, Frank R. Monroe and Edward J. Fleming Dem- ocratic judges; E. E. Carver, Repub- lican; Sidney Weil and John W. Brookfield, clerks. Fourth ward, Ver- non Dyson and Claude W. Fletcher, Democratic judge: G. Raymond Gaines, Republican Judge, and W. H. Hunter and Charles Downey, clerks. Funeral services for Clarence M. Ketland, 39, who died Thursday at the here, was accused last night by Capt. | Alexandria Hospital, were held today Richard Seelve Jones, leading the|from the Cunningham, Kennedy and Democratic drive for veterans’ votes, of | Watkins funeral home by the Rev. having refused to debate the question |Edgar Carpenter of the Grace Episcopal of Republican aid for veterans because | Church and interment was in the he was afraid of being asked about the | administration of Col. Charles R.| Forbes and the veto of the soldiers’ bonus bill by both Harding and Cool- | {dge. This was by the Al Smith Democratic night in Naval Lodge Hall After refusing to debate the question | of what the Republican administrat | has done for the veterans, Maj. Peyser gave his own interpretation in a Iu!l-‘ a feature of a rall Club la: v | page newspaper advertisement. Col. the fear that if Hoover is el -and fanatics will claim cred George Walter Pratt expressed ted bigots and will besiege Congress for the enactment of | liberty-destroying legislation. Robert N. Harper, assistant treasurer of the Democratic national committee, predicted a victory for the Smith-Rob- inson ticket. Albert, Wormsley and James J. Slat- tery also spoke. More than one thousand aged poor in Cape Town, South Africa, have register- ed for old age pensions which become payable beginning next January, Methodist Protestant Ce Four brothers and a sister surv Funeral services for Mrs. Ann R. Hemmersley, 37, wife of George Hem- mersley, will be held Monday at 2:30 pm. from the residence in Braddock, burial to be in Bethel Cemetery. Elliott F. Hoffman, clerk of the Cor- poration Court, collected $742.49 for the State in October for delinquent taxes, deeds, wills, suits and marriage licenses The collections on hunting and fishing licenses totaled $932. Ernest M. Delaney, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, ad- dressed the weekly mbly of the Alexandria High School yesterday. Mrs. James Dove of Burke Station, Va., sustained a bruised leg yesterda when an automobile in which she w (riding wes struck by a truck at Duke iaud St. Asaph streets. | After winning a race, Chance Billy, | one of the most popular dogs at ths ctery. ‘When Tech swept through the Western eleven in their game at Central Stadium yesterday. In this play Goss, Tech fullback, is plunging through the line for his team’s second touchdown, in the sec- ond quarter. By winning, 33 to 0, Tech kept its slate clean with two. victories and no defeats in the, —Star Staff Photo. High School series. And these co-eds also took the pledge yesterday as new members of the Ch! Omego sorority of George Washington. Left to right, front row: Katherine Chipman, Constance LaFount, Ruth DeVane, Juliette Phillips and Corolyn Brash. Back row: Alice Walford, Mary Weaver, Donna Scott Smith, Della Little and Aubrey Da —Star Staff Photo. Among yesterday’s White House visitors. Billy Sunday, the campaigning evangelist, expressed himself in this fashion about politics after calling on the President. Miss Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, was received by the: President when she called with Porter Adams, —Harris & Ewing Photos. former president of the National Aeronautic Association. LINDBERGH NAMED TO AERONAUTIC MEET Coolidge Also Appoints Orville ‘Wright to Represent U. §. at International Conference. By the Associated Press. President Coolidge yesterday appoint- ed a delegation of 12, headed by Sec- retary Whiting and including Charles A. Lindbergh and Orville Wright to represent the United States at the In- ternational Conference on Civil Aero- nautics to be held here December 12, 13 and 14 & ‘The other members of tHe delegation are: Senator Bingham of Connecticut, Assistant Secretary Nelson T. Johnson of the State Department, F. Trubee Da- vision, stant Secretary of War for Aviation: W. Irving Glover, Assistant Postmaster General: Edward P. Warner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics; William P. MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of aviation: Lester N. Gardner of-New York, Harry Guggenheim of New York and Joseph S. Ames of Maryland. OFFICER ORDERED HERE. Maj. John A. Considine Coming | From Fort Leavenworth. Maj. John A. Considine, United States Cavalry, has been relieved from | duty as an instructor at the General| Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, | Kans., and detailed to duty with the| Organized Reserves of the 3d Corps, Area, with station in this city. { He will be assigned to the 306th Calalry and will receive Instructions from the senior instructor of Washing- irecent Portsmouth, England meet, dash- ed into the windlass inclosure and broke his neck. ton Reserve Units, with headquarters in the Oxford Hotel, Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania aveaus, MRS. BYRD TO VOTE. 80-Year-0ld Grandmother of Ex- plorer Will Mark First Ballot. BALTIMORE, November 3 (#).—Elec~ tion day, while Comdr. Richard Evelyn Byrd is heading South to explore the Antarctic wastes, his 89-year-old grand- mother, Mrs. Willlam Byrd, will go to she polls to cast her first vote, and it will be for Gov. Alired Smith, Demo- cratic nominee, Mrs. Byrd, a resident of Baltimore for the last 35 years, coming here from the Byrd home in Virginia to live with her daughter, Mrs. Susan Byrd Ship- ley, has always been a supporter of the Democratic party, but never before has she exercised her ballot. ATHEIS;I' EREAKS FAST OF 17 DAYS IN ARKANSAS Charles Smith Leaves Jail Pending Decision on $25 Fine—May Stage Rally. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., November 3.— Charles Smith, president of the Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Atheism, broke a 17-day “hunger strike” against Arkansas anti-atheist laws at noon yesterday by drinking the juice of an orange, glass of butter milk and a bowl of broth. Physicians pronounced him in excellent condition and he sald he never felt better in his ife. Except for his clothes, which have become ill-fitting through loss of weight, Smith's appearance was little changed. Smith moved back to his hotel head- quarters, where he will remain until an appeal from $25 fine he was serv- ing out has been heard. Smith indicated that if he can obtain a hall or auditorium in the city for a week from Sunday night he will con- duct a_“free speech protest meeting” with E. Haldeman Julius, Girard, Kans, publisher, as the principal speaker, PREDICTS “BOLTER” BAR. “Hoover Democrats” in Texas Tar- get of State Chairman. AUSTIN, Tex,, November 3 (#).—D. W. Wilcox, chairman of the State Dem- ocratic executive committee, declared in a statement here yesterday that he has *“no doubt” that the committee “can and will” bar all “bolters” from the 1930 Texas Democratic primaries. He referred to those who participated this year in either the Democratic presi- dential primary conventions or the reg- ular primary election and now propose to vote the Republican national ticket ‘Tuesday. ‘Texas “Hoover: Democrats” have de- clared the Democratic party has neither the sanction of precedent nor legal au- thority to oust them. Mr. Wilcox claims the committee has the requisites. “Maternity Case” Ambulance Call Brings Man Fine Willlam H. Brawner, 48 years old, of 624 E street, who was taken to the first precinct'in the Emergency Hospital ambulance yesterday after a “maternity case” call came in, for- feited $10 in Police Court today for intoxication. Dr. I. Rutkowski, ambulance sur- geon, on arriving at the address, in- quired where was the case. “I am the patient,” Brawner is alleged to have answered. The doc- tor then wanted to know who had called the hospital. “I did,” the man acknowledged. ‘Thereupon Brawner was summar- 1ly escorted to the ambulance and @riven, much to his surprise, to the Police station. LITHUANIAN ENVOY FORMALLY RECEIVED PSR M. Balutis Presents Credentials to President Coolidge as Minister to United States. By the Associated Press. Bronius K. Balutis, newly appointed Minister of the Republic of Lithuania. vesterday presented his credentials to President Coolidge, together with let- predecessor, Kazys ters recalling his remarks to President Coolidge, Minister Balutis said that nearly one- fourth of the Lithuanian race “have found refuge, hospitality and happy homes in America,” and declared that it was beyond his power to demonstrate the “sentiments of high esteem, pro- found gratitude and genuine friendship of the people of Lithuania toward this great country and its people.” President, Coolidge welcomed the new envoy and said: “By virtue of your former residence in the United States you are well qualified to interpret to your government the feeling of en- during friendship which the Govern- ment and people of the United States hold for Lithuania, and to augment in this country the knowledge and un- derstanding of your nation which we have derived in large part from our thousands of loyal citizens of Lithuanian origin who, through their industry and Integrity, have made ma- terial contribution to the development of this Republic. “In your effort to make more close and cordial the bonds of friendship which happily exist between our two countries you may be confident that you ever will have my own earnest co- operation and that of all officials of this Government.” * One cannot learn to be a coniedian, New York Democracy hails it own son of the East Side in a roaring ovation for Gov. Smith. The Demoeratic candidate waving in response to the cheers of the sidewalk throngs as he led yesterday's parade from the Bat- tery to Columbus Circle. Mayor Walker is seen riding in front. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. A glimpse of Broadway yesterday as Gov. Smith’s hometown followers had their chance to shout for him. The governor's car 1s moving through a maze of tickertape and newspaper confetti that vied with the paper storm of Li indbergh’s reception. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Expert, Over Phone, Directs Opening of Safe 50 Miles Away By the Assoclated Press. BAKER, Oreg., November 3.— A lock expert, listening over the telephone to the almost imper- ceptible sounds of falling tumblers in a safe door, directed the open- ing of a strong-box here yesterday. Miss Kathleen Kivett, office employe, telephoned Charles Braun, the expert, in Weiser, Idaho, nearly 50 miles away, that she had lost the safe combina- tion. She said Braun told her to put the mouthpiece of the tele- phone next to the safe door and to turn the dial. By the sound of the tumblers he directed her hand and the door was opened in less than 5 minutes. TRIPLE SLAYING LAID TO REJECTED SUITOR Califorian Found Dead With Vic- tims, Said to Have Sought Girl's Hand. By the Associated Press. SANTA ROSA, Calif., November 3.— Officers express belief that jealousy and desire for revenge caused a rejected suitor to wipe out a family of three here yesterday and then kill himself, ?rter setting fire to the family’s dwell- Ings. An ax was used to kill C. J. Bertola, retired grocer and member of a prom- inent and wealthy California family, and his wife and young daughter, Ca- mille. The man who is supposed to have committed the murders and set the house afire was Charles Braker, 45. A body identified as Braker's was found with two of the others in the embers of the destroyed dwelling. It had a bul- let wound in the head. Sheriff E. Douglas Bills said the man rented an automobile and drove to the Bertola home. The car was standing in front of the house when neighbors discovered the fire. STATE OFFICIALS HELD. Two in Illinois to Stand Trial on Corruption Charges. CHICAGO, November 3 (#).—Two State officials must stand trial on charges of conspiracy in connection with construction of Brandon Pool of the Illinols Waterway at Joliet, IIl., Circuit Judge Philip L. Sullivan ruled yesterday. - ‘The two officials are Leslie Small, State director of purchases and con- | struction and son of Gov. Len Small, and William F. Mulvihill, State superin- tendent of waterways. Thomas L. ‘Warner, Chicago contractor, whose low bid on the job he said was rejected, preferred the charges as a taxpayer. He claimed the defendants gave the $2,000,000 job to Green & Sons Co. in return for large campaign donations “to the political organization with ;}tiglal}' Small and Mulvihill are affl- First Public Library. Perhaps the real pioneer of public libraries was Sardanapalus, the As- declared Sir Harry Lauder at a recent luncheon at Arboath, Scotland. It is an inspiration, & vision, & gift from | God, he added. syrian, who, 6'; centuries before the Christian era, collected at Nineveh KENTUCKY MINES HELDBY NELLON | Declares He Did Not Invest in Pennsylvania Coal Until After I. C. C. Ruling. By the Associated Press. LEXINGTON, Ky., November 3.—In "u telegram yesterday to the Lexington | Leader, Secretary Mellon of the Treasury | declared that his greatest holdings in coal flelds are in Kentucky and that he did not acquire coal lands in Pennsyl- vania until after the Interstate Com- merce Commission had granted the northern flelds a favorable freight dif- ferential in the lake cargo coal contro- versy. Controversy had developed in Ken- tucky with Republicans and Democrats both issuing statements charging that the others party was responsible for the Interstate Commerce Commission decision that favored the northern fields. The Secretary’s telegram reads: “I have your telegram, October 29, in which you state, ‘Lexington, Ky., Herald Democratic newspaper, attacked terial interests in Pennsylvania coal until after commission had acted on lake cargo case. Will you kindly confirm and give details for publication.” “In reply I will say that your under- standing of this matter is correct con- cerning period in which Pennsylvania holdings were acquired. Fact that I happen to have coal holdings at present time in Pennsylvania as well as in Ken- tucky and West Virginia is not matter of public interest, and most assuredly I shall not enter into discussion of nature and extent of my private invest- ments. I have already made the state- ment and I repeat it here that my greatest interest in coal production has been and still is, through my holdings in Koppers Co. This company is a large producer of coal almost entirely in West Virginia and Kentucky and has taken an active part in trying to maintain rates favorable to coal pro- duction in those States.” VARE URGES BIG VOTE. Asks Co-Workers to Roll Up G. 0. P. Majority in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, November 3 (#)— United States Senator-elect Willlam S. Vare, who is recovering from paraly- sis at his Summer home in Atlantic City, last night sent a letter to each of the 3,500 Republican ward commit- teemen in Philadelphia appealing to them, as a personal tribute to him, to roll up big Republican majorities in their "divisions at the election next Tuesday. It was the first time the Senator-elect had written such a letter to the commit- teemen. He told of his illness and ex- pressed hope that he scon would be with them again. “To continue the Republican party in power would insure continued pros- perm‘ to our country and happiness in all our homes, especially in Phila- delphia, the city of homes,” the letter 10,000 works, written In cuneiform on tablets of clay, for all to read. saild. “The high standard of American wages and household lving must be maintained.”