Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1928, Page 4

HIR-RAIL SERVIGE WL STARTSOON Pennsylvania Lines and New | York Central Plan Sep- arate Operations. , 28.—Reduction by time between the Coasts appeated possibility with larger railroads scontinental air he Associate NEW YORK s Aravel Pacifie an early Transport a Railroad ced its plans to be- oute about losure vesterday that contempiates vice forma- some- ss Co rplane expre: after the taken over by plans to ex- service on & way express the Railway profit-mak- be opened be- | and and Havana, later 0 greater over-water obably between American n ports distances, and Europea BRENTWOOD PAVING CONTRACT AWARDED $11,755 to Be Spent for Concrete Work, Including Curbs and Sidewalks. | he lives on an 1l-acre tract which he | Special Dispateh to The Star. BRENTWOOD. Md., July 28.—At a special meeting of the mayor and town i night a contract for con- g. curbs and sidewalks on streets was a arded Daniel Marine of Baltimore, whose bid of | .755 was the lowest submitted The streets to be improved are Haldeman avenue from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad avenue, a distance of 800 feet. and Sheetz avenue from | Eldridge avenue to Haldeman avenue. ! 400 feet. Concrete curbs and side- walks will be built on Rhode Island svenue and Eldridge avenue from | Thirty-pinth street to Newton street. The work is to be completed in 30/ working days and will get under way promptly. 1 With this work completed the first | year's program of permanent street improvement in Brentwood under the act of the last legislature will have | been finished. The cost of the work is assessed against the abutting properiy have been made are Newton | Shes avenue, ‘Thirty-ninth | strest, Dewey street and Charles street The cost of. the entire program for the vear will be $60,000, which is the imum under ths law. Prof. S. S. Steinberz. head of the depertment of civil engineering of the University of Maryland, is consulting engineer for Brentwood and in general charge of ths work. RECORD FOR RAILROAD SAFETY BEST IN 1927, y One Passenger Killed for Each 9,100,000 Carried, Report Shows. ‘The safety record United States Taiiroads in 1927 was the best in his- i to Samuel O. Dunn flway Age. As quoted re & Ohio Magazine, the number of pas- was only nine-one. or one 00,000 carried, The best as in 1923. when one 7.216.000 carried was es 10 third 1 to the number less than to the record ever d as great ago progress measure to the of money for last eight years has been spent afety Organ- \egements ar has been an- 24 000,000 inc of & \owever such were LIVERIGHT BREAKS ARM. v-Pub After IRE. Aul pubiisher o Roosevelt iftering from r sn aceident nospital officiale eaid he comfortahly Liveright isher Rests Comfort Acc ident 2 P - Horace d producer, was Hospital this after- a broken arm suf he publisher's hospital dur he hed had no atls of the ac helieved the in- \ an automobile Horace Liveright week end party Prof. Albert y-old physicist of go, left for Cali- giit, where he will continue on the speed of light. He erwent an_operation here s Onls & 1 Printer can Print Lahels ELLIS PRINTING CO. 1268 Ninth 8t Washington, D, € | employ at the nearby mill of John Hofl- | he built | War, when he served under Lee and | sonal application to the British pass- VIRGINIAN. 106, HAS LEFT HOME ONLY TWICE IN A CENTURY John H. Garrison, Confed- erate Veteran, Gives Some Health Hints. Built House Himself, Has Oc- cupied It for 62 Years. Still hale and hearty, despite his 106 vears, John H. Garrison, picturesque Confederate veteran and retired village blacksmith, basks daily in the sunshine in front of the home he has occupied for the last 62 years on Williamsyille Hill in Stafford County, Va., and 1ook- | ing forward to future years of peace tude. arrison, who is uncle to Thomas former deputy sheriff of t: le, Md.. will observe his 10ith hday anniversary quietly on- October The cenienartan’s sister, Mrs. Betty Abel of Prince Willilam County, died two months ago at the age of 109 years. Twice Came Here. ng the years he has lived in his has , the | John H. Garrison, aged 106, photo- graphed before the cabin in which he has lived for 62 years. VOLCANIC FLOOD ROUTS FILIPINGS | Terrorized Natives of Albay Province Flee as Mayon Belches Lava. Du: peaceful community Mr. Garrison only made two trips to Washington. first in 1865 after his discharge from the Confederate army and the second in 1385 when he visited the Capital to see his brother, who since died. He has been content to remain within the | confines of Stafford County since that time { Mr. Garrison built the cabin in which | viy f five years’ St el cbem. ¥ By the Associated Pre MANILA, July 29 (Sunday).—Belch- ing tons of lava, the volcano Mayon early today was in the throes of its worst eruption since 1900, with a series of earth shocks rocking the country- side and placing a grip of terror over the western portion of Albay Provinc Hours after the first oiten roc shot high in the air, the earth rumblings continued. At the first sign of renewed activity, nativ man. He paid $100 for the land. When his house Garrison said he would be satisfied to live there the rest of his life. He was born in the county. How to Live 100 Years. Except for the four years of the Civil “Stonewall” Jackson, Garrison has | practically kept that pledge never to leave his home. His wife. Mrs, Mary Garrison. was 76 years old when she | died. Since her death his son and | fled and with the disturbance contin- daughter-in-law have lived with him. |uing, the few remaining inhabitants of hteen vears ago Mr. Garrison re-+ the little town of Libog. near the foot g b | of the mountain, moved to safety. tired from his work as a blacksmith. | He enjoys sitting out in the sun and | There were no reports of loss of largely to this he attributes his long | life, but Dr. H. Windsor Wade, head years and unusual health. Mr, Gar- | of the leper settlement at Culion, nar- rison says he has never known a day’s [ rowly escaped being trapped in the illness. ¢ | lava streams. He was a member of a “I have been using tobacco sinee I | party encamped at the 2,500-foot level as 10 years old.” Mr. Garrison said. | of Mayon. His advice to those who would live long | _As molten rock, fire and ashes shot is simple: Plenty of fresh air and skyward from the new crater opened course food. but mot too much of it. | about 500 feet from the summit, won He seldom. if ever, eats meat and sub- | en and children paraded the styee sists mainly on vegetables. of Legaspi, their songs and praye G RIS for divine protection CONSULAR OFFICE CLOSES | cries of alarm. A vast area slowly was being covered 2s the lava flowed to lower levels. Con- British Visas May Be Obtained in Baltimore After July 31. siderable damage had been done in the higher country. Mayon began eruptions of serfous proportions in June and continued un- The consular office attached to the | Uil early July when the disturbance ap- t i 1 a” ;::3 u:!&";v, ‘.fivz;,flfig&n !‘!”:Il:‘- ‘ Governor General Stimson visited th® tember 20. During that time notarial | Province to inspect the situation and Work normally done at the embassy will | added his assurance to that of sclentists be performed by the British consyl in | {hat the worst of the cycle of eruptions Baltimore, who will also issue and re- | N8d passed. Thousands of natives, who How Beseerts | had fled at the first rumbling, then B T o o tish sublects esl- | orodually fitered back to their homes WhlllP the Wu?ln(lnn viee l‘m’lsulll»1 —— & —— remains closed visas for British terri- tory may be obtained either from the | SEEK GUN 'N SLAYING- British consul in Baltimore or on per- ——— S Hagerstown Police Question Young Friend of Dead Hermit. | Special Dispateh to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., July 28-—Au- thorities ‘nvestigating the murder of | Jahn Semick, 64 years old, Cavetown Md, the hermit who was shot while working in his garden Thursday night | are endeavoring to find the murder gun. Paul Wolff, 24-year-old friend of the murdered man, is in jail, but de vort control officer, 44 Whitehall street, New York City. { BOAT TO RACE AGAIN. Winner of Ohio Match Will Com- pete With Pittsburgh Craft. CINCINNATI, Ohio. July 28 (P Another steamboat race on the Ohio o River loomed today with the acceptance | Pies the crime. The coroners jury by Chra Greene of @ challenge to run Wil meet 1o consider the case late his boat against the Senator Cordill, a | t0daY. Pittsburgh boat o The challenge was made by Capt, M. | O. Irwin of the Benator Cordill prior to FOUR MOTONSTS HURT' the race of the Chris Greene with the e e Betsy Ann between Cincinnati and New | gpecial Dispateh to The Star Richmond, Ohio, last Tuesday evening. | HAGERSTOWN, Md., July 28.--Mr whic yl the Chris Greene won. and Mrs. Hugh Campbell of Atlanta It was indicated that the race may G, visfting in Berkeley Springs W. Va be run on the 20-mile stretch of water | yore hadly injured today and two t';::);;r_\\(; p:}::knnd Pomeroy, Ohlo, | giners were slightly hurt when their el o utomobiie plunged down a 106-foot (o Tbe Senaior Cordill formerly was a S bankment info the Hancock base ball ast boat on the Mississippl River field at Hancock, Md. The other occu . pants were Mrs, E. E. Pendleton of MAKE GOOD AT TARGETS. Austin, Tex., and Mrs. F. E. Stribling | of_Baltimore. Approximately 81 per cent of the 200 | Cavalry students at the Fort Myer Citl- Military ‘Training | qualified as m crs after two days on the rifie range at Cump Simms, it was announced. The students returned to Fort Myer yester- day afternoon One Washington student was among leaders—Eugene A. Ross, 521 La mont street, who took third place in the machine gun troop with a score of 94 David L Otto, Wilkinsburg, Pa.. led the camp with a score of 99 out of A pos- | sible 100 Headache N Eyestrain ) Relieved SPECIAL Monday & Tuesday KRYPTOK Bifo-@ _ cal Lenses — one pair to see far and near. Sold regularly for $10. Special this week securities and valuables will be per- safe while you are ihis summer 1t you put ina Safe Deposit Box at the FEDERAL-AMERIC. NATIONAL BANK Where € Strest Crosses 1416 Your jewelry, her etly awa them EYES EXAMINED BY DR. t. S. SHAH, REGISTERED YESIGHT SPECIALIST. Shah Optical Co. 12 F St NJW, Addvess Star Staff Photo a flow and | mingling with | parently had been ended. At that time | REVENUEBULOING HORK PROGRESSHG U. S. Inspectors Speed Ex- cavations and Footings for $10,000,000 Structure. Nine men representing the United | States Government are carefully check- ing up every day the operations of about 300 workmen and $350,000 worth of machinery which are making things hum on the site of the new $10,000,000 Internal Revenue Bureau Building | | south of the Post Ofice Departmentt. These men represent the supervising | architect’s office of the Treasury De- | partment, and they are there to see | that the work is carried out not only | ccording to quality but to quantity, so | contracts will be finished on e ¢ is cordial co-operation between e men, however, and the contractors s, and the excavation and | pile driving is proceeding with speed and up to schedule. By November 1. The contract now under way has brought into action on the site six pile drivers, four steam shovels, with their fleets of trucks, and six Il concrete mixers. One huge concrete mixer, | which soon is to be put into play pour- ing the mass of concrete for the founda- tions proper on top of the concrete | pilings, also has arrived The contractor has been given until November 1 to complete the excava- tion, piling and foundations of the new building Before that time, however, the Treasury will have advertised for bids and let a contract for the super- | structure of the new building, so that construction work can proceed without | Interruption. F. F. Burnett is superin- | tendent on the ground for the Mark Co. The Government supervisors are ali engineers gathered here from various | parts of the country, where they have | been supervising building fobs for Uncle Sam. They are operating out of a| temporary office specially constructed | { for their use on the southwest corner | of the big Internal Revenue site. New Yorker in Charge. | Neil A. Melick, who came originally {rom Yonkers, N. Y.. is the construc- tion engineer in chargs of the group. He is an experienced man of long rec- ord in the office of the supervising architect of the Treasury Department One engineer is assigned to watch each of the six pile drivers which are sinking concrete piling into the build- ing site at the rate of a total of 100 to 125 a day. So far the six drivers have sunk about 2,000 of the nearly 8,000 piles which are to be driven for the | | great Internal Revenue Building to rest | upen, The six men assigned to the pile | ‘duv»w include F. E. Hayes of Kansas. | | F. A. Roemer of California, J. J. Owen ‘n! Washington, D. C.; N. Hansen of Michigan, E. L. Grover of Panama | Canal Zone, E. D. Gray of Kentucky. C. C. Converse of Texas is the engi- | neer charged with supervision of re-| inforcing steel and concrete for the foundation | Three sides at least of the big site, which occupies nearly four squares from Tenth to Twelfth, B to C streets north- | | west, are covered with materials used in the work. BOULDER DAM BOArflD l | TO MEET TOMORROW Group Later Will Visit Colorado | for First-Hand Engincering | Data on Project. | The first meeting of the board of five experts appointed by former Secretary | Work, with the approval of President | Coolidge and by authority of Congress, to study the feasibility of the consiruc- tion of a dam by the Government at Boulder or Black Canyon on the Colo- rado River, is scheduled to be held to- morrow at the Interior Department The board, which consists of three engineers and two geologists, will later proceed to Denver and likely to the Colorado River dam sites to obtain first- | hand enginering data on the proposed | construction. Under the law creating this commission, it must report to Congress on its findings by December 1 next Dr. Elwood M commissioner of | the Bureau of Reclamation, who has | | just returned to Washington from a | swing around Uncle Sam's reclamation | projects in the West, will confer with { the commission and give it the benefit | | of his experience. Dr. Mead proposes | | to leave soon again for an inspection | trip of some additional Interests the | bureau has in the West | CUBANS STUDY U. S. ARMY | Temporary Attachments Granted at Request of Island Government. At the request of the Cuban govern- | ment, one officer of the Cuban Navy | | and s of the Cuban Army have been | attached temporarily to Army schools | and regiments in the United States. ‘ Comdr. Juan F. Sordo y Citervo is | assigned to the Army Medical School, | | this city, and the Medical Field Service | Sehool at Carlisle, Pa Pirst Lieuts. | i.ll)\'? Pastor Rodriguez y Sanchos nndi Juan Estevey y Marsan to the Cavalry | | School, Fort Riley, Kans.; First Lient stavo Rodriguez y ziquez to Walter Reed General Hospital, this city, and | the Field Service School at Carlisle; | Pirst Lieuts. Aurelio Martinez y Villa- Jobos and Francisco Coclo v Villalta to ihe 5th Cavalry at Fort Clark, Tex, and Lieut. Demetrio Ravelo y Hernan- | to the 9th Infantry at Fort Sam Houston, T ' Nine men who are daily supervising the construc the foundation of the new Internal Re before one of the pile drivers now at Roemer, E. L. Grover, gineer in charge: G 3. 3. Owen. Below NEW CURB PLACED ON CANADIAN RUN Freight Cars Crossing Bor- der Under Seal to Be Carefully Watched. | By the Associated Press | A plan to shut off liquor shipments from Canada was placed in effect by the Treasury yesterday, consisting of new regulations drastically tightening up rules governing the inspection of freight cars passing through that coun- try en route between American points. Assistant Secretary Seymour Low- man, in charge of dry law enforcement, said that bootleggers had obtained a number of the biue seals used by cus- toms agents to designate cars inspected before leaving American territory and these seals had been applied to cars which, after being loaded with Canadian liquor, were attached to through trains Method of Bootleggers. He said it was believed that minor | railroad employes had been bribed by bootleggers to assist both in obtaining the seals and also in the handiing of the cars. Each blue seal now will time of the car's entrance and if it should be delayed cu agents immediately will be on th as to the cause. Such delayed cars added. could be dropped from the train bear the | | upon which they arrived, and inspected, | if suspicion were aroused. How Scheme Worked. He explained that as long as the car retained its blue seal it was un- | molested by customs _men until it reachied its point of destination. This, he continued, enabled the hootleggers through connivance with railroad em- ployes to reroute the car to a different American point than the one originally | intended. Once this were done, he added, the blue seal could be torn off, thereby removing any sign that the car had recently been in iInternational transit and placing it on the same basis as the thousands of other American freight cars, Mr.. Lowman expressed belief that! under the new regulations the move- ment of cars would be as rapid as at present, declaring that th: plan had | been_worked out with the co-dberation | of officials of the railroads affected CONSULAR TRANSFERS. State Department Announces Changes in Paul C. Seddicum of the District of Columbia, United State vice consul at | Prague, Czechoslovakia, has been trans- é""d to Cardiff, Wales, for similar| uty. | Other changes ‘a the foreign service announced at the State Department, in- | clude the transfer of Joseph L. Brent, | Maryland, vice consul, from the State Department (o Calro, Egypt: Samuel S Dickson, New Mexico, third setretary, | from San Salvador to Lima. Peru; Leon | H. Ellis, Washington, third secretary from Budapest to San Jose, Costa Rica: | Stuart E. Grummon, New Jersey, third cretary, from Madrid to Port au Prince, Halti: George E. Baily, Missis- | stppl, second secretary, from Paris to| ‘Tegucigalpa, Hondur: and Owen W | Galnes, Georgla, vice consul, from Co- rinto, Nicaragua. to Madrid. | John R. Minter, South Carolina, con- sul at Para, Bragil, and Helge Krog- send, Minnesota, vice consul at Cologne. Germany, have resigned, vsff_@ Fr. 3005 | 8 WHEN YOU NEED A KEY yau need our instant duplicating service Duplicate kev. 25c. Bring your loeks to the shap. 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Senora Lucila Luciani de Perez Diaz, representative of Venezuela on the In- ter-american Commission of Women. will come to Wasington next month {0 take part in the commission’s research work. according to a message receivad from her today by Miss Doris Stevens chairman of the commission Miss Stevens will leave August 1 for a short trip to Europe on work connected with the preparation of a resolution re- | garding nationality to be presented to the World Conference on Codification of International Law, called by the League of Nations at the Hague. While abroad she will confer with feminist leaders and will speak on the work of the commission before the International Association of University Women Madrid. Senora Perez Diaz is a leading young intellectual of Venezuela and socially prominent in diplomatic circles in Caracas. She has been interested in historical research, is editor of a mag- azine, writes poetry and short storics and is author of a novel. As a delegate to the Latin American Press Conzress in Havana she wrote up the proceedings there is a series of articles that created interest throughout South America. She as appointed by the governing board of the Pan-American Union as comm oner for Venezula on the Inter-amer- ican Commission. The commission was created by the sixth Pan-American conference to car on an extended research of all laws affecting the civil and political status of wemen in each of the 21 American re- publics. It has taken up the theme of nationality as its first subject for in- vestigation. Gas Mains Being installed. Special Dispatch to The Star HYATTSVILLE, Md., July 28.—Mains | are belng installed by the Washington | in College Heights. | Suburban Gas Co the subdivision under construction near College Park. A new coal trestle has been installed by the gas company at its yards near here, which greatly facili- tates unloading of materials. | SAVE MONEY ON STORAGE. CALL Mi 1 WiEHs WASHED CLEANED coLD PHONE NORTH 3343 n of underpinning for They are_photographed Left to right, on the site: F. A. . Hansen, C. C. Converse, Neil A. Melick, construction en- , ¥ Weathersby, office assistant, and in AUTOIST IS ACQUITTED. Colored Driver, However, Will Pay Bi. red, driver of an 1utomob! ed down and in- jured two boys within five hours on July 5, was acquitted of reckless driving charges by Judge Robert E. Mattingly yesterday when he promised to pay the doctor’s bill of his victims. Cunningham was charged with hav- ing hit and knocked down 14-year-old Elmer Powell of 435 Tenth street north- east and Chris Abezantokos, 9 years old, of 510 Third street northeast Powell was tréated at Emergency Hos piial for a fractured ankle while Abe- zantokos was taken to Casualiy Hospital ffering from severe br Victims® Doctors’ Walter Cunningham. coloi d, For TONTIE STRERS ALOTPDE Leaders Say Weather, Not Police, Caused Change in Plans. | By the Associated Press | NEW BEDFORD, Ma. crisis in the textile strike sity ! precipitated by threatened par strikers without consent of cit had passed without trouble af*er the projected demonstra 1 been postponed for one week | ponement, Izbor leaders said cause of inclement weather Rein which tell “early ir causcd the parades to be 11 am. although at 2 pm uled time for the parade weather prevailed Police Held Reads One_hundred and saver from Boston, Fall River, B several other cities and 't here to assist local poliee in di the parades. if held, returned n | tonight. They would be hur called, however. if needed aga Charles S. Ashley said tonight National Guard troops of Battery E 241st Coast Artillery Corps, who wers held at the State Armory under a pre cept issued by Mayor Ashley, remained | here tonight. They will be held in read ness for emergencies, police said. unt | next week when they will entrain fo | Fort Wright, Long Jsland, N. Y, for | annual maneuvers. The strikers today held two of their reguler daily mass meetings. Fred Bied >nkapp. executive secretaty of the W ers International, Relief, addressed the meetings and told crowds of about 2,300 | strikers that rain and not the presence of police reinforcements in the city had | caused the parade postponements. Oth or speakers reiterated previous sta ments in which they attacked the | owners of the 26 mills involved for making the 10 per cent wage reduction which caused the strike on April 16 The strikers number about 28,000. Consider Arbitration. Mayor Ashley had in the past refused parade permits to the textile mill com- tee group on grounds that they are d by persons not residents of New Redford and that their conduct did not warrant such permits. The New Bedford Textile Council affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, i which a majority of tae strikers hold membership, had ao part in the parade plan. They now are con- sidering & solution of the strike which was offered yesterday by the State board of arbitration at a meeting of manufacturers and textile council lead- ers. The textile mill committee's rep- resentatives were not invited to the conference. A first edition copy of “Departmental Ditties.” which Kipling presented to his old school. the United Services College. Westward Ho, was recently sold in Lon- don for $3,900. Bridging the Gap Between Failure and Success CLEAR road straight ahead. We travel it with assurance, taking our steps firmly, for it is th e path of our job in life. 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