Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1930, Page 21

AVEREWED - IN SWINDLE PROBE Police Say From $100,000 to $2,000,000 Obtained in Leading Cities. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 19 1930—PA-RT [0) T0 ARRIVE TODAY All Others In Annual Interna- tional Contest Due Here by Wednesday. - SITE OF BRITISH SURRENDER FIXED Army. Englnim * Determine Spot Where Cornwallis Gave Up Sword. CUP TO BE GIVEN CHAMPION OliATOll When the gavel falls at 8 o'clock next By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, October 18.— Three men and two women were held by po- lice in Cleveland and Buffalo today for question! in the investigation of a national d“:mry swindle ring which private ives said had fraudulently obtained between-$100,000 and §3,000,~ 000 from prominent persons in Cleve- land, Buffalo, Detroit, Boston and sev- eral other cities. Benjamin Miller, alias Harry Mun- son, “brains” of the gang, and Walter Mark were held in Buffalo. % WHERE CORNWALLIS Washington on October 19, 1781, has SURRENDERED been finally definitely determined for pres history by an intensive military engi- neers’ study in the War Department. e ”m"&“\.&w of s bn:o: This decision regarding .the exact A D t scholars. spot of surrender is of timely impor- foreign it to nt their homelands, right to represei Joen tance because it will be fittingly marked for the sesquicentennial celebration at Yorktown next year, and is to be in- cluded 2 the United States Government for a Colonial National Monument under the Cramton act, which authorizes an ap- propriation of half a million dollars for uisition ot land in the Jamestown, , Yorktown region known of the Republic.” stinction wallis’ sword from Gen. O'Hara. Yrm- many years there has stood in Monument,” in & weeds, surrounded by rusty _iron fence. - A tablet at this insignificant woefully neglected monument ianding_the "Briian foree, Sur” commang , sur- to Gen. Washington, 19 It has long been known this was not the exact spot, but many tourists on patriotic pilgrimages have. ived, and the question natu- “If that is not the spot, true site of surrender?’ Oct., that Egiegéis s g5 :fi%fiiia rastiLs HH £ it g 1 ] °g Egisgfis & il ; | i 1] gEf | $hiEj =7of héusSsE:a FH I EE:E i G i g i} ki ] surren second parallel of trenches, nearest the town occupied by the Brlust crossed the road running south from “The Horn,” which is over the old Revolutionary roadbed. Gen. O’Hara surrendered the sword of British au- thority to Gen. Lincoln at the line of trenches which would be those reached riding out from Yorktown. Mathieu Dumas, a staff officer wrote: “I had orders to go and meet the troo] the garrison, and to direct columns. I placed myself at O'Hara's left band. As we approached the trenches, he asked' me where Gen. Rochembeau was. ‘On our left,’ I said, ‘at the head of the French line’ The English general urged his horse for- ward to present W to the French general, Guessing his intention 1 lloped on to E:cu myself between and M. de hambeau, who at Gen. | but in the area to be purchased by After to the Army H s a8 g B 8 ;a g g i e R ,fg 8 £ 2 f 1 El is i H gk E ! ; i i ;Eg EEE i i g -4 ! E%Eg 1Y g*f FEH % 8ps oF Exde E% ! gi BEg i ity i i I g i i | B » ¢ ¥ i Es e 3 é g ¢ : | b i 7 4 I % § L o i il : i 8 i i 1 s § 1 *B | o | icen tio of Washington’s birth in 1932. KINGSFORD-SMITH SMASHES RECORD Lands in Australia Five Days Ahead of Hinkler Record Time From England. By the Assoclated Press. | Kingsford-Smith landed here at 32:36 this afternoon on his flight from Eng- land, breaking the record of Bert Suof | Hinkler by five days. Hinkler made the England-Australia flight in 15!, days. Smith and Fligh taking off this morning from Timor. CAR THIEF SPECIALIST BACK FROM SICK LEAVE After Grave Illness From Brain Tumor. PORT DARWIN, Australia, October o~ |19 (Sunday)—Wing Comdr. Charles |ered ‘4t FIDO, 11 POUNDS OF VICIOUSNESS, | PILOTSINU. 3. FAR 167,000,000 INSULL EXCEED ARPLANES| DEAL LAID 70 B0B District Has 61 Flying Craft!Inquiry Shows Missing Finan- : Aside From Those of Army cier Entered Utilities and Navy. Contract. licensed aircraft pi- [ By the Associated Press. States still continues| NEW YORK, October 18.—A dis- the of licensed | closure that Charles V. Bob, missing \ financier, had entered into a contract to purchase a $7,000,000 interest in the PFederal Electric Co. of Chicago, one of Samuel Insull's utility enterprises, fea- tured the State’s investigation of Bob's manifold Wall Street promotions today. Assistant Attorney General Wash- e | burn, chief of the State Bureau of Se- curities, sald Bob put up as security for the contract stock in his various enter- prizes, including $3,500,000 in Metal & Mining Shares, Inc., and $1,500,000 in stock of the Westward Ho Hotel at Phoenix, Ariz. The stockholders and the boards of directors were unaware said, and : £ SEE Eg i 2 { ; i : i § i I $14.95 DAY i : ] g 1] i i ;*’ s Spinet desk fin- ished in grained ::ho'n-y. 31 ‘hes wide with extra drawer. Dull hand-rubbed fin- ish and ‘construction i % g $ i § : i 3 I g g $ | £) i EE 5255 aagé o e %Eés it E i ] value, i i ] 5 ¢ $14.95 DAY $27.50 36.Inch 145 Cox g 7 erican TR 3 SURVIVORS OF FATAL CRASH NEAR DEATH Duke University Youths Hurt on Wiy u;.:n:r.ln o $14.95 DAY I SR $26.50 Walnut Chest of Drawers ‘of i 8148 \E."‘..'::"i".'.-".::% - By the Associated Press. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 18. —Two students who survived an auto- LEAGUE BOARD FINDS DECREASE IN NARCOTICS | nospi By the Associated Press. GENEVA, October 18. nual reports for the Council, the Leagu 914.95 DAY $29.75 Enamel Breakfast Set : $14. l%:l:%"r»- and !.r! e compination T Choles Henry , Hager- students mmvumy. Ingraham, High Point, N. C,, t at North Oarolina State Col- were on their way to attend tite Duke-Navy foot ball game at Annapolis ing | town, Md., in 1929 in excess of the world's needs. $14.95 DAY $29 to $49 BEDS g $14.%8 PGS ] MUST WEAR MUZZLE, SAYS COURT Eié’ii | $14.95 DAY $22 Finest Coil BED SPRING sde of Ric! tors | of the | Paris faculty, Dr. Paul G. Gleis of the Ct:h:l*lc University of America faculty, .| and Dr. $29.50 Mahogany SPINET DESK 4 sirable desk an outstanding HESs their visit to Washington and the school of one of their number. ‘The Canadian Club will entertain the - | orators at luncheon at 1 o'clock Thurs- afternoon, the King-Smith a dinner dance day , while Studio will give them in their honor at 7 o'clock that eve- l%iol:oylvmhe'.!aenmt.lo(lmnm-‘ at & dinner dance at the Virginia home of Randolph Leigh, director general of the contest, and Mrs. Leigh, at 7 o'clock Friday night. ‘The orators’ stay in the Capital will be marked also by sightseeing trips. Judges are Selected. In the contest finals, the boys will be judged by Dr. Louls J. A. Richard - ‘Wilson of the Un ol v ST & the L’Ecole de Psycl of Grattan Doyle, dean of e at T. J. Cowle, U. 8. N,, retired. Each contestant will be allowed six minutes in which to deliver his d oration after which he will be wmr:n by Michael Mac- White, minister of the Irish Free State to the United States, who will be in- uced by Mr. Leigh. Mercier Harvard University faculty, Dr. | trod week and the supply is nearly ex- hausted. A few of the tickets remain ga""fl;b and :.::ehmy be hnd':y ;_g; conf ieadquarters stff%umm.. In Summer de in the wit the Arctic Circle. PEERLESS FURNITURE CO. We have taken $14.95 DAY $29.50 Inner Coil MATTRESS $29.50 Inner- Cofl Mattress —do not miss $14.95 DAY $25 to $35 & Shades £30 51485 hundreds of fine quality furniture items from our regu- lar stock and reduced them all to $14.95 to make Monday a record-break- ing day in VALUE! Every cne of these items represent a tremendous saving. READ THEM ALL! ! $31.28 » mons’ Frank Ross, alias Carpenter; Mrs. Ma- bel Marks, 40, and Mrs. Irene Ross, 27, fl ;l ;{;w York, were halld in Cleve- - ey were arrested last night at & fashionable hotel here. " 4 Catherine. Moore, maid at the” home of Mrs. Hayden Eames, today identified - Ross as the man w;;g‘nbmned from had been tal but could net be used. Similar schemes were used by the gang in the several cities to obtain eopiet'%!h mnurm o{r prominent per- sons, ien were forged on checks and cashed at banks. wi MADRID POLICE SEIZE 18 IN RADICAL QUARTERS Quantities of Propaganda Intended to Incite Students and Farm Workers Taken in Raid. By the Associated Press. ded ‘to incite stu- farm workers to revolutiom, as uncovering de Communist organization. - i inent persons were listed as be- m";:fl“fl H{‘fh’:i?e. aged 3, of zh— 2 Rooms, Kitchen, Bath | and Reception Room Electric Refrigeration .Reasonable Rental THE ARGONNE 16th and Columbia Road N.W. 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