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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
MEMEL CONTROVERSY
AMICABLY ADJUSTED
Representatives of Germany and
Lithuania Agree on Status
of German Residents.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, June 1.-THE cOntro-
versy over the status of the German
residents of the city of Memel was
settled amicably today by an agree
ment between the representatives Of
Germany and Lithuania.
Premier Valdemaras Of Lithuania
in a statement to the League of Ma
tons Council said his government was
prepared to arrange elections assuring
popular representation and safeguard
ing political and individual rights.
Foreign Minister Stresemann Of
Germany expressed hope that the
promised measures would bring the
situation into conformity with the
statutes drafted by the special League
Commission under Norman H. Davis
in 1924.
The statutes drafted by the Davis
Commission and accepted by the in
terested parties constituted the Memel
territory as a unit under Lithuanian
sovereignty, but with administrative
and financial autonomy
German residents Of the city, which
before the war belonged to Germany,
charged that Lithuania had violated
these autonomous rights, including
school and court privileges. The mat
ter was considered at private meet
ing of the League Council yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
WILL ASK IMPROVEMENT
or CHEVY CHASE CIRCLE
Citizens Association Wants Park
ing to Conform to Beauty of
Surrounding Territory.

Improvement of Chevy Chase Cir
surrounding territory is to be sought
Immediately, according to action TAX
en- by the Chevy Chase Citizens AS.
ISOLATION at it's final meeting before
the Summer recess in the Il. " Brown
School, Connecticut avenue and Nc
Kinley street, last night.
j. Francis Moore, president of the
Associations: A. Adelman and Mr..
Parks, together with the village man.
ager of Chevy Chase, Md, viii call
on the District Commissioners to urge
the Identification of the plot. which,
according to the action, should in
clude the planting of shrubbery and
out that one Of the first impressions
of the character of the city's parks
is obtained at Chevy Chase Circle,
which is the first circle encountered
by motorists from the Northwest on
entering Washington. 1t is under
stood that the Maryland authorities
will assume responsibility for the i'm
proVement of the part of the circle To-.
Gated in that State.
A majority of the residents on OH.
yer street between Connecticut ave.
nue. and Chevy Chase parkway, hav-
ing requested that the street be not
1urther improved at present, it was
voted to withdraw the request made
by the street committee of the asso.
clatlon for permanent curbing and
cutters.
Additional school facilities and es.
adjustment of a fire engine house in
the community were urged in reso-
lutions adopted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
POLICE WILL SEIZE
BOOTLEG CRACKERS
Fians Laid to Curb Noise
Makers on Fourth
of July.

Preliminary poppings and sputter-
ings OF bootleg fireworks have already
reached the sharp ears of Maj. Edwin
E. Hesse. and the superintendent of
police is laying his snareS for poten-
tial violators of the safe-and.sane
Fourth Of July regulations.
From the outposts of civiliZa ton in
nearby Maryland and Virginia, where
modern methods of observing the Ma
tons greatest feat of penmanship
have not penetrated the annual
stream of gunpowder has already be
gun to flow. In fact. Maj. HeSse S
henchmen have heard the boom of the
firecracker and the crackle of the cap
pistol within the sacred confines of
the District.
Remembering the desolation wrought
by these instruments of noise in the
old days before the declaration of
safety and sanity 10 years ago, Maj.
Hesse is just on the point of issuing
an order to the police directing strict
enforcement of the regulation against
the use of pyrotechnic instruments
which might hurt anybody. There
seems little chance that any fireworks
but sparklers and colored lights will
be permitted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
ANDREWS TO LEAVE CITY
ON VERMONT VACATION
Will Largely Relinquish Heavy
Duties of Prohibition Chief-Suc-
cessor Gets Acquainted.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Lincoln &. Andrews will largely
relinquish the heavy duties of prohibit
ton chief when he leaves Washington
today for a vacation somewhere in
Vermont before going abroad in
August as the American representa-
tive in a narcotics conference.
Although Gen. Andrews will not
officially retire from the service until
August l. when his successor,
Seymour Lowman of New York,
formally will be sworn in. Mr.
Lowman appeared at the Treasury to-
day to begin getting acquainted in
formally with the work which he is
to assume. Gen. Andrews wiz be back
from time to time to supervise OFF,
cially the conduct of the Office. The
working machinery of the new Bureau
of Prohibition is now well under way
in the hands of DIR. James M. Doran,
the new prohibition commissioner
and affairs are in such shape. that
Gen. Andrews felt he could well get
away for the rest which he needs
from his arduous task.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
GLENMONT HONORS
TEACHER so YEARS
Mrs. Blanche Braddock Cramer
Given Reception at School in
Montgomery County.

ROCKVILLE, Md, June 16-In
celebration of her completion of
SO years of teaching in the public
schools of Montgomery County. Mrs.
Blanche Braddock Cramer of Wash.
ington, a native and for half a cen
fury resident of this county, was given
reception in the school auditorium
at Glenmont Tuesday evening" 1t
was arranged by the Glenmont Parent
Teacher Association and was attended
by large gathering. including former
and present public school officials,
present and former teachers, present
and former public school pupils and
others.
Miss Ruth Burroughs, principal of
the Glenmont School, was in charge.
State Senator Eugene Jones, Prof. Ed.
win w. Broome. county superintendent
of schools; William III. McCeney of the
County Board of Education and
George H. Lamar, formerly president
of the County Board of Education, fe-
dictated the guest of honor in short
talks. Prof Broome presented her with
a letter from the County Board of Ed.
ucation expressing the appreciation of
the school officials of her contribution
to the cause of education in the coun.
~, and Leo Graeves of the Glen.
mont Parent-Teacher Association pre-.
scented her with travelling bag from
the Glenmont association. Mrs. era.
mer expressed her appreciation of the
tributes In a short address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
ZEPPELIN TO TRY
ROUND-W FLIGHT
500 Hours Estimated Time of Trip
for German Craft Under
Construction.


FRIEDERICKSHAVEN, Germany.
June ia Zeppelin flight around the
world is the next great promised aerial
venture
DR.. Hugo Eckener, director of the
Zepplin Co, announced Tuesday
that the DZ-137, now under construc-
ton here. will cross the Atlantic be-
tween Germany and the United
States several times" and will then,
some time in 1928, attempt the cir
cumnavigation of the globe.
The great journey, he estimates, will
require 800 hours. 1t will necessitate
the erection of two anchor masts. one
in Asiasic Russia near the Pacific
coast and the other in the Western
United States or Canada, to be used
in addition to the Lakehurst, n. j.,
anchorage. Permission to use the
facilities at Lakehurst, DIR. Eckener
said. had already been obtained.
While complimenting Clarence Cham.
berlin and Charles Levine on their
flight from New York to Germany and
welcoming it as intensifying public
confidence in aerial navigation, Dr.
Eckener still thinks airships are more
practicable than airplanes for trans
oceanic commercial aviation.
THE airship," he said, especially
on fights covering big distances. Of
fers much greater comfort and con-
venience than the airplane and also
guarantees greater safety of opera
ton. The most important factor in
it's favor IS the fact that from an eco
nomic and business viewpoint the air
ship is superior to the airplane, since,
in addition to fuel, it can carry large
number of passengers and great guam
titles of freight and mail"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
MRS. DAWES HEAD
OF PATRONESSES
Washington Company Gives
List of Sponsors for Open
ing Next Winter.

The Washington National Opera
Co. which will open its tenth season
with q gala week of grand opera, be
ginning December S. at Polls The
alter, announced today that the list
of patronesSeS will be headed by Mrs.
Charles G. Dawes and will include the
names of many prominent women In
the official. diplomatic, civic. business
and social life of the National Capital.
The patroness invitation committee
is headed by Mrs. Alice Longworth,
wife OF the Speaker of the House, and
includes Mrs. stephen +. EllIins, Mrs.
Walter r. Tuckerman and Mrs.
Edouard Albion.
The partial list of patronesses is:
Mrs. Dawes. Mrs. LonSworth, Mrs.
L. D. Brandeis, Mrs. Harry $. New,
Nine. Teller, Donna Antoinetta de
MARITIME. Baroness Nathan, Sonora
Ferrara, Nine. Olaya, Nine. Simo'
poulos, Nine. Prochnik. Nine. Bos-
from, Nine. Morales, Mile. Jeanne
Cretziano, Nine. van Royen. Mrs.
Henry Chiffon. Mrs. Thomas +. Bay
ard, Mrs. Woodbridge Ferris Mrs.
Charles l.. McNary, Mrs. Lawrence
G.. Phipps, Mrs. Louis A. Fro;hing-
ham. Mrs. Thomas w. Phillips, Mrs.
Joseph Grew. Mrs. Ogden l.. Mills,
Mrs. Mckenzie Moss, Mrs. William a..
Donovan, Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews,
Mrs. Charles J. Bell.
Mrs. William j. Boardman, MISS
Mabel Boardman, Mrs. Charles Henry
Butler. Mrs. O. B. Campbell, Miss Mar
tina Goldman. Mrs. Charles /. Corby,
Mrs. Parker Corning. Mrs. Richard
Porter Davidson. Mrs. Tracy Bows,
Mrs. John r. Eide. Nine. Ekengren,
Mrs. stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. Hayne
Ellis, Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis,
Mrs. John c. Fremont, Mrs. John H.
Gibbons, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant,
Mrs. w. II. Hannay, Mrs. Alvin T..
Hert, Mrs. G. Heurich, Mrs. Frederick
c. Hicks, Mrs. William Hard, Mrs.
Hopkins.
Mrs. Frederick A. Keep. Mrs. Joseph
Letter Mrs. Frank B. Let's, Mrs. Dem
Arrest Lloyd. Mrs. E. B. Meigs, Mrs.
George Mesta, Mrs. Francois Berger
Moran, Mrs. Joseph NOEL, Mrs. Gene
Rushmore Patterson, Mrs. Armistead
Peter. 3D.; Mrs. d. c. Stapleton, Mrs.
Mary Stewart, Mrs. II. c. Sheridan,
Miss Julia D. Strong, Mrs. Alfred Penn
broke Thorn. Mrs. Tuckerman, Mrs.
Austin Waller, Mrs. Edward Douglas
White, Mrs. c. w. Wilkes, Miss Mar
saret Woodrow Wilson, and Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
FLOOD AID FUND
REACHES STA, 493
National Figure Is $15,4S0,175.
Women's City Club to Sponsor
Two Plays to Aid.

Contributions by individuals and or
CARNATIONS today had swelled the Dis
trict fund for relief of the Mississippi
Valley flood sufferers to $144 1888
The Red Cross also announced that
the national fund had reached $15,.
S0,175.73.
Additional funds are expected to be
realized tomorrow night from the
benefit performance of "Playgoers"
and Green Stockings" which will be
given at the Belasco Theater under
the auspices of the Women's City
Club. The cast of ''Playgoers." which
will be directed by Mrs. Edith Sears,
comprises A. M. Rosenthal, Gertrude
E. Walter, Maybelle Raymond, Thelma
Schmitt, Nadine Lane Gallagher, Alice
J. Whitcomb, Edith Oriani and Clagett
Clark.
Green Stockings" given by The
Masks, Central High School alumni
group, will be directed by Miss Svbil
Baker and the cast will include: Nell
Childs, Erma Steiger, Ivy Stevens, An
drew Allison, Barbara Stratton. Rus
sell Graham. William Bradley. Richard
Bourdum, Harry Wender, Leland Cole
Marian Mcdaniel and Robert Miller.
Mrs. Patrick Gallagher is chairman
of the dramatic section of the club
Two box parties for members of the
board have been arranged by Mrs. J
Garfield Riley, president of the club
The program committee is headed by
Mrs. Edith Sears and includes Mrs
Gallagher and Miss Estelle Allen.
The Junior League of Washington
made a 500 contribution yesterday tC
the local fund and the Epiphany
Young Peoples Society contributed
$50
Contributions received by the Dis.
trict Chapter include: Junior League
of Washington, 500; cash, 81; a
friend. Sc; Department Of Commerce
(additionaD, S63.50; Epiphany Young
Peoples Society, $50; F'idelis class of
St. Pauls Methodist Episcopal
| Church, S..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
TRIANGLE LAYOUT
MAY Be DECIDED
Public Buildings Commission
Meets to Consider Group
ing of Structures.

The Public Buildings Commission
may be ready this afternoon to take
some action on the question of the
general layout and grouping of the
new Federal structures that are to be
erected in the triangle south of Penn
sylvania avenue.
y group of prominent architects
has been in consultation with
Treasury architects during recent
weeks on the merits of the proposed
Louvre plan of developing the build
ing program with a continuous facade
along Pennsylvania avenue, as com
pared with the original proposition OF
making each departmental structure
separate unit within the triangle.
Senator Smoot, chairman of the
commission. was not in "a position to
predict this morning whether final ac-
ton would be taken at the meeting
scheduled to be held in his Office at .
o'clock, but said the entire proposition
would be considered. If the Louvre
plan should be adopted. the streets
that are extended through the triangle
would pass under arches in order to
produce the appearance of continu'
Gus facade along the Avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
SHERIFF FINED $500.
Permitted Jail Inmates to Take
"Nights OUT

TERRE HAUTE. Ind, June 16 Lp)
-Ray Foncannon, sheriff of Vipo
County, was found guilty Of CONTEMPT
or court by Judge Robert c. BaltZeH
In Federal Cosrt here yesterday. He
was fined 5000.
Charges filed against Foncannon
by United States District ATTORNEY
Albert Ward asserted that Foncannon
mad unlawfully permitted Federal
prisoners to remain away from the
local Jail for various periods Of time
The sheriff denied he had permitted
the prisoners to be out of Jail without
guards, but admitted that one of
them, Frank Meharry, had slipped
out one night and gone to his home.
where, 1t was charged. he assaulted
his wife.
This latter incident brought condi.
tions at the local Jail to the district
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
Bridegroom Taken
AT Ceremony as
Smallpox Victim

The altar was cheated out of a
prospective bride and bridegroom
last night by the smallpox outbreak
in Ivy City.
Virgil Coates, colored, 1649 Mon
tello avenue northeast, was armed
with a marriage license and ring
for the ceremony, but before it
could be carried out Health Depart
ment physicians took the bride.
groom to the smallpox hospital and
quarantined him. Alice Lofty, the
bride.to-be, who lived in the house
adjoining Coates at 1851 Montello
avenue, became hysterical and
when she was quieted the physi-
clans vaccinated here.
Coates Is the twenty-second VIC
tim of smallpox discovered in Ivy
City in the last two months. A
travelling show which visited Wash
ington in April is believed by
Health Department officials to have
lett the trail OF disease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
FREE BUSES BIG HELP
TO OLD NORTH CHURCH
Pastors Novel Scheme Swells
Attendance at Historic Bos-
ton Edifice.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
BOSTON.-By the startling limo
walton of free buses to Old North
Church. the Rev. DR.. Earnest j. Den
nen has increased tive-fold the aver
age Sunday congregation in the his
toric edifice. Never in the 800 years
of Boston's history have such methods
been used 10 bring worshipers to
service.
When the lantern in the steeple of
Old North Church flashed it's signal
to Paul Revere the neighborhood was
filed with communicates. Today the
church is isolated in the narrow,
crooked streets and lanes of old Bos-
ton, with the neighborhood inhabited
by many thousands of non-communi-
cants.
DIR. Dennen found his average Sun.
day congregation numbered less than
40 when he began to preach there.
Six successive Sundays have since
brought an average of 200 to each
service. Worshipers now gather on
Boston Common, where the busses
meet them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
CANADIAN CRITICIZES
BIG U. S. POPULATIONS
Ontario Chief Justice Thinks
Empty House Better Than
Bad Tenant"
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TORONTO, June 16.-Sir William
Mulock, chief justice of Ontario and
chancellor of Toronto University, be-
lieves that some Of the great popu-
lation Of the United States is a source
Of weakness instead of strength.
Addressing the delegates to the
Canadian Medical Association at a
banquet over which he presided he
declared that he did not share the
longing Of some people for increased
population In Canada, and added:
Il do not think that our friends
to the south have been vastly en-
riched by their increased population.
A large portion Of their population
might now be called a source OF
weakness"
AN empty house was better than a
bad tenant, he believed, and Canada
should admit none that were not of
good foundation stock"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
u. S. CALLS PiNCHOT,
Wants Him as Witness in Mail
Fraud Case.

SAN FRANCISCO. June 16 Cp.-
Testimony of Gov. Clifford Pinchot.
upon whom a subpoena was served
Yesterday in Pennsylvania, is desired
In the Governments case here against
Cornelius Conway on charges of using
the mails to defraud. The case is set
for trial June 81.
The Government alleges that Con.
way, without authority, used the
names of Gov. Pinchot and many
other prominent persons in promoting
the international Association of OPP
tinists Clubs, Inc" a California cor
poration, after he had been discharged
as an organizer Of the National Asso.
citation of Optimist Clubs, composed
OF about 10 luncheon clubs in the
United States,
The names of political, professional
and industrial leaders were used in
ConWay's literature to influence citi.
zens in the formation Of new clubs in.
volving payment of fees ranging from
81 to $25, 900, the Government charges
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
26 Air Mail Planes Sold at Auction.
For $155,8O0 to Start Contract Plan

While the stentorian voice of an
auctioneer urged on tbs bidders, the
Post Office Department today sold rs
air mail planes Cor a total of approx.
mately $155,S10 as a preliminary step
to putting the service upon a private
contract basis.
The National Air Transport Co. was
the most active bidder. taking It
planes at an aggregate outlay of
$1OS,200. The company already has
an air mail contract between Chicago
and Dallas and also will operate a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
Girl Asks Ride, Sends Autoist
For Pickle and Steals His Car

Trucking Ralph F. Thompson, 1909
Floral street. who mad befriended her
at the south end Of the Highway
Bridge when she feigned illness, into
leaving his automobile to buy her a
pickle, a 17-year-old girl yesterday
afternoon repaid him for his kindness
by stealing his car.
Mr.. Thompson reported to police
that he was hailed by the girl near
Arlington Beach yesterday while re.
turning from a business trip into
Arlington County. He says she told
him she had been in swimming and
was sick, imploring that he take her
over the bridge.
Satisfied that she reai.y was i'll,
Thompson consented. Then she i'm
plored him to drive her to her home
on Bladensburg road.
AT Fifteenth and H treets, she sug-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
LEPHFEW TO SHOW
FATAL LEAP POINT
Spot Where Mrs. Kneessi
Left Auto Desired to Set
tie Jurisdiction.

Walter Scott Lephfew was taken
over Military road in Arlington Coun'
~, Va. today to indicate the exact
place, where, he says, Mrs. Edith
kneessi. 31-year-old mother of two chill
dren. made her fatal leap from his
automobile early Saturday morning.
Thus, it is hoped, the question Of jul
risdiction, which has puzzled District
of Columbia. Federal and Virginia au'
thorities, will be settled.
Lephfew. who is now being held at
the Arlington County Jail pending in
vestigation into the events preceding
the death of Mrs. kneessi. has main
tanned since his arrest some time after
he had taken the woman to Emergen-
cy Hospital. that Mrs. kneessi leaped
from his machine while the two were
riding on Military road. following an
argument Friday evening.
Would Accept Version.
Sheriff Howard B. Fields of Airing
ton County, seemed willing this morn
ing to accept Lephfew's version of
the location of the alleged leap, and
he said that Virginia authorities were
waiting for the Department of Justice
agents to take Lephfew into custody.
Before the man is transferred from
the Arlington County jail, however,
Detective Edward j. Kelly of the Dis
trict force and Department of Justice
agents were anxious to establish more
accurately the spot where the woman
received the injuries which resulted
in her death. Detective Kelly said
at noon today that if James A. Nc
Donnen. attorney for Lephfew, will
permit his client to be taken over the
Military road to point out where his
companion leaped from his machine,
the jurisdiction will be decided on
Lephfew's own statement.
Tells of Stop for Gas.
James A Boswell, 252 Milton ave-
nue., Clarendon, attendant at the Lord
Baltimore gasoline station, 912 Penn
Sylvania avenue, told the police that
Lephfew and woman companion
stopped at his station at about
o'clock Saturday morning to purchase
gasoline. In proof of his statement,
Mr. Boswell produced a charge slip
which Lephfew had signed when he
charged the gasoline to the Asbestos
Roofing Co. At the time. the woman
companion, whom Mr.. Boswell said
he could not identify positively, step.
ped out of the small automobile SO
IileiL Tie lIlObOF luGl COulO Dc lO1dtO
into the tank beneath the seat.
If the tour of Military road places
the affair within the Jurisdiction of
the Federal Government-andi if Leph
few indicates portion of that road
as the place where Mrs. Kneessi
jumped from his car, it will be in
that jurisdiction-the case will be
turned over to the United States
marshal at Alexandria for investiga.
ton.
Mrs. Kneessi was the estranged
wife of George Kneessi, now believed
to be a resident of New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16

gested that If she had something sour
she would feel better. so Mr.. Thonop.
son got out or the car to get her a
pickle. Wheh ne returned both the
girl and the car were gone.
An immediate search was ins+;+,,.oa
for the car, which was located at O
o'clock last night near BIadenshure
road and Eastern avenue, northea ST
and returned to Mr.. Thompson nv De.
tective Henry NJ. Jet. 1t had been
abandoned when the supply of gas
had become exhausted o.
Armed with partial descrintion of
the girl given them by Mr.. THOMSON
police are making a search for her
She was reported as having the an.
pearance of fiapper. wearing a black
coat, furs and light shoes and stock.
ings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
MYSTERIOUS BLAST
KILLS BOY; 2 SOUGHT
House Wrecked in Absence of Fam
lily, and Victims Father Tells
of Couple in Auto Ride.
BY the Associated Press.


SEDALIA, Mo, June ia terrific
blast, followed by fire, late last night
wrecked the home of G.. f. Copas here.
Firemen found the charred body of
Elmer Starke, 19-year-old produce
house worker. in the ruins Two I'M
identified youths, yet uncaptured, were
seen to run from the house immedi-
ately before the explosion occurred.
Starke was the son of ]. w. Starke,
Missouri -Kansas-TeXas Railroad shop
employe. How he came to be in the
Copas home is unknown.
Copas and his wife and daughter
Velma left yesterday for California,
Mo. to visit relatives.
The elder Starke said an unidentified
man and woman called at his home
and took his son for an automobile
ride late yesterday. Young Starke
never returned. He was said to have
been q close friend Of Velma Copas.