Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1928, Page 7

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OEdar Polish ‘CIANT TELESCOPE - [0 BE ASSEMBLED | Penelrate Mystery of Stellar Space. | B the Associated Pr i PASADENA . October 29.—The largest te orld. planned | to ‘surpass by 5 or 10 times' the power lof the great Hooker telescope on Mount | Wilson, is to be erected on a California mountain top not yet designated. The Califcrnia Institute of T nology has announced that funds have been made avallable for its construction and that work on the 200-inch reflector with which it will be equipped will be- gin within a few mont The tel |gift to_th: tional Edue ters at New aboratory are a om the Interna- ard, with headquar- The amount of involved was not disclosed, but uld of necessity be larger than required to build the Hooker tele- h cost $600,000. To Penetrate Space. | It s expected that the new instru- my 1 > hundreds of mil- li , bringing jul of milliond jof no'* unseen ‘l ast une: Inomicil knowledg | 1,500,000 stellar objects |New Instrument Expected to| THE EVENING TAR, WASHINGTON. CLARK STILL TO S EET I | Assistants Continue to Re-| | ceive $1,000 More Than ug- | der Secretary of State. | Kellogg Protest Draws Ruling That “Further Excessive Average” Unlawful. The salary of J. Reuben Clark, Under- | secreta: of State, must remain under {the present law at $8,000 while the | four Assistant Secretaries of State, who { rank beneath him, are receiving $9,000 | each per year. according to a_decisior: | today by Controller General McCar { the Secretary of State. | "This situation, ' Controller McCarl | ruled, “is but the necessary result of | existing law. | "“If the law is thought to be unjust. | | or unréasonable, or not in the best in- terests of the service, that is a matter for_submission to Congr ke said. | The four assistant Secrefaries, who { were rcmoted from $7.500 to $9,000 {per year under the Welch act. arc | William R. Castle, jr., Francis White, { Wilbur J." Carr and Nelson Trusler { Johnson. { Appointed to Fill Vacancy. ! The Undersecretary, McCarl ruled. i must_continue to receive only $8.000 | | because under the law he was ap-| pointed to fill a vacancy. Although transferred from a position in Mexico | GET LESS PAY THAN HIS FOUR SUBORDINATES J. REUBEN CLARK. The average provision, McCarl ex vlained to the Sccretary of State, holds chat “the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other ap- propriation unit shall not at any time d the average of the compensation fied for the grade by such act.” Getting Maximum Salary. The positions of Undersecretary and tant Secretaries of State, McCail explained, all_in one’ grade and u, office or other appro- sp2 > D. GARAGE MANAGER i THWARTS HOLDLP Following Assault J. A. Har- ris Knocks One of Three Intruders Unconscious. Seizing a piece of iron pipe as he was | | knpcked down by one of three men, who | | he believes intended to hold him up| | carly this morning, J. A. Harris, night | | manager of the garage of Julius H.| | Rieley, Inc., 660 Pennsylvania avenue\‘ | | | southeast, knocked one of them uncon- | scious and routed the others. Harris said the three men came into | the garage shortly after 2 o'clock. Ore | § 3 of them was shabbily dressed, with un- | | kempt hair and beard. The others, men | | of about 30, were well dressed. { | The unkempt man pulled a fire ex- | tinguisher from the wall as they en-| tered and Harris told him to replace it. | | ““Shut up,” the man said, “we came vou and what you have.” | Harris then started toward him and one of the other men struck the man- | | ager in the face, knocking him down. ‘ As he fell Harris grabbed a piece of | half-inch pipe that lay in a corner.| Jumping up he struck the nearest, which | happened to be the pootly dressed one. | The blow was of such force as to bend | | the pipe, and the man fell unconscious | to_the flcor. Looking at their senscless companion the other: B IEATHTOL | * 0 TROPE STORN 1,870 Injured in Hurricane Area, Red Cross Offi- cial Estimates. | By the Associated Press. | WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., October | 20.—Six weeks alter the tropical hur- | Ticane, Red Cross_officials - yesterday | announced their. official casualty esti- | mate, placing the number of dead at | 1836 and of injured at 1870 for the | entire storm area. The list divides the casualties as fol- lows: West Palm Beach arca. from Jupiter to Delray Beach, 26 dead, 1,487 injured; Broward County. 1 dead, 51 injured: Palm Beach County, 1,700 dead. 265 injured; Okeechobee County, 25 dead, none injured; other terrifory, 84 | Star Staff Photo. | dead, 67 injured. | A total of 10.172 families had regis- | > | tered with the Red Cross up to tonight, LEFT $96,525 BY MOTHER. ' with November 3 set as tie final date | for acceptance of application for aid. 5 hese were divided as to areas, as fol- | ] J. A. HARRIS. Mrs. Ellen Barry Bryden to Share lows: Palm Beach County, 6,993; : S | Broward County, 1116; Everglades Estate With Brother. | County, 1,002; ~Okeechobee County, | | 674: other sections, 287. y | ""To date 2,018 families have received oo Py En. | renabilitation, while 376 persons re- v oo Rice. fapeies 3] Be | main under direct Red Cross care. In e o e Jhother, Mrs, Ellen B.|the entife district 1,323 persond are ing fo figutes announced in New York | SIng fed by the organization. Of these today on the estate, which was filed for | S00 275 I Uhe Evere: & sal in the office of the New York | 462 in Wesk Palm Beach. Mrs. | i sce-- —that no school or college wardrobe is complete these days without one of"the new Roadster coats of sheared wool, the smartest sport idea that has been intro- duced for some time. Trim examples of this vogue are now being featured at $38 in the Moderate Price Coat Shop, Third Floor, The Hecht Co. B i see -~ —that for important after- occasions and for the y evening” type oi g0 many clegantly gowned women select cos- tume blouses oi gorgeous metallic fabrics which are worn with skirts of satin or transparent velvet. An ex- cellent selection of such blouses is shown on the Fiith Floor, The Hecht Co. under one bur are said to have exclaimed | § | that “it’s all over now.’ £% Taking the unconscious man, who was bleeding profusely from the blow, th dragging him across the street, placed | ® | under the State Department to the po: lescop | of Undersecretary effective September T will double the ) 1928, his new position under the power of the | cassification act “constitutes in effect | important | 3 new appointment.” In Mexico Mr. | transfer department. | Maj. Bryden is stationed at the War | Depariment bere. Mrs. Bryden shares ' ed season on frogs to protect the di- the estate. which is valued in entirety minishing supply. They are much in at $193,051, with a broth and as a food delicacy. range of the Hooker | 200-inch refl Is nd quadrup! ) E telescope. Anot op: priation unit. I can find no_basis of law,” continued McCarl, “for exempting the positions of Under and Assistant | Secretaries of State from the operation | Tdaho game laws now impose a clos- i see~~ Mops "COLUMBIA SCHOCL OF DRAFTING 3 to 6 Month Courses | . Day and Evening Classes—Enroll Any Time | way to a solution of th: - FREE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE |vorids are created. _13th and E Streets N. Franklin Will Build Reflector. feature contemplated for the immense instrument is a 49-foot Michelson stel- of the siars y means of this auxiliary it is hoped to measure the binary stars, which are {two suns revolving about each othef. information is obtainable, a d, science may be in a fai | diameter taken to build the great. fused quartz |reflector under direction of Dr. Elihu | Thompson, one of the company's Iound-’ For Burning Buyckwheat Coal |ers, and A. L. Ellis, research cngineer. Among the co-operating scientists are FRIES, BEALL & SHARP § | or Hoberc A, Milikan, Prof. A. A | 734 10th St. N.W. | Michelson and Ambrose Swasey. They | | have prom their gssistance in en- E e ey gineering, instrumental design and con- pholstering truction. Call to make the | HIGH COURT UPHOLDS (i o0 | CEDAR RUST STATUTE George Plitt Co., Inc. A Virginia Law, Colling for Infected Painting—Paperhanging—Upholstery Phone M. 718 13th St. Trees' Destruction, Is Sus- Sturtevant Blowers on us e e LT T tained in Ruling. The Supreme Court reiterated its conclusion that the cedar rust law of | Virginia is not repugnant to the Fed- | eral Constitutior by affirming the d cision of the statutory district court in Virginia in the case of Daniel Kelleher, against G. P. French. | _ Kelleher brought suit to enjoin the | State entomolcgist of Virginia from en- {forcmng the law. This law, originally passed by the State of Virginia in 1914, { made it unlawful for any one to keep ' on his premises any red cedar ftrees| which are infected with the ciscase - known as “cedar rust.” It deciared brushing of your teeth with | | Such c_ex:;srf trees, \vl};en gll;gwgng within {one mile of an apple orchard, a public BENCOLINE Tooth | |00 e o e ed the State eto. { mologist to order such trees to be de- | stroved. The act also proyided that if iln the judgment of the entomologist, it | Preserve them by proper care. The regular is practical to treat any cedar trees, es- | pecially ornamental trees, in such a way | as to render them harmless, he may di- rect such treament to be carried out. ‘The act further provided that it slw!l‘ not be enforced in any district until the | board of supervisors shall adopt it and isuch adopticn shall not make the act |operative unless the Circuit Court of {the county shall have ratified and ap- proved the action of the board. In 1920 the act was amended, making the pro- | vision applicable to any cedar tirees growing within a radius of two miles of any ap] orchard. This act was passed for the purpose of proteciing the apple irdustry of Vir- ginia, which is the third largest apple- producing State in the Union. EXPLAINS HIS ATTACK ON HIS WIFE AND SISTER an a ling, white teeth and hezithy sume. Try Bencoline for 30 days r money refunded | | You Decide ! Before i ’ Homes i Concord Avenue ’{ | at Third Street ‘ Sample House 5515 3rd Street N.W. Six spacious rooms, tiled baths with built-in tubs, concrete front porches, enameled sinks, pantries with built-in refrigerators, hot- Martin Flaherty Claims “Some- thing to Drink Put Him Out [ of His Mind,” | | | Explaining that “some boys on Fast | Capitol street gave me something to | drink that put me out of my mind,” | Martin Flaherty, 1300 block of East /| Capitol street, pleaded guilty to assault water heat, kitchen cabineis; § | on his wi hded ¢ chen ca i s wife and sister in Police Court {1 automatic itorags hester, ser ‘; foday and was fined $50 and sentenced i an yand wash s n | as cellar, built-in garage. "Elsie Flaherty, bride {of three weeks, said her husband was Jjezlous of her. He failed to keep an ppointment to take her home from the telephone company where sh orks, last night, Mrs, Flaherty testi- fied. When she reached home he hit .,:) on the back of the head and began breal Terms Arranged { Open and Lighted Until 9 P.M. ‘1 ’ FLOYD E. DAVIS COMPANY 733 12th St. N.W. Main 352-33 = S e FLUSH THE KIDHEYS BEFORE BREAKFAST Drink Lots of Water, Also Take a Little Salts if Back Hurts. king up the furnitur ‘When Folicemen Thorne and Taylor | of the n‘mlh precinct arrived Flaherty Ll | was demolishing the furniture, | they red. As they started to take | him out of the house, he hit Mrs. Mazie '!| Heffernan, ter, in the face. Mrs Hefernan' was unable to come to court. Judge John P. McMahon ordered | Flaherty to pay §50 or serve 30 days | for hitting his vife, and sentenced him {10 90 d straight for the assault on | bis | JOY-RIDER UNDER BOND. | Colorzd Chauffeur Held on Charge | Preferred by His Employer. er. No man or woman can make a mistake by flushin, occasional] s to taking a joy ride in the thority. Eating too much rich food || automol f his employer, Mrs. Mary creates acids, which excite the kid- || E. Lyddanz, 50 Nichclson street, Walter neys. They become overworked || Bailey, colored chauffeur and house- from the sirain, get sluggish and |iman, was held for the action of the come from sluggish kidneys. ‘The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys, or your back hurts. or_if the urine is cloudy, offensiv full of sediment, irre or attended by a | ing, begin drinking a_quart of w each day, also get four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in' a glass of water before breakfast, and in a few days your kidneys may act fir This famous salts is 1 e from the acid of grapes and lemon ju combined with lithia, and has been used for years to flush and stimulate | the kidneys; also to hclp neutralize | the acids in the tem, s0 they no it: thus often n. ) colored, pleaded joy riding in the ry ‘Washington, and | over to the jury un | bena. POLICE HOLD YOUTH. | Themas A. Hoonsy. Charged 'With Housebreakiag. ars old, 100 bound a similar h the thefi on a ay night of $95 from the hard- ore of Paul F. Moore, 3509 cet northeest. He has been hou ing. Rooney, police say, had been employed at the store for about two months, He admits the theft, L |lar interferometer, which measures the | ways in which | | Clark, who previously had a long and | | distinguished career in the State De- artment service, held the responsible | post of agent for the United States on the American Mexicar Claims Com- |mission and was also special counsel | or the United States on the commis- | sion Mr. Clark had previously been ssistant Solicitor of the State Dep: nent, Solicitor of the State Depa ment and had held a number of im portant assignments on various intel national posts of trust. He was a major | during the World War. of the average provision. As the ssistant Secretaries are now receiving compensation at the maximum average lary of the grade, $9.000 per annum, any increase in the compensation of th Undersceretary above the salary of $8,000, at which he was required * * * to appointed, while the Assistant Secrets retain the salary rate of $9,000 per annum, would cause the al- ready excessive average to be further exceéeded and would b2 unlawful.” Secretary of State Kellogg protested |, The General Electric Co. has under- { in the Judge Advocate General's Corps against the situation in his letter to | McCarl. KLANSMIAN REPLIES TOSHITHSATIACK Arkansas Dragon Reiterates Opposition That Brought Nominee’s Criticism. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., October 29— | James A. Comer, grand dragon of the Arkansas realm of the Ku Kiux Klan, who was criticized by Gov. Alfred E. Smith in his Oklahoma City speech a | DECLINES TO REVIEW BUDLONG VERDICT Supreme Court Will Not Pass Upon Divorce Suit From Rhode Island. The Supreme Court has declined to review the case of Jesse Margaret Wil- son Budlong against Milton J. Bud- long, involving the question of whether Mrs. Budlong was denied her consti- tutional rights to a trial by jury and of due process of law when the court in Rhode Island granted her hushand’s petition for divorce and awarded to him the custody of their two children. . The Rhode Island courts had no him in a new gray roadster and drove | away. Harris immediately notified the police, | there has been no one of that de-| ption taken to any of the hospitals | for treatmént. A search for the car has also been unsuccessful. | TWO NEW SCHOOLS OPEN | IN DISTRICT SYSTEM Gordon Junior High and Francis | Scott Key Elementary Start Classes. | ! Two new schools of the District pub-‘ |lie school system were opened today | ’\\'hcn the Gordon Junior High School | at Thirty-fifth and T streets enrolled 483 pupils, and the Francis Scott Key | | (elementary) school, Hurst Terrace in | | Potomac Heights, enrolled 136. The Gordon Junlor High School, | ward, former assistant principal at the | iM(‘Kmh‘y High School, had organized classes in neighboring elementary school | | buildings so that its initial student | body represented pupils of the Fillmore, | Hyde and Jackson Schools. | The Francis Scott School, under Miss | Elizabeth Weedon, principal, is a four- | room structure, the first unit of a pro- | posed 16-room elementary school plant. | At the initial assembly of pupils, Miss | Weedon welcomed the students and | ol ——=lol—————2lalc————alalr————=/n0] Fu Floor Wax & Waxers Winter’s Round —of entertaining will soon begin, and your table, as usual, will be the center of much of it. Plate Glass Tops for Dining Tables —enable you to dine vour friends without a thought or care in the world as to possible injury to your mahogan Have us fit your table and buffet now. You’ll find PRICES REASONABLE. Paints, Stains, Varnishes Enamels, Wall Tints, etc. at SPECIALLY LOW PRICES niture Polishe o] | outlining his reasons for opposing his 1 ing a letter to a delegate to the Houston | she declared. ! fail to filter the waste and poisons ||grand jury under bond of $1.000 today. from the blood. Then we get sick. || . Lyddene and Mrs. Gertrude L. Rheumatism, headaches, liver trou- rce told Judge John P. McMazhon ble, nervousness, dizziness, sleepl iley had taken the car out of ness and urinary disorders often || their garage without the owner's con- tomobile ! : u | their teachers. jurisdiction over the matrimonial dom- | Y, fcile. because her husband was not a | resident of the State. She claimed also | that the courts had no jurisdiction to award the custody of the children because the petition for divorce did not contain a request for such custody and because neither of the parents resided in the State. —e month ago, today made public aslei{;rv = sent to Gov. Smith, | 5 R e e e Kills Children and Self. HIGH POINT, N. C. October 29 (#). ‘V—J. W. Hinkle, bookkeeper at a local | hosiery mill, after shooting his two | small children to death near here sometime Saturddy night, turned the gun upon himsell. The bodies were { found by a searching party in a wooded | place at Hayworth Springs, a short distance from this city. election to the presidency. Comer was criticized by the Demo- | cratic_presidential candidate for writ- | under the principalship of F. A. Wood- % convention asking delegate to op- pose Smith's noxzination because he is | a Catholic. Reiterates Early Stand. In his letter to Gav. Smith, Comer admitted writing the letter and re- iterated his opposition to Smith be- cause of his religion. “T did not and would not oppose you wholly upon your religlous views,” Comer added, however, “were it not for the fact that your religious views are so inseparably connected and attached to the Roman Catholic hierarchy which represents a viewpoint that is largely | un-American.” ) Other reasons for his opposition were outlined by Comer as follows: “Because your environment in a large measure during all of your political ! career in the State of New York has been one that in a great measure tends to nullify certain public moral laws of the State * * *. Sees Platform Ignored. “You refuse to stand by the platform made and adopted by the convention which nominated you. You favor the | annihilation of dry Democrats and their | elimination from the party activities be- ! cause they would refuse to vote for you, for the reason that their conscience dictates to the contrary. “Because you represent an organiza- tion which holds the theory that the | church and state should be joined. “Prior to the convention and since I have opposed you as the candidate for President of the United States because you offer no constructive program of such concrete nature as to convince any | right-thinking person that you have | the solution for the problems that con- | front_America. ; | “I have, do now, and still hereafter | oppose you because of your pronounce- | ¢ ments on immigration.” 1334 N. Y. Ave. ‘The Essex Unitarian Conference re- cently held its 172d session. L] I e .Z)qyllghly Dairy AN Announcing SIMPSON’S 200% Service Simpsox's, acceding to popular de- mand, now gives you double or 200% service—through your grocer and at your home, making it possible for you at all times to have a supply of fresh Simpson’s Milk on hand. Simpson's Milk has been served to the public since 1889. There is no need to dwell upon its high quality, its scientific and hygienically equip- ped dairy. The same W. A. Simp- son who started the dairy is still its executive head and director. Simpson’s policy has and will con- tinue to be that of serving to the public the highest quality milk at a air price. This is possible when we apply our efforts and expenditures only to factors that are essential to the production and marketing of quality milk, |LIGHTED AIR MARKERS | T0 BE TESTED TONIGHT| Various 'ryp;s Latd Out Atop Com- mexce Department Building Will Be Viewed by Blee. The first test of lighted aviation markers with which the Department | of Commerce is cxperimenting, will be made at 8 o'clock tonight when Col. Harry H, Blee, chief of the airport sec- |tion ‘of thz acronautics branch of the tment of Commerce, will view ¢ markers from the Department of Commerce plane. Several types of markers have been laid out on the Department of Com- merce roof by Woody Hockaday, @ member of the special committee ap- pointed by the department. Some of the signs are flood lighted and others have letters outlined with electric lights. | col, Blee will tast the visibility of the I various types of signs and lighting at varying altitudes up to one mile. To- | morrow night Col. Blee and Mr. Hock- | aday will go up again and on Wedne | day night all members of the commit- tee are to view the markers from the Army_Fokker transport plane at Bol- | ling Field. DIVORCE IS GRANTED. Phone ATLANTIC 70 . Since 1889 WAS WA, 5 | Irving Bocrnstein, orchostra leader, 7 0 was today granted by Justice Bailey | QEWART Lig, “\\&Q\XART Uy, an interlocutory decree of absolute di- RED (ATERED REGISTERED vorce from Louise C. Boernstein. They $30-7w2 STSE 5307w ST-S.E, were married March 11, 1912, and have "HUGH REILLY CO. PAINTS & GEASS e 1021 ‘Grocers and Restaurants Sell MILK Simpson’s Milk has been Washington’s Dependable Milk You are cordially invited to visit our Light and Airy Daylight Dairy Phone Main 1703 et 9 | no_children. { The husband told the court he was | compelled to leave his wife in June, | | 1921, because of her conduct. Mrs. | Boernstein filed a_cross-petition for a | mited divorce, charging drunkenness ! 1d_descriion.” Attorney Rudolph H. ! | Yeatman_appeared for the husband. | MENU PEAS | . lT;‘-;E:’r.l :':@'::;ri:f ) aviave s 1 mlnacn'- | " YAMES M. DENTY i s ‘Wholesale Distrihutor WA 5) § PINT Ui \ceireneo s307werse Simpson’s Whipping Cream o Extra Rich Speeal 38c one-half pint 15c pkg. Milk, 16c gt. 20c gill ~—that there still are a few days in which to secure tavors and costumes for Halloween parties. In- triguing favors, games and & are to he seen on the First Floor and costumes on the Fiith Floor, The Hecht Co. Children’s costumes are found on the Second Floor. i see-~- —that the separate skirt with matching sweater is much in evidence at every sport event. The latest ver- sion is the “Sailor Boy” skirt with gilt buttons and a wide belt laced in back in the same trim manner as are sailor trousers. The s are priced at $4.95. Floer, The Hecht Co. i see - —that it's time to start thinking about warm fur coats for football games and the like...pleasant thoughts, indeed, for such jaunty coats are shown this year in Leopard. Raccoon, Muskrat and Panther. Coats in all these furs are featured in the Fur Shop, Third Floor, The Hecht Co. i see~- —that returning to the sterner sex, a number of well dressed men whom I observed at the Mayflower the other evening were wearing the new derbies .« . with slightly nar- rower brims and more roll than those which were used last year. We have these in the Men's Dobbs Shop, First Floor, The Hecht Co. I sece-~- —that many younger boys, adopting the conservatism of their elders, are choosing ties in solid colors...greens, tans, browns and the like. Such ties are featured at 95 cents upward on the Second Floor, The Hecht Co. i see —that June isn't the only popular menth for bride: fi November . promises of weddings. The 3 Shop has pre- pared for brides with ex- quisite new gowns of satin, lace and taffeta. ..one more dainty than the next. Third Floor, The Hecht Co. o, il see~~ —that all these weddings perplex the bride's friends with the eterna! question of “What to Give?” So hard to find something that ex- presses one's own good wishes and suits the in- dividuality of each couple .so hard, that is, if one has never seen the lovely assortment of imported and domestic_giits in the Giit Shop, First Floor, The The Hecht Ca. 7%z e, Personal Shopper for The Hecht Co.