Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1929, Page 21

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JANUARY 27, .]fl‘lfl—-T‘.\RT T PRACTICALJOKER HAS HHOLD T Coctor, Ambulance, Under- taker and Waiter Inter- rupt Party. A practical joker with a distorted sense of humor threw a jolly social gathering at 1726 Seventeenth street into a near panic last night by per-, suading a doctor, two undertakersand a Chinese waiter to make professional | calls at the apartment of M. A. Men- delson on the strength of false tele- phone messages. Mr. and Mrs. Mendelson were enter- taining, and had invited six of their friends to their apartment. Mrs. Men- delson was putting the baby to bed | shortly after 10 o'clock, when the party was interrupted by some one pounding heavily on the door. Mr. Mendelson admitted Dr. John J. Lynch of 3120 N street. “Where's the sick baby,” the physi- clan asked. “What sick baby?” the slightly be- | wildered Mr. Mendelson asked. “My wife has just put ours to bed. The®e’s nothing wrong with him.” Both par- ties concluded that some mistake had been made and Dr. Lynch departed. Undertaker Calls. ‘The conversation had just been re- sumed when another knock was heard. | ‘This time it was S. H. Hine, under-‘ taker. He had come with his am- bulance for the sick woman. Mr. Mendelson this time was more | than bewildersd. He was entirely and completely nonplused. The thing was beyond all understanding so he con- tented himself with pointing out to Committee in charge of the affair, which will be held at L'Aiglon Thurs- day night. Left to right: Charles Bell, Hoover P. Wentworth, John Erly, Wil- liam Lantz and Ray Taylor. DIRECTS HOUSE PAGES’ DANCE Cut in Pay Seen SHANKS JURY DISAGREES IN FUND DIVERSION CASE | Robert L. McKeever, Joseph D. Drey- COFETOOBSNE 700 JNVERHRY | Record-Breaking Attendance K Is Expecetd at Annual Ban- quet Saturday Night. | | I Indications point to a record-break- | | ing attendance at the annual banquet | jof the Washington Chamber of Com- | . merce Saturday night, February 9, at the Mayflower Hotel, in observance .of | the twenty-second anniversary of the | | organization of the chamber. Already | several hundred tickets have been | pledged. | Chamber of Commerce members show | a keen interest in the annual banquet. Committees this year are projecting it | on a larger ccale, with a special enter- | | tainment program. | Senator Bingham of Connecticut, new chairman of the District appropriations | subcommittee of the Senate appropri- | ations committee, has been selected to deliver the principal address. ‘Although the entertainment program is incomplete it includes Libbey and | Gorman, dancers, a special program by a group of interpretative dancers from the Marjorie Webster School of Expres- | sion and Physical Education, and | George O'Connor in a series of humor- | ous skits. Arrangements for the banquet are | under direction of the board of direc- | tors of the chamber and an executive | committee made up of Ivan C. Weld, chairman; Charles W. Darr, C. Melvin Sharpe, Rudolph Jose, W. McK. Stowell, Ernest E. Herrell, Warren C. Kendall, | fuss, Harry S. Evans, Henry C. Cole and Directs Banquet IVAN C. WELD, Chairman of the committee for the forthcoming Chamber celebration. hairman; S. E. Burgess and Sid- ney enman. Reception—C. Melvin Sharpe, chair- man; Warren C. Kendall and Ernest E. | Herrell, | Invitations—Officers of the chamber. | ONE DIES IN TRAIN CRASH. | Thirty Injured When Wooden Cars Are Shattered in Chicago. CHICAGO, January 26 I!Py.—Onrk man was killed, another probably fatal- | ly injured and 30 other persons were hurt, several seriously, today when a of Commerce | S, STORY GVEN OVORGE N EHO i Operator Is Awarded $1,000 a Month. Special Dispatch to The Star. RENO, Nev.,, January 26.—A decree | | of divorce was awarded today to Mrs. | Jane Abert Story from John Patton Story, jr., Washington real estate opera- | | tor. The complaint and other papers in the case were sealed as soon as the | case was heard. The couple were mar- ried in Washington in April, 1900. Custody of a minor daughter was { awarded to Mrs. Story by the decree. | Through an agreement made several | weeks ago, Mr. Story is to pay his wife | 151,000 a month. The agreement also | provides that Mrs. Story shall receive other property. Payments are guaran- | teed through establishment of a trust. daughter marries, the monthly ments are to diminish or Mrs. Story is to receive a cash settlement and Mr. | Story is to provide for the daughter | until she marries. { During their residence here, Mrs. | Story's apartment was entered by a | | colored burgler with whom the daughter | talked for 15 minutes before he left with | a small amount of cash. The burglar was arrested later, and is now serving a sentence in the State prison. PARTY OVERTAKES LINER. | Rail Wreck Causes Leeds to Miss | Boat—Catches Launch. SAN FRANCISCO, January 26 (#).— | ife of D. C. Real Estate If Mrs. Story remarries or the minor | pay- | 1.5, A0 MEXGD AR LINK WELDED International Operating Ar- | rangements for Mail and | Transport Lines Completed. Completion of international operating arrangements linking United States air- mail and air transport lines directly with those of Mexico was announced here late yesterday by J. T. Trippe, president of Pan-American Airways, planes between the United States and the West Indies. | "The operating arrangement, entered into between Pan-American Airways lanfl the Compania Mexicana de Avia- | cion, Mr. Trippe said, will provide a di- | rect air transportation system from the Central and Western sections of the | United States to the West Indies, Cen- which operates mail and passenger air- | 27 tral America and the Zone by way of Mexico. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will pilot the first air-mail plane inaugurating | service over the pan-American line from Miami, Fla., to Colon, Panama, on | February 4, Mr. Trippe said. Col. Lind- | bergh will fly a big twin-motored am- phibian plane and expects to make in 19 hours the trip which now requires from five days to two weeks by present | methods of travel. Col. Lindbergh is to appear tomorrow morning before the House committee on post offices and post roads to urge enactment by Congress of the Kelly bill authorizing the Postmaster General to enter into contracts for the carrying of the air mail over foreign air lines. So large a crowd is expected to hear the famous flyer that the committee will meet in the caucus room in the House Office Building. | Mr. Trippe said Pan-American Air- ways is one of the bidders for the Gov~- ernment contract to carry the airmail | from Brownsville, Tex., via Tampico to Mexico City or Vera Cruz. These bids | were opened yesterday. Should the | contract be awarded to Pan-American | Airways, Mr. Trippe said, the company will carry the United 'S | mails over this route as sub-contractors to Pan-American Airways. This serv- ice would be inaugurated about Feh- ruary 25 and Col. Lindbergh also may fly the first air liner from Brownsville to Mexico City. Panama Canal A Truly Remarkable Domestic Coal Great Valley Anthracite Mines in Virginia Prepared in All Sizes for Household Use—Contains No Mixtures ‘Those interested in materially reducing the cost of their fuel bills this Winter should try this unusual coal, and can obtain same at the following prices: Great Valley Egg....$12.75 Great Valley Stove .. Great Valley Nut . ... per gross ton 13.000 © 2240 Ibs. 12.75 For Police Units Dorsey W. Hyde, jr. train of wooden passenger coaches of | William B. Leeds, jr., son of the late the undertaker that everybody in the UNION COAL COMPANY apartment was well and sound, and | that his services were in no wise needed. Mr. Hine also departed. He was hardly out of the building when another knock was heard. The sound was sedate and ominous. After a moment’s hesitation Mendelson again opened the door. W. W. Chambers, another undertaker, walked into the apartment. In a sympathetic tone he inquired as to the location of the body. His hearse was outside, he said. Nobody’s Body Around. This was too much for Mr. Mendel- son. He was through. One of the guests stepped forward and asked for | details. Mr. Chambers explained that he had received a telephone call to come to the apartment and remove a body to his establishment. No, he did not know who made the call. The host informed the undertaker that there was no body, no’invalid woman and no sick baby. Somewhere there had been one or several mis- takes. Mr. Chambers also departed, wasting no time in doing so. The Mendelsons and their visitors | sat around the room in an agitated circle. Had the whole world gone crazy or did it include only undertakers and doctors? Before the question was settled an- other knock was heard. The men went to the door in a body, prepared for the worst, Chinese Makes Grade. A smiling Chinese waiter stood out- side, bearing a tray with eight dishes | of chow mein—one for each person in . the apartment. Some one had phoned and told him to bring the food—he Under Fund Bill Would Slash Allowance of Bicycle and Mounted Men, Statement Says. | Bicycle and horse mounted members | of the Metropolitan Police Force face what will constitute a substantial re- duction in pay unless certain main- tenance provisions written into the Dis- trict appropriation bill for 1930 are re- moved by the Senate, according to a statement issued yesterday by Sergt. Milton D. Smith, president of the Policemen’s Association. Sergt. Smith pointed out that the bill as passed by the House would cut the annual allowance to horse-mounted policemen from $450 to $360 and for bicycle men from $70 to $50. Police inspectors who use their private motor vehicles for official assignments also would suffer a reduction in maintenance allowance from $480 to $312 a year, ac- cording to the statement. Motor cycle officers, Smith said, apparently are not affected by the cuts. Police assigned to horse-mounted | details, the statement explained, must | buy their own mounts, feed them, | keep them shod, stable them and give | them veterinary service when needed. This cannot be done on $360 a year, the allowance granted by the House, Second Attempt to Convict Former Kentucky Auditor Results in Failure. By the Associated Press. | FRANKFORT, Ky., January 26.—| | The second effort to convict William | Dreyfuss, H. Shanks, former State auditor, of misappropriation of funds of the State | to his own use, failed today when the | jury reported it could not agree on a | verdict and was dismissed. A previous trial on the same charge, last Septem- ber, also resulted in a mistrial. The jury today voted eight to four for| acquital. ‘There are nine additional counts, n.lli charging misappropriation of the State | funds, against Shanks. Wade H. Whit- | ley, commonwealth’s attorney, said | however, that he did not know yet | whether Shanks would be brought to trial on these other counts. U. S. Man Ends Life in Nice. NICE, France, January 26 (#).—Jo- seph Jules Marx, 39, of Chicago, com- | mitted suicide tonight with a revolver | while seated in an automobile. Friends attributed his act to gambling losses. @] LOANS [¢% See Us and Be Convinced, 1st. nd ane #rd Trusts at Rates Thai Will Surprise You. Quick Service. FALTY LOAN CO. Special committees are: Time, place and menu—Charles W. Darr, chairman; Rudolph Jose and C. Melvin Sharpe. Seating—Henry C. Cole, chairman; Dr. Bernard A. Baer, Ernest E. Herrell and W. McK. Stowell. Decorations and favors—Joseph D. chairman; John S. Hornback, Arthur C. Smith and R. L. Pollio. Publicity—R. L. McKeever, chairman: Judge Mary O'Toole and Dorsey W.| Hyde, jr. 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Several men and women passengers are in critical condition, but are ex-| pected to recover. | “Tin Plate King,” his wife, the former | Princess Xenia of Greece, and a party |of 13 caught the Matson Liner Malolo | in midbay for Honolulu here today after |a hurried trip across the country in [specxal cars attached to a fast mail train. | _Because the train was held up for tree hours, owing to a wreck in Ne- ada, Leeds and his party took a launch Virtually all were at the Oakland side of the bay as the | residents of western suburbs en route | train halted, loaded its more than 100 | home from work for the Saturday after- | pieces of baggage in and caught the oon holida; ! Malolo as she backed from the pie: 901 S. Capitol St. B. F. JOY CO. 1112 9th St. N.W. CHAS SCHWARTZ & SON After-Inventory Month-End CLEARANCE 4 Days of Special Savings IA\'\J’E.'TORY cleaning time and this after-in- ventory, month-end clearance is a time is house Amsn(':d I’{rl: RICAN IC . T ¥ St Nw. JOHN P. 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