Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1925, Page 4

SPEEDRELEF WORK N STREAEN AR Survey of Entire District Near Carbondale Planned by Building Group. the Associated P CARBONDAL Rehabilitation work in the d tornado-swept area of southern Illinol was under way today. while the dead were yvet unburied and the homeless and injured were still being aided. A survey of th ntire district wa: promised by a construction corpora- tion with a view to determining the damage and ascertaining the require- ments for replacing the wrecked structures Meanwhile relief work now thor- ughly organized in all towns of the stricken area was proceeding smooth- 1y with plenty of doctprs and nurses to care for the hundreds of injured 353 supply of provisions, clothing and other necessities flowing into the storm area Military authorities, Federal and State officials, the Red Cross and elvic organizations are operating through central distributing agency here. homeless were quartered in of the n re fortunate or in tents sent by the military to towns, while clothing being issued to the Army devastated food was Burial of Dead Beginw. al of the more than 500 deal in Tilinois got under way in earnest today with a proc ion of hearses, cemetery . in nearly every stricken town. In many of the towns eeveral vic- timgs were being buried In one large rave. ne of the towns plan mas mgmorial services for the dead Sunda: h va strict mili ses were necessary d to any of the more seriously districts, and persons without business there were turned o proc aftected pressing back. Many families, possibly because they haye nowhere else to go at present, are tempting to occupy their partly wrecked homes. This condition has led 10 anxiety for the health of these people. The military organization, composed of several medical units, companies of the Illinois ard and a medical regimen ago, is to be in- creased howitzer fram Ja “ompan; Infantr go. These companies €. J. Root, State meteorologist, came into the devastated district today to study the effects of the tornado, which Jie described as the worst in the his- ry of the country, as far as casualties and damage is concerned, although he said others had been longer. “GET-WORK” DRIVE PLANNED BY BUREAU Pageant Written by Local Wom- . an Will Be Feature of 90- Day Campaign. A pageant entitled “Slabtown Con- vention,” written by Mrs, Nannie H. Burroughs, is to be given next Tuesday Alexander Memorial Baptist Church, N street near Twenty-seventh street, as a feature of a $0-day vget work" n inaugurated by the White Cross Free Labor Bureau. This bureau plans to provide all sorts of domestic help both for households and for hotels, laundries, stores, restaurants, banks and farms, and has offered to furnish a large number of negro laborers for work on the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Rev. S. P. W. Drew, pastor of Ci mopolitan Baptist Institutional Church, who is president of the bureau, an- nounces that its trustees are to open a financial campaign to raise $100,000 for a new building to house the organ- ization, in which all industries - for which colored workers are most avail- able will have headquarters. An ap- peal is made to all white churches to ask a special offering to aid in this in- stitutional work, and to employers of labor generally to ald in the get-work drive by givisg the maximum amount of “employment. Fred C. Spaulding, 1317 Corcoran street, is manager of tha drive Charles W. Warden, Conti- nental Trust Co., is speclal treasurer of the financial campaign. — DEBRIS FLIES 275 MILES. Papers and Jtothing From Storm Found Far Away. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 21.—In- surance policies, newspapers, grocery Dills, clothing and other objects were found here yesterday, some dated at Jurphysboro, Ill, and others from Princeton and Owensville, Ind. Princeton is about 125 miles dis- tant and Murphysboro about 275 miles. SIX INDICTED IN FLOGGING Spéedy Trial Is Urged by Grand | Jury in Alabama City. BJRMINGHAM, Ala, March 21.—In- dlcments were returned yesterday agdinst six persons alleged to be mémbers of a masked band which | flogged Dr. S. T. Shepherd of this citf by the Jefferson County grand jury! A report was submitted to Judge H. P. Heflin condemning a serdds of floggings in Birmingham. e grand jury reported that it had investigated every reported case of flogging. It recommended that those indicted be tried ahead of other cases on ‘the docket. Qvic organizations and Wwomen's clubs in San Francisco have started | derstood to have for i | tion of sugar, is sald to cost less and @ gumpaign against the activities of Young women designated as “vamps.” e iHCH LIGHTS OF HISTORY 3 :?H! ONLY FAILURE OR THE EN6GLISH ARMS 1758 WAS THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATIEMPT OF GENERAL ABERCROMBY, A POLITICAL FAVORITE BUTY AN IN- COMPETENT COMMANDER , SUFFERED A DISASTROUS FEAT AT THE HANDS OF A SMALL FORCE CF FRENCH . NEWSRAPRR. 3 VNDICATE COPYRIGHT 1925 BY THE. New Motor Fuel, With Sugar Basis, Developed by Girl Reported to Cost Less and Go Farther Than Any “Gas” Substitute. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 21.—Remarkable | claims are made for a new automo- bile fuel named “iroline” after its dis- coverer, 15-year-old Irene Laurent, daughter of a well known French chemist. The product, which is un- basis a solu- o farther than any other of tie so- led substitutes for gasoline yet tried A party of prominent ahtomotive engineers who tested the new fuel on a long run in an ordinary machine are quoted as expressing themselves as astounded by the results. - The “iroline” used in the test was made the night before by the chemist La rent in his own kitchen. The only modification made in the automobile was the attachment of a vaporizer ©0 the exhaust pipe. It is explained hat the new fuel is non-explosive ex- ‘ept in a state of vapor and that con- scquently the engine has to be run m gasoline untll the tuel is suffi- iently heated. STRGKEN DI RESTORING ORDER Griffin, Devastated, Will Be Rebuilt—List of Dead Continues to Grow. By the Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March 21— Desolation and terror left in the path of the tornado which Wednesday killed 104 persons, injured more than 500 and caused property damage In excess of $3,000,000 gave way today under the cheering influence of a vast army of relief workers headed by the American Red Cross Order appeared where chaos had relgned, the bereaved were being comforted, the injured cared for and the dead burled. The situation in southern Indlana seems to be well in hand. Griffin, where 54 persons are known to have perished and several have been reported missing, completely devastated, will be rebuilt. Sixty-four families of -the obliterated village have announced they will remain and rebuild their home Death List Grown. Meanwhile, the work of clearing the debris at Princeton, where 22 persons perished, and at Owensville, where 14 died, was progressing rapidly. The death list at Princeton was increased early today when one of the injured, Willlam Mitchell, dled. Likewise the death list was increased at Elizabeth, where two persons died from injuries and fright, bringing the total of dead there to five. A like number perished at Poseyville, while four others died at North Sands. Military authorities in charge of patrols guarding the wrecked homes today put Inte effect new trafic regu- lations which provide that all ve- hicles not engaged in rellet work shall be rerouted so as to permit clear roads between the stricken towns, The roads are almoat impas- able. *Fhe Wabash River, which yesterday caused some apprehension, appeared today to be receding and onmly the lowlands became inundated. The work of rebullding homes and factories was planned yesterday and in most cases the destroyed buildings will be replaced by finer structures. The Southern Rallway shops and the Heinz factory will be rebuilt in the immedlate future at Princeton, offi- clals announced. -— CRUSHED BY WIND. Tornado Victim Whipped Around While Clinging to Rail. PARRISH, Ill, March 21.—Clarence Lowman, 30 years old, was hurrying from his general store to his home two blocks away, when Wednesday's tornado struck Parrish. Lowman saw the whirling black funnel approach- ing and clung to a railroad track. His hold was not broken, but he was whipped about until he had suf- fered a broken shoulder, broken arm, broken ribs and possible fracture of the spine, it was sald at the hos- pital yesterday. His house was the only dwelling in the vicinity spared. TWO STORM 'VICTIMS DIE. Six in Cairo Hospital Critically Il Others Crippled for Life. CAIRO, IIL, March 21.—Of 50 per- sons injured in the tornado which laid waste to the town of Gorham, Iil, and brought to Cairo hospitals, two—Mrs. Mary C. Nolan and Richard Johnson— have died. At least six are in a critical condition, and a number of others probably will be crippled for life. Eight, whose in- juries were slight, have been discharged from the hospital. A campalgn is under way to provide funds to care for the injured and home- less for several weeks. McLeansboro, Ill., Escaped. The Ohio Valler tornado falled to do any damage in MoLeansboro, IIl., ac- cording to a letter received by Mrs. John B. Kinnear of this city from her brother, J. C. Carner of the Illinols city today. Mrs. Kinnear stated that there had been a report in Washing- ton that 37 persons had been killed in McLeansboro. o THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1925. WOMEN AND BABES TORNADO VIGTING Rows of Children in Morgue at West Frankfort, Il Burial of Dead Begins. By the Associated Press. WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, March 21.—One of the most striking features of the tornado here was the large proportion of women and children killed. More than 1.500 coal miners were at work beneath the surface in the devastated area and thus escaped injury or death. Nearly forty of the dead 1n West Frankfort were small children. One of the most heart- touching scenes after the disaster was the long row in the morgue of lttle bodies, from which life had been snuffed almost in the twinkling of an eye. Five children in the families of three Karnes brothers here were list- ed among the dead. as well as two adults. In the Parrish neighborhood Frank Galloway lost his wife, a son a daughter, a son-In-law and a grand- son. Galloway, with a broken leg and other injuries, is in a Benton hospital. His family was burled a Thompsonville yesterday. Burial of Dead Bexins. Wests Frankfort and other storm- stricken. communities in Franklin County today went about the grim task of burying the bulk of their dead. Of the 163 known dead in the county virtually all had been identi- fled and funeral arrangements made. One of the buslest places in West Frankfort was the Western Union office, through which passed more than 6,000 messages within 48 hours, representing a total of approximate- 1y 120,000 words, it was estimated today. Most of the outgoing messages told of death or Injuries or carrled ap- peals for ald. The Incoming messages consisted chieflly of inquiries from anxi- ous relatives and friends. Of the three regular Western Union wires into West Frankfort, the Chi- cago and St. Louls outlets were sev- ered, while only the wire to Cairo was left in operation. At one time 1,000 outgoing messages were on file unsent and some of these had been on hand 12 hours. Wires Restored to Service. The Chicago-West Frankfort wire was restored Thursday and the St. Louis-West Frankfort wire was re- stored yesterday, but not until last night was it found possible to trans- mit press dlspatches. Telephone service out of West Frankfort was cut off and it was necessary to take dispatches to Ben- ton, seven miles north, to obtain long- distance service. At Benton, also, the Western Union was swamped with messages and was able to transmit dlspatches only subject to heavy de-| ay. | Twenty-two hundred messages for| persons at West Frankfort were re- | ceived at Marion, Carbonda Cairo and forwarded to West Fi fort by train or courier. Boy Scouts acted as messenger boys and despite the confusion had been | le last night to deliver all but 55 telegrams. BALLOU TO BE HONORED AT REUNION IN NEW YORK Alumni of Pottsdam Normal School to Gather—Joins Planners in Rochester. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent of schools, left Washington last | night for New York, where he will| be the guest of honor today at & reunion of the Pottsdam (N. Y.) Normal School Alumni in the Hotel Astor. He is an alumnus of the Normal School, having been gradu-| ated with the class of 1902 | The superintendent will not return to Washington, but will leave for Rochester, N. Y., where he will join Monday morning the other members of the school-planning committee, who will continue their survey of schoolhouse construction before exe- | cuting the $19,000,000 five-year school building program. Other members of the committee, Ernest Greenwood, vice president of the Board of Edu- cation, and Municipal Architect Al- bert L. Harrls, will leave Washington Sunday night for Rochester. Buffalo and Cleveland also will be visited on the trip. ORDERS GIRL DETAINED IN WHITE SLAVE CASE Chief Justice McCoy Has Louise McRowell Held Here Pend- ing Trial of John Weikert. Chief Justice McCoy, in Criminal Court 2, has ordered that Louise Mc- Dowell, 16-year-old girl, be held in the House of Detention here untt the court can try and determine charges of white slavery against John Welkert, sald to belong to a promi- nent family in Waynesboro, Pa. The girl was the principal witness for the Government at the prellminary hear- ing of Weikert in Police Court March 14, when the defendant was ordered held to awalt action by the grand Jury. Assistant United States Attorney Neudecker=told the court the girl was preparing to leave the District and would be hard to locate as a witness for the Government when the case comes on for trial. He asked that the case be expedited in order that the girl might be returned to her home. It was stated by Government counsel that the girl's parents desired her held in this city until the out- come of the charges against Weikert. N :Pelaware 1s the only State in the Uhnion that has not passed legislation granting ‘women the privilege to ap- ply for admission to the bar. CITY OF TENTS TO RISE ON RUINS OF STORM-SWEPT MURPHYSBORO 6,000 Canvas Shelters Available as Permanent Relief Work Is Begun—Death List, Still Mounting, Reaches 201. ’ By the Associated Press. MURPHYSBORO, Ill, March 21.— Desplte a steadily soaring death toll of Wednesday's tornado, Murphys- boro today turned Its attention to permanent rellef. Deaths of injured and recoveries of bodies from the broad area of tan- Kled and charred debris pushed the total death tally to 301, and it was feared further explofation of the wilderness of shattered homes cover- ing 182 square blocks would further increase the liat. The general situation was well in hand, however, and with the needed quota of doctors and nurses to attend the 700 injured, the graver problem of providing semi-permanent hous- ing, food and clothing for helpless thousands who have been herded to- cether twa and three, and even seven, {amilies to the home, clalmed first ittention. 3 Murphysboro's quota of 6,000 tents in Carbondale, eight miles from here, was avallable today, and plans were wolng forward for establishing a ent clty. Sanitation engineers al- ready have surveyed an area, it was said, and strict plans have been made for preventing an epldemie. The Red Cross today will start a tabulation of the status of families made homeless here, not on & b TORNADO STRICKEN HOME AREA IN INDESCRIBABLE DESOLATION By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 21.—The Chicago | Dally News correspondent at De Soto, 11, says: “Picture a mile-wide strip from De Soto, Jackson County, to West Frank- fort, Williamson County, strewn with lumber, uprooted trees, shattered fur- niture, upturned automobiles, tin cans and wrecked rallway cars; a desolate, unoccupled .scray - of yard, and you have a fair view ¢ what the surviving occupants of thy tornado- stricken territory are tryd3g to re- claim today. ; “Daybreak this morni=« found little groups in tattered ciothing, with red eyes and stolld countenances, picking up small piles of kindling wood where their homes formerly stood in hope of salvaging something of value from the ruins. “Here and there earnest-faced men, under the leadership of a Red Cross warker, are feverishly digging in smouldering heaps for the dead that are reported to be burled there. Bodies Taken to Morgue. “At intervals thelr task brings re- sults and the bodies are removed to the morgue while their former neigh- bors look on with little show of emo- | tion—they have seen too much horror {of late to be much shocked at any- |tning now. “Plitlable scenes were enacted at the morgues in West Frankfort, Carbordale and De Soto, where long lines of friends and relatives waited to identify thelr dead. “The rush of friends d relative PAST MASTERS DINE AT COLUMBIA CLUB Veterans of William R. Singleton Masonic Lodge Discuss Past Ac- complishments and Future Plans. At the annual banquet of The As- soclation of Past Masters of Wiiliam R. Singleton Lodge. No. 30, F. A. A. M., iast evening at the Columbia Country Club, the president of the assoclation, | Past Master James L. Glles. officiated as toastmaster. The attendance in- cluded all past masters of the ladge. with The exception of two, who were ill. The guests numbered Past Grand Master Lurtin R. Ginn and James W. Witten and Past Master Isaac R. Hitt, recently appointed judge of the Police Court. Speakers related incldents of the early history of Willlam R. Singleton Lodge, its small beginning, with low. 1y origin, and the hardships and ear- 1y struggles of the small number of members, who erected a home, still in uge, at 4511 Wisconsin avenue, Tenleytown. Plans were advocated for enlarging that structyre to meet the needs of the present. require doubling, at least, the pres- ent facllities, and it was the con- sensus of opinion that such would have to be done this yaan. Senlor Grand Warden Gratz E. Dun. kum of the Grand Lodge was & guest, as was also Grand Secretary J. Claude Keifer. Both addressed the gathe ing. The plans for furthering the progress of the new Masonic temple on Temple Heights recelved attention, as did also the plans for the Masonic fleld day, June 27, at the American League Base Ball Park. Worshipful Master A. C. Wilkins rendered solos, accompanied by Charles R. Bartlett, an officer of the Grand Chapter, R. A. M. The follow- ing were present: James L. Glles, Lyrton R. Ginn, F. F. Robey, Harry Meatyard, J. Harvey Robey, Dr. E. G. Davls, Dr. A. M. Ray. J. W. Witten, I. E. Shoemaker, Harry B. Riley, F. J. Heider, Willlam E. Clabaugh, Judge I R. Hitt, A. C. Wil- kins, J. Claude Keifer, E. N. Riley, F. W. Parks, Gratz E. Dunkum, C. R. Bartlett, Dr. J. W. Chappell, C. R. Hurley, Herbert E. Riley, P. Marion Walker, M. Smith, R. G. Fletcher, W. W. Watson, Harry F. Riley, Willlam A. Volkman, Harry L. Freer, H. N. Walther and Albert P. Seiler. — The skyline of New York is report- ed to be moving. It Is probably tr ing to get out of the way of the tra Advance on Canada. Z SCENE OF THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST CANADA ~ 1759 w QuEBEC Bl FOLLOWING YEAR PITT,BRITISH MINISTER OF WAR, PLANNED A SWEEPING CAMPAIGN AGAINST| | THE FRENGH.— « WOLFE WAS Y0 ATTACK QUEBEC BY WAY OF THE ST LAWRENCE -AMHERST Yo TAKE THE FORTS ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND JOIN WOLEE - PRIDEAUX WAS TO CAPTURE FORT NIAGARA — o '?on-r NIAGARA FELL AN BASY PREY TO THE FORCES OF COLONEL PRIDEAUX AND WITH THIS MENACE REMOVED, THE POST AT OSWEGO WAS REBUILT AMD ENGLISH MASTERY OF LAKE ONTAR(O WAS ASSURED ~—* AMHERST WAS EQUALLY HIS APPROACH —71 SUCCESSPUL = LEARNING OF This will | of thelr former possessions and standing, but on what is actually needed now. Nearly 50 bodies were burled yes- terday, and other interments will continue today and tomorrow, with community services on the public square Sunday afternoon. Pullman sleepers on sidings here oftered accommodations for 500 wom- en and children last night, and Mar- lon, Ill, sent word that 50 furnished homes were available, rent free. The Tllinois Central and Mobile and Ohto rallroads are offering free pas- sage to any destination to refugees. From Chicago came word that hos- pitals there had agreed to accept any number of Murphysboro's injured children and give them free treat- ment. One of the most unusual stores of the storm cama td light last night when it was related that workers searching the -debris of the Logan grade school, uncovered a lad of 12 years. He seemed dazed when he first reached the light and air, but recovered quickly. A photographer wanted to take his plcture, but the boy dashed for home and mother llke a_frightened hare. It was feared that @ number of other students possibly still were burled in the Logan School debri of those living in the stricken counties to inquire for the welfare of their loved ones, has so congested the roads that they are almost impassable, “Meanwhile, fearing that two of the dreaded Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, famine and pestilence. might ride forth in the devastated area, authoritles are bending every | effort today to housing the homeless and making even temporary abodes sanitary. “While coroner's juries are meeting formally to inquire into the deaths, surviving members of the districts lald waste were planning toward re- | butlding. Little Left of Four Townn. | So little, however, has bean left | of De Soto, Bush, Hurst and northern | West Frapkfort that it is doubtful | whether anything can be saved out of the ruins. There are sections here which look as though they were never occupled, so fiercely did the tornado scour the landscape. “It is as if death had stalked through the section with an enormous | scythe, which he swung ruthlessly, shaving the face of the earth clean. | In pumerous places not even a trace of the stone foundations can be found. “After striking a terrible blow at | Murphysboro the gale roared down | on this little hamlet of 700 souls, De Soto. Here the lives of one in every seven of its citizens was snuffed out. After De Soto the tornado| struck Royalton, Bush, Hurst, Plum- | field, West Frankfort and Parish, in the order named, it became known tod, EXPRESS SORROW FOR STORM VICTIMS Great Britain, Germany, Norway and Japan Send Messages of Sympathy. Great Britain, and Japan | of sympathy Germany, Norway vesterday sent messages for the tornado victim [in the Middle West to the American | Government Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, on behalf of his { government, delivered expressions of | eympathy to the State Department. The message from acting President Walter Simmons of Germany, ad- dressed to President Coolidge, sald “Reports of the frightful catas trophe that has broken out over a wide part of the United States and| | destroved many human lives have| aroused deep sympathy throughout Germany. It is my honest duty te express heartfelt condolence to vou, Mr. President, and to the American people.” King Haakon's “Accept my calamity.” | The Japanese Red Cross at Tokio | sent this message to the Ameridan | Red Cross: “Heartfelt thanks for deep sympathy for the fire sufferers in Tokio. Fortunately, the area of | the fire was limited to a corner of | the ity The Japanese Red Cross expresses its sympathy for the suf- ferers from tornado in Illinois and| Indiana.” cablegram sympathy in read: terrible Trusty Robs Sheriff and Flits. Spectal Dispateh to The Sta HARRISONBURG, Va., March 2 Search has failed to locate Carl Depoy, a “trusty” in the Rockingham County jail, who departed Thursday in a con- fiscated liquor car, after robbing Sherift C. W. Dove's living quarters in the jail building. Depoy had less than two months of a nine-month term for theft of an automobile to serve. SRRy Triangular College Debate Set. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., March 21.—The annual triangular debate between Ran- dolph-Macon Woman's College of Lynch- burg, Agnes Scott College of Decatur, Ga., and Sophle Néwcomb College of New Orleans will be held next Friday night. It will take place at each cel- lege, and the subject will be: “Resolved, EXPLAINS ACTION OF NEW ANTISEPTIC Discoverer Discusses Effec- tiveness of Remedy Known as Hexylresorcinol. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., March 21.—Dr. Veader Leonard, chalrman of the com. mittes on internal antiseptics, Na- tlonal Research Council, explained further before the Baltimore Medical Soclety last night the action of hexylresoreinol, the antiseptic which he recently discovered. The new drug has been described as fifty times more effective than carbolic acid in Its power to kill disease germs in the genito-urinary tract. While the &ntiseptic {s an frritant to the stomach and has been admin- istered with olive oll in capsule form. Dr. Leonard declared it to be non- rritating to the genito-urinary traot. Hu described his discovery as potently wermicidal, soluble to a high degree, and capable of being eliminated in high percentages by the kidne: Effect of Drug Discussed. The effect of hexylresorcinol, Dr. Leonard sald, was to combine at once with the secretions of the kidneys and to render those secretions when acid in character themselves antiseptic. The power of the drug Is destroyed, Dr. Leonard said, when the kidney secretlons are alkaline. Dr. Leonard presented reports of cases in which he sald the new anti- septic had been used. Several types of germs best known as producers of pus and irritation—staphylococous, streptococcus and bacillus Coli—Dr, Leonard declared, have been succes fully combateg. Conquers First-Named Types. The first-named two types, he sald, were conquered after treatment rang- ing from Z to 19 days, although the third, pecullar to the large Intestine, required more patlent effort. The Thompson bacillus, found in prostate operations, also has responded to treatment with his discovery, accord- ing to Dr. Leonard. Dr. Leonard's work in evolving the antiseptio was carried on for the most | part at the Johns Hopkins School of Hyglene and Public Health here. YOUTHFUL HUSBAND HELD FOR DESERTION James F. Dickson, 22, Also Accused of Wedding Twice Without Formality of Divorce. A smearch conducted the past two months by the local police ended yes- terday afternoon in the arrest of James F. Dickson, 22, an electrician, wanted in New York to answer for the alleged abandonment of his wife and two little children. He had been married in this city three fore Christmas to Miss Gene Bleeker of Loug Island, N. Y., without get- ting a divorce from his first wife, he 1s said to have admitted. Dickson, said to he a native of Sumpter, 5. C., enlisted In the Navy and was discharged because he was under age. At the age of 18 he mar- ried Miss Elizabeth Schtzel in Ho- boken, N. J., and it was after the birth of a second child that the hus- band is alleged to have left home 4nd failed to support the trio. Leaving his family in New Yark City, Dic n came here thr months ago, Miss Bleeker coming later. They were married and were rooming at 312 Second street northeast. Dickson was unemployed at the time of his arrest, according to the detectives, while his wife was clerking In a street store. New York police were advised of his arrest. VERDICT FOR BUTLER. Plaintif Loses Damage Brought Against Senator. Theodore G. Thomas, a resident of the Soldiers’ Home, has lost his suit for $10,000 damages against Willlam M. Butler, Senator from Massachu: Suit |setts and chairman of the Republican national committee. Justice Baliley of the District Supreme Court-sus- talned a demurrer filed by Attormeys Peelle & Ogllby for Senator But- ler, in which they pointed out that Thomas, who appeared as his own lawyer, had failed to say in hi ration whether the alleged de tory matter had been uttered or writ- ten and when, and because he had not sald the statements were false and had not pleaded any special dam- age as the result of the alleged de- tamation. Thomas charged that Butler de- |famed him by informing a pest office inspector that Thomas had sent Sena- tor Butler a letter marked with the drawing of a bomb and threatening the life of the Senator. WILL DISPOSE OF 5 SHIPS. U. S. Board Considering Agree- ment With Steamship Company. Authority of the United States Shipping Board to enter into an agree- ment with the Pacific Mall Steamship Co. for disposing of five ships, where- by the board will take stock {n a new company, has beem referred ta the general counsel of the board for deci- sion. The Pacific Mail Co.'s bid for the ships provides formation of a new corppration, $5,600,000 of the prefer- red stock of which would be taken over by the board in part payment for the vi The board would name 7 of the new corporation's 11 di- That the immigration act of 192¢ will promote the beat interests of the United State BY J. rectors. A bid by the Dollar Steam- ship Co. for the same vessels offered to purchase them outright. for. §5.- 625,000, CARROLL MANSFIELD. TH FRENCH GARRISONS AT CROWN PONNT ANDTICONDEROGA DESSRYED THEIR POSTS AND RETREATED NORTH TO THE 08 AUX NOIX, WHERE THEY BLOCKED-AMHERST'S ATTBMPT To JOIN WOLFF BEFORE QUUEBEC ays be- | Memory Returns ! As Girl Sees Her | Picture in Paper‘; School Teacher Had Been | VIRGINIA ASSAILANT HONG FRON TEE Missing a Month—W as |Mob of 2,000 Takes Negro Employed as Domestic. By the Associated Pre: PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 21 Betty Jean Britt, pretty young school | teacher of Warren, Ohio, formerly Polk, Neb., is speeding hom. after spending the greater part « last five weeks in this city not know- ara | From Waverly Jail After Alleged Confession. ot | By the A NOF the | jdentifie ing ing who she was or where she lived. | 1}, A victim of amnesia, in the opinion | y of her friends, Miss Butt's disappear- ance on February 13 last was the object of a wide and systematic| search. She was not located, however, | nor her fdentity established until yes- | terday, when the sight of her picture published in a newspaper brought back her memory with a rush, and she declared herself to be Betty Britt of Warren. Miss Britt was accompanied on her homeward trip by her brother-in-law and her sister, Rev. D. C. Troxel and his wife, of Hiram, Ohio, who had hurried to Pittsburgh upon learning Miss Britt had been found. A Warren detective and the superintendent of schools there also accompanied the | party. Miss Britt walked station In Allegheny yesterday and | said she was the missing teacher. then told the story of her restored | memory. “Like a flash,” t bi hi al n into a police n she sald, “when I saw my picture in a newspaper my | memory returned and 1 knew who I 2 was. Then I came to the police sta- |4 tion to further establish my fdentity At the time she regained her memory Miss Britt was working as a domestic at the home of Mitchell B De Groot in a fashionable section of Pittsburgh. There, it was said, she | had given her name as “Lestie Lake" and sald that she had come from Kansas City, where she had been : patient in a hospital. No trace of such a person could be found in the Kansas City hospitals, and the im- | pression grew hers that the young woman was suffering from loss of memory. Miss Britt's mind was a blank, she sald, as to preceding events from the time she was about to take a bus in Warren for Hiram, Ohio. She had no recollection of how or when she reached Pittsburgh. Since her dis- appearance scores have joined in a systematic search for her. b ANNUAL NAVAL ACADEMY INSPECTION APRIL 27-30 Program Arranged Under New Date Includes Number of Social Functions and Drill Reviews. Special Dispateh to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, March 21.—The U 1 States Naval Academy will be ins i April 27-30 by the board of visitors, | which will report its needs to Congress. | The groups which compose this board | are appoined, respectively, by the Presi- | dent, the President of the United States | Senate and the Speaker of the House of | Representatives, the last two groups| being composed of members of those | bodies. Up to a few years ago it had been the custom to have the visit of this board colnclde with the commencement week at the academy. the period being termed “June week.” In epite ef the fact that the period the official ¥isitors will re- main here will be given largely to hard work, there will be the opportunity for © number of social functions, drills and practical exercises. The visitors will be welcomed official- 1y at 11 on the morning of April 27, and will later inspect Bancroft Hall, the home of the midshipmen. They will lunch with the superintendent at | 1 and organize at half past 2. At 4 there | ‘will be a parade of the regiment, and in the evening they will attend a reception at the residence of the superintendent. On_ April 23 the departments of sea manship, navigation, modern languages and ordnance and gunnery will be in- spected. Drills will be aitended, there will be sessions of the board before which the superintendent and other offi- cers will appear and a dinner at the superintendent's in the evening. On April 29 the inspections will be the following: Departments of marine engineering and naval construction, elec- trical engineering and physics, mathe- matics, English; the Naval Hospital and the sick bay, Bancroft Hall. There will be athletic events during the afternoon and the usual sessions of the board. There will be a final session of the board April 30, during which the re- | port to be presented to the President | and the houses of Congress will be formulated. Sterilized Smyrna Figs In Glass Jars L T R RN 12-02. Jar ....3..ov0.400 TNen J0r ... i 58 Magruder Inc. Best Groceries Conn. 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