Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, i@ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1928, WHERE TWO MEN OF HOTEL WRECKING CREW LOST THEIR LIVES. Scene at the old Franklin Square Hotel vesterday afternoon as crowds gathered after the oollapse of a floor during the wrecking of the building, re- sulting in the death of two workmen, and injury to five others. The men were hurled down under a pile of bricks LIKES HIS KEEPER. This young pelican at the London Zoo is always ready to demonstrate his affection for his keeper by em- bracing his head in his gigantic beak in this fashion. and debris when a section of falling wall carried down the second floor. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. WINS OPENING FEATURE AT BOW IE. Son of John, owned by Jefferson Livingston, just after winning the $5,000 Inaugural Handicap on the open- ing day at the Bowie track yvesterday, with Jockey George Fields up. He h: Copyright by P. & A. Photos. RAISING OLD GLORY OVER THE WORLD'S LARGEST SUBMARINE. Commissioning of the submarine V-4, at the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard. The seven officers and 89 men of the crew are standing at attention as the col- ors are unfurled on the giant submersible for the first time. The V-4 is the first mine-laying submarine to be con- structed for any navy. ‘Wide World Photos. Mrs. Josef Hofmann, the former Miss Betty Short of New York, whose secret marriage four years ago to the famos pianist, when she was 17 years old, has just been revealed. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. DOWN THE STRETCH IN A CLOSE FINISH AT BOWIE YESTERDAY. The well-bunched field just after cross- ing the line in the second race on the opening card. Gracious Gift, the favorite, running second from the rail, nosed out Lassa, the inside horse, in a driving finish after running in the first flight all the way. The track was fast and 25,000 fans filled the new concrete stands for the opening day of the sport. Associated Press Photo ENTERTAINERS AT CHARITY BALL. Ollie Rosenfeld | Ethel Willis, who will provide one Knights of Columbus charity ball, at at left) and of the entertainment features at the the Willard Hotel, next Monday night. CITIZENS ADVOCATE ipost Office Will Offer Many Bargains ' At Unclaimed Articles Sale Friday | { Any one having need for inner tubes, | While ships and sealing wax are not | ; | straw hats, lap robes, shoemakers’ lasts, Election of School Board Also| Syees; siox Sbees; Indorsed by Columbia Heights Body. National representation for the Dis- trict and the election of the Board of were advocated by the Co- Association the Wilson 1 the election ssed, no action al n which a ma- was emphatically st 8 form of legalized boxing in :gton, the veport of the associa- | tion’ mmittee on law and legislation | indorsing the amended Walsh boxing bill was tabled. The Walsh bill pro- vifles for the charging of an admission | fee 2t amateur bouts and their regula- tion by a specially appointed com- mission The Treadway bill for compulsory au- urance, mow pending in as favored by the citizens | nciples although the the association aptions to local before it can be t A resolution now before h Park Extension Favored. of the com- the Co- n record n of the rop! P g Com riation by Con- | 0 request the Post keep 8 branch of present near Pour- the closing | oclock | rond Court Holds Daughter Who Wed ! Chome 1 should b Citizen a5 referred Ofticers Nominated srthur B association o ristity Wellure working of coming yewr sident were HC | first vice | W. 1. Bwanton end Alton B, Carty, the Burd W. | present. president of the sssoclation | Says Desire to Play Golf and Not ' vig | the | tmter wecond vice | eintly A Willlem ¥ tremsurer, W. W Bwanton Hayden Harry {10 membership Dismer | H valentines, slightly damaged cigars, | pajamas, gems, | n clocks and a multitude of other things will have an opportunity to fill his wants at the sale of unclaimed articles from the mails at the Post Office Department Priday. ‘The goods, which have been assorted into 800 parcels, will be sold at auction. The sale will begin at 9:30 am., and of. The parcels may be inspected | Thursday from 10 am. to 3 pm Articles of aimost every conceivable description will be put on the block. | The variety is so great that eight pages | are required for a list of the goods.| | shoes, paired and unpaired mentioned, there is a great collection of There is plenty of hose, both for the leg and the garden. Among the more valuable articles are | 100 strings of beads, beaded bags, watch | chains, lockets, numerous rings (some set with diamonds), cuff links and watches. | Some of the articles of apparel are coats, neckties, shirts, trousers, overalls, handkerchiefs, sweaters, caps, gloves, | will continue until all lots are disposed | belts, ribbons, collars, aprons, overshoes, | scarfs and undergarments. + Some of the miscellaneous objects are hardware, snuff, books, soap, radio parts, musical instruments, gas mantles, } tires, alarm clocks, bedspreads and um- | brellas. /SMITH GOING SOUTH |13 PERSONS INJURED T0 SPEND VACATION| Political Expediency Prompts Trip to Asheville. By the Amsociated Press ALBANY, April 4.—Gov. Smith s going on a vacation next week to Asheville, N, C.—farther South than | he has ever journeyed bef He said | the prospect warm we plenty of opportunity for p favorite recrea golf—rather than political caused his cholce ‘The governor hopés to leave not later | 1 next Monday night, after spending | ter in Albany with his family. No | members of the family will accompany | him, present plans calling only for the | inclusion _of several personal friends | who usually journey with him on golfing exeursions | The length of his stay at Asheville | 1s undecided, but 15 probably two weeks PRE-NUPTIAL DEAL FOR HOUSE UPHELD| | for Mortgage Cannot Fore- Parents. close on | PITTSBURGH. Aprl 4 A pre-| puptial sgreement, under which their 16-year-old daughter maried a " t dealer In exchany mortgs on the parents’ home upheld In Common Pleas Court esterday and the parent Adelbert tan Wobrbachier retained pos of the house the daughter, had sought foreciose the morigage on the parents, but the court held that under the marriage announcement, the parents were entitled o remain in the house the rest of their lives, The girl mar- ried August Braum in exchange for mortgage, He died three years end she married A, E. Braum After this marirage she ried o fore close the mortgage, but the parents contested the action The tollowing candidates were elected Mise Bessle L. Yoder, Mer E. Blaley, W. F. Betzell, Boyd Mayhew, Mrs. Heba Bichterman | hood grocery store here yesterday. | tion Bhuey, H. J. Shuey, F. T, P. Johnson, Elmer Lewls, Mis. E. A Lewis and John IN EXPLOSION OF GAS | Seven of Group May Die—Blast | Caused in Lighting of Cigarette by Plumber. By the Associsted Press. LOS ANGELES, April 4—Thirteen | persons were burned, seven so serious- ly they were not expected to live, in a gas explosion in front of a neighbor- The blast occurred when a plumber working on a gas line lighted a ciga- | rette, police said Most of the seriously injured were children who Had been playing in front of the store and were attracted to|r the spot by the activities of the plumbers. The blast blew out windows in the | store and hurled the victims and the | contents of the store in every direc- The store recently had changed hands and the new owners, the police sald, opened the gas lines without noti- fying gas company officlals. A leak was discovered wnd one of the men off what he belleved was the gas line and then drew a clgarette and struck a match. The explosion and a wall of flame followed MADRID GROUP PLANS AIR TRIP TO HOLY LAND| Three Listed Use Transporting Pllgrims to turned Planes for in Jerusalem By the Assaciated Press MADRID, Spain, April 4. An air pil- grimage to the Holy Land has been or ganized here Three plancs have beer carry the pilgrims o Jerusalem. They will fly in formation to prevent any of the planes being lost und o be able o ald one enother in case of & mishap About 10 stops will be made en route, WOMAN SLAIN ON RANCH.. of Mexican Foreman Dien| Fighting Bandits GUADALAJARA, Mexico, April 4 () Benorw Gubriel Mosqueds, wife of the foreman of a ranch near Tlajo- mulco lost her life while fighting vall witly beside her hushand und w group of cowboys in defense of the ranch which had been sitacked by bandits Wife | First reports were that the man killed chartered | BY BLAST IN HOME an Threatened to Return to | Husband, Wrecks House. By the Asso | McMECH! W. Va., April 41 censed because his boarding hou: Kkeeper, with whom he was infatuatea threatened to retuwrn to her estranged | husband, John Sebert, 50, last night set off several sticks of dynamite in| the home of Mrs. Julla Karp, 42, kill-| ing himself and Mrs. Karp's 13-year- old daughter, and wounding Mrs, Karp and three other persons. The explo- sfon wrecked the Karp dwelling and a house next door. Mrs, Karp, suffering from a fracture of the skull and other injuries, told Coroner D. B. Ealy of Marshall Coun- ty that Sebert tried to prevail upon her to remain away from her husband, but that she refused. When he entered the house she said she noticed a battery in his pocket and a_dynamite cap in his hand Bemlnz} what he intended to do, she sald hhr\ ran for the door, but did not escape | before dynamite placed under the kitchen table had been set off by Sebert. | Bebert was instantly killed and his hand, clutching a dynamite cap, was found later by police. Stella, Mrs. Karp's daughter, died at a hospital Three younger Karp children escaped. | A man named McClosk and his wife, who lived in the other house de- molished, and a boy who was walking near the house at the time of the| MecCloskey's skull | fracture but the ated Pro blast, were injured is belleved to be , others were only silghtly hurt Mrs. Karp sald she and her hus- band had separated some months ago was Mrs, Karp's husband. CZECH LEGATION SEES RECOGNITION OF SOVIET| New Commercial Treaty Between Two Countries Believed Fore- runner of Move. By the Associated Press, The new commercial treaty between Cuechoslovakin and Soviet Russia 15 thought by the Czechoslovakian legation here to be the forerunner of complete recognition of the Soviet regime by the | Czechoslovakiun government | Crechoslovakia has 5o far conceded ! only de facto recognition to the Soviet administration. The completion of the commerclal treaty between the two countries ¢ such conditons was sald at tion to be altogether | contrary nutlonal usage, and | was thought by legation officials to be without precedent in European di- plomacy It was regarded as o first step toward de jure recognition of the Soviet. If Crechoslovakin should establish diplo- matic relations with Russia, 1t would {be the first Balkan nation (o do so Five Injured in Street Car Blaze. TOLEDO, Ohilo, April 4 (#) Five persons were burned, two of them seri ously, and more than a score of othe passengers were injured slightly when a }erowded street ear caught fire i the downtown district yesterday. The bandits eventually were repulied and retreated carrylng several wounded with them A machine for cutting strips from texiiien i, various angles has been patented by a New Yoik inventor, 9 SLAIN, 4 HURT INOBILE WILL SEEK NEW DATA T PO {Man Angered Because Wom- Italian Expedition to Be on Wider Scale Than 1926 Trip, Says Leader. By the Associated Press MILAN, Italy, April 4 —The forth- coming polar expedition in the dirigi- Ible Italia has a larger and more am- bitious program than the one he led in 1926, Gen. Umberto Nobile yesterday told the local Rotary Club. The lunch- eon was coincident with Gen Nobile's visit here to oversee some of the de- tails of preparing the Italia for the ven- ture. ‘The 1926 flight, he sald, demonstrated the non-existence of the hypothetical “Hargls Land,” but gave little scientific result. This time the explorers will make a series of flights from Spitzber- gen to and about the North Pole, main- ly for scientific research. “If we did not wish to do more than was accomplished on the first trip it would not be worth while to go back there,” he continued. “And we are em- barking on the undertaking for the very reason that the job is dangerous. If it were not, others would have pre- ceded us.” CALIFORNIA WOMAN REPORTED IN HIDING Wife of C. 0. Lindbergh, Mine En- gineer, Said to Be Planning Suit for Estate. By the Awsociated Pross SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 —The Ex- aminer today sald Mrs. Carl O. Lind- bergh, whose husband is a prominent mining engineer, is hiding here and planning & legal fight for a $250,000 estate, after a flight from a southern California sanitarfum where she had been confined for eight months, The paper quoted Lieut. Giov. Buron Fitts, as Mrs. Lindbergh's attorney, as saying that he had received reports from “an eminent nerve specialist” here declaring the woman “completely sane, though of nervous temperament,” and advising her to surrender herselt and appeal to the Los Angeles courts. Lindbergh is a New York and Los Angeles clubman. He studled at the Royal Swedish War Academy and Hel- erg University, and has been con- cerned extensively with Mexican mining venture, His home is In Los Angeles. HITS SEGRE(;ATION LAW. Negro Woman Attorney Sues Ship Line for Refusing Her Cabin. NEW YORK, April 4 (#).—The only active negro woman lawyer in New York has filed u $500 suit against the Eastern Steamship Lines because she was re- fused & de luxe sulte on & steamer ply- ing between here and Norfolk, Va Bhe s Ruth Whitehead Whaley, who charged In a brief filed in the Supreme Courl that the company violated the clvil rights law by declining to provide her and her husband with a cabin on the salon deck and gave them passage In a segregated negro sectlon of the vesael. Mrs, Whaley said her action was merely (o test the constitutionality of the law on the ground that the State law cannot goveri lnterstale commerce, i one family has been restored through | the recent capture of an alleged gang of thieves in a house in nearby Mary- land, it was learned in a letter received yesterday by the Detective Bureau hom- icide squad from George F. Couse of Philadelphia. Among the large amount of loot re- covered there appeared an engagement ring, stolen several months ago from Mrs. Couse. When Mr. and Mrs. Couse came here (Woman's Engagement Ring. Lost First Time in Nine Years, Recovered in Loot X T e e ML B | The complete happiness of at least|to claim the ring. Mrs. Couse tearfully | SHUWN IN REPURI t night her ring was told police that ti | stolen from her dressing table was the first time that it had been off her finger | since her husband gave it to her nine years ago. Her joy was short lived, however, when she was informed by police that she must again remove the ring and have it returned to her through the chief of police of her own city. The ring was among several other v luables stolen from Mr. and Mrs. Couse and recovered. 'FIRST LADY IN PERIL FROM TROLLEY WIRE Mrs. Coolidge Walks Near Spot Where Live Electric Line Had Fallen. By the Associated Press. NORTHAMPTON. Mass, April 4.— Friends of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge today w something of “Coolidge luck” in the rrow escape of the wife of the Presi- dent from a live trolley wire vesterday. Mrs. Coolidge, who has been here more than a week at the bedside of her aged mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, came within two feet of the fallen wire. She was making a shopping tour with Mrs. R. B. Hills, a friend of this city, and a secret service man was escorting them. The wire had been torn away by a steam shovel and lay across the street. Not until after they had passed safely by did the two women learn of thelr peril. Mrs. Coolidge visited her mother twice during the day at the Dickinson Hospital, where Mrs. Goodhue has been | since last December. MRS. COOGAN DENIES DIVORCE SUIT CHARGES Mother of Jackie and Co-defendant File Answers to Wife of Film Manager. By (he Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 4-—Complete dentals of allegations of any wrongful acts by Mrs. Lilllan Coogan, mother of Jackie Coogan, and Arthur Bernstein, manager of the Coogan film produc: tions, have been made in answers they filed to the divorce suit brought by Mrs Corabel Bernstein, Her complaint, filed several weeks ago, named Mrs. Coogan as co-respondent. A companion suit for $750,000 damages for alienation of | her ~husband’s affections was filed against Mrs. Coogan. Hernstein has not filed a cross com- plaint, but his answer dentes fn volumi- detall _every accusation of his | sult. He also dened that his n- come was $3,000 monthly, as declared by his wife. alleging that it was but $1,250 monthly Mrs, Hernsteln had charged that her husband and Mrs. Coogan had been together In the San Mateo, Calif. Hotel, which Bernateln, in his answer, ad- mitted, but explained that Mr. Coogan and Mrs, Bernstein also were present . Austrian Chanoellor Recovers. VIENNA, Austria, April 4 () Dy Ignax Seipel, chanoellor of Austria, who had been 1l with the grippe, is fully restored,_to health. He received Mgr Joseph Henrl Prud’homme, Bishop of Prince Albert, Canada, today. . . | graduates were admitted to {before they had either served an in- {HITS NAVY HEALTH | METHODS AS ARCHAIC {Retired Surgeon Urges Civilian Commissioner Be Named, With Free Hand. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 4—-Dr. W Armistead Gills of Richmond, Va., re- tired surgeon of the United States Navy, declared in an address before the Health Colony Club yesterday that the “loss of life in the S-4 disaster was negligible when compared with the losses through the antiquated methods of the Navy health depart- ments. Dr. Gills said the report of the sur- geon general of the Navy for 1927 showed that “more than 50 per cent of the Navy personnel lost time last year that amounted in the aggregate to 1. 271 416 days.” This cost the taxpayers of the country $3,000,000, he asserted. Dr. Gills contended you medical e Service terneship or had private practice. His civillan’ commissioner of health for the Navy, such a commissioner to be en- tirely free of the Navy Department. CONTINENTAL MARATHON CROSSES TEXAS LINE New York and Seattle Runners End 1,114 Mtles of Contest in Dead Heat. By the Associated Press. GLENRIO, N. Mex., April 4.—The New Mexico-Texas State line was the start- ing point today for the 32d lap of the Los Angeles to New York marathon Ninety-one athletes were entered in the 36-mile jaunt to Vega, Tex Olll Wantinen, Ne York, rer, Seattle, colored day’s dd.l-mile trek i a dead heat Their time 335 Suominen retained the lead In elapsed time with 184:10:20 for the 1114.7-miles, a lead of slightly more than five howrs over Andrew Payne of Claremore, Okla WRECK TIES UP RAILWAY. Pennsy Line, Pittsburgh to York, Blocked by Freight, VANDYKE, Pa, April 4 (®.-The main line of the Pennsylvania Rail- road from Pittsburgh to New York and Philadelphia was tied up early this morning by & wreck of 2‘ loaded coal CArs near here. up for a considerable distance and awitches were broken. No one was injured and passenger tralns were rerouted to Philadelphia by way of Lockhaven and Williams- and Bd finished from Tu- New Of Itallan invention are hats made of thin strips of cork nstead of straw port. OMcials of the toad stated they expect to clear one lne by 10 o'clock. remedy, he said, was the creation of a! Tracks were pulled | EDUCATION'SVALUE | Those With High School Training Alone Barred From Only 2 Per Cent of Jobs. By the Associated Press. The American boy without education is barred from three-fourths of the {classified industries, but with school training he is prevented by ed cation from qualifying for less than |2 per cent of the jobs In the co | PFigures compiled by the Federal {Bureau of Education show that only {one in every ten children who enter |grammar school graduates from school, and only one in fifty finish college. Earnings Based on Learning. Of 1,000 children who enter the fi grade, 637 pass to the second. 553 to t fifth, 311 to the eighth and 260 en high school. but only 107 gradua Fifty-nine of the high school gradua enter college, but only 20 graduate and seven continue post-graduate work Earning power is based on educa- | tional qualifications, the figures show | pointing out that untrained persons |average from $400 to $1.200 a ¥ those with comm $600 to $1.500: high $2.450; college, $1.400 to $5.000. At present, however, the average college graduate’s income is $8,000 a year, or a 10 per cent return on his vestment, in addition to his length productive periods. Four Per Cent Direct Rest ‘The bureau an demand of American with effective educational tral ber planned the activities and directed the energies of the whaole working fore The productive popul | years old consists of | sraduates, 2901608 who a tod 3.967.504 high school gradw 20046 part high school, who completed elementary 21673282 who attended eleme | schoals and 4.325.695 illiterates. The bureau said that graduates from {the common schools are fitted for un- ‘}sklllv-fl and semi-skilled Jobs, while high school graduates are prepared for ap- | prentice, semi-skilled and skilled jobs. Cuollege traiming is required chiefty by | the professions. SUES COMMISSIONERS. [Realty Firm Seeks Cancellat Borland Assessments. N‘l'he\'(‘:mw View Realty Co ew York avenue, yesterday sued the District Commissioners and the District of Columbia tor the cancellation of as- sessments lald on fts property under the Borland amendment, for Wprove- * ment of Central avenue. The company clatms there was no need for the re- surfacing of the avenue as tar as its holdings were concerned and that it had no notice of the mtention of the Commissioners t© make the improve- ™ The property Is In & sparsely settled part of the Northeast section. L‘um - der the opinion of the District Court of Appeals the amendment does not Apply to such suburban seetions. Ate tarney J. W. Glennan appears for (hg company, on of )