Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1930, Page 5

Trl SUNDAY STAR, WASaiNGTLON, D. C, NOVEMBER 2, 1930—PART ONE A—S " 00.E, ENGINEERS WIN RIFLE TITLE D. C. Guardsmen Annex Sol-. dier of Marathon Trophy i Fifth Straight Year. | For the fifth consecutive year, Com- pany E, 121st Engineers, vesterds the Soldier of Marathon trophy and the company team rifle ch mpionship of the District of Columbia Natienal Guard at the Camp Simms rifle range in Congress Heights. Their score of 1,833 points out of a possible 2,100 was an even 50 points better than that mustered by the silver medal winners, Headquarters and_ Service Company, 121st Enginsers Bronze medals went to Company A, same regiment, with a 1,743 tally. Regain Victoria Trophy. Not content with the service rifle trophy, Company E also regained the Victoria trophy and automatic rifle champlionship ~hen Pirst Sergt. Wil- liam D. Putnam and Staff Sergt. Bax- ter Smii set a course record of 819 out of a yossible 1,000 points. Putnam's total of 416x500 was only three p behind the individual record establ last year by Smith. Comqapany D last year's champions, £ad to be satisfied with silver mecals oy aason of their 641 tally. Third- piace badges were awarded Company B, h scored 560. rgt. Harrv B. Parsons, Company E, wio best withstood the raw, cold, fich- tail wind which swept the range all day and augmented the natural nerv- ousness of ‘he marksmen, won indi- | vidual honors with the service vifle when he ran up a total of 324x350. ‘Ten points behind came a team- mate, Sergt. Henry M. Boudinot, who distinguished hRimself by shooting the only perfect scores at both the sitting and prone rapid-fire stages. Individual Scores. The indivicual experts scores are 13 follows: Gold medals, Company E—Sergt. Par- | sons, 324: Sergt. Boudinot, 314; Second Lieut. William R. Lane, 312; Pvt. Gil- bert L. Johnson, 296: Pvt. (First Class) Milton Kurland, 204, and Pvt. Edward A. Finlayson, 293. Pvt. Arthur A.| ‘Tomelden and Pvt. Allen W. Copeland, alternates, and First Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, team coach. 3 Silver medals, Headquarters and | Service Company—First Lieut. Edward A. McMahon, 316, team coach: Tech- nical Sergt. Frank B. Kaye, 305; Sergt. Caes:r A. Carballo, 304; Sergt. E. C. Brown, 298; Corpl. Issac F. Cornell, | 287. and Master Sergt. Edward W. Ireland, 273. €ompany A—Sergt. | and their | | Bronze modals. Franklin R. Brickles, 313, team coach First Lieut. James R. Quade, 310, team captain; Corpl. Walter E. Jessop, 207; | Sergt. Joseph R. Bordas, 289, and Bergt. C. Parker, 284. | Automatic rifie match, gold medals, | Company E—Putnam, 416, Smith, 403. | Silver medals, Company D—Sergt. Tay- lor A. Marsh, 341: Sergt. Chauncey H. Patterson, 300. Bronze medals, Com any B—First Sergt. Lloyd 76; Pvt. (First Class) CI Cosper, 284. Today the citizen-soldiers are com- peting in the novice, marksmen and expert events. An oyster bake and tur- kev shoot 15 being conducted for the entertainment of the Guardsmen and their friends. MOSES HOME DAMAGED Fire FJE Churc;: Structure Blamed on Overheated Furnace. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., November 1.— Fire yesterday did damage amounting to $300 or $400 to the home of W. F. Moses on Great Falls street, The fire was said to have been due to an over- heated furnace. Owing to the short- age of water in the town. the firemen had to use chemicals to quell the blaze yesterday. Much of the damage was due to the necessity of tearing down the walls to get at the blaze. The Falls Church Fire Department's bill for chemicals has been unusually heavy this month, as over 30 calls have been m in TONIGHT! Enjoy the Best Dollar Dinner EVERYTHING FRESH No Note: If you ever ate a better Dollar Dinner, you need not pay the checl Dinner One Dollar Cream of Chicken Soup Brofled Salmon Steak With Lemon Butter Sauce New String Beans Toasted Crackers With Cream Cheese and Jelly Peach or Burnt Almond Vai HAPPINESS RESTAURANT 1107 F STREET N.W. NNING DISTRICT GUARD RIFLE - 4 The rifie team of Compan; pany team rifle championship of the District National Guard. 4 Pyt. Arihur A. Tomelden, alternate: Second Lieut. William K. Lane, team captai First Class Milt First Class W Back row: X Riley, team coach. ABYSSINIA AWAITS ITS NEW ENPEROR Nations of World Represent- ed at Crowning Ceremony | of Solomon’s Heir. 1 n Kirland, P By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, November | 1.—There was no sleep in the mud-’ thatched cottages of this amazing town | tenight. None in tne field of tents| pitched about its edges, nor in the palace of Ras Tafari Makonnen, for when the dawn breaks tomorrow over | the 8,000-foot mountains which hem in the capital of Abyssinia Ras Tafari will | be crowned Emperor Halle Selassie I.| ‘Emperor Haile Selassie, Raz of Razzes, Lord King of Kings of Ethiopia, Con- | quering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the’ Elect of God and the Light of the| World. The little man, whose luxuriant heir and coal-black beard contrast o strangely with his frail frame, is to bear | those titles as descendant in the royal | line from King Solomon and the Queen | of Sheba. Americans have come 6,000 miles to bear the good wishes of their President. England has sent her Duke of Glou- cester. All the kingdoms of the world | have sent their representatives bearing costly gifts, and tens of thousands of native tribesmen have come out of the hills to take their part in the corona- tion of their Emperor. “There was no sleep in the palace be- cause Ras Tafari and his buxom wife, the Princess Waziru Menen, were on their knees in the Church of St. George, where the coronatfon ceremony is to take place. The tents have sprung up because all the buildings of Addis Ababa could not house the visiting throng. Addis Ababa, sprawled across two mountains and surrounded by forests of eucaluptus trees. looks like an African | Coney Isiand. Flags of a dozen nations IN WASHINGTON Sunday, November 2, 1930 Teed Frult Cup Relishes and Conserves Roast Stuffed Chicken Prime Ribs of Beef Lamb Chop Grill Fresh Vegetable Dinner Nut Muffins Hot Tea Biscuits Fresh Lima Beans Lettuce With Roquefort Dressing Orange Whipped Cream Layer Cake Apple Pie Caramel Cream Ple Fresh Fruit Jelly With Cream Baked Custard With Chocolate Sauce Stewed Figs With Cookies nilla, Chocolate, lce Cream Lime Sherbet | friendship and sympathetic assistance | | when | even more highly than the often more | Left-overs Used Tomato Bouillon Baked Idaho Potate Front row. TEAM 121st Engineers, which vesterday won the Soldier of left to right Pyt nd Pt RED CROSS PLANS } $4.042,000 DRIVE |Chairman Payne Expenditures in Report ‘ Explains ! | | for Closing Year. | More than $4,000,000 is the average, yearly cost of operating the humani- tarian services of the American Red Cross in & normal year when no major disasters oceur, according to the annual report of the organization, made public here yesterday by Judge John Barton Payne, national chairman. The report was for the fiscal year ended June 30 last. “Expenditures of the Red Cross passed | t. e $4,000,000 mark last year for only the national and international work of the soclety,” Judge Payne said. “The 3,550 chaplers of the Red Cross were estimated to have spent an additional $5.000,000 in thel 'S. “No great disaster necessitating large relief funds occurred last year, so the figure set forth gives an idea of & nor- mal Red Cross snnual expenditure for | such services as its life saving and first | ald, public health nursing, service to dis- | abled veterans and their dependent fam- | ilies and similar aid in health preser: | tion and accident prevention, through | its other national programs. The Red | Cross budget for the year ended J\me, 30. 1931, is set at $4,042,000. Undoubt- edly expenditures of the organization for this year will greatly exceed that sum.” | $1,208,151 Disaster Relief. | The annual report of the Red Cross | shows that the largest expenditure of | last year was for domestic disaster re- | sergt. Harry B. Parcons, Sergt. Henry M. Boudinot and First Lieut. Thaddeus A. | lief, '$1,208.151 having been expended | Water in Ethopian Capital Is Shut Off For Royalty’s Bath By the Associnted Press | ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, No- vember 1—The entire water sup- ply of the capital of Lthiopia tonight was shut off until the Emperor, Ras Tafari, and his Empress, Wazira Menen. could take a ceremonial bath before be- ginning _their all-night vigil front of their crowns in St. George's Cithedral. The vigil Is in preparation for their coronation tomorrow morn- ing. The failure of the water supply mystified natives and for- eigners alike, but soon was ex- plained by palace officials. wave in the sharp breeze which comes with the evening In the open spaces near the tents of the encamped thousands black war- riors of imposing physique 1ide through the evolutions of fhLe demonstration which will come tomorrow. Amazon | women, heavily armed. ride horses and | donkeys in the gaudy costumes they | will wear tomorrow, | Preparations for this celebration | have cost the government nearly three | million dollars, it is said, and Ethopia’s | technicians have worked wonders in the | construction of roads and the provi- sion of electric lights. In the press of the nations to shower honors upon the new Emperor, the United States alone has stood some- what aside. Her laws preclude the bestowal of honorary titles upon the ruler and she hLas been content to | send assurances of her good will, assistance is needed. She has sent no costly =ifts, but a simpie photo- | graph of President Hoover, who signed the portrait with his own’land. Her commercial companies, however, in token of their understanding of Ras Tafari’s modernization of his country, bave sent him gifts which the Em- peror and Empress are said to regard | costly presents from other sour es. Six weeks of work have gone wnio the construction of a great hall acioin- | ing the church. Some of the 45,000 Star Staff Photo. | tribesmen, invited to be present by the Emperor, will be seated in the hall. | The others, such of them as are for- | tunate enough to have tickets, may sit in grandstands wnch line the route over which the Emperor and his con- sort will ride after the coronation. | The first official ceremony in con- by ‘the ‘national organization. An ad- | | ditional $20.598 was spent by chapters |In the relief of small local disasters. | | These sums covered the 90 disasters oc- | curring during the year and continuing rellef in 21 disasters of previous years. | For insular and foreign disaster work the society spent $133,469. | 'The second largest expenditure was in the war service, a chartered respon- | sibility, of $882,350 for work with dis- nection with the coronatisn took place | abled veterans and their dependent today, when the Emperor, in a great | families and $271.182 for service to men purple cafe stiffy incrusted with pre- | now in the Regular Army and Navy. clous stones, unveiled a heroic cques- | First ald and life saving, which trian statue to King Menelik in the 'reaches thousands of persons through square before the cathedral industries, public utilities, police and ARE YOU TAKING PROPER CARE OF YOUR EYES Neglecting the eyes leads to serious conse- | quences—yet there are thousands who do neglect their eyes. 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SHIELDS CO. g NATIONAL 1001 New York Ave. 2668 “ fire departments, teaching first aid Tethods, and others througn pools and water resorts. teaching life-saving meth- ods. cost $273.727 Junior Red Cross, with nearly 7,000~ 000 children of grammar and high schools throughout the Nation enrolled, was carried on at an expense of $260.- 312, Public health nursing, in which service 795 nurses are employed. cost $186:907. Nutrition service. which 541 with rent, 131 with medicine and 4,062 with other of relief. | The adult me ‘m& of the Red | Cross Iast year was 4.130.966 and the | Junior Red Cross membership was 6.- 930,849, both an increase. MONTGOMER? OFFICIALS PREPARE FOR ELECTION teaches school children and their par- | ents better food habits, was carried on | At & cost of $48.204 For the supervision of its activities and general management the Red Cross expeaditure was $206,414. Health Work Outstanding. The health work carried on in the Philippine Islands, and supported by the chapter, with some assistance from the national organization, is an out- standing effort to improve conditions in the islands. An average staff of 70 pub- lic health nurses is maintained, and during the past year the Junior Red Cross maintained 99 dental cunics, ac- cording to the report. The Red Cross is expending $139.985 in a two-year follow-up program in Porto Rico, following the disastrous hurricane of last year. This fund is providing relief in' the form of food. clothing, rent and emergency medical ald. The Red Cross chapter in Porto Rico has 77 branches through the island, and last year ~helped 24,057 families with food, 5.277 with clothing, ~ A. KAHN INC Ballots, Boxes and Books Taken to 43 Polling Places by Those | Who Are to Serve. to The Star Md., November 1. election from each of places of the county visited Rockville today and obtained from the supervisor of elections the ballots, ballot boxes, registration books, ! blanks and other paraphernalia for use at next Tuesday's election. A total of 26,950 ballots were distrib- | uted, or something more than one for each registered voter, and approximate- ly 5000 were held in reserve by the supervisors in case adaitional ballots |are found necessary in any of the pre- cincts. The supervisors of elections held a meeting here yesterday snd attended to a number of details in connection with the election and thus made final arrangements | Special Dispateh ROCKVILLE, Two judges of the 43 polling 38 YEARS AT oo The Unit-by-Unit Way of buying STERLING SILVER The Newest GGorham Pattern in Sterling Silver Hunt Club ‘Teaspoons, Dessert. 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