Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1924, Page 2

RHINELANDER SUES - TOVOID MARRIAGE Charges Wife Has Negro Blood and Concealed Fact Before Wedding. Fs the Ausociated Prees, NEW ROCHELLE, X. ber 27.—Leonard i scfon of one of New Yor vldest | famiifes, who married M Alice Jones of New Rochelle October 14, vesterday filed sult in the West Chester County Supreme Court to an- nul the marrlage. Rhinelander al- leged that his wife concealed from him the fact that she had negro Jlood in her veins. The papers were supported by an fore a Kings County notary pubaffida amMdavit made by Rhinelander before a Kings County notary public. The complaint declsres that the “content” of the plaintiff, Rhine- lander, marr was ob- tained’ by and that the de-j rndant, ones, told inelander she ite and had no colored blood.” nder the complaint states. entered futo mar riage on the basis of such repre- sentations, which he has since dis- covered to be untrue Rhinelander i 22 years old. Ie is! the son of Philiip Rhinelander, heir; 10 a fortune of $100,000,000 in Man- hattan real estate, and a me er of one of Manhatfan's most exclusiv families. His Huege: ancestors settled in New Rocheile in the sev- enteenth century. The-marrisge of Rhinelander did not become public until a mont! after it was performed by .\l'uyur] Harry Scott of New Rochelle, ! MEDICAL ASSOCIATION WILL MEET IN DALLAS Southern Doctors to End Conven- tion Today With Election of Officers. iy the Assoctated Pres NEW ORLE La., November 27 annual convention of thel Southern Medicel Assoctation will end today with election of officers The executive committee last night cted Dallas, Tex., as the 1925 con- vention site i Calling upon his hearcrs to “tu & deaf ear to those who would Inter- | pret Christtan brotherhood to mean | racial equality,” Dr. W. A. Plecker e register of vital statistics of told the public health sec tion, if his warning was not heeded, there would be a time when “our whole population fs a mongrelized mass of mental wewklings, le of strong government or of resistance to any nation of which chooses to exploit | Y., Novem- Rhinelander. | “The futyre of the white race and its civilization in America are in the |provement of some of Coolidges to Go By Auto to See Army-Navy Game President and Mrs. Coclidge plan te leave here Saturday morning by automobile for Baltimore, where they will attend the annual Army- Navy foot ball game, The presidential party will have luncheon in Baltimore as the guests of city representatives be- fore going to the foot ball fleld. Tradition will be followed by Mr. and Mre. Coolidge and their guests by occupying seats on the Navy side of the field during the first half and changing between halves to the Army side. The party will make the return trip to Washington by automobile immediately after the game. AS ACCIDENT CURB Commissioners to Fight for Funds Held Vital to Increase Traffic Safety. Belleving that adequate iliumina- tion of the streets is an important factor in accident reduction, the Com- missloners will exert every effort to obtaln an increased appropriation for streot lighting at the coming ses- sion of Congress. City offici fongTess are hopeful of having ropriate in the next Dis- tie first Installment toward carrying out of the comprehen- Mghting program, which calls the ultimate expenditure of at £1,500,000. Whether it will take five or elght years to complete the program will depend on how large Congress makes the annual installments. “There is no doubt,” sald Engineer mmissioner Bell, “that a large per- age of serlows accidents occur at night. It follows, therefore, that better street lighting will prove an important factor in the effort to make the streets safer. “In working out our plan for the city-wide improvement of lights we have proposed special types of il- lumination for the streets and avenues that are natural traffic ar- teries.” The street lighting program contem- Plates the gradual substitution of clectrle for gas lamps and the im- the existing electric units with new and stronger types. EASTERN HIGH PLANS VAUDEVILLE SHOW Three Playlets to Be Included in Program Scheduled for De- cember 11 and 12. Diverting from its usual form of Leeping of this generation,™ the speaker said The little top minnows. dwellers in nearly every ditch and pond, with a little public co-operation, are going | to be the means of rldding the South- ern States of most of their malarla and other fevers. in the opinion of speakers at the session of the mala field workers. Dr. H. R. Carter, United Public Health Service, Washington, was named honorary chalrman ‘of the national malaria committee, and Dr. William Gerry Morgan of Wash- ington vice chairman of the section | on gastroenterclog MINING TOWN QUIET AFTER BEVIBING ATTEMPT 5-Year-Old Child Skot During| Fusillade From Hillside Is Expected ta Die. i | States By the Assoc'ated Press. MORGANTOWN, b W. Va.. November | —The mining town of Scott’s Run was qulet last night following an attempt early vesterday to dynamite | the tipple of 4 mine operated by the | shriver Coal Company and the firing of a volley of rifle shots from a nearby hillside which resulted In the | rrobable fatal wounding of a 5-year- old child Sherift W. M. Yost and members_ of the State police were continuing their investigation of the disorders. The victim of the firing, Sarah Rokys, who was shot down as she staod at tire door of the house occupied by her parents, was not expected to lve. The mine had been operating on an open shop basis and the explosioft damaged part of the tipple, although the greater part of the charge falled 10 explode. SUGAR STRIKE STUDIED. Zayas Plans to Insure Safety of | Industry. HAVANA, Cuba, November The newspaper La Prensa said yes- terday that it learns from twhat it cansiders a reliable source that Pres- ident Zayas is considering asking Cengress for authority to sus thie constitutional guarante Camaguey and, Orlente proviuces to céal with the sltuation caused by the strike of sugar mill workers. Em- pioyers and workers falled to agree on terms. The report could not be confirmed, but government officlals declared more men were returning to work and reiterated that all pro- tection would be given them and that all necessary measures would L& taken to insure the sugar crop. “BEAN KING” IMPATIENT. Sands Anxious to Face Trial in New York Failure. TAMPA, Fla.,, November 27.—When informed here yesterday that Sheriff Horace Kelsey and another officer of Orleans County, N. Y., were on their | way here to return him to Albion, N, Y., to face charges of first degree larceny in connection with the fall- ure of his business of nearly $1,000,- Sands, “world bean 1 wish Sherifft Kelsey Iam impatient to re- turn to Albion and face the situation there fully and frankly. I am confi- dent of coming out of any investiga- tign with a clean slate.” —_— Auction 100 Barrels Whisky. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 27.—One hundred barrels of 8-year-old Ken- tucky whisky were sold at auction yesterday at prices ranging from $25 10 $30 a barrel by the Baltimore Dis- tiflery Company. Any ome could buy the whisky, but very few could get it“out of the warehouse. Most of it was bought just hefore wartime pro- bibition by persons who did not be- | Ra? dramatic productions, Eastern High will present, December 11 and its annual theatrical entertain- vaudeville show, which In- cludes as features Booth Tarking-| Bimbo and the Plrate” “Her by Henry Arthur Jones, Waiting for the Bus,” by George one of the school's young ts. s for the plays already been selected and are rehearsing un- der the direction of Miss Ella Monk of the faculty, assisted by Miss Knee and Miss Murray Pirate” will be enacted by Tom Howard, Mildred Repetti, George Finger, Nathan Clark and Julius Ra- dice. There will be a chorus aingers composed of James Kline, Lewis Kline, Francis Timmons, Irving Charles Dorman, John Beu- chert, Ernest Parker, George Voeg- ler, Carl Martin, Robert Willlams, Edward Knott, Jesse Nussear, Nor- man Van der Linden, Edward Andrus, Warron Dyson, Wilton Gibson and Naothan Clark: and a group of clog dencers—Manuel Rice, Parker Faber, on _Zier, Robert Hutchinson, Walter Rhine, Eugene Gates, Francis | Ladd, Perric Lowrey, Arthur Garrett d Carl Hoffman. he cast of “Her Tongue” follo: Laura Barrett, Marie Moore, Georg Main, Graham Lowden and Frank Kreglow. “Waiting for the Bus” will be played by Joseph Greenwood, Josephine Tremain, Margery Keim, Elizabeth Newsome, Margaret Knapp, Helen Rifenburg, Evelyn ler, Han- nah Stolar, Reverdy Clagett, George Waters and Frank Scrivener. BLAST WRECKS TRESTLE. Gasoline Tank Car, Exploding, Burns Railroad Bridge. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn, November 27.."When a tank car of gasoline in a Tennessee Central train exploded on a trestle near here yesterday, ten other cars were plunged into the ravine under the trestic and more than 200 feet of the trestle itself was burned before the fire could be ex- tinguished. No one was hurt, rail- road officlals said. The cause of the explosion could not be learned here last night. Of the other cars thrown into the ravine seven contained gasoline and oil, one sulphur, one paper and the other gen- eral merchandise. Local railroad officials said last night that it probably will be four or five days before the trestle can be repaired and normal traffic resumed. The financial loss is estimated at about $100,000. GIRL’S MIND STILL DARK. Pretty “Mystery” Maid Fails to Respond to Remedy. CHICAGO, November 27.—Active preparations for & big Thanksgiving dinner at the hospital where the “mystery girl” who was found on the floor of the Union Station a week ago, her mind a blank, is a patient, failed yesterday to recall to the 19-year-old pretty brunette memories of home and parents. Complete isolation will be the ‘next move to be resorted to in an effort to stir her memory. Visitors have come to-the hospital by the hundreds to see her, it was explained, many of them with missing relatives whom the description of the girl fitted, they belleved. Dr. Clarence Neyman, psychiatrist, who had tried hypnos and other means to restore the girl's memory, sald he had given up the case, having become convinced that the girl is faking her condition Christmas Is Coming Shop Early lieve prohibition would last long. Storage charges and taxes have ac- cumulated. The buyers were persons who belleve that they will be given permits by the prchibition directors to remove the liquor for use for va- rious purposes not outlawed by the Prohibition acs. So You Can Mail Early have | “Bimbo and_the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO GUARD MAN HELD INGIRLS' MURDER Canadian Authorities Take Accused to Safety—Caught After Night Search. WA By the Assoclated Press. HOULTON, Me.. November 2 Harry Williams, arrested early ves- terday after Cynthia and Neotia Fos- ter, sisters, 14 and 10 vears old, had been found murdered in a shack oc- cupied by Williams at Fosterville, N. B, on the Maine-New. Brunswick border, was taken last night under heavy guard to the York County jail at Fredericton, N. B. The authori- ties feared that attempts might be made to lynch Williams, who had been threatened by an angry crowd today. The girls, his nieces, were found last night with their hands tied behind thetr backs, shot through the head * Discovery of the double murder was made by Ward Foster, father of the children, when they failed to re- turn to their home. Williams had taken homestead rights to land ad- joining Grand Lake and it had been the girls’ custom to go to his shack. about a mile from thelr home, to cook for him. They went to the Williams place as usual yesterday, and in the evening, when they did not come home, thelr father went in search of them! Found Bodies in Shanty. found their bodies, one on the bed in the shanty, the other under the be Scores of villagers turned out to asslst Foster in his search for Wil- liams. After a posse had scoured the woods all night in the vicinity of | Fosterville, which is about 18 miles from Houlton, Mrs, Mary Kinney dis- cov d Willlams hiding behind her barn. The po-ses surrounded the building and Willlams surrendered. A hurry call was sent to Fred- ericton, summoning the sheriff, there { being no regular police force or jall at Fosterwlle, which has only be- tween 200 and 300 inhabitants. In the meantime a guard of cltizens was formed to protect Williams, who was belng threatened with lynching by the angry crowd. Late vesterday Sherift Hawthorne arrived and took charge of Willlams. Scores of cit- izens and the sheriff's deputies ac- companied him as a guard on the long automobile trip to Fredericton. Williams was to be formally ar- raigned at Fredericton today. 2 HELD IN $60,000 PLOT ON MAGAZINE DEALERS Confessions Said to Implicate 20 Others in Forgeries Obtained. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November covery of a plot which American News Company caused the arrest yesterday tave Gerber and Andrew charges of forgery. Arratgned in Tombs Court, Gerber was reported by detectives to have made a confession involving 20 agents of the American News Com- pany and the Union News Company operating stands at the Grand Cen- tral, Pennsylvania and Hudson Tube terminals. Gerber's ball was set at $2,500 be- cause of his alleged confession. Nekritz was held in 325,000 bail. Au- thorities sald more arrests would follow. The forgeries are alleged to have {been perpetrated on credit slips through a system whereby Union News agents would be credited by the American News wlith returns on peri- odicals which actually were not re- {turned, but were kept on the stands for sale. Detectives who made the arrests said they saw Gerber and Nekritz split $260 as their share.of $860 ob- tained in a single day through the forgeries. et SIR GILBERT PARKER, ON VISIT, HIT BY AUTO lBriti(ih Novelist, Recuperating in Carolina, Is Painfully ! Injured. { He 27.—Dis- cost the $60.000 of G kritz on Gilbert severe Injuries here late yesterday when knocked to the ground by an automobile. Sir Gllbert's attendant nurse, Miss. Cashmere, was also painfully hurt when she was thrown beneath the machine and caught in its running gear. Sir Gilbert was thrown heavily to the ground, but the wheels of the automobile did not pass over his body. He was removed to a nearby inn. Physicians announced that he received several injuries about the head and severe body bruises, but his condition is not considered alarming. Miss Cashmere received painful bruises and lacerations. She was re- ported resting well, but suffering from the shock. NEW YORK, November 27.—Sir Gil- bert Parker, who is 62 years old, ar- rived in New York aboard the United States liner President Harding No- vember 21, on his way to South Car- olina to recuperate after undergoing an operation in London and to revise a novel he has written which deals with the period of Loulv XIV. e SUBMARINES IN SEVERN. Arrive Off Annapolis to Permit Of- ficers to See Game. ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 27. Three divisions of submarine boats of the control force, United States fleet,” including the V-1, the largest submarine in the American Navy, rived in Severn River off the Academy yesterday following a se- ries of maneuvers in the lower bay. The submarines will remain here un- til Monday, thereby permitting prac- tically all of the officers to attend the Army-Navy foot ball game in Baltimore Saturday. Rear Admiral M. L. Taylor com- mands the fleet and the Savannah is his flagship. The admiral made the trip up the bay aboard the V-1. WILL CRUISE WORLD. Athletes to Set Sail in Eighty-Foot Boat. BOSTON, November 27.—A sailing cruise around the world in an 80-foot boat, now bullding at Gloucester, wilk be started next June by a group of Princeton athletes, Howell Van Ger- big announced yesterday. With Van Gerbig, who was a foot ball and hockey star on Tiger teams up to last year, will be “Buzz” Stout, ci tain of the Princeton eleven this Fall, and Sidney Legendre and Maurice Legendre, New Orleans brothers, who have been gridiron stars at Nassau. Van Gerbig is to be in Boston through the Winter watching con- struction of the craft, i Brightwood DE VALERA TO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1924 BE RELEASED FROM JAIL IN A FEW DAYS Irish Officials Plan to Give Him His Liberty to Avoid a Demonstration in Dublin. BY WILLIAM H. BRAYDEN. By Cable to The ftar and Chicago Daily News DUBLIN, November 27.—Eamon de Valera will be released from Belfast prison on Saturday or Monday. The release is not expected to provoke any demonstration. When he was brought to 1l a crowd of Orange workmen assembled to hoot him, but as the hour of release Is unknown there will be no opportunity of demonstration from foe or friend. De Valers emerges in time to take part in.a new miniature general etec- tlon in the Free State. It s the first time xince the general election that he has had an opportunity to lead his party in a challenge of vacant seats. The election campaign begins at once for nine seats, al- though the poliing will not be held until after Christmas. Judging by the general election figures, the Republicans think they have a fair chance of winning at least three seats. For flve seats there will be a stralght fight between Re- publicans and Free Staters. For each of two constituencies, North Dublin CONTRACT AWARDED FOR AQUEDUCT LINK Allen Pope to Build Tunnel From 37th to 44th Streets for $230,270. Maj. Gen. Harry \Taylor, chief of engineers of the Army, has approved the recommendation of Maj. James O’'Connor, the United States engineer in charge of the District water sup- ply system. for the award of a con- tract to Allen Pope of this city for the construction of a tunnel from the second high reservolr at Forty-fourth and Upton streets through high ground on the line of Upton street to a point at Thirty-seventh street near the Bureau of Standards, on Plerce Mill road The tunnel will be about three- fourths of a mile long and is the first section of the connection to be built between the second high reservoir and the District distributing system at Seventeenth street near the reservoir on Sixteenth Mr. Pope submitted a bid of $230,270, the lowest of the five re- ceived. ' The contract just made is the last large contract for the con- struction of the new Great Falls ac- queduct project designed to add 100,- 000,000 gallons a day to the water supply of the District. The project, which will cost about $9,000,000, Maj. O'Connor says, will be completed and ready for use by Jan- uary 1, 1 under the present plans, if the necessary funds are provided by Congress. The approved esti- mates for the next fiscul year amount *0 $2,300,000. street. THINK MOTHER, SUICIDE, KILLED TWO CHILDREN Police Continue Search for Young- sters, However—Husband Planned Divorce. By the Associated Press. PERTH AMBOY, N. J. November 27.—Police held out but little hope in thelr search for two_small children who have been missing since last Sat- urday night when thelr mother, Mrs. Joseph Antal, 24, of this city, com- mitted suicide by throwing herself in the path of a railroad train. The ofMcers hold to the theory that the woman killed the children before ghe ended her own life, but thelr search is going on. Information that Mrs. Antal's hus- band planned divorce proceedings reach the police today. Antal said that when he returned home Satur- day evening and found his wife and children missing, he thought it was only another of her visits which she 80 often made unknown to him. It was not unusual for her to take the children away for days at a time without revealing in advance any of her plans, he said. ZONTA CLUB’S FAREWELL TO MISS LONGFELLOW Organization of Business and Pro- fessional Women Honors Mem- ber Leaving for France. The Zonta Club of business and professional women held an im- promptu_farewell party for one of the members, Miss Caroline A. Long- fellow, at their regular monthly clos- ed meeting luncheon, at the Ralelgh Hotel, Tuesday. Miss, Longfellow will leave the end of the week for New York to sall for France, where she expects to spend an indefinite holiday. Miss Longtellow will spend the first few wecks, at least, along the Riviera and may go into Italy before the Winter is over. At the luncheon every member of the club offered comical suggestions and ad- monitions to the prospective traveler. Miss Mary Lindsley, president of the club, announced that the Decem- ber 9 meeting will be a closed one, with a smajj group of guests from Baltimore at the luncheon. A speclal business meeting to discuss fully the chiet work of the club, assistance to rising young business and profession- al women, will be held at the Grace Dodge Hotel December 5, at 8 p.m. All members are requested to be pres- ent. The regular-closed mecting sched- uled for December 30 will be held instead .on December 23, so that the members can have guests and a “Christmas evening party’’ December 30. MAYOR SHANK MARRIES WIDOW HE MET ON TRIP By the Assoclated Prest . KENDALVILLE, Ind., November 27. —Mrs. Eva Hayes Findley of this city and Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank of Indianapolis were married here last night. Only immediate friands were pres- ent, as the bride's father, at whose wish the wedding took: place, lay oritically i1l in an-adjoining room. It had been planned to hold the wed- ding about the-first of the year, but the serious illness of Mrs. Shan fa- Dr. J.’ L. Gilbert, caused a change in- pla: £ . The bride’s” first “husband, James Hayes Findley of York, Pa., died five years ago. Mayor Shank's first wife died about a year ago. The mayor met Mrs. Hayes while making a speech here during his campaign for the Republican nomina- tion for governor last Spring. -Mr. and Mrs. Shank will remain hers a week and then go to their new home in Indlanapolis. LRI E R RN Tips amounting to $50 a week often are given to porters dealing with the 6 of American travelers at one London railway station. City and the joint constituency of Leitrim and Sligo, two members must be elected. This brings in the com- plication of proportional representa- tion, voters having to mark thelr first and second preferences. Represent Old Nationallats. It is thought that it may also in- troduce candidates who approve nei- ther Cosgrave nor De Valera, but represent the old Cohstitutional tionall Hitherto in the elections they have either voted for the Free State or abstained from the polling. Though they are a considerable sec- tion of the community, except for Capt. Redmond they have not been represented in the Dail or in public office. . It is regarded as probabls now that in the Dublin contest sume moderate candidate, whether old Nationalist or business man, will afford voters an opportunity of polling. As only 60 per cent of the register has been polled in previous clections, this would make the result e inter- esting. (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) FOLLOW UP TRIALS, NEW POLICE ORDER Sullivan to Warn of Absences From Court When Cases Come Up. Maj. Sullivan, superintendent of po- lice, will issue a general order to precinct commanders in a day or £o instructing them to warn their men to follow up their casés pending in court and be on hand when cases are called for trial. The major will act as the result of the inquiry made into two cases re- cently, in which the officers wene niot on hand when the trial of persons they had arrested were called. In one case Maj. Sullivan found that the station clerk failed to tell the officer of a message from the court giving the date of the trial. In the other case the officer admitted, Maj. Sulllvan said, that he received notice of the date of the trial, but that it slipped his memory. The re- port of Inspector Pratt recommended that, In view of this officer's “good record in the past, he be given a warning.” PASSPORT PROB—LEMS TAKEN UP BY LEAGUE Commission on Transit to Recom- mend Wide Inquiry on Ob- servance of Convention. By the Assoctated P GENEV. 2 . November 27.—The pass- port problem was discussed yesterday by the Permanent League Commission on Transit. The members dec!ded in principle to recommend an Inquiry of all governments as to what they in- tended to do by way of observing more generally and effectively the passport convention of 1920. This convention, which was signed by a few states, provides for the sup- pression of the visa system, if not of the paseport itself, and calls upon the governments to reduce the pass- port delivery charges to 2 francs 50 centimes in gold and the visa charges to 1 franc. The investigation by the league in- dicates that passport technicalities are burdensome and bothersome. At today’s meeting the transit commis- sfon agreed that the delays and con- fusion in international train connec- tions at the frontiers were due either to passport examinations or customs formalities. The prevailing opinion is that with the war over, since 1918, the time h; come to relax the passport complica tions. Another opinion is that the issuance of passports should not be made the source of revenue. DANCE HALL HELD UP, TWO YOUTHS ARRESTED Girls and Men in Social Club ‘Within Block of Police Station Give $1,000 to Bandits. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 27.—Within a block of a police station five armed men held up 20 girl and 25 man dancers in a social club last night, and escaped in an automobile with money and jewelry estimated at $1,000. Two youths, who entered the club prior to the hold-up, were locked up charged with suspicion of robbery. They described thgmselves as Tony 8carpullo, 16, and Thomas Calabra, 22, -— CLUB INCREASES ROLLS. Six Admitted as Members of Civ- itan at Meeting. Six new members were admitted into the Civitan Club at its luncheon meeting ‘Tuesday afternoon in the LaFayette Hotef, Sixteenth and I streets. ‘With “solemn” rites and over the “objections” of ngany members, the following were sworn in as support- ers of the Civitan creed: John S. Dunn, L. 8. Jullen, Dr. Eugene A. Taylor, Frank Stryker, Ernest Gich- ner and Martin W. Hysong. ‘The club\is preparing for the a nual election of officers a few weeks hence. Three candidates are running a close race for president, five for vice president and.seven for the board of directors. The present of- ficers are Jam M. Proctor, pre: dent; Luther C. Steward, first vice president; James B. Henderson, sec- ond vice president; Charles F. Crane, third vice president; Charles B. Lyd- dane, treasurer; W. O. Hiltabidle, sec- retary, and Dr. Roy Van'Valkenburgh, sergeant-at-arms. —ity SMOKING RUINS TASTE. Woman Tea Graders Not Allowed to Use Tobacco. Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON, November 5.—No woman who smokes cigarettes can hope to become a professional tea-taster, ac- cording to Miss Margaret Irving, the only woman among London's millions of woman tea-drinkers who has quali- fled as a tea expert. She has taken her place alongside men who get thousands of pounds a year Yor grad- ing and judging the leaves which en- ter into England’'s favorite beverage. Woman tea-tasters must also es- chew perfumes and perfumed s0aps and talcum powders. The nose and palate co-operate in deciding upon the flavor of tea, and must be kept free of all Influences which might af- 'fect their functioning. doubtful | JUDGE BAKER CASE TESTIMONY ENDED House Committee Hears Both Charges and Denials of Wet Corruption. By the Associated Press. PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Novem- ber 27.—A mass of testimony, much of it contradictory, had been placed before a congressional subcommittee last night when it closed two days of hearings here on charges of mis- conduct fifed against Federal Judge Willlam E. Baker of the northern district of West Virginia. The charges were filed with the House of Representatives by Ty A. Brown, dis- trict attorney of the same jurislic- tion, as & basis for possible impeach- ment proceedings against Judge Baker. The committer indicated that the next hearing would be held at Wheellng, probably within a few weeks: More than 50 witnesses were heard esterday, mainly in denidl of the charges, while on the previous day the committee devoted its time to testimony offered in support of them. Judge Baker on the witness stand today made a sweeping denlul to the three specific charges covered in the present inquiry, that of changing court records, the transfer of con- fiscated liquor and his alleged use of liquor. Other witnesses called by his counsel testified of various inci- dents during his term on the bench. Many of them declared they had never seen Judge Baker under the {nfluence of liquor or showing indica- tions that he had been using liguor. Detatls of Case. Considerable time was spent on de- tails of the case of Mike Sawa, who, after a plea of guilty, was sentenced in & prohibition case at Wheeling in May, 1922. The original information against him, filed by the district at- torney's office, charged possession of two moonshine stills, but a charge of manufacturing liquor was inserted later, and the main question was whether this insertion was made after sentence had been pronounced, as charged by Mr. Brown. Judge Baker in his testimony de- clared that when Sawa was first be- fore the court he admitted manufac- turing moonshine. and that he in- structed the assistant United States attorney, Charles J. Schuck, to draw a new information on this charge. In- stead, he said, the interlined informa- tion was presented, but because it was legal to amend an information he permitted it to stand. It was not until the next day, he’ sald, that Sawa's plea was taken and sentence imposed. ‘Transfer of Liquor. With reference to the transfer of conflscated liquor to Elkins. his home city, Judge Baker declared that the order was made at the suggestion of C. E. Smith, the United States mar- shal, because storage space was available in the Federal Bullding there and because of thefts from other places where conflscated liquor was stored. Smith corroborated Judge Baker's statement that the transfer orders were made at his su ion. A quantity of liquor, said some witnesses to be 800 ‘quarts, moved trom Clarksburg to Elkins, was plac- ed at 150 to 200 quarts by John Koontz, a deputy marshal, who said he had charge of moving the liquor. He testified on cross-examination that most of the liquor was destroy- ed in the Elkins Federal Bullding by pulling out the corks and emptying the contents into the sewer. Judge Baker characterized as “false” the testimony of Mrs. A. C. Moore that he was present at a party in & house she owned in Clarksburg where several of the company were intoxicated. James. Carter, occupant of the house; Charles S. Dyson and A. C. McDaniel of Clarksburg, alleged to have been in the party, denied that there was any such occurrence or that they ever saw Judge Baker in that house. Had Not Seen Him Drunk. In all, seventeen witnesses declared that in thelr assoclation with Judge Baker since he became Federal judge they had never seen him either un- der the influence of liquor or showing that he had used liquor. Wade Coffman, clerk of the court, dented having been In an intoxicated condition, in company with Judge Baker in 2 Wheeling hotel, as wit- nesses had asserted. Judge Baker also denied it Koontz, Charles K. Welch, a deputy marshal, and Louls Buckwald, pres- ent United States marshal, con- tradicted testimony of Mrs. Marion C. Greer that Judge Baker had been “bolsterously” drunk in the marshal's ofice in Elkins on the night of & court term there. e Changes in Stations of Army and Navy Officers Of Interest to Capital Comdr. Edward C. S. Parker Lieut. Kellum D. Grant and Lieut. Deane L. Chamberlain. Naval Dental Corps, have been relieved from all active duty and will proceed to their homes. Officers at the Annapolis Navak Academy have been assigned to other stations as follows: Lieut. Lyman S. Perry to the U. 8. S. Lawrence, Lieut. John E. Whelchel to the U. §. S. Han- nibal, Ensign Stephen G. Barchet to the battleship New York and Ensign Carl E. Cullen to the battleship Texas. The resignation of Ensign Andrew W. Cruse, U. S. N., attached to the U.'S. S. Chewink, has been accepted to take effect November 30. Lieut. Comdr. Willlam G. Faus at the navy yard, Philadelphia, has been assigned to duty on the U. 8. §. Melville, and Lieut. Comdr. Elmo H. Williams of the Melville and Lieut. Arthur F. Anderson of the U. S. S. Wood have been ordered to Pearl Harbor, Hawalil. . First Lieut. Edward H. Young, 12th Infantry, at Fort Washington, Md., has been ordered to Manila, P. I, for duty. Capt. Willlam F. Friedman, Signal Officers’ Reserve Corps of this city, has been ordered to duty in the Taboratories of the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co., New York City. Later he will g0 to Camp Vall, N. J., and deliver a course of lectures on military codes and ciphers at the Signal Corps School. Lieut. Col. Carroll D. Buck, Corps of Engineers, recently promoted, has been relieved from duty at the gen- eral intermediate depot, Brooklyn, N. Y., and assigned to duty at the 8th Corps general area depot, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Marine Corps Changes. Capt. O. Salzman, at Quantico, has been ordered to San Diego, Calif.; First Lieut. E. F. O'Day, at Quantico, to St. Jullen's Creek, Va., and Second Lieut J. E. Kerr, at Quantico, to the battleship Nevada. Marine officers ordered to Quantico include First Lieut. H. S. Hausman, at St. Julien' Creek; First Lieut. F. X. Bleicher, at Port-au-Prince, Haitl, and Second Lieut. E. F. Carlson, attached to the battleship Nevada. Second Lieut R. S. A. Gladden, at Guantanamo, Cuba, has been ordered to the navy yard, Norfolk. Popularity ef the omnibus among the leaders of mlag in London is ascribed to the indifference of tip- taking taxl drivers, Bean King Wants Trial LEWIS k. SANDS, Arrested in Floridn in conection with his New Y clare: financial tangle. CHIVA WINS PONT N OPIUM PARLEY Proposal for Rigorous Law in Foreign Courts Is Placed on Agenda. By thie Associated Press. GENEVA, November 27.—China made a determined stand at the interna- tional opium conference yesterday on the question of extra-territoriality, as related to oplum, and finally in- duced the business committee to place China's proposal in the conference agenda. The proposal is in effect that forsign courts In China, which do not follow Chinese law on opium suppressio shall have a law as drastic as that of China and will agree to apply the same drastic punishments to foreign- ers, including deportation, upon con- | viction of Infringement of the law. Another point is that the Ch government shall be permitted have Chinese assessors sit in the forelgn courts when foreigners are tried. India Fights Proposal. India today actively combated at- tempts to bring in so-called new ques- tions which India and some other countries feel do not fall within the scope of the agenda. move proves successful it would have the effect of shutting out .two or three important features of the American proposals, including the one stipulating that opium smoking should come to an end In the Far East within ten vears, Yesterday's debate touching on the competency of the present confer- ence occurred at a private meeting of the business committee of the conference, which was so lengthy, OWing to the difficulty of reaching an accord, that the schedule of the plenary session of the conference had to be altogether abandoned. Stephen G. Porter, the American representa- tive, got into action Immediately when the Indian plenipotentary ob. {Jected to some of the American pro- Posals. Mr. Porter reserved the right to bring them up at the plenary con- ference. Porter Makes Reservations. Heroin, like the question of sup- pression of opium smoking in the Far Fast, was the matter on which Mr. Porter made reservations. Interest was created by the an- nouncement by the League of Nations that Sir Herbert Ames, financial di- rector of the league, had received a letter from Mr. Porter asking what would be a proper contribution of the United States toward the ex- penses of the present oplum confer- ence. This letter constitutes a prece- dent and fulfills the idea of many Americans visiting Geneva that the United States should contribute 1t share in the costs of the league's activities in which it participates and by which it profits. Sir Herbert now is figuring that the American share probably will be the same as Groat Britain's—that is 10 per cent, or $1,500. \YOUTHFUL PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM TRAIN Flee From U. S. Agent at Balti- , more Station—One Later Recaptured. Two boys, one 14 years old and the other 15, en route to this city as Tnited States prisoners to serve five- year terms in the Training School for Boys on Bladensburg road for auto- mobile thefts, jumped from the win- dow of the compartment when their train pulled into the Baltimore Union Station yesterday and made their es- cape from the custody of Department of Justice Agent Willlam M. Meeks. One of the boys, Price Skipworth, 15, later was caught in Baltimore. The other Robert Sanders, is still at Itberty. A third prisoner, en route to Che- shire, Conn., to serve five vears in a reformatory for a post office robbery, refused to join the others in flight and arrived-here last night,.being held at the' sixth precinct between train connections. Meeks, stationed in the Oklahoma district of the Department of Justice, left Muskogee Monday in' charge of the three prisoners. When the train arrived in‘ Baltimore he removed handcuffs from the wrists of the pris- oners to allow them greater freedom in eating. He had just ordered lunch for the vouths, leaving them appar ently safe in the compartment, ané had gone outside to join his daughte: who was making the trip with him, when a shout gave warping. Meeks returned to find the window open and the two boys gone. A -city-wide search instituted fn Baltimore. re- sulted in the recapture of Skipworth, but Sanders’ whereabouts {s unknown. R AL VR S SEEK 3 RUNAWAY GIRLS:. Virginia Police Told Bobbed-Haired Hikers Are Southbound. Special Dispatch to The Star. 2 RICHMOND, - Va., November 37.— Agnes E. Snowden, Margaret Sharp and Mede Geiger, each 15 years old, all, from Camden, N. J., are said to be in Virginia bound southward on a lark. The police of every city in Virginia have. been asked' to- take charge of the girls in case they ari found.- Parents, of .the® hikers are anxious to have them held and to be notified. The girls are said to be of o ing. ix confident he can straghten out his | If the Indian| CURTIS TOBE MADE LEADER TOMORROW Warren Likely to Waive Claims at G. 0. P. Party Conference. | The conference of the Republican senators to select a leader in place of the late Senator Lodge of Massa- chusetts, at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, will choose Senator Curtis of Kansas for that office, it is ex- pected. Senator Warren of Wyoming, entitled to the leadership under the seniority rule is expected to waive the claim to the place o as to give his entire time to his duties as chair- man of the appropriations committee. There.are at present 51 Republican Senators and Senators-elect who will serve in the session of the Congress opening Monday. The vacancy cr. ated by the death of Senator Br: degee of Connecticut is yet to be filled. It is necessary that 26 Se ators be present, or represented by proxies, in order that a quorum may be counted for business. While many of the Senators are still absent from Washington, it is believed that with- in the next few hours a considerable number will have returned to the Capital and that a quorum will be present. The Senators-elect who have been invited to attend and take part in the conference are Senators Means of Colorado and Metcalf of Rhode Is- Senator Butler of Massachu- appointed by Gov. Cox to flll the vacancy duc to the death of Sen- also has been invited to WIill Fill Vacancies. Az s00n as the leadership has becn {scttled. a chalrman of the Republican | committee on committees wiil be ap- {pointed by the new leader, filling the vacancy in that chalrmanship caused by the death of Senator Brandegee. Senator Watson of Indiana will be- come chairman of the committee on committees, as he is the ranking member of that committee, it is un- derstood. The committee on commit- tees will then proceed to fill the va- |cancies in committees and assizn the new Senators to committees. The selection of assistant leader and { whip, offices now held by Senator Curtls, may be allowed to go over untfl a further meeting of the Re- | publican conference. A number of {senators are being considered for ! this post. The Republicans, by holding their | conference and making selection of leader and filling committee assign- ments, will have their organization completed and will be ready to begin business as soon as the session of Congress convenes. Contest Unlikely. A contest for the leadership, with Senator Wadsworth and Senator Wat- son as contestants against Senator {Curtis, was believed possible at one time. But Republicans appear to have ironed the matter out and to be iready to go ahead with their party organiaation in the Senate smoothly. When the Senate meets Monday at noon, as soon as resolutions have be adopted appointing a committee to join with a similar committee from the House to notify the President that Congress has assembled and is ready to receive any communications he may desire to make, and providing for a regular meeting hour each day, an ad- Journment will be taken out of respe: to the memory of Senator Lodge, Sena- tor Colt of Rhode Island and Senat: Brandegee of Connecticut. ‘The Preeident is expected to send his message to. Congress on Tuesday. It will be read in the respective Houses that day. President Coolidge, in sending his message to be read instead of ap- pearing in pereon to deliver it to a Joint ‘meeting of the Senate and House, will depart from & custom re-established by President Wlison when he came into the White House and continued by President Harding. Mr. Coolidge hir self delivered his last annual message Congress in person. e 3 CLEARED IN MURDER. Self-Defense Plea Accepted Jury. TUSCOLA, Il1., November 27.—Le> ard Campbell, Harley Campbell Leroy Benskin were found not gullty of murdering Sherman Denny by o jury In the Doug'as County Circu: Court at 12:16 a.in. today The case went to the jury at 10:10 p.m., and after fivs ballots had been taken a verdict was reached. The three men were charged wit the murder of Sherman Denny on tl night of May 17, when his body was found near his home. Leonard Camp- bell admitted shooting Denny, b sald that he shot in self-defens, which plea was successfully estab- lished. BOWIE ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. FIRST RACE~Purse, $1,800; maiden 2-ve olds; 6 furionge. Wonderlight Eyelash Harry Baker. Zeevrugge Littls 14 114 Bty 114 L 114 114 14 Bruns . i Wish I Win Also eligible: Salvage . Cottage R Mccully . Lady Ambassador. Gala Night....... .1 D14 m Flivrer Gray Rock. SECOND RACE—Claiming; all ages; 8% furlongs. Sea Sand. e M7 Lady Audrey ...l *pardner, jr. *Admirer . *Frank Monroe Apex Bells Muskallon; Demurrage *Appeliate 1ze . 4Mrs. G. C. and C. P. Winfrey entry. THIRD RACE—Ciaiming; purse, $1.800; year-olds; @ furlongs. Beter P;:In oung _ Apr *Bother Kirkfield purse, $1,800; {Lady Poss. ‘amouflage *Lucky Striki Also eligible: . 110 Elemental *Atlanti Rastos .. Tod Renesor Also eligible race Troxier *Bandpile .. Bill 1W. A. Woolman and Joaquin Stable entry?, OURTH RACE—The Consolation H capa, $1.500; foF all ages; 1 mile apd 70 yards Noel. . 119 fWampee. . 98 l‘rltlrlllls 24.... 112 Lieut. 24 R Leonard G. o7 Betting Sun.,.... . 13 pounds claimed for rider. FIFTH RACE—Claiming: purse, $1 year-olds and up; 1 mile and 70 yard: nz 107 *Modo. 05 Freezy 1z SIXTH RACE—Claiming; purse, $1,800; 3- yearlds and up; ldvmiles. Rellable. *Ed Pendiefon. SEVESTH RACE—Claiming; purse, $1,300; 3-year-oids and up; 14 miles. ‘bobbed-haired type and good look- s