Evening star., 1924-05-05
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 5 (Spe-
IciaD.-Vandals last night broke loose
! in the southeast section of the city,
and spread destruction in their
path. According to reports received
by police, shutters, doors, bread
boxes and fences were taken and piled
in the middle of the tunnel which runs
! under Wilkes street from Fairfax to
Lee.
An iron paling fence in front of
| the home of DR.. E. A German, Duke
and Royal streets, was torn down
and the palings were scattered broad
and wide over that section of the
city
With bricks the vandals broke a
plate glass window in pooroom
at Prince and Royal streets. Imme-
diately across the street. at Travers'
store, the Washington-Vfrgin sta
tion, a window was broken and a
large quantity of cakes stolen.
Not merchant in the entire sec
tion of the city could find his bread
box and many people ~ho had closed
their shutters last night awoke with
the sun streaming in through shut
terlesS windows.
Police say that they suspect gang
in that section the members of which
they admit are unknown to them.
The disturbance was started about
o'clock and from the amount of
cred seems to have lasted for sew
eral hours.
Staying Suspect Caught.
Following a search which has last
ed for nearly two years negro
| wanted for shooting and killing
Charles Staten, colored, in a crap
game october Z, 1922, has been ap-
| Magner has gone to North Carolina
and will arrive here with the priS-
oner tonight.
The accused man is known by vari-
Gus aliases. of which the most com
mon are said to be c. b. Boom. Glen
ME Boom, Paul Robertson and Charles
Robinson, the last of which Direc-
tor of Public Safety Paul Martin
says he believes to be his cor
rect name. Immediately after the
shooting the man disappeared and
had not been heard of until his ar
rest.
Westmoreland Davis. former Gov
ernor of virginia. probably VIII be
elected a member of the Old Domin-
ion Boat Club here Wednesday night,
it was learned today, when his APP
plication for membership was re-
ceived.
a sixty -five-foot yacht, which Will,
it is said, make its headquarters here.
With the new road to Fairfax com
plete, the former governor Will be
able to come to Alexandria from his
fine estate in Loudoun County by
motor in about and hours drive.
The last chance to save the pro-
posed Belle Haven Countrl Club is
being given Alexandria business men
today as the teams Of The member
ship drive are making their last
rounds of the city. Unless, more en-
thuSiasm is shown and the $50 char
final meeting. which is to be held
in the rooms of the chamber of com
merce tonight, TIE proposal Will be
dropped, il was sad.
The business men who are foster
ing the plan do not, it is said, pro-
pose to go into debt and can keep
from doing 50 only by obtaining the
number of members asked: Those
faltering on the verge of joining
were warned to make il snappy" by
George p. Anderton, secretary of
the committee.
Four days of the drive have netted
approximately 125 members and 160
are needed to make the scheme fl
will be given tonight, when the menu
bers will either drop the proposition
permanently or make plans for carry
ing on the work.
Work on Temple Begins.
Work on the George Washington
Masonic National Memorial Temple
for the summer has begun. The first
story is to be erected before work
is closed down this fall.
With the end of the summer the con-
tractors hope to have placed the huge
columns which will form the basis of
the first story of the s4,00O,000 temple.
These columns are now being shipped
from the quarries in Vermont, where it
is estimated that three more years will
be needed in which to cut the stone
needed in this building.
Representative Arthur NJ. Free of
California will address the Cameron
Club here at O'Clock May q on THE
Youth Movement in America"
Because of the opposition which is be-
ing voiced to this movement on account
of its reputed socialistic and pacifistic
features, Miss Helen Norris Cummings
of the Cameron Club has invited the
American Legion and all other patriotic
bodies of the city to hear the address.