Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1929, Page 5

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, SEPTEMBE s EVIDENCE AWAITS UNRAVELING BY GRAND JURY FINISH N SIGHT TOMORROW NGAT Collins May Recall band and Other Witnesses. Hus- (Continued From First Page.) time elsewhere, explaining he had been relieved from further appearance by the grand jury, but would appear at | the proper time if needed. Conflicting Testimony. The parade of witnesses before the grand jury, which halted yesterday, | was participated in by more than half | a hundred men and women. The reams of testimony they gave were replete with | apparently conflicting statements, bear- ing on both sides of the mystery. { The record of testimony must read like a detective novel. Its pages tell of | piefcing screams in the dead of night, of a man’s threatening voice, of sob- bing voices on the telephone, of auto- | mobiles starting up in darkened alleys, of a lone taxicab passenger alighting anc disappearing behind an apartment building, of a figure emerging from a second-story window. of detec.ves and newspaper men examining blood stains on the floor. of a muiltitude of other strange happenings and reports con- nected with the remarkable case. The opening chapter in the testimony came from the lips of Policeman Robert | J. Allen, prime mover behind the re- opening of the case. For three hours last Tuesday Policeman Allen told his dramatic story and answered questions * propounded by the jurors. 5|l So_enthusiastically did he detail his murder theories, it is said, that he was interrupted and asked if he were “mal ing a speech.” He was allowed to con- tinue, however. Saw Man On Roof. i Allen told reporters and, it is under- stood, told the jury he saw the figure of a man on a low roof outside the window of the McPherson apartment on the night of the tragedy. September 12. He was patrolling his beat at the time in company with his partner, Po- liceman Lawrence Botts, of the third recinet. Prallen said that he told Botts | | watch the front of the building while | he ran to the rear. When he reached the alley. he declared. the only trace | qujeige f the man was @ taxicab fast disap- gt“flflng around the corner a hali block | away. No report of such an incident | Was made by either officer to the third recinct at the time. P Sefore. appearing before the grand jury Tuesday, September 24. Allen told McPHERSON INQ Above: A fleeting glance of Garnett IRY WITNESSES | | M. Frye. taxi driver, who signed an affi- before the grand jury vesterday, she said, to declare that she heard screams after an argument with her Below: Mrs. Alice davit that he could iden! v a_passenger ‘band had closed. ‘own and Policeman Robert J. Allen. Mrs. Brown went he took to the Park Lake Apartment at to | 1:30 a.m. on the night Mrs. McPherson died. Frye apparently was camera shy. —Star Staff Phot up all the points raised by Policeman Allen in support of his iurdcr theories and offered explanations to show the suicide theory was the more logical. He offered a “natural” explanation of the origin of the blood spots. declared that experts had assured him a woman newspaper men he could produce tWO | couiq choke herself to death with a witnesses who would testify to hayig | cord drawn around her neck. asserted seen a man at the window of the MC- | 1o paq traced the screams to a domestic Pherson apartment. Later he brought out that the two witnesses were hims and Botts. Botts was called to tes e inquiry. | I e e Cpress, Policeman Botts made statements to the effect that, person- ally, he had not seen the man described by his partner and that the latter had said nothing to him about the incident. When Allen was informed of this he appeared disheartened and said knew his contention that the girl had been murdered would not be established by the grand jury probe, and that he was “ready to give up.” Allen’s Theories. esumably Allen told the grand jury a !;;P:\l many other things. ‘Undoubt- edly he called attention to the bloos stains on the bathroom floor and on the | floor of the bedroom, to his belief that | a woman could not strangle herself fo death by knotting a pajama cord around her neck, to the screams an voices heard by persons in the vicinity, to the position of the body against the bedroom door and to other factors lead- ing him to the conviction that the young nurse was murdered. Allen committed suicide. ag manager to force t both hands, because of tion against the door. ! previously been in the room and cov- ered the body with a dress. Ruff had said that the husband of the dead woman, Robert McP! him he had entered the bedroom and | covered the body before notifying him | of the tragedy. Allen has also expressed doubt that a would-be suicide woull turn out the light before committin atal act, or &*L'm,'n would be able to turn it out! herself. le;;ill)l'. hcnn‘l‘:‘ld& woman ides usually leave s. mf\cuen's theory is that a man—the one he says he saw outside the McPhcrson | window on the night of September 12, but did not report until September 24, entered the apartment probably tarough the door, slipped up behind Mrs. Mc- Pherson as she stood in the bathroom, threw the pajama cord around her neck and strangled her, dragged or carried Ter dying or lifeless body into the near- by bedroom, placed the body with tne feet against the closed door, turned out the lights, left the bedroom through a window opening onto a gravel-coated porch and cither slid down a rainspout o the ground or re-entered the apart- ment through the living room window | and departed through the apartment door. he bedroom door open Wwith | Thinks He Saw Slayer. | The blood on the bathroom floor, ac- cording to Allen’s theory, came from the mouth and nose of the strangling woman. The agonizing screams, the moans and the low, threatening voice of a man came from the McPherson apartment, he contends, and the figure he says he saw on the roof was that ot, the murderer making his get-away. | ‘Wilmer C. Ruff, manager of the Park | Lane Apartment House, was the sccond | s ‘";in: ‘as summoned at Allen's request to tell the grand jury of the discovery af the body, with particular reference to his difficulty in opening the door. Ruff told newspaper men that McPhe: son came to him on Saturday follow- ing the fatal night and said he had nd his wife dead in their apartment. RS said the husband told him he had ind the body in the bedroom and laid \dress over the lower half of the form. ff declared he went at once with Mc- erson to the apartment and found e bedroom door closed. He pushed inst it and found he had to use both s force the door op°n wide B ot is shoulder E oved the door open. id the lights of the apartment were t and the bedroom windows were un- ked. A black garment was over the of the woman’s body. ff said he called police of the third ecinct, who in_turn summoned the icidé squad, led by Lieut. Edward Kell; Lleut’.”'muy‘ dapper gray-haired vet- n of the Detective Bureau, was the hird witness to enter the grand jury room. Kelly's matter-of-fact account of what he found during the course of his investigation already had been de- tailed to newspaper men.Wdf he gave the same account to the grand jurors it must have left them thoroughly .con- vinced they were tackling an inquiry with extraordinary ramifications. Coroner’s Verdict Suicide. * Tt was Lieut. Kelly's testimony before the coroner’s jury, coupled with that a | him rigor mortis disappea fight in an adjoining apartment house and discounted the importance of the manager’s declaration that he had to | push the door open because the body was against it. Licut. Kelly pointed out that he him- self had been requirca to use some | force to open the door after Manager Ruff had called him to the apartment. He attributed this to the possibility that Be the knee of the dead woman had bent upward each time the door opened, only to straighten out again when the door was closed. He answered Allen’s claim that rigid- itv of the limbs induced by rigor mortis would have precluded its bending with the declaration that physicians had told from a corpse after a cortain length of time. Kelly expressed the opinion the husband need not have completely entered the room 1 To newspaper men Kelly took | reach in and throw the dress over the form, has held from the first that detective there would have been no blood on the | suicide under bathroom floor had Mrs. McPherson stances. Per He has demnnd;fl commit sul‘mge mhthe ?arlk and many | ain’ to know why the | women suicides have failed to leave ain_and aEal artment house had | notes. Kelly contended. Jaatls L Manager ' bruises on Mrs. McPherson's body. | strong argument in favor of suicide, to herson, told | Lieut. Kelly's mind, is the testimony of | ny. d | on one occasion g | by -hospital ph that a strangling | illuminating gas. | her death. | to accomplish the covering of his wife's body as it would have been possible for |s him to open the door just enough to Citrs Other Cases. As for other phases of the case the lieutenant cited cases of similarly strange circum- | Persons have been known to Kelly, furthermore, emphasized there | the body’s posi- | were no signs that a struggle had taken if some one had | place in the bathroom or in the bed- room and there were no significant A the husband and others that Mrs. Mc- Pherson had attempted to"end her dlife on several previous occasions and that d to be revived inhaling s. McPherson, moreover, had reason to be despondent because of domestic troubles which had resulted three days prior to her death in | a separation from her husband. Lieut. Kelly also stated that McPher- | son was quizzed closely as to his move- ments the. night Mrs. McPherson met Kelly said the husband readily gave names of persons he had | seen and talked with, places he, had ;z;u;e and the approximate hours of his | vis These statements were immedi- ately checked and found to be without | a flaw, the head of the homicide squad avowed. Presumably to corroborate the testi- mony of Lieut. Kelly concerning the ¢donditions at the apartment when po- lice arrived, Capt. W. G. Stott and | Policemen E. P. Hartman, J. J. Ramsey, | W. F. Burke and F. O. Brass of the | third precinct also were called to ‘i testify. Tells of Telephone Call. ‘Warren- F. Embrey, night chief of detectives, is thought to have told the grand jury of receiving a telephone call from Mrs. McPherson's father, A. A. Hurley of China Grove, N. C., request- ing that police investigate a message from his daughter, describing a quarrel with her husband. This occurred sev- eral weeks before Mrs. McPherson's death, and police say when they ar- rived at the apartment a reconciliation had been effected. Headquarters De- tective Dennis J. Cullinane also testi- fied. Mrs. Lilllan Conway and Miss Mary Roberts, telephone operators at the Park Lane, were questioned at length by the jury. Mrs. Conway, an attractive blonde, had told police she listened in on a telephone call made to the McPherson apartment after 8 o'clock on the Thursday night of the tragedy, and had heard Mrs. McPherson hysterically hang up on the caller, later identified as Miss Eleanor Shepard, a nurse. Mrs. Conway said she was so affected by what she overheard that she called the apartment back several times, but received no response. When first questioned by Lieut, Kelly Mrs. Conway failed to state the further fact that when she was relieved from the switchboard 20 minutes later she obtained a pass-key and went to the McPherson apartment. Gaining no re- sponse to her knock, according to her story to Assistant District Attorney Col- lins, she unlocked the door and turned on the light. Mrs. c%nway said she saw a black garment in the middle of the floor. The door to the bedroom was closed, and no light was visible through the crack beneath the door. There was no noise to be heard. Believing that Mrs. McPherson had gone to bed or had gone out, she investigated no further, but turned out the light and left. Questioned Second Time. Lieut. Kelly was rather piqued to learn of Mrs, Conway's additional state- ments, and he questioned her again, of surgeons who performed the autopsy, that l:;o!.hc Jjury to render a verdict of obtaining substantially same in- lnmuo%‘ She told the tives she b5 always would regret the fact that she didn’t open the bedroom door, as Mrs. McPherson probably was choking to | death at the time of her visit. The two other telephone operators testified on minor phases of the case. The grand jury heard from another person who had been to the McPherson apartment the night in question. i Howard Templeton, young drug clerk | employed in the Park Lane drug store, who came here from Mrs. McPherson's home town in North Carolina, took two packages of cigarettos to the apartment | |shortly ‘before 8 o'clock at_the tele- | | phoned request of Mis. McPherson. | Templeton said he had found the latter dresscd in a black gown. apparently ready to go out. and had asked her where she was going. The clerk said | she told him she was going to a dance | in Georgetown with “Bob.” her hus- | band. She seemed to be in the best of | spirits. _Templeton told police he had | been inside Mrs. McPherson's apart- | ment on only one occasion. and that was on the previous Tuesday night. He explained he had just come to Wash- ington, and Mrs. McPherson, being a | lifelong friend, suggested he come with her to an apartment on an upper floor | of the Park Lane and meet some friends of her husband. He went with her to the apartment and was introduced to ral young men. He and Mrs. Mc- vson, the police were told, left in a few minutes, and Mrs. McPherson asked |him to stop in her apartment for moment. He stepped into the Pherson apartment, according to the | police version, and Mrs. McPherson | picked up the telephone. called her | husband and informed him “the Tem- | pleton boy is here.” | Lieut. Kelly questioned the husband | is call and verified it with the | amplification that the husband told his wife he didn't care whether the boy | was there or not. | Testimony of Nurse. Convening for the second day of the investigation, the grand jury summoned ss Martha Berry, nurse and intimate | | friend of Mrs. McPherson, who is be- | | lieved to have told the investigators of | an occasion when Mrs. McPherson is | said to have pondered an attempt to i end her life by leaping from the roof 6® | the Highview Apartments where tne young couple then lived. ] | _In addition to this testimony Miss | Berry was questioned relative to the objections which young McPherson | said to have cxpressed to the friendship | between the two girls. Miss Berry made | a denial of this, but police say she ad- | mitted to them that McPherson disliked her friendliness to his wife. Mrs. McPherson had asked Miss Berry to come to her apartment to live following the separation from her hus- band and when she refused, police aver, t[ld,'s was an additional motive for sui- cide. The parents of the dead girl's hus- band were subjected to the ordeal of a grand jury inquiry on the:second day | of the “hearing. Mrs. McPherson, sr. the quiet-mannered confidential secr tary to the Secretary of War, is sup- | posed to have told the grand jury what she knew of the marital difficulties of her son and daughter-in-law and of the part she had played in attempting to effect a reconciliation following their separation. Mrs. McPherson spoke highly of her daughter-in-law and at- tributed th> quarrels of the pair to pei- | ty misunderstandings. Recalls Telephone Call. | Mrs. McPherson has told of a tele- phone call from her daughter-in-law | which she reecived at her office on the | afternoon of the day the girl died. Th!v‘ younger Mrs. McPherson sold of the | estrangzment that had taken place and is said to have asked her mother-in- Jaw to inform “Bob” he néedn't bring the money he had promised because she was going away. Her mother-in- law advised her to remain at the apart- ment until young McPherson could come there to see her. That evening the girl again called| Mrs. McPherson, sr., getting in touch with her at her home while she Wus; entertaining friends. Virginia was cry=-{ ing, her mother-in-law said, and sobbed | out, “Mother, I am going away and will; | not see you again, but whatever hap-; | pens I want you to know that I wm1 always love you and dad.” ! Not wishing to disclose to her mends; the troubles of her son and daughter-, in-law, Mrs. McPherson merely advised | Virginia_to wait untfl Bob taiked with her, and added he was on his way to the Park Lane. To this the girl is reported to l-uve1 replied, “Mother, he has already been here and we can’t make up.” The mother-in-law endeavored to soothe th girl as best she could under the re-} straint imposed upon her by the pres- ence of guests and then hung up, ac- .cording to police. Mrs. Aileen Saville, manager of the Highview Apartments, and S. M. Per- kins, colored janitor of the establish ment, were asked to testify of their; knowledge regarding_reported previous nmpu of Mrs. McPherson to commit 1 sulcide. Janitor Helped Husband. Mrs. Saville told of the occasion when Mrs. McPherson was overcome by tlluminating gas which she inhaled, and “| The most of the disputes which the young couple had while living at the Highview. The janitor recalled a summons he had had from the husband to assist him in pre- venting Mrs. McPherson from beating her head against the wall. | " The blood-curdling shrieks and. the | hair-raising moans which numerous .| witnesses agree pierced the night air in the vicinity of the Park Lane late in the night of Mrs. McPherson's death, but which have been attributed to divers sources, were the special object of inquiry by the grand jury. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Heavrin were sure they heard the screams and groans, not to mention a man's threatening voice and the starting of an automobile en- gine shortly afterward. James Mills, colored janitor of the Lombardy Apart- ment, next door to the Park Lane, de- clared the screams awakened him from a sound sleep and that he also heard moans, the hoarse voice of a man and the starting of an automobile in the rear of the Park Lane Apartments. | Leonard Scott and Thomas Jackson, | colored employes of the Lombardy, veri- fied Milis' claim that he left his room to investigate the source of the noise | Mrs. Ethel Schuttler, who was visit- ing her son at his apartment in the Park Lane the night Mrs. McPherson met her death, also testified that she heard screams emanating from an apartment. Tells of Screams. Policeman Allen placed great sig- nificance upon the screams, moans and other noises, but along came Lieut. Kelly with a witness to testify, some- what sheepishly, that if there was any screaming done that night it was in | his own apartment. The witness was ! William Brown, insurance man, resid- ing in an apartment just across an areaway from the McPherson apart- !ment. Brown confessed that he and his wife had had a pretty heated alter- cation about the time the screams were heard, that Mrs. Brown had done quite bit of yelling during the height of the | fracas and that he had made some pretty heated remarks himself. He vol- unteered this information because he did not want the McPherson investiga- tors to be misled by screams emanating from his apartment. Mrs. Brown was not present when her husband gave his version of the shrieks to Lieut. Kelly, but when she read about it in_the paper she became incensed over alleged “inacurracies” in | her husband’s reported statement. She | was called before the grand jury to repeat _declarations made to newspaper | men that she had not screamed that | night loud enough for persons outside | the apartment to hear her and that her | altercation with her husband had been | of much briefer duration than he had | indicated. She readily admitted having | quarreled with r. Brown when he came home late from a dance. startling angle of Mrs | Brown's account was that she had gone to sleep when the argument ended | around 1 o'clock. only to be rudely | awakened about 2 or 3 o'clock by the | screams of a woman. Thinking. she | said, that some one else’s husband had | just’come home from a dance and met | with feminine displeasure, she turned | over and went back to sleep. | “'With_the fact seemingly definitely established that all sorts of screams and | other unearthly noises were disrupting {the nocturnal calm usually prevalent ~first street and the Avenue, red at the tive opinion t of the that of | at Twenty: |a surprise witness appear courthouse with a very posi that all was quiet on the nigh! | tragedy. _The opinion was | Eugene R._Weisbender. | apartment 220, across the corridor in, the Park Lane from the McPherson abode, who declared the door leading to the corridor was open on that night and had there been any such screams or other loud noises they would have awakened him from his sleep. Roof Visit Mystery. The mystery of whether or not there really was a man on the roof outside the McPherson apartment was gone into most thoroughly by the jury. In addition to hearing from Allen and his partner, Botts, the grand jury als heard from E. Ruffle Vass of the Lom- bardy Apartments, who connected the disappearance of a tennis ball that had laid on the roof for two months with the possible visit of some one to the roof. Mr. Vass thought it strange the tennis ball would drop from sight the day after the reported roof-rambling episode. His conclusion was that maybe some one had accidentally dislodged the BARBER &ROSS, i 11th & G Sts. Wear-Ever” Aluminum Housefurnishing Specizls new French Fryer 89 Regular Price $1.35 Thick Sheet Griddle 2-qt. sise Aluminum Reg;Friee Sauce Seaor Pans o “Wear-Ever> Cooker Cooks foods in their own Juices with little or no water. s ;l"o.-s 05‘55 We have them ! . . Thermax Electric Heater with 12- inch cop- per reflec~ tor. Can be used on any light- ing socket. $3.75 Manning & Bowman Waffle Iron, iickel plated; complete 36 75 o vith cord and plug...... Manning & Bowman Turn- over Toaster, nickel plated. Regularly $6.00. ball in scuttling over the roof on other business, nefarious or otherwise. Inspector Shelby, chief of the De- tective Bureau, also is understood to have had a good deal to say about Policeman Allen's helated disclosure about the mysterious doings he wit- nessed while patrolling his beat. In- spector Shelby announced in the papers prior to taking the stand that he would | tell the grand jury he was convinced 1t would have been impossible for Allen to see any one on the roof below the McPherson windows. The detective chief is believed to have laid before the grand jury other findings made in the course of his investigation. These findings included letters Mrs. McPher- son had sent to her folks in North Carolina, complaining of ill treatment jat the hands of her hushand and men- tioning medical attention given her by “Dr. Hornaday” after suffering brutal- | ity from “Bob.” The letters also con- tained an assertion that Maj. Albert | Walker, her employer, had consented to | withhold several weeks' pay due her, in order to prevent her husband from get- ting possession of it. Employer Appears. | Dr Frank A. Hornaday, with whom | Mrs. McPherson had been associated |on a case in her professional capacity as nurse, and Maj. Walker were sum- moned to tell what they might know about these statements. Dr. Hornaday, according to the police, denied having treated Mrs. McPherson at any time, and Maj. Walker said he had paid Mrs. McPherson by check each week. “Bob” McPherson, the husband, was able to verify the statement that his wife had been paid regularly by check. | He sald he had cashed them for her |at a bank. Young McPherson, a slen- | der, wavy-haired employe of a_bank, | was not called to testify until the in- | quiry was more than half completed. | He ‘waited in the corridors or in the | witness room for nearly four days. If he was nervous, he failed to betray it. His mother was beside him much of the ime. The grand jury undoubtedly quizzed | the youth at length regarding his | marital troubles. According to the de- | tectives, who questioned him upon his | arrest, he made a clean breast of his difficulties at home. Lieut. Kelly said | | he admitted having struck his wife | | in public on one occasion, but explained | | she had “made a scene” on the street | | that ‘aroused his anger. The husband | | told of the several reported attempts | | of his wife to take her life, of frequent | | bickerings and quarrels due to “petty | | Jealousies” and to his displeasure over | his wife's association with Miss Berry and, finally, of the climatic separation. Love Had Cooled. | The husband. Kelly declared, told of | his love for his wife during the early | part of their married career, but pointed out that his love had cooled as | she continued to harass and embarrass | him with her alleged suicidal impulses and temperamental outbursts. | | According to the account of the po- lice, McPherson packed up some of his | belongings in a suit case and announced h"» was “through for good" several days | prior to his wife's demise. He went to | the home of his mother in Petworth, | He returned the next day and secured | some more of his clothes. During this | t there was some effort toward a reconciliation, but the effort failed. | McPherson said he would bring her some money, which was her share of a | Joint bank account. | | " The telephene calls to McPherson's mother ensued. Young McPherson. at 1o the apartment about 7:30 on the night ot his wife's death, according to his own statements to the police. He is | quoted as saying there was a brief col- { loquy regarding the separation that | ended in no agreement and he left the | apartment. walked downstairs _and through the lobby. took a taxicab to | Georgia avenue and Upshur street. | | Licut. Kelly said that McPherson's | movements from the time he entered | the cab at the Park Lane until he re- | | tired at his mother's home later that | night have been checked and proved | The cab driver was found who carried | his going to bed at the home of his parents. 12 Alibi Witnesses. To substantiate the testimony of the his wife Thursday night until he re- turned to find her lifeless body Satur- day afternoon, the grand jury ordered 12" alibi witnesses to the stand Ior questioning. Robert Lyon, Patrick Lynch, Harold Connor, James White, D. G. Lockett, W. J. Armstrong, Adriag Smith and Clive 8. Wilson are reported to have told of the basket ball meeting whicis McPherson attended; Virginiz Monk of morning on a downtown bus and of |conversing with his Mrs. | McPherson, his aunt, is reported to | have told of a visit the youth made to uel Riggs and J. Tarbell Howard, fel- |low emploges, are presumed to have told of his being at the bank on Fri- ay. With the approach of the closing hours in which the grand jury que tioned witnesses, Miss Eleanor Shep- | pard, the young nurse who is believed {to have been the last person to have talked to Mrs. McPherson on the night of her death, appeared before the in- vestigators to tell of the telephone con- ship. Miss Sheppard testified only briefly as she had been ill and consented to the questioning by the grand jury against the advice of her physician. In that brief period, however, she is r ported to have told of telephoning Mrs. McPherson and of having the latter sobbingly tell her that she was busy and to call iater. Mention has been made of Dr. Thomas Ballard. formerly con- nected with Gallinger Hospital, but now practicing in New York., with whom Mrs. McPherson is said to have been friendly. Tt has been suggested that Miss Sheppard told the grand jury of a recent date which Mrs. McPherson | told her she had. Goes to New York. Dectective Sergt. Joseph Waldron made a trip to New York and it is be- lieved that he informed the grand jury that his investigation satisfactorily proved that Dr. Ballard had not been in Washington for three wee To investigate the long-deiayed report of a taxicab driver. that on the night Mrs. McPherson met her death he ha taken a man whom he could “identif. to the Park Lane, tbe grand jury quizzed Garnett M. Frye, taxicab op- | erator, for one hour, late yesterday. Presumably he told them of the decla- ration set forth in his afidavit filed in the office of Assistant United States At- torney Collin: serting that on that night. betweer. the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock he had transported a_passeager from Fiftecnth street and New York avenue to the Park Lane. Arriving at the rear of the Park Lane, his pass ger paid him. Frye said, and he pa no further attention to him as he dro off until two weeks after the body of the young nurse was discovered and his memory of the incident returned. BLAéT KILI:§ Tl:{hEE. Mother and Two Daughters Die When Stove Explodes in Home. OTTAWA. Ontario, Septetmber (#).—A mother and two daughters lost occupant of | the solic®ation of his mother, went back | their lives today as a result of the ex- plosion of a stove in their home in Westboro. The victims were Mrs. Harold L. McKendry, Doris McKendry. 3 years old, and Beatrice McKendry, 18 months. The explosion was thousht to have occurred because Mrs. McKendry poured coal ofl into the stove to facilitate light- ing of the fire. e e Lindbergh Lands in Colombia. BARANQUILLA, Colombia, Septem- young husband regarding his move- | ments during the time when he left seeing young McPherson Friday | Donald | (her home Thursday nigh. while Sam- | versation and details of their friend- | COMMONTY WORK OPENS THE WEEK First Sessions for Season to Be Held by Some Cen- ters on Tuesday. ton will swing into action this week for thelr Fall and Winter activities, the nurst sessions being held on Tuesday. it was announced yesterday by Miss Sibyl Baker, director of the Community Cenler Department of the Public Schools. Practically all of the regular cen- I ters, eight white and seven colored, will I'be in operation this week, but the | part-time and experimental centers will open next week. Central Community Conter will be- | gin its schedule of basket ball and drill teams on October 14. At Central, also, on October 16, the Citizens' Band will give its opening concert of “Farmer's | Frolic,” in the auditorium, with Mrs. | Edith’ H. Hunter, sccretary, in charge of -the center. Schedule of Divisions. In divisions 1-9 centers opening next Tuesday for registration of Winter | activities, opening events in the regular schedule are: Columbia Heights, with Mrs. E. H. Hunter as supervising sec- The community centers of Washing- | PUBLIC INVITED TOVIEW EXHIBITS Health and Scientific Dem- | | onstrations Will Feature Dental Convention. | | | | | | An invitation to the public to view the veral public health and scientific ex- thibits and moticn picture demonstra- tions to be held at the Washingten Auditorium the week begining October 7 in connection with the American Den- tal Association convention was an- nounced over Station WMAL last night by Dr. C. Willard Camalier, chairman of the committee on arrangements, in an | address sponsored by the® Washington | Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Camalicr. who is president of the | District of Columbia Dental Society: announced that nearly 15,000 dentists | were expected to come to Washington for the convention. The convention will have headquarters at the Mayflower Hotel, with the special public exhibi:s 10 be staged at the Washington Audi- torium. | Pretacing an outline of the conven- | tion program, Dr. Camalier declared | that dental sérvice in the District ap- peared to be on a very satisfactory | basts, there being one white dentist to | every 800 or 900 of population and one | retary and Mrs. Minnie S. Young asj colored dentist to approximately 2.300 28/ | executive secretary in charge; East | Washington, with Mrs. E. Scott as ex- ccutive secretary in charge, and Thom- son with Mrs. A. C. Driscoll, as com- munity secretary. Next Friday three centers will open Ifor the season—Macfarland, with Mrs A. L. Irving as community secretary Park View, with Miss Maud Burklin as community s-cretary, and Southeast. with Mrs,'M. W. Davis, community sec- retary. | Chevy Chase will open Monday. Oc- | tober 7, with Mrs. F. K. Espenchied | community secretary, and the centers | at Langley Junior High and at Gordon | Junior High, both under the direction | of Mrs. A. L. Irving vill open sabout | October 15. Langley will open for the | basket ball season.” and Gordon will | be open for rhythm and dramatics. | _In divisions 10-13 this week’s open- | ings include, on Tuesday, October 1| Burrville, Mrs. C. J. Knox, and Cleve- | land, Miss Etta Johnson; Wednesday October 2, Garfield, Mrs. C. J. Knox Thursday. October 3, Dunbar, Mrs Knox: Friday. October 4. West Wash- | ington, Mrs. Florence Neal. and on Monday, October 7, Birney, Mrs. Martha E. Ellis, and Lovejoy, Mrs. Re- becca J. Gray. Formal Opening. The formal opening of all community centers in divisions 10-13 will take iplace Thursday evening at 8:45 at Armstrong _High _auditorium, when | Justin Sandridge, pianist, will be heard in_recital, under the auspices of the community center department. For this recital. in addition to the regular sale of ticKets, there is to be a special i music student ticket at 50 cents, appli- cation for which must be accompanied by a card from the music teacher. Citizens’ associations and parent- | teacher associations all over the Dis- trict of Columbia are now making ar- rangements with the community center department for the annual permit which entitles each to use a school building regularly throughout the Win- ter for meetings. Rebellion Leader Dies. MEXICO CITY, September 28 ().— Gen. Ignacio Mori, famous Yaqut chief | who led the rebellion in Sonora about three years ago, died of intestina) trou- ble in'Orizaba, Vera Cruz, according to press dispatches tonight. £ "\\\‘\\\"\““““\\}}\“““‘\\\““\\\m\\“\‘ population. Declaring that the profession of den- tistry had made remarkable progress in recent years, Dr. Camalier pointed out that the strengthening of the require- ments for an exzamination by boards of miners, the institution of the pre- requisites of a high-school education, a. year's training at college and four vears spent in a dental college had done much to_promote the science. Preventive dentistry, he said, is the keynote of the hour. The Army. Navy. Public Health Serv- ice, Buresu of Standards, Veterans' Bu- reau_and other governmental agencies, Dr. Camalier announced, will co-operate. in the convention. iy s GRAND CENTRAL FIRE TIES UP TRAIN SERVICE Blaze Breaks Out in Cabin Room’ Which Feeds Third Rail System. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. September 28 —Electric’ train service out of the Grand Central terminal faced a 24-hour tie-up fonight when a fire in the main cabin room of . the New York Central Railroad, which feeds the third rail between the termi-. nal and Port Morris, N. Y., broke out and stopped all traffic. It was said steam locomotives weuld be pressed into . service to fill the breach. . FIVE DEAD IN WRECK. Three Boys and Two Girls of High' Age Victims of Train-Auto Crash. WESTFIELD. N. J. September 28 (P).—Three bovs and two girls, all of high school age. were killed tonight as their automobile was struck by a Le- high Valley Railroad express train. All lived in Rahway. They were Engelo Sullo, John Ethan Allen, Kenneth Hedeman, Rosalie Sockreder and Vir- ginia Handel. The mother of one of the victims, | Mrs. Carmine Sullo, became deranged wvhen she was taken to the scene of the accident. 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