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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-05
COLONIAL

Sparkling Comedy Drama-'Paris at
Midnight" with Lionel Barrymore,
Mary Brian, Jetta Goudal. 1.-THE
Beautiful Cheat" Featuring Laura
LaPlante. Review, Fables,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-05


And so l started with the auto-
mobile and I went over there and 7
don't know. l don't Just remember
who got there first"
met Sanhorn n,ra. 49,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-05

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-05

Il met sanborn over there. and
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have planned to devote this week to the babies
YOUR little bows and your girls mothers this
cosy section during this week and feel that will find
helpful and ready you coteou Young mothers will find
who familiar with the needs the baby and will
only be too glad to you
Evening star., 1926-03-11
BLUE LAW HEARINGS
FIXED FOR MARCH is
Will H. Hays May Be Star Wit
ness to Defend
Movies.

Hearings on Sunday enforcement
legislation for the National Capital
will be resumed on March 16, accord
ing to announcement made today by
Chairman Mcleod of the judiciary
subcommittee of the House District
committee.
VIII II. Hays is expected to be the
headliner at the hearings. Chairman
Mcleod today sent Mr.. Hays an in
vitation to testify. This was pro
voked by some Of the proponents for
the bill, who gave the impression dur
ing the hearings that moving picture
shows on Sunday did not improve
the morals and ideals of those who
attended them.
REPRESENTATIVES of more than 5000
moving picture operators have also
asked to be heard The three local
business OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
Commerce, Washington Board OF
Trade and Merchants and Manufac-
turers' Association-who asked for an
opportunity to be heard before this
measure was acted upon, have been
notified Of the hearings which are to
be reopened on March 16.
Evening star., 1926-03-11

Washington's self-confessed cham
pion spaghetti-eater, Salvatore Seal
co, is right peeved over the claims
made by one Marco Modugno, of Los
Angeles, to the general effect that
he (Marco) is the worlds champion
spaghetti absorber.
Salvatore. it seems, was immediate
ly chided by the scores Of his admirers
about the picture of Modugno in ac-
ton, published in Tuesdays Star.
and he has resorted to scientific means
of discrediting the claims of his Los
Angeles rival.
Marco is reported to have made
the assertion that he can eat 138
miles of spaghetti four times a day
at the rate of a mile a minute. Sal
vatore was very frank in expressing
his disbelief and he bases his skepti-
cism on the following facts:
One pound of ordinary Italian
spaghetti. if laid end to end, meas
ures 400 feet. in round numbers. a
mile, then, would weigh l3 pounds,
and 1873 miles would weigh 1874
pounds This shows on the face of
it, Salvatore contends, that Marcos S
claims are absurd, as in four meals
he would be required to consume a
Evening star., 1926-03-11
NIGHT BUS SERVICE
ASKED FOR GARFIELD
Citizens Also Want Free Transfer
to Cars on 10-Cent
Fare.

Inauguration of bus service on the
Washington Railway and Electric
line to it's section during late hours
at night was asked in a resolution
adopted last night by the Garfield
Citizens Association at its meeting
at the Garfield School. The assocla-
ton also requested the granting OF
a free transfer to street cars on
Dayment OF a l0-cent cash fare.
The committee on streets ana
lights announced it will request the
placing of street sign at the corner
of Bruce place and Fort street south
east.
Complaint was voiced by members
of the committee on water and sew
erage. of which j. w. Caldwell is
chairman. against the delay in the
laving of water mains along Ainger
place southeast, construction or
which, it was said, had been ordered
months ago.
A public meeting will be held soon
in the Garfield School, it was an
nounced. w. H. Lewis, jr., presided.
Evening star., 1926-03-11
PARKING SIGNS APPROVED.
Fine Arts Commission o. ks Ed
ridges Plan.

The Commission of Fine Arts has
approved Traffic Director Eldridge's
rectangular parking signs, designed
to provide a uniform display Of
parking regulations affixed to light
poles. The commission suggested tina
a ball ornament instead of spear
head be used at the end of the staff
holding the sign, and recommended
that color combinations Of green and
white be tried to ascertain which
would best suit on the street contain.
ing many trees.
THE proper color FOR the signs il
somewhat a problem" the commits
sion'S letter said. "On streets which
are lined with trees and where a greer
background generally exists, the mos.
legible type of sign is a good red with
white lettering. 1t is noted, however,
that your office objects to yellow am
red because they are already in use
with definite and accepted mean.
ing The green with white lettering
might be most legible on those streets
which are not lined with trees
Evening star., 1926-03-11
MILITARY SUPPLIES
CONFERENCE TOPIC
War Department Business Council
to Discuss Current Problems at
Meeting Saturday Morning.

Consideration of current supply
problems of the military establish
ments will be taken up at the first
meeting Of the newly organized War
Department business council to be
held at the War Department Sat
urday morning. Under the pro-
visions of the national defense act of
1920 the business activities of that de-
partment are centered in the office of
the Assistant Secretary Of War, the
several branches of the Army and the
finance department. The new business
council was recently created on the
suggestion of Assistant Secretary
MacNider 1t is made up of outstand-
ing leaders in those branches of the
industrial and business world, particu-
larly allied with the current supply
problems of the military establishment
in the direction of national prepared
ness. These civilian experts have
volunteered their services in assisting
in the adoption of ways and means
for the prompt procurement Of ade-
quate military supplies in times of
emergencies.
Those who have arranged to at
tend the coming meeting of the Busi-
ness Council are: Col. Leonard p.
Ayres, vice president, Cleveland
Trust Co, Cleveland, Ohio; James
d. Bonner. manager of sales. United
States Steel Corporation, Washing
ton. D. c.; Brig. Gen. John J. Carly,
vice president, American Telephone
and Telegraph Co, New York City;
Howard Cooniey. president, Wal
worth Co, Boston, Mass; Lieut.. Col
+. S. Dickinson, president, Becton,
Dickinson & Co. surgical instrument
manufacturers. Rutherford, n. j.;
George 3. Dryden, president. Dryden
Rubber Co. Chicago, ILL.,; Brig. Gen.
Clinton G. Edgar. president. Conti-
mental Sugar Co., and director Wabash
Railroad Company. Detroit, Mich;
Col. S. NJ. FELTON,, chairman, board
of directors, Great Western Railway,
Chicago. H.; c. w. Nash, president.
Nash Motors Co. kenosha. Wis;
Lieut.. Col Oscar w. Smith, pres;-
dent. aPrk, Davis & Co.. Detroit,
Mich: Col. William G. Spruanco, vice
president, Du Pont de Nemours Co.,
Wilmington, Del; Col William A.
Starrett, vice president, Starrett
Brothers, contractors, New York
City: Gerard Swope. president Cen
eral Electric Co. New York City;
Ralph Van Nechten. vice president,
Continental Commercial Bank. Chi
cago, H.. and Brig. Gen. Herbert 5.
Wolfe, consulting actuary. New York
City.
Evening star., 1926-03-11

900, will open with 60 inmates. which
Is close to it's capacity. AS about goo
applications for admission have 80 far
been received. the trustees decided 10
erect such dormitory at once. at n
cost Of approximately 100000. 1t will
be known as Epworth Hall.
The trustees elected officers as fol
lows President. Rev. J. II. Wells ot
Baltimore; vice president. Rev. A. +.
Huddleson Of White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va; secretary, Rev. c. NJ. Hesser
Of Staunton. Va; treasurer, Walter
NJ. Magruder of Gaithersburg; super.
intendent of home, Rev. J. j. Ringer
Of Gaithersburg.
Following the transaction Of bus.
ness. the trustees were entertained
at an informal banquet by women OF
the Epworth Church. Gaitnersburg
Mrs. F.. F. Crawford being chairma II
If the committee in charge.
Evening star., 1926-03-11
Alleges Breach of Promise.

Mrs. IGa Walters, 2702 Woodley
place. has filed suit in the District
supreme Court to recover 100000
damages for alleged breach OF promise
from William Garner. OWNER Of
chain of stores in Newport News, Va.
Through Attorneys u. Morris
Wampler and Robert Y. Lynch she
SAYS Garner gave her an engagement
ring and that their marriage was set
for January 81, but Garner did not
keep his alleged promise to marry.
Mrs. Walters says she has been
humiliated, mortified and disgraced.
Evening star., 1926-03-11
MOTHER FREEZES;
GIRLS ARE CLEARED
indictments Against Daugh-
ters, 18 and ID, Are NolIe
Pressed by State.

By the Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March IL
Aileen O'Connor. 1S, and her 14-year-
old sister. Honora. were freed today,
after being jailed on n charge of
manslaughter for letting their mother
freeze to death.
The indictments We're nolle pressed
last night by District Attorney Arthur
*. Reading, who said he wanted to
save the girls from night in Jail.
Il do not believe these girls acted
much differently from other children
lacking guidance" he said.
The father of the defendants died
two years ago and the mother took
over his real estate business. Last
May Mrs. O'Connor suffered a par
alytic shock and from that time
until her death was confined to her
home.
When Winter came the mother
refused to allow the furnace to be
repaired, saying that a fire would
not be beneficial to her health. She
insisted that the children go to the
real estate office to sleep.
Dull uftuS nl6IS IeIuL 4leu 10 tne
home each morning and Aileen
usually remained at home until noon
each day
'On the 2fternon OF December 81.
when Aiieen returned to her home"
District Attorney Reading said her
mother was dead. She was afraid
TO tell even her younger sister; and
she did not return to her home for
several weeks.
THE suspicious OF ncighbors were
aroused, and on January IA entrance
was made into the house and the body
was found in bed
The girls, who had been unable
to furnish 81 900 bail and had no at
torney. were preparing to spend the
night in Jail. A half an hour after
the indictment had been nolle pressed
they left the courthouse with Mrs.
Celia Wellman. probation officer, who
assured the district attorney they
would get good home.
Evening star., 1926-03-11
Capitals Champion Spaghetti Eater
Challenges Los Angeles Man to Bout

total of 7,176 pounds. or about 3i2
tons of spaghetti.
Twenty elephants couldn't eat
that much spaghetti in one day,
Scalco declared today with consider
able heat THE only way that fell
low could eat spaghetti at the rate OF
% mile IL minute would be for him
to eat it on a train travelling that
fast
Salvatore believes that mans limit
is about pound. or 400 feet Of spa
ghetti. He easily consume half
pound at one sitting, and if pressed
to preserve his laurels as District
champion could put away well on to
600 or so feet, he asserts.
Il will give Modugno or any one
$1,000 cash if they can eat l3S miles
of spaghetti" Scalco announced.
Furthermore. he is willing 70 chal-
lenge any spaghetti eater, amateur
or professional, to standing start
catch as catch can show down for
the local championship
Evening star., 1926-03-11
Jaw, I'll Be
All Right" +" said
Mr.. Careless

That was yesterday-only yester-
day. :.
Today Mr.. Careless is fiat on his
back, fighting off the flu with only
/ slim chance of it's not turning
into pneumonia.
Think of it, A fine. strapping
healthy man always known as a
good steady worker, making good
money and comfortably supporting
a large family. now face to face
with a long body-wasting, income
| breaking siege Of sickness. And
what's worse, not knowing which
way it's going to go with him.
The pity of it all is he could have
prevented it. He heard the warn
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congestion OF phlegm and tried to
wish it away.
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Evening star., 1926-03-11
PASS SEGREGATION BILL.
Virginia Senators Concur in Racia,
Measure From House.
n TO The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, March 1.-THE
bill to compel the separation of the
whites and blacks in the places of
amusement, especially with reference
to Hampton. and in all public places,
has become a law.
1t. originated in the House and
Tuesday the Senate concurred in
the measure and it now goes to the
governor.
The racial integrity bill, declaring
who are white and who are black.
is expected to pass the Legislature.
An effort was made to head off con
sideration of these measures by ask
ing for a commission TO study the
question and make report, but it was
ruled out of order.
Evening star., 1926-03-11
First Telephone Message Accident,
Bell Was Really Calling for Help

another room, heard the words MI,
Watson, come here; | want YOU.
Bell had upset "A battery. and ht't
spilled acid on his clothes. When Wat
son hurried into the room. Bell wa
so elated he forgot completely the
damage caused by the acid. Watson
himself. related the story of the mis-
hap,
Successful demonstration of trans
mission of sound by light waves Ivy
Stock kbarger involved a principle sim
liar to that employed by Bell in hiS
unsuccessful efforts in 1878 or 1879.
Mr.. Stockbarger's apparatus employed
a photo-electriC cell, a device highly
sensitive to light. by which the vari,
ations in the beam OF light were trans
formed in electrical current, whose
pulsations were transformed IN the
customary manner into sound,
Evening star., 1926-03-11
ARREST Of BANDITS
|SEXPECTED SOON
Police Have Names of Men
Who Robbed Sixteenth
Street House.

ON information furnished by the
man of many aliases who confessed
to being member of the bandit gang
which entered the home of Mrs. Nor
man Williams. 1927 Sixteenth street.
last Sunday and stole jewelry valued
at nearly $4,000, police hope to make
arrests within a tew hours which VIII
bring into the net all the desperados
Joseph DaVidoff, alias Joseph Peter
Davis. but whose real name is neither
Davidoff nor Davis. has revealed I'M
portant information during the severe
erillinss he has undergone since MS
capture Sunday night. and police now
know the names of the other men,
bers of the gang.
Detectives believe the remaining
bandits are still in Washington and
police are closing in on them al
though the probability that the fop
berry was engineered from New York
is being worked on.
Prisoner Was Dupe.
Davidoff, it was revealed. was the
dupe of the other bandits, brought
here from New York as a substitute
for another desperate who could not
make the trip. Detectives have learn
ed that the other gangsters had plant
ed suitcases near the Williams home
ready to make a quick getaway. leaV-
ing Davidoff to be arrested. That Is
exactly what happened, according TO
a reconstruction of the crime made by
headquarters detectives, who believe
that the other bandits ran out of the
Williams home without telling David
off. guarding the maids in the kitchen,
OF the approach of police.
Headquarters has punctured the
story told by Davidoff that he first
met the other bandits in downtown
restaurant, and has proven that the
captured bandit came from New YORK
Friday. He stopped at house on
Seventh street with the other gang
sters Saturday night.
Seek Discharged Butler.
The important link which would
explain the bandits knowledge of the
Williams home and the number of
employees in it has not been uncov-
cred. Headquarters is still awaiting
word from Long Branch, n. j., and
Sing Sing prison as to the where
abouts of James Mcintyre, a footman
discharged by Mrs. Williams in 1911,
who began serving a 15-year term in
Sing Sing for robbery in 1913.
The bandit gang, it developed today,
Is headed by a New York gunman
who came here Saturday and distrib-
uted guns to the other members of
the gang Saturday night. He is the
.'pock-marked man" who has been
described by employees of the Williams
home and the head of the house on
Seventh street where the bandits
stayed Saturday night.
Evening star., 1926-03-11
HOME TO BE OPENED
FOR AGED AND ORPHANS
Trustees Name Committee to Ar
range Gaithersburg Methodist
Institution Ceremonies.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, March l1.--At
the annual meeting of the trustees of
the Home for the Aged and Orphans
of the Baltimore Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, To-
Gated adjoining Gaithersburg. COM
mittee. consisting of Rev. f. V. Reg
ester of Washington, chairman, and
Mrs. Thomas A. Groover, Washington.
and Rev. j. J. Ringer. Gaithersburg,
was named to arrange for the formal
opening of the home on April Is. II
was announced that Bishop Warren
A. Gambler of Atlanta, Ga, will be the
principal speaker.
The home, consisting of farm Of
106 acres and buildings worth $3.50
Evening star., 1926-03-11

BY tho AssOClated Press.
BOSTON, March 1.-Two interest
ing facts concerning the telephone and
its inventor, Alexander Graham Bell,
were recalled yesterday, on the fiftietn
anniversary of the first telephone con-
versation. More than AZ years ago
Bell attempted to talk over a day of
light. Tuesday d. c. Stockbarger,
instructor in physics at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, in
Cambridge. succeeded.
The second fact was that the first
telephone conversation. half century
ago. was Bells shout for help after
mishap. Bell and his assistant
Thomas A. Watson, were working in
Boston over their apparatus when
Watson, listening to the receiver in
Evening star., 1926-03-11
FILE BRIEFS IN MERGER.
Commerce Commission Gets Rail
Protests.

BY the Associated Press.
Several briefs were filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission to-
day in the proceedings of the Nor
folk and Western Railroad to ac-
quire control by lease of the Vir-
ginian Railway Co.
The majority of the briefs ex-
pressed opposition to the proposed
lease, but the Norfolk and Western
and the Virginian backed up the
proposition The former declared
that a unified operation of it's line
and the Virginian would save s19,-
200. 600. which it declared would have
to be expended in the near future as
necessary under separate operation
Of the two roads Further expendi-
ture of $40,000.00 some time later
would be required for the double
tracking of BAG miles of Virginian
road from Princeton to Norfolk
Evening star., 1926-03-11
HALTS POLITE THIEF.
Woman Interrupts Robbery-1n
truder Bows and Departs.

Exemplary politeness was shown py
an unidentified colored man VINO
..ii,nmied' his way into the apartment
~ Mr. and Mrs. Percy Klein, on the
lower floor of 1920 Calvert street, yes
terday. -
Finding her apartment door un-
fastened when she returned about 4:3O
o'clock, Mrs. Klein entered and dis
covered the neatly dressed young bur-
glar. with his hat removed and in
his shirt sleeves, preparing to rifle
the premises. Too much frightened to
utter a word herself. Mrs. Klein told
the police she watched the intruder
as he remained perfectly silent while
he donned his coat and hat and. with
a polite bow. left the apartment. OW'
ing to Mrs. klein's opportune return
he took nothing with him.
Evening star., 1926-03-11
Dies of Wounds.

Charles Wyndham, 81 years old.
223 Indiana avenue, who shot himself
in the head while seated in a Ninth
street lunchroom early Monday morn
ing, died at Emergency Hospital early
today. Wyndham, who is survived by
his mother and two sons, wrote note
explaining that i'll health prompted
the deed
Evening star., 1926-03-11
|50TH ANNIVERSARY
OF PHONE OBSERVED
Celebration Held at City Club.
Berry Reviews History
of Industry.

The fiftieth anniversary Of the
telephone was celebrated last night
by the Washington Telephone So
ciety with family meeting at the
City Club. Albert E. Berry. presi-
dent of the Chesa sapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co. and associated COM
panies, spoke on Fifty Years of the
Telephone" He covered in a general
way the life, surroundings and
schooling of Alexander Graham Bell,
inventor of the telephone. and de-
scribed experimental work leading up
t. it's invention and to the present
day. modern, efficiency of telephone
service.
A feature of the program included
huge birthday cake, on which was
mounted so lighted candles. Mount
ed on a table on wheels. it was rolled
to the center of the floor where
John G. White. Il telephone employe
dressed as a chef. cut the cake.
Misses Germaine Borruat and Bcr-
nice Teunis stopped out ana dis
tributed souvenirs.
Several moving picture films. show =
ing so years of telephone progress
and actual scenes of the Signal
Corps during the World War, were
shown for the e6ifcal lion of the audi
ence. which numbered about LOO
people Preston G.. King. president
Of the society. presided and made in
troductory remarks.
Evening star., 1926-03-11
Representative Barkley III.

Representative Barkley of Kentucky
is suffering from a slight infection of
The spinal column and is confined to
his home.
1t is expected a minor operation will
be necessary. He probably will go to
l. hospital before the week end.
Evening star., 1926-03-11

In settlement for q large order OF
engineering matcria! Soviet authori-
ties of Russia sent a shipment of g.
0O0, 600 eggs. the contract calling for
payment ''ip kind"
Evening star., 1926-03-11

Because of financial losses in the
handling OF used cars in South Africa
the Motor Trades Association there
will appoint an official valuator OF
used automobiles
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-01
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-01
FORD BROTHERS HELD
Others Also Arrested for Alleged Sat-
urday- Night Activities.

The Ford brothers are held today
by police as a result OF their al
legged activities late Saturday.
Joe Ford, TAB w. New York ST.;
Russell Taylor, FIT. Benjamin Har-
rison, and Leonard Stark, SOB N.
Temple Ave, are held on vagrancy
CHARGES, and Zeke Gribble, FIT. Har-
rison and John McGillivray, S12 S.
Capitol Ave-, are charged with rob
5ery, after James Anderson, TIC N.
Senate Ave-, told police he was at
tackled by gang at Capitol Ave. and
Wabash ST. and robbed of 85 cents
when be refused to drink out Of a
bottle they offered him.
John Ford, TAB w. New York ST.,
and James Nolan, city, are held on
blind tiger charges, and Lucille Burk,
223 Patterson St., lis charged with
vagrancy, after the trio was found
with liquor in an auto in the rear
Of 405 w. Washington st. Search is
being made for another woman.