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K| 1928 193 NEW LAWYERS ADMITTED T0 BAR Half of 386 Applicants Fail to Pass District Ex- amination. Gt i R. ML Grossma Liovd G. Haag, George lam L Hanaway. Robert Luther, Lynn Jacoh A Mankinen. Robert E G. McGraw. William Stmon Francis _ McHugh W McManus, Francis J Namara, H F. McNenny. Lou d Isadore Needie. Arnold H. Neviaser, T. O'Loughiin, C Poiland, Abrah; k. Robert Francis Pontzer, Clar- | H._ Porter, John James Powers, Prager E Ki n Charles Phi Harold Cooper B. Rhodes Richardson. Kenneth C. ng S. Rose J. Scanlan, Frederick Schafer, Prancis J. Seymour. John L. Seymo Harold H. Shaller, Thomas L. Sharkey Henry Shattyn. John A. Sheil, Charles Shreve, George Joseph Silhavy, Joseph B. Stlverman Leo C. Sullivan, A Surine, William H._ Stanton, | ton, Samuel Stearman, | | C. Steers Jjeon Stephenson. e P Stillwell, Paul Prosser Stouten- burgh. Donald L. Stumpf Mark Tavior. Santjord Brogdyne Teu Edward A. Tonies, Joseph Raymond ottenhoff. Robert S. Trimble, Char- | 1 Weston Ve Prederick Walter Wakefield A Wallace, Ch: s L. Wal bert Walsh. James Robert W lev A. Waikins. Raymond C. Webr Kassel Weinstein. James J 1 Willlam Joseph: Wheat ey, Prank Ivan Whitn William W. | ‘Whitson. William Pzll Wiggins. Edward | C. Wileox. Mary Dixon Willis. Guy A Wink rthur L. Winn Henry J Winters and George H. Zeutzius. FORESTVILLE FETE TO OPEN TONIGHT = Show Will Be a Feature of Annna] Celebration in Virginia Town tapatoh’ts Forest the Gr other P comm DAD eards are pledge themse! for President old Mrs. Eliazbeth Shelley 8 A few of the vounz women who passed the June bar examinations. left to right: Miss May Fastman and Miss Lower: Miss May R. Hutchinson and Miss Vera Mankinen. | /% MO L G0k and its wielder's will be admitted in October. Upper Mildred F. Reeves BOULEVARDWORK CROSSING PROBLE O BEGIN MONDAY Bethesda-Silver Spring Link to Give Sixteenth Street New Westward Outlet. a direct connecting omery Cour The Mullin Construc been awarded work on the western away, inning about 1,000 feet north of h sireet at the District line and hundred feet southwest of Fe the Baltumore & Ohio , miles of the 120- foot right of way west from this point across the properties of Montgomery Blair, Charles C. Glover and Chester A. Snow have been dedicated to the State Roads Commussion, and this is the sec- tion that will be built f The section upon which the tractors wi tart construction Monday w connect 2t the District line westward with the unimproved county road between the Ray Bros. farm and the Charles C. Glover and S. R. Gr Exact Grade Undecided. The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commussion and the District of Columbia Commissioners have not vet come to an agreement with the Mary- land State Roads Commission and the Maryland Park and Planning Commis which will jon Cc contract has Railroad. About con- sion as to the exact grade of Sixteenth | street at the District line. This matter now is under advisement and as soon as a grade is agreed upon the con- tractors will pave the streich for ap- proximately 1.000 feet. connecting teenth street at the District line and the eastern end of the construction they are now stariing The State Roads Commission also ex- pects to eomplete the rosdway on the ecastern extension of Sixteenth street to the Coles: more during the pre: Condemnation Is Needed. Construction of the highway in the Bethesda and Chevy Chase section will | be started by the State Roads Commis- n as soon as condemnation of the right of wav needed across the Ray and Dunlap properties is effected The suits in each case are friendly uite as the owners desire to dedicate rights-of-way required. but the unable to accept them duc to that each property is subject ticipating estate of minor heirs. nation suits are therefore neces- give the State and county 2 the W. Woodward of Rockville n appointed by the attorney neral's office to prosecute .th con- demnations. In the meantime the con- tract_has been let for the bridge over & O. freight line between Be- and Chevy Chase. An carly ation of the right-of-way betwe Bethesda and the Columbia Country Club is expected from the Patton heirs As soon as this dedica the end of the road ng e B. e e ed Patriot’s Descendant Dies OLATHE. Kans. August 17 (F m Henry Benade 81 great- andson_of Patrick Henry. died today It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow. THES_ MORRIS PLAN = ' Easy to Pay Monthly Depostt For 12 Monihs $10.00 $15.00 I $20.00 $300 $25.00 | $360 $30.00 ) $540 $45.00 $120 $180 $240 $1,200 $100.00 $6,000 $500.00 THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Onder Supervision U. 5. Treasury 1408 H STREET, N. wor s apelling contest 5L s W. €. T, U.) picnic in e work | Sixteenth street | | tion could be agreed upon between the WATCHNAN BEATEN WITH BLACKIACK George Coberth, 77, Vicious-" ly Assaulted by Unidentified | Co'ored Man. | | Called from his bed last night by an unidentified colored man, George Co- berth, Ti-year-old watchman for the Washington Granite Monumental Co !Jocated in Rosslyn, Va. was severely beaten on the head with a biackjack and choked until he ws almost unconscious bafore Harry Cockrell, 26 years old. who ives with Coberth, frightened away his | assaflant At Emergency Hospital. Dr. H. M {owden took 25 stitches in the man’s alp and it is thought that his skul! probably is fractured. An X-ray pic-| ture will be made today. His condi- tion fs serfous | Aroused by Caller at 10 0'Clock. Cobarth lives in a house in the rear of the Caton Wrecking Co.. in Rosslyn | and next door to the granite company | where he is emploved. Last night about 10 o'clock, he said, some one outside the house called to him, saying that he “was one of Caton’s men and wanted to see him.* As Coberth came out of the door he was struck on the head with a black- jack by a heavily built colored man dressed in a light suit of clothes. He | was struck again and again, the black- jack came apart and the man began to choke him Assailant Escapes. When Cockrell arrived. he found the {wo rolling on the ground in the mud The colored man fled. Cockrell half carried Coberth to the nearest drug store where a man was found to drive them to the hospital in Washington. | Neither Cockrell. nor Coberth. nor wny of the latter's friends, could advance | any reason for the assault other than robbery. The victim is said to be well liked in Rosslyn This morning a search revealed the They hat lying In the yard near the house. JULIUS M. GOLDENBERG ESTATE IS $1,500, Julius M. Goldenberg, the merchant who died July 30, left an estate ap- proximating $1.500 000. according to the petition of his brother, Morton H SPLITS KENSINGTON ; i i s executors obate of Some of Citizens for Bridge, S, e i, sami e wil and Some for Subway to to probate and issued letters to the ! petitioners on their giving bond of Abolish Danger. 125,000, Tha executors inform the court that Mr. Goldenberg's interest in the firm of Goldenberg's is estimated at $300.000 and that his interest in the estate of bis fatner. Moses Goldenberg. i worth reside | $550.000 He had stocks and bonds identa of the | 00 ated at $60.000 and cash of $30.000 over the elim- | 1 Geposit, in addition to life insurance cross | of 20,000 He also owned interests in Teal estate in the District valued at | 000, and in Maryland realty \a!urd“ rp differences of opinion have de- among the town of Kensington, Md of the dangerous grade veloped ination which already has been the scene more than 10 deaths. One group in the town strongly favors the construc- | tion of an overhead crossing, making an extension of Connecticut avenue. while another. led by State Senator Eugene Jones, favors a subway MAN HIT BY he mayor and town council at an executive ssion next Monday night will study two plans prepared by Irving C. Root. chief engineer for the Mary- | land National Park and Planning Com- | Struck by & street cor at Seventeenth et e Montgomery County | ,nq 1 streets this morning, John W.| members of the Park and Planning| pdqieon, 47 years old, 5309 Porter | Cpmmission also will attend the coun- | sireet, was taken to Emergency Hospital While ofinite 1. | and found to be suffering from internal While no definite action may be | ;jyries and shock. His condition has | aken Monday. it it expected the mat- | not been determined. Addison was | x will be thoroughly debated. A pub- |gryck by a Washington Rallway & lic hearing then is expected to be called | gieotric o, street cAr operated by by the mavor in order that all citizens | Motorman Ola H. Steeley, 152 Thir- | e ) teenth street northeast. He claims that ne plan for eliminating the cross- | pddison walked into the car while | Attorneys Lawrence Koenigsberger and Selig C. Brez appeared for the peti- | tioner | | 'STREET CAR. W. Addison Internally In- jured. John ing_would divert Connecticut avenue | oiin e g in the opposite direction ';a”if gm"_hl“‘ dlh" west side of the Morris Johnson, colored. 5 years old B & O. raiiroad to & point south of | 35 p street, was reported uninjured aft- e present Kensington grade Crossing | er pe was struck and knocked down in through a subway to be built between | {r t¢ W8S ST CE B EH00 e o nd-tun’ the grade crossing and the railroad sta- | qrive. © oS CETE i fed by Casuaity Uon. Hospital physicians The other possible route, which the Park and Planning Commission has | studied, would direct the Connecticu avenue traffic northeast at the raflroad and cross the railroad on an overhead bridge 150 feet north. This route would require the pur e or copdemnation Are Always Good. You Will Like of the opal Church site. The road Them. Ask Your Grocer. would continue northeast to Georgia JAMES M. DENTY avenue extended. near the old Dwyer School site at Aspen “ The ‘county comiissioners _several Wheleiale Disteibutor months ago signified their willingness to finance the Kensington grade cross- ing elimination program when the loca- G MeCormick Colles Eves Examined DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist 409-410 McLachlen Bids. 10th and 5 N W authorities of the town of Kensington, | the Park and Planning Commission and the State Roads Commission. JURY ACQUITS MAN, FINDS HE HAS GONE NOTICE The Main Road No. 5 is now open all the way tothe Lighthouseat Point Lookout, Md. Drive down and see the large modern Hotel being built and enjoy the fine surf bathing at the nearest seashore resort (o Wash- ington. POINT LOOKOUT CO. 907 Fifteenth St. Main 6147 The procedure of justice for Court yesterday when a jury, with its verdict of acquiital defendant had gone to lunch James Harrod, colored, 1010 Howard rond southeast, was on trial, accused of driving while intoxicated, before a jury under Judge Gus A huldt. When the | jury went to its room to decide upon | the case Harrod thought the court had recessed for lunch and left the building. | But the jury stayed out only three minutes. After some discussion, how- | ever, John P. Mullen, attorney for Har- | rod, satisfied Judge huldt that he | could receive the verdict in behalf of | his client and the foreman announced | Not gullty.” prisoner’s ignorance of court | delayed the administration a few minuies in Police returning found the You'll Enjoy the Hour When Arrives hefore to Lvening to vou while you are on vour vacation. You'll find yourself looking forward with inter est to the coming of the mails which will I'he Star reg no \rrange you leave I'he Star and Sunday have sent bring nlarly where matter yvou are journing by Mail- Payable in Postage Paid Advance Rate Evening ond Bundny 85¢ 25¢ Maryland and Virginia— One month One week All Other States— One month One week Evening. Sunday 50¢ 40¢ 15¢ 10¢ $1.00 30¢ 75¢ 25¢ | sorts of oceasions VETERAN DRUMMER QUITS ARMY AFTER SERVICE OF 30 YEARS Sergt. Rotstein, Well Known' in Capital, to Retire at His Own Request. Was Member of Boys’ Band‘ for Kentucky Regiment in War With Spain. Samuel Rotstein has been drumming in Uncle Sam's Army now for 30 years. and today, at his own request, he's lay- | ing aside his uniform and his sticks for awhile to enter retirement from the Army and seek new snare drum fields to conquer in far-away southern Caii- fornia Sergl. Rotstein—he's quitting as a master sergeant—has been contributing those long tempo-settinz rolls to_the Army Band at the Washington Bar- racks for the past six years, and now that he is leaving he's taking with him the good wishes of Capt. Arthur D. Alway, present commanding officer of the musical outfit But the ant’s drumming service hasn't always kept him here or in any other modern city. He and his sna have been together to Panama and t the Philippines, where it's hot, and the two of them have worked together t in Alaska here the mercury stays the other end of the tube. The servics that took him to those complimentary | came to Washington six years ago with places began back there in Louisville, | his wife. Mrs. Dorothy Rotstein. and Ky. where Sam Rotslein was drummer | their little daughter Pearl in the newsboys' band In this city the sergeant and his famn- I'he youngsters used to play for ily e made their home at 411 O and when the Sp street southwest, and from that ad- ish-American War broke out the boys, |dress they're leaving about the 1st of with Sam Roistein—the oldest of the | September for New York, where they 1l lot, and he. 17, at their head—enlisted | board the Army transport. U. S the whole organization in the Ist Ken- | Grant for the voyage through th tucky Volunteers. That was May 27 | Panama Canal to Los Angeles. Tn ot 1897, and in the two years that the |of southern California’s cities the Rof- boys were drumming their way around | steins will take up their new home SAMUEL ROTSTEIN Star Staff Photo wh and _his { out jolr ) h in turn in the hot places. before he Regulars, soldiering places and the cold More T]’)a;n 5,000 Visritorfls Inscribe Names In Record at Hoover's Childhood Home | distance record among visitors to the Republican nominee’s childhood home Second are Zung Chung Mo of Shang- hai, and Phi Chek Lin of Canton China When West son arrives next Tuesday he will find the village in its “Sunday best" to greet him. Mr. Hoover will eat break- fast in the cottage where he was born By the Associated Press WEST BRANCH. Iowa, August 17 From a humble white frame cottage, inconspicuous and far from the spot- light of fame, Herbert Hoover's birth- place almost overnight has become magnetized with an interest for trav- elers. More than 5000 visitors from 42 States and 5 foreign countries have in- scribed their names this Summer on n register in the old Hoover home-| Eighty-year-old Mrs stead. of West Rochester, Vt James A. Smith and Lewis K. Smith | a bedquilt containing Rangoon, Burma. hold the long- ' pieces Branch's most famous B. F. Hubbard has_completed 2259 separate of Probably more than any other man, the banker has to be intimately in touch with the business life of his city. And out of his daily observation of and contact with businesses of every sort and size there has grown a well founded tendency to look with particular favor upon those concerns which regularly advertise. Naturally, then, to keep himself fully in- formed, the banker is a daily reader of newspaper advertising. And of course, here in Washington, he knows that Star Adver- tising is a particularly reliable barometer of business. In fact, he has a further interest in Star Advertising in that his own institution is probably one of the regular advertisers. Too, the banker is keenly appreciative of the value of thrift and economy. He is usually a family man and a home owner, with of the SHOOTS TWO DOWN | -~ INATLANTAFEUD ‘A!Iegcd Kidnaper Wounds Man Obtaining Warrant and Policeman. Ry the A ATLANTA, August 17.—~A man sought by police on a kidnaping made a dramatic appearance in down- town Atianta yesterday, shooting one of the men, who swore to the warrant against him, and then probably fatally wounded a policeman who sought to prevent his escape. Fred O. Fair, the man who did the shooting. later was aptured by a city fireman E. L. Griffin, 31, was the first victim of Fair's gun. Patrolman J. G. Daniel the second. Griffin was shot through the back as he sat in a parked automobile. The shooting of Griffin police said. was the outgrowth of trouble arising over Fair's attentione to Mrs. W. O. Heath, Griffin's sister whom charged with kidnaping Seated in the car with Griffin when he shooting took place was his wife. on and Mrs. Heath. “T'll get you now Griffin said Fair shouted, rning they had of his pres- ence. then opened fire. Both Grifin and Daniels were said to be in serious condition, with doubt s to their recovery. The shooting was ociated Press warrant was the fir Heath, Griffin, his brother and W. O. Heath. husband of Mrs. Heath, Griffin, his brother and Heath early | in July shot down John Zink and then surrendered to police. saying they had shot Fair, They were surprised when informed ' they had probably fatally wounded Zink, a stranger. The trin told officers they had intended killing Fair who they charged had abducted Mrs. Heath. While the two Grifins and Heath were in jail Mrs. Heath appeared at Tampa. Fla.. telling a story of her al- leged abduction and imprisonment by Fair. GROCERY STORE ROBBED. Cigarettes Worth $15 Taken—Dirug f Shop Is Entered | The Sanitary Grocery store at Sixtt street and Massachusetts avenue north- east, was entered by breaking a door last night and 10 cigarettes, totaling $15 in value The Alabama Drug Store. Eleventh and N streets, was entered bv breaking A side window. A check was beinz made today to determine whether anvthing & missing. cartons of stolen Schenken Quits Post Carlton G. Schenken, chief clerk i the office of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, has submitted his resignation to take effect September 15. Schenke leaves to_accept a position with tie General Electric Co. at Schenectadr N. Y. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School and was admi!- ted to the bar in October, 1925 advertising THE VANITY KODAK a Useful Gift in Rare Good Taste ) accessory could be smarter, none more dis- tinctly original, none more enchanting in color, than this latest dictate of the mode. The Kodak fits snugly in a beautiful case of smart appearance. May be had in any of five Paris-inspired colors. You must see them to fully appreciate their loveliness. Now on display. Come in today. Vanity Kodaks make prctures 158 x 23 inckes. L] 2 Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc. 607-14th St.,, N. W, a standing in his community to maintain, which necessitates the purchase of many things. And just as he advises you and me to “investigate before we invest,” so he himself is more than likely to read the advertising before he buys. Star Advertising tells him when and where to buy his clothes most advanta- geously. It gives him valuable data on which to base his choice of motor cars. It apprises him of the most recent development in home furnishings and office equipment. And it gives him much other information concern- ing the welfare of his family, his home and his business. But if for no other reason than his natural interest in the business activity of his city, the Washington Banker is an habitual reader of the advertising in The STAR. particular interest to bankers is of local Clothing Stores, Haberdasheries, Hardware and Sporting Goods Stores, Banks and Brokerage Houses, Real Estate and Automobile Stationery Concerns. tising Printing and Also the 1dver- of business equipment, cigars, Dealers, cigarettes, beverages, vacation resorts and travel facilities.

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