Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1921, Page 3

' POLICENAN HAYDEN ISKILEDBY NEGRO Bnother Victim Sacrificed to + k Laxity of “Gun-Toting” P Law. 1 SAMUEL C. HAYDEN. *Killed in the line of duty” was entered on the record of Policeman ' Samuel C. Hayden of the eighth pre- cinct yesterday. He was shot by Twitty Lynwood Harris, colored, twenty-eight years old. at the latter's home, 945 Westminster street, after Harris had shot and slightly wounded Herbert Akers, colored, thirty-six Fears old, 2114 Vermont avenue, and James Mills, colored, forty years old, 850 Westminster street. Inspector Grant, chief of detectives, said today he had reason to believe Harris was responsible for several mysterious shootings which have oc- curred in the northwest section the last few months. ? Harris was kiiled by bullets from the pistol of either Capt. Thaddeus R. Bean or Policeman A. B. Cole, who were in the Westminster street house searching for Harris at the time the latter murdered Hayden. The shot that killed Hayden was fired from a closet in the hallway on the third floor of the house, while the bullets from the weapons of Capt. Bean and Policeman Cole penetrated the body of the colored slayer while he stiil was in the closet. Three bullet holes in Harris' body were disclosed when the body reached the morgue. Harris, it _is stated. was shell- shocked while overseas and when he returned to this country he was | shooting 'y THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1921. i | Laymen’s Midday Lenten Services B. F. Keith’s Theater Daily, Except Saturdays, 12.30 to 1 O’Clock Tomorrow: Conducted by— Rev. E. 0. Watson Speaker— Fred B. Smith, New York City gical care. It was said that probably both will recover. Laxity of Law Again Shown. Discovery of ammunition in the pock- ets of Harris’ clothing, coupled with the fact that the deceased had been an in- mate of the hospital for the treatment of insane persons, again brought to the attention of the police the lack of a proper pistol law for the safeguarding of human life. Maj. Harry L. Gessford, superin- tendent of police: Inspector Clifford L. Grant, chief of detectives; Capt. Bean and others readily recalled the futile efforts that had been made to guard against just such an affair' as the terday. Only a few davs .ago The Star directed attention to several instances in which insane per- sons had been able to enter stores, put down the price ‘and obtain death dealing instruments. Police official actment of one of the several bills in- troduced in Congress to throw addi- tional safeguards about the sale, pos- session and carrying of pistols. Eleven Years on the Force. Policeman Hayden was a native of! Lodge, Va., a village on the Yeocomico| river in Northumberland county. He is survived by a brother and sister re- siding at Lodge and a brother resid- ing in Baltimore. He been a member of the police force the last. eleven years and was in the wagon service in No. 8. Members of Masonic bodies with which he was affiliated cared for the body. A coroner’s jury viewed the body this morning, and it was taken to Baltimore this afternoon to be sent to his late home by steamer. —_— INQUIRY COURT ORDERED. Loss of the Destroyer Woolsey Will Be Minutely Investigated. A naval court of inquiry into the nking of the United States de- Inventor off Panama yesterday. has been ordered by Admiral Hugh Rod- man, commander-in-chief of the Pa- cific fleet. The court will sit at Bal- boa, Panama, dispatches to the Navy Department said, and will investigate every phase of the collision that re- sulted in the loss of the naval vessel, the death of one enlisted man and the injury of several others. About fif- teen members of the crew of the ¢ treated at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. He was discharged from the hospital the middle of the summer, and a few days later, July 6, he visited a store on D street and had no diffi- culty in purchasing a .32-caliber auto- matic weapon. About 9:30 o'clock yesterday morm- ing Harris appeared at 10th and T Streets and shot Akers in his left foot without provocation. Reaching| fiqas the front of Mills' home he saw Mills : standing at his door and after mutter- ing some threats fired, sending bullet into his shoulder. Capt. Bean and Policemen Hayden, Davis and Cole went to the Westminster strect house, the captain and entering <py the front door, while the others dntered through a rear door. Harris was hiding in a closet. He fired and Hayden fell to the floor mortally Founided, the bullet baving entered his Other shots were fired and Capt. Bean and Cole the closet, three of the bullets striking him. The wounded policeman and Har- ris were rushed to Freedmen's Hospital, where the former died at 10:15 o'clock. The latter died on the way there. Akers and Mills were taken to Freed- 4 amen’s Hospital, where they received sur- SPECIAL NOTICES. 1F YOU AR IN & HUEEY T0 MAKE income tax return, aad want it done absolately WARFTELD'S INCOME TAX BUREAU. “3 F the place. - st. nw., i8 AN ANLD: ¥ &oods_tor, ity. THE! BIG 4 TRANSFER Go. INC. in” 215 F0OD FOR CATTLE AND POULTRY_PEA; nut beas, pounds; peanut meal 2.5 300 1hars beoken penuta, §1.50 100 Ibs. VEGE. TARIAN FOOD & NUT CO., 133 8. Cap. st. Woolsey still are reported as miss- i has been .instructed by the depart. ment to libel the steamer Steel In- ventor to protect the government against loss, if the court of inquiry should develop that the collision was due to negligence on the part of the commanding officer of the merchant No further details of the col- had been received at the Navy Department today. MEDICAL WRITER TO TALK. Hayden |pr T. A. William Will Address City Club Wednesday. Dr. Thomas A. William, widely known medical writer and lecturer, will address the City Club luncheon forum next Wednesday at 12:30 John Walsh, chairman of the civics and forum committee, will preside. The club’s music group will meet at 8 oclock tomorrow night at the clubhouse, acqording to announoce- ment by Percy S. Foster, the chair- man. began shooting at the man in | o’'clock. FOR A LIMITED TIME WB WILL WIES any 6-room bouse complete with a quality set of lighting fixtures for $175. of any 9-reom ] Bouse, compiete. for $245; no ‘walls cut. no fleor . LEADERS IN RESIDENTIAL WIRING. J. E. TAYIOR & €O.._phove M. T108. 13%4 Bye n.w. NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE AN- naal meeting of the stockhoiders of Natiomal o rance pany of the United States of America will be heid at the office of the «company, 501 Wilkins building. 1512 H st., in the city of Washington, D. 0., on Tuesday, Mareh 8, at 10 o'clock in the foremcon of said dey. D. LAY, Secretary. Washington, D. C.. February, 1921 #craped and refinished: small closet done free I3 trate my work. C. ADAMS, 607 G ot nw. any hour. Franklin 25i8. 28¢ . W. BEAN, Carpenter and Builder. Jobbing &nd repairing. Garages a epecialty. 808 5th af. ne., or 24 L. &1, Bryant st.a.w., N. ‘ll%l as should be deme; B work BEDELL'S FACTORY, 6 B st. n.w. Main 3621. R. K. FERGUSON, Inc. gt -9 1114 9t St._Phone North Reot N THOS. E. CLABK. Ragair work & speciaity. e, 1210 ot Bes TO01 Mair vd. O, 22833. 38% NATIONAL today repeated their pleas for the en-! stroyer Woolsey by the steamer Steel | ng. ‘The naval commandant at Panama |’ —an you ces be eure the work wiml Tent. bl FINDTOWN HASBEEN 'SHOT OFF THE MAP West Virginia Governor and Governor-Elect Visit Min- ing Battleground. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va. February 28.—Gov. John J. Cornwell, accom- panied by Gov.-elect E. F. Morgan, who succeeds him in office on March 4. yesterday visited and inspected the workings of the Willis Branch Coal Company, in Fayette county, and the surrounding village of Willis branch, where much heavy gun fight- ing took place February 19, and upon their return to Charleston announced that the town seems to have been “literally shot off the face of the map.” The trip was made by the governor and his successor in response to a re- quest from the Willis Branch com- pany for additional armed protec- tion. The governor-elect declined to say what he intended to do about the case after assuming office, but he made this comment: “It is inconceivable that such con- ditions could exist in this day and Sre Gov. Cornwell, however, described conditions there more in detail. “Its citizens have abandoned it,” he said, referring to the village, “leaving personal effects, furniture and live stock behind. With the ex- ception of half-famished dogs. cats and chickens, which wander about treets, and a squad of state police on duty near the station, the town is devoid of life. The company store, office, post office, mine foreman's home and sixty-five of the femaining sixty-seven cottages are riddled with rifle bullets. The condition of other cottages shows they have been burned or wrecked with dynamite.” ‘The governor said he learned that “every night for the past year the town has been shot up.” Men who work in neighboring mines, he added, are blamed by the coal operators for these attacks. Until February 19, the governor said, the state police on duty told him a small number of miners and their families remained in the village and worked in the mines. The cottages of these, he said, “had been reinforced with ‘sheet iron and sandbag barri- cades. For the better protection of their families they dug cellars, where the women and children would remain until the nightly shooting ceased. Reports of the fusillade of Febru- ary 19 which filtered in indicated that only one man was slain. The next day, however, the small body of miners and their families made a hasty re- treat to other parts. The wreckage in the village was equaled by the havoc done the mine workings, said the governor, and this destruction was further described by William McKell. the general manager of the Willis Branch company. “Miners in this whole section,” he sald, “struck September 1. 1919. The operators generally yielded to the de- mands of the workers, but this com- pany decided to make a finish fight of it, and it has been a fight ever since. Poles carrying electric current to the mine were blown up. Two charges of dynamite wrecked both inclines. The hoisthouse was broken into and its ‘machinery destroyed. The tipple was fired and badly damaged. On Febru- ary 19 the substation was blown up fby a_charge of dynamite, the explo- sion being heard twelve miles away.” Many attractive furnished and unfor- nished residences in the most desirable section of the North- west. Also fine resi- dences in the suburbs. Jokn W. Thompson & Co. Main W77 821 15th St. = I Abe Martin Says; FOR MARION VISIT To Stay Two Days—Inaugu- ral Address Practically "Done—Has Fine Tan. By the Associated Press. ON BOARD PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING'S SPECIAL TRAIN, Febru- ary 28.—With his preparations for the launching of his administration labout complete, President-elect Hard- ing was on his way back to Marion to receive formal farewell {from his home town before entering | L a the White House. The president-elect's special : .., |which left St. Augustine, Fla., last Art Bentley got away with|nignt, is to reach Cincinnati this two cars yisterday, which is kive'mng and Marion tomorrow morn- purty good, considerin’ he’s just |5, ca 1 Sineinnaty, bat Mr. and been paroled an’ is all out o’[Mrs. Harding do not expect to leave iy their private car. They will be In Th Bt h Marion until late Wednesday. er’ hain’t no man haters. In Fine Physical Trim. They jest don’t attract men,| Tanned by five weeks under the that’s all. Florida sun, the President-elect is re- Copyright turning northward apparently in HEBREW SOCIETIES UNITE much better phy I'trim than he w when he left Ohio. Relief Body Votes to Join United | Charities Association. Not only did he have two weeks of complete r during his houseboat ince spent a part of a: on the golf St. Augustine, insisting on exercise even in the busiest The Hebrew Relief Society at its meeting yesterday afternoon ratified the proposed constitution of the amalgamation with the United He- brew Charities. The United Hebrew Relief Society of Washington will be train, tional Newspaper Service. & trip. but he I practically links at outdoor period were It Is Easy to Save $5, $10 or $25 a Montk Under the Swartzell, Rheem and Hensey Plan fif// /g when his inet selections reaching consummation. Busy Today on Address. n of the inaugu- the name of the new organization. Advantages of the combining of the two societies were explained by Lee Baumgarten, president of the United remains to complete Mr. Harding’s pre-inauguration tasks. He Hebrew Charities. The meeing was presided over by M. Korm, president worked on this today and expected to have it finished by the time of his of the Hebrew Relief Society. It was announced that a meeting arrival in Marion. The Harding residence in Marion has been leased, and the President- will be called soon for the election of officers. All money in the treasuries of both organizations will be turnedl — A combine has been formed at Ber- lin comprising practically the entire German varnish industry for the pur- pose of buying raw materials and hl“ng sales prices and terms of sup- ply. ielect and his wife will make the home of his father, Dr. George T. Harding, their headquarters during the two- day visit. over to the new treasurer for the re- lief and vocational educational work of the Hebrew boys and girls of this city. VOCALION Records for March ‘We have ready for you another new list of Vocalion (Red) Records. If y!m have not already done so, you owe it to yourself to try the Vocalion record on your phonograph. Find out for yourself its wondefful, natural tone—find out for yourself oot only how beautiful it is, but that it actually lasts longer. In this new bulletin listed below the great, warm-hearted ‘West is immortalized in the delightful song that John Charles Tt S terget B e lEyedE. by Al Jocker — lon’t forget “Broadwa; ,” pl y and his orchestra—the topnotci of modern dance music. All popular Vocalion records now sell at 85c. Here are the March Records Stabat Mater—Qui est Homo 3 ot M and Rita Fornia Out Whers the Wast Begiaa. - Jobn Coaries Thormes Colleen Aroon ~Colin O'More 24013 20014 2an M0 1441 14146 -Foz-Trot Al ‘Why Den't You—¥Fuoz-Trot (from ‘“*Afgar’™) Dance e Pt e it s Gren PLAY ON ALL PHONOGRAPHS e , 2 SPECIALISTS IN PLAYER PIANOS [Ty EMm0NS 3. SMITE Washington's AEOLIAN HALL - Tweifth and G‘Eiflb:r of CASEY Cash on Hotbed Sash “ «—Storm Sash and gen- . eral house repair needs e ] p izing of Ironriad Reof Paint, Now's the time, aeadel Sirw cum oo sswars. | TRONCLAD S o7 . 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February 28. — Two young Americans have just sailed from this port for South America to search for a vast store of wealth sup- posed to lie in the “chimney” of the diamond deposits of British Guiana. At Georgetown, the capital of the British possession, they will be joined by a third adventuresome American who has outfitted in Paris. The ex- pedition is under the patronage of Harvard University and the Smith- sonian Institution of Washington, for which it will carry on” geographical explorations. William J. La Varre, jr.. a Harvard graduate of 1919, heads the party, and his fellow explorers are James MacDonald of Lima, Ohio, and Dudley Lewis of Springfield, Mass. They expect to spend more than a year in the jungle. Besides an attempt to follow the scattered deposits of precious stones several hundred miles through tan- gled, reptile-infested wilderness to their source, long known to exist somewhere in the hill country, but never discovered, the expedition will take observations of the aboriginal inhabitants and geological features of British Guiana mens of native wild animals for the Smithsonian Institution. The area in which the expedition will operate has been known since the middle of the last century as a rich diamond field, although its inaccessi- bility and the prevalence of tropical diseases have served to discourage s I | prospecting by white men. Thou- sands of carafs of the gems, said to 8 e e be as fine as any in the world, how- -4 ever, are taken out annually by negro - miners employing primitive methods. Somewhere near every spot where diamonds are found in considerable numbers there must be a ‘Chimney."” explained Mr. La Varre. “There iz no telling definitely where the Guiana ‘chimney’ is located, but we mean to find it, and are basing our expecta- tions on more than speculation: Study of data collected by other explorers and prospectors. as well as my own observations, indicate that it is with- in a_certain area near the Venezuelan border.” He added that the quality of stones taken from the vicinity where hi party will work points to a “chimne. as rich as or richer than those of the South American diamond fields. Animals which will be taken for the Washington zoological garden include tapirs. anteaters, jaguars and mon- keys. as well as a variety of tropical Its toasted ®, the country, as well as capture speci- birds. OPENING of YMCA AUTO SCHOOL The new Auto School ofthe Y. M. C. 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