Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1928, Page 17

NOVEMBER 7, 1 Herbert Hoover adding his vote to the millions by which he was made the Nation’s choice yesterday as its mext President. The telephoto picture shows the now President-elect casting his ballot before Inspector Townley of the Stanford Gov. and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith were greeted by cheers from their home- town supporters as they walked from their hotel to cast their ballot yesterday. Alfred Smith, jr., is shown with them. The polling place where they voted was located in a stationery store near the Hotel Biltmore, where the governor and his By this powerful beam from an anti-aircraft searchlight The Star last night kept Washington informed of the trend of the election returns and finally flashed the signal that meant a Hoover victory. Vi ig beam visible 4 il d, the searchlight played from a station just north of the ‘With its big beam vi e for 40 miles arount e ight play " ftar Staff Photo, University precinct, in a polling booth on the university campus at Palo Alto, Calif. Three Washington debs arriving at the flying field y take the air for their bombardment of the Capital with toy balloons ans that stressed voteless Washington’s “Day of Humilia- mw'm trio-are Miss Elizabeth and Miss Theresa Carmel. —Wide World Photos. to Kennedy, Miss Elizabefli Dunlop™ —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. X YOUTHS HURT N AUTO 0BT Car Slides 40 Feet and Turns Over Twice Following | Collision. One person was seriously injured and five others cut and bruised early this morning when the light car in which they were riding turned over twice after & collision at Eleventh and G streets. Police say that the occupants were thrown in all directions and that their machine rolled and slid for 40 feet. George Willis Marcey, 19 years old, of Lyonhurst, Va.,, driver of the car, suffered a fractured jaw, punctured lung and possibly a skull fracture. John Andrew James, 16 years old, 2150 Thirtieth street northeast; Bennie Chipwalt, 26 years old, 938 I street; John Joseph Alden, 17 years old, 918 Eighteenth street; Gerald Fred Sonnen- berg, 16 years old, 50 Woodstock street, Clarendon, Va., and Carl Edward Poe, 25 years old, 828 Twelfth street, were the others hurt. The automobile driven by Marcey struck the rear of an automobile being driven by Robert D. Evans, 29 years old, 232 Hamilton avenue, Clarendon, Va., according to the police report. Mrs. Nellie Thompson, 40 years old, of the 2500 block Thirty-third street southeast, was arrested on a reckless driving charge late last night after her automobile was in a collision on Penn- sylvania avenue near Branch avenue southeast with an automobile operated by Walter Lettau, 25 years old, of Brad- bury Heights, Md Mrs. Nellie Eckendorf, 33 years old, 2422 Thirty-third street southeast, who was riding_with Mrs. Thompson, was treated at Casualty Hospital. Her con- dition is not serious. Mrs. Thompson was released under 8100 collateral for her appearance in Traffic Court today. MAN STABBED IN ROW DUE TO AUTO MISHAP Fails to Realize Injury Until He Finds Knife Lodged in His Flesh. George W. Martin, 36 years old, of Virginia Highlands, Va., discovered that he had been stabbed without knowing it early last night following a row with a man whom a warrant names as Don R. Mason, residing on Benning road northeast. He felt his opponent strike him a blow in the left chest, he told police, and upon examination later found a knife blade lodged in his flesh. The row, he explained, resulted from his having backed from his garage into the car the man was driving. No dam- age was done, he said, but the man struck him and he struck back. p Martin was brought to Emergency Hospital, treated for a stab wound and returncd to his home. Mason, who had not been arrested this morning, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The Royal Aero Club of England Is geeking to learn who made the first SEES 1., WINNING TRADE WITH ITALY Miss Humes Notes Big In- crease in Imports From America. The United States now holds first place in Italy in regard to import trade, according to Miss Elizabeth Humes, United States trade commissioner of the United States Department of Commerce. Miss Humes, who has been stationed in Ronte for the past three years, has just returned from an extensive tour of leading citles of the East and the Mid- dle West, where she has talked before groups of men interested in export trade as well as many business women'’s clubs. Miss Humes stated that there has been a rapid increase mn Italy during the past four years in the importation of American-made automobiles. This popularity may be attributed to two caufes, she said: First, the body lines and colors of the American cars appeal to the beauty-loving Italians, and, sec- ondly, the middle-priced six-cylinder car of American manufacture has few com- petitors’ in Europe. There are many four and eight cylinder cars of Itallan manufacture, but the reasonably priced “quick pick-up” six is rarely manufac- tured abroad. Increase in Other Lines. In addition to automobiles, there has been a great increase in the importa- tion of American electric appliances, farm implements and — bathing suits! This last-named article took Italy by storm during the past Summer, Miss Humes stated. At the fashionable Lido, in Venice, the most numerous as well as attractive bathing suits seen on the beach were of American manufacture, she said. American-made hosiery is also gain- ing in popularity, she remarked, and, strange as it may seem, due to the closa proximity of France, American cos- {as close competitors for the favor of the Italian ladies. Drop in Tourist Trade Noted. Miss Humes stated that there had been a noticeable decline in Italy this Summer in the American tourist trade due to the stabilization of the lira, which, as a consequence, has greatly increased prices for Americans, who have profited so greatly in the past few | years from the low lira, Miss Humes is now preparing to re- | turn the latter part of this month to | her station in Rome, where she will ! assume her duties as trade commis- | stoner from the United States. WRECK FATAL TO MAN. Fireman on Santa Fe Killed as Trains Crash. —J. E. Robinson, Santa Fe firaman, | was killed, and E. R. Einecke, an {engineer, and a brakeman named Pries- muth injured early today when a Santa |a freight train at Texas City Junc- | tion, north of here. Trainmen believed the accident was due to a heavy fog, which obscured signa? lights. fiight in a heavier-than-air machine in the Eritish Isles, The work train overturned, Robinson, metics are rapidly becoming recognized j GALVESTON, Tex., November 7 (#).; | Fe work train crashed into the rear of Putting the election returns on the came over the wire from all corners of the country, and Thornton Fisher, station WMAL from an improvised broadcasting studio in the editorial offices of The Star. secretary. Washington Monument. who read_the detailed figures. The big throng that saw and heard the election returns in front of The Star Building. The returns interspersed by Frederic William Wile’s interpretive discussiol traffic barred, the crowd was banked over the entire width of wife make their residence in New York. air for The Star last night. Frederic Williaa Wile (at left), who interpreted the returns as they They were heard through At right is Miss Lorraine Noetzel, Mr. Wile's —Star Staff Photo. flashed on the screen were n of the voting trend, heard through a big battery of amplifiers. With motor f the Avenue, with two narrow lanes along the car tracks. —Star Staff Photo. PEACEFUL CHICAGO ELECTION IS RECORD Not a Single Shooting or Attack on Polling Place—Three Reasons Stated. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 7.—This city, where ballot boxes floating in the river are not unknown, where homicide, as- sault and kidnaping are considered the inevitable complement of electing pub- lic officials, cast its record-breaking vote in tranquility. Contrasted to the lawlessness that prevailed in some wards on primary day last April, not a single shooting, slug- ging or attack on polling places was re- corded. Even Morris Eller's twentieth ward, which in the past worked for and earned the title, “Bloody Twentieth, voted as smoothly as any staid suburb. Behind the dunuxunl t;':lem:e,‘el:c;nmx officials agreed, were three factors— County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki, for prosecution of election law viglators Police Commissioner Russell, w laced the entire Police Department at the dis- posal of election officers, and the spe- cial grand juries, which, under the di- rection of Frank J. Loesch, have for the past five months produced a steady pinning ' stream of conspiracy indictments based on the April primary, 14-Year-0Old Boy With Bulging Blouse Attracts Dry Squad and Brings Arrest Fourteen-year-old Romeo Robinson] Theodore Jackson, colored, 25 years i . ’uld. of the 2100 block of Ninth street, | ambled along Half street southwestlast | 300 O0 0 4™ hoar Seventh and S | night very busily engaged in attending | streets, it being charged that he had ; to_his own business. 4 quarts of corn liquor in his auto- Sergt. George M. Little, head of the | mopile. Car and liquor were seized, | p;:;lce 'llgqlgr ';quatd‘ :lccrt;mpfl;\fg bi‘(« his | and Jackson was charg:lad with illegal | aides, T. O. Montgomery and Leo Mur- | pos rting. ray, lkewise on Half street, and Wi | possession and' transpociing wise attending to their own business, | spotted Romeo, attracted by his strange | contours, {H. W. MTTCHELL, DISTRICT! ] 00, . 6| FUMENAN: SIX FEARS, BEAD peared to be warranted a closer in-| 2 | spection. | Funergl Services Conducted Today. | (o Romeo st about the same time de- | Body Batig Taken v Opelika, Ala. From beneath his blouse a two-quarl] jar, with liquid contents, slipped to . the pavement. Henry W. Mitchell, 38 years old, for When he was overhauled a brace of | the past six years a_member of the like containers, reputedly laden, were | District of Columbia Fire Department, found concealed beneath the blouse. died at his residence, 811 Quincy street, | The mystery of his appearance was | yesterday. He was attached to No. 28| solved. Engine Company. H The House of Dtention got a new in- | Funeral services were conducted at mate, and Romeo is charged with sale | the residence today at 9:30 o'clock.“The and possession. 1 body is being taken to Opelika, Ala., for Little and his men also made two | burial. other arrests in their election night| Mr, Mitchell is survived by his widow, liquor survey. Hilman Goldstein, 34 ' Mrs. Ella M. Mitchell; three brothers, years old, giving & South Washington | James L. Mitchell of Baltimore, War- address, was arrested in his automobile ' ren H. Mitchell of this city and Chester at Second and G streets southwest, | F. Mitchell of Montgomery, Ala., and where police allege they saw him board | by two sisters, Miss Cumi Mitchell of his car rying a sack that was found 'this city and Mrs. P. D. Watkins of to contain & quantity of peach brandy. Opelika, Ala. ¥ “DIPLOMA MILL” BILL URGED ON CONGRESS Chamber of Commerce Directors Plan Appeal for Enactment at Coming Session. Plans for urging prompt enactment | of the “diploma mill” bill at the np-[ proaching session of Congress were laid at the meeting last night of the direc- tors of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, one of the chief proponents of the measure. Maj. William O. Tufts, chairman of the committee on universities, colleges and private schools, which aided in the drafting of the bill, reported that the measure is in a “strategic position” for passage, but pointed to the need for prompt action at the opening of Con- gress. 1t was planned to hold a joint lunch- eon of representatives of local organi- zations sponsoring the bill on or near the opening day of the session of Con- gress, to which Senators and Represen- tatives on committees concerned partic- ularly with the bill would be invited as honor guests. The chamber directors, after a brief business session last night, heard elec- tion returns on a radio from Station WMAL, which broadcast news bulletins by The Star from its correspondents, *be allowed girls in school. President and Mrs. Coolidge —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. ey casting their ballots at the polling place in Memorial Hall at Northampton, Mass. -They made a flying trip to their home fown to vote at the polls instead of exercising the privilege of voting by mail. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. MOTHERS T0 WAR ON FLAPPER STYLE Parents of High School Girls to Urge Ban on Silk Stockings. | Silk stockings, high-heeled shoes, | elaborate dresses and expensive fur | coats for high school girls will be made | the target of a group of Washington | mothers at the meeting of the Board of Education this afternoon when Mrs. Bertha Eldred, member -of the Con- gress Heights Parent-Teacher Associa- tion, appears before the board to aug- ment a resolution adopted by that as- sociation in placing it on record as (av]orlng a “uniform dress” for school rls. ‘The desire for costly clothing, several mothers told The Star today, is respon- sible for great unhappiness of high school girls in their classes and in their homes, and in some instances, which they said they would cite, mothers have been obliged to withdraw their daugh- ters from high school because of the embarrassment suffered by the sensi- tive children of less wealthy parenis who cannot afford to dress them as xpensively as many of their sellow stu= dents are dressed. In the resolution which the Congress | Heights' mothers sent to the Board of | Education, a middie blouse and skirt is | suggested as an ideal costume for | schoolgirls. Since that resolution was | adopted, however, smocks of different | colors for the various classes have been | proposed as & suitable dress. 'The | | smock, it s explained by the mothers, | would enable a girl to wear the same simple dress almost every day, whereas at present the keen competition which the schoolgirls have entered into in the matter of dress requires them to vie with one another in the wearing of elaborate .dresses and in frequent changes of costume. Extremely high heels also come under the attack by the mothers and in their resolution they suggest that only “Cuban heels” or other heels of “sensible height" One high school girl recently was told by a phy- sician that he could not “pass” her in her physical examination for swimming activity at the Young Women's Chris- tian Association because she had heart trouble. The physician declared, the mother said today, that the wearing of extremely high heels had affected the girl's heart, At Eastern High School, one mother told The Star, a girl student carries a costly fur coat around on her arm from classroom to classroom because the value of the coat renders it unwise to leave it in the school lockers. ! The cost of a high school education | ‘is in itself sufficlent burden for most families to. bear on behalf of their daughters, parents said today, without the added Iuxury of costly clothing that not anl{ulnxes the family budget but assails pretenses of good taste as well. If some restriction on girls’ dress can be adopted, they contended, more young girls would remain in high school and greater happiness would prevail in | officiate. ADMITS ATTAGKING WOMEN, POLICE SAY MacCubbin Said to Have Confessed Two Assaults on Arrest in Hyattsville. Joseph Henry MacCubbin, 38 years old, of Baltimore, who was arrested yesterday in Hyattsville as a suspicious character, today is said to have ad- mitted to headquarters detectives that he is responsible for the. attack com- mitted on Saturday night on Miss Lil- liar Funkhouser, 48 years old, 211 C street, and Miss Rena Downing, 1155 Fourth street northeast. He has also been_ identified by Ruth Washington, 919 I street northeast, as the man who attacked her the same night. MacCubbin refuses to admit the at- tack on Miss Melda E. Langley, 21 years old, 639 Morton street northeast, which also occurred Saturday night. Three of the women are thought to have been hit with bricks. It was not known un- til today how Miss Funkhouser had been injured since she was picked up un- conscious on Second street, between In- diana avenue and B street, and has been unable to furnish any informa- tion concerning the manner in which she was_injured. ‘The police say that MacCubbin claims to be a World War veteran and to have been gassed. The only explanation he could give for the alleged attacks was that he had been drinking hair tonic. He has been charged with the attack on Ruth Washington, and police are investigating the stories of the. other two attacks. FRANK L. ZIRKLE DIES FROM APOPLEXY STROKE OSSR L B Was Native of Missouri, But Long Engaged in Business in Washington. Frank L. Zirkle, 58 years old, for many years in the grain brokerage business here and Washington resident since 1896, died from apoplexy- at his residence, 1450 Clifton street, yesterday. Mr. Zirkle was a director of the;North Capitol Savings* Bank and a of the Central Presbyterian Chufeli. He was born in Grayson City, Mo., but spent the greater part of his boyhood in_Staunton, Va. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nagalie H. Zirkle, and a brother, Luther A. Zirkle of Waynesboro, Va. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev. James H. Taylor of the Central Presbyterian Church will Interment will be in Staunton. —_— Like U. S. Patent Leather. American patent leather sales in Mex- ico have been growing rapidly and now average only slightly less than 500,000 square feet annually. Most of the mod- the thousands of more modest homes of the District. the Assoclated Press and other agencies. The service was provided by M. A. Leese, proprietor of the radio station. A report by the aviation committee, Jerome Fanciulll, chairman, urged pub- lic support of ‘air transportation facili- ties now available here, ern shoe factories in Mexico are over- ated or controlled by Americans, have American superintendents or. employ supervisors trained in the United States. European competitors have been- active in their efforts to obtain a larger share of the patent leather trade; but have met with but slight success. tanners supply ‘more than 85 per. cent of the total patent leather imported an= ually into Mexico, »