Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D Sg EEEESDAY VOVEMBER 29, 1928, Fyd Speaking of turkey, the tame ones are good, but the wild ones are better. Here are four plump birds right) and his two companions, A. bagged by Postmaster W. M. Mooney (at V. Dumaine (left) and Dr. R. L. Sexton, on a turkey hunt in the mountains of Bath County, Va. The Pregident’s Thanksgiving dinner. This 35-pound gobbler was presented ‘By-the Cliamber qf Commerce of Charlottesville, Va., as the piece de resistance of the Thanksgiving dinner for President and Mrs. Coolidge tonight at the Swannanoa Country Club. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. IFLUENZA WANES INNOVE COLONY @ituation Is Improving in Hol- lywood, With Actors Re- ported Convalescing. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., November 29.— Influenza, which struck the motion pic- ture colony here recently, causing 13 film actors and-two directors to be con- fined to their beds, today was reported to_have been checked. Marie Prevost, film actress, the latest to surrender to the illness, was reported considerably improved today, She was taken to Hollywood hospital yesterday. Clara Bow and Mary Philbin also were convalescing. Several others who had'| mild attacks prepared to return to their everyday interests. ‘Those who suffered slight attacks in- cluded Lois Wilson,"Monte Blite, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young, Sally Phipps, Jean Arthur, Ruth Taylor, William Haines. Bustgr Keaton, John Gilbert and Directors F. W. Mur- nau and Edward Sedgwick. Influenza conditions in the State, which have been ,“near epidemic pro-{ portions for the past four weeks,” were reported to the governor's council at Sacramento yesterday by Dr. Walter M, Dickie, State director of public health. Dr. Dickie declared the disease was wild in form, but that the number qf eases had been steadily on the increase. The first week of October showed but 27 oases in the State as compared. with 2,698 the last week of the same morth, and 3473 for the week ending Novem- ber 17. 1 In view of the fact that this is the | first time since 1918 that influenza cases have reached large totgls in Octo- ber and November, Dr. Dickie issued a warning that a second wave of the dis- | ease could be expected later in the | Winter. | BROKER IS ARRESTED | IN PEARL SMUGGLING | Federal Officials in Los Angeles Indicate Drive on Large Organization. ‘ By the Associated Press i LOS ANGELES, November 29 —Wlth; the arrest here yesterday of Albert W.| Beaumbont, who was specifically chargeg | with smuggling _pearls _appraised at | $18,000 into the United States, Federal | officials indicated that they were at- | tempting to break up a large jewel- | smuggling organization whose opera- | tions extend to many of the larger | cities of the world. Collector of Customs L. H. Schwaebe | dispatched four of his operatives to “various outlying places” under orders | to seize other jewels was said to be a broker of Shanghai, China, had been under surveillance for some time, but Assistant United States District Attorney Emmett Doherty said the man had had his face “lifted” in Chicago and had been lost sight of temporarily. 5 The suspect was held under a bond of $5000 after he was formally chayged with smuggling the pearls scross the horder from Vancouver, British Columbia, July 9 last |be Right Rev. Beaumont, Whfl ably After Stroke of Paralysis. Dining Rooms Used For ‘Pay Banquets,’ Churches Face Tax By the Associated Press. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif, No- vember 29.—County Assessor Allen has assessed as taxable property the banquet halls of the First Congrega- tlonal and First Baptist: Churches of Redlands, holding that the churches forfeited their rights to tax exemp- tion when their dining rooms were used by service clubs and the Cham- ber of Gommerce for “pay banquets.” Allen said the First Baptist Church banquet hall was used by a service club for a dinner honoring Gov. Young of California at which the guests paid for their meals. The Congregational banquet hall, he said, was used by the Chamber of Com- merce for a May day breakfast ad- vertised in the newspapers. Neither of these occasions, he argued, was for. the purpose'of religious worship. The law, he said, stipulates that church bulldings should tax exempt when they are “used solely and exclusively for - religious wor- ship.” PLAN CONSECRATION OF BISHOP MONDAY Episcopal - Prelates Will Elevate Rev. N. S. Binstead at ' St. Alban's Church. Rev. Norman S. Binstead, a native of Washington, will be consecrated as Bishop of the Missionary District of Tohoku, Japan, Monday ‘morning at 10:30 o'clock at services in St. Alban's Church, Mt. St. Alban. He was elected to his new office at the recent general convention in Washington of the Epis- copal Church. The presiding bishop of the church, Right Rev. John Gardner Murray, will preside as chief consecrator. Assisting him will be Right Rev. John McKim, Bishop of North Tokyo, and Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Bishop of Virginia. The presenters at the ceremony will Shirley Hall Nichols, Bishop of Kyoto, and Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington. Bishop Tucker will preach the conse- cration sermon. Bishop-elect Binstead is a former member of St. Alban's Church. He served for more than a year as vicar of St. David's and St. Patrick’s chapels be!?‘rr, going to the mission field in FAUST CONDITION SAME. | House Member Resting Comfort- | Representative Charles L. Faust of Missouri’ was reported as resting as comfortably as could be expected at Emergency Hospital today. with a partial paralysis of his right leg and arm. Dr. J. Ernest Mitchell declared his condition was serious but not peces- sarily alarming, and at this stage, time President Coolidge strolling on the lawn of the Swannanoa Country Club, in the Blue Ridge coun- try of Virginia, near Waynesboro, where he and Mrs. Coolidge are spending a Thanksgiving holiday. A magnificent vista of hills and valleys surrounds the lofty site of the clubhouse. —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Fourth-grade youngsters of the Rossell School, Ninth and D streets southwest, costumed for their Thanksgiving play, “The Feast of the Pil- grims,” which they presented in the school auditorium yesterday afternoon. Miss Mary E. O'Neil, fourth-grade teacher, directed the playlet. Mrs. John S. Bennett (left), wife of the superintendent of the Central Union Mission, and Mrs. Katherine Copley distributing Thanksgiving bas- kets to the needy at the mission yesterday. R e & e e ‘When the Princeton Prep eleven defeated Central High School in the Central Sf seen carrying the ball for a gain in the first quarter. —Star Staff Photo. tadium yesterday, 15 to 6. Perina, fullback on the visiting team, is —Star Staff Photo. ROTARY AND KIWANIS HOLD JOINT MEETING Club Members Hear Thanksgiv-'ing Meaning Defined by Dr. John C. Palmer. Emphasizing the “service above self” motto of the Rotarians as a timely Thanksgiving theme, Dr. John C. Pal- mer, pastor of the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, yesterday ad- dressed a joint good-will luncheon at- tended by more than 300 members of the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs in the Willard Hotel. ‘Taking as his .topic, “Keep Smiling and Be Thankful,” the speaker told of a sign in a large hospital saying, “If you can’t smile, don't come in,” point- ing out that a cheerful attitude leads to a. thankful spirit even under handicaps. ‘Thanksgiving was depicted by Dr. Palmer as depending more on one's mood than one’s possessions, and he added it is practically impossible “to be grateful by proclamation.” “A Thanksgiving day that returns regularly every year is likely to become formal and lose its real meaning,” he said. “Yet as an institution it has maintained its place in our national life for more than 300 years. Surely that is an indication of the funda- mentally sound and true sentiment un- derlying it.” ‘The combined strength of the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs is bound to be felt in international relations and espe- clally in the world-wide work that is being done for the benefit of the un- derprivileged child, Dr. Palmer con- tinued. Reviewing the history of Thanksgiving, the speaker recalled America’s first Thanksgiving was pro- claimed by Gov. Bradford of Massa- chusetts on November 19, 1621. Al- though President Washington issued a similar proclamation in 1789, the plan was opposed by Thomas Jefferson and favored by James Madison, who differed on most questions. This difference was a real factor in delaying an annual celebration of Thanksgiving, Dr. Palmer said, but the idea was so basically good that it finally became established under the administration of Abraham Lincoln. George M. Whitwell, president of Rotary, and Radford Moses, president of Kiwanis, interchanged remarks con- cerning the services of their respec- tive clubs. Harold Brooks of Rotary read President Coolidge’s Thanksgiving only could tell whether the paralysis might spread furthery proclamation. John J. Boobar and George H. O'Connor also spoke, 50-Passenger Ocean Plane Being Built At Zeppelin Plant in Wartime Secrecy By the Associated Press FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, No- vember 29.—While the merits and draw- backs of the Graf Zeppelin are being discussed. The Dornier Construction Works on the Like of Constance, an affiliation of the Zeppelin works, are quietly completing a superplane for transatlantic service. For months the construction of this giant plane has been going on with all the secrecy of wartime at the shops of Altenrhein on the Swiss side of the lake, from which all visitors have been barred. This new plane is not intended as an actual enlargement of the Dornier Superwals, but rather as a revolutioniz- ing type with which it is hoped to solve the question whether the airship or the airplane is to be the transoceanic con- veyance of the future. Has Body of a Ship. The body of this plane is not a boat, but a substantially constructed ship fit to weather the most tempestuous ocean waves, when it may be found necessary to go down on the water. It is built with massive walls and the in- terior is divided into a series of water- tight bulkheads to prevent the entire ship from being flooded in case water is shipped. The hull is furnished with a keel to steady the ship in a high sea. Its bow is surmounted by a conning- tower comprising the captain’s bridge and pilot’s cage, a chart and naviga- tion room and a wireless cabin. The span of wings measures 164 feet. Twelve motors, arranged in tandem formation, 6 in front and 6 behind the wings, will supply a motor energy total- ; ing 6,000 horsepower. Crew Numbers Ten. ‘The crew will comprise a captain, two pilots, two wireless operators, one navi- gation officer, two mechanics and two stewards. There will be room for 50 passengers and for 20 tons of freight. With its full cargo the vessel wijl weigh 45 tons. Its maximum speed will be 118 miles an hour and it will have a fiying radius of 1,860 miles. Over the wings an emergency deck has been erected and between these two surfaces the 12 motors will be mounted. For the vessel's take-off the entire motor power will be required to drag it from the water, but in the air only 50 per cent of the available motor energy will be employed. There will be a salon larger than that of the Graf Zeppelin and there will be an electric kitchen. The plane is being built for the Ger- man Luft Hansa and is intended for service across the South Atlantic via the Canaries, Cape Verde Island and Ire Island of Fernando Noronha off the coast of Brazil. WARRANT FOR BANKER. State Charges Felony to Walker, Fugitive for 13 Years. SAVANNAH, Ga., November 20 (#). —John D. Walker, former head of a chain of 107 small Georgia banks, who is held here on a Federal charge of misappropriation of funds, was charged with felony in a State warrant issued at Swainsboro, Ga., and received by au- thorities here yesterday. ‘Walker, a fugitive from justice for 13 years, who has yet been unable to post $25,000 bond for his release from Chat- ham County jail, will be held for Emanuel County officers in case his bond on the Federal charge is posted, it was said last night. The State warrant, officers declared, was issued in connection with an alleged larceny after trust of $7,000 from the Bank of Summertown, one of Walker's string of banks ich crashed about the time of his ppearance in 1912, City, SAAR PROTEST VOICED. Lord Mayor Assails From German ‘Empire. SAARBRUECKEN, Saar, November 29 (#).—The lord mayor, presiding at the municipal council yesterday on the occasion of the decennary of French occupation, read a resolution protest- ing against severance of the Saar ter- ritory_from its attachment to the Ger- man Empire and its century-old union with the Prussian State. He declared that experience had shown that .continuance of the present regime until 1935, the year fixed by the treaty of Versailles for plebiscite, was an intolerable prospect and that the population’s only h was to be reunited with the Reich uncondition- ally and without restrictions. o ‘Trucks up to 12'5-ton capacity would Severance be permitted to use the proposed West | pls Side elevated highways in New York GASOLINE FUMES FATAL TO WOMAN Fire Rescue Squad and Physicians Fail to Revive Nurse Over- come in Home. Efforts of the fire department rescue squad and physicians from Emergency Hospital yesterday afternoon failed to revive Mrs. Marion Edith Parker, 47 years old, apartment 314, 2401 Con- necticut avenue, after she was found overcome by gasoline fumes. She was pronounced dead by Dr. I. Rutkoski, of the hospital staff. Mrs. Parker, a trained nurse, was found unconscious on the bathroom floor by a friend, Mrs. George R. Setter, 3000 Connecticut avenue. Near her head was an overturned bottle of gaso- line which she had apparently been using to clean her apartment. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt was told that Mrs. Parker has been sufferin, from heart trouble fer a number of years. Acting on the opinion that the woman had fallen when overcome by the fumes, Dr. Nevitt issued a -certi- ficate of death from natural causes. CROWDS CHEER SMITH ON RETURN FROM SOUTH Governor Spends Last Thanksgiv-j ing Day at New York's Ex- ecutive Mansion. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., November 29.—Gov. Smith came “home” last night from Mississippi by way of New York City for his last Thanksgiving day in the executive mansion. He was caught in the Union Station in the swirl of hun- dreds of holiday homegoers, who cheer- ed him. So great was the crowd eager to get a close view of the man who was Democratic candidate for President that police had to act as his bodyguard. To the familiar old cheers, “Hello, AlL" and “Hflwdg. Al” Gov. Smith tip- ped his brown derby to right and left. Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, jr., and Mrs. Francis J. Quilli- nan, one of the governor's daughters, accompanied him there. ‘The governor’s party was met at the forig by Gen. Franklin Ward, Ed- ‘t.nn‘ his legal counsel, and { man legation at The Hague. —Star Staff Photo, Harold Bell Wright, the novelist, introduces a little wild visitor to his Arizona ranch to the business end of a shotgun. The trust- ful deer seems to think it's good to eat. Sentenced to Write Verse 1,000 Times For Striking Father By the Associated Press. HAMILTON, Ontario, November 20.—James Buckner, 26, must write 1,000 copies of a selected Bible verse and the fourth commandment as punishment for striking his 53-year- old father. Municipal Judge Pater suspended a $50 fine yesterday with the remark, “A fine in money would not be recompense for an offense committed against the laws of God.” 'AMERICANS TO FLY Group Leaving Tomorrow Will Ask Mexican Leader Here for Hoover Ceremonies. By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., November 20.—A large group of passengers will leave here tomorrow morning by air for Mexico City to attend the presidential inaugration, and for the purpose of inviting President-elect Portes Gil of Mexico to meet President-elect Her- bert Hoover in March. In the party are E. W. Kayser, bank- er; Judge Jess Williams; Joe T. O’Keefe, ranchman; Carl Beers, ma- chinery distributor; Duncan Aikman, magazine writer and special repre- sentative of the New York Times; Morris J. Boreta, publisher of El Con- tinental; Salvador Lutterroth, Inter- nal Revenue Inspector of New Mexi- co; Manuel B. Otero, Federal Customs Collector at El Paso, and a crew of three men. The party expects to stop at Chihuahua City, where the Gover- nor of Chihuahua will meet them, and at Torreon and San Luis Potosi. The delegation will go in a Ford trimotored all-metal plane with a cruising speed of 100 miles an hour. The trip to Mexico City which re- quires 51 hours by train, is expected to be made in 11 flying hours. Gil also will be invited to attend the convention of the West Texas Cham- ber of Commerce and Cattlemen’s As- sociation Convention here in May. GERMAN ENVOY NAMED. Dr. Von Dirksen Is Appointed Am- bassador to Moscow. BERLIN, November 20.—Dr. Her- bert von Dirksen, chief of the Eastern section of the foreign office, has been | appointed German Ambassador to the! Soviet Union at Moscow, succeeding the late Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau. Dr. von Dirksen has been in the Ger- man diplomatic service only 10 years. As an officer in the Uhlan regiment, he fought in the World War. He was ac- tive in the civil government in Belgium for a time and then went to the Ger- He began his diplomatic career in 1918 when he went to Viev as diplomatic representa- tive. 1In 1919 he took up work in the border state section of the foreign office in Berlin and then became first secre- tary at Warsaw, acting as charge d’af- faires during the difficult period of the Korfanty rising in Upper Silesia. He was next appointed chief of the Polish section of the foreign office; then TO GIL INAUGURAL | —Wide World Photos. DAIRY POVERTY IN LLINOIS TOLD Farmers’ Profits Pitifully Meager, Fact-Finding Commission Informed. By the Associated Press. ELGIN, Ill, November 29.—Farmers who claimed they were too poor even |to_buy “decent clothes for church” yesterday described the meager profit: of dairy farming in northern Illinois once the Nation's leading section in dairy production. S0 low arp prices paid for milk ship- ped to Chicago, they declared, that dairy farmers might better get jobs as day laborers. They have threatened to curtail shipments to the Chicago market unless distributors pay more for milk. A fact-finding commission of the Chi- cago milk-marketing committee was told that even the gift of a farm or a herd of cows would not attract youths to dairy farms. John Nessler, a farmer with 300 acres of land, 28 cows and 15 children, said that none of his eight sons would accept a_dairy farm he bought. Rev. E. N. Kester, a pastor of Dundee, Ill, has been asked by his parishioners to hold services semi- monthly in a country church because, he reported, they were too poor to buy “Sunday clothes” to attend church. Many of them, he said, were pressed to pay their annual church dues of $15. Other farmers testified they had turned to other forms of farming after quitting the dairy industry in despair. AUSTRIAN REFUND OFFER MAY BE MADE NEXT WEEK Pay $35,000,000 Debt Studied by Treasury Officials. The Austrian offer to refund its $35,~ 000,000 debt to the United States may be presented by the Treasury to Con- gress next week. The offer, which was carefully studied in its final text yesterday at the Treas- ury, is understood also to include a provision that priority over the new ob- ligations of Austria shall be granted to the new proposed reconstruction loan which that country is hoping to float privately. The size of this reconstruc- tion loan has been informally placed, it is understood, at $100,000,000. The conference yesterday at the Treasury was participated in by Under- secretary of the Treasury Mills, the Austrian Minister, Edgar L. G. Prochnik, and others. The report on the proposed agreement, with its priority provision on the new loan, will go to the House ways and means committee, which last session of Congress reported out a resolution authorizing the Treasury to negotiate for refunding the Austrian loan, and also authorizing prierity for the new proposed reconstruction loan. Official Once Candy Vender, Hal E. Hoss, 's new secretary of state, has ugz“fl“m career candy vender with circuses, section hand, col- lector, reporter, managing editor and a governor’s private secretary. — Plan to ill';,'snmto‘nm;l {;neral at Danzig and in 25 chief of the Eggtern section. i He Minnesota's commissioner of highwiys will ask the Legisiature to increase gasoline- tax from-3-to 4 cents.