Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 11

THE EVENING BTAR,” WASHINGTON. D.” €. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1. — 1928.7 il 2 4 | D. A. RS OLDEST MEMBER DIES | 400[&] |]. [}. PUP“ . AT 103 IN FOREST GLEN HOME the Stir of the World From Her Armghair. | KCitizen’s Duty to Vote”| Topic Submitted to High | e | Schools in Competition. |Annual Observances of Her | e | Birthday Were Given Wide | ¥ Forty thousand pupils of District of Publication in Press. X Columbia junior and senior high schools | today were invited, under the official | BRI | auspices of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- | intendent of schools, o prize competition for timely topic of “The Votc.” Twenty schools take part in the competition. which will come to | a close on election day, November 6 The school children are contesting for two gold medals offered by the Ameri- | o can Legion. Department, of the District of Columbia, es the local section of a Nation-wide Legion drive to enlist the interest of the coming generation of in the privilege of the ballot E A woman who joined in the stir of the | rid from her armchair, which looked | out on a little Maryland village, and who refused to grow old though a cer tury had passed over her head, died yes terday at her home in Forest Glen. e was Mrs. Henry A. Miles. In six December 5, she would have ob- | d her 103d birthday. believed to cmber of the | v FOR GRAND JURY Mrs. Miles maintained an active cor pais | L ce with hund of friends, ecent years writing several letters £ ays jestingly ed that she wouldn't listen to | 3 g 5 noush | Charged With Assault in Shooting of E. W. Sale in Room- s because “1 he ing House. on the en’s Duty to of public school officials e with Legion officers m c ut the contest: George nan, history, divisions Cromwell, English and history, div and Miss Sarah E. Simon department of English, di Judges will be announced within a fe days, and their decisions will be ma in ‘time to present the Legion medals, a first and a second prize, at school as- semblies soon after election day. The Board of Education hes given|a the Legion competition its full and for- mel approval. In many other p the country “The Citizen Vote” is being conducted by jcan Legion as an oratorical contes but it was decided that an essay con petition should be held in the District of Columbia schools. “SMITH AND TAMMANY” | ARE ATTACKED BY OWEN | ife of a mi of her andredth birthday was the oc- for a particulai celebration at - = DS ere B M“,;f gf’gfi‘f Norman James Pryor, 38 ¥ “back then over a | accused of the shooting of st at the happiest time | Sale, 20 years old, in a rc d known was the long years reet Septemt 1. and regret- | he action of the grand ju ill to follow | under bond of $1,000 toy ult with His wife, Mrs. C: said to be the only found their way into the press of the country, but also formed the basis numerous magazine artic Born in _Shelbourne, M: daughter of Nathan Wright, who built the original Amherst College, Mrs. Miles, on_completing her education, went to | Paris, where she taught English for | some years; then to Germany, where she occupied a like pest. After cight years in Europe, she re- turned to this country and married Dr. Henry A. Miles, prominent Unitarian clergyman of Lowell, Mass. Giving up teaching, Mrs. Miles began Urging his audience to vote for Her- | to take an active part in church and Republican presidential | club work. She-was particularly ener- | id that “Hoover is almost | getic in the Daughters of the American | James F. O'Shea, atiorney for Pryor, | Revolution, and eventually was honored | Sale admitted he had been warned a | few days before and said he was carry- ing an open knife in his pocket when John P. MaMahon, left the cow apparently from excitement and wa up and down the corridor in a hig nervous state. Sale testified that as sit down to dinner name. He started 1 and without furthe Pryor began shooting. effect. : When arrested, police claim Pryor |told them, he shot Sale because the latter refused to heed his warnings to refrain from paying attention to Mrs. | Pryor. On cross examination by Attorney he was about t: By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., October 19.—Robert L. Owen, former Democratic Senator from Oklahoma, speaking here last night under the auspices of the State committee of the anti-Smith Demo- | ertic organization, resumed his attack on Gov. Alfred E. Smith and his Tam- many Hall connections. Four bullets took & Democrat.” e “Smith is not a Democrat,” he con- | with a regency in Old Colony Chapter. tinued. “I am inclined to belleve as Mrs. Miles had no children, but there a man told me in Georgia that the | were scores of near relatives in her laler | shot. true Democratic party has no candidate | years,~and on the hundredth birthday,| Last February, Sale for President. Tammany organized in| three generations of nephews were| Kennon T. Davis, 24 every State and managed to nominate | present at the celebration. Office clerk. While Davis was stitting in Smith at Houston. He is the Tammany | Her body was taken back to Massa-|a .parked car on Connecticut avenue candidate. Tammany nominated him, | chusetts today. Burial will be in with his wife, Mrs. Annie Elizabeth but has not elected him and cannot.” Hingham. | sale. himself, shot v—-F‘E_Y‘—fl . Q1 e You'p BETTER HURRY Now If You Want to Save On Your Purchases of UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE for TODAY and TOMORROW Are the Last Days of the Special Prices The Newsest Designs and Upholsteries In Living Room Furniture Are Shown Now at Large Reductions MAYER & CO. Seventh Street Between D and E | to supply each school building with a | i Honored by Church | TEACHERS SEEKING | COMPENSATION AD Uricn Centends They Are Unab'e to Comoly With Law’s Provisions. g Contendiny hat the 1 compen- | sation act as it relates to teachers in | the District ic school system is not being enforced because the administra- tion of the law’s provisions does mot permit teachers to comply with its re- quirements, the Washington Teachers" Union has petitioned Dr. Frank W. Bal- | ou, st andent of schools. to post | quantity’ of blanks on which injured cachers must file for the fon board | ording to the teachers, the pro- | > compensation act under | ay benefit in event of in-! | _ WILLIAM W. SKIDDY. CONVENTION HONORS | oot WILLIAM W, SKIDDY injured | Tribute was paid officially today to | William W. Skiddy of Stamford, Conn., | and New York City, by the House of Deputies in honor of Mr. Skiddy's serv- ice for 30 years as treasurer of the ause the | General Convention of the Protestant employed | Episcopal Church. blanks can- | On motion of Dr. Burton Mansfield ranklin Ad- |of New Haven, Conn, the House of tt re | at the ot | boputies unanimously voted atesti- van, District " monial, praising his long and devoted | teacher to fill out and m to the | | compensation board within 48 hours of | { the injury, for application for consid- | eration by the board. Unless this pro- vision is complied with, they the infes e is given that their not_be allowed. The cachers { comply with th cannot he claims mus St | ser A Mansfield declared served with him in a General tion as a deputy in 1898, but | that even at that early day Mr. Skiddy s attending his fifth triennial con- | vention. 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