Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1927, Page 23

, Fovt Monmouth, J —_— = LANS COVPLETED FOR AR HOUSING Quartermaster Corps As- sures Prompt Construction When Funds Are Available. | Practical plans inz of all active kave heen prepared master Corps and prompt execution necessary addition available under way where 1 bad and new work are now hefove the Dire of the Budzet for early suly At the pres the money actu ess has hoen wdy is under way and de have been made for the construction pro- vided fr 1 deficiency hill which faile i hours of Steady Deterio Army more the proper hous the Army Quarter it into units of by th at va ing condit milit o tures show the amp Meade, Md. Va., will zet i zram set on foot throughout the by Co <l illustrates the me barracks fore the new picture =d type giving | buildings. way | md official will make promnt |Recess of Threa Weeks Ends; Will Hear Arguments based upon the ulti needs of al Until December 9. posts and re Piccemenl | ions are prevent the requir ment that hefore 11 ig =iv any item of new co tion must be submitted out” as proposed for post rvation aro des tho futur der consider: velopment o and cconemi Better Livi financ 3 able quarters and hospit ire enlisted personnel ¢ Unusual precautions taken by the W rtment to see | that new constr both and future, fits into a comple idin Is for the f the Army have heen 1 by ppro By the Ascociated Press, The Supreme Court will resume its st after a recess of three weeks. After delivering opinions, announc and receiving motions, it hearing oral arguments ntinue until time the court expects to make another sreat inroad upon cases on the docket, and accumulate ing enouzh work to keep it busy writin out | opinions during the Christmas holi- The | days rec Z morrow yansion in now un- | ion ¢ nsure . the de- | ing 1 posis in a systematic | iyl manner. | .+ which riers Is Aim. Quarters Is Ai IS s ks orders begin will e mied by the War department progress is being made in ex of the approved plans for impr Jiving conditions at various post uthorized for and the prospects| Among the cases to come up for additional for the next | 0ral argument are a number advanced . Out of available funds, | because of the importance of the is- allot < have boen made as follows. | Sues presented. The court hopes to Camp Meade, Md., $410.000 for ac.|have heard oral arguments in the fol- commodation of 2.965 enlisted mer wing hefore it adjourns for Thanks- nd 152 officers: Fort Humphreys, Va ing day. 0,000 for barracks consiruction: | Schofield Barrac Harwaii, for hospital construction e>mmissioned officers quartes I nning, Ga., -$725.000 for $665,000 Camp_Lewi 300 for hospital and Houston, Tex., acks; Selfridge Field for cks: Fort $360.000: Camp Devens, : Erie Proving Grounds, | tion : Edgewood Arse makin r B Distr for hel Field, { by the Kan; $285,000: France Field, Panama | 1 Zone, £139.000 for an: sution | Seattle. Wash., the Commercial Credit non of Baltimore, presenting the For+ | auestion whether the Government in prohibtion prosecutions can deny -ompanies financinz the purchase of automobiles on deferred payments n opportunity to prevent the con- fiscation of the cars in which liquor s found. Another attack upon the Interstate Commerce Commission of railroad property for rate. purposes, won in the Federal t Court for Western Missouri as City Southern from acks and_hospital; hington, $9: rracks: £500,000 presented for interpretation in one by rick A. Cook, the office 3 in the Leaven- 000 for | cass, expl worth i | Z "iry Kentuc ar i intevested in the appeals of the United Fuel Gas Co., challeng- fixed by State commissions. HOLIDAY JOBS SOUGHT. Some of completed and nearing complet Two Camps Specially Selected. Under the Army housing plans now | n execution, Camp Meade, Md., and Fort Hur were specially = lected fo tion to the emplo: ment of the Colonial style of arct tecture in the construction of the new mainly because of their proximity to many fine old manor houses of that type. One of the finest specimens of Colonial architecture in and is the famous Doughoregan | on the Ellicott City-Frederick | Starts Unusual Campaign. Efforts to obtain employment dur- ing the Christmas holidays for stu- dents of Business High School are o R adlicott ity Frederick | heing made by the school's employ- e mileS oS0 S2MD | ment department. While the holiday D e Gemers) | positions will be for the most part O e o e o403 | on @ part-time basis, the department 3 is secking also to place in permanent positions as typists, stenographers and clerks a long list of graduates of the school. In view of what they ferm “The present condition of un- mployment.” officials of Business ve of the opinion that considerable siuccess is meeting the efforts of its emnloyment department. the laid out the National Capit considered one of the best examples of Colonial architecture in the United | ¢, All the new buildi under construction np Meade | n 3 e o modern aduptations of the | _The Amikeco Club hiked in Rock typd of architecture employed so |Creek Part vesterdav. After the e e horeton manar. | hikers had caten lunch, they roasted Camp Meade Funds, $410,0600, There is tlon of barrack sum of $410,000 in add 7 $300.000 for barr on included in the of the latest Cong Burnos Aires, Argenti is to have story modern hotel along Ameri- can lines. M on to an item s for one second deficle ss, which bare- | planned | SHIPPING NEWS 1odations Meade for a garrison of 163 non-commissioned offirers | li . Current con-| Kot post Toriahichl in the preparation creased accommo ihlc ncies 10 prov np officers, Arrivals at and Sailings From New York. delayed b ARRIVED YESTERDAY. to meet po emer future. idvanced, with a promise completion by May 1 that —Buenos Aires. —Curacao. DUE TODAY. of December | in the valua-| The Federal probation law will he | Business High Employment Office pos tior and 2 are thro fie 2nd = ar ern I it T type and of arch w1 of LEARNED TO ADDRESS Fan ricka W nd the hey accommaodation of the erac usnal ¥ an orm 1o the under constry R Engineer construction wa | Auranin—c v - | American T s, recreation | Ar vicinit All crmiida DPUE nnton. DUE Bremen. DUE TUESDAY. THURSDAY. SATURDAY, INSELS. LING SATLING ape Town Antwery. mano—Genoa mpton TOMORRO TUESDAY THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, NOVEMBER 20. 19 “BETTER HOMES” MOVEMENT PROGRESSES 1 _— | COMPANY T0 AID By the Associated Pioss 19.— weeks suite at the partment on faced defeat determination apartment man- ovember for prisoner in h fashionable Ritz Towe Park enue, today starvation in his resist efforts of the agement to eject him. Hotel authorities announced the food supply of their nndesired tenant would be cut off and that all communication outside his suite would | be denied him. Once he leaves his { apartment, they said. he will ot be permitted to re-enter it. two | with persons Curious Crowd Grows, A curious crowd gathered in ever- ing numbers under the cap- s windows today, but he made no effort to circupvent the hotel edict on Miles, the former husband of Mrs. Clover Boldt Miles,'a daughter of the late George C. Boldt, who once ow ned the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, is described by the hotel manager as an *obnoxious person.” responsible for “several un- pleasant incidents,” and a tenant whom they would rather not have. So eager is the management to terminate his residence, it was said that $700 unpaid on Miles’ 000 bill would be waived if he would leave. or | to! communication with the world outside. | | Counsel for the imprisoned man has | Capt. announced t he will start sunit for 0,000 for “damage to reputation’ T 1t of the siege on his client awters Lives on Crackers { Capt. Miles has not left his suite gince two weeks ago when he found his rooms locked, but { by erawling along le building from an joining aps Living on graham cracker ing his ewn liundryman is no fun, Capt. Miles told visitor whom the hotel authorities permitted to enter his suite. e & get my shirts pretty elean,” | he said, "but I 't get the { wrinkles out because I have no elec- tric iron. I've had only one warm me; in two weeks and that was when I sneaked out one night for dinner.” The room was litt | boxes, all empt outside the tment. and be- d with cracker from which the prisoner had taken his meals since the start of his s He has kept his mind off his troubles, he said, by writing. The Humane and Human Life Saving Station, Inc.. an organ tion to provide a place to eat for any one who can’t get a_meal, is the result of his concentration, he explained. A list of directors he exhibited inclu ed the names of a group of mil | lionaires. Capt. Miles will endeavor | to launch the scheme “as’soon as he gets time,” he said. BODY OF MELLISH /IS FOUND IN RUINS Seated in Sedan in Corner of Burned Warehouse, Far From Entrance. By the Associated Preas, NEW YORK, November 19.—The mystery of the disappearance of Jay his wa | cleared to se last Wednesday v with the finding of h hody in the ruins, but another mys tery surrounding the circumstances of his death took its place. Th> body s discor the rear seat of a sedan in a far cor- {ner of the huge building, It was re | mote from an entrance through which | Mellish had dashed into the blaz structure shortly hefore firemen came, and police were at loss to expli {why and how he had gone so far | through t fire and smoke. One theory advanced was that he {had found himself cut off from his {office by the rapid spread of the flames ind had made for another entrance near which his hody was found. Why he had climbed into the sedan, firemen {were unable to explain Employes at the warehouse said they had left the blazing building with Mellish and were makng for the street {when he stopped sudidenly as th he had forgotten somethng and back into the building, | " The search for Mellish's hody ed as soon as the embers cooled | Mme. Mary Mellish, his wife and | former sin with the Metropolitan Opera Ca., a the firemen. The fire ra A $500.000 warehous ana destroved 1500 automobiles val- wed at ££.000.000 with . Mellish in a fire which destro; mi' ered sitting in | ARMS FIRM HEAD GIVES UP IN WEST Denies lllegal Selling of Ma- chine Guns to Gangsters or Foreign Revolutionists. By the Associated Press, OAKLAND, Calif., | John Mannerstam, | Pacific Arms Co. of San Francisco, sought on a charge of illegally pos: sessing machine guns after a raid on his home revéaled a huge supply of guns and ammunition, surrender: to ofticers at Albany, a suburb, today. He arranged for his release on $2,500 bond. Mannerstam ing. He declaved negotiations were legal and had mnever sold machine gangsters or revolutionist he knew Guillermo Ro: ir., who was hunted by Iederal officials in W Orleans after seizure of two ves 1 their ammunition stores, but he denied illegal transactions with or through Rosas. So far as possessing arms and am munition in his home, Mannesstam declared he had that right, inasmuch as the handling of such articles was his business. The munitions were d in a recent raid on his 16-room idence at Albany. Church Dance Arranged. Special Dispateh to The Star. SILVER PRING, Md., 19.—A Thanksgiving nce iven at Gr Episcopal a4 Hall Friday, beginning at v b November 19.— president of the denied any 1l his wrongdo- husine: that guns to He said will be Church \Bobbed Hair. Lip Sticks, peel;-a—Boo Silks§ 'And Short Sk{rts B,,a,rffi by Co-Eds Here Coeds helong to the Haleyon Club the Washington Missionary College at Takoma Park have gone on record ag , lip sticks, limsy crepes and for dress material, 1inst bobbed ha short skirts and peek-a-boo silks" Not only do they themselve: ely 1o “modesty in dress intend | %2 Ny and peek-a-hoo a dress m 1 extremes in flimsy crepes ilks be considered as | cyebrow pencils be banned. Rouge powder to he used sparingly, a |ing to individual complexions. “4. All heels should be of moderate height ained entrance | MILES. PRISONER IN APARTMENT. | WILL LOSE SUPPLY OF FOOD Management. Seeking to Evict. Tenant,| Says It Will Starve Captain Out; Has Lived on Crackers. BETTER AUJOMOBILES ARE BUILT + + * I7gp - 66 5 wait until the que: A heen determined but that the company | had decided their present course was one of humanity rather than liability | He added that the staff of the publ s well equipped to { the situation : to w0 more the clvims of {utility conc |#natyze any rn w {than halfway in settlin BLAST SUFFERERS |and who lost furniture and other ef fec's.” Robertson said. be no quibbling. Winter is coming on FlttSbL"gh Corporallon Plans"\nd our instruction re that the vie 1 ! time o he explosiol s 2 v Immediate Setilement of | fiorea’to their former comforts. - Om Lol s o 1 dles ’invt] \\villf Hn{‘ vvn|\]):v ]'[’\x"\,\“:&' I: Ciaims Without Quibbling. |1he Jhes, 5o G0 W, ik bt o ealin will he our principle Wi hout this effort to restore the RGH, Novem! sufferers of the Monday ind hundr of mnounced today by wW. R ident the Hquitable Gas owner of the iil-fated tank. Without v < until legal respon- sihilty for catastrophe had fixed, Rol 1d the company de- cided to meet the mosi pressing needs of the suffer basis of humani- The pr les immed- paym of all hospital bills of injured, repairs to property » suffered by 800 home owners wts and an offer to meet rsonal injuries or loss of 10—t without 1¢ tank in which mere killed wis MAN FATALLY STABBED IN UNION STATION FIGHT | Baltimorean Held t plosion last were ds hers injured Charge of Wit- on Murder—Hundreds srtson of Co.. ness Fracas. tr rtson DN | qundreds of tion witnessed fight between two colored men durin the rush hour vesterday afiernoon |10 which Lem Copeland. s old of Baltimore. wa ) Bhed The fizht place in the men's smokin rooin and attrreted 1o who weie hidening for t trains Guards sepavated hem and ar William A, Parker, 27 vears cld, of Baltimore. who i held at the sixth precinet on a ch: s of sporder. Copeland was wounded in the left bhreast and died four honrs alter heing taken to Casulty Hos “the two men quarreled over whom they had left s Cope iand is said to have followad larker when the latter entered the Union and tumbi people in rs on tarism into those Ama ind sram incl 1 claims for § “Suflicient The decision to take immediate steps A estending financial aid to vie- f the hlast. Robertson said a meeting of executives of the company after full consideration of the subject. A “sufficient sum™ was wailihle for the work. Robertson add- ed. although he declined to name the nount Sum™ Available, tow was PICKPOCKET GETS $200. ency A few moments after he had drawn unfor- $200 from his account in a loeal bank yesterday afternoon, some one picked the pocket of Charles H. Burke, 3938 Thirty-first street, Mount Rainier, Md., according to a report | made to the poiice. Burke told the officers that on his {way out of the building, he noticed two or three men picking up a num- b.e of pennies and he stopped to watch them. On reaching the pave- ment. he discovered his los: “Our eyes tell us of the suff nd our hearts respond to the uy for immediate help for those tun, * Robertson said Wl we be liove that we undes pd the layman’s viewpoint when the thing to do is help the sufferers dejay.” Will Be Ni we decided that Quibbling. ad said the ques iages that may he corporations through the explosion could tion of me claimed by la losses suffered hy - Jirect ~ a vital reason for here shall | sted | - OFFICIALS OF U.D.C SEATED AT SESSION the people whose homes were wrecked | Convention Installs Ofticers at Close of Meeting in Charleston: By the Assoiated Pres CHARLESTON & ¢ Beginning their sion with the to the th Novamber 1+ final husiness ses installation of officers trth_annual conven- tion of the United Danzhters of tha Confederacy tonight were endeavoring to clear their calendar, preparatory 1o adjourrment An overcrowded schedule ~ foresd ostponemant of the instellation cere- menies, originaliy scheduled for ths arternoon, until the final session to- night. The sessions today were devoted [ largely 1o an effort to dispose of the mass of committee reports still facing | the convention. The committe | education. transportation and librariss | submitted papers. followed by the [T of the committee on the war he. tween the states which dealt with | efforts to have school histories and the public xenerally refer to the struggle of 186165 as the “War Be- tween the States,” rather than the | Civil W Success zenerally was attending the efforts of the committee in the South, | though little progress had been made | through the North and East. it was | contessed. | Suficient funds are available new to begin cnostruction on the memorisl to hezin construction on the memorial [ it was reported, but the work was held up because the committee failed | to nbtain a site. | Memorial services were held this | afternoon in memory of the 70 men who died in defense of Charleston ha*- | bor and a letter of good wishes from | President Coolidge was read. The con- | vention closes tomorrow with services | at the historic Goose Creek Church. American automobile trucks are hé. ing used to ctary tin from the mines in Polivia. BUICK WILL BUILD THEM firing’ Novemher | iefit of the building fund. | Such cosmetics as 1ip sticks and | Just as all the force of exploding powder in a cannon is concen- trated directly behind the shell— so all of the force of the explod- ing gas in Buick’s Engine is concentrated directly behind the piston. 1 This is the “dire& firing” principle—a vital reason why the famous Buick Valve- in-Head Engine develops more power for its size than any other automobile engine. The result of this dire and efficient SEDANS #1195 to $1995 Stanley H. Horner 1015-1017 14th St. COUPES 51195 to 51850 - All prices f. 0. b. Flint, Mich., government tax to be added. The G. M. A.C. financing plan, the most desirable, ‘s quailable. Buick’s unmatched power application of power is an unmatched brilliancy of performance. Buick for 1928 is off like a flash on the get-away—has power in reserve for the steepest hills— and stamina to survive the roughest going. And because of its superior engine effi- ciency, Buick for 1928 is a remarkably economical car to own and operate. Drive a Buick for 1928 today. You’'ll be quick to acknowledge the advantages,of the “direc firing” Valve-in-Head six cylinder Engine. SPORT MODELS #1195 to #1528 BUICK#1928 Buick Motor Co. Dick Murphy, Inc. (Division of General Motors Corpora! T4l B 1835 14th St. N.W. & 604 H St. N.E. at Fred N. Windridge, Rosslyn, Va. Emerson & Orme Rushe Motor Co., Hyattsville, Md. 17th & M Sts. N.W. 16th & You Sts.N.W. C. C. Waters & Son, Gaithersburg, Md. and manners,” bitc they have issued a | ¢ hroad “ultimatum” about the whole [ should be encouraged amons the mem subject suggestion for all col-lpers of the club. lege co-eds in the matter of healthful| “¢. The members of the Halcyon and appropriate dres | Club should conduct themselves with | ""The “ultimatum.” announced today |all Aue propriety and reserve toward Thy Miss nna Darby, president of | the opposite sex.” the Haleyon Club, follow The above rules are desizned to It 48 resolved that the members of | sorve ae a standard for “other denom-| the Haleyon Club of Washington Mis- | well as a sug- nary College shall set a_standard of | z girls, it was an dress 1o which all members of the |nounced. The club acted following the luh may conform. It is decided that dontion of similar standards at the “1. Every member shall wear her|Fail council of the general conference dress at a modest leneth, according to | of Seventh-Day Adventists at Chattas ! Iagy statue and appearance, Inocoga, Tenn., rt:‘en‘tl), Rov, Long hair, ‘woma glory,” @istant e urer The Bury Motor Co., Anacostia, D. C. Fletcher Motor Co., Alexandria, Va. SDAY ‘rench « gl the Around Viilparai<o FRIDAY, World SATURDAY London s cal research, in Syri debaun te Dey to memiers of 1l Wednesday. hamnton, Vestius—DBucnos Aues, club L TN