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2 &8 s B il . P THE_EVENING ~STAR.. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER S8 OFFIGER QUIZZED IN PEEPING CASE Captain Believes Man Inno- cent Despite Protests He Entered Girls” Room. While an investigation was being started today into the complaint made last pight by tenants at 2410 Twentieth street that a uniformed policeman has | . often peeped into their apartment win- dows and that early Thursday morning he forced his way into the apartment of two young women. Capt. R. E. Dovle o fthe eighth precinct affirmed his be- lief in the officer’s innocence. Several residents in the building reiterated their | accusation this morning. The officer. whose name was withheld until more definite information is ob- ! tained. was questioned by Capt. Doyle | this morning. He admitted he had en- tered tbe apartment of the two young | women about 3 o'clock Thursday morn- ing. but denied that he had forced open the door without permission Capt. Doyle expressed his firm belief | in the officer's integrity and good char- | acter. saving that he believed his story | absolute has been on tne | police { and has pa- troled the vicinity of the apartment house for the past four vears. He ic married and has two children. and has never had a complaint lodged against | him befere. “Answering Call.” Lieut. Michael Raedy. who was en duty at the eighth precinct last night, received a telephone complaint about midnight. He immediately went to th2 Twentieth street address where he in- terviewed several tenants and Ralph Price. resident manager, who lodged a formal complaint. The two young women. whose apart- | ment the policeman is alleged to have entered Thursday. are sisters and one is a trained nurse. They say that about 2:45 o'clock Thrsday morning the officer knocked on their door. The young women were in bed and afraid to Bnswer, they declared. The knock was repeated, they say. and then the door was forced open and the officer stepped inside. In answer to a query as to who he was, he is said to have replied that he was a policeman and had received a call that some one in the apartment wanted an officer. He was told that he had | not been summoned, it is alleged. He | replied that a man had hailed him from a taxicab at Eighteenth street and Co- lumbia road about 15 minutes earlier and said that “a girl there has bfipn{ having trouble with some man and| ‘wants an_officer.” The policeman in question said today that he inquired if he could not.wait until morning before going to the apartment, but was told it was urgent | that he go at once. ‘While he was inside the older of the two girls told him that about 2:30 o'clock a man had annoved her by calling through the speaking tube fr the apartment house lobby. She d later that she thought that it was the officer who called as a pretext for en- tering her apartment. The same man she declared had come to her door on two previous O ns #t night in answer to summons che says were never made. The first time was in answer to a supposed call that sev- eral automobile tires had been stolen. The second was while three friends from Charlottesville, Va., were being entertained. Other Complaints. There are nine apartments on the| ground floor of the apartment house, | and Price, the manager, said that per- sons living in practicaily all of them have complained of a policeman, who has been seen prowling around the place at night for the past six months, peering into bedroom windows. The description given by the several tenants of the ma- rauder tallied accurately with that of the man quizzed by Capt. Doyle. The officer told Capt. Doyle of being told to go to the place by a man in a taxicab. The man appeared to be about 35 years old and was large and well dressed, he declared. According to the policeman, one of the occupants of the apartment invited him in when he made known his identity. and assisted him in opening the door, which was stuck in the frame. She then told him of the man who had annoyed her through the speaking tube, and requested him to search the house, he asserted. The offi- cer was not disrespectful in any way, the girls said today. RATE WAR IS SEEN IN COAST SHIPPING| Dollar Line Reported Out of Price-| Regulating Body on Pacific and Atlantic. P the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, September 8.— The Examiner today published a_re-| port that the Dollar Steamship Line has withdrawn from the United States | intercoastal conference, a rate regulat- ing organization for coastwise shipping on both the Atlantic and Pacific Sea- | boards. The newspaper says shipping men | have interpreted the report as presag- | ing a possible rate cutting war among | coastwise shipping lines. In the absence REPUTED PLAYWRIGHT HELD FOR SANITY INVESTIGATION | Arrest Follows Ejection From Home of Alexandria Girl | Song Writer. Barnard. Merry Found Pitch- ing Imaginary Bombs on River Front. Held for investigation of his sani | service examination, A. Barnard Merry. described as a Nex York plavwright, is under arrest at | Alexandria, | He was arrested on the Potomac River front there last night while drill- |ing himself as a soldier and .pitching imaginary grenades. He says he is co- author of the play “Cease Firing," which the police are told was to have been produced In New York in August with music written by Miss Gladys Rodgers of Alexandria. Miss Rodgers wrote “Harlem Rose,” which was sung | as the principal number of “Keep Shuf- MISS GLADYS RODGERS. fling." ~Clinedinst Pheto At Miss Rodgers' home this morning it was said that Merry haa appeared there and been ordered away | because of his conduct. He was forced | from the door of the Rodgers home at | 222 South Fairfax street. a relative of Miss Rodgers said. It was about 7 oclock last night that Policcman Charles R. Clary and Desk Officer Charles Miller noticed the antics of a stranger on the strand between King | and Prince streets and took him in tow He failed to answer when asked his name. Papers revealed his identity and indicated that he had been engaged in | theatrical work in New York. He ap- pears to be about 30 years old. Miss Rodgers and Merry became acquainted at a reception to the press when prepa- rations were under way some time ago for the production of “Cease Firing.” | It was reported recently that Miss | Rodgers and Merry were engaged and | arrangements were reported being made | for a stage wedding the night of the | opening of “Cease Firing.” In New York cfforts today to identify | Merry were futile, according to informa- | tion received here. Papers found on him in Alexandria indicate that Mrs. Catherine Merry, formerly Miss Mathi- son, obfained a divorce from him June 23,1923, in Middlesex County, Conn., on grounds of intolerable cruelty. i BECG AND LOWMAN CLASH N FFIE Legislator Charges Dry Head With “High-Handed” Methods. A. BARNARD MERRY. DEMOGRATS SPEND 8579 N MONTH Lehman Lists Expenses and Contributions to Campaign War Chest. The Capital was gossiping !xsdny over | a row between Representative Begg of Ohio and Seymour Lowman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of_prohibition enforcement. Begg, it was understood, went to Mr. Lowman's office yesterday. afternoon ta intercede for prohibition agents in Ohio, who had been dismissed from the scrv- | the month of $438,919.55. iC;- St eian | The report showed a balance of $220,- s newspaper men stood in Lowman's | g, - ot TorT the umual. press conference, | 81552 at the end of August after all Begg, who was standing beside the As- | monthly expenses had been paid. The sistant Secretary’s desk charged he was | balance carried over from July was being treated unfairly. ‘1092,752.70' You've ended by interview before I| s b sstien it was through,” he said, “and without | giving me an answer. You can't use| Of the total expenditures, $109.181.78 your high handed methods on me.” |was for publicity and . advertising: And then the representative stormed $143,130 for advances and contribu- out of the office. tions to State committees; $59,733.97 Back of the ostensible cause of the | for salaries and $126,873.80 for rentals, clash is the “weeding out” process of | traveling expenses, telephone and tele- prohibition agents who have failed o | graph equipment and radio expenses. qualify for their posts under the civil | ~The report showed Col. Lehman made service regulations, and authority was | one contribution of $50,000. Three given for the statement that in some | others for the same amount came from districts these removals will reach 65 | Pierre S. Du Pont of Wilmington, Del.; incumbents can | W. F. Kenny, New York contractor and | intimate friend of Gov. Smith for 35 | years, and M. J. Mechan, Wall street broker. Six $10,000 gifts were contributed by William H. Tedd, ship builder and close friend of the governor; Nathan Straus, Nathan Straus, jr. and Hugh Grant Straus, together; Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the War Indus- tries Board during Wilson's administra- tion: James J. Phelan. Boston bank- er; Percy S. Straus. New York mer- | chant, and Joseph P. Day, New York In this instance Congress specifically | real estate operator. laid down the law that all agents must | Other Contributors. qualify under civil service examina- | Dennis A. Harrington of New York, tions. Treasury Department officials ex- e ) plained today that they have no choice | B 350 Triricen gave $5.000 cach. Py in the matter, but must pick their | follow: Charlcs N. Price, New York; agents from the lists submited by he | william A. Julian, national committee- Civil Service Commission, naming those | man from Ohio: J. D. Mooney, New York: August Heckscher. New York who have been successful in the re- philanthropist; George Gordon Battle, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 8.—Col. Her- bert H. Lehman, treasurer of the Demo- cratic national committee, last night is- sued a financial statement showing August campaign contributions of per cent unless the qualify at a new examination. Mr. Lowman declinad to discuss the Begg incident today, and the Repre- sentative, who recently was defeated for | the gubernatorial nomination in Ohio, could not be reached. The prohibition unit is the last of the Government services to be brought under civil service, but in its case Con- | aress departed from the usual cour: of permitting those already in the ser: ice to remain undisturbed by a civil cently conducted tests, Many of the $455,797.14 and disbursements during | old agents were said in some quarters to be men of meager education, who | New Yerk attorney: Bernard F. Gimbel, New York merchant and close friend of | wall, being largely are unable to e the examination | the governor: Paul M. Warburg, New political appointees. | York banker: James Reeves. New York merchant; Parker Corning, Democratic Congressman from Albany and brother of the lieutenant governor: F. Atschul, New York banker: Barron Collier, ad- TAMMANY 1S CALLED | of R. Stanley Dollar, executive vice | president of the company, officials here | decline to comment on the action. | Two other shipping companies. the | Transmarine and the Panama Pacific Lines, previously had withdrawn from | the rate making body. Developments are expected at the general conference of the organization at White Sulphur Springs, Va.. September 17. i DELEG>AT|0N OF .WOMEN TO CALL ON HOOVER Members of N:ltiona? Party Will With | " Flying Banners Wednesday. | Descend Upon Nominee Br the Associated Press. | The National Woman's Party, now ! working for equal rights for men and | women. will send a deputation to call | on Herbert Hoover next Wednesday vertising man; S. R. Rosoff of New York and James A. Kenny of New York, per- sonal friend of the governor. Other sources of income, such as in- terest on bank balances, refunds, sale of literature and transfer to the general fund of a $10,000 pay roll imprest fund, added $11,185.23 to the month's income. MEXICO MAY HEAR CATHOLIC LAW PLEA Obregonista Bloc of Chamber Will- ing to Discuss Petition for Amendment. FRIEND OF THE SOUTH| John Sharp Williams Says Dixie | Owes “Debt of Gratitude” to New York Democrats. ! By the Associated Press. ! INDIANOLA. Miss., September 8. | The South, in the opinion of John Sharp Williams, former Senator from | Mississippi, owes to Tammany Hall a decp and ineffacable debt of gratitude.” His views were expressed in a letter to Otho A. Stubblefield of Indianola. which | has been made public. | “It (Tammany Hall) was our friend | in our hour of need.” Williams said, | “when we had mighty few friends | north of the Mason-Dixon line. “Although Tilden had Boss Tweed By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, September 8.—Will- put behind the bars, it voted for Tilden, | and although it opposed Cleveland and Bryan, it supported both, It opposed the Force bill and stood by the Southern morning. Party leaders are gathering in the city eager 1o join the group, which will ingness to discuss the petition presented to Congress by Catholic laymen asking (hat the religious 1aws be amended was descend on the Republican nominee with flying banners, Miss Mabel Vernon executive secretary the organization who has been away all Summer, re- turned to the city today. Miss Anna Pollitzer of New York City has been in Washington for several days ar- ranging for the conference With Mr. Hoover. For weeks the women have been trving to get Gov. Smith and Mr. Hoover to {alk on the question of equal rights SEES DEMOCRATIC REVOLT Brookhart of Iowa Confers With Work on Western Situation. A revolt among Democratic voters i the West and Northwest as well as in the South was foreseen yesterday Ly Eenator Brookhart, Republican, of ITowa The Senator conferred during the dav with Chairman Work of the Republican national committee. “In many_quarters of the Midcle West.” said Senator Brookhart, “if the Republican voters were to stay away from the polls on clection da; anti- Smith sentiment among the ocra’s in those States is so strong that it would zesult in Mr, Hoover's election,” | white people from the day Lee surren- dered to now ‘It is a political machine, and, of | | course, is not composed of angels and | | has some very black spots on its record, but it is an angel of light compared | with the foul Republican machines of | | Philadelphia, Chicago and half a dozen | other large cities.” pressed by the Obregonista-revolution- ary block of the Chamber of Deputies today. Lack of partisanship in regards to religious matters qualifies the bloc to debate the petition, it was stated. but this could be done “only if Catholics condemn fhe anti-Christian and crim- inal attitude of those spilling the blood of the country, as only parties complying with the laws are entitled to exercise | = B | the right to petition Congress.” | Mrs. Katie B. Smith died at the resi-| The members also announced they | dence of her son. Willlam M. Smith, | would support the policies of President | 1418 Allison street. yesterday after a | Calles. |Jong iliness. She would have been 90 | vears old next month. She came here | ! from Huntingdon, Pa., about two and a | | half years ago. She is survi grandchildren. Funeral services and interment will | be in Huntingdon Monday. | MRS. KATIE SMITH DIES. Premier Venizelos Recovering. | ATHENS, Seplember 8 (A.—Premier ed by her son and two | Venizelos, a sufferer from the dengue plague epidemic in Greece, was making steady progress toward recovery. His latest temperature reading was 98.6. S Peggy Joyce Returns. NEW YORK, September 8 Peggy Hopkins Joyce, recently divorced from her fourth husband, Count Gesta Murner, returned from Paris yesterday on the liner Aquitania with a new Bance, Lord Northesk, British Vice Consulate to Open. The vice consulate at the British em- bassy here will reopen September 20, it announced today. Applications for visas, certification of documents and passports will be considered between 11 am. and 12:30 pm, 3 and 4:30 p.m. P).— | AR FLIGHT T CURE MUTE .15 ATAL 'Plane With Three Aboard| Falls—Boy, Pilot and Man Meet Death. - | By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. September 8 | —An airplane trip undertaken in an| { effort to improve the condition of Luke | Briotta, 6-year-old ‘mute, cost the lives of three persons when- their machine | plunged from a 2,000-foot altitude into | a swamp near Randall Field airport. | Agawam. a suburb of this city. i The accldent. which occurred Tfate vesterday. was witnessed by hundreds of persons. Those killed were the boy. ' Charles Potholm, 25, of Hartford, Conn.. pilot employed by the Massachusetts Airway Corporation, owner of the plane, and Abraham H. Mazer. 21, of this city, the boy's father, Joseph Briotta, had | belief that they might help restore the | child’s vocal powers. The elder Briotta saw the tragedy. Potholm presumably attempted a| loop contrary to instructions received before ‘ leaving the ground. The pilot had been told to avoid stunts although | the boy's father, Joseph Briotta, saw | the tragedy. 1 As the plane started to level ou after the loop, the left wing suddenly broke away and a second later there| was an _explosion. As the ship plunged to earth the right wing collapsed and | the plane fell vertically. All three victims were found strapped in their Potholm was breathing, | but unconscious and died while being carried to a field. The others were | dead. { Potholm had been flying for three | years. He had returned Thursday from | a barnstorming tour of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. J, A. Hearn, vice president of Airway Corporation, said the pilot was competent and that | the plane had been found in first-class | condition. i 'BIG COMMERCIAL AMRPORT PLANNED AT HALPINE, MD.| _ (Continued from First Page.) _ complete servicing and overhauling of airplanes will be installed. The field is to be lighted and equipped | for night flying within the near future, Maj. Horton announced, after which | application will be made to the Depart- ment of Commerce for a Class A rating | for the airport, which is t highest | rating granted by the department under | | the provisions of the air commerce act Field in Good Shape. 1 “The fleld already is in splendid shape,” Maj. Horton sald. “There is a small ditch’ across a part of the field. We will lay drainage pipes in this ditch and level the field over it. The entire apen space is under a heavy growth of Kentucky blue grass, which makes an excellent turf for landing. The field is | perfectly drained and remains firm even under the heavy rains of the past month. “The property is readily accessible, the metropolitan branch of the Balti- more & Ohio Rallroad passing within two city blocks of one boundary, the Rockville pike skirting another side and the street railway line from Georgetown to Rockville passing close by the field. “The location and physical condition | of the field convince me that we can es- tablish there an airport for the National Capital which will be second to none in this country.” Maj. Horton said that he expects to | establish a model flying school at the | fleld before Winter sets in. Only the lmn.xl experienced of instructors will be | employed, he said, applications having | | been recelved from a number of former | Army and Navy pilots and instructors. Selection of a chief pilot probably will | be announced within a week or two and the purchasing of planes and equipment | will follow as rapidly as possible. 1 Will Give Complete Course. i “We intend to offer a complete course | of instruction, which will include 50 | hours of actual solo flying,” Maj. Hor- | ton said. “We will graduate our stu- | dents only when they are able to pass | the license requirements of the Depart- | ment of Commerce. Classes will be | conducted to train students for the | various types of licenses issued by the | department, from that of private pilot, which authorizes the fiyer to pilot his | own plane for his own amusement, but | not to carry passengers or freight for | hire, up to that of transport pilot, the highest rating given by the depart- | ment. | “There is a great demand today for capable transport pilots to fly the big transports and passenger planes re- quired for the intercity service, which is opening the greatest field of useful- ness for the airplane. We will concen- trate, therefore, on the training of pilots of this caliber.” b Maj. Horton is widely known in avia- tion circles and is a pilot and radio ex- pert. He discovered the basic method of radio communication between air- planes in flight and ground stations as early as 1910, when the science of air navigation was in its infancy. On Au- | gust 27, 1910, at the Sheepshead Bay | race track, in the presence of Army Sig- | nal Corps officers from Washington. he | conducted the first successful transmis- | sion of a radio message from a flying | plane to a ground station. Is Radio Expert. Ma). Horton has been interested in radio telegraphy for more than a quar- ter of a century. In 1903 he engaged in radio telegraphy experiments from building to building in Cleveland, and two years later he was in Denmark | collaborating with Valdamar Poulson at Copenhagen in the development of the present continuous wave radio system. ‘The results of his Sheepshead Bay experiment were made public by Maj. Horton for the use of the Army, re- sulting in the science of airplane com- munication reaching a high state of development cven prior to the World War, in which it became of supreme importance in connection with artillery fire regulation from the air. Maj. Horton, now on the Aviation Corps reserve list, recently returned to duty at Bolling Field as a pilot and radio expert. MONTGOMERY G. 0. P. CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED Chairman Sleman and Other Coun- ty Leaders Decide on Vigorous Efforts for Ticket. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 8— The first meeting of the campaign of the Republican State central committee for Montgomery County was held here yesterday. It marked the beginning of activities in behall of the Republican presidential, senatorial and congres- sional candidates and was attended by Paul Sleman, chairman: Mrs. John A. Holmes, F. Barnard Welsh and Wilson | L. Townsend. It was decided to conduct a vigorous campaign, and with that end in view Chairman Sleman was authorized to call a meeting for the near future of the more prominent members of the party to consider various matters rer- taining to the party welfare, especially registration of voters and getting out the vote on November 6. | M 'R Former Maryland Senator . not aimed at his wife. e : [ ARITAL RIFT DENIED | fl Al UNORRWOOD & LERWOGD ANCE AND WIFE. vs an advertisement in which he warned the publi asked that some be employed in the | that he would be responsible for no debts incurred by others than himself w. My il of Chicogo Tils Bhiish Association of Results of Expedition By the Associated Press. GLASGOW, Scotland, September 8— | Two hundred skeletons from the Baby- | lonian ruins of Kish. an island in the Persian Gulf, were the center of dis- cussions yesterday by anthropologists of the British Association for the Ad- | vancement of Science, after an address by Henry Field, assistant curator of | the Field Museum of Natural History, in_Chicago. The skeletons were said fo be in a remarkable state of preservation. They include the bones of men. women and children and were recently shipped to Chicago. “These skeletons,” Mr. Field told a meeting of the association, “will be subjected to elaborate measurement which will enable a comparison with measurements of persons now living in the Kish area. This will permit con- clusions as to whether man today is bigger or smaller than his ancestors | of several thousand years ago. It \ll“} show whether any changes in his physi cal formation have occurred.” Desert Once Populated. The American curator, who is one of the youngest lecturers before the as- sociation, drew the general conclusion from his Syrian expedition that the desert was well populated in past ages due to the fact that there was formerly a better water supply. He said that this fact was proved by the discovery of many household implements. Prof. Stamp of the department of economic geography in the University of London spoke on the prospect of a | world famine of lumber. He believed that the shortage was becoming steadily more acute. Into Syrian Desert. | Ra SKELETONS FOUND IN BABYLONIA RUINS STUDIED BY SCIENTISTS “The annual increase in the world's consumption of wood.” he said, “is 1.45 per cent annually. This means that consumption will be doubled every 50 ars. In all countries of Furope except ia timber is being cut more rapidly than it is being replaced by growth or reforestation. “Europe is thus using up her timber reserves at a rapid rate. Great Britain | depends at present_almost entirely on foreign supplies. There remains oniy one country capable of steplying timber to meet an increased demand, and that is Russia.” Speaks on Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis was the subject of a discourse by Prof. William Brown of Oxford University. He told the after- noon session that reliving in memory the scenes of earliest childhood was an excellent cure for mental illnes: “The sysiematic living over again our past, in great detail and thoroughness, produces benefits and gives the patient ower over his symptoms,” he said. “These tend to disgppear, thus he ac- | quires a deeper insight into his owa mind and learns how one thing led to another in his past life. “In the course of such an analysis a person geis closer to his true self and sees his fundamental interest in life. Tt may be that he has been following in- terests unnatural to him. But now, al- though knowing his real desire, he is stili left with the difficulty of deciding how to follow them. For this he needs a philosophy of life.” Prof. Brown urged the value of “talk- ing out” emotion of fear, anger and hate. He said that fear when analyzed became less important. FORM SOUTH, INC. 10 “SELL" DIXIE Shipping Group Launches Or- ganization With $5,000.000 | Program. By the Associated Pres: BILOXI, Miss., September 8.—'The South, Inc.,” to sell the Southern States to themselves and the world was tenta- tively organized here yesterday under leadership of P. E. O'Dell, general man- ager of the Gulf, Mobile & Northern | Railway. The plan of the new organization was presented at a meeting of delegates to | the Southeast Shippers’ Advisof'y Board In unfolding his plan, Mr, O'Dell de- clared there was no need of going into it in a penny-wise frame of mind, as its | success would depend upon money, or- ganization, work, zeal and imagination. To Advertise. The plan, he asserted, provides for an organization to operate at least 10 years with capital of $5,000,000, of which $500,000 would be spent annually in placing representatives in the trade centers of the world, advertising and generally promoting Southern industry. “The South, In have six departments, industrial lef lative, advertising and trade extension. | general development, statistical and transportation, all designed to increase business.” Mr. O'Dell warned against jgalousies and suspicions of communities and urged development of an international state of mind. 2 Seek Prosperity. “We do not want a machine empire.” he continued, “we do not wish to sacr! fice our culture, creeds and happines but we do want the prosperity that is rightfully ours. A close union of the | South can accomplish this.” s After his address a steering commiit- tee was appointed to perfect the organ- ization of the corporation. Mr. O'Dell vas named chairman and member at arge. Activities of the organization will in- clude the States east of the Mississippi River and south of Virginia and the Ohio River. Several speakers also indorsed the| proposal and a campaign immediately | was launched to raise $25000 from among the delegates at the meeting. he added. ill | CITY NEWS Ifi BEIEF. ‘TODAY. Gavel Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, card party at Northeast Masonic Temple, 8 pm. Capital Lodge, No. 3. Shepherds of Bethlehem, dance at Shady Oak Inn. Busses will leave Eighth and Pennsylva- nia avenue, 8:15 p.m. The Ergatocrats Club will hear “The Farce of Liberalism,” at 817 Thirteenth street, 8 p.m. FUTURE. The Piney Branch Citizens' Associa-| tion will meet Monday night at the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and Allison streets, 8 o'clock. The Montgomery County Civic Fed- cration will meet Monday night at the Woodside School, when they will be guests of the Linden Civic League. The Gold Star Mothers will meet at the Hamilton Hotel, September 18. Col. | J. Miller Kenyon will speak. The American University Park Citi-| zens' Association will meet Tuesday night in Hurst Hall, American Univer- sity, 8 o'clock. The Takoma Park Citizens' Associa- tion will meet at thg Takoma Branch of the Public Library Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. S NICARAGUA LEADER ONWAY TO GAPITAL Adclfo Benard, Presidential Nominee, Confident of Election in Fall. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 8.— Nica: ragua has learned “political patience™ as the one outstanding result of the presence there of United States Marines, according to Adolfo Benard, candidate for presidency of Nicaragua. who ar- rived here aboard the Royal Spanish Mail liner Manuel Arnus. He is confi- dent of his election in November. Mr. Benard was accompanied by his son, Adolfo Benard, jr., and will go rect to visit his son-in-law, Dr. Alejan- dro Cesar, Minister from Nicaragua, and daughter in Washington. He will also call on State Department officials, he said, and may lay the groundwork for friendly future co-operation follow- ing his expected election. Mr. Benard stated that his principal rea n for be- lieving that he will be elected is that the Conservative party, which he rep- resents at the polls, has been in power in Nicaragua for 17 years and his nomi- nation was the unanimous action of both factions of this party. “Understanding the sympathy and disinterested co-operation of the United | States 1n promoting the wellbeing of Nicaragua, I consider that the elections of 1928 will mark an era of progress in the political evolution of my country.” he said. “All of the business men of Nicaragua are grateful to the United States in lending aid in maintaining peace and order within our borders.” ‘The rebel leader, Sandino, is a neg- ligable factor in Nicaraguan politics, Mr. Benard said, and it is expected that the “situation in Nicaragua” will be en- tirely cleared up with the elections. JUDGE JAMES C. HUDSON, UNION VETERAN, IS DEAD | Native of Nebraska, 84, Had Served as Escort in Lincoln Funeral. Judge James Coulter Hudson. 84, a | Union Army Veteran, who served as an escort at President Lincoln's funeral. died in Walter Reed Hospital last night after a long illness. « Judge Hudson came here from Sidney, Nebr.. about 15 years ago. He was at one time judge of the county court there. He was formerly employed in the Department of Agriculture. He was a m!‘n‘brr of the Grand Army of the Re- public and the Army and Navy Union. Judge Hudson resided at 206 Upshur street during the Winter and had a Summer home at Virginia Highlands. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Anna C. Hudson, and a son, Lieut. William J. Hudson of Whitewater, Calif Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Interment will be in Ar- |lington Cemetery. 120 MUST FACE TRIAL IN CHICAGO VOTING FRAUD By the Associated Press CHICAGO, September 8.—Upholding the validity of the special grand Jurxe§ that have investigated irregularities in connection with the April primaries, Judge John F. O'Connor in Criminal Court today decided that Judge Eman- uel Eller, his father, Morris Eller, city collector, and 18 co-defendants must go to trial September 17 on 23 charges of conspiracy, including conspiracy to mur- der Octavius Granaday, negro Oppo- nent of Morris Eller in the twentieth ward. bkt BREAK WITH WIFE Former U. S. Senator Ex- plains Advertisements Were Not Aimed at Mate. Special Dispatch to The Star. ; VR ORI LMDOIEH A L st g R. FRANCE DENIES GIL SEEN AS NEXT MENCD PESIEN Majority Bloc of Chamber Pledges Support of Secretary. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY. September 8.—The BALTIMORE, Md. September B.—| . ioity bloc of the Mexican Chamber Denying & rift in his marital relations | of Deputies, comprising a number suffi- | with his invalid Russian wife, Dr. Jo- |cient to elect. in cancus yesterday, de- seph Irwin France, former U. S. Sena- |retary of the ilio Portes Gil, sec- cided to support E: for provisional interior. tor for Maryland. last night stated | president of the republic that advertisements appearing In New York and Philadelphia papers disclaim- | ing responsibility for debts not con- | tracted by himself are a protectiv measure_involving another member of | his_family. The New York notice read: “Shall not | be responsible for any debts contract- ! ed by my wife or any other person ! {but myselt.” This, Dr. France said, | was incorrect, but, he said, the Phila- | delphia notice, which made no mention of his wife, was correct. Dr. France Makes Statement. | “The notice in the New York pawr‘ was not directed at my wife.” Dr. France said. “Since her arrival in this country she has been an invalid, al-| though she is progressing steadily. She | never goes anywhere and never runs up bills. She has been living a very | quiet life here at Port Deposit (where | Dr. France makes his home) and has| been very happy in a quiet way. She is still an invalid. although she is much | better than when she first coiw to| America.” He emphatically denied that there iz any rift in the relations be- tween himself and his wife. Dr. Fri s wife formerly was Mile. | Titlana Vladimirovna Dechtereva. daughter of a former member of the Court of Appeals at Moscow and was wed to Dr. France at the Russian Or- thodox Church at Paris, July 13, 1927, !!hr!n months after the death of his first wife, Mrs. Evelyn S. Tome. The latter was the widow of Jacob Tome, | who founded Tome Institute, at Port | Deposit. | | Interested in Russia. | A physician by profession, Dr. France is more widely known for his interest in | Russia and Russian affairs. He defeated David J. Lewis, present Democratic can- didate from the sixth Maryland district, in the senatorial election in 1916, also defeating Phillips Lee Goldsborough in the primary. Following the war, Dr. France work- {ed for recognition of Russia by the i United States. While a Senator he made ¢ two trips to Russia in estigating condi- tions. Since he retired from the Senate he has made several trips to Russia in | the interest of American firms, It was {on one of these trips that he met his present wife. ALCOHOL VICTIMS ! Two in Seranton Blind, 19 Children Fatherless From Poison Drink. By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa.. September 8.— Doctors who have been attending poison alcohol victims in Old Forge and Sib- ey, five miles from here. said yester- day that virtually all of the nearly 109 that were made ill by the wet goods are out of danger, Of ‘hose still in a serious condition, two are blind and may be disabled per- | manently. They are Mrs. Mary Kropp and George Masioch of Old Forge. Two men have died from the results of the alcohol poisoning. They were Alex Hydralick and Andrew Govel, both married. Nineteen children were made fatherless by the two deaths. The alcohol was discovered in a freight car in Old Forge by boys. Po- | lice believe it was meant for bootleg- gers, but the cargo was labeled as auto | radiator mixture. After the boys tosk | a_quantity of the alcohol and dis- | tributed it among grown-ups, some of | the latter proceeded to carry off more | of the liquid. General drinking followed, with some of the alcohol making its appearance at a firemen's parade celebration. Authorities have learned the names of the boys. but lacking the name of the | owner of the cargo, there has been | nothing done in-the way of criminal | action. GIBSON DISCLOSES SECRET PROBE OF ! D. C. POLICE FORCE ___(Continued from_First Pag quite as busy as its predecessor, which | has heard more than 400 cases in m: | last nine months. There were intimac tions from Maj. Hesse that as a result of his “round table” conference with trivial discipimary vial disciplinary cases which hereto. fore have clogged the trial board docket are going to be handled whenever pos- | sible by the precinct commanders. e past vear or two, Maj. Hesse has pointed out, the cnmmnnmlnxflon | cers have been’ reluctant to take ze- sponsibility for disciplining officers who violated a minor regulation of the polica manual, and have reported them (o headquarters. Maj. Hesse in turn has ordered these officers before (he t board. Every case demanding dis- | fiplinary action reported to headquar- | s, the police superintendent gone before the trial board. o S | the officers yesterday | August Circulation Daily.... 96,011 ESunday, 102,126/ District of Columbia. ss.: EROY W HERRON. Advertising Manager of THE EVENING end SUNDAY STAR. does solemnly swear that the actual number of cobies of the paper named soid tributed during the month of Aug dis- | 1928, was as follows' AD Bnys, Conies 1 98,336 aily net circulation . x daily net paid circulation average number of coples for service. etc..... averaze net circulation SUNDAY. Capies 12,833 Less adjustments Total Sunday net circulation, > Averags net Dald Sunday circula 101430 &7 Average Sunday net circulation 102,126 R detiing Masexer Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th « LMER P. YOUNT. T of ‘copies for serv: day of September. 1928 Seal.) vote in that manner when tI gon was assassinated on Jul Congress must name a_provisional Presi- It |of REPORTED BETTER if called upon in an eme: | the Secretary of Commerce and If the 154 deputies who so decided question is before Congress. Portes ¢ 1t ssured of suceceding President Ca n December 1. President-elect O 17 and the dent to hold office until after new gen- eral elections are held. The move of the majority bloc to in- dorse Portes Gil was foreshadowed ve erday by its request for the resignatio its leader, Ricardo Topete, pre of the Mexican chamber. He ps had favored Gen. Emanuel Pere: governor of Coahuila, for the office. Portes Gil, a lawyer and a former governor of Tamaulipas. come for- ward as a candidate rather suddeniy, Directly after the assassination of Gen. Obregon the talk was all of Aaron Saenz governor of Nuevo Leon. More recent the probabilities had seemed to peint to Gen. Perez Trevino. Despite this announcement by the majority group. political jockeying is not at an end and there still remains a pos- sibility of a new alignment before the vote is taken for provisional President. Sl sgane et HOOVER MAY GET AID OF PRESIDENT IN VERMONT SPEECH ___(Continued from First Page.) best suited to keep alive the Coolidge policies of government. The first indication that the Presi- dent might be counted on to give some substantial help during the campaizn by making one or two speeches devel~ oped following a conference yesterday between Mr. Coolidge and Represerta- iive Walter H. Newton of Minnesota, chairman of the speakers’ burcau of the Republican national committee. Mr. Newton afterward said he was not at liberty to discuss his talk with the Pr ident, other than to say that he d cussed politics and the plans of the speakers’ bureau and to intimate that he was exceedingly pleased with the re- sult of this visit. ‘There seems little question that Mr. Newton, in the capacity of the Speakers’ Bureau head, urged the Pre: dent to give a helping hand when the proper time arrived, and that, while he may not have received a defiinite prom- ise for a speech, he was assured that Mr. Coolidge would do what he could gency. While refusing to answer a question as to whether he asked the President to make a speech or so, Mr. Newton re- plied with much enthusiasm that he accomplished more during his visit than he had expected. and that he felt well repaid for his long journey. Would Be Powerful Factor. Declining to mention details of his discussion of politics with Mr. Coolidge, Mr. Newton freely admitted that a speech by Mr. Coolidge urging voters to retain the principles of his administra=- tion would be a powerful factor in aid= ing Mr. Hoover. The suggestion that such a speech would be made in Vers mont_did not. however. emanate from Mr. Newton, but, instead. from the Ex- ecutive offices, where it was learned that Mr. Coolidge anticipates going to Ver= mont for some special occasion. The President and the Governor of Vermont have been in correspondence on the matter, but the arrangements have not been completed. If Mr. Coolidge makes this trip, it will be in conjunc- tion with a proposed journey to North- ampton, Mass.. to sece Mrs. Coolidge's mother, who is ill in that city. Mr. Newton expects to put a formid- able array of Republican speakers into the field about September 20, when the campaign will be well under way, placing these orators in all parts of the country. He appeared much pleased with his pre- liminary arrangemen “The campaign work is coming along splendidly.” Mr. Newton said “Mr. Hoo- | ver's speeches have been remarkably well received. The human appeal in them has been striking. The public for a long time has viewed Mr. Hoover as the great doer of great things, and has to an extent lost sight of that great hu- man touch so evident 10 years ago. But his West Branch and other speeches show that the human clement is there.” Mr. Newton predicted a Republican victory in Minnesota, although conced- ing that Gov. Smith would make far more of a dent than did John W. Davis, who captured only about 50.000 out of 800.000 votes. He pointed to the victory of Walter Kohler in securing the guber- natorial nomination in Wisconsin sev- eral days ago by 24.000 as an indica- tion that Wisconsin would back Mr. Hoover, in spite of the Smith sentiment in that La Follette State Citizens Plan Send-Off. President and Mrs. Coolidge are to be accorded a touching send-off when they leave for Washington early next week. The people of the head of the Lakes section have been proud and hap- py to have these distinguished citizens spend their vac: n in their part of the country, and they propose showing their appreciation and their regret at their departure before the special train pulls out of the superior station. Citizens of Superior and Duluth and the nearby towns-and villages will as semble on the wide lawn and the stres about the Superior High School, which has served as the executive office during the President’s sojourn up here. and after Mayor Baxter of Superior makes a brief speech the President will in re- sponse attempt to express fully his ap- preciation of the hospitality and friend- liness accorded him and the members of his family and party during the thres months they have been guests of the North Woods country. This ceremony no doubt will r ble the one in Rapid City. S. Da Summer, when the citizens of that tion of the Black Hills gathered to ex- tend an affectionate farewell to the Coolidges on the eve of their departure The presidential party will go directiv from the ceremony in front of the | school, to the railroad station. wi another demonstration. more mform. than the first one and probably more lively and noisy. will be staged. There will be band musie, the blowing of fac- tory whisties and sirens and other me- diums of noisy expression. The special train, which is heing as- sembled by Col. E. D. Ainslee of Wash- ington, general passcnger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, wili arrive in Superior late today and shortly thereafter will be ready for the Pres dent's word to start for the Cap According to the present schedule th- President will arrive back at th: Whit House some time Wednesda; s School Opening Arranged. Special Dispatch to The Star. UNIVERSITY PARK, Md., September 8.—At a special meeting of the parent- teachers' association last night, attended by Prof. Nicholas Orem, county super- intendent of schools it was decided to accept the offer of the University Park Co. for the use of its building pending completion of the school building here In view of this. schoo! will open on schedule Monday. with five grades and , Notary Publle. Miss Elizabeth Wilson, principal. > ) Ld 3 i