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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
STUDENTS MOURN
10 KILLED IN BUS
Memorial Services Held at
Baylor for ViCtimS-0ne
Funeral Held.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TAYLOR, Tex, January "a. - The
torn bodies of seven young men. vic
Tins of Saturdays tragedy when ar
/ & q. n. train demolished a bus al
a grade crossing at Round Rock, left
here yesterday. Ten were killed ir
the crash, all Baylor University stu
dents, including members of the Bay
Tor basket bail team en- route from
Waco to Austin to play the University
of Texas.
Five Of the bodies sent from here
were bound for Waco. one for Ennis
and one for Fort Worth The bodies
OF William Winchester and Bob Han.
nah were taken yesterday to Waco
! from Georgetown. They died in an
ambulance Saturday en- route to
Georgetown from the scene of the
tragedy. The other of the Inflated
~ IVey H. Foster. jr., of Taylor, was
buried here yesterday.
physicians reported the five injured
IN a Taylor Hospital to he improved
though the life of Fred AGREE of Waco
IS deSpalred of. AGREES back was
broken. 4
Memorial Services Held.
Inc five bodies sent from here to
waco were those of James CIvde Re
ley, Bob HALEY. Willis Murray. Muir.
rel dudley and James S. Walker. Jack
astellaw, accompanied by an escort
or bayIor students, was taken in an
ambulance to his Ennis home His
mother is reported seriously i'll in
Ihnls. The body of Sam Dillow. also
escorted by fellow students, was taken
TO his Fort Worth Home.
Memorial services for the dead SIN.
1ehts We're held this morning on the
Baylor University campus. 2 500 SIN.
fellows - 'iieii
;, IN front of the undertaking estab-
dlShment here in which the dead were
pia~ed and before the hospital where
the injured lay, hundreds of persons,
most OF them relatives or close
iirlends of the victims. paced in a
long vigil Many were Baylor stu
nents VINO wept openly for their
Father COlIapses.
thousands gathered Yesterday aft
ernoon at the grave of Foster Ten
Gays ago Foster was named assist
ant sports editor of the Lariat. his
Scnoofs daily newspaper. and with
ms enthusiastic love of sports he was
A~NAAiIo ~ SEE the DaSK0C b9 III
game scheduled for Saturday nipht
as Austin
A short time before the crash
Young Foster was given seat in
side the bus. after riding for miles
on the running board because there
was no seat for him inside. Ed
dooch, who stood, gave Foster his
seat, and escaped with a dislocated
shoulder Fosters father collapsed
IN the baggage car of the train that
brought the bodies to Taylor. when
ne lifted a blood stained blanket and
saw his son.
In hundreds of churches through
out Texas yesterday prayers were
offered for the young men.
Baylor is a Baptist institution. and
1nany Baptist congregations sent
kilograms of coincidence to families
of the dead and to President S. p.
Brooks, the school head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
BURGESS REAFFIRMS
COSTIGAN CHARGE
Reiterates Statement Wife of
Tariff Commissioner Was
Member of Lobby.
BY the Associated Press.


Reiterating his charge that Mrs.
: Edward p. Costigan, wife of the tariff
Commissioner. was a member of a
powerful lobby here, William Bur
CESS, former member of the commits
sion, told the Senate tariff investigat-
ing committee today that in making
The statement he meant no reflection
on her.
He had been called on for an apol-
ogy in letter to the committee from
Mrs. J Boardman Hartman, presi.
don't of the National Consumers
League. Mr.. Burgess declared that
Mrs. Harriman's letter said that he
lad charged Mrs Costigan with being
~ tariff lobbyist when she was in
fact only working for the advance
inent Of American women and chill
!, elren as a member of the league.
Such a conclusion, Burgess said
vas not justified by his testimony
rs il plainly showed that Mrs. Cos
tigan's work was for social welfare,
although 1t did constitute lobby He
explained that he had been attacked
by Commissioner Costigan as being
a former lobbyist for the pottery in.
ferests, while at the same time his
wife was a lobbyist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

for the occasion. This equipment wa.
arranged for by committee headed
by Milton +. Schwab. Voice trans
mitters for this broadCasting feature
were shipped some time ago and viii
arrive in time for the banquet.
The program will consist entirely o
entertainment. there being no formal
addresses or reports. Fifty members
Of Congress and other officials of the
Federal and local governments will
be special guests. Edwin c. Graham
president Of the board, will preside.
The committee on invitations and
reception is composed of Mr.. Graham
chairman; Ben IT. Webster. secretary
of the board John Saul, chairman OF
the membership standing committee,
and Richard l.. Conner, assistant sec
rotary.
other committees are headed by DR..
Frank f.. Gibson, G. w. Clever, VIII
mott w. Trew, Herman #. Carl,
George Farquhar, Seaton w. Trunnell;
NJ. Schwab, Mr.. Cottrell, Ray
mond NJ. Florence; jerome F
Barnard. John f. Mcclure, c. Hay
ward Marshall and j. Mitchell Owens
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
Traders Made Own Coins.

yrem the London Chronicle.
Mincing Lane, London, the center
81 the wholesale tea trade, derives its
,aame from certain tenements there
once owned by the "minchuns," or
nuns. of St. Helen's. There in the
gime of the Plantagenets lived a col.
onv of Genoese traders called galley.
men. because they brought their wines
ind other merchandise to Galley
Wharf.
They were n wealthy and powerful
s,eople and one time issued a silver
coinage of their own. These coins,
known as galley half-pence," were
broader than the ordinary English
silver half-pennies, but not SO thick
ind strong. Their use was prohibited
by an act of parliament in the reign
II Henry Nv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

Sometimes II is impossible to have
several temperatures in the house at
the same time In Winter Though a
high temperature is normally better
for some plants than others, all will
adapt themselves to an average tenn
perature, says the Nature Magazine.
They will do very nicely if the day
temperature is constant and the night
temperature about 10 degrees lower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
MISS EMMA GILLETT.
WOMAN LEADER
Of LAW IS DEAD
Miss Emma MiIIinda GiIIett
Won Distinction as In
StruCtor and at Bar.

Miss Emma Millinda Gillett, n
Years old co-founder Of the Wash
ington College of Law with Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey and dean of
that institution for II years, died in
the Homeopathic Hospital yesterday
after an illness of several months.
Miss Gillett was the senior wom-
an lawyer of. the District, being in
active practice until her illness. She
also had been prominently identified
with the woman suffrage movement
here many years ago.
She had served as vice president of
the Realty Appraisal and Title Co.,
was president of the Woman's
Bar Association in 1921 and for a
time vice president of the Bar AS
sociation of the District of Columbia.
Born in Princeton, Greenlake
County, Wis, Miss Gillett was grad
uated from the Lake Erie Female
Seminary gainesville, Ohio, in 1870,
and from the Law School of Howard
University, this city. in 1882, the lat
ter being one of the few institutions
in the country at that time that ad-
mitted woman students. She was
admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia in
1888
Formed Law Partnership.
While studying law, Miss Gillett
was employed in the Office of the
late Watson j. Newton, local lawyer,
who encouraged her in her undertake
ing and later formed a law partner
ship with her under the name OF
Newton & Gillett. The firm con-
-. 70
until the death of Mr. Newton in
1918.
Miss Gillett and Mrs. Mussey organ
lied a law class, primarily for women.
February /. 1896 The class, which at
the beginning consisted of only three
students, grew rapidly and from 1t
in two years time the Washington
College of Law was incorporated. Miss
Gillett succeeded Mrs. Mussey as dean
Of the college in 1913 and continued to
serve until 1925.
Miss Gillett became identified with
those in the District working for
woman suffrage many years ago and
Joined the District of Columbia Wom-
an Outrage Association. Later, when
the State Suffrage Association of the
District was organized, she was made
president.
George G. and II. Glenn Phelps Of this
city, and Earl v. Phelps of New York,
and niece, Mrs. Edith M. Macdonald,
wife of Judge George Fl. Macdonald
of this city.
Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon.
Funeral services will be conducted
at her late home. 1905 Emerson street.
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. Rev.
J. J. Queally, rector of the Church of
the TRANSPORTATION, Episcopal, will
officiate. Interment will be in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Thomas
H. Patterson. Harry A. Hegarty, Ed
win A. Moores, Lucian H. Vandoren,
James B. Corridor and J. Reed Chesel-
dine.
Trustees of the Washington College
of Law will attend the services in a
body and the institution will remain
closed today and tomorrow out Of re-
spect to Miss Gillett.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
FINE FOR CHILDREN!

Give them a good start i'm life,
with happy smiles and healthy lit
tie bodies. Children need a mild
corrective occasionally to regulate
stomach and bowels. DIR. Edwards
Olive Tablets are "A safe vegetable
Compound mixed with olive oil.
They tone up and regulate the elm
NATIVE tract. Not nasty cathar-
tic or a habit-fOrming medicine, but
safe pleasant remedy for consti-
patton, sour stomach, torpid liver,
bad breath. and similar disorders.
DIR. Edwards, widely known fam
lily physician of Ohio, prescribed
these tablets for many years in his
own practice. Children from six
years up are greatly helped by
Them and like to take them. Rec0g
nized by their olive color, DIR. Ed
wards Olive Tablets overcome
those irritable spells that many children
are subject to, keep their bodies In
active healthy condition.. skin clear and
eyeq bright with the light Of perfect
health Zoe. zoe and 6Oe sizes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

evening ol It tb'
ruary 5, with 75t
m @ M b er 8 a n I
guests attending
according to ar
announcement to-
day by Robert j
Cottrell of the eX.
ecutive staff O.
the board, Every
available t / c k g
has been taken.
One of the fea
lures of the din
ner meeting viii
be the use of 1
highly specialized
loud SIP e a k G l
equipment. which
is being brought
here from London
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24

The Tibetan woman, whatever her
rank, is inordinately fond of jewelry
and ornaments and loads herself up
with all she possesses on every pos
sible occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

Ted O'Connell meets William Draw
ner, in the first fight, as result OF
first-round clashes yesterday after
noon. John Owens won the qualifying
round, with a card of 80 in the morn
ing and then lost to Hartshorn, 5 and
3. in the first match round. Other re-
suits follow:
Thomas p. Bones, jr.. defeated Ed
ward Walsh. and .; William Draw.
ner defeated G. T. Sharp. jr., and 5;
Ted O'Connell defeated Hugh Reilly,
jr.. l up in ~ holes.
Second fiight-W. G. Galliher de.
feated Bradford Swope, l up; A. s.
Gardiner. jr., defeated Richard Walsh,
3 and Z; G. T.. Bell, jr., defeated Allen
Robinson. 2 and /; w. G. Barr, jr., de.
feated John Holzberg, . and s.
Junior public links golfers of the
city moved into the second round of
competition today for the municipal
title, with Don Wrenn, the medalist,
and Danny Burton. another favorite
for the title, scoring relatively easy
victories in the first round. Today's
pairings follow: Don Wrenn VS.. Tom
Webb, Francis Horton VS.. Sam You.
well, Melvin Luttrell VS.. George Mol
10y, f. r. Kadie VS.. William Rutley,
Dan Burton VS.. NJ. Oliveri, Ernest
LuZi VS.. Grayson Carter; Jack Biggs
VS.. James Morelle, w. Rice VS.. Arthur
Lyons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
GRID CALL IS MADE
BY CHEVY CHASE A. C.

First call for foot ball candidates
has been sounded by Chevy Chase A.
c. Initial practice will be held Sun
day. starting a. 40 o'clock, on Friend.
ship Field.
All OF last years players are asked
to attend and new candidates are also
requested to report ready for practice.
A coach Is being sought.
Games are wanted with Wintons,
Northerns. Clarendon Lions, Knick
Props and Virginia A. c. Write Man.
ager j. w. Hammond. 1924 River
road.
BroOkland Juniors, who have signed
PIGGY Du Four, former Catholic Uni.
versity star, as coach. will practice on
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock on
Brookland Field. Two full teams are
expected to report. A game Is wanted
Tor October with a 135-pound team.
Can Manager Duncan at Potomac
3125-W.
All candidates for the Northern A.
=. eleven are asked to meet at 5000
New hampshire avenue tonight at
$50 O'Clock. Officers will be elected
ana uniforms distributed. FIRST scrim.
mage will be held Sunday morning.
MO1awks, District champs last sea.
son, will gather for practice tonight
at o'clock at the clubhouse. New
candidates are asked to report.
Northern Juniors will get intc sc.
ton on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock
on Park View Playground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
FARRELL IS WINNER
OF ILLINOIS event
Rv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 10. - Inc
eighth open championship title to be
won by Johnny Farrell OF the Quaker
Ridge Country Club, New YORK. was
the Chicago open tournament, IN
which his 2S5 for the ~ holes carried
off the 81 900 first prize yesterday.
The closeness of the tournament put
Farrell in the position of needing even
As for the last nine holes to WIN ana
he ran off that very string to wlnd up
with q birdie on the eighteenth by
virtue of a 20.foot downhill put.
AS soon AS the ball dropped into the
cup, Farrell and Mike Brady dasheo
for a New York train to participate
in the qualifying rounds for the na'
tional professional championship at
Salisbury. today.
Five of the leaders were within four
strokes at the 54-hole stage. with indl'
cations Of a battle royal for the title.
All but AL Espinosa blew their
chances, and he scored a 20, l under
par, to make 2S7. Farrell cut this
score by two strokes. Espinosa TAX
ing second place.
The leading five were:
John Farrell, New York. 285.
AL EspinOSa. Chicago, 287.
Macdonald Smith. New York, 200.
Tommy Armour. Washington, 293.
Harry Cooper. Los Angeles. 293.
Jock Hutchinson, Chicago. PCS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

7 INABILITY of Watts Gum and
Roland r. Mackenzie, winner
and runner-up in the intercol.
i legiate golf championship to
compete in the Banfockburn
tournament today was a disappoint-
ment to many who had hoped to see
the brilliant pair of college youths
qualify, be paired in opposite halves
of the draw and possibly hook up
in the final round. Gum and Mac
Kenzie had hoped to be able to play.
but an engagement for a match to-
morrow at Baltimore will keep them
xrom competing.
Scores made yesterday in the medal
round at Bannockburn indicate how
much more difficult the course is than
the old layout of the past two years.
Scores we'll below 20. such as were
recorded with apparent ease last year,
come infrequently and the course has
been improved so that 1t rates today
as one of the hardest around the
Capital
Mrs. e. n. Tilley was paired against
Mrs. L. L. Steele, while Mrs. w. L.
Heap opposed Mrs. ]. B. Gross IN the
semifinal round of the Indian Spring
Clubs women's championship today
Mrs. Tiiley easily won her first match
yesterday from Mrs. Penelope Wood
and 5. Mrs. Steele defeated Mrs. C.
I. Putnam, and 4, and Mrs. Gross
drew a bye. Mrs. Heap won from Mrs.
Hoover on the nineteenth hole, when
the latter pushed her tee shot into
clump of tres at the right of the fair
way. The final round is scheduled for
tomorrow.
Most of the golf professionals
around Washington are in Baltimore
today practicinS over the Five Farms
course of the Baltimore County Club
in preparation for the qualifying
round for the Professional Golfers AS
ISOLATION championship, to be played
tomorrow. The qualifying round is a
S6-hole affair, with but two men out
of the two score or more entrants to
qualify. Tommy Armour. the national
open champion, must qualify if he in
tends to play in the professional match
play titular event. The Middle Allan.
tic section gets but two places in the
qualifying round because of the rela-
lively small numerical representation
in the p. G. A. from this section.
Four Columbia Country Club Junior
golfers are competing today in the
semi-final round of the clubs Junior
championship. E. S. Hartshorn is op.
posed to Thomas P. Bones, jr., while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
FRENCHW0MAN GOLF
STAR GETS 80 SCORE

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 15.-Prac-
ticing for the national woman's golf
championship, which starts next
Monday, Mile. Simone Thion de Ia
Chaume, youthful star of France, has
just played the Cherry Valley course.
at Garden City, where the title Is to
be decided, in 39-41-8O.
She made two brides. At the 425-
yard sixth hole she reached the green
with a drive and No. 2 iron and
sank a 6-foot putt for a 8.
Mile. Chaume played from the back
tees of the course, measuring $500
yards, and was seven strokes over
mems par of 73. She has played the
course twice since her arrival from
France last Monday.
Marion Turpie. Southern champion,
covered the first nine holes yesterday
in al, but did not finish her round.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
CUYON NOT PESSIMISTIC
OVER ELEVEN'S CHANCES
Apparently Has Material for Good Line, But Backs
Will Be Observation-Disclosures, New Dewitt Coach,
Has Task to Build Winner

will coach the Dewitt squad only In
the afternoons.
Hooper and Kennedy. the only reg
ulars of a season ago at hand. are
both backs. and, as a result, Nc.
Namara will have to completely re.
build his forward wall. Return of
Pug Shrugue. lineman of ability. how
ever, has cheered the coach consider
ably.
McNamaras job is madeespecially
difficult by the fact that the West
End schoolboys face the toughest
schedule in their history. Devltts
opening game is with Episcopal High
at Alexandria October ! and other
teams to be met include Gonzaga'
Tome, Mount st. Joseph's and MasSa-
nutten Military Academy, at Wood
stock. Va.
Though registration has not been
completed and a number of other
good gridders may be in the fold
by the time studies are actually
under way, Mcnamara is going ahead
with the material at hand in the hope
of developing reasonably strong
combination before the first game.
Candidates to report thus far are:
Walker and Fletcher, formerly of
Western; Mullen and Forrest, Tech
products: Brady of Central, Thomp-
son of Mount st. Joseph's, Darby
New Mexico boy who. though he has
never seen a foot ball uniform. ap-
pears promising: Shapiro of Alex
andria, lineman of proved worth. and
Merton English, who was substi-
tute last season.
Devitt's schedule. as announced by
Manager Harry King. follows:
October 1-Episcopal High, at
Alexandria.
October S-Catholic University
Freshmen, at c. L. Stadium.
October 14-Eastern High, at East
ern Stadium.
October 2o-Tome. at Port Deposit.
October 2S-Calvert Hall, at Balti-
more.
November George Washington
Freshmen, at Monument Grounds.
November 12-Shenandoah College,
at Dayton, Va.
November 19-Mount st. Joseph's
High, at Baltimore.
November 24-Massanutten Mill
tary Academy. at Woodstock. Va.
December 3-GonZaga, at Ameri.
can League Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

~HARLIE GUYON, Eastern
High foot ball coach, is not
so pessimistic over the out
~ look for the Lincoln Parkers.
despite heavy backkf1eld
losses through graduation, and the
fact that material for the posts behind
the line is comparatively light. With
most of the linemen who were green
last Fall having had a seasons ex-
perience, a reasonably good forward
wall is expected. A number of de-
pendable players are not likely to re-
port until school opens Monday.
Judy Reeves is being counted upon
to plug the gap at quarterback Gre
ated by the loss of Burton Lang
henry and Wilson Zambreny. Ches-
ter Pyles appears good fullback
prospect to fill the shoes Of Buck
O'Brien, now at st. Bonaventure' s.
College, and others who loom as prom
Using backfield timber include Healey.
Anderson, Fry, Faber. Mccarthy and
Hooff. Guyon also has the job of
rounding up a kicker. Among those
being given the once over with the
hope Of them developing booting abil-
lily are Lynch, Chalkley, Faber, Woods
and Pyles.
Forty-one are in the bunch that so
far is drilling at Eastern. They are:
Linemen-Tom Nalley. Pyles. Court
ney Hayden. John Nalley. Chamber
lin. Montague, Taylor, Proctor. Miller,
Shoemaker. Martin. Wade. Healey.
Chalkley. Nordstrom, Waikert, Neil
O'Brien, Woods, Lawson, Hortstall
Barnes. Calevas, Witherite. Whitney
and Munro.
Backs - Blumberg Fry, Hooff,
Lynch. Cole. Faber. Reeves. Nc.
earthly. Edwards, Schackelford and
Teeple.
Other aspirants include Murtaugh,
Duvall, Jim Hayden, Evers and Free
man.
With but two regulars left from
last seasons strong team. Jim Nc
Namara, former Georgetown grid
star, now director of the Jewish Com
munity Center. who has just been APP
pointed Dewitt Schools foot ball
coach, has a real job to develop a
combination to match the sturdy 1926
eleven.
McNamara's job is made especially
ut the Jewish Community Center. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
HOT WEATHER HITS
BIG TEN GRIDDERS
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 15.-In the
hottest practice weather the Big Ten
has ever experienced, the Westrn Con-
frence foot ball season opened officially
today under the rule permitting only
two weeks preparation for opening
games October !.
Some of the coaches have arranged
two practice periods per day, morn
ing and afternoon. as classwork at
most of the schools does not begin
until after October /.
Most of the regulars and promising
candidates were expected to report in
good condition for the Fall program
hardened by outdoor work during the
Summer.
Several members of the Chicago and
Northwestern squads shoveled cement
on their enlarged stadia this Summer.
so are prepared for heavy work in the
heat.
Preliminary work. such as throw
ing and catching forward passes, fall.
ing on the ball and drills with the
tackling dummy will fill the first few
days. while coaches check over the
eligibility of their men.
Each candidate this year Is required
to sign a new pledge Of sportsmanship.
vouching for his amateur status and
scholastic eligibility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

r INTEREST in the faminine en-
tries for the Presidents Cup
regatta, to be held on the Poto.
mac River off Hams Point to-.
morrow and Saturday, Will be
doubled by the fact that mystery
driver" of the fair sex is entered IN
two Of the feature events.
G. Roy Keys Curtiss Wilgold IL
will be entered in the Secretary OF
Navy's cup race (won last year by
Mrs. w. J. Connors of Buffalo. driv-
ing Okeechobee to an epoch making
finish) and will be driven by an un-
known driver. said to be, a woman:
Madame X" also will pilot the Keys
boat in the ladies' event. which VIII
be one Of the features Saturday att
ernoon =,
Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell or
New York and Mrs. Connors, the
pioneer women drivers in the Presl-
dents cup event last year. who made
Yachting history by their perform
ance in a classic of this magnitude,
will both compete this season, the
latter in Okeechobee, the boat which
won both races in which she was
entered last year.
Mrs. Cromwell will drive one OF
the Horace Dodge entries, probably