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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
ONE MAN INJURED
IN BUS-CAR CRASH
Auto and A., B. &c w. Vehicle Col
Tide in Virginia Highlands-Vic-
tim Unconscious in Hospital.
By stan correspondent of The star

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star
VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS. Va. July
2l.-As q result of collision between a
bus of the A. B. 81 w. Rapid Transit
Co. and a privately owned automobile at
Addison and Hume avenues yesterday,
Emmett r. Foster of North Philadel-
phia, Ohio, is in a critical condition to-
day in Emergency Hospital. Washington.
Foster and his wife and daughter
have been visiting at the home of e. W.
Beckwith here, and yesterday afternoon
Beckwith and Foster started on sight
seeing tour. AS they turned into Addt-
son avenue from Hume avenue their au-
tomobile was struck by bus operated
by James o. Thomas. 1903 King street,
Alexandria The force of the collision
threw open the door next to Foster and
he was thrown to the street in front OF
the bus.
The injured man was placed In an
automobile operated by j. S. Ford of
Virginia Highlands and rushed to the
hospital. An examination revealed that
he is suffering from two fractured ribs,
a broken collarbone and possible skull
fracture. He had not regained con-
seriousness this morning.
4, The accident was investigated by
county police. who ordered Thomas TO
appear in Police Court today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
FRENCH SALARY RAISES
PROMISED JUDICIARY
General Scale Compares Unfavor-
ably With That of Officials in
other Countries.

Special Dispatch to The Sta-
PARIS.-Salaries of officials OF the
French Republic never have been mu-
nificent. AS a general rule they COM
pare unfavorably with those paid In
other countries Small emolumentS In
particular have been the lot of the
judiciary. A general scale of increases
is to come into operation on October /.
Certainly the financial situation OF
judges will be improved, but they will
not be rolling in wealth.
The first president of the Court OF
Cessation equivalent to Chief Justice
OF the Supreme Court will receive
$4,000 annually. At the other end OF
the scale judges in the provinces will
receive a minimum of $4,000 francs
(S880) and a maximum of $4,000
francs ($l400). The salaries of JUS
tees of the peace will range from
1900 francs t$680) to $4,000 francs
ts2 080).
The educational profession is not
better paid. From October l a pro-
fessor at the University of Paris will
have an annual salary ranging from
81 900 francs (S2,4S0) to 10000 francs
$4,000. At the other end of the
scale teachers in public schools will re-
seive from 1880 francs (s460) to
1900 francs (S760) year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
WASHINGTON MEN
HURT IN COLLISION
Dennis Bennett and D. c.
Thompson Suffer Possible
Skull Fractures.

Two Washingtonians were seriously
injured yesterday when an automobile
in which they were riding crashed into
a sightseeing bus near Floral Park,
Md, while five other occupants of the
car escaped with lesser hurts.
The driver of the car, Dennis Ben
nett. % years old, of 2035 Seventeenth
street, and Douglas C. Thompson, IA,
of $685. C street, both suffered pos
sible fractures of the skull and in
ternal injuries. They were treated at
Casualty Hospital.
The others hurt were Ernest w.
Griggs, ID years DID, Annie j. Burleigh,
Sc: Elsie Brooks, 10; Allie Adams, 40,
and Marvel Adams, all of Vienna. Va.
They were given first-aid treatment at
Casualty for cuts and bruises Of the
body.
Navy Students Escape Injury.
Thirty Navy students from the U S. S,
Nitro. who were making sightseeing
trip under the direction of Lieut.. j. p.
Boiling, were riding on the bus, one OF
the Washington Railway 81 Electric
Co.'S fleet. All escaped injury, includ-
ing the driver, Darrell Bancroft of l343
Park road
Mrs William Stein of 708 II street
northeast also was badly injured as the
result of Maryland accident, receiv-
ing a possible skull fracture and lacera-
lions of the scalp when car, operated
by her husband, was in collision with
another machine on the Washington
Baltimore Boulevard near Laurel.
Mrs Stein was brought to Casualty
Hospital and placed under the care of
staff physicians.
Fractures COllarbOne.
A fractured collarbone was suffered
by Mrs Margaret E. Crabbs, SO years
old, of 1929 First street, when a ma
chine in which she was riding collided
with Washington Railway 81 Electric
Co. street car at Fourth street and Mas
sachusetts avenue. She was given first
aid treatment by firef11en of No. 6 en-
CINE company and removed to the
Emergency Hospital.
Police reported that George r. James
of 1888 d street northeast was driver
of the machine in which Mrs. Crabbs
was riding The street car was oper-
ated by H. A. Scoggins of 1903 Kenil-
worth avenue northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
RUNAWAY COUPLE,
BAND 16,ARRESTED
Police Seize New York Flop
ers Who TeIegraphed Home
for Finances.

The romantic runaway of a youthful
Long Island couple ended abruptly in
the hands of the law this morning
when a telegram to their homes re-
questing funds led to their arrests by
Detective SergtS. Charles Mansfield and
Van Doran Hughes.
The pretty 16-year-old blonde in the
case. Charlotte Langdon Barker. daugh-
ter of the assistant postmaster at Free
port, N. Y, is being held as fugitive
from her parents, while an 18-year-old
companion, Dan Granger of Baldwin,
N. Y, is booked as a fugitive from
justice.
Granger, according to police alarm
flashed to this city, is wanted in Free
port on charges of criminal attack
abduction and the larceny of an auto
mobile in which the runaway was made.
The girl told police they left Free
port late Friday afternoon to come
here and get married. They arrived
in Washington early yesterday and de-
cided to wire home for more money
when the SIS on which they started the
trip became exhausted.
They spent both Saturday night and
last night sleeping in the car in which
they ran away, the girl told detectives.
Granger said he was planning to
marry the girl as soon as he obtained
employment.
Freeport authorities wired Washing
ton detectives Immediately after being
notified by the girls parents that they
had received request for money and
were directed TO send it in care of the
Western Union Telegraph's Office on
Fourteenth street near G street.
The two detectives waited this morn
ing until the couple reappeared at the
telegraph Office and made the arrest.
Granger is being held for New York
authorities at the fifth precinct, while
the girl Is being detained for her
parents at the Women's Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
POLL CONTINUES
TO HOLD BUILDING
WANTED BY i. S.
Balance Claimed Due Lessee
of Theater RemodeIed After
Knickerbocker Crash.
AGREEMENT TERMS
ARE REFERRED TO
Government Claims Property's
Surrender by July l Had
Been Specified.

Although Polls Theater management
was ordered to vacate the theater at
Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue on
July so that the building may be torn
down, the owner has not yet vacated,
but instead, it was learned today is
claiming that the Government still
owes a balance on money expended to
repair the theater.
The situation dates back to collapse
of the Kinockerbocker Theater. follow
ing which District authorities inspected
all theaters in the city and among
others condemned Polls unless 1t was
remodeled. The building belongs to the
Government, but that it would be torn
down eventually in the Government
building program the Treasury Depart
ment declined to stand the cost of re-
pairs necessary to make the theater
disable.
Agree on RemOdeling.
So Sylvester q. Poll, who had been
leasing the theater, decided to remodel
1t himself, and the agreement was made
with the Government.
The Government claims that this
contract was drawn to run from No
vember, 1922, to June, 1899. in order
theater so that he could be reimbursed
thereby for his own expenditures in re-
modelling the building with a clause
providing that the Government might
take the theater at any time it is need
ed before June, 1899.
The first estimates >on remodeling II
was understood, placed the cost at about
$780, 900, but the remodeling job cost
much more, somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $250,000.
Balance Claimed Due.
The theater management now claims
balance is due them from the Govern
ment. Negotiations are under way be-
tween attorneys for the Government
and the theater, but how the matter
will be settled was not clear today
The Government has opened bids for
tearing down the theater and expects
to let a contract very shortly for this
work
The theater seats are the property
of the Government and will be sent to
the District reformatory at Lorton, Va.
but most of the other theatrical prop
erty and Office furnishing belong to
Polls, and are still there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
CHARGES 100000
APARTMENT EQUITY
/. is TAKEN BY FRAUD
Margaret Calvin Sues Three
and Wardman Real Estate
Properties.
hEFINANCING INTENTION
| ALLEGED IN COMPLAINT
Plaintiff Claims Property Transfer
red to Defendants for Reconvey-
ance to H. C. Carpenter.

Declaring that she was deprived NJ
an equity OF 100000 in the property
known as the Highlands Apartments
on Connecticut avenue by the action
OF the defendants, Margaret Jean CAL
win, 1922 Seventeenth street. has filed
suit in the District Supreme Court for
an accounting and for reconveyance
OF the property against Harry Ward
man, James D. Hobbs, Thomas p.
Bones and the Wardman Real Estate
Properties, Inc.
Claims Reconveyance Intended.
The plaintiff says she caused the
title to the property to be transferred
TO the defendants July II, 1927, for pur.
poses of refinancing and reconveyance
10 one H. c. Carpenter and it was not
until last Fall that she learned that
the property, estimated to be worth
100000 had been included among
tne securities in blanket trust for
SD, 900 900 made by the Wardman Real
Estate Properties September 1, 1923.
through Attorney E. S. Duvall, the
court is informed that Wardman.
Hobbs and Bones were obligated to re-
finance the property and to have a
SeCoHu ueeu OF trust Tor S438, $50 placed
on the property as the proportionate
share of a blanket trust of $753,266.6 ST
on the Highlands and adjoining proper
ties. With this understanding. the
plaintiff says she conveyed the property
to the defendants and directed that
after the refinancing it should be trans
ferred to H. c. Carpenter, whom she
named to be her representative to hold
title, which heretofore had been in the
name of her brother, Perry S. Calvin
The deed from her brother was made
July II, 1927, and in disregard of her
rights, the plaintiff declares, convey
ance of the property was made to the
Wardman Real Estate Properties, In
corporated, August Is, 1928, and later
included among the securities for the
$15,000,000 loan.
Charges Trust Inclusion Fraudulent
The claim is made that the property
was fraudulently included in the trust
securing the large loan, without con-
sent of the plaintiff and in disregard of
her rights and in violation of the
trust and confidence reposed in the
defendants Wardman, Hobbs and
Bones" Since discovering the alleged
fraudulent transaction, the plaintiff
says, she has made demand of the de-
PENDANTS for reconveyance of the prop
erty without result. She will suffer
irresparable loss, she asserts, without
the aid of the court. She also wants
an accounting for the rents and profits
since the 1927 conveyance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
JOCKEY is REARRESTED
AS HE LEAVES L0RT0N
Arthur Weismuller Completes 81
Month Sentence, but Faces
Charge in New Orleans.

Life is just one trial after another for
Arthur Weismuller, 21-year-old APP
prentice jockey, who claims New York
City as his home town. Weismuller as
pires to become full-fledged race VIM
ner, but his ambition suffered a 81
month setback, beginning in 1928,
when he was sentenced to confinement
in the Lorton Reformatory for that pc
Rod on a charge of violating the ma
tional motor vehicle theft laws.
Today the sun rose anew for Weis-
muller and the lure of the track and
the desire once more to feel the thrill
of running horse flesh beneath him
again surged through his blood as the
gates. of the ref9rmatory opened and set
him free.
However, Detective Sergts. Charles
Mansfield and Van Doren Hughes met
the train bearing him northward at the
Seventh street railway station and
again took him into custody, this time
for authorities at New Orleans, where
he is said to be wanted for larceny of
an automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
MAN IS ARRESTED
FOR TAXI HOLD-UP
Police Seek to Connect SuS-
pect With Series of
RobberieS.

Declared identified as the bandit who
held up a taXicab driver at the point
of a pistol and robbed him of SIS early
this morning, George Matthews, col
ored, 80 years old of 1905 Fifth street,
is being held for investigation while
headquarters detectives attempt to link
him with the recent series of cab rob-
berries in this city.
Matthews was arrested at Fifth street
and Florida avenue by Detective Sergts.
Benjamin Kuehling and Leo Murray
shortly after William r. Ackerson of
1900 F street northeast, a driver for
the Stop-Me Cab Co, turned over APP
proXimately SIS in change to a colored
gunman in an alley at the rear of
2100 block of D street.
Alderman told police the man hailed
his cab at Seventh and T streets about
$3.50 o'clock this morning and instructed
him to drive to Twenty-third and E
streets Reaching the 2100 block of
d street, the man drew a revolver and
ordered the cab driver into the alley
and commanded him to empty your
pockets"
The bandit was handed the change
and he then told Ackerson to drive
him back to Seventh and T streets.
where he left the cab and hurried
away. Matthews was caught soon after.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
TWO FILLING STATIONS
vlCTIMIZED BY THIEVES
Armed Bandit and Sneak TAX e
$S3.1S in Receipts During
Last Night.

Two filling stations in separate
parts of the city were looted of $83 ID
last night, one by an armed bandit and
the other by a sneak thief. Charles H.
Guyther, manager of a station at
Eleventh street and Potomac avenue
southeast, handed over $55.18 of the
days receipts when a lone robber APP
peared and covered him with a revolver.
The man escaped on foot down the
street after stuffing the money in his
pockets.
Dwight L. Byrd, operator of the fill
ing station at Florida avenue and
Staples street northeast, reported to
police that some one stole $28 from the
cash register last night and escaped
with the money without being seen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
EARL COMPLAINS
OF HIGH TAXATION
Scottish Landowner Says He Is
Now Too Poor to Buy Farm
in Canada.
special Dispatch to rhe star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINNIPEG, Canada, July 21-Tax-
alton in Great Britain during the past
few years has practically crippled all
the former wealthy landowners, declared
the Earl of Stair, head of one of the
oldest Scottish families, while in Win
nipeg on July 3. II am too poor now
to ever think of becoming a Canadian
farmer"
Accompanied by the countess, the
earl is visiting friends in British Co
lumbia during a months stay In the
Dominion. His chief reason for the
visit Is to attend the Seventy-flfth an
niverSary celebrations of the foundation
of the first Masonic lodge in Canada,
to be held in Toronto on July 16. He
was grand master of the Scottish Con-
stitution in 19241925.
His lordship is keenly interested in
agriculture, and especially in the ex-
port of Ayrshire cattle to Canada. A
large number of Ayrshires have been
sent to British Columbia farms.
Agriculture. said the Earl. was at
present in a depressed state in the
Old Country, the only paying PROPOSE
ton at the moment being sheep. He
himself owned farms in Wietonshire
and Midlothian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
MRS. RUST DIES AT 81
Member of Ante-Bellum Family
Buried at Luray.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
LURAY, Va, July 2l.-One OF the
few survivors of the families in ante
bellum days, Mrs. Blanche Jordan Rust
died at her home, in Madison, Conn,
at the age of 81 years and her body
was brought here for interment in the
old Jordan vault.
Mrs. Rust was the daughter of Capt.
Frank Jordan of this place and the
former Miss Mary Wager, daughter of
Nicholas Wager. She was born at Cliff
Cottage, the site of the present home
of M. E. Roudabush. Cliff Cottage was
built for her parents by her grand
parents, She was married in 1868 to
Nimrod Rust of this place and lived
here until 20 years ago.
She is survived by the following
children: Mrs. Bradford Darrach and
Mrs. Blanche Rust Pendleton of New
York and Frank and Hubert Rust OF
jacksonville. Fla. Hubert Rust was the
only child unable to be present at the
funeral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
MAI. JOHN GOTWALS
ASSUMES DUTIES AS
D. c. COMMISSIONER
New City lead Pledges Him
self to Work for Beauti-
fication.
WORKED UNDER HOOVER
IN MISSISSIPPI FLOOD
Isaac Bryan to Be Personal Secre-
tary-J. w. Falk Goes to Utili-
ties Commission.

Mai John c. Gotwals, Corps of En-
gineers. United States Army, took Of
fee today as District Engineer Com
missioner. succeeding Col. William b.
Ladue, who has been assigned to Fort
Sam Houston, Tex. Maj Gotwals took
two oaths of Office, one as District Com
missioner and one as a member of the
Public Utilities Commission. BY virtue
of his assignment, he also will be chair
man of the District zoning Commission
and member of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
An informal reception to heads of de-
partments took place after he had been
sworn in as a District Commissioner
and one for newspaper men later. Mai.
GotwalS, pleasant, soft-spoken man,
told the members of the press that
about his only ideas on taking the new
job were that the great beauty of Wash
ington should be preserved and that he
would seek to add a little to it If pos
sible.
Not So Hot as st. Louis.
In spite of the heat, Maj Gotwals
said he felt cool after six years of
sweltering in st. Louis. It was much
hotter when he left there Sunday than
it is here today, he said. He has been
in st. Louis six years in charge of flood
control work on the Mississippi and
Missouri While there, he married Miss
Muriel Clemens, kinswoman of
Samuel Clemens, better known to mil
lions of his readers as Mark Twain.
The Gotwals have one daughter, Is
months old, Maj. Gotwals is staying
at Wardman Park Hotel Mrs Golwals
and the daughter remain temporarily
In st. Louis.
Mai. Gotwals, who entered the Army
from, civil life has bepn ASSIGNED to
stations all over the country from
Alaska to Texas.
Directed Flood Rescue.
In the 1927 Mississippi food, he was
directly in charge of rescue work under
the then Secretary of Commerce, Her
bert Hoover. Gotwals organized a res
cue fleet consisting of Navy planes,
Coast Guard rum-running boats and
miscellaneous craft of all descriptions,
and kept his feet always at the crest
of the flood. from Vicksburg to New
Orleans. rescuing marooned people and
live stock
He looked qucstioningly at the gold
badge of Office which had been pinned
on his breast when he took the oath
What do you think 1 ought TO do
about this?" he asked.
Throw it in draw and forget about
it. was suggested. With a sigh of
relief. ne unpinned the ornate badge
and tossed it into his desk drawer.
Mai Gotwals will have as his per-
solal secretary Isaac Bryan, formerly
secretary to Assistant Engineer Com
missioner Hugh P Dram. Bryan takes
the place of j. w. Falk, the secretary
to Col Ladue, who has become MEM
Der of the accounting star of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
COERCED IN MARRIAGE,
IRON WORKER CHARGES
Annulment Petition Against Lois
M. Page, 20, Filed by John
M. Page in D. c. Court.

Declaring that he was coerced into
marriage with the defendant at Balti-
more, Md. March ., 1929, when he was
in such a state of intoXication that he
was deprived of the comprehension OF
what he was really doing" John M.
Page, 81, 324 Twelfth street southeast.
an iron worker, has asked the District
Supreme Court TO annual his marriage
TO Lois M Page. 20, residing at 1851 P
street. The ceremony eliminated in an
automobile ride, the plaintiff says, and
the parties returned to their homes and
have never lived together.
The wife is employed he says, under
her maiden name, Lois M. Cover, at
department store; is maintaining her
self and has never asked him to support
her. He is represented by Attorneys p.
A. Matthews and William Meyerhotf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
NYRBA LINE TO OPERATE
AIR EXPRESS SERVICE

Operation of merchandise air express
service between the United States and
the Is countries and colonies of the
West Indies and South America was
announced here today by Col. Ralph
A. O'Neill, president of the New York,
Rio Buenos Aires Line. The service
will begin Immediately and is expected
to cut nearly two weeks from the New
York to Buenos Aires shipments, rush
shipments requiring but six and one
half days.
The new service is designed to speed
trade and commerce between this
country and the Latin American
markets in competition with the in
creasingly aggressive advance made by
European countries in world trade
centers of South America.
Parcels weighing up 200 pounds and
measuring 1000 cubic inches in size
can be carried on the % and 80 pas
senger flying boats of the Nyrba Lines.
Mr.. O'Neill said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
TORONTO MEMORIALS
ATTACKED BY CRITICS
Floodlight Proposal in Interest of
Tourists Draws Plea to Leave
Them in Dark.
sp.cIn1 plspatch 10 me star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
TORONTO, Ont, July 2l.-Torontos
taste in monuments is again being at
tackled Propo ais to ood-light all
memorials so that tourists could see
them as we'll by night as by day has
srouscd the ire Of the art colony. Dark
ness which cloaks the statues OF public
men and the battle memorials is the
kinocst treatment possible. art critics
claim in answering the tourist pro-
motors.
The whole thing started as a result
of the Shrine convention, The Shrin-
ers- left memorial to peace behind
them. When it was suggested that this
be lighted at night, conservatives want
ed to light the Sir John Macdonald
statue; Liberals pointed TO George
Brown and Oliver Mowat and wanted
equal treatment. Then the war me-
MORALS were mentioned.
II is less than a year since suRgeS-
ton was made publicly that at least
one of these be dynamited in the inter-
est of good taste To have fioodlights
bring out all the ugliness by night was
a little too much for the men who Sug-
gested dynamiting.
The proposal rests now without action
either way. 1t seems as II the art
critics mad at last triumphed, tempo
rarily at least. For the time being the
city will be spared from having its
art shames barred to nocturnal tourists
~ S@1A f.a nfnI In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
Al CLUBS TO MEET
AT COLLEGE PARK
600 Boys and Girls Expected to At
tend Sessions August Z to 12 :.
at Maryland University.

at maryland University.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, July 21.-Ap-
promximately 900 boys and girls from
all sections of the State are expected
to attend the twelfth annual All Club
week at the University of Maryland,
August to IL, according to E. G. Jen-
kins and Miss Dorothy Emerson, State
Club agents. The minimum age limit
for delegates is being raised this year
from 10 To IL years.
new feature of this years encamp-
ment will consist of dairy demonstra-
lions by teams from 10 counties. The
best of these teams will be sent to the
Timonium Fair.
The weeks program calls for demon
STATIONS, lectures and recreational ac-
tivities. A number of authorities in
various lines will assist the agents dur
ing the week, including Miss Pauline
Spangler of West Virginia, Mrs. Edith
Craig of Boston. and DR.. r. G. Foster Of
Washington, D. c.
About 40 All-StarS, members of an
honorary All Club group, will arrive at
the University in advance of the reg
ular encampment and assist in arrang-
ing the details of the meeting.