Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1923, Page 2

LL LOVES WIFE E SHOT, SAYS LEE inaman Explains Jealousy as Motive for His Act. ile his wife, Mrs. Nellio T. Le: in Emergency Hospital, hovering ween life and death as the result five wounds from bullets fired last ht from a revolver in the hands “Raymond Lee, twenty-three years old, and Washington's only Chinese hacker, of 316 C street, he today pro- tested his continued love for her, and n'a low voice told the story of events leading. to the shooting. “I'm yellow, but I'm white also. ¥ would do anything in the world for her. I love her and our baby and I wanted to make her happy—but I don’t care what happens now.” On the book at the sixth precinct the space for the charge is left blank. If Mrs. Lee dies the charge will be murder. If not, it will be assault. Baby In Arms. Police were called into the oase last night after neighbors had heard shots fired in the Lee home. Police- men Chaney and Kinney of the sixth precinct found Lee at a tele- phone, where he had been phoning a physician. 1In his arms was his two- and-a-half-year-old baby. When police took him away, she cried for her “daddy.” Nrs. Lee was taken to the hospital from the Arizona Hotel lobby a few doors from her home, where she had ran and dropped. At the hospital today it was declared that chances for her recovery are slight. At Annapolis, Md., a Filipino steward, on the U. S. §. Cumberland, Brigado' Ocampo, is being held as & witness. He forms the third point fn the triangle. Lee sald his wife had meet Ocampo about ten days ago and apparently had become fascinated by him. Progress of Affair. We went over to Annapolis last Sunday, at his invitation, to see the place,” Lee sald. “And again last Wednesday my wife went over there. 1 begged her not to go. .She went and’ stayed overnight. When she came back 1 told her that I would overlook everything for ' the sake of our little baby if she would only stay and live with me. 1 said that she could have a separate room. if only 1 could see our little daughter, Things went on until yes- terday. Then we went to Annap- olis again, to end everything. We met Ocampo. He suggested end our acquaintanceship. Then my wife said something that showed me she intended to go with him after she got a dlvorce from me. “After we came home about 8§ o'clock last night, she kept talking about Ocampo. I told her to go and pack her things and get out if she wanted to. She said she would not do it, and then I begged her to let me aione. I sat down on a couch in another room. She followed me and kept on that talking. “1 felt myself slipping. After she kept on and sat down beside me on the sofa and had called me terrible names it happened. “I didn't know what I was doing. The first thing I knew was when I was standing there pulling the trig- ger of the revolver and no explo- sions were following. VINDICATES ACTRESS IN FARRAR DIVORCE Court Exonerates Miss Larrimore of Misconduct With Tellegen. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 28 — Supreme Court Justice Lehman today rendered ® decision vindicating Miss Stella Larrimore, young actress, who was named by Geraldine Farrar as one of ®everal co-respondents in her suit for @livorce from Lou Tellegen. Justice Lehman acted on an appli- cation of Farrar for permission to strike allegations concerning Miss Larrimore from her divorce petition and in granting it saved the diva from the necessity of placing before a jury the evidence already brough! against her husband in referee’ chambers. The decision quoted a letter from Farrar's counsel, in which it was ad- mitted that investigations since Miss i Larrimore began to fight the linking of her name with the case has led to the conclusion that the charges * were not true and that it was de- sired to abandon them. Justice Lehman said in his deci- Bion: “This abandonment of the charges against her represents as com- plete a vindication as Miss Larri- more could obtain by a dismissal of * the arges upon the plaintift's + (Farrar's) failure to press them be- Yore a jury. Despite the full nature of the ex- joneration given Miss Larrimore In Justice Lehman’s decision, her coun- mel indicated he might appeal from the decision and press her demand to be heard in rebuttal of the original wharges. RAIL LABOR MAPS LEGISLATIVE PLANS Would Abolish Federal Board, Report on Meeting Says. Py the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 28.—Railway labor, %5 represented by the heads of fifteen %f the sixteen standard unions, yes- Rerday mapped a legislative program ¥or submission to Congress, the Chi- ®©ago Tribune says today. The or- panization would abolish the United Btates Railroad Labor Board, says the $iewspaper. No final action was taken, however. “Not only abolition of the Rallroad . fabor Board—and, even more par- | gicularly, immediate elimination of { pne ur two members objectionable to { §abor—but also a move to revive in- " Rerest in the ‘Plum plan’ of control i bf rafiroads was discussed, according , £0 reports,” says the Tribune. The meeting followed the national conference of valuation on American rallroads. .| 43,500 HANDS NEEDED. "Wheat Districts of West Call for i Labor as Harvest Nears. © ' KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 38.—At t 43,600 haryest hands will be Oklahoma, Kansas and the res pa o when wheat - har- 10, director of , &0 ag: fm 33 to- B day with bourd and-iodgig, he Or_dere; to Join nawes ¢ psitihd - — > MAJ. GE! H. K. BETHELL, Military attache of the British em- oon to leave Washington for Engi. CLARA PHILLIPS DUE IN U. S. TOMORROW Hammer Murderess, En Route to Los Angeles, Says She Will Prove Innocence. e Assoclated Press. ‘W ORLEANS, La., May 28.—Clara Phillips, hammer murderess, and her escort of deputy sheriffs, are expect- ed to reach here tomorrow morning from Honduras on the Cuyamel Fruit Company’s steamship Copan. The ship left Puerto Cortez Satur- day and will reach quarantine, at the mouth of the Mississippi river, late tonight. The fugitive is en route to Los An- geles, having been extradited from the Latin American country to which she fled. By the Associated Press. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, May —A message declaring her innocen: has been received by the Associated Press correspondent here from Clara Phillips, convicted of murder in Cali- fornia, now on her way back to the United States in charge of American officers. The message, sent from Puerto Cor- tez just before the steamer Copan sailed for New Orleans, sald: “Please say I intend to give the world the truth about the Alberta Meadows case; that I am innocent of that awful crime of which I was un- Justly convioted, and that the oppor- tunity will soon come for me to prove it. ‘CLARA PHILLIPS.” THIRD PARTY MOVE DUE, SAYS MUNSEY (Continued from First Page.) either the republican or democratic tickets. But Mr. Hoover's friends made the mistake of trying to force their way into the conven- tion of the two old parties. Should Henry Ford's supporters try the same thing’ their efforts wil end as did the Hoover boom—in nothing so far 8s delegates go. But Henry Ford is being taked of for an independent ticket and already William Randolph Hearst announces his readiness to support Ford, which is a nucleus of publicity strength that makes the.old miid leaders at least sit up and take notice. . Suprised at Act. The amazing thing about the Hearst announcement is the attitude of many leading Jews in New York city who are flabbergasted at the Hearst position. The Hearst news- papers have always professed great friendliness to the Jews and have always fought religious bigotry. Mr. Hearst's sudden espousal of the one man who has leveled more at- tacks against Jews in America than any other man in modern times, is causing_considerable talk. Either it means Mr. Heart has succeeded in making Henry Ford repent his ex- pressions of anti-Semitism or else it means that politics has superseded all else in the mind of the chain publisher. It is bound to become one of the interesting phases of the campaign, for if by chance the Ku Klux Klan gets tied to the Ford banner and sues of religious bigotry creep into the campaign there's no telling what political mixups are liable to de- Velop In the next twelve months. Mr. Hearst talks an independent radical party, Mr. Munsey thinks the birth of a radical party means the break up of the old parties and the inevitable development of a liberal conservative party. No wonder the %alltleluns are wondering whether the ‘ord boom is a real thing or a flivver. (Copyright, 1923.) RAIL TRAFFIC STOPPED BY BELGIAN STRIKE 47,000 Freight Cars at Standstill, Passenger Trains Are Curtailed. BRUSSELS, May 28.—One-fourth of all the Belgian passenger trains have been taken off and freight traf- fic is almost at a standstill because of the strike of the transport workers. Forty-seven thousand freight cars are idle, 15,000 of this number being along the German frontier. The closing of ten glass works has thrown 100,000 persons out of work. Ten other plants in the same industry are shutting down today be- cause of the fuel shortage. Pro- duction in many other industries has been curtailed. Veterans Destroy “Victory”’ Statue Neglected by City YORK, 'Pa, May 28.—Former service men early today demolished the statue “Winged Victory” which ‘was placed in front of the court- house during the victory loan drive in 1919. The statue, made of ‘Plaster, had fallen Into a state of disrepair, and the county commis- sioners refused to mend it. ‘War veterans announced several days ago that they would refuse to marci past the statue on Memo- rial day if it was not repaired. No attention, apparently, was given this threat, and today a group of war veterans marched to the courthouse. Using ropes and chat! they lled the stat off its base and it broke into pleces. T-2 RESUMES FLIGHT. KANSAS. CITY, May 28.—ILdeuts. fohn A, MacReady and Oakley G. plane, the T-3, at 10:26 o‘cloe!-’ z"& ‘THE _EVENING IMERCHANT FLEET | BIDS CONSIDERED Sealed Proposals for Pur- chases Before Ship Board in Special Session. A special meeting of the Shipping Board was called today to consider bids for the government's merchant fleet. In view of the probability of several last-minute proposals, how- ever, actual opening of the blds was postponed until late in the afternoon. There was additional evidence that the offers would fall far short of the hope of those government officials who sponsored the flnal effort to transfer the fleet to private owner- ship. Less than twoscore bids have been recelved up to noon, and a ma- jority were understood to deal only [¥ith the “cream” routes of the serv- ce. No Bids on Consolidation. Several of the eighteen consolidated routes, which the board had organ- ized as o basls of the transfer, were not covered at all in the early bids. Chairman Lasker has announced that the sale will be called off un- less sufficient of the routes are taken over to insure a maintenance under private operation of the general service now conducted With a few exceptions the bids came from the individuals and firms now serving as government operators and agents. Most of them dealt with the south Atlantic and gulf routes, which have shown small losses and in some cases substantial profits un- der government operation. Auction as Final Effort. While officials have maintained that the auction will be the last ef- fort for the time being to get the government out of the shipping busi- ness, the oard has -before it one proposed “alternative plan” under which the present operators would be permitted to take over the ships under a special time charter arrange- ment whereby the government would be assured a maximum return while the operator would be relieved of cer- tain restraints now regarded as handicapping his activities. Another proposal comprises a sales plan which would transfer the fleet at a purely nominal price per ton, the board holding supervision of all reve- nues until a sale at a more reasona- ble figure has been effected. FORMER ‘LABOR CZAR’ BREAKS PRISON LAW/| Robert P. Brindell Facing Trial in Sing Sing for Violation of Eou Regulations. OSSINING. May 28.—Robert Brindell, former head of the York Building Trades Council, and known for vears as the city's “labor fuced trial in Sing Sing prison today and the possible loss of his g00d behavior and other credits, as a result of violation of prison rules, discovered vesterday, when he was surprised in a conference with his wife, daughter and son outsile the institution wall Officials here and in New York city are investigating rumors that Brindell in the past several weeks has had se- cret conferences with New York labor leaders which affected the present tangled construction situation in that city. Various prison officials have been drawn into the investigation in the be- llef that they aided Brindell, who is serving a flve-year sentence for graft and extortion, in meeting members of his family and former business asso- clates outside the prison walls, Warden Lawes, who had frequently denfed reports that the former labor leader was holding secret meetings out- side the prison, was the one who sur- prised him at his meeting with his famil; He found the quartet in a reservoir house on the prison property, but outside the walls. A keeper in whose charge Brindell had been, and who permitted him to leave the jail, has been suspended and will be tried. THOMAS HUGH MITCHELL OF PATENT OFFICE DEAD Former Minister and College Founder Had Been U. S. Em- ploye Since April 18, 1881. Thomas Hugh Mitchell, 1364 Girard street northwest, died yesterday aft- ernoon. Mr. Mitchell was born July 18, 1857, at Brownsboro, Tenn. He was the youngest son of Samuel D. and Amelia Fain Mitchell and great-grandson of Rev. Samuel Doak, founder of Salem Church and Washington College, Tenn., which was the first church and institution of learning west of the Alleghanies. Mr. Doak was the first pastor of Salem Church and the first president of Washington College. Mr. Mitchell received his_education at Washington College and the Uni- versity of Tennessee. He came to Washington in 1880. He was a mem- ber of Benjamin B. French Lodge, No. 15; Lafayette Chapter, No. b5, and Washington Commandery, No. 1, and Almas Temple. In 18956 he married P. New patent office on April 18, 1881, as a copyist. He became fourth assistant examiner on August 17, 1882, and w. promoted through the successive grades of assistant examiner, reach- ing the grade of primary examiner on January 4, 1908. Mr. Mitchell served in division 10 of the patent office for forty-two years. Funeral services will be held to- morrow at 2:30 p.m. at Wrigh parlors, 1337 10th street northwes SEE FATHER KILLED. Children Watch Negro Murder Farmer. VALDOSTA, Ga., May 28-—~Four small children witnessed the killing of their father, C. A. Hunter, a farm- er of Fargo, Ga., late yesterday after- noon by Sandy Armstrong, & mnegro, ‘while the farmer and his wife and children were strolling in a woods near their home, according to a re- port reaching here today. A deputized posse was reported at noon today close on the trail of the negro. WOMAN’S DEATH MYSTERY Police Believe Wife of Contractor Shot by Burglar. LANSING, Mich., May 28.—Police are without a clue as to the identity of the person who shot and killed Mrs. William T. Britton, wife of a local contractor, at her residence here. Mrs. Britton and Miss Helen Powers were alone in the house. Hearing a noise during the night, according to the story told the police m-p. o ers, Mrs. Britton bell there was a b rfl.r in the house and went to investigate. As she opened the door of the bedroom, in which -the two women wefe sleeping, there was & shot and Mrs. Britton fell dead. Police belleve Mrs. Britton some one who had entered the Fokberss rrowly escaped pletely over and Ia on itu ide and William Kellum of 530 3d street BARBAGE MEN WIN | PRAISE AND PRIZES Seven in Refuse Division Commended for Careful Work During Year. Seven colored employes of the city | refuse division were summoned from | their wagons today and, accompanied by their “hoss.” Supt. Morris Hacker, | were lined up before the Commis-| sioners in the boardroom. | Usually, when a garbage driver or | a trash man gets a call from head- | quarters it results from the com-| plaint of some houscholder whose | rubbish has not been hauled away. But when Engineer Commissioner Besson spoke he uttered words of praise. For the seven men called “to| the carpet” were the winners of the | cash prizes awarded by the Twentieth Century Club to the most eficient employes in the several branches of the city refuse division. Winners in Four Classes. First came Richard Briscoe and “Uncle” George Pollard, prize-win- ning garbage collectors. Then there were Herbert Lew!s and Jerry Butler, in thelr spotiess white suits, who car- ried off first honors in the street cleaning department g Next in line stood William .\mon‘ and Paul Wanser, who excelled all others in the removal of ashes. Last| came Andrew Perrn champion lnnhl collector. g H In addition to the cash prizes, each was handed a bright red banner to be displayed on his wagon during the next two weeks, 80 that Washingtonlans and visitors alike may know that they have been chosen as the most efficient ‘workers In the refuse service. Third Year of Contest. Mrs. Richard Fay Jackson, chairman of the Twentleth Century Club com- mittee, congratulated the winters and asked them to go back and tell their fellow workers that they, too, have a chance to carry off the banners next year by attention to duty Maj. Besson and Commissioner Ru- dolph both delivered messages of en- couragment to the men. Commissioner Oyster also was present and congratu- lated the champlons. s ‘This is the third year in which ‘the Twentleth Centry Club has conducted a clean-up contest in the city refuse service, and it Is vlanned to continue the practice annually. Members of the club present with Mrs. Jackson wers M Willlam H. Herron, Mrs. Frederick Coville and Mrs. Austin Clark GOV. SILZER NOT TO GIVE ADVICE ON DRY REPEAL Declines to Attend Hearing on New York Enactment Before Gov. Smith at Albany. TRENTON, N. J., May 28.—Gov. Sil- zer has declined to attend a public hearing in Albany Thursday before Gov. Smith, on the legislative bill to repeal the state prohibition enforcement law. Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier, in- troducer of the repealer, invited Gov. Slizer to attend. Frederick M. . Pearse, secretary to Gov. Sllzer, wrote in_repiy: “Gov._ Silzer feels that Gov. Smith can be depended upon to reach & proper conclusion without any assistance from New Jersey, or Washington either.” T T T FINE PLAY PRODUCERS. Court Claims “God of Vengeance” an Indecent Performance. NEW YORK, May 28.—Rudolph Schildkraut, star, and Harry Wein- berge: producer, of the “God of Vengeanc: convicted with eleven members of the cast last week of producing an indecent performance, were fined $200 each today. The court suspended sentence on the eleven others. —_— MUSSOLINI TO BID U. S. AID IN EUROPE’S CRISIS Shortly to Issue Statement Regard- ing Italy’s Debt to America. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 28—The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph learns that Premier Mussolini of Italy 1s to make a statement of his views as to Italy’s debt to the United States, in which he will come forward with a final bid for full and active Ameri- can co-operation in the political and economic reconstruction of Europe. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Faulty Brakes Said to Be Cause of This Wreck |Bank Asks Court near the eant e | ed | war, has developed 4 strong racial | friend was Albert Ballin, head of the | the Jehovah of the old testament is | ten 12 MONDAY, Ralph Bevans of 1328 9th ntreet. KAISER JUNKS OLD 1 TESTAMENT; WRITES | NEW PREFACE TO BIBLE “ontinued fi First Page.) 1ly. He has now come out in favor of making changes and is willing to place himself at the head of a reform movement. “In particular he feels himself call- upon to bring about decisive changes in the christian dogmas and to free the christian creed of all} Jewish Influences. To understand | this it must be borne in mind that the former Kalser, like 8o many others who deplore the loss of the feeling. Before the war his closest Hamburg-American line, and a Jew. Recalls Ballin’s Death. “It will be remembered that when Ballin heard of William's abdication | and filght to Holland he killed him- self. Now the ex-Kaiser believes that not the God of the new testament, but the God of the Jews. So he has writ-) a preface to the Bible which is replace the old testament. ‘I am not In a_positio a4 Dr. Vogel in closing his remarks, “to give you any detalls concerning the text of the ex-Kaiser's epistle. It will be only after our council has an- nounced its decision and the question of changes has been settled that we shall be able to discuss the possi- bility of publishing the text of the former Kaisers religious work.” Other members of the evangelical! ynod are the Rev. Dr. Schmidt, min- ter_of ecclesiastical affairs. under the Kalser, and Dr. Conrad and Dr. Doehring, who are still attached to the Berlin Cathedral, which used to| be the Kaiser's favorite place of wor- ship. Broods Over Scriptures. Confirmation of Dr. Vogel's state- ment came from a source close to the | ex-Kaiser's sons, who live in Potsdam “The ex-emperor seldom speaks of anything but the scripture and its a friend of the former royal Iy sald. “He is eternally brood- ing over the most subtle questions concerning passages and phrases con- tained in Luther's transiation of the Bible. His condition some times bor- | ders on religious dementia. “He has come to think that hi throne was taken away from him so that he could become the apostle of a real christian faith. He is alway: saying that while he has had to giv. up his claims to the throne of the German empire and the kingdom of Prussia he still remains head of the unified Evangelical Church of Prus- sla, which position he held while he was king." L LIST 81 OF CLERGY TO VOTE ON BISHOP (Continued from First Page.) ington: D. ‘Welllngton Curran, repre- sentative nation-wide campaign com- mittee; David R. Covell, vicar. Trinity parish: William W. Shearer, assistant minister, St. Alban's parish: Willlam . ant minister, St. Mark’s parish; John M. Hamilton, as- sistant minister, St. Thomas' parish; Joseph Fletcher, rector, Rock Creek parish; William Curtis White, rector, Washington parish; Thomas D. Win- dlate, rector, Christ Church parish, Montgomery county; Henry H. D. Sterrett, rector, All Souls’ parish Harry C. Goodman, missionary; Chris tlan Nartin Young, rector, Takoma parish, D. C., and Montgomery coun- ty: Meade Holton MacBryde, rector, Grace Church parish; Thomas McClin- tock, assistant minister, Christ Church parish, Frederick Gunnell, rector, Congress Helghts parish; Alan Spencer Hawkes- worth, assistant minister, St. Thomai rish; Christopher I. La Roche, recto; ton parish, Prince Georges and Mont gomery counties; John Joseph Queally, assistant minister, Rock Creek parish! Arthur Josiah Torrey, assistant minis: ter, Epiphany parish; George Alfred Fisher, vicar, St. Monica's chapel; Seth ‘Adonriam Mills, rector, Durham parish, Charles county: Edward P. Wroth, rec- Montgomery Howard G. England, rector, King George's parish, Prince Georges county; Charles E. Crusoe, rector, St. Paul's parish, Prince Georges county: Thomas Lemuel Small, agsistant minis. ter, Chapel of the Nativity; James Hen- derson, Cathedral school; Joseph P, Gib- son; Ronalds Taylor, student pastor, University of Maryland; Reginald John Ripley, priest in charge of Queen Anne 'parish, Prince Georges county. Edward_ Freeman, _rector, of the Epiphany; Franklin Lee Metcalf, rector, All ith parish, St Marys county; Willlam Hamilton Nes, rector. Trinity parish, Colling- ton; Thom Willlamson, ir., rector, Ad- vent parish; John RigE, rector, St. Thom parish, Croome, _Prince Georges county; William S. Bishop, assistant _minister, St. Thomas' Church; John E. G. 'Small, in_char, St. Philip’s Chapel, Aquasco; Guy Ed son Kagey, rector, St. Bartholomew’ parish, Montgomery county; Raymond Lee Wolven, assistant minister, Trin- ity Diocesan Church; Henry Converse Parkman, priest in charge, St._Jame: Chapel, Indian Head, Prince George county; Francis Grenville Isley, pas tor, Immanuel . Anacostia; J; bez Backus; Clyde Brown, assistant, Hyattsville, Md.; Walter Archbold, rector, Trinity Church, Charles coun- ty; G. G. Grifith, Poolesville, Mont- gomery county. " “The Mystery Girl” By Carolyn Wells v One of the best detective stories in mady a day Begins in Today’s Star Do not miss a single ifinulln\ent\o( this thrilling serial | partment. | inspector prior | duction. ‘MAY 28, 1923. jury when their machine struck the fron rafling, turning com of the Benning bridge. The occupants were C. M. Kellum PLENONS SLATED TOHEAD PRECINT Will Be Made Captain and Cornwell Advanced to Lieutenancy. Promotion of Lieut. C. L. Plemmons to captain and Detective Sergt. Fred Cornwell to be a lieutenant will be approved by the Commissioners at board session tomorrow, it was learn- ed today. Plemmons, who is now in charge of the detective bureau from 4 p.m. until midnight, will take command of the eighth precinct Friday, June 1 Capt. E. J. Keefe, former commander of that station, retired a few days ago. Cornwell, who s now in charge of the detective bureau arter midnight, is slated for precinct duty, but will not be taken from the detective bu- reau until after the Shrine conven- tion is over. Maj. Sullivan and Commissioner Oyster have not vet dicided upon the men to be detailed to theldetective bureau as successors to Plemmons and Cornwell. The major is so busy on arrangements for the convention that he will not consider these vacan- cles untll the middle of June. Plemmons and Cornwell are both men of long experience in the de- The*former was a night to being made a lieutenant in the detective bureau. Corywell i one of the veteran members of the headquarters force and has worked on many important cases during his term of service in the degective bureau. He was given his present assignment after the re- tirement of Detective Ned Weedon. CASUALTIES HEAVY AS REIGN OF TERROR GROWS IN GERMANY (Continued from First Page.) tion of labor” in behalf of Germany's reparations bill, and suggests that although the eight-hour day will continue “in principle,” workers in {all lines must strive for an increase in hoth quality and quantity of pro- The government is al politely requested to abandon com- mercial enterprises which are in com- petition with private undertakings. BOCHUM BATTLE CENTER. Sporadic Firing Makes Streets of City Dangerous. By Cable to The Star and Cbicago Daily News. BOCHUM, May 28.—At dawn tod communist detachments crept through the streets and surrounded the head- quarters of the city fire brigade, the members of which are mow armed with French weapons and have been strengthened by volunteers from the outside. They are doing police duty in & spasmodic sort of way. There is guerrilla firing on both sides and the battle seems to be Increasing in in- tensity and to be spreading all over the neighborhood. Evidently the communists, having received reinforcements over Sunday, are making a methodical attempt to win the center of the city. They con- trolled the outlaying districts com- pletely last night. At midnight mili- tary headquarters were filled with sentries coming and going and fire arms were being distributed. A gentle-looking, middle-aged man was glving orders and red guards, sleep. ing on table, were awaiting the com- mand to advance. City Without Gas. The city Is without gas, the work- men having gone on a strike. Local volunteer militiamen wearing white arm bands have taken up strategic positions in Bochum. It is reported that they number about 1,000. The communists certainly have more men under arm! As the day wore on the firing be- came more irregular and bullets came from unexpected directions, making all streets in the center of the city unsafe. ‘The attitude of the moderate so- clalists regarding the uprising is still unc n. It is estimated that 2,.- 000,000 miners and metal workers are out on strike in the Ruhr and Rhine- land. The organization of proletarian battalions is increasing. In Bochum, for the first time since the uprisings began, firearms are plentiful. (Copyright, 1928.) TIMBER DERAILS ENGINE, KILLING 1, INJURING 8 Two Coaches Also Leave Tracks ‘When New York Central Train Hits Obstruction. NEW YORK, May 38.—A heavy timber placed across a railroad track, supposedly by boys, caused one death an t.hm.r‘yotcll‘htpnr- sons when it de: the locomotive and two_coaches of a passenger train of the Putnam divislon of the New York :Central Railroad in the Bronx. The Locomotive -overturned killing the engineer, Hugh Kirk, who was in; beneath it, Charies Serhey, Rreman, and Alesander Rawiski, & pcm r\n?“h of New York, were ";"h- :nm- injured were passen- ‘0!"0 who were Ibl."t;'lo,tn their To Help Identify Owner of $1,495 The Security Savings and Com- mercial Bank has $1,495 for which it seeks an owner. Officials of the bank today asked the District Supreme Court to un- ravel the matter for the bank. They asked permission to pay the fund into court and let that tribunal decide which of two claimants named Henry McDowell should have the money. According to Attorney Julius I Peyser, a savings account was opened at the bank December 18 last by Dennis Godfrey, or God- fay, which was made payable to Dennis Godfrey or Henry McDow- ell. Godfrey s dead, and letters of administration have been taken out by Henry A. McDowell. An- other claimant in the person of Henry McDowell has demanded payment of the money, and the bank is unable to determine to whom it should deliver the money. $75 GIVEN LEGION BY GREEK VETERANS Men to Take Part in Memorial Day Service at Arlington. American Veterans of Greek de- scent of the District today forwarded the American Legion Graves Endow- ment Fund a check for $75. Vasilios I. Chebithers contributed. The committee appointed recently to solicit funds from the Greek citi- zens consisted of Harry J. Photls, George Brown, George J. Demas and Vasilios I. Chebithes. The officers of the organization are: V. I. Chebithes, commander; Harry J. Photis, vice commander; Nick Labakes, secretary. The organization will take part in the Memorial day exercises and will honor the grave of the unknown sol- dier at Arlington natlonal cemetery by placing a wreath on the grave at 10 o'clock. Jith a brief ceremony. The Alabima State Society, through Maj. T. V. Walker, president of the society, sent in a check for $20, while George E. Killeen Auxiliary of the American Legion Auxiliary forwarded a check for $10. Stuart Walcott Post Auxilfary ~has donated $10, while Francis F. Miller, commander of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Post, the American Legion. has sent in a check for $25. Belleau Wood Post, composed exclusively of Mari- nettes, and Vincent B. Costello Aux- iliary have contributed. D. C. NAVY RESERVES BEGIN CRUISE SOON Eagle 56 to Carry Large Crew on Second Training Trip of Summer Months. Preparations are being made for the second training cruise of the U. S. S. Eagle 56 with United States naval reserves of this district aboard, ac- cording to an announcement of Com- mander John A. Schafield, commanding the reserves in the District of Co- lumbia. The vessel is scheduled to leave Saturday, June 16, and will ‘be in command of Lieut. Commander P. D. Johnston. The Commander Schofield said, is now at the navy yard under- going reconditioning, and the time is being used at the armory to give pre- liminary instruction to recruits. During the cruise the vessel will touch Norfolk and Yorktown, Va., and Solomons Island. Md., where the men wiil be given liberty. General liberty will be allowed the men. During the voyage they will be instructed in sea- manship, gun drill, small arm target practice, navigation, radio, etc. Recreation will not be overlooked. for the men are allowed the use of ship's boat for fishing and swim- ming parties, and also for trips on the waters near the anchorage. In addition to Lieut. Commander Johnston, the officers who will make the crulse are Lieut. F. H. Yaeger, Lieuts. (junior grade) Nelson { Thomas, S. W.. Stinemets, B. A. Sulli- van, Harry W. Ross and Ensigns C. % logan, J. A. Young and B. F. Reynolus. While waiting for the return the vessel, Commander Schofield is anxious to get the attention of the young men of the city to acquaint them with the advantage of enrolling in the reserve. Those interested, he says, should make application at the armory, Water and O streets south- weat. ~ ‘There will be a drill period tonight and a surgeon on hand to examine applicants. RIOT FOLLOWS SHOUT “DOWN WITH MUSSOLINI” Woman Arouses Ire at Meeting Held to Commemorate Italy's Entrance Into War. NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 25.—The cry, “Down with Mussolini!” shouted by a woman at a meeting here in com- memoration of Italy’s entrance into the world war, caused a small-sized riot when adherents of the fascisti and anti-fascisti seized it as their cue to engage in a free-for-all fight. In the melee Pasquale de Cicco, Italian con- sul in this city, who had addressed the gathering, was struck on the head with a chair and recelved severe cuts which required medical attention. Mr. De Cicco had congluded his ad- dress, in which he had niade an appeal for closer co-operation between Italy and America, and called for ‘“three cheers for Italy.” The audience had given the cheers, when a woman cried: We will cheer for Italy, but down with Mussolini!"” FLOOD HITS HOMES. Irrigation Ditch Breaks in Rocky Ford, Col. ROCKY FORD, Col, May 28 —First floors of some stores were flooded with several inches of water last night when heavy rains caused the Rocky Ford irrigation ditch to break. While men worked to repair the break, the water began to recede and danger from a serious flood seemed over. No estimate of damage has been made. — U. S. DELEGATES BACK. Eight of Pan-American Group Reach New York. NEW YORK, May 28.—Eight mem- bers of the United States official delegation to the pan-American con- ference at Santiago, returned today aboard the steamer Western ‘World, after a tour which included the cen- tennial at Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Atres and other South American cities. In the party wers H. P. Fletcher, American ambassador _to Belgium; former Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota; former Senator Atlee Fom- erene Of tH ar .ulsbury of J.' Butler Wright, third assistant secretary of stat €. Wilson of the diplomatic service; Co eyer of Wash: n, D, n, B D, Myprs, United States consul i of ’ TRILEDWHEN AR CRASIESINTDALTD Five in Machine Die Instantly g and Hurled Engine Hits ! Two Others. By the Associated Press. H DETROIT, Mich, May 28.—With the seven victims of the crash identified’ Oakland county authorities today were investigating circumstanéed bur- rounding the collision on Woodward avenue road, about ten miles north of Detroit, last evening of an auto- mobile and a southbound interurban car. In addition to the seven who met death, all of which were Detroiters, a dozen or more passengers of the interurban were cut by broken glass or were injured when they jumped from the car. The dead are Joseph Kapinsky eighteen; Beatrice Cholpolk, eighteen Mary Chanczuls, seventeen, and Mary, Frash, twenty, and Anna Fr eighteen, sisters, and Aloysius Bal jr. twenty-one, and his brother seph, eighteen. According to witnesses of the ac- cident an automoblile containing the first five named swerved upon the interburban tracks to pass another automobile that had stalled. The in terburban struck the machine, broke it in pieces and hurled the engine many “feet into an automobile ot cupted by the Balcar brothers. The Belears were seriously injured that they died soon after being taken to a hospital. The five occupants of the first motor car were killed iz stantly and their bodies were burned when " the gasoline tank of their machine caught fire, The airbrakes of the interburban were broken by the impact and the motorman was unable to stop the car for two blocks. Parts of the wrecked machine and the bodies of the five victims were pushed down the. track by the interburban. MACMILLAN TO USE RADIO ON POLAR TRIP Explorer to Co-Operate With Ama= teurs in Sending Through Northern Lights. Jo WICASSET, Maine, May 28.--t Donald B. MacMillan, who will from here Jume 16 on the schoone Bowdoin to resume his arctic plorations announced that one p pose of the expedition is to de mine whether there is beginning other ice age, as the advance of clers in the last seventy years indicate. Other purposes are of terrestial magnetism and atmos- pheric electricity, botany, ornithol ogy and the obtaining of a series of photographs of bird and animal life Thirty thousand feet of motion pic ture film will be in the Bowdoin's outfit. Long copper strips are being &t tached to the hull of the vessel i be used for a ground connection for the radio receiving and transmitting station which is being installed. The American Radio Relay League, com posed of thousands of amateurs, is co-operating with the expedition, and every evening its many members all over North America will be on the alert for signals. ‘Whether communication through the northern lights wil be poss will be determined as the MacMillan party is going far beyond the lights to winter, either at Cape Sabine, if ice conditions permit, .or at Jones Sound. The former is about 11 de grees from the north pole. The tablet which the Geographic Society trustees 1 a thorized Capt. MacMillan to -t in memory of the Greeley expedition of 1884, will be placed on the rock cliff tacing Camp Clay, Cape Sabine, where elghteen men of the expedition died of starvation and exposure. EDUCATION LEADER { SCORES HISTORIES Dr. Tigert Says School Books Should Not Teach “U. S. Can Do No Wrong.” vould study onal NEW YORK. May 28—Histories teaching that the United States “ca do no wrong” condemned by Dr. John T. Tigert, federal commis- sioner of education, at a meeting.of school teachers here. Dr. Tigert urged discontinuance of such teach: ing in order to promote better fe= ing among nations and the abolition of war. “Although the schools in the United States do not teach that ‘the king can do no wrong.” he said, “many of the historles used in American schols imply that the United States can do no wrong and never in the wrong While preserving our patriotism in the schools it should not be overlook- ed_that ‘we make mistakes. Dr. Tigert attacked propos to centralize educational matters under a member of the Cabinet in Washing- ton. He said he hoped the time Wou never come, when a Cabinet member could “dictate and form educational and religious doctrines.” REPORT PARESIS CURE HAS PROVED EFFECTIVE Physicians Give Results of Experi- ments With Serum in the Early Stages of Disease. MILWAUKEE, May 28.—Coincldent with the announcement from Madison that a serum for the cure of paresis in early stages and other forms of neuro-syphilis had been discovered. it was learned here that several pa-. tients had been treated at the county. hospital here and had been discharged, as cured. ? A report on experiments conducted on forty-two patients at various jos- pitals by Drs. W. F. Lorenz, head .ot the State Psychiatric Institute, and A. S. Lovenhart of the University of’ Wisconsin Medical School is container: in the journal of the American Med- ical Association. According to this statement, twen ty-one of those treated were either cured or well on the way to health. OIL-BURNING CRUISER MAKES GOOD ON TESTS Detroit Goes to Sea Today to Make Six-Hour Run at Twenty-Five Knots, Final Trial., OCKLAND, Me., May 28—Ths st orniser Detroit alternately drifted and sprinted in her builders’ acceptance trials yesterday, one call- ing for & speed of ten knots, the oth- er of thirty knots an hour. Each run was for a four-hour period, the purpose being to test fuel oil con- sumption. The trial board announc- ed_the results satisfactory. < The Detroit will go to. sea today r her final test. a -six-hour run &t wenty-five knots. Nt were = ==l |