Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1929, Page 26

2 ® PROPERTY DAMAGE CHARGED T0 ThiD Pair Also Held Under Bond| on Allegation of Joy- | riding. Shirley Ridgeway and Walter Smith today were held in $1,000 bond on| charges of joyriding and destroying | property, and Harold Lewis is under $500 bond on the latter charge, and Joe Zimberg’s furniture in his house in the 400 block of O street is a wreck. Zimberg left his house because he was | superstitious after John W. McCarthy had committed suicide in it Saturday, ‘Hasty and Foolish,’ Says Wife, Asking Marriage Annulled Application has been made to the district Supreme Court to annul & “trial marriage.” which the wife ad- mits was “hasty and foolisn” by Mrs. Rose E. Porter. 1017 Sixteenth street, in a suit against Halbert L. Porter, described as an infant of 20 years. The wife tells the court that Porter called at her home August 28 last and a discussion arose over the sub- ject of modern marriages. Porter suggested that they try married life and accompanied by & friend they Journeyed to Rockville, where the ceremony was performed Immediately after the marriage Porter, according to the wife, ad- mitted that he is only 20 years old and that he had misled the clerk by telling him he was 21. They parted, the .wife says, and have never lived together. She is represented by At- the police declare. Police who visited Zimberg's house | yesterday iold Judge Gus A Schuldt in Police Court this morning. that Ridge- way and Smith stole an automobile yes- | terday afternoon and went to Zimberg's | house, where they met Lewis. The trio, | the police allege, then proceeded to | smash beds, chairs, a phonograph and | other furniture in the house and some bedclothing was afire when the officers arrived. The trio attempted to escape, the po- | lice told the court, but were captured | by Officers R. J. Barrett, R. H. Knapp | and H. L. Dull. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION CITED Ordered to Show Cause Why l)eci-‘i sion Should Not Be Rendered on Deposits. Justice . Wendell B. Stafford today cited the members of the Public Util- | ities Commission to show cause Feb- ruary 8 why they should not be re- quired to render a decision on the ap- plication of the Washington Consumers' | Gulld, through E. F. Riegel. 26 Jack- | son place, to require the Washington | Gas Light Co., the Potomac Electric | Power Co. and the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co. to render service | to the guild without requiring deposits. | ‘The court’s order is based on a peti- tion of Riegal in which he explains that he filed his application on behaif of the guild some months ago and that| the commission held a. public hearing | in December but had not rendered a decision. Riegel's attention was called by a Star reporter to the statement In a | morning paper that the commission had reached a decision last night to deny | the application of the Guild and to re- quire the public utilities to limit de- posits to an amount representing two | months’ prospective service. He had | not seen the paper, he said, and had | had no word from the commission as | to its decision. INDORéES CRAMTON BILL. | Representative Chalmers of Ohio yes- | terday received from W. J. Jackson, | mayor of Toledo, who Is vice president | of the State Planning Commission, a | letter heartily indo; the Cramton | bill for a comprehensive development of the park and parkway progrom for a greater Washington, including the ac- quisition of tracts and rights of way in Maryland and Virginia. John P. Agnew & Co., Inc. 728 14th Street N.W. Phone Main 3068 American Ice Co. J. Edward Chapman 37 N Street N.W. Phone North 3609 J. E. Colliflower & Co., Inc. 1001 15th Street N.W., Phone Main 5330 Joha F. is 1013 H § t N.E. Phone Lincoln 450 Dickey Brothers 1447 Maryland Ave. N.E. Phone Lincoln 6645 C. H. Fishbaugh & Son 1330 14th Street N.W. Phone North 514 R. J. & M. C. Grace 400 F Street N.E. Phone Lincoln 233 Griffith-Consumers Co. 1319 G Street N.W. Phone Franklin 4840 W.'H. Hessick & Son 14th & Water Sts. S.W. Phone Franklin 8127 Wm. King & Son 1151 16th St. N.W. Phone Decatur 273 Marlow Coal Company 811 E Street NW. Phone Main 311 ‘ Gea. M. McCulloch 3rd & P Streets N.W. Phone North 2993 torney Nelson E. Blechman. |ISLAND PRESIDENTS SEND COOLIDGE THANKS President Borno of Haiti, and Presi- dent Vasquez of Santo Domingo. have telegraphed individual messages of | thanks to President Coolidge for his ' messages of congratulations on t recent scttlement of long-standing fro» tier differences between the two Car: bean republics. President Borno said “was happy {o have shared in the real ization in the two republics of the island, of th> high Christian ideal of | peace 'and harmony of which your ex cellency is one of the most earnest apostles.” | The Dominican President said he was | higaly gratified that President Coolidge | considered the- scttlement of the old | controversy “as a high example to all| the nations of the world in the pacific | J. L. PRICE KILLS SELF. adjustment of international differences.” i Slashes Throat With Razor. BOSTON. January 29 (#).—James L. Price, secretary of the Boston Red Sox, committed suicide outside the offices of the club at Fenway Park today by slash- ing his throat with a razor. He had been despondent recently on account of ill health. . MAINTENANCE IS ASKED. U.-8. Geological Survey Engineer Is Sued by Wife. Separate maintenance is asked in a suit filed by Mrs. Charlotte Trimble, | | 1104 M street, against Kelly W. Trimble. topographical engineer of the United | States Geological Survey. They were married at Salt Lake City, Utah, October 7, 1920. The wife charges desertion. Trimble has a salary of $300 per month, owns Securities valued at $10,000, 2nd real estate, ac- cording to the wife’s petition. At- | torneys Ross H. Snyder and Edward C. Kriz appear for Mrs. Trimble. - Driver Given Heavy Fine. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. ARLINGTON COURTHOUSE, Va. January 29.—For a second offense of driving while intoxicated, J. H, Williams was fined $100 and sentenced to serve three months in jail by Police Judge Harry R. Thomas yesterday. ‘Two drivers were convicted for using District of Columbia instead of Virginia tags and three were atquitted. Check up on your THE- EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY,” JANUARY 29, 1929.' | SUMMERALL ADVOCATES STRONG DEFENSE PLAN | National Security Is Best Peace Insurance, He Tells War Mothers. The District of Columbia Chapter of | the American War Mothers gave a din- | ner at the Hamilton Hotel last evening [in honor of their national president, | Mrs. Th | speaking on the necessity of an ade- | quate national defense program, de- | clared it would not be necessary to em- | phasize the importance of "this to “mothers, who, having lost their sons in | war, reaiize that national sccurity is | the ‘best insurance for peac | _Other speakers included t. Col. | Frederick Wiiliam Van Dusne, Mnt | Gen. Amos A. Fries and Lieut. Col. K. | J. Hampton. | *"Mrs. Spence will be hostess at a tea this afternoon in she Hamilton for the | delegates to the defense conference. AYOUNG APPETITE. DIGESTS ANVTHING asiiaid Indigestion is the result of too | much acid in the stomach. It | sours your food, turns it into a | fermenting mass, gives you sick | headaches, bad breath, biliousness, i shoetness of breath, and that drowsy, don’t-care-what-happens feeling. 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Then you'll be sure of your Reading An- thracite—the better Pennsylvania hard coal. Famous READ|N G ammicie John Meiklejohn Van Buren & Sandy Spring Road N.W. Phone Georgia 621 David Melnick 1116 W Street N.W. Phone North 1988 Rinaldi Bros. 2145 Georgia Ave. N.W. Phone North 1600 R. N. Smith 471 E Street S.W. Phone Franklin 6907 Southern Bldg. Supply Co. 6000 Blair Road N.W. Phone Georgia 500 L. P. Steuart & Bro. 138 12th Street N.E. Phene Lincoln 1203 Rosalie M. Thecker 1519 4th Street N.W. Phone North 1206 B. J. Werner 923 New York Ave. N.W. Phone Main 8944 SUBURBAN Thomas W. Perry 8101 Conn. Ave,, Chevy Chase, Maryland Phone Wisconsin 2600 ALEXANDRIA, VA, DeWilton Aitcheson 107 S. Royal St. Phone Alexandria 69 Thos. J. Fannon & Sons Duke & Henry Streets Phone Alexandria 132 Geo. H. Robinson’s Sons 112 S. Union Street Phone Alexandria 21 W. A. Smoot & Co., Inc. Cameron & Union Streets Phone Alexandria 960 BLADENSBURG, MD. Hyman Brown Phone Hyattsville 84 Sam Mostow Phone Hyattoville 967-J BRENTWOOD, MD. Walter R. Davis Phone Hyattsville 407-R CHEVY CHASE, MD. Thomas W. Perry Phone Wisconsin 2600 CLARENDON, VA. Virginian Ice & Fuel Corp. Phone Clarendon 1373 FOREST GLEN, MD. E. C. Keys & Sons Phone Silver Spring 2 GARRETT PARK, MD. Chisholm Bros. Phone Kensington 37-M HYATTSVILLE, MD. Dickey Bros. Phone Hyattsville 171 Hyattsville Ice & Fuel Corp. Phone ‘Hyattaville 710 MT. RAINIER, MD. Ceo. N. Wells Phone Hyattsville 226 POTOMAC, VA. Potomac Coal Co. Phone Alexandria 1432 RIVERDALE, MD. Riverdale Park Company Phone Hyattsville 267 ROCKVILLE, MD. Rockville Fuel & Feed Co. Phone Rockville 68 Ward Bros. Phone Rockville 129 SEAT PLEASANT, MD. F. L. Watkins Phone Lincoln 1706 SILVER SPRING, MD. Griffith & Perry, Inc. 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