Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1927, Page 6

B TEACHER IS UPHELD BY WCARL RULING Miss Jaquette Wins Fight for One Year Longevity Allowance. ] * n ! NS - & V" By a_decision of Controller General J. R. McCarl, Miss M. L. Jaquette, a teacher in the District public schools, today won her fight for a longevity pay increase which had been withheld because she was on a leave of ab- mence for a year while teaching in the #chools of California under a mutual exchange arrangement by which a California teacher taught for the same period in the schools of the District. Mr. McCarl's ruling that she is en- titled to an additional year's credit for ¢ pay purposes covering a ing which she taught in the California_schools overrules a recent decision of Distriet Auditor Daniel J. onovan. D e iecision Mr. MeCarl held that of June 4, 1924, establishing hasic salaries for the vari- ous groups of teachers in the District public schools authorizes credit for previous teaching experience in other schools in the longevity placement of new appointees as well as those who were in the service July 1, 1924, and that under this statute a new ap- yointee receiving A permanent ap- pointment at the same time that Miss Jaquette resumed her du in the District schools after s s leave would have been e edit for 21l previous teaching experience. EXPLOSION WRECKS BARGE OF ADMIRAL Blast Destroys Interior of Boat in Dry Dock at Naval Acad- emy in Night. h to The Star LIS, Md., September 2 assigned to Rear Admiral superintendent of 4 v. was badly dam- aged t night when a gasoline ex- plosion wrecked the interior while the vessel was in dry dock at the academy for repairs. Seaman G. W. Crismond. who was asleep on the barge at the time of the explosion, attempted to extinguish the resulting blaze with chemicals, but was severely burned. Little hope is held for his recovery. A Navy fire-fighting force under Capt. Willilam M. Halsley, aided by the Annapolis fire department, extin- guished the flames. The cause of the explosion is not known. JURY FINDS TEIDMAN DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL Driver Exonerated in Killing of Man in Potomac Park Auto Crash. Accidental death was the verdict of the coroner’s jury today at the inquest into the Killing of Adolph Teidman when an automobile struck a tree on the Speedway early yesterday morn- ing. George F. Keyton, driver of the| car, who had been held by the police, | 'was released. ‘The inquest was conducted by Dep- uty Coroners Joseph Rogers and A. Magruder McDonald. Margaret Gray, who was riding in the front seat with Keyton, and Frances Vest, who was in the back seat with Teidman, tes- tified that none of the party had been drinking that night ard there was no indication that Keyton was under the influence of intoxicants, Miss Gray said that just before the |. accident the car had picked up speed and ‘was moving at 65 miles an hour. She said she knew this because she had looked at the speedometer just at the time when she warned Keyton to drive more slowly. COLLEGE HEAD 41 YEARS. Dr. H. H. Seerley Recalls Pupils He Taught 50 Years Ago. Correspondence of the ‘Associated Press, CEDAR FALLS, lowa.—Forty-one || years as president of Jowa State Teachers’ College is the record of Dr. Homer H. Seerley. Dr. Seerley’s greatest delight is in || keeping track of his old students, and he recalls pupils he taught in Iowa rural schools 50 years ago with al- most the same facility with which he zl;nembeu students of the present Dizzy Spell Hurts Woman. While preparing to retire last nigh! about 9:30 o'clock, Mrs. Mary Gfl:n.‘ 80 years old, 1701 Park road, suffered an attack of dizziness, fell to the floor ani was injured. She was treated at Emergency Hospital by Dr. Millard ¥, Ottman. Her condition was reported g: ?:arlious. but she remained at the : S Cor. ’Px.‘i?o:’ N.W. all & Deliver lean and Press Men’s Suits, 95¢ Valeteria Pressing SPECIAL This Week Only Men’s + Topcoats ¥ $1.00 Gives the longest “wear,” won't “gum break: down under high » or temperatures. THE OIL THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHERS. Beware of Substitutes. The American flag has been unfurled upside down for the last time on the Force School, Massachusetts avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, Twice since the opening of school on Monday, September 19, once on last Wednesday and today, residents in the fashionable neighborhood and observ- ing pupils have been shocked to find American Flag Flown Ups}ze—Down At Force School for Last Time the flag on the school building flying the signal of distress. Investigation in both instances by Administrativie Principal Gore laid the blame to a collored attendant. Frank Willlam Rom, janitor at the school, has pledged never to delegate the duty of unfurling the flag to any one in the future. Rom has be janitor at the school for eight vea LEGIONNAIRES ESCAPE INJURY AS PLANE DROPS Party Traveling From Paris to Lon- don Forced Down in Field in France. By the Associated Press. WORCESTER, Mass., September 27. —A party of legionnaires who have been attending the legion convention in Paris and which included A. F. Smith, city editor of the Worcester Gazette, had & narrow escape from injury yesterday afternoon,according to cable dispatches which reached this city last night. The plane in which a party of 10 passengers hopped off from Le Bourget, France, for London, made a forced landing in a fleld 30 miles from Paris, owing to the Joosen- ing of an air manifold on one of the plane’s two motors. The plane swooped down from an al- titude of 1,000 feet. Mr. Smith had a seat in the rose of the plane next to Rev. Walter Blexkford of Panama City, Fla.. whose wife was the only woma. oard. Undaunted by their experience, the party which returned to Paris by automobile, plans to make another at- tempt to fly to London today. Motor Cyclist Injured. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, September Marshall Carter, 25, of Wakefleld, Mass., was seriously injured when his motor cycle ran away and over- turned while descending a steep hil! iy 27— on the Lincoln Highway, 18 miles east of Everett. He was found beneath his overturned machine by a passing motorist and brought to Cumberland. SR Unemployment in Norway creasing. is In- “MOTHER EDWARDS” DIES IN SOUTH AFRICA HOME Oldest Missionary Listed in Zulu Work Under American Board Succumbs at 98. By the Associated {Press. BOSTON, September 27.—A cable- gram just receved by the American Board of Commtissioners for Foreign M jons annoumces the death of Mrs. Mary K. (“Mother”) Edwards, the old est missionary of the board. Death came on Saturday last at her home in Indiana, Natal, South Africa. “Mother” Edwards was 98 years old and a native of Ohio. She served as an active missionary for 52 years. In 1920 she was placed on the honor roll, but continued to be a vital part of the Zulu mission. Although she had been failing bodily and had been blind for the last 10 years, her mental vigor was unimpaired. She sailed for Africa in 1869 as the first missionary sent out by the Amer- ican Woman’'s Board of Missions, now art of the American hoard. In the ear she founded Indiana Semi- nary, now the oldest school for Zulu girls in Natal. She established there = domestic science course, bought land and planted a large garden and raised poultry. At the age of 80 she took a course in nursing in order to pass on to Zulu women some knowledge of this pro- fession. P Alarm Felt for Flyer. BASRA, Irak., September 2 y is increasing here over fate of Lieut, Otto Koennecke, German aviator, and his two companions who were due to arrive here Saturday night from Angora, Tur quiries for news of the fl been sent out in all directions, 715 REGISTERED, WONDERFUL pieces). date part of his stock. regular course of trade. Terms Cash. 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Harth, chief witness in his suit, will be arraigned in Central Police Court today. The divorce bill was dismissed Sep- tember 17, after the wife petitioend the Circuit Court here to be permitted to answer her husband’s charge of desertion. She said the allegation was false, that she had been with her hus. band even after his bill was filed, and ings only by accident. Mre, McDonnell yeste:day asked for a warrant charging her husband and Harth with perjury. She said Harth had'. testified falsely before an exa- miner that her whereabouts were un- known whiis she was living in Wash- ington at 1721 T street. McDonnell and Harth were arrested in Washington late vesterday by Bal- timore detectives. McDonnell, who is emploved in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, gave his age as 38 vears and his address as 192! Eighteenth street. Harth is 32 years old, and said he lived at 1320 Ver- mont avenue. . 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