Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1925, Page 2

CHAPMAN CLAIMS “PARDON” LLEGAL Slayer Says Coolidge Used Commutative Power Unlaw- fully as Instrument of Force. i A e Br the Associated Pre: HARTFORD. Conn.. November 28 %Reprieved from the gallows for three $nionths by Gov. Trumbull. Gerald ¥Chapman, mail bandit. convicted of imyrdering a policeman, is acting as Jone of the lawyers for himself. % In a fivepage hrief. written with ben and ink in his cell and bristling with Jegal terminology. he contends that President = Coolidge has “im- morally and unlawfully” employed the commutative power as an instru- ment of force. The President has commuted Chap- man’s sentence of 2 to Atlanta for robbing t order that Chapman may Coennecticut for killing_ a policeman after he had escaped from Atlanta. Chapman's lawyers plan to go as far as the United States Supreme Court 10 prove that he first should = e ki Federal sentence before being exe- cuted in Connecticut hapman was sentenced to die next Thursday, but the governor vesterday reprieved him until March because of habeas corpus proceedings which will be argued in Federal Court Monday. In a cell piled high with law books, yesterday. C to one of hi Groehl. In some them long. and hanz in o lawyers, Frederick 00 words, many o syntax that would please a rhetorician. Chapman con tends that the fundamental idea of the Presidential power to commute is that it shall he used with good will and merciful intent and that privileges ot pman handed his hrief { L0 Richest man in France, who will di- rect new cabinet’s fiscal policy. HINDENBURG SIGNS LOCARNO TREATIES { to Help German Develop- Berlin Expects Security Pact/ HE EVENING CHINA'S WAR HOSTS PLAN FORBATTLE Contending Armies Mass at Strategic Points—Fall of Chang Tso-Lin Reported. By the Associated Preas. PEKING, November 28.—Gen. Kuo Sung-Lien. former supporter of Mar- ahal Chang Tso-Lin, the Manchurian War lord, has established head quarters at Chinwangtao on the Chihli coast. while his forces have occupied Shanhaikwan, & short dis- tance to the northeast on the Peking. Mukden rallwav. Chang's followers are concentrating upon Chinchowfu. 100 miles to the northeast. on the railway, and a battle is expected near Shanhal an. Provineial War Lord Displaced. The fall of Chang Tso-Lin, Man- churian dictator for many véars and heretofore regarded as the moat strongly placed of the three great provincial war lords, was indicated in meagre advices received here y terday from Minister MacMurray Pekmg. but no explanation was cluded in the dispatch. The revolt at Mukden, followed by the breaking away of the provincial chief previously ailied with Chang in Tientsin and elsewhere, has left offi- clals here and, apparentiv, in Peking | completely mystifiad as to what new furn to expect in the political-military struggle of the trio of war lords. Press cablegrams from Peking add- ed to the puzzle, saying that Feng Yu- siang. the “Christian general.” and a | doubtful adherent of Chang. had join- ed the anii-Chang movement and warned the Manchurian leader that he at in- STAR WASHING' RS LANSIONNE PLEAS ARE DENED Navy Refuses Widow Tran- script of Foley Evidence in Shenandoah Case. By the Associated Press. Requets of Joseph K. Davies, coun- sel for Mrs. Zachary lLansdowne, that the Shenandoah court of inquiry be Lreconvened and witnesses recalled for [cross-examination on bebalf of the widow and for a stenographic copy of the testimony of all witnesses heard by the court on any questions hearing fon the controversy between Mrs. Lansdowne and €apt. Paul Foley. for- mer judge advocate of the court, were denied yesterday, but no reference was made to Mr. Davies' other demand that the court be discharged. The position of the department was et forth in a letter by Rear Admiral E. H. Campbell, judge advocate gen- eral of the Navy, who was ordered by to him by Mrs. Davies after the court, when 1t recalied Mrs. Lansdowne to inquire into the Foley charges, refused to permit him to act as her counsel The court later exonerated Capt Foley. The department’s reply stated that it Mrs. Lansdowne wished to present additional facts germane to the in- vestigation the judge advocate general would submit these to Mr. Wilbur when the findings of the court were reviewed. It could then be determined, id the letter, whether the court { should he reconvened and additional witnesses called. Admiral Camphell pointed out that, “although the court was ordered hy the Recretary of the Navy, the court Mr. Wilbur to reply to the letter sent | SATURDAY, . NOVEMBER RESERVOIRS puBLIC BASEOALL | gress to buy for the District tion of the National Capital with the general highway pian, which | 9 8. 1925 RESERVOIRS Urged by City Planning Board and National Capital Parks Comngsion, the District Commissioners will ask Con- the old historle Reno Subdivision, paying for it out of the District’s accumulated surplus, and then develop it in harmony it now blocks. 2 blight on that rapfdly developing sec- RHINELANDER AGES UNDER CASE STRAI Counse! Hopes for Early End of Trial to Relieve Both Principals. By tha Associated Press WHITE PLAINR, N. Y., Novambar 28.—The Rhinelander trial, nearing 1n ita end. finds voung Leonard Kip Rhinslander aging under the strain of the proceedings to annul his mx riage 1o his dusky wife, Alice Reatrice Jones. Judge lsaac N. Mills, counsel for Rbinelander, sayvs he is aa expedite the case. which ia telling his clfent. The ordeal also ix reported to have brought Rhinelander's to 3 point of nervous breakdown The ault ix the main topic nf con versation here, and gossip crediis Isaac N. Mills with a plan to intio duce witnesses when the trial reopens Monday whose testimony will he more sensational than any vet introdiced Mr. Mills refused 1o comment on this bevond saying that he did not plan 1 lengthy cross-examination of the dusky wife, Alice Jones Rhinelander or her father, George Jones. who expected 1o be the next witnesses Wife to Reaffirm Love. that Mrs. Rhine will ask her if st is willing to effect reconciliation with the hushand w deserted her a month after their ma rige last vear upon publication of the fact she had negro blood. She is ex pected to answer in the affirmati Counsel for hoth sides declined wite It is predicted lander’s counsel still loves and T | of Mre comment on a rumer that the fathe Jones’ white daughter, hrough | over from Engiand 29 vears ago. is must retire from public lifa or meet an | now a prosperous business man living | attack from his troops { near Poughkeepsie, N. ¥ Mr. Mills laughed at the report tha Rhinefander's fortune of $300.000 TANK U. S. INVENTION, EXPERT under it shall “he gifts and not puni- | tive or inimical forces ta place lives! and liberties in further feopardy.” Mr. Groehl said that there was only | in & lawfully constitnred tribunal, functioning As an instrumentalfty of | the United States Government. the same ana Faderal grand jury. and not ments in Russia. COUNCIL TOLEARN Explanation of Revolt. The most of #ne legal mistake in the document Chapman attributed the commutation power to a legislative act. whereas it i conferred by the Conatitution. Chapman's brief is 1o he used in large part in Mr. Groehl's arguments in conrt It is also 1o he argued that Chap- man’s transfer to the Connecticut State prison from Atlanta for trial as | con- | a murderer was unlawful. It i tended that the only legal reasons for transfer are unsafe condition of a prison, cruel treatment or il health. MAN IS CRITICALLY INJURED BY TAXICAB Skull Believed Fractured When Hit by Anto—Another Knocked Down by Car. Charles E. O'Hagan. 45 vears old. Mount Vernon Hotel, was probably fatally hurt by a taxicab at Fourth and H streeix about 7:45 this morn- ing. John Tarlor, 415 South Pitt Sireet, Alexancria, Va. driver of the taxicab, took the injured man to Emergency Hospital The patient hecame unconscious #oon afier giving his name and ad- Aress. Tt is believed O'Hagan's skull is fractured. About the time this accident oc- enrred. Joseph L. Holland. &8 years 614, 60 Rhode Island avenue, a proof- reader in the Government Printing Office. was knocked down by an ai tomobile at North Capitol and H streets.-while on his way to work, and Injured He was taken to Emergency pital in a treated for miner lacerations and shock. Aubrev Clagert. 1246 Pleasant mtreet southeast, driver of the ma- chine thf srruck him. reported tha nceident to the palice . Hos- NAVAL PLANE MAKES 25,000-MILE JOURNEY Develops No Serious Engine Trou- ble in Round Trip to New York From California. Ry the Associated Pre A fMight of approximately 25 recorded by Lieut. B. H. Wyatt of tha Navy in a report io the Navy Depart- ment on his recent transcontinental flight to observe the Schneider cup aces. Lieut. Wyaii made flight from the naval air station at 8an Diego 10 New York and thence to Baltimore 1o ohserve the races, ra- A triangular turning from there to the California | this aration The department issusd statement on the hasis of a report trom the air station: Lieut. Wyatt, fiving a SDW plane with a T3A engine, was in the air more than 276 hours and covered ap- proximately :.000 miles away from home hase. in a region where there were very meager repair facilities. He had during the flight one forced land- ing. which was caused hy the failure of internal oil lines. He sxperiencad few engina troubles and none of a serious nature.’” It is expected that Lieut. Wyatt will command the contemplated Alaskan mapping expedition, which will begin aperations next vear for the Interior Department along the narrow strip of | "nd running from Ketchikan to Anchorage and Iying between the Pa- cific and Canada, an area of approxi- mately 40,000 miles. Three planes probably will be used and the opera- tions will require about three yvears, with only three months available in each vear there for fiving. SUIT AGAINST CLARK IS FORMALLY FILED Br the Associated Pre NEW YORK. November romplaint in promise suft 25.- brought by Marguerite McNulty, motion pleture actreas, against William Andrew Clark. 3d. zrandson of the late Senator William A. Clark of Montana. was filed veater- day in the Supreme Court by her at- torney. On January 15 last. the complaint alleges, the plaintiff and defendant be- came engaged, with the understanding that they were to be married within a reasonable time. On October 30, ac- cording to the complaint, at the Hotel Relmont, the defendant refused to marry the plaintiff. ““The details and particulars of which will be proven upon the trial of this action.” The complaint sets forth that the Aefendant ix an engineer assoefated with various copper. oll, mining and railroad industries, and maintains a residence at Los Angeles. Calif.. with father, William Andrew Clark, jr., and executive offices In New York. There are 466 cities in the United s that report 15,019 acres as totz] arem yeed as plavgrounds. passing automobile and | 5.000 | miles with no serious engine trouble s | The | the $250.000 breach of | | B the Aasociated Press. BERLIN ovember von Hindenburg today signed the bill passed by the Reichstag vesterda ratifying the Security Pact and arbi- tration treaties negotiated at L. ecarno. Chancellor 28.—President Luther and Foreign Secret. Stressemann will depart for London tomorrow to sign the documents officfally. with the repre sentatives of the other intereated countries. The adoption of the l.ocarno hill, 231 to 174, in the Reichstag was due to the widespread conviction aconomic expediency made ratification indispensible. This argument pre- vailed over lack of evidence of readi ness on the part of the allied gov- arnments to ameliorate the conditions of the occupation of the Rhineland. Alds Aims in Russia. All the speakers who supported the bill during the five dayvs of debate | said that Germany would be in no- wise pledged to so-called western orientation. Frank expression was given to the hope that Germany's r lations with Soviet Russia would con tinue on a basis of political and cordial economic relation With political animosities eliminated from her relations with France and | Belgium by virtue of the security pact | and arbitration treaties with those na- tions, it is believed in political and in- duatrial circles that Germany now i in & better position to give thought to her economic interests in Russia. Five Yet to Sign. When they arrive in London to sign the treaties. the German delegates will give the allies notice that the German people are impatient over the measures of*concessians accorded Ger- many by the allies and will seek to have them enlarged Although the Locarno treaties were initialed by the various delegates to | the conference. October 16, only the British Parliament Reichstag thus far ha The other nations which are vet to act prior to their signature in Lon don next Tuesday are France. Rel gium, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Po- land. 'NEW POLICY HINTED IN BUS LINE CASES Utilit May Be Forced to Change on Basis of Court Ruling. Commission A recent decision hy the United States Supreme Court may lead the local Public Utilities Commission to adopt a new policy in considering re- quests for extensions of the service ! of public service companies. ‘The local utility act provides that extensions of service ordered by the { commission must show promise of being compensatory within a reason. able time. Maj. W. E. R. Covell. as sistant to the commission. believes the latest decision may be construed to mean that if a company as a whole is earning a reasonable return the com- | mission would he justified in ordering a reasonabls extension of facilities re- igardlese of whether such extensions would he remunerative at the time. Maj. Covell sald the decision of the cqurt alse Indicates that the commis- sion may assume in ordering exten- sfons that the company has r se 1o apply for a revision of rates if nec- sssary to protect the-property. The commission has pending #t this time a petition for residents of Ben- ning for an extension of gas service, and it recently had a similar applica- tion from property owners on and near Conduit road. The Benning case has not been decided. In the case of Con- duit road the company has agreed to begin making extensions in the Spring. { that | amity | and the German tified them. | | probable explanation the revolt in Chang’s ranks. as seen by nformed officials here. ix that he Is regarded as an outlander by the Chi- nesa whenever he passes to the south of the great Chinese wall. which was bullt long ago to prevent Manchurian | incursions. The = conquest of Man- churia by a leader from China would be & much easier thing to visualize anchurian should exe ith of the wall The question of immediate interest to officiala here is the probable attt- tude Feng will 1ake if, as indicated, he assumes military dictatorship in Peking and becomes virtually the political head of the provisional cen- tral government. which called to- gether the customs conference now in session there. Feng fia credited with Soviet Russian connegtions and endencies. but it remains io he seen | whether he would repudiate all un- | equal treatiesx to which China ix a | party, including | venticons and grants. Belleve Feng Will Be Cautious. Some observers are inclined to he. | lieve that Feng would not risk inter- | ference with the customs conference, | since denunciation of the special vights treaties would carry with it abolition of the foreign-controlled | customs commiasion. | Denunciation of the treatie |he a se power | the extraterritorial | | | might | popular move with the student | roups which led the recent anti- foreign ~demonstrations after the Shanghai troubles, but Feng would' benefit little by asserting tariff autonomy immediately and promul- gating high duty schedules unless he was sure the central government would collect those dutfes for its own use. SETS HIGH STANDARD FOR NEWSPAPER MEN Official Says They Must Know Truth and Dare to Tell It. | American Legion | | | Br the Associated Pren | MADISON., Wis., Novembher 25— | The newspaper man or woman worthy of the profession must find the truth and then have the courage to tell it, | Frank Clay Cross, national American- ism director of the American legion, |said in an address prepared for de- |livery today hefore the Central Inter- scholastic Press Association, made up | of high school editors from through- out the Central States. “In the search for facts,” he said, “preference, antagonism, all other emotions—handmaids of prejudice—must be laid aside. The newspaper man must be a student and a lover of truth. When truth is sup- pressed the nation Is endangered.” Cautioning against judging the truth of a statement by the reputa- tion of the man uttering it, Cross #coffed at the “popular inclination to consider prominent men as oracles in every department of knowledge." ““Hardly a month passes without the heralding of the opinions of some well known financier on our educational aystem, or those of some successful poljtician on how he may pay off his mortgage. Such conclusions and d- | vice may be worth no more than the | opinions of & bootblack. Why heéd the | astronomer who tries to Interpret the Bible, or the clergyman 40 _pronounce on science The speaker pleaded with the stu- dent editors to fight for preservation of free apeech and a free press, “‘even for the Communist,” readers who will demand the hest type of newspapers. Many measures before likely to pass soon. fit into to carry out the original pla by President Washington, conditions. World thé visible expression of people of the United States Having multiplied his a seat of government, Uncle rebuild his plant. develop all together. tomorrow n Star. To Make Washington Most Beautiful This one feature of the development plan, pressed by President Coolidge, will mean the long- deferred cleaning up of the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, to be lined with public buildings. WILL P. KENNEDY has prepared a series of eight articles showing the important improvements planned to arts of the Capital City and how they mesh ‘Y‘he first of these articles will be printed The Sunday Star -and they will continue daily in The Evening and Sunday " BIG IMPROVEMENTS FOR CAPITAL CITY Congress, most of which are a well co-ardinated scheme ns of Maj. L'Enfant, indorsed as adapted to meet changed Capital the power and taste of the ctivities and employes at the Sam must almost completely | In the Chinese popular view, than that | the customs con- | faith and | and asked his | hearers to help train a generation of | as an agent of the Secretary of the | Navy. am stated in vour letter. He asserted further that Cap Foley as judge advocate did not serve | as & member of the court. but rather was intrustel with bringing out all the facts In the case. the proceeding before the court being “in no sense a trial of an issue, nor of an accumed | person. but only one to inform the convening authority in a preliminary | way as to the facts involved in the | inquiry.” No Rights Before € “In your letter.” Admiral Camphell continued. “vou appear o be under tha impression that vour client was in some way a defendant hefore the court, and in that eapacity fn need of counsel and entitled to the rights lof a defendant. Upon the facts as | stated in your letter. much was not the case. Her presence before the court on the occasion to which your letter refers was merely as a witness, * '+ Neither under civil nor mili- tary law are witnesses who are not otherwise parties to the proceeding entitled o be represented before the court, or appear before the court with counsel.” The requests for coples of testimony and for cross-examination of wii- nesses, the reply explained, could not be granted because the court “has not Vet submitted its report 10 the Secre tary of the Navy,” and “it would be improper to interfere in the regular course of ita procedure, or to make preliminary rulings on events that are reported to have transpired before the court.” The court’s report, it said, wonld be forwarded to the Judge advocate gen eral'n office and. afier review, ented to the Secretary of the > ith any comment neceasary. As to | reconvening the court later upon re- {quest of Mr. Davies or his client present additional facts, it added. “courts of inquiry may be reconvensd and additional witnesses called until | the convening authority is satisfied | that all evidence has been obtained | essential 1o the establishment of the | tacts of the matter under inquiry.” RICHARDSON AGAIN HEADS CIVIC BODIES Is Re-Elected to Sixth Term as President of Federation of Associations. urt. | I | jed president vic Associations for his sixth con- | secutive term last night at a meeting of the assoclation at the District Build- jing. Dr. George H. Richardson was elect of the Federation of ic Qther officers elected were: William | H. Lewis, vice president; J. E. Bowles, | executive secretary: Huver I. Brown, | recording secretary: Capt. H. D. Queen, | treasurer, and E. J. Morton, chaplain. | The following commities "chairmen were named: Dr. 1. I. Daniels, educa- | tion; H. W. Woodson, legislation: Dr. | J. J. Porter, public improvementa; Dr. A. R..Colling. commercial intereats: George Beason. publicity: Sedgwick Landers, collation. and George W. Jackson, credenti; ‘The assoclation journed until the fourth Friday in January because the next regular meeting would fall on Christmas night. A committee was appointed to seek o have department schcol and college students to tempo- rar: positions in the stores during the Christmas buying rush. MRS. AGNES RAPP DIES. Resident of Capital for Many Years Long Had Been Il Mrs. Agnes J. Rapp, 65 years old, a resident of this city for nearly 4b vears, died at her residence, 3128 Mount Pleasant street vesterday, after a long lllness. She was the wife of Frank E. Rapp, emploved in the In- come tax unit of the United States Treasury Department. Mrs. Rapp is survived by her hu: band, four sisters, Mrs. George Law- rence of Springfeld, Mass.; Mrs. Min- nie A. Carrington of Los Angeles, Calif.; Miss Jennie Parrott and Miss Rose Parrott, both of Washington, and. three brothers, J. B. Parrott, of | 1 B | Gordonaville, Va.: Allen W. Parrott of { Grand Rapids. Mich., and N. of Berkeley, Calif. Mrs. Rapp ‘was a member of the o der of the Eastern Star. Funeral a rangements have not been completed. GIFTS SALE ANNOUNCED. Shoppers Urged to See Works of ‘Wounded Veterans. Christmas shoppers are invited to attend the annual sale of articles made by patients of Walter Reed Hospital. which will be held next Thursd: Friday in the permanent salesroom, Bullding 95, at the hospital. The hours of the sale will be from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Gifta of every description will be offered, it was announced by officers in charge of the occupational therapy Aepartment. They will include art work, basketry, batik, block bunting, Jewslry. metal work, leather work, pottery, tovs, weaving, woodwork and other miscellaneous articles. Parrott, |Donovan to Explain Correct stors managers appoint colored high | Form in Drafting Money Measures. | | | When the Citizens’ Advisory Council meets at the District Building tonight to resume consideration of the Dis trict’s legislative program for the new Congress Maj. Danlel J. Donovan, au- ditor, will be prexent to explain 1o the council how it should word bills | which call for the expenditure of funds. The council has betore it such measures as the bill to eliminate rail road grada crossings and 1o extend | Fourteenth street through Walter | Reed Hosplital grounds: | District officials say that in drafting {such bills the lansuage should be | clear as to the amount which it is sought to have the Federal Govern ment v toward the projact. These District officials will caution the coun- { il not to say that such appropriations | shall be made in the same proportion ias all other expenses of the District | are made. They take thix position | because Congress for two vears has ! departed from the proportionate plan | by appropriating a lump sum of $9. {000,000 toward District upkeep. | "It has been suggested that the coun: [ cil state specifically in these bills that {the United States shall pay 40 per | | cent of the cost, or that the bills | should state the actual amount in | dollars and cents to be pald by the Federal Government. | | | i | i | |IDEAL COMMUNITY PARK IS PROJECTED | ON FORT RENO SITE| (Continued from First Page.) { | way plan in an orderly and compre-| | hensive manner. This irregular, ill-| | devised plan, it is argued. makes an objectionable subdivision which will | remain a blight upon that locality for all_time if not eliminated. The only way that the objectionable | spot can be eliminated so that the, city can develop in harmony with all the surrounding territory would be to | condemn the entire area composed of | about 52 acres. The situation cannot | be corrected hy private interests on ! | account of such a large number of ! small property owners. Even if the private land were acquired, it would | still be imposaible for private interesta to close the alleys and streets and re- subdivide in accordance with the highway plan. Blight on hborhood. It can well he seen by a study of the highway plan that the existing condition of the Reno Subdivision is a great blight on the entire surrounding section of the District. The surround. ing territory is being developed by high-class residences and it is evident to all those who have made a study of the development of the District. and especially to those who are now plan- ning an orderly development, that the Reno Remervoir is the very heart of the center of that entire section of the District of Columbia. The development of the surrounding territory is progressing rapidly and if i blocked by this misfit subdivision the city-planning hoard and members of the District committees in Congreas say those who are responsible for de- velopment of the city plan will be held culpable. Besider the advantages aceruing from the elimination of this subdi- vision, other weighty considerations | nave ‘been urged upon the District Commissioners and members of Con- gress. It commands the highest view of the District of Columbia, with an elevation of about 420 feet. It ix the site of the old Fort Reno, one of the o0ld Civil War defenses of the city of Washington. This old fort can be re. stored within the park area. Needs for School. Besidés all this the Water Depart- ment must have additional land for the extension of the high-service reservoir, and an appropriation is now avallable for that purpose. but it ir impracticable to locate at this point on account of the impossibility of closing streets and alleys within the ares desired. ‘The public ‘school horities have inspected this property and are anx- fous to establish there a junior high school with an athletic ‘fleld. This rapldly growing part of the District demanda such a school, and there is no location as attractive as the ones within the 52-acre limit of the Reno subdiviston. This project has the indorsement of all the varfous District departments interested. The private holdings in the tract de- sired _have an estimated value of $1.000,000. However, the assessors place ‘on it a value of $750,000, but | the bill has been drawn on the basis of a million dollars. Improve Your Child. | From the Jack-o"-Lantern. Edison, with all his inventions, was a piker compared to the ambitious ung photographer who advertised. ““Your baby can be enlarged, tinted and framed for $8.79." | | the | caterpillar tractors, and took with me | some blueprints of a proposed 60.000- | Wheelock." | that the armored tractor plans called SAYS, CLAIMING BRITISH PRIZE Declares Briton First Scouted Usefulness of War Ma- chine for Which 30,000-Pound Award Is Now Offered by Government. By the Associsted Press NEW YORK, November 28— The United States has a claimant for some of the $150,000 prize money offered by Rritish government to the in. ventor of the “tank.” Francis J. Lowe. for many Years a tractor salesman and now a metro politan real estate operator, gives Edwin Wheelock, a tractor enginmer of Winona. Minn., credit for the fathering of machines that were a sensation of the World War. “In April. 1915, Mr. Lowe said ves- terday. 1 went to Europe to sell some pound armored tractor made by Mr. He went to Col. Sir Henry Capel Lofft Holden, ‘director of mechanical transportation, at the war office in London. When Col. Holden learned for a machine weighing more than 25 tonx he said: “Come, come’ This is other Yankee invention o win the war. It will break down any bridge in Belgium and besides you Yanks don't know that we drive to the left of the road instead of to the right, 20 1t will block traffic as well.” “Finally,” Mr. Lowe says, ol. Holden intraduced me 1o a Maj. Wil- son, Who to6k the plans and said he | would let me know if we were to get any orders, but I never heard from him until after the hattle of Somme, when it was reported that funny-looking ‘cheese boxes' were go- | ing over Germans. Wheelock then requested Lowe to| %o to London and find out what had | happened. and Lowe got in touch with 8ir Willlam Tritton of Fosters Ltd, the firm that bullt the tanks| for the British. At first Tritton thought 1 was a newspaper man, and talked freely, but when I asked him if he knew | Holden and Wilson he asked me the top and chasing the | point-blank what I was really after,” | 1} says Mr. Lowe. “I told him that svanted to get the £30,000 prize money for Americans, and he sald that under the terms of the govern- ment award only British Inventors could get ft.” ‘The first pfize court was unable to deterinine who was the real inventor |of the tank, and a second hearing has been ordered to pass upon the claims of Capt. Bede RBentley. A recent British war office announcement said that the fdea of tanks is not new, that H. G. Wellx described them in A novel in 1903, and that the award was intended for the man or men who drew up the apecific plans used for the first tanks 1 | PROMISES ACTION ON BANKING BILL IN $90,000 SWINDLE | McFadden Says House Will Pass National Act Late in January. By the Associated Pres | The bill passed last session by the House (o revise the national bank ' act will be reintroduced in virtually the same form at the forthcoming sessfon. Tn making this Announce- ment today, Chairman McFadden of | the banking and currency committee. | its author, sald House leaders had promised that the measure, which failed of a vote in the Senate in the | closing jam last session. would be | given an early place on the calendar. ' Mr. McFadden plans to hold no hearings on the bill in view of the extensive hearings before the com- mittee a vear ago and expects its dis- posal by the House before the end of January. The measu: would allow national banks fo establish branches within city limits ou about the same basis as permitted State banks. It further would prevent all State and National banks in the Federal Reserve Syvstem from establishing branches vond the corporate limits of the city and wonld forbid National banks from en- gAgIng in any activities bevond the eity limits. - Mr. McFadden ix awaiting action on this bill hefors deciding whether to reintroduce a measure he submit- ted to the House last session propos- ing to eliminate some of the war- time amendments fo the Federal Re- serve act, which permitted member banks to expand their business. U. S. SCOUTS CHARGES OF ARSENIC ON APPLES| Agriculture Officials Amount of Poison Exaggerated in London Case. | Fining of London fruit dealers for | selling American apples alleged to contain arsenic in harmful quantities as reported by a United States at- | tache in London, is not taken serious- | Iy by the Department of Agriculture here. Fxperts of the department said to- day that the amount of arsenic re- ported to have heen found war lesas than a third of a medical dose to! each apple, assuming that skin and | all waa eaten without washing or wiping. and that a dozen would have had to be consumed at one time be- fore serious effects could follow. This amount was much more than used, they asserted. It is also significantly pointed out that commercial _interess have charged that the English agitation was part of a movement to injure American trade. No case of fatai or even merious ilineas from this cause has been reported in this country, but the experts are continuing vigorously the efforts they have been making for some time, to educate American grow- ers in the proper handling of arsenical sprays which are essential to the culture of the fruit. Declare A Linguistic Paradox: From the Amarican Legion Weekly. Crawford—8o you can't understand why your boy in college flunked in all the foreign languages? Crabshaw—No; it's & mystery me.- He the yells In ne. tim to ., FOUR MEN ARE HELD - “Boy Evangelist” One of Gang Ac- cused of Fleecing Rich Illi- nois Farmers. Ry the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 28— Four al- leged members of a confidence ring last night were under Federal indict. ment here in connection with swindling of $96,00% from four Iliinois men, during the ‘ast two vears. Arrest of the quartet was announced Post Office Inspectors A. F. Burt and H. H. Wasson, who charged the men with conspiracy to use the mails to defraud. The indictments were re. turned on November 18, but were not made public untll yesterday. Those arrested " are Thorass H. Laughlin, alias Chapple Moran. inter- nationally known confidence ma Brady, known in this countr: Surope under many aliases: Wal. ter Sanderson of Litchfield, IIl.., son of @« cleregyman and himself known as the “Boy Evangelist,” and Luther Sanderson, his cousin. Inapectors are seeking three other alleged members of the gang, know B. A Martin and 'Col. ctims of the confidence ring are Mayor Willlam G. Frank of Okawville, who lost $35.000 in Liberty bonds Lava B. Totter, Jacksonville, who lost $13.450: James Metealf. Alton. who lost $30.000, and Louix Bueacher, Dan. vers, who lost $11.090. latter three are prominent IMlinois farme; According to C. J. Statler, assistant district attorney, the men fleaced their ;'lec.tl(:n through fake land and stock e - = The Eyewitness. From Life. “I note.” said the elderly ntles on his aemi-annual visit o the ehn that the women are wearing two sets of garters, one of which evidently holds up their stockings while the other pair holds up traffic.” Girl, 15, Accused Of Robbing Man Of $12 in Street| Hir vanity injured when 15.year- old Pauline Barry, 728 Sixth street southwest, slurred his appearance after he had pleaded poverty in turning down her request for a ‘quarter “to buy hot dogs.” Willlam E. McFarland last night flashed $12, which, the police say, the girl snatched and fled down the street. Percy W. Tarman, 21 ears, ‘West Falls Church, Va., who was engaged in conversation with Mc- Farland when the money wa snatched, went in pursuit of the Barry girl, and Is alleged to have admitted picking up the money she discarded in her flight after firat de- nying it. ¢ Miss Barry and two companions, Myrtle E. Grove, 13 vears, 470 street southwest, and May E. De- ment, 16 years, 1217 Four and one- half street southwest, the latter charged with suggesting the money anatching to Miss rey. are held on eharges of robbery, while Tar- man is also being held pending a further investigation of the inci- dent. It is probable the trio of girls will be arraigned in Juvenile Court early /lext week. the | the | legacy from his grandfather. had near Iv &ll been =pent in prosecution of the trial I have no idea that he spent any thing like $300.000." Mr. Mills said, “and certainly I got very littie of i1."" | i | i | Sees Client Aging. | Mr. Mills hopes for an earlv concln | sino of the case. ““I'he strain is tell ing on my client and he s aging rap idly.” he sald. “He is almost hroken hearted over the case, and feels deep Iv the humiliation he has undergone If 1 did not know from the official rec ord he is only 22, T would take him for | jA man of at least 35." Counsel for Mrs. Rhinelander ex pect the came ta reach the jury Tues day afternoon unless the plaintiff in troduces surprise witnesses in el tal. SLEEP IS INTOXICATION CAUSED BY POISONS, EXPERIMENT INDICATES t (Continued from First Page.) was doing standing by the steps of the university bullding. As I walked out to him he proved to be the post supporting the banister. They were all so vivid that I rersmberad them well enough to tell the rest of the students about them Thix abnormal reaction. the sefen- tists in charge concluded. w oh. viously due te visual conditions. An- other of the studenis clearly saw phantoms. Their theory of the reac tlon was that thelr eves actually visualized figures _that their hrains were thinking of and made the | #hadowy figures scem so real that | they actually tried to walk up and talk to the illusions. It was with the visual senses. the doctors found. thai insomnia plave: the most havoc. Little or no loss « mental alertness was discovered h: the most arduous sort of testa. Noy Aid the loss of a single night's sl deprive the subjects of their usi.! abilliy to drive an automobhile. o { the sacond night, however, thay wer far from safe drivers. constanil dropping off to sleep momentarily o when obliged to stay awake. dri Ing_on the wrong side of the 107 Thix tendency to drop inia yinco sciousness was regarded by the o servers am heing due ta the rhvih of the moving car. for when 1hs si dentr were ordered 1o park the an moblles in small spaces thev plaved normal ability. The lass « sleep failed to deprive the suhiec of full use of their muscles. Dine ing and singing. it was added. weie found to be most condncive to wake fulne: Should additional tests more defi nitely prove the theory that sleep i state of intoxication, the question « how long a person should sleep simpl: resolves itsell into the problem of ho: fast one should sleep. It is quite pos sible, the paper added. that through force of habit one person is hle | secure a hundred units of sieep in on half the time required by other per- length, but depth.” the doctors decided length. but dept,” the doctors decided. “If this assumption be true.” they concluded. “the length of time ihat people sleep is very largely a ques tion of hablt. It might be possible to rause their sieeping mechanisms to work faster, just as by a series of con- Aitioned reflexes. we can make the salivary glands work faster. Another thing that seems to support this idea {18 the fact thai the first two hours |of sleep are proved to he very much deeper than the last twa, | | Theory Accounts or Dreams. “This theory would account very {well for dreams, by placing the dreams in one of the stages of sleen having little depth, at some stage after the second hour of xleep Popular opinion would certainly agres that dreamless sleep is the best and most restorative. and most people believe that whan they dream in a normal night's sleep. the dreaming is done toward the last hour of the sleeping period. “If by bullding up new habits, or I by the discovery of some ather means | whereby the amount of sleep re- ! quired by most persons can he cnt down to six hours instead of eight a night. it would be posxioie to in- crease our period of prodnctiveness one-fourth. Whether such an at- tempt would be followed by any in- jurious effects on the organism, nn in at present In a position to | i Only & serles of carefully plan experiments can determine whether reducing the number of hours of sleep. it gradually done. produces any bad results in the organisme. It is ex pected that the conclusions in this series of experiments will be checked In a series of experiments under bet- ter controlled conditions, and it should be borne in mind that they are tenta- tive onl: Prof. F. A. Moss of the department ot psychology of George Washington University, was in direct charge of the experiments. Collaborating with him were Dr. Oscar B. Hunter, Dr. W. J. Mallory, Dr. John 4. Reed, Dr. Joseph H. Roe and Prof. James Defandorf of the Medical School. o - Happy Thought. From the London Mail. Wife—What's the matter, dear? Hubby—Can't get thirx confounded self-starter to work. must be a short circuit somewhers. Wite—How annoyving. 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