Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1936, Page 24

OFFICALS OF PARK PUBLISH JOURNAL Object of Magézine to Show There Is Sorsething Else Beside Skyline Drive. Spectal Dispateh to The Star. LURAY, Va, September 19.—The Shenandoah Nature Journal, pub- lished as the official magazine of the new Shenandoah Nature Society, or- ganized among park officails-of the headquarters office of the Shenan- doah National Park located here, is Just off the press. Its chief object, as well as that of the society, according to William Tyree, editor, “is.to_show people that there is ‘something elss| to the Shenandoah National Park be- sides the Skyline Drive. “We want to persuade people to leave the drive and travel along the trails,” he said. ‘The journal will be published from time to time as the personnel and others find items of interest and accu- mulate new knowledge concerning na- ture in the Shenandoah Park. The first issue will be put on sale in the park today with a limited number of copies. It contains an article by the president of the Nature Society, Darwin S. Lambert, stating the pur- pose of the society, with numerous ad- ditional articles and pictures by va- rious members. At a recent meeting of the society, when copies of the magazine were presented, action was taken inviting non-residents to become honorary members of the society at $1 per year. It is hoped by securing these to eliminate the necessity of using ad- vertising. REGISTRATION PLANS UP IN MONTGOMERY 116 Officials of Various Election Districts in County to Meet Wednesday. Erectal Dispetch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 19.— Officers of registration for the various election district§ of Montgomery County will meet in the Circuit Court room here next Wednesday evening to discuss and more thoroughly familiarize themselves with the regis- tration and ‘election laws. There are 116 such officials. John A. England and F. Byrne Aus- tin, Republican and Democratic mem- bers of the Montgomery County Per- manent Board of Registry, will attend. They plan to explain the more im- | portant features of the registration | &nd election laws and answer quec- tions relative thereto. It is also planned to have the eounty’s 232 judges and clerks of elec- tion meet in Rockville for a similar purpose shortly before the November election. LANDSLIDES CLOSE PARKWAY SECTION Four Months From October 1 Re- quired for Repairs Between P and Massachusetts Ave. Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway between P street and Massachusetts avenue will be closed four months, be- §inning about October 1, for the elimination of the landslide now par- tially blocking the thoroughfare, it | was announced yesterday. Under supervision of the Bureau of Public Roads, a retaining wall will be constructed and the present grade of the highway, upstream of the Q street bridge, will be raised about 6 feet. The new roadway will be built over the toe of the landslide. The section of the parkway between P and K streets will be unaffected by the work and motorists can continue to enter and leave the park valley by way of P street. 15 HURT AS 3 HORSES RUN WILD INTO CROWD Animals, Frightened by Music, Plunge Into Throng at Coney Island Parade. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—Fif- teen persons were injured today when three horses, frightened by a fife and drum corps, plunged into a crowd at Cone, Island’s mardi gras and baby parade. A policeman was seroiusly hurt as he tried to stop the bolting horses and eight women and a boy required medical treatment. The incident occurred just as the procession of babies started down Surf &venue, where 500,000 persons, mostly ‘women aad children, had gathered to watch the parade. The horses were led into the ave- nue just as the fife and drum corps heralded the approach of the pro- cession. William McMenony, who was taking them to the Coney Island pony track, was unable to stop them when they bolted. Patrolman Thomas Danaher suf- fered a fractured leg and severe cuts #nd bruises before the police finally quieted the horses. —_— Work on Wrong Farm. SLAYTON, Minn. (4).—Eight corn Pickers gathering seed for a local firm set to their task with a will on. Andres Threan’s farm. After picking 30 bushels they were called trespassers and told to clear out. Investigation revealed they were on the wrong farm—by & half a mile, 'BANK HEAD FAVORED | ST T | | Cabinet Shake-Up Seen After Visit FO TO L O THE SUNDAY Acor aFTTINVITTETE N STAR, ‘WASHINGTON Jail Officer Philip Pawlowski keeps an alert watch on the lobby of the Cook County Jail in Chicago from his revolving seat in the five-windowed machine-gun cage facing the exit to the street and the entrance to the cells. Inmates have little chance of getting by unseen. This is only one of the newest installations designed to make a local Alcatraz of the jail where many of Chicago’s most notorious gangsters were incarcerated during the bootleg era. —Wide World Photo. TRAIN WRECK PLOT SENDS 4 0 CELLS Mother' of Six Gets 3 to- 10 Years for Part in Plan to Loot Passengers. By the Associated Press. COSHOCTON, Ohio, September 19.—Mrs. Edith Buckmaster West, who sought to wreck a train and rob the passengers to obtain money for a divorce so that she could remarry, heard herself and three men sen- tenced to prison terms today. At 30, the mother of six children, she must serve 3 to 10 years in the | State Reformatory for Women. The | man she planned to marry, Wayne Hartley, 30, and her brother, Albert | Buckmaster, 21, were sentenced to 3 to 10 years in Ohio Penitentiary. Norman Hartley, 24, was given a 1 to 10 year term in the State Reformatory for Men. Judge J. C. Daugherty sentenced the four after they pleaded guilty to | charges of attempting to wreck a Pennsylvania passenger train. Bolts were removed from the tracks at two places, one of them a bridge over the Muskingum River, the night: of August 27. John Bank, a farmer, discovered that the bolts were miss< ing and notified track-walkers. The bolts were traced to a Coshocton junk yard, where they had been sold for 20 cents and the arrest of the quartet | followed. A 4-month-old baby reposed in Mrs. West’s arms as she received her sen- | tence caimly. The infant, authorities | said, will be placed in the care of a family. Five other children already are living with families here. AS POLISH PREMIER} of “Strong Man” to Paris. Br the Assoclated Press. PARIS, September 19.—Diplomatic circles tonight predicted that & min- isterial shake-up in Poland wonld result from the recent Paris visit of Poland’s “strong man,” Inspector General Edward Rydz-Smigly. Rydz-Smigly was reported anxious to take the government out of the hands of pro-German Rightists and establish a centrist government more friendly to France. . Adam Kocz, director of the Bank of Poland and one of Smigly’s closest associates, was considered the likeli- est candidate of the general for head of a new government. Informed sources said it was likely that Col. Josef Beck, Polish foreign minister, would be left out of the new cabinet because he was considered one of the main links between War- saw and Berlin. ANNUAL DAHLIA SHOW WILL OPEN TOMORROW Epecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., September 19.— The annual State Dahlia and Fall Flower Show of the Baltimore Dahlia Society will be held Monday and Tuesday at the Odd Fellows Temple, Saratoga and Cathedral streets, Bal- timore, Md. Many qut-of-town entries have been received for the various classes and entries for the undisseminated seedling classes, in competition for the Amer- ican Home Achievement Medal, are exceeding expectations. A number of trophies will be awarded, including those of the Gov- ernor, Mayor of the City of Baltimore and the attorney general of the State >f Maryland, together with many other House Once Used By Noah Webster IsBoughtby Ford Structure to Be Dis-| mantled and Taken to Dearborn. Bt the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn, September 19.—Henry Ford has purchased the historic Noah Webster House here, it was revealed tonight, and will re- move the building to his village of | old American homes at Dearborn, | Mich. The purchase price, paid to a New ! Haven house wrecking firm, was re- ported to be $1,000. Less than two weeks ago the au- tomobile magnate visited the house | where Noah Webster began work oi his famous dictionary. | The building was the property of | Yale University until last Spring, | when plans to raze the structure were | announced. | The wrecking firm from which the | building was purchased has the con- | tract to dismantle it and ship it por- E tion by portion to Dearborn, where plans call for its reconstruction in its | original form. _— Russia hag built 16 ofl refineries this year with a yearly capacity of 3,220,000 tons of crude oil. T BY PLANE BY MOTOR BY TRAIN COMFORTABLY o Jellicht 2 5 | service at 1,900 stations that had been | Itan service, except that to Chinco- COMMUNICATION LINES RESTORED AFTER STORM Lower Eastern Shore Roads Are Opened—Telephone Service Operating. By the Associated Press. SALISBURY, Md, September 19.— Roads were opened and communica- tion and power facilities restored to- day in the lower Eastern Shore coun- ties hit by the storm. All State highways in the section, including the entrance to Ocean City, were open, the State Roads Commis- sion said, and traffic was moving nor- mally. Telephone crews worked to restore out of commission south of here. All| teague, was restored. Electric service was restored except | t some points where the current was turned off to prevent any accidents | from fallen high-tension lines. oTH MR FORMARtS & 7 Lo A henns” R R0 WORKS BAVERSON 2" 248 IN NEW FALL It’s women who are constantly on the go who aren’t taking chances on comfort in shoes. For walking or traveling, busy women want the tried-and-true ease of Enna Jetticks. In these new fall fashions, it's happy r TEATAveTTEA e~ - C.,- SEPTEMBER - 20, TINY GIRLS OPPOSE FREEDOM FOR SLAYER Utah Pair Appear Against Man Serving Term for Killing Their Father. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, September 19.— Two children, 5 and 6 years old, pleaded today with the S.ate Board |- of Pardons not to free the man serv- TATG 1936—PART O ing a life term for the murder of their father. Tiny Despina and Katherine Regas appeared with their mother at a hear- ing of a petition for the termination of sentence of Antonios Gerakas, & sheep herder. He has served four years for the slaying of Pete Regas. Said 6-year-old Despina: “He is & bad, bad man.” And then her younger sister added her plea: “Please do not free the mean, mean man who killed my father.” ‘The board took the case under ad- visement. FIRE ON FUNERAL GROUP Snipers in Jerusalem Answered by Gunfire. JERUSALEM, September 19 (Palcor Agency) —Snipers, crouching in the hills near the Jewish Cemetery, fired on s funeral procession today accom- panying the body of Eliezer Turjeman, 8-year-pld Jewish boy, who was killed by & bomb explosion Friday night. ‘The military escort convoying the mourning erowd dispersed the snipers with machine gun volleys. The police reported tonight the ar- rest of an Arab for complicity in the bombing, which ‘caused serious in- Jjuries to the young boy's 70-year-old grandfather, Pastor’s Body Is Found. ALTOONA, Pa., September 19 (7). ‘The body of the Rev. John B. Miller, 80, an uncle of Hedda Hoppar, former star of the silent screen, was found hanging from a tree today in an or- chard near his home. GE) NEVER IN OUR HISTORY HAVE WE EXPERIENCED A GREATER DEMAND See these Sensational Values! 12 TUB TELEDIAL $QQ-95 Complete © TWELVE Metal Tubes o All-Wave! All-World Reception! @ 12-Inch Speaker! © Violin-Shaped Cabinet! ~An ford! 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