Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1926, Page 7

HALL-MILLS JURY Auto With Smoke Screen Convicts 2 THE EVENIN IS, MORROW WINS T0 MEET TUESDAY| Seizedin RumRaid| g £ TOURNAMENT Seven Testify Against Wom- an Sleuth as Jurors Prolong Hearing. Br the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., October 2 The Somerset County grand jury late yesterday adjourned until Tuesday after hearing the evidence of seven witnesses against Felix di Martini, private detective: Mrs. Minnie Clark and possibly several other persons who have some corinection with the slaying four years ago of Rev. Edward V. Hall and” Mrs. Eleanor Mills. Sixteen witnesses vet to be heard wera instructed to appear hefore the grand jury Tuesday morniny For the fifth time within 24 hours Mrs. Clark was denied freedom on batl, both Supreme Court Justice Parker and County Judge Cleary re- tusing to entertain applications of her counsel. Mrs. Clark was arrested at her home Wednesday on a warrant charging ac- cessory before the fact. Di Martini, who four years ago was employed by the minister's widow, Is in a Brooklyn jail fighting extradi- tion. He was charged with being an accessory after the fact. Mrs. Hall, the clergyman’s widow, is free on $40,000 bail on a charge of murder, and her brothers, ilenry and Willie Stevens, and the n. Henry tarpender, are he in Somerset County Jail without hail cn a like rhargs, Mra. Clark. as was the slain woman, wag a cholr singer in Dr. Hall's church ot New Rrunswick. she accused of &pying on the counic and carrving | tales tn Mre. Hall. P for the ex- humation of theehadies are n ahey: Ance while court orders granting the permission necessary are being sought. THREE-YEAR TERM GIVEN FOR ASSAULT Pive Are Sentenced to 18 Months for Various Offenses by Justice Hitz in Criminal Court. Justice Hitz in Criminal Division 2 teday sent John H. Thomas. colored, to the penitentiary for three yvears. Thomas made an asasult with a 3angerons weapon on Robert Macklin. Roland Washington, colored, was glven a term of two years in the enitentiary on three charges of ousebreaking and larceny. The penalty was fixed a: two vears in each case. but the prisoner will he allowed to serve the sentences con- * eurrently. Sentences of 15 months each In the penitentiary were imposed on Samuel Palmer, colored. for the robbery of Clarence Green: Shumon McCullough, colored, for stealing the automohile of Alhert J. Friedric: Richard Mont- gomery. colored, househreaking: Reginald Bowman and Arthur Jordan, hoth colored, joy-riding. George A. Aliles, colored, pleaded £0ilty ta two cases of housebreaking 2nd was sent to the penitentiar for 15 months in each case, but allowed | to serve both sentences az the same time. Howard L. (arson. colored, who stole $10 from a room in a local hotel, was sent to Occoguan for ome year. Thinking he had been sufficieritly punished by three months in jail awaiting sentence, Justice Hitz freed Jeff Pollard, colored, who had been charged with an assault on~Edward Lee. The court extended clemency to James B. Carraway, a former serv- fre man who had been passing a number of small checks, and placed him on probation for two years MERCHXNTS’ PRESIbENT LAUDS RUDOLPH’S WORK R. P. Andrews Tells Retiring Com- missioner His Place Will Be Hard to Fill. Volcing the sentiment of the entire membership of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, R. P. An- drews, its president, today informed <ommissioner Rudolph by letter that the “severance of your connection with j the Board of Commissioners will be a savera loss to the Capital City, and It will be no easy task to fill the vacancy caused thereby “You have rendered a great service to this city,” Mr. Andrews continued, “for which its citizens are deeply grate ful and in which you can take justifi- able pride On_ behalf nf the Merchants and Manufacturer's Association I desire to | cere appreciation | s and efficient service rendered o the residents of the District of Columbia.’ TELL OF AID TO CRIPPLED Nurses Explain Kiwanis Club Work for Children. Kiwanis Club relief to ecrippled children of Washington was explained at a meeting of the club vesterday | at the Washington Hotel. Following | a report of the progress made, Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, director of the Instructve Visiting Nurse Society, in- troduced other nurses of the organ- fzation, who told further of the relief | to cripples. The nurses speaking wera Mrs. W. A. McKinney, George- Miss Tsabell Bucky. central Alice Clayton. Southeast and Miss Mary Mitchell, Brightwood branch Harry Kimball. who was recently | named district lieutenant governor of | Kiwanis at @ convention of the club at Roanoke, Va.. was presented with a diamond Kiwanis pin Dr. Custis Lee Hall. child specialist, member of the club. who donates his services to the club program. told of gome of the cases he had handled. .« @ NETTLESHIP HEADS CLUB. %¥'s Men's" Group Chooses Officers to Serve Until January 1. F. M. Nettleship was elected tem- porary president of the “Y's Men's" | Club at the weekly luncheon at the | | T.ee House at nocn yesterday. Other temporary officers elected were: Vice president, J. P. Payne; second vice president, D. Kenney; third vice president, E. J1. Grass; secretary, George J. Richardson; treasurer, Frank B. Hoffman The club was recently organized in Washington in connection with the national organization, which numbers §.000 members. The purpose of the club ia to inform members on civic and sconomic questions and to work for sconomy and efficiency inlevie affairs. ! take thousands Solomon Munitz and George Tur- ner, colored. were convicted tod: by a jury in Criminal Division of having in their possession an automobile equipped with a_smoke screen. Justice Hitz remanded the men for sentence. According to evidence submitted by Assistant U. S. Attorney George D. Horning, jr., the men were dis- covered in front of 328 G street southwest, August 14, last, when police had information of a move- ment of liquor. As one of the ofli- cers boarded the car, the men left by the other side and ran away, but later surrendered when told of a warrant for their arrest. The offi- cers found the smoke screen ap- paratus and 48 gallons of corn whisky. The penalty under the law Is from one to five vears in the per tentfary. The prisoners were repr sented by Attorneys Bertrand Emerson and Joseph D. Kelly. BECK WILL SPEAK ON ANTIETAM FIELD Former Solicitor General to Commemorate 64th Anni- versary of Battle. James M. Beck. former solicitor gen- eral, will be the speaker at Antietam battlefield, Md.. tomcrrow, when 50 members of the National Order of the Loval Legion of the United State: journey to that place in commemora- tion of the sixty-fourth anniversary of the battle of Antietam. Mr. Beck's aeceptance of the Legion's invitation to speak was made known this morn ing by G. H. Powell, recorder of the order in Washington. The host of tomorrow's excursion is Col. R. M. Thompson and the party will include a number of men who were officers in the Federal Army at Antietam. The Legion members and thelr guests will meet at Union Sta- tion at 9 o'clock in the morning and will leave over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for Harpers Ferry, where busses will meet them for the final leg of the journey to the bat- tlefield. Following a tour of the bat- tlefield and Mr. Beck's speech the excursionists will return to Washinz- ton, arriving at Union Station at 4:40 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Following are the members of the TLoyal Legion who will be included in the party as guests of Col. Thompson: Harold Allen, Brig. Gen. George An- drews, Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, Rear Admiral W. 1. Brownson, D C. D. Carman, Capt. R. G. Carter, Dr. . C. Clark, Capt. Leon Commerford, Lieut. Col. W. M. Craigie, Maj. 1. C. . Maj. Gen. J. T. Dickman, J. Dorn, Dr. G. F. Dudley, ans. Sheridan Ferree, Felix Frey- Harts- Capt. hold, Dr. Hammond. Col. horn, F. Hight, Brig. Gen. W. 'Hobba, ¥. Hood, Col. } g, Hunt, Capt. G. M. Huste 1. Paul Jameson, J. I. Keefer, Col. J. Miller Kenyon. B. P. Lamberton, Col. J. F. Reynolds Landis, C. A. Loeffer, Col. A. C. Macomb, Lieut. P. H. Macomb, Maj. W. A. Miller and G. E. Mitchell. 0. A. C. Oehmler, J. B. O'Nelll, Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, Lieut. H. C."'Pearson, J. H. G. Pell, S. H. P. Pell, G. H. Powell, Col. H. C. Rizer, capt. J. E. Rastall, Capt. J. W. Sand- erson, C. McG. Sweitzer, Brig. Gen. Eben Swift, G. P. Van Wyck, Capt. . 1{. Venable, Dr. T. N. Vincent, Hewitt Wells and Lieut. Col. F. B. Wheaton. PLAN TO DRIVE FAKES OUT OF WASHINGTON Secretaries of Trade Bodies Organ- izing to Co-operate in Promoting Capital City's Interests. The secretaries of the leading trade bodies of the National Capital have started an organization for closer co- operation in furthering Washington's interests. Richard 1. Conner, assistant sec- retary of the Washington Board of Trade; Edward Shaw, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- clation, and Louis Rothschild, director of the Better Business Bureau, are behind the project. Immediately upon the selection of a new secretary by the Chamber of Commerce that offi- cial will be invited to hecome associ- ated. and it is planed also to enlarge the group further. The first meeting of the new organi- sation vesterday was devoted to a discussion of fake solicitation schemes which, according to the secretaries, of dollars annually from Washingtonians. Schemes for charities and fake concerts, in which the promoters get from 40 to 60 per cent of the proceeds. are the chief methods used, according to the secre- tarles. In many instances it was pointed out that prominent people’s names are used over the phone without authori- zation in connection with certain schemes. The committee visited Chief of Police Hesse, and after a conference received from him a promise to co- operate in eliminating these schemes. MISS MARY B. THYSON. 'Funeral Held Here Today for War Nurse. Funeral services for Miss Mary B. Thyson, 62 vears old. member of an old Washington famtlv. who died in Parls, France, September 29. were conducted in St. Aloysius Catholic Church today. at 10:30 o'clock, by Rev. Father Brooks. Interment was in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Miss Thyson was the daughter of the late Poulus and Mrs. Parthenia Thyson. She went to Europe during the World War and served as a nurse during early days of the conflict. She had lived abroad since. Hear death was attributed to heart disease. She is survived by two brothers, Hermanus G. Thyson of Washington and Thomas Thyson of Warrenton, Va. FIND MEXICAN SLAYERS. Mexican police have located a gang of “ordinary thieves” who Kkilled J. E. Spriggs, an official of the American Pepper Co., near Mazatlan recently, United States Consul Blocker tele- graphed the State Department yes- terday. The American embassy in Mexico City made urgent representations to the Mexican government and Consul Blocker appealed to the governor of Sinaloa province, in which Mazatlan la located. concerning the apprehen- Officars for the vear will be elacted at the meeting on January 1. ston and punishment g.nmn respen sible for Spriggs’ dea! Mrs. Haynes of Washington Loses When Putting Fails to Equal Approaches. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. Staft Correepondent of The Star. BALTIMORE COUNTRY CLUB, Baltimore, October Mrs. E. Boyd Morrow of the Baltimore Country Club today won the women's cham- pionship of the Middle Atlantic Golf Association over this course, defeating Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of the Co- lumbia Country Club of Washington by 2°and 1 in the final round. Mrs. Morrow was steadier through the fairway and on the putting green than Mrs. Haynes, running down two long putts to maintain the margin she gained on the fourth hole and held throughout most of the match. Putting Is Weak. Although Mrs. Haynes played well through the fairway, her putting was very poor. On no less than four oc- casions the former women's District champion missed holeable putts. The new champion, and the first player to win the women'’s champion- ship of the association, is also the present holder of the Maryland State women'’s title, which she has won three years in succession. —Mrs. Haynes was in the lead at only one time during the match, when she won the second hole, only to lose the next two. She won the ninth to turn.one down, and lost the tenth when a nib- lick shot found a trap, annexing the eleventh when Mrs. Morrow took three putts, Mrs. Morrow stroke on the twelfth the hole to a 6 by Mrs. Haynes again making the match square. Mrs, Haynes took three putts on th thirteenth green to become 1 down, and should have won the fourteenth hole. But Mrs. Morrow after over; approaching the green sank a down- hill 10-foot putt for a half in 4. Mrs. Haynes Dormied. Mrs. Morrow won the long fifteenth when Mrs. Haynes again missed the short putt for a half. Two down and three to go, Mr Haynes came out of a bunker n three feet of the hole and missed the putt to win. She was dormied two down playing the seventeenth and should have won the hole, but.again took three putts for a 6, enabling Mrs. Morrow to gain a half and win the match by 2 and 1. Mrs. Morrow banked a downhill 20- foot put on the eighth hole for a birdie 3. POST SETS RECORD. President’'s Own Garrison Admits 21 New Members. Twenty-one new members, the largest class in the history of the post, last night wera admitted by the President’s Own Garrison, No. 104, Army and Navy Unlon, at its meet- ing in the board room of the District Building. The initiates were mus- tered into the order by Maj. W. L. Peak, commander. The new members Gravely, John F. Gravel, tie, S8amuel C. Brooks, J. Hunter; 1. G. Scripture, W. A. Penningto E. C. Spaulding, H. H. Thompso H. W. Beechner, Joe Burns, C. G. Brasner, William Cunningham, George B. Reld, W. C. Curtis, James C. Pip- incurred a penalty include &. S. B. C, Mar- kin, L. E. Batchelor, A. G. Moore, Marvin Ellis and C. O. Rouse. The nomination of Maj. Peak “as chairman of the national convention of the Army and Navy Unlon to be held in Washington next Fall was indorsed by the General H. S. Haw- kins Garrison, No. 17, it s an- nounced last night by A. S. Hart, chaplain of the post, who lead a dele gation of visitors to the meeting of ident’s Ow Beautiful Dinner genuine diamonds and fo mountings, richly hand B Year . hole and lost. KAY’S, 407 7Tth St A Special From Kay's 1926 Full-Stocking Xmas Club Diamond Dinner Rings as shown in the illustration. = 397 7 Open Saturday Until 9 P.M. G STAR. WASHINGTON, D. (. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926. Bowlder Unveiled To Maryland’s First State House Special Dispatch to The Star. ST. MARYS CITY, Md., October 22. — William Thomas Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo- lution, yesterday unveiled a bowl- der marking the site of the first statehouse and bearing an in- scribed bronze tablet. Mrs. John G. H. Lilburn, regent, made the presentation address. Judge Walter 1. Dawkins of Bal- timore presided, and the principal address was by Walter Crane of Baltimore, whose topic was “Re- ligious Liberty.” The monument was placed 1n the custody of St. Mary's parish. POST OFFICE CLERKS ASK SHORTER HOURS Appeal to Be Made to New on Be- half of Night Workers, Committee Declares. Committee High-Pressure Data Next Week. ‘The proposed installation of a high- pressure water supply system in the congested-value district will be con- sidered by the committee appointed by the District Commissioners to make a comprehensive study of the plan, at its first meeting next week. George S. Watson, Fire Department and chairman of the committee, announced today that he would cail ‘the committee together some time mext week. time, he said, D: man of the committee on insurance and fire protection of the Board of Trade, expects to prepare data for the Ra: ROPTOSTUDY NEW WATER LAN Will Consider chief of the In the mean- N. Lea, chair- committee, outlining the benefits of a high-pressure water system. ress has authorized an appro- traveling ex- penses for the committee to study high-pressure water systems in other cities. Whether it will be necessary for the committee to make a junket about the country is one of the ques- tions to be decided at the initial meet- ing. There are three types of high-pres- sure systems known to Fire Chief ‘Watson, and a visit to San Francisco would be necessary to see them all in operation. The California city has a gravity system altogether different from systems used in other cities. s Will for 420,000 Estate Upheld. The will of Mrs. Amelia McGhle, dis- posing of an estate valued at $20,000, was sustained yesterday by a jury in Circuit Division 2. A caveat had been flled by Joseph Little, a beneficiary under an earlfer will, claiming undue influence in connection with the mak- ing of the later document, which left the estate to charities and friends. At- torneys Wilton J. Lambert and Ru- dolph H. Yeatman represented the executor under the later will, while the caveator was represented by Attorney ond B. Dicke! poration, at today. erable discussion and stee] United By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October ty of an amicable understanding be- tween the steel manufacturers of Eu- rope and America in world trade, was suggested by Elbert H. Gary. chair- man of the United States Steel Cor- the opening session the American Iron and Steel Institute of the competi- vesibili- of b 1 | should it hecdme necessary, an inter- national conference will be held bhe- tween all these interests and a full, open discussion indulged in, after Sees Possibility of Agree- ment Between American and European Manufacturers. which a fair_understanding could be reached. “Ot course,” he added, “no agree- ment between the different interests relating to' prices could legally be entered into without sanction of our law administrators. But, if necessity arose, it is thought the approval of the public authorities of the country, if they were fully informed and per mitted to express opinions on the sub ject, might be obtained.” Reviewing industrial conditions Chairman Gary asserted no _clouds appeared on the business horizon which might indicate that demand fo steel products would be substantiall: reduced in the near future. . Named for West Point. Charles H. Bonesteel, 3d, 3.0 Kitngle road, this city. has been ap pointed by President Coolidge a cadet at large at the United States Military Academy, subject to qualification at “We have heard recently of consid- |the entrance examination next March relating to_antici- pated competition between the iron manufacturers States and foreign he said, “but it is believed that Similar appointments have heen given Reed Montgomery, son of Lieut. H. G Montgomery, Air Corps, at Fairfield Ohio, and Fay dworth, Fort Lawton, Wash Shorter hours for night postal work- ers will be sought from Postmaster General Harry S. New and Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett, it was announced here today, following a session held by the executive commit- tee of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, representing 50,000 clerks, employed in all of the first and second class post offices in the coun- try. The committee is holdlng fta? annual meeting here. Night work,” Thomas F. Flaherty, legislative representative of the or- ganizations declared today, “is a vital question with our workers. Despite repeated promises for a reduction of night work requifements by the Post Office Department there are more clerks working at nights now than ever before, These clerks must work a minimum of elght hours in the of- fice and then they are required to|ff! study intricate schemes of mail dis- ||| tribution at home. The Government does not grant its postal night - ers any concessions in the w shorter hours, but it is empowered to_do this if it wants to.” I Members of the executive committee of the National Federation are: Pres- ident, Leo E. George, Washington, D. C.; first vice president, Harry *. Wein- stock, Philadelphia: second vice pres- ident, John M, Torka. New York third vice president, John D. Murphy, Boston: fourth vice presi- dent, Willlam_Otte, Lincoln, Nebr.; fifth vice president, John H. Mitcham, Spokane, Wash.: sixth vice president, Karl L. 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