Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1928, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR.. WASHINGTON. D. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1998, #1 Up Per Window METAL WEATHERSTRIP GUARANTEED—-LASTS FOREVER Installed Complete By CAPITOL WEATHERSTRIP CO. 1470 Clifton St. NW. Dav, Night and Sundar Door “0il Heating At Its Best™ | lled over 600 Of in Washington. service has been required, we have furnished same promptly Domestic Service Corp. 1706 Connecticut Avenue PHONE POTOMAC 2048 rich flavor GULDENS - @\ Mustard g3 REVENT Summer Colds ‘Build Resistance WITH Scott’s Emulsion COD-LIVER OIL §2 Up Per < BOARDING SCHOOL - DAMAGED BY FiRE Firemen Arouse Superin- tendent in Gunston Hall Blaze. Starting in the laundry room. fire undetermined origin early this mor caused several thousands of dol worth of damage to the rear of the building of Gunston Hall, girls' fash- | ionable school, at Florida avenue and Nineteenth street The blaze was discovered by Thomos {Courtney, Who lives in the Cordova | Apartments. nearby when he was awakened by the glare. He turned in an alarm Call Rescue Squad, en found the rear dense with smoke that they e rescue squad. members I donned gas masks and entered ng windows and opening doors to provide enough ventilation for the fire- of ‘Wi [ brea ny iderable headway before it was discovered, It already had gutted ‘lw ry room and hallway and was way into the Kitchen, pantry nder d to ar When the blaze was brought he first floor i s way throu and was burnir 1 the auditorium on the It was necessary to destroy most the stage to reach-it: Superintendent Sleeps. ersleeve. p in her room, on t the building, when the fire- but w ised by nt were superintend- lamage to the ma the mmm : was caused by ¢ corridors had just been ated for the Fall session. Mason and would have to be done over ause of the streaked condition in | ch they were left e expressed | | thankfulness that the fire had not oc- | curred during the school term. since e would then have been approxi- 50 girl boarders in the building t expected that the Fall opening be delayed Ofcials placed the damage estimate at $7.000, and con- ed that the fire probably was sed by an electric fron left turned moke and 40 BOATS AND 3 PLANES TO SEEK YOUTH'S BODY Bac o HiDnslnE i stma th Cap- ENTERING THE DI section of th- | @ Posing just before b to zo his hond. whi before w later when a_friend fur ng shed bond. KNOX IS RELEASED ON DOUBLED BOND IN TRAFFIC CASE (Continued from First Page.) of $1,000 had been furnished by Her- man W. Van Sendon, a real estate | operator with offices in the Colorado reerated today when p had heen raised to $1,000 ng to answer a charge of reckless driving. 'RICT JAIL IR pfessional bondsman refused way vesterday eased two hours ta aff Photo. RAON, ter he slipped He was r clared in ¢ that the forfeiture be set aside, ge McMahon he give a new bond and trial for Wednesday Knox was arrested Monday following a collision between his car and one driven by William J. Patterson on Bowen road southeast. He forfeited $40 collateral in Police Court the next day and was rearrested on an attachment This time he secured his release on $500 bond. asl however, required Will Rogers Says: | FLAGSTAFF. Ariz, August 23 I would have liked to heard Al's speech, but my hoys and 1 were up to the Hopl snake dance. Al used bad judgment in picking a night for the Tiger to howl when the snakes were danc- ing. This dance is an old Indian custom, almost as 4 old as some of 4 Q | the gags that Al used last night about lower taxes ¢ | and better con- ditions for the poor man and relief for the farmer. Hoover ought to et all the of those at the dance, for that was no place for a wet Here's hoping, Al the static you, COMMITS SUICIDE ON THIRD ATTEMPT Rollins, Jfl‘ cars old, of Thirteenth street, | committed suicide yesterday in the kitchen of her apartment by inhaling | gas through a rubber tube attached to | the stove. It was her third attempt to end her life within the past vear. the | first try being frustrated by the oppor- tune arrival of the fire rescue squ econd by a speetacular rese Anacostia River by a young She had been in a sanitarium her at- votes didn't crab Mrs. Flor rude the from the ;v'fl.llvlu\ for several months following tempt to drown herself Her body was found last night by Jo- A nders, roomer in her tment. Finding the front _door od when he returned home, Saun- climbed in through a window and s. Rollins stretched out on the | chen floor with a tube in her mouth. unders summoned the Fire Depart- 1t rescue squad, the Emergency Hos- | ambulance and Dr. S. B. Bain of 01 Fairmont street. Despite the fact that Dr. Bain pronounced the woman dead after they had worked on her for an hour, the firemen continued their ef- forts for a half hour longer, but with- out_success Neighbors say that her telephone had been ringing intermittently since 11 o'clock in the morning. Dr. J. Ramsey Nevitt, the District coroner, issued a certificate of suicide Mrs. Rollins was a widow and is sur- vived by a brother and a sister living in this city | fied under the stock | of 840 ac d.and | S! WEST GIVES DATA ON PUBLIG LANDS 'Summary of Classmcatvon Furnished by Geological Survey Made Public. Secretary of the Interior West today made public a summary of the clas fication of public lands made by the Geological Survey The summary follows: Nearly 4.000 acres of land in Mon- tana and South Dakota were included in formal orders designating the land as non-irrigable under the enlarged homestead acts, and to that extent ject to entry as homesteads of 320 acres or less. Nearly 150.000 acres in Colo rado. Idaho and Wyoming were cla ising_homestead | ted for entry in tracts es or less. Much of the aci in_these designations during July law. and involved arged and stock- r‘lu tions under Ihv which confer a sing homestead acts erence right More than 18,000 Colorado were classifi as coal lands |and more than 116,000 acres in Colo- | | rado and 19,000 acres in Montana were | classified as non-coal. The lands clas- | sified as non-coal in Montana had been included previously in coal withdrawal | and were restored to entry by executive order during the month More than 1,500 acres of land in Flor- ida which had been classified as non- phosphate in June. were included in an order eliminating them from withdraw- al and restoring them to entry as non- mineral pre s of land in Stresemann Will Not Attend. BERLIN, August 23 (). --Dr. Gusta | trosemann, German foreign minister, | has given up his plan to attend the coming session of the Council of thy | 1eague of Nations at Geneva on account | of il health. Official announcerent | was made today that he will return to Berlin after the signing of the Kellogg pact in Paris Monday, Coconut Economy. South Sea coconuts have | the milk s drunk: the sap of the tree, boiled and fermented. makes palm wine: the fruit is eaten. lea make roof thatch for . the splints | make baskets. the coconut shells are | useful dishes and the oil is used fc rub bing the body In many uses the There’s a steadiness to Fatima quality that wins smokers and holds them What a whale of a difference just a few cents make {Liecrrr & Mysre Tomaceo Co. The Columbia National Bank 917 F Street Capital and Surplus $650.000.00 Open at 8:30 AM. Every Business Day A Spirit of Co-o —with our customer peration is always mani- That's what gives service — what busir fest at “Columbia.” practical value to our makes it so pleasant to do here. sizing of Yacht Plans Intensive Search at Death Scene | Building, and shortly thereafter Mr | Knox again was brought to the bar The bond was regarded as satisfactory and he was released By the Associated Press. STONINGTON, Conn.. August 23 s He'W. C. J. Mcllvain of Philadelphia and St | Watch Hill, R I, father of one of four | MOrms P. Wampler. attorncy for youths who drowned in Fishers Island | Knox, told Judge McMahon he left the Sound ?n‘AHK'u” 11, when their boat ' court yesterday because of illness. capsized, has hired 40 boats to cruis> Wampler explained that Knox's effort in the sound until further notice, in the | to talk to Judge McMahon yesterday hope of recovering the body. He made | was ‘n-r‘nrlr-d to inform the court that arrangements also for three airplanes | he was ill and wished to be excused to make four fights daily over the sound | When the judge declined fo interrupt nd for searching parties to put out from | sten ¢ Block Island eath day. . el it A rewand of $10.000 is offered for the | | “In his ignorance of court proceed- | recovery of the body of Trowbridge Cot- ings he had no intention of treating trell, another of the youths his bond with contempt,” Wampler de- CURTAINTEED Gals. 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