Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1928, Page 17

e e o e n the path of the devastating hurricane at West Palm Beach, Fla. An automobile is seen buried under the debris of a fallen wall from a build- ing adjoining the Western Union Telegraph office. Farther down the street. another mass of building debris shows where the hurricane cut through other structures. A street of hurricane-wrecked THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. homes in the poorer section of San Juan, Porto Rico. The fatalities and suffering in the island have been espécially heavy in the peorer communities, where hun- dreds of frame homes were leveled GRAND JURY SHUNS SPAULDING: CHARGE Homicide Accusation Against Policeman Ignored—Haynes Reindicted. Charges of homicide against Police- man Ernest C. Spaulding of the Twelfth precinct, growing out of the fatal shoot- ing of Lewis S. Smith, colored garage helper, while the officer was chasing the victim on Bladensburg road Au- gust 9 last, today were ignored by the grand jury. 2 The grand jury reindicted Lynford P. Haynes, chief clerk of the Bureau of Publications of the Department of Ag- riculture, on a charge of violation of section 211 of the Penal Code, growing out of his alleged sending obscene liter- ature through the mails. The new in- dictment sets out more particularly the offenses which Haynes is alleged to have committed. Spaulding was chasing a car which the negro was driving along Bladensburg road. intending to arrest the driver for speeding. Smith stepped his car and ran for a nearby field, according to Spaulding, and then made a motion as if he intended to draw a gun, when the policeman fired the fatal shot. A |, pistol was found near the scene of the shooting later. Five indictments also were handed down holding 10 persons in handbook and gambling cases. Theye were Rich- ard Young, alias Dick Young; Richard Henry Sykes, Joseph Michael Rssex, | Thomas Joseph Kelly, George Andrew | Christie, William James McCarty, Nich Keart, alias Nicholas Keart; Dewey Brooks, alias William Dewey Brooks; Charles Krause and John J. Callahan. Other indictments handed down were: Carmine Oddone, Lonnie Jordon, William Gary, William F. Gray and Manuel Gary, housebreaking and lar- | ceny; Patrick R. O'Toole, Patrick R.!| O'Toole and Jesse H. Shumate, grand , larceny; William Goldie, alias William Golden, 826-B District of Columbia ; Code; Anna Porter, 851-B District of | Columbia Code: Stevens R. Gates, false | pretenses; Milton Terry, Purcell C. Cozzens, Norman Johnson, William Handy and Fred Jackson, assault with dangerous weapon: John Henry Ander- son, Robert M. Hacker, Harry Kennith Fischer and Arthur Brown, nonsupport of minor children; Adam Marshall, | white slave traffic act. i The grand jury ignored charges against the following: Vaughn Fowlin, | grand larceny; Herbert Thornton, as- sault with dangerous weapon: Harry Houff, grand larcency and 826-B, Dis- trict of Columbia Code. VIRGI&IA VBOYVDROWNED. Ernest Mosby. Jr., Victim of Canoe Accident Near Waynesboro. Special Dispatch to The Star, STAUNTON, Va., September 20— Ernest Mosby, jr., son of Dr. Ernest Mosby, was drowned in South River near Waynesboro this morning when a canoe in which he and a son of 8. H. Sweet were inspecting high water went by the storm. —Copyright by P. & A.Photos. Smith’s Daughter Speaks for Father While He’s Asleep By the Associated Press. EL RENO, Okla., September 20.— Serving as a substitute for her father, Mrs. John A, Warner, daughter of Gov. Smith, made her first speech of the campaign trip from the back platform of the presidential nomi- nee's special train here today. “My father stayed up very late working on his speech last night,” explained Mrs. Warner ,when the cheering from the crowd at the sta- tion platform had stopped. “So we thought it would be best not to waken him this morning. You know, he has a very hard day ahead of him in Oklahoma City.” The slim girl in her chic tailored navy blue suit had the entire atten- tion of the hundreds who had come to ses her father. R HAM SAYS BUS LINE SUFFERS BIG LOSSES Points to Records in Plea for Washington Interurban Transfer Charge. ‘The Public Utilities Commission today listened to oral arguments by Willlam F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., in support of an application for authority to establish a 2-cent transfer charge between street cars and the motor bus line of the ‘Washington Interurban Co. at Fifteenth and H streets northeast. Ham laid particular stress on the financial condition of the bus company and produced records to show that it had suffered a loss of $45,819.84 in the last five years, during which free trans- fers were issued between busses and the street cars. He estimated that if the 2-cent transfer charge had been in effect a deficit still would have existed over the five-year period, although in- creased patronage in the last 12 months indicated that a profit could be made with a trensfer charge. Col. William P. Ladue, Engineer Com- missioner and a member of the commis- sion, called Ham's attention to the fact that the figures he cited took into con- sideration only the fares paid into the hus company by incoming passengers and that the outgoing passengers who boarded the street car were granted free rides on the busses. Since the Washington Railway & Electric Co. owns nearly all of the stock of the bus company, Col. Ladue wanted to know why the revenue from the entire sys- tem should not be considered by the commisison. In reply Ham said it is the legal and moral right of the com- pany to demand revenue to’ make the bus company self-sustaining, irrespec- tive of carrier arrangements between the two companies. T “Back-to-Church” Drive. As the result of a “back-to-the- church” movement started by Dr. J. Harry Miller, the moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland, many Scots are attending services for the first time in years. The movement is grow- over a dam and was broken up. Youn; Bweet escaped, but Mosby disappeare in the w‘"lf #nd his body has not yet ings in industrial centérs, and has met appeared and was arrested when the u. been recovered. ing, and may include all England. Dr. Miller has been holding open-air meet- with considerable success, Omaha turns out to see the Democratic standard bearer. from an automobile as he passes through streets lined with cheering.throngs who gave the candidate a noisy recep- tion. The governor made the first speech of his Western campaign in Omaha to an audience of Nebraska farmers. Gov. Smith is seen waving his famous brown derby —Associated Press Photo. Anti-Smith Democrats who bolted the party organization in Texas conferring here yesterday with Chairman Work of the Republican na- tional committee at Republican headquarters. They urged that Mr. Hoover make an address in their State. Left to right, seated: Marshall Hick, for- mer Democratic State committeeman; Cato Sells, former commissioner of Indian affairs; Thomas B. Love, Dr. Work and Alvin Moody. Henry Tweifel, R. B. Creager and H. B. Rentfro. Michael, who will celebrate his Rumania’s boy King is getting to be a husky youngster. King seventh birthday next month, is seen here shoving off his boat while vacationing at Mamaia. —Associated Press Photo. An idea for two when chairs are scarce. Standing: —Wide World Photos. It is demonstrated by two stunt artists of the Scala Theater, in Berlin. —Associated Press Photo. FINDS WIFE DEAD OF ‘GAS IN KITCHEN Coroner Gives Certificate of Suicide in Case of Mrs. Carrie Turner. Mrs. Carrie Turner, 38 years old, 1753 Columbia road, was found dead today in the kitchen of her apartment by her husband, Ray Turner, She had in- haled gas from a tube. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt, who issued a certificate of suicide, said that she probably had been dead since midnight. Turner, manager of a chain grocery store in the neighborhood in whica he lives, said that he gct hom shortly before 12 o'clock last night and thought lthnt his wife was asleep in another room. When he awakened, she did not answer his call so h~ investigated and found her in the Kkitchen. Although hysterical, Turner sum- moned the police, who, in turn, called the Fire Department rescue squad and Emergency Hospital ambulance, {She was pronounced dead upon arrival of the latter. ‘Turner told Dr. Nevitt that he could give no reason for wife's act nnless it was that she had not been feeling well. He said that she tried to «nd her life four years ago with ether. HELD ON THE;:T EHARGE. |Cnlored Man Accused of Taking 53 Suits From Car. Robert Wells, colored, accused of tak- ing 53 suits of boys' clothing from a drummer’s car on Seventh street last ‘Thursday, was today held for the action of the grand jury following a hearing before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court. His bond will be set later. " ‘Thomas Ford, colored doorman at Lansburgh department store, testified that he saw Wells take the suits from the machine, The next day Wells again doorman identified AUTO KILLS PRINTER. George Van Horn's Death Held Ac- cidental by Jury. A coroner’s jury yesterday afternoon returned a verdict of accidental death in the death of George Van Horn, 50 of The Siar, who died in Emergency Hospital yesterday morning four hours after he was struck in front of the Washington Post Building by a taxicab. The verdict exonerated Arthur J. Mc- Kinney, 22 years old, 785 Irving street, driver of the cab. At the time of the accident he was taken into custody by first precinct police. He said that Van Horn ran from between two trucks di- rectly into the path of his cab. It was raining at the time. ANTI-CATHOLIC PAPER IS BARRED FROM MAILS Missouri Postmaster Holds New Menace Attack on Smith and Pope Indecent. By the Associated Press. AURORA, Mo., September 20.—This week’s issue of the New Menace, anti- Catholic paper published here, was barred from the malls yesterday by Mark Mathes, Aurora postmaster, be- cause of alleged indecent statements about Gov. Smith and the Pope. Mr. Mathes said an article in the publica- tion attacking Smith's candidacy for the presidency contained remarks which he considered in violation of the postal regulations against transmitting inv 1 decent matter through the mails. ‘The article charged, among other things, that the candidacy of the Demo- cratic nominee was being “manipulated by the Pope, not betause of Al Smith himself, ut because the Roman the United States.” years old, 707 Newton street, a printer | CONDEMNS LIQUOR PLAN. Cherrington Opposes Canadian System of Selling Alcohol. Adoption by the United States of the Canadian system of liquor control would be a step backward, in the opinion of Ernest H. Cherrington, general secre- tary of the World League Against Alco- holism, who sald today that an on- ward-moving civilization “cannot pro- mote nor even legalize social evils which have been discarded because of their retarding effect upon the machine of progress.” He added: “Economically, such a movement would be fraught with the gravest con- sequence. Our current prosperity is due to the fact that the billions of dollars once spent for intoxicants are now spent in legitimate business. It has been esti- mated that the restoration of this out- lawed traffic would divert between four billion and five billion dollars from the channels of trade.” P. X. HIGDON, 53, DIES. Real Estate Operator Survived by ‘Widow, 5 Sons and 3 Daughters. Francis X. Higdon, 53 years old. real estate operator and builder, died jn Providence Hospital Tuesday after “a short illness. Funeral services will be conducted In St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock. In- te';ment will be in Mount Olivet Cem- etery. Mr. Higdon, who resided at 2510 Twenty-fourth street northeast, was for & number of years engaged 1n the mer- chandise business and then In the real | Pa: estate business. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Regina C. Higdon; five sons, Sherman A., Richard C., Bernard F. Robert E. GLENN DALE TO INQUIRE ABOUT SCHOOL DELAY Committee Appointed to Call on County Board With Reference Also to Heating Plans. Special Dispatch to The Star. GLENN DALE, Md., September 20.— At a meeting held in the school at Glenn Dale a committee comprising R. A. Seigler, J. H. Hahn, J. T. Harvey, Mil- ton Brickerd, W. E. Owens, jr.; Mrs. S. E. Rigoli and Mrs. E. M. Woods was ap- pointed to inquire from the. Prince Georges County Board of Education why the Glenn Dale school, on which con- struction was started several months ago, has not been completed, and what is planned in the way of heating the building. The committee also was in- structed to make an effort to ascertain what the plans and specifications called for generally under the contract for construction of the building. Mrs. W. E. Shegogue, a member of the county Board of Education, said last night that construction of ¢he Glenn Dale School had been unnvomnbli{ de- layed through the failure of the original contractor to continue the work, the ne- cessity of awarding a new contract for the completion of the school and se- curing of money from the contractor's bonding company to finish the contract. all of which took considerable time. A heating plant would, of course, be in- stalled in the school and the citizens will be told anything they wish to know regarding the plans and spectfications, | migsion that it would need the revenue | tics: it is good sald Mrs. Shegogue. A special meeting of the county Board of Education is to be held tomotrow to confirm appointment of several teachers who have been named to take the places of those who have resigned since school opened, in order that the first month's y roll may be gotten ready and to give attention to of Ink may be removed from lnen if the | - Six of the Washington boys who will go to Atlantic City to represent the District as contestants in the national finals of the Playground and Recreation Association’s miniature aircraft tournament, October 5 and 6. Left to right: Thomas Robins, Ernest Douglas Bruce and Herbert Dorsey. The ments. e The three Boy Scouts who Stout, Lloyd Fish, Clayton Fish, trophies were won in local tourna- —Star Staff Photo. bagged lions in Africa. They have just returned after their six-week adventure as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, big game hunters. Left to right: Robert L. Douglas of Greensboro, N. C.; David Martin of Austin, Minn., and Douglas Oliver of Atlanta. Eacl h boy shot a lion. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. - If Cats Had Ballot Hoover Would Be Minus Nine Votes Smoky is gone and there is mourn- ing among the staff at the Hoover headquarters. During his chosen candidate’s jour- ney to New Jersey the gray Persian kitten that installed himself at the headquarters last week. curled his silken, bushy tail and stole away. He sallied forth alone into the un- charted dangers of hurtling automo- biles on crowded Massachusetts ave- nue, and the desks on which he walked with a proprietary air and the bowl of milk from which he drank, know him no more, WOMAN FLYER DIES IN AIRPLANE CRASH Stunt Aviator Injured in Second Accident in Eng- land. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 20.—Two air- plane accidents, one of which was the first English fatality to a woman flyer shocked aviation circles today. The second accident’ seriously injured Jack Noakes, who has recently won fame as one of the most intrepid stunt fiyers of the Royal Air Force. ‘The victim of the fatal crash was Miss Honor Weelby of Weybridge. She was making her second solo flight from the Brooklands Flying School when her machine went into a spin at a low ai- titude. It crashed on a railroad track and she was dead when workmen ex- tricated her from the wreck. Noakes was flung out of his plane when it overturned above Martlesham Heath. in Suffolk. He suffered injuries to his spine, face and forehead, but is expected to recover. He is a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force and had been selected to attempt soon a new ; er matters. | world endurance record flight. | TAXPAYERS GET F;EFUND. Prince Georges County Sanitary D Assessment 5 Cents on $100 Over. ! Special Dispatch to The Star. 20 GUARDSHEN SEEK KONAPED B0Y Three More Men Taken Into Custody in Honolulu Abduction. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, September 20.—An army of 2,000 National Guardsmen and. more than 600 special deputy sheriffs was mobilized here today ‘to hunt_for ‘Gill Jamieson, 10-year-old son of Frederick W. Jamieson: Honolulu banker, and the man who abducted him Tuesda: Young Jamieson was taken from his school by a foreign-appearing man, who reported that his mother had been in- jured and desired him to return home, Later Mr. Jamieson received a note de- manding $10,000 ransom money and zhrelte(:ed death for the boy unless the money {was paid. Sheriffs and National Guard officers announced they had plotted the city into districts and would searcif*every suspicious-looking place in town. Eight suspects were held today, but Capt. of Detectives John M. MecIntosh said the police were far from a solution of the case. In addition to the five Japenese taken into custody yesterday three other men, David Sonn, 20: Thomas Ohta, 20, and C_h;‘rtles Nanaka, were detained last night. McIntosh questioned Sonn and Ohta in an attempt to break down the alibi of their friend. Harry Kaisan, former chauffeur for the Jamieson family, who was among the first of the s cts ar- rested. Kaisan was suspec because Mr. Jamieson discharged him for in- competence. D. A. R. OPENS DRIVE T0 “GET OUT THE VOTE” Calls on Local Chapters to Try to Interest Minors in Mechanics of Electing Presidents. The Daughters of the American Rev- olution took definite steps today to “get out the vote” this Fall and to interest American boys and girls under voting age in the mechanics of presidential elections. In connection with the drive the fol- lowing _statement was. given out from D. A. R. headquarters: “We Daughters have before us an immediate duty—to vote and to ‘heip get out the vote. Our society has taken UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Septem- ber 20.—Refunds are now being sent| Prince Georges County taxpayers who | paid a sanitary tax of 12 cents on each $100 instead of 7 cents on each $100. | Originally it was thought by the, Washington Suburban Sanitary Com- | from a 12-cent rate to meet its ex- | nses because the increase in its front | oot_benefit charges had been held in- valid, but later the Maryland Court of Appeals held that the increase was legal and the commission then found the 7-cent rate was enough. County Treasurer R. Ernest Smith es- timates that all taxpayers entitled to a refund will receive it within the next few weeks. The amount to be refunded spot is dipped in melted tallow. Wash' will not be more than a few thousand Catholic Church wants, needs and can |and Raymond T. Higdon, and three|out ths tallow and the ink spot will dollars, se a Roman Catholic as President of ' daughters, Mrs. J. V. Yeager, Mrs. V. F. | come with it. This is known to be very getting ; 5 cents. Morgan and Miss Mildred A. Higdon. ~ effective. f and in some cases taxpayers are | & refund of as small a sum as a very definite stand in defense of our institutions of Government as inherited and now existent, and we can prove our sincerity only by doing our utmost to assure the continued political welfare of our country. “This is not encroaching upon poli American citizenship.” All local chapters were urged to or ganize in their respective communiti- and it was recommended that the ir terest of minors be aroused by formir them into groups to transport vote to the polls by aul . Bid on Chil:;nTud. . IQUIQUE, Chile (#).—An American firm has made an offer to the Chilean government to reconstruct existing roads and build new thoroughfares in North- ern Chile. Pinancing would be dont lections. u:m\nku coll