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THE WEATHER u. s. iroiuocAJrr Today?Showers and warmer. Highest temperatnre yesterday. 74; low est, 55. THE WASHINGTON HERALD The Net Circulation of This Newspaper Yesterday Was 43,350 ALL THE NEWS ?all the time?telegraph, cable and lot*! new* i? found in The Washington Hermkd ?brightly and briefly told?most up-?o-th* minute news pictures every day NO. 4709 WASHINGTON. D. C.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1919. AVr rr\T |B mi.fclBftw mmd UIl Pj 1 Kl^wkere Tw? C+mtm. MAN AWAITING MURDER TRIAL BEING HUNTED Henry A. Starr, Ex-Police man, Who Killed Boy. < Disappears. HAD $535 FROM STORE Entrusted With Money for Banking, Starr Fails to Make Deposit. Henry Arthur atarr. h farmer pr> Juseman. await! ng trtal and?- hand for ahoottag and killing a boy in an auto mobile on Pennsylvania avenue. July 9. yesterday afternoon disj^'peared. it 1* cliarged. with Jf? entrusted to hiro t>T the I,igge(t store, <1* Seventh street northwest, where he was em ployed as a clerk. His whereabouts was not known last night -Whether he was taken ill or may hate been Injured Is not known The police had Instructions to search r tor him. The only charge against him Is that ? Of Jumping his ball. ?-tarr shot and fotally wounded 1^ r?y MrI-eod. IS. when the driven of a machine In which he and saseral others refused to heed the policemanli order to atop. Shortly after the shoot ing. Starr was dismissed from the force and placed under bond to await trtal. He obtained a Job In the drug *tore. Ho was given a bag containing by \?artln Schwartx, manager of the -stone, yesterday a/ternoon, with In structions to place the money in the fUggs National Bank. Starr failed to return to h? am ployer Inquiries at th*> bank showed that he had not been there. He could not be found at h? home. 2J6 K street .northwest. FIGHT ON RENT BILL PLANNED Civic Bodies Will Outline Their Objections Next Monday. A definite program of opposition to the Ball rent bill, passed by the 8e? -ite. will be mapped out at a meeting of r* presentattvees of the Chamber of 4 -ommerce. Board of Trade, Ater '?imjits* and Manufacturers' A ssocia lion. Federation of Citizens' A^yocia 1 ran? District bankers, to be held Tn Board of Trad?? rooms next .Monday at 2 o'clock. Hates Warren, who appeared before .*<matar Ball's subcommittee investi gating rent profiteering in the Dis trict and made suggestions in regard to the framing of the bin. and wa* heartily m approval of th* ttrst draft of the bill, pointed out yesterday that as it was passed it contains several pitfais which would work a hardship <t) both landlord and tenant. These representatives plan to make .t stand against the Ball bill. The bill, they say. does not retire the tenant to grre a bond when he appeals from a decision of the fair rent commis sion and would permit hrm. ff he won ' his appea' aftor a long period, to get out of paying rmt for that time. D.C, FLYER HURT IN PLANE CRASH Lieut. Commander Mc.Don nell and Air Mate In jured At Hog Island. Oommander Edward McDon nell. at this city .and Ensign Eaten ?R. Kofper. Vavn! Air Service officers who were perhaps fatally Injured Wednesday afternoon when their at tempt to make a record night from New York to Washington ended in a onwh at Hog Island, were reported to be in a serious condition last night at I the Hog Island Hospital, according to word received here. The airplane, one of the new Loan ing monoplanes, a veritable dwarf among seaplanes, was making the iirst (tight beautifully until Just after leaching Hog Island, when it sud denly developed motor trouble, forcing the fliers to earth. 1'nable to glide to water so he <-ould land safely. Commander Me I 'onnell selected the large flats in the >outh western portion of Philadelphia, r ear Hog Island, and. gtidtog down from a height of 1.000 feet attempted IO -pancake" or land the ahip on its tall, so It would not crash forward over the ground. He was tmsuooeaafol in rM? at tempt. however. and the maehtoe. landtag on Its pontoons, rtooohetted over the rongh ground, smashing throw eh scrub thickets and weeds and s finally crashing to a stop In a big tmshe*. btrrjin* the tmcon "1?tit men under the wreckage Workrrs at the shipyard saw the era-sh, and an ?mbulance was rushed to dip spot. Moth men were un con - I ?eloos when fo?nd. and neither had rtpM ~on scions nees tmtll after fcelag ?i iMfint at the bogltal PLEADS FOR CAVELL SLAYER Paris, Sept. 13.?Georges Quien, betrayer of Edith Cavell, the British rrarse who was shot by the Germans m Belgium, was given all the advantage of a fair trial, though the conclusion was certain. Here is his connstJ addressing the court while Quien stands a1 tibe right in the prisoner's boi. PRESS-TIME FLASHES Copenhagen. Sept. 18.?Spar rariFt riots have broken out in Brunswick. Street fighting continues in that city, accorrV ing to latest reports. London, Sept. r?.?Premier Llpyd George trmigHt arv. nounced at a meeting of <he cabinet a new plan which he thinks will solve the Irish prohtem. Berlin, Sept. r8.?Assistant United States Attorney Har per has arrived here to ascer tain how Germany draft with American property in Ger many during the war New York, Sept. 18.?Ma> Gen. Leonard Wood has dts cided to risk disciplining by remaining in thr army while he conducts a campaign for the Republican nomination for f the Presidency and against the league of nations. This was announced today by one of Gen. Wood's campaign man agers. New York, Sept. 18?Dr. Kingston, of the State De partment of Agriculture, to day testified at the farm and market inquiry that old and decrepit horses have been dis j posed of through the medium of a Brooklyn sausage foun ' dry. SUES TO ANNUL MARRIAGE VOW Under the Catholic Faith, Woman Considers She Was Never Wed. . ? j Annulment of her marriajfe, which jwas solemnized fry Tather Clarence ^ E. W"he?|er Holy r-nrnfortej- Church. . here. November 3 ftrT. ?ln.d ^ a bni riled m the tHstrid Supreme j Conrt yesterday by Trene Anderron Baumm. * musician. She also uln the court pemiiwrm tr> w fcer maiden name. Irene A Amteraon. | Mrs. Banrmn alleces fn h?r nutt that her 'jusband. Thomas Baymond Bannon. who is a Roman Catholic, ltke herselT, represented himself as never havtatR been married before, when, according to Mrs. Bamjon's ! Cjarpps, he was married at Ellioott i CMtjr. Ma.. March 12, 1908. and later atvoreed. She also states to tier Ml i that he has three children by iis j first wife. Annulment of the marriage is asked for on the ground that In j'.ier faith no one is privllesred to re I TJMLrr>' after be blg divorced and she floes not consider herself married. She Is represented by Attorney j James State. ?Many Send Money to Aid Girl In Murder Trial Knarmie. Tea. Sept. IS Thr fact that Hal H. Clementa I, ?-ry 1 So* as vohmteer counsel for Miss Maod Moore, charged with the mur ***** L?wy D. Harth. wealthy MtOTTwbiV man. ha* brought a mmab^r of amall financial contribu tions to b** u?#*d in her defense. Contribution* ?r# b*?n* received almost dally, largely from women. It was stated. Today a letter postmarked At lanta and aliened "divorced widow" ,?nelo?iDf a |1 Mil wu received. \ A. F. L. MUST BOW TO US, EDICT OF STEEL WORKERS Leaders of Move Nail Possi bility of Organization Averting Strike. Pittsburgh. Pa... Sept. IS. ? The American Federation oS I^ahor most how to eur edlcta We are the so fireme body." TW? was the answer [of John Fitzpatrtck, f^ajraua of the unferencr of leaders of the steel workera When asked today If there was any possibility of the strike bang averted through tn?erve?t*on of the Ajnerican Federation of L*har. "The men are gtiing to strike,*" he added. **I can hw nothing thai wlD crop them." The rruestion of postponing the strike unto aftrar the national labtir confer ence at Washington ra* not discussed ; at today's meeting. The delegates <TV I rented their attention to preparation j for the walkant to the Cnlted States Corporation m.Ib- Monday. UrnmiBf* G?ry A r filndf. 1 A strike platform, .ontainrng twelve (plants, or demands, was one of the I principal topics of discussion at the | meeting. This pronunciamento te in (the hands of a rpccial committee. I Just before adjournment the confer ? ence adopted a resolution giving to I the organizing committee full power to condar.t the strike. The only statement given ont was | the answer of Chairman John Fitz ! patrlck. of the epmmlttee. to the statement of Judge Gary. of the ' United States Steel Corporation, that thetr mills won Id remain as an "open shop." The statement was signed by John Fitrpatrick. William Hannan. WilTiam Z. Foster and D. .T. T>avis. Rat One Iwwne. This statement reviews Mr. Gary's ; contentions and asserts be is get ting away from the issue aJlo ; get her. that the "open shop" Is not being considered, but the issue is a conference with the leading steel men of the country. Michael F. Tighe, president of the j Amalgamated Association of Iron, j Steel and Tin Work era lias sent | a notice to the members to abid' 1 by the orders of the national com j mittee of the American Federation, iln this order he says 98 per cent ! of the membership favored a strike j tf a conference was refused by '.Jrrdrf Gary. Officials Say Strike Will Not Be General Wew York, Sept. It?Confidence '-prevailed at the offices of the jTTntted State? Steel Corporation to ! day that the union workers would j not be able to muster enough re j exults for the walkout Monday to materially injure production. It b believed the strikers wiTl number between 10 and 16 per cent of the organization's employea The walkout, say officials, would be confined largely to the foreign ! and radical element ainon? the employes. Gen. J. M. Bell Dies In Los Angeles at Age of 82 IjOs Angeles. Sept. 18.?Brig. Gen. James M. Bell. U. 8. A., retired, who died here yesterday, was in command of the Eighth Cavalry during the Santiago campaign In the war with Spain, and was hadlv wounded in the battle of Guasimas. He was bom in Williamsburg, Pa. October 1. 1837, and served in the vol unteers in the civil war. He was brevetted three times for gallant services in battle. He became a brigadier general on J September 17, 1901, and was retired for agt <ro October 1 following. | UNEARTH BONES OF A YOUNG GIRL UNDER KITCHEN ' ? Mystery Surrounds Finding Of Parts of Skeleton Near London. BEST POLICE ON CASE / Disappearance of Step mother Makes Police Suspicious. Tendon. Sept. 18. ? Mysterv sur rounds the Cndtntr here of parts of ! tlie skeleton of -what Is believed to | be the body of beautiful Constance Grant, aired If. of Granville Road, tn i KfTbume. I From the evidence at hand it is be ; lieved the girl's throat was cut and i that her head was severed from 'jer ' body after death, and the remains ! were buried under the kitchen floor, whence f.iey have Just been recov-i. Ted. Mr*. Grant, the stepmother of | the dead girl. has disappeared from j her home, and all efforts on the | part of Scotland Yard and local an- i j tiorities to apprehend her have proved fruitless. Both Warvied Twier. i Both Mrs. Grant and her husband j had been married twice. Of the ' eleven children, five were of the sec- i ond marriage and two were by Mr. Grant's first wife; they were Ada. aged J. and Constance, aged 1?. and I four were by Mrs. Grant's flrst 'aus j band. Ethel Mabel, the 13-year-old daugh ter of Mrs. Grant, made the follow ing statement to the authorities con cerning her mother: "I last saw my moCaer on Friday morning. I was not here when she oujm>Ti? <ys page Tmusat JULIA HHNR1CH, THE SOPRANO, IS KILLED New York, Sept. IS-?A report has bee nre-eeived thai Miss Julia Hein rich, a former leading Metropolitan Opera soprano and daughter of Max Heinrich. the coxnpcwer, waji killed this morning In an h*X~t?ent at the j railroad depot tn Hammond. La. | where Mjks Heinricb had been giv ing a concert Miss Heinrich was killed when a j flying piece of vrrckagp struck her on the head following the running down of' a baggage truck by a fa.<t train Kills Wife and Child, Then Hangs Himself Groton. Conn-. Sept. 18-?Mrs. Etta Fish, assistant to the judge of probate, was shot and killed today by her husband, Georg*e, at the Town Hail. Fish made his escape in an auto mobile. He went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Burdick. parents of Mrs. Pish, in Noank. where he shot and killed his 4-year-old daughter. Frances, and then going to his own home, hanged himself in the barn.'1 BREAKS WORLD'S ALTITUDE MARK 34300 Feet Is Record Set By Roland Rohlfs, Cur tiss Flyer. Roosevelt Field. E L. Sept- IS.? 'The world's altitude record was broken here this afternoon when j Roland Rohlfs, test pilot for the ! Curtiss Airplane and Motor Com ' pany, climbed to a height of 34.610 i feet in a Curtiss triplane with a 400-horsepow*,r motor. The figure will stand at 34,500 feet, however, since Roosevelt Field is 110 feet above the sea level. The figure above sea level is the one accepted for official purposes by the Aero Club of America, which is sending the barograph to be certi fied oy the government Bureau of Standards in Washington before they will declare the record official. The official sealed barogiaph ; placed in the machine by August Post, secretary of the Aero CluD of t \mer:ca, was opened and read by J the officials of the Aero Club. The j reading showed that Rohlfs had | bettered his unofficial flight of 34, 4D0 on last Saturday. An official altitude record of 34,400 feet was made by Rohlfs on July 30. 1 Rohlfs said that conditions today weie absolutely perfect, and that it was not so eold as when he mcde his unofficial flight. Singer Denied Passport to U. S. Berlin, Sept. 18.?Jadlowker, the fa mous Russian tenor, formerly con nected with the Kaiser's royal opera, and now engaged by the Chicago j Opera Company, has struck difficulties j in his effort to fill the latter engage j ment. He applied for a passport to the United States, but was informed he could only go to America by spe uial permission from Washington. V THE EXPERT YOUTH SLAIN IN ' GUNMAN CHASE Policeman Mistakes Brook lyn Lad for High wayman. Brooklyn. X. Y.. Sept. IS.?Ml5taken , for a man who had fired revolver if.iot*. Peter Jerlfbola. ir? years old, j 343 Flushing avenne, was shot and i kiTled on the fire escape of his fam- , ?ly*s flat by Patrolman Frank G. J Lisa. y*?arw ni<$ Tyfsa said Jerli bola made a motion as though to draw a weapon from his hip pocket | Examination of ?ie body showed th?? j hoy wa* not armed Lisa's bullet j struck him over the l#?ft eve and he 1 died almost instantanoously. Th^ shooting occurred at 10;30 o'elock last night, but wa.? not made public by the police until 1:15 o'clock this j morning An unidentified man eaxr<* into f-?e garage where Jerlibola, was left in , charge at 10 o'clock last night and j said he wanted to take out a tour- ; I ing car. The boy refused to let it go. j 1 Without heeding, the man started tLie i ( engine of one machine. Jerlibola' closed the large door and stood out side it. The man became enraged, ran into the office and fired flvi 1 shots toward Cue boy through a wiu dow. , Jerlibola was not hit and ran into his home, apparently in the belief that l the man might follow 'aim. William Daly told Patrolman Lasa he had seen , some one run into the building at 341 Flushing avenue. l-iaa entered the dark hallway, drew his revolver, and entered a door open on the third floor. He saw the boy, who wore long trous ers and looked like a man. crouching | on the lire escape, and ordered him to j j throw up his hands. i Instead of obeying. Jerlibola made a | movement as though to draw a | weapon, according to the officer, who I then fired. Patrolman Liaa was arraigned tn , court on a charge of homicide and at the request of Oapt. John Keith, was paroled until Wednesday. He was : suspended without pay pending in vestigation of the case. GIANT AIR LINER IS COMING TODAY i Lawson Plane to Reach Boiling Field on Its Way To Pacific. The giant LawBon air-liner, the largest airplane now operating tn this country, will arrive at Boiling Field at 11 o'clock this morning. This air-Pullman carries passengers comfortably seated in tlie luxuriously i pholstered fusilage. Alfred W. Law son. designer, declares the total ca pacity of the machine is sixty per rons, including "strap-hangers." En route from Syracuse. N. Y.. to the Mineola. Long Island. Field, the | liner carried many passengers, who occupied their time playing cards in the cabin, occasionally rising to stretch their legs on the promenade deck. The passenger list to Wash ington lias not /been made public. From Bolline Field Lawson will fly to Dayton. Ohio, and tlience to S&n > Francisco. Urge Retention of Arch of Triumph Until Prince s Visit Col. Harper Believes Demand of People Here Will Necessitate Issuing New Permit Be yond Original Thirty Days. Keep intact the Arch of Triumph, erected for the sxand review of Ca* First Division, until the Prince of Wales visit* Washington etrly In Oc I tober Lb the popular demand mad*1 | by District citixens yesterday. whic.h Col- Robert N. Harper ha.?? taken | up, intending to raaic^ their request | a reality | CoL Harper explained yesterday af | ternoon Ciat the District Commis sioners originally issued a permit for i the arch to remain at Fifteenth street ; and Pennsylvania avenue for thirty i days, but believes, in view of the : demand for its maintenance, they | probably will extend this period. ! Scores of requests came into Col. | Harper's office yesterday asking that j tie arch be permitted to remain at ' its present location. Some of them j suggested that it might be well for I it to be cared for until November in U.S. VOTE EQUAL TO BRITAIN'S SIX President Explains League Issue; America Always Deciding Factor. I Oakland. Cal., Sept. IS.?Fatigued I but satisfied with the results of two I hectic days here and in San Fran I ciaco. President Wilson tonight [was on his way to Southern Cali fornia. . The President made two set (speeches today?one to the leading business men of San Francisco and another to a mixed audience at the j Oakland auditorium tonight. I audiences were friendly in both | places. j Earlier tn the day the President | met and answered five questions ad dressed to him by the regional executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace. Their chief quer ies hinged on Great Britain's six votes and Irish freedom. The President also took occasion to answer fully the Shantung argu ment. C?Dot Outvote V. S. Britain cannot outvote tHie United States in the league, the President declared, nor under the covenant can foreign governments order American troops abroad. Article X does not bind America to aid Great Britain in suppressing a revolt tn Ireland, he told his interrogators, and under Article XI there would be created a new forum for the settlement of questions of self-determination such as Ireland's. Six votes were assigned to self ooNmvrnn on pac.b two Submit Suffrage Bill in Spain. Madrid. Sept. 18.?The ministry is about to submit a blI to the Span ish Parliament providing for th* extension of the franchise t* women, it wae announced today | commemoration Th+ pitminr of the i armlstioe j RnthuFia^m over this temporarv arch 'jw increased Interest to a ke*n pitch In CoL Harper's plan to erect a permanent National Arch of Tri umph tn Washington. The president of the Chamber of Commerce is ure j ing Representative Langley. chairman of the House Oommitte* on Public Buildings and Grounds, to re-intro duce his bill for a permanent ar~-h here Col. Harper was kept busy yesterday answering congratulatory messages regarding the successful culmination of his parade efforts. While Mr. Harper is gratified by the splendid military* spectacle Wednes day. he takes only a small bit of credit, he declares, as compared with Col. Grant and a host of others who gave t-heir support to the parade plans. Told of Husband's Fatal Illness, Attempts Suicide New Orleans. 1a.. Sept- 18 ?Charles Wickham. civil engineer, of Trenton, N. J., and his wife were removed from the steamer Saramacca, which arrived here today, to a local hospttal. both in a dyinp condition, the former as the result of a disease contracted in Gua temala, and the latter from eell-in flicted wounds, according to the ship's officers. Mrs. Wickham was bringing her husband home when yesterday the ship's surgeon told her Wickham could live only a day or two. Today maids found Mrs. Wickham in her stateroom with both wrisst slashed At the hospital here it was stated this afternoon that both were dying. WOUNDED MEN HEAR PERSHING General Is Guest of Honor At Walter Reed Gathering. ' Gratitude at "having the opportunity I of saying a word to the men who of | fered themselves for the supreme sac rifice and have carried evidence of it | back home," was expressed last night j by Gen. Pershing, speaking to wound ed men at Walter Reed Hospital. Pennsylvania night at the hospital was the occasion for an informal gathering, at which Gen. Pershing and Senator and Mrs. Knox of Penn sylvania were guests of honor. Senator Knox's speech decried the fact that America had taken no other means than a verbal expression of gratitude to Gen. Pershing. He cited the lavish gifts of lands and titles be stowed upon the leaders of English and French armies. Gen. Pershing was introduced by Senator Knox as "your comrade, com panion and general," and In opening his talk the leader of the American armies saluted the wounded as "Fellow soldiers." "rtie program was under the direc tion of Mrs. H. R- Rea. field director of the Department of Military Relief. Potomac Division of the American j lied Cross, whose work was highly I ooodmoM by Gen. Pershing JOHNSON IS CALLED TO WASHINGTON Standpat Leaders, Foresee ing Political Personal Capital in Progressive's Tour, Wire Californian to Back at Once. amendment to pact is THE REASON GIVEN Senator Urged to Take Per sonal Charge of His Addi tion to Treaty to Equal ize Voting in the League Of Nations. At the direction of Ropublicar leaders in the Senate. Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, wa* last night recalled from his Wes tern speaking trip ostensibly to take personal charge of the tight for his amendment to the treaty to equalize the voting power o* the United States and the British Empire in the league of nations Politicians said the recall was dne to the i>er?onal tributes bem? paid Johnson, which were galling to the standpat backers of his party The Senator was trrged to post pone his intended trip to Califor nia until after his amendment has been acted upon and to return to Washington after his speech in St Paul fiext Saturday night. If he complies with the request, he will be in the Senate next Tues day when the debate on bts amendment opens. M-wl at L*odr*-'? The raewm.p? to Senator JohnMD was serTt toy Senator Borah, at the pufgw tian of Senator Uodge. follo^nn* ex tended conference* aroonc the leader In the treaty fi^ht. Senator Ix>4ge iraf strongly of the opinion that it would be dee.rahie to hare Senato Jnhnunn here while the 4'batf b on. ?and thta opinion shared by Sera ,tor Brandegee and other* i In the opinion of Senator Borah Of vote on the Japanese amendment ma> be taken before the end of the com inc. | week. j The deciston to send for Senator 'Johnson was reached after Senate I^odjrr and the other? in the eonferen?-?? had decided that they would make their first test of strenrth in the treaty fisrht on thf equality of voting amero ment. j The sole principle a> ?ssu?. p?? ! ponants of Lhi a-nendnoent ta>. i? whether as a matter of right and ot [ Justice to America fhe British Ktnpir** should be allowed to have si* vote while the United Stales has hut or> ? The a Ivocates of the amendment ?r?' i not concerned as to whether the <J? cisions are required to be unar'mou lor not. the point will *-em*in th* , America's represents fives in the Peace i Conference submitted to the proposn tion that the vote should be ;=o un equally distributed The amendmen ts designed to correci this arrange j ment, it Is said ! Just before the conference broke ui j (^airmar Will Hays of the Republtevu' I National Committee entered the woor, land discussed the treaty fleht with | Senator l>odge and the others for j few moment*- He said the eoontrr j wss gettimr impatient over the dels - Jin actjnp uporw^he treaty, and that u his opinion ft should be disposed ??r j one way or another, as soon as p<* j sihle Tt was announce^ that Senatoe ? Penrose, who has been supervising the nomination of a mayor in Phila delphia, will be here next we*k to 1 give some attention to the flg-hi j on the treaty Senator Txnlge will' j look to him and not to Hay* for ad I vice as to how the political issues , involved in the fight may best be straightened out. It is significant that Johnson's re ! call follows the national chairman> I' visit to Washington. The Nation*1 Committee, of course, does not favor the Johnson Presidential boom JOHNSON CONDEMNS NEWSPAPERS' STAND Lincoln. Nebr_ Sett. JR.?-TSxcept a few newpapers that heroically heki out for the ancient American rights the liberty of the press is a thing o: the past," Senator Hiram Johnson told the Commercial Club here today W reference to the freedom of the pre.* was an answer to local new^iape which have attacked htm. The address here wis given Just be fore taking the train for St. Pan! where tomorrow morning he will pre sent his arguments against unre served ratification of the kmroe ?i nations covenant before the Joint houses of the Minnesota legislature The CaJifomian's last *i?eechefl on thfa ' lour in the wake of the T resident ma*, be made Saturday noon and n1g*?t In | Minneapolis and St. Paul. He ha?i I hoped to fotlow President Wilson all the way to the Paeiftr coan h?i Washington developments mtVe hi presence in the Capital nwwarj t. the cause oi those oppoeing tit