Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1926, Page 7

HARGES MISUSE OF SCHOOL FUNDS Money for Repairs Used on New Buildings lllegally, Says Ashford. “The school authorities have vio- lated the law by spending money on new school buildings that was propriated for repairs on old one if the proper repairs have not been | 1winde on old buildings the superintend- ent of schools is to blame,” Snowden \shford, former municipal archite 10ld the District of Columbia Pul school Association at a meeting in the loardroom of the District Building st night. “I have been going before ngry years, and they are not niggardly weth appropriations. They never re- duce an item and er cut one when the Board of Education proves that is needed,” he added, indicating that, in his opinion, the lack of suffi- cient school appropriations has been due entirely to school authorities. Poor Results Shown. shford's statement followed Mrs. E Kalmbach, nd sanitation cemmittee, lleged to have b irs during “the ave shown better The school authorities il further criticism whe fter, first vice president of incion, sald the sanitary nking fourtains have been shut off several of the schools where there sve been epldemics of disease. “When on stop children from drinking ter you are carrving prohibition to the Nth degree,” she said. \ brief address was delivered by «. Susie Root Rhodes, superintend of municipal playgrounds, who criphasized that there Is less. space \4llable now for purchase for p <round purposes and said the ‘slow of playground development wa to lack of sufficient appropria linns. “You can go all over the city nd see where we could have bought Jkivgrounds and where we can’t buy thom now,” she sald. She declared that nearly all of the play. vent for re- *should ounds in Washington are too small | tor the number of children using thent. Other Matters Discussed. The remainder of the program in- | nded the adding of items to be Lrought before the District subcom- mittee of the House appropriations committee, Mrs. Rafter, chalrman of a special pchool playgrounds committee, was in- firucted to appear at the hearing to| a $60,000 appropriation yequest that maintenance of allowed for the £chool playgrounds during the year. | . B. Nutter, chairman of the asso- Lintion's committee on school expan- | +ion, was surged to present a request that an eight-room school building be erected in Bast Woodridge and to 1ake a plea for the erection or the yuirchase of a site for a junior high «chool in the HBrookland - Woodridge ection, as recommended by the Board of Education and included in the five- year school-bullding program, but cut out of tha estimates by the District Commissioners. He also was directed 1o ask for the erection of a modern fireproof school to take the place of o present Langdon School, the I 7222727, Climbing Up the Ladficv o ND every fonal committees for the past | !Army Flyer Safe | After Crash When i HisRudder Breaks Lieut. Corley P. McDarment of the office of the chief of Air Service sh in the air over for his life this morning n the rudder of the plane he was flying broke, but finally effect ed a safe landing, although the craft was destroyed in the crash. McDarment in Sperry Messenger, on a test and practice flight when the rudder went out of commission at an altitude of 1,200 feet. Jockeying desperately to keep the crippled plane from going into a tail spin, McDarment spotted a field. east of Anacostia, near the Washington Hebrew Con- | gregation Cemetery, and brought | the plane to earth, just clearing some trees. i He received a severe shaking up, but was otherwise unhurt. ¥ was a | JARDINE ADDRESSES Ezra Meeker, Pioneer, Pleads for Aid in His Memorial Trail Project. The growth of the State of Idaho starting from the time the first d- venturers drove their oxen across th prairies and ending with the return trip in an airplane of one of the pioneers, was described at the ter i ritorial day banquet of the Idaho State | Society at the Mayflower Hotel last night. Seeretary of Agriculture Jardine told of his early experience in Idaho an.d urged upon the fety the importan of establishing industries capabl handling the products of the S “No State can advance far from economical standpoint,” he said, “us {long as they persist in shipping their products to markets a thousand miles i | | Meelker, president of the Ore- il Memorial Association, and one of the oldest living pioneers who ventured into the West, told of his ex- periences with the Indians in ehe carly days and pleaded for the sup- vort of the society in furthering his memorial trail project. Meeker first went over the trail in 1802, then trav |ersed it in recent years on alrplane. Former Senator Fred T. Du Bois which the State derlved its name, Idaho, “Gem of the Mountains.” Others who gave short addresses, a1l dealing with hte history of Idaho, included Representative Addison T. Smith, Representativo Burton L. French, Mrs. Jesse Du Bois Fant, for- mer Senator Frank R. Gooding, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, president gen- eral of the D. A. R.; D. W, Davis, former Governor of Idaho, and David G. Wylie, secretary of the Oregon Trail Memorial Association. Dr. W. N. Johannessen, president of the socicty, presided, while Miss Toussaint Du Bois was chairman of the committee on arrangements. ter school to be equipped with two additional fire-escapes in the mean- time. Mrs. Rafter presided at the meeting in the absence of James G. Yaden, president of the assoclation, who was out of town. R e L 2 e 2222 T 777, IDAHO STATE BODY | narrated the old Indian legend from | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOX, D. C., '.["HURSDAY, MARCH 4. 1926. FURBERSHAW HERE .~ AFTER ACQUITTAL Dry Agent, Who Killed Alleged Bootlegger, Out of Service, But Not Barred. { i | | | | Joseph D. Furbershaw, former pro- hibition agent, is back Lome today at 80 R street receiving congratulations from friends on his acquittal by a Bal- timare jury yesterday on a charge of killing John Buongore, alleged boot- legger, at Havre de Grace last Au- | gust 1. ¥ | He is undecidéd, according to rela- [tives, as to his plans for the future. He may g0 to France, where his wife and two children have been visiting relatives. His status in the prohibition unit was explained by Prohibition Director Jones today, who said he had been | separated from the service without {prejudice. He was suspended from duty following the shooting of Buon- gore. On October 15, Director Jones said, he was dropped from the rolls “without prejudice,” with many oth- ers during reorganization of the pro- hibition forces. No Bar Against Service. ! “To return to work,” Director Jones said today, “he would have to make application again. If we find that we {can use him, there is no reason why he should not receive an appointment. There is nothing against his record { here. Furbershaw returned to Washington | last night with his brother George, { who lives at 640 Fifth street northeast. »lated by his axoneration. After a meal at the home of his brother, he return- ed to his home at 80 R street, where | he spent the night, and where he will | reside pending other plans. Wife Formerly Here. Exception was taken by Furber- shaw's relatives to an account of the trial contained in a dispatch to The s yesterday from Baltimore in vhich It was stated that he told of »eing unable to bring his wife to this | country. As o matter of fact, it is | pointed out by relatives, hé actually | did bring his wife to this country and | ived here with her sbme time. Her | isit to_France, relatives and friends nform The Star, was merely to visit | her relatives there, and the occur- | rence of the trouble at Havre de| ace during her absence resulted in | the interruption of plans for Mrs. | | i ) izations which comprise the Booster | PLAN FIVE-YEAR DRIVE. East 'Washington Boosters Discuss Tmprovement Campaign. Determined that the entire eastern section of the city shall have im-| provements, the East Washington Boosters' Assoclation, recently organ- ized for that purpose, will embark on 4 campaign to start a flveyear im- provement program for that section of the city. The various associations and organ- er Association will compile what they | tiink necessary for the betterment of their particular section and will sub- | mit it to the central organization so | that all the organizations can com- | bine in advocating, the particular measures. Another meeting of the association will be held next week. E. J. Bren- nan {s president of the organization. o HOLY NAME SOCIETY PLANS FOR CONGRESS Elaborate Preparations Being Made for Eucharistic Meeting in Chicago in June. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 4.— Elaborate preparations for the International Eucharistic Congress to be held here | June 20-24 are being made by the Holy Name Society, a national or- ganization of more than 2,000,000 men. An appeal requesting every mem- ber to attend wus made by the na- tional director, the Rev. M. J. Ripple, | O. P. Tuesday evening, June 22, has | been designated Holy Name night and | impressive ceremonies will be held in the Soldiers’ I'feld Stadium, on the lake front. Cardinal Mundelein, a | visiting cardinal, and a prominent layman will address the men. Detroit socleties already have be. gun to make rbservations for 5,000 ' representatives for the congress, and it 1s belleved that another 5,000 from Detroit will be mustered later. A meeting of the Akron diocesan units | | was held retently and a campalgn is | now being conducted there to bring | a large number of Catholic men to the | congress. Big delegations from New. | ark, N. J.; Washington, D. C.; Baltl- | more, Cincinnati and Cleveland also have announced thelr intentfon to be present. e BUILDERS MAKE REQUEST. | Permission to Construct Covered Sidewalk Is SBought. | | i | Furbershaw’s return. During the time since August, when | Furbershaw was in custody pending | the trial, his mother, Mrs, Mary A Furbershaw, dled at the family home | on R street, but he was not permitted | to attend the fune . | WRECK TOLL IS FOUR. Another Dies of Hurts Received in i Illinois Central Collision. CHICAGO, March 4 (#).—The death | list of the collision of an Illinois Cen- tral suburban passenger train and a Michigan Central freight, which oc- rred here yesterday, was increased | to four todaj Carl Lindgren, 34, Chicago suburban train passenger, | | An ‘investigation to fix the respon- sibility for the wreck is under way Construction of a covered sidewalk on New York avenue near Fifteenth street on the frontage of the new Washington Building under way on the site of the old Home Life Build- ing was asked today by the bullders. The sldewalk would extend 6 feet into the roadway on New York ave- nue. The petition was made to Col. | John W. Oehmann, District buflding It inspector. Traffic. Director M. O. Eldridge, to whom the. petition was referred, de- | clined to permit the construction un- less the street car loading platform of the Washington Railway and Electric Co. at this point was removed. Only feet of roadway between the covered sidewalk and the loading nplatform if the platform as not removed. ‘The platform can only be removed . died at a hospital from his Injuries.| by direction of the Public Utllities cepted an Invitation to become p petition of the Baptist Church in Derby, Eng- | {land. | Commisslon, which has the now before it. 2 2 2 77 od, and, Wo step of the way, “Their Shoes” are a matter of you parents. must They Must fit shoes. port for made. cost—measuring the yvear than by up to “Arcade Shop” 3212 14th St. AL LI, —basement LOITLRAAIILI I/ 17/, pride—as wellasa real responsibility—to be efficient snugly, yet with ample toe room and sup- growing fe avoid trouble in later life. Of course, you want them to be good looking! And they must be zwell To stand a lot of hard usage, at the minimum of feet—to rather by the pair. N all these respects, “Gro-Nups” measure the highest’ standards of this 50- year-old House of Hahn! 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Nothing fs known of the circum- stances of the slaying, the Herron farm being located in an isolated sec- tion. They employed no help at the time of the slaying. Sheriff Allison declared Herron was the first slain. He advanced the the- ory that the killer attacked the farm er when Herron went into the build Ing to feed the stock. Then securing a rope the killer went into the house and attacked Miss Herron, whom he tried to force to reveal the location of the couple’s money and valuables Refusal to do so, the sheriff said, probably cost the woman her life. Officials said Miss Herron probably was strangled to death before being hanged from the ceiling by @ rope, in which position her body found by nelghbors. Herron, physiclans sald, died {netantly from a single blow from a sharp-edged instrument. A farm hand whose name is not <inown and who was employed by the Herrons for a few days left Monday. Authorities were informed that a negro was seen In the vicinity of the Herron home soon after the crime is supposed to have been committed. St i o GOVERNMENT AID SOUGHT FOR ENGLISH ARTISTS Work Better, But Geniuses Are Starving, Says Sir Joseph Duveen. By the Assoclated Press LONDON, March 4.—Artistic gen- {uses are starving in the garrets of Chelsea because they cannot sell thef paintings, many of which in a few vears may be worth thousands of pounds. On bel Was Never alf of these artists Sir Joseph farm _resi- | OLDEST SPECIES for Long Perio Little 1 The District today became the pos: sessor of two members of the oldest living vertebrate animals in the world the only representatives of the species anywhere in the United States, with the arrival at the National Zoological | Park of a pair of Tuatara lizards from | New Zealand. These two_strange creatures, which we among the few remaining of u | nearly extinct species, halfway be- | tween bird and mammal, are being | housed temporari it the laboratory office of Dr. Willlam M. Mann, director {of the Zoo. will be removed shortly to a ¢ one of the shelter houses of the park and placed on ex | hibition. ] Gifts of New Zealand. The two Tuatara I inches long, are the gift of tl z and government 0 rare hout 10 New is the species that the New Zealand govern ment permits their capture and ship { ment to museums of foreign countries | | | only after spectal permits have been obtained. The new arrivals at the Zoo dis played little interest. A phlegmatic type of animal, like the much larger alligator, they bask in the sun with their heads raised, remaining fE“ in one position for long periods. They | | FOR FRIDAY 'BARGAIN SPECIALS AS OFPERED BY KAPLUWITZ Duveen has appealed to Premier Bald- | win for government support in a move- ment to gain more interest for British Sir Joseph sa British art has never been finer than it is today. He urges buyers to search out the un known painters in Chelsea and buy paintings which are worthy of the home of art lovers, and may be had for a few pounds that would enable Though she is only 25 years of age, Violet Hedger, an English girl, has ac. or 2 DRE'SES | SIZE 36--1 SIZ2 45 FORMERLY $25 25 BEAUT FUL SILK GOWNS FOR AFTERNOON -NEW FASHIONS § l 4 83 REGULAR.Y $29.50 TO $39.50 FOR MADAM:—FOR v ~D MOISELLE 20 DNNER AND | COWNS—WER $75 TO t175 | FOR MADAME-FOR MADEMOISELLE STOAE OPENS 8:30 A. M. would remain YOUDE artist to live in greater comfort. ' ZOO GETS PAIR OF TUATARA New Zealand’s Gift Odd Lizards That Hold Up Heads | 721 NINTH STREET NORTHWEST ¥ 7 are to be found on exhidit in the National Museum. Unlike these © monstrosities of nature, hewever, t! comparatively tiny tuartara escal extinction, though it is to be feu today on two islands on the coast New Zealand. Abounded in New Zealand. Formerly they abounded in N Zealand, a land which has been a of back-wash of evolution, and w | al sorts of weird creatures of by, | ages still msy be found. | settling brought with him hogs, which rapi killed off the historic tuatara. Théy now are to be found only on two smdj! islands on the Bay of Plenty. The two tuatara given to the D“- trict Zoo are among the first ever tp | leave the Antipodes and are the fi | to enter the United States, accor | ing to Dr. Mann, who secured thej| only after most earnest solicitatidi W pleadeéfl As \r: absolu | { OF VERTEBRATES ds and Manifest 4 nterest. | of New Zeadand officials. | The tuatara lizards in their | tural state live in holes in the grou nd are an egg-laying sy S “Don’t ask me if they ba Dr. Mann, “T don't know. ve maintained an have jaws that are tremendously powerful for their size and are armed | along the ridge of their backs with a finlike row. | Though these animals lizards, they are not, strickiy | lizards and have a great histc lage of the species is estin | considerabl. more than ! ars. It notable as the relic of a distant geological era. 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