Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1921, Page 1

) WEATHER. Fair today 'and fomorrow; slightly rmer today. Temperature for twenty-two hours an‘dct: llt 10 oe)ogk h.t night: flllh- est, 7 Full report on page 12. Fntered as 28,280. Tos"omde. Weshington, HEAVILY ARMED BANDS _ [PRESDENT-VEWS. 'ON WAY TO LYNCH TWO 5000“DEVL D0gs” ond-class matter % = , No. 862.—No. WASHINGTON, D. HELD IN BEACH MURDER N VIMIC BATTLE Three Parties Set Out for Monttoss Jail lntent On Taking Eastlake and Miss Knox for Slaying Former’s Wife. COUPLE DENY KNOWLEDGE OF CRIME; MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IS IMPLICATED Blood-Stained Dagger Is Found ; Declared to Point to in Home, Which, With Letter, Is Probable Guilt of the Imprisoned Man. and' Woman. ¥rom a Staft Correspondent. COLONIAL BEACH, Va, October 2.—Three lynching par- ties, heavily armed, comprising about twenty-one men, left heré a little before midnight last night for the Montross jail, about twenty miles away, intent on lynching Roger D. Eastlake, a chief petty officer of the Navy, and Miss Sarah E. Knox, held there in connection with the murder Friday morning of Mrs. Fastlake. The Montross jail authorities have telephoned for reinforce- ments from nearby towns. The lynching parties went out separately and quietly. men bore shotguns, pistols and some of them carried ropes. Feeling has been high in this little community since the coroner’s jury, Friday afternoon, held Eastlake and Miss Knox for the murder of Mrs. Eastlake, whose mangled body was.re- ported discovered early the same day.by Miss Knox. All yester- day grougs of men gathered and the talk was of lynching. Last The night the groups dispersed, the men going in different directions,, to meet in appointed spots a ‘few hours later. The men were in automobiles. They should reach Montross ]afl at about 1.-0’clo or a little later this morning. Newspaper men from Philadelphia, Balumorc and Washing- ton accompanied the parties at their own. Blood-Covered Dagger Found. Detective T. K. Boulware, with blood. He believes that this in- strument was used with the hafchet|only prisoners confined in ‘the anti- in the cold-blooded murder of Mrs. | quateg, two-story, brigk. jail at Mon= Eastlake. Neighbors of (he Eastl 0~ right positively identified thie DAtCHeL found in a clump of bushes near the|figor: that | tima. today talking to each other in \Acegrdinis to] aods that was inaudible to persons the information gathered by Detective | outside. home of the murdered woman. belonging to Eastlake. \ Boulware. the weayon used In hack- ing the skull of Mrs. Eastlake had been seen on numerous occasions on the porch. of .the Eastlake house Eastlake testified at the corgner’s in- quest that he had never 8 hatchet. Detective Boulware also said he personally identified the .32-caliber pistol found in Miss Knox's handbag as one which Mrs. Eastlake offered to lend him several months ago. Couple Believed Guilty. This evidence, together with the letter Eastlake wrote to Miss Knox. in which he is alleged to have invited the woman down here to “frame a plot,” has convinced the authorities that they have in custody the guilty parties. Watt Mayo. commonwealth attor- ney of Westmoreland county, made a thorough investigation of the crime with Detective Boulware and the town sergeant, W. T. Hall. A number of the neighbors of the Eastlakes were questioned and, .it is said, gave the authorities important information. Several hundred residents of Colonial Beach and scores of others from the surrounding country crowded the little invekti-| woman of my appearance would com- gating the crime, found lying in the|mit such an outrageous crime as corner of the bedroom of the East-|chopping a woman to death? Jake house a small dagger covered| certainly, I am innocen: some distance in automobiles of ment, but added: “Do you think & ‘Why, Eastlake and Miss Knox are the tross. He Is occupying a cell on the Wr tier of the prison. She is-in a irectly under him on the ground They decupied most of their Correbérate Statements. Both of the prisoners in the inter. view corroborated in almost exact detail the story they told the coro- een this|Per'S jury. Eastlake, however, indi- jcated that he“was greatly worried jover a bill of $2.75 that he owed & Washington newspaper for an adver- tisement he inserted some time ago, and insisted that the reporter pay i the bill when he returned to Wash- ington. The reporter accepted the money under protest, but promised to ‘pay the bill. Eastlake said the advertisement in the paper was-relative’to @ course in physical culture which he had plan- ned to give in Washington. He said that he had requested the Navy De- partment to transfer him to the Na- ‘tional Capital. Referring to the morning the mur- der was committed, Eastlake said he left home at 5:30 o'clock after Kisa- ing his wite good-bye. “I went di- rectly to the boat,” he said, “and as it started to shove off Willlam B. Carruthers yelled at me, saying that I wife was dead. I belleved him to be kidding, and T laughed, but a ghastly look came over Carruthers’ St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church | face and" I returned to the house here vesterday afternoon, to attend the funeral services of Mrs. Easflike. The services were conducted by Rev. Thomas P. Becker, pastor. Large floral tributes sent by friends and members of the church were banked high around the coffin. Eastlake was superintendent of the Sunday school of this church and with him.” Says He Was in Japan. Eastlake emphasized the fact that his father is Dr. W. D. Eastlake, who spent many years in Japan, trans- lating American literature for pub- lication in the Japanese language. He resigned several months ago, following | 82id that he was in Japan for four- a controversy with the vestrymen. The charges made by the vestrymen, which led to his resignation as superintend- ent, were to the effect that Eastlake was holding clandestiné meetings with Miss Knox. i Pastor Claims Body. teen years, with his father. He also said that He had an excellent record in the Navy and referred to several of his friends for reference. Miss Knox, who claims she is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, declared that .she had been a friend jof the Eastlake family for several Rev. Thomas H. Yardley of Ca-)years. She said that late Thursday tonsville, Md., brother-in-law of Mrs. Eastlake, came here tonight andl claimed the body. It will be shipped from here this afternoon for Philadel- phia, where the burial will take place. The body will be taken across the Potomac to Popes Creek. Md.®and from there it will be sent to Balti- more, and thence to Philadelphia, Mrs. Eastlake’s former home. Mrs. Mabel Chambers of Philadel- phia, sister of Eastlake, also came here last night, and she sought the custody of the two Eastlake children, Roger and Catherine. She was per- mitted to keep the children tempo- rarily at the Lynnwood Hotel, while arrangements are being made with the authorities to secure permanent Possession of the children. Deny Murder Charge. 1In their first statements to the pub- lic since their arrest, Miss Knox and Eastlake emphatically denied any connection with the brutal slaying of the latter’s wife here Friday. ‘These Statements were given to ‘& repre- sentative of The Star in an inter- view at the Westmoreland county jail at Montross, Va., where they ate being held for the action by the grand jury on charges of first degree murder. “I am innocent, God knows I am,” said Eastlake, “I protest in my fnno- cence” - Miss Knox made s similar state- night she was suffering with a heart attack-and went out of her room in the De Atley Hotel to “get some air.” “I walked over to the Eastlake home,” she said, “and stood ardund the house until daylight. When Mr. Eastlake left for work I went to the porch of. the house and heard Mrs. Eastlake call my name. I ran into the house and fouhd the two children crying. Roffer, the little boy, told me that his mother was hurt. } open- ed the door which ‘enters into the kijchen snd found Mrs. Eastlake's body lying on the floor with her head terribly mangled., I shoved her feet.in- side in order to pass, and after examin- ing her I went out and notified the neighbors.” 55 Ate in Night Clothes. ‘When _questioned as to why she did not emter the Eastlake cottage until Eastlake had left for work, Miss Knox replied: “It is customary for Mr. Eaftlake to eat his breakfast in his night clothes and I'did not waat to enter the house and see him in such a condition.” Ske declined to answer questions as to her famillarity with Eastlake's early morning habits. Miss Knox was a willing talker. Eastlake, however, gave'out his -uu. ment under protest. = Miss Knox said -she sympatht with Eastlake and referred to him as (Continued on Page 2, ?ollm‘m 7). Nat:on S Head Is Fascmated by Stnrrmg, Maneuyers on Wilderness Battlefield. OTHER NOTABLES SEE M!\RINES IN ACTION Airplanes and Signal Corps Play Active Parts—Lejeune Extols Troops. !yl !illl' Corréspondent. By Marine _Airplane to The Star. MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Camp Harding, the Wilderness, Va. October L—I Warren: G. Harding, commander-in- chief of the armed forces of the United States, today, for'the first time in his® official capacity, witnessed a milldary. maneuver performed by fully- equipped . troops, when 5,000 “devil d0gs.” now campalgning in mimic warfare in_the Wilderness' famous fastnesses, under Gens. Lejeune and Butler, went. through a battalion maneuver. It was the. culminating exhibition of tactical formations at the end®bf a week's_hard campaigning and dis- played the various methods by which jan expeditionary force -of marines, landing' on a hostile shore, would prepare. for thelr gwn advance with smoke, gas and high explosives, “in- fiitrate” their first line thrQugh the enemy's mobile reserves, st diffi- cult objectives, and finally “roll up" the fortified defenders and “secure” their.newly won positions, * Makes, Stirring Pleture. " The “war game” made a mighty pretty:picture for the Commander-in- Chlef, and the distinguished party of copgressional and military visitors that - accompanied him. An autumn codlness tempered theair. The roll- ing ‘and wooded ridges that once intrencped the Blue and the Gray in theif bitierest combat reverberated to' “the, vrderot- rat-tat-tat of | the maching, gunz. ‘The plunging ad- '8 of the infantfy, fully equipped {0t ‘Bervice [n the field. could be noted for miles and miles down the valley of ‘Wilderness run by the cracking explosions of harid grenaded atnd the roll of riftg fire. The terrific defonations of the bat- tery of 166 mm. guns, the most mo-' bile of heavy artillery now khown to our tioops, gtartled the visitors at a distance of several miles. The signal rockets, many colored, told the initi- ated what to anticipate in the way of actlon. A Caquot observation balloon h¥ng languidly high up in the hwzy blue_sky, reporting troop movemeats by teldphone to headquarters, just ts Prof...Lowe reported to Gen. Grat fifty-seven years ago, in almost thy same Identical spot, close by the Wil- derness iavern. A squadron of airplanes swooped and zoomed-about the various valley camps . “observing” also, dropping messages: which they got by radio from headquarters commander, or per- baps soaring high aloft, like an ob- serving eagle; to direct the blank-shot artillery fire, 8o it would accurately reach its targets on each hilltop and hollow. Signal Corps men, with huge reels of wire and small boxes, constituting the fleld telephone equipment, followed closely after thé first-line men, so that the colonel of each regiment might keep in jnstant communication with his headquaFters commander. ’I'I'I.Illll Witness “Battle.” Thousands ‘of small town and coun- try folk' crowded the roadways with their vehicles, which were parked by the. thousands ir special areas out of danger from the high explosives that were used. Many local farmers cast worried looks at the ranks of soldiers charging over. bean and turnip patches. Civil %ar veterans, in the Blite and Gray, led squads of visitors about the celebrated spots where the Wilderness fighting had been: hottest, digging for old bullets in the sofl and fallen trees, and discoursing of their own personal experiences. Following “the manoeuvers, the presidential party traversed much of the- historic battlegrounds, under in- struction ‘of wilitary guides who had particularly” posted themselvés as to lu;. scenes and locations of the Wilder- ness battle in_fay, 1364. Both the |Preuldem and Mrs, Harding seemed to H take exceptional interest; in these scenes, as the President's father had an-active part in the civil war, and is_given to remiiniscing over the cele- brated events. { President Harding left the White House at 9:35 am..and arrived at 12/45 p.m., making the eighty-five-mile journey without mishap. His en- tourage of three cars made a slow ltrlp through the winding roads of the Wilderness camps, and was met by serried’ lines of marines at attention, | the “Star Spangled Banner,” played by | three different bands, and the, presi- gential salute. ' . - % mt “Roughs It.” He . was received by Maj.' Gen. Lejeune, commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps, and Brig Gen. Smedley Butler, force commander; Assistant Secretary of the-Navy Roosevelt, who arrived via airplane from Washington at noon, and Governor Westmoreland Devis of Virginia, who officially wel- comed him in the npme of the state of, . ghortly after d@rrival at the “Wilder- ness White -Hotse,”Z as the_ luxuripus neR e e o TTPR (domnuwon wo k3 Colutin'2:) ] C., SAYS HERE THE V'R JoB AT JopLES! ¥ MEETI ; SQUASH CENT SUNDAY MORNING, COMMENTS ON THE JOBL ]"Si CONFEREN OCTOBER 2, Lo ,%E» W = 1921 MINERS VOTE DELAY N WAGE DEMANDS Suppo'rt Lewis’ Advice Not to Disclose Terms Six Months in Advance. BY the Associated Prexs. INDIANAPOLIS, October ponement until next February ‘In the framing of coal miners’ wage demands was_voted today by the convention of the United"Mine Workers of “America. In doing so, the delegates overwtelm- |ingly approved the ‘recommendation of President John L. Lewis, who urged the delay so as not to_ disclose the miners® terms six months before the expiration of present agreements with 6ligh there Was no discussion of { nej: demands, the delegates indicated t wtqwm a strike, if necessary, to #, for they also approved lh‘ Vice' President Murray, in which he ‘declared in favor of fighting oy ‘tmprovement of contracts in both anthietite and bituminous flelds that edpire next March 31. Alarmed by Reports. Apparently alarmed by private advices from the West Virginia strike zone, the delegates also directed that an appeal be made to President Harding for the protectioh of 138 miners, who are pris- oners in the Logan and Williamson cvunty Jails. President Lewis appointed a cummittee to call at the White House next week, and in doing this he de- clared “there is ample reason to beiieve the lives of President C. F. Keeney of the West Virginia district and Secre- tary Fred Mooney and others are In jeopardy.” Keeney and Mooney are among those held on murder charges. " «“We want to prevent any massacre of these men in the West Virginia jalls,” ‘declared Lewis. Say Sheriff Threatens. N ‘White the exact nature of the West Virginia reports was withheld, it was learned that & letter had been re- ceived from Mr. Mooney. Interna- tional officers also said the prisoners at Williamson had become fearful be- cause Sheriff Don Chafin, Logan county sheriff, visited the Mingo county jail and threatened the prison- ers. The committee to call on Presi- dent Harding is composed of J. B. Wiggins of Spriggs, W. Va.: F. C. Hughes of Clifford, -Ilis, and E. J. Giles of Chariton, Towa. In addition, the convention went on record as opposing wage reduc- tions by pledging the union’s financial support to Colorado and Washington miners, now ‘idle after refusing to accept the reductions. Further the delegates voted to raise approximately $1,500,000 by special assessment of members of the union, but in doing so did not specify any purpose for using the money. = Net Cash, $487,000. The action in lévying the ‘assess- ment was taken after approving the report of William -Green, ‘secretary- treasurer, which showed the union’s net available cash to be $487,000. Wage inereases obtained after the soft coal strike two years ago were about half as large as asked by the miners, who also demanded a six- hour day and five-day week. Besides its action on the West Vir- ginia situation d the wage ques- tfon, the gonvention authorized a test case of the Kansas industrial court act being prosecuted to, ma Supreme Court. The attagk on the Kansas tndustrial j ourt probably will be by.a_duit to enjoin enforcemert of ing it. Mr. Lewis told the delegate: t effort would be made to have in- ational and Kansas district offi- clals @gree on- a case. He sald he expected Kansas state officials Would be willing to expedite action. Kansas union, officials, hé said, had repuised efforts of the intergational fofficers to get an agreement for mutual action. Mr, Lewls added that legal attacks made by Alexander Howat, the Kan- sas ‘miners’ leader, had ‘been “fram the wrong- mw' and: failed to raise 1.—Post, ! the law créat- Italian-Paper Praises Secretary Hughes as Leader in Conference By the Associated Press. ROME, October 1.—The Glor- nale D'Italia xays today that E. Hughes, United retary of State, will be the greatest mind. the most the mont Sgure at the coming conference in Washington, Tt | expresnes hope same “star chamber wecrecy” which it awserts characterized 1be preceedings In Versailles will mot Be obrerved. | The newspaper urges the gove- [[ | emmestss xend Its best men to combine with France and Great Britain for the protection, of lhr-pn tnterents, the that the AND AUTO COLLIDE IThree Others Injured in Ac- cident at 4th and M. Streets. One death. a serlous injury and twe minor injuries resulted from the crash of an automobile operated by Albert Moore of Clinton, Md., and a one-man street car of the Washington Railway and Electric Company yesterday aft- ernoon at 4th and M streets. All of the injured were occupants of the automobile, which was demolished. Miss Adele Ross, sixteen years old, of Baltimore, who was a member of the week end party which was visit- ing Mrs. Bessie Moore of 1205 10th street, sister-in-law to the operator of the machine,. died shortly after the accident at Sibley Hospital, from a fractured skull. Miss Mable Rawlings, twenty-two, of Waldorf, Md., suffered 'a. fractured pelvis from the accident. Her condition is regarded~as critical, but fatal result is not anticipated by Dr. W. B. Stibbs, resident physi- cian of Sibley Hospital, where both were taken following the accident. Dr. G. H. McGee treated both of the patients. Automebile Turned Over. Moore and his sister-in-law were both taken to Casualty Hospital, where they were treated for ocuts and bruises by Dr. L. B. Tibbitts. Neither is in serious condition. The automoblle was going east on M street at the time of the crash. The street car was running south on 4th street. The automobile, accord- ing to the police, was pushed several yards by the street car and turned over. The occupants were hurled from it. E. P. Miles, motorman of the street car, was not’placed under rrest. The railway company, how- ever,.announced that it would produce him in case authorities deemed his presence necessary at any investiga- tion. Inquest Tomorrow. The three out-of-town occupants of the machine had came to the city for a pleasure trip. At the time of the accident they were on their way to the home of Mf. and Mrs. Moore after spending part of the day sightseeing. An inquest will be held at the Dis- I trict morgue tomorrow. YALE T0 GET $5,000,000; ;Success of Endowment Drive, Re- poRed at Opening of University. pecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW HAVEN, Conn., October T—In- her endowment drive, Yalé Univer- sity has been pledged two million dollars, which sum ‘'was necessary to insure an offer of three millidn dol- lars made anonymously during com- mencement week in June, 1920, ab- cording to an announcement made by the treasurer of the university today. ‘The ‘opening of ; President’ Auallhllold«l express train on a west side ele- | try were obliged to go on arming, Mnlhll'tl'lllon was marked by the @nrollment of 830 students in the -freahman. class, which s the largest n.nhrln; class in the history of Yale.. ‘ GIRLKILLED AS CAR, HEARINGS ONK.K K SETFOROCTOBERTT Chairman Campbell An- nounces Date After Confer- | ence With Mr. Daugherty. ~ | After a conference with General Daugherty, Chairman Campbell of the Ibuse rules committee an-| nounced yesterday that publi¢ hearingg by the committee on resolutions to in- Attorney Klan would be held Tuesday, October 11. ‘While Chairman C: bell declined to discuss the nature of his talk with | the Attorney Geperal and also with iment of Justice bureau of investiga- | [llon. it wad indicated that Mr. Daugherty was not interposing ob- Jections to thy Plai of having Con- gress look into thé afMairs of the or- ganization. ‘Formal notice will be sent William J. Simmons, imperial wizard of the order, and propanents of pending resolutions { calling for an |nquiry by the House, to | attend the hearings, with such witnesses as they might desire to present. In tele- | €rams to senators and representatives yesterday Mr. Simmons asked for a sweeping investigation of the klan. i Some apposition has developed among House members, it is said, to an inves- tigation ‘on the ground that if one was the Department of Justice. The rules committee will- decide, however, whether.action shall be taken by the House. CHARGED WITH EXTORTION. L EER T, istudent Accused of Threat to Re- veal Ku Klux Klan Activities. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO. October 1.—Daniel Breen, a student, was indicted today on a charge of extortion, charged with at- jtempting to obtain $6,000 from Mrs. Charles W. Love, wife of a broker, under threat that he would reveal al- leged activities of her husband in the Ku Klux Klan. Breen, it was charged, mistook the broker for Charles W. Love of In- dianapolis, grand goblin of the klan in the great lakes domain. .FIVE WOUNDED IN FéAY. Texds Shefiff Tries to Wrest Flag From Klan Leader. WACO, Tex, October 1.—Five men were wounded in a gun fight between a sheriff’s posse and partici- pants in a Ku Klux Klan parade at Lofena, fourteen miles south of here, tonight. The fight took place at the inter- sectiol of the main business streets, where several thousand people had gathered to witness thé parade, when Sherift Bob Buchanan of McLennan county, leader of the posse, stepped in front of the approaching column and attempted to wrest the Ameri- can flag from the leading white-clad figure. In the free-for-all fighting , which ensued Sheriff Buchanan was-shot twice, once in the neck and once in_‘the body, and Lewis Crow, University here, Ipolu. was severely cut. M. Burton, { Carl ,West and Will Lawson were also wounded, although the extent of the finjuries has not been ascertuined. Four ~more wounded men were found latér and others are thought to have suffered” injuries, although, due to the crowds which thronged the treets, it was impossible to discover !-.n the tnjured tonight ! {ELEVATED TRAINS CRASH. CHICAGO, October 1.—Eight persons were infured; three of them seriously, | today, in a colllsion betweén a heavily Oneoi Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press in exclusively mtlfl-d to the use for republication <f £1l zews di credited to it or not otherwise criditad paper and also the local news published hereln, Al rights of publication of wpecial dispatches hereln are also reserved. FIVE CENTS. FLAMES RAGE THROUGH SCORES ESCAPE DEATH AS More than three hundred gue HISTORIC NATIONAL HOTEL Over Three Hundred Guests Climb or Are Car- ried Down Ladders—Four Hurt in Jumps From Upper Windows. WOMAN SAVED BY FALL INTO AWNING; ' FIRE SHOOTS UP ELEVATOR SHAFT | Firemen Bear Half Prostrate Women to Safety-——Amb-'ances Take l Several to Hospitals for Med:cal Attention. Damage Not Determined. sts of the old National Hotel at 6th street and Pennsylvania avenue, either made hurried escapes themselyes or were carried down ladders and fire escapes early this morning when fire, starting on the second floor near the elevator shaft, spread quickly through the Pennsylvania avenue side of the structure and for a time threatened the entire build- ing and the Pennsylvania House and Columbia Tire Company. which adjoin it on either side. AWNING SAVES WOMAN'S LIFE. i A woman guest, whose name was not learned, jumped from a third-story window and escaped probable death by landing on !an awning, which broke her fall. She was picked from the side- walk unconscious and taken away in an automobile. One’ man, Johnny Weeder, also jumped from a third-story i\\'induw and broke his leg. He was taken to Casualty Hospital. ! Scores of women, clad only in their night dresses, and in some | cases kimonos, huddled in the street. Many of them fainted and inumbers were taken to the hospitals suffering from shock. vestigate the aetivities of the Ku Klux | William J. Burns, head of the Depart- | deemed necessary it should be made by | assistant foot ball coach at Baylor | a member of the| Sitting at his telephone until colom:d, night operator, rang the | | | i There's fire!” i Driven Back by Flames. i | Dazed from sleep the guesi od into thé hallways, only to bedriven ‘bdl‘k by flames sh ing up the ele- | vator shaft and spreading rapidly into i the halls. Many of them made their way down {fire éscapes. Others appeared at the ! windows, vyelling" to those in the ! streets below for help. Ladders were thrown up and firemen carried half prostraie women to safety. A drug store across the street was used as a !first aid station. Ambulances were! rushed to the scene and loaded, only | to return again for more who needegl medical attention. Mrs. B. J. Bellin of Green Bay. Wis., | was among the first carried down a | aader. | { A company of actors and actresses iplaying at a local theater occupied part of one floor. All of them walked calmly down the fire escape to safety. crowd- | Cigarette Is Blamed. H The fire is believed to have been started by a cigarette thrown on the carpet on the floor. Three alarms, following in quick succession, bmngmI |apparatus from numerous fire sta-! |tions. For a time, when the fire wnsl eating its way steadily through the. second and third floors on the Penn- sylvania avenue side, it looked as if the walls on both sides would give way. No approximate estimate of the lossl could be given, it was said, until the entire damage had been surveyed. The first alarm was turned in at about 2:30 a.m. By 3 o'clock fourteen lines were playing on the fire, and the fire tower, {one of the most rarely used pieces of | apparatus, played on the fire from above. | Scene of Great Confus The Avenue was thronged for blocks. { Automobiles were parked solidly i IDELAYS IN DISARMING DEPLORED IN LEAGUE Speakers Voice Hope in Forth- coming Washington Arms i Conference. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, October 1.—Disappoint- ment at the-absence of results at- {tained by the league of nations since the last assembly and hope ‘in the forthcoming Washington confer- ence were the two principal senti- iments expressed in today's debate by the assembly on disarmament. | Many seats were empty on the floor of the-assembly, the question hav- {ing been fully thrashed out in com- mittee. The assembly, however, was arous- ed to considerable enthusiasm, par- Iticularly by the eloquent defense of M. Noblemaire of France against ac- cusations of militarism brought against his country. Lord Robert Cecil, who presented the committee's report on disarmament, said he hoped} the Washington conference would do | something for the control of private manutacture and trafiic in arms. Capt. Melbourne Bruce of Australia, who followed Lord Robert, sald it was a matter of as much interest to Europe as to_ Adstralia if his coun- 12,000 miles of sea’coast. “We .can do-it,”-he sald, “We have | have. x ‘Woods of the-United- States. the last minute, Dallas White, telephone in every room, shout- across the street. The scene was one of the greatest coufusion. Women were hanging on each other’s necks shivering and crying, some ¢ them screamigg for help, others yelling | somebody to rescue a pocket book or 'a suit case Jeft in the roem. Nobody though of caring for the women and nothing was done to take them away for some time. After-a while automobilists proficred aid and many of the rescued were driven away to private homes in the city. ! Others were taken to mearby hotels. Risks Life to Save Dog. Robert Lee of New York city, an actor occupying a room on the third floor, rushed down the fire escape and reached the street before he remem- bered his dog. He rushed back up the fire escape got the pup and brought it to safety. Hoover Ellison, a soldier from Fort Washington slept so soundly in his room on the second floor of the hotel that embers from the burning floor above were dropping beside his bed before he was awakened by a half- crazed attendant. Mrs. H. C. Master was treated at 1 Casualty Hospital for injuries to her back. sustained when she jumped from a window. At 4 o'clock this morning reports from Casualty and Emergency hos- ipitals showed four persons hurt in 1jumping from the blazing hotel. BUILT IN 1827. Was Notable for Size and First Hotel in City. The National is one of the historic structures of the capital. It was built in 1827 by the Calvert estate, being notable at that time not only for its size. but as being the first building in the city designed exclusively as a hotel, and not along the same lines as a private house shown we could do it during the was, However, we have great) hopes the | Washington conference will make it unnecessary for us to do so. But'if the Washington conference draws up concrete plans, are we ready to re- spond? A year ago the assembly ex- pressed the same wish, and the year which has just passed has been wasted.” Signor Schanzer of the Italian dele- gation said: “Disarmament not only is a guar- antee of peace between nations, but also the assertion of peace between classes. The Washington conference has the same object in vView as we I want to express the hope that the two efforts will ultimately join, but the league of nations must in any case go om with its work, without rejecting any co-operation.” M. Noblemaire in his defense against the accusations of militarism against France, said: “Qur attitude is the same as it was last year, and the same as it was in the Hotel Crillon In 1919, when France demanded disarmament, con- tingent only upon national security. 1 want to reject, with all the energy I am capable of, the accusations of militarism that certain persons hlve brought against France. NEW DIPLOMATS IN SPAIN. By the Axsociated Prers. MADRID, October 1.—Seven new ambassadors will present their cre- dentials to King Alfonso early this vated Mne and a standing vacant_local | following the example of the Aslatic|month as a result of changes in the train. ‘Three cars were demolished and | countries, in order to protect its |diplomatic corps here. traffic was tied up for several hours. e jnfured -died at-a hospital. The new ambassadors include Cyrus e Ak ing at the top of his voice into the receiver, “Get out! Get out! .