Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 17

" @ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. 1. ©, - THURSDAY., AUGUST 2, 1928 A radio party at the Health Camp for Tuberculous Children, Fourteenth and Upshur streets northwest. Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming and members of the Tuberculous Children 58 youngsters at the camp enjoying the radio when they paid a visit there yesterda) ter to right, are Director Wilson of the Board of Public Welfare, Dr. J. W. natorium Committee found the In the group, from cen- Peabody, Mrs. E. R. Grant, Surg. —Star Staff Photo. Truck load arrests of textile -rioters at New Bedford, Mass., followed threats by an army of several thousand strikers to storm police headquarters there. Here is one group of the more than 250 pickets arrested herded on a truck to be taken to a police station. Jail sentences of several months were given ledders of the mob demonstration. National Guardsmen were called out. to help restore order in the worst disturbance of the several months’ strike there. —P. & A. Photos. Gen. Cumming, Dr. W. C. Fowler, District health officer, and Emile Berliner. Prize winners in the baby show held yesterday afternoon at the Wheatley Playground, Montello avenue and Neal street northeast. Left to right: Two-year-old Raymond Crummitt, 1188 Morse street, second prise winner; Betty Ann Catloth, 13 months old, 1312 Trinidad avenue, winner of first prize, and Audrey Foly, 18 menths old, 1022 Eighth street northeast, winner of third prize. —Star Staff Photo. ‘A litle international geed will Catherwood, Canadian high jumper a girl at the Olympics, wishes luck to Barney Berlinger, one of Uncle Sam’s entries in the Decathlon event. ~Wide World Photos. Members of the crew of the missing yacht Azara in the transatiantic race for the King Alfonse Cup. Anxious search is being made for the yacht, which was manned by a Detroit crew of amateur sallors. In this group sboard the yacht before sailing are, left to right: George J. Baker, owner; Ted Rippingille, E. E. Greiner and Edward Donnelly, the latter a Detroit law yer. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Devotes an Entire Day to Taking Life: Succeeds at Last POLICE TRIAL OPENS * ONVOLENGE COONT 'Private Gravely Accused of| (i~ Striking Woman in Raid on Home. By the Associated Press. 1 MILWAUKEE, August 2.—Adolph Totryk, 35, spent yesterday killing t himself. . First he swallowed s handful of | needles with no apparent impatrment of his health. Next he concocted | | | a potion of tooth paste, shoe polish and wood alcohol which he washed down with vinegar Still alive, he tighiened two_ ties about his neck and strangled him- seif His roommate found him deall. CONFER ON SECOND TRIAL OF ROBINSON Three officers were tried before the Police Trial Board today on charges involving undue violence in making ar- Tests in two cases Private 8. F. Gravely of the liquor squad, accused of striking Rosa Huston, colored, while making a raid on he home, 1125 Reeds court, the night of June 27, entered a denial. The two other officers, Pvis. R. C. Redding and R. M. Teates, both of the fourth pre- einct, were accused of beating up Frank A. Lewis, colored, of 223 Third street southwest, the night of June 6, when placed under arrest for disorderly con- duct Testimony in the first case elicited evidence that the Huston home had | been raided three times on alleged | lguor charges. Officer Gravely, ac-| compenied by several revenue agents, searched the house June 27 and said he found some liguor in the yard. The woman testified that fGravely struck her, knocking her into a chab Another woman occupant of the house. Romana Riley. lored, also testified s officer struck her Authorities at Front Royal Expect- ’ ed to Determine Course in Dou- ble Slaying Case. Epecial Disoatch to The Binr FRONT ROYAL, Va., August 2.— Commonwealth’s Atiorney John H. Downing and other officials are con- ferring today on the question of bring- | ing Henry C. Robinson, aerial photog- | rapher, to trial for the murder of John M. Johnson, farmer Robinson was acquitted Tuesday of the murder of Middieton Johnson, & | son of the farmer. Both were shot to | death on the street here as a result | of & quarrel over an automobile acci- . 2id the their search. | d Witnesses said Robinson’s life voemes Jigd e e eut, Bdward T, had been threatened and he claimed | R o . Ll the self-def in his testimony. He was that Oravely was nat the | returned to jail at Berryville to await ha y 5 g 2 e s e, and it e Bis head and struck peo- | action on the second charge an g i disrdig et L P15 expected a decision Will be gliven sacks Officer. policemen. antiated Gravely's her wom- Onz of the e J. Ramsey, s jal that he had struck e Ramsey testified the H The case of Officers Redding and |in a day or two Teates was still on trial when L;;]»E - .- poard recessed for lunch. Lewis, the board recessed Tor Lonct e was wais| STATION WAIU BURNED. Sng with four friends in the back yard e o sl # his home when the two officers 8p- 3 ;lnf.lcma and questioned him. Upon|OBio Broadcasting Plant Is De telling Offcer Redding that he oc| stroyed by Fire. rupled the premises the witness testified | : i ;r:ft the paxnr: man slapped him in the w:filfubggl;:‘,_agmn. l:'l’x\::‘tl z",mw 3 id he told Redding if | broi 3 . ety chatyes he would g0 to | Amarioan Insuranc Corporation, s short | o honse, whereupon. he testi- | distance north of the city, was destroye e O Boues took ol of him and |by fire today, with & losk cstimated be- con m o the police bo _ tweei $75,000 an: ; conducted !]'A;m]";_'“ sy ",y,x.,» ;')’u; WAIU will broadcast its programs ing the walk Lewls €eclares aton three Without interruption through’ WEAO, | aing sruck B e and mouth As a | Ohio State University station, unul its over the face and mouth. AS & "0 is again ready for operation, | e e——————— he ciaimed he was bed for 10 days 11t of his inj onfined 0 h ust received @ call from another pre-| a prisoner to jail and on | told Pvi. R. H d the call cany th and Pennsylvania | enue and suggested that it might be | & good iden 1o investigate { Upon returning to the precinet sta-| tion later in the day Captl. William E. | anford toid him he had passed up a | 00d opportunity n not investigating fhe case, During the five years he has | been on the force Markwood has never southeast. Las-| been before the trial board on any he called up the precinct to! charge report that some boys had tried 1o sell| Because he is having & birthday him 14 cartons of cigarettes under cir-| party today the case of Pvt. L. Christ- eumstances which aroused his Aml»‘i-nmn charged with keeping a sult of feions. When he took the stand in | clothes a month hefore turning them ix defense Officer Markwood said 1t|over to the property clerk, was post- was impossible to understand Laskin, a | poned until next week. ‘The case has over the telephone, He had been pending almost & yesr, Store Owner Complains cinet 1o ta testificd that that he store at me of heard one Franch 1 ing “Taylor case from a It irg Pyt fifth preci negle ss was Harry tore at 601 The winners had stiff competition in the Wheatley Playground baby show yesterday. Here are some of the small exhibits who made the prize- awarding job a tough one for the judges. —Star Staff Photo. |BALL SEES DRY VOTE TUESDAY FOR MOORE State Senator Says tive's Stand on Liquor Question Representa- Insures Support. Special Dispatch ® The Star CLARENDON, Va., August 2 by reports that the liquor lssue may become a dominant factor in the Demo- cratic primary of the eighth con- gressional district of Virginia, of which Arlington County is a part, to be held next Tuesday, State Senator Frank L. Ball declared today that the dry Demo- crats in Arlington County will stand by Representative R, Walton Moore, Demo- cratic candidate for re-election. “Mr. Moore's constant and persistent stand on prohibition needs no defense in Arlington County or any other part of the eighth congressional trict,” declared Senator Ball, “His rec- ord is known to every voter in his dis- trict, and the people on election day are going to support him for his manly stand on the prohibition question and every other moral fssue that has ever been presented to Congress during his long term as the Representative from the eighth congressional district. By his personal obedience and respect for the law and his official acts as disclosed by his record, Mr. Moore has done more for prohibition and other moral issues than all of his anonymous detractors out together, 1 intend to support him and do everything in my power to ald in_his re-election.” Tomorrow night there will be special meetings conducted by the women of the county in every voting precinct in the Interest of the re-election of Moore, Aroused Kiwanians Children’s Hosts. Boeciul Dispatoh to The Btar, STAUNTON, Va., August 2.-The Kiwanis Club has completed arrange- ments for sn outing of 500 children from the tenement section New York City. George Cottrell and' Sidney Matthews were appointed chairmen of special committees, ‘The children ar- rived here today and were taken to Gypsy Hill Park, Special Dispatch to The Star. Lithuanian, 104, Comes to America To Start Anew. and May Send for Wife NEW YORK, August 2.—A record for being the oldest traveler to cross any ocean in any ship at any time 1s claimed for Jurgls Skinderis, 104 years old, of Tytavenai, Lithuania, who arrived from Danzig today on board the liner Litu- ania Mr. Skinderis was unaccompanied and | arrived as an immigrant, pnnmnr to start life anew in this land and later send for his wife. He was met by his son, John Bkinder, a policeman, of Floral Park, Long Island, Mr. Skinderis speaks no English, so his son gave out the important facts about his arrival. The son last saw his father in 1913, it was stated, when the son left home and joined the United | States Army, years, thén joined the Floral Park police force three years ago. always enjoyed the best of health, the { son { tentions of either doctor or dentist Skinderls pounds and stands as straight at the age of 104 years as he did when half this age. only expensive cigars, and these only on Sundays and Hard black bread He owns a farm near Tytavenal cently has been a Latvia and Lithuania. country, the son sald, he will sell the farm and send for his wife, who 1is Al m‘g at home for his report of the New World. WINCHESTER GETS BUST OF CIVIL WAR SURGEON Son's Gift Tribute to Dr. McGuire, Confidant of “Stone- 13 wall” Jackson. in which he served The father Das| o, iu1 Dispsten to The Star WINCHESTER, Va., August 2.—A life-size, bronze bust of the late Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, confidant of “Stonewall” Jackson and medical di- rector of the noted Southerner's army in the Civil War, was presented to the city of Winchester last night on behalf of his son, Dr. Stuart McGuire of Richmond, and will be mounted on a white granite pedestal and placed in the gallery of art and history of Hand- I ley High School. sald, never having needed the at- Mr. is six feet tall, weighs 190 He never drinks and he smokes &Gclll" holidays. his principal food. but re- rivate detective in If his lkes this The presentation took place in the house in which Dr. McGuire was born here nearly 93 years ago, and was made 30-DAY REPRIEVE ASKED. Mrs. Peters Parkhurst Appeals to Ritchie in Behalf of Carey. Bpecial Dispatch to The Bar BALTIMORE, August that a 30-day reprieve Charles P. (Country) ey, who, with Benjamin F. Spragins, jr, is to be| hanged at the penitentiary shortly after midnight for the killing of a peniten- tiary guard, was sent to Gov, Albert C Ritchie yesterday The request signed by Mrs, Virginia Poters Pankhurst of Berwyn, Md., State director of the Susan B. Anthony Foun- dation, Inc. said there was no evidence that Carey had fired the fatal shot, and the stay is needed so that the case can be investigated. “We feel that Spra- ins' sentence should be commuted to fe imprisonment,” she said, this in the name of decency, { humanity,” the petition concluded. in Gre -t’ B:n:::': is than just before LT 2.-A request be granted ‘The coat of It now two-thirds higl the World Wi CLUB OFFICERS NAMED. Arlington County Organization Is Special Dispateh to The Star. CLARENDON, Va, Aug bert L. Wilson was elected president of the first “Hoover-Curtls Club” organiéed in Arlington County last night at a mecting chalrman, Clarkson. Mrs, John P. There w auspices of the club the night of August lumbia Pike schoolhouse. ‘The bm‘m locks in Europe and prob- lhnl‘:n. com| leas than 2 age QGermany. About 337,000 cublo yards of mmyw-n used in the oUdon. by his nephew and namesake, Dr. Hun- ter H. McGuire, this city, on behalf of Dr. Stuart McGuire. Dr. McGuire of Winchester now owns and occuples the old McGuire homestead. The bust is one of three made by the late Dr. John Broadnax of Richmond. The others are In the Confederate Battle Abbey in Richmond and St. Luke's Hospital, that city, founded by Dr. Quire some years after he located there. | The City School Board, which accept- ed the gift, passed resolutions expre ing its pleasures at recelving the bust and thanking Dr, Stuart McGuire for it for Hoover and Curtis. t 3.~ ""-J held by the county precinet at the home of John Other officers elected were: | B. Lowell, vice president, and Afnrw. secretar) surer. 1l be & mass meeting under Staunton Woman Dies. Special Dispateh to The Star STAUNTON, Va, August 2 Mary Eleanor Hobbs, widow of James ©, Hobbs, dled at the home f D. W. Speck, where she has been [residing several years, She was a daughter of Col. Qeorge and Isabel Coiner Haylor of Augusta County and the laat of a family of 10 children. 8he is survived by a number of nieces and nephews. in the auditorium of the old Co- Huge Looks in Holland. world with the exception of in the Panama Osnal, are now at_Anderfon, & vil- miles from Hanover, Peking, China, fs sald th be one of the cheapest aities in the world in which to live, 0 M TN Hunter | Mrs. ! ?Book by Hoover |And Wife on Mining Loaned to Library Special Dispateh to The Srar. WARRENTON, Va., August 2.—Dr. ‘Thomas Turnbull has loaned to the ‘Warrenton Library a translation by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover of an ancient Latin treatise on metallurgy and mining. ‘The English version was published for the translator in Salisbury, Eng- land, in 1912. Except for the lan- guage it is an exact reproduction of the original version, a large quarto illustrated with many quaint wood- cuts and bound in vellum. Trans- lation from medieval Latin is con- sidered a test of scholarship. | PULITZER MARRIED: SAILS WITH BRIDE World Editor Weds Margaret | Leech, Novelist—Sons At- tend Ceremony. By | - NEW YORK, August 2.—Ralph Pu- litzer, president and editor of the New | York World, was bound for Europe to- | day aboard the liner Aquitania with his bride, the former Margaret Leech, nov- elist and biographer. Mr. Pulitzer and Miss Leech were married yesterday by John Haynes Holmes in the Community Church, Tirty-fourth street and Park avenue. They planned to return to the United States at the end of September. ‘The bride, a graduate of Vassar, is the author of two novels, “The Back of the Book” and “Tin Wedding.” Another of her movels is to be published soon. She also collaborated with Heywood Broun, one-time columnist of the New York World, on the blography “Anthony Comstoek, Roundsman of the Lord." Mr. Pulitzer, son of the founder of the World, is a graduate of Harvard. He is an author, poet and big game hunter. His first riage was to Frederica Van- jderbilt Webb, They were divorced in ’19 His two sons, Ralph, jr, and Seward Webb, attended the wedding. Last night, after Mr. and Mrs. Pulit- zer had already gone abolled the Aqui- tania, fire destroyed books worth: from 0,000 to $30,000 in the library of Mr. Pulitzer’s home, at 7 East Seve &) -third street. Mr, Pulitzer, aboard tie boat, {said there were many valuable first {editions and richly bound volume- in the library, all of which were either de~ stroyed or badly damaged by fire and | water. ‘The fire, origin of which has not been determined, the one room. the Associated Press, Assault of Girl Charged. Special Dispateh to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md, August 2 bert Moreland, a colored boy, Anne Arundel County Jail charged with criminally assaulting an 8- - old white girl of Davidsonville. July 12 Albert Brown, a boy of St. Margaret, Her- | by Miss Elizabeth C. Carter | benediction was delivered by Chaplain was confined 1o | and State officers were in the { line at & reception under the auspices last night. s In the | FAVOR EDUGATION . POST IN CABINET Association of Colored Wom- -en Advocate Department in Resolution Today. | A resolution favoring the establish- | ment of a department of education, with an officer in the President’s cab- inet, was adopted by the National As- sociation of Colored Women at Arm- strong High School today. The resolution was passed after an jaddress by Miss Charl Williams, field secretary of the National Education | Association, who deplored some of the | methods used in teaching in schools. | Miss Williams declared that in this {day of airplanes educational methods lag behind, adding that some of the same methods are still being used in teaching today that were in use in “the days of our forefathers.” Miss Williams spoke strongly in favor of the Curtis- Reed bill for the establishment of a department of education. Primary Election Today. I Primaries for the election of asso- ciation officers to take place later were held in the school this morning. The | formal election will be announced at | & session tomorrow morning, when the | votes of the various States will have been counted This morning’s session also Included | reports by various State chairmen | Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Juve- | nile Court was on the program to spe | later today. | . The seven planks in the platform of | the National Association of Colored Women are to be outlined at a you people’s meeting by Mrs. Ethel Gavin of Chicago at a session in the Arm- strong High School this atternoon. Dedicfite Caretakers’ Home. An elaborate ceremony incident to the dedication of the caretaker's home at the Frederick Douglass Home, Ana- costia, was held by the assoclation yes- terday afternoon, with Mrs. Nettie I Napler, president of the Frederick Douglass Association, presiding. The cottage was presented on behalf of the special committee by Miss Nannie Bur- roughs and accepted on behalf of the trusiees by Mrs. Maggie L. Walker. also was accepted in behalt of the ad- | visory board by Mrs. Addie W. Bicker- | son, in behalf of the honorary members | by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, vice presi- dent of the association, and in behalf 1 of the whole body by Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, president. A large bouquet of flowers was pre- sented fo Mrs. Napier by Mrs, Fred- erica Douglass Perry of Kansas City a granddaughter of ‘the late Fryderick Douglass. The cottage was christened and the Randolph. | Mrs. Bethune, the president: national recelving of the association at Howard University About 1,500 attended. Wilhelm & Gardener. mw not fr::ogr:u visitors or de- writing books, the _y former Kaiser of Qler. near this city, was arrested an a similar chargs ..‘u‘,n_-‘n—% ?:r hours, because he very healthy exercise. L4