Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1929, Page 4

4 HOLIDAY MARRED BY 23 FATALITIES fAuto Accidents Take 16 Lives .. Throughout Nation—Five : Burn to Death. By the Assoclated Press. as accidents throughout the country resulted in 23 deaths, with at least a score of persons injured, Asso- ciated Press dispatches revealed. Six- tecn persons were killed in automobile mishaps, § were burned to death, a boy was drowned and a man shot him- self accidentally. Three men were electrocuted near Castle, Okla, when their car struck & high-tension power line post. The automobile swerved from the roaa when its driver was blinded by tne lights of an approaching machine. The dead: Mike Carson, Prague, Okla.; Lawrence Willlams, Norman, Okla., and Gordon Dovall, Paden, Okla. Three in Family Killed. Three members of one family lost their lives when their automobile was struck by a train near Mauston, Mass. They were Clara Smart, 44; Johuo Smart, 45, and William Smart, 40, Robert Morrison, John Redman ana Mrs. Hamak Redman were fatally in- Jured while en route to a Christmas dinner when a train collided with their automobile near Detroit, Fred Hanson, 35, and his 5-year-old daughter were killed when a train hn their car near Blcomington, Il ‘While crossing streets in Sioux Oity, Jowa, James Keefe, 77, and Mrs. Anna Leach, 50, were struck by automobiles and killed. Arlington Keel, 56, and his wife, 53, Jost their lives when their car wae mck by a freight train near Findlay, 0. An automobile collision in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, caused the death of Mrs. ice Staff, 48, wife of Col. J. T. Stafr, nticello, Jowa. Mr. and Mrs. 8. T. Grove, an elderly couple, died in & fire of undeterminea | arigin which destroyed their home, in St. Cloud, Fla, Three colored children, Robert Har- 3is, Sargeant Harris and Willie May Harris were burned to death while they slept in their Paris, Ky., home, Boy Skater Is Drowned. A young tompanion falled in an ef- fort to rescue Raymond Bouchard, 9, when he fell through thin the Salmon River near Fort Coving N. Y. After decorating a Christmas tree at his home, in Scranton, Pa., Charles H. Hunt, 28, was fatally wounded when & revolver discharged as he removed it from his hip pocket. ‘Twenty persons were injured in (Y B ¥V Carrying out a custom of more than twe score years, Saks & Co., sters. Isaac Gans, the manager, is shown with a group of children. THE EVENING ST.:\R. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1 COATS BRING CHRISTMAS CHEER TO CHILDREN ' & yasterday gave 100 overcoats to as many young- Star Staff Photo, AMERICANS FETE 12000 CHILDREN Homeless Armenians Given Relief Spread in Shadow of Mount Ararat. By the Assoclated Press. LENINAKAN, Soviet Armenia, De- cember 25 ° (Delayed -Within the shadow of Mount Ararat, traditional site "|of the landing of Noah's Ark, 12,000 homeless and parentless Armenian boys and girls who were rescued from star- vation and massacre by the American Near-East Relief organization, sat down today to a gigantic Christmas feast, pro- vided by the American people. Jamestown, N. Y., when an automobile wed through a line of children wali- GERMANS ARE PLEASED BY OIL SHIP CONTRACTS Teutonic Firms to Build Three of The “feast” did not consist of turkey, but of fatted calves. Pumpkiy ple and cranberry sauce were provided by the American nurses, who had been prepar- ing for today's event for a month. This is believed to have been the largest single Christmas dinner given by American charity in any part of the world. Nothing like it has ever been seen in Soviet Russia. After Dr. Joseph Beach of Yale Unlversity, director of the Near East Relief, conveyed Christ- — eetings to the children from the er] Seven New Vessels for Ameri- can Company. KIEL (#).—German shipbuilders are elated over orders received from the Standard Oil Shipping Co. of New York, which awarded contracts for 3 of 7 16,000-ton twin screw motor tank ships fo German firms. One Danish, one Italian and two English firms have also been awarded contracts. ‘The n_orders go to 's Whart at Kiel, the mmum Vulean Works at_Vegesack and the United North Sea Works at Emden. Krupp comes in further recogni in that the contracts with the British firms call for Krupp motors. LISBON STREETS BANNED TO ALL STREET VENDORS New Law Follows Making Repeat- ed Begging Deportable Offense. LISBON (#).—Street flowen sellers, itinerant musicians, fortune tellers and troubadours are not allowed to_ply their trades in the squares and avenues of this capital, This reform follows closely on the heels of the one hqgg & mis- demeanor, Small fines are imposed on Violators, but when the offense is re- Beated deportation to Africa awalts the delinquent. Some beggars who recently were arrested were found to be well off. In the pestilential attic of ome of these, an Arabian Nights treasure was dis- covered in the shape of bullion, treas ury notes, stocks and bonds, the whole amounting to more than $100,000. Denmark’s pepulation is 3,518,000, lco&rdlng to recent government esti- people, the American nurses and relief workers presented each child with an outfit of warm Winter clothing made by American women and girls. After m&; the younaum.“tm‘lms immaculate wi and the ys_in blue, formed on the fleld in front of Mount Ararat, Into gigantic hu- man letters, reading, “America, you saved us” e, R AVERT DANUBE SUICIDES. Budapest Lifeboats Assigned ¥e Special Mission. BUDAPEST, Hungary ( clty a fleet of lifeboats whose special mission is to rescue people try- t0 commit suicide from one or the of of the five handsome bridges spanning the Danube between the twin cites of Buda and Pest. ‘Within three years 533 persons have thrown themseives from the bridges, and of these 500 have been rescued by the water polf The lifeboat crew carry handcuffs and cords to restrain themmu determined from jumping aga! Attempts at suicide have virtuall doubled since the war. i Win Many Nobel Prizes. BERLIN (#)—Award of the 1920 Nobel prize for literature to Thomas Mann was the fortieth Nobel award to be given to a German. France is sec- on the list of winners with 23. Of the two-score German prizes, 31 were for sclentific achievement. . Writer Becomes Monk. MONTECASSINO, Italy (#).— Be- lieved to be the first active Italian jour- nalist to embrace holy orders, Ettore Libri, political writer on La Stampa, Turin, celebrated his first mass at the mother house of the Benedictine Order. His novitiate began five years ago. *AWERTISEHEIITS B itf RECEIVED HERE IMorgan Bros.’ Pharmacy—30th & P Sts. N.W. | LAST 7 CENTS GO FOR COOKIES FOR HIS CHILDREN’S STOCKINGS Destitute Veteran Takes Detectives’ Note to Mission and Gets Groceries and Toys for Family. A young ex-service man, who had spent his last 7 cents for cookies to stuff the otherwise empty Christmas stocking of his small boy and girl, was among the several hundred destitute men and women who were given Christ- mas food and cheer yesterday at the Gospel Mission. ‘The former veteran, who came to the Gospel Mission with a note from the Detectives’ Bureau, told Supt. Harvey V. Prentice that he had brought his family here from Connecticut recently, expecting to find employment as a union bricklayer on Government con- struction work. Christmas eve found him with 7 cents in his pooket and no prospect of food for his family. His little son, aged 5 years, and daughter, aged 3, wanted to ng up their stockings like other chil- dren, he told Mr. Prentice, so Christ- mas eve he went to a grocery and ex- pended his last penny for sugar-coated cookies. Christmas morning the two little children awoke to find their stuffed stockings, but the cupboard was bare of any Christmas dinner. When the man departed from the mission, he bore an armful of groceries and another of toys for his children, with promises that efforts would be made to find him em- Dltmenn ut 300 children were entertained at the chapel, 216 John Marshall place, in the morning. Each child was given a large bag of toys and ice cream and cake. ‘The mission workers also pro- vided Christmas baskets for 180 poor families in their homes, and after the chapel services last night dinner was given to 153 homeless men. Most of the little children of the emergency home at 328 C street were invited to spend Christmas at the homes of friends of the mission yesterday. Those who remained at the mission were treated to & turkey dinner. The mis- sion had five trees decorated for its various parties, FRANCE EYES SHIP SALES. PARIS (#).—France dreams of a fleet salling all the seas, carrying her flag into every port. Building ships slowly, she is nevertheless taking pre- cautions to keep what vessels she has. When a French shipowner wishes to sell a boat, the state steps in. No ship may be sold to a foreign owner without the authorization of the ministry of merchant marine. et 1f the Permission is difficult to the boat COBA EXPEDITION 10 LEAVE JAN. 3 Capt. Robert R. Bennett to Head Party to Study An- cient Maya Ruins. Capt. Robert R. Bennett, 330 Con- | duit road, will lead an expedition leav- ing New Orleans January 3, under the auspices of the Museum of the Amer- ican Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, to explore the ruins of th clent Maya city of Coba and a stone road, at least 1,500 years old, which is | presumed to run from Chichen xu—w! Coba and thence south. Fragments of the ruins of Coba were seen from the air recently by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, but the vegeta- tion was so dense that it was impos- sible to obtain any information about the road. Capt. Bennett, who is a lawyer by profession, has had much experfence as an archeological explorer in Central America, His first explorations were made at the ruins of Quirigua, Guata- mala, in 1890, when they were sur- rounded by dense jungle and it was necessary to walk around in water to obtain photographs of monuments. These ruigs are now a beautiful park, maintained by ‘the United Pruit Co. Other Explorations. In 1891 he visited Uxmal, Yucatan, after which he explored the cliffs and Indian villages around Lake Isabella, Guatemala, visiting the Laxe Atitlan region. The opening and exploretion of several mounds near Omoa, Honduras, occurred in 1919 and the ruins of Tu- loom and others on the west coast of Yucatan and the Islands of Mugeres and Cozumel were explored in 1925. ‘The object of the present expedition is to set at rest all presumptions con- cerning the old stone road. - This road is the work of ancient Mayas and is constructed of huge blocks of stone smoothed off at the top with a fine limestone cement, underneath which & rubble is now visible, and the crust having broken through, it !s a very ar- duous task to travel on the 7 miles which have been explored. After that it enters a dense jungle, which must be traversed by Indians armed with machetes to eut the way and it is hoped that there will be revealed dated stelae and numerous ruins, including thsoe sighted by Col. Lindbergh, which no white man has ever seen. Mentioned in 1840. While Stephens in 1840 mentioned Coba, he never visited it, but around 1890, when Capt. Bennett was first in Yucatan, Teodor Maler, an Austrian archeologist, made explorations at Coba, l Plans Exploration I CAPT. ROBERT R. BENNETT. GRANDDAUGHTER IS BORN. Daniel E. Garges Learns of Birth of Daughter’s Child in Alaska. Daniel E. Garges, District Commis- sioners’ secretary, wore an unusuaily large and expansive smile this morning. was a granddaughter born to Lieut. and Mrs. Phillip R. Garges at Juneau, Alaska. Lieut. Garges is executive and dis- bursing officer of the Alaska Road Com- mission which is made up of members of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army. This is Mr. Garges' second grand- child, the first being Patrick J. Fitz- gibbons, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. and Dorothy Garges Fitzgibbons. The second grandchild has been named Mary Jerene. 9 AM. to 6 P.M. and since then but few white men have ever visited these ruins. It has recently been proven that Coba is of the old empire dating from about the begin- ning of the Christian era and this dis- covery upset the theories of many emi- nent archeologists. Explorations along old stone road further south are expected to reveal much valuable data. There aye about seven known roads leading from Cobra to where no one knows and it is presumed by some that Coba was a great religious center with roads radiating throughout the Maya territory. It is an enormous pile of ruins and they cover many square miles, A full report of this exploration will be presented to the Museum of the lhl; is an asset to France. Ii 1s 20 Pears old, a sailing vessel or worn | out, the foreigner may have it. 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