Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1928, Page 10

STAR. \\'\ST]I\'G’I‘O\ . ("A. THE _EVENING THI RSD \Y ‘N l “ YORK HOTELYS Jor Automobile \huu Week Corivenient mid- town locations. RITZ TOWER Park Avenve, ot 57th St. e THE WARWICK 65 Wear THE GLADSTONE 118 Fast 5204 Steeet »t Park Avenue v e ey uriously fur. lrrfpmarhnltle con- utal cuisine. Fac- es for private entertaining. Fault- less aervice. Mod- erate rates. For reservations - write or telegraph 1o selected hotel or 10 central off Cable addre "RITZTOWER, NEW YORK™. GAS BOWL FIXTURE Semi-indirect—Put up 5129 Amber Tint 5130 ¢ Muddiman g, 709 13th St. N.W. Main 140-6436 Don’t Let That Cold Turn lnto Flu eumonia, | e of it at once. the congested o Iy it brings the old does messy the from pure oil of menthol and other is a counter-ir- circulation it | have to drive them to it sation that br come relief, .hn ‘& Tubes She saSepttc. 16 be, and thert lot oo g Taey call Trsctors kuow i foee. o8 septic, edy « novious ‘V‘r odore end Yad ot vecognise their canse. The Iy in the colon Dosons the biond, # perspiration. 1t tgote the breath 2 grisling her need of @ listle Cateium works wonde: "Nature i sv"’CaIcmm Wafers 2 Den’t Neglect that COUGH ' 4 remedy o stop # with y ¥ wiinch your doctor might aprrove P1¥TUSHEN ag s proven remedy that diss bern qumpentpd ooty sl comghn, mceding v hooping PERTUSSIN samflars the cough Ovasin, eiys 10 ¢ lear Oulaar pasrayes of sk, gevm Jaden muem i 1eduses L . y free I I Sold by all drug Large wnd smull fe for Every | wrist to {couldn’t eat the stuff. { down for the work | | week we were taken down to th | ailowed to wash our clothes. | in a player's face. | week when Mr Y DOTY INPRISONED !l‘):‘(). Has 8 More | Traffic Deaths in RESTRICTED AREAS | northeast was ¢l g from [ mercinl to residenti - AFTER I]ESERTIDNl e ‘MEASURE AMENI]ED " American Taken to Damas-‘ cus and Placed in 1‘ Crowded Cell. he Afieenth of a sevies of i Tived by e Drivate BY BENNETT J. DOTY. ey for The can Newspaoe After 11 days in the guardhou Deera, following our capture as de- sorters. we were taken out ani} chained two by two. one nmn's left ! the ather’s right, and sent uy to Damascus in care of a4 company | zendarme. We were marched to lln questioned aga prison was a large room In|~ ubicles with wooden partitions. John Harvey and 1 were put into one of | these ‘Weisser and Lass into another. The building was the old Turkish citadel. It must have dated back to | the Middle Ag We were in one of | the towers. There were no windows. Lizht and ventilition came through deep Ioopholes used orkginally by | archers nding the citadel Star and the Mianee cits .u.- searehed St Cells Are Crowded. ! Tt was 230 in the afternoon when we were put into our cells. It was| stifling_hot. The place was crowded | ans, Arabs. Druse, Sena- inisians, Algerians, i Frenchmen. The legion | was well represented. There were 30 of us there. | This was the central prison of the | military pol e the crowd. | They were in for every conceivable crime. One Syrian bandid told me proudly he had killed 20 gendarmes. He was only 16. They hanged hlm a week later in the public square. A | couple of Syrians were serving 100 vear sentences for furnishing informa- tion 1o the enemy. for rebellion wnd other military crimes. | Outside the n cell was the death | cell. There e 12 men in it. They | were all Syrians from Damascus. They had been mixed up in fighting in The Gardens. hey were all very cheerful about it. and seemed to regard approaching death lightly. | Like all prisons in Syria, the place | was infested with all the insect pests. Our routine was simple. At 430 in the morning a gendarme gol us up by beating on the wooden wall with his riding crop. We had coffee, and were | driven up onto the roof for exercise. At 930 a 20-gallon bucket of soup ap peared. with 4 inches of grease on top of it. This soup generally con- | tained a few heans or lentils, and if | vou were lucky vou drew a couple. | 1t was ladled into our gamellen with | a piece of foul looking meat. ! had a halfloaf of bread. Bad as it was, it was the best of our food. I| 1 managed buy with my remaining money some | chocolate the cook bofled for us. Bath 1s Welcomed. We remained on the roof until| 430. Then we had the same meal again, and lock we were taken | sht. Theoretically w were taken down 1o sleep. Actually we spent a great part of the time p suing the invisible enemy which runs beneath the citade! Once a | week we had u hot shower. Harvey | and I were giad enough about this, | tnt the natives didn’t share our en- | thusiasm. The gendarmes used to! 1 believe some of these bandits got the fir-l! bath of their lives the day they went | to prison. We did most of our sleeping In the day. When the bugs didn't keep us awake. the card players and hasheesh | | smokers did. All the natives are great | gamblers. They would range around | in a circle lighted hy candles play some native card game untll one of the men arose and threw the cards | They would be at | cach other's throats in a minute, the whole gang chattering like monkeys. | In would come the gendarmes and | beat them over the heads with riding crops. This happened three or four timex a night If it wasn't the card games it wax 2 got_husheesh This they in their tea ¢ the mani Some mang. The hest of the lot | The poet who wrote | “The Night Has # Thousagd Eyes" | Aidn't know Syria. He meant & thousand noises, 1 seemed to bave exa effect ax hooze on them. wihers fought went to sleep. Consul Arrives. I had been in the citedel about a Keeley, American conxul, Jooked me up, A newspaper corvelpindent 1 had met #t Sueida | had went a siory announcing [ was 1o be shot by the council of war. We never had any such fear. Nobody will helieve me when 1 say that neither the Leglon nor the French in | versl mhoot deserters except in | of demertion in the face of the “ We knew we wonld be | punished if we were caught, but we | never expecied it would be anything worse than a couple of yeara in prison The first news my parenin had of my plight w thiough the corre spondent’® dispatch. My father had Mr. K who himselt | sught we were in imminent danger of the firlng wqr Accompanied by vard- everyhody went gusrded | K went im the general | If he could, cd him o owe wers Jot AL that, Mr. Keeley arrived in the e e bad no more one of us conld eal the | What wan most wel brought me a plle of old 7l ot gOINK Lo be b wll countries by North ewapaner Allance ) RADIO CORPORATION BUYS FILM INTEREST Move Made 1o Facilitate Introdue Talking Movies Through FBO. tion of o Abws | S o tacii sy VB0 compiny el of wound reprodi Vi waidd s b otz ton, e fected | e General Flectiie e, e i 0 b e St matd Tl low cnongh tn make 1 the mmallent pietine Vhe patents wnd developiments of neral e et & oo in sennd b Madin o porition e vepio an tele 1o 1 o [ Do caclusive g e B0 oy an beld in 1eoa ol Moroc- | Kight more persons were killed in traflic accidents in the District car than in 1926, ding to atisticnl veport prepared vester- day by Trafic Director William H. Harland “i'he report !llfl\\i that 84 were 1927, compared with 76 in | The highest number of traf- | talities since establishment of e department occurred in and 1924, when 91 were killed o these years. ‘The total d for 1927 was heading toward n new low record until Winter then It jumg November theve were 11 tributed to traffic greatest number occurrving In any | month during the year, while De. © cember is « mlnml with 9 victims, deaths at- idents, the :New i Churches, Schools and Sta- Churches, Stations will be tinl vestricte sanitarinms, — louses and harred from the newly ereated semi vestricted umendments to the i tons adopted yesterday by the Zoning | w ommission. added to the zoning | strlet Prowslon e tions—Other Changes. and pussenger | nitted in residen | and hospitals hoarding will he schools public o nn vogn Zones- Zoning residentinl Another — amendn code s designed of private A semire purage the areak. OIL WELLS CLSED The commission’s action | following a public |the amendments together With several | | proposed changes in zoning were con- | hearing at htch dered. | AT TEAPOT DOME = of Field Returned to Former Status as Naval Petro- leum Reserve. ) By the Associated Press. , January 5.-—With | in and production | suspended, Teapot Dome was returned | vesterday to ite former status as a haval petroleum reserve. Completing an inspection of the ofl field today, Admiral H. H. Roussean, 1. 8. N., director of Federal petroleum reserves, announced that in the fu- ture the dome would be handled “a together an a naval reserve propert; “Production has been discontinued | and the department plans no develop- | ment.” he said. “Possible drainage | of the dome will be taken cave of through compensatory ments. advocated b partment as A of receiving equitable returns Govern rent s share of vil produced in well setting the Navy reserves. Agree- ments of this kind are in effect on the Elks Hills reserve and are satis- factory.” Both Adm Comdr. H theories that joining Salt ( Twnml Dome. The reserve was formally returned to the Navy Department by court order after cancellation of a lease on the property, which the Government charged Harry F. Sineclair, ofl mag nate, obtained through fraudulent | dealings with Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior. | | | Rousseau and Lieut. | discredited | fleld would drain Gets Vn-'um Amnnent ; Capt. Alexander R. "Bolling, 22d | | Infantry at Fort McPherson, Ga., has huen assigned to duty wlth the 16th | Brigade at Fort Hunt, Va. i We Are Trustees The immease number of veople who have availed themeelves of our evexluss werviee made us trustees of their vision. We appreciate that confidenee. We endeavor to make that untiring efforts to in every detail. 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