Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1926, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and WEATHER. (T. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers today and tomorrow, partly cloudy and cooler. Temperature—Highest, 56, at 6 p.m.; Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 lowest, 46, at 6 a.m. Full report on page T. No. 300 BURIED ALIVE OR KILLED, TOLL OF QUAKE IN ARMENIA 1,127—No. 30,126. Thousands Believed Injured ! in Disaster—25 Americans in Danger Zone. AMONG RELIEF WORKERS 9.000 Orphans Removed to Safety By Cool Nurses—Funds Asked for Needy. Br the Ascociated Press. LENINAKAN, Armenia, October terrible earthquake, which whole of the Armenian re av night, killed or buried alive more than 300 persons in and around Leninakan, formerly Alexan dropol. Half of the town was de- stroyed and hardly a building escaped | damage. The injured are believed to run into thousands, although in most cases the infuries were comparatively slight. The confusion and terror among the pobulace were heightened by erroneous reports that Mount Ararat, of biblical | renown, was erupting. The death toll undoubtedly would have heen far greater had not the principal shocks been preceded by lesser tremors, which drove the resi- dents Into the streets. In this way they escaped the worst effect of the later shocks, which contrinued at in tervals until midnight. Believe Americans Safe. Shocks were felt at Batum. in the Republic of Georgia. about 130 miles northwest of Leninakan, as late as 11 eclock at night. That a still greater | tragedy wns averted was due to the #olidity of the old Czarist Building Todging about 9,000 Armenian orphans under the care of the Near Fast Re- Is of the | all to| scaped unhurt. egular rumblings continued throughout the night. terrorizing the inhabitants, who took refuge in the fields. parke and roadways. At the very first shocks the American nurses | in charge of the Armenian orphanages | showed fine presence of mind and oourage, rushing through the dark-| ness to the posts and calming |h!i fears of the thousands of children un- | der their care. The children were| marshaled for immediate removal. ! and excellent discipline was main- | tained. The task of rushing the chil- | dren to places of safety was greatly hampered by the fact that a majority of them were asleep and therefore virtually without clothing. | Streets Are Littered. All the streets are littered with Reaps of debris and telegraph commu- nication is cut. So far as ean he ascer. tained no American membe the Near Fast Relief were among the victims The whole town of Karaklis. where the Near Fast Relief had an agricul- tural school. and the villages of Boy- ardur and Daarli were entirely razed. | The firat tremors. at 7 o'clock last | night, were followed 50 minutes later by vinlent shocks. throwing the popu- lation into a pan| Terrific subterranean convulsions | nsued, continning for severa! minutes. | These were followed at 10:50 p.m., by A quake several times stronger than the first shock i MOSCOW PUTS DEAD AT 300, | i Only 15 Deaths Reported in Lenina- | kan, With 80 Hurt. MOSCOW, October official reports place the total deaths from the earthquake in Armenia at upward of 300. and the seriousiy in-| Jured also at 300 ! In the city of Leninakan. where the | American orphanages are located, only 15 deaths and 80 Injuries are re- corded. but in the ontlying section 12 towns were destroyed. including Kalala. Koutoula and Karalis, where the Near Fast Relief has an agricul- (). —Latest § doctors and nurses are en- | gaged in the work of reseue Communication hetween Moscow and Tiflis was established only after 24 hours® effort, all w Qestroved with the fi earth shocks continue and the whole population is in terror. FUNDS SENT TO AREA. Near East Relief Has 25 American ‘Workers There. NEW YORK. October 23 (®).—Dis patch of funds for relief work in Le- ninakan. Armenia. where an earth- quake worked havoc last night, with scores killed or buried altve and thou- sands injured. was started today by the Near East Rellef. A sum of $5,000 was cabled 1o the stricken area as the initial relief fund and a Nation-wide appeal for ald was telegraphed to all State commitiees of the Near East Relief. The amount te be raised will be decided when re. lief workers in the field advise their headquarters of the exten: of the stricken area’s needs Offictals of the Near East Relief cafd that the need of fts assistance eame at an unfortunate time. as the organization’s financial report on Oc tober 1 showed a deficit of $137.000. E. C. Miller. acting treasurer. said thie was “due largely to delavs of more than a vear in collecting claims of $300.000 due from American fire in- surance companies as a result of lose- es sustained in the burning of the Greek warehouses of the reflef organ- fzatinn in Piraeus 15 months ago.” Center of Relief Work. Leninakan. center of the disastrous earthquake, it located at the foot of Mount Ararat and is the metropolis | of Russian Armenia. For severai years it has been the chief center of Near East Relief work in Armenia. and is the site of the largest orphan age in the world, caring orphans and maintained by the Near East Relief. The city has a popula .000. | It was formerly known a: X = a as a miiitary outpost Turkey. Its name was changed In honor of Lenin about two vears mgn. During the World Wai the city was almost completely “{Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) 'consulate had | telephone | island are determined to reconstruct | | liched tomorrow | tion | visible. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. 'HI-BOY IS NAME F Hi-Boy! That's it, hoys and girls, and little | Miss Mildred M. Smith., 12 i 4900 Edgemoor road, Bethesda, has the honor of giving our giraffe, due to sail into Boston Har- bor this morning, his first and only name. . The judges, after tearing out a con- siderable amount of hair from their respective heads and puzzling over the vast accumulation of names con- tained in nearly 300 letters from Washington, Maryland and Virginia children. decided that Mildred's Hi- Roy, together with the little poem she wrote to accompany the sugges. tion. hit the nail squarely on the head, and they will award her The Star's prize, together with the duty of christening the little fellow—-provided, of course, he doesn’t get sick and die before he reaches his home here at the Zoo. Second place in the contest went to young Willlam A. Maidens, 3704 § !street northwest. The boys call him Bill and he's 8 years old and he chose [the nickname of his voung brother, | Bumps, for the giraffe. Third place went to another young lady—a very voung lady, by the way- for Miss Loulse Grotlisech, Woodside AND MILDRED SMITH WINS PRIZE {Others Thought of Same Title, But Mil-| l]E l.UXE IS GUAI. dred’s Poem Clinched It—Bumps and Jungo Came Close.. : | mention In the contest and the names {11 _years old—Billy he WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1926—114 PAGES. OR THE GIRAFFE, Park, Md.. is only 7. Loulse thought Jungo would be a good name for the Eiraffe because, she sagely explained, he came from the jungle. The winners w'll'be awarded $20 in gold for the fir.t prize; $10 in zold for the second prize, and $5 in xold for the third prize. Each of the 10 who won_honorable mention will re- celve a dollar bill. The winner will also have her name put on a plate which will bear the name Hi-Boy and | ! | mark the giraffe’s home in the Zoo. | A ohristening party will be held when | the giraffe gets home and is able to | see visitors, but regardless of whether he gets here the prizes will be award- ad the winners, The 10 children who won honorable they picked wera: Dorothy Eoree, Cherrydale, \a. Frank Craighead, 5305 Forty-first! street, 10 yvears old—Shankypal. | Mayo G. Dillen (no address given) | v Boy Carrie Roper Fulton, 1732 Lanier | place, 11 vears old—Bob. i Clara Goltz, 144 D street southeast, | 12 years old—Happy. Gordon Mills Grimes, 2321 Ashmead place. 9 vears old—Homo. Fetty Lepley, 3726 Military 11 vears old—Tulo. “(Continued on Page 2, Column 3) | 1 Franklin street, | G road, | UBA HAS 300 DEAD AND 70,000 INJURED Island Turns to Vast Task of Reconstruction—Red Cross Asks Funds. Br the Associated Press HAVANA, Cuba, October 23.—The people of Havana have now had time | to acquire some definite idea of the vast destruction of life and property wrought by the great hurricane of Wednesday last. All efforts are be- ing turned to succor the injured and shelter the homeless. From the first early reports until the present, ‘the casualty lists have steadily mounted. The dead through- out the island are believed to num- ber not less than 500, with a possi bility that that figure will go much higher. with approximately 10,000 persons injured and a majority of the people outside of Havana in need of assistance. The Cuban Red Cross tonight ap- pealed to the American Red Cross for additional funds for relief work. The Red Cross announces that ap- proximately 600 were killed, 900 in- jured and 6.000 families made home- | less by the hurricane. In Havana the estimate is 200 dead. In Marianac, which adjoins Havana on the west, the estimate is 100 dead. The area of the storm at its worst was confined to Havana Province and the western part of Matanzas Prov- ince. but Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio Provinces were in the path of the hurricane and suffered severely. 200 Bodies in Water. More than 200 bodies are believed to be Iving in the waters of the har bor or floating out to sea. Twenty- eight already have been taken from Havana Bay. but undoubtedly many are imprisoned in the ships sunk by the storm 2 Not a dock or wharf along the shores of the bay escaped serious damage. The only estimate officials were able to make was a vague state- ment that the loss would “run into many millions.” Messages of inquiry have poured into the American embassy from rela- tives of persons residing on the Isle of Pines, where 17 Americans and many natives perished. Up to this evening neither the embassy nor the received anything but the flrst official casualty list, which is known to be incomplete. Isle of Pines to Rebuild. P | effingwell, manager of the company of the Isle of | writes that the people of the | 1. Pines, their homes and replant their crops, most of them having been destroyed. Supplies have been rorwarded to the 1sle of Pines sufferers, and wireless communication i expected to be estab- morning with that island on the arrival of two vessels sent from the Guantanamo naval sta- Two Coast Guard patrol boats are on their way from Key West to Bata- bano, where of more than 3,000 houses, ‘only 50 are standing. and these are badly damaged. Targe piles of construction ma- terial appeared today in front of many of the downtown buildings damaged by the hurricane, and the streets in | that section had heen cleared of the 'Several Others Injured on Cruiser! the litter of wreckage. In outlving dis tricts the effects of the storm are still Numerous trees lie on t sidewalks and roadways, with pat cut through them. $25,000 American Aid. The American embassy today turn- ed over to the Cuban Red Cross a| check for $23.000 from the American | Red Crose. The Cuban government is anxious to carry out the work of relief without assistance from th outside. but, notwithstanding this. re liet funds are coming in from various directions Reports rea avana_today in- | o Sl - Page 4, Column 2.} Ex Kaiser Will Go To Fatherland in July, Says Pape By the Associated Press. LONDON, October mer German Emperor William, the Tioorn correspondent of News of the World ®ays, is resolved to re- turn to Germa next July. when the German law excjuding him ex- pires. Princess Hermine, his wife, ! is at Oels and preliminary arrange- ments are heing made for William to reside at Hamburg. A Reuter dispatch from Berlin, however, deciares that the Ger man government will take meas- ures to continue the former em- peror's exclusion from Germany. | | r —The for- \ - {18 the District of Columbia Home for | i |the Aged and Infirm, and adjoining | | | perimental Laboratory, Bellevue. Next, | | the panorama of the city unfolds, with | IN STRENUOUS DAY i Winning Title of Most Ener-| getic as Well as Beau- | tiful Queen. ‘, By the Assaciated Press. | NEW YORK. October 23.—Queen Marie of Rumania, Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas split the royal calendar three ways today A morning visit_ to_the Navy Yard held the day's terest for the sailor Prince: Ileana was happy over her by 6,000 girls, representing various | girls” movements in which she has taken a leading part at home. and the Queen was as usual the brilliant center of a shifting pageant of recep. | tions. exhibitions and reviews. Her cold and 'the growing hoar of her voice were not allowed b most beautiful queen,” who is winning | for hergelf an added title as “the most | energetic queen.” to intertere with her | day’s program, in which she was by | turn a dazzling social ornament, a | patron of the arts and a “general” | reviewing troops. Reviews 106th Infantry. ! Crossing the river to RBrooklyn, | Queen Marje. a glittering figure in | cloth of gold coat: lynx trimmed. cloth | of gold hat shot with coral. coral slip- pers and a great arm bouquet of orchids. Invaded the city armory, where the 106th Infantry waited to do her honor. After the troops had passed in rev! the Queen was again | the guest of the city’s prominent men | and women, who figured in Brooklyn's | reception committee. | Earlier in the day Queen Marie had | heen feted at New York's exclusive | Colony Club, where Consul General of Rumania and Mrs. T. Tileton Welis| were her hosts At luncheon, with | members of the consular corps and her royal party their guests. ! Immediately after luncheon the | Queen and Princess Tleana went {0 the Educard Jonas Galleries to open an exhibit of French eighteenth cen-| tury works of art, from the Ernest Cognacq_collection in Paris. Passing | EC 1 GUN EXPLOSION KILLS | ONE ON U. S. . TRENTON. Brooklyn | main in-| Princess reception | ess | (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) at Target Practice Off Guantanamo Bay. By the Associated Press HAVANA, Cuba. October 23.—The explosion of a gun on board the! United States cruiser Trenton today | killed a member of the crew and in- jured several others. The Trenton | trict, by direction of Congress. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WATER ENTRAKE OF CAPTAL N 192 Air Fields on Either Hand Will Greet Visitors Coming Up River by Boat. {PLANS ARE PREPARED AT CONGRESS’ REQUEST New Engineer Officer for Washing- ton District Makes Personal Study for Adequate Program. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Washington is to have the most beautiful waterway entrance of any city in the world, unique and char. acteristically American, which will be developed within the next five years, as part of the administration's pro- gram to have the Naton's Capital In the best possible shape before the world comes here fo celebrate the bicentennlal of Washington's birth, in | 1932, An immediate and important step in this development is the new and | elaborate plan for improvement of the Washington water front on the city side of the Washington chan nel as. prepared by Maj. Brehon Somervell, the new engineer officer for the Washington engineering dis This plan has been approved by the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Commission, and will go to Congress | as soon as it meets, with a request for an immediate appropriation to start a five-year program. To Ret a full appreciation of the contemplated beautification of the water entrance to the Capital, one must envisage the approach from the w;f: in a passenger boat or pleasure Vista Coming Up River. On the right, inland from Shep- hard's Landing, the visitor will see the Blue Plains reservation, which this is the United States Naval Ex- the greensward of the Potomae Park Playground in the forezround and the Capitol Building majestically on the heights in the backgroun On the 1high ground to the right will be seen | St. Elizabeth's Hospital, which itself commands one of the best views of the Capital City. Behind Potomac Park, where it juts into the river at Hains Point. is the impressive War College on the end of the reservation. the right bank is the Naval air sta- tion and Army flying fleld and on the left bank is the Navy Yard, with a considerable water frontage hetween Washington Barracks and the Na Yard. which is soon monious treatment. On the left bank of the Potomac River is to be the riverside boulevard. traversing historic ground from Washington to Mount Vernon. This is intended to be the most magnificent stretch of highway in the world, 15 miles long. giving the National Capi- tal a monumental entrance from the South. the Virginia side of the Potomac River will be' developed a yacht and pleasure craft basin near Gravell Point, and just next to that. dow river, is to be a model alrport. the finest four-way landing field in the world. for commercial aviation. Just across the river, sheltered un- der the heights crowned by St. Eliza- Washington Barracks to have har heth's Hospital, is the existing Bolling | Fleld, now occupled jointly by the Army and Navy, which is to be im proved with officers’ quarters on_the rising ground to give the same effect as at The Presidio in San Francisco. These two flying fields will command hoth sides of the Potomac as the visi- tor approaches. Memorials to Dead. Up the Potomac River fitself, the incoming visitor will see the chaste. | classic Lincoln Memorial on the right bank. the new Arlington Bridge spanning the river, with a watergate on the Washington side and a beautiful park development as an extension of the National Cemetery on the Virginia side, now occupied by the Department of Agriculture’s ex perimental farm. The Virginia exit of the bridge, along Columbia Island. will be the start of the memorial houlevard to Mount Vernon, which later is to he continued on to Wake field, the hirthplace of Washington, and connecting with the great motor highway to the South. will also connect with the Lee High- way and the proposed Canal Highway fo the north and west. Rising behind the bridge on the Virginia shore the sight of the Nation's Valhalla, the “Silent City" of the Hero Dead. will stir the feelings of the waterway | visitors. On the Washington side, hard by bridge. will he seen Ericsson Memorial, and a little fur- ther upstream will he a new seawall, to cost $350.000, supporting a promon- tory on which will stand the completed Titanle Memorial. Past this will run a boulevard connecting with the Palisades drive on each side of the river to Great Falls, and the bedu- tiful country bevond. The stretch of the Potomac River Up Anacostia River on | Opposite Potomac Park on| Memorial | The bridge | the John | * and service wil (#) Means Associated Pre 1l start immediately. Sunday Sthar, B FIVE CENTS. SCRIVENER SUICIDE THEORY RAISED AS MURDER GLUES FAIL Necktie and Position of Body Offer Puzzling Problem for Coroner’s Jury. PHOBERS'.SCOUT IDEA OF SELF-DESTRUCTION Marshaling of Facts, Howewer, Presents Points Hard to Recon- | SMITH LOOKS BEST IN ILLINDIS BATTLE Expected to Win in Spite of Slush Handicap—Maugill Vote Will Tell Tale. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO. October 23.—As the Smith-Brennan-Magill campalgn for Senator swings into its final week Smith looks to be the winner, with | Brennan having an outside chance for victory. Only a political miracle could bring success to Hugh S. Ma- gill, independent and protest candi- date of the citizens of lllinois who are disgusted with machine politics, corruption and booze. Here in Ijinole the dollar sign has | been stained on the Republican ban- ner. The banner of booze floats over the Democrats. The great weakness of Magill, the candidate of voters of both parties who have no faith in Republican or Democratic candidate, lies in the fact that he came into the race so late that he is running prac- tically without organization. while both the Republican and Democratic senatorial ecampaigns are hitting on all cylinders. Magill Vote Will Decide. The vote which Magill recetves on election day will tell the tale. It will throw the victory to Smith or to Brennan, or—in the event of the politi- cal miracle referred to above—will give Magill a seat in the Senate.This | town is as full of estimates and prophecies of the Magill vote, the Smith vote and the Brennan vote as t is of bootleggers. In order to un derstand these estimates it must be explained that Cook County. which includes Chicago, casts about two- fifths of the entire vote of Illinois. while ‘“‘down-state’-—the rest of IIli- nois—casts the other three-fifths. Cook County, because of its wetness, is the Brennan stronghold. Down- state, because of its dryness and its overwhelming Republicanism, is the Smith bailiwick. Magill is a Republican and dry. His party designation is Independent Re-| | publican. The Smith campaign man agers claim that their candidate will come up to Chicago with from 300.000 to 375.000 votes over and above the | Rrennan strength down-state. They claim that Brennan will not carry Cook County by more than 50,000, if he carries it at all. Brennan Men Undaunted. Do these claims daunt the Bren- nanites? They do not. The Demo. crats insist that their candidate will me out of Cook County with 200,000 votes more than Smith, and they do not figure that the Smith lead over Brennan down-state will he more than 100,000 or 150,000 at the,most. Both the Republicans and the Demo- crats undertake to estimate the strength of Magill. knowing that nupon it will depend their own for. tunes. From Republican headquar- ters comes the statement that Magill ‘“m not poll more than 75,000 votes {and that probablv his vote will not | go as= high as 50,000. The Democrats | estimate, on the other hand, that the i Magill vote will run upwards of 200.- 000 and they see the most of it taken from the Republican candidate. The Magill supporters make, no i claim in actual figures of the strength | of their candidate, but they insist that f is gaining thousands of votes I daily. They figure on getting both | Republican and Democratic votes. i Down-state the Democratic party, like | the Republican, is largely dry. Mtglll [hPlio\'es that he will get practicall$ all of this dry Democratic vote, which | Republican candidate, but which hates | might _hesitate to go to the regular (was at target practice off Guanta-ifronting Potomac Park and lying be-' prennan and what he stands for. amo Bay when the accident occurred. | tween it and the proposed vacht basin | No details or names were given in and model airport will be used for | the brief news of the explosion, which | reached here in the first dispatches received by wire from the eastern| section of (tuba since the hurricane of Wednesday. i :King Ferdinand Asks Queen to Return, Vienna Hears, B Br the Associated Press. LONDON. October 23.—The Sunday | Observer, with the caption “Sensa- tional!” prints a Vienna dispatch from Bucharest saving that King Ferdi nand has sent a cablegram to Queen Marie in the United States asking her | to return immediately on account of | the scornful criticisme which dispar- age the dignity and prestige of the nasty. Political circles, the ?spnch adds, | i i i | ut Rumor Is Denied connect the reports of the Queen's having fallen ill with the King's mes- sage to her. | There is no confirmation of this from any other source. NEW YORK, October 23 (#).—Radu T. Djuvara. Rumanian charge d'af- faires, denied tonight the report pub. | lished in London that King Ferdinand | of Rumania had cabled to Queen | Marie to return home. | ““There is absolutely neo fmlnd.luon‘ for this rumor,” he said. boat races and other aquatle sports. Then along the city side of Wash- “(Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) Principal Foot Ball Games Yesterday HY Harvard, 16; Princeton, 3. Michigan, 1 . Ohio State, 23; Iowa, 6. Notre Dame, 6; Northwest- ern, 0. Southern California, 27; Cali- fornia, 0. ‘Washington State, sity of Washington, 6. Maryland, 14; North Caro- lina, 6. Marines, 20; Catholic U. Georgetown, 60; Elon, 13. William and George ry, 14; Washington, 0. * ; Univer- State Strongly Republican. Illinois 1s so overwhelmingly Re- publican that it is always difficult to figure that a Democrat will carry the State. It gave Harding a 900,000 { majority over Cox in 1920. It gave | President Coolidze a 310.000 lead over | the combined vote uf John W. Davis and the late Senator La Follette in | 1925. In 1912, when the Bull Moose i split the Republican party from stem | to stern. Tilinois cast its electoral vote for Woodrow Wilson, but by a plural- ity only. ’ Perhaps more significant than all these figures is the fact that in 1914, { when the schism in the Republican | party still existed as a result of the Bull Moose movement, the Republi- ]can! elected Lawrence Y. Sherman to the Senate in the three.cornered race with the late Roger Sullivan, Demo- cratic boss of Chicago and Brennan's old leader, Progressive. Robins at that time re and Roosavelt. The Wilson vote tas 215,000 | less than the combined vote for Taft | and Raymond Robins, | gff TODAY’S STAR 8 PAGES. cal, National PART ON General News— Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Pages 24 and Veterans of the Great War—Page 25. | Boy Scout News—Page 20. < Y C At the Communii Around the City—Page Girl Scouts—Page 31. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 34. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 36. Radio News and Programs—Pages 38 and 39. Serfal, “Laila”"—Page 40. Financial News—Pages 46, 47 and 45. and A.—Page 29. ¢ Centers—Page 30. 30. PART TWO0—16 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Reviews of Autumn Books—Page 4. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 13. News of the Clubs—Page 14. PART THREE—14 PAGES. 'Am;l!emems-ThPa!ert and the Photo- pla. Music—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6, 7, § and 9. Fraternal News—Page 17, District National Guard—Page 14. Spanish War Veterans—Page 14. b PART FOUR—{ PAGES. Pink Spurts Section. PART FIVE—S PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—10 PAG! Classified Advertising. D. A. R. Activities—Page Army and Navy News—Page 10. Civilian Army~ News—Page 10. GRAPHIC SEC N—10 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. AGES COMIC SECTION—{ PAGES. Betty: Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. HALL-MILLS CASE JURY IS RELEASED Special Prosecutor Takes Step. Body Is Reported Hostile to Witnesses. Fea- 9 By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., Octoher - Special Prosecutor Alexander Simpson tonight instructed Prosecutor Bergen of Somerset County to dismiss the September term grand jury which next Thursday was to continue its consid eration of evidence against certain persons charged with being acces. sories to the slayings of the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills. Sixteen witnesses who were to appear before the body were ordered to disregard their subpoenas. Mr. Simpson did not explain his sud- den decision to postpone attempts at Indicting the alleged accessories. Re. ports circulated in Somerville, how- ever, were that the jury was hostile to State witnesses. It began its consideration last Thurs day when seven witnesses appeared. Indictments were sought against Mrs. Minna Clark. who vesterday freed in $5,000 bail to await grand Jury action, and Felix di Martini, pri- vate detective once emploved by Mrs Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the slain man. The body of Mrs. Mills is to be ex- humed at New Brunswick, Monday morning. Announcement that Justice Charles W. Parker of the Supreme Court had signed an order granting permission for the disinterment. was made today at_Morristown. The autepsy will be performed at 11 o'clock by Dr. Otto H. Scultz of the district attorney’s office of New York. TWO MISS - 00T DROP FROM BRIDGE Auto Hangs on Edge of Con- necticut Avenue Span After Collision. Crashing through the railing of the Connecticut_Avenue Bridge early this morning, after a collision in the fog with a taxicab, a_roadster occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Suydam of 1843 S street hung suspended on the hrink of the bridge. 90 feet above the ground. allowing the couple to clamber to safety from their perilous position. The taxicab operator, who gave his name to police as John Munn of 6808 Wisconsin avenue, stated that his vehicle was running north on the bridge when his left front wheel and the left front wheel of the rogdster, which was running south, scraped each other. The roadster was swerved | around by the impact of the left rear wheel of tire taxicab, palice believe, and had almost plunged over the edge of the bridge before it was brought to a stop: colored. occupant of the taxicab. was injured about the shoulder and possibly internally. She was taken to Emergency Hospital. All others involved in the accident es- caped injury. Mr. and Mrs. Suydam had just room to make their way out -of the automobile to the paving of the bridge. They clambered out upon the run- ning board and stepped back on the | bridge with the aid of hand holds on the broken railing. The automobile rested upon the bottom of the run- ning board and the drive shaft, with the front wheel just extended over the east side of the bridge. ITALY BbOSTS AIR CORPS. Service Placed on Same Plane as Army and Navy. NEW YORK, October 23 (#).-~Mus- solini has placed the air service on an equal footing with the army and navy, and Italy will soon have an air force second to none, Maj. Martin F. Scanlon, United States air attache at Rome, said today. He returned to this country with 17 Ttalian aviators whe are entered in the international air meet for the Schneider cup at Norfolk, Va., next month. They brought three Macchi planes equipped with 800-horsepower Fiat engines with them. Commercial flying is developing rapidly in Europe with government aid, they said. SPAIN LASHED BY STORMS F;oods and High Seas Destructive in Many Sections. MADRID, October 23 (#).—Heavy damage has been caused in various parts of Spain by violent storms. In Segovia numbers of buildings were flooded and similar damage was re- ported in Badajoz. High seas washed the vicinity of Cadiz, destroying num- bers of fishing smacks and causing damage to wharves. In Malaga, Fer- rol and Alicante high water caused considerable property damage. Snow Falls in Black Hills. RAPID CITY . Dak., October 23 (®).—Virtually the entire Black Hills The body rests in Fairview Cemetery, near New Brunswick. was covered with a light snow today, the first of the season for most places. | By the Associated Press MOSCOW, Russia, October 23.— Leon Trotsky and Leon Kameneff were ousted today from the all-power- | ful political bureau of the Communist | party. Gregory Zinovieff was expelled from the Third Communist Interna- | tionale. This action was taken by the cen- tral executive committee and the cen- tral controling commission of the Communist party, which thus disci- plined the three men for their fac- tional activities. They also strongly censured M. Platakoff, vice rresident of the su- preme council of national economy; M. Sokonikoff, former commissar of |finance; M. Smilga of the coal and bureau and M. Bvdokimoff, as members of the central executive " (Continued on Page 4, Columa 6. Communists Oust Trotsky and Kameneff From All-Powerful Political Bureau |deputy member of that committee, as | well as Trotsky, Kameneff and Zino- vieff, for violation. The resolution condemning the op- position group declares that Zienovieff rendered himself ineligible for further work in the Third International by his factional activities within that bod: It further says that Zienoviefr d not express the policy of the all- Russian communist party within the Third International: that he earned the disapproval of the American, Brit- ish, French, German and other foreign sections of the Third International, thereby losing the confidence of all branches of that organization. The case of the oppesition group will be considered further at the fif- teenth congress of the all-Russian communist party, opening next Thurs- day, gt which M. Stallin will present “| commytiee; and Mme. Nikolai Eva, as | the views of thé majority. cile With Slaying. The question of whether Detective Sergt. Arthur B. Scrivener came to his death early on the morning of Wednesday, October 13, by the hands of a murderer or by his own hand will be considered by a coroner’s jury at an inquest into the death .n the near future. Bizarre and repugnant as a suicide theory appears at first to those who knew and honored Scrivener, the fact remains that the six men who sit on the coroner's jury must consider it. They must face the un- assailable fact that a man can die violently only by the hand of another, by an accident or by his own hand. It is the duty of a jury to determine the cause of death. Dismissing an accidental death as impossible, investigators have been working fruitlessly to sustain a theory of murder as the method in which Scrivener met his death. They have been blocked at every turn. They refuse to accept a theory of sujcide. They continue doggedly on the theory that,murder, a mystery- drenched murder. took their fellow officer from their ranks. They are no more than fact-finders for the coroner’s jury. however, and they must place before the jury the facts as they are found. Results Scant and Meager. Scant and meager as the results of the investigation thus far have been, some facts cry aloud for considera- tion. These placed before, the coroner’s jury, will be the signposts to_the verdict. It is a fact that Scrivener's body was found reposing—up-grade—in a steeply graded alley, on the back, face u pll is a fact that in the right hand of Scrivener was elutched a silk-and- wool necktie of good, strong quality. It is a fact that a, pistol with one bullet fired lay about ‘15 inches be- vond his feet. It is 4 fact -that Scrivener died |from a bullet through the heart, fired from a close distance, left to right, with a slight downward slant. It is a fact that death ensued with- out any signs of a struggle remaining on_the body of the deceased. It is a fact that only a few hours before his death Scrivener. apparent. ly in high spirits, informed news. paper friends that he would be mar- ried within the ensuing 24 hours. But he kept this secret from his closest friends at headquarters. Always Alert and Courageous. It is a fact that Scrivener had shown himself in times past to be quick, courageous, alert and the antithesis of a man who would die in a tight corner without a struggle. These are primary facts estublished | on which others must rest in the de- termination as to how death occurred. | ““The police have taken up these pri- mary facts one by one and examined them closely. First, the natural way for a man | to fall ‘from a standing position fac: {ing down grade, in a steeply graded i alley, is down grade. And the matur- |al course of a fall for a man leaning | forward and facing down grade, grasp- ling a necktie from the neck of an- other in a steeply graded alley, is face downward. In this connection it must be remembered that Scrivener reposed face upward, and upgrade in the al- ley, lying on his back. Investigation further along this line has developed no marks at the knees, no marks at the elhows, or on_th face or hands to indicate a turning of the body after the fall Problem for Jury. So that the first question for the coroner’s jury arising from this group of facts will be: How, in the event of murder, could the body have fallen in such a posi- tion? This question has proven one of the obstacles to the investigators proceeding along the murder theory, | because it presents facts and not sup- | positions. 3 The mecktie remains important. Tests have demonstrated that 200 pounds of jerking weight suspended to a four-din-hand necktie of the same grade and of the same age in wear as the tle found in Scrivener’s hand fail to part it at the neckband. It will be remembered that the necktie found on the scene was a silk-and-wool, wrinkle-proof tie, which had been neatly tied in a four-in-hand knot, with the loop at the point above the | knot. ~The center of this loop was d by a tear. | P2 etual tests show that it is very difficult to tear a tie of the good strong quality of the neckpiece found in Scrivener's hand, when around the neck of a person, cushioned and sup- ported by the collar and neckband. It is possible to break it by passing the loop of the tie over the top of a | door, for the sharp edges there cut {it to some extent. Theory Is Tested. Obtaining a tie which experts said matched the quality of the one found in Scrivener’s hand, investigators at- | tempted to break it from around the {neck of a man without success, and it was only with the greatest diff- culty -that they found such a breaking could be accomplished when the tie was placed around a sharpedged square object. On the other hand, it was found, cheaper grades of ties might be broken by passing them around some square-edged object, but even these proved virtually impossible to break when around a man’s neck. So, granting that there is no insur- mountable question presented by the direction of the fall of the body bacl ward, what answer will the coroner's jury find to the puzzle presented by the torn tie, with a loop, which is found to be too small for the neck of a good- man? When investi- gators tried the tie-breaking test, they (Continued on Page 6, Column 5.) |