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self. Capt Corthes, veteran chan
mel mariner, who had accompa MED
swimmers on scores of similar at
tempts, and even her veteran trainer.
Thomas William Burgess. the Eng
lishman who was second to swim the
Channel, insisted that she be taken
from the water before the waves bat
tered her into Inconsistencies.
Such terrific seas we're battering the
tug that Capt. Corthes had much
difficulty keeping near enough to her
for any one to save her should she col
lapse and sink. Great waves were
sweeping over the Alsace.
Burgess. who tried the channel
swim So times before he succeeded
demanded that this mermaid. making
but her second attempt, be ordered
out. He declared he would no longer
accept responsibility tor her safety
and insisted Pop Ederle sigh a paper
releasing him from any claims and
criticism should she be lost beneath
the waves.
Father Is Adanant.
Edere was adan1aht, however,
pointing out that Trudie had yet. to
OUJ6CI 10 Uii. SoA "
sided with him. All others on the
tug were agreed that achieving her
ambition on this try was now HUI
namely impossible. Finally some one
losing his head shouted from the AL.
SAGE.
Come out girl, come out"
1'rudie unaware of the excitement
and debate aboard the tug heard and
turned In amazement to ask.
What fof?"
Never once changing from her pow
erful, long crawl stroke and resting
only the few times she took nourish.-
ment. Trudie piled indomitably on and
on to vindicate her proud parents con-
fidence in her and at no time showed
any sign of eakening.
She wore out three capable swim
mers who took to the water at inter
walls to swim beside and lend en-
couragement to her-frst Ishak Hell
my, the giant Egyptian channel aspi-
rant; then her sister, Margaret. al
though she was able to return to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-07
PRESS Of LONDON
Halls SWIMMER
Miss EderIe Replaces Su-
zanne and Helen Wills as
Featured Athlete.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, August Gertrude
Ederle has become Gertrude OF
America" to the British press. dis.
placing Suzanne of France and Helen
of America as the leading news fea
ture in the London newspapers.
Suzanne Lenglens decision to turn
professional. Helen Wills comments
on Suzanne's move, and Anita Loos'
arrival in London to direct the pro.
duction of her new farce. had over.
Swallowed all the doings of mere men
for several days before Gertrude 8
mastery of the channel.
The universal comment upon Miss
Ederle's channel victory is that Amer
lean athletes won't stop until they
have won every world prize.
America has sure put it across the
little old world this time declares
the Star in it's comment on Miss
Ederle's success.
Several of the London newspa pers
remark editorially on the irony of her
victory at time when the Olympic
authorities, after long delay. have
agreed to concede the right of women
TO compete in a few of the classic
events
the channel swim sky high" the Star
says, Miss Ederle has given the lords
of creation cause to think furiously. ~
SEES WOMEN EMANCrPATED.
BERLIN, August Z CP.-The Chan.
mel victory Of Gertrude Ederle Is hail.
ed by the sports editor of the Zeitung
Am Mittag as new and conclusive
proof of the athletic emancipation of
the once weaker SEX
THE female champions Of today
he says, swim distances and estab.
lish records which seemed unachiev.
able to the male masters of yesterday
Miss Ederle's triumph also is the
triumph of the modern woman ath.
lete and the triumph of the only cor.
rect style of swimming, that Is the
crawl
while several years ago it would
have been branded as insanity to at.
tempt such a distance by the crawl
stroke, today it is proved that Miss
Ederle's modern style helped her TO
make such excellent time"
The American girls victory is fea
tured by the entire Berlin morning
press, but the news was received too
late for comment on the editorial
pages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-07
CITIZENS MAY UNITE
IN MARKET DRIVE:
Mid-City Group Seeks Aid of
Southwest to Bring Gen.
tiers Into Sections.

A plan for consolidating the infu-
ence OF Southwest and Midcity Washs
ington into n cooperative compromise
campaign to move retail lines Of
Center Market to the Convention Hall
section and the wholesale farmers
lines to the southwest waterfront,
when the markets are abandoned 10
make way for new buildings was
preached at meeting Of the Midcity
steering committee yesterday after
noon and was being developed today.
An invitation for representatives Of
the Southwest Citizens Association
and Business Mems Association to Join
with civic leaders OF the Midcity Citi-
zens' Association and merchants in
the vicinity of the Convention Hall !.
Market next Friday afternoon waY
extended by the Midcity group todays
following up action taken at yestcrI
days meeting.
Urges United Action.
Salvatore Scalco. chairman OF the
boosters committee Of the Southwest
group, stated that although he would
have to confer with other committee
members before speaking officially on
the project he was entirely of the
personal opinion that concentration on
an agreed plan would not only bring
harmony, but would he of great value
in obtaining what each section de-
sired most
The plan "a outlined at the MidcltY
Citizens committee meeting yester-
day afternoon is virtually to with
draw all appeals and petitions for
locating the Farmers Produce Mar
ket, dealing in wholesale quantities
of produce in the vicinity of Como
vention Hall and to Use all efforts ~
bring the retail trade of Center Mar-
ket, including the retail farmers. 10
the present Convention Hall Market
section.
Would Divide Center.
Individuals at the committee meet
ing yesterday. which was presided
over by A. j. Driscoll, president OF the
Midcity Citizens Association, express
ed the opinion that II Southwest would
support such project the influence
Of the Convention Hall neighborhood
would be swung in return tn bringing
the Farmers Produce Market and al
lied lines to the waterfront, where
the Municipal Fish Market is now To-
Gated.
Scalco has been informed of the
Midcity proposition personally and an.
nounced he would bring the details
before the Southwest group.
The plan then would ne Ia separat9
the two branches of foOdstuff Concen-
tration in Washington-the retail lines
going TO the midcity district. while
the wholesale lines would go to the
waterfront, In easy access to railroad
terminals and river transportation
terminals.
A meeting of the southwest steering
committee is to be held Wednesday, at
which time ii is expected a decision
will be reached as to whether CO.
operation in the plan will he extended,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-07
ANNE AUSTIN.
THE MOTHER, is
A CHAMPION of Motherhood

"A NHuUfpO" W |AOtHcfHOOu~
AT 80
Mother of Elizabeth Benson
Has earned the living for herself
and her daughter for twelve years.
Has edited several magazines Of
national circulation and written
short stories. novels and articles
for many others.
Has conquered repeated illnesses,
and all the tragic crises Of woman
alone in the world, and emerged
filled with enthusiasm for living
and for motherhood.
Has kept the appearance and the
JOY in life of a girl in her early
twenties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-07
Champions!
ELIZABETH BENSON,
THE CHILD, is

ELIZABETH BENSON,
THE CHILD, is
A CHAMPION Human Being
AT IL
NOT freak; NOT prodigy:
healthy, sane, happy little girl.
Has an intelligence quotient Of
2149o-a worlds record.
Has been accepted as a freshman
at Barnard College.
A perfect physical specimen.
A contributor to some Of the lare-
est magazines in the country.
Knows the classics as most people
know the best sellers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-07
GERTRUDE EDERLE
UNFATIGUED AFTER
HER RECORD SWIM

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Evening star., 1926-09-23
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Alpha Delta Phi business luncheon
tomorrow, 1890 pm, at Franklin
Square Hotel.
The Auxiliary Home Board of JOppa
Lodge Chapter. No. 27, assisted by
the dormitory committee, will give a
progressive 500 party tomorrow IN
Joppa Hall, 42O9 Ninth street, for
benefit Of the dormitory fund. After
noon and evening.
Evening star., 1926-09-23

New "Handcrafe Designs"
in tile inlaids are quite
the prettiest thing yet shown
In a modern linoleszm floor

For years women have admired the
rich coloring of marble foors, but baked
at their cold, hard, unyielding surface.
Now local stores are displaying a floor
that combines all the beauty of hand
set tile floor in comfortable, warm, hno-
leum floor.
= The colors are not only pleasingiy cum
bined, but even the semblnnee of oven
baking has been delightfully."- captured in
tones and shades.
Some Of the patterns are smooth sm-
faced. Some are presented in the new
Embossed Linoleanm in which the tiles
stand slightly upraised-the interiining
bands Of color are pressed IN below the
surface Of the goods.
These designs are beautiful first sfous
and then as backgrounds Of pattern and
? color for fine rugs and furnishings.
Once more Armstrong has led the way
in presenting something new and beauti-
full in floors.
Evening star., 1926-09-23

Riders OF the Netherlands are
aba ndoning the motor cycle, long so
Y,Dr,I1}ar there.
Evening star., 1926-09-23
Two Air Officers Transferred.

First Lieuts. Harry G.. Montgomery.
Alonzo M. Drake and Malcolm S. Law
ton, Army Air Corps. have been re-
neved from duty in the office of the
chief Of Air Corps, Munitions Build
ing. Lieuts. Montgomery and Lawton
will go to the intermediate depot. Fair
field, Ohio, and Lieut.. Drake to Nc
Cook Field, Dayton, Ohio.
Evening star., 1926-09-23

happening nightly. Scenes OF vio-
lence frequently take place. Under
world characters ply their Illicit
trades, but while policewomen are
morally certain such a situation ex-
lists, the necessary evidence can only
be obtained by concentrated under
cover work
1T has been noted that a large mum
ber of juveniles are in attendance in
these public halls. There are, how
we're, girls of II to 20 years of age
who are meeting bad companions
there and learning to associate with
them in their wrong-doing.
Occasional irregular visits were
made to the parks, and many persons
were warned and advised by the of
ficers," the report continued. Lolter
ing children were returned to their
homes. Upon special request con
certed patrol was maintained in and
around the Botanic Garden. The stu
alton there in regard to soliciting was
cleared up to some extent through
cooperation of precinct No. d.
Street Patrol Active.
The street patrol has been central
lied in the downtown district. Ihere
is much soliciting on the streets and
from parked and cruising automo-
biles."
The average daily population of the
House of Detention for the year was
80. the report explained. The total
number of persons held there during
the year was 1897.
The street patrol made 2 arrests IN
the parks, found sc truants, took 60
juveniles home after dark and sent 9
persons to hospitals who had beer
taken i'll on the streets.
Piders OF the Netherlands are
aba ndoninG the motor cycle, long SO
Evening star., 1926-09-23
DANCERS CHARGED
AS LAW V|0LAT0RS
Lieut.. Van Wrinkle Reports on
Activities of PoIiCeW0men
During Year.

Washington's policewomen made
nearly 900 visits to moving picture
theaters. stores, dance halls and other
similar places, as well as con
tinuom patrol of the Union Station,
during the fiscal year ending last
June 80, according to the annual re-
port of Lieut.. Nina c. Van Wrinkle.
director Of the Woman's Bureau OF
the Police Department, submitted to-
day to Maj. Edwin b. Hesse. superin-
tendent of police.
The report showed that the activi-
ties of the policewomen resulted in
752 arrests and 239 of the defendants
were penalized by fines or imprison.
ment.
Violations Occur Nightly.
Lieut.. Van Wrinkle pointed out that
dance halls were visited 1858 times
and cafes 746, resulting in eight ar
rests. Managers appear co-opera.
tive" she said, but the clientele
is such that violations of law are
Evening star., 1926-09-23

The meeting of the Grand VOiture
Of the District, which was called for
Saturday, will be postponed until Sep
tember q, pm, at the Racquet
Club. Voyageurs will assemble in
front of Veterans Bureau at 7:30, and
be led by music to the club.
Chapeaux and smockS must be worn.
Evening star., 1926-09-23

peared as a witness in her own be-
half.
The famous singer told of entering
into a contract in Philadelphia two
years ago with J. ]. Fleming of Port
land, in which Fleming was to pro-
duce eight five-reel pictures in which
the diva's son Ferdinand was to be
featured She advanced Fleming
SO 900 for publicity purposes and was
to be paid back the amount when the
Evening star., 1926-09-23

pictures were finished. She alleged
that Fleming did not carry out the
contract
Evening star., 1926-09-23
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES

TONIGHT.
The International Language Club
will meet, 7:30 o'clock, at 1882 Monroe
street.
Evening star., 1926-09-23
SCHUMANN-HE WINS.

Gets $4,000 Verdict Because Son
Was Not Starred in Movie.
PORTLAND, Greg, September %
H).-Nrme Ernestine Schumann-
Heink won a judgment in court here
yesterday for $4,000 after she had ap-
Evening star., 1926-09-23

The Federation of Civic AssOcia'
tons will meet tomorrow, pm. In
boardroom, District Building.
Evening star., 1926-09-23

A dinner for members Of the New
York State Society will be given Mon
day in the Arts Club garden. Gideon
A. Lyon wEl speak and Miss Adelaide
Borah, monologist, will give selections.
Evening star., 1926-09-23

The American War Mothers will
meet tomorrow at the Lee House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-26
PLAN STEAL OF
100000 FROM
INDIAN FUNDS
Govt. Official Demands
Looting of Navajos

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a - (FP) -
Whether the senate and house confer
ees on the urgent deficiency appro-
priation bill will grant or reject the
demand of Commissioner Burke of the
Indian Office that $10O 900 of the tribal
funds of ths|Navajo Indians in Ari-
iona be taken. for a bridge which the
Indians will never use, is to be de-
cided within a few days. The item
voted by the house and rejected by
the senate is one providing that the
100000 be taken from the tribal
funds to pay half the cost OF a bridge
over the Colorado River near Lees
Ferry. This point is some so miles
from any considerable settlement of
the Indians, and in the opposite direc-
ton from their lines OF travel to
market.
John Collier, executive secretary of
the Indian Defense Association, has is
sued circular telling the story Of
this attempted steal. He quotes n let.
ter written by Burke to the Navajo
tribal council last July, wherein Burke
told the Indians they ought to use
their money for water and implements
and for improving their sheep breeds,
but saying that Of course congress had
final power over the use of their
funds. Yet he knew that Secretary
Work, his chief, had persuaded the
house to pass the bridge bill. claiming
that the bridge was important to the
progress Of the Indians.
Collier shows that $90,000,000 OF
Indian funds are now at the disposal
Of congress, and that II the Indian
bureau is able to cheat the Navajo
tribe Of this 100000 there win be no
safety for any OF the other trust
funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-26
Sen. Borah Enters
Fight on Italian
Debt Settlement

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a OPP
Sen. Borah, chairman of the senate
foreign relations committee, has come
into the open as a foe of the Italian
debt settlement negotiated by Mellon.
Kellogg, Hoover and Smoot. He has
even gone into a conference on the
subject with a dozen democratic SEN
ators, including Walsh and Reed. They
frankly declared their intention to de-
feat the ratification of the pact if they
can.
Borah returns to his earlier posi-
ton, that no settlement ought to be
made on terms more favorable than
those granted to Great Britain, unless
the United States desires to offer to
the French virtual cancellation of
their S4,00O,O0O.0O0 obligation. Reed
will emphasize Americas responsible
ty alike to refrain from giving finan-
cial encouragement to the Mussolini
despotism, and to give equal justice
to all creditors.
Resolutions, letters and kilograms
opposing the settlement are reaching
scores of senators from all sections
of the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-26
MINER is FREED
after 5-YEAR
INTENSE FIGHT
Union Coaldigger Gains
His Liberty
BY ART SHIELDS.
Federated Press.

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Feb. "a
j. c. Mccoy, Mingo county miner, is
free again, and home with his wife and
seven children, at the close of a five
year conspiracy against his liberty by
the coal operators of that county The
case began in May, 1921, with his ar
rest on charge of shooting Squire
Harry Staten of Sprigg during the
1921 strike, and it closed here in
Huntington WREN the fourth jury that
has tried him for murder freed him af-
ter two minutes of deliberation.
Twice Mccoy was convicted in the
operator-controlled courts lin William
son. At the time of the first trial
September, 1921, the county was UNI
der martial law and the courtroom
full of armed men Twice he went to
the penitentiary at Moundsville to
serve 50 years and twice came out
again on writs of error. The third trial
took place in Huntington on a change
of venue and brought hung jury
nine to three for acquittal The fourth
has just closed.
1t was a class conspiracy thruout
John S. Marcum, 74-year old attorney
for the Mingo coal operators, served
as special prosecutor at the fourth
trial as he did at the first. His shaven,
wrinkled head bobbed aggressively as
he rasped out the usual openshop cant
about lawless unionism.
But the coal operators were unfortu-
nate in their witnesses. Some testi-
fed that Mccoy had been firing from
railroad switch-stand; others as
positively declared that it was nearly
hundreds yards away by store.
And defense attorneys proved con-
clusively that it would have been inn
possible to see the victim from the
place named. There was further proof
by the defense that Mccoy had not
done any firing and that the only
overt act he had committed was to
Loyalty aid the strike and relief pro-
gram of his union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-26
He Had a Still, But
Did He Use It?' Stirs
Washington's Solemnity
tspecIaI to rhe Daily workerl


WASHINGTON, Feb. "a Observ
ance of Washington's birthday here
was marked by tumult and shouting
by hubbub and furore, and by the hurl-
ing of verbal brickbats over prohibi-
ton. The peace and sedate solemnity
that for 127 years have marked the
capitals observance Of the day was
utterly shattered as proponents and
opponents of the eighteenth amend
ment went to the mat over the per-
sonal habits and private practices of
the Master Of Mount Vernon.
Still There's the still.
In the turmoil, the policies for
which Washington stood appeared to
have been lost in the question as to
whether or not the father of his coun-
try kept sill He made and drank
his own living" declared the vets.
HE was believer in personal lib
erty, and he was not a prohibitions
list" Even tho he kept a still, he
did believe in prohibition" retorded
the drys. HE discharged a division
commander in the continental army
for drinking, and he had soldiers
whipped for drunkenness"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-26
COMRADE GRISCHUK

Comrade Joseph Grischuk, former
member of the Russian district com.
mittee Of Chicago, died in Los An.
geles, Cal, Feb. n, according to a
telegram received from comrades Of
Los Angeles.
Comrade Grischuk came to the
United States in 1913 from the open
wide plains OF Volynia.
A son Of the fields and forests, he
was suffocating in the shops and fac.
tories. He became a victim OF the
white plague-tubercu Altho sick
he continued actively to work in the
labor movement.
When the party was driven under
ground he remained at his post, con-
tinuing to work under the name Of
Smith.
lie was a capable speaker and used
to go out to the branches in the dis
trict to speak.
For the last two years he was too
sick to work and went to a sanitarium
in Los Angeles where he remained un.
I'll his death on Feb. 21.
The Russian section of the Work
ers Party OF Chicago wired some
money to the comrades in Los Angeles
to help cover the funeral expenses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-26
GALS CABINET
/. UNDER fire ON
Senate FLOOR
Demand Prosecution of
MELONS Trust
tspeeIaI q The paIIy WORKED

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a. - Two
members Of President CooIidge's cabi-
net were under fire in the senate
when debate was resumed on the
Walsh report, criticizing the depart
ment of justice for failing to prose-
cute the MelIon-owned Aluminium
company of America on a charge of
violating the antitrust laws.
While coalition of democrats and
progressives drove their attack osten-
sibly at Attorney General John S. Sar-
gent, their real objective was also
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew w.
Mellon. By revealing Sargent's al
legged weakness as a prosecutor, the
coalition hoped to pave the way for
the employment of special govern
ment counsel to hale the Mellon CON
Germ into court.
The movement turned the admins
tration forces into a(fighting group 1t
was the administration viewpoint that
special prosecutions and senatorial in
vestigations must be stopped once and
for all, or the executive departments
will be forever forced to step aside
when their actions displease con-
gress.
Instead of merely advocating a SEN
atorial investigation of the Aluminium
company, as recommended by ma
iority of the senate judiciary commit
tee, the democrats rallied around
the proposal of Senator Robinson. of
Arkansas, the minority leader, that
resolution should be adopted directing
President Coolidge to name two spe-
eial prosecutors to initiate proceed
ings against the. Mellon concern.
Senator Cummin, republican, of
Iowa, charged this would be tanta-
mount to removing the attorney gen
eral from office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-26
Slave Driver Says
British Contractors
Pay Coolies Too Much

SINGAPORE. (By Mail. Sir Ivor
Phillips, X. C. b.. chairman OF the
Singapore United Rubber Plantations
Co.. Ltd, complained at the stock
holders meeting that as a result of
the British contractors in charge of
the construction of the huge naval
base here paying above the current
wage for native labor in order to hur.
ry the work, coolies on the corpora.
tion's plantations are quitting. The
chairman declared dolefully that the
company would sooner or later have
to meet the scale thus established.
The stockholders adopted resolu-
ton unanimously demanding reduc.
ton of wages on the government
iwork. The Plantations Co. dividends
run about 171s per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-26
British Government
Under Fire for Failure
to Aid Countess Vera

LONDON, Feb. "a The British
government was subjected to heavy
fire in the house of commons tNs
afternoon, for its failure to act in the
banning of Vera Countess of Cathcart
from the United States.
Sir Austin Chamberlain, foreign
minister, declared Great Britain will
not intervene in the case, will not
attempt reprisals and will not ask
the United States to enter an agree
ment for reciprocal action whereby
the granting of visa by consul will
be tentamount to a guarantee that the
holder of the visa will be granted adj
mittance at. the port of entry.