Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1928, Page 2

o o THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, DAY, AUGUST 28, 1928.° 1 ! l GOOD FELLOWSH ‘POLICE COMB CITY FOR DARING BANDIT & cporcer who wene 4 brose Channel Tells i Mcn Cheer Comma | BY W. A. MACDONALD. of the Editorial Staff of the Boston Tran- | scrpt. who went on with Byrd's ship to Ambrose Light after other at Quaranune Youth Says He Was Robbe: of $1,485 After Being Forced in Cab. The story of a daring hold-up at Thomas Circle vesterday afternoon in which the victim was forced into & toxi| Published by arrangement with the Boston ranscript. cab under threat of a machine gun, and | Bound for the Anarctic, the ship the relieved of $1.485 had the Police De-|city of New York was quict; all the ment on a city-wide lookout today yisitors were gone. There was a new for_the b |teeling: the ship belonged to herself, David W. Bell, ir.. 21 years old, a col- {she was an her wey, beginning a long loge student. employed st the Peoples|passage: New York was cut off by a Drug Store at Thomas Circle during the | few miles of water which might have Summer. who reported the robbery, said | been the width of an ocean. The strain he had just left the store to bank Sat-|went out of men's voices. Capt. Mel- nd Sunday’s receipts and Was|yjlle was filled with contentment. —He sg for the street car when & man fsaid: “This is what I have always been n from behind and or-jused to—the sea. T have never had keep silent and call ainotoriety before. I like this. I am You are covered with & |happy now.” but you won't be hurt if Comdr. Byrd, seeing his ship shaken v |down before returning to two months | and work and then his own id he wanted to get went into his cabin, ich he came out in khaki. The of the old Norwegian whaler dacks; th> wind was reporter left her Forced to iy driver to pro- g | camen Work Hard. turned| On the sid> of a lifeboat were pen- 300 |ciled the words, “Don’t forget me, your Iy {wife and child” and signed with a |woman's name. There were still some 2 n |salutes from passing vesseis which were or a month and we know | duly answered, but the minds of the Bell added. The Toll in {men were on the ship. “itr:;ped w;h; N <o nsisted of about $185, he |waist or in grimy overalls, they worke: Bt [to square away. Their moving figures d Monroe street, the | were on the deck and on the deck load “rdered the taxi driver to!and in the ratlines. They talked quiet- h IP PREVAILS AMONG CREW OF BYRD SHIP Witl;’ Boat to Am- of Routine Aboard. nder as HE Lcaves. “How you making out?” the mander asked the man in the engine room. “Fine, commander.” He went on into the boiler room, where another man was firing the boller. The fire- man was stripped to the waist and sweat dripped down his body. Byrd said somothing about the job he was doing and the man sald, “Anywhere at all, commander. Above or below, it's all the same to me.” A man on deck had made the same answer not five minutes before. Ask any one on the ship and the answer would be the same, | Rucker, the Paramount News photog- | capher, going to the Pole with his four cameras and 150,000 feet of film, was serving as mess boy. Siple, the Boy Scout, was cleaning up the foks'l sink. Capt. Melville was cofling rope. A little tiger cat poked its nose on deck and iooked over th~ rail and folded itself up! in comfort. A little dog grabbed the broom with which a young man W sweeping water into the scuppers The ship had a distinct life of its own: New York scemed far away. The old whaler began to rise and fall with the ground swells, slowly. The yerds swayed on the tall masts. The captairn looked aloft peacefully. On the lifeboat the pencil scrawl stili read, “Don't for- get me,” but parting was over and they were on their long, long way. Darkness Comes. Darkness crept over the waters and the ship pitched a little. The Sandy Hook pilot gave orders to turn on the running lights. Flashes of light came. out of the horizon from the guideposts of the sea. Little sparks sprang up, com- | before they came to where he put Bell out, uld you like to e some easy| * Bell said he | otly i | { air was conducted so qui apparently prearranged pla w smoothly that not even Ed- ward Tillinghas of 203 Kentucky avenue southeast, the taxi driver, knew of the | -up. ! Bell rushed to the tenth precinet | station with his story. He was taken into custody and sent to the fifth pre-| cinct until an_investigation could be, made. There he was allowed to wait| in a wituess room. . Headquarters ive was Lsgl'.med to the case imme- giately instituted a search for the driver. He was later found at the taxi Harry Cole | Iy to one another, with a joke now and then spoke to thera. thick. ly to adjust They were swinging ship slow- the radio compass and | when that was done they would cali- brate the radio direction finder. There were experts aboard for this who would put off in the pilot boat. They were taking visual sights and checking the compass by those. The decks seemed empty after the crowds of the dock and the early trip down the harbor. “Many a good man has walked these planks in 40 years,” said the commander. “Look at them. Did you ever see a rudder post like that?” The man at the wheel was in yellow ollskins and the rain blew down on him as it will blow many a day and night before they come home again. The ship was settling down. Suddenly there was calling. The men Byrd went here and there and | The afternoon was cloudy and a bit | stand at Thomas Circle. Remark. |had found a stowaway—the second Tt - since leaving the pier. The first had He said he knew nothing of the rob- gone ashore on the tug that was with bery. but said that he picked up tWo the city steamer Macom and without men at Thomas Circle and took | giving his name; the second said his to Eleventh and Monroe streets, wi | name was Jack 'Solomon. He was a one alighted and the other continued | dark, slim boy with tousled hair. They | and then long golden chains along the shores. 'The ship was swinging now | for radio direction calibration. | In the foks’l the mechanical piano | played and men sat about at various | tasks and one or two slept. The pedi- gree of Robert White Lanier was taken by solicitous inquirers, and when the boy said he was an assistant scout- master of the Boy Scouts a great guffaw went up, and Siple, the selected Scout. joined in and found that he was not alone. Jacobson, who is “Salls” of the ship, sat heavy and square in a corner and handed out bottles of ginger ale. On deck Dr. Coman talked about dehy- drated food and how 500 bushels of potatoes can be reduced to the bulk of 50 bushels and how the process is to subject food to body temperature in a vacuum and how afterward, when water is added, it comes out like Japauese water flowers, as fresh as it ever was. Capt. Melville was giving instructions | to Shropshire, who will navigate for the dog teams, but who was going ashore soon, to come down with Byrd later. to bring him 400 rounds of ammunition for his Smith & Wesson special. “That little gun is all the pleasure I have,” he in the cab to Eighth and K streets. His description of the two men fitted | that of Bell and Bell's description of | his tor { affipm immediately released fmm: custody. This morning he was back at work and intends to carry the daily Teceipts of the store to the bank as —— inghas, the only According to Tl used his was thing which aro suspicion - when the robber dismissed the quoted the man as saying, “When I! take 'em for a fl(liem:lpmflm :;n.} do vhat 1 tell ‘em, K ! i Bell lives at 4318 Ninth street and is & senior at the University of N& studied Caralina. He was gradi ”3!1 High School in 1825 and for a nn‘\eP;!t u”uy Mv:-mwm Echool of arm: un scholar- ship awarded him at & Citizens’ Mili- tary Training Camp. Bel sasé“‘ the b‘:ndn was a short, heavy-sct man and had the appear- ance of a foreigner. —e CURTIS REVIEWS REPUBLICAN FARM RELIEF RECORDS| f a;.lfldpunc:m | “quick relie”.” He ri of | the emergency tariff act and its veto| by President Wilson. He told of the| 2-t extending farm credits through the | War Pinance Corporation and of the veto of * by President Wilson. R “When President came office on March 4, 1921, and the members of the cabinet and Republican members of Congress realized that| action on legislation to relieve the farmers should be had” he clared. “so the emergency tariff act was possed and signed. i Recalls Tariff Vote. | the Senate only seven Demo- voted to incresse the duty on om 30 to 40 cents per bushel. 1 Republicans voted for the in- only two Republicans voted | ; it and 26 Democrats voted| t it. Only 9 Iztn;xmu"::l'fcg‘ the final passage of the ems act andn;: Republicans voted for | Twenty-six Democrats and 4 Repub- | s voted against it. That the emer- v tariff act was of great help to the | and stockmen was certified to by | man interested in farming and | ising who appeared before mel ture then as nee during the hear- dney-McCumber tariff | disiiked and | the tmporters of | and by those of other| ised farm products 10| ntry resident Harding was law was enacted author- e War Finance Corporation to r credits to ald in carry- ¢ of agricultural pr ide credit for agric © was muc of the Jive country against the | r careful consideration cted a law to regulate | oreign commerce in live c I nd | 1g the organiza- ciations of pro- products was hailed a tug for him and the boy said, “Wait till T get my valise.” He had a traveling bag big enough to supply him around the world. Comdr. Byrd stood on the rail and talked with him. “You've got good spirit,” he said. He turned to an officer and took $10 and { offered 1t. The youngster wouldn’t take was trying hard not to cry. The enmmu:der :mcl‘\‘lr:\ to mal‘nhm‘: .nmen&m or the Chelsea, whicl going Iater, and shook his hand and wished him luck. ‘Fhe rain-laden wind was deepening the color in men's faces. The high, comfortable little note of the radio sang asross the poop. It was Capt. Cun- ningham of the Leviathan, outbound, sending his compliments to Capt. Mel- ville of the City of New York, bound for the bottom of the world, and Capt. Melville’s compliments in grateful reply. Shouts from forward reported an- other stowaway, this one a negro. He lay in the foc'sle head between a spare propeller blade and the side of the ship when the flashlight of Strom, the sec- | ond officer, showed that he was there. The crew grinned around him. Comdr. laughing, reached down and shook his hand. The boy's other hand clutched a notebook and half a dozen yellow pencils. “How long have you been there?” some one asked, and he grinned and said. “Three davs.” He was a good- boy of 20. “I wanted to be the first black fellow to get to the South Pole,” he said. Waited for Days. 8o the ship was enriched by the pres- ence of Robert White Lanier, messenger and orphan of Jersey City. He walked across the continent in 1925, he sald, and he had now been not only three days aboard the ship and through the cyanide gas fumigation, but had hid- den for four previous days on the beams beneath the pier waiting for his chance to stow away. “By jove,” exclaimed the commander, “I admire that negro. What am I going to do with a man like that?” Robert White Lanier staggered to his feet and fell. “I'm all right” he said, “just a little stiff.” The beat of the engine went on. It was like a bullfrog spacing his deep resonant notes about a second apart. Comdr. Byrd in his khaki clothes and his little khaki hat went below in® the heat that poured from the engine room. The heavy old compound engine was thrusting away in a glisten of ofl. Four knots, five knots, six knots—the steam was coming up. said. “Many a shark I'll shoot with Comdr. Byrd was all over the ship. He put his hand on men’s shoulders and talked with them, asking questions, re- calling something from the days of the North Pole cxpedition, praising some- thing they had done. There was a stir in the foks'l. “Comdr. Byrd wants to see all hands aft.” They clambered up and went along the darkened deck. The com- mander stood a little above them near the wheel, but the binnacle light was not on him; they were all in shadow to- gether. And he spoke slowly in his clear Virginia volce without formality. Long, low lines of distant golden fire were Coney Island and Far Rockaw-y. Byrd Addresses Crew. “All of you have wives and mothers depending on you,” began the ~com- mander. “Mrs. Byrd has their addresses and will keep in touch with them. If there is sickness or trouble she will know about it; if any one has to go to the hospital a good friend of mine has arranged to have them taken care of. You can depend on it they will want for nothing.” It was as still on that deck as it could be with lttle sounds of low beat of the engine. The men were utterly still, “That’s one thing,” said the com- mander. “The most important thing on this ship is good fellowship, more important than efficlency, though | efficiency is important enough. “You are going for sclence and the honor of your country. Those who are not American ciiizens can say the same thing. I wish you all wish you a good trip, & pleasant voyage. Cheer Commander. Out there on the Summer water, 12,000 miles from the ice barrier and the cold Bay of Wales, arose a great burst of handclapping, strong and heavy hands. Down stepped the slim figure in khaki. The commander was shaking hands. Every man was called by his name and a persomal word for each. The commander went down the ladder; the little boat shoved off in the choppy sea. PFrom the pllot boat a burst of searchlight lit up the white bow and the long bowsprit of the whaler, “Three cheers for Comdr. Byrd," sang out a volce on deck. They cheered him in the night, where the binnacle light glowed on the face and figure of the !'man at the wheel. VICTIM OF BANDIT IN TAXI ROBBERY Cites Bond Bill | Bosrd was unsbie | ds upon it for loans | bill authorizing the | nt v purchase $50,000,000 of it 1o resume | This bill President screasing thelr working 923, to pro- r sgriculture and s of the greatest the agricultural t time on an equal ng with other industries in regerd edit factlities ader the law the mit of the Feders) land banks mited o $10,000 4 to $25.000 diate farm credit wct 1923, gave o the farmer gor credit and provided for loans on crops and to co-operative asso- Twelve intermediate credit established, just ss there Federal Reserve and 12 Farm Banks producers for t . Living chiefly on rice and wearing This wes in- | | | water lapping under the hull and the| | | | i ! May Succeed Calles I | 1 | | | | | | . | i & il 1 | | | | | | | | { EMILIO PORTES GIL, Formerly governor of Tamaulipas, who | was recently named by President Calles as the new Secretary of State. It is re- | ported that he will be nominated as provisional President in December, when ~Wide World Photo. { Calles retires. BAY STATE CHANGES POLITICAL LEADERS | FOR FALL CAMPAIGN tiniiimed) | (Continued from First Page.) dozen candidates are in the race and for the nomination for the Senate to oppose Senator Walsh the Republicans have three active candidates. Loring Young, former Speaker of the House in the State Legislature; Gen. Butler Ames, who years ago was a member of the House in Washington, and Eben S. Draper, whose father was once governor lof the' commonwealth, are the three Loring Young, a comparatively young man, put forward Gov. Fuller’s name at the Republican national convention in Kansas City, but withdrew it in favor of Herbert Hoover. He made a good impression as a speaker at the conven- tion and if he is the nominee is ex- pected to make a real campaign against Walsh, At present Butler Ames Is attacking Young daily as a lobbyist for various corporations before the State Legisla- ture. Young when he quit the Legis- lature became the representative of a number of interests and appeared be- fore the committees of the State Legis- lature, which as a lawyer he had a right to do, He replies to Gen. Ames that he is not at all ashamed of his connections and that he has never had anything to conceal about them. The | Democrats figure, however, that Gen. | Ames is building up political ammuni- tion to use against Young if he be the nominee for the Senate Serve to Increase Vote. { ‘These are only a few samples of the | contests for office among the Republic- ans this year, while they may leave some sore spots when the primary elections are over, they also serve to bring out a lot of voters and to in- crease the registration, which both parties are seeking to do today. Senator Walsh has no opposition for the Demo- cratic nomination to succeed - himself, but when it comes to the gubernatorial nomination they have a contest, too, with Gen. Charles-H. Cole, formerly of the_Yankee Division, opposed by John J. Cummings, a lawyer and Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor four years ago, Cummings has refused ab- solutely to go along with the Democratic 7anization in this matter, claiming he has as much right to fight for the nomination for governor as has Gen. Cole. He is of Irish ancestry, like Walsh and Gov. Al Smith. If he is nominated the Democrats of the State will have what is called here an “all green ticket.” Gen. Cole is of Yankee stock and some of the Democrats are insisting that he would help to balance the party ticket and make it more ac- ceptable to the voters generally. The | nomination of Cole is confidently pre- dicted by the Democratic leaders Unusual Activity Apparent. Headgquarters of both the Democratic and Republican organizations have taken on an air of activity rather un- usual at this time of year. The Repub- licans have their headquarters concen- trated in an office building on Beacon street with the State ccmmittee's offices, right next to the offices of the Hoover volunteer committee, and Mr. Liggett and his finance committee in the same building, but on another floor. The Democrats have taken a suite of rooms in the Statler Hotel, and these offices are crowded with workers and Demo- crats who come in to voluntecr their services. The Democrats are striving to build up a real State organization covering all sections of Massachusetts. Along this line they have been deficient in the past, notwithstanding the fact that Senator Walsh has been successful in his campaigns. There are evidences that the Democratic campaign in Mas- sachusetts will be well financed this year. In Springfield, for example, com- modious offices have been opened, with radio equipment. Indeed, there is to be a real campaign in the western part of the State, which has been a Repub- lican stronghold for years, Beat Weeks In 1918. Senator Walsh was elected to the Senate first in 1918, defeating the late John W. Weeks after a brisk row in the Republican party. Six years later he was himself defeated by Senator Gillett, who had been Speaker of the House for several terms and.who hailed from the western part of the State. Senator QGillett, while he had a na- tional reputation as Speaker, was not so widely known to the voters of his own State. His victory over Senator Walsh by some 18,000 votes was helped in part by the big sweep made in the State by President Coolidge. Two years Iater, however, in the contest for the unexpired term of the late Senator | Lodge, Senator Walsh turned the tables | upon the Republicans and defeated Willlam M. Butler by some 55,000 votes. Gov. Fuller claims that Massachusetts will roll up & majority of 250,000 for Hoover, but most conservative observ- ers in this State say that is out of the question and that the presidential race | will be extremely close. Mrs. Ross Speaks. ‘The Democrats are full of fight and think well of their chances, though they will be perfectly satisfled if they carry the State by a few thousand or cven a few hundred votes. Mrs. Nellle Tayloe Ross, former governor of Wyom- ing, addressed 1,000 women at a meet~ ing in the Statler Hotel Baturday. This 15 Just another evidence of the efforts on the part of the Democrats to hold the women in line and to get new voters to the polls, Despite the bold announcement of Gov, Bmith in his acceptance speech in Albany that he would, If elected, | seek to modify the elghteenth amend- ment and the Volstead law, Mrs, Ross and other Democrats are seeking lo minimize the issue, largely to influence the women who are generally supposed to tavor the dry cause. Just how long it will be possible for the Democrats to continue such tactics remains to be seen. Here in Massachusetts 1t will scarcely help the ticket to stress the dry arguments. Like New York, Massa- chusetts has a large number Of “wets’ and many of the Republican wets today are Insisting they will vote for Smith. j | | | | Earl Birkenhead told the Lords not to expect the climate to reform under their proposed fixed Easter, tn“n the | September, 1929, PLANS HISTELRY WITH 60 ROOMS Morris Cafritz Hopes to Get Structure Completed by September, 1929. Construction of a 600-room hotel having an estimated buflding cost of | about $2,000,000 will be started in the | immediate future by Morris Cafritz, Washington realtor and builder, on a site on the southwest corner of Four- teenth and K streets. overlooking Franklin Park, according to plans an- nounced today by the builder. An application for permit for the structure, to be erected on a site con- taining approximately 16,000 square feet, was to be filed with the District building office this afternoon following completion yesterday of financial ar- rangements for the project and the transfer of titles to two lots which have just been acquired by Mr. Cafritz as a part of the site. The new hotel, which will be known as the Franklin Club Residence and Hotel, will be located on a site having an_appraised value of $750,000, Mr. Cafritz stated. As designed by Harvey Warwick, Washington architect, the structure will be of modern type archi- tecture with Italian ornamentation of brick facades with a limestone base running to the fourth floor level. Buys Willard Estate Land. Workmen yesterday afternoon started razing the three-story stucco building on the corner of the site, which during the past seven yvears has been the of- fices of the Cafritz Co. Mr. Cafritz has just taken title to two business prop- erties located at 930 and 932 Four- teenth street. acquired from the estate | of Henry K. Willard. the purchase price of which was reported to be ap- proximately $180,000. Title to these two properties was | executed yesterday by Katherine Kirby Salb, James J. Becker, George W. White. Henry A. Willard, 2d, and Wil- liam Bradley Willard, trustees, under the will of the late Henry K. Willard. It is sald this is the first sale of prop- erty here belonging to the Willard estate. When actual construction of the new hotel is started there will be three major buflding projects, running to the maximum building height, under way on K street in the two blocks between Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets. The new hotel will be across the street from the 12-story office building now under construction on the northwest corner of Fourteenth and K streets and a block east of the new headquarters building of the Southern Rallway on the southwest corner of Fifteenth and | K streets, excavation for the founda- | tions of which now is in progress. The projected hotel will be erected | on a site having a frontage of 154 feet on K street and of 67 feet 6 inches on Fourteenth street. The hotel will be owned and operated personally by Mr. Cafritz and will feature “club” and residential facilities. Plans Unusual Features. Unusual features in the structure wili be a swimming pool, gymnasium, turk- ish baths, hand ball courts and other facilities in the first basement, while on the top of the buflding will be a roof garden which Mr. Cafritz states will be larger than any now in opera- tion in the District. In conjunction with the roof garden will be a dining room on the top floor and a conserva- tory and sun Flrlor for the convenience of patrons of the roof garden during inclement weather. On the ground floor of the bullding will be a lobby of unusual size, accord- ing to plans drawn by Mr. Warwick, and a coffee shop. Provision for elght stores will be made on the K and Four- teenth street sides of the first floor of the building. The building is to be completed by} West Virginian, 92, Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERKELEY SPRINGS, W. Va. Au- gust 28.—Samuel Barnhard, 92, mem- ber 3d Maryland Cavalry in the Civil | Jq War, former justice of the peace in Sleepy Creek district here and a retired farmer, died at his home in the county after an extended illness. |Believes Nun Accused |in any form. PRIMATE DENIES CAUSED OB | Archbishop Declares Pope! Bars Clergy From Politics. in| Assassination Is Hysterical. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 28.—Em-| phatic denial that Catholic prelates or priests had anything to do with the as- sassination of Gen. Obregon has been made by Mgr. Miguel Maria de la Mora, | Bis| of San Luls Potosi, who came out of American correspondents. Mgr. de la Mora, who is spokesman for the Catholic bishops in hiding in | Mexico, expressed the opinion that Obregon’s assassination has only de- layed, not defeated, efforts to settle the | Mexican religious controversy. He met | the carrespondents by arrangement at | a rendezvous near Mexico City. He sald that not more than 12 Cath- olic priests had articipated in mili- tary movements against the government and they had done so entirely on their own initlative. Most of these priests went with the rebels as chaplains, he said, adding that no archbishop, bishop or priest has with the sanction of the church sustained the rebel movement He is one of two Catholic archbishops and eleven bishops who have sought concealment in the country. Of the 4,500 Mexican Catholic priests who were in the country at the time the reli- glous controversy broke out, only about 40 per cent remain. | | Pope Banned Politics. | He estimates that between 50 and 100 | Catholic priests have been killed in 1 Mexico during the last two years. None had a trial and all were executed sum- marily, he sald. He declared that the Pope two years ago gave strict instructions to the epis- copate and priests in Mexico not to mix in politics. Mgr. de la Mora denied that Arch- bishop Orozco y Jiminez of Jalisco par- ticipated in an armed revolution, as has been charged by the government. The archbishop is in hiding in the moun- tains of Jalisco, but never has taken up arms, the prelate declared. Mexican Catholics demand only the | hiding to talk, with a group of | ! HIERARCHY REGON SLAYING MGR. MIGUEL DE LA MORA. —P. & A. Photo. same religious liberty that exists in the United States, he explained. He expressed the belief that the reli- gious controversy cannot be settled un. less the requirements that the priests register with government authorities are eliminated. He said the Catholics in- tend to petition -the new Congress, which meets September 1, to amend the constitution so as to grant ‘“religious Itberty, liberty of teaching, Mberty of religlous institutions, liberty of cults and liberty of ownership of church property.” Believes Nun Hysterical. He reiterated his belief that Mother Superior Concepclon Acebeda de Ia Llata, who is under arrest charged with complicity in the assassination of Obre- gon, is “hysterical” and has an abnor- mal brain, Indictments have against Mother Concepcion, Leon Toral. Obregon’s assassin, and 16 other persops, charging them with re- sponsibility for the assassination ana accusing them of having conspired against life and property. Those indicted include the nun Jo- sefina, sister of Concepeion, and a group of seven women and five men recently arrested charged with having plotted to polson Gen. Obregon and President Calles. Others named in the indict- ments are Senora Maria Luisa Pina de been returnea Jose de i PLANS T0 REMOVE STORM'S REFUSE Stagnant Pools of Water From Recent Rainfall Are Tackled by Police Chief. | { Definite steps to remove the ponds of stagnant water created in various sec- tions of the District as a result of the torrential downpour Saturday night. were taken today by Maj. Edwin B Hesse, superintendent of police. Policemen in all precincts were di- rected by Maj. Hesse to make a careful survey of vacant lots and other unde- veloped private property and report lo- cations where pools of water have formed. This information will be turned over to the District Health De- partment. Health Officer’s Statement. Dr. William C. Fowler, District health officer, said that should it develop that these pools constitute a danger to pub- lic health and a public nuisance, he would serve notices of abatement on the owners of the property where they are located. Maj. Hesse is fearful that stagnant water on the vacant lots and the few remaining areas of undeveloped prop- erty in the District may develop into breeding places for mosquitoes and for this reason he voluntarily took action to aid the Health Department in eradicat- ing such conditions. The police super- intendent also is afraid that some of the pools might be deep enough to consti- tute a danger to children who use them for wading. D. C. Heads Take Action. In the meantime, various agencies of the District government continued to remove the debris, mud, gravel and sand washed into the sewers and on the sidewalks and streets by the heavy downpour. This work, it is estimated, will cost the District approximately $10,000. Cleaning of the sewers alone will take about $6,000 of this amount. Ordinarily property owners would be required to remove mud, sand and &nl washed into the streets and on Altamira and Jose Fernandez Gallardoy | but Pavon. The attorney general of the federal district filed the indictments at the sub- urban town of San Angel, where Obre- gon was slain. STEAMER SINKS TUG IN HELL GATE CRASH | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 28.--The pls-i senger steamer Chester W. Chapin of | the . New England Steamship Co.| rammed and sank a tug today in Hell | Gate, off Ditmars Cove, Astoria. A fireman on the tug was reported miss- ing. The other 10 of the tug's crew | were rescued by a motor launch. 1 A 15-foot hole was torn above the | water line of the, steamer, bound from Providence with 250 ngers. After the collision the steamer swung onto & reef, where she lay for nearly an hour before belns“,yulled off. She reached her North River pier two hours late. The tug was in _command of Capt. | Charles Redfield. lfme wummwln;l two em lighters. er engineer, Henry Un':lgnm of Belrose, N. Y. believed wcmnt‘:n due to a misunderstanding in signals. Most of the passengers were asleep at the time of the crash. There was no confusion. THREE DIE IN FIRE. TORONTO, Ontario, August 28 (#).— | Three persons lost -their lives in a fire in their home early today and two were 50 badly injured that little hope is held out for their recovery. The dead are oseph Klaiman, his wife, Sarah, and his son Sidney, aged 3. Sadie, 14, and Morris, 8, two other children, are in a critical condition, while Benny, 6, es- caped with less serious injuries. EX-PATRBLMAN'S PISTOL LEADS When Policeman Edward M. Taylor surrendered his service revolver several months ago, after his suspension on a hi-jacking charge, he turned over to his former colleagues a plece of evi- dence which has implicated him in the shooting & year ago of a filling station rietor. pnl’relaqulrwrl Detective John Fowler left today for New York to arrest Taylor on the second charge, which accuses him of being the “phantom sniper” who motored past a gas station at 2637 Benning road northeast on August 30, 1927, and fired a bullet through a window into the back of william 8. McBreen, proprietor. Fowler carried a warrant issued yes- terday by United States Commissioner Turnage, charging Taylor with assault with & dangerous weapon and assault with intent to kill McBreen. Tayier is said to have gone to New York City fel- lowing his rel on $1,500 bail on the hi-jacking charge last March. Discovered by Expert. The bullet taken from McBreen's back was turned over to detectives. Some- time later it developed that the former NEW $2,000,000 i policeman had had a d\s[:'ute with Henry A. Finke, another employe of the station, over th> reputed disappearance of some money left at the station for Taylor by colored men. ‘When the hi-jacking episode cropped up some months later, and Taylor surrendered his equipment, detectives sent the revolver to Sergt. Ben Corn- well of the fourteenth precinct, a recog- nized authority on firearms. After tests he declared the bullet removed from McBreen's back was fired from Taylor's gun. Checked in New York. Inspector Henry G. Pratt, chief of the detective bureau, wanted to be absolutely sure, so he had Detective Fowler take the revolver to New York recently for a test by Maj. Calvin God- dard, firearms expert whose work first gained prominence during the investiga- ton of the shooting of the late Detec- tive Arthur Scrivener. Maj. Goddard corroborated Sergt. Cornwell's state- ments. ‘The evidence was placed before Com- missioner Turnage and he issued % warrant charging that Taylor shot Mc- Breen In mistake for Finke. HOTEL & w3 % t BUILDING COLLAPSE HILLS 1K PERSONS Icheral Injured and Others Missing After Structures Fall In. By the Associated Press. SHELBY. N. C., August 28.—At ledSt six persons were killed and several more were injured when three buildings in the business section of this town col- lapsed here today. Several others known to have been in the buildings are missing. ‘The known dead are: Miss Ora Eskridge, an employe of the First National Bank; Zeb Blanton, farmer, and his son Carl; Guy Green and Alex Hoyle, clerks in the First Na- | tional Bank, and one unidentified man. | The bulldings were the temporary ooty Hlanton ice presi rge ton, acting vi - dent of the bank, escaped with minor injuries, as did Forest Eskridge, cashier. Clarence assistant cashier, re- cetvednbmnnl;rmanmmdmu about the head. His injuries were said by _physicians to be serfous. The other clerks were said to have been buried in the debris, but were thought to be alive. A Mr. Hadley, proprietor of the tailos miss- ing and was buried in the Four bank clerks are unaccounted for, but it was thought possible that they were in the crowtls about the scene. One climbed througl dangerous overhanging walls to treat a Miss Callahan and another bank A who were pinned under twisted steel and brick. The two dead colored men were mem- bers of the excavating crew at work under the buildings. Others of the crew are m! mco&s&memn ml‘m:n all D‘ldl';l of e were W leaperal o clear the wreckage and extricate those who may still be alive. Physiclans were called to the scene to treat the injured. quarters of the bank, a grocery store shop. PIRATES FIRE ON SHIP. Hongkong Authorities Kill One Outlaw in Clash. HONGKONG, August 28 (#).—Pi- rates armed with rifles fired on the British steamer Baron Maclay, anchored off Wham terday. mmmnphmum‘m Local authorif aboard the ship and sent troops to the north hank of the river from where the shots were fired. The troops killed one of the pirates and captured an- other. FOR DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON h | lead of dot the work at the e: mul:!dpd govemnment. Municipal Nursery Suffers Loss. Aside from the cost of cleaning sew- ers and removing mud from the streets and sidewalks. the District also is faced with the loss of a number of the Nor- xpense of the Lanham, tendent of trees and parkings, the trees are being slow- strangled to death by the water which did not drain from the gursery grounds. 3 | POLICEMAN INJURED ARRESTING 2 YOUTHS | Officers Dispatched to Scene Take | Pair in Custody—Three Partici- pants Sent to Hospital. A fractured hand and other injurics were suffered last night by Pnllcjemln |R. J. Blmtlm the fourth precinct | during a fight that followed an attempt to arrest Creed Jordan, colored, 18 | years old, 1104 Sixth street, and Ray- mond E. Robinson, colored, 18 years jold, 421 Pirst street southwest. The youths were subdued by other officers. Barrett approached the two youths complaint had been filed against by two young colored girls living same vicinity. Both jumped on . Barrett says, and he fought them until Policemen Prescott, Curtis and . Who were dispatched from the house, arrived. When they had o !‘:d the arrest, Barrett was taken idence Hospital and later re- moved to Emergency Hospital, where said that his condition is not Jm'dlnmnnd Robll;'nson ergency Hospital fc ;:?.ms and bruises to the hl:)»ad and it was BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Navy Band o Grant Circle, Mfth and Varmym strec... at 1:eara o'clock tonight. Charles Bente: March, “Manhattan Beach” solo, “Soul “Menuetto All-antico”. It Flowers Could Speak™. . “Blue Gems Ty . pler . 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