Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1928, Page 5

* IWOMAN 15 INJURED INAUTO COLLISION Mrs. J. C. Howe Hurt in Mary- land Crash—Motor Cyclist Traffic Victim. Mrs. Jennie C. Howe, 35 years old, of 4808 Illinois avenue, a clerk in the | Veterans' Bureau, was seriously injured | last night when the automobile in | which she was riding with her hus- | band was In collision with a car driven by a colored man near Clinton, Md. She was taken to Casualty Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain and cuts and bruises. Her condition | was pronounced serious. Mrs, Howe and her husband, Joseph Howe, an employe of the Post Office | Department, were returning home from | a visit to friends in Aquasco, Md., when | the accident occurred. The car driven | by the colored man, whose name:was | given, skidded in front of the Howe | it is said, and the impact of ‘the | ision which followed broke the windshield and steering wheel of the latter car. sician this morni Ernest Philip Coc scriously injured yesterday afternoon when the motor cycle he was tiding collided with an automobile driven by Louis Milosky of 1259 K street south- east, shortly after 4 oclock, at Fif- teenth and E strects southeast. mano was treated a for a sovere inju nal injuries and lacerations of the left shoulder and face. His condition was | g at Tllinois avenue | erday afternoon at ome Bouchort, er street, ran intd the automobile of Lee Shapiro, of 724 F street southwest, and was slightly injured. Nellie F. Saunders, housekeeper at Wardman Park Hotel, was slightly in. jured when she was struck by the auto- mobile of Mark Haywood, 1474 Chapin | street at Fourteenth and U_streets at | about 8 o'clock last night. She refused | hospital treatment. COOLIDGE GREETS CHINESE REPUBLIC| President Sends Felicitations on Occasion of Government's Establishment. By the Associated Press. NANKING, China, October 11.—The Nationalist foreign office yesterday an- nounced the receipt of a message of felicitations from President Coolidge and signed by Secretary Kellogg on the oc- casion of the establishment ofsthe Chi- nese Republic. One of the members of the newly established counsil of 16 of the Nation- alist government is Gen. Chang Hsueh- Liang, who inherited the overlordship of Manchuria from his father, Marshal Chan-Tso-Lin. Gen. Chiang-Kai-Shek, commander- in-chief of the Nationalist forces when they were warring against Northern China, is chairman of the council and as such he is president of the newly or- | ganized national government having the powers of commander-in-chief of the army and navy and receiving foreign officials. The Kuomintang, however, re- mains the country's supreme authority conducting national affairs through the state council which Chiang heads. S. E. BURNS AWARDED GAS RESCUE MEDAL Wins National Prize for Saving Life of Moses Gary, Ap- parently Dead. ‘The life-saving medal awarded annu- ally by the American Gas Association for the outstanding example of resus- citation by the use of the “prone proc- ess” has been awarded for 1928 to Syl- vester E. Burns, 1024 Twenty-fifth street, superintendent of the west works of the Washington Gas Light Co., it was learned today. Mr. Burns was presented with the medal yesterday at the annual conven- tion of the Gas Association in Atlantic City. The medal was donated by ‘Thomas N. Carter, president of the Public Service Corporation of New Jer- sey. On January 30 Burns saved the life of Moses Gary, who was overcome by gas while repairing a meter at the west works. Although the victim was ap- parently dead, Burns worked over him for 30 minutes, using the prone pres- sure method, and was successful in re- viving him. The man was able to re- Mr. Howe was treated for) shock at bis home by his family phy- | mano, 18 vears old, | of 406 Kentucky avenue southeast was | Cocia- | Gallinger Hospital | ’ to his head. inter- | | money is to be used in providing relief | the Knights of Columbus. addresses a Above: Neembers of the Below: The submerged machine. RED CROSS FUND SURPASSES QUOTA $5.025,994 Raised for Hur- ricane Relief—D. C. $11,- 492.45 Over Top. ‘The American Red Cross today an- nounced it had raided its hurricane relief fund of $5,000,000. The total amount received was $5,025994. The for the victims of the recent hurricane which swept over the Virgin Islands, Porto Rico and Florida. & The District of Columbia, asked to give $50,000, has contributed $61,492.45, Victor B. Deyber, chairman of the lo- cal relief fund committee, announced. One of these dollars was sent to Mr. Deyber by 8-year-old Billy H. Bailey, who wrote that he hoped his dollar could bz used to help some little boy who was hurt in the big storm. A sim- ilar gift was received from his 11-year- old sister, Harriett. Naticnal Red, Cross officials believe they have the situation well in hand in the storm-strick>n area and hope to restore conditions to normal within th next few weeks. COLUMBUS DAY FETE TO COMMENCE TONIGHT C. W. Darr, State Deputy of K. of C., Will Address Meeting in Gordon Hotel. ‘The Columbus day celebration' in ‘Washington will get under way tonight, when Charles W. Dair, State deputy of meeting in the Gordon Hotel sponsored by the Curley Club. A program of music and refreshments will follow the ad- dress. The meeting will open at 9 o’'clock. ‘Two of the local Italian organizations, the Catholic Society and the Columbus Sociéty, will place a wreath on the mon- ument to Columbus in Union Station Plaza at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The celebration will be capped with a banquet to be given Friday night in the Mayflower Hotel by the Knights of turn to his work the folls THE EASY WAY WON'T BE EASY Thrift must be practiced in some way or ancther sooner or later in life. But a sudden emergency will find you unprepared. Ycu should save something. Others in your circumstances are saving—YOU CAN. LINCOLH NATIONAL BANK What have you saved against the day when ycur earning power slows down? With a regular salary you may go along for years spending 2ll you get, giving the appesrance of ~financial cemfort. AT THE END 17th and H Sts. Columbus. ~ THE EVENING —_— BRAVE RIVER TO RESCUE BODY l Department rescue squad, who swam into he Potomac early this morning to extricate a body from an automobile which had | run over the Potomac Park sea wall. Left to right: D. J. McCarthy, N. C. Robin- som, L. C. Kengla, J. G. Howard and Capt. J. R. Groves. —Star Staff Photos. SEDAN SUBMERGED IN POTOMAC YIELDS . BODY OF DRIVER (Continued from First Page) body in that manner. succeeded in removing through one of the doors. It was when the car was being righted that observers on shore thought they saw -another body. The firemen remained in the water for 40 minutes before they satisfied themselves an- other body was not in that particular area. An examination of the tracks of the the body automobile showed it had traveled by || the tourist camp and proceeded straight into the water instead of mak- ing a turn into the driveway paralleling the_river. Delaney,¥son of Policeman Thomas S. Delaney of the eleventh precinct, left his home at 10 o'clock last night in the automobile belonging to his brother Milton. Efforts to trace his movements from that point have been unsuccessful. The father expressed the |§ opinion that some one accompanied his son and suggested the name of a young man who is the son of another colored policeman. Delaney had been employed at the Post Office for the past eight years. He was attached to the Massachusetts nue n. =¥ S R S | They finally | . STAR, WASHINGTON COMDR. BYRD GIVEN NOISY FAREWELL ON TRIP TO POLE _(Continued from Pirst Page.) | Guard cutter with a band followed the | Larsen to the Breakwater, a couple | miles from the point where she had | been docked. In the outer harbor the | whaler stopped to pick up a couple | sling loads of explosives which she had parked on a barge when she had en- tered the port. She then turned out | to sea and was on her way. A part of the Larsen's cargo was made up of articles thrust upon Byrd | in the last moments before sailing with | instructions to drop them at the South | Pole. There were many flags, lodge | | emblems, fraternity colors, bits of jew- | elry—everything, a member of the party | laughingly said, except a sign post for the city limits of Los Angeles. | " The final moments of the departure | brought sorrow for one member of | Byrd's party. Charles Lofgren, Byrd's | secretary, was notified that his mother, | | Mrs. Anna Lofgren, had died in Everett, | Mass., yesterday morning. | " The "Byrd expedition will establish |a land base in the Antarctic from { which the four planes being carried | South by the Larsen will operate in | mapping the icy wastes. A flight prob- | ably will be made over the South Pole, but Byrd has said this is only inci- = | dental to the chief purpose of the ex- | pedition. His last message before sail- | | ing was that the expedition is not » ! race for the Pole. He said he wouid | render all possible co-operation to Sir | Hubert Wilkins, the Australian, who is | planning on flying over the Pole. Other . vessels converging on New | Zealand are the City of New York, re- | cently given a tremendous ovation | when it departed from New York Har- | bor; the Eleanor Bolling and the Ross. ‘The Bolling and City of New York are strictly exploration vessels designed to crush their way through the polar | Joe pack surrounding the expedition’s goa BYRD WIRES APPRECIATION. | | Commander Thanks Navy Department And Others For Help. | By the Associated Press. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd upon his| departure with the Antarctic expedition yesterday sent a message of apprecia- tion to the Navy Department and to others who assisted him in launching the adventure. | The message was received today and told of the preparations for the ex- pedition, the members of which it said would make every effort to live up to and to be worthy of the traditions of the Navy. “I respectfully report our departure | today “October 10) from San Pedro, Calif., on the steamship C. A. Larson with 'four airplanes, tons of material the mes- 's shi Wallboard New Wood-pulp Wallboard. ror b e O 1 Rockboard, } per 1,000 sa. Bendind Board, $15 7 ¢ ? | I DEMANDED BY LOVELY WOMEN THE WORLD OVER LES POUDRES IN THE SUPREME COTY ODEURS I"II PN | én BLANC - NATUREL ROSE Not - ROSE No2 RACHEL No1 - RACHEL No2 OCRE - OCRE ROSE D. €., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 11, Eleanor Bolling, with 30 men on board, and the steamship City of New York,| with 32 men, are in the Pacific en route to New Zealand. “The whaling ship Sir James Clark Ross is also in the Pacific,en route to New Zealand with 100 dogs and five dog tearh drivers. All ships will meet at New Zealand and the two expedition ships will proceed to the Ross Ice Bar- rier, which we probably will reach around the middle of January, 1929. “I wish to express for all members of the expedition as well as myself our | very keen appreciation for the assist- ance the Navy has given to the expedi- tion. The bureaus of the Navy De- partment, the commandant of the 5th Naval District (Rear Admiral Guy Bur- rage, Norfolk, Va.) and the commanding officer, Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads (Comdr. Albert C. Read), have given ail possible assistance and en- couragement that the regulations per- mitted, and without this help our de- pariure on schedule time would not have been possible. | “I wish to report also that the Army with its usual good sportsmanship to- ward the Navy has co-operated enthu- siastically wherever such co-operation has been requested. 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