Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecat.) Rain, with rising temperature toda: and tonight; tomorrow fair and colder: fresh east and southeast winds. nperatures—Highest, 41 at 10 vesterday; lowest, 28 at 4 wm. day. Full report on page 7. “From Press to Home Within the Hour™ - The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washineton homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately Sunthy Star WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION he 29 1,089— No. 29, o. 860, Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, NINE GALELASHED - SHPS IN DISTRESS, THO ARE WRECKED Schooner and Tug Sink Qff Florida Coast—~Part of Crew Still Adrift. ONE CRAFT IS TOWED IN AFTER LOSING SAILS Reaches With 25 Rescued Men—Is Given Tremendous Welcome Roosevelt hetr til the ator: ner was drif ffth, & Ge wis being rought in reply still another had patched and was Hmping mto crew of still anothor, a | been transferred | voner und a Tulin Beach, rew of the drift in lifebos | n » stor he m the ships in di hurricane bad lost 2 i v sea agatn | arar i- liner 120 miles off Am- Guard cut- | ald. Al her her her s helpless ng her mame d to be the . 0. 8., giv. Jut 100 miles off Spanish SLorm Was bated. appears in shipping The Carus is owned by the ks Co and her home -rica picked up e of the crew of aster Tifton of Roston, turned over in the gals rida coast. reported the remainder v left in lifeboat: hoat Endurance was wrecked € miles out, the America reported. All the crew was saved, the master suid. The tug was lefr with all lights ~howing. Freighter Kesumes Way. The freighter nd from York, with Errington Court, a4, Wales, to New load of coal, reported had patched up her was on the way ified her agents here that she hud broken down. vernment steam- le ported her rs had gone bad, and 1 with the bur- . aboard the the Florida | in i brief radio W. tanker W. HEROE! Antinoe Crew Kescue Reveals velous Courage of Sailors. Joseyh Wilson Cockran, pas i 25 P message hy the Pure C MEN HAILED ! Mar- ien freighter ociated Press ontinuation Tiouneselt 04 wuile pals and snowat Yeiloe seamen ABOARD THE ROOSEVELT, BY WIRELESS TO TONDON, January 30 (P.—We are| & happy sh ompany; the mood of exultation © excitement still i game has re om and & PR DENT off the rdeal. ug home or emotion tee appoin! «l prajse | u thou ¢ the familles 1 heroes. shaven and shorn ing provided, are oups kstening disaster. Rug- with ruddy Suid the firs fellow with The surviy and arra the ce their B cheek Yorkst Tt's t ye never ine it for they eareyed. bie m il to - forty the se. Man, can tell. I'vee been follow «ars with never a wreck | *til now, 1 here's Georgie, coming years, his maiden voyage out ing it the first slip. n o marvelous thing— the hidden couruge of the humble. These men who ropes, swab ks, oil engines and carry luggage v time occasionally re- a coil are specimen fn | sreusy overalls o cadaverous steward filllng your glass at the table, Under the apparel of the lowly lurks B heart of cak *That steward is no good,” said a Pussy passenger. Later the steward had donned a life preserver and asked permission to go into the first life- hoat to attempt the Antinoe rescue. Ha was furious and broken-hearted then rela ‘B T ntinued on v in the Navy seven Column 5 | definitely Queenstown | P | vear-old | more | until Wednesday night, when he wa | Michael Cassidy. | learned toda: | to ID. €. COAL INQUIRY IS HALTED, - WITH RIGHT TO GO ON IN DOUBT {Proposal to Engage Auditor Discloses Lack of Sen- ate Authority for Probe——Copeland Demands Free Rein for Dealers to Give Testimony. 1 commi prices ston ¢ aring testi- tjourned tn in |3 after a short | voted almost entirely t | mit Its members to sesston tomorrow they have and R i comy vestigation was ten t aside when It was potnted Prob nft- iend without the formal as 4 t the press chafrman mniittes of th ' Board of asked him if ke b Ca; the books uppe of the and atfiduvit t of testimo: Coal Corporation had made a profit of 2 cents on the dollar during three typicil months this fikcal year. Mr. Grifith replled that he had kept his office force working until late aa | Thursday nieht | d brought to the | the re- | by the com - lust | Capper, showing that the Crifith | Professed be It was learned that quire a considerable langth time to ob the duta, and Mr. riffith frunkly declared he could not brd to Interrupt his business com- 15 for so extended o period. To gz the hooks to the hearing would - too cumbersome. he satd, but wdied that it the committee w it would re iv committe te vitizer " e woul v @ compe P an examinat bly half a dozen lers here to ob t e mines, ht rutes and epresentutive coil tuln price 1 we the riue P mon he Where The ¢ ured that had b ord d tee chalrman, Senator unsas. Senator Neely ad been in error, think- ing all along that the investigution had been wuthorized by a resolution passed by the Senate. __It was agreed that the hearings (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) investigution of DYING MAN TELLS OF FIVE MURDERS Likeable Carpenter by Day, Was Thief and Slayer After Dark. By the Associated Prees. JOLIET, 1., January 20.—Oscar Otto Johnson, & noterious criminal by night 2 respectable working man 1 . made a death-bed con- fession of a triple murder here to- day, and recalled a double kiiling tn New York a few years ago. He admitted n o signed co the triple Mrs. H sion «tal shooting of Mr. and iry W, Jeske and their six- son at their Batavia, M., farm, December 12, which remained an unsolved crime untll todwy. Fatdl bullet wounds from a patroiman’s re volver caused Johnson's death. Carlson lived in two rooms. Attired in overalls and shabby overcoat, he left his rooms each morning to do his day's work as & carpenter, or at least so believed the good people residing near him. Change Came At Night. With the coming of night, how- ever, Carlson became Johnson and his occupation shifted from carpen- ter to that of burglar. The genial little man with tfle blond hair and siiky moustache was transformed Into & machine of death. Armed with two revolvers Johnson roamed night after night through the streets of Joliet, Aurora, Kankakee and Galesburg, entering home after home, and then, on the night of De- cember 12, shot down & man, woman and little boy, apparently with littls | regret. imily which entering the automobile few moments before had been used by the happy Henry W. Jeske family returning from Chrigtmas shopping expedition, John. son drove to West Chlcago, and the following day the likeable Mr. Carl- son was back at his home on North Collins street with his cheerfu! for the children of the neighb Shot By Policeman. A few nights later he resumed the persor of Johnson and entered , and continuing to do so bullet from the Cycle Policeman latd low by & volver of Motor Before he died Johnson told the police of his two-room apartment. A worn Bible with “To L. Peter Carlson from Anna” inscribed on the fiy-leaf, receipted dentist's and rent bills made out to Carlson and a few broken beads and a small medal iwere | the only articles found in the apart- ment. Johnson will be buried at the ex- pense of the county, as he was penni- less when captured and as far as is { known has no relatives. g FARM RELIEF ADVOCATES TO OFFER UNITED PLAN By the Associated Pross. DES MOINES, January 30.—Efforts to bring a meeting soon in Washing- i ton of Nenators and Representatives of the agricultural States for the pres- entation to them of recommendations for farm relief adopted at the agri- cultural conterence here _Thursday are to be made shortly. ®This was following adjournment untll Wednesday of the administre- tive committee of the allled agricul- tural marketing advisory committee. The recommendations included in- dorsement of the fundamental princl- ples of the Dickinson bill. which pro- vides for a Federal agricultural board admintster distribution of farm commodity supplies. study of farm commodity production, | for, ! looking toward marketing in ratio to| Hendrickson. consumption, also was recommended. | | | ' Institution of a|Hollingsworth had refused | that FATHER, ATTACKED, SHOOTS HIS SON Bullet Barely Misses Heart. Mother and Boy Beat Him, Is Plea. Nettled because his berated him, according to his story to police, aid him physt violence, George Middleton Bond, 45 years old, nd avenue northeast, & son Adolph Bornd, 21, in the thigh early this morning. the bullet ranging upward and missing his heart b half an inch. Physicians at Casualty Hospital say he wiil live. The father is held at ninth pre station on a charge of assanlt a deadly weapon. Uses Oid Revolver. Bond, according to police. shot his son with a 38-caliber cld-fashioned re- volver, the bullet crashing through the muscles of his arm and thigh. Pollce who investigated reported Hond shot when both the boy and his wife: are alleged to have beat hin, clalming he was intoxicated. The trouble. at the Bond home started, according to police, when the son. who is a cigar clerk at the Wash- ington Hotel, came home at 1 o'clock this morning. Police say Bond gives the following version: Father Tells Story. “I wus in the kitchen fixing a chicken when my son came in and as on other occasions accused me of drinking. iis mother came down- stairs at this time and they both throttled me. T slipped over a ginger ale case and when I feared they would hurt me I opened a nes te and got out my gun.'" Domestic troubles fn the Bond fam- ily, accoralng to police, are an old story and this morning's fracas, they say, {s the culmination of much trouble in the past. While young Bond t a serious condition ph will not dle. After the shooting the elder Bond was taken to the ninth precinct b Lieut. S. J. Marks and Officers E. Thompson, . K. Wilson and J. Sirola. inct with said to be in clans suy he 'MANIAC KILLS TWO, | WOUNDS SIX IN FIGHT Barricades Self in House, Police\ Riot Squad Called Out—Had Many Guns. By the Associated Pres SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Januiry 80— Crazed by @ mania for firearms, Clinton IHollingsworth, 21, tonight shot and killed two men and wound- ed six others before police captured him, after storming a house in which he had barricaded himself for several hours. His capture was not effsciud un- til police. who responded to a riot call, had fired several nundr:d rovnds of ammunition into the housa. Dur- ing the exchange of shots Detective Al Franklin und Joe Hargund, a la- borer, were lkilled. Among the wounded were three ambulance driv- ers who attempted to remova the bodies of IFranklin and Hargund. Hollingsworth tried to commit suicide a year ago and attending physicians sald at that time that he was paralyzed for life. He recently recovered, however, and developed a manla for firearms. getting a .arge collection. Foliowing the shooting tonight three large C. O. D. packages which to pay Postmaster Each contained auto- matic revolvers. were opened by Col. Mitchell to Go on Lecture Tour At Salary Reported to Be $4,000 a Week Col. Willlam Mitchell, who becomes | “Mister” at midnight tonight, when his resignation from the Army is ef- fective, has signed a contract with a lecture’ bureau of New York to de- liver a serfes of lectures in the lead- ing cites of the Natfon. Reports that the airman had laid the foundation for another crusade In behalf of aviation and national de- fense were cunflrme;! l.’lslt night h?‘ 4 nk R. R - counsel at the Army general court- martial Mr. Reid was unable to furnish any detalls, explaining that the colonel in- formed him about it Friday. The re: port that the contract called tor $4,000 per week could mot be verified by Mr. Reid. He said he understood the tour would begin immediately. Col. and Mrs. Mitchell were aut of the city yesterday and will not return to Washington until this afternoon. Tt was understood they ace at thelr .| estate near Middleburg, Va. son and wite | shot | D. €, SUNDAY SPANSH AVITORS SPAN ATLANTIC AMILE N | Franco and Comrades Fly | From Cape Verde Islands in 15 Hours. \DESCEND NEAR ISLAND ON COAST OF BRAZIL| All Spain Goes Wild With Joy at! News of Successful Cross- | ing of Sea e P 1O NGO January o s VEENANDO LAND, Brazil, 1 NHA After s | rontinuous filght of approximately 15 hours the Spunish seaplane Plus Ul !in command of the noted pliot ¥ranco, pleted the longest and t perilous stage of its fiight from aln to Argentina, South America, ming down in the sea off this island at & o'clock this evening. Comdr. Franco at first girdled the island in search zood landing | spot, but found none because of the| heavy surf. He again flew out to sea, | und alighted there, later to be towed {into a safe harbor in Concep | The wnce traversed 432 mtles, and the Span about the Brazilian m: intrepid birdmen took off fr ibeiro do Tnflerno ¥ Verde 1 is mornt under favorable iweather and seemingly without instances. Frequent rudlo from the Plus Ultra | progress of the vovage tnal t 16 hou Only tonk atr conditions | untoward | messages | reported the | 1t was orig-| ake | forso, the left behind | 1slunds, and {ing the Spa | wus dropped off {enabled the seap) fuel. The flight was not only the longest | | thus far undertaken and the most h jardous, but it called for great unce 1 b Ccrossing | Equator | ing humidity | Comdr. Franco, ¢ reserve pllot, and ¥ nictan, hexan the epo P ridny rutng starting from the s s Columbus In 1482, They reach Pelmas the same day, In about | hours. Thelr next stage was t | Praya, which they made la: !in about nine and one-half hours. The ! total distance thus far traversed by | sh aviators Is 3,305 miles WILD JOY IN SPAIN. | 1 | i Bedlam Breaks at News of Successful | { Flight. MADRID, January &u booming of cannen &t midn! Madrid the first news of the safe| arrival at Fernando do Noronha of Comdr. Franco and his comrades of | the Plus Ultra. Hedlam broke loose, the news spreading all over the cou try with lightning speed. The great excitement under which the populi- tion labored all duy awalting word | of the Spanish avistors, developed into a sort of ectasy. The officers of the wireless com pany at the home of the Aero Cldb | were beselged all day and most of | the night by eager citizens anxiousfy | seeking detafls. Dispatches from ail | parts of the country tell of proces-| sions formed and musicians parading | the strevts and the people venting | thelr joy with singing and dancing. Church _bells, too, pealed forth the glad tidings. King Alfonso, who is on a hunting expedition at Bonanm, being kept Informed by spectal re. SUBMARI OFF FLORIDA COAST T-3 Anchored Six Miles Out—Re- { lief Boat Ordered to Tow Craft to Port. e NE DISABLED | By the Associated Preas. KEY WEST, Fla., January 30— The submarine T-3 was reported late tonight as anchored off the Florida coast near where she was disabled to- day when trouble developed in her fuel line and caused an exhaustion of the ofl supply. ‘The submarine T-3, commanded by Lieut. J. P. Compton, has run out of oll off Florida and i3 in need of &s- sistance, the Navy Department was informed in a message last night from the commandant of the seventh naval district at Key West. The first message received said the T-3 was off Bethel Buoy, with her lubricating ofl system leaking badly and her supply low. An effort was being made to reach Miami. A later message said: “‘Can proceed no farther. Establish position 6 miles bearing 5 degrees from Bethel Shoals Buoy. Require assistance to reach port."” - The tug Bay Springs was en route to the submarine's assistance, the Navy announced. The T-3 is not in a dangerous con- dition, the departmient believes, ina: much as her commander pointed out in the first message that she would anchor when the oil supply was ex- hausted. ¢ The T-3 is a fleet submarine of the first line, and was bullt by the Fore River Steamboat Corporation. Although the messages were not re- celved by the Navy Department until tonight, the first radio message re- layed here by the 7th District Com- mandant was flled at 9:40 this morn- ing and the second at 11 o'clock. The delay is believed to have been caused {n the comnunication between | the T-3 and Key Westy MORNING, | George | the | grant of a sit | Go JANUARY 31, 1926.-134 PAGES. % UP) Means Associated Press, FIVE CENTS. EMORIAL DRIVE ] TODAY’S STAR | BATHERS IMPETUS Campaign to Erect Wash- ington Shrine. whis upon tons the magnit Washin Through the F. Dimock, presider Washington Menio: Soms of the Reve national bedy nroject—whi lack of funds—and 1 tonul appeal 1o Abhough planned prior ¥ Arts gress, in which to the fact t tion has been laid but th on b squarel attentior 1t The versely ¢ Elliott, chai mittee on grounds, Representative of the House com- Dt 1 a autho t buil ng Governme; . Mother's rial, had refer | Memortal pruoje Development of Capital. The George Washington Memorial, however, the Arts Commission said. had been approved and seemed calcu- lated to “satiefy w great need of the srnment and of the people of the rict. and in a manner would b the proper and nious development of the “apital.” The immediate goul of the new movement is for $2.000,000 to complete the marble outside of the building. with the expectation that shortly thereafter the American public rally to the project and carry to completion. he cost be about $7,000. ing to Di is to | Dimock. The intluence of th Sons of the Revolution, a1 Society, has and is being forwarded through Dr. Thomas E. Green of this city, who is general chaplain of the national body and chalrman of a speciul committee | to cooperate with those behind the memorial. Dr. Green, in a letter to the heads | of all State organizations of the Sons of the Revolution, has outlined the alms and purposes of the memorial and enlisted the support of each con- stituent body and every member of the organization. Following out the policy of the national organization, Gen. George E. Richards, president of the Sons of | the Revolution in the District of Co- lumbia, has issued an appeal to every member here, with specific sugges. ' tions for carrying on the quiet, but effective movement. Significance of the¢ memorial pro-, ject was outlined by Dr. Green in his general letter to the State organiza- tions, in which he related the official (Continued on Page 10, Column 2) SWITCHMEN TO DEMAND $1.57 A DAY INCREASE Unions Will Make Same Wage Request of Carriers as Sub- mitted in 1823. By the Assoclated Pres BUFFALO, N. Y., January 30.— The executive wage committee of the Switchmen’s Union of North America announced today that an agreement had been reached to make a demand for wage increases averaging approxi- mately $1.57 a day. The exact de- mands vary with the class of service. The committee is also preparing a uniform schedule covering working rules which will be presented to the railroad managements at the same time as the wage demand. The wage committee has been de- liberating here for several days. A statement issued by the commit- tee said that the request for wage increase and differentials between day and night service was the same de- mand that was presented by the Switchmen’s Union in 1923. All gen- wiil | it on! Mrs. | been | Dlaced squarely behind the memorlal, | | PART —18 PA( News—Lo: nl ge 22 and |Sons of Revolution Join New ! ¥ W Around the ( of T T 1 N ind Na PART TWO— FOUR—3 PAGES Sectt FIVE—8 PAGES. Fiction PART Sports PART IX—8 PA dfied Advertising. TES GRAPHIC SECTION—10 PAGES World Events in Pictures, COMIC SECTION—1 PAGES. Held at House of Detention After Examination by Detectives at Headquarters. e R tectiv 1 \fternoon Mrs. Be atrice Kolik, 42 vears old, 1748 Eighth street, and for more than an hour questioned her closely for details, it is understood, surrounding the death of Miss Mary M. Kirk, who, a week ago, was found strangled to death, bound and gagged in her umbrella shop at 819 R street. . Mrs. Kolfk's name was not entered on the books at headquarters, despite the fact that after questioning her there, detectives took her to the House of Detention, where she remained last night. Headquarters detectives, in the meantime, refused to discuss the case. A crippled boy hobbled into head- quarters on a crutch early this morn- Headquarte ody ing and satd his name was Kolik, and | l that he wanted to know where h mother was. He said she been taken from her home in the afterncon by Detective Waldron. He was imme- diately tuken into a private room at headquarters and questioned for a fow minutes, then told to keep his tongue. Leaving the room he refused to teil newspaper men anything ahout the case Bank Cashier Missing. NEW FLORENCE, Mo., Januury 30 (P)—Search has been instituted for Leslie Lichtenberg, cashier of the Farmers’ State Bank here, following the disclosure tod: that approxi- mately $60,000 of the bank's funds were missing. Lichtenberg disap- peared Thursday and has not been heard from since. President Wrecks Two Society Dinners,| Calls Host and Guest to Economy Lesson i President Coolidge threw a monkey wrench into the machinery of official Washington soclety last night when he presided, with Gen. Lord, Director of the Budget, at the business meeting of the Government—one dinner party being broken up and another damaged by removal of the host and guest of honor. The Secretary of State and Mrs. eral chalrmen will be notified to pre- | Kellogg had scheduled one of their sent the demand to their respective railroad managements and to report back to national tesult of conferences held. | series of diplomatic dinner parties for last night and the guests and every- headguarters the | thing but the table were all set for the event when -word came frem the EARLY TAXACTION INSENATE IS SEEN Critics and Friends Alike Predict Vote for Bill hy February 10. G GOULD LINCOLN however, to get 15 as possible that t | eussior. The surtax rates, with 0,000, are e e per amittee, ho reduced ¢ 1comes from $20.000 ¢ Chese changes nly by the Sena night, hen the b Deiue it for these | acceptance was t se agreement on the wus reported out The surtaxes will lewd to co slderable debate in the Senate, Critics | of the bill. including some of the in- surgent Republicans, take the ground that the surtaxes snould not have been reduced to the extent carried in the bill. The maximum rate at pres ent is 40 per cent. Efforts will he made to increase the maxinum rate to 25 or 20 per cent. They will prove unavailing, howeyer, 1t is believed May Go Through Unchanged. Indeed, opponents of the bill | now stands, admiited yesterday that there seemed little prospect of amend- ing the bill on the floor of the Senat and that it would go through prac tically as reported from the com epeal of the publicity se of the income tax law, which greed to in the House and in the Senate committee, s expected to stick, although it will lead to no little de bate. It the Senate agrees to this T | | s it will be in dispute houses. ‘The repeal of the estate tax will he bitterly fought by some® of .the Sen: tors. but it, too, will go through : reported by the committee, it is pre- dicted, What will happen to the pr posed repeal of this tax when the bill reaches the conferenc age is an- other matter entirely The Hou members are strongly opposed to this repeil, and there is strong belief that the Senate will be forced to yield and the House provision for the e will be reineluded in the biil. between the two tock ( President that he wished the Secre-| tary of State and other members of the inet to attend the meeting ‘There was nothing left to do but recall the invitations, which was done and the dinner has been postponed. The Secretary of War and Mrs. Davis likewise had planned a dinner with Vice President Dawes as guest of honor. Word evidently reached them too late to postpone the dinmner, and it was held—minus the host and the guest of honor, who were occupy- ing seats at Memorial Continental Tiall, feasting on words of wisdom an | ecunomy, $ repeal, it wiil stand since this matter | FURTHER TAK T POSSBLE, CODLIDGE THLS EXECUTHES iDeclares Greater Economy | Should Be Sought in Inter- ; est of Public. SAVING OF $60,000.000 EFFECTED DURING 1925 Gen. Lord, Disclosing Offers From Private Business, Declares He Is Willing to Resign ¥ beg money. n homes hich w+ nd & which t wnd etficte P Vith pr plied ystem “Statements few or no e must fall with s and upon the service who hav suid ¢ “If ther 2 unde: xplained citing the mpor strange | hailuc tor of t 1 reports of these off Federal Activit With the heavy Increased. burde v throwr cut expens: Point now bef | “absovpti mates for 19 representinz reased busi the saving of hundreds of thou of dollars,” Gen. Lord declared, { eral administrators are dollar work kb | worked before. Fed making the L eve: | In the nive 3 Budget Burein | estimates of had bes 1 An apparent Increase of about $14 000,000 ins a of de in expen tures as compared with 1 i by Gen. Lord to be dur items, such as “‘unes pected increases in tax refunds, in ereases in postal deficits and the World War adjusted compensation demands amountin 124,000,000 approx! mately 1925 Saving $60,000,000. ving full welght to all the factor- he said, “we find that in real reduction of inadequately ex al effort of which s the result of the the people in the service to carry out the President’s economy program. And that $60,000,000, which is so easy to say and so hard to save, means saving of $5,000,000 for every month. $166,666.67 for every day, $6.94444 for every hour, $155.74 for every min ute and §1.98% for every second of the ven Reporting on results of the so-called per cent club, which last vear w {Cuntinued pu Vage 3, Columy 49 { |