I champion of her Stole and North " | FORSAKES "THE BEAEITY CHORESES. Floronz ZiepfeM, bit wife I “DOUG” APPEARS IN COURT. It is alleged that there w.i ■ i
Carolina, performing on the courts ) (Hilly llurkel, anil their daughter Patrii •ia, sailed yesterday for Deau- ) kidnap Mrs. Fairbanks (Mary I’ickford) ; arrests were made by the 1.0.-
at White Sulphur Springs yester- | ville, France. Ziegfeld bap charge of the Follies and is a past master in ) Angeles police, and ‘'Doug” is a witness in the rase. According to the al
day. Copyright l uderwood & l nderwood. ) the ar t 0 f pirking stage beuuties. Copyright by P. &A. Photos. \ leged plot, Mary was to have been held for ransom.
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taken when William Jennings Bryan was 24 years old. Charles W. Bryan, ( GEORGETOWN CITIZENS COMPLETE TIIE PAVING OF M STREET. There was much rejoicing in Georgetown yesterday: the principal , B. Bellinger, acting quartermSster general U. S. A., selecting the site for
the brother <at left), former Governor of Nebraska, was 17 years old. ( highway of the section is completed. In order to speed the work and celebrate the occasion fittingly, a group of tile citizens laid the last paving j interment of William Jennings Brvan in Arlington National Cemetery.
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ROUND OF FETES
Ettl® FLEET
Entertainments All Day and
Night Given for Navy Men
in Melbourne.
1' the Associated Pcpss.
MELBOURNE, July 28.—Innumer
r.’de entertainments all day and night
continue to hold the attention of the
visiting officers and men of the United
States fleet here. -
Fourteen hundred persons, including
.Admiral Robert E. t.'oontz and his
party, attending the English-Speaking
Union's ball, a spectacular event last
night.
Before the ball Admiral Coontz and
his staff officers were guests at the
Commonwealth at a formal banquet.
Premier Bruce and Admiral Coontz
spoke. Senator Needham welcomed
the visitors on behalf of the Australian
Labor party. The band t'rom the U.
S. S. Seattle played several selections.
Unexpectedly, a young quartermaster
entered the banquet hall and began to
sing the fleet’s song, "Fair Australia,
We’re for You.” The band joined in
the chorus, which the guests with loud
applause encored several times.
Base ball between fleet and local
teams continued yesterday. The U. S.
F. Oklahoma ‘ team defeated South
Australia. 4 to 2, while the U. S. S.
Seattle team bowed before the Victoria
team, 11 to 1.
Visit Is Attacked.
SYDNEY. July 28 (JP).—The visit
of the United States fleet has been
made the subject of attacks by the
labor and radical newspapers. The
official organ of the Australian Com
munist Party has an article under the
heading, "The Fleet Is the Workers’
Enemy, But the Sailors Are Fellow
Workers.”
Members of the I. W. W., making
their first appearance here in eight
years, held meetings to criticize the
visit of the fleet. The officials of the
New South AVales Labor Council as
sert that 120,000 workers have issued
a manifesto signed "Yours for Social
Revolution.”
Two sailors from the U. S. S.
Mississippi were injured in a stab
bing affray. N
Admiral Robison today called on
the American consul.
Woman Reported Missing.
Mrs. D W. Miller. 22. is reported
missing from her home. 2234 Thirty
filth street. Police were told that she
left home July 1 and failed to return,
police were also asked to institute
search for Florentino Lugue. 23. a
Filipino, reported missing since Sat
urday. Ha was employed at the Naval
Air Station, Anacostia.
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Mesopotamia’s Ruler 111.
LONDON, July 28 (A 3 ). —The Daily
Express says King Feisal of Meso
potamia is coming to England at an
.N. early date,. It is understood it is
bis purpose to consult specialists re
•. irdinv : : • : •• - inte’-na! complaint
jvhicii tuaj. necessitate an operation.
Amnesia Victim,
Cured, Has Again
Lost His Memory
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 28. —The mem
ory of John N. Neubert, amnesia
victim of Flint, Mich., who was pro
nounced cured two days ago, flickered
out again yesterday a few minutes
before he was to start back for his
home from a hospital here.
Un July 4 Neubert, a wealthy real
estate dealer who lost his memory
after business reverses, disappeared
from an Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital.
Twenty-seven years before he had
been a sailor and through his mental
fog he groped his way hack to the
sea. On July 9 he was found on the
Manhattan water front, with only 57
in his possession.
Today a friend. A. L Austin, was
to lake him buck to his home and
invalid wife. But* when a physician
went to Neubert’s room to give him
a final examination he found the man,
who had been a cheerful convalescent
shortly before, sitting at his window
in a daze, mumbling that the harbor
below was the Detroit- River. Asked
his name, he stared blankly. At in
tervals he spoke the name of his
adopted daughter, Mary.
Physicians attributed his relapse to
the publicity his case has attracted
and the strain of mentally adjusting
his former seafaring life with his
business career and his present situa
tion. It was said, however, that he
may he taken home to recover in sur
roundings that may bring him back
in touch with his recent life.
3,1 ENGINEERS
DEMAND MORE PAY
Large Corps of “White-Col
lar” Workers in New
York Unite.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July impor
tant corps in New York’s frieat white
collar working army today raised the
standard of revolt.
The municipal engineers. 3,500
strong and representing the largest
single aggregation of their profession
in the world, outside of military es
tablishments, completed an organiza
tion which has for its object improve
ment of salary and working condi
tions “comparable with the dignity,
training and responsibility of the
position.”
The movement,has aroused inter
est among other professions whose
members, despite years of prepara
tion. received less compensation than
the recently arrived immigrant "en
gineer” of a compressed air drill or
a brick hod.
The Association of Engineers of
New York, formed at a meeting last
night, representing every city depart
ment. approved the resubnilttal to the
city authorities of -heir demand for
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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. T>. TUKtSbAN, .IL’LV 28, 1925.
M ST. WORK DONE;
CELEBRATION HELD
Georgetown Citizens and
Business Men Mark Con
clusion of Improvements.
Georgetown merchants and bankers
took renewed interest in their com
munity yesterday afternoon when a
committee of the Georgetown Citizens’
Association and the Georgetown Busi
ness Men’s Association held a cere
monial at Wisconsin avenue and M
street celebrating the completion of
the widening and repaving of M street
from 29th to 35th streets.
Maj. William E. R. Covell, assistant
engineer commissioner, who. as officer
in charge of the public utility work
of the District, has much to do with
the paving of streets, participated in
the celebration, and in a short speech
voiced his interest in improving trans
portation in all sections of the city.
B. A. Bowles, a past president of the
Georgetown Citizens' Association, acted
as chairman of the ceremonial, in the
absence of J. J. Oliver, president of
the association, who was ill. Mr.
Bowles told of the appreciation of the
Georgetown business men for the im
proving of the main artery from
Georgetown to downtown Washington.
Further Needs Urged.
After the brief program and the
laying of the last granite block in the
new paving, the business men, repre
senting all branches of Georgetown’s
business life, gathered around Maj.
Coveil and told.him of other needs of
the community. He smilingly advised
the group to send their recommenda
tions for paving to the District Com
missioners, as the lists of streets to
be paved under the next appropria
tions are now being prepared.
The new paying on M street was
laid at a cost of $97,400, paid out of
the gasoline tax fund. The pavement
is composed of a 10-inch concrete base
with 3-inch granite cubes laid over a
layer of sand and concrete.
Among business men who took part
in the celebration were B. A. Bowles,
Harry V. Haynes, Henry W. Offutt,
Ford E. Young, Issac B. Nordlinger,
Adolph Lichtenstein, John Smithdeal,
S. J. Sherman and others.
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FIVE OF FAMILY KILLED
WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
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Father, .Mother, Two Sons and
Daughter Are Victims of Crash
at Indiana Crossing.
By the Associated Press.
VINCENNES, Ind., July 28.—Five
members of one family were killed or
died from injuries received yester
day when a northbound Chicago and
Eastern Illinois passenger train struck
an automobile at a crossing 15 miles
north of here. All were from Box
ville, K.v. The dead:
.1. H. Divine. Mrs. J. H. Divine. 42:
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RUM SHIP, W ITH $250,000 CARGO.
RUNS BLOCKADE OFF NEW YORK
Vessel, Captured After Lauding of Whisky, Had ISO
Log, ISO Articles , ISO Papers, and None of
Officers Had License.
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 2S.—The Govern
ment blockade off the Atlantic coast
has been run by the largest liquor
laden vessel ever seized in New York
harbor.
Champagne, whisky and cordials,
valued at $250,000. were lan*ded and
gobbled up by bootleggers before cus
toms officials knew what was happen
ing. When they arrived at the busy
dock at Dykman street, on the Hudson
River, early yesterday morning they
found the 2,000-ton steamer Augusta
empty, except for 15 bottles of liquor
in the officers' quarters. The crew
was lolling about the decks in kid
gloves. > Acting Capt. Charles Wilson
and 24 men were arested. The ship,
a $250,000 twin-screw freighter, was
seized.
Had No Papers.
Edward Barnes, assistant solicitor
to the collector of the port, said Wil
son should haul down the American
flag and hoist the black banner of the
pirate. The ship had no custom
papers, none of the officers had a
license, no log was kept and there
were no ship's article giving the.
names of the crew.
While a cutter towed the ship to
anchorage off the Statue of Liberty
the helmsman fouled the wheel lit an
attempt to beach the vessel off Ho
boken, N. J. The cutter's captain,
detecting something wrong, swung so
sharply toward the middle of the
river that the Augusta listed to an
angle of 40 degrees.
Customs officials described the land
ing of the 2,500 cases of liquor as the
most daring rum running feat in the
history of prohibition enforcement.
Two weeks ago they were tipped off
that the Augusta had taken on its
liquor cargo from a vessel 8 miles off
New Orleans and was heading for
New York.
FIRM RECEIVER NAMED.
New Yorker to Control Local As
sets of Finance Company.
Justice Siddons of the District Su
preme Court yesterday appointed
Louis B. Wehle of New York as re
ceiver of the local assets of the Com
monwealth Finance Corporation of
New York, which was adjudged bank
rupt there July 15. The local assets
comprise cash of $13.87 in one bank,
$84.97 in another bank and the pro
ceeds remaining from the sale of the
Hamilton Hotel property.
The appointment of a local receiver
was asked by the American Surety Co.
of New' York, which" has a claim
against the corporation of $139,720.
The application was filed through At
torneys Adkins & Nesbit. The bond
of the local ‘ receiver was fixed at
SI,OOO.
Twelve oxen were used to haul a
tin in a milifiM*' ( •urnament at WVol-
ArliU. jibaiAhli.
Despite precautions, the Augusta
slipped by the scores of Roast Guard
ships, through the busiest part of the
harbor, transferred the cargo to an
unidentified lighter and sold the liquor
to retailers.
At the court of inquiry conducted
by Air. Barnes aboardship Capt. Wil
son admitted selling the cargo. Tally
slips found aboard confirmed his story.
Other papers found showed that the
August had been chartered from A. AI.
Hversole, Miami, Fla., by James V.
Williams. New York, for $1 and 50 per
cent of the profits.
The Augusta was a freighter en
gaged in coastwise trade. She is the
second coastwise ship seized in a
month. . Customs officials indicated
that the seizures might result in the
establishment of a customs inspection
service for coastwise vessels which are
now free from it.
Dry Heads Work Harder.
Meanwhile prohibition officials are
taking steps to clamp down the lid
more tightly. Gen. Lincoln C. An
drews. Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury', in charge of prohibition en
forcement, is to confer here with
I'nited States Attorney Buckner, divi
sional and State enforcement officers.
Air. Buckner has been conducting a
grand jury investigation of a boot
legging ring tha,t sent liquor inland
from New York in trunks. Gen. An
drews is represented as especially
curious concerning backers of the
ring.
Bargain day in Federal Court yes
terday for dry law violation cleared
356 cases off the calendar of 2,000
cases. Os these 139 pleaded guilty and
paid fines from SSO to SIOO. totaling
$16,290. Sixty forfeited bonds aggre
gating $45,000, and several, refusing
to pay, went to jail for three days.
For lack of evidence 176 cases were
dismissed.
ORDER HITS CIGAR MAN.
Trade Commission Forbids Misuse
of '‘Cuban” on Product.
Continuing its efforts to eliminate
misleading cigar brand names, the
Federal Trade Commission has issued
an order against Isadore Sommer
feld of New York. Sommerfeld. ac
cording to the findings, used adver
tising methods designed to give the
impression that his cigars were the
product of Cuba, although the com
mission said they never contained
any' tobacco grown In Cuba.
The order requires Sommerfeld to
stop using the misleading designa
tions.
. .
Woman Found Dead.
Mrs. Lettie Small, colored, 69. was
found dead in bed at her home, 442
First street southwest, early this
morning by her daughter. Mrs. Lil
ian German. Her death resulted
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150,1 EXPECTED
FOR KLAN PARADE
Police to Rope and Clear
Avenue if Number War
rants Action
Final arrangements for l the Ku
Klux Klan parade August 8 will be
made at a conference at thi? District
Building at 2 Alonday' after
noon, according to Acting .Superin
tendent of Police Charles A. Evans,
who said a decision will he neached
at that time as to whether Pennsyl
vania avenue should he roped and
cleared of street cars.
Inspector Evans stated that ifTit is
apparent that at that time that more
than 40,000 Klansmen will march the
Avenue will be roped, platforms re
moved and street car service discon
tinued during the parade.
Should there be any' number under
40.000, the inspector said, the parade
will' move up the south side of the
Avenue and turn south into Fifteenth
street without crossing the ear tracks,
in which event car service will not be
stopped.
150,000 Expected.
L. H. Mueller, who applied for the
parade permit, told Inspector Evans
yesterday afternoon that 150,000
marchers are expected and informed
the police official he would deposit
81.000 to cover the expense of remov
ing the car platforms and roping the
avenue.
Air. Mueller also told the police of
ficials, the klan has obtained the use
of a large field about seven miles from
the city near Bethesda, Md., as a park
ing ground for klansmen who will
make the trip to Washington in auto
mobiles. They will leave their cars
at that point, he said, and come into
AVashlngton on street cars, thereby
eliminating an additional automobile
parking problem in the city during
the parade. **
The parade will start at 3 o’clock
in the afternoon, the original time
fixed. Inspector Evans said that if
there are 100,000 in line he expects the
parade to be over by' 9 o’clock in the
evening.
Commissioner Fenning said the ap
plication to remove loading platforms
and discontinue car service will be
acted on by the public utilities com
mission.
TOURISTS ARE SOUGHT.
Expected to Pass Through Here.
Wanted at Homes.
Messages received by the police yes
terday afternoon requested that two
tourists due here today or tomorrow
be located and informed they are
wanted at their respective homes.
Aliss Isabel Quinn of Pittsburgh is
wanted at home because of the death
of her brother.
Frederick H. Smith. A'oungstown.
Ohio, is wanted because < f the serious
Father of Bryan .
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A Judge, Opened
Court With Prayer
By the Associated Press.
SALEM. 111., July 28. —W. J.
Bryan was reared here by devout
Christian parents, members of the
Baptist Church. The opening of
court sessions with prayer in the
Scopes trial at Dayton had a
parallel a half century ago in the
court of Judge Silas Bryan,
father of the Commoner. Judge
Bryan, who presided over a south
ern Illinois circuit, made it a cus
tom to open every session of his
court with prayer, usually offered
by himself.
WORLD EDUCATORS
RENAME AMERICAN
A. 0. Thomas of Maine Re-
Elected President at Edin
burgh Meeting.
By the Associated Press.
EDINBURGH. Scotland, July 28.
Augustus O. Thomas. State superin
tendent of public schools in Maine,
yesterday was re-elected president of
the World Federation of Education
Associations. Harry C. Worth of
British Columbia was elected vice
president for America, E. J. Saints
bury vice president for Europe and
P. W. Kuo. president of Southeastern
University of Nanking, China, vice
president for Asia. Charles H. Wil
liams of the University of Missouri
was named secretary pro tern pending
the election of a permanent occu
pant of the post.
The federation closed its biennial
conference today.
Americans Elected.
Among the 12 directors elected were
Walter Slders, superintendent of
schools in Pocatello, Idaho, and Mrs.
Mary Bradford, State superintendent
of public instruction in Colorado.
Among th speakers today were Mrs.
Cora Wilson Stewart of Frankfort,
Ky„ chairman of the committee on
world illiteracy, and Dr. P. P. Claxton,
former United States commissioner of
education.
The leaders of the American dele
gation in Edinburgh pronounce the
conference unusually successful. Pres
ident Thomas said it was increasingly
evident that the world's education
forces were determined to develop
closer union. Dr. Henry N. McCrack
en of Vassar College said he consid
ered the conference a great moral
force.
Meeting. Place Indefinite....
The sessions adjourned without
definitely determining ythe meeting
place for the' next comerefiee. To
ronto, Canada, and Honolulu have
submitted formal invitations, while
Athens. Geneva and Berlin also have
asked that the delegates meet there
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AMERICANS BUYING
SINES’ HOLDINGS
Bargains in Gilt-Edge inter
est in Huge Enterprises
of Rich Germans.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 28.—American
and British bankers jointly have in
vaded Germany for the first time to
buy off the bargain counter the last of
the gilt-edge holdings in German in
dustrial enterprises built up by the
late Hugo Stinnes and scattered to the
four winds because of a row between
the two sons.
Dillon, Read & Co. of New York and
the London banking house of Henry
Schroerter yesterday bought 21,000,000
marks of shares in the Deutsche-Lux
embourg Co., one of the largest and
most prosperous of the Stinnes con
cerns. for from 53.000,000 to $4,000,000.
It is a coal mining corporation with
11 mines, employing 22,000 miners.
The stock represents not only a con
trolling interest in the colliery, but
also in the. Rhine-Elbe union, the
largest producers of coal, coke, iron
and steel in Germany. Despite the
forced sale the price is considered
good.
Credit Built on Union.
The formation of the Rhine-Elbe
union pushed Stinnes into prominence
as an industrial giant. On it to a
large extent was built the credit by
which he expanded his activities in a
thousand directions.
The Stinnes steamship lines are re
ported in dispatches from Berlin as
the next to go. The Overseas Com
mercial Enterprises already have been
sold to Hamburg interests. The Berlin
Handelsgesellschaft Bank has passed
out of the family, as well as electric
works and other units.
Without the guiding hand of the el
der Stinnes and quarrels that led to
an open rupture between the sons,
Hugo, jr., and Edmund, a crash of the
entire Stinnes organization was avert
ed recently by German financial lead
ers, who feared that a failure of suen
magnitude might retard German In
dustrial recovery.
All of the Stinnes property was
turned over to bankers, who decided
tQ turn the best of the stocks lntft
cash. The sale of the Deutsche-Lux
ombourg Co. holdings about exhausts
the list of preferred stocks held by the
family. The stock will presumably be
re-offered in the New York and London
markets.
Wanda Hawley Weds Race Driver.
HOLLYWOOD. Calif.. July 28 G<P).-
Wanda Hawley, motion picture act
ress, and J. Stuart Wilkinson, former
automobile driver, were married here
yesterday.
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Japanese Planes m Korea.
HAJI. Korea. July 28 C4 3 ).—Two
airplanes dying from Tokio to Mos
cow under the auspices of the Asahi,
a Tokio newspaper, landed here to
day. The flyers will take off for Har
bifl tomurryw.