Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1927, Page 5

BEACK, UNDER FIRE. DENIES DEATH PLOT Lilliendahl Suspect Calm as State Vainly Attempts to ' Convinced President Is Out,| THE SUNDAY STAR. VIEWS CANDIDATES Members Turn to List s WASHINGTON, would be made more clear, either by a definite statement or in some in- direct manner, a large number o those on the ground have come to the conclusion that it is useless to look tor an elahoration. Field Seen Open. Accordingly, but proceeding caution, they have begun to feel each other out on the best course to pur- sue after the committee meeting ad- journs, and it is the opinion of some of the most prominent members that | the only thing to do is to go back home with the word that the field is open to any one whose chooses (o be- with 4, D. €., DECEMBER quently heard continue to be Hoover, Dawes, Lowden and Hughes, with the Vice President the second choice of nearly all the committeemen, who de- vopular in their localities. Wood Backs Coolidge. The most pronounced diversion from what appears to be the gencral trend toward considering it useles: look for a further word from dent Coolidge was the emphatic s ment of Representative Wood of In- diana, chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee that the President would be the next clare one of the other three is most | an Francisco rength. The ‘alifornia the arri of a large committee members, cisco and Kansas in_the speculation. 27—PART 1. ering voting for the Missonurl showed Detroit Pushes Drive, city, opened its campalgn in” earnest with ival of committeeman Willlam H. Crocker, and Detroit increased its efforts to hold the early advantage it seemed to have gained, in the opinion share of the early arriving the final tion lies between Detroit, City, Cleveland and Philadelphia still figure city insufficient meanwhile, selec- san Fran- although in PRESIDENT AIDING IN WAR ON DISEASE Sends Check in Payment for Christ- mas Seals Being Sold by Tuber- culosis Association. President Coolidge's personal check vayment for his allotment of 5 Christmas Seal headquarters, 1022 Eleventh street, in the Soclal Service House, represented the sale 6f over ;‘;rsc;';uuurterl of a million seals, or Dr. George M. Kober, president of the Tuberculosis Association, yester- day gave out the following statement: “Every dollar paid in to the Tuber- culosis Association for a sheet of 100 Christmas Health Seals not only helps to finance various forms of education in health habits for thousands of chil- dren in the schools, to provide special care for those children attacked by tuberculosis germs, and to aid hos- pital patients in their recovery, but also means increased protection against disease for every persom, young or old, in this community. The health work' of our association is essentially one of prevention in- cluding free information and advice to all who seek it and educational publicity for all who read. It is in this sense that vou are buying health insurance for yourselt and those dear to vou when you buy and use our Christmas Seals sessions will be opened tomorrow with an executive meeting. Tuesday the whole com- mittee will hear delegations from a dozen cities seeking the convention and later in the day will be received hy President Coolidge at the White | ¢ House. He will address the com-| president’s per- mitteemen, but is not expected 10| son; secretary, claborate on his “do not choose to|E. T. Clark. Thus run” statement of Angust the President The convention city probably |takes his stand with the other c be selected Wednesday. zens of Washington who have so far from in regard to the | tmas Health Seals mailed to them on trial with stamped return envelope inclosed for convenience in sending payment for seals bought or the return of any not desired. This morning the cash received at come active for the nomination. it the judgement of some, in fact, that this conclusion will be the most notable result of the meeting, which in previous years has led to | the laving of concrete campaign plans, | but many believe that while the sit- | uation will tend to clear itself as time | progresses, conditions at the opening |of the primary election campaign will | be on a move delicate basis of polit | ilcal understanding than in other re cent presidential years Christmas Seals by Dr. Ge of the Washin; ton Tuberculosis ociation, with letter of appri tion from the candidate, The committee “Mr. Coolidge will be nominated at rancisco,” said Mr. Wood from the center of the reception room of national committee headquarters, “1 am sure he will be nominated, and 1 am sure he will accept the nomina- on His statement was received with in- terest by the group which heard it, but there was no reaction from other politicians present 1 | As this holiday of political specula- A significant angle of the carly dis- |fion goes on, the committeemen are cussions of possible candidates is that | turning their thoughts to selection of | they are confined for the most part to [a convention city. An outstanding the few men who have been men-|development of the day was the place has been received {. Kober, president of Eligibles. Shake His Story. | By the Associated Press Convinced that President does not intend to be smoked out” for an amplification of his Black Hills | statement. the bulk of the Republican national committecmen who are | assembling here for the meeting to | select a convention city entered { more boldly ye lay into discussions | among_ themselves abont oth vail On the stand for more than three lable “for the party's presidentfal hours and a half, Beach loudly denied S einaton any connection with the killing of the | Although most of them came here | tioned most frequently for the Repub- [ Kansas City occupied in the discus- doctor eptember 15 near ! hopeful and of them fully ex flean nomination. Outside of Curtis | sions. a number of Western con monton, N. I, and reiterated | pectant that the President’s position ' of Kansas, the les most fre- feemen declaring they were consid- By the Associated Press MAYS LANDING, N. I, December 3.—Willis Beach. pale-faced, elderly farmer, who is aficted with heart at tacks, today calmly underwent a gruelling cross-examination in which he submitted testimony to clear him self of the murder of Dr. A. William Lilliendahl for which he and the doc tor's wife are on trial Coolidge will . Italian Deputies Approve Pact. ROME, December 3 (#).—The Cham- ber of Deputies today approved by ac- lamation the treaty of friendship and defensive alltance recently signed between Italy and Albania. Mackinnon, eldest chlan Mackinnon, sor of 700- of London, Miss Doris T hter of Col. I has been appointed prof Ilogy in the University tenable at King's College. some (HARRIS EWING - DR. JOHN FOOTE. entor of letters with rela intimacy with Mrs. Lil With frequent smiles that 1y broke into a coft chuckie the v.old chicken raiser brouzht laughter from the spectators gallery when he said he thought the New Jer- sey police were “very. verv efficient” | in the search for him during 10 days | in which he was in hiding in the at of the home of Mr James Parker of Linwood near Chester, Pa Beach raised his voic the crowded courtroom were hear when he declared that he never hefore had laid eves on Samuel Bark, | the lawyer and trick las soer from who was one of the State's star witnesses Rark aid Reach him in Baltimore that he had shot Liliendah) T never suntil he bz Sticks to His Story. Hinkle read terviews he had } 1o his indictment for murder in first decree, most of the excerpts touching on testimony that was | ('0R ) brought out again when Beach took the stand today. Repeatedly, Beach said he “didn't | recall” his answers to Hinkle when he was held for the grand jury, but | stuck to his story that he rt in Dr., Lilliendahl's death. | "% s session provided the tens excitement since the trial began last Monday. At the morning ses- sion, shortly after Beach, walking |, would not include Great Britain, with an alert stride that belied his|g,q 15 the expressed desire of the Brit. B8 years, took the stand. a woman it |ig) not to undertake commitments on the spectators’ benches toppled to the | o (oniinent in addition to those pre- floor in a faint. A deputy sheriff| . jpeq phy the Locarno agreements | fainted while on duty in the court-|,nq the British membership in the room yesterday Lengue of Nations. | Mrs, Lilliendahl is expected to be| PSS Of NoUONS o Lt deloga- called to testity Monday. tion to the Disarmament Preparatory Before Beach went on this mom- | onference, announced tonight that ing only three witnesses ¢ the |1, vesterdav had signed a letter of stand, all in conection with his dis- )| qperence to the protocol in behalf ppearance before indictment, but | AdRerence to the protocol 1o be: after he left it there was a veritable | ¢ | igonous and asphyxiating gase parade before court was fnaliy | feisonotis and RephYIatRE EatCR. Atiotrnen &k b=i%. proposed by Theodore E. Burton. as The stains found on the garments |y ag of the American delegation, W of Mrs Lilliendahl, after her hus-|gjaporated as an annex to the Con- band was killed may have been caused | Sention for the Contral of Tnteran. by milk instead of blood, a defense | {jonal Traffic In Arms. It was jmme. witness testified today. diately sizned by 27 nations, but has This testimony by Dr. been ratified by France alone. Ameri- Martland, of Newark, N. J., was can ratification still is pending. nded by the defense to offset that of 2 of the State's 65 witnesses who said POLAND MAY that chemical examination of the e s stains found uo the clothing of Mrs. 5 Lielliendahl, a co-defendant with Willis e o e Reach, for the murder, showed that agehiact ity is prepared to withdraw from they were human blood. Dr. Martland claimed that thero| iy Teague of Nations unless her were only two tests for determining | ishes with regard to Lithuania are infallibly whether stains were made | fuiaited. 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