Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1925, Page 2

MERCHANT IS SHOT REPELLING BANDIT James F. Heimer May Die: Assailant Escapes After Struggle in Store. Refusing to comply with “stick ‘em up’ the bandit who gave command, James F. Heimer. of the Big Four Candy streot. last night about §:15 was shot in the kbdomen and wounded it is feared he a com- mand “to pling with the man- er Co., s 1 a'clock =0 seriously cannot recover The b deseribed about 30 years old, slender build and smooth face. He wore black trousers, salt-and-pepper coat and dark cap, cording to one description furnish- Other descriptions ndit is as bheing ed the police ziven was Heimer the standing near cash register when the bandit en- tered J. A. Brauner, proprietor, re- siding at §14 C street southeast; was ted at his desk Stick ‘em up,” was the only thing bandit said, and when Helmer rappled with him for possession of weapon Brauner under his desk for a club he there. The club was missing, I Futile,, in pursuit of the he heard the shot distance, but ! rtake him. He quickly store and assisted the wounded man Gerald Walsh, 29 treet. seated in an automobile near- took Heimer to Emergency 1 searched hought however Parsuit went n as He some e returned told that the three times while bandit were throuzh the store toward the front door, and it was just about the time door was reached that the fourth effort of the armed man to =hoot the merch proved successful Drs. Daniel L. Borden and J. B. Dean fmmediately performed an operation in an effort to save Heimer's life, Mrs. Alice Heimer. wifé of the vic tim of the shooting, and Bdgar Hei- mer, a son, hurried from the family home at 1232 E street southeast to the hospital. Two other sons are ab- sent from the city. Detectives were unable to question Heimer because of hix weakened con- dition. They obtained from Brauner nd Walsh the description of the ban- dit. A general alarm has been sent ont WOMAN TESTIFIES IN OWN DEFENSE Mrs. M. B. Buchanan, Con- gressman’s Former Secre- tary, Denies Forgery. Police were pistol | Feimer truggling and the Mrs. Margaret B. Buchanan, former secrétary of Samuel A. Kendall, Rep- rasentative from Pennsylvania, to- day testified in her own behalf before Chief Justioe McCoy and a jury in riminal Divislon 2 in defense of an indictment chargng her with forgery in placing on the back of checks from | the Veterans' Bureau the namé of Martha Warfield. the payee, and passing the cks to her own ac- eount in a_trust company in Penn- | sylvania. The amount of the two checks is about $1,000 Authorized to Sign Name. accused admitted that she placed the name of Martha Warfeld on the checks, but asserted she had authority to do 80. The woman in whose favor the check was drawn is flliterate. it was tated, 2nd had told Mrs. Buchanan that when she was granted the money from the Govern- ment for the death of her son she wanted Mrs. Buchanan te keep it for her and to place it in her bank until she was ready to use it Mrs. Warfield, according to the wit- ness, said she did not want her other son to know that she had received the money. It was to carry out these in- structions, said the accused, that she | placed the name of the payee on the back of the checks and sed them to her own account in Carlisle Trust Co., in Carlisle, Pa. The b the Amdavit Su Buchanan, shown an by the Veterans' Bureau to the claim of Mrs. Warfield, frankly admitted that & signed the three names attached to it, one of her ! =ister and the others of lodgers at her home who knew Mrs. Warfield and the care she had taken of her son inhis iliness. She took the paper to a notary and he attached his seal without the appearanca of the persons whose names were signed thereon The accused said she had warned Martha Warfield “not to let the law- vers get her monay,” which she was guarding from her son mitted Mre required perfect amdavit Declares Forgery Admitted. Michael F. McInerney, special in- vestigator of the Veterans’ Bureaw, testified late yesterday afternoon that | Mrs. Buchanan had admitted to him | that she “forged” the name of | Martha Warfield in indorsing _two | checks from the Veterans’ Bureau. Axked why she had done it, the \\‘I|~1 ness declared the accused said “she | needed the money.” When the alleged forgery was dis- covered he said Mrs Buchanan | turned over $1,063. the face value of two of the checks, and asked the witness if that would end the matter. He said he told her he could not =ay | what would be the outcome. This | happened, according 1o the iwitnens, | | | | February 24, 19 in his office at tha bureau The prosecution then offered Merkel | YLandis, president of the Carlisle Trust Co., of Carlisle, Pa, ax a witness. Mr. | Landis did not know the accusad, but had correspondence with har and brought with him a transeript of an| account which she had in that| financial institution. The account chowed that all thres of tha checks offered by the Government as “forged" by Mrs. Buchanan were depositéd and checked against by the defendant. Account Later Closed. According 1o the corréspondence ad- mitted, Mrs. Buchanan at the tima owed the trust company a note and an overdrat, which the Government ! ciaims corroborates the testimony of | Meclnerney that she “needed money.” Mr. Landis said the account had been closed out by the payment of the bal- ance of $538 to the Government which had attached it Bert C. Farrar. a handwriting ex- pert from the Treasury Department festified that the indorsements on the checks in_controversy were written by Mrs. Buchanan. Representative Kendall was on the stand for a few minutés to identify the signature of Mre. Buchanan. his former secretary, to the letters brought by Mr. Landis, All woman employes of Illinois packing plants who were interviewed in A survey by the Government said that they were expected to work only eight hours a day, ) and grap- | | that plans for placing {a | stored |1t would be hopeless to attempt re- | |Dawes Gets Flood ‘Dawes Disappoints | Curious at Third l‘ Session of Senate Galleries and Corridors Crowded With Visitors Expecting Scrap. | - | Vice President Dawes' third morn- ing in the Senate was lke the calm| |after the storm | Galleries were crowded and lines| while secretaries and | privilesed to the edged | in expectantly, but noihing huppened | to the outbreak of inaugura- tion day and vesterday’s repercussion. The new Vice President went| through the parliamentary motions ot the short session calmly and quietl: offering no suggestion of his own, | and the Senators who had objected to the way he stepped on the toes of | senatorial tradition at Wednesday's | opening session appeared satigfied with the formal action they had taken vesterduy to set right the offcial record Aguin wearing his brown business suit the Vice President stood with! bowed head during the prayer, tap- | ped for order, took his speaking cues | irom the Senate secretary and didn't | raise his voice above the conventional | throughout the session POLAND T0 RESIST UTINTERRITORY P SRR AT | Nation Alarmed by Report of German Desire for Big Area. waited outside, others tloor recall BY A. R. DECKER. Ry Cable to The Star and Chicazo Daily News. | v . March 6—Poland Is un- usually exclted over tha reported Gérman suggestion to alter the Ger- man-Polish frontiers by returning part of Pomerania to Germany Poland has been alarmed since| France recognized tha Soviets, inter- | preting the sending of a French am-, liance between France and Po- At that time the Poles said “We must keep our eves open.” Feara Loss In Regrouping. Then followed the dikcuseion of re- Srouping western European countrisk into new alliances. Poland feels she | Las been omitted from the different combinations and feels that taking Germany into an alllance with France | or England will be at Poland's ex- pense The | { is unanimous| discussion of League of Nations, | and the more violent opinions are that the German suggestion means an attack against Polund. It is said| Poland on a be accelerated. | by Chicage Dails News Co.) | WILBUR EXTENDS ENNEDY INQUIRY Asks Medical Authorities for Further Report on Officer’s Mental Condition. Polish press against submitting frontiers to the war footing ' will (Copyright, 19 After an éxamination of the medical report on which Lieut, Frank E. Ken- { nedy was placed in the State Hospital for the Insane at Napa, Calif.. Secre- tary Wilbur has asked the medical authorities zt Mare Island navy yard for a_ further report on the officer's mental condition, which may result in his being restored to duty and im- mediately granted leave to recover his health. Habeas cornus proceedings to ob- | Lieut. Kennedy's release from the ylum, instituted by his wife in the | State courts of California, ended in decision that the court had no Jurisdiction. Report Indicated Hysteria. The medical report in Kennedy's case, Secretary Wilbur said, showed that he was suffering from hysteria and nervous disordars that mads him uncontrollable by the authorities at the Mare Ieland Hospital. He was sent to the Staté Insane Asylum for that reason. Mr. Wilbur feels, however, that it is possible that Lieut. Kennedy, If re- to duty and granted leave, would recover to a substantial degree under the care of his wife and rela- tives. and has requested the opinion of the Mare Island Navy physicians on that point. Should the medical office ta believe storation of the officer's mental bal- ance by this means, he probably will be transferred to the Govarnment hospital for the insane here. Of Commendation On Inaugural Talk Telegrams From Country Flow to Vice President On Senate Attack. A fiood of telegrams continued to | pour in from all parts of the country today to Vice President Dawasx com- mending his inaugural speech of ase sault on the Senate rules Gen. Dawes was represented as feel- ing gratified over the response he is receiving from the country. The telegrams which arrived with unusual frequency ‘this morning at the New Willard Hotel, 48 hours after the now-famous speech had been de- livered in the Senate, followed a re- mark of the general's that the que Vice President’s stand by many Sen- ators. £ Jesse street southeast. Sweeney, Culllnane and Jackson ar- | rested him admitted Jesse Green had been sworn out for the (heft o | MOt be required to contribute to a the coffeé urn slayer. nothing, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1925. INGER-PRINT GLUE IN MURDER FALLS Wrench in Pappas Case Use- less to Police in Solv- ing Mystery. Checked in their investigation along fingerprint lines, snd with one suspect. now detained, te'ling such a corvincing story that his re'easc is a'read. contempated, police today had make headway in pi ring the mystery surrounding the murder of Tom Pappas, proprietor of the Marathone 'unchroum, 1202 Seventh etrect, whose body was found there yesterday with the skull crushed in by an automobile wrench This wrench azd stained ciothing are the on'y tangible starting places for the police in <o far as ciuce ure concerned. Hopes that fingerprints mizat ald in \dentifying the murder.r w-re blasted when Fred Sandbers, identification ex- pert of the Police Department, found that dirt and grease, found In quantities in the kitchen, had covercd and rendered indccipherable whatever marks might otherwise have becn aval'abie. Colored Man Sought. A widespread search meanwhile is going on for a colored man who ap- peared in the lunchroom at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, the day prior to the murder, and appeared deeply Interested in the arrangement of the lunchroom and kitchen. William J. Tappy, dishwasher for Pappas, told police that this individual is pre- sumably the same one who appeared In his room after the tima the mur- der is believe to have been committed and told Tappy that his employer did not want him to get up as early as usual. The suspect Green, w takén into custody is colored. 22, whose recorded as 122 N Detactives Waldron address at Fifth sam his place of employ- street, néar O. He name as a person ment bears on the | complained against for alleged theft of a cbffee urn from Pappas, and this | was what led to hi arrest. Story Straightforward. he prisofier told a straightforward story. He had never bean in Marsthon lunchroom, he said. He had worked as a bus boy in Ninth street and Fourteenth street lunchrooms, but he declared he was working in a new Dbuilding near Park roed and Fourteenth straet yesterday. In the latter statement he was supported by his employer. I bassador to Moscow % a relaxing nr: Tappy went to the sccond precinct 10 see if this was the samé man who had spoken 1o him shortly after the murder s believed to have occurred, As méntioned above. He definitely declared the prisonsr was not the in- dividual scén yesterfay or the day before, and added hé had never before seen Gréen. Accordingly, detectives they were convinced that prisoner Green it not the sam for whom the warrant the the | | wood suspension was voted, were in the | the debate on the | der BALDWIN IS UPHELD INECONOMIC PLEA British Premier Says Great‘: Changes Taking Place De- mand Cautious Action. By the As<ociated Prows. LONDON. "March 6.—The of commons this afternoon formally re- jected the trades union® politieal fund bill, against the adopiion of which Prime Minister Baldwin argued on the ground that a question of such fmport should not be decided sum- | marily in the manner proposed. The prime minister's amendment to this effect was carried by a vote of 325 against 15 A handful of Scotch members from the Clydeside refrained from attendance in the House of Commons today in pro- test agalnst the suspension yesterday of their fellow member, David Kirk- | wood. The other Labor members, who left the House yesterday when the Kirk- house chamber this afternoon, however, for trades union political fund bill. Effect of Amendment. The biil would amend the trade union | act® of 1513, which authorizes a union o exact contributions used for the sup- port of the Labor party from all thé unions; members, unles sthey have made written application for exemption. Un- the new bill every trade unfonist would be free to contribute to the politi- cal fund it hé made written applica- tion to do so. The conservative and liberal trade unionists would thus fund used for the support of an op- Efforts are being made to identify | PO®ition political party the automobile wrénch used by the While its identity may mean police balieve it” will be an interesting link in a chain of evidence théy are anxious to establish. It 18 believed by the police that _the wrench was stolen from a garage or automobile, and they also realize it may be the property of the slaver. One suggestion Is that the slayer may be a bootlegger, owner of a car, and that the wrench was one of the tools carried in his car. No person has been found who saw a suspicious- looking individual leavé the lunch- room yestérday, nor did any car parked nearby attract unusual atten tion. Idéntity of near the body of the slain man is another problem for police. Its identity might be the means of solv- ing the mystery, &lthouzh realize it may havé comeé from a rum- mage sale or prssed through several hands after being discarded by its original purchaser, Detectives this afternoon are ook~ ing up the records of certain prison- ers recently releasad from the Dix- trict prison at Occoquan, and It is probable that several prisoners still there will be questioned. It is resl- ized by the police that crimes simi- lar to the one committed yesterday are plotted by persons behind bars, and in some such instances their plans have been lald bare by persons taken into their confidence, It is reasonably certain that the man who appeared and gave Tappy the message purporting to come from Pappas left a blood stain in the room on the upper floor, but the stain was not such a one that the police were able to utilize in the investigation. Detective Sandberg found stainx on the drainboard in the kitchén. The board was displaced, but the stains falled to be of assistance. The condition of Pappas gests to Coroner J. Ramsey Navitt that the lunchroom proprietor put up & stiff Aght for his life. There are 11 distinct cuts in the skull, sev- tral of them having gone through to the brain. Pappas’ left hand was badly crushed, probably while he was trying to ward off' the blows his slayer was Inflicting, and his night hand is bruised. the bloody shirt left body suj EDUCATOR ATTACKED; THREE YOUTHS HELD Deny Assaulting Georgian, Who Was Beaten by Pair to Whom He Gave Ride. By the Associnted Pre: ATLANTA, Ga., March 6.—Protest- ing their innocence of any connection with the assault on W. C. Wright, Putnam County school official, who Is conceded only a slight chance to recover from injurles suffered when he was attacked by two young men near Eatonton Wednesday, three youths from widely separated sec- tions of the country are held in jail here. They are S. J. Scarborough, 21, Tampa, Fla.; Ted Coggeshall, 20, Clayton, Tl and F. W. McClellan, 18, Brockton, N. Y. The prisoners were arrested yes- terday afternoon as they were walk- ing along a Georgian road. After be- ing taken to Athens, near wheve Wright's automobile was found, they were brought action by Putnam County authorities. The school official, connected with education in Georgia for two wcore ears, was attacked by two young men he had given a “lift,” beaten | tion might have to go to the Ameri- |into insensibility and his automobile | can people, and the criticism of the [and personal effects stolen. Members of the trio held here say that they were walking from Tampa, police | the | to Atlanta to await! All day yesterday, it was learned, | Fla., where they had spent the Win messages came from persons in all | ter, and do not know whether Eaton- sections of the United States, heartily [ton was one of the towns through commending Gen. Dawes for his|which they passed on their tramp, courageous tand. None of the texts|varied by an occasional ride from a was made public, but it was under-|friendly motorist. \stood they wer much more than mere | McClellan safd that the bunch of formal congratulations. , | keys found on his person and said to Among the many callers at the Vice have been the property of the in- President’s apartment this morning |jured educator were picked up in the were; Col. Edward Cfifford of this|road near Athens. city, % close personal friend of the| Comgeshall's parents are said to live family: Mark W. Woods of Lincoln,|{on a farm in Illinols. McClellan, said Nebr.: Col. J. C. Roop of New York |his stepfather is a Pennsylvania Uity, and Col. William G, Edens ofdfarmer and Scarborough is said to Chicago. ave relatives m Tampa, i | | { | i to Mr. Baldwin, in moving the ment, which declared that “while | approving the principle of political| liberty embodied in the bill, the house | is of the opinion that a measure of such far-reaching importance should | not be introduced as a private mem- | ber's bill” sald he deprecated its in- | troduction last Friday. especially as the time for debats was inxufficient and the bill dug right into one of the most difficult fundamental questions in the country. The Conservatives, hé¢ said, had won the election because they stood for| stable government and peace among| all part} Therefors his party should | be strong enough to make a gesture | tha country and say that while they belleved in the justice of the| Bill they ware not going to push their | political advantage home, because | they stood for peace and the aboli-| tion of susplcion. 1 Mr. Baldwin was loudly cheered at this, espectally by the labor members Continuing, he sald he wondered if all the peonle of the country realizsd the inevitable changes that were com- ing over the industrial system of Eng- land, which, xince its inception, had been Iin a state of avolution and had| developed more ranidly than was vis-| ible to people of the present day. Daldwin States Pasition, ‘ amend- | Own Esperiences Cited. Citing his own experiences. he his was an old family busin which he knew all - the men from| chilahood. could discuss with them | business and home troubles, and with| whom strikes and lockopts were un-| known. This business ultimately be came swallowed up in one of the/ great comhinations to which the coun- try's industrries were tending today. He instanced one of the early strikes in the coal fields which threw out of work 1,000 men of those workers of hig, which had seemed to him a monstrous injustice. There was no conscious unfair treatment of those mén by tha miners; it simply showed tha création of a new state of indus try in the shape of amalgamations— “and God help those who ¥tood out- Combination Combination was guard against competition, Baldwin, but he emphasized the necesgity of wide statesmanship to steer the country through that stage of evolution. Both employers and employes’ organizations were neces- sary for protection, but as they grew more powerful they might sometinies not only injurs theit own members, but the State also, and it was the latter which the Government must guard against. The country was moving forward rapidly from the old state of in- dustry, he dded, and the question was what the new state was going to be. “I am certain,” he declared, “it has got to be @ pretty close partnership, and it must be a Partnership of men who understand their own work and themselves. They will get little help from the politiclans or the in- tellectuals.” BABY ABANDONED, | IN TRASH CAN DIES| Deéfended. necessary to said Mr. Homicide Charge to Be Filed if Police Investigation Can Fix Responsibility. The two-week-old baby girl found in‘a trash can at Pennsylvania ave- nus and Eighth street southeast early Tuesday night died last night at Children’s Hospital, probably from pneumonia caused by ‘exposure. The death will result in a charge of homlcide being placed against the person responsible for the abandon- ment if the police search, which is| thus far fruitiess, finally is sue- cesstul Detectives Trayer and Als of the fAtth precinct took up the investiza- tion when Policeman Laux found the! waif, after hearing her cries from the trash can. They have questioned a number of persons In an effort to identity the mother. Coroner Nevitt ordered the body | taken to the morgue, and police are coptinuing the Investigation, | the theory I by | \ | Upper, lelt to right: Seantors Kinley of Illinolx, du Pont of De | ware ‘and Sackett of Kentuck are expec to he axsignea t ate Distriet committee. | Lower: Representative Frank Funk of 1llinolx, who probably will be| chalrma the xubcommitiee on Dix: trict upproprintions of the House ap- propriations committee. PRISONERS QUIZZED [N SENTRY'S DEATH Man Seized in Dry Raid Con-‘ nects Companion With Shores Case. The mystérious death of Pyt { ~éll Shores, sentry, who was found| dead from a wound of a .43-caliber | revolver near his post in an isolated section of the grounds of Walter Reed Hospital shortly after midnight | October 22 again claimed police Interest today as an aftermath to the arrest of | George Wesley Underhill, private of | the medical detachment at the hos- pital, charged with transporting lia- uor, and Francis Leon Riel, mechanic. of 921 Fennsylvania avenue south- east, charged with intoxication. Police declared that Underhill,| who former Chicago policeman, | while at No. 2 pracinct this morning, made statements which connected | Riel with the death of Shorés. Head- | quarters detectives Darnall and| Springman had both mén brought to| headquarters for quéstioning. after which they evidently placed little ¢redence in Underhill's statements. Jury Doubted Sulcide. 1t will be remembered that Shores’ death produced a more or less baffled | attempt to fix @rfinitely the respon- #ibility and to uncover the eireum stances surrounding it, in so far as| both police and the special board of | inquiry at Walter Reed Hospital were concerned. A coroner's inauest was held in the case. at which the verdict of the jury was that ha met death in a manner unknown to the jury, but in | a manner which Coroner Nevitt main- tained was not proved to be suicidal. In fact, the verdict of the coroner's jury opened possibilities that the death was either accidental at his own hands or in some unknown man- ner at the hands of persons unknown to the jury Police fi 1y settled on that death was necldental at b own ands—that the bullet was fired while he was seated much in the same manner as it would have been had he heen carelessly finger- ing and inspecting his revolver. The arrest of the two men was made this morning by Sergt. Kilmar- tin of the second precinct and Pyts Darrenbacher and Schotzberger. Un- derhill wad taken Into custody by | Kilmariin and Schotzberger. charged with transporting liauor, while he was in the company of Riel. Police allege saven half-pint bottles of in- toxicants were found in his posses- | sion. Risl was merely charged with | intoxication. Police were inclined to doubt the | statements of Underhill, becruse of ! his condition at the time of arrest, which apparently was not precisely normal, it was stated. At Walter Reed Hospital today it wi learned that Underhill had been at the post only since the first part of January of this year. But Riel, acedrding to records of the hospital, was there frem October 6 to October 24, 1924, as a patient of the civilian status. Riel is heing held at the sixth pre- cinct station and Underhill at the second precinct today while the detectives are checking up on the statements attributed to the last named. JURY CHARGES DOCTOR WITH DAUGHTER’S DEATH, Coroner’'s Verdict Says Physician Admlnistefl_d Poison Which XKilled Young Woman. Br the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., March 6.—A Coro- ner's jury today returned a verdict that Haszel Blazer, 32 years old, dled “as a result of poison administered her father, Dr. H. E. Blager,” Englewood physician. : Dr. Blazer, who is suffering from polson taken in a sulcide attempt aft- er he s alleged to have slain his duughter, riready is facing first de- gree murder charges. The daughter had been an invalid since childhood. . COAL STRIKE ORDERED. Miners in West Virginia Fields Asked to Quit Work. ‘l FAIRMONT, W. Va., March 6.—All union and non-union miners in the West Virginla coa! flelds will be ask ed to strike on April 1, It was serted today by Van A. Bittner, gen- eral representative of the Unitéd Mine Workers In this, district, Rus- w | Lewi | pired |taining the jcase was heard was a victim of fraud [time limit for filing Thompson's ap- A. P DENNIS NAMED T0 TARIFF BODY Maryland Democrat of Wide and Varied Experience =‘ Succeeds D. J. Lewis. | President Coolidge today appointed Alfred Pearce Dennis of Printess Anne, Md., to the United States Tariff Commission, to succted David J of Maryvland, whose term ex- last Fall and who has been kept on the commission until the ap- pointment of a successor. Mr. Dennis is a Democrat and an intimate friend of the President. The | filling of this place necessitated the| appointmen® of a Democrat. He is an expert economist and, according| to the White House, is eminently qualified for the duties to which he has been appointed. The nomination wag sent to the Senate at noon. Mr. Dennix has had a varied and interesting career as a college pro- fexsor, furmer, Alaskan explorer, lum- ber dealer, magazine writer, commer- cial attache at Rome and London and | conomic investigator in some 18 European countries for the United States Department of Commerce ! Served as Profeasor. | He holds the degree of A. B. A. M.| and Ph. D. trom Princeton, in which | university he served as un instructor | in history and constitutional law in | the department then headed by Pres- | ident Wils He later called | to Smith College, Northampton, Mas sachusetts, where for eight years he held a chair in history and public| law In 1908 Mr. Dennix was forced by ill health to abandon the teaching pro- fesslon for a more rigorous life out of doors. He established himself in | the wholesale lumber business, oper- | ating at various points in Maryland | and Virginia until 1819, when he was | appointed by William C. Redfield, ecretary of Commerce, as commer. cial attache to the American embassy in Romé, Ttaly. In 1920 he was trans- ferred to the Commerce Department's most important trade post, that of commercial attache at London, which position he held until Septembar. 1921, when, at his request, he was desig- nated as speclal ropean repre- sentative at large for the Departinent of Commerce and detailed to make economic investigations which took two years and covered some 18 Eu- ropean countries. On the complétion of this assignment Mr. Dennls was re- called for work in the home office at Washington under Secretary Hoover. Mr. Dennis has written éxtensively on American businsgs and intern tional trade | | FORBES FILESPLEA FORWRIT OF ERROR | Bxecutive before leaving on a Euro- | operated the car that | pean mission for the War Depart- | Hainsworth Former Veteran Director and| Thompson Make Separate Moves in Case. By (18 Ascociated Press CHICAGO, March 6.—Application tor a writ of error on behalf of Col. Charles R. Forbes, former head of the United States Veterans' Bureau, recently found guilty with John W. Thompson of conspiracy, was filed in Fedéral Court today. Forbes' counssl seeks to appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Stay of sentence of Forbes, who, like Thompsgn, wae fined $10,000 and sentenced to nrison for two years, was extended 40 days by Judee Sam- uel Alschuler of the Circuit Court of Abpeals, but he refused to pass on the application for a writ of error and supersedeas in the absence of the trial judge, George A. Carpenter, who sentenced Forbss and Thompson. Forbes and Thompson, Chicago ana St. Louis contractor, have divided forces in their efforts to have reversed the Federal court sentences. Thompson has already secured per- mission, through his attorney, former Senator James Hamilton Lewis, to carry his case direct to the United States Supreme Court, Attorney Lewis went to Washing- ton last week and secured permission for Thompson to appeal to the Su- preme Court in arguments before As- sociate Justice Sutherland. The plea was granted on the con- | tention that in selzing papers from Thompson's St. Louis office, which were later used as evidence in ob- indictments ard in the trial, Government operatives mcted il- legally, and that as a result, the local Federal district court fn which the and had no jurisdiction. Mr. Lewis appeared yesterday be- fore Federal Judge Adam C. Cliffe and secured a 15-day extension of the peal bond. (= SIFESET RS EP SR “ROXIE” ON AIR TONIGHT. Program to Be Given at Midnight From WCAP Studio. It was announced this afterncon that “Roxy and his gang” will informally broadcast a short program at 12 o'clock tonight from the studio of WCAP. This will, of course, follow the regular pr gram to be given at the Auditorium by the National Capital Press Club, which will not be broadcast. Gloria Swanson Leaves Hospital. PARIS, March 6.—Gloria Swanson, American film star, who underwent an operation for acute peritonitis on February 15, has recovered to such an extent that she Is leaving the alialc at Auteufl this afternoon. {of | are three outstanding candidates for | tlon Wheeler Barred | By Locks From | Office in Senate| Refusing to Give Up Room, He Finds His | Keys Useless. Senator Wheeler rather, some of of Montana or, his clerks today found themselves locked out of one the offices n the Senate Office Building which Mr. Wheeler had been using. The Montana Senator has béen us- ing three rooms. One of them he was authorized to use when he was con- ducting the investigation of former Attorney General Daugherty and the Department of Justice during the last Congress. This room, the Senate rules committee decided, should be as signed to Senator Blease of South Carolina. Controversy arose, however Senator Wheeler desired to retain the room and his clerical forces de-| clined to move out. 8o & locksmith | was called into sction and the lock | changed on the door during the night. | A new key was turned over to Sena- tor Blease Senator La Follette, one of the surgents whose committee assign- ments have been refused him as a Republican and who headed the third ticket with Senator Wheeler in second place during the last campaign, is also about to lose two desirable rooms in the Capitol. These rooms were his by right, by being chairman of the committee on manufactures. ik | REVISED CABINET HASFIRST SESSION Routine Matters Discussed. Kellogg’s High Hat Draws Comment. The first meeting of President Cool- idge and his reconstructed cabinet| since the beginning of the new ad-| ministration was hld at the execu-| tive Office today. The Attorney Gen- eral's chair at the long table was| vacant because the nomination of Charles B. Warren of Michigan as the | successor to Harlan F. Stone at the head of the Department of Justice has not been confirmed. i Besides being important because it was the first cabinet meeting since | nmuguration, the gathering was; further distinguished by the first ap pearance of Frank B. Kellogg. tk new Secretary of State. and Willlam | M. Jardine, the new Secretary of Agriculture, at this distinguished council meeting. These 1wo new- comers were warmly welcomed into the exclusive fold Secretary Kellogz caused somewhat of a stir when he appeared wearing a high silk hat, and when comment was made about this he explained that it was not his intentton to introduce this| style for cabinet members. but inas-| much as hix engagements later in-| cluded a funeral and & formal diplo-| matic reception, he dressed for them| in_advance. The cabinet session is understood to have been void of any discussion | of great moment. The talk was| niefly upon routine and depart- mental matters There was considerable of a de-| creasa today in the number of White | House callers, Because of it being cabinet day, %he Prosident himself made few engagements, but the sud- | den slump in handshakers was un-| expected and unexplained. However, | the Président was greatly relieved. | Hi« work yesterday was a hard and | full one. Before he was through he| had seén and shaken hands with more than 1.000 pérsons. Among those who conferred with the President before the cabinet ses- | sion were Brig. Gen, Lord, director of | the budget, who discussed budget ' business; Senator Warren, chairman of the Senate appropriations commit- tee, called to pay his raapects be- fore leaving the country for & month's } vacation; Representative Tilson of | Connecticut, newly elacted Republican | leadér of the House, who had & num- | ber of matters to take up with the the i ment. , Representative Newion of Minne- | sota discussed with the Pres dent | the matter of filling the vacancy on the Federal district bench in Minne- | sota caused by the recent suicide of | Judge John F. Magee. He sald thers this place—John D. Sandburn, Wiltard | Converse and W. W. Bardwell. It fs| understood that some of Mr. Newton's friends are anxlous for him to accept the place for himself. but he has re- | peatedly said that he prefers to re- | main in the House. ASK SMOKING BAN IN U. . BUILDINGS Anti-Tobacco Conference Will| Urge Congressmen to Aid in Crusade. An appeal to every Senator and/ Representative in Congress to use h influence toward the eradication of tedaceo smoking in tha public build- ings of the District of Columbia will | be made as the result of a resolution adopted at the final mesting of the First National Anti-Tobacco Conven at the First Congregational Church last night. i It was stressed that no effort will be made to ask Congress as a whole to foster anti-tobacco regulations, but that the work will be carried on through individual Congressmen. It is hoped to ban smoking at the Cap- itol, in the Government buildings and all public buildjngs and meeting places in the District. Stmilar re- | quests will be made of the individual | State legisiator Dr. W ¥ Speaker. Among the speakers at the maet- ing last night was Dr. Harvey Wiley. Dr. Wiley spoké on the évVils of to- bacco smoking and told of a number | of the Nation's great men who had died directly or indirectly through tobacco smoking. He sald he is §1 years old and has never used tobacco. Dr. D. H. Kress of Takoma Park, who presided last night, read tele- grams supporting the anti-tobagco movement .rom Henry Ford, Hudson Maxim, Luther Burbank, Dr. Irving Fisher of Harvard and Dr. John Har- vey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Mich. One of the features of the meeting was an address by Louis C. Stevens of New York City, known as the “hoy orator.” He told of his work among the youth of New York City andl of a large number of pledges against to-| bacco he had gotten from them. Another convention will be held in May at Indianapolis, it was an- mnounced. l {in the Chicago Tribune, | other trafic accidents. MCORMICK LEAVES ESTATE TO WIDOW $2,000,000 Fortune Be- queathed—-Dawes Named Co-Executor. By the Associnted Press CHICAC March (he late United States Senator Medill McCor- mick left his éntire estate of upwards of $2,000,000, according to the esti- mate of his attorneys, to his widow Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, for her lifetime. Mrs. McCormick was named sole executrix und co-trustee with Vice President Charles G. Dawes, the other trustee, it was disclosed when the will was filed today Division Provided. The property the death of Mrs. McCormick is to be divided equally between the thres children, Katrina. John Medill and Elizabeth Ruth McCormick, when the son reaches the age of 36 years unless Mrs. McCormick directs otherwise by will The Senator died 25 in Washington executed Nov. 4, 1922 The selection of Vice Dawes 4 co-trustes was by the will as follows “Because of his life frisndship for my father-in-law, Marcus A. Hanna and my wife.” As Medill McCormick was reared um- der the special attention of his grand- father. Joseph Medill, who founded Chicazo Tribune, so Senator McCormick. by his will, urged that his brother, Col R. R. McCormick, co-editor of the Tribune, exercise supervision for the Senator’s son, o beguests upon suddenly The February will was President explained the to charitable or other public purposes were made, the will states, “because during my lifetime at the instance and under the guidance of my wife 1 have contributed 1o such pur- poses, and 1 expect my wife will con- tinue 50 to do. more wisely than 1 could by my will.” Senator McCormick did not own stock his attorness said, although he formerly was president of the company and editor and publisher of the Tribune before he was elected to office. A codicil provided for disposal of any Tribune stock which might come to the Senator from the extate of his mother, Mrs. Robert Sanderson McCor- mick, who, however, survives her son RODERICK INDICTED IN TRAFFIC DEATH Second-Degree Murder and Manslaughter Charged to Driver. - Walter Edward Roderick, a news- paperman, was indicted today by the grand jury on charges of second d» gree murder and manslaughter in connection with the death of Adgle Bowie of Alexandria, Va, February 20 last. Roderick is charged with driving his automobiie with “reckless negligence” onto a loading platform at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest and sweeping from the safety zone Bowle who was killed and four other persons who were njured. The tragedy occurred in the early morning hours and the police say Rederick was drunk The indictment is in 14 counts and charges both second degree murder and manslaughter to meet the testi- mony to be adduced at the trial wo Others Indicted. Mznslaughter is charged in two William Flip- po is charged with responsibility for the death of Clarence Bolton. a pas- senger in his car, July 8, 1823. Flip- po ran his car into a stone wall, where the vehicle was smashed and Bolton sustained Injuries resuiting in his death, it is alleged. Alvin R. Dayis is charzed with causing the death of Harold L. Hainsworth, July 15 last, Pennsylvania avenue southeast near Branch avenue. Davis is sald to hav truck and killed The grand jurors azainst six persons. and the charges against them are: James T. Plerce, assault; Russell Woodward, housebreaking; Louis Gritz, violating national prohibition act: George F. Scott, joy-riding; Ada B Jones, using mails to defraud, and George Smith, grand larceny ignored charges Those exonerated PERSHING Tb QuUIT BED IN HAVANA TOMORROW General, Taken XX:‘;esdny. will Pay Official Visit to President Zayas of Cuba. By the Associated Dress. HAVANA, March 6.—Gen. John J Pershing, taken 1l here Tuesday after he arrived from Santiago de Cuba_with his miksion as guests of the Cuban government, was still in bed early today and was not expected to arise until tomorrow. when he is expected to visit President Zayas. General Pershing and party came to Havana after a three months tour of South America. Accompanying him were Admiral Dayton and F. C. Hicks, minister plenipotentiary, with their aldes. 2 It was announced yesterday that the battleship Utah would arrive to- day to remain until Tuesday when the mission will sall for New York. On the physicians advice the num- ber of visitors to the general ware cut down yesterday. At the zame | time it was announced that the mat- ter was more precaution than neces- sity. The long round of official func- tions and the train journey from Santiago (o Havana wers given as the cause of the general's indisposi- tion. KELLOGG GIVES LUNCHEON Secretary of State’s First Official Party for Guatemalan Mission. Secretary Kellogg gave his first official luncheon this afternoon at the Metropolitan Club, in honor of tha special mission from Guatemala to the inauguration of President Cool- idge, consisting of Mr. Lowenthal, minister for foreign affairs; Carlos Palma, secretary, and Gen. Aguilar, military attache. Other guests were Senator Borah, chairman of the Sen- ate committee on foreign affairs; Mr. Porter, chairman of the House com- mittes on foreign affairs; the Guate- malan Minister, Undersecretary Grew, the Assistant Secretaries of Sta Director General Rowe of the Ametican Union, and Francis W chief of the division of Latin-Ameri- can affairs, State Department. Stores and depots of Athens, Greece, | are so dimly lighted at night that the government has been asked to parmit, without restriction, the instaliation of private electric plants,