Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1926, Page 24

RHODE ISLAND BUS SERVICE TO EXTEND Route to 22d and Monroe Streets Will Be Effective About April 1. An extension of the Rhode Island evenue bus line into Brookland will be put into effect about April 1 by the as a result of the action of the Pub- et(srd.)v Fourth street and Rthode Isjand ave- nue, to Twenty-second and Monroe streets. The extension was sought by the Rhode Island Avenue and the Brook S Associations and the traction com- vecent public hear- New Route of Busses. The busses under the new route will continue out Rhode Island avenue to rwelfth street, north to Monroestreet, east to Twenty-second then loop around Lawrence and street: and back from Monroe and Twentieth streets by the same route. The commission also approved the application of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. for permission to operate motor busses from Fourteenth and Kennedy siveets to the District line and into nearby Maryland communi- tie: issuing free transfer: to busses of its compan, and Kennedy st the Capital teenth and K The bus exclusive rights iy now will enjoy on Sixteenth street, through an agreement whereby the Capital ction abandons its bus gervice from Fourteenth and Ken- nedy streets to Sixteenth and Holly streets and the Washington Rail and Electric Co. discontinues its b sepvice from the District line to For- est Glen and intermediate points. Color Schemes Protected. GIRL ACCUSES FIVE MEN. Says She Was Held Prisoner in Hotel. March 12 (®).—War- charging statutory offenses against two prominent real estate salesmen and three other men were issued sterday after Miss Irene Sarrl made charges before the State's attorney that she had been held a prisoner for three days in a North Side hotel. The real estate men—John W, Hill and J. Arthur Dundas—were arrested and the others were sought. The men under arrest denied Miss Sarrl's charges, but said they knew her. They were released under bonds of $16,000 and $10,000. Miss Sarri, 23, said she had been lured to the hotel by one of the men and maintained that she was strapped mh a davenport during part of her stay there. COWEN IS ACQUITTED OF CLARK'S MURDER Killing Still Is Mystery After Jury Frees Admirer of Wife of Slain Man. CHICAGO, By the Associated Press ELIZABETH, N. J. March 1 The “hammer ‘murder” of William J. Clark of Hillsdale last November Still was a mystery today,and Joseph Cowen of Newark, an ‘hdmirer of Clark’s wife, was a free man for the first time in four months. Search for hte murderer is not ended, ho ever, Prosecutor Abe J. David inai- .. A jury vesterday acquitted . linked to the crime through circumstantial evidence and his ad- misslon that he “stole a few kisses” - Justice personal relations be- Mrs. Clark that “‘the defendant and conv! riction tween the continued, “while be guilty of moral not trying him “However.” he the defendant ma. turpitude, you on that charg On the night of November 3, last, Clark drove his automobile into his garage and his wife and her mother, A few THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SEES U.S. AND CANADA|BISHOP’S RITES PLANNED.|RARE STAMPS DISCUSSED. SIBLEY HOSPITAL FUNDS INCREASED Several Rooms Named. Workers Bring in $1,000 an Hour. Sibley Hospital campaigners today recelved donations to name several rooms in the new maternity building now under construction, and are striving to have all the rooms named, it possible, by Monady" Mrs. Florence H. Moflitt named a single room in the new building in memory of her husband, the late Dr. Melville M. Moffitt, while Dr. and Mrs. H. Turner gave funds to name a nurses’ room. Receives $1,000 an Hour. The Eventg Star also contributed $1,000. According to reports received at Sibley headquarters in the City Club, the fund is being iIncreased at the rate of nearly $1,000 every hour the. workers are out. Mrs. F. C. Reynolds and Maj. Ernest Van Fossen were the principal speakers at the meeting held today, at which the fund was given a healthy boost. Andrew H. Phelps, general chairman, presided. Unusually keen rivalry has devel- oped among the women's teams for the dafly awards given to the team securing the greatest amount of money within 24 hours, and the largest number of subscriptions. The team of which Miss Elizabeth Groves is captain was_high, with $1,055, while Mrs. J. W. Taylor's team won the honors for securing the largest number of subscriptions yes- terady. 5. H. De Groot, jr. was the prin- cipal speaker at yesterday's meeting. The closing meeting of the campaign will be held at 12:16 o'clock on Mon- n the City Club, when final re- will be gl\ en. Surgeom neheved Capt. Patrick 8. Madigan and First | Droperty are concerned. FILM STARS BUY ART. Harry Katz Estate Sale Draws Many Screen Favorites. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 12 (#). —Hollywood's film stars were heavy buyers at the auction sale of the estate of Harry I. Katz, musician and diamond broker, whose murder & year and a half ago never has been solved. Rudolph Valentino pald $5,000 for a painting by Granger, while Cyril Chadwick, another actor, purchased a painting by Keith for $8,000. Mrs. Tom Santschi, wife of the vet- eran hero of Western flims, topped the list of buyers, paying $11,000 for an _antique Canton vase. The auction was held yesterday. MEXICAN LAND LAW SUBJECT OF LETTER | . Lopez Writes Consul at Tucson That Mines Are Exempt. By the Associated Press. TUCSON, Ariz, March 12.—The “prohibited zone" in Mexico, In which forelgners are not allowed to own lands, does not apply to mining prop- erty, provided the foreign owner does not Invoke the protection of his gov- ernment in legal matters affecting the property. This Information made public last night by Juan Evaristo Anchondo, Mexican consul here, following the re- ceipt of a letter from Francisco A. Lopez, federal agent of mines at Mag dalena, Sonora, Mexico. The letter states the presidential de cree of March 14, 1919, which denied foreigners the right to acquire mining property within a_zone of 100 Kkilo- meters (62 miles) from the boundary lines and 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the coast, has been abr ted. He explained the foreign owner or applicant must consider’ himself a Mexican citizen In so far as all mat- ters pertaining to acquisition of such If this agree- ment is violated, he said, the property will be forfeited to the federal gov- ernment. D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1926. IN CLOSER RELATION Senator Lenroot Says Continued Friendship and Justice Will Work for Advantage of Both. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 12.—Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin told Canadian club members at their an- nual banquet last night that con- tinued friendship and justice would bring the Dominion and the United States continually closer together, while neither need lose its individual- ity and institutions. ‘The senator cont system of three-party government with the two-party tem of this country, saying that under the latter form one party could be held com- pletely responsible. He criticized the system as practiced in this country, however, saying “There is too little sense of party obligation and too eager seeking for party benefits by officeholders. “I hope,” he said, “that the time may come when there will be two great parties in the United States, one constructively liberal in policles and the other constryictively conservative, without any trace of sectional, social or_religious prejudice.’” The proposed St. Lawrence water- way he declared to be an “undertak- ing which means more to the prosper- ity of the interfor of both countries than any project ever conceived by the mind of man.” Senator Lenroot also touched upon Canada’s public ownership of rail- . which he sald was against the of this country. He believed the question resolved into that of whether users of rallways should pay the full cost, or whether a portlon of the ex pense should be apportioned among the general public.” sted Canada’s Body of Polish Prelate Who Died in U. 8. Reaches Warsaw. WARSAW, March 12 (P).—The body of Archbishop Cieplak of Po- land, formerly Metropolitan of Viln: who' died February 17 at Passaic, N. J., reached Warsaw yesterday and was received with the highest hon- ors. The coffin will lie in state in the Cathedral of Warsaw for four /s, and will be buried in the Vilna ‘athedral on March 16. The funeral will be attended by the President of the republic and the highest digni- taries of the church and state. i e Slayer Gets Prison Term. GASTONIA, N. C., March 12 (®). —A prison sentence of not less than 15 years nor more than 20 was passed in Supérior Court here today on Jesse Vandyke, 23, convicted of second-degree murder by a jury yes- erda; Vandyke was tried for the slaying of Chief of Police A. L. Painter of Cherryville, after a “night of terror” there when he was alleged to have attemptegd to “shoot up the town. The shooting occurred last January Insanity was the plea of the de- SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON Attention! 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