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2 * ASSURES PSAGE | OF BULDIG BL Madden T::Ils President Pro- gram for District Will - Be Voted. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. N President Coolidge was told today by Representative Martin B. Madden of Tilinois, chairman of the House ap- propriations committee, that Congress will pass a general public buildings Dbill this coming session, which will ‘lude the President's program for Government buildings for the District € Columbia Mr. Madden said eecry member of .Congress recognizes the nt need for more adequate housing throughout the country for the Gov- ernment’s activities, and that there 13 not the slightest doubt ahout a gen- eral bill passing this Winter. He gained the impression that the Presi- dent favors such legislation if it is passed without any of the old-time pork-barrel features and if it includes his $50,000,000 public buildings pro- gram for this city The President was advised by the Tilinois Representative that the pub- lie buildings bill should be taken up in the House immediately after the tax reduction legislation and the vari ous departmental appropriations bills have been disposed of. As a matter of fact. he would favor its beinz brought up for action before all of the appropriation bills have been passed. $163,000,000 for Six Years. According to the opinions glven to the President during today's confer ence Representative Madden stated that the bill should authorize a total expenditure of $165.000,000 during a period of six years, which is $15,000.- 000 above the amount set in the bill passed by the House last vear, but which never reached the Senate. This additional amount. he explained, is necessary tq provide the money to bhuild 120 buildings authorized since 1913, and_which have not been built hecause of increased cost of construc- tio Like the President, Mr. Madden ap- proves a public buildings bill void of The so-called pork-barrel features. He favors reoassing the Ellfott bill, which the Ho! assed last Winter. and which rimoved all objectionable fea- tures by authorizing the expenditure of a cel spent diring a specified period and designated a_committee headed by the Secretary of the Treasury to select the sites, construct the buildings and spend the money, with the approval of Congress. Mr. Madden would not specify any definite amount for the District or any other place. He would leave this decision_entirely with the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Madden's talk about a public buildings bill came up during his ex- planation of his plans as chairman of the appropriations committee for pre- paring the legislation it will present this Winter. He said that his com- mittee will commence hearings No- vember 17 on the combined Treasury and Post Office. Department priation bill. The committee will start on the Interior Department bill, November 23 and after that will start on the Army and Navy appropria- tlons. The District of Columbia ap- propriation will be taken up last. He explained that there is nothing per- sonal in leaving the District to the last, but this place was selected be- cause the subcommitteemen who will prepare the District's appropriation bill will be engaged in other work in the meantime. Importance of Bill Urged. As one of his party’s leaders in the Hot Mr. Madden said he told the President that before any legislation is considered after the tax reduction and the tax bills have been started on their way, the House should take up the public buildings bill. Althouzh Mr. cuss with the President today posed reorganization legislation, declared that he heartily approved giv- ing the Executive blanket authority which would enable him to transfer hureaus and divisions and to bring about consolidation at will. This leg- islation, in the opinion of Mr. Madden, would solve the reorganization prob- lem, and would have a better chance of passing Congress than would the m"llvpcaed Smoot-Brown reorganization Mr. Madden believes there is great need for reorganizing the Govern- ment business, not only in the inter- est of economy, but to promote effi- ciency. As a matter of fact, he does not believe the money saving would be anything considerable. The Representative intimated that he strongly favors leislation that would bring about drastic changes in the present functions of the United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet :Corporation. He would not say whether he ap- proved proposals to abolish the board and transfer its functions and the operation of the fleet to some one of the departments. He answered this question by sayving he would have considerable to upon the subject at the proper time this Win- ter. Representative President that pro- Madden told the he believed the tax reduction which will eventually he effected will amount to $350,000,000 instead of the $300,000,000 specified earlier by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Following his conference with Rep- resentative Madden. President Cool- idge conferred briefly with Mrs. John Jacob Rodgers of Lowell, Masx., who, last Summer selected to il her late husband's unexpired term in_the House. The President told those with whom he talked early this morninz that he greatly enjoved the short cruise on the Mayflower ernoon when he and Mi terday aft- Coolidge bad as their guests of honor the Prince and Princess Asaka of Japan. LORD MAYORS TODAY Sir William Pryke Becom Executive of London—Labor Man > Elected in Birmingham. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 9.—The cities and boroughs of England today elect their lord mayors and mayors. A num- ber already have been returned with- out contests. The new lord mayor of London, who' was formally selected some weeks ago. is Sir Willlam Pryke, chairman of an iron and hard- ware organization. He is 78 years of age, and has been conngcted with the public life of London for nearly 40 years, The retiring lord mayor is Sir Al- fred Bower, and in accordance with custom a baronetcy has been con- ferred upon him in recognition of his having served as lord mayor. The new lord mavor of Birmingham, Percival Bower, is a trades union of. ficfal, and the first member of the Labor party to be .lord mayor of Birmingham. = Storms of any kind are virtually un- knowa in East Turkestan, in amount of money to be | appro- | Madden did not dis- | he | Chief | ‘Held in Plot LUIGT CAPELLO, A retired general and leader In the Italian fight l:flln!' fascism, was ar- rested at Turin in conection with a plot to assassinate the premler of Ttaly. frustrated a few minutes before the scheduled murder. Tito Zaniboni, Itafian’ Socialist, was hidden with a rifle across the street from the bal- cony on which Mussolini was to make a speech. He to in_which he planned to_escape were seized a scant few minutes before Mussolini was due to s NEW FINDS POSTAL RATES INADEQUATE Says Increases Only Help Meet Salary Boosts at Present. The recently increased postage rates will only about half meet the salary increases, Postmaster I New said today in a state- ment to the congressional special joint subcommittee on postal rates. Having held hearings in various cities preparatory to new postal leg- islation at the coming session of Con- gress, the committee resumed fits hearings here today and, after listen- ing to the Postmaster General, re- celved extensive data from Joseph Stewart, executive assistant to the Postmaster General. Mr. New submitted estimates, based on the first three months of the pres- ent fiscal vear, showing the probable increase in postal revenues as a result of the increased postage rates would be approximately $32,000,000, with total revenues estimated at $669.000,000. The salary increase voted by Congress ipproximate $68,000,000 a vear. The Postmaster General advised against a low rate for newsdealer packages of periodical matter approxi- mating the freight or express rates, and also' against a special rate on catalogues and other similar matter. A reduction in the rates on transient second-class matter, newspapers and periodicals mailed by the public gener- ally was recommended by Mrs. New, who suggested 1 cent for each 2 ‘ounces, regardless of distance The transient mewspaper rate, in- creased by the recent law in some cases more than 400 per cent, had been shown by experience to be bur- densome to the public and as dimin- ishing the postal revenue, he sald. C. B. BREWER ADMITTED Former Special Assistant Attorney General Undecided on Contin- { uing Treasury Fight. Charles B. Brewer, former special assistant Attorney General, was ad- mitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to- day on motion of John Paul Earnest, chairman of the examining committee. Mr. Brewer was not prepared to say whether he will continue to wage his fight against the Treasury Depart- ment over the investigation of alleged duplication of Liberty bonds, which caused his removal from the Depart- ment of Justice. Philip Pitt Campbell, former Repre- sentative from Kan: also was ad- mitted to practice law here today. president of the Vassar Alumnae Asso- clation and a graduate of the law de- partment of George Washington Uni- versity, was the only woman admitted to practice today. She will return to New York to prepare for the bar ex- amination there. Others authorized to practice here today are Pedro Capo-Rodriquez of Vermont, Charles C. Heltman of Nebraska, Willlam S. Ristig of Ten- nessee. Guy G. Moore of North Caro- lina, Clif Dalby of Utah, Elwood Hans. mann and Milton D. Korman of the District of Columbia and W. J Nun- nally, jr., of Georgia. |ITALIAN DE;T BODY % DELAYS DEPARTURE; RUMANIANS HERE in the Ttalian commission. ter is wondering. The lat- according to some indications today, it the American expression of hope can be taken as ‘evidence that the American com- mission will be willing to take fur- ther steps toward bridging the gulf between the two governments. | The head of the Italian body, Count Volpi, who is finance ministar of his country was understood to- day to be thoroughly anxious to stay as long as possible agreement, but feels that the duties of his office at home are calling him; and that he must get back as soon as he can. NEWSPAPERS WIN CASE. Wil Collect Reparation for Exces- sive Freight Rates. Newspapers at Dallas and Fort Worth were held by the Interstate Commerce Commission today to be en. titled to collect reparation from rail- roads for unreasonable rates charged on shipments of news print paper from Minnesota between August, 1920, and June, 1922. | | | ‘Wife Asks Divorce. Mrs. Rose A. Berman today filed suit_for a limited divorce from Louls C. Berman and asked the court to require him to give a bond not to leave Washington pending action on her petition. They were. married at Elkton, Md., March I3 last. The wife charges inadequate support and also alleges that her husband associt with other women. She is represente: by Attorney D. Edward Clarke, The plot was discovered and ! TO D. C. SUPREME BAR' Miss Margaret Lambie of New ank.| to reach an | THE EVENING FRENGH SLAYMORE ARABS AS THREA Three Hung in Public as Example of Authority. Sarrail Sails. By the Ass ted Press. LONDO, November 9. —Large | crowds of the people of Damascus early Sunday morning witnessed the public execution by the French of three Arabs, according to advices from the Syrian eity. Apparently in an effort to Instill full respect for the | mandatory power, the bodies of the men were left; suspended on the ropes on hich they were hanged for six houts, The Arabs were members of a part which some time ago attacked a con- voy on its way to Bagdad and killed the French captain and wounded other members of the party. To each body was attached w large placard on { which was printed a description of the crime for which the men were hanged. A newspaper correspondent who made his way from Halfa to Damascus describes the destruction wrought by the French bombardment in the eity, which, “he says, is extensive. Par. ticularly the Palace of Adem wa ,badly battered and numerous of its valuable contents looted. He says it is evident that when the Djebel Druse tribesmen made their way into Da mascus the lower elements of the pop ulation threw In their lot with them The burning by the French of va ous villages where support was not given them, and a similar destruction for the same reason by the Druses of numerous villages has resulted n large numbers of homel men joih ing the rebels and constituting a force that now is a real menace. This correspondent expects that when the expected eight battalions of infantry and two regiments of cavalry arrive 'to reinforce the French they will immediately endeavor to cause the disintegration of rebels around Da- mascus and cope with the dangerous situation in northern Syria. G Sarrail Sails. BEIRUT, Syrfa, November § (@ — Gen. Sarrail, former French high { commissioner in Syrla, recently o , dered back to France to'report on the situation in the mandate territory, salled today on the steamer Sphinx. Decisive Battle Imminent. PARIS, November 9 (). —la Lib- erte’s special correspondent in Cairo says telegrams arriving there from | Syria indicate that a decisive battle is imminent between the French and the rebels. A new and violent attack was di- rected against Damascus Saturday night when 1.600 rebels attempted to storm the city’s defenses. For a mo- ment it appeared they would force the lines. but a vigorous counter-at tack repulsed them, the correspondent reports. The firing ceased yesterday morn- ing. Report French Looting. CAIRO, Egypt, November $ (#).— The Syrian information bureau has re- ceived a report from Damascus dated November 2, which asserts that French soldiers forced an entrance into 60 private dwellings in the Kana- wat quarter, taking what they pleased. {The frightened occupants fled, seek- ing refuge in Beirut and in Palestine. | “The soldlers,” the report says, are | treating the population with extreme brutality under the pretext of claim- ing arms exacted by the French au- thorities. TE The Palestine Zionist execut!ve plib- lishes a report from Damascus under date of November 4, saying that “Dur- ing the recent disturbances and bom- bardment the Jewish quarter suffered. About 10 houses were burned by the rebels or destroved by shells and 30 Jewish families are homeless,” says { the report. Argentina Colony Protest BUENOS AIRES, November 8 (#).— The Syrian colony in Argentina has addressed a protest to the council of the League of Natlons against the bombardment by the French of Da- mascus and for other alleged outrages in that city. {J. H. WALSH NAMED TO SHIPPING BOARD New Orleans Man Chosen to Suc- ceed Thompson—Graduate of Annapolis. John Henry Walsh of New Orleans was today appointed by President Coolidge a member of the United ates Shipping Board. He succeeds Frederic I. Thompson of Alabama, whose resignation became effective ! November 1. Mr. Walsh will assume his duties as soon as he is sworn in. He is a gradu- ate of the United States Naval Acad emy of 1901, and served-in the Navy until 19 when he retired with the rank of commander because of (Il health. He has been a member of the ‘1’::: commission of New Orleans since | JEWISH GROUP TO MEET. National Council of Women to Gather Here Tomorrow. ‘The Washington (D. C.) Section, Na- tional Council of Jewish Women, will | hold its second meeting of the season tomorrow at 2:30 p,m. in the vestry rooms of the Eighth Street Temple. Mrs. L. B. Schloss, president of the council, wili preside. ‘The meeting will open with a praver, to be deliv- ered by Rabbi Louis Schwefel .of the Sixth ~Street Synagogue. Senator |King of Utah will speak on “The World Court.” Several vocal selec- tions will be given by Mrs. Wilbur Snidel. A social hour will conclude the program. DEEGAN PROBE BEGUN. Grand Jury Investigating Death in Which- Three Are Held. The grand jury today began its in- quiry into the killing of Charles C. | Deegan in a clash with the fying squadron under Capt. Burlingame, October 31. A struggle over the possession of a revolver is said to have resulted in the death of Deegan. The coroner’s jury held Francis Deegan, brother of the dead man, as well as Policemen Henry Rinke and Robert F. Langdon as responsible for the homicide. . Named Cadets to West Point. Arthur R. Kerwin, 1306 Rhode Island avenue, this city, and ‘Albert ‘Wateon, son of Capt. J. F. Wat: Quartermaster Corps, at San Fi cisco, have been appointed by Pres- idant Coolidge cadets-at-large at the United States Military Academy, with a view to admission July 1 next. Mildred Hawley, a 16-year-old St. Paul girl, recently performed the feat STAR, |of defense against { here. WASHINGTON, by Federal Govern Governor Pinchot's arraignment of Federal phohibition enforcement, de- livered yesterday at the Chicago co vention of the Anti-Saloon League, in which he used the names of Pennsy vania concerns which he charges have been granted permits for the with- drawal of millions of gallons of alco hol that utimately found their way into the bootleg trade, was regarded here today in some quarters as the severest attack made on prohibition enforcement. iring that “not a drop of al- hol or of intoxicating liquor can be legally manufactured, stored, trans- ported or sold without a Kederal per- mit,” the Pennsylvania Governor said that the Federal permit is the first line violations of the law. He quated Commissioner Hdyneés | to show that the Kederal Govérnment alone has the responsibility for the Hits Granting of Permits. “In spite of such abundant power, the fact is that the Federal permit has not been used as it should have been used to keep known lawbreakers out of the business of breaking the law. With facts In their possession sufficient to arouse the a woolly lamb, Federal officials ha been granting permits for the mak. | ing and the selling of alcohol to com panles officered by known violators| of the law, and have refused to cancel these permits, even when the law-| breakers had finally been indicted for their law breaking.” Gov. Pinchot then proceeded to give in detail a list of cases in which he charged the Federal permits for with- drawal of alcohol had been misused He gave the names of concerns and persons, which, however, are omitted He sald. Take the case of the —— corpora- tion of Philadelphia. Despite the fact that in 1924 over 25,000,000 proof gal- lons a vear of alcohol were produced under Federal permit in the Philad hia district, this corporation was granted permits for making, ware housing and denaturing an additional unlimited quantity of alcohol. Attacks Company Heads. “When this corporation applied for | its permits its president 'was a man known to be ‘associated with law beraking concerns. It secretary a man whom Federal agents reported as the president of a sales corpora- | tion in Philadelphia which was con- nected with a notorious reshipment of 2500 barrels of whiskey, which the Federal records say ‘were part of Overholt returned from France, placed in warehouse in Eddington and later seized Li in ultz’s raid.’ ‘The | agents also recommended ‘disapproval | for any concern that Mr. — is con- nected with.' He is at present await- ing_sentence for bootlegging. “Yet when the stock held by these men was transferred to the vice presi. dent of the company, himself connect- | ed with an Indiana distillery, Commis- sioner Haynes was willing, as he sald in a letter of October 8§, 1924, that these permits should be granted—and they were granted. This case s given added point when we remember that it is through the camouflage of denatured alcohol that the huge streams of poison drink flow into bootleg channels. In the United States the production of de- natured alcohol increased from 29,000, 000 wine gallons in 1920 to 82,000,000 wine galions in 1925. Of that huge increase, 35,000,000 gallons were ai- leged to be used in making those Kinds of" denatured alcohol from which the denaturants are easily removed. 1 sav ‘alleged’ because no one knows | how much of it was ever actually de- | natured. * Alcohol “Take another case, ~———— Co., also of I’hiladeiphia. On April 11, 1923, Federal agents reported that the accounts of thjs company showed ‘several thousand gallons of alcohol unaccounted for.” Further, in Unaccounted For. that of the| a letter from Chief of General Pro-| hibition Agents Yellowly, dated June 29, 1923, Commissioner Haynes was informed that the company was a | mere blind to cover a distillery of New Jersey, that ‘its products are never denatured and are sold direct to the bootlegging trade. “In the face of these facts the company was given a permit to with- draw, denature, and sell 375,000 gal- lons of specially denatured alcohol each month until May, 1925, and 275,000 gallons thereafter, until they were indicted in July of this year for diverting pure alcohol as denatured alcohol and conspiring to violate Federal statutes. Their permit has not even yet been revoked.” ‘Another case, that of the ——— Co. of Philadelphia. Chief of General Prohibition Agents Yellowly on April 15, 1924, advised Commissioner Haynes that Division Chief Sams re- ported that the company “had not been acting in good faith with the department.” that he concurred in a recommendation for the disapproval of its application for an increase of an increase of alcoho!, and advised that “criminal prosacution be started against it for conspiracy.’ Permit Never Revoked. “In spite of the obviously . fraudu- lent character of its business the com- pany permit has never been revoked. “Last Winter in a special message to the Legzislature urging the passage of a bill which would have stopped this polson alcohol traffic in Penn- slyvania, 1 showed that in the City of Philadelphia alone, enough de- natured alcohol was alleged to used and sold in tobacco sprays to meet every possible legitimate requirement in the manufacture of more tobacco than is grown in ths whole United States. Within a few weecks after thisx public state. ment Commissioner Haynes author- ized a firm of cigar manufacturers in the City of Phiiadelphia to withdraw 35,000 gallons a month of denatured alcohol, or at the rate of 420,000 gal- lons a year—more than enough for treating " the entire tobacco crop of the world. “Until this permit for 35,000 gallons per month was allowed by Commis- sioner Haynes, during 18 years of its manufacturing of tobacco, this con- cern had never used in all over $430 worth of any denatured alcoholic fluid. “Specially denatured alcohol can be s0ld legally only to manufacturers holding permits from the Federal Gov- ernment, to be used in making other products. Here is, and is well known to be, one of the principal points at PINCHOT’S ATTACK ON U. S. DRY .. RULE IS HELD SEVEREST YE Pennsylvania Governor Flays Granting of Permits “First Line of Defense.” ! conduct of the permit system, and con- | cor | tinued: | been suspended for D. C, MONDAY, NQOV ) ment as Violators’ withdraw 500 gallons of specially de natured alcohol was granted to the Co. of Philadelphia for the pur- pose of manufacturing toilet articles and perfumes. this company had been a street car conductor and & policeman, and had had charges preferred a times while on the police force. The other had been a small livery stable keeper: Nelther, according to the officlal report, had ever had any ex perfence ‘in making perfumery or in chemistry, or in manufacturing of any kind, Within less th after the permit was issued, the part- | nership premises and those next joining, belonging to one of the ners, were raided, and were found to ontain ‘all kinds of liquors, counte feit stamps, alcohol, whisky colorin maliter, ether, five r of lead caps, %, one bundle of counterfeit reve nue stamps, and other whisky-making apparatus or apparatus ind liquors were Leing made from “The report also says that company premises over to those one partner, prior to that raid, barrels of alcohol belonging to this conc had ~ been uniawfully re- moved,’ and that they were ‘seized by Federal agents.’ n June, 1923, although but a few weeks before that date the permit had diverting 92 bar- rels of alcohol and other violations of the act, the permit was reinstated. al lowing. however, not the withdrawal ¢ 500 gallons of alcohol a month as before the raid and suspension. but of an increase to 500 gallons a month, and within three months after that, on September 17, 1923, the Fed eral agents say: ‘This small concern, with no business and probably worst record of any alleged “tollet water concern in this country, was granted the right to withdraw and use 15,400 gallons of denatured alcohol per month.’ $mall Business Found. “Of this plant the Federal agents re port: “They had no machinery or ap paratus of any character for han dling an output of the magnitude claimed by them * * * We have personally visited and canvassed every alleged large customer to whom they have Sold these preparations in recent lcohol. om the | of One of the partners In | nst him five | n three months | War Mothers’ Natlons ating | the | 'BEMBER MANY PAY TRIBUTE T0 UNKNOWN HERD Initial Exercises in Armistice | Week Ohservance Held at Arlington Yesterday. 9, 1925. The first annual Armistice week | exercises in honor of Americans who | made the supreme sacrifice in the World War were held in_Arlington Cemetery vesterday, when delegations of war veterans, War Mothers, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and representatives of the | Memorial Ax In to pay nknown ation braved a pouring r tribute at the tomb of the | Noldier One hundred veterans of the 315th { Infantry from Philadelphia, which was | t of the or Lorraine Divi- | i sion—and ation of 14 War { Mothers from the Pennsylvania city {paid tribute vesterday _afternoon. Idward Keenan, George Lucas and {John Bevan were selected by their comrades to place u large wreath, bearing the Lorraine Cross, divisional insignin of the 79th, on the tomb, | | while another wre as placed on | it by Mrs. Caleb Ja in behalf of | the War Mothers of Philadelphia. | Mrs. Jackson, who lost a son in the | World War, read a tribute to the! thousands who ificed their lives | for their country. An ode to the Lor-| | raine Division was read by Lieut. | | Col. Thomas J. Dickson | | | 35th Infantry Unit Arrives. | Members of the 315th Infantry a {rived in Washington vesterday after- noon, under the leadership of their | president, Fugene Glatfelter, while| {the Philadelphia War Mothers were | under the leadership of Mrs. Alice | {Park. The party was received at | | Union Station by Col. O. B. Rosen-| | baum of the general staff, who was | the first commander of the 315th In- fantry, Maj. Fred Patterson, who| commanded a battalion of the regi-| ment; Lieut. Col. Noble J. Wiley of | the Militia Bureau, and Capt. Paul J. McGahan, past department com. mander of the American Legion of { the District of Columbia. { “The Junior Order of United Ameri- | can Mechanics held exercises at the tomb just before noon | months. “‘It is our opinion that there is not a single bona fide large customer shown upon their books. * * * do cent of the alcohol received by this institution is actually made up into toilet articles or perfume sprayvs. What little they do make up, in our opinion, they have difficulty in get hands of tomers.’ “In spite of all this, not until May 15, 1924, did this crooked concern have its permit revoked, and then that permit was restored by Commis- sioner Havnes on August 192 even questionable cus draw its alcohol until finally indicted with these fraudulent withdrawals, of 61 permittees in the Philadelphia dis- trict, each authorized to withdraw over 1,000 gallons of specially de- much as 15,000 gallons monthly—and altogether to withdraw 2,671,000 gal- lons a year, 53 were cited from one to three times for violations of law during the last 26 months, but of the 61 onlv 15 have as vet been put out of business.” \CONFESSED SLAYER ON TRIAL FOR HIS LIFE College Student, Deserted by His Father, Before Court—Will Plead Insanity. By the Associated Pre NEWARK, N. J., November §.— Harrison W. Noel, college student and confessed slayer of Raymond Pierce, negro taxi driver, and six-year-old Mary Daly of Montclair, went on trial today for his life. Deserted by his father, Dix W. Noel, prominent New York attorney, and defended by Wil- liam Wachenfeld, appointed by the court, Noel faced a bitter fight. His counsel announced that the de- fense would be insanity. Pierce was slain on September 3. Noel had been confined in the Essex County Hospital for the Insane at Cherbrook. He eacaped and remained at liberty until the double slaving of Pierce and the Daly child, whom he kidnaped. 7 i After a lengthy hearing on the ques- defended by Merritt Lane, Noel was declared sane by Judge Edwin Caf- frey, before whom he is being tried today. The State subpoenaed 40 witnesses and the defense has called 20. R o, UNIDENTIFIED DEAD MAN DISCOVERED IN SWING Names in Clothing of Stranger Found in Yard in Southeast Yield No Clues. The body of an unidentified white man was found in a swing in the front yard at 23 Virginia avenue south- weat early this morning. Dr. Edward Pickford examined the body and said life had been extinct some time. Clothing _searched at the morgue disclosed the name, “D. Hart, United States naval gun factory.” on a plece of paper, while on another paper was “‘Thomas E. McK. Varter, 23397, A belt buckle was initialed It was sald at the Navy Yard that neither name appeared on the records. Police described the dead man as be- ing about 38 years old and having fair complexion. Clothing included a pin-striped coat which illegal diversions take place. Tet us see how this situation is being met. )n December 23, 1922, a permit to Operation on Train By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, November $.—Re- moval of a three-cornered button from the windpipe of a b.year-old West Virginia girl, while on board a Balti more and Ohio Railroad train that came into Cincinnati yesterday, marked the successful termination of a race with death begun at Parkersburg early yesterday morning. The child was Ellene Levon Sinnett, of successfully catching base balls dropped 275 feet from the top of a ! Chicago office bullding. . P daughter of. Mr. and Mrs.-L. C. Sin- nett of Harrisyjlle, W. Va. She was and vest, green trousers, white shirt with broad collar, soft brown hat and black shoes. The body was taken to the morgue. Saves Child’s Life; Button Lodged in Throat Extracted being rushed to this city where a spe- cialist waited to remove the obstruc- tion which was slowly but surely strangling her to death Informed by telegraph that the patient had become worse while com- ing through Ohio, the surgeon met the train at Winter Place station and performed the operation in the bag- gage car. It was reported at the haspital .last ““;’l“ that the little girl was resting well. we | not think that onehalf of 1 per ting it out of their business into the | From that date it continued to with: | natured alcohol each month—some as | tion of his sanity, in which he was| Preparations for exercises by other | { organizations on Armistice day are under way | Special Exercises Wednesday. | ! Special exercises will be held at the | tomb of the Unknown Soldier Wed- | nesday, when a bronze plaque to his | [ memary will he pregented by Mrs. | | Catherine McBride Hoster, national | president of the Woman's Relief | to the Grand Army of the Republic, and the past presi {dent, Mrs. Grace B. Willard of Cali- {fornfa; the department president, Miss Augusta M. Palmer and members .of the latter” taff. Members of the Grand Army of the-Republic also will {take part in the exercises: The cere | mony of presentation will begin at | 30 o'clock. | Corps, auxiliary on August 16, 1925. During the A wreath also is to be placed on the | month when 1t was indicted it with- | = WL S0 T8 K0 e B Jo- | drew 12,631 gallons. In September. | .ph Brunner, president of the Carl| after the indictment, it withdrew | 3{0 (0 e o Aviiiece 14,852 gallons—and it still holds its | pocr. No. 530, of Harrison, N. Y. She | permit. will be assisted by Miss M. Loulse | *“To sum up the helpless inefficiency | Gross, deputy receiver of taxes at of the prohibition unit in its dealings | Harrison. The wreath was made by & French war mother and was brought | to this country by a member of No. 1 Post, American Legion Auxil Paris. Mrs. Brunner and M arrived in Washington yesters { BLAZER, ON STAND, ‘; DESCRIBES PITEQUS | DAUGHTER HE SLEW! (Continued from First Page.) | tions tq conform to the desires of the | State's¥attorney. { { - “Do vou.recollect giving Hazel any | drugs?” Blazer was asked by Span- gler. " he replied. Do you recollect taking any drug yourself?” Do you recall sla. { with a razor?" 0.” “Do you recollect Dr. H. H. Alredge | waiting on you?" - “No. sir, I do not.” “Do vou recall locking the doors of | the house?” | 0. 1 recall seeking some of my | friends there after this thing hap- | pened, but I couldn't say when."” | Says Mind Was Blank. The accused man said his” min was ‘“‘almost completely a blank {from the time his sondn-law left the §ouse on the day of the crime until Several days later. “I have no recollection of writing two notes addressed to my’ daugh ter,” he'declared. The notes were in. | troduced by the State fn an effort to | prove a motive. One said he had de- | cided “'not to leave Hazel behind" and the other directed the disposition of | {the bodies and his property. “1 never had any opiates in my pos <hing your throat | session for a year previous to Hazel death.” he said. The State attempted to prove by alienists that Blazer's stupor was feigned and probably caused by the| use of oplates or chloroform. Denies Conscious Slaying. The witness said that he was a member of the Presbyterian Church and that Hazel was baptized in that church. “Do vou believe in the mortality of the soul?” Blazer was asked. . sir,” he replied. “Do you believe in the ten com- mandments, .and the commandment, “Thou Shalt Not. Kill'?"* < sir” ‘he, declared with em- vou kil your daughter Hazel to your own knowledge?' Attorney Spangler asked. ‘No, sir,”. Blazer sajd. Blazer said he knew his blood pres. sure was high and it might result fatally “at‘any time.” Feared Sudden Death. “The condition of my arteries was getting worne, steadily,” he said, “and I knew I might haye a stroke of apoplexy at-any time “I put $2,500 in.an-invention for.an oil feed deVice. ‘That was about all the money -1 had:i-The loss of my money in the invention and the loss of my wife worried me. 1 thought of what might becoreof Hazel it 1 was taken suddenly.” ° ; Littleton - had_ scarcely . recovered from the heartfgnding scenes last Sat- urday, when Mrs, Frances Bishop, Dr. Blazer's surviving daughter,, testified in his defense, and’ recited her ver- sfon of the killing and.Dr. Blazer's great devotion and. care for the “child-woman,” who lived for 384 years. Courtroom in Tears. Courtroom spectators, jurymen and hardened attaches were enveloped in a wave of émotion’ when Mrs. Bishop described the plight’-of the victim. Tears coursed from the ewes of scores. “The thing uttered weird, animal- UNIFICATION VOTE | she New Dry Director JAMES E. JONES, merly assistant prohibition com. missloner who has been elevated to the newly created position of director of prohibition. Mr. Jones thus takes charge of the unit operating in Wash- ington under Lincoln C. Andrews, As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury, in place of Roy A. Haynes, prohibition pmmissioner, who still ' retains his | title, but will be relieved entirely of all administrative duties and his work now will be of a supervisory nature. Harris-Ewing Photo LEADING IN CHURCH Southern ~ Methodists Favor of Plan Still Lack Two-Thirds, However. in | Associated Press ember 9 NASHVILLE, Tenn., he official vote of the Annual Con ference, Methodist Episcopal Church South, cast on unification with the| Methodist Episcopal Church is 2,634 for and 2.051 against unification, say | the official figures announced by Dr.| A. J. Lamar and John W. Barton,| custodians of the official vote cast at the Methodist Publishing Hou 1 x conferences which hav voted e not included in the official resuits, | hecause of a non-certification of their e. votes. Th re the cific, Bra Central Br South B: Mexico {and L { The secular press bureau at Meth. | odist headquarters compiled the total s follows, including the 6 of the 20| onference which have voted but not certified their votes to the church headquarters For unification, 3,005 cation, 2,177 | Votes short of a threefourths ma-| Jority, in view of the number of votes recorded. 881. | Under the official vote as announced. | the number short of the constitutional three-fourths majority is given as 878. | NAN GORMLEY DEATH | LAID TO ARMY COOK | Coroner's Jury Holds John J. Flood | After Halloween Party in | Girl's Apartment. ! | ] John Joseph Flood, an Army stationed at 1500 C street. was ord held for action of the grand jury “as| heing responsible for the death of Nan Gormley” by a coroner's jury which | cook | ed | held an inquest over the body today. | Flood will be held without bond | pending instructions from the dis-| trict attorney’s office. It was testified that Miss Gormle: 30 vears old. was alone in her apart ment with Flood on the night of Hal-| loween following a party which had| been participated in by William Kid- | well, another Army cook, and Miss | Mary T. Connolly. Both Kidwell and Miss Connelly said they left early and after Miss Gormley had fallen to the | floor a couple of times in a stupor. It | { was not until the next day that her| serious condition was determined, and | was later removed to George | ‘Washington University Hospital where | she dled on Saturday. b | No one of the witnesses gave posi- tive testimony linking Flood with Miss Gormley's death. all of them claiming Miss Gormley never could tell what actually had happened, always declar- ing, “I don't remember.” 1 It was definitely proved. however, that Flood remained alone with Miss Gormley for some time. Flood did not take the stand. S = = i by spinal meningitis, which left her | body shaped as an “S"; with the mind | of an infant, without arms or legs | and with her growth stunted at four | feet. The victim was found dead | February 24 from an opiate poison. The defendant, who is 62 years old, has been at liberty on bond. Temporary Insanity Claimed. The defendant has in the past main- | tained that he had no recollection | of the actual slaying of the-yictim— | calle@ the “human husk” by the de- | fense attorneys—and that it took | place during a lapse of memory due | to approaching insanity. Around this | plea attorneys have constructed the | defense bulwark of temporary in- sanity. The defense will rest its case after| Dr. Blazer and two or three expert witnesses have given their testimony. A feature of the testimony of the defense alienists, counsel indicated, would be the propounding by defense counsel of a 15,000-word hypothetical question embracing virtually all phases of the Blazer case as repre- sented by the defense. The State's case was finished Satur- day after six witnesses had given testimony. Presiding Judge Samuel Johnson denied the motion of defense counsel for a directed verdict for the defendant. After the defense rests the State alienists as rebuttal witnesses. Night sessions may be ordered by Judge Johnson, in an effort to reach the! Stage of arguments in the trial morrow. Indifferent to Fate. Dr. Blazer expressed confidence in the outcome of the case. “I am not worrying about-the out- come,” he declared. ‘“Nothing, no matter what the form of punishment might be meted out, can affect me. T have been through by Gethsemane. ¥ bore the cross for nearly 34 years | —a cross that I am now accuded of slaying. 1 confidently expect to be facquitted because I have suffered— suffered the torments of God and man, its case like sounds,” she testified, “and when she ate it was so revolting that one _could mot watch 2o +The defense had previously descibed ) Hazel Blazer as’ helplessly deformed not through the years of my care and protection of my darling Hazel, but since I have been accused of taking the life of one T held to be more déar thap Jife itself. LY | nclude | partment, | Government activitles in Washing e agalnst unifi- | is expected to offer two | to- | NEW U. . OFFICE MERGER SURVEY ON Study Expected to Save $100,000 in Yearly Rental Is Started. An additional step lookin, consolidation of offices and floor space in the Government departments which actual money war ings amount ing to about $100,000 are expected was taken by the Public buildings commission today when inaugurated survey and consolidation of the Department and Pension Office Botld ing. The plan is a proposal hy Secretars of the Interior Wo made Smoot, chairman ¢ ings commission partment head sever survey and consolidation f« ex to result in placing he d f Government agencies now « ing rented quarters va space in the two b Interior Departme The step taken tod 1 days a part of the broad plan of the Public Buildings Commission for consolidation of Giov ernment offices wherever possible, © i« the direct suggestion of Secretar Work. It involves consolidation of activities in most of the bureaus in the Interior Departmen er bureaus of two other depart ments and independent encies which now occupy offices in the terior Department Building Plan Is Comprehensive. Rearrangements of floor ding of useless furn eral consolidation all are invol the plan. The co-operative s the Interior Departmen: B will be started immediately ar all Federal branches agencies occupving space in regardless of wheth are conneeted with the Inte; partment. The commission he that much of the space occupied b is not being economieally used Present occypants of the Interic Department buildings include most of “the bureaus of the department | solicitor of internal revenue, solicitor of the Treasury Departmer the Bureau of Mines of the Commerce Department, the United Statex En ploves' Compen n Commiss the Federal Power Commission Arts Commission and the operative force of the director of ‘public build- ings and public parks The commission found a constant and pressing demand for additic pace by all Government activi nd believes that unless an intensive use of th office area n available is undertaken further large expendi tures for rentals will be necessary. The plan originated when Secretar Work suggested to Senator Smoo that onefourth of the space in Interior Building and Pension Of could be made available for other G ent uses provided gen clean-up and consolidation effected Several months ago Secretary Work inav ated a clean-up policy in the General Land Office, resul in the removal of 16 tons of furniture which was turned over to the genera supply committee for disposal The Interior Department Building one of the largest Government xtric tures in Washington. MARINE’S SLAYER ORDERED HELD FOR GRAND JURY ACTION (Continued from First Page.) manner in which the marine authori ties treaten to handle the case Col. Bradman said today prior to the meeting of the board of inquiry that he did not_anticipate any conflict in authority, but made it plain that the man killed was a marine, and the kill ing took place on a military reserva tion, and he could not see how the ivil authorities can intervene bhefore they decide it is the wisest course. It was on this theory that the Marine authorities refu: to turn Kulick over to fifth precinct police or per mit him to attend today's inquest at the morgue. Ban was born March 27, 1805, at New Brunswick., N. J He has been a member of the Marine Corps for two yea He is sur d by hi= mother, Mrs. Antonia rgica of Cambridge, Pa. The lad's record was declared good at headquarters today Kulick was born November 27, 1901, at Passaic. N. J., and is serving hik second enlistment in the Marine Corps. He also served in the Armt from 1920 to 1921. His record hither to has been above reproach, authori tiex stated Designated “Stackhouse Field.” The flying field on the military, res- ervation at W b been designated Field,” in honor_of Robert H. V. Stackhouse, Service, who was killed in an airplane accident at Cha- nute Field, Rantoul, 1l July 19; TUESDAY $1.300: "for maiden year-olda: 6 furlongs. FOR FIRST RACE—P colts and geldings: - Williama. .- 115 Silvermire Bk n Sovd Boy & Sovano! 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