Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1928, Page 16

Deciding the woman's national picturesque course at Hot Springs, Miss Virginia Van Wie of Chicago, green in her second round match with Miss Quier of Philadel- Miss Van Wie meets Glenna Collett today in the final. phi: ~—Co 4Mr. Hoover and one of his im 1 golf championship over the Va. The gallery is watching as she putts on the fifteenth opyright by P. & A. Photos. portant advisers on the job at his campaign headquarters. With the Republican Standard-bearer is James Francis Burke, general counsel of the National Republican committee, who is frequenfly called in to discuss political questions with the nominee. —Associated Press Photo. DOG SHOT DOWN - INHOME ROBBERY Col. Brown of Front Royal| Held Up in Bed After Serv- ants Are Locked In. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. | FRONT ROYAL, Va., September 29.— Awakened by a shot in his room at 2 o'cock this morning, Col. Beverly Brown, | T. S. A, retired, found himself con- | fronted by a burglar with a flashlight and a revolver. His watchdog had fallen to the floor | & moment after springing at the throat | of the intruder, dead from a bullet sound in the head. “Where is your money?” the robber | #sked, with his revolver close to the | face of Col. Brown, who sat up in bed | blinking from the glare of the search- | Jight and confused by the smoke. “All T have is ot the table," Pplicd. “That's all T want,” the robber re- | plied, taking the $20 found there and | disappearing through the door he had | entered. | Calling to his esrvants Col. Brown | Searned that they had been locked in | their quarters above the garage, and sushing to the telephone on a lower floor he discovered that the line had | been cut. The three servants were | ssleep when the robber appeared. Their quarters were opened and a_survey of | the premises was made. ‘The lower floor of the residence, Druid Hill, one of the handsomest in the suburbs of Front Royal, had been ransacked, but nothing had been taken money, 50 far as it was pos Jearn, | Col. Brown described the robber as a | young colored man. He could not | smake out the features well because of ‘the constant flare of the searchlight in | his face, he told the Front Royal au- | thorities. A search of the countryside | was immediately made. Col. Brown was stationed for many years in Balti- more, he re- {TEACHERS WELCOMED | BY HERNDON CITIZENS Expansion of School Work Subject of Address to Association by | Rev. C. N. Brown. | Club. The meeting will be addressed Democratic candidate in this district to | | adaressed ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 29 (Special) —E. Lee LeCompte, State| game warden, has announced the ap- pointments of William Carroll Waters of Germantown, as chief deputy game warden for the county, to succeed Clyde Harris, resigned, and H. Windsor Adams of Bethesda, as temporary deputy war- den for the county, the latter to serve during October, November and Decem- ber, each at a salary of $100 a month. They were selected as a result of an examination held here last week and conducted by Oliver C. Short, State civil service commissioner. Eleven took the examination. The supervisors of elections, upon recommendation of the Republican State central committee for the county, have appointed Robert L. Hughes and T. Brooke Amiss Republican officers of registration for the Bethesda and Chevy Chase election precincts, the former to succeed Grant Leet, and the latter Vernon E. West. Mrs. Lucy B. Livingston, until re- cenily a long-time resident of Wash- ington, died at the home of her niece, | Mrs. Harvey Brake, at Washington Grove, aged 83 years. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon, burial bein in Baltimore, of which city Mrs. Liv. ingston was a native. Two D. C. Couples Wed. Rev. Bertram M. Osgood of the Bap- tist Church officiated at the marriage here Thursday afternoon of Howard James Newton and Miss Florence W.| Simpson. both of Washington. Miss Su- | sie E. Barber and John F. Downs, both | of Washington, were married here Thursday afternoon by Rev.S*J. Goode of the Christian Church. Poolesville Democrats are understood to be arranging to wage an active cam- paign in behalf of the Democratic pres- idential, senatorial and congressional candidates and with that end in view | will organize a Smith-for-President | by Representative Eugene Black of | Texas and _probably by former Repre- | who is |hc“ sentative David J. Lewis, succeed Representative Frederick N. Zih’man. A Democratic meeting will also be held at Clarksburg Monday evening. It is to be a “conference” and invitation nave been issued by the Democrati State central committee for the county David J. Lewis and others will speak. Women Plan Campaign. The official board of the Woman' Democratic Club of Montgomery County has established a headquarters in Roc ville, and from there all publicity will be dirccted and campaign literaturo distributed. Public meetings will be held in all parts of the county, to be | by ed speakers from | Democratic headquarters, | The county commissioners at mnoon | on October 9 will receive and open bids | at their office in Rockville for construc- tion of a sidewalk along the north side 29, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. T. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER At right: A. D. Rhan, chairman of the Shriness’ hurricane relief committee, present- ing a donation of £5.000 from the Tmperial Council to Chairman John Barton Payne of the American Red Cross. —P. & A. Photos. The rider went over, but the horse declined. The spill happened on the opening day of the Bryn Mawr Horse Show, and the un- lucky rider, shown in midair, is James O'Neil. The horse changed his mind just at the jump and the rider perforce went over alonc. A big group of Southern Railway employ they departed for Atlanta, to where their offi —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. numbering nearly a thousand, bidding good-by to Washington yesterday evening at Union Station, have been transferred. Three special trains were supplied for the journcy. Lady Nancy Astor, Virginia-born British peeress and member of Parliament, with her daughter, Phyllis, as they arrived in New York yesterday. for a visit in this country. During the sojourn in her native land, Lady Astor will attend the Governor's Ball in Richmond, next Friday, where she will meet Gov. Harry Byrd. Eyeglasses are very breakable things, but Ben Wurtenberg, crack Chicago University halfback, will wear them on the grid- iron this Fall. The lenses are built solidly into his headgear and are worn to correct near-sightedness which interferred with his forward- passing. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. as —Star Staff Photo. FLOWER SHOW AWARDS LISTED AT WARRENTON Best Collection Exfibited by Mrs. R. R. Barrett; Mrs. Rowland, Second; Mrs. Lawrence, Third. peeial Dispatch to The Star. | WARRENTON, Va., September 29. Th: Warrenton Garden Club held its annual flower show yesterday. Awards: Collection of dahlias, named | varicties—First, Mrs. E. S. Turner; sec- ond, Mrs. H. H. Carr; third, Mrs. Wil- liam Chinn. Collection of dahlias, annamed varieties—First, Mrs. H. H Carr; sccond, Mrs. B. D. Spilman. | Dahlia, single stalk, unnamed—First, | ; second, Mrs. Fair- | , Mrs. E. S. Hinks. | Collection of roses, named varietigs— First, Mrs. William Rowland; second, Mrs. G. L. Fietcher; third, Mrs. Francis | Mrs. E. S. Turne fax Harrison; thir s, Georger. Best three roses, one or varie Firsl, Mis: Rowland; se F. G. Willlams; third, Mrs. Rowland. | Best rose, single stalk, named— Mrs. Fairfax Harrison; second, Mrs. T. E. Bartenstein; third, Mrs. H. H. Carr. Best general collection of flowers—Firs M;m Arrestec}; w}len About Warrant They Hold for Him Curiosity early this morning landed | Charles Perey Cumberland, 31 years old. 2033 New Hampshire avenue, behind | the bars in the first precinet station to answer a charge of embozzioment. Cumberland, it is said, had been driving a bread wagon for Frank Yea- ger, 2921 Georgia avenue, but failed to_turn in collections amounting to $57. Last night he obtained a position as driver for a downtown doughnut man- ufacturer, but decided that he would like to find out whether a warrant had been issued for him. As a result he called Policeman Thomss English, Detective Bureau tion clerk d ked whethi REGISTERING IS TOPIC. Republicans Discuss Voting Pros- pects at Berwyn Mecting. | Special Dispatch to The Star. BERWYN, Md., September 2! importance of registering new residents and those who have recently reached MIDSHIPMEN ON HAND FOR ACADEMY SEASON Mora He Asks Police | Vacation Over for was a warrant there for him. He was told that information of that character could not be given out over the tele- Way for 84th Academic Term. placed behind the bars for the re- mainder of the night, despite his pro- tests that he showed his good inten- tions by voluntarily coming in. While this was taking place, Head- quarters Detectives Carlton Talley and | L. M. Wilson were waiting at Cumber- land’s home to arrest him. ACCEPTS POST. term of the Naval Academy The new fourth class, recruited dur- ing the Summer, has a roll of 606 mem- bers, the largest in recent years, this being due to an increase of appoint- incnts allowed Senators and Representa- | tives by the last Congress. The academy will enter upon _the is 239 greater than the last term complete change among administration officials of the school took place during | Col. Whiting Will Be Member of | the Summer. ~Rear Admiral S. S. & I on is the new superintendent War Department Business Cour uccceded Rear Admiral Louis A. Nulton, who was ordered to sea in June, |and recently Capt. Charles P. Snyder succeeded Capt. Sinclair Gannon commandant of midshipmen and head of the executive department. Licut. Col. Lawrence H. Whiting, En- | gineer ' Reserve Corps, a prominent banker In Chicago, has accepted an in- | vitation from Assistant Secretary Rob- | bins of the War Department to serve Than | 1,100 as Preparations Are Under | phone. English then asked who was | Special Dispatch to The Star | talking. | ANNAPOLIS, Md.. September 20.— | “This is Percy himself,” was the|More then 1,000 midshipmen of fhe repl; three upper classes reported today. “er English suggested that Cumberland ) September vacation, and prepars‘ions come in and falk (he matter over. He | are under way for officially ushsring in came, to be promptly arrested and|Monday the eighty-fourth academic term with a total roster of 1.790, which | W: A as | Lieut. Maitland, the Army's girls who will “fly around” with e nival at Washington Barracks next week. Standing with the fiyer is Miss Martha Brooks. Others, left to right, are Misses Martha Hick- Patsie Maitland, Dorothy Lundell, Mary Patton man, Mary Feche! and Hannah Anders —Associated Press Photo, transpacific flyer, trains some of th> igarettes at the benefit military ca: ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, (Special) —Appi Va. ima | 1y one-third der construction by city forces, ager Paul Mortor 12500 feet of the | b2en laid Representatives of who said to the v | Church will meet in a workers' counci | Monday at 6:15 pm., in the Westmin | ster Building. A dinner, attended by officers and teachers of school, president and teache adul i Auxiliary | | | the Young People’s secretar: | ciety, and superintendents of the inter- ate department and chapel and scoutmaster of the Second Presbyterian Troop of Boy Scouts will be served. Representatives of the session and dea- s and Rev. Ernest M. Delaney, tor, will be present. Twenty-five of film caught fire vesterday morning at the Capitol The- ater during the showing of a benefit moving picture for lief fund for hurricane sufferers in the Porto Rico and Florida areas. | 25 persons in the theater at the time quietly left the building while firemen stinguished the blaz: Red Cross has raised $430.84 of its $1,000 quota for sufferers of the recent hurricane in Porto Rico and Florida. 'THREE AUTOS SEIZED IN RAID FOR LIQUOR | Fairfax Police Hold Two D. C. Men Under Bond After Third Escapes Near Accotink. | Specia)-Di | FPAIRFA: | automobile; ch to The Star. Va., September 29.—Three were seized in a ‘“liquor” raid by Faifax County authorities on the highway | Washifigton-Richmond y | near Accotink “carly today. One of the cars contained 4¢7 quarts and 103 pints of alleged liquor, aother 80 quarts and |a third five quarts.+ O. R. Mansfleld o ashington was held under $2,000 bord, d Davis of Washington under $500 | bond, and a third driver-escaped. | Chief of Police F. N. Y.arkin, Capt | Heywood Durrer and Depaty Sherift | Wilson Darr, Virgil Willia: and Jolin [Millan participated in the rald. The automobiles were waylaid after a tip hud been received by the police that <hey were on their way from Richmond ic Washington. . September 29 of | the Hoofl's Run sanitary sewer, now un- | has | | been completed according to City Man- v that | 00-foot project had us or- | ganizations of the Second Presbyterian il the Sunday | s of the| superintendents of the Home Depart- ment and Cradle Roll, president of the | | Young People’s Christian Endeavor So- the | | _Alexandria Chapter of the American | THREE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN TRAFFI | Autos—Youth Hurt in Motor Cycle Accident. Traffic accidents yesterday afternoon and last night resulted in the serious injury of 3 persons and the less se- rious injury of 10 others. Miss Ethel Leonard, 48 years old, 528 Hobart street, suffered severe head in- | juries and a bruised ankle when she |was struck and knocked down et | Georgia avenue and Columbia road by | an automobile operated by Lorenzo But- ler, colored, 34 years old, 713 Columbia | road. She was taken to Garfleld Hos- | pital, where her condition was sald w0 be serious. Butler was questioned and then released by tenth precinct police. Struck at Illinois avenue and Taylor street by an automobile operated by | Thelma V. Humphrey, 22 years old, | 1309 Delafield street, John Kissenger, ¥ vears old, 427 Shepherd street, was taken to Emergency Hospital and treat- | ed for a severe injury to the head and | numerous cuts and bruises on the facs |and body. | Youth Seriously Injured. | _ Irving Ashby Manuel, 21 years old. of Beltsville, Md.. was brought to Cas- ualty Hospital last night and treated for numerous injuries of a serious na- | ture from a motor cycle accident on \?Q Baltimore pike at College Park, | A collision at Argonne place and Harvard street last night sent Mrs. Marion Lippitt, 505 Park Lane avenue, | Battery Park, Md.. and Mrs. Jeanette Fairs, 25 vears old, 2627 Adams Mill road, to Garfield Hospital with numer- ous bruises. The condition of neither is serious. Mrs. Lippitt was operating one automobile and Herbert M. John- | son, also of 2627 Adams Mill road, was operating the other. | _Kinard D. Wilson, 28 yearswold, and |w. L. White. 31 years old, both of | Bolling FRId. were treated at Bolling Field Hospital early this morning after the automobile in which they were riding, operated by ‘Myron E. Howe, also of Bolling Field, struck a telephone pole in front of 808 Howard road south- cast. Maj. Robert A. Hale treated both injured men for lacerations to the hands and face. Driver Is Arrested. ; i tment . | X | of Bradley lane, beginning at Wis- Barrett; second, Mrs. Ro the age of 21 y was emphasized at | as a_member o}_ the War Depar! DRY T PPORT 2 = P ’ . QLPS’D‘&:" {:’flTh;rT)((’::‘nbflr 29._a¢ | CONSIN_ avenue and running approxi ed e Gon Lasrence. |4 me:ing of Republican cilizens ;?‘.‘;fl‘fi‘?fi‘fi? (Sounell. (h}:edp::ll‘] npl;‘“;&(‘- TRAFFIC VICTIM DIES. i 0 §U Ll SMITH 1“&5:0;%:(1! (ggo;;\: i;‘n{:-‘::y"-f"yflnr: ZR . Va, § = { mately 1301 artistic arrangement of flowe . G. P. Bickford, chairma; Y caused by : 4 . the first meeting Iast night of the new | e ®y 1300 fect to the Line of sec-| e R T R Georges County Republican | van Vechten; aiso of Chicago, The | NSy RICHMOND, Va., September 20, () “::g('flnt‘(ispflc it nier O e school year by the Citizens’ Assoc Licenses have been issued by the clerk | nd: second, Mrs. R. R. Barrelt; |central committee, at her home in function of the business council 15 t0 | special Dispatch to The Star. —Dr. John P. McConnell, president of | Rreqi mk} e tion and Community School League a | of the Circuit Court here for the mar- | third, Mrs, E. 8. Turner. (Smalh— | Berwyn last night e W Dt wnt hro. | . FREDERICK. Md, Scptember 29— |the Virginia Anti-Saloon League, has | Gorte R e s JaSHC varled program of speaking and enter- | rjage of Charles M. Funkhouser, 35| First, Mrs. Georger; second, Mrs. W.| Numerous reports were received of | curement and proper o st | Elvin Bohn. 30 vearold, of near Union | announced his intention of supporting | ot leaving ik 8nd charged him tainment, was given, followed by a 1t- | veers old. of Mount Rainicr. Md.. and | H. Robertson. Arrangement of ziunias | persons wishing to register, but who had | essary military supplies In cascs of | Brigge, Md., died at the hospital here | the entire Demoeratic. ticket, asserting B e bl R ception to the 10 teachers | Miss Kathleen Annie Jones, 26, of First, Mrs. Robert Wallach: second, | failed to d: ce their intentions of | emergency. vesterday of injuries sustained when |that “the national election not a| police say. 'ha? Cart. len “'Yl ‘“:l”“n“ Rev. C. N. Brown, vice president, Washington, and Benjamin Harris, 42 | Mrs. . R. Barrett: third, Miss Meta | becoming eitizens of Maryland, on mov- . . his automobile was forced off the high- referendum on the prohibition ques- | his way atter ko e nued on gpoke in favor of an increase of the of Washington, and Miss Hesler G| Gaskins. Zint three s First,| ing here from other Staies. A Repub- Trish Leader Dies. way near his home. Truman Smith, | tion.” | ¥ottng Ervey wie'taa de tz hd "‘; scope of the school work. It wasshown | Orney, 26, of Monigomery County, Md. | Miss Meta G second, Mrs. Li lican mass meeting, with speakers and Tl ik Who was also in the machine, escaped | Supt. Hepburn of the- State Anti- bruises. (ki i e that the high school enroliment is 69 R rence. Ari 2t of flowers linformation relative to citizenship, | NEW YORK, -September 20 (#).— | injury. 3 Saloon League, has charged that Mec-| Qthers injured during the night, fone #nd the grade schools 200. The junior | @ child under 12—First, Anne Ba eligibility for ration and voting, | John Devoy, 86, veteran leader in the| James R. Dolin, Hinton, W. Va., was | Connell's announcement is due to pres- ‘ seriously, were Perc: -"fi‘ixm‘é‘ g“' years composed of children 10 | Newfoundland is the oldest of Great | siein; second, Betty Willlams: third, | will be Neld soon. movement for Irish independence and | seriously Injured and his wife sustained |sure bought to bear by the educators' | old, 3701 Thirtercihr iy, L4 Jears and under, supplied music. | Britain’s colonies. St. Johns, its cap- | Francis Georger. Collection of v A ; editor of the Gaelic American, died las | severe lacerations late yesterday when committee supporting Gov. Smith, | Walker. 7 years old, 116 Fifteenth street s’ Club had charge of en- | ital. is situated in the same latitude as | etables—Mrs. S. A. Appleton. Mis night at Atlantic City, N. J., friends here | their automobile collided with a truck 'headed by President Edwin A. Alde | northeast;” John Hughes, 11 years old. features of o/he, brogram. Paris, but its colder climnte is due 1o | laneous class—First, Mre, G.1, Flcicher: | Caraces, Veneriela, 15 to have the | were notified today. ' He had been w | here. Dolin ‘was taken to the local man of the University of Virginia, M- 5g5 piiencr srs! ‘Tortheast. and a disnlay of the nily won the Aretic current pa nar o the ircond, Mre. R. R. Bawrelt; third, Mrs. | nest motion piciure theater i Soub nz heslth for sae (fme. He was|howpital with a fractured leg and In- Connell Is president cof the Virginia Pred Green, coloreq: 53 yeare oid, 08 & ser and colors for styles, goast of Newfoundland, R H. Monigomery. o America. born in Kill, County!iildare, Ireland. | ternal injurics. State Teac College. Twentlelh street. ¢ '