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2 &% THE EVENING FALSE PRETENSES LAD T0 WITNER Traffic Bureau Clerk Indicted on Charge Growing Out of Realty Deal. Loren H. Wittner, clerk in the Traffic Bureau, whose removal from office has been recommended by Supt, of Police Hesse for neglect of duty in writing political speeches during working hours. and who recently protested to the Civil Service Commission 2gainst the order curbing political activities of govern- ment employes, was indicted today by the grand jury on a charge of false pretenses. The accusation goes back to October 18, 1926, when it is charged Witiner obtained a check for $500 from Irving | Owings, a resident of Hyattsvilie, who ; conducts a real estate business in the Evans Building, on alleged misrepre- sentations. Assistant United States Atf- torney Charles B. Murray presented the case to the grand jury. The charge revolves arcund a really transaction, False Pretenses Charged. False pretenses are also charged in two indictments reported against Glen W. Marler, a_solicitor of magazine subscriptions. In one of the cases he is said to have obtained $46 from Miss Winifred B. West, 3406 R street north- west, October 5, 1926, for several mag- azines as representing the Union Circu- lating Co. of New York. The magazines never came and the company denied Marler was its representative. In the other case he got $19 from Mrs. Anne L. Clifford, 3033 N street. October 23, 1926. She never received the mag- azines, it is stated. James H. Walton and William J. Carter, both white, were indicted on charges of robbery and grand larceny. ‘They are charged with holding up James A. Chambers, proprietor of a store at 1120 Connecticut avenue, Sep- tember 17. The victim was chloro- formed and bound in the rear of the store. Later, it is charged, the men went to the Stoneleigh Garage, 1630 L street, and, after chloroforming a col- ored attendant, took him and an auto- mobile and drove to Danville, Va. De- tective Sergt. Brodie arrested the men at Danville, They confessed after their arrest. Housebreaking Is Charged. Three - cases of housebreaking and lareceny are charged against William Starratt. He is said to have entered the office of Presiding Judge William J. Graham of the United States Court of Customs Appeals, May 9, and to have taken a portfolio belonging to the jus- tice and a clock belonging to the United States. On May 11 he is alleged to have entered the office of Attorney Thomas J. Luckett, Second National Bank Building, and to have removed a brief bag. The next day he stole a brief bag, it is charged, from the office of Attorney Louis L. Hamby, Transpor- tation Building. A total of 34 indictments were re- ported by the grand jury, which ignored 10 cases. Those ignored include Nor- man F. Fowler and Wesley Postell, joy- riding; Leroy Harris, assault with dan- gerous weapon; Bernard McHenry, Lena Moore and James Whitehead, grand {Alabama ... Michigan .. Minnesota . Mississippi .. Montana . Nebraska . The Vice President-elect arriving in By the Assoc ‘Total Districts districts. reported. 1343 1333 503 182 2,018 938 9,086 17,590 1,566 1,406 169 215 915 1,745 265 6,766 3,608 2,247 2,153 4,003 641 618 1,226 1,575 2,723 2,035 841 3,123 1,034 1,115 235 292 2,783 173 Arizona Arkansas California . Colorado .. Connecticut . Delaware Florida . Georgia Idaho . Illinois .... Indiana Iowa . Kansas . Kentucky Louisiana Maine .... Maryland ....... Massachusetts .. Missouri .... Nevada ...... New Hampshire. New Jersey .. New Mexico.. larceny; Herman P. Nyder, Frank L. Ed- wards, Alonzo Myers and Norman Hawes, violating anti-narcotic law, and ZLeorard M. Winton, larceny after trust. Other Indictments. Others indicted and the charges against them includ Frank H. Clouse, Henry W. Rainey (two. cases), William Wright. and John Glenn, _housebreaking.:: and" larceny; Robert Wellsa g{:na hrceng; ’Alygihnm Brown, grant rceny and joyriding; Robert S. Paull, Randolph Ward, alias Randolph Wade3 ‘William glnver ne'a Joseph Harris, joyriding; William W. p. Charles 1. Harris, Willlam Butler, James Jumper, Randolph Jones and James Henson, assault with danger- Roy Summers, non-sup- port of wife; Sarah Ingram, alias Sarah Williams, * larceny after trust; Fred Sanderoff, James W. Taylor and Ollie Walter Smalley, non-support of minor children. TWO POLICEMEN GIVEN NEW DUTIES BY HESSE Pierson and McCormack Shifted for Good of Service. Police Lieuts. Joseph W. Pierson of the twelfth precinct and James W. Mc- Cormack of the second precinct, cha assignments today by order of Maj. Edwin B, Hesse, superintendent of police. ‘The change, Maj. Hesse an- nounced, was made “for the good of the service.” No other shifts in the assignments of ranking officers are contemplated at this time, Maj. Hesse said. FOUR PERSOiIS ARRESTED ON DRY LAW CHARGES| One Draws 8100 Suspended Ylne.{ Tells Police He Is Or- { dained Rabbi. Pleading guilty toillegal transpor- | fation and possession of liquor, Morris | Mourines, 3600 block of Warder street, was given a suspended fine of $100 by Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court today. Three other persons arrested on | information furnished by Mourines also | were arraigned, two of them demanding | Jury trials. . Mourines was arrested by Tenth Pre- cinct’ Detective Dennis J. Murphy as | he was leaving a house on Shepherd | street. He had a half gallon of liquor | under his arm, Murphy said. When | police obtained from their prisoner a | statement that he had bought the | liquor at the house they hurried back | o Shepherd street. About half an hour later two other | men and a women are said by De- | tective Murphy to have come out of the house and carried about 100 quarts of lquor into a waiting taxi. After being arrested for transportation and possession, the trio gave their names as Samuel Kushner, 23; Mrs. Rebecca Kushner, 50, his mother, and Patrick Edwird Hanlon, 52, the driver of the cab. e, and is at liberty under $5,000 bond for a jury trial bond was set at $500. be arraigned this afternoon. Although claiming to be an ordained rabbi, Mourines is said to have told Detective Murphy he now conducts a séhool in his own home. He has no local congregation Lieuts. is charged with second HOOVER LEAD GROWS. Now Stands at 948,475 in Penn- sylvania Vote Count. PHILADELPHIA, November 8 (#).— Returns from 9,136 of the 8,571 districts in Pennsylvania show the lead of Herbert Hoover slowly growing. His lead is now 948475 over Gov. Smith. His mother’s | Hanlon was to | New York ...... North Carolina.. North Dakota... 8,245 1,334 658 8,626 Oklahoma . Oregon ... ; | Penhsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina.. South Dakota... Tennessee .| Texas Utah ... Vermont Virginia .... Washington 1,665 2,561 West Virginia 2310 Wisconsin ... 2,743 Wyoming .... 693 ’ ' CflleS GREETED AT STATION Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Gann, his brother-in-law and sister. —Star Staff Photo. o the Capital this morning. With him are inted Press. Indicated electoral vote. Popular vote. S Hoover. Smitlh. Hoover. mith. 113,217 127,263 48,648 24,043 38,455 63,237 962,106 525,485 222,453 117,898 296,109 252,068 65,567 33,873 116,410 85,221 98,550 128,077 32,853 17,117 1,712,341 1,291,191 844,213 562,198 575,352 350,002 414,908 158,687 547,709 370,289 9 | Hoover, and when Calvin Coolidge came STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, HARDING ENORED ANTLHDOVER TAL Gave Californian His Chance‘ and Coolidge Continued to Push Him. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Eight years ago lacking a month, a President-elect was choosing his cabi- net. From practically every one of his advisers came objections to the selec- tion of Herbert Hoover. It was argued that he had served under a Democratic President, that he had wavered in his Republicanism and had publicly urged the election of a Democratic Congress in 191 ‘Warren Harding, eclected by a lande slide, listened patiently to the protests. He was a strict party man himself. For days the argument and discussion went on. Finally, as George Christian, his private secretary, related it to this cor- respondent today, the President-elect remarked: “George, I've just got a hunch that it's the best thing to do and & big thing to do—to pick Hoover. This fellow can be a big factor in a big consrtuctive way in this reconstruction period.” Ignored Partisan Advice. Thus against the advice of his friends and political henchmen, Warren Hard- ing gave Herbert Hoover his opportunity. Had it not been for the determination of Mr. Harding it is difficult to say whether Herbert Hoover would have been President-elect today. His chance to show his ability came in the free hand given him in the development of the Department of Commerce, Which he transformed into one of the most im- portant Government departments in American history. As the months went by, Mr. Harding came to rely more and more on Herbert into office he knew already of the indis- pensable activity of the Secretary of Commerce. But if Warren Harding gave Herbert Hoover his first chance to do a con- spicious task, it was Calvin Coolidge who permitted him such a free rein in governmental affairs that he came even more frequently into the limelight. Mr. Coolidge always trusted his Secretary of Commerce implictly, not only as a friend but as a judge of the right thing to do in economic policies. Mr. Coolidge gave Mr. Hoover the chance to go to the Mississippi flood district when a politically ambitious individual anxious to succeed himself | might have sent a member of the cabi- | net less prominent in politics to organ- ize the relief work. But it was this| kind of special assignment which Pres 28,297 98,818 176,715 80,147 282,457 213431 760,671 781,744 843,015 354,854 343,750 239,073 20,643 86,103 572,886 476,038 86,948 61,498 189,022 110,774 17,869 14,565 115,036 80,177 880,162 583,260 25,574 19,144 2,176,292 2,078,800 246,504 235521 60,727 39,683 1,509,812 818,967 353,044 . 200,726, 85,310 434157 1,089,921 = 952,169 117458 118,951 3,133 51,524 113,855 76,127 167,707 135867 327,586 310,593 53,901 48,557 89,760 44,374 154,065 132,007 217,188 104,339 263,250 189,295 483673 387,284 43,962 25,075 Totals ...... 115,521 toral votes Is necessary to elect.) 95,104 18,819,163 13,300,439 (Popular vote majority does not elect; a total of at least 266 elec- /BOYS, LURED TO DUCK POND, SALVATION ARMY HEAD IMPROVING Gen. Bramwell Booth’s il ness Enlivens Interest About Successor. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 8.—Some im- provement was noted in the condition of Gen. Bramwell Booth today, and in- numerable friends were given renewed hope that all eventually will be well wltphe the revered head of the Salvation Army. Gen. Booth is suffering from a nerv-| ous disorder, and it is recognized that onaccount of his advanced age he has a hard battle to fight. Because of this, | the thoughts of those anxious for the army’s continued welfare and growth naturaily more or less turn to the ques- tion of who will succeed him. It is the aged general's prerogative to name his successor, however, and he alone is in possession of this se- cret. -In_ accordance with the orders and regulations of the Salvation Army he has placed in an envelope, signed and sealed in the presence of witnesses | and the army’s solicitor, the name of the individual he has chosen to take his place as head of the organization, and this has been deposited with his legal advisers. This method of procedure is provid- ed for each successive general, Who must make a choice when he takes over the office. But he may change the appointment if he sees fit during his lifetime. MISS ETHEL PECK WEDS G. H. TOTH IN ROCKVILLE | Member of White House Staff Came Here When Coolidge Was Vice President. Miss Ethel Peck, of the executive | force of the White House, who occasion- ally takes President Coolidge's dictation, was married in Rockville Saturday to George R. Toth, a business man of this city and Norfolk. Miss Peck, a native of Falmouth, Mass., came to Washington shortly after Mr. Coolidge assumed the duties of Vice President. She served in a sec- retarial capacity to him while he was Vice President and was appointed to the White House staff when he became President. Of the missing districts 115 are in s Allegheny County. The total vote so far received Is: 1,961,664 ; Smith, 1,013,18: Hoover, After a brief honeymoon Mrs. Toth WDANIEL IS HELD IN BANK ROBBERY Silver Spring Suspect De- tained in $15,000 Bond for Rockville Grand Jury. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, ROCKVILLE, Md., November 8.— Charged with robbery of the Silver Spring National Bank at the point of a pistol October 27, Hugh L. McDaniel, 27, of 30 Columbia avenue, Takoma Park, today was held in $15,000 bond for action of the Montgomery County grand jury by Judge Riggs of the Rock- ville Police Court. McDaniel offered no defense at the preliminary hearing today. The State called two witnesses against McDaniel. The first was Fred Lutes, assistant cashier of the bank, who hand- ed over $2,200 to the robber, who con- fronted him with a pistol shortly after the bank had been opened on Saturday, October 27. Lutes gave the details of the robbery and identified McDaniel as the man who appeared at his cage and, after asking about a loan, had sald, “Give me all you've got.” The other witness, Charles McFar- land, Brentwood, Md., the driver of the cab the robber used to make his getaway, identified McDanfel as the man who, on the morning before the robbery, he had driven to the bank and as’ the man he drove to and from the bank when the robbery was com- mitted. McFarland said McDaniel got out of his cab in front of the bank and was inside between four and eight minutes. During this time, he sald, the burglar alarm outside the bank started ringing and he was about to pull out of the way of the entrance when his passen- ger ran out of the bank and got into his cab and told him to drive away. McFarland said that when he hesi- tated, the passenger leveled a pistol at him and forced him to'drive away. Mc- Farland said he drove, at the direction of the man in the rear seat, to some woods in the rear of the Washington Sanitarium, in Takoma Park, where the man gave him $3 and left the cab. McFarland sald that he was careful to get a good look at the men in the rear seat of his car while he was driv- ing away from the bank. “I wanted to know him the next time I saw him,” he told the court. The man he drove to ‘{"l’ from the bank, he said, is Mc- Daniel. Real estate and building “#jeculation was back at her desk at ihe White ‘House today. has just been resumed in Finland for the first time since the armistice, dent Coolidge was always giving to Mr. Hoover. | Hoover Favored Coolidge. | It is well known that Mr. Hoover | wanted to see President Coolidge re- nominated and re-elected. More than a year before the I-do-not-choose-to- run statement, Secretary Hoover was writing his inquiring friends who want- ed to begin organizing for him that he felt Mr. Coolidge was entitled to suc- ceed himself if he wished. And even when the statement of renunciation came on August 3, 1927, . Herbert Hoover publicly stated his hope that the President might consent to be drafted. It was only after the announcement in December, 1927, in which Mr, Cool- idge told the Republican national com- mittee to begin looking for suitable can- didates that Secretary Hoover author- ized any activity on his behalf. So the spectacle is presented of a President-elect who preserved all the amenities in his " relations with his predecessor, whose administration poli- cles were so -much a factor in giving Republicanism its large vote. And that same President-elect could hardly have had an opportunity for political ad- vancement if another Republican Presi- dent, Warren Harding, had not had the courage to suppress partisanship in the interest of what he believed to be the welfare of the country. (Copyright. 1928, On World Tour at 76. Prof. Bernard Freeman, a well known traveler and journalist, and fellow of the Australian Journalists’ Association, recently arrived in Singapore, Straits Settlements, from Java on a world tour. He is 76 years old, but is vigorous and as enthusiastic as ever in his efforts toward his hobby, which is the unity of ATCHE FAGTON BLANED I LOSSES Women Not Alone Responsi- ble for Maryland Defeat, Say Leaders. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md. November 8.— While the women's vote is almost unanimously credited with the 73,532 margin given Hoover over Smith in Maryland Tuesday, and the 40,663 majority of former Gov. Goldsborough over Senator Bruce, there are other factors. Democratic leaders with but few exceptions blame the State faction headed by Gov. Ritchie for the loss of the city by Smith, which was carried by Senator Bruce by a plurality of 3,063 votes. According to these politicians the State faction took entire charge of the campaign, practically ignoring the city leaders, and this was resented here, and it was openly boasted that word had been passed down the line on election to cut the Smith ticket. The same thing happened in the last mayoralty campaign, when William F. Broenln% Republican, defeated William Curran by a majority of 17,000 despite an affiliated majority of 65812 reg- istered Democrats. Religion Not Big Factor. While the religious question also fig- ured to some extent in some of the counties, it was not one of the deciding factors by any means. The wet and dry question figured largely in the result in the counties and despite the reputation Maryland has of being a wet State the result shows that the drys continue to dominate the po- litical fleld. As a result of the election the drys gain two in the congressionel representation, Senator-elect Golds- borough and Linwood L. Clark from the second district, both Republican drys, replacing wet Democrats. By his over- whelming defeat of Senator Bruce, Goldsborough becomes the titular head of the Republican party in Maryland and the party today is more soiidified than at any time in the vast 10 years. While Representative Frederick N. Zihlman, Republican, defeated David J. Lewis, Democrat, by a majority of 10,420 votes, his majority in Mont- gomery County was reduced practically one-half from two years ago, the county going Republican by only 390 votes. The showing in Montgomery County is remarkable when it is taken into consideration the fact that the county was carried by Hoover by a majority of 2,531 over Smith. Victory for Gambrill. Stephen W. Gambrill, Representative from the fifth dsitrict, which includes Prince Georges and Southern Maryland Counties and parts of Baltimore City, was re-elected over Oliver Metzerott by a plurality of only 2,994, compared with a majority of 10,508 two years ago. He carried Prince Georges by only 567 votes, whereas in 1926 he carried the county by 1,194. As a result of the election a move- ment will be started shortly for a pro- hibition enforcement act for Maryland and will be introduced at the coming session of the State Legislature in Jan- uary. The election of a dry Senator and a dry Congress member over wet Democrats and the overwhelming de- feat of Gov. Smith, leaders of the move point out, are indications of the atti- tude of the voters of the State toward prohibition, and the passage of an en- forcement aci at the next session of the Legislature is being confidently predicted by prohibition” leaders here. Y, ERRONEOUS HEADLINE MENTIONS WRONG MAN Story Makes Plain, However, That Detective Michael J. Dowd Was the Arresting Officer. A news story in an early edition of The Star yesterday carried in the head- line “detective arrests Michael E. Dowd and charges him with transportation of fllicit liquor.” As was plain in the story, the arrest- ing officer was Precinct Detective Michael J. Dowd of No. six, and the person arrested, Clarence Myers, but this explanation is made to avoid any the English-speaking peoples. possible misunderstanding. RETURN HOME WHEN HUNGRY Ducks to some people may be just awkward, waddling water fowl, with lit- tle or no attraction, but to Russell J. Sirlouts, jr., 5 years old, 1438 Meridian street, and Robert Simms, 4 years old, 1489 Newton street, they acted as a magnet that yesterday drew the young- sters from their homes to Soldiers’ Home Park, more than a mile away, arousing not only their parents, but the entire neighborhood. Russell and Robert are inseparable companions. Where one goes the other ffle" and if one likes ducks the other ikes ducks, hence the sudden decision shortly after noon yesterday to brave the perils of traffic and parental dis- pleasure for the long journey to the duck pond. Terror grasped both mothers when the youngsters could not be found, and the fathers, Russell J. Sirlouis and Frederick B. Simms, and they notified the police. ‘When they tired of walking, the par- ents got in their automobiles. They were loined by neighbors and friends until in the late afternoon there was quite a searching party combing the entire Northwest section of the city. Darkness was descending and mothers were becoming hysterical when two lit- tle forms, weary, footsore and hungry, ut in their appearance. They wanted ood, immediately and plenty of it. Ex- ?lnnltlonx could be made later, but the lood must come first. They got it. They then explained their ardent ad- miration of the ducks. They had in- tended staying just a little while, but became so fascinated upon their arrival that they forgot to leave until it sterted to get dark. They then ran almost all fathers were hastily summoned. After & search about the neighborhood the suggestion of kidnaping was made to of the long mile home. (The photograph, left to right, shows Russel J, Sirlouis and Robert Simms), THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928. DRESS PROBLEM BEFORE SCHOOL BOARD SAYS APPEALS COURT DID NOT DECIDE CASE Attorney Declares That News Ar: ticle Gave Wrong Impression of Taylor Suit. The following communication was received today by The Star from George E. Sullivan, an attorney with offices at 340 D street, in reference to an article carried in The Star con- cerning a decision rendered in the Dis- trict Court of Appeals Monday: “In The Star of Novembe! appeared an article entitled ‘Dettmeers- Taylor Decision Reversed,’ which ar- ticle was written in such a way as to convey the erroneous impression that the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia had adjudged Mr. Elisha P. Taylor to have been guilty of fraud in the transaction concerned; whereas & careful reading of the decision of the Court of Appeals would have dis- closed the fact that no such adjudica- tion was made by the Court of Appeals, nor was the case in any condition for the making of any finding of fact. Chief Justice McCoy of the District Su- preme Court had dismissed the bill of complaint filed against Hr. Taylor, upon the ground that it was not even neces- sary for Mr. Taylor to answer the al- legations made against him, as they would not, even if established as being true in fact, be suffitient to establish a case. The Court of Appeals disagreed with Chief Justice McCoy's view, and sent the case back for further pro- ceedings in regular course, in which Mr. Taylor will have an opportunity to deny the fraud charged, and the court will be called upon to inquire into and determine the true facts, which have not yet been determined in any manner. “My client, Mr. Elisha P. Taylor, is a lifelong resident of the District of Columbia, and has always had ana deserved a reputation second to mno one, which I confidently assert will re- main unimpaired upon a fair and im- partial determination of the truth of the averments contained in the said bill of complaint, and I therefore make the reasonable request, in the interest of justice and fair play, that you insert this communication in your columns.” ALIANZA PARTY WINNER IN PORTO RICAN VOTING Considerable Losses Suffered, How- ever, in Comparison With Previous Strength. By the Assoclated Press. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, November 8. —With apparently accurate and com- plete returns available from Tuesday's election, the Alianza party, headed by Antonio Barcelo and com| a com- bination of Unionists and numerous Re- publicans, will retain control of the next Legislature by a small majority. This party, however, suffered considerable losses as compared with its previous strength. ‘The Senate, it is estimated, will be made up as follows: Alianza, 10; coali- tion, 9—a gain of 7 seats for the coali- tionists. The House will be constituted: Alianza, 21; coalition, 18—a coalition gain of 15, . For the first time there will be a strong legislative minority. Feliz Cordova Davila has been re- elected as resident commissioner at | Overture, ‘Washington. -— Barge Sinks, Killing Two. SAVANNAH, Ga., November 8 (#).— The clftlln and oné member of the crew of the barge A. W. Thomj were lost when it sank Wedn of Iast week after the tug towing it from the Gulf to Wilmington, N. C., had cut away because its fuel was running low. Four survivors, who were rescued by & Coast Guard patrol boat, reported on their arrival faere today, 'y 5 there | fl When the Board of Education was confronted yesterday with the plea of the Congress Heights Parent-Teacher Association that a uniform adopted for high school girls, it was decided to await the views of the Con- gress of Parent-Teacher Associations before any action was taken. The upper picture shows the present mode, and the lower that proposed. —Star Staff Photo. AR DEPRECATI Wide Difference in Engineers’ Deductions to Be Developed. The subject of depreciation was reached by People’s Counsel Ralph B. | Fleharty in his cross-examination of R. | O. Luqueer, engineer of the Wi | Gas Light Co., at today’s hearing before ! gas valuation case. |~ The deduction for depreciation allow- ed by Luqueer in his $28,000,000 ap- praisal of the Washington company’s property amounted to $800,000, which is approximately $2,000,000 under the figure of H. Carl Wolf, the Commis- slon’s engineer. Difference to Be Explained. The reason for the wide difference in the deductions of the two engineers has not yet been brought out, but will be developed when Wolf takes the witness tand. Luqueer, however, revealed that ‘hls low figure is due to the principle underlying his estimate—that a second- hand gas plant is just as valuable as a new one as long as it works, for the purpose of determining the price to be charged for gas. Lugqueer was subjected to a barrage of questions by Fleharty as to how he made his estimate, which indicated that the commission’s engineer had found a number of defects in the equipment of the gas company that had been over- looked by the company’s engineer. Wolf will bring these out when he testi- es. Answering Fleharty’s questions as to the theory of his appraisal, Luqueer in- dicated that 100 per cent of value should be allowed on equipment that is in good operating condition, irrespec- tive of the physical condition of the .property and regardless of length of service. in a few instances did Luqueer make any allowance for obsolescence. Pipe’s Life Exceeds 100 Years. Luqueer’s addition of a percentage item for omissions and contingencies in presenting his appraisal before de- preciation caused Fleharty to ask him if he had made any such “overriding percentage allowance” on his total for depreciation to cover details that might have escaped his attention. “No, I allowed liberally on each item, which amounts to the same thing,” Luqueer answered. Luqueer said there is no depreciation on gas mains except where flaws or breakages are found, because the life of a cast-iron pipe in the ground with good soil condition, while unknown, is more than 100 years. If a faulty spot occurs in a casting and it is cut out and a sieeve put in, he contended, the pipe is still in 100 per cent condition. Fleharty expects to complete his cross-examination of Luqueer today. The engineer then will be subjected to re-direct examination. TWO PARTIES ENOUGH. parties will be recognized in Cuba. President Machado approved a ruling under which all electoral proceed! must henceforth be carried out through parties. Cuban politics present no serious contests at the forthcoming election in tive, and President Machado, through a three-party alliance, has assured his re-election. Pope Receives U. S. Priest. ROME, November 8 (#).—Pope Pius Hickey, consultor for the sembly of At States, and Mgr. John McNally, Bishop of Hamilton, Ontario. Watch Charm Stolen. Alfred E. Bolcerne, 935 Ninth street, reported to police that a watch charm valued at $175 was stolen last night while he was in a downtown motion picture theater. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers' Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, today at 5:30 o'clock: | | the Public Utilities Commission on the the medium of the two established| November. The only important office | 3 to be filled is that of national execu-|Res today received in audience Father |V ugustinians in the United |Jul THEATER DISASTER TRIAL COMMENGES Knickerbocker Damage Suit for $10,000 Begins After Many Delays. ‘The Knickerbocker Theater disaster, which claimed the lives of nearly 100 patrons in the movie house at Eight- eenth street and Columbia road when its snow-laden roof crashed January 28, 1922, was recalled today when trial was commenced before Justice Wendell P. Stafford and a jury of the first of the large number of damage suits brought against the Knickerbocker Theater -Co. and Harry M. Crandall, its president. The suit was filed within one year of the catastrophe, but because of the various pleas raised by defendants and others named in the original proceed- ing the case is just ready for trial. The plaintiff is James E. Duke, who sues for $10,000 damages as administrator of Kirkland Duke, who lost his life in the disaster. In the original suit, the District of Columbia, Reginald W. Geare, since de- ceased, the architect of the building, John H. Ford and the Union Iron ‘Works, which fabricated the iron beams which supported the roof, were named as co-defendants, but by decision of the court, all have been released of blame except the theater company and Mr. Crandall. Attorneys Charles A. Douglas, Conrad H. Syme, J. V. Morgan and Joseph W. Cox appear as counsel for the plaintiff while Crandall and the theater com- pany are represented by Attorneys Wil- ton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatmen and George D. Horning, jr. POET SEES ALPS CENTER OF POWER D'Annunzio Predicts New Power Plant Will Be Eternal Source of Energy. GARDONNE, Lake Garda (?"-; D’Announzio visited the gigantic hydro- electric plant being built at the nearby Lake Ledro and predicted that “eternal riches will come from the eternal flow of streams from the W=Cap| Alps.” The unigue feature of this under- taking which will be finished before the end of this year and, it is hopec, will be ted by Premier Mu:- solini, is that it is non-speculative ani that no private capital is invested in 1. A ‘most impo: o lern - ing, has been iced with funds sug- plied by the provinces of Verona anc Bologna, besides a few of the munici palities directly concerned, including Riva, the largest city bathed by the Lake of Garda, and Rovereto on the Innsbruck-Trent Railway line. The last two are both situated on ex-Aus- trian territory and were annexed tc Italy after the last war. The electric power which the new plant will produc- is destined almost exclusively for agri- cultural and industrial purposes. The power is produced by a fall o 1,840 feet, obtained by joining the Lak. of Ledro to Lake Garda by means o n_ artificial gallery through Moun d'Oro, which divides the two. The Lak of Ledro is 2,135 feet above the sea an that of Garda only 210. The gallery connecting the two lake starts at 85 feet below the water leve of the first, reaching the second in les than four and the quantity « water passing. this gallery ce be regulated In its terrific fall aim¢ Pperpendicular abave the city of Riva. J. 0. U. A. M. STATE GROL WILL ELECT TONIGH Pilgrimage Will be Made Armist:. Day to Put Wreath on Un- known’s Tomb. of the State, Counell of th: ium| unior Order o: United American Mechanis, Cot & elected tonight at the second session o the thirty-third convention of the order now being held in the Junior Orge: Temple, 808 I street. The meeting to- night will begin at 7 o'clock and State Councilor Oscar T. Harlow will convention Officers District of Armistice day, a pi will {be made to Arlington and a wreath lai- :{n lfilhe: o’l‘olnb atbthe l;lnl:wvn g‘oh‘!‘? :30 o’cl e e lock by the national boar PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—The Towson Stee, L : plechase ;fifl:;dfll and up; claiming: purse, 3$2,000. . 144 Foretime . 145 & Broom Wrack 184 Sammie Mack - 140 ireek Priar 132 Comical 180 S George Brooke, 3d, entry. b Pive pounds claimed' for r ¢Ten pounds: ciaimed for: ridor COND RACE_The Druid Hill Park: SE 2-year-olds: claiming; . year-olds; claiming: 1 mile and 70 yards: The_1st. 108 Ever: Opyster Bed . Mantonian . *Lighthouse cRig Vida ¢ Endicott HAVANA (®.—Only two political | i3 reck: High_Pla: Joe Engel - a James E. -3 : n"; s E. finey-Miss M. E. Altemus THIRD RA o rse. $1.500: handicap: \CE—] fillies and mares: § furlongs. Wildair 106 Dignus - 119 Eloise prove b Sistershi a Fair _Anit Binnacle Noise ' 111 Waterfall 95 Oh Susan Lady Horehouse-H. G. Bedwell entry. Farm entry. 14 RAGE_Purse. $1.300; llieg: 2 sE R b Audley FOURTH year-olds: 108 Expos: 110 Rmm‘:: 8 . i . 106 j ‘4 s Sage Stable entry. FIFTH RACE—The all ages; 33,500 ddded: Gaffsman ....... Excalibur 5 Helens Babe Balko ... ¢ Black Panther.. Singlefoot . b Herodian a Noine Distraction Honker ~ aE. P Sanford entry. bW. R. entrs. c Walter J. Salmon entry. dE. R. Morehouse Kenion Farm Stable » Baltimore H; 1 il ana 10 yard d Banton .. ¢ Display Jock Weeburn ' b-Scots Gre: 8 Alans_Bay . Royal St entry. SIXTH RACE—3-year-olds and claiming; purse, $1.300; 1 mile and - +Jim_Crow March, “The Spirit of Fran ‘Fingal's C-vtm,M Aiaohis en Suite characteristic, “Cinderella,” Hosmer the Hearth. iy Godmother and the Fairies. The Court Ball. Co E The Royal Nuptials. Scenes from musical comedy ‘gfl Boots' rney Fox-trot, “Loyglight in Your Eye,” Zamecnik Waltz, “Laugh. Clown, Laugh”...Florite Finale, Blue Hoa:;n".. Do . .Paull | :§h8" Nursery I - 12 Knockan: 03 Gold Coin . My . SEVENTH RA( -3 . clatmin: Burse §1300 T e g myard: Sour Mash . Trlediof Nansen. 11 *Union Jask *Pens p Wartor Sol Lassa ¥ ani Ticky Br nger Sii *Rosi: Merran . -Efi“{. Hoiose Efagtar Fair Lark 08 ey *Apprentice =] 525558 2 I lomance claimed.