Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1929, Page 13

INAUGURAL IS HELD - SUCCESS BY GRANT Committee Chairman Thankz Workers for Part They Played in Event. Notwithstanding inclement weather, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, chairman of the inaugural committee, believes visitors to Washington enjoyed the oc- casion and returned home with a real appreciation of the hospitality of the city and an enhanced interest in the Nation's capital. Tn a statement last night he paid thanks ‘publicly to members of the {naugural committee and to others who helped make the affair a success. His statement, addressed to editors of Washington newspapers, follows: “May I have your good offices to thank, through the columns of your paper, those who contributed so gen- | erously to the guarantee fund for the | inauguration and to the many Wash- ingtonians who, as members of the inaugural committee or otherwise, de- voted their time and labor to making the recent inauguration a success. It was due only to this effective and loyal help, so unstintedly put at the disposal of the inaugural committee, that it was possible to carry out the arrange- ments and realize so well the com- mittee's program. Expresses Appreciation to Workers. “In spite of the rain on March 4 I| had a very distinct impression that the | visitors here enjoyed the occasion very | much and returned home with a real| sense of appreciation of Washington's | hospitality and a greatly enhanced in-| terest in the National Capital. I am| sure that the new features added for their comfort and entertainment to the activities of the committee were very successful in obtaining the end hoped for and helped in great measure to compensate for the discomfort and dis- appointment caused by the rain. “To my friends who worked with me on the committee and subcommittees I am deeply grateful mot only for the success of their assistance, but also for the enthusiasm and zeal which made my part of the task a real pleasure for me instead of the tiresome burden it might have been.” President Hoover will receive Col. Grant and several members of the in- augural committee at the White House Wednesday when they will present to the President the gold medal struck by the committee to commemorate the in- auguration. The medal bears on one side the likeness of the President and on the other side a picturization of the high spots in his eventful life. Stands Are Dismantled. Dismantling of the official grandstand in front of the White House from which the President and members of his party reviewed the inaugural parade was completed yesterday. The stands which closed Thirteen-and-a-Half street for a ‘week prior to the inaugural were taken down yesterday and all the stands on Pennsylvania avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets were cleared away. ‘The stand at the south end of the Treasury, however, remains practically intact, although only the foundations of the structure erected along the Fif- teenth street side of the Treasury Building remain. ARMY OF MEXICAN WOMEN IS MASSED Push Forward Behind Calles in Many Kinds of Conveyances. Some Are Afoot. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, March 9 (By Lind- bergh, Mevico City Air Mail Plane).— Behind former President Calles’ army of around 18,000 men, rolling northward on boxcars toward what is expected to be the crucial battle of the revolution, a feminine army is pushing forward in any type of conveyance .it can find. Some of the women even are afoot. Some might characterize these volun- teers as camp followers, but they have a much more important function in the Mexican armies where they serve as the commissary department and at times the blue cross and several other branches of war service. ‘They have no official status and they receive no pay from the government, yet Mexican generals have referred to them as “the noblest of Mexico's war- riors.” They are the wives, sweethearts, mothers and sisters of the soldiers. FIRST STEEL ARRIVES FOR U. . BUILDING Workmen Will Start on Super- structure of Internal Revenue Edifice Tomorrow. First steel for the superstructure of the Internal Revenue Building arrived yesterday and workmen will start put- ting it in place tomorrow, according to the James Baird Co. of this city, which has the contract. Work was started yesterday putting up the first derricks to be used in the structural steel construction, and four more derricks will be raised during this week. A crew of about 150 men will be put to work this week, but as the construc- tion increases this crew will be increased to about 1,200 men by July 1. Bids have been opened for plaster models of parts of the building and con- tract is expected to be let soon by the Treasury. The low bidder was Riccl & Fari of New York City, who bid $7,500. $5,000,000 AVIATION “many cases were clearly shown to the CORPORATION FORMED | commitiee “where changed conditions F7 the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, March 9.—Formation of the Allied Aviation Corporation. a $5,000,000 holding company, with head- guarters in St. Louls, designed to own all the capital stock of three com- panies producing airplanes, aviation accessories and aircraft engines, was announced here today by John A. Love f Love, Bryan & Co. he three subsidiaries are the Lam- bert Aircraft Corporation, 3 hewly formed concern, which has acquired ail the sssets of the Mono-Alrcraft Co of Moline, Tll.: the Aviation Accessories Corporation and the Hurricane Air- craft Engine Co. which has acquired all the assets of the alrcraft engine di- vision of the Velie Motor Co. Mono-Alrcraft, which also was or- ganized by the Velie interests, and the Hurricane company will establish their plants for the time being. The acces- tually, altheugh it is expected that both will continue operation of the Moline plants for the time beidng.. The acces- sories firm will also locate here. ENVOY CANC.ELS SPEECH. The lecture by the Turkish Ambassa- dor, Ahmed Moutar Bey, scheduled at Mount_Pleasant Congregational Church Thursday night, will not be given, as the envoy will be unable to appear, it was announced last night. His talk was to have been on ‘“Mohammedanism,” one of & series on comparative religions in progress at the church. g THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. ¢, MARCH 10, 1929—PART I. IRISH MINISTER PRESENTS CREDENTIALS Michael MacWhite, the new Minister to the United States from the Irish however, ran the same way, and the au- Free State, who yesterday presented his credentials to Secretary of State Kellogg. Left to right: Mr. MacWhite and Secretary Kellogg. —TUnderwood Photo. Pantless Victims Chase Bandits in ew York Streets Modesty No Handicap as Two Clad in Underwear Take Trail. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 9.-—Modesty | proved no handicap this morning to Manager Matthew McNamara and his clerk, John Keating, of the Daniel Reeves store at 95 Roosevelt avenue, Elmhurst, Queens. Two robbers had just left the store with all the cash, secure in the knowl- edge that their victims were cowering in the backroom without their pants. But to their surprise, they were pur- sued down Roosevelt avenue, through crowds of Saturday shoppers, by the two store men whose underwear garb gave them all the advantage in the sprint. One Gives Up. Patrolman John Wozniak of the Newton precinct took up the chase. Near Ninety-sixth street one of the robbers turned and aimed a revolver at the policeman. Wozniak fired & shot over the robber's head and the man lost his nerve, dropping his gun and holding his hands in the air. The sec- ond robber, evidently the one with the money, escaped. Wozniak brought his prisoner back to the store through a large curlous crowd which had suddenly reappeared when the firing stopped. He found Mc- Namara and Keating in the backroom putting on their trousers. “That’s one of them,” they both said in unison. Expect to Capture Pariner. According to McNamara, two men had entered the store about 10 o'clock. Both drew revolvers and made the two employes retire to the backroom and take off their pants. The robbers ob- tained $125 from McNamara and about $25 from the register, McNamara said. At the Newton station house, the prisoner gave his name as Marcus Bingham, alias James McClure. He said he had been living in a furnished rocm at Thirty-third street and Eighth avenue since coming from Atlanta, Ga. Detectives are confident of eapturing his partner within 24 hours, they say. LIMITED CHANGES IN TARIFF SEEN Tilson Predicts Disappoint- ment for Many American Industries. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 9.—Predicting that many American industries would be dis- appointed over the limited tariff re- vision to be made at the special session of Congress, Representative Tilson of Connecticut, House Republican leader, tonight declared only changes necessary to give adequate tariff protection would be made. Many industries, he said, in address- ing the Home Market Club at its twen- ty-sixth annual dinner, had asked for | unreasonable import duties on competi- tive articles because of fears of the fu- ture and not on the basis of present needs. He added that they were doomed to disappointment. If the present needed revision is se- cured, Mr. Tilson said he believed American industry could be assured that future Congresses would continue the same policy of providing adequate tariff protection as need might arise. Recent tariff hearings before the House ways and means committee at Washington disclosed, the Republican leader said, that most of the articles produced in this country were reason- ably protected under the “basically sound” tariff act of 1922. “On the other hand,” he continued, ave made changes necessary in the case of certain articles.” Mr. Tilson said that farm relief and | tariff were inseparable, but other than | {that he did not discuss agricultural | problems. He asserted, however, that those charged with drafting the re-!| vision measure were determined to find the line “which accurately measures | the need for protection as shown by | the facts to_exist.” | | before a thorough study of the informa- said he feared that some of those pre- | I senting cases before the committee | | “took counsel of their fears rather than of their necessities, and in so doing asked for too much in order that they might the more surely receive enough, or at least that they might not have taken away from them a portion of that which they already have.” FIFTY FIRES IN FOREST. | Arkansas Timber in Wide Area Re- ported to Have Burned. | HOT SPRINGS, Ark.. March § () — | | Fifty or more forest fires are burning | in the area between Waldron and Mena, | | with one fire already having destroyed | more than 500 acres of timber growth !north of Yowell Mountain, the United States Forestry Service here was advised today. Without finally deciding the matter | tion brought in the hearings, Mr. Tilson | at TWO ARE INDICTED INWALSH MURDER Names and Nature of Charges Kept Secret by Miami Grand Jury. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, March 9.—Two indict- ments were returned by the Dade County grand jury today in its investi- gation of the slaying of Thomas (Fatty) Walsh, erstwhile bodyguard of the no- torious Arnold Rothstein, here early this week, but authorities withheld the names and the nature of the charges. The grand jury also delved into charges of graft in connection with gambling here. The true bills were believed to be aimed at halting open gambling and to name the man police believe killed Walsh. Both were believed to contain the same name. Ed Wilson, operator of a gambling rendezvous in the suite on the four- teenth floor of the Miami-Biltmore Hotel at Coral Gables, where the shoot- ing took place, already has been named in & warrant charging murder. Rented by Gaylord. K. E. Gaylord, said to have been as- soclated with Walsh, Wilson and Arthur Clark in operating the gambling estab- lishment, rented the suite in his name and was named in an indictment charging violation of the State's anti- gambling statutes. Meanwhile the sheriff's office con- tinued its search for Wilson, who dis- appeared shortly after Walsh was killed in what officals believe was an alter- cation over distribution of profits of the venture. Receipt of new information as to his whereabouts was reported by the sheriff's office today, but was not made public. The grand jury considered alleged evidence of Clark, wounded when Walsh was killed, had been presented to show that 10 per cent of the net profits of the gambling partnership had been set aside as a fund to “fix things” with officials and others. Other reports df alleged “fixing” by law violators were sald to have been considered. Gambling Patrons Testify. Witnesses were drawn from a number of patrons of alleged gambling houses in Miami and Miami Beach, arrested in raids the last two nights. Contents of a threatening letter sent to James M. Carson, Miami attorney, defeated candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in June, and an active campaigner against racing in Dade County, were revealed today by Richard M. Hunt, assistant State's at- torney. < The letter, whose six signatures in- cludled !l?h;:u of Walsh, was sent to Car- Son in February and was mailed at Lauderdale. B In part it said: “You say a great deal. There are thousands of others who say little but whom you have crossed and they are about to break out. If you don’t like Miami, get out. We are sick of your kind and you will hear from us in_due course.” The signatures appended were Alfred A. Stoner, Ed Smith Walker, Thomas J. Walsh, Franklin P. Murphy, Dan Maloney and George Whalen. Officials said they did not know the men. URED CHASING 2 SPEEDERS Youth Who Started to Make Turn in Front of Officer Arrested at Bethesda. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., March 9.—Police- here was painfully injured at Somerset this afternoon when he crashed into an automobile driven by John Leonard Spitler, 16 years old, 3612 Thirty-fifth street, Washington, and owned by Ethel E. Spitler of the same address. Spitler was charged with reckless driving, and was held on $100 collateral for his appearance in the Police Court at Rockviile next week. According to the police, Poole was chasing two spesding cars through the suburb, when the car driven by Spitler started to make a turn and Poole was forced into the car. Poole reported that the two cars were doing between 45 and 50 miles an hour in a 25-mile zone, Following the accident, young Spitler with the aid of several comrades with him, put the officer in the car and took him to the Bethesda station where he was given medical attention. 6 EVERGREENS These soon grow into handsome trees worth many doliars Early Spring Delivery. Order Once MAGNOLIA TREES Pink and white Trees $1.10 Trees HARDY AZALEAS (Nudifiora) trees, above sele order of $5.50 & over. RHODODENDRONS | Viatmun plants (one to one and a hall ft high Colorado Blue Spruce 1 liztening blue. A faint {des culture direc which fiashes and wparkje: of the magnificent heanty of Selected, 5-6 years, Fii1 | Increasing high winds and low hu- midity are giving the fires an luvm-| tage over the fighters, graft conditions in the county after | man Windsor Poole of the substation | Beautify Your Home at Small Cost {FRE 6 GREENS, 3- FR elory of the Biue Sprice s an inte The Fischer Nurseries Add 15¢ for Packing and Insurance AUTO OVERTURNS WHEN IT HITS DOG ISeven Persons Are Injured in Traffic Mishaps, One by Hit-and-Runner. | Three men, a woman and three boys sustained minor injuries in traffic acci- | dents last evening. One of the men was | struck by a hit-and-run automobile and | another hurt when the car in which he | was riding overturned after striking a | dog. The dog got up and ran yelping away. | Leonard Shoemaker of Station A on | Conduit road was driving along Tunlaw |road in rear of Mount Alto Hospital | when a small dog darted into the road- | way in front of him. He swerved to | avoid striking the animal. The dog, tomobile turned over. Ernest Thomp- son, 19 years old, of Ballston, Va., a passenger in the car, sustained slight | lacerations. Take Number of Car. Milton Adler, 29 years old, of 805 First street was the victim of the hit- and-run driver. The accident occurred at Ninth and G streets about 6:30 o'clock. Pedestrians noted the number of the car and informed police. Adler was treated at Emergency Hospital by Dr. Andrew Betz of the staff. Clarke Buckley, 5 years old, of 16 Fifteenth street northeast was treated at Casualty Hospital for abrasions on the face incurred when he ran into a | truck operated by Robert L. Moore of | 633 L street northeast. The truck was passing near the boy's home at the time. While riding a bicycle at Fifteenth | and P streets Harry Goss, 15 years old, of 1743 Corcoran street was struck by an automobile operated by Robert Jones of 2008 Sixteenth street. His forehead was lacerated. Hands and Head Cut. A collision at Seventh and Hamilton streets resulted in Russell Smith, 25 years old, of 623 Longfellow street, and Vincent. Norton, 17 years old, of 631 In- graham stregt, being taken to Walter | Reed Hospital for treatment. ‘Their hands and heads were cut, but not serlously. Police say the car in which they were riding was driven by John Norton, 19 years old, of 631 In- graham street, and the other machine by Edward J. Neugebauer of 918 Penn- sylvania avenue southeast. When cars operated by Albert Abell of Leonardtown, Md., and Phillip E. Bray of 1814 A street southeast, col- | lided at Second and D streets, Mrs. Adelaide Bray, a passenger in the latter machine, was injured. She was taken to Casualty Hospital in a passing auto- mobile and treated there for lacerations of one knee and her back. | dition is not serious. FOREST OFFICIALS CONFER ON LAWS | Brickard Wins First Prize in Legal Contest at Prince Georges Session. Her con- By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 9. —A contest on forestry law, won by ! Forest Warden Milton Brickerd of Glendale, featured the annual wardens' conference in the courthouse here téday. Brickerd received a fountain pen as first prize, while a mechanical pencil was awarded George Bewley of Berwyn, who won second honors. Bewley is the first forest warden in the State of Mary- land, having been appointed in 1906. He is also the oldest warden of the State. During the morning session the ward- ens were addressed by F. W. Besley, State forester; Walter J. Quick, jr., dis- trict forester, and Fred B. Trenk, ex- tension forester. John R. Curry, as- sistant forester, led the meeting and gave a talk on the growth of the forest service, illustrated by graphs. In addition to the forestry law con- test, the afternoon session consisted of an informal discussion of fire-fighting methods. About 30 wardens from | Prince Georges and Charles Counties attended the sessions. S RAID BY POLICE NETS GINGER ALE AND ICE Third Precinct Detectives Pay| Visit to Seventeenth Street Apartment. | Responding to a telephone call that | some one was trying to break into the | third-floor apartment at 924 Seven- | teenth street early this morning, Head- quarters Detective John Wise found one of the most elaborately fitted up | alleged liquor dispensing establishments yet uncovered by police being raided by a detall of officers of the third precinct. No one was in the place, but evi- |dences were found that it had been used earlier in the night. An early edi- tion of a Sunday newspaper was lying on an expensive table in the front room, and a tub of ice was in the | kitchen beside an unopened case of gin- | ger ale, and several selzer bottles. The front entrance to the place was | | protected by two heavy wooden doors, | one covered with a sheet of metal and pierced with a peep hole. The win- dows opening on a fire escape were sim- flarly sealed. Precinct Detectives S. F. Gravely and [J. L. Billman, who led the raid, said | they raided the same place a week ago last night. | There are 25 classrooms in the new religlous school of Congregation Eman- uel, New York. FOR $1 .10 POSTPAID Three to five year trees are 10 to 18 inches high. 2 Norway Spruce, 2 American Spruce. 2 Chinese ORIENTAL POPPY Brilliant colors: scarlef, * orange, pink: flowers measure inches diameter o $1.10 Hardy Carnations Large flowering: fragrant: al : fleld- i “THIS WEEK ONLY. Itosebay). Large plunt with dark evergreen lnrge clusters of pink flowers. nae steel blue. Heavy ~ i the sunlight and his truly marvelous Tres. a bushy, 1 to 1%z ft. high. 7 Evergreen— Dept. 11 CITIZENS ORGANIZE NEW PATRIOTIC POST Seat Pleasant Group Begins Vet- erans of Foreign Wars Chapter, Honoring Service Men. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEAT PLEASANT, Md., March 9.—A ' new post of the Veterans of Foreign | Wars has been organized here under the name of the Strawn-Turner Post No. 1,627, in commemoration of men who fell on foreign soil in the service of their country. ' Officers have been elected as follows: Commander, George Forester; vice commander, C. F. Bradle; vice commander, F. G. Brow master, Herman H. Rudolph: adjutant, P. T. Wells; chaplain, Charles Eng- strom; officer of the day, F. Cohill; post advocate, H Abhenfelder, and trustees, J. Bronacher, William E. Schmidt and C. White. Meetings will be held the second and fourth Fridays in each month in the Seat Pleasant Fire Department hall, All men who have seen foreign service in the Army are invited to join. Police Investigate Fires. WINCHESTER, Va. March 9 (Spe- cial) —County officers today were in- | vestigating the burning of a large barn Iast night on a farm owned by Mrs. Rebecca Owens and attempts to burn another owned by her a mile distant. The farm on which the barn destruc- tion was complete is at present unoccu- pled. In both instances the fires were set from the outside, officers said. Easton, Pa. 300 Smart N FOUR OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY OF DOUBLE WEDDING IN 1873 S e hoes coat varemace BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staft Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON, Va., March 9.—One of | 42 grandchildren, Miss Lorena Heish- man, a deputy clerk of the court, to- day made known unusual wedding anniversary of both her grandfather and great-aunt, which took place this week at Woodstock, Va. On March 6, 1873, there was a double wedding at the home of Capt. John Adams Richards, near Woodstock. One | T b0 0 the wedding, participated in the cele- bration. i 0y @ When the two couples went to the by Vetter and Artz wore a suit that ‘was made by hand by his bride. | For a few years the two coupl Bivea near each other and then the Vétters moved to Moorefield, where they have since lived. They saw little of each other until the advent of the automo- bile and good roads, and now both men. despite their age, have automobiles: in which, within a few hours, they may reach the other couple. Both are re- tired farmers. Mr. and Mrs. Vetter have seven chil- dren and 42 living grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Artz have three children and six grand children. PLANS SCHOOL MEETING. Southern Group to Hold Inter- scholastic Press Conference. LEXINGTON, Va, March 9 (#),— Every high school in the South is being ’nsked to send publication editors, busi- ness managers and teachers to the | fourth annual convention of the South- ern Interscholastic Press Association May 11 at Washington and Lee Uni- versity here, it was announced today of the bridegrooms was Miss Heish- | by. Roscoe B. Ellard, director. man’s grandfather, Milton Vetter, and the other was Thomas Artz. Vetter married Capt. Richards’ daughter Alice and Artz married Vetter's sister Martha. 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