Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1928, Page 15

- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER 18. 1928—PART 1. FRSTAD AVARDS CVEN TVENTY-ONE Prince Georges Firemen’s Rescue Squad Receive Cer- | tificates for Training. | &pecial Dispatch to The Star | MOUNT RAINIER, Md. November | 17.—Seven members of the Rescue Squad ! of the Prince Georges County Volunteer | Firemen's Association, who have com- | pleted the advanced first-aid course of | the Red’Cross, and 14 more, who have | finished the standard course, were awarded certificates by H. L. Leonard. chief of the rescue squad. in Firemen's Fall here last night. Chief Leonard is an authorized instructor of the Red Cross and is conducting both the stand- ard and advanced cou To com- | plete both courses a person must have | 37 hours’ instruction, 22 hours on the standard course and 15 on the ad- vanced. Chief Leonard is instructing the classes each Friday night for three hours in the firehouse here and there | are now 50 members in the rescue squad available for efficient firs d work | where in the county. To increase the efficiency of the | squad an ambulance is sought and a| drive for $800 to cover its cost now | is under way. Contributions are being received by Chief Leonard at the office of the Washington Suburban Gas Co. at Hyattsville and by the Hyattsville | Independent, weekly newspaper. Ap- proximately $300 has been raised. The ambulance will be equipped with all modern first-aid devices and only a =mall charg ill be made for its use. or free to those unable to pay. Leonard has just been appointed as ant Red Cross relief chairman of Prince Georges County. The appoint- ment was made upon suggestion of Dr. C. P. Close, chairman of the County Red Cross Chapter. Dr. William S. | Keister, county health officer, is county | relief chairman. Certificates were presented by Chief Leonard to the following: Advanced course—C. J. Smith, M.| . Simpson, T. F. Herring. all of Capitol Heights; R. B. Evans, Riverdale; C. E. Headley, College Park; L. H. Lohman, | G. E. Potter, Bladensburg. Goodwin, Hyattsville; R. E. baker, L. Exel, R. E. Mahoney, Branch= ville; R. F. Murphy H. Bayton, H. Cornell, Bladensburg; R. F. Green, | house service. Upper: Part-Time for Lighthouse. POINT BARROW. Alaska ().—Lo- | ‘Standard course— Thomas Latimer, 1, | cated 107 miles north of the Aretic | F. K. NEWCOMER Lower: J. P. 8. REINECK! —Harris-Ewing Photo. Owing to the absence |ca] curiosities. NEW ENGINGER DUE | ON .5 PIST HERE |Maj. F. K. Newcomer to | Relieve Maj. Reinecke on Power Body Tomorrow. | | i ‘ | Maj. F. K. Newcomer, Corps of En-! gineers of the Army, is scheduled w{ | report tomorrow for duty as assistant | | chief engineer of the Federal Power| | Commission, relfeving Maj. P. 8. | Reinecke. who has held that post for | | three and a half years. Maj. Reinecke will leave Washington the end of the | {month to become - executive officer and | | secretary. under Brig. Gen. T. H. Jack- |son of ‘the Mississippi River Commis- | sion. In his new post, Maj, Reinecke | | will have a leading part in flood con- | trol work. | | Maj, Newcomer has been on the fac- | | ulty of the Engineering School at Fort | | Humphreys, Va. He is the son of Col [ H. C. Newcomer, retired, former mem- | | ber of the Citizens' Advisory Council. | | The new assistant chief engineer of | {the Federal Power Commission, which is located in the Interior Department | Building, holds the Distinguished Serv- |ice Cross for gallantry in the World War with the 4th Division. He was born in Illinols and appointed to West | Point from Pennsylvania, being grad- uated in 1913 at the head of his class, as his father had been. He was grad- uated from the Engineer School in | 1916, which was then located in Wash- | ington. His duty In the Army has taken him |as district engineer to Charleston, S.| and in the same capacity to Bos. | Maj. Reinecke was born in Pennsyl- | vania and was graduated from the Mili- | tary Academy in 1911. having been at West Point part of the time which his successor at the Federal Power Com- mission spent there. He served at| Washington Barracks here, in Hono- | {lulu, T. H., Galveston, T Buffalo, N. | | Y.: the Panama Canal and has previous duty in connection with Mississippi River work. In his new assignment, -~ | Maj. Reinecke will have headquarters at St. Louis. Famous Violin Sold. PARIS (®).—The famous violin of | Panne- | Circle, the Point Hope light is the most | Ingres, on which the painter loved to ortherly of the United States light- | ‘entertain” his long-suffering friends, has been bought by a collector of musi- ‘ Ingres’ violin, a sym- Brentwood; G. Baker, F. Kennedy, H.|of darkness in the early part of the | bol in current French to describe a Hetterly, Riverdale, and Richard L.|Summer. th e light is maintained only | hobby ridden too hard, brought 30,000 Moore and C. E. Moore, Mount Rainier. from August 1 to May 1 of each year. | francs. House & Herrmann I Seventh and Eye Sts : DRY LAW'S EFFECT ON'YOUTHS PRAISED W. C. T. U. Exhibits Roll of| 361,000 Who Pledged Total Abstinence. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 17.—Miss Mary B. Ervin of Ohio praised the effects of prohibition upon young people and de- nied that it had had “any demoralizing effect” at tonight's session here of the fifty-fourth annual convention of the Women’s Chrisiian Temperance Union. e session was devoted to “young peo- ple's night.” “The Women's Christian Temperance Union, the public schools and the churches are recognized as among the most potent factors in this marvelous movement,” Miss Ervin said. She add- ed that prohibition, far from being “put over on the public while the doughboys were overseas, had been put hrough after years of education and agitation.” Roll of Names Shown. During the evening there was exhib- ited a roll o’f mamgn, declared tol beb.z miles long, signed by young people be- tween the ages of 14 and 25 wgo had taken total abstinence pledges. It was said to contain 361,000 names. Others who spoke at the soung peo- ple's session were Miss Juanite Jones of Kentucky and Miss Helen L. Byrnes of California. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith of Des Moines, Towa, vice president of the W. C. T. U, presided at the afternoon session, which Included a pageant, “Arise and Build,” designed to visualize the membership campaign. Miss Winona R. Jewell, general secretary of the young people’s branch, reported on the progress of that division of the | W. C. T. U. during the last year. Wire Is Dispatched. The executive board of the W. C. T. 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