Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1928, Page 5

SUSPEG N STORE = HDUPOENTFED| A = Pk i J. R. Reed, Returned From h it / "Il m | i " INSPECTION WORK IND. C. CRITICIZED iciency Bureau Raps Meth- ds Employed in Checking on Buildings. Reporters, in Canoe, Brave Mosquitoes and Rain to Glimpse President—Secret Service Men Feed Fish. | | By the Associated Press. | balsams. Here and there were cow- | SUPERIOR, Wis., June 23.—This is | slips, blue flags and delicate ferns. It iticlsm of the District Bullding|a tale of a l4-mile canoe ride on the | was a picture of wild life unmarred by | Returned here f{rom Orlando, Fla. | Brule River, through a drenching ram | civilization . . 4 4 G ) for's office and the bulding reg- | &3 ie RILCT, HTOUER 8 drenching fon | cIVIABAR, assed into an hour ana | 000 Reckefeller Reed, 50, 5363 Gaal | 3 ! i 5 Hf \\ il i Florida, Denies He Had Part in Sanitary Grocery Jobs. | z iu nt in connection with the collapse | of the United States is spending his | a guard camp hove into view. The |Foad, was identified last night at the | ntly of two buildings. is contained | vacation. canoe was pulled to shore and the |jail as one of the two men who par- f i 7 A il - e i fn 'a report received by the District| The four-hour trip was & continual | party inspected by soldiers. No cam- | ticipated several months ago in Sani- Commissioners from the Federal Burcau of Efficiency. Two men were killed and several others injured in these acci- dents. The bureau's report, which was based | on an investigation made by its at-| taches, declared inspection Teports on | file with the permits show that no in- | spectors had visited the old Franklin | Square Hotel at Fourteenth and streets for a week prior to the acci-| dent there, April 3 | Referring to the collapse of the roof | of the building at Sixth and C streets | May 4. the report said: “The records indicate that no inspector visited this job until after the permit was granted. | Inspector Parsons made an inspection | May 7. shortly after the roop collapsed, | and reported that the accident was| caused by the sawing in two of one of the main timbers of the rear truss.” | ‘The bureau's report, said, in part “Very little effort is made to compel | building wreckers to keep down the| dust incidental to this work. We have visited several razing jobs in the last| two weeks and found dust blowing out over the street adjoining property in such quantities as to constitute a de- cided public nuisance. “While it is believed that regulations give the inspector of building complete autherity to supervise all razing opera- | tions carried on under permits issued | by him. we are of the opinton that they | should be revised and amplified to con- | tain a special section on razing which | would more fully prescribe instructions and restrictions necessary to insure safety and protection from dust.” | Col. John W. Ochmann, building in- | spector, submitted to the Commission- | ers several months ago a proposed sec- | tion to the building code such as recom- mended by the Efficiency Bureau. | FRANKLIN MEMORIAL PLAN ANNOUNCED| Philadelphia Organizations Will Devote $7.000,000 to Build- ing on Parkway. { By the Assaciated Press. i ELPHIA, June 23.—A Benja- | min PFranklin memorial, costing for | building and endowment $7.000,000. will be this city’s long-delayed tribute to the | famous her, it was announced yesterday by its sponsors, the Franklin Institute and the Poor Richard Club. The structure will be patterned after the Roman Pantheon., with a heroic statue of Franklin in its lofty memorial chamber. The memorial will contain a museum and a library, and will be dedicated to tical and physical sciences. will stand on the park- ill be de- including For StrenuousBoys |after the ceremony. 1 tilt with mosquitoes and rain, but the effort was rewarded with a sight’ of | Calvin Coolidga sitting in a canoe on | Crane Lake, watching secret service men feed the trout with liver. I Crane Lake is a part of the Henry | Clay Pierce estate, and twice a week | the trout are fed there. These fish are | caught only for sport and then thrown | back. for they are not good eating. President Coolidge, when seen through | a hedge between the river and lake was watching the trout rise for their | meal. | Two miles from the nearest highway. | and separated from the world by a dense wood, the President has utmos privacy. A company of soldiers pre- vents any one going down the lane | leading to Cedar Island lodge, unless on official business. Reporters Board Canoe. The waters of the Brule, however, | | take one to the door of the lodge, and | how soon?” it was with the hope of being per- mitted to navigate the stream thus far that the reporters boarded a cance | at Stone Bridge, seven miles upstream, | with the Indian. Carl Miller, as guide. | The swish of the rain on the river, | the hum of mosquitoes and the oc- | casional call of a bird were the only sounds in the forest. High on cach | side rose the stately pines, cedars and | raised trout.” eras, no guns aboard, all right to go ahead. Rain Routs Mosquitoes. The battle with the mosquitoes let R uhen the rain fell harder. A crane | pped from the bushes and the guide | pointed auickly to the right. “That is ane Lake." he said, “where Mr. Picrce | A short distance Cedar Island Lodge. A drenched Ameri- | can flag hung dejectedly over the | sprawling structure.” A soldier walked | his post on the other side of the lodge. The boat swung around and headed | upstream. for the Secret Service men | have asked the guides not to paddle | round the lodge unless they are bound for Winneboujou, some miles farther on. A nose came out of a reporters slicker at the prow of the guide's canoe. “President — UnitedStates — feading | fish—rain—rain—seven miles to stone bridge—shelter—food. How soon, Carl; | downstream was “Two hour.” A change of the weather for worse last night, restoring the showery condi- tions, confirmed President Coolidge in his inclination not to make an appear- ance at his offices until Monday at the | carliest. ; | Mrs. Coolidge, who has been ill, has | kept close to the lodge, spending most of the time indoors by an open fire EMERSON INSTITUTE CLASS NUMBERS 32 S. T. Ansell Will Speak at Grad- | uation Exercises Tonight in ! Arlington Hotel. | Twenty-four boys and eight girls will be graduated from Emerson Institute at | exercises at 8 o'clock tonight in the Ar- lington Hotel. Samuel T. Ansell will| make the address. { Dr. John G. Palmer will pronounce the invocation. Following the presenta- tion of .diplomas by W. H. Randolph. | principal, athletic letters and souvenirs wifl be awarded. A dance will be given The girl graduates: Anne A. Gun- | ther, Grace Lee Kraft, Margery Almira | = Lytle, R. Elinor Lytle, Ella M. Moore, | Catherine Mary Stafford, Marguerett | Vandermark and Edith Ann Wilson. { The boy graduates: William R.| Browne, John D. Callander, Paul E.| Casassa, Edgar G. Chase, Francisco A, Colon, Allan M. Currie, George Damm. Kenneth I. Davis, Donald A Deane Paul V. Finegan, Louis J. Fitzgerald, | Louis G. Gerber, Robert Graham, | Charles O. Gaylord, Harris F. Hastings, Robert A. Hughes, Winthrop A. Johns, Frank G. Ketcham, Howard A. Lind- sley, Herbert A. Masterton, Harry Pro- tas, Joseph Rose. J. Daniel Weitzman | #1d Alvin E. Johnson. WOMAN FLYER KILLED | IN 1,500-FOOT CRASH i | Nebraska Aviatrix Believed Seek- ing Landing When Machine Fails Above Airdrome. By the Associated Press, NORFOLK, Nebr., June 23.—Ne- braska’s first aviatrix, Mrs. Charles Til- lotson, of Battle Creek, Nebr., was| killed and her plene demolished at the Norfolk flying field last night Several witnesses said the woman was flying at about 1,500 feet and| apparently was returning to make a landing when the machine made a sud- | den dip and crashed. The plane tore through some telrthone wires and buried its nose in the ground | Two Aviators Join in Paris-to-New | entrant | announced their intention to make the | attempt as soon as possible. |give their machine a trial under full The pilot was dead when her body was removed from the wreckage. Mrs. Tillotson had made several solo flights previously and recently flew to Omaha. e | oSS : 3 Wanted Manager (| Excellent opportunity for experienced young man with general knowledge of fire, casualty and surety business. State experience. Replies Confidential Address Box 118-E, Star Office tary store hold-up. He is already under indictment for robbery. Reed is said to have admitted to de- tectives that it was he who drove Milton C. Bowling, 20, 4447 Conduit road, to a Pittsburgh hospital after the latter was shot twice during a running gun battle with Detective Frank M. Alligood. Bowling was later returmed here, where he was indicted for four Sanitary store hold-ups. It was information furnished by him, it is said, that Reed also was indicted. Reed denies he participated in the eries of hold-ups. | Police say that Bowling, Reed and | another youth who has not been ap- prehended, stole cars and used them in the robberies. NEW ENTRANTS LISTED. York Flight. 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