Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast. Fair, continued cold tonight; mini- mum temperature about 26 degrees; tomorrow cloud; Temperatures: Ppm, yesterday. am. today, Full New York Stock Market Closed Today Entered as sec post office, No. 30,554 Washington, , vising temperatuve, Mighest, 36, at 4 Lowest, 21, at 7:30 report on page 9. ond class matter D. C @ WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1927—FORTY PAGES. & WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DISTRESS MESSAGE 1S RECEIVED FROM GRAYSON AIRPLANE “Something Gone Wrong, Says Radio Flash—Craft’s Position Not Given. SEARCHING EXPEDITIONS AWAITING DEFINITE NEWS Missing Plane Is Believed in Vicinity of Sable Is- land Coast. By the Associated. Press. NEW YORK, December Frances Wilson Gray: Dawn, flashed wrong” to the Canadian government radio station at Sable Island at 945 last night, they advised the Asso- ciated Press to A broken message with the single tragic phrase intelligible, ending with the letters “NCE” and signed Wi M. U. was the slender thread upon which hope hung today that the four oc- ipants of the plane might still be al The Canadian radio station said that the strength of the signals led them to judge the distance at 80 to 100 miles. ' Several ships listened for her sig- nals, but no report of any kind was received, the station declared. Gale Delays Rescuers. While forces in American waters and points along the New England Coast watched for trace of the plane, Canadian government agencies and Newfoundland authorities prepared to send rescue craft on a search. A Winter gale, however, delayed the start of the searching expeditions. The messages from Sable Island were the first direct word from the plane since it took off from Roosevelt Field at 5:07 p.m. Friday on its 1,200 mile flight. The plane passed over Orleans, Mass., on Cape Cod, at 7:25 p.m., Fri- 4ay, the radio station of the French Cabtje Co. said, and then vanished into a silence that was unbroken until the messages were heard from Sable Island. A difference developed, however, whether the wireless station talked with the Dawn on Friday or yester- 'WEARY MERRYMAKERS REST ON EXTRA CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY | }Government Departments and Stores Re- | main Closéd While Quiet Celebration of [ . "Yuletide Continues in City. A scimitar of gold over steeples, spruces and in the frosty moon- d and orange clusters h bells in the quiet slender star-crowned i abloom | shimmer with | of light, chu | evening— Dolls, rocking-horses, building blocks, | arums, tin soldiers, electric trains, {ta ts that mew, toy dogs that bow- | wow, tin wagons, spsuce needles, cot- | ton snow, bushels of candy, stomach- , castor oil— b rowed by invisible angels into bors of glamorous cities of sleep—= Thus passed Washington's Sabbath Christmas of 1927 Seldom has the National Capital known a quietey, happier or more bountiful festival of the natal day of I Throughout the city the ob- nce was largely that of an old- | fashioned home and church Christ- | mas which centered about the fire- jollification anywhere, and the Yule with turkey-laden tables and children | chasing mechanical toys over gift- | strewn floors. Yuletide brought with it this year one extra bounty—an additional holi- day. All the Government departments §4 SALVAGE SHIP ' MOORS AT WRECK {Falcon to Be Securely An- chored to Withstand Threat of Winter Weather. By the Associated Press. PROVINCETOWN, Mass, December 26.—The salvage fleet off this port | turned temporarily today to conclud- ing preparations for making fast at her anchorage the Falcon, from which divers have been engaged in work on the sunken submarine S-4. Permanent moorings for the- mine sweeper were deemed mnecessary as 2 precaution against the severe weath- er that is customarily experienced day. The chief wireless officer at Sable Island, in messages to C. H. Harvey, local agent of the marine and fisheries department, and to the chief wireless officer of the naval dockyard at Hali- fax. insisted he heard the signal last night. The Sabie Island operator has ‘been Tepeatedly chegked on his io- formation, but it was thought there was something wrong with his ad- o Accounts of receipt of the messages Sunday were regarded as puzzling, as the piane was long over- due at Harbor Grace at the hour wiven. Reporis Message Friday. officer in charge, however, of ha e Tstand station told the chiet wireless operator here tbat he heard he Dawn at 945 p.m. Friday. Based on the fast speed at wkich tbe plane traveled in its early stages, compula- tions indicated the craft could bave reached the region of Nova Scotia or sabile Island at the hour the message reported receive “’the r'nemage from Sable Island said: “At 945 p.m. (Eastern stan time) heard airship Dawn saying that pomething had gone wrong, but could not her, owing to storm inter- ference.” The fact that the message was re- ceived at the Sable Island station was taken to indicate the plane must have been in the vicinity of the island to make its signal Leard through the storm, which the operator reported eventually interrupted the plane’s S overwater fumps were before the Dawn if it had followed a direct ine from Cape Cod to Newfoundiand The first hop out of ¥ight of land was one of 250 miles from the cape to Nova Seotia and one of 150 miles from Nova Scotia o Newfoundland. Gasoline Believed Exhausted. The plans carried 525 gallons of jine when it took o Fabated us sufficient for 20 hours of fying. This period would have pired st 147 pan. Baturday wix bours after the time Mrs, had expected to reach Marbor Grace |. to prepare for & 2500-mile fiight to Croydon, ¥ngland With Mre, Grayson were Lieut. Omasl, G navigs 4 radio opera- . motor rised the pro- T eota and mnise riends and rel i ,.: fyers spurred searching efforts rom New York. DIRIGIBLE TO AID SEARCH. Navy Department Orders Lon Angeles to Beek Plane By the Associsten Press The Navy Depertment tofuy or Gered the sirship Los Angeles made ready o take the air in search of {he missing Grayson plane, the Dawn Apsistant Becretary Robinson ispued 1he orders for the Los Angeles, which will etart its search &8s woon ba the i wade ready, unless word e e Dawn i received in the s ntine There promised to be 8 elight delay o Ut any members of the Lox becaee P rew "were on Christmas ke 10 was felt that the big wir S would prove of great sesistsnoe the sesrch becausg of her crulsing h‘. "s/:fln"‘llr’l 10 the Los Angeles the Department siso ordered 1wo yere wt Moston 10 make carch Phey will wall os soon CInergency crews con be put ehowrd Navel officers pointed out that the Dawn wee designed for flight over erer and that f whe came down on e Boa Burface here wes hope that @ plill wes fosting. ‘avy o ot ue Two Patally Burned. TULBA, Okls., Le 6 W) M. Ervie Juck, 1% wend her 1% poomth ol won 1 were fatully ned 40 the expioslon of & #love @l « home of is Cynthia Caldwell Gurden ¢ a wuiurh, where they e v oat dinner Wy, dlace ollisss sre ln hos o 4 mber Veie arbetin , & supply es | expert. | here during the Winter. Anchors Put Down. Two - 88,000-pound anchors have been put down at the bow and stern, and four 6,000-pounders at the quar- ters will follow. As an added measure, the superin. tendent of lighthouses at Boston has been instructed to place gas and whistling buoys above the submersible —so0 that its position may always be certain. Divers from the Falcon, who spent most of Christmas day aboard the S-6, a sister ship of the sunken craft, familiarizing themselves with the in- tricacies of her construction in prep- aration for work on the 8.4, were ready today to begin operations on the shattered hulk so soon as others are ready. The first step, when permanent moorings for the con are com- plete, will be to finish the second of two tunnels which are being bur- rowed under the $-4, through which cables to be passed and pon- toons attached. First Opening Made. A survey of the stern showed it was much less deeply inbedded in mud than at first was reported, and there was a possibility that loops might be passed under the hull there with- out the necessity of a tunnel. The first opening under the S-4's hull was pushed through about 19 feet hack of the bow, and the second, now in process of being blown out by jdivers, is about 46 feet aft of the bow. 'GERMAN CHRISTMAS - HAS PRE-WAR AIR Generous Buying, Millions of Yule Trees and Other Factors Seen Again. | By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 26.—More than five and a half million Christmas trees |are shedding their woft radlance In | German homes. Thus, for the first | time wince the war, even the humblest |are able to celegrate the greatest na | tional feast in the traditional manner {of the fatherland, | " Nor ‘were the fallbirds forgotten. |Thie big Moabit Prison had its Christ | mas tres and the inmates received presents, The city's “down-and-out ers” were looked after by the Balva- tion Army, which supplied 2,400 par ipants in the celebration with bas 15 of food Christmas trade s reported o have exceeded the most sanguine expect. tons. MBuving, which in other years | suffered from the monetary strin. gency, once more resumed s gen: erous’ prewar aepect, ‘The short, wintry spell preceding the present !-\un. Kive & mighty IMpeLus Lo prac tcal presents, wuch ss furs, Winter | sport wrucien und such-like, but there | was also u great run on Jewelry, gra {ophones snd musical instruments of wll kinds, while the candy trade shows { record Buures 1his year, no fewer thin 150,000 Lons having been disposed of in greater Beriin slone, Jount goose in the typical main Aish of the German Christmas dinner. Jtus | win, for the frst time since the war | Lathuanis, Volund and even Hungary lund the Balkans m| ed i supply ng the Germun nd, which this yeur was around 12,000,000 birds Anotpier favorite dish seen on many tubles for the firm time since the wWur |18 Bohemian carp siewed In beer, ‘I treaitional custom will be revived of putting a& few carp scales in the purse These, 1t {n waid, Wil ulthmately turn o gold—If kept long enough, . Spain Pights Locusts With Planes Al Mo December e wrmy whplane e twrpination of have been gut 1o 8 Dew i 1o fht Ppgainst he ustn, which swarus vvgd the il sides. 1t was far from a day of riotous | tide cheer came at family reunions, | and stores were closed today, giving the tired workers a chance to rest after the celebration yester pro- viding altogether a three«lay vacation in the midst of the Winter grind Num us house parties In eity and country are in full swing today, while the chikiren make closer inspection of gifts which they lacked time to ap- preciate fully yesterday. There were special Christmas pro- grams in all the churches. Notable among these was the eventide singing of Engli German, Spanish and Russian Christmas carols, which was | broadeast by the choir of the National Cathedral. The bounty of the season extended from the richest to the poorest and every effort was made to help the un- fortunate, particularly the poorer chil- dren, enjoy the day with full stomachs and warm clothing. Free dinners were erved by various welfare organiza- ns and many food-filled baskets were distributed to the homes. There were services for the poor at each of the six S: ion Army cen ters. Dinner was served to 250 men at the Central Union Mission. Two hun. dred more were served at the Gospel Mission, 214 John Marshall place. A hundred free overcoats were given away to poor hoys by lsaac Gans of Saks & Co. Charitable_societies and (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) DIVERS WIN PRAISE FOR WORK ON $4 Men Risked Grave Dangers in Effort to Get Air to Submarine Crew. ‘The following is the last of the three articles by Lieut Comdr. Edward Eils- concerniug._the work of the divers on the sunken S-4. BY EDWARD ELLSBERG, U. 8. N. ON BOARD U. 8. 8. FALCON, off Provincetown Harbor, December 26.— ‘When Diver Thomas Eadie landed first on the sunken submarine S-4 last Sunday afternoon he used as a guide a 4inch Manilla line. A grapnel at- tached to this line had hooked itsell onto the tangle aerials over the S-4's conning tower, and it was there that Eadie found himself. ixcept in the tropics, visibility un- der water is always poor. On t at that time, in the afternoon, Eadie could see only about 7 feet, not be- cause it was dark but because the water diffused the light and made it as hard to sce anything, as if it were on the other side of a window with ground-glass panes. Fadie cut loose grappling hook and the 4-inch line to the 8-4's rail nearby. A ‘hasty ins.ection showed the submarine badly torn on her star- board side, just forward of her gun, which comes about 20 feet forward of the conning tower. Diver’s Taps Answered. The minute Eadie’s lead-soled shoes hit the S4 he felt a series of raps begin on the side of the submarine. He hurried forward (hurrying for a diver is like a slow-motion picture walk). The sounds grew clearer until he came to the torpedo hatch. Here he stopped, placed a hand on ft and hit the hatch with a hammer ke car- ried. Immediately he felt tarough the steel plate under nis hard six steady taps. A pause ind tnen six taps once more. Kadle left and went aft, where he listened intently, b sounds came from there, aft, and all dead except six men in the torpedo room. Eadie rose to the rface. Carr came down with an air hose which he attached to a special valve in the side of the conning tower, then open- ed the valve. Then Carr was hauled up. On the surface the Falcon start- ed to pump air through this line with the hope that enough water might be forced out of the 8-4's ballast tanks to allow the lightened bow tge float up. Meanwhile a third diver, Michels, was preparing to go below with a second air hose to attach to another valve from which air might be blown to all crew compartments, including the torpedo room. ‘The weather, which had been bad, was getung worse. Diving should ordinarily have stopped when Badie came up. The Falcon, hastily anchored and steadled only by a line over each quarter 1o the small tenders Lark and Mallard swept errutically back and forth over the 8.4 as the waves rolled by in the darkness. It was nearly sulcide for Michels to dive and practically murder for the of- ficers on the Falcon 1o let him go, but #ix men of the Nuvy lay below in the 4, pleading for air. Diver Plnned Fast. asping an air hose, Michels was holsted over the Falcon's side, and he disappenred in the black water, hix | diving lamp gleaming through the sea {as he slid down, Half an tne hawsers holding the Iaicon threatening to #nap each second and to word fr Miches, the tender tried te sign the diver's lifeline, but there was no anmwering pull. Michels was foul, Quickly Fadie was roused trom his bunk, hurriedly dressed wnd sent down to help Michels, He found him flat on ik fuce on the deck forward of the con- ning tower, pinned down by his tangled Iifeline and air hose, wh nmed in the twisted wteel ple then stratched ncross caught the iging down the port side h dunging of the Falcon up ubove had woven Michels' alr hone and lifeline 1nto u tangled web, caught in the wreckuge and held Michels u helpless prisoner. the fought for two hours i ruged overhend, siaw birs, untangling finally sending up ite o wafely, is an eple in it uls of the vy record no braver act, and when Sadle, his diving sult cut open from wagen of the B4 and filled with freesing water up to his helmet, finally rove through the wew he had written his pame in letters which blazed out brightly alongside of & steing of Nghting men going b 1o Jubn Paul Jones. yrther diving was impossihle stralning lines to the Lark and Mal lard were Jet go, and the Fal iid ing only to her anchor, rode wildly (o the passing weas. For two dave we and Dstened appwd o0t from bl hour, with rode the storms Wh broken hearts (o i We e Wevptinugd vi Pege 3, Gulumn 1) HICKMAN ADMITS HE ALONE KILLED GIRL, SAYS PAPER Youth Makes Full Confession, Portland Telegram Asserts. LOS ANGELES POLICE REFUSE STATEMENT Did Not Intend to Slay Victim of Kidnapin®, He Is Reported to Have Told Sleuths. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., December 26.— The Telegram says today it has learned on good authority that Willlam Ed- ward Hickman has confessed to Los Angeles authorities that he alone is responsible for the murder of little Marian Parker. That it became necessary for him to do away with her because he had ‘told her too much,” was the reason given by Hickman, it is understood, for the crime. The crime committed fn & manner that is even more gruesome than the public has been led to believe, the Telegram said, and it is deemed advis- able by Los Angeles officials to\with- hold the confession until Hickman 18 securely locked behind jail doors, for fear that the details would fan into flame the embers of the slumbering spirit of resentment that is said to have taken hold of the Los Anglees populace. Statement Denied. “We will have no statement to make,” said James Davis, Los Angeles chief of police, when questioned about the confession last night. “Do vou deny that a confession has been made?”" he was asked. “We will make no statement now,” he reiterated. i Asa Keyes, district attorney, stated he could say nothing at present. Hickman contended that he did not intend to murder Miriam Parker the Telegram learned. It also was intimated that Hickman did not commit the mured in the Bellevue Arms Apartment, but killed the girl nearby and then took the body to the apartment and there mu- tilated it. KIDNAPER CLOSELY GUARDED. Arrive in Los Angeles at 9 0’Clock Tonight. ABOARD CAECADE LIMITED, Salem, Oreg., December 26 (#).—Appar- ently resigned to his fate, Willlam Ed- ward Hickman sped southward toda: in a heavily guarded Pullman toward Los Angeles, where hé will face an ever-tightening chain of evidence by which the State expects to prove him gullty of the kidnaping and murder of little Marian Parker. In view of the possibility of en- countering violence in California, some secrecy was attached to the routing of the Pullman. At Portland it was hooked to the Cascade Limited of the Southern Pacific Lines, which is due at Oakland at 9 o'clock tonight. The official party, which included District Attorney Asa Keyes and Chief of Police James E. Davis of Los An- geles and a small army of newspaper men, kept a close watch on the pris- oner to forestall any more attempts he might make suicide. He tried twice to take his own life Saturday night in jail at Pendleton, where he was held after his capture near there last Thursday. Plane Journey Seen. Whether Hickman will be picked up by airplane and rushed into the South- ern city remained an official secrét. An airplaie which took one of the Los Angeles officera north last week was understood to be at Corning, Calif., which the train will reach about 4 o'clock this afternoon. The limited ordinarily does not stop at Corning. The accused youth had recovered some of his poise, which left him Sat- urday night as the officers from Los Angeles entered his cell and took their first good look at him. Aroused from sleep to look into the eyes of the California officers, Hick- man went into hysterics. e the floor for w moment and was p! up by one of the officers, who sai “1 have a message from Marian."” “Man, man! Where In she? Come, let me see her face! Hickman shouted. “Do you want to know what Marian said? Bit up and I will tell you,” his inquisitor went on. , The accused youth did not move, Writhes on Floor. When officers emerged from the cell Hickman was again on the floor, moaning, “Oh, God!" Hickman's two attempts at sulelde were made before belng taken to the train at Pendleton. The first was an effort to choke himmelf to death with a handkerchief. Iis guards thwarted thin and revived him with a glass of water, Shortly thereafter he climbed to a top bunk in his cell and plunged hend first at the concreto floor. The watchfub guards caught him Due to Although he continued to deny hav fng participated in the killing of Marfan. the sccused youth sensed the nearness of the gallows an he tulked about his coming defenve. “Any good attorney won't defend ince the publie feels the way it he nvgued. MHe insisted that e were hent on “getting” him in o Jooking for Andrew Cramer, mplice he named fn his con fenston un the wctual slayer of the girl el PN S, Two Die at Rail Crossing. CATTL BURAG, Ky, December 20 ().~ Two persons were killod here tast night wnd two injured when their motor cur was struck by o Chesapeake & Ohio train at n grade crossing. T'he vic is were making Christmas calls ‘The driver had walted f a west Bound train to pass, but falled to see the easthound tral Air Line to Cuba Almost Ready. NEW YORK, December 26 (), — regular alr passenger service hetween ey West, Fla, and Cuba fs to be sdded within two weeks to the present | service, the Pan American Al & whnounced ’Vllflll‘liy Pen punsenger Zivbmol wed Fohker abin planes Wl cut the travel time Lo one hour and 10 minutes, & FIVE SLAIN, 4 SHOT IN STREET BATTLE State Troops Patrol Tennes- see Town—City-County Strike Feud Blamed. By the Associated Press. SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn., De- cember 26.—State militiamen patrolled this small industrial town today to guard against possible echoes to ,a briet but withering flare of gunfire which last night resulted in death for five police officers and serious wounds for four others, all members of war- ring law-enforcement factions. Meanwhile State authorities en- deavored to penetrate the maze of conflicting evidence and the confusion brought by the affair in order to fix blame for the fray. ‘Witnesses said that less than a min- ute was consumed by the encoumter with shotguns gnd pistol. Battle Follows Feud. Sherifft Wash Coppinger, Deputy Sheriff L. A. Hennessey, City Marshal iwing Smith, Night Marsbal Ben Parker and Special Policeman O. H. Larowe are dead. Chief of Police James Conner was taken to a hos- pital, where physiclans held no hope for his recovery. Deputy Sheriff Fay- ette Neison and Special Policemen Charles Pittman and John Bates suf- fered less serious wounds. The fatal interchange of shots was described as the culmination of a feud between county officers and city offi- cers growing out of a strike in a local manufacturing plant. County officers are alleged to have sympathized with rikers, while city officers and spec! policemen were detailed to stand guard over property affected by the walkout. The- fatal skirmish was traced to a minor conflict according to the story of Thomas Connor, a deputy sherift and brother of the police chief. He sald that in & scuffe early last night city officers bad drawn a pistol on him. Later, he sald, he, Sherift Coppinger and several other deputies encountered members of the city force and “strike breakers,” on the streets, When Sherift Coppinger attempted to arrest members of the opposing group for drawing a pistol on Conner, the latter sald, the gunfire began. He charged Ewing Smith fired the first shot. Hennessey was the first to fall, it was sald. Jim Conner, re- ports sald, continued to fire after he fell with a shotgun load in his abdo- men. Witnesses declared that the action was so rapld that no coherent description could be given. They also declined to offer statements as to those who had engaged in the battle, outside of the casualties. Boy Escapes Bullets, Fred Bennett, restaurant proprietor, was struck by shotgun pellets when he rushed to the street after hearing the firat volley. A small boy sitting In an automobile 150 feet away from the firing saw the radiator cap of his car whot away, but was uninjured. ‘The streets in the ifelghborhood were almost deserted where the firing begun. Immediately after the battle had subsided, calln were sent to Chat- tanoogn and Nashville for National Guardsmen. Mombers of the 109th Cavalry from Chattanooga, about 20 miles away, were sent into the town and word from Gov. Henry Horton, in Nanhville, indicated that a detachment would leave from there as quickly as possible to ald In matntaining order, ‘The town, of mpproximately 2,000 Inhabitants, lapwed into a rent quiet s soon as the shots had died away, v S ——— HUNGER STRIKER DIES, BEATING FRAUD CHARGE Willlam M. Cooper, in Salisbury, Ma, Jail, Without Nourlsh- ment Three Weeks. HALISHURY, Md, December 24 After refusing food for more than three weeks in a welf-imposed hunger strike, Willlam M, ouper cheated embesglemont warrants lssued for him in connection with an alleged bullding and loan company shortage and dled last night. Cooper established the Wicomico Loan Assoclation 32 three weeks ngo It d 1ts doors after belng adjudged bankrupt, Hinoe that time, Cooper, who was churged with u $20,000 misapproprin (lon of funds, had refused nourish- ment, Radio Programs—Page 34 ¢ Foening Star. * ‘{ 0 1y ‘ Wl SEE WHAT SANTA S Smoke of St. Louis Held Responsible For Priest’s Death y the Associated Press. S8T. LOUIS, December 26.—The smoke pall and fog which have enveloped this city the last two days was blamed for the death last night of Rev. Pierre Bouscaren, §. J., professor of metaphysics at the 8chool of Philosophy and Science, St. Louis University. Although suffering from no viru- lent lung trouble, he contracted a cold several days ago and com- plained of inability to breathe in the smoke-laden air. Upon recom- mendation of his physician Father Boscaren was rushed away from the city to the Jesuit retreat at Florissant, Mo. During the trip he Japsed into a semi-conscious state and did not revive, —————— SIXLIKELY DEAD IN-VIRGINIA FIRE Ruins of Grand Central Hotel at Hopewell Being Search- ed for Victims. By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, Va., December 26.— Fire-blackened ruins of the Grand Central Hotel here were searched to- day to determine whether six unac- counted-for guests lost their lives in the Christmas morning blaze that de- stroyed the building. The missing are: Charles Cocke and Luther Hammond of Hopewell, Mr. and Mrs. Maude of South Carolina, a Virginian named Ridenbush and a Mr. Sanborn of Massachusetts, Complete identity of the missing was not at once available, because the hotel register was burned. Mr. and Mrs. Maude were bride and bride- groom. There were no children among the approximately 50 guests registered, many of whom had left to spend the holidays at home, 1. L. Edwards, acting night clerk, discovered the fire when it ate its way through a thin partitior between the lobby and a furniture store that shared the lower floor. He ran to the second floor to spread the warn. ing, collapsing there in a smoke-filled corridor. A policeman who entered by a fire escape dragged Edwards to sufety, Persons on the second floor escaped down the stairways, but many on the floor above had to walt untfl fireme: e them. One couple tied shee gether and slid down them to the ground. Search for hodles was begun by Fire Chief Cuddihy as soon as the fire | had burned itself out, but the work was handicapped by falling of the front and a side wall, piling debris thut must be moved before a complete “heek Iy possible. The greatest loss was suffered hy .‘)lmmrl:u-nuun store, approximately GETS BALKAN POST. Dr. Dever Named Medical Director of Catholic\Body. Dr. John Ryan Deveroux of Chevy Chase, Md., will leave here in a few days to visit the Balkan States as medical divector of the Catholic Near Hast Weolfare Association, a position 1o which he has just been appointed. Announcement of his appolntment was made yestorday by Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, vice president of Georgetown University and president of the asso. clation. Dry Devereux will make an exten. sive murvey of sanitary and health conditions (n the Halkans, with & view to recommending such medical reliet meanures as the assoclation may find it posaible to offer, While In Kurope the new madioal divector will visit Rome to confer with oficlala of the Vatican on the results of hia atudy, Youth's Car Kills Woman, CINCINNATI, December 26 (¥ — Novman W, Harvis, 32, & son of Al bert W, Harvis, Chicago banker, was urvested on & charge of manslaughter Haturday night, after his automobite struek and Killed Mis. Blanbeth Do lor, B0 Witnesses sald Haveis attempt ol to escupp T wis pbloased under §28,000 bonds supplied hE Wis fathen, service. Sunday’ (P) Means Associated Press. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Saturday’s Circulation, 95,761 Circulation, 107,233 TWO CENTS. (OOLIDGE HAPPY AS A BOY AT GIFTS So Eager to Open Packages He Can Hardly Wait to Finish Breakfast. President Coolidge could hardiy wait to finish breakfast today, eager was he to get to the mail room of the executive office and collect the bundle of presents and greeting cards which had arrived late. He did not open these in the mail room, but he filled his arms and hur- ried back to the White House and went to the library on the second floor. whers all of his presents have been arranged on tables, and slowly opened the packages and examined studi- ously each one. There is no mistaking the fact that President Coolidge is deriving a gen- uinely boyish delight and merriment out of the many ts and other kindly reminders of Christmas he is receiving this year. The President's gifts are still arriving and probably wilt continue to arrive for the next few days. Lots of Fun. Judging from appearances, the President is hoping they will con- tinue, because he is having all sorts of fun. It is obvious that he has been deeply touched by these mani- festations of good will and kindliness on the part of the people of the country. S0 many people have remembered him. There are not so many really costly gifts in the number received by the President. and this fact probably pleases the President most. For the greater part his presents are simple in their nature—mostly something of a practical and useful character. The fact that today is a holiday and is being observed in honor of Christ. mas did not cause the President to alter the ordinary routine of the White House. He and the other members of his household were up | and about at the customary eariy hour, and although he had promised | to follow the example of the other | servants of the Government and take | & camplete holiday, he did so oniy partly. { _ He spent nearly two hours at his | desk in the executive office, pouring over routine papers and signing com- missions. Before becoming al In this work he sat in a large soft to the window and read the morning newspapers. Takes Brisk Walk. Before breakfast the President | of the White House for a quarter of an hour or so, stopping for a while to talk to Rebecca, his pet raccoon Whose cage is not far distant from the south portico. No plans have been made by th President or Mrs. Coolidge as a means of celcbrating the day. Thelr meals Will be at the usual hours. Like many thousands of other American house- holds, the White House will have a sort of leftover turkey dinner today. At the sumptuous Christmas dinner vesterday, Attorney General Sargent was the only guest. Following this meal, he and the President chatted in the library for nearly two hours. Coolidge and thelr son John, who ts home from Amherst College for the holidays, attended services at the First Congregational Church vesterday morning. This was the first time services have been held in this church since last Winter, when it was closed for alterations. Rev. Jason Noble Plerce. the pastor, preached a ser mon, v as his text Became Flesh ™ 18 CELEBRANTS HELD. Drunkenness Charged by Alexan- dria Police—Two Drivera Special Dapated 1o The Star, ~Eighteen Christmas celebrants were Arrested here yesterday an oharges of | being drunk. Two of the defendants are charged with operating autome biles while under the inftuence Nquor. Lloyd George Reaches Lisbon. LISHON, Poartugal, December 24 (4 Furmer Premier David Liovd George of England, who, with his family, ts en route to Prasil aboard the liner AVolana, spent three hours here yeos terday when the vessel made her \oulE oAl Blis daughter, Miss Megan, visited ashare while her father vecelved the Ruitish chancelion and wew spaper men aboant, so | armchair which he had moved close | walked briskly about the rear grounds | The President, accompanied by Mra, | of | ONEKILLED, 3 HURT AS FLAMES SWEEP APARTMENT HOUSE Blaze Routs Occupants of the Kensington, at 2501 Fourteenth Street. VICTIM IS SUFFOCATED IN SEARCH FOR CHILDREN Friend and Two Firemen Injured. Retired Jurist, 96, Led From Burning Building. William Jaseph K the office of Representative Sirvoich of New York, lost his life early today in what friends said was a heroic effort to spread the alarm when fire swept through the Kensington Apartm: 2501 Fourteenth street. Three men were injured, two of them firemen. They are Guy H. Keeton of 2700 Q street, who was res- cued in an unconscious state from the apartment in which Kelly was suffo- cated; Sergt. J. R. Best of No. 9 En- gine Company, who received a sprained back, and Pvt. Carroll Hull of No. 21 Engine Company, who was overcome by smoke. The fire occurred at 4:30 o'clock this morning. Kelly escaped from the apartment once, but lost his life when he re- turned to make sure that every one | was out of the building, it is declared. He was found dead in his apartment on the fitth floor by members of the rescue squad of No. 11 Engine Com- pany. He had a gash on the fore- head, presumably from a fall, but it is believed death was due to suffocation. He also was severely burned. Companion Rescued. Both Kelly and Keeton were taked | to Garfleld Hospital by police from No. |10 precinct. Keeton soon recuperated. however and was removed from the hospital by his father. Sergt. Best had been detailed to the engine company from No. 9 Truck Company. He was among the first firemen to attack the fire. He fell while mounting a ladder and was taken to Emergency Hospital by Res- cue Squad No. 2. His condition is not regarded serious. Fireman Hull was overcome by | smoke on one of the upper floors. He was carried next door, and, after oxygen had been administered by the rescue squad, was revived. He was taken later to Emergency Hospital Origin Is Unknown. Of undetermined o the ap- | pearsto haive started in & shaft accommodating counterwelights | for the apartment elevator. The flames shot up the height of the five- story building. doing their worst | damage on the top floor, to which | most of the fire was confined. The | fourth floor also was burned and the other three flooded by the firemen combating the flames. The second floor might also have been swept by flames had it not been for the work of a fireman. Clement Murphy. who resided on that floor. Called by Mrs. Annie M. McAllister, who discovered the ®re breaking out from the elevator shaft. Murphy | notified the Fire Department by . tele- phone, and then seizing a fire e tinguisher. succeeded in forcing the fire back into the shaft. | Five alarms were sounded and police | reserves were rushed to the sceme, to assist the command from No. 8. Coid added to the dific of the firemen. | Water froze to the trees neardby and formed ice on the pavements. Kelly, who was | apart | Bartley, spread the alarm | Part way down th | way out. he called { “Are the children o Returns o Fire. | _Bartley said he assured { the children were safe, but K | ed back upstat | Jaater he was found dead in the room where the children bad slept. | In this room also was mute evidence of the pall which the fire cast over the Christmas festivities of the day be- fore, throughout the apartment house. {A new Christmas doll, delonging to dren, was found ts little wicker as tree, which the i £ chair, while the Christ had ‘east cheer holiday, was singed |drenched with water | Koeton, who wa | smoke, had deen spe d last night with b Bartley said. [ Members of the rescue squad who Ifound Kelly amd Keeton were T. K Waterfield, J. K. Wal S K. -Bumn, DR, Forne Clem, and G F. Kite. The dead and imjured men | were taken to the hospital by Pulice- | men Leonard Sager. George Tittington |and H. Q. Remner of Nau 10 previnct. | Victhm Badly Burwed. _ Kelly's dady, acconting to Dr. B X Smith of the hospital, was buraed badly on the arms, face, it side and teft leg. District Commissioner Proctor 1. Dougherty, in charge of e and po Hoe, Wus 0n the scene early to survey [the work of his depariurents at the [fve. Maj. Buwin R Hesse, 1 o {15 J. Stall and Inspectos A J. Head- Ny of the Pulice Department weee among police oficials arriving early, {Capt. R of Ne. § was i oom mand of the police of his precinet. | Damage was estinated by Mire De partment ofioiat TodMY as adout $IS.000 to the b & and $8.000 to - [the contents. The weaperty is owned | by Samuel DL Rarrison, Whose agents { hore are Cahill & Mens. | roe adioining apartvent, the Leaw- ALEXANDRIA, Va, December *6 | | ngton, was damaged sishily by wates, Man, 96, Excapes, Among the many persons who had [DATIOW escapes from the fames Was | dudge Chartes S Bundy, retived, foes merly of the Municial Court, whe is 96 years oM. He lves o am apart went on the secand floar With Mra Annie M, MoAlister and Mvs Clara B Felster When (he five hivke out, All three Were fust asheein , Mre M Allfster Waa awakened By Sawmes Opening the door of the apartment, ahe saw fames ahooting Wi the e vator shaft. She immediately awak: tegation | ened Mrs. Fulster ad Judge Rundy. Judye Bundy began 1o dress, but the fire galued hoadway so rapsily that [ NIve. Poister thiew & coat over M shouiders and polied Aim ta the aan rhir. As Judge Bundy stated e \\\“uluo\l on Puge & Couwmn 8 W