Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1925, Page 1

ATHEF r Bureau Fr der tonigh ture about 24 degrees; tomor- rising temperature. row fair, slowly Temperatures— Highest D.m. vesterday today. Full r lowest, 31, at 7 hort on page T orecast.) t, minimum 63, at 2:30 am. ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING: EDITION 50 o 1 . o 29,791, | Tneredac Washington, nd class matter D.C WASHINGTON, D. (., MONDAY, NOV EMBER 2 ¢ Foening Star. 3, 1925—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier every city block and tt tion is dclivered to Wa as fast as the papers are pr tem covers e edi- hington homes nted 48,709 Saturday's Circulation, ] 109,631 Sunday’s Circulation, CENTS. () Means Associated Press. .S [GNORES LEWIS' EMANDFORAGTION 0 PREVENT SOFT OAL STRKE QRDER ublic Only Can Bring End to Rising Prices and Constant Suspensions. Government Officials Declare. “TYRANNY™ OF UNIONS DRAWS SHARP ANSWER| Industry's Throttling Grip Can Be| Broken, With No Suffering, by Summer if Buyers Show United | Front, Bay—Strike Held Certain. Administration prevent a strike coal fields. If John L. Lewis, pres the United Mine Workers, out the strike threat con- ned in his letter to the President, administration’s of interven- in the will the not act bituminous in carries he wage controversy on the he position t. In fact, known to feel would not | that an the only be hopeless, but act probably seized upon by union officials as an excellent ex- cuse ordering workers from the bitum Little hope is expressed in official circles that the strike may be averted. Governmer now such would be for union ous es. Aroused. by the off the £ subst Public Action Thoroug] chie m 5 tat aroused union to cut con; ce t cite coal. It m hori stated t E overnment ng the itself to set problem of e it once and more bluntly, would welcome such intensive would teach industries a ners it be at ikes ment Ltion ot Shing s son There is no Tustification for a soft 1l strike in the opinion of high vernment officers. As a_cabinet member expressed it. the union head is willing to penalize the entire n tion and the entire bituminous indu: t e “only two or three have broken the Jackson wage agreement. “Absolute inny”’ was the term applied to the | nited” Mine Workers' stand. efinitely known that there trong ing in _administration es that hour has come when assert in unmistak- that it through with | The remedy, it is felt within reach of the people n officials chose a time neral fuel strike that hap- | find' many coal bins well | ind a large per cent of thej 15 industry unorganized ials of that it the fuel See ec rators the 15t es easily wi the u mine Non-Union Mines Busy. present, it was pointed out, about ns of soft coal are being About 8,000,000 tons of by non-union labor. loss of 4,000.000 tons felt, there is no reasor any suffering would union strike and a late in the determine no_long and ever conl monopoly Summer. a It would be it out every bit of . later in the Win- rationing would be essent t there enough coal nined thin prospect from the Ton-ur A1ds to keep every soul evbry tial industry ore ired s possil nless the is willing to thus its own, there is ve, Govern They feel | ervention either | the bituminous ent to givir copt this f Sooner ublic st fore {.yu weuther it us today so well prepa Officials Angered. = ith erely In circles very to the admin- st n no attempt is made to con- ceal the Government's feeling that the | mine workers' leaders e seized uy the flimsiest kind of an excuse for attempting to tie up the bitum- nous industry at a_time that it bids \ir to make it possible for the public ive hoth sides of the anthracite in- | 1 sound thrashing And the | *nment does not '!\:-‘q\] to make ter for the union heads by inter- | inz. | In his letter to the President, dated | vember 21, Mr. Lewis pointed out | the Jacksonville w reement, ch was signed in 191 drawn vith the assistance of the Govern- | nt. “If it should oceur,” Mr. Lew- | - continued, “that the Federal ment is not disposed to inter- for the protection of a_ merito- vage agreement, might the mine | vs helieve that their own efforts | t direction may be considered wing justitied?” the first place, it was said, the ernment had nothing whatever to the Jacksonville agreement; it | arranzed to have both sides | bituminous coal industry meet 1 select Jacksonville as the place. stepper out the minute the repre- tives reached the meeting room nd began deliberations, and never entered the controvers: | I'o ask the Government to now take | in an argument over a legal con- t. “signed by white men, past the | e of 21,” it is held, is nothing short ridiculous and preposterous. ‘m jContinued on Page 2, Column 5. | head | Doumergue to i terday | of forced cons | Jones, | quake. as_they | | ARISTIDE BRIAND, BRIAND IS NEAR BTH PREVIERSHP Will Answer Call Tonight. Cry for Dictator Heard By the Associated Press PARIS, November ninth time in long pol reer Aristide Briand today he charge of the President republic to form a cabinet night he sta the v cepting his ¢ premie Briand erzue 11 fri ply in the course he ever “The man of Lecarno” President’s first cholce last Spring to the government after the fall of M. Herriot, but the Socialists re fused thelr support and compelled M call M. Painleve, the retiving premier. At the extraordinary session of the Chamber this afternoon Premier Pain- leve introduced a bill calling for in crease of the advances of the Bank of France to the government by 1,500,000,000 francs. The measure wi approved by the Chamber's finance committee. The consensus opinion that the second Painleve cabi his received of the and to- ce of ac- in. M Doum s on hth s promised Preside is Lring him vas the sitvatior maneuver her Th adopts the in plitical ous tone, res ministry the country. Premier Painleve 4 statement to the newspaper men today replied 10 the rumors of an impending coup d'etat which have heen circulating throughout the country for the last 1wo weeks. “Governments fall but the r Stands,” he said. “We still are abi to watch over her. Keep this mind and if any one believes that the moment has come he is mistaken Ministry Fell Quickly. second ministry, in office mortally wounded F day by ly. Leon Blum, leader of the Socialists, and succumbed yes. in Parliament on the question lidation of short-term treasury bonds The chamber by a vote of 27§ to 275 refused to accept the enforced consolidation article in M. Painleve" financial program and the premier (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) 20 TAKEN IN ALLEGED PLAN TO WHIP WOMAN Members of Royal Riders of Mys- tery Arrested Near Bluefield, W. Va., in Raid ! By the Associated Press. BLUEFIELD, W. 23— Twenty alleged members of the Royal Riders of M ery were arres ed yesterday by Sheriff Crumpecker and deputies in connection with a sup. posed plan to administer a whipping to a woman Pinnacle Rock, near here. Thirteen of the men are said to have alighted from automobiles at Pinnacle Rock and were greeted by deputies. The other seven were ar- rested after a search of organization headquarters. Robes, charters and paraphernalia were reported seized by Va., November | the raiders All the men will be given a hearing in court today NOTED OIL MAN DROWNS. Col. Refining Company Lyons, Head, Swept Over Dam. PITTSBURGH, #®).—Col. U. G. Pa., November 23 Lyons, president of the Lyons Refining Co. of Warren, Pa., was drowned in the Allegheny River, near Springdale, vesterday when his houseboat was carried over A dam by swift currents. Blaine his chauffeur. the only other occupant of the craft, was rescued. \ search was being made for the body. During the World War Col. Lyons was head of the Government ofl sup- ply division, being stationed in Wash- ingtop and New York MITCHELL DEFIANT REPLYING T0 ARMY ATTACK ON STAND Colorful Colonel Fights Back at Effort to Riddle His Charges. HOT CROSS-EXAMINATION LAUNCHED BY GULLION Declares Statement Under Fire Contained “No Facts,” But Only Personal Opinion. Col. Mitchell ment met face showdown over charges launched by the former which have him in court-martial of the age. ' Taking the and in his own defense. | the fighti colonel repeated his | igence on the part of »vernment looking after its air forces and then deflantly stood off 2 broadside of pointed questions hurled | at him by the prosecution in an effort | to riddle and make ridiculous his fa- mous San Antonlo statements of last and the War Depart to face today for the sensatic a al and | embroiled the < T”A tIIL‘fl in “PEE GOGD STORY” TWO | IMrs. Coolidge Sets | i ot e TRACTON MERGE *BY TS BODY the Post Office Department foday Street the ex: Mrs. Cal vin Coolidge, wife of the President Gailways for Data on Steps Already Takei:. who, the department =aid has started ping and ea 'FURTHER LEGISLATICA MAY BE RECOMMENDED 10 tollow mple of her Christmas shop. “If the First L joins in the campa Office Department carly often Christmas me of lette 251 puck there does not seem to be any valid reason why every man, woman and child in the Unit ed States should not f het lead,” the department said SAYSHEWASTOLD If Found Necessary the Commission Asks of for Facts Notito Be Given Unless| r+e ¢ Asked For, Shenandoah - Rigger Testifies. By the Associated Press Arthur E. Carlson rigger of the wrech St told the Sher day that one of of the airshiy told him not to n 1ot . chief doah vt viving officers | C. Pauch, had ma isked avi doah naval co to the Lieat ive certai court uniess i Seprember The appearance of the accused in the role of witness, a longed awaited | I event, fully met the expectations of | the large crowd of spectators in| L search of excitement Witness Undisturbed bristling assaul the go HIP The on and led iudge his by charges he o distih defendant Dalton Proposes to Coolidge Giving Authority to the Fleet Corporation. eplies like rezula More t drew from don’t know cerni the the wit warfare. In the end the witness ad- | mitted that there were “no facts” in| H. G. Dalton of his September 5 statement but that|cently concluded an i n the charges made therein constituted | the affairs of the Shipping Board his ]|\:lr~u|‘v41 opinion ithe Emergency Fleet Corporation a were f {thority and relegating it to it ¢ 1wl sonal op n a semi-judicial and regulatory el venly: 1 tions ¢ he ind spparently laid admission on Col. emphasized statement only my per San Antonio to the news Gullion stressed Represen for the board of all d % ind executive there icts the status Ve hody report was made public Ma hat {his ive Frank Mitchell, | he cross-examinatic red.” and the wonished the prosecution to ask plain with embellishment Jast nigh Complete gency Fle hipping former of of Corporation Board: the transfer all ships with all termina and other properties used in connec iion with the operation of ithe fleet ind the sale of ships, together with all Looks, accounts and insurance funds the and private operation of the fleet ar from the questions of that sort Repeats Charges. When Col. Mitchell first took nd for direct questioning by his | inciuded in Mr own counsel it appeared that the | Spectators who had fillad the court voom lons before the heur of con vening were not going to share in|d¢nt that he does the fireworke they had hoped would | e place. All of Col. Mitchell's di- | tween the testimony was a direct repetition | the fleet will ever issertions contained in the ovpenin in his opinion the statement of Mr. Reid. The “edge”{and dissatisfaction had long ago been taken off this line | pected. As of evidence presented by the defonse, there is. and for the first half hour the witnesa | #ble dupli was content merely to sit and reaffirm, | 0f conlict himself, that everything his counsel Zether lead had preliminarily stated to the court | [0Wered efficiency about recommendations he had made for the Air Service were “the truth and nothing but the truth.” Replying in a matter of fact tone to the long succession of questions con- cerning his plans for the betterment of the air forces, Col. Mitchell curtly | enumerated more than 100 official recommendations which he testified he had presented either to the chief of the Air Service or the Secretary of War. most of them without result When Mr. Reid asked he had recommended that new racing planes | be built for the 1924 air races Col. Mitchell straightened up and said that had, and that if his recom- mendations had heen carried out it W ‘“‘probable” that Capt. Burton E. Skeel and Lieut. Alexander Pearson would not have met their deaths in Dalton’s recommenda tions. Mr. Dalton reported 1o the Presi it be in the ard and the o be cve the pres 5 ent relationship bhe and existing confusion are only 1o be ex of this confusion him. consider and whic successful result ling t uthority cxrec h to < and i Urges Board of Trustees. The President drafted Mr. Dalton from private life to make this investi gation in an effort to find out what was wrong with the board and the operation of the fleet Mr. Dalton’s report, as made public t the White of drawn concerning the affairs or the lon, between the “two. displeased the recommendations nerete hasis detail board and the ficet out controversy which has zreatly President, contains which are taken | for solving the problem. In thelr general nature the recom- | mendations are very similar to those ! made to the President some time ago { by a special committee of cabinet of { ficers and the chairman of the ship- | ping boara the president of the Ehosefraoes. | Fmergency Flcet Corporation, which chell Told of Rights. made a study of the subject al the b/ H S| Pres ~oolid; Col. Mitchell took the stand imme. | Te3uest o Presiotns Coo 8 e com. diately after court convened. Col.| pete administration of the affairs of anton ‘Winship, the law member, | the fleet corporation in the hands of then read from the manual, address. | o poned. of directors or trustees. con- Ing the accused, that he could remain | gigting of four members of the cabinet silent: he could testify under oath and | and one other person to be named b subject to crossexamination. or heine President, who would serve could make 2 statement either oral!chief executive of the fleet corpora or in writing not under oath Do | tion as well as chairman of this you understand these three richts”|poard. If the President desired it, asied Col. Wnahip, | there could be three representatives I do,” replied the accused thien e three cntatives (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) s a nd his counsel. and Mr. Reid arose and said: “In view of the fact that wit-| this case.” i i i i Col. Sherman Moreland, the tria1| SO0 of Late Berlin Capitalist Chief o ked the Wit Stockholder in Motor Works Col. 'Winship then informed the nesses have proven all of Col. Mitch. | ell's siatements 100 per cenf, 1 de- Jjudge advocate ness, “Do you desire to be sworn?” Financially Distressed. ::;mle he dmuldhmkn time to discuss | it procedure he would adopt with | BANKRUPTCY CHARGE St AGAINST STINNES CO. sire to bmit him to a full barrage ! of crossexamination by anybody in| 3 “I do,” replied Col. Mitchell, and he was duly sworm. = Reid Begins Quiz. Y, Mr. Reld then began direct exam- ination with the purpose of qualify- ing the witness and by his brilliant service record to prove the accused |tuted by the directors of the was familiar with the subject he has|Motor works, of which Edmund | By the Assoctated Press. BERLIN, November 3. ruptcy proceedings have been Bank- insti- Continued on Page 4, Col | Stinnes, son of the late Hugo Stinnes, $ g olumn 1) |15 the chief stockholder. Strange Flashes at Sea and Rumblings | On Land Noted Along Atlantic Coast | By the Associated Press. FALL RIVER, Mas ovember 23.—Residents of this city and vicinity today were wongering whether the disturbance they” noted in the early morning hours was actually an carth- had believed. Hum Dlings, erratic lights and in a fow instances a slight movement were re- ported. Operators in the local telephone ex- change were frightened when sud- denly all lights on their incoming lines flashed. Other operators in Newport R. L., were perturbed by a serics of three rumblings, and the disturbance was also reported from Warren, R. I NORFOLK, Va., November 23 () Strange Gashus at sea that would ind The Aga Co. for a long time has been in financial difficulty. Recently it was reported that Dr. Stinnes had been unable to obtain credits from Berlin banks. When last August Dr. Stinnes found that the motor works, which was one of the industrial units cate a severe thunderstorm but for| of the great estate of his fathe) the fact of cloudless skies, last night was a half-million marks_short of had thousands of persons in this sec- | the amount needed to pay’the thou- tion of the Atlantic coast puzzled ands. of workers at the plant, Watchers at Virginia Beach. from |announced a gift of 2,000,000 marks where the flashes could be seen, | of the siock of the concern to em- the phenomenon had all the appear | ployes. THe gift was made in order ances of heat lightning, and that the | to keep the plant running. It repre- flashes ran clear across the horizon. | sented one-half of his previous hold- Radio users, who had not seen the | ings. light, noticed something out of the During August a dispatch to the ordinary about the time the flashes| Associated Press from Berlin said were first seen, when their sets sud.|an American motor car manufacturer, denly developed an unusual amount of | whose name was withheld, had made static, rendering reception almost im-|a_tentative overture to purchase the possible. {plant. Dr. Stinnes recently came to At the local naval communications | the United States. office it was said no naval ships were ‘i‘?;.'rylng out maneuvers in this yicit- | R 4 dio Programs—Page 21 Iouse, while not going into any greal} tincud the Azal he | 'Knee Transplanted | From a Dead Body LENINGRAD, rrof. Opell Russi Leni weed s and sur ly dead sufferin ssf trans e + woman patient of ented the shor ereulosis Kner fron rat which pre After in ing The surzeon als performed a lax \ womar suffering the femur said that he 2 operation on COOLIDGE, SENIOR, - SUFFERS RELAPSE - !Series of Heart Blocks Oc-| | cur Sunday—President’s Doctor Present. th | §8 in By the Associat PLYMOUTH President . Coolid; with hea ith the veste A Prese i November Col. John | e < father seric today er his fight f day havinz de several davs, he failed sli Sunday suffering 1 number | Ve Maj. James F ered the | th faced regaining cheering 1 blocks Pre art pal. the adviser the onal disap; as o, inted on the clated | by patient's con. | th pre over improver vious day he had { progress made T e was unwiling number of heart blocks suffered to say nything of their severity their effect upon Col. Coolidze. | Instead, he indicated that cision not to call Washington to port on the e ouzht to signify no ground existed for ala physician will continue to stay his patient throughout the day probably will not meet men much before_ noon Evidence of tion-wide in Mr. Coolidge’s illness is the number of letters of inquiry which arrived here. Most of these ome from tourists who have been jere during the Summer and who met the President’s father. The letter nswered by Angus M uty sheriff, who }acis as guard about the homestead { Previous to his illness, Mr. Coolidge used to on extensive corre. | | spondence with those who wrote to| him | een fer to discus: the o re- that The near and newspaper Kkn interest seen in | ¥ mi ne sh e | SHIP SINKS, 17 DROWN. |} ler Explosion Sends Brazilian |y | P | Boi Tug to Bottom—Two Saved. | RIO JANEIRO, 23 (®)—Seventeen members of the!nc crew of the Brazilian tug Mogy are | | reported to have perished when the | hoat went down after a hoiler explo- sion while she was on her way to Bahia. The only survivors, the cap-| tain and one salior, were picked up| by the Pan-American Petroleum | steamer Cerro Azul en route fo this port. o | Brazil. November ‘“Mechanical Hound’| Finds Radium Tube [Lost Down Sewer By the Associated Press. i ST. PAUL. Minn., November 3. | six weeks' patient search with a ! “mechanical bloodhound” has re- sulted in the finding in & sewer pipe of a tin tube containing §8.600 worth of radium which dis- appeared from a hospital here. Prof. Henry A. Erikson, head of the physics department, Univer- sity of Minnesota, constructed ion- ization chamber detectors, which i were attached to electric scopes, | and began to hunt along sewers leading from‘the hospital. Today tMe detectors led him to 4 9inch pipe in a sewer tunnel. The radium was found within 2 inches of a mark he made on the pipe. i was of Philippines. of daughter of Capt. Hamilton Army Medical Corps, at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., but who was on duty at Manila at the time of Bevond the statement that the officer was found gullty of the charge and sentenced to death Inq ipreme torn rni; 1inst Interi of of t racter iy incl uted int Walsh ¢ the oil The oil State s ago, the ¢ mdition had been held before Kall, th 1921, a ctions t neral @ again iy clair e Niry int ves The of sting re. In the c Justice McCoyv that mineral cha inion reclosed fot the spec wise then, even though it he that nown n nds ineral “He said worth while to waste time to in- is to that, for even thpugh_the evidence taken ow that > minera the inquiry as cluded by the department. Hubert reserve office to dismiss the chief liffers from known lands and that a court were not | _ " MOVE 0 PREVENT BOARD OF POWERS >~ %k~ PROBE DENED, - D. C. Supreme Court Upholds v{- uiry on Elk Hills Property. ice MeCuy of the DI Court today denied the appli- of Cali injunction he Standard Oil Co 1 preliminary Work to prevent the the etary br mine n 1ry of the lands of the uded within the in California into Elk The in Vasalia. Calif.. under of a joint resolution of C oduced by Senator of Montana inquiry company claimed that of California and that 1aiin of its more than an i mineral-beari en Secretary of th nd he had given verl the commissioner Th st ned he this company tion to he make prone U. S Jurisdiction jnstice Secretary title in declares Fall the State hat of mineral course of his opinion, The court inguiry into acter of the land was the of the says is by ion 1l agent next day that the helpless did not to act determine that known in 1903 to ip substance that it on the contest the lands he could to that were known 1, not find so. Question Is Open. If Fall's action were final, the court | says, then there never il st 14, 00 be a not the to time shown that question an open one. The court points out that Fall filed » opinion {only verbal instruction to dismiss the contest in which the title of the ard Oil to these lands had been c: in question. President Coolidge shortly will have by hanging. to pass bn a case that s almost with. | Vocate general's office decline to dis out precedent in the history of the Army. of a commissioned officer convicted by |that Lieut. Thompson had been pay- a general court-martial of the charge murder and sentenced to be hanged. The officer is Second Lieut. John S, Thompson, Signal Corps, a native of Pennsylvania, and a graduate of the United States Military Academy, class the 1924, The re nal general's office. Miss the tragedy. directed determination by, the Department hwithstanding that Department has from in the matter and secu oil com- Hills in souzht 1o be halted was recently th Thomas chief prosecutor the itle to the land had heen derived from vestigation Alhert Interior on established 3s1v 11 here | iis title and took from the department he as to the Cal Cou- |ifornia and is of the opinion that the medical | Department of the Interior has juris diction to prosecute the inquiry as to 0 1 character of the may not inter- Chie the known land his de- | flice relieving the land from the order | of suspension in 1904 upon the report If it were other become land mineral and that the report was de- liberately false, the department would have b Secretary The the be was might had been pre was and never of the con since iime it considered the gave tand- lled Manifold. whicl first testi Closed Gas This 1eld arison | ed at minutes be: hiad the 18 1o per in information he h Lakehurs 1 fore Shenandosh lroke up he inz ed as in the inm gas cells and des jualization of the celis rlson testified that manif on helium cells the kad not gziven the court he said “material Told Not said about 1t the “What did he say “He said If they you on that subject He no doubt had that 1 did. that it The witness said Lieut replied thing me. Lieut. Bauch testified that “conversation with Carlson he b thought of keeping from the c formation that the ma had been tied. He said he thought the ff had heen made and removed time before the accident, because when he inspected the manifold fore the ship broke up he tie-off. Carlson e stopped hecause h was rushing Irea stern tion before, he did zard it as to the inqui Mention It. to he told the wreck to you? don't question mention 1r.’ Carlson ach > " night of don't the was he inother survivor He dian't that: that it same opi immaterial also spoke Mayer that wh know any in his a no -t in. gassing ifold 15 tie- Acted as Stockholder. . imission was 0\ rhiiutes be o L brought up the subject at Lakehurst, he said. and asked whether he should tell the court about it ““1 replied ‘of conr: f they ask yo about it tell them 3auch said T also told him that if he would tell the court the truth he would mike mistake DANCER SUES HEIR TO CLARK MILLIONS North Ame ,. ingt sented « vidual The = tatic comy wait companies no npletic surve Sey apparer lission and observe ms Marguerite McNulty Asks $250,-! it 000 for Alleged Breach | """ of Promise. /15t Sone ess mer . had existed t hat the terms perger should be after they had beer A few months af P the North An invest focal n co-operation of the ce ng the surve portation fa when th t By 4he Ascociated NEW YORK day’s * American Andrews Clark the late Montana sued for £250,000 by Nulty, & dancer. who a promise to marry her. The defendant is in London, and the ‘complaint, with court approval. was' left with the management ¢ the hotel here where Clark has artment Prese Lo November 23.—To- worked that William grandson been nerite Me- | third Senator M wvers he broke has nmissi formation t to determine the feas is & us collect d be used an comm uation and deciding what shoulc comvlaint less than charze: that three months they met in a Broadway cabaret Clark took the plaintiff to his father's home in Butte, Mont., and | introduced her as his fiancee and | that announcement of the engage- | ment was made. When they met she was dancing at a cabaret and he was just out of college. Many detectvies have been engaged vestigate ihe girl's career An order for service of the com plaint by substitution was issued upreme Court York upon in 1923 after 1o as SLAYER. 15, MUST DIE, | SUPREME COURT RULES in Boy's Appeal to Highest Pennsyl vania Tribunal Fails—Only Pardon Can Save Him. are reported by Clark to to in- by Justice Ford of New representation that Clark | had evaded personal service since a | definite refu October 30 las marry the plantiff. By the PHILADELPHIA, o The State Supreme Court today uphelc the first degree mur William Cavalier, sentenced to de ated Press viction ¢ Coolidge Must Pass |Of Lieut. Thompson, Convicted of Killing! in a period of p recently stationed in cord of Audrey Burleigh, €€ | of final official action. Tt is that | the court-martial; convened at Manila, has just been re- ceived at the War Department for review by the judge advocate Lieut. Thompson was convicted of the slaying, April last, step- P. Calmes, now stationed grandmother. on Death Sentence | &< boy ever sentenced to deatl Pennsylvania court. His Mrs. Catherine avalier iesville, ear Pottsvil; old Cavalier a of the judge ad-jfor the purpose of robbery ore thar I £100 in cash taken from Mrs. ( Fas found in the boy's possession i Cavalier had been cared for | grandparents ever since he was ;munlhc old, when his father i mother epearated. The boy was convicted of thesmur der on January 11 The boy's last hope now appears be the board of pardons. NOEL MUST DIE. Sentenced to Go to Electric Chair for Slaying Taxicab Driver. NEWARK, N. J.,, November 23 (#) —Harrison W. Noel, kidnaper and slayer of 6-year-old Mary Daly of Montclair, today was sentenced to die in the electric chair during the week of January 10, for the murder of Ray mond Pierce, nezro taxicab whose car he used in abe child. eved to be the officials : il | cuss the case in any phase in advance Press dispatches from Manila said . ine ing attention to Mi; some time and had taken her out | for a carrlage ride in the suburbs, in the course of which he drew a re volver and shot her. His arrest fol- lowed promptly and he has been in close confinement ever since. The general court-martial before which he was arraigned rejected the defense plea of mental irresponsibility and found the officer guilty as charged. The case is being reviewed at the War Department to determine the regularity and legality of the court- martial proceedings before submitting it to the President for final action. Under the statutes, the President is required to pass upon all court-mar- tial cases involving the death penal in dme of peace and. in his discretion, he may approve or mitigate any such sentence -or set it aside entirely. Burleigh for | o .