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THE.,SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 1928—PART 1.’ CHARO POLCE FRE BN P New Commissioner Demands Action to Clear City of Gangsters. By the Associated Press { CHICAGO, August 4.—A ponderous | fist. that once broke a gangster's jaw in three places, rose quickly and crashed to the glass-topped desk In front of Chicago’s new commissioner | of police as he told of his hopes of rid- | ding the city of gangs, shootings mdi bombings. The movement eplwn\lmd.l the spirit of the new chief. ' Named to succeed Michael Hughes after a series of sluggings, kidnapings and killings had shaken the city during the recent primary, followed by gang fueds, the sandy-haired veteran straight- ened in his chair to express ‘his ideas. “Fists and hot words are what count with me,* he declared. “It's action I want. Talking policemen will have no place on the force, for I have no time for a policeman who has time to talk.” | Action is what Acting Commissioner William F. Russell got within a few hours after his appointment by Ma¥or ‘Thompson, for he shifted some 21 cap- tains, 13 lieutenants and 300 patrol men The commissioner lifted the fist from the desk, knuckles protruding as the muscles of his arm tightened. Twenty- eight years on the force, a Spanish War veteran and an athlete at 52, he | shoots an 80 in golf and can outrun| many a man half his age A report that one of his sybordinates had been making mmfiumunm occasioned the commissioner’s tirade ok given 5 carte clean uj city, wit “strings” attached. ¢ i g BYSTANDERS ESCAPE. Only Two Killed in Cook County Gang Wars in Two Years. | The recently defeated New Zealand heavyweight challenger and his bride, Marion Dunn, photographed in New York yesterday. -—Associated Press Photo. HOSPITAL FURITIVE CHICAGO, August 4 (#).—Gang- | sters’ bullets are hot a menace to the £ STLL UNCAPTURED | Cook | 2% | Doctors Believe He Will Be nkrusp__ OF SMITH | TO 0. K. FARM FEE election. It does not ‘are’s illness will have the Reed slush fund committee re- ted that he should not be seated. Senate, however, has yet to pass finally on this matter. Second, his election. has been challenged by the Democratic ' candidate, former Secre- tary of Labor Willlam B. Wilson, who claims he was actually elected. That contest is before another committee of the Senate and still awaits decision. I must be settled before the Senate acts on the Reed committee report. It must be settled even in the event of Mr. Vare's death. But should Mr. Vare not recover from his iliness, and the Wilson contest be decided against Wil- son, Gov. Fisher, Republican, would be in a position to appoint & Republican o fill $he seat in the Senate which has not been occupled since former Benator Pepper west out of office in March, ‘1927 Hoover Acceptance. Mr. Hoover is to make formal ac- ceptance of the idential nomine- ton ab lLeland ‘Btamford University next Saturday night, and the Smith acceptante speech comes on August 22 at Albany. As 5oon 88 these formall- Likely to Seek Seclusion, Avoiding Attacks. Robert Evans, 22 years old, criminally thought to be at large in Washinguion. ceived numerous telephone calls from ‘nrloux sections of the city from per- {sons who were sure that they had seen {Evans. Each time, however, the re- | ports :ere investigated and found to be authorities to the theory &; ed by that Evans was one of the rob- who held up Fred W. Boone, con- | fectionier, in his store at 2103 Pennsyl- innh avenue yesterday morning, and after robbing him of $100 and a check for $50 tied him up and escaped. Dr. A. P. Noyes, assistant superin- tendent of the hospital, said last night that Evans would probably stay in se- | clusion, avoiding all company, rather jthan seek out a confederate and hold |a five-year sentence. Headquarters Detectives Dennls J. Cullinane and L. A. O'Dea, who investi- gated the robbery, declared thét the descriptions of one of the bandits and Evans were similar. While Evans is suffering from a form of criminal insanity which makes it | with certainty | impossible to predict what course of action he will follow, Dr. Noyes thinks that there is little cause for alarm, and that there is small probability that the insane gunman will attack any one unless provoked. Evans escaped from the hospital Fri- day night. He was being removed from the surgical department to Howard Hall. He cut the leather thongs witn | whieh his wrists were strapped and ran | into & nearby clump of trees. after he had held up a jewelry store at 711 Ninth street, and then endangercd | escape last January. ONE DEATH HERE IS HEAT WAVE TOLL; THREE PROSTRATED (Continued from First Page.) when the signal lights, governing the operation of cars over the single track, were disabled between those twe com- | munities. The cars operated under | hand lights while the electric signais | were being repaired, however. Similar trouble was experienced on the Georgia avenue line at Fern street, wWhere the cars are running over single ‘tracks temporarily while new ralls are being installed Columbia Country Club narrowly es- | nesses as a “double boit” of lightning by and split a tree on the club grounds. ‘The first of the twin bolts hit shortly after 4 o'clock, putting the club’s lights and telephone temporarily out of com- mission. The second blow, striking simyltaneously with the first, hit a tree and knocked the headset from the ears of a telephone operator at the | club, A large gallery, gathered to watch the Army tennis final matches, had just sought shelter within the club- house when the lightning began io play about the grounds, Serious damage to property and crops was reported after storms struck Con- necticut and upper New York State i | | | | | i | | | | insane patient who escaped from St.| Elizabeth's Hospita! Friday night, is still | | | ‘Throughout the day yesterday police re- | Europe Observes War Anniversary With Less Hatred | Louvain Incident Stands Out 14 Years After In- vasion of Belgium. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 4—While Louvain, Belgium, stands divided into two camps { “lest we forget” and “lest we re- member,” Europe, today, 14 years after the opening of the World War, is slow- ly forgetting the agonies of 1914-1918. Fourteen years ago today German troops entered Belgium, for the sanctity of which England stood guarantor. At midnight in reply, Great Britain enter- ed the war. A state of war already existed between Germany and Russia at that time and Germany had de- groundless. { clared war on France the' night before. Little credence was given by hospital | d Y tro- The incident of Louvain's contro- versy over the balcony of her new library, whether or not 4t shouldl con- tain a stone motto Wi would serve to perpetuate Belgium's hate of the in« vading Germans, has served to reveal this fact with new strength, Edmond Felix Morren, the forcman who smashed the pillars of the balcony of the Louvain Library, lest they should stand without the Latin motto which Whitney Warren, the American archi- tect had placed there, is in danger of In the press he has found few critics and many de- KLEIN SEES GAIN ward Step on Part of U. S. in Orient. ! By the Associated Press. The consimmation of the new com- | mercial treaty with China will have a far-reaching effect wpon the United States’ future relations with the com- mercial world of the Far East, in the opfnion of Dr. Julius Klefn, director of the Bureau of Forelgn and Domestic Commerce of the Commerce Depart- ment., In a speech prepared for delivery over the radio lnst night Dr. Klein discussed the main aspects of the new treaty, de- claring that “We can’take just pride in ment, backed by the feeling of friend- ship of the Americar people for the Chinese people, has taken the initiative in this matter, and by this new treaty | has agreed to abolish old provisions | which have outlived their usefulness | and have been only a detriment rather | than a safeguard to the commercial intercourse between the two peoples.” | The new treaty, which accords to the | Chinese complete tariff autonomy after | January 1, 1929, so far as American trade is concerned, does not impair American trade interests in any degree, | Dr. Klein said. ( American trade in China has in- creased in recent years in spite of civil | wars, Dr. Klein said, and he predicted | that under the new treaty it would - INCHINESE TRADE | Declares New Treaty Is For-| that, fact that the American Govern-‘ ORANG-UTAN'S RECEPTION TO PHOTOGRAPHER GOES AWRY WHEN GIBBONS Cameraman Objects to Being One Corner of Triangle in Locked Cage. i l ; : | Attempt to Get Picture of Ape | Going to Bed Cheered by Spectators. l The young orang-utan at the Zoo has developed an ablility to make its {own bed and an ablding passion for | photographers. | Recently 1t was placed with two gib- bons in a large cage which has two feeding troughs on the wall, where the recently deceased giraffes were kept. | The ape obtained a burlap bag and every night retires to one of these troughs, lies down and covers itself with | the before going to sleep. It won't | sleep without the bag. Yesterday a photographer from The Star journed to the Zoo to get a pic- ture of the orang-utan making its bed. Before he got away the orang- utan had come perilously close 0 making him. Ape Poses Nicely. | With Head Keeper W. H. Blackburne JOIN PARTY AT ZOO| o7 1 i | | '!he photographer entered the cage— | French, witnesses to the will, the other FOUR FACE CHATGE 0F WL FORGERY Physician Arrested in Case Involving Former Wife’s $1,600,000 Estate. By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, Colo., August 4—Dr. W. G, Fordham, prominent physician and chemist, and J. H. Boutcher, Denver lawyer, are among four persons charged | today by the prosecutor’s office with forgery and uttering forgery in con- nection with a will under which Ford- ham is made beneficiary of his divorced wife's estate, said to approximate $1,000,000. Fordham was arrested today in Hot Springs, Ark., on advice of Denver au- thorities. Boutcher was expected to surrender tonight, according to word he | sent district attorney's deputies Mrs. Melissa Hogue and John H. co-defendants, are being sought by police throughout the State tonight. Made Sole Heir. Dr. Fordham is charged with having boldly—and stationed himself at the | end furthest from the door. Mr. Black- | burne enticed the orang-utan into a | hotographic position at the other end. | 'he orang-utan posed very nicely, | holding hands with Mr. Blackburnc. Then he began making eyes at the | photographer. Advancing coyly upon the camera This young orang-utan posed for after a series of adventures which we & new profession. written the will shortly after the death of Mrs. Fordnam in Hot Springs o July 7, 1927. it specified that ne snould be sole heir of the estate. The will was probated in Hot Springs, Ark. where | most of the property invotved is located. The authorities pressed their investi= gation on the strengtn- of a story told | vy Eldridge Price, wealthy 'Texas oil | man, wno ciaims a part of the porperty a Star cameraman at the Zoo yesterday 1l-nigh caused the photographer to seek —Star Staff Photo man the orang-utan extended a hand. tion and the photographer felt himself ‘When Mr. Blackburne got back in the The photographer, not a bit. &mOrous, | paginning to stretch. Slowly his length | picture the photographer was on the The |show an even more marked increase. The Commerce Department official jPut his hand behind his back. He was committed to the hospital | | the lives of persons on the street by | | firing his revolver as he sought to| caped when what was described by wit- | crashed into the telephone wires near- | yesterday. New Haven, Conn. bore up under a 96-degree peak, and New York was enjoying a slight Tespite from a three- day siege with 90 degrecs, while Boston sweltered with an official rating of 96.2 ties are out of the way, the campaign may be said to be “on” although it | may be_several Weeks later before it | actually warms up. Many of the States | have sill to hold their primary elec- fenders. Part of his defense will be that his father and mother were de- ported and he himself wounded and maltreated by the Germans when he was a boy of 16. Hatred Is Diminished. ers against the Central powers, which they regard as having caused the war, has appreciably diminished. The gov- ernments of France, l:n,hn and Italy, though resolved not to forget the great deeds of their own soldlers, are equally resolved to honor the achievements of their former enemies. Even the phrase | “lest we forget” has come to be applied to the disabled soldiers and not to the | late_enemy. The Olympic games see the first athletic massing of the Germans strength since the war formidably with the athletes of other nations. | Teutonic athletes have for several | years been welding the bonds of sport's | international amity, appearing in ten- | nis matches at Wimbledon, England, and St. Cloud, France, and British and | French tennis players have at Dussel- dorf returned the visit. German aviators attended the Brit- ish air force display at Hendon re- cently, and German aces were dined by British aces whom they had act- ually encountered and fought in midatr. Amusing have been some of the inci- dents which reveal this growing sense of international friendship. Such an one was the antique French automobile, of pre-war (Spanish-American) vintage, which made its laborious journey to Berlin 30 years after its birth—in reality a harbinger of good will The responses to the Kellogg peace | proposals are instances of much greater dignity. Fear and hatred of other na- | Hons must be wanipg before a nation | will forswear its right to warfare. Germans Welcomed in England. German municipal officials were | heartily welcomed in England when they came here to study traffic regu- lation methods and municipal activ- ities, after a continental tour. Scores | of German university students have | been brought to England to observe conditions here Many British people have subscribed to the Austrian loan of £9,000,000 | Hungary's complaints against the in- {clusion of & portion of her people in the confines of Rumania have received | enthusiastie support in England, Lord | Rothermere being the leader of the group. | " Instances might be heaped upon the | shoulders of other Instances to show | that while war-torn furrows on the face tof Europe are smoothing out, the hatred (10 her heart Is softening, Lo In the remainder of Europe, however, | the intense hatred of the Western pow- | in | competing | tion for the nominations of State and congressignal candidates. Until those primaries are out of the way, the na- tional cempaign can scarcely get un- way iu those Blates UNDAUNTED BY QUAKE. Morrow Jokes With Workmen as| Earth Shakes, MEXICO CITY, August 4 () ation in Ambassador Morrow's dally program. When the ground began to sway the with men who are| of the embassy resi- Ambassador jaked remodeling & part dence “Look here, fellows, what i the mat- As fast as you get this tr you? place bullt you shake it down.” with degrees, nate, however, with Philadeiphia, Pitts- rgh and Portland, Me., reporting nperatures of 70 degrees. Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. suffered damage to its tele- phones in the 6400 block of Connecticut avenue and at Silver Spring, Md. While | most of the instruments were back in operstion within & few minutes, sev- eral were out of commission until 10 | pm., by which time il the damage had The | been repaired thqueke -which shook Mexieo Oity | failed to cause the smallest vari- renuous | Girl Gives Wrong Addpess In connection with & raid st Twentleth street of the prisone was Mildred C. Ritterbusch, 701 C street southwest. Mrs. the C streel address declares no one re- sides there by {hat name, | | Other places were more fortu- | 1820 Thursday afternoon, when police made several arrests, one & young girl, said she | been started under Lucte Ritterbusch of BRUSSELS, August 4 (4).~~1he four- | teenth anniversary of the invasion of Belglum by the Germans was com- memorated today by a salvo of 21 shots fired by all garrisons, Bells were rung and steam whistles blown throughout the country. STARTS PARK SURVEY. | Lindbergh Plans Air Lines in Gla- cier National Area. ST PAUL, August 4 (#%)—A survey of Glucter National Park ])rrrlrlmry to establishing air passenger lines within | and through the park next Summer hos direction of Col | Charles A. Lindbergh Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern Rallway, announced the sur- vey today. N | said that new ideas and new methods | were penetrating into the commercial | life of China, and that changing con- | ditions must be met with new treaties | and new commercial agreements. LIFE INSURANCE FIRM $3,500,000 SHORT, SAYS (Continued from First Page.) | the International, the Missouri Insur- ance Department sent an examiner, E. G. McGee, to make inquiry into the transaction. Robert E. Daly, acting for the Missouri Insurance Department, today said that McGee's report was that Toombs borrowed money in the East to pay the purchase price. In the sale of the International Life to Toombs las. year, W. K. Whitfield and his associates realized a profit of more than years’ control of the company. Hillsman Taylor, president of the Missouri State Life Insurance Co., said tonight that he was confident that if the proposed merger went through the policy holders and stockholders of the International would not lose a cent. He sald the Missouri State Life Co. was aware of the status of affairs when the merger announcement was made yesterday. COMPLETE DENIAL MADE. Defendent Says Charges Arise From Recent Litigation. HOT SPRINGS, Ark, August 4 (#).—Emphatic denial through his at- torneys of charges that he forged his divorced wife's will to become bene- ficlary to an estate, of approximately $1,000,000, was made today by Dr. W. G. Fordham, prominent Denver, Colo., physician, and chemist, following his arrest here on a felony warrant tele- graphed by the chief of police of Denver. He was released under bond of $1,000 for his appearance next Sat- urday morning bfeore Municipal Judge V. 8. Ledgerwood. The charge, Dr. Fordham's state- ment said, appeared to have been in- stigated by dridge Price, Texas ofl man, who recently lost possession of the potash sulphur springs property, 6 miles from this city. In litigation brought by the physician to set aside the contract that Mrs. Fordham, who died at the State hospital for nervous diseases July 7, 1927, made with Price. Chancefor Duffy in suit over the property held that Mrs. Fordham was not mentally capable of making a con- { tract and that what Price had offered her in:exchange for a half interest in the potash sulphur springs property was nof-of sufficlent consideration. Dr. Fordham, through his attorneys, denles forging his wife’s will and de- clares he is not guilty of any offense. He stated Mrs. Fordham ownesl mining interests in California and would go there during each Summer to look after work on her property, always stopping at his home in Denver on her way to and from that State. Although they had been divorced nearly 25 yeal they were “most friendly in their gard for each other.” In the Summer of 1924, while in Denver, the physician said his wife made her will. Since the divorce. ne stated, he has alded Mrs. Fordham financially in sums in cxcess of the value of the estate. Eldridge Price, alleged by Fordham to have instituted the action against him, has been defendant in the local courts several times in litigation hav- |ing to do with his ol and gas lease transactions. Suits against Price are still pending in the local courts. TOOMBS IN CONFERENCE Newspaper Men Are Unable to Sec Head of Company. CHICAGO, August 4 (#).—Roy € Toombs, president of the International Life Insurance Co., was engaged in a business conference tonight when news- paper men sought to reach him for a statement concerning the $3,500,000 in securities reported missing from the company's accounts, Mr. Toombs left his office at noon for his suburban home, but tonight word was given out there that he bad returned to the city for a conference. WORKER ASPHYXIATED REPAIRING GAS LEAK Plumber Found Overcomé on Floor ! of Attic—Resuscitation | Efforts Fail Thought to have disconnected a gas pipe in the attic of 1132 Seventh street and to have been overcome by the sud- den a lumber, was found dead by Isanc lanken of 1120 Seventh street about 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, The rescue squad and the Casualty Hospital ambulance were summoned, and the firemen worked on him for about 30 minutes before it was decided furthier effort was useless Hoffman had been hired by Louls H, Berman, the occupant of the house, to repair leak in the gas pipe line. After he had been in the attic more than an hour Blanken and several other per- sons went upstairs fo see what caused the delay and found him on the floor in the gas-filled room. Police are endeavoring to locate rela- tives, not even Hoffman's address being known last night flow of gas, Frank Hoffman, . Although higher priced than these made at '\nmv. American collars are be- coming popular In Venezuela, PROBING COMMITTEE | $2,000,000 for their two| orang-utan persisted. The photog- rapher jockeyed for position and then made a rush for the door and jerked at it. It was locked. The crowd outside the cage ap- pleuded wildly. The orang-utan ad- vanced again and the photographer ap- pealed for help to Mr. Blackburne, who at this point was busily occupied in try- ing to laugh himself to death. He came to the rescut just as the orang-utan had embraced the photographer and | was shyly biting his leg. | Mr. Blackburne tugged hard. The orang-utan tugged in the other direc- Grabbing the ape by his left mnuf extended and then the ape began to|floor and the three inhabitants of the lose out in the tug of war, and all three | cage were busily tearing up his clothes, slid down to the other end of the cage. ; Mr. Blackburne decided that all this had Gibbon: Enters Fray. | gone far enough and sternly called off | the frolickers, giving @ couple of them At this precise moment one of the gib- | playful boots in the place where their bons, which had been watching the pro- | pants would have been if they had worn ceedings from the top of the cage, de- | any pants. Then he escorted the pho- cided to enter the fray and let go. tographer to the door, unlocked the landed just behind the photographer’s | door and was explaining that it was all left ear and from that point of vantage | in fun when he looked for the pho- made several more or less_successful attempts at osculation. Mr. Blackburne had to take time out for another laugh- ing spell and the second gibbon joined | {In the party with a few playful slaps cling very rapidly {at the cameraman’s jam P. S.—He got this picture. appearcd. Off in the distance was a| cloud of dust that might have been made by one of The Star's Fords trav- | IOWA GOVERNOR . REPLIES T0 PEEK |Hammi!l Challenges Farm Leader’s Right to Speak for Rural Committee. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, August 4—Gov. John Hammill, whose leadership of the farmers’ cause was challenged by George N. Peek of the Farm Committee of 22, in view of his indorsement of the | presidential candidacy of Herbert Hoover, today replied with a challenge of Mr. Peek’s authority to speak for the committee of which he is chair- man The Towa fiwvmor. who two years ago called together the governors of 11 Northwest States for a conference that led to the formation of the Committee of 22, was asked by Mr. Peek in a re- cent letter to summon a new conference to redefine the governors' position with regard to leadership. In his reply Gov. Hammill found no fault with Peek for his espousal, as an individual, of the cause of Gov. Alfred E. Smith. “Violating Trust.” “But when you assume to act for the committee on your own motion you are violating the trust they reposed in you as chairman,” he wrote. “You suggest that I now call another conference of governors to redefine their position, particularly on the question of right of leadership. I as- sume that you desire such another conference to decide whether the com- mittee will go into politics as you have clearly done by your recent actions." Hammill sald the committee was not designed for political campaigns, adding that Peek was privileged to call the committee together himself if he desired action by it. Challenge Peek. Tow: two representatives on the | committee of 22 have also challenged the right of Chairman Peek to speak for the committee and one of the mem- bers. State Senator J. O. Shaff of Camanche, has resigned because of Mr. Peek's endorsement of Gov. Smith. Gov. Hammill today urged Sepator Shaff to | withdraw his resignation, | VICTOR WATSON WEDS FORMER HEARST WORKER Veteran Editor Marries First Girl Newspaper Photographer in New York. By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, August 4-—Victor Wat- son, veteran Hearst editor, was married today to Mrs. Kathleen de Sano, who he hired eight years ago as New York's first girl newspaper photographer. The girl, Kathleen Nolan then, left the New York American, of which Wat- son was managing editor, to go to Hol- lywood, and there she married Marcel Drnrununu‘ movie director, known pro- tessionally as Marcel de Sano. They :‘;dd one child. They were divorced in 2 | By the Associated Press. |Flapper Replaced ' By “Perfect Lady” In New Paris Styles DR.T. P. CHAPMAN FALLS DEAD HERE "Heat. Brings on Stroke Fatal to Civil Service Chief. Dr. Thomas P. Chapman, 57 years old, chief of the division of appoint- ments of the Civfl Service Commission, fell dead in his office yesterday of a heart_attack, believed to have been Short Hair to Join Short Skirts In Discard—Se- date Gowns Appear. | BY HAZEL REAVIS. PARIS, August 4—The hard-boiled flapper is dead. ‘With her short hair and short skirts, she received more publicity in 10 years | than John D. Rockefeller accumulated | provent on by the heat. in 89. But that gal is gone, according * Dr. Chapman, who has been in poor to Paris dictum. | health for two years, had just left his tographer and found that he had dis-, {in the estate. Price, who recently was arrested in Denver on a charge of detrauding Mrs. F. A. Montgomery of Mempnis, fenn., of $20,000, said his arrest was part of a conspiracy to keep him from telling what he knew about the will. Dr. Ford- ham recently was successful in litigation at Hot Springs through which he re- covered from Price a large amount of property owned by his former wife. He charged Price obtained the prop- erty through fraud. Affidavit Presented. An affidavit made by W. Rice Elliott, { a 1armer living near Littleton, Colo., | was presented 0 the district attorney by ajtorneys for Price, alleging that auring the Summer of 1926 vr. Ford« ham asked him to sign a will, purport= ing to be thit of Leona H. Fordnam, | in-law. Elliott set forth that he asked when the will was drawn and when informed it was about a year before flatly refused to place his signature on the document.’ Elliott said that Dr. Fordham declared the witnessing of the will was merely a formality and had asked him to sign it as a friendly act. Mrs. Anna Stokes, one of the wit- nesses who signed the will, in an affida- vit to the district attorney, told of signing at the request of the dgctor. Authorities said no charges would be filed against her. Price declared he would go to Hot i Springs and attempt to reopen his suit | to obtain half of the Potash Sulphur Springs property, which the court had awarded to Dr. Fordham. He said Dr, Fordham and his wife were divorced nearly 20 years ago. 'AUTO INJURES TWO | { The people who lopped her off in | desk after the midday closi time, her youth_are the dressmakers and | When he ¢ollapsed. ; He died Sefore e their reason was that she was killing | ambulance could be summoned, the googe that lays their golden eggs. | ‘When he left his home at 3328 Thir- In her place they have enthroned | teenth street yesterday morhing. Dr. the perfect lady, a sophisticated fe- | Chapman complained of feeling ill and male who knows all about clothes ap- | his wife tried to persuade him to stay peal and the part that it plays in a | home. He refused, however, saying that girl's life. | his presence was necessary at his of- | fice. Threwkack te 96s. | " Accompanied by his wife, Dr. Chap- The perfect lady is a throwback ntic City in June for a | man went to A from late Victorian times. She will | rest, returning to Washington early in wear—if Paris puts it over—clothes of | July. He had been feeling fairly well, exquisite daintiness built along strictly | Mrs. Chapman said, until the beginning feminine lines. Those lines will be | of the present hot spell. less sporting than heretofore, more sinuous, less suggestive of the golf Born in Texas. Dr. Chapman was born in Farmers- tery and expense of her sex. The perfect lady is to take her cue from hundreds of Winter creations which the dressmakers now are show- ing. Nearly all of these models are in discreet blacks, browns. dark blues or grays for day time wear that only a lady would put on. They come well below the knees. They play up feminine frailities which were women's greatest strength before the war. Slender waists are empha- sized by more closely fitted lines. Velvet Used Extensively. Velvet, the most feminine of all fab- | rics, is miles ahead of any other at the leading houses. The newest models, perhaps they are too new for this season, have several other characteristics of clothes of the late Victorian era, includir fu drawn to the back of the <kirts draped into bustles, demure coll: modestly high fronts on evening dresses but astonishingly low backs. “Quite demure, but not quite dumb,” was the summary of an Amcrican girl who viewed a collection which had been passed for its first showing before Princess Astrid of Belgium, wife of the crown prince of that country, with her mother and sister. The royal ladies were reported to have been enthusias- tic over the Winter styles. Winter hats will also haik back to pre-war days. They show a decided reaction toward trimming, although they have not reached the stage of birds nests, artificial fruit, fancy feathers, bands of short fur and brocades used for bonnets that were hailed in the old- fashioned phrase as ‘“creations.” Polse Supplants Perkness. 1f any one doubts that & new woman 1s being_evolved in salons, the doubter should observe the conduct of the mannequins who wear the models. They move more slowly and with a carefully cultivated dignity. A lot of favorite hoydens are now reg- istering hauteur. Poise is taking A few days ago Watson relinquished his post as editor of the Daily Mirror, | which he assumed after Philip Payne | was lost in the transatlantic airplane | Old Glory, and after the honeymoon | will become an executive editor in the Hearst organization. Kills Daughter-in-Law and Self. | NEPTUNE CITY, N. J, August 4 (#).—Belleved to have been temporarily mentally deranged by the heat, Henry Stone, 88 years old, shot to death his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Fred Stone, and then killed himself at his home here today. Dr. Joseph Bryan, the octoge- narlan’s physician, told the police he place of perkness. KILLS GIRL ON STREET. BUFFALO, N. Y. August 4 (®). Louise Friday, 18-year-old telephone she was walking home from work with & girl companion. Police are holding Milton E. Harris, 25, described as a re- jected suitor. Harris, police said, fired one bullet at himself. It grazed his temple. Be- course and more suggestive of the mys- | the Paris dress | the | operator, was shot to death today as| ville, Tex., and taught school in that service here as a clery in 1894. He was attached to the Civil Service Commission during his entire career here, being promoted to numerous posi- tions of responsibility until he reached his position as chief of the appoint- ments division in 1907. In late years he served as assistant secretary of the commission. On learning of Dr. Chapman's death, Civil Service Commission, issued the following statement: “Dr. Chapman was an authority on the technique of appointments, and his death will be a great loss to the com- | mission. Besides, he was one of th most lovable characters I have e known, and I feel a deep personal loss Commissioner Jessie Dell said she | | had found Dr. Chapman not only an authority in civil service matters but | fair-minded and conscientlous in the | treatment of the hundreds of individ- | uals whose cases reached his desk “Dr. Chapman’s death.” she said, “has been a great shock to the mem- bers of the commission and to all of | his fellow employes.” | | Was a Physician. Shortly after entering the Govern- | | ment service, Dr. Chapman_enrolled at | | Columbian, now George Washington | | University and was graduated with the | | degree of doctor of medicine. | In November, 1898, hew as married {to Miss Amy Fletcher, a native ux; | Washington, in the old Mount Vernon | | Church. | oI addition to the widow. he Is surviv- | | ed by two daughters, Misses Luctle and Marian Chapman of this city, ihis | mother, six sisters and one brother, all | | of Texas. i Funelar services will be held Tues-| day at 10 am. from the S. H. Hines | Funeral Establishment, 2001 Fourteenth street. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery Dr. Chapman was a Calvary Methodist Church | AUTO BANDITS ROB | MOTORIST ON STREET| | member of | ll-‘nur Armed Men Hold Up M | | chine, but Overlook Money | | | Staté before entering the Government | | Willlam C. Deming, president of thc| | condition | WHEN IT HITS CAB i i N | Driver Afrested After Collision af | @ | Connecticut and Newton—Boy | Knocked Down by Auto. | | While sitting on the running board of a taxi parked en Connecticut avenue |8t Newark street yesterday evening, | Charles A. Pranklin, 21, 4323 Iowa ave- | nue, and Noble P. Simpson, 29 years ] old, of 1111 Lamont street, were struck by an automobile proceeding south and operated by Edwin N. Harrington of l 1 g’l ;] I;:,mt. arrington was arrested by police of t'r:;hrourileenna ‘p;encincl and p:harged reckless driving. He was rel on _$50 collateral. l e Franklin and Simpson were taken to Emergency ‘Hospital in a passing auto- mobile. Their injuries were said not to be serious. Simpson sustained a pose sible fracture of his left leg and bruises. He remained at the hospital. Pranklin was treated for a sprained right leg and returned home. > Chaxles Russell, colored. 37. of | Berwyn, Md., reported to police that he was struck by an automobile which | failed to halt about 1 o'clock yesterda: afternoon. The accident oceurred on Bladensburg road. Russell was taken to Casualty Hospital in a passing auto- mobile and treated for bruises. Eight-year-old Henry Cole, ¢olored, of 63 H street northeast, was knocked down at Pirst and H streets northeast | yesterday “afterncon by an automobils operated by Henry E. Matheny of 220§ Newton street northeast. Matheny took him to Sibley Hospital, where he was treated for cuts and braises ; POLICE HERE.VERIFY TALE OF MANASSAS SHOOTING State That Chief in Virginia Town Fired When Arrested Man Attempted to Escape. A story tald by a colored man, who was treated at Emergency Hospital Jast night for a gun-shot wound, that he had been shot by the chief of police of Manassas, Va. who locked him up in the town jail over night and then gave him $10 to continue his Jaurney to Reading. Pa., was verlfied shortly be= fore midnight by Lieut. Joseph Mor- gan of headquarters here, who tele- phoned Manassas and talked to Chief Carter of the Manassas force Carter said he shot the man when he attempted to escape after being ap- prehended in riding a freight train, “He wasn't hurt badly,” the chief in= sisted The colored man told local pol was Howard Kinley, 23 )vnrsm\l\(l:: }.‘): Winston Salem, N.' C. Instead of con~ tinuing on to Reading on the moufi given him by Carter, he stopped off Washington ‘to visit' friends at' 231 Twenty-third street, who, seeing ' hig summoned an ambulanee. in Vietim's Pocket. 2 | He was treated by Dr. I. Ruthkoski. ‘The | wound was in the body and was gHar- acterized as painful rather than seri~ ous. lleving himsell to be dying, he lay down ! on the side of the street until the police ; arrived Harris told police he had been drink- Held up at the point of a pistol by | four white men in a large touring car, had been treating Stone for two years for melancholy Assoolated Pre ine Corps headquarters yesterday announced that the Navy Cross had been awarded to Capt. Francis E. Plerce of Rochester, N. Y., and that letters of commendation had been sent to 11 Marine oficers and men, Including two from Washington, who oconducted themselve lantly in engagements in Nicaragua. Capt. Plerce was cited for continu- ing (0 man o machine gun in an air- plane, although wounded, during an en- gagement with Sandino's followers near Murra. Ll % who drove up alongside his machine ing and didn't rl‘memb.ir !IIPA .\?’\(\m‘lnk‘ inml ordered him to stop, Luther © Pilot Sticl;s By Gun Aéainst Sandino; Gets Navy Cross for Feat in Plane Letters of commendation were ad- dressed to MaJ. Ross E. Rowell of Boise, Idaho; First Lieuts. Harold C. Roberts | of Buffalo and Frank D. Weir of Amagansett, N. Y Second Lieuts. Frank H. Lamson-Scribner, Washing- ton, D, C, and Clarence J. Chappell, Macon, On.; Gunnery Sergts. Albert 8. Munach, Allentown, Pa, and Patrick H. Tobin, Wichita, Kans. Sergt. Harold R, Jordan of Little Rock, Ark.: Corpls. Hannon W, Stags, Whitesville, La., and Luther G. Norris, Shreveport, La., and Pvi. Richard E. Cornelison, Holtsville, | Calit. Poole, of Spencerville, Md, a mer chant at Center Market, was robbed | of his pocketbook containing a check | and his driver's permit last night about | 11_oclock, he reported | The bagdits overlooked a sum of | money fn his pocket. The robbery took place on Fifth street between U and W streets. Poole told police that he was driv- | ing_home when the other mnchlnvl {potited a pistal at him, he said, wnd | told him to draw over to the ‘curb Another man took his pocketbook and | they drove away. Poole thinks he can identify the man who held the gun | overtook his car. One of the men By jumping in fully clad and saving a schoolboy, H. Plymridge, bathing beach attendant at Chertsey, Eungland, ‘ecently made his twenty-seventh rescue from the Thames. MOSCOW WAITS. Tehitcherin Not Decided Whetlies® Kellegg Treaty Is for Peace or War MOSCOW, August 4 (4 —Forel Minister 'rrmwnegm sald in an mu?: view tonight that he had not decitied :Al":::'lfl’ u\‘x’l !dlr:;mdd(euo“ Peace y was intended to briy 3 prepare for war S Until the treaty is signed in Paris, he sald, Russia 15 willing to discuss its text He expressed the belief that the ’mwrrs willingness or unwillingness to, let Russia into the disenssion would fiw'lmm the real motives behind the o mh‘_‘\' t pluu\: 10 imprave its highways order to keep up with the growl number of automobiles. - who, Dr. Fordham said, was his'sister- - l l