Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1930, Page 21

GAS SCHOLARSHP | AWARD ANNOUNCED L. Bertram Nye Wins Ex-| . penses for Johns Hopkins } Engineering Course. L. Betram Nye, 17 years old, of 3002 Thirty-second street, yesterday was awarded the $1,800 scholarship offered by the Washington Gas Light Co. to pursue a course in gas engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Nye was the winner in competitive examinations among Washington boys for the honor. The award was made officially by George A. G. Wood, president of the eompany. Mr. Wood announced that he had been asked by an outside donor, a pub- lic utility company operating in Mary- and, to assist in making a similar scholarship award, and had selected , William H. Loving of 810 Aspen street and Ashton Scharr of 1324 Emerson street, who had tied for second place in the examination. The two young men will receive a split scholarship for the first year. Additiopal scholarships will be provided to take care ol the full tuition and laboratory expenses for the following years, it was stated. In the contest, in addition to the technical examination, the contestants were asked: “If you were given $100,000 and at the same itme had been told by the doctors you had only a year to live, what would you do?" Nye, whose father is an ofiicial of the Ameriean Surety Co., was graduated from Central High School this year. Outside the school where he was highly rated by his teachers, his chief interest was in drama. He was captain of the | stage crew at Central and took a promi- nent part in dramatic work. Loving, who is 20 years old, was gradu- | ated from McKinley High in 1929 and then attended American University for & year. He spent the past Summer as 8 rodman in Maine with the United States Geological Survey. His chief outside interest is music. At McKinley he was a member of both the Glee Club and the orchestra. His father is with the United States Forestry Service. Scharr was graduated from McKinley High in 1928 and from Devitt Prepara- tory School in 1929, where he was manager of the foot ball team. For the past year he has been an employe of the Washington Gas Light Co. BRAZILIAN MOBS LYNCH 2 POLICEMEN Killing of Farmer, Who Resisted Search for Arms Results in Storming of Jail. By the Associated Press. PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, September | 24 —Dispatches from the town of Sao Lourenco today said that two police officers had been lynched by the mad- dened populace for killing a farmer who Tesisted a_personal search for arms. Police Inspector Jose Ricardo Lino and his assistant were taken from the town jail and lynched in the streets. The officers stopped a farmer named Ascendino Centeno Crespo as he was coming into town with his family. The ins) r following Crespo into a store, teld him he had come to disarm him. tor % ‘The rolicemen were taken to Lhe jail, but “xhen the populace learned of the shocting, they stormed the building and lynched the officers. SICAE: T M SR EDWIN EARHART, FATHER OF AMELIA, DIES AT 58! Attorney Expires in Los Angeles Shortly After Daughter Leaves for East in Plane. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 24.—Ed- win 8. Earhart, 58, attorney and father of Amelia Earhart, aviatrix, died yes- terday a few hours after his daughter departed by airplane for her home in New York. Miss Earhart came here last week to | visit her father, who was seriously il He became much beiter yesterday and she began her return irip Earhart was a son of a pioneer Luth- eran minister in Atchison County, Kans. He was graduated from Thiel College, Pennsylvania, and studied law at the University of Kansas. In 1895 | he married Amy Otis, daughter of Judge and Mrs. A. G. Otis, Atchison, Kans. Two daughters were born to them, Mrs. Abbott Morrissey of Medford, Mass., and Amelia. After the death of his first wife, Earhart married Helen McPherson of Los Angeles, and came here five years Earhart was connected for several years with the legal and claims de-| ents of various railroads. Poor ealth forced him to give up his work several years ago. HOME SITE “HAULED OFF” Californian Sued Grader for Al-] leged Removal of Dirt. SAN FRANCISCO, September 24| (N.AANA.) —The dream of Steve An- derson, carpenter, was carted off in a dirt truck and Max Rosenberg, a grad- | ing contractor, has a suit on his hands | for $9.430 damages. | Steve had a beautiful site picked out | and bought for his “dr home.” The | chief feature of the site was its high | position, which command-d a fine view | of San Francisco Bay he other day | he discovered that 2,000 square feet of | dirt had been removed and the view had completely disappeared. 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