Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1926, Page 11

SPLENDOR T0 GROW Tree and Shrubbery Planting ;I Secks State Office | ALONG ROCK CREK Program Will Add to Beauty of Valley. re combining to < of Itork Creek Connecticut Nature and man ctive National tion progran ning of the Rock Creei and P Parkway, the connect'ng link hetween Rock Creek and Potomac Parks, and has been slated for improvement, to begin this week, under the direction of Frank T. Gartside, chief of the ks maintenance division of the of Public Buildings and Public I his arvea ix the begin- From the bridge on either valley can be viewed for many biock: For vears It has been a mass of under- brush. It is now being cleaned pre- paratory to improvements plinned by Mr. Gartside. It is his plan to replace the underbrush with trees and shrubs, which also will be planted along the proposed connecting roadway. i Varied Color Scheme. The trees and shrubs will be select- ed and placed with a view to having a variety of colors the vear round. About 400 trees will be required. It is the purpose to make a special effort at planting during this Au- tumn so that the parks next vear will present picture that will attract thousands. Trees and shrubs will he set out on the bridal path now run- ning through the entire area, and a planting scheme also has heen pre- pared for the vicinity of the gas houses in West Washington and on the edge of the parkway. so as fo biot them out of the view. Al this is part of the general acheme to open the connecting park- way to the public as quickly as funds will permit. The roadway to connact the two big parks has been completed at the Connecticut Avenue Bridge end and it is probable another link will he put in next Spring. A dogwood setting. destined to le- come as popular as the cherry bins. foms on the waterwav, is being plan ned:for Ross and Ridge roads in Rock Creek Pa These trees are 10 be et out this Fall. soon after the work around the Connecticut Avenue Tiridge is completed. Bv purchase and by gift 1,000 dogwood trees have been ohtained. They will be set along these two roads. so that next spring 1t will present as colorful a drive as the one around the Tidal Basin. The trees will be planted under of the landscape experts. Grassy Sections 1 Grassy sections also are attention this Fall. Al hare sy e heing gone over. In this work four tons of lawn grass seed have been purchased and wre being plant These are sufficient to cover me than 50 acres. Not a spot which needs attention will be left unworked, because officials want every piece of lawn space to show a rich green next ve; " Not even the roadways are beinz overlooked. All of the main roadways in Rock Creek Park are veceiving an overhauling. with an overcoating of ofl and crushed stone, to prepare them for Winter and to_have them in good shape for heavy Spring and Summer traffic. Fourteen thousand gallons of road oil are being used. The roads will be closed for 48 hours while being wworked. Special attention also is heing given to the roadway in the lower end of Fast Potomac Park. which, due to sinking, has taken on a rolling effect Tn many places the roadway is being torn up and reconstructed from the hed. Officials of the parks office say that in some instances it is necessary: to bulld the roadway up 18 inches to meet the old road level. and this has enaused the necessity of reconstructing the gutters. JAZZ BECOMES TOPIC | FOR DEBATING STAGE Leaders in British Music Circles in Hot Controversy Over ‘“‘Negro- American” Compositions. Br the Ascociated Press LONDON, October 23.—Contro- versy over jazz music is approaching the public debating stage in England. s Hart a famous composer, and Jack | Hviton. who is something of a local Pau! Whiteman, are the likely oratore | Sir Hamilton, addressing a national | organization of organists, called jazz | “that accursed negro-American form : of music from which it is so hard ! for the average person to get out of earshot. 'Three months' hard 14- hor for jazz musiciang is none too &ood for them.” added Sir Hamilton. Hylton, whose orchestras blare in many London and provincial hotels and dance palaces. took umbrage at Sir Hamilton's explosive remarks. He challenged Hamilton to public dehate—under proper police protec- tion—and promised to enter the de- bating arena without any jazz instru- | ments concealed about his person. Hylton asserted that he wants po- Nee protection hecause Sir Hamilton says there must be thousands of re- spectable persons who, like himself. “consider the advantages and de- lights of murder as a profession when they are forced to listen to jazz." MEXICAN COURT REFUSES TO DISMISS JUDGE e i Declines to Accede to Demand of}‘ Labor to Oust Jurist Who De- cided Against Workers. Rr the Associated Press MEXICO CTTY. October 23.—The Supreme Court refused vesterday to | dismiss Ricardo Couto, one of the dis- | trict judges of Mexico, as demanded | by the Regional Confederation of Mexican Waorkers. It has heen ! char; by the confederation that Judge Couto in some strike and lahor Qispute cases rendered a decision against the strikes of workmen and | favoring the employers. | The confederation leaders anncunce that the Supreme Court refusal of their demands will not alter the union’s attitude. It is the intention to continue demanding Judge Couto’s dismissal, but it is not certain whether a general strike wiil be call- ed as a method of gaining the point. Such a strike has been suggested in certain labor circles. U. S. Rests Osage Case. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., October 23 (#).—The Government rested today in the trial of \V. K. Hale and John v. charged with the slaying of v Roan. wealthy Osage Indian. The action was a surprise. Many Governmént witnesses, who testified at Guthrie, Okla.. at the first trial of the men. were not placed on the witness stand here. The jury disagreed at the first trial. »mac | ide, the | casket. MRS. GERTRUDE M. STEVE) past president of the Twentieth Cen- | tury Club of Washington, who is the Republican candidate for the Mary- land House of Delegates from Mont- gomery County. Stevens for- merly taught in Western High School. SECOND ARREST MADE| IN WARDEN’S SLAYING iM-n. Accused by Confessed Killer in Aiding Him in Disposing | of Bodies, Held. By the Associated Press MARQUE 5. Mich.,, October —Arvid Erickson, county game war- { den. whose body w: found at the bottom of Marquette Harbor early vesterday, was shot from behind, a | post-mortem examination revealed. One bullet struck Erickson, enter- link the back of the head. piercing jthe brain and causing instantaneous | death Emil Skog'und, State trapper and | deputy warden, was shot twice, one bullet passing through the jaw and fracturing the neck, the other pene- ‘ trating the spinal cord. The bullets b v Nunn, ex-convict, whose con- fession that le shot -the two offi when they arrested him for pos ing_led to tI is: held in jail here awaiting ar- | raignment. i The bodles of Erickson and Skog- | lund, weighted with stone, were ! thrown into the harbor by Nunn, ac- | !4':vl'dlnz to his confession, after he had driven the bodies overland sev- cral miles from the spot where the | men were slain. Police at Detroit last night arrested Joseph Gendron of Marquette, who Nunn named as having_helped him dispose of the bodies. Gendron will | be returned here to face a charge of | accessory after the fact, in connec- tion with the slaying. | i CONVICTS HONOR 0SBORNE 1,200 File Past Prison Reformer's Casket at Auburn, N. Y. AUBURN, N. Y., October 23 (#).— Twelve hundred inmates of Auburn | Prison were among those who today paid tribute to Thomas Mott Osborne, former warden of Sing Sing, whose funeral was held at First Universalist Church. Mr. Osborne died of heart failure here Wednesday night. After the church service, conducted by Rev. Dr. Samuel E. Eliot of Boston | and attended by prominent penologists of this and other States, the body was | taken to the prison, where the con- victs were permitted to flle past the Many of the prisoners wept The bodv will be cremated on Mon- day and the ashes interred in historic Fort Hill Cemetery. POPE HONORS AMERICAN. NEW HAVEN. Conn., October 23| P). —Edward Hearn, formerly of this city, b Leen made a Roman count by an official announcement Vatican at Rome. Hearn is European commissioner of the Knights of Columbu: He had been previously made a Knight of St. Gregory. At the recent eucharist conference | in Chicago Hearn was special emis- sary of the Po | Pope Pius XI, according to | from the | alvert St. Bet. 18th & 19th\.W. (Just Half Block Wes New_Ambassador Theater) TODAY FiveCourse .. Chicken or Roast Long Island Duck Dinner $1.00 1 PM to 7 P.M. % Seryice and Food Unsurpassed Parking on Thres Stroets Cairo Hotel Que at Sixteenth Street L. R. Nawhins, Manager Telaphone North 2106 Lo d One, * Two. Three and Four anites,” eompietely furnished. with Hotel ‘Service, moderate rentals. Excellent Cuisine Monthly Rates. L oad Under the Manngement ot Madduz, Marshal!. Moss & Matiory ne room full For a limited number of men possessing the right qualifications. The John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany is offering to a limited number of men between the ages of 25 and 40, a training course under the supervi- sion of experts. 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It lubricates, even the most inaccessible and generally neglected points by a single stroke of the plunger t it prohibit or does forbid classified employes from | engaging in what might be deemed | Wil ieorge ship of any nature. Both of these officials, while insistent that the law forbidding political acgivity be obeyed fully, are anxious té impress upon the thousands of men and women in the classified service in this city who are legal residents of some one of the States that they are legally entitled to vote while in the service, and that it is their patriotic duty to exercise their franchise. In® further defining the voting priv- lleges of the classified employes the commission holds that they are not only permitted to cast their baliots, either by mail or in person, but they may attend partisan political meetings and gatherings and may make Vol untary contributions for campaign purposes. Commissioned in Reserve Corps. serve Corps ued to Car. igston street v Corps: t 5414 Forty-fi i Commissions in the of the 'my have been is son P. Frailey, 3704 Liv a major in the Sani homas J. Rogers, street, Charles A. Lally, Tudor Hall, Massachusetts avenue and: Tenth street, as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps. and to George W. Johns, Mount Rafnier, Md., as a cap- [tain of engineers. Nebraska' is the only one of the n- | United§tates having no funded debt. s a first lieutenant in infan- FLEVATED ROADS SEEN FOR LONDON British Awersion to Subways May Result in Trestle System for Future. By the Associated Prese. LONDON, October 23.—A. London on trestles in vears to come has been visualized by Lord Montague, traffic | expert, who is aiding in unraveling el the city’'s traffic puzzles. The traveling public has a rooted objection against going down into the Bowels of the earth for the under- ground systems, Lord Montague be- lieves, and his plans for the future include viaducts 200 feet above the present street level with escalators for both pedestrians and vehicles. Addressing_the royal commission which is confronted with the task of 1926—PART 1. solving the problem of the constantly increasing trafic, Lord Montague peered along the roadways of vears to come and saw a city entirely re- built. . Lord Montague's plan also includes six-way main ground roads with al- lotted spaces for slow, medium speed and express traffic in each direction, underground roadways fér vehicles as well as the elevated arrangement. and underground parking places for automobiles. Lord Lee Incredulous. Lord Lee of Fareham, commission chairman, was incredulous of the scheme, believing that pedestrians would object to the proposed high- level roadways, but Lord Montague replied that people generally dreaded underground travel and could easily be taught to use the viaducts. . Col. R. E. Crompton, another traf- fic expert, saig that Kensington high street was so overcrowded that it had become a ‘“death trap,” as the motor vehicle traffic_of London had in- creased from 381,269 in 1912 to 796, 019 this year. Gertrude Ederle’s likeness is to be added to the Hall of Fame of 150 women of history, immortalized in costume figurines by Mrs. Minna Schmidt, historian, lawyer, designer and philanthropist. DXPLOSON LS CHEAED GANESTER Pecket Bomb or Nitroglycerin Is Held Cause of Ka- zinski’s Death. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 23. — Peter ( Three - Fingered I'ele.) 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