Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1929, Page 25

DUNT ILYA TOLSTOY WISH FORUM GUEST nt’er to Open Fourth Season * Monday Night—Programs Are Outlined. Count Tlya Tolstoy. son of the fa- s Russian noveiist, will lead a Posium on his native land tomorrow & D Sts. N.W. evening to inaugurate the opening of the fourth season of the national forum of the Jewish Community Center. Offi- cials of the Jewish Welfare Board and | the Middle Atlantic States Federation wfll officiate. Senator Willlam H. King s among those who have been invited to participate. On November 13 Mme. Anna‘Shomer Rothenberg will give a song recital, with emphasis on Jewish folk music. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt will make her first public appearance since the publication of her articles on prohibi- tion at the forum November 20. Bertrand Russell, thé English phflos- opher, who is making a THE SUNDAY this country, will appear at the Center December 1. Jacob Ben Ami, who is co-starring with Eva LaGalliene at the Civic Repertory Theater of New York, will give a rc!ll performance Feb- ruary 2. an Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Asso- ciation Journel, will speak at the sesy sion March 20, The educational committee of the Jewish Community Center, in charge of the forums, is composed of Louis E. Spiegler, Mrs. Adolph Kahn, Isidore Hershfield, Miss Aline Solomons, Mrs. i Isidore Kahn, Miss Sara Roberts, Miss Jeanne Porton, David Wiener, Mrs. of | Herman Hollander and Maurice Bisgyer. ! STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DISTRICT PREVENTS X-RAY FILM BLAST Police Regulations Changed to Blr \ Storing More Than 25 Pounds in Hospital. In order to prevent the possibility of SEPTEMBER % 29, 1929—PART 1. a disaster in a Washington hospital of B the type which caused the loss of ni mercus lives in a Cleveland clinic last May, the District Commissioners have changed the police regulations so they will make an X-ray film explosion a | remote possibility here. Under the new regulations ‘quantitics of nitro-cellulose X-ray film in excess of 25 pounds shall not be stored in any hospital or other building used for the hcuslng of persons partially or totally disabled. The storing of excess quanti ties of the film in separate buildings or on the roof of the main lh‘uclul’c will | be permissib!s, The action of the Commissioners was taken on the recommendation of Fire Department official MAN FOUND STARVING. Wozak from starvation and homeless, William Wright, colored, 50 years old, was found near noon yesterday by Unit- ed States Park Policeman W. J. Ham- mond on the bank of the Potomac River, near the Washingtun end of the new Arlington Memorial Bridge. Emer- ency Hospital ambulance was’ sum- {smoned and Wright advised the physi-| | cian in charge that he had had no| food for' three days. Number thres police precinct patrol wagon was sum- moned and park pollce said the man would be taken to iinger Hospital. | of a charge of blgamy when Assistant |been held for the grand jury under | :M | her under the name of Albert B. Car- ™ son and that he gave the age of 33| EDWIN MELVILLE IS HELD ON CHARGES OF PERJURY Wife Declares He Gave Wrong Age | and Name in Obtaining | Marriage License, Edwin A. Melville, who was cleared United States Attorney Hobart Newman nolle prossed the case Monday, has| $2,000 bond on two charges of perjury in obtaining a marriage license, by Judge Gus A. Schuldt. Velma Carson, a Government em- ploye living in the 1400 block of Girard street, charges that Melville married ears when he really was only 23 years old when he obtained a marriage licence. Melville, who pesed as a former mem- | ber of the Royal Flying Corps, and who was said to be aitending graded school | 25 BORGER OFFICER REFUSE TO RESIGN Defy Governor s Demands and Texas Oil Town May Gat Martial Law Rule. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., September 28.—Mili- tary rule for Borger and Hutchinson i County appeared in immediate prospeet today as a result of a tacit ult:matum 1ssued by Gov. Dan Moody yesterday that all peage officers must resign or In Hyattsville, Md., when he pretended | that he had been participating in the | see their authority assumed by State ;)Vntrld wkar }u}m: arrested n:’ );eu Y?]l:‘k | military forces. The affected officers | last week when he stepped from the | & o e emeni Minnekahas an which he | a%e fo indication that they would had been employed as assistant purser, | uit and so placed the issue entirely [ Mrz. Carson had charged him with }wi(h the governor. gamy is charge was nolle presse: o i when it was discoyered that Mewville |, OO Moody ssid in a statement con | and the alleged first wife, a nurse, never | t2ining the threat of martiel law that had been’married. | crime, in some instances at least, had | flourished in Borger under official sanc- | tion. The recent assassination there of | Jchn A. Holmes, district attorney, re- sulted from a “conspiracy” of peace officers, the governor said. Wholesale Resignations. Aner quoting from reports compiled om the investigations of Texas Bolling | rnngers a special prosecutor and a representative, Gov. Moody paper men a wholesale resig- | nation of peace officers in Borger and Hutchinson County was the only thing that could avert martial law. At Borger, Sheriff Joe Ownbey and Mayor Glenn A. Pace refused to com- | ment on the statement until they heard it formally from Moody himself. The governor said his investigators reported that officials of Borger, a | turbulent boom town, were not sup- | pressing crime as they should, that law- | abiding citizens were intimidated. that TRANSPORT PLANE ON PITTSBURGH HOP, New Air Liner Leaves Field With Eleven Passengers on Inaugural Flight. °' The Store of Smlles §9v1ce Satisfaction YOUR STORE! Carrying 11 passengers, among them | Government and aviation officials, a | tri-motored Fokker F-10 transport plane | of the Washington-Pittsburgh Air Line left Bolling Field yesterday, inaugurating | the second air passenger line between the National Capital and Pittsburgh. The party making the first trip in- | cluded "Col. Harry H. Bl | Siraorts Catvision ™ acsonauiics Chranchy | certain officers had conspired with the Department of Commerce: stant | criminal element, that peace officers 1A"3)rnev General Charles Sisson; Com- | had accepted money for protecting the | missioner William D. L. Starbuck of | donors from prosecution, that witnesses | the Federal Radin Commission: E. M. | had been threatened and that a police- 3 | Kintz of the legal division, aeronautics | man had told one man who volunteered Li | branch. Department of Commerce, and | information to investigators, “It would »Azm Kintz; Miss Louise Menefee: Miss | take only one bullet to finish you.” nnabelle Matthews, assistant solicitor s | of the Internal Revenue Bureau; James MY V. - | Wooley, and Hainer Hinshaw, William | The governor did not say whether Montgomery Smith and Howard Sedge- | e _planned to send troops to Borger | wick of the aviation, corporation. | in the event of martial law, Five Texas The air line, following today’s in- | TAngers are in the town now and four more are available at very short notice. It was thought. however. that between 60 and 80 National Guardsmen might be brought in from nearby towns in the Panhandle. The rangers at Borger last night in- dicated that their investigation of Holmes' death had come about as far as possible under civil law. Many wit- nesses, it was said, have been afraid to talk under present conditions. 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