Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. SEP TEMBER 21, 1928. Marian begins her voyage to nacious polar bear cub which arrived here yesterday is shown being hauled aboard the Coast Guard shi scientific voyage to Greenland. Ma ‘was able to sink her teeth in one aboard. At the DBoustwarmi en’s National Pemocratic Club, at i quarters. Mrs. A. G. McClintock of W cutting the biz mellon at the party, which signal- ized the opening of the club's drive for Gov. Smith. —Star last night of the Wom- loeal head- Col. Lindbergh is a ington is Staff Pho! the Washington Zoo. The pug- the street. he needed some lessons hefore he could fly this old 1910 Curtis “pusher” plane at the national air meet in Los Angeles. Al Wilson, owne; The hurricane interrupts campaign tour for service in the storm-stricken pretiy good aviator, but Palm Beach 2 is r of the relic, L ptinsbes wid> World I the enator Robinson’s area. The Democratic vice presidential here helping to unload milk brought in on a relief train, to which his campaign Pullman was attached. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. The main street of the West Palm Beach business section is a shambles of ruin and wreckage after the great hurricane. Taken from an ahuost in- accessible point in the devastated area, this photograph shows an impassable blockade of building walls and roofs and wrecked automobiles engulfing —Wide World Photos. ip Marian after her capture on a rian appears well roped, but she of the crew shortly after coming —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. | | CITIZENS PROTEST | STREET CONDITIONS | Three Arlington Communities Are SHANTUNG TROOPS GIVE UP BATILE | | THINS IN NEW AUTD LLED BY CRASH Affected by Neglect, Officials Are Told. ecial Dispatch ‘o The Star. CLARENDON, Va., September 21. petition, signed by approximately A 50 Accident at Centerville, Md., Fatal to Peter and Edward Mair of Oxon Hill. | citizens of Maywood, Cherrydale and Dominion Heights, protesting against street condidtions following the laying of water mains, was filed with County Engineer C. L. Kinnier, the board of supervisors and the county water board Surrender to Manchurians Hailed as New Step in Chinese Unity. | By the Associated Press. Special Dispatch to The Star. | UPPER MARLBORO, Md. Septem-| SHANGHAI, China, September 21.— Advices from Manchuria today reported | ber 21.—Sheriff Charles S. Eal'dly h(;f Prince Georges County announced this | s hat mn tngoet was Consicered | Surrender of the remnants of the not necessary by county authorities in_!n Shantung-Chihli army to the Man- the deaths of Peter and Edward Mair, | churian commander, Gen. Yang Yu- Ting. 20-year-old twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. | This news was hailed in Shanghai as W. P. Mair of Oxon Hill, Md., who were | instantly killed late last night, when a new automobile in which they WP}:D uniting China for the principles of Sun riding struck a tree on a curve on the | yar.gon The fact that the Manchu- Washington-Marlboro wouleward near | | "o, operated so closely with the Small's Garage at Centerville [ Ray Smith, 16-year-old sleight-of- | Nationalists, under Gen. Pai Chung- hand performer with the DIstrict| gt jn wiping out the last organized Heights camival, anotey Romed “wrist | recalcitrants, showsd how strong a hold and lacerations, and a fourth member | the Nationalist cause has in Manchuria. of the party. a young man named Car-| The surrender also marked the pass- rico, escaped uninjured. !ing from power of Gen. Chang Tsung, Ride After Carnival | the picturesque ex-governor of Shan- According t6 an investigation con- | tung, who rose from a coolie laborer in ducted by county authorities, the twins | Harbin to the leadership of one of the had just bought the machine and after | important sections of China. He had spending the evening at the carnival | hoped to fortify himself in Shantung with their two friends started for a | after Peking fell but Lis plans went ride. | awry when his stbordinates began cast- 1t was only a short distance from the | ing their lots with the Nationalists. carnival grounds that they struck the | _ tree The Toad at this polnt is level | Defection Is Blow. | and the car is said to have been travel- | The beginning of the end came early ing at a hign rate of speed. The left | this month when the local commander #ide of the car hit a large tree at the|at Tsingtao went over to the Nanking point of the curve in some manner, the | government and took his troops with ériver apparently being unable to bring | him. This major defection occurred just the wheel around quickly enough to | as Gen. Pal was taking the field with today. “A bad leak,” the petition cites, “has existed at or near the Lee Highway and Mackey street in Cherrydale since March 20, and numerous calls have been made to the courthouse asking relief in vain.” The petition points out that a recent measurment skowed that water from this leak was flowing at the rate of 24 gallons per minute, a daily loss of 34,560 gallons and a monthly loss of 1,626,800 gallons, which must be paid for at the rate of 24 cents per 1.000 gallons. The total loss of water to date from this leak. the petition cites, is ap- proximately 5,500,000 gallons, making the loss in money of $1. “Certainly no private enterprise could exist long with such carelessness, in- compentency and indifference to the interests of the owners, and it should not be allowed to exist in public affairs,” the petition concludes. Engineer Kinnier declared today that the water main condition was taken care of a few days ago before receipt of the petition. The reason it existed s0 long, he said, was because it Was thought that the water was coming from a spring and not flowing from a leak in the water pipe. He said that everything possible is being done by the ‘contractor to restore the roads to their former condition, but that this would take time. A road crew is con- stantly working on the roads where excavations were made necessary in the laying of the water mains, he said, adding thet it must be remembered that the fills must be given time to make the turn. Machine Is Wrecked. | One of the twins was driving and the other was sitting directly behind on the left side of the machine. The automobile was wrecked and the occu- pants thrown out. The body of one of the twins was found more than 30 feet from the wreckage, under which that of his brother was found. Smith, unconscious when picked up. was at first thought to be seriously hurt, but at Providence Hospital, Wash- ington, he was found to be suffering only from a broken wrist and face cuts. The Carrico youth was thrown clear of the wreckage and aided resi- dents to first aid work. TEAR GAS HALTS RIOT. Maryland Prisoners dued in New Outhreak. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, September 21.—Ti gas was again brought into use la; night to subdue three convicts, who took part in the latest outbreak of the dem- onstration in Maryland Penitentiary, which was launched Monday night by prisoners in revolt against what they termed “absolving of guards and prison officials of charges of cruel and ‘n- human treatment of prisoners.” ‘The new and short lived demonstra- tion occurred shortly after the “lights out” order was issued. Shouts and shrieks were heard from the 85 convicts who are all that remain of the 800 who articipated in the original outbreak ith the appearance of the tear gas squad the convicts quieted down witn the exception of three, who had to be suidued by the gas Thre= Sub- | 100,000 Nationalists, after announcing | to all foreign legations that the time had come to “clean up” the territory south of the Great Wall. Only about 50,000 followers remained Joyal to Chang then and with Pai driv- ing him from the South and Yang blockading Northern lines of retreat, he was caught between the upper and nether millstones. Nevertheless, Chang went to the front after bidding a fond farewell to his 28 wives and concubines. There was a community of interest between the Manchurians and Na- tionalists in this campaign, also in the fact that Chang's men held a portioa of the Peking-Mukden rail connections | north of Tientsin. This road had not been functioning since Chang Tso-Lin | used it to flee from Peking on the train |in which he met death when it was | bombed on the outskirrts of the Man- churian capital. With the North China lines under Shantung control, there was no connection between the more South- | lern lines and the trans-Siberian rail- | way. | | | 20,000 Captured. | Chang's 50.000 were speedily pressed back by Pai's troops. Within 10 days |of the start of the campaign, 20.000 had been captured and disarmed and Chang had fled across the Gulf of Laiotung to Dairen. | ‘The final fighting was near Anshan on the Tientsin-Mukden Railway. It was against the Manchurians and its} | severity was attested by the fact that |the victor's wounded alone totaled at least 3,000. There were not many of the Shangtung recalcitrants left when they finally decided to give up. | settle before the final surface coat can be applied. WILLIAM 1. HENDRICKS. G. P. 0..EMPLOYE, DIES Veteran in Government Service and Member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants. William J. Hendricks, veteran em- ploye of the Government Printing Of- fice, died at his home, 141 Spruce street, Lyon Village, Va., night, after a long illness. He was 62 years old. Mr. Hendricks had never completeiy recov- ered from injuries sustained in an automobile accident last December. Mr. Hendricks, who had been employ ed in the Government Printing Office for 42 years, at the time of his death was deputy disbursing officer. Born at Hunting Point, Lone Zsland. N. Y., Mr. Hendricks came to this cit/ in his early youth and cntered the Government service. e was widelv known here in civic and fraternal cir- cles. He was a member of H-.a Lodge of Masors and was former presiaent of th» Federal Employes Local Union, No. 2. He was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. He is survived by his widow, Mrs Margaret Morgan Hendricks; a son, Gorman M. Hendricks, and two sisters, Mrs. Laura Chandlee and Mrs. Kathe- rine Morgan of Chevy Chase, Md. Funeral services will be conducted a* Airplane freight shipments and ar- rivals of watches, silks anod automobile in Switzerland . are Iy increasing / o’clock. | the residence tomorrow morning at 11 Interment, will be in Con- gressional Cemetery. ‘Bruin Captured Off Two hundred pounds of white fight- ing fury—a polar bear cub—captured in the iceberg waters near Greenland when she turned to defend- her dead brother's body, is safely behind the bars at the Washington Zoo today, with a spectacular record behind her of hav- ing savagely fought in a tooth-and- claw battle with a Coast Guardsman and the commander of the Coast Guard ship Marion in an unsuccessful attempt to escape. The cub has been named Marian, and the story of her capture and her strug- gle, as related by the commander of the ship, Lieut. Comdr. Smith, rivals the best wild animal stories of fiction. The cub was brought to the Zoo yesterday after having ar- rived by express from New London, |Conn. A comfortable berth was pre- pared in the black bear's den for her. She is in excellent physical condition, Dr. W. M. Mann. dircctor of the Zoo, said, and full of vigor. Boatswain Brings Animal. The bear was accompanied personally to’ Washington by Boatswain J. Kristensen, who lassoed the cub, and still bears on his hands scars from the battle on board ship when the bear attempted to escape. The white, fuzzy cub was taken cap- tive last August 14, when the Coast bergs. by the ship, feasting on a seal. ship was short of food. The ship was maneuvercd nearer the bears, and they started to swim across the open water between two ice flocs. While the mother bear was swimming she was killed by two shots from a service rifie. The two small ones out- distanced the ship, and would have got away, except that one was killed just ‘The Edward H. | B. | cast aside. Guard ship was making a study of ice- | Three polar bears were sighted | EMARIAN. POLAR CUB BEAR, ADDED TO ZOO COLLECTION Greefiand by Coast Guard Cutter—Put Up Fierce Fight in _Attempt to Escape From Boat. before it got out of range. The other, with wild roars, turned to defend her dead brother. This proved her undo- ing, for it enabled her to be noosed and roped by Boatswain Kristensen, who went after her among the floes in a dory. The ship worked up to where the bear was being held. After being trussed the bear was liberated in the forward hold. Made Things Lively. | . “Just after that the cruise was never {dull for Marian.” Lieut. Comdr. Smith | wrote, “About 10 o'clock next morning, | without warning, the young Polar bear, with a roar-and crash, broke loose her lashings and emerged from the ship's hold to the forward deck, looking for a fight. Boatswain Kristensen was on watch on the bridge. when he suddenly saw his prize ready to put up a serious argument of escape. He tore down from the bridge and gave battle single- handed, yelling for agsistance. Alone, he grabbed the bear by the hind quar- ters and yanked her back on board just as she was about to leap the rail Four times he did that. “Once he received a nasty bite on the hand, but odds and danger were The captain was the first man to his assistance. For an instant the two battled together against the bear, then the bear made an attack on half fell to the deck. In a flash the bear was clawing and tearing out the back of his coat. The tide then swayed against bruin as Kristensen and others got a secure hold on her head. Help- |less from sheer overpowering weight of numbers, Marian was dragged forward again and ignominiously dumped into her hold. You can be sure that this time lashings and weights were put on the hatch that would have kept down an elephant or a Hercules. A strong wooden and wire cage was built upon arrival at Ivigut, Greenland." TWO ARE ARRESTED ' ON ROBBERY CHARGE | Colored Man Routs Three by Hit- { ting One on Head With Bag of Money. Fourth precinct police morning arrested Clifton Gibbs, 24 years old, of the 400 block Second street, and Earl R. Nash, 32 years old, 900 block Sixth street south- | west, in connection with | shortly after midnight of Charles W. Reed, 1348 Girard strect. The two men were arrosted and held for investigation after Reed reported that he was robbed of $48 in Desmond court southwest. Reed furnished the information that led to the arrest. William Washington, colored, 2608 K street, told police that three colored youths, each about 20 years of age, at- tempted to take a bag of money from him in a lunch room at Twentieth and M streets last night and that he struck one of them on the head with the bag, breaking it and scattering money about the floor. They grabbed several of the coins and fled, he said While on_Fourteanth street near the Highway Bridge Mpst night Ernest early this | | Campbell | the robbery | SPIRITUALISTS TO ENTER BRITISH POLITICAL FIGHT | | | Candidates * Believed Hostile to | Lodge-Doyle Followers Will Be Fought. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 21.—Following the advice of Sir Oliver Lodge and aided by the activity of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the spiritualists of England are preparing to take an active part in the next general elections. They will not organize as a party but will oppose the candidates of aspirants for parliamentary seats, who are be- lieved to be hostile to revision of the laws under which spiritualists are fre- quently prosecuted. The vagrancy act of 1824 and the witchcraft act of 1768 are the statutes which the cult especially desire to change. Sir Frank Merriman, solicitor general in the Baldwin cabinet, has especially been marked for opposition. He is held to be largely responsible for the government's ~ attitude toward spiritualism. | Whiter, colored, 20 years old, 2007 Thir- teenth street, was struck on the head with some kind of blunt instrument and robbed nf a wrist watch and ring total- ting $30 in value, according to a report made to fourth precinct police. He sald that his assailant was a white man. the captain, who in dodging slippe¢ and | INSURANCE SUIT LOST BY HERNDON SCHOOLS | | (O Company's Demurrer in $4,000 Ac- tion, Based on Lack of Notice of Fire, Sustained by Court. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., September 21.—The school board of Herndon yesterday lost | the suit brought against officials of | the Loudoun Mutual Insurance Co. of | Leesburg for failure to pay the in- surance premium of $4,000 on the | Herndon School Building, which burned | a year ago. ‘The jury awarded $4,000 damages to the school board, following: several hours’ presentation of the case, subject to the opinion of the court on the demurrer to the evidence filed by John S. Barbour, attorney for the company. Later in the afternoon Judge Howar Smith sustained the demurred. Counsel for the school board, former Senator Walter Tansill Oliver and Harold F. Hanes, have not announced whether they will appeal the case to a higher court. The company claimed that no notice of the loss was filsd with their | office within 30 days of the fire, in | accordance with their rule. | 'MAY ACCEPT SOVIET GOLD FROM BANKS | Mills Files Depositions in Suit to Recover $5,000,0C0 Sent to United States. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, September 21.—Ogden L. Mills, Undersecretary of tke Treas- ury, said in depositions filed yesterday with the clerk of the United States Dis- trict Court that while the United States would not accept gold of Soviet origin in exchange for currency, if the gold | were bought by American banks and then offered, its acceptance would be considered. ‘The depositions were filed in connec- tion with suits brought by th> Bank of France to recover $5,000.000 in gold | sent by the State Bank of Russia to the Chase National Bank and the Equita- ble Trust Co. The gold, which (he French bank claims was its property, held in Russia and illegally seized by the Soviet government, was understcod to have been shipped from the United States after the suit had been insti- tuted. Mills said he informed the banks that the stand of the Government, taken in 1930, had not been changed and “the Government declined to accept gold of | Soviet origin, as it might be subjected to attack internationally.” He said he had offered, however, to receive for consideration any subm sion of the gold by the American Lanks, as their own property, after purchase. LISTS CONDEMNATIONS. | Ladue Feports on Razing of Build- | ings. ‘Three hundred and thirty-one build- ings were condemned in the fiscal year ended June 30, according to the annual report of the board for the condemna- tion of insanitary buildings, submitted today by Engineer Commissioner Wil- liam B. Ladue. Of these 237 were in streets and the remaining 94 in alleys The board also_during the year or- dered razing of 166 buildings and the repair of 283 others. Its action forced 1,555 persons to find new living quar- ters and improved conditions in build- Smith dons a feathered bonnet Nebraska's red men meet an important Tammany chiefs greet the Democratic candidate on his arrival Western campaign. On his left is Chief Decora of the Gov. as its 1 his of the Omaha Indian o —Associated SCHOOL JANITOR SLAIN BY MEMBER OF BOARD | Shooting in North Carolina Near Virgilina, Va., Follows Alleged Receipt of Anonymous Letter. Special Dispatch to The Star VIRGILINA, Va, September 21.— William Talley, 35 years old, janitor of the Oak Hill High School, five miles from here, across the North Carolina line, was killed yesterday by Reubin Hart, wealthy farmer and member of the Granville County Board of Edu- cation. The shooting occurred while the pupils were singing a hymn. Hart is said to have driven up to the school, found Talley working on a bus, and to have rired five buliets into his body. Hart then drove to Qxford and sur- rendered. He has refused to discuss the crime and is being held for a hear- ing. Two of Hart's children attend the school. one a daughter and the other a son. Hart is reported to have received an anonymous letter the day before the shooting. 'NEW C. C. SECRETARY NAMED IN ARLINGTOM P. P. Woodbridge of Adrian, Mich., to Succeed Milford Witts in County Organization Oct. 1. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va. September 21.- Appointment of P. P. Woodbridge of Adrian, Mich., lington County Chamber of Commerce to succeed Milford Witts, whose resig- nation becomes effective October 1, w announced by the board of directors of the chamber. meeting in headquarters here last night. The appointment was made on recom- mendation of a committee consisting of President C. R. Ahalt, Keith A. Brum- back and A. K. Stratton. The com- mittee was instructed to confer with the new secretary when he arrives to as- sume office to plan carrying on the yearly program. The board indorsed the movement under way for construction of modern sewer systems, following a report on this question by C. W. Fitch, chairman of the water and sewer committee. Mr. Fitch called attention to the fact that petitions are being circulated, and pre- dicted that the people will be allowed to decide the matter at the polls sometime in the Fall. An appeal from the Arlington Coun- ty Chapter, American Red Cross, for a donation for relief of storm sufferers appropriation. CHURCH BODY TO MEET. | Special Dispateh to The Star WARRENTON, Va., September 21.— The 122d semi-annual session of the Piedmont Episcopal Convocation will be held at Grace Church, The Plains, Sep- tember 25 and 26. Rev. F. N. Hinkel is dean, Rev. W. A. Seagar secretary and Rev. Percy Hall treasurer. Services will begin Tuesday morning and the opening | sermon_will be preached by Rev. Lau- | rence Brent, Washington, Va. Lunch- eon will be served to visitors each day | in the parish hall. Afternoon sessions will be devoted to business and the con- as secretary of the Ar-| HUGHES Ma TAKE STUMP FOR L00VER v ‘Returning From Europe, He | Admits Possibility of Mak- ing Speeches. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 21.—Charles E. Hughes, returning today from a | three-month European vacation, sald he | thought he would make two or three speeches in behalf of Herbert Hoover. First, however, he will confer with members of the Republican national committee and familiarize himself with the campaign. | The former Secretary of State, who has been named American judge on the World Court bench to fill the unexpired term of John Bassett Moore, emphati- cally declined to discuss politics. He was told that Gov. Smith in his speech at Oklahoma City last night had quoted him, among others, in citing prominent | Republicans’ appraisal of the governor's administrations. Mr. Hughes listened | with interest, but would not comment. | Asked whether he. while Secretary | of ‘State. had not tabled the invitation of the World Court to name an Ameri- | can_judge, Mr. Hughes replied: “I won't discuss those things. Please don't ask me. I have always been an advocate of the World Court, as every | one knows.” ! Mr. Hughes was accompanied by his {wife and their daughter, Elizabeth ‘They motored through Central Europe ‘:n Italy, where most of their sojourn was passed. {ALLOT $1,500,000 FUND TO STORM SUFFERERS Red Cross Workers in Session En- tire Night Pro-Rating Natiomal Donation in Hurricane District. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 21.—Twelve workers in the American Red Cross Midwest area headquarters here worked all night to pro rate the division's $1,500,000 quota of the national fund of $5,000,000 for relief of hurricane suf- ferers. William M. Baxter, jr., in charge of the Midwest area, was notified last in the Florida area was met with a sza;"‘Rm by James L. Fieser, vice chair- man of the American Red Cross in Washington, that a_tentstive national goal had been set. Baxter immediately started workers _apportioning _quotas among chapters in the 17 States under his jurisdiction, which includes Ar- kansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota. Missouri, Mon- tana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Morth Dakota, Oklahoma, = South Dakota Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Boy Injured by Auto. James Louis Woodward, 6 years old, 902 M street, was serjously injured this morning when he was struck and knocked down at Ninth and M streets bv an automobile operated by Gussie Maxwell,. ‘1307 Fairmont street. He vocation will adjourri Wednesday after- ings occupied oy 1.415 others. ‘The report recommended modification it to secs condel buildings. noon. Churches. of Alexandria City, Ar- | presented. was taken to Garfleld Hospital, where it was said that e may have a fracture of the act creating the hoard to enable | lington. Fairfax, Prince William, Lou-.of the skull. Maxwell said that the boy e more expeditious removal ef doun, Fauquier, Rappahanock and Cul- was struck when he ddrted from behind peper Counties will a street car. Iy