Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1922, Page 2

o T RATING TEACHERS ONNEWPLANURGED Special Committee Reports on Passing Marks and Grading System. ACTION IS POSTPONED Party Followers Receive Returns At Headquarters Followers of the two old pacties gathered at their respective head- quarters in Washington last night and received the news of the eiections. At the headquariers of the tepub- 1 national ittee, fn the Mun- v building. John T. Adams was sur- ounded by a large party of repub- leaders and committee workers taelr friends. Chairman Adams at 9:30 o'clock said he had no com- ment 1o make for the time being but preferred waiting for later re- H | turns. There was a large gathering at the rlers | | i i i democtatic national headqus in . : it Pro- ; the Pond Buflding presided v | Teachers' Council May Submit A Riine ppauided | s of ( Cordeil’ Hul | pozal to Board of Education for |, 5 of the jolut republican | 5 2 teampaign committee of e Dist TIts Consideration. 11242 03 sireet, the returns wer L 5 Leeived in e prescmes of several | hundred men and wom; The d"mu-‘ w system of rating teachers|eratic central committee of the Dis- \ new system Bl i which is designed to improve teaching i‘"‘”"”"‘:‘ nows ok ”;’.‘ "“'““""‘“ s ¢ 5 reir < in the luter- in the District publi 1o0is Was | national EBuilding street | proposed by a special committes on i hers' ratings in a report sub- | mitted to the teachers’ council at a pecial meeting last t i ot Franklin School. Definite action n on PLAN EARLY TRIAL the plan was deferred until special m & called for this pur- | pose on No . by Allan Davis principal ess High School and president of the council Favored by Number of Delexates. ¥ pent on the proposed | new ser vorable comn change in ratng teachers was voiced { b a number of delegat to th Jouncil, and it is belicved that the aport will be adopted and submitted , the bLoard of education with the request that it he put into practice 1 the 1 syster Action on_the % postpened last night ! delegates to the sche order suncil w Bive n opportun with the groups of teac resent on the body Committee's Hecommendations. “The report of the special committee recomme ty to discuss it chers they rep end of each ¥ excellent, VG ¥, fair, and U, very un- . superior; E good; G. gcod; factory mark of fair st ing mark cher receiving 11 be interpreted but shall subject it to intensive for the following year. unsutisfactory shall be to a recommendation for “hers shail be graded under the heads and shall, in addi-y Crive n general grade ex- ns the final judgment of the rvising officer nd class work System, order, promptness. care material, attention to heating. 1d hygiene civie spirit, local ac- lighting, ventilation articipaticn tivities 4. Health (exclnding artificial ndards of under and over weight). weerfulness, liking for human beings and tol e i “5. Applied knowledge of related | Seli-fmprovement, tn school and subject “6. Initiative, personality, inSpira- tion, creative force, school better- ment, high potential value to schools. ! Requisite for High Rating. “Teachers who stand very high in all of the first five classes shall be ked excellent eachers who stand high in four of the first five classes and do good work in the remaining class. shall be marked very good. “Teachers whose work is good. but Xcellent. in the first five cla!ses' all be graded good. “Teachers who are, in the main, | doing fair work, but who show indica- tions of weakness in some of these five classes, should be marked fair. Teachers recommended for dis- missal shall be marked unsatisfac- tory. Before such unsatisfactory wrade shall be effective as a basis for dismissal it must be verified by two ther supervisory officers for a period t least one semester. The few teachers who are excel- lent in the first five classes and who also excel fn the qualities of class & shall be rated as superior teachers. WET CANDIDATES i WIN FOUR STATES | on a platform with a plank calling for Iight wines and heers Wins In Went, Too. 1o Illinois the congressional dele- gation will take in three “wets.”” Re-! norts indicate the Wisconsin delega- | " 7 to 4. Wisconsin | i tion will be “wet,” T also re-clected Senator Robert M. La| Follette, classed by the drys as an| anti-prohibitionist. { In ORio the complexion of the vote on the wet and dry status underwent | several changes during the morning. | Once it was found that an error of | .000 votes had put wets in the lead. hut returns from country distriets later overcame this and the vote stood against beer and wine. In the seventh Minnesota congres- sional district returns indicated Rep- resentative Andrew J. Volstead father of the prohibition act, was| making @ strong fight to overcome | ihe early lead of the Rev. O. J. Kvale. | Weis drew little hope from ~that.! however, e Rev. Mr. Kvale has | deseribed himself “as dryer than Volstead.” ! i i | Two Sides Split Even. 1 In various congressional districts in which the wet and dry question was made an outright campaign is- sue, the two sides fared about alike, some of the drys beinz beaten de- cisively and a few of the wets win- ning J. H. Smith. who campaigred in the sixth Nebrarka district on a wet platform, polled only a negligible votse, according to incomplete returns. The wet opponent of W. G. Sears, incumbent in the second district of Nebraska, was defeated eusil; In Indiana. J. P. Turk. an avowed ! wet, was defeated by Merrill Moores, | who won re-election. ! Frank Hlagerman, democrat. ho made the race in the third lowa dis- trict on a wel platform, was de- feated, while among those elected were Robert Clancy, democrat, in the first Michigan, and Clarence Me- | Leod, republican, in tha thirteenth | Michigan. Clancy was a democratic ! addition from Michigan and the only member of that party reported eiected in the first six districts to report. Volstead Fight Elsewhere. A. C. Shallenberger. democrat. fifth, Nebraska, also a proponent of modifica- | tion of the Voistend act, had & lead over | his republican opponent. Another vic- | torious wet was Representative L. C.| Dyer of the twelfth Minsouri district. | James H. Hanley of Omaha, democrat, defeated in the second Nebraska district; had been classed as “unsatisfactory” by | the Anti-Saioon League, while Willis G. | Sears. who won in the second district, and Representative M. O. McLaughlin, alected in the fourth, and Robert G. Sim- wmons, in the sixth district, were listed a8 “satisfactory” to the league. One of Simmons’ opponents ran on a beer and lght-wine platform. Edgar Howard, elected representa- tive in the third Nebraska district, was described as “unsatisfactory” to the Anti-Saloon League. ASHURST SEEMS WINNER. Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee in Arizona Also Ahead. PHOENIX, Ariz, November 8.—In- complete returns from twenty-five precincts out of 480 in the state give for governor: Hunt, democrat, 2,620; Campbell, republican, 2,425. Senator Ashurst appears re-elected. ' | I ) ievery |had been driven from the bank and| { clanging of she big gon | | jverate effort to escape, FOR BANK BANDITS Judge Announces Prince Georges Speciai Grand Jury after their indictment, DEAD NOWTOLL INMINEBLOWAP Volunteer Relief Work Turn to Digging Graves Pennsylvania Town. SPANGLUR, Pa., November § —Te- covery of five more bodies in the Reilly mine late yesterday brought he total kpown dead to cighty and accounted for all of the 112 men offi- cially listed having been in the min the explosion took place. went zas explosion Monday Joriing, been cleared of 3 4 dead The total of listed survivers in- cludes six miners who were in the cage wihen the flood of gas and smoke °d from the mouth of the shaft. total includes the three miners, rescued alive, who failed to inls and r been accounted Arrange for Funernls. Ldentified bodies wera i the morgue as quick claimed. Company o widows refativ, for, howeve icials notl that they ake charge of funeral arrange | ers in ue men real- the possibility that one or two =0 might e entered the mine yesterday without reporting to thelr boss. ANl miners isted #s missi e, nents, if desired I A number of bodies will be buried Will Be Called at Once. taday. Most of he victims were i Catholies, and their pastors P ranged to conduct the last rites of UPPER MARLBORO, Md.. November e twaramallicom tenlon S.—Swift justice is to be meied out to | graves ht. the four bar who attempted fnary t ivestigation to =i 3 St the cause of yesterday to bold up the bank a e e bent Clinton. ten miles from here, and|cons 1 the workings were captured in a woods after bhe- confirmed declara- = b s st e made by company & tracked down by a y € sev s ey eral hundred armed farmers. Waeh- Bigs owe et Tivenito ington detectives and Maryland police | hat force of the explo- it {w,u found a double outlet 1. E. Pumphrey. deputy ‘sheriff,i Rushi of' Elnmes. who made the actual arrest a mirute | When the gas was Dpossibly before the main body of scarchers! Lamp pared arrived at the alleged bandits’ for- he fanho while the est rendezvous. declired ouay Juaze | traveled through the Fillmore esiding Vo civens the other direction court of i rough the nounced kis A1tention ce was that lit- special grand jury im | slodged, and miners Jury will b asked to indict the four men | wio w scious were able to on charges of attempted bank robbery. | ir zone at Accused Men Guarded in Jail. ohesmete The accused men. who described e N ent themselv William B ve been much ater 2u3 12th swreet southwest, . swion ocenrred on_any ington, and Augustus . Henry C.! ny bie o h Gtn e and Frank 3 Woods, brothers, D or more n isually reported for Reltsville, Md.. are now in the county | fwork e D s jail here, ’cuuslai}ll)‘ guarded 'I | t workon Monday. The total Special wardens * Their in the ! v reduked cuit_court witl follo | When the gas let ce Coakley s_think, his confessed associates. Tinee Georges cou radius of fifteen miles of the usual Im little town of Clinton. had not yet settled down from the excitement of the man hunt vesterday. Virtually able-bodied man. within strik- ing distance of Clinton. suouldered his rific or shotgun. after the men is assured, si implicated and three within i | { joined in the search. ! Cashier Defles Bandits. The alleged bandiis reached the bank about 10:30 o'clock. When onc shoved a pistol under the nose of J Frank Dent, the cashier, and de- manded that he throw up his hands, the plucky young man dropped be- hind his cage and set off the burglar alarm. CUnnerved by the sudden the would- preci flight by bandits 1o from the buildlng. leaped into thelr automobile and dashed out of the town, firing several volleys of pistol! shots as they went. Five miles down | the road their car broke down and all four fled into a dense forest near| Allentown, Summoned from a nearby oll, Deputy Sheriff Pumphrev called together a posse several burdred farmers, all armed to the teeth, 2nd many were holding ash one or more election | foxhourds. In the meantime Was! ton police had sealed every c into the District from thut se-tion of Maryland, a report havimz been re- ceived that the fugitives, in one des- ad stolen an automobile from a passing moto and were en route back to this cit Brothers Hide in Ravine. Deep in the forest, however, Woods brothers crouched in a zmaul ravine, terror-stricken as the yelping | fox dogs told them, by their mourn- | ful symphony of howls, thal the pur-§ suers were drawing closer momen-, tarily. All these men were armed, ( but they confessed later that the! awful * terror of the onrushing dogs | left their arms limp and their brains| pumbec by fea:, Two hundred men were slowly through the woods at_this| time, converginz from every direc tion. Deputy Sheriff Pumphrey led! the party from the south, while! Headquarters Detective Scrivener di-i rected another through from the | north. Tne armed farmers swept in from the sides. Pumphrey the men, cringing in their little Leveling his automatic, the sheriff called upon the men to sur- {render, which they did with alacrity. | Ask to Be Hurried Away. A moment later the main body of : man hunters burst into view, and the | three brothers paled visibly as they | saw the business-like looking farm- | ers, each clutching a gun, and the! dogs. Fearing violence. the prisoners | drew closer to the policemen of the] party and asked to be hurried away. | They were taken back to Clinton in the automobile of the Washington de tective bureau. Coakley, the fourth man, had been | captured more than an hour before. ! 1t was he who, striking out for him- | Self, once In the woods, had circulat-7 d the call Uit the bandits had stolen | an automob.ie and were hurrying| back to Washington. He had hoped to draw the posse from the scent| by that ruse, but instead attracted| one hody of them to the house from which he phoned. Coakley was found there and later confeased, naming the | Woods brothers zs his partners. { Night brought to & close a disas-; trous day for the young men. They! were in jail, their automobile was | wrecked, and even a flve-dollar bill one of them had carried into the bank was left behind when they fled so pre- | cipitately. —_————— NORTH DAKOTA SENATE RACE STILL DOUBTFUL,! By the Associated Press. H FARGO, N. D.. November 8.—In- ability to get rural returns, due to bad roads in North Dakota, has left in doubt the senatorial contest be- tween Lynn Frazler, republican, Non- Partisan and recalled governor. and J. F. T. O’'Connor, democrat. Returns from 3060 precincts. almost all urban, gave O'Connor 30,818, as compared to 18,686 for Frazier. but it s con- sidered certain that country returns will cut this down materially, if not wipe it out. In the first congressional distriet Alger B. Burtness, republican, was re-elected. —_— CHANGE IS PROTESTED. MADRID, November 8.—El Action protests against the measures taken by the governor of the Philippines for the suppression of the Castilian language as the official medium after December, 1924. It declares that this ill accords with Spain’s attitude toward the United States and demands that the Spanish government adopt whatever means as are necessary to prevent the suppres- sion of the language. marching | Were not contested. 20 @ score of miners were attending mass in a holic church a few blocks from the mine men headed the nte s who digking the g Unusuel o s maintalned about he morgue, where ihe bodies lay on a Red Cross and Sal- = not only visited the homes of all victims to comfort th pendents, they took charge of dren who bec officers and resc this phase of i} f program conducted admt women. the was TO DROP MANY PROSECUTIONS Herrin Killing Cases Scheduled for Hearing Today. BF the Acsiciated Press. MARION, I, November 3.—Trials of the forty-eight men charged with murder in ¢onnection with the Her- rin mine killings, which occurred around the Lester strip mine June 21 &nd 22 last, are scheduled to start in circuit court here today before Judge D. T. Hartwell. The forty- eight men will be arraigned for the death of Howard Hoffman, said to be rst nois of the Company emplove Coal who puthern was &hot after the surrender of the mine cmployes. When the forty-eight defendants are brought into couri. it has been announced, the indictments against many will be nolle prossed, reducing the number of men to he tried for Hoffman's death to probably six. Selection of the jury probably will not start for several days. Local at- quire at least two weeks. —_— — the | torneys believe the selection will re- LOUISIANA RE-ELECTS ALL By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana in yesterda turned to Congre: gation of elght democrats. November election T and William B. Coakley. g re- her present dele- The seats FIGURE IN CLINTON, MD., ATTEMPTED BA Lower lett: Citisens of Clinton mobilising to search the woods. Lower right: J. Frank Dent, the plucky cashier, who, when ordered to “stick ‘em up, ] THE . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, W | FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF SPANGLER, PA., MINE { DISASTER. Flrst photograph (aken after the explosion, xhowing ambula at the shaft as hodies were brought up, and rushed to hospita of relutives has gathered around the shaft. A crowd ! Many Seek Mrs. Hammerstein | With Aid Probably Too Late: i Hundreds Offer to Help Widow of Im- presario After Her Disappearance When Old Friends Spurn Her. i | Speciat Dispsteh co he Sias in the operatic world, a woman who | | NEw Y ORK, Novenie has | possessed | cversthing -’ money | el mpe o ta e could buv. 1f it had no: been for one ! [iz¥alanshe (of itelephone. i of my friends, who saw her seated | | grams and personul inquiries from on W’ peneh, recognized her as un- | Saopia. prominent. in. the. i s usaal. and ook pity on her, Mrs. world today is following the news OScar Hammerstein would have slept | that Mrs. Osear Hammersteln, widow | ¢ Park lke an ordinary tramp. 3% the! Impresdrio, has dlsappeared.| o - E¥iciediRrom Hotel. i S Zact thut in the mote shie lefi| ~She had been put out of her hotel | for non-payment of rent, and lacked | money and courage to seek another| place. I'm not wealthy and my apart- | ment is nothing compared with the quarters to which Mrs. Hammerstein | has been accustomed, and she was an | complaining of the manner she hinted at has cide led officers of the harbor squad to di- neglected rect that the wate jwhile the rivers are being dragged | The anxiou del-wntire stranger to me. But I kept | uging the nondescript and unheated her here for three weeks and still apartment where the widow of the Would h;j“* ek here i shojliaa not | ] ent ) R x vandered away. oesn’t it seem as ' man who built thelllfm{';’y- oltoerd though some of her former rich| { House until yesterday was s “7ed fricuds could have done as much? { by strangers, who pitied her 11l and Inability to pay for her lodging and | penniless condition. The police. asked food preved on Mrs. Hammerstein's | to scarch, have no clue _ mind. it was learned { “Every one seems eager to help aagmented by the fact that she had | now.” said Miss Julia Furley of Co- lumbus avenue, who for the past three 1o depend on strangers after she aad feund that indifference and ingrati- | weeks has given Mrs. Hammerstein a | tude was all sh- could secure at the | room and meals. “But now it may be hands of those who had been friends {too late. Why didn't people offer some of herself and her late husband. | help a week ago, or even twenty-f “Five vears ago,” she said again ! hours ago, when she felt that she d not have a friend left in the world?” It s a pitiful story that Miss Faric jand again, “Oscar and 1 were run after by people who won't even try today to find out whether I am am-e[ tells of the sufferings undergone by ' or dead. Mrs. Hammersteln. A story almost The final blow. which proved a incredibie in view of the we d double one. came when a benefit! | illustrious people who knew ar | Geing arranged for her by a young | { Hammerstein as the lavish spender of | Columbia student fell through. Max | | hundreds of thousands of dollars. the ! Rubin. the student. who had inter- jmusical patron who made cualiy fa- i himself in Mrs. Hammerstein's mous and rich a dozen man and wom .. was forced to tell her the other an operatic atars. Estranged from her | stepchildren, embroiled in legal bai- tes following the failure and closing of the Manhatian Opera House, deej ning that people were not buying tickets and many operatic and con- cert stars. even those who owed their | fame to her late husband. had de-/ 1y worsied over her present poverly clined to participate. | and the possibility of renewed legal | All night. after hearing this bitter | battles in the near future, if she has ' pews, Mrs. Hammerstein moaned and she, in the a ! not already Killed herself is | danger of losing her mind. in view of Miss Farley. nerself a traiy nurse. “And no wonder she faced u nerve ous breakdown,” Miss Farley con- tinued, her own face pale and drawn from sleepless hours of anxiel “When she left here I don’t believ she had 15 cents in her pocket. When she came in here she came from a wept. And then Teddy., the mag- nificent white and tawney collie given her by her husband, became ill “I'd far rather die myself than lose; Teddy,” she told Miss Farley. few hours later she vanished. Disappeared With Piatol. “Simply waited until I went out and then took her dog and vanished.” said | 1 Miss Farley can see yet the de- !bench in Central Park at 2 oclock spair in her e fine blue eyes they |in the morning. lImagine {t! The are, for she is by no means an old widow of one of the greatest figures woman. Where she went I cannot NK ROBB 7 & SDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1922. DEFER GRAND JURY AGTION IN JERSEY Two New Murder Witnesses to Be Grilled by Prose- cutor. EVIDENCE STRENGTHENED Automobiles Described by Mrs. Gibson Seen on Night of Tragedy. By the Associated Press. _NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Novem- ber 8.—Speclal Deputy Attorney Gen- eral Mott, prosecuting the state's hunt for the murderers of Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mra. Bleanor Rein- hardt Mills, today announced two men had partly corroborated the story of Mrs. June Gibson, who claims to have witressed the tragedy on the nlght of September 14. Mr. Mott =aid he woul Ing the grand jury unti afford him opportunity new witnesses. 1t had been intended to convene the grand jury on Thursday or Friday. Saw Two Automobiles. d defer call- Monday, to to grill the The men claim to have seen the two sribed by Mre. Gibson automobiles de —ihe *nigh tonri bright headlights, vhich the night the scene de odivd in the | pig-farm woman, and runabout, which stood near it They did not sce “the woman in gray” described by Mrs. Gibson. al- though they were some distance nearer the scene than Mrs. Gibson jcluims to have been. _— KELLOGG 26,369 BEHIND IN POLL FOR SENATOR Farmer-Labor Candidate Has Big Lead in 1.014 Pre- cincts. ST. PAUL, Mi November §— When returns on the United States| enator poll had been received from 1.014 of the state’s 3.479 precincts at noon today the court stood: Kellogg. republican, 43,929 Shipstead. tarmer-labor, Olesen, democrat, 11,531, —_ SENATOR KING BEHIND. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, November Ernest Bamberger, Salt Lake City mining engineer and republican can- dicate for United States senator. had a slight lead over William H. King, democrat Incumbent, on incomplete returns this morning. The first congressional district will probably return Colton and the second district Leatherwood. Both races wili be in doubt until late today. e e e told less than imagine, for she had Somebody cents to her name. me she owned a revolver, always had | Her worry was | it with her at the Manhattan Opera {ington took a new turn today when House In the days when she was trying to carry on the opera a a memorial to her husband.” Only the other day she told me I must not be surprised if she were found dead some time on Oscar's grave. And in i the note she left for Max Rubin she | xaid she was ‘very tired and weak and could stand it no longer.’ “I am terribly afraid she has killed herself or that her mind has com- Fletely broken down as her health was broken. One of the most pathetic things of the whole case is that she wanted to visit her husband's grave in Woodlawn cemetery and really could not_afford the car fare to go there. Where can she be, ill. and without friends? “Why. her dress was thin and torn, not at all the sort of wear this weather. Her shoes were £0 shabby that her fect were on the ground.” Miss Farley paused as another mes- sage came over the telephone from a fomewhat tardy Hammerstein ac- quaintance. “In_ this town,” she commented griml our_best friend is your pocketbook. I don't know all” the vights of this, for Mrs. Hammerstein was a stranger to me. But I do know there must have been some people somewhere to whom she was good when things were bright for her. “Where were these people twenty- four hours ago?" (Copyright. 1922.) ERY CASE Upper: The hank bandits as they appéared at police headquarters foilow ing capture. Left to right—August C, Wood, Frank M. Woed, Henry C. Wood clothing to | Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversary MR. AND MRS, JOHN W. REED. MARRIED 50 YEARS AGO. | Mr. and Mrs. John W. Reed's Golden Wedding Anniversary. | Fitty years of ed life are being celebrated this ¥ Mr. and Mrs {John W. Reed, whose anniversar: fell ion Monday. They were the rec’ .ents {of congratulations from many {rier |y re now residing with their son, {E_G. Reed, 2 street northeast Mr. and Mrs. Liend were mavried in W. Va. October 6, ¥ have seven children, six andchildren and one great- grand TRACTION FIRMS i lJoint Operation Planned on Wisconsin-Connecticut Avenue Route. i i ! ' i { i The motor bus situation in {it became known that the Washington it { Roilway and ectric Company and !the Capital Traction Company have |arranged to operate busses Jjointly !from Wisconsin avenue and Woodley road to Connecticut avenue and Co. mbia road. The Washington Railway and Elec- ric Company ualone but when.the publ Learing wa< begun Lefore the Public { Ctilities Commission today William F Ham, president. made the unexpected arnouncement that an agreement had {heen reached take the Capital Traction Company into the project. Mr. Ham explained that the Wash- | ington Railway and Electric Company would own the busses and dirert the ope®ation of them. but the Capital Traction Company. he said. will share in the profits or losses of the line. i {t I propoxed route. to f {the Capital Traction Company will !enjov the same transfer privileges on the busses a8 passengers on the W. R. l& T cars will receive. i Original Route Modified. | At e hearing today Mr. Ham imodified the original route, as fol- ilows: Out Connecticut avenue from { Columbia road to Woodler road. to 27th_sireet, to Woodley Sroad again, {to 33th street. to Newark street. to { Wisconsin avenue, comb street fand to 35th street again. 1" Conrad H. Syme, attorney for the Washington Rapid Transit Company, opposed the avplication. challenging ver of the commission to au- thorize Street railway - - .panies to {operate motor husses.” 17 sald he did {not believe the charters of the rail- way companies contemplated that i they should engage in the bus busi- {ness. Mr. Syme farther declared that the {transit company applied for prac- |tically the same route in August, but |withdrew the application later. e id the transit company I8 now will- 1ing to operate busses over the route 1in question if the commission grants permission Short Line Oppowed. S. B. Marshall. representing the Cathedral Heiglits Citizens' Assocla- tion, testified that his assoctation wants a buss route from the Clev land Park section to the heart of the city, but is opposed to the short line asked for by the company. |*"Charles J. Bell testified that in his opinion a buss line would meet the needs of that section for five or ten jyears. but that eventually a street railway extension would be advisable. Very Rev. G. C F. Bratenahl of Washingion Cathedral and other offi- told the commission they were favor of a buss line in that vicinity but opposed the operation of busses of the National Cathedral School for Girls. iSENT IMPROPER LETTERS, | CHARGE AGAINST WOMAN Indictment on Fourteen Counts Re- turned for Comments in Connec- tion With Recent Marriage. COLUMBIA, 8. C., November 8.— Mrs. Eugene O. Ingram_ of Columbia late vesterday was indicted on four- teen counts by the federal grand jury here on charges of writing improper and anonymous letters to nine per- sons in connection with tne marriage here on October 12 of Miss Margaret McGregor of Columbia to Thomas Belton Boyce of Sumter, S. C. Among those she is charged with sending the letters to is Dr. Henry D. Phillips, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church and president of the Southern Inter- collegiate Athletic Association, who officlated at the wedding. Mrs. Ingram Is accused of having directed letters to Mrs. E. C. Me- Gregor, mother of the bridg; Miss McGregor, Mr. Boyce, Miss Mary Grier of Greenwood, one of ihe bridesmaids, and a number of other persons: —_——— New York has more illiterate wom- ,» dropped under the counter and sounded the burglar alarm.’'en than any other stale in the union. . T0 SHARE BUS LINE applied for the| ni return, Connecticut avenue patrons of iclnlu of the cathedral appeared nndi in on that part of Woodley road in front | PRESIDENT SILEN ON ELECTION TEST People Will Give Proper Ex pression, He Says. Hears Returns. “The only expression recessary re- garding the outcome of the clectio: will come from the American people was the way in which the White House responded to an Inquiry fo some comment from the executive o the possible outcome. No further comment was forth from cither t1.o President, hs 2 or those five members of the cabine who were with him at the W House last night Grouped about a large table in the President's private study or the sec ond floor, in the same room in which Woodrow Wilson, with members o his family gathered about h eived the verdict of the refe Lwo yeurs ago, the President i cabinet and several other friends received the e last night. Differint pParty took turns read and those amiliar w tions mentioned explair of ~()|4~ results as indicated Every few minutes the petso rried a hand messages to the bedchamber of Mrs Harding. and read them to her as s rested on her pillow in hi vigits were discontinu 9:30 o'clock by ord m sident during the eve retaries Hughes, We ace and Attornes G rty. Brig. Gen. Sawver ing Mello; eral Wall E B director of the mir D. R. Crisinger. comptroller of the currency d Jeff Emith of Ohio. retary Chrietian, assisted by Charles Hard, appointment clerk of the Whitw House and former republican lead:: of Portsmout} preparation and the election bulletins, and E. chief operator of the White Housc telegraphic foree, was in charge of the several telegraph wires, and Ju Rozier was in charge of the teir phone. $30,000 IN LIQUORS RETURNED BY COURT iSeized in Buildings Other Than De- scribed in Search Warrant. Ohlo, officiated in ulation of the W. Smithers | i Is Held. i I | Fifty thousand dellars’ worth of { whiskies, cordials, liquors and othe beverages taken in a raid om the premises of Frank P. Hall in Sout: west Washington two weeks ago Ly | pronibition agents and policemen. wa fordered to be returned to Mr. Ha by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in 1 United States branch of Police Court jate yesterday afternoon The decision of the court came =t the conclusion of the hearing of argu ments covering the better part « itwo d The defencant was rep- {resented v former Judge Danie { Thew Wright. The government wi I represented by Assistant Distriet At- torney Frank J. Kellv., who was granted a number of exceptions du ing the hearing. indicating that ti government will appeal the case to a { higher tribunal for final adjudicaiior ! “Action Unconstitutional. The case came before Judge Ma | tingly on a motien by Judge Wri | for the return of the goods. Th i aid was made on a search warr the premises at 1000 11002 Tth street southwest. Judg { Wright pointed out. and it was ad mitted by the government, that t! confiscated whiskies were taken fro | buildings in the rear of 1000 and 100 h street southwest, ard not fro {the buildings particularly described {in the search warrant. The raid i was shown by counsel for Mr. Hall {was in buildings numbered 636 and 1638 K street southwest. The gover: ment contended that the buildings {on K street, in the rear of 1000 and {1002 Tth street, were the same build- lings as those described in the search: | warrant. Judge Wright argued the case some length. going into the earh: history of the search sand seizur: | clause of the Constitutlon as set o jin the fourth amendment insisHn: that the raiding officers had usur, 1and exceeded thefr authority: th ithe taking of the property was u j constitutional, and for that reason the property Should be returned t is a well fixed prineciple of law a I said Judge Wright, “a fundament that is upheld by authorities, | United_States _Supre Court tmany United Stu circuit, dist and state courts. that a search wa rant must particularly describe the place to be searched and the person or things selzed under that warr: Judge Maungly, in briefly review- ing the arguments, said that whiie he had no criticisms ‘o offer amai~ the raiding, officers, in his judgme:: they had gone out of their way —_— COL. GOFF LEAVES POST. Ohioan Appointed Assistant to the Attorney General. Attorney General Daugherty nounced yesterday the resignation o Col. Guy D. Goff of West Virginia as {assistant to the Attorney General, and {appointment 1o that position of Au- { gustus T. Seymour of Columbus, Ohio. {eftective November 10 | Col. Goff resigned on account of ! business cares resulting from the {sudden death of his brother, W. I Goff of Clarksburg. W. Va., but will {remain in charge of a few cases at the Department of Justice. Attorney General Daugherty in statement concerning the appointe: said he had known him personally for “more than twenty years, and { considered him one of the most cap able lawyers in the state of Ohio” ————— NO HOLIDAY SATURDAY. Armistice day, next Saturday, wi ohserved with simple cxercises at tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlinz- ton, and probably will not be declared general holiday. It was indicated vestc ! day at the White House. President Harding plans to make pilgrimage in company with Secretary !of War Weeks and Secretary of the Navy Denby. with a military escort, to the tomb of the unknown soldier. Therc a wreath will be placed in solemn re- membrance of the sacrifice America made In the great war. This simple but eloquent tribute. it i was indicated at the White House. | probably will be the custom for Arm stice day throughout the Harding ad- | ministration. | = > == ! $1,000,000 FOR PEANUT MEN. The War Finance Corporation yester- day announced that it had approved ap- plication of the Peanut Growers' F change of Suffolk, Va.. for an advance not to exceedl $1,000,000 for marketing their crop. D. C. FIRE LOSSES, $65,085. Washington's logses by fire during October amounted to $45,085, accordini ! to a report by Fire Chief Watson ves | terday to Commissioner Oyster. During ! the mont: there wore 144 fires, of whi~! sy cnly -five were Gamaging 10 properiy.