Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 17

G STAR., WASHINGTON. D. €. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER .13, T928.5 Fam ar faces on the White House doorstep. After conferring with Mr, Hoover on his return from Brule yesterday, President Coolidge received Sec- retary Mellon and between confere: lican standard bearer and the Tre: nces posed for this photo with the Repub- asury head on the Executive Office steps. —Associated Press Photo. A wife's farewell in the non-stop air derby. It was not long after she bestowed this good-by kiss on her husband, C. A. Herrick, navigator of McMillin's plane in the transcontinental non-stop race, that Mrs. Herrick received word th a Pennsylvania mountain top. e plane had been forced down on —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. TRUGK CONPAN GVEN PED 1P Gen. Stephan and Commis- sioner Dougherty Present Trophy to Firemen. Capt. Oscar Leaman and his speed firemen of No. 14 truck company today are in possossion for another vear of the valuable silver cup awarded by the Merchants & Manufacturers’ Associa- tion for unexcclled celerity in dashinz out of quarters on alarm. The cup was presented formally to the company during brief ceremonics vesterday afternoon In the company's quarters, Connecticut avenue and Por- | ter street. Truck Company No. 14 al-| ready was holder of the world speed rec- ord for fire trucks, having won the title Jast year by leaving its house in 6 4-: | seconds. Its time this vear was 71-5| seconds. ¢ Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the | Merchants & Manufacturers’ Associa-| tion, presented the cup to District Com- | missioner Dougherty, who handed it to | Capt. Leaman. Edward Shaw, secre- | tary of the association: Fire Chicf George Watson and Battalion Chief Thomas F. O'Connor, who supervised the tests, witnessed the formalities. Praises Personnel. Gen. Stephan praised highly the per- xonnel, morale and equipment of the Washington Fire Department in mak-| ing the presentation. He declared that the National Capital undoubtedly has “the finest fire-fighting force in the | country.” | Commisisoner Dougherty also had a| supply of encomia to heap on the fire- men. He included the Police Depart- ment in his general measure of tribute declaring that he felt “humble in the | presence of the uniformed members of | both departments, who daily are called on to risk their very lives in defense of | humanity and of property.” Both Gen.| Stephan” and Commisisoner Dougherty | pointed out that Truck Companv No. 14 had gained two “legs” on the cup.} necessitating only one more victory to | secure permanent possession of “the | trophy. t Truck Crew Lauded. | Sergt. W. L. Huriey. who commanded | the truck at the time of the speed test; Pvt. P. C. Plaskett, driver, and Pvt. F. W. Troup, cranker, were complimented personally by the Commissioner for their efficiency and skill. All members of | the company were lined up in military | formation during the ceremonies. Large | American flags hung from the ceiling and formed a background for the cup. | The Evening Star cup, awarded to the engine company making the fastest time in the speed contest will be presented | to Engine Company No. 21. G street near Twenty-first, at a later date. The Star is having a special bronze plaque made for erection in the engine house | A% & permanent record of the companv’sl achlevement in leaving quarters this year in 6 2-5 seconds. The cup will be | awarded when the plaque is completed and installed. K. of C. Plans Banquet. A banquet in celebration of Columbus day October 12, will be held by the Knights of Columbus at the Mayflower Hotel, it was annourced today. State Nepufy Charles W, Darr is chairman of {9e committee in charge of the affair. Night Noise Law To Curb “Squeal” Of Chicago Trains By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 13.—Alder- man John Toman, whose rubber tires for milk wagons ordinance failed to pass the city council sev- eral months ago, at last has suc- ceeded in legislating against noise. His resolution instructing a cam- paign against late hour noise nui- sances, especially between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., was passed vesterday. The “odious squeal” of late hour clevated trains and the clank of flat- wheeled street cars have shattercd many a nerve, the alderman claims. AUTOIST BREAKS Boy Cut by Glass as Car| Runs Into Pit—Woman | Knocked Down. A collision last night at Thirteenth and Upshur streets sent Cornelius Har- | lan, 35 years old, 6615 Eastern avenue, Takoma Park, Md. to Walter Reed | Hospital with a broken right leg. Har- lan was riding with Charles Stein, 1201 Fifth street, when their automobile was | in a collision with a machine driven | by Stephen M. Lush of Takoma Park, | Md. Lush and Stein were uninjured. | Stewart Quinn, 11 years old, 2927 Macomb street, suffered several cuts | on the head from a broken windshiel when the automobile in which'he was riding, operated by his mother, Mrs Mary Storm Quinn, ran into the plow pit in front of 1513 Wisconsin avenue. The boy was treated at Georgetown Hospital, where his condition was said not to be serious. Mrs. Quinn was following a street car, and did not see the pit until the left front wheel of her machine went in it. Miss_Anna M. Woodoff, 45 years old, of Friendship Heights, Md., employe of the Navy Department, suf- fered cuts and bruises yesterday when she was struck and knocked down by an automobile operated by _Clifton Hockoday, 1518 P street. was treated at home by her family physician was treated at Columbia | slight injuries received ! 1002 T street, Hospital for when she w: and L streets by Bruce T. Spring, Md Mullen of Silver they were struck by automobiles. were Sophie Hughes, 221 C street; John Ferdinand, colored, 18 years old, 4627 Hunter's place northeast, and Lillian West, colored, 30 years old, of Fairmont | Heights, Md. Mrs. Virginia White Speel will dis- cuss issues in the current presidential campaign relative to the welfare of the colored race at a meeting of the Hoover- Curtis Club for Cologed Women at 1114} O street tonight, he meeting will start at 8 p.m. Real ponies show their speed at the opening of the Fairfax, owned by Milton S. Taylor of Washington, and ridden by 10-year-old Charles Lewis of 507 Ninth street southwest. Third Cavalry monkey drillers of Fort Myer entertaining their civilian neighbors at the Fairfax, Va., fair. This human hurdle jump was only one of the thrillers put on by the troopers. Presentation o No. 14 Truck Company yesterday of the DMerchants and Manufacturers’ Association trophy won in the annual speed competition. Left to right: Edward D. Shaw, sceretary of the association: Commissioner Dougherty, Pit. P. C. Plaskett, driver of the truck: Capt. 0. Leaman of the winning truck company, Gen. Anton Stephan. president of the association, and Chief George Watson. ~—S8tar Staff Photo. the Fairfax fair, —Star Staff Photo. Va., fair yesterday. This shows the finish of the pony race, which was won by Buck, —Star Staff Photo. Buck and his 10-year-old jockey, Charles Lewis, proudly pose for the camera after winning the two-furlong pony race yesterday at —Star Staff Photo. EXPECT TO END TAX ELEVEN REDS ARRESTED. |CUTTER SEEKS HEARINGS TOMORROW x> obes communis Suggested Changes on Consolidated Income Returns Made to Treas- |renegade Communist and a Fascist on | for the schooner ury Officials. | With prospects of winding up hearings tomorrow on proposed YCEU- | the band is believed to have fled to lations on consolidated income tax re- turns, the Treasury today heard from more representatives of taxpayers as to suggested changes. . R. Brown, & Co. of Chicago. that the Government should take as a basis for determining gain or loss when a parent company sells stock of a sub- sidiary, the cost of the asset itself. in- stead of the price of the stock. accountant, an | City, thought the Government should take as the proper basis thes cost of Lideman, the stock. E. Fell, R. Woodson, controller of Miss Woodoff | Railroad, said that the Railway Ac- counting Officers’ Assoclation recently {held a meeting and agreed that Anna L. Owens, colored, 61 years old, | old regulations now in effect were fair and adequate. The Treasury Department holds that struck at Twenty-fourth | the cost of stock should be used as a by an automobile operated | basis, but the Board of Tax Appeals has taken a slightly different position. | merce, in charge of civil acronautics in deciding. that when a parent company | the United States Three people refused treatment after | sells the stock of a subsidiary it is not They | selling assets of the subsidiary and, therefore, there is no gain or loss, as the transaction is like selling stock of the parent. The hearings, over by Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury Bond, will probably come to a close tomorrow, Mr. Bond indicated. ‘The principal witnesses tomorrow will be Robert N. Miller and George Morris, representing the taxation committee of {the American Bar As: Hollvwond's oldest * 1= 06, ex-slave of the “Fighting Jez" Wheeler plantation, Murra; of Four-Master Wellington. NORFOLK, Va.. September 13 (#).— | Guard cutter last night to search Wellington of New | August 21 and 22. | York, a four-master, which was set Police claim that their investigation on fire after she was abandoned by her crew Monday night. | The last position reported by the Wellington was in latitude 35:11 north After Two Killings. GORIZIA, Italy, September 13 (®).— | Eleven persons have been arrested in| The Coast | connection_with the assassination of a | was dispatched | has disclosed the center of a vast Com- munist _organization. They stated a| its | large supply of bombs and firearms were found in a cavern. 25 miles off Hatteras, or Diamond Jugoslavia. Shoals and the Gulf Stream. 50 NATIONS WILL SEND UNFAIR TRAD.E PRACTICES AIR MEETING DELEGATES, CONFERENCE IS CALLED International Conference on Civil Federal Commission Will Hear Aeronautics Will Begin | Various Cases at Meeting in December 12. Chicago October 24. Prevailing unfair commercial prac- tices in the grocery business will be considered at a trade conference to be held in Chicago October 24 under the auspices of the Federal Trade Com- mission. In announcing the conference the commission said that the subjects to be considered would include misrepresenta- William P. MacCrackn, jr. Assistant L“""g,’,”cfflfig' unfair ol Secretary of th rtment Com- LUy commercla iy o g bribery; lottery schemes, misleading ad- vertising, fraudulent manufacture and distribution, discriminatory prices and | maintenance of resale prices. Commis- sioner C. W. Hunt was named as the o'clock representing Wilson | took the position 2116 Champlain J. R.| worth $139. of New York Henry _Hirsh, Fifty nations will be represented by about 200 delegates at the First Inter- | national Conference on Civil Aero- nautics to be held in this city beginning December 12, in celebration of the silver anniversary of aviatioln, according to the State Department Six of the executive departments,are engaged in preparations for the con- ference, through a committee headed by representing F. J the Pennsylvania $400, and a § and money w the ber 9, he said. George C. Pa. told police changed out of The other depart- ments actively engaged in the prepara- tions for the conference are the State, War, Navy, Agriculture and Post Officc. The national advisory committee mr}mnfermc s presiding officer. aeronautics, the Guggenheim fund for | Among the various branches of the promotion of aeronautics, the Aero- |business to be represented are the Pitioal Chamber of Commerce and |American Wholesale Grocers' Associa- the National Aeronautic Association |tion, the National Wholesale Grocers' | also are giving active assistance. Association, the Amer‘lcan Grocery Spe- Sessions of the conference body will | ¢lalty Manufacturers’ Association, the be held in the building of the United | National Assoclation of Retail Grocers, At Chamer of Gommerce at H |the National Chain Store Grocers' As- S e T et e e® and at | Sociation, the Sugar Institute, Inc.and . ! their conclusion the delegates will make | (he National Food Brokers' Association. John | a pilgrimage to Kill Devil Hill, N. C..| = e site of the first flight of the Wright| ‘The United States owns about 4,000 brothers, emviansseans. 1sics that have not yet begn pamed, ~ — which are presided nounced today. Automobiles fallsm,020; 2 | Fourteenth street. ring was stolen some time between 5:30 afternoon The ring contained one large diamond and 52 small ones, James McNetll Durham, aparimen "‘p""edw,mr 1 iheft from his home on August 27 of | m ; $96"in' vash and Glothing and furniture | She told the police. “and the baby to be | ‘Among the stolen articles were rug, sewing machine, child’s high chair, o suit, chairs and mattresses. 3307 Woodley road, asked police to help him search for a diamond and emerald pin, valued at 0 gold plece. either stolen or mis- placed between August 20 and Septem- Tuesday o'clock last night said street. It he ACCIDENTS CLAIM 4,638. New York's Toll cludes 942 Children. NEW YORK, September 13 (A).—!parture for the South polar continent. British vessel and the human carg> Comdr. Byrd is leaving on or about |brought to Nassau. was SCHOONERSZ,OOO DIAMOND RING Group Const Guard Boat Hunts for Trace| |§ REPORTED STOLEN Mascoutin | Police Also Told of Theft of Cloth- ing, Furniture and Other Articles. | last night by Benjamin Friedman. 7616 that and for Year In- Accidents caused the death of 4,638 persons in_ New York City last year, the New York Safety Congress an- Of this number 942 were children between 5 and 14 cansed 5 deoths; drowning, 475; burns, 340; street cars, 136; rallroads, 5i the 4 | her in return for his silence. When she ‘The pin | ard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition will i Jimmy Johnston, brilliant young St. Paul amateur, tecing off in the first day of match play in the national amateur golf championship at the Brae Burn Country Club, Newton, Mass. Johnst in the medal play and was one of the eight survivor: resumed today. on was runner-up to George Voigt when mateh play was —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Francis T. Hunter, America’s leading hope i the national sin- gles championship at Forest Hills, just after the great uphill battle yesterday in which he eliminated Jean Borotra, “Bounding Basque” of the French invaders, in the most sensational match of the title play. |Texas Pastors Hit For Using Pulpits As Poliiical Stump By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., September 13— Withdrawal of “patronage” from pastors “who are making political stumps out of their pulpits in the circulation of false slanders designed to lead any uninformed persons away from the Democratic party,” was ad- vocated by Judge Maxwell Rice, Sherman, Tex., in an address before the organization meeting of the Dal- las County women's Democratic campaign committee yesterday. MOTHER OF NNE SLAYS EXOFFICER Chicago Woman, 30, Tells Police Victim Became Lov- er After Threats. By fhe Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 13.—A shab- bily dressed woman. who at 30 is the | . mother and sole support of nine chil- | | dren and who expects another baby in | two months, walked into a police station | |and quletly laid a pistol on the ser- | geant’s desk. “I just killed a man.,” she told him, “I shot him at his home while he slept. Lock me up.” ‘The woman was Mrs. Ada Johnson, a ) The theft from his home of a $2.000 widow, and her victim was Dominick The leader nriand longitude 35:00 west. This is about | qimc ™o Pl Floihed to police | Finn, 32, i married and a former con- | stable. Mrs. Johnson. whose oldest child | | is 15, told the police that she sold liquor | ‘r“’ support her family and that Finn | | found 1t out and extorted money from | had no more money. she said, he forced | her to submit to his attentions on a| threat that he would have her arrested. | “My twin boys, 8 months old. are his,” born in two months is his. A baby was | born to his wife in a hospital Monday. | Yesterday I asked him for money for my baby. He told me he would bring some, but never came, so I went to his home, climbed in a window and shul:u‘ him while he slept.” i Her oldest son accompanied her to | the police station. The eight other chil- dren were foundeat home asleep and | i were not informed of the shooting. Mrs. I A trunk containing clothing and cur- g tains valued at $75 was stolen from | Jpnneon Was held without bail on @ 1101 Florida avenue. % Melvin Hopwood, belonged to| 26 Yuma street. | Dressler of Coal Center, | short~ 315 by a man he met | on the train in Union Station. BYRD SHIP TO SAIL. Second Boat of Expedition Will Leave New York Next Week. NEW YORK, September 13 Twenty-eight members of Comdr. Rich- ! |scvenlh precinet. —Associated Press Photo. AN AND WOMAN SLAN: TWO SOUGHT |Former Is Killed With Brick Body of Latter Found in Hole. Struck on ths b= with a brick during a fight late last night at Sher- man avenuc and Kenyon strect. Clar- erice Henderson, enlored, 24 years old, 42 Florida avenue. was pronounced dead of a broken neck upon the arrival of & Freedmen's Hospital physician. Hen= derson's death came a short time after the discovery of, the -body of Annie French, . colored, 39 years old, 1677 Thirty-second street. beneath the kitchen floor of her home. Police are seeking her husband. Police believe Henderson was killed during a fight with Harry Robinson, colored. who escaped. Emanuel Gallo- way, colored, 23 years old, 1031 Lamont street, and Robert Oscar Rollins. col- ored, 19 years old. 464 I street south- west, who also engaged in the fight. arrested early this morning by adquarters Detectives Oscar Mans- field and Paul Jones. Galloway said that he and Rollins were approached by Robinson, who said that he and Henderson had disputed over a girl during a party at the home of Madeline Holmes, 3305 Sherman avenue. He added that Robinson wanted to whip Henderson, but was not large .enough. ‘Galloway and Rollins offered their assistance and Henderson was killed by a brick The discovery of the body of the French woman came after her sister, Fannie Parker, asked police to search for "her and her husband. Lubersie French.! The body was discovered by Policemen Wheeler and Shinault of the It was wrapped in a sheet and stuffed in a small opening that was reached from the basement ‘The Parker woman told police that her sister and sister's husband came ‘o live with her several weeks ago. Satur- day they were both in bed when she went to work, she said, but were not there when she returned. She waited until Sunday and then reported the disappearance to police. The search the house was made last night, when she again appealed for assistance. The French woman had apparently been strangled. Inquests into both cases are sched- uled for this afternoon. EX-SLAVE, 105, DIES. Last of African Serfs in Bahamas Succumbs. Bahamas NASSAU, (#). — Martin (#).— | Sawyer, the last of the African slaves |on this island, died at the age of 105 Sail from New York early next week on | When a small boy, Sawyer was cap- the freighter Eleanor Bolling for Du- | tured in Africa by the Spaniards nedin, New Zealand, the point of de-| The slave ship was captured by a The boy was suvla October 1 aboard the whaler Larsen, [to the late R. H. Sawyer, who lafet the expedition’s third ship now at|gave him his freedom. Late in D12 Hampton Roads. cessel at San Pedrg Calif. The barque City 4 ship of the little fleef, left for Dunedn ' 32 men. Byrd will meet the | Sawyer continued to yearn for t | Africa New York. flag- | faintly. v which he remembered He rvomembered his tribal languays 1 And sang Alrican soDgSh .. ...