Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1928, Page 11

TORKSTILA O * TOTEMNESSEAS Sergeant’s Chief Interest Is: in the School He Founded. Written Exclusively for The Evening Star | and North American Newspaper Alliance. | JAMESTOWN, Tenn. Septémber 29. —For 10 years Bergt. York has never been allowed to forget he is a hero. | Since he put a battalion of Germans | out of the war the big mountaineer has found himself the center of every circle. | And, like every one whom the spot-| light follows over the stage. Sergt. | York has grown able to stare back into | its glitter without blinking. Reporters, he admits, still see him often. Tourists stop every day for a look at the one-time soldier, who has reached 40 years and 240 pounds, and has fathered feur children. ‘There used to be a sign next to his home explaining why Pall Mall, Tenn., was famous, but it has been taken down. . ybody around here knows where I live,” the sergeant says. As & matter of fact, everybody does. Miles away, across the Kentucky line, ‘he is called by his first name. Even there l;r has friends and foes on a per- sonal basis. “We don’t pay no attention to Alvin. He pokes his nose into everybody’s busi- | ness,” volunteered a hostile neighbor, ‘® youth who left the shade of the drug . store in Albany, Ky. to pass the time! of day with strangers. Their mud-/ covered automobile, an arrival through | ‘the help of several mules, was the only traffic in sight, and conversations were | easy to start. “Just Seven and Six."” ‘The general storekeeper at Albany -gove his verdict in terms of shillings and pence, as if before the Revolution. , “He's just seven and six,” fuckian opined: i. e, “he just the same a3 ever." | To be fair, the sergeant made enemies $hrough his finest achievement—found- ing a school. It is the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute, at Jamestown, the county seat nearest Pall Mall. Another instithtion with a strikingly similar name, the Alvin C. York In- dustrial Institute, is being allowed to die quietly. “Sergeant,” as ell his friends call him, let it be known that he dis- approved of the moral situation at the &choal, including dances, and withdrew the use of his name. Or such is the story of Mrs. Suva Sells, owner of the ;. City Cafe at Jamestown and the ser- geant’s most loyal partisan. Others ', mention more practical items, especially . mix-ups in real estate and financing. Of. herself Mrs. Selis recounts how | . she excluded a whole lumber crew from room and board because the advance agent spoke slightingly of the sergeant. She allowed ‘the erring lumberman to finish breakfast, however, before kicking him out, and breakfast at Mrs. Sells’, if one ests at all, takes the best part of | an hour. 5 Mrs. Sells has just added the novelty (ét ; brthrmm be':pe hg te:ubllshmer&ty. uch elegance al e prospers that has swepl over Fentress County ,because 10 years .and more than 3,000 miles ‘away Alvin York captured 132 Germans, Roads Named for Him. One of the several York highways, a State road from the South, is the open- ing by which the modern world has crept into ‘the ramparts of the York country. An extension will soon rench! up through Kentucky, and a branch/ heading~ toward Nashville has been vouched for. So, with the daily train still miles by muleback, Jamestown has its | - truckloads of ice. cream and its travel- | . ing whose grocerfes. and | ‘hardware follow them in motor fleets.| And Pall Mall is only 10 miles from rJamestown over .a high-speed road. | It was impossible for ¥ork, who had 1 been dined by millionaires and kissed by .generalissimos, .to settle back into the rut worn deep by his isefathiers. | there. THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON., D. C. SEPTEMBER Bl 0. 1928—PART 1. Upper left: Sergt. York as he appears today, Right: Mrs, York and young Sam Houston York. Lower: The only street in Pall Mall, Tenn. York was born near Pall Mall and his mother sti'l occupies the homestead | —Pictures copyright by the North American Newspaper Alliance. | { 1436 Foxhall 1 | fighting, -Lut if you have to fight, you have to fight,” he said. He showed that the church; a sect of John Wesleyan, with headquarters at Circleville, Ohio, urges due obedience to those in authority. Takes Pulpit. What it teaches about war, Pastor Pilz declared, is “just the belief of any Christian man.” Newspapers, he in- sisted, had him all wrong. Three -years ago the congregation, sometimes called the “Holiness” or “Second Blessing” Church, built its first house of worship. The sergeant, as second elder, preaches there occa- cionally: the church officers all do. For his part, York “expects we did about right” wn:n we entéred the war in 1917. Would he go ity enother war? “If my country was in it,” he answered, “I would.” His escape from the bullets of a whole machine-gun_battalion on Octo- ber 8, 1018, at Chateau Thierry, he still considers a sort.of miracle. Mili- tary experts think the miracle was what he accomplisked, not what he Even supposing that he himsclf during WAT years had “never been nowhar and seen nothin’” the rut was covered with | a concrete pavément, named in his| honor. And his admirers gave him no; chance of returning to the old farm | life like a Cincinnatus. 1 Instead they settled him with his bride on 400 acres'of bottom land front- | ing on the York Trail. Flivvers honk + past undeér the windows of the new, rame house. *Sergéant, to whom it was | once, &s natural to outfiank a German | ttalion as to stalk a“turkey, lives there | in telephone contact with his private secretary. Of course. he had temptations by the dozens to draw on his fame for cash. Like Lindbergh, he turnsd down every- thing with the slightest odor. He re- Jjected $150,000 of movie .money and | $5,000 a week proferred by vaudeville. He refused to pose with a certain make of machine gun. a photograph that ‘would have brought him $20,000. Diary Lifted Mortgage. His farm was given to him through a civic club in Nashville, mortgaged after a fire, and finally freed of debt by the market value of his diary. Sey- eral of his brothers take care of it,| though York himself remarked as one| of them walked past, “He does all the | ‘work around the place. The sergeant is frankly concerned with the responsibilities of the York| Agricultural Institute, of which he is| president. There have been trips to New York and luncheons with men like . the younger- Rockefeller. “York has raised -thousands of dollard on tour. and he is listed this s m by a lec- ture bureau. 5 | Four boys and hif wife, Mrs. Gracie Willlams York, make up the geent’s family. The youngest is only 5 months old. “You'd better come on m here to your boy,” the sergeant called to| “Gracle” when visitors Groppad m on ! a hot day, and little Sam Houston York | set up a caterwauling. ‘Woodrow Wilson York; barely 3, got hold of a baby bird during the visit| and set about to analyze the phenome- non. Alvin C. York, jr., who is 7, ani George Edward Burton York, 5, gnvt} 2dvice on how..to handle the captive’s | Jegs until the seageant himself mm-l ceded for its life. -7 | ) Apart from the!#ar; York had reason - i- | Teachers, with trairing in agricultur to name his third child for the Pr !ing, his sccretary and the secretary of missed. According to Army reports, he killed 20 Germans with his pistol .and rifie, put 32 machine guns out 6f commission and took his 132 prisoners home. with ullxfly 2 handful of Americans, to guard them. “What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private sol- | dier of all the armies of Europe,” Mar- shal Foch told him. ‘The collection of medals that soon deszended upon him is now divided be- tween vaults in Jamesiown and the safe of a country store a step across the | read from his new house. The store was the sergeant’s prop- erty, but last Spring he sold it to his brother, J. M. York, “in crder to de- vote his ‘entir: ume to the education ‘work,” as' the Fenless Coainty News put has at times neglected his own affairs in th: interest the school, «nd naturally the Lusipess he formerly conducted suffgred,” w.ote A. S. Bush- the Alvin C. York Agricultural-Institpte. No Wish for Riches. * York himself explained his motives; “I would rather build and maintain a cchool among my own people for nothe ing than to scrve more favored sections at a great salary.” Of the 5116000 the institute will have spent in its buildings by Fall the sergeant raised and contributed $10,000, 1 issue, the premium on th> bonds came t0.55.000, and the State. furnish>d $50,~ 000 more. | Feniress County i3 undsr obligation | to carry on the instilute, which will| serve in tn> stead of a high cchool. £25.000 prrm ul will tak® the of the Jamestown graded sc' ing. and tho high school operate on the oiher side of | The institute’s building committae is | the State Board of Education. ' Con-| tributions are held in trust—$11.000 for | a girl's dormitory has already plid yp— and the American Legion in Tennessec is pushing its own $10,000 campaign. No such schooling 15 to b2 had for 50 | miles aronnd.: Tha new supiiniendent Dewey Hunter, Portland, Tenn., a g:aduats of the Peabody Coilegs for Those mountaincers who have foun cent. He s chairman of the PFentres: | County Democratic Committee and member of an old Democratic family. | whken the pupils come home again Davy Crockett Recalled. The sergeant’s great-grandfather, Coonrod York, hunted squirrels with Davy Crockett. He himself, it will b2 remembered, won his spurs with rifle and pistol. Gunning remains his fa- Tne natives hold ocea- shoots. using for a target at 60 yards, the bo Coonrod York, the first these parts, once owned the ‘ract on which the sergeant has lived lov the| last eight years. - Across one i the three forks of the Wolf, a jl-asant green river, is the ancient cabin where | the sergeant was born. Therc the mother of eight sons, Mrs. Maty York, is living at the age of 62 in an 6ld log house, doubled in killed his Germans, and in plain sight from the new York homestead. “Zhe road fto the York spring, below the old cabin, heyond is & shallow creek. Wheel tracks disappear into the' water 'and come out a quarter of a mile upstream. The most thickly settled part of Pall Mall is a cluster of three or four houses and barns. Close by is the general store whers Pastor Pile does his week day busin Pastor Pile is the R. C. Pile who sa: he was <adly misquoted -in war times bout beliefs ‘entertained by himself. Y¥crk and the Church in Christ Christian Unien. Correspondent ctests, scted as if he were a con- ientious ubjectey “@_ course, uo churgh believes i ize since the sergeant | nd to the true Pall-Mall foult will forgat their animosiiiss surely | d | bumper ‘crcps 1cawaken their. hil | (Copyrizht. 1923, by North Ameriean New H pap:r Alliance.) New Names Picked For Autemalic Phone Exchanges Designations for the new telephone exchanges, whivh will taks the place of the old Main and Franklin | ownats, Ancient Artillery Company Members Use Aero Officially By the Associated Press. BOSTON, September 29.—The ancient gave way to the modern to- " day whén the members of Boston's famous old military organization, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, set out for Toronto on thier annual outing. Six members of the company climbed aboard an airplane at the Boston airport and took off for Albany. From there they planned to-hop to Buffalo and then Toronto. It was the first time in the history of the company, which goes back to Colonial days, that the airplane has been officially recognized by the ancients. -Aboard the plane, piloted by Capt. Benjamin F. Billings, were Maj. Charles A. Malley, Capt. James Holt, Lieuts. - Terrill Ragan, J. Philip Hatch and Edward J. Voye and Sergt. John L. Sheéa. MDOSE HUNTERS " FLOGK TO CANADA | Eeason Opens Monday—Throngs of Americans Have Been in Woods Since September 15. Special Dispateh to The Star FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, September 29.—The moos® hunting season in New Brunswick opens Mon- day, and hunters from every section of the United States are flocking into th® woods' during this week end. A good many hunters have been in the woods for some days, some since September 15, when the deer hunting season commenced. There is every in- dication that big gams is espscially plentiful in New Brunswick this year. s a Jarge number of deer have already been shot. and moose have been wan- dering into th» cities and towns and m’eA evidently numerous. ericton a few days ago and speni some tims cavorting about ths provincial capital's public park. H» paid little attention to cltizens and tow looked on with inicrast, e it his - safety chould be guara until Oztob>r 1. In 1927, 800 moosc end ovet 7.000 dror killed by huniers in New Bruj New ck is growing annually, Novem! Mere than 390 guides have been licensad to taka charg» of hunting par- ties in New Brunswick this year, and of thes> a largs provortion are camp cach_centrolling “his own ter- |ritorg. Th~ guides- are still booking narties for th> latter part of the soa- son, which extends to November 30, iLLINOIS METHODISTS DENOUNCE GOV. SMITH Soutihizrn Conference of State Calls on Preachers to Work for Hoover's Election, /' | By the Assoctated Press. | " FAIRFIELD, IIL, September 20—De- | nouncing Gov. Alfred E. Smith as “the exchangss when th® automatic sys- tem is installed in the downtown section of th city, about a.year and a helf hence, are announced 2s National, Metropolitan and District. According to C. T. Clagett, g=ncral commercial superintendent of the Chesapcake & Potomac Telephone Co. hare, work on the new addition to the Twelfth ‘street plant, which will handle th> automatic ‘phone sarvice, is getting’ along rapidly and | 15 expeeted to Be completed the latter | part of next year. The dial system will bs put into apsgation as soon as | | th~ capacitiss of th* pr-:snt Main and Franklin central offices are esnausted, most dangerous antagonist of all we | hold most dear,” the Southern Illinois | Methodist Conferense yesterday adopted | resolutions calling on all” preachers to | work for the eclection of Herbert Hoo- | ver as President. | “Ths chief issue of the campaign,” | |aid the resolutions, “automatically places the Methodist Church in favor !of one candidate and against the other. | “The issue is not of our raising, but |was raissd by Gov. Smith when he |repudiated the pratform of his party to stand for the liquor interests. ! Methodist Church is the undying foe of the liquor traffic in all of its forms.” | London's rainfall for the months of | February to August. inclusive. hardly varled with the standerd of the past | several years. 2-year-old bull moose visitéd Fred- [ ick. .Th:Bpopu]arify of deer hunting in | on which date both mooss and deer | | huntig enc! The | | i | PLANES PAY HONOR 10 AVIATION HERO Funeral Rites Held for Cor-| nelius—Lindbergh Sends Cendolence. | By the Associated Press. | ANTLERS, Okla, September 29.— Lieut. William L. Cornelius, second of | “The Three Musketeers” of the Army Air Service to lose his life within the |last few weeks, was brought home to- | day to the d2one of a requiem sung by |a squadron of Army planes as they circled overhead. Lieut. Cornelius was killed last Tues- day when a plane he was flying locked | wings with another, piloted by . Lieut. Roger V. Williams, and plunged to earth at San Diego, Calif. Williams escaped by leaping in his parachute, but Cor- nelius' parachute became entangled with the instrument board of his plane. As the planes shuttled lazily, back | |and forth over this little Oklahoma | | town which has been in mourning since | last Tuesday, when Lieut. Cornelius plunged to his death, more than 1,000 persons filled the drab brick school- | house and the lawn to hear the Rev. Erskine Brantly, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, voice their final tribute. Hundreds of condolence messages, in- cluding those from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Brig. Gen. Frank Parker, acting chief of the staff of ths Army. Twenty members of the Sigma Alpha { Epsilon Fraternity joined members of | the Antlers American Legion Post in conducting a portion of the service, :;hitlce xfnany“nl !I;ieut. Correlius’ class- ates from the Universit; “E;‘gdeg{) y of Oklahoma e body of the air hero was taken | | tonight to Fort Smith, Ark.. where it | will 'be buried in the National Ceme- tery tomorrow morning. \ENGLISH YOUTH GOES HOME FOR U. . PASSPORT Special Dispatch to The Sta-. | master. THREE ARE INJURED - INAUTO COLLISION [Car Hurtles Down Embank-| ment—Driver Seriously 1 Huri—Others Escape. | | | | Three young men were injured, one| seriously, last night when their au- tomobile hurtled down a 15-foot em bankment ' after being in collision with | another car on Canal road about 300 | vards east of Chain Bridge. John Harrison, 26 years old, of | Riverdale, Md., the driver. is at Emer- | gency Hospital in a critical condition with a broken left arm. injuries to the | | skull and spine. His two companions. James R. Pennifield, 19 years old, 1319 Foxhall road, and Lester Dixon. 18. of ad. sustained only minor | and after receiving cuts and bruises. | first aid at the hospital returned to | their homes. The other car. driven by George F. Bushiz of 4701 Connecticut avenue, was slightly damaged, and Bushie e: caped injury. | According to Mounted Policeman | Joseph a Wheelor of the seventh pre- | cinct, who arrived at the scene a few | minutes after the accident, Harrison | was proceeding west on Canal road | when he struck the other car going in the opposite direction. The machine occupied by the three young men was shunted off the road and over the side of the bank. Harrison was found at the bottom pinned under the wreckage. | ‘The car was completely demolished. | Although still in the hospital, Harri- | son’s name was placed on the books at | the seventh precinct on a charge of | reckless driving. Comdr. Percy T. Wright of Cherry-, dale, Va., who was passing at the time | rendered assistance in getting Harrison | up the bank and took him, Penfield and | | Dixon to Emergency Hospital in his car. | | which time both parties in the dispute | are precluded by FAMILIES ESCAPE IN BOMB BLASTS Two Suburbs of Cleveland Are Rocked by Double Explosion. | I By the Associated Press. | CLEVELAND, Septémber 29.—Two exclusive Cleveland suburbs were rocked | by blasts when bombs planted under a private residence in Rocky River and a_29-suite apartment in Lakewood ex- | ploded within a few minutes of each other early today. Four members of the family of Paul C. Hackett were thrown from their beds, but escaped serious injury, when an explosion wrecked the front of their Rocky River residence. Windows in adjoining homes were shattered and several others reported being hurled from their beds. The second blast was reported at a | three-story apartment building in Lakewood, throwing more than 50 oc- cupants of the building from theiri ds. The second bomb was placed on the front window sill of the second-story apartment of John Schleimer. He and iis wife escaped injury, although their furniture was shattered. Schleimer termed his explosion a | mystery, but police saw labor trouble | as a possible background for the bomb- ing of the Hackett home. | Hackett, a real estate man, said the | explosive probably was intended for the | house next door, owned by Charles | Montgomery, another real estate dealer. Nearly a year ago, Montgomery said, one of his houses was bombed when he | refused to employ unifon labor. He | said he had thought his labor troubles | had been settled, however. | Maj. Wilson to Be Retired. Maj. Harry F. Wilson, Army Finance Department, recently stationed at Fort | Sam Houston, Tex., will be placed on | the Army retired list January 17 on |3 his own application, after more than 31 | years' service. He is from New Jersey and served as a major and quarter- National Army, during the World War. He has becn attached to | ;l;; Finance Department since July, | 0. | | Under auspices of the “fiying squad- | veterans' vote; John J. Bushion, M. A. WAL FIHTINURY T0BEGIN TUESDAY Emergency Board Named by Presicient to Take Up Road Wage in West. By the Associated Press. The emergency board appointed yes- terday by President Coolidge to inves- tigate and report on the dispute hc-l tween the Order of Railway Conductors. | the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men and Western railroads will begin work in Chicago Tuesday. Members of the board are George P. Baker, Davenport. Towa: Dr. Davis R Dewey, Cambridge, Mass.: James F. Garfield, Cleveland: Chester H. Rowell. Berkeley, Calif., and Walter P. Stacy, Raleigh, N. C. Garfield is 2 former Secretary of the Interior. Stacy is chief justice of the North Carolina Su- preme Court, Baker and Dr. Dewey are in education, and Rowell, an edi- tor. served on the California Railroad Commission. The dispute invo.ves both wage and rule matters and § similar to that of a year ago, which was decided against the conductors and trainmen. The present disagreement was re- ferred to the United States Board of Mediation on July 19, leading to a pro- visional settlement between representa- tives of the employes’ organizations and the railroads. This tentative decision was turned down by the general chairman of the railroad organizations in Chicago on September 9. however, which action led to the Coolidge proclamation yesterday under the railway labor act. The board has 30 days to complete its investigation and report on the mat- ters at issue in the controversy. during law, except upon | agreement, from changing any of the conditions out of which the present situation arose. SPEAKERS LAUD SMITH. “Flying Squadron” Holds Meeting at Rockville Courthouse. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 29.— ron” of the Victory Smith-Robinson Club of Washington, a Democratic rally was held on the courthouse green here Iast cvening. Stedman Prescott of the Rockville bar presided and ke briefly. | Others who spoke were Richard Seelye Jones, chairman of the committee in charge of the Democratic drive for the Phillips and Mastin A. Beehan. Mrs. Emma Lowrey of Washington sang sev- cral selections, the crowd joining in the choruses. . The squadron came out in two large busses. They were accom- panied by buglers and drummers, Marriage Licenses. wis C. Mnth;‘l‘l.(i 3:. and Bettie Barker, George J. Hanks. RIl: E. Rg&hfi 32. and Leona M. Zwiss- 21; Rev. H. res.. Albert ‘l".hMlger.B 22, and Katie L. Lenox. 280 R n'E Brigas. corve "R, Carter. 34, and Kathleen E Atkins, 26: Resv. G. G. Johnson. n Shioutakon. 36. and Ganes Her- 208, Rev. Willlam M. Hoffman. Roger T. Boyden. 40. and Florence M jones. 33: Rev. Moses R. Lowell. ”Walllm“c. Phillips. 20. and Magzie Youns. ' Rev. 3 seoree W, Brent: JoJames N°Gmion, 52, and Marion C. Carter. 6: Rev, Charles Cushingberrs: O Reith Holder, 35, and Addie Dowell, 24: . H. Milton. Ostroshy. 28. and Gladys Bush. 9: Rev. William M. Heff loffman. Charlés Moore. 52, and . Florence Miller, 27; Rev. William L. 8t 1. ch, 21. and Evelyn L. Rey- nolds. 18 Rev. John E. Briges. Charles Noe. 40. and Regina L. Harp. 33, both of Baltimore, Md.; Rev. Joseph T Kennedy | William E. Jones. 22. and Plora B. Rey- nolds, 20, both of Gulbeper, Va.; Rev. Henry V. Tolson. john_Green, 25. and Laura Shafer, 21: Rey. William A. Johnson Thomas H. Parker. 32, and Mary I. Gauns. 2; Rev. Aauila Sayles. Preston L. Dove. #19. of Seat Pleasant. Md.. and Helen M. Murphy. 18, of this city: Rev. William J._Brooks. Thomas H. Price. 5. and Mary M. Curtis. 24; Rev. William M. Taylor. < A, Helmes. 27. and Jessie M. Smith, | rvis. . 24. of Philadeiphia Dove. 26. of this city: | 34 A 1 Simons, a.. and_Elizabeth C H. S. Smith, ir. P Rev Donl(ey. Dog and Pony Become Evidencc In Kidnaping of By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 29.—A donkey, a dog and a pony have become State's evidence against the accused kidnapers of little Billy Ranieri. ‘The pets were found last night, just as Billy said they would be, when an- thorities located the farm where for 13 days the abductors held Billy captive for $60,000 ransem. “There’s ‘Spotty!" That's him!" ex-| claimed the eager lad as a speckled hound playfully wagged a tail and sidled | up to Billy, while deputy sheriffs and | pelice looked on. The pony and the | donkey, too, were recognized by Billy. The farm and all the animals were there, all right, but Angelo Cappilano and his family had fled. The authori- NEW YORK, September 29.—Twelve- year-old Robert H. Stainton sailed for England today on the Cunard liner La- | conia. When he reaches the country where he was born, Robert will apply | for a passport. and when he gats it, the boy will sail again for the United States | | and join his father, mother and sister | in Syracuse, N. Y. The trip was made | necessary by a technical twist in the | immigration laws which local officials | could not see their way to iron out. | The father, William Stainton, arrived | in America a year ago and established 2 home at Syracuse. The mother was to follow with Robert and his sister Joyce, 8, but the American consulate refused the boy a passport bscause his eyesight was poor. Mrs. Stainton left Robert at school and, with the girl, joined her husband in Svracuse. Then, hoping Robert would be able to establish his right to stay in the United Stetes. they arranged a vis- itor's passport, and the boy came over. Thursday Immigration Commissioner Day tested Robert's eyesight and found he could read newspapers, and the ruling was made that if he obtained a regular quota passnort in England, ie could return to his family. 0" 2,500,080 Dogs Happy as England Closes Dog Week By the Accociated Press, LONDON, Sepember 29.—England’s national dog week closed today with the country’s 3,500,000 dogs wag- ging their tails in glee over the re- sults. People were not asked to keep more dogs. but to take better care of those they have. More than 700 committees work- | Ing all over the country and assisted | by the press, churches, Rotary clubs, medical officers and educational au- | thorities, instructed the population | how to take proper care of dogs, how to tend and educate them: also | the dog owner's responsibility to the | community. Sermons on dngs were preached in many churches, Flag days, dances and other forms of entertainment were organized to raise money for veterinary institutes, ties learned a hasty departura had been FIREPLACE GOODS —Things to Maks H-m= Comfort- able Ccol Mornirgs and Evenings ON SALE ON THIRD FLOOR Andirons . . . $2 COAL GRATES Spark Guards, Portable \Wood Line of Wood Baskets and Holders in Metal and Reed, of designs not out of harmony with the furnishings of the living room. Reduce Your Fuel Bill Keeps vents Rattling Windows. —will do this. They are inexpensive, quickly and easily installed. nece: when installing strips. You Strips Also Wood and Felt Weather Strips and can —saves coal—keeps out dust and rain, makes home snug and warmer. A flex ible weather strip that is easy You can do the work vourself. | the farm last might for Billy to ident; Little Billy Ranieri taken the day before when Cappilano bundled his household effects and his children into their sedan and drove away. 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BOSLEY’'S HEAT SEAL Improved Service WEATHER STRIPS to put on. | llth&G} | Smith, which have stirred up Nation- Mrs. Willebrandt Beset by Messages i About Smith Talks | Assistant Attorney General “Saws Wood” at Job and Refuses Interviews. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, has been flooded with messages from all over the country concerning her campaighing for Herbert Hoover and attacks on Gov. wide comment, and the messages have | been both laudatory and critical, ac-| cording to her associates. The sturdy Assistant Attorney Gen- eral in the meantime continues to “saw wood™ at her job at the Department of Justice. Since her return to Washing- ton from the Western campaign swing. she has consistently denied herself to| all who wished to interview her for publication, saying she was too busv with Government business. | According to her close associates she | plans to devote herself assiduously to| the job of Assistant Attorney General without attention to political affairs until she leaves Washington for her next political speech for Hoover in Kentucky, October 7. ANCIENT CORNER ;TONE FOUND DEEP IN DIRT| Alexandria Academy, Where ‘Washington, Lee and Other Great Americans Were Schooled. Recalled | Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 29.— ‘Workmen searching for the corner stone | of the old Alexandria Academy at the southeast corner of Washington and Wolfe streets today located the stone but failed to find the plate which was placed September 7, 1785. The stone was found in the northeast corner of the building about six feet below the surface from where it origi- nally was placed. It is about 2 feet long by 16 inches wide and about a foot high. Workmen placed the stone back in its place. Charles H. Callahan, local historian, who was jn charge of the search for the stone, and W. B. McGroarty, president of the Washing- ton Society of Alexandria, were present when the corner stone was brought to the surface. Callahan said that despite the fact that the plate had dropped off he is satisfied the building is the old Alexandria Academy where Robert E. Lee, George Washington, Park Custis, Lorenzo Lewis and other well known men received their education. Mr Callahan is preparing an abstract title of the property, together with other information which he says will show that as early as 1806 there were 42 scholars in this buflding, known as Washington's free school. N | education, | will be held here on Novembor 15-17 ‘The proposed aviation service between Adelaide and Perth, Australia, will cut | the traveling time between the two cities by two days. o A0 ) NORTH GARDLIA U PLANS CONFERECE Annual Educational Session | Designed to Bring Southern Leaders Together. By the Associated Press. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., September 29. —The University of North Carolina tonight announced the inauguration of an annual Southern conterence on the first sitting of which and to which will be invited State officials and leaders in education and public affairs in the South. President Harry W. Chase, in an- nouncing the university’s plans for the conference, said it would be designed “to bring together leading Southern citizens for the purpose of discussion, not of the technical questions, but of educational policy.” ¢ “Ther~ is no meeting ground in the South tor broad discussions of the sort,” he said. “There are associa- tions and agencies doing effective work within their territory, but none that try %o bring together educational and public leaders, professional educators and lay- men, in the same meetings for an ex- change of a?mlon. “The whole intent and purpose of this conference is to bring together a body of informed and interested public opinion to help furnish intelligent leadership for the advance of public education in the Sou The whole South is concerned and interested in the proposition of school systems which will be adequate, judged by the best national standards.” A banquet at the Carolina Inn the night of November 15 will mark the opening of the conference. Among the speakers at the three-day session will be Dr. Douglas Preeman, editor of the Richmond News-Leader: President Lotus D. Coffman of the University of Minnesota, Supt. Frank D. Boynton of Ithaca, N. Y., president of the de- partment of superintendence -of the National Education Association,. and Dr. George D. Strayer of Teachers Col- lege, Columbia University. Superintendents of public_instruction {:1 t!l;e Southern States also will be eard. Church Officers Elected. Special Dispatch to The Star. UNIVERSITY PARK, Md., Septem- ber 29.—University " Park Brethren Church, which will enter upon its new year Monday, has elected the following: Superintendent, P. M. Radcliffe; as- sistant superintendent, H. J. Bowers secretary, Helen Sampson; treasurer, M. Radcliffe; chorister, Catherine Sampson: pianist, Mrs. O'Lare. Octo- ber 7 has been set by the Sunday school as Rally day, when an’ attend- ance of 150 is expected. At evening services Dr. W. L. 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