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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-14

Although Japan has been endeavor-
ing to induce bathers to wear japanese
bathing caps. those made in America
are increasing in popularity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-14
Woman Sues on Contract.

rapnah Kushin, 43l9 Fifteenth
street. has flied suit to recover $4,000
damages from John Sheahin, 1903 Fl
street, for alleged breach OF contract.
She tells the court that she entered
into an agreement with Sheahin July
IL to purchase the delicatessen bust
ness Of the defendant The defendant
has failed and refused to go through
with the deal, it is stated Attorney
Joseph Stein represents the plaintiff.
.
Police of Dundee. Scotland. arc in
vestigating the finding by two boys of
an l8-pounder live shell on beach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-14
OUTGOING STEAMERS.

TroQuoiS Jack SonTille.
Cabo Torres Lisbon
CITY 81 East Bourne Port Said.
Kentuckian Pacific Coast.
West EIdara Rotterdam.
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TOImaniZed Collars
Wilt Slowly

THE TOLMAN LAUNDRY. Franklin :
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 R-TO
test the strength of airplanes un-
der severe strain, Lieut.. A. ]. Will
liamS, champion speed fIier of the
navy, has successfully completed
three outside loops at the Ana
costa naval air station here. One
CT the feats is believed never to
have been accomplished before.
Under orders to determine the
resistance of the machine. for
guidance in designing fighting
craft, Williams experimental Sec
reilly Saturday and successfully
turned single upward outside
loop. AS he sped along upright he
gradually went into half roll and
then turned the machine ON its
back before he entered thc upward
loop. This kept the flier on the
outside until the circle was COM
pleted. He then made another
half roll and landed.
Yesterday. Williams duplicated
the feat of Lieut.. James DG0littlc
cs the army. when he negotiated
downward outside loop. This is
accomplished by diving OSe-firSt
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
NAVY AVIATOR PERFORMS NEW
STUNTS IN TESTING AIRPLANE.

into the loop. Not satisfied with
this, the daring pilot made half
roll when this loop was completed
and, upside down, continued into
another upward outside loop to
complete a figure eight.
A CurtiSS biplane of the fighter
type with a. Pratt and Whitney
400 horsepower air-cOOIed engine
was used in the tests. They were
made within 1000 feet, the plane
being kept below 5000 and above
1000 feet. An inspection Of the
ship following the feats failed to
show any undue strain.
An accelerOmeter Is to be placed
on the airpIane for further tests to
obtain more design data for fight
ing planes, it was said today at the
bureau of aerOnautics.
Lieutenant Williams said he had
proved his contention that it was
unnecessary to knock plane
around in the air to accomplish
feats. lie added that he was not
attempting stunt flying and that
he had tried to keep the perform
ance secret.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
4 DEFENDANTS
IN CONTEMPT
cASEPUMSHED
Oil Millionaire Given Six
Months, Associate, Day,
Four Months
COURT Is STERN
Judge Lays Down Principle
That Jury ShadOwing Is
Unlawful
is STERN

WASHINGTON Feb. 81 0R-Jail
sentences were meted out today to
Harry F. Sinclair, wealthy OIL operator
and sportsman; w. j. burns, widely
known detective, and Henry Mason
Day, Of New York, for their part
in the shadowing last fall Of the
Fall Sinclair oil trial jury. W. Sher-
man Burns, the other defendant, was
Let off with fine.
After a criminal contempt hearing
that continued for weeks, Justice
Siddons sentenced Sinclair to serve
six months in the District of Col
umbia jail. He already was under
sentence to spend three months there
because OF his refusal to testify in
the senate Teapot Dome inquiry
Justice Siddons levied four month
jail sentence on Day, who 10 a con-
clair. AS such he hired Burns de-
tectiveS to shadow the jury which
was to determine the fate of Sin
clair and Albert B. FAN on charges
of defrEuding the government in
connection with the leasing of the
Teapot Dome naval oil reserve.
w. j. Burns, who steadtastly con-
tended that he had no direct con-
nection with the jury surveillance.
was given a Is day jail sentence.
His son, who is active head Of the
Burns detective agency, was fined
$1,000.
Previously Justice Siddons, $50,
during the hearing in the District
of Columbia supreme court, had dis
missed the criminal contempt charges
pending against Sheldon Clark. vice
president of the Sinclair Refining
company, and G. L. Veitsch, head OF
the Burns agency'S Baltimore office.
After the declaration of a Inistrial,
in the Fan-Sinclair criminal con-
spiracy case both were among those
cited Tor contempt in connection with
the jury shadowing.
Justice Siddons, who declared the
mistrial and presided at the con-
tempt hearing, terminated to-day, laid
down for the first time the broad
principle that shadowing an "unsus-
pected jury was unlawful, that it
tended to obStruct justice and there
fore was contempt of court.
"a disastrous thing happened here,
he said, "a breakdown in a criminal
trial, a breakdown thai was clearly
due to the action of the respondents.
1t broke down because there was
surveillance of the jury"
AS each of the four men found
guilty by the court was called up
for sentence lie was asked by the
justice whether he had anything to
say for himself. w. Sherman Burns,
the first to be sentenced, refused
to ask mercy for himself, but told
the court that if there was any
mercy to be meted out ne hoped
the court would give 1t to his father,
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
FATHER Of HIS
COUNTRY To Be
SOLE BUSINESS
First Presidents Farewell
Address Will Be Read
In Both Houses
HOLIDAY TODAY
COngre ssional Decks All
Cleared Out of Respect
To Washington
HOLIDAY TODAY

WASHINGTON Feb. 81 tP)-Decks
cleared, congress was ready tonight for
the traditional tribute to the father of
his country which will be the only
business before either house tomorrow.
Again Washington'S farewell address
will be read, just to make sure, pre-
sumably, that no new member goes
unadyised as to what the first presl-
dent had to say.
BY way of preparation the house
numbered along today with general
debate on the District OF Columbia ap-
preparation bin while the senate struck
q tWo-hour snag on agreeing to the
conference report of the $272, ,000, 900
interior department supply bill. Once
this was out of the way, it went into
the long deferred Muscle Shoals de-
bate, revolving today around the Nor
lis resolution for government opera
ton.
On the house side, the naval COM
mittee tackled for the first time the
task Of trying to agree on building
program after weeks of open hearings
while administration wheel horses be-
gan mobilizing support for the engi-
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by President Coolidge A counter mo-
bilization by Mississippi water head
representatives, including republicans
and democrats, to oppose the admin
iStration scheme also got going. The
day was enlivened by seemingly we'll
founded reports that a new admins
tration proposal was in the making.
The senate committee weighing the
e-appointment Of John j. Esch TO
the interstate commerce commission,
finally wound up its three-day quiz Of
his connection with the lake cargo coal
cases but took no action. The patents
committee heard more about radio
patents and charges of monopoly but
deferred further action to March z 20
await opponents of the Dill cancella-
ton bill. The judiciary committee
heard more opposition to the Ship
stead injunction bill with still
more to come.
AS relief from all these crowding
cares, however, the senate entertained
informally very distinguished guest
in the person of General Pershing, who
spent an hour on the floor, shaking
hands all round. He sat for time
beside his father -in-law, veteran of the
senate and of the army, Warren, i
Wyoming.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
Responsibility For
Sinking ofSub ST.
Determined by Navy

WASHINGTON, Feb. 81 R-Re-
sponsibility for the collision Of the
submarine S-4 and the coast guard
destroyer Paulding was placed jointly
on the commanders of the two YES
sells by the navy court of inquiry.
In its finding, the court recon-
mended the detachment Of Rear Adj
miral Frank H. Brumby, who was in
charge of the salvage operations over
the sunken submarine, from the COM
mand of the control force, which in
cluded submarines in the Atlantic
fleet. Brumby failed, the court held,
to contribute that superior and in
telligent guidance, force and sound
judgment expected from an officer
Of his length of service, experience
and position" in the rescue work,
Devoting much of its report to a
review of the efforts to rescue the
crew of the S4 and to raise the
submersible, which have been the sub
ject of criticism from some quarters,
the court declared that mo known
devices or equipment not employed in
the rescue operations, either in the
navy or owned by commercial organi-
cations, could have saved the lives
of those on board the S4."
'The navy department assembled at
Provincetown in the shortest time
possi0lt all officers and men in the
navy best qualified in deep sea rescue
and salvage operations" the court
reported, adding that the operations
to rescue the S-4's crew were ''logi-
cal, sound and the most promising
of early success"
Everything was, done to save the
lives of those on board the S-4 that
could have been done under the
weather conditions that existed" it
was added, "but rescue under those
conditions was beyond human power
The collision. which resulted i'll the
death of 40 officers and men aboard
the Sd in the courts opinion, was
caused by the submarines failure
to take proper action to clear Jne
Paulding and the coast guard vessels
failure to sight and recognize the
submersible and clear her.
The late Lieut. Commander r. K.
Jones commanded the submarine when
she cut across the bow of the Pauld-
ing off Provincetown, Mass, Dec. IL,
as she was emerging from a standard
ization trial. Lieut.. Commander John
II. Baylis was in command of the
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
HOOVER
IN NEW YORK.
AS ENGINEER
Candidate For Presidency
Announces Visit Has No
Political Angle
WARY.
Secretary OF Commerce Tells
Institute Engineers of
Fiction Dubious
WARY

NEW YORK, Feb. 81 R)-The
romance and adventure OF engineering
exist chiefly in the imaginations Of
laymen, Secretary cf Commerce Her.
bert Hoover said tonight at the an
nual OF the American Institute OF
Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
Mr.. Hoover was presented with the
Saunders gold medal Tor his acccSlp-
liShmentS as a mining engineer.
Earlier he inaugurated a nationwide
inquiry into industrial employment
conditions at the first meeting OF
the new economic survey, and at
tended the quarterly meeting of the
American Child Health association OF
which he is president.
On arriving in New York, Mr..
Hoover announced that. his visit had
nothing to do with politics.
Living on the edges OF civilization, y
he said to the engineers, sis q much
mere drab affair than the current
novels on frontier life would lead
one to surllise. Yet there endures
to the layman something or romance
ard adventure in the engineering
profession. Kipling, Richard Harding
Davis and others have given high
color to the romance of our profess
Sion
my own experience OF the romance
of it has made me wary at times
of the romance parts. When hear
Of it [ have a desire also to know
how long ago it took place. have
learned that the romance factor In
creaseS with time.
MY experience with the adventure
parts Of the engineering profession
is even more dubious anything OF
this sort from bad men to armies,
wars, shipwrecks or floods which conle
across the engineers orbit, are dis
turbers Of progress. They interrupt
the job, they all require repairs
afterwards and no engineer gets
satisfaction from repair jobs"
Mr.. Hoover made it plain, however,
that he thought no less of the pro-
fessicn Just because it didn't seem
to be painted in as bright colorS
when viewed from the inside as it did
from without
"After all its is an occupation of
enormous diversity of interest" he
said, "of change OF scene, OF vivid
and human relations. There is but
little of repetition. 1t is constant
call for all that lies in man"
The committee called to order by
Secretary Hoover today prior to the
engineers meeting to begin the unem-
ployment survey is an outgrowth OF
the standing committee OF the preSi-
dents conference on unemployment
The survey will take almost year
and will cover the period from 1928
to the present time.
A previous survey dealt With the
years OF 1921 to 1928 and from this
Mr.. Hoover said, came a greatly inn
proved understanding CT the major
business currents.
In the present survey facts will bc
determined with regard to such ques-
tions as the shifts in employment
changes in methods OF production il
industry and agriculture, and in dis
tribution, shifts in the standard CT
living, relative price levels and profits
and other allied subjects.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
SUPREME COURT WILL PASS UPON
LISTENING IN LIQUOR EVIDENCE

to share with the government the
view that the evidence Obtained
by tapping the wires wcuId be
admissible.
Chief Justice Taft seemed to
be impressed with the fact that
the conversations heard by gov
ernment agents when listening
related TO the commission of
crime.
The convicted men were rep
resented by John F. DOre and
Frank r.. Jeffry, who insisted that
obtaining evidence by the methods
complained of was as objection
able as by opening ones mail,
the courts consistently holding
that evidence SO obtained could
not be used.
The court permitted companies
representing substantially all of
the telephone interests of the
country to file a brief insisting
upon the privacy of the telephone.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
ADMINISTRATIONS
FOR FLOOD
RELIEF REVIVED
Engineers Say Bill Now Be-
fore House Is Not Feas-
ible Solution

WASHINGTON Feb 81 tR-A per-
ceptible move was afoot in the house
today in support of the administra-
tion's plan to have local communities
supplement federal contributions for
Mississippi river Hood control
The house flood control committee
in recently drafting its bill for the
curbing Of the Mississippi inundations
sidetracked this policy in proposing a
$473, 100000 flood control program for
the lower valley.
Meanwhile, it developed that Presi-
dent Coolidge had been informed by
the army engineers that the committee
bill was not a feasible solution of the
problem. The administration was uli-
derstcod 20 be framing a new plan re-
vising its original program which was
sent to congress early in the session
by the president
Two representatives, Chairman Mad
den of the appropriations committee,
and Strong, a Kansas republican, an
nounced that the new plan would be
submitted within few days and prob
ably be introduced as bill in the
house.
group of house leaders including
Speaker Longworth, Representative
Tilson. the republican leader, Chair
man Smell of the rules committee, and
Madden, conferred with the president
on the flood problem earlier in the day
but none would reveal the details Of
the discussion.
While these leaders were securing
the administration viewpoint, 2 group
of about 60 republican and democratic
representatives from states in which
there are Mississippi river tributaries,
held conference<on flood legislation.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
HICKMAN SMILES
AS WIDOW TELLS.
OF TOMS MURDER
Story of Staying of Drug
gist Related on Witness
Stand in Trial

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Feb. 20 tPl--
The close relative of a killers victim
today. for the second time in two
weeks pointed an accusing finger at
William E. Hickman in a murder
trial court room here.
Hickman appeared not in the least
perturbed as the widow, her eyes
filled with tears and her voice
shaking with emotion, testified in
low tones. Only week before last.
the youth had faced Perry M Parker,
father of the slain school girl Marian,
in the same courtroom and heard
himself branded as the killer. He
has been sentenced to die on the
galloWs next April 81 for that killing.
Today Hickman, almost Indifferent
ly. glanced about and smiled occa-
sionally as Mrs Toms testified. With
Hunt, however, it was different. The
boy, just past II, was undergoing
his first ordeal OF the kind and he
kept mis- head bowed. His eyes ap-
parently were riveted on the floor.
Not for a moment did he lift them
to meet the gaze Of The witness.
Mrs. Toms, almost in distress at
several points, told how the two
youths, their faces covered with Santa
Claus masks, entered the little drug
store in the northeast suburb on
Christmas eve. They had come to
the store earlier the same day and
inquired where they could rent a
room.
Continued on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22

WASHINGTON, Feb. FL R1--
Members of the supreme court
showed keen interest today in oral
arguments on three appeals from
Seattle, Wash. challenging the
validity of evidence in prohibition
cases obtained by tapping telc-
phone lines and listening to con-
VerSations.
Counsel on both sides of the
controversy were closely question
ed by members of the court,
Justice Brandeis and Stone indi-
eating by their questions that
they took the view that evidence
SO obtained was as objectionable
and invalid as evidence obtained
by government agents in visiting
the rooms of the defendants and
making photographs of papers or
of committing to memory dOcu-
ments exposed to their view.
Justice McReynOIds and Sutli-
erIand, on the other hand, seemed
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
! MINERS UNACCOUNTED

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 81 CP-Rescue
squads were tonight hacking and cut
ting at a barrier of debris in the dark
ened passages of the main workings
of the Valley Camp Coal company
Kinlock mine at Parnassus, near here,
in an effort to ascertain the fate of
seven miners unaccounted for follow
ing an explosion which took known
1o'I of six. Rescue crew leaders
had lost practically all hope of find
ing the men alive but the effort put
forth under ground was not dimin-
ished because of this belief.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
TUCSON TEACHER MEETS
DEATH In PLANE CRASH

TUCSON, Feb 81 CE)-Miss Mabel
Angle, Tucson school teacher was kill
ed and Ed GrisWold, native of Wash
ington and a student pilot was seri-
ously injured when the airplane in
which they were riding crashed to the
ground at o'clock tonight
Miss Angle died in local hospital
shortly after the accident which oc-
Cured south of the city limits when
the plane went into spin at an altl-
tude of 700 feet from which the pilot
was unable to straighten it.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
HOUSE COMITTEE
IS CONSIDERING
NAVAL PROGRAM
Chairman Indicates Com
mitteemen Have Widely
Divergent Views

WASHINGTON, Feb. 81 R-Clos-
ing it's doors to the public, the house
naval committee sat Ior1 three hours
today discussing what should be done
with President Coolidge's proposal to
construct II new warships at a cost
of approximately $74O,000,000.
When the meeting adjourned, Chair
man Butler described what took place
by saying that there are 81 mem
bers and we had 20 suggestions; one
member was absent The commit
tee will sit again Thursday but But
Ter does not expect decision before
the latter part of next week.
(Contlnued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22

Copper easy; electrolytic,
spot and futures l4@ 1sc;
lead easy; spot, 6.25c.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
Congress to Pay Tribute to Washington Today
. 4 X y x X y x X y y X y X )
Marine Corps Aviator
And Passenger Killed
In Haiti Plane Crash

X PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Feb.
y 81 QP-Second Lieutenant John
y T. Harris, U. S. M. c., and Homer
y Howell, representatives of the
X United Fruit company. were kill
y ed this afternoon in a plane
y crash at Port-De-P Paix. The cause
y of the crash was undetermined
Y Lieutenant Harris was in charge
y of the hangar assigned Colonel
y Lindbergh during his visit here
X and was the first to greet that
+ flier upon his arrival. His home
y was said t~6Se at Greenfield, Mo.
X
Y y * y * y * * * y * y y *
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-22
UNIDENTIFIED MAN KILLED

NOGALES, Feb. q t#9-Considerabie
interest was aroused in this city con-
cerning identity of an unknown man
killed Sunday afternoon in an auto
mobile accident whe ma car overtur-
ed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-08-21
Coming Home

Mrs. William Fitch Kelley and
her SON, Mcclure Kelley, who have
been guests of Mrs. Henry r.
Dinlock, at her summer home in
Bar Hsrbor, Me-, are en- route to
washington by motor. They will
make several visits along the
Maine and Massachusetts, coast
before returning to Knole, the
place they recently purchased on
the Rockville Pike.
Mr.. Kelley's engagement to Miss
Dora CatalanI, protege Of Mrs.
Dimock, was recently announced
at q dinner given by the latter at
Bar Harbor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-08-21
COURT ORDERS
KNOX TAKEN

Judge John p. Mcmahon today
.'efused to permit Philander =.
Knox, jr.. son OF the former Sec.
rotary OF state, to escape trial in,
Traffic Court on e1arga of }reCa-
less driving.
Knox was arrested yesterday IN
the 44O0 block OF Bowen Rd. s. E..
charged with striking the automo.
bile OF William +. Patterson, =
chief quartermaster in the Navy
living on Bowen Road.
When the ease WAS called for
trial today Knox failed to answer
his name. A friend informed the
court that Knox was mot feeling
well Judge Mcmahon asked Tor
physic.an's certificate and when
this conld not be produced for
feited the collateral of $40 posted
in the Eleventh precinct after Knox
was arrested. and ISSUED an at.
tachment to bring the defendant
into court.
Policeman A. J. Gibbons, Of the
eleventh precinct, told the court
that Knox's car struck the rear OF
the Patterson automohi cfsnsss
the sidewalk and stopped IN .
ditch.
When arrested Knox gave his
age ss 81 and his ADDRESS as tbs
2700 block Of Thirty-fourth ST.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-08-21
Pen Leaguers Plan

The District branch OF the
League of American Pen Women
will entertain at a subscription ball
on December Is at the Willard
Hotel for the benefit of the Me.
mortal Clubhouse which is to he
built by the National League of
American Pen Women on the pic
turesque Georgetown site 1t has
purchased, on which now stands
the former home of the once pop
ular novelist, Mrs. e. d. f.
Southworth.
Mrs. Eli A. HelmIck. former
first vice president of the District
branch. will he chairman OF the
ball. Honorary chairmen will be
Mrs. Bonnie Busch, national pres
ident of the league, and Mrs.
Aaron d. Newman, president ot
the u. G.. branch. Mrs. e. Rich
ard Gasch, first vice president of
the branch, has been named on
the ball committee, and Mrs.
Daniel e. Chace, national record
ing secretary of the National
Board. has been appointed chair
man of publicity for the ball.
Mrs. Helmick will shortly name
additional members of the ball
committee and will also appoint
number of subcommittee. Reser-
vations will be in the hands of
Mrs, Rose Gouverneur Hoes, who
Is a member Of the District branch
of the league.
The former Commissioner of the
District and Mrs. Cuno II. Ru-
doIph are at Galen Hall, in the
mountains of Pennsylvania, where
they have taken one of the hotel
cottages for the late summer sea
son.
The director If the mint. Rob-
ert J. Grant, has returned from a
trip to the West Coast.
Mrs. Grant and their son-in-la "
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
erick Durham, have returned from
Long Island.
Mr. and Mrs. Page Mex. Etchi.
son will leave tomorrow for a
motor trip through Pennsylvania
and New York.