Newspaper Page Text
JEWEL THEFT LAID TO “MASTER MIND" Man Sought in SIOO,OOO Robbery Solved by Wom an’s Confession. Rt tbr Aaso.tiatfst Press NFAV YORK, August 29. —Dorothy Rums, 22. a former burlesque uetross. flung $4,509 in tbe facts of detectives yesterday and sobbed a confession xxhich. her captors declared, solved one of the biggest and most daring . gem thefts in the history of Maiden : I .a nr. The young woman is under arrest, ■with her husband. James .1. Burns, 20-year-old chauffeur; Harrx Chance,! another chauffeur, and Mark Widen, a jeweler, all charged with having robbed the shop of Alexander 1-Vldcn- , heiiner. at Broadway and Maiden : I.ane, of 1100,000 in jewels last Thurs- i day. the aelress-wife's mother. Mrs. Freda Trust, also is held. Detectives who investigated her cider-selling es tablishment while searching for the daughter alleged they found liquor as well as blackjacks anti other wea pons. ••Master Mint!" Hinted. A sixth person—a ’ master mind ' —-j remains at large. He is the man. unknown and unseen by the actual robbers who. according to Mrs - . Burns* alleged confession, directed the rob bery from behind the scenes, received the ft 00.900 worth of gems through a “fence” and paid the perpetrators of the theft JC.OOO for the job. A private detective in the employ of Lloyds* of London was credited with developing the clues which led to the arrests anil the subsequent confessions. He with local police of ficials in plain clothes invaded. Mrs. i Trost’s obscure refreshment place this i morning. ) They found Dorothy at a table with her husband and Chance, charged the trio with the robbery and ordered! them to “come along.’* Passively the men resisted, while they vehemently denied knowing any- j thing about the crime. But Mrs. i Burns, dramatically drawing 54.500 from a large purse, flung the currency ! at the officers and confessed. Later, after Keldenheimer had iden-( tilled Burns and Chance as those who held him up. the two prisoners con tinued the young woman's confession and added information which led to the identity and arrest of Wolcn. BANDITS DISCARD LOOT. Hold-Up of Bank Messengers Nets 1 $112,000 in Checks. NEWARK, X. J„ August 29. Checks totaling $112,000, which were j seized today from two messengers of the North Ward National Bank by four armed bandits, were recovered within half an hour by Kearney po lice. The bandits discarded the bag containing the checks when they were discovered to be of no value. Tomorrow, Last Day of Our SAVE y 4 TO / 3 OFF THIS IM | M Imi* &%il WINTER’S PRICES —PAY H W AS CONVENIENT!!! □ AH the newest modes; all the fashionable jfa&a furs. Values were never so great nor prices M 5 low as they are during this sale. A DJr Now / Entire fi Q Priced From - / frTj W $65-00 to $250 00 is Selection M Q DRESS UP FOR LABOR DAY! ~SJ Advanced new styles for Fall arriving daily from our New York head- HV quarters. New Fall Dresses. Coats, Suits and Millinery for the woman and miss; New Fall Suits and Topcoats for men and young men; all priced MB |B remarkably low for the Labor Day holiday. Dress up! Your Credit is good! Kflfl Two dollars down opens an account. • H MOTHERS! I H C 3 Down and Girls’ . Boys’ la M <F| Dresses Suits D TI Dress the As Low as .As Low as 8 ■ Children for $4.95 $7.98 A ■Mbl School Opening! _* * W 623 ®° I°\ ™ n ' I □ N.W. LX /T r s^* y Q m '• ' - --- ■■■ - Nigfau Bl , 4 ... , J. - SOCIETY! (Continued from Eighth Page.) 1 I j Park lane. Battery Park, entertained 1 at dinner Thursday evening for Mr. land Mrs. John Huaer and little daugh ! ter Ruth of Washington. i Mrs. George Gordon tseibold. presi- I dent of the District of Columbia Chapter of National American War j Mothers, is spending the balance of S ber vacation, since returning from j Toronto. Ontario, at Haddon Hall. At i lantie City. N. J. Stic will return to i I Washington in time for Defense day,! I tsepl• mher 12. Mrs. Ci. |j. Gilliland of the Wcst i inoreland has closed her apartment and left fur the West for an extended visit. STATE IS INTERVENING IN WATER RIGHTS FEUD; ! California Officials Seek to Settle | Trouble Which Provoked Kidnaping. ■ Rt ihs Astoria toil Pros-, lAbS ANGELES. Calif.. August 29. I Hope of quelling the Owens Valley water rights feud, which flared tip anew Wednesday night in the kid naping at Bishop of L. c. Hall, at torney. accused h> his fellow towns men of aiding Los Angeles to acquire water rights in tin- valley, rested to i day on the scheduled visit to the i trouble zone next Tuesday of mem bers of the public service commis sion. The commissioners will meet with ranchers and merchants who objected to the city's methods of acquiring valley water rights, and will endeavor to remove the cause of the ill feeling whiih is believed responsible nut only for the kidnaping of Hall, but for the j dynamiting of a section of the Los | Angeles aqueduct last May. Hall was kidnaped by a crowd of : men. who took him seveial miles from town and warned him not to return. CHILD KILLED BY BLAST. Scores Hurt When Refrigerating Plant Explodes in lowa. DES MOINES. lowa. August 2!*.— i Angela Schaff, aged 9. was killed and ! | two score, others- were injured, eight i seriously, when an ammonia refriger | ating plant in the basement of a , grocery lit re exploded yesterday, wrecking the building. The building, located near Port Des | Moines, was well tilled with shoppers at the time of the explosion. The entire floor collapsed into the base- i nn nt and those who were not injured by the fall were partially or com { pletely overcome by the ammonia | fumes. I , i // 1 ou ff ant to Buy or Sell In Chevy Chase QUINTER, THOMAS & CO. j ! Main 8416 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST 29. 1924. LOVEDEGLARESWAR ON MRS. FERGUSON Texas Democratic Leader Refuses to Support Party Nominee for Governor. Rj Uio Assoialed Preas. DALLAS. Texas. August 29 Thomas B. Love of Dallas. Demo cratic national committeeman from Texas for five years, announced last ; night that lie would not support Mrs j Miriam A. Ferguson of Temple in her race for the governorship, ami for this reason had sent Ids resignation to Clem L. Shaver, chairman of the I Democratic national executive com mittee. Mr. Love, in making the announce -1 mem. declared that “l-Vrgiisonism is I more dangerous than Ku Kluxlsm.” \limed in l(un-4l(ir I'rliniir., I Mrs. Ferguson, a bitter anti-Klan candidate, was nominated in the run off primary August 22 She is the wife of former Gov. James A. Fergu son. who was impeached during his second term in office. The principal campaign pica of Mrs. Ferguson, who entered the race when her husband was denied the right b\ a decision of the Supreme Court of Texas, was vindication of the Ferguson name. “I cannot escape the conviction that it is the duty of every good citizen, regardless of all considerations of party regularity and all other con siderations. to leave nothing undone that legitimately may be done to pre vent the restoration of Fergusonisin to power in the State capitol at Aus tin.” Mr. Love declared in a state ment explaining his action. “For governor I earnesltly desire t** be abb- to support some aide, hon est and incorruptible Texan, running as an independent Democrat, whose character and known capacities and disposition for public service w ill at tract the support of each citizen of Texas who is opposed to all that Fer gusonism stand' for. regardless of party or creed, and whose opposition to the Ku Klux Klan is wholly be yond question, so that this issue will no longer enter the situation.” He indorses, how ev. r, all other Democrats. National, .-state and county. The Same Snappy 'Taste Brown Bottles The Drink That Made Milwaukee Famous Order a Case for YOUR HOME Telephone—Frank. 4726 Schlitz Dist. Co. 1320 Ist St. N.li. Births Reported. The following births have hern reported to the Health Department in the last 24 hours: James I), and IJnda Hall, hoy. James M. amt Teresa Kienle. girl, Clayton and Susan Able. bov. Forrest and Nellie Allen, girl Alonzo 1., and l.aura Dyer, boy. James and Ternjieranee Henson, girl. Willie J. anil Mary M. Sterling girl. T.aorenee P. and Hennie 1., Ponder, bov. Philip J. and Estlier M. Keily, hoy. John It. and tint re O. Harris, girl. Daniel and Kittle It. Plass, boy. Irving S. and l.illian M. Iliib-hinson, bov. ; Joseph K. and May H. Ileltron, girl. | David 1., and Sarah L. Mil,-hell. bov. I Robert K. and Myrtle I ( , Moore, laiy. Isidore and Helen Kline. b*,v. Mortimer ft, und Mabel K. Birdseye girl. Pleyer P. and Helen Hill, Is.v. Mask S. and Myrtle I. Cripp.-re. girl. IDrbard C. and Marguerite Dyer, hoy William A. and Margaret llnrst. boy. W arren \. anil Until Watson, girl. (ieorge N. and Arline* Pa I lon, boy. Kirk H. and Itowena l.ogan (twins, boval. Samuel anil Augusta Frazier, girl Joseph anil Marian Braxton, hoy. Thomas and Kunii-e Hoots, girl. James W. and Anna Johnson, boy Mieasah T and Isabella M. Walker, boy. Deaths Reported. I h** ft»l|i»wlnc deaths have b4>*'n r**port6«l to the Health Department in the la*t 21 hours Mar' F. Fum*worth, S 4. Blue (Mains, |». r. Willium M. Ihiley. si, United .States »SuT • llers* (Inriir Hospital iVHI n Moore, H 2. Provhlonoe Hospital, i.f-orjro .1 WoodKtfto. 62. V>6 |J st. n.«*. Mnrio Charlton, 2*. Heorgo Washing ton Ilt.spitHl 'Marx I felon Blankenship. 10 i.rorire Wash Ington Hospital. CertriKl*» Stniler. 41. 114 M st. s.w -AnnU* .Morris. .V*,. tiartleld Hospital I aura Bm-kner. 16. 206 F ii n.e. Frunids Ad6l*»n. ."2. f;nllincr<>r Ho#pit;il. j Harriett Diton Jlu. (•atlingfr Hospital. Farrle Cnyv, 24. Hospital. «; *orge .Ihih v. 24, on route la*ualty Ho*»- pltnl. Berenic Shorter. 10, Providence Hospital. Quantrill’s Men Reunited. j KANSAS CITY, August 29. -Less I than a dozen survivors of Quantrill’s j band of Civil War fame will hold (their twenty-seventh annual reunion jlu re today and Saturday. The guerilla chiefs bushwhackers orig inally numbered 300. but the band of hard-riding. straight-shooting champions of the Southern cause has dwindled rapidly, particularly in the | last Id years. 1 l ake the Wheel oj a “Gardner” i 1 oil'll love the sensation it gives you j V<- 1)09 G Street — -—Ohone friendly Shop franklin 5060 r Opening the FALL SEASON DRESSES j IJff.9s ** Faille Bengali nr Dresses That SaUn-faccd Can tons—Luxor crepe.'' " OllJcl Sell at —Lucines—Canton $19.95 and $24.95 crepes—Poirot twill —new stripe flan- fashion’s Latest Novelties nels—all enhanced —ACTUAL COPIES OF by elaborate trim- THE NEW TIGHT mings and cm- SLEEVE AND CONCEP broideries. TIONS OF THE MODE All Sizes BRESLAU’S—I3O9 G St. N.W. Biiiiiiiuimmmirojji? Open Saturday All Day You’ll Surely Want a New Hat for Labor Day We Are Washington’s Headquarters for Smart Sports and Dress Hats TAILORED FELT HATS *2.98, *3.98 to *7.50 New York, Atlantic City, New England Resorts, Los An-* | gcles—wherever one goes—Tailored Felt Hats have the call. j and Washington keeps pace with all the most prominent style [ centers in demanding Felts. [ The styles vary from trim little models with tiny brims and | high crowns to the wide-brim. styles of excellent quality felt, I with ribbon or cut velvet trims. Fashionable black predomi- I nates with wood shades much in favor. jj I lUntrimmed Fdts in small and large stapes for the woman D [ who prefers to design her own chapeau. Included In these are H I extra large head sizes. New arrived of feather pompon trimming now quite in vogue—in all colors . j 98c to 12.49 Splendid selection of new arrivals in Chic Trimmed Velvet Hats that are sure to please the most discriminating. I, $5.95 to SIB.OO CREERON MILLINERY CO. I KS a 614 12th Su N.W, iSSJSSSSr j j r •j*— I Crime ❖ — ❖ The latest murder made me feel that something .should be done to curb the men who stab witli steel, or shoot witli deadly gun. The-vic tim was a useful man, of character correct : lie followed up the -moral plan that gains the world’s respect. An ho'nest man of wide reknown as being clean and white; and some cheap gunman shot him down, and robbed him in the night. They have the gunman in a cell, a loafer gone to seed, and if he would he couldn’t tell just why he did the deed. Von j place a weapon in the hands of such I a brainless jay, and in an alley’s ( mouth he stands, prepared to rob \ and slay. Kc cares not if his vic tims he the finest gents in town; “Hand ont your pockctbook,” says he, and calmy shoots them down. We’ve laws forbidding this and that, on statutes wc arc fed: hut any crook may pack a gat. and leave his swath of dead. And we have laws prescribing doom for delegates who slay; hut killers seldom reach the tomb until they’re old and .gray The gunman that I have in mind may haply reach the pen, and there per form the convict’s grind—but lie’ll | come out again. In seven months ! or seven years his pardon will ar • rive, and pawnshop men or auc ! lionccrs will sell him weapons five. And he again will take the trail in dark streets of the town, and to ac quire some little kale will shoot good voters down, ! j (Copyright.) WALT MASON, j ~ I III: ! Match Your Odd Coats | With Our Special Trousers, $4.63 Up. EISEMAN’S 7th &F Sts. I i ■ i . ■ ... .j... , .... —1 n Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses have been issued during the last -4 hours: Harry Dunn und Kdna Rente. Hubert It. laird and Elma SI. Glenn. James U Diggs of Olon Hill, Sid,, and Mary la-wis «f this city. Kennle Carl ilansdell and Helen Hitt. Thomas Francis I'adcn and Katherine Agnea Telia n. Hubert Hirkosky Gordon and Dorothy taiuiae Dodson. Emmcfr R. earner of Spottsylyania, Va.. and Pearl E. Reams of Moseley. Va. Harry Hanks and Frances Weaver. James K. Hyper and Thelmu Dale Parker, both of Fairmunt. W. Va Alfred R. Feast and Sarah E. Wilkins. Jtoth of Italtlniore, Md. Edward Eustace Glascock and Ixila Hazel Vickers. Eleut. Iletiry F. Garda of Fort Hoyle. Md., and Alma V, Wilson of Annapolis, Md, Morns laivigne and Aljcan K. Eaporte. lewis 11. Stephens and Ductile White, both of Hlciimord. Va, Joaquin Valero and Werdna Clare Allea, both of Tampa. Fla. Albert C. jawis of Chevy Chase, Md., and Virginia Du Val Brown us this city. Almost every part of the whaJc t has ii commercial value. || NORDACSI CIGARS Made in Tampa Ask for them At All Smoke Shops | 10c—2 for 25c—15c Strt. giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiimiiiimmiTiniiiiTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiniiiiiiniirniiniHiiitiiiiiifiiiii^ {Labor Daj Specials! I Bro^ n ? nd Patent = I pHthpr r is Traveling Satisfaction First Since 1859 Ovcmidht 1 S H»«M$ di I i= Leather Seventh Street Cretonne ■ i Steely Lined Lined 1 IS Inch /,f /ftcll | Sale of New Trimmed | | Ready-to-Wear Velvet Hats | | j choose from in black, black and combina- >L W | **aw (lions, the wood tones; brown, sand, copen. i i v?' " reds and the season’s trend in colors. There fc = : g JjLgj t) arc small pokes or off-the-facc models —and W g H jf- JPa* ! mushrooms. Then too, hats for the bobbed W = g A. L, hair miss in medium and large g = JpEy Jt \ Velvet trimmed, ribbon trimmed, etc. = | (g) —— | | Attractive Specials in Toilet 1 I Hosiery for Women Articles | | $1.50 Silk Hose m..* x.icum 19c | g Slight irregulars, but one / | I I , 09 , = = wouid have to look most r / h 1 i Cotv's Face Powder... Ovv s | /VC /-MSttl »« * Ramsdell’s I = most makes in the country who make the I-« —J '° a = = higliest quality women’s hose that’s pos- V _ J S '= siblc to make. All the newest shades that f 31-piecc Lunch Set.... = != arc being used for Fall and Winter with 30 Folded Crepe Paper O g ,j= the exception of white. Napkins OC g = • Large size Crepe Paper |A _ = | $2 and $225 Grades /no I Chiffon Silk Hose I Palmolive Shaving Tal- | "Yq = I g cum 1 Ait g = In black, white and the new Fall shades—full Palmolive Shaving s i= fashioned of course, with double hem tops and extra | A Cream afeVC != high spliced heels, slight irregulars but absolutely I •1U = i= nothing to injure in any way the wearing quality of M * •—***» = |g these hose. | I B °y s ’ . Broadcloth I | Athletic Wash Suits Shirts j I Union Suits , p " sy ,?^ h '.F"""- ?’ am - dtl OC i = T r it// . bray, in Middy Blouse and But- yk I Vs = 1 Un Jto. U * V a“s\ '»"•«" E W. 1 Cl Carefully tailored, full cut and = = •]]/ I m.*" 1 Cl* 1 / j srenepously proportioned. Keck- S = it I /_ Vs band style, or collar attached as = = c;jv j/l 'fP OJaat S desired, with soft French and = 5 Of-VO barrel cuffs. Sizes 14 to IT. § s s = P9CPll1()fl11(5 fakes Off Flesh Day by Day — = I jg[ ! rabundimg Without a Trace of Discomfort I iff] l Fall Frocks MADAME X ill ,Ift RUBBER GIRDLES I Lw 16 to The moment you put on this wonderful re- = = BCW cn M ducing girdle, the surplus flesh begins to go. = = W H And it keeps on goi g every moment you wear it! = = 1a H * .i • .- . Designed on scientific massage principles to = I ii hl£S^'fl , Ss* D SSSS: “Sir ,hc 5 "" d " i»icdy s .»d I = satin, satin-face Canton crepe and sou- = S wTI Tunics, drapes, panels, straight lines y Rlld M 1 = ft •—trimmed with lace, ribbon, braid, • ~ "■ = U u embroidery work and fringe. Black v . _ . = = and colors, Madame X Rubber Brassieres r Ss = S ‘ » mmHmmmm s | A Sale of 1,000 Children’s I | / Rompers, Creepers, Pantie /q _ | I y Iha Dresses and Overalls OVC | = Ini SI.OO Rompers and Creepers made of Cham bray, Linene and s = /jJ\ \ j Checked Dimity, _ in plain colors and combinations. Trimmed s g \ /U w/ with hand-embroidery, white collars, cuffs in contrasting colors, s 1 \ \A S' 9 W Pantie Dresses of good quality checked gingham in assorted 1 i colors. Trimmed with applique embroidery and colored piping. 1 g \J4 Overalls of plain blue and striped denim, trimmed with red. 1 i «P Sizes of overalls, 2to 5 yeirs. Sizes of rompers, 1 to 6 years, | 8 Pantie dresses, 2 to 6 years, I RniiiiamiimiMiiiiiiiiMiMiwiißMiiMiiwiiiiiiiwiiinMßMWWMWHMWMaMPTfpmiiwßHiwignHuuwmjimmiwTiniirTiiiiinniiTinßmtmiunimnnjiimuifl At Steamer Makes First Ran. BUFFALO, N. Y.. August 29.—The Greater Detroit, giant side-wheeler of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company, arrived here this morning on her maiden voyage from Detroit on schedule time. The vessel is the largest passenger craft on Inland waters of the world, and is equipped with mechanical innovations, includ ing an automatic sounding device which rings an alarm when the depth becomes less than 20 feet. She will return to Detroit tonight. Kansas has GO,OOO more telephones than the whole of South America. It’* Easy to Pay for a CHEVROLET ’t ou should purchase your Chevrolet from us, because we [ employ only courteous instructors, who will secure license tags, teach you to become an expert driver, regardless of the time it takes, and obtain operator’s permit. There is no extra charge for j this service. Our Service Department is in charge of a Chevrolet Factory i trained man. Buying here assures you of service from the time you place your order until the machine is worn out. ; The John A. Wineberger Co., Inc. CoL 565 3700 Georgia Ave. N.W. Col 3880 R. L. W. Owens Geo. C. Rakers mi th Wm. H. Abbott Pres, and Treas. V. Pres. S>rry. We Want Apartments . to Rent Our office being »o centraJly located, many people ap<ply to us for apartments in all sec tions of the city. Disc your vacant apartments ! with us so that we can get you good tenants by September 1. j j Stone & Fairfax 1342 New York Ave. N.W. ' I 9