Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1930, Page 4

Py & NFIDENCEVOTED N CRISSINGFEHT Michigan Park Association | Hears Speeches on Peril and Inconvenience. A vote of confidence in the efforts of its representatives to have the Michigan avenue grade crossing of the Baltimore & Ohio tracks replaced by a viaduct was given last night by the Michigan Park Citizens' Association at & meeting in the headquarters, at Twelfth street and Michigan avenue. The vote was taken following a eral discussion, in which speakers pointed out that the crossing is a source en- of constant danger and inconvenience | to residents of the community. The improvement is particularly expedient, it was said, since the straightening of Michigan avenue near the Soldiers’ ' Home increased the movement of traffic over that thoroughfare into Maryland. The assoclation has been conducting en active fight to have the viaduct erected, and representatives have argued the cause of the community before the House District committee at recent ses- sions, according to a report returned tc the meeting. | The following officers of the associa- tion were elected: Ralph J. Endicott, gsldtnt. succeeding' W. M. Devinney; . A. Ralph, vice president; W. A. Kilerlane, secretary; Franklin A. Adams, treasurer; F. W. Bush, assistant secre- Trundle was named a delegate | retie to the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions, and Edward J. Brennan, Mr. ‘Trundle and Mr. Devinney were chosen to the executive committee. X THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930. ey The annual campaign conducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars for the f of disabled veterans and their dependents was launched when Miss Lois June Allen, 5-year-old daughter of a dead veteran, pinned the first buddy poppy on President Hoover. OF PACT WITH GERMANY Sees Commercial Treaty as Source of Benefit to Polish Agricul- ture and Mining. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, March 27.—August Za- leski, foreign minister, last night at a ‘banguet, gave his customary public an- nual summation of foreign affairs of the republic. He devoted the s h almost entirely to the war claims idation and commercial treaties th Germany. M. Zaleski said that the minority clauses of the liquidation pact did not gve Germ: even indirect rights to terfere with the relations between the Polish government and its citizens, ;.hldbeennhlrledbycflflflofthe ty. 'rhye commercial treaty was lauded as & source of immediate benefit to polish agriculture and mining. | THE WEATHER | of Columbia—Fair tonight probably tomorrow; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight, about 34 degrees; moderate southwest shifting to west and northwest winds. Maryland—Fair tonight and probably tomorrow, except snow flurries in the ‘extreme west portion tonig! change in temperature; moderate south- west shifting to northwest and west Virginia—Fair tonight; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness; not much in temperature; moderate fresh southwest shifting to west or northwest winds, diminishing Friday. ‘West, Virginia—Mostly cloudy tonight :n“ tomorrow: bly snow flurries probal toni ; change in %flgm s i ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 12 midnight, 34; 4 am., 35 noon, 44. 29.69; 12 midnight, 29.75; 4 a.m., 20.75; 8 a.m., 20.81; noon, 29.83. temperature, 44, occurred at noon yest Lowest 4:45 am. 3 s e M{eumu same year— Highest, 65; lowest, 42. ‘Tide Tables. (Furnished by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today—Low tide, #2:40 a.m. and 1:04 3 £ temperature, 35, occurred at ;’ her son, Walter today. # HOLSE AR BIL Boston Manufacturer Tells President Hoover Association Opposes Senate Measure. Members of the National Shoe Manu- facturers’ Association, opposing the Senate tariff bill, which places boots and shoes and leather on the free list, would like to see the rates as provided in the House bill contained when the measure is sent to him for signature, President Hoover was informed today. J. F. McElwain, Boston shoe manu- facturer and chairman of the tariff committee of the National Shoe Manu- facturers’ Association, after visiting Mr. Hoover voiced support of the House tariff rates, which were 10 per cent on hides, 15 per cent on leather, and 20 per cent on shoes. t Hoover was told yesterday by John E. Edgerton of New York, pres- ident of the National Manufacturers’ Association, and H. L. Derby of New York, chairman of the tariff committee of that organization, that the manufac- turers of this country favor the flexible provision in the tariff bill as originally provided in the bill which passed the House and that they would not want the President to sign any bill providing a less degree of flexibility of administra- tion than is now contained in the tarift act of 1922, i BALL PLAYER'S DEATH , BRINGS MOTHER $22,500 Mrs. Lerian of Baltimore Awarded Verdict Against Hecht Co. in Truck Accident. A BALTIMORE, March 27 (#).—Mrs. Josephine Lerian of Baltimore yester- day was swarded $22500 damages inst the Hecht Co. for the death “Peck” Lerlan, Philadelphia National ‘League catcher, who died last October of injuries re- ceived when he was struck by a truck owned by the company. The award was made by & jury in the Court of Common Pleas, following an inquisition hearing to fix the dam- ‘The company had previously per- pam.; high tide, 6:18 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. | mitted Nd‘mgt by default to be en- —Low tide, 1:2¢ a.m. and 1:49 pm.; high tide, 7:01 am. and 7:22 pm. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 6:02 a.m. sun sets m‘g«a 6:26 pm. 6:27 pm. & Moon rises 5:08 am., sets 4 p.m. Automobile lam; . haif & ps to be lighted one. lear clou ow now Cloudy (S FEF CRES AP P FE R R P PR S TS R R S S E S S e FOREIGN. Greenwich time. tod Ttllvi‘zl!uu (Ne N Gibraltar, § Horta (Faysl) fiton. Bermuida 8an Juan, Po Havana, :fixh- PHYSICIAN'S AND DENTIST’S OFFICE Phone MAYCROFT APTS, Resident Manager, Columbls 9728 or AUSTIN C. WALLER Distriet 0864 tered. Mrs. Lerian, in her suit, had asked $50,000 damages. The ball player was 21. He was struck by truck and inst & brick wall. Death following day. —— jured October rises 6 a.m., sun sets HIGHER GERMAN GRAIN DUTIES NOW IN EFFECT Flour, Sugar and Potato Rates Will Become Operative Tomorrow at Midnight. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 27.—Increased duties on wheat, barley and oflub,eg:nfly ap- proved by the Reichstag, e opera- tive as of from Wednesday mldnl‘:t. , sugar_and potato rates - come effective Friday midnight and the corn law April 1. Authorization was given for a still further increase in the wheat duty in case of attempts from abroad to dump wheat on the market. increases authorized are contin- All dy | @ent on market conditions, g?gfi; URGE INSURANCE RATE Federal Court Is Asked to Block Attempt to Balk Raise. FIELD, I, March 27 (#)— Court y Glenn Kenderdine, a member of the soclety | SPECIALS | March 24th to 2th, incl. f 1209 DISCOUNT | | CLEANING Overcoats Sweaters FOOTER’S AMERICA’S BEST CLEANERS AND DYERS 1332G St. N.W. Dist. 2343 1784 Columbia Rd. Col. 0720 DELIVERY SERVICE —P. & A. Photo. Inventor Charged With Bigamy Ends Prison Sentence Paroled to Manufacture Invention Perfected in Jail. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Mich., March 27.—Wil- lard Irving Osgood Twombly, one time wealthy New York inventor and engi. , whose wife had him arrested il Los Angeles and financed his extradi tion to Michigan to face a bigamy charge, was paroled from the State prison here today to go into business manufacturing numerous inventions perfected in prison. Twombly denied the bigamy charge, but pleaded guilty to misconduct with a young woman and served 18 months of a 6 months to 3 years’ sentence. He was reputed to have made a for- tune from a submarine device sold to the British government during -the world war and was credited with some 200 other inventions giving him an in- come of $100,000 a year. Both Twombly and the wife who brought various court actions involving him following their elopement in 1918, had been previously married. In 1926 Mrs. Ethel Helen Twoml brought suit in New York against Helen Woods, an instructor in a public dance hall, charg- ing alienation of affections. Twombly was 57 years old at the time. Shortly afterward Mrs. Twombly brought & sep- arate maintenance suit against Twom- bly in Chicago. Blood Transfusion Fatal. TULSA, Okla., March 27 (#).—Harry Hemme, \Broken Bow farmer, paid with his life yesterday for having helped save that-of a 16-year-old Indian boy, ‘Yahola Burgess. A month ago Hemme gave a quart of his blood to the Loy, a neighbor, who was near death from lack of blood fol- lowing an operation, The youth im- proved and will recover. Infection developed in the transfusion wound in Hemme's arm and was fol- lowed by pneumonia, resulting in his death in a Tulsa Hospital. Park Conference Site Chosen. Linville, N. C, in the Blue Ridge Mountains will be the meeting place for the tenth annual gathering of the na- tlonal conference on State Parks from June 17 to June 20. The announcement was accompanied by an outline of an extensive . DISTRET BS SUT Evidence Held Lacking That Nevin Line Carried Pas- sengers Off Route. A suit for $1,000 filed by ‘the District | of Columbia against Nevin Bus Lines, | Inc., interstate carriers, for deviating from the route in Washington prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission was dismissed on a directed verdict by Judge s{-thln Cayton in Municipal Court to- ay. The suit was filled under customary procedure to collect fines of $200, as- sessed by the Public Utilities Commis- sion for each of five days when the Nevin Line busses were said to have gone off their route, Testimony was given yesterday by in- spector for the Utitlitles Commission that they had observed infractions of | the route regulations. Following their | testimony Sefton Darr, defense attorney, asked for a directed verdict on the con- | tention that Assistant Corporation | Counsel Robert Lynch had failed to show that the busses carried passengers | from point to point within the District of Columbia as the allegation of the suit contended. | Lynch was allowed to reopen the case and questioned Willlam M. Nevin, | secretary for the bus company, but failed to establish sufficient proof to | satisfy Judge Cayton. The judge con- | tinued the case until today, when he | ruled in’favor of the company. ASSISTANT CORPORATION COUNSEL RESIGNS POST |A. H. Bell, Jr.,, to Join Justice De- partment Staff at Increased Salary. Assistant Corporation Counsel Alex- ander Hamilton Bell, jr., resigned yes- terday. Mr. Bell will join the Depart- ment of Justice staff as its land-con- demnation expert, at a greatly in. creased salary. He was pald $4,600 a year by the District. Mr. Bell was appointed assistant cor- poration counsel September 3, 1924. After periods at Juvenile and Police | Courts he.was assigned to land-con- work defending the District in Mr. Bell’s resignation is the third recently from the corporation counsel’s office. ~ Ringgold Hart, the principal | assistant, resigned to m into private | practice, Mr. Keech to become people’s counsel. The vacancy will not be fiiled for a few days. HUMBERT HAS MEASLES ‘TURIN, Italy, March 27 (#).—Crown | Prince Humbert, who recently took | Princess Marie Jose of Belgium as his | bride, was in bed today with measles. Physicians said that the disease was running its course, and that there had bee noticeable abatement of fever. demnation work, Later he was put on | A Dinner Frock Reveal Glories of World, Representatives Told in Address. Sightless and Deaf, She Makes Appeals for Others Who Suffer. BY GRETCHEN S. SMITH. “Books are the eyes of the blind. They reveal to us the glories of the light- filled world—they help us to ‘forget our limitations.” ‘This appeal was made by Helen Kel- ler this morning in a short addr before the House appropriations com- mittee asking favorable action on the Pratt_bill, which aims to provide buoks for the blind. Miss Keller, left blind and deaf in her infancy through illness, has come to Washington in the interest of others who suffer, Miss Keller granted an interview be- fore her appearance at Capitol Hill. Instead of the weary expression of re- signed patience usually seen upon the faces of those similarly afflicted, Miss Keller's face shows a sweetness and a happiness expressive of the remarkable character which has made her one of the world’s most famous and loved per- sonalities. Glad to Return to Capital. “I am so glad to be back in Wash- ington,” she said. ington is an old friend, Years ago, when I was a little girl, I visited my dear friend, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, here, and it was he who obtained for me my dear teacher and companion, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy.” ' HOB NOB Tea Room and Fountain 1010 F St. N.W. Hob Nob luncheons and dinners are unsur- passed, and shoppers find this an ideal place to have afternoon tea and foun- tain drinks. Clever hostesses - are giving their bridge and dinner parties at the Hob Nob at nominal prices. Special Lenten Dishes | Served Every Day “I feel that Wash- | "HOOVER OPENS POPPY DRIVE TO PROVIDE BOOKS FOR BLIND 5 HELEN KELLER. Miss Keller’s face saddened. present companion, Miss Thomj plained that Mrs. Macy, who has sessed one-tenth vision, is now becom- blind. I do not think the demand is extravagant, do you? “Books mean so much to us. I know nothing that gives me greater happiness than reading an interesting book. That and nature, Gets Happiness From Flowers. “I get so much happiness from the fragrance of the flowers—from the dif- ferent feel of them—{from the trees and the leaves. And from all .the litti> creatures of nature, too. Every creature that swims and runs, that flutters and buzzes, gives me happiness. Some little new-born kittens which I picked up the ]o‘llll:e day—oh, they were so soft and silky! Miss Keller listens to the conversa- tion of her friends and visitors by plac- ing extended fingers over the lips and throat of the speaker. Asked if differ- ent voices conveyed a sense of differ- | ent personalities, she replied: “Yes, indeed. I feel the sweetness or the bit- | terness, or the galety or the sorrow, in the voices, and nothing gives me mote poetic pleasure than to feel people sing | over the radio.” Explaining that by placing her fingers on the speaker she 1s able to “feel” the sounds which come from the radio, Miss Keller continued, “1 get the rhythm of gay or sad music and I also get a sense of distance from the music on the radio.” 40 yea BANKING 1890 WOMEN URGED TO TAK UP GOVERNMENT WOJ o | Miss Jessie Dell Holds “Age-Old Prejudices” Diminishing, in Radio Talk. ‘The “age-old prejudice” against wom- |en was reported by Miss Jessie Dell, newly appointed United States Civil Service Commissioner, to be “f lually and steadily diminishing, as called upon college women throughout the country to go into the Government service. Speaking over a nation-wide radio network of the National Broadcasting Co., Miss Dell said there were branches of the Government, which gave an un- usually wide field for research and the opportunity for original thinking. “There are about 15,000 positions in the Federal service, which ordinarily are filled by men and women of college training and which are subject to the Civil Service laws,” Miss Dell said. “By reason of the changes which are con- stantly occurring, more than 1,000 va-~ cancles in those positions occur each year. The larger number of these 1,000 opportunities for employment of college graduates is taken advantage of by men. The percentage of appointees follows somewhat closely the percentages of eligibles. We need more applicants from among women who have the requisite qualifications for these highly desirabie positions.” RS OF SERVICE 1930 This bank has just completed forty years of successful bankini. 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