Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1928, Page 17

- THE EVEN NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1928. Gov. Smith’s dinner with New York “newsies” recalls the start of his career as a mewsboy on the side- walks of the big city. On the left of the Democratic candidate is Chairman Raskob of the national Demo- cratic committee, who joined the party the governor gave for the boys at the Hotel Biltmore Sunday, after Ppresentation of a radio drama based on his career. CHAPTER ARSHA- T Posters made by students of Washington art schools for the scholarship fund dance to be given by Epsilon Chapter of the Kappa Beta Pi Sorority at the Arlington Hotel, November 16. They are held by Mary W. Cannon, corresponding register (left), and Mrs. Clare T. ‘Willison, dean of the chapter. —=Star Staff Photo. " SANDINO'S POWER HELD NON-EXITENT Bandit Leader Fails to Make Good Threat to Cause Dis- turbance at Polls. By the Assoclated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, November 6. —Augustino Sandino, now believed to be hiding in the jungles from the Amer- ican Marines, is believed here to have had no influence in the national elec- tion of Sunday, when Gen. Jose Maria Moncada was chosen President. Sandino fought under Moncada in the revolution last year, but he became & bitter enemy of hte Liberal leader, whom he accused of treachery in ac- cepting American intervention and su- pervision of the elections. The Province of Neuza Segovia, where many of San- dino’s followers formerly lived, showed a larger conservative vote yesterday than in the last election Sandino did not make good his threats to create disturbances at the polls in the northern area and even the American election mission was sur- prised at the total absence of disorders throughout the country. The followers of Sandino are so few now that Marine officers said they could scarcely be con- sidered a factor in the country. VOTE HELD ORDERLY. Nicaraguan Election Reported Carried Out in Fair Manner. Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, com- mander of the special service squadron in Nicaraguan waters, reported to the Navy Department yesterday that all svaliable reports indicated the Nicara- guan election was carried out without oisorder and in a free and impartial manner. The dispatch stated that Admiral Sellers believed that Gen. Logan Feland, commander of the 2d Marine Brigade in Nicaragua, and the Marines and bluejackets under his command de- :rnbr‘d great credit in preventing dis- turl th to t urns from 345 precincts out of country’s 432, reported last night > State Department by Brig. Gen. McCoy, in charge of the election's supervision, gave 65632 votes to Gen. Jose Moncada, the Liberal candidate, and 46,014 for Adolfo Bernard, Con- servative ‘The vol on the Nicaraguan Con- gress was believed by Prof. Harold W. Dodds, member of the American elec- toral commission, the department said, to indicate that the Conservatives and Liberals each had elected 12 Senators. In the House he said, the Conservatives appeared to have gained a lead of from one to five votes. Prof. Dodds reported that these returns we not final, as in two districts the canvass might be vote was so close a sary. nec . Burns Fatal to Housewife. ®pecial Di h to The Star. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 6 (Spe- cial) —Mrs. Blanche M. Henrick of ‘Washington, is named defendant in a suit for an absolute divorce filed in the Circuit Court here by Ward A. Henrick of this county, who charges that he was deserted without ‘just cause February 19, 1923. The plaintiff is represented by Attorney Kenneth Lyddane of Rock- ville. They were married in Frederick (li\;evember 11, 1911, and have no chil- en. Rev. Clarence P. Parker, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Bethesda. offi- ciated at the marriage at Bethesda Saturday of Frederick M. Reese of New York and Miss Christine L. Pettis of ‘Washington. Under auspices of the Philathea class 6f Grace Methodist Sunday school, Gaithersburg, - and for the benefit of Grace Church, the play, “Strike of the Ladies’ Aid,” will be presented in the high school auditorium at Gaithersburg Thursday evening. . Members of the class will compose the cast. A license has been issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court here for the mar- riage of Ralph Irvin Furlong, 22, of East Falls Church, Va., and Miss Lillian Louise Cozzens, 19, of Cherrydale, Va. Miss Marie Dohn, assistant to the national director of the nutrition serv- ice of the American Red Cross, and Miss Ruth Braden, Red Cross nutrition expert, who has been conducting nutri- tion classes in various parts of the county, under direction of the Mont- gomery County Red Cross chapter, are engaged in reviewing the nutrition work already done in the county and formulating plans for future work. Politics, of course, had the right of way in Montgomery County today and very little business was transacted. The schools and banks were closed and offi- cials about the courthouse were con- spicuous by their absence. The usual weekly meeting of the county commis- sioners was deferred until Thursday. Stores and other business establish- ments were open, but it was noticed that there was very little activity. During October, 195 deeds, 210 mort- gages and releases, 150 deeds of trust and 171 bills of sale, a total of 726, were recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court here, and during the same period the office issued 269 hunting and 11 fishing licenses, ac- cording to announcement by the clerk, Preston B. Ray. } George K. Western, 23, and Miss Doris M. Hudson, 20, both of Washing- ton, and James M. King. 25 of Clinton, Md., and Mrs. Mary E. Wahl 35, of Washington obtained licenses yesterday to marry. GIRL FATALLY INJURED. Swept From Running Board of Parked Car in Maryland. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., November 6.— Miss Ada Wenner, 18 years old, of this city, was injured in an automobile ac- cident near West Friendship, Md., ! Sunday and died several hours later in_St. Anthony’s Hospital, Baltimore, In company with Miss Alice Kline and several other Frederick girls, Miss Wenner had parked her automobile along the Frederick-Baltimore pike, LYNCHBURG, Va., November 6.— Mrs. Mary O'Brien, 36 years old, of | was knocked off the running board by Norwood died Sunday night of burns:a passing machine. susfained Sunday evening when she at- | diiched in avoiding a second collision. tempted to kindle a fire with gasoline, | State police were unable to determine Her body which machine injured Miss Wenner. | Spring thinking she had kerosene while a tire was being repaired, and A third auto was was taken bhask to Norwoed for burial. No others were injured. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Non Svasti, younger brother of the Queen of Siam, on the golf course of the Chevy Chase Club. He is making his residence at the Siamese legation here while & student in the School of Diplomacy at George Washington University. ‘Washington debutantes boarded the presidential yacht Mayflower yesterday and went ashore with a 100 per cent enrollment of the officers and crew in the annual Red Cross roll call. At left, Miss Ann Robbins, daughter of the Assistant Secretary of War, is pinning a Red Cross button on the ship’s cook, Tom Cates. Above is a view of the enrollment on deck as officers and crew filed past the roll call workers. —Harris & Ewing and Wide World Photos. Home looks good to Senator Curtis, who awaits the verdict at the polls today as Herbert Hoover's running mate, after more than 15,000 miles of campaign stumping. The Senator is shown with his sister, Mrs. Colvin, as he arrived at the station at Topeka, Kans. —Assoclated Press Photo. Official and diplomatic patronesses for the charity benefit lecture to be delivered by Lowell Thomas next Friday afternoon at the National The- ater on his experiences as an American observer with Col. Lawrence in Arabia and with Field Marshal Viscount Allenby in Palestine. They are shown meeting at the British embassy with Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the Ambassador, who heads the committee of sponsors for the lecture. Lady Howard is seated in the center with Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, nother of the sponsors. —Copyright by Harris & Ewing. RED CROSS CAMPAIGN IN PRINCE GEORGES ON 1,500 Members Goal of County Or- ganization as Solicitors Are Ap- pointed for Annual Fund. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., November 5.— The annual campaign for members of the Prince Georges County Red Cross Chapter got under way today with the appointment of solicitors in various sec- tions of the county. The objective of the campaign is 1,500 members, and county residents working in Washington are urged to join the county chapter rather than the Washington unit. Solicitors appointed are: Mrs. C. A. Carlsson, Lanham; William Anderson, Ardmore; Alexander Gude, Chillum; Mrs. R. Lee Van Horn, Glenn Dale; Mrs. T. H. Jameson, Seabrook: Miss E. Marguerite Luers, Bowie; William 8. Hill, Upper Marlboro; George Finger, Capitol Heights; Mrs. Francis C. Little, University Park; Mrs. Thomas E. Lati- mer, Hyattsville; W. R. Beattie, Decatur Heights; Mrs. George N. Wells, Cottage City; Mrs. Roy Covert, Cheverly; Mrs. Martha Rea, Landover; Mrs.’ A. B. Gahan, Berwyn; Mrs. W. H. Chase, Riverdale; Mrs. T. E. Woodward; Belts- ville; John S. White, Colmar Manor; Mrs. W. F. Mulligan, Daniels Park; James P, Curley, Laurel; Mrs. J. J. T. Graham, Springfield; Mrs. Arthur Bowle, Collington; Harry Townshend, Mitchellville; Mrs. Harry Bowen, Aquasco; Mrs. Joseph Blandford, T. B.; J. Frank Dent, Clinton; R. M. Hardy, Centerville; Mrs. Martha Boone, Forest- ville; Maj. A. M. Patch, Fort Washing- ton; W. T. Thorne, Piscataway; Willlam B. Morgan, Piscataway; Miss Maude Gibbons, Croom; Mrs. Ward Davis, Poplar 'Hill; Guy Trueman, Camp Mrs, Walter Dernbaugh, Col-! lege Park; Johm Alsop, Bladenshurg, FATAL COLLISION PROBED. Department of Justice Agent Seeks Facts on Arlington Accident. By the Assoclated Press. CLARENDON, Va., November 6.— A Department of Justice agent was in Arlington County yesterday investigating the collision between a truck operated by Abert Misher of Washington, D. C., and a motor cycle riden by Judson J. Thomas of Clarendon, which resulted in the death of the latter at George- town University Hospital Saturday aft-) ernoon, 1 The collision occurred on Military | road near the southeast corner of Arlington National Cemetery, making it a Federal case and out of the jurisdiction of the county authori- tes. A final ruling will be made by| the United States attorney at Norfolk | following receipt of the report of the Department of Justice agent. Funeral services for .Thomas were | held yesterday in the Clarendon Baptist | Church, with, interment in Columbia | Gardens Cemetery. Staunton Official Dead. Speclal Dispatch to The Star, STAUNTON, Va.,, November 6—City | Collector Charles Phillips Hanger, died | Sunday night of heart disease. He| married Miss Emma Hogshead, daugh- ter of the late Col. Preston B. Hogs- head, who died in 1922. Surviving are four children and two brothers—John M. Hanger of Washington, D. C., and ‘Wade Hampton Hanger of New Castle, g‘l, Funeral will be held at 4 p.m. to- y. — and Mrs. Charles Stein, Berwyn Heights. James F. Armstrong, = Fairmont Heights, has been placed in charge of the campaign among colored residents of the county, 34 FARM DISPUTE ENDED. House of Reformation Crops Not to Be Placed on Market. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., November 6.—Farmers of lower Prince Georges County are gratified at the decision of the board of directors of the House of Reformation at Cheltenham to discon- tinue production of crops for sale, on either the Washington or Baltimore market. ‘The decision ends a long fight by the farmers, who claimed that thé sale of crops by the House of Reformation, a State institution for colored boys, was hurting their business. SHOT AFTER ARGUMENT. Maryland Miner Alleged Victim of Election Disorder. Special Dispatch to The Star. WESTERNPORT, Md., November 6.—Thomas Flynn, 35 years old, a miner with large family of Franklin, Md.,, near here, is in Hoffman Hospital at Keyser with a bullet wound in the shoulder. Paul Schillingburg, 19, also a miner, is in jail at Keyser, charged with shooting Plynn. According to mu- tual friends, they became involved in a campaign argument several days dgo. Flynn was seated on his horse in front of R. B. Walker's store at Beryl Sunday night when wounded. Schillingburg $ald the ahot, was socidentally fred. L0 Fire Warden Appointed. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., November 6.—District Forester Quick has an- nounced the appointment of Albert H. Walters of near Laurel as fire warden. The tower at Muirkirk for the observa- tion of forest fires is this Fall in charge of Frank Hurd and Fred C. Knauer, POLICE GIVE QUARTERS TO ELECTION CLERKS in Opinion of Mayor Smith, Who Makes Space Available. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 6.—Re- cent improvements to the City Hall have left so little space in the second ward for balloting that Mayor Charles | W. Smith requested the police to aban- don their quarters for the day. Even |the station house desk sergeant will have to move to the lockup department. All furniture, desks, etc., have been moved out and tables for the election i clerks will be placed in the hall. Even Police Justice Louis M. Hopkins will have to preside elsewhere f the occa- sion should demand a decision from the {law. Mayor Smith said he felt that Gov. Smith would carry the city. Injured at Double Funeral. Special Dispatch to The Star. LONACONING, Md., November 6.— | While superintending the funeral of i Mrs. Margaret Love, 97 years old, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth | Love, 67, Miss Minnie Eichhorn of an undertaking firm fell to the bottom of |a stairway at the Love home and sus- |tained a fracture of the left arm and other injuries. Votes 18th Time for President. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va.,, November 6.—Ben H. Pellers, 86 years old, re- tired railroader, cast his eighteenth presidential ballot here today. His first was for Lincoln in 1860. He says he has voted a straight Republican ticket every time except once, when he was persuaded to vote for a Democratic jus- tice of the peace, Annapolis Vote Will Favor Smith, | to A sideshow. on the streets of Bérlin. Martina, the world’s tallest woman, who towers to a height of 7 feet 6 inches, gives the youngsters of the. German capital a thrill as she takes a stroll with some of her midget friends. —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 6 (Special) —Alexandria police are hold- ing Ben Scarbrough of Route 5, Fairfax County, on a charge of hit-and-run following an accident last night when his machine collided with the automo- bile of D. W. Stanton, which was parked in front of the latter’s home at 2216 King street. Both machines were badly damaged. Scarbrough, police say, jumped from his car and ran, but later returned to the scene/of the wreck and was placed under arrest by Motor Cycle Policeman Wesley Snoots. An automobile owned by W..C. Johnson of 421 South Lee street was stolen yesterday while parked near the intersection of Union and Franklin streets. No session of Police Court was held this morning because of the election, All of the banks in the city were closed also. Mrs. Ida Perry Dead. Mrs. Ida Virginia Perry, 61 years old, died early today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Daisy Cooper, 509 South Fairfax street, after a long illness. Fu- neral arrangements have not been made. A cross for distinguished service in the World War was presented by Mrs. Charles W. Howell, president of Ma 'Custis Lee-17th _Virginia Regiment Chapter, United Daughters of the Con- federacy, tg Capt. Louis N. Duffey, for- merly of this city, but now of Tucson, Ariz, at a meeting last night of the chapter in the Lee Camp Hall. The cross was received for his son by Charles W. Duffey of this city. The chapter confirmed the $25 gift to the Janet Randolph fund, pledged at the recent convention of the State chapters in this city, and also voted to contribute $10 the Berry School of Georgia. Mrs. C. W. Howell' and Edgar Warfleld, sr., historian of the chapter and adjutant of the Confederate Veteran Camp, will present, steel engravings of Gen. R. E. Lee and Gen. Thomas J. Jackson to the Lee-Jackson High School on a date to be designated by the school authorities. Alexandria High School will hold a regular session Friday night, to which parents and other interested persons are ‘invited. The school has arranged for | the session in connection with the ob- servance of National Educational week. Mrs. Daisy Wood Expires. Mrs. Daisy L. Wood, 68 years old, wife of Willilam H. Wood, sr., died yes- terday at her residence, 106 South St. Asaph street, from injuries received home. She is survived by her husband, five daughters and two sons, as fol- lows: Mrs. Stewart M. Jones, Mrs. Ed- win W. Markell, Mrs. William L. Lyons, Mrs. Willlam S. Whiting, Mrs. Charles L. Birth, Willlam H. Wood, jr., and Harry E. Wood. The Alexandria Kiwanis Club will ) night Thursday evening in the George Mason Hotel. The committee in charge of arrangements is composed of H. E. Gentry, chairman; Thomas Chauncey, John Barton Phillips, Robert G. Carter, Everett Hellmuth, Walter Plerpoint, D. C. Book, C. Page Waller, Roger Creel, Elliott F. Hoffman, George E. War- field, Harry B. Caton, R. J. Schooley, James M. Duncan, jr.; Leslie B. Ryder, Rev. Percy Foster Hall, C. W. King, F. C. Knight and Dr. R. H. Chase. A verdict favoring the city was re- turned by a jury in the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon in the suit of two weeks ago when she fell at her| hold its annual observance of ladies’| . APES NOT ERECT, MOVIES REVEAL Slow-Motion - Films Clarify Relationship of Anthro- poid and Man. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (#).—The slow | motion picture has helped clarify the relationship between the anthropoid ape and man. The important point disclosed is that the apes are unable to stand wholly erect, although. they are more nearly able than any other animal, Man alone possesses this attribute. The research which sets definite lim- its to the ability of the anthropoids in this respect was conducted by Dr. Edward Reyonlds, director of the de- partment of anthropology of Peabody Museum, Harvard College. The camera caught the gibbon, small- est of anthropoids, while running, when to the eye he has appeared to be ai- most completely erect. The camera | “stopped” the gibbon's movements suf- ficiently to show that he was actually but little more than half erect as to thigh position. The skeletons of these animals, Dr Reynolds says, are so shaped that the thigh cannot be extended and in conse- quence they stand about half of man's erectness. The only animal other than the anthropoids, which rises naturally g;l its hind legs to half erectness, is the ar. “The result of the studies,” Dr. Rey- nolds says, “shows the modifications of the human skeleton, which permit of the erect posture. Men alone possess the quality of being able to spring from | their hind feet in any direction. This quality has been partially developed, but | only partially, in the anthropoids. No sane man for a moment believes that man’ descended from the apes, but that he may be descended from the same common ancestor.” Another significant difference of the anthropoid from man is that none is |able to oppose its thumb against its finger tips. The nearest approach is putting the side of the thumb against the side of the finger. The orang-outang, Dr. Reynolds describs as having really four hands. using both hands and feet to grasp branches when swinging through trees and being almost incapable of rising on his hind feet. the tornado last November. The church was deemed a menace to public safety. The plaintiff was represented by Attor- ney T. M. Watson and the city by City Attorney Albert V. Bryan. The practice of the American Leglon Drum and Bugle Corps scheduled for tonight has been postponed until November 13 because of the election. Mrs. Roger S. Creel of this city Is chairman of the committee arranging for the card party and buffet supper which will be given in Washington Monday night by the Auxiliary of Thomas E. Arrington against the City Council of Alexandria and City Manager Paul Morton to recover $3,000 for the razing of a colored church damaged in AR ‘Washington Chapter, 31, Hote! Greeters of America. The proceeds will be ‘donated to the Greeters’ Home ct Denver,