Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1931, Page 16

A—16 SLAIN MARINES WINDECORATIONS Eight Killed ~ Posthumcusly Awarded Navy Cross. in . Nicaragua| Eight members of the United States | Marine Corps killed in action on De- cember 31, 1930, while repairing a tele- phone line near Achuapa, Nicaragua, when set upon by a force of bandits, today were posthumously awarded the Navy Cross by President Hoover upon the recommendation of Secretary Adams. At the same time Maj. Henry L. Larsen, now on duty at Marine - quarters here, was awarded the N Cross Star for distinguished service as brigade inspector of the 24 Brigade, United States Marine Corps, in Nica- ragua, from April 1928 to March, 1929. 1t is considered possible that the As- sistant Secretary of the Navy. Ernest Lee Jahncke, will officially bestow this award upon Maj. Larsen, who is one of the Marine Corps’ most highly decorated officers, having had an_cutstandingly conspicuous _career during the World War in Prance The Navy Cross stowed upon Gunne rgt. William A. Lee, now on duty with the Nicaraguan National Guard detachment, and _the Navy Cross uven Pvt. Mack Hutcher- son, now at the Naval Hospits folk, Va., for theif part in t ments with bandits. The eight given posthumous awards of the Navy Cross were Pyvt. Richard James Litz, now buried in_Indianapelis, Ind Pit. Frank Kosieradzki, now buried in Euffalo, N Pvt. Lambert Bush, buried in Arlirgton National Cemetery 6 with military honors; Scrgt. Arthur M. Palrang, buried near Las Arimas, Colo.; Pvt. (first class) Irving Wolfe Aron. buried in_Brooklyn, N. Y.; Pvi. Joseph Albert Harbaugh, burfed in Arlington National Cemetery | on February 6 with military honors; Prt. Joseph Arthur McCarty, buried at Chillicothe, Mo.. and Pvt. Edward Everett Eliiott, buried in Des Moines, Towa. Pyvt. Frank A. Jackson, now on duty at Norfolk, Va.. who was wounded in | action at Achuapa, Nicaragua, and sur- | vived the bandit onslaught, is awarded | the Navy Cross. In spite of his wounds, Star also was be- on Februar: | wise severe JOBLESS PIED PIPER IS SOUGHT TO KILL MARKET AREA’S RATS Secretary of Clean-Up Drive and Jobs Body Combines Offices to Hunt Exterminator of Rodents. The. 1931 Clean-up colony of homeless rats which inhabits | the old Center Market area. | George J. Adams, secretary of ‘the| campaign and cf the District Commit- | ce on Unemployment, announced he | | would take a hand after three agencies|ment on the progress of the rat cam- {of the District and Federal Govern-|paign later. ments had side-stzpped the problem. ket brought the rats to public atten- tion, much to the embarrassment of a number women, aggrieved citizens have vainly sought the right depart- ment to dispose of the pests. Neither the ct Health Depart- ment, the Treasury Department's wreckers nor the Office of Public Buildings and Public P s had any available means of cleaning out the rats, Singe thedroblem promised to go un- solved forever, with first one agency and then another disclaiming responsi- bility, Mr. Adams announced today that he would begin a search for an unem- | ploved rat exterminater. Mr. Adams may have to extend his | search to the highways and byways. his citation reads: Pvt. Jackson con- tinued to operate his firearms through- cut the cngagement with the bandits, which lasted for about two and a half hours. Pyt. Hutcherson, another survivor of the battle with the bandits who sur- prised the little Marine Corps group re- peiring the telephone line near Achuapa cn the last day of the year, was like- v weunded, and he returned | fire during the engagement. Navy Cross Star the bandit: Gunnery Sergt. Lee is given fcr his “great courage and s leader, conducting his p: i le country, defeating the bandits in three successive contacts™ while in command of a Nicaraguan Na- tional Guard patro! from December 11 to 20, 1930. Through Sergt. Lee's lead- ership, his citation says, “the Guardia broke the morale of the bandits, forcing the dispersal of the bandit group and the abandonment of a foray into the coffec districts south of the Tuma ' River.” The Navy Cross Star is awarded where a man has already been awarded the Navy Cross for some act “beyond the ordinary call of duf campaigners | | threatened a clean sweep today of the|the files of the Unemployment Com- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., TUESDAY, APRI since_his first quest, an examination of mittee, failed to reveal any rat ex- terminators. This apparently is one business, Mr. Adams said, which the depression failed to affect. He promised an announce- The clean-up crusade, launched to- f rats on its veek,” “Home progra 2 and “Com- Wecl munity Week.” MAKE PLANS FOR CLUB “Three Score and Ten" Chapter Will Be Organized Here. Plans’ for organization of the “Three Score and Ten Club” of Wash- ington were talked over at the initial meeting of the group interested in its formotion yesterday afternoon at the | Y. M. C. A. Another meeting will be heid at 2 o'clonk next Monday after- neon, at which time comp'ete organiza- tien of the club, similar to that of the parent club at Miami, Fla., will be effected Men and women of 60 years of age | or older are eligible to join the club, | which is being organized here by Rev. | Edward Eels, Hartford, Conn. The club hes already become international with | the formation of a club in Havana, Cuba. The Washington chapter will be : No. 5. An air navigation conference w in FOUNTAIN Pens Repaired Pen Thoroughly GARRISON’S 1215 E St. N.W. New Sack, Tov and Novelty' Co. 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