Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, A courageous motorist plows through Bladensburg road with the water surging up to the fenders of his car. This was only one of the many flooded stretches of highway around Washington vesterday as the 40-hour rainfall hroke all records here with a total of more than § inches of rain Star Staff Photc Corn and other crops in outlying gardens and farms suffered under the storm’s brating wind and rain. Th ows the damaged corn patch of a Congress Heights garden at N s and Alabama avenues Stafl Photn. PRESIDENT SILENT ~ REIGH COUNT SAVED ONHOOVERSPEECH FROM FIERY DEATH WSTER StAncH PRIOAENT REsEs | Marooned when flood waters of the Patuxent River, west occupants of the automobile seen on the structure had abandoning the car. The bridge was loosened from one used highway to Chesapeake Bay resorts Where a small bridge on the Marlboro road, just this side of tha With the Patuxent River bridge on the other side of Marlhoro rendered trapped on the section of highway between. branch. rushed over the long bridge on the Marlboro road; a narrow escape. They made their way to safety after of its abutments by the raging river, shutting off the much- Star Staff Photo. flood waters of the small creek it spans number of motorists were cffectually was washed away by th the same ti a town, impassable at One of the flooded homes of the Congress Heights section, at 126 Atlantic avenue southeast, after the water had receded vesterday a couple of feet below the high level. It reached the porch level of a number of dwellings, flooding cellars and causing considerable damage. tar Staff Photo This “Bungalotown™ residence at 123 Yuma street southeast, its *ront steps en the storm flood swept up to the porch The owner aiso sufferad about $150 loss in bees and hi lost Tevel. TUNNEY EVADES ~ EXHIBITION OF ART NEWSPAPER MEN. BECINS IN OCTOBER Siips Away From Home of Contemporary American Oil Previous Knowledge of Talk Given as Reason for Lack of Comment. Guards Nip Plot to Burn Stahle Housing Derby Winner. Prospective Bride—Early Paintings to Be Eligible Wedcding Is Hinted. for Prizes. YOUNG t ed ke s t of The & / YORK, August 13.—A Saratoga 5 s i © . | dispatch to the Evening World says an CEDAR ISLAND LODGE. BRULE attempt to destroy by fire the Kentucky RIVER, August 13.—President Cool- winner, Reigh Count. and the idge at noon today had not sent a mes- rity winner, Anita Peabody, was ssge of congratulation to Herpert folled yesterday by watchmen aroused Hoover upon the latter's speech Satur- by watchdogs day accepting the nomination. There Kerosene soaked cotton. was stuffed in cracks, windows and other vantage 1 very little liklihood of Mr. Coolidge joining with the hundres of others points of the stables housing the racing strings of Mrs. John D. Hertz and John E. Madden who are deluging Mr. Hoover with The barking of dogs attracted the The only explanation offered Hertz guards. Madden's negro trainer ne Presideni’s silence was some- Chuck Walker, and the watchman in- about “propricties.” and to the | vestigated, arriving in time to see two t Mr Hoover knows already men running from the scene. Inve dent thinks of the man- he treated various prob- peech tele- ation disclosed the oil soaked the torch s Reigh Count and Anita Pea- Mrs. Hertz's recent $25.000 pur- chase, the filly Nettie Stone. was in the Hertz stables. Scallawag and Nearby were in the Madden barns The stables that house the horses of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson. d Ross and strings_trained by Woods Garth and James Healy are in the im- rediate neighborhood CHARLES GATES IN JAIL ON STATUTORY CHARGE | fe's Accue. That Another Without Di Her will st Out Fishing During Speech Despite y i ummer White House regarding 1 of v tion stained old, 1018 heast, wa La Follette to today b judge Robert E. Mattingly on a statu ge preferred by his estranged Mabel 1. Gates, 1363 K street rried Mrs Janu Brenner in E 927 out eeu prosecuted for bigam pleaded did s0, to vite from the witne trial, Mrs Pauline he would marry Re the Pres in _ the fore he ) President the natio »z galn Gates | e ed from Mrs. Mabel G CONVICTED OF THEFTS. icted of ent con jail colored mer 8 5D e 1 the larcen from the treet court i Jud Robinson was seer employes of t} according to th tingly ) take the hosiery by re. who chased him timon Otis Washington, 615 Burke court was given 180 days when found guill of taking a pair of trousers and a coot valued at $30, from Deniel Henson, Seen and Not Hu 4 Sign on trolles Conn. “Pedestiran Not Hurt." 8ho! OWEN DENIES CHARGE OF RELIGIOUS BIAS Declares Smith Only as the Representa- tive of Tammany's Policies Tammany is made | Oklahoma in a reply today to Senator | pay Eastern horizon in the Edwards of New Jersey, Democrat, who | had charged Senator with intolerance when he cam for the presidential rac After denying requested Gov. Smith to many to me in 1924, and that 1 opposed Tammany & Senator Owen continued am 5 ‘America will be sistible spiritual value of prohibition I belteve | has be ject’ 1o “Tamman Democratie party’ ut 1 do not approv no one d bout church itself @ toleranc Senator is making an appeal for politi- support on religious instead of eco- | of affairs | nomic and political consideration.” " POLICEMAN GIVES BOND. Brady A, Henry Charged With A petty | Policeman Brady A. Henry of the sec ond precinet aulting Policeman Frank J thirteenth ingly in | released under $1,000 bond Henry 1} | { when the latter found him in a parked |are utomobile Policeman C Both Henry and Worthen have been suspended. A string of week end motorists splashing through the water along storm level. the Bladensburg road after the water had receded a bit from its highest Star Staff Photo OF PAST WEEK OUTSTANDING WORLD EVENTS | SHEA WILL PROBE BRIEFLY TOLD FATAL SHOOTING He Is Fighting Gov By the Associated Pres Storm warnings continue o fly over the inte tional low-pressure area in Japan and China, while local {hundershowers threaten tran denial that - his_opposition to | quillity of other parts of the world of based on_religlous grounds | pational and international aff: by former Senator Owen of | Clouds rose threateningly above the week Just ended, but failed to break as a counter low pressure area of domestic politics developed in Japan. At one stage the winds of diplomacy blew strongly to ward Manchuria, threatening to reach monsoon proportion: This happened when Japan “advised Chang Hsueh-Liang, military overlord of Manchuria, not to join that depend- ency to the ationalist government at anking and simultaneously warned th ationalists tha unless brogation of | the treaty gran Japenese specia | privileges * in China were rescinded suitable measur We 1 be under | taken Multi Yet the atmosphe lightened with making the "National |y, 24 hours when Baron Tanaka, pre the wet party mier of Japan, told a political gather- e neyer criticized “Tammany | g (hat Japan would not necessarily op 1 am notorlously tolerant, | noce an agreement between Manchuria the Senator’s un- | and Nationalist China provided Japan’s American Cath- | gpecial interests in the former were not at Tammany 15 qmperilled. Japan had been cspecially to thiat church. and | oyercised by information that the cc criticize Tammany ' jamplated ngreement between Nanking being charged with criticizing | and” Mukden gave control of Manchu 1d charged with In- g foreign relations to the former, bigotry. Th Opposition newspapers and lead Japan selzed upon the changed evidence of |in the Manchurian policy of the Tanaka government. The whole Sino-Japanese situation has developed a similarity to the Sino-British and Sino-American re- lations. Japan has indicated that she will revise thé “unequal” treaties if her Manchurian rights are respected. Great | Britain said e would do so If the | Nanking incident of last October we settled and carrled out that promise who 15 charged with as- | by signing an agreement Lo begin revi ovill of |sion of the pacts. The United State not | first settled cladms growing of the jury trial when | Nanking outra then signed a new Robert E. Mal- | pact granting tariff autonomy to China oday. He wa . . Kellogg Treaty Signing Scheduled men of 15 of the chief natlons rting for Paris, where next week the Kellogg renunciation of war pact | will be signed. Russia took umbrage at not belng asked to join the party, her spokesmen asserting that the whole af- A only the the former Democratic Hoover and inst Smith in that he had deliver Tam- | charges use it was Catholic Tammany the ma and Tammany the wet, its nul practices and its nullificatior Thomas A. Edison rightly economically ir- sober.” The eco and life-saving against if it hygienic remains moral teral Pact a Factor established. 1 strenuously ob- cal to of belon; and religious saulting Brother Officer precinet, pleaded and demended ned before Judge Police Court alleged to have hit Scovill | 8t A woman companion W. Worthen with ankd | a breakdown | Into Death of Man Shot in Chase by Policeman Follows Inquest viet movement 1 good grace a hint that the original signatory list could not well be expanded and indicated she would be among the st to “adhere to the multilateral pact D ussfon of disarmament in con- A nection with the treaty continued. One - of the ideas advanced came from Paul Loebe, president of the German Refc! tag and a delegate to the Socialist | Labor International Congress at Brus- sels He sald the multilateral ide should be applied also to disarmament the agreements to be carried out under international control stant United States District torney Walter M. Shea today was signed by United States District At- torney Leo A. Rover to investigate the fatal shooting Thursday morning of Louis S. Smith, colored, by Ernest Spaulding of the twelfth cinet Mr ment political atmosphere con-| Th tinued stormy. An editor who had de- | was brought into the case by nounced Stefan Raditch too strongly | Mr. Rover's assistants. Mr for t bilities of the latter's fol- | Greathouse, who attended the lower was assussinated. Then came | inquest the death of the picturesque Croat| Mss. Greathouse leader, refusal of his friends to permit | superior that she was not a state funeral at the expense of the | some of the evidence introduced in | Belgrade government, and declination | the case, and Mr, Rover said he felt Jf his widow even to receive condolences | it was his duty to look into the matter from cabinet sources. ~Ante Trumbich,) Smith was shot by the policeman political ally of Raditch, said that if | after an automobile chase which was “quite impossible to associate fur- | minated when the colored man jumped ther with the Serbs { from the car and, according to the Iragedy has again saddened Italy | officer, made a threatening gesture to The wreck of the submarine F-14 was | Ward his hip pocket. Several hours almost coincident with a destructive after the shooting A revolver was found plosion fn the naval base at Spezia | At _the scene. ¢ and came shortly after mishap had over- |~ Rover also continued today his inves- taken her two overseas fiyers in Brazil, | tigations into the action of police o These events piled up the woe attendant | ficers and revenue men charged with upon the tragedy of the Nobile Arctic |ssaulting E. A. Rickert, connected with expedition the legal department of the Capital From the head of the Persian Gulf | Traction Co. when he criticized the came word that 1bn Saud, warlike King [ methods of the officers at a raid on the of the Hedjaz, had decided to disagree | Ambassador Oyster House, 2113 Eight- with Great Britain over the n'unm"x""""“‘ street. Z of Theirak protectorate. The empire's | Assistant United States Attorney tion have their weather | Harold W. Oreutt heard a report from presaging | Inspector L. J. Stohl of the Police De- Wanabi | partment and also the evidence of O, J | Letterman, in charge of from Venezuela blew political | party, as well as bystanders, at the time into a harbor of the Dutch (0f alieged assault on Rickert. He de- ow the colonfal authori- {clined to make public any of the evi d are trying to decide | dence meet the extradition d | . uela without arousing ! Chur Carniv 3 v vesentment from workers from that Church Carnival Saturday country who are employed in the pe Al Dispateh (o The Sta troleum industry of the colony CROOME, Md August 13 — Featur In the same neighborhood there have |ing the annual festival of St. Thomas been serfous post-election viots in | Church, to be held Saturday at the | French Guiana and from still further | parish hall, will be a base ball game be- South came reports that a political | tween Hyattsyille All Stars and the disturbance in Matto Grosso, vast in- | Croome nine at 3 o'clock, supper starting land State of Brazil, had broken Into’at 5 o'clock, dancing and other attrac- open revolt, . tlons, : A At- as- pre Rover, announcing the declined further commen United States attorney’s assign- Stormy Time in Jugoslavia office one of Rebecea coroner’s Jugoslavia' reported to her satisfled with troops in that eyes open for raids from the tribesmen. A gust | refuge i\\(« Indie | ties at Willems how they may mands of Vene clouds the dust desert by the raiding Policeman | ter-| | nporary American o the Corcoran Gallery of Art will be held this year from October 28 to De- cember 9, it was announced today by the NEW ey, re eavyweight champion, r rned to New York today from a visit at St. Johns Island, Me., the Summer home of Miss Mary Josephine Lauder, | trystees of the institution. his flancee. slipped Into town Un-| Priges aggregating $5.000 w different train {rom | awarded to the four paintings c him out of Portland | by the official jury and a popular ged to evade news- | of $200 will be bestowed in accordan 1 with the ballots of the visit ampion will sail Thurs- | will be allowed to vote for iretania for a walk- | they like the best. The of nce, Germany and | com sing five s hotel here | ors the: ¢ his coming ma:- | Charles W. Haw explaining that | Anderson. Ers the public eve” | ‘adalphe Borie s his “private af- Powell Mir YORK cote day on t ng tour ti England w scuss them auder might take ip abroad : Post said to- day that Miss \ ht becoms - Mrs. Tunney in time place Thorn- | Ham A. Clark has established [ton Wilder, the novelist, a the former | dowment fund of $100.000, the | champion’s’ companion on the European | ©f Which is to be used to meet t e penses of organizing the bie W uded in | Dibitions, and any surplus T 15 | Providing for the exhibits. may be a v in | Driated at the discretion of the t for the purchase of works by In 1921, the late Se lished a $100.000 trust income of which is to be used William A. Clark Prise Awards alth commit Endowment Established. Since the last exhibition. Mrs. W uropea cheduled to visit | October to confer Foronda, president of Exposition, on the a the exposition League of American Civil Service to Discuss Death of Dorothy Sherlock Wednesday. 8§ Clark and Mrs. Clark BLAMED FOR SUICIDE v years show Corco silver medal: third ark awards, which haye the coveted groups of F to Corcoran gold medal §1.000. to be accompanied by the coran medal. and the fourth prige, 85 TYPEWRITER “POOL” i ittt 1o American artists, prize. $1.500. to be accompanied by th on tificate. of Miss Dor Internal Revenue ste- left & note blaming ditions for 1 will be discussed at_ the meeting Wednesday night at the Interior Department of the | All submitted works to be fram new League of the American Civil Serv- | suitable for hanging must be ice, which is carrying on a campaign (o | at the gallery by October 8 at & p eliminate the typewriter “pools™ such as | The press view of the show will be & the one in which Miss Sherlock was |lowed at 3 pm. October 27, whilo the working | private_view will be staged that eve- Th .| ning The first public showing of the exhibit will be granted October 38 In the 10 previous “blenntals,” 284 Rules of Contest nogray working ec r the rules gove original ol can artists. exhibited Washington, are who act ubject will be discussed by M t Hopkins Worrell, president of v:\r league, who today complatned thu(l thousands of girls were betng ‘“c paintings were sol = stantly driven” under pressure of the ef “‘u lce of $463.060, st oy o ficlency system and stenographic pools | patntings also will be sold A fn mast beyond endurance exhibits, the gallery will charge no com- Another speaker at the meeting | mission on the sales : Wednesday will be Col. Winfleld Scott, | exhib lx‘-t\c“;,ai‘liy{ e commissioner of pensions tion of one week on any or all of (b At the Bureau of Internal Revenue it | prize-winniig canvasses . The votes W aned that officlals had investi- | the “popular™ . prize will be received ated the case of Miss Sherlock’s death | only during the week of November 28 and had an official veport prepared. | The announement of the eshibition She had not worked long in the pool, it [and the rules under which canvases was sald by officials, having first been | are to be submitted, judged and exhi- | there from last November until Janu- | bited, were issued today over the signa- ary. when she was (ransferred else- | tures of Charles C. Glover, president of where. She was again in the poal from | (he gallery. James Parmaice v pres June up to the time ot‘m death, dent, and Mr. Minnigerode, e,