Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1932, Page 7

THE EVENING S' TAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JAN UARY 1932. * A—77 25, BLAZE DESTROYS BEAVER DAM CLUB, Plans Made by Officials to| Rebuild Burned Structure. some $60,000 c officials Club met Brashears, of yesterday ‘morning Esca Occupants oyes who made way to safety. ‘They were David mson and Jonn and Harold | n J ackson’s arm was through a glass dc exact cause of the f ermined rushed # m b from Blad ge City, Tu ainfer and ville, Cot Mount sponded Less Partially Covered by Insurance. ‘ In addition to the loss to the club rty, golf equipment, wear and other articles belonging the individual members, valued at sev- | eral thousand dollars and in the locker rooms, was ruined lub | house loss is said to be partially cc ered by-insuranc the two stan nes of club members and county red to view the ruins tcok advant: to enjoy brick ye ay age of the a round | of golf while The club has been niz=d about 19 ship of ap- members of and many officials of the District of | rges County. | nt fa and Prince G FOUR MORE TAKEN IN WATER'S KILLING| Wounded Clerk to View Quartet | Today at Old German- By a Staff Correspondent of The Star | ROCKVILLE, Md., January 25.—Four colored men, two of whcm hed been ar- | rested in Hagerstown and the other two in Cumberland, were brought here to- day by & member of the Montgomery | County police force in connection with { the murder last Wednesday night of | Horace D. Wat 79-year-old 5!0!’9-‘ r of Old mantown, Md., !nd‘ ing of his clerk, Richard A. 68, in a hold-up. n will be lqfin t0.German- ) and facedthy Mr..Bennett, will be asked if he can ldenm’y‘ of them rticipating in the r The two arrested in Hagers- | cked up on the description | taken Cumberland in were ar- rested while police were looking for py¢ there was no indication of a vicla- men who had committed a hold- there If police are unable fo connect these | men with the crime, they admit they | face a stone wall in_their attempt to it. Practically _every lead \ has come to them has been run n, police say, and about 10 persons have been arrested for questioning, only to be released States’ Attorney Stedman Prescott. a group.of county officers and two Baltimore detectives worked in Washington and Arlington County, Va., all day Saturday and arrested two col- ored men, & colored woman and a nce been up | re- Willie Aubrey was arrested ceman’ A. D. taken to there. Convinced t the shoo release ALEXANDRIA YOUTH IS SHOT IN CHEST Police Think Colored Men Mistock Vict:m and Three Others for Officers Me IRVING CLARKE BARBER. (. BARBER RITES SET WEDNESDAY Superintendent of District Automobils Repair Shop Found Dead in Bed. Funeral services for Irving Clarke Barber, 49, for many years superintend- ent of the District’s automobile repair shop, who was found cead yesterday afternoon in his home, at 200 Bryant street, will be held at 2 o'clock Wednes- v afternoon from Hysong's pfrlors. al will be in Arlington National Cemetery Mr. Barber's body was found in bed | by friends, who became anxious when he failed to keep 2n appointment and instituted a search. Mr. Barber, who was unmarried, presumably had died of a heart attack Saturday night or | early yesterday Members of the Fire Rescue Squad and a hospital ambulance were sum- moned, but Mr. Barber was pronounced dead by the physician in charge. Mr. Barber was a captain the Motor Transport Corps Reserves. Dur- ing the World War he served as an instructor at a corps training camp in nearby Maryland. In the early days of automobile rac- in | ing Mr. Barber was a designer of racing cars which were entered in competition on the cld Benning race track and others throughout the country. Mr. Barber was a member of Vincent B. Costello Post, American Legion, and was_well known among veterans and employes of the District.government. J;Robhery 1Is Bt:lie\'e(l‘ Motive of Ghouls in Violation of Grave Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va. January 25.—Pitt- sylvania County officers investigating the mysterious cpening of the grave of | W. C. Hamlett at Gretna by ghouls are proceeding on a theory of robbery as the motive. Mr. Hamlett, m-mber of a well known family, died under | mysterfous circumstances in December, 928. He was supposed to be wealthy, | | but no money was found at his death 1928 Recently the grave was found t> have through the ccfiin, making it po to ascertain cf th: funerary clothing contained any money. In’ order the entire grave was opened by officer: tion of the remains. Guests have rning with more the police ut and shot at wore caps re- door husband whose State road force the for i that the boys jumped on | t he drew his revolver in Chamber of Commerce to Meet. CLARENDON, Va., January 25 (Spe- elal) . —Arlington County Chamber of Commerce is to hold its annual business meeting and election of officers here Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the Kelley Building. People who Brand “A” been entered, a hole having been sawed | ssible | u 1 « to | furnished by local police, while the two | fPRAeC, BT VSRR | oon damaged, | GOTHAN CLEANP Probe Report Is Submitted as Democrat Attacks Anti- Graft Inquiry. | By the Assoctated Press NEW YORK, January 25.—Con structive chenges to raise New York City from “the low and sordid estate | to which it has sunk” were vigorously advocated yesterday by Samuel Sea- bury, who faid the searchlight of leg- felative inquiry had shown graft and to be a part of a Tammany permeating the city. d independent Demo- a 50,000-word inter- of an investigation ng to the chairman of r Legislative Committee ) the commitee. ne time, Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier, Democratic committeeman, tement termed the al fajlure” and asserted Seabury sought by innuendoes to “be- smirch” the character of municipal employes and “undermine” the city's financial sctanding. Seabury, said Cuvillier, was “nursing an alleged griev- ance that Temmany Ha'l had knifed him at the in his unsuccessful 1916 race Governor. MecCormick Pleads Not Guilty, Meanwhile Deputy City Clerk James J. McC k entered a formal plea of not guilty to two indictments resulting from his acce| nce of gratuities from couples he married in the municipal chapel | " Judge George L. Donnellan continued | the $5,000 set when McCormick surrendered Friday and granted |him 10 days in which to amend his plea or make motions. McCormick tes- tified before the Hofstadter committee | that his tips had amounted to $16,000 & year. Accuses Doyle and Olvany. The Seabury report described a re- cent statement by an assistant to Mayor Walker that the inquiry was impairirg city credit as “a shallow a tempt to transfer the responsibil The city's financial condition, said Se bury, was due to “waste, graft and cor- ruption with which the city is I fested.” Of Sheriff Thomas M. Farley, or- dered by Gov. Roosevelt to answer charges preferred by Seabury that he appropriated to his his own use the interest on funds belonging to individ- uals left in his care and that he had other he could not explain, the rep tes, “he has no aitern tive except to confess grand larceny After a lengthy review of testimony regarding Dr. William F. Doyle, the veterinarian, and his practice before the Board of Standards and Appeals, Seabury remarks “In my opinion the evidence leaves no doubt that Doyle and George W. Olvany (former leader of Tammany Hall), and the agencies which they represented were traffickers in_politi- cal influence upon the Board of Stan- dards and Appeals, and that the mil- lions of dollars which they earned in the barter and sale of this influence was earned at the expense and to the prejudice of the people of the City of New York.” - crat submitied mediate rer begun last | the Hofs inquiry a Force Lane Open. Taxpayers of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, forced open a lane between their town and Sandown that had been closed by the government. It will stay open. Fixtures on Display 4100 Georgia Ave AD-0145 scene union parents school, ent cuss the activities at Merc VIRGINIA U. ALUMNI DR. EDWARDS OF MERCE BURG WILL BE HERE. DR. BOYD EDWARDS. The Army and Navy Club will be the tonight interesting re- of the igton Alumni of urg Academy. An informal followed by addresses v and motion pictures de- tudent life at Mercersburg. ddi umni and their wives and ctner rs of their tam- ilies, the comm in charge, headed by Addison has invited of Me: students and frie: the institution Dr. headmaster of _the vards will be pres- to dis- g Washir ittec F other Boyd Dr FIGHT CO-EDUCATION | Committee Is Named to Support Passage of Measure for Women's College. The Star Va., January 25.—To Special Dispatch t RICHMOND, “end the threat of co-education at the University of Virginia,” the University of Virginia Alumni Association, follow- ing the appointment of a committee to aid in the pa: lish a liberal the State 1 ericksburg. ing each member of the ass members of the the bill to estab- e for women at llege at Fred- out a letter urg- iation to write, telegraph or personally” the lature from their sent district in an effort to have the meas- ure _enacted jr., The letter is signed by F. L. Fuller, president, and J. Malcolm Luck, secretary DR.—BOICE’S PRESCRIPTION TABLETS —for Constipation wil stimulate the liver and relieve the nasty headaches | that have been making you miserable AU your druggist's. 25c.—Advertisement. ‘which cause colds, sinus trouble, caterrh, head- che, diy nose, coughs, thioet rouble. 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And stops the growlings of the croakers, SMOKE PURE-TOBACCO OL CAVE-IN MAY LEAD TO NEW CAVERNS Exploration Planned * Following Engulfing of Horse as | i Ground Gives Way. | Spectal Dispatch to The Star. | WINCHESTER, Va, January 25.— | Explorations are to be made on the Mc- | Leod farm near Stephens City, Prederick County, this week to determine whether the valley of Virginia contains another large cavern similar to thcse opened | and commercialized in recent years in | Shenandoan County. Decision to make a thorough inves- | tigation followed the engulfing of a | horse there Saturday while E. J. Hiser was plowing for corn. Suddenly the | Rorse sank out of sight and was drag- ging another with it when the opening became choked. Hiser narrowly escaped pitching into the hole. He extricated the second horse with the aid of neigh- | bors, but the animal that fell in first | | was not recovered. Many residents of the neighborhood | refused to go near the opening, fearing | the roof of & possible cavern may col- | 1apse, and men who did go to help Hiser extricate his herse were well equipped | with Topes. WOMAN IS K‘LLED | Ex-Editor II1 of Poison. | Scholarships Awarded. | HAGERSTOWN, Md., January 25|By a Staff Correspondent of The 8t BY CAR OH HIGHWAY‘ (Special). —Richard J. Hamilton, former | COLLEGE PARK, Md., January 25.— | editor of the Daily Mail, this city, is | In recognition of their outstanding 4-H |in a critical condition’ with blood | Club work during the past year, Ethel | poisoning in a Miami, Fla. hospital. | Gorsuch of Carroll County and Charles He Is spending the Winter in Florida. ‘Clark of Harford County have beer | He is the son of the late Gov. William | awarded $100 scholarships by the Bal | T. Hamilton of Maryland. timore & Ohio Railroad. Struck While Walking With Hus- band on Road—Berwyn Driver Is Freed. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star: COLLEGE PARK, Md. January 25 —Struck by an automobile while walk- | ing along the Baltimore Boulevard with | her husband, Mrs. Etta L. Johnson, 48 years old, was instantly killed about 6 o'clock last night Harry W. McNamee of Berwyn, driver | of the car which struck her, was ex- onerated of all blame a short time later when a coroner’s jury, under Justice of Peace George S. Phillips, decided the accident was unavoidable. According ¢ County Policeman Claude | Reese, the ccuple was walking arm in arm along the road in the same direc- Final Week! ACT AT ONCE! THIS MONEY-SAVING OFFER WILL BE ENDED FEBRUARY 1st | tion the car was going The husband, who is employed at the experiment farm of the University of Maryland, according to Reese, was uninjured Mrs. Johnson was pronounced dead by Dr. A. O. Etienne of Berwyn. | California bakers have succeeded in making bread from seaweed. 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