Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.., FRIDAY, NO VEMBER 23, 19 Emperor Hirohito of Japan riding in a gilded coach from the Imperial Palace to the railway station in Tokio on the way to his coronation at Kyoto, before the shrine of his traditional ancestress, the Sun Goddess. Above the coach is seen the golden phoenix, —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Fair Red Cross workers at Washington headquariers and some of the dolls which they are preparing for their long journey as good-will emissaries from American children to youngsters of foreign lands at Christ- The punting form that may decide the Big Ten title tomor- row. Sam Behr, Wisconsin halfback, is the kicker, and his long spirals will be a big factor in his team’s effort to clinch the cham- A few of the thousands who lined the route of the Japanese Emperor’s procession to his recent coro- nation. The occasion was a national holiday and one of gala celebration throughout Japan. Lunches and newspapers have been brought along by this group to help pass the long wait before the passing of the Em- peror’s coach. —Wide World Photos. A trio of McKinley dancers who are appearing on the initial program offered by the Drama Guild Mon- day night, November 26, in the auditorium of the new McKinley High School, Third and T streets north- mas time. The dolls are exchanged each year between Junior Red Cross workers as tokens of good will. east. Left to right: Alice Callan, Judy Lyeth and Anne Schultz, ~—Copyright by Harris & Ewing. plonship by defeating Minnesota. ~—Copyright by Underwood '& Underwood. BOWIE TRACK RADIO INQUIRY 13 BEGUN Apparatus Found Believed Used in Gambling Ring. Four Men Held. W. 8. Terrell, chief of the radio di- vision f the Department of Commerce, today $tarted an investigation of - the radio Apparatus Prince Georges County | police uncovered in a house about a mile | from the Bowie race track yesterday | afterndon, which they believe is the | heart of a gambling ring. A snall radio sending set, mounted in | a man's vest, found hanging on a chair in the house; a larger sending and re- ceiving set within the house and con- mnected with a 200-foot antenna, power- ful spotlights mounted on the house and two powerful telescopes formed the equipment of the station, the Prince Georges police declared today. Four men were arrested at the house. *They gave their names as Peter Coane, Jonn Fay, Thomas Psyfle and John Troy. At first all the men said they were from Baltimore. At the office of Sheriff Charles S. Early, this morning, it was stated that three of the men, it has been found, are from New York and the fourth is from Montgomery County. | The Prince Georges County police Te- fused today to state which of the men is from Montgomery County. Charged With Bookmaking. All of the men were charged with bookmaking and giving out racing in- | formation unlawfully. They were re- leased in $750 bonds each, after ap- pearing before Justice of the Peace H.| W. Gore at Upper Marlboro. They | were held for the action of the Prince | Georges County Police Court, and will | be_given a hearing November 30. { Deputy Sheriff A. W. Hepburn and | Patrolmen V. M. Nichols and Harry Robinson were attracted to the house vesterday afternoon when they saw | Wwhat appeared to be heliograph signals | coming from there. Investigating, they found that the flashes they had seen were due to the sun glinting on the reflectors of spotlights trained -directly at the Bowie race track. They entered the house and on the second floor found two powerful tele- scopes also trained on the track. There | were, in addition, several pairs of pow- | erful binoculars in the room in which the telescopes were mounted. In an- other room was found the vest-size | sending set and other radio apparatus. The big antenna and the message slips completed the equipment of the house. A woman and her three children, who live in the lower part of the house, were not taken into custody, police | believing they were not implicated in the operations upstairs. Probe to Be Thorough. # Terrell today said that a thorough | probe would be made of the outfit found | in the house. He said that before the Government could take any action it | would have to be determined what use has been made of the radio apparatus in the house. If it has been found that the apparatus has been used for viola~ tions of the law action can be taken. R. Y. Cadmus, supervisor of radio at Baltimore for the Department of Commerce, last month made an inves- tigation of a letter he received inform- Lifts in Several Buildings Not Properly Equipped, Charges Allege. Charges that “unsafe and improper” elevators are being operated in the Department Building and the Depart- ment of Justice Building were filed in Police Court today when Thomas Bones, vice president of the Wardman Con- struction Co., owners of the buildings, appeared before Judge Isaac R. Hitt, to answer the accusations set forth in warrants issued on complaint of Dis- trict building inspectors October 15. Papers in the case had been held up pending service of the warrants, At the request of the Government the case was continued until November 27. The warrants charge in each case that the elevators fail to bear certificates of inspection, have mechanical defects and, in the case of the Wardman Park Hotel, the Wardman Construction Co. is accused of neglecting and refusing to make “certain installations and changes after being notified to do so.” The charge that the building in- spector’s certificate is not displayed seys that the Wardman Construction Co. failed to have “a certificate stating that the elevators have been duly in- spected and found to be safe and in a fit condition and without placing same in a conspicuous place in elevator cars.” The warrants setting forth me- chanical defects are practically the same in each case and charge that passenger elevators are operated with- out door interlocks, door electric con- tacts, without emergency control for inclosure door interlocks and contacts, without electric contacts for collapsible gates and without bumper springs to counter weights. The Wardman Construction Co. is charged with refusing to install door | interlocks for inclosure doors to eleva- tor hatchway, collapsible gates on ele- vators and electric contacts for the collapsible gates. All of the charges are based on an act of Congress of March 3, 1887. The complainants are listed as J. M. Brown and N. B. Coakley, District building in- spectors, and J. A. Dickinson of the Bureau of Standards. Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed- ward W. Thomas is handling the case for the District. GIRL STUDE CLARKSBURG, W. Va., November 23 (#).—Clubbed on the head while she was returning from class at Salem Col- lege, Miss Leontine Barnett, niece of S. E. Barnett, Clarksburg police chief, was in a hospital here today. Her skull was fractured. Miss Barnett was attacked near her home last night. The only description of th2 man, who, she said, struck her with a club, was that he was young and had red hair. from the Laurel race track. After in- quiry, Cadmus said last night, he came to the conclusion that the letter was written by a crank. He admitted that ing him that an_unlicensed operator, a transmitter might be built so com- UNSAFE ELEVATORS ARE NAMED IN SUIT Wardman Park Hotel, the Commerce | NT CLUBBED. | President-elect and Mrs. Hoover waving from the deck of the battleship Maryland as the ship moved out of San Pedro harbor for the Presi- dent-elect’s good-will visit to Latin American countries. —Copyright by Wide World Photos. TWO ARE ARRESTED IN SKYLIGHT DEATH Men Are Held as Witnesses to Fatal Fall in Apart- ment House. { Seeking further information as to Vthe clrcumstances which preceded the death of John J. Grady, 35-year- old railroad worker of 35 T street north- east, who fell through a skylight early | Wednesday morning at 1614 Fourteenth | street, police today arrested two more | persons, whose testimony they con- | sider essential. The hearing this morn- |ing was postponed until 11:30 o'clock Monday. In addition a man and 2 woman in the third-floor apartment with Grady | when he crashed through the skylight | are being held as witnesses. They are Mrs. Vera Berry, from the window of | whose apartment Grady fell, and Albert Green, 934 New York avenue. They were arrested last night by the head- quarters homicide squad. . The police this afternoon arrested Wwilliam A. Kappel, 934 New York ave- | nue as a witness. John Joseph Mad- | dock. 28, of the 2500 block third street | northeast, also was taken into custody. Police say that they have information which leads them to believe that Mad- dock was in the apartment at the time of Grady's fall. He denies that he was there. Grady died at Emergency Hospital Wednesday morning as a result of a hemorrhage of the brain. Paris holds the record of any city of its size in having more than 5,000 be3- POSTER-SLOGAN RACE EXTENDED TO DEC. 1 Prince Georges County Homemak- ers’ Market Prizes to Be Given. More Clubs Join Movement. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., November 23. —Time for submission of offerings in the poster and slogan contests being conducted by the recently organized Homemakers' Market of Prince Georges County, and open to residents of the county, has been extended to December 1. The market, located in the building at Queen Chapel and Ager roads in West Hyattsville, is furnished rent free by former Mayor Willlam P. Magruder of Hyattsville. Slogans must contain not more than nine words, and for the best a prize of $5 will be awarded, with $3 and $2 going for the second and third best. Prizes of $3, $2 and $1 will be awarded in the poster contest, which is open to sixth and seventh grade and high school pupils. One poster and one slogan only may be submitted by an individual. They are to be mailed to Mrs. James E. Steele, Franklin street, Hyattsville. The management of the market reserves the right to reject any slogans or posters and none will be re- turned. Several additional clubs have taken out club memberships in the market. A variety of articles is sold by the market, the object of which is to give women of the county an opportunity to dispose of their handiwork at a rea- sonable profit. The market is open every week day from 10 am. to 5 p.m. Hand Severed by Shucker. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va. November 23— Bowman Kennedy, 35 years old, a far- mer of Crimora, suffered the loss of his left hand in a corn shucker Wed- nesday. He was taken to King’s Daugh- ters Hospital. Mr. Kennedy was getting the feeder in orderly condition, when carrying a concealed radio transmitter, | pactly that it would fit into a field-glass gars, who collect from the public ap-|his fingers were gripped by the rollers ‘was sending radio information direct case proximately §L250,000 a year. and his hand was drawn through. NEW LYON VILLAGE |~ VOTE PRECINCT URGED Citizens’ Association Committee Adopts Plan of Relieving Con- gestion in Clarendon, Speclal Dispatch to The Star. LYON VILLAGE, Va., November 23.— The executive committee of the Lyon Village Citizens’ Association last night adopted a resolution urging the estab- lishment of a voting precinct in the village. The association will be asked to approve the resolution at its meeting next Wednesday. A voting precinct in the village, the committee pointed out, will tend to re- lieve congestion at the polls in the Clarendon precinct, which was so great November 6 that many voters were forced to stand in line for an hour or more before casting their ballots. There are now more than 100 qualified voters in the village, it wads sald, and this number is expected to be doubled with- in a year. The committee adopted another reso- lution, requesting the association to re- {tain counsel to ascertain the rights of property owners in the village with re- spect to road improvements. This action, the committee said, was pro- voked by an unsatisfactory answer from the firm of Lyon & Fitch, developers of |the village, concerning the association’s | request for information as to the road maintenance plan. A special committee composed of H. E. Stelle and E. H. Harris was ap- {pointed to make arrangements for an entertainment for members of the as- sociation. It will be held December 7 in Odd Fellows' Hall in Clarendon. Grass Fire Extinguished. Special Dispatch to The Star. POTOMAC, Va., November in a clump of trees in Jefferson Park. minutes. 23.— | W. McDonald Lee, former commissfoner | Potomac Fire Department was called | of game and inland fisheries of Virginia, yesterday to extinguish a grass fire{ former president of the National Com- 'SENTENCE DELAYED | FOR WORK ON FARM Montgomery Youth Told by Judge “First-Offense” Plea Has Been Overdone and He Must Serve. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE; Md. November 23— James Hungerford, 21-year-old son of | an up-county farmer, pleaded guilty in Circuit Court yesterday of stealing parts of a sawmill belonging to Willlam J. Lewis of the Woodfield neighborhood. It was shown that he had heen his father’s mainstay on the farm, and Judge Robert B. Peter permitted him to return home to help with the heavy Fall work, but told him that he would be required to report later for three months in the county jail or house of correction. “Experience has taught me,” said the judge, “that the only way to check criminal tendencies among the young is to let them understand that they will have to pay the penalties of their misdoings, even though they be first offenses.” Judge Peter expressed the belief that the feeling among the young in many localities that they can do almost any- thing and get off with a suspended | sentence, provided it is a “first of- fense,” encourages the commission of | crimes, and he made it plain that sus-| pended sentences in his court would be few and far between. W. MoDONALD LEE DIES. Former Commissioner of Game and | Inland Fisheries of Virginia, | RICHMOND, Va., November 23 (#).— | had previously been. postponed by this |of a special moratorium to Austria, [*getting down to exact terms as to just AUSTRIA OFFERS . DEBT SETTLEMENT Would Pay Off Claims Before Moratorium Limit, U. S. Is Informed. A specific offer to pay the Austrian war debt of about $35,000,000 to this country was made today to the Treasury | Department by Austrian officials. | The Austrian debt, payment of which government to June 1, 1943, under terms | would be paid off at an earlier date, it is understood, under terms of the offer made today. Details Are Withheld. Details of the Austrian proposal were withheld, but they are understood to| be identical in nature to the agrée- ments already signed between Austria and seven of its nine creditors. The Austrian proposal will be sub- mitted by the Treasury Department to the House ways and means committee ‘when Congress convenes. The Treasury last Spring supported a resolution which is now before Con- gress after being reported out by the House ways and means committee, which would have authorized the Treasury to negotiate for settlement of the Austrian debt at an earlier date. The resolution also would authorize the granting of priority over the Austrian war debt to a reconstruction loan pro- posed to be privately floated in the | sum of about $100,000,000. The conference at the Treasury to- day developed further the previous Austrian request for a debt agreement and for priority for the new loan by what the Austrians will and can pay. Under the terms of the war lcan orig- inally no settlement could be made with any one creditor unless similar agreements were made with all. Cites Need for Loan. 1 The Treasury Department will thus | be able to go before the House ways and means committee with a precise offer from Austria instead of the presentation made last Spring. | sented at the conference today by its Minister, Edgar Prochnik, and Dr.| Richard Schuller, chief of the bureau | The Austrian government was repre- urged in Cape Town, of economics of the Austrian govern- || | ROYSTON IS HELD | | 1 INKUMLER DEATH Driver Detained for Grand Jury at Inquest Into Fatal Accident. James A. Royston, 40 years old, of Oakland, Va, was held for the grand jury this afternoon at an inquest into the death of Preston Kumler, promi- nent 50-year-old State Department offi- cial and clubman, whose car he struck at Twenty-eighth and M streets Wednes- day evening. Policeman Clarence Morgan of the ; seventh precinct testified that Royston admitted to him circumstances which proved that Kumler -had the right of ' way. The accident occurred as Kumler was en route from his quarters, at the Metropolitan Club, to the home of Mrs. Medill McCormick, at Twenty-eighth and Q streets, where he was to be a guest at dinner. Mrs. McCormick ‘was retently elected to the House of Rep- resentatives from Chicago. - Morgan Testifies. Royston had told him that he was going east on M street and Kumler was proceeding north on Twenty- eighth street. Morgan testified. Nathan H. Barton and Samuel Harris, both colored, told the coroner's jury that Kumler was driving south on Twenty- eighth street. Kumler’s car was struck on the left rear fender and spun completely around, throwing him out and onto the curb. His skull was fractured and he died three hours later at Georgetown Hos- pital. Royston’s car continued about 50 feet past the point of collision, the testimony indicated, and struck a brick wall, knocking a hole in it. Eldridge Tests Car. Assistant Director of Traffic Eldridge testified that he tested Royston's car and found the brakes in poor condi- iton. At the time of the accident Royston told police that his foot slipped off the brake onto the accelerator. Director Eldridge said he repeatedly tried to slip his foot from the brake onto the accelerator, but every time it went under the accelerator, A pan-American exposition is being , South Africa. The attractions of Washe ment. The American Government was repre- | sented by Undersecretary of the Treas- | ury Ogden L. Mills, Dr. A. N. Young of | the State Department and others. The Austrian officials at the conclu- sion of their technical conference with the Undersecretary, paid their respects to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. From Dr. Schuller the Americans ob- tained a mass of reports and informa- tion concerning the economic status of Austria and the reasons why that gov- ernment for some time had been asking for permission to float its new recon- struction and refund its old indebted- ness under a new agreement. Dr. Schuller, it is understood, out- mission of Fisheries, editor and business The firemen were in service about 30| man, died here lasi night at the age!Austria for capital expenditures and of 64 years, N lined at length the need for the $100,- 000,000 loan which is to be used by for productive purposes. | ington include a large number of beautiful church edifices. Some of these are national institutions, while others are purely local. On the church pages of the Saturday Star you will find notices of most of these churches, together with a de- tailed account of the various services, pastors’ names, ser- mon subjects, etc. The arrangement, according to denominations, will en- able you readily to find the church you may choose to visit on Sunda;