Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1926, Page 5

D. J. Kaufman 1005 PA. AVE. 1724 PA. AVE. Attention, RAIDO KEY HOLDERS! All the radio keys are gone. You are requested to come in now (1005 Pa. Ave.) and see if you hold the mysterious key that fits the lock for the Big 5-Tube Radio Se't. AND NOW WE HAVE ACTION! and it's no wonder. Here are quality 2- Pants Suits and Overcoats at prices only possible because the makers of the goods were "loaded.” We bought at our own price. You “share™ the bargain. Ratio 600 THIRTY-FIVE-DOLLAR -PANTS SUITS 75 Splendid Assortment of Sizes and Colors Every Suit Has 2 Pairs of Trousers The Extra Pair Doubles the Wear 500 NEW . HUDDERSFIELD THIRTY-FIVE-DOLLAR OVERCOATS W \\\\‘éfix\ RN \ FULL ROOMY SINGLE BREASTED DOUBLE BREASTED 33 TO 46 N NS S \ \ With the warm Winter the manu- facturers are “loaded.” Our Over- coat stocks are low and we're in posi- tion to Buy. Cash is doing the trick —and we're going “fifty-fifty” with you. Some action! Money's Worth or Money Back D. J. Kaufman 1005 Pa. Ave. 1724 Pa’Ave. THE EVENING STAR, FREE KIRK MURDER | IMARSHALL TELLS | JUDGE IS CALLED SUSPECTS TODAY Police, Baffled in Probe of Slaying, to Release Three Men Held. Edward Thompson, one of the three suspects held in connection with the Investigation into the killing of Miss Emma M. Kirk, 68-year-old proprietor of an umbrella repair shop at 819 R stréet, whose dead body, bound and gagged, was found in the shop last Saturday, was released today. and the two others will be released before to- night uniess new angies develop out of a clear sky, Inspector Henry G. Pratt, chief of detectives, annovnced today. This brings police and detectives within sight of the end of the trail which leads to the graveyard of vn solved mysteries. There are a few steps along the trail, however, which may open divergent paths. One i the unhoped-for announcement from the Bureau of Standards exp they can identify the cord w! used to tle up the wrists and inkles of the murder victim. Fingerprint Search. The o . n of fin gerprints, now being conducted by De- tective Sergt. Fred Sandburg, who Is now on his fifth thousand of 20,000 tnerprints on ule 4 solice headquar: ters, which he is examining individ- ually in the hope of finding the owner of the thumb print that was left on the glasses of Miss Kirk at the time of the murder. If these two side paths fall to open, and apparently the Bureau of Stand. ards investigation is destined to be of little, i any. practical assistance to the police, the route of the Kirk mys- tery will be straight into the annals of “local unsolved crime, where the Barney McBride murder mystery and the John F. Heimer case now are semi- interred. “We never admit final defeat,” In- spector Pratt sald today. “There is always the possibility that some little indication may crop up which will send us off on the real line to clearing up this case—and the other cases also. un aenis 1ol case, but we are by no means beaten." Motive Baffles Police. Three suspects arrested thus far in the case are Edward Thompson of 823 R street. Clifton Gaskins of 817 R street, and James Chambers of 928 R street—all colored. Sufficient evi- dence to hold the men further than to-. day, it was admitted, has not de- veloped, and since the running out of thelr acounts has disclosed no ma- terial reason for the further deten. tion of the men, Inspector Pratt said he would order their release today. Motive was the thing that stopped the detectives. In the Kirk case, a woman of 68 vears was found dead: no signs of violence were discovered: there were no indications of a crime of vengeance and less, if possible, of a crime committed in the heat of passion; robbery was eliminated by reason of easily accessible sums being discovered in the house untouched and ulterior motives also failed to present themselves. The mystery with all the complex- ity of simplicity has probably offered police less material on which to con duct an Investigation, they say, than any in the history of crime during the last generation. In the other out standing unsolved mysteries motive at least was evident—robbery in the Helmer case and the same in the McBride case. Helmer was a shop proprietor near Sixth and E streets, killed by a hold up man; McBride was found murdered on a suburban road near Meadows. Md., and Indications were that he had been robbed before the murder. —_—e Eskimos Raising Foxes. Due to the fur-wearing fads in the temperate countries. Eskimos have gone in for fox raising on a large scale. They are concentrating on white foxes. They will attempt to domesticate this particular breed, the biggest problem being regular feeding. It is a fact that fur bearers, while they thrive on irregular feeding when foraging for themselves and running wild, have to be fed regularly when in captivity, or the quality of deteriorates. e R e A\PAY-DAY" SPECIAL Choice of $5 Coney-Lined GLOVES $5 Reis Worsted Coat Sweaters $5 All-Wool KNIT VESTS $5 Silk or Wool MUFFLERS 2.95 Complete Size Scales Money’s Worth or Money Back D. J. Kaufman, Inc. 1005 Pa. Ave. 1724 WASHINGTON, D. €. TFRIDAY, CALMLY OF CRIME Discusses Coolly How He Might Have Committed Perfect Murder. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 29.— With an air of indifference, David L. Marshall, in his cell at Moyamensing Prison, calmly discussed with a de- tective yesterday what he termed “my great mistake” in killing and dispos- ing of the body of Anna May Diet- rich. VNDERWOQD “Where I made my great mistake,” he told the detactive, “‘was in cutting up her body. I bungled the job. If 1 had only used my head and thought about it for a few minutes, I wouldn't HENRY N. WISEMAN, Who has been raised from the posi- ant to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, succeeding Capt. Red- mond D. Stevens, resigned. ORAL APPEAL MADE FOR FOUR POLICEMEN Attorney Presents Arguments in Behalf of Suspended Men to Fenning. T. Morrls Wampler, attorney for the four policemen who were convicted by he police trial board on charges of \ssault and extortion in connection with & raid on the Actors’ Rest De- cember 6, made an oral appeal today to Commisstoner Frederick A. Fen- ning. The officers, J. O. Hicks, C. H. Hogan, C. W. Reid and L. L. Sebas ian, were suspended from duty at the second precinct station after charges had been preferred against them by colored lodgers at the rest house. Commissioner Fenning sald he had read the testimony presented to the rial board, but ‘hat certain features rought out by Mr. Wampler in his oral appeal would n tate a fur- ther study of the ca hefore they are officially brought to the attention of the B 1 of Commissioners. Mr. Wampler said that Assistant District Attorney Ralph Given had de- clined to prosecute the officers after hearing the facts in the case. He is confident that his clients will be vin- dicated. s S Iron and Agate Rings. From the Popular Mechanics Magazine. While sentiment has demanded that wedding rings should be made of the most precious and durable of metals, s of the anclent Romans some- wore bands of iron as a token of ownership or fidelity, and some of the earliest rings were of agate. Since platinum has superseded gold | in value, rings of this metal ar common. Gold rings were worn b the Egvptians as early as 2000 R, C. but they had no matrimonial signif- icance. The symbols indicated orth. odoxy in the households of the early Christians, and finger rings were first used as seals to identify papers. In America rings were not alwavs popu- | lar. The Puritans believed that they ! were 100 <o of ehar | have done that. “I would have gone out and bought tion of investigator to that of assist-| some poison tablets and put them in her claimed i could have gotten away with it.” mouth Then I could have she committed suicide and Marshall, who is 45, married and father of one child, told the detective at he had not been able to remem- clearly everything that happened in_his_chiropractic office 10 days ago, when he choked and stabbed tile wom- an he had known for years. “Like*Bad Dream.” “You know,” he said, “it's like a bad dream that I can’t get out of my head. But what's the difference now. I do remember that she told me I was too slow for her and that she wouldn't need much to tell my wife, that I tried to grab her by the throat and that she slapped me in the face. Then T did get hold of her throat.” Marshall continued today to impress his guards with his complete indiffer- ence to the fact that his wife has re- nounced him and that a prominent lawy had refused to handle his case. says he does not care whether he is glven counsel by the court. Unless he signs an affidavit that he is with- out funds to retain counsel, which he “as so far refused to do, in all likeli- hood he will not be defended at the ~oroner’'s inquest next Tuesday. The statement by Marshall that he killed Miss Dietrich and dismembered her bo because she had attempted to blac ail him has been ‘“‘complete- Iy repudiated,” the police announced last night Evidence was unearthed vesterday the authorities said, concerning a motive for the slaying. Beyond stating that it was not blackmail, however, they declined to say what the motive was. Investigation has also proved un. true, the detectives sald, Marshall's issertion that Miss Dietrich had waited in his office while he went out to supper. The police said they had found he had taken her out to din ner a short time before he slew her .Thirty witnesses will be summoned by the commonwealth when Mar- shall is placed on trial charged with he murder. Marshall, who collapsed after he had been held without bail pending the action of the coroner and had to be placed in the hospital at Moya- mensing Pricon, apparently has re- overed. His chief concern last night ecmed to be to get a shave, but in | Prison | this he was unsuccessful. authorities have been informed that he has threatened to take his life and are taking unusual precautions to guard against such an act. St 0 New York City produced 65 per cent of the country's total of lace and millinery goods. JANUARY 29, 1926. T0 MEET CHARGES Wallace McCamant Is Ac- cused by Senator Johnson of Violating Pledge. By the Associated Press. ‘Wallace McCamant of Oregon, who is serving as a judge of the Ninth Fed eral Circuit, under a recess appoint- ment, was called today before the Sen- ate judiclary committee to publicly answer charges lodged against him by Senator Johnson, Republican, Call- fornia. The complaint goes back to the days of the Republican national conven- tlon at Chicago in 1920, where Judge McCamant nominated Catvin Coolidge for the vice presidency and so led the convention in a stampede which upset plans of the party leaders to ne Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wiscon- sin, a8 a running mate with Warren G. Harding. Senator Johnson charges that in voting for Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood for presidential nomination, McCam- ant violated his pledge to the voters of Oregon to support at Chicago the candidate winning in the Oregon pref- erential presidential primary. Senator Johnson was the winner. Another Charge Filed. Another matter brought up in the fight against confirmation of McCam- ant’s nomination is the connection the jurist had as counsel and stockholder of the Spruce Corporation, which was organized after the war, to take over the assets in Oregon of the United States Spruce Corpor”ion, a Gover- ment-owned concern The charge was mt.Je in the Senate that the Spruce Corporation escaped local taxation by /rtue of a provision in the contract of sale that ownership was to lodge in the hands of the Gov. ernment corporation until the final payment in the deal had been made. Lincoln County appealed to Congress for relief, and the Senate claims com- mittee reported favorably a relief bill in 1924, “Conspiracy” Alleged In Report. In his report to the Senate on the bill Senator Stanfield, Republican, Oregon, declared the contract between the Government corporation and the vrivate corporation “is the culmina- tion of a reprehensible conspiracy on *he part of the parties thereto against Lincoln County." It is claimed that Judge McCamant, as counsel for the private company, approved the contract. The nomination, reported favorably by the committes last month, was sent back to committee so that the furist could be heard in answer to the charges by Senator Johnson, who was supported by other Senators. el Mrs. Dudley Coats, popular mem ber of London soclety, has opened a hae and perfume shon MORRIS PLAN BANK | Under Supervision 1J. S. Treasury | 1408 H ST. N. W. | A [ 5 TOLLAR Y0 MATCH WOVEN MADRAS “Three, for 475 Tomorrow Morning, 8:30, Sale of 300028 SHIRTS COLLAR &7 TACHE] WHITE_OXFORD This event, coming at the end of a month of clearances, includes hundreds of shirts that would ordinarily never wear a sale tag. NECKBAND STYLE RAYON STRIPE MADR; 1 COLLAR Y MATCH IN STRIPE majority. also included. Included in this Sale Are: White Oxford Shirts mported Eng. Broadcloth Woven Madras Shirts Satin Stripe Broadcloths Rayon Stripe Madras Fine Percales All sizes, 131 to 18 All sleeve lengths Shirts that have been priced from two fifty to three dollars are in the Many regular $4.00 shirts NECKBAND WHITE OXFORD R ATHLETIC CLUB BANS BOB|1as served notice that women cannot wear bobbed hair and contiuue &s members of the organization. “Women members with bobbed hair must let their hair grow again.” the executive committee has ordered ‘and the others are warned not to ape this un-German folly of fashion. Women of German Organization Must Let Hair Grow. BERLIN, January 29 (®).— The Turnverein, an athletic club in Saaz, From the AVENUE of NINTH« mm_— The last sale of suits at $25 was held almost seven months ago—a long time be- tween sales?—yes, but we have purposely waited until conditions were such that we could give greater values than ever before. Regular $30 to $45 Suits. Worsteds, cassimeres, cheviots—single and double breasted models. All sizes. The Avenue at Ninth *N THE BOYS' SHOP ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE P-B STORE Regularly $20 and $25 Every suit has two pairs of knick- ers, the sizes are fairly complete, most of the suits are of light color fabrics but will be entirely suitable for school wear. Boys® Blouses, Special, 85¢ Boys® Skirts, Special, $1.15 All Boys’ Winter-weight Underwear, Y, Off! SHOES —for Boys New syles for school Black and tan high shoes and oxfords. Official Headquarters for Boy Scout Equipment A Barber Bill Shop where Kiddies Enjoy a Haircut KNOWN. STORE*