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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
RUM QUIZ RESULTS
IN 80 INDICTMENTS
Federal Authorities Believe
They Have Broken Up Big
Middle West Gang.
BY the Associated Press.

by Lne ASSOCldLeQ fTeSS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, September
24.-With the indictment of SO persons
in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and
Missouri today. Federal authorities
expressed the belief that they had
broken up one Of the largest liquor
rings in the Middle West.
The Federal grand jury returned
the indictments along with several
others which boosted the number Of
true bills to approximately les. Names
of many of the indicted persons were
withheld pending their arrest.
Seventy-one persons were indicted
as a result OF the gigantic raid the
Federal liquor agents made on South
Bend, Ind, several weeks ago. Most
of the persons named in the South
Bend cases are foreigners or of foreign
extraction.
Among those said to be under ar
rest in connection with the liquor ring
operating in Indiana and the sur
rounding states are John Valllortiga of
Chicago and Sam Camazzola Of Calu-
met City. Vallortiga was said to be
wealthy. He was supposed to be the
man from whom the rum runners
bought the liquor.
Prohibition agents said approx
mately $500 gallons of whisky. gin
and alcohol were brought into Indi-
annapolis every week by members OF
the organization. Some Of the leaders
in the alleged conspiracy formerly
were connected with the widely known
Urban Polk gang. which operated
through the same territory some time
ago.
The defendants will be arraigned
here October 81. The South Bend de.
PENDANTS will be arraigned at South
Bend September 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
BOY CHEATS DEATH
IN 15D-FOOT FALL
OIiphant Child TumbIes Over
Embankment in Car-ES-
capes With Slight Injury.

Two-and-a -half-year-old Courtney OH.
plant took a 150-foot plunge over an
embankment yesterday and came out
Of it with nothing worse than a cou'
pie of scratches and a headache.
Playing in an automobile parked in
the rear Of the Pershing Apartments.
Sixteenth street and Spring road. the
child somehow managed to release the
brakes and turned the wheels in the
direction Of the Rock Creek ravine. on
the edge of which the apartment
house stands. The car plunged down
the bank. snapped a small tree in two
and stopped upright 200 feet below.
throwing the child out just before 1t
stopped.
Courtney. who Is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. J. E. Oliphant Of Nashville,
Tenn, with his parents, Is visiting
his aunt, Miss O. l.. Oliphant, who
lives in the Pershing Apartments.
Crowd on Scene.
Many residents of the apartment
house keep their cars parked In the
rear near the edge Of the ravine, and
Miss Oliphant had left hers there
Yesterday morning, little nearer than
the others, but with the wheels turned
away from the embankment.
The child was playing in the car
About II o'clock Miss Oliphant and
Mrs. OEphant, who were in the apart
ment, heard him scream. His mother
ran to the window and looked out.
Neither car nor child was in sight.
They dashed downstairs and out at
the back. Others who had heard the
cry were there ahead of them, and
pointed down the steep
bank to where the car had stopped.
Following the trail of broken twigs
and crushed bushes the car had made.
they found Courtney lying on the
ground just behind 1t. His face was
covered with blood, but he was yell
ing at the top of his voice. The car
had bent axle and fender. but was
unchanged, not even the
windshield was broken.
Had Narrow Escape.
The child was carried to the apart
ment, the blood washed off his face
and carefully examined. Except for
a few scratches and a bruised fore
head he was not hurt. He was given
a clean suit of clothes and an hour
later he was sleeping peacefully In
his bed.
No one has as yet been able to under.
stand how the car bumped and
skidded down the 45-degree incline
without turning over. The child
landed on soft grass. Nearby the
ground was covered with sharp stones
and broken glass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
AUTOS COLLIDE, FIRE
ALARM IS TURNED IN
Four Persons Injured When Two
Cars Crash at Fourth
and M Streets.

Two automobiles collided yesterday
afternoon at Fourth and M streets
northeast, knocked down n fire alarm
box, resulting in an alarm being
turned in, and sent two women to the
hospital.
one car was driven by Joseph
Johnson, 1925 G. street, and the other
was operated by Catherine Rooney, %
years old. 1866 Eighteenth street.
Susie Butler, 30 years old. 245 Hill
side place northeast, and Mamie
Walker. 20 years old. 2322 G street,
occupants in the Johnson machine.
were treated at Casualty Hospital for
cuts and bruises.
When the alarm box was knocked
down the alarm was automatically
turned in and several companies
responded. The siren of the Casualty
ambulance and of No. police precinct
police reserve wagdp added to the din,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
MRS. SWEET|N FREE.
HIGHT BACK IN CELL.
Widow Acquitted in Five
Minutes of Poisoning Hus-
band in Illinois.


MOUNT VERNON, ILL.,, September
24.-Mrs. Elsie Sweetin was free
and happy woman tonight after the
jury in her second trial in the poison
murder of her husband. MILFORD.
coal miner, answered her dramatic
plea, Give me death or send me
back to my children" by acquittins
her this afternoon on the first bal
lot
The Jury took only five minutes to
decide the 35-year-old widow deserved
freedom after three troubled years
spent in penitentiary and Jail.
81 don't think I'll return to Ina to
i've" she said. my life in the future
will be devoted to my sons. l am go
ing to put all three through school,
They are all I have to live for now
l must educate them and there is lit
tie for me to do in Ina"
Hight Back I'm Cell.
While Mrs. sweetin was celebrating
the verdict at the home Of her mother
near Ina tonight, her former pastor
and admirer, Lawrence M. Hight, was
back in his cell at Chester Prison
They were co-defendants in the first
trial.
Convicted on Christmas eve, 1924,
Hight was sentenced to serve life and
Mrs. Sweetin 35 years. But Mrs.
Sweetin continued her fight for free
dom and won a new trial from the
Supreme Court on the ground that
she should have been tried separately.
Hight was brought here last Sun.
day as a States witness, but instead
helped Mrs. Sweetin in her defense.
He supported her testimony that he
caused her to confess falsely poison
ing her husband in a love pact with
him, by arousing in her fear of mob
violence after her arrest.
When Judge Roy Pearce read the
verdict, there was an outbulst of hand
clapping and cheers from men and
Sons Are Present.
Mrs. Sweetin gave vent to a shri!l
cry of delight. Then, with tears in
her eyes, she advanced to the jury
box and thanked her liberators.
II thank you and may the bless
ings of God be upon you" she said
almost inaudibly. my life in the
future will be such that you viii!
thank the day you sent me DUCK 10
my children"
She returned to her chair and en-
braced her sons. Harry Lee, IL; Stan
ton, 16. and Byford, II. They joined
their mother in weeping over the
verdict.
Spectators began to press around
her to grasp her hand, and many
said, I'm glad you're free, Mrs.
Sweetin."
States Attorney J. Frank Allen was
incredulous over the verdict, but an
nounced he would not press the
charge of murder in the death of Mrs.
Anna Hight, the pastors wife, pend
ing against Mrs. Sweetin and Hight.
Sweetin and Mrs. Hight died within
two months of each other under SINH
lar circumstances. Gossip over their
deaths and the friendship of Hight
and Mrs. Sweetin led to their arrest.
Hight confessed and then induced Mrs.
Sweetin to share in his confession.
Only one of four confessions attributed
to her got into the record of the sec
ond trial. That was one alleged to
have been made to c. c. Sweetin, her
father-in-law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
ILLINOIS WEDDING AWAITS
PAPERS SENT BY AIR MAIL
Banker From Brockton, Mass, to
Be Married Tuesday, Will Get
Documents Under City Seal.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BROCKTON, Mass, September "a -
The air mail was pressed into service
today in order that wedding might
be celebrated on Tuesday in Evanston,
Ill.
Documents demanded under the
laws OF Illinois, before a Massachu-
sets man could be married in that
State, tonight were speeding West
ward in an envelope bearing the Off.
cial seal of the City of Brockton.
z. Vance Clark, Brockton banker
left for Evanston several days ago to
marry Miss Marie De Golyer. daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Laurence De Golyer
Of that city. On arrival, he learned
that the Illinois law required him TO
furnish a marriage permit from his
home city, together with certain in.
formation obtainable only here.
A telegram to officials of the Home
National Bank here caused the papers
to be prepared hurriedly. and the
packet was sent to Boston in time for
the evening air mail Westward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25

line runs on through colonial gigs, in.
Guiding the calash, or caleche, popular
with the pilgrims, up to and including
the automobile.
II actually beeve Mr.. Ford has
every type of thrcshing machine that
ever was used. Tl2y alone make a
show. He has almost, if not, every
type of the earlier locomotive. Each
object MS it came along suggested
something else with the result that
antiquities were to be found in every
branch of industry, in every walk OF
life and as a result the museum has
become an exhibition of the progress
OF mechanical invention and achieve
ment in almost every department of
human Interest.
81. Types of Planes.
'"Then there Is an aerial section in
which almost every type of plane is
assembled; there are cider presses,
almost everything in Colonial furni-
ture as well. as examples of later
periods in chs variety. There are
scores of portable and steam saw
mills representing different types as
we'll as different periods; spinning
wheels, hand looms, clocks, sleigh
bells, andirons, baby cribs, doll
cribs, quilting frames, clocks, din
ner gongs and so on without end.
''Of course. there are mechanical de-
vices, too, including all the old tools
and laboratory equipment used by
Thomas A. Edison, in developing and
protecting many of his inventions.
And included in this display Is the
first motor produced by Ford. the one
he bored by hand as Mrs. Ford stood
by oiling the drills"
AS planned at present. according to
Mr.. Sherwood, Mr.. Ford's intention is
TO build the first unit of the museum
at an approximate cost of $4,000, 900
and to make expansion as needed for
housing the vast assemblage of
articles already on the ground, and
for assembling the historic houses.
But while the plans have been dis.
cussed, it is not thought that ground
will be broken for the new building
until after Mr.. Ford places his new
car on the market.
Mr.. Sherwood and Mr.. Ford have
been friends for more than a quarter
of century, the book dealer having
met Mr.. Ford when he came to New
York in 1900. They have met fire.
quently since then. and when Mr..
Sherwood was in Ohio last week he
decided to go over to Dearborn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
MAN HIT BY BRICK
DIES FROM INJURY
Victim SuCCumbS to Blow on
HIead-Friend Named
in Warrant.

Neil HoIlingsworth, 26 years old,
died shortly before noon yesterday at
his home. 2O4 Willow avenue. Takoma
Park, Md, from injuries received
Thursday when he was hit over the
head with brick in a fight at. Cap
itol Heights.
His widow, Mrs. Ethel Hollings-
worth, last night swore out a warrant
against Upton Crosby, 81 years old, at
whose residence the trouble is al
legged to have occurred, charging him
with the murder of her husband. She
gave an affidavit to Justice of the
Peace John Fainter of Hyattsville,
stating that she witnessed the alter
cation.
Justice Fainter swore in a coro-
ner's jury last night which viewed
the body. An autopsy, to determine
the exact cause of death. will be held
tomorrow, he said, and the inquest
was tentatively scheduled for Thurs
day night in the Office of Detective
Tom Garrison at Hyattsville.
Tells of Quarrel.
He will confer tomorrow with Frank
Perran of Upper Marlboro, Common
wealths attorney of Prince Georges
County, to ascertain If the affidavit
submitted by Mrs. Hollingsworth will
prove sufficient to waive her pres
ence at the inquest, since she de-
sires to attend the funeral, which will
be held at the home Of his parents
in Lima, Ohio.
Mrs. Hollingsworth stated that her
husband and Crosby had been friends
for a long time and had worked to-
gether last Winter, but that they had
words, after drinking Thursday night,
eliminating in Crosby throwing a
brick which struck Hollingsworth in
the head.
The injured man was taken to his
home and the physician who first
examined him, she said, stated that
he was suffering merely from a bump
on the head and would recover speed
lily. He remained in coma, however,
and this morning his condition became
so much worse that two other physi-
clans were summoned, who stated that
he had suffered a conclusion OF the
brain. He died about 1920 o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
Leaves Wife and Child.
Besides his wife and parents, Mrs.
Ethel Hollingsworth and Charles D.
Hollingsworth, he is survived by a
3.year.old daughter, Patricia: a sister,
Mrs. Grace Leonard, and two brothers,
Harold and Theron Hollingsworth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
SECRETARY DAVIS
DENIES FASCIST BAN
Membership in Party Will Not Bar
Italians From Citizen.
ship, He Says.
by the Associated Press.


Secretary Davis Of the Labor De.
partment yesterday authorized the
Associated Press categoricaily to deny
published stories quoting him as say.
ing that membership in the Fascist
League OF North America should act
as a bar to citizenship for Italians
applying for naturalization.
Raymond +. Crist, commissioner of
naturalization, said italian applicants
for citizenship need not fear that
they would be rejected IL they ad.
mitted membership in the Fascist
party.
The reports apparently grew out of
a naturalization hearing recently in
Baltimore, at which one Of the appli-
cants was asked If he was a member
Of the Fascist group. The Labor De.
partment said all Of the men who I'M
derwent examination were admitted
to citizenship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The many foreign medals and deco
rations received by Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh when he hoped across the
Atlantic TO start a new aviation era
for the world have produced a War
Department problem with which Con-
gress will have to deal. Nobody ques-
tons the equity and complete fitness
of the awards, but 1t appears that as
a reserve officer of the Army the
colonel has no legal right to display
these foreign tokens on his manly
chest-which, no doubt, he does not do.
In the State Department there Is
bale of decorations and ream or two
of certificates bestowed by assorted
foreign countries on other American
officers. The Aaw permitting their,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
ANACOSTIANS DISCUSS
GREAT FALLS PROJECT
Reports Of Committees Received by
Citizens Association at First
Fall Meeting.

Committee reports and discussion on
the Great Falls power project occupied
the Aracostia Citizens Association.
opening their Fall meetings. last night
In the Masonic Temple. Fourteenth
and u streets southeast. No recon-
mendation was made on the power
project.
AS the meeting was the first after
the Summer recess, reports were re-
ceived from the standing committees.
The transportation committee re-
ported that the associations request
that the Anacostia cars be rerouted
had been granted, and now the cars
run on Eleventh street instead OF
Ninth.
The highway committee reported
that and Thirteenth streets have
been paved and work Is well under
way on Minnesota avenue southeast.
The lawns and gardens committee
announced that Lorenzo and Robert
Thompson of 1901 and 1907 Thirteenth
street southeast were the joint win
ners Of the lawns contest, conducted
through the past Summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
THREE BOYS ARE HELD
IN ROBBERY OF HOME.
Pittsburgh Court Hears That Gang
Sold $25, 900 Worth of Furnish
ings to Junkman.
By the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, Pa, September "a.
The palatial residence Of Mrs. Will
liam Penn Snyder was looted by a
gang of boys, who sold $4,000 worth
Of the furnishings to junkmen, 1t was
disclosed in Morals Court today, when
three youths were called for hear
ing.
The house was closed during the
Summer months. The vandals jim
mied a door and carried away the
furnishings in a push cart. They
wrecked a $4,000 pipe organ, selling
the metal as junk and also ripped
costly chandeliers from the ceilings.
The three boys. Edward Breene,
Jesse Jarvis and Gerald Coughlin, all
in their teens, were held for court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
MARINE MAJOR WANTS
TO FLY TO NICARAGUA
Says Giant Plane Needed to Garry
Supplies to Troops in
Isolated Places.
Br the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO. Calf, September "a
Maj. Ross Rowell. commander of the
Marine Corps expeditionary forces in
Nicaragua, who arrived here yester-
day from Corinto on the transport
Sirius. contemplates flying back to
the Central American republic in a
tri-motored Fokker if the Navy De-
partment will grant him permission.
Maj. Rowell said large transport
plane of the Fokker type is urgently
needed in Nicaragua for the carrying
of supplies to Marines based at nearly
inacct ssible places in the mountains.
He said a Fokker plane could deliver
supplies in two hours where it would
take a military truck from three to
five days.
The flying Marine major also wants
an amphibian plane for service be-
tween Bluefields and Managua. It
now requires 10 days to transport
supplies by motor truck around the
agoons between Bluefields and Ma
nagua. whereas an amphibian plane
could traverse the distance in less
than five hours.
II Maj Rowell gets permission TO
fly back to Nicaragua his route will
be from the Fokker factory at Has
brouck Heights. N. j., to Cuba. TO
Panama, then up the west coast to
Gulf of Fonseca.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
Bread 5000 Years
Old to Be Shown
At Bakers Session
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. September 24.-The
oldest loaf OF bread In the world.
built to last when the Pyramids
were new, Is on display here for the
American Bakers Association
meeting next week.
The loaf was found in the tomb
OF an Egyptian Pharaoh, where 1t
kept the royal mummy company
for 80 centuries. 1t is now the
property of the Haskell Institute
of the University Of Chicago.
Scientists would like to discover
a lot about the Egyptians. but tie
modern bakers won't derive L:uch
benefit from a study. of q loaf of
their bread" said Henry Strude,
president of the association. Like
tho pyramids. the Egyptians seem
to have made their bread to last
with durability instead of edibility
as the chief end In view"
The bakers will also see bakery
products from every country In
the world onAdisplay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
ANCIENT HOMESTEADS AND INNS
WILL BE PLACED IN FORD MUSEUM
Robert {. Sherwood Reveals
Plans of Auto Magnate
for Project.
Says 10-Acre Site Will Be
Located Between Home
and Birthplace.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 24.--Henry
Ford has taken n definite step III the
creation OF his museum of American
antiquities, which is to cover az 10
acre site midway between his present
home and his birthplace in the en-
virons of Dearborn, according to Rob
ert Z. Sherwood, author and book
dealer of this city, who has just re-
turned from Dearborn. Mr.. Sher-
wood has been requested by Mr.. Ford
to do some scouting and suggest va
rious historic inns, homes and houses
for the museum.
According to the present plans, -
said Mr.. Sherwood today, lone pat of
the museum Is to be devoted : TO
historic houses. another to oric
inns and another to other !. mes
made famous as the birthplaccs of
writer's, composers, actors, singers
and the like. The plan is TO have
these places either donated or pur-
chased outright by Mr. Ford and then
have them taken down under the di-
rection of Ford engineer and reas.
sembled in their proper place in the
museum.
Shrines for Visitors.
"By having such buildings as
sembled under one or more roofs Of
the museum it will be possible for
visitors of Dearborn to look upon
virtual shrines from every State in
the Union. w. ,s-t
1--WE discussed the project in Mr..
Ford's office at the River Rouge plant
and it was evident that he intends to
do in this line what he has done in
many others, excel.
Coupled with this will be the
securing of the various counties and
States to get the buildings which must
in the first place be typically American
and have something to do with either
local, county. State or national his
tory.
"At the present time Mr.. Ford's
collection of American antiquities
fills dozens Of vast buildings on the
very tract upon which the big mu-
scum is to be located.
Everything Under Sun.
"Of the myriad articles which he has
purchased or which have been do
mated there seems to be almost every
thing under the sun, from bullet
mold to a locomotive. There is a
grist mill, erected in 1898, which was
donated by a resident of Haverhill
Mass.
I'm another section is the collec-
ton of hoopskirts and other Dutch
relics, including early American
crooks, pottery, cupboards, candle
sticks, chairs, and so on, which Mr..
Ford acquired in. DoylestoWn, Pa.
''Probably nowhere in America will
be found such a collection of vehicles
showing the progress of transporta
ton as has been assembled at Dear
born. From the one-horse chaise, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
DIES IN 135-FOOT FALL.
Climber at Tacoma, Wash, Drops
When Safety Rope Slips.

TACOMA, Wash. September "a up.
As his wife and children looked on.
J. L. Backovic, IS, a climber, dropped
1876 feet to his death today when his
safety rope slipped while he was
climbing a 140-foot tree.
Backovic was performing for the
entertainment of crowd at fair. He
was matched with Charles Ensign OF
OLYMPIA, Wash. who was making
safe descent of the giant trunk, when
Backovic slipped.
+, Backovic's climbing spurs failed TO
Aold U+heh he tried TO check his fail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
Half Holiday Rule
On Saturdays Ends
For u. S. Workers

Saturday half holidays in the
Government Departments for the
Summer came to a close yesterday.
The holiday period began on June l
this year and through the good
offices of President Coolidge the
workers have enjoyed an extra half
month of half Saturdays.
Heretofore the half holidays be-
gan June IS and continued until
September Is.
Yesterday also was the final half
day for workers in the District
Building. During the June 1-Sep-
TENDER 30 interval they have been
released at 1890 pm, but from
now until next June. they will work
until $3.50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
Act of Congress Needed for Lindbergh
And Others to Get Foreign Medals

acceptance lapsed after the war and
these came too late, SO the State De.
partment Is custodian.
Specifically, there are 400 medals or
similar decorations and $50 certificates
in the safe awaiting retirement of the
officers involved from Government
service or authorization by Congress
for their acceptances
At first, it was suggested that a
special act authorizing Lindbergh to
accept his decorations be sought this
Winter. That seemed hardly fair to
the $50 other men barred by law from
enjoying these tokens of distinction
and achievement. however, so the War
Department is now expected to ask
for blanket act under which the
State Department treasure box can
ba cleared out,