Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1929, Page 6

e D. C. MIDSHIPMAN KILLED BY FALL ‘Andrew Boggs Drum, Jr., _ Beesiiential Appointee From Washington. Bpecial Dispateh to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 5—Mid- shipman Andrew Boggs Drum, jr.. prea- | idential appointee to the Naval Acade- | my from Washington, D. C., who died yesterday morning from the effects of | @ fall of three stories to the floor of | Bancroft Hall dormitory at the academv, was the victim of an accident, accord- | ing to 8 board of inquest headed by, Comdr. Robert B. Rodgers, and includ- | two other members. | tfl*'he verdict was returned this morn- ing upon evidence that young Drum fell over a railing of a marble stairway | ‘when he became nausea ing to his room. Parents Are in China Parents of the youth. Maj. A. B. } of the Marine Corps, formerly stationed in Washington, but now in China with the Marine expeditionary force, and wife, were communicated with by cable and responded. Their nability to return in time for the fu- neral made it necessary to arrange for jes, which will be held to- e nhsequ‘ (l‘cv'm('k, Relatives in New morrow at York State will attend. First Reports Conflicting. ‘ Conflicting reports were made in con- | nection 'lfls Dl"’!lm‘! fall. It was said that his appearance outside his room | after 10 o'clock Saturday night, wearing civilian clothes and smoking a cigarette, | 4n violation of regulations. led to his | being ordered to the medical depart- gment for observation. Admiral 8. S. Robinson, superintend- | #nt of the Academy, was quoted as| describing the fall as clear case of $uicide.” The youth died at 3:40 o'clock { day morning augmi; was appointed to the Academy | $n 1927 by President Coolidge. He was | 20 years old. WIDOW TO GET LEGACY . IN LONGERBEAM ESTATE | Compromise Ends Litigation in| | Settlement of Will of Cum- berland Man. @pectal Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND. Md.. August 5. —The | eontroversy over the will of George H. | Longerbeam, horseman and restaurant | proprietor, has been settled and his | ‘widow, Edith Ebbecka Longerbeam, is | to receive one-third of all real rstate | owned by Longerbeam. whase estate is | valued at $€50.000. The marriage oc- | curred March 22, 1923, end the day be- fore he executed two deeds to his brother, Charles Longerbeam, and the day of the marriage, a mort- gage. His will, which was filed, had | been executed several years before the | marriage. Mrs. Longerbeam sued for the widow's third interest and the court decided in | her favor, declaring that a fraud was ted while pass- | rk perpetrated by Longerbeam in executing | the deeds. The executor, Charles Lon- | gerbeam, served notice of appeal, but | since a compromise has been effected, | the widow is to receive one-third of tae | property, while the mortgage for $12.600 | executed to Charles Longerbeam is held | valid. The deeds, found in Longer- ‘beam’s safe after his death, had never been recorded. The trustees are now | ordered to sell the property. Longer- ‘beam came from Berryville, Va., where his body was buried. He was promi- nent in harness racing circles and entered horses on many tracks. SHE THOUGHT: *You look stunning—too SUBURBAN NEWS. Primary Candidate CHARLES H. CALLAHA ner of revenue for Ales who is unopposed for that he Democratic primary, to be held in Alexandria tomorrow. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 5 (Spe- cial) —Mrs. Evelyn Magner, 67 years old, became suddenly ill yesterday after- noon at her home, 219 South Pitt street, and was rushed to the Alexandria Hos- | pital, where she died soon after being admitted. She w-s the wife of Patrick H. Magner. Funera! arrangements have not been completed. John Van Hoozier of Potomac, Va., and George Fletcher of Cottage Park, Arlington County, Va., sustained minor lacerations of the face and head, while several of Fletcher's teeth were knocked out, when an automoblie driven by the latter skidded into a telephone pole at Duke and West streets during a storm Saturday night. They were taken to the Alexandria Hospital, where they were treated by Dr. Martin D. Delaney of the hospital staff. A The pulpit committee named by the First Baptist Church to recommend a successor to Rev. P. L. Vernon, former pastor of the church, is expected to make known its recommendation this month. Rev. Vernon left here in June to become pastor of the United Baptist Church at Lewiston, Me. Visiting clergymen have filled the pulpit since Rev. Vernon's departure. xandria Lodge, No. 758, B. P. O. Elks, will give its annual excursion to Marshall Hall tomorrow. Boats will leave from the Prince street wharf at 10:30 am., 3 and 7:15 pm. The entire proceeds from the excursion will be used for charity work. Potomac Lodge, No. 38. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, will send a dele- gation to Warrenton. Va.. tonight to the traveling gavel of the Northern Virginia Odd Fellows' Associa- tion to Charity Lodge. No. 27, of that town. The local lodge members will leave from Odd Fellows' Temple at 6:30 and it is expected that approximately 300 will make the trip. Wounded Twice in Argument, By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md.. August 3— Following a shooting affray on Kenny lane here last night, Ernest Juggi colored, 1230 Six-and-one-half street, Washington. was taken to Walter Reed Hospital with two bullet wounds, and Willtam Sprigs. colored, of Ridge av nue, here, was arrested by Sergt. Jones and Joseph Nolte of the northern | district station here. According to the police, witnesses of the shooting in- formed them Spriggs fired the gun fol- lowing an argument, held without charge pending the out- come of Juggins' injuries in the arm and right chest. bad you're so careless about ‘B.O."” Yet, to be polite, SHE SAID: " ¢ love your new dress. Spriggs is being | THE 'EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1929 SCOUT ACTVITIES | ARE REORGANIZED Six Counties and Alexandria Placed Under Supervision of W. L. Leitch. Special Dispatch to The Btar. FAIRFAX, Va., August 5.—Boy Scout activities in Virginia have undergone a reorganization in a campaign of expan- slon undertaken by the District of Co- lumbia Boy Scout Council, under whose jurisdiction are included Prince Georges | and M-ontgomery Counties in Maryland 'and Arlington, Fairfax, Fauauier, Lou- idoun, Prince Willlam and Stafford | Counties and Alexandria City in Vir- | ginta. i In the past requests from this Vir- | ginia territory for assistance were | handled almost entirely by letter serv- ice, no money or men being available for active field service with the excep- tion of William Van Doren at Vander: werken, who served as a part-time ex- | ecutive, Necessarily, most of Mr, Van | Doren's time had to be spent in the territory immediately adjacent to Wash- Realizing the need for expan- on and the promising field offered for Scout. work in Northern Virginia, the Distriet Council has recently appointed Willlam Langhorne Leitch as assistant Scout _executlve, under the District Council, actively in charge of all Vir- ginia Scout activities from the Potomac to the Blue Ridge. Mr. Leitch will make his headquarters in Alexandria. He has | been a leader of Troop 65, in Washing- | ton, the troop of St. John's Epls(‘ognl Church, and has just completed a 30- dav Scout executive training course at | National Scout headquarters | York Cit; To Build Up Troops. | Mr. Leitch’s aim is to builld up as | many troops as possible in his area and | to assist with maintenance activities as | | well as organization problems. At pres- ent there are six troops in Arlington | | County, Cherrydale, Clarendon, | ston, Vanderwerken, | ginia Highland: | ty, Falls Chu Annandale, McLean and Vienna. An effort will be made to re-establish the troop at Herndon and | to form new groups at Fairfax. Forest- | ville and other promising points in Fair- | | fax County. | Starting with Loudoun County this | past month, Mr. Leitch, with the co- operation of the Leesburg Rotary Club, | has organized troops at Leesburg, Lin- | coln and Bluemont. A fourth troop at | Purcellville is now in process of organ- | ization. In Fauquier County, with the sponsorship of the Warrenton Rotary Club, troops are organizing at Marshall and The Plains. The Warrenton troop, | already established as an independent | unit. has been taken under the District of Columbia Counc Other counties | will be entered as soon as possible. | Volunteer organizations are to be bnilt |up in each case to provide the neces- | sary backing. Field Executive. Mr. Van Doren will continue as field | executive, his activities to be limited to | Arlington County, with Mr. Leitch as | general supervisor of the whole Virginia area. ‘The District of Columbia Council is | now actively engaged in a search for a Virginia mountain campsite which will serve the area in addition to the two camps already conducted, Camp Roosevelt on the Chesapeake Bay and Camp Wilson at Burnt Mills, the over- night camp. It is hoped to locate a suitable site containing between 30 and in New | 50 acres on a stream large enough to permit both swimming and fishing, with available woodland, plateau and hils, | He was shot | preferably with some sort of buildings | W. Tarbutton: or shelter already erected. So attractive-lookin “« « « yet unpopular! LIM! Sty lish! Chic! Laura was stunning in her lovely, new frock. But what did it avail her? Men admired Laura’s smartness—but they avoided her company. Women openly envied her beauty, but secretly pitied her. Yes—another case of “B.0.”—Body Odor! And Laura never suspected it until a news- per ad aroused her suspicions. “B.0.” isn’t hurting Laura any longer. She keeps perspiration odorless now—easily, too! Now—no fear of “B.0.” even in hot weather We can’t always tell when we're guilty of “B.0.” We fig:wov VING CREAM makes a double- dense lather that stays wet — ends tenderface. At your druggist’s become insensitive to ever- ifebuoy l Scout Work Leaders | Upper: William L. executive, District of Columbia Council, Boy Scouts of America, with general supervision over Scout activities in six Virginia counties and Alexandria. He lives in Covington County and will make his headquarters in Alexandria. He is a member of the Langhorne family, to which Lady Astor belon; Lower: William Van Doren of derwerken, appointed field executive in of Scout activities in Arlington AUTHOR OF LABOR PLAN By the Associated Press T. E. Mitten, manager of the Phila- delphia Rapid Transit Co. and_author of the “Mitten” plan for establishing | industrial relations between street car companies and employes. will confer here tomorrow with Secretary Davis re- garding the New Orleans street carmen’s strike. Information received from New Or- | leans indicated, the Labor Department said. that the plan might be utilized in helping to settle the strike in that | which resulted in part from un- atisfactory relations between the em- ploves and the New Orleans Public Service Co. . Mrs. Mary Tarbutton Buried. AURORA HILLS. Va., August 5.— Funeral services for Mrs. Mary ‘Tarbutton of 110 Warren avenue, who died at her home Saturday afternoon, were held at the rasidence this morning and the body was taken to Ninevah, Va. for burial. Mrs. Tar- button is survived by her husband, C. one " daughter, a son, two sisters and four brothers. Can it be “B.0.”? (Body Odor) present odors. But pores give off as much as a quart of odor-causing waste daily. And the hotter the weather—the more danger. It’s best to play safe—always! Just bathe regularly with Lifebuoy, the deodorizing toilet soap that millions use. Refresh- ing, invigorating, marvelousl; cleansing, its gentle antiseptic lather is like a tonic. Pores are purified so deeply that “B.0.” stays away.’ Try Lifebuoy for a healthier complexion, too. Enjoy its germ-removing benefits, You'll love its pleasant, exira-clean scent that tells you it purifies—yet quickly van- ishes as you rinse. Adopt Lifebuoy today. LEVER BROTHERS CO., Cambridge, Mass. HEALTH SOAP stops body odor Leltch, assistant | FAIRFAX HEALTH UNIT 15 COMPLETE Organization Made Effective When Officials Report for Duty. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, August 5.—Fairfax County’s new health unit has become effective, Mrs. Gilbert Seamons of Herndon, health nurse, and Mrs. Ashby Graham of Fairfax, clerk, being on duty. With Dr. Harry Walker, who as- sumed office on July 15, and R. J. White, sanitation expert, who has been on duty here for 12 months, Fairfax its first complete unit since A nagan resigned, half a dozen years ago. The first work that will be under- taken by Dr. Walker and Mrs. Seamons will be as complete a round-up of the pre-school children of the county as is ible in vacation time. Dr. Walker appealing to the Parent-Teacher As- sociations and school leagues for as- sistance in working out the most ef- fective schedule which will permit them to cover as large a part of the county as possible during the next six weeks. Children will be vaccinated against smallpox and given the toxin anti- toxin treatment. Falls Church and Fairfax Schools, where, ordinarily, Dr. Evelyn Brydon of the State board of health has assisted in pre-school work in June, have this year postponed their work until the appearance of the new health doctor. Dr. Walker will make an appointment in any community where five or more children are gath- ered together. Dr. Walker reports that the county | is now free of diphtheria, with one case |of scarlet fever reported from Floris. Three cases of typhoid fever have de- veloped on the Masonville road. U. S. PAIR WED Jurist and Bride Are Married in St. Peter's Basilica. VATICAN CITY, August IN VATICAN 5 (M— Court of Springfield, Mass. and Mrs. | Dorls Reane Adams of Springfield, wer married yesterday in St. Peter's Basilica by Mgr. Eugene Burke. rector of the American College in Rome. ! ding performed in the Vatican Clty | since it again became an independent state. The first couple were Frank of New England. Firemen to Continue Carnival. Special Dispatch to The Star. POTOMAC, Va.. August 5.—The the Potomac Fire Department will be continued tonight and tomorrow night as a result of the storm which made it impossible to hold the event Saturday night. The winner of the popularity contest will be announced at the close of the carnival at 10:30 o'clock tomor- row night. | John's Epjscopal Church, Olney, Satur- A Judge Thomas J. Collins of the District | | a few months. Theirs was the second American wed- | Comerford and Mary McLoughlin, also | semi-annual lawn fete and carnival of | ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 5 (Spe- cial) —Rey. Dr, Frank A. Tyler of the Methodist Church at his home Satur- day performed services uniting Miss Matilda Hyer and Bernard M. Wiethe- gear, both of Baltimore; Miss Doris Ruth Lewis and Smith E. Nelson, both of Yorktown, Va.; Miss Daisy D. Dick- erson of Burnleys, Va, and James H. Wetsel of Chicago and Miss Virginia V. Sewell and Robert H. Fones, both of Washington. Rev. Henry K. Pasma of the Presbyterian Church officiated at the marriage here Saturday afternoon of Miss Elizabeth Kernham and Michael Checel, both of Washington, at the manse. Within a short distance of the cor- porate limits of Rockville and in full view of passersby 50 one-half-gallon jars of corn whisky were found on the | Veirs' Mill road by a number of Rock-* ville youths who happened to be pass- ing. The boys reported. their find to| the police. Officer Roy Bodmer gather- ed up the “moonshine” and promptly dumped the liquor into a sewer. A large congregation_heard, Provost William A. Wilbur of George Washing- ton University preach in the Rockville Presbyterian Church last evening, the occasion being the second of a series of union services arranged by the Prot- estant churches of Rockville. Music Ey & large choir proved a pleasing fea- ure. Five Events Scheduled. Among the festivals, picnics and the like scheduled for the week are the an- nual lawn fete and supper of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Fairfleld, Wednes- day; the annual festival and lawn fete of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Rock- ville, Wednesday and Thursday; the annual picnic of the Germantown Councll, Junior O. U. A. M., Thursday; joint picnic of the Damascus Council, Junior O. U. A. M., and the Daughters of America of Damascus, Friday and Saturday, and the annual picnic of St. day. Rain interfered with the Saturday night_hunt of the Montgomery County Fox Hunters' Association, planned to be held near Ednor. About 25 or more lovers of the spart, with 15 hounds, gathered at The Orchard, where a chase was to have been staged, but de- cided not to venture forth. An informal meeting was held, however, at which various matters of interest to the or- ganization were discussed, including the selection of officers. Announcement has been made that C. Parker Weller, a life-long resident of Wheaton district, who several years ago sold his fine farm near Wheaton, has purchased the Willlam T. Griffith | farm of 285 acres near Bealisville and vith his family will move there within | Rain Alds Farmers. A copious rain Saturday meant thou- sands of dollars to Montgomery County | farmers. The long dry, hot spell had | begun to prove disastrous to growing | corn, pastures, gardens and vegetation generally. Mrs. James M. Luney of Cabin John | Park will, it has been announced, de- | liver an address before the Prince Georges County Federation of Women's Clubs to be held at Beltsville August 12. Her subject will be “Mexico.” Improvements to cost approximately | $15,000 are being made to the building of the First National Bank and the Sandy, Spring Savings Institution at Sandy Spring. A wing will be erected on each side of the main structure, the | exterior will be remodeled. an ofl-heat- SUBURBAN NATION'S BUSINESS UP TO NEW LEVEL Prosperity in Industry and Trade in 1928 Passes Previous Records. ‘The highest level ever attained by American business was reached in 1928, according to the annual yearbook just | published by the Department of Com- | merce. ““The prosperity characteristic of every year since 1921 - was continued during last year,” the yearbook set forth, add- ing that 1928 reflected “the steady in- creasing efficiency of both industry and trade.” A slight recession in activity which appeared toward the end of 1927 was promptly recovered by the new year, 1928, and business continued active | throughout the remainder of that year, the book explains. | “Manufacturing output, the most com- prehensive measure of economic activ- ity, was 3 per cent above the previous peak of 1926,” the yearbook reported. ineral output, chiefly because of smaller coal production, was slightly less than in 1926 or 1927. “Tonnage of railway traffic increased slightly, and on account of reduced operating expenses the net operating in- come of the railways was 10 per cent | greater than in 1927. “Export trade increased 55 per cent in value and in quantitative terms was | greater than even during the abnormal years. ‘While the value of imports declined slightly this was owing entirely to lower | prices of import. commodities. “Wholesale prices in domestic mar- kets averaged a little higher than in 1927, mainly because of advance in farm products, but the decline in that class of commodities after the large harvest brought the general price in- dex for December, 1928, to the same level as 12 months before.” CONSULS REASSIGNED. Foreign Service Changes Announc- ed by State Department. | Recent changes in the United States | foreign service include the transfer of | Homer M. Byington, Connecticut. con- | aul general at Naples to the State De- partment; Louis G. Dreyfus, jr. Ca fornia, counsul general to Naples: H: lett Johnson, New Jersey, first secretary, from Oslo, Norway, to the The Hague: | R. H. Norweb, Ohio, first secretary, from | The Hague to Santiago, Chile; La Verne | Baldwin, New York, vice consul, from | Ottawa, Canada, to Santa Marta, Co- | lombia, and Julian F. Harrington, Mas- | NEWS., WILL USE 100,000 INTAKING CENSUS 573 Directors Also to Be Named to Direct Enumera- tion of Nation. A vast army of 100,000 persons, under the direction of 573 supervisors, will be employed in taking the census of the United States in 1930, the task to be the most detailed and difficult ever un- dertaken in the history of census taking in this country. it is announced by Cen- sus Bureau officials. The work iz sched- ule_!qhm 'g‘etflunder wnv’A ril 1, 1930. e Nation's popula is to_exceed m,ooo,o:n". o o ‘The recording of trade distribution and unemployment. in addition to the usual compilation of population, will be emong the things to make the census taking more difficult than heretofore. | The census will be the fifteenth deces nial enumeration of the Nation. No ap- pointments of supervisors of enumera- tors have yet been announced by the reau. In the past, also, farms have hesm enumerated in sepa censuses. An- other phase of the census will be the allocation of the population as it af- fects the distribution of seats in the | House of Representatives among the States. Wil List Manufacturers. A census on manufacturers also is to be made, but this will be started next November and will not be taken by enumerators, the manufacturers them- selves furnishing the bureau informa- tion about the value and quantity of their products. amount of materials used and number of employes. The enumerators must have the ability to be clever questioners, accord- ing to Dr. Joseph A. Hill, assistant 10 the bureau's director. To gain infor- mation about the population, they will commissioned to ask each in- dividual, man, woman or child, a total of 30 questiont and a dozen more queries of each unemployed per- son. For the farm enumeration they will have to ask 350 questions of each farm owner, seeking information about the value amd production of the farms the number of live stock and the varieties of crops. The distribution census will embrace wholesale and re- tail sales of each commodity, with the objective of obtaining the statistics on the values and quantity of the sales Country Divided. In order to obtain a speedy tabula- tion, the 100,000 enumerators are dis- tributed throughout the Nation's 3.074 counties. while the country is divided into 573 districts, each to be headed by a supervisor. sachusetts, vice consul, from Dublin to Ottawa. Nathan Scarritt, Missouri, vice con- | sul at Montevideo, and Koyne V. Gram, Tllinois, vice consul at Colombo, Ceylon, | have resigned from the service. | building made. The work Is_expected | to be finished by September 1. | The annual picnic of the Clara Bar- | ton Club of Glen Echo will be held to- | morrow at the home of Dr. and Mrs. | ‘The division of the eountry into enumerators' and supervisors' districts has been two-thirds completed by the bureau. In cities an enumerator is al- lofted to each 1.500 to 2.000 population, while in the rural sections the area is the criterion for their assignment. It is expected the census-taking will require two weeks in the cities and a month in the rural districts. Large estates in Portuguese East ing plant will be installed and other | Harry B. Humphreyv at Cabin John Africa are building electric power plants changes to thoroughly modernize the ! LI'FI':"TIME FURNITURE Park, #t has been announced. for lighting purposes. 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