Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1922, Page 2

2 * MURDER-SUICIDE VERDICT FOUGHT Mother of Mrs. Carleton Denies Daughter Killed Rector and Self. TRAGIC DETAILS RECITED Coroner’s Jury Told Events Before Shooting—Dead Woman Was Sleeping Powder Addict. ¥ the Associated Prest HAVRE, Mont., October 30.—While Mrs, bound train accompanying the body of her slain husband, Rev. Lecnard I. Christler, rector of St. Mark's Epis- copal Church, and known as the “bish- op of all outdoors,” Mrs. Joseph Pyle, mother of Mrs. Margaret Carleton, whose body was found beside that of | Christler, is attempting to prove that her daughter did not commit murder and suicide, A coroner dict yesterday s jury brought in a ver- ating that Mrs. Carle- ton Killed the Rev. Christler and then | shot herself. The tragedy occurred | carly Friday morning. Christler left with the body of [ shand for Waterloo, N. Y., yes- terday morning. Infatuntjon Admitted. In spite of the coroner’s jury ver- dict, Mrs. P’yle has emploved an at- torn and 1s endeavoring to find «vidence that will prove her daugh- ter did not commit the crime. “I do it believe Margaret did it,” said Mrs. r’yle shortly after her arrival in Havre rom her home in Butte. “I shall not be fied until 1 find who owned he gun.” Her reference was to a .38- caliber revolver in the hand of Mrs. covered. A small 22-caliber revolver she cu: tomarily carried was found in Mr: Carleton’s handbag. Mrs. Pyle is now engaged in pi ing together bits of a torn letter found in in her daughter's in he waste basket and ristle room, which she declared is andwriting. That M an infatuation for minister is admitted by Mrs. Pyle. Text of Letter. A letter. said to be from Mr. Carle- dated in California, August 25, . in part: have been thinking a great deal lately that it is not fair that you shouid have any legal restraint upon you. * * ¢ There is absolutely no hance for happiness for you as my wife. ® ® ¢ There are lots of good successful men who would make you happy. Probably you have met one ere thus. If this is so, happy and wiil do all I can to fix things so that you can be free to marry Attached to this letter was one said to be in the handwriting of Rev. Christler, In part, it says: Am amazed at Frank’'s attitude. Why not be lLonest with ourselves. When his beginning of honesty is t first pay the debts he contracte while you two were partners, then talk about a move to the next step. Why buck in such a manner what he owes your mother and elsewhere —the liabilities of both of you—and pack all the burdens of debt on your heart and shoulders. “Anyhow, I want to see you clean the slate at Havre. Am coming to help.” Dramatic Detalls Recited. Dramatic details of events that led to the deaths of Mrs. Carleton and the | Rev. Christier were recited to the coroner’s jury by the minister's widow previous to a verdict returned early yesterday, that the tragedy was brought about by temporary mental derungement on the part of Mrs. Carleton, The widow, Mrs. Christler, in a calm modulated voice, described how she returned to her home about 10 o'clock last Friday evening to find a light. “alling Mr. Hauge, a neighbor, she said she stationed him on the front porch while she entered. She testi- fied that she found Mrs. Carleton, wite of former District Judge Frank Carleton, destroying a picture of Dr. Christler and admonished her for the ct. The witness added that Mrs. Carleton “seemed anything but in her right mind Witness to Shooting. Finally, the widow said, she per- suaded Mrs. Carleton to leave with her, walking toward the town's busi- ness section, where they met Rev. Christler, who was with Rev. Chap- man of Butte. Mrs. Carleton was left downtown, she continued, the others returning home. Shortly afterward, the witness said, Mrs. Carleton re- turned to the Christler home. The witness hesitated in describing the conversatlon, after Mrs. Carleton joined them. but in answer to ques- tions replied that Mrs. Carleton de- clared, “I (Mrs. Christler) had no place in Mr. Christler's life.” She sald that while Mrs. Carleton made no threats, she did most of the talking. Mr. Christler arose and started for his sleeping room, Mrs. Christler said. and Mrs. Carleton also arose as if to depart. ~ Mrs. Christler sald she had opened the front door, with her back to Mrs. Carleton, who had fol- lowed Mr. Christler. Then came two quick revolver shots, Mrs. Christler sald. She turned to see Mrs. Carleton fall in the doorway of a small hallway leading into the bathroom and into Mr. Christler's room, she testified. Mrs. Christler said she saw that Mrs. Carleton was dead an over the body, Christler, but the woman's body ha fallen so' as to partly block the doo She then called the police and phy- sicians, she stated. . Mrs. Christler told of the arrival of the doctors, the chief of police and others and telephone conversations with Bishop_ Faber, at Helena, and with Mrs. J. H. Pyle of Helena, Mont., mother of Mrs. Carleton. Widow's Story Confirmed. Mr. Hauge confirmed Mrs. Christ- ler's story that she had asked him to stand on his porch until she went into the house. He added that she afterwara stepped out again and sald, “Everything is all right. He retired and did not learn of the shooting until the next morning, he said. Mr. Hauge sald that last Sunday about 4 o'clock he had seen Mra Carleton trying to enter the Christler home. On the night of the shooting, shortly after 10 o’clock, he said, he had seen Mrs. Carleton turn out a light in the Christler home. Mrs. F. E. Martin, librarian. and a personal friend of Mrs. Carleton, de- seribed Mrs. Carleton's condition Fri- day night, going to her hotel. where Mrs. Carleton also roomed. She sald he went to Mrs. Carleton's room in response to a call and found her in Ded, suffering from a sort of hysteria. The Rev. Mr. Christler was there, trying to quiet Mrs. Carleton, the witness testified. 3 Took Sleeping Powders. According to Mrs. Martin, Mra Carleton told her that she had taken an overdose of sleeping powders and had just awakened from a sleep of thirty hours. Mrs. Martin said she had judged Mrs. Carleton's condition as ‘very bad.” Mr. Christler left shortly after she had prepsred food for Mrs. Carleton, she sald. There was nothing improper in the relations of the rector and Mrs. Carle- ton while she was in the room, Mrs. Martin said, Mra. Martin sald she induced Mrs. carleton to go to the Martin room to spend th eni! Mrs. Carleton leaving for her room about § o'clock. The witness said she seemed much improve are. ed. Carleton 3ald hex abe WaS Sk~ Christler today was on an east- | rleton when the bodies were dis- | . | city. 1 am mighty | {CARRIED BOOTLEG LIQUOR IN WOODEN LEG, POLICE AVER The police have discovered a new hiding place for bootleg whisky. It Is the hollow space In a wooden leg. Hereafter all men wearing artificlal legs will come under suspicion and, {f arrested, the legs will be searched. The discovery was made Sunday when George Johnson, colored, was arrested by Policeman Thomas Bell of the first precinct on a charge of intoxication. In the District of Co- lumbia_branch of the Police Court today Bell said that when Johnson was scarched two half pinte of whisky were found in the hollow part !g{shlu artificial leg. He was fined A’ charge of transporting whisky in violation of the national prohibition law was made against the man. SCION OF FAIRFAX MILY IS DEAD |Employe of Southern Rail- way Was Courier for years old, a member of the Fairfax family, identified with the colonial | period of the early settlement and de- | velopment of the colony of Virginia, who for a period of fifty-two years | had been connected with the treas- jurer's office of the Southern railway, died Saturday night at 11:30 o'clock, {&t his residence, 1768 Church street {northwest, after an illness of three {Weeks. Funeral services were held at | the family home this afternoon. The body will be taken to Alexandria, Va where the interment will be in S Caul’s Episcopal Church cemetery. Mr. Fairfax was born in Alexandria jJanuary 20, 1545. He was educated iin the Episcopal High School of that At the opening of the civil war the Jeft his studies and joined the |Confederate states armies, entering {the signal, corps. He was eighteen {vears old at that time. 1In 1864, while n. Robert E. Lee had his headquar- ters near Petersburg, Va., in an auto- i graph letter, he promoted young Fair- |fax as his courier. He served through- he four years of the civil wa wounded at Bentonville, N. C. At the close of the war he located in Richmond. Va., and later went into the service of the Richmond and Dan- i ville railroad, which afterward be- icame the Southern railway, serving that corporation up to the time of his death. | Mr. Fairfax received the honor cross iof the Confederate States Veterans. | He was a member of La Fayette Lodge, IA. F. A. M, of this city and was the second vice' president of the Order of Washington. He was a bachelor. He was a son of Dr. Orlando and Mary Randolph Cary Fairfax of Alexandria, Va.. widely known in the Old Jso- minion in ‘exclusive social and liter- ary circles. He is survived by a num- ber of nieces and nephews. i { i | WILL SPEAK FOR G. 0. P. First Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral John H. Bartlett and Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the | Navy, will “team it" through New Jersey, beginning Wednesday. They {will make addresses for the repub- City together. { New Hampshire, where he will speak at a series of meetings at Manchester and Dover. tremely tired and nervous as a re- sult of her summer's work, Mrs. Mar- tin said, adding that she also talked about her daughter and her future plans. Doctors Testity. ! Dr. D. H. Mackenzie told of being {called to the Christler home and of taking a revolver from the hand of {Mra Carleton. He said he extricated the bullets and one shell from the revolver, and that one shell stuck in ithe cylinder. The weapon was In- troduced in evidence. The barrel of the gun gave evidence of recent use, ibut the shells and bullets appeared to have been in the weapon for some time. Dr. Carl Foss, the Christler family physician, told of finding the bodies, and confirmed Dr. Mackenzle's de- scription as to the position in which they lay. It also developed that he was Mrs. Carleton's physiclan. About six months ago, before Mrs. Carleton departed for her work on| ia Chautauqua circuit in the east, he had prescribed sleeping powders’ for | |her, he testified. One of these pow- ders was sufficient to produce sleep for eight hours, he said. He also stated that he had operated on Mrs. | | Carleton to correct nervous troubles. | said. Irresponsible Condition Produced. Dr. Foss said that an overdose of !the powder, such as Mrs. Carleton {was said to have taken, would pro- duce a prolonged sleep, and that be in a haze and not responsible for actions. He expressed the opinion that such a coadition might last almost into the next day. Both phy- siclans testified to the opinion that from the evidence Mrs. Carleton wat temporarily insane when the tragedy occurred. Police Chief Moran, shortly before imidnight Friday, said he met Mrs. Carleton on the street, where, as Mrs. Christler had testifiad, she had been ileft by the Christlers. He sald Mrs. Carleton acted ‘“very queerly,” as if to avoid discovery, and that she had told him she was waiting for some one. Mr. Moran also told of finding torn parts of messages and letters in Mrs. | Carleton's room after the tragedy. He | stated the opinion that it would have been impbssible for a third party to have been in the little hall in the Christler home at the time of the shooting. Belleves Murder-Suicide Theory. In the opinion of Chief Moran, the bullet which killed Mr. Christler was fired from a distance of between two and three feet, since it went through the body and lodged in the opposite wall. Its position In the wall, he sald, indicated that Mr. - Christler might have been closink the door when the shot was fired. The gun whieh killed Mrs. Carleton was held close to her body, the discharge burning the outer garment, he declared. He said he was convinced from his investigation that Mrs. Carleton had killed Mr. Christler and herseif. The coroner introduced in evidenoce | possesslons of Mra. Carleton. In her purse were found about 360, small articies and several letters, including & valentine sent by Mr. Christier to lhil wife. Mra ristler fdentified these as having been on her dresser early in the evening. HUSBAND TO CLAIM BODY. Former Judge Carleton Rushes to Scene of Tragedy. LOS ANGELES, Calif, October 30.— Frank Carleton, former Montana judge, now practicing law in Los Angeles, will leave today for Havre, Mont., accerding to relatives here, to take:-charge of the bedy of his wife, Mrs. “s&n! Carleton. Judge leton was on a motor t. in the llllrrh.l valley, Calif., an Lower California, when word reached his relatives here of the deaths of his wife and the Rev. Leonard J. lican ticket at Madison and Jersey | THE . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1922. LLOYD GEORGE GR ON PUBLIC FAILING Followers Weary of Waiting for ex-Premier to Assume Leadership Role. LIBERALS’ SPLIT GROWING Call for Coalition Falls on Ears That Hear Not; Epithet of “Tory” Hurled at Him. BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922, LONDON, October 30.—David Lloyd George remains the most popular man in Great Britain and he receives ovations from his grateful countrymen wherever he appears, but signs of his political decline become increasingly apparent. His followers have now heard or read four of his speeches. They have been watching for him to give them leadership, but so far that lead has Gen. Lee. fuiled to make its appearance. One by one those who have supported him are dropping into half-hearted en- ithelbert Fairfax, seventy-seven | thusiasm. The attempt at co-operation with the conservatives and unlonists was dis- couraged effectively by the unionist central office, which issued a manifesto insisting upon the complete independ- ence of the unionist candidates and denying any support to the coalition liberals. On the liberal side the move- ment for separation from the Lloyd Georglan liberals is growing houriy. Thus, with both sides turning gradu- ally to separate action, Lloyd (ieorge is left high and dry on the arid mid- dle ground. His exposition of coall- tion principles fails signally to strike any original note or bring forth any response from the great body of lib- erals, who are now making their de- cision whether to act with Lloyd George or vote the straight party ticket in opposition to the conserva- tives on one side and soclalistic la- bor on the other. Free liberal newspapers strike heavily today at Mr. Lloyd George's Glasgow speech, condemning him as a “tory” unworthy of liberal support. Even his erstwhile stanch friend, Austen Chamberlain, has signified his intention of remaining with the con- servative party, in effect blasting all hopes of a cohesive middle party with Lloyd George at its head. Liberal opinion, as expressed by the { Manchester Guardian, urges valiant efforts at the reunion of all the lib. eral elements under one standard, Free liberalism, as Interpreted b the Dally News, wants Lloyd George boat scuttled and the whole party turn either to Lord Grey or Herbert Asquith for leadérship. CHIEF OF FASCISTI ARRIVES IN ROME TO FORM CABINET (Continued from First Page.) solini in asserting his determination to have the fascisti in absolute con- trol was made vesterday when for- mer Premier Salandra was asked to form a cabinet. Upon hearing of this the fascisti leader told former Pre- Gov. Bartlett then will proceed to |mier Facta that he would not enter| {a cabinet with Salandra or any other politician. Salandra then declined to form a cabinet. Newspaper Ofiice Ralded. The offices of the newspaper Secolo at Milan have been raided and ran- | sacked by a force of 100 nationalists. | says a dispatch to the Stefani agen { The raiders destroyed the newspaper’ ! machinery. Previous dispatches told ! ot the fascisti occupation of several | newspaper plants in Rome, including | that of the pro-socialist 11 Paese and | the Aazione. | The press of Britain is divided in {appraising the fascisti movement in {its hour of triumph. The newspapers | sympathetic to the purposes and ac- j complishments of the black-shirted army in Italy 1ook upon the victory { of Mussolini as a “blow for freedom, { which has shown that a nation can protect itself against foes within its {own household.” Another section of | the press sees in the rise of the fas- icisti elements of danger that may {1ead to chaos in Italy. possibly with Lloyd George as leader. i HOW YEGGMEN REACHED CASH IN E STREET RESTAURANT SAFE. After chixeling the bottom out of in cash. Raymond, conducts the extablishment, The photograph shows Hernard Luber, who, with his brother ) i i 1 the safe in'the Fomona cafe, 1307 E street, cracksmen early this morning made a clean getaway with nearly $500 looking over the ruins. ARGUE $6,000,000 SUIT AGAINST SHIP BOARD Government’s Side to Be Presented | by Fletcher Dobyns, E. M. Al- lison and Senator Brackett. Special Dispatch to The Star, AL ANDRIA, Va., October 30.—! ments were begun before Judge | Edmund Waddill in the United States | court for the eastern district of Vir-| !ginia today in the suit of the Vir- |ginia Shipbullding Corporation | against the United States Shipping| Board and Emergency Fleet Corpora- | jtion to recover about $6000,000 ]clnim:d to be due the complaining | argument on behnlf! corporation. The opening {of the Virginia Shipbuilding Corpo-| ration was made by William A. Bar-, ber and the closing argument on be- | half of that company will be made by | Judge Wiillam L. Day of Cleveland, Ohio. | The government's side of the case will be presented by Fletcher Dobyns, E. M. Allison and Senator Edgar T. Brackett of New York. It is thought that the arguments will not be completed today. The case I'has been in progress since last Mon- day and the taking of testimony was | completed Friday ‘ MINE UNIONTOAID | GOAL FACT FINDING Report to Commission Hits Absentee Ownership and | i | { i ja place almost directly in front of Because of the fascistl's professed Middlemen’s Profits. hostility to bolshevism, the movement bas for a long while made a favorable appeal to certain elements of opinion in England and the progress of the organization has been watched with evergrowing interest. Now its victory is widely featured in the press. A report containing comment and | suggestions outlining the union’s idea of how the United States coal fact-finding commission should con- | He had thought she was better, he awakening from it the victim would | The Times recognizes in the fascisti i success very wholesome elements and jalso very evil elements and wonders { which will triumph. The newspaper thinks the fascisti proclamation pub- lished yesterday is not reassuring. Sees “Direct Aection.” “It is menacing and vague” says the Times. “It is not by sonorous phrases that the problems awaiting | Italy can be solved,” the editorial de- clares, adding that it is only an un- healthy state and an unhealthy so- ciety which permit such orgenizations as the fascisti to grow up in their midst. Other papers liken the fascisti movement to “direct action” so often threatened here by labor to influence political decisions. The Daily Tele- graph maintains that the situation in Italy today has to a large extent resulted from the chaotic subdivision of the country into small political | groups animated by party jealousies. { That newspaper argues that the issue in Italy has its lesson for the elec- tors of Britain. The difference be- tween the British political crisis and the Itallan crisis is mainly one of I national_temperament in the opinion of the Wesatminster Gazette, Which says the “root of the cause in each case goes back: to the Versallle: fallure.” The Daily News sees in the fascisti adventure ‘“‘a dangerous folly likely tolbrhl' Italy to utter chaos and ruin.” In a review of the movement writ- ten for the Times, a writer describing himself as a “convinced Italian lib- eral” says that the fascisti were originally right and patriotic but that their movement has degenerated during the past two years and that Italy has gone from bolshevist anarchy to fascistl tyranny. ‘Fascism has destroyed until noth- ing is left to destroy; it must now {begin to construct or must disappear,” | the article says. WORLD FARM CONGRESS. First Meeting Since War Called in Paris. The International Congress of Agri- culture will be held in Paris next May or June. This will bé the eleventh international congress, and the first since the war. ‘The Internations! Agriculture Com- mission i{s a permanent body whose chief function has been the organisa- tion of such congresses, and the United States department is much in- terested in its work. M. Meline, for- mer minister of agriculture of France, has n president of the commission i iduct its investigation and the objec- {tives to be attained has been filed with the commission by a commit- tee representing the United Mine. ‘Workers of America. The report is signed by Ellls Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers’ Journal. Absentee ownership of coal mining areas, the intrusion of profit-taking middlemen in marketing, regulation of coal production and the survey of transportation and storage facllities available for coal distribution, the report emphasized, should be investi- gated by the commission. On a nuwm- ber of subjects about which the com- mission asked views the commit- | tce withheld comment, asking further time for study., but gave assurance that all available information would {be presented when called for. Absentee Ownership Evil. “The commission, through its own avenues, should investigate the ex- tent to which absentee ownership prevails in the ooal industry,” the report said. “We believe this is an evil that has much to do with the strained relations and unfortunate conditions which exist in the indus- try. We belleve that the commission should ascertain why it is that the price of ooal to the domestic con- i sumer is always higher than the price to raliroads and other large pur- chasers. We believe this line would be developed if the commission would inquire into railroad coal contracts and the methods by which such con- tracts are made.” In seeking production cost figures, the report suggested the commission should take up the question of invest- ment to see whether ‘‘capitalization is water upon which the coal con- sumer is required to pay interest and [dlvldendl“ as well as wages. Annual Earnings Stressed. “The commission should ascertain the actual mine cost of production,” it added, “and then compare that cost with the price which the consumer pays, and find out who gets the money represented by those two figures.” On the point of large costs the committee asked the commission to consider the account of representative mines in all sections of the country and to refrain from “giving comclu- sive consideration to the rate of wages of the mine worker per day, ‘but consider the amount of his annual earnings.” Irregularity of production, waste of coal in mining operations and trans- portation methads, it was declared, put heavy char against coal pro- duction and deserve attention. LIEUT. SMITH DETAILED. Lieut. Allan E. Smith of the office ot director of naval communications, ! since 1908, and this country has been | Navy Department, -has beeh detailed 1t ! to represented for many years on 2: L eiphin for e waters, commission by several members the federal depastments = the U. 8. S. Denebola, fitting out at irkish {from subscriptions from local resi- YEGGS BREAK SAFE IN CAFE, GET $800 Move Money Container to Room in Rear and Work Almost Directly in Front of Window. Expert veggmen early this morn- ing broke into the Pomona Cafe, 1307 E street northwest, chiseled the bot- tom out of a small safe and escaped with about $800. The safe occupied the window. Entrance to the cafe was gained by breaking a panel out of a rear door. The safe was dragged into a storeroom In the back of the bullding, Wwhere the bottom was cut out with cold chisels. Not content with the money they found in it, the tlhieves helped themseives to cigars from a showcase. The robbery was discovered by a negro employe. who reported for work _eagly this morning. Raymond and Bernard Luber said they had been forced to leave the money in the safe because of the early closin of banks on Saturda: & LINGOLN'S STATUE PEDESTAL PAINTED New Location Is But Few Feet From Former Site in ! Front of Courthouse. The Lot Flannery statue of Abra- ham Lincoln, which stood for many vears in front of the courthouse, at the head of John Marshall place, and was removed when the courthouse was remodeled three years ago, is| being restored today. The removel| of the statue met with the disap- | proval of a number of citizens and Congress was appealed to for its res- toration. The statue was purchased dents. Workmen are busy today painting the wooden temporary pedestal on which the statue is to rest, pending the completion of a white marble pedestal, for which the contract has been awarded. The wooden replica is about six and one-half feet high and will serve to bring the statue iinto a position where the features of | Valador, the great liberator may be clearly seen by the passerby. When -orig- inally placed the statue was on a long shaft of about twenty feet, but the cutting down of the street level some years ago left a mound of dirt about eight feet high between the! sidewalk and the base of the pedestal, | The new location is but a few feet | from the place occupied by the statue ! for so many years and the lowering | of the shaft is expected to conform better with the architecture of the courthouse. e e — PLANS FOR U. S.-CANADA POSTAL CONVENTION Postmaster General Completes Ar- rangements for Discussing Unification of Systems. Postmaster General Work has com- pleted arrangements for a conference between postal officials of this coun- try and Canada with a view to c::- cluding & Postal convention between the two countries Owing to the importance of the! move, Dr. Work has Geclaed to attens the conference to be held at Ottawa the first week in December. Thorough unification of the two postal systems In expected. Proposals include twenty-five pois which officlals at the Post omc‘;ol')‘: partment oXpect to benefit the postal systems of both countries. They in- clude insurance of parcel post be- tween the United States and Canada, transit of mail from each country through the other to outside destinar tion, direct correspondence between Canadian and American postmasters, uniform money order forms and per- mission for raliway mail disrica of 0 extend s the border. A — CRY DEATH TO STATESMEN By the Associated Press, ATHENS. October 30.—After listen- ing yesterday to a publi¢ oration by a prominent Venizelist, who acclalm- ed the achievements of the revolution and condemned the former regime, a bo acro! the men now under arrest, Later they rioting and destroy~ " PR o et |How many { Mount Holyoke College ruled today i do mot entirely condemn the wearing | of knickerbockers by {'steepleehase handicap; for four-vear- great audience demanded-the death of | ble entry. ' (b)Rancocas Wilson Backers Indorse ‘Dry’ in U.S.SenateRace BOSTON, October 20.—Dr. Charies W. Eliot, president emeritus of Har- vard University, and a group of other supporters of Woodrow Wilson poli- ‘cles, have signed a statement indors- ing the candidacy of John A. Nicholls, prohibition candidate for United States senator. The declaration of indorsement was made public simultaneously with a statement signed by Nicholls; in which he declared in favor of the United States entering the league of nations and in favor of a moderate tariff. KINGSMAN SCHOOL FORMALLY OPENED New Building in Northeast Section in Use With 280 Pupils Enrolled. ALADDIN TEMPL 10 USE 2 HOTEL President’s Fellow Shriners Coming to Session 2,500 Strong. Special arrangements are being made by the Almas 1923 Shrine Com- mittee for the housing of Aladdin Temple of Columbus, Ohlo, of which President Harding is « member. It has been decided by those in Charge to keep this temple intact as far as possible in regard to hotel facllitles. Because of its affliations with the President, Aladdin Temple will in all probability be the center of the big show here next June. According to present plans the offi- clal party will be housed at the Ham- ilton and Franklin Square hotels. The official’ party, which includes the potentate, divan, patrols, bands, drum corps and chanters, will arrive in Washington June 4. T. Ewing Jones is the present potentate, and an- nounces that the officlal party will number about 1,000. Aside from this, he states. there will be also about 1,500 more, which number will include the nobility and their families. It is hoped that this number will be taken care of somewhere in the vicinity of the other members of Aladdin Today marks the 105th appli Without dedicatory exercises or for- malities of any kind, the Richard Kingsman School, at 14th and E streets northeast, Washington's new- est and most modern elementary ation | to be received s) ’lhrpllt{;x.\:nu com- [school building, was opened today mittee, headed by . P. Morey. Tl 5 o 2 e e e Temple of Erle, | M1er several previous delays, due to Pa., which expects to have in its of- | the railroad strike, which tied up its ficfal party 500, including families. Fach temple will be given a separate headquarters here, aithough it will be impossible for the members of every temple to be together. Arthur W. Milne is the present potentate of Zem-Zem. Al Kaly Temple of Pueblo, Col, whose application was recetved Sat: urday, will have a large band and patrol here, according to its poten- tate, Robert D. Wolf, who arrived in town today. A unique feature of this temple is that ite uniformed patrol and_band are robed in the regalla of Indian chiefs. Another meeting of the publicity committee will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the headquarters in the Homer building, 13th and F streets. STATE RESTS IN TRIAL OF WOMAN FOR MURDER Mrs. Mabel Champion, Accused of Slaying Carnival Promoter, to Present Testimony. furniture and other equipment. With the opening of this building the seri- ous overcrowded conditions in the schools in the seventh gdivision; in which the Kingsman is grouped, were relieved materially. Pupils for the new school were drawn principally from the Edmonds and Maury schools. Four classes in the Maury and three from the Edmonds were moved bodily, with thelr teachers, into the Kingsman. They were the first, second, third and fourth grades of the Maury, and the fifth, eixth and seventh grades of the Edmonds. The eighth grade of the new schoo! will be organ- ized from children attending other over- crowded schools in the seventh division. Initinl Enrollment, 280. The Kingman's initial enrollment lapproximated 250 pupils. It is an eight-room building with seating ac- comniodations for 336, forty-two to a room. Although the classes at the Kings- man did not move into the new build- ]ln: until shortly before noon, a van- guard of pupils early this morning carried the textbooks and other sup- plies to the building. The children |used virtually every kind of convey- lance conceivable to move the sup- iplies. Some had small express | wagons and baskets, while others ycame in automobiles driven by the {teachers Miss Grace . silvers, until today " P 30 | principal of the Hilton School, is the CLEVELAND, Ohfo, October 30.—iprincipal and eighth grade teacher The state rested its case at noon to-iof the new Kingsman. Others teach- day in the first degree murder trial ers transferred to the Kingsman and | the grades they will teach are: Miss of Mrs. Mabel Champion, charged | R ETades L. B. ; irs. L. R. Duganne, with the slaying of Thomas A. O'Con- | 6A; Mrs. R. T. Kopp, 4A: Mra E. L. nell, carnival promoter of New Hfl\'t-n‘!“ lson, 3A and Miss Janice Blum, 2B. and Miss M. E. Yost, 1A. Conn., in a restaurant here last July. | Police officers who arrested Mrs. Champion and her husband following the shooting were the last witnesses to testify. Police Sergt. Schneider, witnens cailed this morning, testified that Mrs, Champlon tried to trick police into believing that O'Comnell while in a dying condition in a hol pital following the shooting, had cleared her of any connection with the crime. County Prosecutor Edward C. Stan- ton' said he expected to put all of his witnesses on tke stand in rebut- ! tal testimony before Tuesday night. witnesses the ~defense At the time the pupils moved .into ithe school workmen were putting finishing touches on the {while others were grading ground |adjacent to the building. which will {be used as a playground. Electric the first | lights and the doors for the playroom iand domestic science rooms in _the basement have not yet been installed, but officials expect this work to be completéd soon. Located on a Knoll. Situated on a knoll overlooking F street, Tennessee avenue and 14th streets, the Kingsman school is ideal- ¢ located. The design of the build- ing aiso is unique. All of the class- irooms are above the ground. The i Kingsman is one of the first schools plans to call has not been revealed.[to have the basement show above e T ground, giving plenty of light for the pupils. Only the heating plant BARS KNICKERS IN CLASS. is below the surface. The absence of plaster is a feature jof the school. The lower parts of SOUTH HADLEY, Mass, October|the wall are finished with glazed 30.—Dean Florence Purington of brick and the tops with ordinary red ibrick, which permits of washing eas- * ily. Bookcases are installed in every that knickers must not be worn in|room and the cloakrooms have racks the college class rooms. Many of [for coats, hats and overshoes. Spe- the students have been wearing |cial provision has been made for the “knickers” throughout the day. Two teacher's rooms are | teachers. College authoritles, it was stated. enette, where warm lunches may be premared. The ventilation of the rooms is modern. The outside air comes through the walls at floor level and passes under ‘women, but consider them inappropriate as class- room costumes. i e, FILES AS BANKRUPT. | fore i iroutates in the room: ——— Named in Homnor of Dr. Kingsman. Funds for the construction of the automobile sales d tion o m}:\l'xih(.er: El‘cnlnl'!2 Columb\'; road | new Kingsman were provided in the northwest, today filed a_petition in |last deficiency appropriation. It was Voluntary bankruptcy. He lists hig|named in memory of the late Dr. { Richard Kingsman, member of the { Board of Education from 1900 to 1806. With the transfer of Miss Silvers to Kingsman School the Hilton School was simultaneously grouped with the | Peabody School, and Miss M. G. ! Young, principal of the latter build- ling, became group principal of both schools. In a few days Dr. E. G Kimball, supervising principal of the seventh division, announced that the lower grade classes at Peabody will be moved into the Hilton and the debts at $52,133.50 and estimates his assests at $6,000. Attorney Andrew Bradley appears for the bankrupt. Pimlico Entries. First race; maiden two-year-olds; | purse, $1,468.33; six furlongs—Pick- eter, 115 Pow.wow, 112; (a)Crugle, 112; Virginius, 115; Romping Home, will be transferred into the Peabody. 115; Old Timer, 115; Atherstone, 115 The change will make Ten Minutes, 115; (a)Ethnes, 112:|practically’a primary graded school. 115; Windigo, 112: Druid Hill, 116; Rock Bottom, 115; C. A. Reinhart, 115; Woodflower, 112; Pet- tifogger, 115; Sylvan Spring, 115; Huckleberry Finn, 115. (a)—G."W. Loft-J. E. Madden entry Second race, the Manly Memorial olds and up; $10,000 added; 21; miles —(a)Mimata, 142; (b)Sea Tale, 157; | (c)Hallavill,” 140; **Earlocker. 131:! () Damasic’ 137 () The Tron(, 13 b)Overmatch, (¢)Must: : De= « & e e Plumeot, 133; Sea Serpent. | Shooting of High School Graduate 135; (b)Courteous, 140: Lieut. Seas, Recalled by Court 140; (d)Soumangha, 151. (a)Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarke entry (b)Charlos K. Harrison, jr. entry; Case. (c)J. S. Coddén entry; (d)Greentree stable entry. **Five pounds claimed “;;m“,"' co. the Sudbrook Park| Bernard F. Casgon. twenty years pursé; thrée-vear olds and up: sell-|old, who surrendered to the police ing; $1,468.33; mile and a six-|after his pal, Wilfred Michaud, had teenth-—*AllL .Fair, 112; *Vender, 10 *Slippery Elm, 115; *Pastoral Swain, 117; Overtake, 114, and *Harmonius, been shot to death by the officers who surprised the boys in the rear of the store of the Sanitary Grogery Com- 111 Fourth _race, mm-ye;:;;;'g; and {pany at 305§ Mount Pleasant street, up; claiming; purse, $1.468.33; one July 8 last, pleaded guilty today be- mile—*Ten Buttons, 105: *Whalebone, 106; Little Ammie, 99: Roulette, 104; Mayor House, 111; *Two Feathers, 108; The Lamb, 113: *Jacquese, 108; *Cromwell, 111; Mock Orange, 113; *Freezy Sneesy, 102; Sundial, 2d, 110; Cahalan, 116; *Hello Pardner, 108, and Sling, 107 . Fifth racé, the Pikesville purse; two-ygar-old: $1.468.33; six fur- longs—Valadar, 107; (a)Crochet, 109. Boys 'Believe' Me, 107; Osprey, 10 Shamrock, 113; Luminis 109; Do; a24; Solisa, 1 o 112; 1o¥1 by Day, 104; and Pennon, 107, ()3, 8. Cosden entry. Sixth race, the Belvedere; three. year-olds; x;\-}rr. ”"xl‘“'u:l :no Tgll' a) one furlong—Trevelyan, Y Enl:otlon. u‘t'gx Double Cross, 108; Camic-Song, 108. ‘Seventh race, the Arlington handi- cap; three-years-old and up; purse, $1;888.34; six furlongs. (a) Tryster, 12 , 104: Modo, 100; nderer, fos 100; (b)Littl fore Justice Bailey, in Criminal Di- vision 2, to an indictment charging him with housebreaking. Casson is also indicted on a charge a chargé of stealing the automobile in which the boys rode from 13th and F streets northwest to the scene of their capture. The case was referred to Probation Officer Steele. Attorney James A. O'Shea appeared for the prisoner, while Assistant United States Attorney Presmont represented the government. . 112; J-)Hselmx: eth’s Rigel, 112 of guilty before Justice Bailey when called to trial on an indictment alle; ing a larceny from the United Stats Seagle admitted that he took plati- num from the bureau of standards. Andrew Sopper, 1454 109 (a)Galantman, B Galantman, |14; Dextorfous, | southeast. The housebreaking - oc- e iaatunary, 106; Wishbone, 106, curred September 30 last. tKnot, 104; Dinna Care, 110; Predigi- gus. 100§ Dry Moon, 112; Big Heart, ~(a)Greentree’ Stable-Westmont Sta- Stable entry. SFive pounds apprentice allowance D RESIGNATION IS ACCEPTED. nell, U. 8. interior, { {provided and in one there is a kitch-; higher grade classes in that building | the Hilton | |SLAIN BOY'S PAL ADMITS| GUILTINHOUSEBREAKING. of entering another store and also on Ernest Seagle also entered a plea| gt per home on last Wednesday. He A plea of guilty also was made by Henry C. Herbert, who was charged ‘with breaking into the apartment of ‘Bangor street ‘The President has accepted the res- ignation of Ensign Charles O. O'Con- N., attached to the recelv-| take her picture on the day preceding, tnimed. Weather clear- Track fast.|ing ship at New York city, to take ef- f'.,muuzmmm d l:t-lw-’uhr—fi." ks ) [4 GRECIAN WALL NOW IS PILE OF DEBRIS Citizens of Woodley Place Watch Demolition of Ar- tistic Columns. A’ few well directed blows fr sledge hammers wrote the final chap- ter of the merry little war of artistic Woodley place today, and left fis Grecian wall a mere pile of splintered rock and concrete. ‘The citizens who, armed with the garden hose, had so valiantly defend- ed their attractive homes from the aggressions of dirt-laden motor lor ries, watched the demolition from, d helpless by the strong arm of the law Armed with a permit from board of District Commissioners. H. Small, the contractor and bu who_is filling in the dump that at Woodley place’s northern appeared on the scene at 9 o and personally supervised the moval of the wall. Make Final Protest. Headed by Allister Cochrane 2628 Woodley place the residents or that attractive little made their final protest. But Mr. Small showed them his offi permit they withdrew and pass 11 thoroug! w watched until the lumn had been removed. The contractor, how ever, voluntarily left a se tion of the wall that protects pedes trians from tumbling off twenty-foot depression. As the last bit of debris was throw. nto into a deep rut in the streef, €ix i"“c“ thundered dow Woodle place, groaned thro: the soft earth of the dump and pped their loads of yellow clay— advancs guard of the motorized army that to make its way to the dump unt it has been entirely filled in and made useful for building purposes. Defeated in_their efforis to prot their homes through belligerency, the residents of Woodley p have not however, given up hope of savirg something out of their rout At the suggestion of Mr. Cochrane, steps ma soon be taken to have the dump turr ed into a_playground until the ear ihas settled sufficiently to pe i building operations, which will be least six yvears. Want Playground. “There are three or four acr land here,” said Mr. Cochrane cating_the dump, “which could made into an_ideal athletic f iplayground. The refuse of wh complained has been covered ove only a small sum of moncy wou needed 1o level the ground It is expected & representative cor mittee of residznts will wait upon the | District Commissioners next week and { submit the proposition to them. Mr Small said today that a similar had been adopted on some of his p: erty in another section of the eit {his only request beinz that the 1. should be turned back to him i {it became available for build GRAND JURY PROBE OF MURDER IN N. J. IS FACING DELAY ued from First Page ) ind places a woman answering the seription of Mrs. Hall on the spo at the time of the tragedy. Mr Hall deniés she was there. P Compared to this angle everythine else in thix case has assumed the * relativity of chaff to wheat case seems now 1o stand statement sworn to by Mrs New Clue Hinted. Deputy Attorney General Wilb Mott and Detective Lieut. James Mason, his aide, had arrived b noon today and this opened spe lation as to the possibilities of the rinning down new clue while the Gibson statement is being held up | as a smoke screen to cover the re activities As things now stand, it would s that the prosecutors have the word {Mrs. Jane Gibson, who =ays she wit | hessed the killing of Mr. Hall and M | Mills, against the word of the widow of the rector. Mrs. Gibson sa¥s th she returned to Tetrieve a moc {1 o'clock in the mor L afl b shooting, she saw a womai, whom she identified as Mrs. Hall, bending over 1 bodies. Denjed by Mra. Hall. Mrs. Hall denies this. roboration in major points of the | mony of Mrs. Gibson goes, th {ties are willing to admit that the none. Mrs. Gibson's word then stan< against Mrs. Hall's. | Mrs. Gibson is known to lave bec in‘a circus at some time or another du ing her . and to have become a pig farmer. Mrs. Hall comes from a fan well known in the state. Her pas: points out, is an open book. Her 1 ition has been of the highest. Aud s asks: “Doesn’t a person’s past cour { tor anything Rumors _definitely state th this situation which caused tween the two prosecutors and Stricker. Weather, Records Searched. men occupied m Newspaper i this morning checking up on ments of Mrs. Gibson and general attitude. Two points | uncovered. { The first is that her stor: Mrs. Hall bending over the {the light of the rising @moon 1 o'clock in the morning m be backed up by the weather rec i But weather records disprov. {fact that sufficient light was jr , when the murde to have been comm 1er wore upon of see bodi | st was going on at a According to recq weather observatory. the moon not rise on the night of the murde until 11:26 standard time. Davlight- saving time was in effect herc then and by the local elock® the moon did not come up until 26. The night was cloudless, but the stars. accord- ing to Chief G. H. Noyes of the u- ton observatory, did not give clent_light to any distance more than few yards. “A” person standing 100 vards off in the starlight -of a _cloudl nizht here.” declared Chief Noyes, “would be unable to discern a fgure un it was moving, and then it would e only a mobile shadow. Photographers M| suf distinguish forms at aken. at As far as Mrs. Gibson's knack identifying persons the following related. A photographer named Ready, from New York, who speaks with a slight Irigh accent, visited her tried to sneak a picture of her by snapshooting. He succeeded, and a quarrel followed with the woman, she damaging his camera. The next day another photographer named Bawmer, who 18 of entirely differeni make-up from Ready, visited her. He speaks with a slight tinge of a German ac- cent. He i different in features and cemplexion from Ready. He wore a brown_coat, whereas Ready wore a green-mixed one. He has a mustache, and Ready, has none. Nevertheles: the woman' emphatically stated that he was.the same man who tried to and for half an hour conducted a vers bau tirade against his personality