Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1925, Page 16

18 10000 N GO00S N ROBBERS CACHE Two Arrests of Suspects Dis- close Steaiings Stored in Old Building. - By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 27.—Two men were arrested last night, charged with being members of a band. of robbers and bootleggers, whose caché of stolen goods, estimated to be worti1 as much as $1,000,000, was discovered yesterday in an old two-story 'build- on South street. . e suspects - said they .were Patrick Mitchell, a laborer, and Max Price, a salesman, both of New k. They are charged specifically with stealing yesterday from the Ware- house of Pincus, Sachs & Lo. $30,000 worth of woolens, which were found in the warehouse. They denied the charges Electric Ray Fish That Could Stun Elephant Is -Gift Special Dispatch to The Star, DANVILLE, Va."March 27.—Dr. Russell J. ' Coles, tobacconist, whose hobby is deep sea fishing, and who taught the late Theodore Roosevelt harpconing of devil fish, ‘has presented to the Museum of ° Natural History in New York' a glant specimen of ‘the electric ray He' caught it off Morshead ty. N. %, last week. It welghed 0 pounds, and, aceording to Dr. ‘oles, had a.sufficlent charge to tun an celephant.” nded near his boat, X by a receding tide. Members of his: érew prévented it from re- gaining the sea. When dead 'the electric energy, stored in what Dr. Coles describes as batteries near +the head of thesfish, was found to be negligiblel It was placed in | preserving fluid and shipped to the curator of” the museum. Montreal is !the world’s greatest inland port. 7L LT LT LT L e T 7T 22 227 T 7T THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, FRIDAY, MARCH .27, 1995, sl PRIZES ARE AWARDED IN SEAL SALE WORK | Musical Program Among!Features Z'6f Celebration at Tuberbulost ¢ Hospital. . Patients at the Tuberculosis Hos- pifal who were able to come down to the dining” room after dinner last évening heard”a progrdm “of speak- mg and music in celebration of the final report and award of prizes to .| the ward team captaing making, the best record in the sale of ‘Chrisimas seal iDr. J. W. Peabody, supetintendent, introduced Edwin 8. Potfer as the wepresentative of * the ' Tuberculosis Assoclation. Mr. Potter told of the success of the Christmas seal sale in general and gave out the total of 438.11 as the amount of cash real- zed by the hospifal” teams In their part of the sale, a gain of $26 over last year's sale. He then awarded the prizes, con- sisting of two large rose trees in ptain of Ward IV team, credited with the sale of $144 worth of seals, and to Miss Pea- cock, captain of Ward II team, cred- ited with the sale of seals to the amount of $82.10. Miss Maynard’s report of the sale gave special. praise to the - worki of the occupational therapy department under, the direc- tion of Mrs, Stewart and Miss Moses. The Departmental Players, under, the management of John J. Camp- bell, gave the musical ‘and ‘dancfng’ program. They included: .Phil Hay- den, blues singer; Columbus and Becker, eccentric dapcers; Catherine O'Brien, whistler; Jean. .McCauley, soloist; Jack King, ventriloquist; Pauline Healy, soloist, and: Charles Wright, planist. 7 BALLOONS ENTERED. BRUSSELS, March 27.—Three Ameri cans, two, Frepch and two Spanish balloons already Have been entered for the.frst réniewal of the race for the second :Gordon Bennett cup for lighter:thantalr cri The rate will be started June 7. . The British Aero Club has inform- ed the committes having the race in charge -that three English balloons will participate NEW RADIUM CLAIMS - AMAZE BRITISH EXPERTS Story That Curative Value Is In- creased Is Discreditgd ‘by Scientists. By the Associated Press. * MANCHESTER, England, March 27. —Officlals of the Radium Institute here 'expressed amsazement upon learning. of ‘the ‘announcement.bye: pert§ aftachiéd to the Middlesex Ho: pital {u London that they had si J The Best Watch Vd.lfié_v-Eéér Offeréd ceeded in bottling radium gas. Sir Willlam Milligan, secretary of the Radium Institute, says the gas was bottled here a decade ago 4nd’| Two Men and Girl Die in Grade that the Institute has been ‘distribut- ing radium ‘“seeds” or tiny gas-filled tubs, to the Manchester hospitals for the last six years. A London dispatch yesterddy telling they had successfully captured the|at a crossing by a Long Island pas- beta rays of radium, which hitherto|genger train near Highland Park. had gone to waste, and that the use radium thousands of times. THREE KILLED IN AUTO. ; Crossing Crash. LONG BBACH, N: Y., March 27.— Three persons were killed and fourth was last L of the Midalesex experts claims said | PIEnt when their automobile was hit Ou: is « The dead are Frank Vogel of New of these in conjunction with the|york, Vera-Kelley, e gamma rays would muitiply the cura-|and Ray Burke of Woodhaven, Long tive value of a given quantity of | Island. , of New York, Gertrude McDonrell, of is in the Rockville Center e Sanitarium with a possible tracture. No eyewitnesses to the accident were found. Five miles of railway lines Alaska are laid.on a glacler. AFLIN We made glasses for your grandparents. s as) m's oldest Optomotrical CLAFLIN OPTICAL CO. 922 d4th Two Men Questioned. Established in 1900 are also questioning two d they Open Every ‘ . | " to the Men of Was,fiington e , / . A 21-Jewel Ad justed Movement . : """ Fitted in Engraved White or $45.50 “Our Special”’. 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