Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1927, Page 2

WOMAN VOTERS AT WHITE HOUSE Sex’s Indifference to Ballot ¥ Chief Concern, Miss Sher- win Tells President. The indifference of women in exer- elsing their newly won right to vote 33 the chief concern of the National| President | pokesman : the e of Women Voter: e was told by their when he received delegates of league from 45 States at noon today in the White House, “We admit the truth of the popular belief that in non-voting, women are the worst offenders,” Miss Belle Sher- © president, told the Presl- we venture the reminder women of this born and brought up of non-participation win, 1 s , “but that the have been a t ition Government. “The League of Women Voters ac- cepts as particular mission the endeavor {o overcome as rapidly as this tradition and by unremit efforts to instill in women a sense of responsibility toward Gov- ernment. In these efforts, we are happy to assure you, we meet with much encour: rgement.” Emphasized by Mrs. Gellhorn. Iy wom in in r in the day the question of s apparent luke-warmness to- ward the ballot was em- phasized the fon of the general council of the league by Mrs. George G of St. Louis. Mrs. Gellhorn declared that men are “bet- ter voters” than women, and when the woman is a wife and mother she ranks far below husband, son and daughter. “The failure of women to exercise their newly won rights,” she said, “is the chief concern of the League of Women Voters and the reason for its existence.” Mrs. G. J. Otjon of Milwaukee de- clared it was extremely difficult to judge to what extent women are “‘en- tering upon responsibilities as public but that it was “interesting 10 note that the greatest increase was number women holding municipal and local offices.” Upon the close of the n, short- 1y before noon, the delegates proceeded 10 the White House, where President Coolidge greeted them and received from Miss Sherwin the resolutions adopted by the league during its four- day meeting. Condition Not Hopeless. Tn assuring President Coolidge that the women of her organization ten- dered their “loyal co-operation” in every effort for the “successful work ing out of the great American exp ment in democrac; Miss Sherwin declared the indifference of voter: while a problem of chief concern, is not a “hopeless” one. In fact, she said that the studies made by the league tend to show that the “people’s voting habits are better than they are commonly reputed to be.” “It i Iso a question whether we are warranted in assuming that be- cause many people neglect to vote at ziven election they are necessarily ng in a sense of civic-responsibil- she said. “Such a ®uestion is suggested by a survey recently made in certain communities which showed that over a period of the last three years and for six elections only 10 per cent of the eligible voters were 80 lacking in this sense of responsibil- ity that they did not once vote, and that a large percentage did vote in most of these elections. In such com- munities the voting habits are surely far from hopeless.” In her address at the general council meeting, Mrs. Otjon called at- tention to the fact that Connecticut, a State which up to the very last steadfastly opposed woman suffrage, has the largest representation of women in its Legislature than any other. exercising before ses thorn Woman Legislators, Fifteen women sit in its 1927 Legis- lature. About 25 women are holding office under the Federal Gbvernment at the present time, she said, and six women have been elected to Congress since 1922, only one other waman hav- ing been elected prior to that time, Miss Elizabeth J, Hauser of Girard, ©Ohio, came to the support of voters, declaring that “wholesale condemna- tion of the American voters for his failure to vote 100 per cent strong is not justified by the facts.” The business sion of the general council closed today. This afternoon at 3 o'clock, the delegates will be re- celved at Annapolis, by Gov. Ritchie of Maryland. There will be post coun- cil meetings of the board of director: Monday and Tuesday at the Congres- sional Country Club. Radio Praised at Banquet. Establishment of general radio communication was hailed as “one of the great forward steps in the most thrilling of all human enterprise, the imulation of human thought,” by . A. Bellows, member of the Federal | ion, speaking last night | at the annual banquet of the General generation | Mrs. Herbert Hoover presenting Miss Judith Steele of W the “Golden Eaglet,” the highest award a girl can receive in scouting. MISS STEELE WINS BOLDEN EAGLET Decoration Awarded Scout Lieutenant for Profi- ciency—Has 24 Medals. The proudest young lady in Wash- ndith | out | ear-old ington ~ today is 18- Steele of 1460 Euclid street, Girl S lieutenant and George Washington University _sophomore, who vesterda: was awarded the golden eaglet, tha highest decoration of the Girl Scout The presentation was the first th year to a Girl Scout in section 3, com- | Gt prising Pennsylvania, Delaware, M: land, Virginia and the District of Co- lumbia, and was in recognition of M Steele’s super-proficiency in the art of scouting, for which she was already | the recipient of 24 merit badges. Decorated by Mrs. Hoover. Judith, an officer of Troop 8, was decorated by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, her captain, and chairman of the Girl Scouts executive board, at a ceremony in Memorial Continental Hall, which brought the eighth con- ference of Region 3 to a close yes- terday afternoon. Miss Steele has been a Girl Scout for the past four years and wears the in- signia_of first class Scout, and gold and silver stars for perfect attend- ance, he is a graduate of Western High School and is now majoring in chemistry at George Washington Un! i She also is engaged as tant in textile chem: research at the Department of Agr culture, and plans to become an i dustrial chemist when she graduates. Her Many Accomplishments. Swimming and dancing are Judith's favorite forms of recreation. She assistant manager of the university swimming team. An enumeration of her merit badges will show just how proficient she is at everything she tackles: Pioneer, star gazer, bird hunter, flower finder, hostess, laun- dress, scribe, athlete, homemaker, cook, health winner, artist, crafts- man, needlewoman, citizen, swimmer, dresémaker, economist, » pathfinde: health guardian, first aid, home nurse, child nurse, scholarship—a record surely to be justly proud of. . BUDGET REFORMS URGED BY BUREAU Wirst Page.) a (Continued from for use for current expenses. Yet they were included in accordance with the traditional bad accounting method of_the Government. The extent to which the failure to distinguish between ‘revenue” and “non-revenue” receipts and “‘expense and “capital outlay” can mislead in respect to the real character of finan- cial oprations is excellently brought out in a recent address by Gerrard B. Winston, Undersecretary of the Treasury, at the annual convention of the American Bankers' Association. He pointed out that one billion of the public debt reduction was made through a reduction in the cash bal- Lance of the Treasury and thus repre- sented no improvement in the net as opposed to the gross debt. His statement showed that the ap- parent large debt reduction by means represented a corresponding improvement in the net worth of the Government, at least two of it representing a corr reduction in the assets. the reports are not so re reveal the nature of rec penditures. igures Swollen Improperly.” ndered as to pts and ex Girl| | func: | sever no | what billion | mentall sponding | feal r This very | better distributed among the services, important fact was obscured because | { had b, 1 bills. Under this system L pe n see at a glance the total estimates and the toial appropriations for each bureau and each department and establishment of the Government; something that was impossible under the old system where appropriations for the bureau or department were carried in a number of appropria- tion bills. It is evident that the value of this information would be enormous ased if the several services of the Government were grouped depart- mentally that as far each department included only serv- ices whose activities fell within the same field and all sery having ac- tivities falling within the same field were placed in the same department Unfortunately no such condition ob- tains at present, Dr. Willoughby's 1 search shows. approp: SOn ¢ same Services Are Scattered. The War Department services having no direct re the function of national defense, Tre services as the Public Health Service and the office of the supervising grchi- tect, which have nothing to do with the administration of financial affairs. Although the jarge number of services whose prime on is the promotion and protec- tion of the public health, the: are scattered among the partments, A like condition exists in pect to other departments and func- embraces ation_to The | tions, It results from this that the total of estimates and appropriations for the il departments do not furnish a ect picture of the totals for the ormance of the major functions uch departments, nor are the to- s for a given function, such as the promotion and protection of the public health, available. It is generally recognized that one {of the reforms urgently needed in the | National Government rearrangement of its administrative organization and that this refcrm should take the direction of reducing the number of independent establish- ments and the rezrouping of the serv- ices departmentally so as to make the departments, as far as practicable, unifunctional. It this is done the War Department will embrace only services having to do with adminis- i £ the naticnal defense, the 1 Department only with sery- ices having to do with the administra- tion of the national finances and serv. ices such as those having to do with the public health will be grouped under the same department or a sepa- rate department for them will be created. More Informative Statements, The bearing of this the budget system is Willoughby believes, oni is a thorough reform upon evident, Dr. If effected, not will the statements contained in | the budget be far more informative l{-m they are, but Congress in con- ll«‘!'il}': the budget will take up at one time all estimates for activities in a general fleld and make provision for them in a single appropriation bill. _The improvement of the administra- tive organization of the Government is thus doubly desirable, the Institute of Government Research contends—as a matter in itself desirable and ascon- tributing to the effectiveness of the system for making known and pro- viding for the financial needs of the Government. Dlt. Wilioughby "also expresses the opinion that the time has come when the Bureau of the Budget should proceed under the provisions of Sec- tion 209 of the budget and accounting act, which prescribes that the bureau, acting under the direction of the Pres. ident, shall, among other things, make a detailed study of the organization of the departments and establish- menis for the purpose of determ ing improvements can be made | therein, and particularly how the sey- eral services can be grouped depart- in a more efficient and log- 1easure and specific activities be At the time the into effect, there w tence a joint committee of Congress to which n assigned this duty of recom- mending change nization of the administrative branch. In view budget s in ex| act went ashington with | y in- | as possible | sury Department embraces such | Government maintains a | o s oo o < . 5 CAMPAIGNERS HEAR MEMORIAL APPEAL Workers Urged to Put Over Drive for $140,000, Opening Monday. Assembling at the New Willard Hotel this afternoon for their final pre-campaign luncheon before the be- ginning Monday of the effort to secure through publi ubscription $140,000 necessary to assure the erection in Washington of the District War Me- morial, 220 man and 150 woman cam- paign workers heard Rev. Francis P. Duffy, “fighting chaplain” of the 165th Infantry; Right. Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, and Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune of the United States Marine Corps urge them to complete the memorial as a patri- otic and civie enterprise of worth. Fol- ng the addresses, Newbold Noyes, irman of the campaign, outlined to the workers final plans for the cam- paign and issued detailed instructions to_the team workers. Beginning tomorrow, downtown the- aters—the Earle, Keith's, Palace, Co- lumbia, Metropolitan, Rialto nd Strand—will show a specially prepared film calling for aid in the memorial and giving some glimpses of war scenes taken from the War Depart- ment’'s famous film,” “Flashes of Ac- tion.” At the same time plans were completed for a benefit performance kto be given at the Barle during the week, that theater having offered to contribute to the campaign a large percentage of its receipts. The Army Band, the Navy Band and the Marine Rand will play at the theater on alter- nate days during the weck, and in connection with the memorial film and regular program a pageant, made up of detachments of troops from the vicinity of Washington, will be shown on the stage. Short speeches giving the intent and scope of the memorial campaign will be made cvery evening. Hesse Issues Appeal. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintend- ent of police, has issued a general or- der to all police captains, and P. W. Nicholson, acting chief engineer of the Fire Department, has issued a similar order to members of the Fire Department, calling to their attention the memorial campaign and asking their active participation. Maj. Hesse's o) in_part, follow “During the World War trict of Columbia gave to the Nation's cause 535 young men and women who made the supreme sacrifice—and in addition 26,000 other men and women of the city were enrolled in the Na- tion's forces serving with honor. So far the City of Washington has done nothing to commemorate the death and the service of those who died or those who lived, and it is for this purpose that a campaign is to be held during the week beginning Mon- day, May 2, 1927, in order to secure funds through public subscriptions which will assure the erection of this memorial. “With this fund it is planned to build in West Potomac Park, near the Lincoln Memorial reflecting basin, a beautiful Doric temple of white marble as a symbol of love and reverence for those who died. Upon its ceiling ill be inscribed their names—and within its corner stone will rest the names of those who served it. “In the future the concerts by the Capital's military bands will be given in this temple—each concert to be a memorial service dedicated to the dead. In this wise we shall keep alive for all time a glorious memory. Orders Forces to Aid “During this week ail precinct sta- tions, the Detective Bureau, the Wom- an’s Bureau, and the Traffic Bureau will be designated as receiving sta- tions for funds donated to the me- morial. “In this connection, announcement is made that the Memorial Commis- sion has donated a silver loving cup to be presented to the precinct which turns in the largest number of con- tributions. “It is suggested that the members of the force enter into this campaign with a spirit indicative of the love and reverence in which the members of our force hold toward our dead, and it is further suggested that every officer—many of whom are, them- selves, veterans of the World War— take an active part in the campaign by distributing among as many per- sons as possible the subscription cards which will be available at the various precinct station: “This enterprise is a civic and pa- triotic duty—and all of us should co- operate fully and generously in seeing that it reaches a most successful con- clusion,” CHINESE TO MAKE WORLD DRIVE FOR NATIONALIST BACKING (Continued from First Page.) Chang Tso Lin, the Manchurian war lord, raided several buildings attached to the Soviet embassy in Peking and seized a quantity of documents. Since the raid, the Northern authori tles at various times have made pub lic what purported to be translations PLANES CAPTURED SMUGGLING ALIENS Aviator Killed, Two Seized in Gun Battle Near Los Angeles. By the Associated Press. __LOS ANGELES, April 30.—Federal agents reported today that they had captured three airplanes in which aliens were being smuggled into Cali- fornia from Mexico, and that one avia- tor was shot and killed in the fight which resulted in the seizure. The planes were seized on a highway out- side Los Angeles. Two other aviators were captured by the Federal immigration inspectors, but 10 Chinese, declared to have been carried out of Tijuana at 5 a.m. today, escaped. The oflicers requested police to throw a guard around Los An- geles Chinatown to effect their cap ture. The dead aviator was identified as Arthur D. Daugherty, 30, of this city. The Eagle Airport on the Riverside- Redondo Boulevard near Gardena, a suburb, was the immediate locale of the capture and gun battl The successful raid by the immigra. tion officers, of whom there we was the refult of definite discove: week ago that a fleet of plan operating in the smuggling of aliens rom Mexico. Early today they were tipped off that 3 planes had left “Ti: Juana and although flying very high, they were seen passing over San Diego and reported to the officers here. The latter lay in wait for their arrival at the airport. Oflicers Hide at Field. The immigration inspectors who e fected the capture are A. R. Dick, J. A. Dielson, Howard Day and Frank Ellis. Just before daylight B. R Chaney, manager of the Eagle Al port, was seen to arrive at the field by the officers, who were hidden in weeds and bushes on the edge of the landing field. Chaney set small flares to guide the planes down. About 6 o'clock the planes were seen approaching, flying low. Daugherty's was the first to land and as it came to a standstill the inspectors burst on the scene, or- dering hands up. According to the Federal agents Daugherty, whose plane propeller was still spinning, at- tempted to “zoom” his plane into take-off. It was getting under way when the officers opened fire. One shot pierced Daugherty's chest, his hand fell from the controls and the plane halted. Chaney and the other two pilots stood with up- raised hands. When no aliens were found in the planes the officers expressed the belief they had been unloaded a few miles south of the field and ordered a search. Sheriff’s deputies, as well as police. were called into the hunt. Chaney and the two aviators were taken to the Federal Building for questioning, and Daugherty body was turned over to the coroner’s office. RELIEF PLAN MADE AT ST. ELIZABETH'S 2,000 Ipmates Not to Suffer by McCarl Decision, Sanger Says. Definite assurance that there would be no suffering among the more than 2,000 inmatés at St. Elizabeth's Ho: pital who are charges upon the Dis trict, because of the decision of Con- troller General McCarl forbidding the District to advance the use of $250,000 of the 1 appropriation for their care until the close of the current fis- cal year, was given today by Monie Sanger, vice president and business manager of the institution. Funds Are Exhausted. Funds for*the maintenance of these patients became exhausted some time ago. Just how the hospital purpos to continue to feed and clothe them has’ not yvet been determined, accord- ing to Mr. Sanger. Some plan will be worked out, however, he said, to prevent any hardships. The Commissioners considered the situation created by the controller general's decision yesterday afternoon with a view to planning emergency relief measures without reaching any decision. They had planned to resume consideration of the question again today, but were called away early this morning to the Bureau of Efficiency. May Issue Credit Slips. The opinion prevails among District officials that there is little they can do to aid the situation and that it will be a matter for the hospital to decide. Some arrangements might be made, it was sald, to issue certificates { Williams, THE EVENTNG STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, APRIT, 30, 1927, Boy Ball Players Raid and Rob Pie Truck Angered at Interruption. Police Advised Sdgar Stafford, itinerant pie ped- dler, is transacting his business in the suburbs today in some undivulged lo- cality, where he may go about unmo- lested, far from the rapacious Pierce street. A harassing experience with the Pierce street gang day before vester- day prompted him to move his own ordinarily peaceful operations farther afield. According to' the story, Stafford, who s colored, told police of No. 2 precinct he was driving his pie truck long Pierce street in company with year-old Heimy Gordon, a next-door neighbor. Some two dozen colored youths were playing base ball in the block between North Capitol and First streets they entered. The boys, furious having their game interrupted by ve hicular traffic, suddenly stormed the his daring in that dispatched to the scene of the outrage | with visiting Plerce street truck from all sides, leaped on the running beards and attacked Stafford as he put an arm around Heimy to shield him. While vicious hands had a were emptying his pockets and his ple trays, Stafford drove on, and final Iy gained enough speed to elude the ruffians. He reported the loss of §11 his peddler’s license and innumerabl pies. Policeman F. Bauer, famed for neighborhood, was W, the next the vic thorough morning in company mized pie vendor frightened qut of ever in, remained Stafford pr Heimy ag 1t home. persed a * Bauer and ‘erap” game in ss yes. terday, but to every question put the gang regarding pi swer the invariable an was, I dunnc Seat at $195,000 Sets Record for N. Y. Exchange _ By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 30.—Recent predictions that seats on the New York Stock Exchange would sell at $200,000 came near fulfillment today with announcement that transfer of a membership had been arranged at a new record figure of $195,000. This follows transactions this week at $192,000 and $194,000. The identities of the three pur- chasers will be made public next Thursday. STEVINSON PLAYS HOUGHTON IN'FINAL Columbia and Manor Club CGolfers Seek Town and Couniry Title. Miller B. Stevinson of the Columbia Country Club and A. L. Houghton of the Manor Club are playing the final round in the Town and Country Club Spring golf tournament this after- noon. Stevinson won his way to the final this morning by defeating Far! McAleer of the Manor Club, 6 and 5. while Houghton defeated A. F. Williams of Indian and 1. Stevinson was in the lead most of the way in his semi-final match, ending the match on the thirteenth hole when he laid McAleer | a stymie. Houghton was 3 up and 4 to go-on but the latter won fifteenth ‘and sixteenth holes to come but 1 down and to go. Houghton ended the match on the seventeenth when he laid his iron shot within 10 feet of the hole Second flight results follow: John Shorey, Argyle, defeated Chester €. ard, Fort Humphreys, Va., 3 and 1; Emmett Heitmuller, Argyle, defeated D. J. Kiley, Fernwood, 5 and 4. be- Go to Semi-Finals. McAleer, Stevinson, Houghton and Williams won their way to the semi- final yesterday in two preliminary rounds marked by upsets and sur- prises, chief of which were the elim- ination of the long-hitting Maurice J. McCarthy of the Washington Golf and Country Club by Reid W. Digges of Indian Spring, comparatively a novice at the game, and the later elimination of Digges by Williams, a clubmate. Williams had the hardest road of any of the semi-final beating K. Roesch of Washington, the District junior champion, on the nineteenth hole in the morning round, and trounc- ing Digzes on the ninctéenth in the afternoon, when Williams secured a birdie 3. McAleer had little trouble downing Maj. E. L. Naiden, the Army title holder, and Gi. H. Chasmar of Co- lumbia, while Stevinson was not hard pushed to beat John F. F of Columbia and W. J. Cox of Beaver Dam. Houghton disposed of Page Hufty of Congressional in the morning, al- though the winner trailed most of the way, and then downed a clubmate, Harry G. Pitt, in the afternoon. Yesterda Yesterday's summaries follow: First flizht, first round—Earl MeAleer. Manor. dei Maj. E. L. Naiden, Washington Barracks, up: G. H. Mhasmar’, Cojumbia. defeated Mark Flanagan, North Fori. 5 and 4: W, J. Cox, Beaver Dam. defeated Frank 'P. 'Réeside Chevy Chase. 4 and 3: M. B. Stevinson, Co lumbia, defented J. ¥, Brawner, jr.. Colum- bia, 2 'and 1: A."L. Houghton. Minor, de: feated Pace Hufty. Congressional. 2 and 1: G. Pitt, Manor. won from W. C. Evans. Columbia. by default: A, F. Willims, Ind Spring. defeated F. K_ Rocsch, Washing up in 10 Tolea Digges. ring. defeated M. J. McCarthy. Washi and’ 1. Second’ round—McAleer deteate Chasmaj nd 1: Stevinson defeated Co. # and 1: Houghton defeated Pitt, - Williams' defeated Digges. 1 up in'19 holes Consolation-—Naidcn won _from F) by “default: Brawner won from Rees fault: Hufty won from E Carthy and Roesch Second flizht. first Manor, defeated G. S Summaries. i Colling, | one re: Spring, 2| alectric chair. the | the woman in the witness chair to the |tittering throng on the benches and | victured as the woman with the h {and leave the market place. prayers and brought x from told of buy liquors for a a wale of half-suppressed laughter swept and 1; | by default; | MRS, SHYDERLOSES PUBLIC SYMPATHY Precedent for Woman De- fendant Broken as Crowd Laughs at Her Testimony. BY ROBERT T. § NEW YORK, April 30.—Public sym pathy, usually maudlin and ul, has tur last woman ndant in a Few persons in New York eve pected to live to see such a day. But it has come and to hardened old court- room attaches it has brought a.sen- tion of amazement. Ruth Brown Snyder told her story to a snickering. cynical, unbelieving audience, and hostile demonstrations against here were held in check only by the stern reprimands of the presid- ing judge. Ruth Snyder furnished the only tears which the scene pro- voked. There was none by her sis- ters under the skin who packed and jammed the biggest courtroom in New York State Finds Thumbs Dow: IALL. upo; ex That audience was out for a Roman | "S- holiday, and whenever the woman de- fendant looked out into the sea of scoffing faces she found thumbs down. The spectators would havée thrown the woman to the The laughing in the temple as the woman proclaimed her complete innocence of any wrongdo- ing, other than unfaithfulness, made ze that at last Ruth Snyder stands in the shadow of the If Ruth Snyder’s story had the me effect upon the 12 men in the jury box as it did upon the courtroom, the woman is doomed. The jurors tried not to betray their feel- ings ir any way. But more than often they changed their gaze from really there can only be speculation as to what effect the gay mood of the lis- teners had upon the men who are to pass judgment upon the woman and her male companion, who stand joint- ty and equally accused of the murder of the woman's husband, Albert 2 Gray's Counsel Joins Scoffers. The counsel for Judd Gray, co-de- fendant, joined in the laughter at Mrs. Snyder’s story of her own purity and innocence. In open court they 1150 called her *“a designing, malicious human serpent of a woman. consummate actress or one of the most maligned persons ever brought before the bar of justice. She recited a narrative of complete innocence and said she only tried to cover up the murder of her husband hy her fiery, tigerish, perfect lover because she was in mortal terror of him. The picture of the lover was so out of keeping ‘\'i!ll his known character and his ab- Ject, cringing attitude in the court- room it is small wonder that every one grinned. Mrs. Snyder has be art of steel and the directing genius in the crime. The public evidently has accepted her in that role, and when she drew about herself the cloak of innocence and pdrity, until the “per- fect lover” stole into her happy little suburban home, the scoffers in the temple wanted literally to strip her her naked and amed in Court Reprimands Laughers. It was the most bitter experience any woman could have faced in these modern and supposedly civilized times The temper of the audience can best be understood when it is related that | it lJaughed when the woman said she had taught her little girl her nightly nd helped her with her Sun- day school lessons. When the woman said she didn’t smoke, the women in the crowd, evi- dently addicted to the weed, guffawed | owl and a reprimand | the court. When the woman s 13 bottles of assorted party of 16 persons the crowded room. For a time it seemed this case strangle | hold on his neck and thieving fingers | | By the Asso murder trial. | |lent sobbing which This “human serpent” is either a [Ments to bring unde; | John W. Benton, who were MRS. SNYDER SOBS - AS SHE TELLS STORY Will Continue Testimony Monday, Then Will Face Cross-Examination. ted Press. YORK, April 30.—Mrs. Ruth who from the witness stand ter placed the entire blame for the murder he nd her former lover, ray, w continue her ne when the Snyder-C imes on Monday NEW Snyder, Judd trial with hu bated br told the grue orning of Albert + slept in when was Kill his Queens Vi Gen, sessed. sic one time sobbed vilently, gave vent nunciation whom she der. oceasions of pudiated. nfession ir stting her \seerting Confessic She repudi which she 1 I ¥ husband’s death with Gray t had been obtained under duress, aind testified that instead of helping to kill, her husband, charged in Gray's confession, she actually tried to_save him The accused we still_to face her On Monday, when story. she will be cr: the State and by defendant, Gray Mrs der ‘s¢ took the stand liminary que F. Ha n, in that carried, to th Only when the ha; ving ordeal tes her amined by counsel for man, h o8t t omy; a the unsel, an assured vol irthest corners. examination came to the birth of her daughter did she show any emotion. Then, brie held a handkerchief to her eyes wept openly. She soon had herself in hand and the questioning went or Married Life Unhappy. The story she told of the was, in brief, as follows Her married life, she said, was un happy almost from the very begin- Her husband never loved her. and so, after years passed, she sought love elsewhere. She met Henry Judd Gray and their relations became inti- mate. Then, she related, he began to pester her to get rid of her hushand, so they could enjoy his insurance together. He sent her poison powders, which she threw away: he duped her into carrying home the sashweight, which has figured so largely in the trial; he went to her house onee to commit the murder and she sent him away. On March 19, she said, he sneaked into her home at night after writing her he was coming to kill her hus- band. She got her husband and daugh- ter to sleep and then confronted him. Says She Grappled With Him. She said she pleaded with him and got him downstairs. There she left him for a moment, and while she wa: in another room, said, she heard a “terrific thud. “I ran out into the ha most screamed from the I sew Judd Gray beating my hu over the head v the sashwei I grabbed him by the neck in an at- tempt to save my husband and he pushed me so that T fell and fainted. murder | When I came to it was all over and —and m_yhusband——" Here Mrs. Snyder broke into ok some control. Then of helping her lover with that Snyder had been killed lars b e he threatened vio- mo- she told the stor by burg hes I had just seen him kill my hus- band,” she said, “and I was mortally afraid that if I did not do as he or- dered he would finish me off too.” GOOD-WILL FLYERS AT LANGLEY FIELD Party of Eight Somewhat Worn by Four Months of Travel Over Strange Lands. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va.. April 30.—Fresh from their conquesis of good will, and somewhat worn with more than four months of flying over strange lands, America’s aerial ambassadors landed yesterday at 10:30 o'clock at Langley Field. the last stop but one on their 20,000-mile flight that blazed a new pan-Americ air trail. - ght flyers in four phibian planes landed ield, though 10 men nd 5 ips sailed at San Antonio December 21 1926, for the first “hop” of a Jjourney that was to mark an epoch in Ameri can aviation. The two members of the original air flotilla that were miss. ing when the ships came home were Capt. Clinton F. Woolsey and Lieut. ed at Buenos Aires February 26, when their Loening am- at Langley Council in the Mayflower Hotel. “It is for you, not for us of the commission, to safeguard the freedom | of the air,” he sald, after explaining |funas the Government operates. Thus, that the Government was being forced | iy the total of expenditures there to limit the number of broadcasting |included the amount invested during |port, and gone out of existence, The installations. “You would be quick |tye year for the Government life in- | wa clear for the Bureau of the ¢ the danger if there could be|gyrance fund, while the premiums |B: rously to exercise its re- a small number of NEWSPADErs | i by the veterans who have taken | spe / in this field. es published in the United | oyt jige insurance are included in the | yu would rightly fear that the | oo & fTance B8 e uded N 1er, the non-conformist and the | jnoyrance, which the Government | 1 have small chance to s, are properly included as an ex- | to the public. That is | anse of the Government, but the in- | situation that exists in broad- | yestment of the premiums is not truly | of the cost to the Government. not fix operation of the District of interfere | ¢ylymbia teachers’ retirement fund yet if = ther trust funds—the Civil Serv. kind is to be| ement fund, the ry sharply limit the|jee retirement fund, the trubt The safeguard | funds—are also included and furt speech is in the hands of | hlur the picture of the annual cos sters themselves and ulti-|{(he Government. for it is vour good | The extent to which the Bureau of asters are seeking. the Budget was handicapped by a de: fective accounting system in formulat- L old, physician in the regional office of ing the budget was at once appre the United States Veterans' Bureau ted by the first director of the bud- | here, died of heart disease in the bu- ien. Charles G. Dawes. In his | reau’ late yesterday afternoon wddress at the second regular meeting | Dr. Kauffmann was employed as a the Business Organization of the | physician in the bureau in 1921. He Government, after calling attention to | y general practitioner, but had the difficulty his bureau had in de { lized in the treatment of tuber- { mining the facts regarding the finan- | culosi Hot L br cial condition and operations of the| A ive of this Dr. Kauff id 8 according to :} nment, he vigorously criticized | mann was a graduate of Georgetown nmission’s conception of “public in- | ¢ eful and archale system | University, Following his graduation rest, convenie or nece A cterizes Government he practiced medicine in New Mexico, [ and taken to Tsinanfu. "v‘ v»"v ')-«"\"- will play a tremendous nd he declared that for,.nq joined the National Guard of that | charged that they had in their posses- next presidential campaign » Treasury Dej 1 ¢ i i X gn | s the Treasury Depar «d on the Mexican bor- |sion communist propaganda the lavation of Marlin Hall | has kgpt only a cash account or | Sy s esident of the National | never*had a balance sheet Soon after the outbrenk of thy World C s red fire and | A accounti stem” like War he was commissioned a major in the “front | he sald, “is nothing short of {the Medical Corps and became at- so will the | ity in Government accounting tached 1o the 115th Dbgineerssiwith the micro-| “The Bu of the Budget, Dr.|\hich he served overseas until Novem. . Willoughi finds, has ttempte {ber, 1918, when he was made district the dinner were | take = int of these surgeon of the 40th DI I~;r Jun | tions in tt neial i_u,-\mp until April 12, 19 arling, | statement etory | lae s survived by his widow, Mrs. olitical cartoonist; Ralph Turner, as- | statements cannot, pec | Aatiide O § aufimann; his mother, sistant general news manager of the | pared until the Gov vad- |\, Virginia Kauffmann, and a young . United Press Associa nd Bruce | jcally reformed its ant | Aniishiat: Vernadme antemann A ; Bliven, member of the editorial board | reporting system. Funeral arrangements have not been Three Hurt in Train Wreck. e.mpleted. SUSQUEHANNA, Pa, April 30 Shieie O SRS - () — rk\ree‘: inmen _were L s ) e b . one seriously, and four pusher en- get system was the adotion by | Manjodn Gehersl Nominated, ' | N e e embank- | the bureau of the budget of the unit| MEXICO CITY, April 30 (#).—Gen. | ment into the Susquehanna River ures which are said to melt | Of organization as the primary basis | Francisco Serrano, governor of the | one and one-half miles north of Lanes- electric batteries have been encoun- | for the classification of es and | federal district, has been nominated | boro, Pa., about 4 a.m. today when a tered in the work of drilling a well in | by the House committee on approy by a political convention as a candi- [ northhound Delaware & Hudson Rail- me principle of date for the presidency of the repub- Orange County, Calif., Which is said [-tions following the road fast freight train ran into an 10 be the deepest hole in the workd, classification in the preparation of its lic in the 1928 elections. open switoh, would break all known records in that the dead man would not be placed on trial. FHowever, this was not to be and modern criminal pro- cedure is running true to form. The woman said that her husband did not | lnmtl 1!:” right, he did not under- | coL S stand her. He berated her because | her child was a girl instead of a boy. | OLOR L'NE IS ERASED. He constant tortured her heart” | s telling her how much. he had | White ed “an old sweetheart.” He sel- | dom, if ever, took her to the theater. There was a sigh of mock sympathy | when she made the last heinous charge. Y Frankl of credit to the merchants who supply food to’ the hospital, which would force them to wait for their money until the next Congress passes the second deficiency appropriation bill, which contained the $250,000 item for the care cof the Districl insane for The figurss for annual receipts and »xpenditures also swollen improp- erly by transactions in various trust or original texts of the documents re- ceived. These papers, the Northern authorities charged, showed that Soviet Russia had been actively en gaged in assisting the Cantonese agalnst the Northerners in the present et e p;“f:i‘ the remainder of the present fiscal aganda Mgy — Yesterday foreign correspondents in DR BB KRADRRARN oo e e » s ot ey DEAD AT AGE OF 53 ship, the Detroit, collided in mid-alr | with the flagship New Yor The exact time of the shington Monday was of the fact, the Burean of the Budget, it is understood, thought it wise not to attempt to duplicate these studies. This committee has, however, now completed its work, submitted its 1c- up in 19 holes: C. u.. defeated H and Ma). 0. Suunders, - Washin Barracks, defeated C. C. Grifith. Columbia, 1 | J. G Shorey. Arivie, defeated G. W, Me- | arter. Tndian Spring. 7 and 6: D. Woodland, defeated " Jesse Baggett D d 4 W. B Vogel, Indian A R MacKenzie, Columt Heitmuller. . Fernwood, st Bannocldurn. son, Columbia. 3 an Waid defeated’ Collin feated Saunders, i Vo- up; Heitmu dergast, nd 2. & onsalation—Rhodes defeated Pope by de- fault; Griflith defeated McCarter. Mackenzie defeated Baggett. 4 and i on_defeated Atherton by default . Third flight. first round—H. . Columbia. defpated €. C. Heath, Bannock burn. 4 “and 2: D. L Thomson. Manor. de- feated J. T, ris burn. 4 and 3 BB Hoover. Indian Spring. Warwick. Washineton. 4 and Congressional. defeated W Argyle, by dofault: H. D. ipton. defeated A. S Gardine rsc Willlam L. Wilson, 62 years old, a |} P e E By Butson, Mdian Sprine. 2 ted native of Washington, prominent in local musical circles, died yesterday | rest Thompson, Areyl i at the home of his sister, Mrs. Wilson | Batinockburn, = apd 10 ¥ oF o e Greene, 2633 Sixteenth street, follow- |} Found-—Thompaon. defented ing a long illness. The funeral was |Cochran, "% 1 K Hobver held this afternoon at the residence. | i #hd : . Rev. H. H. Sterrett officiated. 4 Mr. Wilson was educated in Wash- wmgton schools, then entered the print- ing trade. In 1910 he retired from bus- iness in Washington, taking up his res- idence in Atlanta, Ga., where he lived for some years. Returning to Wash- ington he entered the employ of Judd & Wetweiler, where he remained until January He is survived by his sister and two brothers, John M. and Edwin L. Wil son of this city op-oft not known “mmet Athertg dergast. g WILLIAM L. WILSEN, 62, PRINTER, DIES HERE Native of Capital Lived in Atlanta Several Years—Funeral Rites Today. and Negro Legionnaires Unite to Form Post. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Ay @ — Two posts of the Aw Lt he. | et one composcd of white members ve- |and the other o oes, /e com- lieved by the reporters and the |bined to forg ui’x.m»-x- h:‘fl;:.}';". audience.” They expect to see her torn | Richardson Post B limb from limb under cross-examina- | The object. tion and apparently will be disap- | ficials, was to pointed if she not. The “sob-|a fraternal spi sisters” have deserted “Ruth.” They, | Great War, when too, have thumbs down. The woman | drawn in th truly is in peril. But one never | Purcell, knows what a jury may do. new post. The other offices ara di- (Covyright. 1027.) | vided between whites and neg CUT oUT NG_THIS 1 . | Coupon I @h‘ 3”3““!!! s’u- I Coupon !1 OFFERS TO ITS READERS “Answers to Questions” : By Frederic J. Haskin the Peking raid, containing instruc: tions for the hiri to keep track of various foreign legations, in- cluding that of the United States, and calling for the ‘bolshevization” of China. teils us we s which shall ., and any Cochran. Mrs. Snyder was not condi frec spa nication ¢ we must ann i iStrick:n With Heart Trouble at His Office in the Vet- erans’ Bureau. din post tinue in peace formdd during no color line was American Army." Jack white, is commander of the MME. BOROD! Wife of Canton Adviser and 3 Other Russians to be Taken to Peking. LONDON, April 30 (#).—A dispatch the Daily Express from Peking it is reported there that Mme, Bordoni, wife of the Russian citizen, Michael Borodin, who acted as ad- viser to the Canton government, and three alleged Soviet “diplomatic courlers” detained by the Chantungese are to be sent to Peking for trial Mme. Borodin an dthree fellow Russian _travelers on the steamer Pamiat Lenina w early in March by the § TO BE TRIED. - time Columbia, | the defeated byt ) Indian Dr. Harry B. Kauffmann, 53 years Power Not Given. to the significance in Amer n created the Federal Radio | Censorship sped Consolation—Harris defoated Heath, 2 and ||| : Warwick defeated Strohel by default: ||| Bistson Gardiner, " and 1: Pasi [ did not give | to censor tated that the commissior 1d see that broadeast Antro Veer) r hus. Congressional. % W Reybold. shington. 2 ub: ington Barracks, defeated M and Country. §"and 6 Dam. defeated J. 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