Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 23

THE SUNDAY STAR, “"ASHL\'GTON. D. C, MAY 5 1929—PART 1. e TERN ROADS PLAN ; I 11! GRAIN RATES fon in Freight Charges May | ¢ Lxtended to Wheat Flour. ssoci<'e4 Press tary r-duction in grain export | nounced by uggestion of the s us with greater cause for making it a gala occasion anner one for us—our sales record shows how popu- It is with a deep feeling of sincere gratitude that sands of Washingtonians who have found it profit- We have gone to L ational’s” Liberal C istration Friday, will be followed by like reductions in the same rates on the part of Western railroads, and will be extended to wheat flour it was indi- cated yesterday after conferences of members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, with traffic vice presidents | of several Western trunk lines and rep- resentatives of the Hoover administra- tion. Conrad E. Spens, vice president of the Burlingon system and chairman of the rallroad committee, announced at the termination of the meetings that he had summoned representatives of | all Western lines to meet in Chicago Tuesday to act on the request for ex- redit Plan. ured in this Anniversary Event; the sale "clock—here is one time l be an early this charming ridge tamp “will iven with the irehase of each these Suites as Anniversary Gift dur patrons. Anniversary Sale! 10 Dining Pieces / Ay () [[eefl L Think of i Ten pi WALNUT V ZER ov fully made and finished That's value-giving for you! cludes: Server, bufet, five side chairs and one armchair. upholstered in jacquard. 219 eces of JINE er gumwood, beauti- at a price like this! The suite in- china closet, table, Chairs are Chair and Bench are not in- cluded at this price, but port grain rate reductions which has been made by the administration. As the situation stands, the Eastern lines have announced an export grain cut amounting to 5, cents per 100 pounds. If reductions in the West on grain moving to Chicago and St. Louis equal to that amount are granted, the total export transportation charge from Western wheat growing areas on grain | will be cut 11 cents per 100 pounds, or | nearly 7 cents per bushel, Spens ex- plained. Eastern railroad executives, announc- ing the intended action Friday, sald that the great accumulation of grain on Western farms had created a Na- tional emergency and that the rate cuts would be made in an endeavor to Below models. Top-Icer Style Ok finish; 30-Ib. ice capacity. Less $9.75 Simmons Wood-Finish Double Day Bed $15.95 cely Finished Cretonne Cover Pay $1 Down Strongly Con- structed and Oil Stove With Oven style, with and oven, com- plete— $5.00 help move the old crop into world con- sumption before the new crop is ready for harvest. MEXICO FREES CUBAN. MEXICO CITY, May 4 () —Jose Magrinat, 2 Cuban, who has been held here since the assassination of Jullo Antonio Mella, another Cuban, under suspicion in connection with the crime, was freed by order of the Superior Court of the federal district today. The court sustained Magrinat’s peti- tion for an imparo on the grounds that the evidence against him did not warrant further detention. REFRIGERATORS No matter what condition your old re- {rigerator or ice box may be in, we will allow you $5.00 for it on the purchase price of a new, guaranteed refrigerator. are three of the most popular $1.00 Delivers Any Refrigerator R 3-Door Style Oak finish; 40-1b, fce capacity. Less $18.75 In Many No Phone Orders Burner Oil Stove High Sheif 1s extra. A splen- did eooker. $11.75 $1.00 Portable 2-Burner Oil Stove A_Splendid. Re- liable Cooker. $5.95 $1.00 Down Baby Walker As Shown $1.49 No Mail or Phone Orders Six-Piece Dinette Suite Nicely finished in walnut over solid gum- wood. 4 chairs. or apartment. 6 pieces. A splendid suite for the small home Extension table, buffet and Anniversary Sale! 3 $49 Apartment Style Oak flnl“:: s Cedar Chests Pay $1 Down 'BIG WAR PREDICTED | TO DOOM FRUIT FLY | Georgia Expert, After Florida Tour, Predicts World Will Engage in Defense of Citrus Groves. | | By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga,, May 4.—A. M. Met- calf, member of the Georgia State | Board of Entomology, today returned from the Mediterranean fruit fly in- | fested area of Florida and forecast a world war on the pest. Mr. Metcalf said entomological ex- perts from every frilt-growing State in | the Union and from numerous foreign | | countries had offered their talents and experience to aid in the fight being waged against the fly’s threat. o Florida's citrus groves. “It has now been definitely estab- lished that the fly has 169 hosts,” Mr. | Metcalf said, “among which are many fruits and vegeiables grown in Georgia, Florida and thrcugzhout the South. { “America, with millions in money | and hundreds of thousands of men, if NS !&‘}Q’.{&.‘ X Anniversary Sale of 50-1b, lce acity. §: 3-Pc. Fiber Suites An unusually striking design—a new one for pieces, tured, woven am§ Priced as Low ar There are three exactly as pic- all splendidly ofcarefully chosen fibre and well upholstered in fine qual- . ity cretonne. The suite includes settee, chair and rocker. $5 - nut Delivers It! recessary, will stop it,” was his declara- jon. “This is the biggest and most dan- gerous threat Southern fruit growers lave ever come up against,” he decalerd Brakeman Is Injured. ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 (Special). ~Thomas Burns of 310 A street north- cast, Washington, is confined to the Alexandria Hospital suffering from con- cussion of the brain and a broken leg which he received yesterday when he feil from a bo: as a brakeman. Van attractive Metal Fernery with every Fibre Suite An Anni- versary Gift to Anniversary Sale! 10=Piece Suite—A Fine Buy We doubt if a scarch throughout the city will bring the equal of this suite at the price. Ten pieces; f gumwood, in wal- finish. Buffet, Server, China Closet, Extension Table, five Side Chairs and one Armchair. Exactly s in the above sketch. Pay Down Only $5! $3(0.00 Allowance for Your Old Radio or Phonograph on a New NO EXTRA may be had to match if desired. niture Co. RAL CREDIT” Sireets CHARGE FOR No Matter What the Condition of Your Old Set or Phonograph We Will Allow $30.00 Easy Weekly or Monthly Payments—WITHOUT ANY EXTRA CHARGE FOR LIBERAL TERMS—Make Own- ership of a Philco All-Electric Radio from The “National” CHEST OF DRAWERS N. W. Oak Finish $8.20 $1.00 Down EASY!!! Model 86 Console (Shown to left) $157.00 (wess Tuses) 30.00 aLrowance) IS ALL YOU PAY s127 The popular 8-tube All. Electric PHILCO Radio, with Electro-Dynamic Speaker, in full-length Walnut Console Cabinet. No aerial needed. No batteries—no acids. Afifiiversary Sale! Three Fine Pieces in.Velour Three attracti pieces strongly structed for se; and comfort. Co prise large and com- fortable Settee, Club Chair Chair, - cushions, in attractive velour. An ideal suite at a low cost. $5 Delivers This Suite and with upholstered Wing loose - car at the Potomac | Rallroad Yards, where he is employed | NEMORAL RTES HERENEXTSUNDAY War Mothers From Many Parts of Country Will Participate. American war mothers from many parts of the country will come to Wash- ington next Sundav to participate in the annual memorial exercises of the organization in_ conjunction with the Congressional Club at Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. | "Many other woman’s organizations will be represented at the exercises, fol- | lowing which Mrs. Amos A. Fries will | entertain for the war mothers at her home on Woodley road during the aft- ernoon. | Prominent officials, including Secre- | tary of Agriculture and Mrs. Hyde, are | expected to attend the patristic exer- | cises, at which wreaths will L: placea upor®the Tomb of the Unknown Suld:er. This marks the fifth year in which patriotic woman'’s organizations and the Congressional Club have united in hold- ing memorial ceremonies. Will Head Delegation. Mrs. Katherine Gallegher of Wayne, Pa., founder of the Gold Star Mothers | of the World War, is coming at the | head of 35 members of her organization. Others include Mrs. Frank Onion of Baltimore, third vice president generat of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. On behalf of the Order of the East- ern Star and the American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Minnie Evans Keys and Mrs. Boyce Fickles, respectively, will place wreaths on the tomb, the latter coming from California for this pur- pose. Mrs. Clarence M. Busch will rep- resent the National League of American Pen Women and Miss Helen Downing will place the wreath for the National Auxiliary of the Sons of Unlon Veterans. Others to Send Flowers. About 40 other patriotic organiza- tions will send floral tributes. Among the box holders are the Sec- retary of Agriculture and Mrs. Hyde, the Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs. Hurley, Gen. and Mrs. Amos A. Fries, Commissioner and Mrs. Proctor L. Dougherty, Senator and Mrs. Dale, Sen- ator and Mrs. Broussard, Senator and Mrs. Black. Gen. and Mrs. J. E. Fechet and Representatives Lozier, Ellis, Kief- ner, Hadley, Craddock, Fulner, Lamber- ton, Jed Johnson, Jelly, Ludlow. Colton, McMtillan, Luther, Johnson, Mary T. Norton, Ruth Hanna McCormick, Fred G. Johnson, De Priest, Reams, Hopkins, Newhall, Green, Tarver, Kemp, Parker, Kincheloe, Underwood, San Brig- ham, Rowland R. Johnston, Howard, Sparks, Ramey, Robert S. Hall, Anold, Homer Hall, Nelson, Ramseyer, Seiber- ling, Bloom, ~Woodrum, Lankford, Michener, Reed, Schafer, Charles A. Jones, Leatherwood, Dennett, Hale, Korell, Hogg, Foss, Hull, Browne, Engle- bright, Thatcher. Bachman. Freeman, N. J. Johnson, Willlamson, Wingo, E. G. ll:o%te, Culkins and Delegate Suther- nd. itions also are being made for Reservaf distinguished guests from New York, | Baltimore, Pennsylvania and Virginia. 'TEXAS TO REVISE ' EXECUTION CODE | Governor Wants Death Inflicted Only When Convicts Try to Escape. Special Dispatch to The Star. | AUSTIN, Tex., May 4.—Capital punishment in Texas will be abolished except. for convicts under sentence of |death who attempt to gain their free- | dom or who escape and are captured, | if the recommendation which Gov. Dan {Moody will make to the Legislature is adopted. At this time there are 11 con- victed men in death cells at the State penitentiary awaiting execution. The death penalty, under Gov. Moody'’s plan, | will hang over the convict as long as he is in prison, but it will not be enforced unless he attempts to escape or succeeds in_doing so and is captured. ‘The operation of this plan would eliminate commutation of death sen- tences to life. Gov. Moody said that he will support the measure in the special session. Under the proposed statute, the person sentenced to death would receive sentence from the Trial Court, {but no date for the execution would be |named, it being left to the governor to set the date by proclamation. The prisoner sentenced to death would be sent to the penitentiary and placed in solitary confinement. An |attempt to escape would invoke auto- | matically the death penalty without a | proclamation from the governor, the | date being fixed at 10 days from the | date of capture. | _“I believe it is a splendid deterrent,” Gov. Moody said. “It puts the issue | squarely up to the prisoner. He knows {that an attempt to escape will bring about his immediate execution if cap- | tured, and that, on the other hand, by ood behavior he can go on living. It ems to me that a lifetime of solitary | imprisonment is pretty stiff punish- ment.” The recent escape of Robert Silver |from the Wynn prison farm, near Huntsville, after he had his death sen- | tence commuted to life by Gov. Moody, and the storm of protest his escape aroused from persons who had opposed the commutation has brought this sub- | ject strikingly to the governor’s atten- tion. | “There would be no occasion for | commutation of sentence under this | plan.” the governor explained. |, The governor expressed the belief, too, | that such a law would result in injuries ‘hetlng readier to assess the death pen- alty. '$107 FINE IS IMPOSED ON DRIVER IN CRASH Arrested After Collision on Charges of Recklessness and Operating Car While Intoxicated, Spectal Dispatch to The Star. | ELKRIDGE, Md. May 5.—Arrested { after he had collided with and over- turned an automobile operated by James | G. Cassady cf Dorset Station, Md., a | man who gave the name of Thomas | Francis Kittrick, an automobile me- | chanic, of the 400 block of K street, Thursday was_fined $107.90 by Police Magistrate J. F. Gill, here, on charges | of driving while intoxicated and reck- less driving. Although Cassady and his wife, who was & passenger in the car with him, | were thrown beneath their machine, | which turned completely over, they | escaped with minor cuts and bruises. | The accident occurred on a hill near here. ! Kittrick was arrested by Constable | Nelson O. Lilly, and the charges against | him pPelde‘ by Maryland State Po- liceman 8. H. Hainesq . | PILOT UNHURT IN CRASH. Department of Commerce Plane | Falls at College Park. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | _ COLLEGE PARK, Md. May 4.— ‘While taking off on a test flight from | the_airfield here yesterday afternoon, a Department of Commerce Fairchild | cabin monoplene crashed in a field be- | tween the hangars and ths Washing- | ton-Baltimore boulevard, 1ts landing gear, The pllot un. | Bust, e TS