Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1928, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., THOURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928. LINDBERGH LAUDED BY ST, LOUIS PARTY - SWINDLED POLIGE Visitors See Plane at Smith-‘ sonian—Plan Trip to France. Gathered under the wings of the| monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, in the Smithsonian Institution today, 50 mem- bers of & party from the city which gave the plane its name paid tribute to the achtevement of Col. Charles A. | Lindbergh. { | The group, which @rived in Washing- ton today, is parl of a larger body which will sail from New York for, France on June 22 to inspect air fields | in England and on the Continent. Their announced purpose is to study developments in European commercial | fiving with the idea of using them in | SAY “PREACHER” Alieged to Have Kept Money Given Him for “In- forming.” Intrusted with money with which to make liquor purchases as a police “in- » when he claimed to be a in need of “some extra George Houston, colored, years old, 1 Tenth street, was brought to Washington today from the jail at Bladensburg, Md., where he had received a 10-day sentence for traffic violations,~to answer charges of per- jury. larceny after trust and check | law violations in Police Court. No Liquor Found in Raids. According to the police, Houston of- | | i | | | 49 making St. Louis the aviation capital | fered his services to Policemen Le Foe | of the United States. | Trip is Testimonial. E The trip to Washington was primar- | 41y in the nature of a testimonial to Col. Lindbergh and to see his planc in its final resting place. | Clarence M. Young, director of aero- nautics of the Department of Com- merce, told the visitors that the Spirit of St. Louis has been accepted & the spirit of aviation by millions of | g He expressed the hope that in | e future it will be possible to develop the trail blazed by Col. Lindbergh. Walter B. Weisenburger, president of | the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, said the purpose of the visit abroad is to carry into foreign lands the spirit which animated the first transatlantic | flight. | Stanley Clarke, chairman of the St.| Louis Air Board. presented C. G. Ab- bot, secretary of the institute, with a silver medal in behalf of St. Louis. In a brief address Mr. Abbot said at- tendance at the Museum has more than tripled in the short time since the | monoplane was placed there. It was the | wish of Col. Lindbergh, he said. that | the plane be located in such & manner that visitors could see into the cockpit. | He said that considerable trouble was being experienced in arranging for this without destroying the suggestion of fiight which was created by suspend- ing the plane in the air. Immediately after the ceremony here | the party entrained’ for New York, | ‘where they will visit Roosevelt Field be- | Jore sailing. Itinerary Planned. | ‘The party from St. Louis which will | make the trip to Europe includes many of the principal backers of Lindbergh's flight and men prominent in the de- ‘velopment of aviation in that city. Arriving in Paris, the delegates will inspect Le Bourget Field and Versailles. | It is also planned for them to partici. | pate in an Independence day celebra- tion at Belleau Wood. Other in their itinerary include | Waterloo, Amsterdam, the Croydon Fiying Field, near London, and South- ampton. They will sail for home from | the last-named city on July 15. | COLORED YOUTH HELD ON CHARGES OF GIRL‘ Alleged to Have Taken Hold of | Her on Street and Made Offensive Remark. Julius Wagstaff, colored, 20 years old, 911 Ninth street northeast, afrested early yesterday momnfh# in Northeast Washington Policeman C. W. Sine | of the ninth precinct, is held in the Boric Francia, 13 years old, of 1017 B years old, of 1 street near Ninth and H streets shortly after 5 o'clock ‘Tuesday afternoon. Doris and two gir] companions were fogether when the colored man is al- | leged to have taken hold of her and | made an offensive remark. The pris- oner, police reported, admitted grab- | bing of the child. He was arrested by | Policeman Sine after a chase during frighten pping. is being held for further investigation, | and may be given a hearing in Police | Court tomorrow. — . . Tunnel Is Busy. Since last November 13, ovtnlnt,dl't | of the Holland vehicular tunnel, io the | end of February of this year. 2,077,698 | motor vehicles had passed through it.| and Browning in assisting them to obtain liquor evidence for raids on establishments where he is alleged to have said he could buy liquor. Houston, police say, swore to several warrants and the resultant raids netted them no liquor. Houston's claim that he had bought liquor from a man six feet tall at & Tenth street house sent Detective J. E. Kane and his raiders to the ad- where they found only a small boy and his ill mother, Houston promptly disdppeared, fol- lowing that_“raid” police claim, taking | with him $5 which he had been given ! was | to make purchases. The man found at the Bladensburg Jail serving a 10-day sentence, and although his time was not yet up he was released this morning to Kane and Headquarters Detective Frank A. Varney. Placed Under Bond. In court before Judge John P. Mc- based on his alleged failure to make “bi with the police money; one check law viola- tion arising out of his alleged giving of | a bad check last April, and the per- jury charges. He was placed under 182,000 bond on the perjury charge and | demanded jury trials on each of the other counts. MRS. ADDISON DIES AT AGE OF 80 YEARS Well Known Washingtonian Was Former President of Club of Colonial Dames. Mrs. Clare Gantt Addison, 80 years old, widow of Murray Addison a mer president of the Club of Oblonial Dames ot this city, died at her resi- dence, 1765 N street, Tuesday. Mrs. Addison was a member of an | old Washington family and is a direct descendant of several prominent Amer- ican families. She was the daughter of the late Benjamin Stoddert Gantt, U. 8. N, and Margaret Carroll Smith. Mrs. Ad- dison was born in Georgetown in the home of her maternal grandfather, Clement Smith, whose residence, Mount Rose, is now a city park. Mr. Smith and his brother, Gen. Walter Smith, were large shipping merchants of Georgetown. Mrs, Addison was the great-grand- daughter of Benjamin Stoddert. the first Secretary of the Navy, who owned large tracts of land in Washington, | including Priendship, the home of Ed- | ward B. McLean. She was a cousin of Senator Oddie of Nevada and a niece of Col. Thomas ‘Tasker Gantt of St. Louis. ‘Throughout her life Mrs. Addison was an active worker in charity organ- izations. She was a member of St Margaret's Episcopal Church and had taken an especial interest in Near East Relief work. Funeral services were held at residence this . afternoon. Honorary pallbearers included Gen. Hugh S. Cumming, Le Roy Tuttle, Carl Kaefer- stein, Henry Randall Webb and Senator Oddie. Dr. H. S. Smjth, pastor of St. Margaret's Church, officiated and in- terment was in Oak Hill Cemetery. Six Killed in Mexican Row. OCATLAN, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 21 P —Six men were killed and several wounded in a street fight yesterday be- tween rival factions in the current con- gressional campaign. her First Again our for- | | Barbara Pearson, left, and May Maurer, Ashton, Pa. high school lost their hats and pocketbooks vesterday, they were riding hit an air pocket over 'AIR SIGHTSEERS LOSE PURSES " AND HATS IN FLIGHT OVER D. C. High School Girls i Caught in Sudden Dip as'They Circle | War Department. 4 Mahon. Houston, who now admits he | the people of | is a laborer, was chargetl with three | | counts of larceny after tru | . Striking an air pocket while on an) | aerial sightseeing trip over Washington | | yesterday afternoon. Miss Bar bara Pear- | son and Miss May Maurer, high school | | girls, got “the thrill that comes once in | |a lifetime"-—but lost their hats and | pocketbooks. The girls, together with the other members of the senior class of the Ash- | ton, Pa. high school, went to Capital | alrport, across the Potomac River, to hire “taxi” planes and get an aerial | view of Washington. Most of the boys and girls were placed in big commer- al planes, but Barbara and May were assigned to a small open pursuit plane. Seated together in the front compart ment, they were enjoying their first FROM PLANE | By the Associated Press. | Soviet cor girls, who when a sight-seeging air e in which the War Department ng. | —Star Staff Photo. | | B | From penns_vlvania ride when suddenly, while over the War Department Building, the plane took a. sudden dip. Grapping for the life belts which they claim had come undone, the girls found themselves a moment later, hatless and without their pocketbooks. They immediately velled back 1o the pilot, who said he ‘Wwould do what he could when they landed. arbara sald there was $15 in her | pocketbook, while May lost only $5. Be- fore leaving the Lee House on their final sightseeing tour of the city in busses this morning, they reported their losses to the police in the hope that the lost articles might be found on some roof and returned before they take the train for home this afterxoon. VETERANS OPPOSE - HARDING ORDER | Ask 1919 Act Be Invoked to Give Service Men Pref- erence in U. S. Jobs. Repregentativese of the American | Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars ‘oday recommended to President Cool- idge’s special committee on veterans preference, sitting at the Veterans'| Bureau, that one of the principal means | of bringing justice to veterans in the | Government service would be to re- peal the Executive order promulgated | by President Harding in March, 1923. Harlan Wood, chairman of the pre erence committee, District of Columbia Department of the American Legion; Paul J. McGahan, national executive | committeeman for the District of Co-| lumbia, American Legion, and Joseph | Beatty, representing the Veterans of | Foreign Wars, said the Executive order deprived veterans of their preferen- tial rights under the civil service and | under an act of July 11, 1919. It was | contended that this act of 1919, still | in effect, should now be administered so as to require that all names of vet- | erans on the civil service register | should be exhausted before appointive ! officers should consider for jobs & non-veteran. McGahan arfounced that at the re- cent meeting of the national executive committee of the Legion a program of the District department of the Legion had been approved and referred to the national legislative committee of the Legion. That program recommended consolidation of the Personnel Classifi- cation Board, the Bureau of Efficiency and the Employes Compensation Com- mission under the Civil Service Commis- sion; appeal of the Harding executive order: and enactment of new legisla- tion claimed to be needed to protect veterans and the widows and orphans “from being indiscriminately dis- charged.” Director Frank T. Hines of the Vet- erans’ Bureau, a member of the Presi- dent’s committee, sald officials of execu- tive departments were still endeavoring to eliminate the “personal equation™ from efficiency ratings. PET MONKEY'S BITE SENDS BOY TO HOSPITAL Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., June 21.—Frank- lin Grove, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Grove, is confined to the City Hospital as the result of bites in- flicted by a pet monkey belonging to the family. The animal attacked the lad when he attempted to pen it in a barn. caution is being taken to prevent infec- tion. The monkey has been a family pet for four years. It was killed follow- | | They demanded money and assaulted ing the attack NATONALSTS RAD. SOVET CONSULATE Fail to Find Arms or Com- munists in Tientsin—Be- gin Reconstruction. TIENTSIN, China, June 21.—The | sulate was raided last night | by a large body of armed police acting | under orders of Gen. Fu Tso-Yi, Na-| tonalist garrison commander at Tien- tsin, They made an exhaustive search for several hours. The Chinese notice ex- plained that the raid was due to infor- mation received that numerous Chinese Communists had a large quantity of arms hidden in the building. Consul Gregoriev displayed nine pis- tols with ammunition and declared that these were necessary to defend the con- sulate against White Russians. It was understood that the search failed to reveal either Chinese Com- munist arms or propaganda. Southern troops near Tientsin at- tacked the Hsi No pumping station, which is part of the city's waterworks. the Chinese in charge of the station, DISCUSS NEW PROGRAM. SHANGHAI June 20 (#).—National- ist civilian officials are turning their attention to carrying out their long- heralded reconstruction program. A/ concrete movement began today with the opening here of a National con- ference seeking “general rehabilitation of China's finances and economics.” AMERICA'S GREATI 400 NAMES ON LIST FOUND IN RUM RAID| Bootlegger Suspect's Rooms Raided After His Arrest—140 Quarts Seized. A list of approximately 400 names of persons believed to have been patrons of Carl Mehrstodt, alleged dealer in intoxicants, 1s under lock and key in the tenth precinct police station, hav- ing been seized by Detectives D, J. Murphy and O. W. Mansfleld when they arrested Mehrstodt, a waiter, in front of his establishment on an upper floor of 2508 Champlain street yester- day afternoon. This is a tough break,” Mehrstodt is sald to have remarked when the de- | tectives arrested him as he was about to step into his automobile. The de- tectives saild he had a pint of whisky in his pocket. The car was not seized | because the owner was arrested before boarding fit. “Sergt. Little got me at my place on California street only last Saturday,” Mehrstodt is said to have added im ex- planation of his statement of the “tough break.” In his rooms the police seized 140 ! quarts of intoxicants and a quantity of alleged fake labels. The bottles were labeled as containing different brands of intoxicants, the detectives reported. ‘They also found many empty bottles and a supply of corks. Mehrstodt fur- nished bond for his appearance in Police Court. Macedonian Strike Wanes. ATHENS, June 21 (#).—The strike in Macedonia was diminishing today. 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