Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1928, Page 3

THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, MARCI 1 WAR FLYER'S NOVEL ANNOUNCES % TO-"BUDDIES" THAT HE IS ALIVE NEAR EAST RELIEF 5.0.P.GFTDENED BY BXKLAN CHEF Clarke Says Hays Talked| Over Southern Prospects, but Gave No Cash. Airman, Listed as Killed in s | Action, Resurrected to His Friends. Was Held in German Prison Camp Until After Armistice. BELLANS Hot water Sure Relief BELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION 25¢ and 75¢ Pkgs.Sold Everywhere More Than 1,500,000 Lives Saved and $105,000,000 Expended, Report Shows. Mr. and Mrs. Home-Buyer: The value of a Dunigan brick row house is as staple as a loaf of bread. No one knows any more about the six-room house market than we do. Our advice to the house buyer has always been good. The price of good houses in our choice locations can never be reduced. g More than a million and a half have been saved, and over $105.000,000 ex- pended in the past 12 years by the Near Enst Relief in Bible : g S vealed yesterday in a_report to Con- || Held in a German prison camp fol- | o'+ | Grossiiby: (Chimles V. Vickroy, generak) lowing the armistice, after his plane | 3 Seeretary of the organization. | tee, as charged by Senator Walsh dur- | was shot down on the Somme front, in . 3 n | The report declares that despite im- | | ng an examination of Will Hays bY |95 quring which time he had been | (e roving conditions in the Near Eact | | the Senate Teapot Dome investigating g | 209,208 persons were aided in 1927, | | committee yesterday. i given up for dead by his comrades, | e when contributions amounting to Clarke was shown an Associated | Kent Curtis, Washington airman, has | | $2.387.034.37 were recelved and $2,675.- | Press dispatch quoting Senator Walsh D e that "he had imformation | Just been resurrected for many of his | 523.79 was expended. Provision to meet | Ry tha Associated MACON, Ga., Young Clarke, former | the Ku Klux Klan and later head ('(‘ || the Supreme Kingdom, denied ast | | | night that he had received any money | from the Republican national = commit- i March 14— Edward high official of | See Oil Heating Row Washington Auditorium March 12 to 19 I All Burners i “from what appeared to be o reliavle | friends by the publication of his first | [ GG B s O L | wind-up eampaign for $6,000,000, which source” that Clarke had received $100.- | it s expected will be reached within 18 | months, the time limit set for the’ clos- | ing down of campaign activities in this | country, the report states. Operations overseas will continue, however, on_a constantly diminishing scale until the completion of the organization's or- phanage and child welfare program. The extent of American relief activi- tles abroad, according to the report, is indicated by the fact that more than m Actual Operation Members of Oil Heating Section, Merchants® and Manufacturers’ Association 000 from the Republican national committee. “T positively did not get any money | from " the Republican committee,” he said, “and, furthermore, I don't know where Walsh got his information. as some correspondence be- vs and myself in 1920 rela- || tive to the Republican campaign _in | Tennessee. T told him at the time that | T thought that some of the Southern | States could be turned Republican. but || thoy laughed at me. However, they finally decided upon Tennessee as an experiment and I told him that it | would probably cost $25.000 for the | { campaign there. “That is all T had to do with Hays. | {as "I drifted out of the matter. I | was not campaign manager. I doubt | | if Havs does remember me.” contin- | ued Mr. Clarke. “T only saw him once. | but we exchanged a few letters. Ala- bama was one of the States men- | tioned that could be made Republi- | can. Hays considered it like throwing | | money into a sewer.” |UPHAM SECRETARY DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF SINCLAIR BONDS | (Continued from First Page.) Automatic Burner Company Automatic Heating Corporati iggs Fnzineering Comp: tween Ha Silent Automatic Corporation Wallace Engincering Company ham and Stewart talking together once | in the lobby of the Chicago Club. 4 “They were both members of the club.” he added. Assistant United States Attorney Leo A. Rover will represent the Government at the arraignment of Stewart tomor- row. The oil magnate is expected to enter a plea of not guilty and by At- torneys Jesse C. Adkins and F. F. Nes- bit will ask the court for 20 days’ time in which to determine on the method to be adopted in the attack which the de- fense is expected to make on the in- dictment. Will Go to Chicago. With the transfer of the hearing to Chicago, testimony will be taken tomorrow. Friday and Saturday. Sub- | poenas have been issued for 41 persons to appear there. On this list appears such prominent person- ages as J. Ogden Armour, now dead: Samuel Insull, utilities magnate; Ed- ward Hines, wealthy lumber merchant: Albert D. Lasker, former chairman of i the Shipping Board: Silas Strawn, law- ver, who recently visited China on a | spectal mission for President Coolidge: L. E. Block, Inland Steel Co.; Charies |and James Deering. R. M. Eastman, B. A and Percy B. Eckhart, S. L. Avery, D. W. Buchanan, John Burke, Edward F. Carry, H. W. Chandler, Thomas Creigh, Louis Eckstein. Stanley Field. George F. Getz, A. W. Goodrich, Richard Howe, A. S. Huey, John F Gelke, L. G. Kuppenheimer, Kenneth McKenzie, Joseph J. Morand, A. H Mulliken, George M. Reynoids, Julius Rosenwald, E. M. Rosenthal, John W. e " ot Sacont® Sronth 5 Brick Early American Home, Chevy cu Eight 48 o tiied batha, ' l“r."»‘ | war novel. From early in August, 1918, until the armistice, Curtis’ family did not know what had become of him. Notices of his novel, “The Tired Captains,” one of the Spring books of D. Appleton & Co., brought to the attention of some of his one-time intimate “buddies” not only that Curtis was alive but was liv- ing in Washington, at 2145 C street, Curtis enlisted in the Air Service at Fort Omaha, Nebr., in June, 1917, went through the School of Military Aero- nautics at the University of Illinoi: and was ordered overseas to compl his training with the British Royal Fly- ing Corps. In August, 1918. he was officially reported dead in‘action. TAX OFFICES BUSY ASDEADLINENEARS Local Agency Will Receive Income Returns Until Mid- night Tomorrow. With the deadline on income tax re- turns tomorrow midnight crowds are jostling througit the local Internal Revenue office at 1422 Pennsylvania avenue. The office was to be open until 6 o'clock tonight, and until midnight to- morrow to accommodate late returns. The flow of taxpayers has continued steadily through several day Special revenue officers also will be on duty at various banks and depart- ment stores until these institutions close for the day. . Payments will be re the principal office at 1422 . nia avenue, or may be malled by money order or check to the office of the col- lector of internal revenue, Baltimore. A special officer is also on duty at the Fifteenth street entrance to the Treas- ury Department. The banks and department stores where free service in advice and in ad- ministering the oath is as follows: Riges National Bank, National Metro- politan Bank, Federal American Na- tional Bank, Munsey Trust Co. Mer- chants Bank & Trust Co., Union Trust Co., Continental Trust Co., District Na- tional Bank, Lincoln National Bank Columbia National Bank, Commercial National Bank, Potomac Savings, Wood- ward & Lothrop, Lansburgh, & Bro. and -t Returns sent to Baltimore must be postmarked on or before March 15 Penalties are provided for failure to the Hecht Co. 1 “The Tired Captains” makes use of a war background on the British front. are actu- ally drawn from persons with whom Curtis associated. Curtis' name occurs everal times in “War Birds.” the diary of an unknown aviator with the British and been accepted for service overs during the 12 years of operation. In regard to the orphanage schoo s was born In Witchita, Kans., |the report points out that at.one time in 1891, and was a member of the 1914 'class at Amherst “In_the past four vears we have| placed more than 45.000 children in | homes in at teast a dozen countries,” the report says | FOUR-LINE BASIS RAIL PEACE SEEN, EXCLUDING LOREE __(Continued_from First Page) CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Jefferson Junior High School Alumni Association will meet, 7:15 o'clock, in the school auditorium, | Burnside Corps, No. 4. W. R. C.. will meet, 7:45 o'clock, in Grand Armory Hall 8 | | The Travelers “Atd Society of Wash- ington will meet, 8 o'clock, at the Bur- iington Hotel. ginlan Railway is to be divided bl‘(wcenl the Norfolk & Western and the Chesa- peake & Ohio. 2. The Lehigh Valley is to pass to| The home board of Federal Chapter No. 38. O. E. §. will conduct a card | party this evening at Chesinut Farms | Auditorium, Twenty-sixth and Pennsyl- | vania avenue. | Women's City Club—The business and professional section will give a dinner, 6:30 o'clock, at the club. Wil- {liam B. McCracken, jr., will speak. | | An fillustrated lecture on nature's !method of personal identification by means of finger prints, as used in the | United States Army. will be given, 8 o'clock, by Christopher Bennett, dac- tyloscopy expert of the A. G. O., before the Men’s Club at Takoma Park B. & 0. Gets Western Maryland. . g | 4. The Baltimore & Ohio is given the | o "‘Vh',“;‘”‘”,‘;. Rt meet In the | western Maryland outright. the Read- when Neval H. Thomas will report on ({08 and New Jerscy Central, although his recent interview with Secretary of | ihe Pennsvlvania may be given some Al iy trackage rights over a part of the Read- ing, rights vet to be negotiated. 5. The Wabash goes to the Baltimore |& Onio, including trackage rights over |the Canadian National, between Detroit .:nd Buffalo, but that part of the W: | Joint_control of the Pennsylvania and the Nickel Plate, thereby giving each & New York-Buffalo short line and re- tieving the present main line of the | Pennsylvania’ between Harrisburg and | Trenton of much of its congestion. | 3. The Pennsylvania is awarded a short line between Chicago and St.| Louis, either the Chicago & Eastern | Tllinois or the Chicago & Alton. Also | the Pennsylvania s conceded either trackage rights along Lake Erie or the | privilege of paralleling the New York | | Central. FUTURE. The Kiwanis Club will meet for lunch. | eon tomorrow, 12:30 p.m.. 5t the Wash- ington Hotel. Dr. Abram Simons will |bash between St. Louis and Kansas City | give a St. Patrick's day talk may be allocated to some Western line. | | 6. The Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts- | o Mrs. Mary R. Meade of Watkin's|purgh is to be divided between the | Glen. N. Y.. will conduct the meeting | Baltimore & Ohio and the New York | at the Truth Center of Mrs. Eva B.|Ce a e ng | | Syipine Trith Center of Mrs, Eva B.]Central. the Baltimore & Ohio gaining | | row, 8:15 pm that part between Pittsburgh and Buf- s falo, Which is particularly useful to it | Colu ia ~n . on south bound traffic. | M N o with iré Tt | 7. The Delaware & Hudson, the par- | | Saul, lh-’“ W kf‘""’]fl. Nf“‘h ]LI;]’\)L’J)JN‘ ent Loree road, would become a “bridge” | aven & Heand W hrcel systems and reaching New England ter- The Y's Men's Club_ will meet for | ritory. | Hamilton Hotel |to the New York Central on the final| | showdown. | linc to be used by all of the Eastern luncheon tomorrow, 12:30 pm., at the | 8. The Lackawanna probably will go | National Tent, the Maccabees, will |give a St. Patrick’s d March 17, emple. a thousand Americans have volunteered | almost 150,000 children were sheltered. | | SMITH’S TRANSFER & STORAGE LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE MOVERS mooern FIREPROOF auiLoing| WE CRATE. PACK AND SHIP PruoNE NORTH 3343 1313 YOU STREET N. W. FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS Famous Reading Anthracite Per Ton W.A Egg.....$14.25 W. A. Chestnut. $14.50 W. A. Stove. ..$15.00 W. A. Pea.....$11.50 W. A. Buckwh’t. $8.00 Pocahontas Egg $10.50 New River Egg.$10.50 RADIANT Stove or Egg., .....$8.50 Coke, Nut or Egg— $10.50 J. Edw. Chapman 37 N St. N.W. North 3610 Largest Ruilrond Terminal Facilities President, D. J. Dunigan, Inc. HOUSAND: of people whose motoring budget is limited to $1000 have turned to Nash within the last month. And now, with the new reduced prices, you can buy a 5-passenger Nash Sedan, fully equipped and delivered in Washington, for no more than that. 9 pm, at Odd Fellows’ Capitol Lodge, No. 3, Shepherds of | Bethlehem, will have a 500 card party | tomorrow. '1:30 pm. at the home of Mrs. M. Abrams, 1107 Allison street. The Berrett School will have a ban- Scott, John A. Spoor, George E. Van- hagen, Raleigh Warner, Thomas E. | wiison, Warren Wrignt, William Wrig. WARRE ley, ir.. E. J. Lehman. Names of two of m | the witnesses are being withheld until | the subpoenas have been served. Com- mittee_attaches explained that it was make a return, fallure to pay the tax | on time or for making a fraudulent re- . | not thought desirable to make the auet tomorow, 6 pm., at the Hamilton | | service. | The Society of Natives will meet Fri- Seek Extent of Distribution. lUU'l’ flF $2‘I Bflu day, 8 pm., at the Washington Club, y The trip to Chicago will be made in | Seventeenth and K streets. Program Attempt to Sell Jewels Stolen an effort to learn fust how extensi | will include discussion of annual cele- T extensive ! & was_the ultimate distribution of the bration to be held in Apri From Mrs. Delos A. Blod- gett Gives Clue. o] Y WALLACE Motor Company Distridutors Retail Salesroom, 1709 L Street N. W. Main 7612 Miniatures for Easter | A glorious miniature of SPECIAL NOTICES, HORSE TO B n i Iw 3 Aebta, * Contract ROBE nw ’P.f/)il.\‘G— n 0 yourself as an FEaster 1 surprise for mother—father—husband or children. | In many styles and qualities, $20, $35, $60 each. | On genuine porcelain with carbon. i | ) P L n 1ma, Free hand on ivory, $300. G bt | Miniatures by Underwood & Underwood 3 « treas. ured possessions in the fincst homes of the on. i mesel! in % +% | Sinclair bonds which Hays received Home for Widows and Orphans, ®- ! from the lessee of Teapot Dome and United States War Veterans' Assoct: turned over to several leaders of the | tion, will meet tomorrow, 8 pm., Republican party in 1923 for use, as he | Grand Army Hall as security for donations or . TR . . In amounts equal to the bond ‘The Men's Club of Mount Ple 1 ¥F, | offers, to a fund to help extinguish the Congregational Church Wil gl y ans | party deficit resulting from the Harding father and son dinner Friday in the 1l | campaign of 1920, church gymnastum. Bestdes the din- | 24 James A. Patten, Chicago grain mer- ner at 6 pm. there will be an enter- “| chant, has testified that he received tainment. $25.000 of the bonds which Upham | handled. and later turned them over to | the Jeflerson Hospital in Chicago, to which he had promised a gift of that| | amount, after donating $25,000 in check | form to the party funds. | The sudden injection of the Ku Klux Kian into the hearing yesterday had a repercussion at Macon, Ga., last night. Charge Angers Hays. Questioning Hays, Senator Walsh, | | Democrat, Montana, committee prose- | | cutor, had sald he had information | | from’ what was considered a reliable | source that Edward Young Clarke, for- | mer high official of the Kjan, had re- k| cetved $100,000 from the Republican national committee, and ssked the wit- ness 11 he knew anything about it Hays, pounding the table in anger resenting the charge as false, asked where he got his information, The prosecutor veplied that the com- mittee would bring that out later Clark, in a statement at Macon last night, denied having received any money from the Republican committee. “I positively did not get any money from the Republican committee,” he id, “snd furthermore, 1 don't know where Walsh got his information.” He said he had some correspondence n 1920 selative to the Je- publican campaign In Tenne: but | ' was wll he had o do with the Len party chairman o : | FORMER I. C. C. 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Blodgett, 1500 | in Congress ll!‘luh"'i School Repre- | Sixteenth street, during her absence | sentative Ware of Kentucky will speak from the city, private detectives, gCm | p cpjeken dinner under auspices of experts from New York have been Fee | Foundry M Church '..wnm tained by two insurance companics 10| feqgue”will be scrved in the banquet upplement investigations —of —local | hui‘of the church tomorrow from 5:30 v | Mrs, Blodgett did not discover that |'© 7 P™ fiex: Yewelry, /CODAIRLING. 0L ' (HAMONA | s (Sancord Giob. will give. & Bt braceiet, three diamond rings and a | T, Concord Club wit givs b 26 diamond wrist watch, was missing un- | §oTEK " . . Ul her return from Florida. She re- | . ferred the matter to M. Le Roy Goft, | 610 Woodward Buflding, local repre- ventative of Lioyds of London and the Travelers Insurance Co. of Con- necticut, who made an itemized report of_the loms to police. | The jewelry 18 reported to have boen | taken from w small wall safe. Detectives | are working on several clues that have | developed the past 24 hours which would appear 1o Mdicate an_attempt | had been made recently to dispose of the missing gems “The missing bracelet 15 described as having 32 stones with n sapphire and diamond pendant. One of the rings contains & diamond of more than nix carats, A dismond lorgnette and a diamond wedding ring are also missing Detective Sergt, J. C. Collins huy been assigned Lo the case { O B 3 - ot o « /D S e prosal of The polls w ent o The District of Columbia Library As- soclation will meet March 16, 8 pm, in Library of Congress Auditorium Spenkers: James Thayer Gerould, librarian of Princeton University, and Miss Helen Wright, prints division, Li- brary of Congress. Musleal program arranged by music division, Library of Congress. Public invited BEGIN RAZING BUII_DING. One of Washington's best known war relies, Annex No, 2, home of the Income Tax Unit, today went under the crow- bar and the ax. Within 45 days it will be_razed to the ground Work of wrecking this structure at Fourteenth und B streets wis started by the Hechinger Co, with large erew of workmen. ‘The building ' on the site of the new $17.500,000 Department of Commerce Bullding. Only one more bullding on thiy site will remain to be torn down - the House of Detention, new quarters for which have not yet been attained For Colds, Grip, Influ- enza and as a Proventive % ik BEE ‘. When they 3 N DOING IT [ with ¥ WILL MISS EIGHT WITNESS Teapot Probers to Find Three on List Out of Minois, GO, Mareh 14 (/ apot Dome 10y I niss wt least BYRON S, ADAM PRINTING N A HURRY W. J. Meyers, tician Once Chief Btatiy- Bue- stigating com- of Commisston, eight of the . Willlm 3. Meyers, former chief atat- | istictan of the Interstate Commerce Commission, died yesterday at his home In Westhield, N in the feld of statistics in nmission from 1910 to 1917 wnd since then had been secretary of the United Electric Light & Power Co. of New York and chulrman of the eommittee on uniform clussification of accounts of the Na- tonnl Bleetrie Light Assoctiton Meyers was born at Caledonta, L dune 27, 1869, wnd recelved o The sena- l | 1 iy o We Sm‘pv wuse GUL 0 DiED Grired s or- cumbs at Jis om its st of wity nmoned 1or the three-day ses- ning here omorrow Five i three sre out of Hlinots Bamuel Insull, Jlsted as a contribu- wr ot 85000, s e routy W Europe. He testified before the commitiee ut hington, bowever. Willlam Wrig . teported contributor of $10,000 ) Calfornta, us 35 L. B Kuppenhel- mer, who was Dsted as giving $2,000, 1 never heard s thing shout Liberty 4 George Gelz, named us & ~ '§ contributed severn) ehecks | Qshing 811000, Fred Upham (former yensarer of the Iepublican committee) degree from Michigan Agricu)- wd wnything, 1 owned | tural College i 1690 and wn LLo 1B ? Jisted as having donated | trom the University of Michigan 1 wid he could uob recsll making | 1900 He began his career in the field n | o statistics under Henry Adams of the y dented Bis contrthution | Universtty of Michigan, who I8 credited e 82500 Nsted. "1 yith Inying the groundwork of the fm- sed £1000 o 1920 he sedd | portant stubsticnl and accounts work sl my re ax show 1 doj 1 that, 1 recetved no | R"mi i,c.aks New ideas on personal hygiene responsible, says doctor likely to be upset and thrown off t balance, they take special Frvert " IRONCLAD ¥ urroundings HE average well-meaning pavent would be willing to suffer a considerable monetary loss rather than subject his children to sur- roundings detrimental to their welfare. v At that most impressionable period in life— ’l childhood—the community in which the home is located is indeed most important, so much so, that any other factor takes second place. HOUFING CORPANY . 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The Kxhibit Home at 1818 Irving St. N.W, 13 open until 9 P M. ecach day for yokr inspection illness excuses from girls nowa days”, he saile “Not even at those times when there is per | feetly goad reason for their feel- Hing below par, For one thing, | girls have learned how important [t is to keep their systems fune tioning normally at all times, | And at tima when they are most et o wow r f21 < mach # KLEEBLA' ROOF WORK ot iy ¥ of e commission He ds survived by his widow, Mry Murian Bvaln Meyers. Funersl ar tengenients have not heen completed Iy rec 1ol man, sald he gave but i e compmiiites wanted lu‘ gt bonds 0 veturn it 1wk bim | snh p Y . | 1 Burke, b formiee KOONS ot AR el B et Bl Smith's Transfer & Storage s vou . GO Terrorists’ Trinl Ends WARBAW, March 14 (A “The (rial of 17 mlleged members of 8 tervorisi Ukiainten Communist organization lemberg clused todey, 116 Fye St Main 1949 SHAPIRO ‘The box bears this slgnature G2 Frove. 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