Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1927, Page 28

HUNBERT, TRED " ASTRATOR, DEA Former French Senator Suc-. oumbs—Exonerated of War Charges. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 2. ‘bert, former French se: acquitted in connection with the Bolo Pasha treason case during the World ‘War and exonerated of fraud in Amer- jcan war contracts in 1919, died here today. Humbert was one of the most prom- inent figures in the military prepara- tion campaign in France previous to the war. He kept up appeals both in the French Senate and in the news- non, He was sent to the United States Jate in 1914 to purchase war materials for the French army, but was recalled after a few months’ activities. Acquitted at Trial. In 1918 he was tried on a charge of having intelligence with the enemy, |, the charge growing out of his allege r ttions with Bolo Pasha, the notor ous leader of the “Defeatist” move- ment in France, who was sentenced to death and shot at Vincennes, April 17, 1918. i . Humbert. one of the leading figures in tne so-called Bonnet Rouge Defeat- is¥ conspiracy, went on trial in J919, bat was acquitted. He had been ar- yested five days after the conviction of Bolo Pasha. The specific char against him was that he and s other men purchased the newspaper Le Journal with enemy money for the purpose of conducting a Defeatist propagar a. The court-martial voted 4 to 3 in favor of Humbert. Cleared of U. S. Fraud. In 1919 United States Attorney General Becker exonerated Humbert of fraud in the United States in con- nection with contracts entered into five years previously when Humbert had gone there to buy war supplies for France. In 1925 Humbert filed a libel com- plaint against M. Poincare, now pre- mier, the charge growing out of Hum- bert's trial in the Bolo Pasha c The French attorney general, ho ever, ruled that there was no ground To WHMAT DO You YOUR OREAT Al GRANDPA DUMBUNNY — Gfigt,R\ BUTE NG STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER for prosecution for d volved. In recent years dropped out of politi Caillaux Bre The Bolo Pasha tr one of the most sensational c the World War, also brought limelight the name of former Caillaux, since the latter, had h quaintance with Bolo P son and was sentenced to three vear: mprisonment and to the prohibition idence in French territory for five vears. At the various trials it was contend- ed that Bolo F entered into com- munication with German agents in support of a Defeatist propagan was declared that he traveled i United States in 191516 and received more than $1,500,000 from represent tives of Count von Bernstorff. at th time German Ambassador at Wash- ington. ph St WELL , I CA YET , POC WHITE T i|Escaped Stowaway Held in New York After 3-Year Chase as Banned Alien ed Pross. November 2.—A so-| Clear crer who slipped in and out of immigra- o young ltalian 1d of the detective, efano admitted his identity. at- de ine of kin and and challenged him ht fugitive stowaway. The steamship company employing had been penalized $1,000 by the Government for failure to pre- vent the illegal entrance of Stefano t|to this country. although it was not -|known whether he drowned in his attempt to escape or not. Stefano, who arrived here in Sep- tember, 1924, had | been since he escaped from the French liner France, that was to have deported him. He, with a slender companion, slipped off his_handcuffs by greasing his wrists with soap and slid down the ship's hauser to liberty. A third stow: too pudgy to slip his manacles, was deported. David M. Leidig, 70, Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va.. November 2.— Funeral rites were held this afternoon for David Milton Leidig. 70 years old, a native of Franklin County. Pa., but for many years engaged in farming near here, whose death Monday night followed a protracted illness. Surviv- ing are a widow. one daughter and three sisters, the latter living in Penn- | sylvania. American_overalls are becoming r in Chile. Reeder, CHILD HURT BY AUTO. Hagerstown Girl, 8, Run Over for Second Time This Year. Special Dispatch to The Star. , November 2.—For Doris has been run down by an automobile and is in the Washington The first it near] HAGERSTOW second time aged 8, this year this city, “ounty Hospital. me months g0, her life being despaired of for a week, but she fin- ally recovered, only to be run down again last night by the machine of Tony Brittl. The car passed over the child’s body. Her condition is serious. et o Canadian Mine Strike Ends. DRUMHELLER, Alberta, November 2 (#).—The strike of the Canadian mine workers in the Drumheller Val- ley was called off and the men report- ed for work yesterday. Normal opera- tion of the mines is expected within a short time, IT_MA\ READY RELIEF! BE "CoTTonNTAIL'S CONSTANT, CORDIAL, * — IT_MAY aé-“&»\%aw'sm%n LY 1927 By ALBERTINE RANDALL | BO’ THEM BI:\IEGNNIN * COMPANIES [ WITH ME ' ~T'\>n‘_a »\” CORNER STONE FRIDAY Exercises at New Hospital Fredericksburg to Be Tribute to Washington. in Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Va., November 2.— The corner stone of the new Mary Washington Hospital building will be laid Friday under the auspices of the Fredericksburg Masonic Lodge, No. 4. in which George Washington was made a Mason on the same date in 752. The ceremony will take place at 4 o'clock in the afternoon with the principal addresses being delivered by Louis A. Waters, president of the George Washington Masonic Nation- al Memorial Association, and James Bowman, grand master of Masons in Virginia. 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