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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20
Latest Developments
In Sacco.Vanzetti Case

Justice James NJ. Morton, jr.,
Of Federal District Court, re-
fused writ of habeas corpus and
refused radicals counsel per-
mission to appeal to United
States Circuit Court of Appeals.
Chief Of Counsel Hill asked
Gov. Fuller for further respite.
Gov. Fuller announced he will
be in office Monday to hear any
requests.
Hill will appeal today to JUS
tice Oliver Wendell Holmes of
the United States Supreme
Court for a stay of execution.
United States Supreme Court
clerk refused to accept petition
because papers were not in
proper form.
Chief Justice Taft is reported
en- route to Washington after in.
terrupting vacation in Canada.
Plea for sanity tests will be
the last hope of condemned men.
Boston bans all meetings on
Common and prepares for trou-
BILE.
Defense committee again asked
Secretary Kellogg to publish
Department of Justice files.
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ORAT0R|CAL PARTY
WILL VISIT ITALY
Winners in National Contest
to Sail for New York
on September 9.

PARIS, August 20.-The members
of the National Oratorical Contest
party from the United States, who
have been Joined by the spokesman
for England, France, Canada and
Mexico in the International Oratorical
Contest, are to round out their Euro.
pean tour by trip to Italy and Swift
zerland. which they will visit the last
week in August and the first week in
September.
The party has spent three weeks in
Londan and rural England and is
now completing it's visit to France
The students making up the party
have been almost as delighted with
the extra features of the trip as with
the visits to places Of scenic and his
torical interest. Few students of their
age have listened to as many operas
as have been attended enthusiastically
by the party in Paris. In their three
week visit here they have seen Aida, :"
'Thais," Romeo and Juliet" Tam.
hauser," Samson and Delilah" and
"The VALERIE" at the Grand Opera,
and Madame Butterfly" Carmen"
and "Tosca,' at the Opera Comique. .
Active Socially.
On the social side, their stay has
also been a busy one. They were
given receptions by lie Matin and by
M. Bokanowski, minister Of commerce,
the only cabinet minister who has
been in. Paris during their visit. They
have also been entertained by the
American Club and by the American
University Womens Club.
On September 8, the day before thew
sail from Cherbourg for New York,
the party will be given farewell din.
ner in Paris by Count Pierre de Wei
Castel. Frenchmen prominent in all
lines will be present, as will the Amer
lean party. and the English, French,
Canadian and Mexican spokesman.
Inc sightseeing portion Of the trip
has been an ambitious one, with q
two weeks stay in London and a.
week in the Shakespeare country, Ok.
ford and Canterbury and vicinity. The
French portion of the trip has includ-
ed three weeks in Paris and 10 DAYS
in visits to the battlefields, the Cha
teau country, Biarritz, Sarcassonne
and Cannes. The chief stops outside
OF France will be in Rome, Florence,
Venice, Milan, Geneva and Brussels
Will Sail September 9.
The members of the delegation from
the United States follow: Dorothy
Carlson, Salt Lake City; w. A. Loker,
Leonardstown. Md; De Lisle Craw.
ford, Chicago; Jefferson Meagher.
Binghampton, N. Y; Maxwell Ian.
caster. Birmingham. Ala; Carl Albert,
McAlister, Okla, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Randolph Leigh of Washington.
With these the following will sail
for New York on September Q, on the
President Roosevelt, to participate In
the international finals on October IA
in Washington: Georges Guiot.Guil-
lain, st. Claude, for France: James
Keith Watson, Ben Rhydding, York
shire, for England; Arturo Garcia.
Fermenti, Mexico City, for Mexico.
Miss Dorothy Carlson, who won in
the national finals last May in Wash.
ington, will speak for the United
states in the international finals in
October.
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CHILEAN AMBASSADOR
CABLES RESIGNATION
Lack of Accord With Home Gov
eminent on Tacna-Arica Policy
Said to Have Caused Change.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO. Chile, August 90
Migual haga-Tocornal. Chilean
Amba ssador to the United States, has
resigned by cable and his resignation
has been accepted by the government,
it was learned yesterday. Carols
Davila, a newspaper publisher. has
been offered the post and accepted.
Benjamin Cohen, second secretary
of the embassy at Washington, has
been recalled and Jorge Silva Yoa-
cham appointed in his place.
The changes, according to quarters
close to the foreign Office, are due to
the fact that the government consid-
cred both Senior Cruchaga
and Senior Cohen as being not com.
pletely in accord with the govern
ment's policy concerning Tacna-Arica.
At the Chilean embassy today it
was said on behalf of the Ambassador
that he had no comment to make on
his resignation.
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Several Stops Planned.
PARK TOUR ARRANGED.
President Will Visit Yellowstone for
Five Days, Work Announces.

BY the Associated Press.
President Coolidge has decided
definitely to visit Yellowstone National
Park next week, Secretary Work an.
nounced here yesterday. He said that
the presidential party would leave the
South Dakota Black Hills Monday for
a five-day visit.
Indications at Rapid City have been
that the President would leave Sun.
day, if he made the trip.
The park is under the jurisdiction Of
the Interior Department, and Score.
tary Work has instructed Supt. ALI
bright to arrange for the convenience
and pleasure of the President.
Mr.. Coolidge will be, the fourth
President to visit the park during his
term of office. President Arthur Wis
tied the park in 1883, Presinent Rocse-
welt went there in 1903 and President
Harding stopped there in 1928.
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COOLIDGE GETS MEDAL.
Brought by Lindbergh From King
Albert of Belgians.

RAPID CITY, s. OAK. August 20
R.-Announcement was made today
of the presentation of medal to
President Coolidge by King Albert OF
the Belgians in recognition of his in
terest in aviation. The medal was
intrusted to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
at the time of his reception in Brus-
sells after his epoch.making Atlantic
fight. Col. Lindbergh brought it to
the White House in Washington.
The medal is cast in bronze, and
on one side bears the Presidents
name and on the other the words:
High protector of the international
League Of kiators."
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POLICE FINE SUSTAINED.
Commissioners Uphold $25 Assess
ment Against Taylor.

The Commissioners yesterday sus-
tanned the decision of the police trial
board in filming Policeman E. M. Tay-
lor SIS on a charge Of unwarranted
use of his revolver.
Taylor, on a motor cycle, was chas-
ing an automobile on Benning road
northeast last month, and he told the
Commissioners in his appeal that he
fired twice in the air to prevent the
operator Of the car from jumping out
and leaving it driveriess.
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{63,0DO,00O SPENT
BY PRESBYTER|ANS
1,927,268 Members, De-
crease in Number of
Churches Reported.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 20.-The
largest sum in the history of the Pres
byterian Church, nearly $4,000, 600
was expended in the interests of its
national and worldwide enterprises
during the fiscal year just closed, &C
cording to the yearly review of demon
national statistics made public yester
day by DR.. Lewis Seymour Nudge
stated clerk of the general assembly.
DR.. Nudge also reported the 1927, 26S
commitment members as the largest
official Presbyterian census ever en-
rolled, but pointed out that the net in
crease in membership of 1857 for the
year was the smallest annual gain in
many years. A record of 1860 sus
pensions, coupled with issuance of
54,657 letters of dismissal and 22,1S2
deaths among members reacted
against accessions of 9O,416 new com.
municant members, 64,713 new mem.
bers on certificates from other demon.
nations and II ,028 reservations, the
report said.
A gain of 1875 in Sunday school
membership brought that total up to
1,596,515 in the 299 presbyteries
throughout the United States. The
number of infants baptized during the
year, 1888, represented a decrease of
LIZA, while decrease also was noted
in the number of baptisms on comics.
sion of faith.
The report noted decrease of 6S in
the number of churches, now 9,497.
and a drop of 90 in the number of
ministers, of which the denomination
now has 1851.
The report lists the 10 largest
presbyteries in the same order as last
year with the following memberships:
Pittsburgh. 66,347; Philadelphia,
1859; Chicago, ILL.,, 47.419; Los An.
geles, Calf. 43,193; New York City,
37,052; Brooklyn Nassau, n. Y, 33,943;
Detroit, 31,7l9; Philadelphia, north,
31,676; Corisco, West Africa, 26.467,
and Lackawanna, Pa. 23.47S.
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MEAL PROVED COSTLY.
Stranger Says Local Couple Robbed
Him.

Offer of a stranger to take him to
his home and give him hot breakfast
for % cents spelled disaster this
morning for Louis Harrell. colored,
en- route to his home at Rocky Mount,
n. c., from kenilworth, N. j.. who re.
ported that he was attacked and
robbed by colored man and woman
when he went to the house to break
fast.
Investigating his story, Detectives
Howard f. Ocle and C. J. p. Weber
arrested on suspicion Beatrice Perry,
28 years old, 20 Defrees street, and
Frank Glenn. PIP D street. The de-
tectives recovered Harrell's trunk
checks and railroad ticket. He COM
planned also that $50 of his $50 capital
had been taken.
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BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Military Band, on the upper band
stand, at $40 o'clock this evening,
John S. NJ. Zimmerman, bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, assistant leader;
March, Emblem of Freedom"
Goldman
Patriotic overture, The American,
Victor Herbert
Solo for euphonium, Tramp, Tramp
Tramp" lair Narie). ...... Goldman
Musician Guy Glove.
Potpourri, "reminiscences Of the Boys
in Blue" ...:.............R Robinson
Patrol. american. Meacham
Waltz suite. "Eternelle Ivresses"
Came
Finale, stars and Stripes Forever,
Sousa
THE Star Spangled Banner"
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District Pound Demoralized as Skunk
That Routed Police Is Put to Death

The final odoriferous chapter was
written yesterday afternoon in the
life of the skunk which earlier in the
day had spread terror at No. pre-
cinct. when it continued to rout those
with whom it came in contact, de-
moralizing employees and prisoners at
the District Pound and nearly putting
the gas chamber out of commission
before it got in its deadly work.
Hes dead now but he sure played
his part before he passed on" said
one Of the 10 employees who witnessed
from a safe distance the passing Of
the skunk.
e When the little animal arrived at
4Axyss1 \. i. m z "a
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WOMAN LAWYER PLANS
TO TRY CASES ABROAD
Detroit Practitioner Will Under
take Work on Her Vaca-
ton Trip.

By the AssOClatcd Press.
DETROIT, August 20.-An Ameri-
can woman attorney will try cases in
Paris, Athens and London while on a
vacation"
She is Miss Grace II. Brown Of De.
troit, who plans to sail to Europe soon
to carry out her legal plans.
In Paris Miss Brown will represent
an Armenian claiming 100000 from
the Turkish government for land he al
leges was confiscated. She has been
retained in an immigration case in
Athens and an involved estate will
claim her attention in the London
courts.
Miss Brown has received introduc-
tory letters to the foreign courts from
Secretary of State Frank b. Kellogg.
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FIGHT INJURIES FATAL.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, August 20
tF) M. J. Lightfoot, 50 years old, Of
Quincy, H.. died at City Hospital to-
day of a fractured skull received in
q fight with Frank Robinson, 81, An
derson, Ind.
Robinson, police say, will be charged
with murder. Lightfoot was district
manager for a firm for which Robin
son was a salesman.
Robinson said he had resigned and
LdGhtfoot had come here TO Robinson s
hotel TO check up accounts.
A fight followed and Robinson said
he struck Lightfoot, who fell. strik,
ing his head on the marble floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20

the pound, the dogs-60 of them-set
up a mighty barking that was heard
for many blocks. Employees ran for
the yard as the prisoner was deposited
in the gas chamber and the lethal ele-
ment was turned on.
The odor Of the gas was quickly alb
sorbed by another odor a far more
pungent SMELL familiar to those who
havo lived in The country. 1t was
many minutes before the men of the
pound ventured to re-enter the build.
ing, and it was more than an hour
before the yipping and the bayiug
.equiem Of the wood pussy ceased.
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PRESIDENT PLANS
TO Be HERE SEPT. Z
Executive Will Stop Once
During Return-May
Arrive Earlier.
By a STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.

By a STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
STATE GAME LODGE, S. Oak,
August 20.-The President and Mrs.
Coolidge will be back in Washington
by September IL.
Official announcement to that effect
was made by the President himself
when he said to the newspaper CORE
spondents Yesterday that he Is count.
ing on getting back to the Capital by
that date. BY that time the President
will have rounded out an absence
Of three months from Washington,
having left for his Black Hills vaca-
ton on the night of June 10.
At the time the President made
known the time he has set to be back
in Washington he stated that his only
formal stop while EN- route East Will
be at Brookings, in the extreme east
ern section Of this State, where he
will attend the dedication of the Lin.
cold Library at the State Agricultural
College.
May BE Back by September 10.
1t is thought by some of the Presi-
dents associates here that he will be
back in Washington on the 10th of
September. They explained that the
Presidents statement that he would
would be back not later than that
date, but did not mean he would not
be hack ahead Of that date.
Official announcement also was
made of the Presidents decision to
visit Yellowstone National Park next
week. He will be accompanied by
Mrs. Coolidge, their son John and part
of the White House staff here. The
party will leave Custer, Is miles from
the game lodge, tomorrow night by
special train over the Burlington
road
1t is his intention to cover a large
part of the tour through the park on
horseback. He will spend four days
in the park proper, seeing the scenic
wonders and the places of interest as
well as fishing and inspecting the Gov
ernment's activities, returning to the
Summer White House the latter part
of the week.
Several Stops Planned.
1t is understood that several stops
will be made going to and from the
park, among these being Billings and
Livingston. Mont. The party is ex.
pected to enter the park by the north
entrance.
In the little more than a week that
will remain of the Presidents stay in
the Black Hills when he returns from
this jaunt, he will make one or two
more side trips in this section Of the
country, one of them to the Federal ir-
rigation project at Newell, about 20
miles north of the game lodge, and
the other to Nisland, only a few miles
from Newell, to attend the county fair.
PARK TOJrR ARRANGED
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Accepts Presbyterian Call.

FREDERICK, Md, August go
Rev. DIR. Charles f. Wehler, former
vice president of Hood College here
and for two years pastor of Faith Re-
formed Church, Baltimore. has ac-
cepted call to the Presbyterian
Church here. BY an alliance of
churches adhering to the reformed
faith. Presbyterian and Reformed
ministers may exchange pulpits. He
will succeed Rev. DR.. T. J. Gaehr.
who has accepted . pastorate at
Brooklyn, n. y. .-.------
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MACNIDER IN CRASH.
Plane 0verturns in Landing-Pilot
Is Injured.

DANBURY, Conn, August 20 @.-
Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secre-
tary of War, was in a plane which
overturned in making a landing at
Danbury airport today, but was UNI
hurt. His pilot, Lieut.. Maxwell Bal
four of Mitchell Field, Long Island,
sustained a confusion of the hip.
Secretary MacNider came here to
American Legion.
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Soldier of Fortune
Shot When Truck
Runs Over Bullet
By ths Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Augusts20.
Capt. Carey Harrison, who only a
few days ago quit the life Of a SOL
der of fortune to make a try at
motion pictures, today faced the
prospect of losing his chance at a
film career as a result Of a bullet
wound received in freak accident.
Harrison was struck in the eye
Yesterday by a charge from q car.
fridge laying on the pavement and
exploded by the wheels of a truck.
Physicians said he would lose his
eye.
Wallace Berry and Raymond Hat.
ton. Aim comedians, induced Harri-
son to join the Aims with part in
one of their coming pictures. Har.
rison played a part In international
affairs in 1918, when Pancho Villas
forces captured him, and he was be-
fore a firing squad, when United
States authorities came to his res
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FUMES KILL WOMAN.

Overcome by gasoline fumes while
cleaning clothes in her apartment at
1888 Columbia road early last night.
DR.. Sallie E. Mcleod, an osteopath, so
years old, died within a few minutes
after the efforts of four doctors had
failed TO revive her. DR.. y. J. Burtt,
living in the building; DR.. Grace Hurd
and DIR. Albert Parham we're sum
moned and treated her until the ar.
rival OF an ambulance from Emer-
gency Hospital. She was rushed 10
the hospital, where pulmotor failed
to revive her.
The coroner issued a certificate of
accidental death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20
ARMY FLYER KILLED.
Lieut.. Stumpf Dies, Lieut.. Hutch
inson Hurt as Ship Crashes.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. August 20 (P.-
Lieut.. George Stumpf, with the 55th
Division. Air Corps. at Lambert-St.
Louis flying field. was killed, and
Lieut.. c. c. Hutchinson, pilot, was seri.
ously injured when their airplane
crashed 20 miles south of here today.
Lieut.. Stumpf was a passenger in
the plane
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20
Suicide Ends Life
By Crawling Under
Wheels of Truck

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, August 20
How Stanisiaw Marnik, Al years
old. Cleveland, crawled. under the
wheels Of a heavy truck and wait:
ed patiently for it to start and
crush out his life was related to
coroner's investigators, by wit
nesses yesterday in establishing sui
eide as the cause of his death.
Marnik was first reported as the
victim Of hitand-run driver.
His widow, Mrs. Frances Mar
mix, Of Cleveland, who claimed the
body, said her husband had been
out OF work.
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Old Horse on WAY
To Grave Kills Man
Leading 1t to Death

By tAs AssOclated PTesa.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., August
pa 68-year-old farmer, Henry
Ang of Linwood, was kicked 10
death yesterday by a 32-year-old
horse, which he was leading TO the
grave he had dug for it. The horse
kicked Ang in the stomach.
DIR. Charles c. McNulty of AT.
iantic City had just pronounced the
period of the horses usefulness at
en- end. This was the first time the
animal had been out Of his stall for
several years. .-.
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Mortality Rate Reduced.

Unfortunately for the happiness Of
the chickens, the poultry husba ndmen
at Beltsville have learned that they
benefit by regular doses Of cod liver
Oil. Quantitative experiments are
being continued along this line to de-
termine the correct amounts.
Another important line Of expert
mentation explained to the visitors
has to do with lowering the death
rate. especially among chickens. BY
selecting eggs from vigorous breed
ing stock, keeping the quarters strictly
sanitary, and allowing the birds plenty
of room, this mortality had been cut
to 20 per cent up to weeks of age.
European delegates reported some
remarkable poultry developments in
Great Britain and Holland. In Eng.
land particularly. a breed Of laying
ducks has been developed which pro.
duce eggs without the customary
strong duck flavor and which have
become popular on the London mar.
ket. The duck, 1t was learned, may
become a much better layer than the
hen. One Australian poultryman re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20
SACCO PETITION
DENIED RECOGNITION
BY SUPREME COURT

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PRESIDENT AT ODDS
WITH SHIP BOARD

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, 1927-04-06
CELEBRATES 24TH YEAR
IN BUFFALO BILLS TOWN

Ernest Ricci, proprietor of the
Rex. soft drink parlor, this week
celebrated his oath year in Buf,
falo Bills town. Mr.. Ricci not only
came to the Cody country because
of the appeal of the west, but he
came here primarily to see his old
friend Col. Cody, and to be in his
employ here.
1t was about thirty years ago
that Mr.. Ricci first met Col. Cody
in Europe. Ricci was a circus trick
rider, and has been with the Bar
mum C Baily circus in Europe for
sixteen years. When Col. Cody took
his American circus to Europe, Mr..
Ricci hired out to the Cody outfit
Switzerland. and for two ear
identified with the show. 1t
was while travelling with the Cody
that he met Albert Heimer.
and formed a friendship which la
ter brought him to Cody.
, 1927-04-06
MANY CHANGES In
\ STATE OFFICES
y cox TAKES OFFICE

Carl NJ. Cox left Monday morning
IA assume the office of state land
commissioner at Cheyenne. the Ill
hess of Mrs. Cox having prohibited
him from assuming his new dutie.
April LIST. Mr.. Cox succeeds G. H
McWhinnie, who has been a mos
capable officer of the state for tn,
bast four years under the Ross ad.
h~inistration.
Mr.. McWhinnie, upon leaving the
land office takes upon his shout
hers the duties OF a member of the
ktate board of equalization and
bubble utilities, having been APP
pointed by Governor Emerson az
khe Democratic member of this i'm
boEtant board.
INn April LIST A. L. Putnam took
he oath of office as state exam
her and announces as his chief
deputy, J.. A. Reed. Former ex-
miner Stanley A. Brown is. to re-
hahn in the examiners office as
Inc of Mr.. Putnam's special exam
hers. Other deputies in the a
hers office include c. F. Dickin-
1bn. Evanston; r. E. MacFarlane,
meridian, William Reeves, Evanston
hid L. L. Williams of Beaver.
F.. Miss Grace, Emerson has been
.iven the position of deputy state
Suditor.
4 There are very few positions yet
, ha filled by appointment of the
>bvernor, one of the most impor-
INIT being that of state highway
.pperintendent. There is much
as to whether John A..
Ehiting will be renamed the state
hglneer, as the unexpired term of
3tfice of Frank c. Emerson, which
Il was appointed to fill. expired
3arch 31st. Many seem to think
bat Whiting will be the choice for
BE highway superintendent's job,
babe vacant by the resignation of
leroy Laird. February 2Sth, and in
bat event Their will be a new APP
tbintee for state engineer.
There also remains the appoint
bent of members of the newly
feated department of commerce
bad industry. and in event Park
bunty receives the appointment of
Democrat on this board it is very
Nelly to be r. T. Baird of Powell.
ASecretary for the state medical
bald has not at yet been named
y the governor.
, 1927-04-06
Methodist Church

Sunday school, 1000 a.. m.
Morning worship, 1900 a.. m.
Special palm Sunday Service" Ser
mon Subject: "The Awakening of a
City"
Epworth League, $40. Leader.
Miss Betty Evans.
Evening service. 1870, Subject
TOO Late"
Our services Sunday will be in
keeping with the Palm Sunday in
the Life of Jesus. We will have
special music and a most interest
ing message. The public is in
vited.