Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1928, Page 23

THE EVENING STAT, WASHINGTON, DL THURSDAY., SEPTEMBER a= wly 1928. - MOTHER OF WAF FOUND B POLIE Lame, 19-Year-Old Held for Abandoning Her Babe. Girl A little lame 19-year-old girl is the mother of the month-old baby boy at Children’s Hospital abandoned Tuesday 1o the care of a taxicab driver. She is Mrs. Elizabeth Lapointe, wife of Everett Lapointe, a farmer, who lives six miles from Upper Marlboro, and her story came to light when Headquarters Detective Louis M. Wilson arrested her at her home late vesterday. Lapointe is not the father of the infant, she said. She was married to Lapointe Jun2 16 and the child was born August 27, according to the police version ob- tained at the House of Detention, where she spent last night. Mrs. Lapointe told police, they said, that she deserted her little son because her husband would no longer allow it in his home. She said that the baby was born in the Homeopathic Hospital and that she and her child lived with her husband until Monday, when he told her to take the baby away. . Located Through Friend. Wilson located the girl through in- formation furnished by an acquaint- ance of Mrs. Lapointe’s who lives in Washington and an accurate descrip- tion of her given to police by another taxicab driver who saw her entrust the child to the care of Marvin E. Williams of 713 D street and instruct him to take it in his cab to Sibley Hospital, where & “Dr. Brown” was to be awaiting it. Williams found no “Dr. Brown” and after journeys to the first precinct sta- tion and the House of Detention the | baby finally ended up in a crib at the | Children’s Hospital. The only mark of identification on the infant at the time it was deserted by its mother was an almost illegible note tied in a blue ribbon around its neck from which was suspended a scapular. The message said that the child’s name was “Edward Brown” and requested that it be reared a Catholic and always wear the scapular, Charge Not Pressed. A charge of abandonment against the mother was held in abeyance by order of Assistant United States At- torney Ralph Given in Police Court to- day, and Mrs. La Pointe returned to the House of Detention, where she will be held until the Child Welfare Board, to whom police have referred the case, determine whether it is advisable to permit the baby to be returned to its mother. Mrs. Lapointe, according to Given, wants her baby back, and says she will | return to her home &nd care for it. AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS WILL CONVENE TOMORROW Forty Patriotic Bodies Invited to Attend Ninth Anniversary of Founding. Representatives of 40 patriotic organi- zations have beer extended invitations | to attend a mec\ ng in celebration of the ninth anniversary of the founding | of the District of Columbia Chapter of | American War Mothers in the Hamil- ton Hotel tomorrow night. An address will be delivered at the meeting by Brig. Gen. Frank Parker. A program of entertainment is to in- clude motion pictures taken at the Fort ‘Washington Citizens’ Military Training Camp July 26. An official film of the burial of the Unknown Soldier will be shown. The picture will be described by Maj. Gen. W. C. Rivers, who was commandant at Fort Myer at the time the picture was filmed. BLIMP TO LAND ON ROOF. NAVAL AIR STATION, Lakehurst, N. J, September 27 (#).—Scheduled to land at Roosevelt Field and to drop to the roof of a building in downtown New York for a few minutes, the little 86,000-cubic-foot _dirigible Puritan of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, Akron, Ohio, left here at 9:30 today. Jack Boettner, who piloted the craft here from Ohio, was in command. It MAY BE PUBLIC SATURDAY American Reply to French and English Treaty Received in London and Paris. By the Associated Press. Th2 American replv to the French and English naval agreement, which has been received by the embassy in London for delivery to the British for- eign minister, probably will be made public Saturday morning. The reply covers considerable space and it is therefore believed it would take a day before it can be decoded and sub- mitted to the foreign sccretary. ‘There are no indications that the note will present any new ideas on the naval disarmament question. It is gen- erally held that the American position will be confined to a discussion of this country's naval policy, repeatedly out- lined by officials of the Washington Government, principally by President Coolidge. PARIS, September 27 (#).—The text of the American reply to the Anglo- French naval agreement has been re- ceived in Paris by the American em- bassy and will be handed to the French foreign office tomorrow. LONDON, September 27 (#).—The foreign office yesterday issued a state- ment making complete denial of any agreement regarding aerial matters be- tween France and Great Britain. All agreements with France regarding air matters have been published, the for- eign office said, and rumors to the con- trary are entirely untrue. FAVORS BUILDING Commission of Fine Arts Holds First of Fall Meetings. Subject to certain changes in detail, the Commission of Fine Arts at its first meeting of the Fall season in the Interior Department today gave general approval to the plan for the propesed medical and surgical building for St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. arranged to visit a number of sites in which it is interested as factors in the program for further beautifying Wash- ington. a_World War_memorial_at_Cantigny, SHAH, 812 F St. Established 14 Years Headache Eyestrain Relieved SPECIAL Friday & Saturday KRYPTOK Bifo- cal Lenses — one pair to see far and near. Sold EYES EXAMINED BY DR. A.S.SHAH, REGISTERED EYESIGHT SPECIALIST. formerly for $15. Special this week Shah Optical Co. 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Consideration was given plans sub- mitted for landscaping on the west side of the Lincoln Memorial and the com- mission arranged to inspect a model of a pylon for Arlington Memorial Bridge. A visit to the Treasury Department to inspect the designs and models for the medal to honor Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh was on the afternoon program of the commission. Its members will also visit the proposed site for the relocation of the Witherspoon Statue at Connec- ticut avenue and N street, which will be moved in connection with the widen- ing of the street. The proposed medical and surgical building for St. Elizabeth’s, which the commission generally approved as set forth the plans drawn by Veterans’ Bureau architects, has been authorized by Congress at a cost not to exceed $875,000. Of this amount $400,000 has been made available. It is to be a five- story brick building, designed to fit into the nian for the present and future buildings at St. Elizabeth’s. Widow of Month Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star, FRONT ROYAL,,Va., September 27. —Mrs. Mary_ Alice Lake died at her home, near Happy Creek, last night, just one month after the death of her husband, W. E. Lake. She was a victim of Bright's disease. ‘Work has been started on the Jordan hydro-electric project in Palestine. RE=SEl—— el [alc——olc———=la][—=x] FORD SHP S ORDERED PROBE Government to Determine Whether Vessels Violate Common-Carrier Law. By the Associated Press. 3 The Shipping Board has ordered an investigation into the operation of sev- eral ships by the Ford Motor Co. to determine whether the vessels are being operated as common carriers in viola- tion of the shipping act or as exclusive industrial carriers. A hearing has been ordered and rep- resentatives of the corporation will be summoned from Detroit shortly to ap- | pear before a Shipping Board examiner They will be asked to show why Ford's vessels should not file with the board their maximum rates and charges as required of all inter-coastal common ! carriers. But it was made known that neither Henry Ford nor his son, Edsel were to be called. Arthur to Make Inquiry. C. O. Arthur, attorney of the board’s bureau of reguiation, has been instruct- ed to conduct the inquiry through a resolution adopted by the board follow- ing the failure of the Ford Motor Co. to file its schedule of rates after several notices from the board during the past year or more. The action on the reso- | lution, it was explained, at the Shipping Board offices today was not made public because Mr. Ford had not been notified of the decision. 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