Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3. - 1928.° Field Marshal Lord Allenby, one of England’s famous military leaders of the World War, arriving at New York yesterday with Lady Allenby to attend the American Legion convention in San Antonio, Tex. They were wel- comed by the city boat Macom, on which they are shown Doughboys rehearsing the “Battle of the Lost Battalion” as it will be re-enacted in the henefit military exposition and carnival at Washington Barracks, beginning tomorrow. —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. The ruins of the Novedades Theater, in Madrid, Spain, where more than 100 persons perished when it was destroyed by fire. Sev- eral hundred were injured in the stampede of the audience. —Wide World Photos. Miss Martha Hill, 18-year-old Memphis, Tenn., stenographer, who has just set a new world endurance swim record. Her record of 60 hours and 25 minutes in the water exceeds by 25 minutes the previous mark of Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. FOUR POLICEMEN FACE TRIAL BOARD Charges Range From Unbe- coming Conduct to Failure to Patrol Beats. Four policemen appeared before the Police Trial Board today to answer charges ranging from conduct unbe- coming an officer to failure to patrol beats constantly. Policeman W. D. Young of the ninth precinct, a?amst whom the former charge was lodged, was alleged to have eursed Joseph Silverstone, a tire mer- chant of the 1300 block of H street northeast. Silverstone admitted that Young had previously arrested him and had secured a conviction against him in Police Court for having tires in front of the show window in violation of the law. On September 14, he said, Young came to his store and boisterously or- dered him to remove several tires hang- ing in front of the store. He said that he immediately complied, but that the officer abused him. ‘The case was taken to Police Court and Silverstone was again convicted and this time fined $10. Policeman C. E. Kelly of the third precinct, star pitcher of the police de- partment base ball team, was alleged to have failed to patrol his beat con- stantly. During the trial of Policeman Fred Antonelli of the tenth precinct, who was rharged with failure to report in to the CIVIL SERVIGE BODY PLANNING CHANGES Bureau of Efficiency Con- ducting Survey of Com- mission’s Methods. A thorough investigation of the busi- ness methods of the Civil Service Com- mission, with a view to making certain changes in organization, has been or- dered by the commission, and is now being conducted by the Bureau of Ef- ficiency, which is making reports from time to time as the work progresses. The commission has been considering certain proposed changes in methods and in organization, but before adopt- ing them it wished to have the benefit of the advice of the Bureau of Ef- ficiency, based upon its experience in Investigations of other Government es- tablishments. Recommendations of the bureau will be considered by the com- mission for decision as to adoption. It is not uncommon for Government departments and independant offices to ask the Bureau of Efficiency to in- vestigate their organizations and busi- ness practices with a view to possible improvement, officlals of the commis- sion explained. The investigation now being made in the office of the Civil Service Commission is in no way dif- ferent from those made in other Gov- ernment establishments by the Bureau of Efficiency at the request of the heads olbme establishments, it was pointed out, station at the proper time, it was charged that he was riding in an au- tomobile when he should have been patrolling his beat. Policeman L. H. German of the ninth recinct, was alleged to have neglected pay his debts. SAYS LAW CALLS . FOR HALF-HOLIDAYS Mrs. Worrell Cites Decision in Plea for Saturday Noom Closing. Every Saturday should be a half-’ nliday for Federal employes here, under decisions of the Court of Appeals and former Attorney General J. C. Mc- Reynolds, Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Wor- rell, president of the League of Ameri- can Civil Service, declared at a meet- ing of the Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association last night. Mrs. Worrell told of a recent letter submitted to President Coolidge quoting the case of Ocumpaugh vs. Norton in the District of Columbia Court of Ap- peals, decided December 7, 1904, in which it is stated that the substitution of several words in “the amendatory act of June 30, 1902, has been gradually understood and accepted as broadening the scope of this provision so as to make it apply to all official duty and to justify cessation of all work in the District of Columbia on Saturday afternoon Mrs. Worrell spoke on the subject to! get the association to postpone a vote on it until after President Coolidge has had time to consider the letter sub- mitted. His action on the letter, Mre. PETITION TO DISSOLVE MASONIC CORPORATION Directors Ask Court to Terminate Charter as Old Building Is in Disuse. Declaring that the old Masonic Building at Ninth and F streets has been sold and there is no further rea- son for the continuance of the old Masonic Hall Corporation, George Spransy, Gratz E. Dunkin, Joseph P. Stephenson, Harry M. Schooley and James T. Gibbs, .the directors, filed in the District Supreme Court a petition for the dissolution of the corporation. Through Attorneys Cromelin and Laws, the court is informed that the use of the building was discontinued in 1909 when the Grand Lodge of Masons erected a temple at Thirteenth street and New York avenue. Justice Gordon issued a rule on all parties inferested in the corporation to show cause November 9. why the dissolution should not be allowed. GRADING IS AUTHORIZED FOR THIRTEEN STREETS The District Commissioners today au- thorized the grading of 13 streets in the Benning and Deanwood sections of northeast at an estimated total tost of $18.450. The streets follow: Fifty-fifth, Eads to Blaine; Fifty-fifth, Blaine to East Cap- itol; Blaine, Fifty-fifth to Division ave- nue; Fifty-third from Ames to Blaine; Ames, Fifty-third to Division avenue; East Capitol, Fifty-fifth to Division ave- : Fifty-third, East Capitol to Central y-third place. East Capitol avenue: Division avenue, Ames to East Capitol: Fifty-third, south ?Iotreyfl&m};lng.l mn_vhrhlnge his lerme: n eave the matter up " Spmen of East Capitol to Foote; Fifty-third to ?Ivlslon “::uéi Nm.mfi;h Washing- on Court aine; QL Ames A grandstand view of the finish of the fourth race on the opening day at Laurel yesterday. crowd which enjoyed the sport on arriving at the Battery. an ideal day for it. —Wide World Photos. Cady Hill breezed home a winner before the hig ~Star Staff Photo. Richard Sargent hits the canvas for a knockout at the hands of Frank Olenice in the first round of their featherweight match at the City Club last night. The bout was one of about 30 held in the club’s elimination tourney. —Star Staff Photo. INSURANCEADIEN HECT REKER W. W. Darrow and E. A. Brock Named Vice Presi- dents of Conference. C. E. Rickerd, advertising manager of the Standard Accident Insurance Co. of Detroit, was elected president of the Insurance Advertising Conference at the closing session of its sixth annual convention in the Hotel Washington to- day. He defeated John Longnecker of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. Other officers elecied were: W. W Darrow, advertising manager of the Home Insurance Co. of New York City, and E. A. Brock, secretary of the Great West Life Insurance Co., of Winnipeg, Canada, vice presidents; George E. Crosby of the Aetna Fire Insurance Co.\ of Hartford, secretary, and L. B. Little of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of New York City, treasurer. Clifford Elvins of the Imperial Life | Insurance Co. of Toronto, John Hall | Woo advertising manager of the | Great Northern Life Insurance Co. | Chicago; Harry A. Warner, supervisor | of publicity of the Maryland Casualty Co., Baltimore, and H. V. Chapman of the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Co., Le- Roy, Ohio, were elected members of the executive committee. It was stated following the meeting that Mr. Crosby, the secretary, had submitted his resignation to the presi- dent after the meeting had adjourned, but that it had not been acted upon and that it was believed that Mr. Crosby might reconsider, Want to Change Names. Henry Bercovitz, an assistant patent | sxaminer in the United States Patent | Office and a student of law at George- | town University, has applied to the Dis- trict Supreme Court to change his name | to Henry Berk. | A similar application for change of name has been flled by Max Aronowsky, NEWSPAPERS MERGE IN KANSAS CITY Journal and Post Consolidate to Operate Seven-Day Publica- tion Effective Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, October 3.—Consol- | 1dation of the Kansas City Journal and the Post into a seven-day newspaper, the Kansas City Journal-Post, issued afternoon and Sunday, was announced today. The change is effective to- morrow. The Journal, & morning newspaper established in 1854, ceases publication The Post has been issued as an after- noon newspaper with the Journal-Post as the Sunday edition of the two new papers, of which Walter S. Dicl manufacturer, is owner and editor. W. Laurence Dickey, the publisher of the Journal and the Post, continues as publisher of the consolidated papers. “Speedier transmission of news and pictures and improved printing methods make possible this consolidation, which is in keeping with the increasing tend ency to give readers the day’s news the same day in an afternoon paper,” said an announcement by the manage- ment. The Journal-Post will be “a modern, independent Republican newspaper,” the announcement said. Executives are M. B. Sharp, business manager; Ralph Ellis, editor, and Dick Smith, managing editor. DEMOCRATIC GROUP TO AID ABSENT VOTERS New Headquarters to Be Opened Formally Tomorrow on New York Avenue. ‘The National Democratic Club, Inc., recently organized to assist Washing- tonians havipg the privilege of voting in their home States, will hold a for- mal opening at 8 p.m. tomorrow at its new headquarters, 1411 New York ave- nue. Representative Gambrill of Mary- land will speak. The club will be advertised by an Iflllontz,l Gm!rung}. Daniel Aronowsky, al & Sfltfi, l‘l}i.y Wi o Be known as Armold, =% electric sign, ' which will alternately show pictures th w of Goy, PROPERTY OWNERS FIGHT ASSESSMENT Protest Against Paying Cost of Widening and Repaving Streets. The Wardman Construction Co. and 80 other property owners today brought suit in the District Supreme Court against the District of Columbia and the Commissioners to cancel Borland amendment paving assessments total- ing about $50,000. The properties are located on Connecticut avenue, Fif- teenth, E street, Eleventh street and other thoroughfares recently widened and repaved. The petitioners, through Attorney William C. Sullivan, complain that no notice in advance of the assessment "|was given them, that their properties have not increased in value by the re- paving; that the work was for the pub- lic _use to accommodate automobile traffic and not for private benefit. The expense of widening and repav- ing, they say, are so commingled that they cannot be separated and that in any event the cost of widening cannot be assessed under the law. Many of the property owners have already paid a paving assessment which exempts them from the assessments complained of under the act of February 9, 1927, the petition states. FLYER DECORATED. Maj. Wright Gets Cross for War- time Heroism. Assistant Secretary of War Davison this afternoon decorated Maj. Burdette S. Wright, Air Corps Reserve, of 3103 P street, with the Distinguished Service Cross recently awarded him for extra- ordinary heroism in action near Bour- ouilles, France, September 26, 1918, while serving as a first lieutenant ob- server, 12th Aero Squadron, A. E. F. —e Farmwives Get Honors. COLUMBIA, Mo. (#).—Five Missouri farm women are to be designated “mas- ter farm home-makers” and receive gold pins symbolizing the distinction. Selec- tions will be made dur the annual Farmer's week at the WOMAN SUES MANN FOR 0,000 LIBEL Miss Heiser Claims G. 0. P. Leader in South Damaged Reputation in Letter. Miss Elizabeth Heiser, 1920 I street, a graduate student at American Uni- versity, and newspaper writer, has filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $50,000 damages for alleged libel from Horace A. Mann, director of the Republican national committee's South- ern division, with offices in the Mun- sey Building. Miss Heiser complains that she has been injured through statements contained in a letter said to have been written by Mann to the New York World, denying accusations that the Republicn party was respon- sible for anti-religious propaganda against Gov. Alfred E. Smith in the campaign. She says Mr. Mann in his letter has attempted to hold her up as “an ob- ject of public hatred. ridicule and con- tempt.” and caused her to be suspected of having been guilty of “spying and snooping,” and to have resorted to “trickery and falsehoods.” She has been brought into disfavor, she says, not Flying at a speed of 300 miles an hour produces only a mild thrill for Flight Lieut. d’'Arcy Greig, famous racing pilot of the British Air Corps. He is shown in front of his Napier supermarine flying boat after attaining that speed in a test before attempting to break the world air speed record. —Associated Press Photo. THREEARECHARGED N“POLEY” RADS Vice Squad Pushes Drive on Gambling Among Small Bettors. Carrying further what promises to be a determined campaign to wipe out gambling on clearing house returns, Sergt. O. J. Letterman's vice squad conducted two raids today, with the result that a colored woman and two colored men were lodged at the first precinct station under charges of viola- tion of a section of the District of Co- lumbia code prohibiting lotteries, and a third man was held for investigation. The two raids today followed closely a series of raids in all sections of the city made by headquarters detectives working with members of the vice squad last week. According to Sergt. Letterman, a sys- tem of betting based on_the daily re- turns from the New York clearing house has become so widespread throughout Washington that it even in- cludes women and children among its devotees, and is taking the place of other forms of gambling among the col- ored population to a large extent. Well Known Game. The game, which is called “policy,” is not new, however. Years ago its prevalence necessitated a drive by the police which was conducted with such vigor that, except for a few isolated cases, “policy’ disappeared from the city for almost 10 years. The game may be played by any one, no matter how meager his means. Bets of 1 cent are accepted, and the max- imum is only the limit of the playetr’s pocketbook. Bootblack Raided. The first raid made today was on 709 T street, a bootblack stand. The al- leged proprietor and his two assistants were arrested and a quantity of slips, said to be used for recording bets, were seized. Those arrested gave their names as William Washington, 43. of 12 R street; ‘William Hutchinson, 20 years old, of 319 V street, and George Dyson, 18 years old, of 2838 Elvan road southeast. The two former were charged with run- ning a lottery. Dyson is being held for further questionin | At 1004 Twenty-sixth street, about 15 | colored persons were found in the house. A pad of slips were discovered in a pocketbook belonging to Mary Alline with her fellow students but with her | Fillmore of the Twenty-sixth street ad- business associates and acquaintances { dress and she was arrested and charged. and is “daily confronted with the di tasteful things charged against her, which has greatly disturbed her peace of mind, impaired her earning capacity and affected her ability to obtain em- ployment as a writer. The letter complained of by the plaintiff was written September 13 and was supplemented September 21 in a circular issued by Mann, it is alleged, through the Republican national com- mittee. She tells the court that sh is described in the letter as “a femal detective, who posed as Mrs. Yonkers of South Dakota,” and who wanted anti-religious tracts and insisted that | tomorrow night by Secretary Jardine | Those making the raids, besides Sergt. Letterman, were Detectives B. J. Cox, W. F. Burke and George McCarron. JARDINE ON RADIO. Secretary Will Speak for Hoover Over WRC Tomorow. Tariff as it affects the American farmer and Herbert Hoover's proposed aid to agriculture by internal water- | vays will be discussed over the radio | the committee must have on hand that |and Representative Hull of Illinofs. kind of material when told there was none. Attorney J. Edward Burroughs ap- pears for the plaintiff. \ Col, Mann refused to ¢ it to- ok the sy *'- Secretary Jardine, addressing an Eastern radio audience, will speak from Station WRC, here, at 9 o'clock, Eastern MAGNATE DENIES PROSPERITY WANES Matthew C. Brush Tells Cool= idge Smith Will Carry Only South. Claims made by the Democratic na- tional committee that prosperity in this country is on the wane were denied today by Matthew C. Brush, shipping magnate, president of the American International Corporation and a mem- ber of the boards of a number of other large corporations, who conferred with President Coolidge at the White House. Mr., Brush, who has jusé returned East after an extensive tour throughout the United States, informed the Presi- dent that he never witnessed such evi- dences of prosperity as during the trip. He said that in his belief this state of affairs would be a large contributing factor in the election of Herbert Hoover in November. He said Gov. Smith would not carry a State outside the solid South. Confers With Hoover. Before conferring with the President Mr. Brush had breakfast with Mr. Hoover and was closeted with the latter for more than an hour during which time they discussed business and politics. Mr. Brush and President Coolidge have been friends for a number of years and the President is understood to have reasons to place considerable confidence in Mr. Brush'’s observations. According to Mr. Brush's claim of Pprosperity the only bad spot industrially at this time is in the textile centers of New England. He stated that the tex- tile business has been off for a number of vears and has not been due to any political causes. Mrs. Coolidge returned to Washington last night after visiting Northampton, Mass., for 10 days, to be near her mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, who has been ill since last Winter. Mrs. Cool- idge brought the word with her that Mrs. Goodhue is showing improvement The principal reasons for Mrs. Cool- idge’s return to the White House at this time was to be on hand tomorrow for the observance of the twenty-third an- niversary of her marriage to the Pres- ident. It is thought likely the President and his wife will observe the day with- out interruption of the customary White House routine. Sanders Returns. Everett Sanders, secretary to the President, returned to Washington to- day from New Haven, Conn.. where he went several days ago at the in- stance of the President to convey the good wishes of the latter to Mrs. Mar- garet Veno and her son, who were in- Jured when the car in which they were riding last week was struck by one operated, by the President’s son. Mr. Sanders reported to the Presi- dent today that he assured Mrs. Veno and her son that the President and Mrs. Coolidge wanted everything m sible done for their comfort, and he was received by them in a most cordial manner. Mr. Sanders took with him to the hospital a large bouquet af roses from the White House. Upper Potomac Fair Opens. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., October 3.—Thr annual Upper Potomac Fair opened to~ day at Burlington. on Patterson's Creek, and will end Friday. Products of the standard time. Representative Hull will speak on a Western hookup from Chl- eago &t 8 p.m; Central standard g & South Branch Valley of the Potomar and of the New Creek Valley are being shown, There is a fine exhibit of liys