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INSULT’ TO ENVOY
WILLBE PROBED
Britain Takes Up Alleged De
portation of Counselor
From Brazil.
Bt th" Associated Press.
UONPON', September 30. —The Press
Association “understands' 1 that a
court inquiry under the chairmanship
of Ixird Blanesburgh. formerly Lord
Justice Younger, will sit in the for
eign office early in October to inquire
Into certain allegations by an official
of the British diplomatic service of
his treatment abroad.”
The evidence, according to the
Press Association, "is likely to be of a
most remarkable nature and many
sensational statements have been
taken by foreign office officials. The
hearing before the court will prob
ably be protracted, as high officials
of the diplomatic service are in
volved.' 1
The foregoing statement, which may
he regarded as almost official, men
tions no names, but apparently re
fers to the same case as the Evening
News, which states that a foreign of
fice, departmental committee has been
ordered to investigate the alleged ar
rest and deportation from Brazil of
"Walter Annesley Stewart, counselor
of the British embassy at Rio Janeiro,
who declared that he was seized
without 'warning by six policemen,
detained two days and then released
on the certificates of two doctors and
ordered to leave the country.
Called Scandalous Drama.
The News says that Sir John A. C.
Tilley, the British Ambassador, is on
his way home to give evidence at the
inquiry, and the paper quotes a for
eign office official as declaring that
the probe will be in the nature of a
disciplinary board, "as serious allega
tions have been made and must be in
vestigated."
The News prints an article credited
to the Brazilian newspaper, tlazeta de
Notlcias. in which the affair is char
acterized as "a scandalous drama
which cannot fail to re-echo in view
of the insult to national sovereignty
whteh the occurrence represents."
PETITION TO INTERVENE
IS DENIED RENT BOARD
Appellate Court Refuses to Hear
Oral Argument in Case Involving
Housing Emergency.
The District Court of Appeals yes
terday denied the application of the
Kent Commission to be permitted to
♦rtlervene and present oral argument
in the case of Peck vs. Pinch, in
wnlch is involved the question of the
pass:.>3 Os the housing emergency.
Through Maj. A. Coulter Wells, its
new counsel, the commission told the
court it feared-the case would not
l>e properly presented, as the tenant’s
lawyer had intimated lie would not
ftta brief in opposition to the claim
of 3lttorney Louis Oltenburg for the
that the housing emergency
is passed and there no longer exists
a basis for continuing the Ball rent
Ottenberg had prepared a motion
to dismiss the application, but learned
of the action of the court before fil
ing the request. Hearing on the
ease is scheduled for next Monday.
Th» appellate court gave no reason
for tta action merely indorsing the
petition "denied," -
Quick End Comes
To Smfdl Boat’s
Cruise of World
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 30.—The
Carcharias (Shark) was towed
back to port yesterday. At the
wheel, thirsty and despondent, was
Demetrios Sigelakis, who quit his
job in a restaurant to embark. last
September 14. upon a circumnavi
gation of the globe.
In his tiny sloop with a one-man
top Sigelakis had made 104 miles
of the 30,000 he had set out to
cover. The gulf stream had been
formidable, the wind had been ca
pricious, the water tank had
sprung aleak, the sextant had fall
en overboard.
Capt. Jack Johnson of the fishing
boat Montauk towed him in—back
to the berth at the battery whence
the Shark sailed 15 days ago.
"A glass of water” were the skip
per's first words as he stepped
ashore.
CORONER’S JURY HOLDS
WARDEN FOR SLAYING
Deputy Found in Stupor Will Face
Trial for Murder of
Companion.
By Hie Associated Press.
LEWISTOWN, Pa., September 30.
K. E. Davis, deputy warden of the
Western State penitentiary at Rock
view, was held responsible by the
coroner's jury last night for the
death of John Mullin, who was shot
and killed in a woods near this place
last Friday. Davis was held without
bail on the charge of murder.
When Mullen's body was found
nearby were Davis and Harry M. Mc-
Coy of Altoona, both in a stupor.
Scattered about a camp fire the men
had lighted were 24 empty bay rum
bottles.
Davis was in charge of a detach
ment of penitentiary guards who were
here searching for Harry Brubaker,
an escaped convict from Rockview.
McCoy testified that when he met
the deputy warden in Lewistown last
Friday and learned of his mission he
became . suspicious of Mullen, with
whom he had been tramping through
the country. He told Davis of his
suspicion and said the deputy warden
went with him to his camp, thinking
perhaps Mullen was the fugitive con*
vict. When he learned was not
McCoy said, the three men started
drinking and soon he became uncon
scious. He said that lie did not see
Davis shoot Mullen, but that Davis
was the only one of the three who
had a pistol.
A woman living near the place of
the killing said she saw Davis shoot
Mullen. t
FIVE Dleln CRASH.
Freight Train in Blinding Storm
Hits Motor Car.
COLUMBIA. S. C.. September 30
Rounding a curve in a blinding rain,
a railroad motor car crashed into an
oncoming freight train of the South
ern Railway yesterday, resulting In
the death of five men. one mile north
of Peak. 26 miles from Columbia.
The dead, all of whom occupied
(he motor car, are: J. E. Killian-Chap
man, 30. white, of Peak; Heyward
Mestze. 22, white, of Littleton: James
W. Daley. 21. ♦•hite, of Peak; Charlie
Brown and Janies Henderson, negroes,
of Peak.
Confusion in orders, coupled with
the blinding rain, are given as con
tributing causes of the collision.
Chapman was killed outright, while
Meetze and Brown died on a passen
ger train while being brought to Co
lumbia Daley and Henderson died
in Columbia hospitals, last night.
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0„ TUESDAY,' SEPTEMBER 30, 1924,
LA FOLLEnE NAMES
MAY GOBNBALLOT
Louisiana Court Orders Sec
retary of State to Show
Why They Should Not.
By the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE. La., September 30.
—District Judge Jones last night is
sued an alternative writ of manda
mus against Secretary of State Janies
J. Bailey on application of J. J. Fin
neran, head of the La Follettc organ
ization in Louisiana, directing the
Secretary of State to show cause Oc
tober 6 why the Liberty Bell emblem
and the names of the 10 La Follette-
Wheelcr electors should not be placed
on the ballot for the general election
in November.
Mr. Bailey had refused to accept
the petitions to place the names of
electors on the ballot on the ground
that hundreds of the signatures
thereon were those of voters who
had registered either as Democrats
or Republicans. A State statute re
quires that petitions seeking to have
the names of independent candidates
placed upon the ballot must bear the
signatures only of voters who had
registered as independent of parly
affiliation.
COOLIDGE FOR FULL VOTE.
President Wants Supporters of La
Follette Given Fair Deal.
NEW ORLEANS. La.. September 30,
—La Follette headquarters for Louisi
ana here gave out yesterday the text
of a telegram from President Coolidge
with reference to the situation In this
State, where Lo Follette-Wheeler
electors have been barred from the
ballot in the election in November be
cause of a State law relating to party
affiliation.
The message, which La Follette
leaders said was received yesterday,
follows:
Sees Lawn Ik Way.
“Replying to your telegram, it is
my desire that full and free opportun.
Ity be afforded under the State laws
of our country for an expression of
the popular will In the election of
all public officials. To my regret
there are States in the Union where
the law is such that this is not pos
sible and it is too late now to change
such laws. While lam heartily in
favor of party government. I believe
that when a contest Is made in a
primary which is open to participa
tion of all the people it should go far
to determining what candidates are
to be presented at a coming election.
“Nevertheless I recognize that It
is the privilege of our voters to sup
port any one they wish at the polls
and feel that the laws should not be
drawn for the purpose of preventing
such action. I would apply this rule
not only to your complaint about
Louisiana, but to all the other States
of the Union.
(Signed) "CALVIN COOLIDGE.”
Navy Officers Transferred.
Lieuts. William F. Dietrich and Cal
vin T. Durgln have been relieved from
duty at the Navy Department. The
first named has been ordered to the
U. S. S. Toucey and the latter to the
naval aircraft factory, Philadelphia.
Ordered to Naval Air Station.
Lieut. Carlton D. Palmer, attached
to the Shenandoah, has been transfer
red to the naval air station, Anacos
tla, D. C., for dutg.
Convict Identified as Veteran Reported
To Parents as Killed in Action in 1918
Robert St. Clair , at Atlanta Federal Prison , Declared
to Be John Bergeron of Menasha , Wis.—Body
Was Buried There as His.
By the Associate*! Press.
NEW ORLKAXS, September 30
Robert St. Clair, a convict in the
Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.. has
been irtentilied as John Bertreron of
Menasha, Wis., who was listed by
the War Department as killed in ac
tion in France, it was learned here
last night. upon the return of F. W.
Bergeron. his father.
The body of a soldier identified as
that of Bergeron was returned to this
country and now rests in a cemetery
in Wisconsin. St. Clair, or Bergeron,
was indicted in the name of Robert
St. Clair, alias Dr. Robert E. Frank,
alias Robert E. Taylor, for transport
ing a stolen automobile from one
State to another. He figured promi
nently in the news at the time of his
arrest, because it was said he was
wanted in Wisconsin and in Eos An
geles under the name of Dr. Robert
Frank.
Bergeron, about 30 years of age,
was indicted by the Federal grand
jury after his arrest in New Iberia,
La., for having taken a stolen car to
LABOR BOARD SUMMONS
BROTHERHOOD LEADER
Court Subpoenas Locomotive Presi
dent to Show Cause Why He
Should Not Testify.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 30. —Federal
Judge Janies H. Wilkerson, on mo
tion of the Railroad Labor Board,
yesterday subpoenaed David B. Rob
ertson of Cleveland, Ohio, president of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginejnen, to answer with
in 20 days and show cause why he
should not be ordered to testify be
fore the board. Petition for such an
order was filed before Judge Wilker
osn in the United States Court for the
Northern District of Illinois by the
board through United Slates Attorney
Edwin A. Olson and Weymouth Kirk
land, special assistant to the Attorney
General.
Counsel for the board announced
that an identical petition to compel
the testimony of, John McGuire of
Chicago, general chairman on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
for the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, would be filed before Judge
Wilkerson probably tomorrow.
GUMMING GOES ABROAD.
Surgeon General to Take Part in
World Conferences.
Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Gumming of the
Public Health Service has sailed for
Europe to represent the United States
at the annual session of the perma
nent committee of the International
Health Office and the annual meeting
of the health committee of the League
of Nations, both at Geneva, Swltser
land."
Health matters which affect the in
terests of the United States will be
considered at these meetings. Among
the subjects to be taken up are the
report of the opium and malarial
commissions, the report on the in
ternational sanitary control of ports
suggested by certain governments
and the revision of the International
Sanitary Convention of 1911.
that place from Jackson, Miss. He
pleaded guilty and was given a sen
tence of 18 months.
His pardon or release from prison
on parole is being sought on the
ground that as a war casualty his ex
periences in alleged criminality were
those of a mental incompetent.
As a result of investigation by
agents of the of Justice
it has developed that officers in vari
ous places in the Middle West, South
west and in California desired to
question him in connection with al
leged offenses committed in those sec
tions. Among the things under in
vestigation are charges of multiple
marriages in California.
Bergeron enlisted in the Army at
Menasha In April. 1917, and served
nearly a year overseas. He was
gassed or wounded in the fighting of
July, 1918. and wrote a letter to his
parents from an American hospital
in France. It was dated July 25. 1918.
A short time later his parents re
ceived formal notification from the
War Department that their son had
been killed in action July 18. 1918.
WHITNEY LOVE BALM SUIT
ORDERED TO BE TRIED
Ruling on Movie Dancer’s Second
Million-Dollar Claim for
Breach of Promise.
By 111** Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 30.
Eva Burrows Fontaine’s second mil
lion-dollar breach-of-promise action
against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit
ney, young capitalist of New York
and San Francisco, must go to trial,
according to a ruling here by Federal
Judge John S. Partridge.
The judge’s ruling was in denying a
motion by the dancer’s attorney for
a dismissal of her suit without preju
dice, which would have permitted her
to file a similar action later here or
any place else where she might al
lege Whitney had established a resi
dence.
Her complaint alleged she had lived
with young Whitney in New Haven.
Conn., where he had been a student
at Yale, and that he was the father
of her son.
A similar action brought by her in
New York was dismissed on motion
of her attorneys. The trial of the
second action is expected within two
or three weeks.
MRS. BLANDFORD’S RITES
Wife of University Official to Be
Buried Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLLEGE PARK. Md.. September
30.—Funeral services for Mrs. Jose
phine J. Blandford, 47 years old. wife
of James B. Blandford. horticultural
superintendent of the University of
Maryland, who died yesterday at her
home here, will be held tomorrow
morning at 9 o’clock at the Holy
Redeemer Catholic Church at Berwyn,
Rev. William A. Cahill, pastor, offi
ciating. Burial will be in the Catho
lic cemetery at Surrattsville.
Mrs. Blandford, who before her
marriage was Miss Josephine Mudd
of Clinton, Prince Georges County,
was a cousin of Representative Sid
ney E. Mudd of the fifth Maryland
congressional district.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Bland
ford leaves six children.
CRONKHITE DEATH
TRIAL BEK TODAY
Federal Court in West to
Start Pothier Hearing
After Six Years.
By th<* Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash., September “0. —
Kola nil I’othier. former sergeant
bugler in the Army, was prepared
to go on trial in Federal court here
today charged with the murder of
Maj. Alexander Cronkhite at Camp
Lewis in October, 1918.
Pothier's trial will be followed on
October 22 by that of Robert Rosen
bluth, former Army captain, indicted
with, him for the Cronkhite murder.
The trials come as the climax to a
six years of investigation.
Maj. Cronkhite was shot under pe
culiar circumstances while on a prac
tice march with his command. An
Army investigating board returned a
verdict of accidental death, but the
dead man's father, Maj. Gen. Adel
bert Cronkhite", was not satisfied
with the findings and started a chain
of investigations. These inquiries,
followed by alleged statements on
Pothier’s part involving Rosenbluth,
which later were repudiated, and the
indictment of the two men by a Fed
eral grand jury here in 1922 have at
tracted nation-wide attention.
The question of jurisdiction has
delayed the trials for two years. The
United States Supreme Court ruled
recently that the Federal court here
must decide whether the cantonment
was Government property at the time
Maj. Cronkhite met his death. Adju
dication of this phase of the case
will follow the selection of a jury.
Eighty witnesses from all parts of
the United States and its insular pos
sessions are hero for the two trials.
PLAN LA FOLLETTE RACE.
Progressives in Georgia Convene to
Choose Electors.
MACON*. Ga„ September 30. —C. W.
McClure of Atlanta, was elected per
manent chairman of the Progressive
party of Georgia at the State con
vention held here yesterday, which
was called for the purpose of choos
ing electors to run on the La Follette-
Wheeler ticket in the State.
Five resolutions were offered to the
convention and adopted. They were
ratification of the platform of the
national Progressive party and in
dorsement of La Follette and Wheeler
for President and Vice President; op
position to any attempt to change the
laws providing for elections of judges
by popular vote: appointment of C.
W. McClure as agent of the party to
certify the Progressive ticket to the
secretary of State: a demand that
women be given equal rights with
men in all phases of political activi
ties and that provision be made to
permit them to serve as presidential
electors in Georgia, and an expres
sion of regret for the death of Senator
Thomas E. Watson and an expression
that the present Progressive party is
in accord with the Populist party
formed in 1894 by Senator Watson,
voters will rebuke in November.”
Relieved From Brazil Mission.
Capt. Joseph J. Cheatham. Naval
Supply Corps, has been relieved from
further duty with the naval mission
to Brazil and assigned to duty in the
office of Naval Operations, Navy De
partment. Commander Henry F. De
Met, Naval Supply Corps, of the Bu
reu of Supplies and Accounts, Navy
Department, will take his place on
the Brazilian mission.
“PUSSYFOOT”JOHNSON
REACHES BUCHAREST
Noted Dry Leader Effects Co-Op
eration of Moslem Prohibition
ists With World League.
fly the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Rumania. September
SO. —William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson
has arrived here after a fortnight
each in Constantinople and Bulgaria.
He concluded arrangements with the
Moslem prohibition organization to
enter the world league, and states
that the prohibition movement is
strong among the Turks and Egyp
tians.
The Turkish government, according
to Mr. Johnson, will again introduce
prohibition when the state can raise
the necessary revenue without liquor
taxes. He is of the opinion that pro
hibition sentiment aJso is strong and
the movement well organized in Bul
garia and that Bulgaria will be the
first country in Central or Southeast
ern Europe to enact dry legislation.
ARMY BAND WILL PLAY
FOR SCHOOL BENEFIT
Scheduled for Opening Concerts in
Series of Educational Meetings
Under Community Auspices.
The United States Army Band.
W. J. Stannard. directing, will play
the opening concerts in the series
of educational evenings being ar
ranged by the Community Center
Department, public schools, com
mencing tomorrow evening, at 8
o’clock, in the auditorium at New
Eastern High School, and giving
the first program at Central High
auditorium the evening of Octo
ber 7.
The program for Eastern High
tomorrow night follows:
March, "General Bandholtz."
Stannard
Overture, "Fest” Leutner
Baritone solo, "The Wanderer,’’
Harlow
(Performed by Sergt. S. L Johnson.)
Selection, "May time”.. Romberg
Cornet solos:
(a) “Carry Me Back to Old
Virginia.”
(b) “The Sweetest Story Ever
xold' Stults
(Performed by Sergt. J. Dufresne.)
Intermezzo, "Manana," ("Tomor
row") Missud
Duet, flute and horn, "Serenade.”
(Performed by Sergts. A. Lutkie
wltz and R. Bandel.)
Excerpts from "Plorodora,”
Stuart
March, finale, "Defile”.. Haney
"The Star Spangled Banner"
The doors will be opened at 7
o’clock, admission to all Commun
ity Center Department educational
evenings will be 10 cents, to cover
the cost of transportation of bands
and instruments and operation of
motion pictures.
Plans Fishing Excursion to Beach
A public fishing excursion will be
held next Sunday at Chesapeake
Beach under auspices of the National
Military and Sport Shop. H. I. Nledel
is in charge of arrangements. Capt.
Noah. Hazard, veteran Beach boatman,
will command a fleet of 25 boats to
take the excursionists to choice fish
ing grounds. A special train will
leave the District line at 8:30 a-m.,
returning at 6:60 p.m.
Earth Shock in Consantinople.
CONSTANTINOPLE. September 30.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
here and on the islands In the Sea
of Marmora yesterday.
PARK OFFICIALS
TO HOLD MEETING
Joint Convention Here Next
Week With the American
Civic Association.
The program prepared for the sec
ond -session of the joint meeting of
the American Civic Association and
the American Institute of Park Ex
ecutives, which will be held in the
small ballroom of the Willard Hotel
Wednesday morning. October 8, prom
ises to be of particular interest. Mrs.
Susie Root Rhodes, superintendent of
playgrounds in the District of Co
lumbia. is responsible for the pro
gram, which will include a talk by
Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill,' officer
in charge of public buildings and
grounds, on "Recreation Activities in
the Public Parks”; a talk by P. J
Brunner, superintendent of municipal
pools. District of Columbia, and di
rector of swimming in the Central
High School, on "The Place of Swim
ming in Recreation.” and a talk on
"Xajcation of Playgrounds Relative to
Landscaping,” by Capt. Horace Peas
lec. architect, of Washington.
A committee, composed of C. E.
Brewer, commissioner of recreation.
Detroit; J. R. Batchelor of the Play
ground and Recreation Association of
America and V. K. Brown, superin
tendent of recreation, Board of South
Park Commissioners of Chicago, has
made a most interesting survey of
playgrounds in 10 cities and will pre
sent its report at this session.
An outdoor lunch has been planned
to be held under the trees on the lawn
of the Arlington Experiment Station.
The informal luncheon and inspec
tion of the station will give the out
of-town delegates the opportunity of
becoming acquainted with one another
and the work which is being carried
on at Arlington. The luncheon will
be followed by a trip through the
parks and public grounds which is
being planned by Col. Sherrill.
In the evening at the Willard Hotel
there will be a national park and
playground session in which Theo
dore Wirth, president of the Ameri
can Institute of Park Executives, and
J. Horace McFarland, president of the
American Civic Association, will share
the honor of presiding. Arno B. Cam -
merer of the National Park Serv
ice will give a talk on the national
parks and L. F. Kneipp. executive
secretary of the President’s confer
ence on outdoor recreation, will speak
on "Recreation in the National For
ests.” Warren H. Manning of Cam
bridge, Mass., will give a talk on "The
Relation Between National. State and
Local Parks and Forests.” The dis
cussion will be carried on by W. W.
Ashe, secretary of the National For
est Commission; Ovid M. Butler, sec
retary of the American Forestry As
sociation. and Harlan P. Kelsey of
Salem, Mass., and member of the com
mission appointed by Secretary Work
to select a suitable area for a nation
al park in the southern Appalachian
Mountains
Noted Shriner Critically 111.
PITTSBURGH. September 30.-—Wil
liam Irwin of Wheeling. W. Va„ past
imperial potentate of the Ancient
Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, is critically 111 In a hospital
here. A report from the hospital last
night stated that he was resting easy.
Mr. Irwin was brought here from his
home 10 days ago and relatives were
advised that his condition was critical.
The 33.000 forest fires in this country
each year claim many lives and a dam
age of $I6,000;000.
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