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| Showers this afternoon pm. yesterda today. 1°ull report on page 7. lowest, WEATHER. tomurrow partly cloudy and cooler. Temperatures—Highest, Forecast.) and tonight; 49, at 3 40, at 1 am. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 ch Entered as second class matter Washington, e WCARL REBUKED ~ AS*AUTOCRAT BY COURT IN PAY ROW Appellate Branch Upholds Ban on Withholding Navy Officer’s Money. CONGRESS NEVER GAVE RIGHT, JUDGES ASSERT Wisdom of Lawmakers Shown by Arbitrary Acts of Controller, Robb Says. nnot be such an autocrat. has been conferred Iy Congress upon any official and is entirely inconsistent with our theory Tt may be added that with which the au- thority o exerclse such arbitrary power has heen urged, in the circum- stances, clearly demonstrates the w dom of Congress in not conferring it.’ istice Charles H. Robb, delivering the opinion of the District Court o Appeals today, so rebukes J. Raymond MeCarl, Controller General of the United States, for his continued as- tion of the right to withhold p naval officers to reimburse ited States for disputed items erpayments for dependents he opinion was rendered in the of Lieut. Comdr. John F. Cox Navy, and affirms the action of Adolph A. Hoehling of the Supreme Court. whu granted an injunction against MeCarl to pre. vent the withholding of 20 per cent uf naval offiser’s salary. Justice Hoehling held that_as Conzress had appropriated the salary of the officer 1t could not he “checked against™ for claim of the Untied States against the officer. Nearly 100 similar cases &re pending in the lower court Wilbur Co-defendant. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary Navy, was ea-defendant with There ¢ o zuch power the persistence overnment & 1 or District as of the McCarl hut in his answer to the petition for | injunction declared he did not agree with the position taken by McCarl, but had issued the order to withhold portion of the salary of the officer when McCarl had threatened to pay no salary until the disallowed claims had been liquidated. In the course of his opinion Justice Robb_sa: It would require very specific provision to convince us that Congress intended to clothe an ac- counting officer with power to with- hold in_whole or in part the salary of an officer of the Navy, appropriated for by it, as a set-off against a sum found by that accounting officer be due the Government because of allezed overpayments in allowances rezularly made to and received by that officer in good faith. The exer- cise of such arbitrary power mizht affect and serfously impair the efll ciency of this branch of the natlonal defense. Indeed, it is not in dispute At there are a large number of gimilar cases now pending. Naval officers are required to go to the far ends of the earth and may depend upon the salary attached to their of- e for support of families left be- hind Supreme Court Case Cited. decisions of the precise justice reviews courts involving question which had been adverse to the contention of McCarl in two Dis- t Courts of the United States and cuit Court of Appeals for the Circuit, which are fully sup. he points out, by the ruling he Un Smith nd The other ond Jackson (24 U 388), We are fully in accord ith rulings of other courts. “The ontroller zeneral does not even contend that his deciston is final, hut he does maintain that he ma upon his own ex parte finding of in- debiedness, convert into the Treasur salary regularly appropriated for and compel the officer involved to \ait the outcome of a suit in the Court of Claims, while his family Ay be without means of support. It i- abvious that to require an officer 1o sue the United States in such cir- would impose upon him of proving 4 negative, or that he was not indebted to the United States, insiead of compelling the Government to assume the bur- den rizhtfully upon it of establishing its contentions by affirmative proof. We, therefore, rule that the sal- arv of Comdr. Cox. having been regu- larly appropriated for. it was the 1in ministerial duty of the account- officers to pay that salary with- deductions, and that the decree right and is affirmed.” the case involving the f naval officers, Mc- ses before the t cumstances the burden 1 b out below wi While losing retention of pa Justice Robb, who rendered the de- gainst him in the naval officers upheld_him in the suit of the & BEddy Co. of the State of shington. which sought to compel to take jurisdiction of a claim against the United States Shipping loard Emergency Fleet Corporation for the building pany during the war cision Skinner W him Wins Another Case. Orsdel also sustained 1l in setting-off a Electric Co., a against the Justice Van the controller zene claim of the Curr corpora e 1 nited es for reimbursement for money due it by a co-partnership also known as the Carroll Electric Co. In the Skinner & I3ddy case Justice Robb held that as lonz as a_court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Washington had taken jurisdietion the claim Mr. McCarl was correect in refusing to consider it before the de- ion of the court (lonscienc.e Money Sent by Children To U. S. for Wood Conscience-stricken because they took some small pieces of petrified wood from the Government's petri- fied forests in Arizona last Sum- mer in violation of the law, two children have sent the Interior De- partment $5 as payment. The children wrote that they had never felt right about it. and hoped hat the money would “more than to | ed States Supreme Court | of ships by the com- ‘DUTCH’ ANDERSON IS KILLED BY OFFICER HE FATALLY SHOT Tragic Battle in'Alley in Muskegon, Mich., En Career of Chapman’s Pal—Policeman, Mortally Hurt, Gets His Man. By the Assoriated Press. MUSKEGON, Mich.. November 2.— George (Dutch) Anderson, gunman, killer, and pal of Gerald convicted slaver and robhe to death here Saturday nig! tective Charles Hammond Identification was made finger prints and Bertillon measure ments, as well as by secret service agents, who have been secking Ander- son Anderson. for whom search has been made since the slay- | Ing last August 14, in Munecie, Ind | ©f Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hance. died from @ bullet fired from his own weape but only after he had tasully wounded | the detective Anderson went to s death nghting | So did Detective Hammond who, al- though fatally wounded wrested the revolver trom the bandit's hand in un alley in the shadows of the police station and then killed Anderson with the latter's own weapon The arrest was made after Ander- on. who had $2,200 in counterfeit $20 « = shot ht by today by a nationwide apman, | De- | WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. turday's Circulati Sunday's n, Circulation, D. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 1925 ~THIRTY-SIX PAGES. UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. T ds w | [bills on his person, had passed one| | for a box of candy at the Coloniul Cafe. Suspicious of the bill. the| hier sent for her brother, Garcit| Enzualls, to the bank across the street. | The bill was declared a counterfeit Hammond was detailed by Chief Hansen to pick the man up. Ham- { mond and Engalls found him mixing | with the crowd on Western avenue, | the main business street, and then Enzalls pointed him out | Hammond told Anderson_to accom. | pany him fo the station. He walked ilong until he was nearing the hall wh the police station ix 1o ated. Then he slipped a revolver from his pocket und fired Iis first | and second shots went wild and An-' derson into an alley at the rear of the city hall. Tmmond followed | in the face of the zun firc, and as he zrabbed Anderson ihe humdit turned and fired vange The bullet went thr Hammond « lung and liver Humniond wrested the trom Anderson and fired x his_hodv. severing the muain & > close uzh 3 revolver into artery ntinued on Page 2. Column 2 29 ARE ACQUSED NBEG LOUOR PLD ' dicted on Charge of $1,- i 80C 000 Conspiracy. the | By the Axsociated Press | ST. LOUIS. November | States Attorney Curry !nuhllv the names of 34 ) cluding prominent offic jclans in St. Louis | Cincinnati, who were indicted at In | dianapolis Saturday by Feder {grand fury on 2 charge of conspirucy 1in the $1.800.000 Juck Daniel whisky withdrawal plot Included in the list was lmogene | Remus, wife of the former Cincinnati | bootlegger, who has become estranged | from him since his rece | the Atlanta penitentiary {tesvifled before the grand Jury fnot indicted Tax Collector Indicted. | | Others indicted include: Arnold J | Hellmich, collector of internal revenue { for the eastern Missouri district | Nat Goldstein. former circuit cler lof St. Louis and one of the partici ! pants in distribution of the Lowden | campaign fund of 1920, | Fred Essen. former Representative {and present St. Louis County Repub i lean leader Michael J. Kinney of St. Louis, ! State Senator and Democratic leader, | William J. Kinney, brother of the | State Senator and former deputy un- | der Collector Hellmich, and gauger at { the Daniel warehouse here during the |time when conspirators are alleged {to have been “milking” the barrels | there. Unj ed nide today persims. in s wnd polity Indianapolis #nd t release from was Distiller Accused. Lem Motlow, wealthy Tennessee distiller, who shot and killed # Pull- man conductor on one of his trips here but was acquitted of charge of ‘ murder. Tom Heffernan, an associate of Mot- tlow in ownership of the whisky and one of the alleged participants in its sale to a syndicate backed by Remus. Henry L. Dahlman, the third par ner in ownership of the liquor prior Ito its sale. John Marcus, was arrested former convict, in Indianapolis who on Christmas eve, 1923, with an automo- | | bile load of Jack Daniel whisky Don H. Tiobinson. Thomas J. Mc Auliffe, Thom:< . McCafferty, Leon- ard Stone Edw-rd Meininger, named by Remus us purchasers of the whisky for $125.000 from associates, Michael J. Whalen committeeman and here. and Democ former atic city alderman Seven Acts Alleged. “Tony” Foley, notorious St. Louis County gambler and former convict Daniel O'Neil and Harry Levin, former St. Louis County deputy con- stables. Morris Multin, former St. Louis | whisky dealer, and his brothers, Isa- | dore Multin and Sidney Multin. John Connors, John Gehrun, Mrs. Ada Gehrun. George R. Landon, Ed- {ward J. O'Hare, Willlam Lucking, Robert E. Walker, August Walker, Clifford Sampeon, Carlisle Samyson, Frank Hoffman, Bernard Brink, George Hollis, Henry Stratton, Ben Doncaster, Richard Fitzgibbon and an named Houlihan, first name un- known to the grand jurol Twenty-two of those indi from St. Louls or vicinty, District Attorney Curry cted were said ! caplases would be issued at once, not | {only here but at Cincinnati and Nash- ville, Tenn., and the defendants would he brought in to make bonds. rang | ing from $2,500 to $10.000 for appear- | ance in Federal court at Indianapolis Saturday at 10 a.m. The indictment specifically charges | conspiracy to violate the Volstead act land sets forth seven allezed overt acts, including transportation of some of the whisky to Indianapolie, cul- minating in the arrest there Marcus. His arrest brought the venue in the case in Indianapolis. Remus, who | Motlow and | ITALIANS RECPEN AR DEBT PARL | Negotiations for Settlement of $2,138,000,000 Due U. S. Get Under Way. With comprehensive preparation in readiness. negotiations for funding the Iahan debt of $2,138.000.000 to the United St today ot under way Calls of courtesy were made by the iree ranking delexates of the Italian debt commission. headed by Finance Mimster Count Volpi. upon Secretary of State Kelloxg and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon the first formal session between the Italian und j American commissions was set for 4 flock th Whether planued to vint ternuon the visitin lay s first table this afterncon wus but the 1ost reliable pointed to a session of formality, with |vpeninz stutements tfrom both sides |#nd the usual photographs, inevituble lat the first session. deleziution offer on the not known ndications Earmest Spirit Appara A Spirit of earnestness seemed 1o be pparent this morning on the part of members of boths commissions. as the negotiations ure recognized by both |as being approach to a difficult | problem | Italy hag sent to the United s outstandinz men of her government | prepared to make a settlement of her | debt to the United States, if at all possible within the capacity of the |country to pay as recognized by the | home zovernment The American Debt Commission will approach the problem. as it hus approached all other funding negotia [ tions, 1t was learncd, looking toward |2 \'}ll!l\nnn( if possible based on | 1aly's capacity to pay | Both governments have outlined | what each believes tu be that capacity | | 4nd already the American commission has been furnished with elaborate doc- umentary evidence of the Italian posi- tion. n States Returned For Data. | The prelimina nezotiations last Summer were conducted in the form of conversations between Dr. Mario Alberti, and Ambassador de Martina for the Italian government with Sec- of the Treasury Mellon and Un- tary Winston, chatrman and | secretary respectivel of the Amer- ican Debt Comm on. Dr. Albert l’r—l!)rnm] to Rome for further data, which he compiled in conference with his government and forwarded some time ago, throuzh the Italian embassy here, to the Treasury Department. - | _No time has been set for the return of the Italian commission to Rome, al | though there werc me unoffici: in dications today tending to show that the visltors expect their stay to be short. It has been intimated, how- ever, that they will remain long @S necessary 1o go over the entire range of possibilities looking toward 1 settlement. There were evidences of confidence | on the part of both commissions to. day. Failure of the French commis. ion recently headed by the now fullen Finance Minister Caillaux to 1each a settlement with the American | commission over the French debt to the United States has added a tinge of seriousness to the visit of the Ital ians. There have even been expres- | sfons from Rome that the fall of Caillaux and closing of Ameri credit to France should be taken as a | warning by the Italian commission. | Nothing official on this question. how- ! cver, has been forthcoming. Coolidge to Entertain. H | Tomortow night President Coolidge | will enteftain at the White House in honor of the visiting Itallan commis. sion. The guest list has not been made public, but it is understood to tollow the zeneral lines of a similar dinner ziven for the French debt commission There will probably be representatives from bhoth commis. ione, the foreign relations commit tec of the Senate and forefzn affairs committee of the House. Much sig- nificance is always attached to such social engagements at the White louse, as the opportunity thus offer- d_for exchange of (Continued on Page 1 e Column 6.) : Found Dead at | | By the Associated Press. | EUREKA, Calif.. November | The theory that Carmon Wagner, 18- | vear-old girl, found murdered near {here recently, may have been Kkilled |in accordance with sacrificial rites of |an anclent Indian tribe by a descen- |dant of the tribe, was advanced by | Dr. E. O. Heinrich, Berkeley crimin- lologist who returned to Eureka after {visiting the vlace where her body was ifound buried. About 300 vird- ¢way, Dr. Heinrich «aid he had found ancient alin Indian May Have Sacrificed Girl, 18, Moss-Covered Altar ficed by the person who first shot and | Icilled ~ Miss Wagner's companion, {Henry Sweet. |, “Tt is possible that a descendant of the Indians in the vicinity was a vic- tim of a ‘flare back’ to the old re- lizious beliefs of his forefathers, and| e may have conceived the idea of ! |sacrificing a ycunt woman on the | moss-covered aitar,” the criminologist aid. Dr. Ead P ; i his_theory | the fact the altar Heinrich said that been strengthened by wth on the trees ot 'MESSAGE IN ! Note Written ia DAVIS AND WILBUR HEAD 73 WITNESSES ON MITCHELL LIST Subpoenas Asked for San-| ders and Mrs. Lansdowne, | Among Others. i | CALLS MAY BE DENIED BY MILITARY JUDGES ——— | Defense Will Attempt to Prove, Accuracy of All of Colo- nel’s Charges | | | Mitchell, now heing ! ial court-martial for his sensational attack on the War and Navy Departments’ administration of the air services, today requested the court to subpoena for him wit- including the heads of the de- | tments he so bitterly assuled. | The intrepid aviator, whose military | te now hangs on the decision of th- milita court before which he has Leen haled, desires to face i1 court not only Secretary of War Davis and ecretary of the Navy Wilbur, hut retary of Agriculture Jardine, ett ande secretary to Presi- dent Coolidge, and Dwight Morrow head of the President’s aireraft inves- tizating Loard Another high light in the trial today < the statement, under examination Lieut. Col. Georze L. licks of sam Houston. Tex.. who made inquiry into the Mitchell case. that he did not believe Col Mitchell's attacks had an adverse ef- fect_on discipline in the Texas area Whether the tull st ol witnesses and docume requested by Repre. entative Frank 11 Reid Mitchell's <pecial counsel, would be summoned, was uncertain this afternun Moreland Is Silent The matier rests with the trial judge advocate, Col. Sherman Moreland, and he refused luter to express an opinion this connection It was under d however that military pro cedure permits of the summoning by the defense of ony such witnesses as testify in proof of certain state. uctions of the accused with-! % to defend him court should axree all the witnesses desired by the de- tense, the trial undoubtedly would be drawn out vver very long period of time, and it is believed in considering Mitchell's application this time ele ment may have some weight Col Mitchell informed the court | that he wishes the heads of the mil- | itary establishment to bring with} them numerous documents affectinz | their administrations of their respec- tive air services and including many state records concerning such mat the Shenandeah’s ill-fated trip. the MacMillan Arctic and the i:waifan fight Cot William tried by pr nesse Five by Fort preliminar n ments or out servi It the o eall ters a Western pedition maneuyers Prominent among other witnesses whom Mitchell wishes to have testify are Capt. Anton Heinen. noted dirigi- ble expert. who has made charges concerning the management of the Shenandoah, and Mrs. Zachary Lands- down. widow of the Shenandcah's commander Detense Plan Clarified. It became apparent today that the defense intends to attempt ry out its contention that all of Mitchell's striking assertions alleging “almost treasonable administration™ of the Air Service could and would be substan tiated as facts The list of the court run the nesses submitted to amut of every one in any way involved in Mitchell's verbal attacks. These attacks cen tered around such expeditions 3 of the Shenandoah, the Mac party and the Pacific Coast flight If Col. Mitchell's request for Gov- ernment records is carried out in full, the court will have before it all of the! correspondence concerning the last flight of the Shenandoah and in ad- dition copy of the order ecting the use of parachutes on dirigibles. Mitchell had criticized the Navy De- partment for failing to provide para- chutes for the crew Data Is Important The papers requested would tend to; prove or disprove most of Mitchell's charges contained in his two San An- tonio statements of last September, in- Cluding charges that there were an insufficient number of rescue ships strung across the Pacific for the Hawaiian flight, that the recent fleet maneuvers in the Pacific constituted 4 “joy ride” and charges that the! MacMillan expedition was sent out in an unprepared condition The accused would have the Gov- ernment furnish a miiltary intelli- g€ BOTTLE TELLS OF SHIPWRECK in Dutch Found' Floating in St. Lawrence Closes With “Adien.” By the Associated Press. QUEBEC. November ‘Lost_in storm. Written by one of the ship- | wrecked crew of the S. S. Aophard, Holland. Please he kind enough to forward this to_Safekeeping. Hap- | pened October 2 Written by Ye Teolsa, Adieu. This message, countersigned by | pt. Banderweevoen,” was found in | bottle in the St. Lawrence River | near the lighthouss on Ste. Felicite, Quebec, October 27. It was written in Dutch, and, following its translation today by Abbe Desmet of Laval Uni- versity, was sent to the Department of Marine and Fisheries at Ottawa. | Day of Great Gales. MONTREAL, November 2 (#).—| The Dutch steamer Alphard, 2,017 | tons, sailed from Montreal for Rotter- | dam October 24. Her master w: Van Waarden. On Sunday, Octeber 25, the date on the note in the bottle picked up in the St. Lawrence, great gales swept | the entire Atlantic Coast and reached | into the St Lewrence. Considerable | damage wes done to shippinz and | several transitluntic liners were held | up in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. ! The master of the Alphard as con- tained in marine fecords/here s “Van Waarden R i | | tic Coast |long and of 2,204 registed tonnage. < HEADLIGHT MENACE THREATENS CITY AS | LAWS ARE IGNORED Blinding Lamps Blaze Path of Peril to Drivers and Pedestrians Alike. |FEW TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TESTING FACILITIES Demand for Curb on Recklessness Grows as Bad Weather In- creases Danger BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. Placing in of motorists opardy the lives of all isers streets and highwavs— the urich lestria dif District the contriry s alike tinues of Columbi . and re from the authorities that the dangerous nuisance will e tolerated in laws to wated wa the Proof that the frrezular auto lamy Uil is blazing its path of peril in the National Capital night in glare and dazzle of the countles that ply the horoughfares to the dise: ure and hazard of all drivers Up and down the streets and around the corners they hite and vellow confusion 4y IC DREAM the JUST A TRARI SIK KILLED, 24 HURT AS TRAIN HITS BUS School Children Victims of Fatal Crash in Georgia. Driver Badly Injured. s city's g Father EVIDENCE DIFFERS "IN DEEGAN KILLING At White House | Divergent Lines of Testimony in Coroner’s Inquest—Case Is Continued. < into the s 1o create Col. John Coolidge, father of the eusily resul President. is plannin forsake Vermont home for a Winter 1t the White House is probable that he here before his Plymouth is snowed in and will until the Winter breaks Physicians who attended the colonel during his illness last Sum mer. are understood to have ad vised him he can safely make the trip to the Capital and that it would be advisable for him to tuke ad vantage of the comfort of the Ex ecutive Mansion MISHAPS IN SOUTH KILL 23, INJURE 51 Eight Dead in North Caro- lina, 14 Hurt in Atlanta. Rain Is Blamed. ir to ster - Survey Hence the plea side that there be of the headl: District, with prompt lifference to the rezt Demanded. heard immediate sur. situation in the stay It rive home main is n will ar diaad ns. followea zdequzte fi the impc urt. That wilful indiffererce to the head L:zht laws does exist in a large the convil ition of By the Assoctated Press NAHUNTA November Six were killed and approximately children injured when the Atlantic Coast Line's fast New York to Florida passenzer traln No. 81 crashed into a ‘loaded school bus at « grade crossing herg today The bodies and the injured children were placed on board 4 special Atlan- Line train and hurried to where they were sent to t death Colum steer inquest into the of Charles C. Deegan. 21, of | bia road, who was killed at ing wheel of his autom ida avenue and 1 night hile twe 1 juor raiders ind Francis Deegan and Raymond Beavers were in the car, attained ser sational proportions today before the attorneys for Francis Deegan asked for a continuance until tomorrow. The inquest was recessed until 11:30 to morrow morning. Two divergent lines of were adduced. One tended to evidence that the police had no cause to board the automobile of Deezan with pistols Irawn The other tended how they had ample cause to attempt cap. ture of the machine and its occupants Testimony at Variance. The testimony ipally is this bt S Police claim that Deegan | under the right shoulder blade. The | B the Associated Press sutopsy by Dr. Martyn and Dr. | ATLANTA Logers. deputy coroners, showed that | | Novembe: ~Traffic | | accidents in Southern States claimed a | the bullet entered zbout one-half inch to the left of the spine. According [toll of at least 21 deaths and 50 in- |1 the left el e children was sent ahead to ascertain | condition of pavements in the cities, |y RV e Shot, Would hove Sone to. see if a train cOmIE. Thl“ fie to the general rain over the ~H.Al"hl line. TT‘|E autopsy shows the child sent as a lookout was killed in- | south, was blamed for a large portion [juth of the bullet to have been trans. e T e 19"k | North Carolina reported the heaviest | the spine to the right side of the chest |toll in deaths. Charlotte reported four | where it came out S measure motive know motorists 1 Lite ner near Flor- Saturday the ttitude of rezulations ar owner ‘ttempt whatev checked whil ed at the suggestion For several months early in the present year motorists were norifiec by District authorities that out-of !focus head lamps would not be toler ©d after August 1, and they werc warned also to have their lights con form to the new regulations by thii date. Sufficient time was allowed for them to comply and the requirement were set forth in the newspapers most dafly. o1 . have made ne ve their lizhis n have snick Waycross, a hospital. %.. Roy Strickland, 1% the driver of the bus, is said to be seriously in- Jured The which collected children in this vicinity, was nearing the town school when it was struck midsection by the train. The force of the impact scattered the children about the track | and road The known dead have been identified as Pear! Strickland. 16; Addrey May ohns 14 Dorris Herrin. 14: May hornton, 12: a brother and sister med Lewis, azed 10 and 12 The driver ~f the bus said a freight train parkel on a siding excluded view of the railway track for any distuance from the road. One of the | testimony | | | | I | 1 h Testing Plan Offered. at variance The Washington Automotive Trade Association, in a spirit of n-operation tendered its services to help motorists Lest their auto lamps and many mem nms‘uf that organization expended considerable sums of m v fitti; up testing tunnels and procuring nec | sary apparatus. The charge was to e mominal and the car owner given card showing the date of the in spection, condition of the lights and other pertinent information. When the trade sseciation Was made known, Director of Traffic Eldridge announced that the card is sued by the automotive men would be ziven official recognition. In case of jurrest the trade card would Le ac cepted as evidence that the hoider at least had made an attempt to comply with the regulation: Since very few | make their own tests or perform their own adjustments, and there are not many places to zo outside the trade ciation, it is believed that the e was shot was i car owners can South Carolina was next, with four | 3}ass jars with corn liquor in them killed and one injured, while Kentucky | (NTown from the car before Policemen CREW HUNT FUTILE! 14 and no fatalities, although several | husband Frank—testified that no Freigther Algiers’ Captain and Men | 0f those injured are’sald to be serious came third, Louisville reporting three [ Rinke and Langdon rushed it on killed. Two of the latter were by | Seaton street near Seventeenth street. cases, May Have Been Picked Up by | "4 tabulation of the cities reporting Other Craft, Message Says hottles or jars were seen by them to ass have been thrown from the car. They |number of inspection cards used indi were standing on the door step and | cates rather accurately just how the antomobile of Deegan at one time | many motorists have taken the heaa zrazed their front stoop. running up |light regulations seriously. on the sidewalk m an apparent ef fort to escape the police ebort 5 5 : ' ! et | killed and three injured, while Greens-| Second. Police and prohibition | Loro reported 4 dead and 11 injured. | !Z¢Nts testified that they had seen SHIP BURNS AT SEA, automobiles and one by street car Other = witnesses—Elizabeth Haley, Atlanta led the list of injured with | ‘olored. of aton sitect, and hex | traffic aceldents in their vicinities fol lows: Killed. Injnred A o | New Orieane . Blame “Other Fellow."” | Sashvile | Loutsetle hointed out a port: ¥ IR pointed ou n_important * in not obtaining univer: com yplisnce with the headlight require ments that many ca wners are hon estly of the opinion that their lights do not need adjustment, and that it is always the other fellow’s lamps that are crooked. On the other hand, Imen say that it is jsible for a car to receive any wide use, particularly over rough rouds Br the Associated Press NEW YORK November The freighter Algiers hurned off Norfolk | last nicht, the Independent Wireless Telegraph Co. reported today. A m, sage from the freighter Birmingham City. which went to the aid of the Algiers, =.id no sign of life was seen aboard the burning ship. The list wireless from the ham City, received shortly before mid night, said it was cruising about in search of possible lifeboats with sur- vivors. Belief was expressed by the Birmingham City’s captain that the crew of the Algiers may have been picked up by another ship Philadelphia was the home of the Algie which was 28] Revolvers Not Ou Third. Policeman’ Langdon. one of those boardinz the Deegan car, testi fied that neither he nor Rinke had his revolver out when they rushed to the machine (Rinke’s statement Saturday was that the revolver with which Deegun was killed was taken from his holster by Francis and discharzed while in Francis Decgan’s hand during the | scuffle) Witnesses—again the Haley |without the lamps becoming a bil man_and his < well Ray- | tilted mond Beavers, who was in the car| with Deegan at the time—testitied | A survey of the records of test {cards issued shows that most of the that the two policemen had pistols in their hands “when they rushed {car owners who apply larly to the (have their lights checked are those Deegan machine. Fourth. Police—including {who need the inspection least, for two Burlingame, Policeman Langdon and reasons: First, because they give {their lamps attention at regul Prohibition’ Agent Martman—testi- |periods, and again because they own fied as to incidents indicating a |the larger and more expensive fight between Francis Deegan and | with better equipment not so easily the policemen in the rear of the!jolted out of ulignment : Deegan car. Beavers declared that| With the approach of Winter Francis Deegan had been so beaten | weather, dazzling headlights consti up as to be unable to fight strenu- ously at the time the shot flashed by tute an even greater menace to life and property, in the opinion of safety his face and entered the back of Charles Deegan. lexperts, and every precaution, they sy, should be taken to rid the streets Deegan May Testify These, then, were the divergent f out-of-focus lamps. Snow Constitutes Peril. lines of testimony developed by ques-| Mortorists last Friflay night werc tioning witnesses by Coroner Nevitt, confronted with the seriousness of Assistant United States Attorney E.|blinding lights when they attempted Russell Kelly, Assistant Corporation |to drive through the snow with wind Counsel Robert L. Williams, Attorney €hields partly cbliterated. That there Harry Whalen for Rinke and Attor. Wwas not a long list of major accidents \eys' Willlam B. Rayner and J. M. | was due no doubt to the fact that driv Kenyon for Francis Deegan, when the | ers. realizing the highly unfavorable inquest was recessed until tomorrow. conditions, operated their with Whether Francis Deegan will take | the utmost care. the stand or not will be decided in All motorists are aware that wet 4 T s pavements tend to accentuate the dif SSknried oni Tage | Reulties incident to night driving. For this reason it is believed to be abso {lutely essentia] that District author. {itles take steps at once to hunt out | cars having ‘cockeyed” lights. In !dry weather the glaring headlight is { fraught with danger enough, but in | wet weather it is in the same cate- oty with the irresponsible or intoxi- ! cated driver and should be dealt with | equally severelv. No more serious traffic situation confronts the automobiie driver than «a glaring lizht. He is temporarily Columbia (Greenshoro Atlanta .. Montzomery . Totals the automotive virtually impos Auto | Struck by Carol CHERAW, S. C., November 2 (@) —Two were killed and one_seriously injured when Seaboard Air Line train No. 4 struck an automobile at a crossing 17 miles south of here near Middendorf, late yesterday. The dead are: Raymond and Daisy Wilson of Jannette, Pa.; Louise Hel- seel, also of Jannette, was seriously injured. Helseel and the bodies of the two dead were taken to Hamlet, N. C. port feq Capt. t was owned by the Southern Steam- ship Co. The number of men in the crew was not reported. The British steamer Mountpark sent SOS yesterday from the gen -al vicinity where the Algiers was found burning. Later. it was re- ported, the Mountpark. disabled by the loss of its rudder, had been taken in tow by the Brifish steamer Kioto. GOVERNOR TO MISS WHITNEY PARDON California Syndicalism Law Must Be Upheld, Richardson Says, in Letter. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., November —Gov. Friend W. Richardson indi-| cated in a letter made public today that at_present he would not pardon | Miss Charollette A. Whitney, social | rvice worker. whose conviction of | olating the criminal syndicalism lawi has just been upheld by the United | States Supreme Court. | The letter was written to Upton | Sinclair, author, who had requested | executive clemency in behalf of Miss | Whitney. The governor asserted that { he would uphold the syndicalism law as impartially as other laws. Miss) Whitney was found guilty and sen- | tenced to the penitentiary for mem- | bership in the Communist party. Since the Supreme Court declined to | intervene many betitions for 1,100 STRIKERS IN RIOT. LONDON, November 2 (#).—An Ex- | change Telegraph dispatch from Mel- bourne, Australia, says 1,100 strikers ~lashed with the police at Freemantle. | One-hundred arrests were made and a number of persons received hospital treatment. A strike of seamen in protest against a wage decrease has been in effect in Australian_ports for more than two months. Freemantle is the chief port lin Western Australia. A Melbourne dispatch September 19 said the sea- 1men’s strike would be an issue in the eneral Australian clections set tot November 14. Duke Will Lifts “Newsboy” Cousin From Want to $125,000 Overnight Specia) Dispatch to The Star making & mere living. He went R e northward to Norfolk, Richmond, & D‘:']“““f‘r?‘hf'} November 4| Washingtor! and _Baltimore, _selling | umping overnight from penury and| newspapers at each place. Then to | obscurity Into the limelight of fortune | Oklahoma City, Okla., where he is now % and fame, James Buchanan Price, 59 | located, and where he has been doing | blinded. For o moment he is in total vears old, a newsboy in Durham and | odd jobs. {darkness, although flooded by light, Washington for a number of yvears,| Today a law firm there located and | And must trust to luck that the road and a relative of the late James Imfurmed him of the legacy which was |ahead is clear and that he will come Duke of Durham and New York, to-|left him by his cousin, Duke. { through without running down an in ay found himee f the possessor of | irice’s of want are over and | nocent pedestrian or colliding with an | leguey of §125.00 left to him under | his relatives here declare that he | other car. | the terms of the will of the late to-|will never again sell newspapers,| Since the headlight law went | bacco magnate. though he was an adept at doing that | effect, August 1, last, a very ‘e A year ago wae selling news. pardon | have been presented by organizations and individuals. i *mall a 1) | i percentage of the 80.000 Dist: his o (Continued on Page 3, Colun thing, and leather-lunged voice |l_{adio Programs—Page 30. oo { vy c pay” for the wood. s on the streets of Durham flvlld has been hearq Y “thousands. where the girl ma) ,’.\g veen oo i