Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1928, Page 2

" * BRITON CONDENNS Engineering Groups Of U. S. and London -~ NAVY COMPETITION ™ Mect by Radio Parliament Member Here Hits Building Contest, but De- fends U. S. Program. cciated Pross, The statement paval butlding race between the United s and Great Britain would be the “worst thing” that could happen, was made today by C. D. Burney. a member of the naval affairs committee of the British Patliament. fn an informal con- versation With members ‘of the House al committee urney was introduced by Repre- tive Britten. Republican, Illinots, rman Butler remarked that he By the A he visitor. who had listened | of the administration’s hip construction pro- hered the idea that Amer- to sl Not Concerned. ot think the pro- It was his opinion that all re- ble persons in the British Par- °d States had & vy equal to that so long as the com- h and American navies he navies of other world powers the world “will be protected and added that he believed England with 1 r-flung trade routes was more d to work closely with the United than the Americans were pre- her said ft was “a great some sections of both the n and British press harped hey described as an ele- competition between the two ons, and that he was positive that ponsible statesmen” in England did t hold that feeligg with regard to the American Navy. S Says World Future at Stake. “The whole future of the world de- pends upon the United States and Great Britain working together,” he said. Burney added that he regarded the failure of the Geneva Arms Limitation Conference unfortunate, as he did not think ‘either national had any ulterior motive in mind and that England had entered the conference with hopes for an_agreement Chatrman Butler said Burney, at an date, would appear before the commitiee ar a witness for questioning " plan for a dirigible pas- senger-mail line between New York and London, said that the Post Office De- partment had indicated it would recom- mend legislation to legalize transatlantic that he believed &} v concern in Eng-| By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 6.—Elec- trical engineers in London and New York on February 16 will hold a “joint” session made possible by radio’s seven league boots. Addresses made at the meeting in New York of the American In- stitute of Electrical Engincers and in London at the meeting of the British Institute of Electrical Engineers, on that date, will be simultaneously broadeast for the first time, Bancroft Gherard, president of he American organization. has announced. ‘The voices of the speakers will be amplified 100,000,000 times to carry the vibration over the radio eircuit. Memoers of the two audiences are expected to hear each other without the aid of head sets. CHILD LABOR BILL - MEETS APPROVAL McLeod Subcommittee Or- ders Favorable Report on Measure. ‘The McLeod subcommittee of the House District committee today ordered a favorable report to the full District committee on the child-labor bill. Several amendments were adopted which had been agreed upon in confer- ence between the Washington news- | paper representatives and the propo- nents of the legislation. | . Another amendment which would al- |low telegraph messengers between the ages of 18 and 21 to work a shift end~ {ing at midnight instead of at 10 o'clock |was approved after the representative of the companies had made a vigorous argument /and the proponents of the legislation said they were willing to ac- cept the amendment. Most important among the amend- ments made were to lower the age Jf boys delivering newspapers on regular routes from 12 to 10 years; making the minimum age for newsboys making street sales from 14 years to 12; allow- ing boys between 14 and 16 years to | work until 7 o'clock at night instead of |6, and giving appellate jurisdiction to the Board of Education. There were a few other minor changes. Chairman McLeod also made his re- port to the House from the full com= mittee in favor of the bill concerning liability for participation in breaches of fiduciary obligations and making uni- form the law in such cases.* ‘This bill was Introduced at the re- quest of the Bar Association of the Dis- trict. At hearings before the District air-mail service. and that he hoped to have three of six dirigibles built in the TUnited States. ) PLANE MAY SEEK ICE FLOE VICTIM ANl Agencies Scouring Lake Erie for Trace of 10 Missing Men. By the Amoriated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y, February 6— ‘While 3!l agencies of the Governmhent Marine service scoured Lake Erie to- day for 10 fishermen adrift on an ice flce, an airplane was held in readiness at the Buffalo airport for an attempt to locate the men. Some doubt was expressed today that the men are missing. Nathaniel Duffy, ¢cirector of the airport, plloted a plane along the Canadian shore yesterday, but found no signs of the men on however, were adrift. and helpless to ald them- meives in near zero weather. The search was pressed on their positive assurances. Decision on the plane search rests with Capt. Paul Forner of the Coast Guard Bervice, who returned this morning, with his crew, after an un- successful search for the men. If the men are marconed on the ice, marine b:bwerv‘ ers dgtpntww mugh{’ they must n a . At the time of the r:‘ponad grul- 2way a stiff southwest wind was blow- ing that carried the drifting ice fleld quickly out into clear water. —_——— U. S. LETTERS WILL MAKE AIR RACE AROUND WORLD Yewspaper Dispatches Missives-in Oppesite Directions in Effort 1o Set New Record. By tie Asworinted Press BEATT Wash, FPepruary 6—~Two 2!t mall letters will race each other sround the world, traveling in opposite rections, in an “sround-the-world air rewspaper the two letters will rialied trom Beattle, Fepruary 11, -'r'.d ) be rpecded on Lhelr opposite puths 4 e giobe by use of all available sl roules here snd abr Tie Fort Office Depariment i as- sting in the race, the purpoe being present record for cir- of the globe by Wters |eral pollce regulations of the Distsict of | nd Vs Pesn, ietter will be sent by Wasen , wiere 1t will be ) ey weross the Unived The westpound let- alr o v Viguria, iis, Uhence 0 the Orient | ANSWER INQUIRY CALL. Gir Lesth Promise 16 Appear. Pair Wanted Chicago CHICAGO & AT ) vaded po- fur gt 5 Ve Bty Chinme it merved gt Fen i sy tatore i Clisitints a3l nightiel Ui hus- wanied vy Ci Jund Arad rih e apRrtyent last month dar v 08 mouth Teped w00 Ler nesd Lereed Uy & beavy biov 270 KILLED AS REDS. Canton m.;,".. OontinsiestBound Jp Begun Bix Weeks Ago A the e fule, had had men but Feinusry 6 Y wlute tiwre ab Com s was I L3 Chai-Bum wiite rom Ui | o Vhwy hid e £ et Ule bt /s st ey will | Ae by committee its passage was advocated by representatives of the District Bar As- soctation, the American Bar Assoclation and National Conference of Commis- sions on Uniform State Laws, the Clear- ing House Association of the District, the American Bankers' Association and the District of Columbia Bankers' As- soclation. The District Commissioners signified their approval by letter. i COURT FAVORS CITY INMARKET RULING Decision Gives Control Over Health Regulations to Municipality. Health reguiations of the District of Columbia are sull applicable to Center Market, although jurisdiction over the building has been transferred to the Department of Agriculture, accord> ing to an opinjon of the District Court n“h‘rgguu, rendered today by Justice CI H. Robb. When the market was established more than 50 years ago, says the court, express authority was conferred u the municipal govern- ment to make and enforce such regula- tions with regard to the market and its management as the convenience, health and safety of the community might re- quire. Congress has taken away the management, but has not clothed the Becretary of Agriculture with the police gzmr given the municipality, the court Rockward Nusbaum, a dealer in the . was arrested and fined in Po- lice Court on a charge of exposing for sale in his stall within the jurisdiction of Center Market honey which was not effectually and in a cleanly manner wrapped or covered or inclosed so as to protect it from dust and ipsects, in violation of the District regulation. Justice Robb reviews the act of March 4, 1921, by which tle jurisdiction of Center Market was transferred and the regulations made by the department, including the one dealing with sanita- |tion, In which It is IP,}ulrrd that goods offered for sale should be protected by svery _precaution from contact with dust, a flles or other contamination. The wording of the act of Congress falls v show any transfer of police power U enforce regulations for “health | court finds. “Evidently Congress | #ays Justice Robh, “that the health and safety of the community could best be protected through regilations of the { municipnl government, und hence dele- | gated police puwer w’that end. Bince | the date of this grant of power and for | & perind of more than 80 years the gen- Columbia for the provestion of pubiic | bealth have been applicd to the market. | We are niow usked W rule that becanse | Congress b caneeled the origing) lease taken over the property and become in Jeftect m landlord there must be wssamed {on ntent on the part of Congress 1 lelothie 1ts ugent, the Becretary of Agri- culture, with the puilce pover thereto- | fare_conterred upon the municipal gov- ernment " guage, the court says and would o have left the matter 1o dmplication, No authority o protect the with wnd siaferty of the community 18 conteired o viwe fucrevary of Agriculture, Ve eount podnts out, and such evidengly is bis understanding, tor there Js 6o conflict between his regul; e nunicipnd govermment, wnd both |may be given eftect The conrt con cludes “The Becretary, wne dsndlora, Limy cancel n lease or geomit the Dis et muthorities by prosecate for u vio- Llation of iy police regulation The judgment of the Police Court Land tie fine imposed are aMied VIRGINIAN DENIED BAIL. Atremnpred Assault on T-Year Old and Lo | Charged tn Arlington County, Bpecdul Doapmtoh vy Lhe Btar | TCLANENDON, Ve, Femrusiy 6 | Vernon M Behooley, b3 yeare old (wireried yeaterdny by county offic ot of [a Chmige of aitempled nessult o 8 i- wrola chiid Given m gueliminsiy hearing belinag e dirs b the office’ ol the com alloriey thie g e gadlty, 1 e seld snd was hield for wetion of the grand vy without il Ehiey bas & wite wid 1i-yens- wid Gaughwr, | ye and safety” of the community, the | appreciated.” | Had Congress iintended 1o do this it { would have sald e 10 unambiguous dan- | (TURFMAN INDICTED | | | | Wright, grand larceny. | the {und others concerned G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. AT FOUND AT FORD'S THEATER SAID TO BELONG TO LINCOLN UNDER MANN ACT Grand Jury Names Two in Killings—Charges Police- men With Extortion. Daniel Brown of Los Angeles, sald by Department of Justice agents to be a miliionaire race track owner, was in- dicted today by the grand jury on a charge of violating the Mann act by transporting & girl 16 years old from Florida to the District of Columbla for immoral purposes. The indictment charges that the girl was transported April 12, 1925. According to the investigation by Gov- ernment agents, it is contended that Brown brought the young girl, a resi- dent of Salt Lake City, Utah, from Los Angeles in a party of school girls on a trip to Havana, Cuba, where Brown is said to be interested in the race track. On returnyng from Cuba the girls were brought to Washington and registered at a prominent hotel April 11, 1925. The alleged offense 1s said to have occurred the next day. Other Indictments. Murder in the second degree 13 charged in an Indictment reported by the grand jury against James A. Reed, colored. He is sald to have shot to death Richard T. Mitchell, also colored, at 1031 Thirteenth street southeast January 17. Curtis Johnson, colored, is charged with manslaugliter. He is said to have shot and killed his common-law wife, Ismay Johnson, October 9 last at 1214 Twenty-fifth street. There was a fight, and the woman is said to have bran- dished a knife when Johnson shot her. Ralph G. Blasey and Robert L. Smith, policemen of the fifth precinet, They are said to have accepted money from two helpers employed by a boot- legger, October 25 last, not to arrest them and to release the car they were driving. These are the same officers who were recently indicted for black- mail, but on investigation the United States attorney decided that the charge should be extortion. The grand jurors exonerated Floyd F. Young. driver of a truck for The Evening Star, of a charge of man- slaughter. Young's truck struck and killed Lee Ong. a Chinese, at Fourth street and Pennsylvania avenue south- east July 31 last. The grand jurors also exoncrated Russell Balderson, driver of an automobile which col- lided with a Washington Post truck on Wisconsin avenue and Elljott street October 16 and killed a helper, Power Keller. The charge of*bigamy against Lauro Gonzales. a Mexican, was also dropped. He 15 said to have married an American girl when he had a wife in Mexico, but there was some question as to the valid- ity of the Mexican marriage, it s stated. Cases Ignored. Other cases ignored by the grand jury include Frank P. Coleman, white slavery; James W. Haley and Vaughan L. Tomlin, grand larceny; Willam E. Morelan, forgery; Herbert Harris, libel; James T. Walker and Donald J. Allen, robbery; Ben Coleman. violating na- tional prohibition act: Charles R. Sny- der, bigamy, and Willlam Schultheis, embezzlement A total of 45 indictments was reported to Chief Justice McCoy. Those indicted and the charges against them include: Pred Davis and ‘Charles Schaefer, recefving stolen property; Delbert Stan- ley Rowe, nom-support minor child; Elijah Snipe and Freddie Sherill, carnal knowledge. Edward Smallwood, depre- dation of private property; James Guy Chatwood, alias Harry Cole, forgery and uttering; John Garner, Albert er, Charles E. T. Harris and Clarence Bowie (3 cases), robbery; Th J. Thomas' J. Wright, forgery; Albert Levine, joy-riding: Virgll M. Lawrence, housebreaking and larceny; Virgil M. Lawrence, David J, Strange, -Clarence Minor, Willlam Barnes and Adelbert Wail. Joy-riding (two cases) ;. George Lucas, Oshorne W. Creel (three cases), Thomas A. Gray, allas Thaddeus O. Gay, and Ellsworth Pryor, housebreak- ing and larceny. Thbmas A. Gay, alias Thaddeus O. [} Ellsworth Pryor, Ernest Diggs, Bt Boll, Glen Stetson, Thomas Bparks, Amos Zimmerman, Grace A. Zimmerman, Raymond Saunders, Lioyd G. Johnson, Ray Derr and Donald Hurley, housebreaking and larceny; Bamuel Nicholson, assault with danger~ ous weapon. Carey Jeffries, assault with dangerous weapon, and assault with intent to kill; William C. Corbin, Roland Simms, Paul Rogers, allas Stanislaus Rodguir; es Bcott, allas Andrew Tyler; E ward W. Baker, Richard J. Mahoney, John T. Harrison and Ralph Wright, grand larceny. . ARBITRATION PACT SIGNED BY FRANCE AND UNITED STATES (Continued from First Page.) its final phascs were concerned. And it was by virture of 150 years develop- ment In the use of that new force, electricity, which Franklin discovered, that this modern miracle In communi- cation was possible. Deane Sent to Paris. ‘The first American diplomatic moves toward the treaty, which antedates the Constitution, began when the Contine ental Congress sent Stlas Deane to Paris. His letters complain bitterly of the months that elapsed before further Instructions could reach him. Later, he was reinforced by Franklin and Lee, but 1t was four months after Franklin left Philedelphia before supplementary dispatches could reach him in Parts, The negotiators struggled to obtain French recognition for the new country thitt, 1 1ts birth pangs across the Allunt] L was a serlous problem tor France to make thiy decision, with Eng- land Just over the channel from her shores. But in December, 1777, word of Burgoyne’s surrender to the Colontal Army noslly diifted into Paris and events moved swiftly forward to the treaty that gave diplomatic birth to the Natlon that wat later to croms the sens agaln &nd ald In resculng France in the hour of need PACT ANNIVERNARY MAKKED. Parls Press Observes Nigning of First Treaty of Amity, PARIS. Feruary 6 (A The Paris Prens toduy Dersided the one hundred and Bitieth wntversary of the signing of the frst treaty of friendship and pence between France and America Dhils, the papers observed, will lend special duntey Lo tie signing toduy of aonew pact which virtuully renounces war ws mn lnstrumentality ever o be called o play between the Lwo re- publies Many papers printed photographs of the arighim) docunent of February 6, Vi, vaeh now stands ws No, 1 oin archives of the Amerlcan Hlate Depurtment. Portratts of King Louls AVIof Franee and Henjaniin Franklin 0 its negotin- Uon and signature wlso were printed mlong with articles tracing the history of the document Forelgn Minlster Biland yave an in- tormul hancheon o Myion ‘I Herriek, American wmbussador, 1 honor of (e dny. Five members of the cabinet, wluding M, Hiathou and Palileve were present Premder Polieare was sepreented by Mo Grgnon Other , poreta were Philippe Berthelot, general aecpetaky of the mlistey of fovelgn Affahin, and Ceorge A, Cordon, st eecretary of the Amgrivan emhpeay, ‘| assassination of were indicted on a charge of extortiom. |- Fishing Lines BY GEORGE M. BATTEY, JR. A beaver hat, belleved to have been the property of President Abraham Lincoln, and three fishing lines, a halter and a saddle blanket, the property of John Wilkes Booth, were brought to Metropolitan police headquarters, Wash=- ingten,. after the assassination of the emancipator at Ford's Theater on the night of Friday, April 14, 1865. So far as\is known, the fact that these articles/figured in this case has never been ‘published. Reference to them was discovered by Sergt. Thomas McGrath in a report book of ‘1865 of the detective corps of the Metropolithn police, which was unearthed from a mass of debris in the subbasement of rhe Municipal Building. ‘The item listing the beaver hat, writ- ten in the bold, somewhat flowing long-~ hand of the desk.sergeant-of that day, reads, as follows: Friday, April 15, 1865, 12 midnight— Articles found In the vicinity of the President Lincoln, picked up at Ford's Theater: Platol, hat, spur_and opera glass; one pistol, one tlouéh hat, one opera glass case, two buttons (one a brass and the other an India rubber button), also a hat, sup- posed to be the President’s. Brought to office by Supt. A. C. Richards and Acting Assistant Supt. Regd. The above articles, except the beaver hat, are sup- d be connected with the assassination; also a cape.” Relics Have Disappeared. At 10 o'clock Monday morning, April 17, the sergeant faithfully recorded this entry in his log: “;ympflrly found in the stable of J. Wilkes Booth, back of Ford's theater; value, $5; turned over to superintendent for investigation: One halter and one saddle cloth and three fishing lines, taken from the stable of J. Wilkes Booth, and which are known to be Booth's property, were brought to the office by Sergt. Johnson on the morning of the 15th of April and delivered up to Officer Drill. Claimed by no person at present. Turned over to property clerk by order of Supt. Cornelius Noonan or Sergt. Johnson.” 4 The l’r‘:x\l!er and saddlecloth were used by Booth on the spirited bay mare which he rode furiously into iower Maryland in his effort to escape the pursuing Federal Cavalry. No doubt he bought fishing lines to square with his claim that his presence on several occasions in Charles and Prince Georges Countles had to do with & fishing expedition. These articles of Booth’s were delivered to Secretarv of War Stanton. They are not now a part of the conspiracy relics kept by the War Department and evidently have disappeared. As !orpg:e beaver hat, it probably was taken in charge as a prized relic by a friend of Mr. Lincoln, who had a fondness for hats of this character. When Mr. Lincoln was passing through New York City on the way to Wash- ington from Springfield to be inaugu- rated the first time a friend presented him with two hats—one a beaver and the other a soft felt such as he never had worn before. This was the day that Mayor Fernando Wood welcomed Mr. Lincoln to New York and Mr. Lin- coln responded so rdedly that it was impossible to tell what his admin- istration policy toward the rebellious Southern States would be. When Mr. Lincoln reached Philadel- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1928 N Halter and Saddle Blanket Used by Booth Also Picked Up After Tragedy. American Cousin,” was disappearing from the stage at Ford’s when Booth leaped from the presidential box; An- drew C. Mainwaring and Willlam Brown of the Soldlers' Home, John Gratton, member of the Veterans’ Reserve Corps and attached to the Record Hospital on Fourteenth street, and John Fletcher, Nallor's Stable, 209 E street, who fol- lowed Booth and Herold to the Navy ‘Yard Bridge. A hurried report of the assassination was made at police.headquarters at 11 u'l“mk. 30 or 40 minutes after; At this hour the melancholy intelli- gence of the assassinatfon of Mr. Lin- coln, President of the United States, at Ford's Theater, was brought to this office and the information obtained 1rom the following persons goes to show that the assassin was a man named J. Wilkes Booth. Secretary Seward and ooth his sons and servants were attacked at the same hour by a man supposed to be John Surratt. Case assigned to' force.” The “following persons” were those named just above. These early identi- fications of the assassin refute the stories widely circulated by certain writers that for a long time stage folk and audlence :lould not furnish a positive identifica- on. Material Witnesses. At 6 am. Saturday, April 15, the records further show, two material wit- nesses were brought to headquarters in the persons of Edward Spangler, scene shifter and carpenter at Ford's Thea- ter, and John Borer (or Burrough), known around the opera house as “Pea- nut John,” whose duty was to kecp unauthorized persons out of the rear entrance and who on the night of the 14th held Booth's horse in Baptist al- ley. “Peanut John" was not made a defendant at the trial of the conspira- tors, but Spangler was supposed to have made a wooden bar for the box door 80 Booth could cut off pursuit, and to have bored a peep-hole through an in- ner door by which Booth got the lay of the land. Spangler also was belleved | to have cleared a passage behind the stage and to have promised to turn off the gas lights as soon as the shot rang out. One story has it that when Spang- ler went to turn off the light he found some one sitting on the control box whom he did not care to acquaint with his villainy; and that in consequence of his failure, Booth had to make the best of a bad situation, whereas he had been so sure of carrying oyt every de- tail of the plot that he did not take the trouble to affect a disguise. Spangler and “Peanut John" were brought to headquarters by Detective Sergt. C. M. Skippon. They were re- leased by order of Justice of the Peace Nathan H. Miller, but Spangler was rounded up again when evidence against him accumulated. The Stanton dragnet also took in Deboney, the actor mentioned above, who was then board- ing next door to Callan's drug store, and Joseph W. Barrett, 21, a_ farmer. who was arrested by Officer Kelly at the instance of Stanton, but was dis- missed April 22 by Justice Miller. Good Friday night, 1865, was the wildest Washington has ever experi- enced. Fifteen hundred arsenal work- ers had started a parade at 7 o'clock from the Arsenal, out Pennsylvania avenue to the White House and then back to the starting point. It appears that neither President Lincoln nor Sec- retary Stanton addressed this proces- hia he was warned of a plot to take is life at Baltimore. He procceded on to Harrisburg. After having met the State Legislature he was again warned of a plan to prevent his In- auguration and reluctantly he gave heed. According to a statement he made at Washington late in 1864 to Benson J. Lossing, the historian, he put on an old overcoat he had with him, stuck the soft hat in a pocket and passed unobserved out of the rear of the hotel. His guard and transporta- tion had been arranged for and in this unexpected rig he caught the re train the night of February 23 at Phila. delphia, passed through Baltimore with. out getting off and arrived safely at Washington at 6 the next morning. His special train followed at the time set and, to the great disappointment of Baltimoreans, they found no Presi- dent-elect on board. Plots Continued. Plots continued to brew around Mr. Lincoln after his inauguration, and his beaver hat figured in at least one more of them; the story was told by Capt. D. H. L. Gleason, who was at- tached to the office of Gen. Willlam Hoffman, commissary general of prison- ers. After Mr. Lincoln had begun to stuy at the Soldiers’ Home to avold a steady stream of office seekers at the White House his nag ran away with him one night about midnight. The horse ran rting up to the gate where #tood the guard, and Mr. Lincoln's coat- talls were flapping behind. The guard stopped the horse and led him by the bridle toward the stable, and upon alighting Mr. Lincoln told how some- one at the foot of the hill had fired off a gun at a distance too close for com- fort. ‘The horse got beyond his control and took him up the hill in a kind of Ichabod Crane fushion. Mr. Lincoln ex- plained the shot by saying he supposed romeone had fired off his plece after a hunt. However, the corporal and a pri- vate Investigated at the bottom of the hill, where they found no prowlers, but they picked up Mr. Lincoln’s beaver hat, and it had a bullet hole through the crown. After that Mr. Lincoln was at- tended by a guard of cavalry furnished by Becretary Stanton, ‘The beaver given him In New York d the hat he left behind near the Sol- ¢ Home were doubtless the same. The hat found in the box on the night of the assassination probably was an- other which had served him on his Richmond trip and elsewhere at the front. Hat Found on Stage. E. 1. Wray of the office of Burg. Gien, Joseph K. Barnes plcked up s black slouch hat on the stage, belleved to have been Booth's, and ught 1t to head- quarters of the metropolitan police. Ac- cording to the anclent detective hook found by Bergt. McGrath, other wit- nesses who came to the police desk and made statements that traglo night were J. B Knox, 26 Indiana avenue, Joseph B. Blewart, 440 K stroet, lawyer, who chased Booth and nearly caught him ns he mounted his horse; Capt. O, Bhaw of Gen. C. O Augur's staff; 0. W. Gilbert, of 02 anad 04 Loulsiana avenue; James B Cutler of New Jersey uvenue between IM und N streets, Jacoh Q. Larner, 441 I stroet; Jnmes Maddox, property man at Ford's ‘Theater; Anthony Lully (or Hully), 408 K, between Ninth and Tenth nlreets; W. 8, Hurch, 343 ¥ street; J. Deboney, netor, and Harry Hawk, wl as A ‘Trenchard tn the play “Ou sion ‘of noisy torch bearers, many of whom soon took a drink and repaired to Ford's or Grover's for further enter- tainment. Homes were gayly lit up and decorated all over the city and where Tu light proved Insufficient to express joy at the end of the Civil War, candles were brought into play. Three fires were attributed to over- turned candles. No mention is made of any fire companies turning out, but even If not, we can still see evidences of Booth’s handiwork. What could excite more suspicion on a dark night between 10 and 10:30, & night now grown com- paratively still and quiet, than a lone horseman or a pair of horsemen gallop- ing madly through the heart of the city? Yet whose suspicion would be aroused if they galloped along in the wake of several fire alarms, as if going to see the fires? Many Caught in Dragnet. Suspicion was cast upon many inno- cent persons, while numerous others sought in the web of circumstances were cast behind the bars, and with diMculty proved they had nothing to do with the assassination. To Illustrate the atmosphere of suspiclon which Rripped Washington, it 1s only neces- sary to cite the police record of two anoffending Germans who bought a new trunk because they could not find one second-hand. “At 5:30 pm, Friday, April 31, Theodore Peyson, No. 428 Seventh street, between G and H, reported that on Tuesday night last about 10 o'clock two German men came to his store and asked 1f he had a large second-hand trunk for sale, and, being answered in the negative, they purchased a large new packing trunk, the pattern of which Is at complainant’s store. They then took the trunk down Seventh street to Pennsylvania avenue, followed by a man named Mr. Kirsh, who saw them put the trunk on one of the Navy Yard cars in front where the driver stand: id while they were doing so Mr, h stepped up to the conductor of the car and told him to keep an ©ye on these parties, as they looked sus- plelous, Kirsh lives In the same ho with Peysers and is employed at Qro meler's Clothing Store, on Pennsylvana avenue, near the Kirkwood House. One of those men is about ’J;lfg ars of age, stout bullt, florid complex wore a full sult of drab corduroy about b feet 8 or 9 inches high. The other about the same helght, but not so stout.” ‘These industrious Germana got thelr trunk home, and for aught we know have it to this day. e STRIFE STIRRED BY REDS. Ohlo Authorities S8ee Neod of Troops in Strike Flold. COLUMBUS, Ohlo, February 6 (), Possibility of Natlonal Cuard troops eventually being sent tnto the Relmont County coal flelds as a result of alleged communiatic activities loomed today fol- lowing serfous disturbances last night at the Florence mine, near 8t. Clatravillo. Aftor a conference with Adjt. Qen Henderson today (lov. Donnhey sald Ui tn w government of law, and the law must be obeyed oo must not take place. 1¢ violenco continues troops will “be forthecoming, no difference whether the miners or the operators are to blame. As Tilt Over Fortun Hy the Assoolated Fress, CHIOAGO, Fobruary 6. Franklin 8, Hardinge, 61-year-old furnnce mannfac- turer, whose plans to marry Miss Ann Livingston, 40, were broken abruptly a week ngo, has started on & “brideless honeymoon " Hardinge, iding to Edward de Bolt, his lawyer, aslled Saturday from New York, hound for the West Indles i a bridal suite that had been engaged |lrlum the abandonnment of the nuptial pla o dn'h Uk tle ke Lk At | doniln Magnate Sails on Brideless Honeymoon e Breaks Up Wedding he wasn't married should spoll a per- fectly topping honeymoon tiip on which he had v‘lmwn for months” the laws yer sald, “sy he salled alone.' Mins ly|vlll1lluu was veported still un- der a physiclan's care today. Bhe auf fered & collapss when aunoungenent Was made that the wedding would not take place. The vift belwesn the two was explatned by Miss Livingston ag bo- g due 1o her vefusal to slgn Away dower vights to Mr. Hardinge's fortune I vetuen for $100,000, payable at his [ | such person, although he did know VAREFILES REPLY T0WILSON CHARGE Calls Opponent’s Attack Cow- ardly in Election Contest. | Recount Ready. | | | | By the Associated Press. Charges of a conspiracy made against him by Willlam B. Wilson, Democrat, in the contest over the Pennsylvania clection of 1926, were declared md-yi by Willlam 8. Vare, Republican Sena- | tor-elect, to be “wholly false, willfully made and without the slightest founda- | tion in truth or in fact.” “Tt 18 a cowardly attack without any | justification,” Mr. Vare declared in his answer filed with the Senate elections committee. «“It i3 a wanton assault; upon me, and made, solely for the pur- pose of securing a.recount to which the complainant was theretofore not entitled, and the oath attached thereto | averring the tyuth thereof is a willfully | false declaratidn, not based on any in- formation as to my conduct thereabout, for such information does not exist, and this complainant well knows. Ready for Recount. As Vare filed his answer the sub- committee of the elections committee was organizing to start later in the day the recount in the six countles con- tested by Wilson. 5y It was announced that Leon D. Rip- ley, who had been chosen as super- visor of the recount, had resigned, but Chairman Waterman of the subcommit- tee sald that work, nevertheless, would be begun this afternoon on the Alle- gheny County ballots. Answering the Wilson charges that he conspired with the officers of the Republican city committee of Philadel- phia and the Republican committee of Allegheny County, Vare said he had resigned from the Philadelphia com- mitter prior to the primary election of 1926. While he knew officials of the mmittee, he sald, he did not discuss “with any of them the conduct of the Taxd election, as that was provided by aw.” Denles Knowing Chairman. Wilson named John G. Armstrong as chairman of the Allegheny County committee, but Vare said he knew no Joseph G. Armstrong of Pittsburgh. He denied him touching said election.” “I further aver,” Vare answered, “that I have never conspired or con- ferred with, advised or even suggested or intimated to any person or persons in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or elsewhere, to do or commit any un- lawful act touching the conduct of cither the primary or general elections of 1926, or of any other election, and I therefore aver, without qualification or “any assoclation or com- | munication directly or indirectly with | Chicago Gamblers THREE AR INJURED restrictions, that the charge in the second amended complaint of conspir- acy affecting me is wholly false.” o BECK WAGES FGHT FOR SEAT INHOUSE Declares Charge Against Him| LONDON, February 6.—The London Would Disqualify Many Others Now Enrolled. By the Agsociated Press, James M. Beck charged today that to deny him His seat in the House as a Republican Representative from Penn- sylvania because he had a home in Washington would disqualify nearly haif of the Senate and a considerable num- ber in the House. Defending himself from Democratic charges that he was not an inhabitant of Pennsylvania in the constitutional sense when he was elected, Beck de- clared before a House elections com- mittee that an increasing number of Senators had acquired homes in Wash- ington and lived here the greater part of the year, being only occasionally in the States they represent. Cites Others as Example. “If the doctrine of predominate ph sical presence is to prevall,” Beck de. clared, “then several Western Senators could not hold their seats. Senator Lodge lived nine months of the year in Washington and, when not in Europe, a few months in his Summer home in Masschusetts. Senator Knox lived the greater part of the vear in Washington and, while he had a coun- try residence in Pennsylvania, he voted from a room in a hotel in Pittsburgh. ‘Therefore my residence in Washing- ton can be eliminated unless this com- mittee is Erennml to suggest a whole- sale slaughter of our most prominent men In public life in the matter of their eligibility.” | ‘Was Born in Philadelphia. Beck sald he was born in Philadel- phin and for years a resident of that city, but admitted that for 17 years he | had been a resident of New York and | New Jersey, voting for several years in | Jersey. In 1924, he said, he de- termined to resume his residence in his native city. He admitted that he has a residence in Washington, which he purchased before he became Solicitor General of the United States. He contended that he was an “in- habitant” of Pennayl {a in the mean- ing the framers of the Constitution had given to the word, basing his contention upon his establishment of u legal vot- g residence a year and a half ago in Philadelphia, preceded by the public announcement of his intention to re- sume his Philadelphia citizenship. Representative Kent's Charges, Representative Kent, Democrat, Penn- sylvania, charged that Beck was belng groomed In 1026 as w successor of Varo, In his testimony upon cross exami- nation, Kent sald, Bock made the ad- mission that with & real estate agent, known and proved in the Senate hear- INgs 1o be one of the leading contribu- tors to the Vare campalgn, he went into the first congressional district and look- ed at three apartments. “He went 0 no other distriet,” Kent continued. “He went there be- fore the Spring primaries of 1024 the same breath Mr. Reck teatified that his reason for confining himself in his | Overture, apartment hunting to the (st congres- stonal district was bocause he desired to run for Congress tn that distriet,” Madoe Home In Washington, He Says, It was further charged that Beck made hin home in - Washington and malntained a Summer vesidence at Sea Bright, No J, using his Philadelphia apartment only as a place from which W vuole, “He campalgned very little and wan Elad (o get back to Washington," Kent sald, adding that it was evident that Heok's “sole Intent and inolination was to eatublish w voting vesidence to comply with the legal qualifvations necessary for voting, and he never intended to become an inhabitant of Pennaylvants. Willlam B, Burrus, who apeaks at the Oty Olub meeting at the Auditarium tonlght on “Hhakespeare the Halea- man was glven a luncheon today at the Olty Olub by Missourt Alumnt mgton. Mr, Burius was Missourt tn 1008, John . Hornbaek pigaident of the 1 { In | Charles Benter, lead: {BAN ON SUBMARINES THREEDIEASAUTD SINKS THROUEH CE Women D?owned, Man Driver Saved as Four-Inch Lake Covering Breaks. By the Asenciated Prew OAKLAND, Me., February 8—Of four persons who essayed a short cut in an witomobile across the ice of Lake Messa~ | lonskee drowned, il of them women, and the fo: | Morse, 35, of Waterville, drf inclosed car in which all were riding, was s Morze escaped from the machine as it ank into 18 feet of water and was pulled Face U. S. Action On Income Taxes! | | By the Assaciated Press. CHICAGO, February 6-—Federal Government action to collect income taxes from unlawful fncomes of Chi- cago gamblers, racketers and others with mysteriously augmented salaries has been promised by George E. Q, Johnson, United States distri torney, recently returned from Wi ington. Two special revenue agents have been working quietly in Chicago for some time, accordin gto word from the district attorney's office, check- ing bank accounts of some of the city’s best known racketers. Collection of taxes is expected to start with a formal demand for taxes, accompanied by figures on the incomes involved. Faflure to pay, it was understood, would bring govern- mental action. { the women who perished. gene W. Strong and Miss Natalie Cole All were from Waterville. Ware was riding in a machine which was following that which Morse was driving. The was on its way to a camp for Sunday dinner. At the spot where the accident, occurred, a sand bar jut jinto the lake and a spring keeps the | water open through much of the Winter The ice was only four inches thick yes- terda; Several hundred men attached to the submerged car and pulled it n enough to the surface to allow a h to be chopped through the roof and bodies to be recovered. INMINE DISORDERS Two Policemen Shot and Woman Hurt as Guards Move Against Pickets. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, February 6.—Two coal and iron policemen were shot and a woman was injured by a State troop- er’s horse during a mine strike riot at Phillipsburg, near California, Pa. to- GORDON STUDYING 5 STEWART RECO5 ’)l"-he coal and iron policemen, J. D.! Buttermore and F. D. Byrne, employed | Will Appear Before Grand Jur under State commission as guards at X y > 3 the Crescent Mine by the Pittsburgh This Week—Sinclair Trial Coal Co. were struck by the charge from a shotgun. They were not dan- Nears End. gerously wounded. According to the police, several hundred men and women acting as union pickets appeared at the | ¢ " s o0 ore under attack b mine and tried to persuade the Don- | inc Government today as the extends union miners not to go to work. The |lcgal battle to dismiss_the contemr coal and iron police attempted to dis- | charges against Harry F. Sinclair, Wil- perse the pickets, it was said, and dur- |liam J. Burns and their associates, en- ing the brush between the officers and | tered its final stage members of the crowd a shotgun was | Meanwhile the District attorney's fired, wounding the policemen. loffice commenced study of the tran- State troopers were summoned from |script of the preceedings Senat California. The troopers restored order | action against Col. Robert W quickly. An unidentified woman mem- | chairman of the Standard Oil C ber of the crowd suffered a crushed foot | Indiana. Ma). Peston Gordon p' when a trooper's horse stepped on her |to present the case to the grand j ‘The union pickets had concentrated for action as soon as this study i§ com for several days last week at the Daisy- | pleted. town mine of the Vesta Coal Co., but ;| Maj. Gordon sald he would apnes: today they turned their attention to the nersonally before the grand jury Th Phillipsburg workings. | day or Friday of this week and that - | tion by that btedy might follow imme- | diately. He would not say definite! | whether a warrant for Col. Stewar: | would be issued. When Justice Frederick L. Siddo: opened court today. James J. OLear: assistant district attorney. resumed h legal attack in opposition to the mo IS HELD IMPOSSIBLE London Papers See Small Nations th° six respondents Justice dons has indicated he will Opposing—Paris Remains not entertain a separate motion at th: Indifferent. Motives involved in the Teapot Dor | time to dismiss the charges agains: | Sheldon Clark. one of the Sinclair of- ficials_and C L. Vietsch of the Bal more Burns office. ND HOME By the Associated Press. Times, commenting editoriaily on Secre- tary Kellogg's proposal to abolish the submarine, takes the view that it is a FAILS TO FI very atractive proposition, but, under FOR POLICEWOME?! Not only, the paper says, do France ' H 5 P ;’,L“ xm};lmg "'.,:I,“,;',“"“"S,“” aafiee Maj. Atkins Seeks New Quar jpensable, but e smaller natione i in— are increasing their submarine strength. in Vain—Bureau Needs since “they rely on submarines to do the Quarters. wark for which richer countries build cruisers.” { PARIS, February 6 (#)—The Ameri- | = can proposal toward abolishment of sub-_ AVailable unoccupied buildings in marines has been received here witn® District, Maj. Layson E. Atki marked indifference. | sistant Engineer Comunissione 1The P‘rfnrupln‘!gn %’, “;5.:, the uém- | nounced today that he was una tion was settied at the Washington Con- | Aind one that would mest the require- ference, when the French de"fl‘“"mme?m for quarters for the House of agreed to take a lower rank in capital | poooneion and Won an's Bureau of the ships on the understanding that de- o cirra B vhi S fense craft, such as submarines. would | Police Department, which are soon to not be limited. It is sald by those in be ousted from the old Emergency Hos- touch with Foreign Minister, Briand that | pital Building. at Fifteenth street and the question will not be reopened unless | Ohio avenue, to make way for the new the whole subject of reduction in naval | Department of Commerce Building. armaments is considered at the same| plans had been made to put these two bureaus in the old St.,James Hotel at time. 1 Sixth street and Pennsvivania avenue, but they were abandoned because of the | strenuous obj of Lieut. Mina C. | van Winkle, director of the Woman's Bureau. GRAND OPERA TO HOLD PLACE ON RAD|0 BILLs Maj. Atkins said a buildipg to house the two bureaus shouid hive between Fans|35.000 and 40.000 square feet of floor | space and enough g for & plavgroun: appropriation of $17.500 for the rental of a temporary home for bureats for an 18-month pe: first de- ficlency appropriation a After an exhaustive search of e Broadeasting Official Says Are Divided on Music Offerings. By the Assoclated Press American radio listeners are going - to get & steady. although perhaps meager. diet of grand opera whether s e |P. F. HAYDEN, RETIRED M. H. Aylesworth, president of the POLICEMAN. EXPIRES Natlonal Broadeasting Co.. today told the Senate interstale commerce com- mittee he thought the public should | g . . o " be given some things “because it is| FAtally Stricken With Heart Dis- good for 1t." ning Whil “We get some letters.” he sald, “ask-| ®A%e This Morning While a ing us to cut out these foreign sing- Passenger on Street Car, Pusey F. Hayden, | the police force, was strt | discase this mo Ma ers because they can't be understood. Then, too, we get some letters asking us to eliminate jazz programs.' Mr. Aylesworth sald that radio sal- arfes rival those of movie stars. John McCormack, the tenor, he satd, had 3 received $3.500 for a recent night's|capicol od member of 18 Mexican Rebels Slain. { MEXICO CITY, February 6 (.- |ihat place Wa. Dispatches from Irapuato, State of fsort for Was Quanajuato, today sald 18 rebels had | served as an of been Killed when federal forces and | police b police reputsed an attack on Sala- | manca. ‘The attack upon the town | was - launched yesterday morning. | ing Ofice was In the grocery - Licut. Col. Aleman Vasquer, who was | ness at the of his appotniment (o in command of the federal troops, was |4 positton on the po [} v 1 wounded. 1885, He was retired September 1 Mr Havden was the (ather children, four of whom are atill lving | s golden wedding was celebrated two | years ago. Mis. Mavden dying a vear Band Or- | Iater His surviving chidren are s | T B Dent. Joseph K. Charles D, and { ey ¥ Havden, ir. Funeral artangements have not been completed Church services will be pees ceded by services at the howe of- his [, Joseph K- Havden, with whom he [ lved 3t 4211 Twelfth street n, Thev Will be tn charge of Potony efl, Knights of Columbus, of which Hay- den was & member, and interment will be In Mount Olivet Cemwetery, Md ., served as a o Cedar Point, now Mo aly 1 1924 of 1 s ND CONCERT. TONIQNT. By the United States Navy chestra, at the navy yard, 8 oclock, BA Mareh, “La Qiraldo"., “Maritana”. Scenes from de 1n Palon Ballet suite from Xylophane solo, Regiment". .. Excerpta from ankeoe™, ... Two numbers-~ 1. “Tempo Do Qavol "Dange D'Amore” o Soro Valse 00, “Mercedes”. Miro Qrand_marche, “Slave". Tsohatkowsky “The Star Spangled Banner.” TOMORROW, Band [ anley A wmfi%}. John B, M. Elmermann, ndmaster, 111 Mareh, “Peace Canference” . Lincoln Overture, “Sakuntala®, .. .., nark Suite, “In Holland™... ... oo Kriens (&) “Murning on the Buider Zee." (b) “Tha Duteh MiL" Exverpta from musical comedy, “HIt the Deek™ coc Youmans Fox Trot, “It's Ray Ray Raintng” Toblas “Mever (een ) Juarrans | “ Green | Connecticut Wers 30 cerrsensaaseneRO oo Nybysaio OO Three Miami Banks Close. MIAML Fla, February 6 ( -~ Thive Miami banks fatled to open for business today. They were the Stuthern Bank & Trust (v, the Cltlzens’ Bank and the Bank of Alapattah ‘I‘h:de\\\uhnw'l\" |\IA.§ Trust On ves pested Cantroller Amos 10 assume fiumo mi\wm’ heavy withdrawals caused by olronlation of anonymous let-. ters predioting its fallure, s Conviet Kresge of Infidelity. NEW YORK, February o () —Sebas- tHan & Rresge, wealthy chatn store operator, today was found suilty o idelty tr hin wite, Dorls N Kresge By A JUrY tving the divoice acthw of Nvs. Kyesge belwre preie Ooute Justive Tiernay, Kivsge fadled 1 enier A delvase. Walts song, "Two Loving Arae Fluale, “Dawn of Tamorow™ [ out by Harry Ware, husband of one of ¢ \