Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1928, Page 22

FRE NIV HUSE STE SHLE ORDERED Commissioners Authorize Bids on Sixteenth and Web- ster Streets Land. Sale of the land at Sixteenth and Webster streets purchased some time ago for the erection of a fire engine | house was authorized by the District | Commissioners yesterday When the original purchase was made neighbors in that section of the HELD IN THREE THEFTS. William Jackson, Colored, Gets 270-Day Jail Sentence. Pleading guilty to three cases of larceny of clothing from downtown stores, Willlam Jackson, colored, who told police he lived at 1245 Ninth street, was sentenced to 270 days in jail by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court yesterday Jackson stole a dress at Clothing Store, 427 Seventh two pairs of stockings from the G. R. | Kinney Shoe Store, 731 Seventh street } | Datley's street: and a cap from George & Co.. 910 Seventh street. Detective Warfield noticed the man carrying something under his coat when he passed him at Seventh and | D streets last Friday night and placed him under artest. The clothes were found in his possession at the time. ested, and the project finally ndoned. A movement was uce the former owner to| site, and_the petitioners | agreed to make up the difference to the | e resale did not bring et k a hand in the affair engine house be 2 Government-owned land at hwest corner of Sixteenth and Colorado avenue, part of k and half a mile posed site. The offer pay the dif- alidated horized Mai rict auditor sell the land at streets under 1929 appropriation bids. If he is ur u the District be unable to Another action take: ers yesterday wa: re an emergency { of authorizing defici refusal to ency expenditure to build up & Staff for enforcement by the school authorities of the 1928 act to regulate the employ- | " Tocally of $11848.40 was | spectors, th equipment. $1, street car tokens and $1, n s allowances for the rector of the work and staff on jon rendered by M Comissioners held they i authority to declare u ncy. and notified the school board 1d have to wait until Congress convenes to ask for & deficiency appro- priation NAVAL PILGRIMAGE | T0 HONOR CAPT. COOK Sesquicentennial of Hawaii's Dis- covery to Be Opened With In- | ternational Rites. | Br the Associated Press HONOLULU, August 15.—With for- malities incidental o the opening of the sesquicentennial celebration of the discovery of Hawaii by Capt. James Cook, British explorer. completed. 2 flgrimage to the spot where Cook first anded was undertazen today British, Australian, New Zealand and American officials expected to leave Honolulu to? for the Island of Kaui to visit the spot where Cook landed, where he hela the first cnm-‘ Han funeral service and where he died Naval officers representing the four| eountries designated the U. S. S. Penn- | sylvania to lead the international flotilla to Kaui and return. British armed troops will land on Kaui tomorrow for the first time since Cook’s landing, in 1778. NICARAGUA REPATRIATES EXILED REBEL VICTIMS| Marine Corps Officer Accompaniu; ;Relief Commission on Hon- | duran Border. By the Associated Press MANAGUA. Nicaragua. August 15 Lieut. Col. Jos¢ A. Rossell, U. S. A C.. is accompanying a commission of | two Nicaraguans. one a liberal and one a Conservative, which is working along the Honduran side of the border in an effort to repatriate a number of in- digent Nicaraguans. It is estimated | that there are from 500 to 1,200 of these who have been driven from their homes by rebel depredations in ti Province of Nueva Segovia Permission to send the commission into Honduras was obtained from toe Honduran government through American legation in Nicaragua. Nicaraguan government provided $15.- 000 furnish food and clothing for the | people until they could be returned t | their homes. | LEAVES WASHINGTON | RELICS TO DAUGHTER s. Laura Fitzhugh Names Chil- dren as Executors—Parry Will Published. The will of Mrs. Laura S. Fitzhugh great-granddaughter of Samuel Wash- ington, brother of George Washington, yesterday for probate. She c bequest to her daugh- owned and worn ‘The remaining istributed among her S. Pitzhugh. Hugh Fitz- 1 are also 0 | Halifax, Nova Scotia: Zdith | DAVID F. WILBER, 68, | DIES AT MAINE HOME Former Representative and Consul Was in Federal Service More Than Two Decades. By the Associated Press. ONEONTA, N. Y.. August 15 —Word has been received here of the death of David Forrest Wilber. 68. of this city. former Representative and American consul. at his Summer home at Upper Dam. Me.. vesterday Mr. Wilber was for 20 years con- nected with the consular service of the | United States, having served as consul or consul general in Barbados, West In- dies: Singapore, Straits Settlement in Japan, Van- Switzerland: Ge couver: Zurich, N and Wellington Italy; Auckland, N. Z N. 2. He was engaged in various Govern- ment activities during the war and in New Zealand did much to introduce American machinery While residing here he was engaged in cattle raising and agriculture. In 1894 he was president of the Holstein- Friesian_Association of America Mr. Wilber served in the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth Congresses. He is survived by his widow and one son, both of Oneonta SEIZED RUM RELEASED. Ontario Authorities Require $700.- 000 Bond of Accused Companies. WINDSOR. Ontario, Angust 15 (#).— The liquor stocks of the Intertransit | and Nathapson Exporting Companies, | seized by provincial police on complaint | of the Ontario liquor control board, have been released by the posting of | $700,000 bond by the companies. { As soon as the restrictions were re- | | moved two large speedboats were loaded | with beer and liquors and left for an | unannounced destination. Police esti- | mated that during vesterday 20 boats | were loaded and dispatched. depleting | the warehouse stocks by $500,000 worth of beer and liquors. The warehouses are located along the Detroit River almost directly across from | the city of Detroit Fresh at 6 P.M. That tired, dragged-down mid- afternoon feeling on a hot Sum- mer's day may be, and probably * is, caused by your feet, or rather the shoes that you wear. Tired foot muscles and relaxed arches cause weariness through- out the body, which eventually results in nervousness. Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoes support the foot naturally and comfortably. Try a pair and see how fresher and brighter you will feel at the end of the day. John Ebberts Shoe Co., Makers 1318 G St. N.W. .0 * Blde. Reasons Why Our Reupholstery Departm l Fine fabrics at * prices. . wugh died | patent attorney left to his son. his jewelry pment. The Te- vised to the widow ry. The Wash- Co. is named as law | Small, well also several ver | the Croa | anger when it suspended the parlia-|its population was fewer than 10,000 | been accomplices in Competent salespeople to help you in your selections. New Tapestry THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Stefan Raditch, his nephew Paul and four other deputies. It is expected that the Skupstina | will be dissolved in the Fall and new | general elections held under a govern- ment in which the Croats would par- ticipate largely. | Luna Davidovitch, leader of the Dem- ocratic Peasants’ party, will make a B on Sun- = | nove toward reconciliation day, appealing to the Croats to bury the hatchet and return to Parliament I cassel s September. : . | pacts as ra o4 h ly the V- Aid to Zagreb's Home- | Primen: supporiers. voting. ‘are worth- Rule Fight. | less, because of the absence of the Croats and Serbian agrarians, which | left Parliament. without sufficient num- | bers for legal ratification It is acknowledged that, while the Nettuno convention will give added power to the Croatian demand for home W, it will leave Italy without excuse Nettuno | to nterfere in internal pparently | crisis By the Associated Press BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, A The government. having obt liamentary sanction for the convention with I . attempting to heal the breach with A an-Democratic opposition. $30,000,000 has already News ers in Zagreb, ancient cap-| ital of Croatia, however, are charging sen spent by the Loudon County Coun- housing schemes in the the government with treachery in the|cil on its ratification and warn that the breach | suburb of Dagenham, where nearly 10,- has been widened. 000 houses have been completed since The Skupstina (Parliament) passed [ the The district has now nearly a mea: designed to allay Croat | 50.000 inhabitants. 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