Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1925, Page 2

2 * OYSTER'S FUNERAL ATES TOMORRON 100 Police and Firemen to Form Guard of Honor. Burial at Oak Hill. Washington will pay its final mark of respect to an honored citizen as the funeral cortege of Commissioner James F. Oyster passes from his residence at 2400 Sixteenth street to Calvary Baptist Church and then to Oak Hill Cemetery tomorrow after- noon. One hundred uniformed members of the Police and Fire Departments, in whose work Commissioner Oyster took so deep an interest, will stand as a zuard of honor at the church throughout the services. Eight mounted men of the Police Department will escort the funeral procession from the place of resi dence to the cemetery. The honorary pallbearers will be Commissioner _Cuno H. Rudolph, Commissioner J. Franklin Bell, E. C. Graham, Joseph 1. Weller, Samuel J Prescott, James T. Lioyd, Henry N. Brawner. ir.; A. Leftwich Sinclair, Ringgold Hart, William T. Galliher, Clarence F. Norment, Henry P. Blair, sormer Senator L. Heisler Ball, Odell 8. Smith, Willam F. Gude and Ru dolph Kauffmann. Those to Bear Casket. The active pallbearers will be officers of the Police and Fire Departments, namely: Police Department, Capt. C. L. Plemmons, Acting Lieut. J. A. Sul- livan, Sergt. T. T. Dalhouse and Pvt. W. F. Miller; Fire Department, Capt. Edward O'Connor, Lieut. G. C. Meeks, Sergt. J. W. Allan and Pvt. W. H. Crack. Assistant Supt. Henry G. Pratt will be in charge of police details. The cortege will leave the residence at 130 oclock and move to the hurch at Eighth and H streets over the following route: South on Six- teenth street to I street, east to Eighth and south. After the services the route to Oak Hill Cemetery will be west on H street to Pennsylvania avenue, to Twenty- eighth street and thence north to the cemetery As the casket is being carried into the church the policemen and firemen forming the guard of honor will stand two abreast on both sides of the entrance. Close friends and old acquaintances of the Commissioner called through- out the day to express sympathy, but the body will not lle in state to be viewed by the general public. It was Capt. Oyster's wish that his last rites be as simple as possible. Third to Die in Office. Commissioner Oyster was the third city father who died while holding The others were Maj. W. J. ning. the first Engineer Commis- sioner, and John W. Ross. During the funeral services tomor- row afternoon work will be suspend: ed at the District Bullding and tho: emploves who can be spared wiil be permitted to attend the services. The officiating clergymen xill be Rev. A. Freeman Anderson of East Orange, N. J., a close friend of the Commissioner, and Rev. W. S. Abar- nethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. The following members of the Fire Department were selected today for he guard of honor: Pvts. w. Iolmes, R. A. Warfield, R. L. Lynch, N. C. Robinson, A. J. Baker, R. Huntt, J. ¥. Phipps, C. Quick, A. W. Upperman, A. J. Wernig, W. F. Mor- timer, C. G. Limerick, D. R. Ohrie, S. T. Walters, R. B. Hanback, C. F. Tucker, L. P. Clements, F. W. Mitchell, N. Mortensen, I. C. Keppler, J. E. Uebele, R. A. Crider, J. E. Red- man, I. H. Williamson, H. Beddoo, §. Peterson, I. F. Bradac, N Phelps, J. W. Bell. R. M. Troup. M. F. Keane, B. C. B. Rollins, J. I. McDonald, F. W. R. Cryer. G. W. McGowan, G. E. Swords, H. Hudgins, F. R. Skidmore, R. Gray, S. Valentine, P. W. Stafford, E. C. Wolf, F. M. Earnshaw, E. O. Negley, H. D. Grimsley, W. L. Win- stead and H. Roberts. ADMITS HE FLOGGED SELF-STYLED PEONS Porced at Pistol Point to Whip Each for 10 Minutes, Witness Tells Florida Court. Wells, Litteral, By the Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla, May 20.— Stories of floggings and alleged peonage are being unfolded in Federal Court here by negro witnesses in the trial of five Calhoun County men on charges of forcing negro employes to work against their will. Testifying of their attempt to escape from the turpentine farm of M. B. Davis, three employes yesterday said that they were cruelly treated by the five white men on trial. In their effort to get away from the farm they sald they had traveled afoot at night, avoiding towns and hiding by day, only to be held up by the five near Weewahitchka and roughly handled They testified they left Davis' plac because they did not believe the were being fairly treated. Working regularly in the turpentine operation from March to August of 1924, Henry Sanders stated that just before the three other negroes attempted to escape, Davis, his employer, claimed the negro owed him $111. This, despite the fact, said Sanders, that he had received no money and only scanty provisions while at the farm. The other negroes gave similar testimony. Flogged for 10 Minutes. Dewitt Stoner admitted he was forced, at the point of revolvers in the hands of the defendants, to beat Henry Sanders, Galvester Jackson and George Diamond with large sticks or “blackjacks” after the negroes had heen interrupted in their attempt to leave the county. Stoner said he was not_whipped. p He testified that the white men looked on as he whipped the three, one at a time, after they had been stripped of their clothing and made 1o lie on their stomachs in the road. Stoner admitted he whipped each of the men about 10 minutes and that the blows caused lacerations and bruises on their backs. None of the negroes offered any resistance, he testified. After being whipped Stoner said he and two others were returned in an automobile to the Davis farm and re- quired to resume their work the fol- lowing day. The fourth man was taken away In another automobile by Charles Land, he said. Two Get Commissions. Lloyd H. Dittrich, 2135 K street, has been commissioned by the War De- partment a captain in the Quarter- master Corps, and Clarence W. Hoge- land, 122 Bates street, a second lieu- tenant in the Quartermaster Corps, both in the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army. —_— TLendon women have adopted a fad @i banging their own wallpaper, Coolidge Cables Greeting to New Cuban President By the Associated Press. President Coolidge telegraphed to Gen. Machado today an expression of good wishes in connection with his induction as President of Cuba. “Recalling most agreeably your vecent visit to Washington,” the message from President Coolidge said, “I desire on this occasion of your induction into the high office of President of Cuba to renew the felicitations I then had the pleasure to extend on the trust and confidence reposed in vou by * the Cuban people, and to offer you my best wishes for a most suc- cessful administration of the af- fairs of the republic. which I hope may add to your own good fame and conduce to the prosperity and happiness of the Cuban people.” MACHADO TAKES DATH OF OFFICE Cuba Celebrates Inaugura- tion of Fifth President. Havana Gayly Decorated. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, May 20.—Gerardo Mac- hado today became Cuba's fifth Pres- ident when he took the oath of office in the reception room of the presi- dentlal palace before assembled for- eign diplomatic missions, members of the supreme court, ex-President Al- fredo Zayas and prominent men in political and financlal circles. 3 Carlos de la Rosa took the oath as Vice President in the Senate chamber here at 9:45 Havana time. Congress in joint session was pres- ent. About 20 special missions from foreign countries and the diplomatic corps with many prominent people crowded the gallery. Aaron Saenz, Mexican foreign minis- ter and head of that country's mis- sion to the inaugural ceremonies, was the senior foreign representative pres- ent. The United States was represent- ed by Ambassador Enoch H. Crowder, First Secretary C. C. Jordan and other members of the embassy staff. Many of the streets have been dec- orated with arches, flags, bunting and Im leaves. The route over which resident-elect Gerardo Machado trav- eled from his house to the palace was elaborately decorated. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. secre- tary of state, with a presidential aide, accompanied the President-elect to the palace. Immediately after the cere- mony the President will sign a decree appointing cabinet officers. Inauguration day started at mid- night with fireworks and other nolse makers. FEarly this morning, with the streets wet from a rain, aerial rockets were being sent up and auto- mobiles and trains were pouring in in thousands to swell the already crowded city. FATHER'S COMPANION SHOT; GIRL, 15, HELD Victim, Likely to Die, Declares, However, That Man's Wife ‘Wounded Her. By the Associated Pres CHICAGO, May 20.—When Lucille Wunsch, 15-year-old high school girl, last night, with her mother, found her father, William, in company with Miss Agnes Simneck, 28, she shot and probably fatally wounded Miss Stmneck, she and her mother say. She also slightly wounded her parents when they attempted to intercept her, it is said. Miss Simneck, however, told hos- pital doctors that Mrs. Wunsch and not Lucille did the shooting, and the county highway police accepted this version. The Riverdale police repeat that both Lucille and Mrs. Wunsch asserted the former had shot Simneck. The girl was held by police in Riv- erdale, a suburb, where the shooting occurred. Her mother, who said she threw herself before the girl to pre- vent her shooting the father, said she did not know that hte daughter was carrying the weapon when they con- fronted Wunsch and Miss Simneck Miss Simneck was wounded in the gide and in both lungs, hospical sur- geons said. Riverdale officials were saii to be reluctant to prosecute Lucille, at Jeast pending some development in tha con- dition of Miss Simneck. She is one of Riverdale’s youhger village belles and her father is a member of the village board. The girl Is said to have Leen goad- ed to shooting because of gib:s of schoolmates who knew of hes father's friendship for Miss Simnecl THREE TO DIE FOR OLD BOMB TRAGEDY IN SOFIA Four Killed and Twelve Injured in 1920 When Attack Was Made on Government Opponents. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 20.—Former Chief of Police Proudkine and two for- mer convicts named Loukoff and Pata- danski were today sentenced to death after having been found responsible for a bomb explosion in the Odeon Theater here five vears ago. Four were killed and_ 12 were injured in this explosion, March 13, 1920. It was declared at the time the explo- sion was intended 1o kill a group of opponents of the ‘government who were supposed to attend a political meeting in the theater. These poli- tictans, however, were not present. Former Minister of War Muravieft and Gen. Ferdinand Markoff, who had been accused of participation in the plot, were acquitted. CAPT. NICHOLS BURIED. Grand Chaplain of Masons Offici- ates at Rites. Funeral services for Capt. William H. Nichols, Confederate veteran, who 1 died at the residence of his daughter, Miss Mary E. Nichols, 531 Twenty- first street, Monday, were conducted at the residence, under the auspices of the Grand Lodge, . A. A. M., of the District of Columbia, this after- noon at 2 o'clock. Rev. John C. Palmer, grand chaplain of Masons in the District of Columbia, officiated. Interment was in Arlington Cemetery. Capt. Nichols was a past grand master of Masons of Texas and had the distinction of having served as a ‘captain of the Confederate Army when only 19 years oldl Miss | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1925 IFRANCE MAY SEND ' DEBT MISSION HERE Briand and Caillaux Consid- ers Appointment of Ex- perts Body. By the Associated Press PARIS, May 20.—The newspaper Excelsior says Forelgn Minister Briand and Finance Minister Calllaux sre considering the creation of a financlal committee to negotiate directly with an American committee regarding a settlement of the French war debts to the United States. Premter Painleve, M. Briand and M. Caillaux went over the French financial situation together yesterday, considering particularly the question of interallied debts. At the conclusion of the conference, the official spoki man of the Quay d'Orsay announced to the correspondents: “The interallied debts question may now be sald to have entered the state of real officlal negotlations. If the negotiations are not yet in an officially international state, internal study of the question here makes it certain that they will be within a few days. Conference Called. “The ministers of foreign affairs and finance will confer again this week for the purpose of drawing up suggestions to be presented to the United States Government. M. Briand will be assisted by competent foreign office authoritles, including M. Berthelot, general secretary of the ministry, and M. Seydoux, di- rector of political affairs. The fact that these two high of- ficials will attend the next conference of the ministers is Interpreted as meaning that the draft proposal to the United States, including technical suggestions, will be completed at that meeting. Pressure Is Denied. The Painleve-Briand-Cafllaux con- ference occupied two hours. The ministers acquainted the premier with the present status of the work under- taken by the experts of their respec- tive departments in drawing up pro- posals which will be sent to the United States and Great Britain simultaneously. Nothing in the na- ture of pressure, it is asserted, is to be found to the communications di- rected by the Washington Govern ment to America’s European debtors concerning a settlement of the debts and the conferences now golng on in Parls will continue without undue haste. The joint efforts of the Briand and Calllaux experts have reached a point where the result can be made known before many days have elapsed. ¥ The entire French press today is adopting a much more friendly tone, in which there is a tinge of relfef that the United States is sending no offi- clal note to France. The newspapers urge the government to make all pos- sible haste in_ submitting proposals acceptable to Washington. The Petit Parislen, the Matin and the Temps all publish leading articles asking public opinion to refrain from premature judgment and advising patience and confidence that the government's effort would “not_affect the relations be- tween the United States and France, which were never better or more cor- dial.” U. S. OPTIMISM GROWS. Officials Hope for Early Clarification of Dept Tssue. By the Associated Press. ‘With France, Belgium and Esthonia leading the way, officials here are op- timistic that the six other European debtors soon will find the way clear to begin negotiations looking to fund- ing their war obligations to this coun- try. President Coolidge shares with Sec- retarfes Kellogg and Mellon the hope that the entire debt situation will be clarified within a reasonable time, but there is no desire or intention to un- duly press the question. Neither do officials expect the foreign govern- ments whose notes are held here to rush to Washington with complete, detailed plans for settlement. It is hoped, however, that those pewers will find the occaslon suitable at least for discussion with the Ameri- can Debt Commission of terms of set- tlement upon which agreement could be reached. MEMORIAL BRIDGE BILL HELD IGNORED BY ARMY ENGINEERS (Continued from First Page.) shown that it took 300,000 man hours to complete the work. Mr. Cowper indicated that private contractors could not very well cor- pete with this method, as they were liable on their bond to complete a job for the exact amount of their bid 2nd are held responsible, whereas the Army engineers, if they go over the amount of the appropriation, have nothing further to consider. One of the most drastic steps taken by the Assoclated General Con- tractors, and what is considered prob- ably one of the most far-raeching ever attempted in the building industry of the country, was the decision of the association, which represents approxi- mately 2,000 of the largest contractors, to publicly expose any attempt on the part of contractors throughout the country to enter into any ‘“combine bids” or “job fixing.” Will Expel Violators. Immediate expulsion from the asso- ciation on the part of any member found indulging in these practices was also decided upon. A discussion over the pooling of bids and such other methods of get- :lng construction work was indulged n. The entrance of the Government into the construction field was de- plored and it was charged that the reason that the various civic gov- ernments and the Federal Gov- ernment of - the country were en- tering into this fleld was that they desired to hold their party lines intact and use this work for the fur- therance of political power and party ambition. One member of the group stated that politicians desired the various governments, State, local and Federal, to remain in the construction industry so that they could control votes. Further discussion of the work of the Federal Government in the building industry will be continued later today. Davis Inspects Western Corps. Maj. Gen. Robert Davis, adjutant general of the Axmy, left Washington today on an inspection tour of Middle and Far West posts. Gen. Davis will inspect the Tth Corps Area headquar- ters, Omaha, Neb., Thursday and is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco early next week to inspect the 9th Corps Area headquarters. Maj. Clark to Leave Aberdeen. Maj. Walter L. Clark, Ordnance De- partment, at the Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Md., has been ordered to this city for duty in the office of the chief of ordnance. COAST GUARD IS SURROUNDED BY CORRUPTION IN WAR ON RUM Bootleggers® Attempts at Bribery, Planting of Spies Among Officer Personnel of Blockade Fleet and ““Whisper”” Campaign Foiled by U. S. Agents. Editor’s Note—This is the second of a series of siz articles on “Blockeding Rum Row,” whick reveal the struggle of Uncle Sam in curbing the rum-run- ning hordes. BY WILLIAM P. HELM, Jr. The Coast Guard blockade of rum row, worked out in strict secrecy 'months in advance as the new armada was bullding, was timed originally for May 7. Moblilization orders had been issued to vessels to compose the blockading fleet all the way from Maine to Mobile. The cutter Mojave, selected as the flagship, was brought to New York from Honolulu. As the zero hour approached. however, a change in plans was made abruptly. Overnight the date for the blockade was advanced three days to May 4. The carefully mapped-out campaign was changed because developments indicated to higher officlals than rum row and the bootleggers backing it had obtained an inkling of the Gov- ernment’s plans. Moreover, officers and crews of the fleet, arriving at New York on sched ule time, a few days in advance of the date set for the blockade, were eager to get on the job. It had been intend ed to give the men a day or so of shore liberty, but the desire to get at what the Coast Guard terms ‘“‘the enemy’’ was stronger. Rum Fleet Warned. Mow word of the coming blockade £ot to the bootleggers—assuming that it did—probably will never be found out. It was a development, however, that had been anticipated. For many months the organized liquor interests ashore had been attempting to get their paid agents on the government's pay roll. Spies working for Uncle Sam in other branches of enforce- ment work had furnished bootleggers some of their most valuable informa- tion. When the Coast Guard was drawn into enforcement work boot- leggers naturally sought to place their spies there, too. Ingenious devices to “plant” sples among the officer personnel of the new fleet were fully blocked, it is believed, by precautions adopted in considering the case of each prospective officer. Each applicant's record was placed under the microscope. The slightest revelation of questionable practice in his past resulted in his name being dropped. The previous associations of all ap plicants were gone over by investiga- tors, who in that way unearthed sev eral efforts to put bootleggers into Coast Guard uniforms. Each appli- cant’s friends and companions were looked up and by thelr company, in some measure, the applicants were judged. When this effort apparently had failed other tactics were followed. Bootleggers sent their representatives to Washington to officials of this, that and the other law-breaking plans afoot In bootlegging circles. The plans were pure myths, of course. These self-appointed helpers of the Coast Guard were loud in their mouthings against their recent confederates. Renegades Discredited. They tried in many ingenious ways to create the impression that they were turncoats, sincere and eager to THIRSTY WILL TAX BEER FACILITIES 13 Establishments in Wind- sor Ready for Tomorrow. Dry Navy Busy. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., May 20.—Contrary to the usual significance attached by superstitious minds to the figure 13, those 800 persons who have been re- fused permits by the provinclal au- thorities to sell the much-discussed and impatiently anticipated 4.4 per cent beer recently authorized in On tario expressed the opinion today that the 13 bhotel proprietors and innkeep- ers in Windsor who have received licenses to serve flagons of the foam- ing liquid to thirsty Detroit thou- sands have been smiled upon by Dame Fortune herself. Full preparations to receive those who are expected to crowd the fer- ries tomorrow, when the new law goes into effect, have not been com- pleted, innkeepers say. More people have asked for reservations for the grand opening night than can be ac- commodated. Too Many Patrons. One innkeeper remarked sadly, “We are going to be forced to turn people away. I don't know what to do.” The law makes the old-time bar taboo, and directs that the beer can be served only at tables, by licensed waliters, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 pm. Brewery officials report “all in readi- ness.” While preparations are under way for “‘opening the season on beer drink- ing” across the border, which many Detroiters say will occupy a large part of their spare time during the succeeding summer months, brewery officials report that there has not been any let-up in_their export business, and as one officlal sald, “we do not anticipate any slackening in our for- eign trade.” In support of this assertion come reports of & general strengthening of Federal forces along the border who are entrusted with the task of block- ading river ports to rum runners. Dry Navy Busy. The Federal prohibition navy spent a busy day Tuesday, it was reported, capturing two speed boats containing 35 quarter barrels and 7,000 bottles of “export.” The crews of the two boats managed to run them ashore and escaped. Federal agents raided an establishment in this city, conflscating several barrels of beer and some liquor, while at Lansing four ralds were reported during the night in an effort to clean up the State capital. Following the report Monday that Federal officers are now operating in this city in an effort to gain evidence of corruption in the police force, Wil- liam P. Rutledge, superintendent of the force, issued figures to show that the executives have been vigorous in their efforts to spur the department into an energetic anti-rum campaign. Numerous dismissals, resignations and convictions have been obtained, the figures show. SENATOR CUMMINS ILL. Bronchitis and Laryngitis Symp- toms Light, However. DES MOINES, May 20 (#)—Sen- ator Albert B. Cummins is suffering from an attack of bronchitis and laryngitis. A physiclan. who was summoned sald no alarming symp- toms have developed. The Senator is in his 75th year. give the government a helping hand. But that plan didn't work, either, Tt was too transparent. Simultaneously attempts at bribery and threats of personal violence mul- tiplied, running the range from en- listed men to higher officers. As the blockade of rum row tightened the sniping campaign intensified. Some- times the efforts at bribery were ludierous. A short distance from one Long Island Coast Guard station a boot- legger was caught redhanded in the act of landing a cargo of liquor. He managed to slip away from his captor and ran for the station, his captor in pursuit. Through the door and up the stairs the bootlegger ran, to the keeper's room. Almost winded, he gasped out an offer of money. “Are you trying to offer me a bribe?”’ demanded the keeper. The visitor stammered out that he would hardly call it by so hard a name as that. “Get out!” commanded the keeper, decorating the order with a string of choice expletives. “Quick! Before I kick vou downstair ; He went out, into the arms of his pursuer. ‘The Coast Guard mother ship Ar gus, lying at anchor in Rockaway Bay, has been the target night after night and day after day for rifle fire from the shore and from bootlegging |CARLOAD OF BEER | NABBED ON BORDER craft. Aboard the Argus are 125 re- cruits under training by Coast ard officers for service in the blockade. Mail Is Rified. At other points partles attempting to go ashore in small boats have been driven back by heavily armed boot- legging vessels. Mail and other ar- ticles for those aboard have been seized and rifled. Swift little rum- running boats have crept alongside, 80 that the bootleggers might jeer, curse and abuse the recruits aboard. A Coast Guardsman cannot walk along village or city streets in some shore communities without being pointed out frequently for abuse and insult. In those sections where the smuggler is a local product known to the entire community, perhaps from boyhood. sentiment s strong against the Coast Guard. Muttered ocaths and curses have followed many a guardsman’'s stroll in such plac Efforts to “frame” Coast Guar: men are not uncommon and numerous attempts have been made to have them indicted for injuries inflicted on smugglers caught in the act—smug- glers who disregarded the warning to stop. Whispering campaigns, more subtle than poison pen letters, have been inaugurated against men of the Coast Guard who had declined to be corrupted. “You've heard about So-and-so,” is the general way it is put, So-and-so being a Coast Guard man who had resisted an attempt at bribery. “Well, I've got him fixed, so I don't have to worry." Into this mire of corruption. in- trigue and suspecion the Coast Guard has been thrust, almest without warning, from the clean ways of the sea. The old Guard frankly don't like the job; but so long as it is the work they have been commanded to do, they are glving it the best in them. (Copyright, ITWO DEAD, 4 HURT, INPISTOL BATILE 200 Shots Fired in Row at Election in West Vir- ginia Town. 1925.) By the Associated Press y WILLIAMSON, W. Va., May 20.— Sherman Parsley, a merchant of Ker- mit, near here, and Buck Kirk, pres- ident of the Board of Education, are dead and four other men are wound- ed, while six are under arrest on a charge of shooting as the result of yesterday’s pistol battlé at a poil at &ermit, where an election was being held on the question of creating an independent school district. ‘Ken Chapman of Kermit. John Chafin, a deputy sheriff, and Ken Kirk of Matewan are in a hospital at Hunting with wounds they re- ceived in the fight. Kirk. a special deputy, is shot in the abdomen. Accounts of the battle say that between 150 and 200 shots were fired. The fight is understood to have started when a man named Lee Curry brought two negroes to the polls. Dr. E. T. Stepp. an election official, ques. tioned the negroes’ right to vote and Curry struck him, witnesses reported. Chapman drew a gun and rushed to separate the men. as did Buck Kirk, police were told. Chapman, it is said, fired first, killing Kirk almost instantly. As Kirk fell his pistol was discharged and Chapman received the bullet. Parsley, a bystander, was shot when the fighters used him as a_shield, according to accounts. Ken Kirk is reported to have rushed into the bat- tle when his brother fell. Police hurried to Kermit from here upon receiving word of the battle and arrested Ira Maynard, chief of police of Kermit; Lee Curry, Jim Muncy, Ira Webb, Bill Dillon and a man lice t night that t! 3 pected to make other arrests. il e MISS MINNIE A. NOYES, D. C. CLERK, SUCCUMBS Death Follows Collapse of Em- ploye of Recorder of Deeds Office at Hospital While visiting her brother, who was a patient at Homeopathic Hospital, Monday afternoon, Miss Minnie A. Noyes, a clerk in the office of the recorder of deeds for the District of Coluumbia -since 1889 and who has held the position of chief comparer since 1901, collapsed and died within 20 minutes. Miss Noyes had motored from the office to the hospital and had scarcely been seated at the bed- side of her brother when she was stricken. Assistance was called, and she was taken into an adjoining room, dying without recovering con- sciousness. Miss Noyes was the eldest daughter of the late Samuel V. and Elizabeth E. Noyes. Funeral services will be held at Gawler's chapel, 1730 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, tomorrow morning +{at 11 o'clock. Deputy Recorder of Deeds Robert ‘W. Dutton, who has been in the office with Miss Noyes for nearly 20 years, spoke in high terms of her fidelity to duty and of her knowledge of the intricate work of the office, and de- clared she had been a great help to him and to Recorder Froe in the conduct of the office. Miss Noyes was well liked by the clerical force and her sudden death came as & severe shock to them. Skeptical Dry Agents Make Find in Shipment Billed as Lumber. The Government's tightened border barrier against rum from Canada caught a carload of “lumber” yester- day “somewhere on the New York border. The freight car was labeled, billed and looked like lumber from Canada, but when customs agents probed deeper behind the piles of lumber in front they discovered 168 barrels ot real beer. This was announced at the Treas- ury today as among the big hauls made in the campaign to prevent liquor from seeping down from the north since the Coast Guard has shut off, temporarily at least, the supply from rum row offshore. Beer to Be Destroyed. Orders have been forwarded from the Treasury for the destruction of the beer, and it was expected that the 168 barrels sometime today would gur- gle out upon dry American soil under the watchful eyes of customs officlals. Meantime, as the Coast Guard kept up its war on sea and the prohibition unit endeavored to intensify its drive by land, Treasury officials were await- ing a deciston by Controller General McCarl as to whether the Coast Guard may operate forfeited ships. Mr. M Carl recently decided that only cu: toms and prohibition meney was men- tioned in the new biil enacted by the last Congress. providing for the oper- ation of vehicles and vessels forfeited in enforcement of the customs or pro- hibition laws. Coast Guard funds, he held. could not be used. Liquor Cases Probed. Liquor cases brought up at a hear- ing by the Couzena committee investi- gating the Internal Revenue Bureau. as revealed yesterday for the first time in reports of the hearing, in- cluded thome of the Bernheim Distil- ling Co. of Louisville, Ky., and the Schenley Products of Midway. Ky., alieged to be making sales to New York druggists under fraudu- lent permits. Senator Couzens asked why these cases wers dropped, and James J. Britt, counsel of the prohi- bition unit, a witness, said the agents should have followed them up. Records in the prohibition unit, Senator Couzens also said, showed that in the case of the Continental Distributing Co. of Baltimore, hand- lers of sacramental wine, wine was being sold to gentiles, but the case was permitted to drop. He also de- clared that on April 1, 1924. prohibi- tion agents were advised that a car- load of beer was being unlcaded at Baltimore, but no effort was made to identify or prosecute the brewing company which put it on the market. Says Prosecution Was Balked. The Burlington Industrial Alcohol Co. of Philadelphia had been reported to the prohibition unit, Mr. Couzens continued, as violating the prohibition law, but no agent was ever assigned to the case. Mr. Britt said the pro- hibition unit twice tried to prosecute, but had been restrained by the courts. The Department of Justice, mean- while, announced a new policy with respect to cabarets, saloons, .restau- rants, soft drink establishments and other places where liquor is veing soic. It has been introduced at Detroit, where liquor is being smuggled from Canada, and where the United States attorney will use patrons of raided places as witnesses, prosecute the pro- prietors criminally, seek padlock or- ders to close the places for a year, and get orders for the destruction of bars, fixtures, equipment, furniture, etc., which in some instances are rath- er elaborate. Heretofore, destructlon orders have been restricted mainly to breweries and other places where liquors are manufactured. HALIFAX IS CROWDED. Vessels Driven From Rum Row Wonder at Next Move. NEW YORK, May 20 (. —Rum ships, driven from off American shores by the Coast Guard blockade. are jamming Halifax Harbor as one re- sult of the determination of the ad- ministration from President Coolidge down to enforce prohibition to the Umit. Thirteen steamers and schooners are tied up at Halifax. Five arrived yes- terday. They don’t know where to turn. Some of them intend discharg- ing their cargoes and returning to legitimate freight traffic. The determination of the 2dminis- tration to stake everything on the present dry drive has been revealed with the publication of a transcript of the secret hearings of a special Senate committee investigating prohibition enforcement. Senator Watson of Indiana told the committee that the administration would use all agencies at its command to dry up the country. ““If, after the law has been enforced to the limit, the people do not want to stand for it.”” he continued, “it is for the people to say so, and the law can be modified.” The Halifax situation confirms state- ments in Coast Guard circles that rum row has virtually been cleaned up. One ship of a fleet of 80 rum ships remains. Tt is a_German ves. #el, anchored 40 miles off Sandy Hook. The dry campaign, ashore and in- land, continues apace. A fleet of small armed craft is being mobilized at five bases on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River to cope with the ex- pected deluge of liquor from Ontario, where 4.4 per cent beer goes on sale Thursday. Ten more saloons and restaurants have been padlocked in New York. At Atlantic City, N. J., small boats once used by rum row's customers are be- ing turned into excursion craft. A London dispatch to the New York World says that a new rum plot has been discovered in Germany by United States officials. Huge ship- ments of inferior Scotch whisky, made in Latvia and labeled as crockery, the story says, were to have been smug- gled into the United States. - Buildings now under construction in Warsaw, Poland, number 225, !Speed Boat Beats | Twentieth Century Limited in Racel By the Asmsciated Press ALBANY, N. Y., May 20.—R. F. Hoyt's speed boat, “The Teaser,” today beat the Twentieth Century Limited’s time from New York to Albany by 20 minutes. The New York Central's fast train negoti- ated the distance in 3 hours. “The Teaser” made the trip in 2 hours, 40 minutes. NEW YORK, May 20.—"The Teaser,” R. F. Hoyt's speed boat, left_the Columbia Yacht Club pier at Eighty-sixth street at 7:45 a.m. today. The boat was piloted by George J. Mead of the Wright Aeronauti- cal Corporation. Other passengers were R. I. Chapman, editor of Motor Boating, official observer of the American Powerboat As- sociation, and Capt. Christianson. “The Teaser” is said to be capable of maintaining 55 miles per hour. She is 30 feet long. with a 7-foot 7-inch beam, and is equipped with a 600-horsepower engine. KIDNAPER SHOOTS WOMAN IN MAINE Fires Her Home and Abducts Her Niece—Is Pur- sued by Posse. By the Associated Press. WINTHROP, Me., May 20fi—A posse of county officers reinforced by citizens was searching the country- side in the vicinity of Lake Marana- cook today for a man who is believed to have shot and seriously wounded Mrs. M. Towns and then set fire to her cottage. Miss Aida Hayward, a niece of Mrs. Towns, is missing and is believed to have been abducted. Mrs. Towns is at the Winthrop Communi- ty Hospital with bullet wounds in the neck and right arm and suffering from shock. Mrs. Towns and her niece are among the most respected citizens of the town Fires Without Warning. According to the story told by Mrs. Towns, she and her niece returned late last night from Winthrop village to the cottage on the East Shore of Lake Maranacook and as they entered the door two shots were fired from within. Both bullets struck Mrs. Towns. She fell on a couch in a half- conscious condition and later heard the voice of a man telling Mias Hay- ward that if she would accompany him on a journey of 50 miles no harm would come to her. She heard Miss Hayward ask: “But what is my aunt should die? The man then came over and look- ed at_her as she lay on the couch, Mrs. Towns said. Afterward he went upstairs and she heard him speaking of money. The next she realized was that she was alone in the house and it was on fire. She revived sufficiently to drag her- self from the place and seek refuge in a neighboring cottage. Trace Closed Auto. Early today a man in a large closed car called at the home of Frank Hig- gins on the stage road, a half mile from the Towns cottage, and asked for a drink of water for his wife. Hig- gins' home is the nearest house to the burned cottage. Two hours later a closed automobile was stopped at the home of Charles S. Towle, State representative, miles farther on and somebody rapped at the door. Towle heard a woman talking excit- edly and the car drove off. WEEKS IS LIKELY 10 UNDERGO KNIFE War Secretary Will Consult Physicians in Boston When He Can Travel. By the Associated Prese. Secretary Weeks of the War De- partment, who suffered an attack of thrombosis about six weeks ago, plans to go to New England within a few days for a consultation of physicians to determine whether a gall bladder drainage operation is necessary. A statement issued today by John Martyn, Mr. Weeks' secretary, said that the operation, if necessary, would be ‘“neither serious nor dangerous.” “The original thrombosis attack which Mr. Weeks had six weeks ago has been largely overcome and he has practically recovered from it,” said Mr. Martyn. “In the meantime he has had sev- eral recurrences of serious gall blad- der attacks which have prevented a continuance of the improvement in his condition noted some three weeks ago. “It is the Secretary’s plan to go to New England within a few days and it may be necessary, after a consulta- tion there, to have a gall bladder drainage operation. This operation ‘will be neither serious nor dangerous.” Guard Against Recurrence. Mr. Weeks suffered acutely with the gall bladder complication a day or two ago, but the condition yielded to treatment, and yesterday the War Secretary was able to go for an auto- mobile ride. A return of the trouble still is feared, however, as he has had several attacks of this nature since the thrombosis attack compelled him to give up his official duties. Morgue Wagon Calls for the Corpse, But “Dead Man” Declines to Go Riding The somber black morgue wagon drove up to Freedmen's Hospital to reémove the body of Charles Churchill, colored, to a coroner’s inquest into the manner of his death, as reported yesterday after- noon by the police. The driver walked up to the in- formation desk and said he had come for “Charles Churchill.” “Upstairs, first room to right.” he was directed. Upstairs and to the right he went, halting in the doorway of the first room. Several patients lay on cots, but the body was not in sight. ““Where’s the body of Charles Churchill?” the morgue attendant asked of one of the ts. “Wh-wh-where's wh-what?" ejae- ulated the man addressed. the m'::fl:s dead man—Charles Church- “Quit_yer jokin',” came the re- ply. “I'm Charles Churchill, but I'm not dead.” 'You must be dead,” gasped the driver. “The police say so, the coroner thinks you are and the jury is walting fo hold an inquest over your bod ““Then they’ have to postpone it a while,”” smiled Charles, who already had learned of the er- roneous report on the police rec- ords. After Charles had convinced the driver he was 100 per cent alive, but slightly disabled as a result of a fight yesterday, the driver re- turned to the morgue and broke the news. “Darn these falss alarms,” one of the morgue employes remarked. NOTABLE GALLERY SEES HORSE SHOW Bright Day Brings Hosts to‘ Park—Mrs. Coolidge May Attend. For the first time in three years a brightly smiling sun shed its welcome radiance upon an inaugural matinee of the National Capital horse show this afternoon, when the 1925 meet got under way at Arlington Park. And the cloudless skies combined with un usually attractive cards gave promisa of attracting to the arena a record attendance. The boxes and grandstand seats, that have been deserted, except for a hand ful of ardent devotees of King Horse. who refused to let anything interfera with their attendance, for the past three vears, were well filled when tha trumpeter called the first event of the arena today, and the gallery was prob lably one of the most notable to visit | Arlington Park in many seasons Mrs. Coolidge Expected Mrs. Coolidge was expected 1o cupy the President’s box later in t week with a number of friends. and Mr. Coolidge himself may attend the show some time before it ends Sat day afternoon. Quite a number of jluncheon parties were given in the {restaurant that has been established as usual at one end of the gzrand stand, nd, unless the weather changes. 1 may go down as a ban ner year for the National Capita Horse Show from many standpoints Heretofore the riding has been | marred by the sloppy condition of the arena, due to intermittent rains, and it was not an infrequent thing for the riders to take the jumps in the midst fof a drenching downpour. As a re sult, the horses slipped and manv good jumpers, made nervous at tha slippery course near the bars, fafled to perform as well as their records and ancestry indicated The arena and track are both lightning fast to day, however. Ten in First Class. The first class was summonedq to the arena promptly at 2 o'clock. Tt was for brood mares suitable to preduce hunters. and 10 entries answered call. This class was of particular in terest to horse breeders, and was de clared to show a marked improvement over previous vears, indicating that the class of horses being reared on this continent progressing each vear. Nine other classes are to be own today, as follow: 2:05 p.m—Class 1 entries. 0 p.m.—Class 1 entries. p.m.—Cl: W., 3% ent 2:40 p.m.——Class S, park horses. novice, 10 entries. ss 32, local hunter: officers’ charg saddle ponies, & green hunters saddle 35 {_ 3:15 p.m.—Class 13, artillery teams, 3 entries. 5 p.m.—Class 31 tries. :35 p.m.—Class 10, park saddle entries 3:45 p.n.—Class 40 entries pairs hunters, 5 30 ladies' hunters Envoy's Wife Several exhibitors new ton have entries listed for today. of them being Mrs. J. R. Lawson Johnston, of the British embassy, wh will show her famous brown hunter, Belleamie, in the Green hunter class This class promises to be the big event on teday’s program and the gallery is looking forward to some real thrills when the voungster bangtails attempt to leap the four dificult obstacles they will find in this class Mrs. Lawson-Johnson will find her horse pitted against some of note. In the same class will be little Robert Sommers, 8-year-old sensation of last year's meet, on his own Billie. Billie and Robert are real pals and the: seem to know each other so well that they always present a dangerous pair for the other horses to beat. Despite his youth Robert is no novice in the ring, and old hands at the track are predicting that he will even eclipsa his record of last year The local hunters' class has at tracted to Arlington a fine array of Washington timber-toppers. Thirty six entries are listed, including among the exhibitors the following: Coi. Wil liam Mitchell, former assistant chief of the Army Air Service; Melvin Hazen. manager of the show; Mrs Willlam J. Donovan. G. W. Rust, Capt. J. S. Golden, Ray H. Norton Edward B. McLean, Miss Maud Preece. Miss Persis Chase Myers, M E. Erwin, Walter H. Bowes, P. D. Holmes, Mrs. J. R. Lawson-Johnston Capt. H. T. Allen, Capt. V. L. Padgett. Capt. Jean R. Underwood, Lieut. I M. Robinett, Lieut. I. L. Kitts, Lieu Robert B. Hood, Lieut. James B. Pat terson, Lieut. Edward M. Taylor, Thomas Leiter, Allendale Farms Broad View Farms and the Benton Stables. Today's program closes with the annual mile-anda-half steeplechase and an exhibition of fancy horseman- ship by troopers from Fort Myer, tk- latter to be a feature of each dayv's show. onet STERLING EXCHANGE REACHES $4.86 3-8 British and American Support Carries Pound to Less Than 1 Cent of Parity. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 20.—Sterling reached $4.86%. The pound sterling is making a gradual and apparently a sure prog- ress toward & return to parity (§4.866:% under steady support from America and from local interests. Today’s point is the highest reached since the resumption of the gold standard. A reassuring effect is im parted by the fact that the rate now precludes profitable movement of gold to the United States, and no important gold withdrawals are being made for the present from the Bank of Eng land. The purchase by the Bank of Eng- land of nearly £1,000,000, worth of bar gold assisted the rise of the rate. Less Than Cent to Go. NEW YORK, May 20 (#).—Sterling exchange now is less than 1 cent from parity. Demand bills were quoted in the New York market today at $4.85 and 7%, the highest quotation sinoe November, 1914. Buying of British bills in this market was {nspired by the strength of sterling in the London market, where cables on New York ‘were quoted above $4.86. Will Assume Duty at Fort Bragg. Capt. Gilbert S. Woolworth, judge advocate of the adjusted compensa tlon branch. adjutant general's office, has been ordered to Fort Bragg, N. C.. for duty. Commissioned as Major. Carl J. Mess, Braddock road, Alex- andria, Va., has been commissioned by the War Department as a major {n the Dental Corps, Officers’ Ressrve Corps of the Army.