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Evening star., 1928-06-05
Slump Batting Hurts Cs EPSON Dvn Mecca for Half Million Bitons

was alive and pointing out the confusion
that would result If Royal Minstrel
should win after his owners death. I'm
der the rules the colt would be disqual-
flied.
King George went to EPSON today to
view the first days racing Tomorrow
he will witness the Derby with the
Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess
of York and Princess Mary and her
husband, the Viscount Lascelles.
EPSON Downs already is occupied by
an army OF campers. hawkers and gyp-
sizes, ready for tomorrow's big show and,
incidentally, big trade.
All transportation facilities In South
ern England will be brought into play
to carry the half million or more en-
thusiasts to EPSON and home again.
Evening star., 1928-06-05

THYME BCttIers have several open
dates for unlimited teams Call West
323.
Manager Myer at Cleveland 1880 will
book Saturday and Sunday games for
his Senior Chevy Chase nine.
BOasting a string of eight straight
victories, Chevy Chase Yankees want
more laurels. Call Cleveland l443 or
1889 for games.
A game for Sunday and other dates
as well can be arranged with Postal
Midgets at Main 4414 after 4 o'clock.
HOrnsby Midgets hurl challenge TO
all teams in their class. Call Lincoln
1923 for games.
FairIawn Midgets cast defy to junior
teams seeking plenty Of action. Call
Atlantic 1902.
Harris Insects are ready TO meet the
strongest mines in that class. Call North
1851.
J. ArnOld's pitching aided Brown In
sects in winning over Typos yesterday,
6 to 5.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
H0RNSBY AND COBB
RAISE THEIR MARKS

BY the Associated Press.
All but two of the big six were kept
idle by rain yesterday, but these two.
Rogers Hornsby and Ty Cobb, did a
full days work on the ball field. Both
hit safely twice on four times at bat,
and in large measure were responsible
for the victories OF their teams.
Hornsby broke up tie game with
Cincinnati by driving out a homer in
the last half of the ninth inning after
Sisler had singled. to give the Braves
win His 500 average for the day
made his hold on first place in the big
six standing even more secure, raising
his seasons average to .4l8.
Cobb started off with a single and
and triple in the first two innings.
which drove in three of the Athletics
six runs and brought the veteran out
fielder back into the 300 class.
The standing to date.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
MICHIGAN u. TWIRLERS
SWAT ABOVE 400 MARX

ANN ARBOR, Mich, June 5 CP).-
Batting averages of the Big Ten base
ball race have revealed two good rea-
sons why Michigan won the champion
ship with ii straight victories and one
defeat
Two Wolverine pitchers, Fred Asbeck
and Bill McAfee, not only won most of
the ii games, but they hit above 400
Asbeck's batting average was .462 and
McAfee's was .45f.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
II MUIR
Team standing.
Idle Giants Creep Nearer Lead
AS Reds Are Beaten by Braves

we're enough to carry the Philadelphia
Athletics TO victory over the Chicago
White Sox. 9 to 3, at Chicago. Ty
Cobb came out Of bad batting slump
and drove In three runs with single
and triple In the first and second In
ninRg. Rube Walberg pitched effect
iyely for the Mackmen until the ninth,
when he walked two men and then
allowed three hits that were good for
two runs. Kamm's home run In the
second accounted for the third gox
tally
All the other big time teams had an
of day because Of rain,
Evening star., 1928-06-05
OLD FOES WILL FACE
IN ALEXANDRIA FRAY

ALEXANDRIA, Va. June 5.--Del Ray
A. @. will continue It's warfare against
local base ball clubs Sunday. when 1t
meets the Columbia Engine Co. on Hay
don Field at 3 o'clock. Both teams
have good records.
Manager James Bradley Of the st.
Mary's Celtics has resigned Ralph
ScriYeneT. third baseman, has been re-
leased, and Catcher Russell Kidwen,
who has been released by the Norfolk
Virginia State League club: Earl Cro-
min, outfelder and catcher, and Nc
Caughey have been signed.
Cardinal A. c. will play Edmonds Art
Stone Co. here Sunday at O'Clock at
Cardinal PARK
No. S Motor Company Of the Alexan-
dria Fire Department will practice To-
day and Thursday on Carter's Field at
5 o'clock.
ST. Mary's CeItics will play Washing
ton Red Sox here Saturday on corbett
Field at 4 o'clock. Georgetown "A. g.
win be played Sunday at 3.
Columbia Engine Company has lost
the services of Pitcher Joe Padgett and
Outhelder Louis Latham, who have re-
signed.
Bobby vogt Is booking games for his
Gabby Hartnett Juniors at Alexandria
1893 after 8 O'Clock.
Port Siders and StaTboard Siders viii
play here Saturday In a team golf
match on the Belle Haven Country Club
links at 2 o'clock.
Belle Haven Country Club, which won
the Tri-State Golf Association cham
pionship last Summer. lost It's opening
match In association play last week
end, when the Winchester Golf Club
defeated the locals II 10 z.
q
Evening star., 1928-06-05
GERMAN WOMEN START
TRAINING FOR OIL YMPlCS

FRANKFORT, Germany. June tA').
Forty German women have been
summoned TO Frankfort -on- Main for
special training course for the women's
entries at the Amsterdam Olympic
games OF these 20 will be selected to
go to Holland and compete in the
sprints, high jump, discus throw, 300
meter run and relay race.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
H0ME-RUN STANDING

~ tle AasDsaslsa Press.
fsstsFdsyS home runs: hixey. Reds,
I, Dresser, Reds. 4 Iiornsby, Braves,
!; ksmm. White s0x, /.
The leaders.
American LssgBe~-Ruth, New York,
10; Cshr1g, New York, IL Haaser.
Philadelphia, 3; I0dt, Boston, 7. Ma
fs0nzi LfsgHe~Wii,s0n, Cubs, .; Bis
sonette. Brooklyn. .; E0ft0mIsy, ~.
Louis. 3, HerDsbg, Braves, =.
League totals; National, i7s, An1eTi.
esn, Is7. Grand total, 53z.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
,easus "a S,aa ft.N
TURNER WILL WRESTLE.

Joe Turner. local wrestler, will meet
Rough House Nelson OF Rochester,
N. Y, at the Gayety Theater Friday
night. 1t will be the third match here
between the pair At the Arcadia re-
Gently each had won a fall when
police halted hostilities bacauSe OF
roughness. Bull Martin and Jack Ross
will also grapple in the Gayety
program.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
CAPITAL CITY
LOOP MINES FACE SUNDAY
SCHEDULE.

SCHEDULE
Calhouns vs.. Aces diamond No. ~, III
O'Clock
:, collesians vs., Standard Arrows Diamond
Brookland BOYS Club vs.. Llndbershs
(South Ellipsel. | o'clock.
Montrose VS. Liberty A C. diamond No.
consress HEIGHTS VS. Hadleys plaza. II
Miller Furniture Co. VS.. Jewish Community
Center tWest Elltpsel, II o'clock.
AMERICAN LEGION CLASS.
SECTION A.
Lincoln Post VS.. yies Sport Shop PLAZA,
l O'Clock.
Deisno Post vs.. Pianskys Diamond No.
~. II o'clock.
b. c. Standards VS.. woodside Diamond
No. -, II O'Clock.
powhatans VS., Corinthians (South Eilipse),
IL o'clock.
SECTION h.
CoTlnthisn Tigers vs. Kelley Midgets tDiA-
mond No. ~, o'clock.
CaSstes forfeit to Alexandria Post
Russells VS.. Sam Rice Diamond No. - 4,
o'clock
81. stephens vs. U. s. s. Jacob Jones
tPlaEal, J O'Clock.
INSECTS.
saturday aud Sunday Games)
Jewish Community Center VS.. Iris Speak
erS Sunday. diamond later.
Webco VS.. Royals saturday, West Ellipsel,
o'clock.
Mount Rainier Hardware VS.. Brookland
Boys west Ellipsel, II O'Clock.
Evening star., 1928-06-05

Bradbury Heights, having added win
over washington Highlands. i3 to g..
has booked Capitol A. G. for Sunday
at 2 o'clock on Bradbury Heights dia-
mond.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
SENIOR.
Team GlanAinR
ECHFDtI.F.

Holy Rosary vs.. Auths tCathoie Univer-
aityt, I O'Clock.
Brown Il Wood VS.. Hartfords tcatholie
University, 3 O'Clock.
Aztecs vs.. ID. j. Kaufman tWest EIlipset,
. clock
+ T, Keane vs.. Palace A. C. 1south FL
iipaet, oei0cp
Evening star., 1928-06-05
SCHEDULE.

Douglas A. C. vg. Army War College
(Wsshinston Barraeksl. 3 O'Clock.
Anacostta Eagles vs.. District Heights tAn-
acoStia Field. O'Clock.
Ross Councl VS.. Army Medical Center
fAnacosiia Field, o'clock,
Cloysrs VS.. Auths fThirty-fourth and Ben
ming roadl, O'Clock.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
SECTION A. UNLTMITEDs.
Tnan Gsaaafur
SCHEDULE.

tAll Games O'CIoek.l
Woodbridge VS. A., B. g. w. Busmen Gar
linRtoni.
Dreadnaughts VS.. Petworth A. c. DREAD
nsnRht Park.
Maryland a. C. vs.. Addison A. c. MARY
land diamond.
Chevy Chase VS.. 81. Joseph's Friendship
Field.
Shsmrocks VS.. Jewish Community Center
diamond announced later,
Georgetown A. c. vs.. ST. Mary's ceities
f9hipyard Field.
Evening star., 1928-06-05

- GEORGETOWN A. c. and st.
Mary's Celtics. undefeated sec
T ton A unlimited mines of Cap
~ ital City League, are to meet
next Sunday on Shipyard field
at Alexandria in the first crucial con-
test in their division.
Unless a tie results one Of this pair
will give way TO the other and st, Joes,
who are also undefeated in four starts,
This fray will feature another full
program in the four divisions of the
league Insects will play their first
games.
SECTION A. UNLMITEDs.
Evening star., 1928-06-05

GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Pittsburgh at Bklyn. Pittsburgh 1t Boston.
Chicag0 AT New York. CHICAGO at Phiia.
Cincinnati At Boston. Cincinnati at Bklyn.
St Louix at Phila st. l.. at New York.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Phila delnhia, 6; ChicaKo, 3.
tAll other games rain.l
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
Cough Lost In Junglcs.

The picturesque Indian potentate. Aga
Khan. has entered Ranjit Singh. which,
with Capt. G.. p. Coughs gray colt.
Royal Minstrel, Is receiving moderate
backing Some excitement has been
aroused by Coughs absence in the jun
giles of Africa He has been unheard
from for several weeks and some thrill
makers were specializing on whether he
Evening star., 1928-06-05

GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
WASHINGTON at ST. L. Wash'ton at Chicago.
Phila. at Chicago. Phila. at 81. Louis.
New Yerk at Detroit. n. York at Cleveland.
Boston at Cleveland. Boston at Detroit.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
WESTERN LEAGUE.

Tulsa, 6 O. Oklahoma City. -.
Denver, 2 4 Pueblo, 4 3.
Other games postponed, rain.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Boston, ); Cincinnati, Z.
tAn other games rain.l
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Evening star., 1928-06-05

Manager Deuterman Of the A. B. &
w. Busmen wishes to hear from Russell
Hardy. Russ call Clarendon 807-F-5
after o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
AMERrcAN AssocIATToN.
EASTERN cARoLIEA LEAGUE.

Rory Ro8ats wilmington. q
fseleabeFs f5TeeHYllls. !
kHstpE. i1T Fayetteville, SO fgecond
e. 7ses iaEi1Es ~ sRseemeBt1,
Evening star., 1928-06-05

Right and left-hand hurlers are
needed by Edmonds Art Stone Co. nine.
Manager Boehman can be reached at
Atlantic 1867.
Evening star., 1928-06-05

Manager Brown has ordered all Simp-
son Dairymen to report for practice to-
morrow and Friday at o'clock on No.
8 diamond. at FairlaNn.
Evening star., 1928-06-05

OF four sandlot mines
l. are slated to attend i'm
portant meetings prior to
IL games
Evening star., 1928-06-05

THYME BCttlers have several open
dates for unlimited teams. Call West
qoo
Evening star., 1928-06-05

Harry Grove has carded his Allied
Roofers for a clash with Galesville, Md,
on the latter teams diamond on Sun
day
Evening star., 1928-06-05
MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
sourHERE AssocrATToN.

Asontfeal. II Buaalo. :.
Others rsID.
Evening star., 1928-06-05
SECTION b. UNLIMITEDs.

Team standln
Evening star., 1928-06-05

HOrnsby Midgets hurl a challenge to
all teams in their class. Call Lincoln
1923 for games.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-12-28

Recently real estate salesman
tried to sell % hons, 10 Il uewly
married couple. says Commerce
ard Finance journal Of New York.
Said the wife, Why buy q home 2
! was horn ID a hospital card.
AIRED m boarding school. cdu-
Gated m q college, courted in az
automobile and married in a
church gcl my meals at cafeier
live in 9n apartment spend mi,
morning playing golf my after
poons playing bridge in the eve
ngs we dance or 90 TO DE- NOV
ilsiwhen I'm sick ! go 20 the ho-
pitai ard when I die shall be
hwied by an undertake. All we
naad isa eans, with d bedroom
nswer that. somebody.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-12-28
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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-12-28
"a SIT OF LEAVENo
Advice to the Kew year


wake to spend Your fretng things dead wrong
Rqpe al Tue way Good Fortune seems 10 miss right along
Thinking OF your wasted efforts and your deep
That Simple Simon syseml Better go right back sleep
so forget the and bruises of the yesterdays you knew
bad enough 10 be encountered Worse hug them your
Turn your mouth at the corners Give better sartt
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-12-28

eonvalesceut in a week but no.
mains debilitafed A sjclyly man
or an old man il will often mil
down TO the crave The ;nfIuenza
of 1887 was practically more Fatal
than the cholera. but then tbe nm
.hers attacked were ineomnarably
greater. Influenza win seize at
once half of the popplation in .
town There * NO installing tbe
existence of the mysterious infm-
ence which causes this disease. In
the year 1888 it visited MS. On the
Bird of April III that year, the day
Of its arrival, a ship. the "Stag. y
was coming up the Channel. and
at two o'clock arrived off Berry
Head, an on board well. There
WIS an easternly breeze blowing
off the land, and in half an hour
~ TWO o e'9eS on the succeeding
aay mere were one hundred and
Ky men iald up. On the sane
af', 81 Aprll me disease appeared
~ LONDON, ana on me evening OF
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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-12-28

New Jersey bees are said to be
earning y per cent net for the
owners. a man with hives is
lucky
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-12-28

If prices keep ON hiking upward.
it won't be long until beefsteak
viii be rare no matter how
long it is cooked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-06
COOLIDGE VACATION, SPOT
RICH IN INDIAN FOLKLORE
Chippewa Legend Relates Struggle of Wind
God to Appease Water Deity and Preserve
Fishing Where President Now Casts.

which the President is now fishing and
st, Croix Lake that Armik gave up his
plan for that route and started down
the shore of Lake Superior. Great were
the fears of Winneboujou that the
Spirit of Water was leaving forever.
and he strobe along the shore, ms
heels throwing up great hills OF loan
as he beSeeched Ahmik to return.
The Chippewas point to the present
hills along the south shore of the
Father of the Great LakeS, just north
Of Cedar Island Lodge, as those made
by Winneboujou
Stayed i'm North.
To the despair of the ruler OF the
Brule. Ahmik. who had been keeping
to the shore in his flight, turned toward
the middle of the lake. and Winnie
boujou. TO stop him. Scooped up hand
full OF earth and flung 1t at the Beaver.
The water flowed in where the wind
had dug up the earth and formed
Chequamegon Bay. and the earth. fall
ing around Ahmik, formed the Apostle
Islands
The Spirit of Water was struck and
injured and failed in his fight, so he
returned 10 the hunts of the Chip
peWaS
Saved were the fishing grounds where
the Great White Father in days to
come, was to catch two trout on one
cast, TO the joy of the spirits OF press
and screen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-06
TWO BOYS INJURED;
AUTO DRIVER IS HELD
One Lads Ankle Fractured and
Both Are in Hospital-0ther
Traffic Accidents Reported.

Charged by police with having struck
and injured two boys with his automo-
bile yesterday. one of them seriously,
Walter Cunningham, colored. % years
old. 1882 Fourth street, was arrested by
ninth precinct police and is today held
under. a technical charge OF investiga-
ton TO await the outcome OF the IN
juries to the second victim.
Cunningham. police say, yesterday
morning struck Elmer Powell, IA years
old. 1876 Tenth street northeast, knock
ing him from his bicycle. The boy was
taken to Emergency Hospital ana treat
ed for fractured ankle.
The second accident occurred IN the
afternoon, when his automobile Is saio
10 have struck Chris AbeZantokos, 9
wears old. $40 Third street northeast. at
FIRST and e streets northeast. The child
was taken to Casualty Hospital. where
he Is said to be suffering severe bruises
to the body and a possible fracture OF
the skull.
RI. Stevens. 1925 Massachusetts, ave
nue. was treated at Emergency Hospital
for severe decorations to the head, pos
sibly a skull fracture, and shock aiter
he was knocked down at Fourteenth ana
streets by an automobile operated by
Fritz A. Mueller. 45 years old, 1917 East
Capitol street.
willis E. Young, 802 K street. suffered
a sprained ankle when he was knocked
down at Thirteenth and II streets north
east by an automobile driven by Editn
Berger, "a years old, 1925 Sixteenth
street. He was treated by a nearby
physician.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-06
lMEkRS At BERLIN
y IN TOUR OF WORLD
Next Stop Is Moscow in At
tempt to Break Globe j.
= CircIing Record.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. July 6.--John H. Mears and
Charles g. d. Collyer. who are trying
to establish new record for fast travel
around the world, arrived at Templehpf
Airdrome at sos am. today by plane
from Cologne.
The Americans arrived one and one
half hours later\than they were Sched-
uled. having stanted from Cologne at
4.O8 am. This WAS due to forced
landing on an open field at Landsberg
on the Wharf.-The River, 30 miles east OF
Berlin.
I'VE had a beautiful flight out of
Cologne until we reached a chain OF
lakes south of Berlin," Mears said.
There the weather was very misty ana
we lost our way. We were carried east,
Finally we decided TO land and get our
bearings. We came d wn on an ordinary
field at 8:15.
THE farmers did not grasp what we
wanted as we could not speak tnelF
language but soon man on bicycle
came by who told us We were at Lands
berg. After that 1t was easy to resume
,our way to Berlin"
Collyers first question was regarding
the weather conditions on the route 10
Moscow. their next stop. When he was
informed that with today'S strong fol-
flowing wind he might make Moscow by
night II he flew direct he gave orders
for an immediate refueling of the plane.
Collyer and Mears decided they would
attempt to reach Moscow today II pass
port and other formalities could be ar
ranged quickly. They then left the field
for the Russian embassy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-06
EDUCATORS CLOSE
.66TH CONVENTION
Annual Session Ends Today
With Choice OF Next
Meeting Place.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 6.-Installation
OF officers and a final meeting of the
board of directors today was the final
business Of the sixty-sixth annual con-
vention OF the National Education As
ISOLATION, in session here since Monday.
A spirited contest over selection OF
the 1929 convention city awaited di-
rectors at their meeting. Atlantic City.
N. j., and Atlanta, Ga, have made de-
termined efforts to have their invita-
tons accepted DR.. Uei w. Lamkin,
president of Northwest State Teachers
College at Maryville, Mo-. was intro
duced as president. and Miss Cornelia
S. Adair of Richmond. Va, retiring
president, became first vice president.
II. L. Smith of Indiana University.
Bloomington, Ind. was returned to the
Office of treasurer, while III vice presi-
dents were given Office as a result of
balloting yesterday.
The vice president are: George A. Al
len. jr., Topeka, Kans: Ira T. Chapman,
Elizabeth, N. j.; j. p Coates, Columbia,
S. c.; J. J. Early. Sheridan. Wyo.; C.
r. Foster. Indiana. Pa; Miss Anne @.
Fraser, Oakland, Calf: Miss Florence
M. Hale. Augusta, Me-: Miss Elizabeth
B. Mccormick. Superior, Wis; M. Fl.
Madden. Winslow, Ariz.: C. B. Turner,
Baton Rouge, La. and Miss Caroline s.
Woodruff CaStleton Vt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-06
BY 4. l.. DALRTMPLE.
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

SUPERIOR, Wis, July 6.-Rich in
Indian legend as well as fish and game
are the North Woods where President
Coolidge is spending his vacation.
Here it was that powerful Winnie
boujou. Spirit of Land. ruled supreme
and guarded the Brule River against
possible escape. to the Gulf, Of the
Spirit of Water, Ahmik.
Tee little station in the heart of the
foe<N. some six miles from Cedar Is
land Lodge, where Mrs. Coolidge alight-
ed from the presidential train bears
the name of the sinister Spirit OF Land,
Winneboujou.
Land Of Chippewas.
Winneboujou (the Wind and Ahmik
the Beaver We're supreme in the world
OF spirits, said the Chlppewas, whose
hunting and fishing grounds these were
before advent of the white man, Win
neboujou and Ahmik. however. failed
of amicable relations, and the Spirit OF
Water threatened to leave his strong
hold at Fond du Lac, on the st. Louis
River and fulfill the fears of the land
spirit by taking the waters of the Brule
to the Gulf of Mexico by way of the St.
Croix and the Mississippi
So jealouSly and zealously, however,
did Winneboujou watch the portage be-
tween the headwaters of the river on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-06
POLICEMAN MILLER
SENT TO TRIAL BOARD
1ntoxication Charge Against Officer
Who Arrested Street Car Motor
man Will Be probed.

A Police Trial Board investigation
of the conduct of Policeman Ray S.
Miller of the third precinct, who ar
rested Motorman Albert E. whitening
ton of the Washington Railway d. Elec-
trio Co. for alleged failure TO obey a
signal at Vermont avenue and II street
Monday afternoon, has been directed
by police officials.
Witherington was tried I'm Police
Court yesterday and fined SIS. It now
is alleged that the policeman was under
the influence OF liquor at the time he
Signaled the motorman and followed
him 70 Dupont Circle, where he was ar
rested.
1t is alleged by witnesses that the
policeman maltreated the motoTman
and threw him against woman pas
senger in the car. Names Of IL wit
nesses have been furnished TO give tes-
umony at the hearing. Miller denies
ne was under the influence OF liquor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-06
EX-P0LICEMAN HELD.
III. (. NEWMAN Charged With De-
livering Liquor.

Harry Ellsworth NEWMAN. 142 Carroll
street southeast, a former policeman,
charged with illegal transportation and
possession of liquor, was ordered held
under $500 bond by United States Com
missioner Needham G. Turnage this
morning for appearance In Police Court
later in the day.
Newham was arrested yesterday by
Policeman X. 0. Spiess of the sixth pre-
cinct who had received word that a
delivery OF liquor was about to be made
at ll3 II street. Spiess stationed him
self near that address, and in short
time. he said. NEWMAN drove up. parked
his car and went into the house carry
ing suitcase. The officer followed and
placed the former policeman under ar
rest. Ten quarts of alleged liquor were
found in the bag.
A woman is chief machinist In q