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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
DRY OFFICE PROBE
REPORTED BIASED
Doran Is Told Agents Investi-
eating Lyle Were Accused
of Improper Actions.

by the ASSUcldbeu ITesSs
SEATTLE, Wash, September g.
An investigation was decided by the
Washington State Anti-Saloon League
yesterday of the agents whose activi-
ties brought about a summons to
Washington, d. c., of Roy c. Lyle,
district prohibition administrator, to
explain alleged demoralized condi-
tons in his district.
The Treasury Department is now
inquiring into the reports of a spe-
cial intelligence unit that Lyle was
weak" in supervision of his per-
sonnet. Exchange of money between
rum runners and prohibition agents
also was charged.
B. Z. Hicks, State superintendent
of the league here. sent a telegram
yesterday to j. NJ. Doran, commits
sioner of prohibition, declaring there
had been reports of improper actions
on the part of the investigators. An
unbiased and complete" probe of the
whole enforcement situation was need
ed, the telegram said, adding that
Lyle should be retained until "the
he should be removed"
Several charges have been made
as to the personal action and methods
of the investigators, which, If true,
the telegram said, should discredit
them personally and officially and any
report they make.
The leagues telegram also said the
investigation SHOULD be made by
some Government agency other than
the Treasury Department"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
Polite People

Ihere are men who act politely
While they are upon their feet and
they think it most unsightlv rude ey.
preston to repeat. They are howing
they are smiling, as. we meet them
mere ana Inere; they have manners
nlost esulilng, they are smooth and
oeponalr. And we think of them with
pleasure as on errands vain we chase;
we shai never cease to treasure recol-
lections OF their grace. But we see
tnem when they'r tooling cars for
which they'v gone In debt: they've
forgotten all the schooling they've
received in etiquette. Their polite
ness seems to shrivel when thew
climb inside a car; they're abusive
and uncivil, and their cusswords Jolt
and jar. Once they ha ~ their motors
chooing, once behind che steering
wheel, they are Tuning, they are
steWing, and their kindly thoughts
CONCEAL. They are brutal, they are
yellow, hatred seethes in every tone.
and they roast the other fellow for the
faults that are their own. They're no
longer mild and tender, courteous to
gent and dame, and while tearing off
your fender they insist you are to
blame. 1t is rather hard recalling
sunny smiles they have bestowed,
when you hear them ranting, bawling,
when they run you off the road. 1t
is strange so many voters are polite
while on their feet. yet when driving
choo-choo motors they would hog the
whole blamed street.
WALT MASON.
(Ccpyright l027l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
AUTO KNOCKS TRIO
TO DEATH IN GORGE
Niagara Falls Police Hunt
Car That Showed Man, Wife
and Child Over Precipice.
Nv the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Septem.
Der 3.-Police today were bending
every effort to locate a touring car
which. witnesses say, showed three
persons to their death in the Niagara
Gorge, wiping out an entire family.
The victims of the 120-foot drop yes.
terday were Prof. Roy Desmond Hux-
ley, his wife and their 7-year-old
daughter Ruth. all of Cleveland, Ohio.
Huxley was associate professor of
electrical engineering at Case School
OF Applied Science. He was a native
of Northampton, Mass. Mrs. Huxley,
until her marriage, was Miss Lucille
Hines of Providence, r. l.
License Only Clue.
Search for the car which is blamed
for the tragedy extended to garages in
Niagara Falls, Buffalo and interme-
date and adjacent points. The auto
mobile bore an Illinois license and was
driven, witnesses said, by stout man.
The car did not stop after striking
the smaller machine, sending it hurt
ling through an iron fence and down
the Niagara Gorge precipice, to smash
it in two parts and drop flaming into
the water. Huxley and his wife died
instantly. The little girl succumbed a
few hours later in a Niagara Falls
hospital.
The girl and her parents bodies were
brought up from a ledge, where they
had caught, block and tackle being
rugged to a firemen's ladder extended
horizontal over the edge of the cliff.
CAR BELIEVED IDENTIFIED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
MARYLAND GRANTS
POWER EXTENSIONS
Potomac Electric to Con.
StruCt Lines to Additional
Nearby Communities.

The Potomac Electric Power Co.
was given authority yesterday by the
Maryland Public Service Commission
to extend light and power facilities
to many additional communities in
the neighboring State, the work to be
completed in nine months at cost
of approximately 100000.
The commission at the same time
approved other extensions to be made
in Prince Georges and Montgomery
Counties by the Consolidated Gas,
Electric Light and Power Co. of Bal
timore.
The application of the Potomac
Electric Power Go. calls for the eX-
tension of it's lines from the present
terminus In Montgomery County,
half way between Rockville and Nor
beck, thence along said pike to Nor
beck: thence along the Brookeville
road Union Turnpike) to Oakdaie'
Olney and Brookeville, and in the
corporate limits of the town or
Brookeville, and from Olney along the
Sandy Spring road to point between
Sandy Spring and Ashton, and also
along the Laytonsville pike from
Wa shington Grove to Rozelle. Emery
Grove and Laytonsville, and in the
corporate limits of the town of Lay
louisville and in territory adjacent to
said proposed lines.
The Consolidated Gas, Electric
Light and Power Co. will extend Its
lines from the present terminus at
Laurel. Prince Georges County. along
the Sandy Spring road through Bur-
louisville, Spencerville. Ednor, Ash
ton, Sandy Spring, Olney and Clays-
willie to Laytonsville, Montgomery
County, and along the Union Turnpike
in Montgomery County from NorbeeK
through Olney to Brookevllle ana III
territory adjacent to the said proposed
lines = The company is given four
months in which to complete con-
struction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
FOUR BATHS EACH YEAR
SATISFY FRENCH Fol K
Town of Bedarieux, Near Southsrr
Coast, Lacks Patronage for
House of Tubs.

by the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 3.-The scarcity
OF bathtubs in most of France is often
the subject of jokes, but sarcastic
CRITICS have new fact to give sub.
stance to their humor.
In the town of Bedarieux, near the
southern coast, there are 1000 people
with very few tubs. A forward-Io
ing gentleman transformed a villa
INTO a public bathhouse, in a shirt
of civic pride, relying upon promises
OF a good subscription list He set
out to get the wealthy to buy season
tickets good for a bath a week. He
finally got SO to agree to take a bath
a month for year. After the first
few weeks. according to reports of
the enterprise, the subscribers re.
verified to primitive ideas of hygiene
and demanded part of their tickets to
be taken up.
A bath a month is too often: once
every three months is enough" they
are quoted as saying.
The bathhouse finally closed its
doors, unable to make a go of the
nathlng business, although there was
no competition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
PROBE OF INSTRUCTORS
DROWNING TO BE ASKED
Brother-in-Law of Man Who Was
Lost Overheard From Liner
to Seek Investigation.

By the Associated Press
JACKSON, Tenn, September s.
L. L. Fonville said yesterday that he
expected to ask an investigation by
New York authorities Of the recent
death at sea of his brother-in.law
Oscar Petty, Columbia University In.
structor. He made public a telegram
from Petty's sister. Mrs. s. A. Boles,
who was with him at the time, saying
oscar lost overheard last Friday in
some unaccountable way. New York
newspapers today gave exaggerated
and sensational stories. Please cor.
rect suicide story"
Mr.. Fonville said he would hold
up plans for requesting a New York
attorney to start an investigation
until he heard from Mrs. Fonville
who had gone to New York before
word came Of Petty's death.
Reports earlier in the week had
said that Petty leaped to his death
from the French liner Paris while
returning from studying in France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
MAKES SOCIAL BLUNDER.

LONDON, September 8 CP).-The
Rev. A. Cunning, vicar Of Adhesion
Parish, is in hot water becatse he
cannot recognize the woman members
of his congregation. He has issued
an appeal through the parish mag
aZine.
Not long ago I called upon one of
my parishioners in the afternoon and
visited with her for about Is min
utes," the vicar says. "An hour later
/ passed her in the road and did not
know her.
"A woman indoors with her hat off
is TO me an entirely different person
from what she is out of doors with
her hat on. 1t is the same with girls
The instant they leave school they
seem to me to be completely trans
mogrified, and / can recognize them
no more"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
Marriage Licenses.

=, Walter T. West Of Birminghom. Ala, and
Mary lubatu of Canyon City Colo.
-, walter 4. Peterson of Boston Mass and
mabel NJ. La Billie of Shelburne Falls. Mass
Albert $; Turner and Mary F. Titus
- George w. Smith of this city and Nell l.
Hines of The Plains. Va.
EDWIN 4; Wilson and Mildred R. Wright
Harold w. Kranse and Rose Cum
William Blair and Ethel Edwards
Howard M. Grantham and Mabel Eckioff
Luis g. Huerta and Maria r. Padilla
William K. Miller and Jane A Boden.
James E. Rice and Elsie G.. Boyle.
Edgar W: King Of Governors Island N Y
snq franklin Louise Young of this city
Frederick X. Wilson and Mary F. Sullivan
:. william E. Peatross of Penola. Va, ant
Mary c. Young of Milford va.
10y w. Ferguson and Myrtle r, Brewster
Lee Marshall and Bertha Kiilian
Clarence w. Fisk of Kensington, Md. ant
Lillian c. Gardner of this city.
George Darnell and Beulah West.
Charles Is. Bunch of Hartford Conn., anC
Bertha n Wilson of this city.
Edwin NJ Hitch and Rose f. Harrison.
Arthur r. Bonnet and Mary H. Slime
- Harold y. Bartlett of this city and Heller
" Young of Auuasco. Md.
. Harry Gehrmann. ir., and Elizabeth
xaWaslke
William B. Stevens and Mary Smith.
William Jones of Falls Church. Va, ant
Ida Dickens of this city.
Rudolph E. Streblan and Pearl E. Grier
Percy c. Crabill of this city and Helen L
Adrian of Ashburn. Va.
Alvin B, Kerns of Falls Church Va an,
40 B. King OF Vienna Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
ZIONIST CONGRESS
lessons ACTIVITY
Week End Program Marked
by Plea of Jews for Recog-
milton in Palestine.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BASEL, Switzerland, September g.
The activities OF the fifteenth Zionist
ened somewhat over the week end. No
general sessions were scheduled today
in difference to the Jewish Sabbath,
and no meetings were set for Sunday.
There was to be a single session after
sunset tonight. This session was
called to elect a new executive, but
1t was not thought likely the task
would not be accomplished, as the
committee on committees, charged
with the preparation of the list of
proposed executive members, could
not reach a decision. and declared 1t
would postpone its deliberations until
early next week.
The respite given the delegates be.
fore next weeks sessions Is being used
by party leaders to secure alliances
and attempt to create voting blocs for
the various proposals which are being
advocated.
Most active of the groups Is the
American delegation, which forms the
mainstay of the Weizmann policy, and
was responsible for the reelection of
DR.. Weizmann at the fourteenth con.
gress.
The craftsmanship of the committee
on committees, held at recent con.
crosses by Americans, was awarded
this year to a representative of the
German Zionists, Kirt Blumenfeld. DIR.
A. Coralnik of New York. DR.. H.
Farbstein of Warsaw, and DIR. Chain
Arlasaroff. were elected vice chairmen.
Samuel J. Rosensohn, New York at
torney, was selected to head the
finance committee.
The charge that the Zionist execu.
tive had failed to fulfill the decision
of the fourteenth congress concerning
the creation Of Yemenite settlements
in Palestine was made yesterday by
Delegate Gluska, representing the
Yemenite Jews in Palestine.
Delegate Gluska demanded that a
special immigration commission be
sent to Yemen to facilitate the migra-
ton of Yemenite Jews to Palestine.
He also demanded that the Jewish
national fund grant land to the Yem.
enite Jews.
The session Of the congress was in
terrupted in order that the delegates
might attend the funeral of Jacob
Wassermann, delegate from Kishineff
and Zionist leader of Bessarabia. Mr..
Wassermann died after an operation
here. M. M. Ussishkin delivered q eu.
logy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
DANCER REPORTED
BETROTHED TO KAHN
Young Orchestra Leader and Vir
ginia Franck May Delay
Announcement.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 3.-The
New York Daily News, in a copyright
ed story today, says Roger Wolfe
Kahn, 21-year-old jazz orchestra leader
and son of Otto H. Kahn, banker, and
Miss Virginia Franck, 19-year-old stage
dancer, whose home is in Lynbrook
Long Island, have been engaged for
six months and that the formal an
nouncement is not expected until next
year.
The pair quarreled last Spring when
Miss Franck insisted on visiting Paris
against the wishes of her fiance, the
News says, but patched up their differ
ences when the young jazz musician
followed the girl to Paris.
Kahn met Miss Franck three years
Ago at a New York theater, the news
paper says, and is now continuing his
courtship via the air. Kahn recently
finished an aviator's training course.
Only the other afternoon" Miss
Franck is quoted by the News,
Roger scared and dipped over my
home in his airplane. He is not an
accomplished flyer as yet, but he can
pilot a plane alone"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
CAR BELIEVED IDENTIFIED.
Belleville. ILL.,. Police Asked to Watch
for Suspected Party.

BELLEVILLE. ILL.,. September 8
CP.-Niagara Falls, Ontario, police, in
q telegram to local police, said they
believed the automobile that struck
that of Prof. Roy Huxley, killing him
and his wife and their daughter, was
driven by people from Belleville.
The message said it was reported
by witnesses that the automobile bore
an Illinois license and was from Belle
vile. The police here were asked to
be on the lookout for the automobile,
which was said to have a damaged
right fender.
It was said to have been occupied
by two women and two men, and the
driver was described as stocky and
ford.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
GERMAN ARTISTS
NOW MODERN|STS
italians Show Least Ad-
vance, Saint Gaudens Says
After Tour of Europe.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 3.-Homer
Saint Gaudens, director of fine arts at
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. re-
turned from Europe on the Maure-
tania yesterday after a flo month
search for paintings to be exhibited at
the twenty sixth Carnegie Institute in
ternational exhibition of paintings,
which opens in Pittsburgh October 10.
Germany, he said. presents the most
interesting development that has
taken place in the art world of any
country recently.
'In Germany art has become COM
pletely modernist," Mr. Saint Gaudens
said. LAS a matter of fact, advanced
art is the only art that the German
government and leaders in German
art circles acknowledged. They have
made it quite clear that If they are
not represented by the pictures which
they gave us for the internationa
they would prefer not to be repre-
scented at ALL"
Many Youthful Exhibitors.
On the other hand, he added Italy's
artists are not achieving very great
success in the modernist manner, with
the exception of a few young men.
Both countries showed considerable
official interest in the forthcoming ex-
hibition.
Youth will be recognized in this
years exhibition as never before, Mr..
Saint Gaudens asserted, for nearly
half of the exhibitors have not yet
turned 40.
There are about IA countries repre-
sented," he said. "On the assump-
ton that each land splits itself into
five cliques, there are probably about
20 aspects of art shown by about 800
paintings, or four or five paintings
to an aspect"
Will Be Shown on Coast.
Instead of exhibiting one example
of each painters work, as in former
exhibitions. three to five examples
will be shown this year. This plan
allows only about one-third of the lead
ing men of the various countries TO
be represented, but those not included
this year will have their turn at fu.
ture shows.
After the close of the show in Pitts.
burgh it will be brought to the Brook
lyn Museum and then sent to San
Francisco, the first showing of the
yearly exhibition west of the Rocky
Mountains.
Those selected to compose the jury
of award are Karl Hofer, Germany;
Felice Caborati. Italy; Maurice Grief.
fenhagen, England: Maurice Denis,
France. and Eugene Speicher, Eugene
Savage, Horatio Walker and Abram
Poole, United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
1900 UNDESIRABLES
EXPELLED BY FRANCE
$50 Alien Communists Included in
Number Deported Dur
ing August.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
PARIS, September s. Eighteen
hundred undesirables were expelled
from France during August, Minister
OF the Interior Sarraut announced yes
terday. OF those expelled $50 were
Observation-Disclosures, Russians, Poles
Germans, Spaniards and Hungarians-
charged with having engaged in dis.
seminating Communist propaganda in
France.
Fourteen Communist leaders, in.
Guiding. three members of the French
Parliament - Angel Cachin, Jacques
Doriot and Andre Marty-were lodged
in La Sante Prison under sentences
OF from six to eight months imprison
ment. Nineteen Communist publica
tons have been suppressed since Jan
uary /.
These figures are given by the min
fstry Of the interior as empha sizins
the French effort to combat Commu
mist propaganda.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
THEATER MUSICIANS
AVERT STRIKE MOVE
Amicable Settlement Reached on
Salary Question, but Details
Are Withheld.

An amicable settlement, details of
which are not yet ready to be made
public, was reached yesterday between
local theater musicians and managers
and owners and a memorandum agreed
upon for a three.year contract, which
will avert the possibility of any the.
atrical musicians strike here during
that period.
A. c. Hayden, president Of the Must.
clans Protective Union, characterized
the new arrangement as highly salts.
factory" and stated that it would prove
to be mutually advantageous. The
agreement was reached at a meeting
of the joint wage scale committee at
the Earle Building.
The musicians asked originally for
an increase in the maximum wage
scale from $3.50 to $85 a week, with
proportionate increases in the smaller
theaters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
Plane Afre, Mexican Flies Into Cloud
And Saves Self: Drinks Toast With Water.

indicating a rainstorm short distance
off his course. He headed for the
cloud and the rain extinguished the
fire.
Honored at banquet in Juarez last
night with the creation of a new drink
named after Col. Charles A. Lndbergh
and himself, Carranza called for ice
water to drink toast to the American
flyer.
"Lindbergh is not only America
hero. but mine Also" said the Mexican
aviator as he drank the ice water.
He then tested the new drink, sc
prepared as to retain the colors of the
Mexican fiag-red, white and green.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
DOG RACING FAD HOLDS
BRITISH SPORT LOVERS
Large Audiences Attend Track
Meets-Social Habits Changed
by New Diversion.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 3.-Greyhound
racing. all the go in London just now,
has completely altered the night life
of the city. Since the sport became
so popular at the White City, where
an evenings contest is often wit.
messed by $4,000 or 100000, London
may be said to dine four times at
night.
First. there are the theatergoers
who take their meals at $50 or there.
abouts SO as to have time before going
to the play. Immediately afterward
appear the leisurely dancers, who dine
from $3.50 on. After the dancers come
the dog dinners" as they are called,
these coming after the evening races
are over and just before the after.
theater crowds begin to arrive for
supper.
Cafe managers say there has not
been such definitely new meal time
since theater suppers were introduced
in London years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
RICE GRASS AIDS COAST.
Sea Walls Of England Being Pro
tected by Plants.

LONDON, September Sea- walls
of England are being protected and
acres of land reclaimed from the sea
through the planting of rice grass.
Rice grass was discovered at South
ampton in 1870. 1t is not only of
high value for pasturage, but it col
lects the mud, and thus raises the
foreshore inch by inch. 1t spreads
rapidly both by seeding and by growth
of roots.
Plants are being exported to all
parts of the world. A recent con-
signment was sent to Tasmania. The
Dutch are using the grass on the coast
of Holland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, September 1.-Two
uses for water-unusual under the cir
cumstances--have been demonstrated
by Lieut.. Emilio Carranza, nephew of
the late Venustiano Carranza. former
President of Mexico, who yesterday
made the first nonstop fight from
Mexico City to Juarez.
While flying over an isolated section
after he had covered about half of the
1900 miles from Mexico City, wing
of his plane in which 400 liters of
gasoline was stored, caught fire. AS
Lieut.. Carranza prepared to use his
parachute, he noticed a black cloud
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
BOrah Secures
Virginia Horse
AS New Mount

known figure on the National Cap
ital's bride paths, will ride a new
horse during his daily outings
next Fall and Winter in Rock
Creek Park, his favorite riding
route. He has purchased a 3-year-
old thoroughbred from a Virginia
horseman and will pension his old
mount Jester. which he has ridden
for the last seven years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
CITY Officials Reelected.
c;aI Disnatch IN THE Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG Va, Septem
Der 3.-At the annual meeting of the
city council Thursday night A. G.
Billingsley was reelected collector and
clerk of council, DIR. j. N. Barney.
city health officer: r. E. Beckham.
sanitary officer and sealer of weights
and measures; S. B. Perry. chief of
police, and J. P. Smith, E. C. Mussel.
man, John Kennedy, ]. A. Stone,
Catlett Jenkins, policemen. The city
health board was continued with the
same members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
RADIO FRENCH LESSONS.
Miss Waller, Director Of Station
WMAG, Announces Program.

CHICAGO. September @.-
French lessons by radio. authorized
and approved by the French govern
ment. were announced today by Miss
Judith C. Waller, director of station
WMAQ.
Louis Marchand, professor at the
Sorbonne in Paris, will conduct the
course from Chicago for three months,
beginning September 49,. 1t will be
continued by Prof. Leon Barreau of
Tours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03
Epworth Institute Adiourns.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Nd. September 81
Washington District Epworth League
Institute closed a meeting at Trinity
NJ. E. Church South yesterday. Lacy
NJ. Smith, Bethesda, district secretary,
arranged the program and about 100
delegates attended.