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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
LOVE EXPERIMENT
CLOSED BY SUICIDE
Man Takes Life as Mother Quits
Journey Husband Had
Permitted.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, March pa three-week
journey to Bermuda, Havana and other
Southern points with the wife of De-
troit art curator, taken with the con-
sent of the latter as IAN experiment"
preceded the suicide Of Thomas A. New
ton In Miami, Fla, last week. This
was revealed yesterday by Benjamin
March with the return Of his wife
His wife and Newton, he said, had
told him In February they wanted to
go away together. He agreed, he said,
with the understanding that If his wife
decided she cared more for him and
their 18-month-old child than she did
for Newton she would return to him.
From Miami she wired him, he said,
that she wanted to return. Yesterday
they were reunited, returned to their
home here for few hours, and then
disappeared.
Meanwhile Newton's widow Is await
ing the return of his body to their home
in Birmingham, Detroit suburb.
Newton, the son Of wealthy De-
troit packer, was major in the in
Spector generals department of the
Michigan National Guard. March, cur
ator OF Asiatic art at the Detroit Insti-
tute of Arts, is graduate Of the Uni
versity of Chicago. Shortly after his
graduation he went to the Orient and
studied oriental art and language. Mrs.
March was born in China, the daughter
of a missionary. For time she taught
in a girls college at Peiping and 1t was
while there that she met March. They
were married four years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
POLICY OF MODERATION
SEEN IN SOVIET DECREE
Correction of Practice Of Olsen
franchising Certain Categories
Brings Satisfaction.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, March 24.-Much salts
faction was expressed in all quarters
yesterday over the decree issued by the
central executive committee of the
Soviet Union Saturday night ordering
immediate correction Of the practice OF
disenfranchising certain categortes OF
citiznes, evicting them from their homes
and even exiting them.
The decree was interpreted by many
as meaning that RuSsia'S Communist
rulers have definitely embarked upon a
policy of moderation toward those who
heretofore were regarded irreconctlable
class enemies. The committees decree
not only threatens with severe punish
ment any official found guilty OF such
practice in the future, but orders imme-
date rectiflcation in all cases where
citizens were unjuStly treated.
Coming on the heels OF the govern
ment's recent modification of its pro-
grams for agricultural collectivization
religion, private trade, the order was
expected to improve the condition OF
thousands against whom the edicts had
been rigidIy enforced. The decree also
provided that children Of disenfranchised
parents must be given the franchise II
they became of age after 1925 and are
employed in socially useful work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
HEROIC ENGINEER
|. SAVES MANY LIVES
Stays in Cab to Set Air
Brakes as Engine Carries
Him to Sure Death.
BY the Associated Press.

MANSFIELD, Ohio. March "a
Charles A. Bell of Mansfield. engineer on
the fast New York-Detroit limited No.
los of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
averted bad pile up at the close of
his life when his engine left the rails
near Spring Mill Junction, six miles
west of here, early yesterday.
With only a few seconds to choose
between leaping for his life and fac
ing sure death in his cab, Bell re-
manned at his post to set the air brakes
when he felt the heavy engine hit the
ties and careen toward a ditch at the
side of the right of way.
The setting of the brakes stopped
nine Pullmans which made up the train
and about 80 sleeping passengers were
saved from possible death or injury.
The engine, with Bell imprisoned in
the cab, burrowed a hole eight feet deep
IN the soft earth. Two baggage cars
and an express car directly behind the
locomotive were turned over on their
sides, but the Pullmans remained up
right.
Fireman p. F.. Jensen of Mansfield
was thrown out of the cab and was
badly scalded.
The accident was believed to have
been caused by wobbly wheel on one
OF the baggage cars The wheel ap-
parently missed a switch at a junction
and started along another track, caus-
ing the engine to swerve from the
rails,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, March
24-The daily diary of a London
Conference delegate; Up early, so
would have more time to confer,
O.K.'d breakfast check with u. S.
Treasury seal. Premier Macdonald
dropped into hotel to see If we were
still over here. Down to Chairing
Cross station to see new French
premier arrive. Over to see Japa-
nese, discussed immigration. Usual
trip to House of Commons to see it
Macdonald voted out of ONCE. Re-
ceived code instruction messages
from home. One from Hoover and
three from Hearst. Down to station
to see same French premier of, as
he had been replaced. Conference
with press at three-thirty, conference
over at three thirty-one. Dinner
with Italian delegation where movies
of Mussolini were shown. Home to
eleven O'Clock conference with our
own delegation, where was discussed
ways and means of procuring board
by the year instead of the month.
Cabled home office. Conference as
a whole reports progress"
(Copyright. 1901
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
EIGHT KILLED IN SEDAN.
Four Girls and Four Youths Victims Of
| Auhurv NJ W Annsdauk

Four Girls and Four Youths Victims Of
Auburn, N. Y, Accident.
AUBURN, N. Y, March "a R.-The
bodies of eight victims of q grade
crossing crash, four girls and four
youths, were in mortuarieS here today,
while authorities Strove to TX the identi-
ties of the young women.
The party rode in light sedan into
the path Of gasoline coach on the Au-
burn branch of the New York Central
Railroad at Shoemaker Crossing, near
here, last night, and their bodies were
scattered for 800 feet along the tracks
Identification of the young women was
difficult.
The four youths were Earl ]. Besaw
Frank StrauS, Edward Cheldren and
Darius Auletta, all of Syracuse.
The coach, travelling downgrade al
high speed, caught the sedan broadside
hurled it against a house so feet away
Twenty-Five or thirty passengers in the
coach were shaken, but none was hurt
Railroad officials said that although a
red danger signal was flashing at the
time the sedan sped full into the path
Of the heavy coach. The front end OF
the railroad car was badly damaged
the control machinery being damned Sc
the coach Travelled nearly three-Quarters
Of mile before it stopped.
The crossing has been ordered elimi-
mated because of a number Of previous
fatal accidents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
WHALEN BLAMES AIDE
IN ROTHSTEIN PROBE
Charges Failure to Function Prop.
erly in Inquiry Into Gamblers
Death to Coughlin.

NEW YORK, March 24.-Police Com
missioner Whalen yesterday blamed
John d. Coughlin, former inspector in
charge of the detective division, for
failure OF the department to function
properly" in the investigation into the
Staying Of Arnold Rothstein, Broadway
gambler, in November, 1928.
In lengthy report of his investiga-
ton of the police handling of the case,
Whalen wrote that he had found indi-
cations Of "a breakdown in the efficient
operation of the detective bureau. due
to the lack Of intelligent and capable
direction on the part of the command
ing officer of the detective division"
Coughlin has retired since the Roth
stein case, as has Inspector Arthur
Carey, commander of the homicide
bureau, who was held responsible in
Whalen's report for failure to obtain
fingerprints of Rothstein before he was
buried.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
a DIE IN THREE
CRASHES; G HURT
Autos Collide in Georgia.
Trains Hit Cars at Two
Crossings.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LYONS, Ga, March 24.-Two women
were killed and six other persons in
jured, two seriously, in an automobile
collision IL miles south of here this
morning.
The dead women are Mrs. G. E.
Wright and Mrs. G. H. Adams, New
York.
The injured are G. E. Wright and
M. j. Higgins, New York; A. L. Reynolds,
Springfield, Mass, and B. Levy Collins,
Meter, Ca; Charlie Cain and d. H.
Collins, Oak Park, Ga, variously cut
and bruised.
The automobiles crashed as B. Levy
Collins, driving one of the cars, swung
into the center of the road to pass q
parked truck that obscured his view of
the Wright car, which was en- route to
New York from Florida.
Witnesses said both drivers applied
the brakes, but that the machines were
so close together the collision could
not be averated. The two women were
dead when removed from the wreckage.
Passing automobiles brought the dead
and injured here.
EIGHT KILLED IN SEDAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
Canning Goods Prospect Bright.

BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, March a.
The 1880 outlook for practically all can
ming crops produced in Maryland has
every prospect of being the best in sew
eral years, according to the annual
Agricultural outlook for the State, Just
released by the Extension Service of the
University of Maryland. Indications
are, the outlook states, that 1929 canned
goods will be entirely consumed before
the new pack comes on the market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
D. R.TH0MPSON, DIRECTOR
OF INLAND STEEL, DIES
Divorced Wife, Mrs. Beaufort, and
Her Husband Are at Bed
side in Florida.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March "a
Dave P. Thompson of Chicago, director
OF the Inland Steel Co., died here early
today.
At the bedside were his son, Alexis,
and Maj. and Mrs. Victor Beaufort of
Chicago and London. Mrs. Beaufort is
the divorced wife of Mr.. Thomson.
She arrived In Miami Beach with her
husband Saturday.
Mr.. Thompson was stricken with
pneumonia in q hotel q week ago.
Oxygen was administered at intervals
and more was on the way to Miami for
him today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
Awarded $1,1oo Damages.

MARTINSBURG, w. Va. March "a
Especially A Jury in Circuit Court here
awarded q. w. Fuss $1,1OO against the
County Court for damages to his prop
ertY caused by construction of a new
bridge over Back Greek, on the State
highway, seven miles west Of here. The
property was used as lawn for private
and public purposes.
The bridge lies Immediately north of
the old bridge and was recently opened
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
Bride of Two Days a Suicide.

, EIDORADO, Ark, March "a DR.
Mrs. Leslie Devore Blunt, II. a bride Of
only two days, shot and fatally wounded
herself at her home near here yester-
day.
A verdict of suicide was returned by
Coroner T. E. Barton. No reason was
assigned. The young brides husband,
said he thought their brief marital life
had been happy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
AWARDED CITATIONS

Five Pennsylvania National
Guardsmen Given Awards.
Five soldiers of the Tooth Infantry,
2sth Division, A. E. F., composed of
National Guard troops of Pennsylvania,
have been awarded citations by the
War Department for individual gal
lantry In action near Fismette, France,
in August, 1918. Their names are Will
liam Z. thinner and Francis p. McCor-
mick of Philadelphia, Carlton e. Kisner
of Danville, John M. Stitz;nger Of New
Evansville and John Lotto Of Allegheny.
The award is poSthumous in the case Of
Pvt. Lotto, who was killed In another
battle two months later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
LEGAL Attachment
LEVIED ON MOUNTAIN
Sheriff Executes Writ Near Win.
chester to Protect Mary
land Bank.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, March a.
Virtually a whole mountain in the
western section of Frederick County
has been seized and attached by Sheriff
Pannett in the name of the Common
wealth of Virginia to protect a Mary
land bank, 1t was learned to day.
The sheriff returned from Great North
Mountain, where he performed the legal
ceremony Of levying upon six tracts Of
land, aggregating 1918 acres, owned by
the Maryland Mining & Fruit Co., Inc,
defendants in an action brought by the
Citizens Bank, Keedysville, Md, which
has a claim of approximately $500
against the corporation. It was said to
be one of the very few instances in this
county in which real estate has been
attached by the sheriff, legal attach
ments being almost invariably against
personal property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
Pilot Is Killed in Crash.

WHITEVILLE, N. c., March "a (E9.
M. c.. Thomasson, jr., 20, of White
Vile, was killed, and his father, 81,
seriously injured as their airplane fell
near here yesterday.
Apparently no one saw the plane fall.
Nearby residents heard it crash in a
field and extricated the men from the
wreckage. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
$4,000 Gems in Apartment Haul.

NEW YORK, March "a (R.-Jewelry
valued at $4,000 as well as furs, silver
and clothing, were stolen yesterday from
the West Eighty-firSt street apartment
OF Leo j. Fischer, president of Thomp-
son-Starrett Co., contractors.
The thieves forced a service door with
Jimmy" while the family and do
mesticS were out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
FOUR KILLED IN NEW JERSEY.

TRENTON, N. j., March - Dr.
Four persons we're killed yesterday as a
Pennsylvania Railroad express train hit
their automobile at the Scudders Falls
crossing, six miles from here. They
were Ernest Houldsworth, Thomas
Davis, Mrs. Joseph Davis and Mrs. Clara
McMullen, all of Philadelphia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
PASTOR, 80, breaches
SERMON IN OLD PULPIT
Special Dispatch to The. Star.

Special Dispatch to The. Star.
BALTIMORE, March 24:-Rev
Charles w. Baldwin, who is 80 years
old, preached yesterday at Severn Cross
Roads Methodist Episcopal Church,
where he delivered his first sermon GA
years ago.
Mr.. Baldwin was born near the
church, which is at Millersville, in Anne
Arundel County.
He was once pastor of 1t and also
filled many other pulpits in Maryland
and the District of Columbia. Fourteen
years ago he retired from active service
but he still conducts services and
breaches occasionally,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
TRUCK DRIVER HELD
Grand Jury to Investigate Death
Of Warren Stearns, Aged 10.

of Warren Stearns, Aged 10.
Benjamin Williamson, 81 years old,
colored, of 223 Massachusetts avenue
was ordered held for the grand jury at
an inquest conducted at the District
Morgue today into the death of Warren
M. Stearns, 10 years old, Of 6232 Georgia
avenue.
The Stearns youngster was fatally in
Jured Saturday morning when run over
at Georgia avenue and RittenhouSe
street by truck driven by Williamson.
he dled at Walter Reed Hospital an
nour after being struck. DR.. James r..
Huonall, who pronounced the boy dead,
said that death had been caused by
internal injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
George. Wilson, Ex-Minstrel, Dies.

BINGHAMTON, N. Y, March "a
R-George Wilson, widely known
throughout the country in the heydey
of the minstrel show, died here last
night. He was So years old. He was
member of the troupe of Barlow, VIII
son, Primrose a. West. He retired six
years a90s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
Lightning Hits Spanish Church.

woo, spain. March "a (P).-Several
persons were cut and bruised yesterday
In a panic after lightning struck the
Roman Catholic Church in the village
of SaIceda, near here. The church was
crowded with attendants at early mass.
None was. seriously injured,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
TO DISCUSS ROADS
Citizens of Three Virginia Countie:
Will Gather in Mass Meeting.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON, Va, March 24.-Citizens
of Augusta, Rockbridge and Nelson
Counties will assemble in mass meeting
at Spottswood Thursday, April 8, to
discuss road matters, in which they are
vitality interested. Prominent among
the speakers will be State Senator
w. H. East, who is a member of the
State Highways Commission. Super
visors of the three counties will also
be present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
Black ON Way to Shanghai.

HONGKONG, March "a R.-vah
Lear Black, Baltimore publisher, who is
making flight from England to Toxic,
left here at TBS am. yesterday for
Shanghai.
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have been left off without in any way
reducing the usefulness of the build
ing, except as to the inspirational
value Of the additional beauty. The
doo-dads on this school include a course
OF modillions near the cornice line. two
stone belt courses running around the
building and a thin trimming of stone
marking the main entrances.
The unofficial AM of course, incom-
plete census of local buildings having
doo-dads brought forth the following
data:
That the historic District Court
House, often publicly described as one
OF the most beautiful District Govern
menG structures, has doo-dads in the
form of large portico with heavy
tiuted columns and pediment more
columns marking other entrances,
arched windows and % chimneys.
That the nationally known WASH
lngtcn Cathedral, which carries out the
famous Gothic cathedral motif. has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-12
BOOK SOUVENIR
!. OF MODEL HOMES
Visitors at Five Star Exhibi.
ton Dwellings to Receive
Publication.
Continued From First Page.)

bers and a touch of stucco work, three
windows in group in the second story
and two dormers set out from the
slate roof and special treatment to the
rear of the house which overlookS
Foundry Branch Valley. The lawns at
the front and rear now are being
dressed up.
The third house in the series. being
erected by Baer & Scholz at 2004 M
street northeast, IN the Shelbourne sec
ton. also is IN an advanced stage, with
construction work on the interior of the
dwelling nearing completion. This is
the smallest and least expensive type
of dwelling in the model home program,
on which special attention was placed
to assure good architectural treatment
while keeping the cost down. Simple
lines rather than gaudy ornamentation
proved the answer.
A house OF distinctive outlines and
treatment will be the fourth of the
series, an English countryside dwelling
being erected on a large triangular
site at the corner of Fernway and
Locust roads, in the Northgate section
east OF Sixteenth street and north of
Kalmia road, by the North Washington
Realty Co. The house will have a brick
exterior, painted white, which will give
charming contrast against the stained
hand-hewn timbers of the entrance, the
wide clapboarding in the gable ends,
slate roofing and the green of the
lawns and trees.
Construction is progressing satisfac-
torily on the palatial and sturdy Eng
lish type stone and half timber house
being erected by w. c. & A. N. Miller
At the corner of Forty-fourth and Gar
field streets. Wesley Heights. The low
broken lines of the roof and the heavy
stone work in the first story and part
of the second story will accentuate the
character of permanence in this house,
which Is the largest and most costly
of the five model homes. The masonry
work now is in an advanced stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-12
ARCHITECT CITES
STATE BUILDING
AS DOO.DAD TYPE
Continued From First Page.)

simple one. There are. SO to speak,
good doo-das and bad doo-dads.
1--WE have here in Washington so
many varied types of buildings and
their treatments that examples of the
legitimate use as well as pernicious
abuse of decoration are to be seen on
every side.
Let lis examine, for example, The
Scottish Rite Temple, on Sixteenth
street, an acknowledged masterpiece of
civic architecture.
THE colonnade is of no practical use
The sphinxs are costly and unnecessary.
The steps at the entrance are SO times
wider than are needed to accommodate
the greatest number who ever use them
The stone pyramid Is vastly more ex-
penSive and somewhat less efficient than
would have been a fiat roof severed
with asphalt and Stag. And yet the
whole impreSSiveneSS of the building, its
majesty, and mystery and grandeur de-
pend on these and other inessential
trimmings-in other words, doo-dads.
In a word, the doo-dad, like every.
thing else in the world at all worth
while, Is something that must be useu
intelligently, temporarily and with dis
erection.
1T may even be conceded that moth
ing should ever be put on a building
that has not a practical use, provided
We are civilized enough to realize that a
thing is serving practical use when it
makes building more beautiful"
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costly flying buttresses" capped with
numerous pinnacles of carved stone,
fnachicolation of stonework running be-
tween the, roof and the parapet, and
carved stonework in other inspiringly
beautiful "doo-dads."
That the Labor Department Building,
otherwise of rather transformations de-
sign, has an utterly huge cornice that
projects far out from the exterior walls,
development that serves no necessary
unitarian purpose, and which was not
even carried around all sides of the
building.
That the main facade Of the brand
new Almas Temple, on K street between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, is
almost covered with intricate oriental
pattern work which gives it a distin-
guished appearance and quickly identi-
fies the purpose of the building.
That the now doomed old Post ONCE
Department Building has tremendous
inclosed interior court that costs neat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-12

sum to heat, though this great space
cannot be usefully employed.
Hundreds of other buildings all pos
sessing doo-dads, useful or merely deco
ratiye, costly or inexpensive, simple or
elaborate, inspired or ugly, good or bad
could be added to the list with little
thought.
Members of the American Institute
of Architects here and elsewhere have
been fighting for years to eliminate
silly, useless, poorly conceived or faulty
executed ornamentation and for the
employment of proper, pleasing, mean
ingful and reasonable decoration in
buildings.
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the county commissioners for struc-
lures to cost $29,733. )
The only commercial project on this
list Is a laundry to be built in Mount
Rainier by Robert e. Eunkhouser at
an estimated cost of $4,000.
Other permits issued include the fol-
lowing:
Everett L. Owens, owner; H. L. King
builder; $l,4o0 dwelling; Bradbury
Heights.
Everett L. Owens, owner; G. K
Hardy, builder; $1,000 dwelling; Brad.
bury Heights. N I5
L. A. Marbury, owner; John Decatur
builder; $1,000 residence; Bradbury
Heights.