Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1928, Page 10

] 4 ond-hand goods deal in everything ; from a slightly used toothbrush to 2 ; 10 years of age in the brass-moulding trade, but soon developed an urge to 3 buy and sell all manner of useful . & youth, more than half a century ago, ¢ matches and penny toys. © He set up his first stall in_ Berwick | street, Soho, outside a chapel, having . obtained permission from the minister. be bought at his stall more cheaply { than in the shops. The stall soon pros- 5 even when he retired two years f country imitated London; and thus the THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1928 FLEEN DSHSE I POUCE IQURY Three Inspectors and Eight Captains Are Ousted in Philadelphia. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November 8— ‘Three police inspectors and eight cap- tains, declared by the special grand jury Investigating bootlegging and police cor- ruption to be “unfit to hold any public office,” yesterday were dismissed frem the force by the Civil Service Com- | mission for conduct unbecoming officers. | They are John J. Carlin, John E. Stuckert and William J. McFadden, in- spectors, and John J. Clay, Charles Cohen, James E. Barry, John Barrett, William G. Wuest, William V. Gentle, | Dennis J. Martin and Richard Farley, | captains, All were named as unwilling | 1o explain the source of their personal | wealth to the grand jury. | Two other captains, William C.| *Knoell and Charles W. Schoenleber, ! who have been convicted of bribery and | extortion, were dismissed previously. ! John W. Sells and Herbert Layre, dis- | trict detectives, also were ordered dis- charged afterethe record of their con-| victions and sentence to prison had been read. ‘ PETTICOAT LANE FOUNDER IS DEAD| | Walter Rumble, Pioneer London Merchant, Famed for Story-Tell- | | ing Plan of Salesmanship. LONDON (#).—Walter Rumble, the “father of Petticoat Lane,” is dead. | With his passing has gone one of | London’s most picturesque characters | of a bizarre street where stalls for sec- second-hand elephant. Rumble began work before he was things. He struck out in business while still as a trader in dry goods. Street trad- ing was at that time confined to Most of those engaged in it were really beggars. Walter Rumble had broader ideals. Almost any household necessity could pereéi and became the center of a busy mart. Rumble’s success was largely due to his wit and personality. He was famed as the best “tale-teller” in the trade, 8g0. 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Military Display at Grounds Concludes Tomorrow. The series of military exhibitions which have been presented on the Monument grounds, under supervision of the War Department, will be con- cluded tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with a special jumping exhibi- tion bv Troop E, 3d Cavalry, stationed | at_Fort Myer. The show will open with a concert by the Army Band. There also will be an evening parade of all Regular Army troops stationed in the vicinity of ‘Washington. Monument Warldirroduetl in New Hotel. In a hotel now being constructed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the cement is from Germany, the piping from France, iron and pumps from Belgium, windows, doors, casements and sanitary fixtures from Brazil and electrical equipment, elevators, botlers, door iocks, scaffolding and concrete mixers from the United States. MISS RUTH GORE, 29, DIES OF GAS POISON Body Found in Friend’s Apartment Near Open Jets of Gas Stove. After arranging for a bridge party years old, of Berkeley, W. 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