Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1930, Page 4

BANKER'S SON HELD IN KILLING OF GIRL Accused of Suicide Attempt| Because of Thwarted Love Affair. By the Associated Press. PATERSON, N. J., July 7.—Suffering from a bullet wound in the head, Rod- erick Meakle, 28, concert violinist and | gon of a Paterson, N. J, banker, was | under arrest in a hoepital here today charged with the murder of Miss Jennie | Brauer, 22, who won prizes as a swim- | mer before coming from Germany two years ago. . i Police accused Meakle of killing the | girl, then shooting himself in a suicide | Ppact into which the couple entered be- cause another woman stood in the way of their marriage. * Miss Brauer's body was fond Sat- aurday in an automobile parked in a lane between Butler, N. J. and Pomp- fon Lakes. Meakle was discovered yes- ferday wandering in a dazed condition 4n the woods nearby. Two notes found-in the car indicated that the couple had agreed to die to- gether. Hear of Secret Wedding. Police said they had learned that Meakle had been married secretly to Miss Jessie Murphy, 26, a school teach- er in Paterson, at Bridgeport, Conn., Beptember 3, 1926, and that she had re- fused to agree to a divorce so he could marry Miss Brauer, One of the notes, written on station- ery of the Hotel Niagara of Niagara Falls, said. “Fate denied us the privilege of hap- gflesfi in life, 8o we go happily to death. 'e hope our friends can realize the ‘existence of true love.” It was signed “Roderick and Jennie.” Gives Possessions Away. ‘The other note, written in halting English by Miss Brauer, was addressed ‘l:n he'fl un‘c;l; Joseph Aligeyer of Brook- . It said: “Dear Gertrude and Joe. I am going away for ever tonight. Please I ask you very nice to send my things to -Hilda, Plockstr. 79. I got some more things in Nanuet. The keys are in my braun suit case. The trunk ist for you, my bankbook, if you get the money, is Hilda’s. You know the reason we are doing it."” Meakle is the son of William R. Meakle, vice president and secretary of “the Paterson Savings Institution. The family home is at Ridgewood, N. J. Miss Brauer came to this country from Germany less than two years ago. Her mother, Mrs. Otto Kern, lives in “North Haledon, N. J. * Police learned that both Meakle and FIREWORKS .TORY BLAST KILLS THREE THE EVEI G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, JULY 7, 1930 With a deafenirg rear that could be heard for miles, children and a man. The dead are Consiglio Cimino, owner of the pl | months old. daughter of a woman visitor. Photo shows sear chers looking for victims’ bodies amid ruins. —P. & A. Photo. | a fireworks factory exploding in Asbury Park, N. J., killing two | ; Millie, 9, his daughter, and Dolores Renna, 2 TOKID REBUILDING FINHED ON TINE Model Metropolis Replaces City of 2,000,000 Hard Hit | by Quake and Fire. Tokio, the Far East's first Western city, stands completed. The seven-year construction program launched amid the smoking ruins left Miss Brauer had been absent from their “homes for more than a week. TRIAL POSTPONED BECAUSE OF HEAT 17 Accused of Lynching Man Who Attacked Woman Get Continuance. By the Associated Press. ‘WALHALLA, 8. C, July T—Ex- cessive heat today caused continu- ‘ance of the trial of 17 men accused ©of lynching Allen Green, colored, until next Fall. Judge M. L. Bonham granted the seontinuance until gome indefinite time “when the weather i8 cooler upon motion y of defense attorneys. The trial ‘had been set for today. . The defense ai it was unreason- @bie to ask the 75 witnesses it intend- ‘#d to call to remain at the courthouse Rhroughout a long-drawn trial in Mid- by earthquake and fire in 1923 has been finished on time. | When Emperor Hirohito retently | made an official 20-mile inspection tour | he found his capital bright and new | as fresh paint. Nothing like it has | ever been seen before in the Orient. ‘While the touring party paused the Emperor paid tribute in the Hall of Nameless Dead to 33,000 persons who gerished in one small park during the olocaust that destroyed the city. | He halted once more on Kudan Hill. “Standing on Kudan Hill August 31, 1923, a traveler looked down on | peaceful Oriental city of white tile roofs almost buried In . green trees,” | says a bulletin of the National Geo- | graphic Society. “Two days later the same view from Kudan Hill disclosed a desert of utter ruin as far as the eye could see. Homes and business houses of 1,500,000 people been wiped out. An ‘area almost as | large as the island of Manhattan was a black blot, & funeral pyre for 68,500 vietims. Home of Japan's Parliament. “April, 1930, on Kudan Hill finds the Sumida plain once more filled with a prosperous city. Over on_the right rises the gaunt steel of the Diet Bulld- ing, a new home for Japan's Legisla- summer. - Bolicitor Leon W. Brasfleld did not ‘®ppose the motion and left as soon as it ‘was granted for Union to make a politi- | 1 speech. He is a candidate for the ocratic nomination to the United States Senate, opposing Benator Cole L. Blease. Green, who was charged with at- ‘$acking white woman, was taken from . the jail here on April 24 and shot to “death. The 17 under indictment for murder s the result of the lynching include Mayor Robert Lee Ballentine and Alvin wJones, night policeman. © AIRPLANE HOME BUILT British Captain and Daughter Pre- pare for Airminded Guests. LONDON (NAN. ~—To Capt. the | FHon. Frederick Guest and his daughter, | Diana, belongs the honor of living in the first country house designed espe- ¢ially for the needs of “flying guests.” When Capt. Guest was flying his imoth plane to visit a friend in Sussex, he saw a plece of ground sloping down %o the sea near Selsey Bill which Seemed to him to be admirably suited for a landing ground for aeroplanes. He promptly bought it and the accom- panying house, which has now been entirely remodeled and equipped with its own aerodrome and hangars for yisitors' planes. A striking feature of the house is #ts two dormitories, one for five men and one for five women, which have n made in order that a large num- ber of guests may be entertained. There are no cubicles in the dormi- , but each bed, painted in a gpecial color, will have its own ward- Tobe, chest of drawers and washing Basin to match, on the lines of a school gormitory. "In contrast to this are the new servants' quarters, in which €ach servant has a separate bed room, with hot and cold water. The walls of Miss Diana Guest's room are covered with maps of the principal flying routes of the world, and over her built-in bed is a fleet of &eroplanes painted in silver on a pale Blue ground. The door handles are fashioned to resemble miniature aero- planes, and a group representing the gim of flight has been designed for e mantelpiece by Mrs. Clare Sheridan. (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- paper Alliance.) Correcting the Chronometer. The old-time navigator was com- pelled to set great store by his chro- Dometer, for upon its absolute accu- acy depended his peace of mind and the safety of hic vessel. Immediately wpon his arrival in port it was his gustom to carry his chronometer to some recognized watch or clockmaker fo have the instrument set, adjusted and rated. Establishments where this work was done often had hundreds of these timepieces on the shelves at one time undergoing examination. But this business has dropped out of sight in recent years, not due to any de- crease in maritime activity but to the radio. The sailing masters of today get their time every day from the air and are thercby enabled to attend to their own timepieces. Rapid-Moving Movies. As every foot of moving picture film contains 16 separate pictures. each lttle larger than a postage m:thing like 232,000 pic ur hed on the screen during the aver- age cinema performance. 2 “Slow-motion” silent pictures are otographed at the average rate of per second. Think what this means—an upward movement of your lasting only one second would be E;mnlphed in 160 progressive pic- s, i tin. | small parks appeared, 10 bath houses, !pawn shops, a big new municipal mar- ture almost as large as the United States Capitol. Broad, asphalt boule- vards strike out in every direction where narrow, twisted lanes of pre-earthquake Tokio clogged traffic. The fresh green of young trees, 24,000 planted since 1923, promises that Japan’s capital may again become a city in a forest. Far eastward six new bridges span the Sumida River, while nearby stately 10- story office buildings, Western style, form the nucleus of Tokio's growing government department row. Many tem- porary ‘emergency’ barracks erected after the fire clutter the scene, but their days are numbered. ! “The greatest disaster offered the greatest opportunity in modern times to build a modern metropolis. London's ‘great fire’ burned 336 acres, Chicago's 2,024 acres, San Francisco's 2,560 acres and Tokio's 9,000 acres. Would Tokio throw away her chance to plan a city | fit for modern living conditions? | 0ld Tokio a Feudal City. | “Old Tokio wes an overgrown feudal town. The seed from which the city grew, the Shogun's palace, lay in the center, surrounded by stone walls and a wide, water-filled moat. It still usurps the center of the capital. In the old | days Japanese rulers demanded that chiefs of provinces leave their wives and children under the palace walls as host- | ages. Tokio's wards each had their | origin in such settlements of semi- prisoners. Streets and alleys grew aim- | lessly. Many were so narrow they eould | not be penetrated by fire engines, | “In new Tokio the minimum street | width is 12 feet! Narrow enough, but | & boulevard by old Tokio standards. | “Only one-tenth of the area of old Tokio was used for streets. A stingy allotment compared with London, Paris | and Berlin, which leaves about one- | quarter in streets, while Washington | has nearly one-half its area in streets and aventes. To remedy her shortcom. ings, Tokio, as a first step in recon- | struction, took for streets 10 per cent of | every owner's land without compensa- | By purchase, the city added 5 per | cent more, and in this manner has| raised her street acreage to 27 per cent | of the city's area. “Next Tokio reserved the right to re- | locate any man's property to accommo- date an entirely new gridiron system of streets and to move any man’s house. In seven years the city fathers have moved 200,000 houses. At one time they were moving houses at the rate of 5,000 per month. [ Some Houses Too Big for Lots. | “Queer problems arose. A man's | house might be too big for his new lot. | Some new lots are only 7 by 8 feet in | area, scarcely large enough for any use. | But oddities are being ironed out. | “Temporary dings to house a| million and a half homeless were built immediately aftor the disaster, but the government has reserved the right to tear down these structures within a given period, and many have already disapp-ared. “To built a city for 2,000,000 people from the ground up was a task for | which there s no parallel in history. Where an American city adds a bridge and a school or two per year, Tokio had to build 170 schools in seven years and 117 bridges. Six of these were major bridges across the broad Sumida River. “With a wave of a $300,000,000 wand over the ruins, 2 large parks and- 50 5 hospitals, 7 government-controlled ket, 10 children’s homes, 10 public din- ing halls and 10 public boarding houses. | High Cost of Earthquake Proofing. “Some Japanese advocated moving the | capital to a_safer place. *No,!' said Tokio. ‘We have learned our lesson. ! Some of the buildings withstood both | quake and fire’ The quake wave reached Tokio with an 8-inch swing, and the new large buildings and br: 8 | are built to receive even heavier shocks. ‘Wide streets ?d fireproo! construction will prevent fire spreading as it did in 1923, Tokio is not afraid of earth- quakes. There have been 7,500 notice- able shocks in this region since the major quake of 1923. “The new Mitsui Bank, which is to have the largest floor devoted to bank- ing of any bank in the world, is typical of Tokio's new construction. American architects designed the building; Ameri- can conttractors have bullt it. Under the 10-story structure is a platform of reinforced concrete 4 feet thick. It contains twice as much steel as similar buildings in the United States require. “Earthquake proofing, Tokio estimates, raises construction cos‘s one-third. “But Tokio expects excellent returns on her tremendous investment in clz' planning. Improvements effected sanitation alone will, in three years, it is Believed, save as many lives as were lost in the earthquake disaster. “To arrive at Central Station, Tokio, today is to enter the hurly burly of the twentieth century. Porters grab the | traveler's bags; taxis dash up, stop with | —slain in disorders arising from an In- screeching brakes. Jinrikishas? They are for country folk unused to city ways. They can be found somewhere about the vast station, but one has to hunt for them. Modern Mobo and Mogo. “Through the doors of Central Sta- tion can be glimpsed 10-story modern | Tokio; square buildings that look as if they had been sent from Seattle, de- mounted, and assembled in Japan like the taxis and thousands of other auto- mobiles. On the other side of the st tion is the Ginza, Tokio's Broadway, once the street of silversmiths, now the street of mobo (the modern boy) and mogo (the modern girl). “‘Mobo has gone Western with his hat, his bow tie, short coat and baggy trou- sers, cigarette and cane. Mogo has bobbed her hair, and she is trying to improve on her naturally excellent com- plexion; she wears a hat, quite a novelty in Japan, and her skrits are short. ‘Daytime finds downtown Tokio ‘keep- ing up with the Joneses’ of Manhattan and Mayfair. In a typical steel-and- | concrete cell in a typical office building the Japanese business man in a business suit and leather shoes works eight hours, | dictating, talking to salesmen, holding con’erences. Five o'clock, home by sub- Wa; ff with the business suit, off with the black leather shoes, a hot bath; then, in kimono and sandals, with din- on the floor, the modern business man is back in the Japan of his fathers, He dines and he lives in his house with sliding panels and exquisite screens; a house whose style has not changed in three centuries. The Three Tokios of Today. “Yet his children in the morning go to one of Tokio'’s new schools; a build- ing that makes America’s newest schools look like products of the Victorian age. It is too new for the United States. It might, with its mass design of sweepin; curves and uncompromising angles, fi in Amsterdam’s newest church, but no American school board would ever ac- cept it. “So today there are three Tokios—old Tokio of tangled narrow streets and tile-roofed wooden houses which cluster over beyond the Emperor’'s palace, where the fire did not reach; Western Tokio of typewriters, subways, clacking turn- CALN FOLLOWS HOT FUNERALS { Two Whites and Four Colored | | Victims Buried in Ala- bama Strife. By the Associated Press. | EMELLE, Ala, July 7.—Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife- | | torn. village completed the burial of its | | dead—two white men and four negroes dependence day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, | but virtually all of several hundred white possemen had given up a three- day manhunt, instituted after a negro | family engaged in & gun fight with a | white family over the payment for an automobile battery. Purpose Reward. Official rewards |which have been | posted for the four rjegro fugitives, Go Bibb Graves sald| at Montgomery, | ‘“‘are not merely for|negroes who killed white men,” but would be pald “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” An unidentified negro man, and Viola | Dial, & negro woman, were the last two | killed. They were shot to death yester- | day when "the commands. of = white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie. Marrs, both | white men, were killed, and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who, with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro killed yester- day, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to & search. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of posse- men, Independence Day Attack, | riage. | marriage services under conditions con- | which adjoins the site of old Fort Har- |Rev. Jesse Head, a Methodist circult On Independence day Tom Robertson and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd | after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed | to pay him. | Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence, | ran to his aid and was fatally shot by | one of the negroes. | A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Robertson, who had participated in the | attack, fired the home of John Robert- | son, relative, and shot him to death | when he killed Charlle Marrs, a white | posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, an- other white man. stiles, conduits, asphalt boulevards, Douglas Fairbanks, cement mixers, taxis, plate glass shop windows, department | | stores, filling systems and standard office furniture; and lastly, futuristic Tokio, | experimenting in cement with the latest | art and architectural brain children o!‘ | Parisian rebels.” v LINCOLN MARRIAGE HOME MADE SR Small Church to Be Built Where President’s Par- eats Were Wed. HARRODSBURG, Ky. (#)—The rude log cabbin in which the parents of Abraham Lincoln were married 124 years ago is to be made a national shrine dedicated to prayer and mar- | Construction of a small, cross-shaped church which will house the cabin, preserved here at Pioneer Memorial State Park, has begun. Laying of the corner stone some time this Summer will be the occasion for ceremonies to be broadcast over a coast- to-coast radio hook-up, according to plans of the sponsors. They hope that either President Hoover or Vice Presi- dent Curtis will speak. The building, copy of a Kentucky Baptist Church of 1800, will be dedi- cated June 12, 1931, the 125th &nni- versary of the marriage of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Citizens of Harrodsburg, the only colonial town west of the Alleghenies and the place where George Rogers Clark conceived his conquest of the Northwest, say the shrine will remove the last vestige of the cloud that for many years hung over the legitimacy of Lincoln’s birth. ‘The church will be available for sidered proper by officials of the park, rodsburg. The cabin will be in the center of the church. In the cabin will be an altar and a Bible. When Thomas Lincoln, then 28 years old, and Nancy Hanks, a 23-year-old orphan and domestic, were married in this cabin June 12, 1806, it stood on Beech Fork in the adjoining county of Washington. The ceremony was a typical backwoods wedding, with ‘the rider, the officialing clergyman. The cabin was owned by Richard Berry, Nancy's guardian. There was & Washington County tra- dition that Lincoln's parents had been married in the “Dick Berry cabin” but there was no records to prove it until 1878, when William F. Brooker, then county clerk, discovered the marriage bond signed by Thomas Lincoln and Berry, dated June 10, 1806, and a mar- riage Teturn certifying the wedding by the Rev. Mr. Head married by Rev. Jesse Head (inset) The Richard Berry cabin (top) in which parents of Abraham Lincoln were | within memorial church (below) at Harrodsburg, Ky. 1 SAYS FARM TARIFF RATES INEFFECTIVE Senator Thomas, in State- ment, Refutes Radio Decla- rations of Secretary Hyde. Secretary Hyde's opinion that ¢he American farmer will benefit by ap | estimated net gain of $102 a year under | the new tariff act was attacked yes- terday by Senator Thomas, Democrat, | of Oklahoma, who asserted that the | “fallacy in the reasoning of the See- retary is that the rates on agricultural | products will be inefTective.” | Secretary Hyde discussed the agri- cultural situation recently in a radio address. “In his radio address,” Thomas sald in a statement issued through the Democratic National Committee, “Sec- | retary Hyde commended and indorsed the new tariff act as a ‘distinct gain’ for agriculture. As concrete examples of such benefits, he cites the increased duties levied on wool, eggs, long-staple | cotton and dairy products. No gain of any kind was claimed for the wheat, corn or cotton farmers Thomas contended in order to make the 42-cent tariff on wheat effective the farmers must reduce production ap- proximately 200,000,000 bushels. Corn and cotton also were on an export basis, he sald, and, therefore, could not be aided by a tariff. will be preserved as national shrine CHINESE RAIDERS ARE WITHDRAWING American Gunboat Return- ing to Hankow With Body of Slain Seaman. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI July 7.—Hankow ad- vices today indicated bands of so-called Communist raiders which recently sacked Yochow and other Yangtse Val- ley towns, killing hundreds, had with- Complexion Charge. Do men have better complexions than women, even if the fair sex uses cosmetics? That is the question being asked by many women of Britain fol- lowing the surprise they received when Dr. R. M. B. MacKenna, honorary de- matologist of Liverpool Stanley Hos- pital, in a recent number of the British Medical Journal, sounded a warning against the use of certain cosmetics. He sald: “The present trend of fashion seems to be that a women considers she is looking her best if her skin is covered with a transiucent layer of greasy substance. If the teachers in girls’ boarding schools would prohibit the use of cosmetics we would be to produce a race of women whose complexions were as good as those of men, but at present the possibility of this_eventuality seems very remote.” Hechinger Always Saves You Money on Your Building Needs GET OUR ESTIMATE!| 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-6™ & C Sts. S W. CAMP MEIGS-5 & Fla. Ave.N.E. | BRIGHTWOOD-5921 Ga Ave.NW —_— drawn into Central Hunan Province. | The situation at Shasi, about 100 miles | north of Yochow, was reported uncer- tain because of the presence of the large bodies of bandits there. The American gunboat Guam, on which a seaman, Samuel Elkins of | Brooklyn, was killed Saturday in an ex- change of fire with bandits on the Yangtse River, near Yochow, presum- ably was returning to Hankow with the | body preparatory to sending it to | Shanghai and thence to the United States. | A British gunboat was reported to | have proceeded into Tung Ting Lake en | route to Changsha, Hunan, the general | direction taken by the withdrawing | bandits. Lack of communications is proving a serious handicap in obtaining details of Communist_activities in Northern Hu- |pan and Southern Hupeh Provinces. Military censors at Hankow also are of Hers to Command An army to set her table When the housewife tells A & P her needs—by her purchases in its stores—an army of men, trained to obey her will, stands at command. And because great numbers of women who like good things and good values trade in A & P stores, the order of one housewife becomes the order ot many. 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Citing last week's increase in duty withholding virtually all details of dis- |on American automobiles entering Italy orders in areas on the Upper Yangtse. |and press accounts that 14 governments News of developments on the North-| had representatives in Paris planning & ern Honan front. where government and | joint movement against the new Ameri- rebel armies are locked in a battle, also | can tariff structure, the Oklahoman was lacking. | said: e “It is plain that the nations filing END OF RHINE CONTROL | Eioieyis before the Ways and Means IS OBSERVED IN PARIS and Finance Committees inst the rates carried in the tariff law are now Bishop of Nice Presides at Service Attended by American and following up such protests with action. It is further plain that, since we ini- Allied Friends. By the Associated Press. tiated the movement of ralsing our PARIS, July 7.—Gen. Willam W.| tarlff rates, we are now in no position to complain because other countries are imitating our example.” Harts, American milltary attache here; | representatives of the American Legion | |and other invited Americans yesterday | attended solemn mass fn the Chapel of | | St. Louis at the Hotel des Invalides, | celebrating the end of the Rhineland | occupation. The service was presided | | over by the Bishop of Nice, who for- | | merly was chaplain of the chief Rhine | army. Great numbers of veterans, as well as representatives of the French govern- ment and its war allics, were present. ekt 1,300 Times to Sunday School. RALEIGH, N. C, (®.—For 1,300 successive Sundays Edward F. Lewis has attended the same Sunday school class and listened to the same teacher, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, National Capital Club, 1523 I street, tonight. Meeting, National Association Ope posed to Blue Laws, Inc., Annapolis Ho~ tel, 7 pm. Election of officers. Meeting, Gen. Henry W. Lawton Camp, No. 4, United Spanish War Vet erans, Pythian Temple, 8 p.m, Meeting, District Optometric Soclety, Raleigh Hotel, 7:30 p.m, FUTURE. Luncheon meeting, Washington Round Table, University Club, tomorrow, 12:30 pm. Meeting. Civitan Club, Congressional Country Club, tomorrow, 6:30 p.m. Luncheon, Washington Chamber of Commerce, small ball room Willard Ho= tel, tomorrow, 1 p.m., in honor of po- licemen and firemen. Kennel Electric Project- Huge. Cables carrying 1,000,000 horsepower at 380,000 volts will be supported by towers rising above the sea in a pro- posed plan to transmit electric power from Norway to Germany by way of Sweden and Denmark. The line would | be 625 miles long. The towers would | be about 600 feet high. in order not to obstruct navigation. The cost of the project is estimated at $200,000,000. As| Norway, with its many waterfalls, has & production capacity of 16,500,000 horsepower, promoters say the genera- tion is only a matter of raising capital. 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