Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1924, Page 4

CATHOLICS T0 HEAR | STATUS0F SCHOOLS Women Also to Get Reports { on Immigration and Rural 4 Activities. | By the Aswociated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 11.—Reports from the diocesan councils and na- tional organizations and addresses pertaining to educational question were on the program of today's ses- ions of the National Council of Cath- Women. Catholic activi in | 1 districts, the council's wdfk in the field of immigration and the re- lation of the private school to the fourteenth amendment of the Consti- tution also were being discussed. Archbishop John J. Glennon of this city, in an address last night, di- rected the delegates to worldly en- deavors in the field of education. gocial service and charity “It is my opinion,” he said, “that ve Catholics lack consciousness—not obnoxious class consciousness we hear of in Russia, 1 mean con: s of a good cause.” Raps Klam Activities. | Schrembs. | red in his ties and the! several States | what he de- | the parochial | | Rev. Joseph hop of Cleveland, refs @ sddress to Klan act measures voted on t Tuesday aimed red abolition of ool The greatest element of growing| danger.” he said, the increasing | Yuck of religion of the American pop- ulation, the loss of faith and belief | in God and the things that flow from that belief. “In the city of at Detroit, supposed to be the hotbed of the Klan system, some people seem to be afraid tof mention it. 1 not afraid to men- ion the Klan any more than I would afraid to menti rattlesnake t tens te strike at me. They beaten, three to one.” that were “THIRD DEGREE” USE DENIED BY POLICE Grant annd Kelly Say Men Accused in Murder Talked | Voluntarily. als that any Denial by police resorted “third degree” methods wers to in_ securin writte (tements from Harry W. Freeman and John A Gross, two of the men charged with murder in connection killing of Policeman Ray- Leisinger, and the exclusion the ecourt of evidence concerning an Army pistol and 13 extra bullets which had been offered by the Gov- ernment belonging to James T.| ne tirird 4 dant, marked | today before | and a jury with' the Criminal I i Inspector a 1d Detective Sergt defended the police drawn by counsel ndants that the by Freeman and Gross Inspector Grant E of statements mac Wwere not voluntary denied that counsel had b refused access to the prisoners. S Kelly told how the statements were made, de- | claring that all of the three defendants, as well as Helen C. Jackson, who was | under arrest, but who was exonerated | by the grand jury. were present in the | squadroom headquarters when the | statements made and signed by Freeman and Gross. The girl also made a statement, but Holmes refused to talk. All the prisoners W warned that Whatever they said would be used and that they cou'd re- ‘reeman etopped in the middle of his statement, according to | the wi , and asked if he had to go on. Kelly said he told him that he did not. and even offered him the paper to | destroy if he withes to retract. Fre man then continued with his version of | the ehooting, said Kelly | 8 DIE IN ELKS’ HOME | OF ARSENIC IN KEG | FILLED WITH CIDER (Continued from First we drunk without any ill ef-| ing apparent igation, Mosby said, Mr. Richardson purchased the to use for vinegar for ) but when he received the or- | der for the cider he used it to d liver the beverage. Mosby added, Mr. Richardson said he washed the keg and it is belleved the poison | turated the wood. i E. C. Burks commonwealth's attor- ney for Redford County, d this morning that after an investigation | the county authorities were con- vineed that the poisoning was acc denta! and that no prosecution was contemplated Board Member on Way. Robert A. Scott, the board, who is informed of the graphed that he wa ford at once. Tt w: al investigation : arrival. The dead, with one exception, will b buried at the home. That victim Alvin Spalding, will be taken to Col- orado. Allen, whose residence Portland, Oreg., is believed to be native of Culpeper, Va., and efforts will be made (o get in touch with relatives there. had been showed | that barrel mily, home member of in Indiana, was deaths and tele- leaving for Bed- stated that a ould await his was given as R. C. McCHESNEY DEAD. Had Been Resident of District for Fifty Years. Robert Carter McChesney, 62 years o1d, superintendent of hauling for the Commercial Transfer & Storage Co. in Washington and a resident of this | city for the last 50 years, died at h residence, 1010 ] street northeast, yes- terday. Death was due to a stroke of apoplexy which he suffered about 10 hours before he died. Mr. McChesney was born in Casa- nova, Va. He was a member of the Junior Order of United American Me- chanics. He leaves a wife, Mrs, Isa- belle C. McChesney; a daughter, Mrs. 1. M. Hewlett, and three sons, R. W McChesney, Edward McChesney Norman McChesney, all of this city. Funeral servi i at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Jpiscopal, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. C. S. Abbot, rector, will officiat~. nterment will be in Fort Llucoin Cemetery. ' . Resume Revenue Probe Next Week The special Senate committee in- vestigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue - will resume its sessions November 19, when it will review information compiled by committee investigators and map out a pro- gram for further public hearings. Bss gt You will find that philosophers, as a rule; are men who have lost thefr capacity for enthusiasm. oY | woula | been | product of Col. Hil -Lodge Desk Long Used by Bay State Senate Members The desk in the Senate chamber used by the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge during many years of his service in that body was the same formerly used by two other distinguished Senators from Mas- sachusetts, Charles Sumner and George Frisbie Hoar. There is a report about the Capitol that at a time even earlier the Lodge desk was used by Daniel Webster. When the Senate vacated the chamber now occupied by the Su- preme Court and moved to its Dresent quarters in the new wing of the Capitol, the desks, includ- ing that which Senator Lodge used and which had long seen s were retained. As new States were admitted into the Union and new Senators entered the chamber desks of the same style were con- structed for them. These relics are highly cher- ished by the Senate, and it has been the unbroken rule, so far a the memory of the old: employes run, to refuse perm! for the removal of any of them. WAR HERO FLOGGED ATWFESBEHEST Iy the Associated Press MIAMI, Fla, vember 11.—Mrs Hugo Hubsch, wife of a Cocoanut Greve druggist, one of the many he- roes of the famous “Fighting £9th of New York, has confessed, accord- ing to the sheriff’s otfice, that she in- stigated the flogging of her hu by a masked band on the evening of November 6 Hubsch, whose body bei many battle wounds, from Lis pluce of busines: the woods and so severely lashed with a strap that he since has been in & hospital in a serious condition, her purported confession Mrs. is said to e named the She is reported to have at- suicide at the county j lapse. In her alleged Hubsch said: “I thought they would only run him out of town—I did not know they really beat him. 1 wish God would kill me for what I did.”” Rewards amounting to $1.500 h offered for the conviction members of the flo; & party. Th Ku Klux Klan and American Legion have been active in carrying on an ation. sars ago today Hubsch, who kinship to Victor Hugo, author, 1ay in a hospital over- his body riddled by Germ Today he again n his recovery in doubt. confe HOME-MADE WINE AND CIDER RULED LEGAL BY JUDGE (Continued from First Page.) Prohibition Commissioner Hayr cerning wine cider, but Distri Attorney Woodcock objected to the introduction of the correspondence {as evidence und was sustained by the court. The court also sustained Woodeock's objection to Hill's offer- ing as evidence of his notifications sent to the collector of internal rev- enue that he ended to engage in the home manufacture of wine and cider. To end the examination, Woods said Government would that Col. Hill had made the and cider exclusively for use own hom Col. Hill then d made the grave j d followed instruet partment of Agriculture He had drunk it, he d. 1t wa still in process of fermentation. It had no effect upon him; it would have nauseated him before he be- me intoxicated because of its sweetness, he said. The district attorney objected to the use of the words “grape juice” by the defense’'s counsel, saying the experiment was bed how he and said wine. Attorney Arthur Machen of Hill's counsel insisted it was grape juice, whereupon Judge Soper asked: “Do 1 understand that counsel for the defense intends to offer evidence that beverages containing 11 per cent of alcohol by volume are not intoxi- cating? chen and Shir! other attorney ¥ Carter, replied in one Col. Hill described how he had made his cider, and said he had given it to more than 500 guests and that it did not make any of them drunk. Machen ed Judge Soper to send for two gallons home so the jury might taste it. Judge Soper said he would take the request under advisement. Hill was subjected to a short cross examination by Woodcock, and left the stand. MUST CHANGE POLICIES. The finding of Federal Judge Soper | John | In the c of Representative Phillip Hill at Baltimore today fs regarded here as necessitating a re- vision of the policies and regulations followed by the prohibition commis- sioner. Attempts have been prohibition unit on s to obtain from the Department of Justice a revision of the Frierson opinion, but without avail, Bureau of Internal Revenue and pro- hibition unit have chosen to continue the view that the 1 of 1 per cent clause in the Volstead act applied to homemade fruit juices. made by eral occasions The opinion in the case of the Mary- | land Rep entative, the first of sev- eral decisions likely to result from qestions ralsed by him, probably, therefore, will force an accord In the policies of the two agencies concern- ed with prohibition enforcement and ecution: ns of the De-| Col. | of the cider at Hill's | the | and the | THE EVENING STAR FUNERAL OF SLAN CONTRACTOR LD Simms’ Body Taken to Vir- ginia—Grand Jury Gets Case Tomorrow. VILLE, Md., November 11.— services were held here this morning for Thomas A. Simms, Ken- sington contractor, who was stabbed ath at his home Saturday by Fred Athens McClellan, a boarder, and the body was taken to Herndon, Va.. for burial. The rites, widow, two were conduc of Kensington, The grand ju attended by daughters and parents, 1 by Rev. J. W. Nicol t Pumphrey’s Chapel. now in session, is xpected tomorrow to take up the : against McClellan, who has signed a statement admitting the kill- ing, but contending he acted in self- defense. Sheriff H. Clay Plummer said today he received a request last night from State’s arrett to bring Mec- Clellan to Garrett’s office for ques- tioning. Lut refused. telling the prose- cutor he was at liberty to question the prisoner in the county jail, where e red, but that Plummer | would not allow his removal | Garrett today was in session | the wrand jury. and no statement was | forthcoming to the development that prompted his reputed request on the sheriff PRESIDENT HONORS TOMB OF UNKNOWN ON ARMISTICE DAY | == | (Continued from First Page.) i Simms’ Church. Miss Caroline Manning, tralto of St. Patrick’s choir, will be the soloist Stuart Walcott Post, American Le- gion, will give a mardi gras ball to- ight at the City Club, at which a number of handsome prizes will be awarded for tumes, and the Vet- erans of Foreizn Wars will give their annual military ball at the New Wil- lard Hotel W. U. Heroes. ngton University ute to its student he in Corcor. fwhen President Willi | is spoke on “Arm | is indeed fitt ashington Univers | cognizance of th sasion, for out| of this institution went hundreds of | jmen to lay their lives upon the altar| lof a Nation's need,” said Mr. Lewis A coast company of the ational s entirei recruit- i in Washington Univer- and out of that organization ater went many men as commis- ned officers to lead on the field of battle. | =On this s | assembly should take ! IN venth Armisti well grasp something meaning. Americans entered the crusaders, with the idea not ional or personal agerand jbut to serve ti Juse | No_nation ever went to higher ideals. There are those today who say that the sacrifice was use- less: that the world is no better off than before the war. They forget| that autocracies have heen over- | thrown; that republics have risen. | They forget that the rank and file| {of the people have more voice in af- | rs than ever before hey forget, too, that the effects of great world upheavals are not seen t that after great spiritual quickening and saerifice there s | ely to be a reaction. They forget t it was 15 years after the Civil ore conditions beeame settled thix country. Today America is a better and more united Nation be- cause of tha t conflict {forget that it was 17 years after the Napoleonic wars before Kurope be- came normal. ! “While we must wait many years | { for the full results of the World War | to be shown, still it is not too much {to believe on present evidence that it is a mighty milestone in the his- tory of world progress. It is not too {much to believe that its ultimate effect will be to bring about prac- tical elimination of cruel wars. The |consciences of the nations have been stirred and there is more demand for | peace t ever in history. We in| | America join strongly in that call, ibut we must join in it moving with intelligence and benefiting by ex- | |perience in the steps which we skall | take to eliminate war. “There is no proof that it Ameri- ca laid down all her arms despite {what any other nation did she { would be encouraging peace and not | war and aggression against her. It | battle with | i EDMONDS BUILDING ;! WARDMAN Hagmere enjoy much and the meal qui as the plea: unique atmiosp o Franklin Sq. Hotel w«:ufieeéhnppc 14th Street at K Genuine Boneless Codfish 1-pound Box ..........38¢ 2-pound Box ..........75¢c 3-pound Box ........$1.10 Magruder, Inc., Best Groceries Conn. Ave. & K St. Established 1875 Non-Depressant Non-Habit Forming In Convenient Aluminum Boxes At every drug store Aol for HEADACHT T I 9. Don’t Suffer | : . i With Piles | No matter if you have had piles for years Pyramid Pile gwmlm give you the | reliet you want from pain, iteh, strain, bleeding and soreness of protrud- ing piles. Get a 60cent box today at any xhl‘ store. You will then know why Pyramid the const-to-coast | relias vert! is ional They | |ii is true that people are going to a foolish extreme in their demands for peace: and are pledging themselves not to take up arms in case Ameriea is ever again involved in war. It seems obvious to me that that per- son who would not go to his coun- try's defense in time of war has no right to enjoy its privileges In time of peace. “Those who are working intelli- gently for peace are the ones who are turning thetr attentton to the elimination of the underlying causes of wars—the international hatrcds, the misunderstandings, the ignorances. Intelligent education for all the people will be our best guaramtee of peace. “Those who pause teday to pay tribute to our brave soldlers are net glorifying war. They are gloritying the heroism and the unselfish patriot- ism of those who were willing to lay ;iuwn their lives that the Nation might ive. ‘George Washington University pauses with them to pay trtbute to the men of the university who went out, some of them never to return.” HAS SILENT PERIOD. Work Stops in New York for Two | Minutes. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 11.—New York's Armistice day program in- cluded two minutes of silemce at 11 o'clock ushered in by radio broad- casting of “Taps” and bugle call, with every activity in the city ceasing for the period of contemplation. Patriotic, ctvie, religious and -busi- ness organizaticns joined witht city officiale in the celebration commemo- rating the day on which hostiMties ed six vears ago. Although many business offices re- quested employes to cease work at 11 o'clock for two minutes, few offices losed for the day. The consolidated and cotton exchanges planned to :ease trading for two minutes. The program also included a parade under the auspices of the city. BUSINESS IS HALTED. Armistice Observance Is General in Chicago. CHICAGO, November 11—A min- ute of silence, with all traffic_halted and business suspended, special ob- servances by veterans' bodies and programs by various organizations marked Chicago's celebration of Armistice day. Banks, the Stock Exchange, the Board of Trade and all schools were closed. Public functions included a program by the 202d Fleld Artillery, , WASHINGTON, D. C, 'I"IZT'EST’}AYE NOVEMBER 11, 1924, school children's exercises and ban- quets tonight. Vice President-elect Dawes will attend a dinner of the Kvanston, T, American Legion post tonight. Former Judge K. M. Landis will speak at the Hyde Park Legion post dinner. Other prominent Army of- ficers and civillans will address gath- erings at club and fraternal order luncheons and dinners. VETERANS IN TRIBUTE. Hold Ceremonies in Boston to Mark Armistice. BOSTON, November 11.—Although there w: no official ebservance of the sixth anniversary of Armistice day scheduled in Boston, informal exercises were arranged by patriotic organizations, especially those —of World War veterans. The principal \ceremony planned for was that held lon Boston Common under the aus- loes of the Military Order of the forld War. Detachments from local lunits of the Army and Navy and of ithe Marine Corps were assigned (o tassist in the observance. VETERAN AT CEREMONIES. .Civil War Doctor, Near 100, Aids Memorial Unveiling. VERNAL, Utah, November 11.—At- tired in the Immortal blue uniform of the Union Army with which he served during the Civil War, Dr. JI. C. Hul- linger—who, on December 2, will be 100 years old—today was the central fgure at the unveiling here of a me mortial monument erected in memor: of Uintah County men who died dur- tng the World War. Dr. Hullinger is reputed to be the oldest practicing physician in America. MEMORIAL OPENED. Palace of Legion of Honor, Is War Dead Tribute. SAN FRANCISCO, November 11.— The Califormia Palace of the Legion| of Honor, on the Peak of Inspiration Point, Lincoln Park, over looking th Golden Gate was thrown open to to honor the memory of the soldier dead | in_the World War. i The builing the gift of Mrs. Alma ! de Bretteville Spreckels, widow of the late A. B. Spreckels, is a replica of | the Legion of Honor building erected | in France in 1876 with a number of modern refnements. In the public dedication service to- day, M. Albert Tirman, French coun- cllor of state, and M. Jean Guiffrey curator of the Louvre, who brought art treasures from France as a gift to | hristmas %ahjngz Specially attractive men’s fur- nishings at extremely low prices as a special inducement to those who will shop early. Fine, lustrous, heavy quality, WHITE M- PORTED ENGLISH BROADCLOTH SHIRTS —Neckband or collar at- tached—that usually sell for $3.50. Christmas Special, 4 for $9.00 Every man likes a fine OXFORD CLOTH SHIRT, in White, in either collar attached or neck- band. $1.85 Christmas 00 a 1 Special, 4 for Boxed for Presents, If Desired Neckwear Beautiful patterns—fine silks —and exquisite tailoring make this ciated gift. Christmas Special, 6 for $5.00 neckwear a most appre- 85¢ Boxed for Presents. Knit Rayon Cravats Stripes and other up-to-the- minute patterns. Christmas Special, Boxed for Presents A Christmas Special 1331 F Street Everything for the Well Dressed Man and Boy Boxed for Presentation 1 De Luxe Robe Beautiful brocade pat- terns trimmed with satin shawl collar and cuffs and silk waist cord. A robe that usu- ally sells for $25. 5162 the palace, public. Senator Samuel S. Shortridge was| to_deliver the dedicatory address. The building contains an art gal- lery, library, offices, tea room, studies, | a theater and a gigantic pipe organ.| PROLRANM IN VIRGINIA. will represent their re- F. J. PURNER DIES. Former Merchant Is Buried Rock Creek Cemetery. Ferdinand G. in the | business wholesale and at Park road 1 Legion and Other Patriotic Bodies in Celebration. Speciul Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, V November 11.— Richmond and Virginia today are Armistice day. Business ¢ is suspended, all State of- are ciosed and the people are uniting with the members of the American Legion and the several pa- triotic organizations in a formal ob- ath was due 10 hea Purner had lived Maryland for about two and a ha rs. Funeral services were conducted residence of his daughter, Draley, 1215 Kearney today. Rev. Dr. Charl pastor of the Brookland M Church, officiated. Interment was Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. sonic circles here. ber of the Stansbury Lodge, No. M, and the Brightwo: . Royal Arch Masons, He is surviv A period of silence, services at “Legion Square” and u parade were on the program today The theaters of the city opened thair doors to all the legion and others in the celebra- tion. Tonight there ix to be a ball, preceded by a scries of banquets. | ZIONIST DRIVE ENDS. | The final meeting of the member- ship drive of the Washington Zion- ists will be held at 8 o'clock tonight | in the Y. M. L A. 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