Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1929, Page 27

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 1T 1929. TWO D. C. WOMEN GREET QUEEN MARY Second Presentation at Court of St. James Is Marked by Splendor. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 11.—The scene at Buckingham Palace last night for the second court held by Queen Mary was almost a parallel of that of Thursday evening, although more debutantes were presented and the rooms were very crowded. There were nearly 1,500 guests. _A large proportion of the presenta- tions last night were of representatives of the dominions and colonies. Eight American women made their curtsies to her majesty. the same number as was received at the first court of the season. Just as the public during the wait in the Mall Thursday evening picked out the American tennis star, Helen Wills, on whom to center their attention, so Jast night Eileen Bennett, young English player, stood out among the debutantes, Virginia Woman Presented. The Americans presented last night were: Mrs. George Barnett of Washing- ton, Miss Marie Cullum, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Paul Grenning, California; Mrs. George Lawrence, jr., New York; Mar- garet McKittrick, Missouri; Miss Cath- erine Norcross, Georgla; Miss Margaret Tvner of Washington and Miss Adeline Winston. Georgia. The Duke of York in naval uniform Jast night took the place of his older brother, the Prince of Wales, in escort- ing the Queen in the procession to the ballroom. Queen Mary again made a figure of regal splendor in a beautiful gown of the palest silver-gray mar- quisette, embroidered with diamante and seed pearls, with gray mother-of- pearl paillettes and minute silver crystals. Her sleeves of silver lace were embroidered with similar decorations and the train of silver cloth was em- broidered to match the gown, She wore a diamond Russian-shaped tiara and a soutoir of diamonds with the famous Kohinoor diamond and Star of the Garter. Crowds View Procession. ‘The two-hour wait in the Mall before entry of the palace was again favored with beautiful weather and great crowds came to see the debutantes in their court dress as they sat in the long line of automobiles. .The automobile of Miss Bennett was miobbed by excited women in the Mall in the same way that the crowd had pressed around that of Miss Wills on the previous night. The police were again obliged to surround the car to stem the rush. SEEL VOYAGERS TAKE TRAIN WHILE LINER REFUELS President Roosevelt Loads 3,000 Barrels of Oil at Halifax After Running Short. I By the Assoclated Press. HALIFAX, May 11.—Forced into Halifax Harbor by a depletion of her fuel supply, the United States liner President Roosevelt remained here to- day to load 3,000 barrels of fuel ofl, while her passengers proceeded to New York by special train, C: Van Beek said that on May 1, the dawafter the ship cleared Cobb, Irish Free State, the low pressure turbine broke down forcing the ship to run at reduced speed. He said the resulting excessive use of fuel oil depleted the supply and that he headed for Halifax in_the interests of safety. Passengers and some members of the crew said the ship stopped on three oc- casions after leaving Cobh, the last time being Thursday night off the Nova Scotia coast, when the engines stopped The ship carried 99 cabin passengers and 188 in the third-class, all of whom boarded the special train. Among the passengers was Jean As- solant, French aviator, who plans a flight from New York to Paris in a Bernard. monoplane named L'Oiseau Canary. Accompanying him were his pilot, R. A. Oulalerch, and his backer, Armand Lottl. The latter said the flight would be attempted some time be- tween May 20 and 25, provided the weather is favorable. | Poultry Industry’s Master Minds Meet to Plan Hen Relief. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 11.—Master minds of the poultry industry have convened here to work out plans for hen relief. Hen housing conditions are bad, they have found, with chick- ens living in crowded quarters. ventilation is terrible and light- ing_and heating worse. Hens can't do their best work under these conditions and, besides, what will the little chicks grow up to be? Attending the conference are representatives of the Poultry Research Council, the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry, the National Poultry Couneil,” the United States Egg Society, the International Baby Chicks Asso- ciation, the Poultry Science As- sociation and the Poultry, Butter and Egg Association. COLORED CITIZENS Lila Smith, formerly a slavey, is believed by Inspector Joh an heiress. to a place of safety. from which latter, Just before she is to be pl Synopsis of Preceding Installments. lodging-houre of the London police to be Delia Pattison, Wade. who loves her. takes her lured by her old employer, Mrs. Oaks ewspaper Service., time n Wade | the man went on. Oaks!" NCne| “What did he say?” The aced on trial. 'is ‘poisoned. Wade is convinced that she Js in league with a criminal gang known as the india rubber men. Her husband, Golly. is being sought by the police, In: vestigations show that the Seal of T: A& mystery ship, is the gang's headquarters, l might have pursued a perfunctory inquiry but for the fact that three times in one week a report had been Teceived that a man answering to the description of Golly Oaks had been seen | i in a particular area. This report, how- ever, was supplemented by a note to the flect that several suspicious-looking TWENTY-FIRST INSTALLMENT. in the Notting Hill district. He| huskily. was t buy shi PLEDGE POLICE AID Group Extends Greetings to! Maj. Pratt in Serenade at District Building. Co-operation of colored citizens with the Police Department was pledged at a concert and serenade by the Community Center Band in front of the District Greetings were ex- tended to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, super- intendent of police, on behalf of Wash- ington’s colored population by Rev. J. L. S. Holloman, pastor of the Second State chairman of the Federation of Colored Women'’s Clubs, speaking for colored Building Iast night. Baptist Church. Mrs. Marfe Madre Marshall, women, said: e persons had also been seen. Now it so happened that in Notting| Hill lived a man who, though reputedly honest himself, knew many of the char- acters of the underworld. Dan Ricord derived a fair income by renting out piano-organs and ice cream barrows. To say that the breath of suspicion had never tarnished the brightness of his reputation would be untrue; but it was | i true that the police had never asso- ciated him with even a minor crime, un- | less it be a crime to charge exorbitantly for the apparatus he owned. He had a wide acquaintance, not only among the police but also among law- breakers. When John Wade and Elk | drove down to interview him, he re ceived them openly in his rather ornate parlor. | “Golly Oaks I knew nothing about,” he began. “But I can tell you that a lot of queer-looking fellows have been around here lately, usually after dark. They go about in pairs and look as if they're getting acquainted with the neighborhood.” “Why this neighborhood?” asked John Wade. t “Heaven knows,” was the cheerful re- ply. “But I happen to know that this is a fact, because a man who peddles combed the without finding Golly. truth, rather bored with Golly. “Perhaps he's living in the Arbroath Building,” suggested Elk. “That's unlikely,” said the divisional inspector, who had arrived during the “The place is shut up, and I'm told it's in the hands of the court, though I'm not certain about 1f you like, well go round and see _the caretaker.” The Arbroath Building proved to be its description—a this. almost as bad as squat mass of stucco-faced concrete. After much knocking on a gate leading to a garage located in the basement, the officers succeeded in bringing the care- taker to the wicket. wish somebody would come. the lawyers this morning. They think they've got a purchaser. “I did, mister,’ “It must have been him. “Did you speak to him?” “No, sir, I didn't speak to him. But And a few nights | t was Oaks all right. nterrogation. He was an army pensioner, “Nobody's been here,” he sa 0 get away to the seaside. holiday due.” John Wade gave a short, but vivid, description of Golly Oaks. The Wolves of the Waterfront By Edgar Wallace. (Copyright. 1020, by North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropclitan been untenanted for & considerable “I recognized him and turned back,”. “I said, ‘Hullo, Mr. asked Wade. “He didn’t say anything. He pulled up his coat collar and walked on. | thought I'd made a mistake, but now I'm sure I didn't, because Jimmy here saw him about 10 minutes later.” said the s=cond man <ing the corner of the block N the afternoon John Wade received | when I lamped him—saw him as plain a report that Golly had been seen|as I see you. I know him very well; I worked in Wapping when Oaks used to * timbers and sell ‘em to the ago old Sorbey saw him and told a cop —a policeman—and he saw him near the Arbroath Building, too.” < The Notting Hill police had nothing to add to this information. They had neighborhood _thoroughly They were, in well known to the police of the neighborhood as a man of the highest integrity. I've seen I'll be glad I've got a and sort of singing to hlmr.e]lAhur-" rible voice it was, too.” “That sounds lik2 Golly,” frowned | Wade. “What is he doing in this neighborhood?” The inspectors went back to Scot- land Yard, not much wiser than they had been when they left. Elk was very thoughtful during the journey. I don't like this business,” he said. “Ever heard of master ~criminals, Johnny?” “In books—yes." “I've read about ’em, too,” sald EIk.| “I think I smell one here.” “Aikness or Golly?” “Golly?” There was astonishment in Elk’s voice. “Golly,” repeated Wade. “No, I'm not joking. I'm getting a wholesome respect for that fellow. He's thorough. I|T shan't forget the pansies he was for planting over my tomb. And he's got a sense of humor. A criminal who has a sense of humor is the most dangerous type of criminal.” As they took their evening meal to- gether, Elk was reading a newspaper. “There's an idea, Johnny. The ad- miralty are sending a_destroyer up to Greenwich to take part in some naval cent—what's the word?” “Centenary?” suggested Wade. Elk folded the paper and put it | down. “Why not keep a destroyer perma- [nently on duty in the mouth of the river? Sooner or later that's the way those fellows are going to get away. They've lost the Seal of Troy, but how do we know they haven't got an- other boat? They've been making mil lions. Golly or Aikness, or whoever’s the man, has got money to burn and can pick up ships at three a penny.” That night, by the light of an elec- tric reading lamp, Golly Oaks read the same item, and the same thought | struck him; but it was the thought that followed upon the. firs; that set this little man_aglow. that he forgot he was, at the moment, He |whom he had given a very definite | commission. That Lane did not carry out his or- ders to the letter was due to a brick that had fallen from the cart of a builder’s lorry. It lay in the roadway of the Strand, and the wheel of a cer- | tain taxicab humped over it at a criti- | cal moment. | John Wade was in the Strand at that instant. He had stopped to look at the : that he had seen it in operation. He was also glad that little adven- He had accepted his task with some misgiving, for he had never before gone gunning for a police | official in a public street, and it was brightly lighted window of a novelty store. Scarcely was his gaze concen- trated upon the display within, when the plateglass window was shattered into a thousand fragments. But he did not hear the report of the pistol. “That man's born lucky,” said Rag- git Lan~. sinking back into the taxicab in which he had, for three hours, been following the inspector. He removed the stlencer from the muzzle of his long-barreled pistol and devoted himself to making up a good excuse for his bad marksmanship. He had a scribbled note that afternoon. telling him to remove Wade,"“at all corst.” Golly always put an ‘r’ ‘cost,” though he wrote the Greek equivalent without an error. A police whistle sounded, almost the second after the glass was broken. The officer on duty in the Trafalgar Square end of the Strand immediately stopped all traffic. At this point Mr. Raggit Lane stepped from the cab and closed the door carefully. “Sorry, boss—the tire hit a brick or somep'n,” said the driver. “That's all right, Harry—I've put the gun in the locker under the seat,” said Lane, and, in another second, was threading his way carefully between busses and cabs. A narrow squeak that, he thought, when he reached the safety of the square and Pall Mall beyond. This new in | ture was over. | not a pleasant experience. | himself had brought some | tion. | an ‘actual “job.” secure three lines of escape. ‘Things were getting a little too dan- | gerous—he didn't like the idea of so | many gunmen in London, although he | there, and had helped to organize them. | . Raggit Lane's part in the game was to make clear the lines of communica- | He had only_once been in on Bank-robbing and | safe-blowing were tasks for experts. His own labors ended when he had made | He was becoming more than tired of {his lot, and was rich enough, if he felt the inclination, to quit the game; but there was a big share of plunder | coming from the -central fund, and that was worth waiting for. In South America he could have a pleasant house | with a deep veranda, a jolly little yacht | that would carry him over blue, sunlit seas, and a wife, perhaps. *le had liked Lila Smith, even before the information had come to him that she was an heiress. There was a girl | full of possibilities. There was nothing | thick-witted about her. i But the old man wanted her, he supposed. It was curious how noncha- | lantly the old chap had taken the news | that the Seal of Troy had given up | | its mystery. That meant the loss of affectionately. caught his Jeft. | the face of John Wade. indifference, the share that was com- ing must be a pretty big one. The old man was keen about Lila or he wouldn't have had Siniford put out of the way. That was a dangerous trick, if you like! “Raggit Lane shivered at the thought. A member of the House of Lords, heir to a large fortune! Phew! ‘The old man took risks. He had held up the Westshire Bank in broad da: light, but there was nothing to that, because two of the clerks were in on the deal. “It is time to quit,” said an inner volce. And then Lane thought of his share in the spoils, and of Lila Smith. | It was not impossible that he should win her. The old man was getting on in years, and who knew what impres- sion a good-looking man of 35 had made upon the susceptible mind of youth? A hand took his right arm, almost As he turned another He stared aghast into (To Be Continued.) SPRING APPETITES i moflmhqglng.Sdmuhlel.l:hm | LEA & PERRINS' SAUCE So elated was he || waiting for news from Raggit Lane, to || “We hold no brief for criminals and would bring to bear every social agency to turn them away from the error of their choice of conduct. We want jus- tice to be certain and efficient in the Capital, that all America may pattern after us, and we desire that the Negro here may demonstrate, as he has in Mound Bayou, Miss., where he governs himself, that there is no great need for a large and expensive Police Depart- ment.” Maj. Pratt responded briefly and asked co-operation from all agencies with the Police Department in its work. SPEAKERS T0 TALK ON METNAL HYGIENE Meeting Under Auspices of Board of Trade Committee Scheduled for Tonight. “Are they living here?” Ricord shook his head. dope—not exactly a friend of mine, you understand—had a talk with them. "He says they're gunmen. He says there's been half a dozen of 'em walking about this district the last night or two.” “That's funny,” said te man, when ‘Wade had finished. “I've seen a fel- low like that—saw him last night when I was standing at the wicket, having a smoke. He was wearing a long brown ulster and a cap that looked too big for him. 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