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Evening star., 1927-05-21
RETURNED MISSIONARY
DIES IN STAUNT0N, VA.
Miss Irene P. Mann, 65, Reached
Home Two Weeks Ago After
80 Years in Japan.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON. Va, May 21.--Home
only a few months after spending 81
years in the Episcopal mission fields
in Japan, Miss Irene p. Mann, %
years old, died here Thursday night
unexpectedly. The funeral will be
held from Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, which she represented in the
Far East this afternoon at 4;3C
o'clock. Burial will be here.
Miss Mann was a daughter of vii
liam A. and Margaret Porter Mann
deceased, and was born in Rockbridge
County. She taught school in Bath
County as a young woman ana pre-
pared for mission work, intending to
go into the foreign field under her
own church, the Southern Presby
terian. The opportunity did not pre-
sent itself, and she was sent out by
the Episcopal denomination, under
which she served for IL years IN
Aomori, Japan, and for is years IN
Nikko and Utsunomiya, spending han
of each week in each place, the two
cities being but 25 miles apart. Last
September Miss Mann resigned be
cause of throat trouble; came to Call
f0rnia, where she spent the Winter
and arrived in Staunton two weeks
ago.
She is survived by two brothers and
two sisters, Shelton =. Mann of Staun
ton, A. 6. Mann of Chicago, Mrs. j.
A. Dickinson of Clifton Forge and
Mrs. j. b. Griffith of Covington.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
WOMAN FIGHTS SUIT
TAKE Her CHILD
Appeal of Lieut.. Paul Warner to
Regain Daughter Awarded to
Wife Is Opposed.

Declaring that divorce court judges
are not inclined to deprive mothers of
the custody of minor children, unless
the unfitness of the mother is proven
by conclusive evidence. Mrs. Natalie
A. Warner yesterday filed in the Dis
trict Court of Appeals her brief in
opposition to the appeal of Lieut.. Paul
c.. Werner from a decree in Equity
Court which adjudicated the marital
rights of Lieut.. Warner and his wife
last July.
Lieut.. Warner was awarded a de-
cree of limited divorce by the District
Supreme Court on the ground of de-
sertion The custody of his 4-year-
old daughter was left with Mrs. War
ner and the naval officer was directed
to pay periodical sums for its main
tenance.
Defending the appeal, Mrs. Warner,
who is represented by Attorney Ray
mond Neudecker, AYERS that the dis
cretion of the trial judge who awarded
the child to her should not be dis
turbed on appeal except in case of
manifest abuse of such discretion. No
such situation is shown by the record,
it is claimed. and the decree award
ing her the child's custody should
stand. BY the terms of the order
Lieut.. Warner pays his wife SIS per
month as maintenance for the child.
The wife claims that section TAT of
the Revised Statutes of the District
empower the divorce courts to deter
mine, in any case of divorce. which
of the contending parties shall be
charged with the permanent custody
and control of children. 1t is the
contention of Lieut.. Warner that the
trial court, having denied a divorce
to the wife, has no jurisdiction TO
award custody of children to her and
require the husband to support them.
The case has been set for argument
at the Fall term.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
BELL To Be GIVEN
TRIBUTE TONIGHT
Commissioners viii Speak in
Honor of Colleague at
Central High.

Scores of members of organized
citizens associations, Federal and
District officials, as well as leaders
I'm civic affairs, are scheduled to at
tend tonight in the Central High
School auditorium the testimonial
meeting to Lieut.. Col. j. Franklin
Bell who will relinquish his position
as Engineer Commissioner of the
District of Columbia by virtue of the
expiration of his detail.
There will be a band concert be-
ginning at 7:45 o'clock and lasting
until S;15 by the United States Army
Band, under the direction of Capt
William J. Stannard. leader. At the
conclusion OF this James G. Yaden,
president of the Federation of Citi-
zens Association, viii call the meet
ing to order and introduce the pre-
siding officer for the evening, Charles
]. Stengle, who is general chairman
of the committee which has had
charge of the organization of the
meeting.
Then there will be Il minutes of
mass singing under the leadership Of
Percy S Foster, following which
there will be three addresses. in
which the speakers will pay tribute
to Col Bell and his work. They will
be delivered by Commissioner Proc
tor l.. Dougherty, Lieut.. Col. L. s.
Grant, Sd, director of the Office of
Public Buildings and Public Parks
of the National Capital, and Commits
sioner Sidney l.. Taliaferro.
Miss Mabel l.. LOTUS will sing a
solo, accompanied by Mrs. Briska
Jones, after which Miss Mabel Board
man will speak, to be followed by ad.
dresses by Jesse {. Suter former presi
dent Of the federation and chairman
of the committee on special guests
and Maj Gen. Charles j. Summeran
chief of staff.
There will he another vocal solo
by Ambrose Durltin, followed by a
trumpet solo by Thomas +. Darcy
second leader of the Army Band. Cot
Bell then will be introduced TO the
audience. and at the conclusion OF his
address there will he an informal re
ception. during which the band viii
give another concert.
The program will close by the sing
ing OF "Auld Lang Syne" and ''fhe
Star Spangled Banner" by the audi
ence, with music by the band.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
ACCIDENTS GAIN IN JAPAN.
Increased Auto Traffic Raises Toxic
Casualty List.

TOXIC, May 81 LP).-With the in
creasing number of automobiles in
japan. it is almost as unsafe to cross
a street in Toxic or any other large
city as it is in New York.
Half of the automobiles in Toxic
either killed or injured some one dur
ing the past year, according to police
statistics.
There are approximately $4,000 mo-
tor cars in the Japanese capital. Dur
ing 1926 there were 6,36S automobile
accidents reported in which some one
was killed or injured. There were
1922 traffic accidents in which 2S4
persons lost their lives and 9,7S1 were
hurt. OF the total number of acci-
dents, bicycles were responsible for
5,752, tram cars for ,445 and the in
nocent looking rickshaw for 105.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
California Law
Closes Road to
''Cin Marriages
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, May 21.-
The State OF California today closed
the road to elopers and others who
would marry in haste. Gov. Young
signed a bill recently passed by the
Legislature requiring couples to give
three-day notices of intention TO marry
before they can obtain licenses. The
bill was referred to in the Legislature
as having been designed to prevent
gin marriages"
The governor also added three years
to the time California parents may
supervise the conduct of their girls
by approving a measure. increasing the
age of majority from IS to 81.
The law, however, will not require
girls over IS to obtain the consent of
their parents before they can wed.
1t provides that those who marry be-
fore they are q may be considered
as adults and may enter agreements
and contracts.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
REV. S. JANNEY HUTTON
NAMED HEADMASTER
Native of Montgomery County to
Direct st. Paul's School for
Boys in Baltimore.
special Dispatch TO The s;ar.

Special Dispatch 20 The S;ar.
BALTIMORE, May 21.-Rev. S,
Janney Hutton, a native of Montgom-
cry County, Sid. has been appointed
headmaster Of st. Paurs School for
Boys, it was announced today by
Rev. DR.. Arthur Il. kinsolving, rector
of Old st. Pauls Church, with which
the school is affiliated. He will begin
his new duties in September.
Rev. Mr.. Hutton for the past two
years has been master at the Vir-
ginia Episcopal School. Prior to
that he served a two-year term as
chaplain and undermaster at the
Goldman Country School. He is Il
graduate of the General Theological
Seminary, n. Y, and took post
graduate course at Columbia Uni
versity.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
Pacific Northwest
VisiOned as Center
OF World Culture
By the Associated Press.

by Iib A=SpttdtGtt L tcSo'
NEW YORK, May 21.-World
prosperity and culture is destined
to center in the Pacific Northwest
within so years. according to sur
vey of the scientific probabilities"
made by DR.. j. Russell Smith, pro-
fessor of economic geography at
Columbia University.
DIR. Smith, who is called the
greatest international authority on
his subject. has presented his con-
clusions in the American Magazine,
published today.
He expects an area extending
400 miles along the coast of Oregon
and Washington to outstrip New
York.
Climate. water-power and agri-
cultural resources are three of the
factors which point scientifically,
he says, to the future ascendancy
of the Pacific Northwest.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
"RADIATOR INSPECTOR"
ROBS GIRL STUDENTS
Dornitory at Hood College Robbed
of 500 in Cash-Three
Schools Ransacked,
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md, May 21.-Offi-
cials of Hood College reported to
local police yesterday that a stranger
entered several rooms in the girls
dormitory and took about 500 in cash
and some valuables. The thief was
seen and was said to have told stu
dents that he was inspecting radiators.
Police are confident that the same
person is responsible for entering
three public schools this week.
Frederick High, Church street and
North Market street schools We're
ransacked at night. The Hood College
theft was staged in.dayliSht.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
DEPUTIES NEARLY CAUSE RIOT
SEEKING CFIICAGOAN AS ROBBER
Battle in Street Follows Efforts of Bloom
ington, ILL.,, SheriFs to Seize Jeweler
Indicted in Bank Hold-Up.

started their arrest. Blumenfield be
lieved that by getting inside the store
he would come under the protection
of his prospective habeas corpus writ.
Chief Hughes was unable to say
offhand concerning the superior merits
of a Capias to writ of habeas
corpus, so he ordered Blumentield held
overnight, pending hearing today.
Bumenfield was named as a par
ticipant in the ChenOa robbery by
William Evans, the escaped Missouri
lifer, who, in priests garb. attempted
to dynamite the old State Peniten'
tiary at Joliet to free a friend.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
MUSICIANS ATTACK
LAW ON COPYRIGHTS
Federation Meeting in Baltimore
Urges Congress to Relieve
Their Burden"
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, May 21.-Copyright
laws that permit publishers to demand
many payments for sheet music were
attacked in resolution passed at the
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Musicians here yesterday.
The resolution declares that the
Society Of Authors, Composers and
Publishers has steadily and consistent
ly increased its private taxation for
the use of music for each orchestra
and band, and that it is now being
'forcibly demonstrated that the tax
burden is being shifted in effect to
the musicians by controlling the mum
ber Of musicians employed, the
elimination of music entirely and in
other ways"
The resolution urges Congress to
change the copyright laws.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
Park Commission Elects.
al Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FROSTBURG. Md, May 21.--The
new park commission appointed by
Mayor Samuel II. Tiddy organized by
clecting the following officers Presi-
dent. Horace G.. Evans; secretary, Mrs.
John l.. Dunkle, and treasurer, Clin-
ton ID. Jeffries. &. Gale Townsend
and Otto Hohing are the other mem.
bers Of the board.
Evening star., 1927-05-21
VETERAN is BURIED.
James A. Nee, Jr., Served on lie
viathan During War.

CUMBERLAND. Md, May 2l,--The
body of James A. Nee. il. World War
veteran, who died at Mount Sinai
ness Of eight weeks. was brought TO
the home of his father, James A. Nee,
sr.. this city. and the funeral will he
held today from St, Mary's Catholic
Church.
Mr.. Nee was yooman in the
United States Navy and was on the
Ieviathan for several months. He
was a member of the Independent
Order of Foresters and the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen. ID. +.
Nee, Frederick Md. is his brother.
and Mrs. y. II. MetZgcr, Baltimore,
his sister. -
Evening star., 1927-05-21
COMMUNITY WORK
MA|NLEG|ON!S ISSUE
Savage Holds Posts Aim to
Further Home Service
< During Year.
Jy the Associated Press.

CHARLOTTE, y. G., May 21.--COm-
munity 'rvice is the major issue of
the American Legion curing the cur
rent year, Howard p. Savage, Indian
apolis. national commander of the
American Legion. said here yesterday
in an address delivered in connection
with the celebration of the 152d ami.
versary of the signing of the Neck
lenburg Declaration of independence.
lie spoke last night at a community
banquet which brought to a close the
celebration, which was featured by a
parade yesterday morning and sham
battle, with United States troops from
Fort Bragg and National Gtardsmen
from number of western North Car
olina cities participating.
Other speakers at the banquet were
Maj. Gen. Charles F. Summerall, Chief
of Staff of the United States Army;
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, high COM
missioner of base ball. and others
Judge Lands this afternoon attended
a South Atlantic Association base ball
game here.
Believes i'm Preparedness.
Reviewing the history of the Ameri-
can Legion, Comdr. Savage said that
the Legion believed in preparedness.
He said it believed that failure to pre-.
pare was "a breeder OF wars"
During it's nine years of existence.
he said, the Legion has been preparing
it-elf to do community 1rvice.
Many great writer's, many deep
students of American life have said
the Legion is great organization
without an ISSUE he said, "but COM
munity service gives this statement
the lie direct. 1t took the Legion a
long time to reach this goal, because
there were many things to be done be-
fore such program could be under.
taken. Visualize the result of 1O.25s
posts doing some worthwhile thing
for their particular communities dur,
ing 1927
Community EndeavOrs.
"In the year to come Fairgrounds
will keep children off the dangerous
streets, libraries will offer opportunity
TO hard-pressed workers in small com
munities, educational movements will
raise on the scale toward that goal of
an infinite God that none may know
but all wish for-the perfection of
man."
Commander Savage then reviewed
the accomplishments of the Legion.
saying that the Legion, with 100000
members at the end of the organiza
ton in the years of 1919 and 1920
had turned to getting employment for
veterans brought about by creation of
the Veterans Bureau, and added that
today the Legion is nearing the $50.
900 mark in membership.
Speaking Of preparedness, he said
that ito the extent that it's members
pray to God to spare the world an
other holacost like the one that tore
at our very existence for four years,
the Legion is a pueitist. but it is not
an extI eme pacifist, and it does not
advocate disarmament. It does not
shut its eyes to fact. and it does not
believe another war is not possible
Evening star., 1927-05-21
Force of Habit.

From the Boston Transcript.
A dentist says that he had an alb
sent minded motorist in his chair the
other day. will you lake gas?" he
asked.
yeah" replied the am patient.
land you'd better leok at the oil, too"
Evening star., 1927-05-21
BOY BROWNS IN RIVER.
1O-Year-Old Swimmer Dies in
Stream Near Home.

NORFOLK, Va. May 81 tR.--
Ernest Pierce. aged 10, son of Mr..
and Mrs. r.. S. Pierce of Hertford,
n. c., was drowned in Perkman's S
River. near his home. yesterday after
noon While in swimming with several
Compa Mons
Evening star., 1927-05-21
VOTE CONTEST DENIED.
Riverdale Council Holds Citizens
Re mt Ballot Was Legal.
pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RIVERDALE. Md, May 21.--The
town council at a special meeting
last night decided that the charges Of
Illegal voting brought by w. J.
Cooney and j. II. Harrington to in
validate the recent town election
were unfounded and voted 3 to =, to
drop the case.
1t had been charged that William
NJ. Smith had voted in both Riverdale
and Mount Rainier on the same day
The council found that Smith had a
legal right TO east his ballot in River
dale
Evening star., 1927-05-21
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May 21.--Three deputy
sheriffs from Bloomington, H., armed
with shiny pistols and capias for the
arrest of David Blumenfield, came to
Chicago last night and almost caused
a riot in the white light district on
the North Side.
Several hundred persons who
swarmed about Blumeniield's jeWelry
store, just off gay Wilson avenue,
thought a hold-up was in progress
when they saw Blumentield facing the
supposed gunner, and they were pre-
pairing to charge the shop when a riot
call was turned in and Chicago police
came galloping to the scene. To add
to the excitement. Mrs. Blumentield
and another woman had singled out
one of the deputies and were keeping
him busy defending himself from fly
ing fingers.
Police Seize BattIers.
The mob about the store finally was
dispersed, and all of the battlers were
taken to headquarters, where Chief
of Police Hughes untangled the story.
Blumenfield. it was recalled, had
been arrested a week ago in connec-
ton with a $1S4,000 bank robbery at
Chenoa, Ill. He was free under bond
pending hearing on a habeas corpus
writ.
In the meantime, however. Blumen-
field had been indicted at Blooming
ton for the Chenoa robbery. The Chi
cago delay had irked the law enforce
ment unit of the downstate city, so
the three deputies were given a
capias and sent here.
Fight Over Serving Capias.
The deputies explained that they
understood the capjas was to he
served on the public highway, SO it
was in front Of the store that they
Evening star., 1927-05-21

The dodo, a strange looking pigeon
on the Island off Mauritius, became
extinct in the seventeenth, century,
Evening star., 1927-05-21

Idle curiosity keeps lot of pe"'''@-
busy,
Evening star., 1927-05-21
Fight Over Serving Capias.

The deputies explained that they
the capias was to he
served on the public highway, so it
was in front Of the store that they
New Britain herald., 1927-11-18

lights to see what life is like as the wife of a millionaire. That was Mae Daw, who eloped with Graveract Young kauf- man, son of Louis c. Kaufman, presi- dent of New York bank.
 Papa kaufman's attitude toward the affair was not at all what one would suppose. Asked what he thought of his sons marriage with Miss Daw, Banker Kaufman is reported to have replied "Why, we are very pleased about the event. We knew all along that our boy was going to marry a FoIlies girl"
 Then there's Peggy Hopkins Joyce, whose marriage to no less than five men all of them said to be wealthy-has earned her the title of "daan of million aire-marrying Follies girls"
 Peggy, having divorced this quintet of spouSes, is pointed out as living proof that such romances can come to no good end. Her initial adventure in mat rimony came quite some years ago when she, then Margaret Upton and the daughter of Virginia barber, ran away from Chevy Chase School to marry Everett Archer, the Denver millionaire. The match didn't take" and Peggy was soon a free agent again.
 In Washington she made the acquaint- ance of Shebpme Hopkins, Jr., the son of socially prominent lawyer whose
New Britain herald., 1927-11-18
alre sutton

if isolated ranch house, set down in the silent Montana prairies. With every intention, of course, of living happily ever after.
 Back on Broadway, and in a thousand other places where gentle readers "saw by the papers, where a "Folles Girl Becomes Bride of Railroad Builders Son. tongues wagged with predictions that boded ill for any "happy ever after" plans the Hills may be harboring.
 Look at what happened to Jessie Reed,' they gloomed. Everybody thought she was the luckiest girl on Broadway when she married young Dan Caswell, young and handsome and worth millions. And all of his male friends enyied him for winning the highest paid chorus girl in the world and one of the most dazzling beauties that ever trippcd the Follies boards"
New Britain herald., 1927-11-18


 "1 thought l would take her home to my mother and we would settle down, and I'd become the proper young hus- band and go to work, even though didn't need to. But after the first day, l wondered if my Jessie would be will ing to keep house--or regular hours. And after the first week l wondered if Tor she-would keep our heads or anything much longer.
 "ln two months squandered a quar- ter of a million dollars on her and her Folies girl friends Regularly all the company gathered in our rooms, after the show. l quickly became, so to speak, the bartender husband. l mixed the drinks for the crowd, while other men surrounded my wife, paying court to her. If 1 objected, she told me 1 must have known she had friends before l married her. Then she ask me what
New Britain herald., 1927-11-18

wealth was said to run into seven fig ures. For two years she was Mrs. Hop- kins, and then came divorce. Next, in order, came Philbrick Hopkins, J. Stan- ley Joyce and Count Costa Morner de Moreland Swedish nobleman who made toothpaste for Americans in Chicago.
 Her welded life to J. Stanley Joyce, millionaire lumberman, ended in a Chi cago divorce court with much lurid publicity that seemed not to phase the Follies star. In June, 1924, she became Countess Nolner, but only for little while. Another divorce.
 Talented and pretty Allyn King was, not so very long ago, refreshing the tired business man by her work on the Follies stage. but today she is reported very i'll in a sanatorium. Some of her friends maintain that she is sick because of her attempt to take off what she considered excess poundage for a Follies girl, but others believe she is suffering from broken heart. For she was sup posed to be much in love with swain worth million and the wedding day was all set when something happened that sent all her hopes focketing Even when there is no trip to the altar, there seems to be tragic joker in these af- fairs between Follies favorites and moneved men.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-18

Daniel 0. Caswell, it will be remembered, married Jessie Reed just two days after he met her on a Pullman train on the road from New York to Boston. He's dead now, but be- fore he died he told a touching story of his unhappy romance that many have taken as eyi- dence that millionaires and Fol lies girls just cant make a go
New Britain herald., 1927-11-18

lN'~'>''N' ''i4'NNN'
 Mrs Hill No. 3, and not the least bit high-hat.. "Walter has a great big ranch here in Montana and that's where we intend to spend the first days of our honeymoon. After that we may go out to the Pacific coast for while and more than that l can't say. Mir. Hill is much interested in boodcd cattle, and I'm sure l shall enjoy helping him at his ranching. Just say that We are very happy"
 The thrice-wcdded son of rich Jim" Hill only smiled. Being moneyed man he has been much in the public prints. and wedding day interviews were no novelty to him. Besides, getting un- married and married in eight minutes probably seemed to him to be news enough for one man to make in a day.
 So tue Hills got into a luxurious auto mobile and Were off to a comfortable,