Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and somewhat war tomorrow fair; gentle southwest winds, twenty-four hours today: Highest, 83, at 3 da, 1l report on’ page 15. Temperature for ended at owest, 61, at 5:15 a. ‘mer tonight; south and 2 pm. p.m. yester- m. today. Closing N. Y. Sto:lu md Bondl, Page 24 Mo ZigE), Eemite Entered as second-class matter shington, D C. Che WASHINGTON, ¢ T WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION POINCARE WILL REJECT BRITISH France’s Reply to Reaffirm Ruhr Course. ENTENTE HELD i NEAR DEF UI\CTIFIrst Attempt of E)ommumstsl Clu‘zon Suggestions Regarded as Shift of Responsibility Py tie Associated Press. PARIS, August 14—Premier Poin- care, who will return to Paris to- night, has informed his collaborators #i the forelgn offite. that he intends n the most courteous manner possi- to reply, point by polnt, to the of Lord Curzon, British secre- for foreign affalrs, on the repa- ration question. Although the reply will be courteous, it is asserted in foreign office circles that it will be u-stout reaflirmation of the French Vie note \tary to point And a flat rejection of the | h suggestions Reply to Be will possible. probably the week, Although it is no longer a ed in official quarters here that the en- tente may survive the present farence, the situation is taken with perfect calm i as well as by the The French have, sidered the entent ent Soon. be sent soon as before the end of press and public. in fact, long con- s virtually defunct, S0 far as concerns co-operation between England and France on the applic: tion of the terms of the treaty Versailles. Lord Curzon's note is taken merely as a public recognition of that fact Ly the British government, with the aim of throwing the responsibility for the rupture upon France Will Avoid Rupture. Premier Poincare. will carefully om £ht be taken as a denunciation the entente, leaving the initiative the final rupture to the British gov- ernment 1f Prime Minister Baldwin decid to call an international conference to 1ix Germany's capacity to bay, that action will be taken by the KFrench, it is forecast, as an unfriendly which will end the cordial that have existed for nearly twenty years. France will then simply recail the fact that after all she is the prin- anything cipal creditor of the Germans and that | care must be taken thather rights as such are not mlrmgcd upon. FIND EIGHT BODIES _ AFTERUTARFLOOD Property Damage of $1,000, 000 Estimated—Wire and RailsLines Crippled. B> the Associated Press. ALT LAKE CITY, ~—Eight bodies of Killed Growned as a result of a series of cloud- bursts in the vicinity of Salt Lake .and Ogden, carly last evening had been recovered up to 11 o'clock this morn- ing. Three persons are missing and | property damage is expected to tota upward of $1,000,000. Four persons are known to be dead st Farmington, Utah, Just north of Salt Lake City; reported dead at Willard, Utah, and five Boy Scouts are reported drowned in a canyon east of Farmington. The cloudburst, preceded by a severe clectrical storm, tore down the tel graph poles, and communication is crip- pled. v persons August 14 Flood Came Suddenly. Flood waters from the Wasatch mountalns rampaging through farm settlements in northeastern Utah last night in the wake of a series of cloud- a . bursts, caused property damage to farm lands, amounting to several hun- dred thousand dollars, Coming with startling suddenness and intensity, the cloudbursts, coup- led with severe electric storms, sent great walls of water down low ditches and streams, sweeping through com- munities in Box Elder and Weber counties and leaving behind inun- dated farm lands. e 500 Persons Marooned. Today the flood had receded at most yoints almost as suddenly as it arose. Water-covered farm sectlons, which last night were swept debris and wreckage, today were nearly dry with rivers and streams in almost normal flow. Five hundred persons were stranded for several hours at Lagoon, a fesort ©n the oiitskirts of Farmington, when fransportation means were paralyzed, put a train of the Oregon Short Line wrrived in Salt Lake after midnight carrying more than 200, and another train took the others te Ogden. WOMAN'S EODY RECOVERED. Beveral Autos and Passengers Said to Have Been Lost. OGDEN, Utah, August 14.—The body ©of Mrs. John Ward of Willard wa found by searchers in the cloudburst debris there this morning, according to formation received here. There are ‘ree or four automobiles stalled on rht highway near Willard, and farm- ers clalm to have seen occupants of some cars carried away by flood waters. governmental circles, | of | it is understood, ! that | Al act| relations | or | City | two men and a woman are | upon SISLANNROTS N GERMAN I BERLINTIEARENDS ! to Get Control of Capi- i tal Fails. 1 | the Associated Press, | BERLIN. August 14.—The general strike in Berlin was called off by the | committee this morning, all the trans- | portation lines reopening. The industrial situation in Berlin showed Improvement and there were reports of betterment in conditions from other parts of Germany, al- |though disorders were still in progre Jin many districts | The street | | | | underground railways were running and traffic on the state railways was almost normal Improvement noticed | among the pri |11snments, operations. i The police | hold demon of Berlin During the night came rumors that | | twe: persons had been killed in and fifteen In Zeitz, Saxony Rioting was also said to be in prog- | ress in Neisse, Silesi | cars and was also « industrial estab- | 1 works resuming ( prevented attempis to | rations in various parts Hamburg Near Martial Law. The city of Hamdurg, by proclama- n of the senate, is virtually under result of the serlous | day between strik- { jt {martial Jaw as clash there yvest s and the police So far the disturbances in Berlin | Ihave been of a minor nature and the | police have been called into service |only to stop plundering or prevent} | communist agitators from persuad- ing loyal workers to leave their| Iplaces of employment However, | | ther noticeable a growing dissat- isfaction with food prices and the shortage of staples. The situation at Stettin has become worse. The dock employes went on {strike and numbers of shops were | plundered, especially butchers and| balkers. e i Strikes on Farms. | | The communists have become [active among the farm laborers.! trikes have broken out on more than | ‘flf[_\' tates in the Soldin district, Brandenburg province, partial } strikes reported from Genthin, Geaethen Quedlinburg, Prussian I saxony, Wanzleben and Bernburg and dt, Duchy of Anhalt The communists’ eral strike at Leipzi rhe Hamburg situation is quieter. | The street cars and elevated railways | | are running { Order has been restored at Luebeck, | where the Wuas 4 communist erup- tion yesterday, and work has been re- {sumed in all the establishments there. { The strike of the Hamburg and Bremen pilots, which has been tying| uxn North sea traffic at these ports, has muleu SIXTEEN KILLED IN RIOTS. very and are and ‘:luln«n. gen- Mob at Aix La Chapelle Tries tui Storm Police Station. By the Assoclated Press ! AIX LA CHAPE August 14— | Twelve persons were killed and more | | than eighty were wounded here last night, when crowds attempted to storm the police headquarters and rescue prisoners taken during the day, when the police broke up food-shortage demonstration. | Al the victims were rman {eivilians. in yesterday's demonstra- tion four Germans were killed and forty wounded. The crowd was composed for the most part of idle workmen. It laid regular siege to the headquarters and refused to heed the police warnings to disperse. After throwing hand grenades into the crowd and firing several volleys {the security police emerged and | charged the mob with sabers and re- | volvers. | Mounted_police now are patrolling the cit: The Belglan troops did not interfere in the affair. MEXICAN PACT NEAR STAGE FOR SIGNING | U. S. Representatives Say Approval Only Awaits Translation Into English and Spanish. By the Associated Press. i MEXICO CITY, August 14—Only lthe exacting task of rendering into | English and Spanish the findings of the recognition conference is delay- ing the final meeting of the commis- sloners, when the formal minutes will be signed and approval given to the two claims conventions. Charles B. Warren and John Barton Payne, United States representatives, | made this announcement last night | after holding a final conference with Secretary de la Huerta of the treas- ury. f They also conferred with Augustin Le Gorreta, director of the Banco Naclonal de’ Mexico, who is conduct- ing negotlations with American and European bankers relative to the es- tablishment of a Mexican central bank of issue. BUY 100,000 AUTO TAGS. D. C. Commissioners Place Order for 1924. The District Commissioners today purchased 100,000 automobile tags for 1924. The contract was given the Na- tional Colortype Company. An order also was placed for 2,500 motor cychel 8. u'!‘hc 1924 tags will consist of white numerals on a black fleld. * | | { | ‘; i a | | the |is viewed as a distinct lo; NOTE FLATLY; RUHR FIGHT TO CONTINUE Dr. Stresemann Gives Views on Resistance. EVACUATION NOT IN HIS DEMANDS Asks for Control and Release of Every Prisoner. B the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 14—Dr. Gustav Stresemann, the new German chancel- lor, outlined in a statement today | the conditions under which Germany is ready to abandon the passive re- sistance in the Rubr. The conditions are the complete restoration to Ger- many of ler right to control over the Ruhr, re-establishment of the condi tions in the Rhineland vouchsaf her under the Ver: trea Hberation of e rmun zen who has been outraged, or imprisoned. The statement cou his inu Spee reich this afternoon. Dr. mann made no mention of evacua of the occupied areas, merely str fng the conditions under which many is prepared to enter upon ¥ fons for the compicte rest of her jurisdiction and the fre »f her Citizens there. The new chancellor was cordially greeted by the mafority of the house the only jarring note in hi heing in the form of boisterous heck- ling by the communists. Diplomntx See Solution, Diplomatic circies here believe the advent of Chancellor Stresemann's soclalistic _cablnet presages y effort to find a solution to the Ruhr crisis. The political a4 and evicted was made i1 the hto th s Str make-up of the cabinet is thought to reflect a d on the part of both the industrialists and socialists to discover a formula which would enable Germany to as- sume the initiative without prejudic ing her attitude .on passive resist ance. Among all the parties represented the new ministry there appears a convietion that Germany must seek Some sort of truce with Poincar and that the hope of mediation or in- tervention from other quarters is fu- tile In view of the present Anglo- French impasse. “Of what avail is a friend the channel or the sea when up against a cantankerous neighbor? exclaimed one socialist leader. Cabinet Looked on ax Weaker. The new German cabinet has been constructed wholly along party line: and with respect to individual rength it is looked upon as weaker than the so-called mnon-partisan or business ministry which it succeeds new in across The appointment of Dr. Rudolf Hil- | ferding to the ministry of finance is a subject of much comment. Dr. Hil- ferding is Austrian-born, a natural- ized German, He i a doctor of medi- cine by profession, but of late vears has occupied himself with theoretic socialism. He was a member of the independent socialist party before the two wings of the party amalgamated and was editor of his faction’s organ, Die Freiheit. Croener's Retirement Loax. The retirement of Gen. Groener from the ministry of transportation as he is considered the ablest transporta- tion authority in Germany and is eaving now a post which demands strong administrative incumbent | in view of the technical and financial problems involved in reviving the nation’s railway system. His suc- cessor is Herr Oeser 6f the German democratic party. A semi-official note explaining the cessation of deliverfes in kind to the allies, declares the country neeus all its resources to ward off starva- tion. Contracts for execution of the work of reconstruction in the de- vastated areas will not |by the suspension, it adds, and in | view of the difficulties Italy is e periencing in optaining coal, Germany will _endeavor to continue coal de- liveries to the country. REPARATIONS TO STOP. Germany Formally Notifies Com-’ mission at Paris. B the Associnted Press. PARIS, August 13.—Germany for- mally notified the reparation commis- sion in a letter dated last Saturday, and just published, that all repara- tion deliveries in kind would cease after that date because of the great expense involved, which it was bellev- ed might jeopardize the pending Ger- man gold loan and tax reforms. Germany announces she had no in- tention of permanently discontinuing these deliveries, but sald her burden | must be lightened to “avoid a complete breakdown of the German economic ana financial system.” The cessa- tion affects principally those coun- tries that did not participate in the occupation of the Ruhr, as such de- liveries to France and Belgium ceas- ed soon after the troops entered Es- sen. The letter says that the “financing of these deliveries is largely respon- sible for the budget deficit and in- flation,” adding: “Deliveries under- taken up to the present and not yet pald for alone necessitates, at the present rate of mark, an expendi- ture of 300,0000,000,000 marks."” The promise 15 made that the deliv- erles wil be resumed “as soon as the finances and currency of the reich are on a firm basis, * THIRD STREET “SING” TONIGHT IN GEORGETOWN The third Georgetown street sing will be given tonight on Potomac Street Vetween N and O streets, at 8:15 o'clock. The police department has arranged to rope off Potomac street at 7 p.m., to accommodate those bringing camp stools and chairs, Mrs. Maurice Beckham, contralto, will be the soloist of the evening. Mrs. H. Clyde Grimes will assist Mrs. Beckham at the plano, and will ac- | company the community singing, whlch Wwill be under the direction of Robert Lawrence, citi- reception | ire | e are | c be affected | D. G, (GASOLINE PRICES -~ SETLOW RECORD Range From 11 to 22 Cents| in West—Sharp Cuts Made in 10 States. | | By te CHICA u ed ta gallon 0. August 14.—Reductions e prices, begun when Gov McMaster of South Dakota state higliway supply de< sell gasoline at 16 cents a assumed national aspect today when price cuts announced {by the Standard 01 companies of | Indiana and Kentucky and independ- jent producers became effective in { midwestern and southern states. A threat of federal investigation of | | gasoline prices and general oil condi- | tlons announcement of further| | curtailment of product also | teatures in the gas price war. soline to selling at 154 ents Chicago, 165 cents in | Oomana, 159 cents in K city, cents in Louisville, Ky. cents Dallas, T and from cents in other parts of prices In other sections the reductions varying | freight rates. In Illinois. Towa, onsin, Minnesota, North Dakota {South Dakota. Kansas, Missouri and |parts of Oklahoma, the cut made by | the Standard C Comj of In- diana, s cents and that of in- dependents in_the same territory s (Continued on Pa 3, Column 3 MUTILATED BODIES | FOUND; MAN HELD ‘ Husband Said to Have Ad- | mitted Slaying and Dismem- bering Wife and Her Mother. in ! \\‘. ord pots a and are y s 1 1 | ! in | nsas | 11 15 20 16} ‘ex with affected by according to | tin Mickigan, Wi | By the Associnted Pross. | MEDFORD, M August Nunie G. Tsekos of Franklin, | was arrested early today charged | with murder, after two boxes con- | taining the dismembered bodies of two women were found in a fleld here. The police sald Tsekos had confessed | that he killed his wife, Natalje, and her mother, Mrs. Katherine Adams, last Saturday night. According to the alleged confession, Tsekos quarreled with his wife and her mother at their home in Franklin over money matters and he declared they attacked him with a bat and a knife. He sald he overpowered them and then stabbed his wife and cut Mrs, Adams’ throat. He dragged their bodies to the cellar. Took Children to Boston. Sunday morning, the confession con- tinues, he took his three small chil- dren and was driven to Boston in an automobile by Charles A. Clarke of Franklin. ‘He left the children at his mother's home and returned home. Sunday niglit, he said, he went to the cellar, dismembered the two bodles with a knife and put them in wooden boxes, nailing the covers down. Tsekos told the police that on Mon- day morning he arranged with Clarke to drive him to Boston again. They started late in the day with the two boxes in the car. Last night, Clarke told the police, he became suspicious as to the contents of the boxes. On a | pretext he stopped the car and noti- i fled a policeman, who said he would report the matter, but did not appear to think it necessary to take any im- mediate action. Clarke said he then decided to drive on. Put Boxes in Field. Late at night the two men reached West Medford: Finding a bridge closed they stopped. Clarke said that Tsekos carried the boxes into a fleld. | While he was doing this Clarke put his finger into a hole in one of the boxes and thought he felt flesh. He ran down the street and told his story to the first policeman he met. Early today a policeman saw a man running down a street, evidently in- tending to board a trolley car. He ran after him, placed him under ar-| rest and took him to the police sta- tion. There the man admitted that he was Tsekos. His alleged confession was made in the presence of the chief of police. L] { TUESDAY, AUGUST jarmy and navy. The Foening Star. BY HECK -\ LET THEM = WALL STREEE72= FELLERS. o Washington Elm, Famed in History, Dead F aces Ax 15 the Associated I "AMBRIDGE, 'n.n Washington Elm is dead. offictal demise of the famed tree neath which Washington took com- mand of the Continental Army . wa announced yesterday by Dr. C. S Sargent, director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard.University, in a letter to Mayor Edward W. Quinn of Cambridge. “All signs of life have from the Washington Sargent wrote, ‘and there is longer any chance of keeping until the autumn. So far am concerned, it can be cut at any time.” Mayor Quinn, it is learned, is eager to ralse a fund from the school children of the country for a shaft to mark the historic spot when t| tree has disappeared. The trunk wiil probably be cut into small bits to be distributed as souvenirs among the museums of the country and the Cambridge school An offshoot of the was plan mon _forty flour -;hlm: "Mass . August 14 K Dbe- now Elm gone Dr. no it I down alive Washington Elm on the Cambridge com- years ago and now SEES WAR MENACE INSOUTH AMERICA Uruguayan Delegate to San-! tiago Blames Argentine and Brazilian Armament. By the Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, August 14 —Senator Gimenez de Arechaga, one of the Uru- guayan delegates to the recent Pan- American conference at Santiago, ves- terday asked the minister of war as to “the real state of efficlency of the Uruguayan army in the event of an international conflict.’ Col. Riveros, the minister, replied that the government had appointed special committees to study problems | involved in better organization of the He added that the! government would soon send to con gress a bill proposing a new plan for the organization of the army. Senator Arechaga malntained that if all nations of the South American continent were - not near war, -they were confronted with the prospect of living In an armed peace or under the constant menace of War. “The Santlago conference,” he said, “as well as a majority of the South American press, -show the’ existence of deep currents of opinion which agi- tate the multitudes on this continent. | Misgivings exist between all theé American nations.” The senator asserted that “the A. C. i8 existent only as a memory of an artificial and ephemeral ugpion,” and_expressed the opinion that the most_disquieting factor in the situa- tlon was in Argentina and Brazil. He analyzed the military and naval developments of these countries, giv- ing figures which he sald showed the exaggerated armaments of Brazil. This, he added, was undeniably the cause of the prevailing disquietude. B. The senator expressed the opinion | that it was necessary for Uruguay to acquire strength in proportion to her dignity. The senate took no action. ' Premier Baldwin Gives_an Exclusive Interview—TFirst | Since He Became Minister—to Edward Price Bell Which Will Be Published Tomorrow in The Evening Star ] Mr. Bell, dean of American i newspaper correspondents in Curope, has been twenty years in London. He was the first man to break down the British objection to newspaper inter- || - views. He was the first man to ‘ get an interview with a British 1 1] i Prime i secrotary of state for foreign affairs (Sir Edward Grey). He was the first to interview a British lord chancellor. He per- suaded two British field mar- shaly and_the admiral of the 1 fleet to submit to Interviews. And now he caps the climax of an unparalieled career in this sphere of journalism by inter- H viewing the prime ministe || Great Britain, whom Ambas: dor Harvey has described “as coming nearer to speaking the American language than any || other Bri esman of hi; tory.” 14, 1923 _THIRTY-SIX PAGES. as fast as t The Star’s every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers he papers are printed. Yenerdl}'s Net Circulation, 90,036. TWO CENTS. SHOOTS WIFE DEAD, THENKILLS SELF | Daughter of Constable Garri- son Victim of Double Hyattsville Tragedy. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., August two-month-old infant is tod home of Constable and Mrs H. Garrison, fatherless and less, as the result of a double t ed on the streets here her, Mrs. Ivy Estelle daughter the was shot dead by her husband, J. Cartmel, a turned the revolver to ended his life The act is believed to have been the culmination of an unsuccessful at- {tempt on the part of Cartmel to effect ja third reconcillation since the | ringe .'21, 1921. A memo- Cartmel's pocket separated as a recon- jciliation August 19, 1922, and another {separation May 10’ of this year. On June 11 a bahy was born. The shooting occurred 1ock last night de moving picture house, S rect near the Washington more boulevard 14.—A t the Thomas mother- agedy night arrison las enac 9 c The n { Cartmel, Beaver moment later his head and who 1 mar- September und in couple were 1922; ther abont & S in front of the | st Afraid of Husband. According to {an overseas man, Carroll rrison, brother of the dead girl, when h ster was about to leave the theater she approached | him and asked that he accompany her home to the resldence of her parents. “I am afraid of Jack. 1 believe I you to xo home with me,” Fearing for the safety ter, “Toot s he is known, went with his sister out of the front door of the theater. Th had gone down the steps of the pic- ture house and were well onto the idewalk when Cartmel, who had gone out of the back door of the theater, came upon them. Cartmel displayed a gun and Garrison asked him what he was going to do with it ¢ Without warning, according to tar- {risén, Cartmel opened fire on ts missing him, although he was but six feet from him. Realizing that trouble was brewing. rushed to his home for a gun mett D. Dowden of Hyattsville ing trouble, came out with Garrison and his sister and, ing to his statement. shot at him. Although 'there were no evewit- nesses to the murder and suicide, it )is believed that Cartmel, seeing that his wife's brother and Dowden had gone, deliberately fired @ bullet into his wife's head and when she fell fired another shot into her body. Feeling certain he had killed her, ,Cartmel then placed the gun against his right temple and k himself. When Dr. Hilliary T. Willis arrived he declared Mrs. Cartmel without pulse, but owing to the _confusion (Continued on Page g, SITE ON N STREET PICKED FOR SCAOOL she said. of his sis- familiarly ! Rock Creek Parkway Be- tween 24th and 25th. The new junior high school pro- vided for in the 1924 appropriation act 24th and 23th streets, adjolning a sec- ption of the Rock Creek parkway., This was made certain by the Com- misgioners today when, in board ses- slon, they authorized the purchase of part of the site from Miss Margaret Loughran for $32,500. There is one more lot needed, but Assistant En- gineer Commissioner Wheeler told the Commissioners he had not yet been able to negotiate for it. The appropriation act made $30,000 it should be selected from the area bounded by 20th street, Rock Creek, K and O streets. of the building probably will be sought in the next appropriation get. The city heads alsg purchased sev- eral additional lots adjoining the col- ored Dunbar High School, which is on 1st street northwest between N and o,nmt’ constable, | {felt a gun n his pocket and I want | him, | Cartmel fired a | New Junior High Will Adjoin | will be located on N street between | available for a site and specified that | Funds with which to hegin erection | 200MEN TRAPPED AS BLAST BLOCKS MINE IN WYOMING Slight Hope Held Out for Many Entombed Near Kemmerer. FIRST BODY BROUGHT Pumpman Found Dead in Shaft. Explosion, Mile Below, Not Heard Above. iy the Associated Press KEMMERER, Wyo. Two hundred miners i | the Kemmerer Coal entombed this morning following an explosion. The explosion occurred in the low- er levels. A cave-in at entry No. 15, cut off all communication with the men who were working around the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth en- tries. Up 1o moon « had beer August No. 1m Company were recovered Relief to work. sevent work As they nth entry found Not Heard Above. clouds of mediately went progressed to the the body of a pump man w Black sp fan we explosion wtions of No intonation &round, a nite concerning the en ed the depths of the seue we : hope of rescu- the at mine o an was h estimated to first have T er gre Nothing defi condition of from an m men come men United ) left Kemm fields 1 turn As the volunteer tically toward the dreds of women tives of the m at the 1th | from within GRUESOME EXHIBIT A rescue car morning for workers dug fran- d childfen, waited patiently for word 0 ~ ATKEPNER TRIAL Courtroom Turned Into Morgue With Skull and Death Evidence. | | i dent Ma dea ved skull of FREDERICK esome i ning, hoil dead, a gl | bity of bon unfortunate { viglent {ei August 14— th—the gr! a man long n's scalpel and ved from t} heads of persons who had suffered onverted the county cuit i 1 all-too- stie XHL]”"I.M B yrning when | the trial of B. Evard Kepner for the | murder of his wife was resumed It day of harrowin | mpny cerie de 1s and ptions offered by surgeons and who ‘sent cold chills down tiie spines of spectators with the awful nfinuteness of t statements. And the end of it all there remained the rospect of an even more revolting scene —the possibility of th urdered wom- jan's body onc mor g to from its grave to s relics ¢ Ire was @ testi- sickening ds; antopsists, failed to agree. Many Leave Courtroom. Long before the hour for luncheon |recess arrived men. women | voung girls who had filled every seat in the little chamber. fighting for life departed hurriedly, weak from the things they had 1 seen. %hey had gone there » sensation, the scene of a human I being on the wrack: They found themselves in what looked more like | the autopsy room of a chill morgue In a desperate effort to break down 2he state’s testimony from nationall Prominent medical that_th |swound which destre ace Sim- mons Kepner's life could not have Dbeen inflicted by herself, the defense today began to put on the equally prominent doctors whe mpted to prove that suicid notonly possible but quite And to lend weight to their ments they brought with relies of their profession. Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, city coroner {of Washington, and Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, a former assistant coroner or the National Capital, were th first two surprise witnesses sprung by the defense. While Dr. Ramsay would not unqualifiedly swear that he believed Mrs. Kepner had com- mitted sulcide, Dr. Rogers was po: I4ive In_ that belicf, and offered | froof of his theory the heads of three £heep he had shot Dr. Rogers asserted that he had made at least thirty tests to deter- rhine whether a pistol held close to living head would make a large !hole at the point of ingress and a {sall one at the point of egress, or { vice versa. The t showed ' the | former to be the case., he said, and @tempted to prove his statement by showing the efiect pistol bullets had cn the heads of the sheep. “Dr. Ira J. McCurdy, one of the best Known surgeons in this section of | Maryland, who attended the autopsy the body of Mrs. Kepner, was the first witn called by Leo Wein- berg, counsel for the defense. Under is arm he carried a small carelessly wrapped in newspape Taking his seat, the surgeon slowl uawrapped the package and a mo- ment later produced a shining, brown- fsh-black object that sent a gasp of herror around the crowded court- rgom. A where and Kepner vind nd sick rd and xpecting it likely. argu- them the z opuy Declared “Bungled.” Yt was a human skull. A single myu. remained in the upper jaw, and the surgeon placed the gruesome ul)'i'('l on the narrow rail of the wit- ness box it began to slide off toward the floor. Two women in the crowd of :spectators left precipitately, their OUT BY RELIEF CREW entombed gen, hun- |t rela- | points on which med- | and | tion stand | package | U.S. READY TOFIGHT ANTHRACITE STRIKE WITH SUBSTITUTES First Coolidge Cabmet Meet- ing Reveals Plans to Pre- vent Suffering. |PRESIDENT NOT TO CALL CONGRESS INTO SESSION \All Members of Cabinet, Except Mellon, Reassure Executive They will Keep Office. have been perfected by the nistration in the event of a coal | strike in the anthracite field Septem- |ber 1, it was revealed by a spokes man for the President today, to pre- vent suffering on the part of the pub- E substitute for | anthracit ve the situa- tion an ing will furnished, ced The Pr | made ccessary 1 to rel vent suff, it was annos spokesman for the known the executiv | following the President’s first ing with his cablnet. At this ing it unde the coal tion was the important ler diseu n Warning to Both Sides. The r ion that the administr tion had cted plans substituts nthracite t at sident me meet situa- topi most i | | i to rush fe coal in the shutdown the anth was interpreted as h the operators in New Englan. ces for hard coal migh emporarily effort will ion to miners to s to their interes event of cite mines warning to b ope lizat to settle [ madc | the their d Situation Now Different. was pointed o this year in the strike the the si would be vas: atoin faced by during the strike last year reafter. A year ago there was the bituminous coal 1a general sl This year bitumin been ope 1 are s anthraci A en th > ratlroads, ias been no present t from and th, tion demands u Congress. it was White House. Tt i nistration hopes * Le a strike at th that the to be able to ha nation, even shoulg made not that el forect specia should ma the matt n it eve Up 1o Commission. The sion hands of ! ion, it at of handling the placed by law the the United States Coal Com out, and for m ninistration aling through the commission now. hoped that through explained, bring about controversy has been in was pointed the reas 1t mediation Coal C: settleme between the aml the miners ained. the been called by for tomorrow Wi the sion can of the anthra Techr mecting ite onerators ally, it wa which has the Coal Commission in New York Is not a confe [the sensc that the two ¢ irtica will he brought together. Coal Commission will find out from ach of the parties their real differ ences und then will be in a position to mediatc Coolidge to Stay Here., The ington, it {ean be in velopments. It member President will remain in Wash- he de- was explained, where close touch with all expected that at least of the United State | Commission will be In New York for the meeting tomorrow in the Penn- sylvania Hotel with the mine op- terators and the min They are Chairman John Huys Hammond, for- mer Vice P ident Marshall, Dr Otis Smith an Dr. Nefll ator Pepper of Pennsylvania who was largely instrumental in bringing_about & Settlement of the coal strike last ar, has gone to New York today It is expected that he, too, will do all in his power to d in bringing about an adjustment « the differences between the op | erators and the miners four Coal is a Cabinet Members to Keep Places. Senator Keyes of New Hampshir is to have a conference with the President tomorrow, and at that time it will discuss with the President coal situation in New England. One of the big problems which the administration must face, should there be a shutdown in the anthracite mines, is distribution, and it is un- derstood that the plans which have made give this matter much at- a is expected, the President Coolidge made it known ay for the second time since be- coming Presldent that he is desirous of retaining the services of every member of President Harding's cabi net. It was stated that he has received the assurances from every individual member, with the exception of Scere tary of the Treasnry Mellon, who i abroad, that he will continue to serve in his present official capacity. Follows Harding Policies, Indications were given at the Whit. House today that President Coolidge | would follow policies enunciated by President Harding with respect to collection of the foreign debts It was said by an administration spokesman that this government had every Intention of going ahead with its efforts to fund the present ob- ligations and collect them on the basis of such terms as may be agreed upon by the American Debt Funding Commission. Determined to Economize. Emphasis was placed by a White House spokesman today on Presi- dent Coolidge’s determination to en- force_an_economy program in_gov- | | | {Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5. 5) 1]