Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 17

29, THE FEVE Blaine M. Taxhorn, Kansas City pilot, loading a can of gasoline into the “synchnonized cata- pult” invention with which he attempted to break the refueling endurance flight Mo., in the monoplane shown in the background. cord at Marshall, The device worked satisfactorily, but the flight ended after 11 hours when the plane’s wheels accidentally touched the ground in one of the attempts to refuel at night. Pope Pius attending the opening of the new Vatican library in the halls of the Belvedere. He is shown making his tour of inspection of the book tiers of the library, in which and high dignitaries of the Vatican. he was accompanied by 16 cardinals —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. NOTE OFFERS CLUE N KIDNAPING CASE {fnonymous Letter Directs Police to Hiding Place of Officer’s Abductor. Mothers Charged With Shoplifting Put on Probation | — | Court Recognizes Exten- uating Circumstances in Case Against Trio. Taking into conslderation that three women charged with shoplifting were mothers, that they had no previous records and that they had committed | the offenses during the Christmas holi- | Acting on information given in an pnonymous letter .to Inspector Brown Police this afternoon expected to arrest | khe man who Wednesday night kid- maped Trafic Officer Carl Lassiter from dis post of duty at Ninth and F streets. | The letter received this morning is | understood to have given information Which the writer said would lead to the {kidnapers arrest. It was understood the letter spe- | rified an address in an exclusive section P! the city where the kidnaper would be | found. Police would not divulge details | in the letter. | Detective Sergeant Dennis Cullinane, %ho is at work on the case, said he did ot expect an arrest before tonight. The finding yesterday at Third and | B streets northeast of the automobile | in which the policeman was abducted | from his post of duty serves to strength- en the theory that the kidnaper is| hiding here, police believe. Intending to make an arrest, Las-| siter, who was on traffic duty at the| intersection, entered the gunman’s| automobile and found himself covered | with a revolver. His abductor drove to a vacant lot near the District Jail, | where he forced Lassiter out, beat him, | fired two shots and fled. Lassiter believes his assailant lives in or near Washington, although the automobile bore 1928 Ohio tags. He bases his belief on the man's familiarity with the city and on evidence con- tained in certain papers shown him by the stranger prior to the kidnaping. Local police officials are in com munication with Ohio authorities, seck- ing to trace the man to whom the license tags on the car were issued. It i5 believed the machine may have been stolen and that the driver feared capture. Lassiter, whose injuries were mnot serious. has been a member of the de- partment for two iz Lanham, Md JULIAN GRIFFITH DEAD. Md., County Elgction Supervisor. Boecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, January 4—| Julian Griffith, 82 years old, former member of the county board of election supervisors and a farmer of wide ac- guaintance, died of pneumonia last might, after a long illness, at home near Darnestown, Md. Julian Griffith of Washington, D. C. ‘Ulysses of Philadelphi: Reginald of Chicago and Clyde Griffith of Darnes- town were sons, and Miss Virginia Griffith of Darnestown and Mrs. Ethel Mulligan of Baltimore daughters. He leaves a sister, Mrs. John Larcombe of Washington, D. and a brother, Ulysses Griffith of Laytonsville, th county. Funeral services will be he’ mt the late residence at 2 p.m. tomor- Fow, Darnestown, Man Formerly | dren, another of four and the third I word received here. vears and resides|! | Miss” Margaret R. Paine, Mrs, days, Judge Ralph Given suxpflndcd; sentence and placed them on probation for one year when they appeared in | Police Court today. Mrs. Effie Balakos, Mrs. Maud Wolfers- | burger and Mrs. Bland Johnson Keyser were the trio. Judge Given warned the women he | was placing them on probation through consideration of their children, but | that if they returned they must serve. One woman is the mother of six chil- | of one. A total of $75 was forfelted by Elizabeth Thomas when she failed to appear in Police Court to answer a charge of shoplifting. Judge Given ordered a writ of at- tachment to issye. She gave police an out-of-town address when apprehended. MRS. ELMER E. PAINE DIES AT HER HOME IN MIAMI Left Washington for Florida in 1925—Husband Was Member of A. P. Bureau Here. Mrs. Elmer E. Paine, 76 years old, formerly of this city, died at her home in Miami, Fla., last night, according to One of her daughters, Miss Margaret R. Paine, in charge of music education at the St. Agnes Schoo}, Kayoto, Japan, was aboard a steamer rushing to her bedside when death occurred. Mrs. Paine’s husband was formerly a member of the Associated Press Bureau here. They left this city for Miami in 925, Besides her husband and daughter, Paine leaves a son, Lieut. Comdr. Roger Paine, head of the specification section of the designing division, Bureau of Engineer- ing, United States Navy, stationed in Washington, and two other daughters, Miss Dorothy Paine, who was with her parents in Miami, and Mrs. Vivian P. Woodward of Bright Waters, Long Island. She also leaves two brothers, Alfred Humphries of Springficld, Ohio, tand the Rev. Otho F. Humphries of { Lexington. Mass. s active here as in St. | Pa Episcopal Church, | and was founder of a mission now the parish of the Church of the Trans- figuration. She had been in failing health for the past 10 months and had been confined to bed for the past six months. Mrs, Paine was a native of Felicity, Ohio. She was a graduate in medicine and dental surgery from the University of Michigan and was at one | Two Planes Used in Reaching Mar- —Wide World Photos. “Gorgeous Georges” follows the challenger for the world heavyweigh XING _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 19 stage. Georges Carpentier, one-time t title and idol of French ring fans, does a dancing-boxing stunt with Miss Noel Cardew, English beauty prize winner, in a new revue on the London stage. as son of the Federal Radio Commission, Henry H. Glassie, ant solicitor pf the State Department, —Wide World Photos. At left: tions payments, as the Berengaria from his Berlin financial expert faced a barrage of questions from news- paper men relating to his recent report. Miss Louise McPhetridge, whose new altitude flight record for women of 20,270 feet has just been approved here by the National Aeronautic Association, is shown after completing the flight at Oakland, Calif. She is examining the barograph which recorded her altitude with an Oakland official of the aeronautic association. ~—Associated Press Photo. Attending banguet given to Assistant Attorney General George R. Farnum of Boston last night at the University Club to mark the conclusion of his second year at the Department of Justice. Left td right: Maj. William W. Smith, general counsel of the Veterans' Bureau; Chairman Ira E. Robin- special assistant to the Attorney General; Thomas Carens, Mr. Farnum, William R. Vallance, and P. D. Cronin, assistant solicitor of the Department of Agriculture. —Star Staff Photo. MISé GENTRY KEEPS VIRGINIA DINNER DATE tinsville—Will Try to Reclaim Endurance Honors, Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSVILLE, Va., January 4.— Miss Viola Gentry, aviatrix, kept a ban- quet engagement here last night. Dark- ness had forced her plane down 30! miles away on a flight from New York, but she went to Danville and flew an- other plane to the local flying field. She said she would try January 25 to reclaim the woman's endurance flying 1ecord from Miss Bobbie Trout of Cali- fornia, and, if she can secure backing, will attempt a flight to Austria. Sev- eral hundred automobiles were gathered }in a ring and their headlights trained on the fiying field here when she was | cxpected last night. DANVILLE MAN EXPIRES. Special Dispotch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., January 4 —Funeral vices for Frank Talbott, 59 years old, who died last night, four days after be- ing seized with influenza, will be held tomorrow. For 30 years he had been identified with the city government, and a year ago was voted an annual honora- rium of $5,000 as city counselor. He was credited for the success here of municipal ownership of utilities. For years he gnd led the temperance forces and was identified with numerous busi- time a member of the faculty there. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but it is expected that the body will be brought here for burial, ness corporations and organizations. He was first married to Miss Grace Lindsey and later to Miss Ida Lipscombe, who survives with three childrex R DR. EDWARD DEVINE RESIGNS TO ACCEPT HEALTH POSITION Espousal of Smith Candidacy Recalled by Offer of New York Place. American University Officials Say Departure Caused by Salary Increase. Dr. Edward T. Devine, dean of the Graduate School and professor of so- cial economy at American University, whose espousal of the cause of Gov. Alfred E. Smith in the recent presi- dential campaign caused surprise al the university, has resigned to become | Bellevue-Yorkville | director _of the Health Demonstration in New York City, it was announced today at the university. Unofficially it was made clear that Dr. Devine’s resignation was in no way connected with his utterances for Gov. Smith, but that a large increase in salary was his motive for the change. University officials explained that just a few weeks ago Dr. Devine had been engaged for another year at the uni- versity along with the renewal of con- tracts of all the facuity. While Dr. De- vine's announcement for Gov. Smith caused considerable surprise and un- official criticism about the university, founded by Methodists, there never was any officlal criticism of his view- point despite se 1 unverified reports that he had been talled on for an ex- planation. The resignation of Dr. Devine | committee of the hoard of trustees of | F street, the Graduate School, and will was SLIGO VALLEY PARK PLANS COMPLETED Planning Commission Engineer Chief Also Determines Mary- land Park Boundaries. Chief Engineer Irving C. Root of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission announced yes- | terday that the commission has com- pleted a proposed layout for Sligo Val- ley Park from the Prince Georges Coun- ty line, at Carroll avenue, to the Coles- ville road, at Seven Oaks, and that the proposed boundaries of the Maryland Park in Rock Creek Valley have also been determined. The plan of the development of Sligo Valley Park includes not on'y drives, but the location of bridle patas, swim- ing pools, tennis courts, base ball, foot ball and basket ball fields and public recreation houses. Home Club to Meet. Spectal Dispatch to The Sta: | BURKE, Va,, January 4—The Home Demonstration Club will meet next Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. B. Davis, to continue the work {on basket making. The members are planning to make a special basket for the Community Hall. DR. EDWARD T. DEVI accepted this morning by the executive the institution at a meeting at 1901 trustees, declared he would look for an official to succeed Dr. Devine. Miss Ruth Devine, daughter of Dr. Devine, who has been registrar cf the Graduate School and the School of the Political Sciences of American Univer- sity during her father's service here, has also mlgnrd her position in «1der return with the family to New York where. taey formerly lived.. S take effect February 1. The Bellevue-Yorkville health demon- stration is carried on under auspices of the Milbank Memorial fund, and the Health Department of New York City is only one of several agencies co- operating. Dr. Lucius C. Clark, chancellor, in announcing the action of the board of.' ¢ Parker Gilbert, agent general for repara- s he arrived at New York yesterday on Above: post. The American West Tolant tly issued reparations Ireland. —Wide World Photos. another big-ship The rockbound coast of Ireland claims ictim. The American freighter sharing the fate of the liner Celtic as she awaits her doom on the rocks near Bangor, —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. American film stars join the Winter sportsfolk at St. Moritz. Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland bundled up against the Alpine chill of the famous Swiss recort as they start off for a sleigh ride. —Assoclated Press Photo. Seeks Annulment | Of Christmas Eve ! Rockville Marriage 'Edward R. Lowndes, Jr., Says He Was Intoxicated At Ceremony. Annulment of a midnight Christmas | eve marriage at Rockville is asked in a petition filed today in the District isuprrme Court by Edward R. Lowndes, |ir, 1875 Mintwood place, | Theresa Lorraine Browne, 3701 Six- | teenth street. Lowndes tells the court he was extremely intoxicated and had | only known the young woman two days | when he was cajoled into hiring a taxi- | cab and riding to Rockville. It was not {until January 2, he sa that he | realized that he had been married. ‘Through Attorney J. Robert Esher, | the plaintiff tells the court that the | marriage was performed without his conscious knowledge and consent be- canse of the great amount of intoxi- cating liquot that he had been drink- ing for more than a month, which made him mentally incapacitated from con- tracting a valid marriage. Towndes says he was completely unaware of the seriousness and solem- nity of the act he was about to perform and “allowed himself to. be coaxed, cajoled and coerced into hiring a taxi- cab and journeying to Rockville,” where | the ceremony was performed at mid- night. ! DELEGATES FAVOR COURTHOUSE FUNDS IMontgomary County Committee to Be Advised of Attitude on Au- thorization Legislation. | _Members of the Maryland House of | Delegates from Montgomery County an- ; nounced yesterday upon their return | from Annapolis that they had agreed o vote for a bill authorizing & bond issue, as recommended by the court- house building committee for an ade- quate county courthouse and main administration building at Rockville. ‘The courthouse building committee will be advised at a meeting at Rock- ville this afternoon of the delegates’ attitude. The delegates will advise the | committee they favor a bond issue suffi- against | Y, CENTRAL PLANS . ELEGTRIFIED ROAD Newspaper Deciares Project, Costing $75,000,000 Up, Would Use Niagara Power. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 4--The New York Times said yesterday that the New | York Central Railroad has under con- sideration a plan to electrify its system between New York and Buffalo and use power from Niagara Falls. The project would cost from $75,000,000 upward. The projected em of electrifica- | tion would cover a distance of nearly | 500 miles, surpassing the 300-mile elec- rification project recently announced v the Pennsylvania Railroad. It would further expand the capacity of the New York Central, which already quadrupling its lines at many of the points where four tracks are not al- ready used. Although news that a power survey | is under way was confirmed by the New York Central, the railroad said no con- clusion on the electrification project had been reached. “For several years power companies, in conjunction with our own engineers, have been making surveys of our possi- ble future power needs,” said a state- ment from the president’s office of the New York Central. “These surveys are a normal procedure, inasmuch as the railroad has to look ahead many years. While the results of some of these su: veys have been lald before the com- pany, no conclusion as to the possible 2lectrification of our lines between Corton-on-the-Hudson and Buffalo, N. Y., has been reached.” A special committee, in which the mechanical engineering department of the New York Central is represented, has bene conferring with power com- pany officials on the electrification of the railroad. VETERAN DEAD AT 92. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Vi January 3.— Capt. L. K. Justis, 92 years old,Va Con- federate veteran and retired farmer, who was the head of a family of 109 descendants, died Tuesday at his home in Madison Heights after a short ill- ness. He was a native of Nottoway County. He came here in 1877. He is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Laurle Roberson Justis; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Cash; three sons, L. H | cientl | present site, between Court street and Frederick road. The purchase of additional land would allow adequate parking space around the new courthouse and give the structure a suitable set-off and architectural bal- ance, it is stated by the architects. The purchase of the land would eliminate the bad traffic conditions. The meeting this afternoon will be attended by the courthouse builling committee, the +county commissioners, Senator Jones and the members Delegates.. TR émun { collis! the House of transit company and a truck of ¢ large to acquire additional land | W. E. and W. €. Justis, 43 grandchii- for the courthouse grounds west of the dren, 67 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild. o Collision Victim Asks $50,000. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md, January 4.— Mrs. Josep! Metz has entered suit in the Circuit Court here it the Cum- rsonal injuries received in & tween a bus operated by the the oil g asedl