Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1927, Page 5

YOUTHEXPLAINS . SHOOTING OF GIRL Joseph Simms, 17, Gives| " Self Up to Police—Insists Wounding Was Accident. Joseph Byron Simme, 17 vears old. 5 Fourteenth street, who has been since N in 2 sought by the volice connection with the ing last Friday, in his ment, of Nancy Randolph, 17 y Central High School sent rendered the | police today Simms being held pending the outcome of the condition of Miss Randolph, who is reported| slowly improving at Garfield He Evidencing_a _desire to “clean breast’ .of the to the shooting Simms told a det police of how he disch accidentally while exhibiting to the young high school girl Did Not Know He Was Sought. | Simms, who is the son ‘of Capt. J. | B. Simms of No. 3 engine company said that he had not kept hix w \ abouts a secret because he fea police, but because he did not know | he was being sought. He said he had | been living with friends on Conduit | road. Declaring that he had known Nancy about four or five months, having )m-l‘ her in tha downtown section through nds one day, Simme said ‘On_Friday morning Ni first had planned to go We then decided to go fishing and went to my apartment to get the tackle. We were to meet another| couple. While there I showed her| some curios I collected while I was in_the merchant marine 1 ars old = to is gun | ‘urh»: | CAPITAL MAY PAY HIGHER TAX ON GAS IF MARYLAND ACTS and 1 hike. ne on a “Dicking up a pistol which belong- |} ed to my brother, 1 began to ¢ Lelieving it unioaded. It clicked all| right four or five times, but the last | time the gun Kkicked and I streak of fire. ¢ Said She Was Not Hurt. ancy eaid she was not hurt. I thought the bullet had glanced off a huckle which she wore on a leather belt. W& stayed in the apartmeént a litte while and then visited two phy siclans, one of whom was out and the other advised a trip to the hos- pital. Nancy did not want to go to the hospital, because she said that she did not want any publicity. “At Fourteenth ~and _Fairmont streets we took a cab and went to Garfield. It was not until after a doctor had taken Nancy into the| emergency room that I knew that her | abdomen was punctured. “I visited Nancy three times at the hospitai, but did not go after Mon- ,day because her sister, Elizabeth Randnlph. 20 years, told me that my visits agitate? Nancy.” After telling his story the boy said that he had nothing to shield, that | the shooting was purely accidental | £nd that he wanted to give himself | up to the police “and have the thing| over with.” | The plstol used In the shooting was turned over to police of the tenth pre- cinct today by Capt. Simms. “AUTO FINANCING” NEW GUISE HERE FOR LOAN SHARKS (Continued from First y trust companies, savings banks, build ing und loan associations or real ectate * brokers. may charge more than 6 per | cent Interest “on any security of any | kind." Where a contract s made in writing, a later amendment permits 8 per cent to be charged. Money lenders wishing to charge a greater rate, but in no case to exceed 1 per cent per month, the law says, must take out a license costing $300 a_year and post bond in the sum of $5,000 each year. The statute stipulates, however, that the | 1 per cent per month is to cover “all fees, expenses, demands and services of every character, including notarial end recording fees and charges.” According to the collector of taxes for the District, no licenses to operate ! under such interest rates as those re- vealed by The Star have been issued. Mr. Stephes.s declared that if evidence is obtained that these provisions are being violated. the agent committing | the act may be prosecuted for trans- gressing either of the two sections, or for failing to take out a license. In each case o fine or inprisonment or both 1s provided for convietion. VISI'I:V MEXICO CiTY. Captain of British Cruiser and| | tax {lon to the tax on moto | #hall go JOSEPH B. SIMMS. (Continued from First Page) | this tax as they do the personal prop erty tax. There is no fear change being mad ite in the Di Congress convenes the sioners are powerless to cha tax rate without congressivnal sanc- tion. owever, of any e gasoline as Commi GA AX BILL PASSED. and House Votes, 75-10, for Road Aid Measure. APOLIS, Md., X March 16 (Spe o The bill to add cents a g vehicle fuel House of General of for roads was passed by the Delegates of the Marviand Assembly yesterday by the vote 75 to 40, 4 more than they nec three-fifths majos Speaker E. Lee took the floor in behalf of the measure, point- ing out that it was not a new form of taxation, as the State had maintained the 2-cent gasoline tax for years. He said the bill had received as much consideration as any oth measure in the legislature. Under his leadership the vote was strongly f orable, despite several oratorical tacks by members from Baltimore and other sections. The bill provides that one-fifth of the gross amount of the tax shall be devoted to streets of Raltimore city and that the remainder shall go to the State Roads Commission for lateral roads, to be distributed in the propor- tion that the road mileage of the county bears to that of the entire State. In all incorporated cities and towns owners of commercial vehicles used in the principal business of the owner hall be entitled to a rebate of 1 cent gallon, and the remaining % cent to the roads or strects of the city or town in which the vehicle is owned. Special tags are to be fur- nished for vehicles which are to he used within the corporate limits of towns, and a fee of §1 extra is to be paid for these. SOUTH DAKOTA TAX UP. Gasoline Levy Boosted From 3 to 4 Cents, Effective July 1. PIERRE, 8. D, March 16 (®).— South Dakota has boosted its gasoline X from 3 to 4 cents a gallon. The fourth cent will go into the gen- eral fund of the State under a legi tive bill which has just become law and which is effective July 1. The original 3 cents go to the highway system. Legislators advocating the increase measure argued that the tax would reach a large number of South Da kotans who pay no taxes, because the: own no property, and would affect the farmer only 1 cent, by reason of the agricultural gasoline exemption fea- ture which is carried in the South “Thrift The thrifty housewife ready to use—the cost is only 7 c Staff 1n Capital City. | MEXICO CITY, March 16 (#).— | Capt. A. M. Lecky and nine officers of the British cruiser Colombo, now at Vera Cruz, arrived here last night They were welcomed by British Min. | ister Ovey and 1vpresentatives of the | Mexican _government. | ¢ Capt. Lecky and his staff will be | guests of the British colony during | their stay in the capital. They pay visits to President ster Saen | will | TP b et b b b Service 141 12th St. N.E. % L. P. STEUART Jord TUDOR SEDAN COACH Costs Less Than Any Open Car of Any Other Make Closed Car Comfort $153.68 Cash The Above Time Payment Includes Lock Wheels, Insurance, All Interest Charges, ict until the next | the | three | Tills EV FRANCE ANDITALY - LIKELY TO ATTEND; Judge Raymond asked Mr. Gallagh | Confidence Prevails Here | That Both Will Ultimately _Be at Conference. BY DAVID LAWRENCE Confidence pre here that France and Italy ultimately will be present t the conference to be held at Geneva | to limit naval armament. Any other | course would be surprising to_Japan, | the United States and Great Britain, | who merely want the two other pow | ers to be informed accurately on what | the discussions are so that no charge | can later be agreements | were made sulting the lesser naval powers The United tes is particularly anxious to avoid a repetition of what pened at the last conference on naval armament in Washington. The > especially disturbed be thought Great Britain and the United States had’ secretly arrived n understanding in_advance and ‘ without consulting the French. Even |after the conference started the | French were not brought into the picture soon enough to make (hgm feel they were on equal terms with | the great powers in the discussion. | | Believe Understanding Lacking. Reports that the French cabinet is | divided on the subject of sending an nofficial observer and that one ele ent wishes no participation at all are viewed here as due to a lack of understanding of the aims of the con- once. The United States In its not to France and Italy ha recog- nized that neither of those countrie: | may want to make a commitment in advance, and thus the phraseology of the invitation makes it possible for | unofficial observers to listen to the proceedings without taking any part in_them. | The truth is, Great | United States and J have the French and Italians get their | facts first hand, lest the governments at Rome and Paris get their impres- | sions from press reports. Also there made that without | French we: cause the the ¥11s the hope that a formula may be | found which will France to depart from her announcement that unless land armament is taken up | she will not consider limitation of her ¥ permit Would Have Debt Effect. While France and Italy have special easons for wishing to expand the e and number of auxillary craft, the problem of a satisfactory ratio for the three big navies probably would if solved have a restraining influence on both Ttaly and France What the French cabinet has not yet fully realized is that the United States is in earnest in trying to ob- tain limitation of naval armament, and that if the French block the plan there will not be the favorable impression here toward a reconsideration of war debts which European writers regard as Inevitable. Until expenditures for naval and military purposes are cut down the capacity of France to pay her debts to the United States will be regarded as adequate by those in Congress who insist that the debt agreements made are just. (Copyright. 1927.) Gt City Club Dance VPilanned. Plans for the annual City Club St. Patrick’s day dance tomorrow night have been completed, according to H. J. Odenthal, executive secretary, and include a variety of entertainments, among them a novelty act by Ben Levin, Al Virts and Jimmy Massey. The City Club Syncopaters will fur- nish the music. The dance will be in the large ballroom, which has been decorated under the supervision of Mrs. T. W. Barrett. The music will be broadcast over WMAL, commenc- ine at 10_o'clock. While the HABIT OF SAVING money stiffens the will—it also | brightens one’s energie. Start a savings-hal account at the Federal-American Wash” will save the hard part of the washing by having the family wash done the “Thrift” way—wearing apparel washed and blued returned damp, the bed and table linens ironed ents per pound. QUALITY—SERVICE FOR 28 YEARS TAR LAUNDRY 13151317 14th St. N.W. G. 12 Gas, Oil, etc. Demonstration on Request Steuart Motor Company Sales . 620 H St. N.E. Telephones, Lincoln 6200; Main 3000 $1.26 a day for T. STEUART months Immediate Delivery Trucks and Tractors 346 Pa. Ave. NW. S K O NTNG _8TAR, WASHINGTON, | FORD KNEW TRUTH, PLAINTIFF CHARGES (Conti; D. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH | the articles claimed, | ‘ring’ to gain control of large amounts | marketing |of land when farmers found it im- | States.” | possible to lift the debt,” Gallagher continued He showed to the jury which he termed damaging to S | that appeared in the Dearbon Inde- | choos: | pendent. He thumbed through the | policy ‘,.;,,_.M reading captions and headlines. | is a | ““Mr. Sapiro is legal adviser of 64 | “They “We that will the IN LIBEL ACTION ued from First Page.) pictures piro, ! are to confine himself to what the plaintiff | co-operative organizations and knowns | of direc intends to prove. to the jury attacks may be made on |one article religions and clas fear of libel, but it was when individ- uals were singled out that the attack ers were open to punishment. “The first article published alleged | 8utocrat be libelous was published April b, races, ald entitled, ‘Monopoly Traps Operated | vers, advertising agencles, fruit pac produce buyers and bookkeeping | K experts—is on the back of the Ameri | Vv instock, ers n farme " ‘Working occastonally in the open, | usually behind a screen of well paid | Gentile “fronts,” this organization has | developed with such amazing rapidity | past five years that fts op- erations today extend from lantic to the Pacific and from the in terlor of Canada to the Mexican bor- within the der, Speaks of Dissensions. Ige gt er, nor orchardist, ited area, tribute to it. ‘Born in the fertile, fortune-seel brain of a young Jew on the Pa-| ing cifie vears ago Coast i officlal who had the ear of one of the State governments, by which he was | | emplc lion ) men who hands of Jews and their followers.’ " Speaking ative Gallagher there were always Jewish conspiracy ompany, reorgenize and real- ize large profits. “Jewish bankers always stand ready to make the ‘loans’ to the needy farm. | and de 5. the article sa failing is allowed to another five years, not a grain grow a vegetable producer, nor an marketing nothing of the problem of the farmery’ | recommends sserts,” said Mr. Galla- ‘We will show he is one of the able farm advisers in the coun ‘The judge explained ma tiles." es without | gher ty mo: |try. | atement that this man is an e hin and dictator is absolutely | tive or * offic Cites Other Jews. Ee of “Other Jews said to be interested . Bernard he false. Mr. Gallagher, “and was | of _| with this alleged conspir: Julits _ Rosenwald, _Otto Sugene Meyer and Harris are mentioned sar s ‘working for the fa | ‘he article asked why all these | men'working for the henefit of agri- | culture are not farmers themselv We will show they were thoroughly acquainted with the agricultural situ- ation. “Not one Jew to 10,000 Gentiles was allied with Mr. jiro in the co= ope ive organizations Such men as former Gov. nk O. Lowden of | Illinols and Secretary of Agriculture | | Jardine stand squarely behind him | in_his activitie | Mr. Gallagher said Sapiro was | criticized for being absent much-of [Py ) | the time from his office and appar- | Building ently neglecting his duties in the co- | wujted | operative organizations. At all times | }2cS while absent in the interest of the| ations, his position was pro- | red the attorney ! of Jews-—bankers, lowing ped publicat time. but r sald the article, f cal ing orga; the At Mr. ing ve witness today made next plaintify. continue fc rd save one class in one lim would be able to escape in while his immed would be agher a and nurtured by little more than Jewish five Explains Nature of Associaf ‘ Mr. Gallagher cooperative nd on given ained the nature | nization to give | ex the idea has turned m' from the pockets of till the soil and into mil-| of the | backgre the| Never has any of Sapiro ained at a Jewish bank, in answer to the charge sought control of a Toans. Showing the jury a pietur | Independent of a field of | ery, he read from article w e termed “fal malicious | 1\ money borrowed by | Without of dissensions in co-ope organizations, Mr. | the artic claimed “members of the to take over the decl hat Je through I rd sald came. from the Mexican vn in this et trib ing the stalk of celery sho a large field pays ewish dominion (m; * Gallagher de-| “Bvery | corner ¢ ute York the * to the farm enabled the | allegea conspiracy) of the co-operative system Denies Dictating Polic; how claim s the ma of the appointed by the board | he and advises with rectors, but he never appoints j of the A group called on Mr. the facts of the co-opera nizatio but granted ¥. D. Black the Independent. met these laid the facts before him week, Black the e idea of co-ops ations thing, 1 » will be no difficulty showing Evades Crowd in Courthouse. was y and ready motor Monday as a arrived during his attorneys discussed | ith counsel for Mr. uired of Sapiro's e would hand that his presence having been | inizations been ob- | detected by the curlous crowd that | waited him slipped at out Mexico Pays on Foreign Loan. MEXICO CITY, March 16 () government to the international b sum ment on Mexico's foreign loan. 16, 192 PINEDO STARTS HOP e e OVER DARK JUNGLE | i3 OF PERIL IN BRAZIL American R of the United said_ Gallagher that Mr. Sapiro | gers and dictates the | rmers’ organizations 53 se De Pinedo is us (Continued from First Page.) compatied by C : and Mechanictan home as large as the woods are the | jaguar nearly v Bengal 'on weath British cao. Dutch New bute “He often nd o e di- It The gel said from Communication Hopeless Cu Should the fyers be forced de this region, they would be in straits, for there is no way of municating with the out v and slim hope of geiting out Thelr route will take them down the Guapore toward a region known as the Green Paradise, a nam applie to the ever-green upper Ama Valley. At the village of Guaj Mirim they will reach the up of the Madeira-Marmore which follows the river for miles | River navigation is interrupted by a series of waterfalls and rapids, and bringing the seaplane down water in this section would be almo: | impossible. After passing this place the avia will continue down the Madeira River to the Amazon, follow that river up- stream for a short distance and then go up the Rio Negro to Manavs managers are Ford to put He refused, how- New W conference in the business mana- men, who The fol- Independent stop- of articles for some | red them some weeks & ailway ative marke! not a Jewish is American. is on Show at ors | of in the court build- | to take the was revealed s had been s appearance | ess for the This An exhibitioin o Stories of Savagery. many stories of wdians along the De Pinedo, but been exaggera There have been the savagery of the route to be followed by ny of these have tions. Most of th ed at the Carl show Indepen works are nd | sts of Two hu re list hung merit of work ¢ fons being setical schem os to paintings and the canv upon th at the Federal afternoon and | hiding | the unreaveled natives in the to be covered are semi-civiliz the principal dangers will through a possible forced landin smashup, followed by the ne of coping with the jungle and many forms of death lurking in i From Manaos, the route lies down the Amazon to Gurupa and Para thence to Paramaribo and Georgetown British Guiana. apiro whether | ance in court | William Henry counsel be glad to have ) onda Assurance Mr. Ford would be appea com nters the ST y Marquis Francesco de t3 themselves. termed Italy’s great long-distance flyer. He first achieved | day, the show will world notice in 1925, when he flew | Marchi from Rome to Melbourne to Tokio and | return, covering the 34,500 miles in long hops, made with the regularity o a train schedule His present trip, begun at Cagliari Sardinia, on February 13, is one of ti most ambitious and hazardous under the as courtroom, Mr. quietly as he | Comdr. the Pinedo has bee atrolman W Florida, sheltered {and is to be cited city commission. arms whi was mad The has forwarded nkers in New 01 as a pay: of Ou asrival at Jersey City Terminal, passengers step directly from train into the waiting Motor Coach, which takes them safely and comfortably right into the Heart of New York or Brooklyn irect from:the Side of theyTrain to:the HEART of NEW YO The only railroad providing this new and more convenient way to enter or leav Passengers arriving at Pershing Square Station, 42nd St. just east of Park Ave. and directly opposite the Grand Central Terminal and Commodore Hotel. Baltimo THE LINE OF THE CAPITOL ew York or Brooklyn Train Connection Service means: No bother with taxis or ‘‘red caps’’~-no extra expense No long walks or steep stairs None of the usual terminal confusion— You are entirely relieved of handling or caring for your hand-baggage—you check it on the train—you receive it when you leave the coach. No additional charge. THREE COACH STATIONS IN GREATER NEW YORK Pershing Square Station— 42nd St. just east of Park Ave.—directly opposite the Grand Central Terminal. Brooklyn—191 in the CONVENIENT Waldorf-Astoria Station— 33rd St. just west of Fifth 4 l Ave. in the Waldorf-Astoria v Hotel. oralemon St. Near Court St, orough Hall District ST oS EN - - For descriptive folder or full information, telephone or write the Travel Bureaw, Woodward Building, 15th & H Ser N. Phone: Main 3300. il E. D. AINSLIE Assistant General Passenger Agent e & Ohio MITED—NATIONAL LIMITED ROU TR tors of Itallan construction. West Orleans. transatl 8C Painters, Washington—None Are Judged., prestizge of artis With the exception of o *¥ ‘man, ranking with ard E. Byrd's flight Pole from Spitzbergen oute Unfixed. ing a seaplane and He is apt. Carlo Delpreta Vitale Zacchett of a spotied | Thejir itinerary is not fixed, depending r conditions, but will fly to Indles; Kings favana, Cuba, and From this has not been fixed 1 probably visit St. Louls. York hop wiil Newfound res. They d from 23,000 to 30,000 et back to Rome INDEPENDENT ART EXHIBIT DRAWS 200 CANVASES Carlton Contains Works Mostly From ¢ paintings that no wuses that run the 1 the ultra-conserva “modern’ —was ton Hotel yesterday by the Washin ndent Artists, those of Washing nclude many patut- other parts of the ndreds canvases by ed in the exhibition without regard to the ertained by an al of hanging. There pass upon the merit before they were asses were accepted application of the ely . Patrick’s continue daily until a for braver He caught ich others in thought