Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1930, Page 10

A—10 w= THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930. DR. BATILE HEADS ASSOCIATION AGAIN All Officers Re-elected by Six- iteenth Street Highlands Citizens’ Group. Dr. Lewis J. Battle was re-elected president of the Sixteenth Street High- lands Citizens’ Association at its annual meeting for the election of officers in Sixth Presbyterian Church last hl All other officers of the associa- tion also were re-elected. They are: Harry A. Wood, first vice president; Edgar C. Snyder, United States Mar- shal for the District, second vice presi- dent; Dr. J. W, Hollingsworth, secre- tary, and D. H. Lum, treasurer; George B. Bishop and Henry I. Quinn were re-elected delegates to the Federation ©of Citizens’ Associations. After being nominated for president Dr. Battle nominated Mr. Snyder, the second vice president, for president, but Mr. Snyder declined and moved trat the nominations be closed. This re- sulted in the unanimous re-election of the entire slate. Mr. Quinn reported on the recent meeting of the Federation of Citizens’| Associations and charged there has been evidence of factions within the federa- tion. In this connection he said he had been informed of “cases” where the| administration of the federation had| ished” certain members by not supporting them for an office n the federation because those members had | voted a certain way on some question that had come up. A resolution to ask the District Com- missioners to perfect plans for a whole- | sale produce market was referred to & | committee. ACCIDENT, FATAL TO BOY, IS HELD UNAVOIDABLE Coroner Investigates Death of Ar- thur Cross, 7, Victim of Automobile. An inquest conducted at the morgue wrdny by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt circumstances attending t.he !-m u:ciden'. Saturday afternoon Arthur Cross, 7 years old, of 2509 K street, resulted in a verdict of acci- dental death. ‘The child and companions were play- ing on the sidewalk, and Arthur ran to the roadway, reaching there in time to| get_knocked down by the -uwmobuq of Mrs. Mary V. Lambert, 35 years old, of 1200 Thirty-seventh street. The Jury concluded the accident Was un- avoidable. NURSERY AREAS SOUGHT Recreational and Park Extension Calls for Space. ‘The Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks is now faced 'l!-h the problem of finding suitable nursery areas in the parks for the development of its future trees and shrubs, made necessary by the exumlon of recrea~ tional and parl Lieut. cal B Gnnt, director of public lmfldlnzx and pubiic parks, P to establish 2 nursery in Ana- costia Park. The office now has a nursery in East Potomac Park, but, due to the expansion of the golf course and the growing tourists’ camp nearby, room for it must be found elsewhere. ol Four Injured in Gas Explosion. MIDDLEPORT, Ohio, October 7 (P). injured seriously buldings district here last night. The blast, followed by fire, was belleved to have been caused by a gas main. Officials estimated the damage at about $50,000. BRIDE DISAPPEARS AFTER AD WEDDING Finding of Unidentified Body Intensifies Search for Woman’s Husband. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, October 7.—Mrs. Cora Belle Hackett, who met a man through a want ad and borrowed $500 to marry him last June 16, has vanished. In the Lac Du Flambeau region of Wisconsin, where she went on her honeymoon, a woman's body has been found. It is yet unidentified, but it may be Mrs. Hackett's. ‘The man she married, George W. E. Perry, is missing, too. But he made | one appearance during the time he was presumed to be on his honeymoon. That appearance was in Cleveland, | Ohio, at the home of his first wife— | his only legal wife, authorities say. He | was driving a tan-colored sedan, and he was alone, and Mrs. Hackett owned & tan-colored sedan. Answers Advertisement. ‘The want ad that Mrs. Hackett, 42 | years old, answered was for a woman companion on a trip to California. She went to the acdress given and met | Perry. He said his mother was wealthy; that she regarded him as a spendthrift, {but that she was prepared to set him |up in business provided he would settle | down. He suggested he was ready to | settle down, and he proposec: marriage. | Mrs. Hackett accepted. Perry needed $500 for the journey to his mother in California. Mrs. Hackett, her friends revealed, borrowed that sum at a loan bank, although she was un- derstood to be in comfortable circum- stances and a property owner. They were married in mid-June, and Jeft, for ‘the Lac Du Flambeau region on their honeymoon. 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He sald the clothing had been given him by his “aunt,” a Mrs. Cora Bell chkett Shortly afterward Perry le(t Cleve- land. He said he was going to Texas. L;(l:s Perry has not heard from him since. In a book found among the “wealthy aunt’s” effects, Mrs. Perry discovered the address of Mrs. W. H. Rogers of Chicago. She_wrote, in curlosity, in- quiring about Mrs. Hackett—“Mr. Per- ry’s aunt.” Mrs. Rogers replied that Mrs. Hackett was not Perry’s aunt, but his wife. Meanwhile Mrs. Hackett’s sister in New York, MBs Peggy L. Young, be- came concerned over her-failure to hear from. Mrs, Hackett. She engaged coun- sel to investigate. Dressed in Riding Habit. Chicago police thus have been inter- ested. They regard the fact that Mrs. Hackett and Perry were last heard from in the Lac Du Flambeau region as sig- nificant, especially in view of the dis- covery of a woman’s body there. The sheriff of Vilas County, Wisc., said no woman had been reported miss- ing in that section. 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