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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17
ERR0LLE TO SING HERE.
Will Take Tenor Role in "Lakrne"
by Washington Opera Co.

Ralph Errolle, young American
tenor. who has been heard in this
city in opera many times, will sing
the role of Gerald, the English oficer
in "Lakme,' which is to be sung on
January "a at the Washington Audi
forum by the Washington National
Opera Co., General Director Albion
announced today.
Errolle. after his successful appear
ance here in The Tales of Hoffman"
three years ago. became a member
of the Metropolitan Opera Co,
where he sang 'Lakme." He IL A
native of Chicago and has come rap.
idly to the front among American
tenors.
The engagement of Errolle com.
pletes a cast which will include La1ella
Melius, the sensational American
Coloratura; Eugene Foneriova. con.
tralto; Ivan Ivantzoff baritone: George
Chechanovsky. baritone. and others in
smaller roles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17
Is PLANES HOP OFF
FOR GUANTANAMO
Craft Leaving Hampton
4. Roads to Play Big Part
in Winter Maneuvers.
By the Associated Press.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. January
17.-Twenty- seapianes hoped off
from the Hampton Roads naval hasa
this morning for Guantanamo. where
they will participate in Winter ma
neuvers of the Atlantic scouting fleet.
now in Southern waters. Comdr. 4
Fl. Douglas is Night commander.
Lieut.. Comdr. f. W. spencer com.
mands the torpedo and bombing
squadron and Lieut.. Comdr w. Al,
Mask commands the scouting squad.
ron.
The planes started hopping off soon
after sunrise and the last was ox.
pected to be under way at noon. The
fight down to Guantanamo will be
made by easy stages. the machines
being scheduled to stop at Charleston,
S. G.. today. From Charleston they
will ga to Fernandina, Fla. thence to
Miami and from Miami to Cianfuegos,
Cuba. The airplane carrier Wright
Is now at Charleston.
- One of the machines was forced
rack tLis morning on account of en-
CINE trouble, but is expected to get
away later in the day.
Each machine carries a crew of
three. The seaplanes are expected to
play A big part in the Winter maneuv-
ers, for which the airmen have been
practicing for the past several months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17

A total Of 1,197 college graduates
are studying for higher degrees. at
Boston University
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chips DECLARED
']EKYLL AND HYDE
Kindly Man Sober. But Vio-
lent Drunk, Witnesses at
Norris Trial Say.
BY the Associated Press.

| COURTHOUSE AUSTIN. Tex,
January 17.-Dexter T. Chips, Fort
Worth lumberman. shot last July in
the study of the First Baptist Church
at Fort Worth, was pictured as a kind
and polite man when sober. but 'vio.
lent" when intoxicated, by defense
| character witnesses when the Norris
murder trial was resumed here today.
DR.. j. Frank Norris, pastor Of the
Fort Worth church. is charged wit h
the Staying of Chips.
Charles G. Littleton of Fort Worth
was the first witness as the defense
continued its story Of the killing of
Chips.
Littleton said he had been a friend
of Chips. Dayton Moses, defense
counsel. asked if he was acquainted
with the reputation of Chips when
the latter was intoxicated "as to
whether he was polite and inoffensive
or dangerous and quarrelsome."
His reputation was bad when in
toxicated," Littleton said.
Detective Testifies.
Attorney William Mclean, for the
State, asked If the witness knew a
kinder or more polite man when
sober, and Littleton said he did not.
City Detective Harry Conner of
Fort Worth testified Chips reputa-
ton as drinker was bad.
Conner said he met Chips in front
Of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth
July Is last. that Chips had a gun.
and was intoxicated.
chips said he was going to kill
Norris" the witness said.
Fred d. Holland, former Fort Worth
Policeman. testified Saturday he had
heard this conversation. in which
Chlpps said he was going to kill
Norris. Holland said he repeated the
conversation to Norris the same day.
A. b. Hamm, live stock commission
man Of Fort Worth. testified Chips
mad reputation of being violent"
When drunk and was a heavy drinker.
Hamm said he always "ducked"
Chipps when the latter was intoxi-
Gated but that Chipps was polite.
KIND and considerable" when sober.
j. o. Hart, owner of sand and
gravel plant at Fort Worth. and J. p.
Pemberton, former president of the
FARMERS and Mechanics Bank of Fort
Worth. member of Norris church.
testified Chips reputation as "vio-
lent man when drunk was bad"
DIR. Norris to Testify.
Contending that only one person
actually saw DR.. Norris shoot Chips.
the pastors attorneys today had as.
sembled numerous character witnesses
preparatory to calling him to the
stand in support of his self.defense
plea.
Mrs. Roxie Parker climaxed the brief
presentation of evidence by the State
with testimony that she saw DR.. Nor.
ris shoot at Chips. and then fed is
the wealthy lumberman staggered and
fell
Mrs. Parker testified she was wait
ing outside the church office, and that
she witnessed the shooting as Chipps
stood in the doorway. raised his hand
and said "I'll come back"
This, the prosecution indicated, was
10 feature it's attack on the defense
that DIR. Norris shot Chips
>nly when the lunberman threatened
lin following the pastors attacks on
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LEWD MAGAZINES
STILL BEING SOLD
HesSe Warns Dealers Cam
paign viii Be Continued
Till All Are Barred.

| Spurred to maintain ClSOer censor
| ship by the discovery of a number of
questionable magazines still on sale at
local newsstands. Maj Edwin b.
Hesse, superintendent of police. served
| notice on news vendors today that so
| far as the Police Department is con-
| cerned there Is to he no let-up in the
campaign to stop this form of traffick-
| ing.
| Responsibility for the sale of porno-
| graphic literature and art magazines
| rests upon the dealers and the distrib-
utors Mai. Hesse declared. and If they
cannot distinguish between what is
| decent and indecent. they must take
| the consequences.
Believing a majority of these are
making an honest effort to conform 10
| the regulations. Maj. Hesse said he
would he glad to meet with represent
atives of local news distributors and
discuss the situation with them, If
they cared to show enough interest in
cooperating to keep the stands free
of obscene literature.
Warns of Possible Censorship.
II know a lot of these magazines are
getting into the hands of young school
children, despite our efforts to break
up this traffic" said Mai. Hesse, and
the Police Department is going to keep
right on the trail of the newssta nds
and order the removal of every maya
zine believed offensive TO public de-
cency. The best element in the Dis
trict is behind this campaign and the
dealers and distributors might as we'll
know we are in earnest about it"
Mai. Hesse warned local distributors
and news vendors that unless they
voluntarily take a hand in keeping
all literature of a. salacious, indecent
character off the stands, they viii run
counter to public opinion that will
eventually result In a rigid and liberal
censorship.
William ii. Smith. proprietor of the
Capital News Co, one of the local
distributors suggested today that one
outsider, or referee, whose decision
would be final. he appointed to rule
which publications should or should
not be distributed locally for sale.
Appointment of such a. censor, he
pointed out, would be a better solu-
ton of the situation, than any agree
ment among the distributors them
selves.
Has Banned Several
Smith protested that he has been
annoyed frequently by persons So
Letting indecent art pictures. which
he says he is not handling and would
refuse to handle. Any magazine on
my list which the authorities believe
is questionable, he said today, Il am
perfectly willing to withdraw. Sew
eral of these 1 have sent back to the
publishers of my own accord before
distributing them because l believed
they were Objectionable"
Meanwhile, Corporation Counsel
Stephens is doubtful whether the Dis
trict Commissioners have authority to
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NOTED VETERAN DIES.
Lewis H. Fitch Served on Staff of
Andrew Jackson.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER Va, January III
Lewis Hartman Fitch, 81. who quit
school at the age of Is and joined the
Confederate forces, being attached to
the staff of Gen. Thomas j. C'Stone-
wall') Jackson as a courier, died late
Saturday at his home here, following
a brief illness. He fell recently.
He was intimately associated with
Jackson during the latters celebrated
Shenandoah Valley campaign, and was
with him when the noted master OF
strategy was rnortally wounded at
Charlottesville. May .. 1852. Mr..
Fitch located in Alabama after the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17

Pfotecfl6o'h milg>~And%arself

r the sum Of $4,000, 900 paid to benefcarie.
by the Sun Life last year, $27 900, 900 was paic
to LIVING claimants as matured endowments
) annuities, cash profits disability claims etc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17

| Special Dispatch to The star.
HAGERSTOWN, January 17.--An
| investigation of the automobile acct.
dent on the road between Hagerstown
and Mercersburg, which cost the lives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17

of Fred c. Foltz, Hagerstown, and
Arthur Sigafoose, Hancock, Wednes.
day night, has been ordered by the
Pennsylvania. The probe IL for the
purpose of determining the feasibility
of eliminating the curve in the road
at Heister's Bridge, into which the
machine crashed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17
Miners Wage Reduced.

WHEELING, w. Va, January II
OP.-Wage reductions of 25 per cent
have gone into effect in five Pan
Handle mines, controlled by the J. a.
Paisley interests Of Cleveland Eight
cen hundred men are employed in the
mines. The reduction was prompted
by a slackening of demand, said Jo-
eeph Arkwright, general manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17

war, and was for many years an off,
| cial of the Louisville & Nashville Rail
| road Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17

Smiles cost less than electric light
and they make the home brighter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Can Mussolini Gag Radio?

4, After the newspapers and everything in Italy
Dictator Nussolini now intends to control radio in
his country.
A special law, the United Press informs us, has
been passed authorizing nine transmitting sta
tons, the central one in Rome to be second only to
the thirty kilowatt station in Berlin, today the most
powerful in Europe
But Mussolini will control broadcasting by re
serving to himself the right to the head of the
central radio body in charge
1t Is notorious that newspapers and other pub
locations in Italy already controlled by the Duce
Until his coming the italian press was free any
in Europe Now it prints what Mussoini says it
can print.
Z The editorinchief Of newspaper must be
\ member of the Fascist syndicate and have the ap
proval of state attorney of the court of appeals
His permit to run a newspaper may be revoked
after two warnings, and Italian projects are EN-
powered to seize or suspend newspapers criticising
the government on the theory that such criticism
I. might disturb the public order"
Z What sort of news is it forbidden to printg
. On Aug. 5,'last year, it was forbidden to repro
duce from the Vienna Neue Freie Presse an inter
view with the Poet Tagore denying that he is an adj
mirer of Mussolini
+ On Aug. rs it was forbidden to publish Lon
don manifesto against compulsory military service
5 or tnat an automobile of Mussoni had run over
driver.
:, On Sept it was forbidden to publish anything
about Fascist attacks French consulates or other
-anttFrench demonstrations following the attempt
against Mussolini's life
n On Sept. 90 it was forbidden to publish any news
concerning the Italian economic financial and polti.
cal penetration of Albania
On Nov. 8 it was forbidden to chronicle the ar
rest OF opposition party deputies
And so on and so forth. Free speech and free
press In Sunny Italy to have gone where the
peavfne twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth. SO
we may be pardoned for wondering what will han
pen to her radio broadcasters and lstenersin.
Mussolini may be trusted to keep a heavy finger
on what the new Italian stations send out but. as
Europe is small and the air covers all, how can he
close his frontiers to Objectionable stuff from across
the border9
viii he forbid the sale to the italian general
public of any but crystal sets or those which can
only PICK up local? Or will we be hearing of new
sort OF utmatum and war threats over the use of
radio?
1t will be Interesting to watch how the thing
works out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Another disappointment

81 Secrecy, which has been the policy of all State
officials since D. G. Stephenson, once the pontcai
car of the State made his charges OF pohtlca CUT
ruption still dominates official circles
The State Board Of Charities the high character
of whose membership should give confidence IN us
actions, has unfortunately taken action which Will
destroy that confidence.
When it investigates the latest charge OF Steph-
enson that he is being treated in the penitentary IN
manner which prevents any disclosures by him.
that his life is being menaced, that he has suffered
unusual brutalities, that the whole purpose is 10
drive him insane, it will do so in secret
1t is fair to say that the members OF the board
of prison trustees asked that the inquiry be made in
the open, a request that did much to destroy any
belief that the Stephenson charges were true
The people of this State have had nothing but
secret inquiries. They have never had the facts
If the charges by Stephenson are true, a secret
investigation could not obtain the truth
The necessary witnesses, guards fellow pris
oners and TRUSTEES would be afraid to talk in secret
IL they knew that their testimony would be known
only to officials, all of whom obtain authority from
the appointive power.
II If they knew that the people would protect
them, they would talk.
If there is no truth in these charges, an open
inquiry would give all the people the facts upon
which the State Board of Charities makes its report
1t is time to turn the light. 1t can not be
done if official bodies insist keeping the lid on
their activities.
Stephenson is not the ordinary prisoner making
a charge against prison rules prison brutalites
He is the who dictated the election of
every State official now in power with the exception
of Attorney General Gilliom and members of
the Supreme Court.
He the head of the greatest secret organiza
ton for political purposes created in any State
Under his influence government went to its
lowest depths.
He reduced Indiana to its lowest levels Of gov
eminent.
His charges are not that he as human being
is being manhandled and brutalized.
He charges that there Isl a conspiracy to seal
his lips forever as to those dark chapters of In.
Giana politics.
Z The board should reconsider Immediately and
drag the whole mess into the light that the people
may know.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03

circumstances of the trial. The opinion reached
by the citizens committee will be only advisory
one The Governor himself must make the decision.
But it will appeal to America and the rest of the
world that the Governor is proceeding along nelli-
gent lines in seeking the light he requires.
1t looks like a good commission. At the head
is DR.. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard
University. DR.. Lowell had the courage, during the
war, to resist the super-patriots who were raidng
college faculties all the land and causing the
dismissal of professors who did not subscribe to
every item of their hysteria.
Then there is Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton,
head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is regarded as a conservative. But for twenty
years he director of the United States bureau
standards and his training and natural disposition
is that of scientific Investigator. The facts he
finds likely to outweigh any other considera-
tons.
Lastly, there is Judge Robert Grant OF him we
know nothing unless he is the Robert Grant de-
scribed in who's Who" This Robert Grant was
Judge of the Probate Court in Boston for thirty
years, retiring three years ago. apparently in order
to write one more book For he seems to be quite
as much an author jurist. At the age of 81
he produced 1.-THE Little Tin God on Wheels" The
next year, "The Confessions Of Frivolous Girl
Year after year they came out under such names
as these: yankee Doodle" "An Average Man -
THE Reflections of Married Man." "The Opinions
of Philosopher" "The Art of Living THE Convic-
tions of a Grandfather" and Law and the Family
The latest, written two years ago. is THE Bishops
Granddaughter"
We hope this is the Judge Robert Grant select
ed by Governor Fuller. 1t would make complete
committee for the finding of Justice The high intel
lectualty of DR.. Lowell the scientific passion for
truth of Dr. Stratton and-well, what do you find in
Judge Grant? Humanness, of course. II those
books are like their titles and If this Judge Grant
wrote them he supplies the element to complete
tribunal that will do Massachusetts, the credit de-
MED her by her courts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Al Leane Jumps From Backstage Here
to Spotlight Fame in London Theater

1t is a long jump from being a
member Of the stage crew at Eng
lish's to a performer in the spot
light of a London, England. theater.
But that is exactly what Albert d.
Leane, son of Mr.. and Mrs. P. D..
Leane, 2455 Ashland Ave, has done.
For four years, Ieane was a men,
Der of the stage crew at English's
and today he is appearing in Hol-
burns Empire Theater hall in Lon
don with the team of Sully and
| Thomas.
He has a contract for ten weeks in
London and then will return to New
York where other engagements are
awaiting him before his fall season
opens on the Keith time.
Leane always has had what is
dancing feet and a comedy per-
sonality. He couldn't keep his feet
from dancing when he was at work
backstage at Englishs.
Then one day he began to sing
songs to himself. He found that he
could about stop work of other mem
bers of the stage crew when he
started to dance and sing his comic
songs.
Some months ago he had a chance
to join Sully and Thomas, who were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Commemorate Zeal

President Coolidge has shown COM
mendable zeal in welcoming Lind
bergh. and one can forgive him for it
even if it does include a certain de-
gree Of disappointment in New York.
1t is a pity that he could not find
1t equally compatible with his DO.
sition and responsibilities to show
similar interest in the Mississippi
disaster.
Heads Of other governments usual
ly visit the scenes of great disaster
and misfortune, not because their
presence is of practical benefit. but
because it helps their people to
realize the Importance of what has
occurred.
No one believes that Mr.. Coolidge
could have saved a single piece of
property that has not been saved, or
have prevented'a single break in the
levees that has occurred, if he had
visited the stricken region, but his
presence would have done a gerat
deal to visualize the extent of the
calamity and to create that kind of
public interest and opinion without
which it is impossible to adopt an
adequate plan of flood control.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Murder Still RAMPANT

Despite Lindberyh, the Mississippi
flood, the Chinese situation and
President Gales decree forbidding
the purchase Of American goods,
murder and its by-products continue
to play most important part in the
news.
In Tampa, Fla, the militia is
called out to prevent a mob from
storming the jail and staging a
lynching party.
In Raiford, Fla, Jim Williams, a
Negro convicted of killing his wife,
escapes the electric chair, for day
at least, because a deputy sheriff
refused to throw the switch.
In New York the Gray-Snyder
case becomes the focal point of a
campaign to abolish capital punish
ment.
In Massachusetts, Governor Alvin
T. Fuller reverses himself with re-
gard to the Sacco-Vanzetti case and
calls in three distinguished men to
help him pass judgment on it.
In Massachusetts, also, Lizzie Bor-
den, who was the central figure in
one of the most sensational trials
that ever occurred in this country,
passes away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Times Readers
Voice ViezCS
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
There seems to be quite a differ
ence of opinion as, to whether our
governor and attorney general vio-
lated the law by obtaining whisky
for medical purposes.
In the first place, what is law,
and from where or by whom was it
enacted? All our laws must conform
to higher degree or be superior to
the men who makes them. The dec
alogue upon which all our laws are
based was given to us by God
through Moses. Therefore they must
conform to that same source.
AS to whether these State officials
violated these laws is a question.
The law of necessity is superior to
any man made law and cannot be
construed as a violation, as neces-
sity is a law of itself, and is superior
to all other laws. For example,
Jesus and his apostles passed
through a field on the Sabbath day.
They took food from that field which
did not belong to them. Was the
law of necessity or any divine law
violated? Surely not. The question
then occurs, as to whether the pro-
curing of the whisky by our State
officials was an actual necessity. If
the doctors contend it saved the
lives of those persons there certain
ly was no violation.
BERT F. MORLEDGE,
Columbus, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Law and Justice
by Dexter NJ. Keeezer =

A pooroom proprietor prosecuted under a
State statute forbiddng under eighteen
of to play in such establishments The proprietor
said that the boy, whose playing the of the
prosecution had told him that he more than is
years age, looked than IS years old,
and that it reasonable to take his word for it. The
prosecutor said that it was definitely established that
the boy less than IS years old and that all
that needed for conviction.
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision The Supreme Court of Appeals
of West Virginia decided that the pool hall proprietor
guilty OF violating the law. 1t said that in the
absence of special provision, making allowance for
his good faith, The acts at his peril He must know
the fact, N
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-03
Three Good Men

Inc massachusetts, courts have admitted their
incompetence 10 handle matter of such grave con-
Germ as the Sacco vanzetti case, The admission i
contained in the higher courts announcement that
tney nave no power to review the evidence that thew
can not order new trial in the face of newly die;
covered and important evidence that verdict of
death brought in by jury that had listened to a
partisan harangue from the Judge on the bench is a
final verdict which they are without authority to
stay.
This being the best the Massachusetts courts
could do. Governor Fuller has turned the matter over
: to Massachusetts citizenship He has named COM
mission of three to examine the evidence and the