Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1926, Page 2

b Arrested With Wife CURBING OF TRAIN SPEED IS URGED Commissioners Called Upon to Use Power to Limit Crossing Menace were heing vierime of Ta- de While funers! held tndar the grade-crossing koma Park. I velnpments indicaied Hon of the following the tHon neress eltmin: Wash aces services ne of the trazedy Manday K Vher the determina Distrier Commissioners of legisla vimed at nireduction in exterday Wi of all grads crossinzs i =ion these men and o lite Himb i he " s ety heads by Wash- Commis had hefare Rond them a posal Smith. 4 memi the CHARLEN PONZI AND WIFE PUT UNDER ARREST 36-Hour Search for “Finan- cier” Ends in Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville. PONZL freran Sunurhan Sanitaey lives in koma Park. s ihe Nl Mondays nowers nf Com- sneed of of n the Jolice et mmedi erassings Commissioners ta Avoused 1o ahnlitio: the Dist the el de th publi expressing 1o . m nination frself i auaries rced their consideratio hoard session are h sec huisel inz wipe Aanzero Representative Zihiman of Maryland. chairman of District committee. conferred Commi vesterda troduction in the H viding for elimination of ous grade rrossinze within lmits Mr. Ziblman leconed oSt of climinatin tr the cirv would 00, of which horne by ton Commis: intention - existinz Republican the Honse vith the " n 3 hill pro N danzer the i that the is crossinge ate SEO0 wvould be of Washing e A TACKSONVILL ¥ Fehrnary Charies Ponzi and his wife, Rosa | Marie A in the oce of Panzi's atternes. Frank Brennan here tods Dinses were served by sheriff < depn endinz 36-hour search the “financier Ponzi ais 1o e taken 1o the Criminal Court | Buildinz he desired to make hond Ponzi harzed | with violating the ne fo the condie declarution of 1 a Davis ( of ¥ e<tod Tk fes ] £200,000 + where he taxpayers on tour counts Florida law relat of husiness under si. He was in punty grand jury laie Mondav. while in Tampa drove from Tampa to Jackson ville, arriving vesterday morning. and evaded arrest until today 1o com lete angemenis for his defense and making bond SPANISH AVIATORS AT BUENOS AIRES 'Franco and Comrades Com- plete 6,232-Mile Voy- age From Palos. Rack Zihlman Measure, The ting Cinizens i Disrrie cory Conncil Building last | behing | dicted hy lition = night. place the Zihiman of all zrade rrossings Mr. Smith <aid in ity hea vas convinead that Commissioners. tnde. -xisting have the auihority 10 e speed nf frains within rthe n a5 1o protect the lives ans and motouisis letier 1o the the law the Distriet of pedes. | safeguard the public | that the Distrie: has for “h weir riz s streets He poinied Court of Appeals of the sustained the Commiss < in enact ing an even moe drastic regulation ! requiring 1wa railroads to brinz their trajns to a full stop hefore crossing atreets iraversed hy streai railwavs within the Distriet af Calumbia Running on Schedule. J. 0. AMiller ™ assistant supervisor Metropolitan _branch of the Baitimore and Ohin Railroad. whose Capitol Limited killed Alexander | Dunn. 68-vear-old crossing watchman at Chestnut avenue Takoma Park and Alexander Gregorv. 9-vear-old achoolboy of Takoma Park. Monday morning. sald the trains of the rail- road are required hv schedule 10 main tain a certain speed through the Di: triot. The Capitol Limited. due in Washington at 8 o'clock. thunders threugh Takoma Park every morning ' ihis afternoon tr &t a speed approximating a mile a pieting their 6232 mile minute. | Palos. Spain Although the Commissioners are in e favor of speedv elimination of all MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay. February grade crossinge. It was pointed out |10 (#).—Four Spanish airmen—Comdr. Franco, Capt. Ruiz de Alda, Ensign 8t the District Rullding todav that tegislation for aholishmeni of the ' Duran and Pabla Rada. mechanician Michigan avenue zrade crossing s |- King Alfonso’s am now hefore Congress and thal funds. ' Air, vesterday completed another aven though insuffcieni. have heen | perilous lap of their fight from Spain appropriated for construction of a | to Argentina. and now are less than 200 miles distance from Buenos Aires, viaduct under tha tracks of the rail yosd at the Lamond crossing. where | The commander left Rio de Janeiro at 7:21 a.m. and made a successful three persons were killed a vear ago or this reason the Commissioners landing at P will take up on Eriday only the three | The seaplane flew crossings for which legisiation has not | 8nd then alighted at hean Arawn up. These are the cross. ' 1he harbor. - President Serrato’s military aide ings at Chestnut street. Bates road | nr Varnum street and Quarles streel, and the chief of protocol of the for- whera the tracks of hoth the Baltl-|eign office welcomed the aviators. more and Ohfn and the Pennsylvania i Franco announced that he would fross. When hids were opened last|resume the flicht to Ruenos Afres vear to sliminate the Lamond cross | this afternoon and hoped to reach rthe ing the amount appropriated was| Argentine capital at 4 o'clock. found to he ineuficient to cover the | e | AUGUST By the Asso RBUENOS ATRES, Argentina. snary 10 The Spanish trans-Atlantic aviators arrived here at 12:17 o'clbek m Montevideo. com- vovage from over Montevideo the entrance to BECK DIES. Boy Vietim Buried. | eral smervices for the Gregory | z vr:;,; wers held at 130 oclock this | Foreign Music Authority, 81, Suc- afternoon at the Preshyterian Church | Here {n Takoma Park, with Dr. Thomas C. | 5 lark officiating. Interment was al| august Beck, Rl vears old, an Rock Creek Cemetery. Services forlgythority on foreign music. died at Mr. Dunn. who gave his life in an @t | hjs residence in the Dunsmore gpart- tempt to rescue the boy, will be held | ments, vesterday morning at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning At Beck was born in Altdoof. the Epworth Methodist Church He is survived by hie widow, Gaithershurg. Md.. where the waich- | yjrs. Anna Beck: three daughters man lived. Rev. .1 . Sinclair, paStor | yire Fdwin ¢allow of this city, Mrs of the church. will officiate. Rurial| garnest 1. Hoffman of Jersex City, will he at the cemeterv at Neeles J.. and Mrs. Charles Enzian of ville, Montgomery County ndber, Pa., and s son. Theodore A coroner's jury at the morgue 1ate | Back of Huntington. T, Buners) vesterday held that the doubie ragedy | carvices will he condy was accldental and recommendad 10 | hapel femerrow morning ratlroad officiale That & profecting gate | oiaek ha erected an afther side of the Chest- | nur street crossing Neither the Ta mend crossing nor the Chesinut street ! erossing = protected by gates. | “It must he remembered that the railroad tracks run at a sharp down grade across both of 1hese crossings. Mr. Smith told ihe Commissioners. | “Furthermore, the Chestnut street | crossing s but a few hundred vards Aatant from a sharp curve in the tracks near North Takoma. and the viaw of tha easthound track i ob mevred at hoth crossings. | doubt if any frain moving At the speed at which the express tralns of the Bal fimore and Ohin roming into Wash. | ington are operated at these points ~ould be stopped within less than one half a mile” Speed Curh Held Need. “In view of the increasing use of antomoblles rather than streat cars and particularlv the necessity of the protection of the lives of school chil dren at the points 1o which 1 have raferred. it seems clear that a regu mtion limiting the speed of trains within the District of Columbia to that fixed under existing regulations | rallroud operates fis traius. which for street ears, wonld unguestionably | hus for some vears been a subject be approved by the courts.” | of weueral comment and criticism in Mr. Smith added that in the case|the community.” ragniring the frains of two rallroads| He sald he would send a copy of to come to a full stop the rallroad | his letter to Chalrman Zihiman of the company. In contesting the validity of | Houxe District committee. the Teguiation. claimed it would eanse rminaue delays in the transportation of passengers. majls and interstate esmmerce, and wonld serionsiy inter fere with and interrupt the business | of the railroads. 1 have no doubt that similar ohjections would he in rerposed to a regnlation limiting the | speed of traine. In view of the ur gent necessity for auch a regulation, I | bave no doubt that the courtx wouldy declare it entirely reasonable and a proper exercise of the police power. “Y am sure that if u police regula- tion were promulgated by the Com- missfoners of the District of Columbia the action would meet with universal approval and would be effective as a temporary relfef until such time as | these grade crossinzs can be elfmi nated in due course. 1 earnestly re quest that the Commissionara give sar- isus and immediate consideration to this matter. ‘While 1 am sure the Commission- ers are using avery effort to secure « cumbs I at the appropriations necessary for the elimination of the remainder of these crossings, 1 respectfull suggest that the urgency of the situation does not permit u deluy in taking whul 1 am convinced would be effective action to afford immediate relief peunding such time as the appropriativns dre avail- able and the wdtk of constructionre cun be completed. hese accidents vecur constantly in spite of precautionary measures, which the rallroad has been required to take, such as the instaliation of flashing signals and the assignment of waichmon. In my opinion. they are due in a large measure to the excessive and altogether unreason- able and nnnecessary speed at which express traing over the Metropolitan branch of the B. & O rajiroad literal Iv tear ipto Washington, particularly shortly before 8 o'clock in the morn- ine. when the thoroughfares are crowded with chiliren on their way 1o the Tekomu, D. ¢ School. 1 huve hud veeadlon frequently to ob serve the terrific speed ut which the | Draw Checks to Joshu 436 Evening ssadors of the | ed at Wright's | 1 The Instructive Visiting Nurse Society Appeals to You for Help! Grippes! Colds! Pneumonias! 300 New Cases in a Week ting Nurses Fight Hard to Meet Calls Will You Send INHERITANCE TAX VOTE DUE TODAY Senators Now Confident of Passing Entire Tax Bill by Saturday. By the Acsociated Press, In agreement to vote today on the posed repeal of the inheritance the Senaie entered its second of debate on the tax-reduction | o, confident of passing it by .n tax week measu of ommended by and supported [ and Democratic tited one of in the the inheritance lax, the finance commmi by both Itepubitcan leaders, nas consti the three mala Azhiing rec ee pinis L fident of the sime for this provisten ax accom. their defense of other con troversial items of the bill reduction of the maximum surtax rate 1o 20 | per cent and repeal of the law allow- | ing publication of amounts of in- come [ax payments. Ax on the other two major me members of hoth parties are opposed 1o the repesl of the in heritance levy. Bui. following a de- cixion on thix question. managers of the bill expect the Senate to Aact quickly on more than a score of other amendments pending. Democrats Take lLead. Democrats took (he lead in the tight for repeal of the inheritance | levy, which the House bill would tain, but with modified rates and with w0 provision sllowing & credit | of A0 per cent for payvments on State | inheritance taxes. They argued [ the inheritance field should be entirely to States and insisted | Federal tax 'originally wan levied purely ax A war measure. They alao | contended thai the provision \ %0 per cent credit constituted | of States, since the Statex have to increase their rfhies full advantage of the pro- panied Aghts, £ an K0 coerc wonld ain vision Opponents xrgued that if the Federal Government retired from this field of taxation now the States soon would follow the lead of Florida and Alabama in lifting the tax. They denied it was a war tax. and pointed out it was im posed in 1916 hefore this country went Among the amendments yet to he acied on are some Proposing repeal of the admission and dues taxes, all au tomobile taxeswand all stamp taxes Passage of the bill this week will as- sure tax reduction by March 15, when first income tax installments are due. THE EVENING. STAR. WASH INGTONX, D. €., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY - 10. ‘1ove. SCENES HERE AND THERE IN CITY’S FIRST BIG SNOW OF SEASO The bill now provides for savings of | $216,000.000 in personal income taxes 1lone. with the reduction applicable on incomes of 1923 on which taxes are pavable this year i The vote on the inheritance tax Was put aver until todav, after seven hours of debate vesterdav, which revealed considerable difference of opinion on the proposed repeal The exchunge hetween Senator Cou- zens. Republican, Michigan, and Chair- man Smoot. which occurred Monday aver an alleged violation of an agree- ment. had un echo last night when | Senator Blease, Democrat, South Caro- lina, insisted on objecting to entering into an agreement to vote today on the inheritance tax I don't want any other Senator cheated from time in which to speak as was Senator Couzens yesterdas Senator Blease shouted "pon assurance of Senator Couzens that he approved of the agreement, | however, Senator Blease withdrew his objection. Melion Named Again. Secretary Mellon's name was again brought into the Senate today. Senator Norris declaring Secretary wonld be favored by peal of the inheritance tax “*Mr. Mellon.” he said. “‘got hix for tune by the help of the protective tariff and the law licensing the sale of intoxicating llquor. Wonld it not he fair. then, to give back a portion | to the people not so favored by those | [ 1aws or by money” | Senator Norris declared the bill not | onlv provided repeal of the fnher- | ftance tax, a proviso which he said | was opposed by the American Farm | Bureain Federation,”but also would | allow a retroactive reduction in the inheritance rates. the re- WAN JURY FIGHTING | 22.HOUR DEADLOCK TO DECIDE ON FATE | (Continued trom First Page.) | men filed -ont of the courtroom in custody of Deputy Marshel W. J. Mullin, and a moment later, Wan, accompanied by his guard. Deputy Marshal C. Ceriraele, was taken to a| cell on the fioor below the courtroom. | | As the time grew longer and longer, | | the 100 or more spectators began to | disperse, and at 6:15 o'clock the jury | was taken to the St. James Hotel by | Chief Deputy Marshal S. B. Callahan for dinner. They returned about an hour later, at which time the group of spectators had Increased to a num- ber that filled the courtroom. At 10 o'clock .Justice Stafford ordered the Jury locked np for the night. Wan. in hix cell below. was visited by several newapaper reporters and he greeted them with a broad smile and & hearty handclasp. When told that Justice Stafford bad gone to din- ner and would return about 7:30 o'clock. the prisoner lovked up at the clock and suld: “Yex. {t's heen more than twu hours. Bwt would you please excuse me, ws 1 have some veadiug to do?” From those close to him il was learned he was extremely optimistic In his address to the jury, Justice Stafford reviewed the principal parts of the case and emphasized that the elements for consideration were in the Indictment which declared the Chinese “felogiously. willfully, pur- posely and of 'his deliberate and pre- meditated mdlice.” murdered Wu. Thone elements. the court explained, constitute murder in the first degree. However, it the words “of his delib erate und premeditated malice” are removed from the indictment the charge of murder In the second Jdegree remuains If the evidence satisfied the jury be- yond s reasonable doubt that Wan comumlitied the offense named in the indictment, it must convict him, but if u reasonable doubt existed that he | did not commit the crime, the de- | fendant must be acquitted, the court | declared ! .$2 0r 85 discusaion | | partment has made a move which will Top—Clearing away the sno One of the all-night parkers, main streets passable. buried under deep drifts today. Lower right—One of the 3 the front gate of the White House, and setting a good example for other | plows on duty today, whi FXCESS PROFIT TAX METHOD APPR 'KANSAS CITY DELEGATION GOING 'TO HEAR MARION TALLEY’S DEBU []VEI] Special Cars to Carry Friends to T ew York Next Wednesday, When Hometown Girl, 19, Makes Senate Adopts Amendment Authorizing Computation Plan Treasury Used. the Associated Press | KANSAS CITY, February 10.—A [targe detecation of Kansas City so- ciety folk and music lovers will greet Marfon Talley. 19-vear-old soprano, When she makes her debut at the Me- tropolitan Opera in New York next Wednesday night Three special railroad cars, leaving here February 14, will carry part of the hometown friends of the singer, who will be on hand to witness her realize an ambition seldom attained by one s0 young. About 50 persons are expected 1o travel in the party. Others, who will go alone or in the East aiready, will swell Kansas City contingent to hundred. Among se who will witness Marion's triumph will_be her father, *. M. Talley, a railroad telegrapher. . A. Harzfeld, local attorney, wha has done much tn enconrage Marion's 12X | myusical education, obtained 138 tickets, Ry BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Quietly ing #na without attract De and almost attention. the Treasury save the corporations and business world generally about $73.008.000 in taxes and manry times thAt in finan- cla: embarassoent. | the Senate | has adopted. at the suggestion of the Treasury. an amendment to the reve nue bill whereby the existing regula tion on which virtnally all the exceas profits tax cases of previous vears were settled will not he disturbed It all resulted from a decision of the Supreme Court of the [nited States in respect to a munition case. Lawyers and experts promptly | nna all were exha drew the inference that ull excess "'y o e o Caia profits tax cases were affected. and | citinns might be the Treasury shared the view to such | an exient that the amendment was prompily inserted The point at lssue was whether the ment of income taxes on March ur subsequent installment dates fn any venr permitted the corporation | to regard the puyinents ax coming out | of surplus fo vear in which tuxes were puid or the preceding vear: It was important because ex- cess profits taxes were computed on the relatiouship of earnings to in. vested capital. If the suiplus for the vear 1918, for instance. were $10,000.- 000, and a tax payment of $1.250.- 000 were made in March, 1919, the question was whether the surplus for 11918 was $8,750.000 or $10,000.000. The Treasury has always figured that it came out of the surplus of the yeur on which the tax returns were computed, namely "~ 1918 in the tllustration given. And that ruling | now will be written into Taw i duted su nu doubt on the exist . ‘There would also have been differ euces in the amount of tax due be-| cause us the rutes of taxalion were reduced they affected puyments of succeeding years and it would have Been generaily confusing if all ‘?e cor: poration returns had to be revised in e s The lght of the new interpretation. | He Jadlee siboue wih Seon The incident, however, illustrates; 8 ®, the danger which the Treasury faces from time to time in the attitude of the courts toward regulatfons which have heen accepted virtually as law |COUETRE for several vears and which may CUREREE, L cause the reopening of many cases . SUE E OF TO0 to have been settled. burtal will take place. easury ix working in close co- )l was B0 veurs With Congress on such #d- o e ive prov these.nnd in New York Al present the regulations huve been et Ay revised in the light of experience to < A such a point that fU i belleved very | por frequently the condition of a com- little amendment will be necessary pany five vears ufter n decision has If the present law should develop heen made Is not good as when defects, however, it s the expectation | tax payments were originally made of the Treasury to ask for amend:|and retroactive action is generally w e the several that the Kansas accused of being to say that such wax not the case ““Thix entire thing strikex me ax one of the most romantic chains of events in modern times.”" he said. “An entir FRANK 1 FARRELL FATALLY STRICKEN Former Owner of New York Yankees Dies of Heart Disease. point By the Associated Pres ATLANTIC CITY, N. Februar 10 FFrank. J. Farrell, foriier owner of the New York Yankees, died sud denly of heart disease this morning at !'the Ritz-Carjton Hotel. ity last Friday, | panied him and he was app jcovering from the illness Mrs. Farrell accom- Bntly re. when' the New and way 1o service Id. He owned s, and was In politics an ion a livans, Jr., Treasurer Star Building ments at the Decembher session of | frowned upon as unfair. The tendenc: | Congress. _Roth Houses have in the | naw ix to secure the validatfon by law [ past heen~willing to correct adminis- |of regulations that were adopted in | trative inequities, especially when it | the early stazes of the income tax so has meant a saving to the taxpaverias tn result in a= little embarmass- ! not only in money but time and credit. ment as possible to all concerned. ¥ ed some time ago. | Talley's claque, but he hastened | i vice of his physician came to Atlantic | Bow at Metropolitan. | city has combined to make a career for a voung girl. She has the nat andowment to justify such action There will he thousands of K Citlans at home who will watch intense interest the reception Miss Talley In her first opera appear ance. as her musical career has heen more or less & civic concern ever since <he gave indications that she was en dowed with a remarkable volce. In 1822 more thun 6000 persons crowded Convention Hall in u civie concert for the young Singer. Ten thousand dollars was raised 1o send her to Kurope for training At the age of 15 she had an andition At the Metropolitan and Otto Kahn predicted that she would be singing on the Metropolitan stage within three vears. She sang several selections she had learned from phonograph records for the officials. At her debut. nsas wit given after four vears of trafning in the TUnited States and abroad, she will have the role of Gilda In “Rigoletto.” Although singing was her delight from earliest childhood. no particular note was taken of her voice until she began to sing in church and some of | the logul choral societies. DRUG OVERDOSE KILLS ENGINEER Robert F. Eastham Acci- dentally Uses Sleeping Po- tion Excessively. An accidentul overdose of u sleepiug potion caused the death of Robert F. Kastham, 43 years old civil eaxineer und road expert for the Department of Agriculture, his home. 1341 Madison street. Eastham arrived home early last night and decided to retire at an early hour. A chronic sufferer from in somnia. he took dosex of a prescrip. tion given him by his family physician from time to time to induce sleep Those who saw him last night stated early today at that he was in good spirits and gave | no evidence whatever of depression About 1 o'clock this morning he com plained of feeling sick, went tu the bathroom, where his wife heurd him fall s Dr. Lewis J. Battle of 1401 Kennedy | street, w riend of the dec not the physician sleeping potion, was summoned pronounced Eastham dead. The sleep- ing potion had evidently acted as heart depressive and the doses. taken from time to time during the evening, had apparently caused death, it was sald- MF, Bastham fs mirvived by his widow, Mre. Mary B, Eastham, and in the Distr zood service COURT OPPONETS T0 CLASH AT POLLS Anti-adherence Forces Will Try to Prevent Re-election of the Advocates. e awne render K toft— 12 the d By the Associated Press Senatnrs who apposed each o the World Conrt fight like will corr to grips again, this time he fizht at the hallot box Opponents of American adhesion o the sition seek lection who joiging the Thix appears as the first ¢ of an informal cone neflables last n ator Rorah. Repu ameng leaders | against the adherenc adopted hy the Senate it continuing appo- in oa p to the | wilt! nt o prev re-eles ol those advocate tribunal velopmer the irr ealled hy Sen- Tdaho, who the fight resalntion Reed and Rorah to Radio. Democrat. Missouri who wanld de- will Senator Reed | one of tha court feat itx friends in the elections pen that campaixn in dress before the Knights of Columbus tu Chicaro ou February 21 The fight agulnst court will be reapened by tor [ With . radio speech at vudio station to the Couk County publicans o Washing | birthday | J the Opportunity for Canvas. The conference of Senutors vest day was described as offering hp- portunity for a canvas of the sitia- tion and to hring out the views of in- dividual Senators as to their course of action It was attended hy all those who voted against adherence. with the ex- ception of Senators Waixon licun, Indiana, wnd DI, Democral, | | Washington 1 ln addition o Senators ) Reed, thoxe stlending we ‘“h‘»l:(!‘ Democrut, South | Shipstead, Furmer-Lubor ! Williwms, Missouri: La consin: Brookhart, luwu: Uowell iska & Id, Maine: Moses, mpshir Nye and Frazier,, M Schall, Minnesota: Johnson Harreld, Oklahoma. and Indiana, all Republicans. | | | Boral wlina Minnesotu Follett, Wix- Kota: liforni: ohin b by |v ‘ R . MRS. CATT A “SHUT-IN.” | | ! | Postpones Speaking Engagements Due to Ear Abscess. MINNEAPOLIS, Felrus Mrs. Carrie Chipiian ¢ fruge worker, was contined home of a friend here v i fering from an e speaking en, poned. l Her condition ix not serions 0P four young children. the oldest scarely 10 vears of age. Coroner J. Ramsa) eertificate of accidental viewing the body. ¢ | | Nevitt issued a death after | in | by 'BOARD NEAR CLOSE OF OIL INQUIRY Findings on Means of Pre- serving Resources Will Go to Presiden By the As The Federal Ol Conservat today dustr tinn troleum 1 drafting its Idge, who cre Guided by g address as chaiiman o which he know how « ded th Kesmen T the industry offered including eliminatic the trade and lawe T clude 4 Pre Roard received from leaders in the in fin ps- symposium of su Ving the Nation's eparatory President hoard Work's fo oxe e report ted open hoard, waid it o deposits sh fo- h st fe ches of aried proposala thin e conference, whic . on the hnard's amar % long investigation of industry. Cahinet departments and conseration the Nation h 1 pt t Asks for Opinions. phases of the whether pegre the ing had and that modified 1 Petrolenm Consumption by Antos Estimated Ke ¢ leaze iettme he hut he anx d e anxi + wminimum the fn o con hat econnm ime effect a_cure fie re more. Ha sald wld he saved and he ad which won yents hetween suspend Arill peric of Ol Opposes Restriction of the nomicil striction wanle the Tacitic is scarce is v " at production the such time of crode consumption of jets inereases to the point 1 the prod ' threat shortage pricos ad hoth te s « sumpt id whicl a4 Tow cost. The first cur b i puses. thie The oil contended, s in skical manner the ation of petrolenm resou. ish, president of the A lenm Institute co-nperati the hoard's eale br about , W ican the in ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE. Bessie E. Lovejoy Charges Cruelty promised ful institnte the reports and Desertion. Mrs. Bessie Lovejoy has filad suit for a limited divorce and alimony from Charles L. Loveioy. Thev were vied ut Baltimore. January 28, aud have no children. The wife churges cruelly wnd desertfon. Mrs Lovejoy suvs her husb t $19. 000 o wnother worm: owns Florida dand worth $300.000. she tells the court. and has an income of $30,- 000 annually In a suit for a limited divorce filed Margaret Meizinger against Lestar Metzinger, the wife charges that her hushand hurled & bottle at her and brandished a hatchet. They wera mar- ried at Rockville in 1919 and have one child. EVANGELIST’S TOPIC. Ward passion of Jesus. Dr. Isaac Stresses ‘“Com- Wird the evangelist, “*Th Compassfon of Methadlst Protes strossed the Holy Wil e held tha Avenue Methodist tarting nest Sun-, f Dr. Isauc preached on Tesus'" last niel Servicos at the First tant Chureh. e Spirit as the only The . North Carolina Proteatant Church, day.