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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1927-02-18
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GAITHERsBURG, Md.

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or any part Of Maryland, Virginia or
District OF Columbia, on VERY LIBERIA
FERNS
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THE OCTORs DEFINING,
CHIROPRACTORS,

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Used Cars For Sale

Ford Sedan. $50.
Chevrolet Sedan. $l75.
Buick Coupe, $3.50.
Ford Touring. $l75.
Studebaker Touring.
Hupmobile Touring.
Cleveland Touring.
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1927-02-18
See Us First For Your
Timber AND MlLLWOkA'

We carry a complete stock OF
everything needed in cOnstruc'
ton of a house.
Lumber, frames, doors, sash,
blinds.
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CHILDREN WILL
BARE KILLING

Two small children-a boy Of
and a girl of II years-will tell
Monday night of the manner in
which their father was killed, and
their testimony will be a determin-
ing factor in establishing the guilt
or innocence Of their mother, Mrs.
Sarah Marie Hartley, who stands
charged wieth the murder.
The children were the sole eye
witnesses to the tragedy in their
mothers home on Defense Highway
Thursday night when the father,
Robert A. Hartley, "a. Of Bladens-
burg. was fatally shot.
The 2S.year-eld' mother is being
held at the House of Detention
until the coroner's inquest Monday
night.
At preliminary hearing yester-
day, Coroner Hugh O'Neil viewed
the body and selected his jury.
Mrs. Hartley was present but did.
not testify.
Mrs. Edith Roberts, 1924 Twenty
fifth st. n. W., sister of Mrs.
Hartley, is keeping the children,
She says the boy, who saw more
of the trouble than his sister, told
her the shooting was accidental,
John F. Lillard, attorney for Mrs.
Hartley, says the children will tes-
tify Monday night but he believes
they are too young to be a deciding
factor.
Police are as yet unable to deter
mine the exact cause of the shoot
ing.
Mrs. Hartley has told conflicting
stories but steadily insists it was
an accident"
Constable Andrew Gasch is work
ing on the theory that the couple
had quarreled and that in the strus-
gle for the revolver, which belonged
to Hartley, he was shot by his
wife.
Hartley will be buried at o'clock
tomorrow from the home of his sis.
ter, Mrs, May Mcfarland, of
Hyattsville. Rev. Clyde Brown. OF
st. Mathews parish, will conduct
the services. Burial will be in
Evergreen Cemetery. Bladensburg.
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tant witness, hut her presence\ was
fairly in line with the DistrictN At
torney's policy of following eveAy
lead.
Juror Testifies \
Charles Holt. juror No. II. also
testified As he waited n the cor
rider he told reporters that he had
no idea what they wanted to learn
from him. He bewailed the fact that
he was kept waiting because he
wanted to so to Pimlico today"
Holt said he always mace ii prac-
tice to attend race meetings in Mary
land. and today would be the first
dav he had been compelled TO miss
the Pimlico meeting.
District Attorney Cor Ton said that
on Monday several important wit
nesses are expected. including Shell
don Clark, vice president OF the Sin
clair Refining Company who Is COM
ing from Chicago, and wanted as
principal" and William j. Burns.
From Burns they want Information
concerning who paid the expenses
of the Burns operatives
From Clark information concern
ing his alleged activities, together
with II. Mason Day. as contact
man, in receiving the Burns reports.
Burns Summoned
William j. Burns, head Of the
private detective agency that bears
his name. and who was brought
into the limelight at the original
oil scandal hearing before the Sen
ate committee, is under subpoena
for Monday. His son, Sherman
Burns, also will he required 10 APP
pear.
Another key witness the Govern
n,ent wants. il Sheltl0n Clark. vice
president of the Siaelair Refining
Company, In Chicago, f"r whom
process servers frOM the District
Attorneys office have been search.
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Grand Jury Told OF
Shoppers Methods

ing for days, also may appear Mon.
day.
He telegraphed District Attorney
Peyt0H Gordon yesterday afternoon
that he had learned through the
Chicago newspapers he was wanted
and that he would he in Washing.
sAQB. Monday or Tuesday at the
latest.
: Wanted As Principal
Clark, according to, Burkinshaw,
lis VIanted as a principal" in that
he isA believed TO have been the
second = 'contact man." with Mason
Day in handling the Burns opera
lives reports for Sinclair concerning
the trial AIry's conduct, contacts
and financial affairs.
Clark disclo&ed in his telegram to
the District Attorney that he had
been I'm attendance" at the Fall
Sinclair trial.
Efforts are being made, it is
understood. to IAcate former
Burns official who is suspected to
be attempting 10 leave the country
with certain records from the
Washington office Of the Burns
agency that RurkinshaW Is said to
regard as having an important
bearing on the investigation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-05
DEAD IN NEW ENGLAND
L.0lD PUT At ZOO

"a mile-wide down through the heart
of the city.
North Walpole. across the river
from Bellows Falls, VT, il under
20 feet of water. Ludlow, home of
Attorney General Sargent, has been
abandoned. Middlebury, seat of
Middlebury College, is threatened
with destruction and the inhabitants
have fled to the hills.
Springfield, Mass: Hartford,
Conn; Holyoke, Mass, and other
cities on the Connecticut are pre-
water 10 feet high, which 10 the
crest of the flood and is sweeping
with relentless fury down the river.
River Up 30 Feet
The White River. which empties
into the Connecticut, rose 30 feet
in "a hours and the crest of the
flood, adding another eight feet, is
sweeping down on Bellows Falls,
already inundated. A million pounds
of freight have been moved on to
the great railroad bridge there to
keep 1t from being swept down the
river,
More than 100 bridges throughout
the four stricken States have been
destroyed by the battering of the
currents.
A. landslide at Crawford Notch.
famous summer resort, sent half a
mountain tumbling down onto the
railroad tracks, burying a passing
freight train.
Literally thousands were saved
from drowning by heroic rescue
work of men who dared the swift
currents in small boats to pull
maroened families from roof tops
and trees.
The milk supply of New England
is destroyed as more than 10000
cattle in the valleys which supply
the larger cities have been killed.
In Desperate State
The last report from Montpelier.
phone call to Burlington Thurs.
day night, said the city was under
20 feet of water and that there
was no drinking water and no food
supplies. An urgent call for small
boats was sent out by the mayor.
No one has been able to make 1t
through to the city since.
AO 41IoShStOIC III ASAiONO
Island burst it's banks and swept
away a dozen mills, a score of
dams and several bridges, putting
other mills out of commission.
The Marrimack River. which runs
through the great textile making
district from Manchester, N. H..
to Lowell and HaverhilI, Mass.
has swollen to record heights and
is threatening those cities,
Relief trains organized and ready
for work in the devastated districts
of Western Massachusetts, and Yer.
mont, are unable to move because
of more than 100 miles of track
washed out in various places, and
bridges hurled into streams.
Truck caravans are seeking to
get through to the isolated dis
tricts, but are handiea pped by roads
made impossible by streams cutting
new channels across them and
sweeping out bridges.
1t will be weeks before the total
extent of the disaster. the worst
ever experienced in New England
is known.
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the courthouse, as the building
will be patrolled by police and
special officers"
An Army Of Witnesses
The trial, Mr.. Repetto said, will
probably last three weeks, adding
that the State has eighty-five wit
nesses and the defense about sixty.
Defense investigation of the MUIR
der of DIR. William Lilliendahl in
a woods lane near Hammonton on
September IL has been successful.
Charles M. Phillips, of Hammonton,
attorney for Mrs. Lilliendahl said
today.
The accused widow, Mrs. Lillien.
dahl, was present when her husband
was shot to death. She said she
and her husband were held up and
robbed by two negroes, one of wohm
killed her husband. Investigators
for the State claim to have dis
proved Mrs. LilliendahPs story.
Their alleged discoveries led to the
indictment of Mrs. Lilliendahl mad
Willis Beach, friend.
Attorney Philips today claimed
that witnesses have been found
who saw two negroes in a blue
sedan driving away from Harmon
ton a short time after the shooting.
Through defense efforts, Phillips
declares. this sedan has, ben traced
to a point IL miles from Atlantic
| City,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-05
SIXTH RACE
More Light Is Sought
In Traffic Light Row
; Weather. clear; track. slow.
: FIRST RACE
Six Furlongs

The District Commissioners have
agreed to confer with the Public
Utilities Commission before approx
ing Traffic Director William II.
Harland's traffic light control pro-
gram.
The Public Utility Commission is
opposed to some Of the intersections
proposed In the traffic directors
s2TO, 900 installation program.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-05
Rosina Blumberg Sues
For $4,000 in Injuries

Rosina Blumberg, residing at Dill.
lon. 8. c.. today filed suit in the
District Supreme Court for $4,000
against John ]. Walsh, 515 l. st.
N. W., for alleged personal injuries
as the result Of an automobile ac-
cident.
Attorneys Pelzman, Weiner and
Sykes represent the plaintiff. who
tells the court that she was injured
August 5. at Waterloo, Md.
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riff ainfall and resultant

saaaEBAA|OIItk&ktAEQ IfOlh ! dSCIJ
ffifiS ainfall and resultant
The Heports from Montpelier,
Wire s greatest loss of life
is care were very meagre. All
erts H0Het in touch with any
Naint wsthin fifty miles of Mont
heller failed. Telegraph agents,
8Slephol companies and news
rapers ily sought to get word
thT0I SO or from the capital.
wiz River Junction, fifty-six
miles from the city, was the source
Of the report that from 1877 to 212
haxl3perishsd as huge reservoir
&bCV@ the city burst through its
haAka and sent a great wall of
week. sweeping all before it, down
on the city.
Z Nos official word has emanated
day night at 6. Burlington. which
the oVtsIde world by sending
unaffectPd points, reported 1t had
ACCC4FSQs EOIO VI StCNS AOGo VI
life" I'M Montpelier. -.
Village Wiped Out
The entire village of Beckett, in
the western part Of Massachusetts,
was wiped off the earth when a
dam burst releasing millions of gal
Ions Of water on the hamlet. One
died while the others warned by
3 heroic five-mile auto dash over
tree-strewn roads made their escape
to the hills.
(, Rutland, Vermont, Is fighting for
It's very life. While thousands are
SAeking safety in the hills, other
thousands are frantieally piling
9raEel at the great Chittenden Dam
above the city. The dam is a huge
one sfand the millions of tons of
water, if released; will sweep a path
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TRIAL To
BAR PUBLIC

Continued from First Page)
the courthouse, as the building
will be patrolled by police and
special officers"
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Red Cross Busy

MANCHESTER, N. H., Nov. s.
Local agencies of the American Red
Cross were rushing preparations to,
day to carry relief into the stricken
flood district of New England where
sudden drop in temperatures had
added to the suffering of thousands
of refugees today.
Each hour brings new tales of
suffering and destruction of prop,
erty as the Connecticut, Marrimack
and Penigewasset rivers mount
higher.
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River Up 80 Feet

HARTFORD, Conn, Nov. with
losses of S1,Oo0,0OO already reported
the Connecticut river is due for a
further record rise, it was declared
today.
The Connecticut river is up over
80 feet today and rising about a
foot an hour. Indications from
White River Junction. VT, were
that the river is up 90 feet there,
Freight on the docks Of the Hart
ford and New York Transportation
Company was ruined before it could
be moved to the upper landing
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BA[[OON|ST Is
FOUND DEAD =
Wanted As PRINCIPAL

Continued from First Page)
the last writing which read:
Sun shining brightly. Blue
sky. Now at 10000 feet. Sand
all gone"
Here the log ended. How much
higher Captain Gray went will
probably never be known.
Killed by Altitude.
Captain Gray died from the want
of oxygen, local doctors said. There
was not a bruise or scratch on his
body when found.
The basket of the balloon had
landed in tree after it had SKINNED
the ground for half a mile. with the
ropes dragging. The balloon bag
lodged in another tree nearby.
Balloon Found In Tree
SPARTA, Tenn, Nov. 5.-The
body of Captain Hawthorne {.
Gray. Army air service officer. was
found early today in a field about
nine miles from here.
Nearby in a tree was his balloon.
The local chief of police and
coroner left for the spot today
after being notified that the balloon
had landed in the tree some time
during the night.
There is no telephone in the i'm
mediate vicinity.
Officers of Scott Field telephoned
the local police station that Captain
Bryan has left there in an air
plane for Sparta.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-05
Sargent's Folks Safe

Attorney General Sargent received
word from Vermont today that mem,
bers of his family are safe, although
the town of Ludlow where they live
is under water and has virtually
been abandoned by the inhabitants
who fled TO the hills.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-10
JAIL FOR more,
DRYS URGE

The vagrancy law for the District
advocated by Chief Of Police Hesse
VIII be q very effective means OF
getting rid of Washington's boot.
Iieggers, II passed by Congress. DIR.
everett M. Ellison, secretary of the
Citizens Service Association, de.
clared today in announcing the AS.
lsociation's support Of Major Hesse's
measure.
The association has also Endorsed
the majors plan for, a "Baumes'
law for the District, DIR. Ellison
added, which would make the fourth
conviction on a felony charge auto
matieally carry life sentence.
The crusading secretary also an.
nounced that these two subjects. and
refusal of the corporation eounsers
office to administer the old Shep.
pard act. would be topics of dis.
cussion at the associations mass
meeting in the Arcade auditorium
Sunday afternoon,
B. NJ. Parmenter, Assistant At.
torney General, and Raymond Rob
bins, Chicago prohibition orator. win
! be the principal speakers.
The vagrancy law in question
would provide for the arrest of all
persons found lettering. loafine, or
refusing TO work. as well as those
having no visible means of sup.
port.
According to Or. Ellison. this
would permit the police to round up
all boOtleggers,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-10

The name Of Lord Baltimore so
indelibly written into the history of
Maryland, will ever be associated
with the early history of Washing
ton, the Nations Capital. What is
regarded as the city's oldest resi-.
dence was built by Lord Baltimore
for one of his daughters at what is
now IA B St. N. E.
Twelve years before the District
of Columbia or Washington city
was created, this house was built,
It's bright walls, 1S inches thick,
and its carefully built foundation
will likely outlive the youngest citi-
zen of modern Washington.
It Is fitting that the house at
this time should be owned by and
he the home Of a United States
Senator. Its most distinguished
occupant for many years was United
States Senator John Strobe Bar
bour. of Virginia. Its owner today
Is United States Senator Porter
Dale, of New Hampshire.
An early occupant OF the old place
was Albert Gallatin, Secretary Of
the Treasury in the Thomas JEFF
ferson Cabinet,
The house was held by various
owners until 1871, when It became
the. home Of Senator Barbour. His
Z q L
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-10
Mile Posts on 18th St.
To Check Tally OF
Taxirneters

Plans are under way at the Dis
trict Building to erect mile posts
on Sixteenth Street Northwest lby
which motorists may test the &C.
curacy of their speedomoters and
taxicsb patrons may check on the
taximeters.
The plan has been suggested to
the Public Utilities Commission by
an employe of the Bureau of
Standards. who suggested erecting
signs over distance of five miles
to mark the miles and quarter
miles.
Members of the Public Utilities
Commission favor the plan but
must set the approval OF the Dis
trict Commissioners before adopt.
ing 1t.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-10
MANY CHANGES ARE MADE
in TRAFFIC LIGHT PROGRAM
HARLAND PLANS
GUT BY D. c.
HEADS

Several changes win be made in
Traffic Director william II. Har.
lands program for installing s27O..
900 worth of traffic control lights.
The changes were agreed upon in
principle today at a conference with
the District Commissioners and the
Public Utilities Commission. Har-
land and Capt. r. @. KIotz, engineer
of the p. U. c. attended the con.
ference.
The changes In streets and inter.
sections at which control lights
win be installed will be worked
out in detail at a conference be-
tween the p. u. C. and Harland,
probably tomorrow. Representa-
tives of the street car companies
and the Washington Rapid Transit
Company may be invited.
The meeting between the Com.
miasioners and the p. u. g. today
resulted from a report by Klotz
recently in which the p. u. G.
engineers declared that an expendi-
ture of $4,000 for traffic lights
Is unwarranted by existing traffic
conditions. Klotz also reported
that installation of lights, as pro.
posed by Harland would sew up
the street car and bus traffic un.
necessarily.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-10
PATIENT SUES
FOR $4,000

DR.. Arthur l.. Curtis, prominent
wealthy colored physician, with
offices at III U st. n. W., and
his wife, Helen Gordon Curtis. liv.
ing at 1884 Vernon st. n. W., to-
day were named defendants in two
suits for $4,000 filed in the Dis.
trict Supreme Court by Eva Fitz.
hugh, colored, of 1916 S st. N. w.
The plaintiff, represented by the
law firm of Lambert, Yeatman, Can.
field & Horning, alleges that on
May 8, this year she went to the
physicians office for a private con-
sultation, and was attacked by the
physician and severely beaten. For
this beating she asks $4,000 punt
tive and $4,000 compensatory dam.
ages.
On July Z. the plaintiff alleges
that she again went to his office,
and was assaulted by the defendant
and his wife. For this beating she
asks $4,000 from the physician and
a like sum from the wife.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-10
ST 500 REWARD is OFFERED
FOR SLAYER OF WALDRON.
4. & P STORES
TO GIVE $1,000,
POLICE REST

To the reward Of $1,000 already
offered by officials Of the Atlantic
and Pacafic stores for the capture
OF the slayer of Charles r. Waldron,
Major Edwin B. Heese. Superintend-
eiHt of Police, today offered an addi-
tional $500, the limit available by
the police for this purpose.
Since Waldron. in the presence of
his wife and two children, was
struck down in the store OF which
he was manager, at 100 p St.
n. W.. last Saturday and from
which blow he died Tuesday, a mum.
Der of suspects have been arrested
and questioned, only to be released.
Members Of the Detective Bureau
homicide squad. headed by Detective
Edward Kelly. have been searching
day and night for a colored man
answering the description furnished
by Mrs. Waldron.
The thug robbed the cash register
OF $50 after striking Waldron on
the head with piece of iron pipe.
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wife was Susan Sewall danger
field. of Alexandra. and daughter
OF Henry Daingerfield, whose wife
was one of the daughters of Robert
Sewall. for many years owner of the
old house. For that reason, 1t was
known for many wears as the
Sewall House. The tenancy of the
Barhonfs made it known as the
Barbour House.
Senator Barbour died while
member Of the Senate-1S92. His
wife several years prior to that
time had died of injuries suffered
when she. fell down the stairway
Of the Barbour House.
History details that snipar se-
creted somewhere about the old
house shot the horse from under
General Ross, commander Of the
British land forces, when he started
to ride into the Capital after the
battle at Bladensburg. The Brit
lsh.7 in reprisal, set fire to the
pace and great damage was done.
The Da1es have modernized and
redecorated the place. and made it
one OF the most distinctive homes
IN the city. II likely will be
known In future as the Porter Dale
House, ',,',5.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-10
MERCY Shown
HUNGRY MEN
JUDGE MACDONALD

Norman Bullock. Charles w. Hcl.
land and Joseph Heffenbridel, "out
OF work and hungry" went to the
Continental Bakery Shops early to-
day to ask for some bread. Police
man william f. Burke, of the
Tenth precinct. charged them. be-
fore Judge Hit in Police Court,
with stealing three loaves Of bread
valued at Is cents.
The accused denied stealing the
bread and Heffenbride1 claimed that
he went up 10 window IF the
bake shop. opened 1t and. seeing a
man at work. showed him his union
card, saying that he was out of
work and would like to have a
little bread.
The baker. according to Heffen-
brideI, told him to 90 around the
rack and help himself. which he
did The officer saw the three men,
oEA OF them carrying the bread.
He said 80 took them back to the
bakery, where rney- were not recog.
nized by any of the workers. Het'
fenbridei was sentenced to 80 days
in Jail and the sentence suspended,
He was placed on probation and the
charge against Bullock and Holland
WAS dismissed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-10
WOMAN INJURED
BY STREET CAR

A woman 81 years old and a man
Is years old were among the victims
of last nights traffic accidents. The
condition of the former is critical.
Both were struck by street cars.
The woman is Miss Elizabeth M.
Wilson, 1911 Fifth st. N. We She
suffered a possible skull fracture
when struck at Pennsylvania Ave.
and Eighth St. n. W., by street
car operated by Motorman George
Chrisman, So. OF cherrydale, Va.
Picked up unconscious. she was
placed in passing automobile and
rushed to Providence Hospital.
The man, Frederick Shortslever,
SIS Twenty-second st. N. W., suf.
fered Commissions to the face when
knocked down at Pennsylvania Ave,
nue. and Seventeenth Street North
MotOrnan #. Rabbit. After treat
ment at Emergency Hospital his con
dttion was pronounced not serious.
The other traffic victims were al
children. Mural Reilly. 2. daughter
OF William J. Reilly, 1885 North Cap
itol ST., suffered a slight laceratior
to the face when her fathers auto
mobile was in collision at New
Jersey and Massachusetts Avenues
Northwest. Peter Knobois. s, $780,
Seventh st, n. W., and James Butler
colored, ?, 3OlS Eleventh ST. N. w.
were knocked down and slightly in
jured.
Mrs. c. Virginia Warren. 80, 303:
Cambridge Pl. y. w. wife of Pc
liceman Milton ". Warren, of ths
Seventh precinct, is recovering from
slight injuries suffered when her au
tcmobile went down an embankmen
at Wisconsin Ave. and Thirty-fiftl
st. n. W.