Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1923, Page 21

STORM KILLS FOUR: - WRECKS BUILDINGS ‘New York Menaced—Two Actors Die From Bolt at Beach. By the Assaciated Press. NEW YORK. June 27.—An electrical sterm which swept over the metro- politan district early last night. at Long Beuach, Long Island, killed Bert Savoy of the stage team of Brennan and Savov, and Jack Grossman, also of the theatrical profession, who was with him, and caused the death of & woman in Brooklyn and an eight- een-year-old youth in Yonkers. Uprooting trees, felling telegraph poles und unroofing houses, the storm wreaked hevoc throughout Brookiyn and seetions of T.ong Island. Skipping Mannattan and other bor- oughs of Greater New York, the storm struck Brooklvn late yesterday and although it lasted but ten min- utes, its toll Intge. Bolts of lightning struck a number of bulld- ings, setting them on fire. but loss from that quarter wus small Savoy und Grossman were killed by the same bolt of lightning. They were stroiling together on the beach when struck. They had been in bath- ing. The death of Savey Rialto. Ifor eight vears he had been ® member of Savoy and Brennan, one of the best known present-day vau- seville teams in the country. and had drawn the plaudits of thousands of rom coast to coust for. e impersonations. He ne of the star attrac- ust “Greenwich Village shocked the hoy aleo has bee tions of the Follies.” known as Jack Vincent, also Grossman vandevilie actor and song writer, wag well known The bolt which Grossman nearly Robert Worth and other vaudeville killed Savoy and cost the lives of | John Haley, two erformers, who were walking cloge behind. They were knocked down and stunned. but escaped severe injury Miss Bertha Vail was killed and two others, were injured during the height of the storm in Brooklyn, when the wind demolished a high brick wall ! that fell upon an automobile in which | they were riding Stephen Sherwin eighteen. who wouhl have been graduated today from the Yonkers High School. was in a safiboat on the Hudson when the Storm struck. The boat caps'zed and the boy was drowned BEGIN TAKING EVIDENCE IN BLIZZARD CASE TODAY Eight Farmers on Jury to Try Miners' Officer for Accessory to Murder in Logan. By the Asenciated Press. LEWISBURG, W. Va. June Trial of William Blizzard. mine work- ers’ officer, upon an indictment charg- ing accessory to murder, was sched- uled to got under way in Greenbrier court today. after more than a week had been taken up in disposing of preliminary motions by counsel. A Jury was selected late yesterday, and after being sworn tod ill hear the mpening statements of counsel, after which taking of testimony will hegin The jury is e of eight farm- , a mercha carpenter, who car- a _union card: a garage owner and a laborer in a non-union mine. Blizzard is charged with inciting a | number of men to kill George Munsy. | one of the Logan defenders who fell tn the fighting incident to the “armed | march” against Logan county in 1921 BONAR LAW IMPROVING. Former Premier to Leave London| for Coast Resort. ated Prese. LONDON, June 27.—Andrew Bonar Law has sufficiently improved in health to be able to leave London fqr a resort on the south coast. It is authoritatively stated that there has been a slight but distinctly favor- able result from the treatment the former prime minister recently un- | Br the | i mates, from three to eighteen years | FOUR WOMEN ARRESTED ON KIDNAPING CHARGE Party En Route to Palestine, Ac- cused by Boy's Father, Held in Jersey Oity. By the Associlated JERSEY CITY,N.J., June 27.—Four women und an. sight-year-old boy who had journeyed from Ruton. N. M., to Jersey City, en route to Palestine have Leen urrested here at the in- wtance of Leonard C. Rhoads, father of the boy, on a warrant charging the women with kidnaping the lad. They are Margery Rhoads, mother of the boy; Theodora Rhoads, Emily Hubbell, Anna Douglas and Carri Tanner.” They aro followers of the Shaker faith. = All declare, according to the police. that 'they had a vision which led (hem to undertake the Journey Rhoads cn abandoned hi 39 BOY ORPHANS PERISH. | Mohammedan Youths Caught in| Calcutta Building Collapse, CALCUTTA, June 27.—Thirty-nine Mohwmmedan hoy orphans were killed in the collapse of a section of the orphanage building in the heart Calcutta. three injured were sent to the hosp and twenty- five others were slightly injured | Two hundred and twenty-nine in-| ged that his wife| of uge, were asleep in the dormitories | hen the building, which recently had | sccond story supcrimposed. col- lapsed. burying about a hundred of the children in the debris The others escaped COUPLE DEAD IN CRASH. AUBURN. N. Y. June 27 —A and a_woman helieved to be Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Haake of St. Paul. were killed vesterday afternoon when their automobile wus struck by a freight train on the New York Central | railroad at a grade croseing a mile | west of Auburn. The automobile was | dragged 100 vards along the traek | and the man and woman were rolled up in the wreckage. The man was beheaded. | A card bore the name of Charles | Haak Department of Justice, | i ates circuit court of | Taul. g ring on the . bore the initials, “C. € man an woman's . | When tion on | here THE EVEN EDUCATION CONTROL HELD ABRIDGEMENT Fundamental Rights of the Parent Iuvolved, Is View of Catholic | Bishop. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 27.— Control of education was declared to be an abridgement of fundamental rights of the parent by Bishop Joseph Schrembs of the Cleveland Catholio diocese in & sermon opening the twentieth annyal meeting of the Catholle Educational ocintion A mass preceded the first busi- ness session. The bishop ussailed the allega- tion that parochial schools are un- American and unpatriotic, citing Catbolie enlistment in the world war. According to population. this should have been 16 per cent, he saidl. but records show it was st least 25 per cent The Catholic educational system in the United States. Bishop Schrembs gald, consists of fifteen universities, D09 colleges and academies, and 6,406 parochial s s, with a total en- rollment of nearly 2,000,000, Russia was declared to be the only | nation that denied the right of the parent to teach his child as he sees fit. “Are w ign ourselves with Russia or the civilized nations of the world?” Bichop hrembs asked. Several departmental meetings were -eld. In the college wection Rev. albert C. 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