Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1928, Page 5

( . taire the evening before and that a &= THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928: VIGTIM OF TRUCK. 1S SERIOUSLY HURT « Unidentified Seven Hours Be- | fore Reviving—Eight Others | Are Injured in Accidents. Struck by a truck at Pennsylvania evenue and Seventh street last night, Joseph Murphy, 31 years old, of the + National Hotel, lay unidentified for “ seven hours before he revived sufficient. 1y to reveal his name and address. He is in a serious condition in Emergency Hospital from severe cuts to the head and what may prove to be a skull frac- ture. According to the police report. Mur- phy was struck by a truck operated by Romeo McDaniel, colored, 28 years old, 2301 M street. hospital in the truck. Three persons were treated at Emer- gency Hospital for bruises and shock | last night after the automobile in | which they were riding was in a col- | lision with a street car at New Jersey avenue and G street. The injured were: Mrs. Alice Mayer, 38 years old, the | driver, and Thelma Mayer, 13 years oid, both of 1359 Jefferson street, and Agnes Hunter, 10 years old, 113 Penn- evivania avenue. Their hurts were not « scrious. { Slight injuries wcre suffered by five other persons who were knocked down by automobiles. Thcy are: Floren: Veidi, 34 years old, 415 Sixth streef Jean Allizzeria, 6 years old, 939 M: Jand avenue southw: Eugene Jac son, colered, 13 years old, 625 L strect: John W. Ware, colored, 49 years old. 2001 Sixt-enth street, and Isaac Jack- son, colored, 69 vears old, address un- known. The latter was struck bv an | automobile operated by Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of First Congre- | gational Church, who took him to Emergency Hospital. U. S. AGENT DENIES BEING INTOXICATED IN PASSING VESTRIS| (Continued From First Page.) vious testimony, th: Vestris was mak- ing water rapidly, was listing at a dangerous angle and was in what her | captain was quoted as seying, “A seri- | “ ous condition.” Radio Logs Read. The radio logs were read before the inquiry by Arthur C. Costigan of ths Radio Marine Corporation and John F. Smith of the Marconi Wireless Co. ‘The R. M. C owns the land stations which were in communication with the Vestris the day she sank and the Mar- » coni Co.,, an English concern, controls and operates the wireless equipment on all Lamport & Holt liners. which included the Vestris and the Voitaire, He was taken to the | Here are the resulis of a four-day 1 bear, 3 deer, 40 durks and topped off the outing with a litt.e fishing that re! Jens Christensen and their father, C. P. Christensen. hunting trip taken AT END OF A SUCCESSFUL HUNTING TRIP y the Christensen fami'y near Northome, Minn. They bagged ted them 15 fish. In the photo are Ed and —Wide World Photo. IENSE ENEWA ORDER 1 OBEVD Instructions From Police De- partmant Bring Out Many Business Applicants. renew business licenses which expired October 31, formed in front of the office of Wade H. Coombs, District Superin- tendent of Licenses today, shortly fol-| lowing an order issued by the Police | Department calling upon policemen to | which was the nearest of the line’s ships to the Vestris when she sank. They were about 150 miles apart. ‘The radio leg from the Voltaire, as read by Mr. Smith, showed that at 4:56 am. Monday, November 12, the day the Vestris sank, she sent the, signal “QRU,” which means: ‘I have nothing to communicate.” The § O 8 was sent at 10 am. The log also disclosed that a similar answer was Tecelved from the Vestris by the Vol- arrest those who had failed to remew iheir licenses. Mr. Coombs estimated that approxi- mately 600 of th= licensss would be re- newed today. According to figures he | supplied to the Police Department, | approximately 9.000 out of the 14,000 establishments who should have renewed their licenses October 31 had failed to o s0 and were therefore oprating their business without licenses, in violation of the license law of 1902. Included, these 700 restaurants were | i Held Up A long line of persons seeking to|: PHILIP DOUGLAS. —Star Staff Photo. GOLORED YOUTHS HELD AS ROBBERS Boys, 16 and 13, Admit Theft of Purse, Detective Jones Declares. Paul Jones, Carl Allen Jackson, colored, 13, of the 2200 block Twelfth street, and William Beswell Wade, colored, 16, of tha 1100 b'ock U street, were today charged with robbery. Jackson and Wade have been identi- fied, the detactive said, as the two who on November 11 snatchod a pocketbook | frem Miss Mary Curtis, 2370 Champlain street, on Euclii street near Ninth street. They led police to the place where they were said to have thrown the bag and there found some papers and personal effects that had been in ik, I?;n could not locate the pocketbook itsalf. The boys are said to admit taking the bag, discarding it after they removed the money, which they spent, Jones says Arrested by Headquarters Detective | 30YPATROLS TOLD 0" TRAFFIC PERILS Greater Vigilance in Safe- | guarding School Children. Warned that 20,000 children under 14 years of age were killed in traffic { mishaps throughout the United States | last year, members of the school boy patrols of divisions 1-9 of the public | Group at Parley Urged to! | Gircuit Division 1 late yesterday after- CRANDALL CLEARED INTHEATER CRASH Jury Also Exonerates Com-| pany of Blame for Knick- erbocker Disaster. Harry M. Crandall, motion picture executive, and ths Knickerbocker The- ater Co. were exonerated by a jury in noon of responsibility for the collapse school system were urged to redouble | their vigilance at street Interscttlnns; | near their buildings in the semi-annual | patrol rally at the Thomson School | yesterday under the auspices of the| American Automobile Association. | Of the thousands of children Killed, 15 were Washington bpoys and glirls, Lieut. B. A. Lamb of the Traffic Bureau of the Police Department told the young guards. Lieut. Lamb’s Warning. Twelve of the District victims were boys, indicating, Lieut. Lamb said, that boys take greater chances than girls by hanging on the rears of automobiles, skating in the street and doing many sther dangerous things which girls do not attempt. He appealed to boys to re- frain from these practices and urged all children not to run into the streets from behind parked auomobiles. Thirteen Washington children have been killed already this year, he said. } Both Lieut. Lamb and Walter B. Pat- | terson, supervising principal, who' rep- | resented Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- intendent, commended the boys for their work as members of the safety patrol. A. W. Kochler, secretary of the National Conference for Street and Highway Safety, who also addressed the boys, urged redoubled efforts on the part of the patrol members in protecting the lives of their schoolmates at the streets where they are on duty. Ten New Patrols Formed. Howard M. Starling. director of safety for the American Automobile Associa- tion, announced that through thz or- ganization of 10 new patrols, the total roll of the schoo'boy traffic guards now is nearly 1,000 members in 100 units. George E. Keneipp, manager of the District Division of th> A. A. A., lauded the patrol work. Selden M. Ely, super- vising prineipal of the fifth division and rhairman of the school safety commit- tee, presided. Members of the schoolboy patrols of ths colored schools met in their semi- annual ral'y at the Cleveland School, Eighth and T streets, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Mann Act Divorce Suit. Suit for an absolute divorce has been filed in the . District Supreme Court by Mrs. Florence Rowe, 623 North Caro- jna avenue southeast, against Lloyd A. owe, who is said to be doing time at Leavenworth Penitentiary for a viola- tion of the Mann act. The wife tells the court she was married in 1923 and has one child. She is represented by |in which it was sought to hold Mr. of the roof of the theater January 28, 922, when nearly 100 persons lost their i The jurors deliberated for three hours before announcing their verdict for the defendants to Justice Stafford. This is the first of a s°ries of suits Crandall personally responsible for the | disaster. Other suits were heard in 1924 | against the Knickerbocker Theater Co. alone and resulted in verdicts for the company. Attorneys Charles A. Douglas, J. V. Morgan, Conrad H. Syme, Charles H. Merillat and Leon Pretzfelder, who ap- pear for the plaintiff, James E. Duke, are expected to move for a new trial. Crandall was represented by Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert, R. H. Yeatman and George D. Horning, jr. List Forces Ship to ;’ort. PANAMA, November 20 (#).—The freighter Indien of the Canadian Transport Co., bound from Vancouver to Baltimore. stopped at Balboa yester- day to rectify a list ta the starboard. The list is believed to have b2en caused when water tanks on the port side were | emptied and the starboard pumps did not work. The vessel carried a cargo of lumbr Mr. Schwartz Says: Early Christmas buyers avold disappointment by turning opportunity into decision. Our convenient credit plan enables you to give the very best—and pay weekly, every two weeks or by the month. Chas. Schwartz & Son 708 7th St. N.W. 709 14th St. N.W. Attorney Raymond Neudecker. 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This was an hour and & half after the cargo, BANDITS HOLD LP 1% F Next )%’o The % but couldn't find the boats and “didn’ had shifted and warned the officers: for the first time, according to Chief | Officer Johnson's testimony, that some- thing was wrong with the vessel. Th= logs of R. M. C. disclosed that| the Italian steamer Giorgio Ohisen was | only 35 miles from the Vestris when she ; went down ahd had received the SO S and the Vestris’ position. The Italian vessel was not mentioned in any of the rescue attempts. Costigan gave it as his opinion that she went to the rescus say much about it.” She was on her way from New Orleans to Bremen, Ger- many. The detailed reading of the logs showed tbat on Sunday, November 11, the day the Vestris had to heave to and began to tip, there was no record of any message from the ship to its line offices or 'from the e to the ship. There was no record of any in: terchange between the two until after the 8 O S, when the line wirelessed the ship for details and the ship re- plied with & brief description of its perilous condition. Terse Account of Disaster. The reading of the log gave as terse a ddscription of the disasier as there has been in the following entries: 9:10 a.m. Monday—The Vestris in- formed the Tuckerton station that it was_keeling over and might need help. ‘Tuckerton broadcast the massage. gen- | eral stand-by warning to all ships. | 9:58—Vestrls sends its S O S. 10:37—A second S O S, giving its position. 10:58—Vestris reports conditicn gat- | ors>. 11:00—“Ch, please com: qui pleads the Vestris. 12:15 pm.—The Vestris says: “Can har: stay and receive.” 1:10—Vestris reports stean and shift to emergency radio 1:20—In rapidly fading ‘Tuckerton gets from Vestris: going to abandon ship soon.” 1:30—Vestris reports ship being ebandonred. And at 5—Commercial wireless trafic permitt>d to resume, the radio / stations keeping ships speeding to the rescue informed of each other’s progress and receiving their reports of spreding to the scene, end later. of | their rcscue of more than 200 of tire Vestris su 'CTS. The other witnesses at yesterday’s hearing were Herbert G. Welland, 23- year-old third mate, and a 20-year-old <sistant steward in the second class. ‘elland testified that the lifebcats were < In good condition and that thore was no confusion in lowering the boats. Hz was in charge of those on the star- board side, which was nearest the water, He also testified that he saw Capt. Carey “between 4 and 8 a.m. Monday” and that the captain admitted to him that the situation wos serious and ordeted him to make an inspection of the ship to see if h2 could discover where she was taking water. He said he found fortune teller and others coming un the license lews. !BRITISH VESTRIS INQUIRY ‘Th> general order called upon+ the| commanders of all precincts to sce that the law wes rigid'y enforced and to sub- mit reports to police headquarters on December 1 as to the number of ceses d in court for violation of the 3 November. together with a of the action taken by the court. SENATE VESTRIS PROBE IS FAVORED BY WAGNER Legislator Wants to Datermine Whether Laws on Safety at Sea Are Adequate. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 20—Senator Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, New York, believes & senatorial investigation of the Vesiris disaster should be made to determine whether the laws on safety at sea are adequate. “It is obvious that the bodies which make the laws should investigate their working out,” he said. “A senatorial committee looking into the tis dis- aster should find, first of all, whether the laws governing safety on the seas are adequate. If they are found to be lacking in any way it s the duty of the Legislature to obtain better, more thorough laws. “In the second place, the committee should find whether there are adequate provisions for the enforcement of safety laws and whether they are working satisfactorily. If they do not, it is again the duty of the legislators to find the remed:; TO BE COMPREHENSIVE Board of Trade to Withhold “Cause of Loss” Pending Par- liamentary Probe, By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 20. — Herbert Williams, parliamentary secretary of the Board of Trade, told the House of Com- mons today that the British inquiry into the Vestris disaster will cover ail material points. The form that the inquiry will take has not yet been de- cided. “I am sure the honorable members will realize,” Mr. Williams told an in- quirer in Commons, “that it will not b» possible for the Board of Trade at this time to express any opinion as to the probable cause of the loss.” o Nashville Publisher Dies, NASHVILLE, N. C., November 20 (#).—M. W. Lincke, 55, for the last 33 SANITARY GROGERY Massachusetts Avenue Store Robbed for Third Time in a Year. Two young bandits, with drawn pis- tols, held up Philip Douglas, 617 C street northeast, manager of the Sani- tary Grocery Store at 601 Massachu- setts avenue northeast, and escaped with $62 of the firm's monzy shorily before closing time last night. This is the third time in little more than a year that the store has bzen held up. Douglas had placed the money, part of the receipis trom the day’s sales, in the store safe just a few minutes before the unmasked youths entered. As they walkad into th: store, one asked for a package of cigareties. Douglas turned 10 gal them- and the strangers drew pistols from their pockets and com- manded the manager to hand over the money from the safe. George Riddlemoser of 320 Ninth street northeast, a clerk, was also on duty in the store at the time of the hold-up. The bandits escaped after cautioning both of the cmployes not to leave the store for five minutes. About the same time Russell Liver- more, 1421- Twelfth street, was having a similar experience with two colored bandits at Twelfth and U streets, ac- cording to his report to the police. Livermore, residing at 1421 Twelfth strect, renorted he was walking along the street when the men appeared, displayed a pistol and demanded his money. He said thcy took his bilifold containing $12. Vance Osgood. 612 Sixth street, was held up by an armed colored man abcut 10:30 o'clock last night while sezated in his autemcbile parked near Massachusetts avenue and Fourth street. The bandit displayed a pistol and made a demand for money, but wes frightened off by apvoroaching pedestrians before he had obtained Osgood's money. PLAYERS REHEARSE TONIGHT FOR SHOWS ‘Will Present Three One-Act Plays | Friday Night in Pierce Hall. L'Allegro Players of All Souls’ Uni- tarian Church will have a dress re- today as th2 bandit who held-up and robbed Willlam Sargeant, a taxicab driver, of 4212 Sherifl road northeast. on November 9. Sargeant reported to police that he was hired at the Union Station by two colored men, who told him to drive to th2 1800 block of Capitol avenus north- east. Uupon their arrival and while the passengers were pretending to pay their fare a third colored man avpeared. Jeveled a pisiol at Sargeant and robbed him of a small amount of money. The taxicab driver was shown a num- ber of pictures in the identification bu- reau &t police headquarters and select- ed one of McGoines as the man who had held the pistol. Following the identification, Head- quarters Detectives Thomas Nally and E. E. Thompson made several unsuc- cessful attempts to find McGoines. When he heard of their efforts Me- Golnes appeared at the detective bu- reau and asked what was wanted of him. He was promptly arrested and identified by Sargeant. He knowledg= of the case. cGoinss was arrested several years ago in connection with a murder and robbery on Sixty-first street northeast, but was acquitted, < | | Lifeboat Drills [| ToBeHeld by Ships Because of Vestris By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 20.— As a result of the sinking of the Vestris, the Aconcagua and Teno, passenger ships of the South American steamship lines, will hereafter hold semi-weekly life- boat drills, This was announced today by Luis E. Felix, Chilean cogsul general. assengers on the Aconcagua, which sailed for Valparaiso %‘!‘\d other ~South American ports Thursday, have already been notified of the plan. 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