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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
REV. IF. C0LBERT'S
FUNERAL ARRANGED
Services for Native of Washington
Will Be Held Monday at St.
Dominic's Church.

Funeral services for Rev. James r.
Colbert. o. P. 70. who died at ProYi-
dence Hospital Thursday morning will
be held Monday at St Dominic's
Church. Burial viii be in Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
Father Colbert, who was in the min
tstry at St Mary's Convent, New Haven.
Conn, was native of Washington,
and received his early education at St.
Dominic's parochial school and Con-
zaga College. At the age OF Is he be-
came a member Of the Dominican Order
ut st. Rose Convent, Springfield, KY.
One Of the oldest Dominicans in the
United States, Father Colbert, planned
20 celebrate the 50th anniversary Of his
ordination 10 the priesthood next May.
His death, it was said, was due to
pneumonia, which developed following
an illness and fall. suffered while visit
ing at the home of his sister, Miss Mary
Colbert, and brother Michael Colbert,
sos Sixth street southwest
During his life he had served as a
teacher at St Rose Convent, 10 which
he was appointed soon after finishing
his course there: as vicar and pastor
at St Antonius, Newark NJ j., and at
St Patricks, Columbus, Ohio. He was
also pastor Of the Province Of St.
Joseph for many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
THREE ARE KILLED
IN AUTO M|SHAPS
IN NEARBY TOWNS
Priest Backs Car Into Mother
at Clinton, Fatally In
juring Her.
EMPL0YE OF BAKERY
STRUCK IN VIRGINIA
Boy, 2, Also Traffic Victim-Driver
Held After Death in
Arlington.

Three persons. including an sl-year-
old woman and 2-year-old child. were
killed in automobile accidents in
nearby Maryland and Virginia last
night and today.
The dead are Mrs. Mary E. Horst
kamp, mother of Rev. John Z. Horst
kamp of Clinton, Md: William q.
Hutchinson, a.. 1917 Massachusetts
avenue southeast, and Samuel Scheerer.
?, of Brentwood, Md.
Mother Is Killed.
Mrs. Horstkamp was fatally injured
when struck by an automobile which
her son was backing out of the garage
at his home near Clinton, Nd, ac-
cording to police reports.
Father Horstkamp was getting ready
to take his mother to visit friends in
Washington when the accident occurred
The automobile Is said to have passed
over her body.
Rev. Horstkamp rushed her TO Provi-
dence Hospital police say. where she
died several hours afterward Father
Horstkamp is director OF st. Johns
parish, with churches at Clinton and
PiScataway.
Services for Mrs. Horstkamp will be
held Monday at 10 am. at St Johns
Church, Clinton.
Deliveryman Is Struck.
Hutchinson. an employe Of the Corby
Baking Co. for % years. was killed
when struck by an automobile while de-
liyering bread to Pollock's store on VIII
son Boulevard, In Fort Myer Heights.
Va. at 7:45 o'clock this morning.
Charles G. Burnett, 300 block of
D'Astre street. Ballston. Va. said to be
driver Of the car which struck Hutchin-
son. was arrested by Arlington County
police on charge of investigation.
Hutchinson was taken to Emergency
Hospital in passing automobile and
pronounced dead On arrival
He is survived by his widow, a daurh-
ter. Aubrey M. Is years old, and son,
Joseph w. 10.
The Scheerer child was fatally IN
jured while crossing School street. in
North Brentwood, when struck by a
truck driven. police say, by Edward
Bowser. 90, of HyattsviIIe.
He vas taken to Freedman's Hospital
by his father, David Scheerer, and died
a few minutes after arrival The
Scheerer home is at 223 School street
According to police the child was
crossing the street with a group of
other children when struck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
GAS STATION HOLD-UP
AMONG 3 REPORTED
$40 Taken From Manager by Two
Young Men Who Speed
Away in Taxicab.

A filling station at 1912 Sherman
avenue was robbed of $50 last night in
one Of three lesser hold-upS under
police investigation today. Two young
men drove up to the station in a
taxicab operated by a colored man. pro-
duced revolvers, snatched the money
from the night manager, Thomas r.
Ernst of Brentwood, Md, and sped on.
A description Of the cab was broad
cast by police.
Two colored bandits who requested
a match of Theodore Balm of 1922 p
street, thrust a gun in Blain's ribs
when he stopped to comply. One man
held the gun while his confederate
searched Blain's pockets and took SO
The robbery occurred at Seventh and
n streets.
Samuel Allen Jones, who came here
from North Carolina, was beaten last
night and robbed of SO by three young
men who fell upon him while he was
asleep in an automobile parked in the
rear of the 600 block Of I street. Jones
said his assailantS drove off in a small
automobile, the license number of
which he was unable to obtain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29

from the patrol at Lincoln road and r
street northeast at $50 o'clock yester-
day afternoon.
Miller. who is 80 years old, was ar
rested 10 days ago by detectives on a
charge of assault but the charge was
nolle pressed and the prisoner released.
Another prisoner escaped from the
grasp of Headquarters Detective Sergt.
Eugene Davis, of the check squad, late
Wednesday, it was learned today.
The prisoner, arrested by Sergt Davis
at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. for questioning in connection with
passing bad checks, got away when the
detective fell while preparing to place
his prisoner in an automobile.
Sergt Davis was holding the man by
the belt, when SUDDENLY the police ON
GERS feet slipped from under him on
the wet street. Ehe prisoner made a
dash for liberty ande.escaped down d
street.
Sergt Davis slid part &C the way un-
der the automobile WherA he fell, but
gained his feet quickly an4 gave chase
fSs,s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
SOLDIER AND WIFE,
PARTED 50 YEARS,
IN MARITAL TANGLE
Both ReWed Thinking Other
Dead, and Pension Applica-
ton Brings Out Past.
MRS. N0WLAN, SECOND
MANS WIDOW, IN D. C.
Edward Shook, Who Went to
Philippines, Now Resident
of California.

A husband in California and a wife
In Washington, each of whom remar-
ried in the belief the other was dead,
sought today to unravel the tangled af-
fairs of their 30-year separation in an
effort to obtain a service widows PEN
sion for the woman.
Edward Scott Shook told newspaper
men in Monterey. Calf. today that he
had just learned his first wife was still
living. He married her in 1895 and
seven years later left her and three
young children in the United States to
report for Army duty in the Philippine
Islands
Mrs Shook. unable to obtain any
word of her husband over a period CT
years. became convinced he was dead
and in 1910 married Samuel Nowlan, q
sergeant in the Marine Corps. who died
q year ago. Mrs. Nowlan now lives at
500 Eighth street southwest.
Death Falsely Reported.
Mrs. Nowlan read of her first hus-
bands death In a railroad wreck at
Pittsburgh several years after he went
10 the Philippines. For many years she
refused TO believe the report, but was
finally convinced of it by her husbands
continued absence.
When Mrs Nowlan applied to the
Navy Department for a pension, an in
vestigation to establish the justice Of
her claim revealed that Shook was
alive, married again and a resident Of
Monterey
Shortly after Shook left his first wife
enc of their children. young girl died
end Mrs Shook was unable to locate
her husband. Some 80 years later, Just
before the death of Harry N Shook,
their only son, Shocks first wife re-
ceived an intimation that he was still
alive and tried to communicate with
him. she said, without result
Harry N. Shook, IS, nurse at the
Soldiers Home, succumbed to a heart
attack last June while visiting in the
home of the young woman to whom he
was engaged to be married.
News Brings Surprise.
When informed today that his first
wife was still alive, Shook expressed as
constituent and declared he had be-
lieved her to be dead, according to a
dispatch from Monterey. He said that
on his return to this country from
the Philippine Islands he had been I'M
able to find any trace of her He ad-
mitted, however. that he was her nus
Rand and the father Of her three chill
oren.
After returning to this country"
Shook said, Il tried to communicate
WIN KY VILE buk COulQ not IlnQ
trace. I was then stationed at Fort
Riley and was unable to continue my
investigation, although I wrote num-
Der Of letters TO friends who might have
known of her whereabouts"
Never hearing any word from her,
Shook said, after the World War he
was stationed at Monterey, where he
retired less than year ago after more
than 30 years in the service He mar
Tied his present wife only recently
Mrs. Fowlan, according TO the Navy
Department, is in straitened circuu1-
stances and so far has been unable to
obtain her dead husbands pension, be-
cause Shook is alive and also drawing
q pension.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
TRIPPED BY VINES,
FUGITIVE CAUGHT
Officer Arrests Man First. Then
Gets Warrant and Finds
Liquor.
BY a stan Correspondent Of The Star

SILVER SPRING. Nd, August %
Getting his feet tangled in a mass OF
pea vines. growing in a field alongside
the ColeSville pike late yesterday. viii
liam A. Tinney. 25, colored, of 1924
Eleventh street, Washington. was pre-
vented from making an escape from
Sergt. Earl Burdine, who was in pur-
suit
Burdine became suspicious of the auto
Tinney was driving and which con-
tanned Charles H Bryant, %. colored,
Of the same Washington address. AS
the officer drew alongside Tinney took
10 his heels but was captured.
After obtaining a search warrant
Burdine searched the auto and found
il contained several cases Of alleged rye
whisky Tinney was charged with reck-
less driving and having no registration
card. in addition TO violating the pro-
hibition law, while Bryant was charged
with a prohibition law violation. Tin
ney was released on $500 bond and
Bryant on $500 bond and the case set
for September Q. In Police Court at
Rockville
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
FULLER COUNSELS
MARINE RESERVES
Brigade Should Be Ready for
Quick Call, Says General,
Hon0red at Dinner.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CAMP POLLARD, Virginia Beach,
Va, August 29.-"You of the 9Th Ma
rine Reserve Brigade are accepted in
Marine Corps plans as an expeditionary
Marine Corps brigade and your lug
gage should remain packed for call to
duty IN an emergency on few days
notice" said Mai. Gen. Ben II. Fuller,
conmandant of the Marine Corps. told
the officers of the brigade at a dinner
staged by the Norfolk Portsmouth
Chamber of Commerce in honor of Gen
Fuller and attended by prominent Gov
eminent and civic officials of Norfolk
and vicinity at the Cavalier Hotel last
night.
CompIimented on Brigade.
Gen. Fuller complimented the off,
GERS of the brigade on the strides made
by them in instructing the newly en-
listed men OF the brigade in the few
days they have been here. Earlier in
the day the entire brigade, evenly
swinging lines of somber khaki studded
with scarlet and gold guidons. had
swung by in review before him as the
brigade artillery detachment roared a
13-gun salute, the first ever fired by
a Marine Corps Reserve brigade, in
honor of the commandment.
Dress Parade Later.
Dress parade of the brigade will be
staged at O'Clock this afternoon in
honor of Gen. Fuller. and at o'clock
on Sunday in honor CT Gov. Pollard.
A combined vaudeville and boxing show
will take place tonight, with Gen. and
If
visitors from Washington and Norfolk
invited to attend.
The 1st Battalion, goth Marines.
spent today on the rife range. while
the I'd Battalion OF the goth and LIST
and I'd OF the 23d continued at close
order and battalion drills.
Deep-Sea fishing parties as well as
beach bonfire parties are being given
by various companies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
D. C. Department Prepares
for Largest Demonstra-
ton in Events History.
5000 FIREMEN TO MARCH
WITH 500 AUXILIARIES
Governors Invited to Ride With
Marchers-Bands, Drills and
Contests to Be Features.

Firemen from nine States, as well
as the District of Columbia, will march
down Pennsylvania avenue Labor day
! in the ninth annual firemen's national
parade, sponsored by the District Fire
Department.
Plans going forward under the di-
rection of Sergt. A. j. Bargagni. di-
rector and marshal, indicate the largest
demonstration since the annual feature
was inaugurated in 1922.
Sergt. Bargagni said today that he
expects between 5000 and 5000 fire.
men. 500 ladies' auxiliaries, 200 pieces
of fire apparatus and IS bands and
drum corps to take part in the parade
: well as numerous civic, trade and
fraternal organizations. The Quantico
Marine Band will head the parade and
the entire 9Th Marine Brigade will
march with the firemen.
Nine Governors Invited.
The Governors of Maryland Virginia.
North Carolina, New York, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey. Ohio, Delaware and
West Virginia have been invited to at
tend and ride in the parade, but so
far only Gov. Albert c. Ritahie of
Maryland has accepted Gov Ritchie
has taken part in the parade for the
past two years. In his automobile will
ride the District Commissioners. The
party will be escorted by the heads of
the nine participating State fire organi-
cations
Sergt Bargagni said this year marks
the first time firemen from North Caro-
lima New York and Ohio have joined
in the national celebration. He was able
to finance the participation Of the three
new States, Sergt. Bargagni explained.
because of the $1,000 fund donated by
the Washington Board of Trade. In
previous years the firemen have been
compelled to bear the entire financial
burden.
The program for Labor day calls for
formation at 9:15 o'clock in the morn
ing in the vicinity of Peace Monument
The columns will arrange themselves
on First street, B street northwest and
northeast. c street, Indiana avenue,
F street and New Jersey avenue.
Parade at 1880 AM.
At 1870 o'clock the parade is ex-
pected to get into motion, passing down
Pennsylvania avenue to the Treasury
Building and in rear of the Treasury
to the Ellipse, where it will disband.
Judging at EIIipse.
At pm. judging CT the best equipped
apparatus will take place on the
Ellipse. The next event will be the
awarding of the hero medals TO mem
bers of the Fire and Police Depart
ments in the American League Base
Ball Park, where. an hour later, the
annual firemen- policemen base ball
game will be played. At $50 pm.
there will be band and drum corps
concert on the Ellipse. That evening
at 7;30 o'clock prizes will be awarded
on the Ellipse
Each of the As Washington fire COM
panies is to enter a float in the parade
and dremen are at work building their
entries. The competition within the
department Is keen and in past years
elaborate creations have resulted.
The firemen also will enter numerous
comic floats. In past years floats of
commercial firms have played major
part in the parade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
LARlMER IN CHARGE
Newly Promoted Officer Bosses
Navy Until Monday.

A naval oficer who was only a cap
tain three months ago now serves as
Secretary of the Navy.
With Secretary Adams, his assistants
and the chiefs Of the Bureaus of Naval
Operations and Navigation out Of the
city today, the duties fell to Rear Ad-
miral Edgar B. Larimer, who attained
that rank on June /, when he became
chief of the Bureau OF Ordnance.
The Navy will take orders from him
until the return OF Secretary Adams
Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
JAMES H0YLE NEVIN
TO BE BURIED MONDAY
Funeral for U. S. Printing Worker
Will Be Held at st. Paul's
Church.

Funeral services for James Hoyle
Nevin, "a. Of 1428 Clifton street, will
be held at the home Monday morning
at $50 o'clock, followed by Mass at
ST Pauls Church at 9 O'Clock. Burial
will be at Beallsville, Md.
Nevin died at Georgetown Hospital
Wednesday after a long illness. He
was the son of Katherine Hoyle Nevin
and the late David j. Nevin and until
his Illness had been an employee of the
Government Printing Office.
He was a graduate of Business High
School and took an active part in the
schools alumni organization. He served
for IL years as an acolyte at st. Paul's
Church and later became an usher there
and secretary Of the Holy Name So
ciety.
He is survived by his mother and a
sister, Miss Alice Pauline Nevin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29

DR.. Daniel Houston Buchanan (above)
of the Harvard University faculty has
been appointed associate professor of
economics at George Washington Uni
versity. according to an announcement
made today by DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin.
president.
DIR. Buchanan, who has been on Har-
wards teaching staff since 1928 was
research associate in the bureau of III.
ternational research of Harvard from
1926 to 1923. He taught at Ohio State
University prior to going to Harvard
A student of Far Eastern affairs, Dr.
Buchanan lived for a number of years
in the Orient. From 1914 to 1925 he
was professor Of economies at Keiogijuku
University, at Toxic, from which insti-
tuition he holds the degree of doctor Of
science.
His course at George Washington
University will include principles of
economics. labor problems. economic
theory and the history and literature of
economic thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
BOY CRITICALLY HURT
AS RESULT OF FALL
Three-Y ear-old Plunges From Sec
ond Story Landing of Fire
Escape.

Three-year-ol Raymond Boss was in
critical condition at Emergency Hos
pitaI today as a result of injuries re-
ceived in a fall late yesterday from
the second-fioor landing of a fire es-
cape at his home, 486 F street south
west, late yesterday.
The boy was found unconscious by
a child with whom he had been playing
a short time before. An X-ray ex-
animation was to be made today TO
determine II the boy has a fractured
skull
The condition OF Howard Harris. 8,
colored, of the 2I00 block of N street.
who fell from a first-floor window at
his home yesterday, was reported as
improved. He received severe head in
Iuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
U. S. AGENT IN ARIZONA
SUED BY WIFE HERE
Failure to Establish Home for Her
self and Children Charged
Against D. F. Finnigan.

Daniel F. Finnigan, an internal rev.
enue agent stationed at Phoenix, Arig.,
was named defendant today in q suit
for a limited divorce and alimony filed
in District Supreme Court by his wife,
Mary E. Finnigan.
She charged that when her husband
refused to establish home for her and
their two children here she offered to
go to Phoenix. but received letter from
him saying he would use all available
transportation to get as far away as
possible" The couple were married
June IS, 1919.
Finnigan's salary is $500 month, the
wife asserted in asking the court to
compel him TO support her and the two
children. She is represented BY Attor-
mar e. IRrimnga Kaelsz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
BOARD REORGANIZED
New Members Added to Retiring
Body Sitting in D. C.

The Army Retiring Board, sitting in
this city, has been reorganized by the
detail of the following members: Brig.
Gen. Edgar T. Collins Col. w. F. Hase,
Coast Artillery; Coils. r. J. Burt, C. c.
Allen and F.. w. Bugbee, Infantry, and
Coils. F. NJ Hartsock and ]. B. Higgins
and Maj. Leon A. Fox, Medical Corps
Majs j. F. Lieberman and H. w.
Kinderman, Medical Corps, will serve
as medical examiners and Capt John
D. Goodrich, Quartermaster Corps, as
recorder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
RUM-RUNNERs HIT MAN.
Wrecked Car and Load of Whisky
Seized-Tw0 Escape.
respondent OF The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
BURTONSVILLE, Md, August 29.-
Edgar Kisner, AZ. farmland of this
community, was injured last night when
struck near his home by a rum-runner's
auto, which was fleeing from Montgom-
cry and Prince Georges County police.
Kisner was taken Co the Montgomery
County General Hospital, where he Is
being treated for a fractured ankle.
Kisner was struck when the rum car
ran on the highway and was wrecked.
Two colored men said to have been in
the machine escaped. The wrecked car
and its load of whisky were taken into
custody by Sergt. Roy Snyder and to-
day was taken to Rockville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
NAVAL SCOUTS TO SAIL
Fall Maneuvers Soon to Be Start.
ed in South Atlantic.

The Nays Scouting Force, under
Vice Admiral Arthur L. willard, soon
will head southwark from Newport, r.
l.. for the annual Fall maneuvers in
the South Atlantic, to be held Septem-
Der % to October 4. The cruisers of
the force, Is strong will lead the way
on September 20, steaming out of New
port for Hampton Roads, Va
The 80 destroyers will remain in the
Narragansett Bay area with Newport
as their base until September %, when
they WI cave for ChaElestons s. g
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
EXCURSION ARRANGED
Five State Societies Join for River
Trip Monday.

Five State societies in Washington
have arranged for a Joint moonlight ex-
cursion Monday night down the Poto-
mac River. The societies cooperating
are those representing the States of
Massachusetts, Iowa Alabama. Mary
land and Missouri. The boat leaves the
Seventh Street Wharf at O'Clock, and
a large attendance is assured by the adj
vance sale of tickets.
The committee in charge is headed
by Miss Gertrude N. Louise of the Iowa
Society, with George A. Herman, Massa-
chusetts; Thomas Cain. Alabama; John
M. Boiler, Maryland. and Mrs. Olive J.
Rogers, Missouri.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
MISSING BOY SOUGHT
Mother Reports He Disappeared on
Trip to Barber Shop.

Meyer Lutshy II. reported missing
from his home at 233 Morgan street
since Thursday morning was sought
b. police today at the request Of his
mother, Mrs Fannie Lutshy
Mrs. Lutshy told police the boy had
left To go to a barber shop. but did
not arrive there and has not been
heard from since Police say the boy
has disappeared several times before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
SYLVAN EVENTS CLOSE
Final Audience Sees 100 Girls in
Folk Dances.

The final program in the series Of
nine which have been presented at the
Sylvan Theater during the Summer by
the Community Center Department and
the ONCE of Public Buildings and Pub
lie Parks took place last night An au-
dience Of several thousand attended.
More than 100 girls from the Chevy
Chase, Georgetown. GARFIELD and Cook
Fairgrounds, took part in this program,
which included folk dances Of four diff
ferent countries, Swedish, English,
Dutch and early American The entire
was under the direction of Miss
Maude Parker, director OF girls activi-
ties OF the Municipal Playground De-
partment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
COUNTY AGENT PAY
ORDERED BY COURT
Judge at Martinsburg Declares
State Law Has Been Declared
Legal Five Times.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

MARTINSBURG. w. ", August 2e.
An effort by the Jefferson County
Court to avoid payment OF a county
agent in that county was lost yester-
day in Circuit Court here when Judge
y. II. Rodgers declined to abandon a
previously granted mandamus, calling
on the court to levy for the expense
an approximate 81 400, the county s
share in the agents yearly salary. The
county agent at present is B. Heath
Holden.
Judge Rodgers explained that the
law had been held clearly constitu-
tional by the Supreme Court of the
State not fewer than Ave times
He gave the County Court until Sep
TENDER to file an answer to the re-
flsal Of the demurrer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
Colored Mans Condition Results in
Arrest of Two.

Richard johnson, 40 years old, col
ored, was treated at Freedmen's Hos
pital last night after he was found un-
conscious in the rear yard Of his horne,
in the 400 block Of Eighth street, with
severe cuts about the head and face.
Second precinct police arrested Sam
uel PIlmphrey. IS, colored, and Robert
E. Williams, "a, colored. for question
g. in connection with the Affair."