Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 4

' D. 0. SATURDAY, MARCH 3T, 1928 GUARANIEE Your ppineu Y 1321 ealization INCRALAM Apartments have their talking points. — So do taxicabs—but the best way to get the :‘4";"""'- ";"‘"‘"' most out of any article is possession—HOME ;':,',,l,;',,.‘:,..|,:’ B OWNERSHIP is the greatest boon to your 'l'\,'"l rear P"""T'I'f-‘- success and your future happiness. When ,,i':.‘,f,'.'?,l?g:.m,;,;f' Shannon and Luchs created this home they $16.950 applied the best of materials and the finest | of workmanship to plans which had proven TO REACH | the very essence of convenience. And | | Take sreet car on FIRE NEAR CHILLUM : Dulin and Martin Company decorated this Ta0G 10 et wd caned | DESTIVOYS CLUBHOUSE | home. The result—The Furnished Colonial ham street and walk and Hays took L a r' i Home Ideal. one-half block east to Exhibit Home, or Irive out 16th street the 10 hours Fall has been |the city in a taxic e presented | i | S Col s ; h stre pg his story of the lease which |his argument ag turther prosecu- | Castle Manor, Said to Have Been “l‘ St “Lal‘e““d"~ e Government charges he gave Sin- tion of the inquir. being carred | then out Colorado ir in exchange for the 000 in|on by Scnator Walsh, Democrat,| Unoccupied, Burns at Early Liberty bonds, part of which came from | Montana | Hour, With $15,000 Loss. s THE EVE NING STAR, WASHI GTO‘S. [Pastor D Overalls for M ‘ LEXANDRIA GETS | 8 W S Do e W COLORED PASTORS I “Sunday-go-to-meetin’_clothes” at the | dress up to the oceasion Clergy in Convention Here | Henderson Christian Church hereafter | his 1s not to be a show,” he ex- { will consist, at the suggestion of Rev. | plained “1 merely want the working Vote to Withhold Use of Pulpits. Change Made With Three-|G. b Noland. of overalls for men and | people {o know that my church and 1 | | Colored clergymen attending the : { the National | similar modest attire for the women | are one of them Weeks' Delay. Due to four-day convention of Alli- ! The pastor objects to the church hr‘-‘ The minister himself plans o wear Court in Arlington. Interdenominational Ministerial ing made a place for dress parade. He | overalls | ance of America at the Metropolitan aptist Church, went on record at the closing session last night as favoring | the barring of any speaker of atheistic or agnostic views from the pulpits of colored churches. Although the resolution contains no Ex-Secretary Will Be Cross-|Tried to Halt 0il Inquiry Four;,“,,,,‘.f it s understood that it 15 almed & | at Clarence arrow, who was Invite Examined—A@iven Stimu- | Years Ago, Teapot Probers |t occupy a pulpit here some time ago lant by Physician. Are Told. and i the presence of a large number of clergymen and others expressed skepti- cism as to the existence of God. He is | scheduled to speak here again soon { Delegates to the convention explained o Associated Prosy | that the alliance did not go on record fourth appearance before the|as opposing Darrow's addresses, but . Teapot Dome committee of Will | merely opposed the lending of pulpits to chairman of the Re- [ persons holding such views, | is in pros- | Dr. W. 8. Nelson spoke last night on | “Religious Education.” Dr. J. W.| | Anderson also spoke, urging the min- | isters to set a good example as a way decide | of stemming religlous indifference | Bishop H. C. Phillips told of the possi- bilities the alliance might accomplish. | The officers elected were: Dr. C. L. | Russell, president; Rev. W. A, v, | vice president; Dr. R. A. Grant, president: Rev. G. W. Rob- Tex. March 31 ation for 10 hours. t of two court davs, Albert B v Secretary of the Interor, |4, "as g result of charges that he at- deposition detailing his | fampted to halt the oil inquiry four Dome lease to be | years ago Harry F. Sinclair committee first of conspiring to de- nent, today was ex- dergo cross-examination s session, that lasted wours, was «loscd Fall 1. but it was believed that be able to be cross-examined tlee Pomerene, special Government | The cross-examination ¢ expected to take more few hours. There wo hours of d ed his physician’s in- last night to halt his testi- 1d the physiclan permitted him ling his story of the lease. This phase, | nt of his story Under| A the Sena H tormer publican national committ Colorado Arthur. former secretary or Edwin F. Ladd of North . who made the charges yester- [ first heerning Hays, who now is in |second vice Europe on a business mission for the |inson, third vice president: Rev. M. R. ing picture industry Gea. ', fourth vice president; Rev. W. hey 'said that the North Dakota|H. Jernagin, fifth vice president; Rev nator had told them that Hays, in |Willlam A. Byrd, sixth vice president; 4, when Ladd was chaitman of the |[Rev. Ernest Lyon, seventh vice pres Dome committee and Adams [dent: Rev. H. T. Medford, secretar: remained a Democratic member, visited | Rev. William A, Taylor. assistant se ination. | Washington and tried to induce Ladd [retary: Rev. J. H. Randolph, co to foin other Republicans on the com- |sponding secretary, Rev. M. C. Stra- mittee in an cffort to stop the inquiry {chan, assistant corresponding secretary for political reasons |Rev. J. C. Olden, ch-irman executf Met Ladd {committee, Rev. O. J. Granderson, sec- aten = Ivetary executive committee, and Rev The former Po:tmaster General, who [J. §1. Jonkins, treasurer. appeared before oil committee in | uded and the 1934 and twice this vear, according to | examination closed for the night. The (he story related by Adams and Mc- | physiclan found it ne s ° | Arthur, the latter now secretary to Fall heart stimulants to Chafrman Nye. also a North Dakotan complete this part of the story. went to the White House Adams of Denies Tilegal Tactics. street and east 115 squares to Exhibit Home. OPEN DA UNTILIOPM. Realtors and Members of the Operative Builders’ Ass's ! the avenue to Ingraham the Continental Trading Co. oil profit reasons, Ladd bond fund, the former cabinet official has sought to contradict the Govern- s conter and show there was ing unlawful or unusual about the was quoted as said. were that (he investigation | had grown to be on: for political A1 Dispateh to The Star purposes only, Wwith the Democrals| CHILLUM. Md. March 31—Loss of | using it to sling mud the Republi- | about $15.000 was reported this morning cans in connection wi'h the naval oll | as a result of destruction by fire of reserve leases. e Manor, on the old George A.| Enraged by Hays' arguments, the estate, ‘near this place. Johm | Court during Sinclair's trial, insists | North Dakota indepcndent, who later e 1s said to be the owner, and the bullding was used as a club. | O ‘The fire was discovered at 3 vr'clu('k} {that the iease was negotiated in the was barred from regular Republican |usual way, chiefly by his subordinates. party councils, the s.ory goes, refused {who carried on the deal with J. W. point blank to enter into such an agree- [ by neighbors, It started from the in- Zevely, representative of Sinclair. Sin- ment, and made it clear that he pro- | side of unknown cause 1 S| clair, friends sald Fall would testify. posed to carry out his duty regardless | information of firemen ne. did not personally participate in the [of the result to any political party | the place at the time | oil lease until the day it was signed. | Fails to Remember Date. | Friends early today were seeking *|On that day, April 7. 1922, Sinclalr| 0001 o0d told him the story | Burke. to inform him of the fire. About and Zevely called at Fall's Washing- oot 0 H,‘lfr‘” ] “\_" ", OT¥ 16,000 feet of hose were laid by the five S | ton office hen_the cabinet officer | IR O £00e vt falled | ComPanies Tesponding to the alarm— " insisted that the Government should |y fenrCh b oete K r‘_‘,,,mom alled | those of Riverdale, Hyattsville, Bladens- less as he goes | receive greater royalty. Sinclair tossed |2, ', HOOIL CAS CRUIS €3 oon- |y Cottage City and Mount Rainier. g ry F. Sinclair to wipe H . - the lease across the table, declaring: | . "oy Republican party debt, Adams bullding was a large frame struc- DEMING PAYS TRIBUTE “Here is your lease, Mr. Secretary, I < - Whether the owner carried insur- Inspect it Junday which will be read in s story, District of Columbia Supreme according to No one was in | This bit of information has taken | fyic” yn ot Accepted Lease. committee members somewhat by sur- prise, and has dwarfed for the time | am done with it et R |ance the firemen were unable to learn | t TO FEDERAL EMPLOYES industry the civil | n long However, Sinclair accepted the lease | heing their interest in other details and after some discussion. During the ex- ciues which they are running down amination Fall has put into the record | behind closed doors in an endeavor to all of his orders and correspondence |determine whether to proceed with | dealing with the oil leases, gone into|public hearings or to await additional the inauguration of the Government |reports from field investigators policy of leasing ofl lands to individuals and insisted the payment of Liberty REFUSES TO COMMENT. bonds be received from Sinclair was S for one-third interest in his Tres Ritos y. . y : . | Eatite & Sand Co. "Tha sl on wiiish | 7% 10 DU, NSty Stwnce w8 the sale of the ranch interest was made Adams’ Assertions, i was not negotiated uptdl .after the oll PARIS, M. Falling Scaffold Injures Two. I‘ Two workmen—Ernest Yates, 34 years old, 1673 Park road, and Willlam Thomas Lane, colored. 25 years old James place northeast—were se- | verely injured yesterday afternoon when a scaffold at a new building at 2101 Connecticut avenue gave way. They were precipitated from the second to the first floor Yates was treated at Emergency Hospital for a fracture of | the left ankle and a rib, while the col- | workman was treated at Freed- ch 31 (Ar—Will H. Hays | ored night declined to comment on|men’s Hospital for probable Internal in- | yesterday's assertion by Alva T. Adams | furie: | 1f the cross-examination is completed | of Colorado, or on any other aspect today, Fall's family will depart with|of the oil inquiry. He was told by him tomorrow for California. Dr. H. the Associated Press that Mr. Adams T. Safford, his physician, has ordered | had related that in 1924 Mr. Hays him to lower altitude, believing that | tried to bring political pressure on the Wyoming | El Paso, 3,762 feet above sea level, was | late Senator Edwin F. Ladd of North te Leader | 100 high for his patient. The family | Dakota, then chairman of the Teapot -Farmer, a5 | wishes to depart at once, for they fear Dome committee, to wind up the ofl of |that after the excitement of the ex- investigation. Mr. Hays. however, was mination, which his physician says s mum as the proverblal oyster on h im up, he may let down and this subject be unable to leave here for some time . WELCH BILL DISPUTE LEADS TO RESIGNATION | F. Franklin Quits as Head of e i Pranin Quis il _ .Y _- S5 i Down Stairs Store S e s s | e Announces for Monday Local 89. munity League appointed Prederick| Rather than be out of harmony with | inson to look Into the question of |his chapter, which has gone on record | ol closing. The league desires to 'in favor of the Welch bill, Willlam F. inue the schools here the full time ' Franklin, president of Local 89, of the received $150 for a new | Fedcral ‘Employes’ Union, last night from the proceeds of the |tendered his resignation. It was ac- | kiddy minstrel show, given by puplls | cepted and his successor will be elected of the graded schools at the high school at the next meeting Pianist jast night. The show will go to Lees- Franklin stated that the Welch bill y ' k* . i - dstrict employes who are paid on a 4 -| DEATH PENALTIES CUT. | hiorsinie for it to pas at thin session. | i N $ N Specially Priced 3.95 palr next any event He favors a campaign ; o have the District salary appropria- | tion retained at the $375,000 figure first | introduced in the House W. H. Olds, chalrman of the legisla- March 31 P —Reduction | tive committce of the chapter, favored We are able, through large purchases, to carry this new and dependable line of merchandise in our regu- lar stock—and to make this “Special Price” regular. New Arrivals—for Spring and Summer wear—are these six new styles, suitable for every daytime occa- sion. Each pair offers you the maximum in VALUE \ihe number of offenses punishable | the inclusion of the Distriet’ employes desth is planned by an amendment | in the Welch bill and advocated the —SERVICE—and STYLE—at a price that is certain to be most attractive. S Tecuited | lease had been signed, Fall has con- | ;.. amination | tended Cream and Fern 15 Value CRETONNES DAWES’ SECRETARY ILL. s .| FULL TERM SCHOOL AIM. Herndon League Looks Into Ques- HERNDON, Va, March 31—At & MUSIC and a “I take a cold plunge every morning to keep fit,” cried the unpleasantly early riser. “Better yet, smoke a Yorktown Ciga- rette after breakfast to keep cheerful,” re- plied the good-na- tured friend. And this is by far the pleasanter sys- tem. There is some- thing about York- town Cigarettes that nothing quite equals. Blended from seven friendly tobaccos, they make for geni- ality. A mellow, de- lightful smoke. Do you know it? Twenty for 16¢. Larus, Kichmoud, Virgtals British Army Reduces Number of Offenses Punishable Among the offenses | establishment of a board of arbitration | will be ap- | pass on disputes in salary ratings. ness while . L st s sueior oncer | Row Over Lamps et e el Follows Wrecking desertion Of Market heds A dispute b nt of post trict offictals Street Sports A fternoon Dress arisen between Dis- and the eonstruction company which demolished the sheds ab the Farmers' Produce Mar ket as to who owns the electrie lght bulbs which were used at the now abandoned market C B Filllus, market master claimed that the bulbs are District | property, und he was upheld in his | contention by George M. Robert uperintendent of hits, mieasure and markets The Commissioners referred the question W the artment for_solution WINS SLANDER SUIT. Charged With Telling All Sizes, 3to 8 Widths, A, B, C Risque Btories to Pupils March 31 (A" adshinw, 101 ot school wacher by & Jury b H INDIANOLA. lowa | aw alleged her reputation ayed because of her dis- the board on Tepresenta had ld risque Women'’s and Misses’ Styles in Tan, Beige or Black i . [} LIBRARY VIRGINIA WOMAN EXPIRES. | Walker Wax Widow | 7N Lar. on payment haook e« no delays; Womrath's huys mands of th e wervice in prompt and p l{l’\'h “the book you want when wint i i new and popu Mix. Nannie € A Rihy e A of a small rental fee DOWN STAIRS while the In in your possession, ) Hepatehs U e 8| WOOLBEKE IREST, Va. March | sngement Mre Nanue C. Walker, widow of 1o st | e late Capt Wobert B Walker, founder |7 oA Woodherry Forest Sehoo), died at ber | e Vhirsday nigbt, n her Bl yesr booke are clean and inviting On Monday Jast she suffered & stoke. | start and stop w on chooss is survived by her six sons, J. 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