Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1927, Page 6

6 * GANG OF THIEVES ' FIND OLD PASSAGE Sultans’ Spies’ Tunnel Used in Futile Attempt to Rob Casino. By the Associnted ANTINOPLE, Sep thieves of used by et pas- its cash_ reserve The vaults of the casino, which was recently closed by the government are said to contain a large amount of money. The robber band was arrested Wed nesday night after a bloody fight in which two policemen and two of the gangsters weve killed. At first the authorities thought they had captured a group of political plotters, but further investigation unearthed the plan to rob the vaults of the casino. Leader Is Armenian. The prisoners are menians. Their les recently retu ing with him, i d police and a_charter ded for the “get set by the encounter with the police. The kiosque, or pai at Yildiz, overlooking the Bosporus, was for- merly the residence of the notorious Sultan Abdul Hamid. It was converted into a gambling resort a year when a group of Italian were given the concessi ish Nat of the finer fittings, including sultan’s _throne, de! tions and furniture, had been removed to Angora. the new Turkish capital. At the time of the leasing it was stated that the government expected to realize about $£500,000 a year from the enterprise. The casino was con- ducted along the lines of Monte Carlo, but admission was confined strictly to non-Moslems, the Turks being for- didden to gamble by the Koran. A bonfire on Holbrook Moor, Eng- land, recently contained €0 tons of material. [ X, % \‘ o heal ce, the S _[ALS%FF' Bublin . Style 'OU will immediately recognize the body and flavor of good old Stout. It's better for you, because it’s thoroughly fermented — thoroughly aged—and pasteurized. ‘Taste it's dark malt-and- hops richness! Call for FALSTAFF Dublin Style anywhere. Keep a case at your home, Favstarr CoRrORATION St Louis ‘Washington Tobacco Company, 917 E Street N.W. Phone—Main 4450, Distributors for Washington, D. C., and Alexandria, Vs. mber 16. spies of the g to the Yildiz Palace, bling casino the I(‘i police declare. |40 ™| his drives in behalf of the schoul he red air- | ¢ nalist government after most | , decora- | NING SERGT. YORK SUES OPPONENTS OF HIS SCHOOL FOR $750,000 Declares Group Balked Drives by Slander of His Life Work. Hero of Argonne Says Fund| Appropriated by State Is Tied Up. By the Associated Press. JAMESTOWN, Tenn., “In behalf of all school children | Fentress County, Tenn., and the Alvin C. York Industrial Institute,” as the writ recites, Sergt. Alvin C. has filed suit for 50,000 dam against the Bank of Jamestown, {W. L. Wright, J. T. Wheeler, O. | Frogge, Ward R. Case, ockton, W. J. Jones, H. g Potter, J. W. Evans and Jam Linder, all residents of Fentress County. Tt is claimed by the sergeant in his dec ation that the parties cited have as an organized body so0 opposed all September | YORK. against him’ and his life's work. He declares they have caused libelous articles to be published against him. Slander has been r sorted to, not only of him personally but of his business. These attacks and the activity of the group he has sued have now im paired the hope of completing the school, the hero of the Argonne sets forth in conclusion, so in behalf of the citizens and taxpayers of the State and of the school children of Fentress County he asks damages. HEAT CLOSES SCHOOLS. ‘Lynchburg Has Temperature of 90 anted statements Degrees at Noon. Thach mavel LYNCHBURG, Va., September 16 | ). —sSupt. E. C. Glass of the public schools here issued orders to the pri | cipals yesterday to close the schools | this afternoon at 2 o'clock, this being | because of heat wave. Yesterday's maximum was 94 de- grees, this being 5 degrees below the absolute maximum for the month. The official temperature at noon today s 90 degrees, papers hoped to found to aid children of the mountains that they have been ren- dered failures. Work Delayed. Jos Y a document “hat re. sology the strug- |gle into which he has put his whole |time and_strength, claims that his | school, “the idol of his life,” has been lelayed in construction. He declaved | that the group he is suing | pered him and his co-workers and an- noyed him and caused him to suffer much humili and mental pain and anguish.” False and unw | have heen made, he s prevented him obtaining the u the S | the $50,000 appropr and the like | tress County Court, as well as tyin | up $10,000 he had raised in personal campaigns for the school. The latter sum, he says, he actually went out in the world and raised on the lec- ture platform. Not satisfied with preventing drives from_being a success, York claim the defendants have used the new: % 72 7% AN N % 7 7 ENTRANCE B _ONE FLEHT LP e 7 %% I Hundreds of people who have already inspected our mew Fall lines tell us that N we have the smartest, popular-priced garments in the city. 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Grant, 3d, which when put into thefr final forms are expected to be submitted to Congress for action at the coming session. The bills include among a number of important technical provisions authorization for a fund of §10,000,000 to be advanced to the planning com- mission over a period of five years for the acquisition of needed park and playground sites. General Purposes Approved. The committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce on parks, play- grounds, highways and bridges early this week went on record approving the general purposes of the measur < arks and reserv committee of the Board of added its indorsement to sev- res, while suggesting Board of Trade will be repre- nted this evening by its president Graham; W. W. Everett, ident, and Alexander n of the committee on ganizations to be rep- include the committee on parks of the Chamber of Commerce, the Citizens' Advisory Council, t! local chapter of the American Insti- tute of Architects and the Operative Builders' Association. The committee of the Board of Trade last night approved the ad- . % Z N, | commission Capital.| % 7777777777777 77777 7 722727777 Ovzr Kresge’s 5 & 10c Store 7222227, Z % D. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMB —_—— venue, from O street to Fifth street. vancement of the fund of $10,000,000 for the purchase of park sites, the purpose of which would be to make possible the acquisition of park sites before their value has been enhanced appreciably during delays In their pur- chase. Approval also was given to the pro- posal that the planning cornmission be authorized to sell fractional par- cels of land no longer needed for park purposes, the proceeds of which would be turned back into the United States Treasury, and to acquire future estates and rights in land to be purchased for parks. Proviso on Leasing. The committee also gave approval the proposal that® the planning be permitted to lease for limited periods buildings on land acquired for ultimate governmenta! purposes, with the proviso, however, e Government pay taxes on venue-producing land, just as e owners would have fo pay. Action on @ measure proposing that a condemnation jury of either one judge of the District Supreme Court or a jury of three, which would sit in all condemnation cases, was held over for a joint meeting of the committees on law and parks and reservations. The bill which would require approval by the Fine Arts Commission of plans for all build- ings over 40 feet in helght erected within 200 feet of any public build- ing or park area was referred to the committes on public and private buildings. Mr. Graham presided over the meeting, which lasted nearly three hours, and Fred G. Coldren, expert of the planning commission, led in a discussion of provisions of the proposed measures. P Cable Rates Reduced NEW YORK, September 16 (#).— The Western Union Telegraph Co. today announced a reduction of 6 cents a word on cable rates on all classes of traffic from the United States to Burma, Ceylon and India, effective October 1. The new rates apply proportionately to traffic origi- nating in any part of the United States, to . A Hollywood woman seeking a divorce from her husband, Wwho claimed to be a direct descendant of Ivan the Terrible, declared he was all of that and more. Gr “DISNEY” 30 STREETS LISTED FOR IMPROVEMENT Resurfacing Program Ap- proyed by Commissioners on Recommendation. A program of street improvements providing for the resurfacing of 30 roadways was approved by the Dis- trict Commissioners today on recom- mendation of A. S. Fennell, assistant engineer of highways. The streets| to be resurfaced follow: Northwest—Twelfth street, from Rhode Island avenue to Vermont avenue; Thirteenth street, from Iowa Circle to U _street; Twenty-fourth street, from L to M street; Fourth street, from New Jersey ‘avenue to Florida avenue; Thirty-sixth street, from Prospect avenue to O street; Caroline street, from Fifteenth to Sixteenth street; Clifton street, from Fourteenth to University street; Cor- coran street, from Eighteenth to Nineteenth street; Defrees street, from North Capitol to First street; F street, from Seventh to Ninth street; Ridge street, from Fourth to Fifth street; Sixth street, from Rhode Island avenue to Florida avenue. Twenty-second stréet, from Massa- chusetts avenue to R street; K street, from Tenth to Twelfth street; Clifton street, from Thirteenth to Fourteenth street; I street, from North Capitol to First street; E street, from Seven- teenth to Eighteenth street; N street, from Thirty-third to Thirty-fifth street; Harvard street, from Fourteenth to Fifteenth street; Pennsylvania avenue, from Eighteenth to Twenty-fir street; Calvert street, from Eighteenthy to Twenty-first street; ' street, from Ninth to 200 feet west; F' street, from Fourteenth street east to the alley, and New York avenue, H street, to 100 feet west. Northeast—Sixth street, from East Capitol to B street; Emerson street, from Thirteenth to Fourteenth street; Southeast—Sixth street, from Penn- sylvania avenue to E street, and Sixth street, from North Carolina avenue to B street. MRS. MARY E. WARLICK WINS DIVORCE DECREE Justice Hoehling today signed a final decree of absolute divorce in favor of Mrs. Mary E. 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