Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. K. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy this morning and probably clear this afternoon; cooler this afternoon or night; tomorrow fair. Highest, 70, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 50, at 4 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 5. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered ever Sunday morning to Washi 60 cents per month. Teleph and service will start imm he WASHINGTON, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Sty Star, No. - ROSECUTOR HELD T ROCKVILLE ON CHARGE OF FRAUD FIVE 'NEW HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING T0 COST - SH000000 FAVORED CENTS. Entered as second class matter Post office, Washington, D. C. Land Where “South’ Is ‘North’ Will Test MacMillan Flyers 29,566. . @, 1925. —NINETY-TWO PAGES. MOTHER ARRESTED Epochal Achievements in Navigation mWH"-E 5 DEATHS |N SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, ' John A. Garrett Faces Six Counts of Embezzling $14,- 500 From Clients. ATTORNEY SAYS ARREST | IS RESULT OF MALICE| Follows Probe by Police Chief, With Whom Accused Had | Not Been Speaking. In the same John A had been jail during April 11 where s attorney and sending dozens = to the | eriminals the grip of the Garrett himself late | Ay when he was arrested on war- charging embezzlement of his clients” funds in six separate opera- | ‘mounting to $14.500 | by tion the ¥ rest resi- ze and 5 months law | ened upon rants tions A cou i first somery County seized when that for the of Mont-| nis began to the the re: time story ! ccted prosecutor | being held under| crimin i ds on criminal charges Whole Town Tense. | Rocky ille presented a tense and| background this morning With the advent| slackened, but poignant. And dramatic event | he day the walk of John | rett, erstwhile popular young| and politician, out of the | courthouse and across the lawn after | he had been provided with bond. | Whispering groups of men ignored him. He walked alone. Not long ago he would T 1 stopped on every hand by folks wanting to chat \\!rh' climax De more e most poignantly or arrest of the tension rama ame 1 - o him. On across the lawn he walked until, nearing the end of it, one soli- tary friend stopped him and s&pokri to him. Then he walked away from the courthouse, scene of his triumphs | before the bar, away and home to a| wife and children who were preparing | for the coming of Kaster. Tensity of the situation was height- ened during the forenoon by the ar- | rival of Maj. E. Brooke Lee, secretary | of state for Maryland and a pewer in State politics. Garret had been his protege until some months ago. A conference between Maj. Lee and county political leaders took place in the office of Albert Bouic, attorney, at which Mr. Bouic and Robert G. Hil- ton, banker and leading Democratic politiclan of Rockville, were in at- tendance Police Probe Completed. ! Meanwhile Chief of Police William | L. Aud was preparing for action. He had completed an investigation of ru- mors and reports which had come to him Those warrants will be issued and cerved today,” he said, “or Tll resign my job.” Those who heard him knew to what he referred. Gossip had been rife for day: He ambled over to the conference l! bit later, and when he exited again he was not 50 certain about the Issuance of the warrants. A movement seemed to be on foot to allow more time. But the line activities veered again later in the ¥. Sheriff Plummer and Chief Aud had a conference with Poplice Judge Samuel Riggs. Mr. Bouic made a few trips hetween the courthouse and the office Mr rrett across the street. And | then Garrett walked over to the front | of the courthouse. At a nod from | Plummer he entered and went to the | office of Judge Riggs There, in the | ofice of Judge Riggs, he was served | with =ix warrants, sworn out by Chief of F Aud. The warrants charge embezzlement, naming Garrett as the defendant, but are not specific as to | details of such alleged embezzlement except that it occurred in connection with loans made, as follow C. Herman Rabbitt, alleged to have loaned $3,000 through Garrett as his attorney, on June 12, 1920; Charles A. and Samuel T. Case, $1,500 on April 7. 1920; William R. Rabbitt, $2,500 on June 1, 1918; Jessie Gaither, $500 on July 1, 1915; Lucian T. Walters, $5,- 000 on Ju 14, 1920, and Robert Howes, $2,000 on February 1918 arrett Acted as Attorne: of loans, 1s made through the known as the confessed note. Garrett appeared in charge of the making of the loan for the lender in each case, it is charged. A confessed judgment note, It was explained, similar to a promisory note, except that it runs but one or two days from the date of making to its maturity. At maturity | the lender cnters the note on the| docket of the clerk of the court as| #ubject to collection—just as & prom- | note is entered when there is a! default The borrower then appears and en- | ters a confessed judgment—he admits | he woes the money and judgment goes | the lender of such action. Then,! in e actual default, a writ of | execution can be issued and sale of | the property of the borrower can be | had to satisfy the confessed judg-| ment . | In the office of the clerk of the| court at Rockville the records show | that Garrett appeared In transactions of confessed judgment notes which amounted to approximately $47,650 He represented the lenders of this amount in different transactions. Each were the it alleged, method | Jjudgment | as attorney isory Maintains Innocence. Garrett, after his arrest, stated | that he had sufficient funds to meet | wny of the amounts. He stoutly main- tained his innocence. He attributed Lis arrest to personal aninius. The personal ill will of the who swore out the warrants is the motive back of this action,” he de- clared. “I am entirely Innocent of these charges: they were not insti- tuted by persons financially concerned in dase of alleged embezzlement and 1 have sufficient finances on hand to meet the obligations. I will prove by those financially concerned that I have not embezzled any money. his is but one of many things Lrought against me. The Poole case the first and a llquor case was second.” The alleged ill feeling, according | to natives of Rockville, has been a | of well known import for jiany months. In September last ~ (Contlnued on Page 6, Column R man matter | above the It's an interesting task for an avi- ator fiying over inhabited but un- familiar territory to keep constantly on his but to be rushed through the air behind a Liberty mo- with nothing but ice and water below, with the sun running around the horizon in & circle, with the com- pass pointing “south” when the plane is flying “north,” and yet not get lost from a little fishing boat or a couple of drums of gasoline called an ad- vance base, Is the problem Lieut. Commander Richard Byrd, in charge of the naval aviation section of the MacMillan Arctic expedition, under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, has been given to solve. What Is waiting for Lieut Byrd and his aircraft contingent course, tor Comdr. in the | Arctic completely swamps in magnitude any other aerial navigation journeyv in history. On the transatlantaic flight of Navy planes in 1919 It was a question of flying in a straight line and checking the course on numerous station boats. Lieut. Comdr. Byrd was in charge of navigation arrangements on this ex- pedition. The Portuguese flight from Europe to South America brought out excellent navigation work, but still this was under normal conditions. The world fiyers flew a course mapped to entail as little navigation as possible. But on the top of the world, miles magnetic pole, and with B FACE NAVY COURT IN BEAUFORT RAID Transport Officers Accused of Bringing Liquor From West Indies. Six officers were ordered court- martialed yesterday by Secretary Wil- bur in connection with the arrival at Hampton Roads February 24 of the naval transport Beaufort from the West Indies with liquor aboard. The officers are: Comdr. D. W. Ful- ler of Rockland, Me., who was the commanding officer of the transport; Lieut. (junior grade) R. D. Hill, jr., of Norwich, Conn.; Lieut. Fred M. Rohow of Sturgeon Bay, Wis.; Lieut, Clarence W. Baker of Newport, R. L: Machinist Frank M. Hendricks of New Haven, Conn., and Chief Pay Clerk J. P. Gallagher of Norfolk, Va. The court s expected to convane soon at the Hampton Roads naval base. Comdr. Fuller, it was stated, will be charged with negligence while the charges against the others will involve possession of liquor. All in Crew. All those to be court-martialed were attached to the crew of the Beaufort, none of the passengers being in- cluded. The personnel of the court- martial board will be announced next week. The action was announced by Sec- retary Wilbur after he had studied a report submitted by a board of in- quiry, which sat on the case at Hampton Roads. This board, it was understood at the time, found tha! Comdr. Fuller had no knowledge of the presence of intoxicating liquors on board. Raided By Marine The intoxicants in considerable were found by a raiding party of ma- rines, which was led by naval officers upon the order of the commandant of the naval base soon after the Beau- fort docked. Whether the command- ant acted upon any specific informa- tion has never been divulged. During the raid efforts were said to have been made by several on the Beaufort to throw liquor overboard, but the arrival of the marines was sudden, their work quick, and a cor- don was thrown about the transport s0 that no one left it until the work was completed. Comdr. Fuller and others affected by yesterday's order have recently been detached from the Beaufort and assigned to the Hampton Roads base, where they will be at hand to appear ibo{ore the board. CIVILIAN EVENING DRESS ORDERED FOR ARMY MEN Move Designed to Force Uniform- ity in Attire of Officers in Mufti. Existing Army regulations parmit- ting officers at Army posts and sta- tions to wear civillan dress fn the evening after “retreat” has been modified to restrict such attire to “civilian evening dress.” The modification is designed to re- sult in more uniformity of appear- ance than is obtained under present regulations, by which officers exer- cised individual preference in the matter of clothing after the dutles for the day were over. Dr. Rogers Reaches |the sun ever shining, the two Leonin | amphibian planes branching out fin fan-like flights from a tiny supply base will whisk through the air while pilot and navigators have turned the cockpits into a veritable school- room Finding moving v tant—me the horizon many minutes, at hand in the other prepared tion No time ¢ i!?lflnat. because m one’s position on a slow- el by means of the sex- wuring the angle between and the sun—requires provided nothing is way of formulaes or navigation informa- n be lost in the nutes mean miles, and therefore Comdr. Byrd is develop- ing a system that will require only one or two minutes after the sextant sight Is taken to locate his position Zvervthing will depend on the bub- ble sextant. Sighting from a plane will mean that an imaginary horizon will have to be established. probably |2 wing or some other object on the | plane, for a navigator 1d be in for an extremely difficult_job to find | position while fiving 3.000 feet up by measuring the angle formed by the ground and the sun A sun compass seen little practical carried along as & check or in serve. With this compass an curate watch will be needed, for the instrument works on the principle of a sun-dial, and the movement of shadows must be carefully recorded “(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) PAINLEVE TO HEAD that has be re- a type service, ma Will Be Called and Will Ac- cept to End Crisis, Leaders Hint. By Cable to The Star and New York World. | PARIS, April 12—President Dou- mergue will call former Premier Paul ber of Deputies, to the premiership, it was understood after political con- ferences which lasted until early this morning. If he accepts, Edouard Herriot, who resigned as premier Friday, will probably take the presi- dency of the Chamber. After dining with friends Painleve said he did not feel he could accept the office, as he had “taken too great a part in the political fight,” but the Cartel des Gauches, the coalition which supported the Herriot govern- ment, insists that he must take it. Later Painleve indicated that if no other agreement could be reached, he would accept. With Painleve as premier the gov- ernment probably would Anatole de Monzle as minister of justice, Paul Doumer as minister of finance, Aristide Briand as minister of forelgn affairs, Paul Boncour as minister of war, Jacques Louch Dumesnil as minister of the navy, Leon Blum as minister of education and Camille Chautemps, the Herriot minister of the interior, in the same post. (Copyright, 1925.) PARTY VIEWS FAR APART. Ministry Choice Still in Air, Coali- | tion Efforts Fail. | By the Associated Press PARIS, April 11.—The succ the departing premlier, M. Herriot, remains in the greatest doubt at the end of the first day of the ministerial crisis. President Doumergue appears to have exhausted parliamentary sources of advice, but he went to bed to sleep on the question without giv- ing an inkling of his conclusions to any of his numerous callers, who, from Vincent Auriol, Soclalist presi- dent of the finance committee of the chamber, to Louls Marin of the Na- tionalist bloc, represented all shades of opinion in the Chamber and Sen- ate. The most conspicuous leaders con- sulted, M. Briand, Loucheur and Pain- leve, said that President Doumergue recelved their advice with avidity, but kept his own counsel. All of the President’s callers agreed on the ne- cessity of quick action, but they dif- fered greatly as to how the situation could best be cleared up. Unfon of Parties Urged. The leaders of the moderate groups insisted that a national union of par- ties, such as outlined in the Senate resolution that caused Premier Her- riot's downfall, was the only possible means of restoring confidence and as- suring a stable government capable of putting French finances defifiitely in order. The Socialists Aurfol and Boncour, d that maintenance of the radical coalition in power was an imperative necessity and that M. Herrlot ought to be given another chance with new associates taken from the groups of the coalition. They warned President Doumergue that the proposed Briand combination would drive the Socfal- ists into the opposition. Some of the radicals, also faithful (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) Europe by Radio Sent Underground and Under Ocean Europe has been reached by un- derground and undersea radio. Dr. James Harris Rogers of Hyattsville, Md., originator of the theory that long-distance radlo waves travel through the earth and sea rather than through the air, announced to- day that a message transmitted from the underground antennae of his radio station here had been picked up by a station in Toulon, France. The following cablegram was re: celved by Dr. Rogers tod: “TOULON, FRANCE, 1925, April 11, A.M. “Dr. James H. Rogers, ~ “Rogers Research Laboratory, “Hyattsville, Md. ““Heard your station, 3XR at Cap- itol 01HOS MGT (1 am. Green- wich Meridian Time), gabout F-§ meters calling CO (any station). Audibility QSA (very loud). Let- ter confirm (Signed) SACAZES M.” Attempts to reach Europe by underground broadcasting were be- gun by Dr. Rogers, Monday. He has been continuing his tests from 6 to 7 o'clock every night this week. He expects to hear from other European stations informing him of the reception of his mes- sage. % The following reasons given by Dr. Rogers. Fading is unknown ground transmission. Static is considerably Messages are heard easily in the day as in the night. The elec- tric energy employed is much less for the same results. were in under- less. Last Son, Poisoned, Provides Basis for Suspicion in Other Cases. ; g | WOMAN ADMITS SHE GOT INSURANCE PAYMENTS 2 FRENCH CABINET Painleve, now president of the Cham- | include | Bodies to Be Exhumed to Find { Cause of Passing of Cunning- i Ry the Associated Press | CcHICAGO, April 11-—-Mre Cunningham, 43, of Gary, Ind., was held questioning tonight, while Ilinois and Indiana authorities in vestigated five deaths in her family during the last six years, and the | arsenic poisoning of her son David who is in a critical condition in Chicago hospital Those whose deaths are belng in- vestigated include Mrs. Cunning- ham's husband, one daughter and three sons. Besides the second son who is ill here, the family also in- cludes one other daughter. Arsenic was found in her home at Gary, and Mrs. Cunningham late to- day admitted she had bought a quart of arsenic about six months ago, which, she said, she used to spray { house plants. As a result of finding | the poison and the curious circum- | stances surrounding the deaths of { other members of the family, Indiana | authorities, co-operating with Cook | County, 1II, officials, said tonight it was probuble that at least one of the five bodies would be exhumed and ex- amined, and that possibly all the | bodles would be disinterred. Collected Insurance. Mrs. Cunningham admitted that all the members of her family who have died were insured in amounts rang- ing from a few hundred to more than {$2.000 and that she collected the in- | surance after each death. She de- | Anna for a nied vehementl however, that she had poisoned any members of her family and attributed their deaths to varying causes, including stomach trouble and tonsilitis. The son David, 24, who is ill here, told questioners that he first became | slck about six weeks ago after eat- | ing a meal prepared by his mothe ‘N‘ sald that he was sick about two I\\'e!kn, but apparently recovered and returned to work, only to become ill again a short time later. Miss May { Cunningham, David's sister, who also was questioned, said she was i1l a few weeks uko, but is fully recov- | ered now. She sald that on one oc- | casion she had purchased poison for her mother to spray plants. Mother Called “Queer.” Relatives of Mrs. Cunningham and ! neighbors also told the authorities | that Mrs. Cunningham had been act- ing “queer” several months ago and an effort was made to commit her to an insane asylum, but she apparently recovered. A niece told of seeing Mrs. Cunningham threaten members of her family with a butcher knife, {as she apparently suffered from nervous disorders. May Cunningham told the author!- | tles that her mother had been ill often. She said she believed all the| deaths in her family were from natu- ral causes and that her mother seem- ed much affected by each death. She | sald she knew of no one who would try to poison the family or any mem- ber of it. 11l luck first made itself manifest in the family in 1918, when & school- boy son shot and killed a meighbor boy while playing. In 1919 the tather, David, 51, died after a two-week iliness, and the next vear Isabelle, 18, died after au illness of similar ‘duration. In the thres sub- sequent years Harry, 24; Charles, 19, and Waiter, 13, died, each after an illness of about 10 days. Exhumation to Be Aske: All are buried at Wheeler, Ind, which is in Porter County, while the family resides at Gary, in Lake Coun- ty. It is planned to ask Porter Coun- ty officlals for an order to exhume one or more of the bodies. The case was called to the attention of local authorities by George Arnold, a clerk in the office of Robert E.| Crowe, State's attorney and a relative of Mrs. Cunningham. He said his sus- vicions were aroused when he learned that Mrs. Cunningham’'s son had been polsoned after an examination made upon the youth’s removal to a Chicago hospital. ‘Each time & member of the family has become {ll, Arnold report- ed, his mother had received a letter from Mrs. Cunningham, stating that a son, daughter or her husband was ill and would probably die. Arnold vesterday gave a quart of blood in a blood transfusion, which, doctors said, will probably save young David Cun- ningham'’s life. During questioning tonight, Mrs. Cunningham feil to the floor in a faint, and doctors had to revive her. BODIES TO BE EXHUMED. Coroner Grants Plea for Study of Remains of Five. By the Associated Press. GARY, Ind., April 11.—Coroner Oscar Wolff of Cook County, Chicago, to- night obtained orders from Dr. A. B. Dobbins of Valparaiso, Porter County coroner, to exhume the bodles of the four children and the husband of Mrs. Anna Cunningham, who is held in Chicago while their deaths and the illness of another son from poisoning are being Investigated. The bodles, buried at Blachly Corners, seven and one-half miles from Valparaiso, will be disinterred Monday morning at 10 o'clock. The vital organs will be taken to Chlcago for .analysis by W. D. McNally, coroner's chemist, and Dr. Joseph Springer, coroner’s physician. Their Teport on the analysis will be returned to Dr. Dobbins by Coroner Wolff, and to Dr. E. F. Evans of Gary, Lake County coroner. David Cunningham, sr. the father of the family, died in Valparaiso and the four children in Gary. Kills Wife and Self. BUFFALO, April 11.—Frank Ro- | mane, 68 years old, tonight shot his | wife through the heart and then fired | a bullet through his head in their| home here. Both died almost instant- ly. His act !s attributed to Insanity, {when | Plans will be ! next G.0.P.LAYSPLANS FOR SENATE RACE Admit Battles Will Be Close| for Many of 32 Seats Open in 1926. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Convinced of the wisdom of being forehanded, the Republican leaders | are already planning for the (-,mn] paign to keep the Senate Republican in the elections year Willlam M. Butler of Massachusetts, | chairman of the Republican | committee, before leaving here for| Roston last night, admitted that the | Dbig political struggle next year. will| be over the control of the Semate, 25 of the Republican Senators must come up for re-election and only seven Democrats—all of the lat- ter in Southern States. Senator Butler, in his capacity as chairman of the national committee, | plans to go. to Chicago in the late | Summer or Fall and spend a month or more there. where he will meet | with many of the Republican leaders | from the West and Middle West laid for strengthening these conferences next Senator | national | the party lines at Curtix Leaves Capltal. | Coincldental with the departure of | Senator Butler from Washington ves- | terday was the departure of Sen-| ator Charles Curtis of Kansas, the | Republican leader of the Senate. Sen- | ator Curtls is going back home to| Topeka. He comes up for re-election year and it is well understood | that the Senator will, in a quiet man- | ner this Summer, lay his plans for the campaign. It is expected thaf he will be renominated and re-eiected. The chairman of the national com- ittee, Senator Butler, also must come | up for re-election next year. He will | be a candidate to succeed himself, he | admitted in reply to a question ves- | terday. Opposed to him probably will | be former Senator David I. Walsh who was defeated last Fall by Sen- ator Glllett, though by a narrow | margin. Senator Butler has the ad- | vantage of being “in,” of being chair- man of the national Republican com- mittee, and he will have the entire welght of the administration back of | him in the contest next vear. Sen- ator Butler plans to spend much of the congressional recess in his own State, he caid. The campaign for the " (Continued on Page 4, Column &.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National, Foreign. Army and Navy News—Page 16. Veterans of the Great War—Page 16. At the Community Centers—Page 18. Boy Scouts—Page 1 Serial “The Seven Sleepers’—Page 20. Spanish War Veterans—Page 20. News of the Clubs—Pages 21 and Schools and Colleges—Page 22. Current News Events—Page 23. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 23. Radio News and Programs—Pages and 25. PART TWO0—16 PAGES. Editorials and, Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Reviews of Spring Books—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 12. Camp Fire Girls—Page 12. Army.Navy Union—Page 12. D. A. R. Activities—Page 13. Easter Music—Pages 14 and 15. Around the City—Page 15. .24 PART THREE—12 PAGES. Amusments—Theaters and the Photo. play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Fraternal News—Page 11. District National Guard—Page 12. Civilian Army News—Page 12. PART FOUR—1 PAGE! Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. The Rambler—Page 5. PART SIX—12 PAGES. lassified Advertising. fii:v::cl.ll‘ News—Pages 9, 10 and 11. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—i PAGES. Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. Mr. | Architect Lynn Submits Plan With Alternate of 375- ! Room Addition. Bare Knees Doubly Censored In the Takoma Park “Scandals” 'NEW MUSIC AUDITORIUM CONTRACT TO BE LET | s Work on Cencert Building, Wom- an's Gift, Will Be Started This Week. BY WILL P. KENYEDY £ the nd a ent Peace Terms Doom Them to Blush Un- o een Under Black Stockings and Behind a Screening Curtain. of shoc unclad denly ed nastor Eleven pairs ma knees, which Rev. Dr. Thomas €. Clark Takoma Park Presbyterian Church, during a dr rehearsal of the Ta Park Volunteer Fire Depart- ment's “Minstrel Frolics 1925 Friday night, will draped black when the show opens tomorrow night in the church hall And as the indignant but proud owners of those knees file onto stage in the “Mud Pie Days’ scene for their romper song and dance, & of the koma of be in two-foot curtain will be drawn across | peacemakers hurriedly nd on it “ensored.” the platform will in large letters, be, costumes meets with the church authorities receipt last night of the bare knees would the committee in charge of the was notified that it might to stage the performance in the Pres- byterian Community Halr, the church edifice The official notification issued late last night by Dr. Clark. follow- ing a heated executive meetin the board of trustces and the church session, during which two members of the session are reported to have almost come to blows. Of course, intervened The while there waited outside nine members of the “mud pie” cho- the approval of and with the srance that blush show aajoining The draping on the legs behind the | Tus, all prepared to parade right into cartaln will be black stockings. This “modification” in the form of long of the girls' ESCAPES GALLOWS Georgia Governor Commutes to Life Imprisonment for Mrs. Hughes. Dy the Associated Press ATLANTA, April 11 Mrs. Ida Hughes, sentenced to be hanged Apr 24 for the murder of her mother-in- law, Mrs. M. C. Hughes, in Decembe 1923, escaped the gallows today, as a result of the decision of Gov. Clifford Walker in upholding the recommen- dation of the Georgia prison commis- sion that she be granted life impris- onment. In the clemency ernor, which states from the record of the case “Mr Hughes is guilty of ~murder,” and that the chief executive has “no sym- pathy with the maudline order of the gov- that although sentiment which seeks to make a heroine of a woman gullty of a horrible crime, the governor declares that after a thorough study of the case he has reached the conclusion that there are mitigating circumstances in this case which justify clemency.” hows No Emotien. When attorneys for the condemned woman went to the jail to tell her of the governor's decision, Mrs. Hughes received the news without any visible signs of emotion. Before her at- torneys could speak, Mrs. Hughes said: I can see by the expression on your faces that you bring good news. After being assured that such was the case, she said: “Well. T'll go to the State farm and do the very best I can to be a model prisoner. And I'll do all I can to help the other prisoners do the same. T'd rather live in the penitentiary than outside under such conditions as I did before I got into this trouble.” Crime at Home. The crime for which Mrs, Hughes was_convicted occurred at her home in Egan Park, near Atlanta. Her mother-in-law, been angered for some time, entered her home, accompanied by two baliffs with possessory warrant for articles she alleged the youfiger Mrs. Hughes had_stolen. While Mrs. M. C. Hughes was handing over a trunk, the condemned woman fired. The verdict of the Fulton County jury did not recom- mend mercy. The Georgia supreme court upheld the verdict of the lower court. The case later was carried be- fore the Georgia prison commission, which requested the governor to com- mute her sentence. Cartoonist's Wife Dies. CHICAGO, April 11.—Mrs. Sidney Smith, wife of the well known Chi- cago cartoonist, was found dead to- night In_the bathtub of their city home. She apparently had had a sudden heart attack, which caused death by drowning, physiclans said. Mr. Smith Is in Q‘lnllc City, N. J, with whom she. had | | | | l { the chamber and show deacons and trustee the minister, in executive ses- ~(Continued on Page 2 T TR , Column 3.) SENTENCED WOMAN UNION WILL ORDER SOFT COAL STRIKE May Test Blanket Injunction Issued by West Virginia Court in 1916. | Bx the Associated Press. WHEELING, W, call for a gensral miners emploved in in the West Virginia Va. April 11.—A strike of coal four counties panhandle will | be issued next week, Frank Ledvinka president of the Eastern Ohio Miners Organization, announced tonight. He predicted the call would affect more than 1,500 men and that operations in Ohio and Marshall Counties least would be greatly curtailed netion. Ledvinka, William Roy, vice presi- dent of the Ohio Miners’ Association, and W. J. Walker of St. Clairsville, Ohio, an attorney, Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, next Thursday at Morgan- town, W. Va., where decision will be reached whether to make a test case to determine whether a blanket in- junction issued in 1916 is still in force. The injunction, granted by Judge Alston G. Dayton, forbade a tempts to organize mine workers Ten members of the State police arrived tonight and went to a hotel It was said they had been detailed here at the request of mine operators, but any information as to their duti was not made public. Sheriff Hen derson sald he saw no need for their presence here. m PRIEST PUT TO DEATH. Shot as Head of Bandit Gang by Mexican Troops. By Cable to The Star and New York World. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, April 11 telegram from Tampico states that Father Pablo Ramires, parish priest of the town of Pueblo Viejo, opposite the city of Tampico, was shot yester. day by order of the military authori- | ties of the camp of Chapapote. The priest was accused of being captain of a band of highwaymen who com- mitted numerous robberies in that region. (Copyright, 1925.) Coolidge and Economy A series of important “fact” articles by William Helm, bearing on ways and ‘means of saving the tax- payers’ money. Beginning Tomorrow in The Evening Star. | 3l will meet John L. | New Home for the House. ing of $30,00 sa These are thre the under ow the je think the « nd al way mer of they leave Capite | The new music, to be | the world's partic: music | Library Elizabeth S | Pittsfield, Mass | famous chambe | annually in { dent 4 C | building and a the income Iy that there for this | ginning July 1 The ting part Congress drawn by expert than Charle tect of the Frear Ga the Smithsonian gr also drawn plans f National Art Museum been approved by Commission, which satisfied that they detract from the | the Library building, wi real embellishment and fill a felt need. The struction work | will be supervised David Lynn | architect of the Ua who has the co-operation of Herbert Put- librarian of Congress, who is detail his personal at- it fro mount to $23 increased will 000 a year. her endowme actually be work 0, the of the new fiscal be a fit will autiful L new toriv were n authority ar Platt, the archi- of Art thorot clo | nam, | giving every | tention Will Give Best in Music. Thsi auditorium will 11 It will be equipped with ar n and it is expected that the firs chamber music concert will be broad- cast in October. ( the very best of artists will be The Li |brary of Congress of the three or four largest collections of | music in the world, and much of its very best music lies idle unheard | upon the 1t correc such a condition that { made her munificent { The auditorium will be u the library for lectures and f ings of the staff. It will enable the {library to carry on work much | more efficiently In the closing elghth Congres | Capitol was allow | of $2.500, with which to make vey and prepare and submit to next Congress on the first day meets recommendations for providing | an addition or extension of the House [Office Building sufficient to provide at least two office rooms for | member. He was aiso called |for a report on the desirability | acquiring an additional site for additional office bullding. Rejects Site Architect Lynn_is having this sur- vey made. The square south of the pres- ent office building, and the square east of the present office building, and south of the Library of Congress, which have previously been urged for use in providing increased office space for members of Congress, will not be recommended by Architect Lynn, because that would mean plac- ing the offices of many members at such a distance from the FHouse chamber that it would greatly delay the legislative procedurs. The Government now owns mest of the square south of the Capitol grounds where the Coast and Geodetic Survey Bulldinzs and the old Dutler [ Bullding now stand. Tt owns as far ontinue age 4, Column er- sousht has one shelves “oolidge its days archi 1 an appropriation sur- the each upon Proposed.