Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1921, Page 13

B C. HOMICIDES ! - Records Show Wide wiety of Cases—Many Persons Exonerated. Litw fty-three homicides were _re- by the police during the fiscal ended. It is not meant b: sagords that there were forty- separate instances involving king of human life ty violence, @t such a number of persons iy lost their lives. In several niees, the records show, the ®ak- 6f.human life was justified and Dersons responsible were duly ted. ecoroner's jury handed out an tion in the case of a colored named Thomas C. Johnson, resid- near Benning, who was shot to by a son in defense of his and another instance of tion was Jenitified colored burglar shot by Newman at 1006 1st street nfght of April 19. ‘i rs Held Blameless. pt. Thaddeus R. Bean and Police- #::B. Cole were declared to have their weapons in the line of duty he matter of shooting to death . Linwood Harris, colored. after shot and kiiled Policeman del C. Hayden, and still another hération was reported by a cor- jury in_ the shooting by a an_of John Walters, who was ifig . the vicinity of a drug store apitol Hill, where, it was stated. i\empt at burglary had been mide. pur deaths by violence resulted attacks made in St. Elizabeth's tal, where insane patients are ted. In one instance it sult of blows. P. J. Messett, W. er and Stephen McCarthy the other victims, the last men- ed dying from injuries received n_an tendant in repulsing an 3 instances, according stols were used by Two persons died as a re- of & blow with a bottle. Others as'a result of blows delivered fits, and in one instance three he..resulted from gas pol cages of gas poisoning thirty-one he records. pi the deaths of Charlotte. Evelyn Caroline Cranford. children, byxiated by Samuel Cranford. r father, who also ended his own — Mysteries Unsolved. ne of the puzzling homicides of flscal year involved the shooting deagh of Thomas Apostolus Ko- James Odiscus and Katherine us! Greeks, in a rooming house Sths street the night of July 26, another unsolved mystery in- ved the shooting to death of Dr. bert, W. Brown. 1737 11th street. night of November 28. by dentified man who visited ne. ‘hree instances of husbands death by wives and four of w husbands were recorded during twelve months. A brother-in- was blamed for the death of a n who was knocked down during nily disturbance, and in one in- ce a man was shot to death by farmer partner. Pecember proved to be the month | which the largest number of hnicides were committed, police ords containing entries of seven mes that month. There w one hpmicide committed in No- aber, two in September, two in h, three in February, three in and the others were scattered ough the remaining months of the B24 AMERICAN DEAD RRIVE AT HOBOKEN PIER -‘1 to Stay on Vessel Until Tuesday, as Lists Fail to Reach Boat. HOBOKEN, N. J., July 2—The States Army transport Wheat- arrived today with the 5,824 bodies ican soldier dead. The bodies two of the first Americans to fall the war, Privates Thomas F. En- ht of Pittsburgh, and Merie D. y of Glidden, Ohio, were said to be les will not be taken from el until Tuesday morning, be- use the official identification lists e ot put on board. These lists n the Nieuw Amsterdam, due to rive itomorro g 1 ek . [LL JOIN PACIFIC FLEET. Papti’ W. W. Bell, Naval Medical hro®_ commanding 'the naval hos- , Portsmouth, N. H., has been as- ned. to duty on the staff of the mmander of the Pacific fleet. . Cadillac Night Service in the case of an| NG FISCAL YEAR . i i | \ i i was | a that ome patient. Louis Ze- b eaid. were often mever assaulted James Selden Canden. | when a bill was put in for expens ther patient, for the purpose of | that was the end of it. bery, the wounded man dVINg S | never any refund. i i | | ' ! ' | +sons learned during the war and i.can Legion here this morning that all THE .SUNDAY :STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY PERSHING CALLS IN ARMY OFFICERS |D. C..AUTO POLICE SQUAD TO URGE EVERY POSSIBLE ECONOMY|MAKES ENVIABLE RECORD Gen. Pershing called high officens f the Army into conference yester- ay to urge every possible economy in administration of their depart- ments. They also were informed of Gen. Pershing's plans to co-ordinate Army activities in the light of les-i to hold conferences with department heads at frequent intervals. Attention of the conference was called to the order permitting enlist- ed men to be discharged during July upon application to their corps area or divisional command without OFFICERS DENY BLAME FOR SLACKER FREEDOM Staunton Reply to Legion Asserts Government Fails to Assist in Handling Cases. Special Dispateh 1 STAUNTON, y Z—Deputy Sheriff Earl McF. Taylor today passed the lie to those who are responsible for the statement that his father, Sheriff John Taylor, has said it wa not the sheriff's business to hunt for | slackers, when he was questioned as | to why none of the sixteen local slackers listed by the War Depart- ment had been arrested Deputy Taylor further declared that the government renders ve little assistance in rounding up slackers, giving no address and descrip- tions, and in some es not even the full name of the person wanted. | The deputy sheriff, who is himself a Yormer service man, said that he had spent his own money in an cffort to follow up reports of that the government fund only in case of capture. | Deserters beld at the ounty jail, he | sent’ for and | There was | This attitude on | the part of the War Department, he | said. _had sdiscouraged the civil| ylor. commenting on the ued by the Ameri- | slackers be apprehended und jailed. | declared: ! “All slacker cases have been thor- | oughly look and the men e | arrested or discharged. Itisa thing to talk about getting them to get them.” han | Chief of Police K. ‘M. Lipscomb | said: i “T think they (the slackers) should | he arrested. but the should make some prov i arfest. 1f there are any in Staunton 1 know nothing about them. 1 exam- | ined the list published in the | ton papers and looked up those posed to resi i none of them he RAIN CHECKS FOREST FIRES. DULUTH. Minn. July 2—Light showers which fell last night| throughout the Superior national forest have partly checked three large fires in the area. according to| word received to Additional | guards were sent to the state forest south of Ridge to help fight a fire | which has burned over more than 400 | acres. Star Scratch Feed All your dealer. For the convenience.of Cadillac owners in Washington, our b Service Department is remain- i ing openof evenings until mid- . night. A staff of capable mechanics - will be on hand to render what- ever emergency service Cadil- lac owners may require, and a completely equipped service wagon will respond promptly - to outside calls. THE WASHINGTON CADILLAC COMPANY ; ' 1138-40 Connecticut Avenue Telephones Franklin 3900-3901 Member Washington Autometive Trade Asseciation | man ANNOUNCING dealers sell the STAR SCRATCH FEED. Get yours from THE STAR FOOD & REMEDY CO. Manufacturers and W - Eckington Place and Q Street N.E. ‘Washington, D. O Phone North 255 affecting their right to travel pay allowances, for purpose of reducing the enlisted strength to the 150,000- mark fixed by Congress. Maj. Gen. Harbord, Gen. Pershing’s assistant as chief of staff, said members of Congress had stated that sore than 75,000 men would resign under this order, but added it was his belief that not more than 20,000 would ap- ly. B{‘.en, Pershing sald that inquiries had been received from more than 40,000 persons relative to admission to the citizens' training camps this summe: [FRIEND OF LUCY WITTUM STATES MARRIAGE PLAN Mrs. Vassill Says Girl Was Slain on Night She Expected to ‘Wed Forrest Higgins. CORUNNA, Mich., July 2.—Lucy Wittum had stated Forrest HIggins promised to marry her, and planned to meet him on the night of March 30 last—the night on which she was poisoned—to go to Flint for the cere- mony, aceording to Mrs. Ruth Vassill, a friend, who testified here today at Higgins' trial for first degree mur- der in connection with the death of his flancee. In conversation the previous night: Mrs. Vassill stated, Miss Wittum told her of the arrangement and said Hig- gins told her to meet him at the railroad tracks and explained it would be unnecessary for her to bring ex tra clothing, as anything she needed gould be obtained in Flint. Tha trysting place named by Miss Wittum was the spot where her body wus found, Mrs. Vassill testified. At the same time. Mrs. Vassill said, Miss Wittum showed her a dollir bill and said Higgins had given it to her to buy “carbolic acid gas.” A wwek previous, according to_the she was walking with Miss Wittum, when they encountered Hig- gins and stopped to talk. She testi- fled she heard Higgins speak of at- tempting 1o _find employment for his flancee in Flint. 4 The witness was subjected to sharp cross-examination by 8. Q Pulver. counsel for the defense. and admitt that within three months of M Wit m's death the latter had visited the home of Mrs. Vassill in a suburb of Detroit, and entertained a who formerly lived near the Wittums. DENIES LEADING BANDITS. Ex-Mexican Official Protests His Loyalty to Obregon. LAREDO, Tex., July 2.—Ismael Rod- riguez, former chief of customs fiscal witness, guards at Nuevo Laredo, reborted June 28 in Brownville dispatches as having commanaed twenty alleged bandits who entered Mexico near 1li- dalgo. Tex. today denied the report here. He declarcd he has been in a Laredo hospital nearly three weeks and that he had telegraphed President Obre- gon protesting his loyalty and urg- ing that the report of his defectjon be investigated. for Laying Fowls You will find STAR SCRATCH FEED a food of many excel- lent qualitjes. STAR SCRATCH FEED is a clean food, no waste, contain- ing meaty, wholesome grains | that are essentially necessary to produce a well balanced grain ration for the laying hen. It is just the kind of “hen scratch” that will please the fancier and breeder and keep the fowls in the pink of condi- tion. ‘There is only one kind, one grade and every bag alike, of the STAR SCRATCH FEED and you will know it by the big red star on every bag. Try the STAR SCRATCH FEED and note its excellent quality. enalers 1 iday report after report of cars being 727/ 478 Cars Are Recovered out of 576 Stolen During Past Year. Reports of the work of the police automobile squad for the fiscal year Just ended, it is stated, make a showing that is gratifying to police officlals and persons familiar with automobile thefts and police work in other large cities. - The. reports show a total of 575 cars stolen or taken by Joyriders. and a recovery of 478 cars, Riving the city the advantage of an 83.13 per cent recovery. Dotectives Hughlett, Jett, Alllgood and Connors, composing the auto- mobile £quad, have been kept busy the entire twelve months. Day after stolen were received, and each re- port meant an investigation, some of the ln\‘vs“%lonn taking the detec- tives many fniles distant. Joyriders gave the squad much annoyance. Machines were taken from ome section.and found abandon- ed in another, and in numerous in- stances, the reports show, trusted chauffeurs “borrowed” their em- ployers' cars, and made it necessary for the detectives to lose much time in making investigations. In several instances members of the squad journeyed as far as sev- eral hundred miles and drove back stolen cars or cars taken by joy- riders and abandoned. Members of quad, as well as higher up police ofticlale. were delizhted at some of the sentences given in Joyriding ses by Jjustices of the ~Supreme Court of the District. believing the sentences will bave a tendency to re- duce the instances of joyriding in the future. “Two or three y for joyriding e sentence.” palice severe when it taken into copsideration that many thousands of dollars damage results from this reprehensible prac- tice during’the course of a year.” | ORDERED TO PHILADELPHIA. Capt. James S. Taylor, Naval Medi- cal Corps. in the- bureau of medicine and surgery, Navy Department, has been assigned to duty at the navy ard, * Philadelphia Z P Z Z A good ful design, handle. Sp Y 72222 2, 7 7 pieces—all with cane back: Rocker and Fireside Chair. A Suite that will add wing Cl Op inch Pedestal Base Dinin ip, it i and fine workmanshi A most attractive Suite sisting of large Dresser, attractive price for Tuesday \ ~ ble anteed. Water Jug forobe and Square-end, Full- Complete with Flexi- 3 \ 1921— PART 1 NATIONAL GUARD NEWS Capt. Herman H. Pohl, Engineer Corps, U. 8. A., has been relleved from his present duty as student instructor at the Massachusetts ' Institute of Technology, effective August 20, and has been detuiled as instructor pf engineers, District of Columbia Na-| tional Guard. Capt. Pohl will be in charge of il drills after August 20. Joseph L. Hall, a member,of Com- pawy tered the employ of the Shipping Board and is now en route to Ham- burg, Germany. N Company C. Engineer Regiment, un- der the command of Capt. Harry E! Gladman, will hold a smoker and en- tertalnment Tuesday evening. The first_platoon, which secured the least number of reeruits for that company in the recent recruiting campaign, will act as guards of honor on the oc- caslon. Company B of the Engineer Regi- ment, . was_organized last Tucsday evening under the command of First Lieut. John R. Kain. Fifty men of Company C were transferred to form the new company. Clerks in company quarters have been busy during the past week pre- paring armory drill pay rolls for the six months ended June 30. The rolls will'be submitted to the finance officer, Third Corps Area, Fort Howard, Md., for payment. Members of the District Guard who desire to try out for the rfle team which is to” represent the gpard at the pational matches at Camp Perry, Ohlo, in September, are practicing at nge at Camp Simms on Wed- and Saturday afternoons. On sday afternoorf a bus leaves the armory at' 4:30 and picks up pas- sengers at ith street and Pennsyl- vanla avenue, then proceeding to the range. On Saturday afternoons the bus leaves the armory at 1 o'clock and picks up passengers at Tth street and Pennsylvania avenue at 1:15. The following men enlisted in the ard during the past week: Sidney 7. Huntt, Eugene M. Moriarty, Claudius B. McCuller, Joseph L. Johnson, Thom- as A. Fallon, John A. Giovannini. David Waters. John C. Walters, Nor- size Jug, in grace- and with capable ecial, / 79c¢ | * Closed All Day Monday, July 4th These Furniture Specials for Tuesday Every Item a Money-Saver. Liberal Terms of Credit for the Asking A, Engineer Regiment, has en- | . William L. Nl]le%, man E. Pruitt, William C. Sillers and William Burke. The annual ‘camp of instruction of the District of Columbia National Guard will be held at Camp Simms, D. C., from July 9 to 16, inclusive, and at Camp Humphreys, Va. from July 17 to %3, inclusive. MARINE CORPS | - > Membership Increased Nearly One- NEW There are 815,000 members in good standing in the 1,407 lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks In the United States, an creagsed membership of nearly one- century of the order's history. The figures for July 1 were made public here tonight by Col. John P. Sullivan, and chairman of the Grand Lodge committee on new membership, harge of membership work through- 818,000 ELKS INU. S. | INDICTED AS VIGILANTES. 71 Men Face Charge as Result of Disorderg Near Mines, 1 PRINCETO) . July 2.—Indict- ments against seventy-one men were returned today by the Gibson county grand jury, which has been investi- gating disorders recently which re- Third in Last Year. ORLEANS, La., July in- e e the Tast yens and the sulted in many forelgners bein ; riven from mining communitie greatest yearly growth in the half |5, "here, Sixty of the indictments charge rioting at the village of Fran- cisco, where a xroup of vigilantes ordered a mine superintendent and 100 forejgn-born mihers to leave their homes. ' Eleven indictments charge riotous conspiracy. After returning the indictments the past grand exalted ruler in ¢ the United States this past vear. | grand i The board to consider changes in|Col. Sullivan telegraphed the figures | Tye; tion will b to William M. Abbott of San Fran- | resu t aid, with the cisco, grand exalted ruler. | possibility of additional indictmentg. dell C. Neville presiding. The princi- pal chahges to be cinsidered are in relation to {he overcoat, which may be modified 8o as to approximate for officers the length prescribed for en- listed men and possibly a change to the standing turn-over collar and as to the adoption of full dfess evening social dress, and relative to design of an oveiscas cap. Officers’ Permanent Status. The list of temporary captains and lieutenanis of the Marine Corps, Who are to be separated from the service in accordance with the provisions of the act of June 4 0, is reaching completion. Many 'temporary officers have tbeen given permanent appoint- ments and others have reverted to u civilian status. This final list will complete the process of .transfer_ of temporary officers to a permaiient status. the Marine Corps uniform met at headquarters June 23, Maj. den. Wen- All edwcational and professional in- stitutions in Italy are now open to women. ANY WATCH REPAIRED $2 SEABRIDGE JEWELRY CO. 724 9th St. N.W. 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