Evening Star Newspaper, February 29, 1932, Page 12

A—12 SEABURY DECLARES CRITICS RIDICULOUS Cincinnati Speech Only for Furthering Probe, He Says, Returning East. By the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATI, Oh February 29.— Judge Samuel Seabury, chief counsel of the Hofstadter Legislative Commit- tee, investigating conditions in New York City, left here for New York late yesterday, declining to enlarge upon his 39-word statement denying any other purpose in speaking here than to fur- ther the objects of the committee in- vestigation. { The speculation which arose in New York after Judge Seabury flung a ver- bal assault at Tammany Hall appeared to have had no effect upan him. “My speech here” he said. “was solely in furtherance of the objects of the committee conducting the New York investigation. 1 shall be very glad if it has that eflect. It is quite ridiculous to attribute any other pur- pose to it.” Judge Seabury consented to make | his brief statement only after being | Second Oldest Graduate of| Naval Academy Still Has Wanderiust. His Intimate Friendship With Late Sultan of Turkey Is Recalled. Rear Admiral Colby Mitchell Chester, | { U. S. N, retired, who makes his home | | here at 1828 I street, is celebrating his | 22d birthday anniversary today, although | he was born in 1844—on February 29. | At present, the admiral is visiting his son, Arthur Chester, in Rye, N. Y., and is recalling outstanding aspects of his| career—his participation in the battle | of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864; his | intimate friendship with the Jate Sultan of Turkey and the oil concessions there that bear his name, and his mathe- matical genius that is credited with dis- | counting the North Pole claims of Dr | Frederick A. Cook. He is the second | oldest graduate of the Naval Acadcm)‘.i Still Has Wanderlust. | informed New York newspapers had read into his specch a belief he was | seeking the Democratic _presidential nomination for himself, and that he sought to interfere with the aspirations | of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Motive Under Suspicion. Leaders in the charter group here | were of the opinion Judge Seabury came | to the Middle West to make his speech to draw the attention of the Nation to the working of Tammany Hall, which he criticized severely in his address be- fore the charter victory dinner here | Friday night | A number of the Cincinnati charter leaders further said they believed in- ferential references to potitical leaders | in New York were made by Judge Sea- | bury with the sole purpose of trying to get action from them locking toward the clean-up the judge said was im- perative. Leaders in the city manager govern- ment here explained they believed | Judge Seabury's move in coming out here served to focus tne attention of the Nation upon the New York investi- | gation, whereas a similar talk in the East would not have attracted such wide attention, The speech was the first Judge Seabury has made since the | investigation was begun. | He said he came here because of his keen interest in the city charter form of government and hoped the same plan, in a modified form, might be in- troduced in New York, as an aftermath of the investigation. Doubts Office Seeking. One who is high in the charter group | here said he was inclined to minimize the reports Judge Seabury was seeking Ppolitical office. Judge and Mrs. Seabury spent today with Mayor Russell Wilson of Cincin- nati. He took back with him first- hand information on the way the char- ter government operates here. A small council of nine members, elected at large and employing & city manager to carry out their program, the plan in effect_here, hardly would be adaptable to New York, without modifications, Seabury said. He said, however, Cincinnati's gov- ernment had accomplished wonders in “cleaning up political graft and giving the city an _efficient, economical ad- ministration.” under the charter group, GIRL, 14, IS KILLED ACCIDENTALLY BY GUN Brother and Cousin Were Examin- ing Rifle at Mount Airy Home. “could do as much for Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. MOUNT AIRY, Md., February 29— Funcral services for Margaret May Warfield, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Warfield, Lisbon, Howard County, who was accidentally shot Saturday afternoon with a bullet from a small caliber rific in the hands of her brother and a cousin, will be held at Pleasant Hill Church, Mon- rovia, Frederick County, tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. The service will be conducted by Rev. Ellis Wag- oner. pastor of Pleasant Hill Church of the Brethren. According to Magistrate F. E. Smith, Lisbon, who conducted an investiga- tion, Edwin Warfield, 16, brother of the girl, and Walter Warfield, 17, her cousin, were examining a partly dis- mantled rifle when it was accidentally discharged The bullet grazed the girl's heart, causing instant death Pallbearers will include her class- mates, Roland Mullinix, Benjamin Slagle, Rodger Sanner, Edwin Justice, Arthur Gillis and Gerald Deurr. LEAP YEAR BABIES BORN Three in Alexandria Hospital Are Reported Doing Fine. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star, ALEXANDRIA. Va, February Three future citizens of this c have birthdays but once every four years because of the fact that they were born today at the Alexandria Hos- pital The Leap Year babies and their mothers were all reported to be doing fine by authorities at the hospital. The babiss will have no birthdays until February 29, 1936 29 will KILL COLD GERM ‘ Clears head instantly. Stops cold spreading. Sprinkle your handkerchief during the day —your pillow at night. ALL DRUG STORES McKESSON PRODUCT ONSTIPATED? Take N?—NATURE'S REMEDY —tonight. Your eliminative organs will be functioning prop- erly by morning and your con- stipation will end with a bowel action as frce and easy as na- ture at her best—positively no pain, no griping. Try it. Mild, safe, purely vegetable— at druggists—only 25¢ FEEL LIKE A MILLION, TAKE 7 Even at his advanced age, the admiral still has the wanderlust of youth and he rarely stays more than a couple of | months in any one place. The years are beginning to tell upon him, too, his friends say, but he retains the alertness of mind that marked him as one of the most distinguished of the Nawy's officers. Admiral Chester, a native of NEVA" London, Conn., was placed on the re tired list of the Navy after 47 years’ active duty, which took him to all parts of the world. He left the service in 1906, officially, but was given a special assignment in the Bureau of Equipment at the Navy Department until 1908, when he was appointed a delegate to the Ninth International Congress of Geography at Geneva | During the World War, when 73 years old, he was recalled to active duty and | served as commandant of the naval | unit at Yale University and organized ! naval units at Brown University and at Columbia | During the Civil War, as a young | sailor he took an active part in the | bombardment and capture of Fort Mor- gan on August 22, 1864, and aided in paving the way for the capture of Mo- bile. Following that war he served on ships of the South Pacific Station and then went to the Asiatic. Thanked by Britain. In the Summer of 1875 Admiral | Chester served as executive officer of the frigate Constellation, used as prac- tice ship at the Naval Academy. He| received the thanks of the British gov- | ernment for his assistance in salvaging the steamer Historian, and the owners of that vessel presented a silver set to | the officers of his ship, the U. 8. S.| Galena. Admiral Chester served in the Bureau of Navigation here in 1889 and from April, 1891, to 1894, served at the Naval Academy, commanding the Constella- tion, and then became commandant of | midshipmen. In the Spanish-American War, he commanded the cruiser Cin- cinnati and later was the skipper of the U. S. S. Kentucky. In November, 1902, he came back to ‘Washington, this e as superin- | tendent of the Naval Observatory, and | while at that post was advanced to the | grade of rear admiral. He commanded | a special squadron in the Mediter- | ranean to witness the total eclipse of | the sun in June, 1905, and then vis- ited the observatories of European countries. In recalling today that Admiral Ches- ter is the second oldest graduate of the , Naval Academy, Navy officials said | Rear Admiral Benjamin Franklin Day of Buena Vista, Va., is the oldest living | graduate. Admiral Chester graduated from the Naval Academy in 1863, while Admiral Day graduated a year earlier. are tw In European history there 0 hundred! distinct periods known as the years' wars. Oh, yeah . Them fags To make a tummy! Quick relief ‘acid indigestion A%0 " reantacid. Only 1 NING STAR, WASHINGTON, {REAR ADMIRAL CHESTER, AT 88, CELEBRATES 22D BIRTHDAY __REAR ADMIRAL CHESTER. H. G. GODDARD DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Former Employe of W. B. Moses| & Sons Succumbs at the Age of 71. H. Goldsborough Goddard, 71, life- long resident of Washington and for- mer employe of the W. B. Moses & Sons Co., died here yesterday after a three-year {illness. He had been ill since an accident which forced his re- tirement from business. Mr. Goddard was the son of the late Andrew and Maria Goldsborough God- dard. When 20 he entered the Moses company and remained there more than 40 years, during which time he rose to the post of assistant manager. In recent years he made his home at the Portner Apartments. Surviving are his widow, Estelle C. Goddard, and a sister, Miss Mary L. Goddard. Funeral services will be held at the W. W. Chambers’ funeral home followed by Wednesday at 9:30 am., mass at St. Matthew's Church. Burial will be in Congressional Cemetery. BODY OF H. 0. SKINNER TO BE BROUGHT HERE Arrangements were being made today to bring to Washington the body of | Henry O. Skinner, 21-year-old former soldier, who was killed turday at Greenfield, Ind., while hitch-hiking his way here. Skinner, whose home was in the 1300 block of Harvard street, was the son of Percy H. Skinner, formerly a writer for the Washington Times. The youth was fatally injured when the automobile of Harold Bray of Indianapolis, in which he was riding, struck a stalled truck on the highway near Greenfield. Bray was seriously hurt in the collision. Young Skinner had recently been dis- charged from the Army at Kelly Fiel Tex., at the expiration of his enlist- ment, according to his father. He started home in his own automobile, the elder Skinner said, but when the car broke down after traveling over a num- ber of flooded roads, the former soldier took to hitch-hiking. BUY or RENT Office Furniture H. Baum & Son 616 E St. N.W. Nat. 9136 .. a cough? yuh smoke Would make you choke. Well, listen to what I’'m remarkin’— You just arrange change Us Old Boys learn OLD GOLDS don’t burn Or scratch yer throat, or ever fag it, Rich, mild and pure You’ll like em —sure, HONOLULU STIRRED BY NEW ASSAULT | Wife of Enlisted Man in U. S. Navy Is Attacked and Another Terrorized. By the Associated Press. | HONOLULU, February 29.—Tense | excitement, which gripped Honolulu in recent months because of attacks upon women and an attendant lynching, was revived today by an assault upon the | wife of an enlisted man of the United States Navy. | The victim, Mrs. Kethleen Hope, wife | of John H. Hope, machinist on the | submarine S-28, now en route to San Diego. Calif., was the second naval wife | assaulted here in recent months. Her attacker, who she thought was a Japanese, entered her home with a pistol Saturday night, bound, gagged | and assaulted” her, and then calmly | helped himself to cigars on a table. | Before he left he threatened to re- turn and “get her” if she reported the | crime to police. Mrs. Hope caught but a single glimpse of her assailant's face | when his mask slipped off. He also terrorized Mrs. D. W. Curry, wife of another enlisted man on sub- marine duty, in an adjoining home. Neither of the women possessed a tele- phone. ‘The attack brought renewal of charges | that local authorities could not cope with the situation and a plea that the Federal Government intervene. STIRLING MAKES REPORT. ‘The Navy Department was advised of the attack in an official dispatch from Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, jr., com- mandant of the 14th Naval District and of the Pearl Harbor, Hawail, base. The department today made public this excerpt from the report: “About 8 p.m., 27th, Mrs. Hope as- | saulted at point of gun in her home by an armed man of mixed or Oriental | blood.” | " Records of the Navy Department | show that Mrs. Kathleen Honor Ellen Hope is the wife of John Henry Hope, machinist's mate, who is serving aboard the submarine S-28. Naval officials | said the S-28 left Honolulu on February | 20, and is due at San Diego, Calif, March 1. The craft will participate in the war games in the San Pedro-San Diego area, as part of the force defend- ing the West Coast. The enlisted man's | home is shown in naval records here as | being in San Diego. He is a native of Joliet, IIL Dispatches from Honolulu mention | the wife of another Navy man, Mrs. D. W. Curry, whose home was also broken into, but the intruder left after demanding money, Navy Department | records disclose that Electrician’s Mate (First Class) Duane William Curry is attached to the Submarine S-44, now | at Pear] Harbor. His home is Kau- kauna, Wis. ‘A 4 STAREVENT ekok SEARS’ ([ | MR ATION N pEMO " aeaing THUR S DAY See Uednesdlay Str SEARS,ROEBUCK 224 CO; “Ofi, Yéflé? well Say, how come, guy, You dropped that fly And spoiled the no-hit game I'm pitchin’? What put you off? Yuh eouldn’t stop yer throat from twitchin’? And smoke OLD GOLDS and stop that barkin’! And—when the next fly comes, you’ll bag it! D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1932. FILKOWSK] FACES - CLEVELAND TRIAL by New York to Expedite Prosecution. By the Associated Press NEW_YORK, February 20 —Shackled to a Cleveland detective, Joseph Fil- kowski, Cleveland's public enemy No. 1 was arraigned today for the formal dis- | missal of a robbery charge against him so he might be returned to Cleveland to answer a murder indictment. Handcuffed to Lieut Cleckner of | Cleveland, Filkowski was hustled out a | side door of the Jefferson Market Court Building after the formality was fin- ished and taken for brief questioning to the district attorney's office. From there he was scheduled to be | taken by automobile to Newark, N. J.. | to start by airplane for Cleveland at 12:15 o'clock. Filkowski was arrested last Wednes- day by New York and Cleveland detec- tives and subsequently was indicted In Cleveland for the murder of a hold-up | victim there. He was indicted here as the robber of a clothing store. but it was decided to| | give Cleveland the pricrity on the more serious charge. Mrs. | was arrested as the result of a clue found on Filkowski. In the apartment where police said she had been living with him detectives found a shotgun. two pistols and about $65.000 worth ot | jewelry. She is to be arraigned tomor- tow in Long Island City. The jewelry was identified as part of the loot stolen in a recent jewelry store robbery here. WOMAN OF 80 MARKS TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 29.— | Mrs. T. J. Wilcox, mother of Mrs. U. S. | A. Heavener of this place, is 80 years old today, but because of having been |born in @ leap year it is only her |20th birthday anniversary. She was |given a surprise tea yesterday aft- | ernoon at the Memorial Methodist Epis- copal Church parsonage, on Wine ave- nue, where she makes her home with her daughter and son-in-law, Rev. Mr. Heavener. Members of the Ladies’ Aid of the Church and friends frem Kensington, | | Md., and Baltimore, where she was born | i;\nd reared, were among those attend- | ing. Flowers were given Mrs. Wilcox, along with a gold piece presented by Mrs. George Bassford, president of the | Ladies’ Aid Today she is the guest of another daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hormes, at Ca- tonsville, Md., who will entertain at a reception for her. Public Enemy No. 1 Released | Mary Keck, also of Cleveland, | |SEVEN “LEAP YEAR BABIES" BORN IN CAPITAL HOSPITALS {Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nevitt Gessford First February 29 Arrival—Rights of ‘Women to Propose Explained. A matter of less than three hours today deprived three of the District's | | new-born infants of the right to more | than one birthday in four years, and | 8s the stork’s activities hereabouts pro- | gressed, four more were added to the growing list of “leap year babies” be- fore noon. A survey of Washington's hospitals revealed that the first baby born on February 29 was the little girl of Mr. | and Mrs, Nevitt Gessford of 3603 Perry street, Mount Rainler, who was clocked as having arrived at 2:05 am. in Sibley Hospital. ‘Three minutes later Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Woolsender of 1735 Bay street southeast became the proud parents of lnl baby boy, born at the same institu- on. The stork appeared to have concen- trated more or less on Sibley Hospital, | a total of four being born there up to | shortly before noon. The others were | a girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Berger of 1630 Lincoln road northeast at 4:35 am. and a girl born to Mr and Mrs. Raymond Garber of 1316 | | Irving street at 9:20 o'clock. | Three Others Born. At 2:40 am. Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Dickinson of 2849 Twenty-ninth street became the parents of a little girl, born in Garfield Hospital. Others | brought by the stork on this extra “Jeap-year day” were & boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Maloney of 3710 Military road, at Providence Hospital, and a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Jackson, colored, of 345 K street south- west, born at Gallinger Hospital. It's a simple matter, the scientists say, to find a reason for the coming of leap year once in four, “giving to Feb- ruary one day more,” but just why the | extra day should give women the right | to take the initiative in proposing | matrimony during all of the 366 days | is quite another problem. \ “Where did the custom originate?” Charles Frederick Marvin, chief of the Weather Bureau, was asked. | “That,” he smiled genially, “is & bit out of my line.” Institutions of research and en- | cyclopaedias are equally uninformative, but as early as 1282 there was a Scotch | law recognizing and legalizing woman's perogative. It was explicit, asserting that in | “Lepe yeres ye mayden ladye of both highe and lowe estait shall hae liberte to bespeke ye man she likes, albeit he | refuses to take her to be his lawful wyfe, he shall be mulcted in ye sum ane poundes, or less as his estait may Ber The single male was given a wee loophole, however, the statute contin- | uing that “except and awis yet he can CatchesCoughonTrain Better by Next Station | “James was on a trip to Canada with me. He caught cold on a train glnttf‘?rm; cWeh t lomed Smith rothers’ /0Uu an i to him. Tn about two hours there wasn't a sign of a cough left. My boy was smiling again— quite re- | covered.”—Mrs. K. V. Badman, | 2651 Monroe Street, Toledo, Ohio. ACHON LSOOTHING * 2.MILDLY LAXATIVE * 3.CLEARS AIR PASSAGES* SMITH BROTHERS COUGH SYRUP PURE TOBACCO . .. NO ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS That's why O. Gs. do not scratch the throat or taint the breath . . . [Cellophane-wrapped, of course) - » . make it appeare that ane ither woman he t If further preced there was a similar Fre soon atterward. “Now for the ‘simple” explanation of why February 29 comes every four years almost every four years. ‘As you know.” Marvin said, “Met introduced the lunar cycle of 19 | into Athens, making 235 mean 1t equivalent to 19 solar y 36514 days each, of 6,940 d man, Meton. “Now an embolismic or intercalary month—you don't quite grasp that? “Well, suffice to say that Caesar found the calendar and the equinox a good bit out of line. The equinox, as everybo is undoubtedly aware, is the time v the sun's center in crossing the equator coincides with either of the equinoctial points, One Leap Year Too Many. “With the help of Egyptian astron- omers, he did quite a bit to remedy the situation, but still the new calendar had about one Leap year too many in 128 years. “At the great Council of Nicea in 1582 the Gregorian calendar was evolved. It made some needed changes, but there is still a slight error, and so we leave out one Leap year every 100 years, save every fourth 100 years. Those cen- turies not divisible by four are not Leap years, “Does that give you what you wish to know? Quite simple, really. You're welcome. You're welcome.” An able ‘Three peace societies were organized in the United States in the vear 1815, each entirely unknown to each other N REDUCED $ Worthwhile saving Phone us for prices on cate Anthracite”—the Pennsylvania Anthracite. B0 OF LAYNEN' [EAUE AT HSS Breakfast at Mayflower Pre- cedes—Archbishop Cur- ley Speaks. 800 members of n's Retreats, Wash. s . yesterday attended & t at the Mayflower Hotel and t. Matthew's Catholic Church. Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, arch- bishop of Baltimore, spoke at the mass. He commended the retreat movement for its good influence on the lives of mbers. The archbishop urged the mbers to take every advantage of t. He predicted the organiza- d wield great influence in the than { Lay! Three Assisted at Mass, g Archbishop Curley in cele- f the mass were Mgr. Edward Suckey, Rev. Eugene De L. McDon- nell, S. J., superior at Manresa Retreat, Md., and Rev. Ferdinand Schoberg, 8. of Manresa Retreat. Music was pro- ded Prof. Malton Bo choir- nd orgamist of St. Matthew's Church. Patrick J. Haltigan led the laymen in prayer. Right Rev. Mgr. Eugene J. Connelly of St. Peter’s Church, spiritual director of the Washington section, Baltimore Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name So- ciel was the principal speaker at the breakfast. He said the retreat move- ment would uplift and improve the existence of the individual laymen. Movement Is Praised. The movement also was praised by Rev. Justin McManus, O. P., prior at Dominican House of Studies, Catholic University; ~Father McDonnell and | Father Schoberg. Rossa F, Downing, retreat president, presided. 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