Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 12

HISONER IS FREED INLYNCH LAW CASE Relatives 01 Wythcw le Girl Who Was Attacked Are Heard in Investigation. By the Ascociated Press. (WYTHEVILLE, Va., September 18. “The Commeniwealth’s attorney and W0 special prosecutors now conduct- s the investigation of the lynching f Raymond Bird, negro, “Wyghe County jail on August 15 #d3y ordered the release from cu tidy of Herbert Huddle, the first and cnly arrest made in the case, examined 18 witnesses, Joseph B. Chitwood, appointed investigator, an- noupced tonight. e investigation today was car- ried on in the absence of the special | zrand jury, suspended yesterday with iastructions to reconvene on Septem- ber .30. Among the witnesses called today was the father of the young white girl whom Bird is alleged to have at- ticked. Several relatives of the girl | questioned. itwood declared that a girl| vestigators whether it Evidence | will be| vas the gainst <ought upatlhs atto ff, with conerete re been Neither N | not vesterday befor Testimony given by i e the earl vestigation examined ¢ od I” vit- of the in- e leads > of the The grand jury was suspended yes- terday to permit Judze Horace Suther- land to open Cirucuit Court Monday i Carroll (‘uunl)‘ QUEEN MARY EXCELLS AS BARGAIN HUNTER | Whenever She Goes on Shopping Expedition Papers Comment on Her Housewifely Trait. LONDON, September 18.—When a aueen goes shopping the broad glare of publicity continues to play upon ner as it does upon virtually all her «ctivities outside the precincts of the rvoyal palaces. v took occasion while Goldsborough to make a expedition to Harrowgate, nearby, and the account of her trip through the curio shops filled a full half column of close print in one of the big provinc ven the purchases she made were ted in detail. These included jade elephant and a monkey al, some other Chi of blue wedge- s eraton tea caddy o€ exquisite workmanship, Her housewifely for a bargain, a4 well were especially marked. as her taste, Science of Mnemonics. Mnemonies is the name applied to the oldest method rendering artificial ekl to the memory. £ been invented by who lived and | | the pri 162,500 PUPILS ARE With teachers contented over an |increased salary scale and more satis- factory retirement benefits, with boys ind girls of the city refreshed after | three’ months’ vacation, together with school officials and members of the Ploard of Bducation functioning with parent-teacher and ions, the public_school »w morning will open the most efficient- 0ol session in the | District It is e compared with an ollment of 60,803 in in 19224. By Novem- it is expected that the peuk enrollment will exceed 70,000, seiting a new record. The Novem- | ber peak enrollment last year was | about 69,000, Tomorrow's opening will have an |added zest for approximately 1,700 | pupils who will be enrolled in the six new pleted f | vear building program. These schools | will have en » new equipment and supplies, giving the pupils the oppor- tunity of truly starting a new school year with a clean slate. All Furniture Not Delivered. The new schools are the John Greenleaf Whittier, the Job Barnard, the new, Bell, the Truesdell, the new Brightwood and the James F. Oyster. While the entire shipment of furniture | for four of these schools—all except [the Whittier and the Barnard—has arrived, it was explained by school officials last night that all of ‘lh(' seats are in place and that tem- | porary arrangements can be made | pending the arrival of the remainder of the equipment. For the past week the Franklin School has been a beehive aof activity it minations, admissions sessions and organizations meetings, following the example of Dr. ". Ballou, superintendent, the superintendents of schools v night on tomor- row’s opening day's plans. A tabulation yesterday afternoon | showed that approximately 500 stu- dents, new in the local system, will enter the high schools, coming for the most part from other cities. High Schools Crowded. Assistant Superintendent of Schools Stephen E. Kramer announces that the high school situation this year will be about the same as last, with Central operating an _interlocking shift scheme. No material rellef will come to the high schools until after the opennig of two new junior high schools in February, and the opening of the new McKinley Manual Train- ing School, which is yet distant. Having received reports of all of his principals, Dr. Ballou declared he is confident the schools are in ex- cellent shape for tomorrow. Early in the week he sent a letter to all of cipals urging upon them the for their inspections of sani- tary conditions, school furniture, jan- itor supplies, coal and wood, educa- | tional supplies and classroom equip- ment. It is noted that there are at least 40 normal school graduates who have been added to the teaching corps this vear as compared with 15 last year. This is possible through the large number of retirements which have oc- curred during the past few months, given impetus no doubt by the liber: alized retirement act for school teach- ers, and the fact that the increased salary scale enable® more teachers to take abscence without pay for study purposes, A new plan for providing additional nece _THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. Hill Asks Postal Inquiry of Source Of Letters Saying He Is Klansman EXPECTED TO ‘ ENTER SCHOOLS TOMORROW)| '40 Normal School Graduates Added to Teaching Staff; Brightwood Junior High Classes Planned for Volunteers. Junior high school facilities for pupils of the Brightwood, Takoma and Six- teenth Street Highlands sections, by utilizing the old Brightwood School, made available by the erection of the new Brightwood School, is announced in a circular going out to the parents in those sections from the school au- thorities. Volunteers t() be Enrolled. Volunters from the 7A, 7B and $A grades, numbering from 150 to 200 pupils, are to be enlisted for junior high school work at the Old Bright- wood School, to be affiliated with the Macfarland Junior High School under the plan. The letter follows: “It is proposed to utilize the facilities at the Old Brightwood School by the organiza- tion of junior high school classes af- filiated with the Macfarland Junior High School. The school officials feel that this utilization of accommoda- tions made available by the erection " |of the New Brightwood School will serve to bring a real opportunity to pupils to whom junior‘high school in- struction is not now easily available. “This school will accommodate about 150 to 200 pupils of the 7A, 7B, 8A | grades. In so far as possible regular junior high school procedure will be | followed with these classes, and the teachers will be those regularly | qualified for such work. In the sev- enth and eighth grades of 'the junior high school free textbooks are sup- plied just as they are in the elemen- tary schools, but in some cases the books used are specially adapted to junior high school courses. Classes to Be Limited. “Enrollment in this school will be on a voluntary basis. The classes will be organized from pupils_ whose parents desire this opportusty for their children. Because of the lim- ited capacity of this school it may be found impossible to accommodate all volunteers, in which case certain limitations must be established. How- | éver, economy in organization dictates that' no seventh or eighth grade Whittier and the new Brightwood schools. Pupils who were sent to those buildings on the opening day and who do not_elect to attend the old Brightwod Junior High School will be assigned to the nearest school to their homes where proper grades may be found. “When the new addition to the Mac- farland Junior High School is com- pleted in February, those pupils who %S SA NS AN NN Qverstuffed Furniture Made to Order lect from a wide assortment e Wfl] ‘make your furni- firedened t-2with long and, bean Save you money. 10 Reiihaistering and Siip. Covers. Standard Upholstery Store 2810 14th St. N.W, Open evenings. Col. 4038. WHEN YOU NEED A KEY You need our instant duplieating service Duplicate Key, 25¢ Bring your locks to the shop. 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Congress has already appropriated funds for a site for this proposed 1 school. “When pupils shall have completed the courses offered in the Old Bright- wood Junior High School they may elect to attend a senior high school or they may elect to attend the Columbia Junior High School in order to com plete the ninth-year course of the junior high school. The ninth-year course cannot be offered in the old Brightwood organization. “As soon as possible after, Monday, September 20, classes will begin work at the Old Brightwood School. In or- | der to facilitate the beginning of the | { work parents are requested to_indi- | cate in the space below iwhethdr or not they desire to have their chil. dren avail themselves of this oppor- tunity.” YARDS TO BE FIXED. Grounds About New Schools in Bed ¥ Condition. With the public schools opening for the new term tomorrow, Engineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell yester- day ordered the District repair shop to put the grounds around the new buildings completed this Summer in first-class condition. Conditlons around some of the new {schools are very bad, according to Col. Bell. In rainy weather, he fears that the children would be forced to wade through a veritable sea of mud. The treatment to the grounds will be in direct charge of Maj. Layson E. Atkins, Junior Assistant Engineer yesterday as successor to Maj. Wil- liam H. Holcombe, who was trans- ferred to New Orleans by the War Department. Maj. Atkins took over all of Maj. Holcombe’s form: dutie: exception Commissioner, who reported for duty | with the | D SEPTEMBER Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., September 18.— Representative John Philip Hill today requested Post Office authorities at Washington to assign inspectors to investigate the sending through the mail of literature charging that he, Marion Humphreys and A. Kingsley Love were members of the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Hill declared that the lit- erature sent through the mail not only accused them of being members of the Klan, but that they were af- filiated with the mob_which on Sep- tember 1 brought about the kidnap- inz of Rev. Father Warren of St. Joscph's Catholic Church, Princess Anne Courthouse, Va. Exhibiting approximately 50 pleces of mail sent to voters of southern Maryland _counties, Representative Hill 'said that the investigation so far electrical department, which has been added to the duties of Maj. W. E. R. Covell. Commissfoner Bell instructed Maj. Atkins to sod the grounds around the new schools, if necessary, providing | the cost is not too great. The grounds to be treated are around the following new schools: James F. Oyster, Twenty-ninth and Calvert streets; Job Barnard, Fifth and Decatur streets; John G. Whittier, Fifth and Sheridan streets; new Brightwood, and the new Bell. Prison Barber Ha«i Saw. NEW YORK, September 18 (P).— On the ground that a hacksaw blade was no proper part of a barber's equipment, Marcelle Marcivi was held in $10,000 bail today. He was ar- s found in his et as he was leaving West Side son after shaving prisoners there. said he found the blade on his nn II III iy |“III l!mnlu !m.mm,ll iy lgul{:}ianuum;"Immml[g ‘hH|lilmlmnnihfim’%{[ T il III||| i IHII i Tt “::: uMil M ||J| 19, 1926—PART 1. made revealed that the lettars were addressed in St. Marys County. The envelopes were postmarked Washing- ton, and were mailed on September 10, three days before the primary election. On one of the pleces of literature is the picture of a mounted Klansman and beneath is the following: “Don’'t vote for Hill and Humphreys. They are members of the Klan who brought about the kidnaping of Rev. Father Warren of Princess Anne Courthouse, Va., September 1, 3926, because of his untiring work at the negroes of his parish. The inc] has aroused the indignation of the entire colored race against the Klan, and every col- MISS JANET FISH TO HEAD NURSES Sister of Representative Appointed Superintendent at Emergency Hospital. Miss Janet Fish, sister of Repre- sentative Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York, and member of a family long prominent socially in the East, yester- day was accepted as superintendent of nurses for Emergency Hospital and will take up her duties here about Oc- tober 1. Miss Fish's selection was announced after she had conferred with the ex- Harry King, Col. Edward Clifford and Dr. Harry Kaufman. Miss Fish comes to Emergency after long nursing experfence, includ- ing four years in the war zone. Her most recent post has been as super- intendent of nurses at Newport Hos pital, Newport, R. I, and she also held the same post in St. Mark's Hos pital, New York. She is a graduat of Presbyterian Hospital, New York CROP IN BANK VAULT. Peppermint 0il Grown on Farm Brings $10 a Pound. KELSO, Wash., September 18 (#). A crop so valuable it was stored in a bank vault was grown this year on the farm of Alexander brothers, near Woodland, in southwestern Washing ton. They planted 60 acres ‘of pepper mint, a single acre producing from 40 to 45 pounds of oil. The oil was sold at $10 a pound, bringing the value of a 5-gallon can to $400. VM ecutive committee of the hospital, headed by Woodbury Blair, and in- cluding B. B. Sandidge, superintendent of the hospital; George W. White, A s P2 THE QUEENSBORO 1614 17th Street N.W. Downtown location. Lovely apartments of one, two and three rooms, kitchen, recep- tion hall and bath. Elevator service. All aparfments newly decorated. Reduced rentals! Apply Resident Manager ored voter should feel in duty bound to prevent like conditions in St. Marys County. 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