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Evening star., 1927-10-18
Skunk Has Can On.
But 2 Heroic Men
Speed to Rescue
By the Associated Press.

BATAVIA, N. Y, October 1S.-
Androcles showed great courage in
removing the thorn from the lion,
but Batavia citizens were asking
today how about Harry Russell
and Lockwood Ager.
There's a skunk running around
here with a can on" said an I'M
identified voice telephoning to DO.
lice headquarters.
well, what do you want us to
do, make an arrest on a public in.
toxication charger" the desk ser.
geant answered.
1t developed, however, that full
grown skunk was running blindly
around in Franklin street with a
salmon can wedged over its head,
unable to find the open fields back
of the street.
Russell and Ager, employees Of
a factory, picked up the skunk be.
fore the police arrived and, with q
pair Of shears, removed the can
from its head, and allowed the ami.
NAL to scurry away uninjured.
The appreciative. skunk spared
its benefactors.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
AIR MAIL ROUTES
PLANNED IN SOUTH
Commerce Department Gath
erS Data for Establishment
of New Service.

Government surveys for the At
lanta-New York Airway were com
pleted today, when the data on the
Greensboro-Ri section of the
route arrived at the Commerce DE.
partment.
The department hopes to have the
route ready for operation January /,
with all lighting installed. Emer.
gency landing fields have been estab.
lished at even less than the 30-mile
intervals, which are considered stand.
ard.
The tentative schedule provides for
connection at Atlanta with the New
York-Atlanta route, which will begin
operation as soon as the lighting of
that route is completed by the Depart
ment Of Commerce.
The southbound plane will leave At.
lanta upon arrival of the New York
and Northern air mail at $50 am.
arrive at Jacksonville at 9:25 am. and
at Miami at 1910 pm. Departure
from Miami on the northbound trips
will be at 2:40 pm, with arrival at
Jacksonville at $50 pm. and at At
lanta at S:45 pm. for connection with
the New York air mail.
The invitation makes provision for
feeder line to supply air mail service
to Tampa If it is found there is suffi.
cient demand for such service. The
distance of the route is placed at sos
miles, planes must make a minimum
average # speed of 100 miles an hour
and provision is made by law that a
contract may be let up to SO per
pound for all mail carried. The post.
age rate would be 10 cents per half
ounce.
A contract for an air mail service
between Atlanta and Miami, with
stops at Jacksonville, Tampa and
Fort Myers, was let last year and
operation of the southern end of the
route between Jacksonville and Miami
was begun September Is, 1925. The
operation was discontinued Decem.
ber 81.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
Jurv Which ''Finds
For Neither Party
Sent Back by Court
1--WE find for neither party"

1--WE find for neither party"
This declaration by the foreman
of a jury today startled Justice
Wendell p. Stafford and counsel in
Circuit Division /, when the fore.
man had announced that an agree.
ment had been reached. The fore
man started to say that the agree
ment was to disa gree, but the court
stopped him and Informed the jury
that it must return to its room and
present in writing an application
for further instructions, IL needed.
The suit on trial Is one for $4,000
damage brought by Mrs. Sophie A.
Benton, administrative of her de.
ceased husband. Benjamin +. Ben
ton, against her brother-in-law,
Dalmer G.. Booty, in whose car
Benton was a passenger when the
machine ran off the Queens Chapel
road March 90, and caused his
death.
Attorney William c. Sullivan rep.
resented the plaintiff, while Attor.
ney James A. O'Shea appeared for
the defendant.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
CHEVY CHASE TAX
ASSESSORS NAMED
Hagner and Murphy Appointed to
Succeed Ousted Pair in Mont.
gomery County.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, October 49,
The county commissioners of Mont.
gomery County this afternoon ap-
pointed Robert D. Hagner. Bethesda,
and Edward J. Murphy. Chevy Chase,
as tax assessors of Chevy Chase pre-
cinct to succeed William Lyles Offutt
and Dion X. Kerr, who were recently
ordered ousted by the state Tax Com.
mission on charges Of incompetency.
Hagner, who is one Of the assessors
for the Bethesda precinct. and Murphy
will begin their work Immediately
with the aid of Hempstome Griffith,
tax assessor of Montgomery County.
They will have to value more than
1875 pieces Of property. all of the
estimates made by Offutt and Kerr
having been discarded when charges
brought against them by Lawrence
A. Chiswell, supervisor Of assessments
for the county, were upheld by the
State Commission.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
TRAIL MONUMENT
SITES INSPECTED
D. A. R. and Highway Groups
Will Select Maryland Lo-
cation in Few Days.

Within q few days a committee OF
the Daughters Of the American Revo.
luton, in cooperation with officials OF
the National Old Trails Association,
will select site in Maryland on which
will be erected the first of IL hand
some monuments, TO extend across the
continent, marking the National Old
Trails road. Residents of Montgomery
County and the District Of Columbia
are hopeful that Bethesda will be
chosen as the site Of the first marker.
Two other places, Frederick and Cum
berland, are under consideration Tor
the Maryland monument.
The proposed Maryland sites were
visited yesterday by members OF the
national old trails road committee of
the d. A. r., of which Mrs. John
Trigg Moss of st. Louis is chairman.
In the party were Frank Davis of
Kansas City, Mo-, president of the
National Old Trails Association; Mrs.
Daniel M. Garrison of Annapolis,
state regent of the D. A. r.; Mrs.
John Tubman of Baltimore; Mrs. Will
liam II. Talbot of Bethesda; Mrs.
Enoth G.. Johnson. regent Of the Col.
Tench Tilghman Chapter OF Bethesda;
Walter r. Tuckerman of Bethesda,
and Rev. Clarence p. Parker OF Be-
thesda.
Party Goes to Frederick,
The entire party went as far as
Frederick. Mrs. Moss, Mrs. Garrison,
Mrs. Tubman and Mr.. Davis went on
to Cumberland. All were entertained
at luncheon at the Edgemoor Tea
Room by Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Tai
bott.
As the National Old Trails road be.
gins at the District line, 1t is believed
that the final decision will be in favor
of the Bethesda site, for the reason
that prevailing sentiment seems to be
in favor of having the first marker
near the beginning OF the road.
Approximately $4,000 has Deen
raised by the National Old Trails
road committee Of the ID. a. X. ior
the monuments. Chapters all over the
country have contributed, especially
in the States through which the road
runs. The expense of transporting
and erecting the monuments will be
partly met by the National Old Trails
Association.
Eleven States Included.
One monument will be erected In
each of IL States, namely, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana. Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas, wyoming, new MeA
leo, Arizona and California. Sites nave
already been selected in all or the
far Western States, except Callfornla'
The D. A. r. committee is now en-
gagged in inspecting proposed sites III
the East. ,,,
The statues, which will be alike,
are Of heroic size-about IL feet In
height. The group is called "The Pho.
neer Woman; or, TheMadonna OF
the Trail" It depicts a pioneer
woman with two Children baby In
arms and a little boy hanging to her
skirts. Some of them have already
been completed and are ready to be
placed in position. They are MADE OF
algonite, a very durable. grayish white
stone. 1t is expected that the Mary
land marker will be erected some time
this Autumn.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
QUOTA VISA WAIVED
FOR MRS. M'CULLY.
State Department 0bviates
immigration Delay for
Wife of Admiral.

immigration difficulties have been
obviated for Rear Admiral Newton A
McCully, married last week at Reval
Esthonia, to Mrs. Olga krundycher. 29,
with the granting by the State De
partment of a non-quota visa to the
erstwhile 60-year-old bachelors bride,
The admiral, who went on leave to go
''abroad on a mission" September II,
and who is due back at Charleston,
S. c., his present post, November IL,
will thus be saved repetition of his
experience in 1920, when he found his
seven Russian war orphans, which he
adopted. detained for a time at Ellis
Island. due to an immigration tangle.
Mrs. McCully will receive her visa
from the American consul at Reval.
Admiral McCully's mother, who is
caring for his wards during his honey.
moon, has received this cablegram
from him: WAS married yesterday.
We both send love to all"
Evening star., 1927-10-18
DIALECT EXPERT HURT.
DR.. Otto A. Schlutter Struck by
Hit-and-Run Autoist.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, October IS
@.-Dr. Otto A. Schlutter, 50, world
known authority on English dialects,
victim of "hit-and-run" motorist last
night, was in critical condition at
Grace Hospital today. 1t was deter.
mined that he did not receive a skull
fracture as at first feared, and this
gave hope of fecoveryA
DIR. Schlutter is a graduate Of Leip-
zig, retired professor of Trinity Col
lege, and in recent months has been
q student in the Yale library. He had
alighted from a trolley car and was
walking beside the highway when he
was struck. The automobile did not
stop.
DIR. Schlutter in his work on dia.
Iects had specialized in those used be-
fore A. D. 1866. He had contributed
to English glossaries and lexographs.
His, retirement from Trinity College
was due to deafness.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
Plan Flood Area Protection.

Col. Dwight F. Davis. Secretary
of War, and Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin.
chief of Engineers of the Army. will
leave here this evening for st. Louis
inspection of the flooded area OF the
Mississippi River on which to base
their recommendation to Congress
for the better protection of that ex-
tensive area. They will visit all inn
portant points on the river as far
south as New Orleans and expect 10
return % s., Louis october 20. --...--
Evening star., 1927-10-18
Mcintyre Dinner POSTPONED.

The dinner at the Willard Hotel in
honor of Commissioner William A,
Mcintyre, newly-appointed leader of
the Salvation Army, for is Southern
States, which was scheduled to be
held at O'Clock tomorrow night, has
been postponed, owing 10 the inabili.
1y of the Commissioner TO be present,
IL was announced today.
Robert y. Harper, who issued invi.
tations said that friends would be noti.
fed when another date is assigned for
the occasion.
Evening star., 1927-10-18

BERLIN. October IS .R.--King
Boris OF Bulgaria In undergoing treat
ment for slight ailment at the
Breslau Hospital. where he arrived
yesterday ineognito. attended only by
his adjutant.
The King came to Breslau two
weeks ago to make the necessary
arrangements. He expects to Ie.
main here eight to ten days.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
FOUR PERISH IN FLAMES.
British Veteran, Wife, Son and
Nurse in Burned Villa.

MAIDSTONE. England, October 1S
@.-Trapped In their burning villa
at Wateringbury Hall, Maj. Richard
Bazley.White, British war veteran
with a distinguished record; his wife.
4.year-old son and woman nurse
were burned to death early today.
Three servants were rescued by a
ladder, while the others escaped by a
back staircase.
The charred bodies OF the four vic.
tins Were found in the ruins Later.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
Mans Head Cut as He Faints

Frank Carney, 514 Tenth street, EN-.
ployed temporarily as a multigraph
operator at the United States Cham.
ber of Commerce, received a cash on
the head this morning when he tainted
in the office, falling against a desk
lie was given first aid at Emergency
Hospital and three stitches were taken
TO close the wound.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
PROPERTY ASSESSMENT
OF $1,000 is QUASHED
Justice Hitz Signs Decree Affect
ing Massachusetts, Avenue
Land Owners.

Justice Hitz of the District Supreme
Court today signed a decree quashing
assessments totaling about $4,000
levied by the District Commissioners
against property owners on Massa'
chusetts avenue extended for the pay
ment of benefits under the Borland
amendment. The owners affected in
clude the Loughborough Development
Corporation, w. G. & A. n. Miller
and the estate of Allan r. Walker. The
assessment was made July 80, 1920.
and the District Commissioners did
not plead the statute of limitations.
The owners were represented by At.
torneys John Lewis Smith and John
Paul Jones.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
$4,000 Blast at Mine.

STEU Ohio, October IS
N).-The tipple at the Bradley Mine,
IL miles southeast of here, was blown
up this morning. with loss estimated
at $4,000. The United States Coal
Co., owner of the mine, yesterday filed
an Intervening petition at Columbus
for an injunction writ enjoining union
miners from molesting non-union men
employed at the mine.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
ITALY ELIMINATES HOLIDAYS
AS HANDICAPS TO INDUSTRIES
Mussolini Sponsors Decree Prohibiting All
Celebrations Except Two, Which Will
Be Held ON Sundays.

occurred October %. 1922. will be OBJ
served on Sunday. October 80. The
celebration OF the signing of the
armistice between Italy and Austria
November 4, 1918, will be held on Sun.
day, November 6.
When the armistice celebration
closes, the holidays of the Italian
people are ended until new order is
issued. The order of the Council of
Ministers reads: after November 6
and until new order any ceremony,
manifestation. celebration, inaugura.
ton, anniversaries. great or small,
centenaries as well as speeches of
any kind are prohibited because the
government and municipal authorities
must attend to their public duties;
also because we must make economies.
especially Of time. and must avoid
overfeeding the population with holi.
dayS."
Evening star., 1927-10-18
BAND CONCERT.

Concert by the United States Sol
diers' Home Band Orchestra. at Stan.
ley Hall, this evening. beginning at
$40 o'clock. John s. NJ. Zimmerman,
musical director:
March, Good Luck. .Vieth
Overture, Festival. ......... .Leutner
Two Spanish dances
(a) "Cachucha Andaluce". .Hosmer
(b) "Fandango" ............H .Hosmer
Excerpts from the musical comedy
''My Maryland. .......... .Romberg
Fox.trot. 'Leonora". "............. Silver
Popular waltz song, "Charmaine,"
Rapee
Finale. Dancing Tambourine." Polla
THE. star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1927-10-18
HOLD-UP MEN GET $57.

Two armed colored men held up and
robbed William V. Shuforu of 224 +
street northeast early this morning in
the vicinity of the Pension Office as he
was returning home from a card game.
They took $57 from his pocket, he
told police.
Shuford reported that as he neared
the Pension Office Building about 3
o'clock he was accosted by the two
colored men, one of whom drew a
gun and ordered him TO stick 'em
up." When he obeyed, he said, the
other man searched his pockets and
took his money. He was able to fur
nish fair description of the men.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
TORPEDO INJURIES BOY.
Lads Mouth Hurt When Hs Rit.s
Explosive.

Biting into an explosive torpedo. g.
year-old Joseph Cunningham, jr.. 1425
Morse street northeast, received main.
Iul injury to his mouth and lips when
the cap went off as he closed his teeth
upon it yesterday.
by his father, where DIR. Lawrencs
Murphy sutured the wound and aJ.
ministered anti.tetanus treatment
after which he was returned home.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
TWO CLERKS CONVICTED.
Employees Found Guilty of Short
Weight Sales.

Two clerks employed by Kidwell
market were convicted in Police Court
today for selling at short weights.
Lamont b. Waller, employed at 1893
Third street, was fined SIS on one
charge of selling groceries below
weight and had his personal bond
taken on a second charge by Judge
Gus A. Schuldt
William T.. Gottwals, employed sell.
ing meat at 2007 Fourteenth street,
was fined $40 on each of four counts,
and his personal bonds taken on two
additional charges.
recommendations were made to
Judge Schuldt by Walter l.. Fowler
assistant corporation counsel.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
PHONE INSPECTOR"
STEALS $4,000 GEMS
Enters Richmond Home ON Pretext
and Carries Of Case Contain.
ing Valuable Jewels.
Special Dispatch to The star.

SpoeioA Dispaech 10 Inc star.
RICHMOND, Va, October 1s.-
Richmond police are seeking a "tele.
phone inspector" who disappeared
after a case containing 81, 900 in Jew.
elry was stolen from the home Of
Robert G. Cabell.
The inspector" few minutes be-
fore denied admission to the home of
James Kerr Branch, prominent bank.
er, was allowed to enter the Cabell
home. He stayed but a few moments
and as soon as he had left a jewel
case in room where he was work.
ing was missed.
Among the jewels taken was a pearl
necklace with a diamond clasp valued
at $4,000. Police have obtained fin.
gerprints from the telephone handled
by the man.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
PLAN H0P-OFF TONIGHT.
Costes and lie Brix to Await Flu.
neral Of Crash Victims.

BUENOs AIRES. Argentina, DC.
tober Is R).-Dieudonne Costes and
his companion, Lieut.. Joseph lie Brix,
plan to. leave Rio de Janeiro tonight,
after ~ funeral Of the three Brazil.
ian aviators, killed in a crash at yes.
terday's welcome to the French flyers,
say advices to La Nacion.
Arrival at Buenos Aires will COM
plete the fight of the French airmen
who were the first to cross the South
Atlantic in a nonstop trip from the
mainland OF Africa to the mainland Of
South America.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
STORMS BLOCK AIR MAIL,
New York-to-Chicago and Boston
Lines Tied Up.

HADLEY AIRPORT, South Plain.
field, n. j., October Is R).-Rains and
winds of the past two days have
caused a cessation Of air mail and ex-
press service on the New York Chi.
cago and New York.Boston lines, the
National Air Transport announced to.
day.
Only one plane has attempted to get
through from Cleveland since yester.
day, it was said by officers of the
concern, and it was forced down at
Bellefonte, Pa.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
Fall Kills Woman
In Leap to Escape
Crash at Crossing


LITCHFIELD. ILL.,, Oct. 1s.--
Jump" cried Charles Brewer to
his wife yesterday when he saw
that a Wabash train was about to
strike the truck in which they
We're riding near Mount Olive. Ill.
Mrs. Brewer. "a, jumped. her
head struck the pavement and
she was killed. Brewer had not
time to leap sna was untn5arsd.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
Foot Ball Game Called OFF.

Because of rain, the opening foot
ball game of the public high school
championship series between Central
and Western, scheduled for the
Central Stadium this afternoon, was
called Off. 1t may be played tomorrow
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Evening star., 1927-10-18
Detailed to Artillery School.

Col. Edward Kimmel. SD Coast
Artillery, at Fort Eustis. Va, has
been detailed as assistant comma ndant
of the Coast Artillery School at Fort
-Moprps. Va
Evening star., 1927-10-18
NICARAGUA BANS GUNS.
Carrying Of Firearms at Coming
Municipal Elections Prohibited.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, October IS
HO.-The Nicaraguan government is
sued a decree today stating that any
one found carrying firearms or other
dangerous weapons at the municipal
elections on November 6 will be ar.
rested subject to imprisonment or
fine.
The American Marines who have
been stationed in Nicaragua will OBJ
serve the elections wherever possible.
The Marine force will assist the au.
thorities in next years presidential
elections, whose fairness has Eeen
guaranteed by the United States.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
LAUREL ENTRIES
FOR TOMORROW.

FUK TOMORROW.
h FIRST RACE-The Gov. Ogle stesple.
cnase Handicap; purse, So 600 added: for
4year-olds and up; about 21s miles.
Lauflunge ..... $50 Light House lax
Nosiamas -. 142 Elder .,...... l55
aDorwood Stable entry.
Evening star., 1927-10-18

vsss SECOND RACE-Purse. 81. 800: for 2.
Evening star., 1927-10-18

aAudley Farm entry.
Jefferson Livingston and Sunny Stal
entry.
sApprentice allowance claimed.
Weafher raining: track muddy.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
THIRD RACE-Purse, 81 800: claiming:
Tor 3-year-olds and up; 8 fllrlongs
FOURTH RACE-Purse, 1880: for 2.
year-olds: & fllrlOnGs

FIFTH RACE-Purse, $4,000: Graded
Handicap. grade A: 3-year-0lds and up:
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Construction Contracts
For June Makes Record

June construction contracts in the
territory east of the Rocky Noun
tains broke all previous monthly
records, according to r. w. Dodge
Corporation. Building and engineer.
ing work contracted for last month
in the 81 Eastern States Gncluding
about 81 per cent of the country's
totaD amounted to $632, ATS, 900.
There have been only four previous
months that had as much as $780,
900 900 in contracts: August, 1925;
August, 1926; March. 1927, and April,
1927. March OF this year held the
previous high record OF SEQ, 1913, 200.
The June increase over May was Is
per cent: over June. 1926. 16 per
cent.
The June record brought the
volume OF construction started dur
ing the first half of the year up to
S3,1S7 1893 800, which is per cent
ahead of the first half of 1925.
The June contract record included
the following important items: seas.
S14.1O0, or SS per cent OF all con-
struction. for residential buildings:
1851 1913. 500. or "a per cent. for pub
lie works and utilities: &SS, 1872, 400. or
II per cent. for commercial build
ings: $42.121.SOO. or rer cent. for
educational buildings. and s33.s7s..
300. or 5 per cent, for industrial
buildings.
Contemplated new work reported
in June amounted to $729.17s,9 900,
which was IA per cent less than the
reported in May and 10 per
cent less than that reported in June
of last year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-23
build ROAD To
NEW QUARRY

Jaeger and Minchillo, stone and
general contractors, have a large
force at work building a road from
Bradley Boulevard to their new
stone quarry adjoining the land
owned by Mrs. Stone. The quarry
has recently been purchased from
the, Bradley Hills Sales Company.
This road IL being improved in
order to enable Jaeger and Min
chillo to get stone out in trucks
from their holdings.
Jaeger and Minchillo have been
in business in Washington a num-
Der of years and make a speciality
of rubble walls, homes, churches,
mausoleums, etc., handling granite,
blue stone and limestone.
For some time they have been
DESTROYS OF owning a quarry of
their own and have proSpected over
practically all of Montgomery
County. While there is abundance
of rock everywhere in the county
the particular quality Of rock
where the deposit is in a strata
of the right thickness, also hav.
ing the quality and color, has been
very difficult to locate.
Jaeger and Minchillo feel that in
this purchase from the holdings of
the Bradley Hills Syndicate, inc,
they have one of the finest quar-
ries In or near Washington.
Some sixty days ago feeling that
in their general prospecting they
found the quality desired in the
holdings Of the Bradley Hills Syndi-
cate, Inc, they took an option for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-23

and Loan Associations, in a state
ment Just issued points out that
the assets of these institutions have
increased from 1871 1855, 62S in 1900,
to $3.50 900. 900 in 1927. The num-
Der OF associations has increased
from 1856 in 1900 to 10000 In 1927.
The first building and loan asso.
citation in the United States was
organized in Philadelphia in 1881,
and at the coming convention plans
will be made TO observe the Tooth
anniversary OF the founding of
these institutions. President Nc
hlnnis will urge building and loan
men throughout the United States
to have more than SO per cent of
the families in this country in
homes of their own by 193l-the
centennial date of building and loan
associations. In some European
countries nearly 80 per cent of the
householders own their homes. IF
building and loan associations con
tinue their present rapid growth 1t
is possible that the next decade will
see rs per cent of American fam.
lilies in homes of their own" ac
cording to the national head Of the
building and loan organiza ton.