Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1928, Page 17

‘Where floods have engulfed wide sections of the Belgian lowlands. Caused by heavy rains and storms that have driven the sea over dykes, the floods have turned vasf sections of Flanders into a veritable inland sea. —Wide World Photos. vear-old Clarence Goscke of Sta ter, Yowa, and his sister Emma with his grand champion steer of the Chicago International Live Stock Exposition. The yearling Hereford, winner of the exposition’s most important event, weighs 1,150 pounds. —Wide World Photos. Fifth-grade youngsters of the New Brightwood School, Thirteenth and Nicholson streets, costumed for the playlet, “Magic Windows,” which they will present tomorrow afternoon in the school auditorium. Mrs. A. J. Howard, fifth-grade teacher, and Miss Helen Burton are directing the play. —Star Staff Photo, A scene from the Business High School Alumni show, “Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick,” a three-act comedy farce, to be presented tonight and Friday and Saturday nights in the Business High auditorium. Left to right: Gilbert Potts, Evelyn McCune, Paul Graces, Amy Norton, Peggy —Star Staff Photo. Senator Charles Curtis, Vice President-elect, purchasing his A neighbor inquires of the King’s health. “Old Kate,” well known to King George and who has sold him racing cards at the track, gets the latest word on the King's illness from a bobby at the palace gate. —Associated Press Photo. CARPENTER HELD | IN 2 ROBBERES Bond Is Fixed at $15,000 After Not Guilty Plea in Police Court. Paced with 26 cases of housebreak- Ing; all of which he Is said to admit, Herbert Allen Robertson, a carpenter | of Clarendon, Va., was held under $15,- | 000. bond for action of the grand jury, when arraigned in Police Court today. e ipleaded not guilty and waived ex- smination, through Counsel John J. Sinica. Since his arrest by Precinct Detective | James W. Casey and Policemen R. L. | E—lammon and George Weaver of the Yourteenth precinct Tuesday, Robertson Js said to have confessed to and cleared up a great number of the recent burg- Jary cases reported here. His thefts consisted almost entirely of small gmounts of money. Robertson, police say, posed as a salesman for holiday greeting cards REFUNDING OF DEBT OF AUSTRIA AINED Mellon to Present Proposal to House Ways and Means Committee. A proposal for refunding Austria’s $35,000,000 debt to the United szms‘ will be submitted to Congress tomorrow | morning, when the Treasury Depart- | ment will present it in documentary form to the House ways and means com- | mittee for approval. | The agreement, understood to be sim- ilar tc contracts with several others will | ask for priority or a new $100,000,000 reconstruction loan to be floated pri- | vately, it is understood, and will show | in detail how the Austrians propose to pay their debt to the United States at | an earlier time than 1943, the date to | which first payments had been post- | poaed under a moratorium granted by Congress. | “It is extremely desirable,” said Sec- retary Mellon, discussing tne principle of an earlier settlement with Austria in his annual report to Congress yes- Ryan, Anna Francis and Harold Farrington. supply of Christmas seals at the Capitol from two little health crusaders, Rosamond and Jacquelyn Krah. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. WEST NOMINATION DIPLOMATS LIGUOR BATTLE FORESEEN SEEN AS OBGTAGLE :Presio'ent Gives Senate Fighting Issue in Naming President Coolidge gave Congress | another fighting issue today, and it/ | was seized upon immediately, with pros- | pects of a battle over the nomination of Roy O. West of Illinois as tary |of the Interior. Mr. West is serving, along with Willlam F. Whiting, Secretary of Com- merce, by reason of a recess appoint- ment. As soon as his name was pre- | scnted, Chairman Nye of the public ! lands committee served notice that he | would ask hearings on the nomination, | | especially on whether Mr. West was | lic utility interests in Chicago. The nomination of Mr. Whiting also [ | Interior Secretary. ’ Adds to Difficulties of Prohi- bition Enforcement in Dis- trict, Doran Declares. Diplomatic liquor adds to the difficul- ties of enforcing prohibition in Wash- ington, according’ to Dr. James M. Doran, prohibition commissioner. Testifying before a House appropria- tions committee, whose hearings have been made public, Dr. Doran declared “there afe 10,000 people in the District of Columbia who have a certain diplo- matic status and who can take liquor around unmolested.” Immunity Is Granted. Asked by Representative Hardy of Colorado if they could “take it around the street unmolested,” Mr. Doran replied, “On their person.” “And carry the bottles right out in connected with the Samuel Insull pub- | PUBlic?” queried Hardy. “We cannot take it away from them.” declared the prohibition commissioner, “if they are connected in any capacity went along today. | with the various embassies.” i | While admitting that “of course, Both Mr. West and Mr. Whiting were | nere is liquor sold in the District Co- appointed during the Summer. Mr. |lumbia,” Dr. Doran said he thought West, formerly secretary of the Re-|Maj. Hesse. superintendent of police, publican national committee and Re- | was doing “what he could.” publican national committeeman from | “He is doing very good work,” said 1llinois, was given the Interior Depart- | Dr. Doran. “He has only a very lim- ment post when Dr. Hubert Work re- | ited fund for the purchese of evi- signed from the cabinet to take over | dence. I know he has called that to the management of the campaign as:my attention a number of times. My chairman of the Republican national i judgment is that the Police Department POLICE SAY GIRL, 13, : SOLD THEM LIQUOR! M it tocus rappiie o | e e im0 25 e e Kot ckeg Y e, doors | terday, “that the executive branch of Yo Jearn whether the becupants were | the Government be authorized to settle home. It they answered the door he | the whole matter, with the limitation ctated that as his mission. but if they | that our debt should be settled on terms did not answer he forced his way into | RO less favorable than those granted the | to the first flyer under 18 years of age to make the flight. F R e L LR e shown with his father and mother, who greeled him there. | enjoyed be not released except in so ol e = & SN b R .. | far as is necessary to permit the flota- o £ : J,;The man's arest was brought about thon o the contempiuted reconstruction ) ETH AL GAS MURDER | VESTRIS DATA AWAITED. TRAIN_MEN JEURED. THEORY DISCARDED i senate Committee Passes Over| Engineer and Fireman Hurt in ments, 3621 Newark street, who tele-| Under the old settlement, the relief ! ke Chicago Wreck. Resolution Proposing Inquiry. B Potato polo grips sportsfolk at Pinehurst. A thrilling onslaught on the goal in which the object is to get the potato in the barrel while the defender battles to keep it out. The potato is impinged on the sword point at right. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Richard James, 17-year-old New York high schoolboy, at Columbus, Ohio, on his transcontinental flight from San F cisco for the $1,000 prize offered by the Aviation Promotion Society ghoned police while he was still in the | debts of Austria to European govern- uilding. When the police arrived, how- | ments and the United States, amount- ever, Robertson was just leaving, 50 |ing to about $95,000,000, Secretary Mel- they trailed him to the apartment house | lon explained, “enjoyed a first charge Interstate Commerce Commission | District of Columbia courts are, as a Claude R. Porter of Iowa and Clyde B. | rule, pretty crowded. and it is not very — | - ¢ ment s T o | GHICAGO, December 6 (#).—The en- ’ Aiichison’ of Oregon. These nomina- | easy to get a prompt trial of a liquor ot 2807 Connecticut avenue, waiting|upon all the assets and revenues of ! prohers Find Dry Agent's Death! Resolutions proposing investigations) ~wl®l =t P Chicago & | Arrest With Mother Reveals Pre- | tions were sent to the Senate for con- ! offender in the District of Columbia until he is said fo have entered two| Austria” ranking ahead of Austria’s | |into the sinking of the Vestris were | Sincer and firema ago & | AITe s e ol e e e | e Pt il aeaters B e iEmsa don ot aLions Bl e el b | passed over today by the Senate com- | Eastern Iliinols suburban passenger | yious Alleged Offense of Mrs. |J. Farrell of the District of Columbia, | where Jail sentences may be involved. 5 . D al Damp Robertson at first admitted six cases,|and the reparations obligations were ue to Co train were injure ay whe! " g s » = i n | - . % Stine e injured today when the train, % 9 who was given a recess appointment | . . telling police that he had recently subordinated to the reconstruction loan merce committee at its first meeling, | oonnginto the city from Crete, I Jessie Sebastian. to the commission during The Sum- | e e undergone an operation that Incapaci- |of 1923 in the sum of $125,000000, in Cave. | pending receipt of testimony taken in | Giieswiped the Pitisburgh Express of the | et scoesc Wotin: Bes | ¢ Dascribiing thétwaett ot the Pederas s | Ceceary A Dxpianid o = +|the New York inquirles. Pennsylvania_Railroad =3 Co | Nt | prohibition officers in this_city, Dr B N e i o Toe MO GEEEGL Lo OWIEIEE v e Amiaiatol Brens | 'Chairman_ Jones of the committee,| John Campbell, 50, Williamsburg,| A 13-year-old girl faces trial in-the | Ness Is Renominated. t D TAT NALE TMTAE S Have: thiee: crws R 1 S KTt T AR e VIS To . e A e December 6.Dis- | Who 1 the author of one of the resolu- | Mich, the engineer, suffered cuts and | | & HYCrRd B (IS B0 O Among other nominations sent to the | working in connection with the liquor = by | = G i -~ D5 | {jons introduced yesterday proposing a s and J. C. Crouch, 45, Dantille, e Coy sale and possession | senate today by the President were | squad of the District of Columbia Police e greatest number of complainants| PAPER RACK THEFTS carding a theory that Pat Sharpe, Fed-{ joing, congressional _inquir 8 | TS ffexed minor hurts when the |of liquor, as a result of the arrest of | those of Pat Morris Ness of Texas, for | Department.” “In addition,” he con- from sny ‘one of the eight nganmenii eral prohibition agent, was the victim | hoped it would be unnecessary for Con- | C. & E. I engine overturned. The tWo- | Mrs, Jessie Sebastian, 32 years old, of | another term as a member of the Rail- | tinued, “we have commissioned as pro- houses entered are residents of the | of a lethal gas trap set by a moon-|gress to undertake a separate inquiry.|car suburban train knocked Yrom | . 008 clid' street, and her | F0ad Board of Mediation; John I Cabot | hibition agents at additional compensa- houses entered ate residents of thel CHARGED TO QUARTET |shiner, officials today decided that the | e believed sufficient information ori | the track, but no passengers were in- i of Massachusetts, to be a secretary in | tion two officers in each of the pre- Ninth street northeast. There he is | —_—_— officer’ was overcome by “black damp” | the disaster could be learned from the [ jured. Four cars of the express train | young daughter, Margaret. | the diplomatic service, and Col. Harry | cincts, as well as some of the officers Ao et e soven apartments | Four Men Arrested After Warning | festerday while exploring -a cave near | previous investigations to permit the | left the rails. The C. & E. 1 and Pennc) Mrs. Schastian, motper of thie recent Burgess, Corps of Engineers, U, S. A., | of the special liquor squad: and our on two different visits. Two of the e o h(';-"‘.‘otnn\;lul:l;u:qhtf’!l fiasr‘gi}?‘c‘?{.‘;fii;r,?;r?‘g];]glio" of any legislation deemed | sylvanai tracks cross at the point °(iquern of the Colymbia Helghts carnival, | ©© be Governor of the Panama Canal. "/ men work with these police officers apartments, those of Marion Gates and s Broadcast Over Sta- 2 \ Ty, _Justic cess k 4 tion WMAL. ine aceident " eharged with o second illegaj| Claude Henry of South Dakota was | However. the Federal men give their Ruby Wallace, he entered twice. T et o il rustlt o1 | Board for Vocational Education | transportation of liquor from the Vir- of the peace, held that Sharpe had |- s ¥ it RS boseession of lquor. She \as arraigned | [cAPPointed a member of the Federal | principal effort to the stopping of the | B i{ vel it Court, | Other Complainants. | Potsonous gases formed naturally in the o e ohven e < ury | _ The following judicial appointments | ginia and Maryland counties, and leave Other residents of the same building| In spite of repeated convictions of |zavern such as are encountered in mines : | were also sent to the Senate today: ! largely to th li f the District of trial. She was released on $1,000 bond. oday: gely he police of the Distric who appear as complainants are Roger | Paper rack thieves and a warning over | and excavations. ; The arvests wers niade by Sergt ©-J u.fii‘éfi"stfl‘ffi‘“?"’"fi“' ‘;1( Ohio 1o -?fi | Columbia_the handling of speak-easies Brust, Albert Butler, Charlotte McKin- | adio station WMAL last night, four| The agent was overcome when he Letterman and his vice squad, s circuit judge of the sixth | and peddling within the District. We Jey. Irene Williams and Alla Clary men were arrested for taking papers | descended a ladder to the bottom of | et y . circuit. _To be United States district | sort of divide up the duty in a general it 5350 Bightn strect he is alléged | Without paying for them at a rack at | the cave, but not before he had shout- el i e judges, George P. Hahn, northern dis- | way, and our working arrangements the daughter. Five pints of alleged | {uf ; v u ng n whisky were confiscated. A quantity of :;:'c"[‘ g{ Sfi&’ia‘x‘x’é,Cja%)::l;b?;;?cr:r:‘n' with Maj. Hesse are very satisfactory. alleged alcohol was destroyed by Mrs. | giictiO CONGW Jesray . Bdgar S vaugh z The Piano in the Home P A popular newspaper writer published an article recently foifheve eniered' the apartmentstio | Ruriesoliiand Niateests thishncring len agwarning o s fcanpaniohaito | in which he claimed the piano to be the most important piece Roy F Elsie Van Cleve and [All forfeited $10 collateral in Police | “go back.” : ¢ P 4 v Cf:gk Puv(:;;(c)?.e' Wu‘)Lllx'L-;" L(:i:\‘be and | Court. \(vmu,- Buthod, Sharpe’s chief, be- | of furniture in the home and that no home should be without ey e s Hhe ainants | ‘The quartet described themselves at onscious and had to be pulled | one. Harry E. Bowers are the complainants q came uNCORSCic 0 be pulled son McVicar, western district of Penn- living at 5524 Eighth street who are | the second precinet as John Lewis Allen, | from the cave when he made a futile | Jisted as complainants. | George Kelly and Dorothy Colliflower | street; John Gibbons, 31 years old, of 37 years old, of the 1400 block of N | attempt at rescue. Another officer suf- fered from the effects of the gas in aid- If your home is still without this popular musical in- strument, make the Christmas Season the time to secure one. Every day in the Sale Miscellaneous classification of The sylvania. d her d htel 8 tRE} uun i ke Scbustian and her dughters a5 Uhe | wekfem ditrict of Oklanoma. and Nel: | PREPARE FOR ROUND-UP. | MRS. MEEHAN GETS POST. et e !Big Ten Universities' Committee eharge him. with entering their apart- | the 2200 block of Fourteenth street: |ing Buthod. | | e I b0 Rhode tolond saene | Leroy Hawkins, colored, 28, of the 1500 | Sharpe was dead when his body was e POLICEMAN BANKRUPT. Elects New Officers. Noriheast. At 809 Kennedy street he | block of Church street, and Walter | reachcd half an hour later \ 2 e is claimed to have entered the apart- | Monroe Cozad, 37, of the 1300 block of | Raymond Wisehart, assistant district| ments of Vasil McKay, J. C. Blaise and | Tenth street. All were arrested by | attorney, expressed the opinion that | Ruth F. Fishel. James W. Weakley is | Policeman H. H. Hodge. Sharpe was poisoned from mash fumes | the only complainant from 3100 War- — combined with dampness and other | der street. odors in e cavern, wi 2 een Tn the Cleveland Park section, where | Seeks Honor for Polar FIyer. | cioceq before the rald was made. he was arrested, he is charged with | A Congressional Medal of Honor el il g having broken into the apartments of | Wou awarded by the Presiden inns e 3. Southard, Howard Americus, Francis | Lieut. Carl B. Eielson, Army Air Corps Sicilian Prelate Sinking. Baesill and Catherine Chambers, all of | Reserve, pilot of the airplane that took | ROME, December 6 () he Newark Apartments, 3621 Newark | Sir George Wilkins across the Polar | Praicica-Nava, aged Archt Star bargains in pianos are offered, so that if y?ll: zi.re a cax(el-l P ful reader of these little announcements, it is likely you wi On the recommendation of the Fed- i R find one featuring a piano almost at your price and terms. cral Trade Commission, the President| . o po o, hK‘““ I Sawh e locted In today’s Star on page 56 are 92 Sale Miscellaneous has authorized the appointment of Mrs. lyde Huff, 406 Emerson street, a|chairman of the Big Ten university i ts, ing ing— | Genevieve,G. Meehan, widow of Charles | member of the metropolitan police | round-up committee at the annual elec- EHvertisments AnctisE | V" Mechan, formerly judge of the ! f filed tition 1 1 A large number of pianos. 3—Electric trains. Municipsl Court of the District of Co- | EESE e petition in District Su ‘""Sm“’;l:v',cx‘;‘l‘:m‘:“cgi‘;“‘;‘gwu atia 2—Bicycles. 1—Encyclopedia. | lumbia, to a_clerical position in_the | IR coute k‘“"‘y ssking that he bej 0m e and . Marle Mount, A quantity of practically all kinds of furniture. | classified service under the Federal | adjudged bankrupt. Huff claims assets | indiana, secretary-treasurer for the 1926 1—Frigidaire. 13—For typewriters. | Trade Commission, “without regard to | of $1,000 and liabilities of $1,679. Among | event. 1—Pressing machine. 2 Vacuum cleaners. “"%y?“fl Service rule A the debts .;vhal‘dz%l’ed by the petitioner is| The chalrman of this year's event, 1—Radio 1—Toy repairs. e executive order states that “Mrs. | an item of $1,272 described as an ac- | Col. Don Sawyer, reported a record at- R, er 5 Meehan has rendered several years of | commodation paper for Wilhelmina | tendance, exceeding 270, at the annual street, and Blanche Miller and Cath- ' regions, under a bill introduced by Rep- | Catania, Sicily, was still in an alarm 1—For rugs. D A number for jewelry. ry and efficient service along | Rupp, 1500 block Fifteenth street, gro-' dange held at the Hotel Washington on erine Chambers, ho 07 Con- resentalive Burtness, Republican, North condition today. The Pope again has Several sewing machines. lines in various branches of | cery proprietr who filed a voluntary November 24. This year marked the qectiont prenus eDakote. sent him apostolig benediction. = the Government,” bankrupety petition September 19, eighth successive affair,