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MTEIS ORDERED Change From 7 to 6 1-4/ Cents a Kilowatt Hour Ef- fective on Al Bills Jan. 1. The Public Utilities Commission to- | day ordered a reduction In electric current rates from 7 to 6% cents a kilowatt hour, to become effective on alf bills rendered on and after Jan- uary 1, 1927. The cut is a result of the profit- sharing agreement existing between the commission and the Potomac | Electric Power Co., whereby one-half | of the excess profit of the company | each year is applied either to a re- duction in rates or improvement of * service. It will result in a saving of $430,000 to electric consumers next year providing they use the same amount of electricity as this Applied to Primary Rates. The reduction is applied to the pri- mary rates of all schedules except F, under which classification comes in- dustrial motors and battery chargers. The reductions, as shown by the new schedules, follov Schedule A, residents’ use, from 7 to 61 cents a kilowatt hour for the primary rate and 43 cents for the secondary rate Schedule B, battery-charging ma chines, from 7 to 6% cents prim: rate; 41; cents secondary rate. Bchadule C, public lighting and mo 7 to 6% cents, Schedule D, small business houses. 6% to 6 cents primary rate; 5 to 41% cents secondary rate. Schedule E, wholesale commercial use, from 1.1 to .45 on the minimum charge after the consumption of 188,760 kilowatt hours. Rate Now in Effect. H Schedule F induftrial motors and battery chargers 5'% ‘cents, primary rate; 414 cents, secondary rate. This rate is now in effect and will remain unchanged. « Bchedule G, industrial motors, 7 to 614 cents. Schedule H, commercial heating and cooking purposes. 7 to 61, cent: Schedule K, household heating, cooking and electric refrigeration, 7 to 6% cents. JURY NAMED TO AWARD $14,000 HARVARD PRIZES Fund Administered by Business School in Advertising Competi- tion to Be Distributed. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 13. —The jury which will award $14,000 in prizes to the 1926 winners of the Harvard advertising awards, founded in 1923 by Edward Bok and admin- istered by the Harvard Business School, was announced by Dean Wal- lace B. Donham. All material must be submitted before January 1, and will be - considered by the jury at a meeting in Boston later that month. The jury will be composed of John Benson of Chicago, §. E. Conybeare, Lancaster, Pa., president of the As- soctation of National Advertisers: F. C. Kendall, editor of the Advertising &nd_ Selt Fortnightly: Prof. W. D. Moriarty of the University of South- ern California: A. C. Pearson, tre: urer of the .United Publishers’ Cor- poration; Harford Powell, jr., editor of the Youth’s Companion; Louis Wiley, business manager of the New York: Times, ani Prof. Melvin T. Copeland and .Assistant Prof. Neil H. Borden of the Harvard Business School. 3 MUSSOLINI FOE DEFIES DEATH TO LEAVE ITALY Intransigeant Socialist Leader and Seven Companions Reach France in Motor Boat. By the Associated Press. MARSEILLE, France, December 13.—Filippo Turati, leader of the Intransigeant Socalists, who is an ar- dent foe of Premier Mu: lini, has reached here in a motor boat. With him were seven other Intransigeants. Turati said that they left Italy to escape the atfack of the Fascists. i A recent law promulgated by Mus- rolini annulled «ll passports allowing Ttalians to leave the country, with the provision that any one seeking to leave clandestinely would be liable to be shot by the frontier authorities. WILL ROGERS SELECTED | AS BEVERLY HILLS’ MAYOR Humorist’s Home Town in Cali-] OGDEN, Utah. December 13.—Rep resentatives of the Nation and Stat fornia Offciall S s Fote o v Proclaims Him |yeq nundreds of friends in funeral as Community Ruler. {services here yesterday honorini R 0 A sucintod Treas John M. Browning, famous firearms BEVERLY IfiLl - scern. | Inventor, who died at Liege, Belgium, E fetan Calif.. Decem-| November 26 iast, following o heart ber 13.—Will Kogers, cowboy hu-' attack. morist, has been selected mayor of _ Bellamy, his sons, Em and this city, his own home town. The|Tabernacle wis onened for the simple R e i "€l ceremonies a huge crowd assembied ;;l:tfi“"‘:‘;‘“:": St terday in the in a blinding sncwsorm to hear the Rt B the Bevars S natlon ' trjputes voiced by Gov. George H. B aiatrcs and doby s Chamber | Dern for the State and James H. An- O o oF trmateayy uthorized by ' derson, collector of Internal revenue | e N e ¢ e for Uiah, who represented the Fed gers, e of his ¢ral Government tn]:zapt:xir:u\r:f 2 ‘13 \"i\ replied “Unarmed we would have been held B s s sucoris - form,» n bondage: poory we would g e must be reform.” jave heen brought into well the lariat thrower wired to Douglis urmed with Browning ' God s, n of this com- gave us victory and we remained munity. Will's home town is 1 preparations to ol mayor, o here Decemle CAR_FERRY CH ROCKS. Water Fills Hold of Craft Near Milwaukee. aking Invish the cowbo; to Wis, December 13 car ferr quette No. 13 went on the here early today. Water filled the hold but no one was reported fnjured. Car ferry No. 20 wi from Milwaukee to remove the cars from the bo: which Was on its wav to Manitowoc from Ludington, Mich, by way of Milwaukee. GIRL STRANGELY MISSING. | Daughter of Late Eritish omcmt Disappears. LONDON, December 13 (#) —Miss TUna Crowe, 20-vear-ld ter of the late Sir Eyie Crowe. 1nent undersecretary of the foreign offic until his death last vear, left Lome Saturday morning to Vit a friend. Since then nothing has been heard from her. have suffered from She is sald er since her father a nmervous disor died. [ ELECTRIC | Saved the Safe THWARTS ROBBERY 0FSHFE AT HOTEL Bockkeeper at Plaza Warns Pclice With Gun Pointed at Him. “I have six leads to put into you. Frank O'Brien, night bookkeeper at tha Pi Hotel, 331 First street northeast, was seated on a couch in the hotel lobby early this morning. At this startling salutation he looked up, straight into the barrel of a stol in the hands of a young man who had just entered. O'Brien was unarmed. At the stranger’s demand he opened the cash register, where there was a small sum of money. The man demanded that he open the safe. Just then the telephone rang and O'Brien an- swered, at the same time starting a buzzer to attract the police. ' stranger evidently became alarmed and left the building. A few minutes later O'Brien, accom- panied three policemen in a search of the neighborhood. He spotted the man he says was the gun-wielder near Second and B streets northeast, walk- ing along lefsurely. The policemen took a loaded weapon from the man and took him to the ninth precinct station, where he gave the name of Roy Cornelius Prebble, 27 yvears old, 1312 Sixth street south- west. He is reported to have sald that he held up the bookkeeper be- cause he was out of work, with a wife and four children to support. Police who aseisted in the arrest were H. H. Hilldrup, W. E. Winfleld and W. D. Young. O'Brien works during the day as secretary to Bert W. Kennedy, door- keeper of the House of Representa- tives, DENIES SAYING OIL FIRMS WOULD HEED LAND LAWS Mexican Attorney Declares He ‘Was Misquoted on Ameri- can Attitude. By the Associated Prese. MEXICO CITY, December 13.—Man- el Calero, one of the attorneys of the Huasteca Oil Co., has denied state- ments attributed to him by the San Antonio Light that all oil companies operating in -Mexico would comply with the provisions of the Mexican petroleum and alien land laws, effec- tive January 1. Senor Calero has just returned from San Antonio, where he attended a con- ference on the Mexican oil situation, and when asked about the alleged statement denied specifically having said that any foreign oil company had accepted the new regulations. Calero was quoted December 9, in| the San Antonlo Light, which de- scribed his as chief counsel in Mexico for the Standard Ofl interests. C. O. Swain, general counsel for the Stand- ard Ol Co. of New Jersey, however, declared that Calero, who was former Mexican Ambassador at Washington, bad no connection with the Standard Oil Co. of New Jers and did not speak for it as to its interests in Mexico. FRIENDS IN UTAH PAY HONOR TO BROWNING National and State Representatives Gain in Tribute to Dead Firearms Inventor. By the Awcociated Press. free,” Anderson said closed with a by cemetery he inventor gained international fame for his machine gunssand other 1 in the World - as the ceremony ef ritual in the city shotgu was stricken at is factory in Liege. Four Bank Bandits, Routed by Tear Gas In Safe, Arrested | By the Associated Press ! COLUMBLS, Ind., December 13. { —Four men who were routed Sat- night from the Farmers and nts' Bank at Dlizabethtown, ¢ miles south of here, when tear seq by their opening were sted ai Bioom- wd officers from here went v to return them to Bar- unty. I were stolen from g ding two revolvers found in the car of the four | young men when they were ar- rested. They gave their names as James M. Deckart, Harold Orr, Russell Hoftman and Harry Settie. Their . s ranged from 25 to 30 years. safe, to that cf tholomew ( THE EVENING RTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1926. RUMANIA DECLARED " RIPE FOR DIGTATOR, Chances of Carol, However, | Believed Doubtful if He By the Associated Press Another of the long-established qustoms of the Supreme Court was broken today to further Chief Justice Taft's policy of shortening, whenever practicable, the tedious delays of the Iaw. Instead of following its usual prac- | King Ferdinand of Rumania is now {a matter of weeks—a few months at | gatiiicen Counsel in { tice of adjourning after delivering | Should Try Coup. | opinions on_the eve of iis overholi {duy recess, the court decided to hold i sigaad a spec on - s ion to hear By the Associated Prese |arguments m seven cases which had | PARIS, Decenber 13.—The death of |been set for argument last week, but | which were n Supreme Court to Shorten Legal Delay With Special Pre-Christmas Session | erguments. felt as 1l the ington last week, and the court it would cause inconvenience, well as Increase the expenses of gants, should it refuse to hear The cases to be heard included four from Wisconsin, involving the right of Milwaukee to impose taxes upon certain dividends paid by corpora- tions, and three involving different phases of State taxes upon the shares and the shareholders of national banks, presented in cases brought by the Georgetown, Ky., National Bank, the First National Bank of Harford, Wis., and by Minnesota against the First National Bank of St. Paul. i best—in the opinion of most rellably | !tnformed travelers reaching Paris | n | from Bucharest | ¢ ! These travelers afirm that the re- [} l uRt b series of operations performed the gravest form of surgical | intervention, with desperate odds | cent against the royal patient, would m-‘iButcher Knife Wielded in upon the sick monarch were only tem- porury expedients and that the cancer- | ous growth in the intestines, which is! sure the King’'s improvement, and at the present state of affairs the sur-| o B e e “taua tuchia step 04| Double -Tragedy at: Village the ground that it probably would re. - Near Mount Airy, Md. the real seat of the trouble, has not been touched. sult in the fmmediate death of Ferdi-} nand. | Reports that former Crown Prince Carol will go to Bucharest to bid fare- well to his father constantly are re- curring, say ihe travelers, but they add it appears that while the King | would like to see his son, Queen Marie | Special Dispatch to The Star FREDERICK, Md., December 13 we reached here this morning that r, and his N Charles Shane, a farm labor and the Braciano brothers, who admil- | wife had been found dead in their tedly hold strong sway over Rumanian | home at Harrisville, near Mount Airy, poiitical affairs, are strongly opposed |Nd, A butcher knife, apparently wielded to it by the husband, had taken both lives. Turn Against Carol. Three small children made the discov In the upper classes of court circles | ery. Sheriff William C. Rtod and Carol is declared to be extremely un-|Justice of the Peace Sherman T. popular. This is true also as regards | Brown went to the scene to investi- the army, where previously he had|gate. found his strongest support. Recent | Shane, 28 vears old, had been ar. events, it fs asserted, seem to have |rested several times on complaint of swung the pendulum against him.|ihe wife, charged with assault, accord Novertheless, say the travelers, there |iny to the police. The woman was 26 still is talk in Bucharest of a coup|pogition of the hodies indicated there Q'etat in’the event of the King's death | poq heen a struggle. They were 1ying that would put the prodigal son on|gn the kitchen floor amid the wreck- the throne he once renounced. age of furniture. The children were Apathy, say those who declare they |y, «mall to give much information to know conditions in Rumania, 18 the | jajghhors attracted by their cries. only way to describe the feellngs of |Thév had been asleep until late this the’ lower classes and of the general|nrning, and upon coming down: { populace. This very apathy, they 8a¥, | gtajrs saw their lifeless parents. would militate in favor of an energetic = i dictator with three or four thousand determined men at his call should a coup be attempted. “All a dictator would have to do,” gald one of the travelers who ob- gerved things carefully during his stay in the Rumanian capital, “would be to seize the public buildings, the raflway stations and other strategic points in Bucharest, and, above all, gee that the city was fed. The poten- tial Rumanian dictator would need a minister of railways and transporta- | DRIVEF;IJNDER BON IN DEATH OF WOMAN Tennyson May Get Hearing at Upper Marlboro ‘Tomorrow on Accident Fatal to Mrs. Specht. Charles Joseph Tennyson, 41 vears tion more than regiments.” | o1, 30 1 street, driver of an automo- r . | bile in which Mrs. Florence V. Specht Bratianos Hold Cards. lof Ballston. Va.. fatally injured .| Saturday nighty probably will be given The best informed classes in Ru-| % ‘her hearing tomorrow _before mania, however, the travelers declare, doubt whether Cary would have the resources to embark on such an enter- prise. At present the Bratiano | brothers are holding the highest cards, | 8 releassd Uy those closest in totch with the situa. | bond on a charge of feck] | Justice of the Peace, H. W. Gove at | Upper Marlboro, Gore said today. At a preliminary hearing vesterday Tennyson was released under $1,000 s driving. r? 1 o vices for Mrs. Specht tion declare, and their decision is most | Funeral sery _ B likely to decide the fate of Rumania | Will be held Wednesday afterncon at and its Hohenzollern dynasty. the res ““""‘.“‘}‘,f_’,f"', ROt BRIy Queen Marie is constantly at the | L. Clark, & B bedside of King Ferdinand. She has | Mrs. Specht, a ¢ Office Department, was a widow and ative of Washington. She wns returning from a trip to the country in Tennyson's car with other friends when accident happened. The when the driver not made any public appearance in | the city sinca her return from the United St tes, except an incognito visit to the r.ins of the Palace Royal | in Bucharest, which was burned lasts {week. It {8 reiterated that she hoped | oul to hecome rezent in place of Prince ['seemed to lose « Nicholas, but that o far she has met | - . with most steady oppositon from the gy j) | ED IN BURGLARY. BUT AMATEUR IN RADIO i | Bratianos, who, for the present least, are insisting on exact con- | i ing Carol of his rights as heir to the | gy et e o whd celling for the regency as | Berlin Man Steals Wireless Equip formity with (he spirit and letter of the decree of January 4, last, depriv- | now constituted. . ment, Mishandles Receiving Set and Avouses Detectives. the | car struck a culve {MISSING BRIDEGROOM BLAMES KIDNAPERS By the Associated Pr BERLIN, December 13.—Iurt Conje took part in a successful raid on a wireloss equipment store recently and |then made the mistake of becoming |an “incompetent W s fan” e took one of the stolen receiving sets | home with Bim to experiment with; [ now he is a fugitive from justice and Drugged and Held Prisoner, Hi i Says, Arriving 27 Hours Late i i ued at $15,000, which he had EDEAWRC L “ls(: ".:’J"i‘l: his apartment, has been —_— | recovered. | A virtuoso in b ary, Conje was By the Associated Press {a rank amateur with the radio. 1lis | CHICAGO, December 13.—Dr. Wil- | handling of the stolen set Kicked up | such an ae sturbance that wire- liam F zel, oculisi, expluined today |such an aerial distur i 1§ |less fans o « neighborhood com- ek i waiting at |less fans of the neighl . n:." c:t,rl;h,.,':“s St e aitd B |Piined. And ove of thece enthusiasts was a Berlin detective, who eventually had been kidnaped by four men, doped | 1o a ¢ St ed the source of the distt {and held prisoner for 27 hours. [The detoctive gained entrance to Tpon returning to his office today | Conje ¢ and found not only the he found. Miss Barbara Truello, whom | mishehaving set. but thousands of dol- he was to have married, waiuing after |lars’ worth of other S« len property. {an all-night vizil with two policemen ‘H"I'_'l;\:“.nl g B His vropective mother-inlaw later | h gy joined the o and the policamon | - departed v.he anurced the | GREEN’S RUM DEFENSE wedding probably would be ,.1-.-!..;1,,.' n | | ed today or tomorrow | T0 BE OPENED TODAY i _on ing the Truello home early | G L | sunday, the doctor sald he had been | pe . acenciated Pr { thrown ' into an_automobile. and the | O AT GGE pacember 18.— inext he knew he found himselt in | 045 N Grean, former prohibition ! Evanston at & o'clock this mornin administrator, charged with embez- No mention was made of his clerk ling liquo e 1y wient ks ireddy, o) stis ik defense o Five | ;i Mrederal Court here today ears ago in Kansas City, Mo., Fren- | ‘s considered virtuaily certain zel married n Miss dn I sves A Jones and | the prosecution and the defense was subsequently divorced. I ike t 'nited States Judge A. F. WORLD WAR HISTORY confiscated by the Gover by | Sure, before whom the former dry St chief is being’tried, would deny a mo- {tion for dismissal of the nine remain- ling counts against Green, ie indicated IN D. C. SCHOOLS HIT |his attitude toward the case late Fri- ek | day, when, In answer to a defense ar. T | gument that the prosecution had not established that a crime had been com Retired Chaplain, | | Col. Dickson, | mitted, he said that it seemed to him Says Only 23 Lines Tell of | there was ample evidence for convie- 1 | tion. Actual Fighting. Disgatisfaction cver the 28-page ac- count of the World War contained in An Advanced American History” used in the public schools is expressed {in letter received by the Doard of Sdueation tod from Col. Thomas J | Dickson, chaplain, U. 8. A., retir {and president of the First Divi Society of Washington, | THE QU on ! Col.” Dickson complains that mnot | more than 23 lines in the 23 zes | UESTION i | (denls with the actual fighting n” ! American troops overseas, and he |names nearly a score of overseas | 1. Do_you believe in God? |pomis where war records were made R 2. Do_you believe in_immortality fiiiios il “antibal, nicorda oL thu | 3. 1o you believe In prayer as 4 means of personal rela- World War are inadequaie. | tiouship with God? Harry O. Hine, secretary of the | T Do you belleve that Jesus was divine as no other man board, in ackuowledging Col. Dick- | was divine? son’s letter has assured him (ha( the | . Do you rezard fhe Bible as inspired in a sense {hat no ateer “"lu"’:’,h:;;"n»:"; ;’;’.‘fifi;‘.‘,‘;“ ofher literature could be said_to_be inspired? 6. Ave_you an_active_member of any | BAND CONCERTS. Fenstad, second | - Do vou send your children to By the United States Marine Band Orchestra, at the Marine Barracks, 8:16 o'clock; Willlam FI. SBantelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second ljgder. 6 you think (hat vel element of life YOUR RELIGION What Do You Belie iSTIONNAIRE attend any_religious_services? v_worship” in TOMORROW 8. Would you be willi'g to have your f: By thie nitea Sintan Ss1niera Hibte community in_whieir (here ix no_church? Stanley 5:43 ksl . Do you regularly have “fan Zimmerma Were you broucht up in_a_religious_home? igion in some form for the Individual and for the commt BLIZZARDS ATTACK WEST AND KILL SIX Mercury Below Zero in Many Places—Aleutian Islands Cut Off by Storm. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, December 13.—The Pa- cific Northwest and western Canada today were in the clutches of Winter, with slx deaths attributed to snow and blizzards which swept down from Alaska. The first snow of the season fell in Washington and Oregon ves- terday and the mercury dropped below the freezing point. Two persons were killed near Ta- coma, Wash., when their automo- bile skidded on newly fallen snow, and a man and his wife were crushed to death in Kitsap County, west of here, by a tree which crashed through the top of their car. A woman and her daugbter perished on a farm near Hanna, Alberta, while they were seek- ing another child. Alaskans were concerned over the safety of persons in the Aleutian Is- lands and the adjacent mainland when radio stations continued silent after a three-day storm. ince 6 o'clock Saturday night no word had been received from the powerful naval station at Dutch Har- bor, in the eastern Aleutians, which is usually in hourly communication with Navy headquarters at Cordova. Attempts to communicate with United States Commissfoner Driffield, who maintains a private station at Unga, off the peninsula, likewise were fruit- less. The last message from Driffield, re. celved at Cordova Saturday, said wind | had swamped small boats, blown a fishing schooner onto the beach and torn shingles from housetops. MIDDLE WEST HIT. Southwest Gets Storm, Which Ex- tends East to Missouri. KANSAS CITY, December 13 (#).— Cold northwest winds today brought snow flurries to many parts of the ! Middle West and Southwest, sending | thermometers tumbling with the pros- pect this section would experience the coldest weather of the season follow- ing a blizzard which yesterday struck the mountiis States. peas S ek winds the storm d from Canada Satur- | day night and yesterday enveloped the | Mountain region _and part of Northwest States. The | continued early toduy fn the east of the continental di- Alberta and Saskatche- digging out of the worst erritory vide, while 1 were tie-up In 10 years, Two deaths were reported in the Jadian provinees and traffic and wire communication were cut off as a 10-mile wind whipped snow into ks from 10 to 20 feet high. One- itory buildings in northern Sas- itchewan were buried, but Manitoba aped with a lighter snowfall Veteran Lost in Blizzard. weeping _through Montana into oming, Utah and Colorado, the ard yesterday held up air mail snpes, halted automobile traffic, nreatened train movements and aused stockmen concern. ur leaths were reported in the North- and Gedrge McNamara, a Civil + veteran, was lost in the biizzard near Sherfdan, Wyo. N iuardsmen and Boy Scouts were aid- e in the search Subzero temperatures were general in the wake of the storm. Montana held the record for cold with an un- official mark of 31 below zero at Wil- der, while the mercury ranged from 5 to 15 below at Helena, Rutte, Bill- The Dakotas and of Nebraska also lay under a h snow blanket today with the mercury well below zero. Omaha re- ported 8 above at midnight. Snow arted in Minnesota and Iowa last night. With a blizzard at Leadville, Colo. .ast night, the thermometer stood at 10 above, while Kansas points record- ad temperatures in the lower twenties rith a steady snowfall at midnight s were falling in Ok'a- as early this morning Tulsa, Okla., reporting 32 degrees above at midnight. a drop of 14 de- grees in a few hov wes ings and Lewiston part vy homa and Te Quakes in Montana. Points west of the continental di- vide also experienced unusually cold weather with snow general through- out Oregon. Portland had its first white blanket since 1924, with three inches recorded last night and little prospect of clear skies to ts throughout the territor ated lower temperatures toda Snow in western Missouri early this morning supported fore the storm would extend well into the upper Central Mississippi valley States today. ? Erow up tn a your home? CROWD STAMPEDES MDERMOTT TRIAL Deputies Prevent Bursting of | Courtroom Door—Mrs. Mellett on Stand. { By the Associated Press. CANTON, Ohio, December 13-—A crowd of 300 persons stampeded the corridor of the courthouse here this aftenoon prior to convening of the| afternoon session of the trial of Pat- rick Eugene McDermott for murder of Don Mellett, Canton publisher. | Deputy sheriffs were forced to charge | into the crowd to prevent bursting of | the courtroom doors. | Mrs. Florence Mellett of Indianapo- | lis, widow of the slain publisher, took the stand immediately upon conven- ing of the afternoon session. In the witness stand with her was her 4-year-old daughter Jane. As a_counterattack on the State's claim that Mellett was murdered in a plot hatched out of a bootleggers' con- spiracy, the defence of McDermott will plead that the proscution also was party to a conspiracy. E. L. Mills, defense attorney, con- tended in his opening argument to the jury that McDermott, Ben Rudner and Louis Mazer are being prosecuted as the resnlt of a conspiracy between Prosecutor C. B. McClintock: the Can- ton Daily News, the newspaper of which Mellett was publisher, and Jo. seph R. Roach, Chicago criminal attorney. Roach conducted an inquiry into conditions of alleged law viola- tion and political corruption in i ton. Court Limits Mills. Mills said the defense will show that McClintock, a candidate for Congress at the time, was forced to procure in- dictments against McDermott, Rudner and Mazer by reason of his campaign. On the prosecutor's objection, the court ordered Mills to confine himself in his statements to an outline of his defense of his client. Prosecutor McClintock in his open- ing statement said the motive for the murder was found in the repeated newspaper articles in the Canton Daily News exposing bootlegging activities, naming the alleged traffickers and contending they had the protection | of the Canton Police Department. | “The evidence will show that Pat- rick Eugene McDermott was one of the conspirators,” the prosecutor said. Mills said the slain editor had writ- ten many articles in which a motive | for murder might be found and that the defense would show ‘“this boy” (McDermott) had no part fn the mur- er. Orders Witnesses Separated. Judge Diehl ordered separation of | witnesses and Bernard McDermott, subpoenaed in ‘“Pat's” defense, left the room. Prosecutor McClintock then opened his statement to the jury of what the State expects to prove. He said: “This is a case of murder in the first degree. There are three persons named in the indictment. The one we are about to try is Patrick Eugene McDermott. “Don R. Mellett was the publisher of the Canton Daily News. He was killed July 16 this year. Prior to that | date, for a considerable time, his news | paper made attacks upon bootlegg:ng in . this city. He alled various partles by their names—Louis Mazer, Carl Studer and others. He also con- tended bootlegging activities were re- ceiving protection of members of the Canton police force. This will prove the motive of the crime.” “The evidence will.show that Don R. Meilett was killed as a result of conspiracy among bootleggers because of the editor's attacks on bootleggers | and the Canton police force The evidence will show that McDermott was ‘one of the conspirators. Mr. Mills then made his épening statement. “The defense will uncover for you a conspiracy among the prosecutor, Attorney Joseph R. Roach of Chica- go, and the Canton Daily News to force indictment of McDermott. We will show that MecClintock was forced to procure the indictments in order to carry on his campaign for Congress.” Coroner Takes Stand. Coroner T. C. McQuate was the State's firat witnes: “I found Don R. Mellett lying on a lounge, dead, at his home," he said in the course of testimony. “I found he had been shot through the left frontal bone of the head.” The coroner then produced the ton of a human skull bone and explained the bullet's course. Death was due to a bullet pdssing through the brain,” he said. Dr. McQuate was not cross-exam ined. The second witness, Dr. Guy M well, family physician of the Melletts, said he made no exarmfnation of the editor’s body except to determine he was dead. Ray Bechtel of the Stark County surveyor's office was next put on the stand to tell of an examination made of the Mellett premises, from which a profile of the bullet trajecto- ries was drawn. wgue reports of a plot to free Me- Dermott have resulted in the placing of extra guards around the defend- ant's cell in the Stark County work- house. A man whose name was not di- vulged, but who said he had been “on the inside” of the alleged plot told the police of the scheme, and although | authorities placed litfle credence in his story, extra precautions have been taken the last two nights. FRENCH PRESIDENT HALTS | GUILLOTINING OF WOMAN Sentence of Slayer of Daughter-in- Law Commuted to Life Imprison- ment to Maintain Record. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, December 13 been executed in F and the record broken at present. President Dou- mergue has intervened to prevent carrying out of the death sentence. by means of the guillotine against Mme. | Lefebvre, convicted of shooting and | killing her daughter-in-daw as she rode in an automobile. Jealousy over her son's affection for his wife was said to have prompt- ed the shooting. The sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment. Only a few women have been sen- | tenced to death in recent years, and the pardons commission heeded pleas for clemency for all of them except Mme. Lefebvre. No woman nce since i1 not be = AT Burglars Rob Embassy. BERLIN, December 13 (#).—Bur- glars broke into the Japanese embassy Saturday night. They entered the bedroom of the Ambassador while he was asleep and stole a number of valuables and the Ambassador's diplomatic passport. Sl Gofild Probe Deferred. The Senate committee appointed to investigate charges against Senator Gould, republiifean, Maine, today de. 1y school of religious in- l an- | 848 i __REV. EDWARD S. DUNLAP. REV. E. S. DUNLAP TO BECOME CANON Assistant Rector of St. John's Church Gets Post at National Cathedral. ater Dunlap, as- John's Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and H_streets, will | become a canon at the National Ca- thedral. Rev. Dr. Robert Johnston, rector of the church, made this announce- ment at the services yesterday morn- ing. Rev. Mr. Dunlap will serve as the field secretary of the National Ca- thedral Assocfation, an organization having branches all over the United States. The association, by lectures and the distribution of literature, creates a popular interest in the Na- tional Cathedral, and by contribu- tions assists in building the structure and in maintaining the work. Canon Dunlap will assume his new duties on January 1. He graduated from the General Theological Seminary in New York in 1900 and was made a deacon the me vear. In 1501 he was ordained the priesthood by Bishop Potter of ew York. He came immediately to St. John's Church in this city, where served continuously ever since announcing the resignation of r. Dunlap, Dr. Johnston paid tribute to his service. It is understood the congregation of St. John's Church is arranging a testimonial. MUSCLE SHOALS WAR RENEWED IN SENATE Senator Deneen, Chairman of Joint Committee, Argues for 50- Year Lease. By the Associated Press. The perennial Muscle Shoals fight opened in the Senate tod: with Sen- ator Deneen, Republi Illinois, chairman of the special Muscle hoals joint congressional committee, arguing for passage of the bill au- thorizing a 50-vear lease on the prop- rty to the Alaba Power Co, and filated Southern power compani As soon as debate got under way, Chairman M y of the Senate ag- riculture committee served notice that he would move to recommit the whole Muscle Shoals subject back to his commitee. He objected to a mo- tion by Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, to make Muscle Shoals the order of business. BACKS PRESIDENT ON WORLD COURT Senator Lenroot Indorses Coolidge View That U. S. Senate Terms Must Be Accepted. Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, World Court champion of the S who led the administration's victo- rious fight in that body last Winter for ratification of the World Court pro- tocol, agreed with President Coolidge that the United States should not adhere to the court unless it is accept- ed upon the terms laid down by the Senate. The Wisconsin Senator expressed himself in this manner at the White House today following a conference with the President. He said he will support the stand taken by the Pres- ident, which was first made public in the latter's Armistice day speech in Kansas City, Mo. He said also that| he does not expect any action on the part of the Senate to withdraw its terms for adherence and that the mat- ter, so far as the United States is con- cerned, will be permiited to die natural death unless the powers of the League of Nations accept the Sen- ate's reservations. Former Engineer Unconscious, Mother Dead, in Gas-Filled Room. LOS ANG December 13 (®). —H. K. Lowry, 46, a former railway engineer, is held in the General Hospital here on charges of murder in connection with the death of his mother, Mrs. M. J. Lowry, 76, of Alta Dena, whose body was found in a gas-filled room m which Lowry < lying unconscious Lowry was revived after more than | an hour. Despondency and inability to find work were b to have caused the and attempted suicide. a prisoner lieved by polic alleged murder Today in Congress NATE. Senator Deneen of Illinois ad ed the Senate on the finding n. dr of the committee appointed to ¢ sider the leasing of Muscle Shoals. The Senate at 1 o'clock received the manager from the House, re porting the action of that branch in dropping the impeachment charges against Federal Judse English. The Senate expected to: devote the remainder of the day eithor to the poison treaty or th maternity bill. Committee on commerce held a hearing on Senator Johnson's res olution seeking information on the proposed sale of Shipping Board cided to defer further consideration of the case until January 4. The charges relate to stgries of a payment by Gould of $100,000 to Canadian officials 1in ‘connection with a raflroad contract. & # vessels. Subcommittee met to consider the resolution calling for an in- quiry into the qualifications of ) Seaater Goulgyof enate, | LAY MAYOR KILLING T0 HIRED GUNMEN Police Advance Theory After | Iinois Gang War Victim | Is Shot in Home. NTON, 1L, December 13.—A was advanced today that hired gunmen killed Joe Adams, 300-pound mayor of West Clty, near here, who | was shot down by two unidentified |men as he stood in the front doorway {of his home late yesterday. ! It was another episode in tho gang warfare that has disrupted the peace {of Willlamson, Franklin and Saline | Counties during the Fall and Winter, and the culmination of two previ- ous attacks on the mayor. West City in Franklin County, 20 miles from Herrin Adams, a former roadhouse pro- prietor, whose term would have ex- pired next May, had figured in south- {ern Tllinois gang strife through his {admitted friendship with the Shelton gang, and had reported that Charles Rirger, militant leader of a rival gans, had threatened his life. Fight for Rum Supremacy. The Sheltons and the Birgerites, once comrades in arms against the Ku Klux Klan, now are at pistoi points in a struggle for southern Illin ois liquor traffic supremacy. Adams was forced recently by Bir- ger to close his roadhouse because he was said to harbor the Sheltons, who subsequently were expelled from tho county by Henry Dorris, then sheriff, and State’s Attorney Roy G. Martin. Adams armed himself, obtained a deputy sheriff guard for his home, and declared that Birger could not force him to leave this part of the State. “This is my leave,” he said. Adams was called to his doorway sterday after his wife, Beulah, au- swered a knock and found two young men standing there. They told her that they had a letter for Joe from | Carl Shelton, leader of the Shelton | camp, who was released on bond last | Thursday from a jail at Peoria, Iil. | He had been held pending trial on a !' mail robbery charge. | The mayor came to the door, ex- | tended his hand to receive the letter, but was answered with two shots | from the gun of each of the men. He | turned, staggered and fell, with three {bullets in his body, and died 40 min- utes later. He was able to tell his family only that he had not recog- nized the men. Stepfather Almost Hit. Marshall Jones, stepfather of the mayor, was sitting in the dining room in the rear of the house and nar- rowly escaped being struck by' the {fourth bullet, which went wild and buried itself in the Jeg of a table. After shooting Adams, the men fired a shot into the air, presumably a signal to companions waiting in an automobile parked a_block up the street, ran to the machine, whica had been left with engine running, and were driven out of town. A small group of men were standing in the vicinity of the Adams home but their testimony to State’s Attor home and I won't ney Martin and Sheriff James S Pritchard revealed few clibs., None was able to cateh the license number of the automobile, and the only- unan mous opinion of the group was tha the automobile was a closed one. The gunmen were roughly dresse: and had their coats turned up and their caps pulled down. Buckner, town west of here, re. & a machine thought to the gunmen pass through but further trace of the ma chine was lost. Two southern Illinois mayors have met violent deaths within the last two months at the hands of gangsters. Jeft Stone, civic head of Colp, a small town, fell dead from machine zun fire on the main street on the night of November 6, after he was lured, with Police Chief John Keith. to a resort where it was reported there was trouble. Stone's assailants felled him as they sped by in three automobiles which had been waliting on a side street. Keith was shot in the hand as he started to run away, and John Milroy a pugilist friend of the mayor, was killed when he ran to his assistance. Stone's death was attributed to enemies he had incurred in his political activities, or to ill feeling engendered by his Killing more than a year ago of John Freeman, a former deputy sheriff and police chief at Colp. SUMMER HOTEL NEAR STAUNTON, VA., BURNS Mount Elliott Springs Fire of Un- known Origin, as 60-Room Structure Is Destroyed. By the Associated Press. STAUNTON, Va., December 13— The Mount Elliott Springs Hotel, a Summer resort, 17 miles west of® Staunton, was destroyed by fire of un:. known origin this morning. The fire was discovered shortly after, 8 o'clock, and two hours later. only the chimneys of the 60-room frame structure were standing. 1 SHOT IN TAXI “WAR.” Chicago Driver Pursued Halt Mile, by Other Cabs. CHICAGO, Chased half December 13 (@' mile by two other taxi-| Parka, piloting a Bauer 3 shot today In what the police, believed to be a renewal of the taxiry , war that has flared up =pasmodict cally in Chicago within the last year or so. Parka said two Yellow taxis pur- sued him, one on either side, until they succeeded in forcing his machine to the curb. There one chauffeur leaped out and fived. John Callow L Yellow driver, was arrested and identified as a partici- pant in the chase FASCISTI RIOT FOR NOBILE Decemver 13 (#).—Fas: cisti staged a free night in_front of 4 theater here where Geu. Umberto No bile wus to deliver an address on hig.: trip to the North Pole in the Norge. Several hundred persons took part in the disturbance, which was quell:ll‘ after a police riot squad arrived arkl several demonstrators were arrested; . No one was injured. The lecture inside the theater pro- ceeded on schedule and was uninter- rupted. i Wool Growers War on Bears. BANGOR, Me., December 13 (#).— Wool growers of Penobscot County ure preparing a drive on_ the next Legislature to restore the bounty on bears because of the great inroads on flocks last Spring aud Summer by, S DETROIT, e L4 \