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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
T. B. Lewis, Contractor, Dies.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
HYATTSVILLE. Md. February
14.-Thonas p. Lewis, a we'll known
contractor, died last night of stomach
trouble at his home, in Dodge Park,
at the age of "a years His wife.
formerly Miss May Barron; three
daughters, Mrs. Francis j. Paul, Mrs.
Mario V. Ventura and Mrs. Joseph
Smith, and a son, Harry Lewis of
Bladensburg. survive. A sister also
survives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
SOFT COAL FARLEY
GETS ORGANIZED
Rice Miller Is Choice of Oper-
at0rS for Chairman
of Meeting.

BY the Associated Press
MIAMI. Fla, February 14.-Rice
Miller, Hillsborough, H., president of
the Illinois Coal Operators ASsocia.
ton. was selected by the bituminous
operators at a caucus today as their
choice for chairman of the joint wage
conference.
Custom provides that the chairman
shall be an operator and the secretary
a miners representative.
The miners had not named their
choice for secretary when the wage
scale committees representing the
United Mine Workers of America and
operators of the central competitive
bituminous coal field went into joint
conference at II o'clock to draft a
new wage scale to replace the Jack
sonville agreement, which expires
March 81.
Organization Is First.
Organization of the conference was
the first business procedure.
The operators selected the follow
ing floor leaders:
Illinois, Herman Perry, Hillsbor-
ough, ILL.,; Indiana, Phil II. Penna.
Terre Haute, Ind; western Pennsyl-
vania, Horace f. Baker; Ohio, w.
H. Haskins.
Another lengthy chapter in the
turbulent history of coal mining nego'
tiationS was forecast.
At one end of the gap the miners
held their convention instructions to
obtain a new agreement based on mo
wage reduction" while the operators
proposed readjustment of wages on
the basis of competition with non
union fields.
The present wage agreement in the
central competitive field. drawn at
Jacksonville in 1924, will expire on
March 81. A new agreement must be
reached before April l to avoid ces-
sation of union labor in the mines.
Could Renew Scale.
The miners could obtain their con-
vention demands through a renewal
Of the Jacksonville agreement. This
would provide for a continuation of
the day labor wage of $3.50 and the
$1.05 rate for tonnage men. These
wages have been in effect seven years,
having been drafted in 1920 by the
coal commission appointed by Presi-
dent Woodrow wilson to consider
wage increase demands from the
miners. 1t has been renewed from
to conference.
Sixty-seven men with voting powers
are attending the conference here.
Thirty-five represent the United Mine
Workers, including John L. Lewis, in
ternational president.
Although the miners outnumbered
the operators by three men in the con-
ference. the difference will have no
effect on the voting. A unanimous
vote of the conference is required in
order to adopt a wage agreement. In
event the conference is unable to reach
an agreement within a certain length
of time, a subcommittee will begin to
seek proposals for presentation to the
main body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
Confederate Veteran Dies.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
LYNClIBU re. Va, February Ii
James POLK Otc. "a years Of age. died
Friday afternoon at the home Of his
son-in-law. Percy r. Cochran. He
was 81 Confederate veteran. having
been with Pickett's Division at GeAtys-
burg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14

When floating river dredge had to
pass under a low bridge near Sullivan,
Ind, recently, railway work locomo-
tives lifted the bridge by cables and
vertical towers. the whole operation
requiring each tune Only IA minutes,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
MRS. n. H. BRADLEY
DIES At AGE OF So
Writer of Songs and Civil
War Camp Angel"
Passes Away.

stella" author Of many familiar
temperance songs and angel of the
camps and hospitals during the Civil
War. died here last night at the age
of IS. She was Mrs. Nellie II. Brad
lev, widow of F. M. Bradley, and
daughter of the late Henry Harper
Hazard and Mrs. Harriet Amanda Bib
Hazard.
Mrs. Annie Hazard Bugbee of Tako-
ma Park, ID. c.. Mrs. BradleyS sister,
recalls that during the Civil War Mr.
and Mrs. Bradley visited hospitals here
day and night caring for the injured
soldiers, cheering them up and enter
tanning them. During that period Mrs.
Bradley wrote many patriotic songs
which her sister would sing in the hos
pitfalls.
Active Temperance Worker.
After the war Mrs. Bradley turned
her attention to temperance activities
She wrote dozens of songs which
were known everywhere in the days
when the banner of temperance was
carried by a. small band of women
Some of the more familiar writings
that came from the pen of stella"
were: Don't Sell Poor Father Rum"
I'm Marry No Man if He Drinks"
Let Me Die at Home" and Fathers
a Drunkard. Mother Is Dead
The last one will be remembered by
many who recall the old DAYS of
swinging doors. Mrs. Bradley wrote
it after she had found a waif on the
street and befrended her. 1t begins:
Out in the gloomy night
Sadly | roam;
| have no mother dear
No pleasant home.
Nobody cares for me-
No one would cry
II poor little Becky
Even should die.
On the damp ground
/ must now lay my head:
Fathers q drunkard
And mother is dead
Writer of Plays.
In addition to her songs stella"
wrote many plays, cantatas and
pageants on the subject of temperance
which were publicly presented by chill
dren.
She was one of the early members
of the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church and of the Womans Christian
Temperance Union, serving as super
intendent of the literature department
OF the latter organization until she
was past so years of age.
Besides her sister, she leaves five
nieceS and nine nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the chapel of w. w. Chambers,
undertaken, tomorrow afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. Interment will be in
Congressional Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14

Possibly intended as first aid follow
ing family arguments, a device that
viii Instantly mend broken broom
handles has appeared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
WOMEN TOPET|T|ON
FOR FEDERAL Jobs
Three Coming by AirpIane to
Join Deputation in Plea
to President.

Travelling from New York to Wash
ington by airplane, three women will
join the deputation of the National
Women's Party which will call on
President Coolidge by appointment to-
morrow afternoon at 1920 o'clock in
the interest of the equal rights amend
ment and the appointment of more
women to high Federal offices.
They are Mrs. Meta Merchant of
Brooklyn, parole commissioner of
New York and honorary president of
the Women's Civil Service League:
Mrs. Alice Mckay Kelly, lecturer and
writer on the Philippines and the Far
East, and Miss Katheryn Miller of
Portland, Greg, a graduate of Reed
College, now doing postgraduate work
at Barnard.
Miss Anthony as Inspiration.
The day being the 10th anniversary
of the birth of Susan b. Anthony, the
delegation will ask the President to
further the equal rights amendment
sponsored in the Senate by Senator
Curtis and in the House by Represent
alive Anthony, both of Kansas, the lat
ter being a nephew of the suffrage
leader. Following the visit to the
White House the deputation will re.
turn to the headquarters of the Ma.
tional Woman's Party on Capitol Hill,
where luncheon will be served Two
hundred guests have been invited to
attend the luncheon at / o'clock.
The scant recognition given women
in appointments to Federal offices was
referred to by Mrs. Fl. w. Wiley. mem.
Der of the Women's party, in a state
ment today.
Points to WOmen's Record.
1--WE would call attention of the
President to the more than excellent
record made by women who have held
and now hold offices of trust and profit
under the Federal Government" said
Mrs. Wiley. 1--WE also will remind
him that while there are in the Dis.
trict Of Columbia many women of
outstanding ability--executive, legal
and commercial--Mis Mabel Board
man, appointed by President Wilson
to serve for a few weeks, is the only
woman who has ever held office as a
Commissioner Of the District of Co
lumbia.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
FINDS AMBULANCE
DRIVERS RECKLESS
Traffic Council Charges Hos
pitaI Vehicles Travel Through
Streets at Excessive Speed.

The District Traffic Council through
George w. Offutt, its chairman, com
planned to the Commissioners today of
the Excessive speed" and RECKLESS
manner in which hospital ambulances
are driven in Washington.
AT u recent meeting of the Traffic
Council of the District of Columbia
the speed at which ambulances are
being driven in the District was dis
cussed." said Mr.. Offutt.
individual members of the council
called attention to instances where
ambulances had been driven at an
especially high rate of speed or in a
case in hand did not warrant such
action.
Admits Need i'm Emergencies.
"While the council realizes full we'll
the importance of quick action in
emergency cases, it was the sense of
each member that the jeopardizing of
lives Of pedestrians and motorists
when ambulances are called on more
or less trivial cases was unnecessary
1t appears that the drivers of these
ambulances are taking advantage of
their positions by driving at an eX
cessive rate of speed at all times,
whether the emergency warrants such
speed or not.
Suggests Regulation.
1T was pointed out that an inferno
accompanies the ambulance on all
emergency cases and is in a position
to render first aid and such temporary
attention as may be necessary in the
ordinary case. The council believes
that ambulances should be given the
right of way. but that unnecessary adj
vantage of this prerogative should
not be TAKEN
The Commissioners advised the
council that the complaint would be
given immediate attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-14
PARDON FOR RIOT
PRISONERS ASKED
Race Conference Delegates
Present Petition to
President.

A petition asking pardon for sol
der prisoners in the houston race
riots several years ago, was pre-
scented TO President Coolidge today
by delegate to the Lincoln Douglass
race conference now IN session mere.
The conference with the President
was conducted by Rev. George
Frazier Miller of Brooklyn. Petitions
for redress of wrongs also were pre-
scented to the House and Senate.
The session started Saturday night
with a Lincoin's birthday celebration
at the Twelfth street Y. NJ. G. A. The
principal speaker was Rev. j. Milton
Waldron of the Shiloh Baptist Church,
who urged that efforts toward race
betterment be based on the Constltu-
ton and the Bible. Thomas II. X.
Clarke presided.
Lincoln Is EuIOgized.
Eulogies on Lincoln were delivered
by Rev. G. II. Steptoe Of Baltimore,
Neval RI. Thomas and Rev. }. l.. >.
Holloman of Washington.
Yesterday afternoon the race con
ference made a pilgrimage to the
Frederick Douglass homestead, where
exercises were conducted by the color
ed women's clubs OF the National
Federation.
The final meeting of the three-day
conference will be tonight at the
Metropolitan Baptist Church. Speakers
will be: William Monroe Trotter, BoS-
ton: Rev. Thomas S. Harten, New
York City; Rev. ID. s. Klugh of
Massachusetts, and Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell of Washington.
Rathbone Is Speaker.
Representative Rathbone of Illinois
was the principal speaker at the cele-
bration held by the Federation OF
Colored Women's Clubs yesterday in
Zion Baptist Church.
Mr. Rathbone's father was a guest
of Mr.. Lincoln the night the war
President was assassinated and was
wounded himself in trying to protect
Lincoln.
Rev w. l.. Washington, pastor of
Zion Church, spoke on the life and
times of Frederick Douglass and Mrs.
Virginia White Speel spoke on
women in Club Work"
A Lincoln day celebration also was
held yesterday at the New Bethel Bap-
fist Church, Ninth and S streets, when
addresses We're made by Perry w.
Howard. Judge J. A. Cobb. Rev.
George n. Beaman, George w. Cole
and Lucian Thompson. Exercises
We're under auspices of the Lincoln
Relief Association, Rev w. ID. Jarvis
delivering the Lincoln grafton.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-09-30
MeuneSt
Balloon Vendor at Leba-
non Stuck Children With
Pin for Selling Cry.
Bu Times Special

By Times Special
r. EBANON, Ind, Sept. 3d.
III Challenging the world to
produce a meaner man
than this, a Lebanon jeweler who
repaired a ring for the vendor OF
toy balloons during the stay of a
circus here explains as follows:
The vendor wanted pin quarter
Of an inch long resoldered on a
ring which he wore on one Of
: his little fingers. With the armed
ring, the vendor would approach a
child which was accompanied by
its parents. Placing his hand on
the child's shoulder, he would re-
mark, wouldn't you like to have
a balloon, my little fellow" at the
sane time jabbing the pin into
che shoulder. Then the child
would cry. The parents, believ-
ing the tears were caused by a
desire for balloon, bought. Some
children were seen here on circus
day with two or three balloons,
the jeweler says.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-09-30
GILLIOM PROMISES
FACTS ON SENATORS

William A. Pickens,. former presi-
dent. of the Indiana State Bar As
socaition, today received from At
torney General Arthur L. Gilliom a
letter assuring him that "all the
facts" in the Shumaker-R Robinson
Watson letter incident will be re-
vealed before the State Supreme
Court.
Pickens Thursday suggested that
every act of Senator James E. Wat
son, Senator Arthur r. Robinson
and the Rev. E. s. Shumaker, super
intendent of the Indiana Anti
Saloon League, in connection with
the letter incident, he barred to the
public.
The letters referred to we're those
exchanged by Shumaker and Wat
son at the time Shumaker sought
the aid of Watson and Robinson to
keep him from receiving a Jail SEN
tence from Supreme Court upon Gill
lions charge that Shumaker's 1925
annual report was contemptuous.
Gilliom'S letter to Pickens:
II acknowledged your letter Of
Sept. %, in which you express the
hope that all facts relevant to the
last motion I filed in the Shumaker
case will be elected. This was, of
The Indianapolis times., 1927-09-30
WHITES WIN STRIKE
Negroes to Have Separate
School at Gary.

Bn United Press
GARY, Ind, Sept. 30.-"Jim
Grow" today had gained foothold
in the Gary school system and 1900
white students who walked out of
classes rather than attend with Ne
groes returned to Emerson High
School.
The city council, at special
meeting Thursday night, agreed to
a special bond issue of $4,000 for
establishment of temporary high
school for Negroes, to be used until
permanent school can be estab-
lished.
Negroes will continue to attend
other high schools, but they will
be barred from the Emerscn High
School, located in the city's most
exclusive residential district.
The strike originated Monday
when 600 students left their classes
in protes against eighteen Negroes
who had registered.
Whether the Jim Grow" reguia..
tions will be extended to schools in
other sections of the city ard to
grammar as well as high schools,
was undetermined. In one high
school, white and Negros students
are almost equal in number.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-09-30
PROTEST RACE RULING
Social Council to Take
Negro Views to Chiefs.

A special committee of the Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies has been
named to confer with Butler Uni
versity trustees on the new rule
limiting to ten the number of new
Negro students to be admitted each
semester.
The committee was named follow
ing protest of Indianapolis Negro
leaders presented to the interracial
committee of the council Thur, day.
The special committee will see "a
fair solution of the problem of ! mi
tation."
Members include the Rev. G. H.
Winders, pastor Northwood Chris
tian Church; DR.. Alva w. Taylor,
board of temperance and social well
fare secretary; the Rev. Henry L.
Herod, pastor Second Christian
Church; Miss May Belcher, execu-
tive secretary Negro Y. w. c. A.;
Homer w. Borst, executive secre-
tary indianapolis Community Fund,
and Miss Pearl B. Forsyth, Y. w.
G. A. general secretary.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-09-30
vANDAGRIFFT
FACES STOCK
Deal CHARGE
Violation of Securities Law
of State Is Alleged by
Grand Jury.
TWO OTHERS ARE HIT
Sale of Unregistered oil
Well Rejuvenator' Units
Is Charged.

The Marion County grand jury
today indicted Virgil Vandagrifft,
board of works president, on a
charge of violation of the State
securities law and boosted the num-
Der of present and former Duvall
administration city officials under
indictment to five.
F. F. Wellsmer. 2105 Park Ave,
and D. Il. Taylor, Louisville, KY,
were indicted with Vandagrifft.
The three sold units of un-
registered stock in the Taylor I'M
proved Electrical Oil Well Heater
No. /, an oil well rejuvenator, it is
charged. The securities law pro-
hibitS sale of stock unless it is
registered and approved by the
State securities commission.
Five-Year Term Possible
If Vandagrifft is found guilty he
may be sentenced to one to five
years imprisonment and fined not
more than $1,000.
Although details are not given in
the indictment, Vandagriffs and his
associates sold thirty three or
thirty-four of the units of the oil
we'll rejuvenator in the state for
$3.50 each, it is alleged.
The rejuvenator, it is said, was an
electric heated ball to be lowered or
raised in the well, its promoters
claiming it would heat the paraNin
coating on the sides and bottom of
the well and bring dead wells back
to life.
Although production had dropped
to five barrels a day, the machine
would revive well to normal ca
pacity, the sellers are said to have
asserted.
Says He'll Stick
Vandagrifft, named to the board
of works by Duvall April 10, said
he would not resign his city post
and refused to comment on the
charges. He and Duvall have been
close friends for years. ~
The indictment named these per-
sons at witnesses: Oscar F. Smith,
1415 Fairfield Ave-: G. P. Lang
maid, 6319 Pleasant Run Pkwy.; Ro-
land Brennan, Seventieth st. and
White River Rd.; A. L., Pehrson,
1921 N. Meridian ST.; A. j. Lauth,
3169 Washington Blvd; P. S. How
ard, 400 Kahn Bldg, and G.. D.
Lockman, 225 N. New Jersey st.
Vandergrifft surrendered to Sher-
riff Omer Hawkins and was re-
leased on $1,000 bond provided by
Schuyler Haas, city corporation
counsel. Capiases were to be issued
for the other two this afternoon.
jackson Again Indicted
The jury also returned a second
indictment chargir 3 Governor Ed
Jackson, Attorney robert I. Marsh
and George v. Coffin with con-
spiracy to offer a bribe. The pur-
pose was to correct minor techni-
calities in the indictment, returned
Sept. 9.
Where Coffin had been referred to
as chairman of the Marion County
Republican Central committee in
the first Indictment, the new chargs
says "there and then being a poll
| tical worker"
The Governor, Coffin and Marsh
are charged with conspiring to offer
Governor Warren T. McCray $10,-
900 and a guarantee, he would not
be convicted of any crime in State
courts if he would name man of
their choice as Marion County
prosecutor.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-09-30
HOLD LAWYER
FOR BLOCKING
DEATH PROBE
Bail of $1,000 Is Posted for
Counsel of Fugitive in
Doctors Murder.
BEACH STILL MISSING
Two New Witnesses Tell of
Seeing Widow in Auto on
nay of Staying.

HAMMONTON, N. j., Sept. 3d.
Bail of $4,000 was posted today by
Edison Hedges, counsel for Willis
Beach, missing Lilliendahl murder
witness.
Hedges was indicted Thursday by
the Atlantic County grand jury. He
was accused of advising his client
to leave the jurisdiction of the
county authorities investigating the
murder of the aged narcotic
specialist.
Meanwhile, detectives interrogated
two new witnesses, whose stories
may develop an important angle Of
the investigation.
An apparently reputable witness"
who saw Mrs. Lilliendahl, middle
aged widow Of the slain physician,
driving her automobile at high speed
at a point about forty miles from
her home, has been found by Capt.
Frank j. Harold, chief of detec-
tives. Harold said he has placed
the date as that of the murder and
the time at 7 o'clock in the morning.
Looked Like Hard Driving"
Mrs. Lilliendahl had told authori-
ties she did not leave her home that
day until 8 o'clock. She is under
$4,000 bail as material witness in
the case.
To have reached the spot at which
she was alleged to have been seen
by the witness, Mrs. Lilliendahl must
have left her Vineland home at
o'clock, Harold said.
The second new witness was said
to have seen the Lilliendahls in
their car when they stopped at a
gasoline station at o'clock that
morning.
He observed that the tank was al
most empty and the car looked as
though it hadSbeen through, some
"hard driving"
Beach Is Still Missing
Mrs. Lilliendahl told police she sat
beside her husband when two Ne
groes, one tall, one short" shot him
in a hold-up op, a lonely road near
here.
The indictments charge Hedges
with "spiriting away a material
witness and "spiriting away a per-
son charged with aiding and abet-
ting in the commission of crime.
The whereabouts of Beach, the
poultry man from South Vineland,
were still as much OF a mystery to-
day as they have been since he f1e
his home ten minutes ahead of
State troopers last Tuesday NOR :
ing.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-09-30
By WARREN t. MCRAY


TONG centuries ago the
III glaciers from the frozen
u North slowly forced their
way down over my homeland.
They leveled all before them and
left a vast prairie that for un-
told ages grew rank with luxuriant
vegetation, maturing, decaying,
returning to Mother Earth in
creased fertility to await the day
when human courage and in
telligence, muscle and endurance,
would wrest from her bosom the
splendid civilization that is to be
found there today.
Sixty-fve years ago my father
and mother migrated to this fair
section. Soon after their marriage
in March, 1862. they journeyed
from a centrally located county
in Indiana to the newly &C
quired home in Newton County.
At that time a journey Of
hundred miles, taken in the
spring of the year through
treacherous swamps and over
roads that were almost impass-
able, was more of an event than
a rans-continental trip today.
1t was very desirable to have
some timbered lots for the pro-
lection of the cattle and live
stock in winter time and my
father had that in mind also when
he made the choice Of his future
home.
Into that home they took youth,
industry, ambition, courage. de-
termination, faith and hope, .all
bound together by the insoluble
bonds Of love- 1t was in this
pioneer home that I was born.
From the time I became old
enough to maintain my balance.
on a horse, 1 was placed on a
gentle old gray mare that they
called Nell, and my father would
take me with him on his rounds
among the cattle. From that
time on, my love for them has
never abated. 1t was never fad
or a passing fancy.
80
F=iY father never owned a
I'M herd Of registered cattle,
~ but he always kept herd
of well-bred gradee cows, whose
progeny he developed as baby
beeves, using good registered
Hereford bulls in the herd. He
also handled a great many steers.
In those days Fowler & Van
Natta, Fowler, Ind, did q big
business in feeding cattle, as well
as having one of the most prom
ising herds of registered Herefords
in the United States.
I well remember when I was
boy of II went with my father
to visit Mr.. Van Natta to see
about selling him drove of
steers. AS we were about ready
to turn our faces hmoeward Mr..
Van Malta said: Before you go
I want to show you our pure-bred
herd"
1--WE were glad for the invita-
ton and opportunity. He took us
down to the big barn on the old
Hickory Grove farm, west OF