Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1928, Page 9

EVENING S’T‘ \R. W.\S}TT.\T;TD\'. Public Confidence Since 1861 F Street at Eleventh 9 to 5:30 Main 3770 oses for Hosiery D C WTD\'FST)\Y ‘\T'GT'QT 29. 1928. | charity work and a r TELEPHONE COMPANY SUES D. C. FOR $24,422 Amount nepreunts Tnxes Paid on Poles and Lines Assessed as Real Estate. The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- | phone Co. today filed suit in the Dis- trict Supreme Court to recover $24.- 42272 from the District of Columbia | The sum represents a tax paid under | protest by the company as an assess- ment on its telegraph poles, wires and | conduits, which had heen assessed veal estate for the year ending June | *“Justice Stafford of the District Su- | preme Court recently decided that poles | wires and conduits on the highways are ! not, real estate. The decision was ren- | dered In a suit brought against the | District by the Potomac Electric Power Co. Attorney George P. Hoover ap- pears for the (Ih’phmw company. MISS F. A. JACKSON DIES. Active Charity Worker Will Buried in Schenectady. N. Y. Miss Fannie A Be | Jackson, active in dent of this city since 1914, died at her home, 1302 Eighteenth street, yesterday after a long illness Miss Jackson was the daughter of the late Thomas R. Jackson and Char- lotte Bailey Myers Jackson Following scrvices at the S residence today interment will be in henectady, | September NELLUS TOREVEAL SLAINWIFE FALSE Butcher Boy’s Love Letters to Los Angeles Woman Increase Evidence. Ithy sportsm S today to tell what l\r* knows about an illicit love affair between his slain wife, Mrs. Myrtle Mellus, Los Angeles sociel woman, and Leo P. Kelley, vear-old butcher boy, charged with her death. Deputy District Attorney said Mellus, s & Stato witness, would describe Kelley as “a creature shorn of his moral sense arid blind to the | rights of a man’s home.” Evidence of Kelley's love affair with Mrs terday when the State divulged the contents of three letters which the butcher boy revealed were hidden in a bureau drawer in the Mellus home. Si- muitaneously Kelley's chief defense counsel, S. S. Hahn, announced he would attempt to establish Mrs. Mellus infatuation for Kelley through s series of telegrams and notes she had writ- ten. The letters, found when the jurors went to the Mellus home, were written, Kelley said. by him to Mrs. during A Mellus, upon trip she Costello | Mellus continued to pile up yes- | Mellus in | | [THiE WEATHER || l District of Columbla—Mostly falr, continued warm tonight and tomorrow; gentle southwest winds. West, Virginia—Fair tonight; tomor- row partly cloudy followed by showers in west portion; not much change in temperature. Maryland and Virginia—Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow; mnot ‘much change in temperature; gentle to mod- | erate west winds. Records for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 pm.. 90; 8 pm., 82 2 midnight, 78; 4 am, 75; 8 am, 76 n, 87 Barometer—4 30.09; 12 midnight pm., 30.08: 8 5 30.08; 4 am, 30.05; 8 am.. 30.07: noon, 30.06. & { Highest temperature, 92, occurred at 4 pm. yesterday: lowest temperature, 72, occurred at 6 am. today. | Temperature same date last | Highest, 74; lowest, 56. Tide Tables. | (Furnished by United States Coast and | i Geodetic Survey.) | ‘Today—Low tidea'12:45 a.m. and 1:26 {p.m.; high tide, 6:3¢ am. and 7:03 p.m. Low tide, 1:31 am. and year— Tomorrow { 2:08 p.m.; high tide, 7:20 A.m. and 7:48 | [ pm | i The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 5:33 am.; sun sets 6:44 p.m ! ‘Tomorrow--Sun rises 5:34 am.; sun | sets 6:42 pm Moon rises 6:24 p.m.; sets 3:36 am. | Automobile lamps to be lighted one- | half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Great Falls, muddy: Harpers Ferry Potomac, muddy; Shenandoah, muddy | Florida_avenue | the association will sponsor as part o; | ity trash disposal plant, | July meeting, were repeated last night, | |STORM’S DEPOSITS PROVING MENACE M cow 1,200 and Den hou In Quest for Seacow. TAMI, Fla. () .- Preferably one w 1,400 poun: ny, sehoat and the Wanted — A eighing betwe ds. Capt is _using Bob commissioned to get a manatee for the Miami aquarium services of kn aviator Trinidad Citizens Ask !or Improved, in locating a suitable specimen Card of Ebanks Drainage in Vicinity of Wheatley | Publiec School Grounds. to two Calling particular attention to be spots in their community said | badly in need of improved drainage, the e itizens' Association, meeting v School last nigh ing the Dis additional approprl: e storm sewers through- Trinidad in the Wh out the city The I tressed which the citizens roadway under the ad viaduct and at F ‘teenth and H streets northeast. Sev- eral speakers pointed out that even a “normal” rain is likely to tie up traffic | and cause congestion there. An investigation of drainage facilitles in all other sections of the community | will be made by the street committee, after which it is expected requests for additlonal sewers will be made to the Commissioners. Plans were announced by Presldent Grover M. Koockogey for an essay con- test among public school children which its membership campaign. The essa: will be on the subject, “Why We Shoudd Join the Trinidad Citizens’ Association,” and the prizes will be donated by the business men of the community. Charges of mismanagement of the | made at the | but the committee appotnted to investi- zate the matter reported its work had not been completed. SATNDY ARN Tt DEC A GEORGE 7 SAUNDER Prath OLD. CHARLES € | BLACKISTONF ey, 8 KER. EFFIE made fo Ensenada, Lower California They were addressed to a “Mrs. F. V | Rathbun,” which Kelley said was Mrs Mellus' assumed name. This was flatly denied by Mellus, who said that a Mrs Rathbun accompanied the couple on the trip. HY BA",? LUCKY TIGER stops fall.™ | 4 ing hair like Whyte-Fox | nocks pimples. Both sold under Money-Back Guar- | antee. Barbersor druggi LUCKY TIGER _ Weather in Various Cities. HAITI IN NEED OF AID. 100,000 Panpls in Dknpu in Hur- ricane-Stricken District. PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, August (). —An intimation that outside | HOWELL help is needed for rehabilitation of the hurricane stricken district of Haiti was | contalned in a statement issued by | President Borno today. The statement said “More than 100,000 people are facing | starvation in the hurricane devastated | |g i | 8 a area. All animals were killed and en- | 1S | Gt R | tire crops were destroyed. Cultivated | “\,.,N\ farms were either drowned ouf or com- | = Sus 1t FTemperature 2% Stations Deaths R.epor!ed. 3 Ontes st. ne. | Avitene: et 3% Tex ¥ rt Cra 2. Garfleld Hospital George W . Homeopahic Hos . 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Clear Ariz. first-cla Gnitdren's Hospiia! irew Cox. 7 month Al Broctar, 315 mon ldren's Hospital e Tt en e os- | Pt.cloudy Clear | » Ptcloudy Pt.cloudy Can be seen at Steele’s Garage 426 8th St. N.W. ma Walker. 1 mos xru at_of James and Flore Hogpital “Summer Capital” Has Other sz‘ - Pt.cloudy . | tractions Besides Colored Lights and Bunting. BUPERIOR. Wis. (#). — The ‘Sum-‘ mer capital,” in addition to its elaborate | Lorers p | display of colored lights. bunting and | gyax. Lypia flags in honor of President Coolidge's r visit, has two other features—girls in { overalis and an unusual! number of red- haired inhabitants, | Overalled girls are not a novelty here Their attire is not unattractive. with their high-heeled slippers peeping from | | beneath the wide fIs of the overall. ‘They add a North woods’ vacation touch | to the region. Evening, however, finds | them again in organdie and voile. { Residents - attribute the many red heads to the large number of Scand!- navians in the region, although one thought it might be the water, and an- | other, facetiously, the need for heat | | during cold Winters. Births Reported. The following births have been reported to | the Health Department in the last 24 hours George and Violet Frazier. boy Carl H. and Anna E. Farmer, irl John F. and Anna 1 St Perry & Walsh Morticians Private Ambulances 29 H St. NNW. Main 984 “Dyed Mourning Black In 24 Hours CarmackDryCleaning&DyeingCo. 6 Dupont Circle 2469 18th St. N.W. ® RYAN SERVIC IS PRECIOUS Not in price. but in memories of past performances in satiafying our clientele with the highest standard of efficient mortuary service Funeral parlor. private ambulances and livery In connection. Just call— JAMES T. RYAN | Funeral Director i 317 Pa. Ave. SE. 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