Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1931, Page 16

A—16 ** SOLDIER AND WIFE, PARTED 30 YEARS, INMARITAL TANGLE Both Rewed Thinking Otheri Dead, and Pension Applica- tion Brings Out Past. MRS. NOWLAN, SECOND MAN’S WIDOW, IN D. C.; ¥dward Shook, Who Went to! Philippines, Now Resident | of California. l | | A husband in California and a wife| in Washington. each of whom remar- ried in the belief the other was dead, sought today to unravel the tangled af- | fairs of their 30-year separation in an | effort to obtain a service widow's pen- sion for the woman Edward Scott Shook told newspaper | men in Monterey, Calif., today that he| had just learned his first wife was still living. He married her in 1895 and | seven years later left her and three | young children in the United States to | yeport for Army duty in the Philippine Islands. Mrs. Shook. unable to obtain any word of her husband over a period of years, became convinced he was dead, and in 1910 married Samuel Nowlan, a sergeant in the Marine Corps, who died ® year ago. Mrs, Nowlan now lives at 602 Eighth street southwest Death Falsely Reported. Mrs. Nowlan read of her first hus- band's death in a railroad wreck at Plttsburgh several years after he went #o the Philippines. For many years she refused to believe the report, but was finally convinced of it by her husband’s continued absence. When Mrs. Nowlan applied to the Navy Department for a pension, an in- vestigation to establish the justice of her claim revealed that Shook was alive, married again and a resident of Monterey. Shortly after Shook left his first wife ene of their children, a young girl. died end Mrs. Shook was unable to locate her husband. Some 30 years later. just before the death of Harry N. Shook, their only son, Shook's first wife re- ceived an intimation that he was still slive and tried to communicate with Bim. she said, without result. Harry N. Shook, 35, a nurse at the Soldiers' Home, succumbed to a_heart attack last June while visiting in the home of the young woman to whom he was engaged to be married. News Brings Surprise. When informed today that his first ! wife was still alive, Shook expressed as- tonishment and declared he had be- lieved her to be dead, according to a @ispatch from Monterey. He said that on his return to this country from the Philippine Islands he had bsen un- | able to find any trace of her. He ad- | mitted, however, that he was her hus- band and the father of her three chil- «ren. “After returning to this country,” | Bhook said, “I tried to communicate | with my wife, but could not find a | trace. I was then stationed at Fort | Riley and was unable to continue my inv tion, although I wrote & num- ! ber of Jetters to friends who might have | known of her whereabouts.” | Never hearing any word from her, | Shook said, after the World War he | was stationed at Monterey, where he retired less than a year ago after more | than 30 years in the service. He mar- ried his present wife only recently. Mrs. Nowlan, according to the Navy Department, is in straitened circum- | stances and so far has been unable to | obtain her dead husband’s pension, be- | cause Shook is alive and also drawing & pension. REV. J. F. COLBERT’S FUNERAL ARRANGED Bervices for Native of Washington Will Be Held Monday at St. Dominic’s Church. | | | Funeral services for Rev. James F.| Colbert, O. P, 73, who died at Provi- | dence Hospital Thursday morning, will | be held Monday at St. Dominic's Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Father Colbert, who was in the min- sty at St. Mary's Convent, New Haven Conn., was a native of Washington and received his ear cation at St Dominic’s parochial school and G zaga College. At the age of 16 he be- | came a member of the Dominican Order 8t St. Rose Convent, Springfield, Ky. | One of the oldest Dominicans in the | United States, Fatber Coibert, planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood next May. His death, it was said, was due to| preumonia, which developed following | an fiiness and fall, suffered while visit ing at the home of his sister, Miss Mary IColbert, and brother, Michael Colbert 606 Sixth street southwest | During his life he had served as a| eacher at St. Rose Convent, to which he was appointed soon after finishing his course there; as vicar and pastor st 8t. Antonius, Newark, N. J., and at! §t. Patrick’s, Columbus, Ohlo. He was | miso pastor of the Province of St.| Joseph for many years MISSING BOY SOUGHT | | Meyer Lutshy, reported missing from his home st 233 Morgan street | since Thursday morning, was sought by police today at the request of his mother, Mrs. Fannie Lutshy Mrs. Lutshy told police the boy had left to go to a barber shop, but did not arrive there and has not been| heard from since. Police say the boy as disappeared several times before W. F. NEUMEYER RITES Bother Reports He Disappeared on Trip to Barber Shop Wictim of Lightning Buried in| Glenwood Cemetery Today Puneral gervices for Willlam F. Neu- eyer, who was killed by a b ightning as he fished from a pier at Chesapeake Beach, Md., Thursda Held at his late home, 615 =t 3 o'clock this afternoon. Lebanon lodge, F. A. A. M, was in charge of pervices at the grave in Glenwood Cemetery. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS Kolored Man’s Condition Results in Arrest of Two. Richard Johnson, 40 years old, col- ored, was treated at Preedmen's Hos- pital last night after he was found un- ol in the rear yard of his home, 1n the 1400 block of Eighth street, with severe cuts about the head and face, police arrested o uel Pum . 35, colored, and Robert £. Williams, 34, colored, for question- in connection with the | ing the ninth annual Shenandoah AP- | tannial Commission headquarters. it was 1910 Blossom Festival to Washington next | said that Richards had agreed to bring | chairman of the Executive Committee, | nouncement “to deny press releases | mission the day the announcement ap-| | He assured police that his visit to the (lyceiood |ney was released on $600 bond and | commendation by Admiral Wiillam V. of | Third street | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1931. BLOSSOM FETE CHIEFS SPLIT ON BICENTENNIAL INCLUSION N. F. Richards’ Statement A-pplc Festival to Be Brought to Capital Is Denied by W. L. Cooper. Residents of Winchester, Va., were di- | diately after its presentation in Win- . vl v ¢~ | Chester.’ " vided today on the advisibility of mov- | At the District of Columbia Bicen- inclusion in the George |the festival here and that so far ‘as By | known_the show would be staged as Washington Bicentennial Celebration. | geidiiad | Announcement yesterday by Nelson F.| The split between Cooper and Rich- | Richards, dircctor general of the festi- | ards, both prominent Shenandoal Val- val, that the pageant would be brought | 1}1"; “}fc: lggo;: agglrg& .vb"“ o hete after its portrayal in Winchester | cylted over plans for moving the festival, precipitated a ‘controversy among mem- | according to IrBl‘endsl of the pair. X o s at the icentennial “ommission bers of the Executive Committee han- | Lhat the Ficentennial Commission dling the show. William E. COODET, | args to announce the festival change through the commission's publicity channels was evidenced in the file of | would be brought here. correspondence between Kruckman and “No part of the ninth annual Shenan- | the director general. Letters and tele- doah Apple Blossom Fostival will be | grams to Richards disclosed that Kruck- taken to Washington for exhibition |man understood the pageant was to be purposes in connection with the cele- | brought here and so stated in the cor- bration of the George Washington Bi- | respondence, which was not denied by centennial,” Cooper's statement said. | Richards. It was pointed out also that He asserted he was making the an- | Richards was in the office of the com- issued a statement denying the festival 55 Washington by Arnold Kruck- | peared in the newspapers and expressed ahan, |axocuaw tector of the District | gratification at the publicity given. of Columbia Bicentennial Commission, | A formal statement clearing up the Who stated that Nelson F. Richards | controversy between Cooper and Rich- nad agreed with Mr. Kruckman ‘to | ards is expected to be made late today bring the entire festival here imme-'by the pair PAINTER CONFESSES AUGUST RAINFALL ROBBING 10 STORES 15 ABOVE NORMAL Mild Police Quiz Bares Story Excess of 2.09 Inches Seen. After Capture in Safe- ‘ Clear Sky and Cooler { Breaking. Weather Due. A series of polite questions at head- | With the total rainfall for August| quarters last night drew from 19-year- now standing at 5.89 inches, which is| old George Leo CoVel the admission ;g9 jnches above normal, Washington into 10 downtown ;?;:esmfi::s Iifi‘z‘ensu:‘lng in addition | has compiled 2 monthly excess of rain to the Muth paint store at 710 Thir- for the second time since November teenth street, Whlm hel = trapped by | 1929, when the drought officially began, a patrolman’ early yesterday. sz O ing. ot ‘GoVel, police told |1t Was revealed at the Weather Bureau newspaper men, was interrupted from | tod time to time when the squad Toom The first monthly excess was recorded became stuffy and the prisoner seemed |y, npay the bureau said, when the rain- to need fresh air. He was given fre- so) 5os 114 inches above the normal quent waiks around the block, the o {Gr that month cers said. and there was a pitcher of e ice water at his elbow so he could Year's Total Still Low. moisten his throat when it became dry | The total rainfall for the last week. | from talking. including the .13 of an inch that has Priso | falien since 8 o'clock last night, was i sl g it A 98, the bureau reported. This figure CoVel, who runs a slgn-painting compares with the 2.27 inches which shop in a basement of the 800 bIOCk | war recorded here Jast week. of Twelfth street. and gave his home | "B, while August and May have wit- address as 22 Third street northeast, |;eqseq above normal rainfalls, the bu- talked freely of his depredations, the | revcS, SRONe ROTRAl TG e bo! officers said, despite the mildness of |the drought in this section still is not o ey overcome. The extreme lack of precipi- CoVel's loot consisted of petty cash | {acion in January and February of this and merchandise for the mOSt PArt.|year they explaln, prevents the recent from giving Washington a| fall that equals normal for the Muth store marked his first attempt at | total raini safebreaking o two | 7687 He succeeded in pounding open two strong boxes there with a hammer T e purchased at a 5-and-10-cent store. He | Meanwhile, the bureau expects the Mrs. Nellie Frisbie Bristol, 73, wife of Bishop Frank Milton Bristol of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died yes- terday at Sibley Hospital following an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held tomor- was leaving with $67.75 and a coil of rain today to stop entirely by late aft- Tope stuffed in a brief case when cap- |ernoon so that tonight and tomorrow tured by Sergt. W. J. Cunningham |Will be fair. The temperature tonight of the Traffic Bureau. is expected to be slightly lower than | Some of the stolen property has been Jast night. recovered rm;n pawn shops lnfihfror:': . - the youth's place of business, althougt 20 estimate could be placed on the 1ota1 WIFE OF BISHOP worth until Sovel's activities are in- vestigated further. Aready on Probation. DIES IN CAPITAL Police say CoVel was placed on proba- £ tion in January after he had been ar- 2 y rested on charges of having broken into | Mrs. Nellie Frisbie Bristol to Be the University Shop at Ninth and E i | streets and Lansburghs department Buried at Chicago—Once Ac- partment store. L CoVel was quoted as having admitted tive in M. E. Church Circles. breaking 1nto the following places, most of them during the early Spring: The John C. Rau Radio Shop, at 522-24 Twelfth street; Stockett & Fiske Co., stationers, at 919 E _street; Grosner’s Haberdashery, at 1310 P street Morgan's Paint Store, 421 Tenth street. visited twice: J. W. Swann & Co., at e ey et SAKET! | row afternoon at 2 o'clock at Stmpson | erick'’s Men's Wear Store, at Seventh Memorial Chapel, Methodist Building, | and H streets; Griffith-Consumers Coal 100 Maryland avenue northeast. The Co., 1300 block of G street; the E. J. body will be taken to Chicago for| Murphy Paint Store, at 710 Twelfth burial & R ! reet, and a Peoples Drug Store in the Mrs. Bristol was born in Chicago and | 1300 block of P street. was merried to Bishop Bristol 53 years | CoVel is being held for investigation 280 when he was pastor of a church | until his story can be checked. in Evanston. Chicago suburb. ‘They | * moved to Washington in 1897, when | Rev. Bristol became pastor of Metro- | TRIPPED BY VINES politan Methodist Churoh here ’ While her husband served as pastor here Mrs. Bristol was active in church FUGITIVE | CAUGHT | st s s o cmen organizations, including the Women's Officer Arrests Man First, Then Gets Warrant and Finds Liquor. Foreign Missionary Society, of which | she was_president. In 1908, when Rev. Bristol was made & bishop, they moved from this city, | locating successively in South America. | Omzha and Chattanooga, Tenn. They | resided in the Tennessee city until ishop Bristol's retirement, several years ag0, when they returned to Washing- | maintaining apartments at the Methodist Building. Besides her husband Mrs. Bristol is survived by three sons, Dr. L. D. Bris- tol, New York; Raymond W. Bristol, | Washington, and Harlow B. Bristol, At- lanta. CAPT. ADOLP'HUS WATSON COMMENDED BY PRATT! Award Given for Highest Rating in Battleship Class Com- munication. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md,, August 29.- Getting his feet tangled in a mass of pea vines, growing in a fleid alongside the Colesville pike. late yesterday, Wil- liam A. Tinney, 25, colored, of 2724 Eleventh street, Washington, was pre- vented from making an escape from Sergt. Earl Burdine, who was in pur- suit. Burdine became suspicious of the auto Tinney was driving. and which con- tained Charles H. Bryant, 23, colored of the same Washington address. As the officer drew alongside Tinney took to his heels but was captured After obtaining a search warrant Burdine searched the auto and found it contained several cases of alleged rye | whisky. Tinney was charged with reck- less driving and having no registration Capt. Adolphus E. Watson of 1226 card, in addition to violating the pro- | Sixteenth street, commanding officer of on law, while Bryant was charged | the battieship New Mexico of the Battle with a prohibition law violation. Tin- | Force, today was awarded a letter of Bryant on $500 bond and the case set | Pratt. chief of naval operations, for for September 8. in Police Court at | the highest standing in the battleship Rockville. class in communication efficiency for COUNTY AGENT PAY |70 mmiodlis S commena ' ORDERED BY COURT ed were: Capt. N. E. Nichols of Bay City, Mich,, of the light cruiser Con- cord; Capt. F. R. McCrary of Coronado, Calif, of the aircraft carrier Saratoga: Capt. R. B. Coffey of the submarine ‘ : jender U. S. 5. Holland; Lieut. Comdr | .. Deyo of Kittery Judge at Martinsburg Declares | the destroyer U, sfri‘,vp:fl?"vxfii 7t C. Grannis of Duluth, Minn | State Law Has Been Declared |submarine U. 8. 8 ‘1’;-15_11?: u:u’un)\e’ | Wrightson of San Prancisco, Calif., of | Legal Five Times. Ln»]suvmume rescue vessel U. S. § | Mallard. j MARTINSBURG, W. V., August 29 | spectal Dispaten to The Star LARIMER IN. CHARGE ~—An effort by the Jefferson County - Court to avoid payment of a county i 13t oy wae i sesa” | Newly Promoted ofcer day in Circuit Court here when Judge . H. Rodgers declined to abandon & | Navy Until Monday. previously granted mandamus, calling! A naval officer who was only & cap- tain three months ago now serves as Secretary of the Navy. on the court to levy for the expense an approximate $1400, the county's share in the agent's yearly salary. The With Secretary Adams, his assistants county agent at present is B. Heath and the chiefs of the Bureaus of Naval Holden. | Operations and Navigation out of the Judge Rodgers cxplained that the | city today. the duties fell to Rear Ad- law had been held clearly constitu- miral Edgar B. Larimer, who attained tional by the Supreme Court of the |that rank on June 1, when he State not fewer than five times. | chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. He gave the County Court uniil Sep- | The Navy will take orders from him tember 3 to file an answer to the re- until the return of Secretary Adams fusal of the demurrex, i Bosses e {F. A. Carr of First Precinct Is | Reed, Mount Rainier, Md,, a visiior at i | De IMAN OFFICER SHOT | N EVADIG ARREST FOUNDIN HOSPTAL Walter Mamiews Appears for Treatment of Wounds in Fight. POLICEM.ANAéURPRISES THREE STEALING GAS Cut When Pushed From Car Running Board. Walter Malthews, 26, colored, of the | first block of L street, was under arrest today in Freedmen'’s Hospital, where he reported for treatment of bullet wounds in the jaw and arm, believed to have been inflicted by Policeman Frank A Carr of No. 1 police station Jast night, who engaged in a running fight with Matthews and two colored companions vhom the officer was ttempting to ar- rest for stealing gasoline. Officer Carr was treated at Emergen- cy Hospital for lacerations on the arm and knees, sustained when pushed from the running board of an automobile in motion by one of the three colored men at Third and L streets northeast. The officer had jumped on the running board of the car and attempted to make the men stop the machine after they tried to run over him when he ordered them to halt. Condition Serious. Matthews’ condition was described as serious. Officer Carr returned to his home, at 1151 Third street, after being treated at Emergency. According to the account of the af- fair as related by police, Officer Carr was summoned from his home, while off auty, by Mrs. Mary Walsh, a neighbor, who told him some men were stealing gasoline from the automobile of Frank the Walsh home. The policeman joined Reed and Michael Walsh, 1139 Third street northeast, and watched the three col- ored men. The trio were preparing to leave with the stolen gasoline when Officer Carr commanded them to stop. Instead of complying they tried to run their au- tomobile over him, according to police. Fires at Matthews. Jumping on the running board, Carr again told the men to stop. One on the rear seat of the automobile then hit at him with a crank handle. Officer Carr fired a shot into the air, and when the men again failed to stop fired point blank at Matthews. ‘The automobile siowed down slightly, it is said, after Carr fired the final shot and one of the colored men pushed | him from the running board. Police immediately began a check of all hospitals, thinking the man whom Carr shot would report at one of them Matthews showed up at Freedmen's Hospital a short time afterward THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly cloudy | tonight and tomorrow, cooler tomor- row: moderate westerly winds. Maryland—Partly cloudy tonighi and tomorrow, cooler in east and central portion tonight; moderate to fresh westerly winds. i Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight and | tomorrow, slightly cooler tonight; mod- | erate westerly winds West Virginia—Fair tonight and to-| morrow, slightly cooler in north por-| tion tonight. Records for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 87; 8 p.m., 79 12 midnight, 73; 4 am, 69; 8 am., 69; noon, 7 Baro, 29.93; 12 8 am, Highest temperature, 87, occurred at 4 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 68 occurred at 7:45 a.m. today Temperature same _date Highest, 95; lowest, 68 Tide Tables. Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 3:15 am. and 3:30 pam.; high tide, 8:45 am. and 9:08 p.m Tomorrow—Low tide, 3:56 am. and 4:06 pm.; high tide, 9:23 a.m. and 9:45 last year— The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 5:33 am.; 6:45 pm. Tomorrow—Sun rises 5:33 am.; sets 6:43 p.m. Moon rises 7:34 p.m.; sets 6:49 am Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Comparative figures of the monthly rainfall in the Capital for the first eight months against the average are shown in the following table Average, 1931. January ..3.55ins. January . February ..3.27ins. February .. March ....3.75 ihs. Mareh April .....3.27ins. April ., May 3.70ins. May June . .4.13ins, June July ......4714ns. July August ....4.011ns. August Record rainfall for the first eight | montbs was: January, 1882, 7.09 inches; February, 1884, 6.34 inches; March, 1891, 8.34 inches; April, 1889, 9.13 inches; May, 1889, 10.69 inches; June, 1900, 10.94 inches; July, 1886, 10.63 inches; Au- gust, 1928, 14.41 inches. Weather in Various Cities. sun -sets sun | L s. | Temperature. 35 Abilen, Albany, N Atianta, Ga Atlantic City Baltimore. Md Birmingham Bismarck Tex - . Cloudy . Pt.cioudy lear Clear | Galveston, 1 Helena, Huran, Indianapolis.ind Jecksonvilie.Fia Kansas City,Mo Los Angeles Louisviile, Miami, Fla.... New Orleans New York N Y. Dak : 3 328 St. Paul, Minn.. Seattle, 'Wash. kane, W 8c232582s8Rs8R4e ‘mgssasezeseeaass | Pl | at the establishment, it was explained. | playgrounds, took | which included foll { ceived On G. W. U. Staff HARVARD PROFESSOR COM- ING HERE. DR. D. H. BUCHANA! Dr. Danlel Houston Buchanan (above) of the Harvard University faculty has been appointed associate professor of economics at George Washington Uni- versity, according to an announcement made today by Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, Buchanan, who has been on Har- vard's teaching staff since 1928, was research associate in the bureau of in- ternational research of Harvird from 1926 to 1928. He taught at OYc State University prior to going to Haivard A student of Far Eastern affairs, Dr. Buchanan lived for a number of ars in the Orient. From 1914 to 1925 he was professor of economics at Keiogijuku University, at Tokio, from which insti- tution he holds the degree of doctor cf sclence. His eourse at George Washington University will include principles of economics, labor problems, economic theory and the history and literature of economic thought. E STREET ROBBERY NETS $100 WA Windows and Safe Broken| at Sign and Stamp Establishment. ST | Robbers who entered the sign and | stamp establishment of J. Baumgarten | & Sons, 1005 E street, last night, left | with no more loot than a $100 watch, property of L. Baumgarten, proprietor, after breaking two windows, a safe and other fixtures. Mr. Baumgarten said he believed the Tobbers were the ones who entered the about three weeks ago, when they ¥ iwo suitcases valued at $60 and about $8 in cash. | Entry to the building in both cases was made by jimmying second floor windows opening on a fire escape. In the first Tobbery $& in cash was taken from a desk on the third floor, occupied by A. Zichtl, bookbinder, affili- | ated with the Baumgarten concern, but | disturbed nothing on the first and sec- ond floors. Last night a large bar, used on ma- chinery in the first floor was used to break the combination and handle oft a third-floor safe which they were un- able to open, and which contained nothing of value, according to the pro- rietor. The watch was taken from an unlocked safe on the first floor, in which | nothing but papers were kept. It was | an_heirloom the proprietor said. | Both robberies were made on Friday nights, it was said. Friday is pay da SYLVAN EVENTS CLOSE Final Audience Sees 100 Girls in Folk Dances. The final program in the series of nine which have been presented at the | Sylvan Theater during the Summer by the Community Center Department and the Office of Public Buildings and Pub. lic Parks took place last night. An au- dience of several thousand attended. More than 100 girls from the Chevy Chase, Georgetown, Garfield and Cook art in this program, dances of four dif- ferent countries, Swedish, English, Dutch and early American. The entire | program was under the direction of Miss Maude Parker, director of girls’ activi- | ties of the Municipal Playground De- partment. BOY CRITICALLY HURT AS RESULT OF FALL | Three-Year-0ld Plunges From Sec- ond Story Landing of Fire Escape. Three-year-old Raymond Boss was in a critical condition at Emergency Hos- pital today &s a result of injuries re- in a fall late yesterday from the second-floor landing of a fire es- cape at his home, 486 F street south- | west, late yesterday. The boy was found unconscious by | & child with whom he had been playing a short time before. An X-ray ex- amination was to be made today to determine if the boy has a fractured skull The condition of Howard Harris, 8, colored, of the 2100 block of N street, who fell from a first-floor window at his home yesterday, was reported as improved. He received severe head in- Juries. BOARD REORGANIZED New Members Added to Retiring Body Sitting in D. C. The Army Retiring Board, sitting in this city, has been reorganized by the detail of the following members: Brig. Gen. Edgar T. Collins, Col. W. F. Hase, Coast Artillery: Cols. R. J. Burt, C. C. Allen and F. W. Bugbee, Infantry, and | Cols. F. M. Hartsock and J. B. Huggins and Maj. Leon A. Fox, Medical Corps. Majs. J. F. Lieberman and H | Kinderman, Medical Corps, will serve as medical examiners and Capt. John D. Goodrich, Quartermaster Corps, as recorder. NAVAL SCOUTS TO SAIL Fall Maneuvers Soon to Be Start- ed in South Atlantic. The Navy's Scouting Force, under Vice Admiral Arthur L. Willard, soon wiil head southward from Newport, R. 1. for the annual Fall maneuvers in the South Atlantic, to be held Septem- ber 28 to October 4. The ecruisers of the force, 15 strong, will lead the way on Serkmbtr 28, steaming out of New- port for Hampton Va. Narragansett Bay area with Newport as their base until September 28, when | parade, sponsored by the District Fire | FULLER COUNSELS IAMES HOYLE NEVIN NNE STATEFIRE | UNTST0 PARADE HERE LABOR DAY | | | | | i D. C. Department Prepares for Largest Demonstra- | tion in Event’s History. 5,000 FIREMEN TO MARCH WITH 500 AUXILIARIES Governors Invited to Ride With Marchers—Bands, Drills and Contests to Be Features. Firemen from nine States, as well as the District of Columbia, will march down Pennsylvania avenue Labor day 1in the ninth annual firemen’s national | Department. Plans going forward under the di- rection of Sergt. A. J. Bargagni, di- rector and marshal, indicate the largest demonstration since the annual feature was inaugurated in 1922, Sergt. Bargagni said today that he expects between 5.000 and 6,000 men. 500 ladies’ auxiliaries, of fire apparatus and 35 drum corps to take part in the pa d - well as numerous civic. trade and fraternal organizations. The Quantico Marine Band will head the parade and the entire 6th Marine Brigade will march with the firemen. Nine Governors Invited. The Governors of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, New York, Pennsyl- vania, New Jersey, Ohio, Deiaware and West 'Virginia have been invited to at- tend and ride in the parade, but so far only Gov. Albert C. Rit#hie of Maryland has accepted. Gov. Ritchie has taken part in the parade for the past two years. In his automobile will ride the District Commissioners. The party will be escorted by the heads of the nine participating State fire organi- | zations. Sergt. Bargagn! said this year marks the first time firemen from North Caro- lina, New York and Ohio have joined in the national celebration. He was able to finance the participation of the three new States, Sergt. Bargagni exp'ained, because of the $5.000 fund donated by the Washington Board of Trade. In previous years the firemen have been compelled to bear the entire financial burden. | The program for Labor day calls for formation at 9:15 o'clock in the morn- ing in the vicinity of Peace Monument. The columns will arrange themselves on Pirst street, B street northwest and northeast, C 'street. Indiana averue, F street and New Jersey avenue. Parade at 10:30 AM. At 10:30 o'clock the parade is ex- pected to get into motion, passing down Pennsylvania avenue to the Treasury | Building and in rear of the Treasury to the Ellipse, where it will disband. Judging at Ellipse. At 2 p.m. judging cf the best equipped {apparatus_ will take place on the Ellipse. The next event will be the awarding of the hero medals to mem- bers of the Fire and Police Depart- ' | ments in the American League Base {Ball Park, where, an hour later, the annual firemen-policemen base = ball |game will be played. At 3:30 pm. there will be a band and drum corps concert on the Ellipse. That evening at 7:30 o'clock prizes will be awarded on_the Ellipse. Each of the 46 Washington fire com- panies is to enter a float in the parade and firemen are at work building their entries. ‘The competition within the department is keen and in past years elaborate creations have resulted. The firemen 2150 will enter numerous comic floats. In past years floats of ommercial firms have played a major part in the parade T0 BE BURIED MONDAY Funeral for U. 8. Printing Worker Will Be Held at St. Paul's * Church. Funeral Nevin, 24, of 1428 Clifton street, will be held at the home Monday morning at 8:30 o'clock, followed by Mass at St. Paul's Church at 9 o'clock. Burial will be at Beallsville, Md. Nevin_died at Georgetown Hospital Wednesday after a long illness. He was the son of Katherine Hoyle Nevin and the late David J. Nevin and until his illness had been an employe of the | Government Printing Office. He was a graduate of Business High School and took an active part in the school's alumni organization. He served | for 12 years as an acolyte at St. Paul's | Church and later became an usher there and secretary of the Holy Name So- | clety. He is survived by his mother and a sister, Miss Alice Pauline Nevin. | EXCURSION ARRANGED | Five State Societies Join for River Trip Monday. | Five State socleties in Washington | have arranged for a joint moonlight ex- cursion Monday night down the Poto- mac River. The societies co-operating are those representing the States of | Massachusetts, Iowa. Alabama, Mary- | Jand and Missouri. The boat leaves the Seventh Street Wharf at 8 o'clock, and a large attendance is assured by the ad- vance sale of tickets. ‘The committee in charge is headed | by Miss Gertrude N. Louise of the Iowa | Society, with George A. Hernan, Massa- | chusetts; Thomas Cain, Alabama; John | M. Botler, Maryland, and Mrs. Olive J. | Rogers, Missour | | Mrs. Killed by Car WILLIAM B. HUTCHINSON, Driver for the Corby Baking Co. who was instantly killed this morning when struck by an automobi'e while deliver- ing bread to a store on Wilson bc vard, in Fort Myer Heights, Va. Hut: inson, who was 42 years old, lived at 1817 Massachusetts avenue southeast. MARINE RESERVES Brigade Should Be Ready for Quick Call, Says General, Honored at Dinner. Special Dispatch to The Star. CAMP POLLARD, Virginia Beach, Va., August 29.—“You of the 6th Ma- rine Reserve Brigade are accepted in Marine Corps plans as an expeditionary Marine Corps brigade and your lug- gage should remain packed for call to duty in an emergency on a few days’ notice.” said Maj. Gen. Ben H. Fuller, commandant of the Marine Corps, told the officers of the brigade at a dinnor staged by the Nerfolk-Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce in honor of Gen. Fuller and attended by prominent Gov- ernment and civic officials of Norfolk and vicinity at the Cavalier Hotel last night. Complimented on Brigade. Gen, cers of the brigade on the strides made by them in instructing the newly en- isted men of the brigade in the few they have been here. Earlier in the day the entirs brigade, evenly swinging lines of somber khaki studded with scarlet and gold guidons, had swung by in review before him as the origade artillery detachment roared a 13-gun_salute, the first ever fired by a Marine Corps Reserve brigade, in henor of the commandant. Dress Parade Later. Dress parade of the brigade will be staged at 6 o'clock this afternoon in honor of Gen. Fuller, and at 4 o’clock on Sunday in honor ¢f Gov. Pollard. A combined vaudevilie and boxing show will take place tonight, with Gen. and Fuller 2s guests of honor and visitors from Washington and Ncrfolk invited to attend. The 1st Battalion, 20th Marines, spent today on the rifie range, while the 2d Battalion of the 20th and lst and 2d of the 23d continued at close- order and battalion drills. Desp-sea_fishing parties as well as beach bonfire parties are being given by various companies. SEVERAL POLICEMEN RECEIVE NEW POSTS ass Will Become Detective Ser- geant as Thompson Advances to Lieutenant. Br Several changes in police assign- ments, to be effective September 1, were F. O. Brass, member of Inspector T. A. Bean's police prohibition enforce- ment unit, is to be promoted to detective sergeant to take the place made vacant by the elevation of Bernard W. Thomp- son to the rank of lieutenant. ‘Thompson succeeds to the vacancy caused by the retircment of Lieut. James C. Holmes, tenth precinct. M. J. Mahaney, eighth precinct, will succeed Brass as precinct detective and will be made a member of the prohibition en- forcement unit. Detective Clarence Talley of the bad check squad will succeed Thompson as head of that group. The vacancy in the squad caused by Thompson's pro- motion will be filled by Detective T. M. Bragg. AGENTS INVITED TO SEE STILL, HOST ARRESTED Indian Head Man Held on $1,000 Bail After Showing Pride in Liquor Apparatus. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., August 29. -—Charles Datcher, colored, of near In- vited Federal agents into his house to see how fine his 15-gallon still was run- ning, yesterday was held for action of Federal Court, Baltimore, by United States Commissioner J. Frank Parran on charges of manufacturing and pos session of liquor. His bond was set a $1,600. t MAN FIE%HTS POLICE AND FLEES; DISCOVERS HE IS NOT WANTED Iceman Escapes From Patrol After Battle With Captors, Who Learn They Had Wrong Suspect. A man fought his way to freedom from a police patrol yesterday not know- | ing that the telegraphed request from | Louisiana police for his arrest had been | canceled. ‘Robert H. Miller, alias R. J. Murphy, | who gave his occupation as iceman and | his address as 342 N street southwest, | ‘was taken into custody by police of the | fourth precinct for the police of Baton Rouge, La., who notified local authorities that Miller—or Murphy—was an escaped convict and that a reward ‘was offered for his apprehension. Shortly after their first telegram, the Louisiana po- | lice wired the District police a cancel- | Jation of their first request, but de- | tectives were not advised promptly and the search continued. ‘The man had been taken to head- quarters by his captors and was being transferred to a cell at the twelfth pre- cinct station, when he put up his battle in the patrol wagon. He battled with | from the patrol at Lincoln road and R street northeast at 5:30 o'clock yester- day afternoon. Miller, who is 30 years old, was a rested 10 days ago by detectives on a charge of assault, but the charge was nolle prossed and the prisoner released. Another prisoner escaped from the grasp of Headquarters Detective Sergt. Eugene Davis, of the check squad, late Wednesday, it was learned today. The prisoner, arrested by Sergt. Davis at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania ave- nue for questioning in connection with passing bad checks, got away when the detective fell while pu&lr(n‘ to place his prisoner in an automobile. th P de a di lm‘ libe: scaped down D “Sergt. Davis slid part the automobile W fegt quickly the way un- ihe fell. but ve chase Fuller complimented the offi-| THREE MEKILED INAUTO MHAPS INNEARBYTOW |Priest Backs Car Into Mother at Clinton, Fatally In- juring Her. fEMPLOYE- OF BAKERY I STRUCK IN VIRGINIA | Boy, 2. Also Traffic Victim—Driver Held After Death in Arlington. Three persons, including an 81-year- old woman and a 2-year-old child, were killed in automoblle accidents in nearby Maryland and Virginia last night and today. The dead are: Mrs. Mary E. Horst kamp, mother of Rev. John E. Horst- kamp of Clinton, Md.: Willlam B Hutchinson, 42, 1817 Massachusetts evenue southeast, and Samuel Scheerer 2. of Brentwood, Md: | Mother Is Killed. Mrs. Horstkamp was fatally injured when struck by an automobile which { her son was backing out of the garage at his home near Clinton, Md. ac- cording to police reports. Father Horstkamp was getting ready to take his mother to visit friends in Washington when the accident occurred The automobile is said to have passed over her body. Rev. Horstkamp rushed her to Provi- dence Hospital, police say, where she died several hours afterward. Father Horstkamp 1s director of St. John's | parish, with ehurches at Clinton and | Piscataway. | Services for Mrs. Horstkamp will be | held Monday at 10 am. at St. John's | Church, Clinton. Deliveryman Is Struck. Hutchinson, an employe of the Corby Baking Co. for 28 years, was killed when struck by an automobile while de- livering bread to Pollock’s store on Wil- son Boulevard, in Fort Myer Heights, | Va., at 7:45 o'clock this morning. Charles C. Burnett, 300 block of D'Astre street, Ballston, Va.. said to be driver of the car which struck Hutchin- son. was arrested by Arlington County police on a charge of investigation. | __Hutchinson was taken to ncy Hospital in a passing automobile and pronounced dead on arrival. He is survived by his widow, a daugh- ter. Aubrey M., 16 years old, and a son, Joseph W.. 13. The Scheerer child was fatally in- | jured while crossing School street, in North Brentwood, when struck by a truck driven, police say, by Ed Bowser, 20, of Hyattsville. He was taken to Preedman’s Hospital by his father, David Scheerer, and died a few minutes after arrival. The Scheerer home is at 223 School street. According to police the child was crossing the street with a group of | other children when struck. DRIVER HURT IN CRASH. | Other Occupant of Car Is Uninjured When Machine' Hits Tree. | Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 29.— Running his car into a tree when it left the Richmond Highway near here this morning, John Hixon, 30, radio operator at the Hampton Roads Naval Training Station, sustained injuries about the chest and head. Another sailor in the car with Hixon escaped unhurt. Hixon was carried to the Alexandria Hospital, where authorities were unable to find out definitely the extent of his injuries this morning. RUM-RUNNERS HIT MAN, Wrecked Car and Load of Whisky Seized—Two Escape. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BURTONSVILLE, Md., August 29— Edgar Kisner, 42, a farmhand of this community, was injured last night when struck near his home by a rum-runner’s | 2uto, which was fleeing from Montgom- services for James Hosle announced today at Police Headquarters. | €y and Prince Georges County police. Kisner was taken to the Montgomery County General Hospital, where he is being treated for a fractured ankle. Kisner was struck when the rum car ran off the highway and was wrecked. Two colored men said to have been in the machine escaped. The wrecked car and its load of whisky were taken into custody by Sergt. Roy Snyder and to- day was taken to Rockville. GAS STATION HOLD-UP AMONG 3 REPORTED $20 Taken From Manager by Two Young Men Who Speed Away in Taxicab. A filling station at 2612 Sherman avenue was robbed of $20 last night in one of three lesser hold-ups under police investigation today. Two young men drove up to the station in a taxicab operated by a colored man, pro- duced revolvers, snatched the money from the night manager, Thomas R. | dian Head, who allegedly politely in-| Ernst of Brentwood, Md., and sped off. A description of the cab was broad- cast by police. Two colored bandits who requested a match of Theodore Blain of 1522 P street, thrust a gun in Blain's ribs when he stopped to comply. One man held the gun while his confederate searched Blain's pockets and took $3. The robbery occurred at Seventh and N streets. Samuel Allen Jones, who came here from North Carolina, was beaten last night and robbed of $3 by three young men who fell upon him while he was asleep in an automobile parked in the rear of the 600 block of I street. Jones said his assailants drove off in a small automobile, the license number of which he was unable to obtain. R i U. S. AGENT IN ARIZONA SUED BY WIFE HERE Failure to Establish Home for Her- self and Children Charged Against D. F. Finnigan. Daniel F. Finnigan, an internal rev- enue agent stationed at Phoenix, Ariz., was defendant today in a suit for a limited divorce and alimony filed in District Supreme Court by his wife, Mary E. Finnigan. She charged that when her husband refused to establish a home for her and their two children here she offered to June 25, 1919. Finnigan's salary is $300 a mont wife asserted asking the court compel him to support her children. She is represented by A