davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1927-09-08

CFrancis r. Hunter, fourth member
of the American team, has not played
previously for the Davis Cup)
Evening star., 1927-09-08
ST. JOES AND BALLSTONS
WILL CLASH In BIG GAME

Sundays Capital
- City League card will be the
clash between st. Joseph and
Il Ballston in a West section un-
Evening star., 1927-09-08

HLAY for the woman's Army and
Navy golf championship of the
District was expected to reach
4 the final round on the War
Evening star., 1927-09-08

The sixteenth green at Compression.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
FLOOD
WORK WINS LIBERTY
Hundreds in Louisiana to Get Re-
missions-Morale in Crisis
Is Commended.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated FreeS.
BATON ROUGE, La, June o.
Remission of sentences under the
most liberal Interpretation of the law
will be the reward of several hundred
prisoners at the State prison farm
here, officials said yesterday. for their
work during the flood crisis.
In many cases remission of SEN
tence will amount to dismissal from
the penitentiary, as the time off in.
cluded in the awards will amount to
more than the remaining time to
serve, III. c. Pitcher, general manager
of the prison. said.
The reward not only will extend to
those actually engaged in work on the
levees, but to the women who did their
part behind the lines, working early
and late in providing coffee and other
refreshments to the men on the ram
parts.
Practically all the convicts, white
and negro, who worked in the flood
fight will be given citation for meri-
torius service in addition to the time
allowed, Pitcher said.
There was very fine spirit
shown" Pitcher declared, land the
morale was good during the whole
fight. The men worked under ad-
verse conditions, in all kinds of
weather, and frequently had poor
housing facilities at the scene of the
work. Their spirit and energy has
won the commentator of all who saw
them"'
During the whole flood battle, only
two prisoners attempted to escape out
of the hundreds of convicts who were
free on the levees and could have
bolted for liberty at almost any time.
The two were recaptured almost i'm.
mediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
IS GIVEN HONORARY
DEGREES ATT YALE RITES
Justice Van Devanter and Chief
Forester Greeley Are Among
Recipients of Tributes.
By the Associated Press.

by Tic AsenEldtSu ITESs.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 22.-
Charles l.. Lawrence, designer of the
Wright Whirlwind motors which car
ried Lindbergh and Chamberlin across
the Atlantic; William Allan Nelson,
president of Smith College; Will
liam B. Greeley, chief forester of the
United States, and Willis Van De-
vanter, associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
were among the Is recipients of hon
orary degrees conferred by Yale Uni
versity today at the second gradu-
ating exercises of the 226th COM
mencement.
Today, in addition to the Is hon
"A students in the School of Medicine.
and on several hundred graduates of
other schools of the university.
Mr.. Lawrence, Il. A., 1905, and Mr..
Greeley, were given the degree of
master of arts. President Nelson
was the only recipient of the degree
of doctor of letters. Justice Van De.
vanter received the degree of doctor of
law.
The highest honors in Yale College
and Sheffield Scientific School We're
awarded at the graduation exercises
in Woolsey Hail yesterday to AL
fred Mitchell Bingham of New Haven.
John II. G. Pierson of New York
city, Martin Augustus Mayors of New
Rochelle, n. Y; Harold Thornton
Lyman. jr., of Hamden and James
Oliver Flower of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
COLORED COUNTESS
TITLE IS IN DOUBT
Paris and Italian Papers Say Mate
Of Dancer Is Not on No.
bility Lists.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 22.-Josephine Baker.
Charleston dancer, who announced
herself last Saturday night as
Americas first negro countess, was
the subject of speculation today in
the French newspapers. They de.
clared they had been unable to sub
stantiate the claim of her husband to
noble rank or even to find any record
of the marriage.
The dancer met her Count" Rep
pino di Abatino in the Paris cafe
where both were employed: Abatino
is said to have been a manual worker
before coming here from Italy.
When she told the press about her
wedding no details were given. Both
were just as hazy about the title ex-
cept to assert that it existed "some.
where in Italy," with Palermo indi-
Gated.
Abatino was not known around the
cafe as count until the dancers
announcement. He had been manager
of the cabaret, which is situated in
Montmartre, for more than a year,
and had acted as general supervisor
Of the dancers business affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
STEAMER LINES PROTEST
RAILWAY FREIGHT RATE
Vessels Using Panama Canal Com
plain Of Reduction by Competing
Roads on Canned Goods.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June Craftsmanship
lines using the Panama Canal pro-
tested reduction by railroads Of Is
cents per hundredweight on the rate
of canned goods from the Pacific Coast
to the Atlantic at hearing before
the Int""state Commerce Commission
here yesterday.
The steamship companies claimed
the reduction in the rate from $1.05
to 80 cents eliminated them from COM
petition. Their water rate from Pa
cific ports to Atlantic ports is As cents
at present, but to this must be added
the rail rates from the canneries to
the ports and from the Atlantic ports
to the destinations inland.
The average rates by the rail and
water routes are now about 90 cents,
which is the same as the rail cost.
The commission has ordered a con-
tinuance of the former rate of $1.05
by the railroads pending the outcome
of the hearing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
President Hooks
Six Trout to Two
For Mrs. Coolidge
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RAPID CITY, S. Oak, June o.
If there has been any competition
in the Coolidge family over SUI
premacy with rod and reel for the
time being, at least, it has been
settled.
President and Mrs. Coolidge went
to Squaw Creek yesterday after
noon, and when they returned to
the Summer White House there
were six trout in the Presidents
basket, two in Mrs. Coolidge's.
Succumbing to the spirit Of the
West, MIR. Coolidge added to the 10
gallon cowboy hat he adopted last
week a pair of riding breeches
and boots on his trip today. Mrs.
Coolidge wore sport clothes.
After the trout had been turned
over to the Summer White House
kitchen, the President, wearing his
big chapeau, sat with Mrs. Coolidge
on the front porch of their resi-
dence and watched evening steal
silently over the brim Of the noun
tainS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
MORE WOMEN THAN MEN
TRAVEL IN AIRPLANE
Passenger Line Between England
and the Continent Reported to Be
Literally Patronized.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
CROYDON, England-Many more
women use the airplane service be.
tween England and the continent than
men.
There has been a large increase in
the number of young honeymooners
who travel by air rather than put up
with the discomforts of cross-channel
steamer travel.
Close observers say that the women
seem much more at home several
thousand feet in the air than the male
passenger. Increased facilities for f1y-
ing now make it possible for the
wealthy woman to leave Croydon in
the morning, fly to Paris for shopping
and be back in London in time for
dinner. Several well known society
women have made several such trips
this season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
SWEDISH LUTHERANS
MARK ANNIVERSARY
King Takes Part in 4OOth Year
Celebration of Church
Folk.
By the Associated Press.


WESTERNS, Sweden. June 22.-The
40Oth anniversary of the establishment
OF the Lutheran Church in Sweden
was celebrated in the cathedral here
Yesterday. Bishop E. Billing officiated
In the presence of King Gustav and
the governor of the province. The
town was bef1agged; a great pageant
and play in the open air theater
were features, and the King presided
at the banquet at the town hail in the
evening.
The celebration was in commenoora.
ton or that June day in 1927 when
the famous King Gustav Vasa sum.
moned parliament of representatives
or the nobility, clergy and peasantry
at this place and promulgated two
laws. Famous in Sweden's history
The Westerns Recess and Vesteras
Ordinance-both aimed at breaking
down the growing temporal power of
the Roman Church in Sweden,
BY the ordinance the King became
mead OF the Swedish Church. which
adopted the Bible as the sole religious
guide. Thus the first step was taken
FOR reformation on the Lutheran basis.
Moreover, priests were compelled to
conduct services in Swedish.
The recess dealt mainly with the
material position of the church. The
bishops were deprived of their forti.
fled castles, where they had been able
to defy the King, and the church
estates were conf1scated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
PRESIDENT WINNING HIS WAY
AS ADOPTED SON OF THE WEST
Visitors Charmed With His Gracious Per-
sonality-Wears Ten-Ouart Hat and
Willingly Poses for Frequent Snapshots.

"The President at dinner comment
ed on the resemblance between This
country and Vermont, pointing out,
though, that the higher altitude here
is much to their liking. Both of them
find the people here delightful, and
anxious to do everything possible to
make this visit a pleasant one. l re-
marked that every gathering for hum
dreds of miles around would be in
viting Mr.. and Mrs. Coolidge to at
tend. but assured them that the reo-
pie simply wanted them to know how
welcome they would be, without ;n-
sisting in any way on attendance. The
President said he enjoyed these af-
fairs and wanted to take in as many
of them as he could. He was most
congenial--a regular Westerner.'
Finds President Very Congenial.
r. T.. Bronson. president of the AS
ISOLATED Commercial Clubs of the
Black Hills and manager of the Belle
Fourche Roundup, which the Presi-
dent is to attend, got much the same
impression of Mr.. Coolidge from his
visit to the executive office.
Really, we were surprised to find
how congenial and pleasant Mr.. Cool
idge was, after the impressions we
had been given" Mr.. Bronson said.
He quickly accepted our invitation.
When we gave him that beautiful
gray 10-quart beaver hat with 10
inch brim and high crown he seemed
particularly tickled. He tried it on
twice and looked well in it, too. The
President was so very agreeable and
interested in this country that we
were really surprised"
Others say the same thing. Inquiry
was made of those who have been
associated with the President all
through his term in office to discover
the reason.
The explanation was made that Mr..
Coolidge is naturally friendly, but dur
ing the latter part of the Harding ad-
ministration and after Mr.. Coolidge
took office many Republican leaders
were not particularly friendly. During
the pressure of this period the Presi-
dent adopted a policy of silence. Even
now he can close up like a clam when
he senses that a person has some ak
to grind or some favor to ask, and
he's very discerning in picking out
those persons.
Enjoys Personal Friendship.
But here he finds people whole
hearted in their personal friendship,
whether they agree with him poll
tically or not, and for once Mr.. Cool
idge is relaxing and letting himself
have enjoyment. He likes the people
and he likes the arrangement for his
vacation, so he is blossomining out.
Not only is he enjoying himself. but
he tells visitors to get out and adver-
tise this section, assuring them that
he is doing his part. That seems a
certain indication that the President
is having a good time in the West.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
Identified as Harris"

PORTLAND, Greg, June % R.-
Identification of Earle Nelson, alleged
Stranger" held at Winnipeg as the
man wanted here under the name of
Adrian Harris for the Staying of a
woman, was announced by the police
yesterday.
Photographs of the Winnipeg pris-
oner were identified by Mrs. Sophie
Yates, who was a ledger in a rooming
house at which Harris lived here last
October, and Russell Gordon, gro
Gerry clerk.
Harris disappeared from Portland
about the time Mrs. Blanch Myers was
slain here. Before leaving the room
ing house he gave woman dodgers
some jewelry, which later was identi'
fled as having been the property of
Mrs. Florence Fithian Monks, who
was killed in Seattle short time pre-
viously.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
SHIPPING is MENACED.
Abandoned Schooner Floats Self
After Being Grounded.

WILMINGTON, N. c., June % up.
LOADED with $4,000 water-soaked
cross ties, the schooner Charles A.
Dean. which grounded recently off
Frying Pan Shoals. floated herself yes.
terday and is drifting down the coast.
The heavily laden craft slipped off
the bar early in the afternoon and was
swept in the direction of Myrtle
Beach, s. c., moving in the shipping
lanes. She is considered a serious
menace to navigation in shipping
circles. No one is aboard to guide
the craft as she drifts helplessly in
the darkness. The crew was taken
off when the schooner grounded. First
reports regarding departure of the
crew was that a mutiny took place
aboard the craft, but 1t was definitely
established that such never occurred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
Title Not Listed.

ROME, June % R).-"Count"
Beppe Abbatino, who married
Josephine Baker in Paris (reports
from Paris give the name as Reppino
di Abatino), does not figure in any
of the guides to italian nobility.
The newspapers say he Is the son
Of Col. Francesca Abbatino, podesta
governing Officially of district in the
Province of Udine. They add that he
was employed as a clerk in Rome
before going to France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
"STRANGLER" SEEKS
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Earle Nelson, Held at Winnipeg,
Denies Murders-Identifed
in Oregon.


WINNIPEG, June 22.-Earle Mel
son, charged with the murder of a
Winnipeg woman and a girl and held
as the Stranger" sought in the
United States for the murder of sew
eral women, broke his silence yester-
day long enough to request a confer
ence with a foreign official.
II am charged with two murders,
but I'm not the one who did it," he
replied when asked what prompted
his request.
1t was definitely learned today that
Nelson will be brought to trial in
higher court probably July 20. His
preliminary hearing is scheduled for
Thursday. No counsel has yet been
assigned to defend the prisoner. 1t
was learned that several lawyers
already have declined to act, among
them Clarence barrow, who was
quoted as saying he was not practicing
at present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
SCHOOLS IN FINAL
Days EXERCISES
1851 Pupils in District Bid
ding Good-by to Books for
Summer Period.

This is the final day of the school
year. with appropriate exercises being
held in every elementary school in the
city. 1t is estimated that the closing
enrolment this year is 69.691, as COM
pared with a closing enrolment last
year of 67,S93.
The final meeting of the Board of
Education for the closing school year
will be held next Wednesday, while
the reorganization meeting of the
board will be held the following
Friday.
Fairgrounds Now Available.
With the schools letting out today
for the three-month Summer vacation
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, supervisor
of municipal Fairgrounds, announces
that the Summer schedule of athletics
will begin at once. The Fairgrounds
will be open from Q am. until pm.
The three pools will open tomorrow
at o'clock. They are located in
Georgetown, Thirty fourth street and
Volta place; Rosedale, Seventeenth
ana Rosedale streets northeast, and
at Howard, Fifth and w streets.
The principal activity at the Frank
lin School after today will be in the
office of Miss Fay Bentley, in charge
OF issuing work permits and that of
Assistant Superintendent of Schools
Patterson in charge of the Summer
schools.
Eastern High Leads In New PUPILS.
Eastern High School will receive the
largest number of the LAB eighth
grade pupils who are bei.g graduated
today in the white schools, it was an.
nounced at the Franklin School.
Eastern will get 300, as compared
with 3o5, who entered Eastern last
September, when this high school also
obtained the biggest proportion of the
eighth grade graduates
While the number of graduates en-.
tering Eastern is less than last year
the total number entering the high
schools is greater as last year the five
white high schools received but 1882
pupils.
Distribution Figures.
The distribution of the eighth grade
graduates among the other high
schools, as compared with last year,
follows: Central PAS this year as com.
pared with 200 last year; Western. 2S4
this year as compared with 200 last
year; Mckinley Manual Training
School, 1875 this year as compared
with 1913 last year, and Business, 146
this year as compared with ISL last
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
RECORD TELEPHONE LINE.
Longest Circuit in Europe Connects
Stockholm and Paris.

STOCKHOLM, June % R0.-Direct
telephone communication between
Stockholm and Paris, a distance of
zoo miles, has just been established,
the new line being the longest in
Europe Sweden also has direct tele.
phone connections with cities as dis
tant as London, Vienna and Bern.
Long distance telephone service is
used far more extensively in Europe
than the United States, chiefly because
of lower rates. Stockholm is the city
richest in telephones in all Europe.
having one for every fourth inhabi.
tant. The wholly automatic system is
now being put into general use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
WASHINGT0NIAN TO GET
OFFICE IN JR. 0. u. A. M.
Joseph II. Smithson Nominated
Without Opposition at Rye
Beach Session.
By the Associated Press.


RYE BEACH, N. H., June o.
Charleston, S. c., and Detroit yester-
day were placed in nomination for the
next place of meeting of the national
convention of the Junior Order, United
American Mechanics. now in session
here.
A slate Of officers nominated yester-
day met with no opposition and will
be formally elected today. The new
officers include:
National councillor, E. A. Llewellyn.
Cincinnati; vice councillor, Omar c..
Stubs, Covingtol KY; treasurer.
Charles Reimer, Baltimore; conductor,
James M. Sharp. Reidsville, N. c.;
warden. w. F. Mccartney, Samson,
Ala; outside sentinel, Joseph Fl.
Washington, D. c.; member
of board of control, III. l.. Taylor, new
port, Tenn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
DREWS ILLNESS CRITICAL
Veteran Actor Said to Be Growing
Steadily Weaker.

SAN FRANCISCO, June % R.-
The condition of John Drew, veteran
actor who has been i'll here since
May 81, was considered critical to-
day.
Physicians declared Drew was
worse last night, but saw little
change during the night. Drew was
stricken with arthritis while on tour
at Portland, Greg, but came here ex-
pecting to resume his stage career.
He suffered a relapse after tempo
rary rally and has been growing
steadily weaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
JUDGE JAYNE TO SPEAK.
81 States Represented at Session for
Colored Advancement.

INDIANAPOLIS June % R.-
Delegates from 81 States registered
today for the eighteenth annual con-
ference of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, which opens a seven-day program
tonight.
They will be welcomed tonight by
Gov. Ed jackson at the opening mass
meeting. The principal address will
be made by Judge Ira w. Jayne OF
Detroit. Messages will be read from
President Coolidge and from Moor
field Story Of Boston. president Of the
association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
CAMP REEDER TO OPEN.
Boys Club Rendezvous in Mary
land Ready Wednesday.

Camp Reeder, the Boys Club camp
at West Hatton farm, near Mount
Victoria, Md, will open next Wednes-
day, although an advance party of
camp executives will go to camp to-
morrow to make ready for the first
contingent Of boys.
Parents desiring to send boys to the
Superintendent of the club, at the
clubhouse, 230 C street. any night
except Saturday between Z and 8
o'clock.
Charles M. Fyfe is camp director
and he Is assisted by Robert Legendre
and Elias Abrams, assistant direc-
tors. and Barnwell Smith, Isador
Abrams, Edward Frowert and John
Bell, camp leaders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
Mexico Borrows 100000 Pesos.

MEXICO CITY, June % R)-
Conclusion of an arrangement with
group Of International bankers for
a short-term, low-interest 5000, 00O-
peso loan to the Mexican government
was semi officially announced today.
The object OF the loan was not made
public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
BY OWEN T.. SCOTT.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special InSnatcn 10 1HS StdF.
RAPID CITY. S. Oak. June "a
President Coolidge is rapidly becoming
a real adopted son of the West.
One week out here-where the hand
clasp is supposed to be a little firmer
and where wholehearted friendship is
mart of the days business-finds Mr.
Coolidge far removed from the cold
Fastener he has been pictured Those
close to him officially said today he
is only blossoming out into his real
self under the stimulus of pleasing
local conditions.
Whatever the cause, the result is
apparent. The President now appears
quite Western, affable, smiling,
friendly and anxious to please. He's
accepting invitations right and left.
He gives thrill aplenty TO tourists by
obligingly posing while they bashfully
take snapshots. Cars of travellers are
permitted to stop in front of the SUM
mer White House so that these inter
ested people may get q glimpse of
President and Mrs. Coolidge at home.
On occasions when newspaper men
were about, some venturesome passers
by have been permitted to come up and
take pictures. Fishing gives a thrill,
and those 10-quart hats the President
is learning to wear seem to please him
immensely.
Will Try the Swimming Hole.
The President has even inquired OF
Senator Peter Norbeck concerning
swimming at Hot Springs. The Sen
ator assured him there wasn't a swim
ming hole in the world to compare
with it, and there are those who
wouldn't be surprised to see Mr..
Ir~n fnS II
these days.
Just what the Coolidge home and
office life is like out here in the West
is apparent from the descriptions
given by his first guest at the Sum-
mer White House and by a head of
one of the delegations that has WIS.,
tied the offices.
Opie Chambers of Yankton, S. Oak,
a friend of the President and mana
ger of his 1924 presidential primary
in this State, was the first
house guest.
II found the President and Mrs.
Coolidge sincerely happy and cozily
settled in their new home" Mr.. Cham
bers said. when l arrived Mr.. Cool
idge got up from big easy chair be-
fore the fireplace and came to meet
me at the door. Mrs. Coolidge had
been busy at her needlework in
chair near the President.
Both Gracious, Both Enthusiastic.
Both were most gracious and so en-
thusiastic about their home here that
/ thought the expressions might be
made just to please me. Later Mrs.
Coolidge assured me that all their
praise was warranted by their pleas
IRE in the Summer home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22

Among the drugs being offered by
one apothecary in China are small
pearls, tiger bones. kidneys and gals
Of bear. antlers OF young deer. white
flower snake. European saffron flowers
and xansenms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22

Panama City Is to have new SUBJ
urban development which will cost
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