Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1928, Page 17

ELVENING STAR, The giant mine-laying submarine V-4, largest and newest of the American Navy, at the ‘Washington Navy Yard, where she arrived yesterday for a short stay. Built at a cost of more than $6,000,000, the big submersible is 381 feet long and has a surface displacement of 2,878 tons. She has four torpedo tubes, a ca- pacity of 60 mines and mounts a 6-inch gun on the forward deck. —Copyright by Harris & Ewing. A little workout for the whippet tanks at Fort Lewis, Wash. This “war” scene was staged as a quick ‘means of demolishing old barracks, which have been abandoned for new ones. The frame buildings offered feeble resistance to the war monsters, which demonstrated their ability to crash through one wall and come out through another without stopping. G.0.P.CHIEFTAINS CALL ON COOLIDGE, Borah, Good and Smoot Dis-; cuss Political Situation With President. Among the President’s callers today were three prominent Republican lead- | ers with each of whom he discussed the recent campaign and the political | situation following the election i Senator Borah of Idaho is known to | have received the President's com- | mendation for his personal part in the | Hpover campaign. Mr.' Borah is un- | derstood also to have discussed with the President the Kellogg treaty for outlawing war. As chairman of the Benate committee on foreign relations the Idaho Senator will have charge of this treaty when it comes hefore the | Senate this Winter. He said he antic- ipates considerable discussion of the treaty, but he feels very confident ‘that it will be ratified at the coming ses- sion. Former Representative Goode of Towa, who was in charge of the Republican campaign from the Chicago office, gave the President some little idea of what that office did during the campaign, Dr. E. B. Clements, Republican national committeeman for Missouri, told the President that the Republican victory in Missouri was due to the fact that the campaign was directed principally in the rural sections which are ordi- narily Democratic and not in St. Louis as has heen the custom in the past. He attributed Mr. Hoover's success to the confidence of the people in his ability to handle the farm problem and 10 carry out the policies of the Coolidge administration. Smoot Takks on Sugar. Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate finance committee, called | on the President to describe the plight | fo American sugar producers, who he | said could not compete with the duty- free sugar imported from the Phil- ippine Islands. Senator Smoot would not predict the President’s attitude, but stated that unless restrictions were placed on duty-free importations from the Philippines in the regular tariff bill | that will probably come up this Win- ter, he would personally introduce spe- cial legislation to limit the annual im- portation preferably to 300,000 tons, or at the most to 500,000 tons a year, Britten Bill. An indorsement of the so-called Buitten bill providing for at least 1 sdditional cruiscrs for the Navy as v as other proposals for improving the national defense of this country was contained in an outline of the legisla- tive program of the Veteraps of Forelgn ‘Wars, which was referred to President Coolidge today by Lieut. Eugene P. Carver, jr, of Bcston, Mass, com- mander in chief of that organization. Comdr. Carver’s purpose in laying the organization legislative program before the President at this time was for the purpose of acquainting the Chief Execu- tive with what is desired by the Veterans of Foreign Wars so that it may be helpful while he is preparing his annusl message to be submitted to |one, John V. Johnson, of New York BROKER S HELD ON FRAUD CHARGE Second Man Accused Here in Potomac Water Rights Case Surrenders. Surrendering to a United States marshal outside of United States Com- missioner Needham C. Turnage’s office | today, Charles R. Warde, also known as | John Herrick, a broker, with offices in | the 1400 block of K street, was formally arrested, taken before the commissioner and placed under $2,000 bond cn a charge of using the mails to defraud. ‘Warde is accused with Gorham Tufts, jr, who shares the same business of- | fice and who was arrested there last | week on a similar charge. Tufts has| been at liberty under §5,000 bond, but that figure was reduced to $2,000 by Commissioner Turnage today, when both men waived their preliminary hearing before him and agreed to ap- pear before the United States District Couft for the southern district of New York, on December 7. Both men were arrested on warrants obtained by Post Office Inspector Owen A. Keen, who charged them in an affi- davit with using the mails to promote a fraudulent stock-selling scheme. The affidavit states that Warde, Tufts and two others, whom' Commis- sioner Turnage is informed have been arrested in New York, posed as sales- men for the Atlantic Utilities Corpora- tion, which they represented as control- ling water rights along the Potomac River above Colonial Beach. It is further set forth in the afidavit that the men also told prospective pur- chasers that the Pennsylvania Railroad was endeavoring to get a controlling interest in the corporation. One of the men arrested in New York is Ernest L. Tufts, son of the man ar- rested here, Commissioner Turnage states. ‘The specific charge against the de- fendants is that they sent letters to City, in an effort to sell him some of the stock. CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS TO BE FILLED BY TESTS ‘The United States Civil Service Com- | mission today announced the following open competitive examinations: e draftsman, quartermaster | K rument, at $1,260 a | | Bureau of Plant Industry, Department {of Agriculture, at $2,600 to $3,100 a year. Assistant radio inspector, Field Serv- | ice of the Department of Commerce throughout the United States, includ- | 1ing Hawali, Alaska and Porto Rico, at $2,400 a year. information and application {blanks may be obtained from the United States Civil Service Commission, | 1724 F stree | War veterans who, because of the so- | Congress next month. The lPflalfiu“vrmsmm also proposes enactment of & World War service pen- sion which would b2 int>nded to taka e of many of the Gisabled World called “service connection” clause in the | | World War veterans' act, are unable to prove up disabilities which, accord: to this legisiative progyi, are wiily & Goubt due Lo Lje rvic ~—Copyright by P. &' A. Photos. issippi tributaries. Congress Member On Parking Charge ’ TLacking money in his pocket, Rep- resentative Crowther, New York, had to call upon a friend yesterday to post $10 collateral required of him for parking. in a restricted zone in front of the Investment Building. His check was refused at'the sta- tion house, he said. The Representative said he had an appointment in the building at noon yesterday and after driving around the block three times finally placed his machine so that about half of it protruded beyond the “No Park- ing—Entrance” sign. After he had been in the building for approximately an hour, he said today, he came out and started drive away, but was stopped by Po liceman Alexander Grinsell of th third precinct and was ordered to drive to the station house. The po- liceman disregarded his protests that he was a Representative and should be allowed the privilege of parking where he pleased. Although he feels he was not treated courteously, Mr. Crowther sald, he intends taking no steps to- Ward punishment of the officer. | | | | | 11ISS MORROW SILENT ON LINDY BETROTHAL Daughter of Ambassador Declines to Comment on Report of Flyer's Possible Marriage. NEW YORK, November 21 (P).— Miss Elisabeth Morrow, daughter of Dwight Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, came home on the Olympic today de- clining to discuss reports that she or her sister Anne would be married to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Miss Morrow traveled under the es- nort of J. P. Morgan, of whose firm her dalper formerly g Borrows $10 to Post| ! The Food Show's champion husband caller, Mrs. R. D. Poole of 538 Fourteenth street southeast. “Henry” was called by many well- practiced wives last night, but none disturbed the lofty beams of the Auditorium like the sonorous call of the winner.—Star Staff Photo. . while he was in its cage. It was the second time Phillips’ life was en. dangered hy the on —Star Staft Photo. STAR LOST AD MAKES LONG-DISTANCE RECOVERY During the recent Army Circus in this city & wrist watch was lost. It was advertised in The Star under classification of “Lost.” Several weeks thereafter The Star was in receipt of a letter from Marshfield, Wis. The writer, a lady, stated that while in Washington she found a wrist watch in keeping with the descrip- tion of the one advertised in The Star and wished to be put in communication with the advertiser. This was done through the Classified Department of The Star, and thégwateh, which proved to be the one advertised, was returned o the oiWher, Fog was blamed for this fatal wreck yebterday on the Boston and Maine road at Lowell, Mass,, in which 1 person was killed and 21 injured. Four coaches are seen sprawled on their side after an express train had ripped into another train on a fog-blankefed stretch of track. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Members of the Rock Creek Church choir, who form the cast of the play, “The Fishing Party,” to be pre- sented in the new parish hall of the church at Webster street and Rock Creek Church road, on Tuesday, De- cember 4. The play is being given under the dircction of Miss Ruth Farmer and J. Fred Parsons. —star Staff Photo. YOUNGER RAILROAD IMEN CONVENE HERE Profession Attracting Higher Types, N. Y. Central At- torney Declares. Although the day of “thg boomer, the boozer and the bum” has vanished from the fleld of American raflroading, the magnetic fascination of the huge loco- motives still casts its spell over Amer- | ican youth and leads many an ambi- | tious youngster to the picturesque life | of the ratiroader. | This, at least, was the general senti- | ment of 350 young men attending the - | opening session this morning of the Woman Fires Gun At Face of Peeper Borrowlng a- revolver affer she glimpsed & man attempting to look through a window of her apartment last night, Mrs. Willis Livingston of {he Phillips Terrace Apartments fired several shots at the man when he returned the second time. She does not think she hit him. Mrs. Livingston said her daughter is ill and that the man was attempt- ing to peer through the window of her daughter’s room. The apartment is on the ground floor and the win- dow Is accessible from the street. After discovering the man, Mrs. Livingston pulled down the shade and borrowed the pistol. A few minutes later she walked to the win- dow and threw up the shade. The man was standing with his face against the pane, and as he ran she fired several shots to “frighten” him, she says. WOMAN ASKS DIVORCE AFTER BRIDGE FIGHT ;Suit A]leg;s Vflusb;;d Beat Her for Trumping His Ace in Game. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 21.—Some folks would say that trumping a partner’s ace in a b game is_justification even for manslaughter. The Superior Court is now asked to determine if it is cause for divorce. Mrs. Virginia Chapman Schmidt, who at 19 was secretly married to the son of a wealthy Chicago architect, has filed the suit, declaring that simply because she lal wn a trump on her husband- rtner’8| ace in a bridge game he beat = “—Suitabh alimony” is sought. Seen at Window | sixth annual Younger Railroad Men’s | Conference, which convened in the Mayflower Hofel. Big railroad companies, controlling thousands of miles of track over which dozens of speeding trains must travel | in perfect harmony, have developed |into tremendously efficlent organiza- tions, according to Alexander S. Lyman, general attorney of the New York Cen- tral Lines, but this has not served to stiffie the ambition of the ordinary worker. Higher Types Attracted. “The small country boy who drops whatever he is doing as the haunting whistle of the evening train reaches his ears a half a mile to see the engine puff past can still hope to be- come a vice president of the Nation’s | largest road,” Mr. Lyman said,-“and | because every raflroad worker knows | this to be true the profession is attract- ing an ever higher type of man.” The delegates were welcomed this | morning by J. L. Ferguson of the Wash- | ington Terminal Co., Willlam Knowles | Cooper, general secretary of the ¥. M: C. A, and F. J. Bresnahan, also of the terminal company. 'Will Visit White House. . Sessions which continue through Fri- day, will be interspersed with sight- ibcelng trips and a visit to the White House tomorrow at noon, when dele- gates will be received by President Cool- !idge. During the afternoon trips will be made to Arlington Cemetery and | Mount Vernon. Wreaths will be | placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and on Washington's Tomb. | The young men attending the con- vention are the picked represeniatives of 28 leading railroads. In addition to 1NDIA MISSIONARY NEEDS EMPHASIZED Columbia Association of Bap- tist Churches Hears Mrs. A. H. Curtis Speak. The need of more intensive nis- sionary work in India was stressed before the Columbia Association of Baptist Churches, meesing in its fifty- first annual convention, by Mrs. A. H. Curtis, daughter of Dr. John E. Clough | of the Lone Star Mission, Ongole, South India, today. Declaring that only 1% per cent of the population of India is Christian, Mrs. Curtis stressed the need of more funds in order that missionary work may be continued on a large scale. Today marks the third day of the annual meeting, which is being held in the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Sixth and A streets northeast, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the found- ing of the church and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. John Compton Ball. Today’s session was opened with devo= tions led by Mrs. Fred A. Kardell. Aft- erward the treasurer's report was made by Mrs. H. B. Waddy. Reports were made by the heads of the various wom- en's departments of the association as follows: Mrs. John R. Thomas, Mrs. H. A. El- more, Mrs. Nellie Salvidge, Mrs. T. S. Browne, Mrs. H. E. Sheriff, Miss Kath- erine Stickney, Mrs. O. L. Veerhoff, Mrs. E. L. Darcy, Mrs. H. O. Millington, Mrs. W. G. Waldo, Miss Alice Maines, Miss Helen Hudson, Mrs. E. E. Rich- ardson and Mrs. Willlam Mooney. Addresses were delivered at the morning session by Mrs. W. J. Cox, president of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Conven- tion, and Rev. Austin Crouch, secretary of the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. Rev. B. Phillips, rector of the Church of the Epiphany, and Mrs. Curtis are to deliver addresses this afternoon. A special program of music by the Lovette Choral Club, Eva Whitford Lovette, director, will feature a session in the church tonight. Rev. C. Wallace Petty, speaking on the subject of “The Ignorance of the Wise” at a session last night, declared prosperity does not necessarily, mean “mad materlalism,” He added that most of the criticism by publicists and journalists of other nations had behind it racial or national jealousies. There will be sessions tomorrow morning, afternoon and evening. friendly discussions among themselves they will hear several talks from men | who have * | ad work. | Submetering Question Will Be Ar- gued on December 12. The date set for a public hearing on the question of submetering of electric power by owners of large buildings to tenants has been changed from No- vember 27 to December 12 by order of the Public Utilities Commission. The delay was requested by S. R. | Bowen, ‘vice president and counsel for {the Washingion Railway & Electric Co. |On the date first set Mr. Bowen will be .cnsaged in court in a condemnaiion case, Minister in SMIDDY IS RECALLED. missioner in London. . PUBLIN, Irish Free State, November 21 (#)—It was officially announced in the Dail today that T. A. Smiddy, now ‘Washington, has been re- called and appointed high commissioner of the Free State in London. The I ter post has been vacant since, Ja MacNeill was appointed governor gen=- eral of the Saorstat, a year ago. Announcement was also made of a government_decision to establish em- bassies in Berlin and Paris. The offi- kesman added that a reorgane was taking place in the fo) cl izglio A representation of the Free Sta .