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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-01-18
RADIO BRIDGE
On TONIGHT

The fourteenth Of series OF rs
radio auction bridge games will be
broadcast from WRC at 10 o'clock
tonight.
Each game Of the series will
feature Milton G.. Work and Wilbur
C. Whitehead, New York experts,
in association with players from
cities throughout America and Can
ada. The listeners-in are urged to
have four players ready with cards
and to follow the game bid by bid
and play by play as broadcast.
The contestants tonight are C..
Drummond Jones, of st. Louis, Mo-,
who is the pride Of the st. Louis
Racquet Club, and who enjoys the
reputation Of being one Of the keen
est experts in the country; G. H.
Levy, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
recognized as being one of the fore.
most players in eastern Canada;
and Mr.. Work and Mr.. Whitehead,
widely known as teachers, writer's.
and experts.
It is suggested that this hand be
played and the bidding and play
compared with that of the experts.
An analysis Of tonight's game
will be published in The Washing.
ton Times tomorrow.
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news BRIEFS Of
ARLINGTON

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Jan. 1s.--
Speaking before the Arlington Dis
trict Council Of Citizens Associa-
tons last night in the Ashton
Heights woman's clubhouse, County
Commissioner Of Revenue Harry K.
Green advocated a county coming.
e. J. McDermott, deputy motor
vehicle commissioner, has desig-
mated Galor Spaulding, Clarendon,
Arlington Motor Company, Ross
Ign, and the Greenwood Garage, on
the Lee highway, to test automo-
bile headlights. There will be a
fee Of IS cents.
Mrs. Florence e. Cannon and
Mrs. Marjorie Cloth have been ap-
pointed delegates to represent the
Lee Highway Association at the
seventh annual convention Of the
National Lee Highway Association
at Luray, Va. today and tomorrow.
The public schools Of Arlington
county win be closed tomorrow, &C.
cordng to Fletcher Kemp, county
school superintendent.
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Blessing Of Animals Is
Done Away With By
Texas Priests
Photo by International

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 49,
Modernism scored another point
today.
The custom of priests blessing
animals on San Antonio Abad
day was abandoned here for
the first time since the mission
fathers established the city.
The custom was observed as
usual in Mexico.
Modernism and lack of inter-
est was given by local priests
at San Fernando Cathedral here
for abandonment of the rites.
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v Ill EXPLAIN
HER POLICY
By International News Service

LONDON, Jan. 1S.-The British
government will tonight issue a
statement as to its policy in China,
which it Is understood will declare
that while Great Britain refuses to
surrender to threats or to violence,
it believes that many Of the desires
OF the Cantonese can be met, and
Charge O'Malley has been instructed
to continue his negotiations with
the Cantonese.
The military and naval movements
OF the British are only to insure
full protection for British lives and
interests, the statement will say.
and It will declare there has been
no change Of policy since the
Hankow incident.
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WIDOWS AND ORPHANS AID

Election of officers of the Home
for Widows and Orphans of the
United States War Veterans Associ.
alton will be held in Grand Army
Hall tomorrow night at p. m.
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BLIZZARD KILLS
|. 100 RUSSIANS
BY International News Service

MOSCOW, Jan. 1S. - An unprece.
denied blizzard, accompanied by
temperature reaching so degrees be-
low zero, is sweeping Russia and
more than 100 deaths are already
reported.
Eight persons were found frozen
to death on the country roads In
Pugachev.
Four ships have been towed into
Baku with 30 Of their crew frozen
to death.
Trains are stalled in Central Rus
sia and three locomotives have been
frozen and exploded.
Work in the oil fields Of the
Caucasus has been suspended.
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Italian Diplomat Feared
Suicide in Rio JanierO

RIO. JANIERo, Jan. 1S.-Baron
francesca Chiacca, second secre-
tary Of the Italian Embassy here,
is reported missing by the police,
who say that he lost money at
roulette last week.
The police fear suicide, they
state.
Suitable, well priced apartments are
offered for rent in the Classified Ads
of The Times and Herald.
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Aliens in Peril

PEKING, Jan. 1S.-Life for
foreigners in central and southern
China is daily becoming more pre-
carious. owing to the excuses com.
mitted by the nationalist forces in
control there.
For the apparent purpose Of in
timidation of the British diplomats
now negotiating at Hankow with
the nationalists over the British
CONCESSION there, seized by the
Chinese recently, the nationalista
have announced the observance OF
two "anti-British weeks" dating
from the fifteenth.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TALK

TRANSLATION" is the subject of
Mrs. Bill's address to be given at
the Sunday service of the Christion
Science Parent Church at IL o'clock
in the assembly room of the Hotel
Lafayette.
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$4,000 Game of Presidents
and Their First Ladies Of the
Land. First Prize $5,OOO.OO-
1856 cash prizes in all. See The
Big Sunday Washington Herald
an Sunday. January %.
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Radio Bridge Hands
For Tonight Game

Milton G. Work, Of New
York, dealer ''SOuth" holds:
Spades-A, j, 5.
Hearts-A, X, 8 spot, 5, 4.
DiamOnds-K, 8, 2.
Clubs-Q, A.
@. Drummond Jones, Of st.
Louis, Mo-, "West" holds:
Spades-6, A.
Hearts,, 2, 2.
Diamonds-Q, 10, s spot,
Z, 4, 3.
Clubs-J, 8.
Wilbur G. Whitehead, of
New York. ''NOrth" holds:
Spades-K, s spot 8, 2.
Hearts-Q, 10, 3.
DiamOnds-A, 6.
'Clubs-A, 10, Z, 6.
G. III. Levy, of Hamilton,
Ont, Canada, EAST" holds:
Spades-Q, 10, 9, Z.
Hearts,. 6.
DiamOnds+J, 5.
CIubs-K!e 9, s spot, S. ?.
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BETTY GRACE TUCKER Washington GIRL is the
is bound for the West Coast and the films. Miss
Tucker is but of the many Washingtonians who
sought and found fame the stage screen. The
pictures of others adorn this page.
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Thomas r. Dougherty, who was
racing to the fire scene.
The cause Of the blaze had not
been determined. First estimates
Of the damage were more than
$500, 900.
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Shoes are clamped to a new
cleaning stand, to which brushes
and cloths are fastened by straps
to prevent loss.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
SNOW DITCHES
CRASHES
ROOF ON -FOUR

CHICAGO Jan. 13. = {E0 - Swirling
snowstorms and low temperatures pre-
vailed tonight in eight mid-western
states and forecasters predicted con-
tinuation of snow tomorrow. asharp
drops in temperature were anticipated
by morning in Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri. Throughout Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio gems
era1 snowfall was reported with a sec
tion of central Illinois appearing to be
the center of a heavy drive, where re-
ports told of depths of II inches at
Peoria and Is inches at Pana About
six inches fell here.
The storm is moving in northeast
erly course, but embraces much of the
mississippi valley south of the lake
region.
Thousands of worlme.n cleared
streets and car lines here today and
the city pressed many hundreds of
trucks into service in hauling the snow
from business centers.
The Capital Limited on the Balti-
more and Ohio was derailed in an out
lying yard due to snow, but without
damage to equipment or passengers.
tracks into a garage, but the passen-
gers escaped unhurt.
-Four workmen were injured and a
score of workers were endangered
whe ma snow laden roof of a garage
under construction collapsed from the
weight of the snow.
Texas enjoyed generally fair weather
today, but anticipated near freezing
temperatures near the gulf early to-
morrow Oklahoma reported below
freezing temperatures and three inches
of snow.
In east ern Kansas, near zero
temperatures were predicted for to-
night and early tomorrow, while today,
near Hutchinson in western Kansas,
a bright sun and "a degrees warmth
melted snow. Six inches of snow was
reported at Kansas City before it
ceased falling this afternoon.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
GOD BLESS YOU
CREETS
ALBUQUERQUE II B

ALBUQUERQUE, N NJ, Jan. 13-P)
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Angelus
Temple evangelist, is on vacation
trip, and the lectures she will give at
many cities are only sideline, she told
newspaper men here late today. Mrs.
Mcpherson was here on her way to
Denver, where her. lecture series will
begin. She and her party stopped on
the previous day at Grand canyon and
were enthusiastic about the scenery
there
"How many of you have been in An
gelus Temple?' she asked, as she stood
above the crowd on the arcade of the
Alvarado hotel at the Santa Fe station
grounds.
A dozen held UP their hands
God bless you ALL she said. when
ever you come to Los Angeles. be sure
to come to see me in my temple
AS Mrs. Mcpherson made her way
through the big crowd that had turned
out to see her, many people said, God
bless you, Mrs. MCPHERSON .a
Mrs MCPHERSON was accompanied by
her secretary, Miss Emma Schaefer;
the chaplain at the watch tower Of the
temple, Mrs. Bertha Dallmarsi, and
Mr. and Mrs. James Bolgera
Just before the departure of the
train, Mrs. Mcpherson said to news
paper men:
Tell your people that I want to
thank them so much for their wonder
full welcome. And I want to thank
them especially for their many letters
and telegrams during those trying, past
months"
This was her only reference to her
recent court experiences in Los An
geles, in which she was exonerated of
having told the grand jury a false
story about her disappearance last
summer.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
Youths Found Slain
And Tongues Cut Out
In Catholic Uprising

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13.-(P)-The
newspaper Excelsior, declaring that
itE has reliable authority for the
statement, asserts that five youths,
none more than 20 years of age.
were shot and killed i'm the town of
Leon ON Monday after their tongues
were cut out, for participation in an
alleged Catholic uprising at that
place. six others were executed
fOr the same reasOn.
Excelsior, which is regarded by
the present government Ns reac-
tiOnary editOrially, condemns ''the
waste Of blood" i'm Mexico, abuse of
executions" 1t says that neither
the Mexican government nor the
Leon municipal authorities seem to
have been responsible for the exc
cutiOns, and adds:
"It is not known who is response
BILE, which makes the situation all
the worse and demonstrates the
cheapness of human life in Mexico"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
Mother Quake Rocks
Imperial Valley; Light
Shocks In Its Wake

CALExICO, Calf, Jan. 13.-R)-
windows chattered ana dishes rat
tied on their shelves early today
when heavy earthquake shook
CalexicO and other Imperial valley
towns. several residents here has
lilly sought the open. No damage
wars done.
The tremOr, described here as the
heaviest of any since the major
shake of January /. that caused
serious damage here and in Mexi-
cali, at the Mexican boundary line,
was felt in BrawIey and EI Centre.
Both towns escaped damage in the
shock New Years day.
The heavy tremOr today came
shortly before a. M. and was fol-
lowed by series of lighter vibra-
tiOns lasting several seconds. Minor
shocks were reported during the
night.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
PASTOR NORRIS
TO FACE JURY
OF Z Fathers

COURT ROOM, AUSTIN, Texas, Jan.
13.-(P-Twelve married men, fathers
of children, will sit in judgment on
the fate of DR.. J. Frank Norris, funda-
mentalist Baptist pastor, charged with
the murder of d. e. Chipps Fort Worth
lumberman.
After day of threading it's way
through the l1u klux klan issue and the
views of a retired Methodist preacher
on the religious beliefs of a Baptist
minister defendant; the trial reached
the evidence stage with the compile
tion of the jury about 5 p. m.
The jurors were sworn, admonished
not to talk about the case to ,anyone
or receive telephone calls, had their
pictures taken and were locked up.
The defendant will plead at the OPEN
ing Of court tomorrow and the states
testimony will then begin.
The jury is composed of the follow
ing:
W. D. Miller, 81, former sheriff.;
C. j. Brown, 81, labover; CD. Moore,
S4 laborer in a chilli factory; Walter
Johnson, 27, dairEman; Will J. Dill,
81, retired; G. A. Cfalbreath 81, butcher;
w. r. King, 40, blacksmith; J. J. Cum
ningham, Al, farmer; T, H. Tumey, 45,
employed at Austin city electric plant;
Lee H. Caldwell 40, automobile sales
man; Andrew McAngus, so, grocer.
The l1u klux khan question came
sharply to the fore in the examination
of T. J. Tumey, former member of the
khan. Attorney Dayton Moses, repre-
senting DR.. j. Frank Norris, protested
cto 10 1iT1cr I'll ~ Nh
tions Moses, facing Judge James R.
Hamilton, presiding, said:
1.-The defense objects to these ques-
tions because DR.. Norris is not now and
never has been a member of the ku
klux klan.'
Moses said that because of the heat
ed khan controversy of recent years
in this locality, it was unfair to bring
in the queWtion of khan membership
since DR.. Norris was not member Of
the order.
District Attorney Jess Martin of
Tarrant county challenged Moses to
produce witness who would swear
| that Dr. Norris had never been kans-
man, and he then asked Moses himself
to take the witness stand and swear
under oath that DR.. Norris was not a
! member of the khan.
1--WE have our own methods of get
! ting this information" said Martin,
"and we state that Norris was a khan
member"
! Judge Hamilton overrruled defense
motion that the state be prohibited
], from asking questions relating to the
4 khan, declaring that scuh questions
We're permissible.
/ The jury contains two men who are
former klansmen, Tumey and Cald-
well. Both said they had quit the
4 order.
! B. w. Allen, dairy farmer, and a for
mer Methodist preacher, was somewhat
bnonplussed when asked whether he
disliked DR.. Norris, and the question
caused considerable argument among
opposing counsel. Sam Sayers, for the
J prosecution, insisted the question wa:
not proper Allen said he would like
j to answer with qualifications.
do you dislike DR.. Norris from wha
you have read or heard of him?" wa!
the question put by Moses to the for
mer preacher
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who their own president and the
submission to arbitration of the con-
troversy with Mexico over it's land
laws
With these suggestions, the Idano
senator concluded in characteristic
ally dramatic fashion an attack OF
an hour and a half on the adnI.nis-
tration's policy in dealing with the
Nicaraguan situation and in recog-
nizing the Adolfo Diaz government,
which he contended was set up glle-
sally.
"Inaugurate campaign of peace,''
thundered Senator Borah; abolish
the idea of force try friendly rela-
tions; seek to establish amity; seek
to get in touch with the masses,
with the people themselves, and we
can establish policy in Central
America which. will protect our In
terests and respect our rights and
which will do that which are en-
titled to do-reeeive special con-
is{deration from those people"
While Senator BIorah unfolded his
views both of the situation in Mica
ragua and of the administrations
policy, practically every member Of
the senate now in Washington was
in his seat and gave his remarks
the closest attention
Many members of the house
crowded on the folor of the senate
and the galleries were filled There
were few Interruptions from other
senators, rather unusual occur
renee in senate discussion, part1cu-
larly of subject foremost i'm the
public mind
The address of the foreign rela-
tions committee chairman, however,
started a senate debate that brought
out opinions on both sides of the
controversy, including a general de-
fense of the administration by Sem
ator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, a repup-
i lican member of the foreign re1a-
, tions committee.
Elsewhere, too, the Gays events
saw the Mexican -Nicaraguan imDrog-
lie developing lin several directions.
The house foreign affairs committee,
after another fruitless debate, voted
by majority of one not to call Sec
rotary Kellogg before it, and then
suspended its sessions indefinitely.
| Two more American destroyers
We're ordered to Nicaraguan waters,
but the navy department said they
would replace two already there.
Further outbreaks of anti-Ameri-
can sentiment in Mexixco brought no
outward reaction from the state de-
partment beyond a denial of the re-
/ curing report that the government
/ is considering withdrawal of Am
| hassador Sheffield
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
The Day In Washington
The McNary- Haugen farm D1l

The McNary- Haugen farm Dill
was reported to the house.
Two additional destroyers Were
ordered to Nicaraguan waters.
The Parker coal bill was
turned down by the house COM
merce committee.
Further changes in postal rates
were approved by the senate
postoffice committee.
Senator .Borah assailed the
Administrations Nicaraguan pol
icy; Senator Lenroot defended it.
The war department supply bill
providing for an army of 1880
men was reported to the house.
Seizure of part of the ballots
cast in the Pennsylvania sena-
torial election was decided upon
by the senate Investigating COM
mittee.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
Arnold DAILY Trapped
By Broadway Flames
And Burned To Death

NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (R.-Ar-
mold Daily, 81, who rose from
Obscurfty as an office boy to In-
his life I'm fire today. The
flames trapped him in his apart
ment in West 51sr street on tIte
fringe of Broadway, where he
had received the pIaudfts of
thousands, and only few blOcszS
from the site of the old Herald
Square theatre. where he made
his debut in 1895.
Firemen, who hacked hacked
their way into Days fourth-fTOOr
quarters, found his burned body
lying beside an arm chair in
which he had been seen a short
time before reading a book.
Although known 10 thousands.
Daily could not be identified for
several hours; the face that re-
corded a multitude of real and
simulated emotions was a charred
mask.
The fire in which DAILY died
Avas featured by thrilling rescues
by firemen, who carried to safety
two women who lived on the
fourth floor. A father and mo-
ther, residing ON the fifth floor,
carried their three children to
safety over roofs.
Mr.. DAILY lived alone, his daugh-
ter, Blythe Daily, being on tour.
He was divorced from his wife,
who was Miss Mary Blythe, of
Los Angeles, and now Mrs. FRANK
| Craven.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
NO PLACE FOR. MIsFITs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 R.-Folks
who still harbor the notion that the
army in peace times is sort of
house. of correction to which way
ward youths can be- committed to the
financial and mental relief of their
home communities, are apt to fall
foul of IL hustling and sometimes ex-
plosive Washington official known
TO his tntimates as "Corky" DAVIS.
His official title is the adjutant
general of the army. He appears In
the army list as Robert c. Davis.
major general.
Among the amazingly diverse
duties Of HIS office is that of re-
eruiting the army. other complicated
machinery works out how soldiers
are to be fed, clothed, drilled, edu-
Gated, disciplined, transported, or
ganized, hospitaEzed entertained
paid, retired and even buried But
it all begins with finding the young
chaps to whom these processes are
to be applied.
[ That's 'Corky" Davis job Las
year he collected and fed in to the
Iarmy machine nearly 10000. Present
ly the vast majority of them will bt
good soldiers. Still later they will b.
much improved civilians again., will
honorable discharges to show.
But so far as General Davis and hi
far-reaching recruiting service ar,
able to guarantee it, there were al
good citizens to begin with. If ther,
was a physical misfit or moral de
| linquent in the lot, he sneaked in some
how through elaborate barriers erect
| ed to keep the morally, mentally an,
/ physically unfit out of the ranks o
Uncle Sans modest sized fighting ma
chine
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
sTATE CLEARs DECKS

PHOENIX, Jan, 13 [F9-Ine cal
endars of both houses of the state
legislature continued to grow in size
today while the legislators them
selves directed their attention to a
conference tonight Of the Colorado
river commission appointed by the
legislature and Governor Hunt to
fight passage of the Swing-Johnson
BOULDER canyon dam bill in Wash
ington.
Aside from one bill introduced in
the senate and another in the house,
most of the measures submitted for
consideration of the Legislature We're
deemed of minor Importance and as
such, were promptly transmitted to
various committees.
Meanwhile with the Swing j ohnson
bill coming up for passage in the
national house of representatives,
both houses felt constrained to bend
their efforts toward fighting the bill
by lending their moral support to
the commission of six members as
they convened to lay out their plan
of battle in the national capital.
Both houses adjourned early this
afternoon.
Judge Samuel White of Phoenix
one member of the commission, stated
today that the body probably will go
directly to Arizona's representatives
in Washington upon their arrival
where a definite program for laying
Arizona's case before congress will
be worked out. With it the com
mission will take the Winsor mem
orial, adopted pS both houses and
signed today by Governor Hunt
praying congress to defeat the Swing
Johnson bill.
Five members met tonight in Judge
Whites office. The sixth member
Hoval A. Smith of Warren, already
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
SEAMAN DIES WHEN
BOAT GOES ON ROCKS

LONDON, Jan. 1S GA member
OF the crew of the Canadian steamer
Novadoc died of exposure on the
rocks near Clevedon, in the Bristol
channel.
The Novadoc was bound from
Montreal to Sharpness and was an
chored in Walton bay, not far from
Clevedon. The five members of her
crew were returning to the ship after
getting provisions on shore when the
storm broke. Their oars We're swepe
away and they drifted for hours.
Finally huge waves swept the boat
on the rocks near Clevedon. The
men managed to scramble ashore
exhausted. Raymond Trounch, or
johannesburg, South Africa, died OF
exposure.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
Wrigley Viii Save SIS, 600
If a Woman Swin1s Channel

% miles. Pesslmistic experts de-
clare that, as the English channel
defied all swimmers for years, it is
unreasonable to suppose that the
Santa Catalina waterway will be
conquered in the first concerted drive
against it.
How long the job should take, Is
question that brings out some
widely separated estimates. Some
put it down as low as IL hours, bu,
the bulk of the guesses run all the
way from 12 to 25 hours.
William Wrigley, Jr., who owns
Santa Catalina island who started,
the argument, is dangling total
of $4,000 before the creased noses
Continued on rage Eighr)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-14
TREASURE HUNT ENDS
AT A JUG OF WHISKY

TUCSON, Jan. 13. - up - A special
thrill was given the school children
at the Menlo Park school this after
noon while playing the game treasure
hunt" when on eyoungster discovered
a gallon jug of corn whisky near a
house. School authorities notified the
sheriff's office at once and Deputies
Tremaine, Kent and Crosby were de-
tailed to Menlo Park TO join in the
treasure hunt" No more of the
treasure" was found either by the
officers or the children.