Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1929, Page 13

T HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1929. A close finish on the opening day of the Miami racing scason at Hialeah Park. Sun Altos is winning this one as they flash by the pole. turned out for the opening About 1 card of the 51-day meet. Olympic mermaid rides seahorse at Palm Beach. Martha Norelius, one of the world's fastest swimmers, is disporting in the tepid waters of Florida these days to keep in shape for next Summer’s swimming meets. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. 5,000 racing fans —Assoclated Press Photo. The modern co-ed “milkmaid.” Miss Mabel Maas, majoring in dairy husbandry at the State College of Washington, is earning her way through college by caring for the dairy machinery in the college creamery. —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. At left: Miss Florence Trumbull, fiancee of John Coolidge, son of the President, proves a good beginner at trapshooting under the tutelage of her father, Gov. John H. Trumbull of Connecticut. The picture was taken Above: through ice jai Dynamite also during their Winter vacation near St. Petersburg, Fla. —Wide World Photos. 1z 5 {8 % Saas T ¥ Srsasnseen® BOATLIATEN b ooy & A% iz Finally satisfied with table inlay job that took 14 years. That is how long Frank Harris of Centralia, Wash., has worked on this table top, which is inlaid with 66 different kinds of imported hardwoods. —Associated Press Photo. Finland's flying phantom wins distance runner, showing the way to country champion, in the special 3,000- meet. He bettered his previous record Tug boats caused damaging floods smashing their way ms in Buffalo harbor, which have there this Winter. has been used to break the ice jam. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. again. _Paave Nurmi, the great Gus Moore, the national cross- yard race at the Brooklyn College time for the distance. —Associatad Press Photo. TWELVE LOSE LIVES N TEXAS CRASHES Seven Members of Family Die| When Their Auto Is Hit by Train. P8y the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., January 21.—Acci-| rcnts involving automobiles killed at | east a dozen persons in Texas over the | fweek end and as many others were dan- | [gerously injured. Seven members of a Mexican family, | :cludmg several children, met death at | inlay crossing, West of Sierra Blanca, twhen their automobile was struck by & Bouthern Pacific passenger train yes- | Merday, two were killed in accidents at PDallas, and in Forth Worth Bert Wilson | DMyers, alleged driver of a car which fgatally injured O. H. Redden, a fire- pnan, was charged with murder. In the Slerra Blanca accident, Ale- jandro and Esequel Hernandez, with Mheir wives and three children, were #illed. Another child, Francisco, 2, may )i, and Simon Hernandez's legs were Broken. Simon, the driver, attempted to | joply the brakes, but succeeded only in | ng his car in the path of the train. Dies of Internal Injuries, In the Fort Worth accident Mr.| Redden was uncoupling hose after a| fire when struck by an automobile. He | cied from internal injuries. W. O. Warner of Waco was injured | fatally in Dallas late Saturday night when a third automobile crashed into two others which had collided on a! viaduct. Charles Brandon of Dallas | was recovering today from injuries re- ceived in the same accident. Bran- don’s legs were broken and one was |mputated. Eight others received less serious in- | in this mishap. L. L. Case, Dallas, was fatally in- Jured when his machine turned over on Dallas-Fort Worth pike yesterday. Auto Crashes Into Culvert. At Mason, Tex., Lester Nix was killed @nd Byron Hazeltine, 19, injured when their automobile crashed into a culvert -while the driver, Fritz Surber. was at- 'gempting to adjust the headlights. Wallace Wisniewski, 36, was killed fmear Brenham when ‘his automobile | lgkidded on wet pavement | Dr. E. A. White of the physics de- | artment, Baylor Univer: was in a| pital ‘with head injuries received | his car overturned | | FOUR DIE AT CROSSING. | Mother and Two Sons Are | Victims of Train. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., January 21 {(P).—A father, mother and their two gons lost their lives yesterday when 2 railroad train struck their automobile on a grade crossing near Montrose, Ontario, a few miles from Niagara Falls, Ontario, 47; his wife igons. Jlobu, 1% #Father, es, 42, and their two d Josgph, 7. Samuel DETENTION HOUSE BEING REMODELED Work on Kitchen Being Spe- cially Pushed in 'New Quarters. An army of plasterers, carpenters and | plumbers 1s at work today remodeling | the new House of Detention, at Sixth street and Louisiana avenue. On the fourth floor the kitchen is being rapidly “put together” and it is expected that work will be finished by this evening, so that all cooking re- quired may-be done on the premises after tomorrow. The midday meal to- day was prepared in one of the recrea- tion rooms, where a new electric, fire- less cooker has been temporarily installed. 4 The staff and the prisoners moved Saturday night into the new house. At that time there were 9 prisoners but this morning’s roll-call was answered by 20 women, white and colored. The prisoners were taken from the old home in two.automobiles, one assigned to the Women's Bureau, the other to the House of Detention. Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, chief of the bureau, expressed herself as opposed to the use of the patrol wagon. At present all prisoners, white and colored, are obliged to remain in the recreation room on the fourth floor, as | the third-floor room is not at present | ready for occupancy. Prisoners are be- | ing employed in settling the new home, helping in the cleaning, putting the dormitories in condition and placing | supplies in closets and on shelves. A laundry with new equipment is be- ing installed under the kitchen on the third floor. The laundry in the old building at 908 B street southwest has been removed by the authorities to be used in other institutions throughout the District. . Marie Visits Constantinople. ! CONSTANTINOPLE, January 21| (). —Queen Marie of Rumania and her daughter, the Princess Ileana, arrived yesterday for a short visit. Mancuso driver of the car, suffered a broken leg and head lacerations. TRAIN KILLS FOUR YOUTHS. CHICAGO, January 21 (#).—Four young people returning from a birthday party were killed early yesterday when their automobile was struck by a ’enn- sylvania passcnger train in Calumet City. The dead: Grace Walker, 18, Hammond, Ind.; Rose Moran, 21; Charles Wright, 20, and James Lorenz, 20, all of Chicago. The party had been celebrating Lorenz's twentieth birthday at his home and were taking Miss Walker to Ham- mond. . The train was Chicago bound from Springfield, Ohio. The automobile was driven by Wright. None of the train {crew was held. The crossing is unguarded, and police \ | | ured the ple in the small coupe hadyobsc: driver's vislon e Finisn of a dogsled race on concrete! Boston snowless as it arrived first in the 220-mile race from Berlin, N. H. It was pretty tough going for this Eskimo dog team of Edward P. Clark when it found the streets of —Associated Press Photo. “DRY” WASHINGTON URGED AS EXAMPLE Speaker Declares Enforce- ment Fund Should Await Needed Reform. ‘Washington should be dried up as an example to the country before “another dollar” is appropriated to enforce pro- hibition throughout the country, Clin- ton N. Howard, chairman of the Na- tional United Committee for Law En- forcement, told a rally yesterday at Calvary Baptist Church. “What is the use of trying to dry up the whole country with any sum of money,” he asked, “if the Government canpot dry up its Capital where it has supreme authority?"” Help should be extended to Maj. Ed- win B. Hesse, superintendent of police, to enforce prohibition, Howard said. “The hands of Maj. Hesse,” he de- clared, “are tled by lack of authority, inadequate legal machinery, congested courts, inferior juries, and beggarly ap- propriations.” He suggested appropria- tion of $100,000 for Maj. Hesse to dry up the Capital. Mrs. Cordelia Boyce Pinchot, wife of the former Governor of Pennsylvania, suggested the buyer be made equally guilty in the eyes of the law with the seller, and that police be given more authority through search warrants, S sasl The largest telescope ever made, twice as big and four times as powerful The dead were Frank Bretti, |believe that the crowding of four peo-|as the present one, will be erected on some California mountain top, It will have a 200-inch reflector, GOL. ROBINSON DIES; CHEMISTRY EXPERT ly Taught Science at Military Academy. Col. Wirt Robinson, 64 years old, U.' ‘S A, retired, former professor of chem- i |istry, mineralogy and geology at the' | United States Military Academy, died {vesterday in Tilden Hall Apartments, | where he had recently moved. He had | been in failing health for several weeks. ' Col. Robinson was a patient at Walter Reed Hospital, until Decembe: 117, when he left to go to his birthplace {in Buckingham County, Va. He had |ju:¢ returned to this city. i He was graduated from the U. S, Mili- ; tary Academy in 1887, and first joined the faculty at West Point in 1891. Later | he served at the Washington Barracks | juntil 1894, and from that date to 1898 | | was assigned to Harvard University as | | professor of military science. Subse- | iquently in 1903 he was in command lof a company at Moro Castle, Havana Harbor. Fron 1906 to 1911 he was assistant, professor at West Point. From 1911 to the time of his retirement for age, October 16, 1928, he was professor at the Military Academy. Widely known as an expert on chem- istry, mincralogy and geology, Col. Rob- inson did much to build the high stand- ards of the Military Academy, l He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nancy Robinson~a son, Russell Robin- #0n of West OrJige, N. J.; & daughiet, 1Retired Army Officer Former- ‘ | | It i URGES ONE PLANT FOR D.C. PRINTING Efficiency Bureau Recom- mends Transfer of All Equip- ment to Lorton. The Bureau of Efficiency in a report received by the District Commissioners today recommended abolishment of the District Printshop, in the basement of the District Building, and of the Police Printshop, located at the Traffic Bureau, and transfer of the printing equipment to the reformatory at Lorton. At the same time, the burcau recom- mended that a central duplicating plant {be set up and that the various dupli- cating machines, of which bureau in- vestigators found 26 in operation in va- rious offices of the District government, be assembled at the plant and all du- plicating work be done there, Most of the District's printing is now done at the Government Printing Office under a former recommendation by the bureau. The present recommendation is made to carry the details of the former to their logical conclusion. Under the new set-up suggested, the printer now attached to the purchas- Ing department would receive all re- quests for printing or duplicating work {from all District offices or institutions, and would send them either to the Government Printing Office or to Lor- ton or to the new duplicating office, according to his best judgment. The two policemen who now operate the COL. WIRT ROBINSON. Miss Evelyn Byrd Robinson, brother, Cabell Robinson, resides in Virginia. Funeral services wi West Point Wednesd: afternoon at 3:45 o'clock. The body will be accom- panied to West Point by members of the family and by Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Fred Sladen of the 3d Corps Area; Col. and Mrs. Gustav Fiedeger and by Maj. A. W. Chilton of this city. Burial will be at West Point with military honors. and a The latter be conducted at Because of the large number of cat- tle grazing on xlnarshy llnd‘z Holland is waging an extensive crusade against gulosisy dor quy g the siceets, i FOUR ARE INIURED IN AUTO MISHAPS Mrs. Morton C. Patterson Is| Severely Hurt When | Truck Hits Car. | ! i Mr. and Mrs. Morton C. Patterson, 1824 G strect northeast were injured, yesterday afternoon | automobile collided at| |Eighth and R streets with a truck | driven by Charles Jackson, colored, 28, | of 314 Dixon court southwest. | Mr. Patterson was driving east on R | street, police reported, while the truck | was moving north on Eighth street. The { impact overturned the truck. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were taken to Emergency Hospital in a passing automobile. Mrs. Patterson received a severe in- | jury to her scalp and left ankle. She was given first aid and taken home. Mrs. Carrie E. Downs, 40, of 922 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, was se- riously injured in a reported hit-and- |run traffic accident at Pennsylvania avenue and Ninth street southeast, only a short distance from her home. She was crossing near an intersection when a sedan struck her. The victim, suffer- ing from a fracture of the collarbone, fractured ribs and a severe injury to her head, was taken to Casualty Hos- pital by W. E. Franks, 1112 I street southeast. | Police of the fifth precinct are hunt- |ing the driver of the car. A third woman seriously injured in a | traffic accident yesterday was Mrs. Vir- | ginia Brown, 49, apartment 53, 1423 R | | street. Mrs. Brown was crossing the| roadway near her home last night when she was knocked down by an automo- bile driven by John Grove, jr., of Fred- erick, Md. She was taken to Emer- gency Hospital in a passing automobile | and treated by Dr. Walter Gladding for | @ severe injury to her head. Her condi- | tion was reported undetermined. |ZION BAPTIST CHURCH OFFICERS ARE ELECTED{ Reports on Year's Work Are Read | | at Annual Business Meeting. The annual meeting of the Zion Bap- tist Church was held Friday night, with | election_of officers and yearly reports from officers and auxillaries. "The fol- | lowing were elected: | Rev. W. L. Washington, pastor: Wil- | liam G. Opey, clerk; James A. Brown, | treasurer. Trustees—R. C. Brooks, O. W. Mc- Donald, Samuel D. Matthews, Samuel Middleton, James D. Campbell, Dr. W. A._Tolson, Clarence W. Tignor. Deacons—Joseph Manning, Richard H. Chatman, Asa M. Reeves, Isaiah Cunningham, John W. Evans, Ezekiel Cunningham, James McCall, W. A. Becker, H. H. Naylor, Charles B. Walker. Sunday school superintendent, S. D. Matthews; president of Foreign Mis- slonary Society, Mrs. Maggie Johnson; APPEALS ON DEATH BED FOR ASSAILANT 23-Year-0ld Policeman, Vic- tim of Drink-Crazed Man’s " Bullet, Dies. Pleading to the end for the drink- crazed man who shot him, John F. Mc- Auliffe,s youthful policeman from the seventh precinet, died in Georgetown Hospital this morning of a bullet wound inflicted last Saturday night. After shooting the 23-year-old po- liceman, Samuel Jenkins, 1213 Thirty- fourth street, turned his pistol and shot himself just above the heart. He is expected to recover and has been | charged with murder. A strange scene was witnessed by the little group of doctors and nurses at- tending the two men in the hospital emergency room Saturday night. First they saw Jenkins turn on his side and recognize the man he had mortally wounded. “Forgive me, mister,” he whispered, “I didn't know-—" Without hesitation, Mc- Auliffe smiled weakly and answered, “sure.” Pleads for Assailant. This morning the hospital doctors told Mrs. Mary McAuliffe that her son had but a short while to live. While she was sitting at his bedside during hi‘s( last hour, he turned to her and saie: “He snot me, motner, and he shot himself. But he didn't know what he was doing. They mustn’t prosecute him. Promise me that you won't let them.” Likeable Youngster. “He was one of the most likeable youngsters I have ever known, and he would have been a mighty, good police- man. John would never have made the force if it had not been for the fact that every one liked him so well. He almost losg out while on probation be- cause he %as 4 pounds underweight. | They put him on anyhow and told he would have to make up the weight in a week. He did it, too, and was as happy as a kid.” McAuliffe lived with his parents in Friendship Heights, Md. In addition to his mother, he is survived by father, John D. McAuliffe; two sisters, Mary and Eleanor, and three brothers, James, Thomas and Stephen. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Dr. J. A. Cannon said this morning ! that " Jenkins probably would recover unless pneumonia sets in during the . He has shown consid- erable improvement since last night, de- spite the fact that the bullet passed entirely through his body. Jenkins is married and the father of two children, Doris, 12, and Wilton, 15 years old. McAuliffe attended Business High School, playing on the base ball and foot ball teams there. He graduated in 1923. Since that time he has taken an printing plant would be released ' president of Home Missionary Society, Mrs. Bertha H. Collins; president of Senior C. E. Society, Mrs. K. E. Ed- munds, S 24Tk l active part in sandlot base ball, manag- ing the Chevy Chase Bearcats several yeapg ago. He also served in the Na- uo:&auudulm -