Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1928, Page 17

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D36 A smartly uniformed contingent of the Bolivian infantry during a recent review at La Paz. With the several sharp border clashes between Bolivian and Paraguayan forces threatening an open declaration of war, the Pan- American Conference, now sitting here, and the League of Nations are both shiv_lnx to avert this, —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Secretary Mellon greeting in his office yesterday seven employes of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who have seen morc than 50 years of service in the bureau. Left to right, front row: Miss Mary King, Secretary Mellon, Miss Alice Lehman. Back row: Miss Maggie Cross, Miss Lucy Wooden, Miss Bridget C. O'Neill, Miss Annie Geddes and Edward M. HalL —Associated Press Photo. A tri-motored Army transport plane (lower) refueling in flight here yesterday from another service plane in tests preceding an endurance flight in which this method of rcfueling will be used. With both plames flying at a speed of about 80 miles, the gasoline is transferred by gravity through a , —U. 8. Air Corps Photo from Underwood & Underwood. Dashing riders of the pony ballet, which will be one of the features of tie Junior League Soeiety Circus tomorrow at the Washington Audito- rium. Miss Rebecca Davidson is the clown and the ballet group includes Mrs. Peter Stuyvesant, Miss Mary Bradley, Mrs. Robert Pell, Mrs. Chauncey Parker and Miss Elsie Quinby. —Copyright by Harris & Ewing. Miss Hazel C. Arth, Washington singer, who won the Atwater Kent national radio audition, and Donald Novis of Pasadena, Calif,, winner in the male competition, receiving checks for $5,000 each from A. Atwater Kent. Two-year musical scholarships also are given the winners. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. COLTON IS NAMED - SINCLAIR APPEALS PUBLIG LAND HEAD 10 SUPREME COURT Beedy of Maine Becomes Oil Operator’s Brief Ques- He took nine on this header through the ropes. A lively bit of ring action as Andy Mitchell, California heavyweight, was sent. sprawling into the ropes by Jim Maloney of Boston in the thid round of their bout there. Maloney won in the sixth round of their scheduled 10-round bout. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. MAN BADLY HURT |0.K.BILL T0 GOVERN FALLING OFF BIKE| BUILDING DESIGNS Head Seriously Injured—11 Three Federations Write In,‘ Others Suffer in Series of Traffic Accidents. Last night's traffic accidents resulted fn the serious injury of two persons and the less serious injury of 10 others. Jerome Howlett, 50 years old, 1102 Florida avenue northeast, suffered se- vere injuries to the head, when he fell from his bicycle in front of 317 F street northeast. He was taken to Sibley Hos- pital, where his condition was pro- nounced serious. Taken to Emergency Hospital, after | she was struck last night at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue by an autorfobile, Sarah White, colored, 40 years old, was able to give her name and age, but was unable to furnish her address. She has concussion of the brain and other injuries of a serious nature. The automobile that struck her was operated by Bradford E. Buckley, 2609 North Capitol street. A narrow escape from serious injury | was_experienced last night by Bernard A. Deevers, 26 years old, 4209 Hunt place northeast, and Preston Ayres, 25 years old, of the same address, when their automobile overturned after strik- ing and breaking off a telephons pole at Benning road and Thirty-fifth street northeast. A sudden stop of the automobile] which her husband, Corliss Bowen, was ! parking resulted in the injury of Mrs.! Esther Bowen, 19 years old, 1418 Rhode | | Isiand avenue. She was thrown into the windshield of the automobile, suf-| fering a laceration to the nose. At | Emergency Hospital the injury was suid to be not serious. Henry Taylor, 54 years old, 214 M: setts avenue, was treated at Cas ital for a broken right arm, vas struck on Massachusetts | between First and Second | heast by an automobile | Walker R. Gray, 33 yrarsi Capitol Heights, Md. Others injured were: Helen Banks, | colored, 19 years old, 115 T street; Lioyd Dickerson, colored, 28 years old, | 1327 Corcoran street; Crockett Waugh, | colored, 19 years old, 1816 Twelfth street; Julian A. Whisaker, colored, 7 years old, 1535 Sixth street; Charle: Anderson, colored, 56 years old, 152 Churct ored, 45 years old, 4644 Hunt place. DINNER PLANS MADE. Arlington bridge and Hedrick. Bpacial D star, CLARENDO! December 18.— P. W. Woodbridge, the mew secretary of the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce, and B. M. Hedrick, super- visor of Arlingtox magisterial district, are to be invited by the Arlington Dis- trict Council of Citizens’ Associations 1o attend its annual meeting and din- ner in January, according to arrange- ments completed last night at its monthly meeting held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. A. A. Moore, the secretary of the erganization, was appointed chairman of the dinner committofy | regulate tne design of private buildings | Hamilton Hotel. | that the bill to regulate private build- | ings, as proposed by the National Cap: ~|WNJ Urges Federal Radio Com- |irom its present wave-length assign- reet, and Mary C. Jones, col- | neil to Invite Wood- ! Urging Architectural Har- mony ‘in Construction. Indorsement of the proposed bill to erected immediately adjacent to certain Government reservations was made last night by the Interfederation Confer- ence, composed of representatives from the Arlington County Civic Federation, the Montgomery Civic Federation and the District Federation, meeting at the It was the opinion of the conference ital Park and Planning Commission, will serve a useful purpose in maintain- ing architectural harmony on . streets gronted by important Governmen!. bulld- ngs. The meeting also went on record as approving_a proposed amendment to increase the authority of the District Commissioners in closing certain roads and streets regarded as useless. At request of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director in charge of public build~ ings and public parks, 8 representative from the conference was-Appointed to confer with the National Capital Park and Planning Commission on matters of public intercst. The conference named Edwin S. Hedge for this post. el st WRC WAVE-LENGTH CHANGE IS SOUGHT mission to Reassign Local Broadcast Station. . An application that has as jts ob- jective the removal of station ment today was filed with the Federal Radio Commission by station WNJ of | Newark, N. J., operated by the Radio | Investment Co. Frank J. Hogan, local attorney, is representing WNJ. In its formal application, WNJ asked to be assigned full time to the 950- kilocycle channel upon which WRC now { operates. | present is on the 1.450-kilocycle chan- nel with 250 watts of power and shares {its broadcasting time with three other tions. Its present channel, from the aeering standpoint. is not consid- ered extremely desirable, Under Radio Commission procedure, the New J station will be heard at {a formal hearing in Washington. The |date for the hearing probably will be set in a day or two. Station WRC and other stations assigned on the 950-kilo- cycle channel will be asked to partici- pate in the hearing to defend their as- signment. Fire Damage Is $300,000. The New Jersey station at ) SHARON, Pa., December 18 (#)— Fire destroyed a half block of buildings in the business district here today, causing losses estimated at $300,000, L d Miss Elizabeth Mohun (left) a{d Mrs. Charles Park Stone with dolls from distinguished donors, which are on sale for charity at the Thrift Shop, 504 Tenth street northwest. The donors include Vice President-elect Charles Curtis, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Mary Roberts Rhinehart, the authoress; Mrs. Wil- liam E. Borah, Senator Arthur Capper and Mme. Debuchi, wife of the Japancse Ambassador. MAN HELD IN SLAYING FREED WITHOUT BOND Failure of State to Find Witness Results in Indefinite Delay of Trial. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, December 18.— Al- though charged with murder, Oreste Laveri was released on his own recog- nizance when his trial was indefinitely postponed yesterday because of the in- ability of the State to find a former prohibition enforcement official who is needed as a witness, Laveri is_charged with murdering Charles C. Rousé, a prohibition agent, June 7, 1927. The missing witness is George P. Busch, former assistant head of prohibition agents of the Maryland district. ‘The postponement of the trial was ordercd by Judge George A. Solter in Criminal Court after the State’s attorney, when the case was called for trial, announced that the State was not ready because of its in- ability to produce Busch. Laveri’s release on his own recogniz- ance was ordered by Judge Solter when it was claimed that Laveri is penniless. The State’s attorney said that for some weeks he had ,been endeavoring to locate the missing witness. He said he learned through John F. J. Herbert, local _prohibition enforcement chief, that Busch now is at Bogote, Colombla. e Mrs. Augusta Corey Expires. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., December 18— Mrs. Augusta Maria Corey, 82 years of | age, widow of George W. Corey, died yesterday morning at 7:35 o'clock at the home of her son-in-law, M. R. Pet- z0ld. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. M. E. Petzold of Lynchburg, and Mrs. D. ‘W. Bernard of Pulaski, The body will be takea to Pulaski for burial, { Park _Citizens —Star Staff Photo. Grover A. Whalen at his desk yesterday before: being sworn in today as the new police commissioner of New York City, succeeding Joseph A. Warren. The former head of New York’s official reception committee takes over the commissioner’s job at a difficult time with the Rothstein murder mystery still to be unraveled. Smoke Mystery Puzzles Capital Section; Accompanied by Disagreecable Odor A mysterious smoke, accompanied by a decidedly disagreeable odor, which has spread Tike a cloud over the East- ern section of Washington on several recent occasions, has aroused the citi- gens of East of the Capitol almost to a fighting pitch, and sent them scurry- ing in all dircetions in-an effort to -dis- cover its origin. So far they have been unsuceessful- in this attempt. Even the officers of the Lincoln Association, including the President, Joseph L. Gammell, took an evening off and delved into all sorts of out-of-the-way places, seeking, the source of the disagreeable odor. - They failed, however. The smoke and odor, are variously described as “intense,” so bad as to “ruin property values in the Eastern part of the city” and “the worst we have ever known out here.” Apparently it does not come from either the Benning dump, nor the dump near Congressiongl Cemetery; for Presi- dent Gammell, visited both places and found no fire. 8o it seems, that, anybody who can discover this elusive fire will be doing the thousands of people of East Wash- dngton a real service. o Greece produced nearly 100,000 tons of olive oil this year. We' All Wish to Advance It is needless to state the unemployed are neglecting many opportunities to start on the road to advancement if they " fail ‘to read daily Help Wanted advertisements in The Star. Those now employed should also consult these little ad- vertisements, Yor ‘they often present opportunities for more congenial work at better pay. In today’s Star, on page 43, there are 58 Help Wanted advertisements offering positions for Auto Electrician Office Auto Mechanics Stationary Engineer Cylinder Feeder Reporters Salesmen Stenographers Pregsers Typists Domestic Positions Boy Patent Specification Writers ~Asst. Gents’ Furnishing Buyer —Associated Press Poto. ARTHUR B. DAVIES, _ NOTED ARTIST, DEAD Radiogram to Relatives Reveals Death in Mountains of Italy Last Month. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 18.—A radio- gram to relatives in Congers, N. Y., last night said that Arthur B. Davies, internationally known artist, died in the mountains of Northern Italy Octo- ber 24. The radiogram was from Mrs. Davies, who had gone abroad to search for her husband after -he failed to return to this country early in Novem- ber, as he had planned. He had been living abroad two years, going to France in April of 1927 to recuperate from a heart attack. The message gave no details beyond the statement of her husband’s death. Davies was reported seriously ill in a remote hamlet in Southern France in November of 1927, but this later was denied by friends here, who said !they had received letters from him indicating he was well and working hard at his paintings. He attracted considerable attention here in 1925 with a series of water colors made in Southern France, with the chateau country as his scttings. He later did a series of mural paint- ings for the International House, on Riverside Drive. He was awarded first prize of $2,500 in 1924 for the best design in_ the J)eace Christmas card competition conducted by the National League of Women Voters. Davies was born in Utica, N. Y., 66 years ago. Surviving are the widow and two sons, Allan Dunbar Davies and Arthur David Davies. Many apartment buildings, similar to. those in_this country, are being erected Brazil. Chairman of Elections Committee. By the Assoclated Press. Representative Colton, Republican, Utah, today was selected chairman of the House public lands committee, suc- ceeding Representative Sinnott of Ore- accept a judgeship. Representative Smith, Republican, Idaho, was ranking Republican on the public lands committee and ordinarily would have succeeded to the chairman- ship but he is chairman of the irriga- tion committee and he wished to retain that post. Mr. Colton’s post as chairman of elections committee No. 1 will be taken by Representative Beedy, Republican, Maine. Other Republican committee assign- ments made by the committee on com- mittees included Representative Fort, New Jersey, and Martin, Massacnusetts, on the rules committee; Representative Hadley, Washington, on the steering committee; Mrs. Florence P, Kahn, California, military affiairs; Leeth, Pennsylvania, naval affairs; Morgan, Ohio, foreign affairs. The only new member to be given a | committee place was Representative Culkin of New York, who was assigned | to the merchant marine committee. ——— s MAN SWEARS HE’S ALIVE. Collect War Risk Insurance. NORFOLK, Va., December 18 (#).— After being declared legally dead, Eu- gene Ransom Doyle, a former ship's tailor stationed at the naval operating ; base here, has been found to be alive. An affidavit signed by Doyle himsel has been received hére by Government attorneys. Doyle was declared legally dead last Summer by Judge Allen R. Hanckel, in City Circuit Court, after Doyle was said to have been missing since 1919. In a petition to the court, Doyle’s wife set forth that she had had no word from him in nine years. Mrs. Doyle sought to collect $10,000 in war risk insur- ance. DIRIGIBLE BASE SOUGHT. | Member of House Asks $3,000,000 for Fort Lewis Project. A proposal to establish a dirigible base at Fort Lewis, Wash., was intro- duced today by Representative Johnson, Republican, Washington, who said he hoped to make Fort Lewis the chief air- port of the West. His bill would call for construction of a hangar, buildings and other works at a cost of $3,000,000. Johnson said the support of num- bers of the naval committee, of dele- gations from Washington, Oregon and Idaho would be sought. & Belfast, Ireland, is conducting a cam- against. gambling on foot ball. gon, who resigned from the House to| 1 Affidavit Filed in Wife's Suit to| | tions Jail Sentence for Contempt. By the Associated Press. Harry F. Sinclair filed in the Sapreme | Court late yesterday a brief presente | ing arguments why he should not be | required to serve a three-month’s jail sentence for contempt in refusing to answer questions of a Senate commit- tee on the naval oil leases. After his conviction Sinclair took the case to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals which asked the Supreme Court for instructions as to whethey his conduct had constituted contempt of the Senate. In his brief the oil operator contend- ed.that the Government, having initi- ated proceedings agalnst him in the courts on charges of conspiracy to de- fraud in connection with his Teapot Dome lease, he could not be compelled | to give information before the Senate committee which might be used to his disadvantage in the trial of the case. The brief insisted that the Senate had lost jurisdiction over the whole subject so far as Sinclair was concerned when it adopted a resolution urging that the whole transaction be brought to the attention of the courts. It added that the Senate committee, after the oil man's Mdictment, should have made no further attempt to question him on the subject. Sinclair also took the position in his brief that the question asked by Sena- tor Walsh, Democrat, Montana, prose- | cutor for the Senate committee, called jfor a disclosure of his private business | affairs into which the ceammittee had |no right to direct an inquiry and in | which he was fully justified in refus- ing to answer. The brief further took up the pro. ceedings in the contempt trial, insist ing that the trial court had improperly restricted the field of inquiry to be made by the jury by its instructions. It added that the jury also should have been instructed to decide whether the | facts warranted his refusal to answer. . E. D. Massie Expires, Special Dispatch to The Star. | LYNCHBURG, Va., December 18— Edward D. Massie, 56 years of age, died | late Saturday night at Lynchburg Hos- fpm‘\l. having been ill two weeks. He is survived by the following children: Leonard Massie of Bluefield, W. Va.; | Willlam Massie of Amherst and Mrs. | Hubert Lee, Mrs. Paul Mays, Mrs. Cor- { bin Trent and Charlie Massie of Lynch- burg. . Canadian Premier Is 54, OTTAWA, December 18 (#).—Mes- | sages of good will and wishes, by tele~ 1 graph, cable and mail and over the tele- phone, poured in upon Premier Mac- kenzie King at Laurier House today upon the occasion of the fifty-fourth anniversary of his birth. The messages came from all sections of-Canada and the United States and from overseas. N Nt;xl':]h’em l}reln:’d E;:; has ::o and one-] miles of WAy every m‘l mile of land

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