Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1929, Page 20

20 MINE NCURES T 0EN HONDAY Probes Into Parnassus Disaster.Are Planned. 3By the Associated Press. 5 | ¥ PARNASBUS, Pa. March 23.—In- fvestigations by National, State and #county agencies into the Kinloch Mine #disaster, in which company officials ln-‘ {day said it had been estimeted 46 men had lost their lives, are scheduled to get | under way Monday. The United States Bureau of Mines, in commission 0f three Pennsylvania | #mine inspectors .and the corener of | #Westmoreland County will participate in | “the inquiries. { % The bodies of all but one man had ibeen removed from the wrecked work- \ings tonight. This vietim was believed 10 have been buried in wreckage at the “foot of the conveyor shaft, which was sdemolished by the blast. Eight feet of water was Teported at the base of the fconveyor, and it was expected it would “be some days before the body could be preached. Two hundred and sixty men [escaped shortly after the explosion on | ~Thursday, the company said. | ¥ Two men reported as mi were | {ifound to be alive and well today. They +falled to report to the mine office after irscaping from the workings on the day of the explosion. After these men had been located, the company announced 2all its employes had been accounted for. ¥ Four fires which broke out in the #mine today were quickly extinguished, @safety crews said upon their return to the surface. f¢ Relief work among the families of fiminers who perished was being carried | firn by the New Kensington Chapter of i the Red Cross. i IS MISSING AT HOUSTON | ETormer District Attorney and De- B 1 tective Captain Are Questioned o About Papers, [Py the Associated Press. } HOUSTON, Tex., March 23.—A grand :jury investigation was instituted today { when it became known that the dis- {.t"ict attorney’s file of information on ;i the lynching of Robert Powell, colored, tas been missing since the trial of one I seven defendants last August. ' Horace Soule, former district attor- jiney, and Capt. of Detectives Tom Shel- ¥lny ‘were questioned about the missing pers, which included purported con- sssions of four of the defendants. Capt. £ 7helley said he had duplicate copies of {'the confession and other information. { _The hanging-af Powell a few nights prior to the opening of the Democratic irational convention here attracted Na- 'on-wide attention. He was in a Hous- fton hospital suffering from gunshot vounds received in a fight with a de- 1 otive when taken away by several men i *7d lynched. Seven men were indicted. e case was dismissed, another man I:FILE IN LYNCHING CASE | [ | 4 Scene aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower yesterday as members of the crew read the news that the vessel was | to be withdrawn from service at President Hoover’s order. The sailors are, left to right, front row: J. E. Wilkerson, A. L. Cross, T. Laborde, T. J. Ryan. Back row: F. C. Smith, 8. P. Glinsky, C. C. Barbour and G. Popelwell. o ——Star Staff Photo. TESTIFIES BLEASE AIDED REPUBLICAN Charleston Man’s Statement in Patronage Probe De- organized Smith clubs in the last cam- E!lm. testified that he and Brown met lease in the lobby of a Columbia, 8. C., hotel a week ago. “Why did you indorse Talbert to | President Hoover,” Benson said he asked Blease. “I indorsed him then, and I will con- tinue to indorse him as long as he lives,” Benson quoted Blease as replying. | Meeting in Potomac Today. POTOMAC, Va., March 23 (Special) —The Potomac Fire Department Active Members’ Association will hold iis first meeting of the year tomorrow afternoon OPTOMETRISTS TO HOLD | ANNUAL FETE TOMORnow; Baltimore Delegation Will Be Guests of District Society at Banquet. Plans have besn completed for the| | annual banquet for the District of Co- | lumbia Optometric Soclety tomorrow night at the Raleigh Hotel, it was an- nounced yesterday by M. Luther Dicus, entertainment have been completed and | several speakers will address the optom- etrists, Miss Ida Phelps of New York Citr public_relations counsel of the Ameri- can Optometric Association, will be principal speaker and will discuss prob- lems confronting optometrists today M. A, Leese, local optometrist, will b toastmaster. A delegation from Baltimore, heade< by Dr. G. M. Whitney, president of th- Maryland Optometry Association, an< Dr. Pred Andreae, the secretary, ha< accepted an invitation to attend. The banquet will be followed by cards anc at 2:30 o'clock at the town hall. Plans chairman of the committee in charge. | dancing for raising funds to attend the annual| Mr. Dicus, who is secretary of the Mr. Dicus has been assisted by Dr | convention of the Virginia State Fire- board of examiners in optometry of the Edwin H. Stlver, George Warren, Sam- | men’s Assoclation will be discussed. District, declared elaborate plans for 'uel Dantzic and Willlam Perau. nied by Senator. | | The Senate patronage committee | heard testimony yesterday that Senator | | Blease, Democrat, South Carolina, con- | tributed $500 to the campaign funds of | Joseph W. Tolbert, Republican national | committeeman for that State, and that |J. D. E. Myer, Federal district attorney at Charleston, acted as the committe- man’s _collector. £ | “Tolbert told me,” W. F. Brown, & | Charleston contractor testified, “that he {wanted Blease for district attorney, | that Blease had contributed $500 and that while governor he pardoned two of his cousins, one of whom, a man named Henderson, was postmaster at Narth Charleston.” In a statement issued at Anderson, S. C., Blease, however, denied the charge, declaring that he had never heard of Brown and that his information was “a lie made out of the whole cloth.” E. Murray Benson of Charleston, who ALL Are Invited to the Demonstration of BPS Paint-Enamel- Lacquer-Stain-Varnish Monday MEDAL IS AWARDED. Philadelphian Receives Annual Reward From Architects’ Institute. NEW YORK, March 23 (#).—The gold medal of the American Institute of Architects, awarded annually for out- slanding contribution to art and archi- tecture, will be given for 1928 to Milton B. Medary of Philadelphia, it was an- nounced today. & Medary was president of the “insti- tute from 1926 to 1928 and served as chairman of the Commission of the United States Housing Corporation of the Department of Labor to design and construct ~workingmen'’s vflllg:ml'. Keville Island, Pittsburgh and le- hem, Pa. He is a director of the Foundation for Architectural and Land- scape Architecture, and is & member of many other artistic, scientific, historical and civic organizations. ‘The presentation will take place in ‘Washington April 23 at the opening of the institution’s annual convention. . ‘<‘ acquitted and others are awalting " STy P re R Germany is buying large numbers of British motion picture organs. Manufacturer’s Agent Wanted PRODUCT—Long estab- THE AGENT—E: ced lished Midwest manufac- in selling to f: and t of & necessary in- Gnv':rnmznt pure ng dustrial equipment item e e LY Should have one or_ two soeks agent for District of other factory items. Must Columbia, No former be ageney here, but 1 ::rl; e ¥ o ey , but several curately, important installations al- i Sy and read blue prints. ready made. Sales from Should h: few units to_hundreds at e e e with ; thousands of dollars. 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