Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1923, Page 2

~9 ~ % MENACING FLODDS SUBSIDE N DENVER Water Two Feet Deep in Some Streets—Bridges Washed Out in Vicinity. By the Associated Trcss DENVER, Col. July 17.-After an -night vigil. due 1o swollen rivers an@ creeks thal thfeatenrd jives and property, restdemts of Denver and otHer clties and towns-in -the storm- swept areux breathed more casily day. : Rains that in some localities sumed the proportions of cloudbursts descended upon Denver, Parker. Franktown. Melvin, Sullivan, For- en¢e and Portland and other points | in such volume that crecks over- flowed their banks, washed out highway and raiiroad bridges und | damaged pres of homes and busi- ness houses During the night it was fearcd that the Castlewood dam, southeast of Parker, would go out and precipitate on Denver and the Cherry ley the worst flood in the region' tory. Water poured over the throughout the night and durin carly hours today. People Ready To lec. Tarly last night residents ail along the valley close to Cherry creek fied to higher ground. Those living in the towns in the danger zone reinained awake, ready to flee for safely at the first_warning from up the vailey Telephone opérators remained on duty at several points to spread the news if the dam broke. Two cloudbursts in trict were responsible condition in this part of the state. | Cherry creek, passing through Den- | ver, overflowcd at many places, caus- ing scores of persons to leave thef homes and flonding some sections of the city to a depth of two and three | feet. Police and ot r city employes were detaliled to d ing persons to higher ground. So far as had been learned early today there was no loss of life in Denver. Four men were | plunged into Cher; creek when a | small bridge collapsed, but they were | rescued. Platte River Overflows. The Platte river also overflowed at geveral points. causing considerable damage to railroad tracks and busi- ness property Frank Stevens, a rancher near Flor- ence, on Hardscrabble creek, was killed by lightning when he attempt- ed to rescue cattle caught in the flood waters. Bridges were swept away and traffic in the town demoralized. Water to the depth of two feet poured through the town for many hours during the night. caused by a cloud- burst back in the hills. No rain fell in the town. At Portland a flood feet deep swept to- the Parker dis- for_the flooded | i H of water five through the town, wrecking bridges and houses, avhen the Arkansas river and Hardscrabble creek united and inundated the town. The railroad bridges of the Santa Fe and Rio Grande and Western rail- roads were washed away at that point. HEAVY LOSS OF WHEAT. | Flood Seid to Have Swept 10,000 Acres in Idaho. LEWISTON, Idaho, July 17 s of devastations by cloudbursts came into Lewiston from several directions last night. In the Craigmont district farmers estimated the loss at 10,000 acTes of thirty-bushel wheat in a strip fifteen miles long and two miles wide, over which ‘hailstones one inch fn:diameter fell. ’ s BRITISH DISCUSS COTTON STANDARDS SET BY U. S. Liverpool and Manchester Repre- sentatives Meet Agriculture Department Officials. Representatives of English cotton Interests today met in conference with {vives him | the Tate Mrs. Ida compelling you to re CHARLES E. LEWIS DEAD; RESIDED HERE 57 YEARS Civil War Veteran Served in Treas- ury Department Continuously Fifty-Four Years CHARLES LEWIS, Lewls, resident of Wash- ington for almost fift leven vears, a civil war veter and a retired government efploye, died at his resi- in Conley Courts, vesterday af- after an illness of six (ke age of seventy-nine Charles E. dence, ternoon months, year Born ember New! ye Jughkeepsie, N. Y., Dec- he enlisted in the 150th Infantry, when eighteen in Company G bruary 10, 1964, when he W charsed to re-enlist’ as a hospital eward of the medical department of the Arn Whe Georg him. H tyshurs in 1 1842, i . of serving rman _marched to the Sea Mr. Lewis was with fousht in the battle of G v was _honorably di \ugt , 186, 0t t vear, he Wal also of Pou keepsie. The couple had three da ters—Lillian M. Lex at pre chief clerk of the women's bureau of the Department of Labor, who su the late Annie Le : Lewis Hulse 8f this 1 on In Decem ried Ameii u city. Shortly after the civil war ended Mr. Lewis came to Washington to_fill an appointment in the Treasury De- partment. He worked there continu- ously for fifty-four years. until his retirement in August, 192 Mr. Lewis was a member of the B. B. French Lodge, F. A. A. M., and of Burnside Post, G. A. R. unde whose auspices funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Interment will be private. —_— KEPNER APPEAL FOR FULL INQUIRY TO CLEAR HIS NAME 4 from First Page.) (Contin Urner, and perhaps also to Judge Peter, and that he recognized the position in which Mr. Kepner has been placed in the community. Prosecutor Demands Letter, While the newspaper men were still In Mr. Weinberg's office, State's At- torney Anders came in. He greeted Mr. Weinberg casually, and after the latter had finished his business with {the reporters gathered there, request- ed them a few minutes longer. “Mr. to remain Weinberg.” the state’s attor- ney began, “I have come to demand that you return without delay the letter Mr. Kepner borrowed from the Dr. Gaehr. It is Mr. ‘Gaehr’ sonal - propefty. It was written m by Mr. Kepner's wife, and he loaned it to the husband only on the ndition that it be returned. Dr. aehr authorized me to say that he will solemnly promise to produce it in court upon notice from you." Ref s to Return Letter. “I shall not return the letter,” re- torted Mr. Weinberg, with some show of anger. “What manner of Chris- tian g leman is this, who demands a letter that might—remember T say suppose it_might—be the only means of saving Mr. Kepner's life.” “Then 1 shall obtain a court order n to Dr Gaehr through | THE _EVENING REALISTIC MIMIC : BATTLE AT MEADE Guests From Washington See Citizen Soldiers Display Results of Training. From a Staff Correspondent. o CAMP MEAD, July 17.—Warlike scenes, with strikingly realistic settings, were enacted here today by members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and the Citizens' Military Training Corps before a delegation of the District of Columbia Chapter of the Military Order of the World War, visiting the camp to witness the training activities. With ‘rifle fire and shells bursting all around, companies of the “red,” vhite” and “blue” soldler civilians | staged a mimic battle, marked Wllh’ {intenuity. These groups, shouting and | flring as they ran, charged and coun- | ter-charged across the battle area. Large guns, camouflaged under {clumps of bushes and trees, also fired lintermittently. Tanks in Action. Tanks, large and small, made their Wway up and down the hills and ra- vines In attack and defense. s The members of the Distrlct Chap- ! ter, headed by Capt. Ennalls Wager- man, its commander, arrived here about 10 o'clock this morning and made a complete tour of the camp. This courtesy was shown them by Gen. B. H. Fiske, in charge of the mp. The which numbered nty-si inspeeted the rifle range the civilian military training _corps were firing at 200 ;’é\l‘d& .‘\u).'l’ the World War Vete. ans were shown the artillery range, where s‘_lmut . models of the famous French 75s werc in action rorhe clvitian soldiers and the Yale serve officers’ unit were firing the .600 yards, Nl efore noon today {had described to jarea of the Reserv | Corps, where the linfantr; maneuvers re taught. Capt T. M. Chamblinn, U o guided the visitors Guests at Luncheon. Luncheon was served at the officers’ mess hall, with music by a recruit band. . Afterward the \Wash- |Ington visitors ‘were taken to the place {where the mimic battle was held | Those comprising the Washington |delegation are: Capt. Ennalls Wag- Baman, .K'alll William L. Symons, {Lieut. Frank Chrieicison, Maj. Gen John L. Clem, Maj. William_ L. Con- nor, Capt. A. H. Dondor Capt. Al- 13’7'l| fl Fry, Capt. Carl Hen 5. Lieut Cok Fred .. Huidekoper, Maj. R. W Kingman, Capt. Thon Kirby, Capt. A. 5. Lanier, Maj. O. C. Luxford, Maj Frank Moorman, Lieut, L. C. Ray Commander J. A. Sehofleld, Col. E. G seibert, Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan, C apt. lE B. V. Stuart, Capt, Godfrey AL S, Tait,’ Capt. Unmacht, Capt. B. L. Vipond, Capt. William U { Watson, Maj. Oscar D. Weiks, Lieut Corn 1. Weil and Maj. W. Parrott. ‘WOMAN’S DEATH LAID TO NATURAL CAUSES Husband of Mrs. Betty Hurdle Sub- stantiated by Autopsy Perform- ed by Coroner. wlhier the delegation them the Infantry Officers’ Training dvanced stages of { noon in Mrs. Betty Hurdle died syddenly af her resldence, 1008 7th street, early today. George Hurdle, her husband, was ‘detained by police at the second precinct at the request of Coroner .. Ramsay Nevitt until an_ autopsy performed at the morgue today by Deputy Coroner Herbert E. Martyn, {showed that Mrs. Hurdle died from natural causes Mrs. Hurdle was thirty |of age. Her husband. who is fifty- jfive vears old, told police that he noticed her in evident pain early to day and that he immediately ma €aged her chest in an effort to resus- citate her. His wife died in his arms he said He calied William Donnelly of 414 6th street, a friend. to his home and Donnelly notified the police. ght years perfect record by August 1 when another STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, .JULY 17, France Has Spent 3 Billion On Physical Reconstruction Former Secretary of the Treasury and candidate for Presidency, en- tering District Supreme Court building t Postmaster Mooney today buy, out of his own pocket, mail boxes | for the homes of 411 persons who have |, Post Office Department here, thereby | venting the District from being 100 [ 17 per cent in the matter of home mail boxes. Appealing to the city to place the few boxes at front doors yet so unadorned, in order that Washington may have a count will be made, Postmaster Mooney said that he believed the city already has a record offered to |time Letter day by {up persona failed to comply with the regulations of [ who hav estion « th | the post office for their mai to testify in sensationn] caxe. Mooney Offers to Buy Mail Box| For Any Home Not So Equipped; overing the slot carriers were instructed to- Postmaster Mooney to take ¥ with the 411 residents not put up mail boxes, the loing 0 before August 1 meantime, they must call at NEW SENATOR RUSHES HIS HAYING TO PRE- « ontinued from First Page.) Already one of the postal station sup- erintendents, it was revealed at a meet- ing with the postmaster today, bas pur- chased a dozen ten-cent mail boxes for homes in his territory. The postmaster said he would gladly do Tikewise, if occasion demarnded, but declared he felt it would perhaps not become necessary, as he was certain every resident in the District was nxious to do all he could to make the ational Capital 100 per cent in every way When it is considered that letter carriers in the District make 102,000 stops @ day, and that only 411 home letter boxes are missing in the whole | wi city, it may be realized, Postmaster |he Mooney sald, how well the residents|gu here are complying with the postal | regulation in question. { Residents of Brookland and Takoma Park are 100 per cent in the posses- gion of home mail boxes. superin- tendents of branch post offices locat- ed in those communities reported. Every home in both sections has its mail box or door slot. m eral language #tood in the distance as the new senator tossed away his w st fe r mo ess sai so that he can be under- effete east. The long- phone hummed and sizzed ith impunity and substituted instead Says Wife Understood. “I tell you ‘there Is one person i this he continued. hundred farm in Kimball iy Mr; ate- that can understand “Yes. There are sev- thousand, but on the Johnson. My father- was born In Maine and ther was born in Kentucky. I she’s an American, all right. m, She can't understand a Word of the Swedish | | posed to right, and ever since.” Mr. Johnson, and a unique figure in American po- litical 1ife. ment of hi: language, but -when I pro- he ‘understood me she has understood her a Swedish immigrant will make a formal state- policies at a later date. didn’t want to get too d he 1923. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, July 17.—The task of phy- sical reconstruction in France is half done. Fully three bilifons of dollars have been spent in rebuilding homes, factories, highways and_ railroads. Apd _the French government- esti- miates® that approximately:three to four billlon dollars more are needed to finish the job. 4 Where does all this money come | from? It is indecd a pertinent ques- | tion and fwhen you grasp its true sig- nificance you know why the French {are in the Ruhr and wiry all the rest {of the world calls the French policy one of stubbornness, vet, why the people here are practically unanimous }in upholding Premier Poincare’s for- eign policies. Buy Government Bonds. The French aré thrifty people and lalways save something.d{rem . their {earnings. They have the habit of ibuying government bonds With their savings. This grew up generations {ago for the French have always been { money lenders and investors. Before {the war the Russian government | floated its loans here as did the 1 Turke, and the railroads of Italy and | southeastern Europe were bullt largely with French capital. So when the French government needed money to advance to people who wanted to rebuild their homes jin the devastated regions what was a more natural thing than to float a bond issue? The total amount of reparations bonds issued since the war approximates six billion dollars, of which half has been used for war pensions and half to compensate those whose homes and factories were de- stroyed and to rebuild the raflways. Six Billions in Bondw. Fancy a liberty loan of six billion dollars in America, and tell all those who pupshased -the laan, from people { of means'down to shopgirls, peasants, that, theré's.nio change of repaying to them the original vaiue of the bonds.< The “Tragedy of the Bootleggers’ Mule,” a stirring drama in three parts, was ended today. Fully 500 persons over at 50 Florida ave- nue witnessed the final chapter. And the big black mule, which had lost its mate in the changing for- tunes of these prohibition day was hitched to its old famliliar double wagen, where two mules should have been, and was “knock- down” by the auctioneer's ham- mer to the highest bidder. 1t was a tragic, yet a serio-com- ic sight to see. There, among four- teen automoblles, evidence of the more advanced arts of bootlegging science, stood the lone mule, with- out a partner relic of the more ancient, if not more honorable mode of transportation, but a vie- tim. nevertheless, in the great dry campalgn, Which seizes bootles- * apparatus without fear or | vely blac mule wagged ears: back and wrth s the auctioneer’s voice ed for higher bids. The lon ared quadruped gazed longin Iy and with forsaken mein at the empty space on the other side of the wagon tongue. It's mate had been th ut a few short mont} when officers of the law them. lumbering into with a load of “hootch.” were innocent mules, but they were traveling in the wrong company. It had been intended to sell both black mules at the auction toda but either from a broken heart at the lgnomy of capture and impri onment or from was 1 it Bidding 1 | | caught town | They at | devastated | billions_for pensions Rebuilding of . .-Homes, Railroads and Factories Reaches Half-Way Point. People Have Faith in Government. What would happen to any adminis- tration which permitted such a thing to happen? It would be turned out in the United States almost as quickly as it would be overturned here. The French who hold reconstruction bonds know their government can't ultimately redeem these bonds unle Germany pays. Yet they are not wor ried, because it may be a long, tedious process; nor are they inclined to rush into ncellation of debts mor re- duction of reparations accounts just because the present outlook is bad. The Frenchman doesn’'t understand the art of writing off debts as uncol- lectable. He may have to wait a cen- tury for payment, but he waits just the same, and a debt. once on his books, does not come off. His unit of thought iIs not a year—but a genera- tion. ¢ Confident in Government. So the French investor, feeling the utmost confid ce in the governmen expects it to pay interest regularly and to refund the present bonds with others when they mature, and thus keep the thing going until Germany pays. The best evidence of the French-; man’s confldence in the government's ability to collect from Germany or to finance its own indebtedness is the fact that since the bond issues were floated the market price thereof re- mains virtually the same as when they were first sold to the public, The French are not yet throush. They must raise another three bil- lion doliars to finish work in the regions and still They will keep on floating bond issues. Any one who supposes there is chaos in France's internal credit situation Is much mistaken. The people are as sure that their government is solvent and will redeem the bonds as Amer- icans are that the libertys will bhe redeemed when something like twen- ty-three billions of war debt _still hangs over the Treasury at Was ington. ‘And while foreigners may be skep- tical of Germany’s paying power, the Frenchman entertains no_such doubts, but is confident that Germany can pay and will ultimately to do so. Mule, Bootlegger’s Vehicle, Hero of Dry Act Tragedy Here eating “dry” food at the hands of prohibition agents, the old partner some days ago laid down and went the way of all good mule The auctioneer's voice on and on. “Sold,” he cried “to F. C. Larmen.” The price was $65. Whether Larman again sold the lone mule with double harness, or turned it over to a capable colored hostler, officials in charge of the sale would not reveal, but the last sight of the show grounds, whe the final act of the three-part drama, of capture, death and sale, R the lumbering mule, piloted v a capable colored hostier, am bling off with the double wagon built for two. There was a prize little old wreck of an automobile there, too, this morning, of a well known make, which brought the record low price of $7. It looked like It had been through the bootleg war. It had. One tire was missing, and the others were flat Another small car of well known make has been remodeled to fit cases of moonshine liquor in the Just the thing, for my % the enthusiastic buyer. who ed the machine for and I are going on a camping trip soon, and I can put my tent where the bootlegger car- ried his booze.” The be barked rear, said ir sold was a large roadster, which brought $345. The total sales were $1,377, and the sale was conducted by C. G. Sloan & Co, for the United States mar- shal. . Deputy Marshal E. J. Wheeler and Charles Williams, prohibition agent and custodian of liquors, were on the ground for the government. other | be compelled | i imecessity of proving CALIFCRNIA BANS ALLLW.W.ACTIVITY Judge Issues Injunction Pro- viding Jail, Without Jury Trial, for “Contempt.” By the Associated Press, SACRAMENTO, = Calif. California’s war against the and its activities pa to stage today, following the by Superlor Judge Charles O. Busic} of Sacramento county of a sweeping temporary injunction prohibiting vi tually all activities of the organiz tion and affillated bodies in this Hearing on making the injun permanent was set for July Under the terms of the writ membership in the I W. W. ated bodies wiil be construed as tempt of court, punishable b: months' imprisonment without necessity of jury trial The injunction will every county in the st superior court will have Jul I W, W, be va te and Jurisdicti Courts Clogged With 1. W. W.x. The action was brou 1 the na of the state by District Attorney J Henderson acramento cour with the of Atltorney G eral U. after the crimir courts in this county, s in other counties, had be ed with & multiplicity of under the crim Although this pre membership in organiza cating violent overthrow ernment, destruction of pi other forms unlawful, it is.x both to prove > that the n covered tute. v means of the injunction Henderson hopes to h declared once and fo organization. obviating it before Webb, ship in an terms and to organ- by the of the District ve the 1 an 1. W. W, untawful in each individual the criminal syndicalism Flock to California. Scores of 1. W. W.'s tenced to prison und fornia, but trials have been prolonge and jury disagreements ha many Members of the I. W. W flocking to the state in the past months, District Attorney Henders a for the purpose of terroriz the lumber, agricultural, min oil industries The temporary injunctions rected against officials and m of afllated organizations, ir to the I W. W. If. the othe ing the Agricultural Workers’ trial Union, No. 400; the Workers' Union, 120; Agric Workers' Union, 110; Transport Industrial Union Railroad Workers' Ur Workers' Industrial General Construction Wor trial Unfon, No. 310, an Workers' Industrial 1 have ng & and mt I L From Yesterdas's 5:30 Edition of T NAVAL COMMIITEE TOTOURU. S, YARDS B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 16 —Bound on fcur-month crufse to Atlantic Zone and Pacific seaports, the House naval ar mittee, with the families iled from the Br today on the transpo: The trip was members of the com come acquainted with the working of the Navy and famfiliari selves With strategic defense, for which makes appropriations. Lieut. Wesley M. Hague, who recently punched tl nose of a Boston pastor bec t kissed 3 to Canal members of ns cor d gue oklyn navy y Chaumont en =0 mewer mittee might be opriati undert < point the goverr ause his wife, was a indigestion latter |M’ADOO EXPLAINS onal property,” the state's a said, and arese to depart. Well, the newspaper men took pho- tographs of this letter,” the defense One Lacking in Brightwood. There is but one home without a mail box in Brightwood, it was re- Department of Agriculture officials here to consider changes suggzested by the Liverpool Cotton Association in | the officfal cotton standards of ti 9 per deep into things jEen p ngs at the present time. However, he declares he is against the world court, the league of nation and foreign entanglements generally as with him, I cruise down to the Panama senger. Mrs. Hague v “The Chaumont w the Atlantic coast PALMIST’S BOY AND SEER’S GIRL “If they United States recently adopted by the leading cotton exchanges of the world as universal standards for trading in cotton of American growth. Use of the United State is mot to begin until August, 1924 The Department of Agriculture has amended its regulations for enforc ment of the new Fuimer cotton standards law, which goes into ef- fect August 1 next. so that American exporters may define the United ates standards in terms of their equivalents in Liverpool and other recognized foreign standards. The new standards law requires that changes in standards must be agreed upon a year in advance of the | time they go into effect. Representa- tives of ‘American commercial cotton interests are meeting with the for- elgn representatives, C. R. Taylor and C. Finlay of Liverpool and F. A. Tomlinson, 'R. Brooks and H. Robin- son-of Manchester. changes desired relate cipally to color. . PACT TUiBeE, SIGNED o JULY 25 ASSURES NEAR EAST ACCORD (Continued from First Page.) standards prin- lleve. that “American: ter concessions:alre; big privilegts;, Fear with the Ches- y acquired, Vi it Turkey. =l . . Influence, France and England apparently fear that in the future Turkey will turn to America for flnancial help instead | of 1o them. That is the lesson they reap from Ismet Pasha's support of the “American viewpoint on conces- slons. The gist of the general agreement is that the treaty will not confirm the Turkish petroleum company’s conces- sions and the allies drop their request for“preferential rights to Turkish con. cessiens in the future, particularly the contpact privileges claimed by the Brit- ish - Vickers-Armstrong Company and the French Generai Railroad Exploita- tion. Company. The Turks, however, re- served the right to have these cCom- panies participate in bldding for con- tracts in case Turkey needs foreign cap- ital or industrial hélp in the next five years. Under the straits eoncession the allies agreed, pending the establishment of a permanent regime, not to insist upon keeping two warships each in the straits. ‘Turkey agreed to maintain free access to the Black sea and to invite each of the t powers to station-one war- ship in_the Dardanelles. 5 e United States is not included in the’ straits agreement, but it is pre- sumed that American warships will be free-to traverse the straits up to the 1tmit the United States itself sets. N..Y. YACHTSMAN DIES. A.'G. Hanan Succumbs Suddenly.to Heart Trouble. NEW YORK, July 17.—Addison G. Hapan, vice president of the Hanan and_‘Son Shoe Company and one of the most widely known yachtsmen in the country, died suddenly yester- day at his country home 'in Port Chester, after shufi.u.ml;. He was forty-seven years. o. fos I clearly, I si Gite me unti he may Gaehr, amine not it is bo of the missive, as printed in the news papers that Dr. Gaehr cannot remem. ber having read in the original cop: | dress lawyer returncd. promise to give me a print, and it turns out hali think the matter over. tonight. Tell Dr. Gaehr have my answer then this assurance, State’ s Attor- With ney Anders left, but told the new: paper would he most certainly tone unturned to the letter given back to Dr. so that the latter might ex- it and determine whether or a fide. There are parts men that leave no have especially -that referring to Miss El- eanor Houck as “a thorn in the flesh.” Expect Call for Jury. Announcement of the convening of a special sessfon of the grand jury is expected late today or early to- morrow. No foreword, of course, could be obtained from the court, but this s the first day ‘the: judges have had an opportunity to discuss it, and the fact that Judge Peter was summoned from Roekville was acoepted as meaning that the tribu- nal intends .to push the.case, with- out further delay from now on—a stand that all Frederick will ap- plaud, as no case in the-memory of the oldest resident has 80 .roused this community as the .mysterious murder of Mrs. Kepner, the daughter of an old .and wealthy Maryland family. DISTRICT MEN FINED. Charged With Trying to Enter Baltimore Home. Special Dispatch to The Star. 3 BALTIMORE, Md., July 17.—Arthur J. Oogen, twenty-six, giving his ad- as 1218 C street northwest, Washington, was fined $25:and costs in the northwestern police station to- day on a charge of disordéely con- duct, following his arrest at Laurel by state police. 7 2 Oogen, . with Edward~ Quigley, twenty-three, giving the same ad- dress,” was arrestéd on - request of the Baltimore police following an allegod attempt to force his way into” the home of Dr. Robert Sher, 1708 West North avenue, yesterday afternoon. The case against Quigley was dispissed by Magistrate Rantt, Another charge of - driving’a car without Maryland tags is -pending and will be heard in.tr@fig. court later. Sy ——— J. LISTER HILL CHOSEN REPRESENTATIVE BY 1,500 Elected in Alabima to Take Vacated by Death of John B. Tyson. By the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, ALA. July 3. Lister Hill of Montgomery yester- day was elected to succeed the late John B. Tyson as representative from the second Alabama district. . _Hill's majority, according to ins Gomplete newspaper returns, will ap- proximate 1,500. Seat "All is not lost that is delayed. — The. giver make: Y he gift precious.]expected, however, 1t Was said, >~ WORK WITH MORSE (Continued from First Page.) French manufacturers needing coal on which the law firm was to get a eimilar commission. If the contracts had Leen carried out a total of §1 1000,000 was to be recelved by the Morses, he said, but the embargo on jcoal put a stop to the transportation, i In response to an inquiry by Mr. {Lambert the witness said he never knew Morse or any of his sons before his retirement from the Treasury. “I did not even know him by sight,” an- swered the witness, Mr. McAdoo sald he sought arbitration with the Fleet Corporation over the differences in the accounts, but that it was rejected. Note Still Unpatd. United States Attorney Gordon, on crogs-examination, tried to bring out that McAdoo had received more than $50,000 as a fee from the Morse in- terests, but the witness explained that a similar arrangement for legal services had been effected with the Groton Iron works, but that all the law firm recevied was a note for $50,000, which is still unpaid. Turning to the occasion when the witness appeared before the fleet sor- poration in August, 1919, Maj. Gordon asked if Mr. McAdoo had not apolo- gized for his appearance as counsel for the Virginia Company. The wit- ness indignantly denied that he had apologized and declared there was no reason for any apology, or excuse. The prosecutor inquired in’detail into the negotiations regarding the coal contracts in an effort to slow that the persons figuring in those arrange- ments -had_previous relations -with Secretary McAdoo when the latter was in the cabinet. The , witness knew some of the names -mentloned, but denied any previous relations with them. He did not know whether the persons men- tioned also drew commissions on the coal contracts. United States Attorney Gordon was in the midst of his cross-examination when the recess hour arrived.. When Mr. McAdoo left the stand at recess he shook hands with Assistant Attorney General Turner, who had known him for many years. They held a short conversation. The Morses and their counsel took part in an impromptu reception to thej witness. WORKER ELECTROCUTED. Harry ' Campbell, -eolored, of 745 4th street northwest, was electrocuted when he fell upon the third rail of the Washington Railway and Electric track undergoing repair at H street, betwen 3rd and 4th streets northwest today. Campbell, who was forty-four years old, was employed .as.a . laborer- on the repair work. - Hi foot was'on the edge of a shavel when it skipped, causing. him to fall on the third rall. His body was taken to the morgue. | COAL RATE “IMPOSSIBLE.” EDMONTON, - Alta., - July 17.—A freight rate of $6.50 a ton for Alberta coal shipped to Ontario, which it was declared would be necessary for that gradé of coal to compete with anthra- cite mined in the United: States, was declared “impossible” after a confer- ence attended by representatives of “| ported, and that is a new home, upon | which a box is expected to be hlu('mll shortly. In the territory served by | the Park road section but four boxes | are missing. erritory served by the Connecticut averiue station lacks sev- teen boxes. en'l'he superintendent of the U 5|r»~o(| station reported an even dozen boxes | missing in his territory. Four boxes | are lacking in Georgetown. Chevy Chase lacks two mail boxes, but both homes 80 unequipped are new, and it is expected that boxes will be put into position. The central station re- ported four boxes lacking. Pwo-hundred and twenty boxes are lacking in the territory served by the main city post office.” The Pennsy Vania avenue station, located in the Fost Office Department building, re- ported 139 home mail boxes still Jacking in the territory served by it, mostly in the southwest section of the city. Of this total number lack- ing, 122 homes without boxes are on the routes of but four carriers. Balks at Door Box. One owner of a palatial home in the northwest has steadtastly retused | to put up & box, and calls £or all his | mail at the post office. A novel combination of stylish door knocker and home letter box is placed at one residence in Hesketh street, Chevy Chase, it was revealed today. When the carrier lifts the knocker, he opens the mall slot, and after he has put the mail in the box, he drops the knocker, which informs the bu about t he Senators Brookhart, other radlcals in the Senate. We'l it wants time to consult with La Follette and Policies Undetermined. As to Russia, he said: 1 forget Russia. I don’t think I want to g0 on record on Russia now. “Prohibition? that. “Soldiers’ bonus? and profits. “Supreme Court? five-to-four what that means. “Tarift? don’t know how just yet. We'll have to Well, I'm for that should be raised by excess Well, I'm against decisions. ' Yoy know We'll have to revise it. I (Copsright, 1923)) RADIO USED TO HEAD-OFF see | | Dora Stanley's mother is a phren- ologist who reads the future by bumps on the head, but her magic art falled to tell her that her fifteen- ear-old daughter was falling in love {with nineteen-year-old "John Miller, the son of Mary Miller, a gypsy | palmist across the street from Dora’s {home, 1142 Tth street northwest. ceived. Upon receipt of word yester- day from Pocomoke City, Md, that four men had stolen a launch and headed down the river-foward Chesa- FOUR ESCAPED CONVICTS | peake bay. local officials sent descrip- tentiar believe, in a stolen motor launch. Men Thought to Be in Stolen Boat in Chesapeake Bay. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, P: dio was used today capture four of the six conviets who ! escaped from the Eastern state peni- Saturday and who, the police | in an effort to are bound for the open sea No trace household of his visit, at the samesof the two other men has been re- e_hundred robed figures, including fe flnsm_ma-»u.m . July {7 —Ra-! tions of the fugitives and of the stolen craft to naval authorities with the request that all vessels‘in the bay and lalong_the Atlantic coast be notified. | They “also asked the Norfolk mnavy !yard Yo send out cutters in an effort | to intércept the men. WEEKS BACK AT DESK. Secretary Weeks resumed his offi- | cial duties ‘at.the War Department today after a, two-week vacation at his summer hofne at Lancaster, N. H. o¥ty wemsn, joined (K& Gelebmition at B(ockton; Calif, desplite a Hat OUTWIT MAGIC AND DISAPPEAR| Mrs. Miller also failed to read the secret of this love affair in her son's palm, The magic Dora and John are both missing. They left Sunday morning. The Washington police department is not leaving anything to the spirits, but is taking matters in its own hands to locate them BALTIMORE MAN ACCUSED OF BIGAMY M. K. Bostic Formerly in Movie Business, Said to Have Wife Here and in Baltimore. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md,, July 17.—Accused of bigamy, with a wife and family in Washington and a wife In Baltimore, Martin K. Bostic, forty-seven, formerly assistant to the president of the West- ern Maryland Raflway Company, is in $1,500 bail for hearing next Monday on a bigamy charge. Each of the two alleged wives de- clared ignorance of the existence of the other. The Washington wife is Mrs. Ger- | trude T. Becker Bostio, street northwest. The marriage was contracted February 24, 1923, in a Catholio church of Washirgton, with the Rev. Ambrose Bevan officlating. Bostic has a wife ving in a sec- ond floor flat of the Avon apart- ments, 6 East Reed cireet, Baltimore, an expensive establishment in an ex- clusivo residential district. She is Mrs. Elizabeth Y. Bembry Bostic, whom he married November 16, 1920, at the Walbrook, Rev. Berkley Grif- fith officiating. Bostic, who was con- nected with a chain 'of moving pic- ture -theaters in Washington beyore coming to Baltimore, refused to make a statement or answer any questions. Friends of the Mrs. 1135 10th Bostick who lives here declared today that she had | not lived with her husband for a num- ber of years, seeing him only on in- frequent occasions, when he came from Baltimore to visit his children, She first learned of the charges of bigamy. against him when Baltimore detectives came to her home several days ago secking her husband, MANILA CABINET ‘RESIGNS IN BODY By the Assaciated Press MANILA, July 17.—The climax in the poltical war between Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood and Filipino officials came today when the cabinet and counoll of state tendered their resig- nations in @ body. The governor gen- eral ao,cmud’he,ma : 5 | t sound. St npton Road:, canal and up to I'uge ps will be made at b Norfolk, Port Au Prince, Cristo Panama City, Corin icarag San Diego, Calif., and San Francis Among those on board were re resentatives George P. Darrow Pennsy'vania, Herbert J Florida and James O'Connor isiana. Maj. Gen. W. C. Nev Marine Corps, also sailed on the port. : Rear Admiral Plunkett, comman- ant of the Brooklyn navy yard, ished the party an official godspecd, tra: From Yesterday's 5:30 Edition of The St GUN TOTERS GIVEN YEAR FOR MEDITATION Two to Think It Over in Prison, Two Others Demand Trial by Jury. inning in before Jus Gun toters had an Police Court yesterday John P. McMahon. Nathanial Jackson, colored, charged with carrying a deadly weapon—a large revolver—was sentenced to serve one year in jail, and on a charge of shooting RobeTt Taylor, his neigh- bor, he was held for the action of the grand jury. James English, colored, possession of a heavy and a blackjack. w sentence in jafl. Stephen Callan, colored, with carrying_a_ concealed and_assaulting Policeman E. L. Tayl it being charged that Gallan had shot-up an alley in Southwest Wash- ington Sunday. He demanded_trial by a jury and was released on $2,500 bond. Helen Ross, colored, said to have in her possession a large automatic gun when arrested, had her case con- tinued for further hearing. She said that she had found the gun in Mount Vernon place. Charles Geisling, a white man, charged with assaulting Pollceman Tolson of the ninth precinct, on pro- bation on a charge of carrying con- cealed weapons, had his probation revoked and was fined $25 for the assault. —_— From Yesterday's 5:30 Edition of The Star. STOLE PAPERS; FINED $25 Henry Lewis Rollins, a young white man, who says that he makes his home at 211 7th street northwest, crarged with stealing a bundle of Sunday papers yesterday at the Cen- ter Market, was convicted in the Police Court yesterday and fined $25, and in_default to'serve fifteen days in jail. The police have had numerous Ccomplaints from newspaper route agents found in Army revolver s given a year's charged weapon | reporting papers being stolen. plirss iy el it In 1860 there were 5,000.000 buf- falo in America and in 1903 there were only 1,753. Now there are more than 10,0000t thesa animals,