Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1929, Page 25

SHHOKE SCREENS' CHARCED T0FOUR oliceman Identifies Man as Driver of Car Which He Lost in Chase. A city-wide search of an alleged rum ner, who, resorting to the use of smoke screen, when attempting to ape capture early Friday morning pardized the life of Policeman Miles Znamenacek of the eleventh precinct, erulted last night in the arrest of Claud L. Soper, 400 block Seventh street sout.east. 3 Observing a large touring car with agging springs Friday morning, the holicernan_ started to pursue the ma- chine at Eleventh and M streets south- but speeding at more than 70| s an hour the driver began to use | “‘smoke.” Despite the inten: Znamenacek continued to J [although he narrowly avoided collision th parked machines. After a lengthy Zase the policeman succeeded in over- he fl car, but the driver s attempted to ru Znamenacek was forced to discontinue the chase, but later found the car abandoned and empty. Held for Grand Jury. According to fested last nig] ordered him to precient station have identifiel Sope: alledged rum car, and charges of using a smoke screen and reckless driving were preferred. Arraigned in Police Co! was held under $1f Ralph Given pending grand action. | The increasingly prevalent use O Smoke screen: rum runners, who re- sort to this method to escape ar be- came apoarent in Police Court today when four persons charged with their use were arraigned. The three others were granted inuances of _pre- | liminary hearin; Judge Ralph Given. ond by Judge | Demand Jury Trial . 200 block of D s John J. O'Dea, 24.| 00 block of Neal street northeast, and Albert Stewart, colored, 21, 1500 bloc! | of Third streef, were held under bond | for hearings next week. The three men were arrested b lice of the sixth precinct wre of one of the lar e this ¥ | 3 sagging | summoned Police- Rafuse and ds. who'pursued the car to | in the rear of the 600 block of H street. The men were arrested | following seizure of 396 quarts of al- leged liquor. ing the car, police are said to | und compleéte equipment for nossession and | e preferred. | liquor charge, | trial, and granted a continuance by Judge | Given on the second count. SENATORS STUDY NEW NOMINATIONS amittee to- | fore it al additional | nominations by President Hoover, in- iding that of Seth W. Richardson, attorney for North Dakota, to ney General. ., W appointment is first recognit ges of illegal v tot of Oklahoma, whose Tesignation er has accepted despite a warm Frazier of m. e Pres.lent Other nominations by included Julius Klein o! 10 be Assistant Secretar: Earl D. Church of C: ticut, to be sioner of pensions; Col. Harry | Gilchrist, to be chief of the Chemical Warfare Division, with the rank of major general; Col. Stephen Ogden Fuqua, to be chief of Infantry, with the rank of major general, and Raymond E. Patten of Ohio, to be dir tor of the Coast and Geodeti ¥ o g Jipe™ ) Anthracite () A free burning coal with the lasting qual- ities of the harder grades. Remarkably free from the impurities found in ordinary an- thracite, Prices no higher. ‘ Each ton identified by vari-colored mark- ers, thereby insuring this quality coal. May we fill your coal bin NOW? . P. Steuart & Bro. 38 12th N.E. Linc. 1203 and John P. Agnew & Co. 728 14th St. Main 3068 - | was killed yesterday near Ocala, Fla, in | | ton | in his next attempt to break the motor | rge of land || Legal Whippings and Capital Punishment Sought in Michigan By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich.,, April 23— With a bill to reinstate capital punishment on the statute books of Michigan after an absence of nearly 100 years still pending before. it, .the State House of Representatives yesterday passed 2 bill legalizing the whipping post as a punishment for major crimes. The Senate last week approved the death penalty for first degree murders, and thus the House will consider tomorrow the Senate's capital punishment measure, while the Senate examines the whipping post bill' originated in the House. » ‘The House measure provides that the strap “be well laid on the bare back” of ‘“hardened”. criminals at periods during. their imprisonment to be determined by the trial judge. MRS. FRANK MURPHY KILLED IN ACCIDENT Invalid Wife of Ohio Member of | House Fatally Hurt When Auto Leaves Road. The office of Representative Frank B. Murphy of Ohio, whose invalid wueg an automobile accident, was not ad- ised today whether Mr. Murphy, who for Florida vesterday afternoon, would return to Washington or proceed direct to Steubenville, their home. Mrs. Murphy was killed when the automoebile ir which she was riding with | her mother and three other persons, as | guests of E. W. Hockenburg of St. Petersburg, left the road and turned over several tin The party were on their way t er Springs, near St. Petersburg. reported not seriously hurt. Mr. Murphy is expected to arrive at Ocala tomorrow. His wife, an invalid for several years, had spent her Win- ters in Florida and the remainder of the year in Steubenville. In Washing- . Murphy resides at the Congress Hall Hotel. m S ‘The tires to be used by a motor racer speed record have been tested to with- | nd 240-260 miles an hour. l Woopwarp & LoTHrROP The other occupants were | | as family physiclan for many . Mr, Brown said he last saw the m:- alive and' apparently in good healf about 6 o'clock yesterday evening, when the latter retired to his bedroom. was worried about the doctor,” Mr. Brown said, “and went to his room at 11:30 to see i he was all right, sinice I hadn’t heard him moving about for sev- eral hours. Arpnnntly he had been de four hours.” Mr. Brown sald his roomer had told him he gave up his home in the 7200 block of Alaska avenue about January | 1 because his wife had taken the three children and gone to Reno, Nev. Dr. Dorsey, in addition to his wife, is survived by an 8-year-old son and two daughters, 6 and 2 years old. Following an investigation by twelfth Z)mm“ police the body was removed the District morgue. DR. JOHN S. DORSEY. FOUND DEAD IN ROOM Uncérked Medicine Bottle Is Lying on Floor Beside 3ed, With Tablets Scattered on Floor. Dr. John 8. Dorsey, 61-year-old prac- tising physician and father of three children, was found dead shortly before midnight last night in his room, at 2560 Rhode Island avenue northeast, with dn uncorked medicine bottle lying on the floor beside his bed and several tablets scattered over the carpet. (| R Dr. Dorsey had been making his| Brazil has a coastline of over 4,000 home since the 1st of the year with |miles, besides 40,000 miles of navigable Garrett L. Brown, whom he had served rives At Sloan’s Art Galleries 715 Thirteenth Street the we= WETMORE SALE Valuable Antique and Modern Furniture, Rare Chinese TRADE MARK * Japanese Objects of Art, including Bronzes, Wood Carvings, Porcelains, Text Embroideries, Teak Furniture, Enamels, Buddhas, Curio etc tal Rugs, French and English s, 5 China, Fine Linens and Imported Laces, Baby Grand Piano, Tiffany and Other Silverware, Paintings, Engravings, Decorative Mirrors and Lamps, and Many Other Articles of From the Estate of Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore at “Greenway Rise,” Charlottesville, Vir, which have been removed to our galleries for purposes of sale by || order of the beneficiaries of said estate, National Savings and Trust Co., Executor, together with valuable add s from another Virginia Estate and Other Prominent Owners. ALL TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION Within Our Galleries 715 Thirteenth Street Wednesday, Thursday and Friday April 24th, 25th and 26th, 1929 " At 2 P.M. Each Day PR 3 it Catalogues on Application to C. G. SLOAN & CO., Inc., Auctioneers I 10711 F a¥D' G'STrEETS Special Selling 500 Old Hand-hooked Rugs Many Semi-Antiques The Outstanding Price Groups £ The heritage of quaint Colonial charm is dramatized in this collection of fine old rugs. Collected from very ol homesteads in the Annapolis valley of Nova: Scotia—discovered in remote habitats up New England way—they bring the original designs and mellow colorings used in America’s first floor coverings. We cannot overstress their value—their historical charm—their special, 1ow Woodward & Lothrop prices—and the importance of being here tomorrow to see them in their unusual variety. Other Fine Hooked Rugs, $24.50 to $795. 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