Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1921, Page 10

Charge Accounts to Responsible Parties / Peanut Butter ‘\ ‘ A Delicious Food Absolutely Pure. Large Glass Jars - 10¢ At your dealers or delivered anywhere in this city. WILL SELL HOTEL TO AID WIFE ACCUSED AS SLAYER Mrs. Stubbs Confessés at Tacoma She Is Maude Moore, Wanted in Knoxville, Tenn, By the Associated Press. - TACOMA, Wash.,, August 27. Mrs. William R. Stubbs, who confessed that she is Maude Moore, wanted in Knoxville, Tenn., for slaying Leroy Harth in 1919, late today waived ex- tradition formalities. She said she would accompany her bondsmen to Tennessee without formality. They will start tomorrow or Monday. - Mr. Stubbs, who married the fugi- tive last November, sald he ‘would sell his hotel here and go to defend his wife. He said he did not know unti] today that Mrs. Stubbs was Maude Moore. Mrs. Stubbs today was chiefly in- terested in her personal appearance. “I want my friends in Knoxville to see me as I was,” she declared. *“I have many friends who will help me. 1 obtained $1,000 from them when I left Knoxville in June, 1920.°1 came to Tacoma and here I have been since. 2 Delivered by Regular Carrier CALL MAIN" 5000 and the service will House PAINTS . HPC $ tart AT ONCE- All Colors, Including White. . No Colors Extra. You will receive all that you had expected of paint in HPC House Paint, which wraps its protect- ing coat around your cherished home, with pleasing effect, saving the surface—thus saving all. Your paint problem answered just for the asking. J. W. HUNT CO. We Ship Anywhere ~ Phone M. 1352 - 1215 H St. N.W. WINDOW SHADES AND CURTAIN MATERIALS For Monday Only Window Shades—w! ite, green or ecru color, 49c. Double Border Scrims, yard wide, in cream color or floral design, % yard. Yard-wide Marquisette, plain or white or ecru, 19c. Madras, yard wide, 35c. Block or Dotted Swiss, 29¢ yard. Sun-fast Draperies, 49¢c yard up. Quaker Lace, yard wide, 35¢ up. Beautiful range of Cretonnes from 19¢ to 75c yard. This material formerly sold for almost twice this price. 54-inch Velour, in practically all colors, $2.50 yard up. Nice assortment of ready-made Scrim, Marquisette or Lace Curtains, from $1.00 to $6.00, in pairs or 3 pieces. Also showing a complete stock of Novelty Reed Furni- ture, at greatly reduced prices. Upholstery and Novelty Supply Store “The Delight Drapery Shop” < 911 Seventh St. N.W, 616 17th St. South of Pe. Ave. We Give the Values and Get the Business .-Every Broken Lot —Fancy Suits —Blue Serge Suits —Black Suits " One, Two-or Three of a Kind Only—Sizes From 33 to 46 | Suits Laid Aside With Deposit—No Charge for A‘l:mfim,| Money'’s Worth or Money Back e g e i it B R 5 D.J.K,fmah ’s Man’s Stores Of the Season - TN z = | Marylana—Partiy cloudy today: Evening & Sunday Star | -60c a Month || ana east winds. l].. Today- I 10:017p. President Indorses T AMRND NEW YORK, Auguat 27. " Nine Charged With Conspir- expressing regret teday at be- unable because of public busi- acy and Using Mails to Defraud. mess to inspect the Boy Scoutw’ encampment in Interstate Park, Preaident By the Associated Press. 5 CHICAGO, August 27.—Charles W. ment to Chief Scout Exeeutive West, a letter drive French and eight of those named with Lim in the alleged $50,000,000 indorsing the membershi; “swindle ring" were arraigned toda; mew being conducted. “The Boy Scout movement has before United States Commissionel Glass, charged with conspiracy and mow been in progress xo long.” Preaide: using the malils to defraud. They said the “that nobody at all familiar with its results could waived examination and were bound over'to the grand jury. French’s bonds ly do its excel- lent influence upon both boys were set at $15,000, and the others at $5,000 each war, and that its preseat ont- | look 1s 80 promising.” h. The others arraigned are Rudolph g. 11(40}".' Charles H. Denicke, James . ‘Le THE WEATHER et, Charles Hawkins, Alva W. For the District of Columbia and| Harshman, Elmer L. Gerber, A. L. to- iillrelllln :’nd ;?hnrles K. Strobel. Mrs. morrow unsettled, possibly showers; | (harles, Hawking breviously wis ro; not much change in temperature; gen- | Z. W. Davis, arrested at Canton today, ‘south | Was released there on $25.000 bond. 2:;:1: moderate east, shifting to south | e, 1y Gre awaiting word from Call- * fornia of the arrest.there of -lwo per- For Virginia—Partly cloudy today;|sons who were expected to be taken tomorrow ' unsettled, - possibly * locsl | into custedy today. : showers; ‘not_much change-in tem-| . . Total Over $30,000,000. perature; moderate’ ta fresh noftheast John Swwken, agent of the Depart- \ elonay.| ment of Justice at Cleveland, brought For West 'Virginia—Partly ® cloudy: today: ‘tomorrow. unsettled, probably Fronch band to Ou\cany Fre J:fm;x’:f showers; not much change in tem-{menting $9, ich he seized at perature. Cleveland sev The latest Yesterday’s Temperature. haul brings the s d total of Midnight, 57; 2 a.m., 55; 4 a.m., 54; 6| otes, certificate: ts, stocks, 5o 0 am. 69 bonds acceptances taken from persons unller arrest. in con- nection with the case to more than 1 $50,000,000. elative huraldit SR 2| Kohn and Denicke were released on A Dumidl S bonds furnished by = Albert Sabath, Rainfail (8 p.m. to'$ p.m.) 0. their attorney. Sabath told news- H OUERIOf BaRShIn e AP paper men Kohn's American Rubber Per- cent- of passible sunshine, 99|Company was in bad condition, and Der Cont that Kohn planned to file a petition Temperature same date last year— |Monday for a receiver. Kohn, the at- Highest, 17; lowest, 64. torney sald, had been duped by French A and had lost $10,000 in the financier's alleged schemes. Furnished by United States coast Notes Declared Forgery. and geodetlo survey.) o.s5 %m. and|. Evidence disputing the -claim of Z. 3 > s | W: -Davis, Cleveland and Canton mil- e high tide, 2:47 ‘amn. andy, .ire, that $600,000 of Davis notes Tombrrow—Low tide, 10:56 a.m. and |seized by federal agents in the in- 11:06 p.m.; high tide, 3:53 am. and |vestigation of Charles W. French and W24 pm. i his alleged “swindle ring” are either R i twenty vears old or else forger was made public tonight by Col. John Today—Sun rose, 5:32 a.m.; sun sets, | V. Clinnin, tant United States 6:46 p.m. district attor . Tomorrow—Sun rises, 5:33 a.m.; sun| The evidence produced by Col. Clin- sets, 6:44 p.m. nin is a letter on the stationerx of the Moon rises, 12:24 am.; sets, 3:03 | Diamond Portland Cement Company, pm. of which Davis is president, and Autmobile lamps to be lighted -ne-|signed with his nam It is dated half hour after sunset. March 20, 1921, at Cleveland, and ad- Up-River Waters. ™ dressed to E. J. Coach of that city. The letter, after recommending HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. august | French to_Coach, and indorsing the 27—The Potoniac Bhoth clear this | Securities development company being doah rivers were bo organized by French at Kansas City, evening. > Mo., says, in parf Temperatures in Various cm;-.[ : $50,000 in Cask Given. Ytation, | . “Other men have given Mr. French o | $400.000 in personal notes, and 1 have -{®iven him $600.000 in my personal pa- per and $50.000 in cash with which to lize his organization at Kansas who econstitute the mem) hip .and the men who erously of their time, efforts and means to fits maintemances It has been especially gratifying to me that this movement hus proved ftselt stromg envugh to maintain enthusiasm and effee- | tive work since the close of the lowest, 53.8. Asheville, Atl; andum attached to $600,000 notes as d October 1, 1920, 000 each dated vember 18, 1920. The list corresponds Cineinnati, with the six notes surrendered at Mil. Inside and Owtside . . ] Shines By Bootblack Cause His Undoing By the Associated;Press. NEW YORK, August 27— Charged with giving his patrons & shine, both tnside and outside, James "de Johm, a Brooklyn bootblack, taday was held for the d jury for nlleged vio- the state prohibition 1a «~ The police asserted that strangers could get only an out- side shine, but that old-timers, if they whispered the word, would 1, bottle of hootch in their coat pockets” on leaving the stand. Outside shiney cost 10 cents; inside, a half dollar. ADMITS HE LED GANG IN $1,000,000 HOLD-UP Codfessioh Alleged to Have Been Made by “Canada Bill” in Case of Toledo Post Office Robbery. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 27.—A donfes- sion that he was the 'leader of the gang that committed a $1,000,000 1old- lup.at the central post office In Toledo last February was attributed by thé police today to Willlam Treffry, also known as Canada Bill, who is in jail here. awaiting trial on a charge of robbing a jewelry store. The announcement was made when Charles Fox was arraigned in con- nection wigh a $5,000 bond robbery in New York. Post office inspectors said in court that they had a warrant for Fox in connection with the Toledo robbery. City detectives sald that Treffry, in his contession in regard to the Toledo hold-up, had Implicated Fox in it. 4 On information furnished by Treffry, the detectives said, a number of bonds stolen in Wall street prior to the Toledo hold-up - had been recovered. Fox was held for a hearing. LEGION MEN ON TOUR. Convention Members §lghneehg in North Carolina County. HENDERSONVILLE, N. C, August —Members of the American Legion in North Carolina, in convention here, are today. touring Henderson county, visiting Chimney Rock, Bat Cave and other points of interest. The conven- tion comes to a close tonight with dances at Laurel Park pavilion and Carolina terrace. Winston-Salem and Greensboro are bidding strongly for the next state convention, but no decision has been 2 N 7 7 South of Cheyenne,” Wyo.... wauk ednesday by Alva Harsh- Ohlo. w! man, French’ te secretary and treagurer of the Pacific Trust Com- pany of Missouri, parent organization 0.04] of the ‘securitics development and some twenty other compapies. The Davis letter was seized at Cleveland by John W. Sawken, agent of the Department of Justice, who brought it and $10.000,000 in unsigned g|notes of the Ideal Tire and Rubber Company of Cleveland to Chjcago to- day. The notes were turned over to Sawken at Cleveland yesterday by R. D. Swan, a broker, and brother- 6.6 [in-law of Charles Hawkins, who was ed here with French a week ago. Sawken previously took $9,050, 00 in notes and securities found in a Cleveland safety deposit box rented by Elmer Gerber. Sulelde Rumored Again. Charles K. Strobel, Akron, Ohlo, . |real estate man, and one of French's :|Ohio agents, was in conference with Col. Clinnin late today following his 0.18 - {he had made a statement covering his relations with other members of :|the French crowd. “Strobel told me,” Col. Clinninesald, that French repeatedly told him that ‘I_am a confidence man. and you must have confidence in me. Belief that W. C. Littleton, presi- dent of the Consolidated Automobile Company of Dayton, which went into bankruptey today, ' had “committed suicide again” at Minneapolls a few days ago was expressed to Clinnin today by Alva Harshman. Littleton’s clothes and a farewell note, saving he had jumped into Lake Michigan, were found in Grant Park here on the morning of August 9. Clinfin has sent for a picture of the body of a F2223RTRRLARRL2ATULTNIYRIRUI22TINTI 2R FPEIRIRBIBIBVRRERRLZ 1005-07 Penna. Avenue at Minneapolis, to see if Harshman can identify it as Littleton. Ag anonymous correspondent in Chicago today sent French $25 in currency by registared mail to the county jail. - Bankruptey Petition Filed. DAYTOY, Ohio, August 27.—Petition in bankrdptey was filed here today by the Consolidated Automobile Com- pany, which, through its president, W. C. Littleton, had offered $180,000 iof its notes to C. W. French, alleged master mind of the $50,000,000 stock swindle. Liabilities of the company are listed at $144,000 and assets at $184,000, of which $84,000 is said to be in-ques- tionable securities. Littleton has been missing from Dayton for two weeks. A report that he committed suicide in Chicago is doubted by authorities here, who are hunting him on a charge of having cashed on two local banks two checks given him by French which later turned out to be .10 good. SAY PACKERS CONTROL N. Y. MARKET STALLS Combine to Keep Up Prices Alleged in Quarrel Over Graft in Public Markets. By the Associated Fress. ‘NEW YORK, August 27.—Charges that Chicago packers control the stalls in public markets here and combine to keep prices high were| made public today in connection with | a controversy between officials and a legislative committee which has ob- tained evidence of graft paid to city employes by fenants of markets. Commissioneér of Accounts Hirsh. field, a member of Mayor Hylan's a ministration, gave out testimony given before him by Raymond'Smith, | who said he was an agent for the American National Livestock Asso- ciation and a former Federal Trade Commission investigator. Mr. Smith declared Chicago packing interests had organized the stall hold- ers to destroy the department of pub- lic markets, and he said one of the legislative commission’s counsel was head of the legal talent retained by Chicago packers for the protection of their interests and those of the stall holders. N “The true fact,” he maintained, “is that the stand holders in the markets are merely dummiés for the Chicago packers, and that there is a combina- tion among these men to: keep “the prices up, and any one who obtains a stand or permit and cuts prices in public markets d not remain long in business ther —_— Miss Josephine TFitts of Adams county has the distimction of being the first Mississippl woman to. be elected a county superintendent: of instruction. 72 release on bond, and it was reported | bond salesman, who drowned himself || Pa. Ave. 727 W Z 7 % N Z N 7, % N 727222 % W 72 shirt—$1.29, 100 A DAY MAKE VISITS TO GEN. LEE MAUSOLEUM Average Reoord During Summer Is Given by Mrs. Pate, Daughters . of Confederacy Custodian. LEXINGTON, Va. August 27.—Vis- itors to the mausoleum of Gen. Robert B. Lée, the great Confedefate chieftain, have averaged 100 daily during this sum- mer, according to Mrs. Charles B. Tate of Pulaski, the first custodian appointed by the United Daughters of the Confed- eracy, Virginia division, which has un- ertaken the work of maintaining a cus- ian at the solicitation of Dr. Henry .| Louis Smith, president of Washington and Lee University here. To provide the salary of the custodian and publish pamphlets which the Vir- ginia division of the SRS kO ‘8 0 <<§>, 13X D. J. Kaufman’s Man’s Stores We Give the Values and Get the Business Starting Monday---8 A.M. D. J. KAUFMAN’S Famous Emery ~ Shirt Sale Only 6 Shirts to a Customer! Collar Evolution T 12 the boy is collarless; at 16 over- collared; at 26 sanely collared for _comfort and appearance both when he The Tolman Launydry _Cor. 6th and C Streets N.W. 3,000 Fine Emery Neglige Shirts that were made to sell from $2.00 to $4.00—on §ale tomorrow, Monday, morning— at both stores at 8 o’clock. < E take the manufacturer’s entire balance of the famous Emery Shirts each year. 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Senff of New York, a native Virginian and mem- ber of the Stonewall Jackson Chapted) at Richmond. Quotas have been as- signed each state chapter. Gifts from other states probably will be received. throplc Lodg= here seventy-five years 0. -‘Todly the organization presented him with 102 roses. Best Results —Painting » —P: 3 | Our Motto. | —Uphoistering For Quality Work at Moderats Cost Consult 1325 14¢h S1, Maia ARTILLERY MAJORS RETIRED. Majs. James C. Wilson, Ralph C. Harrison and John R. Ellis. all of the Coast Artillery Corps, have been placed on the retired list of the Army on account of disabilities incident to Vi United Daughters the service. & RGO 2 TOLMANIZES! F. W. MacKENZIE, Manager & A TOLMANIZED starched collar is petal- smooth and ivory-white. Get the feel and you'll 1t. always want Phone Franklin 71. KOFPTOIOLOTOX: 93 eRsRRee 22, 1605-07 Penna. Avenue 72202277, 722 727772277, 2 2007022 - N, 22227, 2 %, 7% Y, 277 Z 7222 72 % ! -