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Washington News TOADSTOOLS KILL ONE IN FAMILY: 2 EXPECTED T0 LIVE “Mushrooms” Gathered Rock Creek Park Are Fatal to Father. in SON AND WIFE ARE IN SERIOUS CONDITION| ——— | Brother Indicates Autopsy May Be! Asked if Mother Should Grow Worse. Two members o fthe La Covey family At 1135 Seventh street northeast, five; of whom partook of a meal Wednesday at which toadstools were served mis- takenly for mushrooms. are belleved | recovering from the effects of muscarine poisoning which resulted fatally Satur- day for Michael La Covey, the father. Mr. La Covey died at the residence, fram which funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. His son Albert was affected seriously by the poison, as was his wife. Both were reported recuperating at Sibley Hospital today, however, although Al- bert may have to remain at the Hos- pital for some time. ‘Two young grandchildren of the elder La Coveys, visiting in the home at the time. were present at the family breakfast Wednesday. One of the children ate the supposed musHroom escaped with an attack of neusea, while the second youngster was the only one at the table who declined to take a helping when the dish was passed around. ‘The mushrooms were gathered Tues- day afternoon by Albert In Rock Creek Park. Albert's brother, August, said today there was some thought of asking for an autopsy to determine if his| father couid have eaten any other pois- | on accidentally served at the meal, 20 as guide physicians in their treatment | ©of the other two members of the family. In view of the improved condition | of the patients, however, August. said he would not make the request tnless one of them took a turn for the worse. | C. J. HERZOG FUNERAL AT RESIDENCE TODAY Restaurant Proprietor, Born Here, Was Well Known in Busi- ness Circles. sadlog ety i Funeral services for Charles J. Her- | 20g, 44 years old, local restaurant pro- prietor, who died suddenly at his home, 2014 Pierce Mill road, Saturday, will! be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Herzog residence. Mr. Herzog, who was a life-long resi- dent of this city, was born here in 1886. He was well known in business circles, having long been associated with the hotel and restaurant business. At the time of his death, Mr. Herzog was proprietor of the Food Restaurant. Mr. Herzog is survived by his wife, Henrietta Herzog, and a daughter, Emily Herzog. Burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery. | MARINE CORPS MEDAL DESIGN BEING STUDIE Expeditionary Award Before Fine| Arts Commission—Other Projects l‘ Now Under Consideration. i Designs for the Expeditionary Medal of the Marine Corps will be studied by the Pine Arts Commission, when it as-| sembles on Thursday and Friday. H. P.| Caemmerer, secretary of the commis- | sion, announced today that the body | will likewise consider the proposed statue of Lief Ericsson, to be presented to Iceland and the statue of Henry Clay to be erected at Caracas, Venez- uela. An appropriate memorial is to be erected to Queen Isabella in Washing- ton by the Daughters of Isabella, an the commission will turn its attention to this also. Details relating to Ar- lington Memorial Bridge and Meredian ! Hill Park will be gone over with Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, and other interested officials. A joint meeting will be held by the commission on Friday with t Ni tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission to examine projects of mu-; | | 812.84 of this amount. The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. L0 MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929. * PAGE 17 Mushroom Purchase Instead of Picking Urged by Officials Department of Agriculture of- ficlals today warned those who do not know the difference be- tween toadstools and mushrooms to buy their mushrooms in the open market and not go out into the country and pick them indis- criminately. This warning was issued at the request of The Star, following reports that one man is de and two persons are ill, after eating toadstools, which they picked in Rock Creek Park, mistaking them for mushrooms. Officials of the division of my- cology and disease of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Depart- ment of Agriculture said that there is no broad, general rule whereby the layman can distin- guish between a poisonous toad- stool and the mushroom. DISTRICT REPORTS | §6,000,000 SURPLUS City's Financial Condition | Shown in Statement of Budget Officer. The District of Columbia is shown | with a surplus of $8,689,664.75 to its credit in the United States Treasur: in a report prepared today by Maf. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer. which graphically analyzes the | municipal expenses for the 1929 fiscal year ended June 30 last. ‘The report shows that the surplus. which amounted to $6.127,629.07 at the beginning of the 1929 fiscal year in- creased $2,562,035.68 in the following 12 months, to the beginning of the 1930 fiscal year. The $2,562,035.68 increase represents the excess of revenues over and above all obligations and appropria- tion charges for the 1929 fiscal year, Growth Anticipated. The growth of the surplus fund was of Maj. Donovan's estimate of its prob- able condition at the close of the 1929 ! fiscal year the Commissioners prepared and sent to the Budget Bureau a budget for the 1931 fiscal year of approximately $48,500,000, the largest in the history of the District. And while the unprece- dented budget is predicated on the gen- erous use of the surplus fund, the auditor has estimated that it will still | remain in excess of $6,000,000 if Con- gress authorizes an expenditure of $48,500,000 in 1931. Education Biggest Item. ‘The District’s cash expenditures for the 1929 fiscal year, according to the report, amounted to $35,014,488.82, the largest individual amount of which was spent for education. The expenses for education alone represent $12,513,734.17 of the total. The other items are clas- sified as follows: General government, $1.975,991.01; protection of life and property, $5,730, 217.17; health and sanitation. $3.432.- 615.99; highways, $3,489,579.50: public welfare, $5,081,483.81; recreation, $2.- 498,668.03: | miscellaneous, $178,391.80, | and public service enterprises, $113,- 807.34. In classification, protection of life and property are included the expenses of operating and maintaining the Police | and PFire Departments, the building and plumbing inspection service. the mu- nicipal surveyor's office, the Department of Weights and Measures and the Blec- trical Department. Three in One Group. The Health Department, Refuse De- partment, and Sewer Departments com- the group in the health and sani- tation classification, while the recrea- tion classification is made up of the expenses of the Municipal Playground Department, the Zoological Park, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the park police. The cost of increasing the water sup- ply and the operation of the public crematory constitute the public service | |Secretary Good Presents| | anticipated, however, for on the basis | | made after several other pilots had War for Aviation Trubee F. Davidson. SUTTON RECEIVES MACKAY TROPHY Award to Air Corps Reserve | Officer at Bolling Field. Before a guard of ‘honor of Army Air Corps troops, Lieut. Harry A. Sutton, Army Air Corps Reserve, today was awarded the Clarence H. Mackay Trophy for the most meritorious flight by Army Alr pilots during 1928. The presentation was made at Bolling Field this morning by Secretary of War James W. Good in the pres- ence of ranking officers of the Army and Air Corps, Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, president of the National Aeronautic Association, and other aviation leaders. Following the ceremony, Lieut. Sut- ton and Secretary Good reviewed the local Air Corps troops, paraded at the field in their honor. Lieut Sutton, who now is connected with the Aviation Corporation of New York, also was awarded the Distingu- | ished Flying Cross for the same flights | which won him the Mackay award. | In these flights, which were made voluntarily, he determined the spin- | ning characteristics of the Army O-2 observation plane and later of other observation types. The flights were lost their lves in the work. The citations recount that Lieut. Sutton, “at great personal hazard, | piloted an O-2 airplane in tests to de- termine the spinning characteristic of this type of plane, which resulted in invaluable data being made available to airplane designers. This test was voluntary and above the call of duty and reflected great credit on the Air Corps and the Army of the United [ { $250,000 DAMAGE SUIT | enterprise item. | Total Cash Receipts. The total cash receipts in the 1920 fiscal year, the report showed. amounted to $38,065,544.84, derived from the fol- ! lowing sources: Revenues from taxes and miscel- laneous sources, $28,930,141.99: amount paid by the United States on account of its proportion of appropriations, $135,402.85; amount transferred to rev- enues of the District by the Federal Government, ,000,000: cpllection from taxes on real estate, $19,382,483.23. col- lection from taxes on personal property, including taxes on the gross earnings. and receipts of public utilities. banRs | and building associations, $2,701.671.47 | and collections from taxes on intangible | personal property. $2,496.782.61. | The report showed further that col- lections on account of trust and special funds amounted to $5.464,073.50, the water revenues representing $1,507,- | | Maj. Donovan's financial statement | | Co., DISMISSED BY COURT Proceedings Brought by Construc- tion Company Against Two of Its Officers Dropped From Docket. Justice Stafford of the District Su- preme Court has dismissed & suit for | injunction and $250,000 damages brought by the Loehler Construction ( ., against Henry J. Auth, 5201 | Thirty-eighth street, and John N. Auth, | 405 Sixth street southwest. The de- | fendants are treasurer and vice presi- pany. The allegations of the suit were that the defendants had failed to pay for the stock issued to them, had collected money as rents and had impaired the credit of the companv. Through At- | torneys Tobriner & Graham they moved to dismiss the suit and the motion was granted. Attorney Alfred Cereco had ARMY FLYER GETS HIGH AWARD Lieut. Harry A. Sutton of the Army Air Corps Reserve was today awarded the Clarence H. Mackay Trophy by Sec- | retary of War James W. Good In recognition of the most meritorious flight services performed by an Army pilot in 1928. | In the group, from left to right, are: Senator Hiram Bingham, Lient. Sutton, Secretary Good and Assistant Secretary of —Star Staff Photo. Woman of 98 Dies Of Burns Suffered In Fall on Stove Mrs. Mary Mike, 98 years old. of 1814 Sixth street died last night in Emergency Hospital from burns to her arms, face and body, suffered yesterday morning when she fell onto a hot stove in the kitchen of her hame. She was preparing her breakfast. Her clothing became ignited by contact with the stove, in which she was attempting to throw some papers when she stumbled against 1t. She ran screaming into the yard. 8. Romeo, a neigh- bor, hearing her cries, came to her aid and pulled the burning clothes from her body. She was taken to Emergency Hospital in a private automobile and there treated by Dr. John Baber of the staff. The physician said that her advanced age was a contributing factor in her death. THOUSANDS ATTEND YOM KIPPUR RITES |Washington Jews Observe » | | Most Solemn Day on Hebrew Calendar. ‘Washington Jewry today observed Yom Kippur, the most solemn day on the Hebrew calendar. Special services | in numerous synagogues were attended | by thousands of men, women and chil- | dren. Large crowds also assembled at | sundown last night to join the rabbis | in ushering in the 24-hour period of | fasting by singing the prayer, Kol Nidre. In order to atone for their sins, all | faithful Jews are abstaining from food | and water until Yom Kippur draws to a close at sundown tonight. All recrea- tion also is banned for the day. A pericd of feasting will start at sun- down. It lasts until the feast of the tabernacle next Friday. In singing the prayer, Kol Nidre the worshipers will ask for the forgiveness of their sins and make peace with themselves, their neighbors and world. The members of the various congregations then will be asked | dent, respectively, of the plaintiff com- | their rabbis to .review their transgre sions with a view to making amends. A plea for more liberal views in tie | orthodox synagogue was made by Dr. L. J. Schwefel. rabbi of the Sixth Street | Synagogue, at services last night mark- | ing the opening of Yom Kippur. The rabbi said there is a need for progress | in_orthodox circles. { Rabbi Schwefel expressed the opinion | TEN SLIGHTLY HURT IND. G. ACCIDENTS | Bus and Street Car Figure in Two Traffic Mishaps Over Week End. ‘Ten persons sustained minor injuries in traffic accidents on the streets of ‘Washington over the week end. A bus and a street car figured in two of the mishaps. A Washington Railway & Electric Co. bus, operated by Matthew J. Meyer of 6700 Seventh street, was in collision yesterday morning at Thirteenth and Hamline streets northeast with an au- tomobile driven by Edward J. Mudd of 1211 Hamline street northeast. Miss Gertrude Mudd, 54 years old, a pas- senger in the automobile, was thrown from the machine as it overturned. Five Ribs Broken. She_was taken to the office of Dr. John F. Hattington, 2015 Twelfth street northeast, in a passing automobile, and there was treated for five broken ribs and bruises to her body. Lyman E. Jones, 39 years old, of 714 H street northeast, was knocked down by his own car yesterday morning when he cranked it while it was in gear. He was in front of 1123 Morse street north- east at the time. He was treated at Casualty Hospital by Dr. J. Rogers Young of the staff. Henry Scroggins of 134 Sixth street northeast and Victor B. Fewe, 28 vears old. of 309 F street northeast, sustained bruises and lacerations last night when a car driven by Scroggins, with Fewe as a passenger, was in collision at Sixth and D streets northeast with another machine operated by Bernard Weiss of 145 B street southeast. The injured men were treated at Emergency Hos- | pital. Man and Two Women Hurt. A man and two young women were hurt Saturday night when their auto- mobile overturned as it struck the curb at Connecticut avenue and Cal- vert street. They are Leo McGuire, 23 years old, of 3204 Nineteenth street, the driver; Miss Pauline Shinn, 20 years old, of 2816 Cathedral avenue, and Miss Catherine Colman of 2504 Tenth street northeast. All tiree were treated at Emergency | Hospital for bruises, abrasions and pos- sible internal injuries and then allowed to, 80 to iheir homes. s he was pursuing a speeding auto- mobile south on Sixteenth street. act night, Motor Cycle Policeman J. I Shotzberger of the thirteenth precinet struck the rear wheel of a taxi driven by John P. Lester of 200 Cromwell terrace northeast. Mrs. Catherine Beall, 47 years old of 921 Nineteenth street was badly shaken and her head bruised by the oollision. She was treated by a private physician, Others slightly injured include Henry Johnson, colored, 38 years o New Jersey aventie, and Jacob Crockett, . 56 years old, who wi by a street car M ld of 1427 | DISTRICT SEEKS PENALTIES INBS | | Washington - to - Baltimore Carrier Accused of Taking - Unauthorized Route in City. SEPARATE OFFENSES WILL BE SET FORTH Injunction Also Sought to Keepj Cars From Leaving Pre- ; scribed Course. The Public Utilities Commission to- day instructed Corporation Counsel { William W. Bride to file suit against the i Nevin Fuis Lines, Inc., to recover pen- | alties of $200 each for numerous alleged | violations of the commission’s orders | setting up a route for the bus cofl-{ pany, which operates to Baltimore and | other points. The exact amount to be | sued &r has not been determined. Commissioner Harleigh H. Hartman said today that es°h day the busses of | the company departes from their route | as prescribed in the commission’s order constituted a separate offense, which 17ade the company liable for a_ forfeit of $200 to the credit of the District government. He said the commission had evidence from its inspectors of violations on | five separate days, the last being Sat-| urday. This would make the suit one for $1,000, and bring it into_the juris-| diction of District Supreme Court. | Injunction Sought. i In addition, Mr. Bride was instructed ! | Saturday to file suit in Equity Court | | for an injunction restraining the com- pany from departing from its route as| outlined by the commission. The latter | | suit is expected to be filed early 'hls} week and argued, as to a temporary in- | junction, on Friday. It is not known | when the former will be filed. { According to Mr. Hartman. the order | allowing the Nevin lines to enter Wash- ington calls for a route into the city along E street to Fourteenth street and | thence north to the Nevin terminal on | the east side of Fourteenth strest be- | tween E and F streets. Thence the | busses make a loop by way of Four- teenth, F and Thirteenth streets back to Pennsylvania avenue and leave town | by traveling eastward on Pennsylvania | avenue. | Added Loop Requested. The company recently applied for per- | mission to add another loop to this, tak- {ing them west, instead of east, along Pennsylvania avenue to Pifteenth street, north on Fifteenth street to F_street, and thence over the old route. This the commission denied, but the busses, ac- cording to the commission's inspectors, added the new loop anyway. | Mr. Hartman said that he was partic- |ularly anxious to avoid extra bus traffic |on Fifteenth and F streets, both now badly congested, and that the Commis- sion felt particularly opposed to the loop in question since its only apparent | purpose was to serve another bus termi- {nal at 1421 Pennsylvania avenue, only { half a block away from the regular Nevin terminal. Second Company Obeys. At the time of the Nevin application, he said, the Commission checked up on all of the interstate bus routes, and found one other concern which had added an unauthorized stretch to its route. This was called to the eompany's attention, Mr. Hartman said, and it promptly returned to its authorized route. The lawsuit against the company is to be based on section 85 of the pub- lic utilities act, which provides a blanket $200 “forfeiture” for any dis- obedience of a commission order, but says nothing as to the manner in which | the “forfeiture” is to be collected. As- | sistant Corporation Counsel Robert E. { Lynch has been assigned by Mr. Bride 101 represent the commission in both suits, K. OF C. ADDRESSED BY FATHER SWEENEY Work of Order Is Reviewed by Speaker at Columbus Day Vesper Services. i Addressing a meeting of the Knights of Columbus last night at St. Gabriel's Church in Columbus day vesper serv- ices, Rev. Willlam Sweeney defined the : essential principle of Catholic practice as complete observance of spiritual and ‘SMOOT ARRAIGNED THOMAS E. SMOOT. —Star Staff Photo. | i | N OWZE ATTACK Formal Hearing Is Postponed After Defendant Enters " Not-Guilty Plea. Thomas Edward Smoot, 24, of Balls- | ton, Va., charged with an assault with intent to kill Policeman B. F. Howse of the eighth precinct, during a fight early Saturday in which the officer shot and killed William Douglas, pleaded not guilty to the charge in Police Court to- day. The formal preliminary hearing was ! postponed until October 22 to enable | Policemen Howze, who is confined in a hospital, to appear against Smoot. Douglas, who was 40 years old and |lived at 708 Seventh street southeast, | was shot to death after he had struck | the policeman several blows with his | own night stick. Smoot_appeared with his attorneys, ‘William E. Leahy and Frank Ball, Vir- ginia State Senator. The accused man is at liberty under ! $5,000 bond. Howze heard some noise at 1321 Bel- | mont street, while patrolling his “beat” about 3 o'clock Saturday morning. When he went in to tell the noise- | makers to quiet down he was assaulted by both Douglas and Smoot. The latter | is alleged to have struck the first blow | when he struck the officer in the eye with his fist. Howze shot Douglas after | the later had grabbed the officer’s night | stick and struck him over the head with | it several times. | _ Elizabeth Frye, 23, the owner of the | house in which the shooting occurred. | and Mae Virginia Campbell, 23, 1617 Riggs place, were released from the ! House of Detention, where they had been held as material witnesses, today under $500 bond each. | | { ENTRANT NAMED| Gabriel Touche, 18 Years 0ld, to Reach New York Sunday. Others on Seas. 1 France's entry in the Fourth Inter- national Oratorical Contest finals will ' |land in the United States next Sunday. |He is Gabriel Touche, 18-year-oid | | speaker on “French Culture.” | Until this afternoon five of the nine | contenders for the world championship in high school oratory were on the | oceans a the same time en route to| the United States. The German, Her- | bert Schaumann, was scheduled to reach New York today. The other na- tions whose spokesmen still are on the | seas are, beside the Prench boy, Den- | Wednesday. ALLEN CONTINUES EVIDENGE SEARCH IN DAYTON CASE Policeman Delves for Facts to Present to Grand Jury to Support Indictment. SEEKING TO PROVE DEATH PREMEDITATED Defendant Might Escape Extreme Penalty Even if Convicted, Say Law's Observers. Dissatisfied with Dexter Dayton's story that he did not premeditate mur- der when he engaged the hotel room in which 23-year-old Marjorie O'Donnell was strangled, Policeman Robert J. Allen of No. 8 precinct today continued to search for evidence which might substantiate a first-degree murder in dictment when the grand jury passes on the case, possibly tomorrow or Full details of the transaction by which Dayton came into possession of a revolver and 50 cartridges found in the room have been transmitted to the District attorney's office by the homi- cide squad. Officials refused to say, however, if this evidence bears out Dayton's story as quoted by police to the effect that he bought the gun several mcfillhb before he met Marjorie O'Don- nell. Possible Loophole Seen. Even should the Government prove premeditation, Dayton may escape the death penalty under a technical inter- pretation of the District code, which makes a lighter punishment possible in certain cases where the defendant was mentally incapable at the time of his crime of appreciating the conse- & quences of his act. Allen says the elevator boy at the hotel, who took the couple to the eighth floor early Monday night, is cer- tain that Dayton showed no sign of being under the influence of liquor at that time. On the other hand, a photograprh of Dayton and a book on sex chilosophy, found in Dayton’s effects in the hotel room, seemed to bear out his story that he brought Marjorie O'Donnell into the room in the hope of bringing about a reconciliation. Dayton said he felt he could persuade the girl to beccme en- gaged to him and to accept the photo~ graph and book, which, he asserted, she previously had returned to him. Allen Assigned to Case. Allen has been assigned to the case | by his superior officer, Capt. Robert E. | Doyle of No. 8 precinct.» The policeman says Dayton duped } the girl into accompanying him tc the room, for which he registered under an assumed name. Allen believes Dayton told the girl that the “Burtons,” whose names appeared on the register, were awaiting them in the room. He pointed out that a note found in the room, presumably written by the dead girl after she found the “Burtons” were “out,” informed the non-existent hosts that the callers had made themselves at hlr:me.m Allen thinks the girl expected to leave immediately. Her body was dressed in an evening gown when found early Wednesday morning, while Dayton stiil wore the trousers to a tuxedo suit. Against this theory of premeditation, and its possible outgrowth in the shape of a first-degree murder indictment, Defense Counsel Daniel S. Ring and Harvey L. Cobb are gathering evidence in support of contention that Dayton lp(:lled :h; Igrl ‘!le‘n: sudden flare of rage, ompted by rary emotion: - Sllil)l:y'ul’nd drink. i o yton insists he contemplated no harm to the girl when he invited her into the room, but that she refused to marry him persistently and evoked his | jealous passion by mentioning another man— York. Dayton attended two church services vesterday in the District Jail. His guards say he is showing the effects of the strain he is under. He is being watched constantly to fore-tall any at- tempt at suicide. 4 naval officer stationed at New CHARLES S. ALDEN BURIED IN NEW YORK Washington Resident 'Dies Paris—Widow Sur- vives. in Burial services were conducted today in the Van Rensselaer plot, Albany Rural Cemetery, New York State, for Charles Stuart Alden of this city, who died in Paris, Prance, September 25. Mr. Alden was formerly a member of the old firm of Whitmore, Lynn & at Connecticut avenue that men and women should sit ether | o ot L g street, Chevy Chase, | and children should sit with their par- l'ents. “Even if you oppose me in some of my views” he explained, “you must | | know that I am not speaking with any | malice in my heart.” | mark, England and Peru. Alden, jewelers. He Was widely known | Touche, the latest of the nine con- |and prominent in Masonic circles here, | tenders to be announced in Washington, | N&Ving been affiliated with several M one of the six winners of the famed | Sonic bodies and a member of Almas concours general” of his country. l’l‘emple of the Mystic Shrine. These annual competitions in the | Mr. Alden is survived by his widow, appeared for the plaintifl company. | temporal duties within the church, Reviewing the work of the Jerfights | of Columbus, both in its civic“and re- ligious activity, Father Sweeney de- clared that without universal congre- | gational adherenec to faith and dul tual interest. will form the major portion of his an- | MISS COOK ADDRESSES | yifor e malor i &1 4e” GIRLS’ RESERVE CLUB | rGED HOUSEBREAKER and Hawthorne Md. PAINT MEN GATHER {DR. LA SALLE TO ADDRESS Organization Recently Formed at Friendship House Holds Its Ini- tial Dinner Meeting. Miss Mable R, Cook, secretary of the | Girl Reserves of Washington, was the | principal speaker at the organization | of the new Reserve Girls' Club at the | Friendship House, 324-26 Virginia ave- | nue southeast last night. The initial | meeting of the new club was held with | a supper as feature, following which | songs and yells were taught the 26 new | members by Miss Catherine Merritz of | the music department of the w. | c . A. Miss McDowell of the Girl Reserv gave an illustrated talk on the things | a girl can do and make in a “Hobby" | club. Meetings of the new club will | be held every Monday after school in the clubroom of the Friendship House, Miss Marguerite Meyer acts as club | edviser. { RITES FOR WAR VETERAN. | Service for Don F. Reed Will Be' Held in Fort Myer Chapel. Funeral services for Donald F. Reed, 43 years old, of 3814 Alton place, at- torney and World War veteran, who died yesterday at Davenport, Ia., will be held at Fort Myer Chapel tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will take place at Arlington Cemetery. Clarence G. Lee, 1123 Thirteenth -l bond UNDER 'BOND OF $220,000 | Colored Man Arraigned in Police| Court Today Faced 22 Sep- arate Charges. With the placing of the twent: ond charge of housebreaking a t Chauncey McDaniel Ashton, colored, 22 years old, of the first block of E street southeast, today, his bond was raised to the sum of $220,000. Ashton was arraigned in Police Court last week on 16 of the charges, and his assessed at $10,000 for each charge. Since then six more charges have been placed against him. ‘The latest complainant is Miss Edith A. Foltz of 1424 R street. According to Headquarters Detective Harry Cole, Miss Foltz's purse was stolen by a sneak thief who entered the downtown office where she is employed. Yesterday she said Ashton was the man she saw sneak- ing from the office. Twelve headquar- ters detectives have participated in the investigation of the cases against the colored man. {CEMETERY SAFE ROBBED. Cash and Two Wrist Watches Are Stolen From Lincoln Memorial. A safe in the offices of the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery Corporation, 1351 Wallach place, was broken o noon and this morning and $81 in cash, a $5 money order and two wrist watches street, has filed suit to recover $50,000 damages from the Washington Railway & Electric Co. for alleged personal in juries. He says he was struck by a car of the company March 24 at Union Station Plaza. He is represented by Attorneys Fred A. Woodls, John C. Kramer and Claude A. Thompson. valued at $20 stolen. Benjamin P. Edwards, manager, dis- covered the loss when he opened the safe this morning. The combination had been smas] and the door pried open. The thieves are thought to have SIBLEY WOMAN’S GUILD October Meeting of Organization | to Be Held Thursday Morn- | ing in Hospital Hall. | Dr. Jessle La Salle, assistant super- | intendent of schools, will address the | October meeting of the Woman's Guild | of Sibley Hospital, to be held in Rust hall at the hospital Thursday morn- | ing At 10:45 o'clock. The subject of | the talk will be “The Child Problem, Be He Bright or Otherwise.” | There will be a consideration of the | plans for hospital night, which will occur Friday, November 1, in Rust hall. | The speaker for this occasion will be announced at the meeting Thursday. | The monthly luncheon will be a fea- | ture of this meeting. The ladies from the Lincoln Road Church will be the hostesses. Linton Willlams, the new | organist of the Foundry M. E. Church, Will ‘give ‘several organ. numbers. ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE. | Mrs. Maybelle H. Owens Says Hus- | band Ordered Her From Home. | Mrs. Maybelle H. Owens, 1846 Third street, has filed suit for a limited divorcg and alimony against Franklyn A. Owens, 1724 Second street. The wife says her | husband makes between $600 and $1,000 a month from a cigar business. They were married September 5, 1925, and have no children. The wife says her husband told her October 2 that he had hired a house- keeper, and that he did not love her any more and that she should leave his | home. He offered her a check for $200, | she states. Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert. | e’rwld the place thi h a side win- dow which was unlocki R. H. Yeatman and A. F. Canfield ap-! pear for the wite. Rabbl Abram Simon of the Wa: ton Hebrew Congrega Miracle of Forgiveness” at_introductory services last night, cial services for the children of the temple were con- ducted this morning. Adult services began later in the day. Rabbi Simon was assisted by Dr. B. Baer, Joseph Solomon and Lee Baum ‘The following Yom Kippur services in their syna- gogues: Rabbl J. T. Loeb, Ahove Sholem; Rabbl Jacob Dubrof, Kesha Israel; Rabbi Torah; Rabbi Barishansky, Esraz Israel; Rabbi George Silverstone, Tifereth Is- rael; Rabbi Bolkman, Talmud Torah Beth TIsrael, and Rabbi Schneider, Southeast Schul. Special pleas for -the Community Chest were made by speakers in every synagogue. ing- n spoke on “The |HAWES WILL DISCUSS PALESTINE SITUATION | Missouri Senator to Speak at Ex- ercises of Brotherhood of * Washington Hebrews. The Brotherhood of the Washington | Hebrew Congregation will celebrate the opening of the new Jewish season to- morrow evening in the Hebrew Temple at Eighth and H streets with exercises at which Senator Harry B. Hawes of Missouri will be the chief speaker. Senator Hawes will discuss the polit- tical aspects of the difficulties Pal- estine and present a summarization of the Jewish situation in the world as he sees it. e will speak at 8 o'clock. A musical program will be offered by Daniel Breeskin, violinist, and Miss Dorothy Skinner. Allen de Ford is president of the Washington Hebrew Congregation and if is expected that he will present Senatdg Hawes, A. Horowitz, Talmud | More Than a Thousand Representa- tives of Manufacturers at Mayflower Hotel. More than 1,000 leading paint and varnish manufacturers from throughout the country are at the Mayflower Hotel today to attend a sertes of three con- ventlons, one of which convened in the hotel toda The convention convening this morning was that of the Federation of Paint and Varnish Production Clubs, made up of superintendents and chemists of various varnish, paint and lacquer production firms. About 125 are attending this meeting. Tomorrow morning the American Paint and Varnish Manufacturers’ Association will | convene in a general business session at the Mayflower, while on Wednesday morning the latter association will hold & foint session with the National Paint, Oil and Varnish Association, Inc. The last named association will convene in its forty-second annual convention ‘Wednesday following the joint meeting. Addresses by Dr. Allen Rogers and J. C. Gehant on various technical phases of paint and varnish manufac- turing processes featured the session today of the Paint and Varnish Produc- tion Clubs, The latter organization also is scheduled to hold its election of officers today. Various addresses will be features of the other convention sessions, with Julius Klien of the De- partment of Commerce scheduled to address the sSession of the Nati Paint. Ol and Varnish Association at its meeting Thursday afternoon. FOR 3 CONVENTIONS: | the Catholic Church, as a harmonious body of religion, could not survive. In his remarks on the American voyage of Columbus, Father -Sweeney, who contended that the great explorer ! was actuated more by missionary than | imperialistic motives, declared, “He was Inot primarily moved by a quest for gold or the seeking of land, but rather 1 by the desire to spread the faith.” ‘The services were concluded by a brief talk by Bishop John M. McNa- mara, who spoke on the obligations of | members of the Knights of Columbus to the order. | Francis X. Cavanaugh. assistant | pastor of St. Martin’s Church and | Rev. Joseph Nelligan were among the prominent members of the order, who attended the services. |TWO ADMIT DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED “Two persons pleaded guilty of driving while drunk in Police Court today, with one of the persons being convicted on a charge of leaving after colliding. Stanley Carter, a soldier stationed at Bolling Field, was sentenced to serve 60 jdays in jail and pay $100 fine or serve 30 days more. Charges of the posses- sion of whisky were not perferred against him, although a half-gallon of whisky was found in the car when the arrest was made. Policemen E. C. Moore and W. T. Storm of the thirteenth precinct made the arrest when they saw the car pro- ceeding up Georgia avenue yesterday afternoon. Carroll P. Duckett, colored, 100 block of Ridge road, was apprehended after he is said to have collided with the car of Alfred Christ of College Park, Md., on Benning road last night. Judge Given sentenced the man to serve 120 days ingfall and to pay a-$100 fine in lieu of Bu days more. academic fields, operating for more than | 100 years, are staged by the French ministry of public instruction. The | International Oratorical Contest has |been made an intergral part of the | “concours.” Therefore, young Touche not only is an outstanding orator, but, ! by virtue of his position in the famed |academic contests, is one of France's outstanding students. | On his arrival in New York, Touche will be met by Maxime Raymond Puel, French contender here in the first in- | ternational oratorical contest finals. | Puel, now a gesident of the United | States.- holds & position in the New York export office of one of the lead- ing American automobile manufactur- jers. Aboard the S. S. America with him is F. Whitnali Allen, England's | entry. In the contest this year, the French- man will be in the position of cham- | plonship defender, for it was Rene Pon- | thieu of France who, in the third inter- national finals in *he Washington Au- ditorium a year ago, captured first | place, the trophy and the world cham- | pionship for his natioh. f Touche is adjudged victor in Constitution Hall Saturday night, Oc- | tober 26, he will return, not only the world championship to France, but will take back also the Sevres vase, which the Prench government is offering as A trophy. The vase will leave France tomorrow to arrive at the French em- | bwas:y here three days before the con- | st. ’Chute Jumper Killed. WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio, October 14 ().—While a crowd of 1,000 persons, including_his mother, looked on, Estel F. Boyer, 24 years old, | Mrs. Nathalie Berry Boynton Alden. |PAPERHANGER INJURED AS HE FALLS 20 FEET | Treated for Concussion and Pos- sible Skull Fracture After | Drop From Scaffolding. i | Falling 20 feet from a scaffoldinz |at 404 Tweltth street southesst anen: noon today, Levi Pennington, 82-year- 1 old paperhanger, of 1220 E street south- | east, was seriously injured. He was taken to Casualty Hospital in the ambulance by Dr. J. Rogers Younz. { Who treated him for concussion of the brain and a head injury which might prove to be a fractured skull. Pennington was papering walls over Y tairway in the home of Mrs. Jonn mett at the Twelfth st He lost. his balance and fey = "C0Te TWELVE HURT IN FIGHTS. Marine, Most Severely ‘Wounded, Expected to Recover. Of 11 men and a woman injured in A series of week end fights in Washe ington, only one remained in a serious condition today. The most severely wounded victim was Russell F. Colbert, 21, & Marine. Physicians of the Naval Hospital believe he will recover. Colbert was found unconscious in Navy place southeast about 11:30 o'clock last night. Several colored men, be- lieved by police to have attacked Col- of this city, fell to his death near here yesterday when a parachute failed to open after he jumped from an airplane at _an aerial circus. i aviation circles bert, were arrested. Inez Granason, colored, 25, was treated for lacerations of the scalp by Dr. I. Rutkoski of Emergency Hospital, after an altercation at her home at 3, MassacQusetts -avenue.