Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1926, Page 5

WTARL WARNING GIVEN MAL GRANT Specific Authonty Required| for Contracts as in Schwartz Case. Maj. U cer of the & Grant, 3d, executive offi- 1 Capital Park Com- warned today Mc('ar] to make side parties e sanctioned iv a r. which sum had previo ved, the Controller Gen- tention to,a number of nst the employment of I ENTOMBED MINERS ATE CORN-COB PIPES TO SATISFY HUNGER! vatches running and k ad been imprisoned fi . B 24 hours & mark was placed on a piece of timbering, indicafing that another day had passed. Tarry Wren, the ion Army often Jed his w-prisoners pel meetings, singing and pray- ing. That efforts were being made to res- | cue them was known to the men. | They heard blasting operations from | time to time, they said. reparations for the reunton that is | ing made In 43 homes day of thanksgiving. ppy and even those ed to the “men who | ve joining in the festivi- being paid the rescue workers who came from throughout the Gogebic range, virtually disrupt- ing mining activities. ces withcut “administra- ion."” Supervision Is Required. ppropriation for personal | ald the Controller Gene tes that all pefsonal serv ed Ly the commis This ice: v persons regula "l the tunnel blocked at the twenty-third | -.| through debris to the eighth level, | e | where the men weve. 5| were forced to descend by ladders to *| the Rock Creek and Poton ‘arkway, the matter of employment Jiteets in connection with Meri- Park; employment _of on the Arlington Me- Bridge; employment of a to negotiate the purchase of v the office of the superintend- f the State, War and Navy Buildings, and others. )f the circumstances ap controller general said, | d the emergency condi- which the apprai as obtained, owed for the The cfedit h the accounts of Lieut. Col. | Sherrill, predecessor of Maj SLAYING TRIAL PUT OFF. Wife of Edmund Bigham Cannot | Testify for Him Now. 2. 8. C., September 30| hird trial of Edmund Big- | charged with murdering five heduled to | v Courthouse to- een continued from this irt by order of Judge John Devore. ‘The continuance was | ited on representation of H *l that the wife of the ham's ented from testifving at t Wi health Fireplace I men to the | surface. c | with -[tion crew would use on t provide & was 1o bring the imprisoned o the most hazar fre in several places «to the bottom of the sh ined through a lateral tunnel con- { another | Working upward, the rescuers found | They dug around this blocked | level n there upward | level. ction a ound tl; ) they worked their From the eighth level the miners, twenty-sixth level and then'| through a lateral to the other minc and then up through that shaft to the Designed to furnish communication the 43 intombed miners, the Oliver Mining Co. today possesses what fs belleved to be the smallest telephone in the world. It is smaller than a watch, but somewhat thicker than the drill pipe which it was to have been lowered into while rescue crews were drilling through the 400 feet of solid rock to release the im- prisoned men. The phone, completed late Wednes- | day by Thomas H. Hampton, superin-} tendent of electrical Inspection of l)l(fl‘ Oliver Mining Co., is 1% inches long, i % of an inch wide dnd 13, inches thick. “We took a unit such as a Mr. Hampton said, “a receiver h"dl transmitter combined. There is a set of batteries on the surface where an ordinary test set was to have been ut-Pd A howler instrument was attached | to attract attention to the telephone | instead of a bell. We used the most | sensitive instrument made. It was a rhree \\he combination telephone and} howler.” The United States produces more apples than any other country. 604-610 Yth St. N. W, ! Daily, $1. 00. §1.50, $2.00, 36 weekly: 310 50 rooms. 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Practical tests prove Devoe Quality. 1239 Wisconsin Ave. N.W. Nichols Ave. S.E. AMERICANICEBUYS 1 and general manager. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., HELD IN GIRL’S DEATH. fered Him a “Lift.” GAINESVILLE, Ga., September 30 (#).—Charged with a felony in con- nection with the death of an uniden- tified young woman near here last Thursday, Cliff Payne of Gainesville was taken in custody yesterday for Forsyth County officers. The young woman was killed when her automobile crashed over an em- bankment. Payne is said to have been in the car at the time of the accident. Payne was unable to iden- tify the victim, claimin,, she had of- fered him a ride into Galnesville TWO COAL FIRMS J. Maury Dove and Blick Brothers Concerns Sold to New York Company. The American Ice Co. has pur- ased the J. Maury Dove Coal Co. d the Blick Brothers’ Co. of this ¥, it was announced last night by ley M. Oler of New York, presi- 1t of the American Ice Co. While the amount patd for these concerns was not forthcoming from Mr. Oler, it is understood to involve several hundred thousand dollars. The Dove company will be run un- der the same name that it has used since starting in business here 70 years ago. J. Maury Dove, jr., will be president of the organization and Wallace Blick will be vice president while he was walking along the road- side. The young woman's car bore a North Carolina license tag, and per- sonal effects found in her possession bore marks of Waynesville, N. C. firms. Her body is being held at a local mertuary in an effort to estab- lish Qer identity. operation of the coal business here. Interchange of trucks during the coal- buying and ice-buying periods to cut down their number and prevent them remaining idle and the Interchange { of employes will be some of the econo- mies, he said. He added that the pur- chase i3 not an effort to create a monopoly. Kidwell Will Stay. 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