The Washington herald., 1922-01-01
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS CIIRONOLOCICl

to Washington after eight mute
months.
2s-Brig. Gen. Dawes appointed
by President Harding to investl-
gate soldier relief.
3l-City Club approves seVV'ooV
home plan.
s1-Employe held as $4,000 dis
appears from Bureau of Engraving
and Printing.
s1-Police Lieut.. Riley stabbed
by negro in dance brawL
31-Edward ". Killeen. District
man. acauItted by the Rockville
Circuit Court in the killing of Mrs.
Bessie Harris.
APRIL.
Three hurt in riot caused by
attemnted arrest of a Marine by
policeman F. A. Davis. Arrest re-
sulted in twenty-five Marines and
sailors attacking police. Civilians
rush to police rescue. .s
Sire stampedes crowd on w.
r. & E., Cabin John car: four hurt.
5-District and Maryland police
seek identity of headless and de-
composed body found in ravine near
Rockville with can of I've opened
living nearby. Head found about
100 feet from corpse.
Isaac C. Ellis, auditor in
Treasury Department, ends life by
slashing throat with razor.
s+Charles Newman. roomer over
grocery store at 1905 First street
northeast. fired eight bullets and
kills an unidentified mulatto.
s-Oscar Nauck placed under
$4,000 bond pending trial for plat
mum theft at Bureau of Standards
valued at $1,000; kills self In Bar
tholdfs restaurant by taking pol
son.
s-Fistic combat fatal to D. Nc
Carthy. patient at St. Elizabeths
Hospital.
Io-Family row ends in death OF
]. F. Brown. brother of David KIT
tells wife. whose blow is said to
have caused Browns death.
12-Three men and one woman
alleged figures in fraud scheme In
yolving thousands of dollars, ar
rested here and in Los Angeles
Cal, by Federal authorities.
14-Abdul H. Molavie, Persian
antiou. dealer, found dead at 1914
Rhode Island avenue. Wife held
pending investigation.
1s-Tvo men found dead: cause
believed to have been poison.
1e-John W. Min. II. confesses
10 killing Of Frederick Schnurr,
- Thirl 1fF
northwest.
2o-Three more youths taken In
Schnurr murder roundup.
ef-Elizabeth McInroy, A years
old. 2s10 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast. found bound and gagged
on floor Of kitchen: robbed of SIG.
.21-Robert l. Fox, so years old.
,2is Sixteenth street southeast, shot
wife and self. dying In hospital a
few minutes later; wife seriously
banded.
at--George M. Oyster, rillion-
air. District dairyman, succumbs
In Atlantic City after short Illness
2sLMsn and woman instantly
killed when touring car crashed
into b. a o. passenger train.
MAY.
District dairies reduce milk
to prewar prices; quart delivered
Goal prices jump 10 to Is
a~woman's Nationl Civic Foun-
dalton buys Dean estate as home
for 100000.
2-Supreme Court aeqpits Tru-
man H. Newberry ON election fraud
charge.
John James Pringie, So years
old. assistant chief clerk in, sur
geon generals bureau of War De-
partment, ends life with gas. ~.
3-Representative Focht indig<
nant over small size of District
Commissioners estimates for school
needs.
Jules "Nicky" Arnstein, Isa-
dore Cohn. Norman S. Bowles,
David Sullivan and Wilen w.
yesterday convicted on charge of
having brought 100000 worth of
stolen securities into the District.
Bill creating Budget Bureau
passed by House. 344 to ..
6-Commissioner, Oyster launches
drive to improve housing condi-
tiOns.
s-National woman's party pur-
chases home at rs First street
northwest. known as Back Capt.
toll"
9-Piney Branch Citizens Asso-
citation opposes tubercular school
on Upshur tract
11-Hardings given reception at
Pan American Building by diplo-
mats from South and Central
America.
14-Runaway auto kills two
small children of Isaac Milloff, of
2I3 Third street northwest
14-Police arrest six in handbook |
raids and take thirty-six witnesses. !
15-Robert Lisle Payne. SO years
old. baggageman on Southern Rail- |
way, confesses theft of $1,000 from |
trunks.
17-Secretaries Weeks and DENLY |
assist in unwilling of monument to !
Rear Admiral Samuel Frances Du-
pont. Mexican war hero.
lS-Chief Justice Edward D. !
White dies at Garfield Hospital.
19-After attack in woods near
Hyattsville, Nd. Mrs. Margaret E.
Weber, 81 years old, bride of six
months. is shot dead.
20-Madame Curie, discoverer of
radium, visits Washington and re-
ceives from President Harding a !
gram of radium valued at 100000, |
subscribed by American women.
21-Chief Justice White buried in
Oak Hill Cemetery
25-Senate adopts Borah disarma-
ment amendment to 100000, 900
naval appropriation bill by vote or
"a to 0.
26-Washington honors distin