Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1928, Page 2

I g° %2 JURY SHADOWERS ABEUSED UF FAK'NG Secretary of Cabinet offiial ’ Had Previously Paid Back Burns Sleuths Gave False Re- | Similar Sum. ports on Jurors, Govern- ment Charges. MEIKLE, BEFRIEN | Shows Gratitude for Help Given Him at Mooseheart School When Boy. g about an acquittal or | the Teapot Dome case, ssion by one of the jurors as suspected he was be the trial, were v tod: the out. proceed involy John Meikle is 27 years old now, but he'll never forget those earlier years of | his life. Orphaned by the death of his parents, John, who today holds a post of the decpest trust as personal secre- | ir and his five |tary to_a cabinet officer—Secretary of | Labor Davis—was headed for the mines defense coun= | of New Mexico, a forlorn little 12-year- x d |old youngster, when he came under the | T P. | protecting w of the Loyal Cvder of | s set (Moose, of which Secretary Davis is B! the head And last Summer John Meikle gave | to the treasurer of the Moose a check | so that some other boy s he had been might be given | opportunity.” This, in addition d | to having paid back a like amount bor- ht of |rowed from the treasury of the order |to pay for his schooling. John did it | Teapot | without any prelimina publicity or ve Frank | the fanfare of trumpets which some- | he thought was |times greets personal donations. Ho‘ e he was v rose on the platform of the id Moose convention at Philadelphia and | in a graceful little talk told the con- t the order had done for | ered his check | t one of many fos- er of which Seeretary housands of othe ) \ar opportunit operatives had | at the big Moose School at Mooscheart, shad- | Il But John was singied out by the he purpose of |director general to become his confi- mistrial in the Teapot | dential aide. He was just that for two ned procecdings of the | years and about five months ago he became his private secretary, assuming | e of a big desk at the Labor De- nent to handle many of the affairs fon of tered by Davis is the head. ad si was made by THE EVENING _STAR. DED BY MOOSE, GIVES $2,500 TO AID OTHERS JONN MEIKLE. of Government that come to the wel- fare branch of Uncle Sam's service. Parentless when his mother died, little John, a tow-headed kid, started for the New Mexico mines to earn his living at the age of 12. On the way some one told him he was entitled to the benefits of Mooseheart because his father had been a member of the order. on was made for his enrollment 20 he was graduated at the head ss. In the meantime, however, rved his Nation in the World War, donning the blue of the Navy. ‘The Mooscheart alumni, to which nearly all members of the Moose con- tribute, advanced him $2.500 and in three years he was graduated from the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh. ade by Detective Donald Stew- | 1 October 22, when the Burns man | * the juror, who was riding in & | " Senator Assails Procedure of g approached. Jurors were being | . . : 2 ne. urkinshaw con- | - Court in Trial of Sinclair- | | Burns Forces. s e sestianioe. m of the course followed in the @ 2 | District Supreme Court in the contempt GJ;rLce s;'ddicungvsnall‘!np:;rm "3‘: lhh~' | proceedings growing out of the Sinclair | eorts in contradicting the Burne re. | Teapot Dome ofl trial, voiced on the =, subject to a motion to ke out |floor of the Senate yesterday afternoon | the tes ""”-"flifs-"ha ;. by Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne- PRt et s e s chairman of the judiciary com- | counsel for Willam J. B | mittee, today brought a Tejoinder from | from Grenfeld that his | Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Harry | P. Sinclair. i “Senator Norris has committed a | flagrant and unmitigated contempt of court, from which he is saved by im-| | muity as a United States Senator,” Col Littleton said. It is a shameless efort to intimidate a judge in the trial Of a case.” { rz0g declared he had first noticed 3 day at his place of busie | ne ugh he was not positive hat the man was the Burns operative, ithout referring by | 3 ¥ 5 ¥ name to Justice ::-h:;de.: 'A:::dmzmmu“fing 0 & me- | prederick L. Siddons, who has presided s ploved a e shop where he | in the m;f' spnllgr Nnr;m ltml\: excep- o . tion to the procedure of the court in| ,,.\‘;5,:.’;,"8’-‘ aflm‘f‘:n‘h"mhf had | the contempt case after the charges of e ~' el oy y &b any other time | jury shadowing had led 10 & mmrml.L uring i L Senator Norris at the time was dis- oee aiter e it act | cn the admission of Senator-elect Smith e i admitted st thal €7- [ of Illinois, and was making the point mit tme {ihat, while powers sonetimes ere! 2eilly’s face was familiar to him |44, y mus! ” and that he thought he had seen the | abused, they must be vested somewhere. Sees Abuse of Power. e sianding outside his place of . 4 | Referring to the oil trial here and the !"’L'i"";eime qitness | steps taken by the court after the jury Wiitle vl &5 & Seoe ‘m‘cé ’hv.-cn discharged, Senator Norris P car. | 581, In part Delense counsel obiected, but was over- | ™ofy geclared & mistrial after enor- | mous amounts of money had been ex- pended, after the Government had gone on for -lu—ox; vith s case The court Was DOt awi " He practically held there, when it dis- e o I T8 | Biarged that Jury, that somebody—who- . courthouse to return home | €VET Was to blame for following up the 1 he had noticed a car keep- | JWy—was guilty of contempt of court. s benind him When he parked | 1Den, after waiting a week or two, the his door and went into the house, | BMe judge appointed s committee to og said the car drew up mcross | Prosecute these g( ple, when as a mat- nd the man in it evidently | ter of fact all that it would have been g for some one. Leaving his | Decessary for him to do, and what 1 return W the courthouse the | he ought to have done, assuming that r said he @idn't notice whether the | his decision in discharging the jury s there or not was right, was to say, “These defendants thaw ceused a mild sensation | Will be given until tomorrow morning overtures | OF the next' or whatever time he had \ during the trial | ® mind to fix—two hours would have trading his house for some other | been enough: the evidence was all in— T juror admitted that | ‘to show why they should not be held had been made | in_contempt of court. mediately objected | “Instead of that, however, after wait- i © had | ing for a week or 10 days, he finally ap- 1d | pointed a com e 1o prosecute them, | and then, when in good faith they out to follow the directions to rosecute these fellows who had becn | guilty of following the jury—this mil- | Lionaire who had money enough to hold | up even the Government of the United | Btates—when they got fairly started h it, the judge turned around, in- ad of trying the defendunts, and | tried the prosecuting attorney, and, ¥ bring | from what 1 can sce as it goes along, yowe was | 1 think he is sbout to find him guilty, and find the defendants not guilty. pond- | “That 15 an instance of the abuse of | power. 1t 18 & striking dliustration of it 1 know 1o We cannot e a G nt unless ve confide power o somebody.” Suspeeted Shadowing. 2 suspicion I was being fol- | “I had lowed, 3 W be poin IN FLORIDA RAIL CRASH | ———— | Mre ¥. F. Fountaine Was on Way to Visit Daughter, Who Is 111 in Mismi MIAMI, Pla, ary 20 (A).-Mrs, | ¥ E Fountatne, 50, of New York, mother | srrows Fountaine, dancer, was New Smyrua, Fla, the auomobile 10 s riting crashed o A of the Fiorida E 0d The Fountalne ehauf- ald W have been serlously Ars Fountaine was on her way to w1 Vo Join her disaghier, who I8 res bed Yy e 11 o s Mistl Beach hotel, | upon wdvice of physiclans, Smediately intormed of her Lher's death | PURSE THIEF MISSES $1. .| - {Ouly 85 of 86 1u Woman's Pocket Luok Taken, rid St An Led colored man last ould e | BRI sied 8 puise contaliing 86 sud o wnswer, | perbonal pepers from Miss Cora Koy, et bt Alnbainn Apirtoents, us she was walk- W except Wit (g on N eireet e L Twelfth wnd men were | 'Th Wi streete Lhe pockel ook wiss i wn wliey Uoough which thet n ! had fed wnd where he had e siber Laking &) 4 dikey of 1108 Four-und e U bsuthwent, reported W uolice Uit i gold walch wnd chaln and & wed alog iy bad been stolen from his Vo ‘Thureday sferoon. A duplicate Koy vas uskd U geln enlience, are [ unid e slong e i " of detectives ke mention of (s tact, HOOVER CONDEMNS RUBBER MONOPOLY Secretary Indorses Bill for| Collective Buying of Foreign- Controlled Materials. Americans who buy automobile tires have been forced to lose millions of dollars annually by Great Britain and its rubber monopoly, and the reduc- tion in rubber production by the British keeps the country dangerously near a buying panic, Seeretary Hoover told the House judiciary committee yesterday in indorsing & bill to permit the forma- tion of American trade assoclations to make collective purchases of raw erfals controlled by foreign nations. At the close of the hearings, Chair- man Dyer indicated that the commit- ppeared con cments were | The reduction in rubber production by the British keeps the world gerously near a buying panic, the Co merce Secretary declared. a3d mg times has lifted the price of the product be- yond reason. Indorses Newton Bill. Mr. Hoover appeared before the com- mittee connection with the bill in- troduced by Representative Newton, Republican, Minnesota, which amends the Webb-Pomerene export trading act and is designed especially to permit collective purchasing by American combines of rubber, potash and sisal, which are under monopoly control by foreign countries Three leaders in the automobile in- dustry, Including Harvey Firestone, president of the Pirestone Tire Co.. Charles D. Segar, president of the United States Rubber Co, and John J. Raskob, chairman of the finance com- mittee of the General Motors Corpora- tion, also advocated enactment of the measure as essentially needed o aid the American tire consumer, Becretary of Agriculture Jardine n a letter to the committee added his sup- port, declaring that the forelgn mo- nopoltes constituted a constantly grow- ing menace, especlally in the three roducts in question. He said that such {"‘thalmn would greatly benefit Amer- fcan farmers, who as a group consti- tute the country's “largest consumer” of the three commodities. Sees Soaring Prices. The efforts of American rubber man- ufacturers to combat the British mo- nopoly were outlined by Firestone and Begar, who described their companies’ plantations. Firestone sald that the United States used about 70 per cent of the total rubber production of the world and urged that American capital be utilized for growing of the commod- ity in the Plilippines and other sec- tions of the world Raskob suld that if the monopoly existed, there would be & continued Incremse 1 prices, “It {5 obvious that American manu- facturers are absolutely dependent upon a source of pplv over which they have no control” swid Segar. He declared that 80 per cent of the rubber was used by this country for the manufac- ture of tres and Lhelr accessorles retary Hoover suld that the meas- ure did not contemplate a trade w but was merely to protect the American consumer. He declared that the bill had been presented in 1924 after rub- ber prices had sosred o extreme Lelghts, and experlence since that tme had justified the legislation Expansion of the American rubber fn- terests 1o the outposts of the world was dscussed with President Coolidge to- by by Mr. Firertone He told Mr. Coolidge that American rubber miskers vere endeavoring W lo- wle new sources of production and that they were going ahead with thelr plans, undismayed by slleged efforts of Sritish nd Duteh rubber interests to Blave Americats o ‘The manufacturer’s discussion with Mr. Coolidge centered purticularly around the production area i Liberis, where Mr Pirestone believes American rubber people would ma dcrable headway in the future wossibility of producing rabber in the Philippines ulso wie considered, but Mr. Firestone suggested that w chnnge o local laws would be necessary i order that larger acrenye could come under American su- pervision TWO HURT IN WRECK. Forty One ¥acaps Injury When Express Leaves Rails, BATTLE CREEK, Mich January 20 (A% Two persons were slightly tnjured and 41 other passengers escaped njury whon the Ablaptic Fiyer, eastbound Grand ‘Trunk passenger (ratn, was de- radled Uils morning (wo miles west of the Hatl Creck station and thre Condhes turned over A boken rall belleved o have heen canused by contraction due W Uhe severe cold. waa blamed for the wieck All seven cars I the Galn ducluding & matl car, baggage car, w diner and four aloepein, wern deialied. ‘Lhe lucomotive Seniaiied ui the Lingk, | Seventh street, one of the severa CIISPECT IN JONES KILLING DETAINED Friend of Taxi Driver’s Wife Claims Alibi—Probe Continues. While police are checking on his alibt tha. he was at a dance with Mrs. William 1. Jon 2601 Morris Dl ‘ . at the time that her hus-| was murdered Saturday night | while driving his taxicab on Twenty- | ffth street between N and M streets, | Anthony Mathew Segreti, 21-year-old stonemason, 120 B street, Is being held | at the third precinct for Investigation in connectlon with the shooting. At the same time the theory has not been abandoned that the taxicab driver was the victim of a bandit Segreti stated that he was at a dance in the Pythian Temple with Mrs. Jones at the time of the shooting. which occurred about 10:40 o'clock. He said | he had never left the dance hall and did not learn of the murder until after he had taken his companion to the Washington Home for Children, 1715 | Fifteenth street., where she had been employed as a nursemaid for about six months. This statement s verified by Mrs. Jones. Denles 1l Feeling. Authorilics at the home stated t she failed to report for duty the after the shooting, but visited the he on Tuesday and collected her pay has not been discharged. they stated. and her position has not been filled | since her absence. | Although admitting that he had escorted Mrs. Jones to the dance with- | out her husband's knowledge, Segreti stated that her husband knew tha he was accustomed to visit her and that no ill feeling existed between | them. He was arrested Wednes afternoon as he stood in front of an undertaker’s establishment watching the funeral cortege for the murdered man start on its way to the ceme: “I didn't know about the shooting until I was on the street car going home after taking Mrs. Jones back from the dance,” Segreti told reporters, Authorities of the Washington Home for Children stated that when Mrs. Jones obtained her position there she registered as a single woman and they | did not know of her marriage until a few hours after her husband's body was discovered slumped over the wheel of his cab. Charged With Robbery. She (“HOT DOG" Charles Edward Harris, colored, 1847 color- | ©d men questioned during the investi; tion of the Jones murder, today formally charged with robbery, it be- | ng alleged that he was one of three men who held up Ready Small, colored taxicab driver, at Twenty-fifth and N streets, where Jones was slain, the | night of January 10. streets to drive the three men to the spot where they held him up, each dis- playing a pistol, and robbing him of $2.40 and his watch and chain. | COLD WINDS CRIPPLE UTILITIES IN CHICAG North and Middlewest in Path of Bitter Gales, Sending Mercury Around Zero. By the Associated Press { CHICAGO, January 20 —Whistling cold has come to the North and Mid- | dlewes | The roaring winds whipped Minne~ sota and Dakota temperatures below | zero last night and then spread South From 30 degrees above zero at 7 p.m in Chicago, the temperature reading fell 20 degrees in 2 hours. Trees and signboards were blown down here, and windows broken. Se eral bulldings were unroofed. Disrup-~ tion of lighting and transportation serv- ices was caused in some sections of the city. Car service in 15 suburbs was tied up for several hours. A St. Paul-Chicago plane was forced down at Madison, Wis. EPWORTH LEAGUE DINES. Dr. J. R. Edwards Will Spenk at | in Annual Banquet Tonight. Dr. John R. Edwards, corresponding secretary of the Board of Foreign Mis- sions of the Methodist Episcopal | Church, will speak on “Your Life in a Changing World” at the annual ban- | quet of the Washington District Ep- | worth League at Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church tonight at 630 o'clock, Qther speakers will be Rev. Mark Depp, Rev. Edward Parrish, dean of the 1928 Mountain Lake Park Institute, Rev. J. Phelps Hand, district superin- tendent; D. 8. Patterson, Conference Epworth League president, and Eugene Scheele, first vice president of the Washington District Epworth League. Rev. 8. Carroll Coale will pronounce the tnvocation and Rev. Clarence True Wilson the benediction Ernest A | Grant, president of the Washington District League, will be toastmas Music will be furnished by the Impert Male Quartet. FRATERNITY BANQUET. Randolph Leigh Bpenks at Kappa | Alpha Anniversary Celebration. Randolph Leigh, director of the Na- tlonal Oratorieal Contest, was the prin- cipal spenker at w banquet last night under the auspices of the Washington alumnt of the Kunppa Alpha National Boclal Fraternity, held at the Lee Houso In honor of the birthday anniversary of Gen. Robert K. Lee, president of Washington and Lee University when the organization was founded there In token of the services rendered the fraternity when he was president of the Washington Alumini, Itobert M. Heth wan presented with s gift from the fraternity by Frank 1L Meyers, prov- Ince commander, who spoke on the bi- | ennial convention held lust December | i Atlanta, Gn. Albert L, Ingle, presi- | dent of the chapter, wnd John Wikson, | local Jawyer, gave brief addresses A dance followed the banguet Winds ranging in veloeity from 36 miles an hour (0 60 miles an hour at allitudes around 3,000 feet blew along the Aty Alr Corps alrwa, Long Ialund, 3 today, tendering ull flying over thia route Anadvisable unless pllots 1n the Midddle Went destied Lo ride Kast on (he force of the br Meports recelved by Lleut. Bob K Nowland, operations executive officer at Hollng Fleld, today ahowed Uiat at Langley Fleld, Hampton, Va the wind was blowlig at a velocity of 60 wiles An hour between altitudes of 100 1 and 3000 foct, at Belvidge Fleld Mouut Clemens, b was 00 milea an hour #b | bride of 59 High Winds chci: A Observers Say Postman Honored W. P. MUSS Characterizing the record of W. Musson, 65 years old, of 3011 oridge place, as enviable, As Postmaster W. H. Haycock, speaking to the employes of the Georgetown post office at a celebration westerday at the post office marking the close of Mr. Musson's 40 years of service as a postal carrier, said that the postman had been faithful and efficient Mr. Musson, who has lived in this city for 53 years, recalled ths days when he entered the postal servic stating that 37 vears ago. when he e to the Georgetown station, with which_he . there at- tached to t He ated that 40 years ago the mail had to be pushed up the Thirty-first street hill in a push-cart and was delivered to the sta- tion by horse car. F. X. Waltemeyer, superintendent of the Georgetown statio: ed Mus- son for his faithful servic In appreciation of their friendship for Musson the employes of the George- town station presented him Wwith a 'DOGY CASE WON BY DR. FRANKLAND Autoist Cha;g:rl \;\:}T Failure to Have Virginia Licenses Given Dismissal Verdict. 20.—Judge e a ver- FAIRFAX. Va, amuel Brent this mo dict dismissing all cb A. Frankland. who by the “Hot Dog led the c He plead not g ing, being represented ert’ Stump of Alexal quest of the Commonweal Judge Brent stayed judgn mit Mr. Farr to write general, upon whose ruling the rant was originally issued, and if sary to then present the case to to per- War State Supreme Court for a ruling on! the law involved Dr. Frankland made no effort morning to de; that he and h had for three years re ed a bu Mount Vernon district of Fairfax County, using it for the Summer and for week end trips ted. however, that he was a resid @ ather than Virgini that he was g n h not required ginia tag. 'CONCRESSMEN VIEW | NE CARRIER BIG AIRPLA Party From Washington Reaches Norfolk on Submarine Ten- der Camden. the Associated Pre NORFOLK, Va. January 20—Ad- miral Charles F. Hughes, chief of naval operations: Rear Admiral Edward E Eberle, scnfor member of the Reneral naval board, and a party of Congress- men, most of whom are members of committees having to do with naval slation, are here today the miplune carrier Saratoga and 13 S type submarines By | The party arrived this morning from Washington aboard the submarine ten- der Camden and boarded the Saratogn to Inspect that vessel and then had lunch as guests of Capt. Harry B. Yarnell, commanding officer. BRIDE. 69, GROOM, 89, FIGURE IN ELOPEMENT Couple to ASr--k l{eh;(‘l\r\' “For- giveness"—Third Wedding for Each. ated Press Mich, By the Ass MONRO anta 20 A { and . bridegroom 89 years old, who eloped from thelr home in Lafayette, Ohto, in the face of family objections, und were married here yes- terdny, were returning home today o “face the music.” ‘The bridegroom 15 Jordan 8. Cratg and his bride was Mrs. Barbara €. Mil- his housckecper. 1t was the third ch had made to the altar. slipped nway o bo married be- cause new his family wouldn't ltke the 1dea”” Mrs. Cralg explatned Ho has a nice house and enough put away to keep us comtortubly NORWAY’S CABINET QUITS. OSLO, Norway, January 20 (9 —The cabinet of Ivar Lykke, which assumed office 1n March, 1026, resigned today as a result of Conservative losses in the October elections, when the Labor party won m ateiking victory. The premier said today that he had advised King Haakon to send for M Hellbye, leader of the Agravian party, and that the latter has ugreed to try o form a conlition government § The Storthing wssembled only s day eaters rmy Air Routes: Flying Is Inadvisable Mitchel it was 59 miles an hour ‘at the same altitude; at Unlons town, Pa, 1t was 53 miles an hour, and at Cimberland, Md 10 was 0 at 3,000 feel AU Bolling Field It was 30 miles an hour on the surface, 32 at 1,800 and 36 al 1000 feet AL Wilght Fleld, near Dayton, Ohlo, the wind wan 33 miles i the suface, but meteorologlata there were unable (G get any more data. as A ternife wind ab higher altitudes swept the pilot Balloon oot MEht before s moverment conkd be recarded I oany vne oul at Wilght Feld wanls to v J Washilngton,” abserved Lheut Nowlind, “he probably eoutd make It I about nothing M The wind was fone & genaal Doithe wealeily Juvt\h‘ 3.000; at retiring | to the attorney | inspecting | _ WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1928, MLCLUESTOLOST COLLEGE GIRL FAL Massachusetts Detective Clings to Theory That She Drowned Herself. By the Assaciated Pross NORTHAMPTC . Mass, January 20.--Despite the fact that St. John | Smith, father of the missing Miss | Frances St. John Smith, had increased | to $10.000 his offer of reward for in- | formation leading to her discovery, no | |new clue of importance was avmlublci tod In the week that has passed since {(l\l' 19-year-old Smith College fresh- man walked out of her room in Dewey | Hall she has been reported from a hundred points and detectives have | scrutinized nearly a score of photo- statlc coples of hotel registers without avail, | Mrs. Smith, who has been under a ician’s care since her arrival here ssist in the search for her daugh- st night issued through the press | |a pathetic appeal to the missing girl. | Hope in v hat seemed to be a likely | |clue in Pittsburgh was blasted when | a girl who had been thought to re-| | semble Miss Smith at a hotel there was proved to be a Toronto jewelry | buyer. | Investigators likewise pinned little faith in the belief of John H. Price, | night attendant at a Kingston, Pa., oil station, that the girl was one of a ¢ four who stopper at his place | Wednesday. | | State Detective Joseph V. Daley, in charge of investigation here, clings to his originally expressed theory that | ;.\Hss Smith drowned herself, | 'STRONGER RUM-LAW | SENTENCES URGED Mrs. Willebrandt Outlines Plan to | Give Judges More Power. By the ated Prose. on to strengthen the court's | sentencing bootleggers and i 3 r before a | | | tee by Mabel subcommi Attorney General cbrand. Willebrandt indorsed a bill by | Stal Republican. A which would strengthen th Volstead act by providing a fine up t $10.000 or imprisonment up to el o Felicitated Today %Joining of Texas and Cali« ‘! fornia Corporations May | Rival Standard Co, - — | By tha Assactataq p January 20~A possible , tandard Ofl interests for s seen today in announcee for a Zer of two of d {ndependent CHRISTIAN HANSEN, Veteran map mounter in the d manufactures. of the Bure sus, who today was prese purse of gold for his sever day, by M. T. Fitzger the division, at a surprise ceremony which all his associates participated Mr. Hansen was born in Tranek)aor, Denmark, and came to Wa 4 years ago. He was employed Dantsh legation here from 1888 until 1900, when he became an emp the Bureau of the Census. He is now un- | der tr4 gecond exten: fusing to accept retirement. He i$ a charter member of Albert Pike Lodge of Mas life member of the order. member of Mount Vernon Chapter the Royal Order of Scot a knight commeader in the 2 Consistor. COODWILLFLYERS HONORED 8Y CHILE U. S. Airmen Awarded Order of Merit for South Ameri- can Tour. 'HOUSE PAYS TRIBUTE TO FORMER MEMBER Addresses in Honmor of John W. Dwight, Deceased, Mark Proceed- The government of Chile has awarded pan-American good-w its rarely-bestowed Orden del Mer or Order of Merit, it was announced | ) ¢ Ambassador Da luncheon he tendered four of e embassy . for llegal manufacture, portation of liquor. The | imposes six months’ im- nt or a fine up to $1.000, or hese offenses, she said | s of the courts are tied at present when a large liquor offender is she declared. “This e and imprisonment en- ables the judges to impose sentences | commensurate with the offense and will hit directly at the big bootleggers | “At the same time it leaves to the | judges discretionary power to impose Small sentences where the cases are | not of @ Serious nature. This mea: the man who is caught with hal in 1 is automobil nce of a felon. for maximum MASONIC RITES HELD FOR R. L. CONNE Funeral Services for Late Trade| Board Official Conducted at Fam- J ily Home This Afternoon. | Funeral services ichard L. Con-| assistant sccretary of the Board of | | Trade. who died Wednesday morning, were conducted this afternoon at residence, 3502 Thil sixth street. for Interment was at Glenwood Cemetery. | b Barnard Braskamp, pastor of the | n-Teraple Memorial Church, ofi- | clated | Masonie rites w | by Acacta Lod A large de 3 of re held at the grave 0. 1. F. A A M i gation of members of the Trade, with which Mr. been ted s { Bardroft | Farquhar, John T, man F. Carl Honorary pa aham. _president the Board W._ W. Everett, first vice presi- E J. Murphy, Ben Brandenburg. W M Lea. Wil " Prescott | ham. Odell S_Smith, | Cottrell and Fred J. White | Mr. Conner {3 survived by his widow and one son, Vincent Harries Conuer, | three brothers and sist CONGRESSMEN UPHOLD LAW, SAYS MRS. YOST C G and Her- libearers were E. e 'y of| | David District Woman Tells W 7.9 Session at Richmond of Ob- ! servations Here, 1 By the Assofated 1 | RICHMOND, Va gressmen do not drink.” Mrs | Yost of Washmgton, D C | representative of the Nation: [V, told the national regs | ence at the open of fta t slon here yesterd “In my eight ye y gton T have never seen a Congross- | man take a drink” declaved Mrs Yost. | 1 have seen only one or two under the Ifluence of lquor. Of course, 1 have 1no way of knowing whether or not they have liquor tn thetr offices and butid- Ings, but 1f they do they certataly Keep | | 1t under cover * | | More than 100 delegutes, representing | 10 States, are attending the conferer | the expressed purpose of which is to | | brtng wbout better law enforcement and | promote measures for the election of | dry candidates “Con- | Elis A executive | w. C Al confe b days’ se January wu Four Who Removed Radio in Fun Face| Long Prison Tern By the Associatad Fiess. LOS ANGELES, Calif, January 200 Prison tevis of seven years to Itfe were the prospects of three men and & woman who were connvicted yeatorday of & burglary which they had considered as merely & foke They admittod taking & radio set from # citisens home, but esplatined thelr tecallections of the evenlng of the burglary were haey and they be | Jieved they had perpetiated the theit as A foke The four, who will he sentenced January Moare Ournelivs Van Put N his wite, Jake Patiick Sullivan and Richard Deming They weie convivied of sk desive DWRINN I B | S of work th Wash- | §) | the wark atw The four aviators who we: of the Ambassador M ings of Last Night's Session. | A. Dargue, Capt. I. C. Eaker az and E. C. W Secretary Secre- Assistant War Trubee Davison, Assistant tar t Commerce Gen. J. E. Fechet, ck Maj. Al Sec my Air Corps: Assista: ur J. Cai of Marcial . and to those soldiers and sai! republic who th s in the service of Due to the fact that the order disappe of those veterans In 1906, the Chilean gov vived the order as & decor & eight Ad er for the formal pres ewel of the order 1o the par Ayers. Tt $310,000 APPROVED | FOR WALTER REED DEL BORRELL RITES HELD, and Self iSmte Group Puts 0. K. on Hous- ing Improvement Appro- priation. corrdors. oon STAdING, $70.0 DEATH HELD.ACCIDENTAL. 00 Coroner's Jury Cl Killing of Mrs. Rowe A verdict of acv ted by & coroner's rducted at the mo: in the case of Mrs ¥ TS old. 4308 Georgia avenue, was fatally intured by the n K 4 | The Evening Star Offers a Booklet on Reeping a Budget. ead Funeral services we her late home at @ W afternoon. In Prospect Hill Qemete survived by two daug everal pleces of heavy machinery belonging to ¢ partment and now at Muse Ala . Wil bo barrowed by overnment for use nia - abutment to Herbert ¢ Whittehu! Eugineer Cummission v Muscle Shoals (o select the equitue Ry hortowing this equijmment the et 10 wis sakt, Wil save @ targe swa | of money and be able to vepair Bridie QuIckly Tt ta plannad to beg ut Mareh {, and it witl pey ceed % rApIlY A% weather candithons Wil permtt . Postmaster Genernl New 11 Pastimas New 0 bed ab his home with mfeciion 1 was sald at that While (he disease by ot 1E Was Wiy painiul and i was My New would have 0 wemaim W bedt sereral davs longer. His phyaioian haa u\l’v\l ARSI deeh General o e wer