Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 29

BUMPANY'23 GIVEN STAR FIRE TROPHY One More Victory by 1928 | Winners Will Bring Perma- | nent Possession of Cup. ‘The Evening Star fire engine trophy, | | & large silver loving cup, was presented yesteday to Capt. W. A. Bryarly. com- manding No. 23 engine company, by Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor of | ‘The Star. No. 23 engine company won the c this year by getting out of its engi house in 6 2-5 seconds in speed te: This company also won the cup in 1925 If it wins once more, permanent possession of the trophy time this year was only 2-5 of a second slower than the record of 6 seconds established by No. 21 engine company in 1926. Victors Complimented. In presenting the cup, Mr. Kuhn complimented Bryarly and the compan; warmly. He said that the splendid wi of the Fire Department was often lost sight of by the public, and that contest for the cup was designed to s up friendly competition, which makes for efficiency, and public interest in the | department. Commissioner Proctor L. Doughe: who attended the brief ceremon thanked The Star for promoting public interest in the department by means of | the competition.. He also personalty congratulated Bryarly, Pvt ‘Talbott, who drove the engine duri the speed test, and Pyvt. F. W. Tro who cranked it Welcomes Cup “Home.” Capt. Bryarly in a speech in reply welcomed the cup “home.” He said it was not only a pleasure to receive it, but an honor to be in command of “a bunch of men at the very height their profession, as this test has shown. Among_those at the ceremonies were George S. the Fire Department; Battalion Chief Thomas O'Connor, and Acting Battalion Chief C. A. Well: STUDIES DISTRICT TREES . FOR CINCINNATI MODEL Engineer Here Observing System of Planting, Planning Rear- rangement in Ohio City. C. H. Meeds, engineer and executive | officer of the Bureau of Public Grounds | of Cincinnati, Ohio, is in Washington conferring with Supt. Clifford Lanham of the trees and parkings department on Washington's methods of planting and maintaining its city trees. Clarence O. Sherrill, city manager of the Ohio city, and formerly in chargs of public bulldings and parks here, is planning a comprehensive rearrange- ment of that city’s trees, according to Mr. Meeds, and the latter has been , sent to make a field study of the methods used in the various citics. No general scheme has been followed . in Cincinnati for planting trees in the streets, and the results have been that | trregular lines of ill assorted varieties of trees have been set out, Mr. Meeds | said. A start toward correcting this situation will be made soon. Closing Date, December 1st it will obtain | Its | Pearson | Watson, chief engineer of | THE THE TULE MARSH MURDER Copyrignt, 1928, by Bell Syndicate, Ine \ | said. EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, a Beethoven symphony, for in: Just ‘withdraws his attention, mind you, while they take turns trying the sweat a confession out of him! | Can you beat it?” “It’s a good method,” Dr. Cavanuagh “But it will never become widely | popular because most criminals don't Teaving o, Criminal psyenologist, _learns Marric. 1ite. bas bren very unhapny Peter Piper. a reporter cn {he Herald. s igh, Tnstead he . the atiractive their arbs to Peter about the mur- protect her. waiting that her ist forced h to mar her by threatening a breach of promisc suj | Piter and Dr Cavanangh search the boudeir of _the murdered woman. ~The brezch of promise papers have heen taken but they find, a threatening lotter signed “David Orme* Peter goes on the tiail of Orme. He yuns him down at an anto- mobile tourists camp. = Orme is an irre- sible. lemperamental,artistic ‘and. re- | fined man Who done moi._seem capable of murder - Finding Orme <o help- out’at the mal (Continued from Yesterday's Star) | Peter's hands of despair, strewing ashes from his half-burned cig- arette hemflr:slv over the | doctor’s Peking rug. “That jig's up | then. The jury won't understand half of what vou say. but theyll believe all ay it. I wish you'd e added reproachfully. | r. Cavanaugh wafted three smoke | rings into space before he answered. “I did.” he said at last. . “You did?” “That is, T waited for everybody. I | am quite willing to examine Orme—his case, from what I hear, presents some interesting features. but Iam not will- ing to go into it with any more definite bias than I would if he had come as a | patient to my office. “The district attorney was rather | heated in his comments on the ‘insan- | ity dodge’ as the current fashion among { eriminals of the present day—but after | all we are not sure that Orme is a crim- inal, any more than we are sure that he is_insane. By the way, how did ‘he take the transformation of his captor into a good Samaritan?” Peted leaned back in his chair and lighted a fresh cigarette from the stub of 1ts predecessor. “The police weren't allowing any newspaper interviews. They didn’t want to run the risk of having Orme start something with the reporters before talked to them. But my position what you might call strategic.” 'You have a way of putting yourself in strategic positions,” Dr. Cavanaugh commented, with a briefiy quizzical glance in Peter’s direction. “Oh, it was nothing to crow about.” Peter hastened to assure him. “Only, vou see, if I'd chosen to play myself up in the Herald as the intrepid ama- teur who discovered and caught the man who wrote that threat, before the police even got rightly started to search for him, it would have made them look rather silly. “It wasn't like that of course, really. 1 just happened to light on a tip and foilowed it, and capturing Orme was about 25 heroig as picking up some- body's strayed help seeing the possibilities of the other treatment—when they were tactfully her. #s convinced | s Dr. Cavanaugh to help him | ang out in a gesture | pointed oul. I merely turned Orme . | over to the sheriff and beat it back to ‘the office, giving the police due credit for the arrest in a story that was on the | street before the other papers even knew that anybody’s been _arrested. | That little scoop was quite enough for me, in the way of glory. But naturally when T suggested that I'd like a word with my pet tame prisoner, rules or 1o rules—well, I got it “Naturally.” Dr. Cavanaugh agreed so suavely that Peter looked up with sharp scrutiny; but the doctor was in- | tent on extinguishing the burning end of his cigar against the side of the h tray. " “And what did he say?” he asked without locking up. ‘I told him I'd see that he had a lawyer and he said ‘That's very kind of you, but you cughtn't to bother, just as if I'd offcred to call a taxi. I hon- estly do think there's something queer about him—nobody has any call to be as philosophical as all that, when he’s about to be tried for murder.” “But then, you see, you've never been on trial for murder—perhaps you are not in a position to judge,” Dr. Cava- naugh reminded him. “Well, T think I'd at least manage | to be interested.” Orme's indifference | Peter, despite his part in bringing that neck ‘within reach of danger. “He did | not look up at all until I told him we were going to try to get you to come and see him. Then he stared like somebody that's just been shaken awake, But all he said was, ‘Oh! 1've heard of him.” Still the idea seemed to impress him. Whatever you decide about him, I'm glad you're going. You haven't go. any advance lhcm‘y—-l suppnsc—m othér words, a hunch?" “If T had it wouldn't be worth ex- pressing. Still, your impressions are helpful, they give us a little background —a starting point. And I may be your witness, not the district after all, you know.” “Whoop-ee! T'll bet two doughnuts you will!” Peter beamed. “By the way, I found out how he withstood all that grilling by the detectives. ‘I simply withdraw my attention,’ he said. ‘I just turn my back mentally and trace out the development of some theme in attorney's, to the fate of his own neck was be-|r coming a point of acute grievance to | | know enough about Beethoven sympho- | nies. Do you realize that you've un- | covered the very first objective fact | we've been able to gather about David Orme? Anybody who can lose himself in menmxy tollow]ng an elaborate mu- sical composition while being subjected to the third degree must take music with more than ordinary seriousness— must, in fact, be a real musician.” “Suffering cats!” ejaculated Peter. “That's -o—and he’s lost two fingers off his hand,” he added in = tone of awed sympathy. “No wonder he looks as if he’'d been thrown into a world where he can't find his way. Music was his own particular world, and he was pitched out of it. without money, deprived of the only wav he knew of making any—cast into the society of auto camp bums—" “Still,” Dr. Cavanaugh brought him down to earth, “that hardly explains why he should forthwith walk out and murder a rich and rather famous lady of the stage.” “No.” Peter doesn’t.” “You have gifts, assented glumly, “it young man, but you're too easily disheartened—too mercurial. In the ianguage of psy- chiatry, if you ever went off your | balance, it would be the maniac—de- pressive type of disorder.” “Great scott!” Peter looked very | blank indeed. Dr. Cavanaugh leaned back and abandoned himself to one of his rare |and hearty laughs. It seemed to shake itself upward from his toes, rumbled mightily in his diaphragm, and ended in a series of throaty chortles that left his_ey-s suffused with tears. “You see how easy it is to terrify mere normal folk,” he chuckled. All insanity is only an intensification of normal impulses, so you needn’t worry.” Peter still eyed the doctor with some discomfort. . “I shouldn’t have teased you.” Dr. Cavanaugh’s face had resumed its customary gravity. “You must have noticed one thing: Though Orme was making every conscious effort not to give himself away in any particular, he did reveal something significant without knowing it. 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The diplomatic and political sig- nificance of Mr. Hoover’s speeches and the receptions accorded him will be made plain. Nothing will escape the vigilance of The Star’s men accompany- ing Mr. Hoover and his party. The Star’s Own Staff Correspondent REX COLLIER —who accompanied Mr. Hoover on his trips to the flooded regions of the Mississippi and a personal friend of Mr. Hoover, will be with the next President’s party throughout. Mr. Collier, an able writer, whose articles on the Mis- sissippi flood and Mr. Hoover’s activities during the campaign commanded wide attention, is expected to give interesting high lights on the trip. His cables and wire- less dispatches will interest all. WILL IRWIN Noted newspaper correspondent and lifelong friend of President-elect Hoover from college days, has joined the staff of this newspaper to especially report Mr. Hoover’s trip. Will Irwin’s wartime dispatches and masterly report- mg of big news events before the war won him the title in many quarters of “the best reporter in America.” " Mr. Irwin will join the Hoover party at San Pedro Monday, when it puts off in the battleship Maryland. His colorful, accurate and always interesting dispatches will appear exclusively in The Star and Associated Newspapers of the North American Newspaper Alliance. Watch for them! The Associated Press The peer of all newspaper press organizations, has assigned two of its finest reporters to accompany Mr. Hoover. One of these, JAMES L. WEST —has been in charge of the Associated Press staff covering Presi- dent-elect Hoover since the nomination of the Secretary of Coms merce at the Kansas City Convention. He accompanied Mr. Hoover on all of his campign trips and wrote of his activities while he made his headquarters in Washington as well as in Palo Alto, Calif. 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During the revolution preceding the election of Obregon, the assassination of the latter and the ensuing delicate political situ- ation Du_ Bose’s dispatches were such as to bring unstinted praise. He established relations with the Mexican government of such a character as to make it possible for American corre- spondents to send out the news of the country without fear of the restrictions of censorship or of expulsion from the country. After the World War Mr. Du Bose served in Tokio, China and England as a correspondent, and was assigned by the Asso- ciated Press to its Mexican City bureau in 1925. He was selected for the Hoover South American assignment because of his fluent Spanish, his wide acquaintance with Latin American problems and his ability as a writer. The dispatches of all these able writers will appear daily in The Evening Star and The Sunday Star 1If you desire to follow Mr. Hoover you should read The Star.