Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1926, Page 7

| | YEAR BOOK OF Y | WORKERS BLOCKED Publication Halted by Special Committee of Dis- trict Officials. Publication of the annual book of | the City Employes’ Association of the District was halted today by the Com- missioners upon the recommendaticn | of a special committee of District of- | fictals which considered the organi- | zatlon’s application for permission to! issue the hook for g Reasons for recommending denial o permission to publish the book were | set forth by the committee in a re port to the Commission They fol- low “1. The numb this association pared with the ployes in the Dis % The amount by employes is to men of Washington ad i ments. '3, in: com of em- | the | The ¢ on of the o the adver : members seiation. on Doubted. ! tee does not believe | proper | ption. States employes’ | th ! ended Considers ‘4. The that the consideration for thei . he United compensation at which have hee: of the District of « provide compe: i jurtes 3 | i and wages of Dis- trict employ derably rd since i zranted to f 3 Assoeintion, with its membership of 200, to solicit the business and professional men of i | for irements for | of employes similar privileg might be | called upon seve vear | for such advert | nizht “8. The reading matter contained ! n the book consisis of extracts from | official publen issued by i Commissione: is of no great value to subsc TS they may ob- taln copies of these pullications with- out charg The repor vear's public sements which 300, “The tion, as wiven by its pr date of September 200,” continued th of the members : the dues, 75 | eral fund and benefit fund. credit of the « ending August 10 be elaimns 1o $400. It is « in the ge o i< “The president o gets o salary of $30 pe treasivey nd secr month each. and th and his assisteat last ; tver- | pointed ou tion covered ting to about nore at the under | thout | The due: eath fund i rted Aid at ted that [ secre- - month Refusal Recommended. the City Em- | obtain per- | ntraet with psident of the tor the publi- wk and annual for the year 1u2 ttion to | obtain from this publication the | sum of $600 for the year 1927, with | an increase $100° per vear for each succeeding vear until the sum shall veach $i. “The committes hearing 1o the pr mployes’ Associa careful consideratior ter, recommends thut the to publish this book and denied.” NEGRO GETS 18 MONTHS ON PLEADING GUILTY Admits House- breaking and One of Grand o n 1o ente James L. Few Federal Publishin cation of the after giving a ent of the Ciy nd after giv- 1o the mat- pplication nnual be Two Charges of Iarceny. wel Swmith, eolored, pleaded Charges Hoehling i was the The court fixed the pen- N months, but s to rua con wdmitied two and in Criminal Divisi penitentiary ty during ealo: ; Johnson, colored. was. sent : for one year and « Hoehling A like tery ment was fmjosed colored, who ¢ of Touise imprison- d West tern iven h « e car of about Joseph was picked the recent Klan convention tenced to 60 dayvs in jail xrains of morph arrested on_ suspicion t - ing directed that T o Wasn- ington after the sentence has cxpired. He was ol d with violating the Harri wtinarcotic act. TWO LADS SEEK WEALTH. | Leave City to Get in on First Flor- ida Boom. rnest was d Exprossing their intention of got- ing in on the ground floor of the ne Florida land boom, due, they thoug this Winter. Ralph W n. 14 yea old, 320 Eleventh street southwe: and Calvin Swann, 15, 1214 « southwest. disappeared from homes Tuesday. Relatives told police they believe the | re on their way to Florgda Local police also have been auested to look for and 1 1 N. J.. high Leen missing the latter pa Skokna has light hair, blue-gr and ruddy co: xion, whiie has brown halr, brown eves simflarly ruddy complexion. Neither wore a hat at the time of his disap- | pearance, - i Princess Astrid of Sweden will wish for rain on the day of her wedding | 10 the Belgian Crown Prince, for l Swedish marriage superstition says: ‘Wealthy will be the bride upom whose crown the rain falls.” for the year | | Sneclal Dispatch to The Star. nesday night and Thursday morning, ! by ! fair grounds, THE EVENING COURT ISSUES WR! FOREX-KLANHEAD i { i Stephenson, Accused in Po-| i litical Probe, Ordered | i Detective Ends Hunt for Bandits’ Pistol, Finds Toy Hor First Frost, With Record for Cold, Hits Hagerstown | week Detective Edward 7. Kenl' nae searched in vain the roadsides near Soldiers’ Home Park for a pistol reported thrown away by the bandits who mur- dered Policeman ieo Busch at Grant Circle. Tt had been reported that a wom- an found the weapon in the road and threw it into the bushes for fear some child would find it. Yesterday the woman was lo- cated and led Kelly to the spot. The weapon turned out to be a toy water pistol. The child who lost it can have it by calling at police headquarters. PARADE OPENS WEEK Epecial Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN Ma., 8.—The first frost of the Fall sea- son was reported here today by J. A. Miller, Government weather observer. No great damage was caused to ggrdens, he said. The mer- - foday reached 36, three above ng, the lowest 't recorded October to Indianapolis. at this time of the year. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, October 8.—D. C. | Stephenson, former grand dragon of DISTRTCT ATTORNEY i the Ku Kiux Klan, now serving a life FACES BRIBE CHARGE ‘ sentence in the State prison at Mich- igan Clty, today was ordered brought {to Indianapolis by Superior Court | Judge Sidney Miller. Stephenson is Wanted here to testify in receivership proceedings against the Hoosler Tal- s, 4nc., o company in which he was financially interested | Efforts to gain access to Stephen son at the State prison have been | made unsuccessfllly for several days IN FIRE PREVENTION 80 Uniformed Men From Reading, . who contends that the foriner| Pa Headed by Band, Inaugurate | | i dence dams’ 3 + charges of corruption in Indiana b Campaign Here. | Indicted, With Aide, for Alleged | Acceptanc«; of $40,000 in Murder Trial. By the Assoctated Prees. CAN DIEGO, Calif.,, October 8. Chester €. Kempley, district attorney of San Diego County, and C. Guy Selleck, his chief assistant, were in- dicted by the county grand jury here rday on charges of having asked | wve accepted a bribe | $10,000 connection with the | trial of Hugh McGovern and Thomas | Johnson of Chicago for the murder | of George McMahon. The men were tried here last year and were acquitted. Kempley and Selleck appeared in court late vesterday and waived hear- fng in_the indlctments. They have until Mciday morning to enter af Za 4 furnished bail of $5,000. :yted the grand jury had | voted oth r .ndictments. Kempley defeated ®or renomin- ation at the August primary election. itics. i Officlals Promise Probe. | It 1"25;101 Reading, Pa., b Eighty_uniformed members of the Liberty Volunteer Fire Co.. No. 5, Charges made by Adams t Al T, Benn: ana politics is filled with corru 3 n have Lrought retorts from State and | SY/ avenue this morning, head- local officials, the general tenor of (©d by a 25-piece band, as a feature which s that they will seek to punish | Of the Fire Prevention week pro- any wrongdoers that may be discov- |Sram. A delegation of District fire- ered. n escort. Adam: started at Peace Mon- Igation was mot cooled by pro-| ument and went north on Thirteenth uls to procoed along theq Street to H street, where it dis- He planned a ‘meeting | The visiting firemen will today of State senators and newspaper in the city until tonight. publishers in sympathy with his move- | the parade the District fire- ment to discuss f men took the men on a sightseeing Gov. Jack Gillion and W County prosecutor, expressed W ness to participate in a political house- | Pighting Department, is making a cleaning. | tour of the principal cities of the The governor, East. Reading is the lirgest city Grange, declared, “Thera willsbe an|{in the United States having an en- investigation to determine whether tirely volunteer Department. any offictals who have reneived the e AUTO CRUSHES BOY. ardor for prosccuting the GIRLS’ FRIENDLY SOCIETY speaking at’ La commission of the llx(‘uple lu.vn mis. sed the trust placed in them.” Episcopal Church Organization to| """ ™* ">t P B : s Mayor Threatens Suit. s I iy Soaah Sl Remy, who prosecuted the case that to Choose Officers. { resuited in a_life sentence of D. C. | Stephenson, formér Xu Klux Klan Officers of the Friendly | grand dragon, on the charge of mur Society of the Episcopal Church for | dering Madge Oberholtzer, said he in the "nsmnig vear will be elected to-!tended to make an investigation of the annual councll of the | idams’ charges concerned | 1¢! e 3 ¥ organization, In the parish hall = of |iocal polltics. {by Dr. Liewellyn Powell and Bryan Epiphany Church, 1317 G street. | John 1 In. | Gordon. Dr. Powell attended the boy The council, composed of selected rep- | dianapoli \ vio. | for concussion of the brain and other resentatives from all parish branch &m,ng the corrupt y o sala ¢ EOARies. G g = of the diocese of Washington, will | he was preparing to linel suit | Witnesses said the accident was meet at 7:30 p.m., with Mrs. Edward | in retaliation for the fon of | Unavoidable, as the auto, which car- . Meigs, Incumbent president, pre- | photostatic copies of letiers purport. | 'ied a District of Columbla license iding. [ Tnf to have been written by him to s going lowly and the b “ollowing the example set by the | Stephenson. ran into the path of dungy national headquarters of the Girls' | _— BANISHED BY KLAN. pecial Dispatch to The 3 POTOMAC, Va., October 8.—TRalph Rayerman, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Herman F an of Mount Was run ov an automobile the Mount Id ation late ve jterday. He was taken to his home Duvall, if i Friendly Society of America, the diocesan body will be reorgs to officers and administr: is announced. This he election fonight 1 in addition A 1 nection with the orde — year of 1924 Mr d Denies Stephenson’s Activities | charged by some of h Z {bers with gross immorality; upon the Eernl w Dragon. {filing of these charges I ordered him | | tried by his home Klan at Evansville. It . C. Stephenson, now serving fif ‘ > \ secre. | o life sentence for murder in Indiana | The Klan tribunal that sat in juds- ment sustained the charge of gros: Ben Iellen is the [hut reputed to have been a political | e ent: Mrs. | czar in that State previous to his | mmorality. Tpon receipt of a_trans- president: | trial, ever exercised any influence on | cript of the trial. together with the and | Hoosier State officials or on the out. | recommendation of Stephenson's local { come of elections it was after he had | Klan, I banished him from the Order Ibeen thrown out of the order on|of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. | charges of gross immorality, Hiram{ “At no time during Stephenson's ivans, Kian imperfal wizard, said | connection with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan w; political election 3 . C. Stephenson of Evans. | held in the commonwealth of Indiana, lle, Ind., was employed as a kleagle | cither city, State or national. the Klan, later becoming grand ! “From the public press it will be f them heing taken from the |dragon of the State of Indlana. On |noted that the indictment of Stephen- where they had been |the first day of October, 1923, I re-|son’s alleged political acts affects his ed by persons visiting the fair. [moved Mr. Stephenson from office, at | conduct since, and not before, his ban- were taken from the front of | which time, by virtue of his removal, | ishment from the Knights of the Ku and one from & garage. he was relieved of all official con: 'Klux Klan.” Barly in the Stephenson was will fellow mem- of @ num to the 1 Haines will act second vice Austin, secretary, M Boyd, treasurer. Six Autos Stolen in Night. RICHMOND, Va.. October §. utomoblles were Stolen here Wed- | v “THE'AUTUMN -OF'TWENTY - SIX" Answering the Question: Just How Fine Can a Suit of Clothes Be, at F the question in the heading has been running through your mind. let Saks give vou the concrete answer. For every suit in the Saks $33 collection is worthy to bear a higher price tag. HERE'S TONE to them—real distine- tion that comes from skilled design. Their fabric-quality extraordinary. Their tailoring is the sort that lasts, and guarantees service. 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