Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1929, Page 16

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Silver Spring Orders $12,500 Fire Engine | TOWNSISOLATED ump, booster tank and other modern ‘and Highway Communication Appllances. . The list price of the ap- Is Cut Off by Drifts., By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, February 7.—Railroad transportation in the mountainous regions of Southwestern Colorado was |gines an at a standstill today while section crews began .a_two-week task of clearing |g tracks of the heaviest snowslides in many years. Highways also were im- passable. Silverton, & mining community, and | Criag on the Denver & Rio Grande || ‘Western Railroad from Durango, were isolated. Since Saturday nine snow | slides have crashed down on the trncks.i One was said to be from 40 to 75 feet deep and 800 feet wide. Neither town |/ was in danger of a food shortage, it was | reported. ! The Rio Grande Southern line, op- erating on the Lizard Head Pass, was} blocked by snowdrifts, with rotary snow 'plows being used to clear the tracks of || that line. The snowstorm which accompanied a || severe cold wave in the State abated and it was predicted that temperatures || at the zero mark last night would rise | today. Subzero weather still prevailed in Montana. Near Bozeman an ice jam flooded the lowlands, forcing farmers to flee their homes. | Seventy-five motorists marooned on the East highway out of Sait Lake City | Tast night were rescued by a State high- | way cre i Miners working in a canyon near | Twin Falls, Idaho, dug in the snow an [} hour to rescue a fellow worker buried |i in a slide. The miner was unconscious |aid almost frozen to death, but phy- sicians said he probably would recover. A cold wave from the Northwest hit the Southwest and sent the mercury || ,tumbling to from 10 to 15 degrees above |, igero. L . ASKS FOR CITIZENSHIP. | , CHARLESTON, S. C., February 7 (®). l—Mrs. N. A. McCulley, wife of Rear Admiral McCulley, commandant of the | Charleston Navy Yard, filed a petition 1‘ (for citizenship papers in the United || 'States Court here Tuesday. Mrs. Mc- ‘Culley, a native of Estonia, was mar- ried to the second ranking United States naval officer in Europe more than a year ago. | Under the act of September 22, 1922, & woman no longer becomes naturalized |automatically when she marries a cit- izen of the United States, but she may become a citizen after one year’s res- {1dence instead of the five years required In other cases. LADY MARY PASSES TEST.| s attls NEW YORK, February 7 (#).—Lady Mary Heath, British fiyer, took her ex- amination for a transport license for the || second time Tuesday and said that the Department of Commerce examiner at /Curtiss Field told her she passed. She || also took the examination for an engine and aircraft mechanic’s license and said ghe was told she had passed that too. Lady Heath took the transport ex- amination last week, but failed. She || iprotested and said that she had failed || only because she had not answered all \the questions in the examination com- pletely. Evelyn Nesbit Engaged. NEW YORK, February 7 (#).—Evelyn || Nesbit, night club hostess and former iwife of Harry K. Thaw, Tuesday an- nounced her engagement to Alexievitch Romanofl, 27, who claims he is a prince in the Russian royal family. He now is singing as a basso in a Broadway joperatta. “I am still the wife of Jack |Clifford,” said Miss Nesbit, referring to | | “her former dancing partner, “but I ex- pect my divorce very soon and when I get it I am going to 'become Princess Evelyn.” paratus is $12,500. Delivery is expect- cd_to be made about May 1. Installation of this engine will per- In Modernizing Department 13 Years Old | | BY SNDWS[IDES Special Dispatch to The Star. H. : SILVER SPRING, Md., February 7. —The Silver Spring Volunteer Fire De- partment has contracted to purchase a Southwestern Colorado Rail [2e% American Labrnee e o ete | in . Hunter of Silver Spring to remodel one of them, installing a new and pow- erful six-cylinder chassis and latest equipment _in place of the old chassis and . appliances which have been use more than seven years. Certain changes in the power plant and equipment of the department’s No. 3 engine, also to be done by Mr. Hunter, will thoroughly modernize this piece of apparatus chairman; Willlem J. Jouvenal and Fred N. Oflen. It is believed by mem- bers of the organization that with the ¢ompletion of these improvements the equipment of the department will be second to none in the county. RUM RUNNER HUNTED. HAVANA, February 7 (/P)—United States Coast Guard authorities have been notified that the launch Adriana, belonging to Miguel Sastre, is on a rum-running and alien-smuggling ex- pedition to American ports. ‘Two officers of the Cuba secret po- lice, accompanied by an official of the FIVE DOCTORS GIVE BOND IN PRESCRIPTION CASES Physicians Accused of Violating Prohibition Law Are Given Hearing. Five local physicians were released on $500 bond each following arraign- ment before Commissioner Needham C. Turnage on charges of is- suing whisky prescriptions in violation of the prohibition law. They are Isaiah Buford Horn, 1701 Second street; Pin- > D. ¢, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 19 more than one pint in 10 days, for is- suing prescriptions without making the required medical examination, and-for making false returns. Testimony at the hearing before Commissioner Turnage was that a Gov- ernment agent had secured the pre- scriptions by telling the physicians the liquor was wanted for a group of friends engaged in a card game at his home. ‘They were all arrested on January 25 by Deputy United States Marshal John' Clarkson and Gus Ceremeli and have been at liberty on bond. The complaining witness was Roland L. Burroughs, & prohibition inspector. - truck, now over 10 years old, the first mit the retirement from active serv-| The Silver Spring Volunteer Fire De- | American embassy: ice of-the department’s No. 1 chemical | partment was organized in 1915 and has | morning made early Saturday an unsuccessful at-|yon L. Cornish, 1007 Irving street; Wil- a long record of valuable service. The |tempt to stop the expedition. Authorl-|liam A. Goodloe, J. R. Contee Cook, 707| TOPEKA, Kans, February 7 (P).— piece’ of motor-driven fire apparatus |apparatus committee which planned | ties in the United States, especially in | Rhode Island avenue, and Samuel L.|j R, Harrison, 70, State Senator of fo be put in use in Montgomery County. |and reccommended these changes and | Florida, have been warned against a|Starks, 433 M street. S oty ok The department owns two other en- | improvements consists of Dorsey D.lgsurrepititious landing has contracted with John | Jones, president of the organization, ‘Jiquor within the next few days. the of men and ‘The charges lodged against each of sicians were for prescribing Gazette, died Tuesday. J. R. Harrison, Editor, Dies. Kansas and editor of the Beloit, Kans., Nestlé’s flies with BYRD! IN'ro the frozen Antarctic where a forced landing would mean weeks of de- pendence upon emergency rations — Nestlé’s Milk Chocolate flies with Byrd! 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