Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 2

Difference in Figures of Com- Firmer Valuations. fon re- r completed | east 44 tory na epared by the D.C. CURDSHEN OSE N FLY FIGHT Combat Engineers Attack of Pests at Camp, but Are Routed. | Pvt. E. L. Owens, driver; Pvt THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY AU GUST 14 Above: No. Truck Company at- tempting to beat the fast time set by No. 11 vesterday driver, with Pyt man. Capt of the company. At right: Harbor under way. FIRE ENGINE SPEED TESTS NEAR END: Pyvt. F. C. M. Claggett, tiller fireboat M. Dyer is W. M. Green is in charge getting RECORD STILL STANDS 1-5 seconds Pvt. J. M J. G Company No. 8. ck Company No. 8. Nichols ave- nd Fourth street southeast. 84-5 Pvt. J. L. France, driver; Pvt B. C. Wells, tillerman, and Lieut.'C. L Satterfield. in command Engine Company No. 18, Pennsylvania e and Twenty-ninth street south- 9 seconds. Pvt. E. Hauxhurst driver; Pvt. F. K. Moore, cranker, and Sergt. C. L. Byram, in command Engine c¢ 15. Fourteenth 9 seconds. Pvt D. J. Jameson t. F. E. Barber in nue seconds av cranker, command. Engine c Ninth and K Pvt. G. E Keissling, driver F. Murphy. cranker, and Lieut. E. M. Luskey in command. s 7and 1. ‘Truck compeny No. 7, Eighth street ar_Pennsylvania avenue southeast. 5 seconds. Pvt. F. M. Dyer, driv Pyi. C. M. Clagett, tillerman, and Capt. W. M. Green in command Truck company No. 1, New Jersey avenue and E street, 104-5 seconds E. Ren- M. F. Handy, tiller- J.E. Allman in com- Compani fro, cranker: Pvt man, and Sergt {mand. ter suffering pierc- v s. made their | the most | ‘They lost. | are still gas war- em moment they arrived in d by“ o ‘They the morning. at the dawn, and drive them streets before rev- | them on the parade | e them to| to the mess tables in trying minor measures to de- | aper-proof flies, Capt. | n astembled his | reakfast for an at-| with blankets ers of various a strong net from a safe eomamand to | ‘They sortied. | re casualties. | ; fragmen d, and i réered the | Holmead fter the detachment 11 Truck company No, et be- Third Four-and-a-half eets southwest. 1 seconds. C. J. Moffatt, driver; Pvt cranker; Pvt. J. J. Gateley, tillerman, anJ Capt. C. Thomas in command. Enging company avenue betweer Sixth and Seventh streets scutheast, 16 seconds. Pvi. F G. Weissmiller, driver, and Sergt. G. A. Bessler in command. Res_lts of Yesterday. Resylts of yesterday afternoon follow Engine Company No. 5, M street near ‘Wisconsin avenue, 6 4-5 seconds. Pvt. M. Harbin, driver, and Lieut. R. E. Oden, in command. Englne Company No. avenue and Colorado avenue, 7 4-5 sec- onds. Pvt. H E. Burton, driver, and Lieut. William Trent, in command. Engine Company No. 29, Conduit and Reservoir roads, 8 seconds. Pvt. M. C. Mason, driver, and Capt. C. C. Wolz, in command. Rescue Squad No. 2, Fourtegnth street near Park road, Pvt. . H. Statz, driver, and Capt. T. S. Jones, in command. Engine Company No. 7, R street be- ween Ninth and Tenth streets, 9 1-5 onds. Pvt. T. L. Phillips, driver, and Lieut. E. J. McNerhany, in command Truck Company No. 11, Georgia ave- nte and Colorado avenue, 9 4-5 sec- onds. Pvt. W. H. Hill, driver; Pvt. R. Basford, r, and Capt. O. C. Bas- ford, in and. Truck Company No. 12, Wisconsin avenue and Warren street, 9 4-5 sec- onds. Pvt. Arthur Benson, driver; Pvt. C. W. Donahoe, cranker, and Lieut. J. B. Button, in command. Results for No. Truck Company No. 2, New Hamp- re avenue and M street, 103-5 se vt. H. M. McLearen, driver W. Sauls, cranker; Pvt. B. J tillerman, and Sergt. S. T. in command Truck Company No. 6, Park road and place, 104-5 seconds Pvt. F. Sullivan, driver, and Lieut. P. nman, in command. Engine Company No. 11, 14th street near Park road, 16 seconds. Pvt. G. > OPPO. Pvt. | J. D. Meill, | 8, North Carolina | Georgia | 8 1-5 seconds. | ‘THREE YOUTHS HELD | IN MADRILLON CASE Bond Requir:dr Von ; H(;usebrenking } Charge—Police Claim Trio | Moved Safe. | ‘Three young men, charged with | nousebreaking as a result of their al- | esea attempt to semove the sate from th> Madrillon Cafe, 1304 G street, were | held under $5,000 bond each by Judge | Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court to- | day They were Joseph Allanic, 18 ears old, 1506 Q street; John S. Mo- an, 20, 2418 Pennsylvania avenue William R. Carlsen, 19, of 1920 street. H ace’ W. Lineberg and Policeman A. D. Clark of the first precinct. Clark ar- rested the men after his suspicions were aroused when he saw an automobile drive slowly past the cafe several times | Saturday night. He called Sergt. Line- | berr and the two claim to have found that the cafe’s safe, contaiging. $300. | had been removed from the third floor | to the first | . Eist Precinct Detective Kane, who | #fPffier investigated the case, claiths to have found keys to the cafe in posses- sion of Allanic, who formerly worked { there. | Attorney for Carlsen waived a he PYRAMID BUiLDlNG EASY. -Now to put John_P. Mullen appeared The three defendants upon arraignment comes the the skids be- CHICAGO cement industry neath ancient world—namely, the great w of building the Pyramids A bulletin of the Portland Cement Association says that “with modern methods and materials a mere handful of workmen could build 30 or 40 pyra- mids as large as the famous Khufu in a single year D. Hartman, driver, Jones, in command Engine Company No. avenue and Warren stree Pvt. W. L. Fielder, i E. G. Williams, cranker, and Sergt. J. A. C. Fought, in command. ‘Truck Company No. 5, Deni place be- tween 34th and 35th streets, 17 sec- onds. Pvt. C. Pell, driver; Pvt. J. R Lyddane, cranker, and Lieut. W. H Nash, in command Engine Compa No. 9, U street be- tween 16th and 17th streets, 22 4-5 sec- onds. Pvt. W. I Manuel, driver; Pvt {P. W. aves, cranker, and Sergt. J. E ' Sult, in command. and Capt. T. S 0, Wisconsin 16 seconds SING FORCES d | s re arrested by Sergt. Hor- | he trio were arrested by Sergt. Ho“ | oorter way graduated from the medicai |step of the proceedings wes charac.| nother venerable record of the | “ATTACK” ON W TOWN VOTE PROBE FAILS OF QUORUM Falls Church Council Unable to Act When Opposing Members Are Absent. Special Dispatch to The Star FALLS CHURCH, Va., August 14 | The crowd which gathered in the town | | council room at Fails Church last night | to hear the report of the committee pointed to investigate the town election |on June,12 and ascertain whether or | not the conduct of the election failed to conform to the election laws went away disappbinted. Owing to the lack {of & quorum, no business of any kind jcould be transacted. As the three | councilmen who were absent we not n sympathy with the petition asking that the last election be declared nuil and void, it was believed that their ab- sence was due to a desire {o prevent the atter coming up for official d “ouncilman L. P. iel, Cha and R. E. Kendrick pr R. C. L. Moncure a petition asking for | a special meeting of the council on August 16, As this will be the Jast meeting before the new council take: office, Mayor Moncure stated that ther: were important matters to decide which | | | | | could not be deferred | A majority report, signed by W | Westcott, R. C. L. Moncure and Henry I Knowles has been filed with Town | Clerk Shaw. | “The special committee appointed under resolution adopted by the council | having met to consider the manner in | which the election was conducted, and having heard all persons who asked to | be heard, and having freely reviewed {and discussed all information | available to the committee, report: hereby | Election Held Fair. “That the said election on Ju; 1928, was conducted faithfully, honest- ly and impartially by the judges; that | every qualified voter of the town who | sought to vote was afforded full and free _opportunity to do that no | fraud in casting or counting the bal- lots was permitted or attempted, nor | has any been suggested: that the elec | tion was a complete realization of the | purpose designed to be accomplished in the holding of elections as an expre: sion of the will of the qualified voters entitled to particips for impugning the | the election, the correctness of the re NOTED AS HORSEMAN -:pctinet™ 50 integrity “That, pursuant to the action of the | town council at its meeting on 116, and as required by the town c ter, certificates of election were duly issued to the persons judged by the council to have been elected mayor and members. “That the council has no sdic- tion or authority to take further action concerning the election.” Charles Gage, the fourth member of | the investigating committee, expressed vesterday | himself last night as much perturbed He was |over the delay occasioned by the lack of a quorum , ar- Warrenton, Va., Man Succumbs in i Emergency Hospital After Month's Illness. Dr. Charles Shirley Carter, Warren- | ton, Va., noted as a horseman, died in | Emergency Hospital here { after an illness of a month 173 _years old. | For the past 27 years, Dr. Carter { had taken a leading part in horse shows in Warrenton, both as exhibitor and| “A review of the whole case makes official. and was likewise well known in | it increasingly evident that, in spite | show circles in Boston and New York.|of the assertion made in the majority | He was a skilled rider and in an en-|repcrt that a fair and impartial elec- rance ride in Warrenton three years | tion was held, the election judges en- ago, was the only entrant to complete | tered upon their duties woefully ig- a 60-mile course in a specified time. | norant of the legal requirements per Born in Fauquier County, Va tain'ng thereto, and that almost ever: Blundering Is Charged. Dr. | college of the University of Maryland, then known as Maryland State College. | For two vears following his graduation he practiced in Delaplane. Since 1885 | | he_had practiced in Warrenton terize 1 by blundering violations of the laws (ramed to safeguard elections “Charge is made that certain persons who voted in the last election were im- | properly registered. Section 86 of the He was a member of the Fauquier |election laws provides, among other Club of Warrenton, the Warrenton |things, . . . and such registrar shail | Country Club and the Warrenton Hunt |not hold any office, by election or ap- | Club. | pointment, durifg his term.” In this Dr. Carter leaves his wife, Mrs. |case the registrar was a duly elected fary Boorman Carter: a son, Charles | member of the town council and in Shirley Carter, ir., of New York and a |dition held by appointment the position d’m{%iflfl'. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter Strong |of election judge. {of Warrenter, and three sisters " Wiinesal peivicns ave bitcy: sodactsn | FEGUIN S Gt BRI |in’ St. James' Episcopal Church, War- | The charge is made that the official renton, this afternoon at 3 o'clock, | ballots did not bear the seal of the town. | with interment in the family plot in{The town charter and ordinances ar { the Warrenton Cemetery. silent on this point, and the State la Gl |are extremely specific. by law. | ““The 1aw on this subject is explicit | “In all this procedure there has been | no intimation of fraud. On the con- | trary, the judges were inspired by desire to afford a falr and impa | election, but the fact remains | through Ignorance of the edection laws or blundering disregard of them they | committed apparently indictable of- BULLET DISCOVERED Spec Dispatch to The Star ROCKVILLE. Md., August 14-The body of Edward L. Mills, whom Samuel T. Robertson of Bethesda is accused of slaying, was exhumed today by |fenee Bt aauttorities vunder the direction | ‘“There is ancther phase of the elec- o e e Bir. va | tlon as to which none of the candidates i o L Wil- | has made formal protest L e diocine “anathey. | offended the sense of fairness of many another | O s only official s bullet which had passed unnoticed in | 1ozene. It is the aniy, OFiC) . | the election the coroner’s examination at the time { pog pact ™ oG NN nair or qui of death. X " | methods. That is the sequence Authorities here were reticent t | ames on the ballots. It is no mere disclose what value may be placed | goincidence that the candidates who upon the discovery, but indicated that | pOUEEREE L G Cldetul in it had an important bearing on_the | (TR NEC TOVRCCE SorC isted at the case against Robertson. ~Thev MWke- |paqq of their respective brackets wise refused to state what caliber the bullet was or in what part of the body 1t was found. The missile probably will be turned over to the firearms expert, who ex- lamined the other bullet and the gun alleged to have been used # | at practically every step of the way elec tion laws have been violated tory provisions of law designed to pro tect the rights of candidates and safe guard the purity of elections have been ignored “I question election of June 12 could the test of court inquiry. If we | gloss the situation over and enter a | new year with a council seated as a result of such election, then in every official action, in every constructiv project_we undertake for the good ¢ Falls Church we will be haunted by this specter of a possibly invalid town administration. In view of the pr | the members of the c and Gage both s they saw no rec the Cireult Court COOLIDGE TéNDERS PRAISE TO HOOVER'S PALO ALTO SPEECH First serfously whether the HINGTON ent impasse among Maj. Danel ht (Continued _from Page.) tion of the report made to him yest day by Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of the Army Engincers and chairman of the Mississippi Flood Board, was rep- | resented today as feeling confident that no great difficulty will be experienced in making a choice of engineering policy. Moreover, the members of the board were unanimous in the report’s conclusions ‘The President has approved the re | port, at least ar as it s possible | to approve this gigantic project at this | time, and he indicated that his recom- | mendations to Congress next Winter egarding flood control work will be guided by this report Report Is Voluminous. & ‘The veport is a voluminous and highly | technical affair and it is doubtful if |the President has spent any great amount of time trying to digest it. It is understood that his knowledge of the contents of the document has been do- rived from his reading of the con- clusions attached to the report and from | ! the explanation of the contents made | by Gen. Jadwin | “In fact the report is so huge that {1t 18 not to be made public at this | time. principally because it is too long Col. Guy V. Henry, commanding the 34 Cavalry at Fort Myer, and officors of the 1530 Cavalry Brigade, who are | (o warrant publication and because the leading units in war games in and around Fort Mye Col Left to right Maj. B of the mechanized forces manding the 306th Cavalry Blunt, Regular Army instructos | which involves an att Henry, Col " 36th Caval hn Pallip Hill, former memb Begg of Blacksburg, Vi, commanding the 303th Cavalry, and Maj. Wilfred M, ack by Cavalry against m Maryland, com- Washington of Cougress fi executive office here has not | enough staff to make copies The President was represented, how- ever, as considering the report as agree- a large Star Stafl Photo. nted to Mayor | made | ; that no grounds | tion of the | IMILLS’ BODY EXHUMED | beiote wire St teitiugea st provided | but which has | this | “An election has been held in which | Manda- | stand | that | Visits State Department for Conference With Sec- retary Kellogg. Other Important Parleys Held in Washington in His Na- | tion’s Interest. | Dr. Sun Fo, minister of reconstruc- { tion in China, son of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen, founder of the Chinese Re- | public and a power in the new Nation- | alist government, is in Washington for | | a number of important conferences with | |a view to putting the new China on a | firm financial footing. | | Dr. Sun arrived in the Capital Sun- ! day evening and called yesterday upon | Secretary Kelloge at the State Depart- ment to lay before him the situation ! concerning the latest turn of affairs in The distinguished Chinese, who 2 ently. is at the Ward- Hotel and spent yesterday in ries of conferences. | | m: | Was Recently in Europe. | Dr. Sun has recently been in Europe and will leave shortly for China to sume his post as minister of recon- truction. He has been engaged in ounding out opinfon in various parts of the world on what can be done to reconstruct Chin The new minister of reconstruction of China introduced to Secretary | Kellogg by Minister Alfred | Chinese envoy in Washington, an | Dr. Sun met ‘the chief of the Far East- n_division of the State Department Dr. Sun was born in 1887 at Hsieng- shan, Kwangtung. He secured his achelor of arts degree from the Uni- | versity California in 1916 and a | master science from Columbia in FOURTH GALE RPS CIRBBEAN REEION Towns Flooded and Asking Aid Following Latest Disaster. June | By the Assoc Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla., August 14.— F'I‘k\f‘ fourth tropical disturbance within a week was gathering force in the | Caribbean today as it swept toward | Cuba. while the Florida peninsula grap- pled with the destruction and dangers | left in the wake of its predecessors. | The West Coast of the State was re- covering from the effects of a gale | which swept by northward last night, | although the fate of two or more ves- | sels whose distress flares were sighted at St. Petersburg was not determined. |~ On the East Coast bee region, west of Palm out calls to the National Red aid for several hundred per- destitute by the flood of the ican which roared in from a week ago today. Liner Still Aground. The liner Munamar, New York bound from Miami and Nassau, was still held fast on the sand near Hole-in-the-Wall, Great Abaco, Bahamas, where it was blown Sunday. Her 75 passengers were | landed at Nassau last night after hav- {ing been taken off by a tug. The | freighter hake Treba, Santo Domingo to Havana, struggled into port at Key West yesterday, leaking badly after four days on a_sand bar in the Bahama | Channel. PBurther trouble was antici- pated today, particularly for small ship- ping, as the Weather Bureau at St Petersburg warned that tides along the West Coast and through the Keys would range up to 9 feet with the passing of last night's storm. In the Lake Okeechobee region the Kissimmee River continued to rise, flooding thousands of fertile acres along a 30-mile stretch approaching the lake | The condition of the lake itself was undetermined. From Okeechobee City | came one report that the water was at | the 17-foot danger level West Coast Flooded. Temporary flood conditions obtained along the west coast today as rivers | bore the burden of torrential rains Tidal water swept into Fort Meyers to | a depth of 3 feet and all creeks in | the Punta Gorda area were out of their anks arasota, Tampa, St. Peter: her towns were in darkness the night and damage [ tively heavy from the winds. Wire communication disripted and sev- | eral towns had not been heard .from | including the village of Pass-Grilla. on an island near St. Petersburg. Boca | Grande and Casparilla were struck by | the highest winds. the velocity at times anging to 80 miles an hour. Clear- | water escaped with a 30-mile blow, the | storm evidently having turned out into the Gulf before striking that locality sons lef | first h | the Atlan! burg and during DISTRESS FLARES SIGHTED. Signals Near St. Petersburg Believed From Freighters. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. August 14 P)—Distress flares were sighted in the | | gulf from the Coast Guard base here last night, while the entire force of the local base was occupied in an effort to save against a wharf in the gale. Base observers saw green flares due west and to the north of the coast, but | were unable to estimate their distance. No boats were sent out, in view of the fact that four patrol cutters were last reported from the 12-mile line early in | the evening, indicating that they would | be in a position to act sooner than the | base craft 1t was believed that the flar either from freighters or two wiling boats operated by Ponge fisher- men, who decided to go out late today despite storm warnings. All big pas- nger vessels plying gulf waters were accounted for as far as the base could | determine. Sproul's Son Weds Nurse. | CHICAGO, August 14 (4.—Several | months Miss Frances Carlson {nursed Wiiford R. Sproul, contractor {and son of Representative Elllott W. Sproul of the third district, back to health. Yesterday they announced thefr marriage | ing upon engineering plans substantially | the same as the original plan presented | | last year by Gen. Jadwin and approved | by_the administration. | “President Coolidge will leave the | Summer White House tonight on a | special train for Wausau, Wis, where | he will deliver a brief address tomorrow { morning at the State convention of the | American Legion. He will be accom- { panied by Mrs. Coolidge and John | Coolidge and various members of his vacation party. It is his intention to { start on the return trip to Cedar Island Lodge almost immediately upon the | completion of this address. In that event the party will arrive home about {9 o'clock tomorrow night While at the executive office today, \xnr President received a call from Maj B. Malone, commander of Corps, at Chicago. Fol- lowing a brief chat, the President in- vited Gen. Malone to accompany the party on the journey to Wausau tonight. { Gen. Paul the 8th Arm DR. SUN FO HERE TO DISCUSS CHINA'S NATIONAL FINANCES the Lake Okeecho- | Beach, was | was compara- | cutter which had been battered | 0410 VOTES TODAY - NMAY TOTAL %0000 ] % ; Wet and Dry Lines Sharply Drawn as Both P Pick Candidates. COLUMBUS, DR. SUN FO. Star Staff Phot to June nton al . to Septem | 1922, as mayc again from February, 192 ber, 1924, he held that post Official of Canton Government. He was a member of the political d | partment of the Canton government {1926 and later became prominently identified _with reconstruction work. Last _year he held important posts with | the Nationalist government at Hankow and Nanking. | His friends credit Dr. Sun with ma- | terially improving conditions at Canton during his terms as the city's chief magistrate. Frank W wu Lee, assistant of Dr who is in Washington to advance the cause of the Nationalist gove: ment, is aiding Dr. Sun in his W: ington conferences BRYANT TELLS HOW E BEAT HS WIFE | Nephew of Mrs. Henry Ford Says Married Life Ended in Free-for-All. C.cC ¢ he dry aly had th | By the Associated Press. | | ASHEVILLE, N. C.. August 14.—The story of a marriage that began with extreme happiness and ended with | fights in which hairbrus candle- sticks, hands and feet were brougt play, was told from the witness stand in Buncombe Superior Court today by G. Wallace Bryant, nephew of Mrs Henry Ford, testifying in his $100,000 | alienation suit against Henry Westall | prominent Asheville clubman. | Describing the less happy moments of their married life. Bryant told of fou times when he “beat” his wife. T first of these, he said, was the first tim e saw her intoxicated. This time I truck her in the face and broke | cartilege in her nose. The second time. he said, was in June, 1926, when she | failed to show up until 9:30 p.m. for a | trac wedding dinner they were giving. He |ot blacked one of his wife's ‘eyes on this occasion, e declared The third matrimonial t was in August, 1 , he te ied. whe Mrs. Bryant declined *o inform him g to her wWhereabouts during the day. I this fight both husband and wife used force. " His wife pounded him with a candlestick and a hair brush, he said, and he finally kicked her on the lo The fight ended in Police Court the case was dismissed In Pebruary, 1927, Mr tinued, the fourth fight under similar cireumstances. Ti Mrs. Bryant received two bla which a physician treated fo | weeks This FLOOD WATER BARS HIGHWAY REPAIRS IN NEARBY STATES Bryant con- took pla two nony follow exar which Bryant testified that his early life with wife had been “beautiful” and that had thought he “was the happiest in the world.” 2 KIDWELL IS ARRESTED | un ‘ ON DISORDERLY CHARGE | Fall-Sinclair Juror | direct had d Three Oth- ers Forfeit Collateral in . - DAILY RADIO MOVING PICTURES WILL GO ON AIR THIS THURSDAY Edward James Kidwell, 31 of 1637 U street alleged to have declared he to get a car “a block long” wh Ing as a juror in the Fall and Harry Sinc! ride in a police patrol Policeman W. F. Letterman's vica | and three others | street Kidwell and the oth | with disorderly conduct a feited $5 collateral in Polic | morning. | . Those arrested wi | John Alfred Schultz, | P street treet street 608 were ¢ et 1 Kidwell 4 years old. Rosle Dennison, 54. 608 and Elizabeth Callls, 38, 605 wege 6 H BAND CONCERTS. 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