Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1930, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OC TOBER 3, 1930. * A-S§ PROBE OF CANNON |WOMAN LOSES LIFE | NOW SEEN CERTAIN Bishop Still Unaware | of I Cha'rges, He Says, After " Seeing Bishop Ainsworth. By the Associated Press. Bishop James Cannon, jr., sald today he was still unaware of the nature of the charges which have been made against him, although he conferred last night with Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, in whose custody the charges rest. An investigation of the complaints -rmn the dry leader appears certain. ‘They were brought by four fellow mem- bers of the clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and are under- stood to deal partly with the stock market and political activities of Cannon. The bishop said in his office today he was standing by the position he took in a cable to the Associated Press while on the seas returning to the United States from Brazil—namely, that the procedure in bringing the charges ‘was irregular. This has been denied by those who are sponsoring the charges and calling for a church trial. Bishop Ainsworth Returns. Bishop Ainsworth returned last night to Birmingham, Ala. He had conferred in Richmond with the traveling elders who brought the charges. He is un- derstood by those close to him to be planning to follow the regular proced- ure ordered by ghe church for such cases, which provides that the bishop to whom charges are made appoint a committee to investigate and decide ASFIREROUTS 200 |Apartment House. on Chapin Street Wrecked, Another Damaged by Blaze. (Continued From First Page.) near the gas meters. Firemen con- S | ctirrec in this belief. P. H. Collins, who lives on the first floor with his brother, J. B. Collins, discovered the flames coming up the stairs from the cellar to the first floor at about 2:45 o'clock. He said a colored man on the first floor banged on the doors to awaken the tenants while he ran to the mail boxes at the front of the bullding and began ringing the bells of all the apartments. The first fire alarm was turned in by Mrs. Tudor Mask, 121 Chapin street, when she heard screams and saw flames in the apartment house next door. Her husband climbed to the roof of his home, where he helped rescue the Castle baby and Mrs. Castle. Mr. Mask, who was celebrating a birthday, w preparing for bed when the fire was discovered. Although the Mask residence later was nearly filled with smoke, the occupants remain°d in the building, and aided many of the Denver and Hillside Apartments occupants, who went in the home to get warm, many of them scantily clad. The rapid spread of the fire was attributed to the melting of gas con- nections at the meters in the cellar whiéh forced the flames up through the halls to the roof. whether a church trial is necessary. The discipline provides that if such a trial is decided upon, the accused bishop can be suspended until the fol- lowing General Conference. The next one is in 1934. “The conference with Bishop Ains- worth was official,” Bishop Cannon said today, declining to discuss its pur- ‘I*have never seen the charges” he added. “Bishop Ainsworth did yot have them with him. Therefore I do not know yet what they are, any more than what I have seen in the newspapers.” Insisting he had nothing to add to his cable to the Associated Press. Bish- op Cannon said, “I stand by that radio statement—I usually stick by what I ay.” Reiferates Statement. Asked if he could respond to a re- cently published declaration by the elders that the procedure was in ac- cord with “the spirit and the letter” of the church discipline, Bishop Can- mon explained: “I said in that cable that the discipline required ‘careful inquiry’ before the charges were made,” Bishop Cannon said, “and that that of necessity re- quires conferring with me.” ‘The charges, understood to deal with the stock market and political activities of the bishop, as well as other phases of his conduct, were filed by Dr. Forrest J. Prettyman of Baltimore, Dr. I. P. Martin of Abingdpn, Va.; Dr. Costen J. Harrell and Dr. J.'T. Mastin, both of Richmond. All four conferred with Bishop Ains- worth in Richmond on Wednesday. WEIGH BISHOP'S RESIGNATION. Executive Committee of College Con- siders Status of Cannon. RICHMOND, Va., October 3.—The ‘Times-Dispatch quotes Harry Williams, a member of the Executive Committee of the Blackstone College for Girls, at Blackstone, Va., as saying the matter of requesting the resignation of Bishop James Cannon, jr., as chairman of the institution’s board of trustees was dis- cussed by the board on September 1. The paper says Willlams and others connected with the school declined to say whether the question of asking the bishop's Tesignation as chairman was the outgrowth of charges recently filed against Bishop Cannon by four traveling elders of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Bishop Cannon founded the Black- stone College for Girls and was its head for 24 years. MRS. EDDY IS BACKED AS COUNCIL LEADER Nominating Committee Names New York Woman for Girl Scout Official Po By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, October 3.—A reco- mendation that Mrs. Prederick Eddy of New York be elected president of the National Council of Girl Scouts was made today by the council’s Nominating Committee. The council is meeting here for its sixteenth annual convention. Mrs. Eddy has been third vice presi- dent and chairman of the field division. She has been & vice president since 1928 and was formerly a member of the National Finance Committee. Election of officers is to be held this afternoon. Mrs. Eddy in & report to the conven- tion this morning as chairman of the field division, said a constructive out- doors program is made available to 50.- 000 Girl Scouts each year through 526 supervised camps. Recently 103 new camps Have been added to the list regis- tered at national headquarters, she said. FOUR <ADIO TOWERS PROPOSED BY NAVY Experimental Steel Structures Will Be Erected at Bellevue—Bids Are Invited. THe Navy is getting ready to Install four steel radio towers at the Naval Research Laboratory at Bellevue, D. C., for experimental work in the super high frequency field. The Navy Department today issued invitations for bids for these radio towers and will cpen ccmmunications from brospective contractors on October 15, in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department While the towers will be entirely ex- perimental, they can be used as a stand- by station’ for Annapolis, Md., or Ar- lington, Va. should those stations be disabled for any reason, naval officials said today. The Navy will experiment independently with this new equipment but is likely to utilize the services of its vessels at sea in the conducting of re- search work into this new field of radio. The towers are to be 200 feet high. EDGE AND WIFE SAIL FOR U. S. OCTOBER 16 Ambassador Will Confer With President and Secretary Stimson on Franco-American Matters. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 3.—Ambassador and will leave on the Ile de Flames Follow Stairway. ‘The fire followed the stairsteps, cut- ting off any possible means of escape there. By the time the firemen arrived flames were shooting through the roof. The firemen had the fire under control about an hour later, but not before the flames had practically destroyed the rear part of the bullding and eaten their way forward to a number of apartments between the stairway and the front of the structure. Battalion Chief A. C. Buscher of No. 6 Truck Company, one of the first on the scene, said he saw flames shooting through the roof of the building s the truck started down the hill on Four- teenth street several blocks above Chapin street. Chief Buscher said his men immedi- ately began alding the occupants to flee down the fire escapes. Some of them tried to grab up a few belong- ings before they fled, while others were forced to hasten from the building as fast as they could, clothed in whatever articles they couid grab up in their rooms. Some were in night clothes, with & coat or blanket thrown around them, and some were without shoes or stockings. ‘There were 75 persons in the 23 apartments in the structure. Appar- ently not an apartment escaped dam- age, either from flames, smoke or water. Two bachelor apartments on the ground floor, some feet below the first floor proper, were the least damaged. Awakened by Barking Dog. Various occupants of the Denver Apartments related how they were awakened and made their escape from the burning building. J. Y. Smith, 58 years old, an in- spector for the Street-cleaning Depart- ment. was awakened by the barking of his dog, a Boston bull. He smelled smoke and, rushing out into the hall, found it fillled with smoke. He and Mrs. Smith then made their way down the back fire escape with the b Mr. Carson, the owner of the ing, was a by cries of fire. He hurried out of the building, with his wife and two children, Gilmer, 4, and Doris, 6 years old, and. returned the bullding to awaken tenants. was while on the trip back into the building that he carried Mrs. Fisher to the fire escape. Mrs. G. E. Harris, who lived on the second floor of the Denver. Apartments, with her son, Richard W. Harris, and & roomer, J. Smith,r » policeman, .was. awakened when her room filled with smoke. She awakened -her- son, Who pulled her over to the window -and carried her down sthe fire escape. A police dog was led from the building by Fireman P. W. Graves of No. 9 Engine Company, who found the dog sitting in water and apparently afraid to move. Work of Firemen Praised. George C. Wentzel, manager of prop- erties for the American Realty Co., | which owns the Hillside Apartment Building, at 1415 Chapin street, praised the speedy work of the firemen in sav- ing the latter building -from: flames. Although the fire ate its way through part of the wall, apparently littie dam- age was done to the building. Dense smoke, however, made it necessary for the lenllnu 'x?v.l ln‘vemhfln’smy, many of them on! ly clothed. Pel’msy Yp:fldtnl in the surrounding neighbcrhood were quick to respangd and give whatever llll‘l zl’;:y eoula toward rarily housing. the tenants. w‘;‘(flA A!ylnl, D.‘meu, 1407 Chapin street, an employe of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., said she was awakened by reflections from flames and declared: “I never heard such scream- ing.” She dressed and went out and led many of the apartment building occupants to her home. Various others did likewise. A report that a man was seen fleeing from the Denver Apartments before the | fire was discovered, was proved false later, when it was learned that he was an occupant of the Hillside rtments and had left to_catch an early morning train, Samuel Mader}, a tayicab driver, residing at 3541 Tenth street, told po- lice he Lad taken a passenger from the Hillside Apartments to Union Station just before the fire started. Mr. Cerson said he was unable to say what is the extent of the damage -to the building. A check was being made by officials of the Fire Department to de- termine how the fire started. The firemen were able to get the fire under control in comparatively quick order despite the fact that they were somewhat hampered at first by auto- mobiles parked along Chapin streat, a narrow thoroughfare. While firemen at 9 o'clock this morn- ing still played streams of water on the building many of the eceupants climbed the fire escapes to their apart- ments and brought down what belong- ings they needed for immediate use. Policeman G. H. Chrisman of No. 7 precinct made his way to the fourth floor while the flames were Tomring through the building and recovered $69 in cash and jeweiry left in-her apart- ment by a woman occupant, FUGITIVE ARRESTED Finger Prints Identify Colored Man Arrested in Baltimore. Richard Clay Bundy, colored, 21 years old, wanted as a fugitive from the District Reformatory at Lorton, Va., Iwhere he was serving a term of four | years for robbery, is under arrest in Bal- timoe. More than two years ago Bundy wis arrested on a charge of murder, it having been alleged that he knocked down another man by a blow with his fict, the latter subsequently dying. The prisoner was acquitted. year. early this week as a suspicious person, France October 16 for the United States on the Ambassador’s regular two-month vacation. ‘While in America the Ambassador will confer with President Hoover and Sec- retary Stimson on general matters of Franco-American controversy. He will celebrate his birthday anni- versary, November 20, in America. local police were informed, and gave his name as George Arthur Moore. ints_sent here by the more police ‘resulted in Detective Fred- erick Sandberg, identification expert, identif; him as the fugitive. De- tectives Sweeney and Paul W. Jones went to Baltimore today to- get the fugitive. . . P! right: J. corridor outside their apartment. Left center: Tudor W. Mask, who caught the year-old son of Mrs. Alfred Castle (sitting), when she dro) from the window of her apartment to the roof of his home, 1421 Chapin street. Right center: A group of ‘were forced to flee, scantily clad. Annie Belle Collins. Upper left: View of the roof of 1419 Chapin street after the flames had wrecked the interior early today. Upper Y. Smith with his Boston terrier, whose barks awakened Mr. and Mrs. Smith as the-flames and smoke filled the him lents who Left to right: Richard Harris, J. B. Collins, Edith Collins, Helen Nisewarner and: Lower left: Alfred Castle, jr, who was dropped from a window by his mother and caught by Tudor Mask on a nearby roof. Lower right: The Mask home, 1421 Chapin street, was turned into a place of refuge for many of those forced to flee from the flames. Those in this group (left to right) are: Thomas Terrill, Ralph Cole, Elma Mask, Doris Carson, Mrs. Louise Hawkins, Mrs. G. E. Harrls, Mrs. Earl Carson and Gilmer Carson. burned apartment house. is owner of the Mrs. Carson’s husband, father of Doris and Gilmer, His family was forced to flee with the other occupants. —Star Staft Photos. WOULD TRAIN YOUNG MEN .AS NATION’S-DEFENDERS Maj. Knowlton, in Address, Stresses the Advantages of Citizens’ Military Camps. Protection of the United States through training of the younger generation in the Citizens’ Military Training Camps was ~ These DIAMONDS have all been “taken in trade” and their value is 100% . . . but due to their slight imper- fections we are unable to use them in our stock of PERFECT DIAMONDS... therefore, we are offer- ing them at'these un- believable prices to ef- fect an immediate dis- posal . . . one of them is illustrated. TAKEN 708 7th St. N.W. advocated by Maj. Don S. Knowlton, United States Marine Corps Reserves, in s[leuh\l before the Cosmopolitan Club al the Carlton Hotel yesterday. With the curtailment of the forces of the| Army anc Navy, it is necessary that the United States Frovide a means of pro- tection in the future, and with camp | training, men could enter the service in | time of war with a knowledge of military tactics, he said. ‘The first Fall frolic of the club, an- nounced by Stokes Sammons, chairman of the committee in charge, will be held | '| ONCE A YEAR SALE OF | DIAMONDS IN° TRADE For Example—This Group REGULAR $100 GENUINE , DIAMONDS Taken in Trade Slightly Imperfect 569‘75 $1 Down—1 Year to Pay Immediate Possession iz &Son Lz 171072 709 14th St. N.W. at the Raleigh Hotel on October 16. Mr. Sammons is being assisted by Frank Ghiselli, James Nolan, Charles Watson, Harold 'Smith, Michael Schaefer, An- thony Auth, Paul Davis, Lewis A. Payne, Jerome Seks and Leon Oppenheimer. Dr. J. Rozier Biggs, chairman of the SOL HERZOG When a he buys MEN One & SU - SovLHe Cosmopolitan Club Service Medal Com- mittee, sannounced that nominations for | this annual award are now open. This | medal is awarded each year to_the per- | son in the community deemed to have | performed the most outstanding service. ‘ : | man gets something extra for his money . . quickly! are snapping up these unusual $50, %45 & $40 2-Pants ITS at fi.so Any number of men have told us that they were pleas- antly surprised at the MAR- VELOUS FABRICS — the MARVELOUS STYLE—the LARGE ASSORTMENT— and the LARGE SAVING!! F Street ar Qth | | [ HOOVER ADDRESS HELD SIGNIFICANT Pronouncement at Cleveland Regarded as One of Best Since Market Crash. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. CLEVELAND, October 3.—President Hoover made here the most constructive d significant pronouncement that has come from the Chief Executive since the stock market crashed a year ago and the business deprersion started. ‘With his audience comprising the members of the American Bankers’ As- sociation—the counselors and advisers .| of American business, as he chose to call them—the Prerident analyzed the de- pression as world-wide and predicted that America would lead the world back to_prosperity. The most interesting phase of the President’s speech was his emphasis on the readiness of the Federal Reserve System to co-operate with the banks of the country in keeping money rates low. This means a supply of capital for refinancing, for necessary expansion and for readjustment of capital structures due to the effects of the depre:sion on industry. ¥ i Credit Prerequisite. “We know,” said the President in the climax of his speech, “that one of the prerequisites cf ending a depression is an ample supply of credit at low rates of interest. This supply and these rates are now available through the co-opera- tion of the banks and the Federal Re- serve System.” Such an assurance coming from the President of the United States wiil un- questionably have a stimulating effect on the credit machinery of the Nation, for it means continued assurance of low interest rates to borrowers for .com- mercial purposes at the banks and’ at the same time encourages the invest- ment bankers to float new issues, of securities. The return of an active bond market, which has been patiently awaited ever since last October and whichh only recently has put in an ap- g:lnulu’. had not altogether, convinced inkers of its permanence. When the President tells the bank- ers {nat low money rates are going to continue, he practically invites them to fill up their portfolios with good bond invesiments, as the days of higher rates in the call money market for the 8 or 9 per cent ylelds on speculative stocks are no longer possible—at least not for & long time to come. Those bankers who hesitated early in 1930 are approaching the end of 1930 with their investment portfolios rather unproductive as to in- come because they have chosen to keep too much money on call. Points to 'Underconsumption. But apart from the news that' the Government will do all in-its power to kn& money rates low—a circumstance which will cut down the fixed charges of many a business conducted -on credit—the President urged the bankers to adopt a philosophy of timism. He pointed to i essary fears and pessimism” of the people and called upon the bankers to “join in the thought that there-is a time in every depression when the changed attitude of the financial agen- cies can help the upward movement in our economic forces.” Mr. Hoover, in his analysis of world= wide conditions, put his finger on the single characteristic on which many business leaders have lately been be- ginning to put their faith—the under- consumption that has been going on, due to diminished buying q “Most of these commodi he ex- plained, as he referred to silver, zinc, comr. cotton, wheat, coffee, sugar and rubber,” are below the level at which sufficient production can be msjntainéd for the world’s normal needs, and therefore, sooner or later must recover.” ‘With banks in liquid condition and the world compelled to begin buying for necessity, the cycle of economic prog- ress must start soon. Mr. Hoover doesn’t say just when, for the repson that nobody. knows how rapidly stocks of commodities are being depleted, but he does point confidently. to the ins evitable reversal of the trend in com- modity prices, which holds the key to the recovery of prosperity. (Copyrish REPORTS §1.000000 - GANG LOBBY FUND Chicago Daily Hears Under- world Is Out to Oust Po- lice Commissioner. By the Associated Press. H CHICAGO, October 3.—The Herald and Examiner hears that organized crime in Chicago is raising a million- dollar fund to be dedicated to the pur- pose of putting Police Commissioner John Alcock out of office. The newspaper quotes an undesig- nated official source: “We know the fund is being raised. | We know it is intended to be one of the biggest underworld lobby funds ever collected in Chicago—and a million dol- lars is not the limit, either. The pur- pose is to collect ‘as much as neces- saty’ And the money is to be used ‘discreetly.’ " ‘The need for “discretion” is taken to indicate that the gang powers are anx- ious to avold any “rough stuff” that might stir public indignation. ‘The newspaper was unable to say fo- day howrrln[llnd intended to use the fund to effect removal of the police com- missioner. The reason Alcock is wanted out of the way, the paper explained, s becuuse of his activity in arresting gang- slfiln and in breaking up their system of “fixes.” The eighth “public enemy” to be ar- rested was James (Fur) Sammons, who was held in’jail today on a vagrancy warrant in lieu of $50,000 bond. Sam- mons bhas a long police record, dating back to 1900, when he was sentenced for robbery. He once was sentenced to be hanged for murder, but was reprieved. BRIG. GEN. YATES BURIED IN ARLINGTON TODAY Retired Army Officer Died in Cali- fornia Hospital on Sep- tember 25. Funeral services for Brig. Gen. Arthur W. Yates, United States Army, retired, who died at Stanford Univer- sity Hospital, California, September 25, were held at Arlington Cemetery at 10 o'clock this morning, Chaplain Al- bert F, v'“fi;“ of Fort Myer officiat- ing. The norary _palll ‘ware Maj. Gen. Willam D. Connor, Brij Gen, Prancis H. Pope, Brig. Gen. Wi liam E. Horton, retired; Brig. Gen. A ol. C. F. Humphrey city, having been assistant to the quar- termaster general for several years. He is survived by his widow and a daugh- ter, Mrs. Harold P. Pullen, wife of Lieut. Harold P. Pullen, United States Navy, stationed at the Naval Academy, Annapolis. s SON BORN TO MORGAN Fourth of Family Sixteenth Grand- son of J. P. Morgan. GLEN COVE, N. Y., Ocfober 3 (#).— A new member of the house of Morgan will greet J. P. Morgan when he re- turns from abroad Iate next month. A fourth was last week to Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Morgan of Locust Vi . The child is the sixteenth 3 His Mrs. Henry formerly Catherine of Charles F. Adams, Navy. @irl Drawn Through Pipe. ter of & Tetired benker, was' smcped through a 12-inch drain of a swim- ming pool and shot into the ocean with cannon-shot speed recently. The tank was being_ cleaned an¢ the girl was e, B e 1anded headfirst in. the ocean, her bath- ing costume stripped from her body, 8. Morgan Adams, “dai hwl:rl aecuury:’m which was covered with blood. Her in- Juries were slight. New St_andards‘ of Value! Eat Your Apple in Tex; Bites! y the kf' to 0! ho "':;{,1; Folks, your dollar will surely go further this Fall than it has for “many a moon." When “Cal" Coolidge says it's time to buy, why hesitate? iy D. J. Kaufman' Greater Valuel in New Fall Sfiits 25 You'll really want to pay thirty for them. Smart Fall TOPCOATS $19.75 Silk Trimmed Splendid Tailoring Home of Smith Smart Shoes