Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1926, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, MUSSOLINT REAS countrymen a few min: assassination took place wh bullet passing through his nose. es after CENTENNIAL OF RAILROAD IS CELEBRATED AT and the modern locomotive, side Railroad. The first New York train started from this station, of the Mohawk division. CROWD AFTER ATT MPT UPON HIS LIF he had been shot ALBANY, N. by side, during the exercises of (he cv K by the Hon. Violet Al Mussolini was leaving Capitoline Hall, but he was not serious); and a tablet was unv ¥'s premier addressing his pson. The attempted v injured, the Wide World Photo : De Witt_Clinton, at_right, ntennial of the New York Cenfral d by Supt. Homer Copyright by Underwood & Underwood YEGES OPEN ONE ~ SON FINDS FATHER | OF THREE SAFES Get $25, Watch and Pistol | From Bottling Company. Two Attempts Fail. In these attempted safe hreakings ever the week end, amateur veggmen succeeded In ¢ ing one safe, were balked in their efforts with the other two. The safe that yielded to the ama- teur methods was that in the estab- | lishment of the Guzgenheim Bottling Co., 209 Eleventh street, from which the robbers took about $25 in cash. a gold watch and pistol. After en- tering the establishment through a rear window on the second floor, the thieves dragged the safe to a rear room and attacked it with a_hammer and hachet belonging to the firm, bat- tering off the door. Safe Battered, But Unbroken. While robbers who entered the Pepsi Cola Bottling establishment, ‘at 209 Seventh street southwest, failed to open the safe there, they battered it fo hard that members of the firm could not open it yesterday. It i= believed the same amateurs that entered the Pepsi Cola establish- ment had previously been balked hy the safe in the Nixon Rrewer Feed Co, 211 Seventh street. A number of cases of soda water were removed to gain access to the safe, which, however, was found intact. The office was ran: sacked but nothing taken. The apartment of Misses Sadie Kelly and Irene Kelly, on the fourth floor of 1307 Twelfth street, was en- tered Saturday afternoon and jewelry valued at $275 stolen. Laundry Entered. Le Sing Lin, laundryman, at 4640 Fourteenth street, returned home last night after a few hours’ absence to discover his Jaundry had been entered and $14 taken from the cash register. The store of Harry Jontiff, 1338 North Capitol street, was entered last | night and §5 stolen from the cash register. Thomas W. Collins, 1836 Fourth street, fell asleep in his room yester day afternoon and awoke to find he had heen robbed of a $65 watch. The establishment of John A. Koons, 119 Third street southwest, was rob-. bed of §7, it was found this morning. A pick, plece of pipe and other in- struments found on the premises had heen used by the burglars in thelr crude work of battering the door from the safe. The burglars had entered the place through a rear \vindow, and had ap- parently worn gloves while at work, police being unable to find prints of their fingers. ZONE CHANGES OPPOSED. Conduit Road Association Will Protest at Meeting Thursday. Proposed amendments to the zoning regulations which would permit the | construction of “community houses” in residential restricted zones, and to create a new area wher® only detached homes would be permitted, will be op- posed by the Conduit Road Citizens' Association at a public hearing of the zoning commission in the board room of the District building Thursday morn!ng at 10 o'clock The association’'s executive commit- tee will protest that the changes will defeat civic interests. but | DEAD IN AUTO SEAT No Marks of Violence on Body—Carhon Menoxide Thomas C. Homiller, 50 v {3923 Tlinois avenue t of his automobile in | a garage at 424 Taylor street | 11:30 this morning by his =on. G | Homiller. Homiller was employed the Department of Agriculture according to the police, was en | to_be married to- Mrs, Willie Kir | 508 Varnum street. | Homiller's hody was in a kneeling posture in the hack of his car, his head lying on the rear A pack- age, containing some shirts and a S urday newspaper, and his hat, were found in the front seat. There were no marks of violence on the hody but police are inclined to doubt that the man died from carbon monoxide poison, as the ignition key on his automobile was not turned on. | Poiice think that the hody has heen there since 11 o'clock Saturday night. Homiller w st seen shortly he fore 11 o'clock Saturday night, when he left Mrs. King's residence, sup posedly going to the garage to 1 his car. He had rented the ga from Tdwin RBillhiner, 424 street, for the past two Mr. Homiller is sur son and a daughter, Miss Pauline Homiller, both of 3323 Tlinois avenue. His wife died here some years ago, police say. ADDRESS BY DR. CROSSON St. Vincent Quarterly Session. Delegates from 21 parish confer- ences of the St.. Vincent de Paul Society opened their quarterly meet- ing yesterday morning at St. Mat- thew's Church with and com- munion. Dr. H. J. Crosson delivered the principal address, in which he spoke on ‘the health of the school child, basing his observations on a medical ination of 75 boys at The meeting was r by Rev. Edward L. Buckey, the pastor, and was pre- sided over by John H. Pellen, presi- dent of the Particular Council. Other | speakers included Rev. Dr. John | O'Grady, director of the Catholic { Charities of Washington, and Anthony | J. Barrett. the e Taylor 1 by his de Paul Society in breakfast was tes at the Iron Gate Inn by the ladies of St. Mat- thew's parish. . * 5 Serious Rioting in India. MADRAS, Tndia, April 19 (®).—-Se- rious rioting, growing out of agricul- tural disputes, occurred yesterday at Satyamangalam, 250 miles southwest of Madras. Six policemen were se- riously injured and a number of rioters were arrested. Order finally was restored and the authorities have forbidden, gatherings of more than four persons. ‘Winchester Presbytery to Meet. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., April 19.—The regular Spring meeting of Winchester Presbytery, one of the oldest in the | Southern Presbyterian Church, will he held at Keyser, W. Va., tomorrow and | Wednesday, with the opening by the ' Rev. Charles R. Bailey, retiring mod erator, Romney, W. Vl. AMERICAN GAME INVADES THE ORIENT AND JAPANESE CHILDREN PLAY IN YOKOH. AUAD) R Y SHOW. This portrait of King . #.. is the sensation of the current Roy; Academy show won a silver cup and $1,000, Nide Warld Photo the portrai so much attention that King George wi t without a sitter, it attracted it to the artist's studio to pose. Copsri siste et Aibina Gibson, Ashhourne, who at- tempt to assassinate Premier Mussolini of Italy. She refused to tell why she shot the premier when questioned by e e World Photo not as crowded with traffic as in Washington, and the games are not Snterfered with. Base b! the past few years, but it is now very popular. FICKLE GIRL’S SMILES STARTED GANG WAR IN WHICH 11 HAVE DIED (OFFICERS NOMINATED ve | Columbia Union, No. 101, Names T. C. Parsons and Dale C. Sheriff for President. ; N for the election of of- | ficers on May 26 were made at a meet- ing of the Columbia Typographical Union, No. 101, yesterday in Typo- graphical Temple. Twelve new mem- bers also were admitted. T. C. Parsons and: Dale: €. Sheriff were nominated for president. Frank D. Seiffert has no opposition for re- election as vice president. Other nominations were: For seeretary-tréasurer, George G. | Seibold and Fred S. Walker; sergeant- atarms, William C. Fechtig: door- keeper,. Edward W. Davison and Alpheus Sholl; trustee, Marsh A. Rodenhamer and’ Charles O'Connell; (auditors, John S. Beck, Carl V. Eck- dall, Ernest J. Elwood, Willlam M. Leath, Percy 1. Lowd and George G. White. For executive committee—Book and job, Robert W. Burnside, Boyd L. Henry, John L. Kelly, Charles A. Wolcott, Ernest E. Harris, George A. Carney, Lester S. Layser, Robert M. Kellahin, Edward W. Morcock, Ells- worth D. Homan, John 0. Cole, Thomas B. Foster and Fenton W. Crown; newspapers, G. Neal Carney, Clarence J. Desper, Dexter S. Hussey, Claude I. Mallard, Martin M. O'Brien, M. R. L. Stauffer, Charles Long, John John J. Gilchrist; linotype machinist, Clarence E. Lemerise and William H. iBmwn; monotype machinist, Charles Kiger. For delegates to the International Typographical Union —Government | Printing Office, Leo H. Poindexter, George G. Wilson, Charles M. Flan- agan, Edward A. Vogts and Stephen: M. Simpson; newspaper, Edgar T. Brown and Willlam B. Covert; other than daily newspaper, Altamont M. Rogers and Ira B. Priddy. For alternates to the International Typographical Union — Government Printing Office, Charles ¥. Mullen, Louis H. Smith and James R. John- son; newspaper, W. Barl Plantz and | George W. Lynch; other than dally newspaper, Willam F. O'Brien, T. Bradley, Truman N. Finch and | |“Max the Litwack,” Killed Yesterday, W Victim Of Feud Which Started When *‘Kid Drop- per”’ Leader Was Jilted. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 19.~A girl of the lower East Side transferred her smiles from one gangster to another three years ago, and by that whim caused the flaring up of a .bitter feud between two rival gangs of gun- men that has now taken®a toll of 11 lives. Max Goldberg, known ‘as “Max the Litwack,” was the eleventh victim in the warfare between the “Kid Drop- per” and the “Little Augie’ gangs. A woman called him by telephone early yesterday. As he was going to the telephone in the hallway outside his restaurant at 86 Orchard sireet, two gunmen silently opened the door from the street. They fired two shots and two bullets plerced Goldberg's brain. The gunmen escaped and the only clue the police had to the crime was the woman's telephone call and the number of the taxicab in which they believed the gunmen escaped. Goldberg was a member of the “Littie Augle” gang. His ' partner, Meyer Albert, also a member of the “Little Augle” gang, was killed in a street fight last vear. The rival gangs have maintained an almost even score in the notchings on their guns since the warfare started. The conflict started in 1923, when Louis Schwartzman, as “the Midget” and & member of the “Little Augie” gang, was shot down one evening as he was sitting on the doorstep of his home at 22 Rutgers street. Besides naim was Edna Churgin, who had trans- ferred her affections to him from Louis * Kaplan, the' “Kid Dropper.” Since then the feud has raged in the lower East Side streets and as far | uptown as East Eighty-first street. Soon after “the Midget” slaying the “Kid Dropper” himself was killed. ' He was shot down a8 he was legving Po- lice Court, surrounded by dbtectives, after being discharged in connection with the murder of Schwartzman. . Louis Cohen of the “Little Augies” is now serving a life term for the murder of Kaplgn. Members of thll “Kid Dropper” gang carried on the warfare for their lost leader. Morris Grossman, member of the “Kid Droppers,” met the most brutal death of the i1 victims. His body, with six bullet wounds, was found last September in a burning sedan in East Eighty-first_street. His slayers had saturated the car with gasoline and get it on fire. Grossman had just been discharged in connection .with the death of Albert. TWO POLICEMEN COLLIDE WHILE CHASING SPEEDER Motor Cycle Officers Crash To- gether, Both Thrown, One Hurt. Man They Pursued Escapes. While pursuing a speeding motorist on Benning road northeast shortly be- fore 2 o'clock this morning Motor cle Policemen Nicola and Fleisch- hauer of the eleventh precinct collided and were thrown headlong from thelr machines. Fleischhauer, injured about the body and on one foot, was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment. The speeder escaped. A half dozen others were hurt in trafflc accidents yesterday. ~None was reported in serious condition. Miss Martha King, 19, of 11 Seaton place, was driver of an automobile which crashed into a trolley pole at Fourth and Channing streets north- east yesterday afternoon, causing in- jurles to herself, her mother, Mrs. Anna King; Miss Dorothy Nesline, 21, of 34.T street, and Mrs. John Bor- den, 45, of 2411 K street, who were riding with her. Miss Nesline was taken to Sibly Hospital. Falling 80 feet from a parapet of | the “basilica ‘ot the Chirch’ of "Notre dame de la Garde at Marseille, France, recently, Ernest Brown, aged suffered. only a broken leg ang bruises, - GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS PROCLAIMED SUCCESSOR TO THRONE. Four hundred delegates from all parts of the world recently gathered-in Paris to proclaim Grand Duke Nicholas legitimate successor to the Russian throne of the Romanoff: general secretary of the Russian A MODERN KUSH FOR GOLD discoverers of the new gold fi ational Congress. IN THE MOJAVE DESERT. FEd and d in the Mojave desert, at the mouth of the Herkelrath shaft The photo shows part of the delegation listening to M. Semenov, Photo by Acme John Herkelrath and Joe Carroll, Gold-seekers from all parts of the country are floeking to the new El Dorado in search of the precious yelliow metal. AMA STREETS. Fortunately, the streets are taken up in Japan only during Photo by Acme CAPITAL TRACTION OFFERS BUS ROUTE Asks Permission to Let W. R. T. Act as Agent in Running Line to Rock Creek. The Capital Traction Co. asked the Public Utllities Commission today for permission to let the Washington Rapid Transit Co. act as its agent in operating the bus line from Four- teenth and Kennedy streets to the Rock Creek Park golf course. The request is expected to be granted. ‘When the traction company several months ago agreed to abandon its bus line from Fourteenth and Kennedy streets to Alaska avenue and Holly place and give the bus company ex- clusive rights to the territory on up- per Sixteenth street it retained the privilege of operating the bus line to the golf course. No reason was given in the traction company's application for its decision to turn over the golf course route to the transit company. The rate of fare proposed would be the same as on all other lines of the bus company—10 cents cash or six tokens for A0 cents. Free trans- fers would be issued from the bus to the Sixteenth street bus line or to the cars of the Capital Traction Co. at Fourteenth and Kennedy streets. Northhound passengers on the street cars, however, would be required to pay 2 cents for transfers to the busses at Fourteenth and Kennedy streets. WILL éPEAK AT BANQUET. Congress Members to Address Mon- day Evening Club. Representatives Begg of Ohio and Fish of New York wil] be, the princi- pal speakers tonight at the annual hanquet of the Monday Evening Club, to be held at Rauscher’s. John Bar- ton Payne will act "as toastmaster, while Dorsey W. Hyde, jr., president, will preside. The guests of honor. will be Repre- sentative Moore of Virginia, Miss Grace Abbott, Arthur Moses, Justice Frederick L. Siddons and Mrs. Gideon A. Lyon. PUPLS TAKE PART Tlg IN'FOREST WEEK Assembly Today in Central High Initiates General Observance. R..W. Dunlap, of Agriculture, speaks this afternoon at a general assembly at Central High School in observance of the opening of American Fores: week. This meeting and numerous others to be held dur- ing the week are under the joint au spices of the Washington schools and the United States Forest Service, Harry O. Hine, secretary of the Board of FEducation, presides at to- day’s gathering. The Marine Band will play and the film_ ‘“Trees of Righteousness,” will be shown Dr. John C. Merriam, president of Carnegie Tnstitution of Washington. | will speak at a similar program Wed- | nesday morning at 11 clock in the |New National Museum. _Assistant | Supt. of Schools Stephen E. Kramer | will preside. | Garnet C. Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent of schools, announces that N. E. Weatherless, head of the sclence department, and P. J. Ray- | ford, director of nature study in the | colored schools, will have charge of | special daily programs for the ob- | servance of American Fovest week. 220 HELD ON DRY LAW. Two-Day Campaign Nets Big Beer Seizure—158 Intoxicated. Police dry squads made numerous arrests and seizures over the week end. Arrests for all offenses involving the sale, possession and drinking of intoxicants during the two-day perfod totaled 220, the largest number, 158, | being for intoxication. There were 10 | arrests for driving automobiles while intoxicated. Seizures included 615 hottles of beer, the largest quantity of the beverage seized the past few months. Other seizures included 100 quarts of alcohol, 782 quarts.of whisky and 3 auto- mobiles, | FOR NURSES’ BENEFIT. 1 Because of heav demands for nurses who can teach, the American .special post-graduate courses at Pennsylvania State College and Col- orado Agricultural College, Fort Col- lins, this coming Summer, it was announced today. In six weeks of intensive training they will be taught the principles of teaching and will l‘l-o be given opportunities for prac- tice. These courses open on July 5 in Pennsylvania State College and on July 24 at Fort Collins. < Business houses, factories, schools and colleges are asking the Red Cross for nurses not only efficlent in nursing, but competent to instruct others in the principles of hygiene and care of the sick at home. Begun as an experiment four years ago in the school of public health attached to Simmons College, Bos- ton, these post-graduate courses for nurses in the Western as well as the Eastern part of the United States have now hecorge a permanent part of -college Sumi_er sessions. ant Secretary public | Red Cross has made preparations for | Warld Photo TIGHTENS 1S AP ONRUMSHEELER ‘Administration. by Measure l Proposed, Increases Effec- | tiveness of Coast Forces. By tha Associated Prese | * Coincident with the renewal of dis- cussion of further agreements with Great Britain for curbing rum smug | ling. another administration measure was drawn up today to tighten the e fectiveness of the present coast de. | fense against contraband liquor. The measure is the second piece of | legislation sent to the Capitol this month with the indorsement of As- | sistant Secretary Andrews, in charge | of enforcement, the other having been |a proposal to revise the Volstead act {to permit stricter enforcement. 1t would give Coast Guard officers | the right of search of American ves. | sels beyond the four-league limit; per- | mit exchange of 180 Liberty motors | held by the Treasury for a new flotllla | of speed boats; authorize eu | cers to refuse permits for small hoats | evidently equipped fi | vide for summar ndemnation | liquor boats; permit the Government | to employ retired military officers and | men in enforcement work, and effect a reciprocal arrangement forbidding im- | portation of merchandise into this | country which is regarded as contra- band | “Beyond the | 't that a move Is to he made shortly for a further agree- ment with Great Britain destined to stop the flow of liquor from England and her nearby possessions, Govern- | ment officials today would not discuss the new international phase of the rum situation which was disclosed Sat- |urday when it became known that | suuplemental understanding would be sought with the British government. A trip by State Department and | Treasury officials to London is in pros- pect in connection with the discussion which are expected to be held, and | Secretary Andrews. who will be a member of the group, expects to leave for London May 15, unless develop- ments make his trip inadvisable. HECHT CO. CLUB HOST. 1 Store Officials to Conduct Luncheon of Advertisers Tomorrow. Following the custom of the Wash- ington Advertising Club, the Hecht Co. will conduct the club’'s regular luncheon meeting at’ the City Club | tomorrow at 30. | An elaborate program has been ar- ranged under the direction of George | Snowden, publicity director of the Hecht Co. C. B. Dulcan, general | merchandising manager of the com- | pany, will speak on “Behind the Scenes in a Modern Department Store.” Prizes will be distributed. TRUSTEES ELECTED. _ The annual meeting of All Souls' Unitarian Church was held yesterday, at which trustees were elected as follows: J. E. Jones, president; Julius Garfinckel, Mrs. George W. Cogge- shall, Mrs. Charles R. Ely Benjamin, Roland S. H. George A. Ricker, Dr. John M. Aldrich and E. H. Hood. 2 Howard Hosmer was elected secre- tary and Charles E. Hood, treasurer. { The Woman's Alliance elected Mrs. E. H. Horton, 'president, and J. L. Hyde was selected as president of the itarian Laymen's League.