Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1927, Page 13

HUNDREDS ATTEND FINAL RITES FOR INSPECTOR EVANS Evans, assistant superintendent of the Metropolitan police f shown being borne from the house through the police guard of honor. every walk of life w mong the I gathering of mourner The District officials and fri THE TEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €., WEDNESDAY, MOST BEAUTIFUL ARRIV funeral of Tnspector Charles A. e v, chosen as the beauty quie nce yesterday. The casket is s from * Photo, e, who has just ontest between England, , this month. Wide World Photos, Washington S SACCO JUROR'S HOUSE BOMBED. A view of the wrecked home at East Milton, Mass., of Lewis McHardy, who served as a juror in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, after the bomb explosion yesterday. Five members of the family were blown from their beds, but escaped serious injury. A LITTLE FAMILY SWIMMING PARTY AT THE DEMPSEY HOME ON THE (0 The former heavyweight champion seems to find his wife, Estelle Taylor of the sereen, a bit reluctant to try the water. This photograph was taken a few days before Dempsey left his home at Los Angeles for Chicago to bhegin the serious work of training for his championship bout with Tunney. Copyright by Underw nm( & Underwood. AUGUST 17, 1977.° CHICAGO THRONGS WELCOME COL. LINDBERGH ON AIR TOUR. Mayor Thompson uses an ample megaphone to tell the crowd about the distinguished visitor who occupies the speakers’ stand with him here at White Sox ball pai More than 75,000 persons crowded into the park to welcome the flyer during the visit on I|I'4 Nation-wide ajr qur \\ uln World P! hu 0% Milton A. Smith, 16-year-old Wash- ington boy, who is believed to have established a world record when he completed 24 hours and 27 minutes of continuous bicycle riding last night. Washington Star Photo. WEATHER FORCES FLYERS TO RETURN. Capt. Herman Koehl, German ace (at left): his wife and Frederich Loose, at Dessan, Ger many, a few days before the two flyers hopped off on their attempt to cross the Atlantic. Storms and fog forced them to turn b'lrl. E passing over the British Isles. Copyright by Underwood & | 0 - ONMURDER CHARGE, Aneer= Moterist As Hold-Up Trick 1 Planting himself in the middle of | the roadway mnear the Harvard | strect entrance to the Zoo last | l night, and representing himself as | | i | Farmer in Annapolis Jail Saves Story of Street Kill- ing for Coroner. being injured or ill, an unidentified colored man attempted to hold up a Good Samaritan who offered him | assistance, but finally had to escape from a sound beating inflicted upon him by the intended victim. igene Heisley, 1217 road, | s driving along the street and | noticed the prostrate form ahead. As he leaned over to offer assist- o he was greeted with a pistol, sley became enraged, disarmed the man and gave him a good pounding, registering marks on the man’s face that may assist police in_capturing him. The bandit broke away and fled Heisley examined the pistol and found it was unloaded. | Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS August 17 Gerry Fowle) 3 old, father of | 17 children, 16 of whom are living, is in jail charged with killing. Dewey Norris, 28, proprietor of a soft drink | place. The shooting occurred on | crowded West street yesterday after noon. | An inquest was postponed until| Friday, when Fowler will tell his story He has refused 1o talk since | his surrender at the scene of the shoot- | ing. The police have been told that | the men quarreled Saturday n over a card game in which they Fowler complained that he had been robbed Witnesses to the shooting | are divided as to who possessed the | weapon with which the shots were | DECREASE IN LABOR | peapon, wive which "ine shotz were | DEMAND OCCURS HERE eet, and Y re Fowle: L I e e Rorrie, ir. | Federal Report Shows Employment '} wrested the weapon from Norris, fir ing five times. One of the bullets Slump During Month of July. pierced the victim's heart and an-| other his abdomen, while three went | wild. Pedestrians scattered in all di- | rections while the fight was in prog- | ass. As Norris fell to the sidewalk | Fowler pocketed the gu awaited the arrival of policemen, to whom he rurrendered. ! While the extensive street and street car track imp; am now going on in V iving emplovment to many men, de- mand for skilled and unskilled labor fallen off, adding many to the water 1 nks of the unemployed in the ci husband at versel » Federal employment director fe for some time 1o the \Washinzton reported to the Labor De- hnn;': b ving been | partment today. During . July there Ll nducts afwas very little demand for un small | he director said, and a rather surplus of this class of help GIRL LOSES HANDBAG The demand for domestics de creased during the month, probably Visitor Tells Police Escort With Her Money. ldue to the A surplus of clerical and office help continues, with no indication of any improvement in the immediate future. The Virginia State director reported oung ne appealed e paving svement pro- was notified and, de-| responsibilities, came »me Left oman g 1 slight increase in the volume of em ployment during July, with major in dustries in most localities operating on 1 satisfactory schedules. Con {<iderable unemployment xi in hmon Tiowey largely due to art-time schedules in effcet in several plants, Industrial employment cond Maryland were said to be fair] ble unemployment exists, or industries throughout the Stat wing, but there was some nt of activities and employ July. Baltimore reporte 1 surplus of labor at the clos nth, FILM PRODUCERS SUED. | evident some = I employment service citing the Hog,\n s Alley” Claims mid-Summer slackening in factory production “coinciding with a marked decline in building,” reasons for {the condition. Notwithstanding, the ervice found several indus in which conditions affecting .Iment had been bettered during The New England boot and shoe dustry, previously slowed down, proved in the number of workers em- ployed during July, and road construe heen violated, Gilmore | tion and - harvest operation through | Warners used the name |rural regions produced a heavy de- theme of “Hog Alley * | mand for workers. In iron and steel a motion picture He a<ked that |mills, automobile plants and portions the defendar ined from ex- of the lumber industry, the recession hiciting the fila was reported as marked. and ons in t Penr nd h onsid ent dur L gener of last the country lack of employment, there was Author of Rights Were Violated. AN August 17 (P).— Bro: » and am War on picture producers, are de 00,000 st fied here G rights to ** neluding motion picture 1,08 Warner ner, mot ants in 2 Iy ¥ mo who {1 street me‘l\v 2 land to i | Connelly, 1 | it ashington is | s [1 FISH ON ALL-DAY TRIPW, ummer vacation period. | the im- | CHILD IS INJURED 1400 Artists Enter Contest to Pick WHEN HIT BY AUTO| , Best Colors for- Washington Busses 1 Saturday hree prizes The will More than 400 artists, both amateur | contest close | and professional, have indicated their | afiernoon at 5 o'clock desire to participate in the contest P 4 e | conducted by the Washington Rapid | Will be awarded. The first prize will be { Transit Co. in order to obtain the best second prize, $30, and third | possible color scheme for the painting $20. | |of the company’s new coaches General requirements for the color Three-year-old - Betty Rinderle, 614| Photostatic outlines of the busses|schemes call for hues which are not : e have been distributed, and all that|garish or glaring and yet possess ade- | northeast, was seriously In-| emaing for the color designers to do visibility at night, and for colors jured yesterday afternoon when struck | ja to fill in the outline with the sha do not too closely resemble the int designs of the street cars. . 'BOYS ARE SENTENCED FLOGGING SUSPECT IDENTIFIED BY VICTIM| FOR THEFT OF MONEY (l’(.l(’(l at Casualty Hospital for tractured collarbone, fractured One Gets Year in Home, While Police Hold Other Pend- and possible internal injuries Another child badly hurt vesterday ing Inquiry. Others Hurt in Series of Traffic Mishaps Throughout City. prize afternoon was James R. Matihews, colored, 7 vears old, of 1414 Eighth street, who is reported by police to | ve run between two parked cars| been struck by the auto- | T. Williams, 922 O street shock and a vere in- jury to his right hip, the child was taken to Freedmen's Hospital Thomas White, colored, 45 years old, | 1120 I street southwest, stepped from | behind a car parked near Half and M streets s resterday afternoon | and was s the automobile of Herbert Bernette, colored, 1014 Del. ware avenue southwest. He tre :Mv‘d at Providence Hospital. Thayer, his, | ¢ of a taxicab, was slightly Dokt when his vehioto was in collision with the automobile of Raymond S rd street morth- wenty-second and Q streets ccefved first-aid at Georgia Editor Accuses Man on Trial of Part in Whipping Despite Denials. mobile o Suffering fro By tha Associated Press. | SOPERTON, Ga., August 17.-—Iden tified in court as the masked flogger | of Editor H. M. Flanders near here on | the night of February 23, Raymond | Lee sought to establish proof in con- tion of his trial here today that he remained home roughout the eve- ning on which the incident occurred Flanders, editor of the News, severely heaten by a band of | hooded men while he was returning here alone by automobile from a near- by town, took the stand yesterday as | and | themselves and “their buddies at an | the sole withess of the prosecution, 64, of | amusement park | conducted by Solicitor General M. H. and| In passing sentence upon the boys| Boyer. Lee was indicted for the flo, a o | Judwe Kathryn Seliors of the Juvenils | ging, together with Sherlff W. I | Court told them she expected to hold | Thigpen, Henry McLendon and them accountable for the return of | Lee, the defendant’s son. The » money out of th own earnings. | decided to hold separate trials, e court will require Mrs. Edward | no announcement of who will Kloff, 1840 Sixth street, the aunt| court next. These three under indic ‘om whom the money was taken, to ment for the whipping also are unde | prove satisfactorily that she had $300 | indictment charged with arson in con- | in_her cuphoard with the burning of Sheriff | boys took the money tog automobile, which, it is al - the nephew discovered the tr used by the masked party | an old cupboard in his t Flanders. Then followed a round orous editorial crusade of nd p ure. When dis- | Flanders against liquor operations in oys were encamped in a | Treutlen County w believed the they had rented mear! cause for the whipping. | Chain Bridge., By returning rifles bicycles bought by the boys the poli P BN | HEADED NEW YORK DEPOT Hoover | 4 mount “m be u(dh ,,, to the hoys After A 13.vear-old boy was sent to the Industrial Home School for one ye: and his companion of the same age ced in the custody of the au- s for 30 days pending an in- ion of his home life yesterday in the Juvenile Court when the young- sters admitted taking a sum of mone believed to he , from the aunt of | the second boy spending it for the of @ hoy's heart—a bicycle and piece, a camp on the Potomac » bank and good times around for | it Soperton | am Rottger, 65 vears ol Ellen Rottger, his wife, symour, Ind., were bruised rked )'r\(l|‘ ternoon in | lision at | bet e Iu!mlzfl HOOVER FAILS TO LAND Joe e | which be: The v ure hidden in aunt’s home. of spending covered the shack which Secretary Has Only One Strike. Plans Another Attempt. ! Also Goat Hunt. By the Assoriated Pross. AVALON, Santa | calif., August 17 ay had demo fisherman he was a of Commerce here yesterday at 7 am ary did not return until late . with only the story of| that got away. The party, Seeretary Hoover, his W. van Burnt Catalina Herbert that better Secret L | aceount. Idward Kashouty, the hoy who w: 1t to the school for a year, is one of children who, with their mother ;Cav vas deserted by the father, who re- | turned to Assyria, and John W. Lip- pold is the nephew of Mrs. Eckloff. | FEDERAL CONVICTS HELD VICTIMS OF LOW FUNDS of Iry Officer Surcumbs the fish consistir | Alan, and 1 | spent the ‘day in the vicinity of San Clemente Isiand, which is under the jurisdiction of Hoover's de rtment. Both tuna and sword fish had been reported there the day before, and| sveral schools of tuna were sighted. | pr. Hart Charges Shortage The Seccretary had but one strike | 1 failed to land the fi Sword | Money Puts Prisoners in fish, the aim of the party, were not R lem,,u",“,. 1 Hideous Jails. His plans for today | other fishing trip and perhaps a goa | hunt in the imorh.r of this fsland. Funeral Friday. By the Associated Press. NEW \'HHI\' /\Ilgnst | Arthur Th, v, | Army um.mmmg officer of the New York General Depot, died at the post hospital, Fort Totten, Long Island, | vesterday, following a brief illness of pneumonia. Col. Thayer was born at Evansville, Ind., February 1, 1864, and would have retired next February. He saw active: service in the Indian cam- paigns, the Spanish-American War, Philippine insurrection and in France. He is survived by his widow, a daughter and three sons. Interment will be at West Point, Friday. - Kerosene Fatal to Child. EDGEMOOR, 8. C., August 17 (#). —Harry McAllister, jr., 18-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McAllister of Gastonla, N. C., died yesterday at son included an- the Assoclated Press, TACOMA, Wash., August 17— Owing to the failure of the Federal Government to provide sufficient funds, Federal prisoners in many local jails are living in conditions “hideous beyond the imagination,” Dr. Hastings H. Hart of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, told the American prison congress, in session here, He singled out the Pierce and King County jails in Washington in his }{arvemng Machme Kills Man. NVILLE, Fla., August 17 (#). truck down by flying parts ofa ha ting machine’s engine, which gave y when gr peed was attempt- |ed. E. A. Ziegler, § superintend- {ent of the Cherokee ‘ms, near here, | was instantly killed yesterday. [ night in front of his home, | continuousty | put | this morning, {on | he was geing to go in training |til the last. | of the Century | SILVER SPRING FAVORS Bnfi( Illness of Pneumonia. l' LOCAL YOUTH CLAIMS ‘Dog Brings Home A Dollar Bill as NEW BICYCLE RECORD| 1 Glft to Mistress | Milton A. Smith Ends Endurance | Test After 24 Hours and 27 Minutes. ]MUflNSHlNERS KILL - 3INCAMP PARTY Spacial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 17.— Don, a handsome police dog belong: ing to Mrs. Leonard I. Hays of fsmte Prohibition ~ Agent Barnesville, vesterday carried a §1 e bill into the home between his teeth i Among Victims—Posse Seeks Slayers. and ‘“handed” it to Mrs. A was leg weary helped and exhausted youth from his bicycle last Tuck- ad ridden Hay: after he not for 24 hours and pedalling 250 miles and, ac- cording to his claim, breaking the former’ amateur endurance record, | at 1522 miles in 24 hours. Milton A. Smith, 17-year-old son of Sergt. Milton D. Smith of No. 7 Precinct, was sleeping on his laurels while a big meal was | the kitchen stove awaiting his awakening. Starting on his lonely marathon without previous training, at 9| o'clock Monday night, he rode about Potomac Park all through the night and until after nigntfall last night, when he became nauseated from ga oline fumes from an escort of motor | cyele police, summoned when a | crowd of motorists visited the vicin- ity of the polo grounds to watch the rind, ang turned his wheel toward home, dismounting at 9:27 o'clock in front of his house. Although he was tired and hungry having eaten nothing but ch bars and ice cream and drinking occasional cup of coffee, he suffered no apparent ill effects and said that and erman street, Where he got the money known. Those who know Don agres he could have done nothing reprehen sible. NEW AIR MAIL TO LINK 700 MILES IN TEXAS Contracts Awarded by New to Seth W. Barwise—Mexico May Get Service. is minutes, By the Assoc Press LOGAN, W. Va., August 17 leys from the rifles of moonshiner: thougt of campers for v in ambush, whe to ha taken a party today had raised the total of such kill- gs in the mountains of West Vir- ginia to four in little more than & | month. hree men, are =¥ one a State prohibition nt, dropped under the sudden fire which whipped their camp on Island vesterday. Gus J. Simmons, prohibition agent, was shot from ambush July 11, while search- ing the wooded mountains for moon- Associated Press. BEEEa Seven hundred miles me ct air mail routes will be tion within a_short time under Seth W. Barwise of Fort Worth, 1 to | whom Postmaster General New yeste day awarded two contracts at §2 a pound. The first route will connect Dallas attempt to ride longer and farther | With San Antonio, with stops at Waco and Austin, and later will be extend- next time. | oo ns, 19 years old, 55¢|ed to Laredo on the Mexican border, distance of 417 mile Fourteenth street southeat, who last | @ week played 17 consecutive hours of | route will connect Dallas with G golf, acted as his trainer and com- |ton with a stop at Houston, a dist missary and was with his friend un- i"f 283 miles. | His cyeli record will| Operation will begin within thr a"'";wv spread the alarm n. s th o ta r ¢ seal branch | months, by ime it is expected | Witherin sh through tfe Bosto therctedic g8 (e lideal branch | el (_v,,‘,\",‘,:‘, e ]“”?'),_,\.I | woods and trampting 14 miles over the Road Club of Amer- G E ¢ 1 O o e 15 st | changed its sche n overnight | mountains to this city, where the i fimht. Texns | POSSO Was raised | service instead of a day within 24-hour | , The bodies of th cities will he placed : | mail time of New York when the as they fell. bull ad of each, Other m | new service hegins of The San Antonio route will not be | PAILY clung to concealment | extended to Laredo until the Mexican | 0048 until the posse app | zovernment “has decided whether it | ik Were sathered ag gt ants will operate an air mail service to | hG And ,(‘,f;.‘,,,",”,‘,'.,’.',,'m[,,”(‘,:‘:r oo connect with the American service. | i4in trails to the nearest highway, e e | was the reh for the assailants FOREIGN SHIP ORGANS it et e ASSAILED BY O'CONNOR| Men Were Warned. The att had not been without Criticism nf Brmrd Called Same as‘ some warning, however, Dave Hensley told possemen that a party of men That Voiced by New York Committee. es Found. arrest today imbush yve the pro- his 18-year-old im, all of Hart's were kill The six surviving members of the party, one, Howard ymlin, also of Hart's Creek, wound- {ed. fled to shelter among the trees, |but had Dbeen accounted for today. | Meanwhile, a_posse of Federal, State ‘and county of continu search v the assailants. Dave Hensley, Vietims" Bos Two men were under in connection with the terday in which Ed Hensley hibition nt: Don son, and Ernest Mar e of con-t in oper al, brother of the slain scaping the ica, three slain men hrough the mbers of the in the red, and WIDENING ROADWAY BecomerianErans tall oty Hodw | by C. of C. for Beautification of | Approaches From Washington. The Silver Spring Chamber of- Com | merce, meeting in the new offices, at the corner of Georgia avenmue and | fonatante street, last night, adopted a report recommending to the Montgom- v County Commissioners an nn—i visited the two-day camp Monday and { warned them to be gone by noon the following day. But the warning was | disregarded. A few minutes before By the Associated Press. | noon “yesterday hullets spattered the irman | camp.” A few minutes’ fire, and three ard de- hn dead. and the rest were scattered tement, are print- | to the woods. provement for the heautification of the approaches to Silver Spring from Washington. It was recommended to | widen the roadway sufficiently to pe 8 niit two-way traffic from the District | J7oreign shipping line to the subway by making one-|OConnor of the S way traffic streets on either side nl‘\“l"”"‘ today in a sf a center park spac ing “essentially the same criticism ..r; Hensley The name Maryland-North-of-Wash- ‘nn American merchant marine” con-| Were not sea ington was adopted as the offic (tained in the resolution made public |far as name of the community development | Monday by the committeo on steam now in progress, for which the new |ShiP afairs of the Maritime «nun;:pl d members of the party shing for stills, and, as e able to learn, the was a prohibition agent was u n to the attackers. The two men arrested, 'h Adkins and A. Roberts, residents of the district, e held for questioning. Three stills were found, one near the ene of the shooting. Seven men, held for the killing of Gus Simmons, are to go on ‘trial for that shooting September 5, it was decided a few days offices, under the management of M. |°f the port of New York. D. Meyerson, representing the Cham.| The resolution charged that mil- | ber of Commerce, have been opened. |lions of dollars of the taxpayers’ Tt admitteds Tnat mgm‘m ney had been wasted and took issue were: Dr. James J. Hanan, Robert|With claims that the Shipping Board had expanded the foreign commerce of the United States and had saved | Coughlan, Richard J, Diette, W. V.|the American farmer from ruin when Wilson, Garland W. Wolfe and Leon | Privately owned ships were unavail- | Hauger, The chamber is co-operating | able- | 15 (B& fivemen’s’ jubllée scheduled T It the members of the executive | s fA o et ubis schednlsaitoe | e whn (oA A powsd| AlanDwsn Weds Witter speak. this resolution.” sald Chairman O'Con-| MALONE, N. Y., August 17 (#).— nor, “would give their names and busi- | Alan_Dwan, motion picture director, ness connections to the public, with |and Miss Betty Marie Shelton, motion a brief description of the various flags | picture scenario writer, were married Murphy, Ivan M. Tull, Dr. Phil D. Poston, J. H. Forsythe, Paul M. o The survey of a scenic air route — . Iceland plans to radio beacons on the coast navigation. ablishh thr to al the home of his grandparents, Dr, and E. H. Cass, Mrs. J. N. Gaston, from the effects of general secretary of the Won. drinking some kerosene a few days was elected: president, . Bgo. Saen R e i criticism. & New York, formerly along- the Pacific Coast from Port- land to San Francisco has been com, pleted by the National Aeronautics Assoclati which protect their interests, I think |at the Methodist parsonage here yes- that the value of the resolution, if it terda The minister's ‘wife and ever had any, would be depreciated to daughter were the only witnesses to a vanishing point.” the ceremony. L. b