Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1928, Page 5

LINDBERGH LANDS INMEXICO CITY Visit Personal, but Colcnel ill Meet President-Elect ii at Dinner. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, November 10.—Col. “harles A. Lindbergh rested today in the first capital that he conquered al- most a year ago in his good will tour cf Central America and the West Indies. Just as darkness was d Valbuena flying field the &wooped down upon it from the where he had been hunting at Terre- nates ranch in the State of Chihuahua. MacNab I» Passenger. Flying with Col. Alexander J. Mac- Nab, military attache of the United States cmbassy, as his pssenger, Col. Lindbergh completed a flight of some 800 miles in 8 hours and 20 minutes. As Col. Lindbergh taxied his planc to a spot near the hangar he showed perfect familiarity with the field as a result of his former visit. Dwight W. Morrow, United States Ambassador, was not present, remain- ing at the capital out of respect for the re of Col. Lindbergh to make ‘this purely personal ond to avoid of- ficial functions and formelities. There were representatives of the M government at the field, ho cluding Secretary of War Amar ose Amexcua, chief of military av tion, and Eduardo Hay, undersecretary of communications. Embassy Car Awaits. Both Col. Lindbergh and Col. Mac- Nab wore hunting clothes. Col. Lind= bergh laid aside his helmet and put on an old slouch hat before entering a limousine from the United States em- bassy. Emilio Portes Gil, provisional presi- dent-elect, will be the guest of honor at a dinner at the United States embassy on Monday nighf, at which Col. Lind- bergh, members' of the cabinet and other’ prominent persons will be pres- ent. The dinner had been arranged before it was known that the aviator was coming to Mexico City, but it wiil give him an opportunity to meet the TO KEEP OTHER Governor-Elect’s Wife Teach, Run Factory and Entertain. to Has Four Boys She Also Will Keep in Touch With Constantly. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 10.—Part of each weck after January 1 Mrs. Frank- | in D. Rooseveit will be misiress of | the exccutive mansion in Albany. The | Test of the week will find her in New York City teaching literature and his- tory at the Todd-Hunter School for Girls, of which she is vice principal. In between times she will help run a furniture factory, serve on a few com- mittees and boards of directors and keep up with current history, in which she is keenly interested. And all the time, as the mother of four boys away at school, she will be on call to go, at a moment’s notice, to Groton or Cambridge, Mass. Boys Not Neglected. “A lot of things can happen to four boys away at school,” says Mrs. Roose~ velt, wife of the Governor-elect of New York. And so, to be nearby in case any of thos2 things should happen, Mrs. Roose- velt remained in New York when her . | husband left today for a month's vaca- tion at Warm Springs, Ga. Preparatory to working out a sched- ule whereby she may adjust her busy and complex life to the demands made on a governor’s wife, Mrs. Roosevelt says she i going to start out by getting rid of some of her jobs. Her work as member of the advisory committee of the Democratic national committee and head of the women'’s na- tional organization ended with the cam- paign. She is planning to resign from several board of directors, including those of the Foreign Policy Association, the Women’s City Club of New York and the New York City Housing Com- mission. “I haven't worked out a schedule about my teaching,” she said. “Now I am teaching two hours a day. I sup- pose I shall have to pile it up, come to next President of Mexico. WooDpwARD & LOTHROP Annual November Selling-SILKS vork along about "Siesday night R THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1928. MRS. ROOSEVELT AS FIRST LADY, NEW YORK JOBS "MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. —Associated Press Photo. and stay until Friday night, or some- thing like that.” ‘The furniture factory, situated on the Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, N. Y., was started two years ago by Mrs. Roosevelt and two of her woman friends to teach a trade to boys of the district. They bought their site from Mr. Roose- velt and have made the factory a pay- ing concern. RICHARDSON RITES HELD. Army Captain Buried in Arlington. Survived by Widow. Funeral services were held at Arling- ton National Cemetery this afternoon for Capt. Thomas B. Richardson, United States Infantry, who died at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Wednesday. He was born in Chicago, May 16, 1895, and served in the Texas National Guard and the Officers’ Reserve Corps before his appointment as a first licu- tenant in the Regular Infantry in Au- gust, 1918. He served during the World War, and in 1921 was graduated from the Infantry School. I-lig widow, Mrs. Josephine Richardson of St. Louis, and friends from that city attended the funeral. WOMAN AIDS TRAP IN'MAIL ROBBERY Police Follow Her From Money Cache and Arrest Man at Home. By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex., November 10.— Following the trail of a woman who | appeared late last night under a via- duct where officers had found $50,300 in currency after a Texas & Pacific mail-train robbery, police early today arrested a man whom staged the bold hold-up. The woman was captured by police- men who lay in wait for an envoy of | the train robber to call for the loot found at the place where the man quit the train a mile outside Fort Worth. Going to her home the officers found a man whose shoes had been freshly cleaned, but which showed traces of mud similar in color to that underneath the viaduct. He was arrested. ‘The woman, whose name was not re- vealed, accounted for her presence at the place by saying she was “keeping a blind date.” Police,said her husband is serving a penitentiary term. The train robber appeared suddenly in the mail car of the train as it left Fort Worth and forced M. E. Pruitt and P. E. Carney, clerks, into mail sacks which he drew together and locked and seized the currency. A small satchel, containing the meney in '$5, $10 and $20 bills, was found shortly afterward oy police and the trap was laid. ROBBINS GOES TO GEORGIA Assistant Secretary of War Will Address D. A. R. in Savannah. Col. C. B. Robbins, Assistant Secre- tary of War, has gone to Savannah, Ga., to address the chapter there of the D. A. R. tomorrow. Later he will go by plane to Hot Springs, Ark., to address the convention of the National Guard Association, Tuesday afternoon. 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Lee and Stonewall Jackson would be removed from “Republican soil” in Virginia to “Democratic sofl” in Mississippl under a resolution introduced in the State Legisla- ture yesterday by Senator Casteel. The resolution was referred to the rules committee. Virginia gave Herbert Hoover a majority for President in the election. = Mississippi remained Democratic. | 'MRS. NOCK ELECTED BY WAR MOTHERS | Chosen as Vice President by D. C. Chapter—Hospital Re- ports Read. Mrs. N. N. Nock, a gold star mother, was last night unanimously elected first vice president of the District of Columbia Chapter of the American War Mothers at their monthly business meeling in the Hamilton Hotel. As vice prosident Mrs. Nock officially will fill a position that she has ‘actually oc- cupied since the recent resignation of the first vice president. Reports from Mrs. Bessie William- son, chairman of the Mount Alto Hos- pital committee, and Mrs. Katie Per- kins, chairman of the st. Elizabeth's Hospital committee, covering their semi-monthly visits to those institu- tions, were presented. The part the war mothers will play in the celebration of Armistice day to- morrow and its special radio program Monday was explained by Mrs. Nock. Their activities tomorrow will include the laying of a wreath sent by the Chicago Chapter of the American War Mothers on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The chapter is composed of mothers whose sons were in the Rain- bow Division, Mrs. Nock said. Mrs. Mary T. Shanahan, president of the local chapter, presided. Danzig has established a censorship I?K“g all advertising of motion picture eal All-silk erect pile Velvet, special 35 yard Colored Chiffon Taffeta, special $1:65 yard Lustrous Flat Crepe, special $235 yard SiLk SecrioN, SEcOND FLOOR. M’BRIDE CITES DRY GAINS IN CONGRESS Increase of §ik Seats in Semate, Eleven in House, Statement Claims. ——— ‘The congressional elections have re- sulted in a dry gain of 6 in the Senate and 11 in the House, according to a statement issued tollay by F. Scott-Mz- Bride, generzl superintzndent of the| Anti-Saloon League. The league’s check-up on th> new | Congress shows, he sald, that the vote} in the next Senate would be 80 to 16 against any measure to repeal prohi- bition, and at least 85 to 11 in favor of enforcing the eighteenth amendment. The leagus estimates that in the House the vote would be 328 dry and 103 wet. Two of the leading opponents of prohibition in Congress, Senators Bruce of Maryland and Edwards of New Jersey, were among those deleltcd' Tuesday. Y. The league statement also pointed | out that dry majorities were maintained or increased in practically all State Legislatures, and that there will be only 5 wet governors in office. - DR. HORACE G. BYERS JOINS CHEMISTS’ GROUP Elected to Membership in Wash- ington Chapter of American Institute, Dr. Horace G. Byers, principal chem- ist in charge of the Division of Soil | Chemistry and Physics of the United States Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, was elected to membership in the Wash- ington Chapter of the American Insf tute of Chemists at the November me: ing of the society, held at noon yester- day at the Chestnut Farms Auditorium. Dr. Byers was the founder and first national president of the institute and until recently was a member of the tech- nical staff of the Cooper Institute of New York City. The meeting, which was attended by 30 chemists representing nearly all of the city’s institutions and Government de- partments employing chemists, included in its program a tour of inspection through the Chestnut Farms Dairy plant, a banquet in the auditorium and a business meeting, presided over by Dr. A. Merz, local president. | The CONTRACT IS AWARDED | FOR NEW FIRE HOUSE| ‘The District Commissioners yesterday awarded to James L. Parsons a contract | for building the fire engine house at | Stxteenth sireet and Colorado avenue northwest. Parsons entered a bid of $57,000. ‘The Commissicners’ decision followed by a few hours the action of th2 Dis- trict Supreme Court yesterday in refus- ing an amended petition for injunction. filed by residents cf the vicinity, to en- join them from building th: engine house at that spot. The Commissioners first bought land at Sixteenth and Gallatin streets north- west for the engine house, but following vigorous protesis from residents, they | sbandoned the site and bought th> present locction. CONTRACT AWARD ENDS M ST. BRIDGE DISPUTE| A two-year dispute over the M Street Bridge across Rock Creel in George- | town ended yesterday n the Dis- trict Commissioners awarded a contract to replace the old structure to thé Farris Engineering Co. of Piitsburgh. Parris Co. now is_cngaged in re- | decking the Highway Bridge. ‘The bridge will be of girder construc- | tion. By this decision, the Commis- sioners overrode objections of the Pine Arts Commission, based on artistic grounds, that the arch type of construc- tion should be used. ‘The bridge was condemned two years 2go, and a heavy flow of traffic. has been diverted to the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. ‘The work is to cost $167,314.31. It is to begin some time next month. Punds have been available since July 1. * TWO WOMEN HURT WHEN HIT BY AUTO Pair Removed to Hospital—Third ‘Woman Knocked Down by Bicyclist. Struck by =n automobile while cross- ing F strect tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets last night, Miss Vir- ginia Patterson, 42 years old, and Mrs. Caroline P. Gilkyscn, 45, both of West Florence Courts, were taken to Emer- | gency Hospital, and Mrs. Gilkyson's loft leg may be broken and Miss Patterson was injured on the elbow. L. B. Poy, 22, 431 Oglethorpe street, drove the car that siruck them. Lucy Buckley. 55, of 707 Tucker- man_street, sufiered laceraiions when knocked down at Connecticut avenue |and S strest a bicycle ridden by Charies B. Jenkins, colorad, 49. She vas treatcd at Emergency “Hospital. Gaddo Burnette, 32, of 1704 Eight- eenth sireet, was injured when his auto- mobile was in a collisicn at Nineteenth and R streets with an automobile oper- ated by Grace Alexander, 28 years old, 2100 Ninateenth street. Burnette was troated at Emergency Hospital. Leslie Crown, 24 years old, 924 Tenth street northeast, suffered an injury to the left leg when the parked automobile by which he was standing was struck by an automobile operated by John W. Hoes of Burr road northeast in front of 1620 PFirst street. Crown was taken to Sibley Hospital. 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