Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1927, Page 1

e e e e WEAT Weather 1 thiis s Rain colder o colder, lowest temy Temperature—ii, vesterd: pm today. Full | | after report lowest, HER. rean Forecast tonight fadr and noon and HOTOW on page e Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 -— = 30,515. No. 1d class matter hington, 1. C. ¢ ¥ A WITH SUNDAY MORNI WASHINGTO THURSDAY, N EASTERNSECTON SHEPTBY STORM: DAIAGE IS EAVY Hemes Unroofed hy Freak Gale—Seven Persons Are Revorted Hurt. POLICE AND FIREMEN JOIN IN RESCUE WORK | | i Hyattsville and Alexandria Hit by Sudden Gale—Bladensburg Houses Wrecked. An wndeternin ch ne aftervoon, | reports showed that at least seven men, and Children were taken to als. A gchool boilding d northe n destroyed women 1t Bizhteenth and ning ISU Was reporte 1o have b Houses Are Damaged. o3 all over the eastern sec were damaged » of the storm, ickled in over dani eation indicated that was wrought in_ outlyin t of the ¢ of the si ew Tion: 3 the ad and Bections to the As the full came apparent within afier it ha firomen s i were res: crews to the ly in | tions out. and the uetion, and r stre ! northeast or o nes 1 ! = of short spaca, of, time pital reported that five been biot in for | chile at alty two 1. In the rush. no | The injured at | a more wery nes were obt vidence ir men and t vic woman. Tlyatisville Swept. while ed that one in nex four hons the old Georse Wash- | and from e or including n Inn, were unroofed, anor, 2 mile awuy reports that several y roofed. In no instanc un- one | dences in the Noriheast and ‘t were n off and hurled great distances by ivlent wind, while some houses | carly every win- | shatterd. South Carolina averue, hetween Sixth and Seventh streets, was direc Iy in the path of the sale, an of the houses in that block. and rther down, East of Thirtcenth strect, were unvoofed. Two Homes Wrecked. Two houses were blown down in | dhe vicinity of Eighteenth street and | Penning road northeast, while the Toofs were lifted from a row of dwe linzs on Kentueky avenue southeast The wind was a real “ty brief but dramatic length, acc v, chief machinist, U. | enth street south- vessel of the Se ! Any one who had ever experienced t Indies storm wind or tornado. 1. would realize th st which struck afternoon. Nhor . he sald, wi varning, the | wind fell upon the scction, tearing | limbs from trees, blowing in windotw lifting roofs from some of the | and store nd Lusing con- ble panic among residents. T it | ington | hefor 3 At Thirteenth and B streeis south east an its roof. The twisted tin ot from th windows was hurled into a pole at the corner, H The windows of Cusumang, were blown the shoe shop of Thirteenth in ) itary | f was | the stre s Bryan School. on B strest Thirieent hand I southeast, was in the path of the s ®nd (wo poctables on the west side the huildi unroofed, Childre t Escape. One of other, 1 dren Jed by theit P. Murray wrecked to the n hut in ihe grade chil- me. aret the rain 1 they th dashed throus ding 1ed “ tim 60U ¢ 4 from stry the sin throushout the fenred i the Buildin: that son, nrin b pad been | por Lo o bkl o one had cuds said the e 2 sudden- Iy that there 0 for it As Sheads disiul they «¢ I their er 1 had | Miss | Iren Muny b 1 to i 1 10 s w A ol 1k hu Cold Spell 15 Due Th stenci v whick hutrs end sutnn L it was d lighining te entered on ofticials said hroken.” urbance, it result of a co cold atmosy ures was n- fict warm and X areas of low and high pre DENIES COURT MOVE. 1 S WPL Ul Coll i chi ! memhers of hi {of il | 118 | mond. | wh | tor here, and was Minister Dies DIES AT AGE OF 80 Dr. J. J. Muir Succumbs Sud- denly at Home—Dean of District Baptists. Rev. Dr. Muir, o of Joseph Jobnstone the Senate and st own members clergy in the country dence, 1317 Kenyon rning from a heart at- s 80 years old. had spoken last night Association of Baptist District of Columbia rently in the best o'clock he aroused family. complaining and died in about half an the of Baptis at his re: early this m tack. He w Dr. Muir hefore the Churches of the and retired appi of health. About hour. Born in Ireland. Although he was town, Irelend, in 18: of Scottish ancestry, Muir. scho Dr. Muir was the son of Mary educated Ireland and ned in 1869, to the United es. The first pulpit he occupied in this was at Montan: Y.. from 187 N.- Y., 1872 Church, New = York . Park Church, Port Rich- N. Y., 1880-83; North Church, Philadelphia, 1883-83, and Baptist Church of this city. rge he ever had here. 3 h he resigned in 192 years' service. i Dr. Muir was the senior Baptist pas- fectionately known “the dean of the Baptist denomina- tion of the District of Columbia.” In 1921 he was appointed chaplain to the Semate, and since then he had formed persomal _attachments with some of the figures most prominent in American public life, notably the Vice Presidents. Marshall, Coolidge and Dawes, with whom he was in daily contact Member of Masons. Rev. Muir was a Master Mason and former chaplain of the Cente Lodge, a member of the Theta & Society, composed of local ministers of all denominations, and a lif> men- ber of the American, Baptist Foreign Mission Society and the Americin Baptist Publishing Socie He is survived by two_daughters, M:s. L. M. Yount and Mrs. H. A Polkinson, and one son, Charles Muir. all of this city: nine grand- children and one great grandehild. s ago. Fu- rrangements are being made. brother, Maj. John G. Muir, who died some vears ago in the Philip- pines, is 1o be buried here later in the when his body is to be moved from Philadelphia. Dr. Muir had in- tended officiating at the committal rites In Arlinggon. EXTENSION SOUGHT ON LIGHT REFUNDS Fleharty to Ask Longer Time for Remittance of Impounded Fund. ner 37.000 still remaining In the Potomac Electric Power (o' pounded fund, which will revert to the company unless collected by January Ralph B. Fleharty, peaple’s counsel before the Public Utilities Commission. revealed to that he is planning to ask the District Supreme Court fo extend the ‘time for waking refunds. Almost three years has elapsed sinee distribution” of the “impounded tund was started and yet there are 2 clectrle N usérs who have their share of the re- ompany has mad et lo sul- some of whom ently the city. Others, howeve oiviously felt that the amount due them s 100 small to take the trouble Thus f $2 500,000 This work ‘With lin fund L deter seribers, have Teft the company has refunded of the impounded has oSt Approxi- hout Tl during the Semate sessions | since his appointment. im- | JRLITON COUNTY DEBATESQUESTON 0F INCORPORATION Promoters of Plan Fear Fur-} ther Encroachments by City of Alexandria. | | | | GLOTH AND JESSE TAKE | STAND AGAINST CHARTER | Enabling Act Would Permit Citi zens to Vote on Prop- Note-—T first o { fonie articles dealiog the Confront the aind Alex o will i 1 it County, direc er from Washington, | dly in population and | sperity in the last few years that y the most important question confrontinzg the people of this portion Arlington the Potomac srown s | of Virginia, once a part of the Dis- trict of Columbia, is when and how 1o throw off county government and | emerge, full-fledged, as Arlington City. Within the last few weeks this issue has become seriously complicated by | another question of vital importance, not only to Arlington County, but to the independent city of Alexandria The City Couneil of Alexandria ha: given notice to the hoard of super visors of the county that it will for- mally ask the Circuit Conrt of Arling- | ton County, when it convenes Decem- ber 12, for permission to annex a con- | siderable portion of Arlington County to Alexandria, | County to Fight Plans. The people of Arlington County are actieally a unit in opposition to an- | i any part of th territory The .county authori- s ring to fight the annexa- | tion suit to the bitter end. They will be juined by lawyers representing Fairfax County, a part of which is desired by Alexandr But, althouzh united against { move to take away part of their t tory, the people of Arlington County are divided on the question of chang- ing their government from the county to the city form. There seems to he no doubt that Alexandria’s move to {annex part of Arlington County at | this time was prompted by her fear ! en ounty will soon be- | ity. when, under the Vir- it cannot be annexed. The 127 provides a method by which a city | may part of an adjoining county, but no way by which a ¢ may annex part of another city. Alexandria apparently feels that if it i ever to expand, it must do so | . before Arlington County bes comes a city. This long-standing and many-sided controversy over local government and territorial jurisdiction has reach. ed the point of a lively political squab- ble, whose reverberations are heard the Potomac River and in the ative halls at Richmond. In the me the peoplé of Washington | have scarcely less interest than the people of Arlington and Fairfax | ties and of the city of Alexandr | are directly involved. Ball's Enabling Act. | The complicated dispute will culmi- | nate this Winter in renewed efforts to | bring about the enactment of 2 meas- ure by the General Assembly at Rich- | mond to authorize a popular vote in | Arlington Chunty on the question of converting the entire county into a city of the first class, within the mean- ing of the Virginia Jaw. and in a hard- fought, lo drawn-out tle in the courts over Ale “(Continued on COLORADO MINERS | T0 RENEW PICKETING { I f ties are prep any ri- come ginia law Governor Again Considers Mobil- ization of Guardsmen—Guns Cow Strikers. i By the As ed Press. DENVER, November 17.—Encourag- ed by demonstrations in the Norih | Colorado coal fields, striking miners {in the southern area today were de- [ termined to renew picketing iu defi- ance of the 3 This revived rcports that Gov. W. | 1. Adums was again considering | | mobilization of the National Guard. | |1t was revealed that the governor h received a revl 1 copy of a mob- | ilization order from the attorney gen- | e The new order provides for | partial mobilization instead of calling | fout the full sirength of the Guard, | ence, s was, plinned shortly after the strike { wos called October 18 st Fear that machine gun crews would | try it their weapons cuused strikers, Hed by womed andon picketing | Wt the Columbine Mine, north of here, | yesterday. The gunnet 1 orders o shoul the firse Lre: Four | National Guard airplanes have been | patrolling the northern field. Organizers for the Industrial Work- ers of the World succeeded in assem- { bling a large delegation of miners at W burg, south State strike head quarters, fast night. The miners vot- to picket tod Is Called Oldest Known to Scientists! | fixed brought $1 By the SANTA ed Press. BAREARA, Calif., Novem ber 17, skull that Dr. A H Ousdal, 1 anthropologist and stu- dent of ancient races, believes is older than any known to science, unearthed |18 feet below the surface of a street here while cting attention of the scientists. A helil with the uncovered, connecting than uyihing | Gusdal. “It undxibted: antedates the Nean man ever ape derthal and Java skulls, two other |much like the ape as we wers were being laid, is ve it comes more nearly 10| iy vory much thinner th said Dr. | me of those who viewed the Il in Los Angeles,” continued Dr. a1, “would venture the statement the man could speak, and 1 can- not sce how he could khave made a sound other than a grunt. “FThe very large nose tallies some- what with the Gibraltar skull, but | otherwise it is different. Tt does not ally in any respect with the more de- | veloped skulls of the human race and i the normal |5k | Ousd skull, 1t indicates that the neck muscles | located around .the jaw must |Leen three times the” size of the rauscles of the man of teday and very | —Sec Lave | en NG EDITION OVEMBER 17, 1927—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. o @ M BRITONS DISPUTE ON ARMS PARLEY Viscount Cecil Assails Policy Which Forced Unyielding Stand at Geneva. By tha Associated Presy. LONDON, November 17.—G Britain was in the throes of heate discussion today of naval limitation and the failure of the confe tween Japan, Great Britain and the United States at Genev. t Summer, Viscount Cecil the House of Lords on the British government’s attitude toward disarmament and the announcement in the House of Com- mons by W. C. Bridgeman, first lord of the admiralty, that only one ¥ cruiser would be laid down this y brought the naval question to fore. at the Holds Door Is Barred. efusal of the British government to admit the principle of mathemat- ical parity in naval strength with the | United States “bangs, bolts and bars the door” against any hope of agre mentwith America on naval arma- ments, Viscount Cecil sald. This was seized upon avidly by the opposition papers as a damning arralgnment of the government. They made the.point that the cabinet allowed itself to he ruled by technical advisers and that | it was high time these were put in their proper place, Mr. Eridgeman announced that, T | view of the situation disclosed at Geneva, it was not thought necessary to proceed with the three cruisers originally provided for in current naval estimates, and therefore only one would be laid down. “The government has at Jast bowed to the storm of protest from the coun- try on the excessive national expend- | the need for further dis. measures,” the Westmin iture and armament ster Gazette's political correspondent | wrote of this announcement. Hits Unyielding Attitude. Viscount Cecil said that the un- ding attitude of the American del- | egates ar Geneva on some question: such as the right to put guns on any cruiser, was entirely wrong, but that it also seemed mad- ness to him to allow the negotiations to break up on such a point. At League of Nations committee | meetings he was often called upon to | defend propositions that seemed in- defensible to him, Viscount Cecil said. The impression was produced that the tritish government's desire for sic- cess of the disarmament commission was lukewarm, he asserted. charged that admiralty represenia- tives scarcely concealed thelr indiffer- it not_their hostility, to whole proceeding Lord Balfour, speaking in behalf of | the governm (Continued on Page N rded the 5, Columin FARMERS’ UNION HITS HOOVER AS ENEMY Resolution Blames Secretary for Wheat Growers' Loss of $1 Bushel in War Time. By the Awsociated Press. DES MOINES, lowa, November 17. v_Herbert Hoover of the Commerce Department was character- ized as the “arch encmy” of the Ame ican farmer i a vesolution adopted hy delegates to the annual convention of the al Farmers' Union y terduy. The farmers’ resolution charged “Mr. Hoover was guilty of sponsoring and promoting the Government ad- minisiration during the war through which the wheat farmers were robbed of at least a dollar a hushel on the wheat, hoth in 1917 and 191 There are those present in this con- vention,” the resolution added, “who crop just hefore umittee fixed the at their wheat. at in the same meighborhood of same quality after the price was a bushel. Mr. Hoover and Julius H. Barnes, | then chairman of the United Wheat Corporation. were charged with making the wheat price, which set the maximum and minimum price limit. The union also Indorsed the M- Nary-Haugen bill as the best means of agricultural relief. Pupils Win Strike. LPARAISO, Ind.. November 17 Pupils of the Kouts High S hol, who huve bheen striking for a new gymnaszium, have returned to the'c Ciusses on obtaining a promise from the school authorities to build the v ). 0w him.” notable sclentific treasures that have ) sped selentls! to W h volu- . = = o of el ,..ig‘:il {Radio Programs—Page 34 | ing suitable for building, A decision by Kouts eciti- zens to raise $5,000 to erect a bulld- bagket ball games was Feported ,‘ s :nce be- | eight-inch | He | [MAN IN JAIL SIX YEARS o s oo DEMOCRATS FACE aw Provided. | By the Associated Press. i ! / | on Convention Change at Jackson Dinner. { | | 1 | | penitentiary here by mistake, Joe Sa-| }l:q]r[).l was to be given his [reedom | today. | | In September convicied rs fact in the murder of Tony in Westmoreland County, ¥ e v laccused of assisting the killor to e | cape and was sentenced to serve (rom 110 1o 12 years in the Western Peniten | v here. Hatieas corpus proceedings were In- stituted in an effc ain Sarappa’s clease, his atto ys contending the | ntence 1 1. In ordering the | rel. Jund A. B. Reid held the sentence was excessive and void, since | the law provided only a two-vear peni- | tentiary sentence in such cases, The release order, 1 by the | Westmoreland court, expected to reach the penitenti: e today. vappa’s wife sat in_the rest room : the prison prepared to take her hus band home, 1ppa W fter the avdello, i | By the Associated Press When the Democratic national com- | mittee meets in Washington in mid- January its members probably will be asked to consider once again whether the rule requiring a two-thirds vo for nomination of a presidential can didate should be abolished Chairman Shaver and other party managers take the view that the question whether a bare majority or | two-thirds of the convention should nominate, is one for the convention itself to decide, but there is increasing talk about the Capital that the com- | mittes itselt may be sounded out on | the subject during its session here. City to Be Selected. The primary purpose of the Jan- ithering is to select a conven- city. Already, however, other leatures have been-added to the tenta- five program, Including renewal of the Jackson day banquet, at which the prospective Democtatic presiden- tin]l candidates will be put through | their paces as aflterdinner speakers, Some of the mast determined oppo- nents of the candid: of Gov. Smith of New Yok are opposing any devia- Indiana Senator Tells of! Necklace and Pins Given by | Senator wa of Stoniari swho s | not been friendly to the Smith cause, { Former Klan Leader. | and who served as chairman of the | I 1924 convention, said he favored nom- | = tion by a simple majority, “regard. | less of whom ft may help.” ROBINSON ADMITS STEPHENSON GIFTS | | | By. the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, November 17. 5 End of Rule Predicted. | report that ameng the contents of lh(-i Another Senate dry, Senator Cara- famous blagk buxes belonging to D. C.| way of Arkansas, is a proponent of | Stephenson was a letter written b w’:‘-' '“"”'”‘."fl" rule, but he said today Sk 5 g that he believed enough votes had Mrs, Arthur R. Robinsan, wite of Sen-| jeen piedged to secure its abandon- | ator Robinson of Indiana, to Stephen- | ment. son acknowledging the gift of a pearl| He ndded .that it a majority rule necklace was confirmed yosterday by | Was adopted he believed Smith would enator Robinson. | be nominated, while it the two-| The report emanated from the Ma- third rule were maintained Smith | rion County grand jury room. The| would not_he nominated. {grand jury has been investigating | Other Democrats, including some | | des ot political corruption in In: | from the South, where the ranks are A airly solid for retention of the two- s thirds rule, are prepared to fight the abolishment move, declaring, in som instances, their willingness to hav. the party adopt the change at this convention to take effect four i hence. Whether a two-thirds vote of the convention would be required to kick over the two-thirds rule is a matter of specula Some believe that a | majority vote of the convention can suspend the rule. a statement Senator Robinson red that in addition to the in; arl necklace given Mrs. Rob- Stephenson. former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon. presented him and | his law partner, Frank A. Symmes, with Shrine pins of nominal value. “I hope the prosecutors will publish everything there is in the black [Vaxes,” Senator Rohinson said, “a | there is nothing in my whole public | career 1 desire to conceal.” The grand jury has been investigat- | ing reports of illegal transactions be- | tween Stephenson, now serving a i term in pris the murder ofs an Indianupolis girl, and public officials The Robinson gifts were made du ing the Christmas son of A when Step! t the height of nis_politica 0 Tuesday the prosecutors in a state I'ment, declared that the contents of | the blac! es_contained a contract signed by Iph E. Updike, treal, died today of a heart atta | He on his way th visit M enntative in Congress from the sev-!He enth district, in which Updike prom-| Walker when he collapsed in his aus tomobile, ised Stephenson palronage privile Mr. Brodeur was in an automobile | and also evidence that John L. Duvall, | former mayor of Indianapolis, with Mayor Mederic Martin of Mon- | made a contract with Stephenson, treal and other prominent s | report said that fhe statute of limi-| Who hid conie here to study the traf- | tations prevented the returning of in- | fic situation, | dictments. | As'the car passed the Tombs Prison | Duvall has already been convicted | he was suddenly overcon tives nct, | Automobile was speeded tow of violuting the corrupt pt « T Special Judge Osear 11, Mont- | by hospital. He died without re ing consciousness. gomery will rule on defense motions in the trial of Gov. Id Jackson, George V. Coffin, politician, and Rob: | ert 1. Marsh, attorney, indicied b ithe grand jury on charges of havins | Npw ¥ 4 y attempted 1o bribe former Gov. War- i o '\.";\.‘, ‘,“m" ,N;".',","" L T: McCeay Into appointing James | Lor WrINEIng undeclared Jey 15, (NlCDptialil as Ala vinn County prone | seariie sDRerel thto this country fcom [ ACtaI ashRtion Gact Ae: Germany, Mrs. Lily Busch, widow of i A QRS R LA IR BN UE Adolphus Busch, St nt prosecutor. nd her daughte Greenough of Ne and Mrs. ‘cllie . Laeb of Chicago, were fined 000 today by the collector of the s MONTREAL OFFICIAL DIES IN AUTO IN NEW YORK By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 17. pseph A. A. Brodeur, chairman of the e: utive committee of the city of Mon- | Fined $57,000 at Port. iy il i Jailed for Beating Horse. | CLARKSBURG, W. Va. November | o, n Star. Woman Dies as Car DAY ASKS COURT ¥ The Star’s carrie as fast as the papers * ) Means Associated Press. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” r system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,340 TWO CENTS. he Rides in Hits Boy, Brui By the 4 ing Him | sociated P CHICAGO, November i Mabel Smith, 20, last | night as she saw a young boy run into the street in the path of the car in which she was a passenger. She heard body strike the pavement The driver stopped. while be- | neath the car the boy sought o | extricate himself. he driver, B¢ lieving the car had not hit h¥n, started forward. Mrs in the rear seat, looked out wheel pass over the boy's I The woman collapsed and almost Instantly. The b block behind,” got to his fe injured except for bruis shook an angry fis screame his | died 10 REDUCE BOND Sinclair Official, Counsel, Says $25,000 Throughl SEIZURE OF CANTON FEARED IN CHINESE LABORITE UPRISING | Pitched Battle Occurs in City as Chang Fat-Fui Forces Open Attack. U. S. GUNBOAT ORDERED TO INVESTIGATE REVOLT Heavy Losses Are Reported in Fighting Near City of Mingkwang. By the Ass ted November 17. Chang Fat- Fui. hos attempted to seize Canto reports from there to Chinese sources her ay. Trouble broke out when the attempt was made at 8 o'clock Jast night. Is Excessive. Mason Day, one of the two cantact men between Henry alleged F hired to shadow the jurors, today appealed tice Walter 1. McCoy of the District Supreme Court, through counsel, to reduce his bond to $10,000 Four days after the grand jury investigation opened Day was placed under arrest and released on a bond of $25,000 after of jury-fixing had been placed against him. A sec ond Sinclair official, Sheldon Clark later was arrested on the same charge and was required to give bond of $10.000. The arrest of both Sinclair sfficials followed their refusal to testify before the grand jury on the ground hat their testimony might tend to incriminate them. Hearing Set Monday. JMowing a protest by Neil Burkin- istant United States attor- used Da t on the J ixing charge. Chief Jus ice Me- Coy set aside next Monday for the hearing of arguments on the motion. Another development growing out of the Grand Jury investi now suspended until = i en on indictments, occured when Samuel M s Hawken, attorney for jurer Edward J. Kidwell, yr nnoune ed that he will go before Justice Fred- erick L. Siddons tomorrow, to ask for a_ postponement of the hearing on Cidwell's petition that Donald K. ing, Herald reporter, and J. Ray Akers. street car conductor, who told about his “talkativeness” be adjudged in contempt of court for approach- ing Kidwell during the tri The petition for 4 reduction in the bond of the Sinclair official came as a surprisé today. . Danlel Thew Wright, attorney for i Sident of the Exploration Co., und_ Mr. went befors Chief Jus- who is presidiog in Crimi- w ht asked that ed to $10,000 on the fixea was pot Dome rge: Sinelair Burkinshaw. the hond be redu ground that the amount “excessive.” Opposed by Burkinshaw. His motion was opposed vigorously hy Burkinshaw, who said that the bond was required in the amount of 000 so thai it would serve in some ee to effect Day’s appearance bere when needed. It is the Information of the United States attorney’s office, Burkinsbaw told the court, that Day has speat most of his time during the past 12 years in Europe and “had no perma- nent abode in the United States.” Chief Justice MeCoy reserved action on_the motion, pending a_hearing_on (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) . MISSING LEGATION AIDE ARRESTED IN SINGAPORE Man Who Disappeared After Be- ing Told He Had Few Months to Live Is Found. By the Associated Press. iHAI, China, November 17.— Kreuz, former disbursing offi- cer of the United Stites legation at Peking, accused of having embezzled $31,000 of Government funds after doctors told him he would die soon of tuberculo: has been arrested in Singapore, Straits Settlements, it was d today by Georze Sellett, ttorney of the United States ¥. it was said, while a search for him was in progress throughout the Ovient, He cing lust month ostensibly on a and the defalcations e had overstayed wife and three sn ing are nearly desti- nt some money to his e ret it to United States legation off were ( his leave. children K 1 in Pel FEAR FAKE UNION WAR. | CHICAGO, November 17 (@) robuble fatal shooting of Max Will-} window washer, in (he Loop sec- tion today was seen by police as a new outbreak in a war here to coerce small merchants and artisans into fake unions and trade associations. Willner and his partner, Morris Kronemer, were washing a restaurant window, when two men in an uto mobile called 10 them, Kronemer ap- proached them and was struck over the head with a pistol i Rushing to his assisance, Willner | was fired on. one of the hullets en-| tering his stomach. He Is expected | to die. The attackers escaped. | i 17 (P).—Sentence of six months im: | | prisonment for heating a_horse wa b imposed today on Russell Coff, vears old, of Norwood, by Magistrate | C. L, ¥ord. Danfel Kimmell, humane | officer, testified Goff’s horse was | beaten so hadly the animal had to be killed. Goff was also fined §100. i Commits Suicide in Italy. n“’("’l";’l:‘:\"a’:"';'“* e T NAPLES, November 17 (). and~|"n. g o | i it imér de Trubhikoyy who [ ‘deaceilied | 11D Hs' not* (HOTEgNt - lipports a8 a naturalized erican ('Il|l\'ll'1" world news, nor Ruth Kider the coming from Dallas committed | Most important woman, }n)l“’nfi“\l"‘ suicide at & local hotel todsy by tak- | students at Norlhwestern University | ing an overdose of u drug. ‘Trubnikov, | nave voted. police said, auempled 1o commil | The distinction fristead. has been Mrs, Trubnikoy, who was visiting | 6iven o Col. Charles A. Lindbersh Naples with her hugband, is makins | and Henry Ford among the men, and a ments to have the budy buried |to Queen Marie among the women. P ir ) Spow the fiyer and- thel Lindbergh, Ford and Queen Marie L-ead In Students’ List of Prominent People motor car maker were President Cool- idge, Mussolinl, the Prince of Wales, Mayor Thompson, Thomas Edison, iepe Tunney, Al Smith and RBabe Ruth. Mrs. ‘Coolidge, Ruth Elder, Helen Wills and Jane Addams re- ceived scveral votes to rank them just below the Rumanian Queen us of major world news importance. Some who did not receive enough votes to get in the list were John D. Rockefeller, “Red” Grange, Jack Dempsey, Mary Garden, “Ma" Fergu- son and Milicent: Rogers. Harry | Sinclair and the Burns detectives o Chief Jus- | Gunfire between the contending | parties kept up all night and at 4 | n'clock this morning became very !heavy. Desultory firing con‘inued until § a.m. M Martial law gates to the fo been elosed. According to the reports it has been tablished that the Labor elements, in making a bold bid for | Canton, have seized and occupied the | telegraph office. Members of the | union_distributed leaflets throughout | the ring the slogan: “Dowwx with Li Sum. (The Canton gen | eralissimo). I Law Declared. been declaved. The | | | sn settlement have | ist commander, Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek. ollowing the disintegration of the Canton Nationalist movement lasf April. Li Chai-Sum continued as com- mander of the garrison at Canton ind devoted himself to suppressing the extremist element in the city. SEVERE FIGHTING REPORTED. Nationalist Division Cecimated in At- tack on Railway. SHANGHAI, China, November 17 (P).—Severe fighting along the Tien- tsin-Pukow Railway, north of Ming- kwang, is indicated in the arrival at Nanking of 1,100 serious casualty cases. s It appears that 60,000 Nationalists under Gen. Ho Ying-Ching attacked the forces of the Northern command- er, Gen. Sun Chuang-Fang, on a wide front. only to suffer the most severe losses, especially from machine gun fire. One Nationalist division was deci- mated. Aunother regiment was re- duced to 40 or 50 men. U. S. Gunboat Sent to Scene. Although Gen. Mo Ying-Ching Brought up reserves, he was driven back toward Mingkwang. The Northern forces, however, failed to follow up this advantage. In thé meantime, Nanking is prac- tically denuded of troops needed to 41l the gaps in the Nationalist front. Ten thousand men were hurriedly sent to Mingkwang, about 70 miles north of Nanking. Nanking is apprehensive over re- ports that the Northerners may shortly reappear at Pukow, across the Yangtze River from Nanking. As a result of reported disorders it Yeungkong, the United States gun- boat Asheville has been sent from Hongkong to Yuengkong by the commander of the South China pa- trol. The gunboat is to investigate the disturbance. Consular dispatches from Canton in- cluled a dispatch from three Ameri- | caas. at Yuengkong, who said the dis- turbance occurred Tuesday. Parading workingmen and students | broke into the American Catholic Mis- sion premises. The Chinese military forcas “saved the situation.” They arrested several leaders. This resulted citement among the unions, who demanded the release of the leaders. It was stated that further trouble is threatened unless the Canton military command orders Yuengkong military leaders to take further action. The latter is declared to be wavering, fear- ing opposition from Canton labor Te: . Nine Americans, including two wom- en, are said to be in the district. NATIONALISTS ADVANCE. Nanking Army Enters Three Cities In Wuhau Province. HANKOW, November 17 (#).—The anking Nationalists, seeking once more to consolidate the Nationalist po- sition in South China, today were en- tering the Wuban cities of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang on the heels of the retreating Wuhan army. The city, wild with disorders a few days ago when the Wuhan troops be- gan thelr flight to the accompaniment of pillage and looting, was fairly quiet, with martial law strictly enforced. Drastic police measures also were tak- en to prevent Communist agitators from taking advantage of the unset- tled situation to stir up trouble. Although the gates of the foreign concessions have been barred, fear that had existed among foreigners and Chinese civilians alike that disor- ders were imminent, decreased today as the invading Nanking army in gen- 1l displayed good behavior. The Nanking troops occupying the city opened the gates of the Wuchang prison and freed thousands of convicts including a number of Communists who had been sentenced to life im- {sonment. e capture of Wuhan by the Nan- king Nationalists brings the important inland trading center of Hankow un- der the Nationalist leaders, who set up a separate government at Nanking last year. By the capture the split hetwe the Hankow and Nanking Nationajists is effaced, at least tempo- rarily, although Canton, cradle of the Nationalist movement, is still outside, giving every indication of a determi- nation to function independently.) N Canton Revolt Aimed at Leader. Disorders in Canton reported in Hongkong dispatches today were re- garded here as an aftermath of the refusal " of the local military chief, Gen. Li Chai-Sum, to permit the hold- irg in Canton of a ronference of the Kuom ng, or Nationalist party. A Kuomintang leader, Wang Chang- wel, reeently visited Canton in an effort to bring the Nationalist political organization back .to its old head- quarters in that city for a cunference, but this was refused by the Canton dictator, at whom the new disorders FUBEAT tor be nimads