Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1928, Page 7

KEPHART-WILSON CASE CLUEFOUND sNew Development Expected in Assault-Kidnaping Mys- tery of Week Ago. The District police today furnished !the poiice ot Montgomery County, Md., iwith information that is expected to :hul 1o a new development in the mys- tery surrounding the xidnaping last “Wednesday night of E. Percival Wilson, Jbrominent financier, and the preceding ,attack made on Leonard W Kephart, ! Department of Agriculture scientist. Wilson and Kephart were both pres- ent at a conference held last night in ithe tenth precinct station house, The ,conference was attended oy Headquar- sters Detective H. E. Brodie and Frank ‘Varney, Detective Oscar Mansfield of the tenth precinct and Sergt. Earl Bur- | dine of the Montgomery County force. Kephart ldentifies Clothing. Kephart was shown the articles of ,lothing found Monday in the I in Soidiers' Home park and identified | them as his own. The m of owner- | iship extended to the cap found in the undle, police say. He failed, however, to identify the flash light, claiming. | it Is said, that he has several and that it might have been one of Both men repeated their versions of the occurrences of last Wednesday ht and Kephart was closely qu joned concerning certain phases of his ount of the attack in which he w ten into unconsciousuess and stri of most of his clothing by two men who stopped him on a roadway in the park while he was driving through. Kephart revealed to the police that e is spending & few days with a friend in nearby Virginia in an effort to re- Zcuperate from the nervousness pro- *duced by the attack. He was still In highly nervous state last night, po- e Say. Wilson Describes Kidnaper. Wilson again gave police a descrip- gion of the man who marched him to| a waiting automobile from the former’s garage in the rear of his home in Chevy Chase, Md., and then drove him to Chevy Chase Lake, near which point the banker succeeded in overpowering his abductor and making his escape. The automobile used by the abductor was the one that was being driven by Kephart at the time of the attack made on him and the pistol that was wrested {from Wilson’s abductor was one that Kephart had used during a recent scientific expedition of Africa. ‘The District and Maryland police are co-operating in every way to solve the two cases, since one happened here and the other in Maryland. Both stated today that they expect a de- wvelopment within the next few days. MERRIMAN HEADS “Y” CAMP FOR BOYS | SEES BIG D. C. GROWTH. { the District since 1901 and said coming | Bros. Commissioner Makes Address at Magazine Official Predicts Popula- tion-of 1,000,000. The District of Columbia will reach 1,000,000 population within the next 25 years, W. J. Showalter, assistant editor of the National Geographic Magazine, predicted at the luncheon of the Civitan Club at the La Fayette Hotel yesterday. He gave an account of the growth of development would equal or surpass the past. i s SPRING AWAKENING SHOWN IN PETWORTH Entertainment in Form of May Fes. tival Sponsored by Citizens' As- sociation Largely Attended. More than a thousand persons at- tended an entertainment in the form of a May festival under the auspices of the Petworth Citizens' Association in the Petworth School Jast night. The program included a play, “The Awakening of Spring.” and several other specialty numbers, presented by the pupils of the Florence Thompson Studio of Rhythmic Expression. The series of dances making up the program were presented in an artistic having been furnished by Harold Snyder, while the scenic effects and decorations were furnished by Gude Co. The presentation Was ar- ranged by Walter S. Jackson of the house committee of the Petworth Cit- irens’ Association. Those taking part in the play and other numbers included: Frances Rands, Wilma Dinowitzer, Phyllis Solyom, Anna Wyman, Ela Harllee, Deborah Freulicoff, Margaret Wyman, Helen Ethel Theis, Julia Cook- man, Norton, Roberta January, Florence Thompson. Bebe Goodman, Dorothy Egdal, Ruth Lewis and Ethel McDonnell. At a brief business session prior to the entertainment program, the associa- tion adopted a resolution asking the District authorities to take some action to protect the parking at Sherman Circle. Announcement was made that the association will present on May @ the first of a series of evening performances to raise money for the celebration of the coming Fourth of July and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the func- tioning of the assoclation. George M. Cohan's play “Forty-five Minutes from Broadway” is to be pre- sented the evenings of May 21, 22 and 23, while a play, “The Four-Flusher,” is to be a feature the evenings of May 24, 25 and 26. Timothy S. Tincher, msment of the association, presided at t night's meeting. . DOUGHERTY PRAISES SALVATIONIST DRIVE setting, special colored lighting effects | THE' EVE BISHOP WILL LEAD CORNERSTONERITES Historic Trowel of Washing- ton Cathedral Figures in Ceremonies for College. A silver trowel, which has played a part in 10 historic functions during the past 30 years, will be used by the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, tomorrow, when he offi- ciates at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Cathedral College of Preachers, for which $250,000 has been raised by prominent laymen. ‘The trowel first was ‘used in 1899 to lay the cornerstone of the first building 1o be erected in the Cathedral Close on Mount St. Alban. It was presented to the Right Rev. Henry Yates Satterl first Bishop of Washington, and used by him at the laying of the corner- stone of the National Cathedral School for Girls. Since then it has been used to lay the foundation stone of the National Cathedral School for Boys, the Bethlehem Chapel, Whitby Hall and the Cathedral Library. Rarely Used. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London are the only per- sons beside the three bishops of Wash- ington who ever have used it. | 'The annual meeting of the National Cathedral Association and its commit- tees will be held on Mount St. Alban tomorrow morning prior to the corner- stone ceremonies, which are to begin at 3 p.m. Representatives of the 62 committees of the National Cathedral Association, which has a membership of more than 6,000, and is represented in all the principal cities of the coun- try, are to attend the ceremonies. Mem- bers of the national committee for Washington Cathedral, headed by Gen. Pershing, and of the national executive committee for the cathedral, also have been invited. Communion at 10 AM. The day's program will begin at 10 am. with a celebration of holy com- munion in the Bethlehem Chapel. This will be followed by the National Cathe- dral Association meeting in° Whitby Hall, at which Bishop Freeman, Assist- ant Secretary of State William R. Castle, jr., and former Senator George Wharton Pepper will speak. Reports of the various association committees will be read. At noon a buffet luncheon will be served out-of- doors, if weather permits. A pilgrim- age to the crypt chapels of the ca- thedral and the bishop’s garden will be conducted by Very Rev. G. C. F. Brat- enahl, Dean of Washington, to open the afternoon’s program. ‘The laying of the corner stone at 3 pm. will close the program. The site is just north of the completed apse of the cathedral, facing Woodley road. The structure is to be of collegiate gothic design to harmonize with the general architectural plan of the cathedral and the group of buildings to be constructed in its vicinity. Plans NING STAR, WASHINGTON,. D. ASKS ESTATE SETTLED. John O. Gheen Applies for Letters of Administration. John O. Gheen today filed in the Probate Court an application for letters of administration on the estate of his mother, Mrs. Ruth B. Gheen, who died April 19. Mrs. Gheen owned premises 627-20 G street, assessed at $79.519. She also is survived by a daughter, Susie Gheen Curtis of this city, and !two grandsons, George I. Gheen of Cleveland and Raymond F. Gheen of Los Angeles. Attorneys Leckle, Cox & Sherier appear for the petitioner. Augustus B. Coolidge is named as sole beneficlary of the $60,000 estate of his wife, Rita ¢. Coolidge, who died at Takoma Park,Md., April 25. The estate includes realty in the District of Columbia worth $10,000 and real estate in Indiana estimated at $10,000, with securities of $40,000. MAN, 36, DESPONDENT, HANGS SELF ON BED POST Body of Stewart L. Floyd Found by Widow; Rescue Squad ‘Works in Vain. Said by his family to have been des- pondent over financial difficulties, Stew- art Layton Floyd, 36 years old, 316 C street northeast, committed suicide last night by hanging from the bedpost in his room. Efforts of the Fire Depart- ment rescue squad to revive him were futile. Floyd was found by his wife, Mrs. Daisy Floyd. - He had attached his beit to the bedpost and then tied it around his neck. Mrs. Floyd summoned Dr. E. W. Burch, 336 Maryland avenue, and the rescue squad. After an hour's effort on the part of the latter, Dr. Burch pronounced Floyd dead. A note found by the bed related to his insurance. The coroner directed a verdict of suicide. University of Illinois Student Again Will Direct Sum- mer Resort. J. W. Merriman, mgmber of the graduating class of the University of | Tlinois, has been reappointed director of Camp Letts, the Y. M. C. A. Summer ‘estern State Normal School. at the University of Ili- secretary. The camp is named John C. Letts, retired chain store , whose benefactions made the possible. MRS. HADDAWAY, WIDOW * OF PASTOR, DIES HERE Passes Away at Age of 78 Years. Tate Husband Was Former Chaplain of House. . Mary E. Haddaway, 78 years old, of Rev. Samuel W. Haddaway, er chaplain of the House of Rep- tatives, died al the residence of het daughter, Mrs. W. Parker Jones, 2601 Newark street, yesterday. Her husband also was pastor of the Mount Vernon Place E. Church, Bouth, from 188¢ w 1890 and of the Marvin M. E. Church, South, here from 1890 to 1893, the year of hLis death. He was House chaplin when he died, Mrs, Haddaway = survived by her daughter, two sisters, Mrs. C. K. Ying- ling of this city and Mrs. George Arn- oid of Glyndun, Md. snd & brother, 1. D. Thompson of Caionsville, Md. Puneral services will be conducted at the daughter’s residence Friday morn- ing, at 9:15 o'clock. Rev. W. A, Lam- , pastor of Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church, South, will officiate, In- terment will be st Freedom, Md, with | yites conducted at the grave by Rev, J. Foward Wells, presiding elder of the Baltimore district of the M. E. Church Bouth, LINDY FINDS QUIETUDE ON PRINCETON CAMPUS President Hibben Introduces ¥lyer to Undergradustes Before They Know Who's There. By the Associuted Press. PRINCETON, N. J, May 16 Col Chatles A. lindvergh puid a 15-hour visit 1o Princton and left yesterday as quietly as be came. Only 8 few of the undergradustes knew of his presence end their hapkpening upon him was by rident u’(hl Lindbergh arrived Monday night by motor W be Uie gust of Gerard B Lambert at bis Princelon howe, M, Tambert is 8 brother of Albert [ Tambert of Bt ious, o of the o;vr.rl s original backers Westerday Lindbergh came 10 campus 0 & closed Cur W kecp an b plinument with President Jobn Grier Siisens ndnutes then ook president Hibier Vit yucst v (e new Brinceton chapel onaueton were walching Lgw under Pty wen il who Vork i the chapel were Linciergh by 1esident Fihen v 1he time the news B Uk coiong) pd GBLLS (he | smbulance was called and “They conyersed for ahout 10 | intindiced o | spread Bround, Accountng office Luncheon Starting Campaign for $350,000. The Salvation Army's campaign for $350000 to aid in its $500,000 local building project was praised as a note- worthy cause by District Commissioner Dougherty in an address at a luncheon of campaign workers at the National Press Club yesterday. Commissioner Dougherty recounted the history of the Salvation Army and praised its work both in the Spanish- American and World Wars, and spoke in highest terms of its peace-time ac- tivities. Through its work in Washington of helping the *‘do and outers” and| better the. men. will be held in the ball- of the National Press Club each day during the campaign, which runs to May 25. R PRISAICEIE GYPSY PRINCESS BACK IN HUSBAND'S HOME King Emil Mitchell, Father of Girl, Held in Providence, R. I., on Abduction Charge. Princess Julia Mitchell, 17-year-old gypsy bride of William Osborn, 26, 2222 Shannon place southeast, was returned home 1o Ler husband yesterday morn- Jng following her alleged ubduction just three weeks ago by her father, Kinz Emil Mitchell. She now intends to stay at home, she said today. The return of the princess marks the beginning of & breathing spell in the brief but troublous married lfe of the couple, Osborn said today. King Emil is being held at Providence, R. I, where he was arrested Monday night, on charges of abducting his daughier. This episode, e bridegroom | believes, will deter the father from any further efiort to separate them unbess e again resorts to the legal struggies which have harried Osborn ever since | he married Into the royal house agains! | the wishes of the family, Osborn declared that he might not ’;;mwcuu» Hearings in extradition to | force the Tathers return to Washing- | ton have been set for May 29, . | WOMAN UNCONSCIOUS | DUE TO ESCAPING GAS Mre. Mary A, White, Overcome by Fumes, Found in Hall at Ven- tosa Apartment House, Pinding her apartment filled with gas from a leaky stove Jet, Mrs. Mary Amella White of the Ventosa Apart- ments, First and B sireets, staggered into the ball and collapsed sbout 6:30 o'clock this morning, When found few minuleslaer by the colored jan~ or, she was' IDEORSCIONS, The police and the Pire Department | rencue sguad were summoned, Mrs, | White was given artiicisl respiration but it was more than an hour before he began W show signs of returming conscloisness. An Emergency Hospltal she was | taken 10 the hospital, where it was sald (thut she would recover, prowably with | for the college were prepared by Froh- man, Robb & Lit! the cathedral architects. MIRES TAKES OATH AS REVENUE AIDE Officially Confirmed as Assistant to Commissioner Blair at Opening of Business This Morning. Harris P. Mires today was sworn In Blair at the open- i ing of business this morning. Henry Herrick Bond, Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury, in charge of internal revenue; assistant and den- uty commissiouer | of internal revenue, | and other officials were present when the oath was ad- ministered. Com- mlmom;‘ Bl-.l;;rel- comed Mr. Mires e e into the organiza- tion as an official of the new rank, al- though Mr. Mires has been for years in he service and has worked his way up | the line to the presidential appeintment. He has been serving in the post as ac- ting assistant since Mr. Nash resigned March 1. a SPECIAL SERVICES SET FOR TOMORROW Catholic and Episcopal Churches | and Knights Templar to Observe Ascension Thursday. Ascension Thursday will be observed tomorrow in the Catholic and Episco- paliun Churches with special services, while the Knights Templar will mark the day with service at the Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G street, at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. There will be three services held in St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, at Connecticut avenue and Bancroft e, The first will be holy communion for business men, office workers and stu- deénts, at 7 am. At 11 am, there will jbe o similar service, and at 8 pm. the annual festival service of the Wash- | ington Guild of Altar Servers and Lay | Readers will be held, with Rev. Enoch M. Thompson as director, The sermon will be preached by Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector of St. Margaret’s, Rev, Georgs W, Atkinson will be master of ceremonies, and a feature of the cere- mones will be @ procession, with crosses and banners. AL the Knights Templar serv) held | by the Grand Commundery of the Dis- trict of Columbla, Rev. Z. 1. Phillips will deliver the sermon. The constitie ent commanderies vill assemble at the New Masonie Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue, at 7 o wk, and will lewve for the church at 7:30, GUNSTON HALL FINALS. Program for Commencement Exer- cises Begins May 26, Commencement_exercises for the 1920 | chuss of Gunston 1all wil hegin Saiur- | day, May 26, at 1906 Florida averiue The commencement wnd graduntion | exercises will continue four duys, Sut- | urday, May 26, the dramutic cliss wil present The Rivals” at 8 pam, ‘The bacenlwurente sermon will be delivered Lat 11 wm, Bunday, Muy 27, at Bl Mar- garet’s Chureh, by Rev, M. P, Almon Abbott Class day exercises will be held at 1o 11 effects Poliee say that the gas had been teaking Wi night, and bub for the fact st the windows of Mys, White's hed FOUIn Were i would have been uitocated Mrs s5he wan & yeowoman i the Nevy during the KI. White is u clerk In the general | 10:30 wm. Muy 28, The students of the sehool of musie will glve & recital al 8 o'clock that wight, On Tuesdny, | May 20 the closing exerolses will bgin at 1030 wm, addvers will - he | made by Ty, Joswph R Blzoo, ., WEDNESDAY, SENATORS REVIEW TAX BILL CHANGES Committee Makes Little Al- teration in Measure Passed in House. Work on the numerous changes ordered in the House revenue bill by the finance committee was completed by the Senate yesterday. Little change was wrought in the total reduction of $224,000,000 now pro- vided by the bill in contrast to the $290,000,000 cut voted by the House. Approval was given to repeal of the tax on foreign-bullt yachts, invelving about $10,000 annually, A proposal to increase the fees charged physiclans dealing in narcotics from $1 to $3 was rejected overwhelm- ingly over the protest of Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, who announced afterward that doctors are the *“most persistent and best propagandists” deal- ing with Congress. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, a physician, replied that they had to be to get ahead of the Senator from Utah. Most of the dragging debate yester- day, which brought the Senate near the end of its second week on the tax bill, was consumed in consideration of an amendment by Senator Bingham and offered by Senator Smoot. It would have allowed Americans in the Philippines the same exemptions from income tax in the years 1918, 1919 and 1920, which are allowed now under the 1921 act. It was defeated. Not even Senator Smoot voted for it. The House provision for reorganiza- MAY 16; 1928.° tion of the Internal Revenue Bureau, to permit some officers to receive salaries outside ot the reclassification act was stricken out and Senator Smoot an- nounced he would seek a modification in_conference with the House. While the tax on foreign-built yachts was repealed by the Senate the House voted to increase this levy five times over present rates and there were in- dications that this, 0o, would be modi- fied in conference. MISS HARRIS RE-ELECTED TO HEAD WOMAN LAWYERS Other Officers Chosen by Bar Asso- ciation of District at Its Annual Meeting. The Women's Bar Assoclation of the District of Columbia re-elected its pres- ident, Miss Elizabeth Harris, at its an- nual meeting last night in the Young ‘Women’s Christian Assoclation Build- ing. Other officers chosen were: Miss Anabel Matthews, vice presicdent; Miss Maud Fellheimer. recording secretar Miss Vers Brum- gart, corresponding secretary;- Miss Catherine Myers, Areasurer, and Mrs. ‘Theodore Cogswell, member of the ex- | ecutive committee. Aresolution adopted, indorsing the appointment of Miss Genevieve R. Cline as associate justice of the United States Customs Court, in New York City, will be forwarded to the Senate judiciary committee as the sentiment of the woman barristers of the Dis- trict. The resolution was presented by Miss Catherine R. Pike. Miss Murris, CAROL QUITS DOVER FOR CONTINENT Former Crown Prince Sails From England—Escapes Squad of Watchers. By the Associated Press, DOVER, England, May 16.—Errant Prince Carol, unwanted in England, sailed at 2:45 p.m. for the continent. He was accompanied by Mme. Lupescu and three secretaries, two of them men. EX-PRINCE FOILS WATCHERS. Carol Uses Ruse in Leaving .British Hamlet. GODSTONE, Surrey, England, May | 16 (#).—This hamlet, which came into | the international limelight with the re- | cent arrival of Prince Carol and has | since been the center of intrigue and much mystery, returned to its usual | placidity about noon today with the | departure of the former Rumanian crown prince. Up to the last minute Carol’s move- | ments, as has been the case for the past week, were shrouded in mystery and many newspaper men chased an- other big car with the blinds drawn right up to Victoria Station, London’'s terminal for the continental traffic, only to find that the prince had hood- | driven to Dover in another machine. | Carol was asked to leave England by the home office because of his al- leged political activities during the Ru- Jm,un“h Peasants’ Congress at Alba ulia. | winked them and was stated to have | .2 F. M. PIERCE RE-ELECTED OPTIMIST GOVERNOR Baltimore Club Members Guests of ‘Washington at Dinner Dance. Frank M. Pierce was re-elected gov- ernor of the sixteenth district of the Optimist international at a meeting held at the Congressional Country Club last night. Douglas R. Morrison of Baltimore, and William H. Clarke of Washington, were elected lieutenant elected’ Asheville eonvention: L. Irving Pollitt was named vice presi- dent, and James W. Burch, secretary. Forty members of the Baltimore Op- timist Club were guests of the Wash- ing Club at a dinner and dance which followed the election. Hugh Phillips, president of the Wi Club, made the address of welcome and E. E. Wooden, president of the Baltimore | Club, responded. Rose Guaraldi and Harry Angelico sang. Golf teams of the club played in the afternoon, William St. John of the Washington club turning in the low- est score. — WILSON SEES PRESIDENT. | W. R. T. Official Says Local Mer- ger Was Not Discussed. Harley P. Wilson, a director of the | North American Co., which controls | the Washington Rapid Transit Co., con- | ferred with President Coolidge at the White House this morning. but denied that the local tragtion merger was dis- cussed. & Mr. Wilson said that he had diseussed with the President, a matter of no public importance and that he could not divulge its nature. —IF YOU FREPARE FOR IT! . 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