Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1924, Page 17

HONORING THE MEMORY OF WOODROW WILSON, WAR PR in the House of Representatives. livered his m Reyuolds, Brandeis, former Secret tary of ( Sutherland, DELIVERING dent of the University His eul Representatives yesterday. State FORBES TRIPWES PROBED N COURT] Witness Tells of Contractor’s Presence in San Francisco at Same Time. By the Associated Press. 3 CHICAGO, December 16.—Further testimony touching upon the ce brated W n trip of Veterans' Bu- reau oflic and friends in the Sum- ior of 1923 was given today in the rial of Charles Forbes, r, and J. W. Thompson, Ch and St. Leuis contractor, nspri. to defraud the Gov- ent through hospital contracts. as on this trip, the Governmen charges, that Forbes and certain Western. contractors reached an nt on the division of Veterans’ Bure hospital work. This alleged sgreement. forms the basis of the con- spiracy char als oct rago ern Tt “heppard, assistant man- ager of Palace Hotel, San Fran- cisco, was called by the Government today to identify the signature of C. B. Hurley. president of the Hurley- Mason Construction Co. of Seattle, on the private registry of the hotel for June 25, 1922 It bout this time that the Forbes party arrived in San Fran- cisco. Sheppard tes the registry was made in a private record usually kept for prominent patrons who wish to avoid callers. Sought Data on Bid. Lester H. Barnes, assistant man- ager of the Davenport Hotel, -Seattle, Wash., identified the registration of members of the ])Erfl on his records of July 13 to Martin Y. O'Connor, Northampton, building contractor, teld of vis- iting the Veterans' Bureau headquar- ters in Washington on July 8 to ask about his bid for tne Northampton Hospital foundation. He talked with Charles F. Cramer, chief counsel of the bureau, he sald, and was advised that during Forbes’ absence on the Pacific Coast nothing Aefinite could be done about awarding the coniract. O'Connor remonstrated, sting that the bureau ad- vertisements had called for blds to be opened July 3, and that the con- itract should have been awarded at that time. v O'Connor said his meeting with Cramer had been arranged by Vice President Coolidge, whose home was in Northampton. The witness said he called the Vice Pregldent at Washington on the telephone from Northampton ~“to w M to Congress. WILSON EULOGY. of Virginia, on the rostrum former di- | on charges | SID! The culogy, by Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, pr Front row. left 1o right: Secretaries Butler and Sanford. Second row: y of Agriculture and Treasury Houston, former Attorney General P: nerce Redfield, former Secretary of Labor Wilson, aid Joseph P. Tumulty, who was President Wilson's private secretary. Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, presi- n the House of ogy was broadcast over the United National b German Murderer’s Nerve Is Breaking Under Long Ordeal Haarman’s One Desire Is to Be Executed Before Christmas. By Cable to The Star and New York World. | HANOVER, Germany, December 16.— Fritz Haarman, the vampire murder- er, is breaking fast under the ordeal of his trial for the killing of 27 men and boys. He no longer boasts of his approaching execution; he prays for it. In court today, as the grisly tale of horror continued, the prisoner pulled a cigarette from his pocket and with shaking fingers put it to his lips. | The stern presiding judge admonished | him that smoking was not allowed in the room. “Then I won't go on With the trial.” Haarman squealed like a hurt animal. “If 1 can't smoke, I can't think. T've had enough.” Repeatedly he expressed the desire {to be dead before Christmas; he seems to dread the prospect of being alive on that day. So when the judge once | more asked him to confess to the last of the murders he is accused of, he murmured: “Pat it all on the bill, but hurry up; for God's sake, hurry up.” The unlighted cigarette shook his fingers as he spoke. (Copyright, 1924.) | in { solicit his assistance in securing an appointment “with some one in the Veterans'’ Bureau.” He was told to call at Cramers office upon his ar- rival in Washington, which he did. His bid for the foundation, he testified, was for $420,000, the job to be completed in 200 days. The con- tract finally was awarded to the | Pontiac Construction Company, a Thompson concern, for $167,000, to be completed in 60 days. ©O. N. Hughes, president of Hughes & O'Rourke Construction Compan Dallas, Tex., testified to having soli ited veterans’ hospital contracts at the suggestion of Thompson. Telegrams and letters from Thomp- son to Hughes and from Hughes to the Veterans' Bureau. were intro- duced. Hughes Company never received a contract from the bureau, the testi- mony disclosed. The witness also testified that Thompson had no financial Interest in the Hughes Company. Hughes and Thompson had been business friends for 25 years. John Grant, over 60 years old, re- cently - saved the life of William Dounes, @ fellow fisherman, whose boat, was capsized by a heavy sea near Folkeston, England; THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D ENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Weeks, Mellon. Hughes, Countess Tolstoy, a niece of Count Leo Tolstoy, who new is in the United States. She arrived in New York yesterday, and plans a tour of the country before returning to Europe. Cop PROSECUTION NEAR t by Underwood & Underwood i Today Domestic Troubles i Leading to Divorce. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Decemnber 16. —The prosecution expected to com- plete its case against Norman Selby, the former Kid McCoy of the prize ring, today with the testimony of Al. {bert’ A. Mors, divorced husband of Mrs. Theresa Mors, whom McCoy is accused of having slain in a murder- ous rage. Mors was ready to describe how McCoy contributed to the domestic difficulties which culminated in his divorce from Mrs, Mors and to offer evidence explaining why McCoy would brook no attempt at a recon- ciliation between the couple. Seek Extenuating Evidence, In the reign of terror McCoy spread in Mrs. Mors’ antique shop August 18, last, the morning after she had been shot to death in a nearby apartment she had occupled with the former pugilist, the defense hoped to find ex- tenuating circumstances wiich would save him from the death sentence, it was indicated yesterday after testi- mony of two witnesses called by the prosecution. McCoy, drunk and di- sheveled, walked into the place and launched a hold-up and shooting af- fray that resulted in the wounding of two men and a woman, Two men who were in the shop at the time testified yesterday that Mc- Coy seemed to be acting irrationally, without a plan; that he was “differ- ent from a man just ordinarily drunk,” and that insanity, as well as liquor, occurred to them as a possible cause of his eccentric behavior. That was seen by defense attorneys as corroboration of McCoy's declara- tion that his “lights went out” when Mrs. Mors killed herself in his pres- ence despite his efforts to prevent the deed, ahd that thereafter he did not know what he was doing. Mrs. Mae W. McClure Expires. Mrs. Mae Walker McClure, widow of Col. Charles McClure and mother of Maj. C. W. McClure, died at Wal- ter Reed Hospital yesterday. Mrs. McClure made her residence in this city at the Highlands Apartments. Funeral services will be conducted at Gawler's chapel, 1730 Pennsyl- vania avenue, tomorrow afternoor at 2 o'clock. Interment will bo in Ar- lington Cemeterys Joint session of Congress yesterday, ident of the University of Virginia, was delivered from the same rostrum where President Coolidge, Chief Justice Taft, Ju: Senators Robinson and Curtis former Secretary of State William Jenn: mer, former Secretary of the Navy Daniels, former END N M'COY CASE Mors Expected to Describe | tices Mc! Bryan, BASKET BALL CHAMPIONS OF PLAYGROU .\[)5. School, Capt. Evelyn apl sixth grade, Van Ness First row, left to right Irene Hunter. Back row: dred Jimney. Mrs when an enna, v former S cretary of the Interior Payne. former Secre- impressive ceremony was held the late President de- Holmes. Van Devanter, Mc- cretary of State Lansing. National Photo Posils of the who were awarded the cup this year. Anna Goddard and Hedman and Mil- hool, at bacl Alexander, McKnew, Mary principal of |COURT BARS SLAYING CONFESSION| \OF | By the Associated Press. MOUNT VERNON, Iil, December 16 Judge J. C. Kern ruled today that the alleged confession made by Mrs. Elsie Sweetin to officers after a night of ques- tloning could not go to the jury as dence in her trial with Lawrence M. Hight for the poisoning of her husband, Wilford Sweetin. Mrs, Sweetin today awaited further opportunity to enlarge upon her de- nouncement of Hight, her alleged fo mer lover, which she began from witness stand yesterday in her joint trial with the former preacher for the poisoning of Mrs. Hight as well as her own husband. There was no trace of love in her volce as she called Hight a “mad man,” denied that she had ever loved him WOMAN’S DEATH INQUIRY SOON TO BE COMPLETED Court Awaits Grand Jury Report on Brutal Slaying With Clubs in Alabama. { By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., December 16.— Judge J. C. B. Gwyn of the Bessemer Circlit Court was expected to receive a report late today from the special grand jury which yesterday began an inquiry into the death of Mrs. {Annie Lou Edwards, who was club- bed to death in her Fairfield home |Decembey 2. The inquisitorial body examined a number of witnesses, including the police who were calied to the Ed- wards resldence on the day of the murder. Dr. George T. Edwards, husband of the woman, was arrested a few hours after the death Of his wife on a coro- ner’s warrant. The - State’s case, which is belng presented to the grand jury, is said to be an effort to con- nect him with the crime. Greeting Cancels Stamp. One of the most original stamp cancellations ever put on a piece of United States mail was that used by the postmaster at Cassville, Wis., June 25, 1852, when he wrote “Good Morning, BEdward"” across the stamp when he recognized the name of the addresse as. that of one of his vax- gonal friends, MRS. SWEETIN Accused Pastor Called “Mad Man’> by Woman Who | Shows No Trace of Love for Former Associate. ;: FEARED HIGHT | and accused into a_confession, “Hight said,” she began, telling the story of their meeting in the Jefferson County sheriff’s office the night of Sep- tember 23, “‘‘I've told them you killed your husband.’ I insisted that I had not, and he said, Never mind, they all believe you did “Finally, he said,” she continued, “ ‘I you don’t say you did it, it will only be a few hours before you are in the |hands of a mob.’ At last I told him | T would say it Prosecutor of frightening her to soothe the witness, and her sharp tones were modified, but she would not admit her confession had been made voluntarily. She was very weak when she left the stand after hours of ques- tioning. CHINESE BOND INTEREST IS HELD IN DEFAULT Morgan & Co. Notifles Stock Ex- change Railway Semi-Annual Coupon Payments Are Overdue. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 16.—The New York Stock Exchange last night was notified by J. P. Morgan & Co., that-the semi-annual coupons on the Chinese government Hu-Kuang Rail- way b per cent bonds, due yesterday, had not been paid and that the issue was in technical default. No word has been recelved by the bankers as to the Chinese govern- ment's intentions, but inasmuch as there have been delays in making the interest payments in the past, hope is held out that the funds will be forthcoming at a later date. The bonds, which are listed on the ex- change, today broke 6 points to 40% and then rallied to 42. | 'Williams Leaves Hospital. Representa.ive Arthur B. Williams of Michigan returned to Washington last night fr - Johns Hopkins Hos- pital, Baitimore, where ho had gone several days ago with the expectation of undergoing an operation for gall bladder trouble. He was assured by physiclans that unless an acute at- tack should develop he need not sub- mit to an operation until after. Con- gress adjourns on March 4. He plans to return to JohnsHopkins -uly n March for the operation, ank G. Thompson's man- | ner in the cross-examination seemed |clear in the presidential suite of the TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, it 924. IN FTHE GALLERY DURING WILSON MEMORIAL SERVICE President, and Miss Margaret Wi gall: LAYING CORNER STONE OF NEW HOME FOR GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW SCHOOL, <ons of the District of Columbia had charge of the ceremonies. chool will be known as Stockton Hall: A. West and Gratz E. Dunknm. Lodge of M law . James Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the war n, his daughter, occupying first-row seats in the House of Representatives The Grand The new home of the university Wisdom D. Brown, Charles F. Roberts (grand mas- Washington Star Photo. Left to right: _% Ignacio Zuloago. noted Spanish painter, who arrived in New York aboard the steamship Majestic. Sev- eral of the painter's important can- vases mow are being exhibited this country. By DUCHESS PLEASED BY U. 3. SOCIETY Thinks People Are Misin- formed on Effects of Soviet Regime. United News Pic By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December Grand Duch 16.—The sails back to Coburg today with a high | opinion that American society is well informed. The wife of Duke l, who recently proclaimed himself F peror of All the Russias, made that Waldorf-Astoria last night. She has been the guest of the Monday Opera Club. “I leave tomorrow,” she said, “and 1 am sorry to be off. Americans evei where have been so kind to me. It is with the greatest leaving and it is with a feeling of real friendship for all Americans I have met. I have loved every moment of my stay here—everybody has been o | kind.” People Well Informed. Somebody asked how American so- clety compared with the society of Europe. : “I found you so extraordinarily well informed,” the grand duchess re- plied. “I have learned a lot since I have been here—much more than you know.” “How did you find sentiment here for the old regime in Russia?’ “I found a very friendly sentiment for all the troubles they have been through.” Feeling Toward Soviet. “Did you find a sentiment against the Soviets?” she was asked. “I don’t think people here appre- clato that regime,” was her reply. Barlier in the day the grand duchess had held “a court” in her suite, and there were times when the long hall outside the suite was a vista of vis- itors exchanging bows and speaking in Russian. The Monday Opera Club later held a farewell reception, at which 200 members and guests were present. Richard R. Johnson Succumbs. Richard R. Johnson, 77, 102 Fif- teenth street southeast, died today at Emergency Hospital. He suffered an attack of apoplexy in the dining room at his home last Friday after- noon, fell and injured his head. He was taken to the hospital. Death was reposted as having resulted from the stroke and not from the Injury, | Victoria Feodorovna | regret that I am | NEW SAFETY DEVICE EXHIBITED. Reckless vesterday by Secretary Hoover in Washington. Then catcher” for automobiles. driving scored of of this \Prince of Wales "parity sociative, WISSOURIAN URGED Author Decleres - FIR CABINET POST | ‘Llalms He Is lonum‘ed | He'll Never Inherit | British Throne. was traffic new conference exhibition during a men came a timely safety State Delegation Proposes William Hirth as Suc- cessor to Gore. Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, December 16.—In a half facetious. half serjou: peech before the Philadelphia branch of the English-speaking Union yesterday | Cosmo Hamilton, noted British author and playwright, declared the reas | the Prince of Wales refuses to mar is that he believes he will never be King of England. The prince, he explained, has been exposed to the doctrines of socialism 80 much that he has had the germ Injected somewhat in his own veir “The Prince of Wales is a gre: |ehap, a charming fellow and very human,” Mr. Hamilton said. “He loses his head from time to_{ime. but that doesn't matter. Just at the pres- ent he is suffering from a very ex- traordinary state of affairs, which undermining every step he is taking toward the throne. “The fashionable hobby in Tondon | right now is socialism. One can't be smart unless one is one. so to speak. 1t is like the cross-word puzzle here. “The prince is up against it. He doesn’t marry because there has been | injected into him from all sides the, virus of socialism. He has had it) rubbed into him so much that he will | never be King that he doesn't see | why he should perpetrate a royal' marriage with some near-reigning | beauty for reasons of state and have | children he doesn't want and be un- happy therest of his life.” FINDS COUNTERFEITS." | | Appoin Columbia, Mo., culture to succ retirement urged upon day in a let Missouri congr Mr. Hirth was reco ‘dirt farmer” and a prc of th agricultural movement in letter which was signed by all members of the Missouri delegation As editor of the Missouri Farmer and founder of the Missouri Farmers | Association letter pointed ou that he w onally Interested in farming and stock raising” and also was one of the organizers of the American Council of Agriculture. of Willian as Secretary ed retary next March President 1i r made public b ssional delega nended ter the Hirth of « T re on his was to the | 1 | i as a Urge Consideration. “We therefore,” the letter ‘are suggesting his name for re- tary of Agriculture and trust it will receive consideration when Mr. Gore's successor is to be selected.” The letter to the President follows “The undersigned members of the Missouri delegation in Congress re- spectfully present for your consid- eration as a _candidate to fill the va- cancy in the Secretaryship of Agricul- ture, to be occasioned by the retire- ment of Secretary Gore to become Governor of West Virginla, the name of William Hirth of Columbia, Mo “Mr. Hirth has long been intimatels associated with agricultural intere both as a producer and as a jour- I nalist. Student 6f Farm Economics. “He is the editor of tho Missour | Farmer, published at Columbia, Mo and has for many years been a close Clilef. Motan" of the Secret Service |StUdent of fatm economics and is rec- has announced the detection of Loy | 08nized as an authority on tho sud- more counterfeit §$10 motes. In his | I°Ct warning sent to bankers and others | concerred, Chief Moran . describes them, in part, as follows Ten-dollar Federal reserve note on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; check letter * face plate number indistinct; A. W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; Frank White, treasurer of the United States: portrait of Jackson. Ten-dollar ' national bank note on the First National Bank of Superior, Wis.; check letter “A”; W. T. Vernon register of the Treasury; Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the United States: portrait of McKinley, | Secret Service Head Sends Warn- | ing to Bankers. e has been active in the develop- ment of co-operative marketing en- terprises and is the founder of one lof the foremost: co-operative organ:- | zations in America. “He was one of the leaders in the organization of the American Council of Agriculture and has demonstrated both his ability and his patriotic in- terest in the vital agricuitural prob- lems of the day “We therefore are taking the liberty of suggesting his name for Secretary of Agriculture and trust i will receive consideration when Mr. Gore's successor-is to be selected.”