Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1928, Page 17

Senator Curtis and the braves of the Rosebud, S. Dak, Indian Reservation, who performed a “sun dance” for him when he visited the reservation on his campaign tour. The Republican vice presidential candidate, who is himself of Indian blood, spoke on the fifticth anniversary of the founding of the reser- vation to a gathering of chiefs representing 15,000 Indians. Attending exercises held at the John Marshall statue yesterday by the Sons of the Revolution, com- : —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. memorating the 173d anniversary of the birth of the third Chief Justice of the United States. Left to right: Brig. Gen. George Richards, U. S. M. C.; Col. Frank S. Hight, Maj. E. F. Riggs, Dr. Thomas E. Green, Chiet Justice McCoy of the District Supreme Court, Chief Justice Campbell of the United States Court of C| ims, Charles P. Light, Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Charles F. Dieggs and William Walker Smith, —Star Staff Photo. SCHOOL ESTIMATE ROW T0 BE ARED Budget Bureau Will Decide in Dispute Over Appro- priations. "The difference of opinion between the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education of the District over trim- ming the 1930 estimates for schools will be aired before the Bureau of the Budget when hearings start October 21, it was stated today by Director of the Budget H. M. Lord. Gen. Lord said that all points of view concerned in the differences over the school situation here would be given a full opportunity to be heard. Formal invitations will be sent to the District Commissioners, the Board of Education and the superintendent of schools to appear and explain their positions on what should go into the budget for the next fiscal year, Gen. Lord said. These formal hearings will be held before a Budget Bureau board, con- sisting of F. J. Bailey, chairman; R. O. Kloeber and G. F. Allen and will be behind closed doors, Gen. Lord said. ‘While no one but the officials di- rectly concerned with the administra- tion of the schools will bz admitted to the executive session during which the whole matter will be formally consid- ered, Gen, Lord said other hearings on | the school question will be granted to | citizens' associations and other groups interested in presenting their claims as to needs of the school system. Already it is known, some associations hi carried their cause direct to the Bu- reau of the Budget, and it is likely that the cut in the school budget will provide the biggest fight in the formu- lation of the District budget. ‘The formal hearings are scheduled | to run from October 21 to November | 3, Gen. .Lord said The District estimates are now in the hands of the Budget Bureau, having | been sent on, after District Auditor Donovan made the cut in the school estimates, after the School Board re- ! fused to do so. The school budget as_originally submitted was about $12.000,000. FINED AFTER DANCE RIOT. Youth Arrested When Boys and| Girls Join in Battle. Charge: with disorderly conduct | when, police say, he refused to obey their orders to go home, given in an! effort to break up a “free-for-all” fight that had followed a dance at Immacu- | Jate Conception School, near Ninth and N streets, last night. Edward Myers, 21 years old, of the 200 block of K street was fined $10 by Police Court Judge Robert E. Mattingly tcday. Nearly 500 boys and girls were calight| in the battle, which started when one boy attempled to take another's girl Senator Reed Loses Tax Board Case on Campaign Expenses By the Assoclated Press. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania to- day lost before the Board of Tax Appeals his fight to deduct from his gross income for 1922 as a business expense, $5,250 contributed to the State and county Republican cam- paign fund. In_ his return for 1922 ~ the Senator deducted the amount of the contributions, but they were disallowgd by the Inter- nal Revenue Bureau. “Obviously these amounts were not expended by the petitioner sole~ ly in the furtherance of his own candidacy. Amounts gratitouly paid by him to promote the suc- cess of other candidates *certainly could not in any sense be said to constitute ordinary and necessary expenses in carrying on .a trade for business, and accordingly are not deductible from the gross income as busines expense.” % —— PLEAD NOT GUILTY OF STORE ROBBERY Two Philadelphians, Caught After Chase, Held for Grand Jury. Maurice Green and Benjamin Sha- Diro, both of Philadelphia, charged with housebreaking as a result of their at- tempt to rob the Virginia Dare Candy Shop, at 1302 H street, last Friday night, pleaded not guilty and were held for the action of the grand jury. under $3,000 bond each when arraigned be- fore Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court today. The men were captured by Policeman W. M. Sanford and F. S. Hawthorne of the Traffic Bureau after & chase through downtown streets. The men attempted to rob the store | by twice calling Miss Frances Van Lear of Alexandria, attendant at the store, to_a next-door telephone. It hanpened, however, that Policeman Sanford, who is a friend of Miss Van Lear, came to the store after the first call and hid behind the screen in the rear when she was summoned to the nhone a second time. From his posi- tion he says.he saw Green enter the- store and gave chase after the man had taken some money from the cash drawer. HELD FOR GRAND JURY. A man and a woman, both arrested in raids by Sergt. Letterman’s vice sanad Saturday night. were held for the action of the grand jury vesterday by Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court for re- ]nealed alleged violations of the liquor aws. Jack Hawkins, 23 years old. arrested in a raid in the 2900 block of Eleventh street. was charged with third-offense illegal possession of liquor and released under '$1,500 bond. Miss Josephine home, according to the story told the | Perini. 40 vears old. taken in a raid in court by Policemen C. D. Poole and Tester Parks of the second precinct. A the 7400 block of Holmead place, faced a sceond-offense sale charge. Her bond Tiot call was sent in. the police claim, and when the officers arrived they dis- persed the erowd by ordering every one | deportation. it was said in the office of ' petition, filed by Att Myers, they say, Assistant United States Attorney David al'algl,x;‘ays 1 10 Teave immediately. enfused {0 gov was fixed at $2.000. Should she be con- victed. Miss Perini will be subject to A, Harts A famous yacht racer figures in a track race. Sir Thomas Lip- ton holding the starting gun to send Ray Barbuti, Olympic quarter- mile champion, oft his mark in a-400-meter exhibition run in New York. The Olympic winner ran against time in the Fall meet of the New York Athletic Club, at Travers Island. —Wide World Photos. Denver hails the Democratic standard bearer. Gov. Smith stands in his car to wave the familiar brown derby to cheering throngs as he passes through the streets of the Colorado city, where he delivered one of the im portant speeches of his western campaign. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Feeding the destitute natives of Porto Rico, whose homes were wrecked in the hurricane. This shows a bread line passing up the steps of the Red Cross head quarters in San Juan. A National Guardsman is slicing a loaf of bread for the hungry storm sufferers. An outbreak of influenza has added to the problem of car- ing for the destitute thousands in the island. —Copyright by P. &. A. Photos. A new thrill for the crowd at the Washington St ate Fair. Nell Espe, daring woman racing driver, per- forming her daily somersault in her specially built rac ing car. A sharp push on the brake pedal at fast speed produces this result of tossing the car in the air. It falls harmlessly on the shock-absorbing frame and is supposed to continue the roll until MISS C. E. POLKINHORN IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Was Active Worker in Religious, Philanthropic and Patriotic Circles. Miss Catherine E. Polkinhorn, long active in religious, philanthropic and patriotic circles, died yesterday at her apartment, in the Brighton Hotel. Funeral services will be held Thurs- day afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Bethlehem Chapel of the National Cathedral, Mount St. Alban Rev. James E. Frecman, op Washington, will officiate, assisted Rev. Charles T. Warncr, rector of Alban’s Parish. Interment will be Oak Hill Cemetery, Miss Polkinhorn was a daughter of jthe late Henry and Marianne Brown i Polkinhorn. Her father was connected iwith the National Intelligencer. She was the granddaughter of Sir Thomas { Brown, English portrait painter, and a |lineal descendant of Jamcs Askie, a sergeant of Pennsylvania troops in the Revolutionary War. She was a member of the board of |lady managers of the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, an incorpor- 'ator of the Episcopal Church Home, a jregent and one of the founders of Our {Flag Chapter, D. A. R., and {of the D. A. R. Ex-State Ofli the Soclety of Native: s’ Club, of the District of Columbia, the Travelers' Aid Soriety, the Woman'’s City Club and the Political Study’ Club. She is survived by two nephews, | Henty Whitefield Samson and DF. Henry A. Polkinhorn, and two nieces, Mise Blanche Polkitihorn qnd Mrs. Florence P. Affleck of New Yo Husband Asks DivTorce. Mrs. Clara E. Follin, 1229 Thirtieth street, today was named a defendant in a suit filed in Equity Court by her hus- band, Arthur T. Follin, 3220 Prospect avenue, seeking an absolute divorce. Two co-respondents are named. The ey Carl D. Mar- the coupic were married May ‘member | By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, Scptember 25.—A life that ran the gamut of almost every human emotion and experience was I ended yesterday with the death of Maj. | Edward A, Burke at Tegucigalpa, Hon~ | duras. | Starting humbly, he rose high and! | then sank to the depths of exile, dying { while well on his way in his effort to remove a stigma from his name. Hon- duras, the place of his death, also had been the place of exile to which he fled 140 vears ago against an embezzlement | indictment charging him with appro | priating Louisiana State funds to_his ipersonal use while serving as State treasurer. Fails to Return, Intrenched in Honduras, which re- fused to surrender him to the United | States, the major grew old and fecble in his efforts to have the blemish re- moved from his record of gallantry in the Civil War and service to the State of Louisiana.. After numerous failures, his friends in the State finally succeed- ed in having the indictment quashed last February, but Maj. Burke still re- fused to return unless he officially was declared innocent of the charges. While waiting, he died and his body probably will be interred in his adopted land. Forty years ago Maj. Burke, flushed with repeated honors by his State, sur- rounded by influential friends and with substantial personal fortune, sailed from New Orleans to London to interest British capital in Honduras mineral lands, country, railroad dlru‘:}) His last publi | received Col. Lindbergh as the official rcpr:scntnllve of the Honduras govern- ment, He had hoped to the last to come back io Louisiana, for a visit at least, with the last smear removed from his name, Wi there a gri g - ' but 'h‘i'; u:.r.\‘ and jury, re-'but those hopes 12‘1 bla:_u"d by q«m Louisianian Never . Returned to Face Charges of $200.000 Theft—Deat}l put End to Plans for Visit. SOLDIER OF FORTUNE IS DEAD, TRYING TO CLEAR ESCUTCHEON turned an indictment against him on charges of misappropriating $200,000. Louisiana was amazed and the major also professed amazement when the news reached him, and declared he Gave Aid to State. the But the major never returned. | stead he went to Honduras and stayed | | there to his dying day. The last Loulsl-! |ana ever saw of him was when he took ship on that bright day four decades | ago. Maj. Burke held a warm spot in lhe‘ hearts of Louisianians, as he was given } credit with doing more for Louisiana { during the reconstrution days than any ! other one nian. band, carpetbaggers negroes were put to rout and Louisiana’s | ofiicialdom was reclaimed for the South- ‘ern white race. He and President Davis of the Confederacy enjoyed a warm | friendshi, of Burke's Southern supplies and troops during the | {war. Besides his political and military | activities, Burke was prominent as a | railroad official of the South. Employing his magnatic personality in Hinduras, Maj. Burke soon became one of the most popular men in the serving as government auditor, , begil pla would return to face the charges. l In- | Before him and his | and freed inning with the adoption n for transportation of | r and manager of mines. appearance was when he WOMAN HELD ON LIQUOR CHARGE; SECOND OFFENSE Lena K. Heson Remanded to Grand Jury Following Raid on Apartment. Miss Lena Kathryn Heson, 25 years old, living in an apartment in the 900 block of Thirteenth street, charged with second offense of sale and possession of liquor, was held for the action of the grand jury under $2,000 bond following a hearing before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court today. Miss Heson was arrested September 19 when her apartment was raided by Revenue Agents B. N. Quinn and H. L. Doyle and Policeman J. E. Kane on information furnished by Agent C. R. McCartney. - Maurice M. Grudd, attorney for Miss Heson, attempted to have the charges dismissed on the ground that th> war- tant on which the raid was made had originally been issued for another apartment and was later changed. Miss Heson was first convicted on October 29, 1927, and sentenced to 15 days. Kiwanis Fair Opens Tonight. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., September 2! The local Kiwanis Club will open second annual fashion and business show at the State Armory tonight. Lo- cal manufacturers, merchants and other business firms have arranged attractive displays. A baby show is planned for Thursday night. The program will close Friday night. Auto Strikes Cyclist. Special Dispatch to The Star, FREDERICK, Md., September 25.— Earl - Bartlett, 18 years' old, of near Knoxville, Md., is confined to the local hospital with fractures of both legs be- low the knees, sustained when struck by on its wheels again. It generally does. —Wide World Photos. Women Arrested For Street Fight Forfeit $10 Bonds Two women, arrested near Fourteenth and Kenyon streets. yesterday after- noon, when they staged an impromptu fistic encounter said to have resulted from an argument over a game of bridge, forfeited $10 collateral each in Judge Robert E. Mattingly's branch of Police Court today. The women, who gave their names and addresses as Mrs. Edna Schultz, 31 years old, of 2519 Third street, north- east, and Mrs. Lillian Maddock, 28 years old, of Harpers Ferry, W. Va. were battling each other so furiously, that a number of men who stopped to watch them were afraid to intervene. Finally Policeman W. T. Grimes, attracted by the crowd, took command of the sit- uation, and succeeded in separating the modern Amazons. On the way to the station house a stop was made at Gar- fleld Hospital to have Mrs. Schultz's eye treated. LEIGHTON W. ROGERS ACCEPTS NEW DUTY Commerce Department Division Chief Named Executive Officer of Aeronautics Conference. Appointment of Leighton W. Rogers, head of the Division of Foreign Aero- nautics and Communications of 1] Department of Commerc s executive officer of th» In- ternational Civil Aeronautics Con- ference to be held in this city De- cember 12-14 has been announced by the State Depart- ment. MT. Rogers assumed his new duties today. hav- ing established headquarters in the United States Chamber of Com- merce Building where the principa’ sessions of the con- ference will be held. He will work under the direction of an executive commit- tee headed by William P. MacCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. During the international radiotele- ! graph ‘conference in Washington last year Mr. Rogers served as assistant sec- retary. Last Spring he organized and conducted a 6,000-mile aerial tour of the United States for the French Com- mission on Commercial Aeronautics. For two years he has been engaged in the organization of a system of gather- ing and distributing facts regarding foreign aeronautical development for the Department of Commerce. He also Is in charge of the department’s pro- gram to promote the exporting of 7 Mr. Rogers. _|American aeronautical equipment. . — Wed 41 Years, Asks Divorce. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., September 25.— After having been married 41 years, Mrs. Margaret Roby has entered suit TAKOMA T0 HOLD STREET CARNIVAL Celebration of Carroll Avenue Opening Set for Late Next Month. Initial plans for staging a carnival and celebration to commemorate the completion and opening of Carroll | avenue, the town's principal traffic artery, were formulated last night by the Takoma Park Chamber of Com- merce at its first meeting since last Spring, at 32 Carroll avenue. Carroll avenue, which has been closed all Summer for widening and repaving, will shortly be opened to traffic for its entire length. At the meeting last night the tenta- tive dates for staging the celebration were fixed as October 29, 30 and 31, so that the celebration would come to a close Halloween night. A special committee was appointed to work out the details for the celebration and it is expected to report to the chamber at a special meeting to be held in about two weeks, at which time the final plans for staging the event will be decided upon. It is planned to have a parade and other features as part of the cele- bration and all neighboring communi- ties will be invited to participate. While the annual election of officers was scheduled for last night, the cham- ber voted to postpone the election until the next regular meeting, October 22. President H. L. Thorton was absent last night due to illness and H. B. Hend- rick. vice president of the chamber, presided. Pt =l COUNCIL CONFLICT PUT UP TO COURT Falls Church Members Called On to Defend Tenure at No- veuber Term. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., September 25 Howard Smith of the Fairfax Court’ yesterday issued an order authorizing County Clerk F. W. Rich- ardson to issue a writ, returnable at the November term of the court, call- ing on Phillip Talbott of thes second ward and Milton Roberts of the third ward to establish their right to hold office as members of the Town Coun- cil of Falls Church. The order was issued as a result of & petition filed Friday by Amos Crounse, counsel for a group of voters who contended that no legally consti~ tuted council exists in the town and asking the removal of the two mem- bers, whose election was the basis of the long fight growing out of the polling of last Junme. Miss Mary Johnson Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va. September 25.— Miss Mary Vernell Johnson, 23 ye of age. daughter of the late S. M. John- an automobile driven by Robert Corum of the same locality. Bartlett was rid- ing a bicycle at the time of the acci- dent, His condition is not serious, - R e = o for divorce from Adam Roby. alleging desertion and non-support. They were {r;;:l:led in 1883 and lived together until son, died at her home Sunday evening. She Is survived by her mother, Mrs. fli:ubeth Johnson; three sisters and brothers 2 ¥ A