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niinued eold t 1t rand co (e . visin High Tow peratu vesterday: Full ven, Closing N. YiS(ucks and Bonds, Page 30 h second class Washineton, 32-MII VERA IS ADMITTED; PROVES HER ACTS suaiae matter b G 20.893. alf Insists New Light System WASHINGTO SPEED ON BOULEVARDS PLANNED WITH SIGN INSTALLATION Best for Cit To Be Extended on 16th Street and Put in | The speed timit on | waye in Washing mile-an-hour limit A< all the arterial hizhway re installed, “Traffic Directoar ) At the foanie b Writ of Habeas Corpus in Countess’ Case Sustained by Federal Judge. in force < 1 other cities and reite faith in the co-ordinated or st system now in use here. Speeds of well over 22 miles an hour and approaching 32 miles an hour more will be legal on the arterl highways under plans now being pre ed by the teafic director. The move §s to be made in the interest of speeding up traffic and lowering the aceident rate, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WILL LET CASE DROP Defendant in Action Admitted Re-| lations With Lord Craven Upon Arrival Here. | Hizher speed than IS NOW tacitly permitied street between Florids miles an hour ated Dy Motor- to 2% not Mareh [ Cathear who run at 25 miles an hou < they d drive recklessly obey the lights, are not 1z arrested speeding. Thix technical violation of the speed law is also permiited in the interest of smoother operation i und which v won her niry today when IS the snit his [ habeas corpus afte v Buckner had enter that adultery does erime wnder the ith Africa The countess had heen refnsed mi hy immigration authorities moral turpitude that she had s Earl Craven front England while sustalned District 1in the not laws Ny ) con- of va om Lafayette north to Florida avenue Mr. Idge today installing the ¢ tem on Sixteenth s avenue, its h hout $100,000, remainder of placed the cost -ordinated treet from Flor- present to Newton street This will consitme the appropriation Al - asinn on the of ifter her ad compani of to | B South Africa == t | Columbi n Sixteenth | avenue and 1 | 1! of speeding up the traffic | Park | light |1 northern | tion On Public Library Square Soon. There will ida avenue for traflic lights, he said he no light between F and Fuclid street, but heginning the intersection of the latter thor- | oughfare, the lights will be run out to Newton street, covering the dan- | merous mea at the intersections road, Harvard street sant street. There inte Nz streets on the eas ¢ Sixtfenth street between Florida avenue and Buclid street Discussing extension of the traffic light system to Massachusetts avenue st of the present tion, Mr. Eldridge said he b install Hghts at the four of the square on which the | Llbeary stands. e character | Intersections at Ninth street and New | York avenue and Ninth sireet and Mount Vernon place as the most vital mn the present viewpoint, since the intersections al by traffic officers during Mount | Seventh ready poli rush’ hou mas Circle, where Massachuset e crosses Fourteenth street, was by the 1t divector to he 3 regards traffic ind he does not plan imm fon there 1l ultimately will be extended to include all the congested area, under plans now before the Dis- | trict committee of the House in con- nection with appropriations for the hts. Nine intersections at an ap- oximate cost of $1,100 per intersec will he covered in the Buclid- Newton street installation, while the installations near the Public Library Will cost about $4.400. ¥ both married tention on the count 10 appeal we Ellis Island for s was grant pending 2 Secre: ter i days to the on her Lashor, COUNCIL EXPANSION Sued for Habeas Corpus. \ttorneys then entered the suit pus. on which the deci hased orary permit expired Wed ht 11 o'clock. Bondy. following his decision, said that if the Department of 3 had further evidence it wished to mit he would reopen the case. FAVORED IN BE nev. Theod ey d\".::(.u v ot Merely Opposes Change at ner to tell the court the matier mi Moment Df OWn Accession, Von Bernstorff Says. yost upon the record. for wion Wit nt short the argument of Arthur riield 1 in behalf of Connte seart, with the announce nient that there was no dispute on the settled princinte of law, that the erim Inality of acts committed hy lien. seeking admission this ey, nst be deiermined by the law of the place where such acts are committed. “On the record which 1 > Bondy said, “1 find n but the evidenc hat this woman committed an act in a foreign country. "here is no evidence that it ! i a crimeqsmud even in the absence of idavit tted by the United attorne here wonld exist ne Presumpion that it w crime at the place of commission. Under those cir. es 1 must conclude that the ition hoard mistake of Jaw and | therefore susiain the writ.” iy By the As - H March 5 Germany s not hostile to the entrance of any par ticular country into the council of the » of Nations. but believes tha + council, at the moment « many’s sion membership, should not altered from the status obtaining at the time of the Locarno hix declaration was made today by unt Von Bernstorff, former Aml dor to the United States and pres dent of the in Association for the 1. Nations. who has ar riv ticipate in a meeting the executive committee of the Intes national Union of League of Assoclations When Gerr council, he added apposition an examination problem as to whether the eventually should be enlarzed. These remarks by Count von Bern- storff are deemed of interest hecause Cites Liquor’ Makers' Cases, The judge further said “The record shows that she com- mitted an act which many of us doubtless think invelves moral turpi- tne but an act ig not o erime al wavs, and there is no presumption t this was a crime. The Con gress dld not contemplate that the act. if me in this country, wonld be wronnd exelusion “If th: every ctured liguor haars member she will r f the f couneil construction of the council indie that Germany will play a big part. With Great Britain « nthe nothing to imperil the ur uris have rangement or prevent our prohibition nee on the turpitude, increasingly evident that tied that the consent must be obtained to selusion, | ent shift in the council's make-up. crime under the law Meanwhile China formally has filed where it wis committed. | her request for a permanent seat in that adultery is not a |the event of the council’s ement, Africa setiles the issue | d ing her international importance is greater than that of the other ap. plicants. H spokesme point that she occuples the greatest of the Asiatic continent, with a_pop: Iation totaling one-quarter of that of the entive globe: she possesses unlimited natural resources and rep- resents an ancient civilization and el ture, and that her membership would augment the usefulness of the league. BERLIN PAPER AROUSED. te man who in ot ap evan, it s any ny pres ground for sfidavit th APPEAL UNDECIDED. Is Held Question for Department of Justice Offici appeal will be taken nin New York today mintess of Catheart is he Dopartment Jus tthe | decis hly will be cor IR RERLIN iche flects the view clen office, ch Chamberiain's makeup of th council as an fac and cov evident,” the “that he vielded to the pre public opinion throughout the world and has n up his attempt to help the Polish-French claims to success.” “The Deutsche Allgemente Zeitung (Continued on Page 2. Collmn 2.) “MUDDY” RUEL SIGNS. First-String Comes to Terms, 11 Dispateh 1o The Star TAMPA, ¥ March Ruel now i officially a action has U 1 taken 1" (& the Washington ball cluhb. of Mrs, onnie te and Mrs, Loli T Clark, whose names were presented | today, the first-string catcher of the to the last weel. They were | Nationals affived his name to a _con- present honuse with the mother | fract and hustled over to the field to of the the time of the | join his mates in practice. Ruel and shootr Griff both were uncommunicative in The death rvegard to the terms reached, but hoth drinking party at professed to be satistied. The agre ent with the three ment covers period of one ve: eral other men, Dutch Ruether now Is the only un wound in the head signed player on the roster. At the coroner’s ineguest G Sk o O e FLYERS TO HUNT SEALS. said that he had shot intoxicated, - | Soviet Aviators Will Report Loca- tion to Mainland. FACES DEPORTATION. — MURMANSK, Russia, March 5 (@), Atrplanes will be used soon by the Greek Rebel Must Live in Belgrade | <viet government in hunting seals off the Arctic coast. “The planes will or Tiaxe Fuguatavis. \:a‘nrrh out the spot nms!]h‘v-uuam«i . March hy seals, reporting results hurite stivas, the Greek revolu- | and fishermen along the mainland. will be invited 1o curtail his | Skoplie, and choos ween in Belgrade or aving the ision was _reached Dr officials of the foreisn office and he minister of the interior. It follows [ his life at Rushville to save his little {he general's unsuccessful attempt of | brother's. He pushed his brother out \esterday to veach the Greek frontier | of the way of an automebile, but him- from Skoplje. Selt was run do ver a Retreat. March 5 (@), The ndschau, which often re- of the German foi cacterizes Sir speech regarding JURY INDICTS MOTHER IN DEATH OF HER SON the to save his t is pape: Man Pistol Wound After Drinking When Others Were Present. Party By the Associatedi Pross, RALEIGH, X. Aller March dzers of Mrs, true bill grand vonnection with Lyvear-old son, Pres 1., who was fo in his he early of Decemt 1. No od leizh with muvder the Wake nry vesterday in the death of her izers 1y wled the mornin. in a returned hy “ounty Nationals’ Catcher 1 S N [ w fury in the dead youth at Rodger lowed which he was pre women and se of pistol time Jater. the women | fal witnd himself w Jugoslavia 2] n. Pl tlonary, . Boy Killed Saving Brother. SPRINGF! ). Randall Strong ¥ ¢ gave up LATERIS DECLARED RLIN Nations | no | § the developments in the strife over the re. | | Seex Attempt by Chamberlain to | Nations | Mowing | onference with Clark Griflith | | | BANDITS GET $15,000. | Five Hold-Up St. Louis Bank and Make Good Escape. LOUIS, Mo., March 5 (#).—Five held up the Hamilton State Bank here todav_and escaped i antomobile with $15.000 or more. | Fourteen emploves and customer | were in the bank at the time. One | of the robhers remained in the c while the four others entered the hank. SIX BANDITS SEIZE s young men Reports of International Harvester Robbery Place Sum High as $150,000. | B the Associatod Press, | cmeaco, reh seized an $50.000 pay nation \rvester at the com ctor works, on the South west Side, today, according to police reports, Later reporte said that the loss mizht he greater—perhaps as high as 30.000. Company officials said they were unable immediately to fix the amonnt. Gix or more robbers composed band, who fled to an automohile. A ws hman, from an upper story, |shot at the robhers, who fired hack. | No on was hit. Rubbers the Inter- « the BILL ASKS NEW M STREET BRIDGE ure to Erect Steel Structure | Over Rock Creek. Construction of a new steel girder hridge across Roek Creek at M street to replace the old bridge which has been closed since last Spring hecause of its dangerous condition was recom- mended by the District Commissioners Austen | in a letter transmitting a bill author izing the work sent today to Senator r. chaivman of the Senate Dis committee. The Commissioners, rd meeting, urged that the bill be introduced during the present ses. sion of Congress, The Lill would missioners to construct @ bridge with A roadway 40 feet wide and two foot ways, each 9 feet wide, at a cost of W0.000. Provision also is made fo 48-inch water main and other under sround construction and for making sewernge adjustments. The new sewer construction, the Commissione 1, will make it possible to intercept a d Canal ectly into the Chesapeake s at the foot of Twenty-eighth | street, | Do Not Favor Repairs, he plans of the R rkw | Potomac | k Creek ¥ Commission, which provide for a park boulevard along the banks of Rock Creek, passing under the M Street Bridge, cannot be (Continued on Page 2, Column 3 ESCAPES BURNING PLANE. Lieut. F. O'D. Hunter Saves Life by Parachute Drop. MOUNT Mich., 5 (M. -Lieut. O'D. March Frank Hunter, made a forced parachute leap from his plane 500 feet to the ice of Lake St. Clair today, when his plane caught five. Slight burns and bruises were the extent of his injuries. He blamed | ignition trouble for the five, Lieut, Hunter, who 1 | seven planes the | Warld suffered a broker back inoa plar h near Buffalo, N. Y., 18 months ago, and was in a hospital several months V after resuming fiying after the Buffalo cident, Lieut. Hunter was obliged to jump 00 feet from a plane over McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, when the stabil. izer frame of his plane collapsed. down ¢ Foening welfth street in- | > [ the 380,000 PAY ROLL |Commissioners Draft Meas- | anthorize the Com- | anitary sewer which now discharges { nd Ohio | and | operations officer at Selfridge Fieldg | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION N, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1926— B 6.0.P.STANDS PAT (ONFARM PROGRAM, SURE OF ELECTION Sees No Need for Catering to Dwindling Group for Po- litical Purposes. | THINKS MOST FARMERS SATISFIED WITH POLICY ;Hnugen-Manry Bill and Export Advisory Board Measure Likely to Pass. nY G. Govrp 1 With the cultural organ staging thei nal drive for lief legislation at the present of Congress, the following appears to Ibe the situation: | 1. The Haugen-McNary bill to es- | tablish a division of co-operative mar- keting in the De rtment of Agricul- ture will hecome a law. The bill already has passed the House, and senate committee on agriculture today hegan hearings on it. OLN. irm re cssion IT WoNT GEY - Star. ‘IFTY-TWO PAGE ¥ \ ANYWHERE THOU W'oo 7 UR HELR Lt=Q Th-~ ~=1 in Washington with the Associated Press service. =vening pape-~ news (#) Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 104,222 TWO CENTS. 2. No legislation dealing with the surplus erops problem Is likely to be enacted unless it be the adminstra- | a hoard | be establishcd to advise with the | | tarmer . and ald them to obtain the | necessary private financing to handle | | exportable sufplus products. { { The administration has turned its ice against the Dickinson bill, which (] | goes bevond the proposal that a Fed (eral advisory hoard be established, | e— nd provides for stabilizing the domes. | | tie price of staple crops and l||.~(|v'lhu¥-lGenera| Rise Abruptly Stops. {ting the loss sustained in the export | ales to “he producers generally. Large Scale Short Selling Resumed. Representatives Here. sentatives of 11 of the agri States of the Middle \West king at the door, demandi something be done to meet the op problem House gricultural committee ix hearing them today on the Dickinson bill. The psvchology of the situation is | gainst who are askin Gov- nent heyond the program of the administration in dealing with I the surplus crop problem, notwith- | standing the fact that a congressional election is_coming on and the mem- | I bers of Congress have thelr | elo; | Repr | By the Associated Press. YORK. Mareh 5.—The rally prices, which tempor holstered yesterday's market the preceding hreak b hecked today when another se ¥ attacks directed against leading industris opening the way f ¥ short sell- ing en a la Thrown into in stoek wins was voof confusion by* the to the ground Senators from | sald today that the reason lies in thelthe other, the market in faltersd {fact that the farmers themselves, eX. ynder the weight of an enprmgis { cept in lowa and southern Ilinols an®] vojume of selling which eStend; (4 few: other places, are not arc from the high-priced speciilfies’ o Pifaeiically. no letters are heing e cindie - Sk Bt S | eeived by them from their constitu- L s iiaadebasiad | ents demanding that Cong t to el was driven hack mo | relieve the farmers i iE ¢ wotaty “This is in direct contrast with the O e linians Seurs Foe- floods of letters which came from the | e okt Sheimeln Biee | agricultural States to members of Hullwity Siose Ghemeln Bioeh . e st Iron Pipe tumbled almost | past has heen one of those stro 10 poivte | urging the establishment of a gov, < | ment export corporation to handle | surplus crops. “Conditions have im {proved for the farmers. They have ! come a long way on the | covery since the post-war which ruined so many of them. s more than a po driven down an Can. which | opened 8% points higher at 317%. was | hammered down to 311, and Hudson Motors dropped from 114% to 110%,. Rally of Oversold Market. e business and bank B that probably for the in the histor: K mar upheavals they T heen uble wateh the rapid shift of security Alues without fears of consequent ngers to by neval. Yeste wvery of the stock sensational drop) dnesday . however, that | said 1 the surplus crop problem has heen | a ally in solved, or that the farm v s sold market, the com vet equal in purchasing that | ness of sound securities |of the industrial work Anufac ftu A change in co gt | ain bring about which | The New Y would put all the mers up in armg | doubted by banker many are still said to be. jalike th he farmers’ vote is important factor in the coming congressional | elections, and the Republic must | have it or lose in a number of the | States. It happens, however, that the great agricultural States of the We and Middle West are normally Repub | lican, manv of them overwhelmingly 80, itical problem for the | Republicans is not so acute as it oth erwise might be. The Republicans | frankly say that they do not believe | that these States will swing away | | from the Republican column “because | jthey have no where else to swing." fetters whi ry in great part | _The Democrats dissent violently. | as they undoubi were. neverthe. | (Continued age 2, Column 8,) |less bound the N n's industry to 'PREP SCHOOL BURNS | " raction of Galn Wiped Out. | divided WITH $150,000 LOSS i ! in th | Improvement General. ¢ | Tnquiry among Demacrats | Republicans revealed the s | tion—the farme, # few other place: ing as they did, {into the husiness (ble surplus tic prices, Thix does not m s well as ame sity except in Tows ave not der Government »f handlin entry the ex tabilize the W mayket from of Tuesday and P f nically over tive cheap 1 optimistic s Mellon and vk Times savs: “It was and business w v stock market t eight business in {despite the fact that the market i regarded by many persons as curate b eter of coming ¢ affect sehind sified in leade: d-Tribune say three-day perind of inter st husiness and hanking a significance which enti shadows the magnified fmportance of the day's happenings. They see the event a vivid illustration of the fact that husiness has shaken off the on in_opinion as to what the will do next. Some believe a secondary reaction to ter big advance is due, while others feel 1 the advance will be stable cause gilt-edge securities were driven below actual value, Compilation of yvesterday's ied fr 626,400 shares (o 2.6 smpared with W 4 of 3,785,700, Advan points were made in wsues. The advance Imost 5 points. although still far below their vear Although the total paper loss has | been computed as anywhere from one and a half to four billions and up, only a mere fraction of the g of the last 32 months has been wiped out, The ines, however, were the harpest and were completed in the hortest time in Wall Street histor: Advance Is (hecked. | The force of the selling the advance in oth 2 ‘Hundred Students of St. James, Hagerstown, Md., Escape in Night Clothes. teh to The Star, HAGERSTOWN, Md, March |The main building of the historic mes School, one of the oldest pr ¢ schools in the United States, destroyed by fire, discovered in the dormitories about 2 a.m. tods 100 students, ranging in age to 18 vears, and from many of the country, escaped ir their night clothing in_the zero weather, saving nothing but a few | athletic trophies. The loss is estimated | at $150,000. | Powler of Philadelphia, a g student, was injured above the right | taking on stocks “bought for a turn eye when stru by a falling object | swelling the volume of liquidation. as he.battled his way through a; While bids ny stocks were smoke-filled corridor. Among the stu-| lowered, there appeared to be a large dents, who have returned to their(back log of orders for the high-srade homes. were A. A. Crane, jr., and Ed. | issues, the decline in which was an | ward Yonker of Washington, D. (. | orderly one. ‘The school is six miles south of this ! Ward Baking “B" was pushed back city, a three-story structure, embr | 8 points under yesterday's final quo- | ing ‘auditorium, dining hall, two dor- | tation and DuPont, American Radia- | mitories, the home of Adrian Ond, .lm.- and Baldwin showed early losses | 5 high. from 1 de sections checked Jam { dunk, headmaster: infirmary, chapel, | of 2 points or more. American Water- kitchen and laundry. The study hall | works canceled all its early gain of land gymnasium, in 1 separate build-| 3% points before the end of the first ing. were not. damaged. The two up. nd Woolworth lost most of an per stories of the main’ building were vise of 41y points. United lof frame construction and the lower ex Steel common dropped from of stone. he building w ed in . to 124, where it met good sup- 11749 Gen. Jumes Ringgold as | port. “Wountain Rock Manor,” and herei Nations were entertained Gen. Washington, | opened | Dolly Madison and other distinguished | Pere | personages. early 5-point gain, but there was no The origin of the fire has not been |early pressure on Nickel Plate, which ascertained. opened 5 points higher, Tea, ordinarily inactive 51, points higher at 17 larquette forfeited most of its ieultural Stated] violent swings from one extreme L | to be due to| world’ general, | be- | |and TWO.'GIRLS DIE IN FIRE. | |Ten Others Escape From House Without Injuries. INVILLE, N |5 @ —Two children of [ lost their lives early toda estroyed the Fowler home. n They were Mildred, 1 | Ruth, 4. | Twelve persoms, 11 of them mem. hers of the Fowler family. were asleep in the house when neighhors an | alarm. No others were injured GRANT PROPOSES NEW AUTO CAMPS :Enlarging or Making Perma- " nent East Potomac Site ! Strongly Opposed. .. March las Fowler when fire here. and | tion of the np. and the | tonr- teries Opposicion 1o the ere manent field house in Potomae Park te suggestion that there should e mp on each of the main 3 rving travel into.and out of Wash ington, is expressed by Maj . & L8 nt, 3d, director of the office public buildings and parks of the | tional « to Rpresen- | tative R. man of the | House committ + buildings | and grounds, Maj. Grant's letter replies to N in | quiry from the committee on the reso Iution which would delay the construe ton of the permanent field building, plans for which already have heen drawn and the contract for which will be let within a few weeks, M: ant | recommends favorable action the resolution, he views express in his report sent the re: st > on publ on 1 by Maj. G to the committee re 1t of & thorovgh study of the tourist camp situation by the di « and alxo by the city and park | nning committee the National apital Park Commis 1. | Objections ted. e good reasons t Potor © Park e automobile camp,” nt's report such & camp I necessarily unsightly, and, z ax it does on the main raiiroad ‘e to the city |from the south. it must make a dis- | agreeable impression on many visi- tors to the Capital, ax well as threat- ening the possibility of making Potomac Park a much less agreeable driving and breathing space in Sum mer for the enjoyment of the peaple of Washington. nd, the | ereasing very {but a few y ments of the au be seriously enci | jacent re | hir | population spice for here making nently a Maj. € st, for not perma- ald traffic is in b re will tourist pidly and it will when the reg mobile tourists ching on th i s the clty increases in the demands for additional sports, su | ere East |fers one’ of the few development for those sports requir ling a considerable amount of space. | “Finally, while the loeation is con- ventant enough for tourists coming in from the south, it is difficult to find elatively inac le for tourists | coming from the ne nd east, Practical Solution Sought. “Howe immediatel arising from the ¢ ton each season of a larze number tourists from all over the count These tourlsts are, many of them, persons of considerable education and having a real patriotic interest in the pital of their ¢ s such they are entitied to find reasonably good accommodations here, available at a least not higher than that facilities can be oh- tained in other cities. 1t must also be borne in mind that a tourist camp is nece: somewhat unsightly, | and wher ted will be thought | objectionable by some of the inhabit- | ants of the vicin | “East Potomac Park is admirably located for the tourists hecause of its | vicinity to the Government buildings and points of interest, bechuse the topographic conditions are such as to make the camp easily controlled and policed, and its distance from neigh- horing houses and private property prevent the tourists from being an annoyance to any local residents, Ef- forts made in the past to obtain an- | other suitable site have been. u essful, and for the present, and ai Jeast a few years, this site is the only one that can be available for the au- | tomobile tourists reaching the cit “The ideal solution of the whole| (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) it Apable A practical solution must be found to the problem ming to Washtg- | | suicide of Mr s of [to get up early @ | foot bal imming 3 < in | ay's : | bled the oth | had Radio Programs—Page 36 GIRL TAKES POISON, CALLS IT MISTAKE Depressed by Suicide of Friend, Uses Wrong Bottle. Will Recover. Mis br Gladys of a me: Cornell, veteran, was taken Hospital early today <uffering A self-administered of poison, said have heen taken unintentionally By a tragic personal friend the same hospi dose of poison wecupies a room on a floor suffering also from poison Mrs, Cornell was taken to the hos pital from her apartment at 1011 H street shortly after 3 o'clock morning, when her husband tele phoned for aid after discovering her drinking poison 18} qua, at the hospital, immediately administer ed treatment and Mrs. Cornell is be lieved to be well on the road yearnld war dose o dence, a of Mrs. Cornell died last Friday f nd another friend above he close, Tells of Shock. an interview today Mrs. Cot asserted that the poisoning was result of mistake in bottles. bottles were standing on the Kitchen shelf, she said, and she took the wrong one in the helief that it 1ined medicine. The need for the medicine was ex plained by her as being caused by nervous depr ion o 1 by the . Agnes A. mark, 26 Eighth street, wi whom, at one time, Mrs. Cornell hs planned double wedding, and | the additional unnerving shock last Mon when she found another friend, Miss Virginia Key, 20 vears « street, was at poisoned ‘It seems id tod: suieid Just think her funer: key—1 an n nell the Two vears old, of 103 Mrs, Cor here must be a w sweeping r the ecity —1 went to Miss Shar thelr fac ) strange. nd see both | %0 ‘much that it unnerves me. Return Home Late. It 1 talk too much about that though, folks will think I'm goofy RBut it's quite a shock when two clo: friends re taken to the hospital suf- xm poison and one of them ad then it's so strange that the i« just upstairs, too. “You see, it was this way. My hus ind and 1 had just come back from ty with a friend whose hushand t get off from work until 2 in the morning, so we had to o to see him. Neither of us and there was no need for us today. So we staved. e zot home—I don't_know that was—Mr. Cornell was getting ready fo retire and 1 went into the kitchen, where it was dark, to take drink a.stimulant I am d nd | know enough want to d seen others suf sther works When w at tin same thir fer so terribly for Tried Suicide Once. “So T took this bottle. which resem tle that | wanted and just then my husband came 1o the door. I didn't exactly know what was in the bottle when 1 took it until after I had taken a swallow. He grabbed me and I spilled some of the stuff over my It wasn't in the orig inal bottle. or 1 could not have made such & mistake. I didn't tr did on to take my own life. . at wax when I w 1d. and T feared being sent ym my home up in Middlesex Then I jumped overboard, but as 1 hit the water swam 1 Conn. as soon 1 ange about this when rs. Seamark and pl the girl today Emergency Hospital is but another chapter in a long line of misfortunes which have befallen her. Sne ran away from home when she was vears old. she said, and during war studied and was nurse from a Middlesex. pital. She probably was the voung- est nurse that ever passed the Con- at | necticut examinations. Has Long Been Unwell. She came to Washington five vears ago. lllness and physical ailments affected her so that since 1920 she has a dozen operations for various causes, She married short ; after she came to Washington and went West to live with a husband whose name she would not disclose. Two children were Iy of this marriage. Both of them died. Then came marital troubles. (Continued on Page The Column 2.) . m | the | 12 | FIREMAN IS INJURED IN $300000 BLAZE INDOWNTOWN AREA | Menacing Flames at 9th and F Streets Quelled After Bit- ter 3-Hour Fight. TWO BUILDINGS GUTTED: OCCUPANTS ARE SAVED | Fire Starting in Drug Store, Spreads to Tailoring Shop. Fought From Inside Bank. | Serious injury to a forem damage estimated as high 2 vk cansed by a spectacul [ fire on ©* etreet early this mormmn | Two buildings were gutted and dan was done 1o &ooSher the flames were brought under i trol Ly virtually the entire fire fight ing foree of the city | Starting in Liggett's druz store. lang t 4:30 o'clock ad to the build the Mertz & ment. and had mas a - man an five-alar rious . hefore street, the Kkly spre ed by tailoring estahl rapid headway | by the watc The heaviest darrge resi buildings. the rear porth were entirely burned. ht ve and water damage als was done to the adjoining structure at 908, occupled by the Columbia ¢ tical Co. and a shoe shining parle Fireman Hit by Brics. Fireman H. L. King of 924 In ham street received & possible of the skull when he was struck o the head by a falling brick while iz ing the fire in the rear of the buiid inzs. He was removed to Emergenc | Hospital, where an Xray will { taken to determine his injurt Occupants of the dwell in the upper flonrs of the three structures had thrilling escapes fore the firemen arrived, the mother and five children. r age from 3 months to 12 Greek family ed Baviorz assisted from the smoke-filled thivd floor of the huilding at 908 by Police Paul Ambrose of the firs Mertz ven hlock. to these of which serious ¥ on the top fle out of the buflding year was ablaze and named Me ret In 1s0 had while the ent elderly man ame building T this | For an hour the hlaze offered stuh bhorn resistange to the efforts firemen to check ad. In ¢ o fight the hlaze effectively. firen bhroke into the building of the \Was on Loan and Trust Co., afte dders up the Ninth stree of the structure, and direc through its west windows ont of the F street build 1so fought the flames nt of the huildings fight from these the hlaze fnally was brou under “control, altheush it was afte 8 R B tonk it wht. eomioRTy extinzuished Bank Owns Buildings. ANl of the s 1 1y side hose from | Directing the angles damaged properts owned hy the Washington Loan a Trust Co., and it was said to h heen the bank's plan to raze huildings next Fall for the erec of a larze office buildinz The origin of the fir determined. althor have started in the b dr has is helieved e of the sement Depi scene hief § 1t the on the mediately ordered ratus called out. Al but eight er companies in the suburban distr were summoned on the list alarm Fortunately. the ( r car traffic, with the tracks blocked an arrive nd alary additic and Ninth street irred at an hour that caused minimum of incon venience to the public. The cars were permitted to run through Ninth street shortly after § o'cl While I street 1s shut off h routed over Police Reserves Out. More than 30 police reserves wera | called out from various precincts to { handle the crowds that pressed in [ o =et & glimpse of the blaze. Super {intendent of Police Hesse was earls the scene to direct his men nissioner Frederick A. Fennir 4 » wert to the scene To proteect | himself against the biting cold. which covered the fi apps tug with & fringe of ive and made virtually all the adjacent street kat ammissioner Fenni fireman’s henvy over and policemen had several heavy streets hy 1 " remen falls {on the slippery | Damage caused the fire w (Continued on Page 5, Column &) {FARMERS WITH ICE SLEDS SEARCH FOR FAMILY OF 5 Missing Since They Started in Au- tomobile From Pelee Island, Ontarfo. to Mainland. By the Associated Press LEAMINGTON, Ontario, March Two dozen farmers with ice slec and sleighs, today hegan a systemati h of the 18.mile ice rond hetween ton and Pelee Island, in LAk . for James Ihipps. his wife a1 | their three children—Paul, 9 bt |and Elm missing sinee Monda iwhen they startel from the is the mainland in their antomoni Although hope has been abar that the family has survived tne of exposure, the searchers hope to find some evidence as to the fate of |the five. Mail carriers, who make { twice weekly trips to the island, re ported last night they saw no i of the automobile along the route. There is a large stretch of open water near the ice road ten miles from the istand and this was being dragged today. The Phippe family had visited rela- tives on the island Monday and start |ed back across the ice later in the afternoon. Officials at the Ford Airport, De. troit, advised local authorities today that international law prevents their sending planes to aid in the search. A