Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. U, S. Weather Bureau Foreeast.) tomorrow partly cloudy; not much change in tempera- Fair tonight; ture. Temperature—Highest, p.m. yesterday; lowest, 4 today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 62, at 1:16 3, at 6'a.m. k) ¢ - Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news No. 30,110. post _office, Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. DEATHS OF 10000 SIEGE OF WUCHANG Many Perish Daily of Hunger. 50 Women Lose Lives in Rush to Boats. BOMBARDMENT TO PUT 210,000 IN GRAVE PERIL Only 40,000 of 250,000 Population Evacuated—U. S. Trying to Save Missionaries. By the Associated Press KING, October 8.—TForeien dis- s from Hankow say that at 4 0 women were among those trampled to death in the rush of the erowds through the gate of the city of Wuchang in an attempt to reach 1he boats taking refugees to Hankow, @cross the tse River. Chinese timate: unconfirmed, (2 that 10,000 persons have died in Wuchang since the siege of that city by the Red Cantonese army began some we Most of these are Baid to have died of starvation. Hankow dispatches state that 500 coffins have been shipped to Wuchang to bury refugees tr: in the rush for boats. 210,000 IN GRAVE PERIL. Bombardment Due to Begin Before | Many Can Escape. HANKOW, China, October 8 (P).— of AVucha e 1,000 ye: be »«d more than re birth Christ—is emptied of its civilian population, or that portion of it which it is hu- manly possible to transport across the two miles of placid Yangtse River to_Hankow in the time allowed. There have been only a few days n which the rescuers could work, a few boats available for the purpose, and vet this theater of death is the abode of m 50,000 people. Red Cross as yet h been the river only 40,000 refu- gees. Siege Lasts Five Weeks. five weeks the ancient city across the s, which, under one name or has held a place in the comme: nd policies of the Orient as far_back as history is vecorded, has Been a_sealed tomb of dead and dying. The streets are strewn with corp and the populace 15 slowly starving to death. The stubborn fury of its defense by the northern force born of the refusal of the besiegers to grant any terms of surrender. In the war lan- Ruage of the llast this probably means annihilation when hunger or shells have sufficiently sapped the strength of the gaillant garrison. Announcement of the intention of the Cantonese to bombard Wuchang came after the blockaded northern army had consented to permit some of the thousands of non-combatants to depart. October 10 was the date set for the opening of this new phase of the ebochal struggle for possession | city. Desperate Attack. For only one thing can avert | the slaughter that must ensue otherw This would be the success of Gen. Sun Chuan efforts to cut the line of communica tions of the southern army, thereby forcing that portion of it around Wu- chang to retire southward as a matter If-preservation. The desperate nature of the attempt to assist the bloc forth by S denced by rey unconfirmed, that there have been 20,000 casualties in the fighting around Kiukiang and Foyang Lake Sun is the principal overlord of the five srn provinces and ally of Wu-P& Fu, who, vules Northern Chi HAND IN RELIEF. Nz to Effect Release of Missionaries. inevitably v 2egation Scel By 50 Daily News. “onant, assistant ttache, Wd Licut. 1 attempt to ne b1 foreign m aation of sionaries cooped up in months while the has been be- hern allie )0 miles of and Meanwhile two by the British le- 15 are expected 1y to treat with mander for the r who evidently ges since the be. alrcady has intimated to co-oper Kuominchun seized by th The trip involv ficult ow wiil take 4 British dc gation on Septe; to reach the be lease of t are held as hc sieging gener hi dif- Latest dispatches from Hankow in- dicate thut the Cantonese have made un Chuan Feng south his reported being evacuated. Wuchang stll holds out, ans are being permitted to leave, and 30.000, mostly women and enfldren, have I¢ft in the last three (Conyright. 1026, by Chicago Daily News Co.) PARIS READY TO PRESENT GERMAN BOND PROPOSAL Representations to U. 8., in Hands of Embassy. May Await Move by Belgium and Italy. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October §, the best of authority representations to the regarding the proposed sale of Ger- man railway and industrial debentures in America have been prepared and ave now in the hands of the French representatives in Washington. If they have not yet been presented, it 18 said the delay is to await prepara- tion of similar representations by Belgium and Italy, so that all the documents may be presented simul- taueously. It is learned on that United States mpled or drowned i being | Feng's | probably | ate in their, French | WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 1926—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. U. S. TOASTS BOOTLEG GENTRY R[PURIED IN ‘RED, Latest Concoction Labeled Simply “For- “Crankcase highballs, fully as palatable as cylinder oil drainings from a burned-out flivver, will be of- fered the nation’s illegitimate thirsty beginning next January 1, thanks to a brand-new formula for denaturing commercial alcohol just evolved by Uncle n's chemists. The mi: ture, while not considered fatally polson, contains about 4 per cent of wood alcohol. { The new formula, which will be in the nature of the Government's New Year toast to the bootlegging gentry, will make alcohol smell and taste “like hot, burnt crankcase dralnings from an automobile engine,” it wa ounced here tod: “ormula No. 5, modified,” is the of- name for the new denaturing process, but it was emphasized that the modification will spell mortifica- tion to bootleg chemists who have ibeen in the habit of daring the Gov- ! ernment to do its worst. | Judging from confident statements | of prohibition officials today, the Gov- lernment has certainly done its worst | in creating *“formula 5, modified.” “Awful” is the word used by the au- mula No. 5, Modified,” But Officials Say It Tastes Just “Awtul.” |thorities in describing how alcohol | will taste, after January 1. ‘The principal ingredient used in pro- ducing the crankcase aroma and | flavor is aldehol, a by-product of the gasoline “‘cracking” proce: It was | originaily developed in Pittsburgh as a solvent for varnish, doing its work quictly and well, but now a much wider fleld for public service has been opened to it. | For months the chemists of the pro- { hibition unit, under Dr. Doran, have been searching for a new formula which would have the double virtue of | being difficult to break up and of be- ing at the same time as harmless as o ble for the legitimate commercial use of denatured alcohol. Chemists feel that they have succeeded unusual- 1y well in the new formula, which has but slight damaging effect for com- Five of the original formulas of the Government for denaturing have been dropped, princip: wuse the bootleggers' clever chemists | have been able (o find a means of tak- ing out the denaturant, to some tent at least, so that the alcohol found its way into bootleg channels. CARDS, BEATEN 32, - PINHOPE ON ALEX | Grimly Determined to Even Series, as They Speed East for Sixth Game. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. | Sporta Editor of The Star. WITH THE WORLD SERIES TEAMS, En Route to New York From | st. Louts, October 8.—A grim, but de- | termined, clan of Cardinals today is | hiking East, where tomorrow at Yan- kee Stadium will be declded whether | they will get another shot at the { world base ball championship or be ! forced to yleld that honor to their | American League rivals. As happy as the Cards are dour, are Babe Ruth and his playmates as they speed over the rails for the stadium with a confldence born of knowledge that only one more victory is needed to assure for each athlete 2,000-odd dollars, which represents the differ- ence between the winners' and losers’ shares of_the richest financial melon ever cut In thése title sets, while Hornsby's henchmen face the neces- sity of grabbing two games in a row to obtain the lion’s share of spoils. It 19 expected that the sixth title of the set tomorrow will find Alexander facing Shocker, just as he did in the second test. The fact that the veteran | curve-hall artist last Sunday limited | the Hugmen to four hits and two tal- | lies, while his mates were hammering | the spitball manipulator for a dozen | safeties that produced half as many ! runs, is the consideration most cheer- | ful to Natlonal League adherents. But proponents of the Yanks point to the fact that they not only have emerged from their batting slump, | but also bave waxed lucky in stoutly contending that the serfes will be ter- minated tomorrow and obviate the necessity for a seventh setto on the Sabbath. Yanks Get the Breaks. Lucky the Yanks were yesterday, too, in eking out a 3-to-2 verdict in 10 innings at St. Louls. All the | breaks of the game, and there were { many, redounded to the benefit of | Herb ' Pennock. Without them he | wouldn't have registered his second ! triumph in this set and the fourth of | his career at the expense of his | brother southpaw, Willle Sherdel. The Cardinals’ courageous little speclalizer in slow balls was found for nine hits, ‘tis true, but a couple of the most { important were fluky affairs, and | where his supporters fairly earned | thelr brace of tallies, all three of those recorded by the Yankees were tainted |in_some respect. Ruth, who the proved the mauling {orgy of record-breakir in these title tilts, was able to ac- { complish nothing against the craftily concelved and skillfully executed curv- ing campaign of Sherdel, which con- stituted a commendable feat for the wee one in itself. The contest other- wise was not so spectacular as its | predecessor, but there were big mo- | ments and’ high lights for all that, fand only the fact that fortune frown ed the Cardinals to defeat marred | what would otherwise have been a |base ball treat for another record | throng at Sportsman's Park. The Cards had a chance at the out- set when Southworth got a life on Koenig's fumble and stole second on |a delivery on which Severfed v | charged with a passed ball, but Horns { by succeeded only in bounding high to Pennock and Bottomley was limited to an infield rolfer. Cards Get First Hit. In round two the Yanks had an |even better opportunity when, with | Meusel disposed of, Gehrig singled to | center and took third on a rap to right | by Lazzeri, only to have Dugan drill |into & double-play, Hornsby taking his skimmer, tagging Tony on the line and then firing to Bottomley. The rear end of this frame found O'Farrell registering the Card’s first hit with a dive that caromed off _Pennock’s | | | day before had marvel of an | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. nprecedented | WOMANAND2MIEN LYNCHED BY M0B Trial on Charge of Slay- ing Sheriff. By the Associated Press. C., October 8.—A mob ¢ stormed the Aiken jalil, seized three negroes, one of them a pine limits. The negroes lynched were Clarence and Demmond Lowman and the latter's sister, Bertha Lowman. They were on trial a second time for murder in connection with the death of Sheriff H. H. Howard of Alken County, who was shot to death April 25, 1925, when, accompanied by several deputies, he went to raid the home of Sam Low- man, father of Demmond and Bertha Lowman, and uncle of Clarence Low- man. On their first trial the negroes were convicted, but a new trial was granted by the State Supreme Court. This trial began early this week. Jailor Is Overpowered. Yesterday Speclal Judge S. T. Lan- ham, presiding, directed a verdict of “not guilty” for Demmond Lowman, gn the charge of conspiracy to mur- er, The mob broke into the jail about 3 o'clock this morning, overpowered Rupert Taylor, jailer, and Sheriff Nollie Robinson, and took the negroes away in ap automobile. Their bodies were found: several hours later in the thicket, about a quarter of a mile from town. Each had been shot eev- eral times. The Jafler said all thicket just beyond the city electric called to the door by the men. A de- mard was made for the prisoners. He refused to accede and had Sheriff Robinson called by telephone. The sheriff arrived while the mob sur- rounded the jail, and was overpow- ered, the officer sald. Meantime some members of the mob entered the jail through a window in a part of the building used as the jailer's\residence, and succeeded in obtaining the pris- oners. Sheriff Is Outdistanced. Sheriff Robinson said he followed the mob, but was outdistanced be- cause he was driving a small automo- bile while the lynchers were in faster cars. He turned back near the city lmits. Although Demmond Lowman was ac- quitted on the conspiracy charge, he was rearrested yesterday on a warrant charging assault with intent to kill. The two men were sentenced to death at their first trial and the woman was given a life sentence. Sheriff Robinson accompanied Sheriff Howard on the rald on the Lowman home. Annle Lowman, the mother of Demmon and Bertha, was killed by one of the ralders. Bertha was shot dur- ing the raid. Assistant Chief of Police J. H. Wood- dered { opened fire. The bodies indicated that | each negro had headed in a different direction, iff and jailer were relegsed and the sheriff opened fire on the mob in the darkness. GUAM APPEALS TO U. S. Congress Indignant at Philippine Annexation Proposal. GUAM, October 8 (#).—Having re- ceived word that a resolution has been introduced in the Philippine Legisla- ture providing for the annexation of Guam to the Philippines, the chair- man of the Guam Congress called a special session. Members of congress are indignant at the provosal and unitedly opposed to the idea. A committe is preparing a memorial to Secretary Wilbur and President Coolidge, volcing its objection. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, October 8.—The French | navy. after several months of care- ful experiments, has formally adopted a new combustion fluid as substi- tute for gasoline. The fluid, known as makhonite carburant, was invented by a naturalized Russian, who owns a factory near Paris. It can be ex- |tracted from various heavy mineral i:lnd vegetable oils, but especially from |coal tar. Ninty per cent of coal tar | thus treated is transformed into car- | burant. Any good motor can be adjusted to this carburant M a few minutes, and, according to the official nuvy reports, it is o better fuel thau guyoline. De 4 Coal Tar Substitute for Ga;oline Found By French Navy to Be Superior as Fuel Stroyers using it have been consist- oline. The new fuel makes almost no smoke, emits almost no fumes and possesses the enormous advantage of being non-inflammable outside of a motor. The navy report tells of ex- tinguishing a bonfire of shavings and of vain endeavors to ignite a quantity of carburant poured on a floor. This means that French destroyers and hydroplanes, which also have been adapted to carburant, are insured against deadly fires in their fuel reservoirs. . Automobiles using carburant are «aid to have given perfect results. {Covs sicht. 1926, by Chicago Dally News Co.) alcohol | e Three Were Held for New| woman, and shot them to death in a | light | wires to the jall were cut and he was| said the mob evidently had or-| the negroes to run and then| When the mob left the jail the sher- | ently beating destroyers using gas- | PRESIDENT'S MOVE IN" BUTLER-WALSH CONTEST WATCHED Massachusetts Doubtful if Chief Executive Will Take Hand in Race. | :PHOHIBITION IN FRONT AS DEMOCRATIC ISSUE vRepuhliz:ans Rally Around Party Leader, Prosperity and Pro- tective Tariff. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. BOSTON, Mass,, October 8.—A trial of political strength which may |have farreaching national signifi- cance is underway in Massachusetts. The principal actors in this contest, which is to be decided at the polls November 2, are Senator William M. Butler and former Senator David I. Walsh. One or the other will be elected United States Senator to fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodse. But the issues underlylng are of greater interest nationally than the personal success of either of the con- testants. The outcome of the sena- torial contest here will be used as a vard stick to measure the popularity of President Calvin Coolidge—al- though he s not personally involved in the race. It will also be regarded {as a measure of the strength or weak- iness of America's great experiment, | pronibition. The campalgn fdt the election of {a Senator from Massachusetts has been under for months in this State. The ground work has been laid on both sides. There remains |only the final drive which is to land Butler or Walsh a winner. I have talked with both and both are con- 1 fident of success. Issues are Defined. The issues as the Republicans see them in this race are Coolidge, Re- publican prosperity and the protec- | tive tariff. The issues as the Democrats see them, on the other hand, are prohi- bition, and progressivism vs. conser- vatism. Although the prestige of President Coolidge and his regime are involved in the campaign and its result, the Democrats frankly are not anxlous for that test. And while Senator Walsh in some of his earller speeches has assalled the Republican tarift law, the Democratic platform on which he now stands has straddled thé tarif issue, declaring the party in favor of protection for industries of Massa- chysetts, but with due regard to the “consumers.” The Democrats are not concerned, it appears, with the protec- tion of industries, agricultural or com- merclal, outside of Massachusetts. President Coolidge's prestige is bound up with this contest here, not only because a Senator’ of his own party is involved in his own State, but also because Senator Butler was the manager of the President’s 1924 campaign and because he has been | regarded more than any other single | Senator as the spokesman of the ad-| ministration in the Senate for the last two years. Day’s Burning Question. A burning question here today is: ‘What is the President going to do about the senatorial race? Is he com- Ing to Massachusetts to make a speech urging the election of the Republi- can ticket, including Senator Butler? Is he going to write a message at the psychological moment advising e voters to support the Republican ticket here? Republican leaders insist they do not know what the President will do, or whether he will do anything. Some of them say that there is no need for the President to take an active part in the campaign; that the situation is such that Senator Butler will win without the President himself enter- ing the campaign, ' Others frankly speak of the great interest which the President necessarily has in Massa- chusetts politics, and say they be- lieve that in his own time he will make an_appeal to the -voters for Senator Butler and the rest of the | ticket. The Democrats are no less inter- ested than the Republicans in what the course of the President will be Some of them profess to belleve that the direct entry of the President into the campaign will not only not help Senator Butler, but will have a con- frary effect. But none of them is shouting loudly for the President to come here and speak or to send a message to the voters. President’s Strength Bulwark. The truth of the matter is that President Coolidge's great personal popularity and strength in the Bay State was a_deciding factor in the | senatorial election in 1924, when ! nator Walsh was defeated by a ant 18,588 votes, The President ihimself rolled up a vote 271,420 | greater than the combined vote cast {for John W. Davis, Democrat, and | Robert M. La Follette, Progressive. | The President’s strength in his own ! State today Is one of the greatest | assets of his party ticket, including | Senator Butler. | Should Senator Walsh win, his vic- I tory will be interpreted generally as a blow to President Coolidge and an evi- | dence of waning strength. This will be true whether the President actually participates in the campaign or not. It sems superfluous to tell the voters that the President wants Butler elected. Massachusetts is sald to be normally Republican by 100,000 votes. But i “normal” conditions frequently do not prevail here. For example, normal conditions did not prevail when Presi- | dent Coolidge was a candidate for the ! presidency. Nor did normal condi- { tions prevail ‘when the late Senator Lodge was elected over Col. William | A. Gaston, the present Defnocratic | nominee for governor, by only 8,000 | | votes. There were factional- troubles in the Republican party, and a very | considerable number of Republicans i opposed Lodge because of his part in the defeat of American entry into the { | i | ! | ) & 7 el CONSTRUCTIONSETS NEW RECORD HERE Total of $53,182,900 for Nine Months Is $750,000 Ahead of Previous Mark. The first nine months of this year show that the per capita expenditure of the residents of the National Cap- ital for new construction amounts to more than $100. This sets a new rec- ord in the building industry of Wash- ington and one that only a few of the great industrial centers of the country can surpass. An examination of the records of the building inspector’s office and of the figures of the Operative Build- ders’ Association, together with the present estimation of the population of Washington at 528,000, shows that the District's per capita expenditure for new construction is 55 per cent greater than the per capita outlay of the entire population of the United States for the nine months’ period. Approximately $5,000,000,000 in new bulldings was spent thraughout the country in the last nine months. An examination of the figures com- piled by the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics of the Department of Labor shows that of the total new building’ in Washington during the first six months there was a per capita ex- penditure of $56.41 for residential construction. This average was ap- proximately maintained during the last three months, and while Wash- ington stands about seventh in the country in buflding construction of all types, it ranks fourth in per capita expenditure for residential construc- tion and is exceeded only by Yonkers, N. Y.; Los Angeles and New York City. Total, $53,182,900. From January 1 to September 30 $63,182,900 has been expended in new construction in the District. This is more than $750,000 ahead of the same period during the record year 1925, but there are so many big projects about to be started that there is no question that the total for this year will far exceed 1925 and reach close to $70,000,000. None of these figures include public work or Federal proj- ects which soon will place Washing- ton in the position of second or third in the construction industry of the Natlon. One of the features of building here this year is the decline of house con- struction by about 26 per cent, and the increase in apartment house con- struction by 29 per cent. So far the total amount of residential construc- tion is 2.03 per cent ahead of last year. Homes for 30,000. Fousing accommodations for 30,000 persons have been erected during the past nine months. There have been 2,842 houses bullt during that period, compared with 3,929 last year, a de- cline of 1,087 houses. On the other hand, 3,172 apartment units have been built this year, compared with 2,660 yast year, an increase of 1,082, None of these figures take into con- sideration the vast development in the nearby Maryland and Virginia suburbs of the National Capital, where construction has been carried on at a rapid pace. The fact that the National Capital reflects the tendencies of the Nation in almost every respect is again evi- denced by the fact that just as house construction in Washington decreased and apartment house construction in- creased, the same condition was re- the country. The Bureau of Labor Statistics families. Examination of these fig- ures with local records shows that in the same period Washington provided 4.22 per cent of the total amount of residentlal construction in the United States. JACKIE’S LOCKS TO GO. House of Coogan Decides on Real Boyish Haircut. LOS ANGELES, October 8 ().— Jackie Coogan, child film star, today | anxiously awaits the call to a bar- ber's chair to have his bobbed locks sacrified for a real boy's haircut. ‘The transformation was agreed to by the house of Coogan, that Jackie might realize a 5-year ambition to abandon the childish bob, despite the pleadings of his parents and the demands of the screen. | League of Natlons. It is also true that Senator Walsh’s strength _in this State exceeds the (Continued on Page 6, Column 8.) Radio programs—Page 37 flected in 68 other cities throughout |wag 340, the following year 404 and shows that for the first six months of : tributed to intoxication, coupled with this year residential construction in the heavy penaity now being im- the United States provided for 207,231 posed by the courts for this offense. Countess Is Given 3 Months in Jail For Forging Husband's Will to Get Estate \ J i * (P) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. Oil-Famed “Little Green House on K Street” Is Sold The little green house on K street 18 to be remodeled into stores and apartments. The residence at 1625 K street, ‘Washington home of the late Jesse Smith, came into a prominence dur- ing the naval oll lease hearings, for the parties, it was testified, were held there by Smith, former Attorney General Harry Daugh- erty and others prominent in the official life of the Capital. It was sold yesterday by Clif- ford Bangs, the owner, to_ Ber- nard M. Cady, through the office of Myron M. Parker & Co. Alterations will begin in a week or two. PRISONERS FORCED 7O SLEEP ON FLOOR Occoquan Superintendent Appeals for Aid to Relieve Overcrowding. Following closely on the heels of a report by the grand jury praising con- ditions at the District penal institu- tions, Capt. M. M. Barnard, superin- tendent, was forced to appeal to the Board of Public Welfare today for temporary relief from the acute over- crowded conditions at the workhouse at Occoquan, Va. The grand jury recently made a tour of inspection of the jall, work- house and reformatory, and in its re- port to the District Supreme Court carried only one criticism, concerning the lack of laundry facllities at the latter institution. But Capt. Barnafd told George S. Wilson, director of the Board of Public Welfare, that the pop- ulation at the workhouse has out- grown the available quarters; that prisoners are sleeping on the floors as a result, and there also is a shortage of bed and prison clothing. ‘Will Consider Appeal. The board is expected to consider Capt. Barnard's appeal at its meeting next week. According to the superin- tendent, the surplus of prisoners can be cared for comfortably on tem- porary cots or straw mattresses, if ticking s provided. At least 300 addi- tional suits of prison clothing and a number of blankets also are needed. With accommodations for 450 and | possibly 600 prisoners, Capt. Barnard | pointed out that there are now 620 quartered at the workhouse, the largest number in the history of the institution. For the last 10 days, he said, prisoners have been coming in at the rate of 15 to 40 a day, and the discharges have been too few to offset the influx. One day re- cently 22 prisoners sentenced to the workhouse had to be kept at the jail, which also is overcrowded, be- cause Capt. Barnard could not pro- vide quarters for them. Statistics Show Increase. A statistical report picturing the numerical growth at the workhouse since 1920, accompanied Capt. Barn- ard’s plea for additional equipment. In that year the workhouse had an average of 167 prisoners. In 1921 the average jumped to 283. 1In 1923 it last year it was 528. The increase Capt. Barnard at- I I\ G \ { | | i HUNTGRLADIAN INSOLDERS DEAT Officers Follow Two Trails in Investigation—Personnel of Fort Quizzed. The investigation into the death of Private Edgar H. Miller, Fort Myer cavalryman, who was shot under mysterious circumstances in Arling- ton National Cemetery some time last Monday night, followed two trails today, with Department of Justice agents assisting Fort Myer officers in their efforts to determine how the trooper was killed. While one group of investigators was looking for a young woman, probably living in Arlington County, who wrote Miller a letter several weeks ago warning him that his life was_in danger, another group was combing the personnel of the cavalry- men and artillerymen at Fort Myer for a suspect. That these two trails would cross each other sooner or later was freely predicted. Miss Gray Kot Involved. At the same time, it was made plain that Marian Gray, or Marian Smith, who has been held at the House of Detention for investigation since Wednesday night, was not the author of the letter. A queer twist of fate, it is believed, brought her to the scene of the death of the soldier who carrled a letter in his pocket bearing inftials identical to her own. Fate, too, destined that her own escort, Ernest Johnson of 1021 Ninth street, should be shot in the leg by two men, apparently soldiers, who supposedly were about to frighten her escort away and attack her. Here, however, the investigators be- lieye' the trail of Miller's slayer, if theWe was one, crossed the girl's. It is this circumstance that had led them to search their own house, figuratively speaking. Johnson Describes Attack. Johnson told a reported for The Star at Emergency Hospital yesterday afternoon that he was not riding his motor cycle when the attack was made. He and Miss Gray had driven up a dirt road, leading to the Fort Myer parade ground, and parked.!| They were sitting on the ground,| about 100 yards from the main high- “(Continued on Page 2, BIG ESTIMATE BRINGS TUMBLE IN COTTON Government Report Showing High Yield' This Year Sends Prices to Smash. “olumn b) | ) By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, October 8.—Cotton prices dropped $4 a bale today after publication of the Government crop | report indicating a prospective yield | of 16,627,000 bales, an increase of | 817,000 bales over the estimate of Sep- | tember 16. A flood of selling orders was let loose on the New York Cot-| ton Exchange, demoralizing the mar- | ket-and smashing prices to the low- | est levels In more than five vears. | December contracts quickly declined | to 12.36 cents a pound and January | to 12.41. Ginning for the period was a rec- | ord figure, and traders generally felt | that the crop would be the largest ever gathered. By the Assoclated Press. POTSDAM, Germany, Octeber 8.— Countess Hessolda Schnabel was sen- tenced to three month’s imprisonment early today after a _midnight trial in the county court. Recently she ¢on- fessed having forged the will of her late husband, Prof. Schnabel of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases, by which his entire fortune was left to her. ‘The countess was born in St. Louis, Mo., in October, 1885, the daughter of Count Leiningen-Westerburg and the former Margarete Meyer of St. Louis. The countess sobbed bitterly in the courtroom, which was jammed with curious spectators. She repeated her | previous confession that she had forged the will. She sald she had i vested much of her own money fn a 7 beautiful island villa estate owned by | her husband and wanted to prevent | “grasping relatives” from obtaining | her husband’s fortune. As her hus- band died without leaving a will, she said, she believed she was carrying out his wishes in drawing up one Prof. Schnabel met the countess! while she Wwas serving as a nurse in a hospital in which he was.stationed.' They were married in 1923. The! union was unhappy and when the! husband died the following year she was not at_his bedside. When the countess funeral produced a wi leave the large estate Dr. Schnabel entirely to her, the professor's mother and sister, to whom he was said to have been de- votedly attached, contested it. after the| purporting to ad fortune of | fication, safety poster SCHOOLS MAY OPEN LATER T0 PROTECT PUPLSFROM CARS Maj. Hesse Finds Traffic Con- gestion Drops Greatly Just After 9 0’Clock. MATTER TO BE PUT UP TO SCHOOL HEADS A. A. A. Offers Full Facilities to Form Student Patrols to Guide Children. ool oy Thomson School, Twelith . was moving forward to rate which indlcated that morning would find a dozen on special duty at danger points mnear the school to protect schoolmztes from heedless and care less risks in trafficladen strects. « still more sweeping project in the in terest of safety for school children was crystallizing in the form of sug gestions to push back the hour for school openings to a time after the big 9 o'clock rush. Impetus was given to this project by a survey made this morning hy Maj. Hesse, chief of police, at the Thomson _School, which has been designated a model experimental post for this work in the District. Maj. Hesse went on the scene sometime be- fore 9 o'clock. He watched traffic jam Twelfth street and L street in a steadily flow- ing torrent while school children trudged across the perilous trafic lanes to arrive before the 9 o'clock bell. Almost as the bell was sounding, bringing the: children into classes, it seemed as th>ugh a magic hand had touched the %raffic stream and dis. solved it by 6 to 80 per cent. Congestlon is Reduced. The streets that had been filled with traffic a few minlutes before the children entered the school, became perceptibly less congested. The fun damental risks to school children had been more than cut in half on the streets. But by this time the children had no need for the street crossings; they were in school. The proposal for starting school at 9:15 or 9:30, when chiléren would not be subjected to the risk# of the traffic rush of Washington golag to its 9 o'clock desk, was broach® a few day: ago to several persons $fter a Star representative noticed tAe fact that traffic dwindled significantly after 9 o'clock—starting hour for many businesses in Washington. Charles K. Finckel, principal of the Thomson School, cognizant at first hand with the situation, was in favor of it, if it could be worked out suc- cessfully. M. O. Eldridge, director of traffic, expressed a favorable re- action to the suggestion. Following his survey this morning, Maj. Hesse feels inclined to view the proposal with favor if the plan will not dis- arrange routine in the homes. Mr Finckel has taken it up with memb. the parent-teacher organization of the schools and announced today an enthusiastic reception of the idea by the representatives of those direct- ly in control of children of that vicinity. Up to Board of Education. Supt. F. W. Ballou of the school system reserved comment, when the proposal was broached to him, since the time of opening and closing schools is In the hands of the Board of Education. Mr. Eldridge and Maj. Hesse, with others, are to take the matter up for discussion, with a_view to approach- ing the Board of Education with the proposition as to whether a universal setting back of school hours through out the city would be advisable. Insignia and equipment for the members of the Schoolboy Iatro! have been placed at the disposal of the schools by the American Auto- mobile Assoclation, It was announced today. A letter from C. P. Clark, assistant general manager of the A. A. A., 1o Chairman Ben W. Murch of the com- mittee on school safety stated: “The unfortunate accldent resulted in the death of Freddie kurth, a pupll of the Gage Schooi, appears, from press reports, to_have revived an interest in the establish- ment of the Schoolboy Patrol system in Washington. Offers Full Facilities. “We wish to take this opportunity to again extend to your committee the entire fucilities of this organiza- tion, together with badges, arm bands or other insignia nece: for identi- or such other material as your committee might re quire to successfully establish a_defl- nite safety program in the schools ot Washington. ¢ we further invite your atten- tion to the fact that since the intro duction of the schoolboy patrol system in Chicago similar systems have been established in Detroit, Cleveland, Cin- cinnati, Akron and Lake City is at pres organization to be Junfor Traffic Police, with obje the same as those of schoolboy patrols in other cities. “In Chicago, where the system operates with over 5,000 schoolboy patrolmen fatalities to children through automobile accidents were de creased 14 per cent in 1925 over 1921, while the d ate of adults from the same eased over that four-year period 47 per cent. e feel the schoolboy patrol and other safety measures should be given full credit for this remarkable decrease of fatal accidents to children. May we further suggest that if the schoolboy patrol 1s to be established in Washington the fullest co-operation should be manifested between school authorities, police department, the pupils which i office of the director of traffic and the motorists of this eity. To insure this ! co-operation we would suggest that a committee of representatives of these groups be formed to establish and mainiain the schoolboy patrol sys tem.” Floods Deter Troops. NOGALES, Ariz, October 8 (#).— Floods in the state of Sonora, Mexico, ave tied up rail transportation and rriously hampered the operations of deral troops against the revoltink Yaqul Indains, dispatches from thc affected area state. A &