Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1928, Page 6

a THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1928 | cally and financially impossible for the | Tex., October 8 to 12, and intend to He said he came here with the idea | OERISHLED | BF TR CYCLE Frederick E. Ritchie, Naval| Station Seaman, Hurled 30 ! Feet at Thomas Circle. | i Thrown more than 30 fest when the motor cycle he was riding struck the curbing and hurtled the sidewalk at ‘Thomas Circle early this morning. Fred- | erick Earl Ritchie, 21 years old, a first- Class seaman of the United States) Naval Air Station, was rushed to Eme: gency Hospital in a taxicab an dic few minutes after arrival. His skul! ‘was fractured. Policeman W. W. Whittemore of ih~ second precinct said he was standing on Fourteenth street just south of Thoma: | Circle when he saw a motor cvcle go | by at what esemed to him an excessive | rate of speed Sees Machine Hit Curb. The machine struck the curh while he was looking at it. jumped up in the air several feet. ran across the side- walk and overturned when it struck | the inner coping. Both driver and ma- | chine then slid for more than 30 feet, | he said. Whittemore placed the un-| conscious _youth in a cab and rushed| him to Emergency Hospital, but he| died while under treatment. | ‘The machine that he was riding was listed to Alfred Jackson, a'so c Naval Air Station. who had loan to | him. The police think Ritchie was on | his way to a lunchroom on upper Four- | teenth street. Whittemore says he | thinks Ritchie saw his uniform as he dashed by. and struck the curb in a sudden attempt to slow down. A narrow escape from serious injury was experienced last night by five-vear- old Virginia Tucker. 3105 M street when she was dragged several feet bv an automobile thet drew from the eurb| while she was seated on a rear bumper ‘The child had climbed on the bumper of a machine belonging to Morris Klundiast. 3552 O street, and the driver | pulled away without secing her. { X Knees Badly Scraped. She was jostled off after going a short distance, but failed to release her| hold until her knees had been. badly | scraped. -8he was treated at George- | town Hospital, where her condition was said to be not serious. June Davis, 11 vears old. 3320 P street. was slightlv iniured when knocked down at Thirty-third and O streets bv an automobile operated by | Mrs. Catherine F. Dcdd. 3300 O street. Bhe was treated at home. Struck at Twentieth and L streets | by an automobile driven by James E.| ritt. 32 years old. 1450 Irving street. ‘harles Joy. colored, 14 vears-old. 1108 | ‘Twentieth street, was taken to Emer- ency Hospital and treated for Jacera- ions to the rizht hand and bruises to the left leg. William H. Gordon. col- ored, 25 years old. 1401 First street. was treafed at Emergency after his automobile was in a co] Reno read and Fessenden street car operated bv James Kinney. | ored. 25 years old. 1344 Union street southwest. His condition is not serious. | PILSUDSKI TO TRAVEL. Will Pay Official Visit to Capital of Rumania, | | BUCHAREST. Rumania. September | 21 (®).—Following a private visit, Mar- | &hal Pilsudski. former Polish premier, | who is at a health resort in Rumania, | will pay an official visit to Bucharest t‘m September 30, remaining for three lays. . The visit will be marked by official celebrations, including a reception by ¢ the ney. It is belleved that it is meant (0 stamp with an official rhar-[ acter unpublished agreements previous- | ly reached between Rumania and Po-| land. i SNOW IN SOUTH DAKOTA. LEAD, 8. Dak.. September 21 (#).— | Bnow fell yesterday, enough to cover the ground lightly. The temperature got as low as the freezing point, but Tose during the day. It was the first ' snowfall of the season here. Broke;i-Hearted Clown Leaps To Death in Face of Idleness| By the Ascoctated Press. CHICAGO, September 21.—The love | theme of Pagliacei wound itself about |golden *Tony Peri. the 60-year-old clown, who |turned to weeks with no pay envelopes In recent months Peri has been clowning with wagon shows and carni- | Boston leaped seven stories to his death yester- day. Peri, vears ago, was a good clovn and ceight” man. Hs played “double” th his wife, and their weekly earnings ran up to $307 a weck—not a Iot stage pay goes. but it satisfied the Per.s One day Mrs. Peri ran away with a banjo player. Pagliacci, continued to clown. |at all. vals. He finished his lust engagement two ! days ago. He went back yesterday the booking agents, who told him ther. was no more work in sight. Peri walkea,| to a window and leaped out. Peri, a broken-hearte | The | weeks of $300 pay envelope: ALBANYPOOL DATA Attorney Blames, Smith for Citation in Base | Ball Inquiry. ‘ | | to| REDS OF AMERICA WILL BE PROBED National Civic Federation Plans Investigation of Communists and Connection With Moscow. N"W YORK. S=ptember 21 (P Nation: Civie Federation vesterday moved to investigate thi American Communis's, tions wtih the Sovd» their connec- givernment of coilsz> and uni Matthew Woll Amerizan Feder: ing nresident of ty students. ce president of the n of Labor and act- *he Civie Federation presented the mntion for the inquirv at | the San Francisco district was allotted 2 luncheon of the H2 s2d that Am movement were in g the “borinz from within® tactics of the w " (Communist) party, financed and rted from Moscow. Ellis Searies. cditor of the United Workers” Journal. callad the situation “criticcl.” ~ United Mine Workers were making a sccond “dsoerate effort” to -~ Communis's out of the orzaniza- tion, h sa v Th> enmmittee will gath~rd:ta ecn the extent and nature of Commun'st propazarda for the overthrow of the Government. er organization. OUTSIDE v TENDER INSIDE | Ze fi'./,'(,us elic st D “HAHN SPECIALS” Always Geod BUY-Words in Shoes f “Arcade” Shop— l4th at Park Rd. 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The scriptions received amounted to $1.0 034,400, The Federal Reserve district of New |ty nctivities ot | YOrk had the largest subscription with | hewever. sald he was acting on inatruc. | $278.153,100 in cash subscriptions a 15 maturity of the third | Liberty loan 4!y bonds and other Gov- total sub- | made this statement: “District Attor-|of Sutherland at Dunrobin Castle, Scot- he | Dool. On leaving the courthouse he | declined to discuss his testimony. | Barnes was in the grand jury room | two hours and a half. Afterward. he ney Herrick told me that th> subpocna | for my appearance before the grand | v was made at the direct request of Smith.” The district nd | tions issued by the governor “some time $31.560.500 in Liberty bond exchange | ago™ that the “proper place for people | Rustia #nd subversive movements among | SUbSCriptions. The San Francisco dis- (trict was second with $152.230.500 exchange subscriptions | who had information on the pool w before the grand fury.” and that these grounds he had n a summons | public a charge that the attorney. | that he might serve as a special prose- cutor-or at least as an assistant dis- trict attorney in tracing the alleged 1I's “higher ups.” pml'\’M. nglck declared last night that he would “subpoena more witnesses on the strength of information placed in his hands siace the Boston man arrived. Barnes several days ago made “notorious , Albany base ball pool” was in operation in sight of the capitol here. Gov. Smith invited him to come and point out to him the pool's headguar- ters. The Boston attorney was unsuc- cessful in his contest for nomination for the office of attorney general in the Massachusetts primary on Tuesday. KING TO HUNT DEER. Alfonso Goes to Scotland After Trip to Sweden. LONDON, September 21 (#).—Bent on stalking deer in the highlands of Scotland. King Alfonso of Spain today was the guest of the Duke and Duchess land. The Kinz came to Scotland from | Sweden, where he had been hunting | wild boars. He will probably visit King George and Queen Mary at Balmoral Castle. their Summer home, before he retuns to Spain next week. If present plans are developed. Phila- The New York district was allotted a | served on the Boston attorney when he | delphia will soon have bridal paths ex- | | total of $141, 367.100 of the issue, while | arrived here last night. £57.533.900. 2 and the Inbor | ave dangor from | m the Mr. Barnes, when he | pocnasd. expressad amazem: was t at the |tendinz for many miles out into the sub- | suburbs ‘besides the finest paths in th2 | world through Fairmount Part. Al UE of 7 | Departmient of the District of Columbia | make a fight. for the post of national | of the Legion to undertake to entertain | vice commander for Julius I. Peyser. the . . the organization's national convention | attorney who has been head of the lo- 1932 CONVENTION Plans Are Launched to Bring National Gathering to Washington. Plans are on foot to bring the national | convention of the American Legion to | by itself, Comdr. Wood said that the | cal department and has served it in support of civic societies and trade bod- | various capacities. Mr. Wood said that ies and other interested groups will be District former service men are ac- soughi when the plan is actively | quainting Legionnaires in other parts of launched. If such support can be ob-|the country .with Mr. Peyser's record to tained. local Legionnaires will likely|pave the way for his election to a na- .!;l?;z.;l‘ aj’zh';. :R 'hl‘e\ nl!io'll;ll cl')n\"r‘;fllr;‘n tional vice commandership. of ring the meeting to Wash-\ yoyjsville, Detroit and Miami are ington two years later. so that plans can | igding for next year's national conven- be made in ample time. ; tion. Mr. Wood explained, adding that As the Department of the District of | there is a strong leaning among local Columbia is limited. Mr. ex- | Legionnaires for the Kentucky city. plained, the support of the national or- Should Washington get the 1932 na- ganization may be enlisted to obtain the | tional convention. the organization 1932 national convention for the Capital | would Lring from 30,000 to 50,000 vet- City. | erans to the city, as wel as countless Meanwhile, local Legionnaires are | other visitors from all parts of the lookinz forward to cttending this year's | Nation and distinguished guests from ‘Washington in !732. as part of a great celebration to : rk the 200th anni- versary of the L ~.h of Gearge Wash- ington. 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