Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1924, Page 13

COLD WEATHER DUE T0 HOLD [1S GRIP Low Temperature Destined to Keep Shivers Going for Two Days. The cold breath of the North coun- try will continue to send shivers up and down the spines of Washingto- nians today and tomorrow, according to some cold facts deduced from an assortment of chilly reports recelved by the Weather Bureau forecaster, late last night en the balmy clouds could mot stand such an outlook, and have be- taken themselves to parts unknown, where they can nurse their fractured nimbuses. Despite the free hand given it in skydom, the sun is going to have a hard timé combating those predicted northwest and north winds today. Toward nightfall, however, the howls of the winds should dimin- ish into softer wails, marking a re- luctant departure, probably in search of the flceing clouds. And the mercury meanwhile will continue to lose its grip on the ther- mometer tubing, sliding steadily downward. Early today it should have recovered itself at the 16-degree mark, with good prospects of regain- ing some of the lost ground with the help of a smiling sun. As for a white Chr might develop between Thursday mas, anything now and D WHOLE U. S. IN GRASP OF BITTER WEATHER; 20 VICTIMS OF COLD (Continued from First Page.) areased to 11 when a mother and two children at Hobart, Okla., were burned to death in a fire started by an over- heated furnace, Property damage estimated at several hundred thousand dollars was caused by the storm and cold weather in Missouri. Christmas mail was being delayed throughout the country by the storm and it was estimated that it might be three or four days befors normal wire communications were restored. Michigan reported four fatalities due to the cold, while in Chicago four persons were killed during hours in accidents due directly or in- directly to the weather. More than 200 fire alarms were answered in Chicago today and streets and sidewalks continued to offer unusual hazards to pedestrians and motorists because of the glare of ice with which they were covered. The temperature here dropped to six below zero at 4 am., with indications that it would again go below the zero mark tonight FOUR DEAD IN MICHIGAN. Two Drowned When Truck Skids and Overturns. By the Associated Press DETROIT, Mich., December 20.—The extreme cold wave which has swept down upon southern Michigan, coat- ing fields and highways with fce, causing the delay of trains and par- tially paralyzing telephone and tele- graph service in various portions of the state, shows no Immediate signs of losing its icy grip, according to re- ) throughout the State. fatalities directly attributed old and roads have been reported from various cities in the State, each eity reported per- sons injured from falls or sufferers from the extreme cold The lowest drop of the thermometer | thus far reported comes from the upper peninsula, where the tempera- ture reached 26 below zero. A bliz- aard sweeping the northern penin- sula is delaving trains and causing other damage. t Lawrence Cuidnowski, 70 vears old, was found in the yards of Chicago and Northwestern Railroad at Iron-| wood today, frozen to death In Holland. Mich., Louis Baker, 40, and William Overbeak, both of Crisp, Mich., were found lying in Harlan Drain, their bodies covered with ice. and Baker's overturned truck mear by. The coroner held the men were drowned after their truck skidded and overturned Slipping on an icy sidewalk, Thomas R Trudgeon, 56, of Battle Creek, fell and broke his neck while walking to 2 school today SNOW THREATENS TRAINS. iey while Fifteen-Inch Fall in 24 Hours May Halt Traffic. By the Aesociated Pross. TRAVESSE CITY, Mich., December 20.—With the heavy snow continu- ing to fall, there seemed danger to- night that railroad traffic, which has been kept open so far, might be_halted tomorrow. More than 15 inches of snow has fallen since yesterday, accompanied by a zero temperature, SOUTHWEST WARMER. Demoralization, However, Shows Little Sign of Improvement. Ty the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, December 20.— Temperatures moderated through- out the Southwest somewhat tonight, but train service seemed to get worse Tather than improve, and wire communication showed no indication of recovering from its demoralized state. The list of deaths due indirectly to the storm and low tempueratures in- creased to 11 in the Southwest to- day, when a mother and two chil- dren were burned to death at Hobart, Okla, in a fire that started from an overheated stove. The temperature there—1 below zero—was the cold- est In vears. Twenty-five persons were driven from their home here in scant attire early today as the result of another overheated stove causing a fire. Property damage estimated at hun- dreds of thousands of dollars has heen caused in central Missouri by the storm, according to radio dis- patches to the Associated Press from Jefferson City. A shortage of railroad coal there threatened to seriously interfere with_train service. Jefferson City .and St. Louis re- ceived news reports from the Asso- ciated Press today by radio. e TALKS TO BARRISTERS. Justice Urges Confidence in Con- stitution. Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia addressed the members of the Barristers’ Club at its luncheon vesterday at the Cosmos Club. He im- pressed upon the young lawyers the growing importance of and necessity for.confidence in the Constitution of the United Statées and the funda- meéntal structure of government as conceived by its framers. He also | within Of the Volunteers of Americ: Yesterday for “vagrancy.’ sanisation, which was not inc in this years list of approved chari- ®les, Intends to take the matter into court, claiming unjust discrimination. Volunteers of America conduct the “Stepping Stone” on lower Pennsyl- vania avenue. RUM KINGS, SCRUB FLOORS, EASE ENDS, IN ATLANTA PRISON (Continued from First Page.) were sent to Atlanta and for weeks they carried on. Warden Sartain, in a written statement, declared they opened his mail, tapped his: telephone and spied on him in gene He said the whole business was a frame-up. Bribery Charged. When the investigators had finish- ed, warrants charging bribery were sworn out against Sartain and Fletch- er, and a speclal session of the grand jury was called. It is now probing the prison affairs. At the opening of the grand jury investigation bootleg- ger Kings from three cities were call- ed as witnesses, but their testimony was kept secret. These leaders in their chosen calling were Emmanuel Kessler and_ Morrls Sweetwood of New York, George Remus of Cincin- nati and Willie Haar of Savannah Sartain, the deposed warden, is a close friend of Harry Daugherty, for- mer Attorney General, and a short while ago he was brought into the limelight when George Remus, mil- lionaire bootlegger from Cincinnati, had a new thought in regard to Daugherty. Remus, at his own re- quest, was taken to Washington to testify against Daugherty when the Department of Justice was under fire. later he {ssued a statement saying that his testimony was all wrong, and this brought forth the charge that Sartain, being a friend of Daugherty. had coerced Remus Into retracting his former testimony. All this Sartain has denied. At the present time the Federal prison is locked and barred to visit- ors, and what is going on there is more or less a deep secret, except for the news that all the bootleggers are hard at work. FURTHER PROBE IS SEEN. Cor:victs ‘Who Testified Before Jury May Be Recalled. 1 Dispatch to The Star. ATLANTA. Ga., December 20.— Further investigation by the Federal grand jury into conditions.at the Atlanta. Federal prison is expected the next few days, although the jutors have been dismissed, sub- ject to call, after returning indict- ments charging bribery against A. E. Sartain, deposed warden, and L F. Fletcher, deputy warden, whose resignation becomes effective Janu- ary 1. Beveral convicts who testified be- fore the. grand jury relative to the charges against Sartain and Fletcher have been transferred to the county jail at Athens, Ga., temporarily, the Federal authorities indicating that they will be brought back when further testimony on prison condi- tions is required. Most of these pris- oners, among whom are. Emanuel Kessler and Morris Sweetwood of New York and George Remus of Cin- cinnati, all serving sentences for bootlegging, will have completed their terms within the next 80 days. The trials of Sartan and Fletcher are to be held early in January. Through their counsel the accused men have issued a statement, declar- Ing that the charges agalnst them will be “completely and easily re- futed” and expressing satisfaction that nothing more serious “could be concocted after three months’ inquiry by third-degree methods conducted by a large force of secret agents.” They assert, that the charges are the result of a ‘“contemptible political frame-up. Sartain is charged with having ac- cepted a bribe of $5,000 from C. -C. Tuten, a convict, in return for as- signing Tuten to be chauffeur for the prison physician. Fletcher is charged with having accepted $5,000 from Emanuel Kess- ler for an assignment as assistant librarian. Warrants charging brib- ory were issued Thursday agalnst Sartain and Fletcher, but these were made superfluous by the return of the indictments. FORMER OFFICIALS HELD. Ex-Atlanta Man Accused of Tak- ing Rum Bribe. _THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER 21,1924 PART 1. Kay Jewelry Co., _407 Seventh St. N.W. INVITES RURAL AID Chamber © of Commerce Wants Co-Operation for in- dustrial Exhibit in March. Civic feaders in_ all communities within a radius of 25 miles of Wash ington have been invited to take part and co-operate with the local Cham- ber of Commerce in the industrial ex- hibition, March 21 to 28, In the new Washington Auditorium. “Washington will be astonished at the ‘extent and variety of manufac- turing done in the city,” R. P. An- drews, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Assoclation and a member of the Chamber of Com- merce exposition committee, declared yesterday, in explaining that the pur- Poses of the exbibit are to acquaint the public with what is going on in a manufacturing way in the District, and to show that there are oppor- tuntties for an expansion of the pres- ent industries. “More than 1,000 manufacturing concerns are making all types of articles from artificial limbs to yachts in the National Capi- tal” declared Mr. Andrews, who aiso pointed out the great Government manufacturing plants, such as the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing. the Naval gun factory and thé Govern- ment Printing OMce in Washington Charles J. Stockman, the exposition committee chalrman, declared “leth- argy and negleot of Washington's op- nortuinties have already cost the city a million inhabitants and prevented its schools, churches, and residences from being among the finest in the world. Had we been alive to our chances we would now have a popu- lation of 1,500,000, instead of 500,000.” The commitiee states one of the main objects of the exposition is to show the public that the manufactur- ing concerns in tha city are a great help to the prosperity of the National pital and have contributed to the y in an artistic as well as a ma- Smoke Nulsance Curbed. John Hanna, manager of the Capital Traction Co. and a member of the committee, in discussing the ex position, pointed out that electri machinery of today has curbed nuisance of factory smoke Members of the chamber who are fr arge of the project are: Charl Stockman, general chairman; F N. Harper, treasurer; Alfred L. managing director: advisory commit- tee, Chapin Brown, Daniel J. Calla- han, Charles W. Darr, Isaac Gans, William F. Gude, Robert Harpor. Martin Leese, James T. Lloyd, Albert Schulteis, A. E. Seymour, A. Leftwich Sinclair: executive committee, Ru- dolph Jose, Ross P. Andrews, Karl| A W. Corby, H. C. Cragg, Joseph D Dreyfuss, John H. Hanna, Milto Hopfenmal George P. Killian, Harry King, Ivan C. Weld and Mar- tin Wiegand. TRAPPER ARRESTED | IN DEATH OF WOMAN | Denies Knowledge of Killing in Northern Minnesota—Victim Was Stabbed. the . By the Assoctated Press GLENCOE, Minn., December 20 Tony Reamer, a trapper, wanted in connection with the death, of Mrs Elsie Wheeler . of _ Clearwater, Kans., was taken into custody at the home of his father at Stewart, late today. Brdught to the county jail here, Reamer declared he had no knowledge of the death except that which he gave before a coroner's inquest held in_ the cabin in ndrthern Minesota, where Mrs. Wheeler was found dead with a butcher knife plungeg through her side. He will Thomas Count -2 2 e AR S 2 N 2 await Slind, Lake the arrivat of | of the Woods sheriff, who informed Frank McLeod County sheriff, that Reamer could be found the farm | Stewart Reamer was chopping wood when apprehended, and offered no restst- ance to Sheriff Klaus' statement- that he was under arrest. He said he was willing to go back to Baudette to aid in solving the woman's death. His personal opinion, he said, and that of Mrs. Wheeler's neighbors, was that she either took her own life or was accidentally killed. The trapper is said by Lake of the Woods County authorities to have been the last man to have seen Mrs. Wheeler alive. Reamer, however, de- clares that Addison Reiser, who lives about 1 mile from the Wheeler cabin, was the last man to see her alive. Reamer declared that Reiser, whom he met shortly after he left Mrs. Wheeler, was on his way with a load of hay toward the Wheeler cabin and said he was going to stop there for a while. Births R.eporled. The following births have been reported to the Health Department within the uet 24 urs: Albert_and Eadie Faour, boy. Max N. and Rebecea Friedman, girl Mayer ‘and Froda Siegal, boy. Mark C. and Nancy J. Pope, boy. Yernon A. and Thelma A. Robinson, boy. John E. and Ruth L. Preston, boy. Harry J. and Olive M. Whiteford, girl. Harry and Annie Goose, boy. Carroll W. and Reba E. Herbert, boy. Clarence nd.Mary V. Pryor, girl Arthur W, ‘and Hatiys B. Leith, boy. Walter F." and Lillia_Shupp, boy. Fraok O and Ovida Hillyer. girl. By the Associated Press. JERSEY CITY, N. J., December 20. —David J. Allen and John J. Coyle, arrested yesterday on a charge of grand larceny, were identified in court today by Rocco Paretta of Schenectady, N. Y., as the two who obtained $8,300 from him. The case was continued until next Tuesday. Allen, who was recently dismissed as assistant purchasing agent of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., and Coyle, & former State Assembly- man, were indicted in Sohenectady on_October 25. Paretta charged that the two were paid $10 a case by him on an agree- ment to use their influence In Wwith- drawing 630 cases of whisky he owned, from a New York city ware- houge. Allen and Coyle were to_get the ~ whisky shipped to Rochester and ha it ‘“disappear” en route, Paretta says, with the promise that Paretta would recover the liquor. Paretta charged that the two disap- peared with the money. _— Deaths Reported. following deaths have been reported to znsh%e-m: Department, within the Inst. 24 outs: 2 PO Giotian D Rush, 31, 1234 Ingraham st. B, Young. 77, 3445 O . Ade'B. Harris, 62, 601 18th 3 Leonidas H. Machichol, 73, National Home- . 3232 Prospect ave. . Tuberculosis Hospital. Toward W Casey. 54 520 E st. n.e. urged the adherence to its strict in- terpretation and the belief in its pow- er without amendment or change to meet the situations in government arfsing out of even so complex an age &= the present. The Barristers’ Club is composed of 5 junior members of the local bar. Ann B. Morris, 78, 8916 N. Hampton, John C, Baum, 87, 500 B st. n.e. Mary J. Hickerson, 76, 2408 Girard st. n.e. Joseph Thompson, 7 months, Walter Reed . P bort Clark, 64, Gallinger Hospltal: Harvey Smith, 83. Uld‘“lgr ‘Hospital. 85, %14 Newton st. Tovoree oborne, 85, Frecdmen's Hospital. Annie Hatton, 86, Gallinger Hospital. Edward J. and Ma eral, 1. R "and Marie Wise, poy." nd Charlotte L. Hoover, girl. . and Mary M. Clark, boy. y T. and Esther F. Caldfato, boy. and Mary A. Kiein, girl Harry A. and Eleanor B, Ong, girl William F. and Ellsabeth Higgine, boy, Genuoske and Kio Higaski, gir) X Deltor and Beatrice Carter, gis Joshue and Edna Plummer, gc John and Suepearl Phelps, boy. 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