Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1928, Page 13

There was no dissention among the judges—male members of the University of Virginia Summer School—when they chose Miss Anne :Masen Brent of Lexington, Ky., as the prettiest girl attending Summer classes there. ~—Wide World Photos. ng giant bombs for the recent “air London. The fiying corps’ four-day “attack” on the British metropolis has created a stir in British military circles by demon- strating theoretically the heavy damage to which it would be exposed in an enemy raid. Wide World Photos. The newest member of President Coolidge's cabinet, Secretary of Commerce, Summer White House before announcement of his appointment. announcement, beside Mrs. Coolidge, with the President and mem| BOSFORLARGEST 35 ottt FOUNDATIN ASKED Episcopal Minister Base of $17,000,000 Depart- ment of Commerce Building ! to Cost About $1,000,000. | AT H By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, August 24.—The first American grandchild of Presi- dent Plutarco Elias Calles will be christened by an Episcopal minister tomorrow in the presence of Calles and members of the cabinet. The christening will take place at the home of Thomas Arnold Robin- son of New York, who married the President'’s daughter Ernestina. Bids for the largest foundation con- | struction job in Washington were called for today by James A. Wetmore. act-| ing supervising architect of the Treas-| ury Department. when he invited of-| fers for work on the base of the new | Department of Commerce bullding—the | largest structure thus far authorized by Congress under the $50.000.000 pub- | lic bulldings program here. which will cost in excess of $17,000000. Bids for The baby, a girl, will be named Tinina Calles Robinson. Dean P.W. Golden Howes of the Episcopal Christ Church of Mexico will officiate. Mrs. Percy F. Eames of New York will be godmother and Henry L. Doherty of New York godfather. Neither will be present Mrs. Eames being represented by Senorita Alicia Calles, sister of Mrs Robinson, and Doherty by H. Lee Eames of New York. DECLARES BAPTIST BODY NOT ILLEGAL Rev. W. H. Jernagin Charge Made by Rev. 8. G. Lam- kins Against D. C. Organization. 8 G constructing the foundation, which will cost between $1.000.000 and $1,500,000 and include tearing down the House of Detention, which will be vacated November 1, will be opened on Septem- ber 25 In putting this job “on the market today, the Treasury Department mate- rizlly boosted the local building program It s anticipated that bids for con- struction of the superstructure of the building will be called for mbout the middle of December. The building will be located between E and .B-streets | and Fourteenth and Pifteenth streets, | and plens call for a structure five stor- | ies high at the northern end and six stories at the B street end due 1o the grade of the site To Use 12,000 Piles. { In the Department of Commerce) Building foundation will o more than 12,000 piles The contractor for the foundation w be n seven months o compiete the erecting the butlding, whic be approximately 200 feet wide and between 1000 and 1,100 feet los The inv Answers Answering charges of Rev Lamkins, executive secretary of the Mount Bethel Baptist State Conven- tion, Inc., to the effect that the Baptist Convention of the District of Columbia nagin, president of the latter body, at its convention Wednesday claimed his organization s legal and that the | Mount. Bethel Baptist State Convention unincorporated, was officially dissolved his claims Dr jon Job | maintains thal agreement | the Mount Bethel Baptist State Cor vention was reached July 11 by & voie Lamkins alone voting Accordingly, he adds miins was the only officer of that \zation present at the called con \tion of the Mount Bethel Baptist n of the .su Convention at Trinity satistaclor hurch August 18 ided 2 de Jernagin claims that the Mount each set 1o| Bethel Baptist State Convention was Checks of ¢ with the General Bap- be made Inc and the Treasurer t sonvention, 1o form the Bap Wetmore . Convention of the District of Co imbla and Vieinity Meanwhile, Dr. Lamkins elaims the vount Bethel Baptist State Conventlon was not dissolved and has incorporated the body under the name it bore while unineorporated After Dr. Jernagin presented his views on the subject at a speclal ses- sion of the convention of the Baptist Convention of the District of Columbia and Vicinity Wednesday in the Provi- To back Jernagin 25, 1928, Department shington tions, not be obtained at | foundations, e of Commerce 4 pro ! for for Departr e and Labor Building. In 1910 : : nuthorized designs W be pre- pared for buildings for the Departments U Btate, Justice and Commerce and | Jabor. The plans now under consid- eration & 24 C the Ao we T o the com. | dence Baptist Church, Rev. G. O. Bul- o 2 : lock declarcd that “the petition, as the structure that is w0 be | 00 i8; 4 Drected soon is much larger than the | Bethel Btate Convention 3010 Model ' | convention on paper A plass will be aid off in front of | Jetolutions were adopled (b Dlaza wil be Taid off i i ‘% | Tecent statements by Dr. Lamkin con- the bullding, on the square beiween ¥ | ceming the legality of the Baptist Con sireet. Pennsylvania svenus, Pourieenth | yention of the District of Calumbia and 1l include razing Poli's Theater | L) and the Traffie Bureau, as well as other | awalt Turther progre hullding Substantial excavation has been com pirted on the future site of the build The. which was formerly occupled by the old Income Tax Bullding Exeavstion i proceeding rapidly on the site of the mew Internal Revenue Fuilding which will cover the ground ' Wons by Tenth and Twelfth streets in was and B and C streets. and will cost aboul. $10.000000. The first construc lon unil in the great Federal housing program, that of the Department of Agriculture Administration Building, is heing pushed forward and this stric- ture, which is 1o cost, $2.000,000 and will Jink up the wings of the Department of Agriculture is due to be completed March, 1930, ey, and Vicinity is illegal, Rev. W. H. Jer- | to dissolve | Baptist | Union | new Mount only & denying | | I | | Chicago scientist_can't make this tarrantula bite him Wolcott of the Field Museum of Natural History received this sup posedly deadly spider giant of the tropics as a present when he arrived in Chicago on a banana shipment. insect many times, but he hasn't tried to bit him vet. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood ALEXANDRIAN HANGS | Army and Navy Club Officials Ir By Elephant Trainers’ Appearance | HIMSELF WITH BELT| Edward Williams, Spanish War De- (U Veteran and Confectioner, spondent Over T1] Health. Special Disp. 0 The Btar ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 24 Ed { ward Williams, 54 years old, committed suicide this morning by hanging himself {in a third-floor room of his home atl 1102 King street, Leaving his family in his second-floor apartment he made his way to the third floor & short time before lunch and tied his trousers belt about his neck, suspending his body from & rafter Mr Williams who until a few months ago conducted the Mount Ver non Confectionery on the first floor be neath his apartment, fs said to have been grieving for some time about bealth. He lost an arm in an accide ‘mbout twelve years ago. He was a vet- eran of the Spanish-American War and 1+ member of Fitzgerald Councll, Knights of Columbus, of this city He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Caro- lyn C. Willlams; a son, Reynolds M Willtlams, and two daughters, Misses Maria A. and Helen A. Willlams. Burlal probably will be in the Arlington Na- tonal Cemetery ARRESTED AFTER CHASE. Girace, 36 years old, 113 © streel southemst, was arrested today by Policeman K. O Spless of the sixth precinet, who caught him after a chase {of more than a block Grace is alleged to have stolen two |overcoats and a pair of shoes from the | h home of Bessie Allen, 460 1 street, He was aurprised by the woman, who chased him to the street and aitvacted the at- tention of the policeman Cirace has been charged with househreaking and intoxieation. Leh mes J He says he has teased the By the Associated Pres YORK ey entertained garbed in the | the Ad Men glon has been denled the Army and Navy luncheons The NEW clud s race to Washington by an elephant and a donkey end decided a little informa- tion on’ the might not he vited Oscar train Ispeak at one of thelr luncheons {CHILDREN GAIN FATHER | SUSPENDED SENTENCE | and Judge Shows Clemency and Girl Cling to Pris Noticing that his children broke away | from thelr mother and mpulsively ran toward the defendant, Judge Robert E. Mattingly Robertson, 626 D street, a suspended sentence after he had pleaded guilty to taking a pocketbook containing $2 from & parked automobile, Robertson tempted to get away with the pockei- book which automobile of Miss Ottaway Brookbank while and Loulsl Robertson that he had never been nrrested before fAur-year-old son aix-year-old daughter him and cl N /YeRUE Ax great deal we'll glve you A chance, suspended and uruh?tlnn for a yea When two admir meet. Mrs. Lucia Marian Fos- ter-Weich. mayor of Southampton, England, whose office carries also the rank of admiral in the British Navy, talks over naval affairs with Admiral Hughes, chief of naval operations, on her visit to the Navy Department. Associated Press Photo. A. B, August 24 use an_ elephant ner manner of his prof # Post of the American Le use of the thelr weekly self In the most approved ened the ad | ter from the club's | followed withdrawing privilege. Chub for house the sponsoring a proposed in A letier to pointed out that hardly Leglon Post peculiarities of elephants | committee miss. They therefore in- | mittee's objection is Kear, professional elephant | “when one of your walters British war veteran, to |leaving through the lobby in comparable to that of our g When Boy Be Started Until Side Is Open Not oner's Hand today gave Thomas W.|inal schedule place of steel buckle plates wos arrested as he ate he had taken from the | cording to Capt, H. C. parked near Sixth street | @5 the downstream side larly repaired the court car tracks and on the draw was telling “Thomas and his Eleanor 1an to Judge Mattingly said, “So|is an old Persian art, Bix months “Railbirds” at the Rockville fair horse show. Miss Carolyn Jackson, watching the horse show events at the nearby fair, in which the en- tries included some of the hest horse flesh in this section. kd trainer manner and in a talk enlight 1 on elephants Kenneth C. Cooley, commander of the RESURFACING BEGUN ON HIGHWAY BRIDGE Work on Upstream Roadway Will Resurfacing of the downstream road- way of Highway Bridge was started to- day, 24 hours in advance of the orig- Sheet asphalt was poured | b over the laminated wood flooring, which has been rested on steel I-beams in The new surface should be ready for use about 12 hours after it 1s laid, ac- Whitehurst sistant Engineer Commissioner is_opened to traffic the upstream side will be siml “The surface between (he not be replaced, however, until the work is completed on the roadways. g to his hand . tldren evidently love you a Writing with the fingernail as a pen aplendid spe men of whivh was presented to King George by the King of Afghanistan. 24, 1928 Mrs. Foster-Welch and her daughter, Mrs. Dorothy M. Paton, at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where Southampton’s first woman mayor placed a wreath yesterday. Her visit to the tombwas included in a busy day of sightseeing in the American Capital. —Associated Press Photo. William F. Whiting of Holyoke, Mass.. journeys to the He s shown in this group, photographed at Superior, just after the bers of the committee who accompanied him to Duluth. Associated Press Photo, Left to right: Miss Edith Clark and Miss Elaine Graham Copyright by Harris & Ewing 'SMITH-ROBINSON CLUB IS PLANNE Kear, who recently landed in Hobo- War Veterans Take Steps to Form ken after a tour of Europe, dressed him- Organization for Aiding Demo- cratic Ticket. elephant- A let- committee luncheon | appvoximately 100 war veterans gathered at the headquarters of the Democratic central committee, 16 Jack- son place, last night and took the first steps toward formation of a Smith- sustained | Robinson club here to the WOy Seat cratic ticket 8§ SONUTIEL A tentative organization had been mapped out, a committee of 10 | was named to meet Monday evening and prepare plans for A permanent body. The full organization will meet again Thursday night After the meeting | 1o order last night the house the com work for had been called by National Com- the gavel aver to Richard Seelye Jones, who, with Melvin D, Hildreth, has been placed in charge of veterans' in the District for the Democratic or- ganization. It is expected the club will co-operate in working for absentee voters In Washington. ‘The committee of 10 appointed to make plans for the permanent organiza- tlon follows: Martin A. Beehan, Melvin Hildreth, Robert B. Downing, Norman B. Landreau, Sid Houston, Eugene A. Costello, Bernard 8. Buscher, F. A. Awl, Conway W. Cooke and John J. McGinnis HOLD SCHOONER RACE. {al Dispateh 10 The Star BAR HARBOR, Me, August 24 annual schooner race of Club was held yesterday afternoon, when & large number of yachts raced over a 35-mile course to Bakers Island. Only two boats Anished. Dr. Seth Milliken of New York was the winner in his Shawna, and Frank B. Noyes of wnmn‘n took second place. Other As As soon S span will Senater Curtis “opens fire” on the stump. The Republican vice v‘mldcnflll nominee driving home a point with characteristic gesture his Rocky Point, R. 1. address yesterday. in which he took a “shot" at Gov. Smith's prohibition proposal. —Associated Press Photo Policeman Brings iPlaying Traffic BYRD AND GLASS Man 60Day Term - PRAISE GOV SMIT An attempt to imitate a traffic officer landed Benjamin Limkins, 605 Sixth street, in a cell at the first precinct yesterday. Limkins was having a grand time directing trafic at Sixth and E streets during the rush hour yes- terdey afternoon when Policeman George Assay interrupted him. Be- for Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court today Limkins pleaded gullty to being intoxicated. | | | | | | Both Disagree on Prohibition, but Laud Character of Nominee. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va. August 24.—Two “How long since you were here | last?” asked the court “About 19 days ago.” “Well, 60 days straight.” 200 BIRDS ARE MOVED T0 LAVISH NEW HOME outstanding Democratic leaders of Vir- ginia—Senator Glass and Gov. Byrd-— | in statements yesterday declared in definite terms their faith in Gov. Smith as presidential nominee of the Demo- | cratic party. | Both Virginians. however, agreed tha Gov. Smith's announced proposal in regard to prohibition was impossible of achievement, and that this question was not an issue in the campaign | Aviary, With Full Equipment, Will | Cost $160,000 When Work Is Completed. Although their new home is not com- pleted, the birds at the Zoo are being moved into the new bird structure. just |south of the old great flight cage in the National Zoological Park. | When completed with all appoint- ments, including a number of outside cages, the building will cost in the | neighborhood of $160,000, it is stated All work will not be completed, how- ever, until the latter part of the year. The full equipment is heating plant and arrangements for | cooking, because in addition to having to be kept warm in the Winter, many birds must have a diet, including hard- (bolled eggs, cooked rice and vegetables. | One of the principal advantages of the new building, in addition to making the feathered friends more comfortable under more modern sanitary conditions, will be to show them to greater ad- vantage to Zoo visitors | MRS. GEORGE W. ROCK. | LIFELONG RESIDENT, DIES Member of Old Washington Family Succumbs After Short | Tllness. | Mrs. Georgia Warren Rock, widow of {ing of Concerning prohibition, Senator Gla who had much to do with the bufld his party's platform at th Houston convention, said “Prohibition is not a real i a the election. It has no proper in a presidential campaign. The Den: ocratic national convention at Housto expressly declined to make it an iss: beyond the inevitable declaration fc | the enforcement of constitutional | to include a | modity ' | | | i | ! ship. statutory law. It is not a party que tion “Indeed, knowing perfectly that as President he will have no power to the eighteenth or any other amendment to the Federal Constitution, and that not in a hundred years hence will two-thirds of both branches of Congress propose or three-fourths of the States of the Union ratify any such proposition, I put Gov. Smith’s record as & man and as an executive over that of his Republican competi- tor, and I put the record and declara- tion of the principles of the Democratic party against that of the Republican par! “You may differ with Gov. Smith. but no one can be fair and deny that he has a clean, courageous and strong character, and genial and winning per- sonality and effective powers of leader- declared Gov. Byrd In his state ment LETTER DISTRIBUTED. imile coples of a letter datea George A. Rock., a member of an old | April 22, 1927, quoting Josephus Danie!s | Washington family and a lifelong resi- dent of this city, died at her residence, | 2001 Sixteenth street, today after ! short illness She had long been an | Church | Her husband, who died about connected with Mexican mining com- panies. the late Willlam J. and Mrs. Edwardina 8. Warren. Her father was for many \i’nrs cAhlpl clerk of the Engineer Corps, . 8. She is survived by a brother, Philip 8. Warren. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. | ACCEPTS RESIGNATION. nation of First Lieut. Laurel E. Stone, | Quartermaster Corps. “for the good of | | the service." during the World War \ In July, 1920, he was appointed a second lleutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, lar Army, and was pro- mated 1o grade, of fAirst leutenant loned at t uston, Tex, A | today by | mitteeman John F. Costello, he turned | active member of St. Paul's Catholic | six | published Uivities | years ago. was for & number of vears | lndorsed Smith. He was recently the dmily, former Secretary of the Navy, in opposi- tion to Gov. Smith were distributed the publicity department of the Republican national committee. Addressed to Mrs. Nelly Hall Root of Long Beach, Calif, the letter denied reports that Dantels had “I think it would be a fatal mistake Mrs. Rock was the daughter of | for the Democratic party to nominate a man with the wet record of Gov Smith," it continued, “and I could not stand for any wet. Ministers of every denomination, as well as physiclans and surgeons, have been invited to attend the first public healing service of the Bosworth “The President has accepted the resig- | evangelistic campalgn in the Washing- ton_Auditorium at 7:30 a'clock tonight, The evangelistic campaign is belng PR L T lleufll (:u]:lxm' Is h'nn} O(I\nln | onducted by Rev. F. F. Bosworth and he | and served as a first leutenant In the |is under thy comm the Yacht Quartermaster Corps, National Army, lot - e sy ‘Washington ministers, leading and civie and physicians and surgeons businesa ieaders. Several red persans . have .at- terided the nightly revival services held at 7:30 o'clock in the auditorium and yer ‘servides at 10 o'clock eAch morning.