Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1929, Page 11

SUBUKRBAN NEWS, "THE KVENING SIAR, WASuinGLON, D. G, THURSUAY, - DRVERIS ONTRIAL FORMANSLAUEHTER Earl Read. of Washington ~‘Faces Jury in Killing of Motorist by Bus. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, September 26.—Trial| of Earl Read of Washington, driver of | one of the intercity busses, indicted on | & charge of manslaughter by the How- | ard County grand jury last week, opened | at Ellicott City this morning. Read was the driver of the P, R. T.| bus, which crashed into an automobile on the Washington boulevard last : month, killing the driver of the auto, | > | Herman Weigold, and seriously injuring = his wife, Read was charged with being MRS. SARAH LEE FAIN, DEFENSE BEGINS INPOISONING TRIAL Today to, Answer Charge She Killed Son. By the Assoclated Pre; | _BELAIR, Md., September 26.—Mrs. Hattie Stone, 40-year-old Havre de Grace widow, was having her chance | today to answer the charge that she | polsoned her son, George, 15, in the trial in which since Monday she had | listened to a serles of State witnesses who pressed the accusation. ‘The defense began its presentation of evidence yesterday afternoon after the | prosecution had presented the accusa- | tions of Mrs. May Baker, who said Mrs. ! Stone admitted the poisoning to her. Mrs. Baker underwent a cross-examina- tion in which her divorce was disclosed and names of several men mentioned IMrs. Stone Having Chance| on the wrong side of the road and passing another machine on a grade. The accident started action by the motor vehicle commisisoner and the Publice Service Commission, with the result that an investigatijn was made of ,all interurban busses operating in Personal representative of John Gar- | by Defense Attorney Harold E. Cobourn land Pollard, Democratic nominee for | while she sat silent protected by Judge the governorship of Virginia and her- | Preston's ruiing that she need not self a member of the House of Dele- answer questions that would tend to in- gates for three terms, who yesterday criminate her in any matter. addressed the Organized Women Voters | Yesterday saw completion of the of Arlington County in behalf of her State's case shortly after Mrs. Baker Sy, Jauktl 20, 1929 People ‘who wear the smartest clothes . . . who live in the most pleasant houses. SUBUKBAN NLWS, And now a radio receiver designed Maryland. candidate. ‘endrd her slege on the witness stand, Violations Found. 4 A number of violations were found by "inspectors o Tode on-the buisee 0DD FELLOWS MEET as passengers aad the ic Service Commisison notified all the companies AT FRONT ROYAL involved that any further infractions of the laws would cause the revoking of permits to operate in Maryland. " 5 number of the busses exceeded the | Tri. iati - 7"5’% e ",',d ri-County Association Holds Ses. ailed to stop at railroad crossings, the sion i soni inspectors reported. Some of the busses | ga¥inHaton ckTemple were equipped with faulty or defective | There. speedometers and a number of the d.r;ver:“welre found smoking on duty. = n his letter to the companies, J. L. | special Dispatch to The Star. Wickes, engmeer of transportation of 8 e i FRONT ROYAL, Va. September 26. “Should subsequent inspection show | —The regular meeting of the Tri-Coun- that any of these violations still exist |ty Odd Fellows' Association was held the permit for the defective vehicle will | in the Masonic Temple here with 175 | be summarily revoked: and should an | : operator he detected in a repetition of | Visitors and members present. This any violation already noted he will be | association is composed of all the lodges disqualified for operating any bus under | of Frederick, Clarkg and Warren Coun- | permit from this commission.” CHURCH PLANS FETE. | tles. The Subordinate Lodge of Odd | Fellows held its stated communication lowship was conferred on a candidate Annual Tilting and Festival to Be by the degree team of Front Royal Held at Clinton. Ledge, No. 374. Special Dispatch to The Styr. Tri-County Association, presided over CLINTON, Md., September 26.—The | the meeting. The principal addresses of annual festival of St. John's Church | the evening were delivered by Charles will be held here next Saturday. The | C. Leap of Waynesboro, Va. deputy program will consist of a free-for-all | grand master of the Grand Lodge of tournament at 2 p.m. a fried chicken | Virginia Hames H. Shiner, president of the | pm. and a ball at 8:30 o'clock p.m.. | dent of the Northern Virginia Odd Fel- when victorious tcurnament riders will | lows’ Association: Claude Stickley of crown the queen of love and beauty and | Vaucluse, Miss Effie Compton of Ben- her three maids of honor. | tonville, president of the Rebekah State Senator Tansdale G. Sasscer of | Lodge. Association, and Mrs. Coffman | - Prince Georges County will address the | of Edinburg. past president of the Re- | knights at the start of tilting and Le | bekah Association. | at which the third degree of Odd Fel-| Others speaking were Mr. | and country ham dinner from 2 to 8 | Robinson of Warrenton, Va., past presi- | Roy Pumphrey. attorney of this county, | will deliver the coronation address, | John M. Bowie of Mitchellville will act | as_chief marshal of th> tournament, | The tournament committee ‘s Ieaded by P. G. Miller, & jndge of the County Orphans’ Courf. Miss Mary Lyons is chairman of the dinner committee and | Joseph H. Blandford has charge of | publicity and information. Visitors present at this meeting in- - |and the opening of defense evidence in | which tables were turned and some of ‘lhe defense witnesses were subjected |to the rlly of the spotlight on thelr | private lives. | During the afternoon session the de- fense called 16 witnesses to testify that Mrs. Stone was a “good mother” to the ! boy, including in this number the former pastor of the Methodist Church in | Havre de Grace, where the Stones lived, | and neighbors of the Stone family and | trequent callers at the Stone home. | The day closed with a new angle of Jhe attack on Mrs. Baker, an involved | nypothetical question to former Judge Willlam H. Harlan, by which the de- fense sought to show that Mrs. Baker, being an aunt of George Stone, would profit from his insurance and inherit- ance if his mother should be barred from them by the accusation that she killed the boy. Court adjourned for the day, however, with this question unanswered. ASSOCIATION PLANS ~ CIRCULATION AUDIT Virginia Press Body Called to Go Over Figureg of Weekly Newspapers. ! By the Associated Press. FARMVILLE, Va., September 26.— President H. B. Trundle has called a meeting of the executive committee of the Virginia Press Association in Rich- | mond, Saturday, October 12, at 11 o'clock. The committee will consider final plans for a circulation audit of the weekly newspapers in_Virginia. Members of the executive committee are W. Y. Morgan, Warsaw: Paul Scar- | borough, ~ Franklin: C. P. Hastrog) Richmond; Paul H. Appleby, East cluded members from the Odd Fellows’ | ford; George N. Buck, Frone Roy Lodges - of Warrenton, Bentonville, | Rufus G. 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