Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather ocecasion: Bureau Forecast.) al rain tonight and ; warmer tonight; colder to- Temperature—Highest, 60, at 3 p.m. vesterday; lowest, day 41, at 7:40 a.m. to- Full report on page 9. ¥ (Closing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 Entered as seco; post office, W No. 30,215. nd class matter ashington, D, C. he b WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927—FORTY-SIX ening Star. PAGES. * hee———————— ———— 11 service. () Means Associated Press. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 106,139 TWO CENTS. MAGMURRAY SENT BACK 10 PEKING: AMERICANS FLEE Sceretary Kellogg Cables Orders to Minister After Alarming Report. DEVELOPING IN HANKOW; | 1,000 U. S. and British Citizens: Declared Leaving—Warships in River Ready to Aid. By the Associated Press January foreign situation at veloped seriously 's a telegram re. ceived today from unofficial foreign fources at the Yangtze River city.| One thousand American and British men are leaving, it says. There is no official confirmation of the telegram from private sources of | the evacuation of the American and | British men who had remained at Hankow after sending their women and children to Shanghai and else- where for safety after the riotous demonstrations by Chinese mobs De cember 3 and 4. i The British concessions at Hankow have remained under control of the Cantonese or Nationalist zovernment since the coolie mob swept over it this month. American and warships lie in the Yangtze Hankow, ready to a ionals if necessary LOGG SENDS ORDERS. 21.—The anti- | Hankow has de- | sh opposite their n: MacMurray Instructed to Return to Post at Peking. Br the Associated Press. A an Minister MacMurray, en route home for conferences with Sec- retary Kellogg. has been intercepted by cablegram and ordered back to Poking as a result of the increasing ness of anti-foreign demonstra- d rioting in China. Mr. MacMurray left Peking Janu- ary 18 with his wife and two children. Secretary Kellogg cabled to him at Tokio and points in Korea, but it was not announced where he had been in- tercepted, the advices merely saying he had recefved his new instructions. It was emphasized at the State De- partment that the general increase in the antiforelgn movement and its spread to Foochow 4fid Amoy ‘within the last day or two had prompted Mr. Kellege to order MacMurray back to his post, notwithstanding the ~Secre- tary’s desire to talk over the situ tion in person with tthe department’s | recognized authority on Chinese and | other Far Eastern problems. Plans for Warning. No immediate condition at Peking had called for the change in plans, it was said, the department not as yet having been advised of the fears felt by diplomats there that the trouble might spread to the capital itself. Action of the American charge, Ferdinand Mayer, at Peking in ar- ranging a code of day or night signals by means of which American residents there can be warned quickly and concentrated in the legation com- pound under protection of the Marine guard probably was in line with a decision of the diplomatic corps that Steps were necessary as a precaution against outbreaks in Peking, it was suggested at the department. The compound, it was sald, would | permit American residents to find | sheiter in tents and legation build- | {ngs. with both Chinese military forces | and the detachment of American Ma- | rines, as well as the military guard at other legations, to afford them pro- tection from mobs. The American destroyer Parrott has gone from Shanghai to Foochow, where foreigners have been threatened | and churches looted. Word of the arrival of the Parrott has not reached the Navy Department. SEES MENACE IN REDS. i Bishop Fears Canton May Not Be Able to Shake Off Communism. Star_and _Chicazo Daily ‘Copyright, 1927 January 21 & v. Methodist, re shanghai today from interior Y River points. He takes View of the disturbed sit believed not only menaces all white n and wonien in China, but shows of getting beyond the control ble i s While we are hopefu aid, “that the extreme bolshevism ow characterizing the activities of the Cantonese armies and officials v prove to be a passing phase ich time will modify, nevertheless indications point only to th »nelu- sion: That the deve .re a portion of a ca program whose end squeeze Christian ‘mission: | other foreigners out of China In this statement Bishop Birney is careful not to indict the leaders of the Kuaomintang (Southern or Can- tonese party); he feels that they are responsible. . He is in touch with Ger. Chang Kai-Shek, Cantonesc mmander-in-chief, and with Dr Chen, chairman of a commission now governing Kiangsi Province “No Sympathy for Reds. Chen, who has a d degree from Columbi he quotes as follows e no. sympathy with com- which will be dealt wi when the time is more oppor- The thing we must attend is our main drive to unify ry by force of arms Bishop grav which ally planned quietly tor of Dr. a n int T however, are firmly g will be un It current history, convinced the Kuomint able to shake off Soviet influence. is teared that the Kuomintang is starting something it cannot stop. something ‘which will end in disaster. In Bishop Birney's opinion, the danger to Americans lies in the blind pas #ton of inflamed mobs unable to make djetinetions as to nationality. A Christian church in China, the bishop gave: “It is hoped and expected by all miselonaries that the storm will be wenthered. Certain benefits already sre apparent. Anti-Christian propa y (Continuad-on Page 7, Column 4) v many close students of China's to the effect of all this on the | |Ex-U. S. Attorney In China Arrested OnBribery Charge By the Associated Press SHANGHAIL January 21. Leonard G. Husar, former United States district attorney for China, rrested here today on a of having accepted $34,000 nection with an Ball was set vears ‘ago and sta sensation when, on seeing some friends at Woosung, a short distance north of here, he boarded amer there with hi booked passage and w by the captain. The sequel to this romance ap- in the courts n Fran- recently when Mrs. Husar d for a divorce. Charges that husband epted a bribe from opium smuggh were made in her petition, married NCARAGUA TURNS DOWN GUATEMALA MEDIATION OFFER Diaz Asserts Latter Country Was Used as Base by Re- bellious Liberals. By the Associated Press, MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 21 —Guatemala, through its Minister at Managua, has again offered to mediase with a view to bringing peace bgtween the two factions in Nicaragua, the Conservatives under President Diaz and the Liberals under President | sacasa. The Conservative gevernment has refused the suggestion with the ex- planation that Guatemala was used “revolutionary base by the Lib- erals and Mexicans.” Maj. Gen. Bartolome Viquez, com- manding the Conservative troops in the vicimity of Chinandega and Telica, has arrived at Managua, and says that within a few days he will make a con- centrated drive “to break the back- bone of the revolution in the interior. He declared that owing to the pres- sure of his army the Liberals were scattering every day, coming out only to stea] food and cattle. Maj. Gen. Viquez has a new bomb- ing plane fitted with machine guns, to be used for scouting purposes. Two thousand bombs, ranging from 5 to 45 pounds each, are ready, he says, to be used on the Liberals. Government troops Wednesday de-. feated the Liberals in a battle at Santa Clara, Department of Rivas. The Liberals lost 7 killed and 4 wound. ed, the Conservatives 4 killed, includ- ing Col. Cruz Nunez. COOLIDGE RECEIVES ENVOY. Marines Will Stay No Longer Than Necessary, Says President. By the Associated Press President Coolidge believes that American marines and _bluejackets now on Nicaraguan soil should not be kept there any longer than the situa- tion demands. Accepting the credentials of Alejan- dro Cesar, first Minister from Nica- ragua under the present Conservative regime of Adolfo Diaz, the President said yesterday that although Ameri- can forces had been landed, with the consent and at the request of Diaz, in order to protect American lives ani property and legitimate interests of the United States, “this state of af- is necessary."” The Minister told Mr. Coolidge that Nicaragua “looks confidently to th United States for guidance, co-opera The President critics of his polic that the “ontinued on Pag further answered in Nicaragua by Jnited S as 'NORTHLAND IS BARRED FROM PORT BY FOG| Vessel From Norfolk Is Expected to Dock Late This Afternoon. Passengers Safe. | | Forced to anchor early this morn- | ing hecause of a2 heavy fog which | made navigation perilous, the Nor- | folkk and Washington steamer North- the bishop | jand, with passengers aboard bound |miles west of here. for« Washington, w: still lying the river a short distance | Quantico this afternoon waiting for | the fog to lift | Officials of the company stated engers were in no dan- the boat would proceed shington as soon the | nough to make it safe to | do She was expected to dock | here late this afternoon The Northland left Norfolk a o'cloc vesterday afternoon and was due e early this morning. She is commanded by Capt. Nowell. The Dis § trict of Columbia, which left here last night rrived in Norfolk this morn | ing on time, her skipper, Capt. Posey, reported, Both of the schedule in the iver fog forced chor., TRAIN HITS AUTO; 3 DIE. Party Struck by Express From Cap- ital to New York. ELKTON, Md., January 21 (®).— Three men were killed instantly shortly before noon today when their { automobile was struck by a Pennsyl- | vania Railroad express train en route | trom Washington to New York. | Two of the dead were identified. They were Dr. Lester A. Sparks, 35, and James E. Westhall, 30, both of Lakewood, N. J. Two of the bodies were found badly mangled lying along tracks. The body of the third vic- tini, thought to have been the driver of the machine, remained in the car, which was carried a quar- ter of a mile by the locometive, s in ships bay, the maintained the but the heavy Northland to fairs should not continue longer than | tion and aid.” 1 below | the that of SENATORS APPROVE ROBINSON MEXICAN ARBITRATION PLAN | Foreign Relations Commit- tee, by 12-to-3 Vote, Makes Favorable Report. AMENDED RESOLUTION DUE FOR EARLY ACTION Democratic Leader Instructed to Report Measure Tomorrow—Ap- proved by Borah. The Robinson resolution declaring in favor of the arbitration of the differences hetween the United States and Mexico over the latter's petroleum and land laws was ordered favorably reported to the Senate today by the foreign relations committee, 12 to 3. The following Senators voted to re- port the resolution: Chairman Borah, Moses of New Hampshire, Lenroot of Wisconsin, Willis of Ohio, Capper of |Kansas. Gillette of Massachusetts, Republicans; Swanson of Viriginia, Pittman of Nevada, Robinson of Ar- kansas, Walsh of Montana, Harrison of Mississippi, Democrats, and Ship- stead, Farmer-Labor. Those voting against reporting the | resolution: McLean of Connecticut, | Edge of New Jersey, Republicans, and Reed of Missouri, Democrat. Senator Robinson, Democratic leader of the Senate, who introduced the reso. lution Tuesday with the approval of Chairman Borah and Senator Swan- son, was instructed to report the amended resolution to the Senate. He plans to do so tomorrow, and expects to call it up for early action in the Senate. Robinson - Issues Statement. With reference to the amendments adopted by the committee, Senator | | Robinson said following the meeting today: “The amendments include the sub- stance of the original resolution and make clear the suggestion in the orig- | inal language that the “agreement to arbitrate shall contemplate the protection of the rights of Americans ! pending the arbitration, the applica- | tion of the principles of international |law and arrangements for the carry- i ing out of the awards when made.” - Chairman Borah said of the resolu- | | tion: { “I think the resolution fully ex- | presses our desire to settle this mat- j ter by arbitration. It meets with my hearty nogprovnl. I have been an ad- vocate arbitration' in thiy matter from the very bq-lnnln!. he anly ‘thing involved in thix m s prop- qu about arbitration.” Text of Resolution. The resolution, as ordered reported by the committee, follows: ‘‘Resolved, That, while by virtue of sovereignty, the duty devolves upon this Government to protect the lives and property of its nationals in for- eign countries, which duty is not to| be neglected or disregarded, it is, nevertheless, sound policy consistent { with the honor and best interest of the United States, and promotive of international peace and good will, to submit to an arbitral tribunal, which shall apply the principles of interna- tional law, in the controversies with Mexico relating to the alleged confisca- tion_ or impairment of the property of American nationals and corpora- | tions in Mexico; the arbitration to pro- vide for protection of all American property rights pending the final out- |come of the arbitration. Opposed by Edge. “That in good will and friendliness efforts should be made and persisted n to effect arrangements which will commit the two governments to the | policy of abiding by and executing } (Continued on Page 7, Column | LRI {CAPITAL-BOUND TRAIN | STRIKES LANDSLIDE No One Injured When Limited Is Held Six Hours in Mud in West Virginia. By the Associated Press. | SALEM, W. Va., January 21.—No one was injured early today when the {erack National more and Ohlo Rallroad, eastbound from St. Louls for Washington, plowed into a small landslide five The train was six hours while wrecking crews cleared the right of way. | The limited, running on time {through a dense fog, struck the slide {on an upgrade. The locomotive and three coaches passed through the mud, but the two rear cars stuck. | Engineer J. G. Brown said he did not |see the slide until he was upon it. | The slide continued after the train |halted and it was necessary to call wrecking crews from Grafton to dig |out the stranded coaches. With the exception of a broken {head light on the mud-covered loco- | motive, the train was undamaged. | Some passengers said the train slipped into the slide so lightly they did not !know anything had happened until { the engine stalled. | A dining car was sent to the scene from Grafton and the stranded pas- | sengers were fed. | delayed WOULD REFIT WARSHIPS. Britten Proposes $13,500,000 for Oklahoma and Nevada. An appropriation of $13,500,000 to modernize the battleships Oklahoma and Nevada is sought in a bill intro- duced vesterday by Representative Britten, Republican, Illinois. The bill also would fix the cost of converting the uncompleted battle cruisers Lexington and Saratoga into airplane carriers at $40,000,000 each, and would increase the authorization for a fleet submarine to $6,300,000. Rac.jlio Programs—Page 30. Limited of the Balti- | THO CONIETED INBALLOT FRAD Woman Election Official Is Guilty in Pittsburgh—Two Are Acquitied. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, January 21.—Two Pittsburgh election officers were con- victed today of making fraudulent re- turns at the May primary. Two clerks were acquitted of the same charge and all the defendants, three women and one man, were likewise acquitted of conspiring to make false returns. James A. Battles, judge of election, and Miss Bess Camby, an inspector, were found guilty on the one count, while Mrs. Violette Lomady and Mrs. Margaret E. Conner, clerks, were acquitted of both charges. The crimingl prosecution fdllowed a contest of the official count of the votes cast in the tenth district of the twenty-second ward for the 'Regrub- lican nomination for the State Legisla- ture. Official Disappears. Frank Casper, a fifth defendant, who was an inspector in the same dis- trict, disappeared after the wararnt was issued for his arrest and has not been apprehended. The recount of the votes cast in the legislative contest was made on peti- tion of Frank J. Zak, who was de- feated for the nomination on the'face of the original returns, which cred- ited Daniel A. Malie with 80 votes and Zak 8. At the completion of the re- count the court reversed the finding of the election board and awarded the nomination to Zak. The case was fre- quently mentioned during the Senate investigation of the Pennsylvania sen- atorial primary. The defendants wers unable to ad vance an explanation as to how Malle had been credited with 90, while only 86 ballots were accounted for as hav- ing been cast. Mrs. Lomady said she did not pay any attention to the returns, because she was ill while serving on the elec- tion board. She testified Casper, the missing inspector, read off the returns. Woman Pleads Ignorance. Miss Camby also told the jury she was i1l and in_addition testified she addressed envelopes and headed the return sheets while some of the ballots vere counted. % Mrs. Conner asserted she éid her duty to the best of her ability, but said she knew littlé about elections. During the trial of the case Battles, the judge of election, was criticized by the court when he testified he was absent from the polls about three hours on primary day attending to private business and also went home for lurch. E. B. MLEAN APPEARS BEFORE GRAND JURY Publisher Testifies in Inquiry of $7,000,000 Alien Property " Transfer. i By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January B. McLean, publisher of the ‘Wash- ington Post, appeared today before a Federal grand jury investigating the alleged improper transfer of $7,000,000 from the alien property custodian’s vaults to the Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs de Metaux. The grand jury, it was explained by the United States attorney, is con- tinuing the investigation of a previous grand jury that returned indictments against Harry M. Daugherty, former Attorney General, and Thomas W. Miller, former allen property custodian They were charged with defrauding the Government of the honest and intelligent service in the payment of the proceeds of the sale of shares of the American Metal Co., seized as enemy owned property the war. during DEATH TO 3 STUDENTS. Communists Get Extreme Penalty for Murdering Cashier’s Wife. MOSCOW, January 21 (#).—Three communist students, two of them brothers, were sentenced to death today for assaulting the cashier of a Moscow trade school and murdering his_wife. The court imposed the extreme pe; alty “‘as an example to other youths. The case stirred public interest deeply because the 16-year-old flancee of the youngest defendant committed suicide in despair over his erring ways. TOY PISTOL A WEAPON, SAYS JUDGE, FINING MAN Wielder Assessed $25 and Also Is Sentenced to 30 Days on Lar- ceny Charge. Judge Gus A. Schuldt ruled in Po- lice Court today that the fact a pistol is a toy one does not relieve the owner from responsibility of an as- sault charge if ne brandishes it for the purpose of intimidation As the result, Joe L. Day, colored, was fined $25 on an assault charge when it was admitted he pointed a small cap pistol at Gilbert O. Ahlgren, newspaper agent, who attempted to apprehend Day following the theft of five newspaper racks filled with papers. Day was sentenced to 30 days in jail on the larceny charge, and on the charge of taking an automobile without the permission of the owner, Jacob Newman of 640 Buchanan street, he was held to await_the action of the grand jury on a bond of $1,000. v was arrested by -Policemen R. L. Jones and H. W. Smith of the eighth precinct last Monday. HALE ADVOCATES 3 NEW CRUISERS Asserts America Is Far Be- low Ratio Strength, in Naval Supply Bill Speech. The Senate today began considera- tions of the naval appropriation bill, with Chairman Hale of the committee on naval affairs delivering the open- ing speech, in which he appealed for the appropriation for the three light cruisers which were stricken from the bill in the House. Senator Hale told the Senate that “we are clearly far below our ratio strength, both as respects Great Brit- ain and Japan, in light cruiser ton- nage. The very considerable building program of these two countries in re- spect to these ships indicates that they have no intentior. of standing on their present strength in this class of ships. It we are to come up to the treaty ratlo in this most necessary class of ships, it behooves us to move ahead the very considerable light-cruiser pro- gram.” Money for Three. Senator Hale recalled that in 1924 Congress authorized construction of eight scout cruisers, five of which have already been appropriated for. In order to carry out the provisions of the law, he said, it will be necessary at this time and in this bill to pro- vide appropriations to start the last three. The authorization for these Jast three cruisers will expire July 1 if they are not appropriated for at this session. The Senate appropriations commit- tee has added to the House bill an item of $1,200,000 to begin construc- tion of these three erulsers, which is slightly more than the amount orig- inally put in the House bill, but which was voted down after spirited con- test on the floor of the House. No Armament Aim. Senator Hale said in his speech to- day that the building of these ships “can indicate no overweening desire on our part for excessive naval arma- ment. They can, in a small way, as- sist in ameliorating our physical con- dition in this class of ships, but many cruisers must be added before the treaty limit is reached. “Should anything come of the pro- posed conference on limitation of ar- mament, under the auspices of the League of Nations, or under any other possible conference on the limitation of armaments, it is inconceivable that any basis of limitation could be reach- ed that would these ships if completed or vartially completed.” In concluding his speech, Senator Hale declared there Is no ground whatever for criticlsm of other na- tions on the ground that they are not living up to the 5-5-3 ratio of the arms conference. The naval bill as reported, to the Senate calls for $320,020,534," while the House bill aggregated $314,- 752,680, Gets Three Years for Fraud. ST. LOUIS, January 21 (#).—Chris- tian W. Weck, 34.year-old real estate dealer, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $5.000 by Federal Judge Davis today for using the mails to defraud in promotion of the Fed- eral Home Building Corporation’s “own.your-own-home” plan in 1923. Investors lost $282,000 in the scheme. Beck was convicted Wednesda; & nine-day trial, require us to scrap | HOLD-UPS LAID 70 3 IN'BUSCH TRIAL | Government Charges Defend- ants Took Part in Vir- ginia Robberies. Three of the four defendants charged with the murder of Police- man Leo W. K. Busch were impli- cated by Government witnesses in two hold-ups in Virginia nine days before the fatal shooting when the trial was resumed in Criminal Divi- sion 2, Nicholas Lee Eagles, Samuel Mo- reno and John Proctor were identi- fied in court as the men who held up a service station about a mile from Long Bridge on early morning of September 17, and. and Moreno again were picked out as the bandits who robbed another station in Alexandria the same morning. Proctor was not mentioned in the Alexandria hold-up and John F. Me- Cabe, the fourth defendant, was not connected with either of the robberies. Justice William Hitz, directed the jury not to consider McCabe in the Virginia hold-ups and to accept the evidence against Proctor .in only one incident, Identify Revolvers. The Government likewise proved by its witnesses that Eagles and Moreno | acquired two revolvers from the two | Virginia hold-ups and these guns later were found on the scene of the shoot- ing near Grant Circle on the early morning of September 26. John J. Twigg, now of Cumberland, Md., but formerly night manager of the Mylex gasoline station on the lower road to Alexandria and located about a mile from Highway Bridge, | detailed the story of the hold-up to the jury. He was sitting in his auto- mobile in front of the station when a small closed car drove up and two men alighted and asked for ofl, he said. As he entered the building they pushed pistols in his back, forced him to throw up his hands and Eagles “tore off my clothes, took my money, watch and chain,” Twigg said. The other man, whom he identified as Moreno, took his gun from the car in which he had been sitting. Proctor, he declared, sat at the wheel of the closed car and held a gun in one hand which was pointed at Twigg. In the back seat of the closed car was a girl, the witness said, who held a gun close to his head and said, “Keep ‘em up. big boy.” This revolver and the one taken from Twigg were identified by both witnesses as being the weapons they kept in their respective stations. Identify Automobiles. Before Assistant United States At- torney George D. Horning, jr., took up the Virginia hold-ups, he introduced testimony concerning three automo biles which .the Government charges | were used by all of the defendants in | two highway robberies in nearby Maryland several hours before the Petworth shooting. Mrs, Elizabeth D. | Coon, who lives qn the. Washington- Baltimore pike, told of the disappear- | ance of her automobile some time after 2 o'clock on the morning of September 26 and of again finding it at No. 10 police station. Policeman William C. Buchanan of No. 10, testified that he found Mrs. Coon’s car in front of 313 | Webster street. Linwood Willoughby, a mechanic of Laurel, Md., testified | that Mrs. Coon’s car passed by his place of employment in Berwyn shortly after 7 o'clock that morning. He aiso told of finding a suit case near a car which he had been ordered to tow in from a point near Muirkirk. Defense counsel announced they fail- ed to see the relevancy of this testi- mony, as proving anything, and unless Mr. Horning would clarify it later, they would move to strike it out. There was some confusion in the courtroom on the qiestion of just who did the hold-up work, as Twigg en- deavored to supply the proper names to the men he had identified. Once he referred to Eagles as being Proctor and again he confused Mareno with Eagle~ He gave testimony about identify- ing the men at the District morgue during the inquest over Officer Busch's body and declared that at that time he had identified Proctor. Attorney James B. Archer replied that Proctor was in a hospital in Baltimore on the inquest day, but Twigg settled the matter by pointing to Eagles and Mareno as the men he identified. Several tilts occurred between Ar- cher and Twigg during cross-examina- tion by Proctor's counsel. Archer asked him if Proctor held the gun in i the wheel Convicts in Poland Will Get Amnesty To Relieve Prisons By the Associated Press WARSAW, Poland, January 21. —All prisoners in Poland who have served two-thirds of their sen- tences will be released February 1, provided their records show good behavior, under a presidential de- cree of general amnesty just is- sued. In cases of life sentences, the prisoners are to be released if they have served more than 15 years » The décree is meeting with gen- eral approval, there being wide- spread feeling that too many per- sons are kept in prison at great ex- pense to the country. MISSING $30.00 SOUGHT IN PROBE OF CLARKE DEATH Woman, Believed Slain, Said to Have Had Bonds When She Left Capital. By the Associated Press, CAPE MAY, N. J., January State police and county authorities who are trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of Miss Ma Clarke, wealthy elderly woman of Washington and Pittsburgh, whose frozen body was found on the beach here last Saturday night, are investigating a report that she had a large sum of money and $30,000 in bonds in her possession when she left Washington on January 11. Only 55 cents was in her handbag when the body was found, which has led the authorities to believe that she may have been robbed and killed. Mystery Woman Theory Fails. The theory that a “mystery” woman accompanied Miss Clarke to Cape May from Philadelphia, where she boarded a train on the afternoon of January 14, was discarded today when railroad conductors who collected her mileage coupon said she traveled alone. Whether Miss Clarke was murdered probably will be established when the autopsy and inquest are held tomor- row. All theories except murder, robbery as the motive, abandoned by officials. “In view of the facts,” Coroner Wil- liam H. Thompson said today, ‘‘we are entertaining only one theory. That is foul play, with robbery as the motive.” ‘With the body definitely identified as that of Miss Clarke, 63, the au- thorities have nearly completed the checking of her movements since she left an Atlantic City hotel on Jan- uary 10. Traced to Cape May. 21— with have been They have traced her as far as the station at Cape May, where she ar- rived from Philadelphia Friday night, 27 hours before her body was discov- | ered on the blizzard-swept beach. Trunks in a railroad station ir. New York belonging to Miss Clacke have been ordered held and probably will be brought here for examination. Joseph Clark, 18, and Harry Ruther- ford, 15. who had been detairied by the Camden police, have been absolved from any connection with the case. Identification of Miss Clarke was made positive when the assistant man- ager of Haddon Hall, Atlantic_ City, and several friends of Miss Clarke came here and viewed the body. Came to Washington. Miss Clirke lived at Haddon Hall from last May to January 10, when she left for Washinzton. She arrived at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, the same day and left the next day, presumably for New York. Her baggage was checked through to that city, where it remained un- claimed at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. Where Miss Clark spent her time between January 11 and January 14, the day she boarded the train at Philadelphia, is not known. An autopsy will be performed to- morrow morning by Dr. Julius Way, county physician. The inquest will be held tomorrow afternoon. FRIEND GOES TO INQUEST. Edward Kern Leaves Capital for Cape May. Mrs. Edward P. Kern, of 2314 Belleview Terrace, friend of Miss Mary S. Clarke, whose frozen body was found on the beach near Cape May, N. J., last Saturday night, left here this morning for Cape May to attend the inquest, which will be held tomorrow morning at § o'clock. From the office of the Cape May chief of police it was learned by long- distance telephone that it was hoped Mrs. Kern might know something of the disposition of several thousand dollars in railroad bonds which Miss Clarke is believed to have purchased here, and which have not been lo- cated. Several Liberty bonds qwned by Miss Clarke also are missing. Coroner William H. Thompson, on further examination of the body of Miss Clarke, found several bruises which had not been noticed before, and is now convinced that the woman met with foul play, his office told The Star. Joseph Fisher of Pittsburgh second cousin of Miss Clarke, was ex- pected in Cape May today to claim the Poay Mrs. The coroner expects Miss Clarke’s trunks, which have been located in New York, to reach Cape May by Monday, when he intends to open them. Mrs. Kern is expected back here to- morrow night. HOUSE TO SPEED UP. Session Will Begin at 11 0'Clock Tomorrow Morning. The first sign of the usual Spring log-jam of legislation developed today in_Congre: House leaders, computing that ex- actly six weeks of the short session remained, decided to call the House together at 11 o'clock tomorrow, an hour ahead of theé usual time. Night sessions will come later. At tomorrow’s session the House will consider what its future action will. be toward the McFadden branch banking bill, now before a dead- Jocked .conference committee, SMITH'S REJECTION BELIEVED T0 MEAN DEFEAT FOR VARE Senate, 48 to 33, Refuses to Seat lllinoisan and Then Investigate. COLONEL INDICATES HE WILL FIGHT TO FINISH Precedent Set Yesterday Seems Sure to Have Bearing on Pennsylvania Contest. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Senate set a precedent yester- @ay which promises to prevent not only Col. Frank L. Smith, Senater designate and elect from Illinois, but also Representative William S. Vare, Senator-elect from Pennsylvania, from getting even a toe hold in the Senate. The Senate voted, 48 to 33, to deny Col. Smith the right to take the oath of office and then have his case in- vestigated. He is to be investigated prior to a final decision by the Senate as to whether ke shall sit in that body. Having lost the first round of his fight for admission to the Senate, Col. Smith is to go before the Senate privileges and elections committee to- morrow, according to his counsel, and begin his effort to convince the com- mittee and the Senate that he is en- titled to be a Senator of the United States and that nothing which oc- curred in the senatorial primary last Spring is a real bar to his member- ship in the Senate.. The Wade resolution adopted by the Senate submits to the commit- tee on privileges and elections two questions, the first is the prima facie right of Col. Smith to be sworn in as Senator; the second is his final right to seat as Senator. The committee on privileges and elections, according to the vote taken in the Senate yesterday, has a ma- jority in favor of the prima facie right of Col. Smith to be sworn in as Senator. Of the 13 members of the committee 8 were recorded in the Senate vote as favoring the swearing in of Col. Smith, and 5 as opposing his taking the oath. B8ix Republican members and two Demo- cratic favored Smith, and four Demo- cratic members and one Republican opposed him. Even if the committee uld report vots that Senate, in the light of the vote le;l'l yeur.erd:g. is certain to adopt ¢t répo; the minority, which woéuld pposé his being sworn in. Col. Smith’s course before the com- mittée will, it is believed, be deter- mined largely by what the committee decides is to be the scope of its inquiry. Ernst Calls Committee. Senator Ernst of Kentucky, chair- man of the privileges and elections committee, has called a meeting of his committee for 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. At that time the commit- tee will decide upon its procedure, whether it will conduct the investiga- tion of Col. Smith by subcommittee or by full committee, and what witnesses are to be summoned and when. Col: Smith, who has been suffering from an abscessed ear and who for two days sat in the Senate chamber while the Senators debated whether he was to be allowed to take the oath of office or not, was at his hotel today. No statement would be issued by Col. Smith prior to tomorrow and his a pearance before the committee, coun- sel for Col. Smith said today. Senator Reed of Missouri, chair- man of the slush fund committee which last Summer turned up the evi- dence used to bar Col.Smith from tak- ing the oath of office yesterday, will g0 before the privileges and elections committee if he is invited to appear. It was his resolution to refer the cre- dentials of Col. Smith to the privileges and elections committee for a full in- vestigation, which was adopted by the Senate yesterday. The opinion generally expressed at the Capitol today was that the vote cast for Col. Smith in the Senate yes- terday was the maximum strength which could be mustered for the Illi- nois Senator-designate. Several of the Democrats and Republicans who were counted in favor of administering the oat to Col. Smith yesterday, on a vote whether he was entitled to a seat in the Senate, are expected to de- clare against Col. Smith. Case Believed Hopeless. Republican and Democratic Sena- tors alike regarded Col. Smith's ca as hopeless. They coupled with this an opinion that Vare of Pennsylva- nia would never be permitted to take the oath of office in the Senate. The Vare case does not come before the Senate in the present Congress, but as soon as the Senate meets after March 4. Unless a speclal session of the Senate is held, it will not convene until next December. Chief among the arguments which prevailed against the seating of Smith yesterday was the contention that his jcase already had been investigated by a Senate committee, the Reed slush fund committee, and for that reason his credentials, even though in regular form, should not be accepted as estab- lishing a prime facie claim to a seat in the Senate. The Reed committee also has in | vestigated Mr. Vare and his primary election, and has found that he was nominated after the expenditure of very large sums of money, and that charges of corruption in the primary election had been made. The belief expressed today was that the Pennsyl- vanian would be stopped at the door of the Senate just as was Col. Smith. If Col. Smith goes ahead with his contest before the privileges and elec- tions -committee, it is probable that the investigation by that committee will require at least two weeks. Many witnesses. may be summoned here from Illinot: Insull May Be Summoned. The committee will have the benefit of the testimony taken before the Reed committee. It is possible that Samuel - Insull, the utility magnate, who contributed §125,000 to the Smith primary campaign while Col. Smith was head of the Public Utilities Com- mission of Illinois, will be summoned to appear before the committee, and States Attorney Crowe, another sup- porter of Smith. Both of these ? {Continued on.Page 5, Column