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QUL F ROBBERY “SUSPECTRESUNED Police Say Colored Man Has Already Admitted Looting Five Homes Here. l right on. Barle Eugene Elkins, colored, 27 years | old, giving his address as 407 Franklin street, sald by the police to have con-| fessed robbing several homes in this! city recently, today is being further| questioned before being taken to PDllu‘{ Court for arraignment. H Police say the prisoner already had | mentioned five homes he said he robbed, and told where he disposed of much of | the loot. A §1,200 diamond ring police say he! admitted m-lmg’ from the home of Rubin Slan, 115 New York avenue, has been recovered. They also expect to recover other articles of jewelry and ;urln‘ apparel taken from the Slan e. ome. Real estate bonds valued at $1,900, taken from the home of Joshua W. Bowles, 407 Franklin street, about a month ago, were burned, according to the alleged confession of the prisoner, wearing apparel taken at the same time having been recovered. The prisoner has been under investi- gation since his arrest Friday night and today headquarters detectives are taking @ hand in the investigation. LIEUT. COL. KORN BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS Bervices Held at Arlington for Re- tired Army Officer, Who Died Here Saturday. Burial services, with military honors, were held at the Arlington National Cemetery this morning for Lieut. Col. Louis L. Korn, U. 8. Army, retired, who died frmn"hesnr':l g,uuu in the Argonne apartments Saturday. Col. Korn was a native of Germany and came to this country in his child- hood. On reaching his maturity, he came to this city and was in charge of the international money order division in the Post Office Department when the United States entered the World War | in 1917. Volunteering his services he ‘was appointed a major in the Judge Advocate General's Department of the Army and _ se: successively at Charleston, 8. C.. Camp Meade, Md., and at the War ent. He was retired for age in November, 1927, and made his home in this city. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL GETS REPORTS ON WORK Quarterly Meeting of Society Is Held Here With 28 Parishes Represented. ‘The quarterly meeting of the St. Vin- eent de Paul Society of this city was held yesterday in the Holy Comforter Church. The services ned with mass at 8 a.m., with Rev. Father Con- nell, rector, as celebrant. This was followed by breakfast. At the regular meeting ceol:s’ E. Cleary, the president, presided. en- ty-eight were represented and received from each. The work done by a special committee in public institutions was detailed by Don Ed- wards. Mr. Brown and Edward Sexton of Georgetown University gave reports. ‘Representative Cochrane of Missouri d of the work of the society in St. Rev. Father ing, Dr. John 'Grady and Arthur Farquhar also spoke. A resolution on the death of Judge William H. De Lacy, former president of the society, was adopted. Attention was also called to the recent death of Lawrence of St. Matthew’s Church conference, who was the oldest worker of the soclety in the city. enihntnt Mol FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR CHARLES A. TREDWAY Long-Time Employe of W, R. & E. Co. Witnessed Transition From Horse Cars. Funeral services for Charles A. Tred- way, 65 years old, employed with the ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co. for 45 years, who died Saturday at George- town Hospital, were held at the Almus Speare funeral home, 1623 Con- necticut avenue, at 2:30 o'clock this o] Interment was in Glen- wood Cemetery. - A lifelong resident of Washington, Mr. Tredway, as a motorman with the W. R. & E. Co, witnessed the transi- tion from the horse car to the electric. His retirement became effective last month after he had served the past 25 years in the mechanical department | of the company. He made his home with his daughter, Mrs. H. P. Giddings, | of 1637 Sixteenth street. Besides Mrs. Giddings, he is survived by a son, Carl W. Tredway, of this city. FRATERNITY TO ENROLL TWO HONORARY MEMBERS Senator Shortridge and Leo A. Rover Listed by Gamma Eta Gamma Legal Society, Senator Samuel M. Shortridge of California and United States Attorney Leo A. Rover will be installed as honor- ary members of the Iota Chapter of Gramma Eta Gamma Legal Fraternity of e Washington University at its annual initiation banquet, in the Raleigh Hotel on the evening of Monday, March 17. Among the honorary members to wit- ness the induction of Senator Short- ridge and Mr. Rover will be Senators Porter H. Dale of Vermont and Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, Associate Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Repre- sentatives James O'Connor of Louisiana, Roy G. Fitzgerald of Ohio, Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont and John F. Miller of Washington. Besides the 2 honoraries, there will be 15 others initiated as members. AFFINITY CHARGE AIRED. Alleging that her husband contrived to introduce an affinity into their home as a roomer, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Whitmer, 1814 Sixteenth street northwest, today filed suit in the District Supreme Court for an absolute divorce from George W. Whitmer. According to the wife's bill, filed by Attorney Raymond Neudecker, the | ‘Whitmers were married July 31, 1916, and have no children. The court is asked to direct Whitmer to pay alimony. —————— OPENS LECTURE SERIES. Rev, Paschasius Heriz will give the first of a series of nine lectures on the life of St. Joseph in the Monastery of the Bare-footed Carmelite Friars, 150 Rhode Island avenue, tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The talks will be part of a novena | in honer of 8t. Joseph which the Car-| melites will conduct daily until the saint’s feast day, March 19. The pub- lic is invited to the exercises. Father Paschasius has made a long study of the life of St. Joseph. Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Say, this glider contraption of Lind- bergh's looks like a pretty good racket. He went up Saturday and competed with a buzsard and the fowl got second money. The com- petition was going along about even tll Lindy lost & wing and didn't even stop to pick it up, just kept When the old bird saw THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C. WILL BE SHOWN CENTER OF TRAVEL Trade Board Will Discuss Ratifying of Airport Recommendation. that, he got disgusted and with- drew, and went back to his original trade. Lindy was telling me the other night about these things. He thinks they have a great future in train- ing men to fly. Cost is only three or four hundred dollars. No en- gine, no gasoline. All you need is a high hill and a strong wind and a few old boys to yank you out into space. All sounds marvelous, | but when I try it it's going to be inside a room, with the floor lined ! with feather beds. ‘ CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. | TODAY. Senator David I. Walsh of Massa- chusetts will be the feature speaker at a meeting to be held under the auspices of the Holy Name Society, 8:30 o'clock tonight, in St. Dominic’s parish hall, Sixth and F streets southwest. 'Pubu A meeting of the Washington Practi- ' cal Psycholc[% Club to be held at 8:15 pm. at the Playhouse, 1814 N street, | will be addressed by Dr. E. Tulley Yonge | of Chicago on the subject, “Developing | Magnetic Personality Through Chemi- | cals of Food.” i Ladies' Auxiliary, Knights of S8t. John, No. 169, will hold a card party, 8:30 o'clock, at Aloysian club house, 47 I street. Lincoln Women's Relief Corps. No. 6, ‘ will meet at 8 o'clock in G. A. R. Hall, | 1412 Pennsylvania avenue. Prank Birgfeld, chief clerk of the | Treasury Department, will address the | regular monthly meeting of Treasury Local, No. 262, Federal Employes’ Union, in l‘n)gm 610, 710 Fourteenth street, 8 o'clock. ‘The Takoma Park Citizsens' Associa- tion meets tonight at 7:30 o'clock in | the Takoma Park branch of the Wash- | ington Public Library. The Connecticut Avenue Citizens’ As- | sociation will meet at 8 o'clock at All Souls’ Church, Cathedral and Connecti- | cut avenues. | A meeting of the Brookland Oitizens’ | Association will be held, 8 p.m, at the | Masonic Hall, Brookland. | ‘The Kalorama Citizens’ Association will meet at St. Margaret's Church, Connecticut avenue and Bancroft place, at 8 o'clock. A meeting of the Stanton Park Cit- izens’ Association will take place at the Peabody 8chool, 8 p.m. The Northeast Washington Citizens' | Association meets at the Ludlow School, | 8 o'clock. | ‘The regular monthly meeting of the | Piney Branch Citizéns’ Association will | be held at 8 o'clock in the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and Allison streets. | ‘The canJreu Heights Citizens’ Asso- | ciation will meet in the Congress | Heights Baptist Church, 8 o'clock. | A meeting of the East Washington | Heights Citizens’ Association will take lace at 8 p.m. in the Bradbury Heights ethodist Episcopal Church. The Edgewood Citizens’ Association will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the ! home of its president, Joseph E. Oliver, | at 208 Adams street northeast. FUTURE. ‘The Advertising Club of Washington will meet tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., in the National Press Club Auditorium. In- | spector William S. Shelby, chief of de- tectives, will discuss police methods. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Dental So- | ciety of the District of Columbia will hear an illustrated lecture at the City Club tomorrow night at 8 o'clock by Dr. Lyman Sexton, who will show some interesting pictures of the Shenandoah Valley and discuss the habits of the people. Dr. Arthur Crane will speak on ancient dentistry, and Mrs. Edith Wal- lack will sing. A luncheon meeting of the Syra- cuse Uuiversity Alumni will be held tomorrow, 12:30 o'clock, in the Wom- en's City Club Coffee Shop, 22 Jackson place. Mr. Achilles Catsonis, lawyer and national secretary of the Order of Ahepa, will speak. The meeting of the Ben. W. Murch Home and School Association which was_scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 3:15 has been postponed for one week, wln_" to the death of former President Taft. The meeting will -be held at the same hour March 18. Representative F. H. Dominick of South Carolina will be the guest speaker of Clemson imni at_its regular monthly meeting at the City Club to- morrow, 12 o'clock noon. ‘The Columbia Heights Business Men's Association meets tomorrow night, 8:30 o'clock, at the New Amsterdam Hotel, | Fourteenth and Fairmont streets, Prof. Edward E. Richardson will conclude his series of talks on “Medical Philosophers” tomorrow at 4:45 o'clock at the meeting of the Society for Philo- sophical Inquiry at National Museum. A meeting of the Washington Cham- ber of Commerce will be held tomorrow Washington's growing importance as | a transportation center will be empha- sized by three speakers well known in railroad and traction fields tomorrow | night at a meeting of the Washington Board of Trade in the Willard Hotel. They are Elisha Lee, executive vice president of the Pennslyvania Rail- road: John J. Esch, former chairman | of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, and John Hanna, president of the | Capital Traction Co. | Airport Ratification Due. Ratification of the action of the di-| rectors, indorsing the Joint Congres-, sional Airport Commission’s recom- | mendation for a municipal flying fleld at the south end of Highway Bridge, will come before the meeting. At the meeting the Pennsylvania Railroad Quartet will sing. Wednesday at 12:30 o'clock Repre- | sentative Sol Bloom of New York and | Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office ot Public Buildings and c Parks, will explain to the com- munity affairs committee and the di- rectors cf the board at a luncheon at the Hay-adams House plans for the celebration in 1932 of the bicenten- nial of George Washington's birth. Representative Bloom and Col. Grant are joint chairman of the committee in charge of the event. Attending the meeting will also be Representative John Q. Tilson, Repub- lican floor leader; Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia and the Dis- trict Commissioners. New Members Elected. 'X:he executive committee meeting at 1 o'clock this afternoon elected the fol- lowing persons 10 membership in_the Board of Trade: Vernon V. Baker, Wal- ter W. Beeson, Elmer 8. Burrus, Edward J. Coffey, Charles A. Cogan, Carl W. Corby, Marshall Davis, Davis, Wick, Rosengarten Co., Inc.; Walter J. Dona- hoe, Homer O. Eimers, F. Newton Fletcher, P. E. Griffin, Warren J. Hamacher, William J. Hartmeyer, Jo- seph T. Hickman, Thomas E. Jarrell Co., M. R. Loafman, Richard A. Mahar, E. W. May, S. William Miller, Alvin L. Newmyer, John E. Parker, Phil D. Pos- ton, Otho L. Rogers, C. T. Shropshire, A. G Sgllding & Bros., Spea dwin C. Stoody, Tuttle . James E. NEW PLAN FOR VETERANS’ tion of Ail Ex-Soldiers’ Agencies. By the Associated Press. A new plan for consolidation of all governmental agencies dealing with vet- erans, under a new establishment to be known as the “administration of vet- erans’ affairs,” was proposed introduced today by Chairman William- son of the House expenditures commit- tee, who said the plan was formulated after conferences with President Hoover, Previously a plan for consolidation, which has been recommended by the | Chief Executive, proposed that the con- the present Veterans’ Bureau. Some ob- jection to this developed on the gr that it would “scramble” the vai veterans’ activities, with a resuiting loss in efficiency. SAIL TO AID PILGRIMAGE. 18 Army Officers to Arrange War Mothers’ French Trip. Eighteen Army officers were ordered today to sail for France on the steam- ship Presicent Harding April 16 to as- sist in arrangements for the war moth- ers’ pilgrimage to the graves of their A number of these officers were drawn from the Medical Corps. An additional detail‘of 12 officers was or- dered to New York to supervise the embarkation of the mothers. RADICALISM PROTESTED. Meeting Held by Six Colored Pa- triotic Societies. As a protest against radicalism six colored patriotic societies yesterday held exercises at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church commemorative of the death of COrispus Attucks, one of the first four to die in protest of British occupancy | of Boston prior to the Revolution. Addresses were made by John R. Hawkins, secretary to the financial de- rtment of the A. M. E. Church, and . H. C. Brown, president of the Pru- dential Bank. Special music was rendered by the c'l;ci;. Mrs. Julia West Hamilton pre- sided. FURNITURE RENTING ‘BAW OFFICE FURNITURE night, 8 o'clock, in the grand ball of the Mayflower !-Iom"r i "oise 616 ESLN.W. HUGH REILLY CO. PAINTS & GLASS 1334 N. Y. 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Maryland—Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow cloudy and warmer, probably followed by showers tomorrow night and in extreme west portion in the afterncon; moderate southerly winds. Virginia—Fair and warmer tonight: tomorrow cloudy, probably followed by showers in west portion; slightly warm- er in east portion; moderate southerly winds. | West Virginia—Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight, followed by show- ers tomorrow. Record for Thirty-six Hours, Temperature—Midnight, 43; 2 am., 43; 4 am., 42; 6 am., 40; 8 am, 40; 10 ‘a.m., 46; noon, 50; 2 p.m,, 54; 4 p.m,, 52; 8 pm, 48; 12 midnight, 45; 4 am,, 42; 8 am., 41; noon, 56. Barometer—Midnight, 20.41; 2 am., 2044; 4 am., 29.48; 6 H am, 29.61; 10 am., 29.6 P 9.69; .m., 29,81 3 3 8 am., 29.98; noon, 29.92. Highest temperature, 56, occurred at noon today. Lowest temperature, 40, occurred at 7 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 46; lowest, 15. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 10:19 a m.; high tide, 3.44 4:18 p3 Tomorrow—Low tide, 11:33 a.m.; high tide, 4:53 a.m, and 5:24 pm. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose, 6:29 a.m.; sun sets, 6:09 p.m. Tomorrow—S8un rises, 6:27 am.; sun sets, 6:10 p.m. Moon rises, 1:09 p.m.; sets, 3:56 am. Weather in Various Cities. g‘rmu-rn_m -; H and m. and Stations. ta, G Atlantic Cit Baltimore, M Birm'ngham ... Bismarck, Bosto: Clear Et.cloudy level Columbia, 8 C. Denver, Detroit, El P Cloudy Pt.cloudy ear Pt cloudy Clear Pt.cloudy Clear Clear Pt.cloudy Clear Clear FOREIGN. a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather. ndon. Ensland 2" " Gloudy 5 time. today.) [Part cloudy Huge Aerial Survey Planned. | Nearly 100,000 square miles of hith- | erto unmapped territory in Africa are to be surveyed and mapped from the air, The work will be done by two ex- | peditions and wili be the largest aerial | survey ever undertaken. 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The announcement, it was indicated, would be made at Pittsburgh, where Davis maintains his legal residence. The Secretary, who came here to visit his father over BSunday, made known his plans were not contingent upon a decision by Willlam S. Vare, Philadelphia Republican leader, who is expected to announce he will not seek the Senate seat now occupled by Joseph R. Grundy. PINCHOT TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR. PHILADELPHIA, March 10 (®).— Gifford Pinchot, former Governor of Pennsylvania, announced here last night that he would be a candidate for the governorship at the Republican primary election in May. He said his platform would be announced within a week or 10 days. In a statement to newspaper men, Mr. Pinchot sald: “I am a candidate for governor in the coming Republican primary, I want to help to break the strangle hold of the electric, gas, water, trolley, bus and other monopolies on the cost of living and the government of this State. “The fight for common justice against machines and monopolies is the kind of a fight I like. I went into it with Rol;‘ou\'ell and have been in since.” it ever UNIVERSITY HONORS PLANNED FOR TWO Georgetown University on March 25, its founders’ day, will honor Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the United States, and Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the Philharmonic-Sym- phony Orchestra of New York, recog- nizing the eminence of the one ‘n poetry and the other in music, it was announced today by Dr. W. Coleman Nevils, 8. J., %raldent of the university. President Nevils sald that Ambas- sador Claudel will be made a fellow of the James Ryder Randall Academy of Letters and Mr. Toscanini a fellow of the Francisco de Vico Academy of Music. Both of these academies were founded at the university in honor of the forthcoming founders’ day, the first Georgetown has ever observed. They will be permanent and honors in at least one of them will be a ded ‘The fellowship is considered the uni- | versity's highest honor and excels the | conferring of a degree. | ‘The James Ryder Randall Academy of Letters was named after George- | town's best-known alumnus in the | literary world, the author of “Mary- lzr;g. My Maryland,” of the class of ‘The Francisco de Vico Academy of Music is named after a mathematician and astronomer of world-wide repute. He was also a prominent musician and a master of Gregorian church music. President Nevils announced that, ow- ing to the death of former Chief Jus- tice Willlam Howard Taft, Georgetown would cancel the formal reception it had planned for the evening of March 25 in honor of the two reciplents of fellowships and confine the program to lemic exercises. Fellowship formal THE CITY CLUB 1520 @ STREET ce Sale Free Connection If You Have Gas In Your Kitchen wZAmM- > IEE tinued Jewel $3500 $56.50 362.50 $66.50 $67.00 Ross, Inc. Sts. N.W. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1930. LOCAL PRESBYTERY RENEWS DRY VIEW National Opposition to Modi- fying Volstead Act Reaf- firmed at Meeting. National opposition within the Pres- byterian Church to any modification of the Volstead act, expressed last May at the annual general assembly in Min- neapolis, was reaffirmed this morning by the local presbytery at its monthly meeting in the New York Avenue Pres- byterian Church. A resolution, supporting the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act, will be addressed to the judiciary committee of Congress, now holding hearings on pro- | hibition problems. The resolution was presented by Rev. T. Davis Richards. A report on local Jewish evangelistic work, submitted by Rev. W. J. Seelye, requested the Presbytery to lppragrlau the customary annual amount of $1,500 out of funds appropriated by the board of national missions. Local conversion work is being promoted by the North- minster Church. Action on this report was deferred until the April meeting. A pension report by Rev. Henry W. Tolson concluded the meeting. Rev. Bernard Braskamp, pastor of the Gur- | ley Memorial Church, presided. HEARING IS POSTPONED. Cramton Park Bill Delayed, Due to Taft’s Death. The public hearing scheduled for to- morrow night by the Senate District committee on the Cramton Park devel- | opment bill today was postponed until | Thursday by Chairman Capper because of ,:he death of former Chief Justice aft. The Cramton bill, which has already | passed the House authorizes an outlay | of $23,000,000 for extension of the park and playground system in the National Capital and in nearby Maryland and irginia. o ‘Workers have been flocking to Madrid, Spain, and the city now has a serious unemployment problem. S 2103 Ga. Ave. N.W. Pot. 5670 Night Phone, Dec. 2405 National 3770 W O guidance purposes. la=——o|——=[o[—=[a[c——=|a|e—=[n|e——|o|c———=|0]—=|0|—=|0] HIS ensemble is fast color and valued at $100. displayed in our F Street windows the week of March 23d. All essays should be in the mail on or before Saturday, March 29th. The ensemble will be presented during the week beginning April 6. 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