Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1928, Page 2

2 W POLICEMAN WINS CASE AT HEARING Trial Board Vindicates Rone—Reserves Decision in Other Actions. Without taking the stand in his own defense, Policeman Guy Rone of the| eleventh precinct was vindicated by the | police trial bosrd today on a charge of | fatling to report and properly investi- | gate an assault July 6, which resulted two days later in the death of the vie- tim at Casualty Hospital A second officer of the same precinet ed in the case. W. F. McDuffie s tried later on a similar charge and decision at the trial of when he July 6 | 1 It case and that there ng to it s later Lieut. Sidney J. Marks that Daniel Dyson. col- ty-eighth street north at Casualty Hospita n the head inflicted He notified head- othi east, had died from an v by a mor jarter | %\fltred med James Henson. | rged with the stified that no incidental | ade out concerning the f - and Officer Rone arrested & custody for questioning Policeman Kills Self WILI PC:)LICEMAN. FACING ARREST IN THEFT OF AUTO, KILLS SELF Page.) . STILL. (Continued from First pend and arrest him later in the night, | at the same time taking Hendrix into | The car in which Stiil was coming out assault. | of his garage was a replica of the one | belonging to Layne, it was said, and | an examination of both machines re-| | vealed the fact that the numbers had | the tified | been made at | the Forty . he' had | told the d made a partial was no need for nv sergeant he already had| caught tigation and there | evidenced. Lauten said. by the fact that him to go to the hos- | he had hi when he was dressed in soiled working been filed off and others put on. Carried Service Revolver. That Still intended to end his life if and was prepared for it was| service revolver with him Attornevs Joseph B. Kelly and Harold | clothes R. Stephenson asked the board to dis- miss the charges against Rone at once The trial board aiso heard the cases of five other officers this morning, re- serving its decision Pvt. J. W. Smith, who was charged| h being asleep on duty July 13, de- clined to present a defense. _Another private, B. H. Huffman of the four-| teenth precinct pleaded guilty to m)un; to patrol his beat and entering a lunch | room on the morning of June 17 | W. H. Bell of the tenth precinct mitted being in a lunchroom the morning of July 16. when found there by inspectors. He was reading a paper | after finishing his breakfast Two other cases involved Pvt. W. A Lawson of No. 7. charged with neglect- ing to call up his station on July 13 Hendrix said he and chased the automobile together, intend- | | was stolen from When questioned at the station house Still had pur- ing to overhaul and sell it. He was un- | able to explain the fact that Layne's bank book and the original tags that | had been issued for the car were found | in it An investigation conducted by Lauten today revealed that Still was covering the beat on which Layne lives on the | night and at the time his automohile | in front of Layne's| home. | Hendrix told police that he and Still | had been friends since they were in the | Navy together. where Hendrix was rated as a machinist, first class. | Had Excellent Record. Still joined the force two years ago and H. B. Miller. crossing policeman at | and had never had a black mark against Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania| his record, his superiors said. It was | avenue. Sergt testified he B. M. McDonald he was not detained at | because of this excellent record that | the station ! observed Miller for an hour and 10| house the time he was first questioned. | minutes the night of July 13 lojtering | about the corner in the middle of traffic Fined for Beating Prisoner. harged with beating Frank A. Lewis, colored. 223 Third street southwest, Po- liceman R. C. Redding of the fourth | ° precinct was found guilty by the police | trial board yesterday afternoon and |y fined §50. Policeman R. M. Teates, who was with Redding when he arrested Le on a disorderly conduct charge. was fined 825 for permitting the as. sault. An additional charge of makin; @n unjust arrest was dismissed. The trial board had to choose between | two entirely different versions of the af- | fair, which took place the night of | June 6 at the Third street address. Both | policemen made categorical denials that 1 Tewis had been struck by either of | them. Five witnesses were produced by D. Edward Clarke, attorney for Lewis, and | an equal number of police witnesses | were put upon the stand by E. Russell | Kelly. attorney for the policemen, to re- | fute the accusations. As a result of his | juries, Lewis was confined to his bed | for 10 days. He was beaten over th side of the head and mouth by Red ding’s baton, according to his testimony. | Redding and Teates testified they heard Lewis say that if a policeman came to his house and broke down the the street directing !y was prostrated bv the news and today | was confined to her bed. band had served in the Navy vears. Commissioners and People’s His wife and 19-month-old baby boy | instead of standing | were in the kitchen of their home at he time Still s himself. Mrs. Still | Mrs. Gtill told Lauten that her hus- | for 11 He was & native of Georgia Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt. announced | odav that he is awaiting the result of he police investigation before he is- | sues a certificate. ASKS SALARY RISE | | | | Counsel Want $9,000 a Year. Members of the Public Utilities Com- | became such & close affair that only a | mission and People's Counsel Ralph B, door without making an arrest he would | Fleharty donned their fighting regali have him investi profanity. Since the two policemen had done that very thing at the home of | Ernest Scott, colored, a short while be- fore, they put Lewis under arrest for his alleged remark. Lewis, Scott and sev- | eral others were talking in the yard at | Lewis’ home when the arrest occurred. Hearing the remark, Redding walked up to Lewis and asked him if he lived in the house and slapped his face. Scott and Walter Hawkins, both colored, backed up Lewis' testimon: er went quietly to the | two policemen and on the way there, ! 1t was charged Redding beat him| over the head with his baton. Posted Collateral. rriving at the station | became operative the Utilities Com- missioners and Mr. Fleharty were on | sentative Finis Garrett in returns from the same salary parity with the District | 1.870 precincts, Commissioners. - { however, the salary of the District Com- Yo e PriSON” | missioners was advanced from $7,500 t0 $9,000 a year, but the Utilities Com- had no opposition for the Republican missioners and Mr. Fleharty continued | Sen: ro';!rnw the same pay. said, Lewis put up|same status and responsibilities as th ated. His remarks. | today and went after a salary increase | they declared. were accompanied by |of $1500 a vear each. The increase | was denied them under a ruling of | Alister, 80,960. Controller General McCarl, which held hat pay increases provided under the Welch act should go only to classified Federal and District workers. Up to July 1, when the Weich act Under the Weich act, | Utllities Commissioners, it was | ee] that they have virtually the | | of farm weeklies, and Nathan W. Mac- ! charged | the corn belt committee of 22. MKELLAR N LEAD THE EVENING HOOVER POLISHES ACCEPTANCE TALK {Nominee Confers With Man- ager and Farm Editor. 11‘-‘ the Associated Press. \ STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal, Au- | gust 3.—Behind the thick oaken door which shuts off the study in his hil-| side home here, Herbert Hoover de-| | voted today to putting the finishing | [ touches to the most momentous address | of his career, that accepting the Re- | | publican nomination for President. In this address, to be delivered in the | Stanford Stadium one week from to- | | morrow, he will present his views on | | the two now most discussed issues of | | the campaign, prohibition and farm | [ velict, and mention other issues which | he believes must have their weight in | the scales by which the voters measure | the candidates on November 6. | As important as Hoover's pronounce- | ents may be upon these subjects, as- | |ute political observers will study his | address for something more, for those things which will reflect his personality {and disclose to the Nation his philos- | ophy of Government | The address has been shaped and re- shaped, and now is taking the final form by way of alterations in the printed copy run off as the nominee was put- ting affairs political behind him for his jourrey through the land of red- woods and fish streams that stretch far to_the northward of this univer- sity. Coat off. his huge desk cleared of ‘all except the print of the speech. fhe nominee went over the document paragraph by paragraph, eliminating here, changing there. and in some in- stances rewriting whole lines Before getting down to his work after his arrival home yesterday Hoover con- | ferred with two party leaders, Dante | Plerce of Des Moines, Towa, publisher WILLIAM dags. One of his pets, Jerry, TWO NAMED BY PUZZLE OVER * Pair Wonders if $20 Daily 50 Cents Gi Chesney of Chicago, who has been with perfecting State and county organizations in all States West of Ohio, under the direction of James W. Good of Towa, Western manager in the Republican campaign organiza- tion. Pierce declined to state specifical- ly the matters he had taken up with the candidate. but he discussed at some length the visits made to Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Democratic presidential candi- | | date, by George N. Peek. chairman of Pierce declared that the farmers of the Middle- | west never would “trust their destinies to Tammany Hall,” and said that Peek is and alwa has been a Democrat. | He indicated his own belief that Peek | would be unable to swing any large nu;\bflr of farm votes to the Democratic ticket. James and Louis Johnson, two col- ored beggars, who will each receive $20 | month for the rest of their lives un- der the will of the late Julius M. Gold- enberg, fared forth into a world this morning which is just a little beyond their understanding. 8itting on the curb at Seventh street | and Massachusetts avenue, the brothers | wondered today whether $20 per month |in a Jump sum will be moare, less or equivalent to a month of the 50-cent pieces given them every morning by Mr. Goldenberg as he entered his store Louis, who is 51, and has had three years' “schooling.” is inclined to believe FOR RENOMINATION Tennessee Senator Is Far Ahead—Gubernatorial Contest Close. | the will Favors Cash in Hand. James, who is two years vounger. has | received ‘all his education in the school, of experience, and fs inclined to believe | 50 cents a day in his own hand is in- finitely more desirable James, after much questioning, ad- | mitted he took in a “certain sum" {each day, probably not more than | enough to provide a very meager liv- By the Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. August 3 A- ing. one gathered, additional returns from yesterday's| The brothers. who were born in Democratic primary filtered in today | Fredericksburg, Va., came here about 12 the gubernatorial race between Gov.|YeArs ago. They had known Mr. Gold- 4 | enberg for nearly 10 vears. Henry H. Horton and Hill McAlister | "1, bag weather he used to let them stand inside the store entrance, and on one occasion, when a policeman accused | them of being beggars, Mr. Golden- berg came to their rescue Named for Kindness. Louls lives at 619 Fifty-fourth street northeast, and James at 1214', Blag- den court. They live apart, they ex- plained, because of temperamental dif- ferences The will also provides that $20 a month shall be paid to Willlam E. Duvall, 65, of Baltimore, who attracted Mr. Goldenberg's attention by his de- votion to a cat at Mount Royal Station in_Baltimore. In addition, Duvall, who, until recent- Iy, worked as & house painter, has taken care of other stray dogs and cats in the vicinity. The total of charitable bequests in the will, filed for proba yesterday, is more than $100,000. He leaves $5.000 to Rev and $1.000 to Jacob Schulman. cantor of Cheb Schalom Synagogue of Balti- few more than 200 them. When 1,788 precinets out of 2,230 in the State had reported unofficial counts the vote stood: Horton, 81,176, Mc- votes separated | | | McKellar Far Ahead. In the Democratic senatorial contest, Senator McKellar raced far ahead of the first of four oppoinents, piling up a plurality of almost 37,000 over Repre- The vote: McKellar 80,959 Garrett, 43,739. The other can- didates were far in the rear. Mayor James A. Fowler of Knoxville atorial nomination The two “Macs both supported by the powerful Shelby County (Memphis) | political organization, piled up huge votes in Shelby, the home of McKellar. STAR, WASHINGTON. KINDNESS WINS GOLDENBERG LEGACY Who Left 5100. he will be financially better off under | Willlam Rosenau of Baltimore, | D.. €., FRIDAY, : A UGUST 3, 1928 TRIO HELD AS AIDS IN OBREGON DEATH Branding Iron Found in Nun’s | House Links Secret Order to Assassination. F. DUVALL Of Baltimore, who was named in merchant’s will for his care of stray cats and e is in his arms in the pict 'GOLDENBERG STEADY INCOME™ Monthly Will Equal ven Them by Man 000 to Charity. a waleh and chain usually worn by the deceased and $15,000 in cash, in addi- tion to $3,000 for the benefit of his three children. Dr. Melvin S. Ros- enthal of Baltimore is given $10,000 and Clara Love, secretary to the deceased, is to have $10.000. Among the charitable bequests are $10,000 to the Rosa H. Goldenberg Shoe Fund of the Jewish Federated Charities of Baltimore, $10,000 to Council Milk and Ice Pund of Baltimore as a memo- rial to his parents, $25.000 to the In- struetive Visiting Nurse Society to erect a nursing center to be called the Gold- enberg Center in memory of his parents. to be located at or near St. Aloysius’ paris $25.000 to the United Hebrew Relief Society of Washington for a gen- eral charity fund, $10,000 to the presi- dent and directors of Gonzaga College, to be used for educational or charitable purposes; Sinal Hospital of Baltimore, $10.000. His wife, Kathryn L. Goldenberg, is given $200.000, in addition to the jew- | plry, household effects and automo- | biles. She also is to have the real estate at Ventnor, N. J Morton H. Goldenberg and his wife, Fannie R. Goldenberg, are to hold $25,000 in trust for their son, Moses Morton Goldenberg, until he reaches | Prince Georges County and Brentwood, | the age of 25 years. Alice Riordan, mother of Mrs, Goldenberg, is given $5,000 in addition to a monthly income from the estate. $10,000 to Niece. Morris Simon is to hold another fund of $10,000 for the use of a nlece, Alice Newmyer, and is to pay one-half to her when she is 25 years old and the other half at her thirtieth birth- day A number of relatives and friends and other charitable institutions are remem- bered with smallsr legacies The remaining estate is devised to Morris Simon a1d the National Savings & Trust Co. during the life of his widow. They are to pay to her one-half of the income of tne estate. Her mother, Alice Rlordan, 15 to have a life annuity of $6,000. Marie Glenn, a sister of Mrs. Goldenberg, Is given a life annuity of $1.800, and a similar provision is made for Alice Newmyer, Mrs. Goldenberg's niece | for the education of Moses Morton Gol- ‘The trustees are to expend $5,000 | 189 tia Afiociataa: prans | MEXICO CITY, August 3 | persons, including the mother superior, | Maria Concepcion Acebeda de la LLata |were being held today on formal | charges of being accomplices in the assassination of Gen. Alvaro Obregon | They were in the jail at San Angel, | | where Jose de Leon Toral, the slayer | was awaiting trial for murder. “Mental irresponsibility” will be offered by Toral's lawyers as his defense, they indicated. Attorney General Rieto, who is han- dling the _ prosecution, announced | Toral's mother, father and wife, 16 {nuns and all others who had been in custody in connection with the in- | vestigation, have been released. The | others charged with being accomplices 'wer- Senora Maria Louisa Altimira and Ja Three org: Fernandez Gallardo. Toral and Manuel Trejo, the missing |man who gave Toral the pistol, were |alleged to have spent considerable time at Senora Altimira’s home. Gallardo a cousin of Trejo. Police charge Gal- lardo said he knew Trejo was connected | with the bomb explosions in the | ber of Deputies in May. Nieto {would ask for 20 years' imprisonment | for Mother Superior Concepcion. [his is the maximum penalty, as the Mexi- | can law does not permit the death pen- |alty for a woman. | Find Branding Iron. The prosecutor said investigators dis- covered in the mother superior's house | which was used as a convent, a brand- |ing iron consisting of a cross with the letters “I. H. S." The brand was about the size of a silver dollar. iron was heated and used to brand her body and bodies of some of the nuns and of “some other persons.” Nieto said this indicated the existence |of & secret religious order, and it was { his theory that this might be connected | with the assassination. Toral's body | | not know the identity of the others who | had been branded. The prosecutor announced hc had Toral and the mother superior brought face to face in his office in an attempt to reconcile their conflicting statements about the woman having suggested the | death of Obregon, President Calles anc Patriarch _Perez of the Schismatic | Mexican Catholic Church. He said | Toral faced Sister Concepeion and said | |they had discussed these deaths and |that she had told him these deaths | might end religlous persecution The date of Toral's formal trial will | probably be fixed within 15 days. The | Prosecutor announced that ask the death penalty GIVE THREE VIEWS IN SHOOTING CASE Officials Advance Theories to Explain Wounding of Brentwood Woman. Three theories were advanced by | Md.. authorities today concerning the shooting yesterday afternoon of Mrs. Ruth Baulsir, 31 years old, of 3903 | Newton street, Brentwood, as she stood | at her kitchen door. Mrs. Baulsir is at | Casualty Hospital with a bullet less | than an inch from her heart, and her | condition is so serious that physicians | are afraid to move her to take an X-ray | No clues have developed, but it is thought most probable that the shot | was fired by a boy shooting at a target across the railroad tracks, which are | about 200 yards in the rear of the house | _Deputy Sheriff Arthur W. Hepbur |also advanced the theory that a ca iridge may have been placed on the tracks and been exploded by a train | which was passing at the time of the { shooting The third suggestion made was that | the bullet may have come from | moving train. The train was the Capi- | tol Limited. Railroad officials declared | 1ast night that there was no one on the train empowered to use fircarms of He said this | | has not yet been examined to determine | {whether he was branded. Nieto does | he would | the | Head Aecross Atlantic QFFICERS CHOSEN BY COLORED WOMEN | Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart of In-| diana President—Mrs. Ham-| ilton of D. C. Treasurer. Mrs. Sallie Stewart of |was made president of the ociation of Colored Women {in the Armstrong High School today Mrs. Julia West Hamilton of this eit was elected treasure Other officers eles Charlotte Hawkins Carolina, vice president at large Daisy Lampkins of Pennsvivania, chaie w Tndian National] es Taylor secretars | Jessie Grayson of cording secretar | Bass of Arkansas retary: Mrs. Ad Pennsylvenia, sta | W. Hunton of » tian: Dr. Ida Mae chaglain: Mrs. Joanna Snowden of 11 linois, organizer, and Mrs. Estner Jones {Lee of California, au Mrs. Lil s Brown was chairman of the) | York, parliamenta. Miller of Indfana, i presidet | Mary McLeod Beth in bringing a of a h aarter in thi Convention Will End Tonight. The association convention meeting: ecutive board meeting have been held tomor { moved up to this afternoon that all b 3 day. Tomorrow to be devoted sight-seeing. An address w deliy ered at today's session by Dr. Sarah W.| B ho spoke on “Health,” and] were made. tes Commissioner of Edt n Dr. John J. Tigert, recently | named president of the T iFl””da Is to address the association at| | a meeting at the Metr ist Episcopal Ch! | ley Wilson, grand exalted ored Elks. and Dr. Emmett secretary-treasurer of Ho sity, also will speak. Delegates were the guest at a “sunset tea” at the N ing School, t succeeds | city is Upper: Maj. Lot , Lower: Maj. Kasimir Kubala, |POLISH PLANE SEEN | OFF FRENCH COAST ON NEW YORK FLIGHT (Continued_from First Page.) J. Scott, ard Univera] al last_night] ional Traine| Lincoln Heights Gives Program for Young People. As the engine got up speed and began program for young people to bound over the uneven field it seemed v the association in the Arm= that the plane would never rise from strong High Schoo! late sterday afte the ground with its heavy load | crmoon. Mrs. Ethel Gavin of Chica 4 : spoke on the platform of the Natiy Feared Crash at Take-Off. | Wicociation "of Cotored Waen ™ onal | Idzikowski, however. threw himself | exercises were opened with | into the work and brought the biplane | the young people, followed b off in a masterly fashion, appearing tion by Rev. H. B. Tavlor to just miss the roofs of the military | gram also included a recita hangars. | Ruth Steele of Chicago and But the Pdles did not crash and|by Miss Bessie Eads of X soared away and in 2 minutes were | Mrs. Aimee Nichol SOUGHT BY W. R. E. CO. case of disaster. It was the shortest run ever seen at Le Bourget for such |'a type of plane The Polish plane was escorted by fi | planes. One carried M. Carol, chief | | engineer of the Lorraine factory, which | {built the engine. The others were a | military escort. commanded by Maj Pinsord. and assigned to stay with the airmen until they were safely out to sea. Petition Filed for Permission to Connect Rhode Island Avenue Service With Nearby Maryland. The Washinglon Railway & Electrie Co. today filed a petition with the Pub- lei Utilities Commission for permission to extend its Rhode Island avenue mo tor coach line into nearby Maryland communities over a route that would be in direct competition with the Hy- attsville Hills bus line operated by R. Have Modest Larder. { The Polish airmen had not over- burdened themselves with provisions | Their modest larder contained but one cold chicken. some chocolate, some cof- fee, one bottle of champagne and four | small flasks of brandy for emergencies. ! | They were doubtful about the utility of | a bottle of champagne, but were finally persuaded that it might serve as a restorative and decided to take it along “All we ask is one chance in two to get to Halifax and then one chance in | five to get to New York,"” said Kubala The " application open a fight bet pany and May public hearing before several v expected i o e Carries Roses as Mascot. Idztkowski carried with him their only mascot, three or four roses given | him by a French girl friend They headed westward for Lorient on the coast and they intended to go to the Azores. Without stopping there. the fyers expected to curve northward | toward Halifax or they might head | straight for New York. The flight by way of Halifax would be about 4.000 miles and it wou be about 3,800 miles | direct to New York The cruising radius of the plane is about 5,000 miles. The flyers expect to maintain an average speed of 00 miles an hour. Idzikowski intended to | take things easy at the start, not forc- ing the motor. as this would waste gasoline while the plane was still heavy As the load gets lighter the speed will be increased Their maximum speed The Poles had full days and nights of fiving. thought the trip would take from 11l pany, extend the and May h their own mot ating to Eighth avenue northeast road. The busses under a 20-minut during the rush two The: $5 collateral for disorderly conduct.| District Commissioners, having been ap- | MCAlister received a plurality of almost Chief of Police R. E. Brown Station Clerk Irving Rosenberg and | pointed by the President and with an ! "-0"2 'T'f; and closely pressed Horton Gergt. Henry H. Bailey testified that| equality in salary at the time of the | fOF the lead. his face showed no mnr):csdol Lxgurltslllpp;l:lmpnl.. Because mgd-re' not in- | All Incumbents Lead. and that the prisoner had made no|cluded among the classified employes - complaint of mistreatment .| they are deprived of the benefits of the |, Al of the congressional Scumbents Attorney Kelly tried to discount the| Welch act. The District Commissioners | which there wers contests, In the testimony of Scott and Hawkins by | were so classified several years ago second J. Will Taylor, Republican, had ghowing they hed police records. He| ‘The first steps taken by the Utilities | 5763 (o 1224 for Roy N. Stansberry eiso pointed out that there was no evi-| Commissioners to get the increase, it s | (B e 4324 more. Morris Simon, attorney, and | denberg the Natfonal'Savings & Trust Co. are | The remaining income, if any, is to named trustees of the residuary estate. | be distributed equally among the Fed- Morton H. Goldenberg, his brother, is | erated Charities of Baltimore and the | to have a dlamond ring as a memento, | United Hebrew Relief Soclety of Wash- and the latter's wife, Fannie R. Golden- | ington berg, is given $10,000 to buy some fe On the death of Mrs. Goldenberg elry as & remembrance of the deceased. | the trustees are to retain funds suM- The brother and sister-in-law also are (cient to carry out other provisions of given $10,000 to be used for the benefit | the will and then pay over the balance Brentwood said he thought the shoot- | to forty-two hours, but were sure they | jce would be ing may have be:A premeditated and | could stay in the air for 56 hours if | exe due to spite, but this theory was dis- | Necessary. notif counted by neighbors and by the wom- | For mare than a year the two airmen | plic; an's husband, Robert L. Baulsir. 33 | had studied charts and tuned motors | trict w years old, a pressman, employed at the | in practice for the flight. They waited . HICKMAN'S DOOM SEALED. plant of Judd & Detwiler, who declared | for many weeks for the right moment that she had no enemies. Lately they had smarted somewha b SAN FRANCISCO, A t The shooting occurred about 2:35 | under an occasional shaft of er | o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Baul- | ridicule which some French newspaper of the hey S Ui omd dence 1o show what had happened 1o |in 76 of 131 precincts, Lewis between the hour of midnight he left the station house and m. when Dr. C. R. Marshall was called to treat him at his home. Teates, 1o testify, said he had been ar- 2 officer and had done all the talk- d that Redding had not said a The trial board alsc heard the case of Policeman J. W.Co precinct ing been lated conduct pre He udicial Police- | trial | the Con- on at two days he|sessing liquor, following a raid by Po- |lcan more than a “lime he received|the Eighth precinct at 1820 Twentieth | version yesterda POPE KEPT INDOORS BY EXCESSIVE HEAT of the Reports of Pontifi's Physical In- Prank Lyman, Willard Courts; George | dizposition Is Discredited by Visitors. " RC ¢ Assoriaten Press ME. August 3.—Heat 5o oppressive that temperature sometimes reach- 00 'n the shade, has forced Pope s 10 abandon his dally walks in the gardens of the Vatican, He has also | been inconvenienced by one foot, whith | he twisted in descending from his au-| tomabile The Pontiff. withoul medical advice vesterday decided not 1o descend from i riment to the Pauline Chape s although it was th date for obtaining the “Pardon of As n that chaps yuiety was relieved somewhat toda) ral members of a group of farm received by ‘he Pontiff. said tha! ped 1o them be perfectly that had walked 8 of & limp wa ne trace igoro to ithout be poker in every in good voice, ap- | understood, was an appeal to the Dis- | trict classification board to be put in| the same classification with the Dis-| | trict Commissioners. SIX CAUGHT IN RAID | FORFEIT COLLATERAL | Alleged Proprietress of House Do-;A. EarL. IS.PREPARED mands Jury Trial and Is Re Bond leased on | Pive youths and a young woman, | whose ages ran from 17 to 19, beljeved by police to be high school students, were arrested for disorderly conduct and | . A colored woman was charged with conducting a disorderly house and pos- licemen R. L. Jones and J. J. Tolson of street yesterday afternoon When arraigned before Judge Gus A Schuldt today, Mrs. Gertrude Butler, the ecolored woman, demanded a jury trial and was released under $300 bond All the others forfeited $5 collateral Those booked on the disorderly charge | gave their names and adresses as War- ren B. Green, 1860 Mintwood place George Fuqua, Wardman Park Hotel Rolland Steele, 1705 Lanier place 1 c Strong, 3711 Ritterbusch BRITISH PLAN MERGER OF ALL WIRE FACILITIES Government Will Back Plan fo Ox S street, and Mildred 701 C street southwest ganize Communications Under One Head By the Associaied Press LONDON, August government's deeision o baek the scheme for merging all the empire’s cable and wireless facilities into one world system of communications was revealed last night to the House of Commons by Bir Jobn Gilmour, chair- man of the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference The question being debated on the floor when he announced for the | government that the program mapped by the conference had been accepied and that negotiations would be opened with the companles concerned. 3 -~The Rritish >f Jane Bernhelmer during her minority, when the trustees are to have the fund for their own use Morris Simon, his attorney, is to have TIME-SHARING PLAN IN RADIOING SOUGHT Obtain Figures on Number of Hours Consumed by Each Station. and seventy-nine out of 239 precincts in the seventh gave the Democratic incumbent, E. E. Eslick, 7491 to 3,339 for B. Turner Representative | Browning, Democrat, eighth district, was well ahead of Herman Cravens In the ninth, where five sought to suc- ceed Garrett, Jere Cooper, in 194 out of 216 precincts, had 8,697 to 7,842 for W. W. Craig, his nearest opponent Commission Proposes to FOR COUNTER ATTACK | ON COMMUNISTS | (Continued from First Page.) - By the Ansociated Press A questionnaire designed to obtain | or andther, partly by hostility to Amer- Federation of Labor Unions, but, in | |any event, the struggle that many have | thought had “petered out” seems about | {10 burst once more into active opera- tions, and this in the midst of the na- tional political campaign (Copyright. 1928) LABOR REPORT DUF. all_broadeasting stations operate w sent out by the Federal Radio Commis sion today “In order that proper time sharing can be scheduled in the new, allocation plan without undue hardship to_any broadeaster.” to state under oath the actual time mercial hours from 7 pm. until mid night, the proportion of such hours de- voted to chain programs and the type of apparatus used to Insure constant frequency Commissioner A.F. of L May or May Not Take Stand | On Candidates. { ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. August 3 ().—The reading of the report of the | non-partisan political committee, pre viously deferred, was expected to take | place at the afternoon session of the | executive council of the American Fed- eration of Labor here today While members of the councll have | declined to discuss whether they would announce an atitude toward the prest dential candidates, the report will con tain the outcome of a recent confer ence of President Willlam L. Green and Goy. Smith, Mr. Green indicated LEAGUE UNIT TO MEET. Early Assembling of Disarmament with the the Caldwell, who Commissioner Pickard comprised subcommittee which {5 preparing new assignment basts, said today the present situation which provides for duplication of programs on 10 to 20 channels will decelve close scrutiny in the light of protests received by | commission and members of Congress. | . Proposals for relleving this situation Caldwell noted, include regulations per mitting repetition of programs on high powered stations only when separated by a distance of 1,000 miles, limiting 5,000-watt chain transmitters to one fn each of the five zones or halting these similar programs entirely except an sets of 500 watts or less, using shared channels “As renllocation work progresses il becomes Increasingly evident that our 90 broadeasting wave lengths can carry only 150 full time stations of 500 watts and over” Caldwell sa “if the prin- ciples of - good radio reception are to be preserved. With some 300 licensed transmitters to be accommodated, it is evident that time division must be im- posed to a large extent, and the ques- Uonnaire will provide basia.” Commission Expected, PARIS, August 3 (). —An early meet- ing of the Permanent Disarmament | Commission of the League of Nations, | perhaps immedintely after the assembly of the League in Geneva next month, 18 expected here as a result of the agree- ment between France and England on The principles of the naval disarmament rogram. The commission adjourned ast March subjeet to the eall of its chairman, M. Loudon Mand. l latest figures on the hours during which | The station owners will be required | they employ during the valuable com- | that | the | } trust estate to the Sinal Hos- | pital of Baltimore Morton H. Goldenberg, Leo Baum and | Morris Simon are named as executors 'FINALISTS SELECTED IN ARMY TOURNAMENT Johnson, Von Vliet, Hobbs and| Christenbury Remain on Courts | | as Last Stage Begins. | Finalists in the Army doubles tennis | tournament were determined this morn- ing on the courts of the Edgemoor Club, Col. W. C. Johnson and Capt R, O. Van Viiet, jr., defeated Iieut J. R. Pitman and Capt. D. N, Murphy, | 61, 6--3 and 62 | mateh, while 1. 8. Hobbs and Capt | C. W Christenberrs survived the other semi-final _encounter, winning over Lieut. D. D. Hedikin and Capt. J. H Hills, 1--6, 36, 78, 6—4 and 6--0 In the first match Col. Johnson and | Capt. Van Viiet were decidedly supe- | | rior, _exhibiting greater steadiness in | the back court and brilliancy at the net The Christenberry-Hobbs team had an uphill fight right from the start Thelr opponents breezed through the first and second sets so decisively that the match seemed eastly within their hands. Christenberry and Hobbs found thelr feet in the third, however, and gave them real battle, breaking through to take the third set when the other palr had stood within two points of the mateh Hills and Hedikin obviously were tired In the fourth set, but held their pace until the ninth game, when a double fault on Hedikin's service gave thelr nr.nnlruli a golden opportunity. From | this point on the outcome of the match was never fn doubt The finals are being held at the Co- lumbia Country Club this afternoon. Mexioan Troops Kill 17, MEXICO CITY, August 3 () —Dis- patches from Guadala today aald that 17 Insurgents had been killed in various parts of Jallseo by federal troops. Three insurgents were captured near Cludad Gusman and summarily ~martiasled grd exocuted. in one semi-final | and her 12-year-old son, Robert Ed- ward, was playing in the back yard The report of a shot was heard and | the child became frightened and ran under the back steps. His mother came to the door to see what was the matter. Robert had started up the steps when a second bullet passed over his head and struck Mrs. Baulsir just above the heart. The boy called Mrs Mary Louise Spitzer, of 3905 Newton street to his mother's assistance. Mrs. Baulsir collapsed in a swing Mrs. Spitzer summoned the Casualty Hospital ambulance. A posse was organized and searched the woods. During the search about 5:30 o'cle yesterday evening two more shots wer heard, apparently coming from the woods beyond the railroad tracks. The investigators say they heard some one running through the underbrush, but no one was caught Mrs. Spitzer told reporters today that she heard the two detonations as the train passed, but attached no impor- | tance (o them until she heard the child seream Police are at a loss for clues pended cartridges have been Mrs. Baulsir had not yet heen able to talk. The Baulsirs have been liviog in the community for about three years WOMEN IN GUN DUEL; ONE IS SHOT TO DEATH, | No ex- | found. | By the Associated Press FARMERVILLE, La, August § ‘Che slaying of Mrs. Ira Medlin on a| highway near here by Mrs. Oscar Day | was described to police today by the latter as duel betwen the two women Mrs. Day sald she fired upon Mrs | Medlin only after the latter's shot went | wild. Two bullets struck Mrs. Medlin | in the mouth, Killing her almost in- stantly Both families are well known in Unton | County. Mrs. Medlin was the wite of a dentist. Mrs. Day was placed in jail here on A charge of manslaughte | Police said the shooting grew out of | domestic troubles and wrred when Mrs. Medlin and her sister stopped their | automoblile late yvesterday on the high-| way where they found Dr. Mediin en- | gaged in conversation with Mre Day and her mother, while the dentist's ma- chine and that of Mrs. Day were stand- ing on the roadaide. sir was in the kitchen washing dishes | | Spring in the office of the chief of the had leveled at their long delay heard of some impatience at Warsaw although the weather was not | they decided it was good e which to stake their chanc the first air travelers from New York U. S. TO AID SPANISH FLYERS. The Edward Hiekman, et 1 ough on of being Paris Army Air Corps Officers Instructed fo Give Assistance By the Associ When the panish flyers in hydroplane Numancia, forced Wednesday near Cadiz, reach Am cities and the Philippines upon res tion of their round-the-world tour t will find American Army Al cers ready sveryth to assist them The War Department has telegraphed instructions to erals at New York. San Francisco and Manila directing them to render all possible assistance to fiyers. In- structions sent to Manila were that mooring facilities be made available there and a boat displaying the Span- ish flag be placed to guide the aviators to the landing p! It was further directed that necessary precautions be taken to prevent damage and collision with local era‘t Maj. Ruiz de Alda one of the Nu- mancia’s crew, who Wwas with Maj Ramon Franco. the plane’s commander. | Walt on the first flight across the south |“Adoration Atlantic in 1926, spent some time this | One-st dowr to do the Selection Live Duet Nigh' in Descriptive Waltz, “The W commanding gen- Finale, “The 730 Ma o Vocal solo, Chester Dodson. Alr Corps here studylng weather con- Overture, “Idalia ditions, map charts, airways and other- | “A Kiss in the Dark wise preparing himself for the present | March, “Officer of the Day trip. Selection, “The Prince of Pilsen . Solo, Dodson AIR RACE IS DELAYED. One-step Spangled Banoer Intercollegiate Contests Will Be H 10. The National Aeronauties Associa today postponed the itercollegiate race for the Loening trophy at Mitchel Field. New York tember 1 until Dooember 1 ‘The race will be for speed ln attain. ing one mile of altitude, and each col- lege fiving club mav be represented by a team of three pilots. The postpone- ment was granted on request of A pum- her of who ;:md more Ume to e 4 Jarrett V. Herbert Hall Luders The Star By the the Army tonight Mareh tar Suit World Whit nited States Army Ba War College. at 8 30 gin December in Do The Washiy Duweliers The Man Man h The Black Man Sousa Wayne from Sep- Fopular batlad, “Ram March, “On the Malt". Goldman Trombone solos. “Marcheta” and “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes Walts, “Entre Selvas" March, “Tlinois" casa Woods he Star Spangled Banner Lopes o