Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1930, Page 23

THO SENTENCED FORTARRING YOUTH Victim of Drinking Party in! Rockville Court f on Cot. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. i ROCKVILLE, Md, March 15.—As a result of a drinking party at the home | of Frank Price, 59, a well known farm- | er of mear Etchison, this county, the | evening of Sunday, February 23, during which & tar preparation was applied | to the face and body of Samuel Dor-x sey Owings, 32-year-old son of Thomas | Owings, preminent farmer of that| vieinity, with such serious consequences that the voung man has since been -I patient at the Montgomery County Gen-~ eral Hospital; at Sandy Spring. and making very slow progress toward re- covery, Price and r Seal, 20-year- old youth of near Etchison, were found g‘lity of assault and battery by Judge rles W Woodward, in the Police Court here today. Price was sentenced to the Maryland House of Correction for eight months and Seal was given three months in the same institution, | Both appealed to the Circuit Court and Price was released on $500 bond and | Seal on $200 bond for their appearance | at the March term of that court for trial again.. Auburn Seal, 18-year-old brother of Oscar, was adjudged not guilty. | In Court on Cot. | Stretched on a cot, on which he was brought from the hospital, young Owings testified that after all of the accused and himself had indulged in applied the tar. His condition did not become serious, he stated, until several days later, when he was removed to the hospital Dr. Jacob W. Bird, head of the hos- pital, described. Owings’ injuries as “third-degree” burns, declared that he suffered greatly and expressed the opinion that his recovery would be very low and the time of his discharge from the hospital uncertain. Oscar Seal admitted applying the tar at the suggestion of ice, he said, who obtained it from a nearby room, but - insisted ‘that everybody was in a g00d humor and that the applications ‘were administered purely in a spirit of fun. He stated that his brother was | not in the room at the time and had nothing to do with it. Declares It Joke. Price said he was too much under the influence of drink to remember what happened, but declared that there was no feeling and that whatever was done was in the nature of a joke. Auburn Seal swore that he was not in the house at the time and did not see the tar applied. 1In passing sentence, Judge Woodward observed that a man of Price's age ahould have known better and placed most of the blame on him. hood ane other sections of the county. State’s Attorney Robert Peter, jr., conducted the prosecution and Attorneys Albert M. Bouic and Edward Peter represented GOVERNORS TO MEET WITH RITCHIE FRIDAY Cofi_‘n’flantion ot ‘Salt Thie City Parley Is Conference Subject for State Heads. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March 15.—Governors of five States will be the guests of Gov. Ritchie Friday at Annapolls, where they will hold a session as mem- bers of the executive committee of the national governor's conference. The Maryland executive, a member of the committee, invited them to meet in Annapolis for the purpose of work- ing out plans for the next meeting of the national group in Salt Lake City in_June. Besides Gov. Ritchie the committee consists of Gov. Dorn, Utah, chairman; Gov. Hammill, Towa; Gov. Trumbull, Connecticut; Gov. Gardner, North Carolina; Gov. Christianson, Minnesota, and former Gov. Cary A. Hardee, Florida. The visitors will be escorted to the State capital by Brig. Gen, Milton A. Reckord, adjutant general of the Mary- land National Guard: members of his staff and others designated for-the oc- casion. . TWO ARE IDENTIFIED AS SLAYERS OF GROCER Customer, in Store While It Was Being Robbed, and Widow Accuse Pair. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 15— George Willlams and Charles Hanovitch, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Patrolman Carl Sherman here last March, were identified tonight as the slayers of John Hubshman, St. Louis grocer, during a hold-up in April, 1925 The identification was made by Mrs. Estelle Bestle, a customer at the grocery e hold-up, and Mrs. Marie Hubshman, the grocer’s widow. Hanovitch, only 16 at the time of the hold-up, and W.lllams, were both picked out of separate police line-ups. ‘Trial of the two will y. ‘The patrolman was killed when he attempted to question the two men who parked their car on a road southwest of the city after a hold-up here March 3, 1928 The men were arrested a few ‘weeks ‘ago. $3,000,000 IS DEPOSITED BY U. S. BANK TO PAY FINE National City Bank Is Accused by Brazilian Official of Tllegal Transactions. By the Associated Press. RIO JANEIRO, "March 15.—The uivalent in Brazilian ecurrency cf $3,000,000 was deposited in the Banco do Brasil today by the National City Bank of New York as a guarantee for a fine of a like amount recently laid on the bank’s Sao Paulo branch by the in- spector general of banks. The in- snector general alleged that the National City Bank branch there had carried on exchange transactions .contrary to the hnklntf"hvvl of Brazil. At same time, the bank today filed an appeal from the decision. The charges were denjed when brought. Senhor Ramalho Oregao, Brazilian inspector general of announced ?Mhbmlr}' 5 that he had ordered the Pedestrian Jailed for Accident. BERLIN, March 16 (#).—The Orim- inal Court today sentenced a pedestrian to imprisonment for causing a traffic accident. i, HorE Germeeter. showed meglifencs ) 8l n not getting out of the wg of list. The cyclist, forced to swerve, under the wheels of a motor truck. VETERAN POSTAL When Emil H. Boelter left the division of stamps yesterday after 45 years’ serviee he received a present from fellow employes, as well as the felicitations of In the group are: Miss Alice Dig tendent, division of stamps; Mrs. Boelter, Mr. Boelter and Assistant Postmaster the department. General Frederic A. Tilton. NINE ARE INIURED INHEAD-ON CRASH Victims of Auto Accident Near Frederick Taken to Town Hospital. Special- Dispatch to The Star, FREDERICK, Md., March 15.—Nine persons were injured in a head-on col- lision on the Baltimore pike about 10 miles east of Frederick Iast midnight. The mishap occurred at a sharp curve, where a number of other acnidents | Said. have happened. All of the injure® were brought l? !:e Mn;fl“m Hospital at an early hour this mo; 3 Those hurt are: Miss Louise Danner, 15, right arm broken; Easton, 16, right arm broken; Helen Burdette, 17, left arm broken and shocked, all of Frederick; Marion Normarn, 16, lacerated and bruised; Philip Sandle, 36, lacerated about the face and head; Mrs. Ruth Sandle, all of Baltimore, bru'sed about the body; Richard Hubbard, 17, lacerated about arms and face; Ralph Martin, lacerated about the head, body bruises; Ster] Hitselberger, Westminster, bruised a lacerations. State police made a preliminary in- vestigation this morning, which will be continued today until responsibility for the accident has been placed. The impact hurled both cars to one side of the road, wrecking the two machines, —e FLORIDA MURDER EVIDENCE CONCLUDED Escaped Connecticut Convicts on Trial in Detective's Death Plead Self-Defense. By the Associated Press. The. State 'was to have called two re- buttal witnesses today, but Willlam A. Hallowes, - chief prosecutor, suddenly changed his plans and announced that the prosecution would consider its case Moulthrope and Lalone made their plea on a contention that they acted in Self-defense when they eny na gun battle with officers here it Jan- uary, soon after their escape from the State prison in Connecticut. They said they did not know that the two officers who halted them here were officers, but thought they were “boys like us, cr rohibition agents.” In the gun battle, Smith was killed and Willle Jones, the other detective, was seriously wounded. Judge Daniel A. Simmons ordered that the jury be taken to the scene of the shooting. The 12 men will be locked up in a hotel tomorrow. On Monday morning Ion L. Farris, chief of defense counsel, will lead off in the arguments for the defense, while Hallowes, who has asked the death penalty, will handle the major State’s contentions before the jul The arguments are expected to It virtually all day. Leo Landry, also an escaped Con- necticut prisoner, who turned State's :nx‘xfin. is yet to be tried for Smith's eath. UTICA SOCIETY WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN CANAL Suicide Is Verdict in Case of Mrs. Beecher M. Crouse, Sought Throughout Country. By the Associated Press. UTICA, N. Y., March 15.—The body of Mrs. Beecher M. Crouse, missing Utica soclety woman, for whom a Nation-wide search had been prosecut- ed, was recovered from the barge canal here tonight by two men in a rowboat. One of them said he had seen the body In the water a month ago, but thought at that time it was a log. Mrs. Crouse, the wife of the president of the Shenandoah Rayon Corporation of Utica, disappeared mysteriously from her home here November 14 last. She had been in ill health for several years and in September had returned home from a sanitorium, Dr. Gordon A. Holden, coroner, pro- nounced it a case of sulcide. AIRPORTS EXONERATED. Jury Decides Against Poultry Rancher, Who Asked Damages. VISALIA, Calif.,, March 15 () —Alr- ports as a baneful influence on production stood exonerated here today as the result of a Superior Court jury's verdict returned in favor of the city of Tulare, sued by Alex Carlson, poultry rancher, for $6,000 damages. Carlson alleged the airplanes stirred up great quantities of dust and annoyed his chickens, ceusing decrease in 'their laying power, ~Airports, however, :gnd & champion in another poultry r 3 Elsle Standen, whose ranch adjoins the Visalia airport, Hens fii about the first day or two, she it after that never even lJooked up a plane passed. The court has not yet ruled on Carlson’s petition for an injunction, 5 and mnm Heut ‘;:l_mnul.n( throughout the Winter THE SUNDAY ST. WORKER HONORED | secretary to the superin- —Star Staff Photo. {POSTAL EMPLOYE 45 YEARS RETIRES Emil H. Boelter Presented With Radio on Behalf of Friends in Stamp Division. Forty-five continuous years in_the postal service ended yesterday for Emil H. Boelter of Radnor Heights, Va., who ‘was placed in the retired list. His retirement was given recognition by the.Post Office Department when Third Assistant Postmaster General Frederic A. Tilton presented him with & radio on behalf of his fellow employes in the division of stamps of the city post_office. “You have rendered loyal, painstak- ing and efficient service,” Mr. Tilton , “and the department wishes for mu the fullest measure of welfare and ppiness. As you retire, I wish to convey to you on behalf of the Post- master General his appreciation for your long and faithful service.” Mr. Boelter entered the service in 1885 on appointment to the Little Rock, Ark., post office, where he served until his transfer to the division of stamps in the Post Office Department in 188 He was born in Germany, March 20, 1858, and in early youth took up his residence in rk. D. C. JUNIOR THEATER CONCLUDES SEASON Appnéfifive Audience Lauds “Poor Little Rich Girl” at Belasco. Olosing a brief season, the Junior Theater of Washington concluded its two-month repertory at the Theater Rich .Girl,” played before pprecia- N " play an a] - tive audience of juveniles and grownups. Next season the com) to have its own theater present a full of plays, opening in the Fall monf Yesterday's matinee performance was played before the largest house of the season, featured by a number of thea- ter parties, among them juvenile groups entertained by Mrs. Walter R. Tucker- man, Mrs. Charles S. Wilson, Mrs. Ar- thur Foraker, Mrs. Royal T. McKenna and Mrs. Preda Frazer. In addition there were large groups of children from Friendship House, the Eastman School and Neighborhood House. Mary Sinclair handled the title role with ease. Kate Tomlinson was lovely as the young mother with the “social bee in her bonnet.” John Shellie made the most of a character bit, while Wil- liam Johnstgne. the company’'s male lead, assuméd the role of a snooping who had trouble with his " Betty Beeman, as two-faced Nurse Jane, was both Irish and bonnie. A few local artists were noted as new additions to the cast, Evelyn Walters, cast as Gwendolyn's French teacher, who played with Junior Theater :mup Iast year, Charlsey Reed gave an exceptionally fine interpretation of one of the most | difficult roles, the governess. C. P among them THOMAS RYAN, 2D, FRACTURES SKULL York Multimillionaire's Grandson Drives Car Into “Two Trucks. By the Associated Press SHERIDAN, Wyo., March 15—An X-ray examination today disclosed that ‘Thomas Fortune Ryan, 2d, suffered a small fracture of the skull and that a . plece of his jaw bone was chipped off in_an automobile accident last night. Ryan, a grandson of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, N°w York multimillion- ajre, drove his automobile into two ' | trucks at the end of a street near his | homp here. He received two s°vere gashes on the head, a badly lacerated neck, and other lesser cuts and bruises on the hands, arms, legs and chest. Dr. W. H™ Roberts said that while Ryan's condition was good, he was not | ¢ finitely out of danger. | Ryan, who 18 31 years old, has made his home here for several years. , For the second year in succession Rye, England, with a population of nearly 4, has had no case of drunkenness. SLAYER OF FATHER IS JUDGED INSANE Physicians Recommend Illinois Freshman Be Confined in Insti- tution for Life. By the Associated Press. 8T. LOUIS, March 15.—Allan R. ings to Circuit Attorney in Miller. ‘The examination was made by court. order and is to be formally submitted pre k 7, Teported that his universiey hfe and his studies had nothing to do with his mental condition, and that they had found him slightly above the aver- | age in his educal rankin; ‘The youth, while home for s, called his rents killed his father, Wi wounded his mother, after asking them 1f they belleted in God and ordering them to pray. The mother recovered. The noted. in the that Schumm discussed the crime out sadness and apparently believes he was out the will of God. He was declared to be indifferent 8. the holi- bed, to | the outcome of his trial or what hap- | pens to him. HE public is watching with genuine in- threst the great new success bcing scored by Peerless this year. Seldom, if ever before, has any motor car been held in more affec- tionate esteem. Peerless recalls to many the very earliest days of the motor car. Peerless means the time-proved, the enduring, the m Schumm, and | (Only Feeble Squaw Powerful Arizona . By the Associated Pre TUCSON, Ariz., March 15.—Another fading bit of Arizona’s early Indian his- tory has slipped past the portals of time. The burial yesterday of Toribio Aragon, last brave of the cliff dwelling Sobaipuri Indians, today revived mem- orjes of the powerful band which ruled the :San Pedro and Santa Cruz Valleys 200 years ago. Historians of the early Indian cul- | tures of those sun-bathed deserts and | rock-sheltered valleys, have recon- | structed the Sobaipuri civilization from | bits of its wreckage in the cliff dwell- | ings along the tributary waters of the two rivers. In these have been loun‘d a historical record of-the Sobaipuris flight before the invading, maruding Apaches at the dawn of the eighteenth century. Cff homes and fertile fields of their native valleys were abandoned | in haste to take refuge with the Papa- gos, with whom they mingled, nu“ Sobaipuri Indians gradually becoming extinct and forgotten in the desert plains of Tuscon. First Tucson Inhabitants. | The historians credited Aragon’s | tribe with being first inhabitants of old Tucson, where they established many | settlements along the river bed south of this modern city. While only Ara-| gon's squaw, too feeble with age to fine thing—well done. . +. To the Peerless organization this is It'is an active and more than tradition, always present responsibility. In engineering, for instance, Peerless seeks above all to be sound and on-4nown ground every step of the way. In fashioning the Peerless no attempt is A salon s 14th St. at Tucson's Famous San Xavier Mission. | our village at the place, we people of | | the padres of the woven belt). | did not like that. WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 16, 1930—_PART ONE. LAST BRAVE OF ANCIENT TRIBE OF CLIFF DWELLERS EXPIRES| Remains of Once-| Band Which Built survive. in numbers throughout south- western Arizona’s semi-arid regions. ‘The story of Sobalpuris includes that of San Xavigr Mission, called the “father of missions,” from its early es- | tablishment atop a hill nine miles south | of Tucson. It was the former cliff | dwellers, who, under the direction of the. Pranciscan fathers, bullt the origi- | nal mission. With their bare hands they patted the adobe of its walls into place, tolled with the heavy beams, | and battered metal fittings into form. Aragon's own story of this great labor and of the days before the Sobaipuri lonlt tthelrx;oldenmy. is told by a mission | priest who was with the 85-year-old In- dian at his death. L Did Not Like Work. | “Long before the Mexicans built Tuc- son,” the priest quoted Aragon, “next to | San Xavier lived a mile north of here, | along the river bank, that is where set- tled the Dahum Papaid Jesuits (that is, The | padre would make us work hard. We | He would not allow us to call on the medicine man when we were sick. We did not like that. The boys had to come to the padre’s house | every day to learn Spanish. ““One day an officer came and called together he Indians. He read a relate the rich history of the Sobaipuri, | paper to them, saying that the great | rattlesnake remains THE NEW PEERLE of all the tribe, the Papagos | governor called .the Dahum Papaid keep cobwebs | ancestors,: with their own bare hands. | to escape the 1 to 50 yedr prison sen- o away, but that others would come to “After s while came the gray fathers (Pranciscans). They asked us to move up the hill because it was too wet near the river. That is when we built the mission over there. It took a long time to build. Some people who had played in the foundations as boys were still working at it after they were married. +Did Not Like Church. “The padres laid out an orchard at the oot of the hill and built & high | wall around it so the boys could not et in. When I was a boy the y fathers had gone, but we Indians held | church alone. We did not like to go to | church and little by little we stopped, | until we would come together but once | a year, on the feast of St. Francis. “The old days were very nice,” the aged Inm.l:‘k co;cludcd. 1“ e will never see times like those again. ‘Aragon was buried in the old Indian | cemetery mnear-the mission. which his had left as their memorial. COURT GRANTS EXTENSION State Given Until April 15 to Answer Pantages’ Appeal. LOS ANGELES, March 15 (#).—The Appellate Court today granted the State an extension until April 15 for filing its answer to the appeal of Alexander Pantages, wealthy showman, | convicted of criminal assault. Pantages recently filed a 1132-page | appeal from his conviction of attack- ing Eunice Pringle, 17-year-old dancer. He is in jail here pending action on| the appeal, through which ‘he seeks tence imposed upon him. & el Some musicians in’ the Ozarks put es in their violins to y. BIRMINGHAM WINS * THEATER SKIRMISH City Officials- Victorious in Test of Right to Bar Condemned Picture. By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 1 With eity ofticials victorious in the first major test of the city's right to close & theater which sought to show & con- demned picture, the battle over the closing of the theater was at a stand- still today. No further action is anticipated until April 24, when the State Supreme Court will hear arguments as to whether a writ of prohibition granted -today straining Judge Roger Snyder from fui- ther action. shall be. made permanent. Attorneys for the theater indicated they. mayu!ry to take the battle in Pederal courts; . The writ automatically stopped con- tempt of court proceeding been. scheduled in Circuit morning. before Judge Snyder. Those named, in the eontempt eitation were Commission President James M. Jones, jr.; Associate Commissioners ‘W, E. Dickson and J. H. Taylor, Chief of Police Pred-H. McDuff-and Mrs, Myrtle Snell, movie inspector Meanwhile trial of the manager and two operators of the theater, arrested on charges of operating a movie nause without a license, has been continued indefinitely in Pollcé Court. Those are manager, Cason. OS5 Unused coples of a stamp issued In Germany in 1923 with a face value of 50,000,000.000,000 marks, _the %'o'o'" value of. which would be $12,500,000,000, are now being offered at 5 cents each. . 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