Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1923, Page 5

REVEALSFLLIONS | . BUCKET SHOP L0SS Chicago Prosecutor Obtains In Raids Names of Some of Thousands Defrauded. By the Associated Press.— 4 CHICAGO, Junu 2.—Names of ‘some of the thousands of investors wh are said to have lost mliilions of dol- lars in “bucket shop” transactlors here will be in the hands of the state's attorney today when an over- night audit of records seized in raids on several brokerage concerns is completed. The victims later will be questioned and if sufficient evidence is obtained it will be placed before & grand jury, authorities announced. Meanwhile the state’'s attorney planned to extend the penetration of “Ponzi block” today in an effort to rid Chicago of unscrupulous stock sellers. It was expected that the raiding tactics of yesterday will tem- porarily be abandoned, since a num- ber of the forty or more concerns un- der suspiclon are understood to have offered to present their records vol- untarily. “Ponzl block,” a section of the La Salle street financial district, Is 0 called because of the spectacular trading there The raids yesterday were directed by Assistant State's’ Attorney Gor- man when he learned that several of the alleged “fiy-by-night” traders had closed their shops anad left for New York. Immediate action was ordered to_rpevent a further exodus. Four brorkerage houses were searched and the records of three of them confiscated. Officlals and em- ployes in the offices were questioned. Afterward the books wert given to an auditor, who was instructed to work on them throughout the night in order to have a report ready to- ay. State officials and representatives of the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Stock Exchange and_ the “blue sky” commission, a semi-official agency, are assisting in the investi- gation. INLCLARATODAY I WRITIS DENED Hammer = Slayer Passes Through Los Angeles on Way to San Quentin. By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Calif, June Clara Phillips, convicted of slaying Mrs. Alberta Tremaine Meadows with a hammer, will become a prisoner in San Quentin penitentigry today un- less “her attorneys obtain from the state supreme court a writ of habeas corpus preventing her ipcarceration there until after she has an oppor- v to appeal for another trial. Recaptured in Honduras after her lescape from the Los Angeles county ail early in December, the hammer frurderess pass through Los Angeles ast night, bound for the penitentiary o which, on November 27 last, she vas sentenced to serve from ten years o life. Appeal Not Perfected. The superior court late vesterday held she had not perfected an appeal when she broke jail, and issued bapers committing her to prison, and the appellate court immediately after- ward denled a motion for a writ of habeas corpus sought in her behalf. instead of being taken from which brought her from New Orleans and placed in jail here, her stay in Los Angeles was of only forty minutes’ duration, and that merely to make up the train for its trip north. A large crowd gathered at the sta- tion, but_nobody saw Mrs. Phillips except officers and newspaper men. To the latter she reiterated her inten- tion of fighting to the last ditch. Her husband, Armour Lee Phillips, who joined her at Yuma, Ariz., yesterday, left the train here when officers told him he could travel no farther as a member of the party taking his wife to prison, but her sister, Mrs. Etta Mae Jackson, who was with her when she was identified and detained in Honduras, was told she might con- tinue as far as San Francisco, if not actually to San Quentin. WAN IN HARRIS SUIT DENIES WIFE'S GUILT Alleged Co-respondent Te.rms Bank- er's Charges “Infamous and Cowardly Lie.” DBy the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 2—The scene of preliminary hearings of testimony to be presented at the trial in New York of proceedings instituted by Beverly D. Harris, New York banker, which seek the annulment of his marriage to Mrs. Eleanor Elaine Lee Harris, was shifted today from Memphis to St. Louis, where the prin- cipals were married in 1915, Mrs. Harrls, whose husband asks . for the annulment on the alleged grounds that she misrepresented her parentage and was guilty of improper , conduct prior to the marriage, left last night for St Louis after a day of Kearing, in which much conflicting testimony was offered. Her attorneys accompanied her. s testified that Mrs. Harris in Memphis twelve years ago and was known “Ella Lee. Other witnesses, equally as positivi declared she was not the woman.| known here as Ella Lee. The final witness here was Eli B. Raynor, whose name has been fre- Quently mentioned in conneetion with Mrs. Harris in testimony given fore David Fentress. special commi; sioner, here. An affiidavit signed by Raynor affirmed that his relatio t intamous and cowardly lie.” Other developments were the state- ment of Mrs. Harris that she was not the daughter of Samuel Lee of Mem- phis, “though Samuel Lee married my mother,” and that the identity of her father would be established at the trial in New York; and the testi- mony of W. T. Griffin, Memphis, in- spector of detectives, that he had Eathered evidence to be used by Har- Tis in seeking the marriage annul- xami- < ment. Griffin denied on cr¢ nation that he had received of $6.000" for his efforts and de- clared that he had acted on what he regarded as orders.from Thomas Al- len, Memphis police commissioner. —————ein It is hoped to institute a Masonic lodge on board the Canadian Pacific 4 Steamship Empress of France, which " bas among its crew 160 members of the order, headed by, the captain. _ reward Mother Defies . Death Twice to "Save Her Child By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich,, June 2.—Mrs. Sadie Anthoh yesterday evening defled death in two forms to pre- vent the kidnaping of her four- year-old daughter by her divorced husband, according to the police. She threw herself in front of & tols leveled at her and told to stand aside. A second automobile was driven up and whisked away the child, hoe fathor Pfahmoud Bldes, thirty- , six, and the alleged abductor, and three le companions, but the woman's screams had resulted in the calling of a police automobile, which overtook the machine a few blocks distant. Eldez and his companions are held by the police. MOUNTASUIGE B STUDENT SAYS Letter He Wrote to Girl Said | _ to Have Contained Threat to Kill Self. ! i By the Associated Press LUDINGTON, Mich., June 2.—Roscoe | Conklin Fitch of Ludington was prepar- | ing to go to Chicago today, ready, he' said, to substantiate the story he told | here yesterday to representatives of the | state's attorney’s office from Ilinois, to | the effect that Leighton Mount, sup- posed to have been slain during a class rush at Northwestern University in| 1921, in reality had committed sulcide. Flitch’s statement, made here yester- day in the’ presence of the attorneys and his father, Virgil A. Fitch, prose- cuting attorney of Mason county, is said to have given as the basis for the assertions the contents of a letter writ- ten by Mount to Doris Fuchs, a girl friend, and reports sald to have been stolen from the Burns detective agency. Persuaded to Tell All Scant detalls of the statement were | revealed to the Associated Press by the | elder Fitch, who said he had persuaded his son to' “tell all he knew” of the case. The vounger Fitch, his father | said, had been concealing his knowledge | of the alleged suicide because he de- | sired to spare the feelings of Mount's | parents, with whom he lived for some | time while he was a student at North- western. According to the youth's state- ment made to Assistant State Allor-l neys Charles L. Wharton and John | A. Sbarbaro of Illinois, and who came | here to talk with him, the letter | written by Mount to Miss Fuchs con- tained a threat of suicide, while the reports of , the Burns agency were ! said to have contained information | that Mount, two days before his dis- | appearance. had transferred all of his ' money to the affianced husband of his sister Helen. Fitch is declared to ! have explained the presence of a rope around the skeleton found un- der a pler at Evanston, and virtually identified as that of Mount, by say-: ing Mount had placed a rope around | his_waist before entering the class; rush a few hours before his disap- pearance. Displeased by § The younger Fitch yesterday ex- pressed displeasure when he learned that his father had begun suit for | $10,000 each against Attorneys Whar- | ton and Sbarbaro, as representatives of the state's attorney's office of ! Cook county, Tll. Damages are | asked in connection with the alleged | grilling for forty-eight hours of the| Tocal prosecuting attorney’s son while he was being questioned in Chicago ! in _connection with the| Mount case. The father alleges third | degree methods were used. i The younger Fitch declared he r garded the two attorneys from Ch Cago as his friends and said he r sretted the filling of the suits. The papers in the suits were served on the attorneys as the conference vas concluded. Wollowing the conference, the ai torneys declared, according to Pros- ecutor Fitch, that thé latter's son had caused them to believe Mount might have taken his own life. PRESS AIRS MERITS OF NEW WOMAN M. P. Daily Mail Hopes Mrs. Philipson | Will Not Too Much Inflict “Nursery Despotism.” By the Assoclated Prest LON! June 2.—Commenting on the election to the house of commons of Mrs. Hilton Philipson, who was formerly Miss Mabel Russell, a musi- cal comedy actress, the Dally Mail to- day expresses the hope that “unlike Lady Astor and Mrs. Margaret Win- tringham, Mrs. Philipson will not be too much inclined to introduce the despotism of the nursery into our af- fairs.” The newspapers that most strongly champion the presence of women in parliament regret that Mrs. Philipson, like the other two woman M. P.s, was uchosen merely a6 a successor to her ‘husband, instead of on her own merits. The Westminster Gazette admits that Lady Astor and Mrs. Margaret Wintringham have shown they are entitled to seats by their own quali- fications, and is willing to belleve the new member will do likewise, but adds that her election introduces a ridiculous element into a serious problem, and has weakened the case for the choice of women. “The Dally News similarly wishes some constituency would have the courage to return a woman on h own merit: not because she wi somebody’s wife. “Until that hap- pens.” asserts the newspaper, ‘the sex barrier which has hitherto . excluded women from their rightful place in ublic affairs will not 'really be Broken down.” Skin Troubles Are Annoying Aside from the discomfort, they are-disfiguring. To re- lieve the irritation and re- move the blemish use— Graham’s Compound Sulphur Salve It's a_splendid preparation [ —and gives prompt. and. cellent results in troubles. Simple to use. 40c a Jar At All Peoples and Other Good Drug Stores GRAHAM REMEDY CO. ' - LO00ATTENDLAST RITES FORKITCHIN' Eulogy Brings Tears to Many in Crowd Including Congress Members. By the Assoclated Press. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, June 2.— With more than 2,000 of his country- men, who had come from far'and near to pay a last tribute of respect, the remains of the late Representative Claude Kitchin were laid to rest here yesterday afternoon, while all North Carolina mourned the passing of one who during his entire lifetim been a leader, first of the community, then the gtate and finally the nation. In accordance with the wishes of the ilate representative, simplicity marked the funeral services. A verita- ble bower of flowers covered the ’rtvl. flent testimonials to thi ‘ection of the people and their regard the leader who had passed. Pastor Conducts Services. ¢ Services were conducted by Dr. Charles Anderson, pastor of the Bap- ;Il:é Cbhllroh of which the cofn'rl;!m entire day messages of, sympathy poured in upon the family of the deceased congressman, attest- ing to the nation-wide regard In ‘which he was held. All business was suspended in Scotland Neck, which tl f its first citizen. memory of the dead, and trains in- creased the inflow of the state’s and nation's populace, for those who came to mourn were not only from North Carolina. Dr. E. G. Moore of Elm City, N. delivered an address of eulogy, hundreds there were in the throng e who shed tears of re paid. fitting: tribui e of a great statesman. Many men’ prom! t th the nation wi among ! Lee 8. Overman, Josephus formerly” Secretary of the Navy; Representatives Oldfield and ‘Wingo of Arkansas; Cordell Hull, chairman of the national democratic Jo;! Ro‘erli IRGP‘Q int. louse o epresenta- McLean, former di. \ Finance Corpor: presentative Bulwinkle, H Lyon and Hallet 8. Ward, Chief Justice Walter Clark of the North Carolina supreme court and Senator F. M. Simmons. CLASS INSURANCE PLAN. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., June 2.— The West Virginia University class which wilF be graduated next week Tas decided to take out and maintain ten $1,000 twenty-year endowment ingurance policies. The money is to be turned over to the university for such wse as it may see fit when the vollcies matur > v Belgium does not accept women as legal witn: MUSTSERVETERNS Nineteen Denver Confidence Men Denied New Trial. Long Sentences Given. By the Assaciated Press. DENVER, Colo, June 2.—Nineteen members ‘of Denver's “million-dollar bunko ring,” who were sentenced by IDistrict Judge George F. Dunklee, after he had denfed them a new tri; wverc in jail last night. ven of the alleged “bunko men, including Lou Blonger, said to be the brains of the band, were sentenced to serve seven to ten years e on two counts charging conspiracy and seven and ten years each on a third conspiracy count.” Elght! were sentenced to three to ten years on two counts and another three to ten years on the third count. All the sentences will run concurrently. Those who were sentenced to from seven to ten years were Blonger, A. W. Duff, who_was known as the first lieutenant of the confidence ring! Jack French, who has wealthy relatives in Cleveland, ,Ohio; A. E. Cooper, Little Rock, Ark.; George (Tip) Belcher; Thomas Beech, Steve J. Olgson, A. H: Potts, Robert C. Davis/ Walter Bylang and Louis Mushnick. Clemeney Granted. The three-to-ten-year terms were imposed on Jack Hardaway, John Al- lison and Willlam Dougherty, for whom the jury in the case recom- mended special clemency, and on J. H. Foster, William Straub George W ker, G. H. Williams and 'G. C. Bailey. In overruling the defendants’ mo- tion for a new trial Judge Dunklee defended the prerogative in the court in allowing the jurors thelr freedom while the case was in progress, which objectéll to by the defense after \y, the verdict had bsen returned, and cited as an ‘error of the court in the ' motion fog a new trial, e Each of the convicted men learned his fate with the ¢ lleged operations. The sifence of the courtroom was broken only by the voice of Judge Dunklee. Wives, sweethearts and other relatives scattered among the spectators wept silently. + The only attempt at a demonstra tion was when Judge Dunkleo finish- ed reading his decision overruling the motion for a new trial. Some ome started to applaud, but was cut short by the court. _ Judge Dunklee allowed the con- victed men sixty days in which to prepare their appeals to the supreme court. They are to remain in jail pending disposal of the case. ONE KILLED AT ARSENAL." PHILADELPHIA, June 2.—Joseph Redlassi of Bristol was killed by an exploston at the Frankford -arsenal here yesterday. Edward Harmon, colored, also of this city, was injured, tut will recover. The explosion oc- curred in the detonator plant, where the men were destroying stale and defective fuses tainer. The {i It in a concrete con- s exploded prematur On Account of Shrine Parade, Store Will Not Opén Tuesday Until One O’Clock Woodward & Wothrop 10th, 11th, F and G Streets TR Graduation Gifts A String of Pearls There is a certain indefinable charm about the gift of pearls— © so.you may be sure * that you are choosing right if you se- lect one of these new 60 - inch necklaces o f lustrous, inde- structible pearls, $6—or a dainty pearl bracelet, $3.50. Jewelry Scction, First fioor. A Bouquet of Handkerchiefs —makes a novel, as well as useful gift— these have five col- ored linen handker- chiefs in a quaint g;pcr lace holder, .50. Handkerchief Section, First foor. 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Book Section, Fifth foor. 1 —with sapphire-jeweled crown— is a particularly givable gradua- tion gift; one may choose here from very attractive shapes—in white gold filled, with 15 jeweled movements; and very specially priced, $12.75 and $19.75. No Deliveries Tuesday, June 5th _of the traffic con- . gestion that will prevail and be- ARl purch: DAY and required on that day will be delivered. -flJ'BURTBAN ddivnl-: ‘idn‘- or Tuesday, June ‘be n-“de on WEDNESDXE delicately tints or vividly tinges most of Summer’s Fashions; frocks, hats, skirts, blouses, sweaters—even shoes and hosiery—alike de- pend upon a touch of color for their individuality #nd charm—and that Fashion’s color-brush has passed this way is most delightfully shown in the Woodward & Lothrop collection of Summer Fashions for women and misses. 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