The Washington Post
September 12, 1928

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Weather—Partly eloudy today ; possibly local thundershowers this afternoon or tonight; tomorrow, showers; not much change in tem- perature. Temperature yesterday — Highest, 84; lowest, 61. Weather details on page 17. The only newspaper in Washington with the Associated Press news every morning in the year. Qe a NO. —— POST-SCRIPTS Ky ROTHWELL a TWO CENTS. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. GHA [a DUM UWNER OF RUM RING Uta TILLEAY os Philadelphia Stenographer Tricked Into Appearing as Violator. 19,081. COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. = DAY ON JOB FOR JOHN eases TWO | AHF AN i PONDENTER | INSENATE RAGE Douglas Buck, Du Pont Kin, Nominated by G. 0. P. in Delaware. +) —_— s BOTH CAR LINC NOW MUST JU ARE PETITION ae ee ee Utility Board Will Not Grant Raise to Only One of Systems. WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1 Death Leads Mackay To Forgive Daughter L9ZS. GEORGE BROWN Reaittnsen J “Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.” - Meet at Bier of Mother of Millionaire; Berlin Not Present. Are we to understand that Charlie Curtis claims he’s the big butter and egg man from the West? ~ > - 7 Special to The Washington Post. New York, Sept. 11.—Grief. and death have healed The kind of prohibition we have now, when the drys have their Eighteenth amendment and the wets have ‘their liquor, exactly suits Maine, which invented the system 50 years ago and desires no change. BOOTLEG CHANNELS Congressman Gibson seems to GOT 350 000 GALLONS against his daughter, Ellin, when she 7 chose wealthy Irving Berlin, once Izzie think that the Marines could make 2 Washington as pure as Philadelphia. ee —. we Shen wane mi the wounds that love and marriage caused in the of Clarence H. Mackay, Telegraph-Commercial proud heart) Postal | multi- the Cables VERMONT EXECUTIVE, WEEKS, NAMED AGAIN millionaire. W. R. E. HEADS AGREE TO JOIN IN INCREASE Mackay, who hardened his heart on Bowery, as her husband, relented today | Doran Denies That Federal) .: the bier of his own mother, Marie | Help Has Been Asked in Louise Hungerford Mackay Expose of Grafters. Heavy Democratic Vote Is Surprise of Primary Day in Colorado. Meet Capital Traction Plea at Hearing; Citizens Are to Take Part. The philanthropy of the Capital Traction Co. is exceeded only by the humility of the Railway & Electric Co It was a dramatic scene that marked kiss of for- beloved daughter boy from the king of Tin Pan Alley, | for her own, instead of one of her own social set Washington } 'Mackay’s bestowal of a giveness upon the Sr, ff BERLIN. the Jewish ELI who chose East Side. me mA ‘KAY * ACE Phidadelphia, Sept. 11 (A.P.).—Dis- trict Attorney Monaghan, who is con- ducting the grand jury investigation of bootlegging and shootings, Austere said today that a 23-year-old steno- | Mackay, grapher had been tricked into signing | papers which caused her name to ap- pear as the “owner” of a distillery The young woman, Miss Anna | Cooney, employed in a lawyer's office, was before the grand jury for an hour today and was also questioned We vaguely gather that when it comes to street car charity Mr. John H. Hanna is a firm believer in the community chest idea. > 7. o 7 Street car fares are going to be in- creased on the lines of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. as well as on) the Capital Traction Co., if| they are increased at all. in this Public in a Seattle, Wash., Sept. 11 (A.P.).—GovVe Roland H. Hartley was leading his two opponents for the Republican nomina- tion for governor when returns from 71 precincts out of 2,561 in the State primary election here today were com- piled. Hartley had 4,670 votes as against 3.964 for E. L. French and 831 for Claude Bannick. A. Scott Bullitt was leading Stephen J. Chadwick for the Democratic guber- natorial nomination. Bullitt had 929 and Chadwick 477 Judge Kenneth Mackintosh was lead- ing two Republican candidates for the nomination for United States senator with 7,031 votes when returns from 100 precincts were counted. Austin E. Grif- fiths was second, with 3,830 votes, while Miles C. Poindexter, ousted by Senator Dill six years third with 2,382 The count in 61 precincts gave Sen- now | ] when boarding house keeper and he was her 50-cent-a-day A pale ther she was a Nevada miners’ gangster those of and just beside cold. his returned the eyes dry, Initial steps) abroad, taken by the Utilities Commission yesterday after an for oppo- site sides in the car fare increase pub-| boarder diffident threshold of ornate from Mr. Babe Ruth comes down to the Bronx with a majority of landslide proportions. ~¢ » and direction were the stood mountain of flowers yo Sen | that flanked the casket of 85-year-old - Mrs Mackay, ossed Harbor double-barrelled | all-day HOOVER WILL GREET -GOOLIDGES AT TRAIN | crease ruling who had married his fa- , , prohibition agents. She N LSS I] f 0 0 this morning of intense interest to ; employed by the company a visiting New York clothing man, “I believe this girl innocent and that | a oe but it is understood he will not sub-} .... was ynwittingly used as a tool by| aa:..: 3 | scribe to the Congressional Library's | ineuiiaion nes ia rie pendint putas Missing Baptist Treasurer Is, Work and Some of Cabinet clipping bureau. Charged With Embezzling | Also to Be at Station Mission Funds. This Morning. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5. COLUMN 3 - 7 « >. wrangle by counsel President Coolidge isn’t the first man to return from his vacation to find that somebody else in his ab- sence has got his job. e « = lic hearing now in progress in the Dis-| trict Building Based John H ital avail in the The distillery with Was prosecutor's office which on the ultimatum Monday by her name closed connected as Hanna, president of the Cap- Co., that himself of permission ere ~* , owner, was some time ago Traction would not to by he | } There’s another item in the paper . an | oy was formerly charge | Associated Press Photo. higher . , ey" > 3 John Coolidge, left, is shown on his way to lunch yesterday with the same were extended to his rival Ralph F that the car fares unless in- come Fle- | whole ; | ’ ' his Secret Service bodyguard after his first morning of work as a clerk the office of York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad at New Haven, Conn. | ator Cc. C. Dill the lead over Cleveland . | Lungstreet, his Democratic opponent. 'Dill had 284; Longstreet, 74. | as the organization wing of the Re- |publican party in Delaware scored a Douglas Burch Nominated, Dover, Del., Sept. 11 (A.P.).—After int i , , 'victory today in the State convention Former Capital Ace Finishes) Circuit Clout Off Grove, With * ee ce With Par Round to Lead Men on Bases, Crushes pany, People’s Counsel i the New barty entered a motion mn he ago, was proceeding be dismissed because the Washington Railway & not Electric Co ill | quantities of alcohol into bootleg chan- | | nels,” Mr. Monaghan said. “From what Miss Cooney told me she | had not the slightest interest in the | distillery. She was simply working for | wages and when she signed some papers) * GIRLS LEFT STRANDED| CONFERS WITH LEADERS she didn’t know they were. It a | was the old story of getting an employe to ‘sign on the dotted line’ apparently had The loss of Maine occasioned ab- solutely no asked for | William McK | Federation of an tnecrease of fare to Johnny Raskob as owing to a steno- surprise whatever Clayton, representing the Citizens Associations, graphic error last week he forgot to claim it. Supported Fleharty’s motion , i fect reversing Case, Union Station this morning Herbert was the Fulton County under the bv ordering Flectric | , | ' Real Owners Traced. | Hoover. Republican nomil- . 1 “eharty ‘lawte against Clinton 8 Mleharty Clayton R. Harris & Co. explain that when the old W. W. Corcoran was run- ning on the in 1885 a former decision and Railway & +} ie » S > ' ‘ Washington C ‘ the Southern Bapti when his train reaches the terminal “ ne Sng in-law of the United States Senator Potomac | convention gentleman purchased a diamond ring that is now worth five times what it cost, but how much is the W. W. Corcoran worth? the facts! New York judge calls Mrs. Wille- brandt’s padlocking of Broadway night clubs illegal, but what’s that got to do with the campaign? 7 « . > Gene Tunney praises the Kellogg | treaties to abolish fighting—after | making a big clean-up the champ retires. 7 > > > Mr. Hoover, we are informed, has decided to campaign, but it is being shouted in ignore the whispering such a loud tone of voice that it is believed hardly anybody else will be able to do it. al > : * The Bureau of Standards has an instrument so delicate that it can detect the buzzing of a fly on Mount Everest, but that’s nothing—Dr. Work’s ears are so sensitive that he’s the only man in the world who has heard the whispering campaign against Hoover. * * 7 e Southern leaders, it develops, aren’t letting Mr. Hoover in on the secret that the only hope of carry- ing a single Southern State rests upon the issue of intolerance and bigotry, As Sunset Cox used to say the Bostonian put it, “‘no persons are obtuse in their auricular appre- hension equal to those who repudi- ate vocal by adverse ¥ = . . . s, inclinations. * “*Tis true she dressed with modern grace, Half naked at a ball, or race.” One gathers from the advance tip on feminine styles that knees are going out and lumbago is coming in. . * 2 Clark Griffith buys Jay Partridge from Atlanta and as an infielder he ought to be a bird. Glasgow scientist says that the safety pin was one of the important links in the Prehistoric Age—a stand-by, as it were, in the infancy of mankind. This new-fangled television drama is calculated to keep people too busy at home to go out and hear the talkies. The Du Ponts hold their regular _ annual election in Delaware. Young John Coolidge has a de- cided advantage over the average young man on the first day he goes to work—most of ’em merely feel as if they had a Secret Service agent watching ’em. = a a . Mr. Hanna seems to feel that none but the brave deserve the fare. - - a * The Democratic party makes an «ccounting of its wampum. - . .* . Kansas professor “looses” a spell- ing bee. : - ° i dye! - ¢ a) »S Ne es rh I'raction | urging higher fares to enable’ to continue paying its annual 7) | with aloofness | ON PAGE 4, COLUMN 1. Field With 143. JOHNSON STROKE BEHIND By ALAN J. GOULD (Associated Press Sports Editor). Brae Mass Country (A.P.) Burn Club, Sept Voigt (;corgee today finished the job of qualifying for first national field and onship by le: ding the win- nine the medal that has been worn for the last two years by the King of the realm, Bobby Jones rhe slim, Wash- C.) public links player, now 3i-year-old former ington (D representing the New York district, fin- ished the two 36-hole qualifying test of T1—72 Brae the remarkable score 143, rucged one under par for layout It was one stroke short of the but vood Voigt tour- nament qualifying record enough for the dark-haired to rison R apolis, by a stroke in a duel that these two fought out by themselves from Johnston’s figures, 71— 144, exactly matched par like start to finish 73- Jones was more himself to fifth with a 74 that gave him 151 | with all the earmarks of for the two days, but for the second Newton. amateur golf cham- | score with | base. | took | fastened Macks’ Hopes, 5 to 3. JOHNSON IN FINE FORM By WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, (Associated Press Sports Writer). York, Sept. 11 (A.P.).—wWith 40,000 fervent fans roaring for the kill, battered Athletics 5 to the New the world champion Yankees wn the 3 today, Philadeiphia and neared American League title by pushing Connie Mack’s struggling behind them. It third 2% vames * Athletic’s warriors was the straight defeat in this super-crucial series. The kill was put off until the eighth inning. The Yankees then tied the none out. George Herman | Ruth, waddling to the plate, found his Burn's | home-run pal, Lou Gehrig, on second Connie Mack and Bob Groves elected to fight it out with the great | bambino rather than frank him to first | base, and the battle began. beat out his Middle Western rival, Har- | (Jimmy) Johnston, of Minne- | The Babe, seizing his chance, strove to cross the opposition by bunting the first one, but it was foul on the third- base line by a shade. Mr. Ruth next a called ball, and then it hap- | pened. today, pulling up from around sixteenth place | Yes, into his own right field bleach- ers it rode for home run number 49, a pennant than 40,000 upon it. More Successlve day the three-time cham- stra ngely partisan New York throats pion was forced to occupy the unusual | bello position of trailer and watch Voigt steal his customary thunder. Volgt was not considered good enough either to play in the “seeded” list of ranking players, but he was good enough out in the ac- tual battle to lead Jones by six strokes CONTINUED ON PAGE 13. COLUMN 6. wed joyously and almost as many | pairs of hands reached for straw hats with which to shower a welcome upon the triumphal procession of Lou and on the Walker Cup team or be included the Babe. Now that the Yankees threatened, New them to win. have ‘been York seems to want The bent form of Con- CONTINUED ON PAGE 13, COLUMN 2. Inquiry Ordered by Hesse Into Lieut. M’Quade’s Case Accused by Woman of Being Drunk—Policeman Davis Faces Trial in Cooper Case—Warrant Out for Informer Lee—Other Charges Made. Charges and developments piled up on one another yesterday in connec- tion with Washington’s police problem. In the course of a day a police in- former was charged with perjury and a warrant for his arrest issued; the wife of a suspended policeman charged a lieutenant with being intoxicated; another policeman was charged with neglect of duty and his case referred to the police trial board, and Prohlbition Commissigner James M. Doran threat- ened a “sifting: to the bottom” of charges his agents had been guilty of assault and vandalism while working in connection with local police. As an aftermath of these develop- ments Representative Ernest W. Gib- son, of Vermont, chairman of the Gib- son subcommittee of the House Dis- trict committee, suggested the appoint- ment of a “Marine Corps officer or other, military man” as chief of police here to remedy the present situation. A warrant charging perjury was sworn out against Marion F. Lee, a police informer, as an aftermath of his testimony at a hearing before United States Comissioner Needham C. Turnage he had pur- at her home, 1416 Sixteenth northwest, on August 13. The informer wore to the search warrant for the Odell home, declaring that He purchased half a dozen bottles of beer and two half pints of whisky from the woman. The hearing was on a motion introduced by Harry T. Whelan, attorney for Mrs. Odell, to controvert the search warrant on the grounds that Mrs. Odell was at Piney Point, Md., at the time Lee swore he bought the liquor, Sufficient proof of the defense contention was established and the motion was granted. Lee faces action of the grand jury on a charge of grand larceny. Recently he is alleged to have “faked” a holdup while employed by a gasoline filling station and to have reported that rob- bers had stolen several hundred dollars of the station’s money. A search by police revealed the money hidden in the station and Lee is said to have confessed taking the money to pay for an operation on his wife. Detective S. F. Gravelly, of the Third Precinct, who arrested Lee on the lar- , then made a “stool street T. Coleman du Pont, for governor. Mfr. Buck is State highway engineer and lives at State Road, New Castle County. Former Gov. John G. Townsend, Jr., was nominated for United States Sena- tor and Robert G. Houston was remon- inated for representative without oppo- sition. Both are residents of Sussex County. Those named as candidates for presidential electors were Charles War- ner, Dr. William T. Chipman and Dr. Frank L. Grier. Lammot du Pont, who was mentioned as a possible candidate for presidential elector, ineligible because he is a bank director. Was Sussex Delegation Piqued. The fight was solely on the governor- ship. Sussex County had claimed the right, under the county rotation plan, to make this nomination, and at its caucus 41 of the 42 delegates had voted for I. D. Short, of Milford. Short did not meet with the approval of the or- ganization faction, which has ques- tioned his regularity as a Republican. Buck was then suggested and he was nominated by a vote of 104 to 54. After the result of the hallot was announced most of the Sussex delegates walked out of the convention hall, de- claring that they did not receive a “square deal.” There was no organized plan on the part of the bolters, one of them merely remarking that the other nominations “mean nothing to us.” What effect their action will have on the coming campaign was uncertain. Montpelier, Vt., Sept. 11 (A.P.).—The renomination of Gov. John E. Weeks, Republican, in today’s primary ap- peared assured on returns from 178 of the 248 cities and towns in the State, which gave him a lead of 8,500 over Mayor Edward H. Deavitt, of Monte pelier. The vote in these places was: Weeks, 20,945; Deavitt, 12,406. This was the only contest for a mae jor office in either party. in Granite State. Manchester, N. H., Sept. 11 (A.P.).— Nomination of Charles W. Tobey, of Temple, for governor by New Hampe- shire Republicans, was conceded to« night by his opponent, Ora A. Brown, of Ashland, after returns from 207 of Tobey Wins Index to Today’s Issue. Pages. 1—Poindexter Behind in Vote. Both Car Lines in Fare Plea. Girl Is Distillery “Owner.” Mackay Forgives Daughter. Coolidges Here Early Today., Police Lieutenant Accused. 2—Texas Regulars for Smith Air Races at Los Angeles. Submarine “Lung” a Success. 3—Veterans in Visit to Hoover, Whisper Drive Is Ignored. 4—Rhine Evacuation Talked. Butcher Boy Tells of Death. 5—Latins Likely to Accept Pact. Tunney Got $4 in First Fight. 6—Editorials. 7—Society. The Spotlight. 8—Vital Statistics. 10—Magazine Features. 11-12—Financial News. 13-14-15—Sports. 16—The Post’s Comics. 17—Radio News and Programs, The Weather. Daily Legal Record. 18—Classified Advertising. 19—Apartment House Review. 20—Arrests Gafn in Capital. Fight for Seabrook School.