Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1929, Page 11

WOMAN KILLS SELF OVER STOCK CRASH Leaves Note Saying She Is Frantic, Then Dies by Gas in Brother’s Home. Leaving a note stating she was frantic | because of the recent stock crash, Miss Blanche B. Erdman of Allentown, Pa., 47-year-old sister of the appointment clerk of the Panama Canal Commission, ended her life at the home of her brother, Roger S. Erdmap, at 5525 Thirteenth street, today By inhaling gas. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt was notified. The lifeless form of Miss Erdman was found lying face downward in the kitchen of her brother's home, with all the gas jets turned on and the doors | and windows closed. The body was found by Mrs. Roger S. Erdman, who had_just returned home from driving her husband to work. Mrs. Erdman said her husband's sis- ter had arrived in Washington only last | night from Allentown Pa, Mrs. Erd- man said the woman had discussed her heavy losses. in the recent stock crash and appeared despondent and morose. According to Mrs. Erdman, however, the dead woman is worth nearly $100,000. Miss Erdman is the divorced wife of A. N. Lindenmuth, Allentown artist. Besides her brother in this city, Miss Erdman is survived by her mother, Mrs. John Erdman of Allentown, and two brothers, Albert A. Erdman of Elkins, W. Va. and John Erdman of Bridge- port, Conn. Miss Erdman s said to have had con- siderable money, which represented the majority of her savings, tled up in stocks. THREE FALL TO DEATH CLEANING SMOKESTACK Anxious Wife Leads to Discovery of Accident, as Noise in Plant Drowns Out Crash. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 22.°-Three workmen who were cleaning the interior of & huge smokestack in Brooklyn fell to their death yesterday, but the iact was not discovered until today. In- quiries by the wife of one of the vic- tims, who failed to reach home last night, led to the discovery of the bodies. ‘The men went to work yesterday noon scraping the grimy inside of the 160- | foot chimney at the waterfront plant of the American Sugar Refining Co. Their scaffolding apparently collapsed at a height of 75 feet frqm the base of the smokestack, but the noise of the accident was drowned by the racket of machinery in the plant. WATERFRON ST (Informal Conference Brings Move to Survey En- tire Project. ! = A study of the whole waterfront de- | velopment of Arlington County, Va., | will be undertaken by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, vice chairman and executive officer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and Maj. Brehon Somervell, District engineer for the War Department for the Washing- ton area, as a result of an informal conference held this morning. To Present Conclusions. ‘The conclusions reached as the re- National Capital Park and Planning Commission at its meeting, December 20, and meanwhile action on the ap- plication for a permit to const a wharf just north of the Key Bridge at | Rosslyn, Va., will be held up by Ma). Somervell. Attorneys for the Sun Oll Co. of Philadelphia, John Marshall and Spen- cer Gordon of the Washington law firm | of Covington, Burling & Rublee, were present at the conference in Maj Somervell's office, as was Col. Grant. Whart Permit Sought. The ofl company is interested in securing the permit to construct the | whart, to enable it to bring petroleum products by water to Washington. It proposes to erect tanks in the vicinity of the wharf, put this program of con- struction is opposed by the commission, which has planned to construct & river- side boulevard on the Virginia bank of the Potomac River from Rosslyn to Great Falls, Va. 'FOREST FIRE RAZES SECTION OF VILLAGE Another Blaze Raging Near Ore- gon-California Border Threat- ens Siskiyou Range. By the Associated Press. GRANTS PASS, Oreg., November 22. | —A forest fire today had destroyed a | section of the village of Harbor, 50 miles | west of here. Another fire near the Oregon-Cali- fornia line was reported spreading. Forest officials feared that it might reach the virgin forest of the Siskiyou Range. A third fire, of undetermined area. was burning near Jones Creek, several | miles west of this city. ittt Driving Without Gla To Holder of sses Brings Fine ** “Restricted” Permit One of the most unusual ceses in the history of the Traffic Court was re- corded today when Herman W. Row- lette, 1223 Fifteenth street, was fined $10 for not wearing his giasses while driving a car. He was granted a per- mit last year with the understanding that he must wear glasscs when oper- ating a motor vehicle. 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Washington alumni of Stanford Uni- versity and the University of Califor- nia will gather at the Roosevelt Hotel | tomorrow evening at 6 o'ciock to dine and hear a play-by-play account over special wires of the game between their colleges being played in the Far West. Both associations have a large member- ship in the District and invitations have been extended to visiting alum® and members in nearby Maryland and Virginia. Carnegie Institute of Washington and president of the Washington Alumni Association of the University of Cali- fornia, and Ernest N. Smith, executive vice president of the American Auto- mobile Association, president of the Washington Alumni Association of Stanford University, will share toast- master honors_and will alternate by quarters in presiding as the game pro- | sresses. Half fresh coffee is half that brings oven-fresh coffee to you. 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Blandford, it was learned on good authority today. The shifts were announced yesterda; | Blandford will continue to serve in | his capacity in charge of the local area, operating under authority of the pro- hibition administrator at Baltimore. | ‘The new administrator at Baltimore, | succeeding Col. John F. J. Herbert, wili be Thomas E. Stone, who was in charge of prohibition enforcement at Detroit during the Government's drive to stop border. trot shortly to take over the respons bility in his area, which includes Mary- land, Delaware and the District of Co- lumba. Coincident with the announcement of the shift by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman, it was also stated that John J. Quinn, now assistant pro- hibition administrator at Baltimore. has been suspended pending hearing of charges. nature of the charges. Quinn formerly was deputy prohibition administrator in charge of the local office here, Lowman said that Edwin S. Ross, who had been assigned administrator in the Montana area, had been transferred to Buffalo. There he will be acting ad- ministrator. Ross already is in Buffalo. i non Kellogg and Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation's Business, Outstanding among the University of California alumni_are Dr. Elw Mead, director | of the United States Reclamation Serv- | ice: Horace M. Albright, director of the | National Park Service; Julian Arnold, commercial attache of the Department of Commerce, and Dr. William J. education. stale—not good. Women ) VACUUM PACKE? Everlastingly f° ~T* iy cents to $1.00. each. There is Cake Flour. smuggling of liquor across the Canadian | Mr. Stone will come from De- | Officials here would not discuss the | In making public the changes, Gov.| ford alumni include President Hoover,!| Cooper, United States commissioner of | D. C, FRIDAY, 50 Per Cent Oil Shutdown. 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