Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1924, Page 1

- WEATHER. Fair today and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. for hours ended at night: Highest, 46, at 2 Temperature 10 pm. last a.m. yester- day; lowest, 34, at 10 p.m. yesterday. Full report on Page 5. No. 1,025 —No. 29,419. Entered as second class matter post office Washington, D. C. STECK T0 DEMAND BROOKHART'S SEAT ONVOIDED BALLOTS Thousands Reported Thrown Out by Judges Because of Arrow Markings. SENATE RACE TOTALS 50.000 BEHIND TICKET Senator, However, Says Recount Will Strengthen His 750 Majority. i | | By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, November 13.—Bal Jots thrown out by election judges in numerous Towa counties and estimat® cd to number thousands may decide Who shall be lowa's junior Senator— Kmith Brookhart or Daniel F. Steck. These ballots, missing from the of- | al tabulations completed in all| vounties today, will form the basis uf & contest of the recent senatorial election which Steck, the Democratic candidate for Senator Brookhart's seat, announced today would be made When the new Congress convenes. Says Votes Were Not Counted. Steck pointed out in his announce- ment of the contest that approximate- | 1y 950,000 votes were cast for presi- dentfal candidates on November 4 ‘While the tabulations show less than 800,000 votes for the senatorial can didates. While many voters undoubt cdly refrained from expressing their | cholce for Senator, Steck declared he | has been advised that “a great many ballots in wh h the voter attempted | 10 exerci; his _ choice were not counted by local®election boards.” This statement, it was indicated, Feferred to the numerous ballots dis- | carded under the State election law because they bore arrows pointing | 1o the X before Steck's name, and | which the Democratic candidate be- | leves the Senate would accept on a | recount as ballots bearing merely an emphasis of the voters’ intention. Under the State law, the arrows con- stitute identification marks. Sees Another Chance. Another class of votes which Steck fecls would aid In overcoming the Brookhart majority were mnot count- cd, he sald, because of a misunder- standing of the election laws by pre- | cinct judges. These votes were | straight Republican ballots except for a scratch for Steck, which were | not counted, it Is said, becauSe of a | iuisunderstanding of a recent change | in the law relating to the marking of | ballots. Many of these ballots, it is | raid, were not counted in Polk Coun- 1y (Des Moines. enator Brookhart, at his home in Washington, Iowa, issued a state- ment declaring a recount would strengthen his majority, which stands | & 730, and contending that he had‘ ®ven deprived of thousands of Votes | farough failure of election judges to eount straight Republican ballots. | The total vote as shown by the | complete county canvasse)s tonight | was: Brookhart, 447,711; Steck, 446, 861 | e COOLIDGE CRUISING ON POTOMAC RIVER Flurry of Snow Fails to Halt| Week-End Plans—Due Back Tomorrow. fic | | 1 In the first snow storm of the #cason President and Mrs. Coolidge started down the Potomaec River ves- terday afternoon aboard the yacht M flower for a week end cruise. lie presidential party filed aboard the vessel by way of a covered gang- plank to a lower deck and none had appeared on the slush-covered upper | deck when the yacht nosed her way | out of sight in the driving snow. Mr. Coolidge has shown a liking for the river trips and the sudden change in the weather made no| change in his plans for the cruise. | Pespite the storm he intended to ! Temain out until tomorrow morning. The guests included Commissioner EBlair of the Internal Revenue Bureau, Jierbert Pratt of New York, a cla mate of the President; R. W. Thatcher of Geneva, N. Y.; W. C. Coffey, dean of the Agriculture College of the University of Minnesota, and William M. Jardine, president of Kandas Agri- culture College. The latter three are gnembers of the commission appointed by the President to invedtigate farming conditions. GERMANS GIVEN BACK RAILROADS IN RUHR Franco-Belgian Regime Turns Over Control Under London Pact. Br the Associated Press. COBLENZ, Germany, November 15. ~~The Franco-Belgian regime here will turn over the raflroad adminis- tration to the Germans at midnight by order of the interallied high com- mission under the terms of the Lon- don agreement. The commission, however, has provided for a certain amount of military control. The script issued by the French and Belgians during the money short- xge, it was announced, will be with- drdwn. The military high commis- sioners at Spire and Mayence are to be replaced by civilians, and a small area in the Cologne district, includ- ing the towns of Homef and Honig- winter, will be evacuated by the ¥rench troops Monday night. SHIP HITS MINE; 2 DEAD. Esthonian Destroyer Sunk in Gulf of Finland. REVAL, Esthonia, November 15.— While searching for mines in Gulf of Finland, an Esthonian de- troyer struck a mine near Nargo, being badly damaged by the ex. ylosion. The destroyer sank. Two of the crew were killed and six in- gured, | 60.000 and under drab { which a bitterly | score indicates, came as an upset al_| | blew and stopped the drive. |for a few | Williams, jing 25-yard he WASHINGTON, Four Snared in Plot to Fake Millions in Fifth Man Sought Saving Stamps in Alleged Nation- Wide Scheme—Lawyer, Returning From Capital, Is Held. By the Associated Press. LAND, Ohio, November 15. —A plot to sell millions of dollars’ worth of counterfeit §5 war savings stamps throughout the country was charged today by Federal officials after the arrest of four Cleveland men and-the issuance of o Federal warrant for a fifth man alleged to | have had a definite part in the plot The men arrested are V. Zot- tarrelli, an attorney; Michael D. Fa- tul, Constantine Colluci and Nicolal Zalupo. i Zottarrelll wa: arrested here as he stepped from a tr: , returning from Washington, where he had been on law business. Unknown to Zottar- relli, two operatives of the Secret Service were on the same train with him. The four men pleaded not guilty before a United States commissioner, Unable to furnish $25000 ball, Zot- tarrelli remains in custody. Two of the others furnished $5,000 bail, and 60,000 WATCH YALE DEFEAT PRINCETON Blue, Winning 10-0, Favored to Trim Harvard and Take Big Three Title. By the Assoclated Press PRINCETON, N. J., November 15.— he Bulldog clipped the Tiger's claws and blasted his dream of a Biz Three champlonship this afternoon in Pal- mer Stadium. Before a colorful crowd of close to skies, from | cold wind whipped | through the big stadium, Yale un- leashed a mighty machine that smashed its way to victory by a score | of 10 to 0, and toppled Princeton from the heights of greatness it had | scaled only a week ago by crushing | Harvard. Yale's triumph, by a margin even more one-sided and complete than the | other cities. | told her hust most as startling as Princeton’s | transformation against the Crimson, | for the Tiger had entered the fray | favorite. As a result the Blue, now | apparently at the top of its stride, will be favored to conquer Harvard | next Saturday in the declding game | of the title serles and complete a_sec- | ond undefeated season for the Blue. Kicks 44-Yard Field Goal. Yale concentrated all her scorlng today in the third period, when Harry Scott booted a remarkable drop-kick for a field goal from the 44-yard line and Joss, giant lineman, scored a | touchdown on a forward pass from Kline, after Phil Bunnell had put the pigskin within scoring distance with a brilllant 45-yard run back of a punt. But the Blue outclassed the Orange and Black in every other period and was within three yards of another touchdown, ripping the Tiger line to pieces, when the final whistle The Elis not only displayed declsive driving in their attack, but put up a brilliant defense in-which Joss and Capt. Lovejoy were the outstanding figures that completely checked Princeton’s offensive efforts, except sporadic instances. Ted Jake Slagle, Charley Weeks and the other backfield aces who had run wild agalnst Harvard were checked repeatedly in their tracks or thrown for losses by the alert, rugged Eli forwards Ell Never Menaced. So thoroughly was Princeton's at- tac stopped that the Tigers never threatened the Eli goal, and, In fact, were only once In Yale territory dur- ing the entire game. That was in the latter part of the third period when the Tigers, lashed to a fury by Yale's scoring spurt, gained 45 vards in two plays, a forward pass from Slagle to Tillson and a slash- broken fleld run by Slagle, which put the ball on Yale's 45-yard line. But the Blue defense quickly stiffened and forced the Tigers to kick. Princeton, it seemed, had gone stale since Its startling vietory a week ago, for the Tigers showed none of the fire and dash that char- acterized their play against they (Continued on Fage 4, Column 4.) Scores of Leading Foot Ball Games Yesterday Georgetown was the only one of the five local foot ball teams to come out on top yesterday in games that- were played on slushy and partly snow-covered gridirons that militated against high-class play. Georgetown defeated the 3d Army Corpa, 6 to 0; Maryland outplayed North Carolina State in a score- less deadlock; Gallaudet and Loyola had a pointless battle, while Cathollc University and George Washington bowed to Mount St. Mary's and Delaware, respectively, each by 6 to 0. In the big Eastern game, Yale conquered Princeton, 10 to 0; Minnesota was the author of an upset in trimming Illinois, 20 to 7, in the Western con- ference headliner, while Notre Dame trounced Nebraska, 34 to 6, in another mid-West contest that attracted wide attention. Penn has its record marred by being held to. a scoreless tie by Penn State and Centre spoiled Alabama’'s clean . slate with a 17-to-0 victory. Scores of other leading games wer! Marines, 28; Detroit, 0. Dartmouth, 27; Cornell, 14. Bucknell, 6; Navy, 0. Army, 14; Columbia, 14. Brown, 7; Harvard, 0. Virginia, 6; Virginia Poly, 0. West Virginia, 6; Washington and Lee, 0. Centenary, lege. 9. Georgia, 6: Auburn, 0. Vanderbilt, 3; Georgia Tech, 0. W. and J., 10; Pittsburgh, 0. 10; Boston Col- Towa, 21; Wisconsin, 7. one, $3,000, and have beenareleased. The warrant on which Zottarrelll was arrested charged specifically that on October 10 he sold §40 stamps of the face value of $5,000 to a Cleve- land dealer in securities. Fatul and Zalupo are charged with =celling smaller quantities of the stamps on September 9, and Colluci is said by Federal officials to have sold a num- ber of the stamps at quest. Zottarrelll said he the stamps in payment of fees accepted for | legal work and that he did not know | they were bogu Federal officials state the plot In- volving counterf. ng of these stamps has been in operation in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Suspicion was first di- rected to Pittsburgh, where a man cashed $10,000 worth of the stamps. The workmanship of the engrav- officials stage, Is so nearly per- | fect that the suspicion of a counter- | feit plot was not entertained until cvery other explanation of the Pitts- burgh man’s possession of the stamps was exhausted. DAYTIME GUNMAN ROBS AVENUE SHOP Holds Up Woman and Gets| Gems Valued at $2,125, While Many Pass Door. While scores of unsuspecting pe- destrians sauntered along Pennsylva- nia avenue vesterday afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock, a man was standing inside the National Shop at 1217 Pennsylvania avenue, pointing a revolver at Mrs. Mabel H. Papineau, wife of the proprietor, and taking into his possession a card con- taining 30 diamond rings valued at $2, There was excite later on Pennsylvania avenue, when the woman ran out of the shop and nd. who had just driven automobile, what the man who was ually strolling across Pennsylvania avenue -southwardly toward Twelfth street d in his possession. Husband Gives Chase. Mr. Papineau made his way after the man. The man, walking and showing mnot the slightest concern about happenings in the world around him, continued first precinct station. Mr. Papineau, in pursuit, did not. He went in. When he came out he had Policemen Helms, Rawlinson, Kiefer and Kelly with him. All he did thereafter was to point to the man and explain. The policemen did the rest. A few moments afterward a man was giving his name as Wilbur Stan- ley of Knox court southwest, at the dest of the precinct station, and the rings alleged to belong to Mr. Papi- neau were being taken from him. A charge of robbery was placed against h ent a short time up in an fil!hry of Robbery. Mrs. -Paj eau told a dramatic story of the hold-up. She said a man had asked to see some rings Fri- day gight in the store, and that he (Continued on Page 2, age 2, WLEARY’S SLAYERS GET SHORT REPRIEVE Column Governor Postpones Date of Elec- trocution 3 Weeks to Re- view Evidence. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, 8. ¢, November 15.— Mortimer N. King and Frank Har- rell, who were scheduled to die by electrocution next Kriday for the murder of Maj. Samuel H. McLeary, near Cheraw, S. C. last July, today were reprieved by Gov. Thomas G McLeod until Friday, December 5. Three weeks' respite was granted, | the governor stated, he might review the testimony in the case upon his return from the conférence of governors in Jackson- in order that i ville next week. The two men were convicted of murder in Chesterfield County, and on September 23 were sentenced by Judge Featherstone to be ebectro- cuted at the State Penitentiary on November 21. Both have been in the deathhouse at the penitentiary since, having been brought from the Chesterfleld County Jjail. Search was begun by the War De- partment throughout the Southeast- ern States shortly after Maj. Mc- Leary disappeared in the course of an automobile trip from Raleigh to Columbia. With the arrest of King at his home near Canton, N. C., it was learhed that the Army officer had been slain near Cheraw, §. C., July 2, after he had given the two wayfarers a ride. The motive estab- lished at the trial was robbery. s 1,000 SEE WOMAN FALL TO DEATH FROM PLANE Aviator’s Parachute, Catching on Machine, Hurls Body 700 Feet. By the Associated Press. CASSOPOLIS, Mich., November 15. —Falling 700 feet after the rope of her parachute caught on a protuber- ance of the airplane, from which she jumped, Miss Ethel Dare, 26, Chi- cago aviatrix, was killed instantly at the American Legion carnlval grounds here today. One thousand horrified spectators watched the young woman hurtle to the ground. Miss Dare walked to the end of the spectally constructed platform on the alrplane and jerked the rope which was to open the parachute, but the rope caught on a bar of the plane and the performer dangled 1A mid- Air until the hemp snapped in two, Zottarrelli's re- | Token | on his way past the| Sun WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION g D G, MUSSOLINI UPHELD BY DEPUTIES, 3155, INTEST OF POWER Majority Held to Refute Ru- mors of Impending Revolt Against Fascism. | GIOLITTI AND ORLANDO LISTED IN OPPOSITION Premier Still Faces Difficult Task of Pacification — Peace De- clared Foreign Policy Aim. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, November 15.—The foreign | policy of the Mussolini government was sustained {n the Chamber of | Deputies by a vote of 3i5 to 6. aturally the government expected| a vote of confidence with a large majority, owing to the absence of the opposition members. Neverthe-| |less, the anti-governmental press had so emphasized Glolitti's opposition | and Orlando’s uncertainty that the | majority received greatly surpassed expectations. Those who voted for the govern- ment included the Fascist conserva- tives, led by Signor Salandra, who, however, made one of the conditions of thelr adherence execution by the government of a program tending to| pacification. The six who voted against the government included for- mer Premier Giolitti, and a few of | his followers Twenty-six members | abstalned, and they may also be con- sidered against the government. For- mer Premier Orlando was among the latter. Alarmist Reports Dixcounted. Alarmist reports concerning the ituation in Italy coming from abroad have caused surprise in government jcircles, and among the people at |large, for the reason that, with the exception of small incidents between the Fascistl and anti-Fasclsti, similar lin many cases to the old local feuds, | there has been no serlous agitation or unrest in any part of the country; | nor is there apparent any prepara- | tion indicating prospective disorders. | Therefore, the rumors spread abroad ot organized plots aiming at bring- | Ing about a coup d'etat have caused | astonishment in Rome. In some quar- | ters the nion is expressed that! | inancial speculation, having as an | object lowering the value of the| Ttalian lire, is at the bottom of It all. | }: The Fascist government, it s ad- | | mitted, is confronted with graver | difficuities than during the first year | {and a half of Its regime, but those well acquainted with the feeling of i the people do not consider any seri- | ous occurrences at all likely. Opposition Stays Awny. The determination of the opposition not to participate in the work of Par. llament, while it facilitates discussion and approval of the budget by the | chamber, will have an effect on har- | monlous legtslation, especially as litti has left the ministerial ran though, as the Popolo d'Italia recall during the Libyan war he kept parlia- ment closed for fourteen months and in that period renewed the triple ai- liance before its expiration. The so- clalists, who rejoice over Giolitti present attitude, accused him then ‘of acting unconstitutionally. The opposition, furthermore, hopss to be able to induce Signor Orlando to join them, believing they sce some slgn of this in a conversation which took place between him and Giolitti They point out that Orlando, when seeking re-clection last April declared {that he intended to remain loyal to liberal democratic principles, which he had always upheld. He added that he constitution, although susceptible to gradual adaptation, must be con- sldered sacred and unalterable In its spirit. 1 . Task Before Mussolini. Premier Mussolini stands between two difficulties. If he crushes the new fascisti extremists who are caus- ing trouble he runs the risk of bring- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) | | | i O WOMAN IN GHOSTLY ROLE HALTS HER OWN FUNERAL Stays Away All Night and Chil- dren Accept Taxicab Vic- tim’s Body as Parent’s. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 15.—Mrs. Margaret Sheridan hurried home last night in time to postpone her funeral She left home last Thursday evening to visit friends and had such a good time she stayed all night. In the meantime a woman who had been struck by a taxicab was taken to Bellevue Hospital and dled there, un- identified. Patrick Sheridan and his sister Mary worried when their mother failed to come home that night. When they read of the woman killed by the taxi, they hastened to Bellevue. The body was taken to Patrick's home and the relatives were sum- moned to the wake. Then Mrs. Sheridan came home. “A ghost!” cried the grandchildren. “A ghost, your grandmother!” said Mrs. Sheridan. The body was taken back to Belle- Vue morgue. Spain Reports Evacuation. MADRID, November 15.—The Span- ish forces in Morocco, says an officlal statement tonight, have evacuated the entire Wad-lau River region with the loss of only three men, who were wounded in a rear guard engagement. Beginning_yesterday afternoon, the withdrawal of men and materfals continued far into the night, the Span- ish fleet co-operating in the operation. Map for Schools The Star today prinis a new map of Europe, with explana- tory notes, prepared by the Nationel Geographic Soclety, and especlally designed for use in the District of Columbia pub- lic schools, where 40,000 ob- solete geographies now hold sway. It will be found on page 43. SUNDAY MORNI | ixed by pas 1 Engineer A. J. Ross, 103 West Ran- | | train No. 5, News Note GAPITAL LIMITED WRECKED; 1 KILLED Fireman, D. C. Man, Fatally Hurt—Train Is Derailed in Maryland. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, November 15.—One man was killed and another badly injured when the Capital Limited of the Baltimore and Ohio Raiiroad was derailed at Weverton, Md. Two pos- tal clerks were slightly Injured D. W. Griffin of Washington, fire- {man of the train, was fatally injured | and A. J. Ross, engineer, of Baltimore, was badly hurt. In a report issued tonight, the ratl- | the blame on | road company placed the engineer, who “disregarded speed restrictions through the cross-over, as indicated by the signals and as standard instructions.” The following official report of the derailment was issued at the execu- tive offices of the railroad company | in Baltimore: Report On Accident. 4:14 pm., enger train “At Baltimore No. and Ohio in_charge of dall_street, Baltimore, Grifin of Washington, con- sisting of mail car, club car, dining cars and seven *sleepers, had engine, mail car, club car, two diners and three sleepers derailed at Wever- ton, Md. The engine and mail car were turned over on their side, the other derailed cars standing upright. “No passengers were injured. The engineer was badly injured and taken to a hospital at Brunswick. The fire- man was fatally injured. Two postal clerks, residing at Cumberland, were slightly injured.. “A combined car, dining car and four sleepers were at once dispatched from Washington to Weverton and a new train made up, consisting of the equipment from Washington, to- gether with the four sleepers from and Fireman nation at 8:05 p.m. Detour Is Necessary. i “Because of a westbound freight train having been detained west of Weverton, it was necessary to detour train No. 5 around the freight train over the eastbound main track. The detailment of train No. 5 occurred as it entered the cross-over from the westbound to the eastbound tracks and was due to excessive speed, by reason of the engineer's disregarding speed restrictions through the cross- over, as indicated by the signals and as fixed by standard instructlons. MANY CATTLE KILLED. B. and 0. Stock Train Wrecked by Hitting Horse in Maryland. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., November 15.— Heavy loss In live stock and great railroad property damage was caused early today when an east-bound Baltimore and Ohio all-stock train was wrecked near Buckeystown. The engine and 14 cars, all but one loaded with live stock, piled up, 60 per cent of the stock in these cars being killed. All trainmen escaped injury. The wreck was caused when the traln struck a horse which had strayed on the tracks. Two of three tramps, sald to have been riding In the wrecked section of 14 cars, were uninjured. The third is missing, and may be under the wreckage. The train carrled 60 cars. The rear end section of 56 cars was not affected,’ and was reconsigned to Baltimore to- day via Washinton. The entire divi- sion between Washington Junction and Baltimore was closed throughout the day. Traffic was not resumed until this evening. MINERS WILL STRIKE. 22,000 Affected by Proposed Walk- out Tomorrow. SCRANTON, Pa., November 15.—At a meeting of the general grievance committee of the Hudson Coal Com- pany held here this afternoon it was unanimously decided on go on strike Monday morning. The proposed walk- out will affect 22,000 men and boys. In the territory between Forest City and Plymouth 20 collieries will shut down. The strike vote is the culmination of alleged grievances covering a pe- riod of several months. The special grievance which called today’s action grows out of conditions at Parsons, where it is alleged new regulations caused a material reduction in wages, \ two | nd dispatched to desti- | Star. NG, NOVEMBER 16, 1924—118 PAGES. Today’s Star. PART ONE—56 PAGES. | General News—Local, National, Foreign. |D. A. R. Activities—Page 21. Schools and Colleges—Pages 27, 42 and 43. rArnund the City—Page 29. | At the Community Centers—Page 35. Radic News and Programs—Pages 38 and 39. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 40. Current News Events—Page 42. New Map of Europe—Page 43. Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 44. Serial—"'Captain Blood"’—Page 46. News of the Clubs—Pages 47 and 38. Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 48 District National Guard—Page 49, Boy Scout News—Page 49. Financial News—Pages 50 and 51. Veterans of the Great War—Page 52. | | PART TWO0—16 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. | Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 14. ; PART THREE—14 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. | Music in Washington—Page 5. | Motors and Motaring—Pages 6 to 11. Spanish War Veterans—Page 11. Reviews of New Books—Page 12. The Civilian Army—Page 12. Fraternities—Page 13. PART FOUR—1 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. | Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. | The Rambler—Page 3. | Army and Navy News—Page 8. | e | PART SIX—8 PAGES. | Classified Advertising. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—4 PAGES. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; Mutt and Jeff. Mr. and Mrs. Mr. MRS. HARDING GROWS WEAKER, SAYS DOCTOR | Widow of President Holding Own at Midnight. By the Assoclated Press. MARION, Ohlo, November 15.—Mrs, Florence Kling Harding, widow of the late President, seriously ill at White Oaks Farm here, is growing weaker each hour, a bulletin issued by Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, her physician, at 8:30 tonight said. The physician, however, expressed the belief that she would survive the night. “Mrs. Harding has slept most of the day.” the bulletin read. “and has also taken a small amount of nour- ishment. Regardless of this. she is very exhausted and weak tonight. She has failed perceptibly during the day.” At midnight Dr. Sawyer issued the following bulletin: “Mrs. Harding has been comfort- able up to midnight. She was stronger and more cheerful. Reported Ro o Three Dead in Quary Blast. GUANABACOA, Cuba, November 15. —Three workmen were killed here today when a blast exploded pre- maturely In the Pinon quarries. The bodles were burfed under several tons of earth and rock, and it took fire- men five hours to reach them. By the Ass jated Press. LYNBROOK, N. Y., November 15. —The story of a race between mother and daughter over 45 miles of Long Island highways, with the girl's life as the stake, and death the eventual winner, was revealed today in conneotion with the sulcide of Madeline Haverstroh, 25- year-old society girl, who shot herself while in her automobile noar her home here yesterday. Driving at high speed from Northport to Lynbrook, Miss Haverstroh _eluded her mother, Mrs. Louls H. Haverstroh, who was following in another car in an attempt to overtake her. The mother had a premonition the daughter would attompt to kill herself, and resolved to be the first to reach her home where she knew her husband had a revolver. The girl arrived there ahead, got the revolver, then drove ‘two blocks away and shot herself. _~ Zhe girl had been at Northport s “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Wild ducks, mistaking Louisiana oil tanks for water, flew in and were drowned. OPIUM CONFERENCE NEARLY DISRUPTED Heated Argument Between Japanese and British Delegates Staged. B the Associnted Press. GENEVA, November and countercharges day's session of opium conference opium problems, and although the conference should have finished its work tonight, o that a report on its conclusions might be presented to the general conference to open Mon- day, it seemed as far from agreement as when the sessions began a night ago. China charged that if the great powers had not adopted ef- fective measures to reduce opium smoking in the Far East, such rationing and the registration smokers, it was because they wish to do so. England charged Japan with at- |tacking the British government dur- ing the discussion over the Japanese | proposal that countries exporting opium | should recognize the importe certificates | issued by other countries, and furnish | oplum when the documents declare that | the opium is for legitimate purposes. Sir | Malecolm Delevingne, speaking for Great Britain disclosed that pri- | vate negotiations concerning expor- | tations and trans-shipment of opium {have been going on between London and Tokio, and he expressed aston- ishment that Japan should raise the question at Geneva. 15.—Charges embittered to- the international on far eastern of did not Debate Gets Heated.” Replying, the Japanese delegate in- |dicated that Japan had broken off these negotiations, preferring to bring the question before the con ference. The debate became so heated it looked for a time as if the onference would be disrupted. M Sugimura announced that Japan would never sign an opium conven- tion unless it was built on good faith, and he refused to vote on the question whether the next meeting of the conference should be held to- morrow or Monday, saving: “I shall not vote because have said my last word.” Sir Malcolm “(Cont 1 insisted L Great that on Page 2, Column 3.) MOTHER, 18, THRICE WED, NEVER DIVORCED, JAILED Gets Six Months for Contributing to Delinquency of Her Child. By the Associnted Press CHICAGO, November 15.—Married when she was 14 years old, and the mother of a child by this marriage, Roberta Childs, 18, an attractive blonde, wed two other men within three ‘years without obtaining di- vorces and contemplated a fourth matrimonial adventure, it was testi- fled when her case came up in police court today. All her husbands were in court and all testificd against her. At first charged with bigamy, the charge was later changed to- con- tributing to delinquency of her child when her tender age was noted. She was gentenced to six months in a cor- rective institution. Her attorney pro- tested, declaring he did not belleve his client “in her right mind. Society Girl Slays Self in Auto As Mother Loses Race to Save Her| visiting a_ friend, Mre. Zeopold Dohne, who keeps an inn. Mrs. Dohna' telephoned Mrs. Haver- stroh that Madeline was “acting queerly” and the mother hastened to Northport in her sedan. She questioned her daughter, who be- gan to weep. When the girl started home In her own coupe, the mother followed in the sedan. Dusk and traffic congestion caused Mrs. Haverstroh to lose sight of the coupe. She stopped several times, seeking trace of her daugh- ter. Then the premonition of suicide seized her and she has- tened home. She found her daugh- ter and the revolver gone. The father, in the meanwhile, had been notified, and he, too, was racing for his home in a taxicab. He arrived just as a police cap- tain was entering the house with the information that his daughter had shot herself. Judge Edward T. Neu of Hemp- stead, as acting coroner, held an inquest and found that the wound bad been self-inflicted, fort- | as|is FIVE CENTS. 4 DEATH DRIVERS, ' [GNORING VICTIMS, HUNTEDBY POLICE Eight Detectives Are Detailed Specially to Solve Quar- tet of Accidents. “GET THOSE MURDERERS,” GRANT TELLS OFFICERS Woman Badly Hurt Last Night by Autoist, Who Also Speeds Away. With police and detectives already working at high tenslon in a city. wide attempt to solve the four “traffic murders” since Halloween, in whic motorists sped away after fatally juring pedestrians, another woma | Miss Mary Ford, 45, of 1501 Fiftee street was knocked down by an uni- dentified automobllist last night and left unconscious in the street, while he put on more speed and disap- peared. Miss Ford was crossing Island avenue at Iowa Circle, when the machine rushed down upon her. She was seen reeling to the paving, and the driver continued on his way, leaving her for another motorist to {take to Emergency Hospital, where {her condition late last night was | considered serious. Less than 24 hours previously, Miss argaret Heflin of 1114 King street, Alexandria, Va, was knocked down and fatally fnjured as she walked into the street to board a car at First street and Florida avenue. Special Men Detafled. Inspector C. L. Grant, chief of de- | tectiv, announced last night that eight detectives had been .specially signed to the cases, and that eac central office man had been posi- tively instructed to turn every possi- ble effort toward the detection of the drivers responsible for the acci- dents { “They're murders and nothing I Inspector Grant told the detectives at roll call yesterday. “If a man's heart is good, he would not drive away and leave the person he injured to suf- fer while he used the. time which might save the victim's life to make good his escape. It is murder, cold and simple, and the malice in this case differs from that 1. which a man shoots another down in cold blood only in the fact that it becomes evi- dent aften the act instead of before }it...So I want you men to realize the {tremendous importance of the task assigned vou. Find these men If it humanly possible to find them, and bring them in to answer to the law." The accident preceding that which resulted in the death of Miss Heflin was the death of William Riley of 508 Irving street, a week ago last night, who was killed at Georgia ave- nue and W street by an automobile, the driver of which went on after striking Riley. Detectives Sweeney and Waldron are working on this case. Four suspects were arrested t week, but were released Friday when they proved alibis. November 1, J. N. Powell w: injured by a bootleg which threw a smoke screen into the eves of pursuing policemen who were chasing it, just before the acc dent, at New Jersey avenue and | street. In this case Detectives Brodle® and Vermillion are seeking the oper- ator of the automobile. Police of the second precinct, co- operating with headquarters detec- tives, arrested Berpard Ransom of 1230 Six-and-One-Half street, short- Iy after death of Powell. He was indicted as an accessory before the fact, and at the trial of the charge of throwing a smoke screen was given vear's sentence at Occoquan. The name. of the driver of the automobile is known to the police, and a seareh for him is being made. Rhode | | i 1 s fatally automobile s Doctor Loses Life. The other “traffic murder” took I place at Twelfth and U streets, when Dr. William A. Pethel was knocked down and fatally injured by a group of Halloween celebrants. Police be- {lieve they have a clue in this case, which may lead ultimately to tha arrest of the driver and occupant of | this automobile. Detectives Spring- |man, Darnall, Sweeney, Waldron, | Brodie and Vermillion have been working constantly on the case. As a result of the recent “trafic murders,” Inspector Grant sald police |and detectives have been shown the |need for strict enforcement of the | regulation which compels automobiles | to stop 15 feet in the rear of a street car about to load or discharge pas- sengers. There has been no trace of the au- tomobile which knocked down Miss | Heflin and seriously injured a girl companion, Miss Anna Stevens of {917 Eleventh street northeast. The-e is a vague report that it carrdd | Maryland license tags. | Despite the baflling features of ti > | cases, however, detectives wers fait |1y wlil satisfied that there would bo & “break” on one or all In the imme- aiate tuture. MAN KILLED IN CRASH. Woman Is .Injured—Auto Side- swiped, Driver Says. | Special Dispaten to The star. | ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 1il— Robert M. West, 52 vears old, pro- |prietor of a gas filllng station at |Gum Springs, Fairfax County, Va., was killed, and a woman, identified |as Mrs. Stmeon, 2131 I street, Wash- |ington, was seriously injured, when {an automoblle, in which they were riding, left the road and crashed into a tree at Hybla Valley, about four |miles south of here, shortly after 10 o'clock tonight. The woman is in” the Alexandria Hospital. Robert Brown, colored, who was driving the car, is held by the Alex-_ andria police at the request of the Fairfax County authorities, pending the outcome of an inquest tomorrow morning at Demain's chapel here. Brown, according to the police, said that he went to West's station and | was requested by West to bring the tter and the woman to Alexandria When he neared Hybla Valiey, he said, he was sideswipcd by another machine and swerved off the road. West was catapulted against the windshield of the car and his head crushed. The colored man escaped injury. The machine, according to the police. is owned by Richard Nappa of Gum Springs,