Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Cloudy and colder tonight, lowest tem- “From Press to Home i ture tomorrow afternoon. Temperature for 24 hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 66, at noon today: lowest, 42, at Full report on page 7. ’ perature tonight slightly below fyeezing; I 8:45 a.m. today. 1 tomorrow fair; slowly rising témpera- l \ ~ Within the Hour” | _ The Star’s carrier system covers every | city block and the regular edition is || delivered to Washington homes as fast |’ ¥ . as the papers are printed. | —Saturday's Net Circulation, 93300 Sunday’'s Circulation, 98,906 Charges Hasband IR VIELDE “Bury 3 Wives” BE“E@UNA“B Cruelty and desertion are alleged in a suit for a limited divorce filed in the District Supreme Court by Mre. Police Seek |nsane Woman for Attacking Mrs. 0’Brien, Wife of Attorney. @he Foening- Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as sccond-class matter post_office Washington, D. C. URELS “SHEN |3 ootz Wikkeon |Asks Governor to APPAREL IS FOUND Coose Thompson By the Ansoclated Press DENVER, Col.. March 26.—Wood- row Willson, former President of the United States, today asked Gov. W. E. Sweet of Colorado to appoint Huston Thompson, demo- crat, to a seat in the United States Senate to succeed Samuel D. Nicholson, republican, who died Saturday night. Thompson is now a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Gov. Sweet announced he had received the following telegram from the former President “I trust you will not think it an unwarranted liberty it 1 express Said to Contain Letter From the hope that you will select my friend Huston Thompson for the Mitchell Sought by Blackmailers | vacant seat in the Senate. and He Admitted Writing. | Thompson is a graduate of Princeton Universit: He was one of the founders of the first Wood- row Wilson-for-President Clubs in WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1923—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. .. U.3. URGED TO QUIT SHIPPING BUSINESS Steamship Owners Recom- mend That Federal Opera- tion Cease. No. 28,819. l _Dress and Hat Discovered in Mother’s Home by ‘' Detectives. | Annle T. Broun egainst Henry T.| Broun, who is described as a man of | means having no employment. Mrs. | Broun tells the court she was mar- | ried January 9, 1923, at New York city, and shortly afterward her hus- band informed her that a fortune | teller had predicted he would bury ' three wives. Two of them were al- ready dead, he told her, and she was the third, Spirlts of his former wives hovered about his bed at night, the husband | Vigj ; Aivined hig i o iniie ‘npiterul | Visitor to Law Office Sought to File remarks about his present wife and ridiculed her. The husband is infane- Iy jealous of her, Mrs. Broun states, and accused her of using the change from the purchase of groceries for ul- terlor purposes. January 24 last, her | ASK SALE OF VESSELS BAG IS MISSING HALLUCINATIONS BLAMED BEADED Advise Scrapping of All Inferior Boats—Competition Held Fatal to Private Development. Suit—Victim's Condition Still Critical. By the Associated Dres NEW YORK, March 2 sive dress and a hat listed among the | tolen from the apartment of | SARAH BERNHARDT article: Dorothy Keenan, slain model, found by detectives today at the home of Mrs. Anna Keenan, the dead girl's —An expen- | were | Colorado. A recommendation that the Ship- | ping Board retire from business, scrap all inferior vessels, and sell its remaining tonnage to American citi- zens “without any restriction” was the basis of a program submitted to- day by a committee of the American Steamship Owners’ Association. The association further recom- husband wrote her a note, she says, | saying he deliberately deserted her | and deciaring she was at liberty to enter divorce proceedings. Attorneys Bell, Marshall & Rice appear for the wife. ROW PRECIPITATED Working on mented wom: murderously attacked Mrs. Elizabeth O'Brien while she slept in her home, 1220 Euclid street northwest, detec- tives who are handling the case ex- pect to make an arrest this aft noon. Mrs. O'Brien with a att hammer, and se struck on her head dition is critical, it is believed she will recover. -rays of her head were taken today to determine wheth- blow le her con- eral wera Wh mended that all vessels not sold after Keenan sald the Broadway butter-| a reasonable lapse of time should be fiy's mother at first “seemed sur-| scrapped, and went on record as be- prised,” but quickly explained that she | |ing of the opifion that “an American | had gathered together some of Miss| ENd Comes After @ LONQ merchant marine in foreign trade Keenan's effects when she went to 5 = cannot be built up through govern- Fight Against Many mother. Detectives who discovered the gar- ments during an interview with Mrs. | | er the skull was fractured er apartment after Dorothy had been | ment operation. tol e 00 S eoan. whohasbean 0\ slain, and that the last costume the The assoclation’s committee, which Commissioners’ Refusal visiting Mr O'Brien’s office for the model wore before she met death had been among them Ailments. conferred today with board officials, is the first of three similar repre- sentative bodies invited to present Accept Board’s Selection past year, is in the hands of the po- lice, and a description of the woman as she appeared Saturday when she called at the law office tallies closely | with that of a woman seen to leave the house this morning while others were proceeding there to investigate Mrs. O'Brien’s screams. “Forgot” to Tell Police. agitation over Dorothy’s they quoted Mrs. Keenan as saying she had forgotten to tell the police she had these much sought garments. 1 Inspector Coughlin. in the investigation, was keenly ested in the find because of matfon given him by “Billfe” ond ford, Miss Keenan's mail, that with Suggestions regarding a new policy for the board. The other committees are to appear later this week. BULLETIN. Associated Press. PARIS, Parch 26.—Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is dead. Is Cause of Split. In her death g Views Given in Letter. The views of the Steamship Owners’ ociation were presented in the Bern- [ form of a letter signed by President worse | Albert G. Smith. It follows: “Referring to the questions pro- is near. {pounded by the Shipping Board to the o s e s . fecovered,| Shortly after 3 o'clock a priest ar- | American Steamship Owners' Asso- the model had carried a beaded bag | rived at Mme. Bernhardt's home to|clation, I beg to advise you that it is containing a letter written her from |administer extreme unction. | impossible for the association, on a alm Beach by John Kearsley Mit-| The priest, Father Riesler, me | week's notice, to answer the questions chell, wealth nd socially promi- [from the nearby church of St. Fran- |in detail or to formulate any com- nent Thiladelphian who had paid her | cois de Salles and his entrance into|prehensive plan with respect to the | Etion tioris { the Bernhardt home was taken by |disposition of Shipping Board vessels, The police have be {the watchers outside as visible evi- {whic however, is but one of the meveral days on a th dence of the abandonment of hope. | many problems involved. Keoenan was slain by a would-be| Hundreds of the actress' friends . ler who knew of her friend- | Were calling at the house in a steady “Fallure to Ald Serious.” e Mr. Mitchell and knew that ' Stream and the street was some “mhe fa 3 . L Z aid places a most serlous aspect upon their respects. e entire situation, with respect to and omobiles of those coming to pa American -shipping in foreign trade, and makes the problem one which can { be solved, if at all, only after a more j(",\(vnde(l investigation. In the controversy | with the District Commissioners con- | WI'l'H WAR FRAUI];eer...ng the. control of public school | ‘funds, the Board of Education is on | the verge of another which is said to |be brewing over the naming of new ! school buildings. Polite refusual of the Commis- Army Officer and AttOrney |.iomers to approve the names chosen lndlcted—Accused of for four schools to be opened during | !the next scholastic year, it was said $28,210 Plot. I today, may lead the board to again ing the fourth precinct station, | !;\5}\' Dijctihentstarclic telnutior, where they were attached. O'Don- | ity or eir action. ; 2 tus 4 It has been the practice for year: e bumper which had been | Conspiracy to defraud the United [for the school board to select the o 5 = n’“‘_d“ -“|' ‘l" et by the P‘;- States out of $28.210.24 on an un.inamu for new schools and then have S ‘:n !"““’;LP '::“::‘r: d‘::‘f:o; Iaunmrxzed claim is charged in an in- | the Commissisners approve them. The T o 5 | dictment reported today by th } v obey and O'Donnell shot at the ma- v ¥ by the grand;question of which hoard has the chine. Jury against Lieut. Col. Arthur Agctiv;sluulm;‘ power to ;xltlltr‘nalel_; d;--: O'Brien, U. S. A., and Davi 5 “icide on the names of the schools. Stange looked from the side of |an mttorne "Dre’*mm: "":z“:':e)_'[h.nwn'rr. has not been raised in recent the car and received a bullet in his S New- | years. head and died a few days later at a hospital. the midst of FLETCHER T0 GET ~ ndice Detective Ty() ARE [HARGED HONORATSANTIAGD | Kitting Officer Detective Thomas O'Donnell of the fourth police precinct was in- Cmef Of U_ S' De|egat|on W|" dicted for manslaughter y the Head Pan-American Com- mittee on Armaments. grand jury today in connection {A Had Hallucinations. Mr. O'Brien's g on file to after, the PARIS, March 26—Sarah hardt's condition has grown | and the household considers that the charge of | inter- infor- Brad- It was said today at office that there was noth show just what the an was as Mr. O'Brien had reached stage in her case where he was to pro- {ceed in .court. It appears. however. from those who the lawyer's office that she had hallucina- tions regarding her family, charging that she was compelled constantly to i pay them money. It is understood that she sought to file a damage suit Detective Frank Sandbers. print_expert of the police depart visited the house shortly befc today in an effort to find s print which might lead to identi of the would-be slayer He could find no prints on the doors or windo The police learned th two windo the first floor were unlocked. but there were no evidenees that any one had crawled over i sills. not with the death of roiman Fred D. Stange, sixty years old, Febru- ary 26 last. Stange and another officer were in an automobile leav- saw woman in work for ry that Miss | By the Associnted Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, March 26.—Wher the committees are chosen at the first business metting of the pan-Ameri- can conference today, it is a foregone | conclusion that Henry T. Fletcher, head of the United States delegation, will be made chairman of the commit- tee on armaments. At yesterday's| preliminary organization meeting he| was asked to act in this capacity by | all the most interested wgations. i he committes. provanry wii sec |4 DIE WHEN CIGAR a modification of the positions taken | by the A. B. C. powers with reference | to thelr armaments requirements. | With the exception that Argentina | and Brazil will be unable to find a commonground, Chile plans to sug- gest reference of the differences to a Police Suspect Identity. Admission that he had written the | model from Palm Beach was made by Mr. Mitchell Saturday. a few hours after he had been disclosed as the mysterlous “Mr. Marshall” whose fdentity was so closely guarded for | nine days “Billie” Hopeless, Says Doctor. Dr. Prevost said at this hour that the actress’ condition was hopeless and that she might die any minute. “The association. however, She was then sieeping under anil e e ine oot e oplate tmental: The week end was one of tense anx- | " The Shipping Board and Emer- iety in- Bernhardt's home, on the!gency Fleet Corporation should re- Boulevard a flood of [tire from the business of operating messages bidding her to have cour-!chips and place the operations in the age came from her many friends on | hands of private owners. the continent and in America. The Shipping Board should im- This counsel was scarcely needed, | mediately scrap such vessels as are for Bernhardt's determination to live, | inferior in design, equipment or con- which so often has found expression ! dition. in her positive assertion that she in- | - tends to “die in the harness” again | O e came to her assistance, and daybreak | « s i ke e e e, Jayereal | “3- The Shipping Board should ofter bury Realty Company, of Boston, | Mass. The claim grew out of the! leasing by the government of the| Newbury buflding at Newbury street | |and Massachusetts avenue, Boston, in | the &round that they did not include December, 1913. The claim was for | former District government officials. | relmbursement for repairs to the|In &,letter to the board the Commis- sTARTS B'G BUEAZE [vutiate ta ¢ 16 tor tho ~ise ot the | sloners. sald: iy onarieimast ! “For many years it was the polic oy auariermaster ,COTDS. The| o¢ the board of education to recom v was pald April 20, 1920. mend that the names of former de. iracy Charged. | ceased Commiasioners of the District indictment declares that regards Letter to Board. funda- The Commissioners turned down the ngmes chosen by the board on Prints on Hammer. blood on s belleved 11 be of lit- were fing s rer. hut ve Sandberg, W tle help in identification, in view of the fact that Mrs. O'Brien removed the hammer from its entanglement in ! her hair following the assault. How- ever, he sald that the prints coarse, a8 though- made by a man, but explained further that this may have Bradford has told the po- tice she saw Miss Keenan put the Mitchell letter in her handbag the day before her body was found The Bradford woman, it was dls- | closed, has given the police conshi- erable information about the sup-| posed blackmail plot which has not been made public heretoforg, ... Miss Keenan, the negress {s said to have declared, had told her that she these, it Pereire, and Many Others Injured in Apartment wers House Fire—Drunken | of Columbla bé ustd in naming school The Col. | buildings. The Commissioners feel was_ being importuned to aid in a blackmail plot against Mr. Mitchell and that her refusals, based on the fact that he had been “good to her.” a slight improvement. Inquires of Coffin. |its remaining vessels for sale to | American citizens without any re- striction, and without discrimination committee which will report at the next conference. Man Suspected. O'Brien was detalled for duty in the office of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and that the Becretary in- that this policy should be followed in the naming of the school bufldings referred to in your letter. “While the names suggested by the been due to the fingers +lipping a lit- tle when in contact with the harimer. Mrs, O'Brien was struck on her head five times, a sixth blow inflicting a ‘Welcomes Delegates. Argentina has made it known that| &he is ready to accept the status quo ! of equality with any other South American natian. Pan-Americanism is more than an idea; it is an actual dynamic force,; born from inevitable, geographical, historical and political causes, said Arturo Alessandri, president of the,deaths of four persons and the seri- Tepublic of Chile, in welcoming the delegates to the congress in the Salon de Honor of the Chilean congress this afternoon. In eulogizing the leadership of the | United States in the pan-American | movement the president referred tol Bernhardt this tained her mental ishing thos about her with her comments. Sometimes, howe: she caused them much pain by speaking |be scrapped. of the agony she was undergoing. ! There are a few At times also she insisted on talking | passenger and mail of her own funeral. She was anxious to know vesterday whether the rose- wood coffin she bought thirty years ago was still preserveds saying that she wished to be buried in { As her son, deeply moved. me- chanically crumpled up a scrap of paper &nd mervously threw it out of the window the patient found strength to tell him jokingly to be careful or he would be cailed to ac- | morning still re- alertness, aston- between buyers “4. After the lapse of a reasonable time all of the vessels not sold under | the foregoing plan and having no immediate prospective sale value should wound on her arm. The wounded woman was taken Emergency Hospit Surgeons found she had lost a quantity of blood and was in a weakened condi- tion. She also was suffering from shock. but her conditign was not re- garded serious. Detectives Mullen and Murphy and | police of the tenth precinct reached trusted and relled on him to super- |board of education are excellent only | vise and adjust claims arisi !in one case, that of the name of Ber- sl b Goto hE WhCr|nard T. Janney, doca the name have | to 7 e . Providing |3ny connection with the municipal cigar, belleved to have been carelessly tossed by an intoxicated man, started | ©OF Telief and settlement of certain | government or the school system. Of a fire which swept today through the | WAF ;::n{:n“s, e e e aocediln aom e ranel seven-story Princeton apartments in s alleged that Maloney, as at-| . ;ner by other memorials, or steps West 57th street, occupied by theatri- | 0TReY for the Newbury Realty Com- |are now being taken to commemorate pany, conspired with Col. O'Brien to % house shortly after the attack cal and business folk, and caused the their nam : by { have this claim allowed after a claim | _TO dispute the Commissioners’ state- | the | board had found it did | ment that it has been the policy of Later Detectives Springmann and D: ous injury of many others | ound it did not come un- | the board for many years to recom- nell were assigned to help in the case i had resulted in fhreats. It was these threats, the Bradford woman said, that caused the model to seek solaze in liquor. Whether Miss Keenan gave the names of any of the persons involved n the blackmail plot was not made known, although it was sald the po- lice had “a good idea” who the would- be Dblackmailers were. Inspector Coughlan Announced to- day that he had learned Alfred mares, Miss Keenan's closest friend. | had recovered a batch of letters last | July from Miss Keenan after a stormy | scene. He explained, the inspector | NEW YORK, March A iighted | By the Associated Press i i freight and services malin- { tained by Shipping Board vessels the continuance of which may be regard- ed as essential to national Interests. If the Shipping Board is unable to find buyers for the vessels in such services they should be placed in the hands of private owners under an operating arrangement until buyers| can be found, or developed, or tit | impossibility of profitable operation be definitely established The dead are der the provizions of the act. Ma- | mend the names of former deceased’ Statements of Mrs. O'Brien and Anna Fries, an exhibition roller | 1906y a8 to induce, it iz alleged, Col. | Commiasioners to be used In naming nelghbors convinced the officers that 4 u e 2 . O'Bri assallant was a whi skater. killed in a jump from the |O'Brien to use his authority to place Column 2) | Mra. O'Brien’s assa sixth floor. " ! upon the Tecords of the War Depart- (Continued on Page [ ment a writing Unable to Give Motive. sald, that Miss Keenan was inclined to reveal intimate features of the let- ters when she was intoxicated, and that “a fellow writes a lot of stuif to a girl that seems ridiculous thought about at leisure.” Claiming to know the identity of the man who sought to engineer a blackmail plot against Mitchell, son- tj.'l{lln\;;iuf'hfiv T. Stotesbury of Phil- adelphia, the police today throug! byways of the underwarid rowsht foe others believed to have been cated in the scheme | street,” ~vhen | rld sought for | impli- | count “for throwing which ordinance. CANFIELD NAMED GOTHAM DRY CHIEF| | i chant marine cannot be maintained, things on the is contrary to a city Opposes U. S. Operation. | “The association regards as dem- |onstrated by experience that an American merchant marine in foreign trade cannot be built up through | government operation. Without na- tional aid or a radical revision of existing laws, privately owned mer- various statesmen of the United State: —Washington, Blaine, Root and Har. ding—regarding the keeping with all nations, great or small, and not desiring conquest. Describing the Washington armi ment conference as one of the great- est efforts ever made for peace, Pres- ident Aless-andri repeated the words of President Harding at the opening of the conference: “We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve: we suspect no enemy * * faith | Mrs. Margaret Lee, sixty-five vears 0ld, and her daughter Emily, a stenographer, burned to death in in their apartment on the top floor. Gaston Mizoule, old = Miss Margaret Lee, an actress, aughter of Mrs. Lec, was severely burned and may not live, it was said at the hospital to which she was twenty-six years | indicating that the eclaim arose under an agreement made prior to November, 1918, and wa valid claim. o List Number of Acts. A number of overt acts of the al leged conspiracy are set forth in the indictment. It is stated Maloney and O'Brien had a meeting March 11, 1920, and March .29 there was prepared a typewritten document: called a memo- |STATE SEEKS TO BAR | WITNESS FOR FOSTER {Claims Codefendant Not Compe- tent to Testify in Radi- | cal Case. | gest. | as_the Mrs per- The police were told that O'Brien had no trouble with any son, and why the woman should have attacked her she was unable to sug- Police say there was nothing about the house to suggest robbery motive The hammer used. practicall became entangled in Mrs. O'Brien’ hair when her assailant followed her | Legal Advisor i ibiti let alone created or developed. Com-|Content with what we have, we seek | g o rro}"bltlon Omcelliell!lun, or the menace of competi- otk tion, by government-owned ships They sald action against the as vet taken. = ! ol R R H randum for board of appraisers, which | nothing which is another’'s. % O hese ras declared Semor| Dr. John M Callahan jumped from|was initialed by Col. O'Brien. April from her bed to a window and ¢ | livered a parting blow. Leaving the ng held in abeyance pending efforts 1o obtain evidence to support their theory that the blackmailer, balked in his original plan, dosed the model with chloroform that he might get Mitchell's letters to her, to be used despite her opposition. Mitchell Keeps Silent. No statement was forthcoming from Mitchell, reputed to have given the model gifts and money aggregating more than $10,000, and said to be the last man known to have seen the girl alive. Nor did his confidential attorney, John H. Jackson, who was the “Wilson” of the ten-day mystery surrounding the identity of the two men, Kive out anything for publica- tion. Mitchell was reported to have returned to his Philadelphia home. (Other sources said he still was in New York Ella Bradford, negro maid who ‘ound her mistress’ body twelve days ugo. was said to have supplied the authorities with considerable infor- nation concerning the blackmail plot for “more than $100.000,” which was juelieved to have brought death to s Keenan on her refusal to league rself against her wealthy admirer. MRBRS. MITCHELL QUITS SOUTH. [Declares She and Husband Are “Best of Chums.” PALM BEACH, Fla, March 26— Mrs. J. Kearsley Mitchell, wife of the ealthy John Kearsley Mitchell, dentified as the mysterious “Mr. Marshall” in the Dorothy Keenan fnurder case in New York, left here arly today aboard a private car for Philadelphia to join her husband. She vas accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. E. 7. Stotesbury of Philadelphia, her parents. In a statement to the Associated Press last night, Mr. Stotesbury de- -lared his faith in his son-in-law was not shaken by his alleged con- nection with the Keenan girl. Mrs. Mitchell asserted that she and her husband “are the best of chums and said she knew that he “could not have been unfaithful” to her. DENIES SHIP IN DISTRESS. CHARLESTON, 8. C., March 26— A radio message received here this morning by Superintendent H. L. Beck of the sixth lighthouse district, ‘rom the Frying Pan Shoals light- ship, denied that she was in distress. Boats sent to investigate previously eported trouble have been recalled, | territory. | for | after several Succeeds Ralph Day as Director. Palmer Canfield, legal adviser for the state of New York. Mr. Canfleld will take 1. He succeeds Ralph A. Day, resigned last October 31. Since time Edward C. Yellowley, acting state director. With the appointment of Mr. Can- Commissioner E. C. Yellowley, New would re- sume his regular duties as general field Prohibition Haynes said that acting prohibition director York for several months, at prohibition chief. Yellowley months _would divide hi tween New York and with supervisory interest He said that Mr. R. A. Kohloss was named today as chi¢f of general the 16th division, t compr| Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, | headquarters at Denver. WEEKS BACK AT DESK. —— Secretary Weeks today resumed his official duties at the War Department vacation at St. Mrs. Weeks, who was {taken fll near Brunswick, Ga., on her was resting 16th and is reported to be gain- | financial guarantees of their own re- weeks' Augustine, Fla, way back to this city, quietly today at her home, V streets, and ing steadily in health and strength. in| the office of the federal prohobition!{e; to the entire American shipping director in New York city, today was {business.” appointed federal prohibition director office April land Cuba Mail Steamship Company, who that | chief of general prohibition agents has been [vin, vice president of the association. for probably the next six time be- Washington, in other Commissioner Haynes safd | there would be no other changes in the personnel of the New York office. prohibition agent | makes success the more certainly impossible. “In any plan that the Shipping | Board may develop for the disposition lof its tonnage, due regard should be igiven to existing privately invested Capital, otherwise it will spell disas- The committee which presented the letter was headed by “Mr. Smith, who is president of the New York and included R. H. M. Robinson, pres- ident of the United American lines; Gale H. Carger, president of the Pacific Mail; E!J. McCormick of Moore & McCormick; C. B. Kellogg of the Munson line, and Winthrop L. Mar- COLORED DRINKS USED IN BIG SWINDLE GAME PARIS, March 26.—The Paris police have arrested a band of confidence workers who used colored drinks as their means of cummunication. When one member of the gang had marked | a victim he went to a certain cafe opposite the opera and ordered a drink which by its hue conveyed a speclal message to his assclates as they passed outside the window. Eight men and three women, most of whom are Australasians, are charged with a long list of dwindles practiced on homesick tourists who, glad to meet some one who knew English, soon found themselves en- gaged to distribute large sums of money among the poor with the as- sistance of the new found friend. The victims were asked to give | 1ibility. Alessandri, “from where they were spoken were heard with joy by the Americtn continent, since they em- bodied the gospel of the new democ- racy we are constructing at this moment on the basis of respect for the soveignty of the states and their absolute equality before the majesty of justice and right. Plea for War-Torn Nation, “All the creative spirits of the American people with the exception of Washington, who received justi- fication from his cotemporaries, re- ceived the tribute of human ingrati- tude. But today in the peace of their tombs they ought to feel the redeem- ing relief of immortality awarded by the nations they founded. “'One hundred years ago some Amer- jcans, eyes aflame, saw the magnifi- ent™\ision of a fraternity of the weak against the strong. ‘Their hearts Were inflamed against humanity, Which at that time had not perceived the new horizon of justice, law and rity. O ar Thich are transforming the oung countries of yesterday, and er“exfiy. virile, erect and open-armed, they are walking as affectionate com panions of the nationsyof Burope suftering and bleeding from war. WANT CANADA TO JOIN. John Barrett Says Members Seek Real Pan-American Union. NEW YORK, March 26.—John Bar- rett, former director general of the Pan-American Union, in a statement to the Associated Press yesterday as- serted that a test made by him of public interest in the pah-Amerlcan conterence in the United States, Can- ada and Latin America showed, in his opinion, that the question of Can- It'll Be in the 5:30 Edition If it took place after the .regular edition of The Evening Star. The 5:30 is issued to give Washingto- nians the very latest news—from everywhere—always featuring the financial, the sports finals—and giving the Courts program for the next day. For sale throughout the city by newsboys and newsdealers ada’s posible entrance into the union has more popular appeal than any other points of the program. The entrance of Canada, Mr. Bar- rett said, would make the union actu- 2lly “pan-American,” rather than “part American. P ARMY PLANES LEAVE HAITIL By the Associated Press. PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, March 26. —The American army airplanes flying back to the United tSates from Porto Rico, which arrived here from Santo Domingo _yesterday, began leaving shortly after 8 o'clock this morning for their next landing place, Guanta- namo, Cuba. The leading plane got off at 8.11 am, in & strong following wind. i Today powerful new forces | a rear window on the third floor and | fractured both arms. His wife, suf- fering from pneumonia, was rescued by firemen. A number of firemen and police were burned while en- gaged in daring rescues, and a dozen or more tenants were slight burns and injuries. The apartment house, of the old non-fireproof type, adjoins the West Side Y. M. C. building. Shortly after daybreak the superintendent was called to an upper floor hallway to eject an intoxicated man who had| wandered in from the street. The man, pufing a cigar. was seen to enter the building some time earlier but was thought to be a tenant. He was led from the building by the superintendent and disappeared. Half an hour later two policemen were attracted by a woman waving her arms trantically from a smoke- filled window on the top floor and sounded an alarm. > They then returned to the burining apartment and, alded by the superin- tendent, rescued her. U. S. AVIATOR SETS NEW SPEED MARK Lieut. Maughan Travels 233.87 Miles an Hour, Defeating - Frenchman. DAYTON, Ohio, March 26.—Flying over the one-kilometer course today at Wilbur Wright Field, Lieut. P. L.| Maughan, by making an average of 233.87 miles an hour, set a new world's record. He exceeded the world's rec- ord of 233.01, made by Sadi Lecointe, the French flying ace, by .86. In his first trip over the course Lieut. Maughan went through on schedule time, 9.45, and on the second trip in 9.71, making his average 9.58. Officials said this established a speed mark of 233.50. On his second at- tempt he made the course in 9.54 and 9.56, for an average of 9.55. This completed four loops and, officials said, established a speed mark of 234.24. By adding both figures and dividing theresult by 2, officlals said that a new speed record of 233.87 had been established. i States Attorney Frank Reavis, F. Donald Enfleld and Oliver E. Pagan, assistant to the At- | 14, 1920, another memorandum was prepared, it is alleged, and the claim was allowed, and April 20, 1920, Ma- loney accepted and received a check for $28,210.24 for the claim of the | Newbury Realty Company. treated for | The indictment is signed by United Gordon and by C. torney General. | By tie Associated Press. ST. JOSEPH. Mich., March 26.—The state today moved to bar further tes- timony by Charles E. Ruthenburg in the trial of William Z. Fostér, charged with criminal syndicalism, and asked | Judge Charles White to strike out | Ruthenburg’s testimony of last week. Prosecuting Attorney Charles Gore cited Michigan authorities to support his contention that a codefendant is not a competent witness. Officer Laid Off on Charge He Falsely Reported Death of Wife! Charged -with falsely reporting the death of his wife to get a leave of absence, John Robert Long of Mor- ganza, St. Marys county, Md.. a mem- ber of the Metropolitan police force for a bit more than a year, has been placed under suspension, charged with conduct unbecoming a member of the force. Suspension followed an investigation by Inspector Charles A. Evans and Capt. E. W. Brown of the first precinct, who made a trip to Morganza last Friday morning and found beautiful floral tributes sent Long as a token of sympathy by his fellow officers on the grave of a brother-in-law of fong, and learned from neighbors that Mrs. Long her- selt was very much allve. It is charged that about 5 o'clock on the morning of March 14, Long telephoned the first precinct station that his wife was critically fll at her former home in Maryland, and asked for . two davs' leave, which was granted. At- the expiration of the leave he returned,it is' said, and an- nounced .that ' his wity had dled, 'thereby ohulnln; leave for three ad- ditional ™ days. ‘he funeral was to be held ori Sunday, March 18, he is alleged o', have reported, and the burial was' to be in St Joseph's cemetery. Brother Oficers Sead Flowers. Brother officers, fond of the young man from Maryland, took up a col- lection to purchase a large floral tribute. The flowers were dispatched to Morganza. Who received them is not known, but-when police officials | learned that they had been placed on the grave of Walte. Tippett, brother- in-law of Long. who died in Novem- ber, 1921, an investigation was started. After Inspector Evans and Capt. Brown returned to Washington, the captain looked up Long and asked him whether he didn’t make a mis- take about his wife's death. “You don’t doubt me. do you?" que- ried Long. “You bet I do,” replied the captain. “I've just come back from Morganza and found the flowers the men sent on your brother-in-law's grave.” Long, it is reported. broke down and admitted the truth of what police officials had uncovered in the inves- tigation, adding that he did not know why he had made such a statement in the first place. Nelghbors Are Astomished. When Long discussed the case with fellow policemen, according to the in- vestigators, he declared that his wife contracted a severe cold while teach- ing school at Morganza and that pneumonia developed. At Morganza, it was learned by the Investigators that Mrs. Long was not a school | teacher. Residents of the community hearing the startling report of the death of Mrs. Long, refused to belleve that it emanated from her husband. As a matter of fact, Capt. Brown | refused to belleve to the contrary, having implicit faith in Long, untii 'he saw the floral triBute on a grave where the grass had grown into a considerable thickness of turf. The case Is the first of its kind in | the history of the police department, ! officials said. A hearing of the charges will be given by the police room of the wounded woman, het assailant went to the lower floor passed out and walked east on Euclid street, unmolested. One of four neighbors who re- sponded to Mrs. O'Brien’s outcries inquired of the woman as she walked from the house what the trouble was. The woman made no response the police were told, but continued walking for a short distance and then started running. Neighbors of the wounded woman made no effor to interrupt her flight. Husband Out of City. Mr. O'Brien and his son, Matth E. O'Brien, jr., left here early la night on a business trip to Scranton, Pa.. and the police wired him a mes- sage of the attack on his wife. He probably will return home tonight. Mrs. O'Brien _and__Miss _Helen (Continued on Page 2. Column 3.) {RHINE ARMY COST ANSWER IS CABLED Hughes Believed to Have Indicated Willingness to Deduct German Property Value. Secretary Hughes has answered the | second proposal of allled representa- tives in Paris negotiating for the set- tlement of American claims for repay- ment of the costs of maintaining the American army of occupation in Ger many. The reply was cabled to Elin: Wadsworth, the American representa- tive in Paris, and will be delivered by him at tomorrow’s meeting of the al- lled representatives. The impression was given in ofii- clal quarters that the reply indlcated a willingness on the part of the Washington government to deduct from the total amount of its claims the value of German property which came into possession of the Amerlcai army as a result of the armistios. Unofficial reports from Parls | this amount at about 53,006,000 Ko | marks, While State Department spokesmen decline to comment on the contents of Sccretary Hughes' angwer it was suid today there was every reaso trial board at & session in the mear future, believe the negotiations would work out satisfactorily. 7 2 ko