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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
16 BELIEVED DEAD
IN MINE EXPLOSION
Seven Bodies Found, Res
cuers Digging for Others
as Families Wait.

TAHONA, Okla, September 4.--Six
teen miners are believed to have beer
killed by gas explosions in superior
SmokelesS Coal Co. mine No. 70 here
yesterday morning. With seven bodies
recovered early this morning, little
hope was held for the remaining nine
imprisoned in a gas and flame filleC
entry. The first blast occurred shortly
after more than 1870 men had started
the day shift.
Only one entry, No. IN West, was
closed by the explosion, although
others We're shattered and hundreds OF
tons of coal and rock were loosened by
the blast. Several miners in other
a dangerous condition, although 1t Is
considered they would survive.
Rescue workers continued their eff
forts throughout the night to pene
trate the blocked entry. Leaders
hoped they would be able to open
up the closed cell today. Rescue
work was hindered by fumes in the
shaft. Only a few had gas masks
while others bound wet .sponges over
their faces.
The known dead whose bodies have
been recovered are: Dennis James
Henry Berry. Annual Wanna. Boz
CnanDeTS anu MS sui, VIII, ID uSS
Davis and Ross Green.
AS the rescue squads were cutting
into the blocked entry, the families OF
the imprisoned men and hundreds OF
others fingered about the scene.
George Adams, miner. who guided
three companions to safety through
the smoking debris, told Of the effects
of the blast and the attempts OF the
men to reach the surface. Adams was
on slope No. Z when the first blast oc'
CURED. He had just started work and
was alone. He said:
when heard the explosion made
a break for the shaft and saw the gas
and dust coming down on me. kept
right on going up the shaft and at the
entrance of 71a I saw Sam Cox and
two other men.
II had a bucket Of water, so
poured it over our shirts and covered
our faces. Heat was terrible. It came
through my wet shirt and felt like
steam.
when we got to the entrance OF
No. slope, I heard second explo
sion. We dropped into hole an6
tried to cover up. We just croucheC
there until everything was quiet, Their
fought our way out through the heat
damp and smoke"
The mine is one of the largest pro
ducers in Oklahoma. 1t is near the
Arkansas line. Tahona, the mining
camp, consists Of a few miners
shacks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
WILLIAM J. SHEETZ DIES.
Prominent Consulting Engineer
Succumbs at Age of SIS.

! William J. Sheetz. 90 years old. con-
SuIting engineer. died suddenly at his
residence. 1872 / street. Wednesday
He was a graduate Of the University
Sf Pennsylvania and had lived ir'
Washington for the past 80 years. He
has a member of the National Society
be Radio Engineers. the Homeopathic
Society of Medical Research and New
York Engineering Society.
! He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Nary w. Sheetz; two daughters. Mrs.
J. Robert Esher of this city and Mrs.
Robert w. Cmpleby OF New YORK
three sisters, Mrs. Robert 7. Stewart
Dc this city, Mrs. Anna j. Worrall of
Philadelphia and Mrs. w. a. Warren
be New York. and two brothers.
George W. Sheetz of Philadelphia and
Harry A. Sheetz OF New York.
] Funeral services were conducted
This afternoon by Rev. George Dow of
Washington Cathedral. followed by in
torment in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
Nuremberg FAILS
TO FIND DAUGHTER
Goes to Frank L. Wright
Estate With Writ for Gus
tody of Child.

| BY the Associated Press
| SPRING GREEN. Wis. September
! 4.-Valdemar Nuremberg. Chicago ar
chitect, yesterday appeared at the
| barred gates of TalieSn, country villa
| of Frank Lloyd Wright. information
| ally known architect. In a vain at
| tempt to obtain possession OF his O.
| year-old daughter from his divorced
wife. Nine. Olga Milanoff. Wright's
| companion and housekeeper.
Nuremberg obtained writ of ha
beas corpus for the girl at Baraboo.
| Wis, Yesterday, having started action
| after Miriam Noel Wright. the archi
| tect's estranged wife. filed suit in Chi
+. cago for 100000 against Mime. Milan
| on, charging alienation of affections
| Nuremberg charged that the child's
| notner was not a proper custodian
| for the girl.
| Estate Appears Deserted.
| The country estate apparently was
deserted by it's master and Mime. Mi
| lanoff when Nuremberg. accompanied
his attorney and a deputy sheriff to
the place. armed with the writ de-
| mandinS that Nine. Milanoff or others
produce the child. who has been liv.
ing at Taliesin with the mother.
| William Ellington. caretaker
again stood guard at the gates. as he
qua last June when he helped repulse
Mrs. Wright's efforts to forcibly gain
| entrance to her husbands home. Bill
| lngton said neither Wright. Mime. Mi
| lanon nor the child were at Taliesin
lie and a young architect studen,
| were served with papers command
| ing their appearance before L. r
| Dlthmar, Circuit Court commissioner
| OF Baraboo. Harold Jackson of Chi
| cago, Hinzenberg's attorney, said the
commissioner will question them in an
enort to learn the whereabouts of the
child.
A visit to the farm home of Enos
Jones near the Wright estate. where
1t was thought the child might he
was without result. The party then
returned to Spring Green, and later
lett Tor Madison to serve papers oil
| H. L.. Hopkins, president of a Madison
Dank, who has been Wright's financial
adviser.
Threatens New Action.
| IF do not find nv child | shall
take some action against Mr.. Wright.
dlnzenberg said, but added that he
mad not decided whether to institute
| civil or criminal proceedings
Nuremberg, who. was divorced in
chicago In 1925, at that time permit
ted Nine. Milanoff to have custody OF
the child which he now seeks to re
gain. In his petition yesterday he as
serted that Nine. Milanoff and Wright
had been living together and had had
the child with them. and that both
had openly expressed the intention of
leaving the United States. He asked
that they be restrained from taking
the child with them.
While Nuremberg sought his child
here there were conflicting reports as
! to the whereabouts of Wright and
! Nine. Milanoff. His automobile was
absent from his garage. which led TO
| report that he was not far away
and another report was that he and
Nine. Milanoff were seen in Richland
Center. % miles from here, Thursday
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
MCKINLEY HOLDS GAIN.
Senator Spent More Comfortabl,
Night, Physician Reports.

MARTINSVILLE, Ind, September
4 @.-Senator William B. Mckinley
Of Illinois, who has been critically Ill
here for several days, was more com.
Portable last night than on the pre-
vious night, said DIR. r. H. Egbert. his
attending physician today.
An egg-nog was given the patient
this morning and he seemed to be
holding what he had gained.
His pulse today was 96: respiration,
26, and temperature, 1913. The tenn.
perature reading has remained un.
changed for "a hours, but the Sen
ator's pulse has been slowing. grad
ually.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
TOSCANINI TO PRESENT
"FALSTAFF" TOMORROW
Famous Conductor of Opera Hopes
to Commemorate Fittingly Verdi's
Death Anniversary.
By the Associated Press.

BUSSETO, Italy, September A.
Arturo TOscanini was putting the
finishing touches today on his prep
arations for the presentation of the
opera "Falstaff" tomorrow, when the
famous conductor and composer
hopes to give a perfect performance
in enumeration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary Of the death of Verdi.
You must play better than ever
before" Toscanini has been continu-
ously repeating to the orchestra
which he has been rehearsing morn
ing noon and night Some of the
leading members of the stats Of the
Scala and other italian opera houses,
including a number who assisted Tos-
canini in commemoration of the Verdi
anniversary in 1918, are working
feverishly on the scenic and other de-
tails while the maestro takes care of
the music.
Hardly tenth Of those who have
arrived from Italy and abroad will
be able to crowd into the tiny theater
which Toscanini hopes to transform
into the center of a permanent must
cal institution, doing for the memory
of Verdi what Beyreuth does for that
Of Wagner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
In HOT WATER AGAIN.
But billie" CorcOran Has Had Much
Closer Calls Than This.

billie" Corcoran Is in hot water
again.
The debonair Billie, former Wash
ington clubman, swimmer and horse
man. has stirred up the wrath OF q
temperance organization In TINS coun-
try by reports that he, u United states
consul. gave Gertrude Ederle OK New
York champagne party at the con.
clusion Of her successful channel
swim.
Nearly four years ago Corcoran
leaped into the cold waters OF the
channel to rescue a drowning boy.
For weeks he lay at deaths door from
pneumonia contracted in the rescue,
but the hardihood that brought him
through exposure in the Argonne
Forest and through a set-to with trop-
ical fever in Madras, India, pulled MIN
through the result Of his immersion In
the channel. And now because ne
gave Trudie wine party, he Is In
wrong with some bone-dry advocates.
State Department officials declined
to comment today, in the absence OF
official word, on the wine party Wnlcn
Billie gave Trudie, except to point
out that American consuls serving
abroad are subject to the laws OF the
nation to which they are assigned
They added that since France is a
wet country, Corcoran's conduct. as
Stunning that the press dispatches are
correct, was not believed to have been
offensive to either French authorities
or the French people.
If the incident took place 1t was
not anticipated a report will be made,
nor is 1t probable that report Will
be requested.
William Warwick Corcoran was a
first lieutenant in command of a ma
chine gun platoon in the Argonne.
After the armistice he returned to
Washington and entered the con-
sular service. His first post was at
Bombay, and after being taken Ill at
Madras he was transferred to the
milder climate of Boulogne, France.
where he Is now stationed and where
the wine party is said to have taken
place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
U. S. TO ACQUIRE TITLE.
Condemnation Proceedings Begun
for Land Near Chain Bridge.

The United States yesterday began
a condemnation proceeding in the Dis
trict Supreme Court to acquire a par
eel Of ground above Chain Bridge and
near the District Line as site for a
hydro electric plant, and also to secure
a subterranean right of way over an
adjacent strip of land. The property
is said to belong to the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company. Justice
Hitz directed the parties in interest to
appear in court next Friday to show
cause why the necessary land should
not be condemned.
Attorney General Sargent. Special
Assistant Attorney General George P.
Barse and Peyton Gordon, United
States attorney, appear for the Gov
eminent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
Goldfish Meet Unhappy Fate.

NEW YORK, September A OPT
was an artistic inspiration to stock
the Bowling Green fountain with the
most beautiful goldfish from the near
by aquarium. and Miss Ida Mellen,
who did it. was happy. Then came a
few hot days and the goldfish were
Joined in the pool by q bevy of not
too-clean young human residents of
the Battery section.
The goldfish promptly died. Miss
Mellen was wroth and said snappy
things about the unartistic intruders
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
DRYS MAY IGNORE
ATTACK ON CONSUL
National w. C. T. U. Officials
Seek to Avoid Interfering
in Liquor Party Case.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, september 4.-National
officers of the w. c. 4. U. are per-
sonally of the opinion that the State
Department Is we'll able to handle Its
own affairs" and do not think the
national convention Of the w. G. 7.
u. VIII nave anything to do" with the
case Of the reported champagne party
given Gertrude EderIe, New York
girl swimmer OF the English Channel,
by William Corcoran, United States
consul at Boulogne, France.
The w. c. r. e. in Nebraska was
aroused by press dispatches report
ing the occurrence. The State Depart
ment attitude. according to news re-
ports from Washington, was that
Mr.. Corcoran's conduct, II reliably
reported, was not believed to have
been offensive TO French authorities
or people, and that United States
consuls are subject to the laws OF
the country in which they serve.
The National w. e. T. U. statement
issued today, held that American
consular officers have taken an oath
to support the Constitution OF the
United States and are bound by the
rules and traditions Of their service
The w. c. T. U. has always found
American diplomatic officers to be
courteous and trustworthy gentlemen
THE w. &. L. u. is not acting as
the public prosecutor or private perse-
cutor Of any individual, but Is devotlng
it's time to the business OF offsetting
the attacks on the Constitution from
the Association Opposed to the PROM
bition Amendment"
IN HOT WAITER AGAIN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
LYNCHBURG VISIT OFF.
Lady Astor to Spend Remainder Of
Time at Mirador.

RICHMOND, Va, September Up.
Lady Astor. Virginia-born member
of the British Parliament, will spend
the remainder of her visit to her ma
tive State at Mirador. the old Lang
horne estate In Albemarle County, it
was learned last night.
From Lynchburg, it was said, she
had changed her plans and probably
would not visit there, as expected. She
will make a public address before the
New York League of women Voters
in that city September 8. While in
New York she will visit her sister,
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson.
Lady Aston is understood to have
booked return passage to England for
September II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
MARKET QUESTION
NOT TO INTERRUPT
REVENUE BUILDING
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the other two, but that the farmers
would suffer disadvantage If they
are not near the commission houses
After returning from his trip, Col
Bell conferred informally with Com
missioner Rudolph In outlining later
the procedure by which the Commits
sioners expect to be able to let the
Government begin work at one end Of
the Farmers Market in January, Col.
Bell expressed the belief that the Dis
trict authorities would be able to work
in cooperation with the Treasury De-
partment so as not to delay the Gov
eminent building program and yet be
able to transfer the farmers sheds to
the permanent location as they are
taken down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
THREE new STATIONS.
Two Others Authorized to Change
Wave Lengths.

Three new br'oadcasting stations
were licensed yesterday by the Com
merce Department for operation, Rob
ert B. Bridge at San Antonio, Tex,
obtaining permission to establish sta
ton KTCM on 263-meter wave
length; Elmer E. Smith at Concordia,
Kans., station KGCN, at 210 meters,
and Louis Washer at Seattle, KGCL,
at 1905 meters. Station WWAE, Elec-
trio Park, ILL.,, will hereafter operate
on the 384.4.meter band instead of at
241.S meters, while kGDS at Seattle
will operate at 227 meters instead of
2O9.7 meters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
TWO DECKS FOR BRIDGE.
$4,000 Havre de Grace Improve.
ment in Eight Months Planned.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, September 4-Plans
have been prepared to double-deck the
Havre de Grace bridge over the Sus-
quehanna River within eight months.
according to officials of the State
Roads Commission. and bids will be
asked within the next week.
The work is expected to cost 5000. =
600. about the amount now collected
through tolls in one year.
The present bridge is Is feet wide
too narrow for two lines of traffic
When double decking is completed
long delays on busy days will he ended.
Adding a new roadway will be done
under direction of the State Roads
Commission, which will advertise for
bids within few days. The bridge
was purchased in 1922 for about
| $3.50, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
Seeks Change of Name.

Because his name is too long and
would handicap him in business, Jacob
RabinowitZ, 1920 Tenth street north.
west, today asked the District SUI
preme Court to shorten his name to
Jacob Robens. He has been called by
the shorter name. he declares, among
his friends. Attorneys Taylor &
Moran appear for the petitioner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
PINEAPPLE MEETS TEST.

By Radio to The Star. and Chicago Daily News.
MAKAR, Octabata Province, Island
of AIindanao, p. l., September 4.-Ex-
perimental growing of Hawaiian pine
apples in the Philippine Islands is
working excellently here. Coconuts
Of superior quality and rubber trees
are growing wild. There are excel
lent sites for cities on fine harbors,
for such are of the typhoon paths.
tCopyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
DOUG AND MARY TO START
WORK AT ONCE IN FILMS
Valentines Death Causes Pair to
Abandon Orient Trip and In
crease Output of Company.

by the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, September 4.
douglass Fairbanks and his wife,
Mary Pickford, screen stars, an
nounced on their return from Europe
yesterday that, they will abandon a
projected trip to the Orient and plunge
at once into picture making. Their de-
cision is said to have been forced by
the death of Rudolph Valentino, which
reduced the picture output Of United
Artists, the producing organization for
the three.
Fairbanks said he wished to correct
the impression given by him in an in
terview in New York regarding Rus
sian government control Of films and
theaters. He said the idea he had de-
sired to convey was that this govern
ment ownership was good policy in
Russia, but that he did not favor it In
the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
ELOQUENT PAST is TOPIC
Rev. N. M. Simmonds to Preach
at Highlands Baptist.

The pastor. Rev. Newton NJ. Sim
monds. Of the Highlands Baptist
Church. Fourteenth and Jefferson
streets, returned from his Summer
home in New Hampshire during the
week, and viii occupy his pulpit at
both services tomorrow.
At the morning service he will de-
liver an address and the Lords Sup
per will be observed. and at the eve
ming service he will speak on Tho
Eloquent Past"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
OTHER SHOCKS FELT.
Situation in Island of Fayal Con.
tinues Serious.

LISBON. Portugal, September up.
Reports from the Island of Fayal,
the center of Tuesdays disastrous
earthquake, indicate that the situa-
ton there continues serious.
The Lisbon newspapers print a tele-
gram from the governor of the island
saying provisions are lacking and ask
ing that full authority be granted him
to prevent crime and maintain order.
Slight earthshocks continue, caus.
ing buildings which were damaged
in the big quake to collapse. while the
authorities continue to raze others
which have been condemned.
The population is largely sleeping
in the gardens and fields. There is
complete desolation in many districts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
Ancient Greece Quite Up to Date.

CHICAGO, September R).-An-
Client Greece had a smoke nuisance, a
silver rush comparable to the United
States gold rush of 40. and Hellas'
great bankers were self-made men,
says George NJ. Calhoun in a book
on the Business Life of Ancient
Athens" soon to be issued from the
University Of Chicago press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04

DETROIT, September 4 R.-
Henry Ford, foremost exponent of
old-fashioned melodies. has been in
yfted to attend a meeting of jazz
music leaders in Chicago September
90. Ford was asked to expound his
IDEAS Of what form modern American
tight" music should take. His or
chsetrs has also been invited TO m,
peaR. an fhs program
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
Husband Obtains Divorce

Justice Hitz yesterday signed final
decree of absolute divorce in favor or
George F.. Watson against Emma
Watson. The wife brought suit for
limited divorce. but the husband filed
a cross-petition for an absolute decree.
Attorneys E. Russell Kelly and Ber-
trand Emerson. jr.. appeared for the
husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
NAME RAISES PROBLEM.
World War Aviator Doubts He
Slew Alfred Jung.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. September {
R.--Howard Knots, Springfield.
American aviator in the World War.
and who was credited with the death
of Sergt. Maj. Alfred Jung, German
ace, Is now puzzled as 10 whether Jung
was brought down. IL was reading
paper when / came to a story of an
aviator's mishap in Ohio. The mans
name was Alfred jung
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
ITALIANS JEER FRENCH.
Milan Crowd Blocks Revue Per.
Torrance by Noise.

MILAN, italy. September @.-
A French revue company. scheduled
to appear in the Eden Theater last
night. was prevented from giving its
performance by hostile crowd.
which staged a demonstration of
shouting. whistling and stamping
until the police cleared the house.
The demonstrators, said to have
been headed by a group OF Fascist
journalists, objected to the presence
of French actors here while Italian
performers were idle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
PLAGUE PUT UNDER
CONTROL AT HORTA
No Other Bubonic Cases or
Deaths Are Reported in
Quake Zone. ~
BY the Associated Press.

HORTA, Island of Fayal, Azores,
September 4.-Measures taken to cope
with the bubonic plague, which broke
out following Tuesdays disastrous
earthquake, thus far have been COM
pletely successful.
The victims were isolated as soon
as the cases were discovered, and no
further instances Of the disease have
been reported for the last "a hours.
Thus far there have been four cases
Of the plague, two Of them fatal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
HARVESTS CROP AT 80.
Woman Cuts, Ties and Stacks Acre
of Grain Within a Week.

RAPHOE, Donegal, Ireland. Sep
TENDER 4 C4D.-Mrs. Annie Clarke
aged 80, is receiving the plaudits OF
all Donegal. She has just completed
the moving, tying and stacking ~
an acre of oats. the bulk of it feet
high. completing the task In week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
ANOTHER DIRIGIBLE TRIP,

LAKEHURST. N. j.. September 4
@.-The dirigible Los Angeles will
return Monday to Hampton Roads,
Va. for further radio compass cali.
brations work with stations in that
section. ~
Two flights were made this week on
the same mission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
VISITOR TO FILL PULPIT.
Rev. M. H. Fishburn to Preach in
Local Church.

Rev. Nj. II. Fishburn of Amber,
Pa, will preach tomorrow morning
at the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church.
Rev. Moses r. Lowell, the new
pastor, will conduct his first service
September 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
Warrant Officer Retires.

Warrant Officer Reuben A. Enderly,
stationed at Omaha, Neb., has been
placed on the retired list of the Army.
on his own application. after more
than 80 years' service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04

A whole grove of tiny trees. small
enough to be held In the hand. has
been found In the mountains OF
British Columbia.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
WAY NEARLY CLEAR
FOR U. S. IN COURT
WITH RESERVATIONS

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