Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1930, Page 29

G 8T AR, WASHINGTON, D HURLEY CONCLUDES TRIP OF INSPECTION Declares No One Mississippi Control Plan Will Be Adopted Alone. Y the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, La., September 17. ~None of the present plans of flood |and then formally accepted custody of | —Veterans of the Civil War, both Union | eontrol in the Mississippi Valley will be | the battlefield on bebalf of the United | and Confederate survivors, who fought adopted in its entirety, Secretary of War Hurley told 400 guests at & lunch- eon here yesterday at the conclusion of his inspection tour of the entire river flood area ‘The best points of the four or five good plans will be incorporated in one general plan, he said. He urged the eople in the valley to have faith in erbert Hoover and the United States Army Engineers. Prom the luncheon table he went to the air fleld and left by plane for Chat- tanooga, Tenn., on his return trip to Washington. He received a warm re- ception in New Orleans and many peo- ple were turned away from the lunch- hard times and pleading for Federal appropriations. The United States | Government has launched the greatest internal improvement in its history, with nearly a half billion dollars au- thorized,” he said. g Gen. T. Q. Ashburn, head of the In- land Waterways Corporation, revealed ‘(hnt Secretary Hurley also was inter- | ested in the romance of the Mississipp! | { River and had authorized him to name | |the new Federal barges Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Prairie Benn and Jim Bludsoe. To prove his knowledge of the river lore, Secretary Hurley re—‘ cited at the luncheon John Hay's poem in which “Jim Bludsoe held her norzle ‘ | agin’ the bank till the last galoot was ashore.” | In the morning the Secretary visited | Chalmette battlefield, where Andrew | Jackson turned back the British in- | vaders. He paid a tribute to Jackson | States Government from the United | Daughters, who had maintained the | grounds until Congress voted to take it over. NEW YORK, September 17 (#)— Edmund A. Rieder, hotel manager, ad- vertises that he will not be responsible for bills contracted by his wife, Rose Perfect, musical comedy star, But they have had no disagreement. She is in accord with him on the matter, insists. The idea is precaution to pro- tect himself, as artists have no idea of | B | Wife Accepts Money Curb. | | military and civil officials. VETERANS MARKING ANTIETAM BATILE Gen. Connor to Speak to Survivors of Civil War at Scene. Special Dispatch to The HAGERSTOWN, Md., September 17. at the bloody battle of Antietam, Sharps- burg, today descended upon the little town near this city from all sections of the United States, to celebrate the anniversary of the start of the battle| on_September 17, 1862. The Los Angeles, big naval dirigible, will participate in the celebration, flying | over the battlefield this afternoon while | addresses will be delivered by prominent | Gen. Connor to Talk. A number of veterans, some of them over 90 years of age, have made the journey to Sharpsburg from many hun- dreds of miles away. Maj. Gen. William D, Connor, commandant of the Army mander in chief, Sons of Union Veter- ans, Rochester, N. Y.; Charles T. Nor- man,/commande¥ in chief, Sons of Con- federate Veterans, Richmond, Vi E. H. Pitcher, past department commander, Sons of Union Veterans, Baltimore, and Representative Pred N. Zihlman. Parade Is Planned. A parade will precede the program, gan, Colo; Thomas C. Oaseau, com r and will be participated in by many organizations, some of the marchers ap- | pearing in costumes of the Civil War period. The reunion will hold & mass | meeting tonight. The climax will be | reached Saturday afternoon with a big | ox roast. War historians hold that the | famous Antietam Battle was a draw, al- | though some point to the fact that the Confederate forces of Gen. Lee retreated ing given President Lincoln the oppor- tunity to issue the proclamation of | emancipation, with the North regarding | the “dra & victory for the Union forces. The Confederate forces retreat- ed after having bee McClellan’s army had the Federal gen- eral sought to renew the conflict. Circumstances Alter Cases. FREEPORT, N. Y., September 17 (). | —Time was when Alvin E, Edwards, | county district attorney in this part of | Long Island, was disturbed by the noise of planes overhead. He spoke his mind often about the nuisances. Then some- body gave him a plane ride when he needed to get somewhere in a hurry. Now he is to study to be a fiyer himself. | LINGLE WITNESSES to Virginia the day following, after hav- | BY the Associated Ps Four persons who witnessed the murder | of Alfred “Jake” Lingle, Chicago Tri- |~ | bune reporter, were expected today to 'n ready to meet view Theodore | fessed rum runner and a suspect in the | Lingle slaying. | charges, still was in jail without bond. the State's attorney's office in Chicago, C., WED SEPTEMBER 17, 1930 dog.” was given by his young wife, in Indianapolis today. | _She said after they were married Au- | gust 12, at Harrodsburg, Ky, Gelsking | told her he couldn't go straight “with the coppers trying 1o pin & lot of murders on me.” Biggest Chinese Iannd;ymnn Dies. NEW YORK, September 17 (#).— Charlie Lee of Long Branch, N. J., who, in view of friends, was the biggest Chinese laundryman in the world, is dead. A special coffin had to be built. Charlie was 6 feet 2 inches and weighed 275. Members of the Eng family, at whose hone he died in New York's Chinatown, said he abandoned chop- sticks because he could eat faster with & fork. He had two pounds of meat at & meal and sometimes three bottles of beer. 10 FAGE SUSPECT Louisville Prisoner, “Ted” Geisking, Awaits Four From Chicago. LOUISVILLE, Ky., September 17.— | THE ARGONNE 16th and Columbia Road N.W. Living Room,_Dining Room, Bed Room, Kitchen and Bath ELECTRIC REFRIGERATION “Ted"” Geisking, con- Geisking, arrested Friday on vagrancy | Patrick Roche, chief investigator for arrived here last night and went into consultation with Maj. M. Rey Yar- berry, chief of detectives. He had been reported in dispatches from Chicago as not satisfled with the evidence he had | agalnst Gelsking, but he said after the conference that if any of the witnesses | FURNITURE RFNYING BA OFFICE Free Parking Space' for Customers” Autos—E St. Between 6th and 7th - THE HECHT CO. F Street at 7th eon the value of money. War College, Washington, will make the s of the Lingle murder identify Gelsking, | FURNITURE The Secretary urged that the “State G T & | principal address this afternoon. | . More than $17,000,000 worth of Amer- and municipalities formulate and launch internal improvement programs of their | own instead of standing idle, bewailing Howe's sight of his wife darmning with | Among the other speakers will be the eye of the needle first gave him the ' James E. Jewel, commander in chief, | ican agricultural implements were im- ported into Canada in the first half of idea of his sewing machin Grand Army of the Republic, Fort Mor- this year. }:e has plenty of evidence to convict | im. A degcription of Gelskin, as “l‘ sweet boy who wouldn't eve Free Auto International Yacht Races follow their course on a bulletin board outside THE HECHT CO. 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