Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1926, Page 1

L WEATHER Increasing cloudiness er_tomorrow night. Temperature-—Highest, a.m. yesterday: lowest, today. Full report on pag | S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; cold- nd warmer t 11.45 e 9, Closing N. Y. Stocks and B Th onds, Page 30 s matter D C. ¢ Fp 411 ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ . I STABS KL YOUTH AFTER S BULLET GRAZES MUSSOLINI Shot Rips Duce’s Coat, Cuts Sash and Enters Sleeve of Companion in Auto. ENRAGED F;\SCISTI DRAG BODY THROUGH CROWD Premier Calm Amid Excitement of:: 50,000 Followers—"Nothing Can Happen to Me,” He Says. November 1.—| jon for the | four years he n;m“ Benito Mussolini, whose slogan ve in Danger,” was undaunted as ever today as search was made for accomplices of a youth who tried to kill “1l Duce,” and then was ¢ infuriated Fascist! yesterday As Mussolinl was leaving the sta- dium after opening the Congress for the Advancement of Sclence, a slen- dor, blond youth, ahout 18 vears old, pressed forward toward his automo- bile and fired an automatic pistol. As the vouth started to fire again he was selzed by infuriated black shirts, who led him, bbed him 14 times, choked and beat him and; then dragged the body through a mill- ing mass of humanit The youth | was slain several minutes after the pistol shots. g The youth was identifled today as | Anteo Zamboni, son of a Bologna | printer. 1 Premier Is Unmoved. The bullet missed only by a frac tion of an Inch of imbedding itself in the premie 1t ripped both! les of his « sh of the! er of St. . Lazarus across his bre entered the sleeve of the m Bologna, who s sitting in the automobile beside nussolini Mussol were 1 up el. As crowds gathered in the path | of his automobile, almost overturn-| ing it In endeavors to get close enough o r he was injure he wing not the slight- est sizn of nervousness. The incident greatly exeited the 00 persons in the studium Tmmediately ner Tur Fascls a_proclamation. te-the | Black Shirts indicated that accom- plices would be vigilantly sought and punished The By the Associated Press, BOL A, Ttaly Having escaped as sixth time in the % been premier, and y hen previous attacks him, was unperturb- | st up aftel t, first gesture been accomplished,” said the pro tion ¢ the accomplices mus punished.” | Bullet Followed Cheers. lint had wted to motor | ome in Forli when the attach As his car entered the Via Tudepender swis standing behind lines of carabineers Keeping | the route open were sending up roars ! <" and cheering ttempt on his lite delayed the trip little His car soon ur) toward the rail nd he sat almly as iewing the walls of peo- | ple through which he passed. They were screaming acclamation, such as “Long live the Duc Death to the enemies of Fascism! and “Woe to him who touches the saviour of Ita When the premfer reachec vecelved @ message of congratulation from King Vic mmanuel. In ail the there we i the auto Inulle Iying of justice Mu premnie i way station if he were re th proces: ni had left ifway station th vouth < found floor of the INVULNERABLE, HE DECLARES. *Nothing Can Happen Before Task Is Done,” Mussoli FORLI, Ttaly, Nov | | i assurance to- all Ttaly, fol-| attempt against dav hi wing s 1 of its ess of the :d for the the Fasctsm of Padua, chitrave Italian Fas- episode & t ubscure s day. I ion of Maurice | his breast) You will projectil Cist through vou, the people L and province of | 11 would say one word of | certain to all comrades Ttaly: thing can hap- | is done.’ I whsolute ughou n to me MUSSOLINI Escapes Half Dozen Times. Benito 5 H premier, has escaped the hand of the | ussassin_ at least six times since he marched into Rome at the head of s Dblack-shirted men four vea assumed control of the aff llan people. Only so short a iime ago as Sep- | <ember 11 a young Italian stonecutter | threw a bomb at the premier’s auto- | mobile in Rome. The missile struck a window of the limousine, but did (Continued ) | her delightfut, soft, fair hair. I made a short | Worth, | Hange! | controve WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, far. 1926—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Saturday’'s Circulation, 97,611 Sunday’s Circulation, ‘109,634 (#) Means Associated Pres: TWO CENTS. My Impressions of America By Her Majesty the Queen of Rumania ar and Other Members of the Written Exclusisely for The ewspaper Alliance. American ] THE WHITE HOUSE DINNER AND BALTIMORE. ir long but pleasant day in Washington ended with the official | idential dinner at the White House. We all put on our most offictal clothes. As both my dJaughter and I wanted to honor the President and his wife as we would have honored a King, we drove up in separate motors and were recelved with the procedure appropriate to the White House. Iniportant personages, members of the cabinet, their wives, some generals sthers had been invited to meet me. Among them was Alice Roosevelt | worth, whom I had always been anxious to meet. I remembered with | what honors she and her father had been recelved everywhere in Europe, ! T myself had never been lucky enough to make her acquaintance, but I had | always heard about her charm, spirit and intelligence and I was in no wise ’ disappointed. i | She wore a lovy Dre | Lon, rocade and I much admired cle among the guests before | the President and bis,wife appeared and then wdlsoon went in to dinner. Admired Woodwork of Dining Room. admired” the beautiful dark brown woodwork of the state s in golden vases, which were beautifully The President and his wife sat on | I high-backed chairs facing each other. 1 was at the President’s right and my son Nicolas, had taken Mrs, Coolidge in to dinner. I heard him joking and laughing with her as though they had been old- | time friends. The President himself is more sparing of words, but my, daughter and I between us did our best to see that he should not consider a | royul visit a trying ordeal. I think he enjoyed Ileana’s innocent talk, for he Jooked pleased and even amused. | The ladies got up before the gentlemen and Mrs. Coolidge and I had some pleasant talk with them beforo the gentlemen joined us. It was during that moment that I was able to have some really interesting talk with Mrs. Longworth, who had met most of my family. I liked the interest she took in all things and I felt that had we had more time together we might have become firm friends—we had in many ways the same outlook upon life. Mrs. Coolidge Praised as Hostess. Officlal dinners are inevitably a bit stiff, but I must say that Mrs. Coolidge has a delightful way of putting people at their ease and I seconded her with all my knowledge of the world. Unfortunately, I could have very little of what I should call serfous conversation with any of the interesting men invited to receive me, who represented some of the best brains in the country. y dress of old red Chinese bi We greatly dintng room and the lovely pink ro iony with that sober background (Continued on Page 65, Column 2.) PREACHER SLAYER- PRESIDENT LEAVE ASKS TRIAL CHANGE, TONIGHT TO VOTE Rev. J. F. Norris Sees “Com- | Party Departs for Northamp- bination” Against Him in | ton, Mass., Shortly Before Texas County. Midnight—Trip to Be Brief. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. dent Coolidge is known to have | expressed the hope today that the clear skies and moderate temperature | of the moment continue throughout| tomorrow, election day i Not only is he anxious for good cather for the trip he and Mrs.| | By the Aesociated Press. | FORT WORTH, Tex., November 1. —(harges that city officials of Fort members of the Knights of Columbus and Roman Catholics in general have entered “a combination” to prosecute Dr. J. Frank Norris, Bap- th tor, were made when Norri trfal_on a charge of murdering Dex. ter E. Fort Worth lumbe in Judge George C ton, M for the purpose of cast-| ing’ their ballots in the election, but | to make It possible for voters to leave their homes to go to their respective | election booths. He has not been so intimately identified with elections for ! the past quarter of a century with-| out having long since learned to what extent the weather contributes to the size of a vote on election days. He also knows from experience that it is | in the rural sections that the greatest have played in the matter of get. ting out the vote if the weather is bad, and, as in his own State, as is the case in numerous others, the so- | called rural population is mostly Re- publican, he is therefore hoping that ! 2 pam. 1o PET-{ i party will be favored with good | Court recessed until 2 ° mit the prosceution to prepare its| TS P ente | Weather tomorrow | answer to a request for change. District Attorney Robert President Is Disturbed. leading the prosecution, an-| Agide from his desire to see his party | tate would resist the | yjctorjous throughout the country to-| morrow, at least to the extent of re- | taining ' control of the Senate and House, the President is extremel: anxious to see a good-sized vote cast everywhere. He is genuinely dis turbed over the growing tendency on | the part of the electorate generally to take less and less interest in voting. He is known to be worried because of | what he describes as a widespread dis- regard by so many citizens of the| privilege and duty of voting. Although he is an out-and-out pa: tisan, he does not look upon the gen- | eral subject of voting as a partisan question, but a patriotic one. He sees a peril in a decline in the voting and contends that if the representative {form of this Government is to be main- | tained and if the principle that the| | majority shall rule is to be continued, | it is essential that those who are en- titled to vote should do so. On the eve of the election two years ago, when he was the Republi- can candidate for the Presidency, President Coolidge made a n partisan appeal over the radio to the electorate to vote. He did not ask | for votes for himself. He merely urged his auditors to exercise their rights of franchise. Several times since he has had occasion publicly to remind the Natlon of the decline in voting, and during the current campaign he has several times urged the electorate to vote. Issues Public Message. With this in mind, the President in a public message to the people | of the country, today urged them to o to the polls tomorrow. His mes- sage as made public at the White House, Let no voters abdlcate their soverelgn right of self government at the election on Tuesday by failure to vote.” ‘The presidential party will leave Washington shortly before midnight | tonight and will arrive in Northamp- ton about 9 o'clock. In the party be- sides the President and his wife will be Kdwin T. Clark. personal secretar: to Mr. Coollige, who is also a voter in ~Northampton; Maj. James ¥ ntinued on Page 4, Column 4.) The charges were presented in an application for change of venue filed by defense attorneys and read to the court by Dayton Moses, leading coun- sel. The application averred that the fundamentalist pastor cannot obtain ‘a fair and impartial” trial in Tarrant or Dallas Countles and asked that the ase be transferred to some other T'axas county, “frea from the preju- dices which exist here.” ate Opposes Change. nounced the application. Rev. Mr. Norris for nearly 20 vears has been identified with reform move- ments of State and national scop With more than 100 witnesses sum- moned, 66 of whom were to testify for the defense, and a special venire of 600 drawn, opposing counsel have indicated detailed evidence will be in- troduced covering Dr. Norris' part in | s on evolution, the Ku Klux Klan, political issues and the prohibition las Detense counsel are expected to base thelr defense on a plea of self-defens, | conformity to a statement Dr. s issued to the State’'s at-/ in which he maintained | < threatened him when the lum lled at the study to protest attacks against the administration of Mayor H. C. Meecham. Criticlsms of Mewocham _appeared in the Searchlight, church newspaper. Deacon to Be Witness. H. L. Nutt, a deacon of the church, s the principal defense witnes. Nutt laims he was in the study during an argument in which he declares Chipps threatened bodily harm. Carl Glaze, 14-year-old boy, has signed a statement for the prosecution, stating he saw Chipps shot to death in an anteroom leading to the study. State detectives 10 Investigated the shooting reported peol of blood on the anteroom floor. Both Nutt and Norris declare the | shooting occurred in the study, where Chipps’ bedy was found. A native of Alabama, Dr. Norris came 10 Texas in 1907 and first at. tracted attention as editor of the Bap- tist Standard at Dallas. He was cred- ited with leading a campaign resulting in enactme of a law prohibiting gambling at Texas mce trac He then turned Lis attention to evangeli ork, and. starting with a con- tion of 13, built up a membership 10,000, including hundreds of who travel 30 to 40 miles to Is sermon e present trial which Dr. Norris has 12 his_church s alleg inued on I fs the third in 1 defendant. home burned 'sterious attacks P 1 | | Tuesday’s Election Returns To Be Broadcast Over WMAL From the Newsroom of he Foening Shar Authentic Associated Press bulletins will be interspersed in the regular program from 7 until 10 o'clock, and from 10 o'clock until midnight The Star’s election returns will have the air exclu- sively from that station. § Will P. Kennedy The Star's €taff will be the announcer. Stereopticon bulletins will be shown also on screens on the Pennsylvania avenue front of The Evening Star Building | fou olidze are to make to Northhamp- | b, | personal friend, Senator Butler, whom | | candidate BOTH SIDES CLAIM VIGTORY ON EVE OF VOTING TOMORROW Republicans Sure of House, ! But Democrats See Chance to Control Senate. COUNTRY GIVES NO SIGN OF HOW TIDE WILL TURN No Big National Issue Has Shown Up—Future of Smith, Ritchie and-Donahey at Stake. By the Associated Press. The answer to all the efforts of the political leaders and candidates du: ing weeks of intensive campaigning | will be furnished tomorrow by the voters, Swoeping clalms of victory con- {tinued to come today from the rival | camps—Republican and Democratic, wet and dry—but the key to the great blennial election puzzle rested with the millions who had manifested few outward signs of interest and given little hint of how they might be ex- pected to vote. The big prize in the election from the national party standpoint—the control of the Seventleth Congress— was claimed by both sides, with many Democratic managers confident that | they had better than a fighting chance to control at least the Senate, :md' with the Republicans pparently | equally as confident that any threat of such a result had been removed. | State Issues Mixed. Issues in the State c become o badly mixed that natlonal party managers did not undertake to malke any general estimates. Interest in such_ campalgns natu- rally centered in New York, where | iov. Smith s waging a fifth battle | for election; in Maryland, where Gov. | Ritchie's tenure as chief executive is| at stake, and in Ohio, where another | Democratic presidential candidate pos- | sibility might emerge—(ov 1 Donahey. While locking ho v torial and congressional battle wet and dry leaders had their sed on elght States in which the question of prohibition was to come | direct vote on repeal of State codes or on some other form of the wet-and-dry _problem. These States are New York, Illinois, ‘Wisconsi Colorado, California, Nevada, Missouri and Montana. Behind all of the claims of victory from the hostile camps there appeared | & certain apprehension resulting from | reports from political canvassers in | various sections describing a state of public mind _concerning the election that might be interpreted as little short of apathy. President Appeals for Vote. Partisan and non-partisan cam-| palgn organizations have joined in| last-minute drives to get out the vote, | to which President Coolidge has added | his volce through an appeal to his| fellow cltizens to exercise their suf- frage, and to stimulate the movement to the polls Mr. Coolidge will o to| his home town, Northampton, Mass., | to cast his vote. Hopes of the Demo- | cratic managers to obtain a majority of the new Senate are pinned to con- tests in 16 States where they have concentrated the bulk of their effort in the senatorinl campaign. The: States are: Arfzona, Colorado, Idaho, Tllinots, Indiana, which is to elect tw Senators; Kentucky, Maryland, M: chusetts, Missourf, Nevada, York, Ohlo, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington. Seats In dispute in all States are held by Republicans, and while the Democrats express con- fidence in obtaining the necessary nine to give them control of the Senate, Republican leaders assert | that with few exceptions these 16 ates are normaily Republican and can be expected to remain so this year. To capture the Iouse the Demo- crats must overturn the Republicans in 36 districts. Some Democratic managers assert this will be done, | predicting a Democratic landslide, but the G. O. P. managers practically dis- miss this as a rather idle dream indulged in by their opponents. In approaching the polls to register their final conclusions from the cam- paign the voters have to consider a maze of issues-—National, State ux\dl local—for out of all of the weeks and months of the battle there has emerged no great National question which might be expected to swing the pendulum to popular decision. Some of the old National issues have been reburnished for the cam- paign, but the real issues have been local, or at least have been made local. Prohibition and the World Court once gave promise of furnishing real campaign material, but the tlonal party leaders have been silent on them, for candidates in each party were split on both questions. Tn_some States disclosures before the Senate campaign funds committee furnished the fighting points. Purity in elections became an issue in Penn- sylvania as a result of the huge expenditures _on behalf of Senator Pepper and William S. Vare. Prohibition Important Issue. Public utilities campaign contribu- tions started a row in Illinois which | eventually led President Coolidge to declare a neutral attitude, but in that State, as in Pennsylvania, the wet-and- dry issue formed the real basis for the campaigning. Prohihition also was a foremost question in the Massachusetts con- test, in which Presldent Coolidge's mpaigns had | of these he chose to conduct his campalgn for the presidency two years ago, 18 a against former Senator David_I. Walsh. In Indiana, where both Senators Watson and Robinson are seeking re- election, charges of & corrupt Repub- lican-Ku Klux Klan deel and of Klan control of politics created an elev- enth-hour ruckus, with charges and denials flying in almost all directions. Besides the 32 seats in the new Sen- ate involved in this election, there are four in the present Senate—one for Indiana, one for Missouri, one for Massachusetts and one for Iowa. Senators Robinson, Indiana; Willlams, Missourt, and Butler, Massachusetts, seek popular approval of their ap- | pointment by the governors of their | States, while David W. Stewart, Re- publican, is unopposed for the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Aleri T, Cumminsy 3 | at the WHITE Hous BULLETIN THEIR RIGHT N YOUNG RULE HELD INBARBEE KILLING Witnesses Testify of Fistic Encounter Preceding Fatal Shooting in Maryland. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 1.— After deliberating about 10 minutes 2 coroner's jury at Rockville today ordered Richard Henry Rule, 22, son of Henry Rule, editor of the ional Capital Press, held for the action of the grand jury on a charge of murder in connection with the shooting Satur- night of William J. Barbee, i 19,1 Vernon street, son of a retired detective, who was Kkilled during a fistle encounter between two groups back of the Blue Ridge Pleasure Club, near Sligo, Md. Rule had not been admitted to bail ihis afternoon following the decision and was being held Rockville jail. State's Attorney announced that he would take advisement the question of bail. represented by At- Cissel and Rule was represented by Attorneys Bernard Welsh and Thomas Dawson of Rock- ville, Justice of the Peace John Jones presided. Nearly Score Testify. 20 youths of Washington, the shooting, were call- ed to tes “Their testimony showed that @ fistle encounter occurred be- tween Rule and Barbee after a mem- ber of the latter's crowd made a facetious remark about Rule's Hal- Joween costume, which consisted of Scottish kilts and a dinner jacket. While a member of the Barbee pari admitted that he and two others had had a drink prior to the trip, they declared none of the group was under the influence of liquor. Defense witnesses told the coroner’s jury that Rule fired the one shot Wwhich killed Barbee after he had been threatened. They also said their e Jur; Cissel Nea witnesses ot [ clubhouse had been robbed recently and that they thought the three cars bearing the Barbee party intended them harm. The first witness, James Herbert Wallace, 21 years old, of 1322 Mon- roe street, Washington, a student, testifled that he and Barbee and about a dozen other young men were on their way to the I'l Phi fraternity dance which they understood was to be held in @ barn near the Indian Spring Club. Losing their way they stopped at the Blue Ridge Club, Wal- lace said, to inquire thelr way. Rule, the manager there, and five or six others, standing on the porch of the small two-story club building, hesi- tated in answering. . Declares Dare Was Made. Samuel F. Perkins of 3832 Thirty- first street, Mount Rainier, Md., then shouted, the witness said, “What, ho, here's the jolly Scotchman.” Wailace said Rule took offense at the remark and struck at Perkins and the two rolled on the ground in a scuffle. Others_separated_tho_two and (Continued on Page 2, Column FRANCE IS SCOURGED BY ELEMENTS’ RAGE ) Yellow Sand Falls With Rain as Sirocco Blows From Africa. Rivers May Overflow. By tle Assoclated Press. PARIS, November 1.—Disastrous storms of wind, rain and snow con- tinue to ravage southwestern Europe and the rapidly rising rivers of Belgium and Eastern France threaten to overflow their banks. No section of France has been spared by the storm. Even Nice, where there is supposed to be per- petual sunshine, s deluged. A curious phenomenon has been particles of fine vellow sand which accompanied the rain. The sand apparently was brought across the Mediterranean from Africa by the sirocco which has been blowing for the past two days. The large freight steamer St. Octave has been driven aground in St. Anne's near Cherbourg. In Belguim the floods are slightly worse today than yesterday. The Meuse has risen another 18-inches. The large roliing milis at Chatelet, near Charierol, are flooded. The weather observers hold out some hope for a change in the situation, saving that :]1 cold wave {s due in two or three ay. DI o= 7 Norris Sees Vare Beaten If Honest Election Is Held By the Assoclated Press. Senator Norrls, Republican, Ne- braska, who has just completed a campaign in Pennsylvania in be- half of the candidacy of William B. Wilson, Democrat, opposing Willlam S. Vare, Republican, for the Scnate, declared today that Wilson would be elected if there is “an honest election fair, count.” “The machine that is behind Mr. Vare does not expect to elect him by fair and legal means.” the Ne- braska Senator declared. ‘“They expect to adopt the me tacties that they did in the primary. They have no other means and no other intention. “If the people vote their senti- ments and their votes are counted and the machine is prevented from its wholesale election debauchery there will be a victory against Vare that will be overwhelming.” and a ELDRIDGE ADVISES NEW 30.MILE AREA Asks Commissioners for Add- ed Speed on Sixteenth Street North of Newton. . An increase in the speed limit on Sixteenth street between Newton street and Alaska avenue to 30 miles an hour was recommended to the District Commissioners today by Traf- fic Director M. O. Eldridge. The recommendation will be acted upon at the semi-weekly meeting of the Board of Commissioners tomorrow morning and is expected to be approved. Mr. FEldridge proposes that the speed be ralsed in conjunction with the turning on of the new automatic traffic lights recently installed on Sixteenth street from Florida avenue rorth to Newton street. The lights probably will be in operation next week, and will make Sixteenth street a synchronized traffic controlled area the entire distance from I to Newton streets. 1f Mr. Eldridge’s latest recommenda- tion {s approved upper Sixteenth street will be the fourth arterial high- way where a 30-mile speed limit is al- lowed. The increased speed already is permitted on Massachusetts avenue from Sheridan Circle to the District line, Bladensburg road from Fifteenth and H streets northeast to the District line and Central avenue northeast from RBenning road to the District line. Other highways on which Mr. Lldridge proposes to raise the present 22-mile-an-hour limit include Rhode Island avenue northeast and Wiscon- sin avenue from Massachusetts ave- nue to the District line. The 30-mile limit is not continuous along these highways, however. In built-up sections the speed is reduced to 22 and 15 miles an hour. Signs call attention to the changes in the speed limits. - SEVEN HELD IN SLAYING. Youths Confessed Robbing and Beating Man to Death, Police Say. CHICAGO, November 1 (®).—Seven vouths who, police sald, confessed that they robbed and beat Stanley Clesiak to death were in custody to- day and two others whom they im- plicated were sought. Four of the boys, ranging from 17 | to 20 years of age, were arrested an {hour after Cleslak was slain. They | named the other three, two of whom are 18 and the other 19. The youthful robbers obtained $40 and a gold watch. The youths arrest- ed were Eddie Glassman, Andrew Kosowski, John Janowicz, Vincent ‘Welles, Vincent Nadiez, Matthew Bu- cycki and Walter Wolanin. DIRIGIBLE COMING HERE. LAKEHURST, N. J.,, November 1 | P).—The Navy dirigible Los Angeles land the non-rigid airship J-3 both took the air today for training flights in the vicinity of the air station. The Los Angeles had three new gas bags installed during the past week and was carrying a crew of 48 men. Tt was announced that the .week’s plans would include a flight by the Los Angeles to Washington, D. C. It ‘weather conditions are favorable, the trip may be made tomorrow, it was said, > Py { CONANT 70 BE LAID 10 REST TOMORROW Near Norfolk Saturday Due Here in Morning. Once more Arlington National Ceme- tery will give sepulcher to a fallen pioneer of the airways. Lieut. Frank | Hersey Conant, officer of the Naval Bureau of Aero- nautics to be killed “In action” in the last three months, will be laid to rest tomorrow morning on Dewey Knoll, | close beside others of the Navy Alr Service who preceeded him on the last “hop-off." The body of the vouthful officer, | who crashed to his death some time Saturday in the shallow waters Winter Bay, will be brought hack wus recovered from the wrecked plane yesterday. A full detail of officers and seamen will accompany it on the journey, which will be made by boat, and another escort will meet it at the wharf. Body to Lie in State. Every honor that the Navy can be- stow in death will belong to the youth- ful aviator tomorrow. His body will lie in_ state in All Souls’ Memorial Church, Cathedral avenue near Con- necticut avenue, until 10 o'clock, when the stmple rites Church will be recited. The briet journey to Arlington will be entirely the servico o'clock. As the charger of a cavalryman walks slowly behind the calsson hear- ing its master to his final resting place, so’the automobile of Lieut. Conant will be driven behind his catsson to- morrow. At the south gate of the cemetery two companies of seamen from the naval air station at Anacos- tia and the navy yard will meet the funeral cortege and escort it to the grave. There, close by the graves of the men who went down with the Shenan- doah and other pioneers of the air who preceeded Lieut. Conant on their last long flight, the Navy will pay its last respects to the latest victim of its battle to conquer air. The funeral service will be read by Capt. Dickens, of the r‘mmmm'wgrp; a squad of seamen will fire three vol- leys, Navy bugler will sound taps and another guound wil have been added o that valorous colony vey to th lony on Dewey Lieut Conant’s honorary pallbear- ers have been drawn from the men who served beside him the last few years of his life. One of them, Lieut, George T. Cuddihy, is & member of the American team that is to compete at Norfolk for the Schnelder Cup in a few days. That Lieut. Conant, a member of the same team, lost his life while practising low flying in prepara. tion for that contest, is one of the theorles advanced for his crash. The other pallbearers are Lieut. Corndr. A. | C. Davis and Lieuts. Allan P. Flagg Laurence V. Curtin, Willlam ;. Toru- linson and J. Perry. The death of Lieut. Conant was a distinct shock to the Bureau of Navy Aeronautics personnel. Not only was the voung officer exceptionally pop- ular, but his passing fs the fourth to oceur among the flylng officers of the bureau alone. the flying officer personnel to be killed in three months, the other victims being Comdr. John Rodgers of I wallan flight fame, Lieut. IT. J. Nor- ton and Lieut. . F. Councill | Italians Send Sympathy. | Messages of sympathy w . celved both by the Navy and by Mrs. Evelyn N. Conant, his mother, at her home in the Dresden Apartments. | One of these was from the Italian Schnelder Cup team and was word- ed as follows: “Wé have learned with great regret of the loss of Lieut. Frank H. Conant, 2d, and wish to convey to you and through you to the Navy and his family our most sin- cere sympathy and condolences. The death of Lieut.” Conant will cause no change in the program for the Schneider Cup races. Lieut. C. C. | Champion, who was first alternate for & place on the team, was selected to- day to fill the vacanoy resulting from the crash of Lieut. Conant. The ap- pointment of Lieut. Champion has been formally approved by the con- test committee of the National Aero- nautics Association. FLYER DIED AT CONTROL. there will begin at 11 Conant’s Body Position as Plane Is Ralsed From Bay. NORFOLK, Va., November 1.—In death as in life the body of Lieut. Frank H. Conant, 2d, crack Nav “(Continued on Page 10, Column 4. Body of Flyer Who Crashed| d, the fourth flying | of | { home early tomorrow morning from | Norfolk, where it was taken after it | of the Episcopal | by automobile. and it is expected that | This 1s 20 per cent of | in Perfect Flying SCRIVENER'S BODY MAY BE EXHUMED - FOR FINGER-PRINT Failure of Police to Take Left- Hand Impression Opens New Angle. | |SAY TEST MAY SOLVE \ | THUMB MARK ON GUN | Suicide Theorists Hold This Hand | Would Have Held Pistol—Right Clutched Tie. ! An unexplored {gation of the mysteri Arthur B. Scrivener today when it was | fingerprints had bee the dead detective’s \stead of both 1 the blurred 1 pistol found The only possibil | this oversight. v I | today, would he for Distri Gordon and Coroner N humation of the body, discretion of the Virgin at Winchester, Va., wt was burled. Whether this would be done hefora the inquest next Monday was proble ical this afternoon, but both the rie atterney and the coroner d their complete to co-operate with the police and r | their request upon the Virgiia | thorities, who have sole jur in event the police believe exh would facilitate their probe. Just how it nappened that only the right hand of the detective wa rinted set down to the nd bustle of the hectic ir ition by polic prior to the al of the body from the mors mortuary chapel to be prepare burial Tie It will be rec | right hand in the center this body was | held the pistol, i vestigators, it would have been his left hand which would have left the mark, just before his death. The fingerprint left on the a blurred outline of ridges. which were presumed at the time to be ridges made by a righ thumb Only a sparse amount ridge outlines being found, and thess being compared with the right thumb gerprint of Serivener without suc : investigators pressed on tu ade,” failing to go furthe s angle. What an_exhumation of the body would develop in the way of finger- prints, is admit problematical but the fact remains to those in charge of the case at the present time, that this angle of exploration has not been fulky covered. While police continted to refuse to day to make public whether the facts disclosed by them Saturd zht led to a murder or st theor J analysts of these s remained with | open minds regardings the case. Suicide The Some point ou folly to believe that i detective « the professional ability of Arthu Serivene would select a pistol, seen by two of his fellow detectives known by them to be in his possess to commit suicide. And this group point out that a detectiy Serivener's type would probably noet select such a’ w: and in addition leave in his loc mmunition sin ilar to that used in the weapon fo point the way back to him, if he were trying to n: suleide cloaked appear as a mu Again this for the same Scrivener would not to a tle known to have heen in his possession to place in his hand. were he trying to make unfathomabl mystery of his de: ‘Against_this reaso to the physical 5 with the death, asking why ner met death without a how he could have fallen uph veaching for a necktie; how he have grasped from the neck of u pre sumed assaflant and broken a necktic which, teats indicate, needs 140 pounds tenslon per tex unit to part o ear. Taking both schools of theo o of the fnvest! death of me to discovered t taken_only right hand to m death scene. of repairing t the Attorney vitt to ask ex lingness nation 1 | finger is hur | vesti { remo | to for Right Hand. cktie, torw { the neckband. wi discovered. Had believed by i1 he pistol sever: ¥ ¥ Questioned. that it would | | g, othe n conr point ion Serive ru hila could nto h to opposite his hor -just as much in"actuality, s never been n found in the alk remains & mystery mystery to police the layman who the scene. ;DESTROYVER TO GUARD | AMERICANS IN CEIBA | Vessel Disp;{ched?r_am Bluefields to Honduras Area, Where Con- | victs Join Revolutionists. | By the Assoctated Press | An American destrover has been | ordered from Bluefields, Nicaragua, to | Ceiba, Honduras, to protect Americar | lives and property there. usked for by the wnsul at Ceiba, who las reported that inmates of the penitentlary there had combined witi: | revolutionists and the town tempo! ‘ederal for X Whle the trouble in Ceiba has su sided since control reverted to federal hands. the uncertainty of the sltua tion, In the consul's opinfon, made it desirable to ha an American paval | craft there to g itee protection for foreigners in the event of revelutton ary uprisings in the near future. s vy By the Assoctatec Press, Although the Agricultural Degar ment announced today that reindecr meat would be placed on sale scon, it was sald the killing of the animals had not included Vixen, Trixen and. the other of Santa Claus’ team, Kot children need have no fear that the annual Christmas visit will be aban- doned. One firm in Alaska has informed the department that it expected to export 5,000 carcasses. Much of the meat Is shipped from Nome, Alaska. through Seattle, |Radio Programs—Page 28