Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1928, Page 12

TIT TVENTNG STAR, WASHINGTON, BANKERENDSLFE AT FRONT ROVAL A. L. Warthen, 65, Recently Thomas Warthen, ‘snother brother,| 1s given at s patrlotic demonstration | native of Warren County and resident | when a motion panorama shows Al- | of " Baltimore, committed suicide about | fonso, in & khaki uniform, grouped 10 years ago as a result of financial | with the Queen and infantas; her difficulties, it is said. majesty and the princesses in gala cos- | When the county treasury shortage | tumes of white. There is a film review | was charged, Mr. Warthen insisted | of the making of “glorious Goya tapes- there was no real shortage, though there | tries,” where looms paint pictures, to may have been appearances-of such,|which is added a modern process of and he never failed to pay warrants|making rugs. Contrasting with the | | presented to him. | ugly surroundings of the rag market | According to the authorities his life | of the Rastro comes “a feast of beauty was taken with a revolver, which was|and a flow of shawls” as the maidens placed in his mouth, the bullet passing | through his head. Mrs. Warthen had been asked to obtain some orange jui for him, and when she returned to bedside she found him dead. A phy cian was called, Dr. Charles B. Cook Relatives were notified and arrange- | ments are being made for the funeral. | Special Dispatch to The Star. s FRONT ROYAL, Va., November 9.— | T ! Atthur L. Warthen, treasurer of Warren | AMUSEM ENTS Re-elected County Treas- urer After “Removal.‘" County and chairman of the board of directors of the Front Royal Nationa!| Bank, was found dead from & pi shot in the head at his home here earl; this morning. | Iil health and Tecent financial troubles - i v o o, | n: were said to have been the cause. About | PAUIOD. hs been deseribed and a year ago an alleged shortage of $60,000 | of world travelogues, but if audi- in his books as county treasurer resulted | dience included travelers familiar with < b ¢ | that country, they must have been im- | in a Circuit Court order declaring the| | i i ot i office vacant, but he was re-elected. | Madrid, since the lecturer admitted his though by a smaller majority than his|own surprise at the new Parisian previous election gave. | aspects of the Spanish capital: Sky- Bank Not Affected. | scraping buildings, “Ritz" hotels, de- | partment stores and an American auto- S. G. Waller, president of the Front | mobile row. And to give sharp reminder Royal Bank, in a statement this morning | of the centuries of time and customs satd: of the city before attaining its mod- “Mr. Warthen’s death in no way|ern touch, a bronze monument of the affects the condition of the bank. He | wolf that fostered Romulus and Remus. has been inactive in the institution for | At Museum of the Prado treasure halls six months. While he has been a mem- | were dedicated to Velasquez and Goya ber of the board of directors for many | the great sons of Spain, and among weeks he has not attended any of the | the works of master painters of the Old meetings or assumed any part in the | World was “Another Mona Lisa by Da management of the institution.” Mr. | Vinci” who looks twin sister to the por- Waller denied that any investigation of | trait in the Louvre. Mr. Warthen's affairs in so far as the| There is a visit to the King's palace bank is concerned had .been made or and a later glimpse of the royal family | was deemed necessary. ! Mr. Warthen, who was 65 years old | N — and a man of huge physique, was en- PRI, caged in the raising of fine horses,|§ MecCormick Medical Glasses Fitted which he sold to wealthy people of the College Eyes Examined East. DR. CLAUDE S. 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