Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 2

T2 ON . . MEASURES Local Voice in Congress Among Issues Coming Be- fore Senate Committee. of a subcom the Senate District Appointment mittee of special commit tee ta consider the resolution desizned ri Congress probahly 1o give the people of the Di rep. Senator resentarion be sought at an early date by L Wesley Tones Washington an amend which the ment to Constitn he v under s Nation: The Senate Congress wa Capital representation Ho District a January & Wedne Committee Meets Janu Distriet commit da Il reconvene will neet Arthur « of the District night the p ng hairm ohably The vould creais vhich meet a ho: ted Memhers of the proposal te the committee nerease Commissiona 1 irman he- the the zeneral powers E wvhich sho Ch made k mittee to the city <sinners complete his e taken np h v, and Capper the If the (" Araft of ¥ will to commitiee the m the bil taken i the Sen: a meeting next week The Senators as fairs here m problems now tion by feel 1hat are many minor e conid be handled by thes Commi mare expeditionsly Jdoint plan Congress trict committees of House hold joint hearings on tant local measures ooked upon with favor by Senator Capper and may be followed in some instances during the prese 2 as 4 means of ex pediting legisiation Senator New York dicated at first meet of committee that he would consider possibility of arranging a joint and se subcommittee meeting the proposed mothers’ aid legisi: for the District Another important ing the attention of the nate D trict committee when it meets is the bill to enlarge the powers of the direc tor of trafic by amending the original traffic law in a number of The bill as introduced would give him ader authority to suspend and voke operators’ permits, more direct control over policemen assigned to traffic duty and would elarify several phases of the original law. KILLS FARMER WITH AX, Hearings Favored. The adopted the soveral of havinz the times in the Dis. Senate and impor sessi District Copeland of in the the on tion measure awa instances. THEN COMMITS SUICIDE - Bmploye Binds and Gags Victim's Wife Before Hacking Him to Death. By the Associated Press POCATELLO. Tdaho. December 26 —A special dispatch to the Pocatelln Tribune today save Frank Thirkill. jr.. a farmer, was chopped to death with an ax last night by Warren Lowery. a farm hand. who today killed himeelf with a shotgun in the farm er's home. Mrs. Thirkill told officers that Low. erv, who was emploved on the Thir Klil dairy farm. attacked her hushand as he lay asleep, By his side in kill and an After render hirkill unconseious by a glancing blow with an ax. Low ery carried Mrs. Thirkill to a in the kitchen, bound and gzagged her and then placed the infant in her arms hirkill started from by Lowers ax Lowery then prigoners until Thirkill with to a neighbor's farm. Authorities found Lowery dead on the couch. A shotgun hanging in the baby's swing nearby had heen used with a strap attached to the trizger No cauge has been detarmined $135,000 DAMAGE * IN ALEXANDRIA FIRE bed were Mrs. Thir- daughter. regaining consciousness the hedroom. to be met who killed him with the his Mrs stood guard he fell asteep. infant chier (Continued from First Page.) as the firemen worked with icicles hanging from the brims of their caps, while a skim of covered the ground. the water freezing fell to_the earth The entire department, consisting of three companies, =oon had gix streams of water playing on both the three and four story structures. How ever, the fire fighters were handi capped by a strong wind and Fire Chief James M. Duncan, jr., fearing the fire would spread. notified Fire Chief Watson of the District Fire e partment Chief Watson immediately dis. patched a fire boat, which soon ar rived on the scene and hegan to play heavy streame of water on the stiuc tures. This, coupled with the work of the Alexandria Iire Depart meni. got the fire partly under control at ahout 4*o'clock. or a littie more than two hours after had started To the east of the warehouses, e tween them and the Potomac River, is the Old Dominion Reat Club house, while the Navy torpedo plant is o cated on the north side of the ware houses, about 15 varcs away. This partially protected the warehouses from the strong north wind. And as the Navy structure was on the wind- side of the flames there was little { it hecoming enveloped. Adjoining the three-story warehouse was a two-story structure owned and occupied hy the firm of H. Kirk & Sons. denlers in tar paper. oflx and other building material, all of a high 1y inflammable nature. REDS SHOOT IN DEBATE. Badly Wounded, Others Hurt. at Argentine Session. BUENOS AIRES, December (#).—Preliminary session of the sev enth congress of the Communist party in Argentina broke up in disorder to- night. Numerous shotg were ex changed. Delegate Muller of Mendoza was badly wounded and a number of others received minor injuries. The trouble started during A heated dis- cuesion of a motion. The police have detained more than a hundred persons. A it One Delegate 5 SPLIT ON FINANGES New Cabinet Crisis Expected as Left Groups Race to Present Bills. By the Associated Prese PARIS ment Ty December parties, 26.—The govern which compese the ma in the Chamber of Deputies, are woviding the extraordinary spectacle a frantic to forestall each niher in the presentation of a financial gram to Parliament. This situ tion rise 10 the prospect that WHll start off politically another cabinet er The seri susness of this is heightened by Pre mier Briand’s declaration that he will nake no further partial changes in his ninistry. If Finance Air Dou zive the new vith vea - ACTIONDUE SOON ~ FRENCH MAJORITY | mar's projects pre rejected it will meann | the rejection of the whole cabinet The issne may not come (o a however, until the regular the Chamber begins. January H During the L everishly session of about the middie ve Beaten Govern the prst week th t eartel have been we on bills designed to balane That they in the ruc he hidzet vernment have henten e was indicated bills have been draft w introduced in the Chan hornine anwhile the cahinet remains di M. Doumer’s plan for a dou x on business turnover, and will this matter hefore s azain on Tuesduy it ix believed in the Chamber. the groups of will have applied rigid 1l their members and made approval of the zovernment whatever they he. im Lnnouncement 1 or heir and M will nday W that lohbies of Lot discipline have hills possible time, the block o Left G he bills which the substitutes s’ Proposals., Left zroups will push the zovern meni measures provide for economies in official administration amounting to S00.000.000 francs: increase the income taxes payable by for institute zrave penalties for tax dodging, and reinforce the means at the dispnsal of the fiscal administration for the de tection of false declarations. One of these hills provides that person can vote until he has satisfied the anthorities that he hax complied with all the tax laws. Commissions proposed to decide what persons engaged in the liberal professions shall pay if these disagree with the tax of ficials. Commissions also ave proposed o fix the rates farmers must pay in each locality. taking Into account the vield per acre in each community. The radicals and socalists have cleverly dodzed the question of a capi tal levy in these bills to measures considered sufficient balance the budset. leaving measxut for fundamental financial restorati for later consideration. aners o May Irerease Costs. Some features of the left bloc's hills zenerally are accepied favorahly, al thouzh altogether they are eriticized as likely Lo increase the cost of col | lecting taxes more than the economy or 300,000,000 provid The chambers of commerce of Mul house and Colmar. the industrial a sociation of the upper Rhine and other representative hodiex of the upper Rhine citles now helons 0 France, have telegraphed Premier Briand. supporting the initiative of the industrial leaders of North France. who have proposed to pledze their properties to ald in the financial restoration of the country The Rhenish bodies sald they would follow the northern industrialists “in freely contributing by sacrifices. of which they would be able to control the effects, to secure financial stabili- zation as speedily as possible.” francs for which they n; Provisional Credits Asked. which January, provisional eredits nment ix asking for view of the obvious impossibility voting the hudget hefore the vear. amount to 3.116,989512 francs oughly about $100.000.000) for the general budzet and 514.310.704 francs for annexed hudge In addition there is a count for war expenses in and Syria, amounting to 12 francs By the government’s proposal ihe minister of finance wonld he au thorized 10 advance 5,000,000 francs during January for work in the deva stated regions. Of this sum 25000 franes may he in the form of deliv eries in kind from Germany The finance committee of the cham her considered these fizures this af- ternoon, the in of special Mor PAPER WARNS AGAINST FRENCH DICTATORSHIP Le Temps Says Violence of Left Cartel Would Make New Flections Vain. Ry the Associated Pre PARIS, December page Le Temps prints s sensatioal editorial today under the title “The Shadow of Dictatorship,” dealing with the country’s present stat&wof mind . Temps declares that new elec. tions would be “perfectly vain,” add ing he Left cartel. which feels the ground giving away beneath its feet, is irresistibly conducted to violence and dictatorship. he conclusions of the editorial is that the government and the majority must adapt themselves to the desires On its front of the country recently expressed with | such force. Columbus Found Haricot Beans of Boston Fame Now By the Associnted Press. PARIS. December claim to immortality has heen dis- covered on hehalf of that great discoverer, Christopher Columbus, and should redound greatly to fame in Boston. Columbus, among other things, discovered America and haricot beans. ‘The former find has been a matter of common knowledge for some time: the latter discovery has just been re- discovered by Henri Leclerc and placed before the world in an arti- cle in the Press Medicale. Before the nineties of the fif- teenth century, M. Leclerc saya, the civilized d had munched the broad beun- and the pea, but knew nothing of the haricot bean or of Boston. Then Columbus went west and found the haricot grow- ing near Nuevitas in Cuba, where the natives considered it a deli- cacy and called it “ayacolt.” Inci dentally, he discovered America and started the train of events which ied eventually to the union of Boston and heans in one of America’s best known dietetic affinities. 2.—A new restricting them ! new | 148644 | head, | that | of fire that destroyed big wareh CAR PN KILED - BENEATHWHELS Train Starts as Workman Underneath Changes the “Plow.” Lovis DeGr of was instantly via, an Italian northest | killea vesterday IW. B. & A \ecidentally the “plow’ afternoon. when & was started changing the second in and H streets & two-car while under Fifteenth train e car, a pit at | northeast | The pitman {truck of the rear started, crushed of the pit In such m: by the the train the side as virtuaily was caught car as and against ' nner ‘to decapitate him Conductor W Gambles. Md.. and | W. Lacker of 645 S Baltimore. in cha the train were held by police of No. 9 precinct temporarily, hut were released after | Coroner 1. Ramsev Nevitt had been notified and indicated an inquest would bhe held early this week. i Ace | His wife by police of the ident. rushed to| | the scene from their home a few | blocks distant, before the body was re | moved | Just how the accident happened re- mained a mystery last night both to | police and officials of the railway com | pany. who made u preliminary investh | | gt Reports were that DeGreg. | {aria had failed to pull a safety switch, | | which would have cut off ali electric | | current from the train while he was| Vin danger. It was also reported to| these officials, that there had been | L some kind of ‘confusion in signals as | { to_starting the train The motorman and conductor understood to have left the scene for their homes shortly after the aceident and it was helieved the complete story ! of the accident would ot he developed by officials until the earoner’s inquest | Other Pitmen Killed. The the first | which have | killed. life in the | same pit more than a year ago, ac {cording to one report. It was algo | said there had been other similar fa [itittes i Aeshtngsontainadiihel yin derground svstem of electric power for | street cars was installed. The plow jis ‘the device used underground for | transmitting power. which in the over | head system comes through a trolley | pole | DeGregaria is s ed by his wife, { two sisters, Mrs. Annie Loccine of Si i ters’ College. Browkland: Mrs. Carmela | Bocabella, 2113 Benning road, and his | mother, in Ttaly {M’CRAY TO G'ET NEW JOB. L. Donaldson of Motorman Claude Brunswick street dent Teresa. Is Mystery. who was notified | were fatality was not pitmen in this city Another lost his in heen Will Leave Prison Editorship. ATLANTA, December 26 After serving for 15 monthx a of Good Words, the monthly )i the Atlanta Fede, Gov. Warren T. McCray of Indiana, an Inmate of the institution, has re- linquished the editorial pen. High blood pressure has made it in- advisable for Mr. McCray to continue as editor of the magazine and super- visor of the prison print shop. He will be assigned to less arduous dutl The former governor was sen- tenced to the penitentiary for using the mails to defraud. | Another inmate of the prison will | be named as editor by Warden John W. Snook. Ex-Governor ). — | editor magazine Al pison, former IPortuguese Note Scandal Results in Director’s Confession. LISBON, Portugal, December 26 () —Alves Reis, one of the directors of the Angola and Metropole Bank, charged with being involved In the issuance of unauthorized 500 Escudo notes, hax confessed that all the sig- natures on the contract with the Lon- don printing firm of Waterlow & Sous for engraving the notes, and on other documents, were forgeries. He assumes entire responsibility for the scheme. The confession was communicated to a general meeting of shareholders of the Rank of Portugal, and the di- rectorate of the Bank of Portugal, in- cluding Governor Comacho, which re- | not BANKER ADM.ITS FORGERY | signed because of the scandal, was asked to resume office. ses late yesterday, when four firemen were red The sched for the | the White H ke Friday, is announc 1100 AM. The membars of of 1he Rudger the Pan he \merican e A The Chief Instice of the Unite f the « istice ar o us triet of Columbia. the f the Conrt of Claims i ndges Senators, Rep librarian of Congress. Ar Navy, Marine general of the District Rervice and the « and inclusive of the mander. The chief executive assi the regents and secreta the Civil Service commi commissioners. the Roard. the Federal T Tariff commissioners. 1 tates Shipping Board, Shipping Board Emergency States Employes hers of the Federal directors of the War Farm Loan Reard. the 1 the District of Columbi National Red Cross, th the chief of the United States Burean of Efficiency = rector general of the tion. the alien property heads of hureaus tn the of the Columbia Institut The Rociety Associated Orde; Veterans of of the Loyal Leg Army of the Republic Union Veteran Legion, erans of Foreign Wars, tiago, rmy and olonial Sons of the Revolution, itants Navy Union 1:00 P.M.— Reception of citizens. During the morning recept wise indicated to them. whether in ¢ leave the White House by the east entrance (opposite the During the afternoon recept Honse by the north entrance and depart from the east entra site the Treasury). |GOTHAM ELKS’ CLUB | SUSPENDED BY HEAD| Grand Exalted Ruler Closes Lodge for Month for Dry Law Violation. By the Associated Press DALLAS, Tex December 26. New York Lodge, No. 1, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. will be suspended practically all of January it was announced here today by Fed- eral Judge Willlam Hawley Atwell, zrand exalter ruler of the order. The suspension order, which goes into| effect January 2 and expires Janu- 1"y 31, has not been revoked and will be, he said. Violation of the liquor iaws is charged to the lodge. The dates named were selected not o interfere with the charity work seing carried on by the lodge, Judge Atwell said. The ension follows padlocking of the New York -lodge's grill for six months under Federal “ourt order, when it was found that real heer was being sold there. Most of the members of the lodge ire believed by Judge Atwell to have heen innocent. The charter of the New York lodge has not been revoked, the judge de- lared. = i 37 Robberies Laid to Two. December B 19, of Jersev ‘ity. and John Mazepa, 20, of Iselin, X. V.. today were held in default of $74,000 bail each for 37 robberies in which police said they confessed par- icipating. 26 Hot Water Séés In Muffs Combat Cold in England s By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 26.—The coldest December England has known for many years has called British inventive genius into play. MANy women now are wearing a new type of muff. which contains a lining_of rubber tubing which can be filled with hot water to aid in warding off chilblains and chapped knuckles, < New the diplomatic Cnion associate Siates it < of the Supreme Court ¢ esentatives and Milltia, « t and Geodet grade of lieutenant members ade commi Compensation commissioners Roard “nited States Boar the controller zeneral of the the United States Veterans' of the Cincinnati the Spanish War Vete Wars, the Sons of the American ew Year Day at White House Year be held at ed todny reception, t as follows and the directar of the Bureau the director general of ne of the & ndge and the Chief f 1he justices esiding preme the | s of Appeals tices of the Conrt of Appeals Chief Justice and associate Judges Chief Justice and associate jus he Distriet of Columbia 4 the | | Delegates in Congress prps. the staff of the commanding ast Guard, Public Health irvey office down to colonel and com- stants of members of the cahinet ry of the Smithsonian Institutio: . ssioners. the Interstate Commercs of ihe Federal Reserve loners. the United Siates he commissioners of the [ nited the trustees of the United States et Corporation. the United the mem Zducation. the n. the Federal of Tax Appeals. nited States. the director of Rurean. the Commissioners of the chalrman of the American treasurer of the United States, the di Administra for Finance Vocational Corvora a nited States Railroad custodian, the public printer. the several deparimenis. the presiden ion for the Deaf and Dumh. * the Aztec Club of 1847. the the War of 184647, the Military n of the United States. the Grand the Medal of Honor Legion, the the Union Veterans' Union, Vet the Society of the Army of San ns. the American Legion, the . the Minute Men, the Sogiety of Revolution, the the members of the Oldest Inhab- Association of the District of Columbia n. persons to he received (unless other- rarriages or on foot. will enter and easury) the Whi nce (oppo- fon. guests will enter Portable Outfit For Testing Plane Pilots Is Devised Capt. Robert K. Simpson of the Army Medical Corps, on duty flight surgeon at Scott Field, IIL., has submitted the design and model of a compact portable outfit for examining candidates for pilot's licenses, The paraphernalia required make a thorough examination to determine the physical qualifica- tions of prospective filers is quite extensive. When flight surgeons are ordered away from home sta- tlons to make such examinations they must now ship by express a large amount of equipment. Capt. Simpson’s device would enable a flight surgeon-to carry all neces- sary equipment In a cabinet about the size of an ordinary suft case and welghlpg less than 50 pounds. MCLAUGHLIN ACCEPTS. Will Succeed Enright as New York Police Head. NEW YORK. December 26 (#).— George V. McLaughlin, State superin- tendent of banks, announced today his as to | acceptance of the office of police com- missioner, offered him several days ago by Mayor-elect James J. Walker. He will take over the office on Janu- when Mr. Walker becomes esent commissioner, Richard E. Enright, will g0 out of office at the end of the Hylan administration. — MAKE PLANS FOR DANCE. The first annual dance and recep- tion of the Ladies’ Auxiliary, Jewish Consumptives’ Rellef Society, will be held at the Mayflower Hotel January 26, according to tentative plans drawn up at a board meeting Friday night. Mrs. Henry Oxenburg, chairman: Mrs. A, Shefferman, Mrs. Alexander Koplin and Mrs. Harry Sherby com- prise the committee in charge of the arrangements. The next meeting of the society will be held on the first Wednesday January, when officers for 1926 will be_nominated. Mise Evelvn Rosen has heen ap- pointed publicity chairman for the year, in | Ithe first to introduce the Opera artists fton composer, at OPERA IN ENGLISH WILDLY ACCLAIMED Unprecedented Ovation Given Harling for New Works. Even Men Kiss Him. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, Deceniber in enthusiasts broke all hounds Frank Harling. Bos the conclusion of of his Light pursued into Opera English today when W. the world From St. Agnes,” the lobby the heered repeatedly Harling premiere was anditorium of and conducted his own opera, and hanjo, and with the Chicago Civic received the plandits of 1 the the but the securred when he At least 200 men hugge Women were men, and Harling escaped st in a state of collapse, fleeing hotel er West Point Director. wax musical Military The music lovers in il society & eries demonstration the lohby and kissed notional as them him as the all to room. his Fori The « ecton ademy formerly Point composed nposer at West where he A Corps Land those {appreciation of hix efforts ! man fighting the flames. THREEMEET DEATH 1N GANG BATIL Shooting in B‘rooklyn Resort Believed Renewal of Private Warfare. [ | | | i A re- | which | | By the Axsociated NEW YORK newal of gang warfare, Brooklyn has been free vear. was helieved respons pistol hattle in the Adon South Rreekiyn resort. in which Richard (Peg Leg) Lonergan and two athers were killed early today as the climax of a Christmas night party i Lonergan was identified by his mother. Mre. Mary Lonergan, wha in | 1923 was acquitted of a charge of {having shot her hushand. He was Known tn police as a memher of the | ‘White Hand Gang." which was led | by William Lovett, his brother-i who was murdered in November Mrs. other Peg December from v nearly a Ve for the « Social Cluh Lonergan identified one of the | men as Aaron Haines, friend of | Leg.” Finger prints disclosed the third man eil “Needles Perry. Both had police records A policeman found Perry lving dead in a gutter outside the ‘club and inside found the other two men. There were signs of a terrific struggle in the hall and bullet holes were found in the walls James Hart, who walked into Cum land Street Hospital with a bullet wound in his side and who said men | | in a passing automobile had shot him was arrested on a charg | Helen Logan, Mae Wilso, hospital f homicide. | a singer in the club, and waitress, were taken to | to identi Har T police also arrvested Joseph Howard | jand Pat Maloney, who said they had | entered the place with Hart and with the three men found dead and who | told of the sudden turnine out of the | |lights and the ensuing b: le. |COURT ORDER PERMITS CHAPMAN TO APPEAL ! | i { U. S. Circuit Court Action Stays Hanging. Set for March 3, Until | Decision Is Made. | ‘ NEW YORK, Decemher 26— An| | order for Gerald Chapman’s appear- ! ance in the United States Circuit Court here Januar: 6 was issued 1o day by Judge Charles Merrill Hough. The order permits the convicted mail | robber and murderer to appeal from | the adverse decision of Judge Thomas of the Federal District Court of Con- | necticut 1 Judge Thomas refused to grant| Chapman a writ of habeas corpus and to order his return to Atlanta peni. tentiary to serve out a vear KFederal sentence for mail robbery before Con- necticut could execute him for the murder of a New Britain policeman. pman’s hanging, set for March | 1tomatically held up by Judge | Hough's action until the appeal is de. cided. If the Circuit Chapman, his Court rules against | attorney, Charles . Murphy, said today, another appeal| will immediately be taken to the| Supreme Court. i Judge Hough said tonight that the reports that Judge Learned Hand had signed the petition Thursday were erroneous, and that Judge Hand had taken no action in the matter what- ever. DOHENY PLAYS SANTA i TO AMBITIOUS SINGER 0il Man Makes Dream of Young’ Tenor for Year's Study in Italy Come True. the Associated Press. SIOUX CITY, Towa, December 26.— A litetime dream of Joseph Regan, a sweet-volced Irish singer, has come true. Santa Claus has glven Mr, Regan a year's trip to Italy for him. self and wife for voice training, with all expenses paid. by The role of Santa Claus was played v E. L. Doheny of Los Angeles & Mre. Doheny. sl The Regans met the Dohenys on | Thanksgiving when they sang at the | Doheny home. Regan told Mix. Do- | heny about his hopes to go abroad to |study. ~ Mrs. Doheny asked him to | write her ahout his plans. | The answer was a Christmas gift of a year's trip. 1 The first message telegraphed for public purposes in England led to the arrest of a murderer, ! pueblo plaza i vira i matural nd M frernon The Saturday lay evening tended by aperas a leader vours tins, oft « the swept Chicago’s who Hobsoni poser were not 1. their feet by the power of the music He literally was swept off his feet those who sought to express their and retired after by hix unusual experience hix hotel room immediately opera had heen presented Harling is a rothe and his appearance n. with none of the or oth b voung 1 career b is that voun voung husiness mi flowing hair, the typical His music: work in St. Paul Mass.: the t PRoston York afternoon he was presented Rispham medal the op iety. which giver the medal annually for meritorous < in English hretto of “A pared hy Fiske e American is playing in St. Lo n close touch with its recer nd one of ira wisician choir the Ad- Chugch included < Church, at Church of > a and Grace New This the David American Agnes Minnie Mad dern wh kept was Harling Tomory American opers Namiko-San 1 he presented for the third time this season FEAT OF ENGINEERING KILLS OLD TRADITION Ditch Stops Pecu tics of Body of Slain Priest Land. today by wire rst 1o cangraty w another Peculiar Annual A on Indians’ the Pre. ALBUQUERQUE. N. M Engineering wizardry white man has blasted an dition of 300 vears' standing Puehio of Isieta. near here Since the vear the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth. the hbody of .Juan de Padilla. martyred Franciscan dre has sen annually 1o the earthen sur face of the Catholic chapel in the where it was buried he. the altar. tradition runs Two vears ago the United States Indian Service constructed an irriga tion ditch through the plaza and since there have been no further risings of the body. The body in a remarkahle state of preservation. resembling a mummy with long. dark wh Indians who have seen it said Slain by Indians in 1380. half a cen v after he remained behind when ‘oronado’'s expedition returned to Mexico, ‘ather Padilla’s body was re- moved from the distant Grand Qui according to tradition, and was placed beneath the altar of the Isieta church, The By Associated Decembe of the Indian tra t the 6 neath is ers white man explained it as a phenomena but the always regarded it an unearthiy act. ‘STOLEN’ Police Spend Fruitless Hours Work- ing on Supposed Robbery. Case. After police and had worked_ for six ho last night on a supposed $400 pay-roll robbery from the safe of the Rice-Schmidt Baking Company, 714 Eleventh street south west, a quiet. apologetic voice came detectives | to the police over the telephone “We've found that money the safe, after all.” It in At first it was reported that Georsge | Mever. receiving and pay clerk of the | his 2:30 o'clock in the three bakery. left desk shortly after afternoon. When he returned minutes later the money was gone Later it was found in a eight envelopes on i ment of the safe. MAN HURT BY TAXI. William Naylor May Have Frac- tured Skull. T. Naylo street, wag knocked b and serlously while crossing Connecticut avenue M eet la night. Police of third precinct held Walter Armstrong 24 years old, of 1829 1 street. driver of the taxica ing the outco Naylor wi Hospital in th and treated fo the skull. William Twentieth by a taxic dowr taken to Emergenc taxicab by Armsi 4 possible fra His condition is critics ¥ Marines May Trail Army in Adopting Roll Collar Dress The United States Marine Corps is now considering the advisability of adopting the roll collar in place of the standing collar that has characterized the uniform for many years. For several years officers of the Navy have been wearing the roll collar. Only recently Secretary of War Davis, after having permitted its adoption by the Air Service, announced that hereafter the roll collar will be standard for the en tire Army. Normally the Marine Corps sets the pace and the recruiting slogans emphasize the fact that the ma- rines are alwa first on the spot, Dbut in this instance they seem to have been asleep at the switch. Throughout the corps both offi- cers and enlisted men already are asking when they can substitute the roll for the tight collar. This is especially true of men on duty in the tropics. The much greater comfort of the roll collar is eon- ceded even by its critics. axophone | teristies | Indiun | PAYROLL FOUND was compart- injured at the . for investigation pend- e of Naylor's injuries. | ure of i BUTLER SUSPECTE KENDRICK EARLY Says First Conference Made ! Him Doubt Sincerity of Mayor. | By Consolidated Press. PHILADELPHIA, | Brig. Gen. Smedley conquerable Marine, whose tunic bear | medals attesting his galiantry on {many a sanguinary hattiefield, this week took the firsi “licking” of his reer—and his vanquisher was that loughty warrior, old John Barlevcorn he first “jam” that Gen. Butler got rto when he made his spectacular into Philadelphia as demon rum. The last ot into hefore he was handed his mary dismissal by Mavor Ker as over the same suhject. And n hetween times, practically ever the City Hall rgsulted tude toward the liquor There was little protest when {ler. newly instailed, sent his bat | squadrons into the vice helt 1 December 24 D. Butler, the un {entey crusading m" that from his att question But prote & squadror ith nd - crash onable There wi sent his automobiles, 1 1 he | | =ubmiss Suspected Ken But there e and whether i unier Kendrick or right that was profect ther the idea ts. From them w nward ap which it must thin at forever his tain the issne ed. Rene ed e rdiality " T Butler the n f prohibitior | times—c | prodding | view avor to adopt enforcement. e law the line. even the it mean every ho the city. restanrant and | earting on the elite of | tense pressure the m well put a eurb on interpretation of the other city in the country the Federal G nment led w a “litt zense piohibition et as hs Rutler Taw personal friends ticians, literal Every even was remi was us arcement Butler Has “Evidence . : o o document m otk but he has “es consisting of kept througheut ve: in whict what the slarly on the enforcement of a h hecti each ors dence sort, diary he his he orde day the mayor's s * Gen. B | 1 to suspect { cerity the day 1 e | hour ler told the ken his departure hat very day m bunch of poll WS came to me and ordered me te off of seven saloons in which ested. I told them tc went mayor, ask if he was o protect from the politicia and give me | free hand as he had promised | “The mayor scratched his head | hemmed and hawed a little, and said Well, now, well hav to adjust | that.’ From that time on I kept a record of every conference I had with him And I've got plenty of evidence.” Publishes Part of “Evidence” Butler released part of his ‘“ev dence” as a parting shot at the mayor lan hour after his dismissal. It sisted chiefly of unanswered letters he had writien the mayor, urging sup port i to padleck the Ritz Carlton alleged Cnilure enforce the prohibition law on premises, and to revoke the d. hall licenses he Bellevue St ford and the Walton for the alleged reasons. The rest of broadside consisted of records of versations with the mayor in which he attributed Mr. Kendrick su remarks as these ‘It vou would stop going afte these Lig investments (the hotels) and Kave the police on the stree e would be lexs robberies You have got to lay off these big places. There is a difference between a seven-militon | dollar investment cheap places who blackmail people were i t and me the to Explanations Differ. Gen. Butler ibutee his dismissal directly to his insistence on proceed |ing against the big hotels and to his intimation to the mavor that if he could not get suppeort m him he would take the matter the State attorney general Mavor Kendrick attributes it to Gen Rutler's “lack of respect” and his lack lof “harmony.” hoth of which charges ceem prety well substantiated by the vecord of the past two years. Rut back of hoth explanations stands the smiling. rubicund figure of John Barlexcorn—battered and buffet ed by Smashing Smedley, but still un i howed. n prohibition be enforced?” the writer asked Gen. Butler. The gen eral laughed a loud but mirthless laugh and replied sk the mayor.” PANIV WINS APPROVAL. to | | | | | . colored. 1133 | Mexican Treasury Head Overcomes y i Senate Opposition. MEXICO CITY, December 26 (). | Alberto J i, xecretary of (he treas ‘| ury, had a conference today with the Senate committee which ix handling | the Lamont-Pani agreement, signed at New York October 23 last By this | agreement Mexico would resume pay ments on her ext nal debts Secretary Pani, after the meeting, | announced that the committee’s ob jection to the agreement had been overcome, and this was taken as indi cation that the Senate's ratification might be expected soon. The deht agreement, which was signed by Secreta Pani and Thomas | W. Lamont, representing the interna- tional committee of bankers. already | has been approved in principle by the l(‘hamhm- of Deputies. 1 HOTEL ;I’HIEF REARRESTED D. C. Detective Goes to Detroit to Bring Man Back Here. Dennis Cullinane, of po- Jice headguarters, will leave today ffil' Detroit to bring back to this city Harry McVicker, 36 vears old, who escaped from Lorton Reformatory on Thanksgiving day, *while serving a term for hotel thefts here. | McVicker was arrested yesterday at | Detroit, police were informed. De- troit police reported that he had ad- mitted rohbing rooms of several guests lin an Akron hotel before going to | Detroit. | He was arrested here at a local {hotel on charges of entering rooms and taking valuables He is said by Detroit police, according to informa- tion reaching here, to have admitted entering several rooms at the hatel in which he was arrested. Detective