Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1926, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. AUGUST 19, 1926. ELSTROM OF PETTY RIVALRIES PALSIES CANTON MURDER PROBE their efforts as they are of finding the murderer. The Evening Repository, one after- noon newspaper, appears on the street with large headlines quoting the prosecutor as saying thus and So. life of his wite confined In a hospital with a newly born babe, according to information obtained today. Tuesday |n was reported erroneousiy that Mrs. | Clark was in a serious condition fol- lowing a visit, Louis Mazer, accused | 195,000,000 IS SOUGHT TO BUILD HOSPITA (Continued from of other factions. It is true that Lengel, chief of police, and Clark, head of the Bertillion bureau, were instrumental through testimony or evidence in sending a former director of safety, brother of former Mayor Curtis, to the penitentiary. It is true that this mayor, defeated for re- election, was resentful of those who testified against his brother, and it is true that Curtis and his crowd, which split from the regular Repub: |lican_organization, were friendly to | the News and to the News' candidate, ent has suffered | the present Mayor Swarts, s from fire, this | 1t is now a matter of written hi tory, buried in the files of the Ne et decided whether the | but ‘not forgotten in the minds o : i NINg, 4| Canton, that the recent explosion at felection of Mayor arts, sought to enmark, N. J. | ous and Clark thr patches last night indicated |ing out en an explosion and | Police De of small arms car- | world, set off, but an official re- Edwin H. Chase, FEPORT IS DENED Fig Point, Va., Commander Reports Powder Magazine Destroyed by Fire. awtment with Dispute About Exoneration. e Pig Point| Neither Lengel nor Clark has ever ler magazine | been convi of such charges. that no expiosion | Lengal, in fact, has been exonerated were no serious cas-| by the city civil service commission. ws, after the | h point. | leged connection of the | the under- | ing. Their telephone is reached through the Daily News exchange. The office of the other investigator, Roach of Chicago, hailed by his friends as sort of a superhuman, is across the street, in the office of the News attorney. When the Daily News speaks the city sovern- | ment jumps into line, from the mayor,, the acting superintendent of police ‘and even the county prose- cutor on down the line. But there is another element which | foundation. does not bow to the News. This| The most absurd stc element is composed of many of the | out of Canton desc older and more substantial citizens, |an underworld—r who have had things pretty much | ous by the picturesque name of “The their own way in Canton for many | Jungle’—which is no blacker than vears. T resent the News and | the slums of other cities which have | their allotment of bootleggers, dope | peddlers and gamblers. The aftermath of the death of a brave man has been a voleano, | whose eruption has split a_city wide open, threaten to ingulf many of those who thought they lived in securit The shot that killed | started a stampede: the public L lost the reins. The public gather them in still. | sReported threats Clark, attorney, d A few minutes later the news- call the next edition of the which says bholdly and with its front page “Re- and _declares the he did not y it ter-brained reporters j als hatch their ridicu- lous tal in the hotel lobbies and shatter the nerves of an already jumpy public_with varns that read New fi vellow ies have gone bing in detail Ade more mysteri- its awe-inspiring headlines. They cannot rid themselves of the thought 1t this young Mellett came into | heir town uninvited, and after sing a tempest in a_teapot got killed for his pains, thus bringing the city into disrepute before the entire country. Real Powers in Politics. Many members of this group o lawyers are real powers in loc ; polit They do not hold offi Norman dize the against {iike Diamond Dick and have as much | | Melieit "uf the murder of Mellett, is said to ; have made to the Clark home when ) he is said to have threatened Clark. | L Tuberculosis Organization, Incor- porated Here, to Ask for Fund in Country-Wide Drive. WOODMEN ON OUTING. | { Members of Order and Friends at Chesapeake Bay Today. | Woodmen of the World and their {{riends from the District and neigh { horing sectlons of and and Vir !=inia are at Chesapeake Beach today h |on the annual outing e G the following trustees: John B. Coc INo: 16 Puting of Cedar Camp. | an “president of the Franklin Natfon JE e a0 A RBank and chairman of the board: 1 This excursion is always a rally | Edwin L. Wilson. W for Maryland e il Judge Sam Hooker of the Circult ot i are for milesliohuth off OkiaHora: B 75 Mtesllum L Ahletie aovimming, fishing, boating, |and Dr. J. Donald lams, child special- e o "l»\‘vm'l dancing are on |jst, both of Pittsbur Mrs. May B. | Marirogram. M. 1. Ryon of Upper | Moran of Pittshurgh is executive sec- {Marlboro, Md., is chairman of the ar- jretary of the organization. | rangements committee. The board soon is to determine Home of the 2-Pants Suits Plané to raise $5,000,000 by donation were announced here today by the National Sanitorium for Tuberculous {the laws of the District of Columbia tion is goverened hy a Charge Accounts Invited Children, recently Incorporated under | ington attor- ! - HELD IN CONTEMPT. ] {location for the proposed hospltal | | somewhere in the Southwest, so en- | | dowed that poor children can receive | free treatment. Pasv, Tex.. and | | several other cities in outh n | States are under consideration Original plans of the orgar first incorporated under the New Mexico, and since _dissolved, called for the location of the institu | The husband Is in arrears $31é tion at Albuquerque, but the ercction | and will spend 30 davs in Jkdl unles: there of a War Mothers' Memorial < payment. Attorney Bobert Hospital for tuberculous former serv- | ch_represented the wife. ice men, caused an abandonment of the idea. | F. C. Chamberlain is the national campaign_director, and_headquarters for the drive will be located in Kan- eas City. Natlonal headquarters will | be in Washington. | John Van Sic of adjudged in vesterday sep up ler | contempt court e | tjon, | Jus ws of | alimony payments to his w lotte Van Sickler, Chan % PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. §. Treasury 1408 H ST. N. W, Rain Postpones Horse Show. BERRYVILLE, a.. August 1 The Berryville horse show today was postponed until tomorrow on account of rain. Ali events will run on sched- ule Friday and Saturday. 13 Feature ‘Items | But here “one stumbles on another | | snag. One group charges the exonera- | | tion came from a biased commission, | | while another one comes back with themselves, but they pull the strings to fill the offices with men of their | choosing. They still hold some of not jeopa rdnance, the assertion that the evidence against Lengel was trumped up through fraud and deceit, A\t any rate, w the political affiliations mpathies of the News, | it smote ime hip and thigh, and g | crime st k back and took the life ¢ | of its editor. Mellett's campaign led h. That seems to be ble obstacle blocking against Mellett. He h was burned charg d ms ammuni completel! exploston. At no he fire bein ke | arzument is oyed was 300 . e . |, When he died the leadership in the hunt for his imurderers naturally the > ws. Whether or not the police until | 1 in this have 1Ng SLOFM | jn v ipation ion i was | ] & TR good condition.” LOWREY IS NOMINATED IN MISSISSIPPI RACE Unofficial Returns Give Him Lead Over Richard Denman, With No Decisive Change Expected. ry on the constituted s to be off the e they are not wanted. the News would have none of the so0 they quit. Th and idle. Th ire the objects of iosity. reading the newspapers one comes to vegard them as freaks. Sleuths in Charge. hecay w in charge, although a tes attorney seems to have the actiol At one time investigators were sent here post- iste by the Ohio governor, svernor's men made king through the poli: ‘ews objected and they were removed. he office occupied by the inves tors working with the county pross tor is located in the Daily News Bu August 1 Lowrey of ated for Con- | t district _on of unofficial returns today from Tuesday’s pri With only seven precincts Lowrey had §,125 vetes te r Richard Denman of Charles- | === THE ARGONNE Inspect cur apart- ments now and make reservations. Location and serv- ice unexcelled. Reasonable rent- als. Resident Man- ager on premises. THE ARGONNE 16th & Columbia Road N.W. ue rns from the seven missing pre re not_expected to change the of the vote more than 100 \ | FOWL BAN INDORSED. | Han Cites Noise of Pigeons—Many Oppose Regulation. st fndorsement of the| »sed by Health Officer Fowler to prohibit the of fowls in thickly populated | next_door to relled and | hen you for the new " ioners have recelved | inst the adop- | from toming Pigeon | Iustrict has asked acuon is taken tests th nz e ion CAR-STOP OPINION ASKED. Acting Traffic Director May Oppose | U Street Proposal. i 57 : I 2 “The Best il in the World/'| AUTOCRAT MOTOR OIL from the oil wells in Pennsylvania, which has the ability to stand up under the toughest conditions. Beware of Substitutes At Good Dealers Everywhere BAYERSON OIL WORKS COLUMBIA5228 | » likely n he pro f the fact that uated just eet on U Hotel Inn 604-610 ¢th St. N.W. 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It might bring them | publicly into a mess that already in volves too many. Some of them, it whispered, live in daily dread lest a | friendly hootlegger of a better day | will squeal to the extent of making | known his list of customers. i Mellett’s death has brought. chaos. The city has become a whispering gallery. The Police Department has utterly lost the confidence of the public it serves | { that includes nearly every | who has had the misfortune | zet his name in the Canton| papers. Publicity Is Welcomed. The private detectives working on | the mystery of who killed the edi- | tor c Y the impression_ that they | are as much desirous of personal publicity and suitable recognition of | PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 5% Compounded Semi-Annually Commencing January 1, 1926 Assets Over $12,000,000 Surplus, $1,000,000 Cor. 11th & E Sts. N.W. Temporars loeation during _construe- tion of our new bliz.. 1003 E St. N.W. JAMES BERRY, President JOSHUA W. CARR, Sec’y Every move the county prosecutor Kes™ is interpreted either “hloe ’ something, or else stroke. And this despite the fact that the prosecutor is still gen- rally and highly regarded an st man e mayor himself, although held in esteem by both political parties, omes In for his share of whispered I @fiflfl I Op;n at 197‘30 AM. E;;;;Banl;ing‘ ayF ¢ Columbia National Ban 911 F Street Capital, $250,000.00 Surplus, $350,000.00 Our Usefulness to Depositors —is only limited by the extent to which we are made their business confidants. We can serve vou quicker and with greater efficiency if we know yaqu and your business thoroughly. Con- fer with our officers, at your convenience— you'll have the benefit of their experience, and prompt accommodation, if merited. Travelers' Checks—Letters of Credit 3% PAID ON SAVINGS MRS Tastes different, looks different, is different from any cereal you have ever tasted. 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