Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1924, Page 17

WORLD FLYERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. uts. Erik Nelson, Lowell Smith and Leigh Wade, who called upen President Coolidge yesterday afternoon. ing several stops en route. They plan to resume their flight to California Saturday, mak- National Photo. CONFERRED WITH THE PRESIDENT. Secretary of War Weeks and James R. Sheffield, on the way to the White House dent Coolidge regarding matters “AND WHAT WAS YOUR HARDEST-FOUGHT BATTLE, MR. DEMPSEY?” This might have been a ques- tion asked by Sergt. Samuel Wood fill, outstandin, hero of the World War, when he met Jack Dempsey at At- But, of course, it was not. They simply talked of the weather and the pennant races in the major SPEEDY TRALSEEN - INLESNGERCASE Gordon Wants to Bring Case | Before Octoher Term of | Criminal Court. | | Speedy legal procedure in the Teisinger murder case was forecast today when the witnes; after at- tending a coroner’s inquest this morn- ing, went before the grand jury to tell their accounts of events on Au- sust 25, when Policeman Raymond Leisinger was shot to death while he was perched on the rear bumper of an automobile he suspected of carry- ing intoxicants. District Attorney Peyton Gordon stated that should an indictment be returned before the end of the month he would exert every effort to bring the case to trial in the Criminal Court during October. List of Witnesses. The principal witnesses appearing before the grand jury today were virtually the same as those at the coroner's inquest at the District morgue yesterday afternoon, when four colored persons were held for the action of the grand jury in con- nection with the murder. The per- sons held were James Theodore Holmes, Helen Jackson, Harry Free- man and John Ambrose Gross. The witnesses include Dr. George H. Rawson, who performed the au- topsy; Dr. Lawrence J. Cox, who pro- nounced Leisinger dead, upon arrival at Casualty Hospital on the morning ity; Detective Sergts. Den- nis J. Cullinane, Joseph ¥. Waldron, Thomas Sweency, Ldward J. Kelly and Private John A. McKimmie of headquarters: Patrick W. Conniff of 76 New York avenue northeast, who heard the shots fired; Pollceman C. E Ladow, who chased the fleeing auto- mobile on which Leisinger was rid- ing, in a milk truck; Robert D. Beat- tie, garage owner, in whose garage the shot-marked automobile was found, and othe: Assistant United States Attorney John H. Burnett is handling the case 3or the Government, while Bertrand Emerson, jr.; James A. O'Shea and John_Wilson represent Gross, Holmes una Freeman, respectively. All Present at Once. Evidence that the detective bureau took every precaution to prevent charges of extorting confessions from the prisoners being leveled at them during the trial cropped out at the coroner’s inquest yesterday, when Detectives Cullinane and Waldron testified that every time a prisoner was interrogated by detectives for any length of time all other prisoners in the case were present. Attorney O'Shea made a point on this angle at the inquest, but the detectives held fast to their story on cros: examination, and the written state- ments obtained from Jackson, Gross and Freeman bore the initials of the prisoners on each page. The inter- rogation was under direction of De- tective Kelly, and it is known that every possible step was taken to pre- vent any “third degree” chyrges by the defense being injected 'into the trial. The crater of Katmai volcano, which is now a part of the United States mational monument, has a eir- cumference of 8.14 miles, By the United States Marine Band today at 4:30 p.m., at marine barracks, William H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader. March, Wood” Overture, Windsor" “Reverie - Trombone solo, of Belleau Branson of icolai (Musici nd Deli Valse de concert, Robert from * n int-S enna Blood, Strauss Slavonic Dance No. 1"....Dvorak Marines' Hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma" “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band, John S. M. Zimmer- mann, bandmaster, at the ban stand, tomorrow evening at 5:45 o'clock. March, “Wedding March”..Gounod Overture, “La Fidele Berger,” Adam Entracte, (a) “Serenade”......Moskowsky (b) “La Czarina Mazurka"..Canne Scenes from opera “Martha.” Flotow Oriental patrol, “The Bedouins.” Waltz, Finale, “The Star Spangled Banne Army Music School at Washing- ton Barracks, D. C, tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. (senior bandleader stu- dents conducting). R. G. Sherman, commandant; William C. White, principal. “Priests “Athalie” (Conducted War March” from ..Mendelssohn by Horace E. Nichols) Overture, “Festival”........Latann (Conducted by Kenneth B. Watts) Ex fox trot, ‘*Doodle-Doo- Doo” S Kassel Excerpts from the musical fan- tasy, . “Woodland” . .Luders (Conducted by John B. Veronneau) Philippine waltzes, “Pepay Chat- ing” Araullo (Conducted by William E. Rice) Solo for trombone: Concert polka, “Friendship” . .. Harris (Played by Edward C. Paterson) Grand selection, “Lucia di Lame mermoor” . .Donizetti (Conducted by John A. Grable) (a) Fox trot, “Home in Pasadena,” ‘Warren (b) March, “French National De- file” . ve.....Turlet (Conducted by John A. Grable) Finale, “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” 5 —— DEPUTY IS CONVICTED. Florida Sheriff Found Guilty as Ac- cessory in Robbery. TAMPA, Fla, September 11— Charles C. Killingsworth, former dep- uty sheriff in this county, was found guilty on two counts by & jury in criminal court here last night' in his trial as an accessory in the §24,000 robbery of A. C. Clewis, banker, last April. He was charged with being an accessory both before and after the fact. . Two men, Roscoe D, Hogue and Ted Albury, have pleaded guilty, and an- other, George B. White, was convicted on charges in_connection with the robbery. , Mrs. Edith M. Conway, for- mer policewoman, was acquitted in her trial on one charge and is await- ing trial on another. Sentences have not' yet been passed, Copyright by Underwood & Underw MACDONALD FEARS | SOCIALISM TREND ‘Says Workers, Hardened by Struggle, Are Losing Ideals of Service. By the Associated Press LONDON, September present-day tendencies workers threatens the ideals of gen- uine socialism is the fear expressed by Premier MacDonald in a preface he has just written for a new addi- tion to his well known book on so- cialism. After defending socialism as evolutionary, not revolutionary, the premier writes: “The revolutionary and material- istic frames of mind created by the war are becoming a serious meance to the socialistic spirit of common service. Profiteering has become uni- versal. The evil is not confined to the classes generally designated as rs, but has infected all sec- 11.—That the among the The premier complains that in the | legitimate struggle to remedy their hard and unjust conditions the work- ers are being tempted to force. They are all interdependent members of a social unit and consequently only in- jure themselves by punishing those against whom they have grievance to such an extent that they injure tbe society to which they belong. “The trade unionists,” continues Mr. MacDonald, “has the same limita- tion imposed upon him in this respect as the capitalist—he cannot advance his interests at the expense of society. It cannot be overemphasized that public doles, strikes for increased wages and limitation of output not only are not socialism, but may mis- lead the =pirit and policy of the so- cialist movement. “Socialism calls upon men to give unstinted service in return for a rea- sonable reward measured in terms of life, and nobody should be more im- patient than the socialist with the fallacy that a man cannot be ex- pected to give service before he gets the reward. The socialist therefore looks with some misgivings upon some of the recent developments in the conflicts between capital and labor. They are contrary to this spirit, he believes: they are immoral, uneconomic and will lead to disaster. TO RESUME OIL PROBE. Special Counsel Begin Grand Hear- ings Tomorrow. Atles Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, special counsel in the oil prosecutions, will begin tomorrow, it is expected, the introduction of evi- dence before the additional grand jury lln !he-’thlrd probe into the oil situation. Justice Siddons yesterda: halted the second inquiry in progress before the regular panel of grand jurors because of the presence at the sessons of that body of a stenogra- pher, not a lawyer designated by the Attorney General. The court denied the request of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, to quash subpoenas and to enjoin the prosecu- tors from proceeding with the oil inquiry. Tha testimony of the three witnesses ewly appointed U esterda which had been taken in the presence of the stenographer will be retaken before the other grand jury panel, it was stated, ted States Ambassador to Mexico, » where they talked with Presi- Copyright by Miller Service. Comdr. J. H. Klein, U. . who sailed for Germany yesterday aboard the Mauretania to assume command gible ZR-3 on her 1 ‘Wide World Phots. Yes, girls, this is the very litest bob. As will be noticed, it shows the ears. The style is being exhib- ited at the meeting of the National Hairdressers’ Association in Atlantic City by Miss Mildred Ball of New York. By Usited News Pictures. This old clock, with wooden works, which was recently found in storage in Washington, was used by Gen. Grant during the Civil War. It later served in the office of the adjutant general of the Army. National Ph Adventurer Who Pinned Medal On U. By the Associated Press, PARIS, September 11.—Stephane Otto, who, while representing him- self as a special envoy for the King of the Belgians, decorated an American general in the pres- ence of his at Coblenz some time a a to six months il by the Paris Correctional Court on charges of swindling, thefts, fraud. riding on a raflroad without a ticket and other minor offenses The evidence showed that Otto, ing himself off variously troops P GILLETT NOMINATION GRATIFYING TO BUTLER G. 0. P. National Chairman Fore- sees Victory at the Polls for President’s “Stanch Supporter.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 10.—William M. Butler, chairman of the national Republican committee, in a Statement today, commenting on the results of the Massachusetts primary, said it was “gratifying _that F. H. Gillett, Speaker of the House of Representa- tives, a staunch supporter of Presi- dent Coolidge, should be poz:inated for the United States Semace.” “All availabie figures from the Massachusetts primary, with more than half of all precincts reported, show that F. H. Gillett, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has won the senatorial nomination by a large margin,” Mr. Butler said. “It is gratifying that a stanch sup- porter of President Coolidge, who has rendered fine service to the United States and Massachusetts, should be nominated for the United States Sen- ate. “I am confident he will receive the united support of the party and will be elected in November. “I also am gratified in the inter- est shown in the primaries this year. 1t is not a noisy interest, but it sup- ports a prediction I made in July that the vote this November will be 30,000,000. In 1920 it was 26,000,000.” STRIKE IS AUTHORIZED. Pennsy Telegraphers May Quit as Last Resort. PITTSBURGH, Pa., September 11.— The genmeral committza of division No. 17, Order of Railroad Telegra- phers at a meeting here yesterday authorized E. J. Manion of St. Lduis, president of the order, to call a strike of 8,000 telegraphers employed by the Pennsylvania Raiiroad, if other means failed to bring about a settlement of a wage controversy with the railroad company. Division No. 17 {s com- posed of telegraphers in the Penn- sylvania system. According to E. J. Hindmarsh of St. Louls, spokesman for the committee, the railroad company refused to grant an increase of 6 cents an hour and also refused to submit the ques- tion to arbitration before the United States Railroad Labor Board. The demands of the telegraphers, Mr. Hindmarsh _declared, also included two relief days each month and an- nual vacation. B e The central hall of London's law courts recently was cleaned and re- decorafed for-the first time in €5 Feara, : father's friends, S. General Sentenced to Jail son of Maeterlinck, nephew of a cardinal, a lieutenant aviator, a Russian student and so on as cir- cumstances dictateg, operated all over France. ner has had a pictur- When only 15 vears age he was made captive by the rmans during their invasion of Belgium and condemned to death. Escaping, he joined the Belgian army and fought in Flanders, where he was thrice wounded. It was partly in consideration ‘of his fine war record that the court let SENDS REUNION CALL TO CIVIL WAR COMRADES District Man Asks Survivors of Regiment, All About 81, to Assemble. The average age of its 12 surviving members being “only about 81 years,” David M. Nesbit of 3305 Brown street, this city, has called the 5lst annual reunion of the 131st Regiment, Penn- sylvania Voluateers. Mr. Nesbit, who is a Jomg-time resident of the Na- tional Capital, is president of the as- sociation, and, although 82 years of age, is looking forward with Keen interest to Jjoining his Civil- War comrades for the rcunion, which will be held in Lewlisburg, Pa., Thursday of next week, the 18th instant. “Just to touch elbows with our comrades once more, and to wander back in thought to 1862,»when they were boys and had the honor to serve in this regiment. made up of the flower of the young manhood of the valley of the west branch of the Susquehanna,” Mr. Nesbit explained toda “is what brings these old boys to the annual reunions. No, they do not feel that they are old. Wobbly that have come along with the pass- legs and other disagreeable things ing years will not be the subject of their thoughts or conversation.” _ BRIDAL CAR IN CRASH. eeps Going After Colliding With Other Auto. An automobile trailing tin cans and bearing a bride and bridegroom and a number of bridesmaids collided at Twenty-second and M streets, north- west with an automobile operated by Robert Brown of 1004 26th street and kept on going after the collision. Considerable damage resulted to the car of Brown, according to a police report. Half dozen other auto- mobiles trailing the bridal car swept by after the collision, but none of the license numbers was ‘taken. As a result, police today are looking for the black limousine which caused the collision. S e T U. S. Artist Honored in Berlin. BERLIN, Septéember 11.—Ossip Ga- brilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, was heartily re- ceived last night at Philharmonte Hall, where he conducted the Berlin Phil- harmonic Orchestra. The program com- prised works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms. Gabrilowitsch on his visit to Berlin is accompanied by his wife, the daugh- ter of Mark Twain, who has been wel- comed back to Berlin by many of her GEN. PERSHING MAKES RETIREMENT SPEECH IN NEW YORK. Fifteen hundred persons attended the dinner at the Hotel Astor, when the commander of the United States Army stressed the need of National pre- paredness. The speech was broadcast all over the countr; States Ambassador to Germany; Gen. Pershing and Mrs. e 'S PR “SNAPPED ON THE BIARRITZ honborn, ASSAULT IS BALKED BY GIRL'S SCREAMS Assailant of High School Girl| Escapes as Aid Comes to Victim. Special Dispatcli to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, September 11— Charlotte, the 13-yvear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Schrom, residing about 3 miles from Berwyn, was the victim of an attempted attack this morning while en route to Berwyn to take the car for Hyattsville High School, where she is a student. The attempt took place on the Berwyn road, where it enters the road to Branchville, According to the young girl's state- ment, the assailant, a man about 24 or 25 years old, grabbed her by the throat, 'and was dragging her into the bushes when her screams, as she fought, attracted the attention of Miss Edna Bottler, who was also on her way to school. When the man saw Miss Bottler coming, he ran off through the bushes. The young women then went to the home of Hugh B. Sampson, nearby, and telephoned to Miss Schrom’s home, and an automobile was sent for her. The girl is sufter- ing from nervous shock. Miss Schrom says that her assatlant looked like A man who recently ap- plied for work at her home. He was more than 6 feet tall, and wore a green suit. [ County officers are investigating. PLEA UP TO CONGRESS. City Heads Powerless to Change Street Name. Replying to a request that they change the name of Stanton Square northeast to Green Square, or Green- Stanton Square in honor of Nathaniel Green, the soldier, the Commissioners have announced such action -would require approval of Congress. The request was made by J. C. Euler, 422 C street northeast. The Commissioners point out the square was named by the board of aldermen and common council on April 6, 1870, and could not be changed by the Commissionera. PR B Get Message From President. NASHVILLE, Tenn., September 11.— A message from Preshlent Coolidge was read to the National Baptist con- vention, which opened . its forty-fourth annual session yesterday, Wwith 6,000 negro men and women from all over the country in attendance. The mes- sage said: “By their continuing de- votion to the interest of charity and of education along with those of re- ligion, the members of this communion have contributed greatly to the hu- manitarian s well as the spiritual ad- vancement of the nation.” Virginia Official Named. Spec!al Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., September 11.— Gov. Trinkle has announced the ap- pointment of his secretary, Col. Park P. Deans of Isle of Wight, as a mem- ber of the State Industrial Commis- slon for the six-year term from Oc- tober 1. BEACH. one of the many Americans spending the Summer at Biarrit reddy to take her morning dip in the sea. She Miss Carol Ra ‘making accompanied by Count (s 3 Husband’s Charge Wife Is Bigamist Is “Friendly” Act By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 11.—Mrs. Bessie Weir Goldsmith, New York show girl, was fined $100 and sen- tenced to three months in jail vesterday when she was found nilty of committing bigamy. The emitted by rea- r hand, Willard Goldsmith, fine. He said hie and his wife d agreed to have their marria, annulled, and that his wife intended to file a divorce suit against her first hus- band, Bert Weir, a sailor. Mr. Goldsmith added he and his wife still were on friendly terms, and that he had preferred the bigamy charge merely to . protect his estate. SEE RACE PREJUDICE BEHIND FIRPO FIGHT Colored League Sends Protest to Coolidge Against Attempt to Deport Pugilist. Claiming to represent the 14,000,000 colored persons in the United States, the Colored Non-Partisan League of California _has protested to Presi- dent Coolidge against the ‘unfair ef- forts” to prevent the Wills-Firpo fight, which is scheduled for tonight. In a telegram received at the White, House and sent to the Tabor Department, the league blames the activities of those who would stop the fight on an “invisible em- pire,” which would defeat the aims of the colored pugilist by preventing his meeting with Firpo. The league claimed atfempts to stop the fight had been made because of race preju- dice against Wills, who is a colored man. Canon William S. Chase of Brook- Iyn, N. Y., who has been in the fore- front of the movement to cancel the fight, has left Washington for New York, after visiting the White House. He did not see the President, and declared he had no immediate in- tention of doing so, but conferred with Commissioner General of Immi- gration Husband, Secretary White and others. Labor Department officials claim nothing will officially come before the department in the Firpo case until September 15, the date of a hearing on the charges against the Argentine prize fighter alleging that he brought a woman into the United States “for immoral purposes. Canon Chase has reiterated he had made no attempt to stop the fight because it is a prize fight, but be- cause Firpo is here in violation of yesterday. AGNES AYRES WED. LOS ANGELES, September 11.—The secret marriage two months ago of Agnes Ayres, moving picture actress, and S. Manuel Reachi, commercial at- tache of the Mexican consulate gen- eral at San Franciscg, was revealed here. vesterday by Miss Ayres. who added that she and her husband plan to.leave for a European honeymoon as soon as she completes a picture on which she is now working. Miss Ayres was granted a divorce from her first husband, Capt. Frank P. Schuker, in 1921, Left to right: James W. Gerard, former U George S. Owens, president of the Government C ted lub. Copyright by Kadel & Herbert A cake for the President. Beatrice Helm, a 5-year-old Washington girl, calling at the White House vesterday with a present. Beatrice has been baking cakes for three years. ational Photo. HERRIOT ATTACKS - HIGH LIVING GOSTS ‘Speculators Threatened With Drastic Action for Boosting Prices. By the Associated Press PARIS, September 11.—The xov- ernment went on the warpath against the high cost of living at a four-hour cabinet meeting last eve- ning and put the blame for dne-sixth of the increase in food prices this year upon speculators. - Appeals were made to the mer- chants to aid the government in re- ducing prices. Speculators were threatened with drastic action, through new legislation if necessary Statistics were said to show that the increases had come since the after-war laws against speculation expired and the cabinet decided to ask parliament to pass a series of measures to ameliorate the situation unless conditions improve. Orders Prices Ci Premier Herriot last night per- sonally Jelegraphed orders to the prefects to determine flour prices under the new law. Incidentally, the premier instructed them to make prices as low as possible. Chiefs of police have been instructed to en- courage public markets for the ‘sale of meat, the sellers of which are con- sidered among the greatest offenders in raising the cost of living. and other officials have been ordered to foster fishing and public fish markets. The rise in the price of milk was found by the cabinet to be “inexplic- abl The public is asked to help this situation by reducing their.con- sumption of milk. Farmers are to be offered relief in the form of cheaper fertilizers when they are recelved from Germany. Various plans for reductions in the price of meat and other necessaries were considered at the cabinet meet- ing. Chief among these plans was proposal for the government to hav large quantities of frozen meat im ported direct from producing coun- tries. SEES DRY VICTORIES. FREDERICK, Md., September 11.— “Congressional primaries . thus fur held indicate clearly that-the people are back of the prohibition law,” de- cleared Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the anti-Saloon League, in a statement here last night.- Mr. Wheeler said congressional nominations have been made in 339 districts and in 282 of these, where the nomination practically' means -etection, candidates opposed to weakening the Volstead law have been elected. “The voters realize the eighteenth amendment is here to stay,” said Mr. Wheeler, “and it is the duty of Coi gress to make laws to enforce it ks - Fire Destroys Stove éhnf. DETROIT, September believed to have started from-ui o plosion of chemicals fn the crEnTelin works, completely destroyed the plant of the Regent Stove Works al Wyan- dotte, h suburb, last night.” The | including the building and machinery, was placed at $500,000, covered by in- surance,