Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1924, Page 9

D. C. GREETERS WIN - ASSOCIATION CUP Awarded Prize for Cortribut- ing Most to Education in Hotel Business. Charter Number 31, conmsisting of tocal hotel men, was today awarded a silver cup for having accomplished the most in educational work in .con- nection with the hotel business, at a meeting of the Greeters of America in the Raleigh Hotel. They were competing with the fifty-two other of the Greeters of America. Charles Pease of the Powhatan re- ceived the cup in behalf of the local charter. A resolution of condolence to be sent to President Coolidge was unan- imously adopted. Immediately fol- ESCAPES FROM HOSPITAL. Patient at St. Elizabeth’s Was @ Guarded Since 1918, Chifrles Frederick, forty-one, de- serlbed in a police méssage as being a dangerous man, escaped from St. Elizabeth's Hospital this morning aoout 10 o'clock. He was a general court-martial prisoner and had been in the hospital since 1918. It was said at the hospital that he had at- tempted ro violence during the six years he has been there. Fregerick’s mental condition was such, however, that he was not per. mittéd about the grounds unattended. This morning he was missed from his ward shortly after attendants 'had seen him. Just how he got out had not been learned. WOMAN LOSES SUIT. Fails in Breach of Promise Case Against Robert Lebaudy. LONDON, July 10.—A special jury sitting before the lord chief justice today decided in favor of the defend- ant a breach of promise suit for £20,- 000 brought by Mrs. Frances Mend- ham against Robert Lebaudy, brother of Jacques Lebaudy, self-styled “em- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, GERMAN SLAYER'S DEATH LIST GROWS Relatives of Slain Seek Evidence After Investigation Shows Man Has Murdered Twenty-Two. HANOVER, Germany, July 10.— The list of murders attributed to & man named Haarman who already has been found to have slain twenty- two persons, is growing as several families whose sons recently disap- peared, but who up until now had not suspected that they might have been the victims of the mass mur- derer, have begun searches to dis- cover whether the missing men might bave been killed by him, Frau Schulenburg of Berlin, who came here to look for her son, found his hat, his hankerchief and four of his ties in Haarmann's cellar. The cellar is a low room made sound- proof by boards and thick wall paper and built close to the Leine River, “ THREATEN RACE TROUBLE Honduran ‘Workmen Demand Blacks Be Driven Out. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 10. —The murder of a Honduran citigen by Jamaican negroes at Puerto Cas- tilla has prompted 300 workmen there to petition Provisional President Testa to remove the blacks from the entire Atlantic coast of Honduras. The pe- titioners state that if their plea is not complied with they will take the law into their own hands and exterminate the negroes. into which the murderer cast parts of the bodies of his victims. The D. C, THURSDAY SHOTWELL DEFENSE EVIDENCE BEGINS Army Air Service Section Chief Seeks to Desprove Complicity in Lumber Conspiracy. Testimony in defense of Charles 8. Shotwell of Indianapolis, Ind., for- mer chief of the disposal section of the Army air service, was commenced todgy before Justice Bailey and a jury In Criminal Division 2 at the fact that the room is lighted onL:ltrial of the so-called lumber con- by a lamp led to Haarmann's u=>=T One person who was e——ted the cellar, overthrez-The lamp and aped in' the darkness. Tnto | Jracy. Shotwell is heing defended by Xttorney Thomas C. Bradiey. g The grst witness for Shotwell Was ter, former secretary of JULY 10, 1924, tHe board of sales review, which passed on the sale of the lumber of the air service. Carter denied that changes in the minutes of the board were made by him &t the direction of Shotwell. The prosecution has re- ferred to these minutes as “faks.” Testimony on behalf of Frank T. Sullivan, lumberman of Buffalo, N. Y., was concluded today with the evi- dence of T. P. O'Connor, chairman of the United Btates Shipping Eoard who appeared character witne; Others testifyi to the good reputs tion of Sullivan were Ganson Depew of Buffalo, a nephew of\Chauncey M. Depew; George K. Staples, a lawyer of Buffalo, and Maurice Wall and Ga- briel Elias, lumbermen of that city. The evidence on behalf of Shotwell is expected to close tomorrow and arguments to the jury will begin early next week. REALTORS AID LORAIN. Washington realtors are taking an active part in the rehabilitation®of Lorain, Ohio, which was recently de- stroyed in a tornado that cost many lives and injured hundreds of persons. In response to an appeal sent by H R. Ennis, president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, to John A. Petty, secretary of the Wash- ington real estate board, local rea! estate men nave raised a substantial sum and forwarded it for the purpose of enabling the stricken town to be relieved of its distress. Mr. Petty declared that a most generous response had been given by local real estate men. FORT FOOTE SALE HALTED U. & May Include Property in Park System. Fort Foote the abandoned militar reservation on the Maryland bank of the Potomac, nearly oppesite Alcx- andria, has been withdrawn from sale by the ‘War Department, with a view to its possible inclusion in the gon- eral park system of the District of Columbia. Leo Langiey, who has a farm near- by, has been granted a revocable license to occupy and care for the military reservation pending action by Congress as to its future dis- position - MBROKS&® Perfect Cleansing for Tropical Suits Jowing, all members of the organiza- . i ES tion stood with bowed heads, in si- | peror of the Saharah.” lent tribute to the President's son| Mrs. Mecndham testified that her 3nd i sjmpathy for President and|;gigen name was Cartwright and Another resolution of condolence | that she was born at Milden-On- was adopted for Lloyd Brace, mem- | Hudson. New York, in 1889. She said ber of the organization, whose mother | she was married in New York city Just died. in ‘November. 1907 o Tober!” Curtis N whom she later divoreed. Then she Getsi1ACe New Members: married Mr. Mendham who later died, Last night the secretary’s report.| She declared she met Lebaudy in which was read by M. E. 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