Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, continued cool tonight; tomor- row fair; slowly rising temperature. Temperature—Highest, 71, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 49, at 6:45a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “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. Yesterday's Circulation, 101,503 30,109. post_office, - CARDS AND YANKS ~ DEADLOCKED, 04, IN FOURTH INNING Pennock and Sherdel Duel on Mound in Fifth Game of Series. BOTH PITCHERS HURL IN MASTERLY FASHION Sportsman’s Park Again Crowded as World-Title Tilt Enters TIts Crucial Stage. Hornsby, 2b. Bottomley. 1b. L. Bell, 3b. i Hafey, 1f. O'Farrell, c. Severeld, ¢. ‘Thevenow, ss. Pennock, p. Sherdel, p. Umpires—Messrs. Dineen at plate, O'Day at first, Hildebrand at second and Klem at third. BY CARL S. BRANDEBURY. ST. LOUIS, October 7 (#).—The St. Cardinals and New York Yankees were tled in the fourth inning of the fifth game of the world series here this afternoon. Neither team has scored. The Yanks failed to threaten in the first. An error by Koenig, stolen base and passed ball got Bot- tomley to third, but the side failed to score in the Cards’ half. A double play ended a potential rally by the Yanks in the second, after tGehrig and Lazzeri had singled. Pen- nock retired the Cards without trouble. An all-southpaw pitching cast was naméd for the fifth world series game. Herb Pennock for the Yankees and Bill Sherdel for the Cardinals took up their left-hand battle, where they left it off last Saturday in New York: Holm was playing in center field in- stead of Douthit. There was little apprehension among the fans when the sun disappeared in a thick haze just before time for play. iray clouds replaced the blue prevail Ing throughout the forenoon, but there was no very distinct threat of rain. The stands were filled at game time with thousands standing. The cus- tomers were making a determined drive for a third attendance record in three days. Yesterday's crowd num- hered 38,825, breaking the. previous day’s mark, with predictions made 1hat the officlal count today would show 40.000. The fans looked at Ruth and hel up wet fingers to zet the wind direc- tion, with an eye on the right field stands. During batting practice & wind blew toward the plate, but when play was started the wind had chang- cd and was blowing from the plate outward. FIRST INNING. ‘The umpires gathered at the plate and gave final instruc tions on ground rules to Manager Hornsby of the Cardinals and Coach Willam O'Leary of the Yankees. Meanwhile Sherdel and Pennock were warmed up and both reported them- s in fine shape. The band played Star Spangled Banner” while tha crowd stood and unc y Cardinals scampered upon the field, the umpires took their positic and after the band had made its exit play was hegun. The first cheer went up when Billy Southworth, who is lead- ing the Cardinals in hitting, went out into right field. Sherdel went out into the box. sprinkled his hands with rosin and threw a few to O'Farrell. Combs up: Strike 1, called; ball 1, low. inside: Combs sent out @ flv to Hafey. Koenig up: Thevenow threw ont Koe- nig at first, Koenig hitting the first . Ruth up: He got a big hand. Rall 1. low, outside; strike 1, called. This was a slow curve inside. Ball 2, high. inside; Hornsby threw out Ruth at first, the Babe going after a slow bell. No runs, no hits, no errors. CARDINALS-—Holm up: Holn went out, Koenig to Gehrig, hitting the first pitch. Southworth up: Koenig juggled Southworth's grounder and the batter was safe. Tt was an error. Hornsby up: Time called until Southworth could tie his shoe. Ball 1. low: South- worth stole second: strike 1. swung: Severeid dropped the hall and it went for a passed hall= Pennock threw out Hornshy at first. Southwor going ¢ third, Bottomley up: Strike 1, swung: ball 1. wide and low: strike 2. swung: ball 2, high: bail 3. eutside; Pennock kicked on this one: Lazzeri tossed out Bottomley at fir runs, no hits, one error. SECOND IN 3. TANKEES- Meusel up: A hig bou- | quet was presented to Ruth as he came to the bench. Strike 1. called ball 1, outside: ball 2, outside: Bell knocked down Meusel's hot shot and threw him out. Gehrig up: E A low: ball 2. wide: ball 3, low: i 1. called: strike 2, called: Geh i gled over the middle bag w count ee and 1wo. Foul, strike 1: ball 1, inside: Lazzeri singled to right. Gehrig going to | third. Dugan up: Ball 1, inside: ball | 2, outside und low: Dugan hit H, i h the 2, into | a double p nsby taking Du- | zan's grounder. touching Lazzeri and | getting Dugan with a quick throw to Bottomley. No runs, two hits, no er- rors. CARDINALS—Bell up: Ball 1. high faul, strike 1: foul, strike 2: Bell hit a long foul to the cash customers in right: Bell struck out, taking a third | called strike. Hafey up: Foul. strike | 1: foul, strike 2: hall 1. high: foul: ball | 2. high, outside: foul: foul: Hafey kept | fouling off Pennock's slow curves: Dugan teok Hafev's grounder and made .a wide throw to Gehrig. who touched the runner as he came into the bag. OFarrell up: Strike 1. cailed: ball 1. law: ball 2. Tow: hall 3, inside: O'Farrell singled off Pennock’s glove, the ball houncing to Koenig. but teo late to make the throw. Thev enow up: Thevenow sent out a fly to ombs. The Cardinals were trving the hitand-run play. No runs, one hit, no errors. THIRD INNING. YANKEES—Severeid up: The sky was becoming quite overcast. Seve- reid sent out a fly to Holm. who made his first world series cateh. Pennock up. The spectalors applanded the New | hetween ntered as second class matter ‘Washington, ;i WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1926—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. SHERDEL CALLED ON TO HALT RUTH IN FIFTH, OF SERIES Pennock Op—poses‘ Him Before Crowd Likely to Set Record in St. Louis. Fans Fear Bambino. . By the Associated Press. SPORTSMAN'S PARK, St. Louis, October 7.—An all-southpaw pitching cast was named for the fifth world serles game here today. Herb Pen’ nock for the Yanks and Bill Sherdel for the Cards took up their lefthand battle where they left it off last Sat- urday in New York. There was little apprehension among the fans when the sun dsap- peared in a thick haze just before time for play. Gray clouds replaced the blue, prevailing throughout the forenoon, but there was no very dis- tinct threat of rain. The stands were filled at game time, with thousands standing. The cus- tomers were making a determined drive for a third attendance record in three days. Yesterday's crowd num- bered 38,825, breaking the previous day’s mark, with predictions made that the official count today would show 40,000. Fans Fear Ruth. The fans looked at Ruth and held up wet fingers to get the wind direc- tion, with an eye on the right-field stands. During batting practice a. ‘wind blew toward the plate, but when play was started the wind had changed and was blowing from the plate outward. A last-minute change was made in the Card lineup when it was found that Douhit injured in a collision with Hafey yesterday, would not be able to play. Manager Hornsby an- nounced that Holm would play center field and bat first for the Cards. The home-run situation was entirely out of control in the fourth game of the series, when Ruth three times hit for the circuit and so inspired his mates that a 10-to-5 victory made the series all even again. Cardinal rooters thought that Ruth’s impressive offensive vesterday could be dlagnosed as only a light at- tack of fever for that portion of the St. Louis pitching staff, five in num- ber, called on to labor during the afternoon. Yankee enthusiasts in- sigted that it was a stroke of paraly- sig. Crowd Cheers Ruth. s Ruth's record-breaking series of long-distance blows drew unstinted upplause from the greatest crowd ever assembled in a.St. Louls base ball park—the paid attendance being 38,825. Many of the assembly came to scoff, and remained to cheer. The player with base ball's greatest punch was formally fnitiated into the Order (Continued on Rage 2, Column 6.) CONTRAGTS ARE LET FOR FIRST WORK ON NEWU.S. BUILDINGS Clearing of Part of Internal Revenue Site to Be Start- ed Monday. With award of two contracts in- volving the Internal Revenue Bureau Building, and Liberty Loan Building, the great $50,000,000 Federal housing program in Washington today reach- ed the stage of actual operations, to be continued for the next five years, and to result in erection of sevem! monumental structures in the Capital. The two contracts awarded today were: 5 For wrecking the Government-own- ed buildings on square Neo. 324, lo- cated between Eleventh and Twelfth, Little B and C streets, which is to be about one-fourth of the size of the site for the Internal Revenue Build- ing, $3,125, to Sidney L. Hechinger of this city. For constructing two additional ories on the Liberty Loan Building, jacent to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $57.895, to the Consoli- dated Engineering Co. of Baltimore. The Government also reserved the right to accept the additional bid of the same company for more con- struction on the same building, in the sum of $10,480, within two months. Ten Bids Submitted. The Hechinger bid was the lower of two bids for wrecking the square of buildings, while that of the Con- idated Engineering Co. of Balti- re was the lowest of eight bids on the Liberty Loan Bullding. Mr. Hechinger announced today he expected to start work with his wrecking crew on Monday. Under the contrart the work is to be com- pleted by December 10. Meantime Government charged with responsibility of carry ing forward the building program are working on several disputed ques.- tions. chief among which seems to be the location of the new home for the Department of Commerce and the question of whether it would be ad visable for the Government now to purchase the rest of the great trian gle between Pennsvlvania avenue, Tifteenth street and the Mall Tentative plans are being drawn in the office of the supervisinz architect for placing the Department of Com- merce at the corner of Penns¥lvania avenue and Fifteenth street. Further study will be given to this by the Public Buildings. Commission, the Commission of Fine Arts and the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission Differ Over Triangle Purchase. Some difference of opinion appears to exist among administration officials as to the feasibility of purchasing the remainder of the great tract of land Pennsylvania_avenue, Fif- teenth street and the Mall, but senti ment in favor of such a farsighted program seems to be growing. It would require additional leelslation to incorporate this in the Federnl building program as now set up. strike 1 . outside; Ball 1. outside: called: ball York pitch called: strike | foul; ball 3. outside: Sherdel cut off a Pennock. Sherdel gloved hand. seeming hit by caught the ball in hi Ceombs up: Ball 1, low: ball rike 1, cailed. striRe led: high: O'Farrell took Combs’ sha er and threw him out. Sherdel worked a wide curve on the corners of the plate all through the inning. No runs, no hits, no errors, CARDINALS — Sherdel up: Strike 1. called: ball 1, outside; Koenig threw out Sherdel at first. Holm up: Strike 1. called: foul, strike 2; ball 1, outside: Holm fanned, letting a third strike float over the plate. Southworth up: Ball 1, inside: foul, strike 1: ball 2, low, outsidé: Southworth sent up a high fiy to the Bambino. No runs, no hits, no errors. FOURTH INNING. YANKEES—Koenig up: Ball 1, low; strike 1. called: Koenig flied out to Hafey. hitting at a slow curve. Ruth up: Strike 1, called: ball 1, inside: this was a slow ball: ball 2. outside: a other slow curve: ball 3, inside; ball 4: Ruth walked; the fourth pitch was low. Meusel up: Ball 1, outside: Meu- el flied out to Hafey and Ruth had to race back to first. Gehrig up: Ball 1. outside; Sherdel tried to pick Ruth strike 1, called: strike 2, ig fanned, swinging for & third ‘strike: Sherdel's curves made Gebrig Wk bad, No uas, w0 hits, no errurs, 1 3, rt roll- | French Fruit Trees Bloom Again With Record Heat Wave By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 7—The clock seems to have slipped back a month, instead of an hour, at the change of daylight saving to regu- lar time last Saturday night. France is sweltering under an unreasonable heat wave, which threatens disaster to the farmer. The situation is aggravated by the fact that for three months there has been no rain. The ground is so hard and dry that Fall cereal sowings will be almost impossible unless there is a change in the weather before the November frosts, The’ weather office says there is no rain in sight. The thermom- eter in Paris hovers between 75 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Chest- nut, apple and pear trees and lilacs in bloom for the second time this year are common sights. DEFENSE SUMS UP INDAUGHERTY CASE Steuer and Rand, for Miller, Present Closing Arguments in Plot Trial. T By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 7.—In a voice barely audible in a hushed and expectant courtroom, Max D. Steuer, counsel for Harry M. Daugherty, be- gan his summation for the former Attorney General in the Daugherty- Miller conspiracy trial today. Daugherty, the first cabinet mem- ber to be brought to trial for alleged criminal acts, supposed to have been committed during tenure of office, sat in the middle of the packed court- room. a folded handkerchief held constantly to his left eve, which is in- flamed by cold. Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, former allen property custodian, are on trial, charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States in connec- tion with the release of $7,000,000 of impounded enemy assets Steuer, after vowing “ap abiding faith in humnity and the ultimate triumph of justice,” began an analysis of the sections of the trading with the enemy act under ' which the shares of the American Metal Co. were released and under which the indictment was brought. Declares Dinner Was “Nothing.” Miller committed no crime when he handed Richard Merton, German metal magnate. two checks for $6,543,- 000 at a champagne dinner in the Ritz-Carlton, Willlam Rand, his coun- sel, told the jur, ) was ‘making his summation for Miller. Yesterday he analyzed the law and part of the evidence in ithe case. “This champagne dinner was noth- Rand said. “Miller was coming 1o New York, anyway. He just brought those checks along to save time. Otherwise they would have | been lying around on some one's desk at Washington.” A Taking “4ip the evidence the Gov- ernment introduced to show that five of the $10,000 Liberty loan bonds Richard Merton, German metal mag- nate, paid John T. King, late Repub- lican national committeeman from Connecticut, as a ‘“‘commission” for rushing through the claims of the Soclete Suisse Pour Valeurs de Me x, were traced to Miller, Rand “To say that because the serial numbers of bonds were the same as some of those Merton gave King proves nothing at all. There is a cu- rous omission of Government evi- dence here. Those bonds could have| been in hundreds of other hands after they left King's and before they got to Miller's. Declines to Bring New Names In. “I know you all have a question | in your minds. That question is: Why didn't Miller get on the stand and tel us where he got those bonds? Now, isn't_that a pretty good guess? “Well, Miller is not obliged to get on the stand and tell you where he got them, because the Government has never shown that he got them trom King. He is under no obligation —and you have no right to hold that against him—to tell you anything about them. “Public curlosity may demand it, but the law does not compel him to drag into this case names that have not_heretofore Leen mentioned in this .. TIL SEAS WAY INO COURT Swanson, in Conference With Kellogg, Believes Formula Will Be Found. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Some interesting exchanges are going on among the foreign offices of the world with respect to the Ameri- can reservations to the World Court protocol. Senator Swanson, Democrat, who has been at Geneva and is now back here, is in frequent consultation with Secretary Kellogg. He has been hope- ful that some formula could be worked out permitting American adherence to the Court. #Fhe latest suggestion is that all the powers accept the famous fifth reser- vation without comment at this time and that if a specific case arises which makes it difficflt for the Court to function because of supposed Ameri- can obstruction, the situation be met by a concerted movement to amend the statutes of the Court. Fear of Veto Power. In other words, most of the oppo: tion to the fifth reservation at Geneva was based on a hypothetical case which might never exist. It was pre- sumed that the American veto power would be exercised in a broad sense wherever American interests were in- volved even remotely. No such contingency is expected by American officials. European govern. ments, for instance, may have over- looked the fact that the interpretation of a treaty or international agreement is vested with the executive branch of the Government, which, through the Department of State, conducts diplomatic relations. The question of whether specific controversy did or did not involve an American interest would be decided by the State Depart- ment, which, it is pointed out, would never veto an advisory opinion in an emergency that might otherwise lead to war. The good faith of #he American Government to use its veto power wisely and in a manner that could not proveke serious objection is counted on here to offset most of the argu ments that have heen made against the acceptance of the fifth reserva tion. L. & President Coolidge known, significant that no matter what the powers y about the fifth reservation at this time. he will not withdraw the application for Ameri- can admission. In other words, at the néxt meeting of the Geneva assembly the matter will still be on the pro- gram ready for action by individual members of the League. Also, there is ample opportunity for exchange of views by diplomatic note between now and the next meeting of the League. For purely political reasons not much will be said or done between now and November 2. The adminis: tration is not borrowing trouble on the World Court issue. There is harmony in the Repuplican ranks, and the President, for the mo- ment is concerned that his party shall retain control of hoth houses. After the eléctions the problem may come Not to Withdraw. had let it be up for discussion, but with a minfmum | of comment from the Washington end of the tangle. Europe. Must Co-operate. The Turopean governments are be ipg told by friends of the court that | a simple formula for acceptance now is the only practical way to keep American interest in the co-operative peace movement, as symbolized by the League of Nations, and that the latter cause will receive a setback un- less Kurope comes to the rescue of the pro-League and pro-Court ele- ments in America. The argument 1s being advanced that in due time evén the Sefate may see the unwisdom of retaining a spe- cial privilege in the World Court and that a resolution which _places America on a basis of equality, ex- cept on questions pertaining to the Monroe doctrine which the United States reserves for itself the right to interpret, may be the ultimate solu- tion. But the matter now is largely in the hands of the foreign govern- ments which have not drafted their final answers to the American reser- vations. Frederick William at Milan. MILAN, Italy, October 7 (#).— Frederick William, former Crown Prince of Germany, arrived here to- day incognito. He was recognized while promenading in the center of the clty, and was an object of,curios ity until he entered a taxicab and disap) . - ~ ¥ Ited by Gov. Whitman, DICKINSON'S DILEMMA. Husbands Dislike “Neat” Brides, Girls Told at Boston U. By the Associated Press BOSTON, October 7. — Brides should be orderly but not neat— men dislike the “neat” woman. That was oneof the flrst injunc- tions glven students at the open- ing of Boston University's new course for prospective brides last night. : “Neatness has broken up many a home,” Mrs. Elizabeth Mac- Donald, authority on home mak- ing told her hearers, She advised girls to allow their husbands to enjoy their homes even to the extent of dropping ashes on the rugs. “Be such a_ clever home-maker that your husband will never sus- pect your house takes a lot of time and care. Just do the work so efficiently that when he is around you will have sufficient leisure to look charming.” HINES PICKS LEGAL ADVISORY COUNCIL 15 Lawyers Will Aid Veter- ans’ Bureau in Solving Disabled Problems. Taking what he considers one of the most important steps toward im- proving the Government's care of mental incompetents of the World War, Director Hines of the Veterans’ Bureau announced today he is picking an advisory council of 15 distinguished lawyers, which will be called together here to help the bureau solve ifs knotty legal questions. Among the most difficult and controversial prob lems recently has been that involving the mental fncompetents from the World War. The council members will only be asked to give part of their time to this work, and will visit Washington at the call of Director Hines or their own chairman. Several other matters Involving im- provement in the care of these insane wards of the Government are under consideration by Gen. Hines, hut he said today in discussing the question that he considers the new advisory council the most vital and construc- tive factor of his program. Nominations for the advisory coun- cil have been submitted to Gen. Hines by former Governor of New York Charles S. Whitman, president of the American Rar Association. The names of 30 outstanding members of the bar throughout the country were submit 1s a result of action taken at the last meeting of the American Bar Assoclation, when it was voted to co-operate in work. The names of the lawyers known now only to Gov. Whitman and Gen. Hines, but when the 15 who are to serve are picked, within a few days, Gen. Hifes will announce his selection. The new advisory council will be set up along lines similar to the med- ical council of the Veterans' Bureau, which includes many of the most istinguished physicians and, surgeons in the United States, and which meets periodically at the bureau to advise on medical matters, 11 INJURED IN WRECK; COACHES IUMP RAIL Two Cars on Rochester Division of Pennsy Plunge Into Water of Chnal. By the Associated Press. OLEAN. N."Y,, October 7.—Eleven persons were injured. two possibly serfously, when a northbound pas- senger train on the Rochester divi- sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad hit a split rafl today and two coaches plunged into the water-filled bed of the abandoned Genesee Valley Canal, at Black Creek, about two miles north of Cuba, N. Y. Those helieved to have been serious- Iy_hurt are: Jack Van Weigand, Olean, formerly an aviator. Mrs. Anna Overlake, Newark, N. J. Neither suffered broken bones, but both may have internal injuries. Among the less seriously injured was E. T. Brunltz of Br this ! are | LOS ANGELES FLIES WESF THIS MONTH Detroit Dirigible’s Goal in First Extensive Trip Since Shenandoah Disaster. Authority for the first extensive overland flight of the airship Los An- geles since the Shenandoah disaster has been granted by the Navy De- partment. . The ship will start on a flight to Detroit on a date to be selected by her commander, Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl, some time aft- er October 11, When her tuning up and training period expires. It will leave either from her Lakehurst, N. J., hangar, or from the mooring mast of the tender Patoka, at New- pert, R. T. “For Military Purposes Onl, ‘The order specified that the trip is for military purposes only, and no in. vitations from interior cities to extend the flight in order to exhibit the ship are being considered. The military object is the testirg of the Detroit mooring mast and the training of the swrew of the dirigible, Comdr. Rosendahl, who is the senior surviving officer of the Shenandoah, will Be given complete authority over the flight, and will also select the route to-be followed. ‘Testing of the Detroit mooring mast was one of the missions assigned to the Navy airship Shenandoah last year on the trip which resulted in her destruction over Ohio in a storm. Talted by Bad Weather. The Los Angelessalso started Detroit for that purpose last year, but turned back because of bad weather. Later she was sent to Lake. hurst for a complete overhauling of gas cells and was not recommissioned until lite in April of this vear. The big airship, which was uled to leave Lakehurst Newport, where she will moor ut the mast of the Patoka, has been up and down the Atlantic Coast the past Summer, checking up on radio com pass stations and scientific tests, Flies to Newport. LAKEHURST, N.TI., October 7 (#). for loose from its mooring mast today for a training flight to Newport, R. I. She will return tomorrow evening. TO MARKET COTTON 1 Association Is An- nounced. The Government has extended a $30,. 000,000 credit to co-operative market- ing ‘assoclations for the orderly mar, keting of the cotton erop. A. C. Willilams, chairman of the Fed- eral Farm Loan Board, assured the co- operative organization in a message today that the Government was will- ing to extend any “proper credit” for marketing the crop. Of the $30.000,000 in commitments made by the intermediate credit banks, $7,000,000 in loans already has been drawn. | FIRES PERIL RANCHES. California Forest Blazes Leap 50 Yards at Stretch. SAN DIEGO, Calif., October 7 (#).— Forest and brush fires, ofteri leaping 40 and 50 yards at a stretch, are threatening ranches, homes, resorts and water sheds in the Escondido dis- trict. Five hundred men were on the fire lines. The entire ElI Cajon Valley and much of the San Diego back country were enveloped in smoke. A large fire in Mexico, details of which were not learned here, increased the smoke. Roosevelt Going to Hospital. ’ CHICAGO, October 7 (#).—A car- buncle on the neck of Col. Theodore Roosevelt has become so serfous as to necessitate an operation at once. Roosevelt will leave for New York to- day after. speaking at Elkhart, Ind., to enter a hospital, the Republican congressional campalgn committee was notifled. Dainifeomase. B 3 \ | to kill him while he was on the pistol | *% UP) Means Associated Sesqui Is Failure Financially, Mayor Kendrick Admits By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 7.— The Sesquicentennial International Exposition is a financial failure, Mayor Kendrick said today. It opened June 1 in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the sign- ing the Declaration of Independ- ence and less than 5000000 per- sons have passed through the gates, leaving the city to shoulder a blg deficit. “The financial failure of the ex- position,” said the mayor, “has been due, not to the management, but to the failure of the people to go there. While we should haver had 25,000,000 people in attend- @ have had less than 5,000, . L. Austin, direcior general, says that the exposition is riunning behind between $25.000 and $40.- 000 a week in operating cxpenses alone. Unpald claims of contrac- tors for construction and other work aggregate more thaa §3,000,- 000. ——e GRLNOTE WRITER SOUCHTINSLAYING Letter Found in Soldier’s Pocket Warned Him of Death Pledge. i Police and Army officials are search- ing today for the girl author of an endearing letter found in the clothes of Pvt. Bdgag H. Miller, Fort Myer Cavalryman, \hose body was found behind the west wall of Arlington Na- | tional Cemetery ¥ erday with a bul- let hole through his head. The let- ter warned the soldier that he was marked to be killed. Both police and Investigating offi- cers at Fort Myer declared today that | discovery of this letter, signed “Mart L. S." caused them to arrest Miss arian Ethel Gray, 20 y old, of | 1 Eighth street, and hold her for | investigation. Miss Gray, it was de- clared, is also known as “Miss Marfan | L. Smith.” ! Stolen Pistol Found. Perplexing circumstances thick and fast today as the officers’ board of inquiry, assisted by Head- quarters Detective Keck, pushed the investigation into the m; sterfous | shooting of the young cavalryman. { These involved the theft of a post | pistol and its recovery near Mille body, anonymous telephone messnges to the soldier’s flancee and mysteri- ous telephone inquiries at Fort Myer. Miller received the letter {varning him that unknowr: enemfes had sworn | came range at Camp Simms with the ervice Troop of the 3d United States | Cavalry. i Miss Gray was shown this letter at the House of Detention this morn- | ing, but she stoutly denied writing or | having anything to do with it. he | did admit, however, that she the | titian-haired girl, who was on a motor- ecyele with mest n of 1021 Nlnth_ street northwest when he was shot in the leg Monday night while riding past a section of the cemetery near where Miller's body was found. Two Shells Missing. The same da; warning the 4 ice pistol of the “service was found yesterda from Miller's feet been exploded, h areh failed disclose them near the scene. Of. ficers advanced the theory today tha Miller may have taken the weapon for protection after reading the le Miller received the iber automatic serv ance o shells had about an hour afte Miller's hody was found that a wm;:{; lled Fort Myer hy telephone and asked to speak to the young cavalry- man. TInformed that he was d The Navy dirigible Tos Angeles cut ! { not make the telephone call, and to U.S.LENDS 30 MILLION! | | | Extension of Credit to Co-opemtivel N conducting other | Mg replied: ' post motion picture operator, “Did he die? Well, where did v find the hody g L Then, before officers could trace the call, she hung up the receiver. Miss Gray told officers that that she did prove it asserted that she spent all of vesterday with friends at Hyatts- ville. She’ denied all knowledge of pexcept in o far as it might earing on the at'ack upon and herself. . = Fiancee Known at Fort. Miller was engaged to marry Lucile Kemp, whose home fs ut R ‘a., a few miles from Fort Myer. ss Kemp is well known at the Servica Club of the fort, where she attended dances with Miller frequently and often came to watch the motion picture shows. Her fiance was the nd he after usually the | shows. The last time he was seen wa B Monday night. when he left !hai’:—:‘- ice Club about 9:30 o'clock, immedi. i ately after. the motion picture show. Miss Kemp did not come to the post that night, but she told officers that Miller was ta come to her home. Late took her home that night, however, she was called by phone ‘and told by a man she | day Py TWO CENTS SCHOOLBOY PATROL T0 GUARD CHILDREN INSAFETY CRUSADE Youngsters to Show Others Where to Cross Streets on Busy Highways. EXPERIMENT ARRANGED FOR THOMSON PUPILS Officials Announce Plan to Save Little Ones “in Spite of Themselves." Six_safety traffic rules for school children were promulgat- ed by Supt. F. \W. Ballou of lo- cal public schools teday, upon the advice of traffic diree- tor and Traffic Bureau. The rules are: UN across a street d a parked car. Al ways be sure there are no ap- proaching cars. “Do not skate or play in the streets. “Do not beg rides “Do not hang on automobiles. “In [crossing streets 'where traflic is contr by lig! always cross only on the signal. “Automobiles bringing pupils to_school should approach the school so as to stop on the side of the street next to the school and not put the children out acl the street from the teachers are Ballou in the ci cular sent to the entire school system fo_co-operate in helping children observe these rules. Public school officials today nounced plans for Washington concerted attempt to make, school traffic zones sufe for children “in spite of themselves." Stirred to immediate action by the death this week in a school “safery zone of a 6-yearwld student of the Gage School, the educgtion authoritfes will lTaunch next Monday an experi ment designed to enforce child safery through operation of a schoolhoy putrol foree. The experiment. to with the co-operation of traffic and police officials and representatives of the American Automobile Association, will be undertaken at the Thomson School, Twelfth and L streets, whe an investigation hy The Star yeste disclgsed startling trafflc hazards heedless youngsters attending school. To Mark Crossing Spot. The prime obj to see to or fr sireet on point. the corner on tioned a uniformed police department. In this way, it is hoped. the reck he nducted for tha ct of the patrol p t school children en rou which member of th v carefree childre upied with thoughts of play or tudy, will he obviated. 1t is thought that had such a patrol heen on guard morning in front of the ge School little Freddy Grosskurtis would be alive today. Arrangements were ward speedily today patrol. Tomorroy c this important work ructed fn their dutie: morning they will some insignfa of their statloned at the three polnts near the school and at inter secting danger zones, from Thirteenth and L streets to Twelfth and L streets and to Twelfth and K streers. A survey of schools shows that every effort is being made to impress upon children the need for them tn be careful and <. Weeklv talks and t Rudiments of cautic > pounded into thefr cars. And yet. disappoint ingly, it is found that when the chil dren leave school many of them ledve the advice hehind them Principal Makes Survey. A personal survey of near the Thomson School mgde vesterday by Princip K Finckel. He found & pressing for- to orzanize the the hoys selectod will_be in By Mondax uipped o athority bad traf conditions also was hoys racing in a game of ta under the wheels of a truck, stopping with squealing brakes most oo late to aveid hitting them Accordingly, he called together th higher grades of the school and g the pupils 1 straight-from-the-<houlder talk on the absolute need for safety, that disciplinary measures n in ntinued care and thonzhilessness i this And yet this morning he found nine violitors of the rules whigh he had lafd down. Mr. Finckel, from practical acquain tance with the problems, finds twn great obstacles to children’s safety One lies with the parents. The sec ond lies with reckless and thoughtless children themselves, rning (Continued on BOATLOAD SAVED BY KING'S WHIM Ferdinand Leads Guests to Serv- ants’ Craft Just Before Engine Explodes. By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, October 7.0-A sud- den whim of King Ferdinand yes. terday saved a whole boatload of royalty from possible serious injury O With former King Ge i lormer King Geo of Greece, Prince Christopher of " Greecn aud several of his nephews and a Hohen- zollern princess, King Ferdinand was | motor boating at Braila, on the Dan- ube. The King's entourage followed | the royal boat in another craft. | Acting on the spur of the moment, King Ferdinand decided that he and ' the members of the royal party would | take the boat occupied by his en. tourage. Hardly had the change been made whem the engine on the royal launch exploded, injuring sev- eral persons and forcing the others to_jump into the water. The King's party hurried to their ald and pulled the dripping servants to safety. - ‘. N | getting none { unit. fow,” he asked, “can you expect a_ child realize that the proper place to cross the street is at an established cross-walk when that child’s mother, taking him* by the hand, leads him across the street right in the center of the block directly across the traffic stream vards fron the safety of the cross-walk? What can we say to overcome the impres sfon in that child's mind that it i all right to cross there because he has crossed there with his parent? ‘Wants Parental Co-Operation. ome children are heedless; son are thoughtless; others are reckie: We have to overcome the naturul tendendles of such children: To do 80, we find that the great need out standing Is parental co-operation with the teachers in impressing the chil dren with the need for caution. From results of our talks, we fear we ars too much of this co- operation.” Some dozen boys will be sélectel tomorrow at the Thomson School 1 become members of the boy patrol An offer to furnish insignis to designate these boys has bepn made by the A. A. A. office here through C. P. Clark, assistant general manager. He has also offered to sup- ply safety posters and to extend all co-operatfon possible in making the Boy Patrol unit a success. __The advantageous location of the (Continued vn Page z, Column 8,)