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4 P REVENGEMURDER | MYSTERY S SOLVED Disappearance of’ Texas' Doctor Results in Arrests. | Body Found in Prairie. | Spacial Dispateh to The Star MATTHIS, Tex.. Sepiember 18, The strange. disappearance of Dr. I, A Ramsey., this village’s most prominent | citizen, has been solved For four months the elderly heloved physician. missing from home since May 20, had been sc hy Texas rang They found hody recently in a shallow grave the open prairle near the Mexican horder. Ome bony forearm p ahove the grave. When the was opened the doctor's body found in a sitting posture. And the mystery of his disa g ance and death. police and ranzers here believe, was further cleared uy; with the arrest of H. .. lLeahy. 40 a law student, once 2 wealthy W owner here. He Mexican, | Roberto Martinez, ne held. | Leahy charged with murder, con- | piracy 1o murder. conspiracy to awindle and kldnaping | But previous to, and the finding of the doctor’s body e an amazing string of events, Behind | the murder of the decior. it is he. lieved, was that most deadl. of emo- tions—revenge. Dr. Ramsey joved the rep utation of being the village's leadi citizen. Through hix practice of med felne fame had reached him. Vel he | lived quietly in a little whiie cotiage { with his second wife. Day and night he attended the llis of this little com munity of about 700. He had one ambition more land, & bigger home. In this same village lived the | family. They had been affluent. They had owned a fine homestead and large tracts of land. But the tide of 11l luck swept over them and left the Leahys on a financially barren rock. There was only one thing to do: sell the homestead. The auction day came and the home and property was put under the ham mer. The property, involving 1.100 acres, was valued at $260.000. It went tor a song. The highest bidder was Dr. Ramsey. of Leahy, and his | ht | hix | ihsequent 1o I He wanted ahy ‘Within the heart law clerk, crept a bitterness. doctor became symbolic in h of the injustice of fate. On the night of May 20 last. a Mexican appeared at the door of Dr. Ramse) He said his family was il Dr. Ramsev got into his automobile with the Mexican and drove away. He stopped at a service station, and purchased oil. That was the last time Dr. Ramsey was seen alive. Sev aral days later his wife received a postal card. dated May 21, from Ree. ville, about 60 miles from here. The card read. “Dear wite: Had to bring patient to Veeville. May go to San Antonio with prospect of selling farm.” The writing on the card was identi fled by Mrs. Ramsey as that of her husband. Nevertheless she told police nfficers about it. 1t was strange. she informed them, that her husband should do such a thing. Then began the series of amazing events. The doctor's car was discov- ered in'a San Antonlo garage. Sheriff Hunt and a posse of rangers and police began a search -for the doctor. The hunt was futile. So the authorities took a was as amazing as any oth of the mystery. Although the where- £bouts of the physician had not been ascertained, and although there was no positive indication he was dead, the authorities arrested Leahy, his brother, Edward, and another man named F. M. Dubose. The latter two wers subsequently released. But ampinst Harry Leahy were placed the charges of murder, conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to swindle. Stories had gone through the vil lage of the growing bitterness of Leahy toward the doctor, of his mad intention to get back his land at all costs. At the arraignment of Leahy ! in Sinton, near here, the defendant| appeared as his own attorney. After another long fight he was rearrested on a kidnaping charge but was set free on bail. Interest in the case then began to lapse. for even a prominent citizen’s fate can be forgotten in the rush of dally events. But Sheriff Hunt and two of his aides. Ranger Aldrich and Tewnsend. continued the investiga- | tien. So. one day in August. Sheriff Hunt was notified the two rangers had ar- rested a Mexican near the border! eity of Laredo. This Mexican had - admitted a part in the slaying of Dr.| Ramsey and had implicated a second | man, an American. Early on the morning of August 25 the officers were led to a littls knoll about 300 vards off a well traveled highway. Then the Mexican told this | story, the police say He had driven Dr. Ramsey to that 1ittle knoll on the night of May 20 and | near there met the American. The| doctor was marched to the knoll where a shallow grave about a_vard square already had been dug. There, by the light of a flashlight, the doctor was forced to sign the postcard. Then Ramsey was struck from be. hind and his body doubled up and, pitched into the hole. The American ook hold of the aged'physician’s gray hair. drew back his head and. with a dirk, cut the doctor’s throat | ft was In that doubledup |msll|on; the doctor’s body was found. It was| exhumed and reburied before the larz. et crowd this village ever has seen gathered. Leahy was trailed to a fashlonable | section of San Antonio. First authorl- | tes located his bride and she informed | them of his whereabouts. That led | to Leahy's arrest i Leahy s now in San Antonio await | {ng trial. Tomorrow he will be re® arraigned and the date of the trial will | be set. | | BARTLETT TO SUCCEED LATE COMDR. RODGERS | the The mind tep that | detals | Naval Aviator Will Have Charge| { of Flying Boats Now Under i Construction. | By the Assaciated Press Comdr. Harold T. Bartlett was se- Jected vesterday to succeed the late Comdr. John Rodgers in commund of the special squadron of flying boats under construction at the naval air eraft factory at Philadelphia The squadron when completed will | he flown via the Panama Canal to San Diego for experimental work | with the fleet in long distance fiving. and after these tests the Navy De- partment, will decide whether anoth non-stop flight from the California coast to Hawail will be attempted. Comdr. Bartlett. a pioneer naval aviator, served with both British and | French air forces during the war, and | was awarded the Navy Cross for hombing raids against the enemy. He was appointed to the Naval Academy | from Connecticut, his native State. in | 1208, Comdr. Bartlett is wall ashington. having served - ~f vears here with the Rueau of serangutics of the Navy Depariment | nti] he was transferred last vear to the Navy War Celiege at Newport, LN e known in B imher | Club were | Springfeld and | needed a new barn and wanted to | where Photo shows the French steamer Cassard of Nantes, heached at Sandgate, England, after being in collision with the Liverpool boat Kurdistan about 10 miles off The French crew were rescued. Dungeness, England, during a dense fog in the English Channel. KLAN. 3000 STRONE, AT FAIRFAX FAIR Open-Air Ceremony Staged on Closing Night—$10,000 Made in Four Days. - Special_Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAN, Va., September 18— With an attendance of about 3,000 Klansmen and Klanswomen, the thir- teenth annual Fairfax fair came to a close tonight. The Klan staged a big open-atr ceremony at which a number of candidates wers initiated. At the close of the ceremony a fireworks dis- play was given. R. Buckley, secretary of the fair association. estimated tonight that the gross receipts from the four days of the fair would reach $10.000. More than 13,000 persons attended, he be- lived. Severa} thousand persons vesterday flocked to see the closing events of the annual horse show, which for two days was the leading event of the fair. Thoroughbreds of the District of Columhia and northern Virginia competed in the show. The Wardman Park Saddle Club of Washington and the Riding and Hunt vell represented at the show. with a number of prominent members having entered horses and carried off many prizes over Virginia's finest mounts. While ridinz the hurdies, open to all classes, Miss Roberta Ayers of Me Lean, riding Lady of McLean, -nar rowly escaped serious injury. She leaped from her mount as she saw she was abou! (o miss the second hurdle Miss Avers. somewhat injured, re- sumed her riding and carried off third Ring Lost 35 Years in Pack. A gold ring, lost 36 vears ago, has just been found in a shipment of tobacco in Belfast, Ireland, and turned o the owner at Springfield. Ky., it became known today. Nearly vears azo C. C. Bell tobacco dealer of Springfleld, was presented with the ring by his wife. Bell lost the ring and offered a re. ward. About a vear ago several hogsheads of Robertson County tobac- | co were shipped from W. H. Nim mons & Co. ai Springfield to Europe. | to a leaf mannfac In the tobacen the Bei! ring was found. A Mr. Cum mings of the Belfast firm came to in person delivered the ring to Bell's relatives being later sold turer In Ireland House Built of Steel. One of the newest bullding, according Science ' Magazine, is steel exclusively in the Under this plan«the framework und alls are all steel. with wall trim ngs of concrete to take awav 1 appearance. Those wio have so far followed this iden say t many of the present disadvantages In building are over. come, the steel construction being fire proof. lightning proof and weather proof. Another advantage is the short time needed for the building. The plan was fiest siarted by farmer in Michigan. John D. Cole, ideas in_house to the Popular that of using construction, a zet away from the usual wooden affai: Easter Island Romantic. the middle of the is a romantic land for the histo: und the archeologist hiefly hecause it is thought to have bheen the last vestage of a continent that sank beneath the waves. This belief is based on it rock work which scientists believe could have heen car rled out only by a weli population and in u Inspector Honored. s woman factory inspector. Kijelsberg. has been given a honor in Manchester. England the edncationai council h named a schooi house for her. Nor way is obviously pleased by this rec ogaition of its voman inspector, who has done outstanding work E o, Visitor Victimized To Extent of $140 Matching Pennies The penny-matchers have made their appearance around Union Station aguin, and as a result, Thomas Durkin of Pittsburgh is $140 poorer, he reported to the po- lice vesterday afternoon. Durkin said he met a man at the station in the morning and they walked to North Capitol and H streets where another man was encountered The matching game started, and the finish was customary . Norw Beiby sign: The telephone sy=ioms in the Lz cities of Southern Tialy and Sicily are beine _modernized at a cost of $25, 000, E & the | By Consolidated Press. AUSTIN, Tex. September 18- Twenty months ago the streets of Austin rang with the shouts of the people of the provinces come 1o a claim “Ma" Ferguson at her inaugura- tion as Governor, knowing full well that “old Jim," her husband, wonld do the governing Today the same crowd is crying for blood and the Legislature has met its demand to “do something dras to the outgoing administration by voting for an investigation of the Ferguson regime. Some of the crowd is even demanding the impeachment lof “Ma" herself. knowing full well at_her husband .. Gov. Mirlam A. Ferguson flung the sauntlet at the feet of the Legislature in her call convoking the special ses sion when she stipulated that any de. partment of the State could he sub. jected to investigation. The Legisla ture has answered her by the vote of the lower house ordering an in | quiry | the text-book hoard, the Governor's pardon record and oil ‘and sulphur companies accused of tax evasion Meanwhile back stage, o to speal | stalks the familiar figure of James I3 | Ferguson, “Old Jim.” long a stormy petrel in’ Texas politics and | impeached by a special session of the Legislature called in 1917 | “Ferguson, a solitary figure sitting [in the galiery of the lower house, |listens to its members discuss im that by hitting her they are striking | into the highway commission, | himself | FERGUSONS, “MA™ AND “JIM.” FACE IMPEACHMENT THREATS Foes in Legislature Strike at Husband in Voting to Investigate Acts of Texas Governor. peachment of his wife. Downst the department of the attorney gen eral sits the man who defeated Mr Ferguson for the Democratic gubern torial nomination—Dan Moody. is besieged for conferences. much to confer on, and the person to be seen, it seems. is Danm, not Jim, nor vet the Governor officio. Miriam A. Ferguson. Less than two vears ago a stream of callers passed through the spacious door with the glass-blown sign, “Gov ernor’s office” in the transom pane. It turns now down the long west hall and enters where a dilapidated sizn reads ““Attorney general.” But “Jim" Ferguson has not been deserted by all his {riends. nor he given up the fight. “Jim” is still very much in politics, and from all the signs he will soon be very much in the race for nomination to the Unlted States Senate. That seems to be his next gzoal in a new plea to the voters for vindication of his wife {and himself. He has brought up the Ku Kiux Klan issue by charging the Klan is behind every move to discredit the | Ferguson administration. He has stepped into national issues b: lling the League of Nations and the World Court “a fool's dream calcu- lated 10 get this country into more trouble than anything that has ever happened hefore.” | The Fergusons, “Ma" and “Jim." {have not said their last say in Texas | polities. JFranz Liszt's Servant, 88, Is Dying: Many Americans Know Pauline Apel By the Assoeiated Press | WELMAR. Thuringia. Septemher |18.—Pauine Ape of the few liv ing associates of Franz Liszt, is dving. | Eighty-eight vears old, she now has, physicians say. only a few months to live. Thousands of American pilgrims to | her, th German as Weimar well as know served just as he left it he | fore he died at Bavreuth, in 1886 For {30 vears Pauline Apel was Liszi's | servant and secretary. She knew | as did few others, and among th few is his daughter. Cosima Wagner, also 88, whose life is ebbing at Bay {reuth By the Associated Press EW YOR September 1% European children have better man ners than those in America. but American children have more initia- tive and_adaptability in the opinion of Mrs. Sidonie M. Gruenberz, dire: {tor of the Child Study Association of | America. Inc. | Mrs. Gruenberg. recently returned vom & study of conditions relating to the child in European countries, ex- | pressed the helief that manner | might sometimes be attained only the price of harm to the child at aretaker of the pianist's old | | _Pauline’s daughier, Frau Geodora | Beck, 63 vears old, now conducts visi tors through the Liszt house, which is filled with gifts which his simple tastes found too costly to use. There |are a hundred pipes which he never shied. though he was an inveterate ar smoker: there are dozens. of batons of e woods v " ° spurned for a sliver of pins | used for 50 vears. and there scoves of waiking sticks which he | da d 1o touw even when | months before his death his reet were so swollen he could hardly walk, stick. knohhed with a four-carat dia | mond, was siolen a few vears ago and Inever recovered he re American Cl;;ld Ada;;talfl:. Eur;; | “If we wanted merely to have child - {ven well behaved.” she said. “and did {not count the cost. the task would | be easy enough. To get them to be | well mannered without being over repressed or subservient is a different blem.** om her observation of 150 French children playing together on a beach with “no papers strewn about, signs of wantonness. no undue noises or other disregard for the rights of others.” Mrs. Gruenberg. concluded. however, that “it seems quite po sihle to have children be busy and happy without being rude.’ ey i [Boston B Braihe Ascociated Prest BOSTON. September 15.—After I ing forgotten for 15 years in the un ydertaking parlors of a Dorchester funeral® divector, the ashes of Frank AU Waston, known as “the father of bicycling in America,” are to he buried with appropriate ceremony. Old friends, members of the Boston Bicy- cle Club, which Weston, an English man, founded half a century ago. will conduct the services. Burial will take place next Friday |at dusk beneath a tree that the ciub members plgnted on .the Fairbanks estate in Dedham 10 vears ago. The grave will be near what is reputed to be the oldest wooden dwelling in icycling Club to Bury Ashe.; | | Of Sport’s “Father,” Forgotten 15 Years| organized | | America. at which members of the club, ncluding Weston, frequently stopped on their rides around Boston Discovery of Weston's ashes was made yvesterday by Fred Stark of Dor- |chester, who had been one of Wes ton’s closest friends. | Weston. an architect, | United States probably in the 7os. | He was the moving spirit in the | founding of the Boston Bicyele Club. fand through his activities clubs sprang up throughout the country. He never lived to see the bicycle crowded from automobile. Without relatives, so far as known, he died in a home for the aged ;Judge é.am;bwling’ at a ; % Beaten by Ma { By the Associated Press. | PARIS. September 18.—In the gam ing rooms at_ Deauville during the closing days of the season, hundred franc notes were more numerous than ! thousands and the play quiet. for the first suppressed man, evidently time. grew purple emation as his hand times.” “Eight playing with l t One | 7of the last evenings. a distinguished | ‘“‘passed seven | French Resort n He Released on Bail bank.” droned the croupier. who some weeks ago had been handling millions |in a bored manner. | “Banco.” cried some one excitedly approaching the table. “Nine" turned up for the plaver and he pocketed the money to the evi. dent disappointment of the hanker, who became slightly pale as he watched the woney disappear. Then the eyes of the banker and player met. The former, a judge in - has ! also 1 One | no | came to the | the highways by the | SEPTEMBER WELLER-TYDINGS FIGHT ALREADY ON {Maryland G. 0.-P. May Not Get Hill’s Support—Demo- cratic Women Restless. | | | | i Special Dispatch to BALTIMORE. s 15.-The big political fight in Maryland in th next eiection is the Weller-Tyding contest for the United States S and with tie official count of day's primary not vet completed. hoth political orzanizations are preparing for i | In it |the Deus une Millard E. Trdings, candidate. lias the vantage of . peactically united organ |ization, wiile Tuesday's’ primary | cansed deepy wounds in the Repuhlican { machine. and it is doubtful that the | split can be heaied hefore election dy Representative lohn Philip Hill. Senator Weller's opponent. does not vet concede Weller's election, and has asked fo mts of the vote in Prince Georges. Anne Arundel and Queen Anne Couniy. and will file a similar peiition in the third district of Baltimore city The fizht to elect Senator Weller I!larh"vi last n it with a meeting of the Republican State central com- mittee. at which plans for an active campaizn were outlined by Chair- man Galen L. Tait. While the plat. {form and issues of the campaign { were not discussed it was made plain hy Mr. Tait's remarks that the surren der of the Conowingo Water Power 10 Pennsylvania interests would he made one of the chief iseues of the attack lwr Gov. Ritchie. Fight Against Ritchie. “It ie our duty now to wage a cam aign in Maryland against tae con- solidation of power, and threatened permanent dominance of a great o litical-financial group. of which Gov Ritchie Is the nominal leader.” de clares Ny, Taft ““Thers are many points of weakness which may be attracted, but in none is the governor of our State so vul- nerahie as in the inexcusable surrender of the valuable water power of the Susquehanna at Conowingo to Penn- sylvania corporation interests. In this bestowal of valuable rights, in which the people of Maryland and the indus. tries of Baltimore lose. the only els ment which gains is the Arundel Cor- poration of Baltimore with its $22, 000.000 cost-plus contract to build the dam.” A significant fact of the meeting, and one which politicians say shows that the fight in the Republican party against Senator Weller will be carvied to the poils on November 2, is that not one of the Hill leaders appeared at the meeting. Some of these men. especially In Baltimore City. were active Weller adherents before Hill eritered the primary, and the fact that none of them attended the meeting is generally accepted as their intenion io cariy the fight against Weller's dom- ination of the party to the polis. Democrats Are Preparing. Meanwhile, the Democrats also are reparing for the general election "heiv_State convention will be held next Thursday, and they are now at work drawing up a platform to he adopted at this convention. As has been the custom in the past few vears, Gov. Ritchie will draft the principal planks of the platform. and to a large extent dictate the cam paign. In a forecast concerning the platform. Gov. Ritchie safd it would reflect such principles of sound and efficient State government as would, in his opinfon, appeal to Mar landers generally without regard to party. He said it would great principles of liberty and toler ance and faith in the individual man, which Maryland gave to the world almost 300 years ago, and which have been our most priceless possessions ever since.” The only cloud on the Democratic horizon now appears to come from the women of the party. That there is a feeling of restlessness among Democratic women because they were {ignored in the last primary is indi- cated in a letter just sent tp Gov. Ritchie. T'he Democratic women feel keenly the discrimination by men of their party as compared with the attitude >{ the Republican men toward the women, of their party, leading to the nomination of a woman. Mrs. Eva C. Chase, to the Siate-wide office of clerk of the Court of Appeals, and the placing of several other women on the Republican central committee. { Mrs. S. Johnson Poe. president the Democratic women's club, { Democratic national committee {man. in commenting on the {<ent to the governor. said. | At a meeting of our “embody those of and wo letter executive board it was decided to write a letter congratulgting_Gov. Ritchie on his nominatioh. and promising him our support. However, we decided to call the governor's atiention to the fact that the Republicans permitted one { woman to run for a State-wide posi tion. and nominated her, and also named several other women ward ex- ecutives and members of the State | committees “We suggest that more recog nition be given the Democratic { women by their party: that the women | be taken into the councils of the {party. and that their services in the | primaries and general elections bhe i recognized more generally.” | As showing the feeling among the women and despite difference in i party creed. the Democratic Women's | Club has congratulated Mrs. Chase {on her nominatlon. and passed the | following resolution | “While we are not éne af that | v. we realive that the time has © the women to take a stand greater vecognition. and some = of their party Windowless Blocks Talked. Because windows are costly to in- elude in office bulldings and especially where they look out on Inclosed courfs prominent building architects are con | sidering the proposal to build such | buildings without windows on a plan for providing ventilation and light hy modern means. | . Few Spaniards Nationalized. | _ Although more than 72 per cent of { Germans and Welchmen who come to ithe United States become naturalized only about 10 per cent of the Span- jiards Jdo. Fewer Spaniards take up American citizenship than any other i race of foreigners. Less than 17 per jcent of the Greeks become citizens. . Australian Women Jury-Shy. In Australia of 209,070 women on the rolls eligible for jury service only 29 appeared to sign as willing to serve. Two of these, when called. asked to be excused, and as yet no woman has served on a jury in Queensland, according to latest re. ports. In his successful adversary a man ac- cused of a huge swindling scheme, whom he had let out on bail a few days previous The trial i scheduled for October. Friends of the “banker-judge” say he. will suggest to the minister of justice that seme.ether judge sit on-the. case, hate, | the Paris criminal courts, recognized | 19. 1926—PART 1. 'SIX SCIENTISTS DIFFER WIDELY | 'AFTER 5-YEAR STUDY OF GIRAFFE| ! Reborts Vary From 20-Volume “Intro- | duction™ to Typical American Article. l | The bearded and" spectacled scien- tists at the Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere know a great deal {about giraffes and when the liitle istranger who is coming to Washing ‘ton from the jungles of East Africa rrives they will he able to classify | {every bone in his body and every spot | {on his coat. | But this was not alw: so. Only la few vears ago scientists knew prac | tically ‘nothing of the giraffe. The story goes that six of them got {into a violent diepute one day over this animal, Like true men of sci ence, they turned to the authorities to settle the question. To thelr dis may, they found that the subject had | never heen studied Agreed to Study They were ashamed that the giraffe. one of the prettiest creatures of the jungle, had been so neglected. It so happened that they all were men of means and they decided to spend the next five years of their lives studying the animal. It was agreed that each should pursue his studies indepen dently and at the end of the five years publish the results of his re searches. With this understanding. they sen arated. One of the scientists was an Englishman. the second a French man. the third a German, the fourth an Irishman. the fifth a Russian and the sixth an American. At the end of five vears. in accord- ance with the agreement. their books appeared. 0. e Introduction. ‘The Englishman published four vol- umes, profusely illustrated, entitled, “Hunting the Giraffe.” The Frenchman published two small Animal. Suggestions for Name Pouring In. j volumes on “The Love Affairs of the Giraffe.” The Russlan also confined his re. | searches to two small volumes of pro- | found metaphysics on the subject: “The Giraffe—Does It Exist The German in turn. published heavy, closely printed volum en | titled “An Tntroduction fo the Stud: of the Giraffe.” Typical American Answer. The Irishman’s researches were con fined to two volumes entitled. “What the Giraffe Thinks of the Irish Ques tion.” But the American printed, as the results of his five vears of labor, onlv 2 small pamphlet printed with large type. It was entitled, ~Bigger and Better Giraffes.” Unfortunately. none of these men gave any attention at all to the sub ject of appropriate names for a pet giraffe. Even the German. who thought he had outlined the subject %o thoroughly in his 20 heavy volumes, never gave a line to this subject. Needs Proper Name. It means a great deal to the giraffe and it is up torthe children of Wash ington to beat out the scientists in their resesrches on this subject Suggestions continue to pour inio The Star office with every mail. The | Washington schoolboy or schoolgirl who wins not only will recelve a | suitable gift from The Star. but will | have his or her name engraved on a brass plaque containing the giraffe's name to be attached to his home. There will be a flock more of narhe suggestions in Monday's paper, so watch out for them. You mav get an idea to improve on some of them a little. HILL ASKS RECOUNT IN 2 MORE COUNTIES Expects to File Petition for Re- view in Baltimore District Tomorrow. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, September 18.—Rep- resentative John Philip Hill teday filed petitions for a recount of the vote in the primary hetween himself and Senator O. E. Weller in Anne Arundel and Queen Annes Counties and on Monday will file a similar petition with the board of election supervisors here for a recount in the third dis- trict_of Baltimore City. Col. Hill vesterday filed his petition | and bond for a recount in Prince Georges County and the work is ex- | pected to start on Tuesday. “I talked with a great many in Upper Marlhoro,” said Col. “and from what they told me I feel confident that a recount will give me the six votes of Prince Georges Coun- ty in the State convention “They told me of a number of bal- lots which were marked for me. but were thrown out hecause of alleged defects in marking for another group. This is against the rule that when a ballot is improperly marked for one or more groups it should be counted for the group properly marked “I have received a number of affi- davits concerning alleged rejection of ballots marked for me in the third dis- trict. In this district the slight ma- jority given against me in cincts would be overthrown by a dis- covery of error of less than 2 cent.” peopie Hill, 1 SANITARY COMMISSION COMPLAINT TO BE HEARD Fight Against Increased Benefit Charges Expected to Reach Court This Week. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO. Md. Sep tember 18.—Legal points involved in the complaint of James E. Steele et al. the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and the de. murrer filed in reply to the complaint by the commission are expected to he | argued next week. probably Thurs day. in the Circuit Court for Prince Georges County here before the full bench of the seventh judicial circuit The Steele complaint in substance alleges that the increased benefit charges levied by the commission for water and sewer against property which became effective July 1, 1925, are illegal. | C. L. Alelio, attorney for Steele, states that he believes the provision in the law under which the commis- sion operates exempting owners of land in use for agricultural purposes from payment of front-foot benefit charges. though the improvements | about such property. is unconstitu- | tional. Aiello contends that value of this property is enhanged through the improvements for which other classes of property owners must pay. The increase in benefit charges cf July 1, 1925, was put into effect. says Alello, without notice to property owners. The sanitary commission contends. it is understood. that the Circuit Court for Prince Georges County fs without jurisdiction In the pro- | ceeding to hear and determine the legality of the increase in front-foot benefit charges in question: that the commission has full authority from the Legislature to determine the ac tual benefits §f improvements to the | plaintiffs: th} the complaint sets | forth no facts or figures that would | justity the court in determining that the charges or acts of the commis- sion amounted to a taking of private property without due process of law or were in violation of any of the other articles or amendments men- tioned in the complaint, and that no notice of changes in rates are neces aary when made fiom time to time COURT ASSIGNMENTS| DISTRICT SUPREME COURT. Circuit Division 1—Justice Stafford. | Motions for -Monday, September 20: | 1—Settle vs. Settle: atorneys. Board- | . Smith—Lynch. —Iglehar vs. Haussener: j neys. Esher, Grud —Grant. 3—In re B. Jean Raleigh et al: at torneys, Lewis, Smith, Bennett, Free- | man. 4—Fred Drew Co. ve. Tule Reaity Corp.. et al.: attorney, Barker. 5—Hill ve. Lalegar; attorneys, Easby-Smith, Pine—Whiteford, Clark. | Circuit Division 2—Justice Hitz. Motions for Monday, September 20: 1—Miller vs. Milier: attorneys Downing—Lambert, Yeatman —Rodhord vs. Rodbord: attorneys allezher. ! e vs. ve. ! attor ! | 3 Ritehi Goldstein. 4—Tendler vs. Tendler; attorney, attorneys, l 2 Men Crushed When Silo Bursts: 1 Dead, 1 Dying Special Dispateh to The Star HAGERSTOWN, Md. Septem- ber 18.—A silo burst on the farm of Eber Wingert, near here, todav, crushing Wingert and Frank Rotz, his helper, beneath it. Wingert is dead and Rotz is probably fatally injured. The men were working on top of the silo when the excessive weight of the contents caused the bottom to burst. The entire mass col- lapsed, and they were caught under the falling debris. Wingert was almost instantly killed, and Rotz is in a critical condition with a fractured skull Victoria's Bath for Sale. Queen Victoria’s marble bath is for | It cost more than £550, but will | be sold for 200 guineas, says the West minster Gazette in a recent lssue. When the then prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, invited Queen Victoria to stay at Drayton Manor, his mansion near Tamworth, he went to enormous expense in making his home fit to re- cefve his royal guest. The room to which he devoted most attention was the bathroom. | He engaged Italian craftsmen to construct a bath cut out of a sélid | block of white marble. The bath was | made five feet seven inches long. and as Queen Victoria's height was gen- | erally accepted as being a little under | five feet, she had ample room for her ablutions. No one else has ever used the bath, which is still in its original setting. | order unearthed in the s | senal by Capt. L. 0.5, GIVES LESSON - INPICKING APPLES Fruit Must Not Be Too Ripe, and Should Be Put in Storage at Once. The American himself a it truit zrower magy ‘his ad. madm Plan . ‘he o store 1ot morn he follows Un have e Same menis heen States Bureau af N co-operation with var State experiment stations. so thas farmer pick them may know the hest nd b hem afterward time to tale applas from important zrawer ham I Magness, I States Bus who was in ents. “if the they will wilt in ge. Ther with raetive lookir and will lack in Aavor aml aroma when eaten Ruts it is just as important to pick them hefore (lies are toa ripe. else (hew will spoil and the producer will iose money Thare vipeness can taar of all foo the ri ing is the aise with can be pulled from the tree, Dr ness says i unt of color in the | <kin. the firn of the flesh.and the colar of the = are all indications of ripeness these differ too much with the <a. riety of the apple and the climatio conditiona The commercial apple crop in the United States 1s kept either in afr. cooled storage houses ventilated hy. the fresh outdoor air. or else in cold storage chilled by mechanical means The late ripening varleties a ble for keepinz in the ai houses. The apples intended for cold <toraga should be picked when well ripened on the tree and put Inta storaze just as quickly as possible. When the weather i warm a sinzle day delay cuts the cold-storage apples life by 8 or 10 days. and even in. fairly cool weather one day may, mean that storage life may he 4 or § days less. The fruit 32 degrees about the freezing point of water, Dr. Magness savs. The air should be 85 per cent saturated with water to keep the thin-skinned apples from, shrinking. Bobbed i{nir Traced to ‘76. Bobbed hair, far from being moa ern. had its origin in the Revolution. according to an old Continental Army time his apples w ot and handle The best the tree is one of the me which the frait e J the 1 problens to solve.” save physiologisi of Plant Indin of the expe: re too green rean « e v ways by d. hut the hest bt time for picke which the appie s which he to cooled at 30 or which 18 should be kept Fahrenheit . Baird. U. S. A, Saturday Issued At West Point for the sol diars of 1776, it says. “As the head of a soldier is one of the first ana necessary ornaments, the captain com mands the N. C. officers and privates of the regiment to have their hair tied behind not to exceed seven inchas long and close to the head. The N. C . Wit euita., Schuylkill Ar- officers and privates of the second ree. . fment to have thefr halr tied behind in a bob close to eht head. the whole to be cut on the top of the head short and brushed back.” Late African Queen Rich. Nabo Tsibendi, the late queen mother of Swazlland. Africa. who played a big vole in tribal affairs for thirty vears. died with great riches unrevealed, ac cording to some of the tribesmen. She was supplanted a few years ago after having held power since 1389, and in resentment and disappointment she lived a secluded life and hid her riches. —e Capt. W. §. C. Stephens, a former airman, recently arrived in Nova Scotia from England to be ordained a | priest. Sweden's largest hotel. well know to all visitors te Stockholm. ahen lutely prohibits tipping. ADOLPH KAHN President MEMBERS OF AMSTERDA ofk.oAalincIne. 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