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Evening star., 1928-12-16
COUNTY CIVIC WEEK
DRIVE EXTENDED
Arlington Campaign for $15,.
900 viii Come to Close
on tuesday.
Special Dispatch to The star.


CLARENDON, Va, December 15.-
The budget drive of the Arlington
County Chamber of Commerce, sched-
uled to come to close tonight, as the
concluding feature of civic week."
sponsored by the chamber to stirulate
a greater interest among the citizens
and business interests in activities Of
the organization and problems con-
fronting the county, will be continued
through Tuesday, it was announced at
dinner s!eeting here tonight, when
budget teams reported total Of $l0,295
in subscriptions.
While $4,000 had been set as the
chambers budget goal for the week,
Daniel E. Weigle, community organizer
of Philadelphia, engaged to conduct the
drive, and Clarence r. Ahalt, president
of the local trade body, expressed them
selves as gratified at the showing made
to date, and confident that little more
seffort the next three days will put the
project well over the top.
v= "One of the most pleasing things
tabout the whole drive" MIR. Ahalt de-
clared, lis that the budget is not only
assured but the chamber gains much
= in the way of new members. About
SO per cent of the amount raised comes
in the form of membership dues, and
this is a good indication that the
people are alive to the need of strong
chamber of commerce in the county"
Hope of leaders of the drive that the
budget will be reached if not exceeded
is based on the fact that only about
25 per cent of those on the prospect
list we're visited by the team workers.
Twenty-Five out of $50 washington
merchants on the list, it was reported,
responded generously to the appeal and
ethe others will be visited before the
drive closes.
All of the Washington merchants
listed for a subscription are said to be
eyitally interested in the development of
Arlington County, due to the proximity
of the county and the city and the
benefit they receive through patronage
sof Arlington County citizens.
Four of the 20 teams working in the
drive were still out tonight, and their
reports, which probably will be made
Monday, are expected to add much to
the total.
Announcement was made that the
schamber would sponsor a program
christmas eve in celebration of the re-
opening of Lee Highway, which has
ssbeen partially closed for several weeks
for widening and reconstruction from
Rosslyn to Cherrydale.
Evening star., 1928-12-16

Hesse, chief of police, and his several
assistants as soon as the inaugural
committee definitely determines what
is to be done and gives officials an idea
as to the approximate number OF visi-
tors expected. No matter what conciu-
sion the committee reaches, 1t is stated,
Congress unouestionably will be asked
to appropriate money to afford the city
extra protection.
It is considered almost certain that
methods employed during many past
inaugural ceremonies will not be fol-
lowed at the approaching ceremonial.
Heretofore 1t was the custom to appoint
several hundred special policemen for
duty both in the business section and
outlying districts, such persons per-
forming duty in civilian attire. Mai
Hesse does not believe such men meant
a great deal in the matter of protecting
the city. 1t is stated, and money will not
be spent for such service during the
Evening star., 1928-12-16

period when Herbert Hoover is in
augurated.
Officials of the department are said
to frown upon any move that is in
tended to plaster" persons in civilian
attire with shields of the department.
Heretofore members of the commit
tees on public order serving at inau-
gurals have been commissioned special
policemen, and the sight of such per-
sons, so equipped, along the line of
march is said to have provoked urlfa-
vorable criticism on the part of visitors.
1t is probable that members of this
committee serving during the coming
inaugural period will be given ribbons
or other designations to show they are
members of the committee.
1t is more than likely that Maj.
HeySe will ask Congress to make pro-
vision for the employment of approxi-
mately 300 uniformed policemen from
Evening star., 1928-12-16
GAS FROM BREAK IN MAIN
SENDS NINE TO HOSPITAL

An. entire family of colored people
and their next-door neighbor were
treated at Emergency Hospital last
homes at 1341 and 1345 First street
northeast.
Edmonia Luckett, 80 years old, of
y134l First street was alone at home
when she began to notice the gas. At
1345 First street Herman and Jane
Darden, both 80 years old; their four
children, the oldest years old; Ellen
Battle. 25 years old, and Lilly Taylor,
10 years old, were made i'll by the gas
All the sufferers were taken to the
hospital in Dardens car. After treat
sfnent they returned to their homes.
Evening star., 1928-12-16

other jurisdictions. Such men would
be drawn from cities in the East.
Provisions VIII be asked for the en-
ployment of a corps of detectives from
other cities, plainclothes men who are
familiar with notorious crooks. This
force, with the sanction of Congress.
will be made up of men from all Sec
tions of the country.
Evening star., 1928-12-16
Vote Fayors Merger.

= CHICAGO, December Is P).-For-
NAL recommendation of the announced
splan for consolidating the Union Trust
Co. and the First National Bank of Chi
cago was voted by directors of the Union
Trust Co. The regular dividend Of 8
per cent was voted with an extra cash
dividend of per cent. Three distri-
buttons brought the total dividend pay
ments for the year to 18 per cent, be-
Z sides the rights granted in october to
subscribe to $1,000,000 in capital stock
at $400 a share, compared with the
present market value Of $1,000 n.
Evening star., 1928-12-16
FRANCE GIVE MEDALS
TO z DISTRICT WOMEN

Conspicuous Contributions to Ad-
vancement of Nursing Profession
Win Government Awards.
Two Washington women, Maj. Julia
C. Stimson, superintendent of the Army
Nurse Corps, and Miss Clara D. Noyes,
national director of nursing service.
American Red Cross, have been awarded
the Medaille d'Hygiene Publique medal
by the French government for con-
spicuous contributions to the advance
nent of the nursing profession it was
announced yesterday through the New
Evening star., 1928-12-16
Rridgewater. Va. Woman Dies.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON, Va, December 15.--Miss
Virginia Miller. SIS years old, died at
her home in Bridgewater, Thursday at
4 pm. following an illness of three
months. She was daughter of the late
John c. Miller. In late years she spent
part of her time in Roanoke.
Evening star., 1928-12-16
HESSE PLANS NEW
POLICING SYSTEM
Would Get Officers From
Other Cities for Service
During Inauguration.

Preparations for policing the city
during the approaching inaugural
period will be started by Mai Edwin B.
Evening star., 1928-12-16
STATE LINE PROTECTED.
North Carolina Governor Tells Of
fcers to Watch Markers.

RALEIGH, N. c., December Is
Gov. A. w. Mclean today issued a
proclamation, calling upon officers OF
the counties along the North Carolina
South Carolina boundary line to arrest
any person interfering with markers
on the line and offering $500 reward
for the arrest and conviction of any
one on this charge.
The proclamation was the result, the
governor said, of report that one of
the markers on the recently surveyed
line had been dug up and reset.
Evening star., 1928-12-16

York Office of the American Hospital in
Paris. Two other recipients Of this
honor were Annie w. Goodrich, director
of the School Of Nursing at Yale Uni
versity, and Anna Caroline Maxwell.
Due to the illness of Miss Maxwell
ceremonies which yesterday were to
have marked the presentation of the
awards at New York City we're called
off The medals and citations were
brought to America by special mes
senger from the French government at
paris. but the formal exercises were
delayed pending the recovery OF Miss
Maxwell
Evening star., 1928-12-16

If you need work, read the want COL
umnS of The Star.
Evening star., 1928-12-16

In the first eight months of 1923 air
planes and parts exported from the
United States totaled more than Sx,ovo'-
600 as compared with s1,olO,OOo during
the same period of 1927.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-16

At one Of the downtown hotels. busi-
ness men will be able 70 enjoy q most
dayss Times and Herald who's WhO''
columns ON next TO the last page.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-16

Tlle ola East telephone exchanges
t ~ Chesapeake and Potomac
eIephone Company, % b st. NJ.
- waa the second central office
- built IN Washington and is
oldest such structure now exist
Tlaa first, or Main exchange.
M ts,rr down to permit the erec.
- ~ the washington Building,
s1, ssg1saenth and q Streets Northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-16
INDEPE NIlENTS
AIDED IN NE v
TAXI PLAN

Al partial victory for the indie.
pendent taxicab owners Of the Dis.
trict was seen today, when the spe.
cial traffic committee filed with the
District Commissioners recommen-
dations that public hack stands be
established at hotels, as well as In
more or less isolated localities.
The Commissioners will consider
the committees recommendation
Friday.
Under the new program, which
was prepared following recent hear.
ings before the commission, hack
stands would be designated at each
hotel, but on a side around the cor.
ner from the stands now held under
concession.
The traffic committee gave spe.
lcial attention to the contentious
OF the Hotelmen's Association that
the hotels are entitled to give CON
cessions.
The Independent hack stands will
make it possible for hotel guests to
Ichoose their own transportation,
rather than the present system
which makes them use the trans
portation furnished by the hotel.
Commissioner Proctor L. Dough.
erty today said that at least fair
try-out OF the new plan should be
made, and that after the test. 1t
could be amended to suit all parties
cnncerned!
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Girls in
Fight for
Love Of
One Man

n
Gay Leonard. young, beautIful.
spoiled darling Of fortune, ~
IOved 81 Alan POmer0ys worth.
while young man. She - Aasels.
mated. however, by Jerry Davis.
young man Of doubtful rcputn.
lion. Jerry, although attracted
3 ta Gay, falls I'D love with Dolly
Quinn, who has taken Job ID =
cabaret ca earn money for nft.
lessons. Dolly despisea both her.
1ob and Jerry, and finally obtains
3 position nshcrlng % = theater.
{ There she meets Nick StandlsIas q.
young meWspaper reporter. Dolly.
c0nfides her love Of art 70 Nick,
and the reporter promises 10 heIns
her climb the ladder OE success.
MEX. however. warns Dolly that.
hc r married % the Paris fashion:
cOrrenpoFl dent OE his paper. In
the, meantime, Gay has been,
whlglxed away from the fast set nlle.
travels With, and has left Cor
Florida with her parents.
Haw chuckled Ted.
That's 5 good one
Well, If I cant claim
more OF q past than that
bright-eyed innocent over
4hnrs ~
But you're about 10
years older
Irene twinkIed at Alan.
Husbands | They viii re-
mind you.
There was silence then,
while all three glanced again
at the table across the aisle.
Gay sat SO that they could
not see her face, but only
her clipped chrysanthemun
head and the rouged rim Of
4 flat, small ear. Her
shoulders, curves Of nodded
cream were appraised BY the
propping Of her elbows On
the table, and her head WaA
inclined toward her bearers
Both Of them eyed her with
interest. Miss Manhattan
smiled. DeliciousIy.
"What is this scandal
Gays heard, anyway Ted
asked.
81 don't know. DO You,
Alan?"
sNo idea"
"She won't say, " Irene
CONTINUED on Fiction Pags.l
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William G. Allison
Sued. Neglect Charged

William g. Allison. autonlopIIe
salesman. was sued Tor limited
divorce by his wife. Mrs. Ethel X.
Allison, OF the 400 block Columbia
Rd. N. W., in Equity Cou. ! yester-
day ~ the grounds Of cruelty,
drunkenness and neglect.
In her petition filed by Attorneys
Lambert, Yeatman, and Garfield
the wife tells the court that on
June IL, 1926, her husband at
tempted to attack. her with golf
club and she had to use a Joy scout
axe fight him OFF. The couple
married January II, 1911, and have
two children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-16
SECOND SECTION
LOCAL NE
Sues for SIS, 900 Over
ALLEGED False Arrest
Times staff Photos

Raymond II. Gibbons. Of the
1000 block First St., N. w, filed
suit for $4,000 damages against
Francis G. HeigIe. OF the 1900 block
Il st. N. W., in Circuit Court yes
terday. The suit Is based on an al
legged false arrest.
Through Attorney Foster Wood,
the plaintiff says that the defend
ant caused his arrest on December
II last on a charge OF beating his
board bill of $25.12. A trial Of the
case in Police Court on February
4. resulted in his acquital. ne AYERS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-16
WITH AT EYEs on TIE CLERGYMAN
Georgetown Debating
Society Holds irtl1day

The ninety nth anTlIyersary q
the founding of the PhiICdemic
Debating Society Of Georgetown
College was celebrated with 4 BAN
quet at the Hamilton Hotei last
night.
Admiral w. 81 Benson, OF the
Shipping Board, Mas the principal
speaker and Father John j. Tcohey,
s. j.. chairman Of the society. was
toastmaster.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-16

He pointed to the Work OF lnH
washington Plan Commission
created III 1901 to carry out plans
for Identification Of this city, as
an excellent example of practical
application Of artistic principles TO
civic development.
The commission mot only pointed
the way back to the original
LEnfant plan for the National Cap.
ital, j" said the President. but
started a national movement for Z
more orderly and artistic develop
ment Of our cities.
Had Good Results
The elaborate plans now under
way for the construction Of public
buildings. which will make Wash
ington the most beautiful Capita
In the world" he declared, sis one
Of the results Of this movement"
Using the proverb about clothes
making the man, the President told
the delegates that just as good
dress gives one sense of self-re.
spect and poise. so do clean,
beautiful surroundings lend a moral
tone to a community"
Gradually we are getting rid
of the squalor of the slums of our
big cities. and Of the oppressive
ugliness Of the small towns" he
said.
The President praised the enact.
l1ent Of coming laws in the larger
communities. saying that they had
developed q distinctive type of Amer.
lean business architecture.
Musum Ideals
F. Allen Whiting. director Of the
Cleveland Ml'seum OF Art, spoke on
Community Cooperation in Educa-
tional Planning and led q discus
sion on the subject. Other speakers
were Leila Mechlin, secretary of the
Arts Federation; Laurence Vail Cole
man. director of the museum asso-
citation, and Alexander B. Trow.
bridge. director Of the Arts Fedora.
ton.
Robert w. de Forest, presiding.
Introduce / President Coolidge to tho
400 delegates.
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III Gle III lMSIALL

Ell nest Johnston, president. and
other new officers of the Advertis-
ing Club viii be Installed ct an In IN.
st. Marks. MIR. Johnson is expected
to outline his progam for the en-.
suing wear
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80. 176 Old EAST EXCHANGE

The East exchange was put into
operation December ~, 1900, with
900 telephones installed. There
were only 4.426 teller homes In the
city then against 145,279 now. on
July I3. 1907, the East exchange
was displaced by the Lincoln, and
the building sold to the govern.
ment.
1T In used A. D folding room for
the United states Senate now.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-16
SPRING FESTIVAL

The annual spring festival of the
Methodist Home for the Aged will
be i sid today at p. m. on the
grounds of the institution at Con.
necticut Avenue and Ellicott Street
Northwest.
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olidge E7etols Arts
n Public Life

President Coolidge paid tribute to the arts great
the lives Of the people, address Of welcome
the American Federation Of Arts and the American Asoca
ton of Museums. az the MayfloWer Hotel today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-13
KIDNAPPED BOY, 4,
FOUND IN CLOSET
Billy MCAIIiSter, SnatChed
From Bed, Discovered Lock-
ed in Vacant House.

BY the Associated Press
MIAMI. Fla. July 13.--Billy Meal
lister. 4 years old. who was kidnapped
last night from the home of his mother
here. was found unhurt in a Coral
Gables vacant house this morning by
persons living next door. who heard
him pounding on the door of closet
in which he was locked
The child said his kidnapers we're a
fat man and a woman"
An hour before the boy was brought
home Mrs. E. C. McAllister, his grand
mother. a wealthy Miami hotel owner.
had completed arrangements for pay
ing $4,000 ransom asked for his return.
Ready to Pay Ransom.
Her decision came after a second
telephone call to the McAllster home
this morning from q man who said the
abductors would return Billy to his
nome in an automobile provided $4,000
in cash was available for immediate
exchange and no police officers were
summoned to the vicinity.
Fearful for the safety of the boy, the
grandmother and the widowed mother,
Mrs. May McAlliSter requested police
to halt their investigation, and made
ready to meet the demands of the kid
naperS.
The child could give only meager
description Of his adhductors and police
were not hopeful that the information
could be used to advantage in running
them down.
Billy was stolen from his ground
floor bedroom about 930 o'clock last
night while only his grandmother was
in the house. She heard the child
scream and rushed to the bedroom only
to find him missing and the window
screen propped open.
Woman Stood Guard.
Sheriff Henry r. Chase, who personal
ly took up an investigation, learned
that woman lookout stood on the Nc
Allister porch while the kidnapers were
procuring a saw horse and stick to
facilitate speed removal of the child
through the window. The woman and
one or more male companions escaped
IN an automobile. which had been
parked near the home.
Neighhors told the sheriff that an
automobile usually occupied by strange
men had been circling the immediate
neighbOrhood about dusk every evening
recently, and believed significant the
fact that watch dog procured by the
McAlIisters few weeks ago had be-
come suddenly i'll and had To be shot
last Friday.
Recently man about As years old
had been seen lettering about the home
and once talked to the child.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-13
GROUP OF GERMAN
PUBLISHERS HERE
Delegates to Recent Information
Advertising Farley Are Sight.
seeing in Washington.

Fifty German publishers and adver
tising men arrived in WASHINGTON to-
day Tor a two-day sightseeing visit.
They are the German delegation to the
twenty-fourth annual convention of the
international Advertising Association,
which was held In Detroit Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday and are on
their way back TO New York 10 sail
July 2l on the return trip TO HAMBURG
While here the delegates viii visit
public buildings and other places OF In
tereSt including the broadcaSting plant
OF WRC, They were met at the station
this morning by F. p. Guthrie. vice
president Of the Advertising Club of
Washington, and Norman C. Kal, pas
president Of the club.
The delegates. while In this country
are engaged in a study OF American adj
vertiSing and sales promotion methods
From here they will SO to Atlantic CITY
DR.. Max RetSebrodt OF Berlin Is head 9
the delegation and Otto Wilhelm Wen
Is chairman Of the committee arrangli
the itinerary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-13
GANGS FUSlLLADE
KILLS DETROIT MAN
LIQUOR Feud Blamed for 0ne-Sided
Gun Fight-Assailants
Escape.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 13.-Joseph Tallman,
90 years old, was shot and killed at the
wheel of his automobile early today In
what police believe was the outcome OF
a liquor feud.
Talln1an was cut down by hail of
bullets from guns fired by four men
in another car, his companions, Harvey
Smith and Max Wuester. told police.
Smith and Wuester said they we're
driving with Tallman when the other
car drew alongside and the occupants
opened fire.
A motor cycle officer a block away
heard the firing and hurried to the
scene, arriving after the attackers had
fed He found Tallman dying from
four bullet wounds and Smith and
Wuester crouched behind the automo-
bile
Tallman, according to police, had sup
piled Detroit-made beer TO a large Sec
ton of the East Side and had been
arrested eight times since 1923, al
though he was never convicted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-13

Bathing and Wading facilities for
small children are 10 be provided In
some Of the parks by the Once OF Pub
lie Buildings and Public Parks 1t be-
came known today when instructions
we're issued To prepare four fountains In
sections Of the city, not yet selected for
their use, and also 10 permit small chill
dreu ~ use the rejecting pool In West
Potomac Park Instructions also were
issued 10 turn on each morning at 10
o'clock the two large jets and To run
all Of the sprays daily from until b
0 clock. Heretofore, the fountain has
been run only from 3 until O'Clock on
Sundays and holidays.
None of the fountains In the parks
ba6 been placed IN commission THIS
Summer because Of the fear of com
yyaint from citizens about the use of
the pools by small children. However,
u has been pointed out. the city Is
without any facilities for the children
and hat the Duois you'd be 4 relief for
/ sQme during the not weather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-13
SEVEN DIE IN CHAIR
IN HOUR AND HALF
Kentucky Prisoners Near COL
Iapse From Fear as Death
Hour Approaches.

BY the Associated Press.
EDDYVILLE, KY, July Is. - Seven
men. convicted murderers ALL were
electrocuted between midnight and 80
o'clock this morning at the State Pen
itentiary here.
Seven wooden cofins later today were
nlaced on trestles near the prison gates
awaiting disposition by relatives OF the
executed ones whose bodies, IN oeatn
house garments. rested within the un-
cushioned boxes.
Four white men, three OF them
vo,1np. and three negroes made up the
seven whose deaths in the electric cfali
set a record for Kentucky. Sullen, de-
FAINT and prayerful by turns during
their stay In the death house, the con-
demned men were reduced by Iear N
a condition bordering upon collapse az
midnight approached.
All Talk Dies Down.
Although there was no clock gone
IN sound the hours, the prisoners
sensed the time and all talk died away
! long before the death march Starno
at i2:I5. With heads supported II
cI,nped hands, they sat silent, then
bodies shaken by chills despite the IN
tense heat In the squat stone mouse
| that had been their home IN the prison
| In nlain view was the execution cnanl'
| Der and the chair. A.,
! There was no somber darkness IN tilt
place. Instead there was brilliant hgh
| and shadow and polished steel.
The white men went TO the ciian
first Milford Red" Lawson, 35, Cornin
| Kv. Leading the way. He said ne wa
| ready TO forgive everybody" ana wa
strained in quickly. He was dead tnre'
/ minutes later. The murder OF nelgh
Dor in his mountain country max
| brought him there.
Orlando Seymour, 81, Louisville, wa
/ the second. A dramatic attempt 10 Cd
| tain a stay for him last night nad Iail
| ed and he met his fate apparently II
/ a stlIDor. When his attorneys succeed
| ed in arranging an insanity nearing pc
! fore the county Judge here shortly ate
3 O'Clock he told his cell companion
! that he would at least get out OF Tn
! prison once more. But the wardel
| asked the court be held In the chape
and It was, the altar or speakers stan'
! being used as a Judges bench. Whei
the Judge ruled he had no jurisdiction
Seymour sagged in his chair and di'
not speak again until the time for hi
execution. when he confessed the mur
der for which he had been convicted
that of a Louisville merchant.
Joins Church at Last Minute.
Hascue Dockery. Il. Harlan, KY, fol
lowed Originally he had been seiecte
10 die first, but, just as the hum @
/ the death chair DYNAMO filled the ce
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