Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1929, Page 12

"THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTOX.”D. ¢, SATURDAY. JAXUARY 19 1929. President Coolidge standing at salute after pre- senting the national colors and the regimental flag to the 260th Coast Artillery Company of tional Guard of the District of Columbi officials of the War Department were in the gathering for the ceremony yesterday at the —associated Press Photo. While House. Let the Winter rage, 3-year-old Jacqueline Mills takes her daliy dip in the surf at Plymouth, England. Jackie is the youngest mem- ber of the Plymouth Ladies’ Swimming Club and hasn’t missed a day in the ocean this Winter. —Wide World Photos. MARSHAL FOCH'S CONDITION BETTER French General Sleeps Fair- ly and Is Able to Take Nutriment. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 19.—The flag of Marshal Ferdinand Foch was still fly- ing today after a week's siege of illness. The following bulletin was issued this morning: “The perceptible improvement noted yesterday persists today.” If the marshal maintains his improve- ment during the day, his doctors will allow him to have the newspapers | he has been asking for instead of the summary of the day’s news they have | been giving him. This summary has | been inadequate to slake his thirst for | information. 3 | . Foch sleeps fairly and eats with a relish the nursery fare which is allow- ed him. This diet is of rice boiled in milk and scrved with preserves and when he complains that he is especially hungry he receives an extra helping of jam. . The symptoms of both the heart and the kidneys Lad improved today, but the marshal's general condition contin- ued precarious. He was reacting well the new treatment being tried to stimu- Jate his heart. Doctors Davenieres and Heitz-Boyer were beginning to feel less anxious. _ “Things are not going at all badly.” they said, “one might say even a little bétter. Please note that this is the first time we have been able to say that with any real assurance.” SPEAKER DISCUSSES ‘ART OF THE VIKINGS’ Tells Archeological So;iety. World's + Knowledge of Early Norway Is Based on False Reports. The world's knowledge of early Nor- way consists mostly of false reports disseminated by the English ~and French chroniclers, who “hated the blond beast of the North.” Benn Bles- som of Oslo, Norway. told the Arche- ological Society of Washington at its 147th meeting yesterday Representative and Mrs. Henry Win- field Watson were (he hosts at the meeting and Mr. Bless “The Art of the Viking his lecture with lantern slides. The speaker declared the culture of | early Norway as disclosed by the fine arts, poetry, laws, chronicles, etc, of the eighth” century showed his ances- tors to be possessed of an even higher type of civilization than cotemporary Germany. 5 As an instance of the erroneous in- formation commonly accepted about Norway, Blessom said the name “vik- ing” mever referred to kings, but was used to designate persons who lived on a .» which in Norwegian meant a smaH bay and the dsitrict suround- it. llg‘” Archeological Society will hold next meeting February 9 at the res- e of Irwin J. Laughlin, 1628 Cres nt place. The speaker will be Dr. Bavid’ M. Robincon of Johns Hopkins DOniversity, who will tell of his arche- wological work last Summer at Olynthos, Gease. he got out of bed, seized a lantern and made a hurried inspection. correct. %o | the cut. s topic was He illustrated Youth, 11l of Flu, Quits Bed to Save Train From Wreck Hears Noise Like Slide in Cut, Investigates and Runs With Signal. By the Associated Press. POMEROY, Ohlo, January 19.—A youth, ill with influenza, crawled from his bed and saved a New York Central Railroad train from an almost certain wreck at Dyesville, near here, last night. The youth, Glenn Cline, living at Dyesville, heard a roar along the rail- | road tracks as he lay in his bed. Con- | vinced that the sound he heard was the crash of stone and dirt in the railroad “cut” a short distance from his home, The investigation proved his fears Tons of earth and rock had | filled the cut. Knowing the passenger train No. 6 was due in a few minutes, the lad ran to a bend a short distance from the landslide and waved his | lantern as the locomotive bore down { on_him. | light swinging to and fro in the dark- | ness and applied the brakes. The train was brought to a stop just as it entered | PERSHING KIN DECLARED CONSULATE RIOT LEADER Second Cousin Reported Enocked Down by Police in Anti-British Demonstration. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 19.—The New York World says today that George| Pershing, 23-year-old second cousin of Gen. John J. Pershing, was the leader | of a demonstration before the British consulate last Thursday which was| | broken up by police. Young Pershing is a field organizer for the All-American Anti-Imperialistic League of America. The demonstration was in protest against the arrest at Jharia, India, of F. W. Johnston, an American labor agitator. The demon- strators carried placards reading, “Down with British Imperialism,” and the paper says that a policeman in dispers- ing the gathering knocked Pershing to the sidewalk. After young Pershing's release from a two-year sentence in a military prison ‘,m. San Francisco he had enlisted in the | | 1 was arrésted in Honolulu for robbery, grand larceny and housebreaking for attempting to burn a disorderly house. TWO FREED IN SLAYING. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., January 19 (#). —Charges of murder against Ella Bat- ten, 16, and Otis Patterson, 17, in con- nection with the death on January 4 of Ellis Dement, were dismissed late yes- terday by Judge W, L. Acuff, in Leeds Inferior Court, the judge holding that insufficient evidence was presented. The defendants were released. Madrid Bans “Jay-Walking.” MADRID, January 19 (#).—A mu- Engineer Tom Riley saw the faint|. | Montgomery County Meeting At- j Sunday School Teachers of Montgomery Army in 1924 and with five companions | the Na- ia. High cluded -in will journey there next Galveston's choice for its representative in the beauty pageant of the Havana, Cuba, Mardi Gras festivities. She is Miss Cora Pomeray, who from other American_citi —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Mrs. E. driver in t| month with fair guests P. Ricker of Portland, Me., only woman e Lake Placid Club's dogsled derby, who finished fourth, congratulates Leonhard Seppala, the veteran Alaskan dog racer, on his first-place victory just after the finish of the annual classic. ——Assoclated Press Photo. Members of the cast of “The Fishing Party,” an, operetta to be given Thursday evening, January 24, at the Rock Creek Church parish hall, and January 28 at the Epiphany parish hall by members of the Rock Creek Church. It is being rehearsed under the direction of Miss A narrow escape for the Dollar liner President Adams. The big ship is seen here grounded on a reef near the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal, while tugboats struggle to float her. They finally succeeded. No one was injured in the grounding, but the liner’s captain, W. C. Morris, was thrown overboard by the impact when the vessel struck and was forced to swim ashore. Ruth Farmer. ~—Star Staff Photo. 0l1d Goose, is almost as strange as This aristocratic goose of the curly feathers won first prize in the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show. His name, Sebastopol his ostrich-like plumage. —Associated Press Photo. ~—Wide World Photos. S. S. TEACHERS BEGIN ANNUAL INSTITUTES| tended by 42 Pastors, Superin- tendents and Others. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., January 19.—The first. annual institute of the Protestant | County was held in the -Rockville Methodist Church yesterday afternoon and evening with 42 pastors, Sunday school superintendents and teachers in attendance. Rev. Joseph H. Cudlipp of Baltimore was in general charge. ‘The teachers were separated into groups, with Miss Lillian McCormick, superintendent of children’s work for the Maryland-Delaware Council of Re- ligious Education, in charge of the chil- dren’s teachers, and Rev. Joseph H. Cudlipp presiding over the young peo- ple's teachers, The pastors and super- intendents also formed a, group and were in charge of Dr. J. R. Duffield, field secretary of the Maryland-Dela- ware Council, who has represented the Presbyterian board in Washington for some years. Between the sessions a banquet was held, with Rev. Joseph H. Cudlipp toastmaster. The principal talk was | given by Dr. Duffield and the others who spoke were Rev. John Knox, Rev. R. C. Lutton, Mrs. C. E. Ford, Mrs. William | B. Waters, Rev. Cummings, Miss Lillian McCormick. A song fest followed under the direction of Dr. Hudlipp. Danville Man Leaves $200,000. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., January 19.—The will of the late T. B. Fitzgerald has been admitted to probate in the Corpo- ration Court. He left an estate of $200.000, practically all of which was bequeathed: to his seven children. Most of the estate is represented in shares in | the Riverside and Dan River Mills| which he established here 50 years ago. ‘The tower of St. James Church to nicipal decree against “jay-walking” was put into cffect today. ~Pedestrians are permitted to cross streets only at corners, and must wait for a signal Jrom irafic officers, _ be inaugurated December 9 as the Episcopal cathedral of the diocese of Chicago, stood through the great fire of 1871 but the remainder of the old structure was destroyed. 4 DOGS FURNISH HEAT. Trained by Their Owners to Xeep Them Warm. ‘THIERS, France (#).—Dogs furnish the heat in one of France's oldest cutleries. The workmen are required by the nature of their task to lie on their stomachs all day and in Winter each provides himself with a big woolly warming dog. This custom exists only in Thiers and dates. back 3!; centuries. The grinders lie prone and hold the knife blades against stones turned by water- power. Generations ago the men trained their dogs to keep them warm. St PAIR'S FATE IN ALLEGED SLAYING NEAR JURY Trial in Killing of Hotel Detective Is Near End as Woman Turns State’s Evidence. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, S. C., January 19.—The trial of Charles R. Vaughn, Jackson- ville mehanic and former Auburn voca- tional student, moved into its final stages today as the State rested and the defence began the introduction of wit- nesses in an effort to clear the accused man of charges of murder of Samuel J. Bickley, hotel detective. Vaughn 'is expected to take the wit- ness stand some time this morning in reply to Helen Gentle, Atlanta girl, who yesterday turned State’s witness and accused Vaughn of the crime. ‘The girl and Furman Jones of Green- ville, S. C., are under indictment also for the murder of Bickley, but they were granled separate trials Thursday by Judge T. J. Mauldin, who is presiding over the Court of General Sessions here. The defense testimony is not expected to consume more than two hours, At- torney John Hughes Cooper, chief of counsel for Vaughn, said yesterday. It is considered likely that the jury will get the case by nightfall. On cross-examination Attorney Coop: er went over details of her story min- utely and questioned her about each statement, but he was unable to shake her. Toward the last she declared: “Mr. Cooper, I would not tell a lie under oath.” e The motive for the crime, according 0 the girl, was anger, -~ - 4 | Mexican Ends Extraordinary Ca- | many years ago. JOINED ARMY AT 112. reer at 116 Years.. SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico (#).—| An extraordinary career has been end- ed with the death here of Rodalio Salazar, who sttained the age of 116 years. Salazar participated in 33 war cam- paigns, including that against the De la Huerta revolutionists in 1924, when, despite his 112 years, he insisted upon joining the federal forces. He died from the effects of a wound inflicted SUICIDE BELIEVED SON OF TYPEWRITER MAGNATE E. C. Underwood, Who Died in Squalid Surroundings, Declared Estranged From Family, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 19.—E. C. Under- wood, who killed himself by swallowing poison yesterday, is believed by police to have been a son of the late B. D. Underwood, one of the founders of the typewriter company bearing that name. Mrs. Ida Underwood Goshert, Chi- cago, sald she was a sister of E. C. Underwood, and that her brother and his family had been estranged. - She Idec]im’d to attempt identification of | | the dead man. ‘The body was found in a low-price EGGLESTON SHIES AT GOVERNORSHIP Virginia College Head Scouts Idea of Being Choice of* Anti- Smith Democrats. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., January 19.—Dr. Joseph D. Eggleston, president of Hampden-Sidney College, last night took cognizance of stories published in Vir- | ginia newspapers indicating that he| might be the choice of -anti-Smith Democrats for Governor of Virginia, by saying that he did not expect to run for the office on any ticket. “I am not a candidate for governor and do not expect to be, or to run for the office on any ticket,” said President Eggleston in his terse official statement. A. J. Dunning of Norfolk, comment- ing_on the anti-Smith conference’ to, cently completed a “talkie-movie”—will be held in Lynchburg, February 5, sald the meeting would be for the purpose of perfecting a strictly non-partisan organization, with neither Democratic nor Republican affiliations, which may | possibly outline some position with re- | gard fo the State election this year.| He sald the conference was called as a | continuation of the policy formed at a | conference in Richmond, January 9./ which he said was “to ascertain the sentiment and the will of the anti- Smith group with respect to future or- ganizations and policy.” “It was a unit,” he said, “In desiring | hotel just outside the loop. Underw | had scribbled several notes, one listin, | to conserve the frults of its Tecent labor “My nearest relatives,” and another giving “reasons: Very discouraged over business reverses; ail money lost; un- able to get & job at any price. Police were fold Underwood had in- herited more than $500,000 and had squandered it the last five years. Danville Suicide Buried. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va,, January 19.—Funeral services were held here today for James H. Osborne, 42 years old, contractor, who committed suicide in his garage yesterday. He left a note in which he expressed the fear that his health would never be restored. For several months he had been taking treatment for a nervous complaint. He is survived by his widow, a son and also four children) W an earlier o r ] and to work for what it conceived to be the best interests of the State regardless of party lines. Berryville Woman Succumbs. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERRYVILLE, Va., January 19.—| Mrs. Lelia Howard Morrison, widow of | the late Daniel B. Morrison of Berry- ville, died at her home here yester- day of influenza. She was about 80| years old and was a member of the | Howard family of Maryland, coming to | this county when a girl. She is survived | by the following children: Mrs. John | Kerfoot of Evansville, Ind.; Mrs. Ar- thur Peck of Florida; Dr. Reginald Morrison of Baltimore, Morr shildren 8lso. survive, - and Howard®of the beloved Ellen at the age of ison of Berryville, Seven grand- 18, by G. F. Watts, who became bustand, Engine and Auto Will Invade Stage Of Metropolitan[ ‘Jonny Spielt Auf” Props Bring Weird Accessories to’ Opera House Precincts. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 19.—There are to be strange doings at the Metro- politan Opera House tonight. On that august stage will be presented the American premier of Ernst Krenek's jazz opera “Jonny Spielt Auf.” Back in the wings there waited a steam locomotive that will go roaring down stage and run over the villain, | AIMEE'S 250 GIFT T0 JUDGE PROBED Legislative Group to Decide Whether Impeachment of Hardy Is Justified. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif,, January 19.— A legislative committee today set out to determine whether the acceptance of 2,500 from Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, by Superior Judge Carlos 8. Hardy of the Los Angeles Criminal Court warrants the ‘impeachment of the jurist. and into the space sacred to the memory of Lohengrin's swan irreverent stage hands have wheeled a five-pas- senger automobile. Tucked away back there also were a huge radio loud speaker and a lot of | things which, when assembled, look just | like the train level of the Pennsylvania station. All props for “Jonny.” ‘There will be “Jonny,” himself, the Jjazz—Charleston, black bottom and burnt cork, but his neck left white to show that he isn't really a black man | after all—engaging in a most out- | rageously impudent tap dance while he plays a saxophone. There will be a jazz orchestra—hired to supplement the two saxophones own- ed by the Metropolitan Orchestra. And right through, from overture to final curtain, there will be jazz—jazz— jazz. Charleston, black bottom and blues. But Crispano is not so satisfled with his automobile. While “Jonny” is strangling the cops and throwing them out, the automobile is supposed to zig-zag across the stage at breakneck speed, skid, and do_an about-face. They are going to try to create the impression of speed topight by having a sort of motion picture machine in the orchestra pit to throw kaleidoscopic scenes on the curtain back of the slow- 1y moving automobile. “Jonny” calls for more quick and freakish scenery shifts than any other opera the Metropolitan ever produced. Michael Bohnen, baritone—who re- sing the role of the hero, Jonny; Florence Easton will be Anita, the beau- tiful white —opera singer with whom Jonny is supposed to be in love. Max will be sung by Rudolph Laubenthal, tenor, and Friedrich Schoor, basso, will be his rival, the celebrated violin virtuoso, who eventually falls under (he‘ locomotive. Arthur Bodanzky' will be the con- | ductor, and the Metropolitan ballet, rigged up like a lot of Ziegfeld chorus | girls, will appear in the finale, danc- ! ing—the: Charleston. H | | | with The committee was appointed in the State Assembly as & result of the stir which began shortly after Judge Hardy admitted receiving the money. The jurist had declared that he accepted the money in return for legal advice volun- teered-to the evangelist over a period of years and that it had nothing to do the conspiracy charges filed against her in 1926 as the result of her oft-repeated story of having been kidnaped. An investigation by the California Bar Association of the affair reached a temporary.deadlock when the judge re- fused to appear for questioning. The bar association asked the Superior Court to hold him in contempt, but the court held he was not a member of the State bar and not subject to its jurisdiction. The State bar appealed the decision to the State Supreme Court. ‘The American Bar Association this week ousted Hardy from membership Steps toward an inquiry by the State Legislature followed quickly and yester- day's action was the result of several moves by the lawmakers. The investi- gating committee is to meet soon at the call of its chairman, Walter J. Little of Los Angeles, and is to report some time in March, after the Legislature recon- venes, It adjourned yesterday for 30 days. There is a possibility that Mrs. Mc- Pherson herself will be called to testify before the committee. Three main points are to be cleared by the investigators: 1. What Judge Hardy has to say about his receipt of a $2,500 check from Mrs. McPherson. 2. What Mrs. McPherson has to say about the payment. 3. To prove that the transaction was actually made by producing the can- celed check. The check is understood to have been in possession of the State Bar As- sociation. The investigation resolution was one of four attempts made in the lower House to institute action in the matter. Assemblyman Emory Arnold of Los An- TERRY PORTRAITS KEPT. LONDON (#)—Two portraits of Ellen Terry which were sold at Chris- tie’s recently are to be preserved for })ouerlty in the National Portrait Gal- ery. The trustees announce that they have been. acquired for the nation through the generosity of donors who wish to remain anonymous. One of the portraits is John Sar- t's monochrome in oils of Brit- ain’s famous actress as Lady Mac- beth. It is the study which gave Sar- gent inspiration for the picture which already hangs ,in the National Gal- geles introduced a resolution Thursday seeking investigation. d by the Assembly judiclary committee as “improper.” The Los Angeles delega- tion of assemblymen yesterde: intro- duced a resolution for impeachment of the judge, charging misdemeanor in ?.E.‘ff;. nl'{s‘:i :vn"smh.atzllm resolution 3 s substitut lmxu(chn:;‘nt action. e ourth resolution was intr seeking an investigation to do;flnndl:;’:: there had®been improper action on the part of Judge Hardy, not taken on this, FIL EMAE actiiny was “This was tabled Representative's Auto Stolen. Representative John E. Nelson of lery. ‘The other is a sensitive painting her first Maine, reported to police of the I :):l'ln‘;“l! ]ls: night, that his Illbl)l'llgl{l'l‘X 'as stolen from in front of the House Ofice Building yesterday -alternoon,