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*From Press to Home Within the Hour” _ The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately, ATHER (0 8 Weather Burcau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness today. To morrow partly cloudy. Not much change in temperature. Temperature—Highest, 90, at 2 p.m.: lowest, 67, at 6 a.m. Il repoit on page T. ‘ Sy Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION he WASHINGTON, B * Entered post offi as second class matter Washinston, D. C. 1927—118 PAGES. FIVE CENTS. FARMERS' MARKET No. SUNDAY G, OCTOBER MINNESOTA G.0.P. 1,176—No. 30,469. D C, MORNID MILLIONS AT STAKE' PIRATES FIGHT WAY TO PENNANT IN RIOTOUS END TO HECTIC RACE PREFERS LOWDEN: DAWES 1S SECOND Failure of Either Ex-Gov- ernor or Vice President May Take Other From Picture. _HUGHES HANDICAPPED BY DEFEAT OF 1916 Hoover Strongly Favored, but Many Regulars Are Back of Farm Candidate. BY G. GOULD 1 orrespondent «f The S MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, October 1 —-Minnesota radicalism among the farmers and laborers, which a few irs ago elected two Farmer-Labor Senators, is tapering off. The third party movement is on the decline Nevertheless, the demand among the | ion, | PRESIDENT KEEPS jarmers for some kind of legi: whether it be the McNary-Haugen bill | «r another, is still to be reckoned withi | politically in this State. It is havi its effect today, particularly ihe Republicans, in the preconvention campaign for a president The farmer sentiment in the State | is vecognized by the present Republi-| can leaders. 1In consequence practi- eally all the talk in the State today smong the Republicans is for former ov. Frank O. Lowden for President. Lowden, the “farmer’s friend, sufe man to tie to, with the bureau yelling its head off for him. | “The Republican organization of ihe | ate, which is efficient and hard working, aims to continue in control. it has not come out as an organiza- | tion for any Republican candidate for the presidenttal nomination. But many | of the party workers have declared | glack Hills announcing that he did |the mines will resume operations after for Lowden, and the Lowden-for- President Club, organized months ago and spreading over the State today, was started by friends of the Republic- an national committeeman, State Senator William F. Brooks. Gov. Lowden's friends are not con- [with him that he considers the now | followed by a resumption of relations | fined 1o the farmers in Minnesota nor 10 the more progressive element in the Republican party. He is regarded by 1he regulars as essentially a safe man, whose administration would be little | different from that of President Cool- | idze, or of Hughes or Hoover, should they enter the White House. Hoover Has Two Districts. | | A canvass of the situation in Minne- =oia indicates that with the exception | of two districts, Lowden délegités | would be chosen to 'the Republican national convention if the selection were made now. In two districts the Hoover gentiment is said to predomi- Jiate. One of these is yart of Minne- apolis and the other is Duluth. Mr. Hoover, however, has the good opin- ing of many of the business men among | 1 nominee. | ‘Miljus, * Star in 9-6 Victory Over Cincinnati. ' Will Rest for By the Aszociated Press. | CINCINNATI October 1.—1In ous climax to one of the closes most sensational races £ League history, the Pittsburgh Pirate: fought their way today to a | victory over Cincinnati and clinched | the 1927 pennant, earning i to meet the New York . | American League champions, in the world seri which opens burgh next Wednesday. John Mily n and | pitching star, shared with Capt. “Pie” Traynor the principal honors of a victory that was gained oy after the hardest sort of a battle; a hectic fray that threatened to bring the high- |1v keyed athletes into actual combat {in the ninth innir lid home and knocked the catcher, Picinich, head over heels But trouble was quickly averted and { the Pirates swept on to victory in a zame that was saved by the relief ing of Miljus. after two Kremer and Hill. had heen | knocked out of the hox, and decided a riot- ' | the pennant on next to the last day at Pitts- | . when Grantham | Reds' | Pirate | War Veteran. and “Pie” Traynor? World Series. |by Traynor's sinzle in the sixth | inning with the bases full and two out, a blow that brought over what proved to D2 the deciding tally. Cards Definitely Out. The victory over a Cincinnati team that battled*every inch of the way in spite of “breaks” against it removed the last mathematical uncertainty in of the scason. It increased the lead of the Pirates |over the second-place St. Louis Club | to two and a half games. The Bucs | have a single game with the Reds | tomorrow, while the Cardinals have a double-header scheduled with Chicago, but the result of these games can have no bearing on the outcome of the yace except to determine the final | margin of the Pirates Today's hard-earned ed ‘the strain under | Pirates have made their | but it did not send them info any }special ecstasies. They had been | through what Manager Donie Bush, | perspiring and almost exhausted, de- scribed as the “toughest” in his | men and the n | ~Continued on Pa re- the dash, victory which final COAL STRIKE ENDS SILENCE ON CHODSE N LLINDIS AREA |Plans No Elaboration of 12- | Word Statement, His Friends Declare. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge has no inten- tion at this time of elaborating upon the brief statement he issued in the not choose to be a candidate to suc- ceed himself. He has made it even clear to those close friends and party leaders who have recently discussed the matter famous 12-word announcement suf- ficiently clear and needing no am- plification, As a matter of fact the President is known to resent suggestions or hints that it might be advisable for him to make another statement tend- ing to clarify a situation which some of his friends believe needs clarify- ing. Subject Held Distasteful. It is known that a close friend of the President, high in thescouncils of the Republican national committee, took up the matter of another state- ment with him within the past few days. The friend given to un derstand in unmistakably plain Ianguage, that no matter what others throughout the State, big and littl ‘Wwho would be lad to see him nom - | nated. 1 The Farm Bureau is working hard | for Lowden delegates, however, and | with many of the regulars hooked up | also for Lowden, the delegation | <hould be overwhelmingly for the | Nlinois man. Much of the same ele- | thought about it, the President him self is satisfied \with his brief siate ment of atlitude and proposes to stand by it to the end. That the subject is distasteful to the President. especially when hints are dropped that the sincerity of his pur- pose is questioned in some quarte and that his words have been misin: IN COURT RULE ON Areas Near D. C. Hang in Balance. AUTHORITY IS GRANTED BY STATE STATUTES Injunction Fight Brings Test to Bar Builders Who Defy Com- munity Welfare and Safety. RY WILLIAM WHEATLEY. Millions of dollars spent by home owners in nearby Maryland to main | tain the beauty of their areas as high- class residential communities shaking on an unsteady dividing wall builders, the aid who are of the depending upon courts to nullify protection. These districts, including Chevy Chase, Md., known as special taxing areas, of which there are 14 in Mont- gomery County, M have been built up under the premise that they were protected by the Legislature in pass- ing building and zoning regulatio) Settlement to Be Followed| | by Resumption in Three ; Other States, Lewis Says. | By the Associated Prees, | CHICAGO. October 1.—Tilinois hi- | turainous coal operators and miners |today reached an agreement whereby being idle six months. The agreement | ended the longest suspension in the "history of Tllinois and one of the long- |est in the history of the coal indnstry. | The settlement in Illinois will be | in other States which suspended on | April 1, after the failure to renew a contract which expired on March 31, John L. Lewis, international president of the miners, predicted. Lewis men- tioned Indiana, Jowa and Missouri, | but would not express himself regard- |ing Ohio and western Pennsylvania, | where many miners have been operat- ing under open-shop condtiions. Dissatisfaction Is Expressed. i Although the operators accepted the | proposal for negotiations offered by the miners’ representatives, many of them expressed their dissatisfaction th the terms. The settlement was | | forced through by the larger produc- | ing companies of Iilinois, executives | {of amaller companies declared. All of them, however, approved the settle- | | ment when it was apparent a majority | wanted it, an official said. | Under the agreement the mines will resume operations as soon as pos- |sible, paying the old and disputed | | | | | bullders | chaos. designed to guarantee the best type nstruction. Such regulatio vears, and their test now is before the county court at Rockville. Should these regulations be held null and of no effect, and injunc- tions sought against unscrupulous for their violation denied. then the home owners interested deeply in maintaining their high-class communities see only a condition of There would follow, they say an influx of cheap construction b side buildings of distinction in which the owners have placed earnings of vears. Failure of the courts 1o sus- tain injunctions would be an effactive barrier to further high standards of | development. Self-Government at Stake. The whole question goes to the right of local self-government in these communities, self-government insisted upon and argued for hours and approved by the State Legislature in innumerable cases; it goes to the merits of zoning in the area now looming as one of the biggest probh- lems in connection with the develop- ment of the Maryland-Washington metropolitan district on which the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission now is working. Maryland is one of the very few | States in the Union which has failed, so far, through its courts, to awaken to the full import of zoning which is | sweeping the country, but the Mary- land Court of Appeals in recent cases appears to indicate that it has seen the light of the oncoming demand of the people for prote tion of their residence areas against encroachments which would detract from their beauty. The case on which the test hangs has grown ont of the beginning of construetion in the village of Alta Vista of two small houses which do not comply with their building regu- MARYLAND ZONING ;nights of 14 Special Taxing! [ are | threatened by deflant and arbitrary | years of endeavor roward community | | 4 | News Note—FEx-Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska has allowed the use of hiz name to trv and |lead the Democracy away from the prohibition issue. 1GIRL DANCES TO $50.000 TUNE. BUT IS JAILED AS EMBEZZLER 'Confidential Secretary, Lured by Bright‘ | Lights, Found $60 a Week Salary Too Small for Primrose Path. | By the Asmociated Prem. NEW YORK, October 1.—For four vears Miss Anne Magovern danced down the primrose path—danced to a $50,000 tune, though her earnings during that period aggregated only $12,000—and today she was called on to pay the piper. In the daytime she was a confiden- | tial secretary, receiving $60 a week and the implicit trust of her employer. | Harmon August, who had offices with the Commercial Investment Co., on Park avenue. At night, however, she emerged from the drab chry the business world, a brilliant moth | fluttering to the. brightness of the| singeing lights. | Just what her pastimes were during | those nightly pilgrimages has not de- veloped, though it is known that they | cost five times the amount of her sal- ary. She summed it up in two words | when she was Herded with petty | thieves into the police line-up—high living. | “High living.” she said, admitting | under the masked regard of 230 de- | tectives at the line-up that she had he- trayed the confidence placed in her. and then she added, as if it were an afterthought: “And helping out some | triend: How she had helped them she did not say, nor did she tell who they were. | lis of | Arraigned later in the dayv she was held in $50,000 bail for hearing on a grand larceny charge October 5. The specific charge against her mentioned larceny of only $3,000, but the large | bail was set when police told of her | admitting that and intimated she when that had embezzled attorneys for the amount $50.000 August might be found to he even twice that | sum. August told police that he had placed such confidence in his secre- tary that he had given her power of attorney, placed her in control of a eparate bank account and authorized her to sign his name to checks, Two weeks ago he said she asked him (o cloge out the small aceount and something in her manner mada him suspicious. He investigated and | found, he said, that Miss McGovern, exercising her power of attorney, had deposited in the small account arge checks intended for the general ac- count and then drawn out the cash for her own use. He charged her with breach of faith and she disappeared two weeks ago. TLast night deteciives broke into her luxurious apartment and ar- rested her. “I have relativ Conn.” she said today lots of real estate. They me make restitution.” in Danbury, “They own might help | WEATHER SETS NEW - OCTOBER RECORD | Temperature of 93 Is Highest ' in History Here for This | Season—East Swelters. All existing October hot weather i records were broken yesterday while Washington sweltered and perspired {under a blazing sun more reminiscent of mid-July then early Fall. Light southerly winds and a clear | sky combined to move up the mereury |in the Weather Bureau thermometer to a new high mark of 93 degrees, shattering all previous Washington heat records for October, causing at least one heat prostration and fore- |ing residents of the Capital to hastily discard their cool weather clothes. The sudden and unprecedented heat was intensified by contrast with the {cool and bracing weather of earlier I‘m the week. Little change in tem- perature was forecast for today. The temperature of 93 degrees | broke previous October records by | one degree. The nearest approaches, | the Weather Bureau said, were re- | corded on October 3, 1879, and Octo- ber 1, 1881, when 92 degrees was reached. Three other eastern citie Portland, Me.. Albany, N. Y. and Harrisburg. Pa.. reported records broken yesterday. At Portland the thermometer reached 6 degrees, | while at Harrisburg and Albany the | mercury reached 90. ‘HEARING O REVIVE REMOVAL PROBLEM Location of Whole Center to Depend on Sessions Open- ing Wednesday. [NEW JUSTICE BUILDING IN 1928 PLANS INDICATED | Construction of Retail Unit Ex- pected to Depend on Private Business Enterprise. With hearings starting Wednesday efore the District Commissioners, to lide them in their recommendations to the incoming Congress as to the | location of a new farmers’ market to | cost not more than $600,000, and with the Treasury Department officials in- dicating that the new Department of | Tustice Building. to occupy the pres- ent Center Market site, will be |eluded in next year's building pro- gram, interest has been keenly re- vived in the whole market center problem. ‘When the Government takes over the site it mow owns, between Seventh Pennsylvania avenue and B street, on which stands the historic Center Market, operated by the Department of Agriculture, for the new Justice Building, it is prob- able that neither the Federal nor the District Government will set up a new Center Market and private business enterprise will be left free to provide accommodations for such a market at any place to which the consuming public can be attracted. It is known that the Department of Agriculture will not urge that such | & market is necessary as a demonstra- { tion lahoratory for its economic studies ‘and the opinon is pretty general among those who have been studying the building program, the market center problem and the Capital de- velopment plans that Government operation of a center market can be dispensed with. Congress is not dise posed to make any large apprepriation for a model market center here. Date to Vacate Sought. All of this has a strong bearing on the immediate task of selecting a new site for the Farmers' Market, which must g& out of the way. of the Federai building program on the triangle be tween Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall. Chairman Smoot of the Publie Buildings Commission intends to make his first drive for acquisition “of entire Mall triangle, and ‘then to the buildings in. the tr bulle. This course is supported by etary of the Treasury Mellon, who i8 en: trusted with carrying out the Federal building plans. Senator Smoot is expected to an- nounce to Congress soon after it as- sembles that it is intended to erect the Justice Building on the Center Market site as soon as possible, and to en- deavor to have a date definitely set on which the present occupants are to vacate. The Department of Agricul- ture now faces a problem because the refrigeration plant, which is the very heart of the retail market busine: needs costly repairs. | Plans for the new Justice Building | are being most carefully prepared be- and Ninth streets, ment which would support Mr. | terpreted, is learned from several of | Jacksonville wage scale, while a com- | |ations : = | | lations. promulgated under authority Hoover would be for Charles Evans | those who have had the temerity 1o |mission of four studies the Illinois | delegated by the State Legislature, Hughes, 100, should he come before | suggest the issuance of something |mne situation. This commission, | which places the government of the Normal in 0's. The normal temperature in Wash- in_October was said by the | cause it fits in directly to the cross axis of the Mall. In fact, it is im- N the convention for the presidential nomination. Hughes has been out of the row over farm relief, which has heen hurtful to Mr. Hoover. But on the other hand, it is pointed out here that Hughes has the handicap of hay- ing_ been defeated for President in | 1916, and although Minnesota went Republican and for Mr. Hughes when other Western States were breaking over to the Democratic column, the margin was only a little over 300 votes in a,State which had for years been strongly Republican. | Notwithstanding_the loud talk for | Towden and for the MeNary-Haugen | bill, it appears that Minnesota will| &o Republican for President next year. | 10 matter who the party nominee may | be. Indeed, there are Republican | leaders in the State, inclined to be, conservative, and some of the con- servative, who believe that it is in conceivable the Republican party should xplit seriously over the Mc Nary-Haugen farm relief bill. Hope for Adjustment. They believe and hope that Repub- licans will be able 10 reach some ad- justment of the farm relief problem, | cither in the coming Congress or in | the national convention next year.| Even conservative leaders among the | Republicans, however, feel that the| Jastern branch of the party should | have been more active in the interest of and more in sympathy with the demands of the farmers during the last few vears. They do not believ that the party has lived up entirely 10 its platform pledges to the farm- ers. These same conservatives shake their heads and admit that if a veal ~plit should come in Republican ranks over farm relief, it would not be so xood for the party in Minnesota. Some of the hot heads among the Republicans insist that it Mr. Lowden or Gen. Dawes willing to siand llaugen bill is not ave many others who will bolt the Republican_ticket next year Next to Lowden, the Minnesota Re- publicans appear to like Vice Presi- dent Dawes for the presidential nom ination. They like him for the reasons they aie Supporting ign. hrcause he dx friendly to the farm relief legislation they demand and b cause he s from the Middle West And probably nmext 1o Dawes in mat 1 of preference would come Hoover and then Hughes other candi dates for the nomination are seriously thought of in this State. ' Apparently there is no thought that a dark horse will be nominated, ana little thought that the convention eventually will swing to President coolidge.” Some of the Republican however, still like to consider the lat- is for the McNary- nominated, there ter possibility, and insist that 5t Cool- | jdge were renominated he would carry ihe State. This, of course, is not in line with the more ardent Lowden wdvocates, who declare that the presi- ilal veto of the MeNary-Haugen bill ruined whatever ance the President might have in Minnesota. Administration Is Liked. But careful observers here tell a different story “They say that Presi- dent Coolidge is still well liked among many of the farmers, veto or no vet They like him because of his economy program, which has been 1o some ex- 1gat_reflected in the Minnesota pro- &ontinued on Faze 6. Column 1.) omiin more specific. To one of his congres- composed of two executives from the |awa | who have talked to him on this sub- or some man who is | sional callers who broached the sub-|gperators and two from the miners, ject during the past week, the Presi- | ywill report to a joint scale committee dent was represented as replying with | of both factions on February 7, 1928, unusual feeling that if the gentleman |Its findings will be taken as a basis | had failed to read his Black HillS | or permanent wage and working con- | | | statement, he would be glad to mail | dition contract next Spring. a_copy. | ‘Within the past few days one of the most intimate friends of the Presi- dent is understood to have gone | successful efforts were made to ad-| certain in his own mind that | just the differences, both terminating | those who are expecting Mr. Coolidze |after the operators asserted the Ilii- to follow up his “T don’t choose” state- | nois miners’ commitiee was not free ment with something more edlabo{_ile to negotiate the fasue. 'The mine are going to be disappointed. is - ot » friend represented the President as owners contended the international being distressed that any one should question his motives regarding an- Two Efforts Futile, nce (he Illinois shutdown two un- Workers of America could nullify any on taken in htis State. Lewis re- | policy committee of the United Mine | village in the hands of a citizens’ com- mittee. ‘This committee is composed of James 1. Hambleton, chairman; Ford E. Young and Harry D. Hiner. Hobart 8. Langdon is secreta urer of the committee. Builder Declines Conference. ‘When construction was started on the two houses, according to mem- pers of the committee, the builder was invited to avpear hefore the gov- erning body for a consultation, but he failed to appear, and, it was said, told the committeemen that he had a per- {mit from the countv government. I as no_per vatem_to on Page 11, Column 1) other term or that there should be so | much discussion and debate about in- | terpreting the word “choose” in his announcement Friends Have Little Doubt. President i some of those moved this obstacle when he declared iy settlement they saw fit. Approximately 75,000 miners will he hack at work next week. Harry Fish- wick, president of the Illinois miners said. He estimated that almost that many workers in allied industries, made idle by the tieup, will be re employed. PARADES GREE Furthermore, the known to have given ject the impression that he is looking forward to the time when he can cast aside the heavy burdens of his office nd retire to private life. He hax been represented as having had enough of the presidency, and that Business Firms Take on New Life March 4, 1929, cannot come any (oo . When Agreement Is Announced. soon to suit him. - = | Those who know the President well | pp. [T EN October 1 (#).— BAve o LhE Mlisitere AoT about hi* | Demonstrations, ‘parades and a gener- vl):l“e'flm "f‘nfii‘é‘d) ;*md! deeiston. and | @1 jubilee followed the announcement L e aume of thelr party |there this afternoon that southern 1I- thers 3 o |linois coal mines would start work tely. affiffations, see him more or less fre | ey uently, are coming around lo this | quentl e 5 1 Business houses that have been on e e rdless of this unshaken |he verze of closing their doors im- | beliet in the President’s honesty of |Medintely took on mew life. ~Buying | purpose and the knowledge of his de- | was brisk through the latter part of | sire to be rid of the cares of his of-|\I'® afternoon and there was a feel- ! tice, there is an opinion that np*:'}l‘f \:"1;‘-|fi{ln|l<xn spreading through should defend his position more clear-| G * ;“"fin"'i‘l:l:'!";nav":':«(;::.’llr;liri:;"}(:;"l . 2 « should let it he | Nes 'k‘,m’:\": ,_“n(, cheogt ,f,f"“:: :’,'”l:,,‘ that de. | their women and children in celebrat e e ey e poms Al MG | Announcement of the settlement [ will or will not accept another nomi. | 4% made ation. That wouli clarity the sitiia- | /Il ion, it ig pointed out, and would p = % - " e mit the Republican Presidential field | A bank failure here this morning might have heen averted had the o take on a more definite aspect. 1f 5 "“I""‘lw""‘lmi"‘“'mm""“lzn et cement heen announced yesterday, nitely that he will not accept the nomi- | PVEiness men and financiers Miners are king prepar: {nation under any circumstances, his |, Mintee are making pepar al frisnas contend that cam 7 o iy - ing new dmner pails tonight s on the of other candidates gns on th t of other candidates | ;) ", pe their old tools do “(Continued on Page 4. Column 4.) PEACE. ving a high school foot- ime and came near stopping the were buy They until (Continued on Page Column 7.) i—Coul;le. 93>and 59._ Tru:ige 3.500 Milés To Start Life Anew: Found Exhauste By the Associated Press | Mr.and Mrs, Tyler left the Texas NEW BRUNSWICK, October 1.—A | Panhandle "‘"]Y::P“'“z‘;“;x“"«‘( ot - s e or Canada, wh ’ desire 1o etart life ancw brought 8% | friends to help them.” Tyler worked vear-old Texas Jack Tyler and 69-|in restaurants whenever he could, and | vear-old Ma Tyler over a 2,500-mile |the money he earned provided food on {trail on foot to Iselin, near here, In-' | the entire trip. Many miles were |day for a brief rest before continu- |lrudged on empty stomachs, however, |ing to their Canadian destination. g reported. “The old couple was found exhay e e lea by the roadside by Motor Cy might be doubted if judged | Patrolman Sundquist. 11e formed an by the sparkle in his eye. aid committee and a collection netted se oil drillers have broken up 4 fund_of $20.20 for food. Justice |many of the old ranches and it's hard of the Peace D. 1. Tonasn placed cots lin his office. where for an old man to make a living. Ma he paic will apend a 1T make & new starl, and here we are.” the Illinois miners were free to make | ions for and 1 talked it over and decided to| Spanish Assembly to Meet. BARCELONA, Spain, October 1 (#). ~ Premier Primo de Rivera today an- | nounced that the newly called Spanish | ! National Assembly would hold its first zession on October 10. TODAY’S STAR | ! PART ONE—52 PAGES. neral News—Local, National Foreign, ools and Colleges 6 and Civilian_Army News—Page 30. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 31. Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 32. { News of the Clubs—Page 3. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 38. Serial, “The Black Joker"—Page 38. Spanish War Veterans—Page 41. D. A. R. Activities—Page 46. -Pages 47, and IS Pages 23, 25, | Radio News and Programs | 48 and 49. District of Columhia Naval | —Page 47. Marine Corps Notes--Page 48, Veterans of the Great War Financial News—-Pages 50, Reserve | & 51 and 32, | PART TWO—I16 PAGES. Jditorials and Editorial ashington and Othe | Notes of Avi and Artisis—Page 4. | Reviews of Autumn Books—Page 4. f Well Known Folk—Page 11. [y ! PART THREE—I1? PAGES, Theaters and the P’hoto- Motors and Motoring —Pages 6 and 7. Army and Navy News—Page 8. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 8. ¥raternal News—DPages 10 and 11. | District Nationzl Guard—Page 11. PART FOUR—4 PAGES. ‘ink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction aud Fea- tures. The Rambler—Ps PART SIX—12 PAGE: Classified Advertising. Around the City—Page 11, GRAPHIC SECTION—10 World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—i PAGES. lar Fellers; Mr, his of History. PRSPy WOMAN WOUNDED, RED GROSS T0 OPEN ¥ DA MBIy vy SUITOR IS SOUGHT Gir'ls Mother Shot Two Times, but Is Expected to Recover. i el | Police last night began a search for Peter G. Kematudis, 40 vears old, a traveling photographer, living at 207 John Marshall place, after he is al- leged to have forced his way into the | residence at 607 Florida avenue north east, and fired two shots, serionsly wounding Mrs. Hattie Davis, 36 yvears old. The shots are believed to have been intended for Miss Leona Davis, 24 years old, the wounded woman's daughter, who had known Kematudis for 13 years. | Kematudis fired, the police were | told, in a fit of jealous rage over being | refused permission 1o call on Miss | Davis. He appeared at the house ahout 7 o'clock, according to the ver- | sion given the police, and with hardly | 2 word flashed a revolver and fired twice. When Miss Davis ran to a neighbor's house to summon the | police, Kematudis made his escape. | Wounded Three Times. | Mrs. Davis was taken to Casualty Hospital where Drs. Marcello Gon- | dolfo and Fdward Nicklas found that | although she suffered from three | wounds her condition was not serfous. One bullet struck Mrs. Davis in th left hand, breaking two fingers, a she threw up her arm to protect her- selt _and then piered her right shoulder, shattering her collar bone. | The second shot struck her right fore- head, but glanced off inflicting what | was believed to be but a scalp wound. Miss Davis, who was standing close beside her mother at the time of the from the house as Kematudis_fled and going to the neighbor’s home called the police., | Kematudis just before firing the | shots, according to the account given | | to police by Miss Davis, seized a wrist | watch and other jewelry of the young woman lying on a table, overturned a dresser and tore the telephone from the wall. Miss Davis told the police that the photographer had been a friend of the family for about 13 years and re- cently had become insistent in his at- tentions to her, and at least twice had proposed marriage, which she had de- clined. B Yesterday afternoon, Miss Davis said, Kematudis called her by phone and asked to see her in the evening. She told him that she had other plans. Forces Way Into House. After Kematudis rang the doorbell last night, Mrs. Davis answered and he forced his way into the house, de- manding to see her daughter. Mis. Dovie according to_tha ae- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6J i | PARLEY TOMORROW 500 to Attend Sessions lo Consider 27 Disasters in U. S.in Last Year. important relief measures of the worst series of Facing arowing out disasters in the history of the Ameri- | can Red Cross, delegates representing more than 3,000,000 adult and 6,000.- 400 junior members of that organiza- tion will be in attendance at the open- ing of its seventh annual convention tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the United States Chamber of Commerce Building. Between 500 and 700 dele- zates, besides a number of juniors | who are being represented for the first | time, are coming for the sessions which conclude Thursday. President Coolidge, a the Red Cross, will del address at 8 o'clock in the evening at a meeting which will be open to the public. Judge John Barton Payne, chaivman of the Red Cross. also w peak. Miss Mabel T. Boardman, secretary, a3 presiding officer for the session, " will introduce the President and Judge Payne. Will Discuss Flood Tuesday. n the past vear, a total of 27 in this country alone, unusual interest ached (o the President’s address, who is expected to outline the prob- lems of disaster preparedness and ad. ministration that will occupy a con- spleuous place on the program. An entire session Tuesday will voted to a discussion of relief tions in the Mississippi River (Continued on Page view of the great disasters of | | ington ‘Weather Bureau to be in the low 70's. Little hope was held out last night by the Weather Bureau forecaster for an early break in the unprecedented October heat wave. The skies are expected to remain clear, with no rain in sight, and the light winds from the south are expected to continue until Tuesday or Wednesday, when the winds will probably swing around to the west and northwest, bringing with them more normal Fall tempera- ture, A foot ball player on the visiting eleven was reported overcome by the heat after the University of Mary- land-South Carolina clash at College Park, Md. New York Temperature 82 NEW YORK, October 1 (P).—New | Yorkers today were treated to Sum- mer heat when the mercury grees at 1 p.m. HEAVY SNOW IN WYOMING. TLARAMIE, Wyo., October 1 (#).— The second onslaught of Winter with- lin four days had plastered Laramie | with 3 inches of snow this morn- ing and a heavy fall was continuing. LIQUOR SHIP TOWED IN. | Sponge Fisher Seized Two and a Half Miles Offshore. MOBILE, ALA., October 1 (#).— Seized by a Coast Guard patrol two and a half miles offshore, the sponge fisher Zama, under Bimini registry, was towed in here today and her | carzo of 600 cases of liquor unloaded. The seizure was made Friday, ac: cording to M. J. Serhert, commander of the patrol boat Dallas, which made the seizure. The patrol was proceed- ing to Pascagoula, Miss., when the sponger was sighted, Serbert said. In attempting to tow the vessel to Mobile, rough seas were encountered, and the convoy reached Mobile bar iast night. This was the third seizure ‘\vhhin 30 days. The runners Dew- dvop -and Russel were brought into Mobile several davs ago. ;0 CI_::im $l5905 in Gold as Reward For Arrest of De Autremont Brothers By the Associated Press. Sixty persons have filed claims with the postal authorities for the $15,900 in gold offered as a reward for infor- mation leading to the arrest and con- viction of the three De Autremont brothers—Roy, Ray and Hugh. The more than three-year hunt for the boys, after they had blown up a Southern Pacific mail train near Sis- kiyou, Ore., October 11, 1923, and killed a mail clerk and three tralnmen, was conducted on a world-wide scale. Hun- dreds of false trails and clues were run down by postal inspectors and de- tectives. Hugh was captured in the Philippines, where he was serving in the United States Army. Ray and Roy were taken at Steubenville, Ohfo. All thres now are serving life senten- ¢ In g State penilentiary at Salem, e, The 90 days required by postal regu- lations for filing claims for reward have just closed. The 60 claims for the money have been forwarded to Charles Riddiford, the post office in- spector who was in charge of the case at Spokane. Each claim will be care- fully passed upon and determination made as to who is entitled to the re- ward. The Government portion of the re- ward amounts to only $6,000 or $2,000 for each of the boys. The remainder is made up of offers by the Southern hit the | | unseasonable temperature of 82 de- perative that the Department of Jus- tice should be housed in a permanent home of its own as soon as possible. Two years ago it was threatened with eviction from the privately-owned building on Vermont avenue which it has occupied ever since it was built, because the owners could get a far greater return on the building for other use. At that time Senator Smoot, chairman of the public build- ings commission, negotiated an i creased rental, with the distinct undey- standing that the Department of Justice would vacate the building just as soon as a building could be erected for it. Senator Smoot is not forgetting that occurrence, and neither are the { other members of the Public Build- ings Commission, who are urging that the Justice Building be given priority in the Federal building program. Ready to Turn Over Site. | The Depurtment of Agriculture {s quite ready to turn over this property for the new building program just as soon as Congress so directs. The existing law, setting aside the long- time lease of the Washington Market Co., and physically taking over this site and the present market building, say “Until otherwise directed by Congress, the complete possession and control of said grounds, buildings and improvements shall, for the benefit of the United States, vest in the Secre- tary of Agriculture.” Between the existing Center Market and the Farmers' Market that must get a new location, are clustered wholesale and commission houses be- tween Eleventh and Ninth streets, Pennsylvania avenue and B streets. Some of the individual concerns in this wholesale market area already have been forced to move by the raz- ing of buildings on a government- owned square just south of the Post Oftice Department Building, which i one-fourth of the site of the new Internal Revenue Building. One-half of that site is now the Farmers' Mar- ket and the other quarter is the square between Tenth and Eleventh, Little B and C streets, the assessed value of which is $739,215, and the condemnation jury has announced an |award of $815,000. Both the property owners and the Treasury Department have until Octo- ber 14 formally to file a protest against this award, but the Treasury already has let it be known that the Govern- ment does not intend to make any such protest. So, the many whole« sale houses in that square must move soon, because the Treasury Depart- ment is all ready to proceed with its excavation work on both the Internal Revenue and Commerce Buildings. Watch for New Location. Many other wholesale market and commission men have been awaiting a chance to see in what direction the market center would move before they bought or leased a new location. So every one concerned in the mar- ket center problem is watching with great interest to see where the District Commissioners will tell Congress the Pacific Co. and the Oregon au- thorities, awards of which, it is said, probably will be made on the same basis as the post office awards. At the.time of Hugh's arrest it was stated a_soldler at Manila gave the llg:on!nnllon‘.m If aydfded a third of otal er would receive ke i e X s new Farmers’ Market should be es- tablished. Hearings to help guide the Commissioners in forming their ree- ommendations are to start in the boatd room of the District Building on Wed- nesday. They will consume