Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1931, Page 4

HELDFORIRA BOND | hepbiry i ' tal Correspondent to Be g Buried' in Kansas. Funeral gervices for Capt. Ira, M. Bond, Civil War veteran and. for many years a mewspaper correspondent, who died last Thursday at the Washington ' Sanitarium, were held yesterday at Hines' undertaking establishment, and the body sent to Leavenworth, Kans., where interment will be made Thursday. Capt. Bond was 88 years old, having been born in St. Louis, in January, 1843. He received his education in the.public { schools and at Washington University, 4 St. Louis. At_the outbreak of . the Civil War, Mr. Bond raised a company of volunteers. Later -he'was assigned to duty at the Department of Missourl headquarters by . command of Gen, ‘Rosecrans. At the close of the war Mr. Bond became active in Missourl politics, ahd was instrumental in promoting the suc- cessful candidacy of Joseph Pulitzer, then a reporter cn a St. Louis news- paper, for the Missouri House of Repre- sentatives. Mr. Bond served as assist- ant chief clerk and reading clerk of the Missouri House, taking an active part in election campalgns and serving as correspondent for the St. Louis | Globe-Democrat. g When Gen. William A. Pile of Civil War fame was appointed Governor of the Territory of New Mexico he took Mr, Bond with him to Santa Fe as sec- retary, Mr. Bond later was admitted # to the practice of law and held various positions in the territorial government “Learn to Swim” Students Launch Campaigh FREE CLASSES SPONSORED BY EVENING STAR AND Y. 600 boys. of New Mexico, until coming to Wash- ington as secretary of the delegation of New Mexico citizens in the interest of the admission of the Territory to state- hood. He remained in Washington, being very active in this cause until the Territory was admitted to the Union in 1912. Mr. Bond was a member of the House and Senate-press galleries for 15 years, serving as correspondent for & syndicate ©f newspapers in the Southwest. A brother of the deceased, the only F gurvivor ‘of the family, and a Lutheran minister, will'officiate at the interment. ' U. 5. JUDGE SCORES | SCALE OF PENALTIES Contrasts Small Fine for Shipping Condemned Food and Long Prohibition Terms. P °F By the Assoclited Press. SEATTLE, Wash., April 7.—Federal | Judge M. Bourquin denounced y what he ed the “glaring and shocking irregularities of the law | in respect to offenses, offenders and penalties.” The jurist’s femarks came in connec- tion with his announcement he would set aside the sentencing of Robert | Damas, broker, and Harry Buttnick, manager of the Buttnick Manufacturing Co., convicted last week of shipping 43.- 000- cases of condemned canned salmon mdxem to Oleorgl?fi i‘;‘ 190 Juc . Bourquin sentenced | Damas fo three ‘months in prison and | fined him $300 and Buttnick to seven| months with a $350 fine. Denying their | ‘motion for & new trial, he said he would them today. g bed the language of the Vol- “gmbiguous” and blamed ‘or @rovoking resentment of A bellion within prison contrast” the judge de-) t packers who ship foods which not only but may also poison can be only fined sum of $200, whereas the fails to prove the tax | street.” In the bck, standing, from left to right, are: J. C. Ingram, boys' work bill and Paul Wilson, all assistant instructors. | | ASSEMBLY SESSION | | Catherine Strcther, 22, colored, maid at 1‘R|(ch|e Affixes Signature to ! the home of Arthur Foraker, 2210 Wy- ‘oming avenue, was revived by fire res- | cue squad, No. 2, today and taken to 150 Bills in Closing | Emergency Hospital to be treated for Hours. ] shock. The maid, it was said, was cleaning | the " refrigerator and was placing | metal tray in it with one hand as she | pulled a chain to turn on an electric - . April 7.—Mary- jipht above her with the other hand land's General Asscmbly, coming to the | when stricken. She fell unconscious to close of its 1931 session of law-mAking | the floor and was discovered by snother for the State, yosterday approved a 50- | employe at the house, who called the cent fee for the annual motor vehicle | resoue squad and the hospital ambu- inspection, a plan whereby persons d.umu; lance. aged through relocation of roads & iy CONTEST IS POSTPONED grade crossing eliminations could sue | the State and acted on & score of other | Kife Flying and Balloon Event to Be Held Friday Afternoon. measures of - State-wide importance and many others of local nature only. | The relocation damage bill was passed by the House in amended form, but had to receive Senate confirmation before | The kite flying and balloon contest which was to have been held tomorrow afternoon at Anacostia Park under the auspices of the Model Alrcraft League | Community Coenter Department, has being approved by the Governor. | Whil> the Legislature was working in | | been postponed until Priday afternoon, |1t was announced today. an attempt to clear its files, Gov. Ritchie, himself, went into action and ‘The contest is to begin at 1:30 o'clock and continue until 5 p.m. Rescue Squad Revives Colored Maid After Accident. By the Associated Pres: ANNAPOLIS, M signed more than 150 measurcs, and among them were the “snoopers” bill, outlawing informers' fres and another increasing the pay of members of the General Assembly. The first named was one of the con- troversial ones of the session and its signature repealsd all State laws in re- gard to the splitting of fines with per- sons who informed to bring about con- | victions. The fee system has been used | extensively 'in attempts to enforce the State game laws and the local option liquor statutes in the counties, The pay raise has yet to be ap- proved or rejected by the voters of ' the State, as it was in the form of | & constitutional amendment which must be voted on at the next general election. . It provided for an increase from $5 to $10 per day in the pay | MENS -mill on & grain of mor- vmuessum has been paid— | fraud upon the United | bis only offense—can be fined | $2.000 and imprisoned five years. | “The casual vender of a single g'ass wine, which will not poison . MAY be fined $10,000 and im- ned five years.” of e | DRIVER SUES ELDRIDGE License Suspension Brings $10,000 | being given by a benevolent organization of members and an additional $5 per day for presiding officers. | The Senate dallied for the greater part of the day with Houce amend- ments to Senste bills, but finally went | into action with approval of Delegate Lindsay’s bill to permit a charge of 50 cepts per car to be made by au- | thorized automobile inspection stations and & handful of other measures. The 26th Year Free instruction in bagpipe playing is in Edinbu Suit Against Traffic Aide. } Oley William Jackson, 1328 V street goutheast, has filed suit {n the District | Supreme Court to recover $10,000 dam- | ages from M. O. Eldridge, assistant traffic director, as the result of a sus- pension of his driver’s license. 1 Mr. Jackson says the use of an auto- | mobile is necessary in his business and he has been unable to obtain employ- ment since the license was suspended October 14. He 1§ represented by At- o1 J. Robert Esher, Fred A. Maltby and Rufus W. Pearson. :STOP! LOOK!! The Seeing Eye! e ST Subscribe Today It costs cnly about 1% cents | | per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you regularly level’y evening and Sunday morn- | | In Every ng. ‘Telephcne National 5000 and the delivery will start immedi- | ately. The Route Agent will col- | lect at the end of each month. ‘} | » LISTEN!!) Step Out! Dress Up” Look Up!!! 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BOYS' DEPARTMENT. has started off with an enrollment of “Y" boys' pool, at 1732 G irector; John Bartram, Graham Luck- —Star Staff Photo. ELEcrfilciTY SHOCKS GIRL HOOVER GETS COUNTY | { PETITION TOMORROW Knocked unconscious by an electrical Plea to Allow D. S. Workers to| | Take Part in Arlington Pol- ‘F itics Drafted. \ By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. LARENDON, Va., April 7-=Plans have been completed for the presenta- tion to President Hoover tomorrow of the petition asking that -Government employes living- in _Arlington County be permitted to hold office and par- ticipate generally in local politics. | Added impetus was given this move- ment yesterday when the = Arlington County Bar Assoclation, by a vote of 6 to 8, authorized President Amos C. Crounse to write a letter to President Hoover in support of the move. The | association had previously voted to table this motion on the grounds that it did not come within the scope of the body's activities. | At yesterday's meeting the measure was again brought up, and after a lengthy discussion was voted upon, the vote standing 8 to 8. The tle gave the president the right to cast the deciding vote, and he supported the resolution. The movement is being handled by' the Clvil Service Committee of the Ar. | lington County Civic Federation. Presi- dent Hoover will be presented with the petition, a list of all of the Federal | employes living in the county and let- | ters from most of the county officials and associations. WEAR We Have Held the Confidence of Our Customers SUITS For Young Men $1 85 Attached West Inc. ‘ 14th & G Sts. EUGENE C. GOTT—President D. " C, TUESDAY OUBLE DUTY DONE BY AIRMAIL CORPS Veteran Pilots Accomplish Quake Relief Task in Addi- tion to Flying Mails. A 0 Relief of earthquake-stricken Man- agua is all in the day’s work for veteran pilots of Pan-American Airways, who are carrying on relief work in addition to flying the mails on regular schedule with the skill which enabled them to establish a 99 per cent record of | efficlency during the past year. The mail service is golng on with un- failing regularity, according to As- soclate Press dispatches recelved here, although three of the reserve planes, manned by regular pilots, are flying in and out of Nicaragua in volunteer relief work. Snow and Revolutions. Until the earthquake the only inter- ruptions to Pan American service through 29 countriss of Cen and South America and the West Indles were a few delays caused by heavy snow in the towering Andes and by South American revolutions which de- layed mall schedules. one malil schedule was deliberately de- | layed to permit Ernest J. Swift, Red | Cross relief director, to fly to the disaster scene. | “That percentage of performance far | exceeds anything in this country ' Eugene R. White, director of th> “n'er- | | natfonal Postal Eervice. He attributed [the record largely t better flying con- ditions, but Juan T. Trippe, president | |of Pan-American Airways, said it was due 15 mechanical perfzction of planes, | efficiency of radio confrol and meteoro- logi-al service and also to the pilots | emp.oyed. Former Service Pilots. Most of the senior pilots are old Army and Navy men, with thousands of hours to their credit—they must have at least 2,000 hours before they apply for pasitions as Pan-A-mnerican pilots, Mr. Trippe told the Associated Press. | Throughout the earthquake relief | period and the long grind of regular | schedule flying, these veterans have not | reported cne “unusual exprience” to | pany officlals or postal representa- tives, | |~ Officials_expressed the opinion that | | | When the earthquake razed Managua, | b; PRIL 7, 1931. Man Goes to Prison For Being Traitor to Pigeon’s Confidence By the Associated Pre=s. SAN FRANCISCO, April 7— ‘William Swanson, colored, was serving & 48-hour jail sentence today for “betraying the con= fidence of a pigacn.” The charge and penalty were decided upon by Municipal Judge A. J. Fritz after Willlam was ar- rested yesterday on complaint of A. Marx, cigar store proprietor. Marx asserted William, by en- ticements and cajolery, captured a stray pigeon he had made a pet, stuffed it under his coat and walked away. The pigeon had been coming to the store every day for food. The prisoner asserted the bird was as much his pigeon as Marx's. |ARMY CHAPLAINS WILL GATHER HERE F. Trubee Davison Will Address Sixth Annual Meeting Which Opens Next Week. An interesting program has been pre- ared for the sixth annual meeting of the Chaplains’ Association of the U. S Army to be held in this city next Tue: day and Wednesday at headquarters, Organized Reserves, in the Walker-John- son Building, 1734 New York avenue. Addresses of welcome will be made by Assistant Secretary F. Trubee Davison, War Department, and Col. J. E. Yates, hief of chaplains, and papers on Regu- lar Army_problems, National Guard matters, the Reser training camps nd military training in schools and colleges will be read by Maj. Gen. Wil- liam Everson, chief of the Militia Bureau: Col. J. T. Axton, retired; Lieut. Col. Orvel Johnson and Chaplains Wil- liam Carter, M. S. Lazaron, O. P. Barn- hill, D. H. Garrish, B. A, Tintner and E. G. Vordenberg. A get-together banquet will be held at the Burlington Hotel April 14 and he next day the members will be re- ceived by the President at the White House. was perhaps because unusual experi- ences had long since become usual with the picked aerial performers who regu- larly span the seas to Central and South America. | THE HECHT CO. | DRESS J F Street at Seventh Extraordinary Sale! Men’s $5 to $8 EWELRY For a Complete Boxed Set $5 Sets! Mother of Pearl, with metal rims, Rolled gold backs, §1.95 $650 Sets! Mother of Pear], with half pearl set in center. Rolled gold backs.........§1.95 $8 Sets!: Mother of Pearl, with decorated enamel rim. Rolled gold backs. $1.95 These Sets are com- plete including Shirt Studs, Vest But- tons and Cuff Links, (Main Floor, The Hecht Co.) QUAKE REFUGEES DOCK AT BALBOA American Women and Chil-| dren Greeted by 2,000 Per- sons in Canal Zone. By the Associated Press. BALBOA, Canal Zone, April 7.—Two thousand persons greeted the U. 8. 8. Chaumont, naval transport, when it reached Balboa docks last night from | Corinto laden with American women and children, refugees from quake-| stricken Managua. | No one aboard was allowed to land, however, except 30 of the women and children, who were taken across the Isthmus in a motor car furnished b; the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. They will bored the Chaument agaln at the Atiantig terminys of the canal, 5 | A few of the refugess p will be allowed to debark herc bafore the Chaumont_salis and be cared for by friends. Others willigo on to Norfolk. 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