Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1927, Page 6

'. - SHERIFF IS JAILED INFLOGGING CASE {Three Others Accused in | Hooded Attack on Georgia L. Newspaper Editor. B the Associated Press SOPERTO! W. L. Thigp two farmer: charged with of Trentlen Co another man with intent to murder on H. M. Flanders, editor of the S on News, who was bheaten insensible on the night of February 25 by hooded men. ’ The editor's cousin, Sheriff G. I Flanders of Emmanuel County the arresta late vesterday. aided by his own deputies and two Treutlen Count; licemen. Thtyfo’u: men—Thigpen, Henry Me. Raymond lee, farmers, on, Joe Lee. a filling , were lodged in Em- jail, unable to make $3.000 bond. Each refused to com- ment. Sheriff Flanders, active in the case since his cousin stumblied into his own home, sick and bieeding, an nounced that other arrests were (o follow. Injuries Keep Him Confined. Flanders, confined to his home by & spinal injury and severe shock, sup- posedly furnished the information on which the arrests were made. At the time of the flogging he was able to give only a sketchy statement, though he is said to have recognized some of the men who beat him. Editorials In the News condemning rum-running in the County and State and demanding from agencies « law a relentless war on bootleggers were believed by residents to have brought about the flogging. For sev eral weeks the editor had written in ecorching terms of lawlessness in gen- eral and conditions in Treutien Coun: made | ty in particular. Flanders was returning to Soper ton from Swaynesbore, he said, when the incldent occurred. An automobile that trailed hi& own tachine for several < darted ehead and stopped on a narrow hridge #ix mileg from the town. Flanders called on Ythem to move. derked Editor From Car. “Like hell we will.” was the retort. ‘Three hooded men foilowed up the re mark by jerking the editor bodily from car. “You will write i of yours, will v that *— the larger of the three remarked. Filaflders. a small man, welghing scarcely a humdred pounds, was knocked unconsoious by & blow from the hooded man's fist. Flanders, bleeding from several wounds, managed to drive his automo- bile to the town after his assailants left. Friends had to carry him home. He collapsed before reaching his resi- dence and for several hours was un sble to describe his experience Rewards totaling $2.500 have heen offered by State, County and city for conviction of the floggers, S JOY-RIDING IS CHARGED. Two Held After Girl Is Taken to Hospital in ‘““Borrowed"™ Car. After taking 14-vear-old Juanita Vir- ginia Williams, colored, Virginia @venue, to Georgetown University Hospital in a car alleged to have heen “borrowed” without the tonsent of its owner, Alfred Schaublin, 3306 Holmead place, detectives last night held for in. vestigation Clarence Marshall W 8, 17 years old, colored, 2124 New- port place. F: Paul Lawrence Roberts, 17 years old, Colored, 2505 M street, who was with llams earlier, was later held for Investigation in connection with “joy riding” in the car. The girl, taken to the hospital, had a bullet wound in the ht arm, inflicted, she said, when @ pistol fel! from Williams' pocket and ‘was accidentally discharged. She was shot while visiting Addie Viola Lyles, eolored, in her room at American Uni- versity, where she iz employed. Rob- erts is alleged to have been present When the girl was wounded. WILL HOLD CARD PARTY. Cabin John Park Citizens to Stage Affair March 17. A card party will be held March 17 e obtain funds to further the activi- Jties of the Cabin John Park Citizens’ f-och(lon. it was decided at a meet- ng last night G. Jewel, principal of the Glen Echo School, spoke on “Standard 8chools.” The Association voted to present several dictionaries to the #chool. 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Know them by their olive | color. i To have a clear, pink skin, bright o, no ¥ s, & feeling of buoy- da ;:vnl the cause. s | ot ., THE EVENING ST Shorty™ Downs, Painting Flagstaff of Star Building, Harbinger of Spring Those little red-breasted birds (Iull[ go a-hopping through Washington parks these days aren’t the «nly | robins in the world, at least so far as the business of announcing the coming of Spring 18 concerned. There's “Shorty” Downs. who I | painting the main flagstaft on the | coutheast corner of The Star Build- | h | Shorty™ is no poet, and ne poet | ever expressed the utier contempi for | the hazard of steeplejucking that | pole-climbing, sky-dusting little Scotchman does in his two-fisted ver- | biage and devil-may-care demeanor. | After he has taken # half-hitch about | the 50-foot pole with a light hemp | rope that he uses as stircups and | has jockeyed his way up the swaying staff that towers 10 stories above the | corner of Fleventh street and enn-| sylvania avenue, he waves sympa thetically at the crowd of nervous watchers below and pauses to mur u | . Sene guys! Down there getting the roofs of their mouths all sun-| burned. Afn't it awful?” “Shorty” comes to the Capital every Spring to dress up the flagstafr church steeples and smokestacks after | ic Winter of sleet and smoke dam During the Winter he's down Florida way, and during the season fust closed he did a kreat deel of his high-hat work in Havana. When he's through here he farther north, alwavs paint pails and his shing Although he is a pretty carefree = i WILL FILL U. S. POSIJIONS | BY COMPETITIVE TESTS Civil Commission An- nounces Examinations of Candi- Vacapt Jobs. carvying his | rope stirrup: Service dates for The Civil Service Commission today announced open competitive examina- tions_to fill the following vacancies: | Associate entomologist, at $3.000 a ssistant entomologist, at $2,400 4 vear, Bureau of Entomology, De- partment of Agriculture, for duty in Washington, D. C., or in the field. Director of agriculture, Indian serv- ice, for duty at the Chilocco School, Oklahoma, at $3.100 a vear, less $240 a vear for quarters, fuel and light. Junior astronomer, Naval Observa- and Nautical Almanac office, Department, at $1,860 a_vear Junior medical officer (interne), United States Veterans' Bureau Hos- | pitals_throughout the United States, | 1t $1,860 to $2.400 a vear without al-| lowances, or $1.260 to $1,860 a year| with quarters, subsistence and laun- | te instrument maker, at $1.320 assistant instrument makel instrument maker, | $1.680 ar; senior instrument | maker, at $1,860 a vear, Bureau of | Standards, Department of Commerce. | Full information and application blanks may be obtained from the of- | fice of the United States Civil Service | Commission, 1724 F street. | 0 a a Woman Granted New Trial. Sylvia Robinson, colored, was granted a new trial vesterday gy the District Court of Appeals in an opinion by Chief Justice Martin. The woman had | been convicted of robbing a white man | and had been sentenced to serve 15 vears in the penitentia Attorneys James A. O'Shea and John H. Burnett appealed the case for their client, tak ing exception to the introduction by | the prosecution of a Witness who made drogatory statements as to the cha acter of the accused before her char- acter had been called in question at the trial. Although the trial justic tried to limit the scope of this evi- dence in his charge to the jury, the ppellate tribunal holds the evidence was prejudicial to the accused. ADOLPH KAHN President MEMBERS OF AMSTERDA aims the States |arm & had One “Shorty” Downs has Mighty NArrowW eacapes. e, when he was working on the Equitable Building in New York City with Charlie Seamons, one of the n famous steeplefacks in this country, Seamons’ rigging snapped and that unlucky man crashed to his denth. narrowly missing Downs, who was working immediately beneath him. On another occasion “Shorty” took a fall himself. Ile was working on a lofty church spire in New York City when, in accordance with his usual fellow, some | practice, he jumped outward into the he was suspended from the >, Intending 1o swing into a indow below n ledge. e he blooming hole by about however, and landed on the He received a broken narrow missed six fe ground below leg that time. Another fall followed not long after | when a spider bit him as he was work ing on the side of an old tower. Slap PIng at the insect, he lost his grip on his life-dline and began sliding down the side of the slanting tower wall, At the bottom of the shaft was ag fron picked fence, So 1ather than he im paled upon those spikes “Shorty’ pressed his feet against the tower and shoved off” into space. When he re nined conscivusness he learned he had shattered his arm, and as he puints Tl r Building flagpole to day he iex a_silver plate in’ that result of that fall falls or no, it's his job, savs " He likes it, and his appear any city is a “sure sign of Spring.” But, NEWSPAPER MEN CITED. Legislator Ask Bonus for Them, but Only in Fun. RALEIGH, N. Newspaper men €., March 8 (#) covering the North | Carolina General Assembly were cata | pulted into the Jimelight laxt night. Resolutionsproviding a bonus of 500 each And requiring that em plovers boost pay and not require them to work more than 12 hours a day were introduced in the House by Representative Nettles. After dvawing a host of amendments and humorous speeches, the bill went to the table, to lie there until the 1 session. RY CLEANIN AT WOODRUFF'S 1s " th, Only Se 06 14th N.W, 8t 2 1400, 1301 with STRESSES VALUE OF GADET TRAINING Gen. MacArthur’s Address at Presentation of Commis- sions to School Officers. Speaking at the annual present smmissions to High School officers in the auditorium of Central High School yesterday afternoon, Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, U. 8. A commanding gencral of the 3d Corps A jinpressed upon the hoys that det training will go a long toward making them a success in civil life No wants Arthur declared ¢ more thar one wants a strous fire calamity, But so long as nations are nations and ave striving for comme cinl supremacy there wiil be conflicts, and preparedness for such events is Just as necessary as fire drills.” roduced by S. E. Kramer. A uperintendent of Schools Stephen . Kramer introduced Gen. MacAvthur, Mr. Kramer sald that hie liked to look upon the cadet officers as “the torchbear in high school lite." Charles I°. Carusi, president of the Board of Education, in a_short talk cited the value of the cadet training and the fact that there were men in all walks of business and professional life of the city who had gained through their cadet training at the high school. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, who hs returned from the a nual con { i dueca- tional Assoc | also spoke, “Honor Guard Wallace M. Cr or of military t ence. met Gen. MacArthur arvival and presented him escort, Company of Ce of one war,” Gen Istant in Service. Col igie, 1 upon his 1o his tral m “Hahn S Now all MAIN OFFICE-6%and C Sts. SW. CAMP MPIGS-5t%and Fla. Ave.N.E. ARTHUR J. RUNDLUN Treasurer M DIAMOND EXCHANGE oft. Aatinne. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AT 935 F Street DIAMONDS And Other Precious Stones JEWELERR PLATI. DISTINCTIVELY Styled Hats for Spring in many exclusive new models and desirable color combi- nations. ‘ Sole Washington Agents 414 9th 3212 14th 23. or other | One of the New Style Leaders in manded by Capt. 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The cost of the stenographic record, the auditor's e and an appld cation of counsel for u fee on appenl are denied by the court, e application en with the parti the Dis % held vesterday n of the District Supreme Court in the suit of Lorenzo | A, Batley against (¢ us Scott | Bailey sought to obtain a decree for counsel fees when his client, the wife, had died during the pendency of the litigation. The application was denfed by the lower court and affirmed on appeal, Concert by U. of C. Glee Club. The University of California Glee | Club will give a concert in the New Willard Hotel Friday evening at 815 welock, on their way to the Inter collegiate Glee Club contest in New | York the next day. The University of California is the first Western ini versity to be represented in this con | test. 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I., March 8§ State Inst Assembly night ance of Sunday. elections un petition of 18 per cent the voters, Opponents_declared repeal the Ten ‘the wse of the that it ymandants, Blue ates won their fight in the Against permitting local option in the observ- A bill to modify the laws war defeated by just one vote, The bill would have permitted local would that | ation & too much the measure, declared open Sundays had not lowered the moral tone of Atlantic City, and Assemblyman Rari- mon added that the State was help ing to support Broadway, and that this bill would keep many citizens in their home towns on Sundays Say It Would Aid Theaters, Assemblyman L. in_opposition, argued that If it @ only A matter of innocent sports. it might he dif ferent, but that the bill was to put money in the pockets of the motion picture operators, and that it was tak ing & step backwagd 1o “cater to the motion picture infarests.” Woman Employes Reinstated. Executive orders, just issued authorize the reinstitement of Mrs Lizaie A. Haley as an oparative in the | Bureau of Engraving and Printing of | the Treasury Department and the re Instatement of Mrs. Ruth M. Cran ford to “an appropriate position in | the Post Office service,” witheut re gard to the length of time they have been separated from previous service |in the Bureau of Engraving and nting. Mrs. Haley «is the widow Joseph D. Haley. a former employe of the Rureau, and Mrs. Cranford is of leisure Among the working class,” and | the widow of Fdward B. Cranford that the bill was designed to motion picture shows. Blind Man lLeads Fight. Advocat the shackles of 200 years, cide for themselves. Assemblyman Muir, who led the fight for the bill. Assemblyman Altman, in support IRNEXZITIZXBXZERIZIZIZLILILINS put money in’ the pockets of operators of sald that the blue lawa were written in days when men were | afraid of steamships, that the bill un- | der discussion,would permit breaking | and that | it merely allowed the citizens to de- | is blind, former employe of the railway ma service. Boy Sues for $10,000. B. Peters, jr., through his father, has brought suit ‘in the District Su preme Court against William Walter Kerr for $10,000 damages for alleged personal injuries. The boy, who s 9 vears oid, was struck by an automc bile of the defendant February 4 at Third and I streets while on his way from school. 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