Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1928, Page 6

Edward Owen Leech Dies as! Crew Is Unaware of Accident. f a north- inder the wheels . street car ! Caught u C: at Connecticut and C: 6:30 o'clock yesterday Owen Leec! | . was Kilied " in- nore than 100 ed aside by the wheels of | on in the rain, its! at any onc had been ihe car and obta; Car Crew Detained. The car crev—Conductor J E. Hart- | - - . THE Merchant Dies HaRRI ot g AFTER 10-DAY |LLNEsslvmu?< Funeral Services to Be Held To- morrow for Veteran Mer- chant Tailor. aan, 69 vears old. for erchant tailor here and teenth s , after { 10 days | ago ! {sociated in business with his son, { M. Pelzman lof Pythias and of Mr. Pelzman retired about 10 years nd in recent years had been as- Fied proprictor of the Fashion | Shop. He was a member of the Knights the Independent | Order of ated l'flll Leech. who av_home, had evidently ! ss the !rarks in front of 1 he becr: A passenger when he was struck. Both of the s the car Autoist Is Arrested. Several h ,x T Trenholm, 2015 Ord’il\ street, appeared, driven in such a manner, pol: arrested the driver and took him to the huncen.h or he was | where A Ibegan in business on ge. that they ‘l‘rlndthfldrcn. Born in Austria.” Mr. Pelz 1service in the Austrian army wounded in battle against the Turks Comin gto this city 42 years ago, he lower Pennsyl- vania avenue and later moved to 505 e windows of the front of | and 507 Seventh street, where he con- were heavily misted. he said. . | tinued until ref . Louis B. Pelzman and Tolbert M two daughters, Mrs. Morris H. Konigsberg and Mrs. G. David Pearl- man. both of this city, Funeral ser the residence o'clock. Rabbi es will be concucted at orrow morning at 11 J. T. Loeb will officiate. | Interment will be in the Ohav Sholem ir. Leech had been employed in the | tant general's office for the past | d was in charge of the 3 to his employment the War Department he served as pri- | vate secretary to the late Senator Wil- Ylam E. Clark of Montana, and was later assistant clerk of the Senate mil- | tary affairs committee. He graduatec | from Central High School. Tanner's | Shorthand College, and the National University Law School. Besides his, widow, Mrs. Bertha Ed- mundston Leech. he is survived by a daughter. Dorothy, a student at Wilson Normal School: a son. Robert a West- ern High School student; three brothers, Louis A. Samuel G. and Abner Y. Leech, jr.. three sisters. Mrs. W. F Rowe, Mrs. Carl.C. Hungerford and Mrs | H. P. Lerch. and his mother, Mrs. Irene Fleury Leech. all of this ¢ Puneral arrangements h ec:npleusd not been AUTO DEALERS BUSY FOR SHOW OPENING| Exhibits Being Installed in Audi-| torium—160 Models to ! Be on Display. i Plans for the eighth annual suto-| mobile show at the Auditorium Satur- dav night are well under way and the local dealers are busy today shining up their exhibits. which will be moved in tomorrow. Decorative work has been going on for several days and prac- tically everything is reported w be in| readiness. | According to Rudolph Jose, cl’.zlnrnnl ot the show committee of the Washing- | ton Automotive Trade Association. quile | & number of cars will have been in- stalled by nightfall. Mr. Jose reported thet as many dealers as are in a posi- tion to do so will avall themselves of the cpportunity of setting up their space | arrangements well in advance. Under the direction of Mrs William | Barrett. the Auditorium will be more elzborately decorated than ever before Lighting, Mr. Jose adds, will be handled o that each car can be clearly | and distinctly seen at night as well as day. Bhadows are being eliminated to ge extent ; ore than 160 different modeis in the ines of as many manufacturers will ion will open y night be 1o show Bunday. There. Auditorium will open promptiy ily and remain open until e close of the show on 4 SUNDAY” LAW CALLED 5 RELIGIOUS STEP BACK| Would Be Poor Example to Other| Nations, Says Opponent of Lankford Bill Ligious Jegislarion” | ' ackward | [ O A which from 1he would mesr neve of churen kome Park poing e el gt of “ir relyious beliefs i u wigers of the Volew ar e such dew the door b more part ot making in Yy arouse benti e ktora wil e Uty the Zib! i bl ) e troms lslAtity v them with felure W crIry oul a Conirect I te $Era W Jolnl benk sccounts or use of ¢ cately deposlt box Dy (%G 01 gL st This legisiaiion we porien Weshidigon VA the 1 Saspert Clation Bt & b al g seieral Bris vyn | racturers " “The al " | s | sousl reformer can Congregation Cemetery. 'PERUVIAN SUBMARINE AND CRUISER CRASH Panama Hears by Wireless of Col- lision Off Balboa—Rescue Ships on Way. By the Associated Press COLON, Panama. January 25.—The commander of the Peruvian light cruis- er Almirante Grau,. reports by wireless that his ship has been damaged in col- lision with the Peruvian submarine R-1 off Balboa. The commandant of the fifteenth | naval district reports that the wrecking tug Gorgona was immediately dispatch- ed 10 aid the Almirante Grau, and that other craft have been ordered to pro- ceed with all speed. No details have | been received as ble loss of life. ‘The two Peruvian vessels are said to to damage or possi- { have been engaged in maneuvers. The Almirante Grau carries 315 men. She was commissioned in 1906. {CANDY SALES IN D. C INCREASE $200,000 3,000,000 More Pounds of Penny, Sweets Sold in 1926 Than in Previous Year. Washington's sweet tooth is getting sweeter and demanding more candy 1o | eat. Candy sales in Washington in 1926 | the Commerce Department announced today, exceeded In value the 1925 sales by more than $200.000. At the same time the department declared that, by and large. American boy received a b y's worth in his candy purcl 2 ceding year, basing this assumption on the fact that penny candy s les in 1926 increased by 3000.000 pounds, but fell {off in value by more than $1.500.000 Manufacturers of candies in Wash- ington sold products val 019.67 in 1926, as ags worth of goods so! dealers ané by out- 1926 were 81 97430 in 1925 41108 89 against 81,1 “The figures came out of & survey by the foodstuffs division of the Commerce Department. under- raken last July ar t completed. It ad ant enver 1927 0 be the g Bate lvania, Liinols, Cali- The most_remar ales was in Conneet- ce a5 much cand value increase of iowed fornia and others able increase in it which boug whbout $3,080,000 CHARLES H. HUNT DIES. Puneral Eervices Tomorrow for Dis trict Native, Charies H Hunt, 5% 5 old the Texas Ol Co and a hfe- dent of this ey, died here afier an iliness of about five iber of the e and of the Travelers' Assocln Hunt was the son of U late m M and Amanda Hunt His fa- war & Chie! enginecr in the U 8 Navy He 18 survi y his widow Mre Roswmond Sraylor Hunt Funer) services will be conducted in | Guwier's chapel 1736 Pennsylvanin nye BUE VO ow aflernoon 2 oclock rent will be A Congressionsl metery ASKS ANII\IULMENT. Agner L Cioke Alleges Hus band Is of Unsound Mind | Alleging thut her hushend s of un | s ming ana that st e el RIREE b isTeprescnted. him it ns Uy e ohysical end mental ca acity Mis A » L Croke 1 petition in the [nstiiet ot annuiment of her Jowph T Croke, who now M wor miarried Mrs Cioke 1hirough | E Maorgension il ber hushand but one week hefore e marcage Mis Croke alleges ha Croke due Yy the gental oese ha " requently e the i e iug ives i Februar ol and seven than in the pre- | ales- | tme of ' fu uy fleq Bupreme Attorney Charles e Court she Kiey wlened W kil her ana IGERMANY'S ENVOY - DUE HERE TODAY ’Dr. Frederick W. von Pritt- ‘r witz-Gaffron Was Attache = 20 Years Ago. Ambassador_to the ! Fricdrich Wilhelm vitz-GafTron, is scheduled to today in_Washington, the | where he launched forth on his ‘dmlum:\flr carcer as an {years ago. The new envoy arrived last night in New York, according to an | Associnted Press dispatel Hamburg-Am 36 hour: | One of his firs Capital will be at the Department with o i ‘chargs d'affaires of the embassy {the death in an airplane accident | Germany of Baron Ago Maltzan, recent- |1v. to see Secretary Kellogg to arrange for presenting his letters of credence resident Coolidge. The German | ¢ is located at 143 Massachu- setts avenue. | With Wife and Daughter. | Accompanying the dor are his wife, the former Count: {witz, and their 4-year-ol ughter, as | well as Dr. Kiep and Dr. Wolfgang von The Ambass Germany's new United States. Dr. Klep, Interviewed in New York he said: a friond of the on Ago Maltzan. former Ambassador to ‘our United States. and I shall coi- tinue his policics of siatesmanship and poiitical_understanding “1 don't believe i the mysticim <f | ays liked the habit America. | frank talk and an l\«!mm{v of views between people who belong to different | countries is certainly the best way to get these countrics closer together and create a spirit of mutual understand- | ing.” The Ambassador declined in New | York to discuss the German reaction to the critique of S. Parker Gilbert. agent general of the Reparations Com- mission, explaining that he desires to be in Washington sfveral menths before he is inclined to discuss politics, ' nomic end financial afTairs. Graduate of Bonn. ! generations has been prominent in German military circles, Dr. von Pritt- witz-Gaffron graduated from the Uni- versity of Bonn and then entered the banking business After choosing a diplomatic career, he served in Washington from 1908 to 1910 and then was sent as secretary o the embassy at St. Petersburg. For two years he was chief of division for domestic politics in the foreign office and for a vear served as consul at "'rnnu-. He was on duty in Rome as | counselor of the embassy there when summoned to Berlin to prepare to as- sume his duties here as Ambassador. Dr. von Prittwitz-Gaffron is intensely interested in constitutional history. Tennis, horseback riding and golf also | claim his attention. 'HEFLIN THREATENS MEMBERS OF PRESS| attache 20 | aboard the | State | ador s | eco- | Hailing from a family that for several for a brief space.| WOMAN INDICTED IN FORGERY QUIZ Emily A. Rollins Said to Have Represented Herself as Daughter of Crandall. Miss Emily A. Rollins was indicted today by the grand jury on two charges of forgery and nftering. She is said to have represented herself on one oc- casion as Miss Mildred Crandall. daugh- and on another as Miss Lois Cholston. private secretary of Representative Charles H. Brand. Miss Rollins {5 charged with present- ing in a local jewelry store, December 14, a check for $100 bearing the sup- made to the orer of cash. She bought a watch for $60 and was given the balance in cash, it was stated. An- tore, December 18, was upposed to be drawn by | Mr. Brand to the order of his sccretary for $100, but the merchant made some | isquiry, and the check was not ac- | cepted. Keesse Is Indicted. Roy W. Keesee, captain, Co. K, 121st | District Enginecrs, was indicted on & |charge of forgery. He is said to have | forged the name of two memb~s of his company to pay checks, one for 181250 and the other for $6.15. The 1 is declared to have admitted the ¢ exonerated by the grand jurors of charges of responsivility tor deathis of three persons. Jacs E Parker, Heath Smith and Wibur A 1l white. had been held vy a ury in'the case of Mrs. Stella Hirchberger. knocked down by an auto- | mobile at Thomas Circle. November 8. |last. Hattie L. Kunkel and William E. | Smith, colored. were exonerated for the death of a baby of the couple, Decem- ber 8. Thomas May, a plumbing contractor, was relieved of responsi- bility for the death of Page Coleman August 29. The man was dizing a trench for the contractor on Corcoran street when a cave-in caused his death Other charges ignored by the grand jury included Banjamin Carban and Henry L Grimes, joy riding: Ambrose Redmond. Burton Barber. Willlam Jones | and Dndrew Wood, grand larceny. Others Named by Jury. Those indicted and the against them include: Homer Jones and William Faulkner, nal knowledge: Bedford M. Pegram, Eugene Smith and Jack Chandor. grand larceny; James Dunning. Grant T. Martin, Abe Jefiries, alias Mondell Dun- Kins: Ray Derr, Thomas J. Wright, Ells- worth Pryor, John F. Thomas, Thad- deus O. G Willie Branch, Paul Isaac and Charles Pinkhard., housebreaking and larceny: Sylvester L. Brown, Joseph A Gordon, Lloyd Acty. Edward H. Thomas and Ellis I. Orleans, joyriding: | Joseph Palmer, alias George Chase; Percy Campbell, Irving L. Primus, Win- nie Green, James Washington and Ed- die Pilerce. assault with a dangerous weapon: Joseph L. Brown. Charles | Shanklin, Herbert A. Hill, James Pat- | rick. Robert Dixon and William H Kelly, robbery. Abraham D. Sherman receiving stolen property. Roy W. Kee- | see. forgery: Silas Habersham, larceny | after trust: Bernard Elwood Murphy. | non-support of wife: Henry Rosenberg. alias Harry Rosenberg, non-support of minor child; Emily A. Rollis, forgery and uttering; Robert Reid, false pre- tenses. > persons. w Blain charges ter of Harry Crandall, theater magnate, | posed signature of Mr. Crandall and | | Alabama Senator Would Bar erl»‘ | ers From Gallery for Criticism | of Speech. | By the Associated Pross | Threats to bar some newspaper writers from the Senate press gallery were made yesterday by Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, in objecting to some of the accounts of his speech yes- {terday in which he assatled his crities and renewed his attacks on the Cath- olic Church and Gov. Smith of New York Obtaining recognition late in the day | marks to denials of statements written |in stories published in two Washington newspapers. He referred to the wriiers as “llars” and “hickory nuts." Mr. Heflin denied published assertions in the Washington News that he had sald he would quit the Democratic part; if Al Smith were nominated for Presi- dent. He gave notice that he was going to ask the Senate to take some action against newspaper men “who lie abou me if he found any more of it Then, he turned to the head line {1 the Washington Herald. a Hearst pape:. which read: “Heflin’s Biasphemy Shocks Senate.” and he said that in using the | name of the Savior in debate Monday he was directly quoting some newspaper the Alebama Senator confined his re- | Phone us and our represenu- tive will call and give an esti- mate on installing the famous “Pittsburg” WATER HEATER When the water in the tank is below the desired temperature the gas snaps on and automatic- ally snaps off when that tem- perature is reached. Come in for & demonstration. Let us do the np-ir weri on your water h < MUDDIMAN . 709 13th St. N.W. Main 140-6436 men, and was not using the language as | his_own “1 want to serve notice right now on Mr. Hearst.” Heflin shouted. “that if he continues 1 will read some affidavits that will shut some of his hickory nuts out | of this gallery.” HUSBAND ARRESTED | } i | FOR SHOOTING WIFE | - [ Station Porter Claims Woman Was | Wounded During Struggle for Gun, | | | | | S Ebbie Arthur porter at the Union Station was arrested today and charged with the hooting exrly this morning of his wife. | Leota. at their home, at 401 A street | northeast His wife s now at Casunlty | Hospital dangerously wounded with & | uilet through ber hody and. according | W physicians, may die Denying at fist that he had anvthing th do with the shooting and offering Ibl, Christa later admitted that wife' hind been shot while he wis struggling with her during an argument for the possession of & pistol Christla first B € Kuehling red that ‘E had worked all night except for & minutes’ lunch period, and offered | Ny time card as evidence 1t shuwed thut he hind checked out wt 3 17 o'clock | this morning and had checked i 20 minutes later The shooting. how- | ever, occurred during this interval, it | luter developed Evidence of the shooting found st the house S did ot biatan tnte | Christin s story that his shot durlng » struggle 3 tectives found that the bullet. which passed Through the woman's body, had been fred thiough a door betore [ stoiking her | Mrs Christa tan from the house L after she i been shot and was found Iyng on the sidevalk Two childien of the couple. sleeping i the room with thetr mother. told detectives that they were wwnkened by tie nolse of the pis [ A wnd that they heard thelr wer by “L'm gone” wn he left the Wouse AL the hospital Mis Christa wid that her hushand had shot her s Club Lido Case Continued VL The case agalnst the Club Lido to ool the Bunday closing W set Lo leasing today - the Distoct of Colum- s branch of the Police Court, was wdefinitely continued becaine the prin- Clond Witnes Mis, H K. Manaeld of (e Women's Bureau, was unsble lappeur Bhe 15 & witiess In (e g ww cace ngainst Le Paradis Cafe, now helng Avied before Justice Hatfield Faity Division, No. 3, Shrista. colored. a bag- questioned by | Not even afriend can make you like a cig- arette. The most he can do is to ask you to | tryit. Then if you don't like it, all the argu- ments in the world [ won't change your | mind. That's why all we're going to tell | you about the York- | townCigaretteisthat | it has a brand-new | kick in a neat little pack. Will you try one? Twenty for 15e. Larus, Kiehmond, Virginie EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. DN. €. 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