Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1929, Page 3

" HERRICK BURIAL " Tentative Plans for Funeral i Services at Cleveland Are Announced. ' By the Asiociated Press. pril 6.—Tenta- CLEVELAND, Ohio, A tive plans for services for the late Am- bassador Myron T. Herrick when his body arrives here from New York il 14 were announced last night by Rollin A. Wilbur, vice president of the Herrick Co. He sald services probably would bellk, )Ol:ll'lhmmq April 15, at Trinity scopal Church. Ep’mep.body will :be taken from the Union Station to the Episcopal Cathe- dral by the first squad of the 107th Cavalry. Burial will be at Lakeview Cemetery. ‘Wilbur last night was unable to name the pallbearers, and it is possible that there will be none, in order that the services be as simple as ble. The late statesman’s ly will be ac- companied here by his son and daugh- ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Parmely Her- rick, and their son, Pu-m'ely. Ir. CRUISER SPEEDS BODY HERE. Tourville Is Expected at New York Next | Saturday. BREST, France, April 6 .(®).—The cruiser Tourville, newest and finest of the French Navy, is bearing the body of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick back to his homeland. Amid a salute of 19 | guns the cruiser steamed out of this port at 11:30 am. and headed for | New York at a speed timed ta.bring her there a week from today. i Tht;‘cruiur was already 100 miles out on the Scott. third secretary of the embassy, | who is the only American accompany- ing the body, radioed, “Words cannot | express the gratitude that Mr. Herrick’s family and myself feel for the god- | speed of France.” gray Atlantic when William {Prese Complying with a request from the nt a tree, to be pla city, the Washington Advertisi stocks, placed at their C. B. Wallace, assistant sn; Sacramento, Calif., Advertising Club to ted on the campus of the Junior College in the California y selected an elm from the District Club yesterda; dfip—ln‘by Clifford Lanham, superintendent of trees and parkings. In the picture, left to right, are: William B. Boswell, Norman E. Bull, iperintendent of trees and parkings; Ernest S. Johnston, precident of the Advertising Club; Margaret L. Sitgreaves, Norman C. Kal and De Ford. Rear-Admiral Pirot, commander of the port of Brest, sent a message in Teply, saying: . “The Ambassador was one of us. He , lives forever in the history of France.” France Pays Elogquent Tribute. The body of the Ambassador arrived by train early yesterday morning from Paris, where the most eloquent tributes in the power of the French were paid the man who before 1914 and after had i brought them the friendship of a sister | Dation and who had refused to abandon | his post in the face of the dangers of the early days of the war. | __The Colonial Infantry Battalion Band | played “La Mort Dase” as the cortege, eaded by a platoon of mounted Repub- 4 lican Guards, started toward the harbor. | A stop was made on the Avenue Presi- | dent Wilson, where a navy band played *‘The Star Spangled Banner” with muf- fled drums and muted instruments. |"Again the American anthem and “Aux Champs” were heard at the pier as ) the body was taken aboard the gunboat Dolmen. As this vessel stood out across the harbor the soldiers on the pier saluted and civilians bared their heads while the crew of the Tourville formed on_deck, Commandante J. M. C. Abrial, cap- tain of the Tourville, accepted his charge ‘with the words: “In the name of my country I salute the body of a friend of France. He is now in my charge and will reach America safely.” As the coffin was deposited on the deck of the cruiser the ship’s band changed from Chopin’s funeral march to “The Star Spangled Banner.” Six French sailors bore the coffin into the “ardent chapel,” where it will be under continuous guard by two French sailors until New York is reached. The cruiser will proceed at half speed, 80 as not to reach New York ahead of the liner Aquitania, which will bring Mrs. Parmley Herrick, daughter-in-law of u;: Ambassador, and some of his WILL SEEK REPEAL * OF 18TH AMENDMENT CRODKE FUNERL ST FORMONDAY Base Ball Umpire Who Died From Bus Crash Injuries Played With Washington. Funeral services for Thomas A. Crooke, 45, of 1302 D street southeast, base ball umpire and former profes- sional player, who died yesterday from injuries sustained in a bus accident near Quantico, Va., Thursday night, will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock in the Holy Comforter Catholic -Chureh. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Ceme- Mr. Crooke is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nora M. Crooke, and four daugb- ters—Thelma, Elizabeth, Louise an Madeline. Crooke had served as an umpire in the International, Pacific Coast and Old Virginia Leagues and in the last few years officlated in many college games. e once was a member of the Washing- «wn team as a player and spent several seasons with various minor league clubs. Members of the local Base Ball Um- pires’ Association plan to attend the funeral in a body. The Washington Motor Coach Co., owners of the bus, are still investigating the circumstances of the accident, but say that it doss not appear to have been due to negligence or speeding. The four other persons seriously in- jured in the accident were reported day to be considerably improved. The chief surgeon at Quantico rej this morning that John Russell, student ball | Wisconsin Legislator Proposes Pe- tition to Congress for Conmstitu- tional Convention on Prohibition. By the Associated Press, MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 6—State Benator Ben Gettelman, Milwaukee, an- nounced today he will introduce a reso- lution in the Legislature requesting Con- gress to call a constitutional convention ; for trepenl of the eighteenth amend- ment. 1 i He said that if Wisconsin joins the | 22 States that have already petitioned Congress for a constitutional conven- tion the vote of nine more States will | be needed to bring about the first con- vention of its kind in the history of the country. 7 | _“A constitutional convention is the only way the eighteenth amendment | can be repealed,” the Senator sald. | “The Anti-Saloon League has had con- ;m; of Conmfl’ for !h: last 17 years and apparently we can do nothing with Congress.” | , Senator Gettelman explained -that | the requests of the other 22 States date | back over a long period of years, but it is not necessary that the purpose l'of the convention” be stated or that the requests be made within & limited | humber of years. SPECIAL NOTICES. ' ANNUAL IG_OF - Tolders. of the Equitable n Assocls B .m., Aseiien vl pld s o, il u.'-r“:'n:mhn of tlmbor’ for ‘:;hl ing Jkas Si'may Tienty come befors Suld mit: .: xw'.'m Secretary, 6* | | ebts ‘contracted gt € Eouts Miltolland, ‘1550 Feirmont. o e PARERRANGING —RoOM, 12 U ¥ ¥OU Phons ‘Lin. 6811 ‘or" Col. Smitl;’: Transfer & Storage Co., S ARNSTEIN IS CLEARED BY SWINDLE VICTIM New England Hotel Man Unable to Identify Prisoner Held With Two Others as Suspects, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 6.—A New Eng- land hotel owner who said he was TWO WITNESSES HELD FOR PERJURY IN TRIAL Chicagosns, Appearing for State in +|of his native employes by head * do VIRGINIANS SETTLE PATRORAGE STATIS = {First Step of Hoover Reuime»‘gaqsl'a T to Reform G. 0. P. in South Seen in Action. By the Associated Press. di The status of Republican patronage in Virginia was settled yesterday at a conference between Virginia Republican leaders, Postmaster General Brown and Walter Newton, administrative secretary to President Hoover. C. Bascom Slemp, former secretary to President Coolidge and a leading Re- publican in Virginia, announced after the meeting it had been decided that patronage in the ninth congressional districts would be to the Representatives from those districts, who are Republicans, and that other matters would be referred to the State Republican committee. Others who attended the conference Groups on Anacostia Flats and Great Falls Projects Appointed. . Manson Foof Y Frederick Buchholtz is vice ‘chairman. In announcing the appointments the chamber ' stated: “The chamber’s in- of 1o A the year of its I,mmd!n& 1907, when a movement was started to secure a congressional appro- priation for this much needed improve- ment. Two or three years later Con- gress appropriated $100,000 for this work after repeated us by the chamber. Mr. Schultels, for many in of this committee, was in touch with years Indefal the wi situation t of T com- ving been groups to Lg:opur studies be made re- wer by generating el ity he water power availeble at Grea Falls. This’committee has also €onsid- ered other plans for the promotion of the Great Falls and has empha- sized Its value as’a park asset to the National Capital.” ‘The members of the committee on reclamation of Anacostia flats are Robert P. Bradbury, Albert Schulteis, Walter C. Balderston, R. H. Dalgleish, Allan Davis, Clarence W. DeKnight, 1. H. Entwisle, William H., Ernest, A. G. Herrmann, Martin D, McQuade, Robert Marshall, John G. Meinberg, Marcus Notes, Maurice Otterback, John Poole, Charles A.. Robinson and Joseph I Weller. Members of the committee on the development of Great Falls are G. { Manson Foote, Prederick Buchholz, Harold C. Anderson, H. A. Brooks, Charles I. Beavens, Louis C. Ca; Da . V. Davis, DeKnight, John T. Doyle, I. 4. Penwick. George . W. Freitag, Adam H. Gaddis, F. P. Guthrie, George A. Harris, Mitchell Hanson, E. Frank Heim, W. 8. Hoge, jr.; Joseph D. Kaufman, Edgar B. Kay, Cyrus Kehr, Lieut. Col. J. Miller Ken- yon, Hallock P. Long, E. Lydia Martin, Harvey P. Miller, Mrs. Ruby Lee Minar, Alfred G. Neal, Hugh J. Phillips, Mere- th H. Polen, T. 8. &;&An. ‘l‘!,'. Eliza- Fanciulll, 8. USRS {FINAL RITES HELD TODAY _ FOR NOTED LECTURER Mrs. Crane-Morajeska, Authority on Indian Customs, Born in Virginia. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 6.—Funeral will be were: Representatives Lankford, Garber | lect: and Shaffer; R. H. Angell of Roanoke, Republican _national ~committeeman; Col, Henry' W. Anderson of Ri State chairman of the national commit- tee; Lee Rand of Roanoke, secretary of the State Republican committee; James Francis ‘Burke, general counsel of the Republican national committee, and James' Crupper of Norfolk, former fl;:::nn of the State Republican com- mi Mr. Slemp declared that the meeting had been “eminently satisfactory to all concerned” and that “there was not a discordant note sounded.” The settlement of the Virginia pa- tronage question was considered. here as the first step of the Hoover adminis- tration to cal FARMER SENT TO PRISON IN ‘CULPABLE HOMICIDE’ White Man in South Africa Lashed and Sentenced Seven Years for “Horrifying Cruelty.” By.the Associated Press. BETHAL, South Africa, April 6—A case descril by the presi Ju as “hotrifying in its cruelty” has end- ed here with sentence of Jucke Nafte, a white farmer of this district, to seven years hard labor and lashes “culpable homicide.” It was said that Nafte had tied one the leg to and - then tree wnwards Experiments are being made to pro- duce entirely rust-proof British cars. PEERLESS Indians, of whose customs and lectured. Joining the Klondike gold rush in 1897, she became inter- ested in Al%k"l development, which :nho’uve took her to Wi travel and lived among the mnhwut of those camps while they were in the height of tbe; glory. T o BUILDING IS BOMBED. Entrance to Chicago Drug Store Wrecked by Blast. wrecked the entrance and broke all windows in a West Side drug store early today, “mlf damage estimated at $1,500. Families living on the ficor above the store were but none was injured. 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Unofficially it was said here at the of the announcement of Comdr. | Byrd's discovery that if the uestion ‘(’"t{uw‘ as to the claim to the land or probably would be settled by an inter- ufiom{ arbitration commission. FEW CLUES FOUND UETON = - Robe Reply to British Inquiry as|ors T KPNNALL NNED = § g 55 s8 g7 E!. E U : £ IN TORSO MYSTERY | Los Angeles Police Continue Search for Missing Parts of Girl's Body Taken From River. By the Associated Press. to the Angeles River near Compton, a suburb, were found lice guurdu. ™ o CHICAGO, April 6 (P.—A bomb | Prague Opposite the British Embassy . ~—Suites of unusually spacious floor plan. Nine Rooms, Baths, Including Servants’ Quarters. . Your Inspection ? Invited Distinction in Washington’s most exclusive building Seven and nine rooms. and three baths with - enclosed porches. Each apartment. has. “a servant’s room-and- bath. 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Kellogg, until recently Secretary of State; Dwight F. Davis, former Secre- tary of War, and Henry P. Fletcher. Aml r 4t Rome. ; An Tdol of France. The point emphasized in the discus he slon of Gen. Pershing is that, as a Worll War hero of both America and France, he occupies & position in the affections of the two peoples similar to that of the late Ambassador Myron T. Herrick. Furthermore, it is reasoned, if former fi President Dawes should Eg:v to s’:‘l’nnee would provide the of ice for the two appoint- ments which the administration is sup- to desire, has frequently revisited was there as commander of America’s war forces and he was one of the speakers at the funeral services in Paris for Mr. Herrick, whose body is on to be brought to America aboard the French cruiser Tourville. Honors Paid by France. ‘The honors paid by France to the late Ambassador have brought a public ex- the g-ma of appreciation from President g 1 g88 ;fi-,fi 2 s » loover, and the Navy Department has t | ordered two American light cruisers to meet the funeral ship as it approaches New York. The cruisers will be brought up’ from Guantanamo Bay for the service. The President, meanwhile, is expected by many to wait until after the funeral services for Mr. Herrick in this country announcement with before making any respect to appointment of his successor. POLICE KILL SLAYER. LINZ, Austria, April 6 (®).—Dr, Rob- ert Eichhoff, prominent physician and brother of a former Auslr’.nz:z minister to Prl:g. yesterday shot and killed a iclal and soon afterward he himself was shot dead by police. He was, official medical officer of the Wei- g* zenkirchen district. ‘The courts recently had ordered that e 11 2001 16th St. N.W. 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