Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1929, Page 5

SIX STILL MISSING IN LAKE TRAGEDY One Body Recovered After Freighter Senator Is Sunken in Fog. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, November 1.—S8ix per- #0ns, one & woman, were missing, prob- ably drowned, and the body of a seventh had been recovered today as officials inquired into the most recent of Lake; Michigan's tragedies—the sinking of the freighter Senator. Feeling her way through thick fog, the Senator was rammed amidships y terday by the ore carrier Marquette, and sank 20 miles off Port Washington, Wis. The Marquette herself was saved from foundering by rescue tugs and was towed here last night. Twenty-one persons were saved from the Senator. Among the missing was her captain, George Finch. The missing woman was Mrs. Miane Gormley, wife of the steward. Several survivors reported seeing her slip from @& life raft. Her husband was rescued. Capt. Amsbary Praised. Capt. Walter F. Amsbary of the Mar- quette was reluctant to discuss the col- lision until after testifying. Members of his crew, however, volunteered the opin- jon that Capt. Amsbary that was humanly possible under the circumstances, The two freighters loomed suddenly out of the sticky fog and hardly had time to sound a warning before the steel nose of the ore boat rammed broadside into the steel freighter, laden with auto- mobiles, Tipping it open with such a gap that it went down before the crew could reach thel ifeboats. It rolled over on its port side and sank rapidly. Two of its crew leaped and grabbed the Mar- quette, saving themselves. A third, Ralph Ellis, Senator radio operator, buckled on a lifebelt and jumped. He was quickly pulled aboard the ore boat. Nearly a score of them clung to a life raft, and of these the fishing tug Delos H. Smith picked up 15 within 45 min- utes after the crash and carried them safely to a dock at Port Washington. Three others supposedly were picked up by another ship, the Thomas J. Walters, which had not docked early today, ap- parently heading on to a Northern port. 241 Autos Aboard. The Senator was eastbound out of Milwaukee for Detroit and other ports | with a cargo of 241 automobiles. The Marquette was southbound to Indiana Harbor, Ind, with ore for the steel) mills. Ellis, the Senator's radio man, seeing the impending collision, darted into his room and started to send an 8 O 8, but the ship listed so soon after the crash he had to abandon his post. The prow of the Marquette was caved in com- pletely, but the boat managed to keep afloat until rescue tugs responded to its distress signals. It was towed into port at Milwaukee badly disabled. The body recovered was that of Peter | Smith, wheelsman, of Fredonia, N. Y. The Senator was owned by the Nichol- &on Universal Steamship Co. of Detroit. The Cleveland Cliff Iron Co. of Cleve- jand owned the Marquette. Both freighters were all-steel craft, each of more than 4,000 gross tons. LANDOWNERS.FEATURE ELABORATE DANCES' Charity Balls Must Be More Than Just “Hops” to Attract Desired Patronage. LONDON (N.AN.A).—Though there | were rumors dancing was losing its| popularity among society people, chars ity organizers who reckon to reap their | richest harvest between now and Christ- mas still consider elaborate balls their trump card for the collection of funds. So for the next two months hardly a week will pass without some brilliant function in aid of some cause. The charity ball of 1929, however, | must be very carefully thought out if it is to hold its own with the “stunt” party so much beloved of the younger generation. An ordinary fancy dress dance, no matter how elaborate its setting, won't do. The ball must have | a title, and _everything—decorations, | dresses, surprise items—must be H keeping. Thus we are to have a Guy Fawkes bail next Tuesday (though it is not clear whether the guests will be dressed as “Guys” or will be asked to witness | a firework display), a galaxy ball, a! mystery ball, a_joy-of-life bali, a silver rose ball, a Christmas rose ball. an | orange grove ball and, December 12, a holly and mistletoe ball. | Meanwhile “freak” parties continue | their triumphant way. Miss Olivia Wyndham gave a “fancy dress” dance to which all the guests were asked to come dressed as the person they would | most like to be if they were not them- selves. The hero or heroine chosen could be either ancient or modern, liv- ing or dead, and the idea resulted in & great deal of fun. Young Kensington's contribution to a | brighter London was a_ “pudden party” | at which the principal attraction was “steak, kidney and oyster pudden, with | larks afterward.” i Among the more sedate of the “larks” was roulette, which is rapidly coming | into favor with those who find auction | bridge rather too exhausting as an amusement. SPEEDY TANK NEWEST ARMY WAR MACHINE | g0 to Ghicago, where she will continue | i her observation ‘of American schools |and American life. She said she was grateful for the program which the | English Speaking Union had set up | for her, since it gave her opportunity {to know not only American schools, ! but the soclety for which those schools | prepare America’s children. A “greyhound” Army tank that i “Without knowing your home 1life, | charges over sand dunes and plowed fields at 40 miles an hour and streaks | ICOMPLEXITY OF PROBLEMS Large Enroflments and Stiff Tests Also Astound Woman. [ | f ICourage of America in Plot- ting Education Course Is 1 Commented On. The large school enrollments, the complexity of intelligence tesis of pu- | pils, the magnificence of the newer school buildings, the extent of free ed- | | ucation here and the courage with which America has plotted her educa- tional course to meet the demands of | a population gathered from the four corners of the earth are the things which most strongly impress at least| one English educator on a visit to the United States. Miss Edith A. Ford. his majesty's THE EVENING U. S. SCHOOL AMAZES BRITON STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1929, TWO MORE NAVAL | AVIATORS RESIGN Lieuts. A. W. Gorton and Ar- thur Gavin to Enter Com- merical Flying. most _competent flyers—Lieuts. Zeus Soucek, A. W. Gorton and Arthur Gavin—all of whom are going into com- mercial aspects of aviation. While the announcement was made a few days ago of the resignation of Lieut. Soucek cn December 26 to take a position with the Eclipse Aviation i Corporation of East Orange, N. J., res- ignation of the others was announced today at the Navy Department. Lieut. Gorton is to go with the Curtis Pub- lishing Co. of Philadelphia in charge of that firm's aviation advertising. | Lieut. Gavin proposes to establish a flying school at Philadelphia. The resignation of Lieut. Gorton be- comes effective on December 6, while | ‘The Navy is about to lose three of its CAPITAL LANDMARK VICTIM OF FLAMES Barnett House Abandoned by, | Recluse After $17,000 Loss to Thieves. One of Washington’s landmarks, the | Barnett house, located between the ; Riggs road. in the northeast, and the | Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks, was practically destroyed by fire early today. The two-story frame dwelling was built | around a log cabin said to be more, | than a century old. | The house had been vacant since it| | was abandoned in M 1928, by | Thomas Barnett, a 78-year-old recluse, | after he reported robbers had stolen | | $17.000 he had buried in the back yard., The thieves failed to find $12,500 Bar- | nett had concealed in crevices about the premises. | “Fearing burglars might find the $12, had done all| staff inspector of schools of the Cen- tral Board of Education of England,| who has been in Washington nnce‘ Monday, today cited these phases and| factors of American educational life as| being most interesting to her. Miss| Ford, who is touring this country on a program arranged for her by the Eng-| lish-Speaking Union, had visited New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore be- | fore coming to the Capital, and in those | | cities she received impressions that have | been amplified and confirmed here. In her discussion of the educational differences between her own _country | and the United States, Miss Ford sald that, while her impressions pertain to particular factors. these phases cannot be separated. She was “amazed” at| the intelligence tests which now arc being made of American school children, for instance, she sald, but n"d tests cannot be regarded without considering also the astoundingly large school en-| MISS EDITH A. FORD. b B TR LRI | English free schools and may be called Complexity Amazes Her. {upon to inspect private institutions of “I am amased at the complexity of | IAMINE. She was appointed to office these tests to which your children are DY the King and his council submitted and I am scmewhat of the opinion that closer personal contact between your teachers—your _school officials—and your children could pro- | Vide better grounds for the weighing of the respective nbilities of various 25,000-YEAR-OLD LAMP pupils.” Miss Ford declared. Continu- | ing, she said: ‘The Field Museum of Natural His. “But I am not willing ts contend' tory, Chicago, has acquired several of that the necessary personal contact the world's oidest lamps—one of them between your children and your school officials can be attained as we may in | England, for, while you have enroll-;pnmmve men of the Magdalenian pe- ments of 2.000 to 5,000 and even 8,000 | riod in Western Europe. The Magda- FIELD EXPEDITION FINDS that of Lieut. Gavin is set for Decem- 500, Barnett went to the twelfth pre-| ber 12. cinet station to sleep the night after the Lieut. Gavin is a winner of the Schiff | robbery. With his long white moustache memorial trophy of 1927, awarded to|giving him an air of distinction, Ba the naval aviator who flew the greatest | nett walked into the precinct with a number of hours without accident of | glass fruit jar and a tin coffee can any sort in that year. Lieut. Gavin|under his arms. He explained that the | | used about 25000 years ago by the | {ed out that a child in England may | school and at the same tim» 1 it possible for him to do so,” in a singe school, we have 300, 400 and 500. So, while the outsider is apt to be | amazed the utter elaborateness of your ‘I. Q.' tests, he cannot be unmind- | ful that, with such great enrollments, | it is necessary to reduce to paper the mental characteristics of children.” Having visited the new McKinley High School here and the new Garnet- Patterson Junior High School—the lat- | ter the first a]l-colored school which | she ever had seen—Miss Ford was im- pressed with the elaboration of school buildings here and expressed the f‘ll’i that Washington schools were almost too “permanent” in the face of educa- tional developments. Cites Progress of Ideas, “In the face of progressing ideas on educational systems, { should think you'd be afraid to build quite so permanently for fear of having your structures quite antiquated in a year or two by an entire change of educational system.” she explaine: “But, since safety to children is ctor and since environ- ment in which children must study is of most importance—culture is sub- consciously instilled in children's minds by surrounding of architectural solendor and physical magnificence—I am not willing_to say you have not the right idea. 1If such buildings can be afforded, then I am sure you have.” Learning that free education is pro- | vided through the secondary school grades in Washington, Miss Ford point- procecd in school without cost until he is 15 years of age, but that social distinction is apt to prevent every child from entering the free “central” schools. The educational laws in England re- quire school attendance of children between the ages of 5 and 15 and the government Is careful that education without any cost whatever is made available to children within those limits. This “free education” includes not | only tuition, but text books and supplies, and when Miss Ford was told that Washington, with a compulsory at- tendance age of 16, requires its high scheol children to buy their own books, she was visibly surprised. “That is one point we are careful about; requiring a child to attend | making | she serted. The variety of subjects which a pupil may study in American schools was characterized Miss Ford as evidence | of the “courage” with which the United States, in its brief history, has planned its educational field. Confronted with | races from all over the world, the United States has set up an educational sys- tem which suits them all and yet es- tablishes high standards, she said. Schools Are Systematic. “With such a short history, the United | States has set out to begin all over again in the educational world. What it found that didn’t suit conditions it changed entirely. Its teachers are con- fronted sometimes with many races in | a single class, yet there is no henunc}n‘ The course goes on. Your schools are a | study in optimism.” Miss Ford declared. | Miss Ford will leave Washington to- morrow for the Virginia home of Lady | | of the shell, where they were lighted. | o | colony supplants, gets no children from | these new families. lenian lamp, a dish-shaped disk of sand- stone in which animal fat was burned to light the caves of prehistoric men. was obtained by Henry Field, the mu- seum’s physical anthropologist, leader of the recent archeological expedition to | Western Europe. On its bottom is a crude scratched drawing of a horse, ap- parently the work of Magdalenian man. Only about four such lamps remain in existence, 50 far as is known. ‘The expedition also obtained a simi- lar sandstone lamp made for carrying in the hand, believed to date back about 12,000 years. From the expedition to Mesopotamia several other ancient lamps have been received. These were excavated from the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Kish, seat of the world's earliest civili- zation. They are about 5,500 years old, and are made from the rhells of a Persian Gulf mollusk ealled scorpion- shell, bacause of its peculiar shape. The bowl-like part of the shell, in which the fleshy rt of the animal was housed, was filled by the Sumerians with oil, and wicks dipping into it were placed on several finger-like projestions Traces of the oil and the effect of flame are shown on all these lamps. MICHIGAN OFFICIAL FACES EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGES State Officials Help in Probe of Ac- | counts Following Report of County Auditor. By the Associated Press. FLINT, Mich., November 1.—Sought for questioning since yesterday, when a special audit of his accounts was be- gun, Bunnell G. Bowles, treasurer of Genessee Countv. was arrested today on a charge of embezzlement. State officials were called in after Joseph Galliver, county auditor. had re- | ported the results of his investigation to the board of supervisors. The inves- tigation covers the period from October 1, 1928, until the close of the office last night. New locks were placed on the doors of the office last night and a deputy sheriff wes posted as a guard. NN NN We Can Supply Everything to Enclose Your ack Porch We have all the necessary material. including window frames _windows Celotex. Sheetrock. paint and hardware. Small Orders Given Caretul Attention—No Delivery Charse J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia Av h * Following a visit there she will | 0 FOR RENT Two Bedrooms, Liv- ing Room, Dining Room, x| then had 865 flving hours without acci- dent to his credit. Lieut. Gavin was born in Ashland, Wis., and entered the Navy during t World War, being trained at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. He was designeted a naval aviator with the !rank of ensign in Sep'ember, 1918. He has served at the Naval Air Station. San Diego, Calif.; has had duty with the scouting fleet, was selected a mem- ber of the personnel to make the flight ! to Hawali in 1925 and has had extensive | | sxperience with all types of Navy planes. Lieut. Gorton, who originally came | from Pawtucket, R. I., also entered the | | Navy during the war. He was desig- i nated a naval aviator with the rank | of ensign in October, 1918, and has | served on both coasts. He won the Cur- tiss Marine Trophy race at Detroit, | Mich., in 1922, and was a member of | | the team of United States Navy pilots who took part in the 1923 Schneider | Cup races at Cowes, England. Lieut. Gorton is esteemed one of the best fly- ing boat pilots by his associates, All three officers are well acquainticd | with the Naval Air Station at Anacostia 1and have seen service in Washington. |EXCLUSI VE SECTION BOASTS FEW CHILDREN Ratio Is 300 Dogs to 36 Youngsters in One New York Apartment Development, NEW YORK, (N.AN.A).—Generally | Speaking, the Manhattan neighbor- hoods nicest for children have the fewest of them, and the worst neigh- borhoods for them have the most. In squalid, crowded sections children multiply recklessly, regardless of their | parents’ lack of ability to feed, clothe and shelter them, or to give them room to play and grow. | In exclusive sections of ample sun- | light, space and aMuence it is the other , way around. Take a new apartment | house development. with its 36 children and 300 dogs. Here a private park. | with trees brought from the woods, has | been created. out of the way of traffic and high above the East River, but | where are the children to benefit by it? | A private kindergarten, opened for the benefit of families in these apart- ment houses, may take to the training lnf dogs. Of course, the public school, formerly well attended by children fro; | the close tenements that this apartment | $10,000 FIRE IN BAKERY. | Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., November 1.— The Sta-Kleen Bakery, Park avenue and Seventh street, was damaged to the extent of $10,000 by a fire, the origin of the blaze b2ing undetermined. The main part of the baking plant was saved from the fire by a fire wall, the doors of which closed automatically ]when they became hot. Much of the | damage was due to smoke and water. The loss is fully insured. | | | i | ©@s CREDIT “PERFECT” Diamonds = Convenient AII Can Buy | jar contained $2.500 in gold and the | can $10,000 in currency. | | Police later failed in an effort to lccate the 17 $1,000 bills stolen (romi | their hiding place beneath a piece of terra cotta pipe covered with an iron kettle. The milk bottle which had pro- tected the currency from the elements also was missing. Barnett explained before leaving for| Philadelphia to live shortly after the robbery that he had amassed his money Aas a truck gardener. He said he had withdrawn his money from a bank be- | cause he was afraid it would be at- tached in a court fight over the owner- ship of a tract of land. ‘The blaze was discovered by John W. Hockshaw of Hyattsville. He turned | |in" the alarm. Engine companies Nos. 22 and 24 and truck company No. 11 responded. Firemen were unable to determine the origin of the flames. They thought tramps might have been responsible. | CALM BROUGHT REWARD. | | New York Financier Weathered Storms Unperturbed. | NEW YORK (N.AN.A)—Albert H Wiggin. one of the small group of fi- nancial chieftains in the stock market | began his climb to the directorates of tremendous power in 1907, when his | elders observed that he did not lose his | head in a Wall Street panic. Again. when the war broke, in 1914, he was | chairman of the clearing house com- | | mittee that raised $100.000,000 to pro- tect New York city’s debt, maturing in London. | "He and the elder Baker are promi- | nent_ Unitarians and he himself s a | | minister’s son. | New Bn-;r: Burns; I;lTSlo,OOO. | WINCHESTER, Va., November 1 (Special).—Fire late yesterday leveled ! | a brand-new barn on a farm near| | Toms Brook, Va.. owned by Myron L.| | Parsons, this city. 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