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Evening star., 1927-11-16
CARAVAN CLUB TO HOLD
LUNCHEON ON FRIDAY
Almas Temple Group Opens Fall
Season-Shrine Officers
Expected.

The Caravan Club Of Almas Temple
viii hold its first Fall luncheon in
the Raleigh Hotel Friday afternoon
al 1890 o'clock. The following Shrine
officers are expected to attend:
James II. Price, imperial recorder,
Acca Temple, Richmond: Everette w.
JacockS. assistant To the imperial
recorder, Alcppo Temple, Boston: Fred
". De l.ahey. president Recorders
Association Of y. a.. Mahi Temple,
Miami; William NJ. Cooley, secretary
Recorders Association kerbcla Tenn
pie Knoxville; r. Lawrence Walker.
recorder, Alnas Temple; James ".
Barber, recorder. Syra Temple Pitts.
hurgh: Leslie u. Swan recorder, In.
dia Temple. Oklahoma City; John +.
GerschoW. recorder. MOslem Temple
Tetroit; Harry r.. Lunsford auditor
fVr the Imperial Council, Ararey TEN.
pie. Kansas City: Deane X. 1:stde
circulation manager Shrine Magazine
Ararat Temple, Kansas City. and
l.. p. Steuart. imperial captain of the
guard, Almas Temple.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
WOMAN SEXES SON
IN DIVORCE FIGHT
Husband Asleep When Mrs. Meyer
of Maine Calls With Lawyer and
Deputies at Forest Glen, Md.

While her estranged husband was
sleeping yesterday afternoon Mrs. AL
bert J. Meyer OF Penequid. Me. ap-
peared suddenly at the Forest Glen
School, near Rockville, with two
deputy sheriffs and her attorney, and
carried away her 7-year-old son in an
automobile. She claims Maj. Meyer,
the husband, had taken the child, AL
bert J. Meyer. 4th. against the order
OF Maine court and had refused to
give him up.
According to Edmund J.. Jones,
Mrs. Meyers attorney. she had been
awarded the custody of her two chill
dren pending outcome of divoroce pi o.
ceedines in Maine. Meyer, he said.
refused to give up the elder child and
took him from Maine to hide him from
his mother Mrs. Meyer, he said,
learned that her husband and child
were at the school and came here
with the court order, which gave her
custody Of the children.
Deputy Sh riffs Charles NJ. Orme
and Clifford L. Howard Of Monteom-
cry County went with Jones and Mrs.
Meyer yesterday TO serve divorce
papers on Maj. Meyer. lie was asleep
upstairs whe1 they got there. they
SAID, but disappeared.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
DR.. PIERCE ADMITS HIS DOUBTS
ON KINSI1IP OF F1OBAB TO MOSES
Presidents Pastor Inclined to Disagree
With Biblical Reference Made
by Taft Son.

Rev. DR.. Jason Noble Pierce. pastor
of the First Congregational Church,
attended by President Coolidge, is in
clined to disagree with Charles 7.
Taft, 2d, son of Chief Justice Taft.
about the relationship of Hobab to
Moses. of Ten Comma ndments fame.
And thereby hangs a tale.
Young Mr. Taft. who is prosecuting
attorney Of Cincinnati, referred to
/ rHobab as the father-in-law Of Moses
in an address recently before Presi-
dent Coolidge and thousands of others
participating in the diamond jubilee
of the Washington Y. NJ. G. A. at the
Washington Auditorium.
Asks DIR. Pierce.
President Coolidge. deep student
of biblical history, apparently took
no special notice of the brief refer
ence to Hobah, but one of his secret
service men heard it and set himself
to thinking. Many persons wouldn't
know whether Hobab was a disease
or a secret password, but the White
House operat tive knew his Bible well
enough to recall having read that
Moses father-inlaw was somebody
else
The secret service man took occa-
sion to speak to DIR. Pierce about the
matter when the latter called at the
White House the other day, and the
eminent clergyman freely admitted
that he was extremely hazy on the
subject of Hobab. He promised to
brush UP on this topic. however, and
as a result. the operative has received
the following letter from DIR. Pierce:
This matter about Ilobab and his
relationship to the father-in-law of
Moses, proves to be less simple than
| anticipated.
Il must confess that ii has been
so long since l have heard about that
bird, / had forgotten there was a
chap named lIobab.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
RICHMOND WOMAN
|SSHOT IN HOME
Man Held for Inquiry Tells
Police Pistol Was
in Victims Hand.
By the Associated Press.

by the AsSOfiateu PreSS
RICHMOND, Va. November To-
Mrs. Elsie Holt Snipes, % years old,
was shot to death in a mysterious
affair in the Snipes apartment here
shortly after last midnight, and John
w. Fuison, 81. secretary and man
ager of the Hermitage Country Club
of Richmond, is being held by police
in connection with the killing. Mrs.
Snipes died at 4:30 o'clock at a local
hospital from a bullet wound in her
neck.
The woman was brought to a hcspi-
tai about 1870 O'Clock by Faison, who
is alleged to have told hospital at
tendants that she shot herself. Physi-
clans hurriedly administered treat
ment. but she succumbed within a
few hours.
Reiterates Suicide Story.
Detective Sergts. r.. III. Organ and
p. l.. Tiller. who took F'aison into
custody. said that he repeated state
ments made at the hospital that the
woman had shot herself. Police of.
ficers visiting the apartment said that
they found the telephone on the floor
with the receiver off the hook, while
a pool of blood was under a chair
used at the telephone. Beside the
bed in the same room was bullet
for the pistol on the floor and a small
automatic, the magazine fully loaded.
Police said Faison admitted owner
ship Of both weapons.
Finding Mr.. and Mrs Faison at the
hospital in conversation. the de-
tectives said they questioned them and
found that Faison had been one of
several guests at Mrs. Snipes' apart.
ment and had remained after the
others had departed
Telephone Receiver or.
= Faison is said to have told them
that the young woman explained that
she wished to use the telephone and
had gone into the next room for that
purpose. 1t was soon after taking
the receiver off the hook that the
shooting occurred. it was said. To
whom she was talking or the subject
of the conversation was unknown to
police.
Coroner Whitfield will make an in
quest some time today.
Mrs. Snipes is said to have been
divorced and to be the mother Of two
children. Faison Is married and has
several small children.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

the families of Washington own their
own homes. he said. as compared with
80 per cent in Baltimore and IL per
cent in Philadelphia, the homes here
were far superior to those in other
large cities
Robert Adams member Of the Los
Angeles Real Estate Board, made a
brief talk urging support for the pro.
posed building Of the Boulder Dam in
Colorado as ID power and land reclama.
ton project.
William G. Miller, newly elected
president of the local real estate
board presided and announced plans
for an advertising campaign for local
realtOr organizations and announced
that he would offer cup for the best
veminute speaker on the advantages
Of Washington, the winner to repre-
sent Washington at the debates on
hometown advantages to he held at
the forthcoming session of the Ma
.tional Association Of. Real Estate
Boards at Louisville, b. .-4..-.-. .-....-.
Il. ~xls. ~
Evening star., 1927-11-16

U'OntlnucU from fiFSL EdSP.t
companies that is dominated by the
New York Central and that is using
strike breakers under protection of
deputy sheriffs and State police. was
as sensational as the oder charge
that Secretary Mellon dominates the
Pittsburgh Coal Co. His brother. X. B.
Mellon, took over his dictatorship,
it is said, when he entered the Cabinet
and the securities of the company
now are said TO be all in Mellon
banks.
Other elements add to the political
confusion Secretary Hoover and
Secretary James j. Davis helped
negotiate the Jacksonville agreement.
1t is felt by labor leaders that one
cabinet member-Mr. Mellon. through
the Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s repudiat-
ing what two others helped to create.
Added to this is the fact that Secre-
tary Davis has been making speeches
in this State. i'll which he has
vigorously attacked the Pennsylvania
ruling regime. indirectly if not direct
iy. One leading official here said that
this conference cannot take the strike
into politics because it is in politics
and has been from the first.
How much money the appeal or
Gered by this conference will produce
no one knows. Large sums are ex-
pcCted. The miners have spent half
million dollars already for BARRACKS
alone, to house evicted miners. They
face the necessity of feeding and
clothing Thousand of men. women and
children. And injunctionS forbid many
of the ordinary activities of the union
leaders. The problem is admittedly
point.
But if the predictions of labor lead
ers come true. the rank and file of
union men will be aroused to a new
miitancy. The fact remains that with
the strike of the miners the iniunc-
tions here and the injunction sought
against the whole American Fedora
tion of Labor in New York, trade
unonism faces Winter of conflict
which cannot in any way contribute
to induGrial efficiency.
e.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Medical Student Ends Cigar Marathon
As 30th Smoke in 8 Hours Makes Him Ill

For three hours he puffed steadily
with no physiological reaction TO sup.
port those who would deny that "a
good cigars smoke" But at the
end OF the next three hours his pulse
was 1DS instead of 80 and his respira-
tion 30 instead Of IT. His blood
pressure had increased from 120 over
10 to 1872 over so. He was feverish.
irritable and restless
The test ended abruptly when the
thirtieth cigar made him ill. IL might
have suffered s \Cus i'll effects had
IL continued" M said today. :.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Former Slave, s.,
To Wed Tonight;
His Bride Is So

William II. Cant, colored, 81 years
old. who resides at No. ] Ridge
road. Bennings. and earns his liv-
ing by basket making. today oh
tanned marriage license from
Col. w. A. kroll the license clerk,
permitting his marriage to Aman-
da Jones, SIS. whom he describes
as past the fapper age.
Cant was born q slave on the
plantation of Martiquo Piunmer
in Prince Georges County. Md,
where he resided "a years before
his emancipation For the past
61 years. he has lived on Ridge
road. lie is tho father of Ia
children. The eldest son. who is
G3. will he best man for his father
at the ceremony tonight. Rev.
James l.. Washington will otIiciate
at the wedding.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
MRS. MCKERICHER DIES;
BURIAL TO BE TOMORROW
Widow of Alexander McKericher
SS Years Old, Lived in Capital
All Her Life.

Mrs. Frederick r. McKericher IS
years Old. widow OF Alexander 5. Nc.
kericher and a lifelong resident Of
this city. died in local sanatoriun
yesterday.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the residence of her daughter. Mrs.
T.. W. Harper, 1411 Shepherd street.
tomorrow afternoon 1T 2:30 O'Clock
Rev. Henry w. Tolson will officiate
Interment will be in Gienwood Gene.
terry.
Besides her daughter. Mrs. Nc
kericher IL survived by 1wo sons.
Alexander j. Mckericher of Baltimore
and Joseph w. Mckericher of this
city. She also leaves eranddaugh.
ter, Helen Y. Harper, and grandson.
Robert MCkericher. Her husband was
employed In the greenhouses of thr
Department Of Agriculture A. years.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Asks $4,000 Damages.

Fred L. Vermillion, 1134 Penn
street northeast. today sued the
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. for $4,000
damages for alleged personal in
juries. He says he was injured per-
manently when he accidentally drank
particles of glass contained in a bot
tie of the company's product. The
bottle was purchased from a bowling
alley and contained a quantity OF
broken glass. some Of which he swal-
lowed, he states. Attorneys Joseph
G. Suraci and Alfred NJ. Schwartz ap.
pear for the plaintiff.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
SAP|R0 CONDEMNS
FARM MEASURES
Man Who Sued Ford Tells
Ad Club Here Cooperation
Is Solution.

Aaron Sapiro, young Jewish attor-
ney and cooperative marketing ex-
pert, who sued Henry Ford for 81 ,O0O,-
900 as a result of the latter's anti.
Hebrew campaign, severely denounced
the McNary-Haugen and "all other
sO-Called farm relief measures" in an
address before the Washington Adver
tising Club this afternoon in the City
Club.
The farmers themselves hold the
only real key to the farm relief prob
lem cooperative organizat ton, Sapiro
declared.
Don't forget that there arc lots of
farm problems bound up in the whole
question of farm relief" Sapiro said.
"and the passing of laws or the elec-
ton of some particular candidate for
President is not going to solve them.
Says Bunk to BE Heard.
You people here in Washington
are going to have more farm relief
bunk spilled here in the next few
months than you are able to digest
The politicians already are biiry prom
Using that if so-and so is elected Presi-
dent there will be farm relief law
enacted that will enable the farmers
to sit back and enjoy life.
Il want to tell you that no law is
going to solve Americas farm prob
lens. There are too many problems
involved. from the imitation of land
values and the imposition of exor-
bitant crop liens to faulty marketing
methods. No law nor no President
can remedy the conditions. The farm.
ers must do 1t themselves by orcaniZ-
ing, just as every other industry in
the United States is organized"
Sapiro characterized as Ignorant"
any member of Congress who held
out to the farmer hope of agricultural
relief through passage Of legislation.
lie expressed the opinion that the Nc
Nary Haugen bill is. the worst meas
ure ever proposed and voiced hope
that it would be defeated He referred
to it rs "a vain gesture by the poll.
ticians."
Cotton Growers Unite.
He stated that 800. 900 cotton farm
elS in the South are ganiZing to
protect themselves and solve their
own problems. Only in this way is
the American farmer going 10 lift
himself from his present rut, he said.
He accused the politicians of spread,
ing propaganda against cooperative
orga anization.
The Government must not make
peasants out of the farmers" Sapiro
concluded. II ask the aid of Ameri-
can business men in impressng Con-
gress with the fact that laws will do
no good; that Uncle Sam must not
offer crutches to the farmer, but that
he assist the farmers to help them
selves by fostering complete organiZa-
ton of the agricultural industry"
Sapro was introduced bv Frederic
William Vile, newspaper correspond
cnt. Norman Kal. president of the
club. presided.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
BRIGHTER FUTURE SEEN.
Agriculture Outd0es Industry i'm FL
ficiency, Is Claim.

| BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, November 1G
-Discouraging the idea that th1
American farmer ever will he re-
duced to the status of a peasant
Louis !. Taber, master of the Ma
tional Grange. gave the farmers a
peep at the silver lining Of a2ricul-
lures dark cloud" in an address he
fore the national convention here to-
day.
Predictions that the Nation will 90
hungry because the farmer has failed
to keep step with mechanical and
scientific progress are untrue, Mr.
Taber said.
Denies Inefliciency Charge.
Much that will never happen is
predicted about the farmer" he said
The American farmer will never be-
come q peasant. The American pco
pie never will go hungry because
the farmer has failed to do his part
Despite the present dark clouds the
future shows silver lining Of an
efficient and prosperous agriculture. "
Mr. Taber attacked charges which
he said were found in the press that
the farmer has not kept up with other
industries in efficiency. lie quoted
flSures computed by rurai economists
of the Kansas Agricultural College
which indicated that in the M,ssis
Sippi Valley section alone the farm =
er has Increased his efficiency 81 per
cent. measured by the volume OF food
production per man. while the manu-
facturers of the Nation have shown
an efficiency increase of 81 per cent.
Politicians Are Denounced
Leslie r. Smith. Hadley. Mass.
executive secretary OF the Grange, told
the delegates that little thought is
given to the crossroads farmer in the
cries for relief made by political and
so-call He'd farm leaders"
Leaders are many and loud in
their demands that Congress enact
measures for farm relief. but too
many of them are making the issue
as a pawn to advance their personal
interests" Smith said.
They are using their farm-relief
cries to enlist farmers support for
their advancement to some State or
national office. We need more thought
of the crossroads farmer TO back up
empty cries for farm relief"
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Held for Grand Jury.

Edward l.. Anderson and Harry II.
Trudge were held on the action OF
the grand jury under 81 900 bond each
in Judge Hits Police Court today in
connection with a charge of house.
breaking. 1t is alleged that the two
men Monday night entered ware
house belonging to Nathan Fanaroff
at Sixteenth street and Good Hope
road southeast and helped themselves
to $50 worth of canned goods. which,
according to Policeman c. A. Berry
OF the twelfth precinct, were later
found. In their homes. Both men
pleaded not guilty: -
Evening star., 1927-11-16
LINCOLN LETTER SOLD.
$4,000 Paid for Missive to Gen
Anderson, Defender of Sumter.

NEW YORK. November 16 R).--
A letter written by President Lincoln
to Gen. Robert Anderson, defender of
Fort Sumter, at the opening of the
Civil War. has been sold to Oscar
Wegelin for $500.
The letter was apparently written
in reply TO an appeal from the wife
IF Gen. Anderson to the President for
back pay for her husband, who had
been out Of the Army for two years
because of i'll health. Lincoln in the
letter pledges his friendship to the
general. The letter was sold by the
Anderson Galleries from the Lincoln
collection of Emanuel Hertz.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Points Made i'm His Address.

Among his characteristic outbursts
We're the following: ''Overregulation
wiu keep flying down. We must have
balance between too much regulation
and not enough"
Il am always inclined to accept the
pilots judgment in any given situa.
ton He is the sole judge of what
to do with a plane in the air.
"All these air regulations are on
trial in this country. They're new
and must he thra shed out.
The reason we trail the world In
aviation today is because the Army
and Navy have it locked up. We have
never been allowed to develop"
Gen. Mitchell gave his testimony
before an audience that included Thea
Rasche. German aviatriX; Mrs. Clar-
e1ce Chamberlin. wife of the pilot Of
tie transatla ntic plane Columbia. nd
Paul Schluter. navigator on the D1le
fl ght plane Aloha.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

IF YOU could read Exodus, ills.
you would gain the impression tha t
Moses father-in-laW was called Reuel.
In Exodus, I'LL. his father-in-laW is
called Jethro. 1t would be an easy
inference that he went by both names.
''In Numbers, x.o9, Hobab is re-
ferred to as the son of Reuel, which
would make him the brother-in-laW
of Moses. and in Judges. iv.11, Hobab b
is specifically called a brother-in-law
of Moses.
"If this were the whole story. we
could settle it definitely that JethrO,
sometimes called Reuel, was the
father-inlaw of Moses. and that
Hobab was the brotherin4law of
Moses.
However. on investiga tion, in the
best Bible dictionaries, | find that
scholars studying the original He
brew manuscripts are disagreed. One
group identifies Reuel and Jethro as
being the same man, whose son was
Hobab.
Father of Two Sons.
Another group believes that Reuel
is the father of two sons. one called
Jethro and the other called Hobab
"A third group, and it seems TO be
the most influential one in weight OF
scholarship. believes that Jethro and
Hobab are two different names OF
the same individual.
"One fact is apparently certain
that the terms father-inlaw and
brother-in-law are inconclusiVe. II
he text says 'father-in-law." 4 mar.
ginal note says or brother-in-law,
and vice versa.
Without knowing any better,
should be disposed 70 cal! Jethro the
father-in-law of Moses. and Hobat
| his brother-in-law
"One thing is certain end that is
| that neither of them will object"
Evening star., 1927-11-16
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. November 16--Eight
hours Of steady smoking increased
the pulse, respira ton. temperature
and blood pressure of Vincent Maddi
The first three hours were the easiest,
with no apparent i'll effects.
Maddi is medical student at the
University Of Maryland. To settle
arguments over whether tobacco was
harmful or not he attempted. yes
terday, to smoke so cigars in IL
hours while friends made obserya.
tions and recorded the results.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Memory Poor, Gets 80 Days.

Claiming that his father had given
him the razor which was found in
his coat pocket early this morning by
Policeman |. j. Burke at the corner
Of Thirty-fifth and K streets. Remus
A. Boswell, colored, was not able To
tell Judge Hit in Police Court today
where his father lived The accused
Wllt spcnd 30 daYs in Jail.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Maj. Copthorne Assigned.

Maj. William A. Copthorne. Chem
ical Warfare Service, has been relieved
from duty at the Army arsenal at
Edgewood,. Md, and ordered to Ma
Mia, Z. l., for assignment TO duty, ef-
fective March Z, 1928.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Dunn Rites Tomorrow.

Funeral services for Arthur Wi.
Ham Dunn, director OF the American
Junior Red Cross. who died at his
residence, 409 Thirty.frst street. yes
terday. will be held tomorrow at 2
o'clock at the home. Interment will be
private.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
SEES j. S. TRAILING
WORLD IN AVIATION
Civil Aeronautics Stagnating
Under Present Bureaucracy
Policy, Gen. Mitchell Says.

American supremacy in the air. out
standing in 1921. has been SO utterly
lost that we now trail the world in
aviation.
Civil acronautics in the United
States, if allowed TO be concentrated
IN the administrative end under one
Government bureau. will staCnate and
die, much as military aviation has
been locked up by concentration
under bureaus of the War and Navy
Departments.
These statements were among the
high spots Of testimony before Assist
ant Secretary of Commerce w. p.
NacCracken yesterday, by William
Mitchell former assistant chief of the
A my Air Service, who resigned his
commission three years ago on the
heels of a punishment meted ont to
him by the War Department for
criticism of the administration of the
military ar services.
Scores Bureaucracy.
Launching into a characteristic at.
tack delivered in typical Mitchell
fashion. the former flying general
ripped bureaucracy up and down the
hack for ten minutes. commenting
causticallv on the fact that the United
States today is virtually without any
civil aviation because of what he
called the sitting" tactics of bureaus.
and recalling the days Immediately
after the war when American planes
and pilots were supreme in the air.
In 1921 we had multiple engine
ships. with automatic pilots, which
could have crossed the continent in
% hours. and could have crossed the
ocean in nonstop flights Gen.
Mitchell said. Since then we have
lost our supremacy. and have destroy
cd the organization built up during
the war. Now we are trying to build
II up again. But we've lost the best
We had and it will take years.
Called as an expert witness to testify
IN the case of Stuart "A. RciSS, civilian
air pilot whose license has been sus-
nended for 90 days by the Commerce
Department for alleged violation of
the air traffic laws at Hoover Field.
Gen. Mitchell engaged in several
verbal tits with Mr. MacCracken, be-
fore whom the case was heard. and
who will make a decision in the case,
to he laid before Secretary Hoover
within 10 days.
Not Sure About "Manhandling."
"My interest in this case" Gen.
Mitchell said, rs that L dOn want 10
see the flying personnel manhandled.
You're not afraid we're going to
manhande it. are you?" Mr.. Mae
Cracken asked.
Well don't know" Gen. Mitchell
replied. I'm watching it with great
interest. and ! think Congress may
have a hand in this matter in the next
session. Everything is becoming so
handled ny bureauS that we are not
getting anywhere
Gen. Mitchell attacked the entire
fabric of the civil aviation law. declar-
ing that he does not believe the COM
merce Department has jurisdiction in
the Reiss case at all He said he would
advocate State jurisdiction over air
traffic and air travel. rather than cen
tralization of control in one Govern
ment bureau in a manner similar to
that by which automobiles are now
controlled.