Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1928, Page 2

%* COLE SURRENDERS THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8 1928.° l - IN DUAL SHOOTING! Waives Preliminary and Is| Held for Jury in V\'(ounding of Wife and Man. Ernest Cole, 27, 912 Delafield place, oho is alleged to have shot his wite and her friend, Gerald Maher lumbia road, Sunday night for the action of the grand j at Hy by Police Justice Chew Sherif, follo last night to Maryland State police. his capture was imminent Cole had bee brother, Charles Cole. today 3 near Laurel C. M. Blanchard, chief of police of Cole said today he felt of 1669 Co- was held 's surrender as traced to the home of hours be- so he | About 10 o'clock to the Maryland t Laurel and the ja committed to lboro until bond ag himself He said he ne G| Mrs. Cole ed from her husband for ab: had just returned home ths Georgia telephone exchange. where T with Maher and a friend of John Dyer of 412¢ Third street in Hospital. Both Maher and Mrs’ Cole are now vidence Hospital, wher their on is said to be serious, although pected o recover d ay at I home Monday night. Between tng and that time he had en it dding in the woods near Hyatts- | hrow his pursuers off Bla rd succeeded in trac- ing his movements. however, and last night arrived at the brother's house sbout 30 minutes after Cole left for the police station to give himself up. trying to HAY'S NOMINATION IN MISSOURI MAY DIVIDE BALLOTS inued from First Page.) __(cont publicans its vote in 1920. An organi- zation meeting of Republicans of the State will be heid by Evans in Nash- ville, August 10. Arriving here from California, Evens predicted Mr. Hoover would carry that State by 500,000. He believed the pec- ple of Tennessee were not considering Mr. Hoover “as a partisan politici and were for him “as a great American, big in understanding and broad enough to represent and act for the whole United States.” Representaiive Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts called at headquarters and reported to Franklin Fort, secre- tary of the national committee “an - creasingly strong sentiment” in favor of Herbert He seid the uiet - ly and carrying on for Mr. Hoover's election.” PASTOR ACCEPTS SMITH CHALLENGE ge.) in his private office is covered with ial volumes, recording past pro- ceedings of the New York Legislature, and an overflow surrounds it on the floor, each book with slips of paper marj ref e, In. the event the governor should de- eide to reply. it is expected here to be more than an answer to White. Smith's friends are of the opinion that he would analyze his attitude toward so- cial legisiation in sweeping fashion, probably covering more ground than that embraced by the White charges. As he is surveying the record and ing ‘a decision as to a posible re- piy scceptance speech into shape. His noti- fication comes two weeks from tonight and he wants to put the touches on his address by next we g0 JUSTICE OPPOSES PASTOR. New York Supreme Court Jurist Hits Dr. Straton’s Stand. ATLANTA, Ga., August 8 (#) tice William Harmon Black of the Ne York Supreme Court and president of the board of trustees of tie Calvary Beptist Church in a formal statement here today took sharp issue with the | Straton, | attitude of Dr. John his pastor, toward Gov. Alfred E. Smith Justice Black, who i5 visiting here d that “Dr. Straton’s attack on Goy Smith does not repre: of the Bapuists in the U Asserting that have the individu because they ureh con declared Bapti Roach ted States.” aureh that ing tha o express themselve: ect and, in doing 50 } within his rights formed as to the facts Dr. Biralc provided he § As Orator. orator, in m; Church and ¢ Bible in a minute ver w, but 1 belleve eit, that' I know more abou ical history than he will ever know 1 do know that I would not protound)y interested in Goy. Smith ] it T had not know ears, and if 1 today. His record before On every advance of ading 1 son but al Wi party Praises Pastor Baptist “He 1 mor I wi opin th har d not know Lk t loyal ma politic asily the progress mos his party, H 1s fight, despit not_only from o from som qGuarters in his Backs Minister Otherwise, Justice B the lmpressi ! Dr m did not wan! wits “'a ack mald he crealed that he Bt 1 Uhae 1 have wit Lorate Cal § with him in « e toward Ge B As u general propostion minister nor s judge hould politics, and with one exception, wk 1 wrote ® communication some week: 840 10 the Atlanta papers. 1 have main ained this rule. Dr. Staton's atiae G th. however. impels me 1 0 the o at L he througho hurch tng but hi beeet o BLUl neither e conclusions v from | reached his | the places to look for quick| 0 the editor, the governor also is under the compulsion of whipping his | finishing this time | He still has a long way tq Jus- LA greal many members Baptists | governed by | 5, the Justice | with- be 50 s bim intimately.| n the American discuss Ernest Cole (left), in the custody of C. M. Blanchard, chief of police of | Hyattsville. Coie gave himself up after Blanchard had tracked him to the home of | & brother. CITY GOVERNMENTS OUTWORN. SPEAKER TELLS INSTITUTE Virginia Meet Hc;ars Central Rule Is Big Need in U. S. Gain in European Democracy Seen. them so, never raised the estion.” Latane and Stevens continued debate for some time Miss Annie Peck, traveler and moun- tain climber, said that the United States had assumed many rights in Latin America not included in the | Monroe doctrine The place of the press in public affairs was the subject of a round table open-d yesterday by Victor Rose- water, former publisher of the Omaha Bee. Dr. Rosewater pointed out that a curious phenomenon has taken place in the last three years whereby total { newspaper circulation has increased, | while the number of papers radically | has decreased. There are now, he | said, 401 morning and 1,531 afternoon daily newspapers in_the United States, with a total circulation of approxi- mately 37,000,000 | Newspapers with large circulations {in the big cities, said Don Seitz, for- | mer treasurer of the New York World, | have made an aristocracy impossible of | by continually holding the scandals of ¢! the rich before the public eye. Not s only is a newspaper seldom influenced for consolidation of the population us-im Bltgiighh o il e e ol triéts there. At present the only gov- ernment having jurisdiction over the | perience on New York dailies he never BY THOMAS R. HENRY. They Staff Correspondent of The & UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA { 8—The American city is in the grip of i relentless economic forces which de- | mand radical readjustments in local | government, Prof. Thomas H. Reed of {the University of Michigan told t | Institute of Public Affairs here today. I Prof. Reed stressed a situation which, | | he said, was common to all American | cities which have overrun their munici- pal boundaries and taken in suburban | villages without altering their forms of {government. He urged that cities con- | solidate all their natural area under a | central government. No city as yet has | done 'this, he said, even New York be- {ing a collection of buroughs, each re- | taining considerable local authority. | Leyton E. Carter, secretary of the | regional government commission { Cleveland told of the plans underws | the’ ! i Aircraft’s U Development of commercial airlines will mean very little for national de- fense in time of war, Dr. Otto Schreiber of the University of Konlgsberg told the round-table group discussing aviation !jaw. The only object of & government n subsidizing commercial lines, he said, 16 to provide customers for the aircraft manufacturers so that they can have their factories ready to turn out war planes in time of need Not only would commercial planes be useless in war, Dr. Schreiber said, but commercial pflots probably would be worse than useless The general understanding, he said, i that n airplane’s nationality is that of the country it s flying over, and 1t this changes with each border, rdless of origin, Any acts on the planie come under the Iaw of that coun- The day will come, he said, when Wll be necessary to give magisterial powers to the mmander of an air- plane such as now are given to the contracts, he said, but in 20 years' ex- whole area is the county government.|had been approached by an advertisek But the tiny village pmmthe advertisers had asked for the suppres- powe city | | Industrial Growth in South. hand and Italian fascism on the other, Rlchard I |‘#dmunds, efitor of the war. Count Carol Sforza, former Italian “Eastern industries,” he sald, “rapidly Although Russia, Spain_and |land and the Middle States have in- cy has gained by the addition of suck and paper-making industries are rapid- ment in Japan. way work, or eight times as much as | of what may be accomplished in the now is valued at $1,000,000,000 a year (e, Tells Woman's Advance. Sforza said, are paving the way for the of economic forces, Mrs. Aurelia H. | might come. He pointed out that Rus- ciety. She divided the history of wom- Prance and England for more than 200 years, from the earli- | afternoon was marked by #pirited | ized by no educational opportunities Btevens, representative of the Amer | second period, when women gained a ad been on the point of carrying the | ous other flelds, until now they are be- American owners of oil properties | cess various concessions would have been heny got away with here” he said | tible to financial approach? The simple In this area now are four cities and 50 | in an effort to bring pressure on & villages, all a part of greater Cleveland. | matter of policy. Twice, he said, rich | same governmental sion of accounts of family tragedies of Cleveland itself. and been refused in both cases Demoeracy Gaining in Europe. Despite Russian bolshevism on one The South is on the threshold of a period of unexampled industrial growth, | democracy in Europe has not falled, but | manufacturers’ Record, said at the { actually has gained ground since the | round table on industrial progress minister of foreign affairs, sald last are being moved to the South and night. within the past four years, New Eng- Italy, | Hungary have fallen into the hands of | vested over $100,000,000 in the cotton dictators, he said, the body of democra- | mills below the Potomac. The rayon | countries as Czechoslovakia and by the | ly centering in the South. Last year enormous advance of popular govern- | the South spent $390,000,000 in high- “Germany and Prance,” Count Sforza the United States thus spent in 1900. | said, “constitute a marvelous example | The output of cotton goods in the South way of financial and economic recon- | compared with $339,000,000 for ~the struction through parliamentary meth- | United States in 1900. Those who create dictatorships | through fear of bolshevism. Count | The advance of woman in education and citizenship has been the product very thing they fear and are creating { an atmosphere ‘out of which a new war | Reinhardt, California, educator, said at the round table on women in modern so- sians do not bar fascist journals, but are rigid against liberal newspapers of | en’s education and activities in America in three periods. The first extended Coolidge Policy Attacked. est settlements until well into the The open forum session yesterday | nincteenth century, and was character- clesh between Prof. John H. Latane of | whatsoever outside the home. Johns Hopkins University and ‘Then, Mrs. Reinhardt said, came the petroleum interests in Mexico, when the | place as school teachers, From the former charged that President Coolidge | schoolroom they graduated into numer- country into war with Mexico early in | ing educated for and taking part in 1927 almost every human activity with suc- didn’t want arbitration, he said, by which the validity of their claims to examined by an impartial tribunal “We know whaat Sinclair and Do- “How about Mexico, where political parties are somewhaat more suscep- truth is that many of the oil claims were fraudulent Stevens Resents Charges. e| “I can’t sit here and hear by Presi- t{dent accused of designs (o go o war { with Mexico,” said Mr. Stevens. “There | was never the slightest posstbility of war. 1t happened t fear that the | embargo on arms might be lifted in- | duced the Cal government to agree to arbitrate. The professor hasn't the slightest _reason: bout conc There no concessions, | ¢ bought from pri- Furthermore, Do- Sinclair always have been | by juries 1f any of the | eaptain of a ship ere fraudulent the Mexican | Every country, he sald, needs flylng had a perfect right to de- | policemen Lo enforce its air laws s | slon E t| heny and acquitted claims s | governmen 1$18.50 Flivver Sold at Dry Auction Yields Gallon of Corn Whisky to Buyer amid the upholstery two glass jars of it proved to be spiritus frument) Apparently Mr. Levy didn’t wish to worry Marshal Snyder about the matter fe drove home. The Jurs today wid to be empty. My, Tevy went vk s usual ut Marshial Snyder vied us he can be about i That bardly seems possible” e aculated toduy on being advised of “That car had been in the hands of the prohibition people and the police for months. It was up them to search it They must have done 5o very thoroughly. How they could miss finding a gallon of Nquor under the front seal is n mystery me 1 didnt search the ears which vere muctioned off, My duty was to sell them.” 0 . Bnyder puzzied auctioned off two hi congealed fn a confisceted sutomobile an old type iy noto Morton Levy a local architectursl The machine old court $ mir report quite Edger C hal, wa: that he iwittingly corn whisky rum-rinning The car knocked do mpluye 1 o 0 were 4 I8 Just ns wor- anywiy young firm of i group Fidelity ge According 10 the reports, Mr got more than he bargained for was @n uncomfortable hump on the front seat, but since Mr. Levy was not % | expecting the utmost in comfort from o ! s newly aequized conveyance, he did ot | not complain, He did, however, in n ' vestigate When wits order . Levy e There " he lifted the zeat he found ! over IGRAND JURY OPENS Montgomery County Panel Calls Witnesses in Slaying Behind Locked Doors. By a Staft Corrospondent of The Star, ROCKVILLE, Md.. August 8. — Be- | hind carefully guarded doors in the | Montgomery County courthouse a spe- cial jon of the grand jury toda heard testimony in support of a first- degree murder charge against Samuel T. Robertson, Bethesda, Md.. contrac- tor, who is being held without bond in the shooting of Edward L. Mills, Hunt- ing Hill farmer, July 7, 1927, Two county policemen and several court officers kept a small crowd at a safe distance from the door behind which the grand jury is conducting its hearing. Unintelligible questions and answers came through the open tran- som, but were not distinguishable to the small crowd, which soon dispersed Eye-Witness Heard. The first two witnes: Robert Peter, jr.. Stat Montgomery County, were W. R. Pum- phrey, jr, and Dr. William T. Pratt Theit testimony, it was made known, was entirely of a routine nature. Pumph- rey, an undertaken, describing the con- ditions of the body when it was turned over to him. Dr. Pratt, county health officer, told of the number and posi- tion of the bullet holes. | _'The only eye-witness to the | Clarence Miles, 19-year-old empioye at the Mills farm, was the next witness ealled. Miles was brought from the State Reformatory near Beltimore by {an armed guard and taken back im- mediately after the jury finished qu tioning him. Miles said he described the details of the shooting, but told the jury he could not identify the mysteri- ous stranger who fired the shots as be- ing Raobertson Miles is unde called by attorney for hooting. tood to have testified that he was too far away to get a good look at Mills' assailant and that a early morning mist obscured his vision He was followed on the witness stand by Paul Mills, oldest son of the slain man, whose testimony was believed to be much the same: Saw Man Fleeing. Mills is understood to have told th: jury he ran from the barn on his father's farm after hearing the shots only to see the stranger disappearirs a hill. He added, however, that the general appearance of the flee man was similar to that of Robertsou His mother, Mrs. Bertha Mills, w the next witness called. Her testimons believed to be the same as that she gave at a preliminary hesring A J. Baughman, a neighboring farmer, was next called by Mr. Peter in an attempt to show that Robertson had been in the yicinity on the morn- ing of the shooling. Baughman was reported to have told the jury that hours affter the shooting occurred. H said Robertson gave no evidence of be- ing under any undue strain. 20 Witnesses Remain. About 20 witnesses remained to be heard, among them two firearms ex- perts from New York and a typewriter expert from the Bureau of Standards. It is not expected that the last of these witnesses will have been heard before tomorrow afternoon. Robertson was charged with the mur- der of Mills when he surrendered April 16, after an alleged assault on Wilson | { Trout, a farmer living near Potomac, ed over a revolver to the police, which he said be had taken away from Trout Trout, however, maintained that Rob- ertson brought the revolver when he came to his house. Mr. Peter, it is expected. will attempt to show that the revolver taken from Robertson is similar to the one used in killing Mills. He also contends that a typewriter found in the Robertson home is identical with the machine used in writing a note which was pin- ned to Mills' body after he had been shot, GEORGE BRENNAN, ILLINOIS DEMOCRAT LEADER, DIES AT 63 First (Continued_from Page business which was one of the largest in Chicago. Not until he passed his sixtieth birth- day did Brennan first seek an elective office, and then only because he found no outstanding Democrat to run for the United States Senate on a platform advocating banishment of prohibition, He lost, but ran so well in Chicago that he rried a Democratic county ticket to victory, which counted heavily for the party. His first spurs in the fleld of na- to engineer the nomination of Jam M. Cox for President of the Democratic national convention of 1920. He was i the vanguard of the supporters of Gov. Al Smith of New York for the 1924 nomination, and was spokesman for the Smith camp when the deadlock with McAdoo was finally broken in favor of John W, Davis. When critics called him a boss and charged him with bargains with Re- publican factions of Chicago, Brennan pointed with pride to his maneuvering jof Williim E. Dever’s election to the mayoralty of Chicago in 1923 to suc- ceed Willlam Hale Thompson. Although a native of New York where he was born at Port Byron on May 20, 1865, Brennan lived in Ilnols from boyhood ¥ RVING GO e ohief of guides at the Capitol and I at the Capitol 40 Washington, as dos ht ter, Mrs, Asa P. Rarker, vesides in Newls Mercer, Lucy and Minnie. rs. They hive MILLS DEATH PROBE ¢ | six to Robertson came to his house about six | Md. At the time of his arrest he turn- | wedding anniversary at their home, 1115 B strest northeast. Caf MOORE'S MAJORITY MAYRUNGTO 1 1 a— 'Three Members of Congress Renominated in Virginia Primaries. | Practically complete returns terday's Democratic primary in ll?t‘ eighth congressional district of Virginia give Representative R. Walton Moore, | secking renomination, a vote probably one greater than that of his opponent, H. Earlton Hanes. His ma- | jority in’ Alexandria is 1,056, in Fair- fax, 637; in_Arlington County, 1,398; | in Culpeper County. 550: in Fauguier, about 900; in King George, 300; Louisa, | 250: Orange, 550; Prince William. 500; Loudoun, 1,080, and Stafford, 300. Mr Hanes apparently failed to carry a pre- cinct in Alexandria, Arlington, Fau- quier and Loudoun Counties. ' Moore from | | had announced his support of Smith | while Hanes rel ned The vote was considered for President, | non-committai | light ! In the third congra Virginia Representative Andrew Jac on Montague of Richmond and in the sional district of | second, Representative Joseph T. Deal, | | both seeking renomination, are r to have large majorities. Montague d feated D. C. O'Flaherty and Deal d feated State Senator John A. Lesner. Alexandria Count Complete. By wards the complete vote in Alex- andria follows Pirst-—Moore. { Hanes, 35. Second--Moore, 248: Hanes, | Third—Moa 446 Hanes, 75, Fourth—Moore, 278; Hanes, 40 In Arlington County the vote by pri cincts follows: Cherrydale—Moore, *Hanes, 33. Clarendon—-Moore, Hanes, 91. East 5, Hanes, 14, Hanes, 6. Lyon Par | Hanes, 12 arne--Moore, | 24. Ballston—-Moore, 210 | Arlington—Moore, 177: Han | lyn—Moore, 109 Har | Highlands— Moore, 152; Representative Moore votes in Fairfax County, for Hanes. Three small to be counted. 1t follows: Falls Chu nandale precinet, Moor Church, Moor End, Moore, cported yn-—Moor Moore, 104; 90; Hanes, Hanes, 47 polled 1477 inst 840 precincts are h district—An- 48; Hanes, 16 130; Hanes, 124 6. Hanes, 8. Provi- dence district—Fairfax precinct. Moore, 203; Hanes, 43. Vienna, Moore, 100: Hanes, 27. Langley (which McLean), Moore, 153 nes, 123. The Lick, Mo 52: Hanes, 22. Mount Ver- non Districi—Pullman precinct, Moore, 26; Hanes, 6. Gum Springs, Moore, 39 Hanes, 4. Dranesville district—Dranes- | ville, Moore, Moore, 50: Hal 158; 'Hanes, Moore, 16 Herndon, Moore, Pleasant ~ Valley, | 16. Thompson Moore, 28. ‘Thorntons, | Moore Hanes, 23. Lee district Bayliss precinct, Moore, 65 . Moore, 77; Hanes, 10. Center- ville district—Clifton precinct, Moore, 167. Hanes, 24. Centerville, Moore. 5 Hanes, 3 {11, Swetnam, Moore, 18 Wells, Moore, 6; Hanes, 3. Prince William County. In 11 of 18 precincts in Prince Wil- liam County = Representative Moore polled 630 votes to 133 for Hanes. precincts, the vote follows: Manassas, | Mocre, 267 Hanes, 54. Newmarket, | Moc re. 91; Hanes. 2. Nokesville, Moore, | 50; Hanes, 15. Aben, Moore, 25: Hanes, 6. Brentsville. Moore, 26; Hanes, 7 Occcquan, Moore. 46: Hanes, 31, Cap- harpin, Moore, 39: Hanes, 7. Hickory Groi», Moore, 26: Hanes, 1. Water | Fall, Moore, 10: Hanes, 0. Greenwich, | Moci - 28; Hanes, 2 | Moor=, 22; Hanes, 5. | ‘Twenty-seven out of twenty-eight precincts in Loudoun County gave Representative Moore 1,205 votes, and | H. Earlton Hanes 217. The vote was | light. Powell's Shop, with 7 or 8 votes, | 15 the missing precinct MRS. HERBERT HUNTS " HUSBAND AND CHILD Mrs. Myrtle Herbe who with her husband, Joseph G. Herbert, figured in the mistrlal of a liquor case here three months ago when one of the jurors | was detected winking at Mrs. Herbert, today notified the police that her hus- | band had taken their 5-vear-old daugh- ter Justina while the wife was ill in a hospital and had left town with the child. She asked for assistance in | locating them. Herbert, she sald, had | not been seen here since Saturday. Mrs. Herbert sald she had lost her | home through incumbrances, one of them being $300 she had borrowed to | get the husband out of jail after he had been found guilty of illegal and possession of liquor at their s trial. Mrs. Herbert was acquitted | that trial | Mrs Hanes, 1. at pital. While she was there, she sald, Justina s taken to the home of her husband’'s sister. near. Mechanicsville, Md., to await her recovery. She w tional politics were won when he helped | released from the hospital a week ago, | | and yesterday, feeling strong enough to | make the trip, went after the child as | she | |she said she told | would do. | _Upon her arrival there, she claims | she was told that her husband had taken the child and expressed his in- tention of going to Canada Mrs. Herbert elaims she and her hus- band had been having marital difficul- | thes. A call this morning revealed that her husband had sold the furniture of | their home on Seventh street. She now ix staylng with her mother at 1000 Twenty-second street Herbert 1s 5 feet 8 inches in height | weighs 150 pounds and has dark com- | plexion and brown eyes. He is an in- l surance collector. hair and eyes. the husband LDEN WEDDIN CAPT. AND MRS, BENJAMIN J. CADY. Is wife tonight will celebrate their fiftieth son, Benjamin Ralph Cady, who Hves in ers, Mrs. Alice B, Mercer. Another daugh- on, Mass, with thelr three grandehildren, L] includes | Hanes, 26. Forestville, | Hanes, 30. | Pender, Moore, 38 Hanes, | By | Wellington, | Herbert said that she became {11 | a month ago and was taken to the hos- | The child has dark | Cady haw been | A sample of the closing device used on the resort at No. 1 Thomas Circle, | closed for a year yesterday under the prohibition law. CALIFORM'A CREW | WINS SEMI-FINALS IN OLYMPIC RACE (Continmied from First Page.) d hat ¥ indicated the margin alf len: After the United States-Canada race the English eight, which had a rowover | covered the course in 6:23 | The California victory assured the | United States of at least three finalists in the Olympic regatta, with a possibil- | ity that a fourth would reach the final round in its class. Those now in the finals besides the Golden Bears are Ken Club four without coxswain, { while the double scullers, McIlvaine and | Costello, have reached the semi-finals | with the Canadian and Austrian pairs | The semi-final event for double scul- |lers will be rowed tomorrow. one pair | having a bye. and all the other oarsmen | Barge ‘hn\'mg a rest until Friday. | Ken Myers Victorious Again. Ken Myers of Philadelphia won in the semi-finals in the Olympic single | sculls event from Gunther of Holland He will meet Bob Pearce of Australia for the title. Collett, England’s single sculler who esterday defeated Wright of Canada in the Olympic sculling event, was to- | day defeated by Pearce of Australia ‘The American double scullers. Charles Mcllvaine and Paul V. Costello. beat the Swiss pair of Boshard and Reider by four lengths today in the semi-finals Barge Club Four Wins. The Pennsylvania Barge Club four, | without coxswain, today defeated the Italian four in the semi-finals, thus clinching the right to meet Great Brit- ain in the final on Friday The Americans, Paul McDowell and | John Schmitt, were beaten in the race for pair-oared shells without coxswain by the Germans, Moeschter and Muller, I'by two lengths in the semi-finals. The defeat eliminated them from the regatta. U. S. BOXERS MUST REMAIN. MacArthur Refuses Permission to With- draw Team From Olympies. AMSTERDAM. August 8 (#.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur, president of the American Olympic Committee, today re- fused Jacob W. Stumpf, manager of the American boxing team, permission to withdraw the team from the Olympic competition. Stumpf had requested the permission as & result of an adverse de- cision of judges who gave the Belgian fiyweight ‘Marcel Sartos the decision over Hyman Miller of Los Angeles last night. Miller seemed to have all the bet- ter of the bout. “Americans never quit,” Arthur said | United States Boxing Program Today. | Four Americans will fight today and | Alex Kaletchitz, American heavyweight, who drew & bye, will fight tomorrow. No United States entrants boxed this morning so Coach Spike Webb kept the team aboard the President Roosevelt | This afternoon John Dals American bantam is paired with Osvaldo Sanchez, | Chile, in the second round of the elimi- nations. Stephen Holatko, American Mghtweight, will meet Majchrzycki of Poland ‘Tonight's seheduled bouts are Harry Devine, American featherweight, vs Monteflore, Italy, and Lieut. Harry H Handerson, American middleweight, vs Campuzano, Spain Six Swimmers Reach Finals Six American swimmers competing in the semi-finals of the 100-meter back- stroke and the 400-meter free-style reached the finals today and will dis- pute for the Olympic championship. George Kofac of New York won his heat in 100-meter event in near record | | | | Gen. Mac- | of Uniontown, Pa., second The Americans who qualified in the | 400-meter event were Raymond Ruddy New York: Clarence Crabbe, Honolulu, |and Clarence Clapp, Hollywood. Crabbe | finishing second and_Clapp third thelr heat with Arne Borg, the Swedish champion. who finished first, the closest | competition he has had since the 1928 | Olympie swimming started. Ruddy fin- ished third in his heat, trailing Zorilla of Argentina and Charlton of Australia, Water Polo Teams Win: The United States water polo team | beat Maita 10 to 0 this morning in the Olymple competition Hungary in the Germany will {xh\\' oser of this match finals and the will fight it out {th teams from the United States, PFrance, England and Holland to determine the second and third places | "The United States failled to quality for the saber team Olympic fencing semi-finals in today's preliminaries. Th | Americans were beaten 14 to 2 by Hungary, and 9 to 7 by Poland, and were tied with Britain, 8 to 8, al- { Myers, the single sculler, and the Penn | time and Walter Laufer of Chicago cap- | tured his heat handily with Paul Wyatt | | | MILLIONS DAMAGE DONE BY HURRICANE SWEEPING FLORIDA (Continued from First Page.) | north. The 1926 hurricane wrecked Moore Haven on Lake Okeechobee, bt | from best advices the present storm will miss the great marsh lake. At Melbourne the wind was blowing a rate between 40 and 50 miles an hour and a heavy rain was continuing, but no serious damage had been caused. Although tropical radio at Miami re- ported last night that the steamer Al- gonquin of the Mallory Line, with 300 | passeiy aboard, bound from Gal- | veston . .few York, had reported that it had lost bearings on account of the {storm, a wireless message from the | steamer was received this morning from New York reporting that the ship had hove to in the Florida Straits to ride jout the storm ! The Lempira, Honduran vessel. New | York to Porto Cortez, reported m the |storm 60 miles southeast of Jupiter | Light that she had lost several boats and was making The United Fruit Co. was standing b; Another missing train. a freight, southbound from Jacksonville to Miami, had. not been heard of since it left Fort Plerce last night. The Western Union Telegraph Co. hege said this morning that its operator at Melbourne had reported that a vio- lent wind struck that city shortly after 8 o'clock, blowing out the front of the | telegraph office. The company’s only | wire to Melbourne went out before any details could be received. } Wire communication to West Palm Beach and Miami was interrupted last | night when the hurricane, which yes- | terday was apparently 60 miles off | Palm Beach, resumed its journey land- ward in a northwesterly direction A sixty-mile wind swept the Palm Beaches, plunging the cities into dark- ness throughout the night and. causing heavy waves to break over the ocean boulevard of Palm Beach. After up- rooting trees and blowing down signs and awnings. the force of the wind begau to abate when the hurricane shifted to the North and foliowed the coast line. The Associated Press wire was re- stored to Miami at 9 o'clock this morning and it was established that that city had escaped damage. The last great hurricane, which visit- ed the east coast of Florida so disas trously, struck south of West Palm Beach and wrought its greatest havoc in_the Miami area This was in September. 1926. It caused a loss of several hundred lives and property damage was estimated in the millions That storm crossed the State into the gulf and passed inland over por- tions of Alabama and Mississippi, where it spent its force. Miami was isolated for several days at that time. The relief agencies and vessel Castilla | { | | zens of Miami and Flori relief measures and quickly cared for the emergency created by the disaster STATION ROOF CARRIED AWAY. NEW SMYRNA, Fla., August 8 () — | The roof of the Fort Pierce Raflroad | Station was carried away by a violent | windstorm which struck that eity south of here, early this morning, said advices received here before wire com- municat “n failed At Sebastian, midway between Mel- |bourne and Vero Beach, the gale w | reported to have reached a velocity of {100 miles an hour | A rapidly falling barometer, stiffening {east winds and a heavy sea vounding |the coast caused hurried preparations { here for what is expected to be a serio storm. At noon a number of trees a ready had been blown down. but no serious damage was anticipated STORM SWEEPS TOWARD TAMPA. TAMPA. Fla, August 8 (P --Wind velocity of 40 or 50 miles an hour was forecast for Tampa and vicinity this afterncon or tonight by Meteorologist Bennett, as the tropical storm which battered the East Coast last night turned inland and swept northwest- ward. ALLEGED RUSSIAN SPY ARRESTED IN SWEDEN By the Associated STOCKHOLM | August 8.—Esplonage in connection with Sweden's probable relations with England in case of a Russo-British conflict is charged by the Stockholm police against a Russian clerk by the name of Mitkevitz, who has been arvested. He probably will be deported The head of Soviet agency in Stoekholm apprehended simultaneously, but has been released. The police state that \hree Swedish Communist leaders have Russia’s Aleksandrow news was | though they had a shade the better on points The Ohilean team also was eliminated 'Lightning Strikes the storm last night, the home of Pete Pammell, superintendent of the groun [of the United States Soldiers” Home, was damaged (0 the extent of $1.500 before firemen were able to place the vesuliant blage under control. The howse, which belongs to the Soldiers’ Home. was struck while Pammell and | his wifo were absent | | rhe eleotrical disturbance also was | responsible, for at least one treakish | occurence, destroying a radio set in | the home of W. C. Hickman, 644 Fifth | stroet northeast. The bolt struck the | antenna. Members of the family, then | at dinner, were brought to their fest by & shower of sparks from the set Mrs. - Charles A, Ecker, 143 Uhland | Sevaist Mices Fire In Storm: One Bolt Destroys Radio Set Struck by a bolt of lightning during ( lerrace northeast, was absent from her Excetpts from “Hit the | home when lightning likewise struck | Ballet music fron | thoie gone (0 Moscow, maintaining the strict- est secrecy about the purpose of their Journey | the antenna on_her called firemen. arrival house. but they that no Nelghbors discovered on blaze had re- | ulted Lightning fiith floor Bullding and other darkness. done. A vacant house at 1734 L street | northeast also was struck, but there | was little damage. | Second precinet police reported | A few trees blown down In theiv sec- ton and & number of large limbs were torn from. trees in Georgetown. struck w fixture on the of the Washington Post plunging the editorial rooms r parts of the building into | Practically no damage was | life | no progress. | citizens from all parts of the country | rushed help to the stricken section. Citi- | intimated | | Suite PADLOCK CLOSES CAFE LE PARADIS jSealing of Thomas Circle | Property Precludes Plans to Operate Roof. With Cafe t 1 Thomas circle, under a prohibition Davis, the proprietor | that previous plans to_operate the L Paradis roof. on the floor above, had been abandoned. and the whole plac { will remain closed. 1h le Paradis, padlocked for one year charge, Meyer announced todas at No Le and will not usual, which i Davis said. Aw from the on business, with t that his dining and dance r not be closed until the last of the week | Mr. Davis returned to Washington this | morning to be greeted with the of th ng. which took place Iate esterday _under direction of dgar C. Snyder, United State: rshal At first it had been thought that the roof, which is not affected by the p lock directly would con: operate. Mr. Davis found, howe that the kitchen of Le P floor, which was used to serve the roof | was closed by the padlock orde the el nce on the th which would have caused patrons to g off ti or at the second floor and climb t tair: for a few inderstandir yrt. would E of Appeals Are Planned. Simon. Koenigsberger, Your attorneys for Davis, and for Totten, r of the building. will tinue, it was announced, D their plans for appeal from the decision of the District Supreme Court to the 1 ., and if necessary to the Supreme Court of the United States The process of padlocking, which the first case of its kind in the S tory of the District was carried out b Marshal Snyder, CI S. B. Callahan and two deputies Under an agreement between attor- neys for the Government and @e- fense all perishable foodstuffs w moved from the kitchen by perionne of the cafe. The piano, cigars and ciga- rettes were removed. and the marshal also permitted removal of some tapes- tries and plush chairs. which nave been damaged by moths. All other property and furnishings remained tq b locked inside. The deputy marshal then went about the business of applying hasps and pad- ilocks to seven entrances to the cafe These included the elevator door and fire escapes. Only one tempora had to be installed. in the en through which thousands of merry- maekers had made their way from the cafe floor to the roof stairs. At this entrance a barricade was erected con- sisting of a door and some added scant- ling alongside, to fill up the opening. Long pieces of 2 by 4 lumber w | placed, one on each side of this tem- porary door, and chains were run through the door and around the 2 by 4s on either side. The chains were then fastened by padiocks. Marshal's Seal Used. All padlocks have fastened over the ends a thick red paper seal, embossed with the seal of the “United States Marshal, District of Columbia.” Two kinds of signs appear at the doorway. One is a placard bearing in big letters: “Closed for violation of the prohibition act. by order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. All persons forbidden to enter premise: ! without order from the United States | marshal.” The other notices comprised the for- mal legal notice from the court to the | public reciting the names of the de- fendants. and the reasons why the place was closed “to all persons for the period of one year” from August 4, the date of the court order. The order itself, of iseveral pages, also was posted The action taken by the court closed the cafe as a “common and p nuisance,” following what the co said was indifference to the earlier in junction by the court warning agai: violation of the law by serving ¢ ice and ginger ale for liquor brought into the prem knowledge of the management. ALL OF CREW DEAD. ITALIAN SUBMARINE IS TOWED TO PORT (Con! from Pirst Page.) | means of seaplanes and to rush pon- toons and other necessary apparatus the spot before the rescue work coul even begin When the {found and e submarine | vthing was in res for the work, the unfavorable weather conditions whic be, about that time made operations extremely M ardous. After much toil th ers were able to atta be to the submarine and fresh at pumped {into it. The quantity thus pumped apparently was insufficient to keep the men alive and the reasons now being inv ated. Chlorine Fumes Produced. This done, the divers fixed (b cables to the hull and the sy was gradually lifted As for the poisoning of the crew |is considered probable ths marine went to the bottom even keel which caused s acid in the electric batteries t out. 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