Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1930, Page 11

THE EVENIN G TAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY. ‘A-11 TWO KILLED, THREE RELEASED | FROM BANK VAULT Spare Key Saves Lives of Men Near Death From | Suffocation. ! By the Associated WARSAW, June 17.—A director and two janitors of the Lodz Bank of Com- merce today owed their lives to a spare key to the bank's strong box. which re- | leased them from incarceration in the | vault, where they had been placed by robbers. Their escape was by a narrow | margin, all three being near death from | suffocation after 10 hours in the nar- Tow confines. The director said that he arrived at the bank Sunday afternoon to procure some documents he had left there and found six well dressed men and one woman, all masked, who were search- | ing the cash drawers. Several revolvers were drawn and a threat to shoot if he called was made | The robbers took the keys from his | pocket and opened the safe. which they rified of $30.000. They then shut him | and two janitors, whom they had al- ready bound, into the safe. One janitor was able to reach a penknife in his pocket and cut the bonds which bound them, but this was the only relief they could obtain | ‘They shouted and knocked and when business hours came Monday morning their plight was discovered. The rob- | bers had taken the key to the vault ‘with them, however, and none could get inside the vault. ‘A safebreaker was sent for from Warsaw, but meanwhile the cries and knocks of those inside become weaker. Then someone re- membered a spare key to the vault which was kept at another Lodz Bank. It was secured, the door opened and the three men were taken from inside, all_unconscious The released director said that he | recognized one of the thieves as a former janitor, whom he had dis- | charged sometime ago. CHASE NETS 2 ARRESTS AND 84 HALF-GALLONS Officers in Police Car Make Cap-| ture After Mile Pursuit Along Alabama Avenue. Two men were arrested and 84 one- halt gallon jars of liquor confiscated following an exciting_rum _chase by eleventh precinct police last night through Congress Heights. William Williams, 29, colored, of 300 block of Fifteenth street southeast and James C. Shell, 25, colored, of the 2000 block of Nichois avenue southeast were arrested and charged with transporta- tion, possession and speeding. Policemen W. H. Williams and C. E. | ‘Thorn, riding in & police car, sighted | the car as it rounded the intersection of Alabama_avenue and Wheeler road. They captured the automobile on Staun- ton road southeast, following a mile chase along Alabama avenue. Summer Bible School to Open. HYATTSVILLE, Md., June 17 (Spe- eial) —Announcement has been made that the Summer Bible School of the First Presbyterian Church of Hyatts- ville, held last Summer with marked success, will reopen next, Tuesday | morning at 9 o'clock at the church. | will continue four weeks except Satur- | days and Sundays. Registration will | be at the church Monday from 10 a.m. to noon. Rev. D. Hobart Evans, pastor, | will be in charge and there will be | three full-time teachers. 4 | " Two women were killed and eight persons were injured by a mysterious explosion that wi set fire to two others in Perth Amboy, COSTS OF MEDICAL CARE | REVEALED BY COMMITTEE| Investigation Made to Controvert Assertion That Physicians' Fees Constitute Largest Item. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur's committee on the costs medical care has found that money paid for medicines not pre- scribed by physicians, for the most part, comprised more than one-third the | amount spent in one Indiana county in 1928. The finding was held to con- trovert the general belief that physi- cians’ fees constitute the largest item in medical costs. In Shelby County, Ind, which was) selected as & typical Midwestern county by the committee headed by the Secre- tary of Interior, it was found that costs of medicines accounted for more than one-third of the $500,000 spent in the county for medical care in the year. Hospital care, nursing, dentistry and laboratory examinations made up a large part of the total. The survey was one of 35 similar studies to be made by the committee, which is composed of prominent physi- cians, dentists, and public health offi- cials.” The committee is interested in making medical care available to rich | and poor alike, WAKATSUKI IS HAILED KOBE, Japan, June 17 (#)—Reijiro Wakatsuki, head of the Japanese del- | ggation to the recent London Naval| Conference, was triumphantly welcomed | upon his return here today from Eng- land. The plers were jammed by & crowd of about 20,000 persons who waved | flags and shouted “banzais” for| Wakatsuki. Airplanes circled overhead, daylight pyrotechnics were set off and bands welcome 1o | Wakatsuki was radiocast throughout | the nation. Wakatsuki spoke into the | microphone immediately after landing. | | | . J., June 15, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Dames of Malta, | Twentieth street, 8 p.m, Card party, St. Stephen's Hall, Twenty-fourth and K streets, 8:30 p.m. Bridge and garden party, National ‘Woman's Party, 144 B street northeast, 8 pm. Meeting, Petworth Citizens' Associa- tion, Barnard School, Fifth and Decatur streets, 8 p.m. Meeting, Citizens’ Forum of Columbia Heights, Wilson Normal School, Eley- enth and Harvard streets, 8 p.m. Card party. St. Church auditorium, James’ Thirt; Catholic eventh | street and Rhode Island avenue, Mount | th Rainier, Md., 8 p.m. Benefit of church. FUTURE. Luncheon, Probus Club, Ambassador Hotel, tomorrow noon. Philosophy class, Rosicrucian Fellow- ship Study Center, 907 Fifteenth street, tomorrow, 8 p.m. Meeting, Lincoln Post, G. A. R., Grand | Army Hall, 1412 Pennsylvania avenue, tomorrow, 2 p.m. Luncheon, Lions Club, garden of the Mayflower Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Speaker, Dr. Charles G. Abbott of the Smithsonian Institution. Lawn party and cafeteria supper, Grace Lutheran Church, Sixteenth and Varnum streets, tomorrow, 4:30 p.m. Slayer Is Declared Insane. LISBON, Portugal, June 17 (#)— Frank Peichowski, assassin of Dr. Albert von Balligand, vesterday was found men- tally deficient and unfit to stand trial for his crime. The slaver was sent to an asylum for the insane for treatment. The trial, which was opened before a court-martial on Thursday, was ad- journed until such time as Peichowski be pronounced cured, - ' SOON this June will join the long list of things that will never come back again, B Just across the street, in the background, theater, which was filled with men, women and children attending the final evening performance. formance was not yet over when the blast occurred. Photograph shows general view of wreckage.— Associated P And the low June prices on Reading Anthra- cite will be a matter of history for another year. Wise buyers will make arrangements with their coal merchants for next winter's supply of Reading hard coal. With their bins filled, they can go vacationing carefreely, knowing that when the first frost spells "heat quick, please™ they'll have no worries about fuel. Your coal merchant has Famous Reading Anthracite or can get it. Call him, and insist on having Reading hard coal, for nature never made, nor has man discovered, a finer fuel. THE PHILADELPHIA AND READING COAL AND IRON COMPANY <AMO¢ FADINE 1 TS EIGHT HURT, IN PERTH AMBOY, N. J., BLAST recked three buildings and is the motion picture ortunately Photo. HAPSBURGS LOSE FIGHT FOR ESTATES IN POLAND !Attempts of Former Austrian Royal Family to Regain $10,000,000 in Land Fails, By the Associated Press WARSAW, June 17.—Prolonged at- | tempts of the Hapsburg family, which [for centuries held the Austrian throne, to recover estates near Teshin worth | nearly $10.000.000 and confiscated to Poland under the treaty of Saint Ger- ! main are believed definitely to have failed. |, The family lost their first suit in e District Court, and then the Appeal | Court gave them part of the property, ‘ but now the Supreme Court has reject. ed their claim entirely, claiming that | the Appeal Court's decision was based |on an incorrect Polish version of the | treaty. It was sald that the Prench {and English texts of the treaty clearly entitle Poland to all Hapsburg property {on Polish soll. Navy Ship Carries Women. | NEW YORK, June 17 (#)—The only ship in Uncle Sam'’s Navy that is per- mitted to carry women is, in the opin- ion of officers, the most complete float- | Ing hospital in the world. The Relif, 800 tons, has 12 woman nurses aboard, nine Naval doctors, two dentists, X-ray beds for 500 patients, guinea pigs for | laboratory work. It averages 60 opera- tons a month when with- the" battle leet. Musical Debut Expected Soon. NEW YORK, June 17 (#).—A musical prodigy is expected to make her debut within a vear. Chauncey Olcott, singer of Irish ballads, and Mrs. Olcott, have arrived with their 13-year-old adopted daughter, Janet, whom they discovered at_Monte Carlo and who is regarded by | Paderewski, as & great pianist !TRIA[ OF OFFICIALS INRUM CASE OPENS U. S. Charges Collection of; “Penalties” From ldaho Bootleggers. By the Associated Press. COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, June 17.— | Further details of an alleged system | by which city offictals of Wallace, Idaho, | collected penalties from bootleggers and | made the collections appear on city PICKED FREMEN GUARD DAVI BIER Pastor Extols Virtues of Hero Who Died Fighting Downtown Blaze. More than & score of picked firemen | acted as a guard of honor yesterday At funeral services in the National Me- morial Baptist Church for Deputy Chief Peter R. Davis, fatally injured Priday in the Rudolph & West fire. The church was filled nearly to capacity by Chief Davis' many friends. Rev. Gove G. Johnson, pastor of the church, who ' conducted the services, lauded Chief Davis' leadership and courage, declaring he exemplified the | virtues of courage and self-sacrifice in an_exalted way. Many floral tributes lined the altar. There were official representatives of the Columbia Helghts Business Men's Association and varlous civie groups at the funeral and hundreds of other citi- zens who for many vears had looked upon Chief Davis as one of their warm- est friends. Included among the pallbearers records as traffic fines were sought from witnesses today by the Govern- ment in its effort to convict 42 persous on charges of violation of the prohi- bition laws, The trial of 42 individuals, including city officials of Wallace, opened here yesterday. L. L Leighty, police judge and city clerk of Wallace, whose opening testi- mony was heard yesterday, was called upon to renew his story this morning. He testified the system of collecting | was_contrived by former Mayor W. D. Herrick. Mayor Herman J. Rossi and other officials with the knowledge of " R. E_Weniger, then Shoshone County | 3 | Deputy Chief Philip W. Nicholson, Bat- :};x:;:ifl‘ 'l;‘led dn'r;::;,a ;rhesv officials are g "y i — g 0T ‘E“”’,’,FS‘” cHz Schrom, Capt. A. 8. g nts, . aight, Capt. % L) Operators of . liquor _dispensaries, | [ ant R, riv e Al SR gambling houses and questionable re | Numerous other firemen who had been i fined” periodically, Leigh | associated with Chief Davis during his . long years of service attended. It was decided, the witness testified, Special police details were required that operators of saloons and ques- to direct the traflic earlier in the day tionable resorts should be fined $25 a in the neighborhood of Chief Davis' month and operators of gambling | home at 1363 Monroe street. Many of houses $35 monthly. The money thus his friends called to pay their respects, received was turned over to the tre The procession passed by lines of urer and expended for the city's ex- | firemen ‘standing at attention en route penses along with tax receipis and from home to church and church to other collections. Cedar Hill Cemetery, 'DISCUSS TREATY The casket bearing the body of Peter R. Davis, acting deputy chief, who died of injuries sustained in the fire Friday afternoon, being taken out of the National Baptist Memorial Church yesterday. —Star Staff Photo, — = i | = Dogs Change to Coffee. ‘REED T0 | NEW YORK, June 17 ().—St. Bernard dogs no longer carry brandy in little casks tied to their necks for | persons who may be snowbound in the | Alps. They have vacuum bottles filled with hot coffee. The news comes from |Of Pennsylvania, will discuss the Lon: | Mrs. Marion MacDonald of Mukwonago, | don_naval treaty in an address over Wis., ' fancier, who has returned with |8 National Broadcasting Co. network | prize St. Bernards bought at the fa- | Thursday night from 6:30 fo 7 o'cloek | mous monastery. Senator Reed, a member of the i American delegation to the London Conference, will tell “Why the London Naval Treaty Should Be Ratified.” He will speak from the Washington studios of the National Broadeasting C TWO-DAY PROGRAM OPENS | Open-Air Fete at Transfiguration Church Largely Attended. The opening of the annual two-day open-air festival of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Four- teenth and Gallatin streets, was at- tended by several hundred persons last o night. The festival will be held again i illi tonight, beginning at 7 o'clock Al Teaching Mrs. Williams, Features of the affair include music| ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June 17| by the band of the National Training | (#).—Al Williams, fiyer, who resigned School for Boys and motion pictures of | from the Navy. is giving lessons in fly- members of the congregation arriving at | ing to Mrs. Williams. and leaving the church. 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