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WEATHER. Fairftonight and tomorrow; contin- ued coo); temperature for hours &nded at 2 p.m. est, 53,:at 2 p.a 41,'at 5 a.m. today Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y: Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 Entered as s:cond-class matter post office Washington, No. 29,045. toda: esterday twenty-four : High- lowest, D, iC. PARISPARLEYFEAR | - ATRBUTEDTOLD ALODFNESS0F .S Sudden Changes in Polidy in 'Past Believed to Inspire Present Caution. HOPE FOR COMPROMISE SEEN BY BOTH PARTIES Present Jockeying Held Good |’ Sign—Neither Wants Blame for Deadlock. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘Where there's conversation there's ‘hope. “ That's the status of the nego- tiations between the United States and France as to the conference of ex- perts which shall make recommenda- tions on the problem of German repa- rations. Premier Toincare has been given the viewpoint of Secretary Hughes in Ereater detail, and it remains to be seen whcther the French premier will find in Mr. Hughes' explanation the guarantees he want What the French government has asked for is a specific guarantee that %he conference of experts will not ask France to reduce the amount of the German debt as covered in the so-called “A” and “B” bonds, which amount to about six and a half billion dollars. The question of Germany's present capacity to pay, which ha been the technical stumbling blocl involves portance to the on the surface. Looks Into Future. M. Poincare takes the position that the present capacity of Germany to pay her debts is admittedly not at great as it will be. and he wants to prevent the making of a report by a commission which will require France to make con- cessions. The public opinion of France is fepresented as very nervous over the prospect of another conference which, like all others preceding, might resolve itself into a question of reducing the German debt. If there were assurance in advance that reduction was not to be discussed, but that the capacity of Germany to pay was tg be determined with an idea of compelling German pay- ments, then the French would agree. On the other hand, Premier Poincare is unwilling to take the responsibility before the world of breaking down the only parley in which the United States has_been engaged for the last three vears. He thinks some useful things can be done by the conference, and he would rather have the United States withdraw—if the parley breaks down— than have France refuse. Under these circumstances, the Jockeying back und forth between ondon and Paris is proceeding with an idea of working out a compromise, but with a kuowledge that full pub- Jicity probably will be given to the ne- zagotiations when once they do break aown, 8o that the French and American governments will be judged accord- ingly. French Pressure Felt Here. President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes have felt the pressure from American business interests for the extension of a helpful hand to Europe. They know they must justify before American public opinion any with- drawal or recession from the position adopted at the outset. Premier Poin- care on his part must prove to French opinion if he accepts the proposed in- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. $100,000 IN FRAUDS LAID TO CHICAGOAN Man Alleged to Have Half Dozen| Aliases Caught After Chase. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 8. —Harry Hayden, twenty-four years old, who through alleged fraudulent activities is said by police to have obtained more than $100,000 in the last two vears, was arrested by two Chicago detectives after they had chased him from an exclusive hotel three blocks to the shores of Lake Michigan last night. Just previous to the chase Hayden, who, police declare, is known by a half dozen aliases, was seated in the dining room of the hotel with R. A. Nuestrom, a Buffalo (N. Y.) real es tate man, and was consummating a deal involving $50,000. Nuestrom had the check already written. Hayden, tipped off to “beat it, the cops are here,” excused himself from Nuestrom and left the hotel, the de- tectives falling in behind him. When ke reached the outside he started to run. He was taken to the detective bu- reau, but no charge was placed against him. 7 Among those whom Hayden is al leged to have defrauded is Miss Ollle} Grossman, said to be a buyer for a Chicago dress establishment, who, the police say, met Hayden at French Lick, Ind., eighteen months ago and later transferred $25,000 worth of lib- erty bonds to him in New York in exchange for stock after he had talked to her of oil investments. CHINESE POLICE WOUND FOUR RUSSIAN REDS Riot Breaks Up Parade at Harbin, Manchuria, Marking An- niversary. By the Associated Press. HARBIN, Manchuria, November 7.— Four Russians were wounded, one seriously, when Chinese police fired on a crowd of communists celebrating the anniversary of the Rusisan revo- lution. The latter were marching in the streets, carrying red banners and making speeches against the police. When the police attempted to dis- perse_the celebrants a revolver shot was fired from the crowd. The offi- ocers returned the fire. A general fight seemed imminent until the soviet rep- resentative at Harbin arrived and as- £ist®d in dispersing the Russians. { something of far greater im- | than appears | tected them from the Euns of the | fleet, which remained loyal. Method to Predict Quakes Is Studied By Weather Office Earthquake records cannot be used directly in predicting earth- quakes, the weather bureau an- nounces,\out study of a collection of these records throws a great deal of light on the nature of earthquakes generally, and it is hoped that at some future time this information mgy lead to suc- cessful methods of prediction. The Hawalian volcanic observ- ®tory of the weather bureau util- izes these records and has been instrumental in the saving of life and property. When a violent earthquake that appears to have occurred in the Pacific ocean is recorded the observatory officials send out warnings by cable and otherwise to the regions likely to be affected. Such earthquakes frequently are attended by called tidal waves and there ually is an interval of many hours between the occurrence of the quake and the arrival of the dstructive oceanic wave at any given point THRONE OF GREECE TOTTERSINREVOLT Insurrection by Monarchists Almost Made Nation Re- public Once More. The drastic military censorship on news, which was applied in_Greece during the insurrection led by Gen. Metazas, eliminated cverything tend- ing to show the seriousness of the political situation there. The follow- ing dispatch shows how the ‘throme | of another king is tottering. | BY. A. R. DECKER. Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily | News. Copyright, 102 ATH November 8.—Greece's lat- lest insurrection almost cost King George his throne and almost made |Greece a republic again. Perhaps {even yet 'the king's days are num- | | bered, and the elections in December | may mark the end of his regime. The insurrection, led by Gen. Me- taxas, was an attempt of supporters of former King Constantine to oust the revolutionary government headed | by Col. Plastiras, which has. held | | power since the overthrow and execu~ | tion of the Gounaris cabinet. It was a well planned but badly | executed insurrection. At the appeal | of Gen. Metaxas, garrisons all over | Greece took arms to march on| Athens. It is said that the troops were misled by information that they were to quell Comitadji unrisings or | communist troubles, or that they were to maintain ordet during the elec- tions. Rebels Are Dispersed. About 14,000 men began the move- ment, considerably outnumbering the government troops. But a revolution- aryihero, in Col. Condylis, appeared to quell the insurrection. At Saloniki Col. Condylis spoiled the insurrec- tionist plans by surprising their mo- bilization. He violently attacked the rebels with loyal troops, and after a battle in which about thirty-seven | were killed on both sides the rebels | dispersed, some fleeing over the Serh- | tan frontier. i Then Col. Condylis rushed south,| getting into action at the rail junc- | tion thirty miles northwest of Athens and routing the rebels, who were awaiting the force from the Pelopon- nesus. The main movement was from the Peloponnesian peninsula, where the monarchists, or Constantinists, are | strongest. ' Under two generals—| Leonardopolous and Gargaldis—about | 5,000 troops crossed the Corinth ca- | nal on the big bridge there and began | their march on Athens, proceeding behind a range of hills which pro- Here the rebels showed lack of decision, re- fused an engagement and finally sur- | rendered, the officers unconditionally and the men on the understanding that they were to be pardoned. | Leaders May Be Shot. | he officers were arrested, are being tried, and it is expected that | the leaders will be shot. Some of them already have been condemned. A great hunt is on for Gen. Metaxas, who has disappeared. The momentum acquired in quelling the revolution caused some of the more extreme leaders to demand aj j gencral bousecleaning of the dynasty fand the etting up of a republic. | They argued that King George's aide had a hand in the insurrection and th; anyway, his presence on the throne would cause future attempts to restore the dynasty on the same footing as before the revolution. Alarmed at the turn affairs were taking, M. Venizelos' friends tried to | wire him, but were prevented from doiug s Finally word was gotten | to him through a foreign representa- tive. Although the revolutionary { government is friendly to M. Veni- Zelos, it wishes to retain the mastery. | There seem to be many shades of Venizelis { Take Moderate Course. { One of the ministries had announced | that a republic would be declared| immediately, but a meeting of politi- | {cal and military leaders decided to! await the elections, December 2, and; | the parliament of December 20, where, ! perhaps, a referendum will be made. | Several of the most important revolu- . | tionary leaders, however, did not at- | tend this meeting, but sent letters: demanding that a républic be declared. | These include Gen. Pangalos, Admiral Hadjikyriacos and Col. Condylis. i The seriousness of this can be read- ily seen, as twb of the three are leading Spirits of the army, while the | third controls tBe fleet. Hence, it is | 100 early to state that all is over. The. military leaders have complete control here. The ministries seem like barfacks. ' However, some of the leaders told the writer they want to return to parliamentary. government as soon as possible. They claim the elections will -be open to all males owver twenty. i ‘As King George has not yet been ousted from the throne, it is assumed that the calmer revolutionary leaders have prevailed upon the army and navy leaders. But there is danger, now that all the Constantinist officers are out, that a further split will come in the army between the moderates and the radicals. e ESTHONIA NAMES ENVOY. REVAL, BEsthonia, -November 8.— Prof. Piih, former Esthonian repre- sentative in London and later foreign minister, has been appointed minister to the United States, ) I F4) h | ernment mot to allow him fto enter | possessing psychological ¢ Fhoenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star. WASHtNG’}.‘ON D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1923—FORTY-SIX PAGES. CROWNPRCEBAN T0BE DEMANGED OF GERMANY BY ALLIES Ambas;sadors’ Body ito Esk Dutgh Forbid Frederick %0 Leave Exile: 3 ROYALISTS PLAN MARCH ON CAPITAL TOMORROW ¢ v Stresem‘m Effort to Save Some- thing of Mark Hailed in Financial Circles., By the Associated Press. ' PARIS, November 8.—The French government has inptructed its ambassador in Berlin t¢ inform the Gorman governmert that France would not tolerate!the es- tablishment of a dictatorial go ernment in Germany. PARIS, November 8—THe allied council of ambassadors decié¢ed today to request the Dutch goverrment not | to allow former Crown Prince Freder- ick William to leave Dutch kerritory, | where he has been in exile since the war, and also to ask the German gov- | Germany, as he is on the ligt of per- | sons charged with war crimés, whose | arrest is sought by the allie¢ govern- | ments. March on Berlin Delayed. correspondent of the Exchange Tele- | graph forwards a telegrdm from: Munich which says that the '{a‘.‘armnE irregulars have decided to march on Berlin tomorrow MONEY PLAN BALliEDA Berlin Financiers See Sttj;semann’ Proposal Advantag By the Assoclated Press. BERLI} Stresemann's hastily proclaim$d ures, intended to bring relier | : | November §.—CHancellor | meas- | in the meet with varying degrees of ppproval among the financial critics. They view the government's decrees as grimarily | imbortance, | in that' they assured the puplic that the paper mark is not aftogether worthless and that it will be shortly ttadéd i againet. the new cuinage in an_equitable proportion. The government's failure to; fix defi- nitely the value of the paper mark in relation to the present limited: issue of gold loan notes is the chief source of popular disappointment, as the official communiques the past three days were considered to have foreshadowed defi- nite action at once in this diréction. The government now makes ll!i final appraisal of the paper mark con- | tingent upon its ability to ‘halt the money presses and obtain sufficient new revenues through the gomman- decring of foreign currencies and the | lovying of new taxes, they forsign moneys to be replaced with'the new German_ gold currencies. In releasing 200,000 tons of sugar for export the government hopes to coax 80,000,000 gold marks;into its| exchequers, although the theaty of | Versailles imposes an export @mbargo on saccharine products. Thij feature of the chancellor's emergecy pro- gram. also is provoking distrust on the ground that the elimination of supply will, in all probability, result this_amount of sugar from ‘he local in the driving up of retail the home market. New Mark Ready S The government hopes to, have its issue of ‘“rentenmarks” as' its new currency is christened, réady for cir- culation November 15. No Announce- ment has been made regafding the size of the issue or what pyecautions will be provided to protect it from being pounced upon by the specu- lators. although the ofdial com- munique hopefully asserts that with the appearance of the new currency “inflation will have come t4 an end.- It is then proposed to arrive at an estimate of the total volumé of paper marks in circulation throughout the world in order to fix a ratg at which the paper mark will be redeemed for the new gold currency, the:latter be- ing conceived as a blotter for absorb- ing the unnamed trillion tFillions of numbered and unnumberd paper notes of varying denominations. The official communiques suggest, however, that the successful work- g out of the governments present scheme is in large measure: dependa- ble upon its ability to salvage the situation in, the Ruhr and the Rhine- land, where the number of the unem- ployed entitled to doles has already reached two million. PARIS ANSWERS BERLIN. Not Concerned With Bavarian In- cident, Says Noté. BERLIN, November 8:—Premier Poincare, replying to the ricent Ger- man_protest against the aititude of the French general, de Mets, in the Bavafian palatinate, informed Berlin that the French governmen{ was en- tirely unconcerned with préparations for separatist action in éither the palatinate or the Rhine province and would continue to be so. A semiofficial statement ,announc- ing receipt of the reply sa¥s that it evaded answering the mplaint against Gen. de Metz. Th» German | government had especially ‘taken of- fense at his statement to a Tepresent- ative of Bavaria that the latter no longer had power in the palatinate and that Bavarian officials there were prohibited from executing their duties. e 300 MILES AN HOUR:SEEN BY LECOINTE, FRENCH ACE Is Having Plane Made!.to Beat Records of Brow and Wil- liams, He Asserts. By the Associated Press, PARIS, November 8.—Sad! Lecointe, the French ace, told a representative of Auto he was convinced & speed of 300 miles an hour by an aifplane will be exceeded before long.: He an- nounced that he was having an engine fitted into his machine which would gnable him to fiy at a srester speed than was recently attained:by Amer- icaw Lieuts. Willlams and Brow. i [ puct. prices in | - I BURDENED FRANCE Credits to Keen Little Entente | in Fighting Trim Expected to Be Voted. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. PARIS, November §.—One of the {first acts of the French parliament, when it convenes a week hence, is ex- | nation’s financial and food situation, !pected to be the voting of credit ad- vances totaling a billion and a half francs to Jugoslavia, Poland and Ru- mania, for the purchase of military and reconstruction materials in France. This sum includes previous advances which have been voted by the chamBer but fiot by the senate. 5 Practieally no parliamentary eppas sition is expected. France, in dire financial straits, can i1l afford addi- tional burdens of this- sort, but the expenditures are considered absolute- Iy essential in connection with the nation’s foreign policy. Rejection by the United States of the Versailles treaty, thg league of nations and the Franco-American together with "the rejection by Great Britain of the Franco-British guarantee pact, and the subsequent bickerings of French and British diplomacy, have given the French people the impression that their only true friends are the small, new na- tions of central Europe, with which | France has a common interest in maintenance of the new political or- der in Europe. The military, politi- cal and financial support of these countries France therefore considers her first duty. WHALE ANTEDATES SANTA BARBARA MAN Jawbone Dug Up by Harrington “Makes Ancient Human Look Modern.” By the Aseociated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., November $—Dr. J. P. Harrington, who is busy here digging out ancient bones, yester- Lday received a jawbone of a toothed whale, which he says.is so old that it makes the ancient man he found look modern. The whale lived far back in geological times, certainly millions of years before | the low-btowed man whose skull was | found a few days ago came into exist- ! ence. The jawbone, which is well preserved, was dug out of a cliff close to the ocean, near here. It was presented to Dr. Harrington for the Smithsonian In- stitution. Dr. Harrington plans a search to find the remainder of the anclent whale, as no excavation has been done where the jaw was, found. The section of bone is about four feet in length and contains many teeth between twelve and fifteen inches long and as large as a good-sized cup. The whale is esti- ! mated to have been not less than thirty feet in length. The discovery Is regarded’ by the scientists here as proving the antiquity of this coastal region and affording a fruitful fleld for further investigation. ASK BOOTLEGGING CURB-' AT VETERANS’ HOSPITAL Plea Sent President by Chapter of Disabled Men at Wau- kesha, Wis. President Coolidge was appealed to today to stop bootlegging in the vicinity of veterans' hospitals. McCarthy *Chapter, No. 3, Disabled American Veterans, all the members of which are patients at Hospital No. 37, at Waukesha, Wis.; in @ resolution forwarded here pratested to Mr. Cool- idge, as well as to all others having to do with law enforcement, against conditions in the vicinity of that in- stitution, . which . were - described - as “unbearable and_deplorable.” feel,” said the resolution, “that it was not the intention of the Amer- jcan people, when they adopted the eighteenth amendment and establish. ed hospitals all over the United States for the purpose of rehabilitation, that a certain class of citizens, or resi- dents at least, should ply their trade by selling polsonous moonshine, hom brew and various other dope to & certain class of patients of the above ‘mentioned hospital, who, on account of the nature of their disabilities, are I =7\ I College Girls Growing Taller, Statistics Show By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 8—The college girl is growing. Since 1884 she has sprouted an average of one and three-tenths inches. She also is putting on weight, her waist measurement is larger and even her lung capacity has improved. These advancements are based on statistics compiled at Vas- sar College by Miss Mabel New- comer, economics department, from measurements taken by the de- partment of physical education.’ The figures ghow that from 1584 to 1920 the weight of college girls increased from 123.8 to 12 The waist measurement dropped from 25 to 22 from 1884 to 1596, stood still for ten years, then gradually increased until it reached 25 once more. Improvement in physical con- dition. was attributed to the in- creased interest In athletics. IGNORING ‘PADLOCK BRINGS JAIL TERM Hotelkeeper Eighteen Months—First Case of Kind in Country. adlock” injunctions are not mere | ‘scraps of paper,” and violations may | lead to fine and imprisonment for “con- tempt of court.” Joseph S. Graves, colored, had these facts impressed on him today when Justice Stafford of the District Su- preme Court adjudged him guilty of three distinct violations of one of these injunctions. The court imposed a sentence of $500 fine and six months in jail in each of the three cases, making a total sentence of $1,500 fine and eighteen months’ imprisonment. First Case of Kind. ‘The case is said to be the first in the United States where contempt proceed- ings in such cases have been success- ful and fine and imprisonment imposed. Assistant United States Attorney Kelly has had charge of the prosecu- tion of Graves, who conducted a ho- tel at 16 and 13- G street northwest. On May 3 last he obtained a “pad- lock” injunction agaiflst Graves for alleged violations of the Volstead act. Despite the injunction, it was stated, @Graves continued to sell liquor, and June 1 last the first contempt pro- ceeding was instituted against him. Case Is Delayed. Because. of the summer recess of the courts the matter was not pressed and September 6 and.October 23 the two other contempt charges were filed on. afidavits of prohibition agents that they had purchased in- toxicants at Graves' establishment. The three cases were consolidated and testimony taken in ‘open court before Justice Stafford. -Graves de- nied the sales; but the court found against him 'and. imposed the sen- tences. Attormeys T. Morris Wampler and ' Robert E. Lynch, for:the hotel keeper, noted an appeal to the Dis- trict Court of .Appeals, and pending the decision of that court, Graves is at liberty on bail. SCOTLAND TOWNS STAY FIRMLY IN WET COLUMN Drys Lose by Wider Margin Than in Vote of Three Years Ago, - 'Count Shows. By the Associated Press. Aaia LONDON, ' -Noyvember . -8.—Judging from the results, already compiled-in thé local ‘option vote taken in forty-. three towns in: Scotland ‘this week; the ;liquor “dealers and, their custom- ers have every cause for satisfaction. In all except a few places the “wet not only defeated the teetotalers, but increased the victory they scored in the last contest three years ago. The utmost efforts of the pro- iiquor element, however, failed to shake the resolution of the residents | of - Milngavie, Kirkintilloch and Kil- syth, who reaffirmed their faith in temperance. On the other hand, the small: town of -Auchterarder, Perth- hire, fell from, grace and elected to revert .to the column of the “wets” after three years' experience with Dprohibition, ST Sentenced to| | | ) il "‘l = VETERANS INQURY A BEBROADENED 'Hints Made That Employes | Are Blocking Senate Probe. Forbes to Testify. »pe of the Senate inquiry into | the Veterans' Bureau probably will be broadened as a result of statements {made to the investigating committee {1ate yesterday by its counsel that cer- tain employes of the bureau have sought in every way to hinder the {work of obtdining records and pa- pers for the prosecution of the { quiry. R. C. Routsong, in charge of the | statistical division, who was assigned :by DirectorWrank T. Hines to assist ed as one in- { committee counsel, was of the employes, and the committee jasked that it be furnished a list of the others. Specifically. Routsong was charged with withholding papers relating to payments to .Mathew O'Brien, a San Francisco architect. {for unused plans for a hospital at Livermore, Calif. One letter showed that O'Brien had | presented a claim _for.only $13.000 in addition to the $64,000 paid him for the original pians and commit- teemen indicated that this letter {would have been of much importance in its investigation into the pay- ment of $33.000 to O'Brien by the | general accounting office of the bud- ! get bureau. Employes May Be Called. The committee was in recess today {until next Monday. Routsong and some of the gther employes may be called nex week. The committee jalso will be prepared then to hear Charles R. Forbes, former director of the bureau, and some of his wit- jnesses. Fofbes was too ill yesterday to attend the hearing and the time |of his appearance on the witness stand is indefinite. nator Reed, republican, Pennsyl- {vania, chairman of the committee, has expressed a desire to have the committee’s report and the record of the hearings ready for Congress next month. That this may be done, the Learings will have to be closed next week or the week following. Sev- leral major matters remain to be in- quired into, including Camp Kearney, Wash,, and the operations of the medical and claims division of the bureau. Recommendations for several im- portant changes in the law governing the treatment of the former service men are expected to be one outcome of the investigation. While the com- mittee has been in session only three weeks, John F. O'Ryan, its general counsel; and an army of assistant: including lawyers, doctors and se ice men throughput the country, ha: been conducting hundreds of investi- gations for months. As a result of these inquiries and the co-operation between Gen. O'Ryan and Director Hines, the former has Teported 'to the committee that a number of causes for criticism have been removed. Many others remain, however, and it is the opinion of those who have studied the question that only amendments of the basic jaw governing the bureau will afford a temedy in a number of the cases. The first snow of the season fell on Washington teday. Snow flakes fell in the outlying sec- ' tions of the city, turning later inté a light mist. The, Petworth and Brightwood -secttess and parts of the city in the.extreme northwest reported «lighit' snowfalls, nearly . corres- .ponding:to a light rain ‘as the flakes turned into water as soon ‘ds they touched the earth. Snowfalls have heen recorded in the Capital in. October, the Weather Bureau said, although at ‘this time of year a snowfall is un- usual. Forecast for the afternoon to- day predicts overcast skies, with a continuation of the fresh north- west. winds, which have been blowing for the last two days. Clear skies are promised for to- night and tomorrow, with a drop in temperature tonight to nearly freezing. The temperature at noon today, was just below 40, while ‘a‘ temperature tonight of «about 34 or 35 is predicted, al- b jare Lieut. 0. T. Davis, | E. McQuade, Private Harry G. Bauer| coyered with snow, The Star is 60 cents POLICE GUILTLESS. IN DRY-LAW CASES, TRIAL BOARD FINDS Lieut. Davis and Three Oth- ers Exonerated of Charges Filed by U. S. Agents. IRREGULAR PRACTICES AND NEGLECT ALLEGED! Accusers Still Under Sntpemion: Pending Treasury In- vestigation. Verdicts of not guilty were returned by the trial board today in the cases of the four members of the police { force against whom charges were filed by prohibition agents. The four who now stand exonerated ergt. James and Private William H. Vermillion. The first three constitute the police vice squad and werg charged with conduct prejudicial to the good order and discipline of the force and fith | was | neglect of duty. Vermillion charged only with neglect of duty All of the affidavits dealt with al- | leged irregularities on the part of these policemen in connéction with dry enforcement. Dry Ageats Retaliate. The dry agents submitted afidavits against the policemen after Commis- sioner Oyster had laid before Prohibi- tion Commissioner Haynes certain al- legations made by the vice squad against Prohibition Agents Fowler and Packard Those agents were suspended from duty pending an investigation by the special intelligence unit of the Treas- ury Department, the results of which have not yet been announced. Assistant Corporation Counsel Wahly, board 'that tried the police, handed the verdict to Maj. Sullivan today. and it was then transmitted to Com- missioner Oyster. Charge Against Davis. One of the principal against Lieut. Davis was that he filled a bottle in order to get evidence in a liquor case, which was denied by the lieutenant at the trial Another charge was that the vice squad permitted citizens to go on raids, and siders carried —guns. also was denied. There were a num- ber of other allegations on which the trial board took testimony. TOWN HELD AT BAY AS BANK IS ROBBED Bandits Escape With $2,000 and Liberty Bonds—U. S. Troops Aid Pursuit. By the Associated Press. OGDEN, Kan.. November 8.—Hold- ing townsmen at bay from 2 o'clock this morning, eight or ten bandits blew the safe of the Ogden State Bank and escaped with $2.000 in cash and an undetermined amount in Liberty bonds and other valuables. All telephone and telegraph wires leading into the town were cut. The bandits posted guards at the | principal corners of the town, while the robbers began work. The first blast aroused a number of resident: some of whom ventured down the main streets, but they were stopped by shots from the guard. The town marshal, from behind a tree, ex- changed a number of shots with the | bandits. Joe Boller, who lives on the edge of | the town, drove eight miles to a rural telephone station and notified the of- ficers at Junction City and Manhattan. A posse, augmented by soldiers from Fort Riley, reached Ogden thirty minutes after the bandits had fled with their loot. BRAZIL FIGHTING CEASES; ARMISTICE I§ SIGNED| News Hailed With Joy in Santa Anna—Definite Seen Soon. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, November 8.— A dispatch to La Nacion from Rivera says hostilities between _the _state troops of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and the revolutionists ceased yester- day, when a twelve-day armistice be- came effective. The- dispatch adds that the news was received joyfully at Santa Anna, where rockets were fired and the whistles in factories were blown. There {8 reason to hope that a definite peace is only a question of a few days, says the correspondent. Peace First Snowflakes of Winter Fall on Washington Suburbs though the thermometer will not £0_to the freezing point. Weather Bureau observers in western Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, reported, light snowfalls, while snow. fell’ stead- ily. in. New York state, northern Pennsylvénia and throughout New England. OVER INCH OF -SNOW FALLS IN MARYLAND Special Dispatch to The Btar. CUMBERLAND, Md., November 8. One and one-half inches of snow fell in Altamont-Terra Alta mourtainous section and. flurries occurred at Thomas early yesterday morning, be- ing the first fall of the season. The temperature ranged - between 36 and 38 at Altamont; Terra Alta, Thomas and Elkins to 45 degress in this city. Automobiles coming from the vi- cinity of Uniontown and beyond were “From Press to Home Ruby, | Wwho was chairman of the | allegations it was alleged these out- | : .‘Thls (‘J’mQI until 4| Within the Hour” delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at y month Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 93,262 TWO CENTS. HITS ROBED EN ADED 1 TOESLAP IALATARLINGTON Colored Woman, Left Prison, Says She Heard Threats of Lynching. in CROWD COMES AT 12; JAILER NOTIFIED AT 2 Eight, Including Accused Murder- er, Fail to Leave With Others. Eleven prisoners, inciuding one murderer sentenced to a twenty-year prison term, escaped from the Ar- lington county jail late last night as a result of hat county officials be- lieve to be “outside help.” Seven or eight prisoners, including a man held on the charge of killing his wife, did not take the opportunity and leave the jail. How the escape was accomplished |is not known, as the prisoners in the men’s section declared they knew nothing of the actual escape. The doors of the cells of the escaped men Ead been opened and two bars in the downstairs rear of the jail had been sawed away, thus allowing the men {to crawl through a small opening. Of ficials declere thau the bars down- stairs had been sawed from the out- side. Saw White-Robed Figures. According to Helen Jackson, col ored prisoner in the woman's sec- tion, about midnight she saw forty- |nine automobiles containing whitc robed figures pass the road by the jail sounding their horns. Later, she declared, she and another woman | prisoner, named Elizabeth, heard rap- | pings on their cell window and, look- {ing out. she said she saw two white- !robed figures standing erect and | still under a tree by the jail and also | two men in plain clothes, with their !faces blackened, under her window She stated she heard the men in plain clothes say: “The whole county is rotten.” and 'l wish we couid | take them out and lynch the whole ot She and her companion, the woman | said, thinking that some one was | trying to scare them, laughed and i the two men in plain clothes ran to {ghe other end of the jail. Thinking no more about it, they went to sleep until Sandy McDaniél, a colored pris- oner, told her to tell Z. D. Kines deputy sheriff, who was asleep in his quarters upstairs in the front of the jail. Kines was called at 2 o'clock McDaniel said that he saw the machines go by, and declared that {some of them stopped a little farther down the road from the jail. He said he did not know anything else he discovered the prisoners All Police on Trail. vailable man of the Arling- police force is on the out- look for the escaped prisoners and officials are investigating the deli (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) DIES AFTER EATING POISONED BREAD Wife Put Roach Powder in Muffins by Mistake, Police Told. Chemists of the District health de- partment today are analyzing the contents of the stomach of Adolph L. Schultze, fifty-four years old, 213 10th street northeast, who died early | today, to determine whether his death was due to natural causes or from the effects of roach poison which i ! wife had put into muffins by mistake. The muffins were served at dinner | yesterday evening and shortly afi- erward, it is said, both Mr. Schultze and his son, Edward Schultze, twenty- nine years old, complained of feeling i1 Mrs. Louise Schultze then discov- | ered that she had mixed the muffins with the roach poison instead of yeast powder. The son, however, recovered from his ilness, but his father grew | steadily worse and died about 5 o'clock this morning. | Dr. A. W. Boswell, who has been treating Mr. “ Schultze for several years, expressed the belief that he Wwas not a victim of the insect poison Dr. Herbert E. Martyn, deputy coro- ner conducted an autopsy at the Schultze home today and_ sent Mr. Schultze's stomach to the health d partment for analysis. ‘MARYLAND PASTOR | COMMITS SUICIDE No Cause Known for Act of Rev. W. J. Barnard in Garrett County. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., November §.— Rev. William J. Barnard, aged fifty- eight, pastor of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South at Chestnut Grove, five miles west of Blooming- ton, Garrett county, Md., committed suicide yesterday in the cellar‘at his home by cutting his throat with a razor. Hg was discovered by his wife and death came in five minutes. He always was of a cheery dispo- sition, and no cause can be assigned. either by members of his family or intimate friends. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Fannie Barnard, and Ivt children,