Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 5

DEMOCRATS T0 GET DISTRICT VOTE PLANK Delegates to Work for Recognition of Right, Rather Than Specific Pledge. GO TO CONVENTION EARLY John F. Costello, National Commit- teeman, Promises Best Effort. Recognition of the broad principle that the people of the District of Co- Tumbia are entitled to a right to a voice and a vote in the government is 10 be demanded by the District's delega- tion to the Democratic national conven- tion in New York. How this principle is to be applied is @nother matter, and one that Congress will have to work out, it was said today by John F. Costello, Democratic national committeeman from the District, and by Frank Sprigg Perry, one of the dele- gates to the convention, who with Mrs. ¥rank Hiram Snell, another delegate, will present the District's case to the committee on resolutions which must draft the Democratic platform. Optimistic of Succenn, Both Mr. Costello and Mr. Perry today were optimistic that a Distriet plank of this kind wculd eventually be found in the party platform. They both believe that the District should be entitled to elect voting represent- atives in the Senate and House, and that the District should elect to the electoral college. But they said they intended to fight for the recognition of the broad prin- ciple that the people of the National Capital should not be debarred from participating in their own govern- ment, rather than for a more specific plank. Mrs. Snell has been an active work- er in the cause of woman suffrage for several years. Mr. Costello plans to go to New York either tomorrow or Thursday, and the other members of the dele- zation will be in New York by Mon- day, and some of them earlier, it was said. The headquarters of the dele- gation will be the Imperial Hotel. GIRL HELD IN CHECK QUIZ. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., June 17.—Pretty and just nineteen years old, Elsie May Roberts, a former resident of Buchanan, Va. who had for some time been emploved as a salesgirl here, is in custody of the police ting trial on charges of check ing. She was arrested in Char- ottesville following an alleged prom- to make good a $45 check. Since ng brought back here four other ¢harges have been made, the amdunts ranging from $10 to $45. The girl as yet has made no state- ment. 27 Gradudtes Hear Sermon. Epecial Dispateh to The Star. LACR " Mad. June 17.—Joint servi were held at the First Bap- tist Church here Sunday for grad- the nrel High School, tz delivering the s class is com- seven members. Ten Formerly Stag Hotel Phone Main 8108-8109 604-610 9th St. N.W. $10.. st ke M. - ~ Beauty DonGe BROTHERS Four Passender Coupe If you need a Stenographer The Star prints MORE Classified ads every day than all the other papers here combined — because they bring such splen- did results. | < “Around the Cornmer” is a Star Branch Office. TELLS OF THREATS BY LILLY RESIDENTS State Witness Says He Saw At- tempt to Storm Hill “'Where Klansmen Met. NAMES TWO DEFENDANTS Cassandra Brothers Tell of Part in 4 Disastrous Parade. Ry the Associated Press. EBENSBURG, Pa, June 17— Threats made by residents of Lilly against visiting Ku Klux Klansmen on April 5 last, prior to the fight be- tween the two factions in which three Lillyites met death, were testified to today by state witnesses in the trial of William Monahan, young Lilly coal miner, whose indictment for murder grew out of the disorder. Francis Squires of Cassandra testified he went to Lilly on a freight train the night of the trouble, and that when he arrived in the village he saw a crowd loitering on a corner. The klansmen, he said, were holding a demonstration on a nearby hillside, and one man in the crowd velled “Come on, boys, a stick of dy will dot it.” Another man said, on, we'll go up and drive them out, the witness continued. The crowd, he said, started toward the hill, but dis- banded a few minutes later. Testifies to Hearing Threats. Squires testified that he saw Har- old Bradley and Dan Carmey, two of the Lilly defendants, and 'another man holding and threatening to hang a fourth man. “They said they were going to wade in Catholic blood up to their knees” Bradley said, ac- cording to the witness. A few min- utes later one of the men remarked, “We won’t hang him. We'll take him back to the train’ On cross-examination said Bradley did not qualify when he made the statement about ‘“they” wading in Catholic blood. Harold and Horace Cappell, broth- ers, of Cassandra, said they took part in the Klan parade. Harold testified that the Klansmen were given orders to remain silent and to make no re- ply to the shouts of the Lillyites. When the Klansmen reached the field in which they staged a demon- stration they met twenty men, one of whom carried a Klan insignia and part of a robe, Horace said. This man waved the robe. the witness continued, shouting “We got one of you and will get the rest when you get back.” John Lowrey, the undertaker who . ? THE EVENING STAR Yot pase oo HUNGER AND THE PO1 SONED LAMS CHOP “* RITES FOR BERRYHILL. . | Captain Buried at Arlington Hon- ored by Many Officers. Military funeral rites for Capt. Thomas A. Berryhill, M. C., U. §. N., who died at the Naval Hospital at Mare Island, Calif., June 3, were held in Arlington cemetery this afternoon at 2 olclock. Honorary Ibearers were Rear Admiral Roberf Edward Coontz, chief of naval operations; handled the body of Cloyd Paul, one of the victims of the fight, said a wound on the back of the man's neck looked like a bullet hole, but that no bullet was found. Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, Rear Admiral William A. Moffétt, Rear Admiral E. R. Stitt, Rear Ad- miral George Clark, retired; Col John F. McGill of the United States Marine Corps: Capt. James C. Pryor. Medi- cal Corps, United States Navy, and Capt. Tucker-Smith. Capt. Berryhill was in charge of the hospital in which he died. He is sur- | vived by two sisters, Mrs. James H. Draper of this city, and Mrs. William Duff Haynie of Chicago: two nieces, Mrs. Samuel A. Kimberly of Wash: lington, D. C. and Mrs. Grant Fore- man of Oklahoma, and a nephew, Col. John R. Thomas, now stationed in this city. His wife, Mrs. Berryhill, died about four years ago. Time works wonders. So would some people if they were as tireless as time. “From_the AVENUE o NINTH- Why do you favor your head? Of course, we'll admit its value. But why not be fair to the rest of yourself, from the collar down? When you shed your felt hat and got under a straw did you do anything for the large part of your body below your neck? A properly made Palm Beach Suit is just as much a part of the well-dressed man’s summer attire as his straw hat. “Properly made” is just another way of saying Parker-Bridget Palt Beaches —for the same tailors build them with Single and double breasted models, silk lined. Sizes for men of every build— shorts, longs, stouts and regulars. Color range includes tan, sand, brown, silver, plain blue, blue and white, black and white and others. . NATI the same care as they use on our heav- ier clothes. ; I " ‘ , YT Y Wy WASHINGTON, D. C. RECREATION PLANS ARE DECLARED AIDED Secretary of President’s Conference Cites Measures Passed at Last Cougress Session. Favorable action by Congress at the last session is highly satisfactory to the 128 national organizations rep- resented at the President’s conference on outdoor recreation, according to T. E. Rivers, secretary of the con- ference. In a statement Mr. Rivers refers to it as being ‘of great significance to future conservation and recreation measures” and indicat- ing that “all recreational interests of America are united in developing a national recreational policy.” The upper Mississippi wild life and fish refuge measure, he explained, carried an appropriation of $1,500,- 000 for the purchase of a stretch of river bottom land between Rock Island, Ill, and Wabasha, Minn., which is a natural breeding ground for wild life, fish, fur-bearing animals u* a large variety of song birds. 'he McNary-Clark measure, a res- toration bill, authorizes an annual appropriation of $2,500,000 to enable the federal government to co-oper- ate with state officials and private agencies in forest fire protection, in studying the effects of taxation laws on forest perpetuation, in protecting growing timber and in the distribu- tion of tree seeds for reforestation. A third measure transfers the ad- ministration of game in Alaska from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture, where it TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1924, FACES THEFT CHARGE AS PRISON TERM ENDS Frank Spencer to Be Brought From Blackwells Island to Wash- ington for Trial. Detective Edward Kelly has gone to New York tc get Frank Spencer, allas Wilson, alleged hotel thief, wanted here to answer a charge of having stolen a suit case containing more than $400 worth of jewelry be- longing to C. E. Gunther, Norfolk, Va., about a year ago. It is charged that he visited a local hotel and gain- ed entrance to Gunther's room by im- personating the occupant and getting the key to the room from a clerk. Gunther's suit case was obtained from his room the day of the funeral of the late President Harding, while the hotel lobby was filled with vis- itors and guests. Spencer was ar- rested in New York City shortly aft- erward on a charge of taking a fifty- doliar bill from the desk in the Hotel McAlpin, where he had reslglered un- der the name of Wilson. Search of his room disclosed the suit case belonging to Gunther. De- tective Scrivener attended Spencer's trial for the theft of the money in the McAlpin, and when the prisoner was sentenced to serve a year on Black- wells Island a detainer was lodged against him. His term was due to expire today. will be in charge of the director of the United States biological survey. Secretary Rivers added that the menace of the pollution of coastal waters by the dumping of oil and refuse from ships, killing many fish and destroying natural bathing places will be largely stopped by the passage of the oil pollution bill. — JUSTICE TAFT LEAVES. Starts for Summer Home in Can- ada—Health Better. Much improved from a cold which had been amnoying him for a few days, Chief Justice Willlam Howard Taft today left Washington for his summer home in the Province of Quebec, Canada. At his home, 2215 Wyoming ave- nue, it was said today that he was feeling very much better when he left, and it” was stated that the ill- ness was at no time even approxi- mately serious. — Time savers—the railroad, the tele- graph, the telephone, the wireless— and Star Want Ads. B. & 0. BONDS APPROVED. Road Authorized by I. C. C. to Is- sue $35,000,000 at 6 Per Cent. 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