Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1922, Page 2

2 L SCOTS ARE LOYAL T0 LLOYD GEORGE| Crowds Greet Former Pre- AFTER PISTOL BATTLE BALTIMORE, Md., October 28.—Two government agents and a Baltimore detectlve battled with pistols agalnst two alleged Spanish dope smugglers mier in Invasion of in the hold of the steamship Oregonia. at Locust Point tonight. The officers th Country. | won the battle. Nor HITS BONAR LAW CABINET | Welshman Lauds Balfour, Whose Home Liberal Platform May Be Framed Today. T the Assoriate Pross LONDON, October 28.—The most im- vent of today's campaigning 1 of Scotland by Lioyd by two of his cagues, Lord Birkenhead Stevenson Horne, the r made speeches and Edinburgh, the two ng Scottisp cities, There were it crowds at both place: Glasgow meeting was held in Hall under direction of eral Council. Miss ional liberal candi- among the portant inv Supported was the Robert § srmer prime mini sgow S was has not yet re- structive program; the irrument was the ying horses while ed to come of party at the Earl of h home in Whitting- Joyd George, Austen lLord Birkenhead and Ttorne will spend Sunday believed they will de- es to framing a plat- Jan of campaign. Liberals Gather Strength. he understanding between the con- LD na Lloyd George liberals though it is the cause atac ong the ‘ conatituencies where [ pushed the decree aside, savin now svatives hav td mot to | #These are antiquated meisires, not | s A Gbree Tberal candi- |adapted fn our Umes, 1wl mever ate e “hvative party or-|sign any decree which would place A o e ie e quis!lun my soldiers in the terrible position | amion b raves to local bodles {of having to fire against my s Uiiide bt there are charges that central e Silencediaet: | 'Savs ORDERIS UPHELD: \didates to withdraw in the in- liberals. lasgow supporters Mr. delivered a slrx‘\ngn:{; T et was that the crnment wag slowly but ing the count® out of the )t the his that the present cabinet parable to his in point of 1 gave Balfour & most coi- “tribute, describing his servi: mtry 4s immortal. ¥l chal- one to advance a sound government ed. have been dey Birkenhead Attacks Cabinet. rd Birkenhead, speaking aft Jvd George, paid his respects to t er ), he new ministers more sharply than fhe} former premier had done. He said that when Mr. Bonar Law read the cabinet in the papers felt like Wellington. who, when some new recruits were “ent to him exclaimed: “I don’t know “hat effect these troops will produce \pon the enemy, but they frighten "'he journey from Edinburgh, the last stage of Lloyd George's itinerary ith Birkenhead, to Whittinghame, Which was by car, was marked by enes of the greatest enthusiasm. zingly cordial reception ames of hi e must have at) { cotic law. They are Jose Dopigi, thir- flicted upon it bY the war. should | Then they seized $250,000 worth of cocaine manufactured in Germany and intended for distribution in the United States. The Spaniards were arrested. They were charged with smuggling and with violation of the Harrison nar- ty-two years old, Corona, Spain, and John Picos, thirty years old, Corona, Spain. Before the battle below decks on THE OF CAMEL'S MILK Chairman of Shrine Commit- tee Says It Was Used for Pie. Committee as to what became of the camel's milk that was left over from the barbecue held a week ago on the yes farm. The following state ment regarding it is made public to- a About a quart of it was left. Thomas E. Jarrell, chairman of the {board the Oregonlan, Lieut. W. H. Rlefner had made a quiet arrest t had paved the way for the final clean- up of the smugglers and their dope— the capture of the biggest cargo of |drugs ever smuggled into the United \States in one lot, the police say. It {had thwarted at the very plan that would have put a new supply of cocaine into every big “dope ring" in the country. This was tinez, thir living at a Martinez wus for the dope tp Jose Ma d, who wa ding house. ome-on’ glers. He is alleged the customhouse some time ago and to have advanced some information that he hoped the authorities would jump at. He wanted their confidence. They think he had it. As a matter of f. they suspected him and were letting him play his game FASCISTI SOLDIERS i TO GUARD ROME AS LEADERS MOBILIZE (Continued from First Page.) ing when the ministry presented for the royal signature a decrce pro- |claiming a state of siege throughout By the Associated Press, The Italian embass) last night declared that its official dvices from Rom cd th ic order shas intained almost without exception throughout Ital; he ltalian embassy in Washing- the statement said, “is aware of rumors circulated today, especially in Washington and New York. according to which the embassy itself h ceived news from Italy of the a sination of high government officials Not only the Italian embassy has n recelved any news of the Kind—evi- dently circulated for malicious pur- P by irresponsible ording to the last official | received tonixght, the public order has been maintained almost without ex- { ception throughout Italy FASCISTI ARE MASTERS. i By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. (Copyright, 1 October 28 ROME, —Italy the hour, Benito Mussolini. the f; chief, is hurrying toward Rome on the man_of sti urgent invitation of Premier and he is expected to tak the situation. News from the provinces is difficult Facta control of It was an am wires between central, southern and the former premier had from the #taid | northern Italy but it is clear that the Scottish folk fascisti are masters of some of the most important towns of the morth UNIONISTS IN NO PACT. The fascisti uprising, which was staged about midnight by concerted action, centered in the province of Ry the Ass ted Press. Tuscan: wh g A o by 2 ! ence the insurgents LONDON, October 28.—Sir Geore| threatened to march on the capital by Younger, chairman of the unlonistiyay'of pisa and Leghorn. There was party organization, .::xuefll1 a li "e,rl““ ash between fascisti and the po! today to the ¢ nen of a ‘nh" ";_‘( farther north in Lombardy, where, at organizations. denying reports that)ceromonia, four fascisti were kille arrangement something like the coalition had been made with al liberals. n Sir No pact of any kind exists, the police, who were either overawed corge declared. The local “.;‘m“‘:l{or ~what seems likelier in the majority B Y ey please, | Of cases—sided with the insurgents, ect the cand s they se. 5 Whera such arrangements are made | Occupy Florence Post Office. Jocally, It is assumed, he adds, that! Carabinieri started to offer re-! Sparty will get as fair repre-|Sistence at Florence, but here the | on of its views as it would by | fascisti_succeeded in occupying the 5 post office. At Sienna they have £ a contest. SUPPORTS BONAR LAW. At most pla however, the f; seem to have bee: trol without fighting isti ble to seize con- local troops or taken possession of the barracks, uy parently with the connivance of go ernment forces, since no fighting is reported from there A state of o e Aierciato RO of “siege exists ac Milan, where the 3 i = 3 ber | prefect handed over the powers to B N G A, P o e’ his | the military authorities. and all pub- Constituents Austen Chamberlain, for- { e buildings are now guarded against possible fascisti attacks. mer government leader, says that he stands as a unionist. ‘No difference of principle separates That Mussolint will become premier or at least that the fascisti will form the majority in a coalition govern- me’ from the unionist party or from!meny s regarded as the only pos its present leaders.” says the mani-|gjhle solution of the crisis here to- festo. “I hope to give Mr. Bonar Law | night. pport that I would have m him if recent chapges rurred. But from the be- zinning of the war I have felt that the struggles of parties must be subordinated to the safety of the na- tion.” The manifesto expressed the fear | of a mistake in the dividing of the moderate but progressive parties. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, FOUNDED IN 1888, SOLD ! Institution at Simsbury, Conn., Acquired by R. R. McOrmond, Formerly of Choate School. The Westminster School of Sims- bury. Conn., has been purchased by R. R. McOrmond, for fourteen years head of the mathematics department of the Choate School. according to | word received here. i minster wa the same s pected had not o founded at Dobbs | N. Y.. in 1888 and was moved | in 1900 to Simsbury, on an estate { U. D. C. CHAPTERS OPPOSE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL Montgomery chapters of the nited Daughters of the Confederacy | will hold a joint and special meeting ! Wednesday to introduce resolutions protesting against the planting of a Roosevelt memorial tree on the Ala- bama capitol grounds today. Leaders of the organization de- clared tonight the resolutions are certain to be passed. bjections, they said, to honoring the birthday of Roosevelt, but they did not think the grounds of the first capitol of the confederacy the proper place for the planting of a memorial tree. One leader, speaking for the group inaugurating the movement to de- plore the act, declare: “We do not obje Roosevelt. However, to honoring the capitol jgrounds is the shrine of the south Roosevelt might have been he was not of and for the south and its tra- comprising 157 acres. To the original plant was added within a few years | a memorial chapel to Adelbert Stone | Hay, given by his father, John Hay, | and ‘later squash courts were buiit, V. S. Hyde, national cham- rtic teams of Westminster well known in inter- ompetition and the grad- strengthened many college In this connection can be s teams, mentioned such names a8 Jaffray of Harvard and Philbin of Yale. | The school pl were of unusual quality, their hor, “Tom" Cush- later distinguishing himself on ay through “Sari.” “Blood and - and “Thank You" One of the former schoolboy actors, J. S. Fas- &ctt. has_combined acting and writ- ing; he is the translator of Malva- loca. Among the enrollment of the school were such well known Wash- ington names as Denby, Hoyt, Noye: and Munn, while New York, Chicag and other cities contributed names of local or national fame. Mr. McOrmond. who now assumes control, graduated from Yale in 1907. Resides his experience as head of a department he has been for several years head of a very successful sum- mer school. His purpose is to make of Westminster a small, first-rate col- lege preparatory echool for boys, limited to the number of about one hundred. The school will continue under the former name, and the i tent |8 to maintain. so far as lmun;t~ au unbroken tradition, ditions and ideals were not his tra- ditions and ideals. There are plenty of places around Montgomery where the tree could have been planted with much more propriety, in our opinion.” —_— FINAL DIVORCE DECREE. Justice Siddons has granted a final decree of absolute divorce to Mrs. Mariane Charles from Thomas Charles, a cigar salesman. The wife charged that her husband took another woman in his automobile when he went on the road to sell cigars. They were married at Raleigh, N. C., October 11, 1911, The decree awards the wife alimony of $25 per week and a counsel fee of $500. Attorneys Newmyer and King appeared for the wife. —_—— DR. R. M. JENKINS AT HEAD Direction_of the activities of the District Chapter. American _ Red Crogs, has been assumed by Dr. Ralph M. Jenkins, chairman, who has just returned from York Harbor, Me. 'Dr. Jenkins has been assoclated with the District chapter for the last five years and was re-elected chairman last Wednesday. He will personally supervise the exhiblt of disuster relief as per- formed by the Red Cross In Lafayette Park- on_November 11, the opening day of the sixth annual roll call, man | in a statement | to obtain because of the cutting of the | MONTGOMERY, Ala., October 28.— | Four They had no | and is the “hallowed spot where its| ideals first found expression and action. No matter how great a man finance committee, took it home and placed it In his refrigerator. Mrs. Jar- 11 the other afternoon, inten 5 to ard pie, saw 1d, unsuspecting its used’ it for the pie. cooking in the oven | terrible commotion was heard. Ha opening the oven she found that the pie had overflowed the pan and d risen in a large bulge in the cen- | {make some cus in the ice chest | real “identity, | While i mayed. she 1, who was n could hav hought it camel’s milk had been u. the regular Kind. Mr. Jarrell. in great laughte called to her hus- sked him happened. After crned that d instead of | stated, Well. that unts for the hump in | More Than 500 Varieties of Bloom | meauent for Moming | Wil Greet Public Dur- | its request for housing fachic | ing Week. sterday, wh made the 104th ication to be cived. The noti-! s ion_was s Robert Wolf. rry’ Stan v of the nmittee makin: tainm nt by P'otent ford, executiv s Temple 1923 Shrine k of nter cil of ews- T tremendous civic un- dertaking, which he believes will en bie the public to form ti te now of the problem which con- nent thie Imperial Cou | m { i { fronts the city HARRY NDIFORD. Incidentally there is nothing but optimism in his mind. {nothing but confidence in the ability (of Washington to make a record that will be unpre the annals Lof Ameri { T want to s he {you can put | true that the peo the situation civie p whatever may b i 1 can poin the contrary of business ted entirely by their eir community. Their num- bers are growing daily, too, and soon we shall have a solid front of Wash- < men line . too, that the avei who compreh. ans not only to his | ington busir up for this affair. It Washington man vhat this event m jcity but to America is moved by a broader spirit than may at first blush he evident—a spirit that wants the people of ica to come and sce the A ornaments of liberty we have in our keeping. Plea for Hospitality. “It will be incumbent upon every citizen to begin taking account of the position he will be in next June to offer the largest measure of hospital v possible to the multitude we shall th us. You have continually crowd of best has ever en- be you have shall have the gre: Americans that any cit tertained, and it m wondered why in this p | sion we are (0 surpass all others that { have taken place. that clear, and base my estimate merely upon the accurate information {1 ha hand. { “As the hundreds of speakers com- posing our minute man force will tell he organizations of the city in the coming days, we should not forget that for eight years our people have been disturbed, profoundly so. They have been forced out of their normal paths, their normal lives and their morale and thought have been changed in some degree by the exigencies ac- companying the failure of the recog- nized codes of civilization. But they have not lost faith in the funda- mentals of their government and their Constitution. Some of the sacred ornaments have been rescued from the ruins of the temple of mammon. We still have veneration for God, honor, love of home and family, love of friends, love for our brethren, love for the flag. “And with a slow but gradual re turn to something like normal condi- tions the average man 10oks to Wash- ington as the seat of what he holds }dear in country, the center of his { civic _hopes, the depository of the sacred things his forefathers helped to make sacred. “So the Shriner, with thought ele. vated—or 'he would not bein the mystic tie—with a vision of drink- ling at thé fountain of patriotic in- spiration, sees the Imperial Council session of next June in a light quite | different from that in which he visualizes an ordinary imperial ses- sion_elsewhere. Lights, color, music, frivolity maybe, merriment and _dis- play? Yes, and on a scale unprece- dented. But in the background. back of his laughing face and rollicking manner, {8 cherished a desire not awakened by any other city/—a desire i G.!to be near and in the places where Dunkum, the nation was made. where the great have come, written their names on the scroll of fame and have departed— i where the government is. for eight years, like a child that tosses the night through and rushes to the arms of its mother, he wants to come home. : Contributors to Fand. “Surely a hopeful and Impressive thought is contained in the fact whlcg moves this vast army of best Americans as one man. In no other Way and on no other basis can one who studies the progress of the preparations everywhere explain the extraordinary preparations of the temples of America to attend the | session next June. Medinah_would send 5000 nowhere else. Lu Lu would plan to surpass all competitors nowhere else. Mecca would plan twelve special trains to go nowhere And so one might go down the t explains why we certainly shall witness next June a tidal wave of Americans sweeping across the Sier- ras, the Rockies, the eelltl‘lhvdlm 1 ny inquiries have poured into the| the Almas 1923 Shrine | the milk | n who 4 ute d iz all their time to this work ves, and who even ng ! their pri ts to make this doing it unself- | laim put forward that we | ular ses- | 1 will try to make | Restless | SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGION, D. C, OCTOBER 29, 1922—PART 1 SEIZE DOPE SMUGBLERSIEXPLAINS MYSTERY ) { | i i i RECORD “MUM'” SHOW Pr 1 cparations have been made for - {taking care of a record-breaking at- | |tendance at the opening todzy of the annau “mum” show of the Depart- {ment of Agriculture, in the green {houses. 14th and B streets southwest. ‘The show will be given from 9 am. da for one week Micially approved by Secretary ace and Dr. W. A Taylor, ‘chief bureau of plant industry, hav- 1 enthused ov by about 40 of the Garden Club ol nd by wives nd other public private showings, the aricties are now at public inspection. Expert commercial ' th ting be membe Americ office of officials _a more than 500 their best for growers from eight states who visited the green- rday pronounced this the dllection” of reliable varieties the depariment has ever shown. First Showing Today. Three new Japanese and the por riment exp time th Henry Y Seeretary of Agricul he was entertal Other produced rts, by the d and shown for the i, were named by wife of the ire ve ing the women ‘mums" il today ve been he when they w ary n more than nent Washing show this morning. Mrs. Wal named shell-pink Japanese “Margaret MeKee,” 1. one hundred prom. n society girls at the 2 beautiful oom in_honor a noted child olden yellow with bronze, and with shuped head was nam arden Club of America.” l mag: haded bloom light lavender reverse, one of daintiest colored fowers in the entire show, was named “Jean” by Mrs. Wallac An attractive rose nk pompon she ristened in; e One of v pink pompons which hasx most interested the com- rowers was selected by Mrs. to carry the name “Sally V. with the 0ld Favoritex to He Seen. All of the colorful old favorites| are in the show ieneral Persh- o deep m Yellow Drab, the *Mrs n . Harding,” Merle Thorp: 1d many oth hed people. e show { variety ery cluste of special i garde PENN ALUMNI GUESTS. Foot Ball Coach to Speak Here Day Before Game. Out-of-town alumni of Pennsylvania ate College will be entertained by the Penn State Alumni of Washington in the erystal room of the Ebbitt Ho- tel Thursday night, the evening pre- ceding the Navy-Penn State game, which is scheduled to take place at American League Park the following ternoon. Hugo Bezdek, coach of the foot ball team, will make an address. It is expec that the college band also will be present. LECTURES FOR WOMEN. Prof. Anna T. Renshaw to Talk on Public Speaking. Prof. Anna T. Renshaw of this city will give a lecture, free to all women, {at the Thomson Community Center, i12th and L streets northwest, Wed- nesday evening at 8 o'clock, on “Pub- {lic Speaking for Women.” !" Mrs. Renshaw will also tell the ivalue of musical pantomime, designed {especially for physical exercise and jpoise. The results from this study are rhythm, health, grace and mu: !cal appreciation, Mrs. Renshaw serts. S ——— Ileghenies, gathering multitudes l;‘;?uApmgmcds until it shall roll down the Blue Ridge and sweep into the arms of the city of its heart—Wash- ington, possessed and owned not by itaelf, but_the city that belongs to i cople. ey are coming, fez-crowned and with songs on their 1ips, to pos- s their own. S o "You mee, this explains why at this moment we have applications on file from 104 temples, with their American sweeping accross the Sier. bands and’ patrols, who seek hotel accommodations for numbers varying from 500 to 5000, with the event itself seven months off. It explains why we have applications_for the parking of 235 chartered Pullmans now, when San Francisco had nine- fy-nine when the session was held. “The following contributions have 'been received during the past week: ! vl Jobe, Burdett Stryker, John ,énéfigu!'e.pr, Elmer Schatz, Gratz E. 1 Henry. A.FJM‘IP. Ajrthulr'.hlll‘; [ ton. John W. Fenton, jr.; BV pield, Tieut, ¥red W. Cobb, Ed Chatterton, Rudolph Von Gluemer, John Rook, Sam G, Eberly, I. B. Wil- |5on, George E. Frowert, Harry W. Taylor, George Borresen, Mark J. In- gle, Edward L. Hunt, Harrison Ding- \man,’ Alfred_B. Gawler, Walter A. |Gawler, T. R. Marshall, Orville L. { Ballard, Sam H. Moore, Charles A. | Fenner, Harry E. Gladman, Robert i Miller, 'George T. Ritter, Henry A. { Bartholomew, George Plitt, A. F. { Kreglow. Business concerns: Heine- man .Bros., Baltimore, Md.; Ru- dolph Ehriich, Army Supply Co., | Charles W. Wagner, W. B. Moses & |Sons. H. E; Passarant, G. B. Casasss, Hutchins Kenner Drug Co., D. J. an, Inc.; aul i mond Mayo, Edison Electric { Appliance Co., Velvet Kind Ice | Cream, Day & Co., 8. 8. Folts, Stude- baker Corporation, Harris Shop, Inc. Fred H. Heldenrich, Shaw-Walker Co., John F. Christian, John J. Oden- waid, Fred S, Gichner, Elizabeth Zeltman, Premier Press Bureau and Hawk Welding Co, pompons and in feath- of myriad shades, was rest to the Garden Club s they will be to the home i 1 | i | 1 | 1 | W, ATTENDANCE EXPECTED cabinet | terday, | 1 Mrs. Henry C. Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, and Edwin Denby, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, visited the greenhouse eral new seedlings. { Mra. | yesterday and named STODOD TOPPED MIASONS PLANNING | Temple Fund Pledges Come lLodge Will Celebrate Day on Fast After Appeal by Which George Washing- Campaign Chief. ton Joined. | | | { tom - Subscriptions aggregating more| The Masons of Washington for than $700.000 have been received to|Several years have been paying par the United Masonic Temple fund, it |ticular attention to November 4. the was announced last night at a meet- | 30niversary of the date when George Washington became membe ing held by workers of individual|iheir fraternity. This year the cele lodges in Masonic Temple. Pledges ibration will be under auspices of the carrying the amount above the §700.- | Grand Lodge of the District of Co 000 mark were reported during the|lumbia and the Federated Masonie n { Clubs. It will be held n meeting and applause greeted the | night in the auditorium of Centra statement by Willlam Knowles Coop- High School, and admission will be Subscriptions up to the time of the filled the Central High School audi- meeting amounted to $694.973. an in-, crease of $23,700 over the amount re- | ported a week ago. The number of | subscribers was 7,777, or_an increase | of 315 over last week. This was the total as tablulated up to 6 o'clock last night. In making the announcement that the $700,000 mark had not quite | been reached, Mr. Cooper asked if those present had pledges to report. “Let's put this figure over the $700 000 mark before we leave here to- thousands who could not be admitted, The demand for tickets, it is said, has been even greater this year. One hundred and seventy years ago next Saturday night George Wash- ington was raised to the sublime de gree of master Mason in tne lodge |at Fredericksburg, Va., where numer. jous relics of that occasion are stil preserved. An entertaining program has been Eht he satd. arranged for the tocal celebration this {year. It will start with a selection Pledge-Making Begins. | by the Grotto Band, after which th It was then that pledges began to invocation will Le offered by Rev. be recelved. They ranged in amounts | Ur: (;"l'é'e]!‘, Ehfl;‘; Montgomery, us from $25 to $260 and ran up to nearly | chaplain of the Houne of lepresentas $5.000. i jtives. The audience will then sing “We still lack nearly $1,600, “America,” led by Almas Temple Glee Cooper announced. Club and the Washington Quartet. Clarence Schooley, master of Na- Mr. INMASONS' DRIVE. ANNIVERSARY RITE Saturday | d -, by tickets, 'which are being dis- er, managing director of the cam-i iy req” without cost through the paign, that this figure had been'several Masonic lodges and Masonic reached jclubs, Last year the attendance ; Nobles—A. L. Colton, William J. Dow, { G. W. Offutt Powder | A selection by the Glee Club will be tional Lodge, No. 12, arose and sald: “Gentlemen, I think I can make up that difference. Our subscriptions now exceed $1,600 and they will be reported the first of the week.” “That puts us over the $700,000 mark,” Mr. Cooper announced as there was an outburst of applause. A list of those lodges that almost have reached 100 per cent in their subscriptions was announced by Mr. Cooper, with the remark that he ex- pected at the next meeting to have several in the 100 per cent class. He also made a brief announcement about the meeting to be held in Con- | vention Hall on November 18, saying | he expected to arrange with the Pathe Weekly News Service to show all of the Masonic events that have been carried in the service during the last year. Announcement of the principal speaker at the meeting probably will. be made early this week. Addresses Produce Results. Grand Master Coombs made a brief | address, in which he told of Grand Lodge_'visitations during the last | week. He said he was especially grat- ified with the reception accorded the | proposed new temple project. He cited | several instances where large sub- scriptions had been received following addresses by various members of the iGrand Lodge and of the executive ! committee. There will be no meeting next Sat- urday night because of the celebra- tion "of the 170th Masonic birthday anniversary of George Washington in the Central High School auditorjum. On that occasion the members of Washington-Alexandria Lodge of Ma- sons, of which-George Washington was a member, will be present. ASKS COURT FOR WRIT. Walter H. Kerns Seeks Children Now Held by Mother. Walter H. Kerns has applied to the District Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus to secure po ion of his three children, James, Ty and Marjorie, Who are in the custody of their mother, Mrs. Pleasant I V. Kerns, at 3645 Georgia avenue north- west. Justice Hoehling directed the issuance of the writ and the mother Will have ‘the children in court next ‘Tuesday for the court’s decision as to their rightful custody, Attorneys Paul B. Elean and J. L. Krupsaw appear for the father, 3 4 \ followed by introductory remarks by |by Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, president Charles C. Coombs, grand master of Masons of the IMstrict of Columbia, Who will be followed by the Wash- ington Quartet, and then will come the principal address of the evening ! of Howard University, on the sub- ject, “Cisterns From Which Wash- ington Drank.” After further musical numbers, | Rev. Dr. John Lee Allison, repre- senting the master of Alexandria- Washington Lodge, will present the trowel, plumb, square and level used by Washington and the apron he wore at the laying of the corner stone of the United States Capitol on September 18, 1793. Following that W. J. Loveless, junior warden of Potomac Lodge, No. 5, Georgetown, will present the gavel used by Washington at the laying of the Capitol corner stone. The benediction will be pronounc- ed by Rev. Dr. John C. Palmer, pas- tor of Washington Heights Presby- terian Church and chaplain of the District Grand Lodge. The closing| number will be a selection by the; Grotto Band. —_— TWINS HELD ON CHARGE OF STEALING AUTO TIRES Accused Also Said to Have Taken “Car for Joy Ride—Con- fessed, Say Police. Twin brothers, Cosmos Michael Bar- bee and Darmond Arnold Barbee, were arrested last night on charges of joy- riding and larceny, following a transac- tion in which they are said to have ex- changed two automobile tires for $2 and a couple of drinks. Cosmos Michael, who gave his addre; as 648 9th street northeast, and Dar- mond Arnold, who said he lives at 1440 W street northwest, are alleged to have appropriated to their own use a machine owned by Frederick F. Gary, of 2222 14th street northwest, for joy-riding pur- poses last Thursday. The car was re- covered, abandoned, and minus the two tires. The twins are said to have con- fesned the theft to Sergt. Balderson and Policemen Grimes and Hellmuth when the officers arrested them in connection with the liquor trade. Headquarters Detectives Connors and pair may have been res| :finr tire thefts from parked automo- o5, negroes and hold the women for hos- pital authorities if they should ap- pear. The three women were “trusties,” according to hospital authorities —_——— “l WASN'T THERE,” MRS. HALL PLEADS, HER FRIENDS SAY 5 | ! | | | (Continued from First Page.) « “I have been honest and honorable in this community. Doesn't a per- son’s past count for anything?” At the Hall home tonight were Mr. and Mrs. Moncure Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Carpente all relatives; Miss Sallie Peters, friend of the family, and Timothy N. Pfeiffer, counsel for the Hall interests, At first, it was | learned, Mrs. Sydfey Carpenter | {invited Mrs. Hall to her home itea. The latter was closeie ] | such a long period of 1 with b attorney that she was unable to make | | the engagement and nit rel [ tives gathered in the home of Mr. | Hall. 1 { felt by her most She has breakfast generally in bed. | No human being can be as natural as she is, however. with something prey- | ing on the mind. If she is guilty she | is the cleverest woman I ever met, and she's not the cleverest woman 1 ever met.” While friends of Mrs. Hall gath ered in her home tonight, {of Mrs. Jane Gibson, regardless of| the insinuations cast abroad i New Brunswick regarding her reliahilit | was gaining str th and formidu ity with the age of each horr, Persons Who are living in the neizh- borhood of Mrs. Gibson laugh sand | smile knowingly when asked al the story. They shrug their shoul- ders and say: “Wait; just wait." The story of how Mrs in the morning. = | the story | | the Phillips farm mor ago and of the manner turned to the |an in a gray cloak bend | bodies remains the sam {a week has passed sinc g | the story. It is easily the sensation of | | the case ‘thus far. | And Deputy Attorney General Witbur A. Mott has assured the public there | more equally pertinent’ and potential | {items of evidence in the hands of the i investigators. New Figure in Case. A new figure entered the case today, | iwhen Mrs. A, C. aley, who lives a | | few hundred yards above the site of the | | tragedy, was questioned by news gath- | She declared that she and mem- | erers. bers of her family were up until long fler time set for the shootjng, ¥ ard no shots and no screams. s lled attention to the fact, though, that hey were on the opposite side of the | | house. She laughed about the story Mrs. Gib- | RARE AND BEAUTIFUL “MUMS™ AT SHOW OPENING TODAY. |SEEK NEGROES IN AUTO 1 WITH INSANE WOMEN Patients of North Carolina Asylum Picked Up Along Pub- lic Road. RALEIGH, N. C. October 28 —Three Rospital for the insane, while sironl- | Marjorie Lamberton, Aged ing on a public road riear the inti- were picked up by two megroes In & powertui motor| Three, Taken When Left car and whisked off in a southern 4 drection, wegordine, v 5, rebort, of| - Alone in Auto by Mother. of the hospital. to the Raleigh police department. The women were Varina Adcock, thirty; Carrie Isorael, ffty,| Marjorie Lamberton, three-year- angé\;;t.‘?fik’rl llrl;:xifsl;';;;: f<;r‘:\mmomw old daughter of Mrs. Lillian Lamber= were unavalling. Authorities of |t0M of Beltsville, Md., was taken towns in this tion have been noti- | Yesterday® afternoon from a parked fled to assist in apprehending the {automobile at Center Market by we man answering the description of the child's father, who drove up in w taxicab, lifted the girl into his con- veyan, and drove away. Investigation by the police disclos- ed that the taxicab discharged its passengers at 2d and H streets, where,' it is believed, they boarded u W ington, Baltimore and Annapolis « for Baltimore. The police are of the opinion that the father, Charles Lamberton, an employe of a tire com- pany in Akron, Ohio, came here to get Marjorie and take Ler back to Akron with him. Officlal investiga- tion has been dropped with t's adoption of this theory. Headquarters Detective O'Br who conducted an investigation, Mrs. Lamberton reported she and her husband had been living apart since la recent court action fell througin. Mre. Lamberton came b fros Akro ut a mon b, residing ith ster, Mrs. Harry Parke on th imore pike, Hill 1 mile this sid vil Here's the way Mrs Ifall @c- | Yesterday afternoon Mre Lamber- scribed by one of those who saw her 190 and her daughter came 1o Wash- last night: {ington in Mrs. Parkers ‘Nervous reaction from th= horrible | “8T Was parked near crime and the attendant publicity is|louUisiana avenuc, and t left in the automobile ing was under way. ward the taxicab drove up and the child was taken. Several witnesses described the man who took her, and Mrs. Lamberton is said to have rec- QEnized in the descriptions her hus,, ban, Mrs. Lamberton told Detective O'Brien she would telegraph to Akron 10 find out if the child had been taken to that city, and if so, would #teps to get her ba DIPLOMATS BACK FROM TRIP ABROAD ore on and sev- ral members of the tic staffs of the United States 4 other coun- tries the war arrived toda: on the li is and Lapland. He; omats who came on the was Jules Jusserand. French dor to the United State: Cartier .de Mar- , was a passenger on the Lap- elgium is produci the & about 55 per pre-war normal in aid the Belgian am- cent_under her industri | son tells. " But. on the other hand, made | bas “Therefore there is mnot a_remark identical with one of | the prosperity one would hope for. Irs. Gibson's when she said that if Mr. | But it will come gradually, as our {Hall and Mrs. Mills had been at home | beople are ugal and practicing | where they belonged on the night of the | great economies” | shooting no harm would have come to| The fan ambassador brought | them {with him a gold medal struck from i She said that she knew Mrs. Gibson, | Belgian Congo gold, made by Belgian j Who recently had purchased some ' s S at the authorization o corn ks ~from This was | the Be n érown, a memorial 1o i soe t fter the murder, but she!Secretary of Commerce Herbeit declares Mrs. Gibson made no state- | Hoover. ment about it to her. To Herbert Hoover, w the | Asked what she thought of t titude of the Belgian people” is ! Mrs. Gibson tells, she declared | the inscription on the face of Gibson had been reading and|medal, which s given in recognition memorizing newspaper accounts, {of his American relief work in Bel- “Ju. wa until they with her she said. the meaning of “they “Never mind.” Tale-bearing newspapermen |the ‘account of Mrs. Fraley's o the ears of Mrs. Gibson. “It i asy for her to have been in bed an. heard nothing. It will all come out. | There are others that know and { holding back.” Deputy Attorney i A. Mott declared get through ! When asked she replied, took talk very General Wilbur | few days ago that torium to overflowing and there were | the state had other items of evidence ; ih equally as important Mrs. Gibson tells. i i The question of moonlight pl a r;_uhl—r important part in Mrs. Glb-l {son's story. She declares she iden- {tifled the woman late that night at i the scene of the murder by the flashes {of a pocket light. Officials have been checking up on the strength of the moon’s light that night and this angle from nature, {it'is expected, will prove important |in_the case. H is no definite indication a to when arrests may be made. Mr. i Mott to “an opportune time.” He {has admitted that the case will go 110 the grand jury, but he has {no hints as to how soon | Will be taken. Attorney Seeks Siayers. Timothy N. Pfeiffer. attorney for Mrs. Hall, visited Lieut. Detective James F. Mason at the courthouse here this afternoon. He refused to discuss the nature of his visit. In conversation with newspaper men afterward, however, he stated ths he had men investigating facts su rounding the murder in an endeavor to run down the slayers of Rev. ward Wheeler Hall. i He said that his investigation thus far had not unearthed any clues and | had established no motive for th crime. He declared also that he was | not interested in any reports as to' the whereabouts of his client on the night of the murder of her husband, but wished to enter a denial of the story Mrs. Jane Gibson has told offi- clals about the murder in so far as Mrs. Hall by inference may be con- cerned. Regarding arrest of Mrs. Hall he said: “I don't see how it is possible unless some false testimony ic offe I have told Mrs. Hall part of Mrs Gibson's story, and I will make her familiar with all of it this afternoon. Mrs. Hall does not read newspapers, by my advice.” MRS. GIBSON THREATENED. By the Associated Press. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.. October 28.—For several hours today the newest character in_the mys.erious deaths of the Rev., Edward Wheeler Hall and the choir singer, Mrs. Eleca- nor Reinhardt Mills, stepped off the stage on which the Jdrama is being played. Mrs. Jane Gibson, a farmer woman and a raiser of pigs, who told of hav- ing seen the murder of the rector and the sexton's wife, disappeared from | her barricaded home today. Then as | mysteriously as she had left she re appeared but offered no explanation of where she had been. : Guards who had been thrown about | the Gibson home were taken off. | Dogs which prevented intrusion were | tied. Willlam Gibson, the son of the farmer woman, showed reporters | through the house, but would not! say where his mother had gone. | n hér return, it became known | that the woman, in whose story Speclal Deputy Attorney General | Mott is still inclined to place a degree | of credence, has received threatening letters since telling of the scene she claims to have witnessed in De Rus- sey’s lane on September 14. o careful, remember there is still one bullet left,” was one sentence of the lettrs, Mrs, Gibson sald. as the sto; | | | ! i | | joints, | Kom |companied | Ralph !reports | games room, jlettering, cadding, gium during the war. Another member of diplomatic the present corps was Marc Peter, minister of Switzerla to the United States. He is retu to his post in Washington after a month's visit in Berne. Brand Whit- lock, former American ambassador to Belgium, was on the Lapland. He brought the decoration of the Grand erred for his Another rep- st-war leaders on an Paderewski, T of Poland. . Mrs. Paderewsk: ALLEGED CLUBS RAIDED ALONG CONDUIT ROAD Two so- duit road w wo res former prime mini was accompanied 1 ubs” on th alleged 1o be gamblinge re raided by the Mont- unty authorities, headed by Sheriff Albie Moxley and Chief of Police Cooley of Rockville and ac- by Linton ans _and Ruby of the federal prohi tion enforcement squad, about mid night last night One of the places visited was know as “the Killeen Club.” according 1 s received here morning. This club is bevond the Cabin John bridge. A man known as “Rowsee” was arrested there. The prohibition agents reported that they found liquor at that “club. The other place raided was a littie way this side of Cabin J bridge. where a man named Rainey was to have been arrested. About fifte men were found in play at this pli according to members of the Falding party. There was a mad scmmbie when the officers broke in. Gambling paraphernalia _was ported to have been seized at places. BOYS’ CLUB RECEIVES GIFT OF EQUIPMENT The former board of the Workinsg Boys' Home, through Mre. Randall 1l Hagner and Miss F. G. Childs, hus contributed to the gymnasium equip- ment of the Boys' Club, 34 and C streets northwest, mats and phonographs. They also assisted In the purchase of a printing press and have had the club's billiard tables re- paired and recovered. Supt. F. V. Thomson announced vesterday that the club's activiti now in full swing and include sium work, basket ball, ing, wrestling. track team. ~ billiards, reading room, library, story hour, printing, woodwork, dra- matics, orchestra, camp cooking. sisn radio, pageuntry, Con i club paper, entertainment, senior club room, dances for seniors, candy counter, group club suppers, hikes to places of interest, physical examina- tion, lectures for older boys, shower baths, group clubs and study room. The Club Target, the offictal paper of the Boys' Club, makes its initial bow this month. 1Its editors and managers are Byron Enyart, editor; Davia Walsh, sporting editor; Robert Shaw, advertising manager, and Harry Birtman, business manager. A Halloween Carnival is to be held Tucsday night and will be in charge of Byron Enyart, Edward Steffe, Robert Shaw, David Walsh, Will Belavergne, Chess Rothery and Barn- well Smith. 1 ambassador to this’ 1 twow .