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L) WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and slightly warmer; lowest temperature tonight about 34 degrees; tomorrow fair, with rising temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 4 t 3:30 p.m. yesterda at 7 a.m. today. Full repos *Clesing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 13 Entered as sec 2 vost office, ),137. Washington, : lowest, 30, rt on page 9. nd class matter D. C. (. 0.P.TOORGANIZE CONCRESS THROUCH FYELASH CONTROL Final Returns Show 48 Re- publican, 47 Democratic, 1 Farm-Labor Senators. SAFE WORKING MAJORITY IS MAINTAINED IN HOUSE Insurgent Group in Upper Branch Finds Itself in Improved Strategic Position ULD LINCOLN. Nominal Republican control of the Seventleth Congress is mssured by an evelash margin urns show that there will b sublican Senators, 47 Democ: g © member. Even tead, Farmes from Min ats on or 48 or the Democ: ‘ganization: to do—Vice d cast the de- the Republican: Senate commlittee r safe for the ote for administration of 1 when or insurgent 2h 1o hold s bloc in ress will be in a ion than ever to sive block minis the Democrais ninistration policfes. Made Wary By Landslide. In 192324, t ball with th bloc in the politicaily was hoped n the i insurgents in the gress. Instead of nation with the it Republican ta: amend it vita your s epuly Sui quarters hold up Democrats played insurgent Republican ate, but the result wrcely what The Republican 4 elections made w up with last session of Con entering a combi- ur s to beat the uction bill or to the Democrat hook ion has been made in some that the Democrats might ome of the appropriation ng the coming short session, B0 as to force an extra session of the seventieth Congr on after the final adjournament of the present March 4, 1927. The uch tactics would be to el the administration with r and tardl propesa urrass duction Re cont s, in th As nust But the &till retain dtepresentat gressiv " Congre positis dican reguiars will sl of the House of | originate in the House tution, there would of the Demccrats start- | along those lnes, even | on if the next Con- oreed. eliefl Diffevent. however, | v It Republicans | West should join with the n L asure and f measure, - | tive land tonight, | s prob- | the ¢ the | pur- | . or to| ction on farm relief legislation. | lusive of the pro- | t body, in the next | 1l tax and tariff pro-} Beautiful Nuptial Day Adds 1o High Enthusiasm of Swedish People. Civil Ceremony Today Will Be Followed by Religious Rites in Brussels. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 14.—In the presence of the crowned heads of four nations, Princess Astrid, 20-year-old nlece of King Gustave of Sweden, was married today to Crown Prince Leopold, the Belgian heir ap- v Carl Lindhagen of Stockholm ted at the civil ceremony, which will be followed by an ecclesiastical wedding in Brussels, the Belgian capi- jtal, next Wednesday. Today's ceremony was held in the | National Hall of the Royal Palace at |8:40 o'clock this afternoon. Through | the trylng hours preceding the wed- {ding Astrid maintained the happy. sweet demeanor for which she is known, smiling her acquiesence to nands of the press photogra- She savs farewell to her na- tarting for her new ome on* a Swedlish cruiser, accom- panfed by her parents. The Belglan royal party, including the bridegroom, 1 will travel by another route. Prince Leopold will meet his bride Jat Antwerp and conduct her to Brus- sels for the religious ceremony next | Wednesday. As if to make amends for yester- day's snowstorm, the elements were in a gracious mood for the wedding and the weather was mild and pleasant, with a clear sky. All Stocks holm was up and around at an early hour, ready for the great event to which the people had been looking forward eageily. Along Queén street every house was decorated with flags and garland The religiou sels will be the Roman Catholic Church, of which { Leopold, like the other { the Belgian rc family. is a com- municant. Astrid retains her Luther- an faith, having taken no steps, as er- voneously reported, to embrace the faith of her flance. . { The latest previous example of a royal marriage with the principals | of differing faiths was that of the | Princess Mafalda, daughter of the King and Queen of Italy, to Prince Philip of Hesse, a Protestant. { "1t "is recalled that the present | Queen of Spain was a Protestant, but |p ceremony ch in_Brus:| according to the rites of members of | ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION e Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1926—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. * SEVEN CROWNED HEADS SEE ASTRID AND LEOPOLD MARRIED PRINCESS ASTRID of Sweden. . PRINCE LEOPOLD of Belgium. CROWN embraced the Catholic faith before her | marriage to Alfonso. _Seven crowned heads of Europe (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) PROMIBIION VOTE | CALLED STAND-OFF Drys t_o Control 300 Out of {435 in House and 70 of. | 96 in Senate. ? BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although there was a much more intense fight than usual on the pro- hibition issue in some States, the gen- eral statement may be made that the net change, so far as the repeal of the eighteenth amendment or the Vol- HOPE ABANDONED FOR 45 IN' MINE Toll Rises to 52 as Swamp Falls Into Shaft of Iron Company. v the As<ociated Press. MINE SHAFT, BARNE LOCATIO! ISHPEMING, Mich., November Hope that any of the 45 men unaccounted for in the cave- in at the Barnes-Hecker mine yes- - HHECKER GORSLINE: DENIES HESAWACCUSEDAT HALL CRIME SCENE Heard Shots and Moans, But] Recognized No One, State’s Witness Declares. |DIDN’T TELL REPORTER OF SHADOWS, HE AVERS ‘Woman Describes Appearance of Henry Stevens at Her Home Year After Murders. | By the Associated Press. { _COURTHOUSE, Somerville, N. J., November 4.—A categoric denial that he saw_any of the three defendents iin De Russey's lane the night Re Edward Wheeler Hall and Mr | Eleanor Mills are supposed to have been murdered was made in the Hall- Mills murder trial today by Ralph V. M. Gorsline, vestryman in’ Dr. Hall's church. Gorsline, said by the prosecution to be one of its chief witnesses, told in a low but calm voice how he had gone into the lane in an automobile with Miss Catherine Rastall, also of New Brunswick, about 10 o'clock on the night of the murder. , . As soon as they got into the lane, {'Gorsline sald, he turned out the lights of his autom: A few minutes later he heard four shots and then moans from a woma | | “Well, what did you do? | Prosecutor Simpson asked. | “We stayed there for minutes longer, about Gorsline said. Saw No One, He S: i | | “Did_you see any one? | “Nom 1 1 i no shadows?"” “What did you hear first?” “One shot, then screams: three shots and then this woman's moans.” “Did you know Mrs. Mills?" i es.” Han't seesher Hal?" 0. ‘Why don’t you cut your throat ! | like you did in the grand jury room.” | ‘This, Senator Simpson explained, | referred to a gesture Gorsline was re- | | ported to have made in the presence | of_one of the grand jurors. | | “Do you deny that you told a re-, | porter on Th last that you had | | seen shadow. i o an “You never saw Mrs. Mills' throat “Do_you deny that you said you saw Henry Stevens in the lane that night when this shooting and throat- cun[lnlg was going on”" Do Chart Introduced. the Evangelist, of which Dr. Hall was pastor, was the first evidence offered by the State on the second day of the trial. The chart was identified by W. J. Berryman, map maker, as one he | made after a study of the church. | Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow | of the slain pastor, and her brothers, | Willle and Henry Stevens, who are | on trial for the murder of Mrs. Mills, choir leader in Dr. Hall's Church, | Attempted Prison Break Re- | By th i fof Hyman Amberg, alleged murderer, | A chart of the Church of St. John|s THE 1926 “MUM” SHOW. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as th (/) Means Assoclated Pre e papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,590 TWO CENTS. TWO ARE ARRESTED IN TOMBS BATTLE sults in 4 Deaths and 3 In- juries—Guards Alert. Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 4—Two sen were arrested today charged | h aiding the spectacular attempted break from the old Tombs prison esterday in which four men were | killed and three injured. T were Oscar Amberg and | Robert Warner of Brooklyn. Am- ! berg, the police said, is a relative who shot and killed himself when eseape from the high prison wallsd became impossible. The arrests were made. at their] homes just before dawn. The police {sald they were suspected of being | implicated in smuggling weapons to soners who made their un- ful dash for liberty. Warner, who is 24 years old, has bheen arrested four times since 1925, arged with larceny. robbery and assault, but was discharged each time, police records show. Amberg has never been charged with crimes. Police Claim Proof. Police said they had positive proof {that the two men were implicated in sa break. They 1 | JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, Controlier of “the Currency of the United States'from 1913 te 1921, who died at his home in Richmond, Va. 1,5, WILLIAMS DIES; 1S EXCONTROLLER PLANS TO FORCE GAR LINE MERGER, Proposed| Bell Announces Legislation to Reward or Punish Companies. Preparation of proposed legislation to force the street car companies of Washington to enter into a voluntary merger will be started ““very soon, was_announced today by Engi Commissioner J. Franklin Bell, chair- man of the public utilities commis- sion. ‘The announcement came as a sequel to a lengthy informal public hearing yesterday at which the commission learned that the people of Washington still anxiously desire a merger, but that the traction companies are not prone to proceed with such negotia- | tions unless the plan of consolidation embodies a fixed valuation and service at cost as the cardinal features. it | ecer | ENGLISH RESIGNS AS JUDGE; SENATE MAY DROP CHARGE { White House Announces Ac- ceptance of Decision on Eve of Impeachment Trial. ILLINOIS JURIST ACCUSED OF ‘HIGH MISDEMEANORS’ Question of Procedure for Extra Session of Upper Body Wed- nesday Not Settled. W, English ned today in impeachment 1 Judge G stern Hlinois ace of impending ceedings. Announcement of which was accepted White House alm ancously with a call by the Hou mbers ap pointed to prosecute him for a meet ing to arrange plans for his trial be fore the Senate on November 10. Impeachment of the jurist. who wa- appointed to office by President Wii son, was voted on April 1, this ¥ the charge being that he wa of usurpation of power and “high misdemeanors,” . Indications that Judge English | would not carry his case before the Senate were gziven recently when William F. Zumbrunn, locai attorney widely known as ¢ounsel for the Ku | Klux Klan, v ed as chief counsel i for him. At that time, however. othe members of the large legal array e had enlisted in his defense in<isted that the jurist would fight the iss to the end P resignation. de at the the wa guilty othe ncipal Charges Made. ainst Ju wrongful manipulati funds, usurpation ¢ State officials 1age from tening of jur Appearing be ough his coun entered formal de- Principal charges English were of bankrupte: authority over 1liion use of profane lang bench and the jand counsel i | fore the Se sel Judge nial in each ¢ Whether the Senaic will proceed with the impeachment proceedings was not to be known at the \White E of the pproval of tepublican and Democrat. managers for the Iouse in the ings. In one or ; : said, the { proceeded with impeachment pre after an official had resigned ! 'The resignation was tendered for | Judge English by Edward D. Kramer |of East St. Louis, Iil, his chief coun- sel. Present also were ‘Attorney General Sargent and Representatives ish The merger bill. Commissioner Bell Michener and Summers. indlcated,, will contain both punitive | measures and rewards, based upon| suggestions made to the commission | ad possible ways of bringing about |, Senator, . Republi Jine a unified operation. Ifor the Semate judiclary committee | chairmanship, expressed the opinion Suggestions in Two Groups. j that the Senate must meet on Novem- A {ber 10, as planned, and take formal These suggestions, as revealed atigction of some kind. He added, how- the hearing, are divided into two dls-ie\-pr. that it would undoubtedly bhe tinct groups, as follows: iguided fn jts course by recommenda If the companies do merge by altions of the House man The given date, reward them by repealing | senate may go ahead with the trial, the crossing police tax, repealing or | vegardless of the resignation. he said, reducing the paving tax, guarantee|pyt i precedents ave followed the trial Norris Expects Senate Session. Norris, Republican, in line i Republicans | #tead act as a result of the elections ithe attempted ter are stilballv - | looked a v vide - erday are still alive has been aban-!looked at the chart with evident in Warner visited the Tombs twice yes- doned. Seven bodies recovered at|terest. The State did not immedi- the returns now | ts 10 or 12 will | Ly insur Republicans | Northwest, Aving a net | n sirensth of 228 to | otise the Repub- | total of 247 seats, fu-| ‘heir net loss | Of these s 40 fleure s | the House is Republican | will have . Working St noof ugh that th the Touse not a lar ns in the that senatorial elec- Republicans lost | Weller was i | The Anti-Saloon Ating Democrat, and is the successful date In Ovegon, whire Dem nd former of the United Shippiry Board, was his oppone.t The margin_of Republican success Vi m in both these States. In 1d been badly nce of a wec- ate, Senator anf running as an independent. While both Senator “Jim” Watson &nd Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Re- publicans, were re-elected in Indiana, W margin. In the m the margin of victory outhfu! Democratic can 1s” only about 15,000 votes, ection in Hooslerdom for he vote indicates that ges of political corruption, linking up thé Republican organiza. tion with a former n leader, D. C. Stephenson, now serving a lite sentence for murder of an Indianap- wlis girl, were not without their effect. Problem in Vare and Smith. Should the new Senate refuse to permit the seating of Vare and Smith, successful in the Pennsylvania and lllinois elections, respectively, when t body meets next year, Repub- n control of the Senate might | vanish, at least temporarily. Without | Smith nd Vare the Republicans would have only 46 Senators. How- the Democrats, having | only 47 seats, would be tied, and the Vice President could cast the deciding vote for the Republicans. The large Democratic membership in the ne > presence | of many Pregy Republicans | from the West denounced | ioth Smith and Vare. makes the seat- ni of either Vare or mith a matter {to the eighteenth amendment, and of | | Thomas Eagleman, Tuesday is concerned, is about a stand-off between the wets and drys. Latest figures indicate that the dr will have approximately 300 | votes out of 435 in the House of Re resentatives and about 70 out of %6 in the Senate. This is in excess of the necessary two-thirds required to submit to the States an amendment | course i: majority considerably more than the | necessary to keep the Vol- ad act unamended. Some Results Paradoxical. Some of the States presented para- doxical result They voted wet on the referendum, but elected dry mem- Lers to the Senate and House. | In Illinois, the referendum asked Congress to change the Volstead act. League asked fts | supporters to ignore the referendum ! land concentrate on the electfon of drys. o Frank Smith, dry, was elected United States Senator and two Congressmen-atlarge, who are dry, were elected. i In Wisconsin, both are | wet and the State has alw been jcounted as on the wet side. so there | was no important change there, In New York State the wets been in control for some time. clected a wet United States Sen who is o Democrat. but the Anti- Saloon League derives considerable comfort out of the fact that it pun- ixhed » Republican—Sena Wads- | worth— by running an independen: | Repudlican on the dry ticket, whose votes heiped to defeat Mr. Wadsworth. The referendum vote of the State in | favor of modification of the Volstead act Is in keeping with the attitude of | the ate in refusing to adopt an en- : forcement act. i Missourl Votes Both W. | _ Missour! voted dry on the referen i dum, but elected a “wet” as United | States Senator, namely, Harry B, | Hawes. who has représented a St | Louis district in the House of Repre. i sentatives. Missouri refused to re | peal the State enforcement act. Colorado also declined to repeal the | State enforcement code and elected o | dry Senator. Complete returns from Montana and Sena have They tor, 6 o'clock last night bring the total victoms of the disaster to 52. All efforts are now being directed at the recovery of the bodies. Daylight today saw a bailer, set up under the glare of floodlights dur- ing the night, biting into the angled mass of mud, rock and timbering that bars the way from the surface to the first level, in which it is believed several bodies are. These are thought to be those of miners who, warned by the blast of air and rumbling which followed the cave-in, made an attempt to escape, only to be caught by the falling debris in sight of the| surface. Other bodies, believed en- tombed on the second and third levels 11!1 the mine may not be recovered for days. Worst in Section’s History. Yesterday's disaster is the worst in the history of mining in the Lake Superior et There was scant warning of the impending fall of rock. mud and quicksand, and only a few of the miners thought_to have known away. The collapse was area of 300 feet long and wide, and from the surf: an_indentation swamp lands. over an 200 feet 60 fect deep in the The crash came at 11:20 o'clock, only 10 minutes before ! the fi ew of men were to have been brought to the surface for their dinner hour. Within a short time the mine was flooded. Aside from the single shatt openi at the surtace, it ipne nnrx‘er avenue of escape for the trap- ped men. That was through a rais from the sixth level i - Uloyd mine at North Lake. No attempts will be made to reach the flooded mine through this avenue! at present, officlals feeling that the danger of loosening the jam would veril the lives of rescuers and flood the lower levels of the mine. Wilfred Will, 32 years old, is the sole survivor of the 53 men below the surface at the time of the crash, Still aken by the ordeal, he ttold his story to a weeping audience of mothers, wives and children gathered at the shaft last night. California _are not avallable at this (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) W h s, | orkin second (Continued on Page 2, Column h By the Associated Press. CHAMBERLAIN, S. Dak., ber 4—Buffalo County, S. Dak., has returned to the dominion of the red men as a result of the election Tues- day, when a full ticket of Indlan can- didates was victorious. This is said to be the first instance in American history since the coming of “paleface” government of such an occurrence. The men on the winning ticket are clerk of court Charles Fish, auditor: Thomas Gaul register of deeds; Wall of grave doubt. If they are rejected (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) sheriff; Joseph Irving, Thomas Tuttle, cuniy ;Indians Again Rule South Dakota County As Palefaces Are Defeated in Election All the men measure up to white Novem- | men holding similar positions in other | was working with Henry counties in education and experience, and are all of progressive nature. “What is the use,” declared Eagle- man, the new clerk of courts, ‘of the Government educating the In- proper place in the affairs of the coun- e Another Tndlan of this sioner, was an issue clerk back in the days of Gen. Custer and has been active in the council of his tribe both here and at Washington. He now & member of the Indian that death was scconds | revealed | there was but one ° of the Morris- | el | ! vicinity, | Thomas Tuttle, the county commis:|orchard. Stevens claims he was at|’ ately reveal the use it would make of the dlagram. Mrs. Jane Gibson, the State's star witness, was 11l toda} was expressed as to could testify. Hall's Successor Called. I Irving Petit, present pastor of the church, described conditions in Dr. Hall's study as he found them when he assumed the pastorate. The State then changed the course of the prosecution and put on the stand Mra Anna L. Hoag of East Oranee, On September 14, 1922, the supposed murder night, Mrs. Hoag lived about 1200 yards from the crabapple tree | where the bodies of Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills were found. About 10 o'cloc that night, she said, she heard four pistol shots fired. She testified that {about a year after the murders, and after she had moved to the Phillips’ farmhouse, where Dr. Hall and Mr: Mills are said to have met, Henry Stevens came upon the porch and asked to be directed to Raritan, a nearby town. “I told him I didn't know where | Raritan was, but directed him to Easton avenue,” Mrs. Hoag said. Stevens “Almost Collapsed.” “He told me he was hiking and| didn’t want to go on a street car. But | he was immaculately dressed and I! could see that he had not been hiking. I never saw a man so excited. He| {was very nervous. “I had my dog and I knew I was fe. He told me he had been in Flor- ida and then suddenly he said: “‘There | was a tragedy here, wasn't there?” “I then jumped up and ran in the whether she { the road, he almost collapsed.” | “After an hour and a half spent {in the selection of a jury, the State | opened its case with two surprise | witnesses, whose testimony was in. tended to break down the alibi of | Willle Stevens. Mrs. Gibson, a pig | raiser, claims to have been nearby | when Hall and Mrs. Mills were slain !in an abandoned orchard. In court | yesterday Mrs. Gibson sat near Char- lotte Mills, daughter of the murdered woman. Daughter ldentifles Letters. | On the stand the girl identified a | package of letters her mother had | written to Dr. Hall. She also declared that Ellis Parker, a county detective, had attempted to get her to say her father was not at home on the night of the murder. The father, James Mills, sexton of Dr. Hall's church, sat placidly chewing gum while she i testified. Special Prosecutor Simpson iclaims to have evidence that Parker Stevens to | fasten the crime on Mili | John 8. Dixon, a Wall Street ac- countant, and his wife testified that {about two hours before the time the % murder is belleved to have been com- | dlans if they are not to take their|mitted Willle Stevens appeared at the | | front door of their home and asked | to be directed to a home for aged men, about 500 yards from the abandoned i Mrs. Hall's home at that time. Edward Garrigan, New Brunswick | policeman, one of the first persons to| see the bodies as they lay under the " (Continued cn J4EWs. Column 69 = 4 and some dount | | a prisoner charged with murder in | house, and as he was walking down | | terday, once with Mrs. Michael Mc- | Kenna, wife of one of the trio who | {ried to shoot their way to freedom. During the shooting, according to | police, Warner sat outside the prison Walls in an automobile with the en- gine running. When it was evident |the attempt had failed, they said, he | drove away | On his visit to the prison Warner | was sald to have given the name of Herman. Amberg. He talked with i Hyman Amberg for an hour the first | time and for 20 minutes the second { time. which was only about an hour before the shooting began. Yesterday morning, police said, | Oscar Amberg was seen riding in an | {automobile with Warner and was be: lieved to have been hanging around the vicinity of the prison during the day. | Guards Watch Prison. | The old Tombs prison was under a heavy guard of patrolmen armed | with today. The dead are | Peter lon, warden; Jermiah | Murph guard: Oliver Glantz, | alias jas Burke, a Chicago ! gangster hrqught here to| face a charge of robbery, and Hyman | Amberg, under indictment for mur- der in a jewelry store robbery. The wounded are Daniel O'Connor, guard; J. Allen Steadwell, a spec- tator, and Michael (Red) McKenna, connection with the robbery of the McKenna was wounded he | Reid Ice Cream Co. ‘Knld to be so badly would probably die. | "Three prisoners started the at- { tempted break yesterday that threw hundreds of other prisoners into a near panic and brought 300 police- i men to battle with them in answer to a riot call. Police say there have been sev- eral attempts at jail deliverles since the Baumes law, providing for extra heavy sentences for old offenders, went into effect a few months ago, | but this attempt was one of the most spectacular in the city's history. The three reported sick and were being taken to the prison physician's office when they rushed the main gate of the prison with pistols ob- tained from an unknown source. They demanded the keys from Louts Lorch, gatekeeper, who disconcerted them for a moment by walking to- ward them, although he was un- armed. They fired a_fusillade of bullets at | him, but missed and then ran into the prison vard, shooting at Warden Mal- Jon when he appeared at his office door. Mallon was wounded then and died later. . \ Laughs Before Suicide. They took refuge behind a coal pile, {on the spot where a gallows stood be. | fore the electric chair was installed at Sing Sing. There they stood off a | siege for half an hour that held spell- I bound spectators who lined office win- Hgart Disease, After Two Days’ lliness, Fatal to Noted Virginia Financier. ! Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Ya., November 4.— John Skelton Williams, former con- troller of the currency, confirmation of whose reappointment in 1919 was the cause of a fight i the Senate, died today at his home here. 5 Heart disease was the cause of death. Mr. Willlams had been ill two days. Until Tuesday he was in robust health and active about his duties. He was president of the Rich- mond Trust Company and a member of the banking and brokerage firm of John L. Willlams & Sons, organized more than 60 years ago by his father. Mr. Williams is survived by his wife, three or four children, four broth- ers and a sistgr. The sister is Mrs. S. H. Demis of this city. Langbourne and Edward R. Williams of this city and Laneaster Williams of Baltimore are brothers. The Williams home is Paxton, a| magnificent estate, about three miles | from this city. Willlafns was first appointed controller in March, 1913. He resigned March 2, 1921, going out with the Wilson administration, and resumed business at Richmond. 3,081 TRAFFIC ARRESTS. October Figure Is 523 Higher Than for September' Arrests for violations of the traf- fic regulations during October totalled 3.081, an increase of 523 over the preceding month, according to the monthly_statistical report of Inspec- tor E. W. Brown, .in charge of the Trafic Bureau. submitted today to| Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superimendent of_police. The largest, number of arrests were tor infractions of the parking regula- tions. The arrests include one for having no weight on a horse, and one for having no bell on a bicycle. One arrest was also made for having no instructor’s permit and two for hav- ing no learner's permit. The report showed that there were 615 traffic accidents during the month, which caused 11 deaths, 5 serious in- juries, 315 minor injuries and involved 285 rases of property damage. | the them against bus competition, modify the present taxation and either re. peal or modify the bridge repair tax. For failure to merge by a certain given date, the suggestions proposed | such punishment as revoking char- ters, increasing the gross revenue tax, imposing a franchise tax, allowing unlimited bus competition and order- ing the operation of the cars of both companies indiscriminately over the tracks of other companies. The latter plan would, in effect, be a merged op- eration. Which of these punitive measures and rewards will be selected for in- clusion in the merger legislation have not been defipitely determined. This question will be given most serious study before the merger bill takes definite form. Asks for Proposals. Commissioner Bell has asked the heads of the car companies to assist the commission in the preparation of legislation by furnishing their own merger proposals. These will be would_be abandoned. Representative m.x Republican Towa, one of the Houle prosecutors, | took the view that it would be up to the Senate to decide whether to pro ceed with the trial ar drop the case. A number of Senator: uding some of the leaders, ssed the view that the c > dropped and that whatever meeting the Sen- ate held on November 10 wculd be merely perfunctory to dispose of the issue, The English cass has mittently before Con i yea having first he i the attention of the H ! sentative Hawes, Democ who asked that chargzes 1 | St. Louis I gated, ! bers fin: ! an- inqui i peachment was | judiciary committee last March and | after mearly two weeks of debate the | impeachment resolution was approved i by a vote of 502 to 62 inter- for two n brought to 1se by Repre- . Missouri, Teen included in the merger bill, he said, | as alternative paragraphs to the com mission’s propositions or else submit- | ted to Congress as an alternative measure. If the commission decides on the latter procedure, it was indi- cated that the proposals of the trac- tion companies would have to stand on their own merits. i Belknap Case Precedent. | Senator Ashurst of Arizona, whil |not venturing an opinion as to what |course the Senate will follow in the i English case, gaid today that in the case of Secretary of War Belknap in 1876 the Senate proceeded to a vote |on the impeachment ch after Sec While the Commission {s not ad- ! etary Beiknap had resigned. Secre verse to the general principles the service at cost plan, Chairman Bell does not believe that it should be used as a basis for merger, coupled with a valuation which represents much more than the money invested in the street car properties. What the Commission wants is for the com- panies to agree among themselves on a ratio for division of net earnings, merge with valuations and car fares unchanged for the present, and enter into a new valuation proceeding afte the merger has been accomplished. Seek Investment as Basis. It is the opinion of the Commission that if the service at cost principle is to be adopted, the return on actual investment instead of valuation should be used in arriving at the cost of operation. The difference between thesé two items was llustrated by Commissioner Bell by citing the case of the Capital Traction Co., which Is capitalized at $18,000,000, of which $12,000,000 repre- sents stock and the remainder bonds. The commission’s valuation of the property is about the same amount, but_the District Supreme Court has increased the valuation to more than $30,000,000, from which decision the commission appealed to the Court of Appeals. Dying Mariner's Farewell to Mother, Floating in»Bottle 40 Years, Is Found By the Associnted Press. | dows and fire escapes overlooking the | | prison yard. Steadwell, an assistant superin- | tendent in the cards division of the New York Life Insurance Co., was Wounded in the hand when a bullet crashed through the window of his of- (Continued oo Page b, Columa a3 HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, November | 2nd forwarded to the premier of Nova Scotia. It read: “To whom it may of,! \ tary Belknap was | peachment charges Senator Ashurst said that a great {many of the Senators, in voting not guilty, announced they thought the Senate no longer had jurisd!ction. JUDGE REVEALS MOTIV quitted of the im Letter to President Says “Usefulness Is Impaired.” EAST ST. LOUIS, IlL, November 4 P).—Federal Judge George W. Eng lish, in his letter of resignation made ! public here today, told President Cool idge that while he had discharged his duties to the best of his ability, he was convinced that his usefulness a- a judge had been “segiously impaire as result of the impeachment pie | ceeding. i The text of his letter follows ! “To His Excellency, the President o | the United States “I hereby tender my | judge of the District C United States for the Eastern Distri of Illinois, to take effect at once. “In tendering this resignation 1 think it is due you and the publi that I state my reasons for this action { “While I am conscious of the fact ithat I have discharged my duties a { district judge to the best of my ability, {and while I am satistied that I have |the confidence of the law-abiding peo iple of the district, yet I have come | to the concluston on_account of the | impeachment proceeding _ instituted ! against me. regardless of the final re- | sult thereof, that my usefulness as o | judge has been seriously {mpaired. g feel that it is my {|7“1, therefore, patriotic duty to resign and let som signation urt of the 4—A farewell message from John | concern—Tell mother I dled fighting. | one who Is in nowise hampered be | Lee, master mariner, to his widowed ! John Lee, master marine: mother, believed to have floated around ! the world in a bottle for nearly 40 | years, has been received here. The boyle was picked up in the Paltie at the Island of Borkum by & ¥ German cablo eagloeas Halifax.” It was dated “May 17, '87." ‘The paper was faded, and the writ- Ing very faint but legible. Mrs. Lee died 35 years ago. fate of her son’s ship, which sailed Zram this port, %as Dever known. The l ppointed té disc i the office. “Your obedient s | “(Signed) GEORG ge the duties of GLISH.” 0 Programs—Page 9 s