Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1928, Page 12

12. & THE EVENING STAR., WASIIINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY, JANUARY o ) .. 1988} EUROPE VIEWS 0L AR WITH AL Industry Seen Threatened by Catastrophe—DBritish Trade Loss Seen. BY GERVILLE REACHE. Br Radio to The | PARIS, Ja y 31.—As the first| month_of the new year draws to an| ank reports neral survey | her panic nor o able uncertaint on. concerned on and acq ritish restrict under the to worry the auto Veterans Drawing Cash and Buying Own Wooden Legs Most of the former Army men | who are entitled to artificial limbs draw money rather than the appli- ances and then “dicker for their own artificial limbs.” Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland. the surgeon gen- eral, advised the House appropria- tions subcommittee which had the framing of the War Department ap- propriation bill for 1929 in hand. The amount allowed for an arti- ficial limb is $125. Gen. Ireland said, while that for an artificial arm is $100. There will be about 417 men cecking the allowance this vear, as | the law allows artificial limbs every | ars, or permits beneficiarics aid_commutation for them. ing for $44.250 for the next nd explained an increase of IN MAN'S DEATH G. H. Toombs Denies Driving| ., Car That Killed Thomas F. Sillk. Glenroy H. Toomts, 805 Third street | was held for action of at a coroner’s inquest this tion with the deaih vesterday after- 11 |a BURGLAR WOUNDED TRYNG 0 ESCAPE Man in Critical Condition After Being Surprised by Police. Bungling an attempt to rob a.safe in the office of the Frank B. Joy Coal Co., 1112 Ninth street, early this morning, a purglar, who gave his name as George Henry and his home as Philadelphia, was shot twice by police and today is in critical condition at Emergency Hospital. About 11 o'clock occupants of the floor above the coal company’s office heard a noise but paid no attention to 1t. Two hours later, Mrs. T. J. Harrigan, who lives next door, returned from the theater and saw the burglar. Police were notified and Policeman C. D. Poole and Lester Parks investi- gated, Parks going to the front of the building and Poole to the rear. Parks saw the man crouching close to the afe near the front window. Seeing that he was discovered, the man ran to the rear. Poole. who had climbed to the root a shed in the rear, saw the man running through the yard and fired a shot and called to him to stop. The burglar climbed the fence and Poole fired two more shots, dropping him in the alley. The policemen removed a revolver from his pocket and took him to the hospital in the patrol wagon. Two bullets were found to have taken effect. passing through his abdomen. An operation was performed. He gave the name of George Henry to Detectives Weber and Ogle, said he AMBITION ce of the Assoviated Press, PARIS.—Aristide Briand, France’s foreign minister, is a lawyer and journalist, amateur gardener and stock | raiser, and wishes he might have been a sailor. He alw yearns even might have mast. Talking to a correspondent of the Associated Press, he showed at once that he is embarrassed when called on to speak about himself. “You know.” he began, “I was born in Brittany and I like to think of myself as a true Breton. Studied Law Instead. “As a boy I had one consuming ambition. That was to be a sailor and go before the mast. The sea seemed ever to beckon me. But my boyish dream never came true. In- stead, I studied law. Paris called me, hoisted me on its wings. But I have| never let it capture me or destroy | what is my rcal self. I have always remained true to the sca and true to nature.” Every Summer, when possible, the Correspon ys wanted to be a sailor and now for the days that been spent before the |and there are a lot of things vou can '$10,000,000 ESTATE BRIAND STILL HAS BOYHOOD TO BECOME SAILOR French Foreign Minister Also Délights in Work on His Farm—Spends Week Ends Looking After Stock and Crops. I know something about hens and cows and sheep, too. I have to look after them—see that they don't get sick. I do a little repairing now and then about the place and look after the crops. A farm has to be kept up. let no one else do when you really| enjoy a farm and like to get back close, yes. very close, to mnature, in all ifs calmness, its simplicity and its beauty. . “And, too, T like f fish in the River Eure, which runs ncarby, and there is a wealth of instruction in the silence of the forest.” SETTLED BY COURT Judge's Decision Ends Scven Years' Litigation by Heirs of Néw York Man. recent recipient of the Nobel peace prize goes to the Gulf of Morihan and | runs about in his little sailing boat | with his pipe for company. In Paris he smokes cigarettes, too many. he says. But afloat he is a sea dog Wwith his_pipe. The French statesman. however, ad- mits that he is amphibious. for the land claims his devotion as well as the sea He talked with glowing pride of his farm at Cocherel. a little village in By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 30.—Seven years’ litigation over the $10,000.000 | estate of Amos F. Eno was ended Sat- | urday when a referee's recommendation tor settlement was approved by Surro- | gate Folev. Eno died in 1915. The will was contested in two trials. and when a third trial was about to | begin in June. 1922, Columbia Uni- vel and other educational .dnstitu- POST OFFICE CLUBS WILL MERGE TONIGHT| Union of Temple and Cable Tow Organizations Awaits Adjust- ment of By-Laws. Following a meeting of the advisor: committee of the Temple Club of 5= ter Masons, composed of members of the Post Office Department, which will adjust minor discrepancies between the | by-laws of that organization and those of the Cable Tow Club, comprising em- ployes of the city post office, the two will be merged, Dr. Thomas M. Chunn, president of the Temple Club, an- nounced today. The meeting will be | held in Odd Fellows' Temple, 419 Sev- | enth street, tonight. The advisory council, according to Norman R. Grant, chairman. will rec- ommend that the clause 1a the by-laws prohibiting other than employes of the Post Office Department from being | members of the Temple Club be altered | to include applicants who are now mem- bers of the city post office organization. ‘The new officers of the Temple Club J. Gross and C. H. Bass. Sick and wel- dents. Advisory board—N. R Grant. A fare—J. M. Priest, W. P. Davis. J. H. H. Keim, R. T. Bouton, L. G. Duchler, | E. C. Steagall, R. Hargett, H. E. Stine, | Buckingham, J. A. Neilson and I B. H. E. Burns, R. J. Jorolemon and G | Nutter, Entertainment—G. C. Hanson, W. Trexler. Representatives to District |A P. Hines, W. H. Beckstein, J. A. H. of Columbla advisory board—T. M. Hargett and D. W. ¥ Refreshe Chunn, C. E. Warren and E. W. Van ments—A. St. Georg>. W. £ Thomson, Metre. Membership—P. O. Walkinshaw. | P. M. Gardner and J. Hausener. Initi- E. C. Green, Raymond King, C. S. atory—R. E. Mague, S. M. McMilian Beard, J. O. Bouton, Gus Fehrman, L.'and O. L. Ballard. BECOME A MEMBER OF OUR INSTITUTION Invest your extra money with us and build up a fund for opportunity, pleasure or against the day of need. We offer an ideal investment, under a regular savings plan, that assures exceptional earnings and undeniable safety. adzantages of Assoctation. L ¥ 1o 5—Saturdays until noon National Permanent £ are: - Dr. Chunn, president: Charles E Warren, first vice president: E. W. Van | Metres second vice president: W. P | Crater, secretary: Louis Brehm, treas- urer, and Raymond King. scrgeant- arms; . "E. Kendrick, pianist. | Members of the various commit- tees are: Reception—H. A. Cummins A. E Barr, W. H. Beckstein. H. Sunwold and S. M. McMillian, all f the U. § h Street N.W. Just Below N. Y. Ave. MO AAEIESE IS ECCADEEN $ came here last Saturday with his wife 14th & G Streets N, W. the department of the Eure in NOT- | tions named as beneficiaries settled out to con and al n C that Standard Oil ue that the figh would cost the Dutch Shell-Burn ation over $12.000,000 a g Standard Oil only $4.000.- But it is not desirable that this| e last too long. for the losses would go on piling up. of petroleum ine 1-and re n prod: n. Coal Industry H Moreover. over threatens the coal indu: the copper industry, as a result of the Colorado discoveries and the new de- ear | | Frida | den | trial, but was detained again after the | e wounded by a hit-and-run driver near eate to Rock Creck Cemetery | vening. Toombs was arrested after William Owens. 2913 Rock Creek Church road heast, an eyewitneee to the acci- . had given police a license number which, he said. was that of the car which he saw strike Mr. Sillk. Although denying that his car had left the front of his apartment, where it was found by police prior to his arrest, Toombs was charged with leaving the scene of an accident without making his identity known and reckless driving, second offense. He was released on bond in court | vesterday after having demanded a jury and was living at 526 I street and told hem he had no accomplices. The detectives found the address he gave fictitious and doubted if he had given the right name. They will question him again if his condition improves and will ask him about other crude attempts to rob safes here recently. Officials of the coal company said the safe contained only $15 last night Examination of the premises showed that Henry had entered a side window and had used tools found in the office. The safe was battered but unbroken. Police today conferred with Philadel- phia police and will take Henry's fingerprints as soon as possible in an effort to establish his identity. mandy. Enjoys Days on Farm. “Every week end I go there” he said, “and I never let anything inter- fere, unless, indeed, it be a minis- terial crisis or something exceedingly grave, I like to don an old suit of clothes and a slouch hat and loaf among my chickens, my pigs, my cat- tle and my sheep. “Not loaf exactly, do & lot of tinkering about the farm | of court with the heirs at law. Co- | lumbia received more than $5.000,000. Among the relatives receiving more |than $300,000 each were former Gov. | Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Amos R. Pinchot. Antoinnette N. Johnstone. | |Mary P. Steflanson and Florence C. Graves, | Nearly five times as many houses are either, because I|being built in England as before the | | world War. Semi-Annual STOCK CLEARANCE At Cost and Less Keeping Fit and Trim The City Club has a gym, under the direction of a-promi- so maintains a well equipped exer- cise room, showers and bathing equipment. Basket ball is a regu- lar part of its physical training. 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