Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1930, Page 6

A6 was FORD INTERESTED - INLEE BIRTHPLACE Restoration of Stratford Hall Assured by Speakers at Dinner. The restoration of Stratford Hall, the birthplace of Robert E. Lee, which has been undertaken by the Robert E. Lee Foundation, was held to be assured of success by speakers who discussed the movement at a dinner meeting last | l | evening attended by about 700 mem- | bers of the foundation and guests. The interest of Henry Ford in the enterprise was reported by Mrs. Charles Lanier, life president of the foundation. She told the dinner guests that the au- tomobile manufacturer and his wife ac- companied her and Miss Ethel Armes, executive secretary of the foundation, | on a tour of Stratford during the day. | A statement which Mrs. Lanier said Mr. Ford had prepared for reading at the dinner in praise of Les was presented by her along with comment that Mr. Ford had seemed “unusually interested” in Stratford and the foundation's plan. Ford Displays Interest. “Mr. Ford has been making a deep | study of the historic landmarks and | treasures in America,” said Mrs. Lanier, “and showed himself to be unusually interested in Stratford Hall. We have no news of a gift from him, however.” Mr. and Mrs. Ford arrived in Fred- ericksburg yesterday en route to Sa- vannah, Ga., in their private car. There they met the officials of the foundation and motored out to Stratford, 49 iniles east of Fredericksburg. Following the trip, they resumed their journey South, where they will remain for a vacation. Representative Henry St. George ‘Tucker of Virginia, one of the speakers of the evening, predicted certain success for the foundation, declaring that “I've ived long enough to know that when the | women of this country undertake to do & thing, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee combined couldn’t prevent them.” Confidence in State Groups. | Mrs. Lanier announced that $50,000 already had been paid on the property, which is being purchased by the foun- dation for $240,000, and that $90,000 of the remaining sum was “in sight, though not in hand.” She expressed complete confidence that State groups would organize to complete the pur- chase as fast as suitable directors could be .ppointed for the organization work. | Twenty-one States already are organ- ized, she said. Two gifts were an- nounced by Mrs. Lanier, also—one of $11,000, given by the family of Mrs. Mary du Pont Laird of Maryland, and the other, $5,000. received from Mrs. William M. Revnolds of Winston-Salem, N. C. In addition, the original manu- script of a speech on Robert E. Lee, which had been delivered last month vefore the Dixie Chapter, United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy, Columbus, Ohio, was auctioned off tw Representative Sol Bloom bought it each time. paying & total of $270 on his two high bids. It was later presented to Mrs. Bloom. List of Other Speakers. Among the other speakers were Ran- dolph Leigh, financial secretary of the District of Columbia Foundation; ex- Senator Blair Lee of Maryland, Repre- sentative \R. Walton Moore of Virginia, all of whom paid glowing tributes to Lee; Rev. John D. Ryan of Catholic University, who read one of the poems, “The Sword of Lee,” of Father Ryan, the priest-poet. Mrs. Joseph E. Washington, director of the District of Columbia Foundation, presided. Among the other guests at the speakers’ table were Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who assisted in receiving earlier in the evening: Father Ryan, Mrs. Em- erson Newell, State director for Conn ticut; Bishop James E. Freeman, Mrs. Edwin C. Gregory, director for North Carolina: Mrs. Edward G. Gibson, direc- tor for Maryland: Mrs. Walter R. Tuic] erman, vice director of the local com- mittee: Mrs. Rose G. Hoes, secretary; Mrs. Theodore J. Pickett, Mrs. Caleb C. MacGruder, H. Latane Lewis and Walter Davidge, members of the execu- tive committee, Two granddaughters of Gen. Lee, Mrs. Hanson Ely, jr, and Mrs. William H. De Butts, were present. The invocation was pronounced by the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington. Misses Rebecca and Penelope Tarwater of Tennessee sang Negro spirituals during the evening. SAYS DAVIS ELKINS | TOOK WOMAN'S RUM| Attorney Charges Former Senator Violated Will of His Brother. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK. February 5.—Charges that Davis Elkins, former United SLBgt&S Senator from West Virginia, as executor, stole 10 canvas bags of liquor from the estate of his brother, Stephen B. Elkins, were made in Surrogates Court yester- day by Max D. Steuer, an attorney, during the argument of a motion for the appointment of a temporary ad- ministrator for the estate. Steuer, counsel for Mrs, Evelyn I Martin, who received a $1.000 monthly income from the estate o: Stephen B. Elkins, her flance, claimed that the liquor belonged to Mrs. Martin. Under the terms of Stephen B. El- kins' will, Mrs. Martin, in addition to the income, was to receive the con- tents of his apartment and half of the liquor stored there. Mrs. Martin, in a suit to compel Lhc‘ probating of her flance’s will in New York instead of Washington, D. C., filed two affidavits which described how Davis Elkins removed all of the liquor from his brother’s apartment in Park avenue. DEMOCRATS TO MEET. Btatus of Floridans Who Supported | Hoover May Be Decided Upon. SANFORD. Fla, February 5 (P).— | H. H. Wells, chairman, announced Sunday that the State Democratic executive committee has been called to meet in Jacksonville Friday, February 14, to lay plans for the June primary. | 1t is generally accepted in party ranks that the status of prospective candi- dates who did not support the Demo- cratic presidential tickct in 1928 will be settled at the Jacksonville meeting. The point recently was brought to the front in an unofficial opinion from Attorney General Fred H. Davis that literal application of State election laws would bar Hoover supporters from par- ticipating as candidates in the Demo- cratic primary. State Senator Edgar Waybright of Jacksonville, who led the fight of the Florida delegation against nomination of Alfred E. Smith for President at the Houston convention and then cam- paigned actively for Hoover before the general election, accepted Davis' opin- lon he would run on the re ticket. Missing Tanker Reported Safe. ‘YOKOHAMA, February 5 (#).—The Norwegian tanker Litiopa, more than & week overdue in its voyage from San Pedro, Calif., radioed y rday that it was safe and steaming directly for Ma- nila. Storms had delayed the vessel, the message said. Considerable anxiety had been felt for the ship's safety, since no word been heard from it since it left San Pedro. ® as a gauge of battle and announced | gular Democratic | ‘When the West at the Willard Hotel tonight two of the NTED “MOUNTAINEERS” rginia State Society holds its annual reception and 547 s, | L'l v aaddn g e performers will be these West Vir; Juveniles, June Shirley Blake, 7, and her brother, Joe Blake, jr., 10, who already | have made their mark in movies and vaudeville, OVER INDIAN BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ‘Washington may be built on top of an ancient metropolis—a populous trad- ing and manufacturing center of past ages. | Such is the conclusion of Alfred E.| Glascock, local amateur archeologist, | from a considerable accumulation of | objects unearthed recently by steam shovels and from a study of aerial maps. | For years Mr. Glascock has been gathering artifacts from building exca- vations in the District, but his most conclusive evidence, he says, comes from the recent discovery of a large number of stone implements and other artifacts on the esstern bank of the Anacostia River, at Molly Boat Cove, almost at the end of East Capitol street. These included one stone ax so effi- cient in design, Mr. Glascock said, that he has found six patents issued by the Government on different implements, each of which is based on a single one of the principles already: incorporated in one tool by the prehistoric inhabit- ants. Boat Industry Prospect. ‘The territory around Molly Boat Cove, he believes, was one of the manufactur- ing centers of the ancient metropolis where skilled workmen turned out heavy dug-out canoes for the trade in one direction, and light bark' canoes for the trade in another direction. The recent discovery of a small In- dian industrial center for the manu- facture of utensils from soapstone in the mountains near Charlottesville, Va., he says, adds to his theory by showing that the Algonquin tribes did concen- trate their manufacturing in favorable places, from which a trade was carried on over a wide area. There also are the Indian stone quar- ries discovered years ago near Piny Branch, where, it may be assumed, stone for arrows and other implements was quarried in exchange for other articles. . ‘When the first white explorers came up the Potomac they found a number of villages near the site of Washington, but Mr. Glascock believes that the con- centration was much greater than has been believed hitherto. ‘The map study shows, he says, that the present site of Washington would be the pivot of trade and immigration routes of the majority of the far-flung Algonquin-speaking peoples, and con- sequently would be the place where their industries would group together. Around the “factories” large numbers of wigwams for the workmen and their families would accumulate until there must have been a considerable city of skilled artisans and traders. Migrated From Alaska. The reconstruction depends largely on making Washington the hub of the Algonquin migrations, together with the enormous number of artifacts found here, much of which is now in the col- lections of the National Museum and of George Washington University. The Algonquin-speaking race, Mr. Glascock points out, probably migrated originally from Alaska through Canada along the southern edge of the ice belt, leaving small settlements behind them in Montana, as shown by the Indian linguistic map. As the main body pro- ceeded East they were shut off from the South by the war-like Iroquois tribes, who had settled about the Great Lakes. So their only route was east- ward to Labrador and Newfoundland, where they left settlements, and then southward along the coast. Everywhere they were barred from turning inland over such natural waterways as the St. Lawrence and the Hudson, by the fact that they would encounter the Iroquois. This con- dition obtained until they reached the Potomac, which afforded them a nat- ural roadway far into the interior be- fore they encountered their enemies. In their migration down the coast they had developed both the dug-out and birch-bark canoe, the former of the most value in carrying their house- hold goods and families. In their dug- outs they turned up the Potomac. But these heavy boats were serviceable only to the head of tidewater. In small, rapld streams and against the current they were practically unmanageable. ‘The Potomac tide would carry them only about as far as Washington and up the Anacostia only about as far as Molly Boat Cove. Here they would have been obliged to debark and con- struct bark canoes for further progress inland. This would have caused great delay. A considerable canoe-building industry would have been established, and the less energetic left behind. Washington Was Starting Point. Now from Washington, Mr. Glascock deduces from the aerial maps, there were two favorable routes of migration inland which could have been followed by launching bark canoes on small streams and with short overland jour- neys. The distribution of artifacts, he says, indicates that they took both these routes, always starting from Washington. The first was by the way of Rock Creek and Seneca Creek and then through the Blue Ridge Mountains near Harpers Ferry—known as the Seneca trail. The second was by way of the Pa- tuxent to the Susquehanna trail. Both there routs, he points out, afterward were followed by stage coaches and railroads and today are being followed by airplanes. By both these routes the CAPITAL BELIEVED BUILT TRADE CENTER Amateur Afcheologist Pictures Old Manu- facturing City From Discovery of Artifacts Along Potomac. ceeded inland by North and West routes for considerable distances without en- countering the Iroquois. A serious objection to Mr. Glascock’s theory, it was pointed out at the Bureau of American Ethnology, where he has taken many of his specimens, is that, along the Hudson, Algonquin sites have been found underneath Iroquois sites, showing that the former were there first. While many artifacts have been found about Washington, it was ex- plained, they simply show that there was an Algonquin settlement here with- out any indication as to its size or na- ture. Much of the past of these people before the coming of the white men is still a mystery. SCHOLAR THINKS BIRD THWARTED EVOLUTION Fossils, 100,000 Years O0ld, De- clared to Indicate California Road Runner Unchanged. By the Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif., February .— Leigh M. Larson, research worker at the University of California, believes he has found in the road runner a creature which has resisted the process of evolution for at least 100,000 years. Larson announced Sunday that he had found fossils of the road runner in pleistocene strata near Los Angeles. It was his opinion that the bird had not changed because his environment had remained stationary. ClTvY NEWS IN BEEF TODAY. Wheel of Progress will meet in_the Washington Hotel tonight, 8 o'clock. The program will include music and reading. A card party will be given tonight by Lineal "Society, Spanish War, at Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street, 8:30 o'clock. Good Will Chapter, No. 36, Order of Eastern Star, is giving a card party to- night at the Chestnut Farms Audi- torium, 2107 Rhode Island avenue northeast, 8:30 o'clock. Benefit of East- ern Star Home board. Public invited. A turkey dinner will be served from 5 to 7 o'clock tonight at Northeast Masonic Te'm’ple by the ways and means ;gmgnms Good Will Chapter, No. District of Columbia Public School Association meets tonight in the Frank- lin administration building, Thirteenth and K streets, 8 o'clock. Sodality of Holy Name Church will give a card party tonight, 8:30 o'clock, at Holy Name Hall, Eleventh street northeast. Capital City Spelling Club will meet at the Mount Pleasant Library tonight, 7:30 o'clock. Important business to come up relative to the coming contest with Baltimore. FUTURE. Kit Carson Woman's Relief Corps will hold a benefit card party tomor- row night at 8 o'clock, Grand Army Hall. District of Columbia Society Dames of the Loyal Legion will hold its regu- lar meeting tomorrow afternoon, 3:30 o'clock. Plans for the Lincoln day din- ner will be discussed. Representative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan will speak on “The Scenic Beauties of the National Capital” to- morrow morning at 11 o'clock in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A, before the Twentieth Century Club. Representa- tive Cramton sponsors the bill for the boulevard and park development along the Potomac River between Mount Ver- non and Great Falls. Willlam _ Richle, secretary of the Free Gift Bible Mission of Philadelphia, will address the Woman'’s International Missionary Federation Friday afternoon, 2 o'clock, at Mount Vernon Place Meth- odist Episcopal Church South. Miss Adele Greene of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, chairman of this department of the work, will read letters from the flield. Open meeting. Fifth annual dance of Catholic Stu- dents’ Mission Crusade will be held Friday evening, from 10 to 1 o'clock, at the Raleigh Hotel. Committee chair- men are William Hannan, Bernard Cook, Isabel Dagneaux, Genevieve O’'Boyle, Mary Louise Colliflower and Patrice Rice. Frederick R. Neely, chief of the in- formation division, - Department of Commerce, will speak before the avia- tlon section of the Women’s City Club Friday afternoon, 5 o'clock. Red Triangle Outing Club will meet at the end of the Mount Pleasant car line tomorrow at 8 o'clock for a moon- light hike of 3 to 5 miles through Rock Creek Park. Bring flashlight. Bill Greenley, leader. ‘The monthly meeting of the Potomac- Palisades Garden Club will be held to- morrow evening at 8 o’clock at the resi- Algonquins, he says, could have pro- dence of Bernard M. Lane, 5327 Con- duit road. ROBBERS EMPLOY | Mink Coat, Valued at $600, | Wielding a heavy pepper shaker, rob- bers at 7:17 o'clock this morning shat- tered the window of the Lustick Fur Co,, 1204 G street, and seized 2 mink coat valued at $600, making good their es- cape without interference. A burglar alarm attracted police to the store. TO SMASH WINDOW PEPPER SHAKER OF FUR STORE Taken Early This Morning. { Gang of Four Men Suspected. John Murray, colored fanitor, in- formed police of the first precinct he observed four white men seated in an automobile outside the shop before he went to another part of the building. ‘The broken penfi{ shaker lay on the sidewall -+ STUDENTS CARHITS Joseph M. Riley Placed Under i 51,190 Bond on Two Driv- ing Charges. An automobile, whose driver was | charged with reckless and drunken | driving, crashed into two policemen as they were standing beside their motor icycles at a patrol box on the west side of Scott Circle early today, injuring| them and damaging their machines. Two other persons were hurt in traffic ! accidents last night, one of them by an | automobile driven by an attache of the | Ecuadorian legation. | _sSergt. Eslie Williams and Policeman G. M. Patton, both of the Traffic Bu- | reau, reported that they were on the sidewalk at the signal box when a car, driven by Joseph M. Riley, 23, of 1703 Q street, & Georgetown University stu- | dent, narrowly averted a collision with | another automobile, jumped the curb | and knocked them 'violently to the ground. Although_severely bruised about the legs, the officers placed Riley under ar- | rest and sent him to the third precinct, |where he was charged with driving i " THO POUCENEN | H i recklessly and while under the influ- ence of liquor. The policemen were | then taken' to Emergency Hospital for treatment. Riley was later released on ! $1,100 bond. The taxicab in which she was riding, | struck_by an automobile operated by | Galo Plaza, an attache of the Ecua- | dorian legation, Madeline Sheri, 34, of 1410 Sixteenth street, sustained several fractured ribs and contusions to her head. The accident occurred last night |about 8 o’clock at Connecticut avenue |and California street. Plaza, who lives {in the Belevedere Apartments, was pro- ceeding south on Connecticut avenue at {the time. The taxi was driven by Doug- (las A. Hall, 26, of East Falls Church, |Va. First ald was administered at Emergency Hospital, Jacob Toube, 55, of 1725 Riggs street, | was treated at Emergency Hospital | early last night for cuté and bruises to I his body and legs, sustained when he was knocked down by an automobile driven by John H. Eaton, 17, of 3609 Livingston street, at Connecticut avenue and R street. BRADY JURY STARTS SECOND DAY’S STUDY | Sanity of Former Jurist, Held in Girl's Death, Is Trial . Issue. By the Assoclated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., February 5—The jury which heard the trial of John W. Brady, former Texas jurist, today re- newed its deliberations in an effort to reach an agreement as to his guilt or innocence in the slaying of Miss Lehlia Highsmith, 28-year-old stenographer, on November 9. ‘The jurors received the case late yes- terday. Only once, before they retired at 12:35 am, word came from their quarters, and that _was when they re- quested Judge J. D. Moore to clarify some point in his charge to them. Henry Brooks, son of the defendant's former law partner, made the State's final argument. The youthful district attorney contended that Brady, sound mind and with an intention to murder, stabbed the woman to death. The defense sought to prove that Brady was insane the night Miss High- smith was killed. His attorneys con- tended this condition was brought about by excessive use of bootleg liquor. They did not deny Brady killed the woman. {TWO ON WAY TO COLLEGE ! HELD AS THEFT SUSPECTS Brothers Accused of Holding Up Service Station With Toy Pistol. By the Assoclated Press. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., February 5. —Two youths were captured here Mon- day night and held as the bandits who staged a “toy pistol” hold-up of the Elliot Service Station at Crothersville, Ind.. an hour earller. The pair said they were Ebb Burnell, 18, and Lee Burnell, 20, brothers, 1318 Pershing avenue, Indianapolis. They denied the hold-up but admitted stop- ping at the station. They declared they were on the way to attend Berea Col- lege, Berea, Ky. Sheriff Hal Hughes here sighted the car carrying the two after he had received a description of them from Crothersville. He found some change and a cigarette case snapped like a pistol in the possession of the youths when they were searched. They admitted they had stolen the car in Indianapolis and claimed they only wanted to use it to get to college. ‘The service station manager will come here to identify the prisoners. FACES BOI.JB CHARGE. Briton Who “Found” Explosive Is Accused by Officials. LONDON, February 5 (#)—Frank Biggs, the man who actually found the “bomb” which created a scare in the British Museum Saturday night, has been detained by Scotland Yard and will be charged with an offense under the explosive substances act. t is understood tbat though the bomb contained some erplosives it was incapable of doing damage, being little more than a home-made firecracker, Hollywoo.d M;rks 22d Year as Film Center of World First Studio Was Chinese Laundry Leased for ¢Across the Divide.’ By thy Assoclated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 5.— ‘Twenty-two years ago yesterday a Chi- nese laundry was turned into Southern California’s first motion picture studio. ‘Today the motion picture industry, with a dozen major studios and many smaller units turning out yearly millions of feet of films here, represents the growth of an investment from a few hundred dollars to many millions. ‘The first movie made in the Chinese laundry was “Across the Divide,” and it measured the then great length of 750 feet. In 1907 the first motion picture in- vasion struck Los Angeles. In the party were Francis Boggs, & director for Col. ‘Willlam Selig, and Thomas Persons, cameraman, business and general utility man, et al. ‘The first business was to complete a one-reel version of “The Count of Monte Cristo,” the interior for which had been filmed in Chicago. After finishing this picture on the ocean beach, Boggs and Persons began their search for a studio. They leased Sing Loo's laundry and started to look for actors. The first player engaged was Nick Cogley. On February 4, 1908, film “shooting” was started. RECEIVER APPOINTED. Playwright Blames Theater Insol- vency on Former Treasurer. JERSEY CITY, N. J., February 5 (P, —Samuel Besson, Hoboken lawyer, was named receiver in equity Monday for Christopher Morley’s theatrical ventures Branches: Central— 7th and Mass. Ave. Northeast— 8th and H Sts. N.E. Southwest— 7th and E Sts. S.WW. Northwest— . 1140 15th St. N.W. JstGARY 5, 1930, in that city. The receivership was pe- titioned by Morley, playwright and au. thor, and granted by Vice Chancellor John J. Ben! In his u a Sy Rithout naming him, company, nt three years ago Morley opened zheA .a,hno ‘Theater with a production of fter Dark.” He later leased the Lyric . (— — S e —————— Theater, which he also ran with a re- vival of “The Black Crook” Both had long runs. The Lyric was closed about petition Morley blames in.|2 YeAr ago. Morley still operates the former treasurer of the | Rialto, where he opened a new revur a few weeks ago. o SIS SR, In one air mail from London io In- dia recently were 60,000 letters. There Is An American Security Office Near You Americans Learn Custom. LONDON, February 5 (#).—When you get your party on the telephone here “you are through.” That's what the operator says to indicate the con- nection is made. American girls wita the naval delegation have become ac- customed to it. They no longer think it means the conversation is ended. Redardless of where you live or transact business in Washington, there is an office of the American Security and Trust Company not far away. Each of the five offices is a complete banking unit devoted to the interests of the locality it serves, and managed by officers well trained and capable of adapting American Security principles to local needs. The branches, established as they are to render the greatest service to the Washington public, are combined in their resources to offer financial strength worthy of the confidence of the many depositors. The Officers at any office will be glad to have you call and discuss your banking problems with them. MERICAN SECURIT /A}m.mx 15th & Pennsylvania Avenue e THE LARGEST TRUST COMPANY IN WASHINGTON Radio cannot reproduce perfeet tone unless it is per- feet in every funection, perfeet in every detail of construe=- tion. No radio in the world, at any price, compares with Radio in Purity of Tone. Let your own ears eomvinee you. Demonstration. HomeRr L.KiTT Co. 1330 G STREET N.W. Knabe—Fischer Pianos—Ampicos—Music—Band Instruments TN Free Home