Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1927, Page 2

« loosely 1 BANK BANDIT QUEST PROVES FRUITLESS Sheriff Pushes Search With Fresh Posse of Experienced Mountaineers. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. WOODSTOCK, V: fomber bulk of Great North Mountain holds the secret of the mixed quartet of bandits who held up_the Mount ckson Bank Monday. Late vester- day afiernoon Sheriff B. M. Borden and his men sprung their trap and found it empty. Penetrating deep into the rocky fast- es of Wilson's Cove, where the ws were helieved to he entrapped, possibly shielded by relativ they n closed in, only to find the co Ten of their prey | After searching places for 26 con- | secutive hours seldom trodden by | man the posse retived, tired and dis- heartened, but on the alert to make n for the hills at the faintest clue telephoned here by the pickets left? guarding the few roadways leading | from the mountains. Theory of Sheriff.’ Just as the sun was setting vester day the sheriff and his men sur- rounded a_cabin reputed to contain | relatives of one of the four fugitives, but the inmates of the shack stoutly denied having seen them. Wild rumors spread through this little town, which has not witnessed such excitement since the day a few vears azo when the Neff ganc was rounded up near where the footprints of the bandits were seen. that the posse had encountered and returned the fire of the outlaws. It developed, however, that one of the vounger members of the posse had taken a few hots at a big hawk. Sheriff Borden last night expressed the fear that the bandits succeeded in | passing through Baughman's Gap. guarded Tuesday night, and are making their way toward Cumber- land. Md.. or the Pennsvlvania hills. Sheriff Rorden, however, announced this morning that he had not aban- doned the search for the bandiis, and was confident of their ultimate cap- ture. Tired, after five days of active soarching, the sheriff delegated the search today to a fresh posse of ex- perienced mountaineers, who are picketing the foothills of Great North Mountain. A telephone message was received here this morning from the ! West Virginia authorities that they are following a new trail on the Hardy County side of the mountain, Hidden in Mountain. Veteran mountaineers, however, in- gist in their belief that the two men and two women are still hidden in the 50.000 acres of woodland on the Grea | North Mountain. Those first in the lore of the moun- | tain contend that it is a physical im- | possibility for the quartet to have escaped from the mountain without detection. 'Their safety lies in the mountain, they say. They point out that the Neff clan traversed the moun- | tains for 80 miles without encounter- ing a human being and that the pre: ent outlaws can donceal themselves for many days. There is water in abundance in the :mountain gulches and the berry seasén is at its height. Furthermore the suspicion persists that the gang is not without its sym- pathizers who bear food to some secret hiding place, possibly a cave. Mystery of Horsemen. The mystery of the horsemen who scattered Tuesday at the approach of a posse has never been solved. As. sured of food, the four could hide for days until the tumult of the chase dies out. Without once leaving the shelter of | the mountain it is possible to go into three States—Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. Clever woodsmen could cross the Shenandoah Valley by night and seek refuge in the Blue Ridge. Taking into account the physica! capabilities of the women, 1t is re- garded as impossible for them to travel far on the mountain. The men, Kirby Dellinger and Cecil Wilson, are experienced woodsmen, but it is not regarded as likely that they would abandon their companions to their fate and make their way to possible safety. . Purchased in Washington. Jim Moore, regarded here as the mightest bear hunter, came to town last ‘pight, but did not join in the search. He said. however, that he be- lieved the bandits to be in hiding within 30 miles of here and within 15 miles of the scene of the hold-up. Further examination this morning of the contents of the suit cases found in the abandoned automobile of the quartet disclosed that all of the cos-| metics of the women had been pur- chased within a_six-block radius of Fourteenth and I streets in Wash- fngton, CHARLES J. SHERIDAN, POSTAL EMPLOYE, DIES Expert on Equipment, 30 Years in| Department, Expires After Two- Month Illness. Charles J. Sheridan, 63 vears old,| %13 Nineteenth street, veteran em-| plove of the Post Office Department. died last night after a two months’ fliness. Mr. Sheridan was born in Brooklyn, N. September 3. 18 He entered the Government service as a clork-| carvier in the Brooklyn post office in 7859 and served there until transfered 1o the Post Office Pepartment in Washington September 1, 1893. He ed in the department here for 30 | | He was at one time superintendent | of a branch of the dead letter office | hnd clerk-incharge of the office ap-| pPliance section of the division of | pquipment and supplies in the bureau the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, where he was considered to ke well informed in regard to post| nfice equipment He was likewise a member of the committee on awards | of contr for the purchase of gen-| eral supplies for the entire postal serv- ed by two sisters. Miss | dan of Brooklyn, and a ¥ eral rrange- ot been completed. widowed tents hav sister, ASSESSORS ARE HALTED. Maryland Tax Comm Time in Frededrick Case. ateh 10 The S UCK, Md., Tax Cor unty commiss fck County to halt all the work of pssessors until the commission | reaches a decision on evidence heard | pesterday, when four Frederick | County assessors denied that they | bad assessed property below its valu John W. Grove and John L. Dut- fow of Frederick and J. Thor E-u‘k« and Roger G. Harley of Bruns ick are the assessors, sion Asks J 29.—The ssion orde; ers of Freder | Prince Christopher Arrives. NEW YORK, July 29 (P).—Prince Christopher of Greece arrived today ‘on the liner Conte Biancamano 10 find neither his stepson, William B Leeds, jr., nor the latter's wife, the former Princess Xenia of Gregce, at the pler to meet him. ZC [ By the As | pier Top deck of the pleasure boat Favorite as It rested on the bottom of the lake off Chicago after being capsized by a sudden squall while laden with a composed mostly of women and _THE EVENING STAR, WANSHINGIUN, b. FRIDA Y, children. JULY z9, Y9z FINAL SACCOPLEAS MADE TO GOVERNOR Widow of Slain Man Joins| Lawyers in Effort to Free Radicals. By the Asanciated Press 20.—~William G.| ROSTON, Jnly Thompson. chief counsel for Nicola | o and Rartolomeo Vanzettl, made | before Gov. Al n T. Fuller todav| what was expected 1o he his final| ument in behalf of the two men lor sentence of death for murde jed by Herbert B. Ehrmann, associate counsel, he arrived at the | INCKSON EXPECTED 70 MEET CHARCES Governor Afiticipated to Ar-i‘ rive in Indiana Immediately From Michigan Pariey. ciated Press, INDIANAPOLIS, July 29. today centered on the exp diate return to Indiana of Gov. Interes ted imme: Bd Jackson and to statements attributed | ra to his friends that he was going to “fight to the last ditch.” Gov. Jackson, whose absence from the party of governors who visited sault Ste. Marie vesterday led 1o pub lished rumors that he had met with a mishap, announced his intention to return from Mackinac Island, Mich., to his home State, but he declin to comment on- statements of oth members of the party was to reply to attacks aimed at him in connection with the case of D. C. Stephenson. Recelved Threatening Letters.. Gov. Len Small, a member of the party of governors, was quoted as say ing that both he and Gov. Jacks had received threatening letters and that he had advised the Indiana ex- ecutive to return home, publish the letters and fight to the last ditch. “I expect to do just as you Gov. Small said Jackson replied. While sensational rumors were cur- rent at Mackinac Island yesterday cancerning the_governor's safe! i developed that “he had been fishing with his wife, two children and a friend. These reports crystallized into an extra edition of a Saulte Ste. Marie paper bearing the streamer “has the Indiana governor suicided”” Gov. Jackson was shown a copy of the paper, but declined to comment. Grand Jury Active. He likewise declined to comment on a statement of an unnamed governor in the party at Mackinat Island that F. Harold Van Orman, lieutentant governor of Indiana, said that men had approached him with a prom- ise that if he would agree to pardon Stephgnson, now serving a life sen- tence for murder, he would.be or of Indiana in a week. Gov. son has said that he “will never be blackmailed into granting D. C. Stephenson a pardon.” Meanwhile the county grand jury here which has heen investigating the charges of political corruption made by Stephenson, former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon, today prepared to con- tinue its examination of documents and witnesses. It was understood the jurors had practically decided to continue their investigation until the gralt charges had been cleared. Checks Are Subpoenaed. Reports from Pittshurgh, Special Prosecutor Emsley . John- son and Deputy Prosecutor William H. Scheaffer were believed to he seek- ing Foster Strader, former lieutenant of Stephenson, said the two men ha failed to arrive. Mrs. Strader said that Strader was out of town, and ad- vanced the suggestion that a meeting place might have been arranged out- side of Pittsburgh. Strader was one of Stephenson's message bearers when the former Klansman was in jail at Noblesville, Ind., during his trial for murder. Additional canceled checks relating to alleged contributions by Stephenson to the Indinna Republican State com- mittee in 1924 are being held by an Indianapolis bank, it was learned. A subpoena for the checks to be pro- duced has been issned. D. C. WOMAN SENTENCED. Miss Leatherbridge Admits Passing Bad Checks in Baltimore. Spacial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, July 29 F. Leatherbridge = of pleaded guilty before Judge H. thur Stump in €riminal Court vester- day 10 13 charges of forgery and f: pretense. She was arrested last week in a department store and ac- ot ng worthless checks on soveral stores. She told Judge her home was originally wick, Md. She made several (rips 1o Raltimore to pass the checks, she ¥ She admitted having been connected similar charges in Washinzton several months when she was placed on irole for a year, Judge Stump sentenced her to 20 davs. overawed [ no time that the trip | | would where | tump | 'SMALL DAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN " TELLS OF PASSENGERS' PANIC | By the Associated Press, CHIC July 29— the Favorite tragedy today still were by the snddenness of the squall which struck the without warning ssengers no time for life. the emergency is: hoat virtu ve the | . the lifeboats or also blamed m for the ave them matic dis- Members of the erew the suddenness of the sic disaster on the grounds it to direct s posal of the life preservers. rm Broke Suddenly. The story told by small Katherine Olson, daughter of the ill-fated boa captain, was typical of the traged She said the weather had been ideal when the hoat started its trip and had iven no indication that the afternoon be different from any out_of the 100 others she had spent with her daddy. Butsuddenly and the storm broke, high against the side Lightning flashed and though poured from child said, sending the clouds gathered waves dashing of the ship. rain fell as buckets, the I the passengers |scurrying to the opposite side of the boat to avoid the storm. “The boat begah to tip,” she said, “and the scores of other children be- gan to ¢ I afraid. too. 1 saw one big wave dash. against the boat and fall back. Then came another, but this time it splashed over the . deck land drenched us all. “I don't remember the rest very Crowd Rushed to Side of Vessel to Avoid Rain, Child Says, Causing Vessel to Tip. and | s [ list There was a lot of terrible howl- ing. and T remember falling into the lake and felt the bottom with my feet. T came up and paddied and pad | dled, managing to keep up until some- body picked me up well, Saw Sons Swept Away. Charles T. Abernathy, another sur- Ivivor whose two children perished, | | said that when the storm broke he | | made his wife and the two boys st lon the upper deck. “We were| trenched, but 1 thought it wonld be | safer up there than down with the | crowd helow. As the hoat began to| I cut some lifebelts from their fastenings, but in that instant she top- | pled over and swe L 11 out in the | lake. T managed to grab my wife, but | |the two boys were washed aw 1| | fastened one of the belts around her. | and wa kept afloat until they picked us up.” Among the witnesses of the tragedy was L. B. Iendricks of Sterling, 11l husband and father of two of the vie- tims. He said he had decided not to | make the trip, and was walting on shore while his wife and two daugh- ters took the round-trip excursion. 1ie said he was still watching the hoat as the squall hit it. Seeing it topple over he paced the heach frantically until rescuers began arriving with survivors and vietims. He collapsed when he recognized his wife and one daughter among the dead. He later was reunited with his other daughter, who had been rescued. (Continued from_ First Page. nauer and his companions saved a number of persons. Today a quadruple inquiry into the accident was under way. One was a coroner’s inquest, the others investi gations b; Hughe Attorne; hief of police, and Robert M. Crowe, State’s Olson and edy. the sudden of heroism the wheel of the boat, leaped through a cabin window, into the water, turning back to drag several of his passengers from the boat. Pulling himself along the sides of the boat he also cut away preservers, tossing them to persos ar the steamer. His daughter ne, 9, Iso assisted several children to gain rafts or boats, Officer’s Hand Mangled. Leo Sobata, an Army officer, whose hand was mangled, told of throwing four children into a hoat. Sobata re- ed his experience as his hand was being dressed: g “I got four kids and a woman. The boat “was full of water and we couldn’t get any more in. A girl started bailing out with a straw hat. 1 was dizzy. When the Favorite went down she listed——~" and he swooned. Opal Helton, 13, of Hugo, Okla., iting in Chicagg, dragged two little girls through a window and held them afloat until a member of the crew pulled them into a lifehoat. “It was terrible, I wish I had gone down with the boat,” Olson mur- mured as he watched his steamer ed. At that instant a life- disaster nd devotion. Olson and dragged out a small boy. *“It's horrible—horrible, I tell vou,” the be ‘s master shouted. *1 did the best T could—I tell you man it was t hle. orge Holmes, 16, of Rerwyn, 111, saved his father and attempted to vescue his mother, but she had dled from shock and heart disease, Eastland Survivor Saved. A mother of five children, Mrs. Gertrude Berndt, who also was aboard the tland when it c Chicago River, again escq on the Favorite. Four membe; her family, a married dau granddaughter, nephew and law, were drowned. “I said to my husband when we hoarded the boat, ‘I don't like the looks of this—it has a tendency to lean to one side.’ He said, ‘Come on, don’t spoil the party.’” As rescue work got under way Com- madore Enugene McDonald, sportsman ;Chamberlin's Hop-Off From Leviathan Will Take Place Next Monday Morning By the Associated Press. Clarence Chamberiin, celebrated transatlantic fyer, will undertake his experimental hop from the Leviathan next Monday morning while the giant iiner is speeding from New York to Europe. The vessel will at 12:01 am. and Ch will take off at 6 am., when the ship {is 60 miles off Ambrose Light Orders were fssucd to the Newport | base by the Department today for two destroyers to meet the Levia- ary assist- than and render any nece: pilot plans to fy to the airport at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. Chamberlin will take off from a runway whicl Iy across the Leviathan between the Uridge and the first smokestack. The runway is 110 feet long and 24 feet wide, and is about 150 feet from the el of the water. By the time of the off the Leviathan will be steam- 24 knots, her usual cruising ansatlantie voyages, se of this hop is to de- | termine the feasibility of sending pa | sengers or mail, or hoth, from the ship to land when the liner is still at sea, the ence. 1f the take-off is successful, the i cross-ocean voyage. 27 BODIES RECOVERED AFTER EXCURSION STEAMER CAPSIZES leral authorities, Michael | his crew were arrested shortly after | came | d reached into the first aft deck | h has been built diagonal- | cutting down ma'ilmu for thel |and sailor, reached the scene and he was one of the first to don a diver's helmet and go below to explore the submerged craft. Throughout the night he remained aboard his yacht |and aided in raising the Favorit | For hours crowds swarmed the beaches, watching the scene oft shore, | and passenger boats carrying the curi- |ous swarmed around the dredge and firehoat hauling the Favorite to the surface. But all were not prompted by curiosity. llere and there along the beach stood a mother, a father, a ster or a brother, cheeks blanched, | eves glassy, waiting for little children | who would never come back from | their day's outing on the lake. “It seems 100 bad that such a catas- trophe should happen to the hoat and the best pilot in the excursion service around Chicago,” was the com- ment of the Coast Guards and life saving crews, Floats Below Water. | The Favorite, with the top canopy | of the upper deck just awash, proved her seaworthiness ‘after the disaster by floating just above the sandy bot- tom, so that slings from the giant crane were casily slipped under her bow and stern, When the crane had lifted the Favorite until the main deck was out of the water the lifeguards swarmed ahoard to search her and find the jast of the passengers, two women and three little children. They were float- ing in the main cabin. The fire tug Graeme Stewart drop- ped a hose aboard and quickly emptied the bulk, from which the engine crew had escaped before the Favorite cap- sized. A swarm of life guards, aiding in the rescue work and in refloating th | Favorite, clambered from the deck o the huge crane acress the top canopy of the Favorite to the yacht Zenith, diving to attach hawsers and search for bodies, One Girl Unidentified. The life guard diving apparatus was only a copper helmet with air hose attached, and in this Commodore Me- Donald and several of the life guards went down repeatedly, but their ex- plorations failed to locate any more victims. McDonald went down three times, the last time to attach a two-inch hawsér to the bow of the Favorite, which was tied up fast then to the side of the big sguare hulk of the floating crane, The only one of the 27 victims not identified is a small girl about 8. Pleasant” must R in Order to Give Party. John Joy Edson, Chairman of the Associated Charities, has issued an who have not yet sent their contribut them to Contributions may Eleventh St. N.W, | Brehon | to begin the ve what they can so at to meet thi DREDGING PERMITS MAY BE REVOKED Operations of Private Firms 0ff Gravelly Point Site May Be Curtailed. Termits under which and gravel companies have been dredging material from Gravelly Point, selected as the site for Wash ington's airport, will be revoked if th etary of War approves a rec ommendation made vesterday hy M »mervell, engineer officer for private sand this area. The spe h this oing on has heen ated for a yacht basin adjacent to the airport. And, while little if a1y of the material has heen taken from that part of Gravelly Point to bhe developed as the airport, Maj. Somervell considered it unwise to per. mit the dredging to continue, now that the Government is preparing fo develop the area for a municipal land- ing field. The - job of reclaiming Gravelly Point_ will_be under the jurisdiction of Maj. Somervell's office, and he made his recommendation concerning the dredging permits as a sequel to the action of the District Commis- sioners in deciding to ask for funds airport project. FORMER BRITISH M. P. FREED FROM PRISON Horatio Bottomley Ends Seven- Year Term for Fraudulently Con- verting 5,000 Pounds. By the Associated Pres July Horatio Bot- . widely known wartime figure ain, former member of lecturer and financier, »d from Maidstone Pris th morning, where he had been ser ing a seven-vear term for fraudulent. Iy converting to his own use £5,000 subsceribed to a_victory loan bond club whicli he founded while a member of the House of Commons. Good behavior resulted in Bottom- ley's rele; fter serving slightly more than f S (Last March the Westminster aid that it had learned that Bot- . who is former editor of John me journalism he mewspaper sai that Bottoml friends were starting a new weekly to be called The Other Side, of which he would be proprietor and editor.) was rele Authorities helieve the child was Rose Polen, daughter of Mrs, Celia Polen, another of the vieums. Mr. Polen, who established his wife's identity, was prostrated and unable to go to the morgue where the gi hody is held, but an uncle of the child par- tially established her identity. FEDERAL PROBE ORDERED. By the Associated Press. sfforts were made today by the United States Steamboat Inspection to get under way the official tion into the disaster on Lake Michizan_involving the loss of the steamer vorite and many lives, Dickerson Hoover, chief of the inspection service, got in touch with Frederi Meno, supervising in- specor at_Detroit, who proceeded di- rectly to Chicago to sit with the local inspectors there in the hearings which will be immediately assembled. “The two inspectors of the service at Chicago, John F. llansen, in charge ot hulls, and William Nicholas, in charge of boilers, will be immediately responsible for taking evidence and ex- amining the officers of the boat. In the first communication to Mr. Hoover the Chicago inspectors wired that they had visited the boat and that they es- timated that 29 lives had been lost. St. Gabriel's Carnival August 24. Arrangements are being made for St. Gabriel's “carnival_wonderful,” to be held from August 24 until September 2 at Grant Circle. There will be an elaborate electrical display the com- mittee in charge announced today. “SOS” for Summer Outings “Camp Good Will” and “Camp aise More Funds Expected Vaca- tions to the Children and Moth- ers Waiting to Join the Fourth Summer Outings Committee of the appeal to all those Washingtonians ions in support of this work, asking emergency. be sent either to The Star or to Harry G. Meem, Treas- urer Summer Outings Committee, 1022 statehonse shortly before 9 a.m. i | Thompson saw the governor for a| | few minutes alone before Ehrmann | was ushered into the office. Joseph | | Wiggin, the governor's counsel, and |two stenographers were the only | | other persons present. | | A last-minute appeal from the | \ one of the men slain also wis mada before Gov. Fuller today. | | "'Mrs. Sarah Berardelli, whose hus- band. Alessandro, was killed when an | armed band shot down Frederick | Parmenter, the shos company pay- master he was guarding, telegraphed from her home in New Haven, Conn., (hat she hoped the governor would free Sacco and Vanzetti. “I am one of the two who suffered most from the Braintree murder,” she declared. “I lost my husband and | the father of my two children, but I| would be sorry to have two innocent | men put to death. I have always | doubted that Sacco and Vanzetti were | guilty, and [ hope that you will free |them and let them go home to their families.” The message was made public by the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee, | | which through the seven-year fight |to free the two Internationally known radicals has expended hundreds of | thousands of dollars in their behalf. In the meantime the condemned men carried on thelr hunger strike at the State prison, which today en- tered its thirteenth day. Both men were described by friends who visited them as showing unmistakable signs of their long fast. They were said to be weak and listless. The governor is concluding his own investigation of the case. A special | advisory committee is believed to have concluded an independent inquiry. LABOR'S APPEAL SENT. Pan-American Federation Asks Sacco and Vanzetti's Freedom. A resolution urging the pardon of acco and Vanzetti, condemned rad als, passed by the Pan-American Fed- eration of Labor at its fifth congress here last week, has been for Gov. Alvin T. Fuller of setts hy William Green, president of the federation. Green asks the gov- ernor to give the resolution his *“most careful and serious considemation ‘The resolution, pointing out that “almost all the Pan-American labor movements have expressed their con- viction of the innocence of these men,” appeals “to the high intelligence and justice of the governor” to “exer- cise the power of clemency and au- thority to pardon these men so that the ends of justice may be completely | | accomplished.” KIWANIANS FROM IOWA ARE LUNCHEON GUESTS “Miss Washington” Is Also Honor- ed by Local Club—Johnson Tribute Is Voted. | Miss Gladys Cookman, selected as “Miss Washington” of 1927, and a roup of Kiwanians from the Kiwanis “lub of Shenandoah, Towa, were guests of honor at a luncheon of the local Kiwanis Club in the Washington Ho- tel vesterday. The Iowa Kiwanians are on a pil- grimage of several Eastern cities with 990 Towans and are making Washing- ton their headquarte, The oup at the luncheon Included Harvey C. Har- ris. John S. Cutter, Gene Vaughan, vank Anshutz and Willlam Melville, Other visiting _Kiwanians _included George J. Ratcliffe of Tul: Okla.: H. R. larper of Omaha, Nebr.. and Eiton Hall of Florida. Vocal selections were rendered by Miss Verna Shaff, Cled Freeborn and Frank Guild, at the Earle Theater this week. They were accompanied by F. C. Wheeler. The club voted to send some form of tribute to Walter Johnson at Amer- ican League Park, August 2, when he will celebrate his twentieth anniver- sary as a member of the Washington base ball club. William Quinter, president of the. club, presided. YOUTH WITH BROKEN NECK SLOWLY FAILING Has Lived 17 Days Completely Paralyzed—Death Is Ex- pected Soon. By the Associated Press. FLORENCE, C., July 29.—No im- provement in the condition of W, W, Register, Florence youth, was noted by physicians early today as he lay at the point of death after suffering al- most 17 days with a broken neck and virtually complete paralysis. After a fairly comfortable day in which he remained conscious, Register " declared by physicians last night as “slowly failing.” They said he might linger for several days, but that no hope could be held for his recovery. He had been in a coma intermittentiy since his fall from,a diving board, and several times practically stopped breathing. Resuscitation renewed by the manual method. Several times yesterday he roused from semi-con- sciousness to ask for water. NOTED AIRM Plane AN KILLED. F. L Barnard Crashes in Nose Dive. BRISTOL, England, July 29 (#).— Capt. F. L. Barnard. one of the“most famous of British airmen, was killed last night. when his plane came to earth in a nose dive. Capt. Barnard had a distinguished war record and since had been con- stantly employed in commercial flying. In 1922 he won the King's Cup race from Crovden to Glasgow and return, and in 1 he won the two-day aerial derby for the King's Cup. of Capt. | DIPLOMAT IS SHOT FRANCISCO SANCHEZ LATOUR. EXAMINING WEAPON; HAS CHANCE TO LIVE| (Continued from First Page.) ed suspicion advanced in the morn. ing papers that my brother in any way attempted sulcide is so obviously a distortion of fact that it needs no further comment. “The doctors assure us that, fortu- | nately, the bullet did not pierce any vitai organ and unless unforeseen | complications arise there is small | probability of it proving fatal. “My brother, L am told, has rested comfortably since last night and at no time lost consciousness. This moin- ing he was apparently regaining strength. At present I find no great cause for uneasiness regarding his speady recovery. “My brother and T spoke of per- sonal matters, which, aside from a dis- cussion of the accident, concerns no one.” The Peruvian Ambassador, the Per- n Minister and a number of Latin American attaches and officials of the Pan-American Union called at the hos- pital during the day. Capt. Thaddeus Bean and Sergt. Burlingham of the Police Department also made inquiries at the hospital. Minister Sanchez Latour figured in snits which James Armstrong of Washington, former husband of senora Latour, filed. Armstrong st ¢ sued an attorney to gain posses- sion of letters he said had been written to Senora Latour by her present hus. band hefore she was divorced from Armstrong. Armstrong had previously been named in a libel suit by Sanchez Latour, but this was nolle prossed be- cause the diplomat failed to testify. ROBBERY SUSPECT FLEES FROM ROOM Marie Rhine, Alias Peggy Richner, Grilled by Detectives in Allen Store Case. An attempt to arrest the male com- panion of Marie Rhine, alias Peggy Richner, in connection with the at- tempted robbery of the store of Mrs. Juliette M. Ailen, 1005 Connecticut avenue, Wednesday night, failed yes- terday when the man deserted his room before detectives arrived there. The woman, whose name first was recorded as Marie Rhein, is officially recorded now on police records as Marie Rhine, alias Peggy Richner. She was taken to police headquarters yesterday from the House of Deten- tion and questioned at length by de- tectives. Detectives Kelly, Darnall, Fowler, Flaherty, Waldron, Sweeney, Weber and Ogle participated in the question- ing of the prisoner and learned the location of the room supposedly occu- pied by her companion, who escaped at the time she was arrested. MAN HELD ON CHARGE OF THREATENING FAMILY Sent to Gallinger After Wife Testi- fles He Fired Several Shots at Son. Alleged to have shot at his 16-vear- old son, Wesley, William H. Giil of 1311 C street southwest, sheet metal worker and father of 10 children, was sent to Gallinger Hospital for mental observation, following a hearing in Police Court today hefore Judge Robert 1. Mattingly on the charge of threat Mrs. Eva Gill, the wife, testified that her husband got intoxicated, and when In this condition threatened her and her children. Yesterday, she told the court, her husband grew angry at her and when Wesley took her part, drew a pistol and fired several shots at the boy, who fled up the alley back of their house. When arraigned in court today. Gill continuously while his wife testifying. “I don't think you are erazy,” the fudge stated, “but I am going to find out. If vou are not, it is going to go hard with you.” Precinct Detective John Wise of No. 4 made the arrest. PLEA OF MRS. SNYDER TO SAVE $95,000 FAILS Slayer of Husband Is Unsuccessful in Effort to Have Insurance Firm Suit Dismissed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July Supreme Court Justice Crain vesterday denied the motion of Mrs. Ruth Snyder, now in Sing Sing Prison under sentence of death for the murder of her husband Albert, to dismiss the suit of the Pru- dential Insurance Co. to cancel poli- cies for $95,000 on the life of Snyder. Counsel for Mrs. Snyder claimed that the complaint of the insurance com- | pany did not contain a cause of action, Counsel for the company argued that Mrs. Snyder with intent to kill her hus- band applied for the policiex and ob- tained Snyder’s signature to the appli- catlon surreptitiously. By the Associated Pr NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., July 29. —The Lone Sentinel, reputed to be the most photographed tree in the world, is nothing but a memory to- day. The ancient oak, estimated to have been more than 200 years old, was cut down because it was split by a lightning bolt on Tuesday night and was deemed a menace. The tree ‘was about 30 feet from the brink of Lone Sentinel Oak of Niagara Falls Cut Down as Menace After Bolt Hits It the Falls at Prospect Point, and it appeared in countless pictures of the cataract. When it was cut down the trec was hollow and dying. It was about 25 feet high. Its gréatest height was 50 feet, but a severa Winter about 20 years ago covered the Lone Sentinel with such a coat of ice from the spray of the cataract that the top broke off, AIMEE TO RESIGN ASTEMPLELEADER Will Leave Los Angeles as Soon as New Leader Is Found. 1.08 ANGELES. Julv 20 (P Aimee Semple McPherson declared today that there “is no thought of an immediate change”™ at her An- gelus Temple although she announced publicly 1ast night that she was going to resign as leader of the temple and move to other fields. here, By the Amsaciated Press. LOS ANGELES, Jnlv 29 (/) The THm says Aimee Sempia MePher. =on will surrender control of Ar . Temple as soon as her position as pastor can be filled and the present squabble between the evangelist and her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, can be settled. Torn between her desire to continu her work here and the wish gage in world evangelical work, the evangelist sald she had mads her choice and would leave Los Angeles, according to the Tim She an. nounced she would submit her resig- nation to the church committes now engaged in reorganizing the I affairs of the temple. Climax a Surprise. Announcement of her impendinz resignation came as an unexpected climax to more than a year of activ ity invelving the woman evangelist, The trouble started with her disap. pearance at an ocean resort, and a report that she had been drowned. She reappeared later in Arizona with a storv that she had heen kidnaped and faken into Mexico but had escaped. Mrs. McPherson was taken before a county grand jury, which discredited the kidnaping story. Later she was charged with cons when the State produced witnesses, who said she had spent a part of the time ot her disappearance in a cottage at Car- mel, her radio operator, Kenneth ‘miston. This charge was dropped when the principal wit- ness changed her story. - The newest difficulty broke ont o few days ago. when Mrs. McPherson cut short a revival campaign in Al- ton, TIL, to return to face an outbreak in 'the temple. She charged her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, husi- ness manager of the temple, had at- tempted to usurp her place as head of the temple, and removed Mrs. Ken- riedy on the ground that other churci leaders demanded it. Mrs. Kennedy charged her daughter with under- hand methods and declared she had not been grateful for the “protection’ which the mother gave her while her story of the kidnaping was being at- tacked. Hopes for New Leader. “It will be necessary for me to re- main in charge until the unfortunate difficulties between the church and my / mother have been amicably settled,” Mrs. McPherson said. “I am hoping that a new leader can be found and the church difficulties can be straight- ened out during the next three Mavvin Craig of Des Jowa, may be the choice of iring pastor as her successor, she said. “It seems that ever since I escaped from those who kidpaped me, I have been the center of a storm created by outside influences,” Mrs. McPherson said. “Through their heckling of me they have imperiled the wonderful institu- tion we have built through the years of devotion and effort.” Denver, she said, had started a movement to found a temple similar to Angelus Temple, where she would appear periodically. The same plan would be followed In Chicago and New York. From these points her organization would extend throughout the United States and into foreign countries. Would Extend Work Abroad. At least three Canadian cities, in- cluding Toronto and Montreal, would build permanent temples, or “light- houses.” England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales would be in her program of expansion. She said she had not yet revealed her plans to either her mother, her congregation or the church commit- tee which hacked her in her present struggle with her mother. She said she would do so today. A new mystery injected into the squabble between mother and daugh- ter when the evangelist’s commitice said that Mrs. Kennedy was the wife of W. Whittebeck of New York. still ' was uncleared last night. Mrs. Kennedy, when told that Whittebeck had denied he was mar- ried to her or even knew her, refused to comment. ust let them go on and have all the rope they want.” she said. “They'll soon get enough to hang themselves and then they will hear from me. TAXI DRIVER ROBBED. Four Colored Men Accused of Theft by Victim. Instead of payving Frank Wright, taxjcab driver, his fare for driving them’ from Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street to South Capitol and O streets early today, four unidenti- fied colored men robbed him of £4.75 and his hacker's hadge. He gave the police a good description of one of the quartet. Martens Estate Worth $42,416. The estate of Mrs. Mary Marten: who died recently, is valued at $42 416, according to a petition for letters testamentary filed in Probate Court by her son, Edward C. Martens. The es. includes prem| 454, 445 and 53 N street. The son is the principal beneficiary under the will. BAND CONCERT. TONIGHT. By the United States Navy Band, at Walter Reed Hospital, 7 o'clock March, “Colt's Armeory™.......Smith Overture, “Crown Diamonds”..Auber Cornet’ solos: (1) “Musician Astray in the Forest,” Herman ..Ray sorgio.) a “FEugene Tschaikowsky of Harlequin,” Drigo Valse intermezzo, “Hearts Aflame,” Arnold Menuetto and finale from “Military Symphony” ..... .Haydn March, “Chicago Tribune” Chambers “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Community Center Band, Tenih and U streets, 7:30 o'clock: March, “Dunlap Comamndery”..Hall Waltz, “Beautiful Washington,” James Miller (2) “Sunshine of Your Smile” (Bandmaster G. De Scenes from the oper Onegin™ Serenade. “Heart Fox trot, “Lonely Eye Serenade, “Coeur Brise” (Broken Heart) ..... .«Lake Fox trot, selected. Overture, “Atlantis” (The Lost Con. tinent), suite in four parts.Safranek Oriental march, “An Arabian Scout,” Moulineuk -Laurens Hall Overture. “Arcadia’ March, * M. B.". . “The Star Spangled Banner. ‘ ' )