Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1927, Page 5

PRESS 13 CALLED POWER FOR PEACE Influence Described by W. J. Pape to Institute of Pacific Relations. By the Associated Press HONOLULU, July mense importance of news distribut- ing associations nd of daily news- papers as molders of public opinion an opinion that may lead to war or to ence —- was emphasized t by W. J. Pape of Water! , vice president of the Assoc in a speech hefore the Institute ific Relations. “When the people formed,” said Mr. Pape, they will have unw'hnn: o say about wars. Wars grow out of standings. It is on record that some of the great wars of the arisen out of misunde ~eated by deliberate lying to the peo- e In most wars not one man in a thousand has really understood what me was fighting for. The rifle was Rhrust into his hands and it became | 9y duty to shoot Public Better Informed. public opinion is better informed in and in recent vears Fere has been a world-wide demand for foreign news to show that the process is proceeding apace, public opinion is appearing in court. The governments must convince the peo- ples first. This takes time and time can be used for peace proposals and for possible settlements. Soon public opinion will be the real rule of the world, with governments as its execu- tives. Then, if ever, will come the time when nations shall not rise against nations, neither go to war any more. “This is the reason why stretched and powerful or which I have the honor to represent before you, as the representatives of the public opinion of the countries bordering on the Pacific, thought it well to be represented by one of its officers today. News Is Unbiased. “The Associated Press is working for the fullest and t transmis- slon of unbiased news across the Pacific. When we atta be e and understanding ations of the Pacific.” Outlining the scope of the Asso- ciated Press, Mr. Pape id it had as members more than 1,200 daily newspapers, “of all shades of Jpoliti- cal and economic opinion, for*whom it gathers the news and between whom there is a constant daily ex- change of news through the As: ciated Press. Through them its patches reach 60,000,000 readers in the United St Through its ex change of news with the strong pr associations of other countries, i news reaches daily probably more than a majority of the reading popu- lation of the world.” BAIL DENIED FIVE NEGROES IN ATTACK TUpper Marlboro Prisoners Taken to Baltimore for Safety Fol- lowing Hearing. 30.—The im-| are well in- be sure that the far- Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., July 30. —TFive negroes of Oxon Hill, Prince Georges County, following a prelim- inary hearing in the courthouse here yesterday in connection with an attack ©on Miss Alberta Rice and her escort, John W. Buckler, both of Washington, on a lonely road in Oxon Hill district the night of July 20 last, were sent to a Baltimore jail yesterday. The prisoners are being held with- out bail, to await action of the grand jury at the October term of the Cir- cuit Court for Prince Georges County. They were taken to Baltimore for saf- keeping, as strong feeling against them was shown by the large crowd which packed the courtroom yester- day. The negroes—Richard Brown, Wil- liam H. Proctor, Henry W. Proctor, Calvin R. Ridley and Alfrederick all are charged with capitdl he hearing yesterday before Justice of the Peace H. W. Gore, Buckler was the lone witness. He told the court that he and Miss Rice had driven into the country after taking members of Miss Rice’s family home from a band concert in the city. When parked near Oxon Hill, he said, two colored men in an automobile stopped and attacked them. These two later were joined by three others. After they had dragged him and his com- panion from the car, Buckler said, and after they had beaten him nearly unconscious they attempted to assault Miss Rice. William Goodacre of Wash- ington came to the tance of Buckler and the young woman. He succeeded in getting the pair in I car_and frightening off the negroe Suffering severe bruises and cuts, Mi Rice and Buckler were taken Casualty Hospital. HEYWOOD WILL FILED. Two Trust Funds of $25,000 Each Are Created. will of Mrs, in P to The Caroline He: 000 and the other z, nicce of the 1 U. widow the dosueudem. 000 each are | 1d Anne Heywood, residuar nd com v are left Historical Society ) also goes Helen Brow on, a nephew given $£5,000 Home for_ In- 1d the . Thor ner Bacon nephews, ch Amerigan named Heywood $1,000 each and Trust Co ecurity is n five ghipped more than a8 10 other countrd Take your youngsters for a ride around the Tidal Basin ON THE SWAN BOAT and less fortunate children will bene. fit throug THE CHILD WELFARE SOCIETY (Tidal Basin, Foot 13th 8t.) Adudts, 25¢ Children, 10c | York & Abe Martin Says: Don't put all yvour eggs in one basket, or all your family in one car on Sunda OVERCHARG.E CLAIMED. Andrews Firm Complains on Paper Cup Rail Rate. Alleging overcharge on shipments f paper cups from points in New e to Washington, the R. P. Andrews Paper Co., with offices in Washington, yesterday filed a com- plaint of unreasonable rail rates on the shipments with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Pointing out that the commission has issued a reparation order in an- other case on shipments of the same commodity and that under its prac- tice reparation orders should be is- sued in similar cases, the Andrews company asks for a hearing and re- quests a judgment of reparation in the amount of the alleged overcharge. It declares charged levied on_ ship- ments of paper cups from College Point and New York City by the Long Island Rallroad Co. and the Pennsylvania Railroad have been un- just and unreasonable. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at_and_Sailings From New York. ARRIVED YESTERDAY. A mmv};w—mmmmnmm chur 4 Rotterdnm—Rotterdam’ Republic—Bremen DUE TODAY. La_ Bourdonnais—Bordeaux. . . Mavaro—Port of Spain. Presidente Wilson—Trieste July 2! DUE TOMORROW. Adriatie—Livernool Breme en Laconia iverpoor " Calamares—Port - Limi Gatun—Kingston DUE MONDAY. AUGUST 1. American_Shipper—London. ‘Ancan—Cristohal De Grasse—Havre . Bergensfjord—Oslo Minnesota—London Pennland—Antwerp Tnscania—Hayre e—Puerto George—Bermuda Juan Jaly 23 DUE TUESDAY. AUGUST 2 Maravi—Cristobal Eaecoino—Y alparatso Majestic—Cherbourg an American Legion—Buenos Aires. United States—Copenhagen ... DUE WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 3. Paris—Havre . DUE THLNDAY AUGUST 4. Columbus—Bremen . Nerissa—St. John's . DUE FRIDAY. AUGUST 5. Berengaria—Cherbours and _South- ampton . Eetoniaes Dansie George Washingto; OUTGOING STEAMERS. SAILING TODAY. Nieuw Amsterdam—Plymouth. and Rotterdam Cedric—Queenstown and Livernool. Sierra \«entlnu.—-l’lsmomh Cherbourg Stocknholm—Gothenburg. Minnewaka—Pirmouth and London. CameroniaeMoville and Glasgow. ’F)Tfl‘dhnn -H: 'IHTI orio Sin Vl-m—o—sumuo "Kingston and Puerto Barrio Wesiern - World—Rio de Janeiro, Santos. Monteyideo and Buenos Alres. { s'ivia—St. Johi | Renocria fquique and Valparaiso. Boulogne and Mavari—Puerto C 'M" PSS CHSmbia 3 san Domingo. wa.r_?xmm] o dssa—Funchal. Las Palmas. Dakar and SAILING TOMORROW. Leviathan—Cherbourz and Southampton. Q d_ Livernool. th and Havr linlcmland—l’l\nmuilh Clierbours and Ant- “SAILING MONDAY. AUGUST 1. Manuel Arnus—Corunna. SAILING TUESDAY. AUGUST 2. 11—Christiansand. Oslo and Co- uracao and Cape Haitl, SAILING WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 3. atras and Pir: —Sap Juan, La Guayra and Puerto l,mun—lxlnk'!l Santa At —Kingston, Pierto Colombia. SAILING THURSDAY. AUGUST 4. Cristobal and —San Juan. | Bremiene.Somnvor Caround 1 r American S| Santa Luis: Havana and Cristobal Plymouth, Tquig Tisto London. . Valparaiso. San Fran: —Cherboure. Southampton. onnais—Viko, Bordeaux. | t|New Webster Apartments THE_EVE GTON, SATURDAY. WOMEN INDICTED IN“DEATH PLOT” Spinster and Maid Charged| by Jurors With Seeking Lives of Four. By the Associated Press. NEW BRUNSWICK, July 30,4 —Under indictment on charges of con- spiracy to take the lives of four rela- tives, Miss Bessie Morse, 40 years old, of Prospect Plains. today went about her duties incidental to keeping hous for her father, one of the four against | whom she is alleged to have plotted. With Miss Morse was indicted Mamie Todd, negro maid, who was taken into the family 13 years ago out | of a reform school. Fortune Seeking Charged. RBills were returned sion of the Middlesex County gr terday, accusing both of at- mpts to bring about the deaths of the father, George . Morse, 84; Bes. Elmer Dey; the lat- d Raymond Brittain, an_adopted son. Prosecutor John F. Toolan at- tributed the plot to an attempt on the part. of Miss Morse to secure the | half-million-dollar fortune of her father. Tather and daughter scoffed at the charges, both laying the allegations to the wild imaginations of the maid. | The father furnished $7,000 bail for his daughter the day after her arrest, on | June 18, and expressed implicit fal th | in her. Detectives as Desperadoes. The maid appeared as a witness be- fore the grand jury and was said to | have retold a confession made at the time of her arrest. Other witnesses included Georgo David and John Krueger, detectives, who posed as desperadoes and who alleged they were paid $1,200 by the negress as an advance on $4,000 for annihilating the Dey family with a bomb. Authorities charged that the maid received the money from Miss Morse, | but the spinster and her father claim she could have easily saved that sum from the wages pald during her years in their employ. CAR IS RECOVERED. Owner Lacks Knowledge Auto Was | Stolen Until Returned. Not until police reported the covery of his automobile in Washington did Abe Goldberg, Georgia_avenue, know his car had been_taken by joyriders from Sixth and B streets, where he had parked it when he went to his place of employ- ment earlier in the day. Detective Lawrence A. O'Dea, in n police car driven by Whitney Walter, was near Third and G streets south. west when his attention was attracted to an automobile occupied by four colored men. He become suspicious and started after them. In their efforts to get away they collided with an ice wagon. The quartet Jumped from the car and dis- appeared. Ownership of the machine was_quickly ascertained, and it was returned to Goldberg toda: fadbreann bl Detailed to Memphis. Maj. Ludson D. Worsham, Corps of Engineers, at Portland, Oreg., has been ordered to Memphis, Tenn., for duty as assistant engineer in the first and second Mississippi River districts. He will be relieved of his present du- ties in the Portland district by Maj. George Mayo, 6th Engineers, at Camp Lewis, Wash, 1403 14th St. N.W. Nice apartments of 3 and 4 rooms at low prices. See owner. Stand 24. Arcade Market RENT AN, APARTMENT om . 1416 F 'm".hnn-’:nln 1oz 5 ALl SizenLow " Renta Real Estate Loans (D. C. Property Only) 6% No Commission Charged You can take 12 years to pay off your loan without the expense of renewing. $1,000 for $10 per month, including interest and prin- cipal. Larger or smaller loans at proportionate rates. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATIOX Largest in Washington Assets Over $15,000,000.00 Cor. 11th and E N.W. JAMES BERRY. President JOSHUA™ W. CARR.. Secretary Don’t Go Away Without The Star No matter where you are arranging to spend your vacation you will want to get the latest news from home every day. Arrange to have The Star—Evening and Sunday —mailed to you regularly. The address may be changed as often as neces- sary. Rates by Mail—Postage Paid Payable in Advance Maryland and Virginia— One month One week. All Other States— One month. One week Evening an! Sunday 75¢ 25¢ 50¢ 15¢ 35¢ 10c ..$1.00 75c 30c 25¢ G STAR. WASHI Wife Says Dock Builder Deserted Her Because She Grieved Over Rum Arrest | | had | suit for separate maintenance against By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 30.—Mrs. Julia N Les prominent in _charity work, announced vesterday that she instructed her attorney to file George Leary, wealthy dry dock build- or. Leary recently was arrested on a charge of violating the prohibition law, Mrs. Leary charges her husband had deserted her and said she was con- vinced his action was caused by her expression of pain over his arrest May 12 on the liquor charge. They have been married 27 years. DU, She charges that when she went to the family Summer home at South- ampton, Long Island. she' found a caretaker armed with a shotgun and under orders to admit no one. Leary was released July 2 in $2,000 bail after arraignment with four other defendants on charges that a still had been found in operation in the Blue | Stores, N. Y., plant of the Red Hook lectric Light & Power Co., of which ry is president. Mrs. Leary was decorated by the Pope in 1919 for supporting Catholic | charities. SEQUEIRA ARRESTED. “Colonel” Army Accused by Girls. Former in Nicaraguan Miguel Fernandez Sequeira, 39 years old, .who said he was a formér colonel n the Nicaraguan-army when arrested in !hl'l city earl, ) ‘Thompson on a charge of molesting two small ges of assault were ainst him. Police records show Sequeira was rrested in St. Louis in 191 Later he is said to have toured the country and made speeches in an effort to bring about better relations between the Central American countri He will be arraigned in Pol Court to- morrow morning. Miguel gave his 1ddress tod: Kalorama road. vreferred THREE ESTATES VALUED. of Administration Sought by Heirs. The estate of Mary C. Knowlton, who died July 24, is valued at $30,000, according to a petition for letters of administration filed in Probate Court vesterday by her daughter, Maude R. Staples. Included in the estate are the premises 1614 Upshur street. A petition for letters of administra tion on the estate of Mrs. Mary J. Pogue, who died June 29, filed by her daughter, Anna M. Patterson, places the value at about $25,000. Peter C. Pogue, a son, also survives. The estate of Jane Dailey, who died July 18, was valued at about $15,000, according to a_petition for letters tes: tamentary filed by her daughter. Anna E. Graham. Letters Are| JULY 30, 101 RANCH DRAWS CITY’S YOUNGSTERS | Hundreds Flock to Railroad andx‘ to See Wild West Perform- I ers on Arrival. | 1927. | . Lured by the appeal of Indfans anl| cowhoys, hundreds of eager youngsters | flocked to the railway sidings near | | Camp Meigs grounds today to watch the unloading of the two special trains | | which brought the 101 Ranch Wild| \Yest Show to town {rom Lancaster, Pa. The haul to the lot will immediately follow, with performers riding their own mounts to the show grounds. There will be much for the voungsters to see today, for the colorful host of horsemen will be making ready for Monday's street parade. Besides the Indians and cowboys there will be scores of cowgirls, hard riding Cos- sacks and Mexican’ vaqueros. A Wild West parade will leave the Camp Meigs grounds at 10 a.m. Mon v and proceed to Florida avenue, to New York avenue, to Seventh street, west on Mount Vernon place to Ninth street, to K street “ashington Cir- cle, east on Pen A avenue to Second street, thence to K street, out to Fifth street northeast, to Florida avenue and back to the grounds. The parade will be headed by Col. Joe C. Miller, president of the 101 Ranch In Oklahoma and of the 101 Ranch Show. London University has added to its | faculty a professor of dietetics. 3 Koty of Page County. The Caverns was selected as the site in order that the thousands of visitors there may wit ness the memorial. o China has a cheaper-cigarette driv- Legion to Unveil Tablet. Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY. Va.. July 30.—The Amer | ican Legion pns! here next month will unvell a tablet, 42 inches high and inches wide, to the World War dead 3% Compound Interest Paid on Savings . Accounts Open Until 5 P.M. Aug. 1st and 2d Must You Forego a Vacation This Summer —because of lack of money? Had vou laid a little cash aside Every Payday, throughout the year, you'd now be well able to finance a vaca- tion trip. | Payday’s at hand. Make it an opportunity to start your 1928 vaca- tion fund. Our Savings Dept. has a pass book ready for you. 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