Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1928, Page 16

16 THE _SUND! AY ’GTO):. ok .1"\ JARY 1, 1928—PART 1. CHARGE OF MURDER CONFRONTSDOGTOR Grand Jury Indictment to Be Asked for Man Held in | Widow's Death. [ Br the Aseo LOS ANGE December 81 Deput District Attorney Clifford Thoms announced today he would ask | the county grand jury Tuesday for a murder indictment azainst Dr. Charles M. MéMillan, who is held in jail on suspicion of slaying Mrs. Amelia Ap pledy, widow of a wealthy Chicage ing wventor. The 37vear fesed management S Tairs alse gation, was move in the count) in the Beverl Held Since Thursday. n held there his on a suspicion of the bodv of a woman. ok and found by a road Monday. had heen identified as Mrs. Appleby. who re upen the death “hicas 1918 Attorney Thoms sday that Dr. MieMillan had ad he had written a letter De Hossack of Pasa not to fore perty owned by she had gone East p and would return obligations to him. Jrs. Appleby’s hody was found near San Fernando December Dr. M \nnn told officers who ar ted hil hat he was M usiness agen Woman's Alleged Fear. Detectives said they had found three wi'nesses who said thev had been told be Are. Appleby that she lived in con- | Two Colored fear of her life. The detectives tatements of the three persons | ated that it was Dr. McMillan the woman_ feared. Dr. McMillan, who has constanily denied connection with Mrs. Applebv's death. said he last saw her alive De.| 23 and that she had told him b was going to San Diego to it friends. ted Pross whose al Appleby’s old physician, of Mis under inve new quarters today from his cel s ail since mitted vember cena. ¢ Appleby One hundred a Christmas Party wan nerved and on leavi Youths vania Police. Ry the Asso WASHINGTON, Pa., Do —A $2.000 reward for the the slaver of Theima Yo haif nude body, with the ed. was found in a ficld hiere Ay, was okt Washington « MUSSOLINI TO PRECEDE KING'S COUSINS IN CALL Ttalian Premier Upsets Tradition in Prepn'ntion for New Year Visit to King. Tf‘\!k, December 31.—Premier Mus i's call on King Vietor Emmanue! row will he the first official act new vear in Fascist Ttale identally will upset an old he W vid tan training h way home from a picture show, Fred Drew, 19, colored es xaid contradicte 1 or he will he John colored. friend of Drew, Johnson. accord them Drew had s number of times th white girls. He denied of the Young case. PATIENT KILLED The premier upset the old order of presentations by putting the “chief of government,” as the premier is nn"‘ ed, ahead of members of of Annunziata. although are known as the “king's cou the the | Likewise Signor Turati, secretary | Room. general of the Fascist party comes ahead of the Governor of Rome and the President of the Senate in the line | of those privileged to express their good wishes to his majesty. The King. during the morning and | | N“ . afiernonn wiil receive all the minis ters, undersecretaries, marshals, a mirale, generals, justices. judges and wvarious prominent persons. On Mon day it will be the turn of the diplo- matic corps to pay their respects. YALE TO GET SESSION. ‘World Pesychological Meeting to| Ccme to U. 8. for First Time. COLUMEUS, Ohio. December 31| (P).—For the first time America i< to be host to the International| BRE 2 Prvchological Congress. at Yale Uni-| (@) —Former King versity. New Haven. Conn.. in the | garia salled for Summer of 1929 Buenos Alres tod Dr J McKean Cattell of New York | vhip More is president of the committee in arch d ) his ac charge of congress. and Dr. Ed | with the South American win J. Boring, president of the Amer- | which he visited som fcan Pmycholozical. Association. is sec | jie was companicd retary. three persons Tre congress probably will be heid in July or August of 1929, | o | Thomas Hardy IIL | DORCHESTER, England, December | | 33 UP).—Thomas Hardy, the novelist. | confined to his bed mince 2 in his residence here The fliness of the noted writer, who i 1n his eightyeighth year, hegar with 2 ch SBlight improvement was reported tod2y. but there is much enxiety over his condition. Decem u administe sxploted. Dr. the name of the pat Dr. Haynes decls {zas had been the hospital. was the first EX- KING SAILS. the that South America. Germany, Decem oard the Th by a lerk Lew Hendes fler 1925, if the girl admits she vantage of leap ye: 1 4, 1o make the offer » Justice of the | T offered to mon withaout . wedding fou by nmissioners, on <how. held knew nothi he Aprienr $2,500 REWARD POSTED ember 3 capt ure vester the shing atlrletic the hiad all knowled Nurse Hurt by Blast in Operating her ’H nurse cthylene | Ferdinand of Bulgnru\ Starts for 1, ber 31 dinaml of Bul Janeiro and eam Offers Fm Lup an I.xcense ditx ouple that applies 10 County January ) took ail proposed more Youi perform the Father of Gangster Slain. CHICAGO, Harry Vortug SHIPPING NEWS || { it el in hix e ntitied Alex PPort servine Prison for Blrlhs Rvporlc-(l Arrivals at and Sailings From g York. a term b DUE TODAY a hetel robibery Decomber 20 v 1 g L Dermber 23 A Deembar 23 | DUR TOMORROW Sionekah jotonan ion b SotBAmOAn a0d Trocembmws 25 [ “heriwarg Do London Decomier 1 s Oty s 27 Drcemter TUESDAY Auuitanis—Foutham :-r THI DAY Noes ¥ W YRIDAY SATURUAY o ING SHIPS ARG TOMORROW LChwrimorn SOt ASn MLING TUESDAY plaAntvort Dresien 4 o he v and Hambur, SAILING WELNESDAY THURSDAY Conmtantn B By 1260 M Lipéonderr Waris Yo oute. Havie sng Londiw N ! 7o petonted SLAVES OF SIERRA LEONE AFRICA.‘T FOR SLAYER OF GIRL TO BE GIVEN FREEDOM TODAY Held—One Contradicts Story to Pennsyl- Captlves of Native Wars and Their Descendants Have Been Owned by Own Race Only. still exi ult 4 alwlish ouly by and not By the ted Prose, lectorate. AS v Hon was taken 1o were owned protectorate topeans | The jovful eve of the great 1 v oof more than a quarter domestic slaves in the i with the coming of day’ Sicrra Leone will record, slimation just » the equality | !'me rra Leone, Africa 3 1 am Lincolu's be- ik v E Cix smiling upon the little ne Sierra Leone's hinter natives by Eu o cabins of wd the aves are principally people in the intertribs or inter. wWars \ul-rl- hlishment escend. « the pro te in 1596 is human rights ' 1 is given the eredit for the movement which resulted in o the abolition of ory in this isolated region of dark freems of the last of its hat the granting 14 of today. It 3 n such con o Simon, wife of existed the Southern distinguished lead- America. is generally ¢ in England, predicted that the majority of the for slaves will remain with their former maslers. Indeed, onlooker to tell who is a of the w Liber ho resy Known to, the « At o Regular Racllo Photo Servxce to Coast » by members of the | it would he hard for | Pro;egted asR.C. A. Asks Two permlts‘ second unit. to be situated at Bolinas Culif., 4 suburb of San Franciseo, will he submitted in a few days, it The first unit was de. Su-kilowatt broadeastin on three low w By the Associated Press | ph trans service ew York Francisco will be able I Commission atlined in an rday by the vie Commercial radio photog miiting Letween trionted. seribed us an ion to operate wnd San lio Corporftion expressed f that demand for coast-to-coast cansmission of photoradio pictures iles, documents and other mes «ages wax sufficient to justify lishment of the service, |MRS. J. R. COMMONS DEAD Wife of IJ\bur Aulhorhy Succumbs in Wisconsin. MADISON, Wis, Mrs. John R. Commons, 6 Prof. John of Wisconsin authority on labor ques tions, Is dead here. Prof. Commons has recently been in Washington do g re h work Mrs. Comm wan @ duate of Oberlin Col Ohilo. er the A the. .Ib ‘. rmit for 10 proceed with inst unit at Rocky Point, n_for 3 similar y NEWS OF THE CLUBS trom Eleventh Page) 7 Mrs December 31 . wife University Bentley served refresh 0. Sisterhood—Ars oAbt Mew. AC Commans, Hoarris o Chapter it road Cheon was commitie [ pariors et the dinin ing wis call tr Chiristm which 1w spirit, Mix Mis s L Chopter 18 1oL Zirken S Clain i Mk, Walliee M Ul of this ity My COrE present Members ding were John E. Rrige Juhn W s, Mes, . Hanery Cunndogham B AL Dandelson, Mres, A Mrx, Fr K Futler ' Cabbon, Mrs, Wille B Jam Mix [EETRVE My ol town Corey, w enden w. sond rile Mix M Mt 3 Joy Morgi Pk [ John i o Miw " Ay ru, Mix hert L. Sim Mis Warth hophdns Wiltims ert’ Young CARVE WOODEN CLOCK. Two WHITE FLEET Cruisestothe Caritbean $315 and up On every Great V/bite Fleet Ship ne personal service Brothers Spend Four Yem in Making meplece. 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CO. 925 18th St ol plone PANAMA ¢ \NM iy ONTA KICA; Part Limon tm OMBIA, Fusri Culon GUATEMALA Cuatemala HONDURAS, P Write lor Lyoblete Passenger Department UMITED FRUIT COMPANY 1i Mattery Place, New York, N ¥ was | estab- | TRADE BOARD ASKS solved mystery and an uncheck wave of burglaries, which reached the | Ill'hz‘fl of andacity during the Christ holid v a happy New Year of un- ‘ Every Firm to Be Solicited for k Charity Ball January 9 | | Vard, headguarters n's famous sleuths " A Yard tries to wipe its crime ar, and often sue: at Willard. therefore the ‘s hest detectives to unravel the mystery of the nrder of o policeman in e X monthe of invest hy some of the offi flection on the vard's high reputation. Burzlars had a hm year in € t Under the chairmanship of Edwin . Graham, president of the Board of | Trade, the citizens' has been organized i business firm in Washington trade committee interest every in the | ilire of King | Unsolved Murder and Wave of Burg]ar& 25 ARE MARO ‘D Mar New Year Record of Scotland Yard ON FERRY IPIVEF: Ice Jam Threatens to hsh Boat Held in St. rence. Britain, and just before | they robbed the big department stores and jewelry shops scemingly at will They reached the height of daring by L robberies of the homes of | et Yard's chief operatives. | Thre vear robbers made huge hig conntry m ains stolen motor cars 1o a Christmas hanis ntilizin tent Ry the Associated Press, WDENSRURG, N. Y., je Twenty-five hoat Levis, Onta maroaned to great o | The Great hurgla in led the humorons tn ask houzeholders robbed twice in the he patient with the of iries Punch, who have bee <ame month 1o erse until out wherehy the thic | ceipte, thus insurin of protection for orce of the fee m least a month vich is a woeden hoat | Children's Hospital and its ball to he charity the Charity Ball was | citizens' committee . but more recently was left :nnuh to the board of la [ visitors of the hospital, Last Hnu\\. ver, the bonrd decided to widel ‘w < scope and invite the husing men nd women of Wi |~hlll>|nll (fl partic] pate 1in and this v arrange. |6 nta willlsnétite al vepetitiont o thit phase of the plans. Committer Members of the mittee anpounced S| Columbia Heights cmmu Plan Special Program Tuesday. “New Year Play Night” will he celebrated with musical numbers «pelling matches, humorous dialozue d general merry-making, by mem hers of the Columbia Heights Citizens Association, whd will devote the rezu Men r evening o = g croup of presentations entitled “Plas [time.” The program will he given at | the Wilson Normal School at & o'clock The social hour, which will foilow a short business meeting, will usher in a hig community party in the mair dining room of the school. after which dancing will take y. ce. Woman of 72 Flles Suit. . Mary W. Goss, 72, retired emplo of the State Department, 1 R | court. Dupont Circle, filed suit vester day fn Equity Court against William V. Daley, Hill Build- and others for a re-cission of a sala or exchange of stocks, which she save the defendants induced her to meeting Tuesday Bl T bHADhS Richird toward the support of the hospita coming vear. Out of each $5 ticket, $£4.90 1s_clear profit. According to plans of the citizens committee, every shop in Washing- ton is to be asked to become a mem- v sy o iex W4 [her of the Children's Hospital Club § Wile Alexander Wt Do Wondwani | Membership will entitie each shop to a certain number of tickets to the hall Cares for 36,000 and a poster advertising its member- During the past vear the Children's | <hip. Mrs, James F. Curtis is chairman of the ball committee, and Mrs. Fred ick H. Brooke is president of the of lady visitors. e [ <ant N Rickenhach Cuno § Terhoct T " hildren, according to the report < Mattie Gibson, superintendent cds from the charity ball will go 1 The May We A HAPPY NEW it the Willard Hotl «NEW YEAR PLAY NlGHT il - - hoat was eaught and was a > Jam resulteq make on December 1 | Through Attorne: Poswell, plaintiff says purchased stoc in the U'n urities Corporation to the D stock « Seal, Dice that ed § xtent of the de- to ex- in the Corpora- presentation that would vield her an a wmonth for life. AFTER-CHRISTMAS SAL CLEARANCE 15% to 25% LAMPS and SHADES Floor, Bridge Table, Boudoir and Novelty Lamps 5 An Exceptionally Choie Stock With Plenty of Variet; Joseph D. Campbell Just Below I’ the 5 nto the larger riv The ferrvhoat Vand the Ozdenshurg and P portation Co., which al Levis. was trring to re impriconed craft from tion on the Al It neome of A Paris-Tokio air flizht the 517 10th St. Street Wish You YEAR And Call Attention to A GREAT FURNITURE EVEN Starting Tuesday With A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH of LIFETIME FURNITURE REDUCED Watch Tomorrow's Star for Announcement CIEETIM] |;URN' TURS MAYER & CO. Seventh Street Between D and E