Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1926, Page 2

¥ 2 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D.:-C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926. } AT DEDICATION TRUL WELCONED B WAL SLSPETS New and Startling Evi- dence Will Be Given. By the Associated Press SOMERVILLE. N. J.. September 18.—Four persons charged with the | murder of Dr. Edward Wh Hall | and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were on rec- | ord today as welcoming a trial as an | oppertunity 1o prove their innocence. | although the State is looking forward to new and startling revelations | againet them. The State has abandoned poned efforts tna indiet for perjury three or four witnesses against the slain rector's widow and three of her male relatives. Orders for the April grand jury te assemhle Monday. last day of fts existence | avidence against the witnesses, have been rescinded However. special Prosecutor Al ander Simpson indicated that one the witnesses concerned. Ralph V. M Gorsline, former vestryman in Dr Hall's church, might he called hefore the September grand jury Tuesday or post Gorsline May “Come Clean.” Mr. Simpson declared he had evi- dence that Gorsline did not tell the jury that indicted the four dsfend- ants all he saw when he and Miss Catherine Rastall were in a car parked near the murder scene. Gors- line’s attorney said, after a confer ence with Mr. Simpaon. that he would advise the vestryman “to come ! . through clean.” ] cipals in observinee at Wisconsin aveny Episcopal Bishop of Wash Mre. Hall and her cousin Rt Meantime Mrs. Hall and her home started the establishment, W and two brothers indicted with her and (vl OF ADDITION TO CHURCH HOME FOR WOMEN ight), Mrs. W. C. Johnson, b street yesterday. Right Re conducted the exercises, and (left), Mrs. Cornelia Jon hairman’ of the lady board whose gift of f managers. e are prepared tn nppose SumMmMONINg — - of a jury from annther county to try them, although they say they wel- come trial. Mr. Simpson plane to ap- Pl Thursday for a foreign jury The four defendants wers arraisned | last evening and all pleaded not guilty. Mrs. Hall's bail of $15,000 was raisad to $40.000 and her cousin, | Henry de la B. Carpender. and | brothers Willie and Henry Stevens, | were held withou! hall. After raiganment they lssued a statement ! thanking their friends and well wish- ers and reasserting their innocence of the double murder. Glad of Opportunity. | “JWe welcome the epportunity that | has heen presented through the ac tion of the grand jury to have all| lawful evidence an hath sides put he- ! fore a court and a jury.” thev sald. “We look Mrmard‘ to a vr\all‘l‘v:";;:»::q Gl e e e e 2 ans of v : | elitlad Lo bating talent was developed last weel | ing our innocence.” ; v | Mr. Simpson has said that evidence [among the radio engineers and other Simplification Carried to High Point—500,000 May Visit New York Show. By Consnlidated Press. in his possession might induce Bim 14 | experts in charge of exhibits at the have the two Stevens hrothers face N p . ! A BT ey “hefore the athers. The | Radio World Fair in the new Madi- | State regards ita case againat the [son Square Garder. ; idow of the slain rectdr as eS8 | The fans like to “give 'em an argu- | serious than the case against the|ment.” One can walk down the line | other defendants. “From evidence in possession of the State—information that is confidential and which has not vel heen dis- closed—her position is Ajfferant from " the prosecutor | gazing in rapt admiration at any one | of the 300 exhibils, representing a 00,000 Investment, and his reverie suddenly be hroken by the into-| nations of a heavy and earnest dis { cussion hetween a radin expert and an enthusfastie fan Mayvhe the fan will he a Ind of 16, weighted down with ahout 14 hadges and six or seven pounds of radio lit erature under his arm, hut the col versation will he technically weight nevertheless, and the snzineer will MAKES TESTS TO PROVE SHADOWS CARRY RADIO Chicago Expert Holds Light and Other Waves Do Not Travel on “Ether."” Br the Associated Pre CHICAGO. Septambar 18. —An initial practical test which A. J. Musselman elaimed clearly supported his “opaque- ness theory™ of light, heat, radio and | electro-magnetie e transmission, | as opposed tn the “sther theory.” was conducted here last night at the Goy ernment air mall field Usual night-time recaption was reg ng why this or that innovation is go | ing to improve on the fan's method of | ether. Ask for New Features. | “What's new in radio?" is the ques- | tion on everyhody's lips. glance over the maze of ex Tanks as if the radin men a interested in putting out something new in the furniture line. The trend | in eahinets is toward the ronsole and | there are acores of them hased on every period of design known to the eallector. | Rut there fsn't a doubt that a ma jorlty of the nuestions are divected | “hatteryiess receiver.” There it {stered by a lew.frequency recelving (at the ‘ od w - | are many more batteryless seis on e set until it was fonded with leht by 350 R L are were n vear ago. the powerful fleld heacan, when the These sets have cor Ribnchmen Chicago enginesr painted ant to awhich plug |nmhn..hm-4ma;.l electric °f ohservars that thers was a|light socket in the home. They va Elr:i’:un{nn ki L enath. | In Drice from those that merely sup | e Teadings were from an audiebility | ply B hattery valiage and cost around meter. : £30 10 those that provide separate ad . an rec e ix | fustments for nents, plate and grid Musselman recently announced hix | fustmenta for flaments, plate and grid | helief that shadew fe the rea! conduc- tor of light, radio and other waves rather than the gensrally recegnized Vather.” He cited hetter radin recep tion at night as one indication. signers have heen successiil imi nating the Wum fram reproducin Nets Are Simplified. There have heen no radical changes, but radio sets have heen simplified, PRESIDENT LEAVES S WHITE PINE CAMP: el el b B DUE HERE TONIGHT drum-control system of precision tn ing has heen largely adopted. Th has heen made possible by the ar | T Q rangement of fwo er more variable __ (Continued fiom First Page condensera on one shaft and turned| phyaically hy his 1ifs in the open | ! h:‘:fl- Lt ankes e and returns to the Capital with a| 00 EF B ECl Mihe enzinee coat of tan imparted hv sun and |APRATLAS BT RIO0L ‘ S wind during his almast daily fshing {vibn w”,“‘ wp 1 kea ! trips on Osgond Lake ar in more ':“' servicing m easily he 1 the | tant parts of the mountains “";‘.’:“ metal shield protects the Instruments | has (re;r’\ the re M!"V:“‘ '1 : r:;- and wires from bheing broken in ship- | nate m most. a o "' | ment. ft developed o the point where he | TG 8 oS40 000 fans are expected | would frequently vemain on a straam | AEEE RN S i Al until darkne: ent him home to a | 50l han §1 000 worth of ner. xiness e condncted onz the Summer in camp. where she has, oy il oiigence of the enormous enjoved lma“l\n: h.-";h!nt:K v""m:"“ “‘:'.’I‘ { «ivides made hy radio as an industry. | the pet collies and visits witha o | tan Jon and her mother, Mrs. Elmyra | Goodhue of Neorthampton. Mass { om0 Nemimon, 3| PASSENGERS ON STEAMER| at the Summer White House. She SEE PAYMASTER ROBBED alse accompanied the President each Sunday to morning service the | | | | From Deck They Watch Bandits| First Preshyterian Chuich in nac Lake hut except for these short rides she did little motoring Made Few Auto Trips. Blackjack Company’s Employe, Relieving Him of $6.280. | Coslidge’s automobile trifa Br the Assnciated Press were confined largely ‘o his two | R iblic ‘appearances of the Summer.| PHILADELPHIA. September 1 engers on the deck The first was his visit of inspection | In full view of p: coastwise steamer, to the citizens’ military training camp|0f an ATUAIGE COMUTRE SEAMET: at Plattsburgh and the second the | 800 il nd Miners Transporta call he made on disabled veterans in [tion Co.. was blackjacked today and FIORRIN UL e e #02 | velieved of a hag containing $6.289 | g hy four masked men The l‘f‘!l_’(’ S(ZV.'I l|\a‘l'||\0-l “hr:\ The steamer Howard was drawing guarded W "‘,‘”' i ":‘h'.”,‘ :‘"‘r‘;l,,;"m linto dock at the time and the pas B et Uontl | dengars, as if fram the halcony of a e of “SL ito R AiS Sin theater, naked down upon the hoidun iave Nerore the BreattenyEparty | Kalkensteln, had st returned from e o il Gbe serview . i 8 DRBK RAUEpAEkel BRSO QRUR not break their camy i the Wouds on [ amae Fifzpatrick, walked Osgood Lake until Sunday. departing | po" s they were attacked by three that evening for their various posts of 5" (b, sieppad from behind a duty. The detail consists of 50 picked | ety " cur One of them covered the | men, many of whom are stationed on |, <n with a revolver while ather rob. | the presidential vacht Mayflower Had Boats for Fishing. Despite their remoteness from movies and entertainment. the marines have enjoved life in the mountains Oscar Otis, caretaker of White }’;‘m? Camp, placed several hoals their dlxpennl?lnd they spent many of their | Opera Star Shaken Up. Trainmen hours off duty fishing in the lake that Hurt by Open-Switch Accident. offered the same sport to the Com-| mander-in-chief | HARVARD. Ark.. September 18 (&) | hers seized the bag and ran to an au | tomebile in which a fourth man was 1sitting and escaped. MARION TALLEY IN CRASH. Bach evening a detachment was' __\arion Talley. grand opera star. taken by truck to Saranac Lake on|was slightly shaken up early today | “Iiberty,” while the entire encamp- when the fast Frisco passenger train. ment at various times made a motor | No. 806, known as the Memphian. run- | excursion to Plattaburgh and Ausable | ning hetween Memphis and St. Louis, Chasm, a trip of more than 100 miles. ' ran into an open ch here. i No serious \violations of discipline The fireman and engineer were in were reportcd during the entire Sum. | jured severely The engine crashed mer, e detail has heen under com-|into a boxcar and was turned around mand of Lteut. Frederick E. Stack. by the impact. No eT left the track. | starting signal, and never T'wo Women to Race Today on Potomac In Speedboat Test By the Asmociated Press. When the Knglish Channel was conquered by a woman it was thought there was nothing left for the fair sex to accomplish in the way of sporting endeavor. but they have found a hrand-new fleld. Today, out on the broad Potomac, two married women will spin thelr motors and shoot away in a nine- mile speed hoat contest hetween themselves, the first of its kind, and arranged as an added feature to the concluding day's racing in Wash. fngton’s first natlonal motor hoat regatta. Mrs. Delphine Cromwell, daugh- ter of the late Horace . Dodge, and Mrs. Willilam J. Connors of Ruffalo, wife of a publisher of that city, will hattle it out with “Miss Syndicate” and *Miss Okeechobee,"” sleek hydroplane: CIGARETTE IV RULES AS FAVORITE TODAY IN REGATTA FINALS First (Continued from Page) were made. As the spectator hoats emingly he on the defensive. explain- | pyoke their perfect line formation and | journeyed home, the Horace, a Dodga speedhoat, shot in and out. civeling enticing words and music out of the | ihe slow-moving craft like a porpoise. | Clgarette 1V Winner. ‘The outstanding event of the day rar | WAR the first heat for the President's | eoi RS BES tte I\, at an aver- miles per hour for This hoat, ‘owned (#1p, won by Cigar age speed of 54 the 15-mlle course. and driven hy L. Gordon Hamersley of the Columhia Yacht Club, New York, is constructed of duraluminum. A metal composiiion nsed extensively in aircraft construction. i< sleek | slivercolored hody, streamtined down a to a point at the atern, shot out ahes of {18 competitors as the one.poun: ahoard the Apache hoomed ot once was in danger from Miss Syndicafn, on Hovace F. Dodge, fr., and Green- owned and driven hy . Townsend, which won the « Cup race at Manhasset Ray, Long Tsland, last month. Recause of her showing vesterday Cigarette atood ax a favorite in the second heat and finals today for the $5.000 gold cup sponsored by the Nation's Executive and donated hy the Corinthian Cluh. Aside from the feature race in which Hammersley drove hix $80,000 duralu- minum racer to victory, perhaps the grentest thrills for the spactators were furnjshed by the competitors in the Potdmac ~ River championship event and the free-forall for members of clubs in the Chesapeake-Potomac xec- tion of the American Power Roat As- socintion, The Potomac River title event, de signed for the craft that compete to- day in the Secretary of the Navy cup drew only two starters, and one Mise Okechnhee, piloted hy J. Connors of the BRuffale Launch Clib, failed to cateh the start inz signal. This gave an advantage of nearly a quarter of a lap to Horace Dodge. driver of Horace. Makes a Game Fight. The Detroit millionaire was nearing | the first turning buoy hefore Mrs. Connors pussed the enue cutter \pache, serving as the committee heat, and opened up her engine for what appeared Lo he a futile chase. She made a game fight for every inch of the 15-mile run and gained on the fiving Detroiter on each of the mile and-a-half straightaways. On the turns, hewever, she found it inipos. sible to hold her ecraft close to the last of the thres huovs, and was trail ing by several hundred yards at the finish. The final event of the day. the free. for-all. for Chesapeake and Potomac hoate. was the only neck-and-neck af- fair that developed. . Battenfleld o the Eastern Power Roat Club en- tered his Gray Bat IT1 against Rill Rigelow's Palm Beach Days and 1. W Orme's Miss Lizzie. Miss Lizzie got a poor start and was left hehind, hut the other two staved together from start to finish, Paim Reach Days pull- ing out in front in the final stretch to win by lees than a yard. All of the contests’ vesterday. sno matter what the speed, were spectaci lar. The loud blasts fram the power- ful enzines, the rolling wakes and the clouds of spray, coupled with the high degree of maneuverahility, at tracted unlimited attention. In fact the speed hoats that plaved about the conrse prior to the start and hetween events drew just as much attention as the races themselves. fumes of hurned castor oil, the aroma f the automobile speedway floated to he spectators as another symhol of nower, speed and ‘daring. Then the : Miss Wachington Featured. S Miss Beard. and by no means eliminated from the possihilities of honors in the finals for the 151 clase today. was the feature of the two heats for that group. Mr. Beard drove a hoat that was hullt down te the water's adge and xkidded. slipped and slid all over the river. Beard worked harder any one in the race keeping his craft on a straight course and because of its tendency tn go off at all angles any minute the pilot probably cov. ered twice as much distance as the other entries. Neverthelese, his boat drew more attention than the others ? the | Washington, piloted by J. ¢ | than | |and hecause of the pilot's gameness |and determination not to let the boat Siip out of his fingers he was the thoice of the spectators for vietory. SCORES BY WIN NERS. Points Cited for Boats in Yesterday's Events. By taking the first heat of the President's Cup race vesterday in Clgarette 1V, 1. Gordon Hammersley earned 400 points toward winning the 000 gold trophy offered as first P in the event for which the regatta has heen named. Under the American Power Roat Association | system " of scoring, Horace Dodge's | Mixs Syndicate rveceives 361 points |and Greenwich Folly, driven to third honors hy George H. Townsend, s awarded 324. ach of the athers to finish also received a point score. Horace re- ceived 289 points, Sara De Sata, Solar Plexus Palm Reach Days, 196, and Nui 189, e, At the cloge of the second and third heats today the points will he totaled and the hoat with the highest eount |declaved the winner. Under this sys. tam it i= possible for a racer to carry the cup without having finished first in any of the heats. Miss Spitfire VI, winner of the firsr two heats of the 15l-class hydroplane event. {s way ahead of e other hoatg of her division and could finish In second or third' place today and still win the prize. Har total for the first day's racing iz 800 noints. Miss—Westchester 11, which was third in the opening heat of & miles and forged inte second place in ihe next heat when Misx Spit- fire V' developed engine trouble, h | | {A%5. Misx Washington. the only Dis- | trict en: 100k a third and fourth to get 613 points. Ta Palina. from Baltimore, has 314, and Baby Star, River Yacht Cluh at St Michael's, Md.. is in fifth place with 152 | In the Riscayne Rabies' svent, the |other of the three heing run in eals, 20, driven hy H. Paul rigk of Miami, Fla. is in the lead with 800 poiniz, A nd or third |in the final today will win the prize for No. 20°s pilot, 3 | ITALO-RUMANIAN PACT | HELD PEACE PROMOTER Treaty Considered as Strengthen- | ing Friendly Relations Between the Two Countries. | | BY the Associated Prese. | ROME, September 18—The new | Italo-Rumanian treaty published here | 18 considered by the newspapers as not alone strengthening. friendly re- [lations between the two countries, but as making closer the ties uniting Italy | [to the little entente, tn which Ru- | mania_ helongs. | Ttaly and Rumanin agree to col- lahorate for the maintenance of inter. national order. In case the twe coun- tries consider that their interests are may he menaced they hind them selves to act in concert on the meas. | ures to he taken. | Arbitration is to he resorted to on all questions upon which the contract- |ing parties cannot agree. The treaty 18 to run for five vear: to the treaty provides for the appoint- ment of a mixed commission to son- {clude a commercial treaty. |SAILBOAT TAKES 7 AWAY FROM “AMERICA’S GRIND” Native Gerwvuln.r i‘n;ly and Boy Bound for Tahiti in Search of Peace and Quiet. By the Aseaeiated Tross, PORTLAND, Ovreg. eptember 18, [ In a search far peace and quiet and an attempt to free themselves from he eternal gyind of America's civ- lization.” Paul Handloss, his wife and their four children. in the company of another Portlander, Terry Rapp, 17. were dropping down the Columba River fo the sea today in their 40- foot sailboat Pearl H.. hound for Tahiti, in the South Seas. They left Portland vesterday with two menths’ provisions aboard. | Tn a haven of the Southern Pacific | Handloss savs he will continue his studies of art and literature begun In | Germany. “There we can settls down.” he said: “there we can think. 1 can study once more my art and literature and once more I can be a free man." The little eraft has one sail and no | motor. With that oue sail Handlo | will pilot | Oregon coast and in a days ex- pects to turn in at San Franeiseo for | his last gond-by America. From | then on. he savs, only fate can guide | their destiny. | PRINTERS WILL VOTE. ORADO SPRINGS. September Delegates to the International Typagraphical Union convention here vesteMay decided to conduct a refer- | endum among members of the union on the question of arbitration_agree- ments with the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association. The decision was reached after sev- {eral hours of heated argument, dur- ing which one dejegate was forcibly ejected from the convention hall It was decided to retain the maile: division as a separale unit of the union, his vessel south along the few o | col 15 ). A protocol | EPISCOPAL HOME | ADDITION OPENEB Residence for Women Now Prqvides Room for 15—Bishop Officiates. | Diocesan With simple but Impressive services Rishop James E. Freeman of the Eplscopal diocese of Washington dedi- cated the ten-room, two-story addition to the FEpiscopal Church Home for Women, on the northeast corner of Wisconsin avenue and Macomb street. vesterday afternoon. Several hundred peaple, representing many churches | in the Washington diocese, attended | the ceremony. Bishop Freeman declared the dedi- cation of the addition furnished one of the most Interesting occasions in the history of the diocese and ane of the “most Christlike servic 0 rejoice in the accomplishments thu far in the development of this work he sald. pointing out that the addition to the home has been added only two vears after the dedication of the first bullding. He pointed out that the home i still Inadequate in size, but expressed the opinion that the rapid progress made ! in the development of the home ix a ready indication that many more huildings are apt to be added to it in the near future. Rector and Chaplain Ald. Bishop Freeman emphasized that the home ir not an “Institution.” but A home where guests are to stay and he lonked after as they would be in any private home. Rev. Charles T. Warner, rector of St. Alban's, and Rev. Willlam Blake, chaplain of the home, assisted with the services. Specfal music was furnished by a fon of the United States Marine Band. Refreshments were served fol- lowing the* ceremony by members of the lady hoard of managers. The new addition, which furnishes accommodations for nine more guests. was opened for occupancy September 1. It contains nine hedrooms and a reception room and in connected with | the original bullding by a covered porch. The old huilding. which was formally dedicated in 1924, contains aix hedrooms, a dining room. a recep- | tion room and a kitchen. The adds | tion was purchased for the sum of $22.500 and will he completely paid | for as soon as provisions have heen made by the lady hoard of managers and the hoard of governors for Wiping | out a mortgage of $15.000 now on the | huilding. The original home huflding | was the gift of Mrs. Cornelia Jones. | Mrs, Johnson Chatrman. | Mrs. Willlam Channihg Johnson. chairman of the lady board of man- agers, was In charge of arrangements for vesterday's exercises. She an- nounced following the dadication thats plans were discussed at a meeting of | the board yesterday morning for wiping out the $15.000 mortgage. It is to he done, Mrs. Johnson explain- ed. through subscriptions. —special henefit entertainments and other | means. She made an earnest appeal to all those interested to lend aid. | Other officers of the lady hoard of | managers are Mrs. Aleeda Lamond, first vice president: Mrs. Elvans Ma | field. second vice president: Mrs. V | W, Owens. treasurer: Mrs. E. R, Todd, sorresponding secretary: Mrs. Thomas Rright, recording secretary; Mrs. Nina Chinn Walker, historian: Mrs. Louls Marcey, admissions chairman. and Mre. William D, Hellen, chairman of The hoard rep- in | the house committee, resents various Fpiscopal churche: the Washington diocese. | The hoard of governors of the home | lis composed of the following: Judge George R. Wales, chalrman; Dr. A, T. Gregory, Dr. W, & Rowen, D i, W Glazebrook, Charles T. Wil- | son. Mrs. Willlam Channing Johnson, | Mrs. Arthur Rurt, Mrs. F. . Abhott, | ! Vietor Deyber, William H. Hellen, €. R. Keferstein, R. W. PRolling. Dr. Marcus Benjamin and H. D. Amiss. Rigshop Fresman is chairman ex- officio of the hoard. MOTORIST WHO CRUSHED POLICEMAN'S HAT FREED| | Straw, Victim of 16th, Was Run | Over on Purpose, Toland Charged, But W. T. Duke Denied It. A charge of reckless driving pre- ferred against William Thomas Duke, | {1538 Fasi Capitol street, hy Park Po- | iliceman P. R. Toland, after Duke's | had run over and flattened the | = straw hat, which had hlown | the street, was quashed by Corp ation Counsel Walter L. Fowler of | Trac Court vesterday afternoon Duke and the officer went together | to the tenth precinct station after the | incident on New Hampshire avenue near Park road, Thursday, the day after September 14. “You deliberately ran over my hat charged Toland, who was in “civies. as he drove his machine near the' other and ordered Duke to the curb, | according to Duke's testimony. “I didn't even see it,” Duke replied. whereupon, he said, the officer declar- ed he had heen driving “too close to the curb” and arrested him. Duke's offer fo pay for the hat was refected by Toland, it was added. At the station Toland demanded that Duke post $50 collateral for appear- ance at Trafle Court, hut Duke was released without making any deposit. After hearing the evidence. Fowler sald. a civil suit was the only action that could he taken. TWO STATES'FIGHT * SURGING RIVERS TO SAVE GRAIN CROPS | (Continued from First Page.) {inundated, and the town lost electric light and power when waters flooded the utilities plant. Railroads througheut the district | | were inundated, and a freight train was derailed last night near Hospers | when it ran into a stretch of ‘washed- lout track. | Only general estimates, which run [ well Into the millions, ar vailahle on | the extent of the damage to the Mid- west's erops from two weeks' down- | pour. Loss Estimate Is High. ! Corn is suffering from hoth actual |damage from wind and rain and tarded developmegt. Much small; grain standing in fields has heen | marked off the hooks. At Jacksonville it was estimated | | that the storms have cost three neigh- | ! boring Tllinois counties more than | $2.000,000. There was promise of brief relief today in fair and warmer weather forecasts over most of the Midwest, but more rain and dropping tempera. tures were generally predicted for the week end. b -— __ Eight thousand silver fox pelts, some valued as high a= $500, were sold in Canada in a.recent month. | Societe | described Smith as a man who had | NEW JAIL ADDITION CLAIM OF MERTON | DECLARED SPEEDED Auditor Says Three Hours Used for 0. K., When Usual Cases Required Weeks. Bs the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 18—Un- usual speed in passing upon a $7.000,000 claim of German stock | owners has been stressed by the Gov- ernment in its latest testimony against Harry M. Daugherty and | Thomas W. Miller, accused of sharing in A $441.000 fee for expediting the | clalm. Thelr trial will be resumed Monduy in the Federal Cou Richard W. Merton, German cop- per magnate, testified early in the week that he paid the late John T. King., formerly Republican natlonal committeeman from Connecticut, $441.000 for quick action on this claim. It was filed in behalf of the Suisse Pour Valeurs des controlled by the Merton Metausx, family. Charles W. Green, who was head auditor under Miller as alien property custodian, vesterday testified he took 3 hours to audit the claim, filed Sep- tember 20, 1921. Usually it took two to three weeks hefore a clalm came up for audit, he said. He did not re- call, he declared, by whose order this particular claim was speeded through. Daugherty Urged Approval. A letter transmitting the claim to Daugherty. signed by Miller and dated September 21. was put into evidence. The letter recommended approval. Miller was informed September 24 that the claim had heen allowed in a telegram which forms part of the | evidence. Three days after th® claim left Miller's office it was signed in Jaugherty’s office by his samistant, Guy D. Goff, now United States Sen- ator from West Virginia. Daugherty, Miller and Jess Smith, Daugher right-hand-man” came to New York April 18, or 19, 1921, ft in known by travel vouchers intro- duced yesterday. Merton had testi- fied that he opened negotlations with King some time in April. A desk pad of King's showing he had an appointment with Smith on April 19 has been placed in evidence. Says Smith Was Spokesman. ! Vouchers for the New York trip were xubmitted by Smith and ex plained as “on account of confidential conterences with the Attorney Gen. eral.” the Government showed. They were certified by Daugherty. ) The Government also attempted to show the relationship hetween Smith | and Daugherty. Louis J. Bafley, who | was chief clerk in the Hureau of In- vestigation, Depariment of Justice. | the run of the department during | Daughe regime. He aald| Daugherty delegated Smith as his spokeeman and that Smith was in- n tfal in the retention, dismissal and reward of bureau agents. | BIDS MAY BE ASKED Lowest Offer for Dormitory Section Is $14,700 More Than Available Fund. With the lowest bid for the con struction of the dormitory addition to the District jail $14,700 in excess of the funds available for the project. District officials indicated today that it may he necessary to readvertise | for bids and therehy delay the work. Sealed proposals for erection of the | new wing. which will contain 200 heds, were opened yesterday afternoon af the District Building. George F. Wyne, local contractor, quoted the lowest price, $382,700. The amount avail- | ahle is $268.000. Recause the specifications provided for altcrnative propositions that will permit the work to be trimmed, Dis- triet officlals hope that it will he pos. | xible to make the chang: | An_appropriation of $300.000 was asked for the jail addition, hut Con- gress allowed $275.000. Approximate. | Iy $7,000 already hax heen spent in| the preparation of the plans. An investigation conducted by The Star was responsible for obtaining the additional jail facilities. MINE STRIKE COSTS BRITAIN 2 BILLIONS; PEACE PLAN DOOMED (Continued from First Page.) resume negotiations on a national basis have heen rejected hy the owners, The general labor view is that the Prime Minister has bowed to the own- ers and suggested a scheme which the miners can never accept. (Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Dai PEACE PROSPECTS DIM. News Co.) No Nearer Than 20 Weeks Ago, Says % Lahor Leader. LONDON, September 18 (). weems slight prospects of peace result- ing from Premier Baldwin's offer to the minera last night. He maid that if they went hack te work thev might have their demands—a nation-wide | Agreement—arcepted in effect, if not in word. The premier told the miners that| the government would back them in obtaining what they were seeking If they would only admit economic facts and return to the mines. He sald he had endeavored to get the mine own- ers into a conference on a national agreement covering hours and wages but had failed. A.J. Cook, secretary for the Miners’ Federation. after the government's announcement. said thal peace was no nearer than it was 20 weeks ago. The Lahorite Herald savs today that the government's plan connotes ah ject surrender hy the miners to the mine owners: that it runs counter Vni Chancellor of the Exchequer Church 1Il's pledged word, and that it excludes the possibility of national negotiations or a national agreement, heing hased bn district settlements. to which the miners are inflexibly opposed. Views expressed in other labor quarters are considered equally discovraging. It is contended elsewhere, however, that the government plan does not who can vet make counter proposals. With the exception of Mr. Cook. none of the other miners' leaders has com mented on the offer, and the assump- tion is that t are digesting it pri paratory to its discussion at a meet- ing of the executives of the Miners' Federation Monday. It Is net expect- ed that the executives will take any definite stand without consulting the! miners themselves. Rum Ship Survivor Can’t Tell Fate of Cargo and Crew By the Associated Press. SA DIEGO, Calif., September 18.—The Canadian schooner Marion G. Douglas, “Fiving Dutchman, of southern Callfornia’s rum row, has been towed into this port carrying a sole survivor, whose story has only deepened ‘the mystery sur- rounding the disappearance of the ship's_ crew and cargoe Al Jewel, the surviver, told off® cers he was shanghaied from San Pedro and placed on hoard the de- serted ship as caretaker eight days ago. Customs officers said the ship had carried a cargo of of whisky and a crew CRASH OF TROLLEY AND TRUCK HURTS 3 Man Near Death After Other Collision—Car Knocks Boy Off Bicycle. Several persons were injured in trafMc late vesterday afternoon and evening, One victim s believed to have but slight chance of recAvery. Suffering fracture of the skull and Jaw. lacerations and sev bruises, Ed d Hall, ears old, of 1440 Relmont street, was taken to Emer- gency Hospital last night after a collision between the automobile of Mrs. Kate Coulter, 33. of 900 G street southwest, with whom he was riding. and a car operated by Frank | Kitehen, 32, of 640 New York avenue. | Hall's condition was reported today 1o _be serious. Mrs. Coulter recelved lacerations and bruises, hut’ was not Seriously hurt. Mrs. Marie Kitchen, wife of the driver of the second machine. suffered fracture of her left leg and bruises. The crash occurred at Tenth and F streets southwest, Trolley Crash Near Caplitol. Five persons were injured yester- day when a heavy Army truck cel- lided with a street car of the Capital Traction Co. in front of 221 FI street, shattering windows in strest car and badly damaging the ik was but slightly e Plitt, 70 vears old, stres! northeast: \Winston L, of 20, F street, and James Ligon, colored, of 7 Twelfth Btreet, passengers on the street car. were treated for cuts and bruises. Motorman Lucius Balderson was the | most seriously injured, suffering deep leute and hriises. nductor M. L. Galligher was slightly hurt. Pvt. Belmar A. Durrls, who was operating the Army truck, which was assigned to the depot at Twentieth and Btreets, escaped inju iffers Concussl olored, Boy § Griffith, harle: 17, G street, was knocked from his hicycle of 2328 when he was In_collision with a_car operated by Willlam Facho, 30 Forty-first street, vesterday at Twen- ty-fArst and L. sireets. Grifith suf- fered concnssion of the brain. He was taken o Emergency Hospitai. Cars operated by Preston King. 24, of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Marie Cornell, 20, of 6618 Fifth street, collided at Third and E streets, injuring Rufus Ebbert. 35, of Miami, who was riding with King. He was removed to Naval Hospital and treated for bruises and shock. His condition was said not to he serions. William Smith, colored, 58~nf 302 H atreet sonthwest, was knocked down hy a strest car of the Capital Trac- tion Co. at Fourteenth strest and New York avenue vesterday. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. SCHNEIDER AIR RACES DELAYED TO NOV. 11 Meet Postponed to Await Arrival of Materials for Italian Planes. By the Associated Press The Schneider Aviation Cup races, which were to have heen held at Nor. folk during the week of October 24, have heen postponed until Novem: ber 11, Postponement Is understood to have heen agreed upor owing te delay im delivery of certai) materials for the Italian’ planes entered. The naviga ility races, during which the planes are tested fn landing. rough-water en Aurance, and in other ways will start November 9. Navy officials, Norfolk interests the contest committee of the Nati Aeronautic Association participated in conferences which led to the post- ponement. and nal ISAAC C. FO STER DIES. Succumbs Suddenly at Vienna at the Age of 55. teh 1o The Star. A. Va. September 18 Isaac C. Foster. 55 vears old. died suddenly here Thursday evening. He had for the last several years heen engaged in technical legal work in the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the Treasury Department. During the World War Mr. Foster was one of the “feur-minuts speakers,” and was engaged in many war activitie: Mr. Foster was a member of the Masonic order. the Tonic and Trowel Clubs and the Order of Maccahees. He was a memher of the Virginia Society, of which he was vice presi-| dent in 1924 and 1925, Funeral services will ed at The Evergreens. the home of his sister-in-law. in Vienna, at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. Interment he conduct- will he in the Ebenezer (‘emetery in Loudoun County. Mr. Foster iz sur- vived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Foster, and one siste; Carroll Coun ECONOMIC ACCORD REACHED BY BRIAND WITH STRESEMANN (Continued from First b Page.) lations with all peoples that will p mit France to go aheud with her own affairs without apprehension as to the future.” While refusing to zive an indication of the subjects he dizcussed with Dr. Stresemann,-M. Briand intimated that he was trying to bring abeut with Germany an entente such as Foreign Minister Deicasse arranged with Eng- land after the Fashoda affair in 1899, settlinz all the questions hetween them at the same time Refore resuming his active duties at the foreign office, M. Briand plans to take a short sea voyage. He will probably see Dr. Stresemann again hefore the December mesting of the League of Nations Council, ’ NS KDY FRE ON BOND OF S50 ‘Mrs. McPherson’s Arrest De- | layed by lliness—Ormiston | . ‘ Being Sought. | By the Associated Press. JO8 ANGELES, September 1% With Mre. Kennedy, mother of Almee Semple McPherson under arrest on charges of criminal conspiracy and preparing false evidence, and the evangelint's pearance in answer tn similar char; assured, District At- torney Asa Keves today moved to bring ahout the apprehension of Ken- neth G. Ormiston. former Angelus Temple radio operator, and named as a codefendant in complaints issued hers terday. The arrest of Mrs. McPherson has heen deferred owing to her physical condition. Rhe was reported im proved last night. but still confined to her hed with an infection of her nose, The firat arrest in the McPherson case came vesterday when Mrs. K nedy was served with a hench ware rant. Accompanied by her attorne: she appeared for arralgnment Munieipal Court and was released oy $2.500 bond. At the same time a des posit of 500 was made with the |court to guarantee the appearance of | Mrs. McPherson. Ormiston’s Surrender Promised. Search for Ormiston was imme diately taken up. His attorney, S. Hahn. previously announced that the radio man. said to he the key witness in the salieged kidnapping hoax, would surrender as soon As a complaint was issied against him Hahn's declaration that immunitv would he given his client was vigor ously denied vesterday by Keves. who announced that the radio man 1 be brought to trial and proseented mpon the same footing as others in the case, Besides Mrs. McPherson, her moth er and Ormiston, four others were named in a sheaf of felony complainis {ssued. The fourth was raine Wisemann. perpetrator of the “Miss She was taken into custody several days ago, following her sensational confeasion that she had heen hired and financed by the Angelus Temple pastor to produce false evidence to substantiate the kidnaping stor: The other alleged conspirators wers named in_ complaints as Jehn Doe. Richard Roe and Sarah Mae, and their fdentity fs heing kept secret When arralgned Mrs. Kenneds pleaded not guflty. Her preliminars hearing was set for Septemher °7 Mrs. McPherson's hearing was ten tatively set for the same date. Keves last night sadd that he was satisfled with the exmation of Sn ( perior Judge Carlos Hardy of his con nection with the MePherson case. Judge Hardy was called hefore the prosecutor yesterday for questioning regarding letters sald to have heen written by him to R. A. MeKinley, Wind Long Reach attorner. recently killad fn an antomoblle accident. Me Kinley figured in the McPhersan case when he offered to prodice “Stave And “Roke.” the evangelist's allegad abduetors. Mrs. McPherson last night iseusd a statement declaring she “had he pursued like an animal.” Appealing to the public to take an impartial attitude, she compared the thres in tigations of the case to a hunt “with the hounds and their drij jaws now closing on their pr MRS. ORMISTON ASKS TRUTH. Mother Says She Ca Operata § FRANCISCO, (®).—In an Interview in the Fx- aminer, Mrs, W, €. Ormistan, mother of Kenneth G. Ormistan, declared! <he was “tired of all this deception. | and called upen her son tn tell the, | authorities the truth concerning hin Part in the Aimee Semple MePheraon ‘dmp.» ance SAN % September O With this great mass of evidence showing that Mra. MePhersan was not kidnaped, with the warranis issned for her arvest. there is na nes | for even a mother ta fry tn parsnade | herself “that the atory tald hy her | son fa i Mre. Ormiston said “We tried to bring him up ax a Gnd fearing, righteous man. and. wntil he met Mrs, McPherson thers was nothing to mar eur fov and enur pride in him. | “Since then there has heen nathing | but trouble. When Kenneth sent his | letters to the district attarney, wa were hurt, for in them aur son con | tessed & wrong. but we hellaved them Now we cannot. There is 100 mneh on the other side. He muai come forward and tell the truth. and clean up this mess which has kept e in constant misery since his name first was hrought inte the investigatian ™ :mvm VOTED APPROVAL | BY 6.989.043 IN SPAIN About Half of Eligible Persons Took Part in Plebiscite to Test Popularity. By the Associated P MADRID, September 18, Ofcial figures were given out foday on the results of the recent plebscite 1o de termine the popularity of the Prima de Rivera regime. The total popula- tion of the country ix given as 21 389842, of which 13.195.888 persana are over 18, the qualified vating age in the plehiseite. The nimher of votes cast was £.989,043 The above figures indicate that ahout half the eligihle vaters ax | presed approval of the Prima de R vera government. The prime condf tion of ‘the plebiscite was that all votes east favored the governmant Alsapproval was to he shown hy re. maining away from the palls. U. S. NEEDS APPRENTICES Embryo Machinists for Navy Yard Service Must Be 16 Years Old. The Ciyil Service Commission to- day announced an open competitive examination for apprentices fmechani cal trades) to fill vacancies in the navy vard service at Annapolis, Md.: Indian Head, Md.: Norfolk, Va., and Washington, D. (. There in need for apprentices in a numher of the mechanical trades, especially for machinists in the Wash ington Navy Vard. The entrance salary for these apprentices ia $2 a day. Applicants must have reached their sixteenth (if not In confiet with the laws of the State in which the vard Is situateds atherwise to conform with said laws). but not their twenty- second hirthday on the date of the | examination Full information and applieation hianks may bhe obtained from the office of the secretary, 1723 F streef. - S BAND CONCERTS. TODAY. By Idiers’ Home Rand, at 545 John S. M. Zimmerman. lea Emil E. Fenstad, second | Isadery ’