Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1928, Page 26

BB e "AUTOIST HURT IN CRASH. RHURN nF BER[IN James W. Beall Injured as Car . Hits Pole. Driving a car taken Friday night ‘(mm the garage of Henry S. Criswell | at 1423 Irving street, James W. Beall, 122, of 8520 Connecticut avenue, i/ i !crashed intc a trolley pole at Con-| Gess'el‘ $ ca-reer Beheved :\:cucut al\"rl;ulc and Chesapeake street Far From Ended—Expected esterday afternoon, sustaining a pos- ible trncnm‘x of the skull and severe cuts and_bruises. Back When Health Impr OVES. | Chiswell, who lives at 1460 Irving | street, said that he met Beall some time Sor |ago. - ISTAV & E| | “Beall was taken to Emergency Hos- =T DR GUSTAVSydire. | pital for treatment. ‘A charge of reck- less driving has been placed against him | BERL 81.=As Dr. Otto recover; | Gessler leaves the war mmis(u.v‘. a tired — ®————— broken BY family misfortunes, if o is timely to dnquire how far he suc-| WOMAN'S TRIAL PLANNED. eceeded in accomplishing his task of | training the new German army into a | dependable instrument of the republic. | Attorneys Confer on Case in Which Dr. Gessler's problem was perhaps the | h Patricide Is Charged. most Impossible of nllmlhe (\z aille: A, i b ace dictates—the problem of disarm- | Special Dispaten to S g‘g Geérmany alone in the midst of an | DANVILLE, Va., January 21.—Six at- overmilitarized Europe. | torneys, who will be opposed in the After the Kapp putsch in 1920. when | . he became-minister of defense, succeed- | OTthcoming trial of Mrs. Alma Patty only a'pile of ruins. on which he ‘must | with the murder of her father. held a build slowly. | conference at Reidsville today with a | 3} Winder Severe Sioaln. :\;N\’ to agreeing on a course of action | It was Gessler who was gbiiged oy the | MORdaS When the case cames up for Allied Control Comm))s‘smn‘.\ dictate -to h disarm and reduce the army propor- | . W o tlons. It was Géssler who put down the || 5% SPERRE Mondey, while the State monarchist putsth in Bavaria and Cue- | ary 6. strin. and who also was obliged al ll\e‘ 3 same time to employ the reichswehr | against the Communists in Saxonv Gessler's nerves were strained above all by the unbroken chain of demands made by th> allies until only a few| months ago. when the humiliating | control commission departed. . And’ in the midst of all these hap- penings the impossible had to be at- temptad—to make a mercenary army of | 100.000 men. without heavy artillery, tanks or airplanes. an instrument that | could play any role whstever for the | defense of Germany's borders. Whether the attempt succeedsd is very doubtful. but in considering the | political problem of Germa armed Farmer Found Dead. pecial Dispateh to The Star WINCHESTER, Va.. January 21— | farmer, was found dead today 4 miles | from the home of his daughter, Mrs. Oliver Himelright. with whom he lived at Mountain Falls. It was thought he | suffered a heart attack while hastening | home afoot in bitterly - cold weather from a main road where he had left an automobile driven by Harry Richards, member of the Board of Supervisors. | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON., D. C . JANUARY 22, 1928—PART 1. ‘BALD-HEADED MANBIRDS AS HENPECKED HUSBANDS BLAMED IN KILLING Said Started Hotel Braw! Lead- ing to Shooting. Stranger By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C.. January 21.— that “a liltie bald-headed | | man” caused him to start an alleged | viedge and | gambling game brawl in a hotel here | tNE $Pread of scientific knowledge Testimony that {hat resulted in the shooting to death | of Lee A. Shuman, 31, of Charlotte, in hours of the morning by a house detective who went to quell the today by J.| Luther Toon, jr.. Charlotte, at an in- s death. After hearing testimonty of Toon, A. A. Allen, the house detective, who said | elf defense, and of fa witnesses, ing the Socialist, Noske. Gessler found | Gatlin at Wenworth, N. C, charged |Jury continued the inque the early disturbance, quest into Shum: he shot Shuman in a few other witnel registered from found to be from was said R. A Crawley of Rock Hill, said to|sleep. Before he had do: have been one of the several alleged William ' Eberman, 7 i old. a|Melee. was unable to t gaged in the account of injuries al day. Detective Allen was badly wounded | on the hand. but was able to attend the | inquest. Toon in his testimony said he tacked the “little bald-headed mai Who was not identified at the inques when the latter began game of dice"” Weather Halts Special Dispateh to The Star | HAGERSTOWN. Md.. January 21. Plowing. forces it must be remembered that the | kernel of this new army was naturally - - Qi i i puondest annyiihe | STAORRSTORNAMA tianuy a1 — | Prussian military tradition. whose daily | SUmmeTy weather early this week and | Iabors ' reminded them more than was | De8an plowing for the Spring planting. | the case with opber German citizens , were halted today by a temperature of | e Standardizing the height at which automobile bumpers are placed on cars. with the aim of preventing interlocking of bumpass, is one of the Government's newest problems. Have s given the coroner’s | matrimony. st until Mon- | the egas day. Meanwhile additional witnesses | 1 will be summoned to testif; announced by Coroner Hors D. E. Duncan, in wh | disturbance occurred. and Toon were The defense seeks a trial at the court | rdered by the coroner/held as mat ufder bond of § Duncan, who was reported to have beer Columbia, it w e _toom the | sible wives erial | an unhappy husband. - A pair were seen | back upon the a 200 cach was _later | stopped, as she frequently did, to Primp | and moanin Hendersonville, it | herself or feed, he would s men en- ¥ “free-for-all' | peck him ‘awake and, calling querrel- | tify today on | ously, force him to follow her while | the shore birds from their Winter homes ved in the but was expected to testify Mon- | Now and then she would go into a rage. | and back again to within the shadow “cheating at » in which Toon and| the follo others were engaged in Dun; can’s room | in Duncan’s absence. | ARE DESCRIBED BY SMITHSONIAN Female Phalarope M;iés Life Miiirable For Male—Heroic Devotion to Young flmvgn by Avocets. Henpecked husbands, parental devo- | ventured nearer and repeated the ex- tion and almost unbelievable feats of | periment, lifting now one wing and now physical endurance among birds are | both in token of utter helplessness deseribed in the latest volume of the | After a while the male joined her, and Smithsonian Institution series on the | we had the painful spectacle of a birds of North America. ; The publication of this scries Is one | uttering most doleful cries of distress, of the major Smithsonian projects {or | necessitated apparently by thelr numer- ous aches and breaks. Once, for ex- | periment's sake, we followed, and the Waders flopped along in manifest de- light coaxing us up on shore and mak- ing off through the sage brush with broken legs and useless wings. But Wwe came back, finding it better to iet the birds make the advances. cventually will turnish scientifically ac- curate descriptions of all North Ameri- | can birds. The present volume is de- voted t8 shore birds. This classification includes the most henpecked member of the bird family, | according to Dr. Arthur C. Bent of Taunton, Mass,, the author This is e the timid. dull-colored male phalarope. ‘The birds were driven to the very The female, far more brilliant fn pium- | limit of frenzy, dancing, wing trailing, age and positive in will, forces him into | swaying. going through last convulsion: Once she has. deposited , and beginning over again without re- she leaves the hatching of | gard to logical sequence, all in an them entirely up to him. He incubates | agony of effort to divert attention from them and cares for the young while | those preclous eggs. = As time elapsed, he gads about with equally irrespon- | however. the color of the play changed. | Finding that the appeal of cupidity was Mr. Bent quotes one observation of | of no avail, the birds apeared to fall ppeal to pity. Decoy- hat was plain: so they stood with upraised wings, quivering g in" tenderest supplication. It was too much evén for conscious rectitude and we withdrew abashed.” Some Are Globe-Trotters. The annual migrations of some of together. the male of Which “was ap- | ing was uscless, t parently tired out.” Whenever the hen down, tuck . and go to more than the female would his bill under his feathe: a minute. however, she led the way through the marsh. | near the southern tip of South America | fly at him and chase him about. Show Devotion to Young. | The devotion of parents to their oung among shore bll"’ds is often heroic | The banderling, which is perhaps the and the instinctive intelligence with | champion globe-trotter among birds, which they try to protect them is of a | Wintering from our shores to the Ant- St| high order. Mr. Bent says. He relates | artic, starts north in March or April, | g incident concerning a | passes through New England in May A&l pair of avocets: | and early June and arrives at its aest- “The mother-bird had flushed at a'ing site in northeastern Greenland as hundred yards. but seeing our position | early as May 28. After the breeding | she flew toward us and dropped into | season is over the adults are ready to the water some 50°feet way. Here she | start back as early as July, but the lifted a black wing In simulation of | young birds pass through New England maimed stiffness. and flopped and | in the latter part of August and are d with the aid of the other most abundant in September and Oc- Seeing that the ruse failed. she| tober and the arri of the North Pole form one of the won- ders of bird life in the new world, Mr. Bent says. | erippled family, whose members were | lh!equnlot stretch from August to Novem- T. What 18 even more amazing than these distances is the age at which the young of some species make the south- ern flight. Speaking of the pectoral sandpiper, Mr. Bent quotes one auihor- ity to the effect that “when they are but 30 minutes old, their appatently slight legs carry them over the ground with great rapidity. Six weeks later they are off on their long journcy to the South, crossing mighty mountain ridges, great stretches of land and of ey S World War Veteran Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERWYN, Md., January 21.—E. Irvin Brown, 35 years old, dicd late yesterday | of pneumonia. Besides his wife he leaves | two children. He was a son of the laic Dr A.J. Brown of Baltimore. He served overseas in the World War. Order,ed to Bangor. Lieut. Col. Robert L. Moseley, 5th In- | fantry, who has been under treatment at | Walter Reed General Hospital, has been ordered to Bangor, Me., for duty with Qreanized Reserves of the st Corps rea. Green's Daughter Weds. COSHOCTON, Ohio, January 21 (®) —The marriage January 14 at Cincin- nati of Miss Ruth Green, daughter of Willlam Green, president of the Amer- dcan Federation of Labor, to Melvin Bronnenberg, Coshocton, was announced | by members of Mr. Green's family to- | night ~ Mr. and Mrs Bronnenberg will live at Anderson, Ind Retired Business Man Dies. Spectal Dispateh to The Star. LANDOVER, Md., January 21.—John H. Foerester, 77 business man, died iate yesterday at his home in Columbia Park. He is surviv by his widow, who was Miss Magdalene | Sollner, and two sons. John A. and George H. Funeral services will be held | Monday 2t 10:30 a.m. Fort Lincoln Cemetery with burial in years old, a retired | Martindale to Give Lecture. Phillip Martindale of the U. 8. Na- tional Park Ranger Service, Department of the Interior, Yellowstone National Park, will give-an illustrated lecture on the animal life in Yellowstone National Park. on Friday, February 3, at 8 p. m . in the auditorium of the Interior Building Employes of m:d department in south of the and their guest: —-— WILL DISCUSS SCHOOLS_ have been Invited to attend are: Comi- missioner Dougherty, Dr. Prank,W. Ballou. superintendent of schools, ahd ] ting to Consid Faxs’ Meeting; toy Ooualder:, Clivwy Maj. L. E. Atkins. Assistant Enginder Chare Interests. Commissioner. Others expected t; be A mass meeting for discussing the|Present include Representative M. school situation of Chevy Chase wiy|Cl¥de Kelly of Pennsylvania. Miss M. E. Given, pri | of the E. V. Brown be held at the E, V. Brown Schuol‘[&}nm‘;,mm% l'l')er’p:! J. Lloyd. president Connecticut avenue _and McKinley of the Brown Parent-Teacher Assnci- street. at 8 o'clock Wednesday night, | ation under the auspices of the new schools| J. Francis Moore is chairman of ths committee of the Chevy Chase Citizens' ' new schools committee and 8. Vén Association. Ammon is secretary-tressurer of Among the District officlals who ! bod: Confidence! With more than fifteen tive experience Dr. Max Wolf has h won the esteem of countleds patrons—a fact which goes to prove that he does produce satisfactor results Modern equipment knowledge of the cyes and their treatment is at your service. You may place explicit confidence in the Ross Optical Depart- ment for the care of Your eyes. At No Extra Cost If Desired | CREDIT %7 ROSS® i &V 702 SCVentll st. 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Judge b -said the Everline and Sullivan families asked that Pecdicord be pa- Poled. § Buits for civil damages against Ped- gicord by the families of the victims have beens“settied for sums aggregat- | ing $35.000. it is understood Peddi- | eord some months ago came into an | inheritance through his grandmother. | He was riding from PFrostburz to Cumberiand when he met the car griven by Everline on Red hill Bl v it i B 162 Prs. Women’s ek ey o e Low Comfort Shoes 60 Prs. Women’s Regular $5 Selling Regularly at $2.98 1 59 - ‘ - ‘ 1 vnl:?.yening S]ipperss 1?. are 247 Pairs Childcen's S1 to S1.49 Footwear A\nother Strap, Oxford The Leathers -'atent 1eather Satin, Velvet, Suede, Kid, Innta- tion Alligator, Tan and Black Cali. The Heels—x)ike, High French, Cuban, Flat, welts. All sizes, Patent leather. tan and black calf rubber heels Broken sizes. 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