Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1930, Page 22

‘PETWORTH LIBRARY | | PROJECT ADVANCED - Croshy and Bowerman Invit- ed to Barnard School Meeting Tonight. WASHINGTON, D. C, -— Gen. Herbert B. Crosby of the Board ©f Commissioners of the District and | Dr. George F. Bowerman, public libra- | Tian, will be guests at a mass meeting of civic organizations, church bodies, fraternal orders and parent-teacher as- | sociations to be held tonight in the Job Barnard School, Fifth "and Decatur streets, for the purpose of furthering in- terest 'in the project to establish- a branch library in Petworth. A site for the proposed building has been made available through action of the Board of Education in assigning part of the property adjacent to the Macfariand Junior High School for | this purpose. - The 1932 budget for the | District includes an appropriation for $150,000 for the library building and equipment Indorsements and assurance of co- operation in efforts to push the measure have been received from several organi- ations, according to Mrs. A. C. Nor- cross, chairman of the joint library committee. These organizations include the Petworth Woman's Club, the Pet- worth Citizens' Association, Macfarland Junior _High Parent-Teacher Associ- ation. Petworth Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation, Barnard Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation. St. Gabriel's Church, St. Ga- briel's School, Joppa Lodge, F. A. A. M. Gets 20-Year Term For Theft of Ham; Was Second Offense By the Associated Pre: ATLANTA, June 17.—The theft of a ham cost Oscar Jossie, & colored man, 20 years on the chain gang. That sentence was imposed on | | him by Judge John Hutcheson in | Dekalb County Superior Court when the colored man pleaded guilty to stealing the ham. It was the maximum term for a sec- ond offense. CHARLES M. MITCHELL, EX-ROUGH RIDER, DIES Actor, Diplomat and Soldier Fought | Under Roosevelt in Cuba. Held Consular Posts. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 17.—Charles Mason Mitchell, actor, soldier and diplomat, | died yesterday in the home of a friend | here.” He was 71 Mitchell fought with Roosevelt's Rough Riders in Cuba and was wound- | ed at the battie of San Juan. Thirty | years ago he was leading man for Helena | Modjeska, famous actress. He held | posts as American consul at Zanzibar, Cork, Malta and Samoa. | He' retired several years ago and has | been living in Highwood, Calif. His | widow, Mrs. Edna Ellis Mitchell, and brother, Col. James Brady Mitchell, sur- | vive, | THE EVENIN DETROIT KIDNAP - RING 1S BROKEN Only One of 17 in Gang Es- capes—One Killed by Associates. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, June 17.—A kidnap clique that has extorted hundreds of thou- | sands of dollars in ransom money dur-l ing the last two years today was hroken | on the wheel of the law. | Seventeen men and women were members of the gang, police said, and of them only one, Joe O'Roirdan, has evaded arrest. | Eight of the seventeen were arrested | within the last two days by Detroit | and State police. Seven others already | are in prison. One is dead—killed by his assoclates. Only O'Roirdan has escaped. | The one killed was James Walters, | night club operator, called the “finger- man” of the gang. He was slain in | and sportsman, died here yesterday on | | board his yacht Content after a heart front of his home two months ago. ‘The police say they have evidence to | show that the gang partieipated.in the | kidnaping and_murder of David Cass, | ing of Willlam Gunn, merchant: the kidnaping of Max Plummer, Toledo ho- tel man, and of Matthew Holdreith, jr., Notre Dame student and son of a De-, G STAR, Bandit Needs Only $700; Leaves Rest Of $5,000 Offered By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, June 17.—He was & bandit who knew what he wanted, which was $700, and when the paying_teller of the Superior State Bank, at the urge of a pistol, pushed forward a package containing $5,000 Sat- urday, the robber -objected. “1"don’t need that muc sald, whereupon he carefully counted out $700, put it in his pocket and walked out. EZRA H. FITCH DIES Former Head of Sporting Goods| RUM CASE DISMISSED House in New York Was Cruising Off California. By the Associated Pr SANTA BARBA altack. » | _NEW YORK, June 17 (#)—Ezra H. |than 3 miles offshore when overhauled son of Gerson Cass, wealthy retired real | pjioh " who died on his yacht off Santa | by a Coast Guard cutter. In the opin- estate dealer, last Summer; the kidnap- | parpara, Calif., yesterday, was formerly | fon of the commissioner, the Govern- ing of Fred Bergeman, described as & | president of the New York sporting % retired Wyandotte bootlegger: the slay- | good4s firm of Abercrombie & Fitch. He disposed of his holdings to his asso- | vessel were intended for delivery within clates January 13, 1928, ON BOARD HIS YACHT | ¥3: steooins and aaron'c. Rend o , Calif,, June 17.— | prohibition laws led to the release yes- | Ezra H. Fitch, New York business man | terday of Capt. Henry Flahaut and the TUESDAY, WOMAN TO FIGHT NORRIS IN PRIMARY Mrs. Beatrice Fenton Craig, School Teacher, Files in Nebraska Benatorial Race. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Neb, June 17.—Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska will be opposed by s woman in the August primary for the Republican senatorial nomination. | Mrs. Beatrice Fenton Craig. a school | teacher, filed for the post yesterday. Others in_the fleld are Lieut. Gov. | late Treasurer | Madison. AGAINST FRENCH SHIP By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va. June 17.—Dismissal of a charge of conspiracy to violate the | rew of nine of the Metmuzel, former American subchaser. United Slates Commissioner H. A. Brinkley dismissed the case after it was established that the vessel was more ment failed conclusively to show that the cases of Bourbon whisky aboard the the United States. The Metmuzel, bearing French pa- 1880 Gormm *OLDE Old as the Forest-Primeval New in Fashion AMBER Behind the 1930 smartness of amber lies a romantic story that goes back to the Stone Age. In the time of Pliny and Taci- tus, amber was only obtained when the stormy seas tossed ashore this golden fruit of an ancient Atlantis. Now, amber is mined near the Baltic Sea . . . the resin of prehistoric pines, which the action of the sea, during thousands of years, has 'WoODWARD & ILOTHROP Petworth Lodge, F. A. A. M. Joppa pers, was seized over Paramore Banks Todge Chapter. 27, O Georgia {ron restauranteur. .he families and| RIVER TRIPS PLANNED | sunday night. June 1. et Avenue Business = Me Association.| Big Water Crystals Found. soms. In the case of young Cass the | i s Baptist h h, i s P e Cumeln Mel®hi* | Water crystals estimated to date back | Tansom was said to have been paid Virginia Society to Enjoy First Ex- Mens Assaciation. Piaey Branch Giirs | to prehistoric times were discovered re- | after the youth had been slain, The | THE COLLIER INN ven's Association. Wallace . 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