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Evening star., 1925-09-26
COOLIDGE AWA|T|NG|
ADVICE UPON POOtS|
Favors Public Bathing
Places, But High Cost EIicits
Joke From President.

Although President Coolidge is
known to favor bathing and swimming
places for the public of a large city
such as Washington, he has not had
opportunity to study the proposal to
construct artificial bathing places in
this city. The President would prefer
having technical information regard
ing the practicabilitv and sanitary ar
rangements of these proposed artificial
pools before committing himself, it
was stated yesterday.
The President was represented as
being of the opinion that considerable
attention must he given to the sani-
tation and healthfulness of the water
to be used in these pools before he
would approve providing them for the
puSlic. He called attention to the fact
that Ill health frequently results from
small pools unless the water is prop
erly treated or is known to be health
full in the first place, and in the case
of such pretentious pools as are being
proposed for the District ne considers
the danger that much greater.
While on the subject of the water
President Coolidge said that he has
found that some of the difficulties in
establishing entirely suitable bathing
places in the District have been in his
opinion, due to the allegedly insult
able nature of the Potomac water.
Therefore, before approving the pro-
posal to spend S350,000 on artificial
pools. President Coolidge wants to
give the matter considerable study.
While discussing his opinion of the
Potomac River water, President Cool
idge is represented as having humor-
ously declared that it might be
cheaper to transport those of this
city who care to swim and bathe in
the open to and from the nearest salt
water bea cheS.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
PROHIBITION FUTURE
is DECLARED DARK
Stayton Says Organized Illicit
Agencies Too Strong to
Combat Successfully.

The future of prohibition, in the
opinion Of W. H. Stayton, head of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment, holds mo prospect for a
betterment of conditions because of
1.-The present strength of the organized
agencies engaged in the Illicit liquor
traffic"
Praising the Federal Council of
Churches for it's "frankness and cour-
age in daring to publish the facts"
concerning prohibition in its recent
report. Mr.. Stayton, in a statement
last night, asserted that "fundamen-
tally underlying the whole thing Is the
hopelessness Of attempting to legislate
drastically on a mooted question Of
personal morals"
"The forces engaged in the contra
band liquor traffic. he said, have
been Systematically organized to the
point where they can supply the de-
mand once catered to through the le-
galized channel of the saloon"
Gen. Andrews has met with fair
success in his fight on rum row along
the coast line" Mr.. Stayton continued.
This has merely stimulated the rum
stills of the interior. 1t is the report
ed boast of one domestic bootleg king
that If the sea blockade were made ef
fective he would clean up a million
in six months"
Evening star., 1925-09-26
AFRICAN KING in u. S. STUDYING
PROGRESS OF NEGRO RACE HERE
In Wildly Coored Robes of State, Richly Adorned
in Ivory, Ebony and Gold, He Admits New
York Is Not Like Gold Coast.

miniature gold Bible dangling from a
jade bracelet on his wrist.
Although he is travelling incognito,
King Amoah donned his state robes
for the benefit of photographers and
reporters. These were of wildly col
ored silk and wool, which he said it
required so natives a year to manu-
facture. From his neck was suspend
ed a chain of gold nuggets; on his
wrists, bracelets of ivory, ebony and
gold. His stubby fingers were incased
in rings of pounded gold, some as
large as bolts used for riveting steel
girders. On his feet were fiat sandals,
with loops for his toes.
His symbol of authority is sword
OF ancient Venetian pattern, with a
heavy gold handle terminating in a
huge knob. This. he said. has been in
his family for from 80 to 40 genera
tions.
The King is widower and has four
children. He reported that Christi
anity is spreading in the Gold Coast
and is causing the gradual disappear
ance of polygamy
While in the United States the King
plans to visit Chicago, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and other cities.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
CORNER STONE LAID.
( FOR PARISH HOUSE.
Bishop Freeman Conducts
Ceremony at Site of New
Structure in BfookIand.

The corner stone to the new parish
house of the Church of Our Savior,
Brookland, was laid with impressive
ceremonies, conducted by Bishop
James T.. Freeman yesterday after
noon. A large crowd attended and
heard Bishop Freeman say, II lay
this corner stone on parish house
to be here builded, and to be set
aside for the glory of God and the
service of our fellow men" The new
house is located on the church prop
erty, at Sixteenth and Irving streets
northeast.
The building was designed by DeloS
Smith and construction was begun
early in August. ground having been
broken for the foundation August ..
The building is of concrete construc-
ton; will contain an auditorium on
the second floor with a seating capac-
ity for 800 persons, and in this room
will be a gallery, stage and dressing
room. On the lower floor will be a
heating plant, kitchen, dining room
and two bowling alleys.
To Help Build Character.
Bishop Freeman said that the
house is for the enrichment of the
community which 1T is in," and de-
clared that community work as
represented In the building here
means the bringing of religion down
to the real thing-the very foundation
in real life" THE church has ceased
to be a -day-a-week institution" he
continued.
''The greatest thing we have to do
is to build moral character" the
speaker said.
The bishop complimented Rev. Ed
mund H. Stevens, the rector. for the
work he had done in securing the
new building.
Several hymns were sung by the
Church of Our Savior choir.
Placed in the corner stone were a
silver dollar of 1925, a copy of the
parish paper, the Counselor: a copy
of the Chronicle, a copy of the Book
of Common Prayer, a list of communi-
cants of the church and members of
the various church societies, along
with a list of those who subscribed
funds for the erection of the building.
The building is expected to be ready
for occupancy by Christmas, members
of the building committee said.
Members of this committee are:
Charles r. Allen, chairman; c. w.
Lee, Rev. E. H. Stevens, A. L. Peter
son and Daniel Sawyer.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
S1O6,0DO ESTATE
DIVIDED IN WILL
Realty and Stocks Bequeath-
ed by Mrs. M. ]. Hunt.
Other Last TestamentS.

An estate of $10606 is disposed of
Hunt, who died September 81. at
Asheville, n. c., according to a peti-
ton for letters testamentary filed to-
day with the will by Isabel Turpin
Hunt Weber and George Hunt Web
err who were named executors.
The estate consists of SS6,610 in 10
cal real estate, a farm near Burch s
iranch. Prince Georges County, Md,
valued at $3.50 and personal prop
erty, including Merga anthaler stock
valued at S13,500.
Two codicilS were annexed TO the
will. BY the will and codicils Henry
Chapman, termed faithful EN-
ploye." is left 81 900; by another cod
icil Rena l.. Williams is bequeathed
$500, and by another codicil Annie. G.
Landstreet is bequeathed $1,000 for
her kindness to Louise Jameson Weber
Wild, grandda lighter OF the testatriX.
Farm to Grandson.
To the grandson of the testatrix
George Hunt Weber, the will deyises
the Prince Georges County farm and
real estate including improvements at
424 Fourth street southeast, and at
400, 404 and 406 + street southeast.
son Weber Wild. is devised the prem
ises at 435-37 Massachusetts avenue,
and 432 | street.
The residue of the realty. which in
cIudes premises at 142 Carroll street
southeast: 1928 + street, and 623 d
street; as well as unimproved prop
erty adjoining the d street property,
and two parcels on Ridge road between
Calvert and Ashby streets, is left to
oh taI. of ha faS "A tIi
Turpin Hunt Weber, for life, and at
her death to the children of the last
named, George Hunt Weber and
Louise Jameson Weber Wild
Mrs. Mary Minnis, who died Sep
tember II. left an estate valued at ap-
proXimately S25 900. according to a
petition for letters of administration
filed in Probate Court yesterday by
William MinniS, son. and Julia A.
Menzes and Jane +. Martyr, daugh-
ters. The estate includes premises
at 1913 ii street northeast.
Personal property valued at 81 900
is disposed of by the will of Harriet
T.. Clark, filed for probate yesterday.
Wade II. Atkinson is named execu-
tor and given $500. Mrs. Mary l..
and George H. Slaybaugh are each
given $500 bequests; Gay n. Freeman
and Mrs. J. j. Santmyre are each
given 5000, and Mrs. Paul A. Hurney,
the Lutheran Home and Friendship
House are each given S100. The
Evangelican Lutheran Church of the
Epiphany Is bequea $780, Eliza
beth Reeder is given S25 and the resi-
due of the estate is bequeathed to
Anna L. Slaybaugh and Mary l..
kirsch.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
MILLIONAIRE COP" DIES;
MADE FORTUNE IN LAND
Saw Value of Great Waste Spaces
When He Was Patroing
Beat in Bronx.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, September 26.-Wil
liam C. Bergen, millionaire cop" who
80 years ago foresaw the value of
large waste spaces in the Bronx where
he walked a beat, died yesterday. He
gained the title through investments
out of savings from patrolman's pay.
When the subway twas driven
through to the Bronx his property in
creased greatly in value, and he re-
signed from the force. In 1911 he
erected a building for $780, 900 and II
years later refused an offer of $500 900
for the building.
His total wealth was never known,
but as long ago as 1916 the city was
paying him S69 LAG a year rental for
use of some of his property.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, September 26.-Com-
ing here from a country where ac-
quaintance greet one another by rails
ing leg each and putting the soles of
the feet together, where women re-
ceive preference in all matters, where
succession to the throne passes through
the maternal side of the family and
where only a nephew can inherit the
throne, King Mana Amoah III of the
Gold Coast of West Africa arrived
yesterday on the Cunard liner Aqui-
tania for a visit. He admitted New
York was different" from the towns
of his native land.
King Amoah, who is ruler of 1000
to 10000 people, intends to visit
American cities which have large
negro populations, where he will study
the accomplishments of his race.
From his observations here he hopes
to take back valuable suggestions for
his own subjects.
The King is 40 years old He is a
Protestant Christian and was educated
in the first Christian college estab-
lished in the Gold Coast country. AS
an evidence of his faith he wears a
Evening star., 1925-09-26
SUCCEEDS DR.. WILMER.
DIR. John w. Burke on Faculty Of
Georgetown University.

Announcement that DIR. John W.
Burke succeeds Dr. William H. Will
mer. noted Washington eye specialist.
on the faculty of the Georgetown Uni
versity Medical School was made yes
terday at the opening of the Fall term.
DIR. Wilmer sewers his connection
with the Georgetown school after a
record Of % years on the faculty and
on the staff of the hospital. His re-
tfrement was necessitated by the ad-
ditional duties imposed on him in con-
nection with his new research work
at Johns Hopkins University.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
Drive Nets Bushels of Flies.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press
TOXIC, August 28.-Residents of
Asakusa ward caught nearly Is bush
els of flies on a fly determination day.
One hundred and eleven streets each
had an ingenious device Of capture
and offered prizes of 1 sen per 20
flies, glass fiy.catchers, silver watch,
cotton piece goods and paper UNI
brella,
Evening star., 1925-09-26
TWO GUILTY IN BIC
MERGER SW|NDLE
Obtained Large Sums by Ex-
travagant Promises, Wit
nesses Tell Jury.
BY the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, September o6.-H.
d. Hibbs and Thomas Hennessep, So
called 1O-fcS-1 rail-merger promoters
We're convicted of grand larceny in
Superior Court here last night. "
The story told to the jury daring
the trial of Hibbs and Hennessev
was remarkable because of the huge
sums of money involved. According
to the testimony of half a score of
witnesses, which went uncontradicted
throughout the trial, the pair repre-
sented that they were enga sed- in
negotiating the merger of nine rail
ways which would involve one-third of
the ran mileage in the United States
and which would provide for the first
coast-to-coast system in the country.
The deal, they represented. involved
$4,000. 600 600, and upon its completion
they were to receive a commission of
312 per cent upon the whole amount.
aggregating $500, ,000, 600
Money for Expenses.
The expenses of negotiating so huge
an affair, they represented, were so
great that their combined available
funds of more than three-Quarters of
a million dollars had been consumed.
and they required additional funds
which they would repay with hand
promised profits at the rate of SIS for
81, and in some other cases, in recosni-
ton of special favors from investors.
they promised to return SIS for 81. but
IN the majority of cases the receipts
they gave investors, generally termed
"dlckey birds" contained a promise
that the money would be returned ten.
fold in case the venture succeeded.
Christmas Eve Party.
One witness told of Christmas eve
party given by the pair to a number
of investors at which announcement
was made that the first payment on
the merger, amounting to $1975 0O0.-
900, had just been received and de
posted to their credit in the Los
Angeles branch of the Federal Re
serve Bank.
The testimony reprc.atied Hibbs as
a salesman of rare talents. With moth
ing but a collection of newspaper
clippings telling of railway mergers,
actual or prospective, to support his
claims, he obtained sums ranging
from $1,000 to $4,000 from business
men.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
WANTS WORK IN AMERICA
House Member Protests Building
Whole Ships in China.

A protest against the Navy's plan
to build and equip in China the six
new gunboats for use in Chinese wa
ters was made yesterday by Repre-
sentative Black of New York, who
called at the Navy Department to
urge that at least the engines be con-
structed at the Brooklyn navy yard.
He said the Navy considered it un-
feasible to build the hulls in this
country, but he believed that Ameri-
can labor should be given some part
If the work.
Mr.. Black received assurance, he
said, that one of the two new cruisers
authorized by Congress would he
Quilt at Brooklyn.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
New Scooter for Riddles.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
STETTIN, August 31.-The latest
toy for German kiddies is the Rolling
Island" Adhering to the principleeof of
the scooter, it consists of a wooden
disk with two wheels on either side
and one dirigible wheel in front.
The child stands on the disk and
propels 1t forward by means Of two
poles in either hand.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
SHIP RACE UNLIKELY.
Fishermen Have Too Good q Run
This Year.

HALIFAX, N. S., September Is [R).
III. r. Silver, chairman of the
board of trustees of the international
schooner trophy, said last night in
dicatfons pointed to no. fishermen's s
race this year.
So many fishermen are taking ad-
vantage of a good run of fish and a
ready market that 1t would be mad
visable to call them in for the annual
contest, he said. The new Halifax
owned vessel, Haligonian. built as a
possible racing contender. and the
champion schooner Bluenose are ex-
pected to Join the fleet setting out
for the banks.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
HARD FOOD AIDS TEETH.
Kanakanak Indians Have Finest
in the World.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
SEWARD, Alaska, September s.
A diet of hard food gives the Kama
kanak, Bristol Bay, Indians the finest
teeth in the world, DIR. NJ. r. Douglas.
travelling dentist for the Federal Blu
reau of Education, declared after
making a study of the Indians in that
region this Summer.
He reported seeing Indians of 20
years of age with fun sets Of perfect
teeth. DIR. Douglas found only three
small cavities In the teeth Of 1s school
children,
Evening star., 1925-09-26
LOOKS BEFORE HEALTH.
Professor Says People Will Stick to
Unwise Footwear.

Corfespondence OF the Assoclated Press
BERLIN, August 30.-The pointed
toe and high heel have come to stay,
thinks Prof. Gocht of the Orthopedic
Institute of the Berlin University
Asked for his opinion on the influence
of footwear on questions of hygiene.
Prof. Gocht said that just as most
people will continue to drink, eat and
smoke-in fact, do everything they
know to be injurious-so they will per-
sist in following the precepts of fash
ion in the matter of shoes, contrary
to all sense of reasoning.
Not until health and feet have been
seriously damaged, he said. will hu-
man nature finally resort to more
sensible kind Of footwear.
Evening star., 1925-09-26
Natural Impulse.
rom the Ohio state Journal.

From the Ohio State Journal
When a man of the kind that makes
such remarks boasts in our presence
that he is a 100 per cent American
we always feel like going away and
trying to find so per cent one then.
or perhaps a %.
Evening star., 1925-01-26
J. B. DAY, FATHER"
OF GIANTS, is DEAD

CLIFFSIDE. " J., January 20
John B. Day. father" of the New
York Giants, died here yesterday fol-
lowing a paralytic shock. He was -
years old
Day was responsible for the entry
OF New York into the National
League, having with James Mutrie
purchased the best players of the old
troy, y. Y, team in 1883 and then
organized the Giants, who won the
championship in 1883 and 1889
Days loyalty to the National
League in the Brotherhood war of
1890 and was one of the main factors in
holding the National League together,
according to the base ball leaders OF
those days. Because of the Brother
hood war, however, Day lost a small
fortune.
Buck Ewing. Tim Keefe, Roger
Connor, Mickey Welch, Pete Gillespie
John NJ. Ward, Jim O'Rourke and
Amos Rusie are among the well
known old-time players who We're
brought 10 New York through the
efforts of Day.
After his retirement as manager
Day was made inspector of National
League umpires a post he held until
failing health forced its relinquish-
ment.
benefit game for Day and Mutrie was
played at the Polo Grounds between
the Giants and the Baltimore Orioles.
Evening star., 1925-01-26

voices seemed Ds clear as a bell de-
rptte all the yvenrfness of mind and
EOdy following the hard hnaI play.
Il realized then that the highest in
golf had come to me. Nothing one
could do thereafter could exceed what
/ had so Unexpectedly done that year
To be sure, there was an infinitesimal
chance of a man winning both our
nationals and the British as well, but
that is asking so much of Fate that l
never expect to see it happen and l
am hardly considering it,
"Whatevcr happens to me here
after. feel that luck was with me
for that year. und I will always thrill
with it's recognition
For instance, this year I was
beaten repeatedly through playing
bad golf. But did / worry? Not a bit.
for / only had to bark back to that
double crown day to know that nv
life had given me such a thrill as to
last always"
TomorrOw-HO.ard Berry.
Copyright. 1925, by Public Ledger Company. J
Evening star., 1925-01-26

players in order that the players
reputation might be smirched
There were men of weak morals in
base ball then, as now, and finally
four of them were linked directly
with the poolrooms by means of tele-
grams that fell into the hands of the
league executives. William a. HUI
bert, president of the league, imme-
diately expelled the four-Craver,
Hall, Nichols and Devlin.
Friends of the players threatened to
go to the courts to bring about their
reinstatement. The pressure that was
brought to bear on Hubert was ter
rife, but he would not yield an inch.
He challenged the players and their
supporters to go to court, but they
never did
Aside from the criminal charge
angle. the case of OConnell and
DoIau is much like that of the Ma
tional Leagues first game throwers.
Commissioner Lands, who bears the
same relation to base ball at large
now that President Hubert bore to
the one big league in those days, has
been importuned to reinstate ths ex-
PEELED players, and there has been
talk of court action to enforce their
reinstatement, or at least to give
them O. chance to clear their names"
The attitude of the commissioner
and other responsible base ball
authorities in the present instance
has been no more compromising than
was that of President Hubert. OCon-
nell and Dolan may go to court if they
Nke, but it is highly improbable that
they will ever perform on big
league diamond again
Such uncompromising base ball pun
ishment, coupled with the possibility
of penal servitude for base balls dis
honest gentry, should go long way
toward stamping out the throwing of
ball games.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1925-01-26
BRITISH SURE HAGEN
Will DEFEND TITLE
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, January 26.-The Brit
ish expect their open golf champion
ship next June will be enlivened by
the desired, but dreaded, presence of
several Americans. 1t is thought that
Walter Hagen, twice winner of the
title in three years, will defend 1t
again this Summer at Prestwick, with
several of his compatriots banging
away with woods and irons in the
hope of grasping the torch should he
let 1t drop.
Trooping along with Hagen, the
British expect to see, among others
Macdonald Smith, who finished near
the front both in 1922 and 1928; Jim
Barnes, Bobby Cruickshank and Cyril
Walker.
1t will hurt, of course, to see any
OF them win, but it will hurt most If
Hagen does IL again. There would
be some consolation for the British
If any one of the others should come
through, for they first learned the
game on this side. Cruickshank is
an Edinburgh product Smith came
from Carnoustie and Barnes and
Walker began their golf in England.
The strong hearted Hagen, how
ever, is looked upon as 100 per cent
American" and when he gets hold Of
the trophy the British have no chance
at all to run up the flag.
Prestwick is near the place where
Bobby was born, on the Ayrshire
coast of Scotland. Hagen and sew
eral other American professionals be-
came acquainted with the course in
1928 while tuning UP for the open
championship at Troon, only a few
miles away.
1t has been one of the champion
ship courses of Great Britain for
many years, and there are few links
which penalize faulty shots with
more severity. The first hole is one
of the hardest in the British Isles
unless played without the semblance
of flaw, and the rest are almost as
trying.
The women's open championship +
will be played at Troon this year, be-
ginning May IS. British golfers un-
| derstand that at least two feminine
American stars-Miss Edith Cum
mings and Miss Glenna Collett will
cross the Atlantic to compete.