Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1926, Page 23

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The formation of the National Cap- ital Park Association was lauded as a valuable adjunct to the National Cap- ital Park Commission, and as a means of assisting in the develop- ment of the park system of Wash- ington, Urge 50-50 Basis. The committee urged that Congress provide that the Rock Creek and Po- tomac Park connecting link be pur- chased on the 50-50 basis, as provided in the bill passed In the Senate and now in conference. As_the purchase price is $600,000, the Federal Government under the 50-50 basis would pay $300,000, and the other $300,000 wouid come from the Distriot surplus fund. The saving of $300,000 by the District under the| 50-50 basis, the committee recommend- «d, should be applied to the purchase of other park properties. The com- mitiee also favored the purchase of | | part of the Dean tract at Connecticut | {and Florida avenues, now known as | Temple Heights, for a public perk. | 608 to 614 Featuring for Friday Favorecl FI‘OC l(S in the Inexpensive Dress Depl. 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LOCAL WOMAN HAS HEAD OF WITH WHICH SENATOR WAS BEATEN Relic Recalls Famous Attack in Congress 70 Years Ago, When Brooks Resented Speech on Slavery \ Seventy years ago a hot-headed rep- resentative from South Carolina en- tered the office of ‘an equally hot-head- ed Senator from Massachusetts and beat him over the 'head so savagely with a silver-topped cane that the Senator had to go to Europe to re- cover. The silver top of that cane now is in the possession of a Washington woman, Mrs. Champe Summerfield Fitzhugh of the Naples apartments, a distant relative of the wielder of the cane. 4 ‘The relic recalls one of the most in- teresting incidents in the history of Clongress. The principals were Sena- tor Charles Sumner and Representa- tive Preston Brooks. 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Historians say that Brooks entered Sumner’s room and found him seated at his desk, writing. He anounced he had come to punish Sumner and began beating the Senator over the head with the cane. Sumner started to rise, but fell unconscious to the floor. Spectators rushed to his assist- ance. Sumner was bleeding profuse- ly from cuts and bruises on the face and head. He suffered many months from the Injuries and finally went to Europe to regain his health. Brooks was censured by the House -|ADMITS OIL STOCK FRAUD. The cane later was presented {o Col. Alexander Spottswood Grigsby of Fairfax County, Va., a cousin of Representative Brooks, who had writ- ten the latter commending him for his attack on Sumner. Col. Grigsby gave the cane to his daughter, Mrs. Fitzhugh, who resides here with her daughter, Miss Champe Geraldine Fitzhugh. Mrs. Fitzhugh removed the top from the cane after the stick had been accidentally broken—not over the head of Senator Sumner. The silver cap bears the initials “W. B. B. to A. 8. G.” The former are the initials of Willlam Butler Brooks, son of Representative Brooks, and the lat ter are those of Mrs. Fitzhugh's father. o The cap places. is dented In several Naphtha Soap Appeal Denied. CINCINNATI, April 8 (®).—Peti- tions for rehearing of the appeal of the Proctor & Gamble Co. from orders of the Federal Trade Commission, re- Promoter Fined $1,000 and Must Serve Three-month Sentence. S8T. LOUIS, Mo, April 8 (#).—C. F. Carew pleaded gullty in Federal Court yesterday to using the mails to de- fraud in sale of Mecca Consolidated O] stock and was sentenced to serve three months in jail and pay a fine of $1,000. Carew was charged with falsely as- serting in sales literature that 2,000 acres of oll land in Texas were about to be drilled. He represented the stock as purely speculative, but inti- mated pennies would be rolled into dollars in short order. 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