Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1926, Page 1

WEATHE S. Showers toda cloudy and colder. cloudy R. Weather Bureau Forecast.) followed by partly Tomorrow partly Temperature—Highest, 75, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 52, at 6 a.m. Full report on Page 7. No. 1,128—No. 30,133. REPUBLICANS NEED VICTORY OF BUTLER ANDWADSWORTHTO KEEP SENATE RULE Control of House Is Assured, Marking National Victory, But Democrats Ave Due to| Gain Several Seats. ONLY BREAKS WILL LOSE G. 0. P. UPPER CHAMBER Prohibition, Klan, Slush and Farm | Relief Issues Shroud Election in Uncertainty—Coolidge's Person- al Popularity Stands Out Clearly Against Political Horizon. BY G. ULD LINCOLN. Democratic gains in Senate and House loom as the probable outcome of Tuesdav’'s elections. They be due to an accumulation of G. O. I’. troubles. but these troubles | are State ratherthannational. Despite | the prospective losses the Republicans will control the House in the! | | wi i | Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Reported Killed LIE FRANK H. CONANT. FIRESINTO CROWD ANDKILLS YOUTH, 19 R. H. Rule Held for Shooting W. F. Barhee, Jr., After Altercation at Club. William J. Barbee, jr 1822 Vernon street, son of a retired detective. was shot and killed last 19 years old. seventicth Congress. This will be a real victory for the Republicans, for | the entirc membership of the House i< 10 be clected, the only nation-wide | contest this year. Republican con- | trol of the House perhaps wil be by | a narrow margin, but the control| will be definte unless there should be | a Democratic, landslide, and there is | nothing today to indicate one. | Senate Hangs in Balance. i Party organization of hangs in the Democrats get breaks. however the Senate balance. Unless the| practically_all of the | the Republicans will | again be able to organize the Senate | Bloc control or Democratic control are | the alternativ It the Republicans retain the organizatin of the Senate the Progressive bloc on the Republi can side of the chamber will hold the balance of power and be 1ble to swing it either to the Republicans or ths Democrats as the bloe desires. 1 the Democrats elect a definite major- ity of the Senate the bloc v.ill have to draw in its horns. Whether the motement toward Democracy veaches the dimensions of & sweep, or proves to merely o gentle settling to normal conditions after the Coolidge landslule of 1924, remains to be seen. Probably the lat ter. for a survey of political sentiment in the country shows the pomularity of President Coolidge is undiminished and no widespread revolt against the | Républican party. | Local fights involving prohibition, campaign scandals, the Ku Klux Klan and farm relief shroud in uncertainty election results in many of the Stdies. | The campaign has not been fought on national issues. Indeed, the Demo- | crats stand to win in States which frequently go Republican, due entirely | to local conditions prevailing toda Butler and Wadsworth the Key Men. Take State; such strongly a5 Massachuse Indiana, llineis and Oregon. It would geem ridiculous ordinarily to say that the’ Democrats had a good chance to win these States The poiitica year swings in_power. will benefit they did cans ber Republican New York, pe sually dulum in an off against the party The Democrats probably trom this fact, just as 9 and as ihe Republi- fitted in 191 The personal popularity dent Coolidgé and the p the country generally are fighting for the Republicans. They may operate to halt consider Democratic gains. Should Senator William M. Rutler, friend of the President and chair. man of the Republican national com: mittee, lose to David I. Walsh in the Massachusetts senatorial race. and Senator James W. Wadswo, ir.. be defeated by Justice Robert F. Wag ner, the Demociatic nominee in New York, Republican organization of the upper hc ® W 1 ps Democratic vie in those States, in the face ! of President dge’s personal ap peal to the voters of the Bay State | and in the face of great prosperity | in New York. would be a real yard stick to mea re political sentiment. The wet and dry iscue is cutting deep in hoth these States. It is in others. The drift has been more and more this vear toward prohibition as a major issue in pol So far neither party nationally snatched the liquor cause nsom and sought to do an 74 crossing-the. ice” with the dry hounds of prohibi- tion snapping at its heels. But there are indications that unless the drys halt the wets In many of the elections Tuesday prohibition may play a major part in the campaign of 12§, Today the wet and dry issue is badly mixed up when it comes to party alisnment. For example, Butler. Republican. is the dry candidate in Massachusetts. while just the State line. Wadsworth. Republican. is the wet hope in New York: Hawes Democrat. is the wet candidate for the Senate in Missouni, and in neigh boring Kentucky. Barkley, Demo cratic nominee for the Senate, is bone. ary, if the Democrats can win nine Sen ate seats now held by the Republi- cans and ret, they now possess, | control of the Senate will pass defi nitely from the Republican party to the Democratic and the latter will or ganize the Senate. Thirty-five U States Senators are to be elected 33 States. One of these Senator to be elected only for the short term expiring March 3. 1927. David W Stewart, Republican, who has no op: position in Iowa. His election will not affect the political complexion of the Sanate in the Seventieth Congress. G. 0. P. Holds 27 Seats Of the Senate seats for which bal- Tots will be cast are now held by | Republicans and 7 bf Democrats, with{ one vacancy Another vacancy. caused by the death of Senator Fer nald, of Maine, will not be balloted for until later The Southern Democrats who will be elected and their States are: Hugo (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) of | friends hurried to his a | Charles | Donald | ball team at + O'Brien w night during an altercation between two groups of youths on the Burnt Mills road, and police are holding Richard Henry Rule,.22, son of Henr Rul,_editor of the National Capital Press, 16 xteenth street, for the Maryland authorities, in connection with the case. Rule is =aid to have admitted fir- ing the shot which'endsd Barbee's lif2, when he was threatened by some one in the latter's party. Barbee died on the operating table | at Walter Reed Hospital. and when the authorities there notified of the thirteenth precinct, Rule's rest followed. ar- Declared Only Spectator. The killing of Barbee, who, his friends said, was only a spectator to the altercation, occurved while he in company with companions from the Devitt Preparatory .School, were en route to the Indian Springs Club to attend a Halloween dance. According to their story they missed their way and stopped at the Blue Ridge Club. a nearby resort of which Rule is president, to seek di- rections. Rule and a crowd were gathered on the steps there, and in some man- | ner, which was not clearly explained, an argument began, which culmi’ nated in the shooting. Rule. according to the he fired into the of some sort s Barbee police, said vowd after a threat foll the ground ance and he wias taken in the car of J. H. Wal- lace, 1322 Monroe street, one of his companions, to Walter Reed, where he died as Maj. O. B. Balibue was making his examination. Rule Is Locked Up. The hospital authorities notified the thirteenth precinct, and_Lieut. J. N McCormack dispatched Patrolmen F. J. Scoville and W. H. Vermillion to the Blue Ridge Club, where they took into custody Rule and and brought them to the station Rule was locked up and booked for investigation. The following were being held for the Maryland authorities early today at No. 13 precinct as material wit- neeses Gordon Peters to 1835 K street: James Lyon. 1221 Hamilton street: A. Columbus. 1713 Lamont street. Eugene B. Aladie, the West moreland apartments: Robert J. Dun. ham, 1361 Irving street: Vincent P. Les 520 Tllinois avenue: William = 1860 Mintwood place: Sam uel Perkins, 32 Thirty-fir: street, Mount Rainier, Md.: Lawrence G. Garner. 1115 Shepherd street: Jesser Ward, jr.. the Chastleton; Paul A. Tangara, 4302 Fifteenth street; Bert W. Kennedy. Falk G. Dowd. street: Edwin Hunter, 518 Sheppard treet: William Francis Terry, Bates road northeast, and Henry E. Dalb; 2138 California street Father Is Notified. Barbee's father. who formerly a headquarters detective, was fied at his home of the shooting. The hoy was a member of the foot Devitt. His body was removed to the morgue at Walter Reed. pending instructions. Rule is listed in the city directory as a draftsman TWO POLICEMEN SHOT. B er, Green F Randolph was noti- | Chicago Auto Theft Suspect Es- capes on Freight Train. CHICAGO, October 30 (A .—Two policemen in plain clothes were shot, one possibly fatalls, late today when they sought to arrest a man they thought was an automobile thief Sergt. Floyd Beardsley was near the heart and Policeman s shot throug who did a_passing shot James h the hand. the shooting freight train The man leaped upon and escaped. he had wounded him. The officers approached bile halted near the railroad but before they could utter the occupant began sheoting an_antomo tracks a word police | others | O'Brien said he thought | LEUTF . CONAT, CRACK NAVY FLYER, 1S BELIEVED KILLED His Plane Found Wrecked| and Sunk 30 Miles North of Norfolk, Va. \IDENTIFIED BY NUMBERS; NO TRACE OF THE PILOT Schneider Cun Race Aviator Set| 251 1-2-Mile Record in Tests. Lived With Mother Here. Lieut. Frank H. Conant, jr., | schneider Cup race fiver and |the Navy's oustanding young |is believed to have been killed Navy one of pilots, | yaster day afternoon when his plane crazhed and sank in shallow water near Ma- | thews, Va., about 30 miies north of Norfolk Lieut. Conant, who has been prac | ticing for the speed races to be held over Hampton Roads Ngvember 11 {left the naval air station at Anacos- |tia. yesterday morning at 11:43, bound | for Hampton Roa He was due to| | have arrived there about 1:30. Last night an Associated Press cor-| respondent at Mathews telephoned here that a Navy plane numbered | A6970 crashed suddenly in shallow | water and sunk. Efforts to raise the | cratt were futile and no trace of the | pilot was found. Navy officers h | said Conant was fiving a Curtis plane | which bore the numbers described in |the message. Conant was unaccom : panied. Crashed Mile Off Shore. | According to information reccived | at” Norfolk from Mathews over long | Qistance telephone last night, the crash occurred about a mile offshore. | | The weather was murky and there; were no eve witnesses of the smash | A man on shore heard the engine of | |a plane, then heard it stop. A mo ment later there was a crashing sound | and all was still A party went from shore and found | a considerable amount of wreckage and oil floating on top of the water at a spot about 1 mile from the shore and about 3 miles north of Newpoint Light and near Winter | Harbor. | "On one of the wings of the plan | were found the numbers which identified it as Conant's ma- chine. The plane itself was sub merged in about 15 feet of water, and | for lack of facilities efforts to raise | | the machine or to recover the body | | were futile. Comdr. A. C. Reed, commandant of | the naval air station at Hampton Roads, at davbreak today was to send | | planes, and the Sandpiper, naval tug, will leave for the scene to salvage the wreckage, | | | | | Too Late to Search. Word that Conant crashed reached the Hampton Roads station last night | after a message had already been sent | to Anacostia that Conant was missing, but darkness had fallen then and it I\\HR too late to send out a plane to | search for him. Cénant crashed about ! 1:30, according to word from Ma- thews. Conant, a junior grade lieutenant, was considered one of the Navy | ablest stunt fiyers. He was 27 yea | old and was stationed here at the | Bureau of Aeronautics. He lived wjth s mother here at the Dresden apart- ments. Lieut. Conant's comrades at the Navy Department and the Naval Air | Station at Anacostia, D. C., refused late last night to give up hope that | he had managed to extricate himself | from the sinking machine. His moth- | er also maintained a hopeful vigil, bearing in mind that he had escaped on several previous occasions from perilous situations. Lieut. Conant broke the world's speed record for a seaplane twice within the past week. The new rec. | ord was unofficial, Lieut. Conant keep- | | ing the time with a stop watch. | At Port Washington, N. Y. Tuesday he piloted his plane twice | over a four-and-a-half-mile course at a speed of more than 250 miles an hour. The next day, over a four-and | a-quarter mile course, he attained a | speed of 2511, miles an hour at| | Mitchel Field. He also held speed | records for flizhts from Philadelph | to Washington and from New York } to Hampton Roads. | last Lieut. Conant was designated one of the three representatives of the Navy for the Schnefder Cup races on | Octcber 18, on recommendation by | Lieut. Comdr. Homer C. Wick, com- | | manding officer of the naval air sta- | tion here. Lieut. George T. Cuddihy of the naval air station and Lieut. C. ! | F. Schilt of Brown Field, Quantico, Va.. were selected with Conant. The choice of the three airmen followed a series of grueling tests which were held at Hampton Roads, {Va., on October 15 Lieut. Conant has an enyiable rec- ord as an airman. He was assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics here | | following a period of service with the | | fighting plane squadron on the P cific Coast. Last year Lieut. Conant had some experience with Navy training ships and since that time sntinued on Page 6, Column 4.) ;FOUR KILLED AT CROSSING | _WARREN, Ohio, October 30 (P).— hree men and one woman were killed and another woman was prob- ably fatally injured tonight when their automobile was ruck by an Erie train at the Quincy crossing here. . Money or Doom, Nitroglycerine-Armed Man Warns Bank Teller. But Bluff Fails By the Associated Pre NEW today sent out a warning te banks to be on the lookout for a shabbily dress. ed. emaciated man. who already had fted one bank and demanded money plaving a bottle which he said contained nitroglycerine to blow up the building if his demand was re- fused The man entered the East Forty- second branch of the National City Bank, police said, and presented at 4, YORK. October 30.—Police | | the paving teller's window a note, | signed Y. Z." which read in part: “I am in the last stages of disease. Life doesn’t mean anything to me. I have a hottle of nitrogiyvcerine in my pocket, and 1f you don’t give me some money I will blow the whole -damn place up.” When the teller, pretending he was £0ing to get the money, le(t the cage to call bank policemen the man dis. ;ppeaM. Police started a search for {him, D. | from ! fourth period Caldwell broke through fand | afforded an opportu | Davidson’s unda WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION - St UNDAY MORNING, I “From Press to Home ' | Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately ¢ OCTOBER * (#) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS. WOODLAND BABES OF 1926: NAVY UPSETS DOPE, ARMY BEATS YALE 10-t0-0 Score at Baltimore Unexpected—West Point Gets 33 to 0. Special Dispatch to The Star. LTIMORE, October 30.—Un daunted by fs ts that made Mich igan an overwhelminz favorite Navy vanquished the Western Conference foot .ball champions this afternoon e [ 10 to 0. M than 40,000 in YVenable Stadium saw the Midshipment turn the tables on the team that defeated them 54 to 0 at Ann Arbor vear, It was the fifth successive victory for | the eleven that has scored Princeton. Colzate and Michiza successive Saturdays. Navy rallied in the jast two period to get all its points. In the thir period Hamilton dropkicked a zoal the 2iyard line and the in to the first touchdown scored azainst Michigan in Hamilton followed Caldwell's scoring with a drop-kick for point after touchdown two seasons. Held on 2-Yard Line. Navy earned its victory today. The Sailors stood the Wolverines off in the first half, although the Western ers threatencd frequently in the se ond period. Once Navy held for downs on its 2.vard line and once Friedman, Michigan's star quarter- back, missed with a placement kick for goal from the 18.yard line | The Midshipmen checked effectively | Michigan's famed passing game and made good use of this style of play in the Yhird period. Then recovering a_Michigan fumble on its 31-vard like v passed and plunged way close to the enemy’s goal hefore Mich igan braced. Then Hamilton made | good with his drop-kick. | In the fourth period Hamilton in-| tercapted a Michigan p: Sensational line plung Lwell | forward passing quickly play to Michigan's Zard | only two drives by Caldwell | were needed to gain a touchdown. i ARMY OVERWHELMS YALE. Cadets Take Advantage of Rivals’ Mis- ‘ takes at New Haven. = some moved | Special Dispatch to The Star. | NEW HAVEN, October 30.—Ever alert, Army’s foof ball team took ad- vantage of practically all of Yale's mistakes this afternoon and tri- umphed in the annual gridiron clash between the institutions, 33 to 0. A throng of 75,000 jammed Yale Bowl to capacity. scored in all four periods Three times it recovered Yale fumbles and went on to touchdowns, once it blocked a Yale punt and carried on to a score and once it intercepted a Yale pass and converted it into a flock of | points, For a time in the first half, the Elis | flashed a strong attack, but it lacked | consistency within striking distance | of goal. However, McGunigle was| ity to try for a field goal from the 30-vard line, but | his kick went awr; The game was yvoung when Army got lts first touchdown. Bunnell, Yale captain, fumbled a punt and eeman, Cadet guard who recover the ball, ran uninterrupted 18 vards to goal. Wilson drop-kicked the extra | point. | Pass Is Intercepted. unders, Army tackle, recovered | a Yale fumble on the Elis' 33-vard | line in the second period. Rushes by Wilson and Cagle brought a touch- | down, the latter carrying the ball across after a 13-vard end run. Wil | son again booted the extra point. | Later in the second period Murrell of Army blocked a Yale kick and th Cadets drove through for 3! yard: to a third touchdown. Wilson again booted well, In tiee third period Hard ing intercepted a Yale pass and to the Elis’ 37-yard mark. A few plays later in the fourth period Mur- rell crossed the Yale goal, but Wil- son's kick for extra point was blocked. Brenthall soon afferward recovered a Yale fumble within 6 vards of goal and Gilbreth ran to a touchdown. try for the extra point | I was wide. Severe Quake Recorded. An earthquake described as ‘'se- vere” was recorded on the seismo- graph vesterday at Georgetown Uni-| versity. Director Tondorf estimated it was 5,000 miles distant. It began at 2:49 pm. and lasted to 4:30 p.m. TODAY'S STAR | e | PART ONE—60 PAG | eal, Schools and Colleges News of the-Club: v Scouts—Page 31 ibwomen of the Parent-Teacher Act ¥ 6 A Around th Nat Vit Ci avy New Activities the Great ancial News— 6 and nal News— News an and 53 n Army Scout News Girl ‘ PART TWO—18 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features Washinzton and Other Socie Notes of Art and Artist Reviews of Autumn 1 Tales of Well Known Folk At the Community Center: Page —Prg Page Page 14 PART THREE—I? PAGES. Amusements — Theat 1 Photoplay Music—Tage i Motors and and*s. District Spar Seri the Motoring- [ Na®ons PART FOUR—1 PAGES. Sports Sect PART F ne s Pink Magaz tures. The Rambler- PART SIX—10 PAGE Classified Advertising, GRAPHIC SE N—10 PAGES. World Events in F ures COMIC SECTION—1 PAGES. Betty; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and M Mutt and Jeff. MARIE DEFIED AL 10 SEF SON CAROL Unreported Meeting in Paris, Due to Mother Love, Had No Cfficial Purport. By the Associated Press. QUEEN MARIE'S SPECIAL TRAIN, WINNIPEG, Man., October | 30.—The love of a mother for a son ! and the duty of a Queen to her cou oyal house guided tmania to a solution of per- haps the most distressing situation in | her career when she met the former | Crown Prince Carol in Paris before sailing for America. The solution, related by a high placed member of the r 1 entourage, | returned Prince Carol to the affection | of his family, but in no way altered his sta s outside the line of suc- cession to the Rumanian throne. Time and circumstances alone can be reck oned with to revise al status of Carol, who tossed away chance to rule Rumania by unwillin, ness to reign as his father's successor and his clinging to the woman of his own choosing—Mme. Lupescu The meeting of Marie and Paris was f t with p the seriousness of which b derstood in Bucharest left. Queen he 1 hi his own arol in sibilities ad been un- before Marie Advised Not to See Carol. Her friends there had adviséd her | not to see her son, fearing tife politi- cal complications that might from a_misconstruction of the tion. The Queen, howev promi (Continued on Outstanding Foot Ball Games of Yesterday Navy, 10; Michigan, 0. Arm; Yale, 0. Princeton, 23; Swarthmore, 0. Illinois, 3; Pennsylvania, 0. Harvard, 69; Tufts, 6. Notre Dame, 12; Tech, 0. Columbia, 1 Minnesota, 1 Stanford, fornia, 12. Maryland, 3 eorgetown, ley, & Penn State, 20; George Wash- ington, 12. Georgla Cornell, 9. Wisconsin, 10. Southern Cali- : Gallaudet, 5. 31; Lebanon Val- § !Banks, However, Sound Not {among | put | eran VETERANS MAY GET 262,310,000 LOANS f of Caution About Borrowing Privilege in 1927. adjusted possession with a face will he avail with banks which the £262,540 in veterans 75,000,000 dep security esti tes 000 may The drain under this Washington banks assumes fc dable proportions when it is realiz that they may he called upon to le approximately $2.100.000 after Jan u3 1 to so 3,000 holders of bonu certificates the I ir These zradually power policy on mi: in certificates in borrowing vear vear, have a face $24,674.000 underwritten by 13.000 from value of the Gov ernmen hington lerable ap an investment prop n, many them fear that they be left wit their hand Government of will on the process to be collected through a tediou unravelling “red tape Sound Note of Caution. A sounding of sentiment among them serves as a warning to the vet eran that cannot expect to walk into the bank at hand, plank down a e certificate, and walk immediately out again with a short time loan of $50 or §75 in his pocket What seems to be the sentiment bankers here reasonably may be claimed to be the sentiment e where. Loans may be made to veterans o these certificates only by banks an trust companies, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans' Bu reau said. Under no conditions, let it be known, can loans on bonus ificates he extended by the Vet erans’ Bureau or any other agency of the Government. In other words, voicing the opinion expressed by Charles J. Bell, presi dent of the American Security and Trust Co., and echoed by others, Con imply “‘passed the buck to the when it wrote the loan pro- into the soldiers’ bonus act. Banks Free to Decide. The ban bonus ce may or may not lend on cates, the discretion being theirs under the law to turn down any applicant they see fit, as in the case with individual horrowers. Nor can the veteran, in the event he refused a loan by his or any bank, turn to the Government in the hope of obtaini fun The Veterans' Bureau can lend money only on war risk in: nce policies, on which it has outstandinz loans to veterans invol 9,000,000, which 13 le cent of its assets E. H-we, treasurer of the can Security and Trust pointed out that Congress had thrust the veterans wholly upon the mercy n rece e, and v oubtedly they wou do what they could to meet the situa tion in strict adherence banking principles. “But what is to happ: to the man who can't borrow from any bank—and there probably will be many?’ Mr. Howe asked “If he {s turned down at the hanks he cannot borrow from the Govern- It Congress had wanted to make it certain that a former soldier should ohtain a loan, it should- have the responsibility on the Govern ment, so that each man could go to his post office and obtain loans merely upon_identification.” Realizing the injustice that ma done to many worthy veterans un- able to obtain loans except on their bonus {ficates, local bankers are ed to co-operate with the Go in as they feel able, heir interests are fully pro. haps Gen. Hines realized situation confronting the banks of the country when he coupled with the statement issued by the bureau an appeal to veterans to go slow in ment. be far | seeking loans. Hopes for Minimum Loans. The director sincerely hopes the teran will not exercise the loan privilege to any appreciable extent,” said the statment since it will be much more advantageous to the vet r his beneficiary to hold the cer imbered to the date of Due to the uncertainty that sur- rounds the situation, many of the (Continued on Page 6, Column 5.) he | 1$50,000 GEMS RECOVERED/ DEATH GUN SHELLS MATCH BULLETS IN SCRIVENER LOCKER Police for First Time Reveal All Facts Uncovered in Slaying Probe. | Jewels Get on Wrong Ship and Go | | to Cuba and Back. } YORK, October 30 (#) | Jewels valued at between $30.( nd | £60,000, wh were lost by Mrs. Edwin Knopf of th avenue while she was returning last week from a honeymoon in Furope. have heen foumd and re. turned to her, detectiv reperted to day Mr she NEW ssed the jewels when | from the steamship! Cont upon_its arrival from Europe. The jewels were in a hand- | bag which became separated from the ¢ the baggage. It was learned to ay the handbag had reen placed b ake on a Furness‘eermuda liner the jewels were taken to Cubx back hefore being returned to owner. Knopf m ed | and their D.C.T0 PAY MORE 0 ST ELIZABETH'S Withdrawal of Veterans’ Bu- reau Patients Will Throw Extra Cost on Capital. TIE FOUND IN HAND LIKE THAT HE GAVE FRIEND Weapon Picked Up Near Body Similar to One Owned by Detective. Refusing to advance any opinion as to how Detective Serzt. Arthur B Serivener_met_his death on the morn ing of Wednesday, October 13, police last night revealed for the first time all the facts they have uncovered in o ! their investigations of the last 17 BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | days The Veterans' Bureau is withdraw- | -At the same time it was announced |ing its patients from St. Elizabeth’s | that the inquest. planned for tomor- Hospital, and, as in recent years, |'OW. has been postponed one week,/ | these beneficiaries have been about | Outstanding among the facts un- one-fourth of the total number of pa- caveRa Dy l“m“{“‘l‘j(!“”;"{“‘mw —— ients in the hospital, while the Di nd caliber as the weapon found mear trict of Columbia has more than half | Sepivener's hody came into the detec }of the total, the result will be that it |¢ sergeant’s possession the latter {will cost the taxpavers of the District | part of last Summer. | somewhere from $100,000 to $200,000 | a vear extra in per diem charges for { the support of its indigent insane. | * The question also arises as to how {soon the District government may this $10,000.000 plant and it as a municipal instead of tution. s problem is s it i get Second—A package of 3% bullets, of |German manufacture and considered rather rare, was found in Scrivener’s {locker by detectives who searched his effects after his death. The same | type of bullet Kkilled erivener, and Ithe chambers of the revolver found [ near his contained simila 1 a recent ome | Cartridges. s positive that the Dis-| Third—The from Congress a de- | Serivener's right hand. grax with red yriation to meet its pro- | dots. was of the same tie ‘family"” as il ,:‘I?.],‘.»:hsn{m- a necktie, blue with red Alots, which the current fiscal yeartand must ask | Scrivener had presented to Matt ! Thuch larger appropriation for | Walsh, with whom he lived at 3123 N I'this item for the coming vear, it has|street. about a year ago. and both [ not yet heen brought officially to the | ties were purchased at the same shop. | attention of the District Commission-| The police detailed their findings in {ers or the Budget Bureau. No rep an interview with meverpee i :fi ! i o org s ! spector en; ¥ Pra S e e e the District Building last night. News- | 1t 8060 not sopear In the budget cither | Paper men were grouped around & i elther | abie. Scrivener's comrades—three of of St. Elizabeth’s or the District gov- | a0l SCTeners comelet e ago | ernment. | heen palibearers at his funeral—were Total of 3,950 Patients. seated in ¢ round Inspector There now in St. Elizabeth Pratt. Maj B. Hes superin- tendent of police, was present. The | Hospital 3,950 patients. Of these 2.15! {are D) t committments, for whom detectives included E. J. Kelly, Scrive 1 i ner’s partner; Thom ally, Joseph | the District pays $1.50 per day per | g, Waldron, Thom Sweeney and ! person uary 476 benefici aries of rans’ Bureau have | vatrick O'Brien, | been ¢ m St. Elizabeth’s on the theory of getting them into h nearer their ~home fol | there are now 499 Veterans® .u patients still in abeths. and about 100 of these are to be removed \ the next two weeks. There are ) others from the various services Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Co iuard and Public Health Service. 1e oth Veterar B pa | tients, in 100 cases, relatives have objected to their being sent from St. Elizabeth's to other hospitals carer home. There are about who live r tively near <0 that there no Vet au_ Hospital _nearer to There are 55 who have | take conduct Federal Tl le necktie und must appre higation to St i { trict | ficienc | ratea ol are s F. the 2 Simple Facts Given. At the outset of the ifiterview police disclaimed any intention of expressing an opinion. Facts only would be given, they made it plain. The stor) ¢ the investigation into the Scrivener death would be presented to the pub lic, and this is th the interview Serivener's body was found lying on he back. with the head up an in- \e of an alley, feet wide apart, and a pistol 14 or 15 inches from the feet. The tol's muzzle pointed toward the body. The pistol was a hammer- !less Harrington & Richardson weapon of .38 caliber zes of a cheap German, pre-war make were in no near kin in this country. In re-|the five chambers: one was exploded. gard to these latter mentioned 350 | In the outstretched right hand, a patients the director of the Veterans' | wrinkleproof, silk and wool necktie of Bureau is going to be asked for a spe od quality was clutched. | cial ruling to policy during the | At thiz point it was remarked that next week. many “tips” had been run out: many So the fact is that with the p | clues had been exhausted. Police have St. Elizabeth's built up to carry 4,000 | failed to fix suspicion upon any one m with 500 or | for killinz Scrivener. ~They have more erhead cost | failed to find a jealous husband, a n those who are | vengeful lover. They have failed to hat the cost per!establish the theory of a hold-up. ‘taining District pa- | They have failed to find any one who considerably higher. | saw a person fleeing from the scene. ad includes such items as P nal attention, administration office force, laboratories, power, heat- ng and lighting, and laundry. eau aho the ir hi lant at removed ror for will ove ofess capita tients L Many Persons Interviewed. Various persons were interviewed. One was Catherine Markey, who had ” e | once worn an engagement ring Scriv- Expanied Inring- V. | had given her, and who was , | ener | known to have been a former fiancee apartment by She w seen in b detecti who learned from Miss | Markey that at 9 o'clock on the Mon- {day night before her death Scrivener was with her. They were seated in | Serivener’s automobile. As near as Serivener sald, according to |tective who interviewed her: Catherine, let's start all over again. | Where we were ears ago. Let's fix things up thing will have to be done. Miss Markey During the war period the St. Eliza- heth's plant was built up to meet de mands made upeon it. Nine additional emi-permanent bt were erect ed, with a capacity N0 patients, at a cost of §200.007. None of this cost icame out of Disirict tax money. Nor was any increased charge made upon | |the District when increased compen ion was allowed to St. Elizabeth's employes following the war, and which increased the overhead cost. | ict has to pay a per capita charge for es patitnt at the rate i of the Interior. is now * person per day |not want to do so or the 2,150 District patients in that | Secrivener again i i n is estimated that an | recalled incidents of mutual intereat— of one cent In the per eapita | places where they had gone together, means an added cost to the | confidences they had shared. of $7.547.30, and that the| As he talked, Miss Markey remem- »able increase will he between 15 | bered, he held m his hand an agate aud 25 cents. which would he be-|knob from the top of his gear shift een $117.712.50 and $196,187.50 in- | lever, which he persistently tossed sed cost per year to the District. | from hand to hand as he talked District will have to pay the Second Appeal Refused. i rate for about six months current fiseal ar, which refused his second appeal the Commissioners must remembered it, Serivener throv the Budget eficiency appropriation 000 to meet this obli she could recollect, the de- o replied that she did SL30 p urged her. He da; pev pre The increas of the mea 3 She | Then, a What would you think | you I was to be married?” ) st “I think I'd believe almost anything . . ow, Arthur.” she replied. DRC s e | "oy c‘;x:;nh't“ nink voud take it quits 1dy officials are considering the easily.” he continued. “I will be prospect that the District govern-| married, but not in the near future. PenrCWill eventually, and within a| Then, she said, he asked her whether relatively few years. be obiiged o | she would allow him to call. it he :m “{Contin n “Col ) ze narried, to see her, or to cal er (Continued on Column 6) | zet n FIEiee o dsehar’ o (i RTe | would not. ! " She returned the ring she had peen wear As he took it, he said: “Well, Catherine, I'm not married nd God knows what will hap- t it T told Here’s to Your Health! That's the Title of a New Strip to Appear in Markey told detectives that ivener had talked in a strange manner the Thursday prior, when he told her he was being harassed with work: telephones ringing; people talk- ing to him, and that he couldn't walk om 1 street to New York avenue in less than 45 minutes, with folks run- ning up to him and wanting to talk to him. A daily bit of sound adviee bbb b G T betiive: formt fraie | Detectives also interviewed Miss high edical Helen Barnes Parker of McLean, Va. | igh medical source. | the girl Scrivener was to have mar- ried on the night of the day he met s death. Miss Parker sald Scrivener proposed | to her in the middle of September: | the date of the wedding was to be | October 30, and announcements for | that date had been printed. l On October 9, Saturday, Scrivener, The Evening Star Beginning Tomorrow i Something New Entertaining and Practical and Reliable Clip the strip each day and collect a valuable health book | for your bouschold libeary. impetuous, requested her to advance (Continued on Pags 2, Column 6. [ s Il |