Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1923, Page 23

REAL TOWNER ASSUMES _PORTO RICO DUTIES 'Officials and Others Infuential Should Set Example Instead of Helping Break Down Constitution, He Says. ‘New Governor Installed Be-| s fore Distinguished Gath- i efing of Officials. By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, P. R., April 7.—Horace £Mann Towner of Towa yesterday became | civil | ¥Porto Rico's eighth American }movernor. He took the oath of office #at the entrance to the federal build- | $1ng here before the most distinguish- sed gathering that has yet witnessed *a like ceremony in San Juan. It in- “iluded Secretary of the Navy Denby fd more than two score of. Gov. S$Towner's former associates in sAmerican Congress. together Sinsular officials and representatives fof foreign powers. The inauguration cere simple and the now gove Swas brief. It was difficult, : ¥to announce the policy of his admin- *istration, H Not Wise to Speak. “Only’ in general terms,” he con- : s it wise 1o speak. This is rnment, a_government of ie people. The administrative head of such a government should not for- that important fact. He may but should not coerce. He may should not impose with Referring to Forto Rico as part of ne United States, Gov. Towner sald he attitude of Congr and el'resident were friendly, and any Ithanges for the betterment of condi- Ations” in the island would be sym- hetically considered. Regarding status of the island. v. Towner have the i secure ben r husetts or ifornia. Not to Give Up Tdeals. his does not mean that Porto Ricuns will be compelled to give up aheir ideals, individuality or charae- eristics. It does not m hat Porto ns skould lose their love fur or aelinquish their their beauti- sland home. Far from it. Porto s have enough of those aistine- qualities which are lovely and ~aluable to hold their affections and % dmiration and este of in other parts r, Juan B ng tempo- new gov r fitted than any other izing all the elements took office today ‘in Mont Reily of M umed the governorshiy 1, and resigned Feb- MRS. FARRAR'S WILL FILED. NEW YORK, April 7.—Geraldine Farrar has filed for probate the will of her mother, Henriette Farrar, who died here last January. former base ball pla: Easy 601 9th Open for $550,000.00 New modern fireproof building, splendidly located. A wonderful investment. Rents, $83,000 $175,000.00 Downtown apartment, con- taining 43 apartments. Fire- proof construction. Ex- all at our office and let us Wm. H. Lanham 1400 H St. N.W. ESTATE. Men High Up Worst Offenders Against Dry Law, Haynes Says | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 7.—The attitude ot persons in “an official and profes- sional” position who “tacitly sanc- tion” violation of the prohibition laws by purchasing “bootleg” liquor is a “matter for serious thought,” Federal Prohibition Commissioner Hayneg declared in an address here today before the New York annual Methodist Episcopal conference. the | s viz.: the | “These citizens,” Commissioner Haynes said, “seem not yet to have realized that only one question is In- volved in prohibition law enforcement, Are you for or against the Con- stitution of the United States? Tt |1s not to be wondered at that boot- leggers and criminals will violate the law for the sake of possible illegal gains, but it is difficult to understand | how prominent clubmen, business and professional men such violatlons. “If there can be any different de- gree of responsibility among citizens for the observance of lew, such influential circles as these should become parties to thy of whom socl expects les: £ by their ‘example in observance of this particylar BONDING OF LAWYERS UP. Society for Performance of Pro- fessional Duties Discussed. NEW YORK, April 7.—Discussion before the committee on trade, com- merce and commiercial law of the American Bar Assoclation of whether attorneys should be bonded in the per- formance of their professional duties revealed that 20,000 of the 180,000 law- vers in the country already are under bond. Most of them are engaged in collecting accounts. | "W, R Williams, | list publishing house, opposed the pro- pesal to bond attorneys. He contended {that the very standing of the lesal | profession was at stake If attorneys {had to be bonded after they had swern | to perform their dutles faithfully. The committee will report at the annual meeting of the bar association in An- il\apolls next August. R. R. VICE PRESIDENT DIES. ST. LOU Mo.. April 7.-—Alexander Robertson. vice president in charge of operations of the Missourl Pa- cific rallroad, died at 11:45 o'clock |1ast night of heart disease and kidney | trouble. He had_ been critically for two weeks. He w vears old. Born at Alb: Robertson began his railway in 1885 as a brakeman on the Fitch- burg railroad. He is survived by his widow. law, —_— The 15,000,000 telephone poles in use in the United States would be sufficient to build a raflroad trestle thirty feet high from Chicago to Buenos Aire: 7 Large Rooms and Bath Price, $7,500 Terms St. N. Northeast Corner of 9th and F Sts. N.E. Occupied by the owner. Inspection Joseph C. Zirkle 203 Colorado Building LANHAM & HILL .APARTMENT HOUSE OFFERINGS $210,000.00 New modern fireproof apartment, on 16th St. Two apts. of 1 room and bath and 15 apts. of 5 r. and b. each. Rents, $26,220 $62,500.00 A splendid corner apart- ment, on Columbia Rd. 12 beautiful apartments. Good for the small investor. Rents, $7,470 not exchange your vacant ground and non-productive and other property which will pay you 15% to show you how this can be done. LANHAM & HILL Realtors E. Lodge Hill Main 366 Thomas A. Jameson 906 New York Ave. N.W. Ask the man Inspect at Once Only 2 Left ; 8 Sold, 5 Under Construction Nos. 2 to 20 Adams St. N.W. At North Capitol St. 6 large rooms, attic, h.-w. heat, electric lights, hardwood floors, wash trays, servants’ toilet, wide double rear porches and concrete front porch. Lots 140 feet deep to wide alley, and part of the houses have built-in garage, Main 5526 who owrs one. men of | there shall develop a lack of regard for other laws—a lack of regard upon the part of others for the laws upon which these men depend for their large interests, they could not be sur- prised In the breakdown of the gov- ernmental fabric—and whose loss of property, would be so great as theirs?" Commissioner Haynes declared there is a “vigllance, a fixed purpose, an unrelenting equipped today” to support enforce- ment of the eighteenth amendment Census bureau statistics, Mr. Haynes said. showed that the death rate per 1,000 in New York state from alco- | holism decreased from 6.4 in 1917, the | last full year before the prohibition amendment {in 1919 and 1.2 in 1920. Figures also were Haynes number of arrests for drunkenness in twenty. including New York et 1915 and 1917 decreas. from the average number for the two New per cent. average decrease for the same was given be considered even more guilty than | cent; Buffalo. ® ss 46 per cen the non- | Syracuse, 69 ner c cent, and Utica, POLICE CHIEF KILLED. |min et | New Mexico Official Was Trying to| or's committee to aid the foundation automobiles, bearing California Heenses, were to have been exceeding the speed limit | Woodrow when Davis jum, board of on a fired and Davi i second ea; connected with a | 203 Colorado Building AR, 'WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1923 MONTIELLDTTLE | TOPASS TONATIN Memorial Foundation An- nounces Early Application " for Incorporation. NEW YORK, April 7.—Obstacles in the way of obtaining Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, in Albe- marle county, Virginla, as a national shrine have been removed and the way i8 clear for turning over the property to the nation, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation an- nounced, “Difficulties which heretofore have prevented the change of ownership of Jefferson’s Virginia home have ecn overcome,” a statement said Jefferson M. Levy, present owner of fonticello, whose family has held 2.0 |title to the property since his uncle. Commodore Levy, bought it in 1833, goven vears after Jefferson's deatn, has been an ardent admirer of the author of the Declaration of Inde- pendent and was loath to part with Monticello. Patriotic motives finally nfluenced him to enter into an agree- |ment © with the Thomas Jefferson decrease | Memorial Foundation, and the way is at last clear for turning over the property to the nation.” Incorporation Proposed. 3 A group of men prominent in na- itochester, | tional affairs, it was said, will apply 7 per cent; |at Albuny April 13 for incorporation . 50 per|of the foundation. Work of organiz- |Ing a country-wide effort to create a million-dollar foundation fund is ad- vancing under the temporary chair- ip_of Stuart G. Gibboney. V. E. Lee Trinkle of Virginia has accepted chalrmanship of a govern- happiness and prosperity spirlt, organized and became effective, to cited by the a Mr. showing that rage ix _cities in New York state, in the years | 54 per cen 1919 and 1920. The York city. he sald, was 42 Other cCities for which the vears | included Albany, S§1 per 43 per cent; 5 per cent | committee, it was announced, and a | board of advisers will be appointed, Stop Speeders. EATON, N. M.. April 7—While at. | the Bovernor of each state naming tempting to arrest alleged spe Oscar Davis, chief of police, w | two representatives. ders. | Bishop Ha Among svement are Rt. ing Amon, sonsors in the memorial Rev. Alfred Hard- Bishop of ~Washington; Mrs Wilson, Dr. Edwin ‘A." Al running | dermun, president of the University A shot was | of - Virginta; Mrs. Robert Lansing. The | Df. Kate Waller Barrett, Representa- was | tive Andrew Jackson Montague of up. Virginia, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Sponsors. almost’ instantly kil believed to have been |r aid | in; ran_ovs s body He was picked AT The best opportunity in'Washington to get a new house at a bargain Detached House With Garage Open for lmpec)ion All Day Sunday 5205 13th Street NW The owner is moving away and will sell at a bargain. Hardwood floors and modern in every respect Joseph C. Zirkle Main 4985 :ls Your Real Estate for Sale? We need a new supply of Homes, Business Properties, Apartment Houses, Suburban Homes, Farms and Water Fronts. BUSINESS IS GOOD We are selling properties of all classes—the demand is increasing ddily—our salesmen are kept on the jump. If you have REAL ESTATE FOR SALE and want QUICK ACTION, LIST it with THIS wide-awake affice. We have been selling real estate for fifteen years. GARDINER & DENT, Inc. 717 14th St. N.W. 34 Albermarle St. Chevy Chase, D. C. Detached—Half Block West Conn. Ave. The most artistically designed home in this beautiful section, having 8 real rooms and a palatial bath, the floor plan, with numerous dis- tinctive features embodied in the arrangement, is bound to appeal to you. All conveniences. Garage. OWNER LEAVING CITY MUST EFFECT QUICK SALE Open for Inspection Sunday 2 to 6 ~+ N. L. SANSBURY CO., Inc. “Everythng in Real Estate” St. NW, Phone Main 5904 1418 Eye © %, Member Washington Real Estate Board Chief Justitce Taft, Unlited States Senator Swanson of Virginia, former Gov. Davis of Virginia, Willlam G. McAdoo, Augusta Thomas and James W. Gerard. . DENIES LIQUOR PLOT. NEW YORK, April 7.—A temporary plea of not gullty was entered in federal court in behalf of Samuel A. Story, formerly vice president ‘and mangager of the importing firm of E. La Montagne's Sons, Inc., named as co-defendant with the La Montagne brothers in indictments charging con- spiracy to violate the federal proh bition law and to defraud the govern. ment out of taxes on liquors by use of forged withdrawal papers. Bond of $10,000 was furnfshed. Story re- turned voluntarily from Paris on learning of the indictment. The La Montagne brothers now are serving short terms in the Essex county, N. J. jail SIMS STILL BELIEVES JN U. S. AID FOR BRITAIN Admiral Bepeats Sentiment Ex- pressed in Famous London Speech of 1910. By the Associated Pres SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 7.—Rear Admiral illiam 8. Sims, rellre:.l;'e:- lain that he held to :fired'-};n':‘h::n:: pexpre!lod in his fa- mous London speech of 1910, when, in an address, he said that if England was threatened by a coalition of powers, Great Britain could count on “their cousins across the Atlantic. The,_admiral spoke for naval pre- paredfiess, and said that a situation ' might arise to cause America to cease R Pl For Lease for a Tgrm of Years Northwest Corner of 14th Stréet an Spring Road N.W. 3 New Stdres, All Modern Improvements For Reservations Wm..H. Spignul Real Estate Co. Main 3899 1415 Eye Street N.W. Owners of Low commission. mortgages. Herman Main Downtown Business Property 1 have a very large fund at 52 % Interest for first mortgages for five years. Still about $80,000.00 available for second 729 15th St. N.W. Scehmidt 2611 REAL ESTATE. - e ———— policy of “letting Europe fight it| 29 QUAKES IN TWO DAYS. am no alarmist, but suppose Rus-| PONTA DEL GADA, April sia, Germany and Turkey were to|Twenty-two earthquake shocks have form a coalition. might not want to be embroiled, but | days. The tremors were the strongest could we stay out? In danger of being overpowered, could |-Island, on which Ponta Del Gada is we sit tight and do nothing The United States | been felt in the Azores in the last two If England were | in the western part of St. Michaels situated. 2957 Upton St. at Conn. Ave. Built by day labor; red rustic brick front and all sides. Including 8 rooms, 2 baths, 2 glassed-in sleeping porch rooms; % selected oak floors throughout ; lights in closets. Arco and Pittsburgh water heaters, Garage. Price, $16,750 Brokers Please Note Change in Price Owner and Builder on Premises John B. Ginechesi Stone Work Houses—Foundations—Porches—Chimneys—Fences Anything Stone Phone Columbia 10264 " Woodley Park—a zoned and restricted section of social desirability and enhancing value. Exhibit house 2826 Con- necticut Ave. You will find in these properties complete city homes of two stories, attic, breakfast and inclosed sleeping porches, 3 baths, 2 showers, maid’s room with bath. The lots are 24 feet front, with the semi-detached houses 29 fect front. Brick garages for two cars. The prices are most reasonable for this section. The terms liberal—$2.000 cash and $150 per month, including all interest. Of this sum $94 is an average monthly saving. Larger cash payments reduce the monthly payments. All cash may be paid. Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Woodward Building, 15th and H Sts. 1 Main 6888 OWNER LEAVING CITY 5322 COLORADO AVE. N.W. IS For Sale, Rent or Trade For investment property. Reduced One Thousand Dollars in price: Open for Inspection H. L. RUST COMPANY Exclusive Agents 912 15th St. N.W. BEAUTIFUL HOME OF UNUSUAL DESIGN A REAL VALUE 4104 HARRISON STREET FEATURES: Center hall house, built of Hytex brick. Eight rooms, two baths, built-in garage. Open fireplace, hardwood floors, all the latest conveniences. Lot 60 feet wide by 150 feet deep, with beau- tiful shrubbery, fruit trees, etc. An inspection will convince you of the unusual value offered in this house. Open Sunday From 1 to 6 P.M. Your Inspection Invited Or Call L. E. BREUNINGER & SONS 706 Colorado Bldg. Main 6140 A Wonderful Value In Chevy Chase 108 Leland St., Chevy Chase, Md. Snap Judgment is Often Costly A look at this home would tell you that it is a real value; that it has individuality, distinctiveness; that it is a place that you or any other human being would be proud to call his home. That look might be called snap judgment—but in this particular case snap judgment would not be costly ; it would be very, very profitable. Description: Of stucco and hollow-tile construction; eight well planned rooms; two complete baths; beautiful billiard room in attic and an extra lavatory. Hot-water heat, electric lights, two separate garages with a driveway; hardwood floors, and large side and breakfast porches with French door entrances. Detached, on a large 75-foot front lot, with shrubbery and trees. House is beauti- fully papered and painted, with many features that cannot help but attract favorable attention. Is located on the best street in Chevy Chase, surrounded by other very attractive homes. To Inspect: Drive out Conn. Ave. or take Chevy Chase car to Leland St., then west on Leland a black and a half to the house. Sunday from 2 to 6 Exclasive A."unh 713 14th Street N.W. e e LI