Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1926, Page 2

TRADE MANIFESTO | ONLY FOR EUROPE Mellon Says Plea Has No Bearing on Conditions in This Country. The economic manifesto signed by FEuropean and some American bankers Pproposing a leveling of tariffs in the interests of trade wiil not be applied to this Nation. Formal notice to this effect on behalf of the administration was given last night by Secretary Mellon. The proposed “appears 1o i rected to European condition Mr. Mellon said in a statement which was concelved at a White House confer- ence, and in its application to Europe it recelved his approval. “What the plea of secks to accomplish analysis,” he declared, “is not a change in the world, but to bring about in Europe a condition similar to that in the United States. It is mot criticsm of us, but emulation.” Defends S. Tariff. A cut in the Amerfean tariff would reduce rather than increase United States purchases abroad, the Secre- tary argued in a lengthy defense of the present tariff, for it “will occasion unemployment here and reduce our purchasing power; will diminish this country’s consumption of - ties and cause large surplu world’s principal product ‘It would not enable foreign coun- s to sell more in Americhn m but would prevent them from selling as much.” he went on. “It would not help cer forelgn na- tions to recover from los: oceasion- o by the war, but would retard such recovery.” I the American tariff is taken off, Mr. Mellon declared, w larger share of manufacturing will be done abroad “where the costs are less”” As an example he cited the situation of the Aluminum Co. of America, in which he was a large stockholder. With the present tariff on this product the company now supplies its American market from domestic plants, al- though it lLas properties in r other countries where labor is cheap- er. If the tariff was removed, he ex- plained, it would be profitable t ply part of the Amer from ubroad Sees Harm in Removal. “The effect of removing the tariff ou aluminum,” he said, “would not in the least be to hurt the aluminum company, but to deprive the United States of the benefit of enlarged manutacturing here. Less capital will be invested here and less labor employ The United States is the lirgest customer in the world tod it we were not prosperous and able to buy, Europe also would suffer. It is in- conceivable to me that American labor will ever consent to the aboli- tion of protectivn which would bri the American standard of living down to the level of that in Europe, or that the American farmer could survive if the enormous consuming power of the people in this country was curtafled and his iurket at home destroyed.” The fact. which gave “plea for the removal of pon Europ " stating t “tarift barrlers, special licenses and prohibitions imposed In Burope since the war, interfere with international | trade and prevent it flowing in nat- | ural channels, :nd should be re moved,” Mr. Mellon declared, “is the break-up of the old political units and the rearrangement of the con tinent along ethical and not com mercial lines. he the bankers in its final tri o the! rictions rise { ! Power Lies in Unity. “The situation in Europe war is different from the n America,” he continued. would only become comparable if we should consider each of the 48 States | & sepavate nation, each having its | own tariff, its own railroads, its own cwrrency and its own language, Under such conditions the indus- trial power of the United States m and would end.” Like standards of living prevail in all of the States of this country and virtually all of the European nations have similar stundards, he pointed out, but the stundards of America and Europe differ widely and “unless we are willing to bring our stand- urd in America down to the level of that of Europe, we cannot con- sider a change in our taritf, however desirable such a change wmay seem to Europe. ‘ “Our tariff policy responsible for the manufacturing in America.” he as- merted. “‘Our tarif policy has brought to labor the highest real wages in his- torv. The development manufac tyring has been wccompanied by im- proved methods and quantity produc- tion and we have been able to make and dlstribu t ly low considering the cost of In many line than | meet forelgn competition with its low | labor costs Wages Create Demand. “In turn, high wages have created m great consuming population which has been the principal factor in our reaching quantity production and thus low costs. A study of the industries in this country shows a very small margin of profit per unit and large | profits in the aggregate, possible only through large turnovers. These r wons, I think, account for the p ent exceedingly prosperous condition generally of our country “The trend of trade during the past | few vears convincingly confirms the | contention that the volume of imports 13 controlled by the purchasing power of the nation, rather than the rate of :mport dutles assessed.” ‘The Secretary deciares that was selling increasing quantities of products to America, mostly in the non-dutiable classes, things the United States does not produce. i “No doubt to those who have been misled into the bellef that at the pres- ent forelgn countries cannot sell to the United States, the statement that dur- ing 1926 no less than per cent of the total of imports were free of duty is a distinct surprise. And the fact that in 1926 imports free of duty exceeds the imports, hoth dutiable and free, of the veur 1914 by more than! 80 per cent. is u revelation.’ has been mainly development of Furope Mexico Tries Fraternizing. In order to promote a friendly feel ing among the Indian boys of the va- rious tribes in Mexico, an assembly ©of representatives of the various tribes is belng held frequently by the federal department of educ | They will be given special ®dapted to their needs and ability during the assemblies. but the main | tdea is to make one tribe acquainted ‘with the other. Permanent Wave in China. Chinese girls have gone in for the rmanent wave in hairdress. Miss ui Wong, a young woman who studied hairdressing ‘and beauty se- crets in Europe, has returned to her native land and is talking bobbed hair, permanent waves and manicur- ing. Bhe Is viewed with some alarm by the older women, but she expects 1o get her trade from girls under 20, A jamong the few 50 !uml relief workers in the structures New Speed Record For Murder Jury Selection Is Set A jury was secured today tn six minutes to try a first degree mur- der_case before Justice Ilochling in Criminal Divisicn 1 establishing a new record for expedition in this District. The jury will pass on the guilt or innocence of Ludy Robin- son, colored, who 13 charged with the murder of Mollis Steadman, colored, at 1123 First street July 11, 1 The defendant will plead seif-defense. ssistant United States Attor- ney Fihelly and Collins are con- ducting the prosecution while At- torneys Abner Siegal and J. J. Loflin appear for the accused. ARMENIANRUNS AFTEREARTHOLAKE More Than 400 Dead, 100,- 000 Homeless and Millions Lost in Disaster. By the Assoclated Press. LENINAKAN, Armenia, October 5. Tpward of 400 persons have been killed, hundreds of others mortally in- jured and 100,000 made homeless, by earthquakes which, starting Frid: night and recurring until carly yes- v, have destroyed the greater city of 40,000 inhabitants and 17 thriving towns in the vicini- ty. The whole of Armenia has been terrified and the destruction amounts to millions of dollars. Frantic efforts are being made by soldiers of the Red army, firemen and Amerfcan relief workers to extricate those buried alive. Leninakan, eat of the largest American orphanage in the world, Is like a vast sepulchre of ashes. From time immemorial lLeninakan, Alexandropol, has been a gigantic voleanic amphitheater due to the ac- tivitly of Mount Ararat and violent and disastrous upheaval as t which levelled nearly all human habitations on the great Leninakan plain Friday night. Fissures Torn in Mount; The second shock, which was five- fold stronger than the first, tore open giant fissures in the great voleanic mountain of Alagoz, which is 14,400 feet high and gleams with perpetual snow. % The precise number of dead in all the affected 5, which cover 100 square miles, will not be known for everal days, as telegraphic communi- cation has been destroyed. Entire cemeteries were disrupted by earth shocks and bodies ed everywhere in grim dis- The terror of the populace by the fact that the ~ed in total darkness, the first shock having dislocated all the electric light and gas mains Further subterranean convulsions re- curring through the night caused the untutored peasantry to fear that the end of the world had come. The buildings occupled by the American Near Hast Relief were thut escaped destruc- Although there were more than American doctors, nurses, clerks earthquake oc tion at the time. all miraculously escaped harm. It is a tribute to their courage #na devotion to duty also that not one of the 9,000 Armenian orphans In their charge perished. Nurses Mobilize Children. \i the first sign of the earthquake, which came while the Americans were at supper, with the crashing of win- dows, loud cries of the orphans and | illation of the buildings, the 1n nurses, led by Miss Janet of Buffalo, Miss Dorothy New York and Mi; me. mobilized the ken voungsters. Directing iren to sing Armenian nurses marched of safety famed in biblical lore for - to Lot and his + shell-torn ecity stated Fran The new build- in that place were completely shattered, but it is believed that the Amerlcan relief workers escaped. The earthquake was felt even as far south as Krivan. Stchmedzian, 1y- ing at the foot of Mount Ararat, the pious peasants ran to the lower slopes of the mount, which they regard as a sacred symbol of heaven,,and prayed for divine deliverance. The famous valley of Araxes, the traditional seat of the Garden of Eden, was swept clean of houses, trees, cat- tle and nll human abodes. Most of the dwellers here are of nomadic char- acter, and most of them escaped by fleeing to the hills. The Armenian, Georgian and Azer- baijan governments were quick to come to the rescue of the afflicted peo- ple. They contributed half a million dollars and dispatched Red Cross trains with doctors and nurses, bat- talions of soldiers and firemen. Tents, cots, blankets, food and medicine are urgently needed, and Armenia, whose desperate efforts to retrieve itself from the ravages of war, invasion, famine and successive massacres have been almost nullified by the present catastrophe, needs help. The Near East Relief already has thrown open its hospitals and placed its entire personnel and plant at the disposal of the authorities. The Amer- icans have provided temporary shel- ter for thousands in freight cars rushed from Erivan, Tiflis and Batum. The great Shirak canal, which was built partly by labor and finds sap- plied by Amerlcans, suffered heavily in the earthquake, as did the recently built textile mills. It is estimated 1t will require five yvears to repair tne havoe caused throughout the country. violent os ala friends, is like ing: vernments Send Aid. former | Mount | Alagoz in the Tertira perfod, but the city never before experienced such a | Belle | THE ETENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, HUSBAND RESCUES BRIDE FROM POLIGE Goes to New Bedford and Appeases Angry Father-in- Law—*Rescues” Wife. Having appeased an irate father- inlaw and rescued his bride of a few weeks from police custody invoked by her father on the grounds she was a “stubborn child,” William A. Trotter, 20, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Allison Trotter of 4407 Scventeenth street, will return here tomorrow from New Bedford, Mass., with his blushing | wife, Virginia Perillo, according to | word received today by,the youth's parents. The gir] bride was surmmarily sur- rendered .to police by her father last week when she returned to her home in New Bedford for a_visit after an absence of a month and informed him she had eloped to Rockville, Md., with young Trotter on September 30. Taken completely by surprise, it is said, Mr. Perillo told police he wanted his daughter held until her husband could be ldcated and give assurance the daughter properly provided for. The young wife, detained in de- fault of a $300 bond, sent frantic | tefegrams to Mr. Trotter here at their | apartment at 1502 Vermont avenue, and Friday night he left on a hasty trip to “rescue” his bride from the jarms of the law. Trotter, according to his parents, became acquainted with his dimin- utive bride some time ago during his stay in New England, where he was studying automobile mechanics. Ob- taining work here, he sent for Vir- ginia and they eloped Septeraber 30 and were married at Rockville by Rev. B. M. Osgood. Mrs. Trotter was accompanied to Washington by Miss Estelle Pierce. |WORLD’S SCIENTISTS TO GATHER IN TOKIO Third Pan-Pacific Congress Sched- uled to Open on Octo- ber 30. By the Ascociated Pres TOKIO, October 2I.—Probably the most important meeting of scientists ever held in the Orient will open in Tokio October 30, for a 12-day session. The conference is that of the Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress, and prominent sclentists from almost every country in the world are ex- pected to be in attendance. Among the important topics to be discussed are: Review of the present state of knowledge of the physical and biologi- 1 oceanography of the Pacific, and currents, temperatures, salinity, hy- drogen, concentration, abundance of plankton, duration of the swimming larval stages of organisms that are sedentary in the adult stage, etc. Report on the network of earth- quake, observations in the countries of the Paclfi Transmission of earthquake waves across the Pacifle, Study of voleanoes in the Pacific re- gion in their various aspec Stratigraphy of the coal-bearing formations in the Pacific region; stratigraphy of the oil-bearing forma- tions. o Antiquity of man in the Pacific region; anthropometry of the races of the Pacific. . WEEK END DRINKING Saturday and Sunday Sprees Put Violations Near Year's Record. One-hundred and forty-six persons were arrested on a charge of intoxi- cation over the week end, the largest number in many months, according to statistics compiled today in the office of Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, super- intendent of police. The drunks were brought into the first precinct with such regularity Saturday night and Sunday morning, Maj. Hesse said, that the collateral was increased from $25 to $100 as one means of curbing the drinking proclivities of the week end cele- brants. Eleven inebriates, Maj. Hess explained, were gathered from a Chi- nese restaurant on Ninth street. The increase in arrests for intoxica- tion swelled the grand total for all offenses for the week end to 731, a record exceeded only by March 6, and 7, when 971 law violators were arrested. RUDOLPH IS PRAISED. Commissioner Gets From District Legionnaires. Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph, who has asked President Coolidge to relleve him of his duties, received from the executive committee of the District department of the American Legion today a resolution express- ing its gratitude for his co-opera- tion and his sympathetic interest in former service men and women. The resolution was just one of many testimonial the Commissioner has received from Individuals and organizations in the District who voice regret over his resignation. e L Resolution Because of dullness among facto- ries of industrial centers of Brazil the municipal government of Sao Paulo has started a movement to keep workers on the farms and away from the citfes. Famed Hatter Now Fights Off Creditors, Remembering Vi the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 20.—Dietrich E. Loewe, the hatter of Danbury, Conn., who became famous 20 years ago when he fought in the courts labor unions that boycotted his goods hecause he would not unionize his shops, is ng his last fight, the New York World says today. “Old man Loewe,” as he is known to his fellow townspeople, is 74 years old, nearly blind, and broke. His last battle is to keep from creditors his factory, now bare, but which used to cmploy men, and his home. Both are heavily mortgaged. S When Mr. Loewe staged his finish fight with the unions more than 20 years ago, he won a $240,000 verdict against the Hatters' Union and the American Federation of Labor, which was_upheld by the United States Su preme Court. He collected every penny of it because of a boycott. To get his money Mr. Loewe levied attachments against the homes and bank accounts of his former employes. ctory in Labor Boycott He was much criticized at the time, but the American Federation of Labor took up collections throughout the country and the workmen's homes were saved. The hatter has never re- gretted the step, and the workmen learned to respect him as a man and a fighter. The World says that the sale of the house and factory would not bring more than $35,000, while much more than that is needed. Mr. Loewe is quoted as saying: “My business is on the point of rearganizotion. I cannot give out the plans just yet.” Last April Mr. Loewe’s business reached the point where bankruptcy seemed the only way out. Three friends, forming a creditors’ commit- tee, raised $90,000 among themselves and made a settlement at 40 cents on the dollar. All but one creditor agreed, | and he was paid off at a higher price. | The three men, Charles D. Parks, Charles A. Mallory and Arthur Tweedy, are still out their $90,000, but believe they will be reimbursed. They are agaln trying to assist their old friend. > would be LANDS 146 IN COURT| i i CELL DOORS OPEN FOR YOUTHFUL ELOPERS William A. Trotter of Washington and his 15-year-old brids , who was laced in police custody by her irate father when she visited her home in New Bedford, Mass., following an elopement to Rockville on September 30. They are expected fo return here tomorrow with her parents tangle having been straightened out. blessing, the 100 DIF ON SHIPS WRECKED BY STORM Two British Vessels Lost, Heavy Property Damage, Is Report From Bermuda. By the Assoeiated Press. HAMILTON, Bermuda, Octoher 25, Sinking of the British naval sloop Valerfan and the British freighter way, with aggregate loss of ap- imately 100 lives; heavy damage to buildings here and unprecedented havoe among harbor shipping made up the toll of a West Indian hurri- cane which drove up from the south a_md swept over Bermuda Friday morn- ing. From the 19 survivors of the Va- lerian’s crew of 103 officers and men little could be learned as to the cause of her sinking commander, Capt. Willlam Usher, and one other officer were among those Capt. Usher was reported very ill and none of the other survivors was in condi- tion to discuss the wreck. One seaman said the sloop turned turtle and that only the life rafts ould be used as a means of escape. AS the survivors were picked up by the British cruiser Capetown, which did not leave port until Saturday morning, it was presumed the men wrecked were afloat on the life rafts at least 24 hours. The Valerian was returning from an errand of mercy to the Bahamas, where she had gone to carry succor to those stricken in the hurricane ofa month ago. The British freighter foundered Fri- day night. Hhe British schooner Lu- ciline reported that she-answered an SOS _call from the freighter, but the Eastway had gone down when she reached the location given and the crew were drifting at the mercy of the storm. The third officer and 11 other members of the crew were picked up and safely landed. $100,000 TO AID CUBA. Red Cross Adds $35,000 to Fund for Hurricane Suffers. An additional $75.000 was appro- priated by the American Red Cross vesterday for relief of hurricane vic- tims in Cuba, bringing the total American contribution to the Cuban Red Cross to $100,000. not including $10,000 placed at the disposal of Am- bassddor Crowder. This action followed receipt of a report from the Cuban Society, saying its funds were insufficient to meet the needs, and expressing gratitude for the initial ,000 contribution from the American Red Cross. Act- ing Chairman James L. Fieser at the same time authorized chapters in all parts of the country to accept con- tributions for a Cuban relief fund. Ambassador Crowder, in a report to the State Department, described the situation as serious, and the Navy Department was notified that the cruiser Milwaukee and destroyer Goff had reached the Isle of Pines with re- lief supplies and physicians. LEGAL AIDS HEAR BUREAU PROBLEM IN MENTAL CASES (Continued "from First Page.) the council to consider the question of how the bureau could best have guardians removed. Gen. Hines, in his address of greet- ing, declared that the bureau now operates on a policy of expecting fees of guardians to be kept at a minimum. The bureau, he said, would be extremely rigid in cases of the administration of trusts and the faflure of guardians to account for funds. If the bureau finds it is un- able to control the situation under present laws, he said it would go to Congress for new legislation. The great scope of the problem presented, Gen. Hines pointed out, was evident from the figures showing that the bureau now had 44,900 wards under 3,600 guardians in 3,900 pro- bate districts. Gen. Hines expressed his apprecia- tion to the American Bar Association for its action which authorized its president to nominate the members of the council for appoinment by Gen. Hines, The legal advisory council elected the following officers: Jacob Dickin- son, jr., of Chicago, chairman; John Lewis Smith, president of the Bar Association of the District of Colum- bia, executive secretary, and Miss A. Hinderliter, attorney in the_office of the general counsel of the Veterans' Bureau, recording secretary. Duties of Subcommittees. It then divided itself into four sub- committees for consideration of the four principal subjects into which the problems divided themselves: Federal legislation—Province M. Pogue, William M. Crawford and Robert A. Adams. State legislation—Volney P. Mooney, George B. Young and Hazen Irwin Sawyer. Construction of law—Kenaz Huff- man, Bruce W. Sanborn and John Lewis Sinith. . Field organization=Jacob M. Dick- inson, jr., Edgard J. Nathan, jr., and Theodore Stitt. ONE DEAD, 16 HURT INGHINESE ATTACK Radicals Storm Police at Shanghai, But Disperse After Battle. By the Associated Press. GHAI, October 25.—One per- hot to death, two seriously injured and 14 wounded when hun- dreds of pro-Cantonese radi rounded the West Gate police here yesterday and launched an at- tack, «exploding two bombs and dis- charging firearms. Police defending the station fired a volley overhead, making a head-on charge, which dispersed the mob. The death of one and injuries to others probably resulted from shots which went wild. The French municipal police, whose territory is adjacent to the West Gate, stood by guarding French set- tlement boundaries. Chinese authorities strictest martial lay searching pedestrian: 3 last night traffic was prohibited. Search wa 3 in various Chinese districts in anticipa- tion of further outbreaks. HALL-MILLS JURY RAPS PROSECUTOR Open Warfare Exists and Foreman Says Colleagues Will Meet Despite Order. are enforcing stopping and all day, and By the Assoclated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., October 25.— Open warfare existed today between the September term grand jury of Somerset County and State Senator Alexander Simpson, special prose- cutor of the Hall-Mills case, The jury, which began consideration of evidence against persons charged by the State with being accessories to the double slaying, and then was or- dered by the prosecutor to postpone indefinitely the resumption of the pro- ceedings scheduled for tomorrow, last night took matters Into its own hands and announced, through its foreman, Percival W. Snyder, that meet, despite Simpson’s wishes to the contrary. No one has the authority to stop | our meeting,” Snyder declared. are an independent body, can meet on our own initfative and summon our own witnesses. I have asked Sheriff Tunison to notify the jurors to that effect. Simpson gave as his reason for the postponement his inability to reach several witnesse: Reports, however, were that the defeat of his attempt to extradite Felix di Martini, private detective, from New York, and alleged hostility on the part of the jury when it heard seven witnesses at its first meeting last Thursday, were the real causes. SAYS SKIN RASH CO MES FROM VARIOUS CAUSES German Scientist Finds Effects Like Those From Poison Ivy Due to Handling Vegetables. By Science Service. BERLIN, October 25.—Effects like those of poison ivy are produced’on the skin of many persons by a strange diversity of substances, Prof. Max Touton of the University of Wies. baden has reported to the Associa- tion of German Natural Scientists and Physicians. Such skin rashes must be listed among industrial and profes- sional sicknesses, for they frequently affect workers after a long period of handling materials that first are harm- less -and only begin to show their ill effects when a_condition called “ana- | phylaxis” has been established in the patient. Practically everybody in the Braun- schwieg district, the center of the Ger- man asparagus packing industry, gets poisoned by the vegetables. In the jgreat German drug houses, packers |are given skin disease by such drugs as squills, which is commonly em- ployed only for mild internal medi- cation. Violin players are poisoned by the rosin they use on their bows; flute players, by the grendilla wood of which their instruments are made, and hairdressers by the quinine in their tonics, As in the case of ivy poisoning, the victim does not gain immunity after one attack, but instead becomes even more sensitive. Efforts to build up re- sistance on the part of the victim by inoculating them with small doses of the trouble-causing substances have met with at least partial success. PRSEIESAE - S i Before a crowd of 50,000, racing clubs of Sfena, Italy, recently held a horseback race, the course being three times around the market square in keeping with a medieval custom of the city, it would | “We | 1926. ONE KILLED BY CAR: MANY OTHERS HURT Jury Gives Verdict of Acci- dental Death in Case of Thomas E. Robinson. One man was killed and a score of persons injured in traffic accidents here yesterday, a number of which re- sulted from slippery streets. Thomas E. Robinson, 62 vears old, a laundryman, who resided at 1213 K street, was the victim of the_ful:\l ac- cident. He was killed at Ninth and H streets by the automobile of Welton B. Hutton, 1412 Chapin street, about 810 o'clock last night. § Hutton stopped his car immediately after the accident and made a quick trip to Emergency Hospital with the injured man, who died en route. Dr. Potter examined the body and pro- nounced life extinct, death having re- sulted from a fracture of the skull, hemorrhage and shock. 3 Three tons of the victim identified the body at the morgue this morning. | A coroner's jury today returned a verdict of accidental deach. Car Goes Off Bridge. William H. Armstrong, 60 years old, of 1523 Thirty-third street, marrowly escaped death yesterday afternoon when his automobile crashed through a wooden barricade at the west end {of Meigs bridge, Twenty-eighth street | and Pennsylvania avenue, and plunged | to the bottom of a 60-foot embank- | ment. Although pinned beneath the ma- chine, Armstrong managed to crawl |from the wreckage before witnesses | going to his assistance reached him. | At Emergency Hospital, where he was taken, it was said that several of his ibs were fractured and his face and body slightly cut and bruised. Arm- strong explained that the steering wheel must have gone wrong about the time the car skidded on the wet paving, making it impossible for him to keep it from going through the bar- ricade. He is employed in the Depart- ment of Agriculture. Another Bridge Accident. | Armstrong’s accident was the sec- | ond of the kind here in less than 24 hours, as Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Suy- dam crashed through the Connecticut avenue bridge in a car shortly after | Saturday midnight, but were able to clamber to safety while the auto hung | suspended on the brink of a %0-foot drop. . A dozen or more persons were in- jured in minor traflic mishaps yester- day and two drivers were arrested on charges of intoxication. They were Fleet M. Johnson of 819 Nineteenth street and Henry Young, colored, 31 years old, of 0200 street. Johnson's automobile collided with a Capital Traction street car in front of 3026 M street early in the morn- ing, resulting in a slight injury to nets J. Moore, 27 years old, 1412 Chapin street, occupant of the auto- | mobile. Moore was removed to his home. Young's car_collided with the auto- mobile of Arthur Booth, 411 Twelfth | street, on the viaduct at*Benning. Ed- ward Booth, 18 months old, was thrown from his motier's lap and badly bruised. The mother also was slightly bruised. Young deposited $1,000 cash collateral for his appear- {ance in court. Reckless Driving Charge. Robert S. Cummings, 38 yes 2 428 Third street, was charged with reckless driving and faflure to make known his identity. His car is al- leged to have collided with a taxi- |cab at Twelfth and O streets during the afternoon. Lloyd B. Mason, col- ored, 904 Kourth street southeast, driver of the taxicab, was injured. Sergt. Hugh F. Deakins and Corpl. Ira Brock, marines, stationed at Quantico, Va., were occupants of a car that collided with the automobile of Bernard I. Hammett, Silver Spring, Md., at Georgla avenue and Longfel- low street last night. Sergt. Deakin: owner and driver of the marine machine, escaped injury, but his com- panion received an injury to his spine. Ernest Scott, 40 years old, in the employe of the Capital Traction Co., was struck by a street car whila working on the tracks at Fourteenth and Webster streets. At Walter Reed Hospital it was said his skull may be fractured. Others receiving slight injuries in accidents were Miss Edna Reisinger, 1444 Eleventh street; Leo Southard, 29 years old, of 1005 F street=south: west: Joseph Benham, 36 years old, of “h.l) Eighth street northeas ; Andrew | Grogan, 50 years old, 804 Ninth street: | Roscoe Lindsay, 26 years old, Y. M. C. A; Mrs. F. C. Sweeney, 337 H | street " northeast; Julian Sanders, col- |ored, 1610 Sumner court; William | Mattingly, colored, 1412 Defrees street: 10 years old, 118 Fourth street northeast; Alonzo’ Chichestar. colored, 523 Twenty-third street, and Philip Rampt, 1331 K street. | Carl McGee, EARLY TRIAL ASKED IN DOHENY-FALL CASE Government Attorney Objects to Delay of Hearing on 0il Lease Indictments. 52d ANNUAL CONVENTION FOR DISTRICT W. C. T. U. Detailed Reports of Work of Year Scheduled for Meetings Which Begin Tomorrow. With detailed reports of various committees scheduled for discussion, the fifty-second annual convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia will convene tomorow and continue through Wednesday at Fifth Baptist Church on 13 street, between Sixth and Seventh streets southwest. The opening session will begin at 10 o'clock tomorow morning and will be called to order by Mrs. N. M. Pol- lock, vice president. Rev. John E. Briggs will deliver the address of wel- come and Mrs. Robert Ramsey will respond. Committee reports and ac- counts of special activities will take up the remainder of the morning ses- sion and will continue on through the afternoon meeting, which will begin | at 1:30 o'clock. Officer: morning and the final sessior of the afternoon will include reports on the national convention by Mrs. Zelah Farmer and Mrs. T. A. Williams. MANY ACCIDENTS - CAUSED BY RAINS Cellars Flooded and Traffic Interfered With—Climax Comes in Hailstorm. A brief hailstorm. lasting five min- utes between 7:10 and 7:15 o'clock this morning came as a climax to the excessive rainfall of last night, which caused numerous traffic accidents, flooded scores of cellats, incapacitated hundreds of automobiles and suspend- ed street car service on Connecticut avenue. Weather Bureau records today showed that the rainfall for the 2d- hour perlod from 8 o'clock yesterday morning to 8 o'clock this morning to- taled 2.13 inches. While this depth is not a record, it is indicative of ex- cessive rains, which seldom visit the city. Fair and Colder. Declaring that the clouds have spent their rain, Weather Bureau officials today predicted that _the weather now will be fair and colder, with a heavy frost tonight. Tomor- row there will be an increasing cloudi- ness, with slowly rising temperature and diminishing winds. Officials of the American Automobile Association reported that they were besieged last night with calls for as- tance. In most cases it was merely the presence of water in the car- buretor and easily remedied. Residents in the section bordered by Third and Fourth on Quackenbos street were most troubled by the ac- cumulative rainfall. In many cases the water flooded the cellars and one resident_informed police that he re- turned from a Sunday outing to find his_furniture floating and his dog adrift in a washtub. Traffic Is Halted. Few reports were made to the po- lice as a result of the storm. The fitth precinct was notified that a tree had fallen in front of 342 Thirteenth street southeast. As Is customary wherever their is a heavy rainfall, the section on Connecticut avenue near Albemarle, Newton and Porter streets was backed up with mud, halt- ing traffic temporarily. Sewers, unable to accommodate the deluge of rain at the time of the heavlest fall, about 9 o'clock last night, backed up and resulted in numerous hurry calls for the sewer department, which was kept busy untll early this morning. STORM SEWER URGED. Manor Park Delegation Cites Damage by Rain. Tnstallation of a storm water sewer in Manor Park w urged by a dele- & of property owners in that section at a_conference today with Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, assistant Dis- trict Engineer Commissioner, and Leonard Robertson of the Highway Department. Because of the lack of a storm sewer, the delegation told the District officials, the storm last night created a small lake in Manor Park, which backed up into vards and cellars on Quackenbos and Third streets, destroy- ed gardens, flooded cellars and caused other damage, in addition to forming a potential health menace due to stagnant water. The committee, headed by John D. Smoot, chairman of the committee on sewers and streets of the Manor Park Citizens' Association, explained that the conditions are due to the fact that the surfzce draining pipes installed under the lately filled portions of Third, Fourth, Peabody and Quacken- bos streets are either too small or have become clogged by sand, mud and silt. “After the heavy was called by the residents to investi gate the situation,” sald Mr. Smoot. “I found a lake of some acres in ex- tent had been formed south of Quack- ain last night I enbos street along the line of Piney | Branch several feet deep. The pipes | were not carrying off the water, re- sulting in the flooding of the north side of Quackenbos street, extending Owen J. Roberts, one of the Gov. ernment’s special counsel in the ofl prosecutions, appeared today before Justice Adolph A. Hoehling of the Dis. trict Supreme Court and announced that the Government wanted an early trial of the ndictment a - ward . Doheny, oil magnsie ot 1o Angeles, and Albert B..Fall, former Secretary of the Interlor, who are charged with conspiracy in connection with a lease of the naval oil reserve at Elk Hills, Calif. Mr. Roberts said he would defer making a formal re- quest for the setting of a date for tho trial until Friday, when Frank J ogan, counsel for y S in Washington. o e t is understood the Govern: counsel will ask that the trial ba nor deferred longer than the first week of December and may request a date in November. The defense may ask B Se g0 over 1] 4 - that the case £0 over until the Janu e . Bird's Bones Carry Air. The bones of all flying birds ar to be hollow and flll?dg\\'flh alr,e!sl‘)"lig showing that nature knew what it was about when it designed them for the air. This plan, as any physicist will confirm, makes for not only light- |ness but for the greatest strength. A solid bone, besides being heavier, would be less strong against strain such as a flying fowl is put to. e Finger Printing in 499 B. C. It has been discovered that finger printing as a system of identification was practiced in China as early as 400 B. C. On some ancient will finger- prints of the makers have been found. The system spread from there to India and in Japan it was soon adopted for the identification of criminals. The hiring of illiterate labor in South Africa caused it to spread to the untfunu. to Rittenhouse street.’ Mr. Smoot also advised the officials that the storm washed out temporary pipes laid under Third street across Sheridan street. The officials promis to investigate. The committee included Creamer, Mr. and Mrs. A E. H. Pullman, Mrs. A. Mr. and_Mrs. O. N. Todd, O. M vehjen, Mr. and Mrs. . C. Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs Frank Hubbard, A. E. Coupe and N. Nall. ISSUE SUBMITTED T0 HIGHEST COURT Lower Tribunals Differ Regarding Property Rights Involved in Purchases by Corporations. James S, L. By the Associated Press The right of corporations to re- tain the physical property of con- cerns acquired by purchase when they are prohibited by the Federal Trade Commission from obtaining stock ownership of these same con- cerns was called wp for argument today in the Supreme Court in three cases in which the lower Federal courts rendered conflicting decisions. The controversies arose from acqui- sition by the Western Meat Co. on the Pacific Coast of the capital stock and property of the Nevado Packing Co, acquisition by the Thatcher Manu- facturing Co. of New York of assets and properties, the Essex and other glass companies making milk bottles, and acquisition by Swift & Co. of packing plants at Moultrie, Ga., and Andalusia, Ala. o In each case the Federal Trade Commission ordered the corporations to dispose of the acquired physical property, and upon their refusal went into the Federal courts, losing in the Western Meat case, but winning in the others, will be elected Wednesday | NEW CHARGE SEEN INCANTON MURDER ;Another Indictment Looms in i Mystery as Police Get ! McDermott. By the Associated Press. CANTON, Ohio. October 25-—One more indictment for first degree | murder in the Mellett case is expected | to result from the apprehension in | Twin Rocks, Pa., yesterday of Patricl | Bugene McDermott, one of the three | already indicted. For three months, while he wa | sought the country over as the ma having full Enowledge of the murde of Don R. Mellett. Canton publishe on July MeDermott lived i luxury in Cleveland. Then his desire to see his mother led him homewar: and into the hands of the law. Last night he was lodged In Stark County jail, the last of the trio | dicted for the murder to be taken into custody. The other two, Ben Rudner of Massillon, and Louis Mazet of Canton. are awaiting trial Mazer goes on trial November 8, an: Rudner, December 6. Trapped by Brothers. McDermott was taken into custod yesterday morning at Twin Rocks b Ora_Slater, Cincinnati_ detective, ar P. B. McClintock, Stark County pi ecutor. He was captured in ¢ | laid by his brothers, Tom and Ber ard, who long ago promised Slate: and MeClintock they would try and locate him so he could tell his story, | whatever it might be. One of three developments expected: Pat will confess he is gullty of a part in the murder; the indictment against him will be nolled, and he | will turn State's evidence: or he will play another “waiting game.” refus- ing to talk and defying the State how its evidence in open court. | McClintock and Slater, loath to show their hand, admitted today they feel the case agalnst Rudner and Mazer much strengthened 1. McDermott's arrest, but said the: have obtained no confessions. M. | Clintock intimated more indictmen may result. | am certain t MeDermott will cles murder case by Janu; Pat is to be held in j ble to anyone but his family and the prosecutor, McClintock an nounced. Told that McDermott had taken into custody, Rudner and sald: “(i0od. If he tells the truth I'll be out of here tomorrow { Procedure Unchanged. Prosecutor McClintock, however, declared there will be no_change fn the procedure, and that Rudner and Mazer “most assuredly” will go on trial as scheduled. Mellett, publisher of the News, was killed July 16. He had received numerous threats against his life because of his vigorous cam- paign against vice and lawlessne: in Canton, and had attacked the Can ton Police Department, making charges of unrestrained bootleggin: and crime. Te was fired upon from ambush he put his car into the garage in the rear of his home. Only one of the three or five shots fired struck him It entered his brain and he fell dead Members of the Canton underworld. known as the “Jungle,” were blamed for the crime. According to the prosecution's theory, Mazer, Rudner and possibly others, incensed at Mellett’s campalg against the underworld, of which | they were alleged rulers, plotted the ! murder, employing McDermott as an | aide. ; | MeDermott was first drawn fnto the murder inquiry when Steve Kascholk of Nanty Glo, who says he also hal been in Cleveland with McDermott told Slater a few days after the mur der that Pat and he had been hired to “slug” Mellett, that he had backed | out, but that so far as he knew M Dermott had gone through with the plot. | Kascholk is now held in the Canton workhouse as a material witness against all three of the indicted men i« now pprehension o p the wholo 1" he satd been smiled Canton GEORGIA BROKERS REJECT FUTURE DELIVERY ORDERS | By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, October 25.—Fenner & Beane and John F. Clark & Co., op erating brokerage offices in Atlanta, announced today that they will not handle orders for the purchase or sale of any commodities for future dellv ery through their offices here. This action followed the conviction in Fulton Superior Court yesterday of B. L. Layton, Atlanta manager for Fenner & Beane, on a charge of vio lating the Georgia law prohibiting trading in cotton futures on margin. Tayton was fined $1,000 and given a 12-months chain-gang sentence, but | has filed motion for a new trial. Fifteen more brokers will go on trial Monday on indictments charging similar offenses. LAUREL ENTRIES FOR TUESDAY. FIRST RACE—Purse. $1.300: 3-year-olds and up: 6 furlongs. *North Breeze mental . Hackworth lletache erry Mouarch . Glance 5 Also_eligible ndy Maker.. . claiming Voshell ...... *Meridian Hill Danger Signal Carefree . Wellfinder *Steel Ribs. . . *K'w Me Gnom *Our Dan.... SECOND RACE—Purse, $1.300; fillies: 2-year-olds: 5% Plain_Polly. . Fairness ... 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