Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1929, Page 4

- THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, BAPTIST SESSION - MAY AIR RIOTING .Open Discussion of Des Moines University Troubles Expected at Buffalo. By the Associated Press BUFFALO, N. Y., May 15.—Open dis- | cussion on the convention floor of the trouble at Des Molnes University wu' foreshadowed early today in an official | meeting of the board of trustees pre- vious to the regular session of the Bap- tist Bible Unlon Convention. The trus- . tees, it appeared probable, would not willingly change their attitude on the recent rioting and dismissal by the board of the faculty of the school. At the early session the possibility ! was raised that Dean Earl C. Calloway | of the university College of Pharmacy and the Rev. Minor Stevems of D Moines, both supporters of students and | faculty, might be denied admission to the pulpit of the convention church here. Calloway promised “fireworks” | would result if he were barred from the | platform. The dean represents President | Harry C. Wayman of the university, | Who was dismissed by the trustees. Would Meet Opponent. | Dr. Thomas T. Shields, chairman of | the board of trustees and president of , the Bible Union, declared last night | he would welcome the opportunity to meet Mr. Stevens, whom, he said, he| blamed for instigating the trouble at! the school, in the convention, and that he would glve him & chance to talk | and then would tell his own story at| * length. Dr. Shields did not say when he ! would explain the matter on the plat- | form, but it was indicated university | matters would not be touched on before this afternoon. Miss Edith M. Rebman, secretary of the board of trustees, who, with Dr. Shields, was exonerated by the trustees | of charges of indiscretion, said actions taken by the board in the early morn- | ing session would be made known this afternoon. “The principal matters relative to university* problems will be settled here in Buffalo,” Miss Rebman stated when asked if definite settlement of univer- sity troubles would have to await the | annual meeting of the bcird in Des Moines in June. Asked if Dean Calloway and Mr. Stevens would be permitted to speak this afternoon, Miss Rebman replied it would “depend on the order of busi- ness.” | ache remedies freel CHILDHOOD ROMANCE ENDS AS GIRL EXPIRES IN HOSPITAL g | Hopes for Marriage There Fail as She Dies Before Plans Completed. Took Poison Accidentally, Seeking Headache | Remedy. Death last night ended the romance of 19-year-old Evelyn Bates, former | Central High School student, whose childhood sweetheart stood at her bed- | side in George Washington University | Hospital as hopes for & deathbed mar- riage failed. The girl died from the effects of poison accidentally taken at her home, 615 Sixth street, Thursday night. She Is said to have mistaken it for & headache remedy. Her fiance, Bernard R. Murphy, 23, of 1729 Riggs place, maintained & con- stant vigil at the girl's bedside anc when it became evident his childhoo. | sweetheart was waging & fosing bal | with death, asked that a minister be | called to umite them in matrimony. The girl died while arrangemenis for the ceremony Were being made. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt arranged 1o perform an autopsy today. She will be buried Friday morning from the home of her sweetheart According to the gitl's father. John Prank Bates, his daughter had been suffering from severe headaches for & | number of vears and had taken head- ‘Thursday night, visiting the girl, she for a while Murphy was went into an adjoining room headache medicine. Shortly after she re-entered the room she became violently ill. Murphy | rushed to & nearby drug store for a | Testorative, and when she failed to re- | spond had her removed to the hospital Dr. F. A. Hornaday expressed the be lief that the girl had taken a large quantity of the deadly potion. RIVERDALE TO VOTE ON HIGHWAY PLAN Town Council Arranges for Refer- SLANE STUDYIG LAWS OF DISTRICT Senator to Determine Need of Controlling Sale of Securities. A study of the laws of the District is being made by Senator Blaine, Re- publican, of Wisconsin, to find out whether Washington needs new legisla- tion to control the sale of securities, to Tegulate the real estate business and to govern mortgage foreclosures. Senator Blaine is chairman of the subcommittee on banks and insurance of the Senate District committee, which has been asked to recommend what course the Senate should take on the Tesolution proposed last week by Sena- tor Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, seeking an. investigation of real estate financing activities here. The Blaine subcommittee has not had & meeting yet to_consider the Brook- THO TRANSFUSIONS * MORE FOR MILER bbPhysicians of Garfield Hos- | pital Fighting to Save | Educator’s Life. Two ‘more blood transfusions were to [ be administered today to Alvin W. Mil- | ler, Central High School principal, who |is fighting for his life at Garfleld Hospital against the deadly streptococ- | cic poisoning induced by the bite of & | et cat in his home a little more than | two weeks ago. | | Mr. Miller's general physical condi- | tion was described this morning as| { “slightly improved,” but apprehension is entertained for his recovery. It was| determined definitely this morning that the stereptococcic poisoning is general | and the transfusions will be continued | &5 a means of combating the poison | which now is being circulated through | his system by the heart action. The | poisoning is expected to reach its climax within two days, but it was sald this | morning that th® educator’s ability to | withstand the action of the poison ould not be determined before another iay has passed. | Following publication of the first trensfusion yesterday, scores of persons. | including close personal friends and | admirers of the stricken man, have | | volunteered to give blood in the opera- | tions. It was explained, however, that | the Garfield Hospital maintains its own | donors, and the volunteers' offers were | refused. S. J: McMAHON NAMED | TO TAX APPEALS BOARD| Wisconsin Attorney Nominated by Hoover to Fill Place Sief- kin Resigned. Stephen J. McMahon of Wisconsin wae nominated today by President Hoo- ver to be a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals. in this city, for the unexpired term of 12 years from June 2, 1926. He will take the place of Forest D. Siefkin, resigned. Mr. McMahon is 48 years old and a | native of Wisconsin. He holds the de- | gree of Ph. B. and LL. B. from the Uni- Gold Coast Infants Held Less Likely to | | Live Than Ghetto’s By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 15 nold H. Kegel, comm heaith, has found that children of the Gold Coast, dwelling place of Chicago’s elite, are less likely to reach the age of 1 year than chil- dren born in the thickly settled twenty-fourth ward or Ghetto. “In_ the twenty-fourth ward,” Dr. Kegel said, “there is & popu- lation of 62,000 persons to 1 square mile. yet the death rate among infants is lower than on the Gold Coast, with & popula- tion of 52,242 to un area of 1.64 miles. The twenty-fourth ward. Dr. Kegel points out, is composed al- most entirely of Jewish families “These families adhere to the old | | tradition of natural baby feeding, and it is to this I attribute the low death rate,” he said. PETTIN OPPUSES | ROADWIDENIGTAX More Than 1,200 Against; Proposed Tax Assessment in Benning Road Project. As a result of action by the Trinidad | Citizens' Association a petition contain- | ing more than 1200 names was filec with the District Supreme Court today against the proposed tax assessment schedule levied in the Benning road widening project. In_addition to the petition filed in behalf of the citizens' association, a large number of individual property owners in the northeast section also filed protests with the court. Owing to the unusual interest displayed by citisens against the proposed assessment, Justice Hitz extended the time for the filing of petitions to June 3. Otherwise the time would have expired today. Allege Case Faulty. The formal petition was presented to the court through Attorneys Bruce L. Casteel and Charles I. Kaplan, mem- bers of the Trinidad Citizens' Associa- | next T | will extend trom the easternmos Special Dispatch to The Star. endum on Improvement Bill on July 1. hart resolution. It was indicated to- day that some of the members may want to wait until the Senate has dis- posed of the census and reapportion- ment bills before turning their atten- tion to this local matter RIVERDALE, Md, May 15— Prepa- | “\feanwhile, Senator Elaine plans to CAUSE OF RIOT DISPUTED. ‘Wayman Says Fundamentalist-Modern- Tations were made at the Monday meet- | ing of the Town Council for the refer- endum on the local road-improvement look in‘o the necessity for legislation on the ihree subjects referred to. Sen- | versity of Wisconsin and served as city attorney of Antigo, Wis., from 1908 to 1911, He was assistant United States attorney for the Eastern district of Wis- | consin from 1911 to 1912 and from 1914 to 1917 was & member of the law fac- ulty at Marquette University, He is & member of the American Bar ssociation and other professional and tion. assessment in the case is faulty in that it places the burden of cost for con- | demnation proceedings on small prop- Ty owners, whereas the prncipal bene- fits to be derived from the improve. | ments will be obtained by the business | men of Washington and nearby Mary land and Virginia. It further sets forth that the assessments are not for the It recites that the method of | S in Few Weeks, Following Government Approval. Plans of the public roads division of the Department. of Agriculture for | bridging the various inlets of the Poto- mac River included in the approved route of the Mount Vernon Boulevard, from the Arlington Memorial Bridge along the shores of the river to the his- | toric home of George Washington, hav been approved by Col. Patrick J. Hurley, | Assistant Secretary of War, and con- struction work will begin within the few weeks. These plans include the construction of fixed concrete arch bridges across Boundary Channel, on the Virginia side of Columbia Island, across the inlet at Gravelly Point, across Four-Mile Run between here and Alexandria, and across Hunting Creek, just below the latter city. _Army engineers reported to the War Department that these bridges, as planned, have ample vertical clearance or the present or future possible navi- gation of the waters involved. Notice of Plans. The Columbia Tsland Bridge, the last one of the four to be finally considered, end of the island, on a slightly deflected line, to the mainland at a point between the southern end of the Highwdy Bridge and the junction of the Military road to Arlinglon Cemetery with the Alexandria pike. | Trom the east end of the island bridge the Mount Vernon Boulevard will |pass’ under the Alexandria pike ap- proach to the Highway Bridge and under the nearby parallel approach to the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, in | the same general manner as the Speed- way. in Potomac Park, passes under the northern approaches to the two large | bridges across the Potomac. The Co- rintian Yacht Club and other occu- pants of the ground included in the line |of the boulevard from the Highway Bridge south to Gravelly Point have been given ample notice of the plans of the Government, so that they may find other quarters for future activities. CAPONE kiNSHIP DI-ENIED. Although several acquaintances here | he described himself as Frank Ca- pone, brother of Al Capone, the Chicago gang leader, a 24-year-old newcomer to ‘Washington related a different story when picked up by police yesterday for investigation. The man said he was Frank Loice and that he was a clerk by profession, coming from Brooklyn. Loice’s fingerprints and description were forwarded to Chicago for WL B BRDEED § | Construction Work to Begin | Tantalizing Eyes There is nothing more tantalizing or inter- rupting to pleasure and comfort than the an- noyance caused by visual defects. 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Registration of business organizations, He is a man of {or the| identification. He was being held at the ist Fight Is Not Reason. DES MOINES, Iowa, May 15 (P).— Dr. H. C. Wayman, president of Les Motnes University, in a statement fo- day said “there is no truth whatsoever new voters will be held at the firehouse from 7 to 9 p.m. June 4, 11 and 18, and will be taken. W. A. Carson, chairman; the adequacy or inadequacy of existing laws might be useful to the subcom- mittee when it comes to decide what the scope of its recommendations should complete census of all qualified voters tion he is compiling with regard to | to reports that the cause of the recent student riot was the fundamentalist- modernist_controversy.” While he did not place the cause definitely, student discontent, he did | say, resulted from actions of Dr. Shields and Miss Edith M. Rebman, president and_ secretary, respectively, of the board of trustees. Dr. Wayman's statement was 'in answer to charges by Dr. Shields that the school's president “threw himself into the arms of malcontents and tried to develop trouble for officials -who were trying to change the school from & liberal to a Christian institution. After recountng rumors he said had come to him regarding Dr. Shields and Miss Rebman, both of whom were “vindicated with indignation,” Dr. Wayman discussed the board meet- ing. “There were no charges preferred against me or against any member of the faculty, nor was there any criticism of me except to Dr. Shields himself in his efforts to convince the board that » Anthony Galeski and Burton B. Dow- den, judges. and Mrs. Herbert Roby and Mrs. D. W. Thompson, clerks, who served as the election board for the re- cent town elections, were reappointed for the special election. Steps were taken to remedy drainage conditions at Madison and the boule- vard and on Beall avenue near Jack- sony ANDERSON INAUGURATES BEAN BEETLE CAMPAIGN Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., May. 15—With meeting at the home of G. Rust Canby. in Colesville district, yesterday after- noon, which was attended by 75 farm- ers and others of that section of the| county, O. W. Anderson, county agri- | cultural agent, inaugurated a campaign against the Mexican bean beetle in this be on the Brookhart resolution. The Brookhart resolution, which al- leged certain irregular practices in con- nection with real estate financing, has not been acted on by the Senate, but was referred to the District committee | for & report s to what action it should take. The District committee, in_turn, requested its subcommittee on banks | and insurance to make & report. MRS. EVA CHASE NAMED FEDERATION CHAIRMAN | Prince Georges County Republican | ‘Women Elect Officers at | Annual Meeting. The .annual meeting of the Federa- | tion of Republican Women of Prince ! Georges County, Md., Monday at the wide business and professional experi ence, having served as trustee, director and in other official positions with vari- ous corporations. Commencement Invitations Mailed. RICHMOND, Va., May 15 (#)- vitations are being mailed for the nine ty-first commencement exercises of the Medical College of Virginia, to be held from May 25 to 28. Dr. W. T. Sanger, president, announced that the largest graduating classes in the history of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Phar- opening of a new road, but widening of an old one, which, as far as the property owners taxed are con- cerned, is wide enough. ‘Through its action taken today the Trinidad Citizens’ Association hopes to prevent further legal steps to defeat| the assessment levy. The signatures to the petition were obtained during the | last four days. About 62,137 miles of roads in Ger- | many must be repaired at once in orm’r‘ to make them suitable for motor trans- | portation, declares the government road | macy and Nursing are expected thll‘ commission in its first report just is- ar. sued. first precinct. McDEVITT DRAPERIES SLIP COVERS WINDOW SHADES 1211 F St. 2nd Floor Main 3211 Screen Doors New—That Do Not Warp or Sag 3 BRANCHES S5™&FlaAve NE. 5921 Ga Ave NW, The progress this man has since made may be duplicated in vour business with MORRIS PLAN’S friendly help. MORRIS PLAN serves not only salaried workers in their personal affairs, but men and women in business. Money is advanced for discounting bills, increase working capital, business expan- sion, and the purchase of needed machinery and equipment. MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H St. N.W. Washington, D. C. | == Y county. | Grace Dodge Hotel elected Mrs. Eva C. Assisted by an entomologist from the | E. Chase of Riverdale, former chairman University of -Maryland, Mr. Anderson | of the Maryland State Federation of gave a demonstration of the use of a| Republican Women, chairman; Mrs. | magnesium compound which he re: Charles J. Furhrmann of Brentwood, ommended as probably the most effec- | vice chalrman: Mrs. Parker B. Chap- tive application known. pell of Riverdale, recording and corre- Demonstrations will be given under | sponding secretary, and Mrs. Blanche | the direction of Mr. Anderson in dlfler«l Moulden of Riverdale, treasurer. | there had been conspiracy formed against him. As a matter of fact the session throughout centered on Dr. Shields and Miss Rebman.” . Dr. Wayman said Dr. Shields, as pre- siding officer on Saturday. “made the motion himself that the offices of pres- ident, faculty and others connected with the institution be declared vacant as of June 4 * * °. “At this time I informed the board that I could not continue as president of the university because of irregulari- ties. The board did nat question me about these irregularities, which are, as I think, administrative irregularities, social and financial. “It has been sald that the cause of the riot was the fundamentalist- modernist controversy. ‘There no truth whatsoever -in this. Every fac- ulty member and, so far as I know, every other person connected with the university officially is a fundamentalist. It also has been given as a reason for the riot the desire for students for dancing, card playing, moving pictures, etc. This likewise is false.” MAN KILLED IN LEAP HERE MAY BE SAILOR Description Tallies With That of Youth Missing From Home in Baltimore. 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