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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1924
Page
14
Special to The Washington Past reports camp at Fort Humphrey Va Aug 22 as district guards finish encampment work. Units prepare for a ball game to decide a trophy winner. Engineers set up fortifications and bridges while the medical corps receives inspection.
Italian air attache reports no word from missing aviator as search stops. Cers remain on duty overnight while aviators depart, hoping for further guidance on the lost Italian flyer and American flight plans.
The notice records the death of Maria Ramey Brewer on Wednesday August 1924 in Warehagen District. She is the daughter of Emma J and John W Hiam Brewer, a surgeon general. Funeral services were at St. Paul Chapel and Arington Cemetery. Burial followed at Glenwood Cemetery with a service at 945 F Street Northwest. The notice lists multiple family members and residences including 10 Print Street and a reference to Alexren.
A mock battle at Camp Henry Knox featured a division of national guardsmen facing a pretend red army. Station WHAS offrir radiocasting of thirty minutes of heavy bombardment with a war correspondent detailing troop movements for a new era of war reporting. Officials say the United States signal corps supervised the broadcast for Courier Journal and Louisville Times.
New York police probe a $100000 gem theft from a ninth floor showroom after two robbers bound two men with wire and gagged them. Diamonds were in two wallets on the table and the alarm wired to an adjacent room. Feldenheimer and Mark Wohlin were assaulted. the escape occurred as guards sealed exits and searched the scene. Additional Illinois bank holdups reported in Madison County and Venice reflect a spate of bank robberies in the region.
Mayor John F. Hylan announced he will not seek the New York governorship. He backs a progressive Democrat, naming Lieutenant George H. Lunn, Gay Martin Helynt, and Attorney General Carl Sherman as possible candidates, surprising many followers who expected a bid if urged by progressives.
A cluster of obituaries and funeral notices for Emma Fefr, Samuel De Boler, Mrs William Ro Baum, Mrs Hurd, Betty Kelly, Andrew Lombard, Mary Moran, Murphy, Scanlon, Stoutenburg, and others. Entries state names, relationships, residence streets, funeral times, interment details, and issuing from various churches or cemeteries.
In sad remembrance of Ear ie Treadwell who died February 2 1924. A loving wife writes of sorrow and faith. She prays for eternal reunion and constants thoughts of him. May they meet again in that distant shore.
In Los Angeles police and district attorney investigations proceed as Kid McCoy faces eight charges of murder robbery and assault with intent to commit murder. Defense argues two more alienists will examine McCoy to corroborate prior mental illness findings within his family. The case centers on the August 12 death of Mrs Theresa Mors and the boulevard shooting spree tied to her antique shop.
Three men and six persons aboard an auto accident near Covington lost their lives as the car plunged from a bridge into Decourses Creek eight miles south of Covington Manafield on August 22. Among the dead were Mere Sylvester Kittucks of Chicago and her daughter Alareda, who were en route to a Polish convention in Philadelphia when the vehicle left the road, struck a tree, and overturned injuring others.
New York August 27 determined to back consolidation of Southern Pacific and El Paso and Southwestern railroads. Kruttschnitt and Schumaker head to Phoenix to address Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on the merger. They say unification serves the public interest and project progress on other rail mergers continues. They foresee higher earnings in remaining 1924 months and note improving Western business conditions.
Williamstown August 22 Crosby Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson proposes a plan to avert a deadlock in the electoral college. If no candidate gains a majority, electors would vote for the candidate with the greatest popular vote, with party chairmen issuing public guidance.
Paris August 22 crowds gathered at Place Madeleine as police used a gas to eject a tenant under a court order. When the tenant opened windows the fumes spread over the crowd causing panic and dispersal. A gas masked officer then tackled a man and arrested him as others mobbed the concierge seeking to lease the apartment.
Col Samuel Vinton Ham chief of staff of the sixth corps area died in Chicago from wounds received in the world war. Born December 25 1867 at Marklesville Ind he graduated from the Military Academy and served in the infantry with brief quarters corps duty. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross Silver Star and Legion of Honor among other honors and is survived by his wife a son Louis Ham and a daughter. Burial expected in Indianapolis.
New York dispatch reports humorist known as M Qued or M Quand died at his Brooklyn home aged 82. For more than half a century his Bowser characters and other creations appeared in newspapers nationwide. Born in Ohio he began in Detroit and moved to New York City thirty years ago, continuing to write until his death.
Mrs Alexander Legge wife of the International Harvester Co president died in Pasadena California after a six weeks illness. She was born Katherine McMahan in Butler county, Pennsylvania. Survived by her mother Mrs Martha J McMahan two sisters Mrs Jennie Lewis and Mrs Olive M Comin and two brothers Albert H and John T McMahan.
Marin Jiminez, son of Cuban consul Jose Timinez, escaped imprisonment over narcotics allegations after his father pledged to secure his departure from the United States within a week. Attorney Louis B Stillman outlined Jiminez life from his arrival in Washington four years ago to study, his later work, and a 1930s New York stay, including a 1929 death of Renee Harris and a 7 August drug arrest.
Waukegan Aug 22 The sixteen nephews of the late Delavan Smith capital and publisher of the Indianapolis News filed the first amended bill to contest his will. They accuse close friends and employees of influencing him to disinherit his kin and distribute his $3,000,000 estate to charities and business associates who advised him in his later years.
Harrisburg August 32 Gov Pinchot urged Pennsylvania district attorneys and state enforcement to jail bootleggers and violators, seeking faster trials and prison sentences rather than fines. He argued enforcement is a moral issue and urged use of injunctions to close law violators, stressing the need to curb federal failures in liquor enforcement.
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