Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1931, Page 3

ASSASSING KILL | DR, SOONG'S AIDE Chinese Finance Chief Es- capes in Fusillade as Bomb Injures Soldier. Escapes Bullets EVANGELIST OFFICIATES AS SON, 18, MARRIES GIRL, 20. Outdoor Dining & Dancing 5 YOU will be pleasantly surprised wit h A limited number of furnished a partments with hotel service... elegantly furnished and refreshingly cool, at re- duced rentals for the Summer months. . wen fring bioke out SmUtanc- | poyinconof ‘Boston, nass. saiea i | GIRL MURDER CASE the reduced alizing 1 was the target, T threw 32-foot ketch into this harbor at 4:22 DEFENSE ATTACKED awey my white suft helmet, which was|pm. today. having left New London, | Policeman Denies San Diego Wom- VTN K Y 1 g THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1931. fare in the United States,” Father | Among the signers of the petition are school for children she has been given | Boston, the Archbishons of Dubuque little ones of Christ is secure.. Catholic . Cleric Describes 150,000 Americans Urge|tne United Spates, her memory is ven- ‘The Pontiff replied that he appre- 1739 Eye St. tion and asked for a copy of Father CLOSET, BATH, $33.50 TO $45.50. LOS ANGELES, July 23.—The young- VATICAN CITY, July 23.—A petition | Mother Seton. and a fusillade of bullets directed at Nevada yesterday, as a throng of well saint be created in the person of here today, but ion’ - ment, missed their mark here today R o asion o el The Rcsort Hotel of the Nation’s Capital Six other Chinese were injured, some unusually successful editorship of The ! - Va Pt s g iion g o i e headgquarters in Reno. g ] a huge scroll. identified assassins. e %5 Nbotan, Yos Angeles Diocese i g Mother Seton, recalled that the cause of Yale University, and was recently “If barbarism prevails in Nevada to- 4 married. GLOBE-GIRDLING BOAT day,” he continued, “it is because other “Mother Seton inaugurated practical- | Boong and his party arrived by train added, “and we cannot condone the explode when thrown, but one of them | Reaches French -Port on Journey| Gorman is called upon to rule. Laws Upper Floors, 915 G St. N.W. family should find no place in civ- wound:d. A Cantonese student was ar- g g n first- ; Francisco, presided ove ©f the bombs Soong told the story of the : dena. Mr. Gibson, 917 G St. N.W. was about 15 feet from th: exit.” h2|pe nad set for himself, William Albert L, W CENE of wedding of Rolf McPherson, son of Aimee Semple McPherson, conspicuous in the gloomy statlon, Tan i cony in June, 1928, for a world tour. evangelist, and Lorna Dec Smith of Alta, Okla. The ccremony was per- MEA... s an Could Have Seen Couple . Y[]UNGEST B|SHUP Al]llee Performs W edding ‘ AM[RIBAN SA'NI Code sald. Cardinals Hayes of New York, . . I the title of patroness of the parochial | and Portland, and the 3ishops of Brook- “Because her- spiritual _daughters 7 ¥ i e erable wherever sickness and suffering Nevada as “Mecca of Beatification of Mother ciated the zeal which brought them FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED. Code's preamble, saying he would read it at leisure. He imparted the apostotic || L. W. Groomes, 1719 Eye St. By the Assoeiated Press, est Catholic b'shop in America was con- bearing the signatures of 150,000 Amer- . . V. Soong, finance minister and vice wishers heard that State described as ;. S Moiher. Elisabein Setari; founder of |B fatally injured Soong's secretary, Tang £ gt R Doman, 3, GPPask: 4 ; it e | < of them apparently by Soong's body- Joseph B, Code of St. Ambrose C R-ference was paid to the liberalized Swimaning Speaking in English to the Pontiff, | SDahsiding bR Lo B Uy SR chancellor, who delivered the consecra= TRy of beatification wasintroduced in 1907 | T - ottt Y and Soldier May Die. States have failed in their task of civ- ly every work of Catholic social wel- Ay.eEry WOk of: CAtholic socls] wel- from Nanking. The bombs failed to laxity of morals whether in the indi- later was discharged when picked up by that facilitate the evasion of one’s Started at New London, —consisting of 8 rooms and 3 baths, ilized society.” yested in connection with the mcldcm,_ Will rent as a whole or in part. | By the Associated Press. monies. attempted assassination. formed by Aimee herself. Rolf is 18 and the bride 20. He plans to follow as well 2% A3 “Because she opened the first free |erty of Philadslphia and O'Connell of school system in the United States.|lyn, Rochester, Little Rock, Davenport, Becaus: she sent sisters to take charge | Des Mpines, Lincoln, Nebr.;, Omaha, \ 4 of the first Catholic orphanage in' the |Sioux Clty, fowa: Grand Island, Nebr., | country, her place among the homeless | and Cheyenze, Wyo. | opened .the first Catholic hcspiral in receive ministration. i : Giiton < Marital Confusion. Elizabeth Seton. thousands of miles to present the peti- 1 ROOM, LARGE DRESSING By the Associated Press. ; By the Associated Press. . blessi he wh or SHANGHAL July 23—Two bombs lessing on the whole ordzr founded' by secrated head of the n:w diocese of icans asking that the first American chairman of the Nationalist govern- : “that Utoplan Mecca of ceaseless, s:eth- the Sisters of Charity in the United Yu-Loh. & it dena, who became a bishgp following an Fifty American priests, nuns, and ; Tidings, official diocese organ, will have guard in answering the fire of the un- !lege, Davenport, Iowa, gave the Pope laws of Nevada by the Very Rev. Ber- I S L : Father Code, author of a biography of | i 3 i it Tennis ward. He was 32 years old, a graduate ~ | tion sermon. by Pope Pius X. 5 ilizing the barbarias.” : The attack was launched just atter; |§ 12 MINUTES LATE | "%#% Hold no brief for Nevada," he O e e ehes " Bishop FOR RENT a soldier. He was possibly fatally sacred duty to God, to home and to Conn., in June, 1928. suitable for offices or apartments. Archbishop Edward J Seated at a_desk on which was one Reasonable rent. Apply— VILLEFRANCHE, France, July 23— | _The new bishop was born in Pasa- “I was coming out of the station and| Only 12 minutes behind the schedule Good on in the evangelistic footsteps of his well known mother. —A. P. Photo. summer rentals Immediate inquiries are suggested. Te (HOREHAM CONNECTICUT AVE. af CALVERT into the crowd and docged b-hind a SR sk His grandmother, Mrs. Ada Kniffier “Scon the station was filled with|of Milwaukee was waiting for him. #moke from the revolvers of the attack-| «ajbert.” 2he said, “I've never known ers, and there was confused firing from | Ji il ol all sides, to which my guards replied. |You to be so late. Where have you “It was fully five minutes before the | been?” station was cleared. At loast four| sShe had brought along some sand- Yould-be assassins were seen by my|wiches and while Robinson ate them guards to be firing, but there may havs| pe « se W m as & Beciiimore” 'Winththe: eaoket Sleared |y oor o1 avithiote WhoFkregied il By the Associated Press. my secretary, who had been walking|® Reealling the high spots of his ad-| SAN DIEGO, Calif. July 2.—Antici- by my side, was found shot in the|yenture, he said he had left Bermuda, |Patin, Moss E. Gairison's defense stomach, hip and arm. Bull:ts had en- | the first stop after New London, and | SLrategy, the State today had new wit- tered his body from both sides. His hat | headed east to the West Indies before Desses to testify to the circumstances and document case Were riddled, and it | taking his little boat through the Surrounding the finding of the knife- was a miracle that I was unscathed, 25 | panama Canal, down the South Amer- Slashed body of Hazel Bradshaw, 23- I towered above him.” | foan West Const and acrass the longest | Year-old telephone operator, in Balboa Soong said he was pleasd to find his | streteh of 3700 miles to Tahiti Park, May 3. chauffeur _sitting impassively at . the | S\ Qere'30 days gotting there.” he |, G8TTison. 37, a railroad clerk, is on I colda::uts - GULDOENS From Home. Send Your du Pont TONTINE Window Shades to Us to Be WASHED! E maintain a modern “shade laundry,” equipped- to wash one Tontine shade or a thousand. Your Tontine window shades, regardless of their condition, will be expertly and carefully washed and scrubbed and returned to you looking like new. Nominal cost. Ask for an estimate. 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