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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
DAVIS AND BRIDE AWAITING
BLESSINGS OF VANDERBuTS
English Match Evaded by
EIopement, Is
Report.
Ceremony at Little Church
Follows That at
City Hall.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 2S.-Having
married an American whom she loved
rather than an Englishman favored
by her mother. Mrs. Henry Gassaway
Davis, Sd, who up till noon yesterday
was Miss Grace Vanderbilt, today
awaited the forgiveness OF her par
ents, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt.
The heiress and the young mining
engineer and one Of the heirs OF the
$50 900 900 estate Of the late Senator
Henry Gassaway Davis, eloped yester'
day and were married in a civil cere-
mony at noon at the Municipal Build
ing. About midnight they were mar
ried again by an Episcopal Ceremony
at the Little Church Around the Cor
ner.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., newspaper
editor. and brother of the bride, ex.
planned the reason for the haste. the
absence of relatives and the lack Of
announcement Of the engagement.
English Match Eyaded.
II think that the reason for the
haste was that my mother wanted
Grace to marry an Englishman," he
said. II am very glad that she has
done what she has done. for Mr..
Davis Is fine young man, and they
are very much In love with each
other. am sure they will be happy"
Immediately after the wedding in
the Municipal Building. Mrs. Davis
.telephoned her parents. The news
papers say the parents did not answer
the call. The New York American to-
day attributed to an unnamed friend
of the family the information that a
church ceremony was necessary be-
fore parental forgiveness and bless
ings.
From the Municipal Building the
couple went to the apartment of the
brides brother, where Mrs. Davis
wrote note to her parents asking
their blessing and expressing her will
ingness to have an Episcopal cere-
mony. No reply was received, the
papers say. The butler at the Wander
bilt mansion on Fifth avenue said he
was instructed to say the Vanderbilts
had no comment to make.
Uncle A Witness.
At the civil ceremony a Municipal
Building policeman and Col. Henry
Howell Armstead, an uncle Of the
bridegroom, were witnesses. The
couple were married by Deputy City
Clerk J. J. Mccormick.
The witnesses at the church cere-
mony were Col. Armstead and the
church janitor. Col. Armstead has an
estate at Kootenay Lake, British
Columbia. and one presumption is
that the honeymoon will be there.
Mrs. Armstead Davis, mother of the
groom. when told Of the wedding In
Washington, voiced her approval.
Even while reports of the former
Miss Vanderbilts engagement to
titled Europeans persisted. her ro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29

nance with the young engineer
thrived. The couple met in Washing
ton a year ago and reports of their
betrothal became current in Wash
ington, where Davis was residing, last
May. Neither of their families con-
fipmed the rumors. Gen. and Mrs.
Vanderbilt were reported opposed to
the marriage and declined to issue a
formal announcement of the engage
ment.
Made Debut in 1918.
Mrs. Davis, 81 years old and two
years the senior Of her husband, made
her debut at Newport in 1918 and was
presented at the British court in 1920.
Reports followed of her engagement
to Prince George, youngest son of
King George of England; Lord Ivor
Spencer Churchill, son of the former
Duchess of Marlborough, nee Miss
Consuelo Vanderbilt; the Marquis of
Donegal, Prince Alexandra Dietrich
stein Of Austria, Lord Leopold Mount
batten and Albert H. Ely, jr.
Davis is a member of one of the
oldest families in West Virginia. He
Is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. John T.
Davis, who were separated several
years ago. He Is a grandson and
namesake of Senator Davis, once
Democratic nominee for the vice presi-
dency.
Davis was graduated from Prince.
ton in 1924, later studying mining at
Columbia University. He is now iden.
titled with the Armstead Ventures,
Inc, of which his uncle, Col. Arm
stead, is president.
The former Miss Vanderbilt is the
only daughter Of Gen. Vanderbilt, a
director of 20 railroads, insurance
companies and banks. She is a de-
scendant Of Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
TWOOUT-OF.TOWN
PRINCIPALS NAMED
Wilson Normal and Langley
Junior High School Va
cancieS Filled.

Out of town educators have beer
decided upon to fill the principaIships
OF the Wilson Normal School and the
Langley Junior High School. made
vacant by the resignation of Miss
Anne Cooling and the promotion OF
Henry w. Draper. 1t was learned
authoritatively today.
Formal action on the two new
appointments was to be taken by
the Board of Education at the final
meeting Of the school year. at the
Franklin School this afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock.
{ Favorably Acted On.
/, The Wilson Normal School will go
ITO a woman and the Langley Junior
High School to a man, both names
already having been favorably passed
upon by the personnel committee Oh
Ihhe board.
The new principal of the La~gley
Junior High will assume his hew
nuties July /, but the successor or
Miss Cooling will not take office until
sSeptember /, as Miss Goding's resig :
nation does not take effect until
nhat date.
7 Selected With Care.
I Exceptional care has been taken
shv DIR. Frank w. Ballou, superintend'
sent, and his assistants in the consid'
seration of principals for the two
SCHOOLS, it was said at the Franklin
sSchool this morning, and 1t was added
shat decision to appoint the out-of'
..town educators came after a survey
(which took in also the local schools.
swhen IL was held that the prospective
Eappointees had the qualifications oe'
<sirable for. the posts to be filled.
A ouantity of routine business will
he cleared up at today's meeting. The
REORGANIZATION meeting Of the board,
which probably will be the last until
next September. will be held July /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
AT Odds With Rescue League.
Pola Negri Bitten by Poisonous Spider
As She Sleeps in California Beach Home

According to Miss Negri, she was
awakened about o'clock in the
morning by a pain on her forehead
and upon touching It found a SWELL
ng. the size OF which rapidly in
creased.
Doctors were called and diagnosed
the wound as due to the bite of a
poisonous spider. Despite the treat
ment immediately given, Miss Negri
was forced to suspend motion picture
work Monday,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
CHANG HOPES j. s.
WILL Be FRIEND
Marking Leader Has Person.
aIity of Surprising Force,
interviewer Finds.
BY PAUL WRIGHT.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Da
News, Copyright 1927

News. Copyright. 1927.
NANKING, June 29.-Gen. Chang
Kai-Shek, head of the Marking Ma
tionalist government, will surprise
you, no matter what opinions you
hold before you meet him. The
chances are you will have several
vivid ideas before you have passed
all the doorways and moon gates OF
his residence, crossed the great paved
courtyards and skirted the lily pond
encountering at every turn eager
eyed youths, each with a Mauser ir
his fist and his index finger on the
trigger.
All Of this helps to create ORA
matte setting for your interview with
China's foremost military figure, who
in the last two or three years has
risen from obscurity to a place of
400,000,000 people. You are ushered
into reception hall, where you en-.
counter a handsome young man, who
greets you pleasantly and uncere
moniously.
Man of Fine Eyes.
1t will probably annoy Chang Kai
Shek as a first-class fighting man tC
read that he has fine eyes, but it is a
fact. They are not the black, impene
trables eyes so many of his country
men have, but are warmly brown
Moreover, they are wide open, appa
rently friendly and they twinkle with
amusement. They have way of look
ing straight at you. Chiang's are eyes
of courageous man, not in the habit
of beating about the bush. What he
wants he goes after. No evasion is
discernible.
His conversation is like that. He is
asked a question and replies to ii
seriously, giving the best answer the
situation allows. Not once in the halt
hour we talked did he parry one query
by putting another, although as a
Chinese he would have had the best
precedents for so doing. His answers
were brief.
Speaks No English.
The talk was conducted with the
assistance of an interpreter, because
though Chang studied in Japan and
speaks Japanese, he speaks no Eng.
lish. An attendant brought green tea
of most delicate flavor and box of
big cigars. Over in a corner of the
room sat pair Of male stenograph.
ers taking down questions and an.
SWerS In Two languages. PROBABLY
Chang has been misquoted and does
not like it.
We discussed the war and other
routine affairs, including his attitude
toward foreigners. He repeated his
desire for foreigners to come back and
carry on, saying the Chinese people
are friendly toward us. The facts
verify his assertion.
This correspondent wandered every-
where about Marking without insult or
injury, concluding the people of Nan.
king want the Marking incident for.
gotten. naturally enough. Even sol.
diers were uniformly kind.
It was extremely interesting to hear
Chang predict the coming elimination
of the Russian adviser. Borodin, and
the Nankow communists, after hav.
ing heard the same prediction for Chi.
ang from the lips of Eugene Chen,
Hankow foreign minister. a few weeks
before. The logic of events, however,
seems to side with Chang Kai.Shek.
Chang expressed his admiration for
America, his wish for Americas
friendship and also his hope some
day to visit the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
j. 5. PLAYERS WIN
IN TENNIS MATCH
TiIden and Hunter Easily De-
feat English Competitors at
Wimbledon, rs, 60, GO.
BY the Associated Press.

WIMBLEDON, England, June 20.
William r. Tilden and Francis T.
Hunter. the. American pair, had a
comparatively easy time In winning
from the young Englishmen, Latch
ford and Pryce-Jones, today. IS,
6-3, 6--3, thus entering the semi
finals. The match was interrupted by
the usual downpour in the third set.
Today was doubles day in the VIM
bledon tournament, no singles match
es being scheduled.
Henri Cochet and Jacques Brug-
non Of France reached the doubles
quarter finals by defeating Karl Ko-
zeluh and M. Gottlied of Czechoslo-
vakia at 60, GO, 6-3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
LAUNCH COMMISSIONED.
Craft Built by Harbor Police Goes
Into Service.

The second launch built by men,
bers of the harbor police precinct dur.
ing their off.time was commissioned
in service yesterday, 1t was announced
by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse. superintend.
ent of police. 1t was christened the
Maj. William G. Moore. In memory Of
the superintendent Of police from 1877
to 1898.
The first launch built by the harbor
precinct force is the Maj. Edwin B.
Hesse, which has been in the service
for several months. The new boat has
been assigned to special work in the
Georgetown channel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
APPEAL TO COURT
AGAINST MERGER
Washington Humane Society
and Animal Rescue League
Differences Outlined.

A bill Of complaint was filed in
Equity Court yesterday asking disso-
luton Of the merger of the Washing
ton Humane Society and the Animal
Rescue League, which was voted at
the annual meeting of the former or
ganization April 13.
The plaintiff is James p. Briggs,
622 G street northeast, who was the
foremost supporter of Rev. C. Ernest
Smith, rector of st. Thomas Episco
pal Church. the former president of
the Humane Society, who was ousted
at this meeting after q spirited fight.
Mr.. Briggs repeats in the bill of
complaint the charges made by DIR.
Smith at the meeting, to the effect that
the session had been packed with per-
sons who were not entitled to vote
and who were supporters Of the mer-
ger with the Animal Rescue League.
These persons, 1t was contended, did
not have membership cards signed by
Rev. DR.. Smith, but only ones which
had been rubber stamped with his
signature by the secretary without
his knowledge.
Sees Objects Divergent.
The bill of complaint states that
the objects Of the two societies are
divergent. The Humane Society, says
Mr.. Briggs, has for it's main object
the prevention of cruelty to children
and animals and the prosecution of
offenders, while the Animal Rescue
League puts to death more than 80
per cent of the homeless creatures
brought to it or found on the streets.
It infringes, he claims, on the func-
tons Of the pound keeper.
The Humane Society, he says, has
real and personal property valued at
approximately $4,000, while the
Animal Rescue League has no prop
erty other than the house which 1t
uses for headquarters. He asks for
an accounting Of the funds.
The defendants are the two So
cieties, Mrs. Truman G. Palmer, joint
president, and John P. Heap. joint
secretary. Mrs. Palmer was president
of the Animal Rescue League and Mr.
Heap secretary of the Humane So
ciety when the merger was effected
by putting the two organizations un.
der one head. Attorneys for Mr.
Briggs are the law firm Of Easily
Smith, Pine & Hill and George c.
Page.
At Odds With Rescue League.
Mr.. Briggs IL president of the HUI
name Education Society, an organiza-
ton opposed to the destruction of an
imals, and hence at odds with the An
imal Rescue League.
The object of the merger stated at
the time was to prevent unnecessarily
duplication of efforts and provide for
a more efficient organization to cover
the whole field. DR.. Smith at the time
OF the meeting insisted that the affair
would not end there, but that a fund
accounting would be required.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
PEEK-A-B00 SHIRTS NEXT.
Tinted Underwear Also Predicted
for Male Wardrobe.

NEW YORK, June 20 @.-A
stylish shudder passed down the spines
OF New York's fashion arbiters yester-
day when II was calmly predicted in
trade circles that mems shirts next
beneath. s%
absurd" said one arbiter. Out
landish--simply, completely Outland-
ish,p said another.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
NEGRO SLASHES HIS WIFE,
THEN COMMITS SUICIDE
Horace Smith Uses Stick to Spring
Trigger Of Gun With Which
. He Killed Himself.

After slashing his wife with jacB
knife, inflicting wounds Of such seri-
BUSINESS that she is in a critical condi-
ton, Horace Smith, 55-year-old colored
laborer, 1907 Third street southwest,
this morning seated himself in an arm.
chair. pointed shotgun at his chest,
stuck stick in the trigger and fired
the gun, dying probably instantly.
The wife, Estelle Smith, 20 years
old, staggered from the room, which
was Uttered with furniture overturned
during a quarrel which led up to the
final attack, and ran nearly a block
before she sank to the ground. She
was taken to Providence Hospital in
the fourth precinct patrol wagon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29

By the Associated Press
Los ANGELES, Calf. June 29.-
The Examiner says that while Pola
Negri. Polish film star. was sleeping
at her beach home Sunday night. a
poisonous spider bit her on the fore.
head and two physicians were called
to treat the wound.
The actress had recovered today
with the exception OF a slight swell
ing on her forehead aid the marks
of burns caused by emergency treat.
FAent,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29

OTTAWA, Ont, June 20 R.-Lord
Wilmington. governor general of Cana.
da, accompanied by Lady Wilmington
and two aides-de-camp, left Ottawa
for Montreal by seaplane this morn.
ing,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29

During the present heated spell in
Cairo public school sessions are held
from Z to 1890 o'clock in the morn
ing.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
by the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BURNSNILLE, y. c.. August 20.--
Stanley Mccormick School is saved.
This unique vocational education in
Stttution. for 30 years holding open
the door of opportunity to hundreds
of deserving and ambitious mountain
bows and girls will he continued,
President Leroy +. Jackson happily
announced today.
Decision to continue the unusual
work going on in the Burnsville
school was reached this afternoon
when members of the board of the
managers announced at a meeting
here that two-thirds of the 100000
needed to run for the next three
years was in sight. and when 1t was
stated that classes would start
September t.
Plans were laid at the meeting for
incorporating the institution, for
pressing the campaign to insure the
permanency of the school and look
ing to appointment of a financial
agent, whose first step in the securing
OF an adequate and permanent en-
dowment fund would be the compile
ton of the $50, 600 three-year fund.
Back in June there appeared little
hope of saving Stanley Mccormick.
For year the teachers had run on
their nerve, inspired only by the
worthiness of the work they were
doing and the appreciation of a stu
dent body which labored with the
officials to keep things going.
group of 10 instructors had been no
tilted they must seek employment
elsewhere, because benfactors, through
no fault of the school, had been
forced to relinquish their support
and the Presbyterian Church in the
United States had been unable to
carry the whole burden.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
DEAUvILLE BATHING
ATTIRE FANTASTIC
Art Display in Costumes for
Grande Semaine, Which Opens
Today, to Startle Public.

BY the Associated Press.
DEAUVILLE. France, August CO.
Ballroom gowns and modernist art
have been added up and divided by
two to provide bathing and beach at
tire with which to startle the public
at Deauvillc's "Grande Semaine, +"
which opens tomorrow.
Van Dongen, whose Christian name.
"Kees." no one ever uses, has turned
loose his fantastic art designs for the
bathing suits.
This final splurge of the tired rich,
ending with the Grand PriX horse race
a week from tomorrow, is to the sea.
shore what the Grand Semaine n
June is to Paris.
E:ery one desires to be seen and
the women try out their best ideas on
Deauville society. which at present
includes the Duke and Duchess of
Westminster, Mrs. Jean Nash Dubon-
net, scores of we'll known actresses
and fiji artists and large repre-
sentation of wealthy Americans.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
Never Late in so Years.

After having served for so years
without being absent or late to work,
George Bligh of London. has just re-
tired from the sea. AS pantry
steward employed by large steamship
company for Al years he crossed the
Atlantic 31S times and he estimates
he has travelled more than 2.500, 900
miles.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
Curwood Memorial Proposed

DEAL. n. j.. August 20 @.-A
memorial to the late James Oliver
Curwood, novelist, to be located either
in his native State of Michigan or
on some peak in the Rocky Noun
tains, was proposed by David NJ. Neu-
berger. president of the National
Coast Anti-Pollution and Conserva-
ton League, in a letter addressed to
Gov. Smith of New York today.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
FASC|STS DEMAND
ITALIAN NAMES
Peaks, Roads and Villages
in Northern Sections Now
Designated in French.
By the Associated Press.


COURMAYEUR, Italy. August 20
1rritated by French reaction to the re-
christening of one Of the highest peaks
of Mont Blanc as Mount Benito Mus
the INFLAMMATION of all geographical
place names on the southern side of
the FrancoItalian frontier. They
urge upon the governmental authori-
ties the formula: italian names for
Italian soil
The peak now named for the DuCe,
they point out, was until last week $
ceremony graced with the French
name lie Pere Eternel.' or The
Eternal Father" Answering what
they term the absurd and unjustified
alarm in France. the Italians say that
the purpose of changing the name of
the peak. far from being provocative,
was scientific.
Students Explore Peak.
Officials and Fascist university
students-several thousand of whom
are encamped here. as at several other
new Alpine camps, for vacation and
military training like that Of the
ElattSDufS. y. e, ana oltleT american
Summer CampS-decided to make
scientific observations on the peak.
The expedition was for the two-fold
purpose of training the students and
at the same time furnishing the Ma
tional Geographical Society with
hitherto unknown data.
With this in view. Augusta Turati.
secretary general of the Fascist party,
renamed the mountain and, with four
Courmayeur guides as a vanguard,
groups of hardy youths climbed to the
summit.
All Names Are French.
Italians declare the time has come
to rename the villages. towns, hills
and peaks, which, although thoroughly
Italian in population and spirit, have
for centuries had Gallic names.
Since the days of the franks the
population OF this region has spoken
4 French dialect, while the place
names are all French. such AS Pont
st. Martin, Bard, Donnas. Chatillon,
rhambave. Quart Nillefranca. Nerres
and St. Marcel. At Aosta the monu-
ment to the Italian war dead is in
scribed in French
Every town, hill and street must
have its name changed, according to
Fascist leaders. who point to the prec-
edent set by Mussolini in urging the
change in the name of BolZano, near
the Austrian frontier to the older and
more Italian form of Bolgiano.
Evening star., 1927-08-21
UNIQUE Vocational School in Mountains,
Saved by Donations, to Reopen Soon

Donations of about $4,000 in Yancy.
the schools home county: promises of
SlS.000 from New York benefactiOns.
and more than $4,000 assured from
Asheville, Buncombe and the sur
rounding territory have saved the in
stitution.
Evening star., 1927-08-21

Man in London Court Amazes Lis
teners by Ignorance
of English.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August David Jones
of Triael Blaenpennal. Ilanilar Cardi-
ganshire, has proved that there is at
only Welsh.
Jones. brought before the Kings
bench division in London, began Civ
ing his testimony in Welsh. to the
CONFUSION of the court. He failed to
understand questions put to him by
the judge, and a Welsh interpreter
had to he called.
Of recent years there has been a
concerted revival of the Welsh lar
guage throughout Wales, but hitherto
LCndoners have been unwilling to be-
licve there are Welshmen who know
only the language of their fathers.
--e -
Evening star., 1927-08-21

The National Federation of Fed
eral Employees will hold it's 1927 con-
vention in San Antonio, opening on
Labor daV
Nogales international., 1927-02-20

rx;;~l in Nogales is potential asset to us all
OOY anu SlIl Right development Of this asset implies bet
wholesome promising industrial and professional opporn
nment that recognizes the developing power Of youhnd gives
Nogales international., 1927-02-20

Iohn or Mary leave the home town---you may have
lost budding Lincoln, Edison, Ford-~-a future
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logged way, is technically sounder than the
special schools of philosophy, each of which
squints and overlooks half the facts and half the
difficulties in its eagerness to find in some de-
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II paid $3.50 for this book, but in less than
an hour discovered it was not for me because
could not follow the writer without effort
which was all out Of proportion to what was
getting from him.
"There is one distinct advantage in reading
this magazine. 1t costs most readers nothing,
so that an entertainment or stimulation obtain
ed from it is pure profit. Type Metal Maya
zine.