Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1923, Page 2

2 2 POLICEMEN SHOT B Four, One Seriously Wound- ed, Held in Custody for Battle in Southwest. Whisky bandits late last night shot and probably fatally woundsd two policemen who surprised them while they were attempting to break into a garage owned by Eizey Jones, ored, in Temple court between 3d and 43; streets southwest. One of the gunmen himself was mortaily wound- #d by one of the policemen before he collapsed. men. both of. whoalhie The polic colored, are John W. Purcell of 742 and Horace Harvard street northwe R. Crawford at 1604 D street soutn- | Both are atwached to the 1 precinet station awford, according to surseons at Bmergency Hospital. may die before sundown. He has four bullet wounds in his ab- domen and it ssary to re- cight intestines. Turcell was although Jess serious! 10¢ ex- Ppected to live. Four in Custody. The wounded bandit. George Ludley. colored, of 446 G35 stiect. is at Cas- ualty Hospital with scveral bullet wounds in hix ch colored men, Erpest 1ith strect northw William Lud- ley of 1112 t northwest, and Lioyd Monr 3215 14th street northwest arrest at the fourth preci onnection with the sh being scoured for a fourth, J who js sald to complete the bandit sang. Purcell znd Crawford. both in plain clothes. started down Temple court n search of bootleggers. As they neared Jones' - garage they found three men crouched in front of the door, Purcell turned his fashilght or the group and the next ins ley of shots crashed out light was from Turcell the same bullet tearing its way up his arm making it impossible for him'to draw his revolver. Crawford, however, whipped out his pistol and returned ‘the fire. In an- other minute, however, a second fu- de came from the bandits' guns and the iwo policemen dropped. Crawford vever moved, but Purcell had enoush stre M left to crawl to a patrol box, a block away. and pull the lever that signals the patrol wagon. He was 100 weak to speak &nd when men from the station ar- rived in a rush they found him un- conscious’ beside the box. Crawford etill Jay where h fell aftér the tragic el loed “ stains were to the other end of ti mute witness to the loust one of the bandits had been wounded i carried away by his friends as they fled after the duel. Sound General Alarm. Tmmediately after uews shooting had been fashed is . Brown of 7 followed down fact ' that at of to the the fourth precinct a general alarm was | #ounded and headquarters detectives ond uniformed men from the fourth, fifth and sixth precincts were hur- ried to the scene under the personal command of Maj. Sullivan Not a trace could be found of the bandits until several hours after the tragedy. when Emergency Hospital the authorities that a call for the ambulance had come from the home of George Ludlev, on Q street. Policemen were rushed to that place and found the mnegro at the point of death. Iie stoutly denied having been in the gu battle, but when his brother William was ar- rested the latter admitted both had gone to Jones' garage for the pur- pose of stealing some whisky they belleved was stored there. He also implicated Brown, Monroe and Short- er. The negro said several pistols were in the party, but all denied actually doing the shooting. Surgeons at Emergency Hospital thls morning declared they probably would perforin a blood operation on both Purcell and Craw ford late this afternoon in an effort to save their lives. PRESIDENT TO END DRY STAND DOUBT (Continued from First Page.) President Coolidge himself will at the governors conference. President, according to his frien E not attempting to “pass the by to the states, but he does fcel that the federal polire force is mot big enouzh e to handle the problem and that with- | out state co-operation enforcement of the law cannot be effective. The orig- inal purpose of the “dr: n putting into the eighteenth amendment 2 pro- vision for “concurrent jurisdiction” was to bring into play the police power of all the states. Mr. Coolidge will formally invoke that power next Saturday and mppeal to the governors 1o help the feder: tain respect for existing law. Secks Help of States. For many months the office of Prohibition Co oner Haynes has been at worl auestion of state co-overa the federal zovernment is_expected that will lay before crete sugges- which can nz the federal government and the state machinery <loser together so 28 to avold duplica- tion on the one hand and achieve effective prosecution of law-breakers on the other. Trrespective prohibition of the merits question, whether the Yolstead law is in conformity with the eighteenth amendment or a re- stricted interpretation of it, the out- standing fact today, which prohibi- tionists themselves will hardly deny, is that the extent of law violation by those who do not like tha Vol- stead law is widespreasd and that it is the most Serfous menace confront- ing the prohibition caure today. The citizenshin conference had the relizious ardor of the campa! before the eighteenth amendment rdopted. all ns The “drys” ave thoroughly aroused and are demanding 100 per cent sincerity in law enforcement. arguing that half-way measures will only tend ultimately to break down the respect of the people for law and order. Politically, the citizenship conference brought out Gov. ord Pinchot of Pennsylvania as a lader of the dry forces, succeeding to a position which the late President Harding really had just before his death. The probabi tles are that President Coolidge will not attempt to take the leadership away from Gov. Pinchot, but will stand on the speech he makes to the govern- ors mext Saturday, which his friends think is all that can rightfully be ex- pected of u President of thg United States. (Copyright, 1923.) MANAGER OF RALEIGH DIES AT HIS HOME Edward L. Weston, manager of the Raleigh Hotel, died Monday evening at his_country home at Alta Vista, Jd., after a prolonged illness, Mr. Weston was born May 8, 1872, at Yonkers, N. Y., the son of the late Walter Weston and grandson of the late Edward Weston, member of an old New York family, Mr. Weston came to Washington about thirty years ago to manage the Portland Apartment Hotel, then own- ed by his grandfather. He later open- ed the Highlands. For the past fif- teen years he had managed the Raleigh Hotel. He had also been as- soclated with several other Wash- ington hotels and his opinion and ad- wvice was much sought after by a wide circle of acquaintances. Mr. Weston married Miss Ida Nourse of this city. He Is survived by two sons, Edward Walter Weston and Robert Louis Weston, and two sisters, Miss Elizabeth M. Weston and Mrs. ZLouis Valentine, col- | Three other: Shorter, | alley, bearing | notified , transfusion | Kovernment to ob- | of the | itize Plans to carry the fight for a morc irigid enforcement of the prohibition | law into every city, town and viliage {in the country were approved at the |closing cesslons here yesterday of ihe citizenship conference. They con- template a nation-wide campaign de- isigned tu increase respect for the ‘elghteenth amendment, coupled with j& unitcd community campaign in each jcommunity to support aggressively ithe local, state and federal authori- i ties. Meantime the results of the con- ference will be available to the con- {fergnce of governors, which will meot jhefe Saturday at the cail of Presi- {dent Coolldge to consider more ef- ifective means of co-operation be- tween the national and state govern- | !mente in the enforcement, not only iof the prohibition act, but the nar- }cnll . immigration and kindred laws Some of the recommendations of the cltizenship conference probably will be placed before the governors. Coolidge Shows Interest. President Coolidge expressed inter- lest in the purposes of the citizenship {sathering and personally attended cne of the sessions. Ha also had| dinner conferences with several of tho: rrominent identificd with the | {movement, including William Jen- | n'nze Bryan, former Gov. Allen of{ | Kansas and ‘Fred B. Smith of New! ork, who presided at most of the slons i he nation Jooks to President Cool- ge to assert and maintain the ma-1 Jesty of the law, the conference de clared in “a message to tie American | approved at the closing ses- sterday of its three-day meet- I 1 1a | i the | el in using | ower at his command to com { cct for constituted authority. Borah Is Speaker. | Aside from the adoption of recom- merdations for future plans and other reports, the outstanding events at| yesterday’s meetings included an ad- dress by Senmator Horah, republican, Idako, and Louis Marshall, a New York attornes. on the necessity of up- | holding the Constitution. | e look with | President,” 1 confidence to the message says. assure him of our support every p pel res Senator Borah told the conference that wealthy Americans who v the eighteentn amendment and * ho denounce constitutional provi- ons designed to protect property | “are both traveling the road of law-| {lessness. sowing the seeds of destruc- ition and undermining the whole fab- | ric of law and order.” ! i .An outburst of cheecring greeted | | Senator Borah's declaration that. pro- | { hibitionist or anti-prohibitionist, the | | people ought to be loyal to a common | country and be willing to support the | law so0 iong as it is the law, High Offenders Hit. Mr. Marshall declared the people {have ‘spoken on the eighteenth| {amendment and their will must be| | obeyed ! “Any person. even though he be a college president—mark you. I do 'nox 8ay ex-college president—who ad {vocates any doctrine to the contrary of treason,” said Mr. Mar- | t another point he declared there was no difference in law be-| he lyncher and the man or woman in hmgh soclety who ‘bootlegs’ the law." Defending Solicitor General Beck, who was assalled at the opening ses- sion ot the conference, Mr. Marshall eds’ i VAN AND BOY DIE AFTER COLLISIONS | Wife Sees G. D. Parsons Fa- i tally Hurt by Bicycle—Auto Hits Other Victim. { | | While his wife sat in their auto-| mobile nearby watching him, George D. Parsons. scventy-two years old, Bradley Hills, Md., was fatally in- | jured at 10th and K streets this morn- | ing, when he was struck. witnesses say, by a bicyele ridden by a youth. He was removed to the Emergency Hospital in an automobile, and died at about 11 o'clock. The deceased was a watchmaker and had been employed by the jew- ielry firm of Barry & Whitmore the past six weeks. He formerly had a shop in the Metzerott bullding and also worked for the Waltham Watch Compan: George J. McConnell, 2317 T street, | | { {who took the dying man to the hos- pital. Frederick Mitchell, jr., colored, nine years old, 1316 Euclid street, yester- day afternoon about 4 o'clock was {knocked down by an automobile in | front of First Church of Christ, Sci- entist, Columbia road and Euclid streets, and fatally injured Mrs. J. R. Brooks, 1762 Lanier place, driver of the machine, took the In- | jured boy to Garfield Hospital, where he died shortly after noon today. The boy's death was reported to Coroner Nevitt, who will hold an_in- quest at the morgue tomorrow. Mrs, Brooks will be summoned to appear as a witness. SHERRILL DEFENDS PARK ESTIMATES (Continued from First Page.) provement and cleaning up of debris. This recommendation, it is pointed out, if approved, will do much to better por- tions of the two most important parks in Washington, certain areas of which are now overrun with weeds, ash heaps and debris of all kinds. Construction of bridle paths and foot paths in both parks is also recommended. Widening of the inlet bridge at_ the end of the Polo Fleld in Potomac Park is listed as one of the most urgent needs. This bridge, it is asserted, was not constructed to carry automobile trafiic and besides being narrow, it af- fords no adequate outlet to the Hatnes point section of the park. It has been necessary to make this structure a one-way bridge in order to handle traffic witl the least pos- sible congestion. It has been found, according to Col. Sherrill’s recommendations, that this bridge can be widened fifteen feet at a comparatively small cost, due to the understructure being so bulilt that it can accommodate additional width without belng disturbed. Owing to the wide interest in band concerts during the summer in the various parks throughout the eity, Col. Sherril! urged the budget burea: to include a small appropriation so that these concerts could be contin- ued. No appropriation has ever been made, it s understood, for these con- certs and it is with the idea of en- larging their scope that the present recommendation is made. HEADS METHODIST BODY. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, October 16— Mrs. Wilbur P. Thirkield of Cam- bridge, Mass, was re-elected presi- dent of the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which closes its national meeting here today. nard Woodruff o corresponding _secretary, an officers were also re-elected. other . ACT OBSERVANCE MAPPED nship Conference to Go to People With Plea for Law-Coolidge Given Program. | missioner George H. Macdonald by | tions, and M. W. P. Zantzinger, postal 1$1,063 of funds which carriers had col- |chants that payments had not been re- | latter had written and stated that T declarcd that “never in the history of our government have we had aj more honest law officer.” He added that Mr. Beck, as much as any other person, had helped to put “teeth” into the prohibition act. Main Points Stressed. “High spots” in the “message” of the conference to the country included these declarations: The Volstead act must never be amended by its enemies. Members of Congress and of state legislatures who violate the laws should be retired to private life. The American people are impatient at “the disgrace” which attends the Succeastul operation of rum runners, and ask Presldent Coolidge to place every avaflable craft and agency to police the shores. ¥ The states should face the respon- sibility of doing their share in the en- forcement of prohibition People Held Responsible. i On the people rests the ultimate re- | eponsibility for law enforcement. A grave responsibility rests on the | courts to compel obedience by those who, by open violation of laws, are bringing the administration of justice into disrepute. A request to the press not to per- it its news columns, editorial pages or its cartoons or illustrations to be used to promote disrespect for law or to told up to ridicule and contempt the Constitution and the law. { Our final appeal is to the people of | this country,” the “message” con- cludes. “Complacency must give | place to a militant spirit which shall { awaken the conscience of the coun- fry:” i Demand Ample Force. Through a report of its policy com- mittee, the conference went on re ord as declaring that if 3,500 men and $10,000,000 & year are not suffi- cient to enforce the prohibition act, there must be provided by the go ernment whatever force of men and | whatever amount of money may be necessary. Another declaration of policy proved was that if the co-operation of other nations in breaking up rum runaing off the coast could not be had the American government should “take positive, aggressive action to disperse the hovering rum runners, even at the risk of protest from other nations. “It is unthinkable.” the dcclaration added, “that the government of a great people shall be openly and per- sistently defied Dy what is known to be an organized conspiracy between the citizens of other nations and a. knowledged criminals of our own country to violate the laws of our country.” Edueation is Planned. To carry on the work of education bezun by this conference it was de- cided to uppoint a committee of 1,000 to co-operate with agencies already in the field Other récommendations cluded: A nation-wide call that Sunday, January 6, be observed as prohibition | and law enforcement day. A united community campaign every city, town and village to sul port aggressively the local. state a foderal authorities in law enforce- ment. The presentation of the question of law enforcement in the schools, col- loges and universities The holding of law enforcement | mass meetings in twenty or more of the great centers of the nation at the carliest possible dates, with similar meetings later in villages, towns and other cities. POST OFFICE CLERK IS HELD IN THEFTS Harry McQuary Chargedl With Embezzling Payments | on C. 0. D. Parcels. ap- approved in in Harry O. McQuary, a clerk in the Pennsylvania avenue branch of the Washington city post office, has been arrested, charged with embezzling funds. Taken before United ! Stater Com- Harry Sherwood, examiner of sta- inspector, McQuary waived hearing | and was held in $1,500 bonds for the | action of the grand jury, It was charged that the clerk, who handled the C. O. D. affairs, embezzled lected on C. O. D. parcels. When compiaints were made to the local post office by out-of-town mer- ceived, investigation led to the Penn- eylvania avenue branch office. First the merchants had complained to the customers here, and when the they had made the payments to car- | riers the matter was taken up with | Postmaster Mooney. McQuary has a wife and three small children, and had been with the city post office for about six years. He is_thirty-two years old. His arrest follows two other arrests made at the city post office last month, one case being that of a clerk who opened letters and took money des- tined for local people. ' THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN OKLAHOMA FLOOD (Continued from First Page.) with human cargoes of terror- stricken residents of the lowlands. Street cars and volunteer motor- ists, venturing to the very eodge of the ‘water, aided in bringing the help- less and 'crippled to hospitals and havens of safety provided by civic and fraternal organizations. Pandemonium reigned for a time, Crowds of curlous persons milled and pushed on downtown corners, while automobiles and horse-drawn _ve- | hicles clogged the traffic ways lead- | ing to the river bottom: i A cold drizzle of rain added to the contusion. Caplitol Hill Isolated. The situation was later taken in hand by military and civil author- ities, who forced all except the need- ed workers off the streets. Capitol Hill, a residential section in the southern portion of the city, and Packingtown, the packing cente: {0, the southwest, are completely iso- ated. Following a report that a band of from 75 to 100 men were looting homes deserted by refugees, police were dispatched to the scene with or- ders to shoot to kill any person found pillaging. With the coming of morning the homeless ventured from their emer- gency shelters. Bread and coffes lines were opened by the city's two largest hotels and regular relief cen- ters were early receiving truckloads 't)fl food from the city’s wholesale di: rict. Virtually every church in the city had been impressed into service, well as many lodgerooms and bus ness buildings. Among the latter was the Federal Reserve ink buildl; the marble lobby of which was tered with tragic groups of homefess. | i HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON MILITANT FIGHT FOR DRY D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1923. Woman Who Fell Down Monument Shaft, MRS. DOR. Of 1201 D street northeast, whose lifeless body was found fall through the railing on the steps I A RAUM, ter a 140-foot ending to the top of the Washington Monument. Her son- Alark, who wax with her at the time of the accident, is also shown in the picture. MISSISSIPPI MEMBER | OF CONGRESS I)IESI $75,000 RUM CARGOES | AND 2 SHIPS TAKEN |$25,000 Worth of Wine, 24 Pris- { worth of bottled whisky was confis oners Seized in One Raid—Crew of Other Vessel Arrested. EW YORK, four prisoners October 16.—Twenty- re taken and §. cated by police of the Westchester station in the Bronx early today, in the cap- ture of the seventy-five-foot cabin cruiser Mirage, off Throggs Neck, in Long Island sound. i ' i REPRESENTATIVE HUMPHREYS. GREENVILLE, Miss., October 16. Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, for more than twenty years a member of Con- gress from the third Mississippi dis- trict, dled euddenly at his home here early today. Death was due to an at- tack of heart trouble. Representative Humphreys of Mis- slssippi, Who died today at Greenville, Miss,, was one of the leaders on the democratic side of the House. He had been a moving &pirit in the campalgn for Improvement of the Mississippl river, and especially was interested in flood control. - The original Mississinpl river flood control bill was brought out of Mr. Humphreys' committee while the democrats were in control of the House, and the bil]l passed by the last House' extending the work was large- 1y a result of his efforts. He had made many trips up the Mississinpi river and its tributaries, and was vecog- nized as an expeft on this problem. In hearings before the House flood- control committee, of which he was the ranking democratic member, his knowledge of the subject as a_rule resulted in his taking over rge part of the examination of witnesses. Mr. Humphreys was the son of Ben- jamin G. Humphreys, a brigadier gen- eral in the Confederate army and a Governor of Mississippi. He was a lawyer by profession. and had served in Mississippi as a district attorney. He served in the war with Spain as & lieutenant of volunteers. i Another vessel, the fifty-foot sloop, was sei: tauk point. She carried 500 cases of champagne, cordials and Imported whisky, which Charles Cowens, held as leader of the enterprise, told his captors he paid $17,000 ‘for” on* Rtm row and expected to sell for $50,000. The crew was: taken in custody with him. The seizure of the Mirage took place at a dance hall near the sound while the liquor was being transferred from the boat to automobiles. Nineteen prisoners were in the bag. Five men who arrived in a taxicab while the authorities were counting noses also were taken into custody. As tha police descended on the smugglers, the crew of the Mirage cut her adrift and leaped ashore. The Clarence, a e@ off Mon- costly vacht, her fittings polished and | be paint glittering, drifted upon the rocks a quarter mile distant and was badly battered. ALIEN BOOTLEGGERS FAKING CITIZENSHIP, By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, October 16.—Alien bootleggers deal in immigration papers in an effort to obtain by frau- dulent means citizenship documents to prevent deportation in case they are convicted of other illegal activi- ties, James G. Davis, Secretary of Labor, charged in an address here yesterday before a gathering of fed- eral officials of northern California. “Every foreign bootlegger is also a dope peddler,” he declared, “and it is up to every branch of the federal government to fight them.” At Ellis Island, he sald, bootleggers have been found trafficking in cer- tificates of arrival, so they may peti- tion for naturalization without the necessary preliminary five-year resi- dence in this country. By bribing immigrants to give up these certifi- cates, he added, the bootlieggers have circumvented the government and have obtained fraudulent citizenship papers for themselves and have bar- red the immigrants from ever becom- ing naturalized citizens. Present and Automotive Section. and an invaluable guide for purchase of a new car. the exhibitors and exhibits a; every phase of automobiling. Sunday Star for October 21. insure you a copy. Motor Car Owners Will Want the October 21st issue of The Sainday Star Coincident with the opening of the Fall Automo- bile Show The Sunday Star will present an elaborate It will be a complete index to the Aatomobile Show Following The Star’s long-time custom of present- ing the news of Motordom in an uncolored and un- biased manner, there will be a special critical review of Washington’s latest show, together with a list of Present and prospective car owners will want to keep the Automotive Section of next Sunday’s Star for future reference, because it will be a presentation of the 1924 motor market for serious-minded people who want to make no mistake when they buy. As usual, The Star’s, motor articles will be con- tributed by leading motor car authorities. There will be an extra heavy demand for The Prospective r those contemplating the nd special articles covering An order placed now will | i | ! { met Barber Reminds Lloyd George of Stoning by Boers By the Assoclated Pres MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, October 16.—David Lloyd George had a “regular English haircut” in Min- neapolis yesterday. It was the first haireut Britain's war-time premier had had since his arrival from abroad and inéident- ally it was given by a native of Great Britain. B. H. Thompson, manager of & shop here, was the barber. He talked as he worked and found Mr. Lloyd George to be good com- pany. “I am pleased to see and meet you agaln,” Mr. Thompson said as he entered Mr. Lloyd George's suite at the hotel. “And_ where did you see me last” Mr. Lloyd George inquired. “It was during the Boer war riot at Birmingham,” Thompson re- plied. “Is that so?” commented the fa- mous Welshman. “You were not one of those who threw stones at me?” Mr. Lloyd George smiled as he directed the question at the bar- ber. Mr. Thompson, somewhat em- Yarrassed, hesitated before he re- wlied. “No, 1 did not throw stones at you. 1 was in the crowd just try- ing to get out of it. I am sure I didn't throw stones.” WILL SEEK 0 END MONUMENT PERIL Fatal Plunge of Mrs. Dora Raum Brings Prompt Steps to Obtain Safeguards. | Following the announcement today by a coroner's jury that the fatal plunge down the shaft of the Washington Monument yesterday afternoon of a woman, later identified as Mrs. Dora Raum, 1201 D street northeast, was an “accident,” preparations were being made by Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, to urge upon Congress the immediate necessity of providing ad- ditional faciliti™™ to safeguard v itors to the national shrine. Steel screens designed to preclude such an accident as that of yesterday and additional guards as a further precautionary measure will be sought from Congress at the first oppor- tunity, Col. Sherr!ll announced Requests Put Om. It was pointed out that efforts have been made in the past to obtain suffi- cient appropriations for the establish- ment of a more adequate guard tem in the giant shaft, but Congress the requests with the advice: ait until the reclassification of fed eral employes has been consummated Under the reclassification, Col. Sherrill said, a small increase in salary for Monument guards would be affected. A permanent force of repairmen, numbering two or three, should be maintained, the official declared. The interior of the Monument requires constant renovating and repairing, it was pointed out. Railings Reasonably Safe. The railings now in the shaft are substantial and safe, Col. Sherrill as- serted, unless a person deliberately intended to jump to his death or, pos- slbly, in the event of a combination of unforeseen circumstances such as may have occurred yesterday. The tragedy was discovered shortly after 1 c'clock yesterday afternoon with the finding of the mutilated body of-the woman on a beam at the | 270-foot level. The body was first! sighted by Walter L. Barker, a pas enger on the elevator, who had got- en off and gone to an upper land- ing ,ncar the 400-foot level to take charge of a lone child, later found to thrle-year-old son of the dead woman. When reached by police and representatives of Col. Sherrill's office the little boy was crying pite- ously and_was himself bruised and cut. The boy's Injurles gave rise to the theory that the child had slipped | on the steps and that the mother, in | an effort to save her son from plung- ! ing down the shaft, lost her balance and fell At first che identity of the woman could not be learned by Capt. McMor- ris, assistant to Col. Sherrill, and Headguartcrs Detectives Thompson and Scrivener, who conducted the In- vestigation. The sole clue was a pocketbook which contained $3.18 and a street car token. The boy, still hysterical, was taken to the Army Dispensary for examination, and later was turned over to Mrs. Olive Ross, in charge of the War Department's welfare serv- ice. Detectives endeavored to_ quiet the child and learn his name, but in spite of such inGucements as auto- moblle rides, candy, etc., their ques- tions received only sobs as answers. The child was later sent to the Chil- dren’s Hospital, Mrs. Ross assigning a speclal nurse to take care of him. i i i Husband Is Prostrated. Later in the evening David Raum, a grocer, 1201 D street northeast, be- came anxious about his wite and son Markie. They had left home at 11 o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Raum intending to purchase some wearing apparel. She had promised her husband to phone him at 6 o'clock. Waiting for two hours and recelving no call, Raum became anxious. Learning of the ac- cident at the Monument, Raum im- mediately communicated with police headquarters, and learned that the dead woman was his wife. He took the child home, and Dr. Benjamin Newhouse, 1136 6th_etreet northwest, a relative of the Raums, identified the woman, whose body had been taken to the morgue. The father required medical attention last night for his shocked nerves. Mrs. Raum's body will be taken to Baltimore, her native city, for burial. Thomas leaac, elevator operator in the Monument, was taken into cus- tody by federal officers, and. was held at No.'1 precinct station pending in- vestigation of the possibility of the lift having caused the woman's death. The operator was released when this theory was abandoned. Barker Testifles. Testimony at the Inquest today showed conclusively that the woman had not been struck by the elevator, as the car was free from blood and cobwebs beneath it were undisturbed. The mechanism of the elevator was also immediately tested, it became known, and found to be in proper BIG CHICAGO DAY FOR LLOYD GEORGE Chief Message to America Expected in Speech—Ar- rives at Noon. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 16.—David Lloyd George, Great Britain's war-time pre- mier, will come to Chicago today for a two-day visit—to be virtually a con- tinuous round of speechmaking and sightseeing. He hopes to spend a few free hours to- morrow taking'in the sights as a sim- ple visitor—incognito if Chicago crowds fail to recognize his sturdy frame and flowing locks. Otherwise every moment will be occupled in fill- ing the schedule which has worked out for him. The distinguished Welshman will appear before a Welsh gathering late | today, and tomorrow night in Dexter | Pavilion, at the stockyards, is expect- | ed to deliver his chief message to America. Appeals For U. 8. Ald. At Minneapolis, Minn., after he had crossed into ‘the United States from Canada yesterday, Lloyd George ap- pealed for America to help Europe gain peace. “Untll this great land casts its Influence into the scale of peace I despair of the future” sald. Before coming to Lioyd George visited Mooseheart, I, home of the. Loyal Order of Moose, at the invitation of James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor and a na- tive of Wales. Mr. Davis had planned to leave San Francisco yes- terday in an air mail plane, hoping to arrive at Mooseheart in time for breakfast with Lloyd George and his party, but couldn’t leave until today. Others to Greet Him. Gathered to meet the famous visi- tor at Mooseheart were James C. Davis, former director-general of railroads; Arthur T. Lovett, presi- dent of the British-Canadian War Veterans' Association; Gov. Jonathan Davis of Kansas; William Alle White, Kansas publisher: Justice W B. Evans of the supreme court of Towa; Federal Judge Adam C. Cliffe of Chicago, Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University, Sena- tor Medill McCormick of Tilinois and George Ade. the writer. The official welcome of Chicago is Chicago Mr. to be extended by Mayor Dever, at & luncheon of the Association of Com- merce. Dame Lioyd George ard Miss Megan, their daughter, wil be entertained by a woman’s welcom- ing committee. Welcome in Welsh. Welsh-American societies have ar- ranged a reception for the visitors with Welsh songs and addresses in the Welsh language prominent on the program. Lloyd George will be the guest of Gen. Dawes tonight. The audit bureau of circulations will entertain the famous premier at_dinner tomorrow evening. From Chicago on Thursday morn- ing he will go to Springfield, IIL, to visit Lincoln’s tomb and deliver an address. ‘T noticed as I came along your in dustries of peace, harvesters: 1 saw, as I came along, plows, flour miils. There are cities in Europe whose life depends upon the fact that they are arsenals for the manufacture of weapons of war, the mechanism of war. This community is the arsenal of peace, not guns. Not CAnNONS, Mot explosives, not poison gas but har- vesters and the means of producing {food for mankind. Sees Magnus Johnson. Lloyd George yesterday met and talked for twenty minutes with Mag- nus Johnson, the new farmer-labor senator from this state. Afterward Senator Johnsor sald the distin- guished guest had made “a good speech” here and in their private dis- cussion had endorsed everything the senator had had to say about Europe. “1 asked him,” Senator Johnson said, “if it wasn't true that the French had taken the Ruhr because they were afraid of Germany, and he £ald ‘Yes' I asked him if the big pol- iticians In France were behind Poin- care and he told me he didn't think s0. “ontinuing, the senator sal ‘I have already indicated that there were some things we ought to do for Europe. We ought to recog- nize the soviet government. It is just as American to recognize that government as to recognize those de- pending wholly on the sword and nothing else.” NOTED MUNICH SURGEON FLYS TO TROTSKY’S AID By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 16.—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Munich today says that Dr. Fer. dinand Sauerbruch, the noted sur- geon, has left for Moscow in an air- plane, to attend Leon Trotsky, war minister of Soviet Russia, “who 1§ suf- fering from cancer of the stomach.” LAUREL ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,300 for maiden two.-year-olds; furlongs and a half. 115 Warrenton Ous = b r Commissioner 118 nard s : Ashburton 3000118 Esbeth Batsman ..%.... 115 Best Beloved. {Sam H. Harris and G. W, Loft SECOND RACE—Steeplech for three.yearjolds and up; @rouch ...\, Henry Dattner Gragietter THIRD RACE—Purse, throe-year-olds; ono mi Invigorator .. ‘Who_Cares. $1,800; claiming; *Chief Barthell *Mormon Elder Ducks and Dral *Huckleb" Miss Filley. Rupes ... ... May Buddy... FOURTH RACE—Purse, $1,500; for two. order. W. L. Barker, the chief wit- ness of the accident, declared that he had seen the woman and child looking out a window at the top of the Monument and sald that there was nothing unusual about the wom- an’'s deportment. On coming down he did not see the woman In the elevator, and after they had descended forty feet he heard a crash. Descending about forty more feet he saw a child on the landing, lying on its back, trying to get up. At a distance of four flights farther down he had the elevator operator stop the machine. He returned and got_the chiid, found its mother’s hat with it, ascended two more flights to look for the mother, and, not seeing her nor any one else, returned to the elevator. After the elevator had de- scended about another 160 feet he the woman lying across the Barker declared that on reaching the bottom he wanted to turn the child over to one of the guards, so that he could return to locate 'the woman, when some one intervened and ordered him out of the building, telling him he didn’t know what he ‘was talking about. year-olds; six furlongs. Lieut, Farrell. 110 Pime. Expovire Tiing'sRansom. .. 4Jimson .. 13. 8. Cosden and W. Stockton entry, FIFTH RACE—Purse, $1500; for thre yoarolds and up; one mile aad seventy yard, inutes. .. 108 Wilkes-Barre 100 Tena Mimess. 110 100 Chief Ourey: 97 Soesom ...l 105 Bun Que Thimble 105 SIXTH RACE—Purse, $1,500; claiming; for three-year-oids and up; six furlongs. 17 *Glen Tilt..... B lu:’il-& THormd Hidten Jowel. !l 108 +Night Ratder. Bock Botéom..... 107 *Lady Boss Fivtrus ooe e 107 SEVENTH RACE—Purse, $1.300; claiming; for Shree-yoarolds and mile and s 14 Whotstons . Wrack Horn 108 *tRed Wi ld.. 110 et e z belphrizonia lier Rosa. ... 109 108 claimed. Weather cloudy; track fast. entertainment, | been | he | TALKS and TALES With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS These flashes are direct from newsroom of The Evening Star, Washington, D. C., and it is hoped they will be read by the Takoma Park audience, the Alexandria audi- ence, the Falls Church audience, the Rockville audience, as well as the ‘Washington audi gee, “deadline,” le's go! | While it is universally conceded Ilhal a prophet Is not without honor {save in his own home town, the age- | worn theory i1s hardly applicable to {Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, recently ap- | pointed commander of the Virginid, Maryland and District of Columbia | National Guard, for there are few in { Washington who have not heard of {his military activities, but for the | benefit of those unfamiliar with the record of this citizen soldier, a beau- | tiful tribute paid him by a_comrade- {in-arms will be touched on Rerewith. After a brief chat in the lobby of |the New Willard Hotel with R {Arthur J. B. Cayer of St. Anthony's Church, Worcester, Mass., who served for twenty months as chaplain of 161st Infantry in France (Col phan's old regiment), nothing would do but a trip be made with the priest to a meeting of the Newcomers' Club. | where Father Caver had been invited { by Gen. Stephan as guest of honor. In response to a request from Prev- ident Burkhart to say a little some- thing, the robust chaplain squared {his shoulders and sald “For twenty {months I served under Col. Stepha: {in different parts of France and 1 have no hesitancy in saving tha there was not a more efficient, bet beloved and respected officcr ‘n t whole of the American expeditionar forces.” The priest paid a glowing tribute to the character of Gen. Stephan, and said that while he was a strict dis. ciplinarian he was kindness personified toward his men, and that even today in Worcester, where many of the old 161st boys are llving, some in hospi< tals, the name of “Col. Stephan” was repeatedly mentioned. “There was no better organizer ln the whole of the Army.” continued Father Cayer. “I have seen him turn raw recruits into capable fighting men in ten days, while his work at the dis- graceful camp at_St. Afgnon, the most insanitary death trap in France, was a of military genfus. In five time, after taking command at ndescribable hole, Col Stephan formed it into one of the most sanitary and livable in all of the se ltion. When we went there but one |Kkitchen was available for more th 40,000 men. In thirty da: Ca ephan ha established seventee: kitchens, and the place was as dry and clean as your home. God grant we have no more war, but if one comes I will beg to be stationed with my oid commander.” the | Countess Constance Hillyer de Caen of France, known to thousands of {fighting men now in this country as “Little_Mother,” is at the Shoreham for a few days before journexing to Texas to visit some of the mothers of those who never came back. The big guns of France had harely belched forth their defiant response to the invading enemy in 1914 when the tiny French woman. a royal by blood, sailed from South America to cast her lot with the soldiers sl loved so well. Untiring in her ef- forts, unselfish in her work aad never weary of her administrations to the sick and wounded of the allice, this daughter of the resiment work- ed alone, with the French Red and other organizations until American boys arrived, and then took It upon herself to make i strangers at home. This “Angel of Fra peatediy decorated b: ernment and i€ probably known by this country’ than any foreign war worker. the conclusion of hostilities she r fused to remain idle, but took It ups herself to keep green the graves 0f Amertcan dead. ~ Sge h mdde sew eral trips to this ‘country for the Gold_Star Mothers and through hor { many resting places. of loved oncs {have been located. ; Her trip to Texas is on’ such .a mission. Countess. de Caen- was born at Pondicherry, India. and has traveled all over the world. On one side sh jIs descended from = long line of Br ish admirals. Her great-grandfather. Admiral Sir James B. Hillyer. fought against the United States in 181% ¥rom her mother ehe inherits the Eritish title of Lady Constance. paternal great-grandfather, Charle# Isador. Count de Caen, was governor of the French Fast Indian Islands and was an ardent but, owing to his sol tion for the military gentus of Na- poleon, fell under suspicion of syn pathizing with his cause and was imprisoned by Louls XVIIL Ti grandfather of the countes Charles, Count de Caen, was a fender of Metz in 1870. The countess Is unmarried and en joys the distinction of possessing her French title by inheritance from her father. was batt veterahy H | All of which has nothing whatever to do with the absolute certainty feit by C. H. Innes. Boston lawyer, that President Coolldge will not only be nominated to succeed himself. but will be elected by an overwheiming majority next fall. The Massachusetts man was_just hurrying from the Arlington Hotcl to catch a train when asked about tha political situation in Ne: “Coolidge all the wa cheery response as he hopped into a taxi. “New England will be back of him to a man. thousands of demo- crats included,” and away he went. The prohibition question has long since ceased to worry folks west of the Mississippl, according to Clarence P. Dodge, former New Yorker, who for the last efghteen vears has made his home in Colorado Springs. during seventeen of which he edited the Colo- rado Springs Gazette, an indefatizablo supporter of the dry forces of the sec- tion. Mr Dodge is attending the citizen- ship conference now in session at the Raleigh Hotel, and when seen in his rooms at that house was most em- phatic in declaring “it is the better class of citizens in the east and mid- dle west that is making it hard for the enforcement of the law.” “Appreciating the vast good prohibi- tion has done for the workers of Colo. rado, it would be little less than shirk- ing not to continue the fight until America is as dry as the Sahara.” sald the genlal mnewspaper man as he | stroked his “Van Dyke." ‘“There are |representatives at = this conference from mos! welfare, social uplift and church organizations in the United States, and whila nothing we do will be attributed to any one group, consid- leration will be given the advisabilit of continuing the fight for enforce- ment that was made by virtually the same bodies that placed the dry law on the statute books.” With Japan's cry to speed up ma- chinery reverberating. through all great manufactories of this country, those familiar with industrial prob- !lems feel confident that the day will |mot be long when Nippon will have | recovered and be back to normaley. Dropping into the Lee House, Milo Bennett, head of the Bennett Lino- | type School of Toledo, Ohio, was en- | countered packing his belonginge, |preparatory to a trip across the conti- nent en route to the Flowery King- }dom, whither he gaes in the interest of the Intertype Company of Brook- iyn, N. Y., to make arrangements {or the' shipment of many large machines | to_that country. apan will' be back before the world knows it,” said Mr. Bennett, who conducts a school in his home town for practical printers to learn the mechanics of the ilnotype and intertype machines. “The cry in New York is to hurry Japanese orders. They are wonderfully resourceful people.” Much of the Toledo man’s life has been spent around newspgpers, and he is familiar with all big plants of the country: According to him, the five most complete organizations_in the United States today are the De- troit News, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Star, the St. Louis Globe- Democrat and the San Francisco Hze aminer. 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