Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1926, Page 1

Burean Forscast.) v colder tonight; min- fmum te tomorrow Ternpe: todiy ahont \ures— Highest, lowest, 1% ing tempe 10 degre tu @h ered a post_ office, * WONAN, 80, FOUND SLAIN WITH ARMS AND LEGS BOUND Mrs. Emma Kirke, 80 Choked to Death in Umbrelia Shop Here. W MOTIVE IS MYSTERY: VICTIM LIVED ALONE Money Found Undisturbed, Own Shawl Used to Kill Her. Marks on Throat. second cla shington, matter D. WASHINGTON, CARDINAL MERCIER, HEROIC FIGURE OF WORLD WAR, DIES | l Wide Acclaim by Defiance of Germans. INTESTINAL OPERATION EFFECTS PROVE FATAL Visit to America After Conflict One CARDINAL MERCI of Vivid Episodes in Primate of Belgium Won| ¢ Foen * WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g D. C, SATURDAY, J! UARY 23, 1926 Prelate’s Life 1| : ! the dead b of over her hich bound n al ently was found in the The hands were tied In front | On the floor about o foot | head was found ot | fulse teeth Cats Attract e twine I feot her. the N L | nner Attention. The mewirg of s in the rear ¢ home led indirectly to the d y of Mrs. Kirke's body. A e { cighbor notleed the cats this morn- | in front c et door and | anspected someth wrong in- | side. She nottfied Posin, ot | the proprietors @ gro at the corner of Ninth and R who telephoned tha police. Policeman Poole of the second pre- | ct broke in the front door covered the body. Mrs. Kirke was | ing on her right side in a position | ot it was not s > she had been placed there. Her legs drawn ;p so that her knee: ungle of 40 degrees. There was no sign of a struggle to be found in the { little umbrella shop where the hody was discovered: all the papers, letters and books were in perfect order. On u table in the back room was a copy he Evening Star of last Thurs- | y. Nearby were three pocketbooks | containing a considerable amount of | money. There were no marks of V! ience on the body Shop Closed Yesterday. in the mall box outside the door. however, was last night's Star. This led police to Infer that the death had | cccurred between Thursday and Fr. day afternoons, Persons in the neigh- borhood said that the shop was not open all day vesterda Shortly after viewing the body, Coroner Nevitt this afterncon pro- nourced it a case of murder. He ordered an autopsy this afternoon to dete 1se of death. utward re that death | was caused by stangulation. As soon as he untied the tightly knotted shawl from ound her throat covered imprints and dently made by finge) side of ne neck, below ward of the ear. He said unequivocally that both the shawl and the hand could not have | been tied in such @ manner by another person. An element tion was thrown into the wk as Al one reets, | w a marks, evi- | on the right | and for- | | Jose- | close friend of the d came to the house while ce still were Investigating. She said that | she had in 1o believe some per- | son wished to harm Mrs, Kirk | Mrs. Kirke reputed in the neigh- | borhood to Leen u ben ro the child ding near, <aining them 1rs with st the meeting b nd precinct are listing CANADA ENVOY HERE | 1 wor FAVORED BY HOWARD : British Ambassador Sees Urgent Need for Legation in Washington. | | | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, ¥sme Howard, to the United S Borden, Januar; British Ar s, and Sir R prinie minist t there is s war-tim belleve th wisdom N n le- gation at Washing Onee we have uccept irrevocably that Cana tress of her own desti S told the Canadian - sme last night, 1 Alvin M I and neck, Coroner Nevitt dis- | fcont OPERATORSASKED .+ BY LEWIS TO CALL | with all of Catholic . y = | France praying for a “Speed: Mr Bead B I e o ior m S s 2 Workmen Are Agreed on Principle. He rounded by members of line | fon un De st in after an opera 16 at 3 o'clock this after church | the hereafter | Belgi s su family, the faithful clerky of his| pal nunzio in | yresentative of | 14 came. - the illustrious | celebrated throughout | Belgium France tomol to} 1o cardinal's passing there is talk in Brussels : a monument tu the * of wartime soul Belgium” by popular subscription. The funeral will probably be affair of state, with King Albert Crown Prince Leopold among mourners. Ca influ | his was whic golden rose | Fonor of h | niversary. Deprecated Tiness. Bs the Associated Press WILKES-BARRE, —International 1’re Lewls of the miners kle, ch and operators’ i joint_confers Lewis Pa., January dent John L. union, has asked n of the miners tee, to call carnation an na the sked that the meeting » anthracite re. | he opera the in 2 tors prefer: miners wou we that be open to the press, iy misunderstandings kes place. The meeting was asked, Mr. Lewis ated, on the basis that W. W. In head o the operators’ negotiating | committee, und the miners had cepted in principle the peace proposed by the Scranton Times. stricken with | at The news of he as to to meet avoid | what | e sent her by Pope Plus in | twenty-fifth wedding an- | announced § s to under- \fterward it wa ate would h: Shortly t the pri plan | th Letter of Miners’ Head. Mr. Lewis' request follows “Mr. Alvan Markle, chaf negotiating committee of the cite operators and mine work “HAZLETON, F for the active life the car- wishes to pursue’’ He was ed to St. Jean Clinic from the archbishopric palace at Malines, De- mi and was operated on the owing day. e given a local - resthetic and was able to follow all pon the adjournment of the joint| 1, "Gerails of the operation. He stood conference of anthracite operations| e ordenl well. and mine workers in New York onl| During the days fu y, Januar , Mr. George B. the opera Hadesty, gener. anager of the i to improve. and his complete Reading Coal and Iron Co., moved the was predicted by those in an joint | .nthra- “Dear Sir: immediately fol- low on the cardinal adoption of the following motion Unon: him) Suddanty on “‘That the conference adjourn to| lousren L ibotani Momn meet at the call of the chairman at his own reguest or at the request of | either party to the conferen “The foregoing motion wi onded by Mr. Thomas Thom manager of the Le al Co., and adopted by the vith difficulty that he | milate food. He began | Jut his robust constitution | to withstand the fiment, much to the | physician Kellogg Sent Flowers. | ME | During his fliness prayers were said | for his recovery in all the churches of | Belgium, and the heads of almost all the nations of the civilized world anx- | Jusly inquired about his_condition. | Ambassador Phillips of the United ! States was a frequent caller at the hospital. Once he brought the car- dinal flowers, a gift from Secretary of State Kelloge. When the sudden turn for the worse came the cardinal fully realized that his end was relatively near at hand. My stomach has failed me; there is notbing more the doctors can do,” the prefate said to a priest at the bedside The holy sacrament was administered. ‘his promo‘ed the cardinal to say: When my health was good I alwa: said 1 wished to recefve the last sacra ment not when I was compelled to re- ceive, but while I could still recelve it, and T feel « little hetter now.” Artificial nourishment was resorted to during the final days of the pri- mate’s {liness, but this method served its purpose poorl During his {llness, on January 16, the cardinal left his bed over the pro. tests of his physicians and conferred with churchmen concerning the Bel- gian flood situation. Also he deeply interested in the prospect of @ unfon of the Roman and Anglican churches, & movement in which he w prime mover and held numer- ous conferences on the subject in the sick chamber. During the present week one of his visitors was Lord Halifax, president of the English Church’ Unfon, with whom he had a somewhat lengthy conversation re- garding the union of the two churches. gen-| Valley | \rer- ence. t occurs that on January 18 E. J. Lynett, editor and publisher of the Scranton Times, made public a vlan for settlement of the anthracite strike which was accepted in principle by Mr. W. W. inglis, chairman of the anthracite opera ating committee. The re ives of the mine workers have likewiso ac- { cepted the n in principle and asl | a basis for renewed negotiations. i Asks for Meeting. “Without question the suggestions of Mr. Lynett are of a constructive ., and should receive the mature on of both sides in confer- | ore journment, T ¢ you to recony nce. “The mine workers would & held in som thracite region, or in New Y . In view of the as to n the recent and which n and misunder- + public mind, the mine that when th Joint in conve they will | repr the | > admitted Very truly 3 “JOHN i AWAITS to the resolu- 1 authorized ne the joint gree to have stan conference move that th i 5 to sions MARK! Will Confer on Time and Place When It Is Received. Big Figure in War. Desire Mercier, Cardinal of Malines, prince of the church and “apostle of peace,” was one of the mos tstriking figures brought prominently before the world by the most ruthless war of all times. Little known outside of Vatlean cir- cles or bevond the borders of Belgium vrior to 1914, this modest, unassuming r as famous before the nistice day as were the f belligerent states or the (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) , January 23 (). kle of the anthra- e miners' and operators’ joint con- cence suid he would consult both 5 a5 to the time and place for hold- - the joint conference requested by hn L. Lewls, president of the min- Mr. Markle was a tents of Mr. Lewis’ let nd said he would await arrival of official not reting. Mr. Lewis' letter is on speciul messenger, it royal h “and 1 think that f questionably been ace reason to complain if she to appoint her own with Canadian affair: where, of Can ucted.’ Sir Esme sald he could not swith “croakers” who saw establi ment of a Canadfan legation as a prelfminary step in the break-up of the British Emplre “So long as we can keep up in the d!fferent parts of the British Empire real affection and friendliness for cach other, 1 believe there s little chance of the prophecies of the ‘croakers’ about an early dissolution of the partnership,” he added. Gro Debt Parley Recesses. LONDON, January 23. (®).—After & three-hour conference vesterday be- tween Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, and Count Volpi, | Itallan finance mini assisted 1 «xperts, tho Anglo-Jtalian debt nego- tdetions were adjourned to Monday. has un- 1 see no uid wish to deal at Washington, ndeed, there is large volume i business to be trans- Increase in Pneumonia Here Traced convinced Fowler that coal and fuel tributed to the spread of the disease. 300 cases have developed in the same have been into pbecause cccupants are trying to econ- since January 1, To Ignorant Use of Coal Substitutes The monla unusul prevalency in the District Hezlth Officer Willlam C. the use of bituminous substitutes has con- of pneu omize in the use of coal or that the has firmly high-priced substitutes fail to give the proper amount of hea Before the Christmas cold wave Dr. Fowler said there were few cases of pneumonia in Washington, but since that time there have been on the average of about four deaths a day from the disease. “I know that many homes are improperly close 10| heated and thut in some where soft coal is used a certain amount of is prevalent.” he declared. “Both ve a tendency to reduce the re- sistance of & body to such a disease as_pneumonia.” Sixteen new cases of pneumonia | were reported to the Health De- | partment today, bringing the total for | the month to 291. TFour deaths also | | were reported, makiug 102 fatalities | The mortality total from pneumonia for the current month passed the 100 mark today and the Health Depart- ment's records show that period of 23 days. Dr. Fowler explained that there is no doubt. in his mind that gases thrown off by soft coal and improperly heated homes have lowered the re- | sistance of persons to the disease. My inspectors have told me,” he said, “that some of the hou s ently are cold, either i direc ARE You CRAZY/| CANT FHIRTY- %. 'WO PAGES The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press service. * news Yesterday’s Circulaton, 102,886 * (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. D.C. DRUNK DRIVE ARRESTS LEAD U. S, IA. A. A. Figures, Based on Population, Reveal Aston- ishing Condition. In proportion to the populat of automobiles Washington led the Nation in 1525 in arrests and convict driving automobiles while under tnfluence of liguor, it w: today by the District vision of the Amer! Assoc] on. The statement was based on the result of a Nation-wide survey which showed conclusively, the association said, that there is no diminution of arrests and convictions on this se. rious charge and that the Intoxicated automobile driver s still running w in many of the large cities of country. While not pleased with tal's distinction in such a matter, Trafic Director M. O. Eldridge pol out that the association’s report in cates very declsively that the polic and the courts are co-operatting and n and aher registered ns on chan an Automobile the Capi- doing their duty In bringing drunken | drivers to justice. Police Work E! “The police have been very effective in this work,” he said, “and that i why our traffic death record was re duced last vear, despite a large in ective. crease in the number of automobiles | The courts, too, have been unu v prompt in convicting these drunken irivers, and the sentences have been severy Mr. Eldridge were more dr ington last y is dublous that there ken drivers in Wash r than in some of th other cities, and is inclined to t police of those cities population have been “wink the law, while in the Capital the aim has been to bring e in toxicated driver to-justice. The pen alty for driving while drunk also is more severe in Washington than in many of the other cities, r explained. “Situation Very Bad.” “The automobile association's port.”” declared Mr. Eldridge, “shoul serve to bring the people of Washing ton to a realization that the situation created by intoxicated automobile drivers is very bad The A. A. A. statement follows: “An analysis of the official figure returned by many large cities to wh a questionnaire was addressed dis- closes, according to the District of (Continued on Page 2, Column 5. BERENGER ASKS PARLEY ON DEBT Frency Envoy Tells Mellon He Is Prepared to Discuss Funding Terms.l Berenger, the new Frenc Ambassador, informed Secretary Mel lon todany that he was prepared tc meet with the American Debt Com- | mission at Its convenience, to discuss French debt funding. The Ambassador call at the Treasury to announce the | French government's instructlons that he renew the funding negotiations. There was nothing in his remarks to Indicate what course he proposed to pursue in the conversations. simply sald he was prepared to meet the American commission. Mr. Mellon sald afterward that no date had been fixed for a conference. . ey MITCHELL MAY TESTIFY. Col. William Mitchell, though facing a five-year suspension from the Army under sentence of the court-martial which recently found him guilty of violating the ninety-sixth article of war, is free to testify before congres- sional committees, according to ar o] . Gen. John A. Hull the traffic made an official | He | Polish Colony, Lost In Brazil wilds | Since 73. Found By the Assc i es in the mother e CONGRESS PROBIN Pays Freight Charges, to Be | Considered Next Week. can his pocket annual direct the freight r, is ex question gressional com etall d con indust es its hearin ed to be the outs Joint h is Washi nine esur Tue s coa Al Vstrict com e harges th o were aring vis plexion of mmediately to inqu coal the ercha public tion | ester- | nittee s with the ws and there on of T re. | ing devel concerning reta ton, the earlier t entirely eser ators of West V Maryland on the other, over the relative particular kind of fuel those respective flel and possibility also considered Sepator David A. Reed, whose as. sertion in the Senate three d that Washington _consumer | paying §14.30 & ton for $3 coal was the asis for the nearing, and Representa- tive 1, also of Penn- (Continued on Page 8, Column 3.) v » occupied e hetween prices in hours we produced in Freight rates | of asphyxiation were | 1 | | e PROPOSES CONFERENCE ON TRAFFIC PROBLEMS D. C. Advisory Board of A. A. A. Makes Suggestion to Civic and \ Trade Organizations. | Formation of a | committee representing civic and | trade organizaas oL Lhe Cily, w - | sider traflic probiems and submit rec- ommendations for their so.uwuon, 1s proposed by the advisory board of the of Columbin Division of the, n Automobile Association. |7 A request that they appmat iwo rep- resentative each to attenc meeting * to he held at local headquarters of th is Building, 17th | vania avenue, next Thur Yy 23, at 8 o'clock, for the purpose of forming the com- mittee, was made by the board in a lettar addressed to the presidents of the following organizations: Federa tion of Citizens” Associations, C mercial Vehicle Owners’ Washington Automotive Tr: so- | ctation, Washington Board of Trade | and Washington Chamber of Com- merce. The, letter, signed by C. P. Clark, as- istafit general manazer for the ad visory board, inclosed resolutions | adopted by the board indorsing the | suggestion that these organizations | join in a conference to form the pro- posed traffic committee to study traffic | problems and make such recommenda- | tlons as may be deemed advisable for | traffic conference | Americ —____ 3udge advocate general of the Army. . traffic, VINE-TO-HONE IDEA the | {Saving to Consumer, Who!: | heauti merits of the | & | the regulation and administration of | BUILDERS T0 AID IDEAL HOMES PLA 13 Already Offer to Erect Dwellings in Demonstra- tion by The Star. | ngton builders heir desire to| el homes to be |, iing ideal homes | ored by The Star the publication on Thursday | taking to en- | and beautiful | ! n the Nati builders supervisory - demonstration, their £ness to erect ) be exhibited from nterest icates that a those who have in the demonstra they rd The ar's valuable one, not mly from the =hip, but : pointing the ion of the Natio tive humes, Builders Making Offers. e ve as me own sset way the al Capital builders who Vaughn dman Construction tz Construction Com in, Hedges & and’ Philiips, M Lee Minar E. Breuninger we these bu k an_intere pian, but The Star has pledges of co-operat 1s of approval from priv since the announcement )n was made builder i W ngton and is eli to make a request ‘Wheeler to be considered for n t one of the model the made nittee, consist- | Horace Wa Peas Amer n Insti * committee on the its environs ry of th * Association of the Jlumbia, the name of the r selected and the type will he shington Chapter of of Architects. sign two architects u its location, to- * ‘with the type of house to be ted, and determine the design. inigan and L Not only k to rev in the icinity to Maj dirman Archi Washir Architect Board Named. After the design and plans are drawn they will be submitted to an advisory committee of architects, com- posed of Mr. Peaslee, chairman; Albert L. Harris, municipal architect; Fred V. Murphy, Nathan C. Wyeth and Waddy B. Wood. This committee will review the plans. The architects and builders will then confer. After the plans are approved and all the de- tails in regard to them are worked out by the architects and builders it will then be decided when the actual erection of the buildings will start. All the homes, which include row houses, community groups, semi-de- tached and detached homes, will be started simultaneously. The houses will be placed in all parts of the city to give residents in every section an opportunity to visit at least one of the exhibits. The selection of the builders will, in no way, he a judgment as to the superi- ority of one over another, but will be governed by the location of the zround they submit and its desirability in regard to the type of home that is 10 be e con. The demonstra- t present & representative of “architecture suitable to hington conditions; different types of construction and material will be | including kota and Ty one of the types | Rumania Orders 20,000 Austrians and sermans Exiled By the Associated Press. VIENNA, Junuary 23.—A Bucha rest dispatch to the Wiener Neu- este achrichten state that the Rumanian minister of the interior has Instructed the polics to expel 20,000 Germans and A ans from Rumania by next Monday. ticn of trouble between the Rumanian ¢ u thorities and the German and Av n minorities. The League of Nations Council last J consid ered the qu fon of the ment of the min populations _in Transylvania ptember succeeded in et of the Hungaris mania, wnose s > priated, Rumania agreeing to pay en indemnity COURT OPPONENTS 10 FORCE CLOTURE ane Limit Agreement, Lead- ers Indicate. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The vote on the re tion propos Court ourt Senate will on dec Ay, today opponents the ared as unanimous c: the World Court on prope Some of the insisted that they force the pro ourt Senators to go through with the threat of cloture. The attitude of the op court, it was sald, as t semb was to d mous co They prefer, solu » Monday, Senators Nve of North Da- n of Ten 48 Sign Resolution. urt Senator. it was ion come [ to sneak Warren. B 5 ah; Maryland : Harris, Jones, vomin Tennessee : Heflin, Ke : Simmons, Tenne Virginia; . Mon! e rules lies t must be voted on without iebate. If adopted. each ereafter will be limited to one b on the resolution and mendm: ervation twithstandi of several o tors, conferences still to bring about unanimous consent which unnecessary the invoking ture rule. If such should be entered into, not be voted on. Senator Blease of South who caused the failure of vesterday by his objectior indicated last night that b make of the clo Carol agreement nd who to be still determined to ohject. Set eral other Senators opposed to the court also were said to be ready to object. Senator Harrison Democrat, said that he believed that the unanimeus consent agreement would be entered into either today or Monday morning, and that it would hecome then unnecessary to invoke the cloture rule. He predict ed that sentiment agaist an ment would change probably the day was over. agree- before Opponents’ Defeat Seen. tever course is followed, the ourt fight, it is believed, has been hed. The court will come to a and its supporters in: have more than 70 votes for i it will be ratified by mbre than the necessary two-thirds votes, Many ‘of the Democ who signed the resal are from the South. Senator Reed of Missourt, Democ) fmplacable foe of the World Court, immediately after the presentation of the resolution, Senators for cloture shown in_the various exhibits which (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) hated memn emory in the South (Continued on Page 5, Colus By the Assoclated Press. orthern Russia, January 24. oon will inaugurate an rvice between this port and Island, In the frozen for transporting prisoners exiled to Solovetsky Monastery. This, it is beieved, will be the first time in the history of aviation that pris- oners have been transported by air- plane. Airdromes now are being erected at Kem, on the mainland and on Solovetsky Island. On account of 4o e lsland i lsolated for the > —Russia ae White S ;Rllssia Will Transport Prisoners To Frozen Sea Island by Airplane; greater part of the year. Up to the present communication with the is- land has been carried on by sleighs over the frozen ice or by boat when the ice thaws in the Spring. Solovetsky Island is used as a cen- ter of exile and imprisonment for po- litical and other offenders against the Soviet State. It is about 17 miles long and 11 miles broad. Situated in the middle of the frozen White Sea, it is one of the loneliest places in the world and is the most dreaded prison in Soviet Russia, of Mississippt, | -|to sce the Attorney COOLIDGE ACCUSED OF MOVE TO DELAY SUGARDUTY REPORT Norris Also Names Smoot as Party to Alleged Pre-elec- tion Maneuver. [ [ | | | ‘ | ! 1 ]UTAH SENATOR DENIES i ACTION WAS SINISTER Nebraskan Says President Asked Findings Be Withheld Until After 1924 Vote ACTION ON MONDAY - | Will Not Assent to Debate| ummis rison wou now | E tore the o m in the Attorn might | change his mind, was reported today Adverse Report Sent. Afterws rd Martin telephoned C !gan and Lewis and to.d them to ses the Aftorney General at once, as he did not know what had happened, and did not know what would L e out come of Culbertson’s case went at once toid them ort on the id was sending it to i hoy land Attorney Ge: | that he b Culberts llhr Wh “Costigan they be permitted | statement with the i ssed regret, : u to send the port to the White House at ¢ that he would tell the I they wished to submit It was shortly afterw | Norr! said, that the Pre for Culbertson and discu with him. Lewis file asked # writter report. Gen. but said that that | WALSKA LANDS, SILENT ON MARITAL SITUATION By the Assoclated Press PLYMOUTH, England, January —Ganna Walska, wife of Harold F McCormick, arriving from New York on the liner Paris vesierday, sald she | refused “to discuss her marital rela | tions with any journalist.” e sald i she would remain on the liner and go to Havre and from there to Parls. Passengers on the liner said Mms. Walska had told them that Mr. Me Cormick’s failure to sail with her was due to his brother's sudden illness which caused him to leave the boat at the last moment, after he had reserved accommodations. l Radio Programs—Page 25, h]