Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1928, Page 19

P \ 23 TIE - EVENING ST R,- WASHINGTON,- D.--C., TUESDAY. SEPTE} [BER 18, - 1928 19 WEST SUMMARIZES RESULTS OF TOUR Secretary of Interior Tells of Work Being Done by Department. | | The Interior Department's far-flung activities ni the West came in for a searching survey by Secretary Roy O. West, the new chief of that branch of Uncle Sam's domain, and upon his return to Washington yesterday he issued a statement detailing his tour.| “I have just returned from a most instructive trip to the West, during | which I visited a number of the proj- | ects of various sorts that are admin- | istered by the Department of the In- terior,” Mr. West declared 5 projects include those of I dian administration, which could well seen on the Blackfoot reservation, in Montana, which we inspected car fully. We went through Glacier Na- tional Park and studied the method | of handling these . recreational areas. We visited practically all of the rec- Jamation projects of Montana and Wyoming. We went to the Wyoming | oil fields. “We were accompanied everywhere | by members of Congress. Representa- tive Cramton of Michigan, chairman of the House subcommittee on appropria- tions for the Department of the In- terior, was a member of our par! Representative Leavitt of Montas showed us his State. Representative French of Idaho joinea .3. Senators Warren and Kendrick and Representa- tive Winter of Wyoming were with our party throughout their State. Dr. Mead, head of the Bureau of Reclama- tion, went along. “We were much impressed with the development of these reclamation proj- ects. Theirs is a class of farming that | is peculiar. The consensus of expert| opinion seems to be that the great need with them is diversification. The crops that they should raise are largely those which are non-competitive with the farmer who lives farther to the East. | Thelr advantage in growing sugar bee is admitted. Alfalfa and sweet clover | M thrive under irrigation. logically to dairying. “Butter and cheese lend themselves to shipment for long distances. Sheep for food and wool on the_ hills and may be fattened on alfalfa. Much beef can be produced here. The oppor- tunity for poultry raising in these West- emn dry ns is unsurpassed. The turkey thrives and their production has become an important industry. Eggs and poultry may be shipped long dis- tances. It is in such products that the reclamation projects seem to have their best opportunity. SOUGHT AS SLAYER OF WIFE, ENDS LIFE Body of Man Found on lhryfnd Farm Identified as That of French. These lead ‘ | | | ‘The search for the slayer of Annie Prench, colored, 1677 Thirty-second street, came to an end yesterday when local police identified the body of a suicide as her husband, who has been sought for the murder. e The , which was identified. by Beventh precinct police as Lavercy French, was found Sunday on a far near Germantown, Md.. Montgomer: County police say that he had killed himself with a shotgun. The woman’s body was found on September 13, wrap- in a sheet and stuffed in a hole the cellar of her home. She had been choked to death. | his residence, 305 Massachusetts ave- Commissioners today as a member cf ceed Capt. Wells had been an alternate on the board. SOCIETY| year at Yale University. The young man has been studying for several weeks in London. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Detrick of San Francisco, who have been traveling in the East for several weeks, are at the Mayflower for a short visit before returning home. Miss Elizabeth Gardiner has returned from Spain and is at 2007 R street for the Winter. . Mrs. Stewart Crawford had luncheon guests yesterday on the Willard roof. Mrs. W. K. Schoepf, Cincinnati, Ohio, is at' the Hotel Grafton for several ‘weeks. M. Luis A. Auly of Paris is making an axtended stay at the Grace Dodge Hotel. | it | Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Cameron of Cleve- land arrived today at the Willard, where they plan to remain a few days. Mr. and Mrs. William F. A. Herr- mann_have returned to Washington from their wedding trip. which included a visit to Canada, and are making their | home temporarily at the Mayflower. Mrs. Herrmann was formerly Miss Azadia Newman, daughter of Mrs. Edwin A. Newman of Washington. Miss Virginia Elizabeth Deyber, daugh- | ter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bernard Deyber, left Sunday evening for Mount | Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Ryan of Phila- delphia are ot the Grace Dodge Hotel until next weel. STEPHVEVI\; C; CHI#LEY DIES. | 87-Year-0ld Confederate Veteran and Retired Merchant. Stephen C. Chipley, 87 years old. Confederate veteran and retired mer- chant of Carroll County, Md., died at nue northeast, yesterday after a short | illness. He had been a resident of this city for the past 29 years. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence Thursday morniag at 10 o'clock. Interment will be at Sykesville, d. Mr. Chipley is survived by two sons and five daughters. i Named on Fire Trial Board. Capt. C. A. Wells was named by the the Fire Department trial board to suc- Thomas Buckley, retired. EDISON GIVEN SURPRISE PARTY BOOTLEGGER SAYS Faries, arrest. { The hearing was continued when the defendants asked that they be giver time to engage counsel and both were Bennett. and Silder to.escape| GAYS WOMAN’S PARTY WILL STAND BY HOOVER | ing the exposition with a radio address, AT RADIO FAIR IN GOTHAM Ford and Firestone on Hand to Greet Old Friend—Invento Microphone. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 18.—A sur- prise party for Thomas A. Edison last night was a feature of the formal open- ing of the radio world’s fair in Madison Saquare Garden. The famous inventor, officially open- r Steps Before “What he has been to radio he has been to all other branches of industry,” Mr. Ford continued; “there wouldn't be enough days in the year for these cele- brations if every industry he has helped should set apart a day to do him honor.” Mr. Firesione disclosed the secret that POLICE TOOK BRIBE Philadelphian Faces Accused Officers in Court and Makes Charges. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, September 18— ‘The first break in the silence of boot- held in $10,000 bail. In announcing the suspension of John T. Finn, a storekeeper and gauger for the prohibition department, Samuel O. Wynne, Federal administra- tor here, said the charges involved the illegal diversion of alcohol in large said, was shipped to Western cities. NEW MONUMENT HOURS. The office of public buildings and | public parks announced yesterday that henceforth the Washington Monument will be open on week days from 9 am to 4 pm. and on Sundays from 12:30 quantities by the Quaker Industrial Al-| ¢ cohol Co. Much of this alcohol, Wynne | Miss Vernon, Executive Secretary, Challenges Statement of Demo- cratic National Committee. Miss Mabel Vernon, national execu- cretary of the National Woman's Party, today challenged the accuracy of a statement issued recently by the | Democratic national committee in which it was said that members of the tional Woman's Party would not be ed bi the decision to support the can- didacy of Herbert Hoover, but that many women would vote the Democratic ticket. “The rank and file of the Woman's Party will stick together in support of Hoover and equal rights,” Miss Vernon sald. “I know the Woman's Party members from coast to coast, for I worked with them from the early suf- frage days. The members place equal rights before any other issue in the campaign.” Formation of the Georgetown Smith- | Robinson Club was the occasion for issuance of the Democratie statement. Six hundred bunches of grapes ar ripening on the famous vine, 160 years "‘vld,dat Hampton Court Palace in Eng- and. had been kept from Edison with an ex- was introduced at the microphone by | planation of how he and Mr. Ford had his old friend, Henry Ford. Harvey Firestone, an intimate of both men, in- troduced Ford. Edison had not known that either of his two cronies would be present. “Friends of the radio,” Edison said, “this is Thomas A. Edison speaking. I have been asked to come here tonight to formally open this fair. Please do not expect a speech from me, as pub- lic speaking is entirely out of my line. So I will do what has been requested of me, and now declare this.radio fair as formally opengd.” Hailed as “Wizard.” Mr. Ford hailed the “Wizard of Menlo park,” with whom he and Firestone have been on many a camping trip, as “the father of the industrial age.” “No man in the world needs an in-| troduction less than he does,” Ford said. “He has been an inspiration to| two generations of engineers and all we| have done has been possible through his | inventions for the use of power. Noth- ing anybody could say could cnhance his fame.” been asked to attend a dinner in the inventor’s honor before the opening of the radio fair. “There is no man in the world I'd go| farther to honor than Thomas Edison,” he said. After his brief talk Mr. Edison went back to his home in East Orange, N. J. WARNS BUS DRIVERS. Judge Hitt Takes Fling at Park- ing Privileges. Asserting that there was a serious doubt in his mind as to the legality of | the parking spaces reserved for busses and warning bus drivers that they should remember that “the streets be- long to the public,” Judge Isaac R. Hitt yesterday dismissed the charge of reckless driving against Leo Edmonds Simonton, an attorney. Simonton parked his car at a bus ghan, directing the grand jury investi- gation of alleged bribery of police, rum running and gang murders, prepared today to seek additional arrests of sus-| pected police. day on warrants from the district at- torney's bribery and conspiracy. Louis Faries and Harry Bennett. warrant was issued also for another de- tective, Frederick - Silder, but he could not be found. arrests today,” Monaghan said. also affect the police department.” break” in the silence of bootleggers oc- curred when Faries and Bennett were taken before Judge Edwin O. 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