Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1927, Page 2

2 ® D. C. ASKS $%5.45 T0 MEET EXPENSES Bill Covering Deficiencies Being Considered by House .; Appropriations Committee. | Deficiency estimates totaling $95,245 for the District government in orde to complete the y fiscal year were ta up for ideration yby the House appropriations committee | today. Commii Daniel J 3 W. Engineer Commu S, W Department, w n’ justifi h are as follows: ! In order to permit the new Pubii ‘ Utilities n to function, ftems for salaries for the new Com- | missioners from Kebruary 1 to June| 80, and for the new people’s coun $8,500, and an item of $2,000 for inci-| pmimisison. for nine new ors needed to make the ad of the biennial assess 1 estate, of ju csent con r Proctor L. Dougherty Donovan, District audi Il Covell, Assistant ioner, and George zinecr of the Fire sion son, cl > Wit for items, Commiss For addit istant as: annual inst ent of re i For salarie: | nile Court, $1 or furniture for the addition to| MacFarland Junior High School, | 00 squipment ice force, $39, For uniforms for the members of Fire Department, $30,000. Hearings on_the regular Dis bill for the coming f 1, which were to y before the | subcommittee_headed by Representa- tive Funk, Republican, of Illinois, | bave been postponed until Wednesday. the Juve- forms and other necessary | for the Metropolitan Po- al | have been vy CRIPPLED ‘GOOD WILI.’JI PLANE TO BE SHIPPE of the prohibition laws di: New York Will Be Moved by | sylvania. | Republican, duced a resolution Mellon ifines against the Howell King brew- ery, in Lu Train Preparatory to Panama Flight. Br the Associated Fress. GUATEMALA CITY, January 10.— The New York, the crippled plane ! of the United States Army pan-Amer- | 4 fcan flight squadron, was to be taken |and whether a compromise payment by train today to Lake Amatitlan,! has been agreed upon. near here, to its At New and set up preparatory ontemplated flight to Panama. o'clock Tuesday morning the York, piloted by Maj. H. A. | | Dargue, flight commander, will take | the oft for Lake Ilopango, in the republic | Which will show that the methods em- of Salvador, accompanied by the four other planes. There they will remain one day. The New York then will fly to Puenta Arenas, plloted by another | aviator, to take gasoline. From there it will continue to Panama. Maj. Dargue, with the other av- fators, will go from San Salvador to Amapala, and from Amapala by auto- mobile to Tegucigalpa, capital of Hon- | duras. A delegation from Honduras | will await them at Amapala. BRYN IS ABSOLVED IN SEIBERT DEATH | IN AUTO CRASH | | owned the roadster which figured in the accident a day and a half. said that he was unfamillar with the position of the brake pedal and that when he tried to put his foot on the brake pedal he celerator. “I saw a ca necticut avenue, had started to go north on the avenue from S street and I attempted to straighten out and go out § to avoid | a collision, but the streets had just | been watered and I skidded. That is | the last I remember.” | Witnesses testified that the car | turned several revolutions before it crashed into an automobile beionging | to William Munn, empleye of the | Academy of the Holy Cross, on Flor- ida avenue, after mounting a curb and going through a parkway. One Witness Blames Speed. One of the witnesses—Frederick Makers, 1433 Iairmont street, who | said he was in 4 car going north on Connecticut avenue when he saw the Bryn car coming out of S—testified that the car was going at an excessive | rate of speed, estimating it at not less than 40 mil hunched down in the act of lighting a cigarette when the accident hap pened. He admitted that he had ! taken two drinks but declared #hat Bryn had not touched any liquor. The physicians who attended Bryn | at Garfield Hospital testified merp; was no trace of liquor on his breath | and Bryn, himself, denied that he | had been drinking Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge wa: present at the Seibert inquest and | made elaborate notes on the testi mony taken. Laniel Mullen, 22 years old, of 31| K street northeast, was ordered held | for the action of the grand jury by the coroner’s jury which inquired | into the death of A. Schultz, 59 vears, | of 1426 M ious to th bert inquir died at Emer- | geney Hospital yesterday. Says He Failed to Slow Down. testimony given by Percival Marshall, 2 lawyer, who was occupant of Mullen's taxicab, was hat the driver failed to slow down | 18 he turne into L street from | Fourteenth a westerly direction Mr. Mar stified that M Schultz was i the proper pedestrian pathway and plaiuly visible to him se | H. ppened on the At the time it was Mr. Schultz's injuries slight. Tt was developed at the nquest, however, that his general | 1th condition was poor at the time he s mbed result of a e of six ribs. the adviee of his attorn take the stand in his stimony was given by poiice that it isx unlawful to make Ieft hand turn at Fourteenth and L. U. S. SHIP IN COLLISION. | night of January cegarded that nd Comes in Contact With French Ves- | sel, Both Damaged. LONDON, January 10 (P).—Lloyas' | Rotterdam correspondent reports the American steamer out- ward bound, vesterday | with the Frenc 1, near | Maassluis, 10 Hotter- dam. Both we maged and returned to port for rep { (The Anaconds was last_ reported | arrived at Rotterdam on_December | 3L from Philadelphia and New York.) By the Assoclated Press. whether brewery for violations ¢ Guardia explained, “is enforcement are Pennsylvania. | Mellon’s letter of the House judiciary that Government funds were uscd to maintain the New York Bridge-Whist Club to enare liquor law violators, La Guardia added: | statement admitting the easies and unlawfully purch: unlawfully retailing liquor and prais- | Ing such system with the latitude and through and to bring out more facts showing disparity of methods and law Bryn told the jury that he had only | enforcement in the v. He | New York.” former that the Howell ery “is still going strong” and that put it on the ac-|negotiations gentlemen who were very r coming down Con:!ing the last Penns said Bryn, after 1| and that a settlement for $20,000 in | Students Get Out Safely and Help —Historic “0ld Main Hall . cipal building ¢ Young Barkley testified that he was | emy, ‘Which for of Get Coolidge’ | and the old ¢ | was donated by May Leave Capital ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, .1927. FEARING INSANITY, Coroner Before Shooting Himself. Edwin Ernest Carneal, jr old, shot himself in the head at the . his right hand, by M BARON DE MARCHI BRUSSELS, Belgiun (®).—L’Etoile Belge s de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Ambassador to the United States, will succeed Baron Moncheur as Amba dor to Great Britain in July. His or at Washington has not yet med. the paper ad DRY “UNFAIRNESS” STIRS LA GUARDIA | reas Says ‘Discrimination’ Means Beer for Pennsylvania and Poison in New York. to show that application riminates vors Penn- La Guardia, today intro ing Secretary regarding Seeking against New York and Zepresentative New York for information i erne County, Pa. clution would fines assessed The determine against th the liquor laws have exceeded $269,000, what action has been taken to collect them re | Different Methods Charged. ““The purpose of my resolution,” La to obtain from | Secretary admission of facts New York State for the of the prohibition law not used in his own State of ployed in Apparently referring to Secretary to Chairman Graham committeee, “A comparison of the Secretary’s spending of public funds in the State of New York for the purpose of conducting speak- sing and tolerance extended vania b to the Pennsyl- rewery speaks for itself. Sees Beer vs. Poison. “I expect to follow my resolution rious States. “Beer for Pennsylvania, poison for La Guardia declared he had been in- King brew- “were continucd with active dur- | lvania_primary comparison to the total amount of $269.912 has been accepted.” MERCERSBURG FIRE RAZES MAIN HALL in Battle With $300,000 Blaze. By the Associated Press. MERCERSBURG, Pa., January 10. .the prin- Mercersburg Acad- time after the battle gshurg was used as a_hospital | for Confederate soldiers, has been de- stroved by fira Both of President sons occupied rooms in the structure while students at Mercer: burg. Built in 1536, the building, in addi tion to dormitorfes, housed the chem- ical Jaboratory, drafting room, library | pel. Most of the 3,000 volumes in the library and paintings of prominent alumni that bung in the chape destroved. The damage was estimated at $300,000 The fire, which occurred early yes- terday from an undetermined cause, damaged the main heating plant, ne cessitating the closing of the hool for two wecks, All the students got out safely and aided in fighting the mes. Most of them later left for their homes. Classes will be resumed on January 25 in temporary quarters, Dr. W. M. Irvine, headmaster, said the hall would be rebuilt along the general lines of the old structure, HOUSE CLERK ADbRESSES BOY SCOUT TROOP NO. 34 | Page Chief Speaker Ground | Breaking for Hut at Friend- at ship Heights. William Tyler Page, House of Representative clerk of the addressed and | Gardner, who charged ‘" had been perpetrated at unnamed pol. | |ing places and detailed a number of | | irregularities which he said had been { uncovered. | deep | Hotel home of his aunt, 460 K t, at $:30 o'clock this morning, and died shortly after his removal to Imergency Hos pital. Young across 'n was found lying bed, bleeding from the wound in his head, with a revolver in the aunt. Mrs. Bowles had c: nep.iew for breakfast at § o ho had answered .that Le right down.” After a few minutes, when he did not put in his appearance, Mrs. Bowles called him again. When she r d al s lled her lock, would no answer him unconscious, Leaves Note to Coroner. A note addressed to “The Coroner” signed by young Carncal, ¥ by the police. In the mess: oung man declared “TL for the oth is MAN ENDS LIFE |Edwin Carneal Writes Note to, MILADY'S SCANTY WARDROBE CUTS DOWN BAGGAGE BUSINESS Local Luggagc Company Recalls Happy Days of Large Dresses and Many Petticoats to Boom Trade. In the old . he pointed ~ Scantiness of women’s dress may or : impossible for a motorist not hurt the morals of the gen he said. out, it years , havoe with the b Bowles, | intendent of the Union T nd | trunks “be | heavy plaid pettic | Now she went to his room on | n Emil | (he third floor, where she discovered |modern woman doesn’t wear enough | | “EE | brought home s se of one seeking relief from | busine: circumstances which would eventually ¢ sult in total insanity,” and he added, Any further circumstances obtained from my father, B neal, sr., residing at 2100 N setts avenue."” Mrs. Elizabeth Carneal, a_trained nurse, said this morning that the only she could assigned for he son’s act was financial difficulties. e said that he had been living in New Orleans, and that he returned to Washington about 10 days before Christmas to seek employment. Gets Job at Willard. He succeeded in obtaining work at the New Willard Hotel, where he op- h { erated an elevator until two days ago { when. his mother said this morning, | he was laid off pending the comple tion of repairs. He was to have re d to work tomorrow morning, id. 5 . Carneal and her son's father are divorced, the mother said this morning, and her son remained with her until he left this city to seek em- ployment elsewhere. The senior Mr. Carneal could not Dbe located this morning at the Fair- fax apartments, 2100 Massachusett: avenue, where he lives with th ond wife. FUND STARTED TO AID sec Mrs. Joseph Carpenter and 7 Chil- dren in Need as Result of Murder. A fund for Mrs, Joseph Edward Car- penter, whose husband, a civil em- ploye at the Indian Head, Md., prov. ing ground, died Friday from gunshot wounds inflicted by two negro bandits, and her seven little daughters, has been started by Miss Mary Wright an initial contribution of $5. The Star will gladly take care of any further contributions from its readers to be devoted to the assist- ance of Mrs. Carpenter, whose large tamily has been practically without means of support since the death of the father. Washington school chil- dren’ have already contributed gen erously to the extent of $77 on their own initiative, and have signified that this amount is to be given to The Star to swell the fund just started. ELECTION FRAUD PROBE BEGUN IN PITTSBURGH Allegheny County Grand Jury Opens Inquiry Into Alleged Trregularities. | By the Assoctated Press, PITTBURGH, January 10.—Investi. | gation of the November election in Al- legheny County was started today by the county grand jury, which called in special session last week for that purpose. The inquiry was ordered by Crimi- nal Court Judge John A. on pe- tition of District Attorney Samuel H. tain frauds’ was The district attorney said the charge: were based on an investigation con- ducted by county ds tives and re- quested a grand jury inquiry in order to fix responsibility through examina- tion of witnesses under oath and the opening of ballot boxes. T e CARROLL SENTENCE TO PRISON UPHELD; MUST SERVE YEAR (Continued from Fi st_Page.) persons reported to have attended the party were Irvin S. Cobb, Har Thaw, Conde Nast and Al Jolson. Jolson and Cobb were among the witnesses called in Carroll's behalf at the trial. The principal prosecution witness was Miss Hawley herself, who told in the bathtub into the tub. by and helped Earl Carroll was slumber at arly this ew York wakened from a the Washington morning to hear the disconcerting awaited to re- r's retirement from for age. heard the news,” a some- orn voice responded, al producer was appro: rooms before noon. he hesitated bit, *truly sorry to know it came out like that. That is all 1 can say now, at any rate until I hear from my attornevs in ceive him a from the s a members of Troop 34, Bov Scouts of Ame vesterday afternoon, ne: Friendship Heights, when ground was | broken for the erection of a troop hut. | James Dulin turned the first spade of | earth. i ver i headquar- | < of the troop in the future. The | members will assist in_ building the structure. The lot on Willard avenue Henry W. Offutt, members of the troop Jumes Houghton, Charles Curtis_Dellinger, ~ Aubrey John Kuhn, Bryan Leet, i George Offutt, jr. John Latterner and John Sh Scett is the scoutinaster. Extension of the Chirigui Railway in Panama will be constructed by an American firm. d by Albert Shoe derick Mooney also The a Roach, Dellinger, arvey Leet, fark, Henry Henry ¢ New York. Besides,” I haven't had breakfust yet MRS. R>OB.INETTE VEVXPIRES. Agnes Boole Robinette, 75 f Licut. Augustine Robinette r veteran of the Third Mary Mrs widow Civil W nd Cavalry, home of her daughter, Miss Rosalie Robinette, 111 Primrose street, hevy Chase. She had been 11l several A native of New York State, Mrs. Robinette has lived in Washington for more than 30 vears. She is sur- vived by her daughter and four sons Leonard H. B, Fred G., Howard A. and Donald J. Robinette, this city Funeral services will be held to- morrow morming at 11 o'clock at Wright's funeral parolrs, 1337 Tenth street. Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery, | WIDOW OF SLAIN MAN| |8, was Davis of the Government Hotels with | detail of being led across the stage to | died yesterday at the | | PINCHOT DOUBTS | tomary we | | election. ;Anicles Against Holy See Blamed | | papers, | Burial {and G streets, followed by interment 1 with full military honors in Arlington to large trunks along with him, and he invariably sent them ahead by train. Now, with the vogue aller and fower trunks, he takes age with him. Williams agrees with S. W. F. president of the New York Co., that men also have had a share in siashing the profits of the baggage companies. “Men Just as Bad.” “The men every bit as bad the women,” asserts Mr. Draper man leaves for a week end of golf; h wears his golf sult and carries his razor and a_pair of clean socks in his olf bag. Five vears ago he wouldn't have been allowed in the club dining room in that outfit. 3ut times have changed. Folks don't dress as they used to. Similarly with women, it is no secret that with the increasing amplitude of milady’s pockethook she can leave for 24-hour train ride without any more portmanteau than her ordi- In it she deposits a ghtgown and a toothbrush, per Bobbed hair has rid her of the former cumbersome comb and brush, box of hairpins and extra package of ha It's a very disconcerting state fairs and the buggage authoritie |be counted in on any movement for reform in feminine dress PLAN 55,000 MILES VARE WAS ELECTED, OF NEW HIGHWAY Road Builders Picture Sav- ings of Millions in Traffic Cost—Convention Opens. public, but it certainly is playing | ge business, | skirts and any mor ot that short underclothing are mental to the morals of the smasher” than any one else, exercise a baneful influenc pocketbook. The baggage business isn't what it used to be lefore the advent of ab. breviated clothing for our’ modern | miss, take it from no less an authority than Otto 4. Williams, division supe nsfer Co. d Mr. Williams toc woman required hold ‘her roomy Time when a to : neces- most obsolete, however, she can cram her whole wardrobe into a handbag and have some room to spare, Handbag Replaces Trunk. “Statements to the effect that rles. at present the clothing to true dry she has a can roll up half a dozen of the tuck them in a small handbag. The changed conditions have been arply to the baggage industry by the decline in the transfer he declared. Populari the automobile as a means of travel so has cut into the baggage profits, 1 trunk are just about inms remarked. » o seant th f af- [ Certifies Republican Nominee for Senate “Appears to Have Been Crosen.” CUMEEY | o By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa. —Transmitting the yetirns of the No- ,000 miles of them planned for vember election for Senator from | st R i Pennsylvania to the President of the | 118 AIChe--mese. ¥isoed Sy United States Senate, Gov. Pinchot by the American Road Builders’ con- has_refused to certify that William | vention n important factor in 8. Vare been “duly chosen by | America’s present and future pros- the qualified electors” of the Common- { | i wealth. i ’ Instead he departed from the cus-| BY making markets accessible, the form of such certificate and | roads to be built this yvear will add wrote that Mr. Vare “appears to have | more than $2.000,000,000 in value to l"',”‘ L HenAt 1 January | farm lands and save millions of dol he communication, dated January | jrs annually in reduced traffic con made public today by the goV-| zagtion, in the opinion of Charles M. | Upham. Raleigh, N. C., business direo which is hold- ssion. Shirley of Virginia Present. At the historic Coliseum, the thou sands of delegates, including from Canada, Mexico and Central and of the election held on the|South American countries, saw more second of November, 1926, | than $3,000,000 worth of road mac William S. Vare appears to have been | ery, described the most exten: chosen by the qualified electors of |exhibit of its kind ever held. the State of Pennsylvania a Senator| Among the delegates was H. G from said State to represent said|Shirley, chairman of the Virginia State in the Senate of the United|State Highway Commission, and pres- States for the term of six years, be-|ident of the road builders, who spoke ginnMmg on the fourth day of March, | enthus'astically of the strides in high- 1927, | way_construction. “This era of prosperity to good roads,” he reased travel by By the Associated Press. anuary 10.| CHICAGO, January 10.— as pr an. ernor, Certificate Quoted. It quotes the certificate, sent Va by registered mail, as follows: ““This I8 to certify that on the f: of the returns filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth da o s he governor's letter continues The form of words customarily used for such certificates by the go ernors of this Commonwealth and the | ci form recommended by the Senate of | the United States both include cer- tification that thé candidate in que: tion has been ‘duly chosen by the qualified electors’ of the Common 1th. partly Bought, Partly Stolen. “I cannot so certif: ause I do not believe that Mr. e has been chosen. On the contrary, I am con- vinced, and have repeatedly declared, that his nomination was partly bought | and partly stolen. and that frauds | -ommitted in his interest have taint- ed both the primary and the gener: But even if there had been ud in the election, a man who 1s not honestly nominated cannot be honestly entitled to a he stealing of votes for Mr. Vare, and the amount and the sources of the money spent in his behalf it clear to me that the election re turns do mnot in fact correctly reprs sent the will of the sovereign voters of Pennsylvania. 1, therefore, have so worded the certificate required by law that I can sign it without distorting the truth.” POPE BANS FRENCH ROYALIST NEWSPAPER s due partly said. “The utomobile has in- > at schools,thereby ng illiteracy in country areas, and the dense population in cities has been beneflted from the standpoint of health by families spending week ends in the open.” Governor's Day Tomorrow. ‘‘Governor’s day,” tomorrow, will be followed Wednesday by the “Pan- American Exposition,”” which will South and Central America to the international hard roads conferences. Several score Government officials and highway experts who the countries south of the United highway surveys. SCIENTISTS DISCUSS Institute of Radio Engineers Opens Three-Day Convention at New York. By the Assoc d Press, | NEW YORK, Janua | the bane of the radio transatlantic radiophone, is slated for a thorough discussion by scientists, radio experts and telephone engineers, opening a three-day convention here today. The sun, solar spots and other phe- nomena of a like nature are taken up s ble cause in_a paper pre Dr. Greenleaf Whittier —Static, nd_the pared Pickard. The convention is unde the aus- pices of the Institute of Radio Engi- neers. The transatlantic radiophone system was quiet yesterday, only one call going through to London from New York. American Telephone and Tele- graph Co. officials said the air was re- markably el however, nd that conversations could be heard plainly. SENATE ORDERS BROOKHART PROBE ON LOBBY CHARGE for Prohibition, Decree Explains. Editor Welcome" Ostracism. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 10.—Ths Royalist newspaper, [/Action Francaise, has heen placed in the index of prohibited books by a decree of Pope Pius XI. For the first time in history a new: paper has been added to the church’ index alongside the names of marn noted literary works. 1/Action Francal the ban because—as set forth in the decree—"'of certain articles written and published recently by it—articles which any sensible man would be forced to recognize were written against the Holy See and the Supreme Pontiff himself. The Pope's decree is commented upon extensively by all Paris ne: nd is warmly opposed by Royalt circles in France. With deep respect, but with serene science,” Charles Maurras, edit Action Francaise, writes, “I ac- cept the ostracism of the Vatican.” Daudet, joint editor with writine in a more sardonic , virtually thanks the Holy See for “the fine advertising.” RITES FOR GEN. 0°CO in Arlington ‘With Full Military Honors. Funeral services for Brig. J. O'Connell, 86 years old, ish-American and Indian wars and Philippine campaign veteran, of the Wyoming apartments, Columbia road nd California street, who died Tues day at Atlantic City, will be con- ducted tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at 8t. Patrick’s Church, Tenth | has come under « sent telegrams to Senators Steck and Stewart, Republican, lowa, urging support of Woods, theéy acted without consulting him. Lind's telegram to Steck sald: “We feel it to be to the best inter- lests of all concerned if Cyrus E. | Woods is made a member of the In- terstate Commerce Commission, and | T earnestly request that you support {and vote for his confirmation.’ Steck also declared, in his tele- 3 | gram, that from Brookhart's point {of view, it would be contrary to the NNELL | vest interests of the farmers of Iowa to have Woods confirmed since the farmers are complaining of high Tomorrow | freight rates. In response to the telegrams he re- ceived, Senator Stewart telegraphed Lund that he fully understood “the {deep feeling of obligation that Senator | Brookhart must have toward Senator Reed for espousing his cause here in the Senate during his election contest and for permitting Brookhart to cir- culate his speech in Iowa during the primary campaign.” Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- vania, is sponsor for the appointment of Woods to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Immediately after Sena tor Steck read the telegrams to the Senate the Pennsylvanian joined Sen ator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, in urg- ing an investigation, declaring that Cemetery. The pallbearers will be Maj. Gen €. S. Summerall, Maj. Gen. John L. Clem, Maj. Gen. David C. Shanks, Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher, Col. Wiiliam H. Tschappat and Lieut. Col. Kensey J, Hampton. Gen. O'Connell is survived by his daughter, Miss Lillian O'Connell. apparently there had been brought to light “the underhanded lobbying which has been going on here for the ipast month.” oyl ood roads | many | in- | in- | mark the first official introduction of | represent | States later will tour this courtry on STATIC AT MEETING | IBUSCH MURDER TRIAL DELAYED Postponement Follows Filing of Writ by Stepfather of Samuel Moreno. Trial of four men charged murder in the first degree in nection with the killing of Policeman |Leo W. K. Busch near Grant Ci | September 26, was postponed today by Justice William Hitz in Criminal Division 2 until tomorrow. The postponment made | sary by the filing of an application for a writ of prohibition in the Distri { Court of Appeals by Alexandro Belle stepfather of Samuel Moreno, one the accused. Belle declared his ste son force him to trial with the other de. | fendants would be a miscarriage Justice. The appeal was denled today. | The application for the writ asked that the trial be delayed until mental condition of Moreno is lupon by a jury. torney Harry A. Grant. Grant informed the court that b | filed a petition January 6 for a mental | examination and atta of Dr. Kenneth W. Kinne; loc alienist, who has made a careful ex- with con neces ias his opinion that Moreno The lawyer asserted that his client not of sufficient mentality to inform him of his defense. The others accused Nicholas Lee McCabe and John with the exception }under the age of The four men were in court ready to face the em paneling of a_jury this morning, were returned to jall when the c was postponed. A number of the Government witnesses were in court and quite a crowd of persons, eager to hear the trial, had assembled out- | side the courtroom. |, The Government filed an opposition {in the Court of Appeals to the grant- ing of the writ. Assistant United St Rover presented -the objections of the prosecution to the appellate .court. stant United States orge D. Horning, will pros ute the murder charge against the | four men, who are represented by At- torneys James A. O'Shea, John H. | Burnett, James B. Archer, Alfred L. {Bennett, Harry A. Grant, Martin insane. in Sagles, John F of McCabe are 5 BELIEVED SLAN AT BIRGER ARSENAL Four Bodies Recovered After Explosion and Fire Wipe Out Gang’s Fort. i | | i | i | | iHv the Associated Press. MARION, IIL, 10.—The | possibility that five persons instead jof four lost their lives in the latest {outbreak of the southern Illinols gang | war was under Investigation today. Mrs. Art Newman said those | Shady Rest, the fortified roadhouse of Charles Birger, gang leader, shortly before it was dynamited and burned Saturday night were Steve George and wife, caretakers; Jack Crews and Elmo Thompson of West Fraukfort and Jimmy Sims of Harrisburg. nuary Coroner i George Bell returned to the scene Itoday to search for & fifth body. i A Mrs. Newman, the wife of Birger _huut»n;ml tributed the affa to the jrival Shelton gang, whose leaders, Carl, Earl and Bernard Shelton, broth- ers, are facing trial on a_mail robbery charge. Carl is at liberty under 160,000 bond, but his brothers are in t Bloomington and Peoria. Mrs. an sald the Sheltonites now headquarters near Flora, Il Birger Is Missing. irger, who I8 wanted on a Franklin unty murder warrant, has not been seen at his home, at Ham 10 days. His roadhouse, tween Marjon and Rarrisburg, Just inside Willlamson County. Sheriff ‘n'(:n Coleman sald he did not believe the outbreak would result in immediate reprisals by the Birger gang and he would not appeal to Gov. Len Small for troops. The gang war previousl 1 taken eight or nine lives within less than five months. There were no known witnesses to the destruction of Shady Rest, which served as a storage place for rifles, machine guns and revolvers and was a meeting place for the Birger fol- lowers, | Farmers Stay Away. living in the surrounding ide reported hearing the ex- and seeing the flames, but nene of them investigated. Sherift Coleman received first information from an automobilist. The sheriff Farmes country plosions roadhouse with Coroner George Bell and deputies. The only clue to the possible identy of the gangsters who | destroyed the camp was given by a | Alling " station attendant ~ at ° Crab | Orchard, in the direction of Shady { Rest, who reported seeing. two auto- { mobiles loaded with men drive that { way and return an hour later at high Storm Warms Arctic Region. WISEMAN, Alaska, January 10 (). ~—Arctic temperatures jumped from ero to 50 above in 24 hours yesterday, | following a storm of unusual severity | which swept through the Endicott | range. Four feet of snow fell. The sudden rise in temperature is said to be unprecedented since the settlement of Arctic posts. Bandit Robs Store Of $60 After His First Trial Fails A hold-up man who believes in the old motto, “If at first you don't succeed,” etc., followed its tenets today and succeeded in robbing the Sanitary Grocery Co. store at 601 Massachusetts avenue, after failing in a previous attempt. On Christmas eve the robber ap- peared at the store and demanded money from the manager, Charles B. Corridon. Corridon's assertion that all receipts had been turned over to a collector a short while before served to turn the intruder Early today the same young man returned and tried it again. Mr. Corridon was robbed of about $60, he peported to police. e store manager declared he sitive the visits were made by me person. The hold-up man the 1s described as being about 51; feet and youthful, | is po: cle, | e mentally unoalanced, and to ! the | It was filed by At-| *hed an affidavit | umination of the prisoner and gave | il | the killing | Proctor and all | but | Attorney | O’Donoghue and Tannenbaum & Wall. | at| found the bodies when he went to the | ‘Modesty Set Aside By Firemen to Put Out Corset Blaze Modesty is all right, under cer- tain conditions, but when one's corset catches fire it is high time modesty was flung to the winds in favor of personal safety, according to the fire rescue squad of No. 10 preeinct. 3 Firefichting policemen of that precinct reached that conclusion today when ecalled to choose be- tween Jane Darnes’ modesty, on the one hand, and Jane Barnes' burning corset, on the other. Despite Jane's indignant pro- tests, the doughty policemen con- ducted a foreible investigation and found that the clouds of smoke emanating from the colored wom an's person had their origin in her Jaced undergarment. Thev quickly reached the seene of the blaze and extinguished it before any damage was done te Jane herself. How the corset caught fire under Jane's clothing appears to be a mystery to everyone. One theory is that before dressing this morm- ing she warmed it too close to fire and then put it on without knowing it was smouldering. Jane didn’t discover the fire until she arrived at her place of employ- ment on Columbia road. Jane’s modesty prevents her from discussing the matter at all, it is stated. PUPILS MARCH OUT Mother Superior and Nuns Prevent Panic at Fire in Philadelphia. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 10 xty pupils of the parochial school of Our Mother of Sorrows Church at Forty-eighth street and Lancaster avenue, were trapped by smoke when fire swept through the gymnasium in the basemgent toda Firemen and voluntes climbing resisting stone building, carried the children and their teachers down to the street in safef Fifteen hundred children, with Nuns and two lay teachers in charge, were in the four-story building when the janitor discovered the fire, which w confined to the gymnasium. March Out Quietly. The junitor quickly notified Mother Agnes of the Sisters of St. ph. mother superior in charge of | the school, who rang the alarm which | summons the children and their teachers to fire drill. For the first few minutes the children were un- aware that this was different from the regular fire drills, Taking their plac n_the line, the boys and girls marched out of the ssrooms and into the corridors. Wisps of smoke came drifting up, and the children realized there w fire somewhere and apprehe 3 glanced about. The teachers calmed them and all the pupils of the first and second floors were soon on the street. Smoke Traps Pupl Pupils on the third floor, however were not able to get out in time to escape the heavy smoke. Fire appa- ratus quickly grrived and the work. of 1 was started. Firemen made trip after trip in tak ing them down. tearfully sought their mothers, of whom were in the ficulty. KILLED BY AUTO FUMES. William Brannan, Plumber, Found Dead in Garage. William B. Brannan, 50 years old, plumber, 3403 Dent place, died last night from the effects of carbon mon- oxide gas generated by an automobile engine, after being overcome in a gar- age in the rear of 3419 R street. was pronounced dead when taken to Emergency Hospital. Coroner Nevitt d he would ue a certificate of ac- cidental death Brannan was found seated in an au- tomobile in the garage by John D. Allan of 3419 the police, Mr. Allan, it is stated was attracted to the garage by hearing the engine running. He notified the poli and Emergency Hospital Today in Congress SENATE. The Senate was plunged into debate over rumors that Senator- clect Brookhart of lowa is in Washington lobbying for the con- firmation of Cyrus E. Woods as a member of the Interstate Com- merce Commission. The debate was started by Senator Steck, Democrat, Towa, when he read into the record a telegram he had sent to Mr. Brookhart. The Senate finally voted, 49 to 32, to refer the question to the interstate com- merce committee, which Is now holding hearings’ on the Woods nomination. The agriculture committee held an executive session on a pending bill affecting certain stockyards in the West. Special Senate committee resumed hedrings on the workings of the tariff law and the Tariff Commis- sion. Judiciary committee lar weekly meeting. The maternity and inf is scheduled to come up a as the unfinished busine Senate. held regu- v bill o’clock s of the n HOUSI President’s message on gua read in the House. House takes up for consideration independent offices appropriation bill. Chairman Zihlman of House Dis- trict committee introduces bill to make 1t possible for Engineer Com- missioner Bell to continue in office. District officials appear before ap- propriations committee in support of urgent deficiency items totaling nearly $100,000. ° Gibson subcommittee of House District committee resumes hearing tonight at 7:30 o'clock on the ad- ministration of municipal affairs. Subcommittee of appropriations committee in executive session on State, Justice, Commerce and La- bor and urgent deficiency appro- priation bills. Committee on agriculture con- tinues fits hearings on measures designed to stimulate agriculture, Military affairs committee con- tinues hearing on Army rations. Committee on the census con- tipues hearing on Fenn reappor- i ient bill. Nicara- OF BURNIG SEADD ladders to the third floor of the fire- | bringing the youngsters down ladders | Some of the children looked upon the rescue as a great adventure and crowd | watching the work of the firemen and | were held back by policemen with dif- He | R street, according to | ‘,l‘ DROP MPHERSON CONSPIRACY CASE Request of District Attorney Keyes to Dismiss Charges By the LOS District Attorney in Superior Court, was granted dismis | conspiracy charges . {ist Aimee Semple reiterated his ol left here in the com Ormiston, her . and not In the hands of k as Mrs. MecPherson ste fastly declared Keyes set forth his reasons ing the dismissal in the statement read to the ¢ | “The prosecution of Mrs | son was started upon the th a crime against the laws of the | Keyes requested ¢ crimina Evange on, “bu she b st McPher: es that any of former radio for fe McPher of California had been committed. “Evidence was laid before me whici tended to show that after Mrs. M Pherson had gone to Carmel and r turned with n unreasonable of kidnaping st d_others had i duced Mrs. Lorraine Wi n-Sielas { to produce false testimony in the nature of an aiibi Carmel escapad ‘The chief evidence laid he the testimony Mrs Without her testimony pr alleged conspiracy is now Since the preliminary he: McPherson, conducted befo ipal Jud muel R. Sielaft h i her story daily un cont contradictions and in ! the one given in court that she lu | become a witness for whose truth credibility no prosecutor could voucl bl 'PHONES OF ESCAPE FROM ACADEMY FIRE Harry Palmer of Clarendon, Who Leaped From Window at Front Royal, Pictures Scene. 10w s ma Harry Templeton Palmer, jr Clarendon, Va., who jumped from second-story window of Randolph-M con Academy during the fire early t day, telephoned friends here a graphi eyewitn ount of the disaste “The boys in my room, which {at the rear of the second floor, wer: awakened by the cries of ‘fire,” and by the stifing smoke,” he said. “W. jumped into any clothing we coul: find handy and ran toward the doo: to find our way cut off by the dens. smoke. “I had managed to grab my over coat and I slipped it over my pajamas The boys began piling through one of the windows which overlooked the roof of a porch. We took turns in jumbing to the ground, which was not much of a drop—about 10 feet, I guess i he fellows on the third floor were out of luck, how hey couldn't | get down the stairs and they had to jump. That's how they got their legs | broken. e of them were trying to tle together so that they : something to slide on. of us who had reached the ground, held out blankets on which they could jump. Some of them mads the leap without getting serious! injured. “One student, named Navia, mis- judged the distance and leaped s eral feet from the blanket. He right badly injured, I unders: Everybody finally got out. ; building had hardly heen emptied before it seemed that the who | place burst into flames. Walls fei / in and the intense b t drove us fu |away. The water in the swimming ! pool was boiled out.” !~ Young Palmer [ His parerits in is owner of the : horses, now i at the Orlando track. iSECOND TRIAL ORDERED | FOR HARRY M. DAUGHERTY { | | sh his _second Florid: Palmer running in 14 | Court Refuses to Quash Indict ments Against Former Attorney ! General and Thomas W. Miller | ! By the Associated Press. { NEW YORK, Janua M. Daugherty, forme | eral, and Thomas W | alien property custod itrial a second time on an indi | charging them with defraudins i United States of their best servic connection with the return of property seized during the war, it v | ruled today by Federal Judge Kne { Who denied their motion for dis of the indictments against th Their trial is to start Febr The jury that heard evidence {first trial failed to agree on « ve | —_— | Prominent 0il Man Dead. NDLAY, Ohlo, Januury 10 (4 {J. C. Dennell, 72 years old, the only man in the oil in | call John D. 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