Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1924, Page 2

S INJURIES N CRASH FATAL TO ORGANIST Miss Helen Linhatd of Balti- more Fails to Survive Broken Spine. SEVERAL OTHER MISHAPS Man, Fleeing Police, Hits Curb After 12-Mile Chase and Five Are Hurt in Smash. : Miss Helen' Linhard, 60 vears old, prominent organist’ of St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Baltimore, died at Casualty Hospital here today of in- juries sustained vesterday wheén an automobile sie was driving collided with a truck at the bridge that spans the Eastern Branch on the Baltimore boulevard. With Miss Linhard at the time of the aecident were Mrs. Catherine Shaney, 0 vears old, also’ ol Balti- more, and Miss Sue Amos-of Jarretts- ville, Md. They were motoring to Washington for a few hélrs' “sight- seeing trip and had inteffded return- ing home ‘after supper. The crash occurred Just as Miss Linhard's car was turning_into the small concrete bridge. §o severe was the impact that her mathine was hurled down the fluhankmcnl‘and stopped half submerged in the East- ern Branch. Passing motorists who saw the col- lision stopped and rescued the ‘three women. All were rushed to Casualty Hospital, where it was found Miss Linhard’s back had been broken, Mrs. Shaney had suffered two broken ribs and Miss Amos had escauped with severe cuts and bruises. - Mixs Linhard Prominent. Efforts to save Miss Linhard's life proved futile and she died shortly be- fore noon today. The accident hav- ing occurred in Maryland, just this side of Bladensburg, the inquest will be held there. Miss Linhard was well known all over Baltimore, the church at which she was orzanist probably being the most popular Church in the Maryland metropolis. Automobilg accidents resulted in eight other persons being more or less serfously hurt in and waround Washington yesterday & Cyril G, Clark, 2125 First street, and four occupants of a car he was driv- ing—Miss Mable Hitchcock, Sixteenth Street Mansions: Miss Doris Bryant, 921 Nineteenth street; Miss Bertha Pal- mer, 921 Eighteenth street, and Joseph Conklin, 3317 Fourteenth street—were injuréd when he’struck a curbing at Second and Bryant streets while trying 0 distance,a policeman. arged With Drunkenness. Policeman Langdon of the seventh precinct, who had just been relieved from duty, spied the car speeding along shortly after midnight. He gave chaxe in his own machine and Clark, hoping to distance him, led the officer for twelve miles before he ran into the curbing and had to stop. All of the occupants of the car were treated at Freedmen's Hospital and went home. Clark was arrested on charges of drunkenness, speeding and reckless driving. An_automobile driven by Chapman, 511 N street, Willlam siruck by an unidentified car at Third and | E streets southwest vesterday after- nook- and -oyerturned, the driver of the-othep,oar Jeaving the scene with- out: mak his identity known. ‘Two colored -adcupnts of’ the overturned car wére injured -J. H. Simms, 314 C Street - southwest, whose shoulder” was dislocated, and J. R. Simms, 1329% Seventh street, who gustained several cuts and bruises. Both were treated at Providence Hos- pital. Lucien Morman, knocked down at streets vesterday afternoon by the automobile of Jennle Lehman, 232 Ninth street southeast and severely Shocked. He was given first aid at Emergency Ho pital Four-year-old Nathan Segal, 2515 Fourteenth street, was struck by the automobile of Edward Robinson, 2321 Second street, at 'ourteenth and Kuclid streets yesterday morning and bruiszd about the face and head. He was taken hom. and treated by a | physician 616 F street, Seventh and was E LYNCHING MOB FORMS. Sheriff Trying to Get Negroes to Safe Place. T, July 22.—A mob of ap- proximately 300 men formed in Pu-| laski County today, apparently bent on I¥nching two negroes tentatively identified as the slayers of Daisy Wilson, 18, in a attempted hold-up of her father's store near Mounds, shortly after midnight The negroes were in the custody of | Sheriff 1. J. Hudson, who was en- deavoring to take them to a place for safe keeping. The mob formed after the negroes had been identified by the slain girl's father, J. C. Wilson, and a neighbor. EXAMINER CLOSES BANK. North Carolina Institution Has| Loans of $476,000. CHARLOTTE, N..C, July. 22.—The Sacurity Savings Bank here was closed today, by the State-Corpora- tion Commission. ~ Inability t6 ilqui- date loans speedtly énough to meet withdrawals of funds was the cause given. ¢ The bank has a capital stock of $100,000 and deposits totaling $29.- 000. Loans made by the bank total $476.000. W. L. Jenkins was presi- dent. Efforts were made last night, it was stated today, by bank offictals to raise funds to prevent closing of the institution, but without avail The order closing .the bank was signed by D. M. Dardin, assistant bank examiner. —_— AIR PATROL IN N. Y. Police Planes- Will Enforce Law Over Harbor. NEW YORK, July 22.—A pélice aif patrol of six planes was placed in service today by Police Commissioner Enright in a campaign against the discharging by boats of bilge oil in the harbor and surrounding waters and to enforce the ordinances against low flying in airplanes over the city. CAIRO, Filipino Club Elec;l‘ Juan Ventenilla was elected presi- dent of the Filipino Club of Washing- ton at a meecting of the club Sunday. Other officers elected were: Vice president, Arturo Tomelden; secre- tary, Dedimo Fonbuena: treasurer, Pedro Y Marfinez; critie, Cesar A. Carballo; sergeant at arms, Melecio Acantilado; house manager, Vidal de Jesus. - The-Fitipino Club- Is an organiz tion ‘of Filipino residents in the Di trict and a few mon-resident members. It was founded in 1913 Catholic | right | Girl Wields Pipe on Intruder’s Head; He’s Running Yet When 17-year-old Hilda Godfrey of Fort Davis, Pennsylvania and Ala- bama avenues southeast, saw a yaung pekro . man about to walk off ‘with her vanity case late yesterday after- noon she dropped h& frying pan and sgized an iron pipe. ‘Sneaking up be- hind the intruder, she tapped him once, quietly but solidly, on the top of his head with the pipe. The man dropped like a plummet, but be- fore Miss Godfrey could rajse her hand for-the sec- fond, and probably inal, . Dlow, he bounced from the floor like a rubber ball. . The next instant the robber was streaking down Pennsgivania avenue as tast as his bidycle, whith he had parked just ‘outside of the héuse, could carry him, with Mies Godfrey in full pursuit hoping in vain for another opportunity to wield the pipe. The negro outdis- tanced her, however, and she gave up the chase. So precipitate was the robber’s exit that he.nqt only failed to get any loot, but forgot to.take his own hat with him. Detactive Berry of the Eleventh precinct followed bloodstains left upon the road- way by the fleeing negro for a biock, but there they stopped, and the man has fiot, setbeen apprehegded. - 345,000 IN SEWER - GONTRACTS MADE Program Ordered by Com- misslonerg Covers All Sec- tions of City. MISS GODFREY. An extensive program of sewer con. struction in all sections of the city, to |cost approximately $45,000, was or- {dered by the Commissioners today on |recommendation of Sanitary Engineer |J. B. Gordon.. The projects and the jcontractors to whom they were awarded follow: Eighth street, service sewer between Decatur and Emerson, and in Emer- son between Eighth and Ninth, | W. A: Pate, jr. Trinidad avenue, service sewer, be- tween Neal @nd Levis streets north- east. to W. A. Pate, jr. o Fort Drive, combined sewer, tween Half place and Third northeast. to W. A. Pate, jr. | Ridge place southeast, service sewer, between Thirteenth and = Sixteenth :((“N‘l*l.\ an(ldln' Z“hlrltenlh street be- een an tldge plac Vs B! . Brenizer Company. g5 e Allison and 13th streets, com ¥ s, nbi sewer, in Allison street betw ;: Arkansas = avenue and Thirteenth treet, and in Thirteenth between Al- ison and Varnum, to W. A. Pate, jr. Central avenue, service bureau l_rnm Fourth and Douglas streets to | Sixth street between Central avenue and Evarts street, to William I | Cush, Inc. i | JATEvle Park, service ~sewer, and | Seventcenth street_between Buchanan l‘[\:?fiflt_rflt‘ur. 3 d*inacCrittenden be- weeh Sixteenth and Bevente | Williem F. Cush, Tne. oy oot to Trinidad, Service sewer, In Penn | street and Owen place, between Mon- tello and West Virginia avenues, and in West Virginia avenue between Penn and Oates streets, to William F. Cush, Inc. Saratoga Heights, service sewer in Eastern avenue between Newton and Perry streets, and in Thirty-first place between Kastern avenue and to be- street ! Otis street, to Adam McCandlish. PURER MOQVIES PLEDGED. Producers Agree to Bar Salacious Playé or Titles. LOS ANGELES, July 22.—The As- sociated Motion Picture Producers of California, representing seventeen producing companies here, control- ling 95 per cent of all pictures pro- duced in this section, Is on record for purity in pictures. At a meeting yesterday it adopted a resolution offered by Will H. Hays, which pledged the picture companies not to “produce or promote the pro- duction or distribution; exhibit or promote the exhibition, or aid in any way whatsoever the production, dis- tribution or exhibition of any pic- ture salacious in character or title.” Sl BRITISH CONVICT TRAVIS. American Found Guilty in i)el!h .of His Infant Son. LONDON, July 22.—Charles Welford Travis, an American student from New York, today was found guilty of man- slaughter in connection with the death of his infant son. Sentence was deferred until tomorrow. Travis previously had declared that he had trfed to prevent the child’s in- cessant crying by holding its nose and windpipe, and in doing so had strangled it. A-number of American lawyers at- tending the ‘Bar Assoclation meeting here attended the trial this morning in the Old Bailey. o MITCHELL BACK AT HELM. Reassumes Control of Air Service Training Activities. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assis- tant chicf of the Army Air Service, reassumed _controi of Afr Service training activities yesterday upon his return-from an inspection-tour of the aviation service in the Philippines and Hawaii, which was followed by & leave of absence from official duty for several months. ‘The general's return to his old post is expected to mark his personal par- ticipation in° arrangements -for the return to this country of the Army world fivers. An active fiyer himself, he probably will command the squad- ron of airplanes to be sent out from Boston ' to welcome the returning fiyers and escort them to that city. Masked Woman Hurls Acid. LEBANON JUNCTION, Ky., July 22. —A masked woman, appearing in the yard at sundown, walked to the porch where Mrs. _Lilllan Woolridge and her mother -sat last evening, hurled acid in Mrs. Woolridge's face and fled, Town Marshal Leslie was Informed today. - . Commissioned in D. C. Guard. The President has commissioned the following named officers in the Dis- trict of Coiumbia National Guard: Capt. Walter W. Burns, First Lieut. Louls M. Gosarh and..Second Lieut. James D. Egglestoen. They will be as signed to Battery A, 260th Coast Artil gfl (harbor aefense), District National THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY PLEDGE OF SWIFT JUSTICEINPERS] Government Renews Promise to Punish Slayers of U. S. _Vice Consul imbrie. Further promises of swift justice for those responsible for the murder of American Vice Consul Imbrie and the serious beating of Melin Seymour, also an American, by a mob of reli- glous fanatics in Teheran, have been conveyed to the State Department from the Persian government through American Minister Joseph S. Kernfeld. Two' hundred persons, including Khalosi Zodeh, a leading religious dignitary, have been arrested as sus- pects in the murder and assault, the dispatch to the State Department said. “The entire press” it udded, “is filled with denunciation of the murder ‘at a time when the cordial relations between FPersia United States were unrivaled. OMcials Attend Funeral. The Persian legation was informed yesterday by its minister of foreign affairs that martial law had been de- clared In Teheran in order to ex- pedite the apprehension of those con- nected with the killing. The prime minister, members of the cabinet and other government officials, it was added, attended the fumeral of Mr Imbrie yesterday, while in the Par- liament the speaker and minister of foreign affairs as well as several members expressed deepest regret over the attack. The central committee of Mer- chants’ Delegation, at Teheran, in a communication to President Coolidge forwared through the legation ex- pressed its regret for the murder, g it “has wounded deeply the hearts - of the Persian people, who hold deep feelings of friendship for the American people.” CHARWOMEN Jflfi ;-'ORCES TO FIGHT NEW PAY SCALE (Continued from First Page.) sald the opinion for the Secretary of the Treasury. “Such employes, it permanently employed, are entitled to leave of absence, annual leave and sick leave with pay, subject in so far as applicable to conditions and regulations prescrbed for per annum employes of your department, the amount of pay to be allowed for the period “of such absence to be amount which the employes would have received If not on leave and working the number of hours usual- Iy required each work day during the period of absence.” The charwoman are on a 40 cents per hour basis under reclassification. Steward Takes lasue. Luther Steward in his reply to As- sistant Postmaster General Bartlett agreed in a few particulars, but took issue vigorously with him over the methods actually employed in mak- Ing the present reclassification. Mr. Steward objects to the atate- ment of Gov. Bartlett that the clerks “for the most part” were permitted “to write out the nature of the work they had been doing.” in submitting records for the Personnel Classifica- tion Board. Gov. Bartlett, according to eward, “is absolutely Incorrect on this vital point. The procedure which he says was followed is procedure which was urged upon the board by the National Federation of Federal Employes; it is the very procedure which was followed by that eminently fair body, the Congres- sional Joint Commission on reclassi- fication of salaries, that did the original work in the field of classi- fication_in the District of Columbia; it is the very procedure that was rejected by the Personnel Classifica- tion Board, acting under the dominat- ing influence of the United States Bureau of Efficiency. Kmployes Here Not Heard. “The great body of Government employes in_the District of Columbia were classified on the basis of a statement of their duties and re- sponsibilities, made originally by the administrative officers of the depart- ments in consultation with repre- sentatives _of the LUnited States Bureau of Efficiency. The great ma- jority of the employes never saw the statement of their duties and never had an opportunity to comment upon or revise it. They have never had their day in court either to present the facts regarding their work nor to argue the application of the terms of the act to these facts. They have never had the opportunity to consult the class specifications, which the act directed the board to prepare and publish, because the board did not comply with the act in this matter. “The board has been rum, not as a court, but as a star chamber, and the only person on it who has shown a real grasp of the fundamental principles of the act has been the representative of the Civil Service Commission.” 10,000 KLAN MEMBERS EXPECTED AT CEREMONY WINCHESTER, Va., July 22.—Ku Klux Klansmen from five States and the District of Columbla are to be here tomorrow night for the initia- tion of members of the newly or- ganized Klan In Winchester, accord- ing to Dr. M. C. Altenburg of Wash- ington, in charge of arrangements. He says there will be at least 10,000 people at the fair grounds, where the initiation 18 to be staged after parade through the city. Dr. Altenburg reports klansmen will be here from Dayton, Springfield, Akron and Mount Vernon, Ohio: Hagerstown, Frederick, Brunswick and Cumberland, Md, ' and Union- town, Pa, as well as large delega- tions from_ Harrisonburg and other points_in Virginia, and some from West Virginia. The Brunswick klans- inen, he added, will come on a special train, and wili bring their own band. A number of the visiting delegations are to be accompanied by members of the woman’s auxillary of the kian, said to be known as the “Red Skirts." Dr. Altenburg sald also that “all of the laws and ordinances of the city and State will be strictly com- plied with, 5o far as they relate to a prohibition of masking the face in ublic.” The Common Council recent- y passed a resolution permitting the klan to hold a public parade, provided the faces of participants were not masked. The initiation ceremonies will take place on the race track infield. PO Niece of Mrs. Polk Dies. NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 22.—Mrs. George W. Fall, niece and adopted daughter of Mrs. James K. Polk, wife of President Polk, died today at the Nashville home of her daughter, Mrs. Rolin P. Grant of New York. The funeral will be held Friday. Quake Registered Here. An earthquake of moderate inten- sity was registered on the George- town seismograph last night, begin- ning at 11:12 and ending at 11:50 p.m. Father Tondorf plmuf it st about 2,500 miles from Washington in southerly direction. the | Mr. | the very | Hurry Call From Hospital Brings Reporter Post Haste for News Rushes to Emergency, Scenting Good Story, When Nurse Urges Speed—Breathless, Reaches Patient The telephone bell on the city edi- tor's desk rang lustily today, herald- ing & womans' voice with the promis- ing news that “a patient at Emer- gency Hospital wants to see a re- porter as soon as possible.” The pa- tient’s name Was given. Up to this time the prospects point- ed to a dull day in the way of news— no murders, riots, fires or other “leads™ on the program—and conse- quently a day conducive to ho-hum- ming by city editor and reporters alike. Accordingly, the gentle voice of a nevertheless, matter-of-fact nurse at the city's principal harbor for human wreckage conjured up all kinds of possibilities for front-page st ries this sultry day. Possibly the man had been run over by an automobile, and, in the throes of death, desired to make a dying statement of accusation. Reporter Rushed Out. Perhaps he had quarrcled this morning with some one as he groped for a missing towel in the bathroom and had had the suds dusted from his eyes with the carpet sweeper. Or maybe he had become distracted over the problems of a weary world and had given his forehead a per- manent wave with a 32-caliber curl- ing iron At any rate it would not pay to overiook the day's best bet, s0 the city editor, crystallized out of his lethargy, aroused a slumbering re- porter with a stentorian shout and started the wheels turning in the direction of Emergency Hospital. kidding his puffing flivver to a stop at Seventeenth street and New York avenue, the reporter rushed headlong _into the hospital, copy paper and pencil in hand, inquired breathlessly the location of the pa- tient’s room and trod the main cor- ridor impatiently while awaiting an elevator to the seventh floor. Deposited finally on the upper floor in the midst of white-coated orderlies, wheel chairs, pretty nurses and seri- ous physicians, the reporter was led quietly’ but firmly to a corner room. the door of which was partly open Walking in expectantly, he saw the face of a man protruding from be- neath a coverlet over a bed. That,” said the departing nurse s the patient.” By Consolidated Pross CHICAGO, July 22.—Chief Justice John R. Caverly of the criminal court has become the big outstanding figure of the Leopold-Loeb murder case by the surprising action of the defense in entering pleas of guilty and in- viting the mercy of the court. If the tremendous responsibility | suddenly placed upon him came as a surprise to Justice Cayerly he gave {no indication of the fact. Studying | his face as he warned the accused | | youths that their action in waiving {a trial by jury made it possible for | the court to impose the death penalty, | | one gained the impression, first of all, |of great strength. In this, as in| all of his characteristics, = Justice Caverly is in direct contrast to the defendants. He is of thick-set, pow- erful physique, with a broad fore- |head and square jaw. Keen, steady eyes gaze forth beneath heavy brows. Hax Long Record. Justice Caverly was born in Eng- land 63 vears ago and came to Chi- | cago with his parents when he was 6 | years old. He has a long and en- | Viable record both as a city attorney and as a magistrate. As attorney for the city of Chicago in 1307 he Lroke up a rirg of grafters who had mulcted the city out of nearly $4,000,000 in CROWE WILL MAKE UTMOST EFFORTS TO HANG SLAYERS (Continued from First Page.) in In the newspapers regarding their ap- pearance In court. Loeb guessed rightly, that “we're all over the front page” while Leopold counseled cau- tion in talking about the case. “Back in the county jail, the prison- ers were in contrast, Loeb expressing concern at the probable outcome, Leopold maintaining the nonchalant air he has preserved most of the time since their arrest. “Do vou think the judge will let us off with life?’ Loeb questions a guard. “They don't often hang fellows who plead gullty, do they?" Franks Wants Hanging. Leopold was quoted as having of- fered to lay a wager with a jail guard | on_the probable sentence. | Jacob Franks, father of the slain boy, expressed the hope that the plea of guilty did not mean the slayers would escape actual criminal prosecu- tion. He did not attend the hearing, but later visited the State’s attorney’s office after he heard first reports of the action of the defense. “It means something, perhaps, when they admit their guilt,” he said. “Now, If ever there was a case on earth’ demanding the death penalty it is this one. “I .have been of the opinion from the start that these boys should be put to death.” He declared, “This talk of insanity is all nonsense. Extra guards have been stationed at the cells of the boys and a careful inspection is to be made of all their food to prevent poisoning attempts, Sherift Hoffman had announced. MIXED UP IN DATES. Poor Memory Helped Trap Loeb and Leopold. CHICAGO, July 22.—An official in the office of the State's attorney re- vealed today for the first time how a trick of fate fagtened tne sus- picions of examiners on Nathan Leo- pold, jr, and Richard Loeb, after their first detention for perfunctory questioning in connection with the death of Robert Franks. The boys fell into a web of their own weaving when they were unable to determine, without consultation, whether a certain week, which fig- ured in their pre-arranged alibi, end- ed on the morning of the enth day, or the morning of the eighth. According to the story of Lawrence Cuneo, secretary to the State's attorney, as taken from the records of the ex- Who— Fdging close to the sick man's bed and bending over him carefully in response to a feeble gesture, the re- porter announced he was ready to take down the story. “I am a prominent local insurance man,” began the patient. That sound- ed good thought the scribe as he struggled with the spelling of the last name. “l1 have been here a week,” man went on, after a pause. “One week?" the reported queried, as he jotted down some heiroglyphics. “T want to thank my many friends for the generous floral decorations they have been good enough to send me” 'he managed to sputter after another pause. The reporter glanced glyly “around, but did not see the “decorations.” Just Wanted to Thank Friends. “Yes, ves, go on,” urged the still mystified reporter. “That's about all” came back the sick_man, simply. “That's'all? What do you mean? What's the matter with you, what is your ailment, what brought you here?” the dumfounded reporter gasped as he began to sense that all was not well in Denmark. “I'd rather not say. Just publish what T told you so that my friends will know that I will soon be among them again and that I appreciate their kindnesses." ‘I see,” observed the Interviewer as he gulped down a rising tide of indignation and disappointment and left the room. Of a nurse in the corridor he stopped to inquire if the patient was suffering from hallucinations or any- thing like that “Oh, no,” she replied as she stifled wn. What Is he suffering from, then was asked. Had Typhold Fever. “Typhold fever,” the nurse sponded, casually. “Ye gods,” he came back, “why didn’t you stop me from entering his room. I'm a married man, with chil- dren and——" Shuel typhoid fever won't hurt you if you haven't got it.”” There was philosophy of a kind in that, the worried, and withal crest- fallen newspaper man mueed as he wended his way wearily toward hig office. Back at his typewriter the reporter appeared to revive “I've got a good story.” he yelled above the din of press time. “Write it!" snapped the city editor. He did. the re- FATE OF BOY SLAYERS DEPENDS "ON MAN OF RUGGED CHARACTER Judge Caverly Has Trust of Public and Decision Is Certain to Meet Demands of Full Justice, Both Sides Recognize. eight years. And it was he, after he had mounted the bench, who sen- terced to the house of correction the otorious Eddie Jacobson, called “Eddie the Immune,” who had boast- | ed for years that he could not be con- victed Iz another case Justice Caverly compelled the State to withdraw its demand for capital punishment of a woman who had killed her husband, saying: “This is an American court <k that a woman be hanged is British procedure.” Trusted by Public. When Clarence Darrow torney for the defense, withdrew the plea of not guilty and entered the plea of guilty with the statement that, “We dislike to throw this bur- den 'upon this court or any other court” he knew out of the wisdom of his 37 years of experience as a prac- ticing lawyer in Chicago that the burden couid not be thrown onto more capable shoulders Public sentiment against the slay- ers of the Franks boy is strong and feeling now is that thev should pay the full penalty for their crime. But if Justice Caverly should decide, after hearing the “mitigating” evidence to be offered by the defense, that their punishment ~should be less heavy, there will be few who will question the justice of his decision, Such is the confidence Chicago has in its chief justice of its criminal court chief at- onlr.” After that, the boys held, they d not be expected to remember in detail just what had happened on the day in question. The boys were taken to the State’s at- torney’s office for the first time on the following Thursday, and after a briet in- formal preliminary discussion with of- ficers were taken into separate examin- ing chambers. Leopo'd judged that the week had not ended until the expiration of the Thursday. loeb, im another chamber, held the week to have ended on Wednes- day night. They shaped their courses accordingly, and were allowed to pro- ceed as they would. Then the bore were brought together and permitted to dis- cuss_the question : “How many days in a week?" ROCKEFELLER HOME LOST Fire Destroys Boyhood Place of Oil Magnate’s First Business Venture. AUBURN, N. Y., July 22.—The old John R. Rockefeller home, on Auburn road, four miles north of Moravia, ‘was burred to the ground early to- day, after a futile battle, in which convicts from Auburn prison tried to save the building. A defective chimney is believed (o have caused the fire. Mr. Rockefeller visited the home only last week on his annual pil- grimage to the Finger Lakes region, familiar to him in his boyhood. Mr. Rockefeller held the place in deep sentimental regards, faithfully visiting it every vear. It was here as a boy of nine that he engaged in his first business venture, the raising of a flock of turkeys. Bird Builds Nest ‘And Lays Eggs on Courthouse Desk Judiclary Square has been In- fested with numbers of pigeons for some time and many of them have located under the eaves of the courthouse, but it remained for one venturesome mother pigeon to invade the temple of justice and there wset up her abode. Proudly perched on a nest \which has been laboriously built by her and her mate, the mother pigeon is awaiting development from two eggs which she has laid in the nest on a desk in the oftice of Assistant United States Attor- ney Presmont. The passing of the assistant prosecutor to and fro in his office as well as the .gaze of a number of visitors leaves the little mother undis- turbed. Presmont noticed the two pigeons flying in and out of his office window, depositing a straw at a time, and left word with the amination of the two defendants, the pair.met on Thursday, May 23, the day after the killing, to manufacture their alibi. They agreed upon a stery of hav- ing been on an ornithological trip at the time of the killing. It was agreed that the story should hoid ““for ome week charwomen that the access of the pigeons should not be disturbed by closing the window. With the nest completed the mother pigeon took up her station on the two eggs which she had laid and is «now anxiously awaiting resuita | 22, 1924 W. 1. COSTELLO, %, DIES AT HOME HERE Democratic Political Leader to Be Buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Walter J. Costello, 58 years old, the oldest member of the Democratic cen- tral committee of the District of Co- lumbia and a lifelor.g resident of this city, died at his residence, 1411 N street, Sunday night. Mr. Costello had been in failing health for the last two years. During his long service with the Democratic central committee, con- stituting continuous service since 1584, he had served both as chairmar. and secretary. He headed the committee to Baltimore during the Democratic convention of 1912 and only recently attended the Democratic convention In New York, at which he was a ;t:r;ch supporter of Al Smith for Presi- nt. Owned Coxtello Hall For mary years Mr. Costello was proprietor of the old Costello Hall and restaurant. During the past six years he was president and general manager of the Warthen Train Con- trol System Co. Mr. Costello was e schools of this city. naving atienden the Abbott graded school and later Gonzaga College. He Is survived by roth-rhpt«"'a Mary C. Bryan. and . Jere A : Costello, all of this rnya"d T Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock and at St. Matthew's Catholic Church at 9:30 o'clock, where mass will be said. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Lawrence Sor- ;;en):” T‘l‘l]?‘rll C. Dulin, James A. , Charles J. McGuire, Micl i Coffey and W. T. Whetan, —crael SHATTIJ—CK VALET GRILLED French Prosecutor Asks Death Penalty in Robbing Banker’s Home By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 22.—Alphone Gabriel Mourey, valet in the home of Albert R. Shattuck, New York banker, ac- cused of having participated in the robbery of the Shattuck home in 1922, when members of the family were imprisoned in the cellar of the house, today was placed on trial for his life. (Mr. Shattuck was present as a wit- ness and as a civil party to the case. Mourey, in the course of a severe examination by the presiding judge, admitted the crime. The public prose- cutor under French law, which makes theft with arms in hand a capital offense, demanded the death sentence. o BANKRUPTCIES INCREASE. Failures in Germany Growing and Labor Decline Is Noted. BERLIN, July 22.—The ministry of commerce reports a marked increase the number of bankruptcies in Germany, especially of unlimited partnerships. During the month of June the number of such failures was three times that of the May figures. A constant decline in the labor market here is reported by the Ber- lin labor office. Six thousand more unemployed were entered on the list for the week ended July 19 than for the week previous. A dispatch from Dresden says the textiles factories of western Saxony ness. DRY OFFICE SHIFT SEEN. Indiana State Director May Be Re- placed by F. W. Rowley. Replacement of Bert C. Morgan, prohibition director for Indiana, was understood today to be under consid- eration at headquarters here. and al- though no recommendation has been made to Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair the name of F. W. Rowley is known to be receiving con- sideration for the post. While Prohibition Commissioner Haynes has been reluctant to com- ment on the Indiana prohibition sit- uation, he regards Mr. Morgan as an efficient enforcement officer, and in all probability he will be transferred to a post in the general fleld agents’ force. GEN. SMITH PROMOTED. Will Take Rank of Major General in Army Tomorrow. Brig. Gen. Willlam R. Smith, tempo- rarily commanding the 3d Corps Area, which includes the District of Columbia, will be promoted to the grade of major general tomorrow, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement today of Maj. Gen. U. G. McAlexander, recently pro- moted. Gen. Smith, formerly conmandant of the artillery post and school at Fort Monroe, assumed command of the 3d Corps Area Saturday on the statutory retirement of Maj. Gen. Charles H. ‘Muir, and has his headquarters at Bal- timore. He commanded the 36th Di- vision in Europe during the World War and was awarded the distinguished service medal and membership in the French Leglon of Honor. MEDICAL COST RAISED. Providence Renews Contract With Health Department. Officials of Providence Hospital to- day renewed the contract under which the inatitution treats cases ot measles and diptheria for the healtl department. The new agree- ment, however, provides for a slight increase in the fee paid by the health office. Providence, like Garfield Hospital, informed the Commisdioners this Sum mer that they would have to ask more for this treatment because of increased costs. While the contract with Garfield Hospital has not been closed, Health Officer Fowler has made a set of proposals to the board of that in- stitution, and an agreement probably wlill be reached in the near future. Hit by Auto; Asks $10,000. Suit to recover $10,000 damages has been filed in the District Supreme Court by Eleanor Foley, a minor, through her mother, Margaret A. Foley, against Norman Pruitt, owner of an automobile which is said to have struck the child. The accident occurred September 21, as the child was crossing Tenne: avenue near E street northeast. Attorney Fred- erick Stohlman appears for the plaintiff. Wife Sues for Divorce. ., Mary E. Carroll today filed sult in the District Supreme Court for an absolute divorce from James H. Carroll, an employe of the Veter- ans’ Bureau. The wife tells the court she went with members of the vice squad in a raid on an apartment house, where she found her husband with another woman. The Carrolls were married at Richmond, V: March 3, 1923, and have one child. Attorney Nathan Cayton represents the wife. are suffering a grave decline in busi- | EDMINSTON ‘WALTER J. COSTELLO. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT TO RUN MORE CHEAPLY Lower Appropriations and Econo- mies Will Save $34,425,336 for Year. Deéreased appropriations for the fiscal year 1925 for maintenance of the Interior Department and its bureaus will result in a net saving to the taxpayers of the nation of $34.- 425,336, the department announced today. The Department of the In- terior will actually spend $38,425,336 less than it did during the past fiscal year, total appropriations for all the bureaus of the department for 1925 being $290.493,724, as compared with $327,591,440 in 1924. The pension office appropriation was reduced by $30,500,000, the big- gest decrease in any single bureau. Another reduction “of considerable sizé was for the Alaskan territorial government and the Alaska railroad, the saving amounting to $1,969,630. Appropriations for the bureau of reclamation were also reduced from $12,250.612 in 1923 to $10,856,000 in 1924, a reduction of $1,394,612, while appropriations for the Bureau of In- dian Affairs were cut by $468.454. St Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington will also suffer a decreased appro- priation of $138.500. Several bureaus of the Interior De- partment had increased appropria- tions, the largest being $413,315, for the Patent Office. WINS BATHING CONTEST. Miss Cecelia Lockwood First at Western Union Outing. Miss Cecelia Lockwood won first honors in the bathing beauty contest, the feature of a series of events, at an outing of the Association of West- ern Union Employes at Morgantown, Md., Sunday. Miss Isabelle Nixon was awarded second honors. Other events were won in the fol- lowing order: Fifty-vard dash for boys, by Donald Cutsal; 50-vard dash for girls, Miss Teresa Russell; 50-yard dash for ladies, Miss Cecelia Loock- wood; 50 and 100 yard dash for men. both won by Clarence Limerick; sack race for men, Joseph McCloskey: sack race for ladies, Miss Ruth V. Bland, and the ladies’ base ball throwing contest by Miss Ruth V. Bland. There was also a tug-of-war in the water for men and women, John H. Call aoting as_general team captain. H. Maurice Goldstein, president of the association, was master of ceremonies. . MUST BREAK ROCKS. Judge Gives Man 90 Days at Oc-i coguan. Daniel Washington, colored, charged with assaulting George Minor, colored, with a claw-hammer, was before Judge Mattingly in the United States branch of Police Court. He admitted that he struck Minor, under the impression that Minor had struck him_in a free-for-all fight in Southwest Washington recently. “I have received word from the workhouse at Oocoquan.” said Judge Mattingly, “that they have received a new consignment of rock. We will send home for you and get your big hammer and then you may take it down to Occoquan where for the next 30 days you may try that hammer on the rock pile’” —_— LUCY F. PERRIGO DEAD. Was Active for Many ¥Years in Church Work Here. Mrs. Lucy F. Perrigo, 56 years old, active_in missionary and church work at the Northminster Presbyterian Church and a resident of this city for the last 25 vears, died in the George ‘Washington University Hospital yester- day following an illness of about four weeks. Before going to the hospital Mrs. Per- rigo resided at 1422 Eleventh street. She was the widow of Ward E. Perrigo. She is survived by three brothers, Sher- man 1. and William C. Folsom of this city and Dr. J. E. Folsom of Oakland, Calif. Funeral eervices will be conducted at Northminster Presbrterign Church to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Inter- ment will be in Glenwood Cemetery. MARY YEABOWER DIES. ‘Woman of 71 Was Lifelong Capi- tal Resident. Mrs. Mary Yeabower, 71 years old, widow of George W. Yeabower and a lifelong resident of this city, died at her residence, 224 1 street, yester- day. Funeral services wiil be conducted at her late residence Thursday morn- ing_at 10:30 o'clock. Rev.” C. W. Locher, pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church, will officiate. Interment will be_in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Yeabower is survived by two sons, John H. and D. William Yea. bower; one daughter, Mrs. J. F. Hile; a sister, Mrs. Louisa Biermann of Baltimore, and one grandson. Col. G. E. Bushnell Dead. "Col. George E. Bushnell, a retired officer of the Army Medical Corps, died_at Pasadena, Calif, July 19, ac- cording to advices to the War De- partment. He was from Wisconsin and was appointed an assistant sur- geon in the Army in February, 1881 In September, 1917, he was retired in the grade of colonel, but resumed active duty in the surgeon general's office_in this city during the World War from September, 1917 to-Septem- ber, 1918. Former Policeman Dies. Walter B. Dorsett, colored, 60 years old, former member of the police force, was stricken with heart dis ease this morning, while on his bi- cycle near Thomas Circle, and died before reaching Emergency Hospital. The deceased was & native of Vir- ginia and served on the police force from July 6, 1896, until May 9, 1903. He resided at 229'O street. 0. B. C. Officers Named. Commissions in the.Officers’ Re- serve Corps of the Army have been issued. by the War Department to Raymond P. Schriber, 3807 Hunting- ton street, as a second lieutenant of — COOLIDGE 10 SPEAK LITTLEINCAMPAIGN Has Only Two Engagements and Expects to Make ' Less Than Dozen. INVITATIONS ARE REFUSED President Deaf to Requests That He “Swing Circle” Before Election Day. Although President Coolidge has thus far orly two speaking engage- ments during the campaign, it is un- derstood by associates of his that he probably will make 10 or 12 set speeches between now and election time. This does not mean, however, that the President is contemplating a speaking tour. On the cortrary, in answer to those entreating him to make a so-called swing around the * country, the President has frequently replied that he has the business of the President of the United States to attend to, and that if he does his job prell it should do some speaking for the g Joth Speeches Here. e two definite speaking engage- ments are the one he will make on August 24 at Memorial Continental Hall. when he formally accepts the Republican nomination, and the other in this city during the first week in October, when he makes the principal oration ‘at the unveiling of the shaft in honor of the 1st Division of the A. E.F., which is being erected on the reservation directly touth of the State, War and Navy Building. _ Hundreds of invications from indi- viduals, groups and organizations in all sections of the country to have the Dresident speak in their respec- tive communities have been received at the White House and as man more have been received at the Re- pyblican national headquarters, but N one of these has been even ten- tatively accepted Will Talk by Radio. The President will make a brief talk Friday night over the radio. but it will not be political in nature and Will not be classed as a campaign utterance. This short address will be for the special benefit of about 60 Boy Scouts assembled at a dinner in New York city, on the eve of their departure for Europe, and will be fc the general benefit of all of the Bo: Scouts of the country. This speec will be broadcast from the President’s study in the White House. In making known the fact that the President has thus far only de two speaking engagements, House authorities said today has become somewhat embarrassin because of the frequency with whic individualsand organizations through- out the country announce through the press that the President on such and such a day will come to_their city to make an address. The White House understands that this tend- ency at what might be termed mis representation is due most generally to overzealousness on the part those managing the gatherings or celebrations to draw crowds and to bring about interest. But this hope- ful vein on the part of the public necessarily brings about embarrass- ment to those managing_ the affairs as well as to the White House itself when it is ultimately learned that the President has not accepted any such invitation Besides the less than a dozen cam- paign speeches the President is ex- pected to make, those close to him feel confident that he will make a number of short addresses of wel- come which will naturally be of a political nature to the various groups and delegations that are expected to come to the White House during the campaign period. CAR TRAFFIC HALTED AS POWER WIRE BREAKS 3,000-Volt Line on W. 0. D. Hit by Pipe, Starts Blaze—Two Men Injured. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va. J —Twt men narrowly escaped serious injurf and service on the Bluemont anl Great Falls branches of the Wash- ington and Old Dominion Railway Company was tied up generally about two hours yesterday afternoon, when a 13,000-volt wire of the Potomaoc Electric Power Company in Rosslyn broke. According to an_ official of the elec- tric company, the trouble arted while Ernest and John Bowers, brothers, were endeavoring to re- move a sign from the roof of the Arlington Trust Company building. An iron pipe fell across the high- powered wire setting it afire and causing it to split in two, one end falling to the street, landing in_a blaze between two mofor busses. En- gine Company, No. 23 of Washington was called to extinguish the blaze, Ernest Bowers, who, it is said, was holding one end of the pipe, was thrown to the roof, while his brother, on a ladder nearby, lost his balance and fell to the street, a distance of about thirty feet. Neither was in- jured seriously. — IMPORTED LIQUOR SEIZED 500 Cases and Six Motor Trucks Taken in New York. NEW YORK, July 22.—Five hundred cases of imported liquors and six motor trucks were seized today in a trucking and steamship agency office in_Brooklyn by prohibition agents Warrants were ixsued for the ar- rests of four men. The liquors were imported on steamships from Europe, according to the prohibition agents WOMAN DEAD AT 109. “Worked Hard, Left Rest to God She Said. NEWTOWN, Conn. July 22.—Mrs. Nora Bradley Kane is dead here at the age of 109 years. “Work hard and constantly and leave all the rest to God" was her motto, which she frequently quoted in advice to her friends. She made the claim that she had never consulited a physician or suf- fered illness until a week before her death. S Silver Depreciation Deplored. MEXICO CITY, July 22.—The gov- ernment is seriously concerned over the constant depreciation of silver. Tt is reported that measures are con- templated giving facilities for the exploitation of gold mines and dero- gating the present high taxes. P ian Noted Scientist Found Dew’ LONDON, July 22.—Sir Willium Ab- bott Herdman, formerly professor of natural history and oceanography at engineers; Eimer C. Middleton, 221 B street northeast, as a first lieutenant in the military police, and William D. Norwood, Catonsville, Md., as a sec- ond lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Liverpool University and one of the best known marine biologists in Great 1} Britain. arrived here from Liverpool yesterday and was found dead in his