Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1928, Page 10

.. GREEK EARTHOUAKE * DESTROYS HOUSES Dwellers Near Corinth Are Panic-Stricken by Sharp Tremors. By the Ascociated Press. ATHENS, Greece, March 16.—Earth | tremors caused a number of butldings | to collapse at Xalocastron near Cor- inth toda The population was panic stricken. Xylocastron is & maritime village on the southern shore of the Gulf of Corinth about 21 miles east of Corinth. | A coastal raflway which parallels the | shore runs through the village. NOTED HERE. RECORD SHOC Georgetown Seismograph Shows Four- Hour Disturbance. An carthguake of an intensity greater than any ever noted on the seismograph fown University here was re- ¢ today by Director Tondorf. lasted for more than four ing their maximum an hour | ht. Three extremely POWCT= | January 1 from injuries sustained De- ks were recorded at 1:06, 1:09 $am hocks disturbed the needles of iment 6 inches. trector Tondorf was not able to say Iy the distance of the shocks {rom RECORDED ON COAST. Instrument 1Is Earthquake. , March 16 (®).— | Eart s’ which began at 9:18 o'clock last night were still being recorded here at 12:01 o'clock this morning, A. M. Jung, seismologist at Gonzaga University, announced. —The heaviest tremors were observed at 9:45 o'clock last night, he said, estim: their center at a point about miles distant. Seattle Affected by | of Staunton. | i making the laws of their country.” GETS DRY LEAGUE POST. Rev. B. Franklin Auld Named As-| sistant Superintendent. Spocial Dispateh to The Star. LONACONING, M March 16— Rev. B. Franklin Auld, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church here, has been appointed assistant superin- tendent of the Maryland_ Anti-Saloon League, succeeding Rev. Benjamin F. Ewing, who has gone to Portsmouth, Ohio, to be pastor of a United Brethren Church. Mr. Auld will take over his new position early in April, when re- leased by the Baltimore Conference of his denomination, which will meet soon. / MAN INJURED IN AUTO CRASH DIES IN HOSPITAL | | John F. Eckhardt, 48, Suffered | Spinal Fracture in Plunge Down Bank. Special Dispatch to The Star, LYNCHBURG, Va., March 16.—John F. Eckhardt, 48, a house painter here, who was hurt in an automobile acci- dent Tuesday night when his car plunged over an embankment from Blackford street, died at 6:35 o'clock Thursday morning at Lynchburg Hos- pital, where he was taken shortly after the accident. Death resulted from a fracture of the spine. This was the first fatal automobile accident here this vear, although T. O. Limscomb died cember 31 Mr. Eckhardt is brothers, J. A, H hardt of this city survived by four . and O. H. Eck- nd B. M. Eckhardt . Mrs. Nancy Schoonmaker says: “In Denmark particularly the women are favored in government offices. I saw in the lower house there a hu: THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928. FIVE DIE IN WRECK OF FLORIDA TRAIN ‘Railroad Employes Are Vic- tims in Derailment Near Titusville. By the Associated Press. TITUSVILLE, Fla., March 16.—The engineer, fireman and three express car employes were killed when the Florida East Coast Railway local train No. 37, southbound, left the rails half a mile north of Titusville today. The train was made up of several express cars and two day coaches. The engine and three ex- press cars went into a ditch, overturn- ing. The day coaches did not leave the track. WRECK NEAR HARRISBURG. Pennsylvania Train Strikes Debris of Freight Crash. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 16 (#).— A Pennsylvania passenger train bound for Baltimore from Harrisburg struck wreckage caused by a rear-end collision of two westbound freight trains at Marsh Run, 5 miles south of here, at 8:20 am. today. No passen were known to have been injured, but Levi Simmers and Luther Wiiliams, both of Wilmington, Del., the engineer and fireman of one the Harrisburg Hospital, where Simmers was said to ke in a critical condition. Williams was not seriously injured. The freight wreck blocked the four tracks of the road just west of Marsh and wife sitting side by side, a Run and the eastbound local plunged into the wreckage. P ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va. March 16 (Spe- cial) —The City Council yesterday decided to start the work of construct- ing the new public school building in Rosemont next month and ordered a special committee from the council and the public school board to modify the plans submitted by the State arthitect so that construction work can be done for the $40,000 appropriated by the council. The lowest bid on the present plans is $54,000. The new building probably will be ready for use upon the opening of the 1928-29 term. City Manager Paul Morton was authorized at the meeting to continue work on the Hooffs Run sewer, using city forces. A petition from the Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Washington Electric Railway, asking relief from maintenance of a portion of Royal street and relief from the franchise tax on that street, was received. The council placed the portion referring to the franchise tax on first reading and ordered the ordinance published, in accordance with the State Jaw which requires publication of 10 days of such ordinances. No action was taken on the maintenance portion of the petition. An application filed by the Virginia Public Service Co. for permission to install ‘a 66.000-volt transmission line on Gibbon street was held over. Action on a proposed ordinance prohibiting street loafing was deferred. A resolu- tion appropriating $500 to the United Charities was adopted. The financial report of the city for February was approved. ‘The council approved an application Tequesting permission to erect a row of garages at Frankiin and Gibbon streets. Permission was granted for the instal- lation of a gasoline station at 1603 Duke street. An application for a lower license fee, made by representatives of a circus, was re, . A request for improvements in the witness room in Corporation Court was turned over to City Manager Morton. Funeral services for Vernon C. Moore, who died here Wednesday, were held today at the late residence at 117 Duke street with Rev. Edgar Carpenter, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, offi- ciating. Interment was in St. Paul's Cemetery. The deceased is survived by a brother and three daughters, The annual meeting of the Alexan- dria Chamber of Commerce will be held tonight in the private dining room of the George Mason Hotel, at 8 o'clock. The annual play of the senior class of Alexandria High Schoo! will be pre- sented tonight and Wwmorrow night in | the high school auditorium at 8:15] o'clock, under the direction of Miss! Kroes Ficklin of the f; v. The play is “Out of the Btillness Charles F. Holden was Alexandria ssoclation at an organization meeting | held here yesterday. Jobn G. Graham president and Nelson 7. Boyder secretary-treasurer. Meet- ings will be h he first Monday of earh month a 30 pm., with Junch- in the George Mason Hotel Manager Paul Morton has de- 4 an invitation 1 participate in fourth International Congress of s, at Beville, Spain, October 5-9, BRIBE CHARGE HOLDS WOMAN FOR JURY| « Isase R Hiwt fernoon on & | 15 alleged Jant | 810 16 Officer 1| ourth precinet, #sy for my {riend Gar- y trial. His 40, afer he had station, he e sre AT OW oty i his hands, | Wk bt 1 e i, N. O ¥ Snompson | at had ocour- TONIGHT—SYNAGOG PRCTO MY BICKE LAWK IN WASHINGION AN JEMLRALEM 8 P.M. 6th St. Synagog s (From, of the freight trains, were brought to| MARQUIS GETS HIS VISA TO REJOIN WIFE IN U. S. Husband of Gloria Swanson Had Been Delayed in Paris Over Question of Entry. By the Associated Pross. PARIS, March 16.—Difficultics en- countered by Marquis Falalte de la Coudray, husband of Glorla Swanson, motion picture actress, in getting a visa to return to the United States have been smoothed over. They were merely a matter of American governmental regulations. The marquis will be per- mitted to sail on March 28. The American consulate in Paris re- fused to grant him a visa on the grounds that he had already lived in America for a year, whereas his pass- port called for only six months. Ile proved, however, that he had fulfilled the requirements of the law since both he and his wife had asked for a six months’ extension in New York, but the papers were sent to Hollywood in- stead of New Yor! NO HOLDUP MAN ~—ecan relleve you of yonr valu. nbles or securities if they are kept in a Safe Deposit Box at the FEDERAL-AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK Where G Street Crosses 15th U.3. OFFERS T0 AID HUNT FOR FLYERS Kellogg Cables London Navy Will Help in Search for Hinchliffe. Secretary Kellogg today cabled the American Ambassador at London that the Navy would lend every aid in locat- ing the missing Hinchliffe airplane. The Secretary sent the following mes- tage to the Ambassador: “Please express to the foreign min- ister the deep anxicty of this countrv as to the fate of Capt. 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