Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness; not much change in tem- perature. Temperature—Highest, vesterda Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 iowest, 49, at 7 a.m. today. 69, at 1 p.m. @ /WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Assoc service. Yesterday’ The only evening in Washington witl ated Press news R the s Circulation, 100,633 vost_office, W No. 30,117. Entered as second class matter ashington, D. C. . PROPOSEDINQURY BY REED AROUGES INDIANA GAMPAIGN Walb Protest of Money Used' by International Bankers Acts as Boomerang. G. 0. P. FEARS INABILITY TO RESTRAIN SENATORS Democrats Hope to Drag in “Ste- phensonism,” But Fear Reaction if Whole Thing “Flivvers.” BY G. GOULD LINCOLN Staff Correspondent of The Star INDIANAPOLIS, October 15. “Stephensonism™ entered the cam paign and the limelight the same apathy among the voters that is found in othes States this Fall was here But the charzes of political scandals involving D. C. Stephenson, a “lifer"” at the Michizan City Penitentiar and the Republican organization nave aroused an interest, slowly at but now gathering momentum, which may yet make this a real campaign. Here in Marion County, the news. papers are full of the matter and people are watching each new edition. If the whole thing “flivy as some Republican leaders insist it will, it may prove a boomerang. On the other hand. the expectations that Senator “Jim" Reed of Missouri and his Senate investigating committee will be here next week. has roused still further interest in the matter. Good Name of State at ‘Stake. -Until For the fair name of the of its most influential citizens are hoping that the charges will prove incorrect. not 1o be carried away. but until the grand jury has sifted the matter and made its report. Bishop Frederick D. Leete of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Indiana has is- sued a statement n the Adams charges of political corruption, assert ing that the people generally confidence in the prosecuting attor- ney, William H. Remy, who is con ducting the grand jury investigation. and that most good citizens have suspended judgment. The bishop's statement suggests that the issue has been made to free Stephenson or merely as a political device at the last hour hefore election, and that some of the officials against whom the charges have been made are more tiustworthy than are those who have apneared as complainants. But the tide of sentiment seems to be rising and it is impossible to tell now just what the result will be. G. 0. P. Put in Hole, Some of the Republicans are not at all pleased with the turn of affalrs which may bring the Reed commit- tee into this te. Clyde Walb, the Republican State chairman, who wrote a letter to Senator Borah of Tdaho charzing that “international bankers' were spending money in In na to hurt the Republican scnato rial candidates because they had op. posed the World Court, is coming in for criticlsm. The Democrats took up this charge by Walb and sent word to Senator Reed they would like to have him investizate the matter. it appears to be the only which £rounds on the Senate investigating com mittee could well decide to come here, | Mr. Walb seems to have put his foot in it. Once the Reed committee here the Democrats believe it w £0 maneuver as to make an investiga tion of the entire situation, including the Adams charges of @gainst the Republican: A voung woman, described by local | newspapers vear-old Inc be a friend A center of investigation In the theory the alleged showing payments to Republ ) the former k man and agreements recarding political appointments, Miss M P is sought hy the and jur; Her parents insist’ she has none of ments, but that ihey we t to New York.” The attorney makir flort to obtain the documer as a “frail. beautiful 2 anapolis girl,” said of “Steve.’ has become interest in the scandal She is Mildred Meade. that she has some of Stephenson ] doc prose- every World Court as Issue. The issues intthe campaizn outside of “Stephensonism™ have created com- paratively little excitems publicans have sought Worl urt an strong sentiment American adherence and the both Indiana Senator Robinson. voted The Democrats, fact that Watson and against court. on the other hand, have tried not to be drawn into the court issue. Evans Woollen, candi date of the Democrats against Robin- son, and Albert Stump. their nominee against Watson, have taken the posi tion that the Republicans and the Re- can administration first present ed the court issue to the Senate of the United and were in control of t body when the protocol was rati e Nevertheless, the are counting on this anti-Worl entiment to aid them. Back of them i this stand they see the Ku Kiux Klan. Although the Klan is declared o be considerably weaker in Indiana than it was two vears ago, 4t is still in control of many votes. It has been estimated that the Klan strength has dwindled to 100,000 from the $00.000 members it boasted at its height i< only an estimate of Klan strength ates e wet and dry stivred other States is lacking here except in three congressional districts the first, fifth and twelfth, where the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment bhacking the Demo. cratic nominees for the House. Off clals of the Anti-Saloon League say that all_four of the senatorial nom inees, Republican and Democratic alike, are satisfactory to the drys, and issue that has ue does not enter into the sena- | Robinson | to campaign. Senator has spoken repeatedly for the Robinson’s expenses from ton to Indiana when he came to make dry speeches. He was the dry leader in the State Senate when the State enforcement code, more strin- gent than in any of the other States was put through. Senator Watson the league leaders point out. has a long record of voting for prohibition measures in Congress Evans Woollen. head of one of the first, | ate many | They are counselinz voters | to walit | have | As! il corruption | to This | ' floor | WASHINGTON, D. C, Why I Am Coming to America By Her Majesty, the Queen of Rumania A= Given to the American Public Through The North American Newspaper Alliance " AM coming to America because deeper still. Ito you QUEEN MARIE. | {gotten; perhaps to some it was never It is so difficult for me to get away for a long time. a thousand duties, a thousand obligations keep me chained to my own coun- the crumbling of those we had thought to lean on; dread day jagony, that, in retrospect, seem unendurable. 1 have come to thank you for the great Red Cross, headed by those | who became not only saviors, but the dearest of friends; | President Wilson's message to the King. PART L I want to see you; because I feel in my heart that we are friends with a deep friendship we want to make A mutual great desire drew us toward each other; a strong urge from my heart to yours, from your heart to mine. For 10 years this desire to come to you has been growing and grow- ing until at last I felt I could put it off no longer. 1 just had to come A thousand ties, try: but at last I overcame cvery dif- ficuity, every objection and hindrance s0 as to pay at least a flying visit. My great object is to touch as much ground of yours as I can. [ want to feel it under my feet, to know that I am rea’ly there; that my dream has come true; that 1 am among you at last. 1 am bringing my youngest child with me, <o that., with her eyes wide | open, she may sec and learn and un- derstand. 1 want her great blue eves to look into yours r young brain to accumulate pictures she will never forget. 1 want you to love her be- cause she is part of me. because life stands before her, wonderful, an ad- venture not yet lived. Comes With Thanks for War Aid. 1 come to sce as many of you as I possibly can. 1 come to thank all those who stood up for us, and who helped us during the great war, when we stood with our back to the wall, | our hands c'enched, our tecth set, catastrophe in front of us, destruc- tion behind us, despair staring us in the face. Hunger, cold, treacher; of supreme to thank you for By many it may be alrcady for- even known. Here it is: The people of the United States has followed with sentiments of the warmest sympathy and admiration, the courageous fight of vour majesty and the Rumanian people to preserve the national in- tegrity and the liberty militarism. tinue to aid Rumania in that fight. | 1come also to thank every indiv fort to get he'p to us. {did—or tried to do—that I love and “the i f Rumania from the domination of German The Governmjent of the United States is resolved to con- At the same time, [ desire to as- sure your majesty that the United States will support Rumania after the war with all its power and in all the final negotiations of peace. idual who tricd with superhuman ef- I have come to say to all Americans for what you thank you every one. I come to be jable to tell this to you everywhere I go. i ymade so firm that nothing will ever strange and unusual feeling of understanding hetween us which was laid— | ta! To Strengthen Link Already Strong. I come to strengthen a link already strong, but which I hope will be | fr break it. Because 1 feel there is a |T hope—for good and all in our hearts. That link is love, and love is stronger than war and destruction. Love | liver tonight. > d es. Love bridges fronticrs and hold jhands a light that must finally illuminate every little corner of thi lignores space, distance and classes. L {rowing world. 1 have come to bring a gift to a great monument given to the Ameri- | » {can people, where they have consecrated a room to the peop'e of my | for these schoollo: country, and it is their donation I am bringing to that room. which is theirs | tomed to speakinz hefore large au- | | for all time 'to come. | Tam come on an official invitation from that museum to opr govern- | them spoken before an assembi in its sor- FRIDAY, RATORS READY FOR INTERNATIONAL CONTEST TONIGHT i President Coolidge to Speak Before Youths cf Five . Nations Compete. 1AUDIENCE WILL HEAR | THREE TONGUES SPOKEN Magnificent Silver Loving Cup to Be Awarded Winner at Wash- ington Auditorium. | | _The First International Oratorical Contest starts promptly at 8 o'clo [tonight in the Washington Audi torium, Five schoolhoys, representing five flags, are ready to uphold the tradi tions of their countries for youthful eloguence hefore an audience which will include the principal dignitaries |of the United States, as well as the leaders of the diplomatic corps. Presi. dent Coolidge will speak from the { same platform. Upon the slender shoulders of Her- hert Wenig, Hollywood (Calif.) vouth. |falls the honor of representing the | United States. Herbert Moran of To- | ronto will speak for the sister Eng- {lish-gpeaking Canada. William Meades { Newton of Liverpool will defend the | supremacy of the motherland of Eng- lish speech. From Mexico City comes | Jose Munoz Cota to uphold the ancient | eloquence of the Castilian tongue, and { from France, noted for its fiery ora: | tory., comes Maxime Raymond Puel of | Nancy, determined upon the wiumph {of the tricolor. Contrasts in Culture. It will be a clash of the old world | against the new. of Anglo-Saxon cul tuve against Latin culture. hoys spent the day together. Young | Puel veached Washington only late | vesterday afternvon and his oppo- |nents met him at the station. The | others have heen in Washington for | some time and have become fast nds during the busy days of sightseeing about the Nation's Capi- and of placing the finishing touches on the orations they will de- All five were together !last night at a dinner given at the | home of John Hays Hammond, 301 Kalorama road. Mr. Hammond will | formally open the contest tonight. The day iz passing slowly indeed All are accus- diences, but never has any one of n- |ment. to assist as friend and co-operator between our two peoples at its | taining the President of the United {dedication. This museum is at Maryhill. not far from Portland, Oreég.. on the | jof the world. great Columbia River, on the other side of which is the marvelous Colum bia Highway. which Marshal Joffre pronounced the finest built highw I am thril'ed at the thought of passing over it n- | And I want to sce the Peace Portal on the border between Canada and the United States. This great portal. in contrast to all other triumphal | (Continued on Page 3. Column 2.) MARIE T0 QUIT SHP OUTSIDE OF HARBOR Queen Surrenders Wish to Stay on Liner Until Leviathan Docks. By the Associated Press s LEVIATHAN. October 15.— Queen Marie is now reconciled to the plan for her party to disembark at | Quarantine, she indicated today, after ihe complications which. a ‘change of | program would entail were brought to her attention She wishes to avoid giving the im- on that she ix in the least ca pricious, and has no desire of upset- ting the arrangements made for her reception in New York of causing inconvenience to the welcoming com- | mittee \ She hoped later, however. to make trip 1y water around Manhattan land so she can get the full effect of the towering skyline. s Pores Over Letters. vouths are cess Tleana. uitors and self- se have found their way into missive of at least one voung in the United States, who has | ed marriage. While Queen Marie,.in her suite, listens in on the radio, or reads. as the Leviathan shapes her course for New York. the pretty 18-vear-old princess pores over letters received in Paris and hrought on board the liner by her to kil! dull moments ring the voyage. don't pay any attention to other Americans seeking the hand of your highness said one letter. “They are no good. T am the man for yvou. There is one young American on | hoard the Leviathan who has a good lead on the letter writers ashore. He already has captivated Teana and also her mother. “Is the Queen nicer than you?" asked the young man of Ileana. and after the princess had assured him she was. she arranged a visit for him to the royal suite, to meet the weman who is considered the hand- somest of all the handsome queens. When he emerged from the drawing room the boy. like a true courtier. maintained silence as to what the | Queen said to him and he to her. | But be volunteered stoutly, “The! Queen is all right” And, as if show- ing that Marle had been pleased with ! the visit. he carried in his hand a houquet of roses. orchids and other flowers she had given him. | The lad is_Sidney Heller of New | | Rochelle. N. Y. He is 4 years old. He |told Ileana before the visit was ar ranged that he wanted to see exactly | what a queen looked like and to talk | with her mother in German. A rough following sea. with eon- writing ar- Jeal- American dent letters to P i of other the man (Continued on Page .6, Column 3. T (Continued on Page 3. CoJumn 2) . | Howard P. | bariot lage. 484: 1473 COMMANDER VOTE DEADLOCKS LEGION Savage and Johnson Are Running Neck-and-Neck After Eight Ballots. PHILADELPHIA, Col. J. Monroe John October on, Marion, S. C Savage. Chicago; Thomas Kans., and Jay Wil liams, Aberdeen. S. Dak.. were nomi nated today for national commander of the American Legion. The first ballot for national mander resulted in no choice. vote was: Johnson. 488: Sa Lee. 29 Williams, 18.1 Necess choice, 519. The second hallot also resulted in no choice. The vote was: Savage, 492 Johnson, 483: Lee. 23: Williams, 18. Nee to a choice, 519. The third ballot was also without result. The vote: Johnson, 498; Sav- age 183 Lee, 29: Williams. 18. Thers was no result on the fourth The vote: Johnson, 496: Sav- Lee, 29: Williams, 18 The fitth ballot also was futile. The cote A. Lee, Topeka. com- The . Will The sult ms. 18. xth ballot was aiso without re- ‘he vote: Johnson. 4 Savage, Lee. 43: Willlams, 18. The seventh ballot still nvention deadlocked. vag, 446; Johnson, found the The vote: th Savage, The 473; choice. Johnson, Auxiliary Elects Président. Mrs. Adalin - Wright Macauley, ! Menominee, Wis., was elected presi- dent fliary. The Lezion today conferred title of “honorary commander of the American Legion” upon Marshal of the American Legion Aux- Foch and Gen. Pershing for the dis- | tinguished services in the World War of these commanders. The convention adopted the report of its naval affairs committee, de- claring that tion in the enlisted personnel of the Navy. Florida invited the convention to meet in Miami in 1929. The 1927 | convention will meet in Paris and the 1928 in San Antonio. Tex. The department of Florida was awarded the F. W. Galbraith trophy | for having the greatest aggregate mileage to its credit in members at- tending the convention. Turkey Denies Mobilizing. CONSTANTINOPLE, October UP.—It was authoritatively stated today that there is no foundation for the rumor that Turkey has mobilized four army corps. ay | Johnson, 496; Savage, 436; Lee, | Williams, | the | there will be no reduc- | | States, five or six of his cabinet of- | { ficers, the diplomatic representatives | [ of their own countries and an impos- | 1 mill | ing number of educators and | officer: slators, ary and judges, naval Silver Cup as Tropl | The winner tonight will carrs | with him a magnificent silver loving {cup. donated by the committee of | American newspaper publishers which |i= sponsoring the contest. This trophy {will be presented on behalf of the | publishers by Frank B. Noyes, pub- !lisher of The Evening Star and presi- |dent of the Associated Press. | “The great ‘event of the evening, of | course, will be the contest itself. The | night belongs to these eloquent school- boys. who not only | polished orations, but have dug deep- |1y into the histories and the funda- mentals of government of their na- tive lands for a_background. But of equal importance will be {another oration—by the President of | the United States | Mr. Coolidge is an enthusiastic spon | sor of such contests. In past years he I has taken a deep interest in the ) | tional Oratorical Contests conducted | every Spring in Washingt Few | things are closer to the President’s | home | heart than the education of youth in | { the fundamentals of government, and !that ig the primary purpose of these ! contests. There are certain fundamen- | tal principles of good government {common to all civilized countries. A | &reat deal of the unrest of the world, | the President believes. i i norance or misunderstanding of these principles. Orators Have Backe On the stage with the boys will be their national backers—groups of dis tinguished statesmen and educator who feel with President Coolidge tha such a contest i laying the founda- | tions of good citizenship. The pres ence of these men is calculated to give each boy more confidence. He will not be standing alone in a strange land before a strange people. A great man who thinks and speaks in his own tongue will be with him. | Wenig will speak on “The Amer- ican Constitution.” Moran's subject will be, “Canada’s Part in the New World. s _subject is, “The British Cota goes into the ! stirring history Latin American republics for a sub- ject, and will speak on “Bol the Latin American Peoples.” Puel will speak on “The French Govern- ment.” An unusual feature of the program | will be that each national champion will be introduced by strains of his national anthem rather than by words of the chairman. The chair- man will, however, make a group | presentation of the orators, stating their subjects and their order. - Then President Coolidge will speak, after which will come five orations. Three of the contestants will speak English, one in Spanish and one in French. They will be judged by a group of multi-lingual judges from leading universities of this country !and abroad, headed by Ambassador | Padilla_of Spain. Others are Dr. Richard F. A. Muller, an engineer ! born in Belgium, who has spent much of his life on projects in Central and South America, and who was formerly connected with the Uni- versity of Quito, Ecuador: Dr. Rob- |ert M. Sugar of McGill University, Montreal: Dr. Louis J. A. Mercier | of Harvard University and Dr. Rich. |ard Henry Wilson of the University | of Virginia. " An English translation of the 15 | speeches of the Mexican and French in bills of moderate value, is only champions will be available to e\'er_\" one in the audience. et i Radio Progral‘s——P'age 46. 4 OCTOBER 15, For the first time today these five | have prepared | due to ix. | and traditions of the! var and | speaking | the | THREE HU 1926 —SIXTY-FOUR PAGES. UP) Means Associated Press. DRED YEARS OF AMERICAN PROGRESS. | The doors of the District _Jail opened long enough this morning v | {permit a father who is awaiting trial {on a charge of embezzlement to go to the Children’s Hospital and give near- Iy a quart of his own blood to his 3- | | vear-old son, who is slowly dying from | | secondary anemia. | The father is Thomas M. Hewitt, | 31 years old, a lawyer, whose home is listed as 1423 Grant Park avenue. He cked up in New York last Tues. * on a police complaint from Wash- ington just as he was preparing to come here to see his dying son. Un- able to zet bail, he was ordered sent to jail to await trial. | When Hewitt told prison authori- ties ahout his little boy. inquiry was | made at the Children's Hospital. Father Held As Embezzler Freed Long ! Enough to Give His Blood for Sick Son There the doctors mediate transfusion could prolong the child's life. Informed of th Hewitt begged that he might his own blood. The jail physician tested his blood late Vesterday, re- ported the results to the doctors at the hospital and they in turn replied that it would “take” in the boy’'s veins, Carefuily guarded, Hewitt was per mitted to make the trip to the Chil- dren's’ Hospital shortly” before noon. e said only an im- fusion. The operation was be- gun shortly before 3 o'clock and phy- ns_declared it would he succe: Physicians expressed a Dbelief that the child would eventually regain normal health and strength. Hewitt, however, was returned his cell. to COMB MOUNTAINS FOR MAIL BANDITS 500 Pclice Close in on Area Where Slayers Are Be- lieved Hiding. By the Associated Press SOMERVILLE, N. J., October 15.— Orders to cover every foot of the| Watchung Mountain territory and | ; shoot to kill were issued today to the | army of 300 police beseiging the sup- | posed hiding place of the Elizabeth mail bandits Restless throuzh a night of waiting | and patrolling highways leading from the area bounded by Springfield on the | east. Bedminster on the west, Morris- {town on the north and Somerville on the south, the forces of Maj. Mark O. | Kimbarling of the State police began | closing in on all four sides of the be-| leaguered area. In this wild territory the State po lice helieve the notorious J. (Bum)| Rogers, James (Killer) Cunniffe and other members of the Old Hudson Duster ganz. who have heen terror izing the Metropolitan section of this State for weeks, have their head. quarters, PLANES MAY AID B! DIT HUNT. ELIZABETH. N. ., October 15 (#). | State authorilies today considered | enlisting airplanes in the search for | machine-gun bandits whose latest out. | rage was the murder of one man and | the wounding ot three others during | |a $100,000 mail truck robbery here. | Eight men took part in the robbery vesterday. The State police an { nounced that John J. (‘Bum’) Rogers, James (“Killer") Cunniffe and Vincent or Paul McCormick, notorious crimi nals, were members of the bund.! Rogers, Cunniffe and McCormick are | wanted in connection with a frustrated air mail robbery near New Brunswick | last week, in which two were killed. | Two automobiles were used by the bandits yesterday. They ran down a motor-cyele patrolman accompanying the truck as it reached a husy corner near the business district and then opened fire with automatic rifles and | pistols. John Enz. driver of the truck, was killed. The patrolman and a by | stander were wounded. i Five bags of mau were taken from | the truck and placed in the bandit cars. Estimates of the value of the | {loot, including a pay roll, ran from £100,000 to $300,000. $300,000 THEFT COST U. S. $100. Twenty cents for insurance and 2| cents an ounce to cover usual postal | charges was all the Post Office De- partment received for contracting to | deliver the $300.000 which was stolen | | trom registered mait pouches in Eiiza- | | beth, N. J., vesterday. This was re-| | vealed by postal authorities here to- | day. together with the information, | however, that the Government will | have to reimburse the shipper only to the extent of $100. “All registered mail packages look pretty much alike to us,” one officiai of the Post Office Department ex-! plained today. “The fact that so| much as $300,000 might be in a single | mail pouch probably seems like stark | negligence to the average person. But |a $300.000 package of currency, even about as large as a shoe box. So there is no reason for scattering it over a dozen or more bags. “A vast fortune is usually mailed (Continued on Page 6, Column 6) _ l | presumably with suicidal intent. SOLDIER'S DEATH LAIDTO OWN GUN Army Board Finds Miller Fired “Presumably With Suicidal Intent.” The mystery which has surrounded the death of Private Edzar Miller, Fort Myer trooper. for more than a week was closed today with announce- ment by the Army brard of investi tion that the soldier's death was caused by a gunshot wound inflicted The board further found that his death did | not occur in line of duty and was the result of his own misconduct. With these final conclusions azreed | to by Capt. Albert Bowen, Lieut Charles V', rnum and Lieut. T. E. Whitehead. the three membe that the findings of the Department of Justice agents, called into the case for the criminal aspects, would be the same. The Department of Justice re port. however. was not available to- day. but it was authoritatively stated that the only item which prevented the 4 rom returning a verdict whether all of the found were fired from the same pistol which was discovered near Mil ler's body. Shells From Same Gun. The Bureau of Standards was called in to establish that fact and experts there have rendered a preliminary re port to the effect that all seven shells foupd on the scene of the shooting had been ejected from the same Army 45 caliber pistol. The board left a loophole in its find- ings in not declaring positively that Miller committed suicide, because there was some doubt that while changing magazine clips he might have accidentally discharged the w pon. However, it is held that the 20. yvear-old Cavalry trooper was off the Dnli'c of the post and at a prohibitive (Continued on Page 7. Column 1.) he remained with his boy while | urgeons were preparing for-the | | of the | Army board. it was reliably intimated | BUSCH APPOINTED - GAPITAL DRY CHIEF Headquarters of North At- lantic Zone Placed Here. ] Other Supervisors Named. The struck another blow at the bootleg industry toda when five zone supervisors were named by Lincoln C. Andrews, in charge of prohibition, to all Federal activities for enforcement in five newly constituted zones. In setting up this system whereby the five officials will act as laisen officers between the field and head- quarters here, Gen. Andrews nounced that this was next to.the last major step in his reorganization | plan for prohibition enforcement. When Congress enacts legislation proposed to establish a commissioner of prohibition and a commissibner of customs, Gen. Andrews said he | would be able to complete the setting | up of his new prohibtion machine. The District of Columbia in the new realignment of territory of the | United States falls under super- | vision of the North Atlantic zone, | which will be in charge of George P. Busch of Hempstead, L. I. Busch, | Who is 28 years old. was graduated {in 19 from Syracuse University, | Where he won fame as an athlete. Other Zone Supervisors. Government Other zone supervi territories are: Maurice Campbell of Pelham, N Great Lakes zone: John E. Cooper of Healdshurg Pacific zone: O. D. Jackson, p tion administrator at New Orleans, Gulf zone, and M. O. Dunning, col- lector of customs at Savannar, G South Atiantic zone. The first three are new officials, while Jackson and Dunning are men who have been for some time in the Government service and have been used for some time by Gen. Andrews in an experimental testing of the one svetem. Jackson and re also co-ordinating with executive authority in carrying out programs of enforcement. The new supervisors as such exercise no actual command. it was explained by Gen. Andrews. but will he liaison officers. while the co-ordi nator the entire country. have power leadership to build up programs for | execution and to carry them through. | The other two co-ordinators. are Vin- cent Simonton. chief prohibition in- vestigator. with headquarters here, and Alf Oftedal, representative of the special intelligence unit of the Inter- nal Revenue Bureau at San Fran. cisco. ors and their will Andrews’ Other Duties. Not only does Gen. Andrews com mand_the prohibition forces of the prohibition unit_itself, but he is in charge of the customs and the United States Coast Guard. which have been instructed to co-operate in the new |plan of supervision and co-operation The new supervisors also will confer with district_attorneys. The smuzzling and bootleg business | Gen explained. _had (Continued on Page AN EXPLANATIO During the week announcement was made that beginning today The Star wo to be published, and The Star I readers. Some time ago the editors o publish a series of articles on “When Mrs. Coolidge Was a Girl,” written by Mrs. Herbert Hoover. The articles are not believes an explanation is due its f The American Girl, official publi- cation of the Girl Scouts, approached Mrs. Hoover, who has been active in Scout work, with a request Mrs. Coolidge a story of her girl! zine. Mrs. Coolidge was unable story’ that she try to get from hood for publication in the maga- to undertake preparation of the but with her approval Mrs. Hoover wrote it, from her own knowledge and with the assistance of friends of Mrs. Coolidge. Neither Mrs. Coolidge nor Mrs. published elsewhere than in the Gi The editors of that magazine, Hoover had any idea it was to be irl Scout magazine. , without consulting Mrs. Coolidge or Mrs. Hoover, voluntarily offered the story, with the magazine's compliments, to the North Ameri The Star is a member, for newspaper publication. can Newspaper Alliance, of which It developed yes- terday that their action was displeasing to Mrs. Coolidge. Therefore, as a matter of course, newspaper publication of the story was abandoned. When the story was accepted by The Star and its associated newspapers they had no means of knowing that its public’ation in newspapers had not been sanctioned by Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Hoover. d ¢ supervise | Dunning of whom there are four for | of | TWO CENTS. ACDFALLSTOBARE FIGURES ONGUN IN SCRIVENER KILLING Police More Baffled Than Ever When Experts Admit Tests Have Failed. VICTIM’S FUNERAL RITES DRAW COMRADES TO BIER Officiatjng Minister Calls on Wash- ington to Rally to Support of Law Defenders. While friends and fellow officers at funeral services today paid a part- ing tribute to the memory of Detec- tive Sergt. Arthur B. Scrivener. who was murdered early Wednesday morning, investigators seeking to un- ravel the myster; of his death again found themselves checked by unfa- vorable outcome of the tests per- formed by Bureau of Standards ex- perts on the pistol which the mur- derer left on the scene of the crime. Attempts to bring out the filed-off serial number of the pistol, it was reported, proved disappointing. After submergence of the pistol in acid baths for two days, it was found ithat the murderer of Detective Scrivener had done his work only too well in removing identification clues from the weapon. His filing of the numbers had been performed thor- oughly and deeply. The bringing out of the serial num- bers of the weapon had been looked forward to by investigators as the real starting point in the investigation. With serial numbers present, the pistol could be traced from the factory to its various intermediate holders through records kept of the sale of weapons along the line. Police at least hoped to locate the place at which the pistol had been purchased. Detective B. W. Thompson brought back the pistol and the report of the experiments from the Bureau of Standards this morning. and shortly after went into conference with In- spector Henry G. Pratt, chief of de- tectives, and Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police. Indication that the police were disappointed with the report of the test was given after this conference. Missing Sandwich Mystery. Meanwhile a new angle for investi- gation entered, when it was recalled that a club sandwich which Serivener took away with him from a late repast at the Occidental Hotel a few hours before his murder had disappeared before he was found murdered in the alley opposite his home. 3123 N street, and the autopsy showed he had not eatén it. After leaving the Occidental, Scrivener drove Detectives Sweeney and Kelly to their respective homes, and left Detective Kelly about mid- night. He must still have had the sandwich in his pocket then, it is be- ieved. At about 12:20 he was last |seen going north on Wisconsin ave- Inue, away from his home, by Joseph Brannan, a next-door neighbor, re- {turning home late with his sister. What happened to the sandwich is a { mystery. Have Last Three Numbers. Detective B. W. Thompson was called to the Bureau of Standards this morning. He returned at 10:30 o'clock | i with the pistol and memoranda ex- planatory of the test. Police have the last three numbers of the serial on the pistol,, however, because the one who filed off such * { numbers, though taking almost infl- nite pains to conceal them, missed these numbers on the cvlinder. | The effect of discovery of the num- | bers would have been to start police { on the first real trail yet uncovered in the investigation, for it would be a tangible line of investigation, since a pistol leaving an arms factory has | its recorded number to show to whom it was sent, and the sale of firearms js generally checked by the numbers on a pistol whenever the weapon fis transferred from one owner to an- | other. By inspection of such records it was hoped the pistol could be traced to the hands of the murderer of De- tective Scrivener. In connertion with the belief previ- | ously held that the tests on the pistol iat the Bureau of Standards would be | successful was the information une jcovered yesterday that, unless the fil- ing had eaten too deeply into the i metal, such acid bath tests had proven invariably of worth. It was i evolved for special use on automobiles | when thieves attempted to eliminate the motor numbers on the automobile I by either obliterating them or at- | tempting to superimpose another num- | ber on the original | Prosecution Goes Ahead. ! The prosecytion of the investiga- i tion along oth¥r lines did not lag. | Mrs. Annie E. Stauff, inmate of the | Home for Azed Women, at 1255 Wi | consin avenue, who supplied the in- | tormation regarding low, quick voices in the alley before the pistol shot was | heard at the tinfe of the murder, in a | subsequent interview has imparted de- tails leading police to believe that the murderer accompanied Scrivener to | the garage just before the shooting. | Mrs. Stauff said she was certain she | heard the voices of two men before the automobile had been put in the garage, and that she also heard the volces after the door of the garage | had been pushed shut. She reiterated { that she had seen three strange men loitering in thegalley the afternoon previous to the murder. As the case goes on, additional | counts are furnished the detective: | It was remembered yesterday, for in. | stance, that Scrivener had toid a fel. low detective the other day that “If 1 could ‘break’ what I'm working on | this town will see the biggest sensa- { tion yet." Way to Solution Seen. This opened the possibility that Scrivener had been quietly working up a case of importance not assigned him by the police, but being probed by him preliminary to his making an official report on it. If such was the case he had kept it secret from his friend and partner, Detective Edward J. Kel- ly. He had given no other hint of the matter. Had Scrivener kept an ap- pointment shortly before his murder bearing on some new development he had uncovered in a private search, the identity of the person, if' learned, would carry the investigators far to- ward a solution. A total reward of $2.800 was being Continued on Page 2, Column ) / t