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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
LINERS CHARTERED
FOR LEGION CHIEFS
Cabin Steamers Will Take Vet
Grams Leaders to Paris Conven-
tion-Plans Are Announced.

by the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August Cabin steam
ers Of the United States lines will
carry high officials of the American
Legion to the organizations 1927 ma
tional convention in Paris, John j.
Wicker of Richmond, Va, national
travel director, announced today
The steamships President Harding,
Roosevelt and Republic will be used.
and an additional ship will act as flag
ship, carrying a delegation made up
of legjonnaires from every State.
The national commander and his
staff. all national officers and the
American Legion guard of honor,
made up of $50 legionnaires. rep
resenting every State. will go on a
single liner.
Wicker was told by officers of the
United States lines that the Legion is
the first American organization to give
preference to American liners on a
transatlantic movement.
Six other lines will be pressed into
service to carry Legion men to Paris,
because of lack of facilities on Amer
lean lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
Teacher, Once Crippled, Sets Record
For World in Middle-Distance Run

German records from 400 to $500
meters.
The doctor of philosophy and politi-
cal science, born March s, 1900, credits
his mother with his first w9rld record,
because, he said, she urged him to run
in London despite bad cold.
He was the weakling of the family"
Mrs. PeltZer said. Until he was II
years old phycisians refused to allow
him to attend school and he was edu-
Gated by tutoress. At Z, he lay in
bed for months with inflammation of the
hips. We thought he'd never be able
to walk again. Participation in ath.
letics in high school restored his
health, but 1t was not until he was ~
that he ran his first race"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
The Mean Thing.

From the Boston Transcript.
After driving her husband almost
frantic one evening with her chatter,
she remarked: John, I suppose when
1 die you'll have a mausoleum built in
my memory"
Don't fool yourself" returned her
exasperated husband. when you die
I will have you cremated and your
ashes placed in an hour-glass with an
automatic reversing arrangement.
Then YOU can keep on going for ever
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
Prom the Outlook Magazine.

FROM the Uuuook Maga2lne.
The new dial system which the tele-
phone company has installed in New
York City requires the subscriber to
get his own numbers by means of
moving the dial. a friend tells us
that the only way he can get a num-
Der Is by flashing the operator and
telling her that both his arms are
broken, that he has St Vitus' dance,
that he is blind and will throw him.
self out OF the window If she refuses
help.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

In East Africa the drought has
been so severe that wild animals
have invaded the towns and settle
ments in search of water. At
Nairobi the inhabitants have only to
stroll a short distance out of town to
encounter herds Of buffalo and rhinbs
and it is a frequent occurrence to MEET
all manner of big game. including
lions, on the roads leading from Sne
town to another.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

own shop on Twelfth street, opposite
the Raleigh. Soon the young mems
trade was booming. 1t was all they
could do to keep the cash register in
order from the strain. and their
threats clear from calling the Sc
quence of customers.
And now-well, business is ver' nize.
thank you.
And, say; mebbe you can come to
Louey's and Tony's celebration neXta
week eh?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
Just One Drawback
rom the Outlook Magazine.

From the Outlook Magazine.
The House Agent-You say you
have no children, monograph or radio,
and you don't keep a dog? You seem
just the quiet tenant the owner in
siStS on.
The House Hunter don't want to
hide anything about my character, so
you might tell the owner that my
fountain pen squeakS bit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
Ry the. Associated Press.

RERLIN. August 7.-Suffering from
inflammation of the hip joints when Z
vears old so that physicians feared ne
might never walk unassisted, Dr. Otto
PeItzer of Stettin. is being feted by
scores of citizens as the greatest anna
teur middle-disance runner in the
world.
DR.. PeltZer at recent track meet in
Stamford Bridge, London. lowered by
six.tenths of a second the world record
for the half mile set by ]. f. Meredith
of the University of Pennsylvania at
Cambridge, Mass. May q, 1916. The
Stettin high school teacher negotiated
the distance in SIG. He holds all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
Sufficient.

From the London Tid-Bits.
The shop was deserted except for
The cashier. A handsome young man
strolled in.
do you keep motor car accessories
here?" he asked.
The pretty cashier smiled sweetly.
"Only me-" she replied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

y device to illuminate the dial of tn"
automatic telephone SO that it may
be used in the dark has been invented
by a Dallas man. The light is turned
on and off automatically as the re
ceiver is removed or replaced ON the
hook
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

The Helsinfors- Stockholm air line is
substituting for the small passenger
planes machines with a capacity of 10
paSSen~erS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
BUSINESS SHOWS GAIN.
Checks, Car Loadings, Mine Pro.
duction and Prices Advance.

General business conditions through.
out the country continued good dur
ing the last week Of August, accord
ing TO a Commerce Department sur
vey made public today. Business
activity, as seen from check pay
ments, continued to show advances
over a year ago, and distribution of
goods, as shown by car loadings dur.
ing the third week of August. con-
tinued to record increases over the
previous week or the corresponding
awarded during the last week of the
month were larger than in either the
previous week or the corresponding
week of 1925.
Bituminous coal production in the
third week of August was larger
than in the same week of last year,
and the petroleum output for the last
week eclipsed that OF the previous
week.
Wholesale prices during the fourth
week averaged higher than in the pre-
yious week for the first time in al
most two months. but were still below
the average Of a year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
bL|MP'S TEST TRIP
DECLARED SUCCESS
Crew Well Pleased With
-Conquering Flight.
Will Return. Soon.


BELLENTLLE, ILL.,. September A.
Members of the crew of the Army
blimp TC-5 today said they were well
pleased with the behavior of the
dirigibIe which came safely through
two storms and landed at Scott Field.
near here, early yesterday after a
flight which began almost &c hours
before from Langley Field, Va.
The first real test of the trip came
when the ship swung across the AL
leghenies Wednesday, night. The next
trial was when passing over Terre
Ilaute, Ind. Thursday night. The
ships officers swung it back toward
the northwest to run around a storm.
Part of the storm was avoided. but
the crew was drenched in Il heavy
rain during heavy twisting winds.
Lieut.. w. a. Gray, commander, ex-
pressed the belief that the TC-5 and
other non-rigid models were better
able to fight out storm than rigid
models.
The fight was made with a view
tween Langley Field and Scott Field
corresponding to the airplane airways
now In use by the Army between va
rious fields. The trip was made also
to test the reliability of air ships for
night bombing operations.
The ship travelled l.201 miles be-
cause Of the storm detours, although
the airplane mileage is only $50. 1t
is planned to fly the TC-5 back. leav-
ing Wednesday or Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
MELLON, IN LONDON,
VAGUE ON HIS PLANS
Arrives Without Notice and Keeps
Silent on Possibility of
Financial Talks.
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON. September i-AndrcW
W. Mellon, American Secretary of
the Treasury. who arrived last night
from Paris. picked 1t good time for
reaching London unnoticed the week
end exodus of officials and notables
already being well under way
The American embassy had not
been informed that he was leaving
Paris. and neither American nor Brit
lSh officials We're AT the station t.
lleet him. Embassy. foreign office
and troa surr >puiiesmen today dis
claimed knowledge of any forthcom-
ing conferences between Nh Mellon
and officials here.
The Secretary told the newspaper
men he was here on a holiday. He
could not say whether he would con
fer with Winston Churchill. chan.
cellor of the eXcheQuer. or Montagu
Norman, governor of the Bank of
England. He insisted he had made no
plans whatever for his stay and did
not know whether he would see the
American .Amba ssador. AlanSon r.
HouGhton, who is on vacation in
Scotland.
The Evening News says Mr.. Mellon
was most charmingly vague about
his visit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
GROUPS HOLD Up
MEXICAN SENATE
Legislative Body Unable to
Function Due to Contests
Over Seats.
BY the Associated Press.


MEXICO CITY, September A.
The Mexican Senate still is unable
to function. This is due to the fact
that the rival political groups have
been unable to agree on the con-
tests for seats in the upper chamber
by candidates in the elections held
July 4.
A measure embodying new re-
ligious regulations limiting the num-
Der of priests in each State is being
prepared for submission to Congress
by the department of the interior. If
enacted and approved by President
Gales, these regulations will sup
plant those promulgated by the
chief executive recently which
caused the religious controversy be-
tween the government and the
Roman Catholic Episcopate.
While nothing is known as to the
details Of the bill, it is reported that
it may permit one foreign clergy
man to- off1ciate in each church of a
foreign congregation. This would
apply to all denominations
Meanwhile the episcopate is busily
engaged in completing the petition
which it intends to place before
Congress. for modification of the re-
ligious laws and in seeking some one
to introduce and support the petition,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
MAJ. BROOKS BETTER:
PRESIDENT CHEERED
White House Colored Steward Still
in Critical Condition From
Heart Ailment.

PAUL SMITHS. Y. Y. September
4.-President Coolidge was enCour-
aged by a telegram from Washington
yesterday stating that Maj. Arthur
Brooks, negro steward at the White
House, and the valet who attended
Presidents Taft. Wilson and Harding
as well as Mr.. Coolidge. is improved
and there is a faint hope he might
survive n heart attack under which
he had sunk into coma.
Maj. Brooks is one of the finest
men in Washington. President Cool
idge told friends today in comment
ing on the steward. Maj. Brooks
served in the negro Militia Of Wash
ington and for years was employed
at the War Department.
DR.. f. c. Terry. the physician in
attendance on Maj. Brooks. today de-
clared his patient had fighting
chance to recover
Maj. Brooks. he said. was stricken
August 20. and his condition rapidly
became worse. BY Wednesday 1t was
thought he would not survive the
day, and the doctor remained in his
presence constantly. Since that time
the patient has slowly improved, but
his condition still Is critical Mai
Brooks lives at 1902 s street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
CHECK OF STEVENS
AL|B| CONTINUES
Steps Taken to Have Former
State Trooper Returned
From Prison in West.

BY the Associated Press.
SOMERNILLE. y. j., September
4.--lnveStieatorS for the State yes
terday continued to check the alibi
given by Henry stevens for his ac
tons on the night his brother in
law. the Rev. Edward w. Hall. and
Mrs. Eleanor Mills were slain under
Il crab apple tree on the old Phillips
farm near New Brunswick.
Stevens sticks to the story he told
detectives in the initial inquiry four
years agU-that he was Oh "a fishing
party at Lavalette. 80 miles from
New Brunswick, when the lovers
were killed.
Special Prosecutor Simpson left
Jersey City late Yesterday for Toms
River. to question additional wit
nesse>S who are said To strengthen
Stevens story. Deputies of Sheriff
John X. G. Grant of Ocean County
have been watching the Stevens
home at Lavalette since Wednesday,
when Simpson declared alibi wit
neSSes told conflicting stories
Steps We're taken by Government
authorities, Simpson announced yes
terday. to return to this State former
State Trooper Henry hickman, now a
prisoner in the Army Disciplinary Bar
racks at AlcatTaz Island. on the Pa
citic Coast
In purported interview in the San
Francisco Chronicle three weeks ago
hickman, who took part in the orig
lnal investigation of the murders four
years ago. was quoted as admitting
that he accepted money Ito shut up
and get out The Story was later de
MED officially at the barracks
Henry Stevens appeared at the
murder scene in very nervous condi-
tion few days after the bodies were
found, according 10 Patrick Hayes,
one of Simpsons detectives.
Mrs. Hanna Iloag of New Bruins
wick. whose home is a few hundred
feet from where the bodies were found
and who testified at the hearing for
admission TO bail of Willie Stevens
and Carpenter that she heard fou;
shots, talked to Henry Stevens. Hayes
said.
Hayes declared the State will aScribe
as the motive for the staying the dis
covery by Mrs. Hall that Mrs. Mills
wanted DIR. Hall to get a divorce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
GIRLS CAUSE INCREASE
IN TOBACCO IMPORTS
Necessary to Enlarge Warehouse
at London Docks Due to New
f Rank of Smokers.
BY the Associated Press


LONDON. September 4-Heavy
smoking by large numbers of Lon
don's girls and women, many of
whom consume a package or two OF
cigarettes a day. is held responsible
in measure for the fact that the
authorities are being forced to add
another story TO the huge tobacco
warehouse at the London docks. The
present building. through which all
imports pass, has been far too small
Dealers about the city confirm the
idea that the growing demand for
tobacco on the part of the female
popula ton is one Of the prime rea-
ecrs why tobacco imports havI
GROWN from about so. 900 tons in 1910
10 nearly $4,000 last year.
Look at the number of girls and
women who smoke nowadays-look
AZ the amount they smoke" said the
head of one of the largest retail
tobacco firms. Before the war
women smoked comparatively little.
Now a substantial percentage of our
customers are girls. many of whom
smoke from 10 TO 30 cigarettes
day"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
MOtOrist Refusing
ToCive UpRevoked
Permit to Be.Fined

Any motorist who fails to give
up his operators permit after it
has been revoked will be subject
to a fine Of SIS to 500. under a
new regulation adopted by the
commissioners yesterday.
An amendment to the traffic code
providing that the present ban on
left hand turns for southbound
traffic from Vermont avenue into
II street shall apply only during
rush hours also was approved.
The rule also prohibits left turns
of east and west bound traffic
from II street into Vermont ave
nue. or Madison place.
Another order issued yesterday
abolishes parking at any time on
the west side Of Seventeenth street
from X street to Massachusetts
avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
Jesse James

A book about this bandit l lately
have perused; the author nobly
planned it: it kept me much enthused.
1t seems it is libel to say that James
was bad; he often read his Bible. he
was q pious lad. When not engaged
in robbing or other lawless acts, he
read, with spirit throbbing, all kinds
of soulful tracts. His heart was full
Of kindness. it made him sigh and
groan that heather in their blindness
bowed down to wood and stone. His
soul would often CULVER with deep and
wearing pain, he longed so to deliver
the land from errors chain. But he
had aunts and cousins who looked to
him for bread. and so he held up
dozens. and shot them full of lead. BY
tearing up the trackage he stopped
the railway train. and lifted wad and
package from every weeping swain.
And if a wight resisted the bandit
stern and grim, James VOTED, Weened
and visited that death would do for
him. His hands were red and reeking
with blood in business hours. but leis-
ure found him seeking religions finest
flowers. Although his worldly meas.
ures were desperately wrong. his mind
was stored with treasures from Solo
mon, his song. The author strives to
clear him of legends that alright, and
trying to revere him I've sat up half
the night. But all his pious motions
will not conceal the tale of how, be-
tween deyotions. he hit the murder
trail. 1t is a common trouble, the
one the bandit had. to try TO travel
double with good things and with bad.
To sing the psalms on Sunday. TO
grovel and 10 pray. and then go forth
on Monday TO cheat or rob or slay.
Religion has no merit If laid aside at
times, if people only wear 1t between
their sins and crimes. And men who
once were boosting this James. who'd
rob a church. will loathe him. now
he's roosting upon a holy perch.
WALT MASON.
tCopyright. l936.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
VALENTINES DOCTOR
MAKES FULL REPORT
Gives Detailed Description of His
Diagnosis and Technique
in Actors Illness.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September A let
ter describing in technical detail the
steps of diagnosis. operation and treat
ment of Rudolph Valentino during the
illness preceding his death, written
by DIR. Harold Z. Meeker. the surgeon
who performed the double operation
for appendicitis and gastric ulcer. to
the actors manager, S. George I'LL
man. was made public last night.
DIR. Meeker stated that he examined
Valentino for the first time at sis
pm. August 90, at the Polytechnic Hos
pital, where the screen star had been
taken after his collapse. The physi-
clan said he urged immediate opera
ton. In technical detail, DR.. Meeker
described the serious conditions lie
found. including "a round hole one
centimeter in diameter in the anterior
wall of the stomach" He then de-
scribed the progress Of Valentines
condition up to the time sepsis set in,
eight days later. ending the actors
life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
S113,704 SHORTAGE
REPORTED BY FIRM
Baltimore Prosecutor Summons
Score of Witnesses in Open
ing Investigation.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. September Estates
Attorney Herbert II. O'COnor today
started an investigation of a reported
shortage of S113.704.5 in funds of the
investment brokerage and banking
firm of w. w. Lanahan & Co.
A score of persons have been sum-
moned and it is intimated that sew
eEal indictments may follow. A state
ment was given out by Henry w.
Duer, "a member of the firm, as fol-
lows:
Recently we discovered there was
an apparent shortage in our cash,
although this shortage was not found
by the outside certified public account
ants at our last semi-annual audit.
Upon discovery of the shortage
we Immediately called in auditors. and
upon their checking back it has been
ascertained our cash is short to the
extent of $113.704.57. Our securities
have been checked and found intact.
I'VE are bonded to the extent of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
WOMEN NOT ONLY COSMETICS
USERS IN u. S., DESPITE DENIALS
But Articles Principally Demanded by
Men Are Shaving Lotions, Hair Tonics
and Dentifrices, Statistics Indicate.

on cosmetics" for his beneflt--the
after shaving powders and scents and
lotions. the massage creams and the
hair tones. OF course. II shOuldn' I
be mentioned in polite society. but
there is also the little matter of hair
dyes All these things are cosmetics
to the Government. Therefore, they
must be cosmetics to the mere male.
The Government also classifies den
tritices as cosmetics. and here again
the male of the species. very properly
and commercially. is as guilty" as
the more deadly female.
L. s. Makers Growing.
The significance Of recent Govern
ment statistics is that the United
States rapidly is coming into its own
in the manufacture of cosmetics.
Probably this will be renewed cause
for hatred of Americans in Europe.
Time was when virtually all the cos
ineticS came from France. They still
come from there in increasing millions
of dollars in value. But the curve OF
production in this country rapidly is
rising and the French cosmeticians
soon will have to look to their laurels.
The cosmetics produced in the United
States last year had n total value of
$141 ,4SS, 900. The largest item was the
cream and rouges, amounting to S34.-
17S.000. The next largest. however
was the dentrifices. valued at $50. 496..
600 Talcum and other powders held
third place. with Il value of $2l .423,
600. Infants and men must share the
talcum toll with the ladies'. Locker
room attendants at the golf clubs re
port heavy increase in the use of
these powders.
The So. $4,000 worth of hair tonics
made last wear can nearly all be traced
to the men. They are inveterate users
and our BARRIERS continue the best
statesmen. If men object 10 being cos
metic addicts they must get the Gov
ernment to change its labels.
Copyright 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

Whenever the Government makes
public its estimates of cosmetics pro-
duced in this country or imported from
abroad, the popular pastime is TO jump
to the conclusion that the heavy In
creases of the past few years have
been due to the flappers. And the
finger of scorn in general is held up
to all womanhoOd. Ii any blame rs al
tached to the marvellous cosmetic flS-
ures the women are blamed.
There is no question of the fact that
women have been won over completely
to the art of makeup. 1t doesn't seem
50 many years ago that nOvelists We're
writing about the painted ladies' as
n term of moral turpitude. Nova
days the implanted lady is so rare as
to be Unfortunately conspicuous. ana
the only regret heard abroad In the
land is that SO many children are mo-
ing their natural healthy colors under
the carmine of the cosmetic maker
art. -,
However, the point is that the ladies
are not alone to blame for the great
increase in the output of the so-cailed
cosmetics. When it was softly suS'
gested a short time ago that men We're
equally guilty with the women OF the
country there was q masculine now
which could he heard from PASSPORT.
Me. to the Gulf of California. lrate
man resented what he put down as a
dirty dig. He was outraged. lie
never. heard of such thing. He dared
the women to prove their case,
But He Does Use Cosmetics.
The trouble with mere man is that
he only thinks of rouge and lipsticks
and eyebrow pencils when you speak
of cosmetics, and he'll be darned if he
uses such things. And he is quite
right.
But mere man had no knowledge OF
just what the Government refers to
as cosmetics. And. probably, he had
no idea of the amount of money his
own very particular barbershop spends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-04

Custer of Kansas City, Kans.,
Official Sought Pending
Court Trial.

10y inc Associated Press
TOPEKA kans.. September =
Charging irregularities in the admin
istration of city affairs. Attorney
General Charles Il. Griffith Yesterday
filed an custer petition against Mayor
w. w. Gordon uf Kansas City. kans.,
in the State Supreme Court.
Filing of the petition followed an
investigation 10y l.. =. Harvey.
Kansas City attorney. operating I'M
der the supervision of the attorney
general. The petition charges Mayor
Gordon with Juggling city funds and
expanding public money for personal
use OF individuals. permitting the
manufacture and sale Of liquor. pro-
tecting gambling houses and tolerat-
ing vice rings.
The attorney general announced he
had prepared a motion for presenta-
ton TO the court today asking the
immediate removal Of Mayor Gordon
pending trial of the suit.
The Harvey report made public
yesterday. mentioned other city Of
ficials. Asked if he was preparing
additional custer petitions. Mr.. Grif
fifth said: Il could do only one thing
at a time