Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in ntemperature; gentle Southeast and South winds. Temperatur Highe: 91, at Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 he F benin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’ “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. 's Circulation, 93,560 No. 30,046. 5i"Gmee, Entered as second class matter ashington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1926—FORTY-SIX PAGES. NINE ARE KILLED .~ IN' DISTURBANGES INMEXIGAN TOWNS Woman Reported Beheaded, 22 Wounded—Boycott Depresses Trade. GREAT TfiONGS HEAR DEBATES ON CONFLICT Priest Who Accepted Regulations Excommunicated—Valuable Crown Reported Missing. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 5.—Pessi- mism regarding the religious conflict between the government and the Catholics was more pronounced today. Business depression, born of the economic boycott declared by Catho- lics in protest against the govern- ment’s religious regulations is grip- ping portions of the republic and caus- ing apprehension in other parts, in- cluding the capital. Peace feelers have proved futile and there is a lessening of hope even among the numerous volunteers who have been making efforts to pave the way for an understanding. Many Fatalities Reported. Newspaper dispatches from outlying points give belated reports of greater disturbances than have been recorded thus far. In a serious-clash at Guad- alajara, one of the strongest Catholic centers in the count reported to be dead and 14 wounded. At Torreon, the newspapers report, one is dead and eight are wounded; one person was killed at Cuernavaca and at Irapuato a woman, believed to have been a Protestant, is said to have been beheaded by a crowd frantically sxcited over the suspension of Catholic services. Apparently the capital is feeling the situation much less than some other parts of the republic, but many busi- ness men are filled with foreboding that a sharp pinch and bulliness slow- down are due here soon unless a set- tiement is reached. Small numbers of worshipers are seen in the Catholic churches, which has been the case every day since the withdrawal of the priests. The Cathedral continues closed pending completion of the inventory of its treasures for the government. Police Restrain Crowds. Police reserves with drgawn pistols restrained crowds in“tHe streets last night endeavoring to force their way into an already packed theater where Becretary of Agriculture Leon and a Catholic leader, Heirera Lasso, were debating the government's religious policy Public interest is intense ir these debates, which are heing held through- out the country between government supporters and Catholics. The au- dience in the theater here last night seemed about evenly divided in its ap- plause the kers. There ha : rioting during the debates thus far. The de- partment of education is broadcasting the principal debates. President Calles again has reiterated the intention of his government to “enforce supernatural punisiments” the Mexi- can constitutional provisions regard- ing religion, . Holds Message Personal. Gen. Calles replied to this e telegram trom Augusto B. President of Peru, requesting tablishment of harmony between the Mexican government and the Catholic church. “The Mexican executive said be would consider Leguia's telegram a personal expression and as not im- piying intervention by a foreign power in Mexico's purely domestic affairs. age to the Peruvian president added, “your ex- cellency has not received truthful s of the Mexican government's attitude regarding the Catholic clergy, &s otherwize your opinion would be unhesitatingly favorabie to the Mexi- 4 ©an government's viewpoint. he clergy, in accordance with its traditional conduct, which throughout history has unchained so many seri- ous calamities in Mexico, opposes evolution, which ent times has developed in Mexico, both social and political, Declares Attitude Impossible. “The clergy desires once again to prevent the development of this trans- formation, which is universally recog- nized. The clergy has made public a statement in rebellion against the constitutional laws of the country, an attitude which is unbearable not only in countries of the advanced social &nd political condition of Mexico, but dn any other country at present or in the past centurie A “If God is the supreme manifesta- tion of good, both in individuals and pations, I do not belfeve in this in- stance He has taken sides with those who for more than a century have boen responsible in Mexico for in- ternal calamities, sions and intrigue, as well as unrest in the conscience of the people.” Aside from Gen. Calles’ restate: toa .eguia, re-es ment of the governmental ntul.ude‘ there has been no change in the controversy between the government and the church during the past 24 hours. There are no late indications that a peaceful solution of the situa- tion is mear at hand unless they be found in the statement that the church will never give its approval fo any armed uprising against the government’s religious regulations. Seeks Peaceful Action. Mgr. Pascual Diaz, Bishop of Ta- basco and secretary of the National ¥ Catholic Episcopate, so informed the Associated Press. He said that the church would “go to Calvary”. if necessary in the present religious struggle. The bishop said uprisings were headed by ambitious politicians who pursued worldly gains. “The church only approves peace- ful and orderly social action like that undertaken by the League of Defense of Religious Liberty,” bishop, presumably referring to the league's declaration of an economic boycott. ‘The episcopate in a general siate- ment to the newspapers asser.~ that the episcopate will accept no seitle ment of the controversy except that it includes recognition of the rights of Catholic priests as Mexican citi- 4 Zens. Tt also announces the receipt v (Continued on Page 6, Column 1) - x persons are | without fearing interdicts or | international inva- | declared the Trunk From Russia Packed With Drugs Seized in New York By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 5.—A black steamer trunk that was unloaded with other baggage from the Mont- real express at the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Statlon of the New York Central Raflroad early today was selzed by Federal agents and found to contain $100,- 000 worth of narcotics, The trunk was sent out of Russia to Switzerland and thence to Mont- real, the Kederal agents believe. Two similar trunks are believed to be en route to New York and a watch was set at all the railroad terminals in the city. The total value of the contraband in the three trunks is thought to be about $3,000,000. Government agents had been working on the clue for two months; it was, said. K.OF C. HOLDS U.S. 1S AIDING CALLES Declare Embargo Assists Leaders—Urge Withdrawal of Recognition. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA. August 5.—The { Knights of Columbus in annual con: | vention today unanimously adopted a | statement protesting against the policy of President Calles in the re- {ligious situation in Mexico. | After stating that religious and civil { liberties have been denied in Mexico, | the statement asserts that “all this | system in Mexico has been created { under American auspices, sustained by ! American executive authorities, which, !in the first place. while refusing to recognize Lenine and Trotsky, have, {by executive order of recognition, ac- ! cepted Calles and Obregon, who are | the enthusiastic supporters of the Bolsheviki concept. of government.” | . “We further point to the signifi- | cance of the patronage bestowed upon | these military despots by the continu- !ance of such recognition,” the state- { ment continues, “and particularly by the discriminating favoritism shown to Calles by the continuance of the |embargo which makes the Calles ascendency possible.” | Holds Americans Insulted. ! The statement called the attention | of the -American_Government “to re- | mind it that the representatives of | Calles have insulted and degraded and | expelled American citizens, men and | women, under circumstances that are | abhorrent to our conception of con- | stitutional government.” “We warn our fellow | citizens,” the statement said, “that | they cannot endure at their very door- | step. with impunity, the Russianizing | of exico. | We call upon the President and the State Department to put an end to this ignominious contempt which | has been shown by Calles for Ameri- | cans’ appeal and to resolutely demand protection for American citizens and | that they be treated with the same | consideration and respect which is | shown to -Mexican citizens in this country.” Asks A. F. of L. Ald. The statement calls upon the Amer- fcan Federatlon of Labor and its { affilinted organizations to co-operate in { safeguarding not only American rights “but the hard won victories of labor itself to protect it from servile sub- | mission to despotic authorities.” “We hereby authorize our supreme [ board of directors to assess our mem- i bership to the extent of $1.000,000 for a campaign of education,” the state- ! ment said, “to the end that politics of Soviet Russia shall be eliminated from the philosophy of American life, and the ideals of iiberty of consclence and democratic freedom may extend to our afflicted fellow human being beyond the Rio Grande.’ . “To this end,’ the statement con- cluded, “we pledge the support and co-operation of 800,000 men who love God, who respect lawful authority, lana’ who, in the discharge of their duty, fear not the force of evil, either. jon earth or from hell.” | U.S. GUARDING AMERICANS. American | State Department Declares That All { Charges Are Referred to Envoy. | A reiteration that every precaution was being taken to safeguard the treaty rights of American nationals in Mexico was the only State Depart- | ment comment today on the statement { of the Knights of Columbus relating to | the Mexican religious situation. | The department has recelved hun- | dreds of communications from Catho- “l’i?d;rgamzatlons and -individuals in !cohne(’flon with the cl’mtrpven_\', some | calling attention to specific cases !n Which the rights -of Americans in Mexico were alleged to have heen in- fringed. These cases have been re- | ferred invariably to Ambassador Shet- { flela in Mexico City for investigation. Many of the more general commu- nications have urged action of some sort by the Washington Government. So far as known there has been no hint of any departure from the policy the Administration has pursued of confining its connection with the crisis to the protection of the treaty rights of American nationals. e PRESIDENT ENJOYS VISIT HOME THOUGH HE MISSES FATHER Lack of Z\ccustomed Greeting at Gate Casts Shadow Over Arrival. EXECUTIVE, UP EARLY, GREETS RISING SUN Fishing ‘Trip to Mountain Stream With Sargent Likely—Cook to Be Busy. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. aff Correspondent of The Star. PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt., August 5.—President and Mrs. Coolidge are at last back in their beloved Vermont hills; back in this tiny crossroads hamlet in which the former was born; back in the plain little story-and-a- half frame house which has been the home of the Coolidges for many years and in which the Executive and his wife have spent many happy Summers during their married life. Considering the sentiment these two have for this qulet, remote corner of the earth, it 1s little wonder they have appeared so happy and contented since their arrival here yesterday aft- ernoon. Returning to this old home- stead and these familiar hills that form Plymouth Notch is just like coming home to this couple. Home-Coming Different. However, their home-coming this time was not the same as in the Sum- mers gone by. Everything looked the same and the sun probably never shone brighter, but the familiar figure of Col. John Coolldge, the President’s father, was missing. He was not at his usual spot near the front gate to | the little' yard in front of the home to greet them upon their arrival. The colonel's greetings on these occasions | were not of the overjubilant, bubbling and back-smacking kind. His greet- ings were typical of the Coolidge's; typical of these parts—a handshake and & “howdy, Grace,” and “howdy, Calvin,” and then a kiss upon the cheek of each. It was evident that the President and his wife thought of this as they alighted from the big White House limousine and stood for a second look- ing up at the open doorway of the house. They, no doubt, thought of the colonel’s weicomes of the past as they, a few moments before arriving at the old home yesterday afternoon, st bowed in silence beside the graves of Col. Coolidge, who died last March, and their vounger son, Calvin, who died in Washington two years ago. The President and Mrs. Coolidge stopped at this little hillside burial ground on their way from the railroad station at Ludlow to Plymouth Notch. President Rises Fhrly. President Coolldge always has made it a practice to arise earlier than usual when he is visiting at his old home. He continued that practice to- day. He awoke to see the sun dap- pling Notch Hill, that lofty wooded crest that is the nearest of the“quar- tet of elevations that surround the hamlet. He lost little time dressing and appearing on thé lawn in front of the home. He did not take time to put on a cellar and necktie. He seemed anxious to get out in the open and to breathe deeply of the crisp morning air and to look at those fa- milian hills—friends of his boyhood. He had climbed those hills many times as a youngster. They say there are bear and deer and plenty of squirrels in them, but it is known for sure that the President never went hunting for them even during those glorious days of his youth. There is a stream that gallops along the foot of Notch Hill which Is said to abound in brook trout, and the President has fished in it many times, back in those days before he left home to seek his fortune as a lawyer. Of course those fishing expeditions were far different in many ways from these recent ones of the President at his camp in the Adirondack Moun- tains. In those old days he carried no multiplying reel with split bamboo rod, silken line and gaudy fly. Those were the days of the cork and sinker with & worm at one end and a hickory branch at the other. Records of the catches made in those days are in sharp contrast to the prominence given to the angling of this Summer. However, this made little difference in the mind of the President as he walked about the old place this morning. The memory of it all seemed dear to him and he gave every evidence of being glad to be back once more. May Go Fishing Again. The President has said nothing about it yet, but it is thought likely that he may once more go fishing in that mountain stream. It is proba- ble that he will go with Attorney General John G. Sargent, friend of the President from boyhood, who lives at Ludlow, 11 miles away. The At- torney General is fond of fishing and has quite a reputation as an angler. He joined *the President and Mrs. Coolidge at Burlington yesterday and made the remainder of the journey with them. Several times the President went to the doorway leading to the room that serves as a combination kitchen and dining room to determine how break- fast was coming along. His strolling about in the early morning air and the fumes of meat being prepared by Miss Aurora Pierce, who was house- " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Giant 100-Passenger Will Take By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. LONDON, August 5—Great Brit- ain’s new air liner, which ts said to be the largest and most perfect ship in the world, is now almost cz. pleted and will take the air early in 1927. ° The new airship, designed for ex- clusively commercial purposes, is 765 feet long and is propelled by six 400- horsepower motors. It is capable of carrying 100 passengers, a crew of 36 men, 20 tons cf luggage and 5 tons of mail. Outside the two 4-berth cabins there will be a lounge with large win- the travelers to British Air Liner Off for Australia in 1927 ing, and a dining room capable of seating 50 at a time, . Engineers say the airship will be able to average 70 miles an hour, but they expect that when the winds are favorable the speed will be easily in- creased to 120 miles an hour. As soon as its trial trip is com- pleted the new liner will be ‘put on the London-Bombay-Sydney route. It is expected the trip from London to Cairo will take 213 days, from London to Bombay 4 days and to Australia 7 da; Meteorological experts are now working on special wind charts, and the trips to India and Australia will be made in accordance with the di- rection of the winds in each oo | 1hg " dee! [TALY EVES BALKAN DISPUTE ANXIOUSLY | Ready to Help Rumania, Bul- garia and Jugoslavia Adjust Their Differences. By the Associated Press. ROME, August 5.—Italy views with intense interest and concern the re- ports of tension between Bulgaria and Jugoslavia, a government spokes- man sald today, and is prepared to do everything diplomatically possible to improve the situation, short of act- ing as a formal arbiter. The same attitude holds good for the relations between Bulgaria and the little entente (Rumania, Czecho- slovakia and Jugoslavia). Italy hav- n ided to support the granting ofia Bulgarian loan. Ital relations with Rumania are friendly, despite the absence of a treaty of amity such as this country has with the other mideuropean na- tions. Premier Averesco is coming to Rome to confer with Prémier Mus- solini next month. Regarding rumors that Italy would step in between Russia and Rumania in-the long standing dispute over the province-6f Bessarabia, the spokes- man -efphatically denied that Italy iptended to reopen the question or ‘that she had assumed any responsi- bility regarding it. BRITAIN WORKS FOR PEACE. Loan to Ald Refugees Expected to Relieve Bulgarian Tension. LONDON, August 5 (#).—The British government refuses to become alarmed at the receipt of reports of ultimatums flung back and forth be- tween Bulgarja and Jugoslavia in consequence of border ralds. Never- theless, the government is using its in- fluence in both Belgrade and Sofia to reduce the present tension. Negotiations are proceeding satis- tactorily here for a refugee loan for Bulgaria, and this alone is likely to have a quieting effect on Bulgaria, officlals believe. ~As for Jugoslavia, they say, she cannot fail to remem. ber the League of Nations' handling of a similar situation when Greece was fined for sending troops across the border into Bulgaria. SOFIA DEFENDS COURSE. Doing All Possible to Restrain Irreg- ulars, Says Bulgaria. SOFIA, Bulgaria, August 4 (P).— The Bulgarian government, replying to protests from Jugoslavia against raids by comitadji bands (irregulars) into the latter’s territory, states that Bulgarla is doing everything possible to compel the irregulars to gease such activities. The Bulgarian reply asks why her nelghbors, with their relatively ‘large standing armies compared with Bul- garia's limited force, are not allowed by treaties to police their frontiers themselves. Rumania has agreed to do this ‘and Bulgaria suggests that Jugoslavia do likewise. 26 DIE AS SHIP SIP—I—KS OFF NORTHERN BRAZIL 21 Were "Passengers on Coastwise Steamer, Which Went Down After Hitting Pontoon. By the Assoclated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, August 5.—Twenty-six persons were drowned last night when the coastwise steamer Bitar, carrying frelght and passengers between north Brazilfan ports, sank after colliding with a pontoon near the Bay Araras. o Reports received here from Para say that five of the drowned belonged to the crew and that the remainder were passengers. The survivors included the captain and his mate, who have arrived in Para. —_— 250 POISONED BY MILK. Dairyman Used Coyote Potion In- stead of Preservative. MEXICO CITY, August § (P —Two hundred and fifty persons were poi- soned, two of whom died, in conse- quence of a dairyman at Matehuala, State of San Luis Potosl, putting coy- ote poison instead of milk preserva- tive_in 'his day’s supply of milk. e ——— RUSSIA TO COLONIZE ICY WRANGEL ISLAND Land Once Considered Part of U. S. Selected as Soviet Capital in Arctic Regions. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. MOSCOW, August 5.—Wrangel Island, once considered part of Amer- ica, has been selected as the capital of all the Soviet islands in the Arctic Ocean. Through the unbroken Winter night radio will talk over the frozen polar wastes, hitherto disturbed only by bears, sea llons and wandering Tchuktchi tribesmen. A steamer now is being loaded at Viadivostock with portable houses, food, dogs and fish- ing, hunting and scientific instru- ments sufficient for three years. Several Russian families have vol- unteered to ploneer the island, whose last white settlers were Americans. The colony expects to trap as well as establish a meteorological station, to determine whether Wrangul Island, icebound for 10 months out of the year, is actvally an island or & por- tion of the mainland. (Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Daily News Co'y EDERLE TO TACKLE CHANNEL TONIGHT Attempt to Swim to England From France to Find Her in Tip-Top Form. BY JULIA HARPMAN. By Cable to The Star. CAPE GRIS-NEZ, France, August 5.—Weather permitting, Gertrude Ederle, world champion woman swimmer, will attempt to swim the English Channel from Cape Gris-Nez to Dover tomorrow morning, accord- ing to present plans. She will take the ‘water at 6:45 a.m. (12:45 am. East- ern standard time), to reap the bene- fit of a westering tide. The 19-year-old Staten Island, N. Y., butcher’s daughter, who turned professional in Florida last Winter, has been training at this small Artois fishing village for two months for this, her second attempt, to breast the 20 miles of rough, cold water that separates France from England. Last August 15 she made her first attempt, and although she failed and was taken from the water when six and one-half miles from Dover, sea- sick, but not exhausted, she had es- tablished a record for speed in chan- nel swimming. She had swum more than two-thirds of the distance, under highly unfavorable circumstances, in 8 hours and 46 minutes before her trainer, Jabez Wolff, ordered Ishak Helmy, the glant Egyptian swimmer, to go into the water from the tug ac- companying her and bring her out. Trainer Is Confident. When Helny touched her, she was disqualified in so far as that attempt was concerned. Miss Ederle was enraged by Wolft's action, declaring she was in no danger and could have gone on—how much further, not even she could say. This year Thomas William Burgess, the Englishman, second of the five men to swim the channel, has trained Trudie, and he is as comfident as is she of her success this time. Dependable upon how favorable the winds, tide and weather generally may be, Miss Ederle expects to negoti- ate the difficult crossing in from 12 to 141 hours. 3 sho*wlll be accompanied by a sea- going tug on board which will be her father, Henry Ederle; Helmy, possibly Mme. Jane Slon and other channel aspirants, who have been training at or near Cris Nez; a few other friends of the American girl, this correspond- ent and chaperone of the swimmer, and photographers, making the offi- clal picture record of her effort. Burgess and Trudie's sister, Mrs. Margaret Deuschle, also a swimmer, will go alongside Miss Ederle in a rowboat if the seas are not too high. A phonograph will be used to cheer the girl in the last stages of her swim. From time to time Mrs. Deuschle, Helmy and possibly others will enter the water, singly, and swim for a time beside Miss Ederle to lend her encouragement. ‘There is a little prayertul group of people here tonight known as “Trudie's Gang.” That includes Gert- rude’s father, sister, chaperone and of- Stlnl photographer, who have been jth her since she sailed from New York early lnh.hme;‘ ,Buun-‘. ‘t n;: ~hajred, rheumatic student ‘u;‘zdwma.sndunthsumfiy proprietor of her hotel, who ~R loved this sturdy on Page 3, Column 4.) g Staf. * (®) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. e 12 ARE ARRESTED INDRY ROUND-UP 77 Doctors, Druggists and Others Under Indictment in New York Campaign. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 5.—Eleven men and one woman from the Broad- way night club district were under arrest today and 77 doctors, druggists, drug corporation heads and whisky agents were under indictment, all for | dry law violations. The arrests were made late yester- day in ralds conducted by Federal agents and the police. and the in- dictments were returned by a Federal grand jury that had been investigat- ing alieged “prescription bootlegging’ for severai, months. The indictments charged conspiracy to violate thé na- tional prohibition act. Investigators who submitted evi- dence to the grand jury said that last year alone druggists in New York withdrew 500,000 gallons of whisky “over and above the quantity for which legal prescriptions had been issued.” More than 4,000,000 fake liquor prescriptions were said to have been issued also. B s DISTRICT TO SWELTER WITH RELIEF DENIED High Temperatures Will Continue, Probably for Some Days, Says Forecast. Higher temperatures were expected to prevail here today, with the heat wave rolling forward undiminished and no relief in sight. Forecaster Weightman expected the official thermograph at the Weather Bureau to register a peak of about 95 degrees before. the day was over, providing clouds do not interfere too much. Street temperatures should hover around the 100-degree mark. ‘The weather will continuve fair and warm tomorrow, and probably for some time after that, the forecaster declared, there being no marked dis- turbances looming in other parts of the country. The maximum temperature recorded officially yesterday was 91 degrees, between 4 and 6 p.m., but the Penn- sylvania kiosk showed a penk of 97. One heat prostration occurred yes- terday. John Murphy, 50 yearsold, an employe of the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing, was stricken at Ninth and L streets and was taken to Casualty Hospital. His condition to- day was reported as “favorable.” CAVE-IN KILLS MAN, INJURES TWO MORE Laborer Buried at Terra Cotta, An- other Held Half Hour Un- der Machine. One man was killed and two others were injured today in a cavein of a bank of earth under excavation on the premises of the National Brick Com- pany, Terra Cotta, D. Randolph Rector, colored laborer, of 754 Morton street, was suffocated un- der the great slide before he could be dug out by members of Chief Wat. son’s rescue squad. John Matthews, 41 years old, a resi dent of Terra Cotta, employed by the brick company, was. rescued with much difficulty after half an hour of frantic labors by the firemen. who were f¢ to use acetlyene torches to cut away ons of a steam loading machine imj ning the workman. Albert. Griffith, another employe, was only slightly: hurt. Matthews .did not lose conscious- ness, although he was pinned beneath a heavy piece of the excavating ma- chinery. He talked with his rescuers while they worked to release him. At Freedmen'’s Hospital physiclans found he was suffering from cuts and bruises with_possible internal injuries. The rescue squad, under Lieut. W. G. Parater, made a record run to the scene of the cave-in. " PITCHED BALL KILLS BOY. LINCOLN, Iit ‘Wallace, ball . Ban on Spooners Lifted by Chicago Park Police Force By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 5.—Spooners now may view the Summer moon in Lincoln Park unmindful of the passing bluecoat. The park board has lifted its ban and extended a welcome to all lovers to the park. “Spooning ishould be done in a wholesome atmosphere, where ro- mance comes naturally,” said Emil Johnson, “and where is a more natural place than among the beautiful trees in the park?” The South Park commissioners applauded the action, but West Side Park officers declared they would not permit spooning in parks under their jurisdiction. “Give the young people good ex- ercise and sports and they will forget about spooning,” sald Capt. Willlam Stocker of the West Side police. VIRGINIAN SHOOTS SELF N HOTEL HERE Holds Bible in One Hand While Firing Shot—Dies Shortly After. Holding a Bible in one hand and a 38-caliber Spanish revolver in the other, C. W. Poole, 50 years, owner of the Brunswick Motor Sales Co., of Lawrenceville, Va., shot himself in the head in a room on the third floor | of the Raleigh Hotel at 10:30 o'clock this morning, dying three hours later. The shot hastened the steps of a bellboy whom the man had summoned just prior to pulling the trigger. When Headquarters Detective Larry O'Dea and an interne from Emergency Hos- pital arrived they found him still un- consctous and rushed him to the hos- pital, where it was said that his death was a_matter of a short time. At Mr. Poole’s head lay a Bible, blood spattered, which had evidently fallen back over his head as he shot himself. It was opened to the 108th Psalm, one of the verses of which is: “Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.” Investigation of the effects in the room where Mr. Poole is said to have registered shortly before midnight re- vealed a series of letters which caused police to wonder at the premeditation of his act. In these letters, addressed to his wife and a number of business asso- clates, Mr. Poole named six friends whom he wishes to act as pallbearers, the time and place of his burial, check for $349 made payable to his wife and instructions for his wife not to go in mourning for him or re- marry. Inability to work was given as the cause for his act in a letter addressed to “Dear Sweet Wife and Our Little { Tots.” “I hate to leave you,” this letter continues, “but can see no other way, as you know I am not able to work and so I am going to leave this morn- ing. "I hope you will get along o.k., Hun, take care of the tots and pay Eugene Gilllan $250. My love to ewerybody at home. 1 am going to die with a good will.” At the conclusion of this letter he “I have my thumb on the trig- and signed it “C. W. Poole, at On one of the letters was pinned a $5 bill, with instructions for the police {to use it to send telegrams he had in- | structed to his wife and business as- sociates. Mrs. Poole is instructed in this let ter to hold funeral services in Ric mond at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon and to bury him between two relatives he designates, leaving room for her own grave. The pallbearers named are: P. L. Huse, H. H. Harrell, V. P. Richards, E. B. Gillian and G. E. Bar- han. A secnd letter addressed to Mrs. Poole, and sealed, bore the following on the envelope: “From your dead husband, who loves you,” and the in- structions, “Please keep with body and deliver to Mrs. C. W. Poole.” The po- lice did not open this letter. The other letters, including one to a business as- sociate making the “dying request” that the Brunswick agency to be turn- ed over to one of the men he names as pallbearer, were written on hotel stationery and lay open on a desk in his room. The open letter to his wife was timed 5:10 a.m. In the latter let- ter he expresses the wish that “I meet you in Heaven." BAN JOHNSON DENIES RETIREMENT RUMOR Declares Report He Will Have Foot Amputated and Quit Game Preposterous. . By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 5.—B. Ban John- sno, president- of the American League, was annoyed today by reports published in the East that he is con- templating resigning and submit to a foot amputation because of an in- fection that has troubled him for several months. President Johnson termed the report ‘preposterous.’” He is ig St. Luke's Hospital, but expects to be out any day. The in- fectioni is viel(ing to treatment. PROBE OF McPHERSON MYSTERY TO BE AIRED Findings in Writing, Says Foreman of Grand Jury, and .Op‘n Letter ‘Will Be Transmitted. By the Associated Press. * 1.OS ANGELES, Calif., August 5.— The views of both the Los Angel County grand jury and District Attor- ney Asa on the Aimee Semple McPherson ARREST OF SINGER ORDERED IN PROBE OF HALL-MILLS CASE Vestryman and Choir Mem- ber, Gorsline, Faces Charge, Nature of Which Is Secret. SECOND WARRANT OUT FOR MATERIAL WITNESS Mystery Woman Gives Facts That Will Accuse Four if Story Is Sustained. By the Assoctated Prees. JERSEY CITY, N. J., August 5.— State Senator Simpson, special prose- cutor in the revived Hall-Mills murder inquiry, today said he had ordered the arrest of Ralph V. M. Gorsline, vestryman and choir singer in the late Rev. Edward W. Hall's New Brunswick church. The nature of the charge was not made public by the prosecutor. Gors- line's whereabouts were not disclosed. Simpson also ordered State troopers to bning to his office for questioning four servants and former servants in the Hall home. Mrs. Louise Geist Riehl, whose hus- band caused a reopening of the in- vestigation by a statement he filed in his divorce suit, was one of the num- ber. Five Jersey City detectives were as- signed today to check up on the story of a new woman witness who yester- day told Mr. Simpson that she had seen a man and a woman bending over the bodies of the slain couple. This woman was quoted as telling the prosecutor that she would be able to identify the two. CASE DEVELOPS RAPIDLY. Woman Gives Prosecutor New Clues After 4-Year Silence. SOMERVILLE, N. J., August 5 (). —Warrants for two more arsrests in connection with the murder four years ago of the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were today In the hands of Assistant At torney General Simpson as a result of what he described as “an amazing story” by a new iwitness. One warrant charges a man fre- quently mentioned in the case with belng an accessory to the murder. Mr. Simpson said he would recom mend that this man be held without bail when arrested. Warrant Out for Negress. The other names Mrs. Nellie 1. Russell, a negress, as a material wit- ness. Informed of the warrant, she waited most of last night on her front porch, about three-quarters of a mile from the crab apple tree under which the bodies were found, to be arrested. Newspaper men watched the home of the man named in the warrant. | Mrs. Russell's testimony in the pre- vious investigation did much to dis- credit that of Mrs. Jane Gibson, who swore that she saw Mrs. Hall bending jover the two bodies. Mrs. Russell, aft- er a conversation with attorneys for the slain man's widow, now on bail charged with the murder, made af- fidavit that at the time in question Mrs. Gibson was at the Russell home discussing a stray dog. Detectives today were checking the statement made to Mr. Simpson ve: terday by the newly discovered wi ness, a middleaged married woman, who called at his office after being ad- vised by her husband to tell what she knew. Woman's Name Withheld. Mr. Simpson refused to disclose her name. but declared there would be four arrests within 48 hours if her testimony was verified. ‘She told me,” he said. “that she knew two men who were present when Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills were slain. She gave an accurate description of what happened on the night of the murder. 1 asked her why she had not told her story to the authorities before. Her reply was that she had been reading the newspapers at the time and she had concluded that any wit- ness who had any testimony favorable to the State was badgered by the de- tectives and made practically a de- fendant. Mr. Simpson declared he had ob- talned an affidavit from George Tot- ten, former Somerset County deteetive, stating ‘that Mrs. Hall changed her story of her movements on the morn- ing after the crime, in connection with the hour of her return to her home, after a discrepancy had been pointed out to her. FOURTH OF JULY PRANK CAUSES KILLING OF BOY Lad Dies From Officer's Bullet After Father Resented Beat- ing by Victim. By the Associated Press. CHANUTE, Kans.,, August -As the indirect result of playing a Fourth of July prank, Voicie Peercy 16, died here last night from a gun- shot wound inflicted by Roy Spickard, deputy sheriff, at Kimball, near here. At ‘a celebration Peercy threw a lighted fire cracker which lodged in the cuff of a bystander’s trousers, setting them afire. Two days later, the man met the boy and gave him a beating. Peercy returned with his father. Browd Peercy. The deputy sheriff arrested the father, but the boy ran 1o his motor car and obtained a pistol, Snickard sald. Spickard fired, strik- ing the boy in the abdomen. —_— CONFESSION IS REPORTED. Man Said to Admit Postal Rob- beries at Girl’s Request. NEWARK, N. J., Because his sweetheart wanted him to square himself with the law, Wil- liam Dixon, aged 25, today surren- dered to the postal authorities, who said he confessed to the robbery of two post offices in Virginia. Dixon, according to police, obtained $7,000 from the robberies in Roanoke and Willlamsburg. Cholera in Canton Army. (#).—An epi-