Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1929, Page 26

P L o0 D BANK ROBBER DELRED NS Medical Experts Testify in Trial of Rebecca Rogers in Texas Court. By the Associated Press. NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex. September | 14.—Technical testimony concerning in- ranity was offered in the trial here to- day of Mrs. Rebecca Bradley Rogers, charged with robbing the Farmers’ Na- tional Bank of Buda, Tex., in 1926. i Several alienists testified that if testi- | mony given by non-expert witnesses was true, there was no doubt in their minds | that the former Texas University co-ed was insane. Physiclans called to the stand all ngreed that the woman who on three other occasions had been brought to trial in connzction with the hold-up had suffered from pellagra. One of them testified that it was possible for the dis- ease to sap one’s mentality. The others | sald the disease often causes insanity. | Family Doctor on Stand. Dr. W. C. Lackey of Fort Wcrth, for | many years physician for the Rogers family, testified that an attack of pneu- | monia and meningitis in 1912 probably | caused s pressure on the defendant's mind which caused her to change from | a normal child to one who experlem:ed‘ alternating moods of happiness and de- | spair. He also said her father was of the morose, dejected type, and that her mother was a sufferer of hysteria. Dr. A. G. Goslein, A woman member of the medical staff of the San Antonio State Hospital for the Insans, told df | how Mrs. Rogers was examined by the entire staff of the hospital this year. She testified that all these making the examination were of the opinion the de- fendant was insane. Dr. Goslein testified that early this year the entire staff of the San Antonio *»d Mrs. Rogers and tmous opinion that she was insane. Asked on direct exaaination if it were possible for the deferdant to feign an unsound mind, Dr. Wilmer L. Allison, | Fflflfix’fl'}) alienist, said: “There is no | “Would it be possible for such a pery son to know that it would be wrong to | rob & bank?” he was asked. “No, I don't think so,” he replied. | 1 |ing on a chargs of setting up a gaming SHAPRO GIVES UP. INNUMBERSDRVE Police Vicé Squad End Week’s Activities With 14 in. Custody._ The surrender yesterday of the last of . tour men sought as alegea pin-/ cipal operators in the “numbers” game | heie brought to a close a week of in- tensive campaigning by members of | the police vice’squad and the United | States attorney’s office. Foiice actuvives in the past week re- suited all tola in the arrest of 14 Perscns. ‘Those arrested yesterday included Joseph T. Johnson, 27 years old, of the 20Vy block lightn street and Wiliam seigle o1 the 1/ blagk Seventh sireet. Johnson was charged with permitting gaming while Seigle was held ror violai- w8 hut scction of the code torbidding s.uing up a gaming table. ’ Ear.ier, Isacore Shapiro of the 1300 block Pennsylvania avenue south:ast, surrendered to Sergt O. J. Letterman or the vice squad wno had been. seek- ing him as on® of the alleged principals in th: “numbers’ game operations. Shapiro was held in $2,000 bond.. i a reid carly yesierday morning on an esiabiishment in the 600 block ¥ street northeast, Scrgt. Letterman and his squad scized nearly $3,000 in cur- rency and arrested William Poe M 39 years old, of the P street address, another aliegea principal. - Moses was released alter depositing §2.000 cash collateral for his appear- ance in Police Court tomorrow morn- taple. John W. Carter, colored, who was arrested Tuesday while driving betwecn here and_Ardmore, Md., where police said he had established an elaborate office with a large staff of cierical help to transact routine work in the “num- bars” game transactions was the first of the four men accused to be taken.q George Gray, the other member of the reported quartet, also was taken earlier in the wee| McLEAN HERD WINS COW-TESTING CONTEST | Special Dispatch to The St FAIRFAX, Va. Septcmber 14.—The dairy herd of Fred Carper of M headed the list of members of Fairfax County Cow Testing Association, No. 2, the regency, Several specialists were called into con- ]Jullu Maniu. The patriarch has been - THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, SEPTEMBER 15, 1929—PART 1. Rumanian Pai h Very Il BUCHAREST, Rumania, September 14 (#).—The condition of Miron Cristea, patriarch of Rumania and member of was worse last night. U. D. C. FAVOR HIGHER VETERANS’ PENSIONS Move—Delegates Named to State Meeting. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va, September 14— ©Old Dominion Chapter, United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy, here has in- dorsed the proposition looking to an increfise in pensions for Confederate veterans, which is to go to the atten- sultation in the presence of Premier seriously iil the past few days. - Blast Kills 12 Italians. PARMA, Italy. Scptember 14 ()— Twelve persons were kil'ed and 15 wounded by a gasoline explosion yester- day which caused the collapse of a hnuse, 3 0ld Dominion Chapter Indorses; tion of the General Assembly of State next Winter. ) ‘The chapter has elected the follow- ing delegates to the State convention to be held during the coming Autumn at Wytheville: Mrs. C. R. umate, Mrs. C.'L. De Mott, Mrs, D. C. Jackson, Mrs. J. W. Johnson and Miss Elizabeth | Gooch. The alternates are: Mrs. A. S Priddy, Mrs. E. B. Wiggins, Mrs_J. F. Wiley, Mrs. J. B. Wood, Mrs, J. R. At- wood and Miss Mollle Lowry. | . Armed with spikes which contain ni deadly poison and is said tg have the power of killing human beings, a fish has been found in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. DEATHS SURPASS BIRTHS IN.BERIN, REPORT SHOWS But Population of City Incraesed Last Year Despite High Mortality, BERLIN (#).—One baby is born for eacn 11 minutes that the clocks tiek in Berlin, but nevertheless the deaths in the German capital exceeded the births by 6,000, it was revealed by the 1929 edition of the Berlin Statistical Year Book. The volume also showed that there had been a net incrcuse of population of 75,235 since thc 1927 census. But only 48,779 of these were horn in the city, the balance rcpresent- ing newcomers the provinces or fcreign countries. \ ‘The feminine population exceeds the masculine by 326,000. This signifies that about every sixth man in the city might take unto himself a second wife, if polygamy were sanctioned. The pre- dominance of women is emphcsized in, the borough of Wilmersdof, where the gentler .sex constitutes 58.5 per cent of the population. One-half of all celluloid toys made in Japan, according to recent estimates, are dolls, 30 per cent are animals and 20 per® cent rattles, drums, trumpets, boats and other novelties. FREE PARKING SPACE—OPPOSITE 8th STREET ENTRANCE Charge Accaounts Invited No Interest or Extras Added We Do Not Penalize Our Friends UNUSUAL SHOE SAL GOLDENEERG'S s S S —————— m— A —. “AT SEVENTH AND K” — PHONE NATIONAL 5220 — .THE DEPENDABLE STORE - - 4,000 GIRLS LEAVE HOME. About Half of Paris' Yearly “Run- aways" ‘Are Found. About 4,000 young women disappear from their homes or places of work in Paris every year, and of this number one-half—2,000—are never heard of again, according to recent statistics in the Paris Sofr. Most of the girls are between 15 and 18, and most of them disappear mot for tragic reasons, but to earn a better living than they can get. at home. Shoe Department Main Floor A Sale of a Substantial Portion of “GREENBAUM’S” SHOE STOCK, Together With a Generous Part of Our Qwn Stock Begins Monday Morning at 9:15 O’Clock “GREENBAUM?” for many years conducted a splendid shoe store in Georgetown, handling footwear of high quality. Through an arrangement which has been made we are able to offer unusual values from this stock of shoes, and in addition offer values equally as unusual from our stocks to round out the assortments. When we say we have added a generous portion of our own stock buyers who want to save money on footwear for the entire family. "to this sale, it is sufficient to make it doubly attractive to thrifty shoe ' |for the past month. Mr. Carper's 45 ST. AGNES, .SCHOOL | cows averaged 1,009.5' pounds of milk OPE_N_S WEDNESDAY |20 3007 pouncs of buter tut, 341 Included in This Sale Are the Famous ‘““Nunn-Bush’> Shoes for Men and ‘“American-Girl” Arch- Carper's herd ranked second last | month, Jast month’s leader, C. T. Rice, | taking’ second place this month, with Institution for Girls Looks for Record Enrollment—Miss Chapman in Charge. Special Dispatch to The Star. BRADDOCK, Va, September 14.—| é record enroliment is expected at the | t. Agnes’ Episcopal School for Girls when that institution reopens on Wednesday for its sixth school year. Miss Marguerite Chapman, who has in been appointed principal by the 'd of trustees,- will enroll the stu- dents and assign classes on that day and studies are to begin the following morning. ‘The high school faculty will include Miss Chapman (A. B., Smith College). Latin; Miss Fanny B. Catlett (A. B, Wellesley College), English; Miss Re- pecca Dickert (B. S., State Teachers College, Fredericksburg), French and istory, and Miss Evelyn P. Shackel- | ord, Latin and mathematics. In the intermediate department Miss | Martha B. Sinclair (University of Vir- ginia and William and Mary College) | will teach the sixth and seventh grades and serve as athletic supervisor while Hattie S. Hall (Farmville State | ‘eachers College and the University of Virginia) will instruct the fourth and fifth grade pupils. ‘The primary department faculty will clude Miss Nannie B. Watts (State ‘eachers College, Farmville), second pnd third grades; Miss Elizabeth Barr (A. B., Randolph-Macon Women’s Col- lege and State Teachers College, Har- risonburg), first grade; Mrs. Mary W. urke (A. B., Vassar and the Teachers llege, Columbia University), kinder- garten. The music department will be in charge of Miss Laura Pendleton Roege, plano, and Miss Lucy MacMoreland, voice and director of the Glee Club. Miss Alma Bostick will teach art. Rev. George R. Vest, rector of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Brad- lock, been named chaplain of the school with lexandr} Dr. Llewellyn Powell of physician. . Miss Martha | Mr. Palmer to run again, but Palmer . Sinclair will serve as the school secretary. GOLDENBERG'S “AT SEVENTH AND K” an average of 847.5 pounds of milk and 32.87 pounds of butter fat. Mr. Carper also took highest individual records this month, with a heifer. pro- ducing 1,967 pounds of milk and 68.8 pounds of butterfat. The total production for the asso- clation amounted to 503,952 pounds of milk and 19,482 pounds of butterfat, an average of 579.2 and 22.39 pounds, respectively. Eight hundred and sev- enty cows were tested, of which 137 were dry, 74 produced 40 or more pounds of fat, 16 met the honor roll requirements and 20 were sold to the butcher. Honor roll cows were owned by J. S. Barbour of Fairfax, ol Salsbury of Merrifield, 3 Dowden, Baileys Cross Roads, one; ~T. B:ntly Mason, Accotink, one; C. T. Rice, Oakton, one; Fred Carper, Mc- Lean, seven: Kenilworth Farms, Mc- Lean, two T. Wright, Vienna, one; Sunset Hills, Wishle, one. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS CITIZENS CHOOSE HEADS Th» Fairmount Heights Citizens' As- sociation met in the schoolhouse to | elcct new officers for the ensuing year. Robert Palmer, the retiring president, presid=d over the election. Rev. Mc- | Dowell was chosen to head the associa- tion for the coming year. Henderson 1. Brooks made a motion to nominate only reiterated his statemsnt made early in the Spring, that he would under no circumstances accept the nomination, and further, he being cHairman of the board of commission- ers, he thought it best that,the official government of the town, as represented by the commissioners and the unoffi- cial government, embodi-d in the citi- z2ns’ association, should remain two separate entities, headed by different men. Consequently he dsclined. Other lesser offices were duly filled. Mr. Dorsey of Clark avenue was chosen as the new chaplain of the associa- tion. Formal installation exercises wil be held on September 26 at the Fair- mount Heights Methodist Episcopal Church. H THE DEPENDABLE STORE EYES EX " Genuine Invisible Bifocals Far and Near Vision in one pair of lenses. Sold regularly at $15. Special $ Fine Quality Leme'x. for Far and Near $0.50 Vision fitted to your eyes. “Every Pair of Glasses Fully Guaranteed” Use Your Charge Account I 9 Special. ... i Delivers $5 light—knee contrcl—speedy, — complete sewing. attachments—all ac- cessories — absolutely guarantesd! Sew and save—a whole year to pay. Challenges Comparison - ] New-Model “National” Electric Sewing' Machine New model—walnut finish—National Electric with built-on electric sewing This Beautiful quiet motor . Support Shoes for Women at Remarkable Reductions From Regular Prices! BIG SHOE SALE STARTS MONDAY, SEPT. 16th, 9:15 A.M. =)» Plenty of Real Bargains for Every One <= Boys’—Girls’—Children’s TENNIS All Sizes Shoe Dept. Main Floor e ez N0 Interest or Estras Addgy.to Our \ b e A i Brown or White Women’s Leather Slippers Elk Soles All Sizes But a Selection to Yomen’s Novelty Footwear About 400 Pairs of Better Grade Pumps, Ties, Straps Not All Sizes, Women’s Comfort 1-Strap All-Leather House Slippers Rubber Heels—All Sizes Large Sizes to 99: Bargains for Women Women’s $3 to $5 Footwear Over 50 Styles All Leathers—All Sizes in $ the Lot—Pumps—Ties—Straps 99 7 2 2 2 Famous “Amerca Girl $9).99 Arch-Support Footwear Regular $6 Value All Sizes and Widths—AIl Leathers ‘Women’s Smart Novelty Footwear $4 to $6 Values \ $2 89 Newest Styles—All Sizes—All Heels Pr. Included Are 400 Pairs of Women’s Arch Support Footwear Bargains for Me Men’s $3 to $5 Values High and Oxford Styles—Not all sizes in each style, but all sizes in lot. Black Men’s New Fall Oxfords Out they go! $9.89 Famous “Friendly Five” Men’s Hi and Lo Dress Shoes Out they go! 1$3.69 | ‘3% Police and Fireman Out they go! House Slippers Everett or $1 .88 Romeo Style ; Pr. All Sizes Oxtords High Shoes In Black or Brown Misses’ and Children’s Patent Strap Slippers d 4 P $ | Boys’ and C-irls_’k Fine Footwear All Sizes, All $2.98, St%lec, in high Shoes Sizes to 2 BOYS'—GIRLS—CHILDREN’S Sturdy. Fall School Shoes el Be Prepared Women’s titer 20 Rubbers Babies’ All Sizes Soft Soles Hi & Low All Sizes Pumps—Ties Straps—Oxfords and High: Shoes 88 Pr. Infants’ High and Low Strap and 8 8c Button Style Slloes « Sizes to 8. _ Felt Slippers Misses’—Boys'—Children’s Sizes to 2.’ 39¢ and Save Buadget Plan—We Do N? Penalize Our Feiend: P o ¥ Buy Now 99 Pr. 2222 Heavy Shoes MISSES’—BOYS’ CHILDREN’S HIGH & LOW SHOES Shoe Dept. Main Floor