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*» U. 5. RECOGNIZES ECUADOR REGIME State Department Confident Ayora Government Is Representative. B the Assoc Confirms this Government provisional Ecua- t of Pr Ayora the State Depart- fomality was note delivered yvester- ent men the conel a government, vears ago fol- 1 was an- a note delivered by Amer- Bading. on_instructions rtment to the Ecua- or foreign affairs has observed with| ess_which | dor has made dur- | or more which have | ip detat of utlity Ayor has that h UNUSUAL CHASSIS BRINGS RUM SEIZURE Policeman Takes Car With 400 Quarts of Liquor Hidden | Under Floor. [ | ns aroused by the un- usual appearance of the chassis of an| auromobile that he found parked in the | 400 bl »{ Eighth street early this| morning, Policeman Paul E. Ambrose | of the first precinct investigated and found the machine was equipped | lded 400 | had been left in a) in th block., Ambrose say 2ad been pushed to the street dur- | he passed it. the| policem: peered underneath and dis. covered the carefully concealed metal| containers that had been constructed beneath the floor beards. The identity of the man who left it there has not| been learned. | The seizure of a motor cycle that| was abandoned by the rider when it ceught on fire at a filling station at| Twelfth and K streets was reported by Policeman J. B. Birch. also of the In the side car were s of liquor. Birch was sent to Twelfth and K| streets when a fire alarm came in from there. When he arrived he learned that the motor cycie was being filled with| gasoline and became ignited when the, liquid spilled on the hot motor. As it blazed the rider fled. He has not been found. D. C. RISK FIRMS GET | 24 MILLION IN YEAR| i Losses of 7 Million Shown in Re-| port on Fiscal Period End- ing June 30. i totaling $24.333.109.09 collected by all insurance con- cerns doing business in the District of | Columbia during the fiscal year end- | inz June 30, while losses paid totaled | $7.108.371 55. according to the annual | submitted to the D. C. Commis- y Thomas M. Baldwin, ir.. superintendent of insurance. The | of insurance sritten exclusive of casualty was $2.616,315,630.16 Fire insurance premiume received a total of $20825522.41; losses paid were $7.088.071.69 There were coliected during 1927 li-| cense fees of $44.028.01 and for taxes $284.199.68. making a total of $320.- 12769. During the fiscal year 479 company and association licenses were issued as against 457 in 1926 | A public warning against unlicensed tnsurance companies, which Mr. Baldwin Ceclared are “operating in many cascs for the benefit only of the get rich quick promoters” is contained in the| report A resident agents’ law would curb to a large extent the activities of some ©f these companies and association,” he recommended PARACHUTE JSNPER DROPS 15,000 FEET, | LANDING ON ROOF Page) Premiums (Continued from First tice jump in preparation for tempt 1o capture the jumping rec- e Army. He dropped 7.700 U time 2nd came tnrough pped off the wing of & Lieut. Ernest W e of the flight al Air Station, | i assigned. The alti-| ship registered exactly the youthful machinist’s to space, with the chute opened perfectly long descent g from side the ground it was d come 1o earth some- the roof of the fabric eries which FORMER POLICEMAN GETS TERM IN JAIL 14 the ears old Jliceman of [ Lee ;. Mal- | eapon 30 alter Roberts 1 @ street cording to Del apartment tive Arthur Pihelly White ook the gun when he was dis- chaiged from the employment of Twoberts. He then made efforts 1o sell the weapon. Piheily zaid, and a pros- was “framed” by the 3 in lowa Circle last rday night Wher White sppeared. Fihelly and Detectives Ogle snd Weber were in ing for hun snd took him into od) P e aly 9. | | the wings -jon STAR. WASHINGTON. D. 300 BABIES WILL COMPETE | IN ANNUAL FIREMEN'S PARADE | ‘ILabor Day Event “le Feature Cofitcst of Children Who Will Help in Celebration. | More than 300 freshly scrubbed baby | plans to appoint as judges an artist, a | faces, beaming or bawling aceording to | professional decorator and some woman | | the personal exigencies of the moment, | interested in and familiar with child will peer inquiringly from as many | welfare work. In addition, various | gayly decorated baby carriages ss a | committees are to be appointed to have feature of the festivities in connection | charge of different features of the baby with the sixth annual firemen's parade | parade. | here on Labor day. ‘The baby vehicles may be pushed by The many infants, though they may | mothers, fathers or other relatives. All not realize it, will be competing for sev- relatives interested in making entries eral awards and honors. The Evening | are urged to send their names and a Star, as an incentive to the parents of | dresses to Sergt. Bargagni at his head- personable babies. will offer prizes of | quarters. in care of No. 13 Truck Com- $50. $25 and $15 in gold to the winners | pany. Florida avenue an¢ Orren strect of first. sscond and third places in the | northeast baby parade. In addition, the little| The firemen's parade proper is to be winner will be presented a silver loving | the largest in the history of the local cup as a permanent memento of victory. jrl:‘fodl)eparl{n]wm In addition to the i | hundreds of local firemen and their ap- Baby Parade Starts at 4:30 PM. | paratus many hundreds more will come The baby parade is scheduled to start | from neighboring towns and cities. on the Ellipse back of the White Houte | At 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon and Sergt. A. J. Bargagni, marshal of the | announces that everything pos- be done for the comfort of s and children participating baby exhibition. He points out it will take place under t t round the Ellipse, 80 babies will be well Visiting Firemen Expected. | Among the visiting firemen will be the 10 companies of the Baltimore Fire | Department, who charged through the | aight to answgr Washington's cry for help during the incendiary fires here in January last. Their peaceful mission this time will be in sharp contrast to| their errand of mercy on that cold Jan- | uary night. Elaborate arrangements are b2ing made to entertain them. { The parade is to start from the Peace Monument at noon. In addition to the | firemen many merchants and others | have signified their intention of enter- | mg floats. Many bands will furnish | music for the paraders | Following the baby parade on the | Ellipse, a special exhibition of fire fight- | | ing will be given there at 6:30 o'clock. A Mardi Gras fete will follow on the | | Ellipse at 8 o'clock and at 9 p.m. therc | will be dancing on Seventeenth street | near’ the Ellipse. alveady have sig- making en the Ladies” Aux- re Department o give detailed in parents throughout the ¢ regarding the baby feature and .rge_them to enter their babies. : f baby vehicles are to be the little strollers and other mall conveyances being as readily wel comed as the large baby carriages Realizing the gigantic task of jud ing the various entries, Sergt. Bargagni THREE SEA FLYERS SEEK DATA HERE Trio Planning Round Trip.; America to England, Call on Navy Men. Woman Swimmer Tires Out Mates | In Record Try| By the Associated Press, COLTON. Calif.. August Although the second of her two SWimmIng mates was taken ;com ... water here this morning, Mrs. Lee Fourrier, 36, swimming Instructor, still going strong in her attempt to keep afloat in an open-air pool for 60 hours. She entered the water at 6 a.m. yesterd: After 18 hours and 14 minutes of paadling. Earl Smith, 19, gave up an attempt to set an endurance mark for men. A little over two hours be- fore Muriel Gordon, 15, came out after swimming 15 hours and 57 minutes. Smith and Miss Gordon are Although their projected round-trip flight across the Atlantic from New- foundland to London to New York is many months away. the three famous n,\;rs ciz\eloping the ccfllgl‘hops n{e taking advantage of their brief stay in Weshington 1o acquire ail possible in-| DOth DUPIS of Mra. Pourrier formation, which will work for success | " et """ DEWEY DEAL CAUSES SUIT AGAINST BUCKEY | Southern Cross; Capt. William Newton S | Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, who | Brokers Seek $3.000, Allegedly last year flew from London to Australia in a light airplane. and who comprise Arising From Sale Made to | Late Admiral's Wife. the personnel of the flight now being planned, visited the Bureau of Aero- nautics of the Navy Department today and were accorded complete co-opera- tion by Rear Admiral William A. Mof- fett, chief of the bureau. Admiral Moffett turned over for their inspaction all information bearing on transatiantic flying in the way of in- struments, navigation equipment, power plants and airplanes. The trio em- phasized their desire to obtain all pos- sible knowledge on weather conditions and were presented to Lieut. F. W. | Reichelderfer, aerologist of the Bureau | Prospects presented by him. was sued of Aeronautics, a noted authority on | f0day in the District Supreme Court for | weather conditions. The three fiyers|33.000 by Vincent A. Hughes_ an offi- conferred with him on the weather sub- | C€r of the Hughes company. The sum ject, which is looked upon as the most | 'S sald to represent Buckey's promise to Vital of all the problems before the | Teimburse the broker for a settlement of project is a success. $17.500, which he had recommended be i . | made in a reputed sale of securities to e, flggn;';f‘g“g'kmgflf;;‘,‘; O | Mrs. Mildred McLean Dewey. widow o’ three cngines, one of 400 horsepower | Admiral Dewey, hero of Manila Bay. O e Ethers of 200 horsepower each, | , According to'the declaration filed 1/ Admiral Moffett invited the fiyers to | Attorneys William E_Leahv, William J visit the Naval Alr Station at Anacostia | HUghes, jr. and E. B. Sullivan, Buckey {his afternoon and inspeet the Navy's | brought Mrs. Dewey to the attention o s Ao A P Eord~ whish | the brokerage firm and sales of securi- o 400 hoacpouer engtae tn the | Ues totaling more than $100,000 were | made to her. He received a commis- nose and two 200-horsepower motors In | ;"¢ ¢6.120 on- sales totaling 876,500, but was allowed no commission on other purchases amounting to $25.000. the court is told. The sales to Mrs. Dewey were made fn the Spring of 1922, and | he broker savs that Buckey asked that veyment be made to his father instead of to him. In 1925 Mrs. Dewey became appre- hensive of the value of some of the se- | curities and had Samuel Untermyer. | | New York lawyer, make demand for the | return of part of the money. Buckey, it ! |18 said, counseled a compromise, and | agreed with Hughes, it is contended. | that if Mrs. Dewey was returned $17,500 he would pay $3,000 of the amount. The settlement was effected, it s said, but | Buckey bas failed to pay the share | promised by him, The securities, which | were questioned. were not included in the original sale to Mrs. Dewey, and Buckey had recelved no commission on | them, but merely promised to bear - share of the settlement, it is stated i nel, now a real estate operator at 806 Seventeenth street, who is said to have had an agreement with Hughes & Co., ‘nvestment securities brokers, for an per cent commission on all sales made to ‘The plane to be used by the trio will be an all-metal monoplane, but the de- sign and manufacture is being kept a secret The party probably will leave for New York tonight BOY TAKES POISON; DIES IN HOSPITAL Raymend Teawalt, 18, Is Found on Lawn of Home—Had Been Despondent. Found unconscious on_the lawn of his home early this morning with an empty polson bottle beside him. Ray- mond Albert Teawalt, 18 years old. 608 Jeflerson street, was taken to Emer- gency Hospital, where he died shortly after 10 o'clock Young Teawalt's parents, Mr. and M. Teawalt, left him at home erday evening with another youth They were playing the piano and sing- ing and the son told them he was going to a party before they returned and would not arrive home until late He was heard entering the house iy bl 0% €0 shortly after midnight, but no one P'RoRte o0 % SlCL ; " | heard him go out again and he was not | o, M7, Judd owl A el astace rsliae| found until his father came down stairs | Sy onared at §1.230.000 comprising. cash | at & gclock this MoMMing 1o g0 1o WOrk. | unq"securities, The wi 4 The father called Dr. G. A. Brilmyer. | . 601 Jefferson street, who administered | Aie sole beneficlsrior of the ety first ‘ald treatment and then called 80| Avee for the petitione daadi ambulance. The boy died without re- | PeAT 0F the petitioners gaining consciousnss i His parents thought he may have | been despondent beceuse he was unable | to find employment, but said he had) never intimated that he might take his | life. Coroner Nevitt certified suicide. | Teawall attended Brightwood Graded Sehool and Business High School. He i survived, besides his parents, by a sister, Julia, 8, and a brother, Paul, 11 PLANS VISIT TO IRELAND. Secretary Kellogg Will Call on Free Btate President. |JUDD LEAVES $1,375,000 | | George H. Judd, head of the print- | | ing establishment of Judd & Detweller, | who died at his Summer home, Sky- | | land, Va. August 5, left an estate valued at $1,375,000, according to the | petition of his widow, Marian A. Judd, and his son, George E. Judd, for the I | Becretary Kellogg has practically de- | cided 1o visit Ireland after mgmn; the 15-power anti-war treaty in Parls Au-' gust 27, in order to return the call | President Cosgrave of the executive council of the Irish Free State made during his visit to this country. It is not unlikely that Mr. Kellogg also will | | visit London Mr Kellogg will have a little more than a week to spend in Europe before the sailing of the steamship Leviathan, | which he plans to return to the | United States. While the Secretary has | announced no definite plans, it is known | he contemplates the call on President | Cosgrave. who invited him while here | When Mr, Kellogg's trip to Parls was | announced the Irish President renewed his invitation. Invitations from a num- | ber of other eountries have come to | Mr. Kellogg pressing him for & visit Blaine, England, where 60 per cent of the men have been unemployed since 1921, has become a new center of rayon industry. | Morgantown FREAK COLL Truck Company No. 14, Connecticut avenue near Porter street. The company now has two legs o | Plaskett and Sergt. W. L. Hurley. Pvt. Plaskett is the driver. ters. k. C.. WEDNESDAY, the Merchants & Manufacturers’ Cup. 'HEART-BROKEN DOG FACES ELECTROCUTION TO END GRI EF Pal with Mrs. M. M. Blumenberg. With a look of almost human under- | standing in hi Pal. a is intelligent brown eves. awaited the hour of his electrocution at the Washington Animal Rescue League He is to die because his love for today. a man is stronger than his love of life Pal was the pet Matus who, Erich Heights, and companion Greater _ Capitol his wife, of with drowned 10 days ago when their skiff capsized in U he Potomac River Md. of WaS near 13-year-old collie dog. calmly | was the breaking of the last tie which connected him with his master. All the way down the road.' Blumenberg sald, “the dog stood in the machine and gazed back at disappearing house. He whimpered and cried, much after the fashion of a grief-stricken child.” At the home of the League, 349 Mary- land avenue southwest, the dog main- talned his indifferent’ attitude today, refusing to eat and taking little notice Mrs. up th lof his surroundings. In some mysterious manner the big | dog—part collie and part St. Bernar say, Pal took | door of the Matus home | seemed to realize that his friend of 13 | years had gone and would not be back. | Mervyn C. Buckey, retired Army colo- | On the day of the drowning, neighbors up his post at the front permit no one to enter the building. Por eight days he refused to eat snarling savagely at any one who ap- proached him. At night he would sit on the front steps and howl. Pinally the plight of the dog became more than the neighbors the estate. Mr. Meyer could siand, and they | appealed to Henry F. Meyer, 1250 New Hampshire avenue, administrator of recalled that Matus had told him he wanted Pal “put to sleep” if_anything ever ha In keeping with t the dog, which evidently the sake of was dying of ministrator aj twncd to him s request, and for a broken heart, the ad- ppealéd to the Animal Rescue League. Last night of the league for Pal ihe dog After some di into her ¢ar and they started M M. M. Blumenberg nt to the Matus home culty she got back to Washington. Mrs. Blumenberg said the JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. 3d. DUE | and would 'be placed animal seemed to realize this | kept from her. If he has any understanding of the significance attached -to the prepara- tions being made for the electrocution, he gave no sign of it this morning Qnly in his eyes did he show any hint of emotion, and there was no fear in them—only grief, Pal, at a time still to be set, will in a large back box. the floor covered with water. A thin brass collar, attached to an elpctric light socket, will be fastened around his shaven neck. When the door to the box is closed. the circuit will be com- pleted. Death, Mrs. Blumenberg said, will be instantaneous. The drowning of Mr. and Mrs. Matus left their 4-year-old daughter. Gloria without a relative in this eountry. She is being cared for at the home of Mrs John Schaeffer, 1428 Irving strect northeast. Pal is & constant companion to the child, watching over her for hours at a time, according to Mrs. Schaeffer, Gloria thinks she is away from home on a vacation, not having been told of the death of her parents. Likewise, the electrocution of the dog will be FOR CAREER AS FINANCIER By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 15.—~John D Rockefeller, 3d, will start his business career as A member of the board of | & bank his fat is to establish in Harlem. I her, John D. Rockefeller, The bank is for the accommodation of the negro population of that section and for the encouragement of thrift. It will be known As the Dunbar Na- tional Bank and located in the Dunbar Apartments Building, which Mr. Rocke- feller erccted Collector Year-0ld M. of Tin Because the faded slightly Raleigh Hotel Pays Only $111 to provide model homes TO HIS WIDOW AND SON‘SLIGHT BLEMISH CUTS STAMP'S PRICE $1,389 77- auritius lssue Because for y Discoloration. or in one corner had a defect unnoticeable to g cash | any but an expert—a Mauritius slnmr The widow and son are | worth $1.500 in perfect condition, sold | 1ast night for $111 at an auction in the | | auctioned. under auspices of the So- | at the hotel in annual convention for negroes at a reasonable rental. It will be opened September 17 Young Rockefeller is 22 years old and a senior at Princeton. It was an- nounced he will come from Princeton to attend meetings of the board as his father wishes him to obtain some bank- ing experience as part of his general training and education, He now is in Geneva, where he has a temporary po- sitfon at $20 a week in the information section of the League of Nations secre- tariat. He wiil return to America in the: Fall to resume his studies Two such stamps of a previous issue scld recently for $20,000 each. The delegates to the convention held their closing business session today and will return to their homrs after the annual convention tonight Spencer Anderson of New York wae the man whose bid secured the year-old stamp. Bidding throughout the three-hour sale was slow, accord- g to Max Ohlman, auctioncer, be cause many stamp collectors are out of the country on vacations About 600 other lots of stamps wore many of them bringing clety of Philatelic Americans, meeting | prices in excess of their nominal value 10N " The '-l.fi'trmutlh of & wreek caused !.v‘ . h::.“l Iu..lhl 3 hob the | the car of Harry 8. pub out of control by the m struck mAc of Vincent Gulll and burst | Way 3 SE TWO CARS ABLAZE block of Niohols avenue southeast this morning, when AUGUST 15, tomorrow | 192 winner of the 1928 speed contest for fire trucks, with a mark of 3 Left to right: Pvis. H. 0. Lowe, H. C. ¥ | | GRAND JURY FREES MANIN DROWNING Indictment Refused in Death of Rosalie Steadman in Potomac River. The grand jury, reporting ¢ fused to indict Joseph D old, of 1003 K street | was held by a corone 14 seconds in leaving quar- | . R. W. Gleason, P. C. onker, J. G. Trac ismmn REFUSES SHITHHISPULPT }But Will Repeat Charges if Governor Does Not Meet Him in Hall. By the Associated Press GREENWOOD LAKE, N. Y. 15.—The Rev. John Roach pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. threatens that if Gov. Smith refuses to meet him in debate anywhere except in his church he will hire the largest hall he can find and repeat the sermon which brought on their controversy The governor wrote to Dr. Straton king for a “yes or no" answer to his request for & hearing in Calvary Church, where the minister first mad the charge that the governor was “the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true po- litical wisdom.” Dr. Straton, who had not vet received the letter, said that for obvious reasons which he had previously advanced he could not meet the governor in Calvary Church. These reasons cited by Dr. Straton were that a church was no place for the holding of a political de- bate, and that he believed the edifice | would not hold all who would wish to d “But if the governor does refuse on this ground,” Dr. Straton continued then I will hire the largest hall I can g»t and notify the governor that I am going to repeat in that hall the exact sermon to which he objected.” He Smith must be present, and I will allow ‘hm\ any time he wants to make re- August Straton, joinders. * * he does not attend | that meeting I have something more to say about him. whether he is gov- ernor of the State, candidate for Presi- dent, or whatever he is. We'll show | peopie who is going to run to e« |~ There seemed little chance that Gov Smith would accept Dr. Straton’s latest | offer. In his letter to the Baptist min- | ister_yesterday the governor wrote: | " “The answer to my request to appear in your church before your par foners, under the conditions I tioned, is " or 'no.’ Unless and until I hear from you in the affirmative the matter is closed.” 'NICARAGUAN LEADER TO MAKE VISIT HERE Trip by Adolfo Bernard, Conserva- | tive Candidate, Held of No Moment. Adolfo Bernard. conservative candi- date for President of Nicaragua. is coming to the Capital, it was learned at the Nicaraguan legation today. but it was cmphasized his visit has no political significance. | " 'Mr. Bernard is to sail from Barce- | lona, Spain, August 24, on the Manuel Arnes. He will arrive in New York about 10 days later. He is expected to come direct to the Nicaraguan lega- tion as the guest of his son-in-law Don Alejandro Cesar, Nicaraguan Min- ister. The sole reason for the visit, the legation announced, is to visit members of his family here and to enjoy a few days’ rest before entering the election fight in Nicaragua. He =ill have nothing to say eoncerning his candi- dacy, it is thought. nor will he attempt to ascertain from Secretary Kellogg whether the American Govermment looks with favor on his race for the presidency of the Central American Republic. Notification of his nomination came Mr. Bernard in the midst of a | pleasure trip in Europe and he has not yet returned home. BLOWOUT SETS TWO MACHINES ABLAZE Freak Collision With Parked Car | Causes Wreckage { of Both. | | A blowout that caused the collision ot two cars, which then caught fire and were badly wrecked, resulted in the in- fury of one man here early today—the second freak traffic accident reported | n the past 24 hours. ‘The other oddily occurred yesterday afternoon when the trucks of a street | car slid on a curve and the rear end of the car K Harry S. Thompson, an _emplove of the Home for the Aged. at Blue Plains. was passing In front of 3111 Nichols avenue, when the two left tires of his machine blew y. His machine was thrown against a parked car owned by Vincent Gulli of the 1 Nicho!s avenue address, which almost immediately burst into flames. ‘Thomp- son's car then caught fire. Firemen ex- tinguished the blaze. Ed Carlson, who was riding with Thompson, and who Is also an employe at the Home for the »d, was cul about the face by fiying 5. He refused treatment. Police ure at & loss to explain why Thomp- son's car should have swerved to the right when the tires that blew out are on the left. Charles Dearing, 25, 236 Beach street Lyon Park, Va, sustained cuts on the hend and right leg and brulses on the body when the swinging rear end of the street car struck him at Seventh streei and Pennsylvania avenue. He was treated at Emergency Hospital and allowed to return home. . Storm Hits Santiago de Cuba. HAVANA, August 15 (. —A special dispatch to El Hundo says that San- | tlago de Cuba was slightly damaged | late last night by a storm which at- | out simultaneous tained hurricane intensity. No casual- | ties were reported. incronses am building con- men are expected in Belgium. aid he was assuming that “Gov. | men- | cked down a pedestrian. | | etnets) ENGINE CO. 23 WINS | 1928 SPEED TESTS; | TRUCK 14 ALSO VICTOR (Continued from First Page.) L. L. Woolard to sound he test alarm “1-3" on the big gong. At the first clang of the gong the com- pany trio leaped for their positions, and he watches started clicking off fifths of a second. Pvt. Talbott seemed literally to sail through space. Like a bullet follow- ing a carefully planned trajectory, he plunked into the seat and his hands and feet landed, simultaneously, on levers and pedals. Pvt. Troup mean- | while had streaked to the crank, and with one powerful lunge started the 100-horsepower motor roaring. Capt. | Bryarly shouted, “Box 13—Go!,” and the giant engine was off in a thunder of explosions and a cloud of smoke. | signaled Capt Watches Agree. Examination of the showed they agreed to the fifth of a | sccond. The company had made the | dash in exactly 6 2-5 seconds. one-fifth of a second better than its own mark of last year. The same procedure was [ollowed in timing Truck Co. No. 14 and all other companies P. C. Pulaski | drove No. 14 truck, and Sergt. W. L. Hurley was in command. The tests went off without a hitch, { except at No. 13 engine house, Tenth and G streets southwest, where the driver was unable to get his motor staried because of a piece of cloth ap- parently left in the carbureter by a | careless workmen. Some companies e perienced slight troubdle in star*ing their motors, resulting in poor s-eed marks. The two cups will be awarded at | special ceremonies to br d later Commissioner zherty will S t is expected. cun for Engine Co. will install in the a handsome with a per- company’s Ir ins-ribed of the bronze plaque. manent record achievement Other Resulis.. Results of yesterday afternoon's tests follow Engine Company North Capitol and Quinc; e sec- |onds. Pvt. R. E. Finley. driver, and | Sergt. M. H. Sutton, in command. Engine Company, No. 26, Twenty- second street, between FPranklin and | Evarts streets northeast. 7 4-5 seconds. Pvt. B. C. C. Dickinson, driver; Pvt. | C. A. Lempke, cranker, and Lieut. H | O. Bailey, in command. | Truck Company. No. 13. Florida av nue and Orren street northeast, 8 se onds. Pvt. M. A. Melcher, driver T. H. Pilkerton, tillermen, and Lieut W. L. McMahon. in command. Engine Company. No. 17. Monroe | street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets northeast, 8 seconds. Pvt. R. E. | Midgett, driver Pvt. T. O'Brien, | cranker, and Capt. R. A. Galpin, in command. Engine Company. seits avenue, near Fifth seconds. Pvt. J. H. T e Pvt._ J. M. Ruffner, cranker, and Sergt T. 8. Baber, in command. Engine Company, No. 2. Deanwood. 10 2-5 seconds. Pvt. J. C. Statz, driver; Capt. J. W. Myers, in command. Engine Company, No. 10, Maryland avenue, between Thirteenth and Four- teenth str northeast, 11 sec- onds. Pvt. W. H. Holidge, driver, and Lieut. E. L. Huntt, in command. Engine Company, No. 24, Georgia ave- nue near New Hampshire avenue, 11 4-5 | seconds. Pvt. G. R. Clarke, driver; | Pvt. W. S. Radcliffe, cranker, and Lieut | R._D. Cror.pton. in command. Truck Company, No. avenue and M street, 17 Pwt. G. A. Clarke, driver: Pyt Wolf, tillerman, and Capt Murphy, in command DRYS WIN IN OHIO G. 0. P. PRIMARY BURTON HAS LEAD (Continued from First Page) No. 6. Massachu- r 8 | | | E. C M. D by 3,400 votes, doubt | _ Senator Donahey to but the outcome was in Locher, appointed by Gov t the unexpired term of the late S ank B. Willis, had declared he would “rainer be defeated ‘as ry than elected as a wet.” Hunt is an advocate of 1 the Vol- | stead act | Charles V. Truax. State director of agriculture, was leading former Repre- sentative George White, Marietta, his closest opponent, for the Democratic long-term senatorial nomination by 11,000 votes. Senator Fess was unop- v post on the Republican ticket. PARNELL LEADS. Representative Reed Lagging in Arkan- sas Primary. _LITTLE ROCK, Ark., August 15 (#) Gov. Harvey Parnell, candidate to suc- ceed himself. was leading his nearest opponent. Brooks Hays, by approx mately 12,000 votes on’the basis of | turns “today from 976 out of 2,039 pre- {cmets from yesterday’s Democratic pri- mary. These gave Parnell 31,203, Hays 19,601, Terral 12.194 and Cone 10 Two members of the Arkansas delega- | tion in Congress -Parks in the seventh district and Reed in the sixth -were | running behind their opponents on the | face returns _early today. In the| sixth district, wRh 96 of 275 precinets reporting in a three-cornered race, Rep- resentative Reed had 2.181 votes, D. D, Qlover 3,017 and R. W. Wilson 3,199 In the seventh. with 103 out of 282 precincts reported, Mr. Parks had 3,186 and his opponent, Walter L. Brown, 3,636 In other districts the count showed First distriet (106 out of 289 pre- cinets) ~W. J Driver, incumbent, 3.841 W.J. Raney, 2,712 Second district (126 W. A Oldfeld 4.302: H. A, Northeutt, 3.030 “Thivd district (78 of 282 precincts) Karl A. Gréenshaw, 2.789: Claude A | Fuller. 1774 | Fifth district (137 of 355 precinets) artsill Ragon. Incumbent, 10,902; | Oscar Winn, 2121, Representative John Tillman was not a candidate for renomination in the third district. Otis Wingo. incumbent n the fourth district, had no oppasition. g of 343 pre- incumbent, | stop-watches | 4, New York ! 1-5 seconds. | b 5 or the posed for renomination for the same ble for the drowning of R man, 14 years old, in t er of the District st her life Indic three of Albert E was held withou nee the death of Ellen C. K 4 last, near § the child when she ran in of the machine stated Joseph Harrison, colored, v prosecuted for the death o i Irene, June 12 last, at their | Four-and-a-half street so | sufficie | a kick by | influenced the g |, Jda warren justfied in July 1. in W son had s and had was te The gra John H. Soic the name of his son. to three checks totalin Farmers' & Mechanics The father, an elderly man | that aithough the accoun son’s name, it contained proceed | sale of certain property own and that he had the s | to draw on the the police. { Charles E. Jackson, co | of & charge of assault w weapon on his wife, Beatrice at their home, 1220 Sixth street siashed the man with knife she refused to testify agains was sa The grand jurors exonerated My | Jett, a nurse, of a charge of larceny connection with the disappearance of a wrist watch from the home of Emm Myers, 2301 First street, where she had been nursing. The watch disappeared May 26 and was found fects of the nurse at Jacl the next day, it is reporte woman was unable to account watch being in her possession | said. Because the woman alleged to hava been transported failed to appear grand jurors refused to indict . Cherico on a cha: Mann act. He was said to I Rosner, July 18 last, o Colonial Beach, Va. arcotic Law Charges. the Harrison charged in an indictme ported against Dr. F. Willilam 38 years old, 509 E street. He charged with having unlawfully in possession July 6 & quantity of mo; | phine. Ferris was taken into cust d accoy Ferr of a resident local drug store. i Arthur Lee Clark is accused of violal | cotic law. Possession of nar 8 is charged in an indictment rey against him Carl A. Meyer is in | in narcoties. Others indicted and the against them inciude: Roy S son, non-suppo Charles Mil Robert C. Johnson. housebr larcenv: Stevens R .Gates, ph Oswald, Luke Boone, Charles Mill Raymond King and Richard Wimer Baker, grand larceny: Raymond King and Richard W. Baker, 1 ny and joy-riding; Amos McDo: dolph Smith, William Morris, Prather. James E. Colbert. Helm Fisher, Elmer Bethel, John Le James lee, joy-riding; William O'Brien, forgery. GIRL, 15, SHOOTS MAN " OF 59 FOR REVENGE | Youngster Walks Into Police Sta- | tion and Admits Wounding | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. August year-old Mary Arenci wa East 104th Street Police Sta and admitted that she had ferio Pantellena, a pedd times her age. as he sa of an Bast Side tenement Mary said Pantellena ct a hospital shootin Mary told her stor The girl contende! th when Pantellena was ports to the police w been accompanied by fired twice BAND CONCERT United States A vivan Th | By the | the s at Fantasia, “A Spanish trom “Lady of t States) tar Spangled Ban: By the United § the Capitol, 7:30 o'clock tonig March, “Washington Grays Overture, “Lebanon Saxophoue solo, “Tyrol Reminiscences of Bellini Waltz, “Dream on the Ocear Vibraphone solos Che Swan' “Mem Tles Largo and scherso from Symphony Torchlight Dance No Meye: The Star Spangled Banoer By the United Sta the Navy Yard Band: tonight March, “Florentin Overture, “Die Me! Plecolo solo, Sek Scherzo and fAnale from “Fifth Sym- phony” 5 Beethoven, Op Vocal solo, Selected Tone poem, “Les Preludes”. ... “Irish ‘Tune From County Derry.” Grainger Excerpts from “Wonderland".. . Herbert “Prelude in C Sharp Minor," Rachmaninoff “The Star Spangled Banner.” a New Worl De s Navy nd. Ba stersinger

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