Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1926, Page 2

THREE AE SHIE FROM SHP ABLAZE Five Coast Guardsmen of Schooner Lincoln Are Be- lieved to Have Perished. A heroic epic of the sea, a story of waliant sailor men who gAve up their lives tather t desert their ship, was revealed here today by terse radio messages assembled at Coast (iuard headquarters, telling the tragic details of the fate of the Coast Guard supply schooner Lincoln, which plunged in | flames beneath the icy waters seven | miles southwesz of Cape Lookout Light- an nmrr\lnl:‘: -':;x;!‘)’lf(l;’ 4 her crew of eight with Dn‘}w.-‘\mnm: them was Olaf Han chief motor machinist’s m Sixth street northwest g 4 Messages relayed by the Coast ¢ cutter Modoc from the British frei Defender, which saw from afar the blazing ship and arrived on the scene | 4ust after she had gone down, hu]l(‘nlv} that the crew could have taken to | the lifeboats and made shore, had not | they adhered to the highest traditions of the Coast Guard service and stu o the ship, fighting a hopeless battle against the flames all night, until the ship listed and sank Picks Up Two. The Defender picked up Gordon J Shultz of Chicago and Howard Carter of Pasadena, Md. who were strug gling in the water, and is now on the high seas bound for Galveston, Tex., Swhere she s duc December Coa Guard headquarters here tod ed the cutter Comanche to meel men upon their arrival at Galveston, issue them a new outfit of clothing, and direct them to proceed direct to| Washington. The two seamen, and Oluf Lavason, boatswain's mate, Who was picked up by the Clyde line steamer Seminole, will be called upon to relage the story of the disaster, officialgstated. fl}‘am.‘ Maycock of the Defender stated that Shultz and Carter had expressed the hope that Lavason might have been rescued, although he was 'adrift in a high sea aboard an almost water-logged lifeboat, but that they were positive the five other mem- bers of the crew had been drowned The Lincoln, a reconverted captured rum ship, small, but fast and sea- worthy, was on the way from More head City, N. C., to Baitimore, laden with heavy scrap engine parts from the abandoned aviation station there, and was manned by a picked crew in charge of Roatswain Thoroff A. Erlingson, characterized by his su- periors this morning as “a true vi- king of the seas” and “one of the bravest men in the history of the service.” Battle With Flames. Laboring through a heavy sea the men of the crew had their hands full in handling the schooner, the mes- sages stated, when their peril was heightened by the discovery of fire far down in the hold. All hands, including Erlingson, the skipper, except the man at the wheel, rushed to battle with one of the dread menaces of life on the deep, fighting the flames far below deck, as the ship tossed and listed, buffeted by waves which cast icy spray and spume across her decks. Shortly before daylight, probably about 4 o'clock, the survivors stated, the stubborn flames burned their way through the engine room bulkhead, driving the desperately fighting sailors back step by step. A leak in the gaso- line line is believed to have started the fire and added fuel to the flames, despite the determined efforts made to combat it. Remained at Posts. Still the crew did not abandon the ship, even though they might have taken to the boats with a chance for safety, officials stated, but remained at their posts fighting the fury of President Greets Disabled Veterans iIn Holiday Message President Coolidge today extend ed the following Christmas greet- ings to all disabled ex-service men: “Again I take great pleasure in sending my holiday greetings to you who have sacrificed so much in order to maintain the honor of our country. “America will never forget unselfish services of those Wwho have rallied to her defense. Par- ticulariy, does the heart of the Na- tion go out to you whose health and strength were fmpaired us a result of your devotion. “Our Government will continue its solicitous care of those seeking restoration and rehabilitation. Nothing possible in that direction will be left undone. I need scarce- 1y dwell on this. ‘But, most of all, I want you to understand how fullv vou have the gratitude and sympathies of your fellow citizens in the gallant strug- gle vou are making against il health and disability. “May this season bring to you good cheer in abundance, and ma the coming year be filled with hap- pin (Signed) OBJECTIONS HALT DISTRICT'S BILLS Zihiman Measures Are Block- ed by Blanton, Cramton and Vincent. the “CALVIN COOLIDGE.” Two Dbills in which the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying In Asylum are deeply Interested failed of action in the House today through ob- Jection of Representatives Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, and Cramton and Vincent of Michigan, both Repub- licans, when they came up on the unanimous fonsent calendar. One of these proposes to authorize a refund of $25,000, and the other one provided for the erection of & new nurses' home at the hospital. Chairman Zihlman of the House District committee, who is author of both measures, explained that Colum- bia Hospital is a private corporation incorporated in 1866, but erected on land owned by the United States, and that half of the cost of the building was paid for by the District of Colum- bia and one-half by the Federal Gov- ernment. Under its charter it is au- thorized to accept endowments and hold property, elther real or personal. Money Was Taken. The hospital has been receiving both pay and charity cases and about for care of indigent cases. During the years 1919, 1920 and 1921 the hospital built up a surplus which the directors intended to use for needed improve- ments to the building. When the appropriations committee learned that this fund was in the treasury of the hospital, it inserted an item in the appropriation act for the fiscal year 1923 covering this money into the United States Treas- ury to the credit of the United States Government and the District on a 50-50 basis. Mr. Zihiman called attention to his report from the District committee emphasizing the need for a nurses’ home at this hospital, but objection was registered by Mr. Blanton to con- sideration of the bill. Representative La Guardia, Repub- lican, of New York, registered objec- tion to another Zihlman bill to amend the code of law of the District relating to corporations. He said that this legislation would protect loan sharks wind and waves and flame. Finally the fire burst the bonds of the hold and the entlre vessel was enveloped in flame and smoke. The stout little ship listed and plung- ed hissingly beneath the waves, marking the close of another chapter of heroism in the annals of the Coast Guard service and leaving three sur- vivors to tell the tale of the futile struggle. Had the Defender, her engines straining to hasten her through the heavy seas to the rescue of the im- periled ship, been able to arrive a few moments sooner she might have been in time to save the Coast Guard crew, officlals stated. Even as it was, her skipper, Capt. Maycock, saw the little boat go down and directed the work of rescuing the seamen who were struggling in the icy waves. Although the weather was bitter ©old and a high sea was running, and 15 still running, according to radio messages received this morning from the commander of the Modoc, report- ing that after cruising about the vicin- ity yesterday and today no wreckage or trace ot additional survivors had beert sighted, the rescued seamen ‘were only half clad, testifying to des- perate efforts in the all-night battle ‘with the fire when the crew discarded most of their clothing, battling the | flames below decks. ‘“‘Rough sea; weather, clear; searched all day, but found nothing,” read the message received this morning from | the Modoc by Lieut. Comdr. S. 8. Yeandle. “We of the service are proud of the crew of the Lincoln,” he stated, *‘for the disaster represents a pure case of heroism. They could undoubtedly have saved themselves had the: chosen to abandon their ship to i fate. It is as fine an example of Reroism as I have ever encountered.” Its commanding officer, Boatswain Erlingson, believed to have gone down | with his ship, has been repeatedly commended for bravery and seaman- ship. On one occasion, while on leave, he disguised himself and ob- tained employment with a firm of | rum runners, operating a fleet of air- planes as a liaison between head quarters ashore and a rum fleet off of Massachusetts. Armed valuable information, he re- turned to duty aboard his coast guard rum chasing ship, and did ef- fective work in breaking up the fleet which hovered off the coast about 18 months ago. In the little town of Syesborg, in Sweden, there’s an old mother who was made glad today by cablegrams informing her that her son, Oluf, the third survivor of the ill-fated ship, who was picked up from the Semi- nole, is safe. Oluf, 4 deep sea man by training and tradition, is a nat- uralized Amerl citizen, spending his days at although he Is registered on the official record as residing in Washington Meanwhile, here today Luskey Hansen, wife of O went to her work as telephone oper- ator as usual this morning, with a heavy heart, but proud of the brave manner in which her husband wmet the crisis at sea. Her mother stated that she son-in-law remark: “T don’t want to die, but if the time should ever come, 1 hope that I will be brave enough to go down with my ship.” The lost ship herself is named efter a famous Coast Guard vessel, Mrs. Helen f Hansen, Mrs. Arthur Luskey had often heard her in charging usurious rates on second mortgages. Mr. Zihlman said that the purpose of the bill is to prevent corporations interposing the defense of usury to abrogate contracts or to avoid or defend the payment of inter- est which they have contracted to pay. McLeod Bill Stricken. The McLeod bill providing for in- corporation of mnon-profit, non-secret assoclations of national _character founded for patriotic and for profes- slonal purposes, which s supposed to relate particularly to the American Bar Association, also was objected to and stricken from the calendar when It came up for unanimous consent toasy The objection was registered by Representatives Begg of Ohlo and Hill of Maryland, both Republicans. Representative Rathbone, Republican, Ilinois, argued for the measure, The Zihlman bill to change the word ‘reconvey” to ‘‘convey” as it appears in the act providing for a new athletic field and gymnasium at Howard University also was objected to by Representative Rankin, Demo- crat, of Misslssippi. Bank Official Dies Suddenly. MEMPHIS, Tenn., December 20 ). —James Money Vardaman, 36, vice president of the Union and Planters’ Bank and Trust Co. of Memphis, died suddenly of heart disease at his home here today. He s the son of James K. Vardaman, former Governor of Mississippl and once United States Senator. Which Presidents Were Born in . Vermont? Coolidge and—can y ber another? Which one in New Hampshire” Which one was g resident of Loulsiuna when elect- ed? Which was born in New Jer- ey? Not Wilson—he lived there und was governor there, but wa born in Virginia. In which State were the three Tennessee Presi- dents born? Was any President born in Indian All the important lives of the President ficial portrait of cach, have been compiled into one neat, accurate booklet by the Information Bureau of The Evening Star for the use of its reads This interesting and useful work flable at the nominal price of 6 cents for postage and handling. remem- in the nd an of- A Inclosed find 6 cents i ostawe and handling o Bookles on the Preadents, stamps, ze for the tke cutter Lincoln, which began an illustrious record during Civil War days and visited. Kadiak. Alaska. in 1869, [ \ i [ 42 per cent of its work last year was { vine Providence made it pc THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1926. |PUPE EUNUEMNS '| MYSTERY LAID TO WORLD VIOLENGE Assails Activities in I{aly, France and Mexico at Secret Consistory. BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By Cable to The Star and _Chicako Daily Copyright, 1920 ROME, December 20.—Severe repro bation for the recent wave of fllegal- ity and violence in Italy and criticism of the failure pf state authorities to maintain tranduillity: condemnation of religious persecutions by the Mexi ean government; condemnation of the rebellion of the French royalist group, ‘tion Francais nst the Vat an authority and its endeavor to us religion for political purposes i the chief points in the Pope’s allg tion toda secret consistory vigor of language and impo: topics treated the most u For nece of important in recent Concerning Mexico the Pope repeat ed charges of inhuman cruelly against the faithful and praised those who av “how decisively no. ve Catholics of afflicted . priests, monks, lay nd even children—hav mselves in such brutal They should be re Mexico—bishoy men, women conducted thy circumstances. sarded as ange Fate Worse Than Death. “To preserve the honor of God and the dignity of their own consciences, to regulate their lives conformably to their faith, they have suffered every sort of injury, exile, imprison- ment and ind itie: worse than death. Many even have given thei live nswering the ment's statement that his have been inaccurate and e ated, the Pope said Although we used documents and testimony above all suspicion, our narration was more moderate and milder than reality demanded, so as not to be accused of exaggeration.” Declaring most recent reports showed persecutions were growing worse, he added: “All bisiops have heen removed from their sees. Additional pious priests have been sequestrated or im prisoned. Harmless citizens praying at the Shrine of the Holy Virgin have been massacred, The Holy Bucharist has been aned. The image of and Redeemer of the as been removed even from *hools.” Concerning condi Pope said: “Italy—that land so dear to us for of nature and faith—has been obligéd to endure tempests. We s tempests deliberately. st it was a tempest of indignation and horror : the insane attempt on the life of the man who governs the country with such enersy that the country iself seems endangered when his person Mexican govern- harges gger- ons in Ttaly, the { endangered. Joy Follows Tempest. “Almost visible intervention of Di- sible that this first tempest should pass amid a table whirlwind of joy and thanks giving for his escape and his com plete and almost portentous preserva- tion. As we were among the first to receive the news, our thanksgiving was certainly one of the first raised to the Lord of life and death. “But while Pope, bishops, priests and all the faithful united in thanks, there were committed acts of violence and devastation against persons, prop- erty and institutions which did not even stop at the sanctity of temples nor the venerable dignity of bishops nor the sacred character of priests. “We say these things,” the Por allocution continued, “so that our dear sons, especially the younger ones, may know that we are not ignorant of what they have suffered, and suffer- ed precisely because they were known as Catholics; that we have suffered with them; that we have prayed for their perseverance and also for the conversion of those who have made them suffer. Points to Damage. “Now this black tempest may be said to have passed. But it is like a tempest that has passed over a ripe grain fleld. The more promising and beautiful the harvest, so much the more serious and deplorable the dam- age and ruin. Flourishing organiza- tions, the fruit of conscientious and intelligent work, of years of inex- pressible sacrifices, which enjoyed the confidence of innumerable families and entire communi and repaid it with precious material and moral benefits, were suddenly. destroyed or seriously damaged and compromised. 'We rejoice in the wise measures taken by the government and the jus satisfaction granted many priests, families and communities,” which is necessary if all confidence’ in justice, law and the effective good will of the public authorities is not to be lost. But this confidence is not yet com- plete and certain, especially for those religious interests which are justly recognized as the supreme interests of the people.” The Pope expressed the hope that all citizens soon would be able to co-operate for the general well-being. His scorching criticism of the inabil- ity of Dictator Mussolini’s govern ment to make its agents obey its or- ders and to repress lawlessness is in- terpreted in certain circles as an ef- fort to aid Mussolini. Comes as Surprise. 1t is hoped the thority will fmpress upon the vineial police and Fascist Weutenants the need to enforce the.law equally against all lawbreakers, including Fascist gunmen, in the higher in- terests of the nation. The allocution, charges of outrages Fascists 3 f-styled against_ priest w abiding Catho- lies and Catholic institutions, comes as @ surprise, even to well informed \liang. Suppression of news in Italy is so complete that few knew the ex tent of the terrorism which ravaged Bologna attempt on au- pro- Pope’s high with its committed by Mussolini’s life M oost nothing of this has been published in the papers and foreign correspondents have been unable to collect verifiable data. But the Pope's high authority now confirms that there has heen a tempest of lawl ness much greater than anybody sup posed. NAMES TWO NEW CARDI AL Preconizes Various Bishops. ROME, D mber Pius, in a secret con: pointed two new 1 Giuseppe Gama, Pontiff Also 20 (A).—Pope story today, ap- alian cardinals, hbishop of Turin. and Lorenzo Lauri, Nuncio to Poland. | Bishops preconized at the same time time by the Pope included Giuseppe Bottaro, Archbishop of Buenos Afres Peter J. Ruth, titular Archbishop of Bosra; Raymond E. M. Rouleau, Arch- bishop of Quebec; Arthur J. Drosserts, Bishop of San Antonio; Joseph Pinen, Bishop of Grand Rapids; Theodore Reverman, Bishop of Superior; Al- fred Langlois, Bishop of Valley Field; Rudolf Gerken, Bishop of Amarillo, and Charles White, Bishop of Spo- kane, this allocution was one | rave grave | Deep study of the “Anthropometer, “THOUGHT MACHINE” | * designed by its inventor, a Polish to “diagnose thoughts” is blamed by associates of Dr. Knute Houck s breakdown. Upper inset: Mrs. whose strange disappearance is linked iladys Houcl, wife of the St. Elizabeth’s psychiatrist, with his trouble. Lower inset: Dr. Houck, photographed after he had been brought back to Washington today, HOUCK, BROUCHT BACK, ADMITS THAT HE BEAT MISSING WIFE (Continued from First Page) Furthermore, none of us thinks she would have left this apartment of her own volition without taking her little son, too. She loved her husband and her son, she lived for them. I believe she would have died before she would have deserted her boy, espacially when she knew that her husband had lost his mind Physi pital beliey of the dis quer—insanity. ed to be suff form of maniac might be cured. Studied Count’s Devic William A. White declared that rience avound in- ns at St. Elizabeth's Hos Dr. Houck was a vietim ase he was fighting to con- They said he appear: ing from o temporary depression, which Dr in his 37 years' exp stitutions” for the fnsane this was the first case he had ever Kknown where a psychiatrist had fallen prey to the foe he was combating. Dr. Houck, it was declared, was devoting much of this time to a de- vice that was invented by Count Kurzypski, who is a noted mathe- matician by profession. The device known as an ‘“‘anthropometer supposed to register the innermost thoughts of a person and aid t in a psych sis of themselv: Other physicians declared Dr. Houck had permitted the thing to prey on his ‘mind so much that it had become ankenstein that struck im down “anthropometer’’ seems to be nothing but a good sized board to which are fastened three one large and seemingly leap- off into space, representing human thoughts; the second, a smail circle, which analyzed the thoughts, and 4 third having a function too technical for any one but a psychia- trist to understand. Fach figure was punctured with sgpres of holes, in which a subject would insert pegs, with long streamers trailing off from them. Thes mers also carry small perfo d discs. The board also holds another circular disc not con 1 to the rest of the device. neiful in appearance, the thing seemed to ume an eerie atmos phere as its v rious functions were explained, technical and, to the layman, impossible of understanding. Even Puzzles Physicians. Leading physicians at the hospital admitted their own inability to un- derstand the device, but Dr. White expressed a belief that it had pos- fes to certain extent. Count ki has been doing consider- able research work in an unofficial capacity at the hospital during the last year. : One of the devices was found in the Houck home, and relatives said they had been informed that it had even enticed Mrs, Houck into a study of its possibilities. Although relatives un- derstood that Mrs. Houck was also undergoing psychoar by Dr. iraven, hospital offic id her visits to him concerned her worry over the growing a1 failure of her husband. Dr. Graven, who could not be reached this morning, is said to have urged Dr. Houck to go away and rest. Mrs. H. K. Houck young physician, who her home at La Crc heing informed of his pearance, went to Gallinger Ho to see her son this morning. reeted him affectionately and he recognized her immediately. The e with which Dr. Houck recognized friends on the hospital staff, too, did much to satisty physicians that he will recover from his present derange- ment. Ku mother of the -ame here from se, Wis., after wife's disap- pital She Grows Gay at Times. Houck shows no physical ef: from his breakdown other than nervousne times, His &pirits rouse to heights of real gayety at times, which physicians declare is common with his Capt Wilson of the ele : quested the ( thorities to keep the man in_ custody until the m: surrounding his wife's _disappear: is cleared up. Then he will be removed to Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore for treat- ment. Few new clues were uncovered by the police today in their search for Mrs. Houck. Each turn, however, 1s to support indications that a fic struggle ensued in the Houck ; last Wednesday morning. It was learned that the doctor’s spec- were found in the same recep- cle with_ the clothes he admits hav- ing torn from his wife’s body. The spectacles were bent and twisted, as though they had been torn from his face. Dr. Houck, during his conversa- tion with newspaper men, showed in- terest when the “anthropometer” was Dr ondition mentioned, but he let the matter pass after explaining that he had been using one, His hands were scratched eral places and there was an m on his head, but he ad- mitted these were administered by “afriendly cop” who found him ‘“cut- ting up” in New York. t. Wilson interviewed Dr. Houck bout a half hour shortly before noon, and after his talk informed members of Mrs. Houck's family that | he had obtained absolutely nothing in the nature of a clue as to her wher | abouts. | Relatives Are Disappointed. t. Wilson, Mrs. Houck's father and brother and the doctor's mother were greatly disappointed at the lack of developments. They had, together with the police, searched frantically for the woman, and with the return to Washington of Dr. Houck they staked erything on his ability to assist them. Capt. Wilson indicated that as soon as Dr. Houck has rested suff- ciently the police will question him further. Even in the event Mrs. Houck is found alive, her father said today, it would be the end of her married lite to Dr. Houck. He has nothing but the deepest sympathy and pity for the physician’s condition, but in ju tice to his daughter and their child, he feels that they should be separated. Mr. Walter also expressed deep syn pathy for the doctor's mother, prais- ing the splendid manner in which she h borne up under the circum- stances. Just what course the police would take prior to another interview with Dr. Houck could not be stated by Capt. Wilson, who frankly confessed the police did not know which way to turn. Today in Congress SENATE. cnator Har on, Democrat, of ippi, appealed to Republi- cans to support tax reduction leg- islation at this session. Senator Heflin, Democ Alabama, reiterated eritic dict in the Fall-Doheny tr urged that the Sinclair- be held outside of V Riv and harbors bill came be- bore Senate again today, with vote in sight late today or tomor- row. Judiciary committee appointed subcommittee to study proposal for investigation into charges that Federal offices are bartered in some States, Judiciary committee voted favor- able report on nominations of Judge George Aukum for Muni- cipal Court of the District of Co- lumbia. Conferee on radio legislation held further deliberation. HOUSE. “The House took up the unanimous consent cals lar toda; on which are several bills of particular inter- est to the District of Columbia, in- cluding the bill for acquisition of Forts Hunt and Washington in the park system, for a new nurses’ home at Columb.a Hospital, for a refund of ,000 to Columbia Hos- pital and for a new dormitory for women at Howard University. The House paid tribute to Rep- r ntative Theodore E. Burton, veteran member from Ohio, on his seventy-ifth birthday anniversary. Tk 1 affairs committee to- day ordes favorable report on the Butler for construction of 10 cout cruisers. This was re- ported without amendment and Cha.rman Butler announced that he will introduce today a special rule for its immediate considera- tion. The Gibson subcommittee of the House District committee con- tinues its hearing on the municipal administration of the District of Columbia at o'clock in the caucus room of the House Office Building. Subcommittees of appropriations committee continue hearings in executive session. Military affairs committee con- tinues hearing for relief of cer- tain_officers. Irrigation and reclamation com- mittee in _executive session on Colorado River project. Immigration committee holds regular meeting in executive ses- sion. Insular affairs committee con- tinues hearing on the government of the Virgin Islands. Canb;dian Financier Dead. TORONTO, Ontario, December 20 (#).—H. C. McLeod, former general manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia and a financier of international repute, died yesterday at his Winter home in Camden, S. C., relatives here were in- formed last night. He was seized with a heart attacke iSAYS HE SLEW BOY 10 BAR DISCLOSURE Croarkin Declares He Feared 6-Year-0ld Child Would Make Charges. the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 20.—Haroll Croarkin today confessed he glew ear-old Walter Schmith in a North Side barn loft in a panic of fright | after he had attempted to mixtreat | the boy, fearing his victim would tell of his actions The admissions of motive came the end of a long questioning, follo ing his voluntary surrer yester- | day. Previously he had maintained | that he did not know why he killed | the youth, who was found dying I'ri night In the loft where the attack | urred. “If this is not a hanging ease you might as well abolish the penalts State’s Attorney Crowe sald 1y day after he and his aides had gone | over the entire act of the tragedy with the 26-year-old son of a wealthy flour | dealer, “In the murder of a 6y by a depraved man theré can be no| extenuating circumstances. Of course T can't say what will be done in this | | r-old boy | ease, but I do know what I did in the Fitzgerald case.” The prosecutor referring to the time when he, as judge, sentenced a man to death connection with a simflar slaying In Croarkin's latest statement, which followed a number of rambling declarations concerning the slaying. he said that he had asked Walter to go after some coffee. They had no bucket and another hoy asked to go home for one. Croarkin then went into the barn with Walter, and after describing his actions there he said that he became | alarmed, having been told in a pre- vious in which he was named that his actions constituted a penal | offense. He then decided to slay the | youth and asked him to go to the second floor. Seizing a hammer, he followed. He then dared the vouth to climb into the loft. There, he lated, he struck the boy and left him to die. Sane, Say Psychiatrists. “Harold has always been backward mentally,” sald Attorney Francis E. Croarkin, an uncle and the one who surrendered him to the police. “‘He has only the mentality of a 10-year- old boy. He never could work and his father kept him at his place of business. We knew he was deficient, but we never knew he was criminally inclined.” Drs. William in 0. Krohn and Douglas Singer, psychiatrists, who testified for the State in the Loeb- Leopold case, disputed this, however, after examining Croarkin at the re. quest of the State's attorney. “He's sane,” the physicians said “No 10-year-old boy could pass the ex- aminations Croarkin did. When he was _in school he always had marks of 85 or 90. We have checked on his business capébilities and find he was quite a business man. He frequentl bought carloads of flour by telephone and sold them at profit within a few | minutes.” H. Denies Other Attacks. The State's attorney said he would place the case before the grand jury, probably today. After the questioning in the " prosecutor’s office, Croarkin was taken to the barn for a re-enact- ment of the slaying. Several boys who have been accost- ed by a man in the last few weeks have been asked to see if they can identify Croarkin as thefr molester. Croarkin has denied any knowledge of these attacks Six little playmates will be body- bearers at Waiter's funeral, set for late today. Missing Boy Home. As officials were leaving the Crimi- nal Courts Buflding today with Croarkin, he was confronted by C. B. Feeley whose daughter was molested recent Richard Pospishel, 14, missing since | |last Wednesday. returned home today with a story which prompted a police search for two men. _ The lad frequented the Devon Rid- ing Academy premises, and it had been feared that he might have been a victim of Croarkin. He said that while he was on his way to the same school attended by | the’ Schmith boy two men abducted him and held him captive in a bun- | galow. The boy said that about 2 o'clock this morning his captors told him they would take him home, put him into an automobile and thrust him out miles from where he lived. He begsed carfare from a pedestrian. Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan, 56 years old, 36 V street, and Mrs. Catherine McCormick, 2615 K street, treated at Emergency Hosp night for slight injuries they rec s a result of an auton t er Sullivan of the V street address that collided with another ¢ Mrs. Anthony Scheurman, old, 36-A Bates street, was down at North Capitol street and Florida avenue about 6:30 o'clock last night by the automobile of Riginald arpenter, 1236 Oates street northeast, and her leg injured. She was treated at Casualty Hospital. Arsell Lee, colored, $0 114 L street, was injured atterncon when an h he was a passenger collided vith another car at Water and F reets southwest. He was given first aid at Emergency Hospital i i FORT SITE PLANS FOR PARK PURPOSES GET NEW SETBACK (Continued from First Page.) years old, yesterday atomobile in of the Potomac River and the Mary. land embankment to Mount, Virginia. Including a substantial wharf, the improvements at this station amount to $734,386. The present sale value is estimated at $175,650. The United States Bureau of Fisheries formerly occupied a limited portion of the land near the river front, but was removed to rented quarters farther down the river when this tract was entirely needed for milifary purposes. The bureau is anxious to return to its old location and if this is done the hatchery and fish ponds would add great interest to its use as a park. In his report to the House Mr. Hill emphasized that “to carry out the provisions of the organic law for the National Capital Park Commission it is regarded as one of the most im- portant features of the proposed park extension to acquire the tract included in both of these military reservations. “From every standpoint it would seem extremely unfortunate to lose the opportunity for preservation of such tracts for park and parkway purposes, and there ds no question that if these sites are now sold the cost of acquiring them at a later period Will be greatly in excess of the amount that could now be realized from sale” % v Slain in Barn WALTER SCHMITH. | agnostic, and Mr: IR WIFE OF INGERSOLL SLAININSHOOTING Famous Agnostic’s Son-in- Law Says Watch King’s Mate Fired Bullets. s ssociated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—A love tangle and tragedy involving a sor in-law of Robert Ingersoll, famous Robert Hawley I the retired manufas dollar watches, stirred gersoll, wife of turer of | fashionable Park avenue today. Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll, 55, estrangesi wife of the manufacturer, was si to death in her apartment on Pari avenue last night, and Wallace M Probasco, 60, son-inlaw of Robert G. are not related. was held togay in the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital on @ technical charge of homicide, but he and his wife claim that Mrs. i gersoll shot him and killed herseli through jealousy because of a threat: ened break in o relationship that ha {endured for yeara Probasco w shot twice through the ch once through the right arm. Calls Wife After Shooting. Probasco telephoned his w | the shooting. She went to the {ment, and, with building attens | found her ta teiephon W es bod; | found on a bed in another room. She was clad in a pink dressing gown land wore jewels valued at $35,000. One hand clutched a revolver. She wore a necklace of 58 pearls. A plati num chain for her glasses contained 48 diamonds. A dinner ring contained six diamonds and six rubies. Probasco, an advertising expert ana general manager and director of the HEFLIN RENEWS LAY ATTAGK Declares Fall-Sinclair Trial Should Be Removed From D. C. Supreme Court. Foliowing another bitter attack in the Senate today on the verdict of acquittal in the Fall-Doheny e, Senator Heflin, Democrat of Alabama, declared that the forthcoming trial of inclair and former Interior all on a charge of con- growing out of the Teapot Dome oil lease should be moved from the District Supreme Court to some other jurisdiction. After he had r history of the Fi again flayed the ju rted that immediately following the verdict the law for Sinclair \d Fall had asked that the case against them be quashed. I think the Government ought to move those cases from the District of Columbia,” said_Senator Heflin, re- ferring to the Sinclair-Fall charges, “because a good many of the people that are drawn into the jury box here in Washington are related by blood or iri some other way to somebody in the Government.’ Before turning his remarks to the Sinclair-Fall case, Senator Heflin re- interated the criticisms he leveled at the Fall-Doheny jury several days ago, based on newspaper reports that the jury had dice and a phonograph in the room the night it was deliberating over the verdict. He referred to pub- lished reports that the phenograph vas kept going by one of the jurors who insisted on a verdict for acquit- tal way in the night and would not al- low the others to sleep.” Mobile Records Cited. In his speech last ‘week Senator Heflin made the statement that Jess Smith had been murdered. When he took the floor today he stated that on Saturday he received a message from the Department of Justice, telling him that the district attorney of New York was Writing to ask him for any fact he might have relating to the death of Smith. Renewing the assertion that he believed Jess Smith was killed, Sen- ator Heflin declared that about that time “we were discussing here a gen- eral inve ion and it was rumored that Jess Smith had-gotten nervous” and was going to tell what he knew. ded: “But he never Secrétar; spiracy ted in detail the I-Doheny case and v, Senator Heflin record of a Moble court pro- ceeding quoted by Senator Heflin as bearing on his charge that Smith, intimate of former Attorney General Daugherty, sought during the Hard- ing administration to collect funds from bootleggers. The Alabama Senator quoted court a sec the record as it was read before et meeting of the Senate ju- diciary committee last April. Accord- ing to this record, Aubrey Boyle then United States district attorney for southern Alabama, told the court that a friend "of his named Boykin had told him Smith was seeking to raise $2,000,000 to pay off a Republi can natignal committee debt and planned to have “the men in the liquor business and the breweries” contribute. Boyles himself was on the stand be- fore "the judiciary committee when this section of the court record wa read, and he denied that he d as the record showed by Mobile court. The Alabama Senator again t Senate that Smith was murdered in Daugherty's apartment here, and that the coroner's verdict of suicide was wrong. Says He Knew Too Much. ‘“He knew too much,” Hefln de- clared. “They had to get rid of him."” Boyles’ version of the story told by Boykin, as it appears in the court record read before the judiciary com- mittee, follow “He said he had a three-quarter-of- an-hour long-distance telephone mes- sage from Jess Smith. He said, ‘You know Secretary Mellon loaned the Re- publican national committee $5,000,- 000. Only $3,000,000 has been repaid. There is a deficit of $2,000,000. Jess Smith is charged with getting up that money. “The plan is to have the liquor men, the men in the liquor business, and the breweries. contribute to this fund. United States attorneys in some places have been arranged with. They will be expected to collect from the bootleggers the money and contribute a certain portion .of it to that fund.” Questions Source of Money. The Senator added that he didn't know whether the $5,000,000 said to have been loaned the Republican com- mittee by Secretary Mellon was Mel- lon's money or the Government's. “I know _that $3,000,000 was brought in to Mellon, and Jesse Smith was assigned to get the other $2,000,- 000,” he said. It was a part of the plan, he con- tinued, to have a man appointed New Century Color Plate Co., Ir sald while lylng on a hospital cot told Mrs. Ingersoll Saturday that my wife and 1 were reconciled. La: in the day she telephoned me to co: over at once. I went to her apart ment determined to break wah her for good. 1 was rather sorry for her, but I felt very nappy, for I was going back to my wife, whom T love. “Mrs. Ingersoll upbralded me when T came in for my coolness toward her. I apologized and told her immediately, wanting to have it over with, that I was not going to see her any more. “She was very angry. Going into the other room, she returned with my hat in her hand and held it toward me. ‘Go now,’ she said, and I reached for my hat without answering her. “As I took the hat she fired with the pistol she held beneath it. She fired again and again. The bullets knocked me down. Hears Another Shot. “She ran to the other room and 1 heard her fire a shot, but I could not go to her immediately. I feit sick. When 1 was able to get up, I went to the bedroom where she had gone, and there I saw she had killed hersel It made me sick again and it wal some time before I could telephone. Mrs. Probasco was at her apart- ment in Irving place when she re cefved her husband's telephone mes- sage. “There has been trouble here,” he sald. “Come over.” She hurried to the Ingersoll apart- ment. Building attendants forced the door for her, then called the police. She accompanied her husband to the hospital and remained at his bed- side. “Our estrangement wa this took place,” said Mrs. Probasco. “He was coming back to me. He was leaving this woman for the last time. “I love him dearly. I always have loved him and always shall. I had kept this affair with the other woman a secret, and now I am frantic when I think of him there in the hospital. It is all over—let the dead past bury its dead. If my husband lives he will be mine alone, forever. Married in 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Probasco were married in 1912 By an_ Ethical Culture cere- mony which did not mention God. Dr. lliott, of the Ethical Culture ciated with these words: s ring 1 thee wed in love and truth for life—till death do you part. I now pronounce two names as holy and sacred as can be spoken by the lips of man. I pronounce you man and wife.” Mr. Ingersoll came to New York with $175, started a rubber stamp shop nd finally evolved, through study of 'm clock, a cheap watch that him famous and won millions for himself and his brother Charles. The World War brought the compa; difficulties through forcing up t price—in 1921 it was forced into a receivership and was eventually taken over by the Waterbury Clock Co. The Ingersolls had been married years and the Probascos 14. Neith: couple had children. Maude R. Ingersoll was the f: daughter of the famous *“Bob, died in 1899 Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll was formerly Roberta Bannister of Green Bay, Wi Pressed for Payment. J. over when vorite who Jonah Goldstein, attorney f his client loaned Mrs 000 some time ago ou some property she owned in Green Bay. Recently, Goldstein declares, Probasco began pressing Mrs. Inger- soll for payment. The police said they found in Mrs. Ingersoll's apartment an unfinished letter, broken off in the middle of sentence, which told of her intention to kill Probasco and commit suicide. The letter was withheld, but police said it ended with, “It is all a mistake. T cannot stand it any : Mrs. Ingersoll had been preparing for Christmas before the arrival of Probasco. A chalr in her living room was found piled with presents, Chris mas_cards and letters, ready for mailing PRESIDENT IS INVITED. Asked to Attend 250th Anniver- sary in Rhode Island. By the Associated Press. President Coolidge was invited t day by Senator Metcalf and ths Rhode Island congressional delegation to attend the 250th anniversary of the founding of t Greenwich, R. L, to be celebrated next September. The President was told that the Veterans of Foreign Wars would hold their annual convention in East Greenwich at that time and that the veterans were anxious that he attend their meeting. pl Heflin shouted. He add “There is not a self-respecting man in the Senate who objects to what I sald the other day about the Fall-Doheny verdict.” “I take exception to that statement,” interrupted Senator Bruce, Democrat, Maryland. “I believe the judge in the case was an honorable, upright man.” “I don't know the judge,” replied Heflin. “He might be a very intelli- gent man, but he was appointed by the Harding administration and should have never sat in this case. United States marshal in southern Alabama who would act for Smith and collect the loss. “I am going to keep on until this “There isn't an intelligent, honest citizen in the country, outside of the Senate, who hasn’t grave thing is laid before the American peo- about this case.” .