Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 10

10 . SUBURBAN NEWS. THE EVENING QTAR. WASHINGTON. 7. ¢, TUESDAY. MAY TOWN IS ARQUSED OVER “JOKE” DEATH Culpeper Resident Meets End Fleeing From Faked | Death. New Pastor Epecial Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., May 28.—While this | indignant community mourns the death of Tom Grimsley, children's playmate who met his end under the wheels of a speeding freight Sunday night after fleeing from a false murder accusation contrived by practical jokers, the com- monwealth attornev here announced to- day he was doubtful if any definite charge could be lodged pranksters. | He declared that even if the practical | jokers could be located no immediate action would be taken. | From all accounts gathered, it seems | that Grimsley and a companion were ! planning a trip when several other! men intercepted them, shooting with| blank cartridges. Grimsley's compan- fon fell as if mortally wounded and Grimsley fled. Placed Man in Coffin, The conzp) the | im s face with a red liquid t e rance of blood, brought Grimsl view the gruesome sight. As was pected, this simple. harmless man, had never knowingly hurt any one, was horrified, and still more frightened when the men assured him he was the last one seen with the dead man and he would have to stand trial for kill- ing him. They further told him he Would probably be in prison for 40 years, and- advised him to leave Cul- peper without delay. Boards South-bound Freight. He immediately boarded a south- ‘bound freight, going as far as Weyburn near Somerset, He was seen there about midnight Saturday and in- formed of the hoax. Early the mext morning he decided to return to Cul- peper and was endeavoring to board B orth-bound freight when he fell beneath the wheels and was instantly killed. Dr. Lewis G. Holladay. coroner of Orange County, held an inquest, return- | ing the veraict that Grimsley came to | his death by a fall from a moving train and finding from letters in his pocket he was from Culpeper, notificd the sheriff of this county. His body was brought here and taken to an underta ing establishment. where funeral serv- ices will be held tomorrow afternoon. Entire Community Mourns. Meantime the body of the man whom Culpeper citizens considered to have been literally scared to ceath by a body | of heartless jokers, lics in the parlors of the local undertaking shop, and men ‘who knew “Tom” around the depot and others for whom he ran errands now and then were coming and going all day “just to see Tom a minute.” and women out in their flower gardens were calling across the fences to each other, | “Be sure vou send some flowers to the | funeral tomorrow for poor Tom.” | FLYER'S FOG DANGER SOLUTION PREDICTED, Elmer Sperry Tells Engineers This | Aviation Hazard Will Be Eliminated Soon. Br the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 28.—The elimi- nation by next Fall of the fog problem, one of the major hazards in aviation, was predicted by Elmer A. Sperry of | New York of the Sperry Gyroscope Co., in addressing the third annual aero- nautical meeting of the American So- ciety of Mechanical Engineers. Sperry sald that instruments to permit the landing of airplanes in “pea soup” fog were nearing completion. Sperry is working in co-operation with the Bell laboratories, the Western Electric, the Guggenheim Fund for Pro- i motion of Aeronautics and others to | soive a problem which has hindered | commercial aviation from its beginning. Lieut. Jimmy Doolittle, one of the pilots of the Guggenheim Foundation, who is working on. the problem, told of | a perfected radio beacon which marks | the axes of the field enabling the pilot | fiying in a dense fog to locate his land- | ing position. An altimeter to show the | exact distance above ground, with other | instruments, will enable a pilot to land | without sighting the ground. FIREMEN PLAN TO RAISE ¢ FUNDS FOR APPARATUS Receipts From Carnival at rnug" Church Hoped to Assist in Campaign. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., Palls Church Volunteer ment at its meeting last = engine house made prepar: the determined effort it will ex ing the last week in June to raise the $4,000 indebledness on the new fire engine Members are determined to exceed | the $2,200 which the department cleared | at last year's carnival. The features which proved popular last year will all | be repeated. 15 planning a concert every evening Kendrick last night appointed Mrs. E. D. Vosbury chairman of publicity. A special meeting of the members | was called for Monday night on the | grounds. It is planned to make certain | changes and improvements in the con- struction of the booths. Building activi- ties will be started immediately there- after. ay 28.—The | FlverDZe in Plane Crash. ROME, May 28 (P)—The crew of fiva of a mulitary bombing plane were killed when it crashed into Mount Orsaro, near Coriglio, while on a night flight last night. The dead were two lieutenants, two under officers and a soldier mechanic. A sudden violent come up while they were fiying over the Apennine Mountains. | eall ZONING TO ASSIST INSTREET NAMING 1Unif9rm Numbering System Can Then Be Set, Says County Engineer. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- | HOUSE, Va, May 28.—Zoning is to | eliminate duplication in the names of | | streets and will set a uniform number- ! | ing system for houses, Allen J. Saville. | zoning engineer, told the commission at ! | their meeting last night ARTHUR E. FRENCH Of Shafpsburg. Pa., a student of the Princeton Theological Seminary, who has been appointed to take charge of the Clifton Presbyterian Church at Clifton, Va. Cosmopolite Pariz Iz Determined to “Out- Spring” Spring in Gay Colors. BY RGSE PATTERSON. gendered by the municipal elections has been followed by & determination by all Paris to outspring Spring! ‘The fashionable shade is “something | between lettuce and tulip-leaf green,” | and white and green are the seascn's colors. You must dress yourself and your car very gayly, indeed; big white cars are much in vogue, upholstered either in scarlet, or with mustard-yellow cush- jons; madame should be dressed in the zanlcrl case in yellow and white to! match. Plaster Maiden in Window. A municipal councilor has even sug- gested brightening up the traffic police | —very considerably, too. He wants to| put them into phosphorescent suits for night duty. Evidently the idea of a phosphorescent policeman holding up & scarlet and white car has seized the councilor’s imagination. But amid this colorful scheme of things. the modernist has laid hold of the sweet young thing in wax, removed her from the show window and re- placed her with a plaster maiden with a long, thin head, a gray complexion and what he is pleased to call a “hu- man” expression. This lady has no hair, but her swanlike neck is well adapted to a gay scarf or a choker col- lar of colored crystal beads. Gentlemen, perhaps, like these new ladies, for at any rate they do not pre- fer blondes. Anita Loos has again been | telling Paris so. “Gentlemen are attracted by blondes, but mostly they marry brunettes,” in- sists Anita. Food Tinted Like Dress.” Paris has decided that ladies prefer the post-war man. He is not so pol- shed, perhaps, as the adult male of 1914, but he is more practical, and if the modern Frenchwoman must choose between poetry and power, give her power every time, says Paris. To get -back to our colors, another fad is food to tone with your dress, such as red spaghetti with a beige robe, and by all means ask for a light blue sauce with your salmon if your color scheme demands it. Of course, you might find the choice of dishes a little difficult should you be wearing one of the new geography jumpers, with a map of the world em- broidered all over, or even if it boasts only England and Wales. Avignon—Palace of the Popes. ‘The ancient Palace of the Popes, that great red brick pile of buildings, stand- ing with the air of a medieval fortress on the bank of the Rhone, is remi- niscent of “dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth,” as Keats would have said, for did not “Tout le monde y danse en rond"? Every one danced around, nround,‘ around on the old bridge of Avignon. and Alphonse Daudet has immortalized this ancient refuge of a fourteenth cen- tury Pope his “Lettres de Mon Moulin.” “Whoever has not seen the Avignon of the time of the Popes” he said, “has seen nothing—there never was | such a town; from morning to night there were processions and pilj ages; the sireets were strewn with fiowers and hung with old tapestry cardinals arrived by the Rhone wil banners flying, in gayly decked galleys; the Pope's soldiers sang Latin in the squares, and the mendicant friars rat- tled their rattles, and then from top to bottom, in the houses that nestled | and hummed round the great Papal palace like bees round their hive, the lace looms ticked, the shuttles flew to the goldsmiths' hammers rang. over it all the great bells pealed, and | by the bridge resounded the timbrels’| ceaseless din.” | i Other Distinguished Guests. Since those happy times Avigngn has boasted other distinguished residents besides Popes. John Stuart Mill, dur- ing his residence there, was invited to upon two visiting princesses at their hotel. They had come to Avig- non especially to make his aequaint- | ance! He regretted that he had made | it a rule never to pay visits of that| kind, but he would be pleased to see ! them if they cared to call on him. In those days such a thing was impossible The department’s band |and the princesses went sadly away again. Quite recently the noble building has | | been used as a barracks and the noble lines of the great hall have been spofied | by temporarv ugly partitions. The pal- | ace is, of course, a show place for tour- sts. | Versailles—Flowers for Breakfast. | Spring has caught Versailles as well | 25 Parts, and the lucky guests of Sir Charles and Lady Mendl have been | made aware of it in many charming, ways. Sir Charles is, of course, & fix- | | ture at the British embassy in Paris, and his white-haired American wife is | { noted for originality and luxuriousness. | It is not surprising, therefore, that| breakfast trays sent to the guest rooms at the Villa Trianon have been enliv- | ened with little clusters of forget-me- nots lately and that the beautiful long gallery painted by Drain is kept deco- rated with vases of Madonna lilies. Find Deserted Car. 28 (Spe- ¥ 500 b by F. Pacgett. The car Ordered to Pay Alimony. ALl DEIA, Ve, May 28 (& elal) —Joseph Masillo, 29, of 219 No Royal street, was ordered to pay his wife $15 each week when a:raigned in Po- Yce Court before Judge William S. Snow this merning on a non-support charge filed by his wife, Mrs. Georgia.M. Masilla | CALIFORNIA PUBLISHER TESTIFIES NEXT MONTH The Federal Trade Commission today h its pow ies hearing. Copley asked the comission to give him an opportunity to testify after Sen- ator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, had | told the Scnate that he was informed | It will be the duty of the commission to rename dozens of existing streets and to prevent a recurrence of this difficulty in future development, Saville said. A i study of the maps in the engineer's | nffice reveals that there are as manv as five and streets having the same me. Under the renaming plan the first street to have been named will etain the original title dnd the zoning commission will name the others. Street Naming Difficult. | This is an even greater problem in) { Arlington County than in a city, Sa- | Ville said, since the county is made up | of many 'scparate villages and subdivi- ions, each havi numbering g their own streets and | tem. The assistance of | the county pot offices will be enlisted H in this work, it was said. | ™ Opposition’ having developed to_the | erection of an ice house at Columbia | pike and Fox road by Walter Sealock | and the warm weather making an im- | mediate decision necessary. the com- mission arranged for a public hearing | on_the project in the courthouse at 5 | o'clock this afternoon. This will be the first public hearing held by the com- PARIS, May 23.—The excitement en- mission. Tce House Discussed. Through_his attorney, State Senator Frank L. Ball, Sealock claims that a half of the block in which he proposes to erect the ice house is already busi- ness and that the entire block is cer- tain to be so zoned. There are two res- idences between the location of the proposed ice box and the nearest busl- ness establishment. Appearing at last night's meeting, William P. Ames insisted that the com- mission take immediate action on his request for a permit to construct a spur track along Lambden Terrace, in Rosslyn. Ames made application for the permit more than a month ago and said last night that he felt he was en- ;meii either to the permit or a Te- usal. Offers Written Contract. He offered to have written into. the contract a clause requiring the removal of the track within 90 days if it were ever declared a public nuisance. The commission set Monday for a hearing on this question, annoucing it they would render its decision at that time. In passing upon application for the erection of six dwellings, the commis- sion went on record as favoring a set- back of not less than 20 feet on streets where there have been no houses con- structed. Where a set-back has been established through other buildings new houses should conform, they believe. Statesmen to Speak at Ceremony. MARTINSBURG, W. Va, May 28 (Special).—Secretary of Labor James J. Davis and United States Senator Guy D. Goff, senior Senator from West Virginia, are announced as speakers at a public Moose ceremony here Tues- day night at which a class of approxi- mately 300 candidates will be initiated, the largest class ever taken into a lodge at & single time in this section. Heads Drive HARRY F. KENNEDY, Washington and Alcxandria attorney, who is chairman of a citizens' commit- tee which is endeavoring to raise $6,000 ALEXANDRIA YOUTH DROWNS IN RIVER ;Arthur M. Gray, Aged 9, Meets Death as Playmates Helplessly Look On. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 28.—Falling into the Potomac River when a loose board at the Cameron street Wwharf | gave way beneath him, Arthur M. Gray, 9 years old, drowned here yesterday afternoon while his helpless playmates looked on, unable to aid him. The youngster lived with his uncle, Chestine Loving, at 407 Cameron street. His mother, Mrs. Myrtle Gray, died when he was but 1 year old, while his father, Edwarfi Gray, remarried and permitted the uncle to take charge of ation and promotion of the child. Boy Scouts work in Alexandria, Va. Three Months’ Term Meted Qut to J. P. Jasko by Laurel Judge. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. LAUREL, Md., May 28.—Convicted of assault and battery on a bus driver, who claimed he was not only driven from his own bus, but his passengers also James were forced to flee to safety, Peter Jasko of Baltimore, Md., Was yes- terday sentenced to three months in the House of Correction and fined $35. The driver who preferred the charges against Jasko was Frank Burns of the 900 block of New York avenue. Ac- cording to the testimony before Judge J. Chew Sheriff in Police Court, Jasko's car collided with the rear of an inter- city bus driven by Burns. The man became so incensed over the collision he attacked Burns, and later gave State Policeman Harry Haines a battle when the officer attempted to place him under arrest, the court was told. During the fight between Burns and Jasko, it was testified, several win- dows in the bus were broken and the passengers made a hasty exit from the vehicle. Judge Sheriff imposed the jail sen- tence and a $25 fine on the assault charge, and a $10 fine for reckless driving. TWO HURT BY AUTO. Ethel Marshall, 10, and Adam Friski, 12, Hit at Martinsburg. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va.,, May 28. Ethel Marshall, 10, was injured se- riously and Adam Fliski, 12, less se- riously hurt when they ran into the path of an automobile while leaving a church near here Sunday. They darted from between parked cars into the path of the other car, driven by & county man. Had Been Warned. The youth had been cautioned many times against playing around the river- front by his uncle and Mrs. Loving because of his inability to swim and it was only a short time before the drowning occurred that his aunt forbade him to go near the river. | A few moments later he joined sev- rral other boys and began to play on |the Cameron street wharf, a_very dilapidated structure. Arthur was jump- ing up and down on a board near ths edge of the wharf when it gave way and plungéd him into the river. | His companions, none of whom were able to swim, began to shout for help while William Hooe, 9, of 327 North Columbus _street, raced to the nearby police station for aid. Robert Lee of 205 Cameron street and Albert E. Elliott of €31 North Alfred street heard the boys’ cries and ran.to the river's edge and dived overboard, bringing the body to the shore as the police arrived. Doctors Unsuccessful. Dr. W. Lewis Schafer, city health officer, and Dr. T. Marshall Jones, city coroner, who had been summoned by the police, took charge and worked cver the body for nearly an hour in an at- tempt to restore respiration, but without avail. The boy, who was a student in the first grade at Lee School, is survived | by his father and brother, James Gray, who is 16 years old, both of whom live at 116 North Fayette street. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at Demaines’ mor- tuary ehapel, and burial will be in Bethel Cemetery. ELUSIVE SPEEDER FINED AFTER CHASE BY POLICE William Burroughs Captured Fol- lowing “Hide-and-Go-Seek” Game With Officers. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., May 28—It cost Wwilliam Russell Burroughs, 4800 block of Wisconsin avenue, $52.50 to play hide-and-seek with the Montgomery County police while driving in excess of the speed limits here. According to Montgomery County Policeman E. R. 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