Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1926, Page 7

TWO DIE IN CRASH OF AUTO AND CYCLE Hagerstown Police Hold Two as Result of Early-Morn- ing Accident. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star HAGERSTOWN, Md.. October 11.— Two men are dead and two in jail as a result of a crash between a motor cycle and an automobile on Lelters. burg plke a few miles north of Ha- gerstown early this morning. The dead are Eldin R. Eyler, years old, and son A. Stephen: brothers-in-law, who were riding tl motor cycle Roy Miller, 37, of Hagerstown, and Frank Welchan, the latter colored, occupants of the automobile, were arrested. Others with them were questioned by the poilce and sum- moned as_witnerges. George . Siednes, the police say, declared Miller was driving on the left side of the highway, and that members of tRe party wers under the influence of liquor. The police say Miller and Welchan will be charged with murder. Eyler and Stephens were on thelr way to a farm near IHagerstown to eut corn. They were traveling at a high rate of speed, after having rounded a curve, and the automobile which was coming toward Ha town Iso was suid to b oving at a fast rate. An in igation be made of the accident tonight. the witnesses will be sworn bodies of the vietims were ¢la relatives. {on Rugby road. COLONIAL PLANTATION ON JAMES RIVER SOLD Lower Brandon Mansion, Built 200 Years Ago, Contains Many Valued Relics. Bpecial Dispateh to The Star HMOND, Va., October 11 Erandon, colonial plantation on ames River, has been sold to Robert Daniel of New York, formerly ©f Richmond The mansion is of brick and wi built 20 The grounds are t beautiful in the State. The s ch from the river is through gardens, with many rare plants and flowers. Extensive fields are on all sides. Gordon Harrison was the owner. The place had been in his family since founded. In the old mansion are many relics s, Paint- ings and furniture are of great value. Brandon, further up the river, was built in the nineteenth century and also was owned by the Harrisons ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TODAY The Anthropolos of | Washington will meet, . in room 4243 new National Museum. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka will spenk of *Explora tions in Aluska and Northeast Asiu.” The Council of Social Agenci meet 4 velock at the Burlington Ho: 1ol Dr. James Frederick Rogel 1 Fdgar . Fowler will present for discussion Associ Lasonic ple streets northeast. Twelfth and Moy Northeast Was iation will me School ton Citizens' As. | Vo'clock, at Lud- | low i Dramatic Play parish will present “in Holy Trinity | > repeated to Murray, B Trin Ha Auditorium morrow. Mi: T lav Yioly Goose i | Ntreet Highlands Citi | ill meet, 8 o'clock Presbyterian Church. ofticers Associatic Sixth Election of A musical and literary program wil | be given by e Youngz Men's Jubileed! Chorus of ip Baptist Chu 'hi at Vermont Avenue Baptist for the building fund of that cf e concert will he under £ Tribe of King David Geor Only, chairman Rathbone Sisters, will ¥ Ninth Takoma Park zens’ o'elock meeting tomorrow the La Favette Ho 1 board of « will Clvitan 630 pm Offlcers tors Junior Citizens' Club of H, M. will hold its second at the Hyattsville Armory, S b 'he tsville, ince Sales Managers’ Branch of lln'{ ington Real Estate Board will at luncheon tomorrow. 12:30( at the Lee Hou The National meet tomo Hotel. 1 Maryland w emocratic Club 8 p.m., at the F ntative Gamb, » the prir speakers { Il present the sec- s Wednes: Ruth and the Northeast Booundary Citizens' . tion v meet tomorrow School at the Wi Col. Tnite h meet t W sylvania av nes S, Pettit Camp War S pa No. wi Penn St. John Chapter, No. 18, 0. F oy 3 wrd party nw after. George avenue ews' Day 10:30 for Philosophic Inquiry will meet tomorrow, 4:30 pm.. at the new National Museum. Prof. Edward E. 11 speuk of “The odern Triar Naturalism and Evoiution Cavalry Goes to Camp Meade. roof ¥. ird Cavairy. in command Fort Myer | where for a | Towa, { during the past B Church | _ Deacon | Chaffee of ard Geologists of Nation Tour of Historic Old Dominion UNIVERSITY. Va., October 11.—A score or more geologists from all parts of the Nation started from the University of Virginia today on a five- day tour of the State. The occasion is the Full fleld meeting of the As- socation of American State Geolo- glsts. Wilbur A. Nelson. State geologist of Virginia and head of the school of geology of the university, {8 president of the assoclation. Last night a buffet supper was served at his home, The party went first to the Alberene Soapstone Works at Schuyler. Among the representatives of State geological surveys are M. M. Leighton of Illinois, secretary of the associa- tion: 8. W. McCallie of Georgla, W. R. Jillson of Kentucky. David Reger of West Virginia, Waliter R. Jones of Alabama, Joseph T. Singewald of Maryland and Herman Gunter and D. Stuart Mossom, both of Florida. Robert 1. Nelson, director of pub- licity of the Virginia State Chamber )f Commerce, will make the tour, as will E. O. Flippin, secretary of the | THE EVE NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER. 11. 1926. Begin 5-Day State conservntion and development commission. Junius P. Fishburn, president of the Stata Chamber, is ex- pected to join the party In Roanoke, «| From the school of geology of the university there will be Prof. Nelson and Joseph K. Roberts, A. A. Pegau and Arthur K. Ladd. Other Virginia teachers of geology who will go are Dr. H. D. Campbell of Washington and Lee; Edward, Steideman of V. M. I. and R. J. Holden of V. P. 1. The United States Geological Sur- vey is sending David White, chief geogolist; Glenn Smith, M. R. Camp- D. Miser, Clarance Ross, Stose, Charles Butts hnd N. C. Grover. L. W. Wallace of the American Engineering Council, W. Bowie of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, J. E. Spurr, editor of the Engineering and Mining Journel, Frank Wilder, president of the Southern Gypsum Co., and Frank J. Katz, enginecr in charge, division of minerzl resources, United States Bureau of Mines, will also make the trip. A distinguished forelgn geogolist who will accompany the party is L. Hayasaka of Japan. George W. POLICE TO TRAIL PAY AUTOS SINCE HOLDUP Baltimore Plan Adopted to Put Bandits at Disadvantage. Guard Vast Sums. Special Dispat BALTIMO} Asa re of approximately 1 clerks of the Sonneborn « ago, police escorting pay rolls through Baltimore streets have begn ordered to ride hereafter in au- tomobiler, trailing the machine in which the money is carried. This order is a departure. Under previous regulations the officer has ridden with the paymaster. This has ce open o attack and made of their riot guns difficult. That will leave the policeman ready to fire at any time should a holdup be attempted. Should a bandit car force the pay car to the curh, the officer will be directly behind and in a position to spray the robbers effectively with buckshot. Pay rolls whose amounts run into hundreds of thousands of dollars are protected while in transit by police almost daily. In one district officers escort 31 such pay rolls each week. Most of them are moved on Friday and xaturday. . C. MACCLAUGHRY DIES AT 0CCOQUAN,VA. Assistant Superintendent of Work- house to Be Buried in Former Home in Iowa. MacClaughry, 63 ol sistant superintendent of the Distriet workhouse at Occoquan, Va. died suddenly late vesterday at his | vesidence at Occoquan following a | stroke of apoplexy while at h at the reformatory. Mr. M ry. a veteran official of penal institu tions, hud been emploved by the locil Government for two years. ollowing brief services today at an Alexandria undertaking chapel, the | hody will be taken to Cedar Rapi where he formerly made his home and where members of his fam- ily now reside. Mr. MacClaughry is survived b; his wife, Mrs. Helen D. MacClaugh: of Occoquan; a son, R. W. wghry, and two daughters, Helen “Claughry and Mrs. Est Mob- all of Cedar Rapids, lowa. | 3 <hry came to the local mmendation of Capt. superintendent of here, with whom + has worked in a number of places vears. Before his he was deputy ita penitentiary en deputy warden Jliet institution and at Michi- 1. where Capt. Barnard Charles ¢ M post on the rec M M. Rarnard. penal institutions appointment the son of who was a ‘ederal penitentiary Kans. warden of 1t Leavenworth, FAST SPRINTER ELUDES OFFICER AFTER RESCUE Atkinson Ducks Shots in Succoring Woman and Works Fast in Informing Police. son. colored, was driv 5 Seventeenth street at On the sidewalk he ed, who ng with Atki & past 19 lives at tha another colored man. He stopped his car. jumped ¢ Yolande from her as car, and dashed out, ! IFive shots blazed at the e r from a revolver in the hand of the thwarted assailant. Atkinson reported to the police and . few minutes later the alleged “villain® of the piece was picked up it Seventeenth and R streets by Policeman Gant of the eighth pre cinet. While Gant was questioning him, a_gun dropped from his pocket. The colored man started into a spring ind the policeman was unable to over- take him. X A warrant will be procured for his arrest. J. D. ELLIS l-:OUND DEAD. Inmate of Soldiers’ Home Discov- ered in Nearby Woods. John D. Ellis, 78 vears old, inmate Soldiers’ Home, was found dead in woods north of Harewood road. a hort distance from the cemetery on . grounds of the institution, about o'clock this morning. Harry D. Hines, also an inmate of “he institution, found the body and re- ported to o ! s of the institution. hody en to the morgue for \vestigation by Coroner Nevitt. believed that Ellis the wouds yvesterday aft st while on a st . 2 ot of the home and died. possibly from exhaustion. Police notified Ellis wite, resident of Attleboro, Mass., of his death. Bridge Debt Wiped Out. The Star. rnoon to take pll from the EDERICKSBURG, Va., October ! value of | re honds to the m{::,h:;.- last of an issue of $38,000, : emed and destroyed by the Stafford County last bridge for which the issued many vears ago spanned the Rappahannoc River near Fredericksburg, l't\)meulln'g Staf- ford snd Spotsylvania Counties. It was demolished by ice in the severe Winter of 1917-18, but has since been replaced by & new structure. bonds were . A 20-vear-old girl in Edinburgh re cently confessed to 81 thefts from children on errands. years | BOY FACING DEATH MAY BE SPARED Court, Finding Public Aroused, Recommends Sentence of 15- Year-0ld Be Set Aside. ciated Press NV, case of Adam Buress. 15, under death sentence following conviction .on a ! charge of having criminaly assaulted | 9-year-old girl, took an unusual turn today when the judge, who imposed | sentence, recommended to the Court of Appeal that the action of the lower Court be set aside. The death sen. tence has aroused appeals fron: all parts of the country, including pro tests to Gov. Howard M. Gore from children’s societies in New York and Baltimore. Judge James A. Strother of Crimi- nal Court, who sentenced the lad, an nounced that he had made the recom- mendatfon to Judge 1. C. Herndon of McDowell County Circuit Court. Judge Strother also intimated that in event of conviction on a retrial, should such be granted, he would sen- tence the boy to a long term in the penitentiary. Judge Herndon's decis fon is expected within a few days CANAL ébIT DROPPED. October 9. —The | Cumberland Merchant Paid by B. & 0. for Mule Feed | Spe« Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., October 11. The equity suit of Willlam T. Coule- han, Cumberland merchant, filed at Hagerstown to enforce the sale of the | Chesapeake and Ohio Canal so that | his claim of $10,000 might be paid, | has been withdrawn, following the | payment of the claim by the Baltimore { and Ohio Railroad Company, to which ' t was asslgned. The claim was for | feed furnished canal mules some years | ago. The action clarifies to some extent, it is sald, the matter of the ownership . upon which a value 500,000 has been placed. Several 2 ago the Baltimore and Ohio bsorbed the original mortgages on the canal, which represented its full | value. A project of making a boule. rd out of the canal bed betweeri Cumberland and Washington is being much discussed. SPAN TO OPEN BIG AREA. Shenandoah Bridge Bixlers Ferry Nears Completion. | MANASSAS, Va., October 11.—The concrete submersible bridge over the Shenandoah River at Bixler's Ferry, this county, will be completed October 20, according to Mark F. Reid, bridge builder, in charge of the work. It will open a large territory which for gen- erations has been isolated. The cost of the bridge was $8,000, the county paying half and private subscriptions taking care of the rest. THROAT AILMENT FATAL. Dr. White of Theological Seminary, | | Columbia. S. C., Succuntbs. | at | _COLUMBIA, S. C., October 11 (). — | | The Rev. Dr. Ienry Alexander White, | | professor in the C'olumbia Theological | Seminary and widely known Presby- terian ciergyman and author, died at his home here vesterday of an acute | throat ailment which lasted five days. | In the past several years he had been | in poor health. Burial will be in Rich- | mond Wednesday. i 34 g ! Perjury Case Postponed. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, October 11—Hearing perjury charges against Jesse ker of Iashington. former man er of the Maryland Drug and Chemical Co., has been indefinitely postponed by the Federal grand jury. Baker, it 18 charged by the Govern: ment, gave sworn testimony in Wash- ington recently that differed from his story at the trial of Winfleld and field Jones, officers of the com- pany convicted of violating the pro- hibition laws. of oo s sis | College Paper to Reappear. LEXINGTON, Va., October 11 (#). The Mink, Washington and Lee University humorous magazine, which suspended publication two years ago, will appear October 13. Cartoons. color pictures, humorous prose and | verse and literary matter will be in- cluded. Jairus Collins, jr., of Bram- well, W. Va., is editor. { Luray Tanner Dies at 70. | ! Special Dispateh to The Star. | _LURAY, Va.. October 11.—Smith G. {Sherman, for many years general imanager at the Luray branch of the yDeford Co. tanneries of Luray, Covington and Baltimore, died at his home yesterday morning, aged 70 | appolntment was s - | tion to this |though he has secured the nec | fair, which opens here tomorrow for years. Extra Dry and Pale i | T isn't what’s on the label, but what's in the bottle that counts. ¢ When you pry the cap off of a bottle | J of NATIONAL Ginger Ale you'll g get that flavor you are expecting. Its MARSHAL JAILED T INVIRGINIA KILLING { George Hall Dead at Round | Hill as Result of Clash Over Friend’s Arrest. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG. Va., October 11. George Hall was shot to death at Round Hill, Va., near here, last night '| by Edward Finnelle, town marshal. The officer gays he fired 1f-fle- | fense was attempting to arrest Roy Bean on a charge of disorderly conduct. He declares Hall threatened bodily harm to him. Finnelle is in jail here pending a | preliminary trial at 10:30 w.m. tomor- | row at Purcellville. | Hall was 35 vears old and leaves a | wife and several children. The shoot- ing occurred in a dark alley, where || the officer 1s said to have encountered || Hall and Bean as they were on their | way 1o a farm. ' Bean was not ar- | rested after the shooting. Finnelle | gave himself up at Leesburg. The only witness is Bean, who will be || called at the hearing tomorrow. | As & result of the shooting, Judge Lincaln Fletcher appointed Dr. John ibsonr coroner of Loudoun County, to succeed Dr. W. C. Orr, who died about a month ago. The county had | | been without a coroner and the court | was considering several eligible m to have . The | reen made. 'DRY ENFORCEMENT $92,625 Month’s Record for Seiz- ures, With 235 Arrested and 160 Stills Taken. Special Dispatch to The St RICHMOND, Va., October 11.—Pro- hibition officers of the te are more || than paying the costs of the opera- tlons of the department. Selzures last month reached $ 5. according to | Information compiled in the office of nforcement department. This record. The officers seized 160 arrested 235 persons and confis- ed 2,243 gallons of liquor. In addi- the force cuptured 24 au- || tomobiles. 5 horses, ¢ mules and 3 wagons for the month. This work was done by 52 agents, | 18 of them regular and the rest special officers. The regulars made the larg- est number of captures in every de- | part The director of the en- | reau is pleased with the men are doing and as tl on opens and “hunters” | can get over the fields tha belief is that the captures will be largely in creased. | el tills, WILL MARK WAR SCENES. Two Bronze Pieces to Be Unveiled Near Winchester, Va. Special Dispateh to The Star. | WINCHESTER, Va., October 11— Bronze markers set in limestone foundations are to be unveiled on the sixty-second anniversary of the battle between Sheridan and g at Fishers Hill and Cedar Creek, by the Virginia Battle Marker Associa- tion, October 19. The former will by Miss Madoline Stover, great-grand- daughter of Maj. Joshua Stover, who was killed at Chancellorsville, and the latter by Mrs. Melvina Pollard, who assisted in nursing wounded soldlers there 62 vears ago. Philip Willlams of Winchester fs o speak. Confederate veterans and Daughters of the Confeder: from many sec- tions of the Valley of Virginla are expected to attend the ceremonies. be unveiled OUT OF SENATE RACE. | Charles B. Ager of Prince Georges Would Avold Friend's Defeat. Sveclal Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md.. October 11.-- Charles B. Ager, prominent truck farmer of Chillum district and a Democratic member of the House of Delegates from Prince Georges County, announced today that, al | ssary number of signers to a petition en- | titling him to hecome an independent | candidate for the State Senate from | this county, he has decided not to|! file his certificate of candidacy. He | belleves the only result of his filing would be the defeat of frien.s on the | ticket. ~ He asserted that his decision did not follow any appeal from Demo- cratic leaders, With Ager out of the field the fight for the Senate now is between the incumbent. Lansdale G. Sasscer of Unner Marlboro, Democratic candi- date, and James P. Curley, Repub- lican aspirant, of Laurel. FAIR TO OPEN AT BELAIR. Handiwork of Boys and Girls Will Feature Exhibits. BELAIR, Md., October 11.—Boys' and girls’ club work will feature ex- hibits at the annual Harford County i four days. & horse show will he held Wedhes- Midway and ecircus attractions have been provided. B May Confirm Read Contract. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., October 11.- At the monthly meeting of the mayor and town council, to be held tonight ‘ in the Municipal Building, it is ex. pected the recent awarding of a con- tract for permanent improvement of | Oak street from Luttrell avenue to | Oakwood road will be confirmed. The contract has been awarded to Mahoney & Griffin, Inc., of Baltimore, lowest bidders, subject to approval of thelr | bond. 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